ESO komt maandag met 'ongekende ontdekking': wat kan het zijn?

Caroline Kraaijvanger

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Ring ontdekt rond dwergplaneet Haumea

Caroline Kraaijvanger

En het is een flinke: de ring zou zo’n 70 kilometer breed zijn.

Dat schrijven astronomen in het blad Nature. Het is een bijzondere ontdekking: Haumea is de eerste planetoïde die niet tot de Centaurs wordt gerekend waarbij een ring is ontdekt.

Over Haumea

Haumea is een dwergplaneet voorbij Neptunus. Het is één van de snelst roterende grote hemellichamen in ons zonnestelsel: elke vier uur voltooit de dwergplaneet een rondje rond zijn as. Door dat snelle gedraai heeft de dwergplaneet – die grofweg net zo groot is als Pluto – de vorm van een ei gekregen. De dwergplaneet heeft twee manen: Hi’iaka en Namaka.

De ontdekking
Onderzoekers ontdekten de ring toen ze twaalf telescopen op Haumea richtten terwijl deze voor een ster langs bewoog. De observaties onthulden dat de dwergplaneet geen atmosfeer bezit, maar dus wel omringd wordt door een 70 kilometer brede ring. Die ring heeft een diameter van zo’n 4574 kilometer.

Evenaar
Als je van opzij naar Haumea kijkt, zie je dat de ring ter hoogte van de evenaar ligt. Ook ligt de ring op dezelfde lijn als het omloopvlak van één van Haumea’s manen: Hi’iaka.

Afbeelding: IAA-CSIC / UHU.

Draaien
Net als de manen draait de ring om Haumea heen. De omlooptijd is ongeveer drie keer langer dan de rotatietijd van de dwergplaneet.

Chariklo en Chiron
Tot enkele jaren geleden waren we ons alleen bewust van ringen rond grote planeten zoals Saturnus. Maar toen ontdekten onderzoekers een ringensysteem rond Chariklo: een dwergplaneet die tot de Centaur-populatie wordt gerekend. En inmiddels zijn er sterke aanwijzingen dat ook de Centaur Chiron ringen bezit. Haumea is echter het eerste kleine hemellichaam dat niet tot de Centaurs wordt gerekend waar ringen rond zijn aangetroffen.

Het onderzoek naar Haumea resulteert overigens niet alleen in de ontdekking van de ring. De waarnemingen stellen onderzoekers ook in staat om de dichtheid van de dwergplaneet vast te stellen (tot 1885 kilogram per kubieke meter). Ook kunnen onderzoekers op basis van hun studie uitsluiten dat Haumea een atmosfeer heeft.

Bronmateriaal:

"The size, shape, density and ring of the dwarf planet Haumea from a stellar occultation" - Nature
Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: IAA-CSIC / UHU

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People think they've found proof of aliens on Mars

Right now, Donald Trump is the United States President, Brexit is (probably) happening and four- yes, four - Kardashians might be pregnant. 

If 2017 has proven anything, it's that the truth is often stranger than fiction.

And now there is a chance for it to give alien movies a run for their money.

One Redditor posted an image from NASA's Opportunity Rover.

Although the snap was taken way back in 2005, they've got a brand new theory:

Uh nasa? UFO Caught on Mars Rover Mission? Is this real? 

Let's just skip over the whole NASA-staff-are-highly-qualified-and-you're-a-randomer-on-the-internet detail for a second and enjoy suspending our disbelief.

We all deserve a break from real life, ok?

Read this vaguely convincing description from user EdisonVonneZula if you need help keeping reality at bay.

It should do the job for a few more seconds, at least: 

Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer planet iun outserspace. 

Blissful fantasy feels good, right? 

And Crazylegs99 wrote: 

They forgot to Photoshop that one out.

Love how skeptival the mods are.

You could have aliens waving hi through the windshield and it would be flagged as likely prosaic. 

Yeah, NASA and their Photoshopping of images to hide the facts. An infamous pairing. 

After all, it does actually look like it was made by some kind of intelligent species.

What else could it be but aliens? 

You could, we suppose, argue it's entry debris. 

Thankfully, redditors have devised clever work-around to help out the non-believers. 

User spatial circumstances wrote:

to be fair, that does literally make a photo of a wrecked alien spacecraft

And redditor KaneinEncanto agreed:

Essentially it is. Alien to Mars. 

See? We have found aliens.

They just happen to be us.  

And because we're still not entirely sure, this means the object is literally a crashed Unidentified Flying Object!

So, we can cling onto that: even if it's not alien, it's still a UFO. Which is just as good. Kind of. 

HT Daily Mail 

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More: This secret Nasa proposal has gone viral for all the wrong reasons 

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Tom DeLonge Is Still More Interested In Aliens Than He Is In Blink-182

by PETER CLARK

Even when Tom DeLonge was guitarist and co-vocalist for Blink-182, his interest in outer space and aliens was well documented, right down to a song called “Aliens Exist.” But since he split with the band in 2015, his preoccupation with the otherworldly has essentially become a full-time job. He’s gone on record saying he believes his life is in danger because he knows too much about UFOs, won a UFO award complete with a wild acceptance speech, and started work on a feature film about a battle between aliens and skaters. Now, he’s turning an obsession into a legitimate company.

“What if scientists were given resources to investigate the boundaries of traditional theory?” he asks in a video seeking investors for his newest alien endeavor, To The Stars Academy Of Arts And Science. To The Stars aims to unite religious scholars, archeologists, government officials, physicists, and aerospace engineers to a common cause, essentially figuring out what is beyond our own planet and working towards understanding it. In the eyes of DeLonge and his collaborators, this is an area that is neglected by our current government, so private funding is the only way to the truth that he believes is out there.

Of course, To The Stars is a further example that Blink-182 is the last thing on this dude’s mind. And as it turned out with their previous album without DeLonge, the successful 2016 LP California, Blink is also doing just fine without their co-founder.

Watch the To The Stars Academy Of Arts And Science video above and, if you have excess disposable cash or are really buying in to this alien thing, visit their website to donate to the cause.

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5 Archaeological discoveries NO ONE can explain

The Inga Stone. Image credit Wikipedia

All over the world, experts have found countless puzzling monuments, artifacts, and places that have remained a mystery ever since their discovery. Some of these findings literally rewrite history as we know it.

Countless theories have been proposed throughout the years trying to explain some of them, however, not even the best scholars can agree on the purpose, reason and building process of some of these sites/structures.

In this article, we take a look at FIVE discoveries that still continue to baffle experts

1. Stonehenge

One of the best-known ancient sites—other than the Pyramids of Giza—is without Stonehenge. This prehistoric ancient monument is one of the most famous landmarks on Earth. Curiously, it is also one of the most mysterious.

The intricate set of stones was built around 4,000 years ago and is considered as one of the most impressive feats for primitive man who was able to erect it. Not a single archaeologist has successfully explained how it was built. Interestingly, the how isn’t perhaps as mysterious as the why.

Countless theories have tried explaining the real purpose of Stonehenge, yet experts have still failed to agree on one.

Was Stonehenge an Astronomical observatory? Was it a religious temple? Was it burial site? We still do not know.

2. Gobekli Tepe

Discovered in 1994, Gobekli Tepe has pushed history to the point of where we need to rewrite everything we thought we knew about our ancestors.

The discovery of Gobekli Tepe has raised countless questions about the evolution of civilization and complex societies that may have existed tens of thousands of years ago.

This ancient site is believed to be at least 12,000 years old, meaning that it predates Stonehenge by around 6,500 years and the Pyramids at Giza by around 7,000 years.

The main structures of Göbekli Tepe are a series of three rectilinear structures which are located below the surface, defined by dry-stone walls, and containing multiple decorated T-shaped pillars. The stones were used mainly as support for the roof, although it cannot be excluded that these had a symbolic purpose.

To date, experts have still NO IDEA who built this massive, fascinating site around 12,000 years ago. Göbekli Tepe is considered the world’s first temple. Most of this ancient site still remains buried. Whoever built it, made sure the complex would survive along thousands of years, by backfilling the various sites and burying them deep under. So far, excavations and geomagnetic results revealed that there are at least 20 stone circles –temples— on the site. All of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe are t-shaped and range in height from 3 to 6 meters.

3. The Cochno Stone

The Cochno Stone is a mysterious, 5,000-year-old slab discovered in 1887 by the Rev. James Harvey. It features around 90 carved indentations, considered to be one of the finest sets of petroglyphs in Scotland. There is no consensus among archaeologists on the meaning of the intricate symbols found on its surface. Is it perhaps a map of the sky or the earth? An altar where rituals were held? According to some experts, represent an ancient cosmic map. The incredible markings are reminiscent of enormous crop circles that have so often been attributed to extraterrestrial civilizations. Interestingly, other similar slabs have been found in the north of Spain, Mexico, Greece and even in India.

4. The Inga Stone

Another mind-bending discovery is the so-called Inga Stone discovered in Brazil.

Believed to date back around 6,000 years, stands the Inga Stone, aka Itacoatiara, do Ingá. The Inga stone covers an area of two-hundred and fifty square meters. It is a vertical construction of 46 meters long and up to 3.8 meters high. The Inga stone displays carvings that are even today waiting to be deciphered. Researchers have found several carvings, figures, fruits, animals and other unknown figures, but most importantly carved on the Inga stone are the Milky Way and the constellation of Orion. Archaeologists state that the engravings on the stone have been performed with incredible precision and the details reveal a superb technique used by very skilled artists who certainly were very gifted and capable of creating these amazing engravings.

5. The MASSIVE Stone structure beneath the Sea of Galilee

Underwater Cairn Sonar The conical pile of rubble is approximately 70 meters (230 feet) in diameter. Shmuel Marco

Beneath the Sea of Galilee is a MASSIVE mysterious cone-shaped structure made of “basalt stones and u 10 meters and a diameter of approximately 70 meters, the structure is a massive mystery. Scientists believe that in order to build a structure like this, its creators had to invest a lot of hours of work in an organized community effort. How they managed to transport the megalithic blocks of stone is a question that no one has been able to explain. Archaeologists argue that judging by what they have been able to see, its builders belonged to a “complex and well-organized society” with “skills in economic planning.”

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Supervulkaan onder VS kan veel sneller uitbarsten dan eerst gedacht - HLN.be

• Bron: NY Times; Independent

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De vulkanische activiteit onder Yellowstone maakt van het park een trekpleister. Jaarlijks bezoeken 3 miljoen toeristen het oudste nationale park ter wereld om er de honderden geisers en duizenden warmwaterbronnen te bezichtigen. De supervulkaan onder het park zou de eerste eeuwen niet uitbarsten, maar volgens een nieuwe studie klopt dat niet.

Geen millennia, maar decennia

Gemiddeld barst de supervulkaan onder Yellowstone om de 600.000 jaar uit, de laatste grote uitbarsting dateert van 631.000 jaar geleden. Wetenschappers maakten zich tot voor kort geen zorgen, omdat ze dachten dat de eerste tekenen van een eventuele uitbarsting millennia op voorhand zichtbaar waren. Maar volgens nieuwe bevindingen gaat het om amper enkele decennia.
Lees verder onder de foto.

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De factoren die mee bepalen of een supervulkaan uitbarst, kunnen veel sneller veranderen dan gedacht. De meest recente uitbarsting van de vulkaan onder Yellowstone (die van 600.000 jaar geleden) werd in gang gezet toen een nieuwe lading magma naar een van de vulkaankamers werd geduwd. Dat proces duurde slechts enkele tientallen jaren en geen eeuwen zoals eerder werd verondersteld.

“Schokkende ontdekking”

“We hadden verwacht dat dergelijke processen duizenden jaren voor een superuitbarsting in gang werden gezet”, zegt de Amerikaanse geologe Christy Till. “Een uitbarsting van een supervulkaan kan dus eigenlijk ontstaan in slechts één mensenleven. Het is schokkend in hoe een korte tijdspanne een slapende vulkaan kan worden wakker gemaakt.”

Wat als?

Wat als het ooit tot een uitbarsting komt? De vulkanische hotspot onder Yellowstone is veel krachtiger dan de doorsnee vulkaan. De supervulkaan kan meer dan 1.000 kubieke kilometer rotsen en as in één keer uitspuwen. Mocht de vulkaan ooit uitbarsten, dan zou de VS volledig onder as worden gelegd. Het zou ook een vulkanische winter in gang zetten, waardoor de aarde drastisch zou afkoelen. Veel leven op aarde zou daardoor uitsterven.

Wanneer?

Het exemplaar onder Yellowstone is niet de enige begraven supervulkaan op aarde. Wetenschappers hebben berekend dat elke 100.000 jaar een supervulkaan kan uitbarsten. Het is nog een raadsel of en wanneer een dergelijke vulkaan tot uitbarsting komt. Till hoopt met extra onderzoek nieuwe uitbarstingen te kunnen voorspellen.

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NASA GEEFT EINDELIJK TOE: ONBEKENDE PLANEET IN ONS ZONNESTELSEL ( VIDEO )

Op permanente basis werden tot op heden "complotdenkers" door NASA voor gek verklaard omdat deze groep beweerde dat er een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel verkeert. 

En nu, opeens, verrast deze zelfde NASA de wereld met de mededeling dat er zich dus wel degelijk een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel bevindt. Wij noemen die planeet al jaren Nibiru of Planet x.

Ons leven is niet gemakkelijk. Hard werken en weinig inkomsten. Misschien hadden we een ander beroep moeten kiezen en waarzegger moeten worden, want keer op keer blijkt dat wat wij schrijven en waardoor we vaak voor gek worden verklaard, later toch feilloos klopt.

Hoeveel mensen hebben in de loop der jaren deze website niet proberen te ridiculiseren omdat wij altijd hebben geschreven dat er zich een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel bevindt?

Zoals het volgende soort proza bij een bekende overheidsdienaar:

Niburu haalt ook weer een 'onderzoeker' aan zonder al teveel overtuigende referenties, die denkt dat de planeet eind dit jaar eindelijk zichtbaar zal zijn. 'Naast alle andere, inmiddels bekende, verschijnselen zoals sterk toenemende vulkanische uitbarstingen, aardbevingen en meteoren, spreekt hij ook van torenhoge vloedgolven die de aarde zullen teisteren.' Het einde der wereld, dus, beter laat dan nooit, drie jaar na 2012.

En dat niet alleen: 'De enorme bedragen die in Amerika zijn verdwenen (...) en waarvan niemand weet waar ze zijn gebleven, zijn gebruikt voor ondergrondse schuilplaatsen.' Niemand weet waar ze zijn gebleven, behalve dan Niburu ('blijvend actueel en altijd op de hoogte').

En nu, plotsklaps, verschijnen het volgende soort berichten in Engelse media:

Het verhaal begon januari vorig jaar met het volgende:

Prong 1 begon begin vorig jaar met de mededeling dat astronomen een onbekende Planet Nine in ons zonnestelsel hadden ontdekt: 

Ons zonnestelsel heeft hoogstwaarschijnlijk toch negen planeten. Astronomen hebben sterk bewijs gevonden voor het bestaan van een nieuwe planeet. De planeet is ongeveer tien keer zo zwaar als de aarde en bevindt zich in een baan ver achter die van Neptunus. 

De Amerikaanse astronomen Konstantin Batygin en Mike Brown van het California Institute of Technology publiceerden het resultaat woensdag in vakblad The Astrophysical Journal. Ze ontdekten de nieuwe planeet door te kijken naar de beweging van zes kleine objecten in de buitenste regionen van het zonnestelsel. Deze objecten beschrijven allemaal een baan rond de zon, terwijl ze te klein zijn om op zo’n enorme afstand een stabiele omloopbaan te hebben

Prong 1 is een uitdrukking afkomstig van Nancy Lieder van Zetatalk, waarmee zij de stappen aangeeft die genomen zullen worden om het bestaan van een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel te introduceren bij de bevolking. Prong 2 was de volgende stap en die bestond uit het regelmatig bekendmaken van NASA dat er ergens onbekende planeten waren ontdekt.

Prong 3 was het volgende en zou volgens Nancy ergens in de loop van dit jaar gebeuren:

Nancy verwacht ook dat gedurende Prong 3 bekendgemaakt zal worden dat men een zogenaamde exoplaneet heeft ontdekt in een retrograde omloopbaan in de buurt van onze zon.

En nu komt er dus een mededeling van NASA dat er niet alleen een soort superaarde moet zijn met een gewicht tien keer dat van onze aarde, maar ook dat deze zo'n krachtige invloed heeft dat het ons complete zonnestelsel heeft laten kantelen.

In een verklaring zegt NASA het volgende: "Het kan rondhangen aan de verre uiteinden van ons zonnestelsel en zich in het donker verborgen houden, maar toch subtiel in de achtergrond aan de touwtjes trekken: de omloopbanen van de buitenste planeten langer maken en zelfs het laten kantelen van het zonnestelsel naar één kant".

En verder: "De tekenen zijn tot nu indirect, het betreft vooral een zwaartekracht voetafdruk, maar alles met elkaar telt het toch op tot een overtuigende zaak".

Natuurlijk zal het nu nog enige tijd duren voordat het volledige beeld officieel bekendgemaakt zal worden, maar dit is een enorme stap voorwaarts voor hen die het willen zien.

Want ondanks deze schokkende onthulling die sinds het begin van de jaren tachtig altijd door NASA is ontkend, zullen er ook nu weer de nodige geruststellende geluiden volgen.

Trap er niet in, NASA wist natuurlijk al veel langer dat deze onbekende planeet bestond en daarom hierna nogmaals een deel uit een artikel dat wij enkele jaren geleden schreven.

Terwijl de wereld zo langzamerhand letterlijk uit haar voegen barst vanwege onb(g)ekende krachten die op haar inwerken, kunnen de bewoners weer rustig verder slapen. Althans volgens dit soort boodschappen.

Dit moet heel geruststellend nieuws voor de grote massa zijn want het blijkt allemaal een fabeltje en wel omdat NASA zegt dat de planeet definitief niet bestaat: 

“Al tientallen jaren gaan er geruchten dat zich voorbij de omloopbaan van Pluto een onbekend en groot object zou schuilhouden, een wereld die verschillende namen heeft gekregen, zoals Planet X, Nemesis, Tycho en Niburu (redactie: Nibiru). Deze geruchten kunnen nu definitief de prullenbak in: NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) heeft uitgewezen dat zich geen gasplaneten bevinden binnen 26.000 AU vanaf de zon (1 AU is de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon).” 

Naarmate de planeet Nibiru dichterbij komt en de verstoringen op aarde heftiger worden, zul je dergelijke berichten wel vaker gaan lezen.

Zoals wij enkele weken geleden schreven: 

“Als jij behoorde bij de elite en je wist wat er zou staan te gebeuren, zou je dan willen dat de rest van de mensheid dit wist? Met het risico dat de wereld die jij zo graag onder controle hebt, in totale anarchie vervalt? Dat is namelijk de reden dat de bevolking wordt gehypnotiseerd en afgeleid, terwijl de tekenen om ons heen steeds duidelijker worden.” 

Het is alsof wij met z'n allen op het hellende dek van de Titanic staan, terwijl de boeg al onderwater ligt. Dan klinkt er door de luidsprekers: “Er is helemaal niets aan de hand want de kapitein zegt dat het schip níet lek is”. 

Het aantal mensen dat zelf nadenkt is helaas relatief gezien nog klein. Zij die dat wel doen, zullen hebben geconstateerd dat de heftigheid waarmee onze aarde op dit moment tekeer gaat niet eerder is voorgekomen in de ons bekende historie. 

Mensen die nadenken zullen zich afvragen hoe het kan dat gerenommeerde astronomen tot ongeveer het midden van de jaren tachtig ervan overtuigd waren dat de planeet Nibiru werkelijkheid was. 

Zij zullen zich eveneens afvragen hoe het kan dat op 30 december 1983 er een artikel wordt gepubliceerd door de Washington Post, waarin letterlijk staat de planeet Nibiru is ontdekt door de IRAS infrarode telescoop van NASA.

Het verhaal gaat nog veel verder terug, want zoals wij schreven in een artikel over de beroemde Chileense astronoom Carlos Munoz Ferrada: 

“Ruim 43 jaar voordat de infrarode Iris telescoop van NASA in 1983 een onbekende planeet had ontdekt volgens een artikel in de Washington Post, sprak Ferrada hier al over. Dat is zefs ruim 36 jaar voordat in 1976 het beroemde boek van Zecharia Sitchin “De Twaalfde Planeet” verscheen”. 

Zelfs nog voordat Ferrada kwam met zijn theorie over de onbekende planeet met een elliptische omloopbaan, verschenen er al verhalen in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften, zoals te zien in de volgende korte video:

Waren al deze bekende en minder bekende astronomen tot aan het midden van de jaren tachtig dan volkomen incompetent en wisten ze niet wat ze deden? 

Nee, dat waren ze niet, want ze waren heel goed op hun vakgebied. Zo goed waarschijnlijk dat ze zelfs zonder al onze moderne apparatuur de spijker op de kop sloegen. Na het midden van de jaren tachtig gaan wat NASA en overheden betreft de luiken naar beneden en komt er geen enkele informatie vanuit die bronnen omtrent Nibiru meer naar buiten. 

Wel beginnen ze vanaf die tijd als gekken te graven voor het creëren van gigantische ondergrondse schuilplaatsen. Ook beginnen vanaf ongeveer het begin van deze eeuw de aardveranderingen serieuze vormen aan te nemen, met natuurgeweld dat ieder jaar heftiger wordt. 

Nu zijn we in een periode aanbeland waarbij de leiders van deze wereld zich in alle opzichten gedragen als losgeslagen psychopaten die het helemaal niets kan schelen dat er nog generaties na ons komen. 

Een periode waarin tektonische platen verschuiven en zelfs breken, waar onder het aardoppervlak enorme krachten werkzaam zijn wat onder andere zichtbaar wordt door de schrikbarend toename van vulkaanuitbarstingen wereldwijd. 

Ondertussen speelt het strijkje op het dek van de Titanic rustig verder.

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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden: We Are Aliens Coming From A Different Planet!

Recently Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden has been interviewed by Good Morning Britain in which he talks about space Travel and Alien Visitation to Earth.

During the interview Al Worden states that we came from somewhere else. Al believes that we are an alien race that traveled to earth from a different planet.

Al: “There is another Earth, there is no question about that and they ‘the aliens’ are out there, maybe 3.2 light years away from Earth.”

With his ‘disclosure’ statement that we actually are descendants from an alien race that previously occupied another planet, he follows other astronauts who already told the world about ‘Alien Visitation’ to Earth.

  

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Oh, Russia, don’t ever change. The “former” evil empire seems to be at its old tricks again, launching mystery rockets, waking up its “killer” satellites, and continuing to broadcast encrypted radio messages around the world. Not to mention the whole “alleged” disinformation program which has injected all sorts of chaos into the political systems of Western governments. Now, Mother Russia continues its doctrine of intentional international intrigue with the launch of a strange new experimental capsule to be installed on the International Space Station. What could go wrong?

In Soviet Russia, capsule launch you.

The launch was conducted at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and included routine supplies for astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS such as food, water, and fuel. However, NASA officials spotted an odd capsule being loaded onto the Progress MS-07 that they can’t identify. When NASA officials asked their Russian counterparts what the device might be, they were told only that it is intended for a scientific use and is designed only for a one-way trip. Russian space officials refused to divulge any more information.

Some NASA officials fear the device could have a military purpose, perhaps to calibrate reconnaissance and early warning sensors.

NASA officials are baffled and a bit worried over how tight-lipped the Russians have been about the device. NASA scientists say this is the first time in the two decades of joint US-Russia operation of the ISS that either nation has sent unidentified cargo up to the space station – at least that we know about. The launch of this mystery capsule continues a year of strange happenings aboard the ISS; earlier this year, a mysterious US reconnaissance satellite buzzed the ISS shortly after its launching following a Russian Space agency announcement that they had found unknown “biomaterial” on the outside of the space station. Could a new space race be afoot?

Satellites rarely pass this close to other objects or craft in orbit – especially so soon after their launch.

Perhaps interestingly, the launch of the rocket containing the unidentified cargo was scrubbed at the last minute and rescheduled for October 14th. Does this have anything to do with the fact that NASA spotted the mysterious capsule, or is it mere coincidence? Launches are scrubbed all the time for weather or mechanical malfunctions, after all. Who knows. One thing’s for sure, though: the Cold War ain’t so cold anymore.

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Pascagoula alien abduction incident anniversary

Today ! 12-10) marks 44 years since the alleged Pascagoula alien abduction. The incident had news outlets from all over the world coming to Jackson County.

News 25’s Gina Tomlinson sat down with the former deputy who was working the night of October 11th, 1973 when two men claimed they were picked up by a UFO.

Pascagoula Alien Abduction of 1973: Fact or fiction?

It’s been 44 years and people are still wondering: is the Pascagoula alien abduction all a hoax or were two fishermen really picked up by a UFO in Jackson County on October 11th, 1973? Retired Jackson County Deputy Glenn Ryder was working the night the call came into dispatch. “That boy was so upset, he was crying. He was scared to death and literally begging Charles not to talk to us.”

After 42-year-old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker frantically told deputies they were just abducted by aliens, the two men were brought in for questioning in a room secretly rigged with a tape recorder. Ryder and other authorities left the two men in the room alone. “That boy was still crying, saying ‘don’t talk to them Charles. Those people are going to come back and get us. I’m scared. I’m scared.’ And I when I played it, I knew something was wrong.”

“In Contact” The Pascagoula UFO Abduction. Directed by Charles Hickson · “

According to their story, the aliens first appeared above the Pascagoula River while the two men were fishing off a pier in the area. “He said, ‘I felt something funny and I heard this sound and I looked behind me and there was a flying saucier, and one of them picked me up and took us into the ship.’ And he said ‘I was suspended. I was floating.’”

Ryder says Hickson claimed three aliens examined him while he was in the space craft with what he described as some kind of eye object. “He said ‘I tried to move. I couldn’t run. I was petrified.’”

Ryder says the two men passed lie detectors about the incident. Deputies searched the area for evidence that a spaceship was there and found nothing. “I know something happened. I don’t know what. They had some kind of experience or that boy wouldn’t have cried. There’s no way anyone could act like he was and not be truthful,” said Ryder.

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In the early hours of a cold, misty morning on March 17, 1981, SHPD Sergeant Russell Yokum reported a close encounter of the first kind. At 4:03 a.m., Yokum was patrolling Highway 30 west of the Columbia River when he spotted a bright light moving in an easterly direction toward the Portland Airport upriver. While aircraft were known to regularly pass over the area on the way to the airport, the light was unusually bright, so much so that it lit up the river like the sun was “just coming up.”

“I thought it was an aircraft landing light – but it was brighter than a normal landing light would be,” Yokum told The National Inquirer in ‘81.

Convinced the light was not an aircraft, Yokum radioed headquarters and then headed to the county courthouse to view the unidentified flying object from the banks of the Columbia River. A few local citizens and two Oregon State Police officers, Ricky Cade and Tom McCartney, joined him there and Yokum got in contact with Donald Askins via CB radio. Askins lived in a home across the river in Ridgefield, WA, and went by the handle “Lucky 13.” He could not only see the light, but hear it, too. Askins reported an eerie and extremely loud noise that sounded like “a power plant diesel motor and a screeching noise in between.”

Baffled, the officers set up a portable tape recorder 18 inches from their police radio to record their conversation with Askins, and to catch the sound if it happened again. Askins offered to dangle his CB microphone out the window so he could transmit the sound, and the police drove to a nearby bluff that gave them a better view.

“Hey, Lucky!” One of the officers says in the recording. “We’ve got a tape recorder sitting here by our radio whenever you’re ready. We’ll keep her running. If it starts up again, just key up and we’ll record a little bit of it.”

“Okie doke.”

“I just don’t want you to think we had a screw loose.”

“Sometimes, I wonder.”

“Oh, go to bed!”

“Now all it is is just an orange glow. That’s all I can see.”

“It’s like the sun is just coming up.”

“It better not be. It’s awfully early.”

“Awfully early for the sun. I don’t think the sun would just be in that one spot.”

Then, at approximately 4:29 a.m., the light emitted the strange sound again. You can hear it in on a Youtube video entitled “St. Helens Police Department Recorded UFO Sound.” According to the Inquirer, UFO experts had the sound analyzed by acoustical experts. They were equally puzzled.

At 4:43 a.m., having been surrounded by a thick fog that rolled over the river, the light went out. “Then it sounded as if it went up and away,” McCartney recalled to the Inquirer. “And within 30 seconds the fog separated and there was a blue sky shining through. It was eerie.”

It’s a strange story to be sure, and it begs the question, what would happen if aliens actually visited St. Helens? In the spirit of Halloweentown, and all things unusual, we spoke to SHPD Chief Terry Moss to find out.

The Chronicle: Is there an SHPD response plan for UFO sightings in St. Helens?

Chief Terry Moss: We have a whole policy manual but we don’t have an ‘unidentified flying object policy’, no. I’m sure that there are people in the world that believe we have a Bigfoot policy and a UFO policy …

Maybe we should start to work on that.

Chronicle: Are you aware of any UFO sightings during your tenure as chief?

Moss: The one we’re talking about didn’t happen when I was here, but Russ Yoakum was the officer that saw the UFO. He’s now passed away so that story is lost in history. When I came to work here, he was already gone, he didn’t work here anymore, but that story had lived on and been passed on. I’d heard versions of it. At first I was like, “C’mon.” Ya know? And the other guys are like, “No no, seriously, he says he did.” It went out on the radio and TV news channels came out and did stories on it.

Chronicle: Do you have a contingency plan for contact with alien life forms?

Moss: We have access to a service called the Language Line, so if I come across somebody that doesn’t speak English I can dial up this number and have an interpreter on the other side. I can give them the phone and they can help us have a conversation. I’m going to guess an alien probably doesn’t speak English. I don’t know if Language Line is prepared for alien translation but it would be a good place to start, I guess. Klingon and all that, I don’t know if there’s anyone around that actually speaks it, so we’d have to use that Language Line to get past that “take me to your leader” thing.

Chronicle: If the aliens are hostile is the SHPD prepared to defend the city?

Moss: No, our highest-powered rifle would probably be ineffective against their advanced weaponry. I would guess that it would be difficult. Based on all the stuff I know about them, because I’ve watched a lot of TV, we’re not prepared. Laser beams and … yeah, we’ve got nothing for that.

Chronicle: Who would represent St. Helens during contact? You? The Mayor?

Moss: It would have to be the mayor. If they said, “take me to your leader,” I’d take them right to Rick Scholl.

Chronicle: If they were friendly would we set up a situation to welcome them in?

Moss: Yeah, why not? Give them a key to the city or something. That would be a big deal, wouldn’t it? You wouldn’t want to be known as the city that shunned visitors like that. I think you’d have to open the doors and embrace it and share. You know that whole exchange thing where we go live with them for a while and they come live with us for a while? Like sending kids on an exchange mission? Yeah, we should invite them in.

Chronicle: What if one of them wanted to join the police force?

Moss: We are always hiring and we welcome diversity. I’ve got to believe that that would be a huge asset to the organization if we did that.

Chronicle: Do you personally believe in the possibility of alien life?

Moss: The more I think about how big the universe is, I’ve got to believe that there’s somebody out there. In the billions and billions and billions of miles, you’ve got to think there’s something else going on. Are we really it? I don’t know. TV certainly compels us to believe that there are others out there. Or maybe they’re looking at us and they’re shaking their heads going, “Oh my god, what in the world is going on over there on that little blue planet? Stay away from that place. They have Facebook now.”

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I-Team: Public company launched to investigate UFOs

I-Team: Public company launched to investigate UFOs

Today, people’s bodies are more perfectly melded with technology than we could have imagined mere decades ago. Superhuman strength, dexterity, and senses are no longer science-fiction — they’re already here.

Though cutting-edge technology offers us a glimpse into the capabilities of enhanced humans in the future, it’s most useful these days as support for people who have been affected by a disability. Cyborg technology can replace missing limbs, organs, and bodily senses. Sometimes, it can even enhance the body’s typical function.

Here are six of the most striking examples of this cyborg present. They show us how far we have already come, and how far we could go in the future.

1. Hearing Colors With An Antenna

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Activist and artist Neil Harbisson was born without the ability to see color. In 2004, he decided to change that. He mounted an electronic antenna to the lower back of his skull that turns frequencies of light into vibrations his brain interprets as sound, allowing him to “hear color.” These frequencies are even able to go beyond the visual spectrum, allowing him to “hear” invisible frequencies such as infrared and ultraviolet.

“There is no difference between the software and my brain, or my antenna and any other body part. Being united to cybernetics makes me feel that I am technology,” he said in a National Geographic interview.

His body modification was not always well-accepted: the British government took issue when the antenna showed up in Harbisson’s passport photo. Harbisson  fought the government to keep it in. He won, becoming the first “legally recognized” cyborg.

2. The LUKE Arm

Image Credit: DARPA

The LUKE Arm (named after Luke Sywalker) is a highly advanced prosthetic that lends the wearer a sense of touch. A specialized motor can provide feedback to mimic the resistance offered by various physical objects — users can feel that a pillow offers less resistance than a brick. With the help of funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the finished design received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2014.

Electronic sensors receive signals from the wearer’s muscles that the device then translates into physical movement. The wearer can manipulate multiple joints at once through switches that can be controlled with his or her feet.  The first commercially available LUKE arm became available to a small group of military amputees in late 2016. Amputees can now buy the prosthetic through their physicians, but the device is rumored to cost around $100,000.

3. Artificial Vision

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In his 20s, Jens Naumann was involved in two separate accidents that shot metal shards into his eyes, causing him to lose his vision. In 2002, at the age of 37, Naumann participated in a clinical trial performed at the Lisbon-based Dobelle Institute in which a television camera was connected straight to his brain, bypassing his faulty eyes. Dots of light combined to form shapes and outlines of the world around him, giving him “this kind of dot matrix-type vision.” The system enabled him to see Christmas lights outlining his home in Canada that year.

Unfortunately, the system failed only after a couple of weeks. And when William Dobelle, the original inventor of the technology, passed away in 2004, he left behind almost no documentation, leaving technicians no instructions for how to repair Naumann’s system. In 2010, Naumann had the system surgically removed, rendering him completely blind once again.

4. Mind-Controlled Bionic Leg

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The mindcontrolled bionic leg was first used in 2012 by Zac Vawter, a software engineer from Seattle whose leg was amputated above the knee in 2009. The technology that translates brain signals into physical movement, called Targeted Muscle Reinnvervation (TMR), was first created in 2003 for upper-limb prosthetics. But Vawter’s prosthetic was revolutionary because it was the first leg prosthetic use it.

In 2012, Zac Vawter climbed the 2,100 steps of the Willis Tower in Chicago, with the help of his prosthetic leg. It took him 53 minutes and nine seconds.

5. The bebionic Hand

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Prosthetics company bebionic has created some of the most sophisticated prosthetic hands to date. Individual motors move every joint along every digit independently. To help with everyday use, the bebionic has 14 pre-determined grip patterns. Highly sensitive motors vary the speed and force of the grip in real-time — it’s delicate enough for the user to hold an egg between his or her index finger and thumb, and robust enough to hold up to 45 kilograms (99 pounds).

The bebionic hand has been available commercially since 2010. Models released in the years since have improved its battery life, flexibility, and software.

6. The Eyeborg Project

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Toronto-based filmmaker Rob Spence decided to replace his missing right eye with a prosthetic equipped with a wirelessly-transmitting video camera. Thanks to a partnership with RF wireless design company and a group of electrical engineers, Spence created a prosthetic eye shell that could house enough electronics in such a small, confined space.

The camera can record up to 30 minutes of footage before depleting the battery. Spence used footage captured by his eye prosthetic in a documentary called Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary.

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What’s going on in the skies above North Carolina? Two seemingly separate news stories out of my home state this week are hinting that there might be more going on above our heads than the proverbial ‘they’ are letting on. The mystery began on Saturday, October 7th when residents of Winston Salem, NC heard what has been described as an “earsplitting boom” in the skies overhead. Residents described the noise as a “muffled explosion” that was strong enough to shake the windows and doors of homes in the area. One area man, Eugene Nieto, told local Fox affiliate WGHP that the noise sounded like a bomb:

It sounded like something hit the side of the house. I thought either a truck crashed or something exploded somewhere. It sounded like a legit concussion. It sounded like a bomb.

After searching the area and interviewing local residents, Winston Salem police haven’t a clue what could have caused the deafening boom overhead and are seeking the public’s help in piecing this mystery together. Interestingly, the Winston Salem boom coincided with a similar noise heard above Cairns, Australia heard on the same day. The strangeness doesn’t stop there though. The day after Winston Salem skies were rocked by a seemingly unexplained explosion, a piece of what appears to be an unidentified rocket or aircraft washed up on NC’s shores.

Not the type of shell you’d expect to find the sand. 

Photo: Erin Everlee

The debris washed up on the coast in Hatteras Village on NC’s Outer Banks. The object appears to be constructed from metal and some sort of synthetic insulating material and measures roughly 10 feet by 15 feet. The piece is rounded and includes a serial number, and the lack of barnacles on the debris implies it wasn’t in the ocean long before it washed ashore. The leading theory seems to be that the object could be some sort of rocket fairing or nose cone.

Cross-section of the debris. 

Photo: Erin Everlee

After discovering the debris, baffled Hatteras Village residents called the National Park Service who then notified the Air Force. An investigation into its origin is still underway. Could the debris be related to the mysterious boom heard just a few hundred miles inland the night before?

I’m sure these government stooges would love to tell us all about where it came from. No, wait, the opposite of that.

It seems like too big of a connection to rule out as mere coincidence. Is someone or some group launching rockets and keeping it hush-hush? Could this be a piece of an unreported aircraft which has crashed? For now, this one remains a mystery.

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History holds many oddities that we may never fully understand, either through incomplete documentation, disinterest at the time, or simply a big question mark that hangs over all. Among these are mysterious tribes of people that have been encountered and confronted in all corners of the globe, often vanishing before we really understand them and leaving us perplexed at just who they were or where their origins lie. One such tribe was a mysterious group of Native Americans who appeared to explorers as something quite European in nature, although their ways and beginnings have always been cloaked in shadows. Known mostly from historical accounts, their origins remain murky, their lineage uncertain, and they are a historical curiosity we may never fully understand.

During the era of early European contact, the native peoples of North America held many curiosities for explorers and settlers coming to this new, wild land. These tribes were numerous, and displayed rich variety between different cultures, as well as myriad languages, customs, and traditions that inspired awe, wonder, curiosity, bafflement, and even fear in the European adventurers who bravely delved into this uncharted new world and tried to tame it. Yet as fascinating as these new peoples were, perhaps the most interesting was an alleged tribe of natives who were said to look decidedly Caucasian in nature.

The first reports of what would come to be known as the Mandan tribe began to trickle out from French explorers in the region of the Missouri River in present-day North and South Dakota in the early 1700s. These natives were said to have rather fair skin and to have red or blonde hair and blue or grey eyes, and indeed especially the women were purportedly so Nordic in appearance that if it were not for their clothing they were said to be nearly indistinguishable from whites. In 1738, the French Canadian trader Sieur de la Verendrye made the first official outside contact with the Mandan and described them as living in 9 villages at a tributary of the Missouri river called the Heart River, and noted that they also exhibited customs that were decidedly more European than the neighboring tribes.

A Mandan chief’s lodge

By 1784 the word had gotten out on this mysterious tribe of blue-eyed Indians, and they were featured in the media, with the August 24, 1784 edition of the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser proclaiming that a new tribe of white people had been discovered and that they were “acquainted with the principles of the Christian religion” and “extremely courteous and civilized.” Perhaps one of the more famous of the explorers to come across the Mandan was none other than Lewis and Clark, who visited the tribe in 1804 and described them as “half-white,” as well as peaceful, civilized, courteous, and polite. They also noted that the tribe’s numbers had dwindled significantly due to the frequent small pox epidemics that terrorized them, as well as attacks against them by neighboring tribes, namely the Assiniboine, Lakota, Arikara and the Sioux.

Of course this all led to intense speculation as to what the origins were of this bizarre tribe, and one of the earliest ideas put forward was that they were the descendants of pre-Columbian explorers to the New World. For instance there were many legends from various regions of the present day United States of Welsh speaking natives, perhaps descended from Welsh settlers coming to these shore in the 12th century, in particular a Prince Madoc, who along with his followers was said to have emigrated to America from Wales in about 1170.

One Welsh explorer by the name of John Evans became so convinced that this was the case with the Mandan that he launched an expedition up the Missouri river in 1796 to search for them and prove that their language was derived from Welsh and contained Welsh vocabulary. Evans would trek up the river in the winter of 1796 and he could find no evidence whatsoever of the Welsh influence he had been so sure he would find, forcing him to concede that this was not where the Mandan origins lay. Indeed, he became extremely skeptical that there were any of these legendary “Welsh Indians” at all, saying in a letter to a Dr. Samuel Jones:

Thus having explored and charted the Missurie for 1,800 miles and by my Communications with the Indians this side of the Pacific Ocean from 35 to 49 degrees of Latitude, I am able to inform you that there is no such People as the Welsh Indians.

Mandan tribespeople

Another explorer who believed that the Mandan had European roots, perhaps even Welsh, was the frontiersman and pictorial historian George Catlin, who spent several months with the tribe in North Dakota, living amongst and drawing and painting them in 1832. One of the things that first struck him about these mysterious people was just how European they looked, describing that many of them were nearly white and had light hair and blue eyes, and he also noticed that they had more advanced techniques for manufacturing goods and dwellings, customs, traditions, town layouts, and language vastly different from neighboring tribes. Caitlin would say of the Mandan:

They are a very interesting and pleasing people in their personal appearance and manners, differing in many respects, both in looks and customs, from all the other tribes I have seen. So forcibly have I been struck with the peculiar ease and elegance of these people, together with their diversity of complexions, the various colours of their hair and eyes; the singularity of their language, and their peculiar and unaccountable customs, that I am fully convinced that they have sprung from some other origin than that of the other North American Tribes, or that they are an amalgam of natives with some civilized race.

Even some of the legends of the Mandan people themselves expressly mentioned that they had been descended from a strange white man who had appeared to them aboard a canoe in ancient times after an enormous flood had wiped out everything in sight. They claimed that this stranger had taught them about medicine and had influenced their religion, which oddly featured many of the same beats as Christianity, such as a great flood, a virgin birth, and a child born who could work magical miracles, among others. This was noticed by other later expeditions as well, such as an 1833-34 expedition led by German naturalist A.P. Maximilian, who felt that the similarities between Christianity and the Mandan religion were too close to be mere coincidence. Caitlin would write of this:

It would seem that these people must have had some proximity to some part of the civilized world; or that missionaries or others have been formerly among them, inculcating the Christian religion and the Mosaic account of the Flood.

A drawing of a Mandan tribeswoman by George Catlin

Another idea on the Mandan origins is that they came from pre-Columbian visitations by Viking explorers. The first official European to ever officially make contact with the Mandan tribe, Sieur de la Verendrye, claimed that at the time he had found a strange runestone with Nordic inscriptions on a riverside near the village. The stone was allegedly sent to France to be studied but it is unclear what happened to the “Verendrye Runestone” after that, and indeed it is uncertain if it ever really existed at all. Unless the stone ever turns up again it remains just as mysterious as the Mandan.

The idea of Vikings in the New World before the days of Columbus has been talked about for some time, with one prevalent and somewhat controversial theory having to do with Eric Thorwaldsson, also more famously known as “The Red,” who established two colonies on the coast of Greenland in 986. The story goes that Eric The Red then abandoned these outposts when the wild, rugged land proved to be too cold and forbidding, and made his way to North America along with the colonists. The theory then claims that the King of Norway is then said to have sent an expedition to the New World to find out what had happened to them, and that this expedition made their way up the rivers to end up in the Dakotas and other areas, after which they became stranded and then assimilated into the native tribes, giving them their Nordic genes.

However, there is very little evidence to prove that Vikings ever actually reached North America. The Verendrye Runestone vanished without a trace and then there is the hotly debated Kensington Runestone, which was a giant slab covered in runes allegedly found by Swedish immigrant Olof Ohman in Minnesota in 1898. In this case the inscriptions claimed that the runes had been created by 14th century Scandinavian explorers, and although the authenticity of the runestone is still debated it has mostly been classified as a hoax by the scientific community.

Mandan tribeswoman

Regardless of where the Mandan really came from the fact is that we will probably never know for sure. In 1838 the tribe was hit by a devastating smallpox epidemic, and although this was a specter they had been haunted by for centuries, this time it was absolutely catastrophic, wiping them out at such a rate that after only a few months there were only an estimated 30 to 140 of them left. With the Mandan teetering on the edge of extinction, enemy tribes swept in and took them as slaves, after which they were assimilated and absorbed.

Consequent intermarriage and interbreeding meant that any unique genetic heritage they may have had was quickly erased, and the last known full-blooded Mandan was a Mattie Grinnell, who died in 1971. Since there are no more full-blooded Mandan left and only an estimated 8 speakers of its language left today, it is difficult to get a grip on their heritage, even with our advanced DNA testing techniques, and their origins and history will likely forever remain shrouded in mystery, leaving us to merely speculate and debate on it.

It is somewhat sad that this tribe disappeared before we were ever able to really comprehend who they were. All we are left with is the tales and accounts from explorers, but other than that their legacy has evaporated into the tides of history. They are a vanished people who sowed bafflement and wonder, but ultimately left numerous questions swirling about them, doomed to a limbo of superstition, speculation, and rumor. Who were these people? Why did they look and act so differently, and what was the meaning behind their strange ways? To the alien explorers just starting to penetrate this wilderness at the time they may have seemed to be baffling anomalies, and interestingly they still are.

Antarctica is the perfect laboratory for collecting data on how our human activity is (presumably) irrevocably changing the Earth for the worse. Over the last few years, all sorts of unexplained and unprecedented changes have been unleashed upon the icy southernmost continent, including rare phytoplankton blooms that have made huge areas of Antarctic ice turn green and huge cracks and fissures spontaneously opening up, prompting hopes that Atlantis might be foundunder the ice. Now, a more worrisome sight has developed and scientists don’t know what to make of it: a huge hole has been seemingly punched right through the continent, miles from the coastline.

The hole is what’s known as a polynya, an area of open water formed in the middle of sea ice.

Due to the large distance between the hole and the coast, scientists do not believe that the normal forces of tidal erosion and glacial shearing are behind this mysterious void.  These polynyas typically form either when warm water vents erode sea ice from below or when oceans currents create pockets of higher salt density, causing that salty ice to sink.

While polynyas are nothing new, the sudden, unexplained formation of this one has some scientists concerned.

In the case of this new polynya, researchers aren’t sure if either of these forces are at work or if this hole represents some new phenomenon altogether. This particular polynya opened once before in the 1970s but closed up before scientists could study it. University of Toronto physicist Kent Moore told Motherboardthat the hole is “quite remarkable” for its size and seemingly spontaneous reappearance:

It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice. This is now the second year in a row it’s opened after 40 years of not being there. We’re still trying to figure out what’s going on.

With so much weirdness afoot on the continent lately, there’s no telling what might be behind the sudden reappearance of the hole. Secret nuclear testing? Some form of higher strangeness? Or could it just be that we are witnessing another symptom of our planet’s runaway changing climate patterns? Which is more terrifying?

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A video has been making the rounds recently of what the uploader claims is a UFO over the Yellowstone supervolcano caldera. The owner gives it the self-congratulatory title of “Impressive UFO” and gives its date of origin as June 9, 2017. The quality of the video isn’t bad for a daytime sighting, but it’s certainly not good enough to ascertain, as some observers have, that it’s a “metallic” object. This would normally be enough to file it in the “another UFO over Yellowstone” file …

… except for the fact that a series of minor earthquakes began hitting the area around the supervolcano, beginning on June 12 and ending on June 19. The largest was a magnitude 4.5, which was the strongest in the area since 2014, but the real news was that this co-called “swarm” totaled over 400 small quakes in a week. Knowing how sensitive we are to apocalyptic signs, experts at the U.S. Geological Survey were quick to point out that “swarms” of earthquakes in the area have occurred before without causing an eruption and the chances of one happening now were quite low. That’s comforting news, even if it comes from a government agency, and would normally be enough to bring swarms of people back to Yellowstone to watch for geysers and UFOs …

… unless they heard about a presentation at the recent 2017 IAVCEI (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry) “Fostering Integrative Studies of Volcanism” conference which revealed that a recent study at Yellowstone found that the most recent eruption of the supervolcano was triggered when new magma moved into the system just decades before the eruption, not millenniums as had been previously believed. Changes in layers of crystals seemed to indicate rapid temperature increases that precede eruptions. While the researchers caution that the evidence is inconclusive and more study is needed, the UFO, earthquakes and quickness of the magma buildup before the last superuption sound like dots that a re close enough to connect and scare tourists and residents alike far away from all things Yellowstone …

… other than Old Faithful. The aptly named geyser still erupts faithfully every 90 minutes or so, but that interval has lengthened recently and some fear it’s because the earthquakes have affected subterranean water levels. Fortunately, Science reports that scientists recently used 133 seismographs spread across a square kilometer near the geyser and the measurements taken indicate that Faithful’s underground thermally-heated chamber still holds hundreds of millions of gallons of water and shows no signs of running out of earthquake-generated cracks. The time interval actually hasn’t changed … the measurements have simply become more accurate. That should make residents, tourists and those who depend on tourist dollars rest a little easier …

… until the next earthquakes, geological revelations, geyser anomalies or UFO appearances.

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Dr. Steven Greer: Super Secret Groups Planning False Flag Alien Attack!

As part of our ongoing effort to explore our universe and seek answers to really big questions, The Health Ranger / Natural News recently interviewed Dr. Steven Greer, M.D.

Dr. Greer, a prominent UFO researcher and emergency room physician, founder of Sirius Disclosure and creator of the popular new documentary Unacknowledged, explains that he believes many so-called "UFO sightings" are actually sightings of human-made aircraft, and that super secret groups exist inside the U.S. government which plan to stage a faked, "false flag" alien invasion attack in order to roll out globalist government that tramples individual human liberties forever.

Whether or not you agree with his analysis, Dr. Greer is an intriguing and highly intelligent individual who has uncovered an astonishing wealth of evidence to support his explanations.

  

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Amazing TR-3B footage

This footage was recorded with an infrared camera. This camera allows us to see objects in the infrared spectrum. The human eye does not have the capabilities to see the infrared spectrum. The infrared camera captured this triangular UFO during the night. The camera shows several objects like airplanes, but these can also be seen with the naked eye. The UFO was not visible to the naked eye and only showed up on the infrared camera. The UFO appears to be the infamous TR-3B secret airplane. It shows a lot of similarities of the objects that were witnessed by thousands during the Belgian UFO flap in 1990 and during the Phoenix Lights events in 1997. This video is one of the best video’s ever proving the existence of the TR-3B.

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Unknown lights hovering above Tijuana, Mexico 28-Sep-2017

This new footage of a bright lights was filmed in the sky above Tijuana in Mexico. This happened on 28th September 2017 and It was filmed right off the water just south of the border below Imperial Beach, CA.

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Tom DeLonge's New Company Is Trying To Prove That Aliens Exist

The blink-182 founder is trying to change the world

By Tom Ward

Among those of a certain scene, former blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge's interest in aliens and all things science fiction have been well publicised.

Spearheaded by his band Angels & Airwaves, DeLonge's To The Stars Media has launched books, feature films and soundtracks exploring the myths and rumours behind some of the biggest sci-fi conspiracies in history.

Now, DeLonge looks set to take this interest to another level, with the founding of the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, with three divisions focusing on space, aerospace and entertainment.

After months of speculation around what DeLonge teased would be a big and important reveal, the new initiative was announced in a live stream yesterday (11 October).

Joining him in the organisation are ex-CIA members and former members of the US government's Department of Defense, and a NASA advisor. Their aim is to enable researchers to collaborate on new technologies exploring "the outer edges of science".

"The public interest in the outer edges of science and the understanding of phenomena has always been suffocated by mainstream ideology and bureaucratic constraint," DeLonge said in a statement. "We believe there are discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience, but they can only be accomplished through the unrestricted support of breakthrough research and innovation."

The company is crowdfunding now and has raised almost $250,000, which probably means he won't have to go out on any lucrative blink-182 tours ever again.

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Cassini’s Last Dance With Saturn: The Farewell Mosaic

Ian Regan

Last month, the world watched as Cassini plummeted into the upper atmosphere of Saturn—a fitting Viking funeral for a robot that had operated magnificently for two decades in the unforgiving environment of deep space.

One may attach human characteristics to Cassini, for it essentially acted as a human proxy in our quest to better understanding our universe: it sniffed out the composition of molecules, tasted charged particles, felt out the textures of alien moons via radar, listened in to radio emissions from its home planet, and last but not least, used its suite of electronic eyes to gaze upon and observe the many breathtaking vistas it encountered on its journey.

Cassini helped so many folks all over the world—scientists and laypeople alike—to become vicarious explorers of the solar system, and of course, the Saturn system in particular. So when the mission came to an end this past September, I felt a sense of melancholy and bittersweet pride. Cassini is no more and that hurts, no matter which way you slice it.

I’ve felt a particular affinity to Cassini ever since I sent a signed postcard to the Planetary Society in 1996 (signatures were scanned and burned onto a CD that was subsequently bolted to the side of the spacecraft). As such, I debated how to mark the end of the mission—surely I couldn’t just release a wistful sigh and then get on with my life? No, there had to be a more meaningful way to mark the end of this marvellous chapter in space exploration.

And then I had it—almost exactly 48 hours before the two-story probe disintegrated and became forever a part of the sixth planet, it had captured what was to be its final portrait of Saturn and the rings. Its electronic eyes (or the Image Science Subsystem, to use the more prosaic moniker) were cast upon the beringed giant, methodically recording image after image in a variety of exposures and filters. If the 13-year gravitational coupling between Cassini and Saturn were a waltz, this image would, in my eyes, come to represent the ‘last dance’ between the two bodies. That phrase stuck.

By the time the 15th of September came around, and all waited for Cassini’s death gasp to arrive in the form of a truncated radio signal, the raw images of this ‘Last Dance’ mosaic had already been downlinked and released to the public. Many talented peers in the image processing community had already produced fantastic renditions in a very short space of time (most notably Jason Major, Kevin Gill, and Don Davis).

If this had been a regular, run-of-the-mill observation, I would’ve been content to let their hard work represent this moment in time. But this was no ordinary moment in time: it was a watershed moment, a picture that said more than a hundred eulogies could convey. I **had** to make my own version of this mosaic! It wasn’t about doing a better job than my peers; it wasn’t about getting noticed on social media; it wasn’t about anything else except wanting to deal with the end-of-mission in my own way: a cathartic and almost ritualistic process that would, to use the much-vaunted term, bring ‘closure’ to my own Cassini adventure. As such, I poured more hours into this than otherwise would be warranted. I allowed my inner-perfectionist to run riot, at times driving the saner part of me to distraction!

Having produced two other large color Cassini mosaics over the previous 12-months (the so-called ‘Glutton For Punishment’ view from 2016, and the more recent ‘Grand Finale’ vista), I had developed my own approach and workflow that seemed to reliably pay dividends, as long as I was willing to put in the long, arduous hours.

NASA / JPL / SSI / Ian Regan

SATURN MOSAIC ON OCTOBER 28, 2016

Cassini took the images for this wide view of Saturn on October 28, 2016, less than a year before the end of the mission. The season has advanced virtually to the opposite of what it was when Cassini arrived: it's full summer in the north pole, where Saturn's clouds make a hexagon shape. The season makes Saturn cast a relatively short shadow onto its rings. The night side of Saturn is faintly illuminated by reflected ringshine. Three moons are visible: Epimetheus (just above the right ansa, near Saturn); and Atlas and Prometheus (at the tip of the left ansa).

NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Ian Regan

CASSINI'S 'GRAND FINALE' SATURN PORTRAIT (APRIL 13, 2017)

In the early hours of April 13, 2017, Cassini captured this breathtaking and unique visage of the Saturnian system as it coasted through space in the shadow of the gas giant.

Using its Wide-Angle Camera (part of the Imaging Science Subsystem), Cassini snapped 96 individual digital photos: these images consisted of Red, Green, and Blue-filtered frames, covering a total of 32 ‘footprints’. These 32 color frames were painstakingly combined to produce the final mosaic.

Cassini took nearly four hours to collect these data. In that time, the spacecraft was slowly cruising away from the planet, en route to apoapse (the point farthest from Saturn in any given orbit) of Revolution 269. The distance to the planet increased by 82,000 km in that time, and in the end, the distance to the cloud-tops equaled 650,040 km.

I discovered that having a template, much as a dressmaker might use, was particularly helpful. To that end, I used Mark Showalter’s Saturn Viewer to render the view from Cassini’s vantage point at the midpoint of the observation. (Cassini took two hours to shutter all seventy-six images for this mosaic, starting at 13:09 UTC on September 13). The computer-generated wireframe depiction of Saturn was to be the anchor layer against which all of the individual frames would be matched against.

Saturn and its rings were covered by a grid of ‘footprints’, 5 across and 2 high. These ‘footprints’ are points or objects in space that a spacecraft’s camera stares at, capturing one or more photographs in the process. All data captured, the spacecraft changes its attitude to point the sensor in question in a slightly different direction (aka a new ‘footprint’).

In this instance, Cassini used the wide-angle camera (WAC) to obtain the photographs collected in each of the ten footprints. These images included shots via the red, green, blue and clear filters the WAC possesses. Furthermore, long and short exposures were shuttered to capture detail in the bright rings and sunlit crescent, as well as the more subtle details on the nightside of the planet.

My approach from this point onward can be succinctly summed up in bullet-point form:

1. Resize all images to 200% scale.

2. Align and stack all images in each footprint, producing a 16-bit greyscale TIF that preserved details both in the light and dark areas.

3. Manual assembly of a greyscale mosaic of Saturn’s rings, using the Saturn Viewer wireframe as a guide.

4. Manual assembly of a greyscale mosaic of Saturn itself, carefully preserving detail both in the sunlit crescent, and the nightside faintly illuminated by ring-shine.

5. A careful merger of the sub-mosaics produced in steps 4 and 5.

6. Using the same wireframe reference, make a RGB mosaic covering all ten footprints. Here more time was spent working on careful color-matching between footprints, as opposed to fine alignment of features.

7. The slightly less precise color mosaic was used to lend chroma information to the base greyscale mosaic.

8. Final adjustments to color balance, and various high-pass sharpening procedures.

Final ‘Last Dance’ Saturn mosaic, with a subjective (but I suspect fairly accurate) attempt to reproduce natural color:

NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Ian Regan

CASSINI'S 'LAST DANCE': A FINAL PORTRAIT AT SATURN

In the early afternoon of September 13, 2017, the venerable and much-loved Cassini probe captured this final portrait of Saturn and its main ring system, before plummeting to fiery destruction in the planet's hazy atmosphere just 48 hours later.

Using its Wide-Angle Camera (part of the Imaging Science Subsystem), Cassini snapped 75 photos: these images can be grouped into a grid of 6 by 2. Each footprint in that grid was covered with both long and short exposures via the red, green, and blue filters, plus a longer exposure shuttered through the clear filter.

The veteran spacecraft took nearly two hours to collect these data: starting at 1:09 PM and concluding at 3:17 PM (all times are UTC). Only three moons—Enceladus, Janus and Mimas—can be picked out in the uncalibrated and compressed data.

Annotated variant:

NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Ian Regan

CASSINI'S 'LAST DANCE': A FINAL PORTRAIT AT SATURN (ANNOTATED)

Every so often, I paused to save and back-up a new iteration of the ‘Last Dance’ mosaic. Unusually, I retained all the intermediate stages (normally I delete the oldest versions after a certain point), enabling me to produce the following GIF, depicting the gradual evolution of the mosaic:

Ian Regan

BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE LAST DANCE

The final product came out much better than anticipated, and it provided me with the sense of closure and finality I’d sought for. It is not meant to be the definitive rendition of these data, and I fully anticipate an official version to be released before the year is out.

However, as much as having my signature sent to Saturn represented the opening chapter in my own Cassini journey, this image is my personal epilogue at the other end of the story. In my my eyes, the journey is now complete and the circle completed. Cassini is gone, but the legacy lives on, as will the images and data, one hopes, for millennia to come.

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Gigantic Mystery Hole Opens in Antarctica, Are the Aliens Here?

A giant hole the size of Lake Superior (over 300 miles long) has opened up in Antarctica, could this mean that the aliens are here prematurely? Scientists cannot explain why the mystery hole has appeared again after 40-years, but they have better technology to study it this time around. The spot was first observed in the same exact location in the 1970s, which was when the first satellites were launched that provided images of the sea ice cover from space. It reportedly looks like someone, or thing, simply punched a hole in the ice.

Areas of open water surrounded by ice are known by the Russian word "polynya," which is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice. It is now used as a geographical term for an area of unfrozen sea within the ice pack. They occur regularly in the Antarctic and Arctic, but typically in coastal regions. University of Toronto Mississauga professor Kent Moore told Motherboard that the hole is "quite remarkable," but scientists still can't figure out how or why that it has happened again. Professor Mojib Latif told Motherboard that the area is distinct layers. He explains.

"The Southern Ocean is strongly stratified. A very cold but relatively fresh water layer covers a much warmer and saltier water mass, thus acting as an insulating layer."

Certain conditions cause the warm water on the lower layers to reach the surface and melt the ice. Professor Mojib Latif went on to explain that it's basically like opening a pressure relief valve that releases heat during the winters. But still, the science community is baffled by what they're seeing. Could it be extraterrestrial activity?

Last week it was reported that a drunk man in Casper, Wyoming claimed that he was sent from the year 2048 back in time to warn us of an impending alien invasion that is supposed to happen next year. The drunken time traveler told police officers that the aliens filled his body with booze and that he needed to talk to the "president of the town" immediately to warn him of the alien invasion. As news of the giant hole in Antarctica has spread, it has prompted many to rethink the drunken time traveler's story, since he came to warn us a little earlier than he had planned.

Both scientists warned that it is too premature to point the finger at climate change at this time, but they both inferred that the polyana will have a wide impact on the world's oceans as the contrast between ocean temperature and atmosphere drive convection. If not global warning, it could very well be aliens that have punched a hole in the ice with their ships to hide deep in the ice shelf of Antarctica to plan their attack for next year. It isn't clear when the aliens are supposed to invade, but the drunken time traveler warns that it will be early next year. You can check out some more information about the giant mystery hole in Antarctica courtesy of Motherboard.

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A GIGANTIC MYSTERY HOLE OPENS IN ANTARCTICA

Startling new evidence has emerged that a massive hole has formed in the ice of Antarctica, and scientists won't say why they think it is there.

Atmospheric physicist Kent Moore, a professor at the University of Toronto admits that the mysterious hole "is quite remarkable, "and adds that "It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice."

This is not the first time such a hole has formed in the ice. When such holes in areas of open water surrounded by sea ice form, they are known as polynyas.  

IS AN ANTARCTIC DISASTER ABOUT TO UNLEASH THE APOCALYPSE?

Moore explained that they form in coastal regions of Antarctica. What is strange in this particular case, however, is that this polynia is "deep in the ice pack, "he said. Since this has never happened before, it is becoming clear that it must have formed through other processes that are not yet understood. However, scientists were reluctant to be more specific. 

Moore did add, "This is hundreds of kilometers from the ice edge. If we didn't have a satellite, we wouldn't know it was there." (It measured 80,000 k㎡ at its peak.)

When polynias have emerged in the past, they have been largely unreported on and unstudied. Back then, scientists' observation tools were not as sophisticated, so those holes remained largely unstudied. Then the holes went away for four decades, until last year, when one reopened for a few weeks. Now it's back again.

"This is now the second year in a row it's opened after 40 years of not being there, "Moore said. (It opened around September 9.) "We're still trying to figure out what's going on."

When asked if this could be due to climate change, Moore said that's "premature." Scientists can say with certainty, though, that the polynia will have a wider impact on the oceans.

"Once the sea ice melts back, you have this huge temperature contrast between the ocean and the atmosphere, "Moore explained. "It can start driving convection." Particularly concerning is that these holes may not fix themselves in coming winter, since denser, colder water sinks to the bottom of the ocean, while warmer water rises to the surface, "which can keep the polynia open once it starts, "he said.  

Antarctica is undergoing massive changes right now, and this is certainly one of the most concerning. If this process continues, the ice will not be able to heal itself by refreezing in the winter, thus contributing to a sudden, massive increase in sea level.

STRANGE ENERGY PULSES FROM ANTARTICA  

Some are also concerned that the international food reserve could be at risk if this keeps up - potentially endangering humanity's last hope if something catastrophic does happen.

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IMPRESSIVE UFO RECORDED OVER YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO

Yellow Stone National park has been a long-time heralded UFO sighting area for many decades throughout American history.

The mountain in past years and recent news has been declared a ticking time-bomb as it has awakened into an active volcano being able to erupt at any time it should choose.  

Recently a visitor was able to capture one of these amazing U.F.O sightings on camera. The Youtube video was taken earlier this past June already has nearly 25 thousand views. Alien hunters and paranormal fans worldwide are beyond excited to view this very credible footage of a typical silvery flying saucer rising beside Yellowstone then shooting across the sky. 

This is not the first sighting of an unidentifiable object in the sky near Yellow Stone. In 2016 there too was a sighting of what appeared to be a drone-like object hovering directly above the head of the summit. Footage of this sighting can also be found on the "Jeanette" channel under a video entitled "Things Are Flying All Over The Night Sky! Upper Basin - Overnight!".

Is there a possibility that visitors from other planets could share an interest in the earth's natural wonders?

Are alien beings somehow involved with the activation of this super-volcano? It is estimated that the volcano last erupted over 700 000 years ago. Many locals feel uneasy knowing that all it might take is just one unexpected earthquake to set it off, immediately killing an estimated 87,000 people and making two-thirds of the United States immediately uninhabitable.

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ESO TO ANNOUNCE UNPRECEDENTED ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENON NEVER WITNESSED BEFORE

ESO will hold a press conference on 16 October 2017 at 16:00 CEST, at its Headquarters in Garching, Germany, to present groundbreaking observations of an astronomical phenomenon that has never been witnessed before.

The event will be introduced from ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile by the Director General, Xavier Barcons, and will feature talks by representatives of many research groups around Europe.  

This invitation is addressed exclusively at media representatives. To participate in the conference, bona fide members of the media must register by completing an online form. Please indicate whether you wish to come in person to the press conference or if you will participate online only.

By registering for the conference, journalists agree to honour an embargo, details of which will be provided after registration, and not to publish or discuss any of the material presented before the start of the conference on 16 October 2017 at 16:00 CEST.

On site journalists will have a question and answer session with panelists during the conference. We will also take questions from journalists participating online. In-person individual interviews right after the conference are also possible.

Details about how to connect to the conference, how to submit questions or book interviews, will be sent after registration.

An ESO press release will be publicly issued at the start of the conference. Translations of the press release will be available in multiple languages, as well as extensive audiovisual supporting material.

Press release by ESO:

http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann17071/

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Asteroïde scheerde deze ochtend rakelings langs de aarde - HLN.be

• Bron: reuters, vrt

EPAEen impressie, verspreid door NASA, van asteroïde 2012 TC4 die langs de aarde passeert.

De asteroïde ter grootte van een huis - 15 tot 30 meter - bereikte rond 7.40 uur het dichtste punt bij de aarde. Hij bevond zich op dat moment op zo’n 43.800 kilometer boven Antarctica. Een risico dat hij de aarde vandaag zou raken, was er niet.
Het object werd op 5 oktober 2012 door een observatorium op Hawaï ontdekt. Het passeerde de aarde toen op 100.000 kilometer. Sindsdien is het niet meer gezien. In oktober 2079 zou dezelfde asteroïde ons wél kunnen treffen, al bedraagt de waarschijnlijkheid volgens de huidige berekeningen amper 1 op 2.645. 

Hoe dan ook leverde deze doortocht belangrijke informatie op. Zo hebben wetenschappers het waarschuwingssysteem voor naderende ruimteobjecten getest. Ze onderzoeken zo hoe we op aarde op een reële bedreiging kunnen reageren.

Amateur-astronomen die vroeg zijn opgestaan, hadden echter pech. Omdat de asteroïde zich snel voortbewoog en niet veel licht weerkaatste, hadden zij weinig kans om hem te spotten.

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Ex-gitarist Blink 182 richt onderzoekscentrum voor buitenaards leven op - HLN.be

• Bron: Belga

Alex Vanhee

“Wij zijn ervan overtuigd dat er ontdekkingen binnen ons bereik liggen die een revolutie zullen betekenen voor onze menselijke ervaring, maar dat kunnen we enkel bereiken als we onbeperkte steun geven aan baanbrekend onderzoek”, gaat DeLonge, CEO van de instelling, verder.
Want de gitarist is van oordeel dat we al veel verder hadden kunnen staan, ware het niet dat de “overheersende ideologie en bureaucratische beknotting altijd al de publieke interesse in de grenzen van de wetenschap en het begrip van deze fenomenen hebben verstikt”.

DeLonges interesse in buitenaards leven en de ruimte is niet nieuw. Zo schreef de man die in 2015 Blink 182 verliet eerder dit jaar nog een boek “Sekret Machines: Gods” en werkt hij aan een film “Stranger Times”.

De crowdfundingcampagne voor dit project bracht tot nu toe al 200.000 dollar op, weet Rolling Stone.

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Tom DeLonge’s big UFO announcement has come and gone and most reactions seem to depend on what you were hoping he would announce, what you think the governments of the world are hiding and what you thought of Blink182.

“To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science has mobilized a team of the most experienced, connected and passionately curious minds from the US intelligence community, including the CIA and Department of Defense, that have been operating under the shadows of top-secrecy for decades. The team members all share a common thread of frustration and determination to disrupt the status quo, wanting to use their expertise and credibility to bring transformative science and engineering out of the shadows and collaborate with global citizens to apply that knowledge in a way that benefits humanity.”

Tom DeLonge

That paragraph from the website of the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science pretty much sums up the announcement except for naming names. DeLonge has used his own name, money and lifelong interest in UFOs, space and the paranormal to create a company dedicated to delving deeply into those topics without being “suffocated by mainstream ideology and bureaucratic constraint.” That, of course, assumes that the reason why there is so little solid information on UFOs, space and the paranormal is because it’s “suffocated by mainstream ideology and bureaucratic constraint” and not because it may not exist or that it takes time, money, dedication and education to pursue answers. And THAT explains the vast differences of opinion and strong feelings about DeLonge’s announcement.

“To The Stars Academy strives to be a powerful vehicle for change by creating a consortium among science, aerospace and entertainment that will work collectively to allow gifted researchers the freedom to explore exotic science and technologies with the infrastructure and resources to rapidly transition them to products that can change the world.”

The words “Arts” and “entertainment” in the mission statement have upset some because it implies to them that DeLonge will use the organization as a vehicle to market his own writings and music. Well, that’s what he does and that’s what he brings to the organization – the ability to not only present to but also persuade both the public and the providers of the “secret” information via entertainment. He’s already shown he can do it by bringing this large, diverse group of people together and, as the Wikileaks emails revealed, make serious contacts with government and military officials in the pursuit of information. For those who think entertainment should be left out of research and education, tell that to Ken Burns.

Then there’s the group that is disappointed in varying degrees because there was no “big reveal” in the announcement – no space ships, no aliens, no ET messages, no solid evidence. Get over it! That’s not their job … it’s YOURS! The other two legs of the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science are ‘science’ and ‘aerospace’. Don’t just blindly stare at the shadow of the eclipse … study the science of them, take kids to science museums, skip one sci-fi con and enter them in a technology fair instead. Support politicians who are committed to supporting and funding science and science education. Go outside and look at the stars. Then vote for politicians who know that that view is fading and only science can clean the cosmic glass. The more of space you can see, the better your chances are of seeing a UFO yourself and providing the proof that so many believe is being hidden.

Tom DeLonge is guy with interest, inspiration and imagination (and cash and fame). We don’t need less of him … we need more. He’s not the scientist nor the classic ufologist and may not be the guy who opens the box of secrets or even finds it, but if we look at what he’s doing with disdain, we’ll discourage others from trying, especially our next generations but also those people with the money and the fame to lead the creative charge to greater knowledge of our universe.

As Tom DeLonge says … we have a chance. Stop talking about it or complaining about it … take it and do it.

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Infamous TR-3B On Secret Mission?

This footage was recorded with an infrared camera. This camera allows us to see objects in the infrared spectrum. The human eye does not have the capabilities to see the infrared spectrum.

The infrared camera captured this triangular UFO during the night. The camera shows several objects like airplanes, but these can also be seen with the naked eye.

The UFO was not visible to the naked eye and only showed up on the infrared camera. So it is quite possible that the UFO could be the infamous TR-3B secret airplane.

The existence of the TR-3B gets more credibility as it seems that this aircraft has been on a secret mission where it penetrated North Korea Airspace where it loitered, undetected for "over four hours according to news channel Halturnershow who has close connections to several government agencies. 

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The Alien Observatory --"Taking the Search for Extraterrestrial Life to a New Level" (WATCH Video)

HDST also could examine dozens of Earth-like exoplanets that are too tiny for Hubble and its immediate successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, to see. HDST would scour their atmospheres for signs of alien life, perhaps finally answering whether or not we are alone in the cosmos.

The vision for the HDST was described in a July report spearheaded by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), a consortium of global institutions that operate astronomical observatories.
On October 6 The Kavli Foundation hosted a Google+ Hangout to learn more about HDST's promise.

Two acclaimed scientists answered questions in the video above about how HDST will trace cosmic evolution, from the primeval rise of chemical elements necessary for life to the potential for alien life right in our cosmic backyard, plus how to build such a powerful instrument.

JULIANNE DALCANTON – is a Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington and  co-chair of the HDST study. Her research focuses on the origin and evolution of galaxies.

MARC POSTMAN – is an Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and served on the committee for the HDST report. His research interests include galaxy cluster and large-scale cosmic structure evolution and formation, along with large space telescope design and implementation.

ADAM HADHAZY (moderator) – is a freelance science writer who chiefly covers astrophysics and astrobiology.

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Something extraordinary was revealed today. Former high-level officials and scientists with deep black experience who have always remained in the shadows came forward on one platform. These insiders have long-standing connections to government agencies which may have programs investigating unidentifed aerial phenomena (UAP/UFOs). The team includes a 25-year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at “Skunk Works”, and a former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

Today marked the official launch of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTS/AAS) an innovative Public Benefit Corporation which will advance research into unexplained phenomena and develop related technology. It has established three synergistic divisions: Science, Areospace, and Entertainment. “We believe there are discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience,” says company President and CEO Tom DeLonge. Please see my previous story,- released yesterday - for background on today’s announcement which was live-streamed and is archived on the company website.

TTS/AAS

Today’s launch of the TTS/AAS

According to a TTS /AAS statement, it’s team members who have been “operating under the shadows of top-secrecy for decades” believe that “there is sufficient credible evidence of UAP that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human experience.”

This could represent the beginning of a trend towards a new openness on the part of the U.S. government. These people know more than any of us, and they will be releasing important data on UAP in the future. As an investgative reporter with a long standing interest in this subject, who has worked with a few Academy team members in the past, I was shown some of this data at a meeting with them on Oct 4.

Present for that four hour meeting was Luis Eiizondo, who ran an important program at the DOD. Elizondo is a senior career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Dept of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. He served as the Director for the National Programs Special Management Staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is also the former Director of Programs to investigate Unidentified Aerial Threats for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

“Lue will architect partnerships with some very sensitive places, to help protect us and the technology involved, so we may achieve for you the extraordinary,” DeLonge said at today’s event.

Lue had resigned his position at the DOD literally the day before we met. I was able to verify who he was and what his tasks were at the Pentagon. He received the highest commendatons from his superiors. I was told that important unclassified data and documentation are expected to be released through the Academy’s on-line Community of Interest (COI) in collaboration with the US government, which will be set up soon.

I asked him if these unidentified objects were considered to be threats. “They did not exhibit overt hostility,” he said. “But something unexplained is always assumed to be a potential threat until we are certain it isn’t. On the bright side, I believe we are closer than ever before in our understanding of how it operates,” he told me.

At the event today, Elizondo explained his work this way: “I am accustomed to being involved in close-hold, nuanced programs involving national security. This includes being a Counterintelligence Special Agent, a case officer, and intelligence practitioner. However, by far the most interesting effort I was involved with was the topic of Advanced Aerial Threats.”

He stated that he ran “a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies.” His job at TTS/AAS will be “to work as a liaison and interlocutor in the collection of this information for the Science division, allowing us to collect facts for analysis.” How will this be done? One way is through the COI, which will “provide a platform for the detection and triangulation of phenomena events in real time, and allows two-way communication between the public and our team regarding this information.”

As a result of his position managing the DOD program for almost a decade, Lue said “I learned that the phenomena is indeed real.”

In short, less that two weeks after leaving the Pentagon, Luis Elizondo confirmed that UFOs are a real; they exist, and they have been officially documented. Can anyone argue with this fact now, given where this man comes from and what he knows?

A former high ranking DOD official - who only left his position last week - has confirmed that an official UFO Program exists, answering a question so many have debated and speculated about for decades.

It is very important to understand that Lue does not speak for the DOD, since he is no longer employed there; he speaks independently as part of the TTS Academy.

Lue also stated: “We are also planning to provide never before released footage from real US Government systems...not blurry, amateur photos, but real data and real videos.” And even more significant: “We are inviting our Government colleagues and friends in Defense to participate regularly with their own findings.”

Another member of the team, Stephen Justice, an experienced aerospace engineer, explained that he will use scientific disoveries about the travel of UAP through space, demonstrating almost unimaginable technology, to develop technology that can change the world. Steve recently retired as a Program Director for Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin after a thirty-one year career in the Skunk Works.  “How dare we think that the physics we have today is all that there is,” he told me in an interview a few days ago. The opportunity here, as he sees it, is to “stand in the future and look back.””

Steve’s objective is to harvest this advanced technology to build a vehicle that will allow for almost instantaneous travel through land, air, oceans and space, by engineering the fabric of space-time. Such a vehicle could also float, like something from science fiction. Steve says we have had glimpses of the science that could make this possible. It is not outside the realm of possibiity, if the necessary resources are in place.

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A TTS Academy concept for a vehicle drawn by Stephen Justice, embodying the technology they seek to understand and develop - a visionary concept for a revolutionary electromagnetic vehicle based on technology observed in unidentified aerial phenomena

TTS Academy member Chris Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for two administrations, and early in his career drafted the legislation that established the US Special Operations Command at a time when terrorism was not yet on the radar. He presented an overview of a 2004 incident involving the battleship USS Nimitz which was detected on two separate radars.

“Two F-18s approach, the four aviators see that the object has no wings or exhaust — it is white, oblong, some 40 ft long and perhaps 12 ft thick”, he said. “One pilot pursues the craft while his wingman stays high. The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F-18. In a series of discrete tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics, the object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18.”

The lengthy event occurred in broad daylight off the California coast, and gun camera footage was taken. At one point the object went from hovering at 80,000 feet to dropping at supersonic speeds, and came to a complete stop at 50 feet above the ocean. “More F-18’s are dispatched but with similar results,” Mellon stated. “The secret machine easily evades the F-18s. Dozens of military personnel aboard the various planes and ships involved are privy to these interactions.”

Tom DeLonge’s final message today sums up the position of all involved: “No one person, one government, or one hidden institution should own this information and technology.”

The TTS Academy intends to release game-changing information of the type interested people have been seeking for a long time. “The fact is, we might not necessarily be alone,” Luis Elizondo says. “Now is the time to move forward and try to answer some of life’s deepest mysteries.”

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