1994 Ottawa County UFO sightings remain unexplained
KEVIN S. COLLIER
Blue, white, red and green lights — sometimes attached to cylindrical objects and sometimes performing unusual maneuvers — were reported.
“I glanced out to the backyard and noticed four bright lights just above the tree line over our horse pasture,” Grand Haven-area resident Cindy Pravda recalled in an interview. “I had been watching the lights for about 10 minutes when one of the lights slowly moved to the left. It looked like it traveled over the highway next to our house and then slowly moved back in formation.”
Pravda, who watched the lights for about 30 minutes, was not sure if they comprised a much bigger object. In 2008, she recounted the event for the History Channel’s television show “UFO Hunters,” in an episode titled “UFO Emergency.”
That night, 911 operators began receiving calls around 9:30 from eyewitnesses who were reporting something that looked like “a string of Christmas lights” in the sky.
It wasn’t just people in Ottawa County reporting these things. Eyewitnesses in counties up and down Lake Michigan phoned in similar reports. Some sources say 300 witnesses, including several police officers, saw the lights.
Scott Ruiter, of Grand Haven, said he saw the lights in Grand Haven Township at 10:30 p.m.
“It looked like about five airplanes following each other fairly closely,” he said in a news report. “One would blink, then the other — right to left.”
There were so many reports coming in that one of the Ottawa County 911 operators decided to call the National Weather Service radar operator at Muskegon. Similar conversations that 911 operators had with the weather bureau operator that evening were taped and later made their way into the media.
On the recordings, the radar operator’s voice could be heard describing abrupt movements of the object and multiple objects appearing on the radar screen. It was reported that what he was seeing could not be precipitation, especially at that height.
One object was tracked moving 20 miles in 10 seconds.
“He said he had three things on his radar, and they were in a triangular shape,” Holland police officer Jeff Vellhouse reportedly stated to the Muskegon radar operator. “He said they hovered over Holland and moved southwest. He said that one would move out of the triangular pattern, then move back in.”
The radar operator also reported there were “three and sometimes four blips,” and they weren’t airplanes. It was noted planes show as pinpoints on the scope, but the returns on radar were the size of half a thumbnail. The objects were said to range from 5,000 to 12,000 feet at times, and in rapid motion. Three were reported to be moving toward Chicago.
The operator claimed he never saw anything like it before.
It was initially said that there were no weather bureau written or taped records of the radar contacts themselves, but Dave Reinhart of BIMUP (Bureau of Investigators of Mysteries & Unusual Phenomena) claimed to have received copies of the NWS radar operator’s report in late 1994.
He also said that he had spoken to an individual referred to as “Fred,” who worked at Area 51, and was claimed to have knowledge of what had occurred on the night of March 8, 1994. Apparently “Fred” said that it was some sort of rendezvous of UFOs from the east, west, north and south.
The National Weather Service later tried to downplay the radar trackings.
“There is no relation between the UFOs and the radar tracks,” Dean Gulezian, the weather service’s area manager for Michigan, was quoted in a published report.
Gulezian relayed that, although the radar did show some echoes, eyewitnesses had seen these objects at tree-top level. He explained radar echoes captured were from an altitude of 10,000 feet or higher.
Serious discussion about the UFOs over Ottawa County continued for several days. A former Ottawa County 911 dispatcher said random calls of UFO sightings continued throughout the summer, but were mostly ignored.
To this day, the sightings were never adequately explained.
STUDY REVEALS THE MOON ONCE HAD AN ATMOSPHERE
STUDY REVEALS THE MOON ONCE HAD AN ATMOSPHERE
A study by researchers has revealed that more than three billion years ago the moon had an atmosphere and it saw a period of volcanic activity that was intense which saw huge amounts of gas in the form of lava seas fill the impact basins.
STUDY COULD CHANGE WAY WE UNDERSTAND
THE MOON When the gases rose above the level of the surface it was said that they accumulated a lot quicker than they were able to escape into space and this led to a lunar atmosphere. The findings might just change the way we understand the moon as it does suggest that the moon has not always been the airless world that we know it to be.
Astronauts of the Apollo 15 and the Apollo 17 missions had explored the boundaries of the lava seas at the basins of Imbrium and Serenitatis. During the excursions, they collected samples and these have revealed that eruptions had taken place many billions of years previously. Now a new analysis of them has shown that the magma in the regions had gas components that included carbon monoxide, which was an ingredient for water and Sulphur along with many other species that were volatile.
ATMOSPHERE COULD HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR 70 MILLION YEARS
A lot of the water vapor that had been released when the eruptions were taking place might have escaped into space, and it is thought that a lot of it could have even made its way to the poles. When the atmosphere had formed the researchers believe that it would have remained in place for as long as 70 million years.
A NASA backed study from the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute saw researchers calculating how much gas might have risen into the air from the lava flows that erupted on the moon many billions of years ago. Experts suggest that the volcanic activity may have peaked about 3.5 billion years ago along with the atmosphere. At this time the atmosphere would have been at its thickest.
SAMPLES REVEALED CARBON MONOXIDE
The samples that were revealed in the magma within the regions were said to contain gas components with one being carbon monoxide. Research Scientist of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Dr. Debra H. Needham, said that the total amount of H20 that would have been released in the emplacement of the mare basalts would be twice that of the volume of water that is in Lake Tahoe. She did go on to say that the majority of it would have been lost in space, while a fraction of it would have found its way to the lunar poles.
This suggests that some of the volatiles of the lunar poles may have originated inside of the moon. Dr. David A Kring from the Universities Space Research Association said that the findings could have a dramatic change in the view of the moon from the rocky and airless body to one that had an atmosphere that was more prevalent than the one that surrounds Mars today.
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UFO RECORDED OVER YELLOWSTONE VOLCANO
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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'Aliens and UFOs at world's deepest lake'
True or not about Spielberg's interest, the lake is perhaps the biggest focus of UFOs in Russia.
Picture: othereal.ru
Since ancient times, the vast Lake Baikal has been known as deeply mysterious, but in the closing years of the Soviet era, and since, it has been the location of a number of alleged sightings of aliens and UFOs.
Initially these were covered-up by the authorities of the USSR, but later they were revealed by the Russian media.
In recent days there have been unconfirmed reports in Russia that American director Steven Spielberg is planning a documentary based on these weird and unexplained accounts. At the time of writing, this appeared to be a hoax, though it was unclear who planted stories in the Russian media.
True or not about Spielberg's interest, the lake is perhaps the biggest focus of UFOs in Russia.
The versions of extra-terrestrial activity at Baikal - edged by mountains and containing one-fifth of the world's unfrozen freshwater - relate to supposed aliens seen by military divers in its depth, and large 'spaceships' hovering over its grey, moody expanses.
Some of the images here show what two photographers claimed were UFOs buzzing the lake, while others are mock-ups from NTV based on descriptions of an incident at Kudara-Somon, in Buryatia, exactly a quarter of a century ago.
A number of sightings also indicate bright 'cigar-shaped' objects in the sky flying over Baikal, as in the top picture.
NTV channel mock-up of 'flying saucer' based on accounts by residents of Kudara-Somon village in 1990.
Pictures: NTV
A case for which there were no images, but an intriguing description, occurred at Kurma, Irkutsk region, in 17 April 1987. The words that follow are from Valery Rudentsov, a local resident of nearby Shida village:
'There was 13 of us. At about 12.20am, one of our guys went out into the yard, a few seconds later runs, and calls all of us out. He stood in the centre of the yard and pointed his finger at the sky.
'Diagonally from his gesture - 150 metres above us - hung a huge flying saucer. From the centre of the plate went a phosphorescent purple ray. And at the edges of the plate were yellow portholes, almost like in our rural houses. The diameter of the plate was 70 metres. We saw it so clearly and for a long time, someone even suggested he throw a stone at it ...
'The weather was amazingly quiet, no sound was heard from the hanging saucer, although behind us was the village of Kurma - there was the noise of a dog barking, the lowing of cows. We were spellbound.
'It was a full moon and the visibility was so clear that no one of us could doubt the reality of what we saw. And then the plate slid smoothly away, sailed along the shore of the bay and further slipped into the hills of Olkhon. Neither before nor after have I ever met such a thing.
'But since that time it has been a kind of sacrilege to me - not to believe in UFOs. My friend Alexander, a hunter, and his colleagues who lived there for 20 years, often see UFOs - and all is fine, he is still alive. So if to speak about glowing balls or 'cigars', we constantly see these on the shores of Lake Baikal. They exist.'
The case highlighted by NTV channel was on 16 May 1990 in the village of Kudara-Somon, in Kyakhtinsky district, some 300 km from Ulan-Ude, capital of the Republic of Buryatia.
Margarita Tsybikova recalls the UFO's visit to Kudara-Somon. Marina Zimireva shows where the 'flying saucer' landed.
Pictures: NTV
Olga Fedorova, a local resident, recalled: 'At some moment everything turned yellow. My daughter came home from school. I looked - her face was yellow.'
The explanation soon became clear, according to accounts from villagers.
Vasily Timofeev spoke of a flying saucer. 'Its diameter was around 30 meters, it shone brightly. But I did not see a clear image of metal or something like this.'
Another resident Margarita Tsybikova said: 'From this dish came down people in shiny, shimmering costumes.' Olga explained: 'There were people, as far as I remember, three people in shining yellow suits. Seems there were people, yes.'
Marina Zimireva, who also says she witnessed this extraordinary sight, said: 'It was some kind of circle, it can be said, it was like a disk. It turned on the edge and and, well, windows were visible.
'I personally decided for myself that they were people. They had some human image. They were the same - straight, slender, they had arms and legs. And their gait was the same as ours. A little lower down there were three in orange suits. They went down from the disk like a man - the steps were very visible.'
Then, as they recounted the strange event, the 'aliens' saw the people watching them. They returned to their spaceship and flew away.
A picture taken by Nikita Tomin, shows three green-shaded lights on a UFO flying above a lakeside resort in Irkutsk region.
Pictures: Baikal Press, NTV
Game warden Gennady Lipinsky also recalls seeing a UFO. 'When I saw it, it was flying low. Until it disappeared over the horizon, I kept looking at it. I call it a fireball, and what it really was - I cannot know.'
The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh, Ulan-Ude, was quoted about a much more recent incident, on 9 July 2009, at around 10pm.
'My son and I went out to the balcony, to see the last of the waning sunset. Suddenly there appeared these two glowing points and they hovered over the water.'
His pictures of this incident are clear yet perhaps raise as many questions as they answer. They show two glows in the night sky, featuring a yellow core with an orange-red surround.
By his account, the mysterious crafts rose and rebased elsewhere on Baikal's surface.
Around the same time, Anna Vinogradova, recalled a different but equally strange sight on the water. 'We were standing with tents on the beach and at night we saw orange-red flashes, as if a huge fires,' she said.
At Listvyanka in July 2010, a picture taken by Nikita Tomin, shows three green-shaded lights on a UFO flying above the lakeside resort in Irkutsk region.
The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh shows the pictures he made in July 2009.
Pictures: NTV, Sergey Konechnykh
'It flew right above us, very low. The object was shining down on us with a green light. We were a bit scared,' he said.
But the accounts also include 'aliens' in the deep waters of Baikal. Interestingly, unlike several other Siberian lakes, Baikal is not seen as home to a Loch Ness-style monster, but rather boasts space-like aliens under its murky surface.
For example, Vyacheslav Lavretevich, a rescuer, recalled an incident but did not give the date. 'We were on a yacht on Lake Baikal, and from under us flew out a huge glowing disk. It blinded us, and for a second flew into the sky.
'We did not even have time to grab any cameras, nor take video, although many of us saw it. It was a huge - and lit up all of our yacht. In diameter it was probably 500-700 metres, a huge disk.
'For three minutes it shone from below (the surface), and then abruptly departed in a second. The spectacle was huge, awesome. Beautiful, and shocking.'
Vyacheslav Lavretevich, a rescuer, recalled an incident on Baikal. Oleg Chichulin saw strange objects near Cape Svyatoi Nos. Pictures: NTV
Oleg Chichulin was also on a boat, training students. Near Cape Svyatoi Nos they saw strange objects.
'There was a ball that glowed. And then this ball started to fade, fade and blush. And it turned into a red ball. This red ball for a while lay on the water, and then began to sink. And all this gradually, gradually went under the water. And it became dark.'
Yet there are even more intriguing accounts of underwater aliens in the vast lake.
In 1977, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin, two researchers named V Alexandrov and G Seliverstov, were in a submersible device at a depth of 1200 metres in the lake.
The researchers turned off their spotlights, to explore the depth of penetration of sunlight into the water. Suddenly the scientists were bathed in light from an unusual 'glow'.
Aleksandrov recalled: 'It was so like if our device was lit from above and the side by two strong spotlights. Only a minute later, unknown floodlights went out, and we found ourselves in total darkness.'
In 1977 two researchers named V Alexandrov and G Seliverstov, were in a submersible device at a depth of 1200 metres in the lake and observd strange lights.
Picture: Vokrug Sveta
In 1982, seven military divers were reported to have come across aliens under the waters of Baikal. Alexey Tivanenko, a doctor of history, said: 'At a depth of 50 metres, they met swimmers, around three metres tall, dressed in tight-fitting silvery suits. They did not have any scuba or other devices, just helmets on their heads.
'They received an order to catch the Ihtiander (half-boy, half-shark, from modern Russian folklore) - but they were immediately washed ashore with signs of decompression.
'They had two decompression devices, but one was broken. All seven people could not be put inside, so they put only four of them. And those three people, who were not put in the device, died on the beach.'
Tivanenko has likened the descriptions to ancient petroglyphs seen by some as being aliens visiting Earth. 'I have hundreds of drawings with these 'Sons of the Sky',' he told NTV.
'They are united by the fact that all of them are tall, dressed in suits, all with the helmets on their heads. And there are mechanisms used by astronauts today.'
'I have hundreds of drawings with these 'Sons of the Sky', told Alexey Tivanenko.
Pictures: NTV
Reports surfaced several days ago in the Russian media that Spielberg was expected at Baikal in May, and that he intends to make a documentary entitled Depth 211.
Citing the 'press service' of MUFON - the Mutual UFO Network, a US-based organisation that investigates UFO sightings - news source infobaikal.ru and others reported his trip.
Yet there was no confirmation from the Hollywood director, who has made such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, would be arriving, nor further detail on the reported project.
Later, Komsomolskaya Pravda and IA Teleinform denied the reports but without quoting any sources close to the director.
SHROUDED IN SECRECY: WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN COMPLEX?
SHROUDED IN SECRECY: WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN COMPLEX?
The Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado is said to be a sleeping dragon, and the story has it that the Ute mountain tribe were saved many years back by it.
The Native American story says that the people were punished by a huge flood sent by the Great Spirit but when they decided to repent a dragon was sent to take the water away. When it was filled with drink, it became petrified and turned into the mountain.
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN HAS BEEN IN OPERATION MORE THAN 50 YEARS
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex has been in operation for more than 50 years and never slept. It became fully operational in 1966, and it has played a role for the Department of Defense that has been vital both in wars and peacetime.
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Curiosity Rover finds some complex organics in Mars sample The complex has changed its name many times over the last five decades but the mission has always been the same, and that has been to defend the US along with their allies. It is known today as the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, and today one of the main roles of it is a collection of information from sensors on the ground and satellites around the globe. It also disseminates the data to the US Strategic Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S Northern Command.
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN WORKS LIKE A HIGHLY TRAINED BRAIN
The AFS deputy director of the Cheyenne Mountain said that the sensors are the nerves sensing information and the nerves all come back to the brain stem and they are the brain stem that puts everything together and makes sense of it and then passes it on to the brain. He is talking about the commander or either NORAD NORTHCOM or STRATCOM, who then decide on what it means. The Cheyenne Mountain puts up a shield around the single place where the correlation and the data come in.
During the 1950s the Department of Defense built the installation to be used as a control center defense or command, and due to this it found itself on the target list of the enemies, and as such, it had been built so that it would be able to withstand a nuclear attack that was direct. There are 15 buildings that sit on over 1,300 springs that are 18 inches from the rock walls of the mountain. This means that they can move about independently should they have to go up against a nuclear blast and seismic event following a blast. Along with this, the EMP had been thought about in the original design and the construction of the Cheyenne Mountain.
GRANITE MAKES FOR A SHIELD AGAINST NUCLEAR BLASTS
It was said that the EMP threat is now more of a threat to the society of today due to the investment in electronics. However, thanks to coincidence since it was designed during the 1950s to withstand a nuclear blast today it remains the number one rated EMP protected facility. One of a unique things about the mountain is the fact that the whole installation was surrounded by granite and this makes it EMP shield that is natural.
The station was built 7,000 feet above the level of the sea, and it opened with the name of NORAD Combat Operations Center. Many people thought that when they moved the main command to the Peterson Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain would have closed. However, instead, it became an alternative command center for NORAD.
Cheyenne Mountain AFS Installation Commander, Colonel Gary Cornn said that when he takes visitors to it, they are surprised that the place is still open and many are even more impressed by the original construction of it. More so, when it comes to the construction of the buildings and blasting of the tunnels in the building along with the capability of it. He went on to say that it was strange to see civilians along with senior officers behaving like little children at the site.
25 TON STEEL DOORS CLOSE IN 40 SECONDS IF A THREAT IS DETECTED
The sources and threats may have changed drastically today from when the center was first opened during the Cold War. However, one thing has remained the same, and this is the 25-ton steel doors that can seal off the Mountain in just 40 seconds if there is a threat. There is a city underground the 2,000 feet of granite, and this can offer protection, so it ensures that the station is relevant and is the fortress of America.
The long-time employees of Cheyenne Mountain call themselves mountain men and Russel Mullins, the 721st Communications Squadron deputy director goes back to the era of the Cold War to 1984. While the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union used to be the main focus, today the airmen still have the mission of detecting and tracking any incoming threats to the United States.
The attacks of 9/11 added another mission to NORAD and the Directorate of Cheyenne Mountain, the monitoring of airspace in the US and Canada. They are standing ready to help the Federal Aviation Administration along with the Navigation Canada with any threats that come from the air in the US or Canada
Cheyenne Mountain is said to be unique when it comes to ventilation, smoke, and occupancy. It was said that any normal building there would be a fire alarm to pull and the people have to leave. However, inside the mountain, the people depend on Backenberg to be able to get out through a safe route. If a fire should occur within the mountain, then they have to take care of it and get to safety down the half a mile long tunnel.
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN HAS BEEN IN MANY TV SHOWS AND MOVIES
The Cheyenne Mountain as played a part in many TV series and movies, including Terminator, WarGames, and Interstellar. Occasionally there are trespassers, photographers, and protestors who security has to chase away. Senior Airman Ricardo Pierre Collie said that the part of the day of the security forces is responding to alarms and trying to get used to the fact that when working a 12-hour shift they do not get to see the sun. The security responds at a moment’s notice and the reaction time is always crucial. Collie and the others believe that it is their responsibility to protect what is an American fortress that remains as vital as ever.
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It is not the first mysterious UFO to have been captured on video circling over Cley Hill in Somerset
A strange, mysterious light has been captured on video over the skies in the Westcountry.
It was seen at Cley Hill in Warminster, which is reputed in Somerset to be a supernatural hot spot.
Tasha Colliss and her husband took the video last Friday night, September 29, at around 7.45pm from her kitchen window.
She told SomersetLive.com: “I spotted it from our home in Haygrove Close, Warminster. Our kitchen window overlooks Cley Hill.
“We have never seen anything like this before.”
It is not the first mysterious UFO to have been captured on video circling over Cley Hill.
An unidentified flying object was spotted by Frome resident Jeremy Le Fevre in August. He had been travelling home after performing with the Frome Street Bandits at the Cheese and Grain Rum Festival.
Upon spotting the strange object he took a moment to watch the unusual movements of the light.
He said: “I had never seen anything like it before. It really caught my eye. It went on for quite some time before flying off into the distance towards Longleat.
“It was emitting green and red colours. It looked to me like it could have been fireworks attached to a drone. It’s still very much unidentified though.”
Nigel Vile, a local rambler, regularly goes on walks around the area.
Speaking of the hill, he said: “Some experts have gone as far as to describe the nearby town of Warminster as Britain’s UFO capital on account of a phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s that became known as the ‘Warminster Thing’.
“Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town, and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity.”
Even earlier in the year another UFO had been videoed circling over Cley Hill.
The video showed streaks of light circling over the National Trust owned land in Corsley.
The resident who took the video believed the streak of light could be a UFO.
He said: “I took this video from my house in Frome last night (May 29). It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs.”
It eventually emerged that the streak of light had in fact been created by a stunt plane belonging to nearby acrobatics group AeroSparx.
The innovative display team performs dazzling acrobatic displays with fireworks attached to the tips of their wings.
This could provide some answers to Jeremy’s video. Although the object he videoed remains unidentified.
This articles was first published by Somerset Live
Stephen Hawking Warns Us to Stop Reaching Out to Aliens Before It's Too Late
"I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone."
When the potential of intelligent alien civilisations comes up in conversation, it’s usually about the search. How will we find them? Where are they? Are they there at all? What actions should we take if – or when – we find them, or they find us?
Well, according to physicist Stephen Hawking, we should probably stop trying to contact them at all, because reaching out to advanced civilisations could put humanity and Earth in a pretty risky situation. And the bad news is, we've already been broadcasting our location to the Universe for years.
Hawking’s warning comes in a new online film called Stephen Hawking’s Favourite Places, which shows the famed scientist in a CGI spacecraft called the SS Hawking exploring his favourite places in the Universe.
"As I grow older I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone. After a lifetime of wondering, I am helping to lead a new global effort to find out," Hawking says in the film while exploring Gliese 832c, a planet that lies 16 light-years away and might foster alien life.
"The Breakthrough Listen project will scan the nearest million stars for signs of life, but I know just the place to start looking. One day we might receive a signal from a planet like Gliese 832c, but we should be wary of answering back."
In case you missed it, the Breakthrough Listen project is an ambitious attempt to find intelligent life in the Universe by scanning the closest stars for radio signals. The project was funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who injected US$100 million to keep it afloat.
Recently, the project announced that it would be turning its attention to the hypothetical 'alien megastructure' that some think is causing a star known as KIC 8462852 to oddly dim off and on.
A more reasonable hypothesis is that the erratic dimming is caused by 'interstellar junk' or a comet swarm, but no one really knows what’s going on there yet.
Despite Hawking’s extraordinary effort to find intelligent life in the Universe, he is one of the most outspoken critics of actually trying to communicate with them, an act that he says would potentially endanger humanity, because a distant alien civilisation might view us as inferior, weak, and perfect to conquer.
"If so, they will be vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria," he says in the film.
Hawking often uses the example of Columbus’ expedition to the America’s to describe what could happen if an advanced civilisation gets word of our existence, saying that that initial meeting "didn’t turn out so well".
Hawking’s warning is rooted in the idea that an alien civilisation, especially one that can pick up our signals and understand where they’re coming from, has the potential to be billions of years more advanced than us, making us an easy target to overthrow or invade.
Reaching out to the Universe isn’t the only area of scientific pursuit that Hawking says is risky.
A few weeks ago, at a lecture at the University of Cambridge, Hawking said artificial intelligence might prove to be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity", a feeling that other experts and leaders – such as Elon Musk – have agreed with.
This fear stems from the fact that AI has the power to learn for itself, making it possible to surpass our human abilities, because we rely on biological evolution – a slow process, to say the least – to become better.
"[Artificial intelligence] would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate," he told Rory Cellan-Jones at the BBC. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."
While all of these warnings might seem a bit much, it’s important for us to think about them before we have to. As the saying goes, it’s better to be safe than sorry, especially when world-dominating aliens or AI robots are involved.
Besides offering an ominous warning, though, the new 25-minute film sees Hawking explore other incredible spots in the Universe, such as Sagittarius A* – a supermassive black hole – and our Solar System’s very own Saturn, a planet that Hawking is fascinated with.
The Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look
Crop circles — strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers' fields—provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers (dubbed "cereologists") and even Hollywood films.
Despite having been studied for decades, the question remains: Who — or what — is making them?
Early crop circles
Many people believe that crop circles have been reported for centuries, a claim repeated in many books and websites devoted to the mystery. Their primary piece of evidence is a woodcut from 1678 that appears to show a field of oat stalks laid out in a circle. Some take this to be a first-hand eyewitness account of a crop circle, but a little historical investigation shows otherwise.
A woodcut pamphlet that some claim represents an early crop circle.
The woodcut actually illustrates what in folklore is called a "mowing devil" legend, in which an English farmer told a worker with whom he was feuding that he "would rather pay the Devil himself" to cut his oat field than pay the fee demanded. The source of the harvesting is not unknown or mysterious; it is indeed Satan himself, who — complete with signature horns and a tail — can be seen in the woodcut holding a scythe.
Some claim that the first crop circles (though they were not called that at the time) appeared near the small town of Tully, Australia. In 1966, a farmer said he saw a flying saucer rise up from a swampy area and fly away; when he went to investigate he saw a roughly circular area of debris and apparently flattened reeds and grass, which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but which police investigators said was likely caused by a natural phenomena such as a dust devil or waterspout). Referred in the press as "flying saucer nests," this story is more a UFO report than a crop circle report.
As in the 1678 mowing devil legend, the case for it being linked to crop circles is especially weak when we consider that the impression or formation was not made in a crop of any kind but instead in ordinary grass. A round impression in a lawn or grassy area is not necessarily mysterious (as anyone with a kiddie pool in the back yard knows). Indeed, mysterious circles have appeared in grass throughout the world that are sometimes attributed to fairies but instead caused by disease.
Modern crop circles
In fact, the first real crop circles didn't appear until the 1970s, when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside. The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically, reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced, including those illustrating complex mathematical equations.
In July 1996, one of the world's most complex and spectacular crop circles appeared in England, across a highway from the mysterious and world-famous Stonehenge monument in the Wiltshire countryside. It was astonishing fractal pattern called a Julia Set, and while some simple or rough circles might be explained away as the result of a strange weather phenomenon, this one unmistakably demonstrated intelligence. The only question was whether that intelligence was terrestrial or extra-terrestrial.
Making the design all the more mysterious, it was claimed that the circle appeared in less than an hour and during the daytime — which, if true, would be virtually impossible for hoaxers to accomplish. The circle became one of the most famous and important crop circles in history.
It was later revealed that the circle had in fact been made in about three hours (by three hoaxers) very early that morning. It simply hadn't been noticed until the following afternoon when spotted from an airplane overhead.
People inspect crop circles within a golden wheat field in Switzerland. The photo was taken on July 29, 2007.
Theories & explanations
Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers, ghosts, or Bigfoot, there is no doubt that crop circles are "real." The evidence that they exist is clear and overwhelming. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question.
We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs (is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?), and external information, including the physical construction of the crop designs themselves (is there anything that indicates that the designs were created by anything other than humans?)
Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what create the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early 1980s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs. Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines.
Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life. He theorizes that the patterns could be made by human time travelers from the distant future to help them navigate our planet. Drew, working on the assumption that the designs are intended as messages, believes he has decoded crop circle symbols and that they contain messages such as "Believe," "There is good out there," "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises," and "We oppose deception" (all, presumably, in English).
However, these odd, pseudo-biblical messages undermine the credibility of the crop circles, or at least the meaning read into them. Of all the information that an extraterrestrial intelligence might choose to convey to humanity — ranging from how to contact them to engineering secrets of faster-than-light travel — these aliens chose to impart intentionally cryptic messages about false gifts, broken promises, and hope for mankind (along with what seems to be a reference to a popular "The X-Files" slogan).
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships; others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space, saving them the trip down here. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns — not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
Another triskelion crop circle. The symbol can be used to represent cycles, progress or competition.
While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September 1991, when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed (they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report). They never claimed to have made all the circles — many were copycat pranks done by others — but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena.
Most crop circle researchers admit that the vast majority of crop circles are created by hoaxers. But, they claim, there's a remaining tiny percentage that they can't explain. The real problem is that (despite unproven claims by a few researchers that stalks found inside "real" crop circles show unusual characteristics), there is no reliable scientific way to distinguish "real" crop circles from man-made ones.
Crop circle features
While there are always a few exceptions, virtually all crop circles share a set of common characteristics.
Circles.
Crop circles, as the name implies, almost always involve circles — rarely triangles, rectangles, or squares, though some designs contain straight or curved lines. Perhaps not coincidentally, a circle is the easiest pattern for hoaxers to create.
This design of three flying birds was created on Aug. 3, 2003, in the county of Wiltshire in southern England. The birds, which resemble swallows, have ever-diminishing circles trailing behind their wing tips.
Nocturnal creation.
Crop circles are formed overnight, often sighted by farmers or passersby the next morning. Though there seems no logical reason for extraterrestrials or earth energies to only create patterns at night, it is obviously a great advantage for hoaxers to create the designs under the cover of darkness; full moon nights are especially popular.
Camera shyness.
Crop circles have never been recorded being made (except, of course, for those created by hoaxers). This is a very suspicious trait; after all, if mysterious earthly forces or aliens are at work, there's no reason to think that they wouldn't happen when cameras are recording.
Access to roads.
Crop circles usually appear in fields that provide reasonably easy public access, close to roads and highways. They rarely appear in remote, inaccessible areas. Because of this, the patterns are usually noticed within a day or two of their creation by passing motorists.
There are many theories about what creates crop circles, including aliens, mysterious vortices, time travelers and wind patterns, but they all lack one important element: good evidence. The only known cause of crop circles is humans. Perhaps one day a mysterious, unknown source will be discovered for crop circles, but until the perhaps they are best thought of as collective public art.
Alien technology? Harvard scientists propose source for fast radio bursts
Artist's depiction of a light sail powered by a radio beam (in red) generated on the surface of a planet. There are plenty of strange phenomena lurking in the universe, and fast radio bursts are among the more mysterious. So named for their less-than-5-millisecond duration, the source of these intense, high-energy light bursts continues to elude scientists. Now researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are proposing they could have "an artificial origin," specifically from planet-sized alien transmitters for powering interstellar spacecraft.
Fast radio bursts (FRB) were first discovered in 2007 at Parkes Observatory in Australia, with several dozen or so detected since. The initial discoveries showed FRB to be seemingly random one-off events coming from distant galaxies, leading some to hypothesize they were the result of cataclysmic cosmic events, like the merging of black holes or a massive supernova.
But in 2015, an astronomer from McGill University found 11 bursts that not only originated from the same location in space, but were repeating. More repeating FRB were discovered in 2016, which were tracked to a dim dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away, poking holes in the cosmic cataclysm idea.
With no consensus on the source of these puzzling phenomena, Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center have offered another possibility: advanced alien technology in the form of a solar-powered radio transmitter. These beams of light, they say, could be used to power giant light sails in a "photonic propulsion" system, transporting spaceships or probes through interstellar space that approach the speed of light.
"The system is comprised of two distinct components," Lingam told New Atlas. "The first is a means of harnessing the stellar energy, via photovoltaic arrays for instance. The second is the actual radio-wave beam emitter, which powers the light sail. And the energy for generating the beam comes from the star."
The beam emitter, or transmitter, envisioned by the team is powered by stellar energy, but could conceivably be juiced up through other alternatives. The light reaching Earth as an FRB from such a system would simply be energy leakage, which would mean the gadget would have to be enormous – as much as twice the Earth's diameter. The device would cover a large fraction of the surface of the planet, while Lingam said it's possible the emitter could also be an artificial free-floating structure, like a Dyson sphere.
"The reason for this size is that it enables the effective harnessing of stellar energy and the use of water as coolant," said Lingam. "If the transmitter were smaller, it would undergo more severe heating and would thus be harder to cool. Similarly, if it were smaller, there would not be enough area to tap the stellar energy and power the beam." Lingam added that the coolant would be part of the beam-emitting device, similar to how one uses water as a coolant for lasers.
Informed speculation
The researchers say it's all within the realm of possibilities, at least according to the laws of physics, even if it's far beyond our own technological abilities. It's a no-stone-left-unturned type of suggestion, though Loeb argues that "deciding what's likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It's worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge."
At the same time, researchers are currently limited by such a small sample size and their ability to detect FRB, according to Roger Romani, professor of physics at Stanford University. "The rarity [of FRB] is not really clear yet – we have only detected a handful, but even the largest surveys sensitive to these events covered only a small fraction of the sky," Romani told New Atlas. "If extrapolated to the full sky, there should be many FRB per day, but the exact rate is unclear. A number of current experiments are seeking to pin this rate down."
As far as Loeb and Lingam's alien-technology idea, he tends to agree that every possibility should be considered, no matter how improbable it might seem. "I do not think that more prosaic astrophysical origins should yet be eliminated," he told us. "Most would concur that exotic, but astrophysical events likely cause FRB. So I would not sign up for the alien interpretation at this juncture. That being said, this sort of informed speculation is good fun, as long one retains appropriate skepticism."The research has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
WE’LL SAY GOODBYE TO OUR PLANET IN 1,000 YEARS, SAYS STEPHEN HAWKING:quality(75)/curiosity-data.s3.amazonaws.com/images/content/meme/standard/dbdb8d46-b196-4e56-b213-109d456e0328.png)
Hawking raised concerns for human life on Earth during a speech at the Oxford Union on November 15, 2016, essentially giving the human race an expiration ...
Humans have been on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years. So far so good, right? Well, according to famed physicist Stephen Hawking, things around here are about to get ugly for us. It’s time to start poking around the neighborhood for a better place to call home. And by place, we mean planet.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Hawking raised concerns for human life on Earth during a speech at the Oxford Union on November 15, 2016, essentially giving the human race an expiration date. “We must … continue to go into space for the future of humanity. I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” the 74-year-old physicist said. He believes that humans won’t last another 1,000 years on our “fragile planet,” and we need to find a new habitable planet to call home before humans are wiped out for good.
If we don’t make it off Earth in that timeframe, Hawking believes humanity will be at great risk of encountering a mass extinction. Though the chance of a huge, natural, catastrophic event in any given year is low, that chance will increase over time and may eventually lead to humanity getting wiped out just like the dinosaurs did. If a natural mass extinction doesn’t do it, Hawking thinks humanity will burn through natural resources so quickly that life on Earth will no longer be sustainable. Lastly, if neither of those things do it, maybe the robots will. Hawking is vocal about the threat of full artificial intelligence, and thinks that if AI becomes sophisticated enough it will redesign itself faster than humans can. Down the line, this could spell the end for the human race. Get more information about the future of space travel and mass extinction in the videos below.
The chances we’ll encounter another mass extinction in that time are great.
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Ex-Minister Reveals How Government ‘Covered Up’ UFO Landings
The idea that the US government, in league with other governments, works actively to hide the fact aliens from outer space are visiting us has taken a firm grip on the Internet, as well as in popular movies like Men In Black and Independence Day. This has even resulted in the formation of a branch of UFO research called ‘exopolitics’.
Rather than trying to scientifically prove that UFOs are extraterrestrial craft, exopolitics takes this as a proven fact. Using this foundation, it is the goal of exopolotics to explore and obtain as much evidence as possible about this conspiracy, and to put pressure on world governments to disclose the truth about UFOs.
Debbie Foch, a project coordinator for the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) project, tells UNILAD they have collected:
…documented interviews from about 70 witnesses from military and government projects, who will testify under oath about what they know about government (US and other countries) involvement with the UFO and ET subject. These witnesses report that the government does know that the craft and their occupants are here visiting this planet, and that they have been tracking the objects, retrieving crashes, and reverse engineering the technologies.
One of these whistleblowers was the late Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso, a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council, who published some shocking revelations in his book The Day After Roswell. In this, he claims that the Roswell crash was of an extraterrestrial craft and that scientific study of the wreckage led to the creation of the transistor.
In the 1960s, Corso worked as the Chief of the Pentagon’s Foreign Technology unit where he dealt with a mixture of recovered alien and Soviet technology for further development. This work initiated the production of lasers, night-vision equipment and particle-beam weaponry for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) project.
According to Corso, abductions began in the 1950s, and these aliens are genetically-engineered for space travel. Like many other whistleblowers, he states that the Nazis recovered an alien saucer in World War II and were close to learning its secrets. The frustrating thing with Corso’s book is that it is poorly referenced and there is no independent confirmation for his sweeping, earth-shattering allegations.
Another insider who believes governments are hiding the truth is Paul Hellyer, the former Canadian Minister of Defense. Speaking to UNILAD he said:
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.
Hellyer says these events caused the US to create a ‘shadow government’ that runs black operations installations, creating new forms of energy using extra-terrestrial technology.
“I do not have proof of that”, he admits. “But I believe that they have developed energy sources, and publicly I’m saying that if they do not exist in commercial form, that extraterrestrials would certainly give us that information if we would ask them for it, and stop shooting at them.”
Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men, tells me he isn’t impressed by whistleblowers’ stories. According to him:
Corso and others are simply repeating elements of the Roswell myth that have been circulating since the 1970s. He may well have heard it from someone whose opinion he respected and believed in the military, and had elements of it corroborated by others. These are rumours and beliefs which circulate within the closed environments of military organisations and occasionally seep out into the eager hands of the UFO community, and then on to the wider media.
People in positions of real power in the US and elsewhere hold all sorts of strange beliefs, whether they be about god, society, race, science or the economy. Doesn’t mean that we should believe them unless they can back up their claims.
Nick Pope, who ran the UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO project, agrees:
Having investigated UFOs for the British government I can say with hand on heart that there’s no cover-up in the sense that people in the UFO and conspiracy theory communities believe. There’s no ‘smoking gun’. We don’t have any ‘you can take that to the bank’ proof that UFOs are extraterrestrial, and we certainly don’t have any alien spacecraft hidden away in air force hangars.
“That said, I know die-hard conspiracy theorists won’t believe me, not least because I’ve been accused of being part of the cover-up myself”, he adds. “Even though I left the MoD in 2006 a lot of people think I’m still secretly working for the government.”
Nonetheless, Mark Pilkington, notes that governments have not been shy at using the belief in UFOs to cover-up all manner of sensitive military secrets, adding that: “I think US government agencies began creating deceptions around the UFO issue as far back as the alleged crash of a UFO at Maury Island, Washington State, in 1947”.
On the question of what they are trying to hide, whether it’s evidence of alien contact or something less (or maybe more) sinister, Mark is adamant there are more logical explanations:
I think that the UFO mythology has been used, for seven decades, as a convenient cover for all manner of clandestine operations, including test flights of new aircraft, unmanned drones (which have been flying in one form or another since the 1930s), satellites, rockets, and undercover investigations by the various intelligence agencies.
Nick Pope, adds:
Belief in a UFO cover-up arises for several reasons. Firstly, TV shows like The X-Files promote the idea of an official conspiracy and some people end up believing that this fiction reflects reality. Secondly, governments have been defensive about the subject, often simply because of the embarrassment of having to say there are occasionally things in our airspace that we can’t identify.
Thirdly, some UFO sightings are generated by secret prototype aircraft and drones – either our own, or ones being operated by other nations. Finally, most countries that have had official UFO projects have embedded this work in their air force or their MoD, and these are inherently secretive organisations.
“None of this is to say that we don’t have some interesting things in our UFO files, including plenty of sightings that were investigated and assessed as ‘unknown'”, Nick continues. “But ‘unknown’ doesn’t mean extraterrestrial, and there are plenty of legitimate reasons why documents about UFOs can be classified, e.g. if they detail the capabilities of military radar systems, or discuss methods and sources of obtaining information from other nations.”
Will there ever be full disclosure? Mark Pilkington is doubtful:
The Extraterrestrial lobbyists will only be satisfied if the US government, who they are convinced lies about everything else, tells them what they want to hear, which is that they have alien spacecraft and bodies, perhaps a live alien, living under the Nevada desert and ready to go on the talk show circuit.
The irony is that when governments tell the truth and reveal the contents of their once-classified UFO files, which many of them now have, demonstrating that they have don’t have much more of a clue about UFOs and ET visitors than anyone else - though they do have a pretty good idea of what is flying in our skies - the Disclosure lobby don’t believe them. So they can’t win.
So it seems like the truth is still out there. What do you think?
X-Files Trailer Confirms Second Revival Is All About [Spoiler] — Watch Now
We really wanted to believe Fox would drop an X-Files trailer at New York Comic-Con, and, guess what? Fox dropped an X-Files trailer at New York Comic-Con!
The breakneck two-minute promo — unveiled at the beginning of Sunday’s X-Filespanel and embedded above for your viewing pleasure — offers the first footage from the latest revival (aka Season 11) and, as we suspected/hoped, the 10-episode run appears to center largely on Mulder and Scully’s “very special” (and potentially dangerous) son William.
RELATED“You have to find him and you have to stop him before he releases hell on Earth,” Scully desperately whispers to Mulder near the end of the video (and we have to assume she’s referring to their MIA son).
William’s impact on Season 11 was foreshadowed at the conclusion of the 2016 revival, with the kid getting name-checked as a possible savior for his dying pop in the finale’s final moments. (Curiously, per the trailer, Scully is now the one hovering near death when the action picks up.)
Other takeaways from the sneak peek:
* Langley, one of the (dead) Lone Gunmen, pops up looking very much alive (and not part of Mulder’s hallucination like in Season 10).
* We’re getting flashbacks to Young CSM (played by Jeremy Schuetze).
* Barbara Hershey’s Big Bad looks… big and really bad and scary.
* Mulder and Skinner fight! Mulder and Skinner fight!
Following the trailer’s debut, stars David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi and series creator Chris Carter fielded questions from yours truly as well as the capacity crowd.
Some highlights from the Q&A…
* Carter said that Season 11 will consist of “eight standalone episodes, and two mythology episodes.” Glen Morgan and James Wong, who penned the classic hour “Home,” are writing the eighth installment, which is “similarly messed up” in tone.
* Carter teased that Scully and Mulder will get “kissing close” at some point this season. But when we pick up, they’re still “professional partners, not romantic partners.”
* Remarking on Langley’s return, Carter would only say “that Langley is in the show this season,” but would not confirm whether or not he is alive or a hallucination.
* On Scully and Mulder’s son William playing a pivotal role in these new episodes, Carter said, “We explore that father-son-mother relationship, and you’ll see more of William than you’ve seen in a long time.” Pileggi chimed in, adding, “I think [the William storyline] is… brilliant. I think it’s done really well, and you guys are going to be very, very happy with it.”
* Pileggi said that “you’re getting more [Skinner] than you did in the last six [episodes].” Carter followed up, revealing that viewers will see a young Walter Skinner as one upcoming installment explores the character’s backstory.
* Carter also let slip that Season 11 will begin with “some background on the Cigarette Smoking Man.”
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How Would We Talk to Aliens?
By Ross Pomeroy
The search for extraterrestrials has gone on long before the SETI Institute was founded in 1984. Sixty years prior, on August 21st, 1924, American officials promoted a national day of radio silence, urging citizens to keep their radios quiet for five minutes on the hour, every hour, so astronomers could use a powerful radio receiver strapped to a dirigible floating two miles up to listen for any potential radio signals coming from Mars. Though the Red Planet was closer to Earth than any other time in the past century, the astronomers heard nothing.
Such silence has been the depressing norm for alien hunters, but hope still abounds. The galaxy is a large place, and on a cosmic scale, we've hardly spent any time looking for extraterrestrials.
So, say our efforts one day come to fruition, and we make contact with an intelligent alien race. How the heck would we actually converse with them?
First off, unless we somehow meet in person, talking will likely be a very sluggish process. Even if our neighboring star system Proxima Centauri housed an intelligent alien species, messages would take more than four years to travel between our two homes. Patience would be key.
Most thinkers, including famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan, agree that mathematics could serve as the foundation for our discussions. With that in mind, British scientist Lancelot Thomas Hogben crafted a language system called Astraglossa. Communicated over radio signals, short pulses called "dashes" would represent numbers, and longer batteries of pulses called "flashes" would represent mathematical symbols like addition or subtraction. Once the basics of arithmetic are established between our species, Hogben imagined moving the discussion on to astronomy, a hobby we would obviously both have in common. After all, two aliens species talking about space would probably be like two Earthlings talking about the weather.
Of course, there's no guarantee that our species would understand each other. While Astraglossa may make sense to Hogben and other human scientists, it could very well be gibberish to aliens.
"We could be utterly, completely incomprehensible," xenolinguist Sheri Wells-Jensen told SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak on his podcast. "There's about 7,000 languages in existence on the planet today. Only about 50% of those have writing systems. So we can't guarantee that [aliens] have writing."
Rather than pinning our hopes on language, Wells-Jensen recommends an "all of the above" approach in which we converse less and share more.
"You send out written stuff... and you send out recordings and visuals... maybe including brain recordings of people speaking."
If that's not enough, back in March 2015, Shostak suggested that we transmit the entire Internet.
"Such a large corpus — with its text, pictures, videos and sounds — would allow clever extraterrestrials to decipher much about our society, and even formulate questions that could be answered with the material in hand. Sending the web on its way would take months if a radio transmitter were used. A powerful laser, conveying bits much like an optical fiber, could launch these data in a few days."
If such an approach works, it could facilitate meaningful dialogue. Even if it doesn't work, we could at least all chuckle at the notion of showing Ancient Aliens Guy to real extraterrestrials.
Shock video shows 'alien being dragged away after Roswell UFO crash'
INCREDIBLE footage has been unearthed which reportedly shows an alien being dragged away after the Roswell UFO crash.
By Tom Towers
The video – believed to be shot in an Area 51 hangar – supposedly shows an alien being put on to a stretcher.
Military personnel and scientists are seen gathering round the mysterious specimen.
The video was recently uploaded to YouTube with the caption: “Roswell UFO crash new footage of alien body.”
In 1947, a UFO reportedly hurtled into the Roswell site in New Mexico – sending alien hunters into a frenzy.
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CONSPIRACY: In 1947, the US army reportedly recovered an alien from RoswellThe US military insisted it was merely a weather balloon, but conspiracists are convinced one or more aliens were recovered.
One former employee claims the extraterrestrial beings were taken from the crash site in New Mexico to another military base in Dayton, Ohio.
Raymond Szymanksi worked at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) for 40 years.
He said he was first made aware of UFOs in his first week at the base by his mentor "Al".
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SHOCK CLIP: New footage reportedly shows an alien being put on to a stretcherHe was shown a series of tunnels and vaults beneath the surface which was both a home and buried site to ETs.
Raymond told The Sun: “For the next four decades I had dozens if not hundreds of brief conversations regarding the 'secret' I'd been given during my first week on base.
“The important fact established here is that not one single person at that time ever said, ’We have no aliens here, you crazy son of a b*tch’... I saw lots of smiles but no denials.
“I’ve been basically investigating locations on the base that I think could contain clues to its history relative to extraterrestrials and UFOs ever since.”
Another former police chief reveals wha he saw during the infamous UFO crash.
Former US Deputy Sheriff Charlie Forgus describe seeing soldiers “hauling a big creature” and bodies that “must have been 5ft tall”.
RELATED ARTICLESAstronomer: Instead of Alien Life, Should We Be Searching for Signs of Alien Tech?
For those familiar with indie space game Stellaris, one of the key moments before encountering ancient intelligent life is finding traces of technology. While the game is a work of science fiction, the concept isn’t outlandish to those behind the real life search for extraterrestrial life (SETI). According to astronomer Jason Wright, discovering traces of advanced technology, termed technosignatures, from alien civilizations is just as important as looking for biosignatures. He outlines his theory in new paper published online, and while he doesn’t claim there’s existing, direct evidence of aliens, he does wonder if we’re just not looking hard enough – or for the right signs.
Contrary to what some have said, Wright’s paper isn’t saying that there’s already evidence pointing to an alien civilization that existed in the solar system before us. Instead, he merely asked whether we’ve exhausted all possible angles in our search for extraterrestrials.
“There is zero evidence for any prior indigenous technological civilizations,” Wright told Gizmodo. “My paper asks, have we completely foreclosed the possibility, or is there a chance that there could be some evidence we overlooked? [And] if we have overlooked something and we find it in the future, what are the chances it could have come from a prior indigenous technological species versus an interstellar one?”
Currently, the hunt for aliens is focused on finding even the smallest signs of life, or mechanisms that could support life (most notably, the presence of water). These are all good, of course, but Wright suggests that we might also start looking for technosignatures from ancient alien civilizations.
“A ‘technosignature’ is evidence of technology,” he said, which potential could have been left behind by some long-gone alien civilization. In his paper, he explained his point further: “We might conjecture that settlements or bases on [rocky moons or asteroids] would have been built beneath the surface for a variety of reasons, and so still be discoverable today.”
The discovery of a new planet — or even better, a new system in some near or distant galaxy — is always good news for alien hunters. Most recently, the TRAPPIST system presented some possibilities — albeit ones quickly dashed by the intensity of solar flares its planets experience. Another possible candidate is a huge, Earth-like planet dubbed super-Earth LHS 1140b. Inside our own solar system, the planetary satellites of Jupiter and Saturn — particularly Europa and Enceladus — tickle the imagination because of the presence of water. And where there is water, the chance of life is higher.
However, despite the odds seemingly in our favor, we really haven’t found any such example of alien life out there — yet. Fermi Paradox, yes? But, could it be that we’ve been looking at the wrong things? Or are we simply not looking hard enough?
Wright just wants us to explore all possible options: “While all geological records of prior indigenous [extraterrestrial] technological species might be long destroyed, if the species were spacefaring there may be technological artifacts to be found throughout the Solar system.”
ROSWELL UFO CRASH - NEW FOOTAGE OF ALIEN BODY
ROSWELL UFO CRASH - NEW FOOTAGE OF ALIEN BODY
The Roswell UFO crash of 1947 does not need a elaborate introduction. It's the most famous, most talked about UFO incident in the history of mankind.
In 1947 a UFO crashed on a ranch northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, sometime during the first week of July 1947. The US army made a statement that they captured a flying saucer and retracted that statement shortly after.
Most of us have seen the famous alien autopsy video that shows the autopsy of an alien that was captured in the vicinity of the UFO. In that video a couple of scientist perform an improvised autopsy on alien being from another world.
Recently new footage has been release that show what happened when that alien body was just retrieved from the UFO crash site.
The video is probably shot in the area 51 hanger where the alien body was brought to. The video shows the alien body brought in on a stretcher. There is a lot of military personnel running arround and scientist are waiting to have a good look at this specimen.
This video might shed some light on the events that happened right after an alien spacecraft crashlanded on earth.
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NASA CLAIMS TO HAVE SOLVED THE MYSTERY OF THE 'ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE' STAR
NASA CLAIMS TO HAVE SOLVED THE MYSTERY OF THE 'ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE' STAR
Government funded scientists are now claiming that they have solved the mystery of "alien megastructures" in space around Tabby's Star based on new information from NASA's Spitzer and Swift missions. Since the discovery of Tabby's Star, many in the UFO/Extraterrestrial community have pointed towards its unusual fluctuations as evidence of alien life.
For years scientists have been unable to explain Tabby’s Star dimming and brightening. The Star, which located 1,400 light years away from Earth, dims at a much faster rate than other stars have been known to.
Previous efforts by government scientists to explain why the star's energy is so inconsistent have hinged on the idea the objects might repeatedly eclipse the star, which is also known as KIC 8462852. This has sparked theories of alien megastructures being responsible for moving in front of the star repeatedly over a short period of time.
Alien hunters have more specifically argued that the phenomenon may be caused by a Dyson swarm, or sphere, which is a kind of structure created by an advanced civilizations which would zap light from the star.
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‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Mystery Deepens After Fresh Kepler Data Confirms Erratic Dimming
What's Next for KIC 8462852, the Unusual Star covered by an Alien Yet another difficult to explain phenomena is found in information from Nasa’s Spitzer and Swift missions, as well as the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory, which have revealed that the star’s ultraviolet light is dimming to a greater degree than its infared.
According to government "experts", this means that something much smaller than a Dyson Sphere would have to caused the unusual energy signals.
Most recently, in a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers have claimed that space dust may be the explanation.
Dr Meng, one of the researchers, said: “We found that from UV, throughout the visible spectrum, to IR, the star is dimming at every wavelength we monitored.”
When the researchers found that the dimming rate of Tabby's star differed significantly depending on whether UV or infrared energy was being tested, they suggested that "micro-sized dust screens" could be to blame.
Even though scientists suspect the dimming is caused by a dust ring, they have admitted that their explanation “is not a firm conclusion”.
Dr. Meng said: “It cannot be anything from the interstellar medium. Only microscopic fine-dust screens can scatter the starlight in the way characterized by measurements.”
Obviously, believers in extraterrestrial life across the world are not impressed by such a shoddy explanation. Few are willing to believe government paid scientists and accept that a series of clouds of dust just happen to pass over the start constantly and that those clouds somehow only block certain types of light, especially since all wavelengths are dimming.
The more reasonable explanation is that something is harvesting that energy. Perhaps some types of energy are more sought after than others, which could explain why not all wavelengths have weakened equally. However, even the scientists admit that they are not certain and that they have no photographic proof of what is out there. Until more information comes forward, we can only imagine what is out there.
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Mysterious UFO spotted hovering over Cley Hill minutes away from Frome in Somerset
The strange light was captured on video circling over Cley Hill, a UFO hot spot
A mysterious UFO has been spotted hovering over the skies near Somerset.
The strange light was captured on video circling over Cley Hill in Warminster, a supernatural hot spot.
Tasha Colliss and her husband took the video last Friday night (September 29) at around 7.45pm from her kitchen window.
She said: “I spotted it from our home in Haygrove Close, Warminster. Our kitchen window overlooks Cley Hill.
“We have never seen anything like this before.”
This is not the first mysterious UFO to have been captured on video circling over Cley Hill.
An unidentified flying object was spotted by Frome resident Jeremy Le Fevre in August. He had been travelling home after performing with the Frome Street Bandits at the Cheese and Grain Rum Festival.
Upon spotting the strange object he took a moment to watch the unusual movements of the light.
He said: “I had never seen anything like it before. It really caught my eye. It went on for quite some time before flying off into the distance towards Longleat.
“It was emitting green and red colours. It looked to me like it could have been fireworks attached to a drone. It’s still very much unidentified though.”
Nigel Vile, a local rambler, regularly goes on walks around the area.
Speaking of the hill, he said: “Some experts have gone as far as to describe the nearby town of Warminster as Britain’s UFO capital on account of a phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s that became known as the ‘Warminster Thing’.
“Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town, and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity.”
Even earlier in the year another UFO had been videoed circling over Cley Hill.
The video showed streaks of light circling over the National Trust owned land in Corsley.
The resident who took the video believed the streak of light could be a UFO.
Speaking to Somerset Live, he said: “I took this video from my house in Frome last night (May 29). It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs”
“Probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something. It's been spotted a few times locally.”
It eventually emerged that the streak of light had in fact been created by a stunt plane belonging to nearby acrobatics group AeroSparx.
The innovative display team performs dazzling acrobatic displays with fireworks attached to the tips of their wings.
This could provide some answers to Jeremy’s video. Although the object he videoed remains unidentified.
Cley Hill can be found just off the A36 heading towards Longleat.
It is more than 800ft in height and is surrounded by relatively flat agricultural land. At the top of the hill are the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort that encloses two round barrows.
Have you seen UFOs in and around Somerset before? Let us know. Get in touch using james.wood@westgaz.co.uk
Could mysterious UFO be heading to Devon?It is not the first mysterious UFO to have been captured on video circling over Cley Hill in Somerset
A strange, mysterious light has been captured on video over the skies in the Westcountry.
It was seen at Cley Hill in Warminster, which is reputed in Somerset to be a supernatural hot spot.
Tasha Colliss and her husband took the video last Friday night, September 29, at around 7.45pm from her kitchen window.
She told SomersetLive.com: “I spotted it from our home in Haygrove Close, Warminster. Our kitchen window overlooks Cley Hill.
“We have never seen anything like this before.”
It is not the first mysterious UFO to have been captured on video circling over Cley Hill.
An unidentified flying object was spotted by Frome resident Jeremy Le Fevre in August. He had been travelling home after performing with the Frome Street Bandits at the Cheese and Grain Rum Festival.
Upon spotting the strange object he took a moment to watch the unusual movements of the light.
He said: “I had never seen anything like it before. It really caught my eye. It went on for quite some time before flying off into the distance towards Longleat.
“It was emitting green and red colours. It looked to me like it could have been fireworks attached to a drone. It’s still very much unidentified though.”
Nigel Vile, a local rambler, regularly goes on walks around the area.
Speaking of the hill, he said: “Some experts have gone as far as to describe the nearby town of Warminster as Britain’s UFO capital on account of a phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s that became known as the ‘Warminster Thing’.
“Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town, and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity.”
Even earlier in the year another UFO had been videoed circling over Cley Hill.
The video showed streaks of light circling over the National Trust owned land in Corsley.
The resident who took the video believed the streak of light could be a UFO.
He said: “I took this video from my house in Frome last night (May 29). It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs.”
It eventually emerged that the streak of light had in fact been created by a stunt plane belonging to nearby acrobatics group AeroSparx.
The innovative display team performs dazzling acrobatic displays with fireworks attached to the tips of their wings.
This could provide some answers to Jeremy’s video. Although the object he videoed remains unidentified.
This articles was first published by Somerset Live
ALIEN ABDUCTIONS: Why so many people 'are taken'… a look at the evidence
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ALIEN ABDUCTIONS? Nigel Watson will look at the evidence in Cornwall tomorrow.Growing numbers of people claim to be a so-called "abductee" and there are even those who claim hey are alien/human hybrids after their mothers were taken and injected with extraterrestrial DNA.
So could this bizarre phenomenon actually be taking place.
UFO researcher Nigel Watson from Plymouth in Devon, will look at the evidence at the Cornwall UFO Research Group 20th conference at Truro College, Truro, Cornwall, tomorrow.
He told Express.co.uk: "Alien abductions seem to indicate that extraterrestrial beings are regularly visiting our planet and have sinister plans for humanity."
Yet, he is not convinced that even the UFOs that people see are alien craft.
He added: "The widespread use of hypnotic regression to ‘recall’ an abduction experience is the weakest link in the chain of evidence.
"The brain does not record memories and playback memories like a ‘biological tape recorder’.
"Under hypnosis the subject easily says what is expected of them.
"When an ufologist organises, or even conducts, the hypnotic sessions, he or she biases the outcome because either consciously or sub-consciously the people involved in these sessions expect an abduction experience to be revealed."
Mr Watson said if there were so many abductions involving people floating through the sky to hovering spaceships, why are they never seen by independent witnesses?
He added: "Why is the physical evidence for them so elusive?
"Implants disappear before they are X-rayed or scanned, video cameras do not operate when people are being abducted.
"Why are abductees never allowed to bring home any evidence? Why are they never given any useful scientific knowledge?
Why do aliens continue to carry out so many medical examinations? "They could get the information from reference books, medical schools, and corpses, reading the minds of doctors or at least hacking into their files.
"Why are abductions so similar to those imagined in films and other media?"
Mr Watson will tomorrow put forward three hyptheseis:
One, that alien abductors are real, two that aliens are phantoms, or three that aliens are a psychosocial phenomenon.
He said: "The criticisms of the reality of abductions assume that the aliens think like ourselves.
"To us the antics of the aliens might seem horrifying, silly, comic and downright ludicrous.
"But we must remember that they are alien in every sense of that word.
"The second concept argues that the so-called aliens are an intimate part of our environment.
"They are not really beings from outer space, instead they are elemental or ultra-terrestrial beings that can emerge from their realms and interact with our reality.
"This theory considers them to be insubstantial phantoms who can conjure-up solid spacecraft that can be photographed and leave landing traces.
"The religions, myths and legends of history, fairy lore, shamanism and stories of witchcraft are used to support the contention that these forces have always been with us and that the flying saucers crewed with aliens are their latest manifestation
"The two theoretical frameworks listed above, and their various combinations that include the idea that the US Government is conspiring to aid and hide the activities of the abductors, is countered by psycho-sociological theories.
"This broadly argues that abductions are caused by individual psychological factors:
"A trigger event that could be a misinterpretation of a celestial or aerial object, geomagnetic phenomena, illusion or hallucination.
"Secondly, the ‘observation’ or experience can be due to neurosis or other pathological states of mind, abuse, trauma, stress, sleep paralysis, drugs, sensory deprivation, lack of sleep, dreams, trance states and other psychological factors.
"Or, the abduction story can be a hoax, an invention, a friend-of-a-friend rumour, or the outcome of hypnotic regression techniques.
"Whatever the reality of the abduction phenomenon, flying saucers and aliens seem to haunt our minds whether they are just a cultural mythology in the making or very elusive extraterrestrials who we can’t clearly comprehend."
Massive butterfly migration seen on radar
Look at what's flying into Denver! Radar from last hour showing what we believe to be birds. Any bird experts know what kind? #ornithology
But people on social media were seeing something else: Butterflies.
Turns out they were right.
“It needed to be a lot of butterflies in the area for sure to generate that much of a signal. Especially across that broad an area,” Schlatter said.
Schlatter said that while NWS meteorologists are used to seeing birds on their radar, butterflies and insects are relatively rare.
The orange-and-black butterflies, which are known as painted ladies, were passing through Colorado on their annual migration south before the winter months.
Schlatter said the flock of butterflies appeared to be at least 100 miles wide, noting that radar may not have picked up the entire mass migration because its signal eventually drops off due to the curvature of the earth.
Lepidopterist Sarah Garrett with the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado, says there are two competing explanations for the population boom.
The butterflies are either in the process of migrating from colder climates in the north to places like Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, she says. Or, she says they might just be moving from higher mountain elevations down into the Denver area.
“In either case, what they’re doing is following their food source,” Garrett tells ABC.
The butterflies also got a boost this past spring. Warm temperatures arrived early in the season, and lots of rainfall helped feed the flowery plants butterflies seek.
“More plants mean more caterpillars,” Garrett said. “So they got a head start. They started reproducing much earlier than normal.”
Garrett says she’s seen radar images capturing butterflies before, but never before in Denver.
“To me this is super-cool, but to see other people get excited about it is really what makes it for me,” she said.
Deze kleurrijke wolk is eigenlijk een 110 kilometer brede golf vlinders - HLN.be
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“De radar lichtte op vlak na zonsopgang en de hele massa bewoog over Denver, in dezelfde richting, een beetje zwevend op de lichte wind die dag”, vertelt meteoroloog Paul Schlatter van de National Weather Service aan ABC News. Al snel werd duidelijk dat het niet om vogels ging, maar om vlinders, die in een gigantische hoeveelheid samentroepten. Verschillende bewoners hadden de veelkleurige natuurpracht zien voorbijtrekken.
Look at what's flying into Denver! Radar from last hour showing what we believe to be birds. Any bird experts know what kind? #ornithology
Het ging concreet om een 110 kilometer brede golf vol ‘painted lady butterflies’ of ook distelvlinders, die doorheen Colorado trokken op hun jaarlijkse migratie voor de gure wintermaanden. “Het moeten er ongelofelijk veel zijn geweest in dat gebied om zo’n stevig signaal te genereren”, aldus Schlatter.
Hoe komt het dat het om zo’n aanzienlijke hoeveelheid ging? “De vlinders hebben een serieuze boost gekregen afgelopen lente”, legt lepidopterist Sarah Garrett uit. “Warme temperaturen vroeg in het seizoen en veel regenval hebben de bloemrijke planten die vlinders zoeken helpen voeden. Meer planten betekent meer rupsen. Dus ze hebben een goede start gekregen. Ze konden veel vroeger dan normaal beginnen reproduceren.”
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De distelvlinder is een trekvlinder en komt over de hele wereld voor. Bij ons is de vlinder te zien vanaf mei tot oktober, stelt Natuurpunt.
Butterflies are migrating through #Denver and it's pure magic. #butterflymigration #paintedladybutterflies #nature
There are so many Painted Ladies around me right now I can actually hear them flying!!!
MEERDERE UFO'S GESIGNALEERD VLAKBIJ SCHIETPATIJ LAS VEGAS ( VIDEO )
MEERDERE UFO'S GESIGNALEERD VLAKBIJ SCHIETPATIJ LAS VEGAS ( VIDEO )
Het zou natuurlijk louter toeval kunnen zijn dat enkele uren voor de fatale schietpartij in Las Vegas er UFO's werden gesignaleerd heel dicht in de buurt.
En aangezien ook de elite beschikt over een geheime ruimtevloot en UFO technologie weet je nooit zeker of ze buitenaards zijn of heel erg aards en misschien zelfs onderdeel vormen van de aanslag.
Op de beruchte zondagavond (1 oktober 2017) dat de slachtpartij plaatsvond voor het Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, gebeurden er nog een aantal merkwaardige dingen in de lucht en wel in de buurt van het River Mountain Water Treatment Facility in Henderson, een voorstad van Las Vegas.
Enkele uren vóór de fatale schietpartij werd op bovengenoemd punt de volgende UFO waargenomen. Het gaat om het grote blauwe licht, het witte behoort toe aan een landend vliegtuig.
Ook de dag erna verschenen er wederom vreemde lichten. De maker van de video, Steven Barone, was die ochtend op onderzoek uitgegaan naar de plek waar hij op 1 oktober de UFO had waargenomen, maar het is daar een verlaten gebied met een paar huizen en verder de eerder genoemde waterzuiveringsinstallatie.
Op de avond van 2 oktober verschenen er op die plek weer lichten, dit keer wat lager en een aantal op een rij.
We hebben wel vaker UFO opnames gezien van Steven Barone en dan meestal in verband met het vliegveld waar hij vlakbij woont en waarover verhalen de ronde doen dat daar buitenaardsen verblijven.
Een bekende en prominente persoonlijkheid die veel weet over buitenaards leven is de voormalig Canadese Minister van Defensie, Paul Hellyer.
Wat hij zegt is onder andere het volgende:
1) Er zijn minimaal vier verschillende soorten buitenaardsen die de aarde de afgelopen duizenden jaren hebben bezocht.
2) De soorten hebben waarschijnlijk verschillende agenda’s en dienen niet beschouwd te worden als van hetzelfde ras.
3) Een van die soorten is wat men noemt de Tall Whites. Volgens Hellyer werkt dit type samen met de Verenigde Staten.
Misschien is er geen enkel verband tussen de schietpartij en de ufo's die daar die avond in de buurt verschenen, maar zeker is het niet.
Hier zijn de beelden die Steven heeft gemaakt.
Te midden van alle geweld op deze wereld en politieke intriges gebeuren er ook nog steeds vreemde dingen in de lucht op andere plaatsen. Voorvallen waar zoals gewoonlijk over wordt gezwegen in de mainstream media.
Zo deed er zich een merkwaardig voorval voor op 1 oktober 2017 boven de Stille Oceaan bij Newport in de Amerikaanse staat Oregon. Gedurende een periode van ongeveer 4 minuten hing er een behoorlijk groot rond object stil boven het water.
Tot het moment dat er van rechts "iets" kwam wat een soort rookspoor achterliet, waarop het object plotsklaps verdween.
Onderstaand een vergrote opname en het lijkt wel enigszins op een soort afgevuurd projectiel. Is er iets of iemand die probeerde het stil hangende object te raken?
Vreemd genoeg heeft de maker van de volgende video "het projectiel" niet gezien, of hij negeert als niet belangrijk. Maar, wanneer je goed kijkt, dan krijg je toch de indruk dat er wel degelijk een verband is tussen het grote ronde object en het projectiel.
Opmerking Peter 2011 : Toen ik in september 2017 in Las Vegas was en s'avonds langs de boulevard wandelde, merkte ik op dat er regelmatig helikopters overvlogen. Het ging dan om avondvluchten om 'Las Vegas by night' te zien van uit de lucht. Het waren soms 3 à 5 helikopters achter elkaar. kunnen die lichten misschien daar iets mee te maken hebben? Toeval toch...
Space Serpent-like object spotted flying in front of Harvest Moon
Evidence of Alien Abduction Showed In A Popular Television Programme
A guest left Phillip Schofield, and Holly Willoughby completely stunned during their This Morning show. The guest showed them evidence of the existence of alien lifeforms.
Cathleen Marden revealed that aliens abducted her auntie and uncle and took them inside a UFO.
Betty and Barney were on holiday in the Niagara Falls when the life-changing incident took place.
Cathleen showed Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield what she referred as concrete evidence of her auntie and uncle’s tale.
According to Cathleen, an unidentified object confronted Betty and Barney. The UFO had strange figures lurking from behind the windows, added Cathleen.
Cathleen said that the couple started to notice vibration and hear a series of buzzing sounds in the car. All of a sudden, they found themselves in a new location.
As they drove towards home, the pair discovered evidence that something strange had happened.
Cathleen claimed that her aunt’s dress had been torn in several places and covered in a strange pink powder. She showed a picture of the shredded garment to the viewers. She stressed that five scientific laboratories had analysed the dress and the finding is anomalous. She explained that it was found the powder did not belong to Betty and scientists did not able to determine whether it was from this planet or not.
New Yorkers Observe A UFO Circling Next to the World Trade Center
UFO enthusiasts went frenzy after seeing strange lights hovering next to the World Trade Center in New York City. Many people from bars along the Hudson River went out to see the apparent UFO circling above Manhattan for about half an hour on Saturday night.
Some witnesses noticed the similarities of the UFO to the spaceship from Star Trek. The lights appear to blend well with the night sky.
Meanwhile, in California, people in Los Angeles freaked out after seeing a weird crescent hovering above them on Saturday night. Many people at Huntington Beach in California noticed it as well.
One person posted on Twitter that they totally just saw a Los Angeles crescent-shaped UFO sputtered slowly and zoomed out of sight.
Others thought the crescent was somehow related to the hidden planet known as the Planet X. Earlier in the week, conspiracy theorists claimed that it was going to smash into the planet, and wipe out the human race and almost all life on Earth.
The Nibiru theory is a prediction of a doomsday based on the bible that some people predict the end of the world.
Conspiracy theorists believe that none of us is going to survive after the doomsday and that would happen sooner than later as the signs for it to happen just took place. They refer to the solar eclipse that occurred last month and the recent hurricanes that devastated the Caribbean.
Ridley Scott: Humans Could Never Survive an Encounter With Extraterrestrials
Ridley Scott has built himself a rather formidable career in Hollywood. He’s directed some of the biggest titles in science fiction, including the Oscar-nominated films “The Martian” and “Blade Runner,” and he was responsible for beginning the successful “Alien” franchise. Now, in anticipation of the next installment of that series, “Alien: Covenant,” Scott is adding Apocalypse Speculator to his list of job titles.
In an interview with Sky News, the director stated that he does think intelligent aliens are out there in the universe. “I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely,” he explained. He went on to say that our only appropriate response to visiting extraterrestrials is to run and hide. “So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it,” he said. “Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.”
Scott is not alone in this sentiment. Several experts agree that any alien lifeforms intelligent enough to make it to Earth are not likely to take too kindly to us measly humans.
To that end, Stephen Hawkingdoesn’t think we should be attempting to make first contact. “One day we might receive a signal from a planet like Gliese 832c, but we should be wary of answering back,” says Hawking in the short film “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places.” He goes on to compare aliens coming to Earth to Europeans coming to the New World. In short, Hawking asserts that it “didn’t turn out so well” for the native inhabitants.
Even without alien contact, some experts believe that we will sow our own destruction. Both Lord Martin Rees and Hawking see the development of artificial intelligence (AI) as a greater threat to the survival of our species. In Rees’ mind, “The period of time occupied by organic intelligence is just a thin sliver between early life and the long era of the machines.” If that’s the case, we might as well enjoy the time we have with a good sci-fi flick.
Ridley Scott: Humans Could Never Survive an Encounter With ExtraterrestrialsRidley Scott has built himself a rather formidable career in Hollywood. He’s directed some of the biggest titles in science fiction, including the Oscar-nominated films “The Martian” and “Blade Runner,” and he was responsible for beginning the successful “Alien” franchise. Now, in anticipation of the next installment of that series, “Alien: Covenant,” Scott is adding Apocalypse Speculator to his list of job titles.
In an interview with Sky News, the director stated that he does think intelligent aliens are out there in the universe. “I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely,” he explained. He went on to say that our only appropriate response to visiting extraterrestrials is to run and hide. “So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it,” he said. “Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.”
Scott is not alone in this sentiment. Several experts agree that any alien lifeforms intelligent enough to make it to Earth are not likely to take too kindly to us measly humans.
To that end, Stephen Hawkingdoesn’t think we should be attempting to make first contact. “One day we might receive a signal from a planet like Gliese 832c, but we should be wary of answering back,” says Hawking in the short film “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places.” He goes on to compare aliens coming to Earth to Europeans coming to the New World. In short, Hawking asserts that it “didn’t turn out so well” for the native inhabitants.
Even without alien contact, some experts believe that we will sow our own destruction. Both Lord Martin Rees and Hawking see the development of artificial intelligence (AI) as a greater threat to the survival of our species. In Rees’ mind, “The period of time occupied by organic intelligence is just a thin sliver between early life and the long era of the machines.” If that’s the case, we might as well enjoy the time we have with a good sci-fi flick.
Weird Norfolk: The Norwich UFO documented by the CIA
The UFO as described by Frank Potter.
Picture: EDP Library/ANTONY KELLY
Just months after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, the Eastern Evening News front page carried a story about a visit from an Unidentified Flying Object which might have travelled to Earth through its own corona.
On October 8, the EEN reported that Frank Potter had spotted something unusual in the sky over his home on South Park Avenue in Norwich.
The amateur astronomer told reporters that he’d seen a noiseless object two days earlier at 7.15pm, travelling from south-west to north-east.
Training his telescope on the craft, he followed the saucer-shaped object as it sped across the sky, noting: “rays or beams of light could be seen distinctly from the dome and attached directly beneath it was a much larger and flattened dome with a protruding band running in a circumference around its edge.
“The underneath of the large flattened bottom dome was hollow and appeared to be glowing red, but there were no vapour trails or gases to be seen.”
The article prompted several other star-gazers to come forward to say they too had spotted something to suggest that we are not alone.
Mr Potter also revealed that a further seven members of the Norwich Astronomical Society, to which he belonged, had also seen the saucer.
Leonard G Cramp, vice-president of the British UFO Research Association, included the Norwich sighting in his 1954 book Space, Gravity and The Flying Saucer, a highly technical examination of the technology necessary to build a flying saucer.
Excerpts from Cramp’s book - including Mr Potter’s testimony - can be found online in the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified documents library.
The truth is out there...somewhere above South Park Avenue.
Weird Norfolk: The Norwich UFO documented by the CIAThe UFO as described by Frank Potter.
Picture: EDP Library/ANTONY KELLY
Just months after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, the Eastern Evening News front page carried a story about a visit from an Unidentified Flying Object which might have travelled to Earth through its own corona.
On October 8, the EEN reported that Frank Potter had spotted something unusual in the sky over his home on South Park Avenue in Norwich.
The amateur astronomer told reporters that he’d seen a noiseless object two days earlier at 7.15pm, travelling from south-west to north-east.
Training his telescope on the craft, he followed the saucer-shaped object as it sped across the sky, noting: “rays or beams of light could be seen distinctly from the dome and attached directly beneath it was a much larger and flattened dome with a protruding band running in a circumference around its edge.
“The underneath of the large flattened bottom dome was hollow and appeared to be glowing red, but there were no vapour trails or gases to be seen.”
The article prompted several other star-gazers to come forward to say they too had spotted something to suggest that we are not alone.
Mr Potter also revealed that a further seven members of the Norwich Astronomical Society, to which he belonged, had also seen the saucer.
Leonard G Cramp, vice-president of the British UFO Research Association, included the Norwich sighting in his 1954 book Space, Gravity and The Flying Saucer, a highly technical examination of the technology necessary to build a flying saucer.
Excerpts from Cramp’s book - including Mr Potter’s testimony - can be found online in the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified documents library.
The truth is out there...somewhere above South Park Avenue.
UFO Flying at Mach 17 Filmed by USAF Veteran, Sends 4K Footage to NASAWhat this USAF veteran from Ayden, California had caught on his drone’s camera far surpasses our general understanding of UFOs.
A supersonic device of tiny proportions traveling 17 times faster than the speed of sound zipped nearby his DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4k drone, just above Ayden District Park, and without anyone noticing at first. After later playing the video on his 4k TV, the veteran was immediately amazed by what he saw.
I am 59 years old and retired from the USAF,” the man told MUFON. “In my 20 year military career I thought I had seen it all. This footage took me back!”
The ambiguous object was flying at about 50 feet from ground level at a speed outperforming by far any known craft engineered by human hands. The calculations performed revealed a staggering velocity of about 13,000 mph, that’s 17 times faster than the speed of sound.
For a better ensemble picture, the Lockheed SR-71 barely exceeds Mach 3.2, or about 2,200 miles per hour. The record-keeper for the hastiest manned jet is the SR-71 which is still nearly 6 times slower than the UFO seen above.
If we compare the fastest flying object designed by humans that doesn’t carry a crew, then DARPA’s HTV-s (Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2) is the one to match the elusive UFO after streaking across the sky at the same bewildering velocity of 13,000 mph. However, the HTV-2 had to be launched using a rocket before using its scramjet engine, not to mention the Falcon Project was initiated over a decade ago. Who knows what toys they have in stock by now…
If you play the video at normal speed rate, there’s a good chance you’ll miss the object if you blink due to its extreme velocity and compressed size.
When the video is slowed down, the UFO comes into picture, but it’s neither big nor defined, and is certainly not leaving any trail. It’s not what most people would expect from a UFO sighting, isn’t it?
The description of the video provides additional information – “UFO traveled 6200 feet (about 1.2 miles) in 1/3rd of a second.”
The USAF veteran made an appeal to qualified authorities for further investigations and analysis.
I filed a UFO report with MUFON and they notified NASA and sent them a copy of the video. The video is under investigation and analysis. Work is being performed on it by both agencies.
I wouldn’t put my trust in NASA getting to the bottom of this due to their…busy schedule, but some lines can be drawn by the UFO community on the web.
Let’s have a look first at this similar case surprised by the camera installed on a Q500+ drone. There are many similarities between the two objects in terms of speed, appearance and a healthy appetite to scare drone owners by nearly missing their devices.
Both UFOs seem to belong to the physical realm. Their appearance suggests they’re made of a metallic allow, light-colored and little reflective.
Even more, the veteran’s video was shot in 4k at 30 frames per second, exactly the type of quality one would expect from a modern-day UFO sighting of sorts.
A video analysis by MUFON investigator Sanford Davis sheds more light on this mysterious case, although he was unable to provide a conclusive answer.
This anomaly was neither observed nor experienced first-hand,” the official report reads. “It was observed as the witness was reviewing aerial drone footage. The whole sighting occurs within a third of a second – a streak arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground.”
But further comments provided by YouTube users bring more relevance:
It appears as a white dot, flattening out something somewhat into a ‘light disk’ right before it disappears off screen,” one commentator wrote.
Whatever the object was, it sure looks as part of a secret military project, or some otherworldly device with capabilities far beyond ours, but both of these options are not attested by modern-day ‘experts.’
Remember folks, there’s no such thing as super-evolved aliens, interdimensional beings, or black-budget programs. This is just a regular sky phenomenon, possibly a dopey bird, bug, golf ball or camera glitch.
Don’t fall for the alien propaganda, else you might have difficulties like the veteran who had posted this video.
UFO does not mean alien, extraterrestrial, spaceship or anything other than unidentified flying object…there was an object…it was flying…did not recognize what the object was… I don’t want you to think I’m an ass…but I have had death threats because of this video,” wrote the channel owner in the comments section after nearly one year from this staggering catch.
Two UFOs Fired Their Thrusters To Harness Energy From a Storm Cloud During a Live Weather ReportThe entire scene was caught on live stream by a local news outlet while reporters were discussing about the ongoing storm.
A trivial explanation has been put forward claiming that the sighting was nothing more than bugs on the windshield, but most viewers remained unconvinced since the UFOs had some kind of thrusters which are clearly visible during the video.
Other explanations see the sighting as a pair of daredevils using jetpacks to either test their capabilities during a storm, or to play a hoax on the unsuspecting public.
This kind of technology is not out of reach anymore, with some startups already selling stable jetpack versions to the military, as well as to civilians who can afford this cutting-edge technology.
Of course, many people inside the UFO community have suggested that what we see in the footage are actual alien vessels harnessing energy from the storm clouds.
Although this phenomenon where UFOs were seen hovering above the clouds, possibly recharging their spaceships, is not something new, it remains an enigma why these two alleged alien vessels are hanging around below the storm front and not above it.
The video below shows numerous other examples surprised across the years of UFOs harnessing energy from atop the storm clouds. It’s still unclear what these flying objects are, and it’s perfectly understandable since they cannot be explained with ease, nor compared to any known earthly device.
Before vanishing into the cloud, at the 0:30 mark, another similar UFO is seen in the top left corner just sitting there motionless.
From a more skeptical perspective, the two flying objects could be the product of advanced CGI effects, but since they appeared on live television makes this hypothesis obsolete.
To this day, the nature of the sighting remains unknown and undisclosed. Authorities and the media didn’t pay much attention to what was caught on video, further fueling our beliefs that they are aware of the UFO/alien reality, but are afraid to let us know about it…yet
Whatever the case, this sighting deserves our utmost attention. What do you think to be the case? Baloons? Jetpacks? Huge storm bugs?
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From The CIA Files: Researchers Link UFO And ‘Their Heightened Interest’ To ‘The Variety And Wealth Of Useful Minerals’
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.”
– Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer
You might think that Internet conspiracy theorists are the only people who believe in aliens and their frequent visits to the earth. However, a group of Nasa astronauts like
Edgar Mitchell, Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, Brian O’Leary thought extraterrestrials exist and that they have been visiting Earth for some time.
“Yes there has been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe; they have been coming here for a long time. I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”
– Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon
Besides the astronauts, there are governments of many countries who maintain classified documents or top secret documents about the UFOs and extraterrestrial beings. These documents have been released into the public domain along with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. In the United States, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), the NSA (National Security Agency) and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) have followed suit proving that these agencies have put in immense resources to study the extraterrestrial phenomenon.
The efforts of many military whistleblowers including the politicians and academics have led the topic of UFOs into the realm of reality from that of conspiracy theory. In fact, some of the people have known about the phenomenon for a long time now.
Countries spy on each other to extract information by using a spectrum of methods. The American government’s STARGATE project investigates the parapsychology and uses their findings to spy on other countries. Similarly, the Snowden leaks threw light on how the US government spies on their citizens, major corporations, foreign and financial establishments.
Many governments have black budget operations called as Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (SAPs) in the United States, and they have zero oversight from the Congress.
A document found online in the CIA’s electronic reading room shows how the CIA gathers intelligence with a joint effort between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the USSR. Almost two decades ago, the scientists from the USSR and PRC revealed a joint study on the UFOs which indicated how global governments investigated UFOs through history.
The Soviet and the specialists from China have come up with a program to investigate known incidents and have also decided to exchange video and photographs directly with each other at Dalnegorsk, the chosen meeting destination. In the last four years, more than 10 UFOs were recorded. Specialists are of the opinion that the aliens are interested in places with an abundance of wealth and other useful minerals. Many such incidents were reported in the mountainous regions of China.
The extraterrestrials have allegedly been visiting earth for a long time now. So the thought about aliens invading our planet for resources is unlikely to happen. If they had any invasion planned, like the ones shown in our famous films, it would have happened by now.
There are many stories regarding UFO spacecraft landing, humanoid bodies coming out of a vehicle and aliens exploring natural resources. Many researchers are of the opinion these ETs in reality concerned about the well-being of our planet. A large number of people who claim to have alien contact experiences or other type of telepathic experiences have shared a similar sentiment.
An incident in the town of Ruwa, Zimbabwe on September 16th, 1994 confirms that aliens have been visiting us for long. In this incident, over sixty school children claim to have seen many flying objects that seemed like spaceships.
Many such stories talk about aliens visiting earth. For instance, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who maintained the inventory of the nuclear stockpile for the AEC in the 1950s revealed in an interview about some extraterrestrials who were concerned about the well-being of our planet. He had informed about UFOs and their presence around nuclear missile facilities.
How to Tell if a YouTube Video of a UFO Is Fake
Experts claim there are 3 HOSTILE Alien species visiting Earth
Misinterpreted throughout the centuries as ‘Gods’, here ar 3 of the foremost hostile Aliens that in keeping with ‘experts’ are visiting Earth since time out of mind. 3 Aliens Species Visting earth
The idea that we have a tendency to aren’t solely|the sole} life forms within the universe has captured the imagination and interest of not only scientists however thinkers, historians and different consultants throughout the centuries. 3 Aliens Species Visting earth
One of the primary to talk out regarding alien life was Associate in Nursing Italian Dominican religious, philosopher, scientist, poet, and cosmological intellectual philosopher. 3 Aliens Species Visting earth
He is remembered for his cosmological theories, that conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model.
Bruno planned that the celebrities were simply distant suns enclosed by their own exoplanets and raised the chance that these planets may even foster lifetime of their own (a philosophical position referred to as cosmic pluralism).
Bruno conjointly insisted that the universe is actually infinite and will haven’t any natural object at its “center”.
Bruno said: “There square measure incalculable suns and incalculable earth’s all rotating around their suns in just a similar manner because the seven planets of our system. we have a tendency to see solely the suns as a result of {they square measure|they’re} the most important bodies and are lucent, however their planets stay invisible to United States as a result of they’re smaller and non-luminous. The incalculable worlds within the universe aren’t any worse and no less populous than our earth. For it’s completely unreasonable to suppose that those swarming worlds that square measure as glorious as our own, maybe additional thus, and that relish the fructifying rays of a sun even as we tend to do, ought to be uninhabited and may not bear similar or maybe additional good inhabitants than our earth.” 3 Aliens Species Visting earth
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.
However, he wasn’t the sole one to possess spoken out regarding alien life. Throughout the centuries, incalculable students have questioned whether or not or not there square measure others out there.
“There is swarming proof that we have a tendency to square measure being contacted, that civilizations are watching United States for a really durable. That their look is off-the-wall from any sort of ancient materialistic western purpose of read. That these guests use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for his or her propulsion systems, that looks to be a standard divisor of the UFO development.” (source) – Dr. Brian O’Leary, Former independent agency spaceman and Princeton physics academic.
Today, at a time once technology has allowed United States to explore the universe like ne’er before, many folks square measure convinced that we have a tendency to aren’t alone. Not solely that, however immeasurable individuals round the globe square measure convinced that till today, we have a tendency to ar being visited by beings that aren’t from our planet.
Advanced civilizations that is thousands of years before us—technologically—who have compete an especially necessary role within the development of humanity throughout the centuries.
So WHO ar these beings? is they benign? is they Hostile? If thus, wherever are they?
Considering the actual fact that there are a minimum of hundred billion galaxies even as previous because the Milky Way, and every one of them have a mean of a hundred BILLION Suns per galaxy, most of them with planets the same as Earth orbiting them, one will say that intelligent life sure should exist somewhere.
THE UNEXPLAINED specialists claim there are three HOSTILE Alien species visiting Earth
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Misinterpreted throughout the centuries as ‘Gods’, here are 3 of the foremost hostile Aliens that in keeping with ‘experts’ are visiting Earth since yesteryear.
The idea that we tend to aren’t solely|the sole} life forms within the universe has captured the imagination and interest of not only scientists however thinkers, historians and alternative consultants throughout the centuries.
One of the primary to talk out concerning alien life was a Italian Dominican religious, philosopher, man of science, poet, and cosmological theoriser Giordano Bruno.
He is remembered for his cosmological theories, that conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model.
Bruno projected that the celebs were simply distant suns encircled by their own exoplanets and raised the likelihood that these planets may even foster lifetime of their own (a philosophical position referred to as cosmic pluralism).
Bruno conjointly insisted that the universe is in reality infinite and will haven’t any natural object at its “center”.
Bruno said: “There are infinite suns and incalculable earth’s all rotating around their suns in barely identical manner because the seven planets of our system. we tend to see solely the suns as a result of {they area unit|they’re} the biggest bodies and are aglow, however their planets stay invisible to us as a result of they’re smaller and non-luminous. The incalculable worlds within the universe are not any worse and no less thickly settled than our earth. For it’s completely unreasonable to suppose that those abundant worlds that area unit as brilliant as our own, maybe additional thus, and that fancy the fructifying rays of a sun even as we tend to do, ought to be depopulated and may not bear similar or perhaps additional good inhabitants than our earth.”
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.
However, he wasn’t the sole one to possess spoken out concerning alien life. Throughout the centuries, incalculable students have puzzled whether or not or not there area unit others out there.
“There is extensive proof that we tend to area unit being contacted, that civilizations are watching America for a really durable. That their look is unconventional from any style of ancient materialistic western purpose of read. That these guests use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for his or her propulsion systems, that looks to be a standard divisor of the phantasm development.” (source) – Dr. Brian O’Leary, Former NASA traveler and Princeton physics academic.
Today, at a time once technology has allowed America to explore the universe like ne’er before, many folks area unit convinced that we tend to aren’t alone. Not solely that, however voluminous folks round the globe area unit convinced that till nowadays, we tend to area unit being visited by beings that aren’t from our planet.
Advanced civilizations that area unit thousands of years before us—technologically—who have vie a very necessary role within the development of humanity throughout the centuries.
So WHO ar these beings? ar they benign? ar they Hostile? If therefore, wherever ar they?
Considering the very fact that there ar a minimum of hundred billion galaxies even as recent because the Milky Way, and every one of them have a median of a hundred BILLION Suns per galaxy, most of them with planets almost like Earth orbiting them, one will say that intelligent life sure enough should exist somewhere.
Many authors would agree that it’s safe to mention that there’s a minimum of one intelligent civilization per galaxy. There ar a minimum of 100 billion galaxies because the Milky Way. Do the mathematics.
UFOlogists and paranormal researchers agree that throughout the years Earth has been visited, and there’s ample historical proof that supports this claim.
Confused as ‘Gods’, varied ancient cultures round the globe indicate however ‘extremely advanced beings’ visited Earth, returning from the celebrities.
Are the traditional Enuki the primitive in our amnesic history?
If we tend to take a glance at ancient Mesopotamian history we’ll realize proof of the alleged Enuki.
The Anunnaki ar believed to be the creators of Man. These mighty Gods left Earth within the distant past, oral communication that in the future, they shall come back to Earth. Curiously, if we glance at ancient cultures round the globe, most of their Gods—Creator Gods—left Earth and secure to come back in the future.
According to later Assyrian and Babylonian story, the Enuki were the youngsters of Semitic deity and Ki, brother and sister gods. The Enuki seem within the Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish. The Enuki ar mentioned within the Epic of Gilgamesh once Semitic deity tells the story of the flood. There ar four primary gods: Semitic deity, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursag.
Many researchers firmly believe that supported varied discoveries, the Enuki (Sumerian: “those WHO decreased from the heavens), a extremely advanced civilization from Associate in Nursing elusive planet in our system, came to Earth, landing within the Persian Gulf some 432,000 years agone. They created man as a slave race to assist them mine gold. Eventually, the Enuki left Earth, effort their creation behind promising to come back in the future.
Throughout history, we’ve got detected tales regarding these strange wanting creatures that apparently live among us on Earth. There square measure such a big amount of stories regarding reptilian entities each within the past and within the gift as if these beings were since the start of your time gift on our planet. History talks regarding them and modern-day sightings have become a lot of and a lot of frequent. There are stories of beings half-human, half-reptile for hundreds of years, however is that this simply the results of human imagination or is there one thing a lot of regarding these strange beings that have conquered our History texts.
Looking back in history, we discover many tales regarding extraterrestrial beings, that were worshiped by our ancestors. In South America, Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan square measure a number of the gods that square measure well, reptilian beings worshiped as gods. Quetzalcoatl could be a Mesoamerican immortal whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and suggests that “feathered serpent” The worship of a feathered serpent is 1st best-known documented in Teotihuacan within the 1st century BCE or 1st century Ce.
According to ufologists, they live regarding four meters tall and square measure characterised as glorious warriors and have an especially stratified and competitive political – military system. They even have an excellent psychic power }prey on negative energies like concern and hate, thus, they’re thought of ” regressive ” and were thought of before as “demons.”
10 fascinating facts about the Middle East you didn't know
The Middle East is an important part of the world known for its prolonged, rich history.
Many Arabs and those living in the region often forget, marginalize and neglect the fact that this part of the world doesn't lack surprise and novelty.
Here are some fun and fascinating facts about the Middle East to emphasize its ever-standing characteristics:
Roman-Syrians knew what the future had in store long before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon and Leif Eriksson "found" America.
In what is arguably the first fantasy book, True History tells the stories of the first encounter with aliens, the discovery of a new continent in the West, and explorers flying to the moon.
Lucian of Samosata was a Syrian writer in the second century who knew Greek. He wrote this book as a parody, mocking all adventures and creatures that used to be featured in old tales.
The small, cute and lovable gerbils were firstly discovered in Syria in 1797.
In 1930, Israel Aharoni, a zoologist from the University of Jerusalem, captured Syrian hamsters - originally called golden hamsters - in order to subject them to medical research.
After scientists bred them, they delivered them to multiple laboratories around the world.
The hamsters you see in pet shops today are most likely the descendants of the same furry animals which were bred in 1930.
Assassin's Creed is an action-adventure video game revolving around a warbetween the "Assassins" - fighting for peace and freedom - and the "Templars" - those convinced that peace will reign only if humanity is controlled.
Little do players of this video game know that the Assassins depicted in it are based on actual assassins who existed between the 11th and 13th century in Syria and Persia (modern day Iran) and were known as "Hashishiyyin".
In 1997, CNN reported that three Yemenis sued NASA for invading Mars after the agency sent out the Pathfinder spacecraft and the Sojourner rover to explore the red planet.
According to the three Yemeni men, they "inherited the planet" from their ancestors 3,000 years prior to the incident.
They also had papers to prove it.
All claims of owning the planet were later dismissed.
Mocha is a delicious drink in which coffee and chocolate are mixed.
The word mocha is actually derived from Mocha, a port in Yemen on the Red Sea.
Up until 1990, the latter was the primary port to export Arabian coffee (a strong, dark brown coffee) to the world.
The Socotra Island is a hot, dry island situated in the Indian Ocean.
It makes up an archipelago of four islands in the Arabian Sea and is part of Yemen.
Also called "The Socotra Island of strange plants," it is pretty isolated, yet inhabited by some 44,000 people.
Due to its diminutive population, this island contains 700 extremely rare species of animals and plants.
In total, 1/3 of its flora and fauna cannot be found anywhere else on earth.
Even though Saudi Arabia is well-known for its wide deserts and camel-back riding, the country is importing sands and camels from Australia.
Mainly using camels to carry people and goods, Saudis don't find their "ships of the desert" tasty.
Apparently, Australian camels are fatter and more delicious. While the sand found in the kingdom is not fit for construction.
In 2007, American scientists discovered a giant "20-foot fungus" in Saudi Arabia.
It is believed that these mushrooms dominated the Saudi territory; that is until they became extinct 350 million years ago.
The springs in Saudi Arabia are rapidly drying up because of the country's unbalanced farming techniques.
If this persists, the country may have to import all its food in the near future.
"Muhammad" is the most popular baby name in the world.
Around 150 million men and boys have the same name as the prophet of Islam.
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Volcanic Eruptions Gave the Ancient Moon a Temporary Atmosphere
Earth's moon doesn't have much of an atmosphere today. However, it may have had a more prominent atmosphere 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, when volcanic eruptions spewed giant clouds of gas above the lunar surface, a new study has found.
Today's moon is covered in dead volcanoes and dark maria, or plains that consist of hardened lava. The lunar atmosphere is so thin it's not even technically an atmosphere — instead, it's considered an "exosphere," with molecules that are gravitationally bound to the moon but are too sparse to behave like a gas.
A new study from scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston suggests that the moon's ancient volcanoes produced a temporary atmosphere that lingered for 70 million years before dissipating into space. [How the Moon Evolved: A Photo Timeline]
Samples of volcanic glasses collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s revealed that magma beneath the lunar surface billions of years ago "carried gas components, such as carbon monoxide, the ingredients for water, sulfur, and other volatile species," LPI officials said in a statement.
In the new study, the researchers calculated how much gas rose from the lavas that flowed from the lunar volcanoes. They determined that enough gases accumulated around the moon to form an atmosphere, and that this atmosphere grew faster than it could escape into space.
LPI officials said that the findings may have big implications for future exploration of the moon, because it "quantifies a source of volatiles that may have been trapped from the atmosphere into cold, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles and, thus, may provide a source of ice suitable for a sustained lunar exploration program."
The study was published online Sept. 25 in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
5 Alien Species Already Walking Amongst Us
While it is often believed that most aliens are an unfriendly bunch, there are a few species that have been on Earth for centuries who serve to disprove this claim. Some of the more friendly alien species are listed below.
It’s a widely held belief that the Lyrans are our oldest ancestors. In fact, there are those that believe that the Lyrans were actually the first “humans” to form a civilization in the Milky Way galaxy.
The world famous Billy Meier was one of the first people to talk about Lyrans. He claims that they revealed to him their origins and story. He was extremely gracious to share this story with mankind.
Mr. Meier reports that, “They have described their ancient ancestry, and consequently ours, as originating in a far sun-system in a star group near what we now know as the Ring Nebula of Lyra, for which we have called them Lyrans in the same manner as we refer to human beings from what we call the Pleiades.
After many eons of existence, one of the oldest alien species in our galaxy, the Arcturians, have reached such an ascended state that many classify them as a fifth dimension civilization.
Their home planet orbits the largest star in the Bootes Constellation and is located approximately 200 light years away from Earth.
While seemingly impossible for us to reach, it’s proven to be of little consequence to the Arcturians because while millions of years ago the Arcturians achieved the level of technology we have reached on Earth. They now possess some of the most advanced technology in the Milky Way galaxy.
While few people have directly interacted with the Arcturians, those that have report them as being between 3 and 5 feet tall with large heads and big, black almond shaped eyes. Their skin is normally a greenish color and they have three fingers on each hand.
In addition, they appear to be masters of telepathic communication and can move objects or interact with their environment all through the use of their minds. Furthermore, old age and death have been virtually eliminated from their society.
It’s believed that their fleet of starships crisscrosses the galaxy and one of them, the Starship Athena, is believed to be orbiting the earth to prevent something from threatening our existence.
The Arcturians take their role as protectors extremely seriously. So seriously, in fact, one of their probes, the Black Knight Satellite, is believed to have been orbiting Earth for the last 13,000 years.
Described as being tall, blonde humanoids, the Telosians are believed by many to be the last survivors of long lost human civilizations on Earth.
There are those that say they are the survivors of the cataclysms that sunk Atlantis and Lemuria, while another school of thought believes they are much older than that.
Their name derives from the ancient Greek word “telos” meaning “end’ or “purpose.” It seems a fitting name for their largest city of Telos which many believe is located under Mt. Shasta, California.
Through psychotronic technology and highly developed cerebral abilities, their advanced society has been in constant contact with a number of other extraterrestrial civilizations including the Pleiadians and Arcturians.
The first person to describe the Telosians was Admiral Richard Byrd. In his diaries that were published after his death, he tells of a secret North Pole mission to the home of an advanced subterranean race.
Admiral Byrd wrote that this alien species had been living in a few secret underground cities but it was our nuclear bombs that finally drew them out to the surface. Admiral Byrd wrote,
“Our interests rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the “Flugelrads” to your surface world to investigate what your race had done.“
“You see, we have never interfered before in your race’s wars and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely that of atomic energy.”
“Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the powers of your world, and yet they do not heed. Now you have been chosen to be witness here that our world does exist. You see, our culture and science is many thousands of years beyond our race. Admiral.”
Thousands of years of scientific advancement have given the Telosians the ability to circumvent disease and aging. The Telosians are widely known for their longevity and could help us with our own. They are also true protectors of the Earth’s environment and keepers of knowledge about our planet’s past.
The extraterrestrials from Alpha Centauri easily have the power to not only destroy us, but any other aggressive alien species. They are considered to be the most technologically advanced alien species in the Milky Way galaxy.
They got in this position because they are reported to be highly intelligent and possess a natural curiosity which in turn led them to rapid advancements in science and technology. It also appears that the Alpha Centaurians have learned that with immense power comes immense responsibility.
Over time they evolved into an aquatic species with gills and webbed limbs. Some researchers believe they are responsible for most of the underwater and the USO phenomena.
It’s also believed that they have a number of bases that operate on the bottom of our seas, oceans, and lakes around the planet.
In keeping with their nature, the Alpha Centaurians are believed to be very benevolent towards the human race and have a desire to help us overcome some of the many challenges that come with the evolution of a species.
It’s believed that they communicate telepathically and their influence, while subtle, is always there. Many researchers believe that the Alpha Centaurians promote social justice and human rights as they pertain to the responsibility advanced technology we’re developing.
Believed to be descendants of the early Lyrans, the Pleiadians, in some circles, have come to represent one of humanity’s most active allies.
Their home is located in the Pleiades Star Cluster, which is a group of stars located approximately 400 light years from Earth. Their name is derived from the ancient Greek verb, “plein” meaning “to sail.”
The Pleiadians have always played an important role in human culture. One of their chosen representatives, Billy Meir, imparted the messages of Semjase, a Pleidian female who was deeply concerned for our fate. She told Billy:
“We are neither guardians of Earth nor beings of God-sent angels or similar. Many persons suggest we are watching over Earth and her beings and would control their fates.
This is not true, because we only perform a self-selected mission which has nothing to do with supervising or regulating Earth’s fate. Thus it is wrong to expose us as superterrestrial messengers and guardians.”
Despite the message from Semjase, the Pleiadians were the first to warn Earth about the danger that Grey aliens posed. The Pleiadians accused the Greys of having a lack of wisdom and empathy when using technologically inferior humans to serve their evil, remorseless purposes.
For this reason, the two alien species have fought one another not only here, but in other star systems.
Those that have been in contact with the Pleiadians claim that the Pleiadians have been attempting to free ourselves from oppression for quite some time.
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The 150,000-year-old Baigong Pipes—Evidence of a technologically advanced civilization?
The 150,000-year-old Baigong Pipes—Evidence of a technologically advanced civilization?
8 percent of the material in the pipes could not be identified. Their mysterious pipes are believed to be around 150,000 years old. According to the largest state-run newspapers in China—People’s Daily reported on a 2007 investigation in which a research fellow from the Chinese Earthquake Administration reported they had found some of the pipes to be highly radioactive.
A recently published study titled “Prior Indigenous Technological Species” by Jason T. Wright from the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, at Pennsylvania State University, has given us lot to think about.
What if, in the distant past, hundreds of thousands—perhaps millions of years ago—an advanced technological species existed somewhere in our solar system? Maybe even Earth?
The idea that humans are not the first, or only, technological species to arise in the Solar System is very old. In the second century, CE Lucian of Samosata wrote (satirically) of intelligent non-human creatures on the Moon in ᾿Αληθῆ διηγήματα (True History), and Voltaire (also satirically) wrote of intelligent beings on Saturn in Micromegas (1752). Of course, the idea of indigenous Martian civilizations pervades science fiction to the point of cliche, but was once also considered at least somewhat seriously in scientific circles, most famously by Lowell (1895), but also as recently as Shklovski˘ı & Sagan (1998) (who speculated that the moons of Mars might be artificial).
Wright asks some very important questions which many other researchers have not ventured into.
Given that it is known to host complex life, the most obvious origin for a prior species of any sort is Earth. Archeology and paleontology, having not found evidence for such a prior species or its technology, put strong constraints on when it might have existed and the longevity of its technosignatures. But how long would such evidence last?
Regrettably, in today’s world, the sheer amount of ‘fake artifacts and hoaxes’ discovered around the globe make it hard for experts to deduce what is and what is not legit.
While there are many artifacts that are nothing but the figment of the imagination of people looking to make a name for themselves by promoting fake artifacts, there are certain discoveries that make us ask the million dollar question: What if it’s real?
One such discovery was made in China in the vicinity of Mount Baigong, in China’s western province of Qinghai which is an almost completely uninhabitable region.
There, researchers claim to have discovered—in addition to pipes—a pyramidal structure just off the shores of a salt lake. Some of the Baigong pipes are reported to be associated with three caves in Mount Baigong. These caves are reported to occur within the front face of Mount Baigong. The mouths of the two smaller caves have collapsed. Only the largest cave, which is 6 meters (18 feet) high, can be entered. The vague resemblance of the top of Mount Baigong to a pyramid has been the focus of speculation.
Interestingly, two pipe-like structures have been inside the largest cave. One of these is described as being 40 cm (16 in) in diameter. Dozens of upright pipe-like features, about 10 to 40 cm (4 to 16 inches) in diameter, were also found protruding from Mount Baigong above the largest cave.
The enigmatic pipes were said to have been discovered by a group of scientists from the United States who were seeking dinosaur fossils. The scientists are said to have reported the formations to local authorities in Delingha. However, the pipes did not attract attention until a later report, possibly one of six made by Ye Zhou, appeared in the Henan Dahe Bao (河南大河报 ‘Henan Great River News’) in June 2002.
The age of the pipes was determined by the Beijing Institute of Geology using a technique called thermoluminescence dating. The thermoluminescence is a technique that determines how long a crystalline mineral is exposed to sunlight or heat. The date of the pipes: around 150,000 years ago.
Interestingly, one of the largest state-run newspapers in China—People’s Daily reported on a 2007 investigation in which a research fellow from the Chinese Earthquake Administration reported they had found some of the pipes to be highly radioactive.
According to the tests, 8 percent of the material in the pipes could not be identified. The rest of the composition of the pipes include iron oxide, silicon dioxide, and calcium oxide. Silicon dioxide and calcium oxide are products obtained after a long interaction between iron and the surrounding sandstone which has provided researchers with the age of the pipes. To add to the mystery, Zheng Jiandong, member of the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) told a local newspaper that the tubes show evidence of radioactivity. Jiandong believes that the iron-rich magma may have risen from the depths of the earth, solidifying the iron fissures in the tubes.
So what are these enigmatic pipes? What was their purpose? Are their artificial structures or the result of nature? If they are artificial, who built them 150,000 years ago? According to researchers, humans have only inhabited this specific region over the past 30,000 years and within the known history of the area, the only humans who inhabited the region were nomads whose lifestyle isn’t characteristic of leaving any structures or buildings nor did they possess any knowledge about metallurgy. But if the nomads and ancients did not create those pipes, who did?
Conventional archaeologists and scholars have tried explaining these structures suggesting that they are a natural phenomenon, but Yang Ji, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the pyramid and its strange pipes may have been built by intelligent beings.
According to a 2003 article in the Xinmin Weekly, Chinese scientists using atomic emission spectroscopy found the Baigong Pipes to contain organic matter of plant origin. In addition, the news article also stated that tree rings were found in sections of these rock formations and, as a result, they were judged to be fossil trees or tree roots. However, like many other aspects of the “Baigong pipes”, this news report remains unsupported by either any scientific publication or other reliable primary or secondary source that discusses and documents these findings in any detail.
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Chinese Scientists to Head for Suspected ET Relics
“Alien Ruins Show” Xinmin Weekly. October 13, 2003.
“Probing into the “ET relic site” in China’s Qinghai”. Peoples Daily. May 2007.
THE EARTH WAS RULED FOR 241,000 YEARS BY 8 KINGS WHO CAME FROM HEAVEN
Discovered over the years by scholars in many regions of ancient Mesopotamia, copies of what is believed to be a single manuscript, referred to as “Sumerian King List” or “List of Sumerian Kings”, details how in The distant past, our planet was ruled by eight mysterious kings for a mysterious period of 241,000 years. He even claims that these rulers “descended from heaven.”(Earth was ruled for 241,000 years by 8 Kings)
The List of Sumerian Kings tells an incredible story that many find hard to believe.
“After the royalty descended from the sky, they went to Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; He ruled for 28,800 years. Alaljar ruled for 36,000 years. 2 kings; They ruled for 64800 years … “(Earth was ruled for 241,000 years by 8 Kings)
“In 5 cities 8 kings ruled for 241,200 years. Then the flood washed away … “ (This is written in the first part of the List of Sumerian Kings).
But how is it possible that eight kings ruled over the Earth for 241,000 years? Experts believe the answer is simple: the list combines prehistoric and “mythological” dynastic rulers, who enjoyed long and unlikely realms with more plausibly historical dynasties.(Earth was ruled for 241,000 years by 8 Kings)
In other words, scholars are telling us that some things written on the list of Sumerian kings are correct, while others – such as implausibly long reigns – can not be.
In addition, the List of Sumerian Kings not only tells us how long these kings ruled on Earth, it also specifically says that these eight kings “descended from heaven”, after which they ruled for a surprisingly long period.
Curiously, the list details how these eight kings met the end during the Great Flood that swept the Earth. The list also details what happened after the flood, as it clearly says that “other royalty descended from heaven,” and these mysterious kings once again ruled the man.(Earth was ruled for 241,000 years by 8 Kings)
But is the List of Sumerian Kings a mixture of historically verifiable kings and mythological beings? Or is it possible that the scholars have classified some of the rulers as mythological, because of their peculiar characteristics?
For decades people believed that the detailed history in the Sumerian King’s List, ie kings with incredibly long lives, their disappearance during the Great Flood and their replacement with the new kings coming from the sky, were simply another set of accounts Mythological. However, there are many authors and researchers who disagree, suggesting that what is on the List of Sumerian Kings can not be at all mythology, and point out the fact that scholars today partly recognize some of the Kings detailed in the list.
The fact that the Sumerian Kings List mentions eight kings, their names and long realms, as well as their origin – the royalty that came down from heaven – has made many think: “Is it possible that what is written in the List Of Sumerian kings are real historical references? “What would happen if, thousands of years ago, before modern history, our planet was ruled by eight kings from another world who came to Earth from a distant place in the universe and ruled over The Earth for a period of 241,000 years and then return to the heavens?(Earth was ruled for 241,000 years by 8 Kings)
What if the details found on the Sumerian King list are one hundred percent accurate and that, unlike mainstream scholars, these impassable reigns were a possibility, at a time when civilization, society, and Our planet were very different from what it is today? Do these ancient texts prove that the Earth was ruled by ancient astronauts for 241,000 years? Or – as scholars mention – the List of Sumerian Kings is only a mixture of historical records and mythology?
It is worth mentioning that in ancient text there is a ruler who has been verified archaeologically and historically; It is about Enmebaragesi de Kish, about 2,600 BC
NASA's Mars Odyssey Snaps Its First Images of Moon Phobos
The infrared view of Phobos during sunrise "provides information about how quickly the ground warms, which is related to the texture of the surface," NASA officials said. "As barefoot beach walks can confirm, sand warms or cools quicker than rocks or pavement."
"Including a predawn area in the observation is useful because all the heating from the previous day's sunshine has reached its minimum there," Hamilton said. "As you go from predawn area to morning area you get to watch the heating behavior. If it heats up very quickly, it's likely not very rocky but dusty instead."
How long to travel to Alpha Centauri?
The distances between stars are vast, which is why star travel is so far. Read here about conventional propulsion and warp drives, plus about Breakthrough Starshot’s new idea to send nanostarships to Alpha Centauri.
Artist’s concept via Breakthrough Starshot.
Outer space is big. Really, really, really big. And that’s why NASA has no plans at present to send a spacecraft to any of the several thousand known planets beyond our solar system. Meanwhile, with respect to star travel, NASA isn’t the only game in town anymore. In April 2016, Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner announced a new and ambitious initiative called Breakthrough Starshot, which intends to pour $100 million into proof-of-concept studies for an entirely new technology for star travel, aimed at unmanned space flight at 20% of light speed, with the goal of reaching the Alpha Centauri system – and, presumably, its newly discovered planet Proxima b – within 20 years. Is it possible? No one knows yet, but Alpha Centauri is an obvious target. It’s the nearest star system to our sun at 4.3 light-years away. That’s about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km) away from Earth – nearly 300,000 times the distance from the Earth to the sun. Follow the links below to learn more about why star travel is so formidable, and about how we might accomplish it.
Why won’t a conventional rocket work?
These 4 conventional spacecraft are headed out of the solar system. A 5th spacecraft, New Horizons, will also eventually leave the solar system. But conventional spacecraft move slowly in contrast to the vast distances between stars. It’ll be tens of thousands of years before one of these craft encounters a star. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Why won’t a conventional rocket work?
Consider the Space Shuttles, which traveled only a few hundred kilometers above Earth’s surface, into Earth orbit. If Earth were the size of a sand grain, this distance would be about the width of a hair in contrast to a 6-mile (10-km) distance to Alpha Centauri.
The Space Shuttles weren’t starships, but we have built starships. Five craft from Earth are currently on their way out of the solar system, headed into interstellar space. They are the two Pioneer spacecraft, the two Voyager spacecraft, and the New Horizons spacecraft. All are moving extremely slowly relative to the speed needed to travel among the stars.
So … consider the two Voyagers – Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 – launched in 1977. Neither Voyagers is aimed toward Alpha Centauri, but if one of them were – assuming it maintained its current rate of speed – it would requires take tens of thousands of years to this next-nearest star. Eventually, the Voyagers will pass other stars. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within 1.6 light-years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis. In some 296,000 years, Voyager 2 will pass 4.3 light-years from Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. Hmm, 4.3 light-years. That’s the distance between us and Alpha Centauri.
What about the New Horizons spacecraft, the first spacecraft ever to visit Pluto and its moons. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft travels at 36,373 miles per hour (58,536 km/h). Launched from Earth in mid-January, 2006, it reached Pluto in mid-July, 2015 … nine-and-a-half years later. If New Horizons were aimed toward the Alpha Centauri system, which it isn’t, it would take this spacecraft about 78,000 years to get there.
So conventional rockets won’t work because they are too slow.
What a spaceship with warp drive might look like.
Credit: Mark Rademaker/Mike Okuda/Harold White/NASA.
Illustration via the Anderson Institute.
Warp drive?
What if we could travel faster than light? Countless sci-fi books and movies are built around the concept, which brings with its challenges to physicists’ understanding of how space and time actually work. Still, a few years ago, Dr. Harold “Sonny” White – who leads NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Team at Johnson Space Center – claimed to have made a discovery which made plausible the idea of faster-than-light travel, via a concept known as the Alcubierre warp drive.
This concept is based on ideas put forward by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. He suggested that faster-than-light travel might be achieved by distorting spacetime, as shown in the illustration above.
Harold “Sonny” White has been working to investigate these ideas further. They are highly speculative, but possibly valid, and involve a solution of the Einstein field equations, specifically how space, time and energy interact. In June of 2014, White unveiled images of what a faster-than-light ship might look like. Artist Mark Rademaker based these designs on White’s theoretical ideas. He said creating them took more than 1,600 hours, and they are very cool. See the 2014 faster-than-light spacecraft designs on this Flickr page.
The video below presents Harold White’s talk at the SpaceVision 2013 Space Conference in November, 2013 in Phoenix. He talks about the concepts and progress in warp-drive development over recent decades.
Is it faster-than-light travel possible, via the Alcubierre warp drive? As with conventional propulsion systems, the problem is energy. In this case, it’s the type of energy the warp drive would need. Daily Kos reported:
In order to form the warp field/bubble, a region of space-time with negative energy density (i.e. repulsing space-time) is necessary. Scientific models predict exotic matter with a negative energy may exist, but it has never been observed. All forms of matter and light have a positive energy density, and create an attractive gravitational field.
So faster-than-light travel via the Alcubierre warp drive is highly speculative, to say the least.
With current technologies, it’s not possible.
However, if it could be accomplished, it would reduce the travel time to Alpha Centauri from thousands of years to just days.
Want technical details on the Alcubierre warp drive? Read this 2014 article at Daily Kos.
Or try this January 2017 article on the Alcubierre warp drive, at Phys.org
The Alpha Centauri system. It’s at least a double system, maybe a triple system, but we see it with the eye as just one star. In this image – via MSX/IPAC/NASA – you can almost make out the double nature of Alpha Centauri. At 4.3 light-years away, this star system is the closest to Earth.
Breakthrough Starshot.
In April, 2016, Yuri Milner’s organization Breakthrough Initiatives announced a $100 million investment in proof-of concept studies for an all-new way to get to the stars.
Well, not all new., exactly. The Breakthrough Starshot project relies on technologies that are being tested now, and also on some new technologies that have been around only a few years. But it does put these technologies together in a way that’s entirely new, and extremely visionary.
The Breakthrough Starshot team has some heavy hitters, including physicist Stephen Hawking and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. It proposes to use the $100 million to learn whether it’s possible to use a 100-gigawatt light beam and light sails to propel some 1,000 ultra-lightweight nanocraft to 20% of light speed. If it’s shown to be possible, such a mission could (hypothetically) reach Alpha Centauri within about 20 years of its launch.
There are a lot of appealing things about this project. For example, the use of lightsails is currently in the process of being tested by another organization, the Planetary Society, with a publicly funded project called LightSail.
But the most appealing thing is that the Breakthrough Starshot project is truly innovative, yet still grounded in current, cutting-edge science and technology. Just realize that all existing spacecraft are huge and clunky in contrast to the gram-scale nanostarships – dubbed StarChips – being proposed by Breakthrough Starshot. Can tiny, light ships – on sails pushed by a light beam – fly 1,000 times faster than the fastest spacecraft built up to now? That’s what Breakthrough Starshot is exploring with its ongoing proof-of-concept studies.
Starshot envisions launching a mothership carrying the 1,000 tiny spacecraft to a high-altitude orbit. Each craft is a gram-scale wafer, carrying cameras, photon thrusters, power supply, navigation and communication equipment, and “constituting a fully functional space probe,” the Starshot team has said.
Mission controllers would deploy the nanocraft – send them on their way – one by one. A ground-based laser array called a light beamer would be used to focus light on the sails of the ships, to accelerate individual craft to the target speed “within minutes.”
The plan is to stick four cameras (two-megapixels each) on the nanocraft, allowing for some elementary imaging. The data would be transmitted back to Earth using a retractable meter-long antenna, or perhaps even using the lightsail to facilitate laser-based communications that could focus a signal back towards Earth.
The original idea was to send the spacecraft flying through the Alpha Centauri system without slowing down. After all, how can they slow down? It turns out someone has already figured out a possible way. In early 2017 two scientists announced the results of their study of a possible braking method, using the radiation and gravity of the Alpha Centauri stars themselves. We don’t know yet if such a thing can work, but it’s heartening to see scientists getting involved in this idea!
Clearly, the Breakthrough Starshot project is one that’s worth watching.
On April 20 and 21, 2017, Breakthrough Initiatives held the second of what it says will be an annual conference – called Breakthrough Discuss – aimed at bringing together leading astronomers, engineers, astrobiologists and astrophysicists. This year, they held the conference at Stanford University and focused it on discoveries of potentially habitable planets in nearby star systems, including Alpha Centauri. Videos related to discussions at the conference are archived on Breakthrough’s Facebook page, if you’re interested.
Illustration via FutureHumanEvolution.com
Bottom line: At 4.3 light-years away, the Alpha Centauri system is the nearest star system to our Earth and sun, but getting there would be extremely difficult.
Breakthrough Starshot aims for Alpha Centauri
Read more about the Alpha Centauri system
Beleef een ruimtewandeling aan het ISS-ruimtestation in deze 360 graden-video - HLN.be
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De beelden zijn het resultaat van een samenwerking tussen het Russische televisienetwerk RT, het Russische ruimtevaartagentschap en de ruimtetuigbouwer Energia.
De Russische astronauten Sergey Ryazansky en Fedor Yurchikhin maakten de beelden tijdens een zeven en een half uur durende ruimtewandeling in augustus, waarbij ze herstellingen uitvoerden en vijf minisatellieten lanceerden. In het filmpje kan je zien hoe de kosmonauten de satellieten in een baan om de aarde projecteren.
Aan het einde van de video zie je in een timelapse de aarde draaien vanuit het perspectief van de astronauten.
Om een beeld te krijgen van de volledige omgeving, kan je in de 360 graden-video het kader verslepen om je perspectief te veranderen.
MYSTERY OF THE 'BALTIC SEA ANOMALY' FINALLY SOLVED?
MYSTERY OF THE 'BALTIC SEA ANOMALY' FINALLY SOLVED?
One mystery that has been troubling scientists for a while is the so called 'Baltic Sea Anomaly'. According to the a swedish deep sea exploration team called Ocean X, they came across a strange and gigantic structure that didn't appear like a natural formation.
Many conspiracy theories regarding this anomaly range from a giant crashed mothership UFO to a sunken city in the same vein as Atlantis or perhaps the very same.
However, recently a group of divers collected samples from the so called anomaly for further reasearch.
Scientists determined that the baltic sea anomaly is but a glacial deposit. Much of the Baltic Sea was carved out by moving glaciers during the Ice Age. So these strange rock formations are leftovers from that time.
But OceanX team disagree. They say that this doesn't prove why electronics ceased functioning when at close distance from the object.
So has the anomaly enigma been solved?
Or is this all a cover up? Watch the following video to know more
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/862739/Baltic-Sea-Anomaly-ufo-alien-ice-age-glacier
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