'Leaked' radar footage shows 'UFO destroy US military drone with laser'

THIS “leaked” viral video shows a US Predator drone getting blitzed by a mystery UFO in Afghanistan, it has shockingly been claimed.

Dino-dooming asteroid impact created a chilling sulfur cloud

New, more precise calculations help re-create how the collision affected Earth’s climate

BY 

LAUREL HAMERS 

 

IT’S A GAS  When a massive meteorite slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it vaporized rocks, sending up enough climate-changing gases to spark mass extinction.

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The asteroid collision that may have doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago really stank. A new analysis of gases released from vaporized rocks at the impact site in modern-day Mexico suggests that the smashup released up to three times more smelly, climate-cooling sulfur than previously believed.

The study reveals for the first time how much sulfur and carbon dioxide gas was ejected

The Chicxulub impact spewed about 325 billion tons of sulfur and 425 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air, researchers report October 31 in Geophysical Research Letters.

This relatively modest release of CO₂ might have contributed to long-term planetary warming. But the massive cloud of sulfurous gas would have more immediately blocked out the sun, the researchers suggest, plunging the planet into a dark Narnia-style winter that was colder and longer than previously thought. That could help explain why so many of Earth’s plants and animals went extinct around this time, even those living nowhere near the impact crater (SN: 2/4/17, p. 16).

The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago. The new calculations incorporate a better understanding of the meteor’s angle of impact, the composition of the rocks and how much gas would make it high enough into the atmosphere to influence climate.

Citations

N. Artemieva et al. Quantifying the release of climate-active gases by large meteorite impacts with a case study of Chicxulub. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 44. Published online October 30, 2017. doi:10.1002/2017GL074879.

Further Reading

T. Sumner. Devastation detectives try to solve dinosaur disappearance. Science News, Vol. 191, February 4, 2017, p. 16.

S. Schwartz. Giant asteroid may have triggered deadly volcano eruptions. Science News, Vol. 188, October 31, 2015, p. 12

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in October 2017

3rd October 2017; bright lights – Karolino Bugaz Bay

9th October 2017; triangle-shaped craft – Thornhill, Canada

late October 2017; unknown lights – Haifa, Israel

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Second Scientist to analyse Nazca Alien mummies says they are REAL

“At first sight, it looked like a normal body but looking closely at every body part we found could find several abnormalities. “For example, the head is bigger, it has wider eyes, a smaller nose, and it has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that a common human…”

The alleged mummified remains discovered in Nazca Peru have created a massive debate among Alien believers, and researchers around the globe.

The scientific community was left awe-struck when UFO hunters and a group of researchers released a statement claiming they had come across the mummified remains of the mummified remains of several alien bodies at an undisclosed cave at Nazca, Peru.

Soon after the statement was made, the scientific community struck the claims and tagged the entire thing as a hoax, saying that the alleged mummies were in fact fabricated, and were never actually discovered.

These comments were made despite the fact that skeptical scientists never took a look at the mummies, nor did they analyze them thoroughly.

Nevertheless, as the scientific community stood up against the mummies, most people recognized they were probably a hoax, despite the fact that Mr. Jaime Maussan—a UFO researcher and journalist from Mexico—and his team provided evidence suggesting the mummified remains found in Peru were not ordinary human beings.

Now, months after the mummies were found and analyzed by independent laboratories around the globe, a second scientist has studied the bodies discovered in Peru and said that they are not a HOAX.

Dr. Jose Benitez, a doctor of forensic medicine, and member of the team studying the alleged mummified remains has made shocking claims about the mysterious remains discovered in Peru.

ALIENS LATEST: New DNA results on Nazca Tomb 'mummified aliens' say they are 'not human'

Benitez is the SECOND scientists to put his reputation at stake by saying that the mummified remains could in fact be aliens or a least a new species we haven’t encountered before on Earth.

The first scientists to make the same claims was Dr. Edson Vivancoa, a skeletal specialist, who concluded after studying the remains, they were not human.

However, DNA results suggest otherwise.

In fact, one set of DNA results found that the mummified remains were 100 percent Human, while other sets of DNA results showed inconclusive results.

Hence the confusion.

Both Dr. Vivancoa and Dr. Benitez are part of the group of researchers led by Mexican Investigative Journalist and UFOlogist Mr. Maussan.

Dr. Benitez has analyzed previous discoveries together with MR. Maussan. In 2015, they examined the images of what some have suggested may be a non-human body, which later turned out to be a mummified child.

Dr. Benitez was recently interviewed by British ufologist Steve Meera, who traveled to Peru to investigate the claims.

“I found a lot of characteristics that make this body entirely different.

“At first sight, it looked like a normal body but looking closely at every body part we found could find several abnormalities. “For example, the head is bigger, it has wider eyes, a smaller nose, and it has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that a common human,” said, Dr. Benitez

“The bone structure is different; it’s wider. There are only three fingers and three toes. These are the most notable distinctions we could find. There are a few more such as the number of finger joints and the nail beds,” added Dr. Benitez.

“The white dust that covers the mummified remains is a special material known as diatom soil. “This soil has a unique origin with extraordinary characteristics. It dries, dehydrates and preserves tissue and also has the unusual characteristic of being an insect repellent, deterring insects.

“For example, the head is more prominent. It has wider eyes, a smaller nose, has no ears. It has fewer vertebrae that an ordinary human.

“Helping the dehydration process and encouraging the natural mummification process.”

All of these conclusions made by Dr. Benitez, and presented in a documentary produced by Steve Meera suggest that the mummified remains found in Peru are anything but human.

“It is essential; we are faced with the try possibility of discovering an organic being very similar to humans but different at the same time. We need to take a step forward to determine what it is and where it has come from,” concluded Dr. Benitez.

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Antediluvian monument? Scientific study says the Sphinx may be up to 800,000 years old

“…it is the sea level during the Calabrian phase which is the closest to the present mark with the highest GES (Great Egyptian Sphinx) hollow at its level. High level of sea water also caused the Nile overflowing and created long-living water-bodies. As to time, it corresponds to 800000 years.

Great, mysterious, almost mystical, shrouded in mystery, millennial, how else would you describe this amazing ancient monument?

It is probably one of the most recognized monuments in the world, one of the icons representative of the power and culture of the ancient Egyptian civilization, cradle, and tomb of pharaohs.

It is ironic then, that the Great Sphinx of Giza is also one of the least understood architectural wonders of ancient Egypt, even though researchers from around the globe have tried to understand when the Sphinx was carved, how, why and what it represents.

An artists illustration of the Great Sphinx before it was completely excavated. 

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But the most mysterious part of the Sphinx is probably its age. Egyptologists estimate that it was sculpted around the XXVI century BC., as part of the funerary complex.

Having a lion’s body and a human head, this strange hybrid being, which we know with the term of the Sphinx, is one of the most striking productions of Egyptian art.

The ancient Egyptians called it Shesep-ankh, “living image,” the name given to the royal statues.

They symbolized the idea of strength and power, and the Pharaoh was generally represented in this form.

This is indicated by the fact that the sphinxes wore nemes— the striped headcloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt.

This ancient monument faces from West to East and stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.

The face of the Sphinx is commonly assumed to represent the Pharaoh Khafre.

The Great Sphinx was created by carving a mound of limestone located on the Giza plateau.

It has a height of about twenty meters and the fact of the creatures measures around five meters. In ancient times it was painted in bright colors: red body and face, and the nemes that covered the head were decorated with yellow and blue stripes.

A man standing on the shoulder of the Great Sphinx. The image was taken in the 1900’s. Notice the size of the monument.

Titled “GEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF DATING THE GREAT EGYPTIAN SPHINX CONSTRUCTION” a study presented in 2008 offers controversial details about the Great Sphinx of Giza, and particularly its age.

As noted by Vjacheslav I. Manichev and Alexander G. Parkhomenko in their study, after all these years of intensive scientific work trying to determine the exact age of the Sphinx, we still have problems coming to an agreement.

“The problem of dating the Great Egyptian Sphinx is still valid, despite the long-term history of its research. A geological approach in connection to other scientific-natural methods allows answering the question about the relative age of the Sphinx. The conducted visual research of the Sphinx allowed the conclusion about the important role of water from large water bodies which partially flooded the structure with formation of wave-cut hollows on its vertical walls,” wrote experts in the study.

“The morphology of these formations has an analogy with similar hollows formed by the sea in the coastal zones. The genetic similarity of the compared erosion forms and the geological formation and petrographic composition of sedimentary rock complexes lead to a conclusion that the decisive factor of destruction of the Great Sphinx is the wave energy rather than sand abrasion in Eolian process.”

“Voluminous geological literature confirms the fact of existence of long-living fresh-water lakes in various periods of the Quaternary from the Lower Pleistocene to the Holocene.”

“These lakes were distributed in the territories adjacent to the Nile. The absolute mark of the large upper erosion hollow of the Sphinx corresponds to the level of water surface which took place in the Early Pleistocene.”

“The Great Egyptian Sphinx was already present on the Giza Plateau by that geological (historical) time,” concluded experts.

Manichev and Parkhomenko are convinced that the Great Sphinx had to hae been submerged for a long time underwater and, to support this theory, they point towards existing literature of geological studies of the Giza Plateau.

According to a number of studies, it was at the end of the Pliocene geologic period (sometime between 5.2 and 1.6 million years ago) that sea water entered the Nile valley and gradually created flooding in the area.

This phenomenon led to the formation of lacustrine deposits which are at the mark of 180 m above the present level of the Mediterranean Sea.

According to Manichev and Parkhomenko, it is the sea level during the Calabrian phase which is the closest to the present mark with the highest GES (Great Egyptian Sphinx) hollow at its level.

High level of sea water also caused the Nile overflowing and created long-living water-bodies. As to time, it corresponds to 800000 years.

Read the entire study here.

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Scientists have just found THOUSANDS of new lifeforms that redraw the Tree of Life

A stunning discovery has just been made by scientists who have found ‘organisms that are different from any other life forms on Earth known to science’.

While humans are the dominant species on Earth, if we take a look at the tree of life, we will notice that we share this branch with a number of different creatures on Earth, who all have one thing in common, a backbone.

This small—yet extremely important feature—is enough to place humans in a group referred to as ‘phylum’ together with dogs, fish, and lizards. This is something we see repeated across Earth’s organisms, and essentially connects all of life’s diversities into one.

A phylogenetic tree of life. Note how small the phylum Animalia — where humans fit in — is compared to bacteria and archaea.

(Image Credit: Adl, Sina M.; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; et al.)

As noted by Futurism, scientists from the  University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia have uncovered an array of thousands of organisms so unique, they don’t fit into any existing phylum.

Their study, published in the Journal Nature Microbiology, experts revealed a new technique referred to as metagenomics, which essentially involves the sequencing of ALL the DNA in a sample of an environment — dirt, water, feces, etc. — to produce that sample’s metagenome.

With aid of an international massive database composed of 1,500 metagenomes, scientists were able to reconstruct the individual genomes of 7,280 new bacteria and 623 new archaea.

Then, scientists came across something totally unexpected. The discovered that out of all these microorganisms, around a third were UNLIKE anything experts had seen before, resulting in the creation of 17 completely new bacterial phylums and three new achaeal phylums.

“The real value of these genomes is that many are evolutionarily distinct from previously recovered genomes,” asserts lead researcher Gene Tyson. “They increase the evolutionary diversity spanned by both bacterial and archaeal genome trees by over 30 percent, and are the first representatives within 17 bacterial and three archaeal phyla.”

“To give this context, every single insect on Earth belongs to just one phylum, and every single animal with a backbone belongs to one phylum, so this is crazy new levels of stuff,” says Nicholas Coleman at the University of Sydney.

Previous scientific studies have estimated that Earth has about 1 trillion microbial species, with 98 percent yet to be identified.

“But this is probably an underestimate, as we’ve recently found that existing methods for estimating this actually miss a lot of organisms,” says Donovan Parks at the University of Queensland in Australia.

References: ScienceAlert - Latest, Nature

(H/T New Scientist) (Futurism)

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Meet NGTS-1b, a monstrous planet that ‘should not exist’

A giant planet, so disproportionate that it should not exist according to the theory of planet formation, has been discovered around a small distant star.

The new research detailing its discovery was presented for publishing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The existence of the monster planet, NGTS-1b, defies the theories of planetary formation that affirm that a planet of this size could not be formed around such a small star.

According to these theories, small stars can easily form rocky planets but do not accumulate enough material to produce planets the size of Jupiter.

However, NGTS-1b is a gas giant; Due to its size and temperature, the planet is known as a “hot Jupiter,” a class of planets that are at least as large as our own Jupiter, but with about 20 percent less mass. H

However, unlike Jupiter, NGTS-1b is very close to its star, barely 3% of the distance between Earth and the Sun, and completes one orbit every 2.6 days, which means that one year in NGTS -1b lasts two and a half years in Earth’s days.

In contrast, the host star is small, with a radius and a mass half that of our sun.

Professor Peter Wheatley, of the University of Warwick, detailed in a statement the complications that this introduced to astronomy:

“Despite being a monster planet, NGTS-1b was difficult to find because its parent star is small and faint “. He went on to explain that “small stars are actually the most common in the universe, so it is possible that there are many of these giant planets waiting to found.”

NGTS-1b is the first planet to be detected by The Next-Generation Transit Survey (or “NGTS”) that uses a series of 12 telescopes to explore the sky.

The researchers made the discovery by continuously monitoring patches of the night sky for months, and detecting the red light of the star with innovative red-sensitive cameras.

They noticed dips in the light of the star every 2.6 days, which implies that a planet was in orbit and periodically blocked the light from the star.

Using this data, they tracked the planet’s orbit and calculated the size, position, and mass by measuring the radial velocity of the star.

In fact, this method, which measures how much the stars wobble due to the gravitational pull of the planet, was the best way to measure the size of NGTS-1b.

Daniel Bayliss, lead author of the study, from the University of Warwick, said:

“The discovery of NGTS-1b was a complete surprise to us – such massive planets were not thought to exist around such small stars. This is the first exoplanet we have found with our new NGTS facility, and we are already challenging the received wisdom of how planets form.

“Our challenge is to now find out how common these types of planets are in the Galaxy, and with the new NGTS facility we are well-placed to do just that.”

Source:

• ‘Monster’ planet discovery challenges formation theory
• Original Study

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This may not be as big as the news that scientists at CERN believe the universe should not exist, but it may be easier to prove. Astronomers using a new array of telescopes in Chile have discovered a monster planet which challenges the previously-held theory that huge gaseous planets cannot exist in tight orbits around tiny stars. Now they’re scrambling to explain this big-planet-little star combo. (Insert “Aliens!” here.)

The latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyannounced the exciting discovery this week – exciting because this is the first big finding using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) whose purpose is to find giant exoplanets orbiting small stars. Baseball fans will recognize this as an example of a rookie hitting a grand slam home run in his first major league at-bat. (This is what happens when big discoveries occur during the World Series.) Its array of fully-robotic small telescopes operate in the 600-900nm band, making them sensitive to bright but relatively small, cool host stars … stars like the aptly named NGTS-1 in the Columba constellation.

The Columba constellation

The shocking aspect of the discovery is the size, composition and location of NGTS-1b – the ‘hot Jupiter’ spinning around NGTS-1. Hot Jupiters have been in the astronomical news recently with the discovery of WASP-12b, a dark giant gas ball that is mysteriously eating the light from its star. If Elon Musk tells you he has no more seats left on his Mars spacecraft but can get you on a trip to a Hot Jupiter – just say “no.”

“The discovery of NGTS-1b was a complete surprise to us — such massive planets were not thought to exist around such small stars. The planet is about 25 percent the radius its host star. This makes is very large compared to its host star! For comparison, Jupiter is only about 10 percent the radius of our sun.”

Daniel Bayliss, lead author of the study, illustrates one of the impossibilities of NGTS-1b – its size. Dwarf stars were not thought to have enough mass of their own to pull together the amount of mass needed to create such monster planets. Impossibility #2 is its incredible closeness to NGTS-1 … NGTS-1b is a mere 2.8 million miles away from its star (Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun) and completes a ‘yearly’ orbit in 62.4 hours or 2.6 Earth days.

NGTS-1b’s size and proximity to its star contributed greatly to its discovery. Astronomers observing NGTS-1 saw it dim every 2.6 days but, unlike Tabby’s star, they quickly determined it was a monster planet and not an alien-built energy-collecting Dyson sphere causing the dimming.

Artist’s depiction of a red dwarf and its planets

If there’s an astronomer’s creed, it is that “If there’s one, there’s more,” so the researchers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile will be using the Next-Generation Transit Survey to find more giant hot Jupiters orbiting tiny cool planets.

If there’s an astronomer’s creed, it may have to be modified to require astronomers discovering monster gas ball planets to yell “Hot Jupiter!”

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Of all the many and varied encounters with the Men in Blackthat I have on record, there is no doubt that one of the creepiest is that of an Englishman, Nev Jacques. Nev told me, just a couple of years ago, that while he and his wife were vacationing in the Canary Islands in 2012 they had a very strange encounter with a mysterious MIB. Nev began as follows:

“Hi Nick, I listened to your show on Coast to Coast, re Men in black recently, the header photo for that gave me some relief! Let me explain. I was on holiday with my wife in Fuerteventura, in the Canaries, November-December 2012. We were walking back to our hotel on a very long promenade walk. It was close to 4 p.m. There were other people milling about. It’s kind of high up on a volcanic rock face, directly at the seas edge and a wide open area.”

Up until that point, everything had been completely normal. That normality, however, was destined to change radically and drastically, as Nev revealed to me: “We noticed about 100 meters in front of us a tall, thin man, at least 6 foot 2 with a big rimmed black hat, round feature hugging black sixties type sunglasses, a long sleeved shirt and a light-colored jumper over his shoulders and long trousers! What made it more strange was his face looked white, as if it was plastered in sun block, (whiter than white). We both laughed and watched him walk towards us. I got the feeling he was watching me, although I couldn’t see his eyes. As he drew closer it became apparent that it wasn’t sun block it was his skin! He had big hands and long fingers, also very white; kind of in front of him, not by his sides!”

There was far more to come. All of it was very weird, which is hardly surprising: just about everything concerning the Men in Black is weird. Back to Nev: “When we where about 5 feet from him I noticed his skin was almost translucent. That’s the only way I can describe it. His sunglasses covered all of his eye area and wrapped around the full socket area. They were round and black. He had a narrow, sunken face, and had a very angular jaw and prominent cheek bones. He looked in his sixties or so.”

Things got stranger…

“When he was passing us he turned his head looking at me and spoke, with a kind of acknowledging manner and said something that I and my wife couldn’t understand or describe as human language. It was high and low pitched all at the same time and very short, that’s the best way to describe it! Strangely, we didn’t look back to see where he went or take a photo. Both of us don’t know why we didn’t. I got the feeling he was watching me from me first noticing him.”

The brief experience was over, but Nev was unable to shake off the spine-tingling effects of that eerie encounter, as he told me: “We got back to the hotel and I could stop thinking and talking about the encounter with my wife. I kept telling her he wasn’t from here, his clothes weren’t right. In fact, he was totally alien in appearance to anyone I have ever seen in my life. I went to bed that night and didn’t sleep much. Every time I tried to go to sleep all I could see was him and I thought about the encounter for the rest of the holiday.”

Nev concluded: “I searched the Internet for all types of albinos that I could find for months after, but couldn’t find a match for him. Then, I found your interview on Coast to Coast and, bingo, the artist’s impression of the Man in Black was him, only without the hat and glasses. It still freaks me out to this day, Nick, We can still not explain it! Kind Regards, Nev Jacques, UK.”

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NASA finds dwarf planet Ceres once had a global ocean - and say some of it could still be there today

• NASA found Ceres' crust is a mixture of ice, salts and hydrated materials 
• Say it shows past and possibly recent geologic activity, and represents most of an ancient ocean
• Second studyfind a softer, layer beneath Ceres' rigid surface crust, which could be residual liquid

By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com

Ceres may have once had a global ocean - and part of it could still remain, NASA has revealed.

The dwarf planet, best known for its strange 'alien spots', is seen as being a record of the early solar system.

Now, the Dawn mission has found minerals containing water are widespread on its surface.

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This animation shows Ceres as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from its high-altitude mapping orbit at 913 miles (1,470 kilometers) above the surface. The colorful map overlaid at right shows variations in Ceres' gravity field measured by Dawn, and gives scientists hints about the dwarf planet's internal structure. Red colors indicate more positive values, corresponding to a stronger gravitational pull than expected, compared to scientists' pre-Dawn model of Ceres' internal structure; blue colors indicate more negative values, corresponding to a weaker gravitational pull

'More and more, we are learning that Ceres is a complex, dynamic world that may have hosted a lot of liquid water in the past, and may still have some underground,' said Julie Castillo-Rogez, Dawn project scientist and co-author of the studies, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

The Dawn team found that Ceres' crust is a mixture of ice, salts and hydrated materials that were subjected to past and possibly recent geologic activity, and that this crust represents most of that ancient ocean.  

Landing on Ceres to investigate its interior would be technically challenging and would risk contaminating the dwarf planet. 

Instead, scientists use Dawn's observations in orbit to measure Ceres' gravity, in order to estimate its composition and interior structure.

Led by Anton Ermakov, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL, the first study used shape and gravity data measurements from the Dawn mission to determine the internal structure an   d composition of Ceres.

The measurements came from observing the spacecraft's motions with NASA's Deep Space Network to track small changes in the spacecraft's orbit. This study is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Ermakov and his colleagues' research supports the possibility that Ceres is geologically active -- if not now, then it may have been in the recent past. 

Three craters -- Occator, Kerwan and Yalode -- and Ceres' solitary tall mountain, Ahuna Mons, are all associated with 'gravity anomalies.' 

This means discrepancies between the scientists' models of Ceres' gravity and what Dawn observed in these four locations can be associated with subsurface structures.

'Ceres has an abundance of gravity anomalies associated with outstanding geologic features,' Ermakov said. 

In the cases of Ahuna Mons and Occator, the anomalies can be used to better understand the origin of these features, which are believed to be different expressions of cryovolcanism.

The study found the crust's density to be relatively low, closer to that of ice than rocks. 

The second study builds off the first and suggests there is a softer, easily deformable layer beneath Ceres' rigid surface crust, which could be the signature of residual liquid left over from the ocean, too.

However, a study by Dawn guest investigator Michael Bland of the U.S. Geological Survey indicated that ice is too soft to be the dominant component of Ceres' strong crust.  

The second study, led by Roger Fu at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, investigated the strength and composition of Ceres' crust and deeper interior by studying the dwarf planet's topography. 

The map overlaid at right gives scientists hints about Ceres' internal structure from gravity measurements. Led by Anton Ermakov, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL, the study used shape and gravity data measurements from the Dawn mission to determine the internal structure and composition of Ceres

This study is published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters

By studying how topography evolves on a planetary body, scientists can understand the composition of its interior. 

A strong, rock-dominated crust can remain unchanged over the 4.5-billion-year-old age of the solar system, while a weak crust rich in ices and salts would deform over that time.

By modeling how Ceres' crust flows, Fu and colleagues found it is likely a mixture of ice, salts, rock and an additional component believed to be clathrate hydrate. 

A clathrate hydrate is a cage of water molecules surrounding a gas molecule. This structure is 100 to 1,000 times stronger than water ice, despite having nearly the same density.

The researchers believe Ceres once had more pronounced surface features, but they have smoothed out over time. 

This type of flattening of mountains and valleys requires a high-strength crust resting on a more deformable layer, which Fu and colleagues interpret to contain a little bit of liquid.

The team thinks most of Ceres' ancient ocean is now frozen and bound up in the crust, remaining in the form of ice, clathrate hydrates and salts. 

It has mostly been that way for more than 4 billion years. 

But if there is residual liquid underneath, that ocean is not yet entirely frozen. 

This is consistent with several thermal evolution models of Ceres published prior to Dawn's arrival there, supporting the idea that Ceres' deeper interior contains liquid left over from its ancient ocean. 

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What does alien life look like? Oxford scientists think the answer may surprise you

Experts are using Darwin's evolutionary theory to predict what aliens may look like.

By Jason Murdock

Using evolutionary theory, Oxford experts say aliens may actually look like humans  iStock

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Aliens may be more like us than we think: study

Scientists from the University of Oxford in the UK show that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes that shaped humans.

 Scientists from the University of Oxford in the UK show that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes that shaped humans.

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US predator drone ‘shot down by alien UFO with ENERGY BEAM’ in baffling video

A US predator drone chasing a UFO was shot down by an energy beam, according to wacky conspiracists.

By Simon Green 

In supposedly leaked “government” footage, the cross-hairs of the predator drone are seen soaring over a mountain range.

It appears to be tracking a small object in the distance in the desert-like landscape.

The mystery craft then disappears around a corner but when the drone follows it, a bright light is seemingly fired directly at it.

The video then scrambles, suggesting the military craft has been destroyed.

Renowned conspiracist UFO Today posted the clip to its YouTube account and claimed that military personnel had told him the “footage seems genuine drone footage”.

YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY

MYSTERY: A UFO allegedly shot down a predator drone with an energy beam

But it’s split opinion among the 160,000 people that have watched it.

“Is that real?” one asked. “Why would they allow this to be released if it was?”

Another added: “They’re finally here, this has to be proof.”

And a third commented: “So obviously edited.”

YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY

MYSTERY: The drone started to scramble when the beam of light appeared

It comes after an alien spacecraft was allegedly spotted in the skies over California.

The saucer-like craft was described as “moving very quickly” by the cameraman.

And a giant glowing orb that was filmed hovering over Russia sent conspiracy theorists into meltdown.

However, it was later revealed to be the exhaust from Vladimir Putin’s recent ICBM blast.

• Knife-wielding man shot in New York City 'after stabbing woman'
• Multiple people shot in Halloween gun rampage in New York City
• UFO hunters on high ALERT after ‘alien aircraft’ spotted in skies

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Is it a bird, plane or ALIENS? Woman spots a UFO hovering over the Great Barrier Reef

• A woman photographed an inexplicably green dot with a saucer-like shadow 
• The figure appeared to drift across the sky, but she didn't see it at the time
• She was photographing with her smartphone after a day at Elford Reef

By Brooke Rolfe For Daily Mail Australia

Evidence of extraterrestrial activity may have been written across the sky in Australia's North East over the weekend, according to a woman behind some 'unexplainable' photos.

Jenny Morrison captured photos of a bizarre UFO-like object appearing to drift across the sky above the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday afternoon.

The Cairns local was photographing the sunset with her smart phone as she cruised back to shore from a fishing trip off Elford Reef, News.com.au reports. 

A Cairns woman captured photos of a bizarre UFO-like object hovering across the sky above the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday

She recalled nothing out of ordinary at the time, but when inspecting her photos later on noticed a strange neon dot surrounded by a saucer-like shadow.

The out-of-place figure seemed to progress further across the skyline near Fitzroy Island with every frame, before disappearing completely. 

'There's this little light, that looks just like a bit of water on the lens,' she said.

'I haven’t edited the photos, or done anything to them.'

The Cairns local was photographing the sunset with her smart phone as she cruised back to shore from a fishing trip off Elford Reef

'When you look through the photos, though, the dot is in the middle of a saucer-shaped shadow thing.'

Ms Morrison likened the 'crazy' sighting to something normally only seen on television.

Far North Queensland has become known for being a UFO hotspot, with 20 sightings recorded throughout the past 20 years in Townsville alone.

Ms Morrison likened the 'crazy' sighting to something normally only seen on televisio

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Electrifyingly GIANT: Futuristic Tesla Towers built and tested in 

This futuristic Tesla Complex can produce enough power matching all power generation facilities in Russia when lightning is discharged onto a platform.

It’s not a massive alien colony. It’s not part of a Hollywood movie set up, it’s not HAARP. What you are seeing here is in fact a massive TESLA tower complex located in a forest outside of Moscow.

Dubbed as the “High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility,” the weird facility belongs to the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute. It was created near the town of Istra, some 40 kilometers of Moscow.

The massive high-voltage testing range was not built recently. It was erected in the 1970’s and it was created in order to test insulator and protect vehicles, aircrafts and electronic equipment against lightning.

This futuristic facility is absolutely stunning, and most importantly its unique. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the world, and its mostly because of its outlandish charging capacity.

According to Rossiya-1 TV reports, at its peak operating capacity, and when lightning is discharged onto an isolated platform, this Tesla-like generator has power equal to ALL power generating facilities in Russia, including thermoelectric, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind power stations combined. However, it can only last for around 100 microseconds.

The massive facility consists of a 3 Megawatt capacity transformer cascade; a 9 Megawatt Pulsed Voltage Generator (PVG), measuring 39.3 meters high, capable of creating 150-meter artificial lightning, believed to be the largest in the world; and a 2.25 Megawatt constant voltage unit.

The facility is one of the most powerful in the world. If not the most powerful. In fact, when the facility is operational, the static charge in the ‘hot zone’ is so massive that the air of anyone present ‘bristles’ reports Rossiya-1 TV.

Here is a video of the facility filmed from a drone:

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ALIENS COULD BE JUST LIKE US—DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION MEANS E.T. WOULD BE HUMAN-LIKE

‘Flying saucer’ photographed over Great Barrier Reef

A WOMAN believes she has snapped a picture of a bright “flying saucer” over the Great Barrier Reef.

Daniel Bateman

UFO Bargo NSW

ARE aliens intent on invading the Great Barrier Reef?

A Cairns woman has photographed, what she believes, is a UFO flying off Fitzroy Island, while she was sailing back to the mainland from a reef fishing trip on Saturday afternoon.

Jenny Morrison was returning from Elford Reef, about 50km east of Cairns, after spending a day at sea with friends, and took a series of photographs of the sunset on her smartphone.

Jenny Morrison photographed this UFO with her iPhone, off Fitzroy Island, on Saturday afternoon. WHAT IS IT????

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When she later examined the photos, she noticed in several of the images, an inexplicable luminous green dot shrouded in a distinctive flying saucer shape.

“There’s this little light, that looks just like a bit of water on the lens,” she said.

“I haven’t edited the photos, or done anything to them.

“When you look through the photos, though, the dot is in the middle of a saucer-shaped shadow thing.

“I don’t know how to explain it.”

Adding to the mystery, the green dot eventually vanishes from the last few photographs in the series.

Jenny Morrison photographed this UFO with her iPhone, off Fitzroy Island.

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Ms Morrison said she did not notice anything with her naked eye, when she took the photos.

“It’s so weird. It looks really real — like something you’d see on TV,” she said.

“It’s crazy.”

Far North Queensland is considered a UFO hotspot, with several sightings of mystery aircraft in the sky over several decades.

The Cardwell UFO Festival, held each October, celebrates the region’s interstellar links by inviting the public to share their experiences of the unexplained.

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U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Force 11 Encounters Unknowns on November 14, 2004 near San Diego – Part 2/3

Posted by: Robert Powell 

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a series regarding Robert Powell’s investigation of this case. Part I, along with alleged video of the event, can be found here.

In December 2016 I submitted nine different Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Navy and the Marines in an effort to establish whether the information on the UFO encounter that I discussed in Part I was real. Here is a link to one of the actual FOIA requests for those that like to see the details click here.

Notice that I never used the term “UFO” in the request as this lessens the likelihood of success because of the negative connotations with the use of that word. This type of FOIA request was made for five different Navy assets that were involved in this incident; a nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz; a guided missile cruiser, the USS Princeton; an F-18 part of a Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA-232); two to four F-18 Super Hornets from a Navy Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA-41); and a carrier based airborne early warning aircraft (an E-2C from VAW-117). Requests were sent to Naval Intelligence, Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Marines Pacific, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Naval Research, Naval Surface Forces in the Pacific, Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Facilities, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Naval History.

By April of 2017 I had received replies on all nine of my requests for information. In every case the Navy replied that they had no information responsive to my request. I appealed two of what I considered the most important of the nine FOIAs to the Navy’s Judge Advocate General (JAG). The first appeal came back denied. In the second appeal, I pointed out to the Navy JAG officers that another appeal denial would would indicate that on November 14, 2004, that they had no records on five different Navy assets. I copied my senators and congressman on my appeal. This time I had success. Although the Navy again indicated that they could find no documents, this time they provided me emails with some very interesting information that establishes the encounter with the unknown craft did occur.

Remember in Part I of this story that the F-18 pilot referred to the objects encountered as resembling the oval candy known as “tic tacs.” JAG provided me an email they received from a Marine Lieutenant Colonel that began as follows: “I am definitely aware of the ‘flying tic tac’! We were aboard the USS Nimitz attached to CVW-11. The CO of VFA-41, CDR Fravor had the video footage on his ATFLIR and several pilots in VMFA-232 saw the video.” Bingo! Not only did this event happen, the video was witnessed by a number of Navy and Marine officers. Is the video the same one that was leaked to the internet? We can’t know for certain but I think if the Navy has done their due diligence then they still have a copy of that video.

USS Princeton, guided missile cruiser, part of Carrier Strike Group-11.

And then a second email was provided to me by JAG from a Marine Major. In that email he states, “MAG-11 (Marine Air Group 11) Operations should have a Point of Contact at the archive to facilitate recovery of these files.” This clearly indicates that the Major would expect the Marine archival group to have copies of these records. And would it not be reasonable to expect that the Navy would have the records archived of such an extraordinary event!

In total, I have the names of nine different Marine and Navy officers who either participated in the encounter with the unknown craft or have direct knowledge of the event. I will again appeal for the actual case files but the only way to really get to the bottom of this mystery is to ask a Congressional subcommittee to get involved. In Part 3 I will give you step by step instructions on how you can help petition your congressman. Please share this story with others on Facebook.

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Aliens Might Actually Be Surprisingly Human-Like

By Rae Paoletta

Most of our ideas about what aliens might look like are frankly pretty absurd, despite having no concrete evidence on a) if there’s anything actually out there, and b) what these hypothetical organisms would look actually look like, even if they did indeed exist. Take the aliens from Signs for example — sure, they look like every other alien in sci-fi, but they’re also fatally allergic to water? Why the hell would they come to conquer a planet full of it in the first place?

A new study from the University of Oxford sheds some light on what extraterrestrial life might be like, and unsurprisingly, it could be more us than the M. Night Shyamalan interpretation assumed. The researchers argue that Darwin’s idea of natural selection might be useful in understanding alien life forms — basically, they suggest “survival of the fittest” might apply to aliens as well. Their findings have been published in the International Journal of Astrobiology.

“In our paper, we offer an alternative approach, which is to use evolutionary theory to make predictions that are independent of Earth’s details,” O’ne of the study’s co-authors Sam Levin, a researcher in Oxford’s Department of Zoology, says in a statement. “This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon based, do not have DNA, and breathe nitrogen, for example.”

The researchers also suggest extraterrestrial life becomes increasingly complex over time, just as species on Earth has become more advanced organisms as a result of extreme events. The evolution of multicellular life roughly 600 million years ago is just one such example of one of these major shifts.

“By predicting that aliens undergone major transitions, which is how complexity has arisen in species on earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us,” Levin says. “Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien. At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning. We can even offer some examples of what these mechanisms will be.”

Obviously, the main drawback of this study is that we’ve never found extraterrestrial life, so any ideas about what they look like or how they behave are extremely speculative. After all, some scientists think the majority of intelligent alien life might not be biological at all — that civilizations on other worlds might have be so advanced they’ve already built robots that can basically just hang out in space.

“The majority of the intelligence in the universe is probably synthetic intelligence,” SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak told Inverse back in October. “So now if you ask where should we point antennas to find that, it becomes a very hard problem. It’s pretty easy to say ‘[Intelligent life] is gonna be biological, living on some world sort of like Earth. But it could be machines just hanging out in space.”

While this new research is certainly exciting, it’s probably best not to get too excited. Or you can go ahead and totally freak out — aliens are pretty fun to think about, and I won’t tell you how to live your life.

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Monster Black Hole Mergers Could Be Hiding in an Unexpected Place

By Rae Paoletta

Black hole mergers are having a moment: Just a few weeks ago, an international team of scientists announced the fourth-ever detection of gravitational waves coming from a black hole smash-up. Now, researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) think they might know where these giant collisions are lurking within spiral galaxies similar to ours.

According to a new study set to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters,RIT scientists claim that the edge of spiral galaxies could have all the right ingredients to host big black hole mergers. Previously, dwarf galaxies were thought to be the best place to look for these massive collisions since they don’t have many stars or heavy metals left over from supernovae. Unfortunately, dwarf galaxies are hard to spot, since they have low luminosity — in other words, they’re not very bright.

The RIT researchers say that the outer edges of spiral galaxies might be similar environments to dwarf galaxies, and — bonus points — they’re much easier to observe.

“The metal content in the outer disks of spiral galaxies is also quite low and should be rife with black holes in this large area,” the study’s lead author Sukanya Chakrabarti, an assistant professor of physics at RIT, said in a statement.

Understanding where black hole mergers come from is especially useful for scientists trying to pinpoint the source of various gravitational waves. Over the last year alone, researchers have developed more sophisticated ways of tracing gravitational waves, and it’ll only get better from here.

Nothing puts your entire life into perspective more than the fact that giant, ravenous holes are colliding somewhere out in the universe. It’s truly humbling — and mildly terrifying.

Ever wonder how the Guardians travel so dang fast? Check out this video about wormhole travel in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, according to a theoretical physicist.

Written by Rae Paoletta

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'GOD MADE ALIENS' Shock theory that UFOs are sent by 'our creator'

UFOS could be a sign from God, according to a shock theory that aliens are connected to Christianity.

ANCIENT CITY DISCOVERED IN MIDDLE OF OCEAN

Mysterious location just off coast of Micronesia

Ancient ruins in the middle of the Pacific ocean could be the remnants of a legendary race or dare we say….Atlantis.

Clips from the Science Channel series What on Earth? reveal images of a mysterious location just off the coast of the tiny nation of Micronesia.

The remote island of Pohnpei is home to the archaeological site of Nan Madol, yet very little is known about the area and the ruins that reside there.

The city appears to be sit on top of a lagoon and consists of a series of canals and large stone walls. 

Studies published by Research Gate show that the complex could date back to the first or second century AD but little has still yet to be verified about Nan Madol.

Images of the site can still clearly be seen via Google Earth.

Via: Google Earth

Last year, FOX News published a report stating that the site could date back to around 1180.

This was after a team of researchers lead by Mark McCoy of the Southern Methodist University in Texas analysed findings on the island.

McCoy is quoted by FOX News as saying:

It now looks like Nan Madol represents a first in Pacific Island history.

The tomb of the first chiefs of Pohnpei is a century older than similar monumental burials of leaders on other islands.

To me, in its prime, Nan Madol was a capital.

It was the seat of political power, the centre of the most important religious rituals, and the place where the former chiefs of the island were laid to rest.

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Images From Above Reveal An Ancient City In The Middle Of The Ocean

Images from above reveal an ancient city in the middle of the ocean

Remains of an ancient city, rumored to be haunted, litter the Pacific island of Pohnpei.

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SFU professor delves into crop circle community

JENNIFER SALTMAN 

When Simon Fraser University professor Paul Kingsbury tells people that he spends his time studying the people who investigate aliens, ghosts, sasquatches and other paranormal activity, he doesn’t get the strange looks you might expect.

“The most common reaction is absolutely affirmation, or that’s brilliant or interesting. I’ve not received a cynical or a dismissive reaction,” said Kingsbury. “I’ve garnered a lot of respect and intrigue.”

Two years ago, Kingsbury, who is a cultural geographer, received a $183,000 grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to study paranormal investigators and their motivations. Now halfway through his project, he has gone ghost hunting, interviewed alien abductees, and attended conferences on UFOs and sasquatches.

His latest research brought him to the south of England, where he took time away from visiting family to attend a three-day conference in Devizes on crop circles. You read that right — crop circles.

A crop circle photographed in southwest England in the summer of 2011. 

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“The crop circle was a new direction in the project,” said Kingsbury. “Like sasquatches, UFOs and ghosts, crop circles are in many ways a very controversial and mysterious phenomenon.

“They are different, though, because they are very tangible.”

Kingsbury said crop circles are a worldwide phenomenon, and even appeared in B.C. almost 20 years ago when 10 circles were spotted in an oat field near Vanderhoof airport in 1998. Three years later, a pilot saw six circles in another field about five kilometres from the Vanderhoof airport.

Kingsbury said the conference was fantastic for his research.

He found that people were less interested in the origins of the mysterious circles — theories includes aliens, aquifers, energy fields or manifestations of divine feminine energy — than they were in their beauty. At crop circle sites, people lay down in the circles, meditating and embracing.

“There’s a great deal of passion and desire among the crop circle enthusiasts,” Kingsbury said. “I think it’s important to understand why there would be so many people spending a lot of time, energy and money on these paranormal phenomena.”

When asked where he thinks the circles come from, Kingsbury said some are definitely made by humans, but there are those that defy explanation.

“I’m open to possibilities,” he said, carefully. “I try to occupy a middle ground.”

His work with crop circle enthusiasts will form part of his research, which will continue for another couple of years. The end goal is to publish three journal articles and a book, but before that he has some other ideas.

Kingsbury plans to work with Vancouver skywatcher Charles Lamoureux, who uses video to document unexplained lights over the city, to conduct research and co-author a paper to be presented, hopefully, at a UFO conference.

Next year, he will go on expeditions with a sasquatch hunter.

He would also like to organize a mini conference in Vancouver to bring together sasquatch, UFO and ghost enthusiasts/investigators.

He will also be taking his six-year-old daughter out trick-or-treating for Halloween.

“We will be in the world of ghosts, aliens and sasquatch,” he said. “They say the truth is out there, and it certainly is on Halloween.”

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UFOs in the Bible? Retired pastor says so

Retired Endwell pastor Rev. Barry Downing was asked if he feels like a modern-day prophet.

Rev. Barry Downing, pastor emeritus of Northminster Presbyterian Church in Endwell is the author of "Biblical UFO Revelations."

(Photo: Thomas Picciano / Correspondent photo)

“No, but I feel rejected. Does that qualify me?” he said with a chuckle.

Since his first book, “The Bible and Flying Saucers,” was published in 1968, Downing has been putting forth an argument that many biblical events may have connections to UFOs. But it’s not been accepted warmly in all circles.  

In a new book just out in September, “Biblical UFO Revelations,” Downing offered an update with words for 2017.

“I believe UFOs are God’s way of saying to our godless culture: ‘I’m back!’ And if God is back, it is time to repent and be glad that the world lives under the umbrella of God’s love, with his angels looking over us,” he writes.

Downing goes on to question whether the church has the “eyes to see, to open the church doors to welcome our UFO strangers, or will we continue to be ‘unaware’?”

“From my point of view … what we have here now in the skies, they’re part of the divine mission,” he said in an interview.

And although he’s never seen an UFO, Downing believes in them.

“I believe by ‘faith,’ in the same way I believe in the resurrection of Jesus by faith. I believe the reports," he said. “Except, I can question witnesses, which is even better than in the case of the resurrection.”

Downing said his cousin once saw a tear-drop-shaped UFO fly slowly over her house on night. He said there was no noise until it stopped, then hummed.

“She said it gave off so much light that, even though dark, she could have read a newspaper.”

Could a UFO have caused the “fire” that never consumed the burning bush in front of Moses?

Maybe, Downing thinks. 

“What is not amazing to me is not that we had a burning bush … we had a talking bush.  A voice came to Moses from the bush,” he said.

The book of Exodus contains lots of material for Downing, including the cloud that moved with the Israelites.

“The cloud of fire moves ... you know … it goes in front of them then it stops and moves some more. After they get to Mount Sinai and build the tabernacle, the house of worship for the Jewish people, it hovers over the tabernacle,” he said.

The cover of his new book shows an image of Moses watching the Red Sea part with a shiny UFO above the waters. An English artist who died almost three decades ago said he painted it for the cover of Downing’s first book, although they’d never made contact. 

Downing also believes a UFO was involved in a more recent event, in mid-October, the 100th anniversary of Fatima. Roman Catholics believe Mary, the mother of Jesus, visited three shepherd children there over several months. Then on Oct. 13, 1917, as perhaps 50,000 or more gathered, the sun seemed to fall from the sky.

“The UFO got in the way of the sun,” Downing said, “causing the earth to seem darker, and this would make the ball of light show up even more where the children were.”

Downing, whose doctorate specialized in the relationship between science and religion, is not without skeptics.

“Church people have trouble with what I’m doing,” he said. “People who’ve seen UFOs have no problem.

“It represents an inversion of the old story of Galileo and the Catholic Church," Downing said, “because in that story, the church authorities were squelching a scientist. What we have here are scientists squelching the religious stories.”

Downing spoke about his new book at the Rotary Club of Endwell earlier this month. That’s the same organization where he presented his first speech about his original book in 1968.

Tom Hranek, a Rotarian who is Roman Catholic, heard Downing’s talk. Hranek is “intrigued by his pursuit about the truth about UFOs, otherworldly beings and how much information may shed additional light on sacred scripture.”

Adding that Downing is facing challenges to his “scholarly pursuit of the truth,” Hranek said, “He may be on the trail of a scriptural/scientific truth that may awaken and bring together folks from spiritual and scientific persuasions.”

Rev. Barry H. Downing

Position: Pastor emeritus, Northminster Presbyterian Church in Endwell.

Author: “The Bible and Flying Saucers” and “Biblical UFO Revelations.”

Residence: Endwell.

Hometown: Delhi.

Family: Wife, Eleanor.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in physics, Hartwick College, Oneonta; divinity degree, Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Associations: Who’s Who in Theology and Science; theological consultant, MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network); took part in History Channel series “UFOs In the Bible” and “Ancient Aliens.”

Niece of Abducted Aunt and Uncle by UFO Seeks the Truth

Kathleen Marden is a leading abduction and UFO author, researcher, and lecturer. Her undisputable educational background in the world of social sciences has shaped her fascination and interest in ufology. Comprehensive research, study, and investigation in alien abduction have interested her that some abductions are not fictional or mere imagination, but real. She believes that Barney and Betty Hill, both her uncle and aunt have reported their experiences of seeing a strange object while out driving in the rural New Hampshire. A woman whose uncle and aunt were at the centre of the most famous yet controversial alien abduction stories for the past sixty years expresses her beliefs that aliens do exist no matter how authorities or some people debunked alien stories since there is strong evidence from such incident.

Mrs Marden was 13 at that time. However, it was years later that she began researching and studying what took place for a biography of the Hills. With some convincing evidence that is being physically added to the weight of the case as claimed by her aunt and uncle in 1961 – where it includes a pink substance on her Betty’s dress and some strange spot marks on the car’s boots. She calls her relatives as reputable and credible witnesses. The Florida-based writer, for the first time, has spoken to the Examiner at the conference in West Yorkshire. She expresses her beliefs on UFOs and the abduction. She claimed to be unbiased when she undertook the investigation. She analysed her aunt and uncle’s statement when they were on the alien spacecraft. She added that her relatives did not want their stories to go public, and it was only revealed when it was picked up by a reporter for a newspaper due to a breach of confidence.

She made it clear that people need to go out from their comfort zone if they felt uncomfortable with the idea that such UFO abduction exists and further added that she is not trying to convince or persuade anyone who does not believe the existence of aliens. All she wanted to do was to separate fact from fiction since fiction has dominated on the stories of her relatives.

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Florida Congressional Candidate Claims To Have Received Instructions From Aliens Telepathically

Florida congressional candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera gave details of her experience with aliens during interviews years ago. In 2009 interview, she said aliens first contacted her when she was seven years old and was instructed through telepathy to visit them in their spaceship.

She said that quartz stones controlled the craft and described the aliens as similar to the blonde female host who interviewed her. She stated there were three aliens, one female and two males, which reminded her of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer in Brazil.

Many times over the years, she claimed that they connected with her again through telepathy and told her secrets about the present and future.

Among these so-called secrets were; Africa is the center of energy in the world, the presence of 30,000 non-human skulls buried in subterranean caves in Malta, and the limestone tourist attraction Coral Castle in South Miami-Dade is an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

She further revealed that these aliens made detailed predictions about people she would meet in her life, including the year, month, and day.

In 2009 interview, she also hinted that aliens told her about ISIS or possibly the Egyptian goddess Isis.

Now, the Florida congressional candidate is trying so hard to be known for her experiences with people than with space aliens. Running as a Republican for a seat in the House of Representatives, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera has faced scrutiny for interviews she gave, detailing her experience with aliens.

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Doctors 3D Printed a Replacement for This Woman’s Damaged Spine

 

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Very strange UFO spotted floating in the sky over Las Vegas, Nevada

A couple captured a really strange unidentified flying object in the sky over Las Vegas, Nevada on October 29, 2017 that has left them baffled.

Witness said:” We were driving and my husband said look at that, what is it?”

“We observed a rectangular shaped object hovering very close to us...it was quite large. As we tried to move closer we took two pictures and then all of a sudden it seemed to change shape somewhat and then it was miles away from us.”

“It looked very small at this point. We tried to follow it but it just disappeared from our sight.” Mufon case file 87715.

Note: Is this odd looking object a real alien spacecraft or is it actually a highly advanced man-made craft used by the military or Intelligence agencies that is far ahead of what the public is generally aware?

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RIP Art Campbell

 by André Skondras

RIP Art Campbell

Art Campbell’s wife informed me yesterday that her beloved husband passed away on October 28. This sad news really came as a surprise to me. I sent her my deepest condolences on her loss.

My email exchanges with Art Campbell have always been very amicable in nature and I’ll always be very grateful to him for the free documentation he has sent me over the years pertaining to UFOs, in particular to his long research re the alleged July, 1947 UFO crash at The Plains of San Augustin and the associated metallurgical analyses of wreckage which was found at the site. For those of you who didn’t know him, I’ve included a link to his website.

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We Can’t Alter The Flow of Time But, According to Physics, We Can Bend It

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DocUFObia by Mars Moon Space TV Raises More Questions Than Answers

DocUFObia

Documentary film producer, Thomas Mickey Jensen of Mars Moon Space TV has released an independent film entitled “DocUFObia”. The film is comprised of video clips from official NASA STS and ISS missions that show strange anomalies in space that appear to change direction and speed. After watching it myself, I must admit.... Something very strange is going on. The film is hosted by Billy Carson, who is an expert host on Gaia’s original streaming series, Deep Space. Billy Carson has also been on may shows surrounding these topics and his research has been used in many documentaries and films. The documentary also features Dollie Indigostar from the UK. Dollie is also the co-host of Social Media UFO’s which is broadcasts live on Wednesdays every week. Leading the pack is Thomas Mickey Jensen. Millions of people have see his research all over the world. His work has made international news many times over and this film is his 5th major production.

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Would you recognise an alien? Scientists suggest that extra-terrestrials may be shaped by natural selection and could 'look like us'

• Previous studies made predictions about aliens based on what we see on Earth
• But in a new study, scientists have used evolutionary theory to make predictions
• Scientists suggest aliens are likely to be shaped by the same processes as us
• They are likely to exist in various complexities, ranging from basic cell-like aliens to aliens with intricate human-like parts  

By Shivali Best For Mailonline

They're regularly depicted in science fiction blockbusters as other-worldly, monster-like beings.

But a new study suggests that in reality, aliens could be more similar to us than thought.

The research indicates that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes that shaped humans, such as natural selection, and that they may even 'look like us.'

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They're regularly depicted in science fiction blockbusters as other-worldly, monster-like beings. But a new study suggests that in reality, aliens could be more similar to us than thought

Researchers from the University of Oxford have shown for the first time how evolutionary theory can be used to predict alien behaviour.

Their theory supports the argument that foreign life forms undergo natural selection, and like us, are evolving to be stronger over time.

Mr Sam Levin, lead author of the study, said: 'A fundamental task for astrobiologists (those who study life in the cosmos) is thinking about what extra-terrestrial life might be like.

'But making predictions about aliens is hard.

'We only have one example of life - life on Earth - to extrapolate from.

'Past approaches in the field of astrobiology have been largely mechanistic, taking what we see on Earth, and what we know about chemistry, geology, and physics to make predictions about aliens.

'In our paper, we offer an alternative approach, which is to use evolutionary theory to make predictions that are independent of Earth's details.

'This is a useful approach, because theoretical predictions will apply to aliens that are silicon based, do not have DNA, and breathe nitrogen, for example.'

Using the idea of alien natural selection as a framework, the researchers addressed extra-terrestrial evolution, and how complexity will arise in space.

On Earth, species have become more complex as a result of a handful of events.

Pictured is a fictitious alien called 'The Octomite' that comprises a hierarchy of entities (pictured is circles, right)

These illustrations represent different levels of adaptive complexity that aliens may have gone through. (a) A simple replicating molecule, with no apparent design (b) An incredibly simple, cell-like entity (c) An alien with many intricate parts working together

These transitions occur when a group of separate organisms evolve into a higher-level organism - when cells become multi-cellular organisms, for example.

Data suggests that extreme conditions are required for major transitions to occur - and the same may be true for aliens. 

In terms of looks, the researchers make a number of predictions about aliens.

Mr Levin added: 'We still can't say whether aliens will walk on two legs or have big green eyes.

'But we believe evolutionary theory offers a unique additional tool for trying to understand what aliens will be like, and we have shown some examples of the kinds of strong predictions we can make with it.

'By predicting that aliens have undergone major transitions - which is how complexity has arisen in species on Earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us.

They're regularly depicted in science fiction blockbusters as other-worldly, monster-like beings. But a new study suggests that in reality, aliens could be more similar to us than thought (stock image)

'Like humans, we predict that they are made-up of a hierarchy of entities, which all cooperate to produce an alien.

'At each level of the organism there will be mechanisms in place to eliminate conflict, maintain cooperation, and keep the organism functioning. 

'There are potentially hundreds of thousands of habitable planets in our galaxy alone.

'We can't say whether or not we're alone on Earth, but we have taken a small step forward in answering, if we're not alone, what our neighbours are like.' 

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A closer look at the first 'alien' asteroid to pay us a visit

What could be the first interstellar object ever seen dropped by and then sped back to deep space. Scientists rushed to study it as it passed.

BY ERIC MACK

It may be the most important asteroid spotted yet, and it's already gone

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It's really rare that we get any visitors from outside the solar system. In fact, astronomers believe they only spotted one for the first time earlier this month when an object that's probably an asteroid whipped by us.

The previously unknown space rock, currently designated A/2017 U1, dropped into our solar system from above the flattish ecliptic plane where most planets, asteroids and comets native to our system rotate around the sun. It then slingshotted around our star and back out to deep space, but not before scientists got a better look at the visitor.

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By looking at the asteroid's trajectory, scientists have determined that A/2017 U1 likely came from the direction of the star Vega and the constellation Lyra. It began a close approach to the sun in September, then swung around the star and passed within 15 million miles of Earth on Oct. 14. Problem is, it wasn't spotted until Oct. 18, when it was already heading away from us.

Still, telescopes and astronomers swung into action to observe the retreating visitor. The Liverpool Telescope in the Canary Islands managed to capture this cool sequence last week of the vagabond minor planet:

What's possibly the first visitor from beyond the grasp of the sun's gravity, captured in one glorious GIF.

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The alien asteroid is interesting not just because of its potentially interstellar origin, but also because of its speed -- it was seen rocketing by us at 15.8 miles (25.5 kilometers) per second. It also turns out to be a little more colorful than the drab gray rocks we tend to picture when we think of asteroids. In fact, NASA astronomer Joseph Masiero says A/2017 U1 is actually red.

The data that scientists were able to grab isn't great and the margin for error is significant, but Masiero wrote up his findings in a brief paper (PDF) showing that the asteroid looks to be largely featureless and red like many objects from the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

It may be hard to get much more data on the itinerant asteroid that paid us such a brief but significant visit. Still, it seems worthy of a better name than just A/2017 U1. I suggest "Red Rama" after its apparent hue and the series of Arthur C. Clarke "Rama" novels that pretty accurately described its journey. (Disclosure: This is not a completely original suggestion. See below.) 

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Alien Planet Too Big To Exist: Astronomers Say Exoplanet Doesn't Belong

New analysis of Kepler data finds 20 habitable worlds 'hiding in plain sight' including a 'frozen Earth' astronomers say could hold life

• One of the finds is KOI-7923.01, and exoplanet with a 395-day year 
• It is 97 per cent the size of Earth, but a little colder similar to a tundra 

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The 'alien tundra: The finds include KOI-7923.01, an exoplanet 97 per cent the size of Earth, but colder that astonomers says could be similar to the Arctic tundra, shown here.

'If you had to choose one to send a spacecraft to, it's not a bad option,' Jeff Coughlin, a Kepler team lead who helped find the potential planets, told New Scientist. 

KOI-7923.01 takes 395 Earth days to orbit its star.

Its cooler temperature is due to its distance from its star and the fact that the star is slightly cooler than our sun.

This means it may be a little more like tundra regions on Earth than temperate ones, but is still warm enough and large enough to hold the liquid water essential to life as we know it, New Scientist said. 

However, the team admits more observations are needed before the finds can be confirmed. 

The catalog was created using a new tool called the Robovetter which automatically analyses Kepler finds. 

'We present the Kepler Object of Interest (KOI) catalog of transiting exoplanets based on searching four years of Kepler time series photometry,' they wrote.

'The catalog contains 8054 KOIs of which 4034 are planet candidates with periods between 0.25 and 632 days. 

'Of these candidates, 219 are new in this catalog and include two new candidates in multi-planet systems (KOI-82.06 and KOI-2926.05), and ten new high-reliability, terrestrial-size, habitable zone candidates'

Earlier this year the Kepler spacecraft has detected 219 new exoplanet candidates – and ten could be habitable. 

In a press briefing earlier this year at NASA's Ames Research Center, scientists revealed the 'most reliable' catalog yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4,034. 

According to the scientists, over 2,300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including over 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the 'Goldilocks Zone' of their star. 

I a press briefing today, scientists revealed the 'most reliable' catalog yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4,034. In addition, the researchers identified a notable distinction between groupings of small planets that could help guide the search for alien life

Of the 219 new planet candidates, 10 are near-Earth sized and orbit within the habitable zone of their host star, the Kepler scientists revealed during the briefing today.

The habitable zone represents a range in which a planet could be the right temperature to host liquid water at the surface. 

With the new analysis, the number of terrestrial-sized candidates in habitable zones has now climbed to about 50, with over 30 confirmed as exoplanets.

The closest candidate to Earth is an object known as K77-11, the researchers say.

It receives just about the same amount of energy as we do from our sun, and is only slightly larger than Earth, at 1.3 Earth-radii, explained Susan Thompson, Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

The latest catalog represents Kepler’s final survey from the Cygnus constellation, and spans the spacecraft’s first four years of data.

Of the 4,034 candidates identified so far, 2,335 have now been verified.

Researchers say the findings could ultimately help guide the search for alien life, offering ‘the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date.’

The latest catalog represents Kepler’s final survey from the Cygnus constellation, and spans the spacecraft’s first four years of data. The Kepler spacecraft has detected 219 new exoplanet candidates – and ten could be habitable

With the new analysis, the number of terrestrial-sized candidates in habitable zones has now climbed to about 50, with over 30 confirmed as exoplanets

'This new result presented today has implications for understanding the frequency of different types of planets and galaxies, and helping us to advance our knowledge on how planets are formed,' said Mario Perez, Kepler program scientist in the Astrophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, during the conference.

In addition to the new exoplanet candidates, the researchers also identified a notable distinction between groupings of small planets, which could help guide the search for alien life.

With the Kepler observations and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers found groups of small planets could be divided among two categories: rocky, Earth-sized planets, and gaseous planets smaller than Neptune.

The finding suggests that – for reasons not yet understood – the universe tends to create rocky planets up to about 75 percent bigger than Earth.

Of the 4,034 candidates identified so far, 2,335 have now been verified. Researchers say the findings could ultimately help guide the search for alien life, offering ‘the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date’

With the Kepler observations and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers found groups of small planets could be divided among two categories: rocky, Earth-sized planets, and gaseous planets smaller than Neptune

And, roughly half of these planets take on small amounts of hydrogen and helium, causing them to dramatically increase in size.

As a result, they ‘jump the gap,’ to become one of the Neptune-sized worlds.

‘We like to think of this study as classifying planets in the same way that biologists identify new species of animals,’ said B.J. Fulton, doctoral candidate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the California Institute of Technology.

‘Finding two distinct groups of exoplanets is like discovering mammals and lizards make up distinct branches of a family tree.’

The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of confirmed exoplanets over the years, with at least 30 planets not much larger than Earth now known to exist in the habitable zone.  

After the fix, Kepler started its K2 mission, which has provided an ecliptic field of view with greater opportunities for Earth-based observatories in both the northern and southern hemispheres

The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of confirmed exoplanets over the years, with 21 planets not much larger than Earth now known to exist in the habitable zone – and, the latest catalog will be the best look yet at possible alien worlds

According to NASA, the new catalog is the result of ‘the most sophisticated analyses yet,’ by the Kepler mission, and will give rise to new lines of exoplanet research.

The Kepler space telescope launched in 2009, in a major breakthrough in the search for Earth-sized planets outside of our solar system that may be in or near the habitable zone of their star.

Just last summer, astronomers revealed they’d discovered 197 new planet candidates, and confirmed 104 planets through the Kepler mission.

The planets, which are all between 20 and 50 per cent larger than Earth by diameter, are orbiting the M dwarf star K2-72, found 181 light years away.

At the time, the researchers led by the University of Arizona said the possibility of life on planets around a star of this kind cannot be ruled out.

The Kepler space telescope launched in 2009, in a major breakthrough in the search for Earth-sized planets outside of our solar system that may be in or near the habitable zone of their star

 In the spacecraft's extended mission in 2013, it lost its ability to precisely stare at its original target area, but a fix created a second life for the telescope

Since its launch, the Kepler mission has been plagued by several setbacks – but, it has still continued to spot new objects outside of our solar system.

In its initial mission, Kepler surveyed just one patch of sky in the northern hemisphere, measuring the frequency of planets whose size and temperature might be similar to Earth orbiting stars similar to our sun.

In the spacecraft's extended mission in 2013, it lost its ability to precisely stare at its original target area, but a fix created a second life for the telescope.

After the fix, Kepler started its K2 mission, which has provided an ecliptic field of view with greater opportunities for Earth-based observatories in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

Because it covers more of the sky, the K2 mission is capable of observing a larger fraction of cooler, smaller, red-dwarf type stars.

• How many exoplanets has Kepler discovered? | NASA
• We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight | New Scientist

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UFO hunters on high ALERT after ‘alien aircraft’ spotted in skies

ALIEN hunters are convinced shocking footage of a set of UFOs flying across the sky are proof the existence of extra terrestrials.

By Christine Younan 

The sighting – which put UFO hunters on high alert – was uploaded on YouTube by the channel SuspectSky.

The footage, which was shot in Rowland Heights, Los Angeles, shows a what could be a small white craft being followed by a larger one moving over a mountain range.

The bloke who captured the footage while driving can be heard saying: “If it is an airplane, it is moving very quickly.

I was driving when I saw it and I had to make a U-turn to come back to see this.

“At first it looked like a cigar shape, right now it looks like it is almost a saucer.”

Some people who commented on the clip were convinced that the sighting was of extra-terrestrial origin.

“It looks like it is almost a saucer”

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One person said: “The smaller object in front of the black one, now that’s not right! It looks like a UFO to me!”

Another wrote: “Too fat to be a plane. The white object might have been a regular passenger plane.

“The black one might have been a UFO.”

This comes after an eerie hole in the sky appeared in Dorset.

People were left stunned after a freaky looking cloud resembled an alien aircraft.

And another giant UFO was filmed hovering in Russian skies which sparked fears of an alien invasion.

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