For just about as long as the UFO phenomena has been around there has been the complimentary anomaly known as the notorious Men in Black. These phantom figures have long been reported to threaten and stalk certain eyewitnesses or those with insider knowledge of UFOs, usually warning them away from sharing what they have seen or know and always freaking them out. Reported from around the world, the Men in Black are typically almost universally described as being individuals, usually male, dressed in black suits or trench coats, often with sunglasses on even at night, mostly at least a bit odd-looking, and always displaying extremely bizarre behavior and mannerisms, and this is a phenomenon which my fellow Mysterious Contributor Nick Redfern has covered in far more detail than I intend to go into here. However, what has always intrigued me are the times when these frightening and creepy specters have actually been allegedly photographed or even filmed, and there are actually a few cases where this has allegedly happened. This is what I plan to delve into here, so let’s take a look.

Perhaps the earliest and best known purported image of a Man in Black comes from 1968, in Jersey City, in the United States, where a UFO researcher named Jack Robinson lived with his wife, Mary. The couple began to notice something strange going on when they would come home to find that their house seemed to have been searched or rummaged through, ransacked even, especially their files of the UFO phenomena, although there was never any sign of forced entry or burglary. Shortly after this, Mary claimed that she began to notice a peculiar stranger dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses lurking and loitering about the area of their apartment, who could sometimes be seen staring up at their window. This was all spooky to be sure, and the creeped out couple told a friend of theirs, Tim Green Beckley, about what was happening. My esteemed colleague Nick Redfern, an expert on the MIB phenomenon and author of numerous books on the matter including The Real Men in Black, talked about this stranger and what happened next in an interview with New Dawn Magazine, saying:

Mary said he had an unsettling look on his face, kind of unemotional and zombie-like. Mary happened to mention this to Tim and Jim, and because the guy appeared three days in a row, they decided to drive over early one morning and see if they could see the Man in Black for themselves. Sure enough, he was there, staring ahead, with the black sunglasses, long black coat, and enigmatic stare.

Beckley allegedly came by one day when the enigmatic man was prowling about and managed to capture a photograph of him before he sauntered off and was gone. Although it is inconclusive to say the least, the resulting photograph is believed to be one of the first and clearest photos of one of the alleged Men in Black. What does this picture show? Is this really one of the Men in Black or just a guy in black clothes hanging out on the street? It is hard to say, and the authenticity of the photograph has been much discussed in UFO circles.

The alleged photo of the Man in Black

Perhaps even more impressive than this is a purported piece of video footage that is said to show two of the Men in Black, which surfaced in April of 2012 from the Aerial Phenomena Investigations Team. The incident allegedly began at a hotel in Canada, when the hotel manager was approached by one of his bellboys, who seemed to be rather unsettled about something and wanted to talk in private. He then claimed that two mysterious men dressed in black suits and trench coats had approached him, and he told the manager:

Something really weird happened here yesterday, and you weren’t here. There were a couple of guys looking for you. Well, this is really hard for me to say, but there were a couple of really strange looking men that were here, and they kind of freaked everybody out, and they were asking questions about you. And I said, “I’m sorry, he’s actually not working today.”

The bizarre strangers were described as being very tall, and of exactly the same height, with very pale skin and generally looking “odd.” It was also noted that they appeared to have the same face, as if they were twins. The bellman claimed that the two strangers had not seemed to really believe that the manager wasn’t in at the time, and proceeded to look around the premises and question other employees, with one other hotel staff member who was approached saying of them:

They asked some questions about you, and they said strange things that I didn’t understand, and they were talking about governments and conspiracies, and none of it made any sense to me, but they were very, very scary. They had no facial hair, none. They had no eyebrows, no eyelashes, nothing. Their hair looked like they had a wig on, like it was attached to their hat, like it wasn’t even real. And the scariest thing, their eyes were so big, and so blue, that they almost hypnotized me a little bit. These men, they didn’t blink. Not once did I see them blink.

The hotel manager was a bit disturbed to hear all of this, but was still skeptical about the whole thing. He claims that he then went through the security footage to check it out and found exactly what had been described, with two strange men dressed in black entering the hotel through the front doors. Is footage this the real deal? If it is not a hoax, then who were these mysterious gentlemen and what did they want? Were these really the legendary Men in Black? We will probably never know.

A still from the footage at the hotel allegedly showing the Men in Black

Even more recent is a case of supposed photographic evidence of the Men in Black that came out in 2014, according to a UFOGrid report. In the report, two witnesses came forward to tell their tale of being harassed by the Men in Black in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the witnesses was identified by the alias Jack Smith, now in his 50s, who claims that he had been relentlessly stalked by a pair of the mysterious entities wearing identical black suits his whole life, which he surmised was due to encounters he had had with the “grey” aliens back in his youth. He says that ever since, he had been menaced by the Men in Black for decades, saying:

They have let me know that I could be found where ever I was. What was said to me was threatening and they have caused me to live in fear a lot of the time. I know the truth. My good, close friends know the truth, as well.

On April 13, 2014, he claims that he and a friend were followed by the mysterious strangers, and that this time he managed to capture them on video staring directly at them. The day had started with Jack and his friend, Jane, going out for some sightseeing and lunch, and they found themselves waiting for a streetcar at the French Quarter’s Bienville Street station near Jackson Square. It was here where they would notice two weird looking men dressed in stuffy black suits despite the hot weather at the time, standing there milling about at the station, and Jane would say of them and their behavior:

I knew something was wrong immediately. They looked like identical twins. They were slim, and much taller than the average person. They were dressed in identical black suits, white shirts, skinny black ties, fedoras, and black sun glasses. They just looked so odd. They were pale, they were stiff, and they moved eerily in unison. They had oblong faces with a thin line for a mouth. Their whole vibe was cold and creepy. (They were) calm, but like how a reptile can appear calm. Twin lizards in suits. They leaned in simultaneously to communicate with each other. Their mouths opened slightly, but they were not talking. They were communicating something to each other, but not talking!

A still from the footage supposedly showing the Men in Black at Bienville Street station, New Orleans

The two strange men apparently waited there and repeatedly stared at Jack and Jane the entire time, but when the streetcar finally arrived after a 20-minute wait, the two men reportedly turned away and walked over to a shiny black car with a foreign license plate. The two then simply got into the vehicle and drove away. Jack had captured some of the encounter on his cell phone, and he would later relate to Jane what he thought they were, and although she was taken aback she had indeed seen it all herself so there was no denying that these were not ordinary people. Eerily, Jack later sent her the video footage he had taken, but Jane’s phone inexplicably deleted it, as well as all of the data on her SD card, which the cell phone company was unable to explain. The mysterious video also supposedly deleted itself off of another friend’s phone when Jack attempted to send it. Jack would finally send it to UFOGrid, telling them:

The thought of giving (the video) to anybody scares the hell out of me because when I tried to share it before bad things happened. The thought of what could possibly happen to me if I did release this…I honestly do fear for my life. This experience is awful. I can’t even begin to explain to you how awful it is. The very thought of stirring things up scares the heck out of me. I hope it can help someone that is struggling in silence because of MIB harassment. Whatever or whoever uses these [MIBs] to keep us in fear to control us, is despicable.

Again, what does this strange footage show? There are certainly men dressed in black visible, but it is impossible to tell if they had anything off about them or if they are really the Men in Black or not. And therein lies the trouble with capturing photographic or video evidence of these mysterious individuals. They appear as more or less human, albeit creepy looking, and any alleged photograph is difficult to assess, as it could very well just be some weirdo in a black suit. There is absolutely no way we can really know what we are really seeing in such images, nothing to mark it as truly outside of the explainable and so banishing such evidence to the limbo of mere speculation and rumor.

Indeed, it has not even really been ascertained just what the Men in Black are actually supposed to be in the first place. They are surrounded by so much lore and bizarreness that it is hard to say if they are agents from some secretive government organization, a freelance cabal with their own inscrutable agenda, aliens themselves, something more paranormal in nature, or simply an elaborate and persistent urban legend. Reports of the Men in Black help matters little, as they are so varied and absolutely riddled with myriad high strangeness. Just what are we even supposed to be dealing with here? To again quote my colleague Nick Redfern, when asked what he thought they were he has said in the past:

My personal conclusion is that there are at least two things going on. There are the government-originated MIB, and there are the weirder MIB. As for the former, I prove in the book (The Real Men in Black) that some can be traced back to official agencies of at least several governments. As for those stranger MIB, my personal view is that they are paranormal. Of course, much of this depends on how we define the paranormal! My personal view is that the MIB may be the inhabitants of multi-dimensions or extra-dimensions that co-exist with ours, and whose role it is to keep us away from the truth about not just UFOs, but a whole range of strange phenomena too. But as for why, that is the big question still eluding us!

Whatever the Men in Black are, they appear to be here to stay, and they invariably go hand in hand with the UFO phenomenon, whatever that all entails. Who they are, how they are linked to such oddities, and what their capacity is may likely be debated forever, but for those who have encountered them they are at the very least very real. While these figures have mostly been confined to the realm of witness accounts, with very little physical evidence, we are still left with these intriguing images. Are we really seeing the legendary Men in Black here? Is there any clue to be gleaned from these images and videos? It is all at the very least a baffling piece of the Men in Black puzzle.

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First they came for our jobs, and we did nothing. Then they came for our board games, and we did nothing.

“They” are AI robots and the board game is chess. An AI robot programmed by engineers at Google was able to learn chess in four hours just by playing against itself. Then it proceeded to demolish the reigning AI chess bot in a 100 game tournament with 28 wins, 72 draws and no losses. If that’s not scary enough, it used moves and tactics never seen in the 1,500-year history of the game. But the most terrifying thing about this AI chess-monster is this … it was developed by Google.

“The ability of a machine to surpass centuries of human knowledge . . . is a world-changing tool.”

No less than Garry Kasparov, regarded by many as the greatest chess player of all time and the grandmaster lost to IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997, says he was more impressed with the victory, learning speed and strategic creativity of AlphaZero.

AlphaZero began (or should we start saying ‘was born’?) at DeepMind, a UK company that was bought in 2014 by Google for $500 million. It was originally AlphaGo, which in 2015 became the first computer Go program to beat a human professional Go player without handicaps on a full-sized 19×19 board. In October 2017, AlphaGo begat AlphaGo Zero, which had the ability to learn the game on its own from the rules rather than from inputting human games. In December 2017, AlphaGo Zero begat AlphaZero, a generalized version of the AI with the same ability to learn games by playing itself.

Hours after it was given the rules of chess, AlphaZero threw down the rook and challenged Stockfish 8, the greatest chess program ever developed. One hundred games later, there was a new champion.

In a paper published in arXiv, the team of developers explain AlphaZero’s secret ability and it is … intuition! Instead of grinding through ever larger numbers of possibilities like most other chess-playing programs, AlphaZero taught itself to test random lines of play and identify and focus on the most relevant ones. This allowed it to examine about 0.1 percent of the possible moves that Stockfish analyzed. As the chess geeks at chess.com point out, there was nothing chess-specific about how AlphaZero learned, allowing it to try moves that chess players (and programs based on their moves and games) would never consider, like using a King as an attacking piece.

The irony in all of this is apparent in the AI robot’s name … AlphaZero plays more like a human than any other chess-playing AI yet learned this with zero human input – just a set of rules and four hours of playing against itself. What other ‘games’ can it master beyond the ability of humans with just a set of rules and a few hours of computing time? Government? Business? War?

Do we really want this kind of power in the hands of Google? Sure, it’s better than Facebook, but Google?

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« Au coeur de l’étrange, OVNI, les nouveaux dossiers secrets »

Depuis quelques temps, le nombre d’observations d’ovnis est en net augmentation et beaucoup se demandent si nous ne sommes pas à l’aube d’une invasion. De plus, nombre de personnes issues des gouvernements commencent à parler de l’existence de dossiers secrets concernant les extraterrestres. Dans ce reportage, vous allez entendre des témoignages plus que troublants sur ce sujet.

Nous commençons ce reportage à Washington, le 29 avril 2013 où plus de 40 personnes de haut rang ont affirmé qu’une civilisation intelligente extraterrestre existait. Stanton Friedman, ancien physicien nucléaire a affirmé que ces preuves existaient réellement. Par ailleurs, John Callahan, ancien responsable de l’agence américaine de l’aviation civile a affirmé que la CIA avait récupéré tous les documents et avait obligé les témoins à garder le silence. Ces différents témoignages sont troublants. Toutes ces personnes veulent que la vérité éclate au grand jour et que les gouvernements arrêtent de nous mentir.

Pour connaitre la vérité, notre enquête commence à Kumburgaz, en Turquie où plusieurs ovnis auraient été aperçus entre 2007 et 2009. Le témoin de ces observations est un gardien de nuit et il a réussi à filmer un étrange engin. Egon Kragel explique qu’on peut y voir un appareil immense. Ces images sont surprenantes. De plus, d’autres témoins ont vu cet ovni et tous accréditent le témoignage et la vidéo du gardien de nuit. Cette affaire a fait la Une des journaux turcs. De ce fait, une enquête a été ouverte pour savoir si cette fameuse vidéo était réelle ou non. Après des analyses très poussées sur les images, tous les scientifiques s’accordent à dire qu’il s’agit d’un engin inconnu et ils le placent dans la catégorie ovnis. Pendant plusieurs jours, le même objet a été vu dans le ciel de Kumburgaz. Par la suite, un ufologue chilien a analysé le film et a mis à jour la présence d’extraterrestres dans ce vaisseau. Encore aujourd’hui, l’ovni turc reste un mystère.

Aujourd’hui et grâce à internet, on trouve ce genre d’image un peu partout dans le monde. Si certaines sont des montages, d’autres sont vraiment troublantes. Pour connaitre la vérité sur certaines vidéos, celles-ci sont montrées à des experts. La première est celle de l’ovni qui est entré dans le volcan Popocatépetl, prise le 25 octobre 2012 et les experts affirment que ces images sont réelles. C’est avec une photo de la Nasa montrant une forme noire sur la lune que les analyses continuent et les experts expliquent que cette forme provient d’un défaut de la lentille de l’appareil. D’autres vidéos leur sont montrées et aucune explication rationnelle ne peut être apportée.

En France, c’est le GEIPAN qui s’occupe de ces observations. Pour la plupart, les scientifiques trouvent une explication, mais une petite quantité résiste pourtant à leur expertise. Celle de l’affaire de la centrale nucléaire de Golfech où une observation a été faite en 2010 fait partie de ces affaires qui restent inexplicables. Le témoin a fait part de ce qu’il avait vu aux gendarmes en illustrant son témoignage par des dessins. Cet homme nous explique que le 6 octobre 2010, au environ de 20h00, il a vu un immense triangle noir entouré de lumières passer tout près de la centrale et à très basse altitude sans aucun bruit. Par ailleurs, il n’est pas seul à avoir vu cet engin et ils ont réussi à le filmer l’engin. Le lendemain, il a fait une déposition à la gendarmerie et son témoignage a été transmis au GEIPAN. Rapidement, ce dernier a conclu que cet ovni était un avion. Pourtant, le témoin est sûr que ce n’en était pas un.

Trois ans plus tard, l’homme a reçu un courrier l’informant que l’enquête était ré-ouverte. De plus, la centrale nucléaire était étroitement surveillée et personne ne comprend pourquoi les vidéos des caméras de surveillance n’ont pas été visionnées au début de l’enquête. Quelques mois après la réouverture de cet enquête, les journaux annonçaient que d’autres centrales nucléaires avaient été survolées par des drones. Pourtant, beaucoup affirment que ces engins n’avaient rien de drones et que leur technologie était beaucoup plus avancée que la nôtre.

Avec ces témoignages, on pourrait penser que les extraterrestres s’intéressent au nucléaire. C’est à partir de 1945, après l’explosion de la première bombe atomique que les apparitions d’ovnis ont considérablement augmenté. Les observations au-dessus de centrale nucléaire militaire ou civile se sont multipliées, comme pour le cas de la base militaire de Malmstrom où en 1967, des ovnis auraient désactivé des lancements de missiles avant de disparaitre. Ce phénomène s’était déjà produit sur d’autres bases.

Si pour certains, les extraterrestres veulent nous exterminer, d’autres pensent qu’au contraire, ils veulent nous protéger de nous-mêmes et de ce que nous pourrions faire avec le nucléaire. Certains témoins affirment même avoir été enlevés par des extraterrestres, comme l’histoire de François Kleindienst. En effet, l’homme explique que le matin du 10 janvier 1998, à Haravilliers, alors qu’il allait rejoindre des amis, il a vu un objet immense et rond passer au-dessus de sa voiture. Par la suite, il a perdu connaissance et ne se souvient de rien. De plus, ses amis qui étaient dans deux voitures différentes ont vécu la même chose. Dans le même temps, plusieurs habitants du village se sont réveillés vers midi alors qu’ils avaient l’habitude de se lever de bonne heure. Quelques temps plus tard, l’un des témoins prénommé Bruno a retrouvé la mémoire et il a affirmé avoir été enlevé par des extraterrestres. Son témoignage est époustouflant et il est difficile de remettre en question son récit, car l’homme a fait partie de l’armée.

Après tous ces témoignages, il est difficile de croire que les extraterrestres n’existent pas. Malgré tout, aucun rapport ne parle de vaisseaux extraterrestres et pour beaucoup, les autorités nous cacheraient la vérité. En effet, beaucoup pensent que les gouvernements en savent beaucoup plus que ce qu’ils veulent bien nous dire. De plus, en 1987 Ronald Reggan a fait une allusion sur une possible menace. D’autres gouvernements ont fait aussi allusions aux ovnis et vont même jusqu’à dire que certains seraient déjà présents sur terre.

Se pourrait-il que l’on nous cache la vérité ? Il semblerait que oui. Je vous laisse profiter de ce reportage édifiant.

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NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens

NASA has set their sights on Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our Solar System, and wants the mission to take place in 2069 and look for signs of alien life.

After reaching the moon (again) and actually getting to Mars, the American Space agency wants to turn mankind into an interstellar species.

Despite the fact that the ‘mission’ does not have a name yet and most of the technology necessary to take us there does not even exist, the projected launch date would coincide with the centenary of the arrival of mankind to the Moon.

NASA is yet to develop the necessary technology to travel to Alpha Centauri in a reasonable time.

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Initially, scientists say that a spaceship which would need to travel at a minimum of 10 percent of the speed of light would be required to get us there.

The Alpha Centauri constellation is located 4.4 light-years away, and even if one-tenth of the speed of light were achieved, we would be able to visit the star system after a 44-year journey, reaching our nearest neighbor in 2113.

This means we need to ramp up our tech game. In order for mankind to really become an interstellar species, colonize other planets and moons, first in our solar system, we need to develop a technology that’s affordable, reusable, and fast. Really fast.

According to the New Scientist, NASA is considering sending tiny laser-powered probes that, in theory, can travel at a quarter of the speed of light. Other techniques under consideration include the use of nuclear reactions, or through collisions between antimatter and matter.

However, there are other options experts will consider. But, time is ticking so NASA will need all the help it can get to make a trip to Alpha Centauri a reality.

Perhaps the best way to start their journey to our closest cosmic neighbor is by developing a technology that would get us to Mars in a matter of weeks, then days.

Getting to Mars, and creating a transportation system between the two planets could serve as a starting point for further technology in development, and it would make traveling to Mars something routine.

As reported by Newsweek, NASA’s revolutionary mission in 2069 will visit Proxima B, a planet that was discovered not long ago and may be a world very similar to Earth. Interestingly, the manager of the Innovation Foundry at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Anthony Freeman called the entire project “very nebulous.”

Proxima Centauri B is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the closest star to the Sun—the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is in a triple star system. The planet—which has been hailed as Earth’s twin in the past—is located around 4.2 light-years from Earth, which makes it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System.

In comparison, the only man-made spacecraft that has reached interstellar space is Voyager-1, which is currently traveling at LESS than 1 percent of 1 percent of the speed of life, reports Newsweek.

IF Voyager-1 had the ability to travel at 10 percent the speed of light, it would make it to Alpha Centauri in about 44 years.

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The Return of the skull-shaped asteroid: Astronomers say it’s coming back in 2018

The return of the “skull-shaped” asteroid: astronomers calculate when the weirdly shaped space rock will approach Earth.

There are strange things out there in space.

Astrophysicists have warned that our planet will have a new encounter with a strange asteroid that strangely resembles a skull.

The object in question is known as 2015 TB145 and possibly formed from the remains of an extinct comet say, experts.

The asteroid measures between 625 and 700 meters in diameter and has a rotation period of 2.94 hours.

Astronomer Pablo Santos-Sanz, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain), characterized it as „a “dark” asteroid, whose reflectance index is «scarcely superior to that of coal.“

“It is currently 3.7 astronomical units away from Earth; that is, 3.7 times the average distance from the Earth to the sun.”

The skull-shaped asteroid “has a magnitude of 26.5, which means it is only visible from Earth using very large telescopes or space telescopes.”

This celestial body caught the attention of scientists and amateur astronomers during its first approach to Earth, which coincided with Halloween on October of 2015.

Animation showing the rotation of the weirdly shaped space rock.

In 2015, the skull-shaped asteroid passed between a distance of 499,000 kilometers of our planet, traveling at a speed of 125,500 kilometers per hour.

During this ‘close’ encounter, astronomers observed the curious celestial body in order to try and gather as much information as possible.

Thanks to numerous measurements, which included observations with the Pan-STARRS telescope located in Hawaii (USA), scientists modeled the course of the asteroid and predicted it will travel passed Earth in November of 2018.

Thankfully, the mystery shaped asteroid will travel noticeably farther from our planet, with an equivalent distance of about 105 Earth-Moon distances, compared to an approximate 1.3 distances when it zipped passed Earth in 2015.

Despite accurate measurements, NASA scientists have warned the asteroid has an erratic orbit, which means that astronomers aren’t sure where it will end up traveling, but they are confident it will miss Earth in the near future.

Users on social networks discussed what would happen if such an asteroid impacted Earth. Some argue that if an asteroid of about 700 meters in diameter impacted our planet it could wipe out entire cities.

Furthermore, if it were to hit Earth, there is a 71 percent chance that it would hit water, and not landmass. Then, a tsunami is our biggest concern. A fireball product of the impact would have an approximate radius of more than eight kilometers. Such a collision would create numerous earthquakes measuring high 7’s on the Richter scale.

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A massive structure, stretching 2.3 light-years at the center of our galaxy puzzles astronomers

The gigantic structure of 2.3 light-years in length near a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A * baffles astronomers.

It turns out that at the center of our galaxy, at around 26,000 light years from Earth, lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *, four million times more massive than the Sun.

This cosmic monster is not the only one lurking in that region of space.

Astronomers have discovered another gigantic structure located in close proximity, which measures a stunning 2.3 light-years across.

While astronomers have absolutely no clue what it is, they’ve managed to snap a pretty good picture of the ‘structure.’

In 2016, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University reported the discovery of an unusual ‘filament’ near the center of the Milky Way.

Now, a year later, another team of astronomers has used a state-of-the-art technique to produce the highest quality image of this mysterious structure.

“With our enhanced image, we can now follow this filament much closer to the Galaxy’s central black hole, and it is now close enough to indicate to us that it must originate there,” said Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the study.

A radio image from the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array showing the center of our galaxy. The mysterious radio filament is the curved line located near the center of the image, & the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is shown by the bright source near the bottom of the image.

Image Credit: NSF/VLA/UCLA/M. Morris et al.

“However, we still have more work to do to find out what the true nature of this filament is.”

Despite the fact that astronomers aren’t sure what it is, there are three main theories.

The first is that the massive structure is the product caused by high-velocity particles ejected from the supermassive black hole.

A black hole can produce a vertical rotating magnetic field tower that approaches or even coils in the event horizon, the point of no return for approaching matter.

Within this structure, particles would accelerate and produce radio emissions as they spiral around the lines of the magnetic field and away from the black hole.

Another possibility is that the strange filament is a cosmic chain of theoretically not yet detected objects, that are long and extremely thin and transport mass and electrical currents. Pretty awesome, right?

Previously, scientists had predicted that the cosmic strings, if they existed, would migrate to the centers of galaxies.

If the string moves close enough to the black hole, it can be captured when a part of the string crosses the event horizon.

The third theory is that the position and direction of the filament that lines up with the black hole are just coincidental overlaps, and there is no real association between the two. Basically, there’s nothing there.

This would imply that this structure is similar to dozens of other known filaments that are farther from the center of the galaxy.

However, such a coincidence is quite unlikely to happen by chance say astronomers.

“Part of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to explain,” said co-author Jun-Hui Zhao of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “While we don’t have the answer yet, the path to finding it is fascinating. This result is motivating astronomers to build next-generation radio telescopes with cutting-edge technology.”

Source: Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole

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Astroboffins say our Solar System could have – wait, stop, what... the US govt found UFOs?

Forget the supernovae, what's this about alien alloys?

Our Solar System may have been born from bubbles of material hurled from a colossal Wolf-Rayet-type star, according to a theory published Friday.

Scientists studying the origin of our system generally believe – no, wait, sorry. Stop. You know 2017 has been a bonkers year when the New York Times reveals a classified $22m US military program to investigate UFOs – complete with grainy videos of possibly alien spacecraft and claims of finding out-of-this-world alloys – and no one blinks an eye.

Did you miss that report? Quite a few people did. It came out on Saturday. And everyone was distracted by politics, hackers, longing looks at 2018, Christmas shopping, we dunno. Just letting you know.

Where were we? Oh yeah. The Solar System. Scientists generally believe our system formed near a supernova – an exploding dead star that emits shockwaves of energy and a shower of elements that kickstart the formation of a new star. As one of these protostars matures, leftover material in the shape of a disc clumps together to create planetesimals and eventually planets. That's pretty much how boffins think our system was created.

Now, however, a bunch of physicists reckon – look, OK. Sorry. Very cool research, but time out.

This New York Times story. It was written by a couple of Pulitzer Prize winners and one of their colleagues. It feels like it should be significant, but, what are we dealing with here? Blurry video and audio recordings of UFOs spotted by pilots in Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets. Is it just... bollocks, or what? This particular program was scrapped in 2012 after five years. Is it a convenient cash cow for aerospace research companies? Oh sure, we'll take a look at these UFOs, here's our not inconsiderable invoice.

On the surface, this NYT exposé looks exciting, but, just, what exactly was proven by Uncle Sam's classified probe into UFO sightings – anything? The videos look like a bug got stuck on the Navy jets' sensors.

Right, sorry. Real science. Focus. So, these physicists have put forward an alternative scenario for the formation of our Solar System, describing it in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal this week.

They point out that our system has an abundance of aluminum-26 and not a lot of iron-60 compared to the rest of the Milky Way galaxy. If the system was formed from a supernova, it would have a relatively rich amount of both isotopes, yet like a pale nerd, it is iron deficient.

Vikram Dwaradas, coauthor of the paper and a research associate professor in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago in the US, said supernovae release both aluminum-27 and iron-56. So “it begs the question of why one was injected into [our] Solar System and the other was not."

Hold that thought. Speaking of metals, these mysterious, unknown alien alloys the US government apparently found. It's freaking some people out. We're obviously not talking machined metal, right? Actual alien spacecraft parts landing on Earth. A fucking wing fallen off the back of an intergalactic lorry. No way. Where's the mass panic? No one's batting an eyelid. These alloys have got to be just rocks from space. Flecks of metal from another corner of the galaxy littering our planet. Sorry, it's just too distracting right now.

OK, focus. Actual proper peer-reviewed science.

This lack of iron isotope in our Solar System. The physicists have turned to Wolf-Rayet stars for an answer. These are gigantic hot stars, and are more than 40 times the size of our Sun. As they burn, they produce copious amounts of elements that are spewed across space via a powerful stellar wind.

The key thing here is that Wolf-Rayet stars create lots of aluminum-26 and little iron-60, and their output is therefore a close match to the conditions at the early stages of our Solar System.

So, forget a dramatic supernova. A Wolf-Rayet star likely kickstarted and fueled our system, and is responsible for the nonsense world we live in now, according to this study.

The stellar wind sends ripples through the Wolf-Rayet star’s surrounding debris, causing dense shells of material to form around bubble-like structures. Nicolas Dauphas, coauthor of the paper and a professor of geophysical sciences also at the Chicago uni, said "the shell of such a bubble is a good place to produce stars."

The dust and gas within each sphere can be compressed to form stars. The researchers estimated that between one per cent to 16 per cent of all Sun-like stars could be forged in these environments.

"The idea is that aluminum-26 flung from the Wolf-Rayet star is carried outwards on grains of dust formed around the star. These grains have enough momentum to punch through one side of the shell, where they are mostly destroyed – trapping the aluminum inside the shell," Dwarkadas explained.

The shell collapses inward due to gravity over time, ultimately forming a solar system. The Wolf-Rayet star that may have been our stellar nursery would have burned out and died long ago. The researchers argued that even if it ended its life as a supernova, the iron-60 may not have penetrated the walls of the bubbles nor be equally scattered through the surrounding space. If it collapsed into a black hole, it would also have produced small amounts of iron-60.

Suddenly, the notion that there are alien metals on Earth and all around us in space isn't so crazy. We are all made of stars. Merry Christmas. Now, where's our $22m? ®

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That ain't Santa: Sudbury UFO researcher shares the year's best sightings

There is overwhelming evidence that we are being visited by aliens, says Greater Sudbury's resident UFO researcher and webmaster of noufors.com. Michel Deschamps shares some of this year's sightings. (Supplied)

USA : Un Marine décrit sa rencontre rapprochée avec un OVNI en 2004

Un pilote de chasse américain a décrit une rencontre terrifiante qu’il a eu avec un OVNI au-dessus de l’océan Pacifique.

David Fravor était l’une des quatre personnes envoyées dans deux avions de combat pour surveiller un objet volant non identifié après que celui-ci ait été repéré par ses supérieurs sur le porte-avions USS Nimitz en 2004.

Il a dit que cet engin mystérieux faisait littéralement mousser la mer et pouvait radicalement changer de direction à volonté. Cette scène s’est passée au large de la côte de San Diego aux Etats-Unis.

Fravor raconte :

« Il n’avait pas d’ailes. Alors nous avions pensé que c’était un hélicoptère, mais il n’y avait pas de souffle du rotor visible dans l’eau. De plus, quand les hélicoptères se déplacent d’un côté à l’autre, ils ralentissent, puis accélèrent dans l’autre sens. »

« Il était extrêmement brusque, comme une balle de ping-pong qui rebondit contre un mur et qui frapperait et irait dans l’autre sens et changerait de direction à volonté. »

« Ensuite, il était capable de planer au-dessus de l’eau, puis de commencer une montée verticale de zéro jusqu’à environ 12 000 pieds, puis d’accélérer en moins de deux secondes et de disparaître. C’est quelque chose que je n’ai jamais vu dans ma vie. »

Fravor est convaincu qu’il ne s’agissait pas d’un ballon météo ou d’une fusée éclairante.

Il a ajouté :

« Il est facile de décrire ce que nous ne pouvons pas expliquer et ce n’est pas le premier récit de personnes voyant un OVNI. »

« Dans cette situation, il y avait quatre personnes, tous avaient les yeux rivés dessus, et nous avions tous de l’expérience … moi-même j’avais eu plus de 16 ans de vol. »

Les séquences publiées par une « source inconnue » cette semaine nous montrent cette rencontre inexplicable.

L’un des autres pilotes, Chris Mellon, a déjà décrit cette rencontre. Il a dit :

« Imaginez que nous participions à un exercice d’entraînement de routine lorsqu’un aéronef non identifié est apparu sur le radar et se dirigeait directement en direction du groupement tactique. »

« Cet engin n’avait pas de transpondeur et ne répondait pas aux appels radio. »

« Le Princeton a alors contacté deux F-18 déjà en l’air pour intercepter la cible. Alors que les deux F-18 s’approchaient, les quatre aviateurs ils ont remarqué que l’objet n’avait ni d’ailes ni d’échappement. »

Source: Daily Star, traduction par Activité Paranormale

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This Seriously Creepy Asteroid Is Coming Back To Earth For Round Two

By Rae Paoletta

As I’ve said before, there’s nothing more both goth than space, and the universe constantly reminds us . On Halloween in 2015, a spooktacular asteroid called 2015 TB145 whizzed by Earth at a distance of 30,200 miles (486,000 km). Apparently, this freaky-looking space thing will be visiting us again next year.

The so-called “Halloween Asteroid” is only about 2,300 feet wide. Though astronomers first spotted it a few years ago, only recently did scientists at the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico notice the asteroid’s more chilling qualities. In certain lights, it resembles a human skull, which is astonishingly on-brand for a “Halloween asteroid.”

Researchers studying the asteroid published their new findings in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics back in February.

“It is an Apollo-type near-Earth asteroid (NEA),” researcher Pablo Santos-Sanz from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) said in a press release. “The proximity of this small object meant greater brightness, so we decided to study it using various observation techniques: on the one hand, we used optical telescopes from the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada, the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería and the La Hita Observatory in Toledo; and on the other, we analysed it in the mid-infrared using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) VISIR instrument at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Cerro Paranal, Chile”.

When the Halloween Asteroid makes its next pass near Earth, it’ll be even fartheraway than it was back in 2015 — this time, it’ll be about 105 lunar distances from us. And it won’t even be stopping by for Halloween — researchers say it’s expected to visit in November 2018.

Still, that doesn’t mean 2015 TB145 won’t come back for Halloween ever.

“The next slightly more exciting encounter will be around Halloween’s day in the year 2088, when the object approaches Earth to a distance of about 20 lunar distances,” researcher Thomas G. Müller from the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, said in a statement. “The encounter on Halloween’s day 2015 was the closest approach of an object of that size since 2006, and the next known similar event is the passage of 137108 (1999 AN10) on August 7, 2027. Later, 99942 Apophis will follow on April 13, 2029 with an Earth passage at approximately 0.1 lunar distances.”

Scientists will continue to monitor this strange asteroid as it makes its way back to Earth. Clearly, this is no phony goth — and it’s NOT A PHASE, MOM.

SpaceX's Jaw-Dropping Rocket Launch Wows Spectators Across Southern California - PART I

Tariq J. Malik @tariqjmalik

My 9 yr old's @SpaceX launch moment: 'That is beautiful!

 #Iridium4 @SPACEdotcom

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My daughter wasn't alone in her awe. Observers across Southern California, and even as far away as Arizona and Tijuana, Mexico, reported stunning views of the launch.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chimed in with a joke: "Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea," he wrote in a video post of the launch on Twitter.

Elon Musk

✔@elonmusk

Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea

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Scroll down to see more spectacular views of the launch shared by observers.

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Garrett Reisman

✔@astro_g_dogg

What an awesome launch! Here”s the view from the top of@SpaceX in Hawthorne. Hope all of you in LA enjoyed the show!

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Amanda@alias_amanda

Here’s the video. #spacex #IridiumNEXT

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I told you it would be spectacular #SpaceX #Iridium4

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Mehmet Akcin@mhmtkcn

The view of @SpaceX from @Disneyland in Anaheim. Amazing. Feels like a dream @elonmusk #spacex

3:52 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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SpaceX's Jaw-Dropping Rocket Launch Wows Spectators Across Southern California- PART II

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Doug Ellison@doug_ellison

Big wow. 4K from my Mavic Pro over Alhambra CA of the SpaceX Iridium 4 launch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE5C3O71Xqo … - µ

Rocket shows up at 42 seconds.

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#Falcon9 launch from north San Diego county (San Marcos) along SR-78. Video sped up 8x. 

@CBS8 @nbcsandiego@10News @KUSINews @sdut pic.twitter.com/WemHQbNUck

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Danny Sullivan

✔@dannysullivan

Here's my video of tonight's @SpaceX launch as it shot over SoCal, compressed to 20 seconds. Such a great sight to see. #SpaceX

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Apu Gomes@gomesapu

Tonight I saw a weird light in the sky in Los Angeles. Minutes later The LAFD issued an advisory that the "mysterious light in the sky" was from a rocket launch.
The @spacex 's Falcon 9 rocket lighted up the sky as it carries 10 Iridium satellites from California to Earth's orbit

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Robert VandenHeuvel@computerguySFV

@SpaceX launch as seen from Simi Valley, CA. Note booster and vehicle visible...

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Uno TV

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Usuarios reportaron extrañas luces en el cielo de #Tijuana; en realidad se trató del lanzamiento de un cohete espacial de @SpaceX en #California. : @MortizLH

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Wow! What a spectacular @SpaceX launch view from the I-5 Freeway! #Iridium4

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Enjoy those awesome views? We'll try to share more as readers send in images, but SpaceX says its rocket launch shows will only get better.

In one last Twitter post, Elon Musk promised even more spectacular views when SpaceX's new heavy-lift rocket — the Falcon Heavy — begins launching in 2018. That rocket consists of three first-stage boosters, each of them based on the Falcon 9 first stage, that will separate and return to Earth much like the booster seen in Friday night's launch.

"If you liked tonight's launch, you will really like Falcon Heavy next month: 3 rocket cores & 3X thrust. 2 cores return to base doing synchronized aerobatics. 3rd lands on droneship," Musk wrote.

The first Falcon Heavy test flight will launch in January from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying Musk's midnight cherry red Tesla Roadster into space (no really, here are the photos).

So keep your eyes peeled in 2018!

Editor's note: If you captured an amazing photo of video of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch and would like to share it with Space.com for a story or gallery, send images and comments in to: spacephotos@space.com. This story was updated at 10:42 a.m. EST to include the video and comments by Michelle Snyder from Coronado, California.

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Is this the REAL TRUTH about UFOs? Shock theory on where they actually come from

UFOs are REAL but are not what you thought they were, according to a shock new theory.

All unidentified flying objects seen over the past 70 years were secret Government experimental craft, according to an expert in the unexplained who researched the subject.

Author Mark Pilkington said agencies like the CIA in the USA were behind a huge double bluff, and were happy the public believed they were alien craft as it took the heat off the top-secret projects that were really going on.

The British author claims the strange craft sighted around the world really do exist – but they are not aliens.

Flying saucers and unidentified aircraft are actually secret technology being developed mostly by the US, he claims.

Mr Pilkington claimed a shadowy organisation he dubbed “mirage men” were behind the global double bluff, Dailystar.co.uk reports.

He has produced a new documentary of the same name he boasted exposes the truth behind UFOs.

He claimed the secrecy all started with the Roswell UFO mystery of July 1947.

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In the early 1950s the US military was testing a lot of new technologies and it was convenient to disguise them as UFOs.

Mark Pilkington

Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a mysterious top-secret military base.

There have been claims and counter claims, including that the bodies were crash test dummies and it had been a top-secret balloon spying on the Russians.

All the confusion means it is one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories to this day.

Mr Pilkington claims Roswell is one of the “most famous examples” of the work of the mirage men.

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He told Sputnik: "In the early 1950s the US military was testing a lot of new technologies and it was convenient to disguise them as UFOs.

"It was a double bluff."

Mr Pilkington added the US Air Force found people were more easily accepting of rumours about UFOs and aliens than any other explanation of the secret aircraft.

Mr Pilkington is not the first researcher to propose that some UFOs are secret spy craft, but he appears to be the first to suggest they all are.

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'UFO' spotted over California sparks fear of 'alien invasion' during SpaceX launch

ELON Musk has launched his Falcon 9 rocket in the final mission of the year which has been captured in dramatic footage.

Sprawled out over 3,000 square miles of Eastern California near the border with Nevada, in the United States, is the arid moonscape of Death Valley. With some of the highest land temperatures ever recorded on earth, this is a searing, parched, and forbidding land, a place that is at times seemingly as inhospitable and as some far away lifeless planet, and one well deserving of the name “Death Valley.” It a hostile environment, in a world unto its own, that one would not imagine to be inhabited by anything at all, let alone ghosts, but Death Valley certainly has its share of strange stories of the paranormal.

Many of the tales of ghostly occurrences in Death Valley revolve around certain places lying out in these badlands that have a dark history of death, and one of these is a long abandoned ghost town out in the middle of nowhere. In the early 1900s, this area of California was in the middle of a gold rush, with droves of miners from all over pouring through the unforgiving desert landscape on mad dash towards their dreams of gold and riches beyond their wildest dreams. To cater to these miners there were scattered camps built out in the harsh environment, and some of these evolved into small towns. One of these was the mining camp of Skidoo, which started as a humble hodgepodge of tents and shacks, but which by the height of its prosperity in 1907 had bloomed into a town of 700, complete with its own bank, saloon, general store, school, newspaper, and brothel.

Death Valley

In 1908 there was a deputy in town by the name of Joe Simson, also called “Hooch” due to his notorious and shameless consumption of alcohol. The story goes that he one day got hopelessly drunk and ordered a bank teller named Jim Arnold to hand over $20 for unclear reasons. At some point his gun went off, supposedly because he felt offended by Jim’s attitude, and killed the teller. Joe was soon arrested, but as he sat in jail he was forcefully rounded up by the enraged townsfolk, who had formed a roiling vigilante lynch mob, and hung the criminal up from a telephone pole, where they left his dead body swinging in the wind.

Apparently, after they finally took the body down and buried it a reporter from LA came through and they exhumed the corpse to hang up once again so that he could take a photo. One gruesome addition to the story and further violation of the corpse is that a local doctor wanted to test the body for any signs of syphilis, and rather than simply take a blood sample he had the whole head cut off to test that. Although Joe Simpson is long quite dead, he seems to have never really left Skidoo. It is reported that every year on the anniversary of the shooting a phantom gunshot can be heard to crack out over the dry desert air, followed by the disembodied shouting of a spectral mob, and Joe’s headless ghost is also said to roam about at night, especially near the location of the town’s cemetery. Although like most ghost towns in Death Valley Skidoo has crumbled to dusty abandoned ruins and deserted roads, it still brings in curiosity seekers and paranormal investigators hoping to see some sign of ghostly activity.

By far the most famous of Death Valley’s supposedly haunted hotels is the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, located right out in the sun scorched wasteland at the tiny speck of a town called Death Valley Junction, which was once called Amargosa. The quaint little hotel is notable for its improbable location out in one of the harshest environments on earth, for being featured in the David Lynch film Lost Highway, and also for its alleged intense paranormal activity. The hotel itself was built by the Pacific Borax Mining Company in the 1920s, as a part of the burgeoning mining community there, and there was also established the Death Valley Railroad, which operated from Ryan, California to Death Valley Junction. The settlement of Amargosa began to boom, and became a sort of hub for the other outlying mining communities in the area, spurring the construction of the hotel. Originally called Corkhill Hall, the Spanish Colonial style building was envisioned as a hotel, theater, recreation hall, and office building all rolled into one to serve the steadily growing population.

The Amargosa Opera House and Hotel

In 1927 the mining company moved its headquarters, closed the railway line, and left the town to fend for itself, which it did by eking out an existence as a tourist destination. In 1967, an artist, singer, dancer, and actress by the name of Marta Becket and her husband came across the town after going there to seek repairs for a flat tire they had suffered out on the highway during a tour of the country. She soon became rather enamored of the historical architecture of the town, especially its Corkhill Hall, which her and her husband would end up renting and renaming the Amargosa Opera House. Considering that there were few customers to come and see her shows, Becket began painting audiences on the walls, made up of all manner of colorful figures, as well as a sprawling mural on the ceiling, and the theater began to turn into quite the curiosity. Becket has owned and operated the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel ever since.

More than this colorful history the hotel is more famous for being incredibly haunted, indeed often popping up on lists of the most haunted hotels in the country. There are several different apparitions and ghost infested sections of the hotel. One area that seems to experience some of the most intense activity is an area that was once used as miners’ quarters, as well as a hospital and morgue, called “spooky hollow.” Here visitors and staff alike report phantom smells and the presence of the ghostly apparitions of miners, still wearing their old fashioned attire and shambling about in the murk. Another notorious haunt is a building at the rear of the hotel that is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a little girl who drowned in the pool there. In the vicinity of this building can allegedly be heard a disembodied girl’s voice giggling, or conversely crying, and objects are seen to move on their own.

The opera house is also said to be haunted, with Becket saying that she has long had her performances interrupted by the appearance of a spectral cat, and the ghostly apparition of her former partner, Tom Willet is sometimes spotted sitting in one of the theater’s seats. Odd noises and whispering voices when no one is around, as well as shadows dancing on the stage are also common. The hotel’s dining room apparently has spectral dinner parties with laughter and the clinking of glasses from invisible guests, as well as the high pitched voice of a woman talking.

Amargosa Opera House and Hotel theater

Several of the rooms of the hotel are said to have persistent paranormal activity as well. In Room 9 guests have reported having their arms or feet held down as they sleep, the doors open and close on their own, and the creepy laughter of a child also sometimes materializes here. Room 24 is supposedly inhabited by the ghost of a girl who drowned in the bathtub, and she is known to leave mysterious wet footprints and to cry at night, as well as to turn the shower or faucet on or off. More sinister is room 32, which according to lore was the scene of a murder and in which there dwells a purportedly angry, malevolent presence known for pushing, shoving, and pervading the air with an unbearable sense of dread and foreboding. Other general strangeness reported from around the hotel and its grounds are phantom screams from nowhere, the sound of children’s footsteps running up stairs or down halls, roving cold spots, and even sightings of full entities in period clothing. There is also a phantom hitchhiker said to hand out along the nearby road and unlock vehicle doors to let himself in.

Another supposedly haunted hotel in Death Valley is the Furnace Creek Inn, also built by the borax mining company in its heyday, and which managed to remain open and popular even after the company pulled out of the area. The hotel is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a chef named James Marquez, who worked there from 1959 to 1973. Although he did not actually die at the hotel, his ghost is still said to sometimes show up for work, wandering around the kitchen and dining halls and startling guests and staff.

There are other haunted buildings in Death Valley as well, including a place that has come to be known as Scotty’s Castle. This mansion was built in 1922 as an opulent vacation home for the actor Walter Scott, who lived there with his beloved dog until he passed away in 1954. Both Scott and his dog were buried in the nearby foothills and it seems that they have never really left their dream home. The most widely reported strange phenomena here are the sounds of footsteps when no one is there, as well as the disembodied panting or barking of a dog and the feeling of having a dog brush up against one’s legs.

Scotty’s Castle, Death Valley

The spectral figure of Scott is often seen sitting in the fireplace room or standing on the grand staircase, where he will gaze at visitors before vanishing, and there are other reports of other less definable apparitions. It is also said that visitors are plagued by sudden panic attacks or inexplicable despair, as well as an itching, tingling sensation that persists until they leave the premises. Perhaps Scott does not like trespassers? The surrounding property itself is said to be prowled by a “satanic” looking humanoid creature with horns on its head that can be seen stalking about and peering out of the wilderness.

There is another unrelated story told by Scott’s friend Bill Keyes in the Dec. 21, 1907 issue of the The Bullfrog Miner. Keyes claimed that he had been out prospecting for gold near the town of Rhyolite when he stopped at a well-known desert oasis called “Tule Holes” to load up on water and camp out for the night. During the night he reported that he had heard all manner of eerie noises coming from the dark such as moaning and other less identifiable sounds, and he also spotted strange orbs of light bobbing about out in the desert, their light the only illumination out in the pitch black. Strangest of all, he reported that when he had finally gotten to sleep he had awoken to find that he was 500 feet away from his campsite, and that there were marks in the earth that suggested he had been dragged through the desert.

In more modern times there is the report of a bizarre encounter that was posted on Reddit and is really hard to classify. The witness claims that he was out dirt bike riding in the desert during an adventure trip to Death Valley in the summer of 2015 while on leave from being stationed in Africa in the Army. He says that he was trying to challenge himself out there in the hottest place on Earth at the hottest time of the year, and that the temperature at the time was 120 degrees, meaning that he had not seen anyone else out there all day. On this day he had been heading towards a place called Ubehebe Crater, and had only seen one car pass going the other way, and when evening came he stopped halfway between there and RaceTrack Playa to camp for the night.

Death Valley

He described the area as being very remote, only accessible through a small, unmaintained gravel road and dotted with desert scrub. During the night, the silence was allegedly broken by the unmistakable sound of children’s laughter and talking, which was startling as this had been the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere out in one of the most hazardous environments on earth. The witness estimated that they were perhaps 50 yards away, and he decided to call out to them. When he did, the laughter and talking briefly stopped before starting again. Now sure that what he was hearing was children playing around, the witness got his flashlight and headed out to investigate. He soon found what he was looking for in the form of two small children who were described as “walking, kind of wandering, looking lost, sounding lost.” Thinking that these children were perhaps in trouble, he called out to them again, and describes what happened next thus:

They stopped. They looked in my direction, but they were looking past me. In my direction, but not at me. Like they heard me but I wasn’t even there. I was illuminating them with a very bright flashlight. They should have been covering their faces but they were just scanning, like they were looking for me and just didn’t see me.
They turned back, kept walking, and I just watched them not sure of what to do. Their noises and their images faded into the distance. I just sat there. I didn’t know what to think or what to do. It was just so bizarre. After a while I laid back down, and just relaxed until it started raining at about 5:30AM. That’s when I packed up in the darkness and continued with my adventure into the morning.
So that’s what I saw. I saw children in Death Valley, over a hundred miles from freaking ANYTHING! Just walking, talking, wandering, then vanishing. Oddly enough it didn’t freak me out at the moment. I was more confused than anything. That’s why I couldn’t make a decision on what to do in that moment. Now, looking back, it’s freaky.

More bizarre still is a report relayed to me by a reader in relation to an article I wrote on Skinwalkers. The witness told me that when he was out on a hike in Death Valley he had paused to take in the sunset, which had been drawing near. He then said that he had noticed a figure off in the distance standing there in the desolate landscape looking as if they were enjoying the setting sun as well. It seemed to be a man dressed in what appeared to be some sort of Native America clothing, although he was not close enough to be sure. It was a bit odd, but nothing truly bizarre. At least not yet.

As the witness watched, he says that the mysterious figure began to walk across the desert, backlit by the deepening hues of the sunset painted sky, but then something changed. The figure, which had been bipedal, began to lope along on all fours, still looking like a man trying to mimic a quadrupedal animal, but very fast. The stranger picked up speed and its movements became smoother, more natural as it ran off, allegedly until the point that when it finally ran away it was described as being more like a coyote or wolf before disappearing into the desert. Skin walker or not, whatever he saw it is a strange account to be sure.

Why does this sprawling badlands of dust, dirt, and oppressive heat draw to itself so many stories of ghosts and phantoms? Is it some quality of the land itself? Does some power reside here that pulls in and imprisons these spirits? Is it just the bleak surroundings and the stifling, relentless heat that conspire to trick and disorient the mind? Whatever the reasons may or may not be, Death Valley seems to be a place imbued with mysteries both natural and supernatural, its landscape at once beautiful, lethal, and at times paranormal.

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Incredible Sky Spectacle Over California Seen By Many People

Yesterday many people in California witnessed a bright object in the sky with a very bright wide beam of light shining back from the path of the object as seen by a resident of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. (89010).

People wonder whether it was a missile launch off along the OC Coast, California on December 22, 2017 or could it have been something else?

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NASA has released more than 2,500 images of Mars, and I can’t stop staring

No seriously, these images are so beautiful it’s actually hard to not look at them for a few minutes straight.

The red planet has changed the way we think of Earth-like planets. In decades of research, we have drastically altered our view about Mars, as we have learned that our neighboring planet was once very similar to Earth, with ocean,s lakes, rivers, and an atmosphere. Altogether, Mars looked like Earth billions of years ago.

Today, only glimpses of it former beauty remain, but as NASA’s rovers and spacecraft continue exploring the surface of the red planet, the more we learn about it.

Despite the fact that we call it the red planet, Mars has shown us that its a treasure trove of alien colors.

Now, thanks to the HiRISE camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter—MRO—we can explore the red planet like ever before.

More than 2500 images have recently been published by NASA that show Mars as never before. Its a planet that comes alive, it has strange alien shapes covering its surface, and its colors make it look as if it were Picasso’s masterpiece.

Mars is without a doubt an abstract piece of art, combining elements that make it a very unique planet, despite the fact that it was once much similar to Earth.

For over 10 years has the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment: HiRISE

Contributed to our understanding of Mars, as it has snapped images in such detail that scientists were able to investigate the red planet’s features at the scale of a few feet. This has allowed experts to look at Mars from an entirely different point of view.

Visit the HiRISE website’s planetary data system releases to see the rest of the photos, because we were obviously too lazy to post all +2,500 images here 

Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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What Does $22 Million Buy in UFO Research?

By Cheryl Costa

 

NEW YORK SKIES 12-21-2017

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X-Files creator reacts to those bombshell UFO reports

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I-Team: Pentagon UFO study catches attention of Congress

CANADA HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN UFOS FOR 50 YEARS

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Drawing of a ufo, which would have overflown the Falcon lake, Manitoba, in 1967.

The United States are not the only ones to pay attention to the unidentified flying objects. Between the end of the Second world War and the mid-1990s, the government of Canada has made consistent efforts to identify and investigate the reports made by the Canadians.

A New York Times article revealing the existence of a program of the u.s. department of Defense devoted to ufos, which would have ended in 2012, is making a lot of noise in the last few days. However, plunging into the archives of the canadian government, we see that, over the years, the interest of Ottawa for the unidentified flying objects was not less great.

Formally, the ministries of national Defence and of Transport, the royal Canadian mounted police (RCMP) and the national research Council of Canada are all busy or surveys or reports related to the appearance of ufos at one time or another between 1947 and 1995.

According to the influential ufologist canadian Chris Rutkowski, Canada cooperates with the United States in this area for decades, and it is likely that this collaboration continues still today.

Decades of analysis

The government of Canada has begun to collect information on unidentified flying objects in 1947. At this time, many Canadians who have the final world conflict in memory and a possible cold war in the head continue to turn their eyes to the sky, fearing an attack. The RCMP and the ministry of Defence will receive several reports from citizens saying they saw a ufo.

In 1952, the canadian government established project Second Story, which has the objective to analyse the evidence related to the appearance of flying saucers. The minutes of the first meetingof the committee responsible for this project indicates that ” the frequency and persistence of the sightings [of ufos] tend to cast doubt on the theory of hallucinations “. It adds further that greater efforts must be made to obtain the data in an organized manner and proceed to the investigation and analysis required.

In the same year, the american army launches the project Blue Book, which is expected to be completed in 1969. Over the years, its managers will be more than 12 600 reports, of which 701 remain unexplained.

At the end of the 1960s, the national research Council of Canada (NRC), which is the main research arm of the canadian government, becomes the drop point of the observation reports of ufos from the ministry of Defence, ministry of Transport and the RCMP. The NRC stopped collecting records in 1995.

More than 1000 reports

Since the mid-1990s, the government appears to have left the civilian sector care to list and analyze ufo reports. The ufologist Chris Rutkowski receives each year a handful of reports from various government agencies. “I suspect that there are other reports of ufos that were kept secret, but I don’t have access to it for the moment,” says the astronomer by training, who lives in Winnipeg. 

Thanks to these reports made by the government and to the data compiled by enthusiasts of ufology of the four corners of Canada, Mr. Rutkowski product since 1989 an annual report accounting for all events reported in the country.

In 2016, 1131 events were reported, of which 38.5 % from Quebec. After they have been analyzed by a network of researchers, astronomers and specialists of the aviation, only 4 % of these reports remain unexplained, which represents the lowest percentage recorded in 28 years.

“Even if the vast majority of ufo reports are explainable, there is always a small percentage of events that remain unexplained. These reports do not mean that Canada has been visited by extraterrestrials, but they indicate that observations can not be explained and require further scientific studies, ” said Mr. Rutkowski.

What people believe to be a ufo, for example, can be the light of a plane, a drone or a satellite that enters the earth’s atmosphere. “The ufo reports are not all as mysterious as you might think,” insists the researcher. Contrary to some ufologists, this author of many books devoted to ufos remains prudent, therefore, without closing doors.

“Some people say that I am skeptical and, at the opposite, some say I am too a believer. I think it is important to keep an open mind, ” he said. My training in astronomy and he told me that there may be life elsewhere in the universe and that she could come to visit us. But we do not yet have the evidence. “

Canada and the ufos

• 1947 government agencies, including the department of national Defence, are beginning to amass information on ufos.
• 1952 The canadian government established project Second Story in order to analyze the testimonies reminiscent of the flying saucers.
• 1959-1960 The Canada and the United States to introduce a joint system of reporting on ufos.
• 1968 The national research Council of Canada (NRC), becomes the point of fall of the reports on the observation of ufos.
• 1995 The NRC cease to collect reports related to ufos, leaving place to the civilian sector.

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You’re Not Crazy if You Believe in UFOs. Let’s Discuss in Scientific Terms.

by Alexandra Ossola

 

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Alien Invasion: What Would Aliens REALLY Want With The Earth?

Let’s put aside the questions as to whether or not we’ve been visited by aliens. Let’s ask a better question:Why would aliens visit us at all? Is there anything about Earth that makes us prone to an alien invasion?

An Alien Invasion has Occurred, But For What Reason?

While there’s plenty of talk of human-alien hybridization programs & plans to take over our government and make us slaves, do these ideas make any sense? I mean, if a far advanced alien race came here with the intent of making us slaves, they wouldn’t need to infiltrate our government to do so. They’d just… do it. They would just do it because they’re so advanced relative to us. So let’s explore the possibilities…

The Most Unlikely Scenarios for an Alien Invasion

The first 2 scenarios really have good reasons why they’re unlikely. While they’re popular with hardcore alien enthusiasts, many of which believe these things are happening now or have in the past, a step back to reality doesn’t support these ideas. The likely scenarios are much more insidious and dire for humans in the event of a true alien invasion.

#1 Gold Mining

Gold is a very rare metal. For thousands of years, humans have mined it. We work for it. We kill for it. Aliens want gold too.

The idea is a cornerstone for Ancient Alien theorists. They believe that aliens came to the earth in ancient times to mine gold. In their desire for gold, they genetically modified ancient apes to make them more intelligent. The theory states that modern-day humans, us, are those genetically modified apes. Aliens designed us to have love and desire for gold so that we would mine it for them by our own ‘choice’.

The Argument for an Alien Gold Mining Operation

Truth be told, there isn’t much evidence in support of this theory. Everyone who reads this blog knows my stance on the Ancient Alien religion. It’s undeniable that humans have a love and obsession with gold. We also have a love and obsession with lots of pretty stones and shiny metals that aren’t gold.

The Reality – Gold isn’t THAT Rare

While gold is a rare metal by certain standards, there’s no reason to think Earth has more gold than other rocky planets. Gold can only be created during a supernova and any planets forming in the resulting cloud of heavy elements will have some gold on them. So does it really make sense that aliens would travel here specifically for gold? Probably not. The fact of the matter is that from the perspective of an interstellar species, gold isn’t that rare or hard to find.

Alien technology would be so great, they wouldn’t need human ‘slaves’ to mine gold for them. They’d have machines that can do it much faster. Additionally, there’s no reason why they would choose an inhabited planet to mine when there are so many uninhabited ones out there. If they did choose to mine an inhabited planet such as the Earth, they’d probably wipe out all life first so that they wouldn’t have to deal with all the ankle biting from the pesky humans.

#2 Hybridization for Their Dying Species

Another popular theory by alien-believers is that aliens are running a hybridization program. The theory postulates aliens are a dying species, abducting humans, and taking DNA to merge with their own in order to strengthen their own biology. Many people believe it’s already happening.

The Arguments for an Alien Hybridization Program

The proponents of the theory point to cases of alien abduction & cattle mutilations as evidence. Sightings of cryptids, such as the Chupacabra, are cited as examples of alien hybridization having gone wrong.

Additionally, many female abductees describe being artificially inseminated and forced to carry fetuses only to be abducted later and having it removed. Male abductees frequently describe having semen extracted from them by their alien abductors. Some folks claim to have had sexual encounters with extraterrestrials.

The Reality – You Don’t Need Much DNA for Hybridization

By far, the weakest part of the entire theory is that a little DNA goes a long way. A single human carries enough DNA information to hybridize an entire generation of extraterrestrials. Aside from the fact that many abduction cases can be dismissed as instances of sleep paralysis, continued abductions for 50+ years would be unnecessary.

It’s also worth noting that a species capable of interstellar travel would have learned how to genetically modify themselves without the need for samples from a relatively primordial species such as ourselves.

The Most Likely Scenarios for an Alien Invasion

This set of scenarios for an alien invasion take into account what science knows about intelligent life and how it behaves. Of course, we only have ourselves to look at, but you work with what you’ve got right? These scenarios which come from real scientists are much more disturbing than some of the fantasy stories tossed around by the ancient alien and conspiracy crowds.

#1 Their Own Earth-like Planet was Destroyed

What if aliens weren’t very different from us? What if they came from a planet just like ours in a neighboring solar system? Maybe their planet died or became uninhabitable, and the entire species took the skies looking for a new place to call home.

Woah, This One is Crazy to Think About

As a skeptic, this scenario for an alien invasion is mind blowing because it could actually happen. No planet lives forever. Our own Earth has gone through several mass extinction events and there’s no reason to think other planets would be any different.

We’d likely be powerless to stop it, and if our own history of exploration is any indication, it wouldn’t turn out very well for us humans. Think about what happened to the Native Americans when Europeans discovered the New World…

#2 Natural Resources that Support Carbon-Based Life

If there’s one thing more rare in the universe than gold and diamonds, it’s life. At least, life as we know it – carbon-based life. Life with all its associated proteins & fats is likely the rarest thing in the cosmos. We know this because we’ve looked around and not found it anywhere else.

Earth’s Natural Resources Would be a Figurative Goldmine

While it rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn, the compounds necessary to support carbon-based life are much rarer. Earth’s trees, plants, animals, & humans might be so rare in the universe that aliens could invade in order to use these sources of energy.

The rarity of life in the universe makes the Earth a prime candidate for aliens wishing to create a planetary zoo or to rule us. They could also potentially farm the life on Earth for food much as humans currently do.

#3 Dominance

It could simply be that a space-faring race may come to the earth simply to rule the population. Remember Superman 2? Political and social power can be addictive and satisfying to intelligent beings. The desire to rulemay even be a common trait of all intelligent species.

The Desire to Rule Depends on the Aliens

The culture of the aliens who happen to find us really determines the likelihood of this scenario. By all counts, it’s a true alien invasion of the type only seen in movies and cinema. The takeover could be quick and violent, or it could be slow and shadowy. Proponents say it’s already happening. They point to reports of reptilian aliens infiltrating our government and big corporations as evidence.

#4 They Might Be Looking for a Planetary Zoo

Zoos are pretty cool. Maybe aliens think so too? Perhaps aliens wouldn’t actually invade the earth as much as keeping it ‘caged up’ for observation.

Another Very Possible Alien Invasion Scenario

Like the previous example, the planetary zoo is very possible. What’s really crazy? It might already be happening and we aren’t even aware of it.

#5 Food – Humans? Yummy!

There isn’t a single animal on this planet that humans won’t eat. We’ll eat anything except other humans (and there are even exceptions to that as well). Aliens might be the same way, especially if carbon-based life turns out to be a compatible food for their biology.

The Scariest Scenario of All: Humans = Cattle

Based our own behavior towards other animals, this scenario is highly likely. Perhaps, it’s the most likely of all. And it’s utterly terrifying. With advanced intelligence and technology, humans would be raised as cattle scarcely aware of our true purpose. We might live out our lives without so much as a hint of our grisly ends at the hands of our alien farmers.

Other Reasons?

We can only guess at the motives of our potential alien invaders. Perhaps the alien invasion will have nothing to do with us at all, or maybe it will have everything to do with us. Regardless, if aliens ever do come to meet us with technology millions of years ahead of us, we won’t have much say in the matter anyway. And that’s the scariest part of the entire thing.

What do you think? Why would aliens invade the earth? Let us know below in the comments.

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Is SpaceX Sending a Tesla Roadster to Mars? We’ll Believe It When We See It.

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Police in Thunder Bay, Ontario received several calls last week after residents heard and felt a large explosion overheard that was strong enough to rattle their homes. One resident even reported seeing a bright flash overhead at the time of the boom. As police searched the surrounding area, they found an unexplained crater in the snow beside Highway 61. Fragments of rock were found in the crater, leading some scientists to believe that the crater might have been caused by a small meteorite left in the wake of last week’s Geminid Meteor shower.

Not quite a dinosaur killer.

Stephen Kissin, a geology professor at the nearby Lakehead University, told the local Thunder Bay News Watch that while the mysterious crater could have been caused by a small meteorite fragment, the rock which fell into the Earth’s atmosphere was most certainly much scarier:

It was almost certainly larger than what we saw here because of the loud detonation and the shockwaves people reported. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who did see it. It was, however, over a sparsely populated area and late at night, and a cold night as well, so perhaps people weren’t about.

Because Thunder Bay sits on the shore of Lake Superior, it’s likely that any larger fragments could have ended up in the water. The smaller samples which were collected are being analyzed under electron microscopes in an attempt to determine their composition and origin, but the tests are complicated by the fact that gravel and other roadside debris is mixed in with the potential meteorite fragments found in the crater.

Some of the samples believed to be fragments of the meteorite.

In a somewhat similar story, several drivers in Newfoundland recently got the shock of their lives when “unidentified objects” smashed their windshields and windows while they were driving. The incidents were all several miles apart in different townships. Could these be further fragments of a meteor which exploded over central and eastern Canada? It’s possible. Given the many unexplained booms and fireballs in the sky which have increasingly common phenomena in 2017, is it time to wonder if the threat from near-Earth objects has become much more serious than we are being told? The U.S. government has recently begun preparing an emergency response plan for the event of possible strikes, while NASA is testing methods of redirecting potentially dangerous asteroids and meteorites. What’s really going on overhead? Do we really want to know? One thing is certain: Santa Claus better keep an eye out next week. He could be in for a bumpy sleigh ride.

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an interstellar space ship! It’s …

Astronomers and SETI researchers studying Oumuamua, the mysterious cigar-shaped interstellar object that looped tightly around the Sun recently, think they’ve solved the mystery of what it really is. Ladies and gentlemen, Oumuamua is a …

Not so fast. We may in danger just talking or reading about Oumuamua. That’s a warning put forth by Nick Pope, former head of Britain’s Ministry of Defence UFO project, in SunOnline.

“If this ship is an alien probe, it’s possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside.”

Pope is referring to the Breakthrough Listen project led by Stephen Hawking which has been using high-tech scanners to listen for signs of life or any kind of non-asteroidal noises coming from Oumuamua. It’s found nothing as of this writing, but Pope thinks it’s because they‘re listening for the wrong thing.

“Because there’s no air in space, an alien spaceship wouldn’t need to be designed in the same way that our aircraft have to be. Rather than building an interstellar spacecraft from scratch, it makes perfect sense to take an asteroid and then build your ship around it, or hollow it out and build inside it, for the protection you’d derive from being surrounded by so much rock.”

Whoa! That sounds plausible, especially coming from such a UFO expert. However, some astronomers observing Oumuamua disagree. In a paper published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy, professor Alan Fitzsimmons from the Queen’s University Belfast agrees with Pope that Oumuamua is not what it appears to be, but he doesn’t think it’s a spaceship. In an interview with Space.com, he says he also doesn’t think it’s an asteroid.

“We didn’t see any signs of typical spectroscopic signatures that you would expect from the minerals on the surface of an asteroid we see in our solar system. It rather seems to resemble the [icy] objects that are there in the outer solar system. That kind of got our head scratching. If the object had, originally at least, ice in it, what’s happened to it?”

A non-crusty comet

What happened was, like humans on trips that last much longer than expected, Oumuamua got crusty. Modeling its behavior, the astronomers determined that Oumuamua’s actions indicated it had an icy center surrounded by a thin crust. That sounds like an ice cream-and-cake dessert treat, but what it actually might be is a comet hidden inside a 20-inch-thick crust that protects its icy center from melting and prevents it from having a comet’s tail.

Fitzsimmons received support in his hypothesis from astronomer Michelle Bannister, a colleague at Queens University, who, in a separate paper to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, said this:

“We’ve discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well-baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest worlds in the outer regions of our solar system.”

Today’s word is “planetesimal,” which means “a minute planet; a body that could or did come together with many others under gravitation to form a planet.”

Planetesimals

So Oumuamua is likely to be a crusty comet (a great name for a band) from another solar system.

Back to you, Nick Pope.

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Former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge hints Pentagon UFO disclosure is only the beginning: 'There's a lot more s--t coming' 

Tom DeLonge knows the truth is out there.

And after leaving pop punk band Blink-182 to focus on exploring unexplained phenomena full-time, DeLonge is ready to share that truth — that aliens exist, that UFOs aren't actually “unidentified” and that extraterrestrial technology could save humanity — with the rest of the world.

As the founder of To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, DeLonge is working with former high-ranking officials from the Department of Defense, CIA, NSA and Lockheed Martin's “Skunk Works” aerospace program.

One of DeLonge's partners is Luis Elizondo, who ran the Pentagon's top-secret UFO investigation program that the New York Times revealed in a bombshell report Saturday.

According to DeLonge, disclosures like Saturday's report are “only the tip of the spear,” and further “confirmation” of extraterrestrial life will continue to trickle out.

DeLonge claims the U.S. government has not only known about the existence of alien life for decades, but that they've also been actively experimenting with alien technologies.

And while this information has largely been hidden from the general public, DeLonge wants to lead what he believes will be an international - and perhaps, one day, intergalactic — conversation about how these soon-to-be-declassified technologies can benefit mankind.

“I know that it's fun to make snarky comments, but this isn't the kind of thing to joke about,” DeLonge told the Daily News earlier this month. “This is going to really affect a lot of people and a lot of peoples' belief systems.”

The organization has three divisions — aerospace, science and entertainment — and will attempt to “bring transformative science and engineering out of the shadows” free from “the restrictions of government priorities.”

DeLonge wants To the Stars to be owned by the public, which is why the company is relying on crowdfunding to launch. So far, To the Stars has raised over $2.1 million from more than 2,200 individual investors.

“What we're trying to do is make sure the story of the millennia and the technology of the millennia are owned by the people from day one,” Delonge said. "Part of our strategy has always been to throw it all out in the open so people can't come and try to shut it down from some weird office at NATO or the United Nations or the United States or whatever."

DeLonge hopes that To the Stars will use previously classified information about alien technologies to achieve breakthroughs that government agencies like NASA have been uninterested in exploring.

One such innovation is what DeLonge refers to as “engineering the space-time metric,” which is being developed by Dr. Hal Puthoff, a longtime government physicist and a current To the Stars partner.

“It's like a time machine,” DeLonge said. “You get into this craft and you turn it on — boom! — you're in China in one minute as a ball of light.”

Other To the Stars projects will seek to revolutionize human space travel, combat climate change, improve national security, enhance genetics, harness telepathy and more.

“All the things (people have) heard about and seen are the first step of 20," DeLonge said. “There's a lot more s--t coming.”

More info about To the Stars Academy and the Offering Circular can be found here.

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The Sphinx Of Balochistan: Is It A Man-made, Rock-cut, Architectural Marvel?

Bibhu Dev Misra

The Balochistan Sphinx Temple Platform with steps, pillars, niches and a symmetric pattern.

Concealed within the desolate, rocky landscape of the Makran coastline of Southern Balochistan, Pakistan, is an architectural gem that has gone unnoticed and unexplored for centuries. The ‘Balochistan Sphinx’, as it is popularly called, came into the public eye only after the Makran Coastal Highway opened in 2004, linking Karachi with the port town of Gwadar on the Makran coast.¹ A four-hour, 240-kilometer-long drive through meandering mountain passes and arid valleys from Karachi brings travellers to Hingol National Park, where the Balochistan Sphinx is located.

It is a four-hour drive from Karachi to the Hingol National Park, along the Makran Coastal Highway. The Balochistan Sphinx is located inside Hingol National Park.

The Makran Coastal Highway.

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The Balochistan Sphinx

The Balochistan Sphinx is routinely passed off by journalists as a natural formation, although no archaeological survey appears to have been conducted on the site.² If we explore the features of the structure, as well as its surrounding complex, it becomes difficult to accept the oft-repeated premise that it has been shaped by natural forces. Rather, the site looks like a gigantic, rock-cut, architectural complex.

A cursory glance at the impressive sculpture shows the Sphinx to have a well-defined jawline, and clearly discernible facial features such as eyes, nose, and mouth, which are placed in seemingly perfect proportion to each other.

(a) The Balochistan Sphinx of Hingol National Park, ©Bilal Mirza CC BY 2.0.

(b) Face of the Great Sphinx of Giza, ©Hamerani CC BY-SA 4.0. Striking similarities can be drawn between its face, and that of (a), the Balochistan Sphinx.

The Sphinx appears to be decked up in a head-dress that closely resembles the Nemes head-dress of the Egyptian pharaoh. The Nemes headdress is a striped head-cloth that covers the crown and back of the head. It has two large, conspicuous, flaps which hang down behind the ears and in front of the shoulders. The ear-flaps can be discerned on the Balochistan Sphinx, as well as some stripe marks. The Sphinx has a horizontal groove across its forehead, which corresponds to the pharaonic headband that holds the Nemes headdress in place.

One can easily make out the contours of the reclining forelegs of the Sphinx, which terminate in very well-defined paws. It is difficult to see how nature could have carved out a statue that resembles a well-known mythical animal to such an astonishingly accurate degree.

The Balochistan Sphinx resembles the Egyptian sphinxes in many respects.

The Sphinx-Temple

In close proximity to the Balochistan Sphinx is another important structure. From a distance, it looks like a Hindu Temple (like those of South India), with a Mandapa(entrance hall) and a Vimana (temple spire). The top part of the Vimana appears to be missing. The Sphinx is reclining in front of the temple, acting as protector of the sacred site.

The Balochistan Sphinx reclines in front of a temple-like structure.

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In ancient, sacred architecture, the sphinx performed a protective function, and was generally placed in a pair on either side of entrances to temples, tombs, and sacred monuments. In ancient Egypt, the sphinx had the body of a lion, but its head could be that of a man (Androsphinx), a ram (Criosphinx) or a falcon (Hierocosphinx).³ The Great Sphinx of Giza, for instance, acts as guardian of the Pyramid Complex.

In Greece, the sphinx had the head of a woman, the wings of an eagle, the body of a lioness, and according to some, the tail of a serpent.⁴ The colossal statue of the Sphinx of Naxos stood on a towering ionic column, at the sacred Oracle of Delphi, acting as a protector of the site.

In Indian art and sculpture, the sphinx is known as purusha-mriga (‘man-beast’ in Sanskrit), and its primary position was near the temple gateway, acting as a guardian of the sanctuary.⁵ However, sphinxes were sculpted all over the temple premises including the entrance gates (gopuram), halls (mandapa) and near the central shrine (garba–griha). Raja Deekshithar identified 3 basic forms of the Indian sphinx:

A crouching sphinx with a human face, but with certain lion characteristics like mane and elongated ears

A striding or jumping sphinx with a fully human face

A half-upright or fully-upright sphinx, sometimes with moustaches and long beards, often in an act of worshipping a Shiva-linga.⁶

Sphinxes also feature in Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia. In Myanmar, they are called Manusiha (from the Sanskrit manu-simha, meaning man-lion). They are depicted in a cat-like crouching posture at the corners of Buddhist stupas. They wear a tapering crown and ornamental ear-flaps, and have feathered wings attached to their front limbs.⁷

So, throughout the ancient world, the sphinx acted as a protector of sacred places. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Sphinx of Balochistan also appears to be guarding the temple-like structure adjacent to it. This suggests that the site was laid out in accordance with the principles of sacred architecture.

A closer look at the Balochistan Sphinx-Temple reveals clear evidence of pillars carved on a boundary wall. The temple entrance is visible behind a large pile-up of sediment or termite mounds. An elevated, sculpted, structure to the left of the entrance could be a subsidiary shrine. Overall, there can be little doubt that this a massive, man-made, rock-cut monument of great antiquity.

The Balochistan Sphinx-Temple shows clear signs of being a man-made, rock-cut temple.

Interestingly, there seems to be two monumental sculptures carved on the façade of the Sphinx-Temple, right above the entrance, on either side.

The carvings are heavily eroded, making their identification difficult; but it looks as if the figure on the left could be Kartikeya (Skanda/Murugan) holding his spear (vel); and the figure on the right, a striding Ganesha. Incidentally, both Kartikeya and Ganesha are sons of Shiva, meaning that the temple complex could have been dedicated to Shiva.

While identification at this stage is speculative, the presence of sculpted figures on the façade gives greater weight to this being a man-made structure.

The façade carvings on the Balochistan Sphinx-Temple could be that of Kartikeya and Ganesha.

The structure of the Sphinx-Temple suggests that it may actually be a Gopuram, i.e. the entrance tower of a temple. Like the Sphinx-Temple, gopurams are generally flat-topped. Gopurams have a row of ornamental kalasams (stone or metal pots) arranged on top. From careful study of the flat-topped Sphinx-Temple, one can discern a number of ‘spikes’ on top, which could be a row of kalasams, covered with sediment or termite mounds.

Gopurams are attached to the boundary wall of a temple, and the Sphinx-Temple appears to be contiguous with the outer boundary. Gopurams also feature giant sculpted figures of dvarapalas, i.e. door guardians; and as we have noted, the Sphinx-Temple appears to have two monumental figures carved on its façade, just above the entrance, which serve as the dvarapalas.

The Balochistan Sphinx-Temple could be a gopuram, i.e. an entrance tower of a temple.

An elevated structure to the left of the Sphinx-Temple could be another gopuram. This implies that there could be four gopurams in the cardinal directions leading to a central courtyard, where the main shrine of the temple complex was built (which cannot be seen in the photograph). This kind of temple architecture is quite common in South Indian Temples.

The Arunachaleshwar Temple in Tamil Nadu, India, has four gopurams i.e. entrance towers, in the cardinal directions. The temple complex houses numerous shrines. ©Adam Jones CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Sphinx-Temple Platform

The elevated platform on which the Sphinx and Temple are situated appears to have been elaborately carved with pillars, niches, and a symmetrical pattern that extends across the entire upper part of the platform. Some of the niches may well be doors that lead to chambers and halls under the Sphinx-Temple. It is believed by many, including mainstream Egyptologists like Mark Lehner, that there could be chambers and passages under the Great Sphinx of Giza as well. It is also interesting to note that the Balochistan Sphinx and the Sphinx-Temple are situated on an elevated platform, just as the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Egypt are built on the Giza plateau overlooking the city of Cairo.

Another conspicuous feature of this site is a series of steps leading to the elevated platform. The steps appear to be evenly spaced, and of uniform height. The entire site gives the impression of a grand, rock-cut, architectural complex, which has been eroded by the elements, and covered by layers of sediment, masking the more intricate details of the sculptures.

The Balochistan Sphinx-Temple Platform can be made out to have been carved with steps, pillars, niches and a symmetrical pattern.

Site Sedimentation

What could have deposited so much sediment on the site? The Makran coast of Balochistan is a seismically active zone, which frequently produces enormous tsunamis that obliterate entire villages. It has been reported that the earthquake of November 28 1945, with its epicentre off the coast of Makran, caused a tsunami with waves reaching as high as 13m in some places.⁸

Additionally, a number of mud volcanoes are strewn along the Makran coastline, some of which are located in the Hingol National Park, near the Hingol river delta.⁹Intense earthquake activity triggers the volcanoes to erupt, spewing staggering amounts of mud, and drowning the surrounding landscape. Sometimes, mud volcano islands appear off the coast of Makran, in the Arabian Sea, which are dissipated by wave action within a year.¹⁰ The combined action of tsunamis, mud volcanoes and termite mounds may, therefore, be responsible for the build-up of sediment on the site.

View of Chandragup I Mud Volcano, Balochistan, from the base. ©Ahsan Mansoor Khan CC BY-SA 4.0.

Crater of a Hangol mud volcano. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Historical Context

An elaborate Indian temple complex on the Makran coast should not come as a surprise, for Makran had always been regarded by the Arab chroniclers as ‘the frontier of al-Hind.¹¹ A-Biruni wrote that, “the coast of al-Hind begins with Tiz, the capital of Makran, and from there extends in a south-eastern direction….”¹² Though the sovereignty of parts of the region alternated between Indian and Persian kings from very early times, it retained “an Indianised identity all along”.¹³ In the decades preceding the Muslim raids, Makran was under the dominion of a dynasty of Hindu kings, who had their capital at Alor in Sind.¹⁴

The term ‘Makran’ is sometimes taken to be a corruption of the Persian Maki-Khoran, meaning ‘fish-eaters’. But it is also thought that the name derives from a Dravidian toponymic ‘Makara’.¹⁵ When the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang visited Makran in the 7^th century AD, he noted the script that was in use in Makran to be “much the same as that of India,” but the spoken language to have “differed a little from that of India”.¹⁶ Historian Andre Wink writes:

The same chiefdom of Armadil is referred to by Hiuen Tsang as ‘O-tien-p’o-chi-lo’, located at the high road running through Makran. He also describes it as predominantly Buddhist; thinly populated though it was, it had no less than 80 Buddhist convents with about 5000 monks. In effect at eighteen kilometres northwest of Las Bela at Gandakahar, near the ruins of an ancient town are the caves of Gondrani, and as their constructions show these caves were undoubtedly Buddhist. Traveling through the Kij valley further west (then under the government of Persia) Hiuen Tsang saw some 100 Buddhist monasteries and 6000 priests. He also saw several hundred Deva temples in this part of Makran, and in the town of Su-nu li-chi-shi-fa-lo – which is probably Qasrqand- he saw a temple of Maheshvara Deva, richly adorned and sculptured. There is thus very wide extension of Indian cultural forms in Makran in the seventh century, even in the period when it fell under Persian sovereignty. By comparison, in more recent times the last place of Hindu pilgrimage in Makran was Hinglaj, 256 km west of present day Karachi, in Las Bela.¹⁷

Thus, according to the accounts of Hiuen Tsang, the Makran coast was – even in the 7^th century AD – dotted with hundreds of Buddhist monasteries and caves, as well as several hundred Hindu Temples, including a richly sculpted temple of Lord Shiva.

What happened to these caves, temples, and monasteries of the Makran coast? Why have they not been restored and brought into the public eye? Are they suffering the same fate as the Sphinx-Temple Complex? Probably so. Eroded by the elements and covered with sediment, these ancient monuments have either been entirely forgotten or are being passed off as natural formations.

Indeed, close to the Balochistan Sphinx, on top of an elevated platform, are the remnants of what appears to be another ancient Hindu-like temple, complete with the Mandapa, Shikhara (Vimana), pillars and niches.

An ancient Temple of Makran, with Vimana, Mandapa, pillars and niches.

How Old Are These Temples?

The Indus Valley Civilisation extended along the Makran coastline, and its westernmost archaeological site is known as the Sutkagen Dor, near the Iranian border. Some of the temples and rock-cut sculptures of the region, including the Sphinx-Temple Complex, could, therefore, have been built thousands of years ago, during the Indus Period (c. 3000 BCE), or earlier. It is possible that the site was built in phases, and that some of the structures are extremely old, and others comparatively recent. Dating rock-cut monuments is, however, difficult in the absence of inscriptions. If the site contains readable inscriptions that can be interpreted (another tricky proposition, since the Indus script has not yet yielded its secrets), then it may be possible to put a date on some of the monuments. In the absence of inscriptions, scientists will have to rely on datable artefacts/human remains, architectural styles, geological erosion patterns, and other clues, however.

One of the persistent mysteries of the Indian Civilisation is the profusion of exquisite rock-cut temples and monuments that were built from the 3^rd century BCE onwards. How did the skills and techniques for building these sacred places of worship appear without a corresponding period of evolution? The rock-cut monuments of the Makran coastline may provide much-needed continuity between the architectural forms and techniques of the Indus period and the later-day Indian civilisation. It may have been on the mountains of the Makran coast that the Indus artisans honed and perfected their skills, which were later transported to the Indian civilisation.

The Indus Valley Civilisation included sites located along the Makran coast.

Source: http://www.waa.ox.ac.uk

Undoubtedly, there is a virtual treasure trove of archaeological wonders waiting to be discovered on the Makran coast of Balochistan. Unfortunately, these magnificent monuments, whose origins go back to unknown antiquity, continue to languish in isolation, thanks to the appalling level of apathy towards them. It appears that little attempt has been made to acknowledge or restore them, and the journalists routinely pass them off as ‘natural formations’. The situation can only be salvaged if international attention is drawn to these structures, and teams of archaeologists (as well as independent enthusiasts) from around the globe visit these enigmatic monuments to research, restore, and promote them.

The importance of these ancient monuments of the Makran coast can hardly be overstated. They could be of great antiquity, and provide us with important clues to uncover humanity’s mysterious past.

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References

1 This is the general impression gained from reading blogs written by visitors. The first reports and images of the Balochistan Sphinx begun appearing after 2004, when people started visiting the Hingol National Park on day trips from Karachi.

2 See for example: A. Nelson, ‘13 natural rock formations that look man-made’, 19 Jul. 2016.

S. Malik, ‘Natural Featured Sphinx of Pakistan‘, 18 Dec. 2014.

3 New World Encyclopedia, ‘Sphinx’.

4 Theoi Project: Greek Mythology, ‘Sphinx‘.

5 R Deekshithar, ‘Sphinx of India, the Living Tradition‘.

Also see the YouTube Video: ‘Sphinxes of India’.

6 Raja Deekshithat, ‘Sphinx in Indian Art‘.

7 Raja Deekshithar, ‘THE SPHINX IN ANCIENT BURMA AND MODERN MYANMAR‘.

8 UNESCO, ‘Remembering the 1945 Makran Tsunami’.

9 All Things Pakistan, ‘Mud Volcanoes of Balochistan‘.

10 National Geographic, ‘“Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea’. 

11 Wink & Al-Hind, The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, (BRILL, 1991) p. 132.

12 ibid.

13 ibid. p. 136

14 ibid. p. 133

15 ibid. p. 137

16 ibid.

17 ibid. 135.

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Strange iridescent clouds change shape “Bodhisattva” over sacred Buddhist site Mount Wutai

Mount Wutai is a sacred Buddhist site at the headwaters of the Qingshui in Shanxi Province, China. Its central area is surrounded by a cluster of flat-topped peaks roughly corresponding to the cardinal directions. The north peak (Beitai Ding or Yedou Feng) is the highest (3,061 m or 10,043 ft) and is also the highest point in northern China.

Wutai was the first of the mountains to be identified and is often referred to as "first among the four great mountains". It was identified on the basis of a passage in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, which describes the abodes of many bodhisattvas (enlightened beings).

The bodhisattva is believed to frequently appear on the mountain, taking the form of ordinary pilgrims, monks or other figures most often depicted in unusual five-colored clouds.

Now, this happened on December 19, 2017 when very strange iridescent five-colored clouds appeared in the sky over the sacred Buddhist site.

Then the clouds start to float, change shape, until they take the form of what looks like a bodhisattva.

Some skeptics claim that the story about the bodhisattva is a myth, but after seeing the next video, maybe they will change their minds.

Link to the original video recorded by Baoxi Yang:

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Amazing UFO video filmed over Ft. Collins, Colorado

New footage of a bright saucer-shaped UFO over Ft. Collins, Colorado. Filmed on 15th August 2017.

Witness report:

 I drive a truck from Colorado to Wyoming four times a week. I take a break returning from Wyoming usually at this same spot, Hwy 287 at Ted’s Place. I took a short nap and when I awoke I saw multiple craft in the valley in front of me. I grabbed my phone and tried to get pictures but it was too dark and the camera kept shutting off. I pulled out a digital camera and it kept shutting off, after about five tries I started recording the video. The same craft were there every night for weeks but seemed to move west toward the mountain.I believe they were searching for something. The sightings were a about the same time every morning. There were many craft from real small to larger like the one in the video.

Author

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UFO SHOCK: British MoD ‘misled Parliament over UFOs’, ex-insider says

EXCLUSIVE: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has refused to deny claims it misled Parliament over research it was conducting into the existence of aliens and UFOs.

I-Team Exclusive: Sen. Reid discusses UFO study

Oumuamua 'comet' that hurtled past Earth may have 'awoken alien intelligence inside', UFO expert warns

• Oumuamua appear in our solar system earlier this month sparking alien claims
• Initial scans suggest that the object is just a rock, and wasn't sent by aliens
• But Nick Pope claims that this scanning may have awoken aliens inside
• He says that aliens may now be watching our every move - and that if they attack, 'humanity probably wouldn't survive' 

By Shivali Best For Mailonline

Earlier this month, a skyscraper-sized space rock arrived in our solar system, sparking claims it was a spacecraft sent by extraterrestrials.

And while initial scans suggest it is unlikely to have been sent by aliens, we shouldn't rule this out as an option, according to a leading UFO expert.

Nick Pope, former head of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project, claims that the scans may have 'awoken the intelligence inside,' and aliens may now be watching our every move.

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Earlier this month, a skyscraper-sized space rock floated into our solar system, sparking claims that it was a spacecraft sent by extraterrestrials. And while initial scans suggest it is unlikely to have been sent by aliens, we shouldn't rule this out as an option, according to a UFO expert

The rock, called 'Oumuamua, soared through our solar system last month.

Scientists led by Professor Stephen Hawking, in a project called Breakthrough Listen, even used high-tech scanners to discover if the object was sent by an alien civilisation - although they also couldn't find any evidence of this.

Speaking toSun Online, Mr Pope claims that this doesn't rule out the option that Oumuamua was sent by aliens.

He said: 'While nothing has been found yet, there's another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it's possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside.'

While initial readings taken by Breakthrough Listen indicate that Oumuamua isn't an alien spacecraft, Mr Pope suggests the scientists may have been looking for the wrong thing.

He said: 'Because there's no air in space, an alien spaceship wouldn't need to be designed in the same way that our aircraft have to be.

'Rather than building an interstellar spacecraft from scratch, it makes perfect sense to take an asteroid and then build your ship around it, or hollow it out and build inside it, for the protection you'd derive from being surrounded by so much rock.'

And Mr Pope claims that Oumuamua isn't the only object we should worry about.

Scientists led by Professor Stephen Hawking, in a programme called Breakthrough Listen, used high-tech scanners to discover if the object was sent by an alien civilisation - although they also couldn't find any evidence of this

WHERE DID IT COME FROM? 

'But what's fascinating about this theory is just how many astronomers and other scientists are taking the idea seriously.

'It's a sign of how accepting we are these days about the likelihood of finding alien life.'

While aliens are often seen as a topic only discussed by conspiracy theorists, governements are starting to take the idea more seriously.

Last week it was even revealed that the Pentagon had been conducting research into UFOs.

While aliens are often seen as a topic only discussed by conspiracy theorists, governements are starting to take the idea more seriously. Last week it was even revealed that the Pentagon had been conducting research into UFOs (stock image) 

Mr Pope said: 'It's an extraordinary revelation, not least because it directly contradicts the many specific denials that the US government has issued previously when asked about this subject and their involvement in it.

'The take-home message here is that there's probably something out there, but we don't know what it is.'

While initial readings taken by Breakthrough Listen indicate that Oumuamua isn't an alien spacecraft, Mr Pope suggests the scientists may have been looking for the wrong thing

If aliens do find us, it's not good news for civilisation as we know it, according to Mr Pope.

He added: 'Humanity probably wouldn't survive an alien invasion.

'Any aliens that find us (as opposed to us finding them) probably have technology way in advance of anything we have.' 

Read more:

• Advanced alien probes could be watching our every move, warns former MoD UFO investigator

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HONDERDEN GETUIGEN ZIEN UFO BOVEN MEXICO STAD ( VIDEO )

De mooiste UFO waarnemingen zijn die waar grote groepen mensen hetzelfde zien.

Dit zijn dan de echt betrouwbare ervaringen, ook met onbekende objecten in de lucht. Dit keer gebeurde er zoiets in Mecico stad efgelopen vrijdag.

We leven in een tijd van deceptie waar mensen van alles wordt wijsgemaakt en waar internet is overspoeld met nep UFO-opnames. Zodanig zelfs dat je er een dagtaak aan zou hebben om het kaf van het koren te scheiden.

Dat is één van de redenen waarom wij tegenwoordig nog voorzichtiger zijn met het plaatsen van UFO-opnames, want keer op keer blijkt dat waarvan we eerst dachten dat iets echt was, dat toch weer nep bleek.

Daarom is het zo mooi als er opnames worden gemaakt in het bijzijn van honderden getuigen zoals dat afgelopen vrijdag gebeurde in Mexico stad. Honderden mensen stonden op de stoep te kijken naar de lucht waar een witte ronde UFO te zien was die er als volgt uitzag:

Het gevolg van dit alles was dat er op verschillende plekken in de stad honderden mensen naar de lucht keken vanwege het onbekende object dat daar vloog.

In de volgende video zie je bewegende beelden van het object:

 

Hierna volgen twee video's die een goed beeld geven van hoe de bewoners van Mexico stad gefascineerd waren door het object dat er boven hun hoofden vloog.

 

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Any mention of the mysterious locale that is Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England inevitably conjures up strange and surreal images of the famous UFO landing within the forest in the latter part of December 1980 – a startling event witnessed by numerous United States Air Force personnel stationed at a nearby military base: Royal Air Force Bentwaters. The bizarre affair has been the subject of a considerable number of books, numerous televisions shows, several investigations by military and governmental bodies, and unrelenting debate. Reports of strange lights, of small alien-like creatures seen deep within the heart of the woods, and of high-level cover-ups and sinister conspiracies, are all key ingredients of the case that – for many – has become known as the “British Roswell.”

Almost forty years on, the events in question continue to provoke intense debate and controversy, with some believing that extraterrestrials really did land on British soil on that fateful night. Others hold the view that everything can be attributed to mistaken identity (of a lighthouse, no less…). Others prefer the theory that a dark and dubious military experiment, and subsequent mishap, may have been to blame for all of the fuss. Whatever the truth of the affair, the debate continues to rage. And, doubtless, it will continue to rage for many more years to come.

Rendlesham Forest covers an area that is around 1,500 hectares in size and can be found in Suffolk’s coastal belt known as the Sandlings. It is comprised of large, coniferous trees, as well as heath land and wet land areas; and is home to the badger, the fox, the red deer, the roe deer and the fallow deer. According to some people, however, Rendlesham Forest is home to far stranger things, too.

In his authoritative book Explore Phantom Black Dogs, Bob Trubshaw recorded that: “The folklore of phantom black dogs is known throughout the British Isles. From the Black Shuck of East Anglia to the Mauthe Dhoog of the Isle of Man there are tales of huge spectral hounds ‘darker than the night sky’ with eyes ‘glowing red as burning coal.’ The phantom black dog of British and Irish folklore, which often forewarns of death, is part of a world-wide belief that dogs are sensitive to spirits and the approach of death, and keep watch over the dead and dying. North European and Scandinavian myths dating back to the Iron Age depict dogs as corpse eaters and the guardians of the roads to hell. Medieval folklore includes a variety of ‘Devil dogs’ and spectral hounds.”

Although the image that the phantom black dog creates is one of a deadly and devilish beast that prowled the villages and towns of old England centuries ago, it is a little known fact outside of students of the phenomenon that occasional sightings of such creatures continue to surface to this very day – and from deep within Rendlesham Forest, no less. On a cold winter’s afternoon in 1983, for example, the soon-to-be-married Paul and Jane Jennings were blissfully strolling through the woods of Rendlesham when they were terrified by the sudden manifestation in front of them of what Jane would describe succinctly as “a big black dog.” She elaborated that the pair had been walking along a pathway when, on rounding a bend, they came face to face with the phantom beast – something that prompted Jane to intriguingly add: “It was almost like it was waiting for us.”

Reportedly, the beast’s head was clearly canine in appearance, albeit much larger than that of any normal dog. Yet, somewhat curiously, its body seemed to exhibit characteristics that were distinctly feline-like in nature. For a brief and tense moment girlfriend and boyfriend stared at the creature, which, they recalled, seemed to have an eerily mournful expression upon its face. Far more shocking, however, was what happened next. Suddenly, the beast began to flicker on and off for four or five times, then finally vanished, literally, before the Jennings’ eyes amid an overwhelming smell that reminded the pair of burning metal. Not surprisingly, the terrified couple fled for the safety of their car and quickly left the area.

Rendlesham Forest, as well as the Suffolk locales of West Wratting and Balsham, is reportedly home to an even more diabolical beast than the phantom black dog. It is a creature that has come to be known locally as the Shug-Monkey. Described as being a bizarre combination of giant dog and large ape, the creature is said to strike deep terror into the hearts of those souls unfortunate enough to cross its path – which is something that the late Sam Holland attested to. Shortly after New Year’s Day in 1956, Holland was walking through the woods with his spaniel dog, Harry, when he was horrified to see a bizarre-looking creature come looming out of the trees some forty feet in front of him. It walked upon four huge, muscular legs – “like a lion’s” – and its thick fur coat was both black and glossy. Incredibly, said Holland, the animal was easily ten feet in length; and so could not be considered anything even remotely resembling a domestic animal, or a known wild beast of the British Isles.

Holland recalled thinking for a moment that perhaps the animal was an exotic big cat that had escaped from a zoo or private estate; that is until it turned in his direction and he was finally able to see its terrible face. Likening it to that of a sliver-back gorilla, Holland said that the monstrous creature possessed a huge neck, widely flaring nostrils, and immense, powerful-looking jaws. For a moment or two, the animal looked intently at Holland and his whimpering little dog; then, seemingly losing interest, continued on its way and into the depths of the surrounding undergrowth. Holland would later explain that the creature looked like a strange combination of ape, dog, lion and rhinoceros. Needless to say, the British Isles is not home to any such animal that even remotely resembles the beast that Sam Holland says he stumbled upon. Yet he is adamant that his description of the monstrous entity and his recollections of the day in question are utterly accurate. Holland believed that whatever it was that he had the misfortune to run into half a century ago, it was unquestionably paranormal rather than physical in origin. But from where, precisely, he had no idea.

Rendlesham has also been the site of several intriguing encounters with what have become known as “Alien Big Cats”- or ABC’s. The infamous beast of Bodmin is perhaps more well-known than its Suffolk-based cousins; however, the reports that have surfaced from in and around Rendlesham Forest are certainly no less provocative in nature. One of the earliest, credible cases on record is that of Jimmy Freeman, whose close encounter with a big cat occurred while driving past Rendlesham Forest late one night in the mid-1970s. While the precise date has been lost to the inevitable fog of time, the details are as fresh in the mind of Freeman today as they were on the night the incident occurred.

Given the fact that the encounter had occurred around 11.15 to 11.30 on what was a dark, cloudy and slightly misty night, Freeman was driving slowly and had his lights on full-beam as he negotiated the dark and winding roads. As a result, when something large and shadowy charged across the road in front of him, Freeman could not fail to see the creature for what it was. Long, sleek and utterly black in color, Freeman is in no doubt that for a split second or two he had a brief sighting of a huge cat. Today, he says firmly: “If I live to be a hundred, I will tell the same: Rendlesham Forest has big cats.”

On an eerily similar path, in October 2003, it was reported that a woman named June Fooks, of Eyck, near Woodbridge – which is on the doorstep of Rendlesham Forest – had seen “a black feline” in her garden that was “bigger than her pet Labrador.” She recalled: “It all happened in a matter of seconds, but I got a really good look at it. The sun was setting, and it was shining right on it. It had a really shiny coat and a big tail. It saw me and then slinked off into the hedge.” Interestingly, it transpired that a neighbor of June Fooks – Anne Downing – had seen a similar creature in Rendlesham Forest around eighteen months previously. She explained: “I was coming along a pathway with my daughter and saw this black animal in the distance. It was almost in a pouncing position and, when we got too near, it simply fled into the bush.”

It is ironic that those who are skeptical of the Rendlesham Forest UFO case of December 1980 suggest that the airmen who were involved merely mistook the illumination from the nearby Orford Lighthouse for something more exotic. Why? Well, Orford itself is a veritable hotbed of weirdness and wild creatures. Consider, for example, the following account of Ralph of Coggershall. Recorded in the year 1200 in Chronicon Anglicanum, it describes the remarkable capture in the area of a wild-man-of-the-woods-style creature:

“In the time of King Henry II, when Bartholomew de Glanville was in charge of the castle at Orford, it happened that some fishermen fishing in the sea there caught in their nets a Wildman. He was naked and was like a man in all his members, covered with hair and with a long shaggy beard. He eagerly ate whatever was brought to him, but if it was raw he pressed it between his hands until all the juice was expelled. He would no talk, even when tortured and hung up by his feet, Brought into church, he showed no sign of reverence or belief. He sought his bed at sunset and always remained there until sunrise. He was allowed to go into the sea, strongly guarded with three lines of nets, but he dived under the nets and came up again and again. Eventually he came back of his own free will. But later on he escaped and was never seen again.”

As all of the above demonstrates, while Rendlesham Forest is most associated with the UFO-themed events of December 1980, when you look closer you see that the forest has been a hotbed of weirdness for not just years or decades, but for centuries. One of John Keel’s “window areas,” perhaps.

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock (which is looking more and more like a good idea lately, actually), you’ve likely heard or read about the recent disclosure of a U.S. government-funded program to study anomalous or otherwise unidentified flying objects. Whether or not the news is groundbreaking evidence of a UFO cover-up is up for debate, but it certainly reveals that there are many people in world governments (or at least funded by them) who do take the study of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously. Are these merely the pet projects of some of the more curious politicians and their well-connected corporate cronies, or does this news reflect a widespread global belief in intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

After you learn the truth about Santa Claus, what else is there to believe in?

According to new worldwide data, the majority of humankind does indeed believe in extraterrestrial life in some form. International market research firm Glocalities recently conducted the largest study of its kind in which individuals from twenty-four countries were asked about their beliefs concerning alien life. 61% of people in the survey reported that they believe there is some form of life out there in the cosmos, while 47% said they believe in intelligent alien life specifically. Another 25% reported believing that life on Earth came from elsewhere in the universe, and only 17% reported ruling out the possibility of alien life altogether. Silly non-believers. Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Mexican, and Romanian citizens were found to be the most likely to believe in intelligent alien civilizations, while Dutch, Indonesian and Turkish citizens were found to be the least likely. Mexico,  the United States, China, India, and Australia had some of the highest percentages of belief in any alien life, intelligent or otherwise

A heat map showing national percentages of citizens who believe in aliens worldwide.

According to Martijn Lampert, Research Director at Glocalities, these beliefs stem from recent advances in exoplanet discoveries and are reflected in the popularity of modern science fiction:

The high score on the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life and the typical values profile of believers in intelligent alien civilizations partly explains the immense popularity of space opera movies such as Star Wars. The fascination with the mysteries of the universe offers mankind a never ending story to research, develop and experience.  

Lampert says he believes that the high number of people who believe shows that a future discovery of alien life will cause the majority of humankind to “become more and more engaged in the debate about the future of humanity and the place of planet Earth in the universe.” That sentiment is echoed by another recent study which found that most individuals would gladly welcome extraterrestrial visitors as opposed to being terrified of or repulsed by them. I don’t know about you, though, but I’m investing in pitchforks and torches. Humans are a scared and predictable lot. Those first alien visitors better bring some serious defenses.

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Footage of incredible fast cigar-shaped UFO flying over farm animals in Rigby, Idaho

A weird cigar-shaped object has been caught on camera by a visitor to farm animals in Rigby, Idaho.

Visitor farm animals’ who has reported the sighting to the Mutual UFO Network, case 88945, states: Well my story is pretty simple but very interesting. On July 9, 2017 we went to see our farm animals. They are in a different location than our home. I decided to film this event. Anyways, the time I was filming, I didn't see or notice anything weird.

It wasn't until a week or so later when I replayed the movie and discovered an object going incredibly fast. I thought it might be a glare or some sort of issue with my phone camera. My phone was basically 100% new at the time, so I realized that wasn't an issue.

The object was moving so fast, I barely even noticed it in the movie playback. My eye seemed to catch it. It lasted for a brief second and vanished.

I managed to stop the video and made a GIF image of it in slow motion.

When I zoom in on it, I can see what appear to be antennas. This object was going far too fast to be man-made, but slow enough to be caught on camera.

When I seen this object, I mainly was surprised that I caught a UFO on camera. I do have the original video clip.

Unexplained lights in Valley sky Monday night spark chatter of UFOs

Phoenix Lights remains a big deal to UFO researchers worldwide even 20 years laterm as thousands have reported witnessing the phenomenon. Wochit

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After recent reports of Navy pilots encountering an unidentified flying object, is it possible that Valley residents have UFO fever?

Multiple residents reported an amalgamation of lights was hovering in the night sky on Monday. The congregation of lights took several different forms, according to Phoenix resident Mat Siltala.

"When I first saw (the lights), they were V-shaped," Siltala said. "By the time I grabbed my camera and started shooting, it was more of a hook or candy-cane shape." 

Siltala's long-exposure photograph showed the lights on an upwards trajectory, which brought him to believe the lights were not something out of this world. 

"They were moving super slow and kept going higher and higher, which led me to think they were balloons holding lights or lanterns with lights," he said. 

Others who snapped pictures of the nighttime event had no idea what to call it.

EJ Helzer said the lights displayed an erratic behavior. 

"Honestly it's hard to say exactly what they were, but they were higher than a commercial airline that was flying by last night," he said.

Helzer, a Queen Creek resident, described the movement of the lights as "fluid."

This cluster of lights made a brief appearance in the Arizona night sky on Dec.18, 2017

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"Some got very bright, dimmed down to nothing and then came back bright as can be," he said. 

Ian Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration said he didn't receive any reports of unusual activity over Valley skies Monday night.

SEE ALSO: Why are people still talking about the Phoenix Lights, the Valley's most famous UFO story?

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport didn't report any calls or reports of strange happenings in the area, according to Communications Director Ryan Smith. 

"We didn't give any clearance for drones, and if someone is launching something into the sky, they typically let us know," Smith said. 

Lindsey Pappas, spokeswoman for Intel, a California-based technology company with two branches in Arizona, said the company had no drones in the sky on Monday night, as suspected by several posters on Reddit.

This isn't Arizona's first encounter with unexplained, airborne anomalies. The "Phoenix Lights" of 1997 is still a topic of conversation anytime someone sees something out of the ordinary in the sky. 

Kurt Russell claims he was one of the first to report the "Phoenix Lights" to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The famous sighting was also the backdrop of the Ridley Scott produced film, "Phoenix Forgotten."

Whether alien-craft, lanterns or meteorites, unidentified lights will always add fuel to the conversation that we are not alone in the universe. 

The sighting in Queen Creek, combined with the revelations recently delivered by former Navy Pilot David Fravor, have to be exciting for those who want to believe that the truth is out there.

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MANKIND has long had an obsession with looking out for aliens... but what if they find us first?

Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence's UFO project, believes hyper-intelligent ETs may have already clocked our backwards little planet - and they could be watching our every move.µ

The UFO buff spoke to the Sun Online after alien hunters got all worked up about Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped asteroid that some scientists thought could be an alien spaceship.

Because of its unusual shape, researchers even scanned the 400-metre asteroid for alien tech.

And although the scans didn't flag any signs of life, Nick thinks we can't rule out the idea that our planet is being watched by more advanced beings.

He said: "While nothing has been found yet, there's another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it's possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside."

Some argue that this intelligence could take the form of either biological life or hyper-advanced AI, sent from deep space to keep an eye on our primitive world.

Nick added: "Simply put, any alien ship searching for life may go into a dormant mode until it gets close to an inhabited planet.

"But what's fascinating about this theory is just how many astronomers and other scientists are taking the idea seriously.

"It's a sign of how accepting we are these days about the likelihood of finding alien life"

And it's not just eccentric conspiracy theorists and sci-fi geeks getting excited about finding ET: even the Pentagon has been conducting multi-million-pound research into UFOs and alien life.

Nick says the recent news about the Pentagon's UFO search is huge, proving governments are taking the idea of extraterrestrial life more seriously than they often let on.

He said: "It's an extraordinary revelation, not least because it directly contradicts the many specific denials that the US government has issued previously when asked about this subject and their involvement in it."

"The take-home message here is that there's probably something out there, but we don't know what it is."

At the same time, Oumuamua has been causing so much hype among UFO hunters because of its odd shape, which is far smaller than most asteroids.

Nick argues that asteroids such as Oumuamua could serve as alien probes or ships in disguise, taking a very different look to the traditional disc-shaped craft we've seen in sci-fi films such as District 9.

He said: "Because there's no air in space, an alien spaceship wouldn't need to be designed in the same way that our aircraft have to be.

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On Wednesday, NASA revealed the two finalists for its New Frontiers program which could have implications for actual scientists searching for extraterrestrial life (unlike whatever’s going on at the Pentagon).

• Dragonfly, which will use a “drone-like rotorcraft” — sort of a space helicopter that parachutes down to the surface — to study the prebiotic chemistry and potential habitability of various locations on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

• CAESAR, “a mission to return a sample from the nucleus of a comet,” in the words of NASA.

Both will receive $4 million to work on their idea, and in 2019, NASA will choose one to build. The winning project could get up to $1 billion in funding from NASA and will launch sometime in the mid 2020s.

Why the Dragonfly Mission Could Be Big For Astrobiology

Between the two finalists, the Dragonfly mission could be particularly big for astrobiologists. NASA describes it as “a drone-like rotorcraft that would explore the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites on Saturn’s moon Titan,” which, yes, means it would be looking for signs of life. The lead investigator is Elizabeth Turtle from the Johns Hopkins University Applied PhysicsLaboratory (APL).

The plan is for Dragonfly to “hop” hundreds of kilometers from a particular spot on Titan, once a day every Titan day, which is equivalent to once every 16 Earth days. Hypothetically, Dragonfly would do this for about two years, taking various measurements along the moon’s surface.

“Titan is an ocean world, and the only moon in our Solar System with a dense atmosphere, which supports an Earth-like hydrological cycle of methane clouds, rain, and liquid flowing across the surface to fill lakes and seas,” the Dragonfly researchers write on their site about the mission. “The abundant complex organic material accessible on Titan’s surface makes it an ideal destination to study the conditions necessary for the habitability of an extraterrestrial environment and the kinds of chemical interactions that occurred before life developed on Earth.”

Some Hope For Enceladus

It’s also worth noting that one of the two concepts chosen to “receive technology development funds” is Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH), which seems to focus on finding biosignatures on Saturn’s strangest moon. According to a press release from NASA, the mission seeks to “develop cost-effective techniques that limit spacecraft contamination and thereby enable life detection measurements on cost-capped missions.” As we know from NASA’s Cassini mission, Enceladus and its subterranean ocean seem to have all the right ingredients to harbor life.

No matter what these projects find, one thing’s for sure: They already have a better shot at finding signs of life than politicians.

You've read that, now watch this: "A New Language Was Made for Aliens in 'Arrival"

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Since the Pentagon confirmed the existence of a top-secret UFO-hunting program, internet denizens have been trying to piece together the puzzle of this cheap X-Files reboot, starring Harry Reid and Robert Bigelow, apparently.

“It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Commander David Fravor told the Times of what he thought was a flying object in the sky. Some of what they saw has been published in a video that the Pentagon’s UFO search division studied for research, or, whatever.

But an astronomer tells Inverse what the airman more likely saw that night:

“Typically, the explanation is that the thing they are looking at is much closer or much farther than they thought, or is a reflection of some kind,” Jonathan McDowell, astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells Inverse.

McDowell makes clear that he hasn’t reviewed the case, though, but says this is what many “UFO sightings” turn out to be. Just a mere reflection.

It’d also help experts understand what happened if the Pentagon declassified more information about the AATIP, or Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The few details made public obviously don’t reveal any aliens. But what’s arguably more disturbing is they show how former Democratic Senator from Nevada Harry Reid was able to get $22 million in taxpayer money to give to his billionaire friend Robert Bigelow — a true believer in aliens — and his aerospace company. The money was for “research,” which included interviewing people who claimed to have had encounters with extraterrestrial objects.

For context, Bigelow has publicly claimed that aliens have visited us, because, sure.

“Internal reviews of classified data may not have the right mix of people for this,” McDowell explains. “Better to open all the data and let skeptics bash away.”

Researchers at the SETI Institute in California and METI International are both working toward contacting extraterrestrial life in different ways. If the government wants to find aliens so badly, they should just pay astronomers and astrobiologists. The concept isn’t rocket science.

You've read that, now watch this: "Arrival Language"

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