Unexplained booms have been one of the most prevalent unexplained phenomena of this year. While mysterious explosions in the sky are nothing new, they’ve been occurring with increasing regularity lately. The latest mystery booms happened this week over Tampa, Florida and was strong enough to shake houses across three different counties. Tampa resident Fred Krauer Jr. told the Tampa Bay Times that his home was rattled by the boom which left a disconcerting silence in its wake:

It sounded like a plane had crashed. I felt it in my feet in the shower. It’s a little unnerving, as with anything with the unknown. If we don’t have the answer for something, your mind starts reaching.

Spokespersons for six different government agencies claimed they were not responsible and had no knowledge whatsoever of the cause of the boom. Northern Florida is home to MacDill Air Force Base, Eglin Air Force Base, Tyndall Air Force Base, the 45th Space Wing, and Kennedy Space Center, so initial speculation centered around military activity in the area. However, MacDill AFB spokesperson Terry Montrose said there are “no records of fighters in the area.” An interesting choice of words – stating only that there were no fighters in the area leaves open the possibility that there could have been other type of aircraft overhead.

Tampa is no stranger to military activity overhead.

What’s more, the Tampa Bay Times reports that a Canadian Air Force spokesperson speaking on behalf of NORAD said that two aircraft were cleared to break the sound barrier over the Gulf of Mexico. All signs point to the likelihood that this was a military exercise of some kind, and the silence of officials in the area indicates it was classified or otherwise hush-hush. Given all of the anomalous aircraft sightings and strange activityspotted at known top secret test sites, could these booms be merely a further sign of recent military aircraft testing? Given that mystery booms pre-date the invention of aircraft, however, there could be more anomalous explanations. Is secretive military testing just a convenient scapegoat for something stranger or darker? Is there such a thing?

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The recent announcement by the Pentagon that it ran a secretive UAP/UFO program has hit the UFO community like a wave. The news followed a New York Times article which featured a $20 million-dollar program designed to investigate UFO reports and a 30-second video taken by an F-18 Super Hornet’s gun camera, and features the pilot’s audible reactions to an anomalous object they were tracking. While all this new information raises many questions, the biggest one is how will UFO lore and mythology change as a result?

Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, has this latest video posted on its website, alongside testimony from fighter pilots regarding another UFO sighting and gun camera video from 2004.

Suffice it to say, most major news outlets have picked up this story, and various UFO circles are in a tizzy. The excitement and the tension is palpable, but like all such events, we must be cautious. The UFO subculture, that nebulous group of individuals who engage with UFO discourse and debate, have been duped before. Furthermore, the ‘truth’ will mix with the fiction, and out of this relationship, more Ufological mythology will be born.

Thirty years ago, the infamous Majestic 12, or MJ-12 documents surfaced. In a series of books and conference lectures between 1987 and 1989, these documents were touted as being real proof of a governmental cover-up, crashed flying saucers, and even aliens hidden in underground bases. Almost immediately after their release to the broader UFO community and the general public, the documents were identified as elaborate hoaxes and potentially disinformation documents created by the intelligence community. While their validity is no longer in question, as they are definitely fraudulent, the mythology that they generated within UFO circles still exists.

If one dares to venture into the depths of the UFO subculture, questions, conversations and debates still rage on concerning hidden underground military bases in New Mexico, crashed flying discs and the recovery of extraterrestrial bodies. Furthermore, digging deeper, one will find significant connections between the major Ufological players involved in releasing these documents, and the intelligence community.

As George P. Hansen points out in his book, The Trickster and the Paranormal,

MJ-12, or a similar group by any other name, became a centrepiece of theorizing by UFOlogists. It established a governing paradigm for many researchers. They gathered snippets of evidence and tried fitting them into this framework.

Only a couple years previously, Paul Bennewitz and his interactions with various intelligence officials with the American government, also focused upon a similar thematic line; secret government bases, alien abductions, cattle mutilations, and a plot to slowly invade the planet via genetic manipulation. These motifs within UFO discourse still exist today, and many buy into them outright. Furthermore, they have become part of the subcultural landscape, taken for granted, mythologized, televised and reprinted ad infinitum as legitimate Ufological theory. Everyone seems to ignore the source of these myths, a government-sponsored campaign cloaked in a noble call to ‘tell the truth’ but used to potentially establish ideology and lore to move the UFO debate and community towards certain realities versus others.

While the MJ-12 and Bennewitz affairs are perhaps the most famous events which highlight known governmental influence upon UFO mythology, there have been other cases of potential meddling.

Michael Swords, in his book, UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry, points to the fact that NICAP, The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, had a member by the name of Colonel Joseph Bryan III. He eventually became a board member, and shortly thereafter, became the Board chair. He forced Donald Keyhoe, NICAP’s long-standing director and founder, to retire in 1969 and disbanded the organization. Bryan was a respected Air Force officer; however, he also was a CIA operative who was high up in the intelligence agency’s psychological warfare department.

It may be silly to assume that the CIA was involved in the destruction of NICAP. Most UFO organizations tend to suffer from significant infighting and members with inflated egos, so they need little help in destroying themselves, however, it does show that members of the intelligence world at least play the UFO game.

It is too early to begin ranting about some grand conspiracy concerning this recent release of information from the Pentagon, which may have somehow been motivated by To the Stars Academy. This has not stopped some from doing so, however, such as documentarian and researcher Dr Steven Greer, who was considered to be an ‘insider’ for quite some time now, is clearly on the ‘outs.’

Good while it lasted, I suppose.

Is this a Version 2.0 government-sponsored disinformation campaign similar to MJ-12? Is this a social assessment, a psychological ‘proving ground’ to ascertain the public’s propensity for belief, and methods on how to best dupe them for other, potentially nefarious and down to earth, reasons? Do these ‘advanced aerial threats’ reinforce the ‘extraterrestrial hypothesis’ and shut out other potential theories regarding the UFO question? How will this affect all those individuals within the UFO community who do not consider the UFO phenomenon a threat, but rather a positive interaction with another intelligence? What of all those alien abductees who have allegedly come face to face with this benevolent intelligence? Will this announcement further entrench the UFO subculture in the darkness of the social fringe? Or, will it bring the UFO community out into the light, where the academic and scientific communities will finally accept the potential for strange and supernatural aerial events that cannot be attributed to human engineering?

While that last one is a stretch, these questions are all on the tips of the subcultural tongue.

The fundamental questions we must ask, however, are what narratives are being created by the UFO community, and about the UFO community as a result of this ‘UAPgate.’ What ideology will be generated and reinforced during the next several days and weeks? What lore and mythologies are being created in the wake of this new information? Finally, who in the community is being silenced by this loud gong?

No one can predict the direct mythological and ideological outcomes of this story.  That being said, it all hovers around the American government and military, organizations that have not enjoyed the UFO community’s trust over the last several decades. Oddly enough, the direct result of the MJ-12 documents and the Bennewitz affair was basically an open call to cease putting one’s faith in the government, as they were involved in some pretty dubious shenanigans and conspiracies. However, in some strange twist of Ufological irony, many members of the community have total trust in this new information, suddenly putting blind confidence in an archetypal enemy of the UFO subculture.

It is too early to know whether this information is totally open and honest. The UFO community has been tricked before, and as the old saying goes, “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Will this event shift the entire UFO discourse? Perhaps, for the time being anyway. As one UFO enthusiast put it on Facebook concerning this announcement, “I’m feeling optimistic for a change…”

Perhaps the best approach is with caution, an open-mind, but caution. However, what we can assume is that the cause of this information release, the cast of characters behind this event, all have agendas. They are playing the UFO game, we just don’t know what rules they are playing by. History has taught us that when individuals from the government and the intelligence community play the game, they play to win.

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Humans Attack Security Robot in San Francisco

While this story sounds like it might be called “The Empire Strikes Back,” unfortunately the root of this lashing out against robot overlords had little to do with revolution … at least against robot overlords. Over the past month, a security robot hired/rented to protect the puppies and the employees at the San Francisco SPCA has been battered with barbecue sauce, fouled with feces, trapped under a tarp and bumped over by a bully. While the dedicated robot wants to keep working, the SPCA decided to place it on permanent leave. Why did this robot rouse the rowdies in San Francisco?

The program started with good intentions, according to the San Francisco Business Journal. The S.F. SPCA takes up an entire block in the Mission District, an area known for crime, car and building break-ins, drug use and informal encampments for homeless people. Jennifer Scarlett, the S.F. SPCA’s president, thought she had found a way to protect her employees at a low cost. She hired a K5 security robot from Knightscope, changed its name to a more appropriate K9 and put it to work on the SPCA’s perimeter. The K9 had an immediate effect on the grounds:

“We weren’t able to use the sidewalks at all when there’s needles and tents and bikes, so from a walking standpoint I find the robot much easier to navigate than an encampment.”

Is this the future of security?

That comment connecting the security robot to the homeless encampment is the one that started the backlash. As is the case these days, death threats were made towards the robot and it was vandalized and attacked, which is not a smart thing to do since K9/K5 weighed 398-pounds and was equipped with cameras, proximity sensors, wireless signal detectors and alarms. All that for only $6 an hour, which is far less than the $14 minimum wage in San Francisco … inciting more hatred of the robot for taking jobs that those homeless people could do.

Some local residents who encountered the K9 robot took the non-violent route and complained to City Hall about things like the robot blocking sidewalks and scaring dogs. That prompted the Department of Public Works to warn the SPCA that K9 was operating “without a proper approval” and they needed to take it off the sidewalks or face a fine. That worked better than the feces and K9 was laid off.

The robot took it well (another K5 “committed suicide” earlier this year in a fountain in Washington DC) and will probably be reassigned to another security job. Unfortunately for the protesters, even though Scarlett acknowledges the plight of the homeless and unemployed in the Mission District, but will not be hiring a human replacement. In fact, she sees robots coming back eventually.

“In five years we will look back on this and think, ‘We used to take selfies with these because they were so new.’”

Do you agree? Are robots inevitable and on the road to being friendly sidewalk sharers or is this just part of their master takeover plan?

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but am I the only one who is not overwhelmed by the new revelations concerning UFOs and the U.S. Government? In fact, I have to say that I’m completely underwhelmed by it all. Now, yes, it is undeniably interesting that there should have been a program, one which was carefully not revealed for years – at least, not to the public and the media. Until now, that is, as a result of the revelations of a few days ago that appeared in the New York Times. See this link.

Yes, all of this demonstrates that there are those within government who have an interest in UFOs, and to the point where they were willing to fund a program to re-address UFOs, decades after the Air Force’s UFO program, Project Blue Book, was shut down (in 1969). But, let’s take a look at what the new revelations really tell us. As we are told, the only reason why the program ever existed in the first place was because Senator Harry Reid (having a deep and personal interest in the UFO phenomenon) pushed and pushed the government to take a new and renewed look at the subject.

As a result of Senator Reid’s actions, yes, the program was created. But, as the New York Times makes it clear to us, the bulk of the money went to, and I quote the newspaper, “an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow…” So, the government was not planning on readdressing the UFO phenomenon until Senator Reid made an approach. And yes, the government finally decided to do something – and what they did was to provide most of the the funding to the aerospace research company of a friend of Reid. But, when it comes to the matter of the overall, annual U.S. Department of Defense budget, that figure was minuscule. If this really was a top secret UFO program, far more money would have been channeled into it, and we would not be hearing about it at all.

I have had people contact me to say that all of this is evidence of secret UFO programs and (as one person put it to me) “the new inheritors of MJ12.” Well, for a start, the MJ12 saga is bullshit and something which kept Ufology busy for not just years but for decades. And where has it led us? Nowhere, that’s where. Now, I don’t dispute the possibility that there could be top secret UFO programs hidden deep in the heart of the government, the military and/or the intelligence community. In fact, I would be very surprised if such things don’t exist.

But, a project that only existed because a senator kept trying to make it happen – followed by the government finally dishing out the money outside of government – does not sound like a top secret program of highly-classified proportions. And certainly not one which had access to alien bodies and crashed UFOs, as a Facebook friend suggested to me -in all seriousness – just a few hours ago. Let’s keep all of this in perspective: government agencies often throw money at outside enterprises and for all sorts of reasons. And, yes, the existence of the program is usually not spoken about. At least, not until it surfaces into the public domain – as was the case this past weekend.

So, yes, I do find the latest news to be slightly intriguing. But, look at how the group came together, look at how the Government largely handed the work outside, and look at the fact that it was all shut down after half a decade. What we see is the kind of thing that goes on all the time in government. What we’re not seeing is evidence of “the U.S. Government’s Top Secret UFO Project.”

Such a program might exist, but this wasn’t it.

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Time Traveler Reveals Map of the United States After Catastrophes

Al Bielek was born in 1927. While working for various military contractors, the people who worked with him began to reveal the truth about the US government’s involvement with extraterrestrials and PSYOPS (Psychological Operations) programs. Strange things started to happen to him soon afterwards.

Recruited into the “Montauk Project,” Bielek said he worked his normal day job in California, and then would take a highly classified underground magnetic levitation subway train from Los Angeles to Montauk.

The Montauk Project is an alleged series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island, for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel.

In the 1980's when the time control programs were operational, Al Bielek's duties were to handle the operations of the Mind Control program as well as he participated in some of the time travel experiments.

Both he and Duncan who was one of the Montauk Boys programmers under Al Bielek traveled to Mars on several occasions.

During a mind control/time travel session he got visions of major catastrophes to our planet especially to the United States. His visions have been worked out on a map which shows that in the future large parts of the U.S. will be under water.

Besides the visions of many other futurists of what the United States will look like in the future, probably the most appealing vision came from the American psychic Edgar Cayce called "The Sleeping Prophet" who received a message which was transmitted while he was in a sleep-like trance that the earth will be broken up in many places whereby many portions of the East Coast and West Coast, as well as the central portion of the United States will be under water.

Al Bielek as well as Edgar Cayce both received the messages/visions at the time they were in an altered state of consciousness. Such a state of awareness opens a gate to visual experiences other than normal waking consciousness.

  

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Alien Hunter Reveals the Most Disturbing Part of the Pentagon's UFO Program

By Rae Paoletta

 

When the New York Times reported Saturday that the Pentagon had spent several years and $22 million researching the possible existence of UFOs, tinfoil hat believers breathed a sigh of relief. The rest of us were surprised, but accepted the news nonetheless because it’s 2017 and nothing makes sense. All that said, an alien hunter-slash-scientist in California tells Inverse that there is something unnerving about this story, but it’s not the UFOs.

“There are a couple examples of really puzzling phenomenon,” SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak tells Inverse. “I mean, I get it, but there’ve always been puzzling cases. There are always plenty of interesting cases, and they make for great television shows. But this doesn’t mean they involve phenomena we’ve never seen before.”

According to the Times, the Pentagon recently confirmed that it had taken part in a partially declassified program to investigate UFOs, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The project — which was launched primarily at the request of former Nevada Democrat Harry Reid — ran from at least 2007 through 2012, though some involved believe it’s still alive in a less organized form.

Reid had apparently been influenced by his friend Robert Bigelow, a billionaire and aerospace entrepreneur who told CBS’s 60 Minutes back in May that he’s “absolutely convinced” UFOs have visited Earth.

According to Shostak, Bigelow’s obsession with extraterrestrials has gone back much longer.

“I know him a little bit; he’s a nice guy!” Shostak explains. “But he’s thought there’s been evidence of an alien visitation for a very long time, as least as long as I’ve known him, and that’s been about 15 years.”

If Bigelow wanted to spend his own money to fund a real-life X-Files, that’d be one thing. But according to the Times, the $22 million appropriated to AATIP — which came from taxpayer money — went to Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace. With this cash, Bigelow hired people to construct buildings to house items that came from supposed UFOs and brought on researchers to study people who said they’d encountered extraterrestrial objects.

For Shostak, what’s “a little disturbing” about the ordeal is that Bigelow, who has collaborated with NASA despite having no scientific background, has received so much money from the project.

“[Bigelow] doesn’t need more money,” he explains. “He’s a very likeable guy, but he’s been convinced all along that we’re being ‘visited.’ And it doesn’t mean [aliens are visiting us] just because a person of note thinks it’s true. The thing that’s a little disturbing about this is that it seems a lot of the money for this study went to Bob Bigelow. I think that if you really wanted to investigate this stuff, the thing to do is to give this to scientists or experts in the field that don’t have a dog in the fight.”

While some of the AATIP mission remains classified, at this point, a few things remain true. One, Harry Reid is good at campaigning on behalf of his friends’ pipe dreams. Two, Robert Bigelow is seriously invested in finding aliens among us. And three, we haven’t found proof of any extraterrestrial beings, as badly as we all want that to happen.

“If the aliens were actually visiting us since 1947, when they made that navigation error in New Mexico, you’d have really good evidence,” Shostak says. “It wouldn’t all be in the hands of the government — and not just the government, our government. If the aliens had bothered to visit any other countries, wouldn’t they have evidence? I find it hard to believe that everybody’s covering it up.

“The bottom line is somebody spent 20 million dollars of your tax dollars to look into this and they didn’t come up with anything.”

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US fighter pilot about a UFO: “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen”

Close encounters of pilots are among the most reliable testimonies about the presence of UFOs in our skies, and some of the most incredible accounts of UFO sightings come from pilots who spent thousands of hours in the air.

This is because pilots are highly trained to differentiate and evaluate what they see in their field of work.

Recently, the prestigious newspaper The New York Times published an interview in which the crew of two fighter-bombers F-18 Hornet of the United States Navy recounted a strange chapter that occurred in 2004, in which they saw what seemed to be an unusual flying craft, they could not identify.

Officers David Fravor and Jim Slaight were on a training mission over the Pacific, about 160 kilometers from the coast when they received a radio message on their F / A-18F Super Hornet fighter-bomber.

A USS Princeton cruise officer asked them if the plane carried weapons on board.

“Two CATM-9s,” Fravor responded, referring to referring to dummy missiles that could not be fired.

Clearly, no one expected that in the middle of November 2004 there would be a threat off the coasts of California.

As noted by the New York Times, and as we can see in the video, Fravor recalled the words of the radio operator that came later:

“Well, we have a vector for you.”

Curiously, the USS Princeton had been following a strange contact for two weeks, consisting of what appeared to be several ‘objects’ that suddenly appeared at high altitude, about 24,000 meters, and then launched into the sea, stopping and hovering about six kilometers from the water.

After that, the contacts disappeared from the radar without a clear explanation.

Fravor and Slaight tried to investigate the contact, so they turned towards finding the Unidentified Flying Object.

When the control informed them that they were already in position, they discovered that there was nothing in sight or within reach of the F-18’s radar.

Then, Fravor relates that below, an oval object appeared leaving a trail behind it. The object measured about 12 meters and seemed to fly up and down erratically, without moving in a particular direction.

It had a whitish appearance reminiscent of foam or boiling water, the pilot recalls.

Cautious, the crew of the fighter-bomber began a gentle descent towards the object. But, suddenly, the “thing” began to ascend towards them, so Fravor decided to start a direct descent towards the UFO.

But then, the object abandoned its trajectory.

“It accelerated like nothing I’ve seen,” says Fravor in the interview. As he remembers, he was “quite overwhelmed.”

After losing contact, the USS Princeton gave them a meeting point, called the cap point, in aviation parlance, almost 100 kilometers away.

While in-route, the Princeton radioed again.

Radar had again picked up the strange aircraft once again.

“Sir, you won’t believe it,” the radio operator said, “but that thing is at your cap point.”

According to Fravor, the object had taken less than a minute to travel 100 kilometers.

This raises the question of what type of ‘aircraft’ can outperform an F18, and travel at such speeds as if the laws of aerodynamics had no influence whatsoever over it?

When they reached the point, there was no sign of the UFO, so Fravor and Slaight returned to the aircraft carrier they had left, the USS Nimitz.

According to the pilots, their superiors did not open an investigation to study what happened, but his fellow pilots soon laughed at him when they learned of the strange encounter.

When a colleague asked Fravor what he had seen that day, he replied:

“I have no idea. It had no feathers, wings or rotors and was much faster than our F-18.”

He added: “I want to fly one.”

Does this video, and statement from the pilots suggest the UFO presence is real? And that we are being visited, contacted and monitored by entities, not from Earth? According to millions of people around the globe, this video, in addition to countless other materials is the ultimate proof that Alien spacecraft have been visiting our planet for decades.

Maybe, after all, UFO disclosure is near.

Source:

•  NY Times / 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’

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The Pentagon spent $ 22 million on a Secret Program to study UFOs

According to newly declassified materials, the Pentagon spent at least $22 million dollars researching the UFO phenomena in a secret program that existed for at least three years, reports the NY Times.

So, the logical question here is, if UFO’s aren’t real? Why on Earth would anyone in their right mind spend $22 million dollars investigating something that’s not real?

It is believed that from 2008 through 2011, the Pentagon secretly spent a budget of at least $22 million dollars on a program that specifically investigated unidentified flying objects; The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. This secret program as supposedly shut down in 2012. The secret program was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze, reports the NY Times.

This is the first time that the Pentagon has acknowledged the existence of the secret program, and UFO hunters around the world rejoice as they see this as a sign that UFO disclosure is near.

Elizondo resigned his post in October because of his frustration over the lack of funds and the Pentagon’s attention to his efforts, according to the report.

This shows that the Pentagon has had a great interest in UFO’s for many years and that the government has allocated a very large budget in hopes o understanding what UFO’s really are.

The declassified papers also show that the UFO phenomenon is not something new and that the government has been researching it for decades while keeping all information hidden away from the general public.

In the resignation letter that Elizondo sent to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, according to The Time, he stated that the government should take the matter seriously.

“Despite overwhelming evidence at both the classified and unclassified levels, certain individuals in the [Defense] Department remain staunchly opposed to further research on what could be a tactical threat to our pilots, sailors and soldiers, and perhaps even an existential threat to our national security,” Elizondo wrote in a resignation letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the Post reported.

Elizondo added that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”

We must not forget that the Air Force has looked into the UFO phenomena before. As part of the so-called Project Blue Book program, the Air Force investigated UFO’s between 1947 and 1969 guttering thousands of documents on unidentified aerial vehicles.

In 1947, In 1947, the U.S. Air Force launched Project Sign with the goal of the collecting, collating, evaluating and distributing within the government all the information related to UFO sightings, under the premise that UFOs could be real and due to national security concerns”.

The project determined that while UFO’s appeared to represent actual aircraft, there was not enough data to determine their origin.

Source: 

• Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

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Space radiation might cause bone loss in astronauts

BY TIBI PUIU 

Astronauts living aboard the International Space Station may experience bone and muscle loss due to the combined effects of microgravity and radiation, scientists report. The findings have important implications for how NASA engineers plan on mitigating the effects of radiation for upcoming deep-space missions such as a manned trip to Mars.

Credit: Pixabay.

Like muscles, bone is a dynamic tissue which adapts to demand. If there’s frequently increased load, bones will grow bigger to meet this demand. In a weightless environment, however, muscles will atrophy and bones will lose density. What’s more, radiation also seems to play a role in bone density loss but not in muscle atrophy, a recent study funded by NASA informs.

Researchers led by Henry Donahue from Virginia Commonwealth University studied mice whose movements were restricted, thereby simulating microgravity. Another group of mice were left to roam freely while being exposed to radiation of the kind experienced in space.

“Radiation plus microgravity amplifies the negative effect of microgravity on bone, but does not affect muscle loss,” Donahue said in a statement. “It’s as if exposure to radiation itself doesn’t affect bone, but it makes it more sensitive to the negative effects of microgravity.”

Donahue says that loss of bone and muscle experienced by astronauts is similar to what doctors see in aging people. Older people, he said, “fall more, they break their bones more.” In the future, understanding how microgravity impacts human biology might reveal important insight regarding the effects aging has on muscle and bone.

Sadly, this is more bad news for manned space flight. Previously, scientists at the University of California, Irvine, found mice exposed to space radiation experienced cognitive decline, accompanied by changes in the structure and integrity of brain nerve cells and the synapses.

Charles Limoli, a scientist at the University of California, Irvine, previously found similar kinds of brain damage in cancer patients who had received high-dose, photon-based radiation treatments. The oncologist says that astronauts would require months and months worth of exposure to deep space radiation for brain damage to occur. Considering the shortest one-way trip to Mars lasts 260 days, that’s cause for worry.

“Exposure to these particles can lead to a range of potential central nervous system complications that can occur during and persist long after actual space travel – such as various performance decrements, memory deficits, anxiety, depression and impaired decision-making,” said Limoli.

Astronaut performs kneeling lift with ARED device. 

Credit: NASA.

No escaping radiation

Now, we know that radiation will also incur an additional bone loss in astronauts. Deep space radiation is an unsolved problem, as no amount of shielding can block off highly energetic space rays from penetrating a spaceship.

The effects of weightlessness are also problematic. Besides incurring significant muscle and bone loss after only a couple of weeks spent in space, microgravity also impairs vision byliterally deforming the eyeball. Other, more subtle effects, include genes that turn on and off (with unclear consequences at this point) and longer telomeres (which slow down chromosome deterioration).

To counter the bone and muscle loss, since 2008, astronauts aboard the ISS have been using the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED), which allows them to simulate free-weight exercises in normal gravity. Each astronaut has an allocated exercise time of two hours a day in space. But despite exercise, it still takes months of rehabilitation to adjust when returning to Earth after a typical six-month space mission.

Scientific reference: 

Andrew R. Krause et al. Simulated space radiation sensitizes bone but not muscle to the catabolic effects of mechanical unloading, PLOS ONE (2017). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182403. 

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The Search for Life on Mars Should Go Underground, Scientists Say

Our First Interstellar Visitor Is Covered in a Layer Of “Organic Sunscreen”

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The people in Wales desperate to find the truth about UFOs and aliens

A small determined group are compiling their own Welsh X-Files

By Katie Bellis -Video Journalist

A group of people in Swansea are hoping to unravel the mystery of UFO sightings in Wales.

The question over whether aliens exist has caused debate for centuries.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed for years that aliens have been visiting Earth, but many doubt their claims.

Swansea UFO Network, however, strongly believe in UFOs and alien abduction, and have evidence which they feel backs up their beliefs.

The group were founded in 2015, and since then Emlyn Williams, Steve Drewson and Mike Maunder have been researching various cases reported to them from members of the public.

They have so far had 752 reported sightings in south Wales.

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According to their research, hotspots where you are most likely to see a UFO are Townhill, Gower and Pentyrch, although the group have had reports from all over south Wales.

They hold monthly conferences as well as regular night time Sky-Watches around South Wales.

“I first believed in UFOs around the age of 15 when I picked up a book about the subject,” said Emlyn, who is from Wanarlwydd.

“I enjoy collecting cases, I started doing it before the group was put together. I’ve always wanted to set up a group. We don’t get paid for this, we do a lot of travelling and work long hours.

“People don’t get ridiculed for going to church yet there is more evidence that ETs exist than God. Where’s the evidence that God exists?

“People will send us a family photo and they will notice an object in the background that wasn’t there at the time, we get it blown up and there’s a picture of a craft behind,” the 53 year-old added.

Steve, aged 64, from Gower, said he was open minded about everything.

“I have always believed in UFOs, people who dismiss it altogether are ignorant of the subject.

“Religious people don’t get ridiculed for their beliefs, I don’t see why we should.

“A lot of people say if they do exist then why haven’t we got any good photographs but the reason for that is that most of the time they move too fast.”

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He said people came to their monthly meetings to share their stories as they knew they weren’t going to be laughed at.

“You do have to see it first to believe it so I understand why some may not believe. We just want to get the truth out of this but I doubt we will in our lifetime.”

Mike, aged 54, from Gower, said the group researched thoroughly into every case.

“If people see a sighting they will come to us and we will research into it. We check flight radars, satellites, drones and military operations. That allows us to write off certain cases.

“We will then meet with witnesses to get primary source information. We have met so many people and you can tell if someone is telling the truth because they will tell you time and time again their story and they won’t change it.

“A lot of sightings do seem to have objects appearing out of nowhere and disappearing quickly. It doesn’t matter what time of the day it is, but most sighting’s happen in the night as that’s when lights seem to attract the eye more.”

The researchers said people would often lie about sightings in order to get attention.

“There’s a lot of conspiracy theories out there which makes it hard and hides the truth, the internet is the prime example of this,” said Steve.

“A lot of people are posting videos and pictures but no one takes it serious, with CGI you can fake so much stuff and make it look real.

“A lot of people who are telling the truth don’t want to give their names so you can tell they are not doing it for attention.

“People lie because they just want a bit of fame.”

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The trio have also had several cases of alien abduction reported to them.

Emlyn, who also works full-time as a caricaturist, has had a few cases where people have been taken on board a craft.

The abducted family

“We know quite a lot of people who have been abducted. In the 90s a family from Newport were abducted,” said Emlyn.

“They were driving across the old Severn bridge and they saw a light and a circle shape object in the sky.

“The father can remember being in a craft and he was naked with beings who had control over him.

“The next thing he knew he was driving the car and it was light, the daughters were dazed and stunned and they were ill afterwards. The family have never wanted to be named.

“We also find that a lot of sightings are by schools. There’s definitely a link with children and schools.”

The Night of the Triangles

“This occurred on the evening of January 19, 1983, when dozens of witnesses in the Swansea and Port Talbot area (over 60 recorded so far), saw huge black triangular-shaped craft, some the size of jumbo jets, some the size of a family car, hovering silently just over roof-tops, two of which moved slowly and silently over Swansea Bay, and one possibly causing a power failure in Bishopston,” said Steve.

“We call it The Night of the Triangles and we are tracking down many of the witnesses, and filming interviews which have been put on SUFON’s YouTube channel. Two witnesses were CID inspectors making a house call in the Trallwn area of Swansea who saw a huge craft ‘about the size of a football pitch’ moving over the valley and heading towards the coast.”

“This was one of the biggest UFO sightings ever and it’s been underestimated in my opinion. All of these people can’t be lying, none of them knew each other, they had nothing to gain from this,” the 64-year-old added.

The refinery incident

“Another sighting that evening, from a family at home in Skewen , was of a gigantic triangle - which moved from Kilvey Hill to Llandarcy in an instant, and which then hovered over the BP oil refinery. The size was truly huge, covering much of the refinery!”

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Navy pilot recalls encounter with UFO: 'I think it was not from this world'

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Grote koppen afgelopen weekend in de mainstream media, want er zijn in het geheim door het Pentagon miljoenen dollars gestoken in onderzoek naar UFO's. 

Het niet publiekelijk bekendgemaakte programma dat begon in 2007 en is stopgezet in 2012 zou dan volgens sommigen aantonen dat Disclosure nu toch wel echt heel dichtbij is gekomen.

Afgelopen weekend te lezen bij de mainstream media:

Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie heeft jarenlang miljoenen gestoken in onderzoek naar ufo's. Dat onthult de Amerikaanse krant The New York Times. Het onderzoek werd geleid vanuit het Pentagon en begon in 2007 en eindigde in 2012.

Jaarlijks trok Defensie 22 miljoen uit voor het onderzoek naar buitenaards leven, zo bevestigt het ministerie de onthulling van de krant. De uitgaven stonden verstopt in de begroting, zo stelt The New York Times.

En dit:

Wanneer je beseft dat er de afgelopen decennia een bedrag "zoek" is geraakt binnen het Pentagon van 10 trillion dollars op zijn Amerikaans, wat bij ons 10 biljoen dollar is, oftewel een 10 met twaalf nullen erachter, dan begrijp je dat er echt grote dingen gaande zijn in de achtergrond.  Dat er grote bedragen zoek zijn bij het Pentagon is niet iets waarover alleen in de alternatieve media wordt bericht, maar ook in de mainstream media, the black budget.

Het is ook niet nieuw want "toevalligerwijze" berichte de toenmalige Amerikaanse Minister van Defensie, Donald Rumsfeld, de dag voor de aanslagen in New York op 11 september 2001 dat hij een bedrag van 2,3 biljoen dollar "kwijt was" binnen het Pentagon.

 

Het verhaal van de 22 miljoen dollar die is uitgeven aan UFO onderzoek door het Pentagon is dan ook een prachtige afleidingsmanoeuvre voor wat er werkelijk allemaal speelt.

Terug naar een onlangs door ons gepubliceerd interview met de befaamde Watergate advocaat Douglas Caddy:

David Caddy was heel goed bevriend met één van de inbrekers en dat was de CIA agent en insider E. Howard Hunt. Tijdens de allerlaatste ontmoeting die Hunt en Caddy hadden, vertelde deze dat de werkelijke reden dat ze die bewuste inbraak hadden gepleegd, was om bewijs boven tafel te krijgen dat er een grote samenzwering was geweest om John F. Kennedy te vermoorden.

Hunt vertelde Caddy dat de werkelijke reden dat JFK was vermoord was omdat hij pogingen ondernam om buitenaards leven bekend te maken en dat hij deze kennis wilde delen met de Russen, met wie Amerika ook toen al was verwikkeld in een Koude Oorlog.

Na de gebeurtenissen bij Roswell en andere UFO incidenten eind jaren veertig werd er door de overheid een geheime groepering in het leven geroepen onder de naam Majestic 12, ook wel MJ12 genoemd, iets waarover wij al eerder schreven.

Het doel van MJ12 was het bestuderen van het buitenaardse fenomeen en via zogenaamde "reverse engineering" zelf ook dit soort ruimteschepen te bouwen. 

Echter, de macht van deze MJ12 werd steeds groter, zodanig zelfs dat het niet meer onder de supervisie van de president viel. Deze groep opereerde als zelfstandige eenheid binnen de veiligheidsdiensten zoals de CIA. Toen John. F. Kennedy dit gewaar werd, ondernam hij een aantal initiatieven om dit recht te zetten en om zo eveneens controle te krijgen over de technologie die inmiddels was ontwikkeld op basis van de beschikbare buitenaardse voorbeelden.

En waar is een groot deel van de ontbrekende Pentagon biljoenen gebleven? Dat wordt duidelijk uit het volgende, wat een deel is van een ander eerder door ons gepubliceerd artikel:

Het schijnt dat de crash van een vliegende schotel in 1936 in Duitsland de werkelijke start was van het Duitse Vliegende Schotel programma. Er werd een operationele schotel getest in 1939, maar dit soort door elektromagnetisme aangedreven schepen, konden niet echt worden gebruikt in de oorlog. Dat was omdat er geen centrales waren die klein en compact genoeg waren om in de schotels te passen en die bovendien nog een geweldige hoeveelheid elektriciteit moesten kunnen leveren om de grote condensatoren te voeden die op hun beurt weer de magnetische velden moesten creëren die de schotels aandreven. 

Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzamelden zowel de Russen als de Amerikanen niet alleen de wetenschappers die werkten aan conventionele raketten, maar ook de vliegende schotel wetenschappers samen met veel van hun uitrusting, om tegelijkertijd zowel een conventioneel als een niet conventioneel ruimteprogramma te kunnen beginnen. 

Het duurde niet zolang voordat de conventionele aandrijving begin jaren '60 overbodig werd. De aanwezige raketprogramma’s waren niets meer dan een dure propaganda-operatie voor publieke consumptie, om een fantasieverhaal levend te houden, een die al heel snel sterk afweek van het werkelijke verhaal. 

Het geheime ruimteprogramma kwam onder de toenemende invloed van de wereldelite die georganiseerd was in de Bilderbergconferentie, een groep van machtige industriëlen, bankiers en Europese koninklijke families. 

Het legerproject uit 1959, Project Horizon, werd in het geheim ingevoerd om zowel bases op de Maan als op Mars te bouwen. Volgens een aantal betrouwbare klokkenluiders worden deze bases gebruikt en onderhouden door de Bilderbergvloot. 

Uit een vrijgegeven document van Wright Patterson kunnen we zien dat men in 1956 al bezig was met het plaatsen van nucleaire aandrijving in schotels. De senior wetenschapper van Lockheed, Boyd Bushman, liet in een interview in 1959 technische tekeningen zien van een operationele vliegende schotel, aangedreven door een nucleaire centrale. 

Een technicus uit Area 51, Bill Uhouse, claimde dat hij al vroeg in de jaren '60 samengewerkt heeft met een Grey Alien in vliegende schotel simulators waarin piloten leerden vliegen met deze objecten. 

In dezelfde tijdsperiode werkte een luchtmacht technicus, Charles Hall, bij Nellis en had contact met de Tall White Extraterrestrials (Grote Witte Buitenaardsen). Zij lieten hem een TW shuttle schotel van binnen zien waarmee je naar de Maan en naar Mars kon reizen, maar niet dieper de ruimte in. Deze schotel had logo’s van alle grote lucht- en ruimtevaartbedrijven in het interieur van de schotel. 

Er was een ongeluk met een door kernenergie aangedreven schotel in 1980 waarbij een lekkage ontstond in een reactorvat. Terwijl de schotel was omringd door drie militaire helikopters kregen drie personen de volle laag straling over zich heen. Deze zaak is uiteindelijk tot in het Congres gekomen, zonder enige vorm van compensatie voor de slachtoffers. 

Ongeveer 10 jaar geleden slaagde de Engelsman Gary McKinnon erin om de computers van NASA te hacken en ontdekte de code naam “Solar Warden” en roosters voor alle buitenaardse officieren en lijsten met rompnummers van de grote ruimteschepen, groter dan twee voetbalvelden, en hun kleinere beschermers. Maar, vier jaar voordat McKinnon zijn ontdekking deed werd er op het Open Mind Forum al gesproken over Solar Warden en ook dat de Bilderbergers eigenaar zouden zijn van die bewuste ruimtevloot. 

Alle bestaande ruimteprogramma’s dienen om de bevolking zand in de ogen te strooien. De Solar Warden vloot bestond in 2005 uit acht grote ruimteschepen, vergelijkbaar met vliegkampschepen, en 43 “beschermers”, wat natuurlijk ook ruimteschepen zijn.

Naast de bekendmaking van het project van 22 miljoen dollar zijn er ook enkele video's vrijgegeven uit 2004 die absoluut echt zijn en waarbij op de radarschermen van gevechtsvliegtuigen objecten te zien zijn die allesbehalve lijken op vliegtuigen zoals wij die kennen en die op een gegeven moment ook met hoge snelheid wegvliegen.

Er zijn in totaal drie video's vrijgegeven, waarvan de eerste twee inmiddels zijn gepubliceerd en die volgen hierna.

 

 

Hebben we hier dan het begin van de Disclosure zoals sommigen denken en luidkeels van de daken schreeuwen?

Nee, allesbehalve, want Disclosure betekent openheid van zaken geven over dat er al jarenlang buitenaards contact is en dat de mensheid met haar geheime ruimtevloot al vele malen verder is in technische ontwikkeling dan ons altijd is verteld.

Uiteraard wordt dit geheime 22 miljoen dollar project nu met een bepaalde reden naar buiten gebracht en die zou bijvoorbeeld heel goed kunnen zijn dat er binnenkort stemmen op gaan in het Amerikaanse Congres naar aanleiding van de recente "onthullingen" dat het Pentagon nog vele miljarden dollars extra nodig heeft op korte termijn, want dat er nu toch wel een gerede kans is dat er buitenaardsen bestaan en wij, de mensheid, moeten ons natuurlijk wel hiertegen kunnen verdedigen, indien nodig.

In dat licht kun je dan ook de vrijgave zien eerder dit jaar van 13 miljoen CIA documenten over het UFO onderwerp, maar bovenal de recente waarschuwingen van de UFO specialist van het Engelse leger Nick Pope, waar wij onlangs over schreven.

Zo vertelt Nick Pope in een recent interview dat een invasie van buitenaardsen helemaal niet denkbeeldig is en dat wij er goed aan zouden doen om ons daarop voor te bereiden. Dat niet alleen, maar dat we er ook maar beter van uit kunnen gaan dat ze kwade bedoelingen hebben.

Het zijn allemaal stappen naar de laatste troefkaart die door de elite zal worden gespeeld, de nep buitenaardse invasie waarover wij al jaren schrijven:

Je kunt ervoor kiezen een buitenaardse dreiging te veinzen, waarbij het lijkt alsof de wereld op het punt staat te worden aangevallen door een vloot ruimteschepen. Dit is het scenario waarvoor Wernher von Braun aan het eind van zijn leven voor waarschuwde. 

Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was de wellicht meest controversiële raketbouwer ooit. Hij maakte de dodelijke V2-raketten voor Hitler en nadien de ruimtevaartraketten voor de NASA, waarmee onder andere  de eerste landing van een mens op de maan werd uitgevoerd. 

Ongeveer drie jaar voor zijn dood kwam hij in aanraking met Dr. Carol Rosin. Misschien kreeg hij aan het eind van zijn leven iets van wroeging, want haar vertelde hij een groot aantal geheimen. Om de gigantische kosten en de mega verdiensten voor de ruimtewapensystemen enigszins te rechtvaardigen en de agenda voor de New World Order te promoten, zouden er kunstmatige vijanden worden gecreëerd. 

Eerst zou dat Rusland zijn. Daarna de terroristen. Vervolgens de landen in het Midden-Oosten. Dan de laatste troefkaart: Een bedreiging uit de ruimte.

Hier een korte Nederlands ondertitelde video van Carol Rosin waarin zij haar verhaal vertelt:

 

Het nieuws van afgelopen weekend heeft dan ook niets te maken met Disclosure, maar alles met de volgende stappen naar meer slavernij van de wereldbevolking, ook wel de New World Order genoemd.

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NASA-telescoop ontdekt twee nieuwe planeten - HLN.be

Bron: NASA

Kepler 90-i

De ster Kepler 90 ligt op 2545 lichtjaren van ons vandaan in het Draak-sterrenbeeld en is een beetje warmer, groter en zwaarder dan onze zon. Voordien waren er zeven planeten in het stelsel van Kepler gekend. 

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De nieuw ontdekte planeet Kepler 90-i is de kleinste in het stelsel en heeft vermoedelijk een rotsachtige bodem. De temperatuur op planeet Kepler 90-i schommelt volgens de berekeningen van NASA rond 423 graden Celsius: de planeet is ongeveer 30 procent groter dan de Aarde. Kepler 90-i draait in ongeveer 14,5 dagen om haar zon.

De onderzoekers vermoeden dat het Kepler 90-zonnestelsel nog niet al haar geheimen heeft prijsgegeven. “Er is veel vastgoed in het stelsel van Kepler 90,” zegt Andrew Vanderburg, astronoom en professor aan de universiteit van Austin. “Het zou me verbazen als er niet nog meer planeten in het stelsel van Kepler 90 zouden zijn.”

Artificiële intelligentie

Volgens NASA was Google betrokken bij wat ze een ‘doorbraakontdekking’ noemen. Dankzij de artificiële intelligentie (AI) van Google was het mogelijk om een veel grotere hoeveelheid van data te doorzoeken dan wanneer alles zou geanalyseerd zou moeten worden door menselijke onderzoekers. Zonder ‘machine learning’ zou het veel langer geduurd hebben om de planeet te ontdekken, beklemtoont Christopher Shallue, software-ingenieur bij Google AI.

De voorbije vier jaar verzamelde de Keplertelescoop 35.000 signalen die mogelijk van andere planeten afkomstig zijn. Die data worden doorgaans geanalyseerd met geautomatiseerde tests en het menselijk oog, maar de zwakkere signalen worden op die manier vaak over het hoofd gezien.

Shallue en Vanderburg trainden daarom computers om het patroon te herkennen van een exoplaneet die voor een ster passeert. Vervolgens werden 670 sterrenstelsels geanalyseerd die al meerdere gekende planeten hadden, in de veronderstelling dat de kans groter was om daar meer exoplaneten te ontdekken. “We kregen veel valse positieven voor planeten, maar ook meer echte potentiële planeten,” aldus Vanderburg. “Het is zoals tussen stenen op zoek gaan naar diamanten. Als je een fijnere zeef hebt, zal je meer stenen vinden, maar je kan ook meer diamanten vinden.”

Wat is die Keplertelescoop?

In 2009 werd de Keplertelescoop de ruimte in gelanceerd, al die tijd speurt die naar exoplaneten. Dat zijn planeten die draaien om andere sterren dan de zon. Het bestaan van deze planeten is voornamelijk afgeleid van indirecte waarnemingen en daarop gebaseerde berekeningen. NASA is zo tevreden over het werk van de ruimtetelescoop dat ze in 2014, een jaar nadat zijn taak er officieel opzat, een nieuwe reeks onderzoeken met de Kepler startten. Toen de missie begon, wisten wetenschappers niet hoeveel exoplaneten er zijn, maar intussen werd duidelijk dat ze vaker voorkomen dan gedacht en dat elke ster er minstens één heeft. }

De Keplertelescoop scant het zwerk voortdurend en bekijkt daarbij meer dan 145.000 sterren. Wetenschappers zijn vooral alert voor sterren wier licht dimt wanneer een planeet voor ze komt te staan. Door de patronen van dat dimmen te onderzoeken, kunnen ze achterhalen hoeveel planeten elke ster heeft en hoe die eruit zouden kunnen zien.

De Keplertelescoop heeft tot nog toe het bestaan van 225 planeten aan het licht gebracht, zegt Jessie Dotson, verantwoordelijke wetenschapper voor het Keplerproject. 

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Alien Spacecraft Above The Moon’s Surface?

In the nearly 20,000 Apollo Mission images they've now released to the public, we are finding alarming evidence of ET space vehicles.

This image, though, requires no altering of exposure or any other filters in order to view a possible alien craft flying near the moon during Apollo 14.

The object is indeed an alien craft or it is just a photographic defect, a speck of dust on the photograph and no-one cared or bothered with it... or could it be the Command Module?

UFO caught on tape over Mount Adams, Washington

New footage of a strange craft over Mount Adams in Washington.

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Gulf Breeze UFO Incident Still Divides the Public 30 Years Later

Three decades ago, a building contractor in Gulf Breeze released strange pictures of circular UFOs to local media. Days later, those photos set off a year-long sky watching phenomenon. The reported incident then became the so-called “Gulf Breeze Sightings,” and turned into part of American lore.

Ed Walters claimed he snapped the pictures from his yard on November 11, 1987. Even after three decades, people are still divided on what took place in late 1987 through 1988 in Gulf Breeze.

The Gulf Breeze event was featured in the 1990s hit series “X Files.” UFOlogist, fictional FBI Special agent Fox Mulder weighed in on the strange incident. Mulder said in a classic 1994 episode “E.B.E.” that he knew the photos were a hoax the first time he saw them.

Mulder is not alone in concluding the photographs that Walters presented were a hoax, an opinion that became even more widespread when Walters decided to move from his home, and the new owner found a model of a flying saucer wrapped in old drafting paper in the attic in 1990.

Walters claimed the model did not belong to him and someone planted it. However, most thought Walter’s pictures were a hoax, and some witnesses came forward claiming to know about the staged UFO.

However, Walters has always maintained the photos he snapped were authentic. He even wrote a book about it titled “Gulf Breeze Sightings.”

While many did not believe Walters’ claim, few others think otherwise, including UFO researcher and physicist Bruce Maccabee, who believes that the photos were real and the model was a hoax squared.

Maccabee said that there were too many other witnesses, including politicians, who claimed to have seen UFOs in the area and not all of them can be ignored.

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Indialantic UFO case from 1994

1994 video is getting attention showing a fleet of UFOs offshore Indialantic in Florida. What do you think about this footage? (Mufon Case 87314).

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PENTAGON SECRET UFO SIGHTINGS: THE STRANGEST DISCOVERIES IN SEARCH FOR ALIENS

C’est officiel, nous savons maintenant que les OVNIs sont réels, mais sont-ils extraterrestres ?

Nous sommes presque en 2018, et le sujet des Objets Volants Non Identifiés (OVNI) ou du Phénomène Aérien Non Identifié (PANI, un terme qui semble être le nouveau “libellé officiel” du personnel gouvernemental) est maintenant un fait vérifié dans le courant dominant. Tout aussi certains que nous le sommes de plusieurs concepts différents issus de la science dure répétable, ou de l’information sur d’autres phénomènes dans d’autres domaines traitant de l’observation, nous (l’humanité) sommes tout aussi certains de l’existence des OVNIs.

Lorsque l’ex-ministre de la Défense nationale, Paul Hellyer, a déclaré que “les ovnis sont aussi réels que les avions qui volent au-dessus de nos têtes”, il ne plaisantait pas. Des documents, ainsi que des témoignages en direct de douzaines, voire de centaines de personnes de gouvernements et de groupes de renseignements de “haut niveau”ont également parlé publiquement du sujet.

Il y a littéralement trop d’exemples, depuis les généraux quatre étoiles jusqu’aux directeurs d’entreprises militaires comme Lockheed Martin, les directeurs d’agences de renseignement, les chefs de grands comités militaires comme l’OTAN, et bien plus encore.

Les derniers exemples en date seraient Steve Justice, un administrateur de Lockheed Skunkworks (aérospatiale) qui a récemment pris sa retraite il y a 30 ans, maintenant administrateur de To The Stars, il a récemment déclaré :

“Il s’agit d’un concept pour un engin de transport international point à point qui efface les limites actuelles de la distance et du temps de déplacement. Il imite les capacités observées dans le phénomène aérien non identifié en utilisant un système d’entraînement qui modifie la métrique espace-temps. Nous avons un aperçu de la façon dont cela fonctionne, mais nous devons exploiter les technologies de la Division des sciences pour “réaliser” cette capacité.” – Steve Justice, directeur de la Division de l’aérospatiale.

En faisant cette déclaration, il nous dit qu’il y a des embarcations non identifiées qui utilisent ces capacités pour parcourir ce que nous considérons comme de grandes distances.

Un de ses prédécesseurs, Ben Rich (2ème directeur de Lockheed Shunkworks) a également fait des commentaires très intéressants. Vous pouvez en savoir plus à ce sujet et consulter ses commentaires ici.

Robert Bigelow, le fondateur de Bigelow aerospace a récemment déclaré publiquement qu’il savait que “ET” est là. Vous pouvez voir cette interview et en savoir plus ici.

Bien sûr, les témoignages ne sont pas suffisants pour tirer une conclusion, mais étant donné leur position et leurs longs dossiers de “crédibilité”, il est presque ridicule de les ignorer. S’il s’agissait d’une ou deux personnes, il y aurait des raisons de douter, mais lorsqu’il y en a plusieurs centaines, nous savons qu’il y a quelque chose qui se passe, surtout quand leurs rencontres avec des “OVNIs” ont déjà été vérifiées par leur employeur, le gouvernement et par des documents officiels préalablement classifiés.

Puisque beaucoup ne considèrent pas que les témoignages de témoins sont crédibles, peu importe d’où ils viennent, il est toujours important de mentionner les documents, les preuves de suivi radar et plus encore.

Évidemment, c’est un sujet qui interpelle encore beaucoup de gens, ça les brosse dans le mauvais sens du poil et entre en conflit avec des systèmes de croyances ancestraux. C’est une tendance qui s’est manifestée avec de nombreux sujets et de nouvelles découvertes tout au long de l’histoire humaine, les choses changent lentement au fil du temps, mais avec notre développement technologique rapide, qui continue d’augmenter à un rythme exponentiel, nous ne semblons pas si lointain. En fait, nous semblons déjà en être là.

“Nous avons déjà les moyens de voyager parmi les étoiles, mais ces technologies sont enfermées dans des projets noirs, et il faudrait un acte de Dieu pour les faire sortir au profit de l’humanité. Tout ce que vous pouvez imaginer, nous savons déjà comment le faire” 

– Ben Rich (source)

Rappelez-vous, OVNI ne signifie pas à 100% extraterrestre, cependant, c’est l’une des nombreuses possibilités et probabilités qui ont leurs propres preuves pour faire cette affirmation.

Les documents qui ont été rendus publics par plusieurs gouvernements, agences de renseignements et par l’intermédiaire de la Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) indiquent des objets et des rencontres (principalement militaires) avec des objets voyageant à des vitesses inaccessibles et effectuant des manœuvres qu’aucun de nos avions connus ne peut réaliser, dans certains cas, ils défient notre propre compréhension de la physique.

“Au fur et à mesure que le F-4 s’approchait, il perdait toute l’instrumentation et les communications. Lorsque le F-4 s’est éloigné de l’objet et qu’apparemment il n’était plus une menace pour lui, l’avion a retrouvé toutes les communications et instruments de navigation. Un autre objet brillant est sorti de l’objet original. Le second objet s’est dirigé vers le F-4.” (source)

Ci-dessous, un petit discours de Jacques Vallée sur la façon de commencer à apprendre de toutes ces rencontres. C’est un informaticien et astronome qui a travaillé pour la NASA, et plus encore. Il est le plus à même de co-développer la première cartographie informatisée de Mars et pour son travail à SRI International sur le centre d’information réseau d’ARPANET.

Déception gouvernementale

Ce serait le bon moment pour affirmer que, de toute évidence, nos gouvernements nous ont trompés bien souvent et sur divers sujets, il est plus que probable qu’au fur et à mesure que de plus en plus d’informations continueront à se retrouver dans le domaine public, il y aura de bonnes raisons d’avoir un scepticisme accru lorsqu’ils parleront des OVNI et/ou des extraterrestres, comme c’est le cas pour n’importe quoi d’autre.

Le monde dominant est plein d’agendas tordus et de tentatives de modifier notre perception de la vérité et du profit, ou d’autres agendas qui ne sont pas vraiment dans le meilleur intérêt du peuple, mais plutôt dans le meilleur intérêt des “1%”. La guerre mondiale contre la drogue ou le terrorisme en sont de parfaits exemples.

Pour se faire une idée claire de ce sujet, ce qui est presque impossible, il faut faire des recherches indépendantes plutôt que de s’en remettre aux mêmes médias qui ont des liens étroits avec les intérêts des entreprises et du gouvernement, sous le couvert de la “sécurité nationale”.

Cela ne veut pas dire qu’il n’y a pas de bonnes personnes, avec des intentions pures, qui ne font que leur travail dans ces arènes. C’est un sujet compliqué, mais en discutant, il faut toujours garder l’état profond dans le dos de son esprit, car il contrôle la perception géopolitique dans son ensemble, dans la plupart des cas.

Il y a des efforts qui sont faits pour alerter le public, l’effort de To The Stars par Tom Delonge en est un, mais c’est un sujet très compartimenté. Il reçoit de l’information de ceux qui travaillent dans le milieu du renseignement, mais de qui obtiennent-ils cette information et est-ce exact ? Est-ce vrai ? Ou est-ce qu’il y a une sorte de tour de passe-passe, pour quelque raison que ce soit ? Et ceux qui relaient cette information se rendent-ils compte qu’il pourrait y avoir un véritable tour de passe-passe ?

Qui sait ce qui se passe vraiment.

Y a-t-il vraiment des raisons légitimes pour justifier le camouflage après tant d’années ? Était-ce justifié ? Je crois que l’humanité est censée vivre dans la transparence, et nous pouvons et devons gérer ce type d’information, nous étions censés la recevoir. Reconnaître certaines vérités sur la nature de la réalité est une étape importante de notre évolution humaine, car elle nous donne l’occasion de dépasser les paradigmes du passé et d’avancer là où nous sommes censés aller, et peut-être vers les étoiles.

La prise de contrôle corporatif et financier de notre système démocratique a sans aucun doute contribué au secret. Ce sujet a d’énormes implications technologiques et intellectuelles qui pourraient transformer complètement notre planète et aider à créer de nouvelles façons de faire les choses ici. Et, comme c’est le cas pour tout le reste, ceux qui font des milliards et des billions avec l’ancienne façon de faire les choses peuvent aussi avoir leur mot à dire.

Quel type de systèmes de propulsion ces embarcations utilisent-elles ?

Bien sûr, nous savons que les OVNIs sont réels, mais les médias grand public (ainsi que le gouvernement) ont une longue histoire de prendre des événements réels et de les utiliser à leur avantage, et le font généralement en déformant notre perception de ce qui se passe réellement.

Avec ce sujet, comme avec tous les autres, nous ne pouvons tout simplement pas compter sur les services de renseignements gouvernementaux et officiels en tout temps, avec une crédibilité totale. Il est important de se rappeler qu’il y a beaucoup de désinformation qui s’est infiltrée dans ce domaine, et il faut toujours utiliser leur discernement.

Sont-ils extraterrestres ?

L’existence des OVNIs est vérifiée de plusieurs manières différentes, mais l’intelligence extraterrestre est toujours une histoire différente. Plusieurs facteurs conduisent à l’hypothèse extraterrestre. Comme mentionné plus haut, avant que les OVNIs ne soient officiellement “vérifiés”, il y avait de bonnes raisons de croire en leur existence, et maintenant c’est officiel. De la même façon, il est maintenant prouvé que certains de ces engins sophistiqués sont en fait extraterrestres.

“Il y a de fortes chances que des gens de l’espace et d’autres civilisations nous visitent depuis de nombreuses années. Ce qu’ils sont, d’où ils viennent et ce qu’ils veulent devrait faire l’objet d’une enquête scientifique rigoureuse et ne pas faire l’objet d’une dissimulation ridicule par les tabloïds.” µ

(source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, ancien chef d’état-major de la Défense, amiral 5 étoiles de la Marine royale, président du Comité militaire de l’OTAN.

Beaucoup de gens, comme Lord Amiral Hill-Norton, sont venus exprimer la même chose, et ont dit qu’ils ont une grande connaissance de l’intelligence extraterrestre en ce qui concerne le phénomène OVNI.

Voici un document du FBI discutant des corps extraterrestres et un vaisseau (pages 21 et 22), voici un article avec un document intéressant de la CIA qui fait référence à des corps extraterrestres et une rencontre militaire. Il y a plusieurs exemples que l’on peut trouver dans la littérature, qui sont à la fois bienveillants et malveillants.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous une discussion intéressante avec Richard Dolan, l’un des plus éminents spécialistes mondiaux du sujet. Il va un peu plus loin sur l’hypothèse extraterrestre. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur le sujet, c’est un excellent point de départ.

“C’est ma thèse que les soucoupes volantes sont réelles et qu’elles sont des vaisseaux spatiaux d’un autre système solaire. Je pense qu’ils sont peut-être habités par des observateurs intelligents, membres d’une race qui a peut-être étudié notre Terre pendant des siècles” 

– Herman Oberth, père fondateur de la fusée moderne (source)

Source : Collective Evolution

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Le Pentagone reconnaît l'existence d'un programme d'étude des ovnis (vidéo)

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The truth is finally out there, after the Pentagon admitted it ran a secret UFO investigation programme for five years until 2012.

The Department of Defense’s own “X-Files” operation, known by the less catchy title of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was closed after a change in funding priorities, it said.

But the remarkable revelation has raised more questions than answers, including whether the programme has been completely shut down, or just covered up further. 

While the Pentagon claims it ended five years ago, it said it continued to take seriously “all threats and potential threats to our people”.

The military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who ran the programme on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, according to the New York Times, which broke the story, told the paper it was only the government funding that had dried up. He said activities continued under the direction of his successor, whom he declined to name.

Either way the revelation is likely to provide some satisfaction to UFO enthusiasts, often dismissed as conspiracy theorists.

Nick Pope, who used to run the British government’s UFO project, said: “The take-home message here is that there’s probably something out there, but we don’t know what it is. 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.

“It precisely reflects my own experience of this intriguing but frustrating subject with the British government. Like our US colleagues, we too denied – even to parliament – that we were undertaking secret studies into the UFO phenomenon and consistently downplayed the true extent of our interest and activity at the Ministry of Defence.”

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The New York Times said the project, parts of which remain classified, received $22m (£18.7m) each year, hidden away in US Department of Defense (DoD) budgets worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

It said its initial funding came largely at the request of the former Senate leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat long known for his enthusiasm for space phenomena. He was quoted as saying: “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going. I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

Last year, John Podesta, chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, declared that he had convinced her to explore declassifying any government documentsrelated to UFOs should she win the election.

Bill Clinton previously said that, during his time in the White House, he had tried to find out if there were any secret “X-Files”, concluding: “If so, they eluded me.” 

In the UK, 209 files and approximately 52,000 pages of information on UFOs were released during a five-year rolling disclosure programme that concluded in 2013, containing details of about 6,000 separate observations reported to the British authorities since 1984.

In 2009, the Ministry of Defence closed down its hotline for UFO sightings, stating: “In over 50 years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.”

Responding to the revelations about its activities, the Pentagon spokeswoman Laura Ochoas told Reuters: “The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ended in the 2012 timeframe. It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change.”

She added: “The DoD takes seriously all threats and potential threats to our people, our assets, and our mission and takes action whenever credible information is developed.”

Pope said: “This isn’t quite the ‘spaceship in a hangar’ smoking gun the UFO lobby was hoping for, but it’s as close as those of us who have looked at this subject from within government will ever go to saying: ‘Yes, this is real.’”

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For most people, any mention of the term “UFO” inevitably conjures up imagery of all-things airborne and saucer-shaped. In reality, however, unidentified flying objects come in a dizzying array of shapes – and have done so for decades. In other words, the classic Flying Saucer is merely one facet of an infinitely larger puzzle, as will now become graphically apparent. On numerous occasions throughout the latter stages of the Second World War, military pilots from Britain, Germany, Japan, Poland, and the United States reported seeing strange, seemingly intelligently-controlled, aerial globes of light that furiously pursued their aircraft, and at times even engaged in dogfights with the mystified aircrews. They were the Foo Fighters.

A Royal Air Force report of 3 February 1944, from the crew of a Lancaster bomber, describes a typical encounter: “It was a ball of red fire on port side 2 miles away at same height with yellowish red flame coming out behind and black smoke. It was 30/40 mph faster than the Lancaster. It went like this for a period of ¾ to 1 minute. It did not explode at any time. Fizzled out and not seen again. The smoke was very black and showed up well against grayish night background. It followed when Lancaster went into a dive and again on corkscrewing. It seemed to go out once but sprang into life again when Lancaster changed from dive to starboard into a corkscrew.”

As the following statement – extracted from an article that appeared in the 13 December 1944 issue of the South Wales Argus newspaper – makes clear, initial theories were focused upon the idea that the Foo Fighters were the work of the Nazis: “The Germans have produced a “secret” weapon in keeping with the Christmas season. The new device, which is apparently an air defense weapon, resembles the glass balls which adorn Christmas trees. They have been seen hanging in the air and are apparently transparent.”Problematic with the theory that the Foo Fighters were weapons of the Nazis, however, is the revelation that Hitler’s minions were having their own encounters with such objects, and assumed that Allied forces were responsible for their creation! Needless to say, the matter was never fully resolved and the Foo Fighters ultimately vanished as mysteriously and as quickly as they had first appeared.

The Ghost Rockets were curious missile-like objects that were predominantly seen in Scandinavian skies in 1946: one year after the Foo Fighters vanished, and only twelve months before the Flying Saucer burst forth onto the world’s stage. Astonishingly, somewhere in the region of two thousand sightings were made between May and December of that year, with August 9 and August 11 seeing the largest volume of encounters – including some that were corroborated on radar.

Search for “ghost rocket” seen crashing July 19, 1946, in Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden. by Swedish Air Force officer Karl-Gösta Bartoll (pictured).

Interestingly, the August 1946 encounters fell directly within the peak of the annual Perseid meteor-shower. Problematic when it comes to dismissing the whole affair as a case of mistaken identity, however, is the fact that most of the Ghost Rocket incidents fell firmly outside of the time-frame of the Perseid shower. And the fact that some of the witnesses reported seeing the devices changing direction in the sky would seem to effectively eliminate meteors as the culprits.

Another conventional theory addressed at the time was the possibility that the Ghost Rockets were the work of the Russians, who were capitalizing upon the rocket research of German scientists stationed at Peenemünde in the 1940s. It is a historical fact that a number of such scientists were indeed employed by the Russians after the defeat of Nazi Germany, and did expand upon the work that had led to the production of the deadly V-1 and V-2’s that caused considerable damage to the British Isles during the War. As a result of this potentially worrying scenario, the Swedish military quickly issued a directive requesting that newspapers not report on the estimated speeds of the objects, or their trajectories; since this information would be vital to those test-flying the machines.

Nevertheless, as with the theory that the Ghost Rockets were meteors, a possible Russian connection to the puzzle was never confirmed either. Twelve months later, however, the Ghost Rockets were eclipsed by a new, and much more famous, breed of UFO.

The saga of the Flying Saucer began with the pilot Kenneth Arnold, whose 24 June 1947 encounter at the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, kicked off the modern era of UFO sightings. At approximately 3.00 p.m. on the afternoon in question, Arnold was searching for an aircraft that had reportedly crashed on the southwest side of Mt. Rainier. At the time of its occurrence, Arnold’s encounter attracted the keen interest of not just the public and the media, but also that of the all-powerful Federal Bureau of Investigation. The following is a verbatim statement made by Arnold himself, and taken from previously Secret FBI records of 1947:

“I hadn’t flown more than two or three minutes on my course when a bright flash reflected on my airplane. It startled me as I thought I was too close to some other aircraft. I looked every place in the sky and couldn’t find where the reflection had come from until I looked to the left and the north of Mt. Rainier, where I observed a chain of nine peculiar looking aircraft flying from north to south at approximately 9,500 feet elevation and going, seemingly, in a definite direction of about 170 degrees.”

Arnold stressed that the objects were approaching Mt. Rainier very rapidly and he was puzzled by their physical appearance: “I thought it was very peculiar that I couldn’t find their tails but assumed they were some type of jet plane. The more I observed these objects, the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all objects flying whether I am close to the ground or at higher altitudes. The chain of these saucer-like objects [was] at least five miles long. I felt confident after I would land there would be some explanation of what I saw [sic].”

And from that day forth, the world was forever changed: that most mysterious of all aerial intruders, the Flying Saucer, was well and truly born. For the next three decades, countless sightings of such objects were reported all across the planet; making the subject truly one of global proportions. In the 1980s, however, the Flying Saucer was firmly elbowed out of the picture by a new player in town: the Flying Triangle.

For more than two decades, sightings of large, triangular-shaped UFOs, usually described as being black in color, very often with rounded – rather than angled – corners, and that make a low humming noise, have been reported throughout the world. he sheer proliferation of such reports has led some ufological commentators to suspect that the so-called Flying Triangles are prime examples of still-classified aircraft, the development of which was secretly begun in the 1980s by elements of the United States’ Department of Defense and Air Force. Not everyone is so sure that this particular theory has merit to it, however. Consider the following.

On the night of 31 March 1993, an event occurred that was personally investigated by the Ministry of Defense’s then-UFO-investigator, Nick Pope. Reportedly, it involved the sighting of a huge Flying Triangle seen in the early hours of the morning in the direct vicinity of RAF Shawbury, Shropshire. Pope was able to speak with the chief witness to the Flying Triangle – namely, the Meteorological Officer at Shawbury – and offers his recollections on the intriguing conversation:

“Military officers are very good at gauging sizes of aircraft and they’re very precise. His quote to me was that the UFO’s size was midway between that of a C-130 Hercules and a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet.” Pope continues: “He had eight years worth of experience with the Royal Air Force; and a Met. Officer is generally much better qualified than most for looking at things in the night sky. And there were other factors too: he heard this most unpleasant low-frequency hum, and saw the craft fire a beam of light down to the ground. He felt that it was something like a laser beam or a searchlight. The light was tracking very rapidly back and forth and sweeping one of the fields adjacent to the base. He also said – and he admitted this was speculation – that it was as if the UFO was looking for something.

“The speed of the UFO was extremely slow – no more than twenty or thirty miles per hour, which in itself is quite extraordinary. As far as the description is concerned, he said that it was fairly featureless – a sort of flat, triangular-shaped craft, or possibly a bit more diamond-shaped. He also said that the beam of light retracted into the craft, which then seemed to gain a little bit of height. But then, in an absolute instant, the UFO moved from a speed of about twenty or thirty miles per hour to a speed of several hundreds of miles per hour – if not thousands. It just suddenly moved off to the horizon and then out of sight in no more than a second or so.”

Although the Flying Saucers, Ghost Rockets, Flying Triangles and Foo Fighters are all integral parts of the UFO puzzle, long before each and every one of them appeared in our skies, there was yet another unknown, aerial intruder whose presence still creates controversy to this day: the Phantom Airship. Very much the product of the latter years of the 19th Century, the Phantom Airships were, as their name suggests, often Zeppelin-like devices that were seen on countless occasions during the years in question; and particularly so in the night-skies of the United States.

Interestingly, even back then, theories abounded that the Airships were piloted by extra-terrestrials. For example, in 1897, none other than the Washington Times reported on the theory that the mysterious vehicles represented “a reconnoitering party from Mars.” Similarly, in the same time frame, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch speculated that “these may be visitors from Mars, fearful, at the last, of invading the planet they have been seeking.”

One of the most famous – or, rather, infamous – incidents of the Phantom Airship variety allegedly occurred at the little Texas town of Aurora on 17 April 1897. So the wild story goes, on the day in question, an Airship slammed into a windmill owned by a local man, Judge J.S. Proctor, practically destroying the craft, and killing its diminutive alien pilot. Strange wreckage, described as being a combination of aluminum and silver, and adorned with hieroglyphics, was rumored to have been scooped up by the locals, and the body of the alien visitor was said to have been buried in the local cemetery. Whether true, a hoax, a practical joke, or something else, the town of Aurora still to this day attracts those curious about this early Roswell-style event.

Quite clearly, UFOs are forever changing. While we could speculate endlessly upon the issue of what type of UFO will one day replace the now-ubiquitous Flying Triangle, only the intelligence behind the phenomenon know the answer to that intriguing question.

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Which news is bigger: Tom deLonge’s To The Stars Academy (TTSA) releasing what it calls “The first official UAP footage ever released by the USG” or The New York Times and Politico both releasing reports revealing a secret multi-million-dollar Pentagon program set up 10 years ago by a leading senator to look into unidentified flying objects or unidentified aerial phenomena? How about the news that both happened on the same day? Circle the date – this could be a big one.

“Presented here is the first official evidence released by the US government that can be rightfully designated as credible, authentic confirmation that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are real.”

That’s how TTSA announced not one but three videos of US military planes encountering unidentified aerial phenomenon. (The first two videos can be seen here). The so-called GIMBAL video was captured by a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet using the Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod and includes commentary of the pilots being amazed by what they’re seeing and trying to determine what it is. The so-called 2004 Nimitz FLIR1 video is described as “the only official footage captured by a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet present at the 2004 Nimitz incident off the coast of San Diego.” Both videos come with detailed commentary and additional data.

At the same time, The New York Times and Politico reported that now-retired Senator Harry Reid, D-Nev, helped the Pentagon establish The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, a non-classified yet extremely secret program that received its appropriation (i.e. taxpayer money which ultimately totaled $20 million) in 2007 to research UAPs/UFOs encountered by pilots out of concern (at least publicly) that they may be secret aircraft being tested by China or Russia.

“I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going. I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

Harry Reid

Harry Reid told this to the Times, which also confirmed that former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo was responsible for overseeing the program until 2012, when the funding ran out. and that while its congressional funding dried up in 2012, somehow the program is still active with the CIA and the Navy. Meanwhile, Politico said what everyone has been thinking:

“The revelation of the program could give a credibility boost to UFO theorists, who have long pointed to public accounts by military pilots and others describing phenomena that defy obvious explanation, and could fuel demands for increased transparency about the scope and findings of the Pentagon effort, which focused some of its inquiries into sci-fi sounding concepts like “wormholes” and “warp drives.”

Is the released of the videos by the To The Stars Academy related to The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program? Well, Luis Elizondo resigned from the program to become one of the principles of TTSA. Does this vindicate Tom deLonge, who has been accused of not coming through on his big promises of big revelations? That remains to be seen.

Whatever the case, December 16, 2017, could some day be remembered as the start of government UFO disclosure.

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VS POMPTE JAARLIJKS 22 MILJOEN IN GEHEIM UFO-ONDERZOEK

Het ministerie van Defensie van de VS bevestigt dat het in stilte onderzoek deed naar onverklaarbare luchtfenomenen. Het programma liep van 2007 tot 2012 in het Pentagon. Dat schrijft de New York Times.

Het zogenaamde 'Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme' kostte jaarlijks 22 miljoen dollar. Volgens de krant kwam het programma tot stand onder impuls van Harry Reid, de senator uit Nevada, die de Democratische fractie in het hogerhuis leidde van 2005 tot januari dit jaar, toen hij het Congres verliet. De linksere Democraten verkregen een meerderheid in de Senaat nadat ze de parlementsverkiezingen in 2006 hadden gewonnen.

Bigelow Aerospace
Het merendeel van de 22 miljoen dollar die het programma kostte, ging naar Bigelow Aerospace, dat gevestigd is in Reids thuisstaat. Het bedrijf, dat nog steeds federale contracten heeft, ook met de NASA, is eigendom van multimiljardair Robert Bigelow, die de NY Times omschrijft als vriend van Reid.

Op het nummer van Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas nam niemand op. De voicemail op het nummer was buiten werking.

De NY Times bericht dat de officier die het programma sinds 2007 leidde, Luis Elizondo, zegt dat het doorliep nadat de financiering was stopgezet in 2012. Elizondo verliet het Pentagon in oktober.

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First Official UFO Footage Released By The U.S. Government

A paradigm shift is happening. The first official USG footage of UFO’s has been released to the public and brought to you by To The Stars Academy.

Gimbal is the first of three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) that has been through the official declassification review process of the United States government and has been approved for public release.

This footage, and all official USG footage you will see on TTS Academy’s community of interest (COI), comes with essential chain-of-custody documentation validating that it is received in its original and unaltered form and is authentic.

The US Department of Defense uses this process in order to meticulously ensure that information and material retain their integrity without revealing sources and methods.

This footage is apart from anything else that has made its way to the public domain, by establishing its authenticity and thereby giving it enormous historical significance.

Read the full analysis of what you are observing in the video HERE.

FLIR1 is the second of three US military videos.

It is the only official footage captured by a US navy F/A-18 Super Hornet present at the 2004 Nimitz incident off the coast of San Diego.

Like Gimbal, this footage comes with crucial chain-of-custody (CoC) documentation because it is a product of US military sensors, which confirms it is original, unaltered, and not computer generated or artificially fabricated.

The CoC establishes the authenticity and credibility that this version is the original footage taken from one of the most advanced sensor tracking devices in use.

Read further analysis of what is being observed in the video HERE.

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The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs

Funded at the request of Harry Reid, the program probed a number of encounters military pilots had with aircraft they believed didn’t operate like anything they had seen before.

By BRYAN BENDER

The Pentagon, at the direction of Congress, a decade ago quietly set up a multi-million dollar program to investigate what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects—UFOs.

The “unidentified aerial phenomena” claimed to have been seen by pilots and other military personnel appeared vastly more advanced than those in American or foreign arsenals. In some cases they maneuvered so unusually and so fast that they seemed to defy the laws of physics, according to multiple sources directly involved in or briefed on the effort and a review of unclassified Defense Department and congressional documents.

One possible theory behind the unexplained incidents, according to a former congressional staffer who described the motivations behind the program, was that a foreign power—perhaps the Chinese or the Russians—had developed next-generation technologies that could threaten the United States.

“Was this China or Russia trying to do something or has some propulsion system we are not familiar with?” said a former staffer who spoke with POLITICO on condition of anonymity.

The revelation of the program could give a credibility boost to UFO theorists, who have long pointed to public accounts by military pilots and others describing phenomena that defy obvious explanation, and could fuel demands for increased transparency about the scope and findings of the Pentagon effort, which focused some of its inquiries into sci-fi sounding concepts like "wormholes" and "warp drives." The program also drafted a series of what the office referred to as "queried unverified event under evaluation," QUEU reports, in which pilots and other personnel who had reported encounters were interviewed about their experiences.

Reid initiated the program, which ultimately spent more than $20 million, through an earmark after he was persuaded in part by aerospace titan and hotel chain founder Bob Bigelow, a friend and fellow Nevadan who owns Bigelow Aerospace, a space technology company and government contractor. Bigelow, whose company received some of the research contracts, was also a regular contributor to Reid’s re-election campaigns, campaign finance records show, at least $10,000 between 1998 and 2008. Bigelow has spoken openly in recent years about his views that extraterrestrial visitors frequently travel to Earth. He also purchased the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, the subject of intense interest among believers in UFOs. Reid and Bigelow did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

According to a Pentagon official, the AATIP program was ended “in the 2012 timeframe,” but it has recently attracted attention because of the resignation in early October of Luis Elizondo, the career intelligence officer who ran the initiative. In his resignation letter, addressed to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Elizondo said the efforts of his program were not being taken sufficiently seriously. The Pentagon official could not confirm Mattis had actually seen the letter.

"We tried to work within the system," Elizondo told POLITICO in a recent interview. "We were trying to take the voodoo out of voodoo science."

He described scores of unexplained sightings by Navy pilots and other observers of aircraft with capabilities far beyond what is currently considered aerodynamically possible. The sightings, Elizondo told POLITICO, were often reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, either ships at sea or power plants. "We had never seen anything like it."

But, in his view military leadership did not appear alarmed by the potential threat. "If a Russian 'Bear' bomber comes in near California, it is all over the news," he said. "These are coming in the skies over our facilities. Nothing but crickets."

Shortly after his resignation, Elizondo was listed as one of the key players in a for-profit company called To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-founded by Tom DeLonge, an entertainment mogul and former guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Blink-182. An April 2016 profile of DeLonge in “Rolling Stone” magazine described his fascination with theories about extraterrestrial space travel as an “obsession.”

In a video advertising the company, DeLonge describes To The Stars as a “public benefit corporation” that has “mobilized a team of the most experienced, connected and passionately curious minds from the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Department of Defense, who have been operating under the shadows of top-secrecy for decades.”

The founders say they believe “there is sufficient credible evidence of UAP [unidentified aerial phenomenon] that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human experience.”

The goal of the academy’s researchers, it says on its website, is “to use their expertise and credibility to bring transformative science and engineering out of the shadows and collaborate with global citizens to apply that knowledge in a way that benefits humanity,” adding “without government restrictions.”

Also helping drive the effort is Chris Mellon, a former Democratic staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence. Other members of the company include a former high-level CIA official and the former director of advanced systems at Lockheed Martin’s super-secret Skunk Works facility in California.

“I think we’re all frustrated by the fact that our government and science neglects some of the most interesting and provocative and potentially important issues out there,” Mellon says in the video.

POLITICO learned of the Pentagon program earlier this fall, shortly after Mellon and his colleagues rolled out their new private effort, which is now seeking investors with a minimum purchase of $200 in common stock shares. Its website claims 2,142 investors, who have purchased slightly more than $2 million worth of shares.

At a recent press conference for To The Stars in Las Vegas, Mellon described one of the sightings reported by U.S. Navy pilots: "It is white, oblong, some 40 feet long and perhaps 12 feet thick…The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F/A-18. In a series of discreet tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics. The object takes a position directly behind the approaching F/A-18. The pilots capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object. They are outmatched by a technology they’ve never seen."

“They did not exhibit overt hostility,” Elizondo, listed as director of global security and special programs for To The Stars, explained in a recent published interview of the series of reported encounters. “But something unexplained is always assumed to be a potential threat until we are certain it isn’t. On the bright side, I believe we are closer than ever before in our understanding of how it operates.”

The Pentagon’s AATIP program marked a 21st century effort to replicate some of the decades of inconclusive research undertaken by the Pentagon in 1950s and 1960s to try to explain thousands of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs by military and civilian pilots and average citizens—particularly an effort known as Project Bluebook that ran from 1947 to 1969 and still a focus of intense interest for UFO researchers.

The more recent effort, which was established inside the Defense Intelligence Agency, compiled “reams of paperwork,” but little else, the former staffer said.

Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White confirmed to POLITICO that the program existed and was run by Elizondo. But she could not say how long he was in charge of it and declined to answer detailed questions about the office or its work, citing concerns about the closely held nature of the program.

“The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ended in the 2012 timeframe,” White said. “It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change.”

White added: “The DoD takes seriously all threats and potential threats to our people, our assets, and our mission and takes action whenever credible information is developed.”

But some who were aware of the effort in its earliest days were uncomfortable with the aims of the program, unnerved by the implication that the incidents involved aircraft that were not made by humans.

“I thought it was a little bizarre at the time,” recalled a former senior intelligence official who knew about Reid’s role first-hand. He asked those in the know: “Tell me what this is, and what we are doing and what is going on and that we aren’t doing something that is nonsense here.”

“I was concerned the money was being funneled through is to somebody else who was an associate of Harry Reid’s,” added the former official, who asked not to be identified. “The whole circle was kind of a bizarre piece.”

Reid enlisted the support of Inouye, then chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, as well as Stevens, who two sources involved in the effort were told had related to Reid that as a pilot he had personally witnessed similar unexplained aerial phenomenon.

There was also interest among some analysts at the DIA who were concerned that the Russians or Chinese might have developed some more advanced systems. Reid’s views on the subject were also shaped by a bookabout the Skinwalker Ranch, co-authored by his acquaintance George Knapp, the former congressional staffer said.

“When this was brought to Senator Reid he said, ‘There is enough here and I am obligated if this is a national security issue to invest some money in this,’” he explained. “Stevens and Inouye agreed with this.”

“I still remember coming back from that meeting and thinking of the implications of what Reid said,” the former senior official said. “I remember being concerned about this. I wanted to make sure it was supervised and we were using the appropriation to do actual research on real threats to the United States.

He said he was assured that the research being done was valid. “It was not a rogue individual out of control.”

The former staffer said that eventually, however, even Reid agreed it was not worth continuing.

“After a while the consensus was we really couldn’t find anything of substance,” he recalled. “They produced reams of paperwork. After all of that there was really nothing there that we could find. It all pretty much dissolved from that reason alone—and the interest level was losing steam. We only did it a couple years.”

“There was really nothing there that we could justify using taxpayer money,” he added. “We let it die a slow death. It was well spent money in the beginning.”

Theodoric Meyer and Gabriel DeBenedetti contributed reporting.

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Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.

Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.

For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.

The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.

The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.

On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth.

Working with Mr. Bigelow’s Las Vegas-based company, the program produced documents that describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift.

Officials with the program have also studied videos of encounters between unknown objects and American military aircraft — including one released in August of a whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial plane, chased by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

Mr. Reid, who retired from Congress this year, said he was proud of the program. “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Mr. Reid said in a recent interview in Nevada. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

Two other former senators and top members of a defense spending subcommittee — Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, and Daniel K. Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat — also supported the program. Mr. Stevens died in 2010, and Mr. Inouye in 2012.

While not addressing the merits of the program, Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned that not knowing the origin of an object does not mean that it is from another planet or galaxy. “When people claim to observe truly unusual phenomena, sometimes it’s worth investigating seriously,” she said. But, she added, “what people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.”

James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful. “There are plenty of prosaic events and human perceptual traits that can account for these stories,” Mr. Oberg said. “Lots of people are active in the air and don’t want others to know about it. They are happy to lurk unrecognized in the noise, or even to stir it up as camouflage.”

Still, Mr. Oberg said he welcomed research. “There could well be a pearl there,” he said.

In response to questions from The Times, Pentagon officials this month acknowledged the existence of the program, which began as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Officials insisted that the effort had ended after five years, in 2012.

“It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding, and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” a Pentagon spokesman, Thomas Crosson, said in an email, referring to the Department of Defense.

But Mr. Elizondo said the only thing that had ended was the effort’s government funding, which dried up in 2012. From then on, Mr. Elizondo said in an interview, he worked with officials from the Navy and the C.I.A. He continued to work out of his Pentagon office until this past October, when he resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition.

“Why aren’t we spending more time and effort on this issue?” Mr. Elizondo wrote in a resignation letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

Mr. Elizondo said that the effort continued and that he had a successor, whom he declined to name.

U.F.O.s have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. In 1947, the Air Force began a series of studies that investigated more than 12,000 claimed U.F.O. sightings before it was officially ended in 1969. The project, which included a study code-named Project Blue Book, started in 1952, concluded that most sightings involved stars, clouds, conventional aircraft or spy planes, although 701 remained unexplained.

Robert C. Seamans Jr., the secretary of the Air Force at the time, said in a memorandum announcing the end of Project Blue Book that it “no longer can be justified either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science.”

Mr. Reid said his interest in U.F.O.s came from Mr. Bigelow. In 2007, Mr. Reid said in the interview, Mr. Bigelow told him that an official with the Defense Intelligence Agency had approached him wanting to visit Mr. Bigelow’s ranch in Utah, where he conducted research.

Mr. Reid said he met with agency officials shortly after his meeting with Mr. Bigelow and learned that they wanted to start a research program on U.F.O.s. Mr. Reid then summoned Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye to a secure room in the Capitol.

“I had talked to John Glenn a number of years before,” Mr. Reid said, referring to the astronaut and former senator from Ohio, who died in 2016. Mr. Glenn, Mr. Reid said, had told him he thought that the federal government should be looking seriously into U.F.O.s, and should be talking to military service members, particularly pilots, who had reported seeing aircraft they could not identify or explain.

The sightings were not often reported up the military’s chain of command, Mr. Reid said, because service members were afraid they would be laughed at or stigmatized.

The meeting with Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye, Mr. Reid said, “was one of the easiest meetings I ever had.”

He added, “Ted Stevens said, ‘I’ve been waiting to do this since I was in the Air Force.’” (The Alaska senator had been a pilot in the Army’s air force, flying transport missions over China during World War II.)

During the meeting, Mr. Reid said, Mr. Stevens recounted being tailed by a strange aircraft with no known origin, which he said had followed his plane for miles.

None of the three senators wanted a public debate on the Senate floor about the funding for the program, Mr. Reid said. “This was so-called black money,” he said. “Stevens knows about it, Inouye knows about it. But that was it, and that’s how we wanted it.” Mr. Reid was referring to the Pentagon budget for classified programs.

Contracts obtained by The Times show a congressional appropriation of just under $22 million beginning in late 2008 through 2011. The money was used for management of the program, research and assessments of the threat posed by the objects.

The funding went to Mr. Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program.

Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.

“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”

The program collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents, including footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.

“Internationally, we are the most backward country in the world on this issue,” Mr. Bigelow said in an interview. “Our scientists are scared of being ostracized, and our media is scared of the stigma. China and Russia are much more open and work on this with huge organizations within their countries. Smaller countries like Belgium, France, England and South American countries like Chile are more open, too. They are proactive and willing to discuss this topic, rather than being held back by a juvenile taboo.”

By 2009, Mr. Reid decided that the program had made such extraordinary discoveries that he argued for heightened security to protect it. “Much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings,” Mr. Reid said in a letter to William Lynn III, a deputy defense secretary at the time, requesting that it be designated a “restricted special access program” limited to a few listed officials.

A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that “what was considered science fiction is now science fact,” and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered. Mr. Reid’s request for the special designation was denied.

Mr. Elizondo, in his resignation letter of Oct. 4, said there was a need for more serious attention to “the many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.” He expressed his frustration with the limitations placed on the program, telling Mr. Mattis that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”

Mr. Elizondo has now joined Mr. Puthoff and another former Defense Department official, Christopher K. Mellon, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, in a new commercial venture called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. They are speaking publicly about their efforts as their venture aims to raise money for research into U.F.O.s.

In the interview, Mr. Elizondo said he and his government colleagues had determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” he said.

For his part, Mr. Reid said he did not know where the objects had come from. “If anyone says they have the answers now, they’re fooling themselves,” he said. “We do not know.”

But, he said, “we have to start someplace.”

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NASA Kepler event RECAP: Space agency used Google's artificial intelligence to find new alien planet -  PART I

The space agency has used Google's 'neural network' to find a brand new alien planet

By Jeff Parsons Tech/Science Reporter

19:28JEFF PARSONS = And we're done

Thanks for following along tonight’s NASA news conference with us.

Here’s a brief rundown of what was announced:

Scientists have found, for the first time, an eighth planet (called Kepler 90i) in the Kepler 90 system - tying that solar system with our own for the most known planets in any one system.

The Kepler team made the discovery through the use of a “neural network” artificial intelligence program developed by the search giant Google.

“Just as we expected, there are exciting discoveries lurking in our archived Kepler data, waiting for the right tool or technology to unearth them,” said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division in Washington. “This finding shows that our data will be a treasure trove available to innovative researchers for years to come.”

The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler – the miniscule change in brightness captured when a planet passed in front of, or transited, a star. Inspired by the way neurons connect in the human brain, this artificial “neural network” sifted through Kepler data and found weak transit signals from a previously-missed eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, in the constellation Draco.

While machine learning has previously been used in searches of the Kepler database, this research demonstrates that neural networks are a promising tool in finding some of the weakest signals of distant worlds.

Other planetary systems probably hold more promise for life than Kepler-90. About 30 percent larger than Earth, Kepler-90i is so close to its star that its average surface temperature is believed to exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, on par with Mercury. Its outermost planet, Kepler-90h, orbits at a similar distance to its star as Earth does to the Sun.

Artist's impression of the surface of Kepler 90i (Image: NASA)

“These results demonstrate the enduring value of Kepler’s mission,” said Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. “New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them.”

19:12JEFF PARSONS = The conference is over

NASA has finished up its conference surrounding its discovery of an eighth exoplanet in another solar system which ties it with our own for the most number of known planets.

The space agency is starting an “Ask Me Anything” segment over on Reddit to discuss the discoveries in more detail.

19:07JEFF PARSONS = Last question

Finishing up the Q&A is a bit of an overview of the announcement - what are neural networks and how does the Kepler 90 solar system differ from ours.

Loosely, a neural network is a type of algorithm that can classify inputs by learning through example. It’s modelled on the human brain and can be “trained” to get better over time.

And the second part of the question hinges on Kepler 90 being “squished” when compared to our own solar system. As in, the planets exist closer to each other than our own.

That’s what the signals seem to suggest but, unfortunately, we only have minimal data on the Kepler 90 system. It’s too early to say too much about how its makeup is similar or different from our own.

“New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them,” said Jessie Dotson.

18:57JEFF PARSONS = Google's CEO aiming for 'hyperspace'

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has tweeted out his reaction to this evening’s news:

Sundar Pichai

✔@sundarpichai

1/2 Google AI working w/ @UTAustin used machine learning to look for exoplanets in @NASAKepler data. Our models were trained on 15,000 signals to recognize patterns caused by actual planets vs those caused by other objects, and performed w/ 96% accuracy for planet detection.

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Sundar Pichai

✔@sundarpichai

1/2 Google AI working w/ @UTAustin used machine learning to look for exoplanets in @NASAKepler data. Our models were trained on 15,000 signals to recognize patterns caused by actual planets vs those caused by other objects, and performed w/ 96% accuracy for planet detection.

Sundar Pichai

✔@sundarpichai

2/2 So excited to share 2 newly-discovered planets ID’d by Google AI models: Kepler-80 g, and Kepler-90 i -- which is in the first 8-planet system outside our own! Amazing example of how AI can help w/ new scientific discoveries. Next stop, hyperspace:) http://goo.gl/4fuWG2  pic.twitter.com/nOjecR57zD

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18:46KEY EVENT = Kepler is NOT able to confirm alien life

Aliens (Image: Getty)

The inevitable question about finding aliens has been asked - and received a pretty comprehensive reply: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is not able to tell if the alien planets have life on them - all it can do is confirm the planets are there.

“Searching for bio-signatures will be something that has to be done with more specialist equipment,” Hertz said.

If we’re going to find aliens, chances are we’ll have to use the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope which is taking over from Hubble.

18:40JEFF PARSONS = Tied for the lead

One questioner has asked whether this discovery will set off an arms race between the Kepler 90 solar system and our own when it comes to finding a ninth planet.

The answer? Quite possibly.

Meanwhile, check out this image NASA has released showing how the planets in our solar system stack up against those of Kepler 90:

18:37JEFF PARSONS = Soon anyone will be able to start Googling for planets

An artist's impression of LHS 1140b (Image: ESO / SWNS.com)

Google will release the code needed to use the neural network tools to the public. No special hardware will be required and, since the Kepler data is all public, anyone can comb through the data.

The research paper reporting these findings has also been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal.

“These results demonstrate the enduring value of Kepler’s mission,” said Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

“New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them.”

18:32JEFF PARSONS = "Sizzling hot, rocky planet"

Here’s a brief rundown of what NASA has announced this evening:

 http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/nasas-kepler-space-telescope-makes-11696975

18:29JEFF PARSONS = Will Google's Kepler tech put astronomers out of work?

Google (Image: Getty)

The artificial intelligence will “absolutely work alongside astronomers,” confirms Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center when asked about whether the automation will replace human jobs.

So, don’t let this put you off a career in astronomy. The robots aren’t coming for their jobs yet.

18:24JEFF PARSONS = Could the planet have been found without AI?

The first question from the Q&A session is whether or not NASA would have found this planet without Google’s help?

“If humans were to have looked at a much larger set of signals it would have been possible using the previous technique...the key contribution of machine learning was that it was able to search a much higher range of signals that humans would have been able to do in the same amount of time,” explains Paul Hertz.

So there you go, turns out you can even use Google to search for alien planets.

18:18JEFF PARSONS = There could be more...

Finding a planetary system that rivals our own is a big step in planetary science.

But the NASA engineers believe there may even be solar systems with more than that.

There could well be systems out there with ten or more exoplanets orbiting their parent star.

NASA Kepler and K2

✔@NASAKepler

Researchers using data from our planet-hunting @NASAKeplermission and machine learning from @Google discovered an 8th planet orbiting a distant star. With this discovery, our solar system is now tied for most number of planets around a single star! Info: https://go.nasa.gov/2zcJtS6 

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18:15JEFF PARSONS = Kepler 90i - no signs of alien life

Kepler 90i is one of two planets discovered in the Kepler 90 solar system that orbits its star every 14 days.

It’s likely got a “scorching hot” surface and is not somewhere we’d like to go and visit.

It’s proximity to its parent star means it’s extremely unlikely to support any kind of alien life.

18:11JEFF PARSONS = Neural networks

(Image: Brand X)

Christopher Shallue, senior software engineer at Google AI in Mountain View, California, is explaining how neural networks are computer programs that can be trained to recognise patterns and differentiate between objects.

Turning the technology onto Kepler’s findings means that the researchers are picking up on planets they might otherwise have missed.

“To train our neural network we used 15,000 signals from Kepler data that had already been examined,” Shallue said.

Searching 672 stars, the AI program was able to pick up signals of two new planets.

18:05KEY EVENT = An eighth planet has been found in a distant solar system

Scientists have found, for the first time, an eighth planet (called Kepler 90i) in the Kepler 90 system - tying it with our own solar system for the most known planets.

Kepler has confirmed that other stars can have large amounts of planets orbiting it, just like our own sun.

This discovery was made through the use of a “neural network” AI program developed by Google.

18:02JEFF PARSONS = The conference is underway

The NASA conference has just kicked off in the US.

Panellists are to be introduced and then we will hear the main announcement.

As usual, you can ask questions yourself on Twitter using the askNASA hashtag.

17:24JEFF PARSONS = What is an exoplanet?

(Image: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI))

In case you were wondering what an exoplanet actually is - it’s simply the name given to any planet orbiting a star that’s not our own sun. So, any planet outside of our solar system.

Since the first confirmation of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star in 1995, and with only a few, narrow slices of our Milky Way galaxy so far surveyed, the astronomical community has already struck many rich veins. A recent statistical estimate places, on average, at least one planet around every star in the galaxy. That means there’s something on the order of a trillion planets in our galaxy alone, many of them in Earth’s size range.

“Right now we know, for the first time, that small planets are very common,” said Sara Seager, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an exoplanet research pioneer. “It’s phenomenal. We had no way to know that before Kepler. We’ll just say, colloquially: They’re everywhere.”

17:05= How long has Kepler been up there?

Kepler launched back in March 2009, and it’s become one of NASA’s main pieces of kit.

When it launched, scientists didn’t know how common planets were beyond our solar system. Thanks to the discoveries it’s made, astronomers now believe there may be at least one planet orbiting every star in the sky.

NASA explains: “Kepler completed its prime mission in 2012 and went on to collect data for an additional year in an extended mission. In 2014, the spacecraft began a new extended mission called K2, which continues the search for planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, while introducing new research opportunities to study young stars, supernovae and other cosmic phenomena.”

16:15 =Google getting involved

Google (Image: Getty)

This is the first time we’ve heard of Google joining in with the planet-hunting Kepler mission.

A representative for the search giant will be present on the panel today and we’re expecting to hear about how Google’s software has helped NASA zero in on potential exoplanets.

“The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analysing Kepler data,” it said in a brief press statement.

Using computers and artificial intelligence could help with some of the grunt work, and free up time for the researchers at NASA to delve deeper into the results.

Could we soon be seeing Google Earth-style simulations of Kepler’s alien planets? 

15:44 = How does Kepler find alien planets?

Exoplanet Kepler 62f, which orbits a star 1,200 light years from Earth (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle/PA)

Here’s a really quick explanation of how the Kepler space telescope actually discovers a planet.

Basically, it uses a technique called the “transit method” of planet finding. That means, it spots the tiny blockage of light that occurs when a planet passes in front of the star. It’s called transiting and if the telescope spots repeated transits at regular times it must mean an orbit and therefore a planet.

“From the brightness change we can tell the planet size. From the time between transits, we can tell the size of the planet’s orbit and estimate the planet’s temperature,” explains NASA.

“These qualities determine possibilities for life on the planet.”

NASA Kepler event RECAP: Space agency used Google's artificial intelligence to find new alien planet - PART II

The space agency has used Google's 'neural network' to find a brand new alien planet

By Jeff ParsonsTech/Science Reporter

15:30 JEFF PARSONS = Twitter's incisive questioning

Twitter loves a good bit of space news.

The social network has been having a chatter about the upcoming announcement and throwing the usual questions at the space agency.

Rabidus Umbra @Rabidus_Umbra

#askNASA 

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Are you revealing about alien planet? #AskNASA

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@NASA #askNASA What do you hope to gain by this discovery or will you not do anything right now?

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Nik@Nickinackynoo

Why am I a bit excited about the @NASA announcement at 6pm? We may get the answer to the question: Are we alone in the universe?  #askNASA #lifeonmars #Extraterrestrial

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14:54 JEFF PARSONS = What was Kepler's last big find?

(Image: PA)

Back in February, astronomers detected no less than seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting a cool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1, located in the constellation Aquarius.

Three of these planets lie within the star’s “habitable zone” where surface temperatures range from nought to 100 degrees centigrade.

All seven planets could have liquid water – key to life as we know it – under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.

Cambridge astronomer Dr Amaury Triaud said: “Here we have the right target to start the search for life.

“Within the next decade we could know if we are alone in the universe. And that is quite incredible.”

“We’ve made a crucial step toward finding if there is life out there.”

No other star system known to man contains such a large number of Earth-sized and probably rocky planets. 

14:44JEFF PARSONS = Who will be giving the announcement?

NASA's planet-hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope (Image: Rex Features)

The hosts of today’s announcement will be a panel of experts including:

• Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Christopher Shallue, senior software engineer at Google AI in Mountain View, California
• Andrew Vanderburg, astronomer and NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas, Austin
• Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley

If the conference follows the same route as previous Kepler announcements, it will start with a brief overview of the mission and an update on the status of the craft and its progress.

Then we’ll get to the meat of the space sandwich and a big reveal of what it’s found. After that, you can expect some more interstellar chatter on the implications of the findings and finally some Q&As.

Members of the public will be able to submit questions through Twitter by using the hashtag #askNASA.

14:35JEFF PARSONS = What to expect from today's event

NASA’s Kepler space telescope is the space agency’s dedicated planet-hunting piece of equipment. It scans the stars looking for alien worlds and has - so far - found over 2,000 exoplanets.

Today we might be adding to that number.

NASA has said it will begin the announcement at 1pm Eastern Time - which is 6pm here in the UK. Even though it’s staying tight-lipped until then, plenty of space fans have been speculating about what the announcement could be.

Finding another exoplanet is all well and good, but many will be hoping for a discovery within the so-called “Goldilocks zone”. That is, a planet the right size and distance from its parent star to hold liquid water and - potentially - alien life.

Has NASA finally found aliens? Stick with us to find out.

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Everybody lookin’ at you crazy (crazy!)
What you gonna do? (what you gonna do?)
Lift up your head and keep moving (keep moving)
Or let the paranoia haunt you (haunt you)?

If those lyrics from the song “i” by Grammy Award winning rapper and songwriter Kendrick Lamar make you wonder if he’s being haunted by seeing a UFO and possibly from being abducted by extraterrestrials, you’re obviously not familiar with his works … or you heard him talk about those personal experiences on the radio this week. Who do you think was more scared … Kendrick or the aliens?

“Nobody believed me then and [nobody] believes me now. I probably shouldn’t even be talking about it… [but] I’m going to stand my ground. It’s just something I can’t really describe, because it just sounds like, ‘OK, you just saw a dart go past.’ That shit don’t make sense … I remember this. Words just can’t describe – it was just a surreal moment.”

Directions for UFOs?

The discussion took place on The Howard Stern Show. Kendrick revealed to co-host Robin Quivers that he saw a UFO as a 6-year-old in Compton (this is starting to sound like a movie plot) and, while it may not have haunted him, it has stuck with him in a “surreal” way. How surreal? He speculated that, although he doesn’t remember it, he may have been abducted and it influenced his career choice.

“That’s probably why I’m doing music right now. Who knows. They probably gave me the energy.”

This could be chalked up as another instance where guests say strange things just because they’re on the Howard Stern Show … except it’s not the first time Kendrick has talked about his close encounter. In late 2014, he told the same story to another radio host, JoJo Wright, but apparently no one believed him then either, so he was back two years later on a different show with the same story and plea to be believed.

Alien rapper?

Kendrick is a spiritual artist who talks about having a greater purpose. Did that belief come from religion or his alien encounter? Or did it come from the influence of his name? Kendrick was named after Eddie Kendricks, an original member of The Temptations, who sang about being on “Cloud Nine.” Then again, they also sang about what they saw out their window being “Just My Imagination.”

Do artists like Kendrick Lamar attract extraterrestrials or are they just more open to seeing them? Is it time to believe Kendrick?

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Cosmic Photobomb! Monster Black Holes Turn Up in New View of Andromeda Galaxy

UFO? Cigar-shaped interstellar space object baffles scientists who DEMAND further tests

MORE tests on the first interstellar asteroid ever discovered in our solar system are to be conducted after an initial search for artificial life returned mysterious results.

‘Alien probe’ asteroid is dead quiet, but is that good news or bad news?

A couple of months back, a really, really weird asteroid flew through our Solar System. It looked nothing like any object humanity had ever spotted in space, and was moving might fast. First it was identified as a comet, then an asteroid, and most recently scientists have been wondering if maybe it was actually an alien spacecraft. Now, after spending hours listening to the strange visitor with powerful radio telescopes, scientists say they haven’t heard a peep.

The object, named Oumuamua, is shaped like a cigar. If it’s really an asteroid it would be the very first interstellar asteroid — that is, a rock that originated outside of our Solar System — to be observed by humans, but its bizarre form and speedy entry and exit gave alien hunters reason to believe it might actually be otherworldly technology. Now, it seems, that question will have to wait a little longer to be answered.

Earlier this week scientists from the Breakthrough Listen project pointed their ears towards Oumuamua in the hopes of hearing something, anything, that couldn’t be explained by some natural process. After a preliminary review of the data, they haven’t found anything that would suggest the object is actually an alien probe, but whether or not we should be happy about that is up for debate.

Humanity has been hastily attempting to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations for decades now. We’ve sent spacecraft out of our Solar System with directions on where to find us, and shot radio wave messages to distant stars in the hopes that someone is listening. If we’re going to meet aliens, these are probably our best shots at making first contact, but should we even be trying?

Every scientist with an itch to find alien life has a counterpart who fears what that meeting may bring. Many astronomers and physicists, including Stephen Hawking, have warned that contact aliens could result in the utter destruction of mankind. We simply don’t know whether intelligent beings living elsewhere in the universe will see us as a friendly neighbor, a threat, or simply a nuisance that should be wiped out simply because we’re annoying them.

“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach,” Hawking famously said. “If so, it makes sense for them to exploit each new planet for material to build more spaceships so they could move on. Who knows what the limits would be?”

For now, it appears that the strange object that just visited us isn’t relaying messages with alien handlers on a distant star system, and maybe that’s for the best.

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Boy Remembers His Past As An Extraterrestrial Being & Provides Startling Details

You might not know it, but children remembering their past lives is nothing new. Reincarnation is no doubt a fascinating subject, even within the scientific community. 

Carl Sagan, American astronomer and astrobiologist, even acknowledged the fact that reincarnation deserves serious study, stating that: “children sometimes report details of a previous life, which, upon checking, turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any other way than reincarnation.” (source)

There are some great examples, many of which have been uncovered by University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker, who is arguably the world’s leading researcher on this topic.

In 2008, he published a review of cases that were suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore.

A typical reincarnation case, described by Jim, includes subjects reporting a past life experience. The interesting thing is that 100 percent of subjects who report past life remembrance are children. 

The average age when they start remembering their past life is at 35 months, and their descriptions of events and experiences from their past life are often extensive and remarkably detailed. 

These children remember things that would be impossible to know about the person they claim that they were. They’ve been taken to their families, confirmed addresses, professions, and various other details of the lives of the people that they used to be.

We recently published an article of 6 great examples that go into more detail; you can read that article here. Again, these are truly astounding, and there would be no other way for these children to know these details.

I personally believe that reincarnation is real, but I don’t think it’s the only option for what takes place after death. I believe it is one of many possible paths for the soul. I believe some souls can reincarnate, as we’ve seen above, into another life. 

I also believe some can reincarnate onto other planets, as beings we would consider to be alien. Furthermore, I believe reincarnation is just one option for a soul. 

Other possibilities include the option to travel to other dimensions and experience a life there, or to completely forgo reincarnation and experience life in the non-physical realm, free from a physical body. 

Perhaps a soul must continue to reincarnate until certain lessons are learned to move to another ‘level?’ Who knows. Perhaps there is an origin from which all souls stem from? So many questions, so many possibilities, and reincarnation could be one of many.

Below is a a video of Boriska in an interview conducted by Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot. If you went through the cases in the link above, this one is very different, as this one involves a previous life on the planet Mars. 

This is no ordinary boy. His mother states that he began speaking at just four months, and pronouncing full words shortly after. At eight months he was speaking in sentences, and at the  age of two he could read. 

He become a local celebrity for being so intelligent, and when he turned three he could name all of the planets in the Solar System, how many galaxies there were, and a lot more. He knew so much about astronomy that would be impossible for a child of his age.

He also remembers one of his past lives on Mars, where his incarnation apparently took place millions of years ago. In the interview, he made a number of statements such as:

“People from Mars traveled in many galaxies and planetary systems.”

“There were ships of an airplane type. They were triangular. There were ships like a drop.”

He said that these ships used “plasma power, ion power. If they used gasoline the fuel ran out too fast, the engines were too powerful.”

He also talked about teleportation, saying that “portal is the same like teleport. It slows down time and opens a kind of a portal where time is speeding up fast…I can’t say exactly. 

“I don’t remember. It opens on one side and in a few seconds or even minutes if the transfer is far away it opens another area of space.”

“Not all ships had the same principle. Ships with plasma engines were limited to travel only in the Solar System on high speed. The ships in a shape of a drop were carrying other ships.”

“Each race had its own technology and innovations. For example, if we had plasma and ion engines others had energy engines.”

He spoke about other people from other planets, planetary cooperation, and wars as well. He also spoke on people that still live on Mars, but who live beneath the surface and inside of the planet. According to him, they breath CO2.

The interview is very detailed and if this interests you, you can watch the whole interview below.

Here is the link to the original interview. Unfortunately, it was not working when we attempted to upload it, but wanted to give credit to the original YouTube channel as it (this particular interview) has amassed almost 2 million views.

Information To Further Validate Some Of Boriska’s Claims

It wasn’t long ago when NASA called for a press conference to announce a major discovery regarding the planet Mars. During the meeting, they revealed some pretty shocking information, completely changing what we once thought about the “red” planet that, suddenly, doesn’t seem so red anymore. 

They announced that Mars actually contains rivers of flowing water. What we once believed to be an arid and rocky desert of a planet is actually seasonal, not unlike our own planet Earth.

Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, made the discovery by using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The quotes below are from this press conference if not otherwise sourced.

“Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past … [and] liquid water has been found on Mars.”

– James Green, NASA director of planetary sciences

Obviously, with the announcement that there is water on Mars, the possibility of life near the surface becomes ever more plausible. The press conference also goes into more details about the atmosphere and condition of Mars, and how the planet could have supported life in the past.

“We are going to Mars, our journey to Mars is a science led expedition right now, but soon I hope we’ll be sending humans to the red planet to explore and science will lead the way. 

“And today’s announcement of a really fascinating result about current water on Mars is one of the reasons why I feel it’s even more imperative that we send astrobiologists and planetary scientists to Mars to explore the question of, ‘Is there current life on Mars?’”

 – John Grunsfeld, five time space flown astronaut, Associate Administrator Head of NASA Science Mission Directive

Here is an interesting quote, given that Boriska said even today, people are living underneath the planet.

“The possibility of life in the interior of Mars has always been very high. There’s certainly water somewhere in the crust of Mars … It’s very likely, I think, that there is life somewhere in the crust of Mars.” – Alfred McEwen, Principal Investigator, HiRISE, University of Arizona

Below are some more interesting quotes, because the boy also said that the planet went through some massive climate shifts.

“The more we observe Mars, the more information we’re getting that it really is a fascinating planet, from the Curiosity Rover we now know that Mars once was like a planet very much like Earth, with long salty seas, with fresh water lakes, probably with snow capped peaks and clouds and a water cycle just like we’re studying here on Earth… Something has happened to Mars, it lost its water.”

– John Grunsfeld, five time space flown astronaut, Associate Administrator Head of NASA Science Mission Directive

John also goes on to discuss the high likelihood that Mars previously sustained life, before whatever happened to the planet that led to its change in climate. Scientists are still struggling to work out what exactly that event or series of events may have been.

“Mars is the planet most like Earth … [and in the past,] Mars was a very different planet, it had an extensive atmosphere, and in fact it had what we believe was a huge ocean, perhaps as large as two thirds the Northern Hemisphere. 

“And that ocean may have been as much as a mile deep. So Mars indeed three billion years ago had extensive water resources. But something happened. Mars suffered a major climate change and lost its surface water.”

– James Green, NASA director of planetary physics

These scientists emphasized the fact that something happened to cause major climate change. In the interview above, the boy also speaks to that.

According to Dr. John Brandenburg, PhD, and plasma physicist, life on Mars was eradicated by nuclear war. 

He believes that a couple of intelligent civilizations from ancient history were responsbile for this, and in his published works, argues that the coloration and composition of Martian soil points to a series of “mixed-fission explosions” that led to nuclear fallout on the planet. (source) (Life And Death On Mars: The New Mars Synthesis)

Like the astronauts quoted above, Brandenburg is no crackpot. He was involved in the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. He was the deputy manager of that mission. (Source: page 16 of 18) (source) (source)

General Stubblebine is a retired United States Major General. He was also the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), and one of America’s most distinguished soldiers and Chief of U.S. Army Intelligence, with 16,000 soldiers under his command, said this about Mars:

“There are structures on the surface of Mars. I will tell you for the record that there are structures underneath the surface of Mars that cannot be seen by the Voyager cameras that went by in 1976. 

“I will also tell you that there are machines on the surface of Mars and there are machines under the surface of Mars that you can look at, you can find out in detail, you can see what they are, where they are, who they are and a lot of detail about them.”

- (Dolan, Richard. UFOs And The National Security State: New York: Richard Dolan Press)

Stubblebine was a major proponent of the U.S. governments StarGate Project & remote viewing.
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Humanity's Expansion into Deep Space Is Inevitable, Industry Experts Say

Dwarf Planet Ceres' Bright Spots Suggest an Ancient Ocean

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