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UFO MADNESS: Truth about the 'Earth-sized UFO' caught on camera that suddenly vanished

CLAIMS that a UFO "the size of the Earth" was captured on camera before it mysteriously vanished have emerged online.

By JON AUSTIN

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UFO? The video suggested this was a UFO the size of Earth.

Reports said "horrified onlookers" watched as the monster UFO was seen "hovering above them" in the skies over Australia.

The clip was uploaded to YouTube yesterday with the title "Earth Sized UFO Sighted in Australia... Moves into the Sun!."

The video description states: "Planet sized UFO starts moving about and finally moves into the Sun. Another smaller UFO is sighted also."

It does not say where in Australia it was filmed.

In the footage, which was filmed directly at the Sun, a second large bright circular object can also be seen in the sky, Dailystar.co.uk reports.

It appears to move about, with some onlookers suggesting it has been spotted or is being pursued.

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That 'UFO' is just the solar disc (of the Sun) reflected through glass.

Scott Brando

The glowing subject then appears to move behind the sun, before a blinding light blocks the camera view, in what some suggested was an explosion or take-off manoeuvre, by an enormous alien craft.

When the camera is re-focussed, the orb appears to suddenly flit away.

Some viewers were convinced it was a UFO and some sort of craft.

One said on YouTube: "I saw something that looked very similar around this time last year.”

Another claimed it was just swamp gas, which is caused by rising methane from a pond.

However, in fact there was nothing actually there, and it was simply a reflection of the Sun.

We sent the footage to Scott Brando, a sceptic, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org.

He said: "That 'UFO' is just the solar disc (of the Sun) reflected through glass.

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He said the apparent object suddenly disappeared as the camera zoomed in and the glass was "likely removed."

Mr Brando pointed us to an article by a fellow debunker, who showed how almost identical footage said to show a "second Sun" was caused by glass in front of the camera lens.

Mick West, administrator of the Metabunk.org website, said: "A popular video claims to show an object in the sky that resembles a 'second sun'.

"However analysis of the video proves that what is shown is an offset lens reflection of the Sun itself. 

"There is nothing else in the sky. The effect is also not a sun-dog, an atmospheric reflection, or a mirage. It's just a reflection happening at the camera.

"We can see this quite clearly if we stabilise the video so the background is fixed. 

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"We can then see the reflection moving with the camera motion. Notice how the small movements of the reflection are in sync with the large movements of the lens flare.

"Offset lens reflections occur when a flat piece of glass, such as a filter, is in front of the camera, but is tilted slightly away from the plane of the camera, either accidentally, or deliberately.

"When combined with a second flat optical surface, like the protective cover of a cell-phone camera, or a second filter on a larger camera, you get a fainter reflection of the sun offset from the actual sun in the direction of the tilt."

He then simulated the same effect by attaching a glass slide to his phone with a rubber band.

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UNDER ATTACK? UFO 'filmed firing laser at International Space Station' in NASA footage

THE International Space Station (ISS) may have come under attack by hostile aliens in a UFO with laser blasters, a conspiracy theorist has suggested.

NASA onthult straks nieuws over hun planetenjacht - HLN.be

Bron: Independent, Guardian

NASA gaf enkel prijs dat het vannamiddag om 17 uur onze tijd een persconferentie geeft en dat de ontdekking werd gedaan door de ruimtetelescoop. Nog volgens NASA was Google betrokken bij wat ze een ‘doorbraakontdekking’ noemen.

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• Ruimteschip of niet? Reusachtige telescoop onderzoekt tien uur lang sigaarvormig gevaarte

Daarnaast houdt NASA de lippen voorlopig stijf op elkaar, maar er zijn enkele zaken die wijzen op wat de aankondiging zal inhouden. Vooreerst:

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.

Wat weten we?

Nu NASA heeft aangekondigd dat ze iets nieuws hebben ontdekt en een persconferentie houdt “om de laatste ontdekking gemaakt door de planeetjagende Keplertelescoop aan te kondigen”, zitten astronomieliefhebbers op het puntje van hun stoel.

Vier wetenschappers zullen het persmoment leiden:

• Paul Hertz, directeur van de afdeling astrofysica
• Christopher Shallue, softwareingenieur bij Google AI
• Andrew Vanderburg, astronoom en professor aan de universiteit van Austin
• Jessie Dotson, verantwoordelijke wetenschapper voor het Keplerproject

NASA kiest altijd de meest relevante en meest onderlegde ingenieurs en wetenschappers om op dergelijke evenementen het woord te voeren, zodat de vragen van de pers en het publiek zo gedetailleerd mogelijk beantwoord kunnen worden. Dat Jessie Dotson er bij is, maakt duidelijk dat Kepler een hoofdrol speelt in de ontdekking, en dat het dus gaat over iets wat die telescoop heeft gespot. Het werk van Dotson focust op asteroïden. Zo hielp ze NASA bij het samenstellen van een team dat berekent hoe groot het risico is dat zo’n asteroïde op de aarde knalt.

Vanderburg werkt vooral rond exoplaneten en hun sterren en maakt daarbij gebruik van gegevens die door Kepler worden doorgestuurd. Zijn specialiteit is het opsporen en beschrijven van exoplaneten. Hertz en Shallue zullen hun organisaties en wat zij hebben bijgedragen aan de ontdekking in de verf zetten.

De lijst doet dus vermoeden dat het te maken heeft met exoplaneten, hun sterren en mogelijk ook asteroïden. Hoewel Kepler voor veel andere dingen wordt gebruikt dan het zoeken naar planeten die rond sterren tollen en leven zouden kunnen bevatten, is het waarschijnlijk dat deze aankondiging betrekking zal hebben op zo’n planeet.

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All across the world, in almost every culture there have long been reports of so-called “little people,” and it is so common throughout geographical or cultural boundaries that it is a phenomenon in and of itself. Gnomes, Elves, Trolls, Duendes, they go by many names, and curiously they tend to share not only vast similarities in the general appearance of such creatures, but also the genuine sightings reports from these places that seem to pull these entities out from the realms of pure fantasy or fairy tales and into the real world. I have written of this here at Mysterious Universe before in general, and also more specifically on this phenomenon in places as far flung as South America and Japan, and such accounts never cease to amaze. One area with its own tales of mysterious little people is the frigid, far-northern land of Alaska, in the United States. Here, as in many other places around the world, strange little people roam about, and they are seen by the populace as being every bit as real as you or I.

Out in the wilds of the northern U.S. state of Alaska, the native tribes of the region such as the Inuit and Yup’ik have long had their own tales of little people living out in the forests and frigid tundra here. Depending on the tribe or tradition these enigmatic creatures go by many names, such as the Ircinrraqs, Inukin (also often spelled “Enukin” or “Inukun”), Ircenrraat, Ingnakalaurak, Egassuayaq, and the Paalraayak, although they seem to most commonly be collectively referred to as the Inukin, or Enukin, and for the purposes of this article they will be referred to as such.

The Alaskan wilderness

Prominent in the lore of many of these northern peoples, although there are different details depending on the tribe, the Inukin are most often described as being between 1 to 3 feet in height, typically dressed in animal skins and with pointed heads and elfin ears. The Inukin are mostly said to prefer to stay underground or hidden away in the mountains during the day, only venturing out at night, and are mostly characterized as being mischievous, bed-tempered, and mean, seeming to enjoy tormenting people. It is commonly said that they will intentionally try to get travelers lost or throw rocks at them, and that they have a bad habit of stealing the kills of hunters, with caribou said to be among their favorites, and they are also hunters themselves, using bows and arrows. At their most sinister, the Inukin are thought to abduct women or children and drag them off to never be seen again. They are usually credited with having superhuman strength and a host of supernatural powers such as shapeshifting, invisibility, and the power to sow confusion in the minds of those who see them. One old Inupiaq man named Majik Imaje said of these little people and their strength:

They live in the old ways to this very day they dress in caribou skins. They still hunt with bow & arrow. They live underground, and in caves all throughout this vast area. They possess super human qualities that you will never believe. They are incredibly strong and they can run, very fast; they sneak around the villages stealing food. When any hunter shoots and kills a caribou, it requires two adult Inupiaq men to lift that caribou to place on a sled. It only takes ONE Ingnakalaurak or Enukin to pick one up and RUN WITH IT, over his head. Hunters, experienced hunters, often talk about caribou that they have shot & killed. Dead and the caribou will disappear before they reach it to dress it out. Make no mistake, these people are very good in what they do, they are perhaps the best hunters in the world.

Imaje also claims that this is why some bush pilots have reported seeing the strange sight of caribou running on their sides, only to fly lower and see that they are actually being carried along by an Inukin. These beings are also said to sneak into villages at night when everyone is asleep to steal food and goods, but interestingly, although they are mostly avoided and for all of their more malevolent tendencies, these creatures are also said to have a benevolent side as well. For instance, it is supposedly good luck to receive a gift from them when they are feeling generous, and on occasion instead of playing pranks they will take pity on a lost soul out in the woods and guide the way.

It is interesting how many of the details of the Inukins match the lore of other little people from various other cultures around the world, such as their general appearance and similar habits and powers attributed to them, as well as their curious mixture of both mischievous, prankish behavior and contradictory more benevolent tendencies, which is a common trait in such creatures in a great many other cultures as well. Also, just as with other cultures, although outsiders may see these little people as surely purely mythical constructs, the natives of this region see them as very real indeed, with many insisting that the Inukins actually exist. Supporting these claims are the various real sightings and encounters with such beings, which blur the line between reality and what must seem like fairy tales to many.

Indeed, villagers and hunters of the region have long told of seeing Inukins and having their things stolen by the creatures, and some outsiders have reported seeing such little people out in the wilds as well. Very common are reports of hunters who have shot and killed an animal, only to go to retrieve it and find it gone, without any trail of blood or trace of where it has gone. Also common are stories of having rocks come flying from the woods out of nowhere, followed by a fleeting glimpse of a small, child-sized shadow in the brush. Some of these encounters are rather amazing to say the least, such as one hunter who claimed that he one day heard a strange noise, only to follow it and find a portal in the side of the mountain, through which he could see a group of Inukins dancing. He claimed that he had only watched them for a moment, but that when he got to his sled it seemed to have aged in the elements and his game had rotted away, and when he returned home it turned out that he had been gone for an entire year. It is tale that is said to have really happened, but which seems as if it must surely be colored with some legend.

Others are more based in actual eyewitness accounts. In 1993, the Arctic Sounder published an impressive range of accounts of encounters with the mysterious Inukin, which would later be republished in the Anchorage Daily News. In one of the accounts, a villager from near the Noatak river named Kenneth Ashby recounts a rather ominous experience he had with the creatures while fetching water from the river with his brother in the summer of 1938. As they made their way through the wilderness, Ashby claims that they were jumped and attacked by a group of feral little people about 3 feet in height, with bowl-style haircuts and draped in caribou skins. After a fierce struggle they managed to escape when the creatures were distracted by the arrival of the two young men’s grandfather.

Ashby claims that that very same summer his sister chased off a group of the creatures trying to steal her catch of salmon at the river. Ashby would have another encounter with the Inukins 9 years later, when he was camping at the river with a group of relatives on a hunting trip. He reports that during the night they could hear the crunching of leaves and the Inukins communicating with each other in strange, bird-like whistles, but whenever they went to look for the elusive creatures they would scamper away, as if playing hide and seek. They played this game all the way down the river up to the village, where they were finally chased away back into the wilderness by the local men.

The series of articles also told the account of local woman in the same area named Flora Penn, who claims that she was out with friends traveling up the Noatak and at one point they stopped to pick some berries. As they did so they suddenly noticed a tiny man with a large, bulbous noise, big pointy ears, and a cone shaped head casually sitting upon a driftwood tree smoking a pipe. Penn says they watched the curious little man for a full hour, and the whole time he just smoked his pipe and looked around. Then suddenly, the creature was reportedly either spooked by something or remembered he had something important to do, and he then bolted upright to start running towards the nearby mountains at a frantic pace.

Another witness named Saul Shiedt had an encounter with one of the mysterious little people one summer as he was hunting caribou. After bagging a caribou, he set to work skinning it, and that was when he says he heard the voice of someone speaking in the Eskimo language. When he looked to see who it was, he saw that the voice had come from a diminutive man around 3 feet in height and armed with a bow and arrow. The two had a brief exchange and inspected each other’s respective weapons, with Saul himself armed with a high powered rifle. According to Saul, the Inukin’s bow was too tight for him to pull, and he imagined it must have taken immense strength to make it work. The hunter then told the mysterious stranger that he could take what he wanted from the caribou, and the only thing the Inukin supposedly wanted to take was the fatty part under the knee of the animal. Joining these tales of weirdness is a tale told by a Joe Sun, who said that one day a man had been hunting out in the wilds and had set his sights on a trophy caribou but that there was another hunter who was also pursuing it. He said of the strange sequence of events in the incident thus:

I hear from my parents in the Maniilaq area that there was this man hunting.
He had a real rifle.  (Not the old kind that you had to load through the barrel
with a rod.)  He saw a caribou he wanted to get close to, to have a shot at it.
He saw another person trying to hunt this caribou too.  When this man, a big
man, got close to shoot the caribou it changed into a little man.  The big man
jumped at the little man who escaped and began running and climbing up the
mountain.

Perhaps an even stranger story was reported in the May 31 edition of the Anchorage Daily News, and which seems to address the predilection of these Inukin to abduct people. According to the report, a hunter from Marshall, Alaska going by the name Nick Andrew Jr. was out on his snowmobile hunting birds on May 7 and came across a young boy sitting alone out in the middle of a marsh. When he approached the boy he saw that the child seemed to be in some sort of trance or daze, and it was odd that there were no tracks anywhere around him. Asking other snowmobilers in the area didn’t help, because none of them had seen the boy at all. The boy seemed to have just appeared out of nowhere. When Nick asked him what had happened or where his parents were, the boy, who was obviously upset and with a face red and swollen from crying, sputtered out that he didn’t know, and was unable to provide any information at all. The hunter would say:

The boy was disoriented, dazed, confused and scared, with no concept of time. He did not appear tired, nor was he hungry or thirsty.

The concerned Nick decided to help the boy out and took him back to his village, where things would get even more bizarre. After he had come to his senses and calmed down somewhat, the boy claimed that he had been abducted by the little people and taken to nearby Pilcher Mountain, interesting since this particular mountain is known as a hotspot for Inukin encounters. At the mountain he was held captive, and claims to have seen a little girl also being held there who had vanished in the area 40 years earlier. He says that the Inukin had eventually decided to let him go, and had dumped him into the marsh. The boy displayed classic symptoms of lost time, and was unable to provide any details as to where he had been taken.

The 2013 book Myths and Mysteries of Alaska, by Cherry Lyon Jones, gives some curious accounts as well. One of them concerns what appears to have been a rather helpful Inukin. One day an Inupiaq man named Luke Koonuk was out hunting in the area of Point Hope, Alaska, but was out in incredibly remote, isolated terrain when his 4-wheel drive vehicle became stuck in a patch of muck. He was allegedly unable to budge the vehicle by himself, and with no one around for miles and miles it seemed that he was in quite a bit of trouble. After trying to move the vehicle and get it unstuck to the point of exhaustion, the panicked hunter reported that the truck had suddenly and inexplicably risen up, shifted, and then come bouncing back down out of the mud. As he looked on in bafflement, he claims that he could fleetingly see the blur of a shape of a little bipedal creature of some sort dash off into the trees.

The same book gives another account which is really hard to classify, and could be read as a Inukin encounter or one with aliens, but considering the location seems worth mentioning. The report comes from a group of teenagers in Nome, Alaska in 1988. The boys allegedly were driving along at night when they noticed an odd, pulsing light in their rear view mirror. Curious, they turned their vehicle around and went back to see what was going on, and as they approached they saw a humanoid creature between 3 to 4 feet tall, with broad, muscular shoulders standing there bathed in a greenish light. As the car approached, the creature allegedly ran away, but was quickly overcome by the vehicle and apparently run over. The boys would later find that other people had seen one or more of the same sort of creatures in the area at around the same time, either standing by the side of the road or in some cases even chasing vehicles, and there was apparently much talk at the time that this was perhaps the Inukin.

It is fascinating that such reports can be so similar to those of little people in other areas across the face of our planet, and yet still maintain their own stamp of uniqueness. Why do so many cultures throughout the world have traditions and myths of such creatures and why do they so often offer so much resemblance? Are these just some immutable feature upon the landscape of our psyche, or is there something more to all of this? What are these people seeing, if anything? Although such stories of gnomes and trolls may seem to many like something out of a fairy tale, to these people they are most certainly real. Why should that be? Are we, in our technologically advanced civilization with all of our science and shiny toys perhaps missing something? Whatever one may think about such reports, they continue to come in from all over the globe, and they hint at something very odd indeed.

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If something on Earth is visible from space, that means it’s big. If it’s acting like something scientists have never seen before in the ocean, that’s not good. If the thing appears to be a giant smoke ring spinning so fast that it’s capable of sucking up fish and moving them far from their schooling grounds, that’s strange and probably bad  … unless you own a fish market. Unfortunately, these mysterious ocean smoke rings are real and experts are at a loss to explain them.

For the initiated or those who have never made or seen a smoker’s smoke ring, they’re formed by pushing small amounts of non-inhaled smoke out of the mouth. Adding jaw and tongue movements give them a backspin that makes them tight and last longer. Those giant smoke rings in the sky that everyone is allegedly so afraid of are made using a vortex generator, which releases a cloud and then shoots a hole through the middle, causing the smoke to roll backwards and form a ring. Bernoulli’s principle states that faster air has lower pressure, so the slow outside air keeps the ring together. (cough-cough)

According to a press release from the University of Liverpool, researchers using sea level measurements and surface temperature images taken from satellites discovered strange linked eddies moving in opposite directions of each other. Those opposing spins allowed them to move 10 times as fast as normal eddies and in directions they don’t normally travel in. Chris Hughes, lead author of the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and a sea level scientist (probably a busy man these days), explains:

“Ocean eddies almost always head to the west, but by pairing up they can move to the east and travel ten times as fast as a normal eddy, so they carry water in unusual directions across the ocean.”

And what’s in the water? The researchers believe the ocean smoke rings suck up fish and other marine life and transport them at high speeds to parts unknown. Do the fish get smoked? No, but something strange is going on that Hughes can’t explain.

“The smoke rings require an area of calm water to ‘puff’ out through, which itself is quite unusual. I’ve looked at other areas of other oceans but I’ve only seen them in the oceans around Australia, plus one in the South Atlantic.”

Could these smoke rings generate enough power to transport a ship? Or suck one into the vortex? Does this sound like the beginnings of an Australian Bermuda Triangle? It’s worth keeping an eye on. The fish will appreciate. It.

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Like the swallows return to Capistrano – oh, wait, they don’t return there anymore. Like the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio, the ice balls have returned to Russia, this time in the Gulf of Finland off the country’s northwestern coast. Ice balls? Isn’t that what they call high school proms in Siberia?

Pictures of the mysterious ice balls began showing up on social media on December 10th. The balls are strangely uniform in size – about 7 inches (17 cm) in diameter … that’s slightly smaller than a volleyball and double the diameter of a softball. In other words, these are not the kind of ice balls you find floating in drinks at your fancier Christmas parties. Witnesses saw thousands of them bobbing in the frigid water against the shore. The scene was reminiscent of the appearance of the ice balls last year in the Gulf of Ob near a beach in western Siberia. That was reminiscent of the scene in 2015 when thousand of ice balls popped up in the Gulf of Finland, this time off the coast of Tallinn in Estonia. And all of those look like the ice balls that show up regularly on Lake Michigan in the US. What are they and why do they keep coming back to certain locales?

Good guess but no.

The “what” starts with slushy “slob” ice, which is that mushy not-quite-a-berg stuff that is ill-suited for skating. The next ingredient is wind, which blows the slob ice around. Ingredient number three is location – the slob ice needs to be blown around in very shallow waters so it rubs against the shore or sea bed and is rolled into balls much like the start of a typical snowman. Finally, the temperature needs to drop so the balls freeze. All that’s left is timing – the best time for them to show up is overnight so the locals think they’re the frozen eggs of whales, giant sturgeon or aliens.

That where this year’s ice balls become more mysterious. Beyond Russia reports that local ecologist Ilya Leukhin thinks the cause of these balls (pictures here) was not slob ice but an oil spill or industrial oil runoff.

“Salt water is a mix of a variety of salts, so it crystallizes unevenly under cold flows. Crystals are formed around the nucleus. And in this case, water has crystallized around a gas bubble or hydrophobic liquid, a drop of which has a round shape in water.”

An ice ball with a hydrophobic (water-repelling oil) center? Sounds like you shouldn’t pick one up and lick it.

Put down that ice ball!

As to why the ice balls keep returning mysteriously to the Gulf of Finland or Lake Michigan, the best guess is rare coincidences based on those spots having the right slob-ice/salinity/shallowness/temperature/wind combination.

Or if could be really cold aliens.

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New Image of a "Stellar Nursery" is Majestic But Also Terrifying

It’s nowhere near as peaceful as it sounds.

By Danny Paez

From Earth, stars seem like tiny twinkling jewels that bedazzle the night sky. But but up close and personal, they’re tightly packed spheres of plasma that are continuously radiating energy into outer space.

The way stars are born is even more horrifying, as we’re about to get into, but from a safe distance the process is mind-bogglingly beautiful, as this new photo from the European Southern Observatory reveals.

Astronomers managed to photograph a stellar nursery they have named Sharpless 29 with the ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile. This star breeding ground is in the constellation Sagittarius, 5,500 light-years away, and it’s packed with gases and dust, which are exactly the vitamins and minerals baby stars need to grow up big and strong.

All stars need to start their lives are giants clouds of space dust and gravity to pull all those particles together. Sharpless 29 has both. Once a space cloud — or a nebula — gets so massive it begins to collapse and clump together into thousands of balls of gas, known as solar masses. These stellar embryos, if you will, keep swirling and gathering mass until become what we see as a sparkle in the night sky.

During this period infant stars — much like human babies — throw some pretty catastrophic tantrums. They spit out wads of molten matter, gas, and dust. All of this star puke is mixed with potent rays of ultraviolet light to create the intergalactic mosaic you see before you.

The glowing red mist comes from the emissions of hydrogen gas and those bright blotches of blue light are caused by the reflection and scattering effects of tiny dust particles. Those dark, vein-looking areas running through the red area are caused by patches of dust that block out the light, preventing astronomers from capturing what lies behind.

This magisterial image of Sharpless 29 isn’t just something to stare at after a blunt. Scientists are constantly working to grasp more of the processes that occur thousands of light-years away. Photographs like these help them better understand the building blocks of the universe that surrounds us.

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Reported UFO sighting was probably the Army's Golden Knights

Members of the Army Golden Knights descend upon Sicily Drop Zone to deliver an American flag to the Oler family during the 20th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop on Dec. 2, 2017 at Fort Bragg.

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By DREW BROOKS | The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.  

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — Fort Bragg’s Golden Knights frequently display unworldly talent as they perform around the globe. But are they aliens? Team, are highly trained soldiers who have wowed crowds at air shows, international competitions and sporting events for nearly 60 years. They also perform on and around Fort Bragg — where they are based — throughout the year.

But at least one person in the Knights’ own backyard confused the paratroopers for a UFO.

On Dec. 1, a user of the website ufostalker.com reported a sighting at about 5:25 p.m. on Nov. 30. The website is a real-time tracking system based on reporting to the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON.

“[Five] burning orbs appeared to be coming through the atmosphere before rapidly changing directions, both descending and ascending,” the user wrote. “[Three] more orbs came in and did similar things before this.”

The date and time of the sighting corresponds to Fort Bragg’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. The event draws thousands to the Main Post Parade Field each year for family-friendly events, including musical performances, an appearance by Santa Claus and a jump by the Golden Knights.

The report at ufostalker.com includes a video of the sighting, which clearly matches videos taken of the Golden Knights at the tree lighting event, including one posted by this reporter during the tree lighting ceremony.

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Shooting stars? Or Golden Knights? @ArmyGK

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The Golden Knights are well-known around the world.

Millions of people see them perform each year. They have also earned more than 2,000 gold medals in international and national competitions and nearly 2,000 silver and bronze medals, too.

The team has also broken roughly 350 world records.

But, by design, most of their jumps take place in daylight.

The Nov. 30 jump was a rare exception.

Before they could light the post Christmas tree, officials needed the skies to darken. So, naturally, the Golden Knights jumped as night fell on the nation’s largest military installation.

And they compensated for the lack of visibility by strapping on flares.

It made for quite the show. And to at least one person, it was an out-of-this-world experience.

Military editor Drew Brooks can be reached at brooksd@fayobserver.com

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Bloke claims to have snapped REAL alien proof from his back garden

COULD this be the best UFO photo you’ve seen ever?

By Christine Younan 

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µUFO SIGHTING: Ed Walters claims to have taken a photo of alien proof

This startling image could finally prove the existence of aliens at last.

The eerie sighting was snapped up over the Gulf Breeze in Florida, by building contractor Ed Walters.

He claims to have taken the photos from his back garden before handing them to the local media in the area, Pensacola News Journal reports.

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ALIEN PROOF? The eerie image was taken over the Gulf Breeze in Florida

The discovery sparked a year-long skywatching campaign for further evidence by excited locals and visitors, in what became known as the “Gulf Breeze Sightings”.

Ed claims to have taken the pictures on November 11, 1987, and 30 years on, it still sparks a debate about whether they were real or hoaxed.

George Williams, state section director of the Florida Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), said: “I really don’t have a good opinion on whether they’re faked or not.

“There was so much controversy about it and MUFON went back and forth about it for years.”

Talking about how the area has had a lot of sightings, George added: “We still get reports of interesting stuff in the area.

“And in 1987, you had hundreds of people besides Walters reporting sightings. It’s always been an interesting area.”

“I think they’re real”

Bruce Maccabee

“There was so much controversy about it and MUFON went back and forth about it for years.”

Talking about how the area has had a lot of sightings, George added: “We still get reports of interesting stuff in the area.

“And in 1987, you had hundreds of people besides Walters reporting sightings. It’s always been an interesting area.”

Though some people claimed the sighting was fake, Ed wrote his own book on the case, called “Gulf Breeze Sightings”.

He had some supporters, including UFO hunter Bruce Maccabee, who said: “I think they’re real.”

Bruce added: “You had politicians reporting seeing objects.

“There were so many sightings that you have to account for, unless you believe there was massive collusion on the part of the residents of Gulf Breeze and Pensacola.”

Meanwhile in November, aliens hunters were left stunned after photos appeared to show a UFO hoovering over a navy base.

The remarkable snaps appear to show an alien craft floating above the ground with a helicopter close by.

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Google Maps: Is this mysterious glowing object proof of a UFO landing?

GOOGLE MAPS footage shows a flashing UFO like object in the wilderness with rays beaming in a formation suggesting an alien landing has taken place.

Chilling moment UFO 'follows' a plane before dipping suddenly from view as puzzled passenger films the bizarre sighting over Britain

An airline passenger filmed what appears to be a UFO high in the skies over Britain when a small, bright object seemed to follow alongside the plane before suddenly dipping out of view

By Liz Dunphy

An airline passenger filmed what appears to be a UFO high in the skies over Britain when a small, bright object appeared to follow alongside the plane before suddenly dipping out of view.

The chilling video tracks the plane's journey above the clouds when the object, which resembles a very large, inflated plastic bag suddenly appears in the distance.

It is not clear what the object really was or whether the footage, captured in 2015, was doctored but it comes amid a surge in reported UFO sightings across Britain.

Eerie lights that resembled a flying saucer were seen hovering in the sky over Kent last week, prompting locals to say that it must either be aliens or Santa Claus scouting the area before Christmas Day.

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Grant Brendan filmed the eerie illumination that resembled a flying saucer as it moved silently forwards and backwards in the sky near his home in Ramsgate.

Kent is a popular destination for UFOs according to the Kent Unidentified Flying Objects Research Group which claims that the coastlines around East Kent and South Kent are major UFO areas.

In February, Kent made the headlines again for possibly hosting alien life  }a group of six mysterious lights were seen hovering in the sky for half an hour over Hythe and Folkestone.

The Ministry of Defence, which runs training ranges nearby, denied any involvement with the strange airborne apparitions and their origin remains unknown. 

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Kendrick Lamar Definitely Saw a UFO & Doesn’t Care If You Believe Him

By Bianca Giulione in Music

On Tuesday, Kendrick Lamar sat down with radio host Howard Stern for a chat. Fresh out of an all-night recording studio session, Lamar dropped by the Stern Show for the first time ever to discuss his album DAMN., which was recently nominated for seven Grammys, growing up in Compton, and, most remarkably, a UFO sighting.

Lamar says he was six years old when he saw something in the sky that looked like “a dart go past.” “I’m going to stand my ground to this… Nobody believed me then and [nobody] believe me now. It’s just something I can’t really describe, because it just sounds like, ‘Okay, you just saw a dart go past.’ That shit don’t make sense… It was just a surreal moment.”

Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers then asked if Lamar was abducted by aliens, and he played along. “I probably did. That’s probably why I’m doing music right now. Who knows. They probably gave me the energy.”

Listen to the full interview here, where he also talks about collaborating with Prince, how his To Pimp a Butterfly song “Alright” has becoming a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement, and much more.

Revisit Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA.” below.

In other music news, Brockhampton just dropped a new song and video “BOOGIE” and a 22-minute trailer for their upcoming film. Watch them right here.

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Massive Black Hole Has Surprisingly Weak Magnetic Field

Scientists To Check If Bizarre Interstellar Object Could Be An Alien Spacecraft

We won't have to wait long to find out.

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Scientists turn DNA into virtually any 3D shape imaginable

BY MIHAI ANDREI

Scientists have made a significant advancement in shaping DNA — they can now twist and turn the building blocks of life into just about any shape. In order to demonstrate their technique, they have shaped DNA into doughnuts, cubes, a teddy bear, and even the Mona Lisa.

New DNA origami techniques can build virus-size objects of virtually any shape.

Image credits: Wyss Institute.

Scientists have long desired to make shapes out of DNA. The field of research emerged in the 1980s, but things really took off in 2006, with the advent of a technique called DNA origami. As the name implies, it involves transforming DNA into a multitude of shapes, similar to the traditional Japanese technique of origami. The process starts with a long strand placed on a scaffold with the desired sequence of nucleotides, dubbed A, C, G, and T. Then, patches of the scaffold are matched with complementary strands of DNA called staples, which latch on to their desired target. In 2012, a different technique emerged — one which didn’t use scaffolds or large strands of DNA, but rather small strands that fit together like LEGO pieces.

Both techniques became wildly popular with various research groups. Scientists started to coat DNA objects with plastics, metals, and other materials to make electronic devices, electronics, and even computer components. But there was always a limitation: the size of conventional DNA objects has been limited to about 100 nanometers. There was just no way to make them bigger without becoming floppier or unstable in the process. Well, not anymore.

New DNA origami techniques can make far larger objects, such as this dodecahedron composed of 1.8 million DNA bases.

Image credits: K. Wagenbauer et al, Nature, Vol. 551, 2017.

Groups in Germany, Massachusetts, and California all report that they’ve made dramatic breakthroughs in DNA origami, creating rigid modules with preprogrammed shapes that can assemble with other copies to build specific shapes — and they have a variety of shapes to prove it.

A German team, led by Hendrik Dietz, a biophysicist at the Technical University of Munich, created a miniature doughnut about 300 nanometers across. A Massachusetts team led by Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute in Boston, created complex structures with both blocks and holes. With this technique, they developed cut-out shapes like an hourglass and a teddy bear. The third group led by Lulu Qian, a biochemist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, developed origami-based pixels that appear in different shades when viewed through an atomic microscope. Taken together, these structures represent a new age for DNA origami.

Furthermore, it’s only a matter of time before things get even more complex. Yin’s group actually had to stop making more complex shape sbecause they ran out of money. Synthesizing the DNA comes at the exorbitant price of $100,000 per gram. However, Dietz and his collaborators believe they could dramatically lower the price by coaxing viruses to replicate the strands inside bacterial hosts.

“Now, there are so many ways to be creative with these tools,” Yin concludes.

The technique isn’t just about creating pretty DNA shapes. Someday, this approach could lead to a novel generation of electronics, photonics, nanoscale machines, and possibly disease detection, Robert F. Service writes for Science. The prospect of using DNA origami to detect cancer biomarkers and other biological targets could open exciting avenues for research and help revolutionize cancer detection.

Journal References:

1. Klaus F. Wagenbauer, Christian Sigl & Hendrik Dietz. Gigadalton-scale shape-programmable DNA assemblies. doi:10.1038/nature24651.
2. Grigory Tikhomirov, Philip Petersen & Lulu Qian. Fractal assembly of micrometre-scaleDNA origami arrays with arbitrary patterns. doi:10.1038/nature24655.
3. Luvena L. Ong et al. Programmable self-assembly of three-dimensional nanostructures from 10,000 unique components. doi:10.1038/nature24648.
4. Florian Praetorius et al. Biotechnological mass production of DNA origami. doi:10.1038/nature24650.

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Jupiter is still a ridiculously beautiful place judging from Juno’s pics, and here’s how it does it

 BY ALEXANDRU MICU

NASA released a new batch of stunning images of Jupiter for Earthlings to enjoy, via its Juno spacecraft, so let’s take a look at how these ephemeral landscapes form.

Back on August 5th, 2011, NASA launched a probe to peer into the secrets of Jupiter. Christened Juno, after the mythological goddess wife of Jupiter in the ancient Roman pantheon, the vessel was equipped with a wide range of instruments aimed at teasing away every last secret of the gas giant’s characteristics, including its atmosphere, magnetic force field, and dense cloud coverage. Which goes to show that even scientists enjoy a nice turn of irony now and again.

Luckily for us, NASA also slapped a high-quality camera onto Juno, which it used to capture the giant’s stunningly beautiful masses of swirling gas. And a new series of such high-fidelity, close-up photos was just recently released by NASA. Aren’t we spoiled?

So let’s sit back and enjoy the sky god’s mastery with the cloud brush while taking a look at how he does it.

Wow, it looks so fluid!

That’s because it is. Jupiter is, essentially, one huge atmosphere.

Its main ingredient is hydrogen, which is also the bulk material in the sun. Hydrogen accounts for around 90% of the Jovian atmosphere, with almost all of the remaining 10% being composed of helium (by volume). By mass, its around 75% hydrogen and 24% helium.

What’s left are compounds such as ammonia, sulfur, methane, and water vapor, along silicon-based compounds and traces of benzene and other hydrocarbons. Carbon, hydrogen sulfide, neon, oxygen, and phosphine also float around in there.

We don’t know whether it has any ‘dry land’, so to speak, although scientists suspect that below a 50 km (30 miles) thick cover of gas lies a 21,000 km (13,000 miles) thick layer of hydrogen and helium. Pressed by the crushing weight of all that ‘atmosphere’ above, this layer goes from gas to liquid the further down you delve. Magnetic field recordings beamed back by Juno also suggest that Jupiter has a solid core generating its magnetic field — but even this is an exotic substance known as metallic hydrogen.

So in effect, the gas giant has only a tiny kernel we’d call firm, but even that isn’t a traditional ‘firm’ as in the case of rocks or soil. It’s a gas pressed so ungodly hard that it became metal. The giant composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, a property that extends to its liquid and solid components.

The colors are primarily a function of chemistry. Jupiter’s outer atmosphere consists mostly of hydrogen and helium with small amounts of water droplets, ice crystals, ammonia crystals, and other elements at the same pressure as Earth’s atmosphere — 1 bar. These elements create clouds in shades of white, orange, brown, and red.

The origins of the other colors are easiest to tease out by judging from the other gas giants. Yellow-brown Saturn’s atmosphere has traces of ammonia, phosphine, water vapor, and hydrocarbons. Uranus gets its green-blue hue from the methane gas mixed into its hydrogen- and helium-rich atmosphere. Neptune, also rich in methane with a predominantly hydrogen- and helium-based atmosphere, is an even truer shade of blue.

The swirling patterns are produced by the relative movement of these gasses throughout the atmosphere, goaded on by insane windspeeds of up to 384 miles per hour. The round spots, some of which could fit the entire Earth with room to spare, are immense and immensely violent storms.

The US$ 1 million craft entered Jupiter’s orbit in 2016. The data it beamed back proved invaluable in our efforts to understand the origin and evolution of the gas giant, look for solid planetary core, map its magnetic field, measure water and ammonia levels in its deep atmosphere, and for the observation of its auroras. Juno is currently swinging around Jupiter in a wide arc to keep safe from its monumental outpouring of radiation, which could fry the vessel’s electronics.

Back in October, NASA planned to fire Juno’s thrusters to increase its speed but had to cancel such plans due to an unforeseen malfunction of its engine valves. Juno will have to more lazily swing around the object of her interest, which means more time to snap quality pictures — and I’m all for that. Even more so since Jupiter’s fluid nature means that its surface is never the same, not even mere moments apart.

This series of close-ups were taken within the last year and can be seen on Juno’s mission page (hosted by NASA), along with others taken previously. You can also submit your own processed images from Juno’s raw image files, or view those submitted by others.

All image credits go to NASA.

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Aliens CLOSE? Chilling video of frozen lake has clear 'UFO noises'

THIS astonishing clip appears to reveal the sounds of aliens closer to us than ever before.

By Callum Hoare 

The video, which shows a woman walking on a frozen lake, is paired with some eerie audio.

Listening carefully, you can hear the sound change from loud to quiet, as well as altering in pitch slightly, although an object is moving around.

The noise is reminiscent of the type of sound effects often used for UFOs in Sci-Fi movies.

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CHILLING: The weird sounds were heard over a frozen lake

“The mournful howling sounds made me really feel aliens must be close by”

Svetlana Kuzina

Photographer Svetlana Kuzina recorded the extraordinary haunting noises while walking on a frozen lake in the Altai Mountains.

She said: “The mournful howling sounds made me really feel aliens must be close by.

“Finally – I thought, ‘I am on the verge of contact with extraterrestrial minds'!

“In day time the acoustics are louder and sharper."

At first Svetlana was frightened by the “alien-like” sounds that she heard in the middle of the night, but eventually she summoned up the courage to explore the lake.

Experts believe the strange sounds are a result of ice expanding and contacting.

This natural shifting is known to produce a range of high and low sound frequencies.

But there has been an increase in alien reports recently. Just earlier today it was reported that a spaceship-like object was spotted in the sky.

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WORLD'S BEST UFO PICTURE? Some believe "Gulf Breeze" craft could be proof of aliens

THIS startling UFO image is believed by some to be proof of aliens visiting Earth.

Undeniable PROOF of alien life? UFO spotted hovering in sky before vanishing

THIS is the moment a skateboarder captured an apparent UFO flying above him as he was checking traffic over his shoulder.

By Callum Hoare 

In the video, you can see a saucer-shaped object appearing to float in the night sky.

The man recording, who has not been identified, can’t quite believe what he has discovered and exclaims “oh my God” while filming the mysterious phenomenon.

“What the f*** is that?” he adds.

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He then tries to chase the object down the road to get a better look, but it appears to fade into the sky.

The skateboarder claims that he could see something operating the craft before it turned blue and disappeared.

“It’s not as bright anymore,” he explains in the footage.

The clip, recorded in Arizona, US, was uploaded to YouTube and has since sparked a number of comments from users convinced this is evidence of extraterrestrial life.

One said: “Awesome proof of an alien UFO!”

While another asked: “What more do we need to know that we're not the only ones?”

This video comes just a week after self-proclaimed space boffins believed they had caught the moment “something huge” entered our atmosphere – and it wasn’t a meteor.

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UFO Shoots Laser Near Space Station? NASA Says There’s An Explanation For This Bizarre Sighting

Jonathan Vankin

A UFO appears to fire a red laser beam toward Earth from outside the International Space Station, in a video excerpted from the live NASA online video feed from the ISS on December 5. But what does NASA have to say about this latest bizarre UFO sighting at the space station?

The red laser incident marks the third time since mid October that the NASA video feed has captured what UFO watchers believe to be an alien craft in close proximity to the International Space Station. But while in the previous two sightings the supposed UFO appeared to be merely observing the space station in operation, this time, whatever the entity is — or is not — seems to be taking aggressive action toward our planet.

Or is it?

NASA has what appears to be a very interesting explanation for the red laser. But first, what do the UFO watchers think they see in the video?

“Although red UFOs have been seen near the ISS, witnessing a beam of light from one of then has never been recorded before,” wrote Scott Waring on his popular UFO Sightings Daily site. “Lucky for us, Streetcap1 of Youtube caught this anomaly while watch the NASA cams. He keeps a watchful eye out for any UFOs near the station. The question is, what is that beam and should we be worried about it?

“I watch the ISS all the time and almost every day I see something strange that is unexplainable and this is definitely one of them,” wrote one commenter on the site, while another claimed to suffer headaches as a result of sighting an earlier UFO shooting a laser beam.

But according to NASA, there’s a very Earthly explanation for the leaser beam in space.

The laser beam was actually a test firing of the new Optical Payload for Laser Communcation, or OPALS, system run in part by NASA from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

The purpose of OPALS is to create a new, ultra-high speed communications link between Earth and spacecraft such as the space station.

But UFO Sightings Daily editor Scott Waring is not convinced. He says that he is familiar with OPALS, and the laser beam in the video is not it.

“I built a laser communicator before DARPA did and I have some experience with it. This laser is not hitting the space station. The lasers I saw were purple, which has a better frequency and higher sound quality than red laser,” Waring wrote on his site. “I have see OPALS at work at the ISS live cam. What I saw was not one, but many lasers hitting the ISS solar panels in a row at the same time.”

But if Waring is correct and the laser in the December 5 UFO video is not the NASA OPALS project in action — then what is it?

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ESPECTED EX-NASA SCIENTIST SAYS GIANT SPHERE’S ‘WITHIN RINGS OF SATURN’ ARE MULTIPLYING. HE CALLS THEM “THE RINGMAKERS”

The video below is a clip of Project Camelot’s Kerry Cassidy interviewing Dr. Norman Bergrun about what’s really going on in space. A mechanical engineer, Dr. Bergrun has worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research.

You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.

Coming from such a distinguished background, we can make several basic assumptions about him, not least of which is that he is highly intelligent. We can also assume that he knows and has worked with other intelligent and powerful people, and that he has had access to extremely sensitive data, which he himself makes clear in the below interview and in his book, The Ringmakers of Saturn. 

What makes Norman’s story so intriguing is not only his impressive background, but the fact that hundreds of other scientists, politicians, and high-ranking military personnel have also shared information like this. He is just one of many insiders exposing the reality of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and extraterrestrial beings.

When former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Dr. Brian O’Leary said that there is “abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time,” he wasn’t joking. There are now officially declassified documents that verify a long history of military encounters with these objects; objects which are performing maneuvers that no known aircraft can perform, all while traveling at speeds no known aircraft can travel. Not only that, but at the same time that pilots visually confirm their sightings, these objects are being tracked on both air and ground radar.

Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Exploration titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Aerial Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source) There you can see some pictures taken by military pilots of the objects they encountered.

When entering into the vicinity of these objects, it’s not uncommon for critical electrical equipment to go ‘dead.’ UFOs have also been seen hovering around global nuclear missile facilities, at which time these facilities completely shut down and the nukes within go offline. You can learn more about that here.

According to Herman Oberth, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, “flying saucers are real and . . . they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.” (Oberth, Hermann: “Flying Saucers Come from a Distant World,” The American Weekly, October 24, 1954)  (source 1)(source 2)

There are literally hundreds of shocking quotes from people of such reputable backgrounds, and thousands of documents pertaining to the UFO phenomenon, which lends even more credibility to the video below.

“What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that’s where I first discovered them, and they’re proliferating.” 

By the way, the ships Norman Speaks of around the rings of Saturn, they’re humungous.

He is also one of many x scientists who have accused the agency of “garbling” photos to hide things they do not want the public to see.

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Alien Probe or Galactic Driftwood? SETI Tunes In to 'Oumuamua

It’s a long shot, but scientists are about to listen very closely for radio signals from our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor

Space is often touted as the last frontier, the final wilderness that we have yet to tame or understand, and in many ways this is very true. We have only within the last century really begun to comprehend some of its secrets to any appreciable degree, and there are certainly wonders beyond our imagination for us yet to behold. Yet some mysteries that have been encountered out there in the cold dark of space go well beyond conventional understanding, to propel out into the world of the paranormal and the universe of the truly bizarre. Certainly ranking among these mysteries is a curious close encounter between some of the first people in space and, well, something else.

In April of 1982, the Soviet Union launched its ambitious Salyut 7 space station as part of the Soviet Salyut Programme, which started in 1971 and had the aim of eventually sending up a total of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed military reconnaissance space stations. The last to be launched in the program and a precursor to the Mir space station, the Salyut 7 was the 10th space station ever put into orbit by mankind, and was designed to serve as a sort of test of a new system of modular space stations, which entailed the ability to attach new modules to expand the station or adapt it to whatever functions were required, as well as an outpost for various off-planet experiments. The Salyut 7 would end up staying in orbit for a total of 8 years and 10 months, which up until that time was the longest such a station had ever remained in continuous orbit. It is also known for a very bizarre series of bizarre, unexplained events witnessed by the crew.

The Salyut 7 space station

In July of 1984, the Salyut 7 was on the 155th day of its mission and things were going in a routine fashion until there was a sudden transmission from cosmonauts Commander Oleg Atkov, Vladmir Solovyov, and Leonid Kizim in which they claimed that the space station had suddenly been surrounded by an oppressive, blinding orange light. The crew of three aboard the Salyut 7 all then allegedly looked out of the portals to try and see what was causing this inexplicable brilliant glow. At this point they would witness probably the last thing they had expected to see out there.

There hovering in space in front of the space station were what the crew would describe as seven enormous winged humanoid beings estimated as being around 90 feet in height and with calm, smiling faces, and it was from these bizarre entities that the ethereal light was apparently emanating. They were also claimed to exude a feeling of calm and peacefulness, and oddly the cosmonauts felt no fear during the encounter, merely wonderment. According to the witnesses, the colossal apparitions, which they described as “angels,” matched the speed of the space station, remaining in the same position for around 10 minutes before fading away. Baffled by what they had all just seen, the three cosmonauts had a heated discussion on what the beings were and what rational explanation could account for it, but they could come up with nothing. In the end, although they had all seen exactly the same thing, they chalked it up to the stresses and rigors of being in space for so long, resigning themselves to the explanation that their minds had simply been playing tricks on them.

They may have gone on forever convinced that this was some sort of mass hallucination and a bout of temporary insanity, but it would not be their last encounter with these otherworldly beings. On Day 167 of the mission, the Salyut gained an additional three cosmonauts in the form of Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk and Vladimir Dzhanibekov. Not long after these new crew members boarded, the station was once again bathed in that potent, bedazzling light, and this time all six of the crew looked out of the portholes to see several of the massive angelic beings swimming through the blackness of space outside, again with their benevolent smiling faces. Considering that this time they had again all seen the same thing, it appeared that there was perhaps something more going on beyond simple hallucinations.

When the Salyut mission was concluded and the cosmonauts returned to Earth, their strange experiences were allegedly covered up and swept under the carpet by the Soviet government, and the witnesses told in no uncertain terms that they were never to discuss what they had seen up there. Interestingly, intensive rounds of physical and psychological tests performed on the space station crew supposedly showed nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever. They were perfectly sound of body and mind.

Considering the thick secrecy surrounding the odd events, the story did not really get any wider coverage until after the Cold War, but when it did get out it immediately ignited a firestorm of debate and speculation as to what the cosmonauts had really seen. The most rational and scientific answer is that these cosmonauts experienced what they had suspected in the beginning, which is some sort of mass hallucination or madness brought on by the demanding stresses, fatigue, and the harsh conditions of space. After all, no one had ever really spent this much time continuously in space before, and so it should be only natural that they should have such visions.

Indeed, such surreal visual phenomena have been reported by other astronauts and cosmonauts who have been in space for long periods of time, and even earthbound pilots on long, demanding flights. The problem with this explanation is that six seasoned, experienced cosmonauts all saw the same thing at the same time, and all of them were given clean bills of mental and physical health afterward, making it seem rather unlikely that this could all be in their heads. It also seems rather implausible that a group of six highly trained, well-respected cosmonauts would get together and make up such a story as a hoax.

Another fairly rational explanation is that they witnessed some strange, unexplained natural phenomenon and simply misidentified what they were seeing, but even if this were true, why would they all give the exact same description of winged, angelic entities with smiling faces? Getting into more fringe ideas is that these were actual, literal angels, and that their appearance heralded some sort of prophetic information, or that it was even a portent of the Biblical end of the world. There have also been all sorts of claims that everyone from NASA to world governments, to the Illuminati and even the Vatican itself know the truth about the existence of these “space angels,” and that it is all being covered up and kept from the public, with conspiracy theorists routinely producing photographs from space stations and the Hubble Telescope that purportedly show photographic evidence of such entities.

Alleged NASA photo of “Space Angels”

So what in the world did the cosmonauts of the Salyut 7 see? Unbelievably, there have been other accounts of being visited by similar apparitions in space, with some cases coming even before the Salyut 7 sightings. Supposedly the very first human to go into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, had his own encounter with such a creature in April of 1961. At two points during his spaceflight aboard the Vostok-1, Gagarin inexplicably went silent and lost contact, and when he was asked about it later he was not sure what had happened, thinking he may have just briefly lost consciousness. During hypnotic regression, Gagarin claimed that he could remember seeing an enormous, mysterious figure floating in space in front of him, and that he had heard a voice in his head saying, “Do not worry, everything will be fine. You’ll come back to Earth,” before the apparition vanished into thin air right before his eyes. Hallucination or not?

More recently, in 2008 a former member of the Space Shuttle Fleet named Clark C. McClelland came forward to claim that he had years earlier observed a similar being while looking over some monitors of a space shuttle mission at the Kennedy Space Center while on duty at the Launch Control Center (LCC). He claims that over one of the 27-inch monitors he not only observed an enormous entity between 8 to 9 feet tall in the space shuttle’s payload bay, but also that it was actually interacting with the astronauts. He would say of what he saw thus:

The ET was standing upright in the Space Shuttle Payload Bay having a discussion with TWO tethered US NASA Astronauts. I also observed on my monitors, the spacecraft of the ET as it was in a stabilized, safe orbit to the rear of the Space Shuttle main engine pods. I observed this incident for about one minute and seven seconds. Plenty of time to memorize all that I was observing.

McClelland claimed that others had seen the incident too, and that they had been told to keep quiet about what they had seen, meaning that he had sat on this hauntingly bizarre experience until after he retired. He also claims that the government has regular dealings with these creatures and that it is all kept top secret. In this case the entity mentioned is certainly described as an alien of some type, but its sheer size makes it interesting in relation to the space angel phenomenon, and makes one wonder just what it really was this man saw, if anything. Does this story have any credibility at all or is he just a loon?

So there you have it. Angels. In space. This last frontier has a lot of strange stuff in it, but perhaps not much that is as strange as this. Just what is going on here? Was this hallucinations seen by all of these crew members? Was it something else? Who knows? Considering the original news reports of the phenomenon have been quietly relegated to the background and are only really discussed on Internet forums by people who have noticed just how outlandish the story is, we may never know for sure. It remains just one more anomaly on perhaps a whole road of anomalies just waiting fir us as we delve ever deeper into the reaches of our universe.

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'Earth Must be Warned!' - French Astronaut's Chilling Warning Resurfaced This Week

Claudie André-Deshays Haigneré is at the center of an enormous mystery. In 2008, the talented and highly intelligent Frenchwoman issued a hysterical warning to the people of Earth after attempting to commit suicide. No one at the time knew what the warning meant and since Dr. Haigneré has recovered she has refused to clarify the matter.

She was working on researching involving human and alien DNA

Dr. Haigneré is an extraordinarily accomplished woman who has enjoyed a storied and multi-faceted career. She is a rheumatologist and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and certificates in biology, sports medicine, aviation and space medicine. In 1993, she traveled to space for the first time and became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station along with her husband who is also an astronaut.

After her travels in space, Dr. Haigneré entered French politics and served as a minster for Research and New Technologies between 2002 and 2004. She was also the minister for European Affairs between 2004 and 2005. Despite her efforts, while she was in office the budget for scientific research in France were cut. Disillusioned, she cut her political career short and went to work in a biology lab at the prestigious Pasteur Institute.

Sources have reported that Dr. Haigneré’s work at the Pasteur Institute was of a rather esoteric nature. Some have even claimed that she was working on researching involving human and alien DNA. After several years at the Pasteur Institute, it was widely reported that Dr. Haigneré was taken to hospital after taking a huge overdose of sleeping pills. She was conscious upon arrival but had to be forcibly restrained as she fought against doctors, screaming “Earth must be warned!” Shortly after that, she lapsed into a coma.

Immediately after this extraordinary scene, it was reported that there was a mysterious fire which has never been properly explained by workers at the Pasteur Institute which has raised suspicions that Dr. Haigneré came across something groundbreaking and deeply disturbing in the course of her research. However, if this is the case, Dr. Haigneré is not willing to speak publicly about it anymore. She has blamed her suicide attempt on ‘burnout syndrome’ and has now moved on to the directorship of the largest science museum in Europe, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie

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JFK’S SHOCKING COMMENTS ABOUT ALIEN BEINGS & UFOS BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY

It might sound unbelievable, but we’re currently living in an era that’s birthed the disclosure of some very sensitive information. So sensitive that despite all of the evidence, it’s still hard for many people to think about, let alone accept. And that’s the fact that there are now dozens of governments who have confirmed the existence of UFOs. We’re talking about mysterious objects performing maneuvers that defy our laws of physics. Apart from having both visual and radar confirmations, there are hundreds of military officers from all ranks, politicians and academicians speaking out and providing evidence that suggests some of these UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial.

One of the people responsible for this movement is Dr. Steven Greer, MD and founder of The Disclosure Project and The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), who has been on a mission for decades to shed light on the fact that we’re not alone, that we’ve never been alone, and that an ET presence is currently engaging our planet and the human race.

This person has been able to organize and bring forth hundreds of military whistleblowers with verified backgrounds, who have given some shocking witness testimony.  Colonel Ross Dedrickson is one example; here is an interview Dr. Greer conducted with him over a decade ago.

Another example would be former Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who confirmed that himself and Greer did in fact have multiple meetings within the Pentagon about this issue.

One thing is for sure: Greer has some interesting connections that have allowed him to do what he does. He’s known as the father of the disclosure movement, for one person to bring forth hundreds of defence employees is quite eye-opening.

Out of all those who support him that come from different fields and verified backgrounds, Dr. Greer has amassed a great deal of credibility. Being in contact with, and referenced by astronauts, colonels, generals and more who have agreed to participate in the disclosure movement is what gives his project a special kind of credibility, because all those who agree to an interview do indeed come from where they say they do, within the military industrial complex. Never before have we seen such a large gathering, all with verified backgrounds.

Which is why, when he conducts an interview where the name remains anonymous, it’s that much more interesting. Sure, we can’t verify this person’s identify, but the hundreds of others who have been a part of his disclosure project, as well as all of the big names who have verified multiple stories from Greer, it’s probably best to give this one the benefit of the doubt.

“There is considerable knowledge as far as the actual being of UFO and ET phenomena that we’re aware of today.”

The clip from Greer was a cut clip from his recent film, one that broke records, titled “Unacknowledged.“

Other Information That Lends Credibility To This Story

According to Author and UFO researcher Dr. William Lester, the CIA released documents to him under the Freedom of Information act after he made a request while researching for his new book at the time, A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier. The document and story was brought forth by the Daily Mail, pertaining to a letter written by John F. Kennedy to the head of the CIA demanding to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs just 10 days before his assassination.

According to the Daily Mail, “the secret memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12 1963, which have been released by the CIA for the first time.” 

It’s understandable that a Daily Mail article and a claim from a UFO researcher isn’t really considered credible, but what’s even more fascinating about the story is the fact that it also appears within some Wikileaks Cables.

February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files; over five million emails from the Texas headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques, and psychological methods.

From these emails, we have one that details information that documents by a gentleman named Timothy S. Cooper, who, according to many, leaked the supposed “MJ-12” documents that dealt with the cover-up of UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon.

In the email, it states that “Soon after Kennedy became President, he began to needle the CIA for
information on UFOs” and  that “President Kennedy fired off a top secret memorandum to him outlining a previous discussion concerning a classification review of all CIA UFO files that could affect national security. Dated 12 November, 1963, just ten days before he would be gunned down in the streets of Dallas, Texas, Kennedy informed Angleton that he was setting things in motion to actually share sensitive CIA UFO intelligence data with the Russians through the director of NASA.”

The email itself goes into more detail.

The question to ask here is why is a company like Stratfor sending emails within the company regarding this topic?

Definitely interesting to think about.

Perhaps the most interesting fact is that JFK was President right around the time a massive cover-up regarding this topic ensued. Only a couple of terms before his own, President Harry Truman went on national television stating that this topic is discussed at every single conference they have with the military. The topic of flying saucers and “other things.” He stated that “there are always things like that going on” (source).

There are even claims that President Eisenhower held a meeting with extraterrestrials. His great granddaughter Laura is one who has spoken about the incident. You can read more about that specific story and where it comes from, here.

Today, Presidents don’t really know much. In fact, based on my research, when they do inquire they’re not told much and they don’t really have access nor a need to know information about UFOs and extraterrestrials. So who does?

Here are a couple of related CE articles that will give you an idea of who we’re referring to here:

• A detailed description of the “Black Budget.”
• 10 Presidents and Politicians Who Told Us That A Secret Government Controls The World & What They Said

Here’s another interesting clip from Greer’s documentary that pertains to the subject. You can find out more about the documentary and how to watch it HERE.

It seems, based on my research,  that presidents don’t really have access to this type of information, and it’s not an easy thing to inquire about.

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THE WOMAN WHO CLAIMED SHE VISITED MARS & SPOKE TO ALIENS IN 1894

OUDE EGYPTENAREN VERTELLEN ONS DE WERKELIJKE GESCHIEDENIS ( VIDEO )

Wij mensen staan bekend als goedgelovige wezens die je van alles wijs kunt maken, wat dan ook volop gebeurt door de machthebbers van deze wereld. 

Het bewijs dat de menselijke beschaving veel ouder is dan ons wordt verteld, ligt voor het oprapen in de verhalen van de oude Egyptenaren. 

Ieder mens is in meer of mindere mate geïnteresseerd in de menselijke geschiedenis, simpelweg omdat ze zelf een mens zijn. Natuurlijk wil je dan weten waar je eigenlijk vandaan komt en wat er voor jouw bestaan op deze aarde gebeurde.

Op het moment echter dat wij als mensenkinderen in de programmeerfabrieken van de overheid, die ook wel scholen worden genoemd,  terechtkomen dan worden wij systematisch gehersenspoeld met fabeltjes.

Wij leren op school dat onze menselijke geschiedenis ongeveer 5.000 jaar teruggaat en dat alles wat daarvoor plaatsvond niets anders is dan mythologie. Dit uiteraard om te voorkomen dat wij erachter zullen komen dat onze werkelijke voorouders afkomstig waren van andere planeten en dat er al tienduizenden jaren lang menselijke beschavingen op aarde zijn geweest.

Want, het is de kennis die we nodig hebben om overal doorheen te prikken en te beseffen dat we systematisch zijn bedonderd vanaf het moment dat we zijn geboren.

Eén van de oudste en meest bekende rijken op aarde is Egypte, waar volgens onze geschiedenisboeken zo'n 3000 jaar voor Christus opeens de eerste farao's als uit het niets verschijnen.

Alles wat daarvoor is gebeurd, wordt door de mainstream wetenschappers min of meer verwezen naar het rijk der fabelen. Natuurlijk is dat niet het geval en waren er talloze heersers voordat de bij ons bekende farao's er waren. 

En de informatie daarover is ons nota bene door de Egyptenaren zelf nagelaten in de vorm van een papyrys document, de Turijnse koningslijst genaamd.

De Turijnse koningslijst zijn een aantal fragmenten papyrus waar hiëratische teksten staan, beschreven ten tijde van Ramses II.
De papyrus werd ontdekt in 1820 door Bernardino Drovetti in 300 stukjes in een graf te Thebe en is de meest uitgebreide lijst die beschikbaar is van de Farao's, samengesteld door de Egyptenaren.

Op die koningslijst wordt duidelijk aangegeven dat er vele heersers waren over het Egyptische rijk voordat de bij ons bekende farao's er waren. Onze geschiedenisboeken doen net of deze niet echt zijn en verwijzen naar mythische goden.

De Egyptenaren geven duidelijk aan dat het begon met de Goden die over het rijk regeerden en die daarna werden opgevolgd door de halfgoden. Deze werden de volgelingen van Horus genoemd en zij werden uiteindelijk weer opgevolgd door de bij ons bekende farao's. 

Wanneer je de vroegere heersers over Egypte meetelt, kom je al snel uit op een jaartal van ongeveer 30.000 voor Christus voor de eerste Egyptische beschavingen.

Niet alleen bij de Egyptenaren wordt gesproken over heersers ver vóór de bij ons bekende, hetzelfde geldt voor de Soemerische kleitabletten waar volgens sommige onderzoekers de beschaving nog veel verder teruggaat en er worden zelfs getallen genoemd van een kwart miljoen jaar.

Een andere bijzonderheid van de Turijnse koningslijst schijnt te zijn dat er wordt gesproken over een dusdanig lange periode dat de sterren vier keer van koers zijn veranderd en de zon twee keer is ondergegaan op een positie waar ze normaal op komt.

Waar het op lijkt, is dat de oudste beschavingen op aarde voorkwamen in Soemer en dat het vandaar is uitgewaaierd naar Egypte.

De werkelijke geschiedenis van onze aarde is natuurlijk bekend bij de vele geheime genootschappen, maar die kennis wordt koste wat kost verborgen gehouden voor de gewone man. Die moet gewoon zijn mond dichthouden, niet zeuren, luisteren naar de pastoor, imam of dominee, werken, belasting betalen en op tijd doodgaan, anders worden ze te duur.

Dat ook wij eigenlijk Goden zijn, is iets dat we niet mogen weten en dus bij deze:

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DE 12 LEVENSGEVAARLIJKE VORTEXEN OP AARDE ( VIDEO )

Onlangs hebben wij enkele artikel gepubliceerd over vreemde dingen die zich voordoen met betrekking tot dimensies en hoe dat soms gerelateerd kan worden aan een bepaald gebied. 

En wanneer we wat dieper spitten, zijn er inderdaad beruchte gebieden op aarde waar je beter niet kan komen als je tenminste niet spoorloos wilt verdwijnen. 

Na een onlangs door ons gepubliceerd artikel over hoe mensen kunnen verdwijnen, volgde een tweede waar dit verschijnsel werd gekoppeld aan een bepaalde locatie.

En dat bepaalde plekken op aarde anders zijn dan andere, toont het volgende verhaal aan.

Een gebied op aarde waar speciale krachten aan het werk schijnen te zijn, noemt men een vortex. Een gebied waar hele enge dingen gebeuren, noemt men wel een vile vortex. Wanneer je het woord "vile" vertaald, dan krijg je walgelijk, laaghartig of gemeen.

Kortom een vile vortex is geen plek waar je graag wilt verblijven en tot nu toe zijn er 12 van dergelijke vile vortexen geïdentificeerd op aarde.

Op het volgende plaatje is te zien waar ze liggen op aarde.

De meest bekende van de vortexen is wel de Bermuda Driehoek, de plek in het Caraïbisch gebied waar in de loop der jaren talloze vliegtuigen en schepen zijn verdwenen.

Ook de Noord- en Zuidpool horen bij de 12 vortexen en daarnaast nog een aantal andere locaties, waarvan de Duivelszee ten zuiden van Japan waarschijnlijk de meest bekende is.

Echter, er schijnt nog een locatie te zijn die niet voor komt op de lijst van 12 vile vortexen, maar die daar eigenlijk wel op thuis zou horen. En dat is een gebied in de woestijn van Mexico met de naam Zona del Silencio, het Gebied der Stilte.

Het is een bizar gebied, waar letterlijk niets schijnt te werken. Er groeit en bloeit zo goed als niets, radiosignalen werken er niet, net zo min als vliegtuigapparatuur en het schijnt een plek te zijn waar zich veel mysterieuze UFO-zaken afspelen.

Het is ook een gebied waar in de loop der jaren om onverklaarbare redenen een aantal Amerikaanse raketten naar beneden zijn gekomen en ook schijnen er meer meteorieten terecht te komen dan waar dan ook.

Een gebied waar mensen ook verhalen vertellen over ontmoetingen met figuren die lijken op de bekende Men in Black en die plotsklaps als in het niets verdwijnen. Een gebied waar de rotsen op een vreemde manier magnetisch zijn en waar talloze keren vreemde mysterieuze lichten worden waargenomen.

In de onderstaande video geeft Tyler van Secureteam nog meer dingen aan waarom de Zona del Silencio eigenlijk toegevoegd zou moeten worden aan de 12 "vile" vortexen, waardoor het er uiteraard 13 zullen worden. In het licht van de aard van deze vile vortexen zou het (ongeluks)getal 13 in ieder geval wel passen.

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Ruimteschip of niet? Reusachtige telescoop onderzoekt tien uur lang sigaarvormig gevaarte - HLN.be

Wie gelooft in buitenaards leven, schuift dezer dagen ongeduldig heen en weer op zijn stoel. Want niemand lijkt met absolute zekerheid te weten wat ’Oumuamua precies is. Het gevaarte is naar schatting 400 meter lang, 40 meter breed en heeft volgens sommigen iets weg van een sigaar. In oktober werd het voor het eerst gespot in ons zonnestelsel door de Pan-Starsstelescopen op Hawaï. Het raasde toen onze planeet voorbij op een afstand 85 keer groter dan de maan van onze planeet. Omdat het afkomstig is van buiten ons zonnestelsel, kreeg het de Hawaïaanse naam voor ‘boodschapper’. Uit verdere observaties blijkt dat de sigaar donkerrood is en 96 procent van het licht absorbeert dat erop valt.

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Today the mysterious interstellar object “Oumuamua” will be scanned for Alien Signals

Today, December 13, 2017 scientists from the "Breakthrough Listen program" (a global astronomical program searching for evidence of other civilizations) was launched by Stephen Hawking in 2015 and is funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg will point the powerful Green Banks radio telescope which is located in West Virginia at the mysterious interstellar object named Oumuamua to listen for alien signals across four different transmission bands, reports RT.

Artist’s impression of`Oumuamu / Kornmesser.

Oumuamua was first spotted in the solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in October but due to its strange cigar-shaped body it has sparked rumors that instead of a meteor or asteroid it could be an interstellar alien craft speeding through our solar system as fast as 196,000 mph (315,000 km) as it went past the sun.

Although the 400 meter-long Oumuamua is already on it's way to the Pegasus constellation scientists at the Breakthrough Listen program take the opportunity to check the object for artificial signals.

  

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Strange Figures in Mazaredo Bay Argentina communicate with “Something” from the Sea

The following amazing statement comes from a witness who has experienced a very strange encounter next to the Mazaredo bay in Argentine on December 2, 2017. The strange event was so overwhelming that the witness felt compelled to report the encounter to the Mutual UFO Network case 88710 including detailed satellite images showing the area where he has experienced the encounter.

The Mazaredo bay is opposite to the last known position of the Argentine submarine “San Juan”. 

The witness states:

Coincidence or not but the Mazaredo bay is opposite to the last known position of the Argentine submarine “San Juan” which vanished in the Atlantic with 44 on board on the morning of November 15, 2017.

Although the navy earlier said the vessel’s captain had reported a short circuit after water had entered the submarine’s snorkel and that the battery malfunction may explain a vicious chain of events that led to the submarine being sunk as the result of an on-board explosion, could it be that the missing Argentine Submarine has been used in a Philadelphia-like experiment given the strange activities in the Mazaredo bay?

It is said that the Philadelphia experiment was an alleged military experiment whereby the U.S. Navy destroyer “USS Eldridge” was claimed to have been rendered invisible "cloaked" to enemy devices?

Regarding the strange activities in the Mazaredo bay; who are these people and why are some of them dressed in rare almost translucent clothes? Aliens are involved? What is the meaning of the strange orange icon on the vehicles? To whom they send a flash pulse and who is answering the flash?

The submarine has not yet been found, so far.

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Strange lights over Grayburg, Texas 12-Dec-2017

Here’s one new footage of a bright lights hovering in the sky above Grayburg in Texas. This happened on 12th December 2017.

Witness report: 

Colorful, staggered lights numbering from one to five and fluctuating in appearance, surrounded by aircraft
On December 11, 2017, a family friend shared a video he took near Sour Lake, Texas of four staggered lights, changing color rapidly and floating in formation 10 or so miles southwest of the bridge he was filming from. On the following day, just hours before writing this report, I went to the very same bridge around the same time, 6:00 PM, and witnessed much the same as he did. The family friend also showed up and witnessed the event. This time, the lights began as three and gradually grew in number to five. The way they did this is indiscernible, it seemed as though one light would merge with another and form into one, or break off into two. They looked like large stars, flashing all colors of the rainbow randomly. Some lights maintained cooler colors, some warmer, and one remained glowing white throughout.

Around the area, same as the previous day, there were between 5 and 10 aircraft circling the area. We watched for almost 45 minutes, before I took to the general perimeter of the event. Due to the low elevation of most of our part of the state, I caught only a few glimpses on the round trip, but when I returned to the bridge about an hour later, one light was still visible. I filmed for a few minutes before being stopped by a police officer, who let me go without even asking for my license after seeing the light as well. He did tell me not to linger long, but in the few minutes I stayed after he had left, two more lights had reappeared. I left the bridge at about 8:10 with three lights in the sky.

Author (source: MUFON)

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The Lonnie Zamora UFO Craft Landing Incident in 1964

On April 24, 1964, an American Police officer named Lonnie Zamora spotted a strange object streak through the sky over a highway outside of Socorro, New Mexico. The object was between a half a mile to a mile away, shooting off towards the southwest. It left a trail of bluish orange flames, and made a roaring noise as it passed overhead. Curious as to what it was, officer Zamora followed the object over a steep hill, catching up with it as it lay rested on the summit. What Zamora saw then has never been adequately explained.

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UFO above San Antonio, Texas (SUDDENLY ALL POWER IS CUT!) 7-Dec-2017

Here’s one new video of a bright object hovering above San Antonio, Texas. This happened on 7th December 2017.

Witness report:

 I just happened to be watching a video I loaded yesterday with the UFO flying over the interstate when all of a sudden my lights then all my utilities cut off. this is at about 11 p.m. and I did pay my bill so I knew something was wrong went outside with my dog and low and behold guess what’s floating right there about the apartment complex a giant ball of light ran inside to get my camera came back out start a recording. I’m about to post plenty more video of this thing and two others that were around San Antonio doing god-knows-what but I have plenty of footage on the way.

Author (JONNYY 5 @ Youtube)

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Wetenschappers geïntrigeerd: is dit een buitenaardse verkenner of gewoon een rare ruimterots? - HLN.be

Bron: The Atlantic, Science American

Toen Oumuamua werd opgemerkt, bleek al snel dat het niet om een gewone ‘ruimterots’ ging. Het lijkt alsof Oumuamua vanop een enorme interstellaire hoogte in ons zonnestelsel is gedropt, waarna het als een slinger om de zon is geschoten en steeds sneller voortjakkert. Het object knalt tegen tienduizenden kilometer per uur door ons zonnestelsel en is inmiddels al halfweg naar Jupiter, waardoor het al bijna weer uit het zicht van de meest krachtige telescopen ter wereld is. 

Naald

Wat wetenschappers wel al konden zien, is dat het object zonder meer ‘vreemd’ is. Oumuamua heeft op geen enkel moment een komeetachtige staart gehad nadat het voorbij de zon passeerde, wat erop wijst dat het niet gaat om een vers stuk wrakgoed van een nabijgelegen sterrensysteem. Bovendien is Oumuamua dieprood gekleurd, wat er mogelijk op wijst dat het gaat om een asteroïde van een andere ster. Ook de afmetingen van het object doen wetenschappers in de haren krabben. Oumuamua lijkt gevormd als een naald, met een lengte tot 800 meter en een breedte van nauwelijks 80 meter, en draait om de zeven uur en twintig minuten om zijn as. 

Dat maakt dat Oumuamua eerder de vorm heeft van een afgelijnd interstellair ruimtetuig dan van een asteroïde. Voldoende om alienjagers onder hoogspanning te zetten. 

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Breakthrough Listen is going to scan Oumuamua, you know, just to be sure it's just an asteroid and not a spaceship. - http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/14 

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“Unieke situatie”

Avi Loeb, de voorzitter van het departement Astronomie van Harvard, besloot daarom om de cavalerie erbij te halen. “Hoe meer ik dit object bestudeer, hoe ongewoner het lijkt, wat me doet afvragen of dit een kunstmatig gemaakte verkenner is die is uitgestuurd door een buitenaarde beschaving”, schreef hij in een mail naar de Russische miljardair Yuri Milner. Hij is de man achter het Breakthrough Listen-project, dat speurt naar buitenaards leven.

Dat gaat morgen de grootste radiotelescoop ter wereld, de Green Bank Telescope in West-Virginia, gedurende tien uur inzetten om Oumuamua door te lichten. Het idee is dat als Oumuamua een kunstmatig object is, het mogelijk radiosignalen uitstuurt, of op z’n minst radiogolven ‘lekt’.

“Met onze apparatuur in Green Bank kunnen we een signaal met de sterkte van een mobiele telefoon van dit object opvangen”, legt Milner uit. “We willen niet sensationeel zijn en zijn heel erg realistisch over de kans dat dit kunstmatig is, maar omdat dit een unieke situatie is, denken we dat de mensheid zich wel tien uur observatietijd kan veroorloven om met de beste apparatuur ter wereld een weinig waarschijnlijke hypothese te onderzoeken.”

Mocht tegen alle verwachtingen in blijken dat Oumuamua signalen uitzendt, zal dat niet in de doofpot verdwijnen, verzekert Andrew Siemion, hoofdwetenschapper van Breakthrough Listen. Vanaf het moment dat er een signaal wordt opgepikt, zal het team in Green Bank Oumuamua onmiddellijk opnieuw observeren om het signaal te bevestigen. Vervolgens worden er wereldwijd andere astronomen ingeschakeld om het object met andere radiotelescopen in de gaten te houden. “We hebben daar letterlijk een adresboekje voor”, stelt Siemion. “En op dat moment wordt alles publiek. Het is niet mogelijk om zoiets stil te houden, omdat wij iedereen meteen moeten optrommelen. We hebben niet de gewoonte om valselijk alarm te slaan over zulke dingen.”

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Ancient tomb filled with stunning, pillaged bronze vessels, found in China

BY ALEXANDRU MICU

An ancient tomb discovered in Baoji City in Shaanxi, China, back in 2013, is ripe with spoils of war. The crypt is filled with bronze ceremonial vessels etched with intricate designs, and alongside the artifacts, archaeologists found a badly decomposed body.

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The hoard of vessels, most of which are believed to be ‘food vessels’, include a four-handled tureen, a type of deep dish used to serve soup. It’s a lavish piece, decorated with 192 spikes and engravings of dragons and birds, alongside 24 etchings of bovine heads.

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Two wine vessels shaped as deer and engraved with complex designs were also discovered in the M4 tomb. The skeleton found in the tomb is badly decomposed and archaeologists could not determine his identity. Still, the person buried there must have been a chieftain or someone of great importance.

Image credits Chinese Cultural Relics.

Image credits Chinese Cultural Relics.

The team referred to the vessels as “ritual vessels,” saying that if they were ever used to actually serve food, it would only have been during religious or burial ceremonies. They were likely spoils of war, gifted to the person buried in the tomb, they note.

“The occupant of Tomb M4  was most likely of elite status, and could potentially be a high ranking chief or the spouse of a chief,” wrote the team led by Zhankui Wang.

To the victor the spoils

At the time the tomb was sealed, 3,100 years ago, the Zhou dynasty was battling their rival, the Shang. They would eventually overcome their enemy and seize control of the Shang lands. Given that several of the vessels discovered in M4 are adorned with inscriptions, some of which are the names of different Shang clans, the team believes the vessels are “originally from multiple clans of the Shang people” seized in the conflict.

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The bronze booty was then gifted to the person interred in M4, the team says.

“After conquering the Shang dynasty, the Zhou king distributed the plundered war spoils to the military officers with great achievements, and these spoils usually included bronze vessels,” they wrote.

A paper about the tomb discovery was published in Chinese in 2016, in the journal Wenwu. The article was recently translated into English and published in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics.

A journal article about the tomb discovery was published in Chinese in 2016, in the journal Wenwu. The article “The Shang (ca. 1600–1046 BC) and Zhou dynasty (ca. 1045–256 BC) Shigushan cemetery in Baoji, Shaanxi Province” has been translated into and published in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics.

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'LIFE CHANGING' This is what happens if you see the mysterious triangle UFO

A MAN has claimed his life will never be the same again after a bizarre encounter he and two friends had with a mysterious triangular UFO, as reported sightings increase across the globe.

Humans Would Be Cool with Finding Aliens

How people would respond to finding they're not alone in the universe is a perennial question, but one that has been the subject of far more speculation than study, Varnum said. He could find only one study that asked people how they thought they'd react to the announcement of extraterrestrial life, and it was a decade old.

 Varnum wanted to tackle the question a bit more realistically. So he turned to the real-world news, analyzing articles dating back to 1967 that looked at discoveries that could potentially have hinted at alien life (including — full disclosure — articles by Live Science's sister site Space.com on a star with irregular brightness cycles that might have signaled extraterrestrial activity, but the irregular cycles more likely result from orbiting dust).

Most of the language in these pieces skewed positive, software analyses revealed, and writers tended to emphasize the potential rewards of discovery over potential risks. Armed with that knowledge, Varnum turned to real people. He first recruited 501 subjects on Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowd-sourcing website, paying them a small fee to write responses to two questions. One was how they would feel if scientists announced the discovery of alien microbial life. The other was how they thought the public at large would respond to such an announcement.

"It's really much more likely that we're going to encounter strange germs rather than E.T.," Varnum said. And no one has previously studied people's attitudes toward the discovery of alien microbes.

 In a second study, Varnum recruited Mechanical Turk participants again. This time, they read a real-life article about the possibility of alien microbes. In 1996, scientists announced that they'd found what might be fossilized microbes in a Martian meteorite, known as Allan Hills 84001. Today, the researchers behind that discovery still think they may have found telltale signs of ancient alien life, though people in the field as a whole are far from convinced. At any rate, contemporary news articles about the discovery were very positive, Varnum said. He lifted one from The New York Times, stripped it of information about the date, and presented it to 256 participants as a new article. As a control group, he asked 249 other participants to read a real article about the creation of synthetic life in the laboratory.

Earthlings love company

In both studies, people reacted to the idea of alien life with more positivity than negativity, Varnum found. They tended to focus on the rewards over the risks. Individuals in the first study felt they, personally, would respond to the announcement of microbial E.T.s with a little more positivity than the public at large, but they still thought humanity as a whole would be enthused.

In the case of the realistic announcement about Martian microbes, people still remained overwhelmingly positive. They were pretty gung-ho about synthetic life, too, Varnum said, but Mars life got people even more jazzed. That finding suggests the enthusiasm isn't just about science or discovery or even just new life, he said, but specifically about alien life. [7 Theories on the Origins of Life]

"I think there might be something sort of comforting about knowing that life wasn't an accident that happened once here," he said. "Maybe it makes us feel a little less fragile or a little less lonely in the expanse of space."

 A paper describing the findings is available as a preprint and is under review at a peer-reviewed journal. Varnum would like to replicate his findings in other countries to see if culture or other factors influence people's attitudes toward aliens. He'd also like to study people's responses to intelligent life, but it would be harder to fool participants into believing, even briefly, that humanity had made contact with an alien civilization.

"I've got to think the subject pool might think, 'Why am I hearing about this in a psychology experiment?'" he said.

Reactions to the discovery of intelligent life-forms outside of planet Earth might be a bit more complex, Varnum said, but it's hard to tell. Already, he noted, polls show that more than half of Americans, British and Germans believe extraterrestrial intelligence exists. Thirty percent believe that intelligent aliens have contacted Earth, but that the government has covered it up.

"That raises another question," Varnum said. "If I did the kind of study where I did a real-worldish, fake announcement, maybe some good chunk of participants would go, 'Well, I already knew.

Original article on Live Science

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NASA's Plan to Defend Earth and Mars From an Alien Invasion

Matthew Loffhagen

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In HG Wells' classic sci-fi horror novel War of the Worlds, alien invaders who conquer the Earth are ultimately killed by an unexpected weapon: our planet's native bacteria.

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The problem with microscopic life forms centers around disease resistance—or, more importantly, a lack thereof. 

We might not notice that our hands are covered in tiny germs because we've developed an immunity to them, but take them elsewhere in the universe, and we could potentially unleash a deadly illness on the landscape that could wipe out any native life forms that could exist there.

This is essentially the point of the ending of War of the Worlds—Wells' story is a metaphor for colonialism, with alien invaders neglecting to realize the effects that local micro-organisms can have on an unprepared immune system. 

This happens all the time in real life—if you've ever been on a journey far from home, you might have been advised to avoid drinking the local water, just in case an otherwise harmless local bug messes with your unprepared immune system.

"We know from experience of moving organisms around on Earth that invasive species can have unexpected and unintended consequences," Conley said. 

"Assuring Earth's safety from extraterrestrial biohazards is the highest priority for planetary protection."

Recently, Russian astronauts discovered unexplained bacteria on the outside of the International Space Station. 

Bringing these to Earth without thorough tests could have seen the planet suffer through an alien plague that nobody would be immune to, which was why they needed to be properly tested before being brought home.

Perhaps more important than the threat of alien life, is the dangers that are posed by Earth-borne bacteria which mutate in outer space. 

As it turns out, many diseases grow more potent when able to multiply in a zero-gravity environment, which is why Conley and her team are regularly involved in tests that explore just how quickly bacteria grow in space, and what effects it may have on their ability to overrun the human immune system.

Conley gained a PhD in plant biology from Cornell University in 1994, before going on to work for NASA, designing experiments into organic matter that could be undertaken in orbit. 

In 2006, after working on several key projects in this field, she was officially given the title of Planetary Protection Officer, and was assigned the responsibility of organizing all decontamination processes to make sure that astronauts coming home don't bring icky space germs with them.

Along this time, there have been plenty of interesting experiments and discoveries in this field. At one point, it was found that the Curiosity Mars Rover had managed to sneak some bacteria from Earth aboard, while the recent death of the Cassini space probe was orchestrated so that the probe couldn't accidentally infect one of Saturn's moons with Earth bugs.

While Conley has been hard at work defending the Earth for decades now, her job is likely to get a lot busier in the near future as commercial space flight increases the number of rockets that are going up and coming down.

"There are an increasing number of organisations becoming involved in space exploration, so the potential for inadvertent contamination is increasing," said Conley.

At present, it seems that Conley and her team are up to the challenge of keeping the Earth safe from deadly mutants and aliens. 

She may not ever get the recognition she deserves, but in spite of this, Catharine Conley toils every day to prevent invasion, and maintain microscopic peace between our planet and our neighbors.

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A Close Encounter In 1937 Fontana

By Cheryl Costa 

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Astronomers Investigating Curious Interstellar Rock for Signs of Extraterrestrial Technology

An artist’s impression of the interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua

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Astronomers to Check Mysterious Interstellar Object for Signs of Technology

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner says if the space rock 'Oumuamua is giving off radio signals, his team will be able to detect them—and they may get the results within days.

MARINA KOREN

 

The email about “a most peculiar object” in the solar system arrived in Yuri Milner’s inbox last week.

Milner, the Russian billionaire behind Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, had already heard about the peculiar object. ‘Oumuamua barreled into view in October, the first interstellar objectseen in our solar system.

Astronomers around the world chased after the mysterious space rock with their telescopes, collecting as much data as they could as it sped away. Their observations revealed a truly unusual object with puzzling properties. Scientists have long predicted an interstellar visitor would someday coast into our corner of the universe, but not something like this.

“The more I study this object, the more unusual it appears, making me wonder whether it might be an artificially made probe which was sent by an alien civilization,” Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department and one of Milner’s advisers on Breakthrough Listen, wrote in the email to Milner.

A day later, Milner’s assistant summoned Loeb to Milner’s home in Palo Alto. They met there this past Saturday to talk about ‘Oumuamua, a Hawaiian word for “messenger.” Loeb ran through the space rock’s peculiarities, particularly its elongated shape, which looks like a cigar or needle—an odd shape for a common space rock.

For Milner, the object was becoming too intriguing to ignore. So he’s decided to take a closer look.

Breakthrough Listen announced Monday that the program will start checking ‘Oumuamua this week for signs of radio signals using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The interstellar asteroid is now about twice the distance between the Earth and the sun from our planet, moving at a brisk clip of 38.3 kilometers per second. At this close distance, Green Bank can detect the faintest frequencies. It would take the telescope less than a minute to pick up something as faint as the radio waves from a cellphone. If ‘Oumuamua is sending signals, we’ll hear them.

The chance of an alien detection is, as always, small. But it’s not zero. And Milner thinks we should check—just in case—before ‘Oumuamua is gone for good. The object will pass the orbit of Jupiter next year, and by the 2020s will be hurtling beyond Pluto.

“Whether it’s artificial or not, we will definitely know more about this object,” Milner told me, in a video interview last week.

The new observations will likely be welcomed by the many astronomers who have been scratching their heads for weeks over this space rock. ‘Oumuamua seems to smash many of their predictions about fast-moving interstellar objects, and the more scientists delve into the data, the more puzzles they find.

* * *

The glint of ‘Oumuamua was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS survey telescope in Hawaii during its nightly scan of near-Earth objects like comets and asteroids. Its speed and orbit suggested the object was not bound by the sun’s gravity, and was not of this solar system.

At first, astronomers thought ‘Oumuamua must be a comet, based on decades of scientific literature that predicted its arrival. When our solar system was young, the biggest planets wreaked havoc as they swirled into shape and settled into their orbits. Their movements could jostle nearby material so violently that bits of rock and ice would go flying way out into the universe. The easiest objects to eject were those orbiting at the edge of the solar system, where escaping from the sun’s gravity would be easier. In our solar system, there are far more comets than asteroids lurking near the boundary before interstellar space. Astronomers expected these to be the first interstellar objects they saw.

And so astronomers checked ‘Oumuamua for a coma, a tail of evaporated material that trails comets as they pass near the sun and become heated up. They used telescopes that can detect a sugar cube’s worth of material flying off the object every second. But ‘Oumuamua showed no signs of a coma.

This was the first surprise of many.

Unlike the lumpy, potato-shaped asteroids of our solar system, the 400-meter-long ‘Oumuamua is perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide, an extreme aspect ratio that trumps any of the known asteroids. Astronomers don’t know how the universe could have produced an object such as this. Most natural interactions between an object and its surrounding medium favor the creation of rounded objects, Loeb said, like pebbles on a lakeshore made smooth by lapping water.

Further observations of ‘Oumuamua revealed it carried no traces of water ice, which suggests the asteroid is made of rock or perhaps metal. Whatever it is, the material is certainly sturdy. ‘Oumuamua rotates about every seven hours, a rate that would likely cause some rocky objects, nicknamed “rubble piles,” to crumble. ‘Oumuamua even survived a close pass with the sun in September, before it was detected, without breaking apart.

Thanks to its nonspherical shape, the asteroid is tumbling uncontrollably. “If you take an object that isn’t round and you throw it up in the air, it’ll make this complicated spinning motion,” said Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University. “It just doesn’t just spin nicely along one axis.” Wright said a long journey across the cosmos can slow an object’s tumbling, but ‘Oumuamua has shown no signs of stopping its spinning.

“I’m not saying that any of that is necessarily a smoking gun or super exciting,” Milner said of ‘Oumuamua’s unusual properties. “But I think it warrants thorough investigation from a seti standpoint.”

Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy whose team discovered ‘Oumuamua, has said their observations are “entirely consistent with it being a natural object.” Analysis of the light reflected by the asteroid shows ‘Oumuamua is red, a color that would be expected for rocky bodies exposed to the cosmic radiation of interstellar space for long periods of time.

There are indeed some natural explanations for some of ‘Oumuamua’s weird properties. Some astronomers say ‘Oumuamua could be a contact binary—two objects that drift closer until they touch and fuse at one end—like our solar system’s Kleopatra, a metallic, dog-bone-shaped asteroid.

They suggest any ice on the asteroid’s surface was zapped away by high-energy particles on its journey between stars. Perhaps the asteroid is so hardy because it formed in the inner regions of a solar system, where rock and metal are more commonly found than ice. This would be tricky, since most exoplanets discovered so far orbit extremely close to their parent star, preventing them from flinging debris beyond the star’s pull. But they may have siblings, like our Jupiter and Neptune, lurking in the darkness, doing the work for them.

If ‘Oumuamua has anything exciting to tell us, it’s that our understanding of planet formation needs some work, said Gregory Laughlin, an astronomer who studies exoplanets at Yale University.“We know that planetary systems are extremely common, but the way that their process unfolds seems to be richer than anticipated,” he said.

* * *

The thought of a spaceship being dropped into planetary systems like a reconnaissance mission may sound like the stuff of science fiction. But for Milner, it’s the future. Milner is spending $100 million over 10 years to develop spacecraft technology capable of sending a tiny probe hurtling at one-fifth the speed of light toward Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth. If Milner succeeds, the 25-trillion-mile trip would be cut from tens of thousands of years, based on our current technology, to a breezy 20 years. Hundreds of these miniature probes would be deployed into the darkness in the hopes that at least one might complete the journey. Perhaps another civilization already had the same idea.

If that kind of technology were available today, Milner said he would send some kind of probe after ‘Oumuamua. “We need some new propulsion technologies to be able to do this,” he said.

The possibility that ‘Oumuamua is an artificial artifact from an advanced civilization is not spoken in whispers in the astronomy community. But there’s a healthy dose of hesitation in their discussions. Scientists must, after all, exhaust every other plausible explanation before considering ET.

“It’s sometimes mentioned in a half-joking way that people say things when they’re not quite sure whether they want you to take them seriously or not,” said Ed Turner, an astrophysicist at Princeton University. He’s intrigued by a potential seti observation of ‘Oumuamua, but, like most astronomers, he’s not holding his breath.

“If you were betting your house, I wouldn’t bet it on this,” Turner said.

When they speak of ‘Oumuamua, astronomers recall the tale in Arthur C. Clarke’s 1973 novel Rendezvous with Rama. The year is 2131, and astronomers have detected a mysterious object beyond the orbit of Jupiter and classified it as an asteroid. Their observations reveal the object, named Rama, doesn’t follow the orbit of the sun and must have come from outside the solar system. They send a space probe to photograph Rama and find it’s in the shape of a perfect cylinder. A crewed mission is dispatched. When they land, humans discover the asteroid is an alien spaceship, carrying odd, machinelike beings that pay them little attention. There are no signs of the alien civilization that made them. After some tinkering, the human crew disembarks, leaving Rama to speed out of the solar system.

The story shares some tantalizing similarities with the current circumstances. The most skeptical astronomers point out that, aside from its vessel-like shape, ‘Oumuamua doesn’t have any of the characteristics one would imagine for an alien spacecraft. The object has followed an easy-to-predict trajectory through the solar system. Astronomers have accurately plotted its course forward and backward. Wouldn’t an alien spaceship travel at a fraction of the speed of light, and wouldn’t it slow down to take a look at things as it swept by?

“The explanation that this is a directed probe is, in my view, comically unlikely,” said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology. “This is just a chunk of debris. I think there’s nothing more to it than that.”

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Astronomers predict many more interstellar asteroids, perhaps thousands, are coasting through our solar system, out of view of our telescopes. Pan-STARRS, a survey telescope designed to observe the entire visible sky night after night, found ‘Oumuamua after only four years of operation. Turner suspects the discovery—a fairly quick one—is not a case of pure luck, but a sign of more to come.

Some interstellar asteroids may be hiding, overlooked, in the archival data of Pan-STARRS. Many more will be spotted as other powerful survey telescopes, like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, come online in the next few years.

For Milner, it’s worth examining every interstellar object for signs of artificial technology. They could all be nothing more than space rocks, mindlessly plowing ahead. Or they could be the needle in the haystack. “It would be difficult to work in this field if you thought that every time you looked at something, you weren’t going to succeed,” said Andrew Siemion, the director of the Berkeley setiResearch Center who leads the center’s Breakthrough Listen Initiative.

And so, starting Wednesday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, the Green Bank Telescope will aim at the first known interstellar object in our solar system. The telescope will observe the asteroid for 10 hours across four bands of radio frequency. The results may be made public within a matter of days.

Milner knows the odds are against him. But as he spoke from a conference table in his home, flanked by screens filled with radiant telescope images stretching from floor to ceiling, he smiled in excitement.

“If you look more, everywhere, I think chances are that eventually you will find something,” he said.

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Research Suggests Earth’s Mysterious “Hum” May Be Caused By Ocean Waves

Micah Hanks

For years, there have been investigations by scientists into what causes certain “humming” or “ringing” that can be heard, felt, or measured in various parts of the world. Often barely perceptible, such humming noises have become popularly associated with a number of locations, such as the town of Taos, New Mexico. The cause of these sounds, however, remains a matter of dispute by scientists.

Additionally, their mysterious nature has led to a number of imaginative theories about their origin, which range from ideas about clandestine underground bases to secret drilling operations carried out by world governments. There are, however, more likely explanations for the varieties of strange sounds that are reported, which have more to do with little-understood natural phenomena.

With the onset of the winter months in North America (and hence, the arrival of “Mystery Boom” season), there has been some discussion of Earth’s mysterious humming as of late. For instance, a recent item in Central Oregon’s The Bulletin reported on the phenomenon, under the headline, “Scientists unlocking mystery of the hum of Earth.”

According to the Bulletin article: 

“The Earth is ringing like a bell all the time,” said Spahr Webb, a seismologist at Columbia University.

The hum is everywhere. Its ultralow frequencies have been recorded in Antarctica and Algeria, and — as announced this week by the American Geophysical Union — on the floor of the Indian Ocean.

We don’t know what causes it. Some have theorized that it’s the echo of colliding ocean waves, or the movements of the atmosphere, or vibrations born of sea and sky alike.

In fact, there are probably a variety of factors that contribute to the mysterious “hum” of the Earth. A number of unusual phenomena have been reported over the years, which include sub-audible “hums” like those discussed in the news recently, to fairly audible (and often eerie) sounds which appear to emanate from within the Earth. Among these are noises which have been compared to sounding like “pipe organs” or horns, produced by rock and ice formations. In one well-documented series of reports of such phenomenon, published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal in 1819 by M. von Humboldt, organ-like sounds were reported emanating from rock formations appearing along the banks of the Orinoco river.

Another instance of similar “Earth hums” in nature involved a sound that was recorded in Greenland on a number of instances. Dubbed “Ton der Dove-Bai”, it was first reported in August 1932 by a French Expedition exploring the Scoresby Sound. This sound, according to the French report, resembled a massive foghorn, and while the report was the first official record of the sound, it had been reported eight times by an earlier expedition group, who reported hearing the sound in five different locations in Greenland. These reports occurred both during the day and after the polar nightfall. The likely cause of the noise had been ice sheets shifting with gradual changes in the temperature.

With regard to the recent discussion of ocean waves contributing to the Earth’s “hum,” it is worth noting that a study featured in Geophysical Research Letters back in the Spring of 2015 discussed this phenomenon, classifying it as a kind of microseismic activity caused by ocean waves. The study suggested that “movement of deep waves across ridges and other geological formations along the ocean floor” might produce the hum-like effect, which is perceptible in certain parts of the world.

Additionally, as far back as 1998 data from a gravimeter located in East Antarctica indicated that certain unusual vibrations produced by the Earth essentially continue indefinitely. This may also be suggestive of the phenomenon having an origin with deep ocean waves.

Whatever the true causes of Earth’s hum may be, science is beginning to close in on the phenomenon, and thus, a more clear understanding of our planet’s mechanics takes shape over time. For now, those interested in different varieties of mysterious sounds that occur in nature can visit this link, which provides an overview of the phenomenon, and discusses a number of them in depth.

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