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Two Navy airmen describe encounter with what they believe was a UFO

'It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen': Two Navy airmen describe encounter with what they believe was a UFO after the Pentagon reveals its multi-million dollar search program for mysterious objects

• Navy Cmdr. David Fravor and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were flying above Pacific Ocean in November 2004 during training mission 
• Fravor recounted how they came near mysterious object that he was 'pretty weirded out' by
• He said at first it was hovering and then 'it accelerated like nothing I've ever seen'
• His revelation comes after the Pentagon announced it ran the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program from 2007 to 2012
• Its mission, which had a $22 million annual budget, was to investigate sightings and military encounters with unidentified flying objects, also known as UFOS
• Founded amid fears they could be advanced weaponry or technology from foreign states such as Russia or China which could threaten the US
• The program was created by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

By Regina F. Graham and Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com

Two Navy airman flying over the Pacific Ocean on a routine training mission claim they encountered mysterious objects that 'accelerated like nothing' they had 'ever seen' before. 

Back in 2004, Navy Cmdr. David Fravor and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were flying about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets carrying two CATM-9s, which are dummy missiles that could not be fired, the New York Times reported.

According to Fravor, the operations officer aboard Navy cruiser U.S.S. Princeton had been communicating with the pair during their mission and said, 'Well, we've got a real-world vector for you.'

The operator said for the past two weeks the Navy cruiser had been tracking mysterious aircraft. 

The objects would first appear at 80,000 feet, and then speed toward the sea before stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. 

Back in 2004, Navy Cmdr. David Fravor (pictured left with his wife) and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were flying about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets on a routine training mission when they encountered a mysterious object

According to Fravor, the operations officer aboard Navy cruiser U.S.S. Princeton (file above) had been communicating with the pair during their mission and instructed to investigate the object that was picked up on radar

They then either shot back up into the sky or dropped off of radar.

Fravor and Slaight were instructed to investigate the objects by the radio operator on the Navy cruiser. 

The two pilots followed their instructions and as they closed in, they were alerted by the operator that they could not tell which were the objects and which were the fighter jets. 

At first, Fravor nor Slaight could see anything and nothing was on their radars. 

But then Fravor looked down to the sea and noticed that the waves were breaking over something below the surface, causing the sea to churn.

Hovering about 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some sort that was whitish, 40 feet long and oval in shape, Fravor recounted. 

He described to the Times that it was jumping erratically but not moving in any specific direction.

Fravor began a circular descent in an effort to get a closer look, but the object began ascending toward him as if it were trying to meet him halfway, he explained. 

He then abandoned his slow circular descent and decided to fly straight towards the object. 

Fravor said at first they couldn't see anything, but then they noticed the mysterious object that was whitish, 40 feet long and oval in shape. He said that he was 'pretty weirded out' by the encounter while flying in his F/A-18F Super Hornet (file above) 

But then he said it quickly flew away.  

'It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen,' he told the Times before adding that he was 'pretty weirded out.'

Fravor and Slaight then spoke with operations officer on their Navy cruiser and were told to fly to a rendezvous point about 60 miles away, which is called the cap point in aviation parlance.

As they were flying, the Princeton radioed again saying that radar had picked up the strange aircraft.  

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

'We were at least 40 miles away, and in less than a minute this thing was already at our cap point,' Fravor said. 

Once they arrived, the object had disappeared and the two fighter jets returned to the Nimitz. 

Fravor said that he was made fun of after people aboard the ship had learned of his encounter.  

Fravor's story about the mysterious object comes as the Pentagon reveals it had a secret multi-million dollar program to investigate UFO sightings 

When asked by another pilot of the situation, Fravor said: 'I have no idea what I saw. It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.'

He added, 'I want to fly one.' 

His superiors did not investigate further. 

Fravor has since retired from the Navy after deploying to the Persian Gulf providing air support to ground troops during the Iraq war. 

Fravor's account of what he claims happened in November 2004 has emerged after it was revealed the Pentagon set up a secret multi-million dollar program to investigate UFO sightings.

The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ran from 2007 to 2012, with a $22 million annual budget, with the mission of looking into reports of military encounters with unidentified flying objects.

The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ran from 2007 to 2012, with a $22 million annual budget

The Defense Department finally acknowledged the existence of its long-secret UFO investigation program on Saturday, when officials shifted attention and funding to other priorities.

Its initial funding came largely at the request of former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat long known for his enthusiasm for space phenomena, the newspaper said.

The program was created by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), with the support of the late Senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Republican Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). 

Their fears were that the unexplained phenomena could be advanced weaponry or technology from foreign states such as Russia or China which could threaten the US.

'Was this China or Russia trying to do something or has some propulsion system we are not familiar with?' a former staffer told Politico.

While former career intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, who ran the initiative, stressed he wanted to take the 'voodoo' out of a 'voodoo science,' the program investigated some issues that sound like they're straight out of a science fiction movie.

They included 'wormholes' and 'warp drives' as well as interviewing pilots and military personnel who reported experiences with UFOs.

Elizondo said that many of the Navy pilots described aircraft moving and acting in a way that seemed to be beyond human beings' current capabilities.

'We had never seen anything like it,' he said.

The former staffer said that Reid believed there could be a valid national security issue and so agreed to fund the program.

But after a few years, and very little to show for it, Reid decided it wasn't worth continuing.  

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

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

According to the the Pentagon, the program 'ended in the 2012 timeframe.' 

Yet according to its backers, the program remains in existence and officials continue to investigate UFO episodes brought to their attention by service members, the newspaper said.

The Pentagon openly acknowledged the fate of the program in response to a Reuters query.

'The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ended in the 2012 timeframe,' Pentagon spokeswoman Laura Ochoa said in an email.

'It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,' she said. 

The program was created by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (pictured)

But the Pentagon was less clear about whether the UFO program continues to hover somewhere in the vast universe of the U.S. defense establishment.

'The DoD takes seriously all threats and potential threats to our people, our assets, and our mission and takes action whenever credible information is developed,' Ochoa said.

What is less in doubt is former senator Reid's enthusiasm for UFOs and his likely role in launching the Pentagon initiative to identify advanced aviation threats.

'If you've talked to Harry Reid for 60 seconds then it's the least surprising thing ever that he loves UFOs and got an earmark to study them,' former Reid spokeswoman Kristen Orthman said in a message on Twitter.

Or as Reid himself said in a tweet that linked to the Times' story: 'The truth is out there. Seriously.' 

Elizondo has since joined former Blink 182 vocalist Tom DeLonge's company To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences - described as a 'public benefit corporation' that has 'mobilized a team of the most experienced, connected and passionately curious minds from the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Department of Defense, who have been operating under the shadows of top-secrecy for decades.'

CIA RELEASES ITS OWN 'X-FILES' 

Last year, the CIA released a glimpse into its own set of 'X-Files,' a small compilation of documents pulled from its expansive UFO collection, dating back to the 1940s.

The agency said that these documents appeal to both skeptics and believers – the Scullys and Mulders of the world – who seek to prove scientific explanations, or confirm the existence of extraterrestrial activity.

A reported UFO sighting over Minnville, Oregon, is pictured above 

One of the documents among the CIA's 'X-Files' is from East Germany in 1952, where agents were called to investigate what witnesses described as a 'huge flying pan'.

The object was said to have a diameter of about 15 meters, according to the document.

Similar flying saucers were also spotted in North Africa and Spain, the report said.

'The picture [of the object] shows a diagonal stripe of diminishing width and lighter in shade than the sky over the dark bulk of a building cornice,' it was noted.

Included with some of the documents were three pictures of the alleged extraterrestrials.

One of the photos - taken by British student Alex Birch in 1962 - claimed to show a group of flying saucers flying over the city of Sheffield in the UK.

Also contained in the files is the case in Socorro, New Mexico in 1964, when police officer Lonnie Zamora spotted a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert.

Upon investigation, he found a shiny object the size of a sedan perched on the hilltop, which was oval in shape and aluminium in color.

The object then began to rise into the air and then sped away from him over the mountains and disappeared.

An explanation for this case has never been determined. 

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Strange Dimming Star May Be Scarfing Down Wrecked Planets

Super Rare Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse on January 31, 2018

End of January to see stunning collision of three lunar sights. The end of this month we will see the beginning of one of the moon's most beautiful nights. On 31 January appear a blood moon, a Supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, all on one night.

Some people including NASA are referring to it as a super blue blood moon and it is the first blue moon total lunar eclipse in over a century.

The last couple of months we have seen some strange events along the coasts of several countries, like the last week in Ecuador where the ocean suddenly disappeared from the coast.

So without doubt this super blue blood moon will have an effect on tides, due to the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun which arrange themselves more or less along a line in space At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low.

  

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

By Robert Bateman

Three days ago, The New York Times published what appeared to be a bombshell of a story. The report revealed that, from roughly 2007 through 2012, the Department of Defense ran a small program out of the Defense Intelligence Agency known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The mission was, in short, to look into UFO reports and assess if any of them represented a threat to the United States. On the face of it, that looks like a big deal in anybody’s book. But was it really?

While wearing the uniform, I had the opportunity to participate in several very interesting, highly-classified efforts. Known as “Special Access Programs,” they are actually higher than Top Secret. Not only do you need a Top Secret Special Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) clearance, you also need to be vetted and then specifically given an in-briefing. You cannot even reveal the mere existence of the program itself, let alone anything from within the project. These are the sort of things that make headlines when they are revealed but which are often prosaic in origin or execution.

The fact is that the Department of Defense looks at a huge number of things, from the future effects of global warming to the games that Chinese strategists play as kids that may affect their modes of thinking. The extreme level of classification of many such studies often comes from one of two reasons. The first and most obvious is a desire to conceal a capability from any potential competitor or enemy. The second is, essentially, political: a desire not to be embarrassed, either by political leaders or the leaders of the various branches of the Department of Defense. In some cases, it’s both. This time, however, it appears to be only the latter.

July 30, 1952: Officers of the operations,technical and intelligence divisions of the USAF are shown at a news conference where they announced they are setting up a battery of more than 200 cameras in attempts to obtain data on the ’unidentified objects’ reported from various parts of the nation.

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This is not the first time the Department of Defense has looked into the issue of UFOs. Indeed, its’s not even the second or third. In fact, the very term “Unidentified Flying Object” came from a USAF officer, Captain Edward Ruppelt, who was the first leader of the largest of these efforts known as “Project Blue Book.” The first of those studies started in 1947 and, under three different names (the last being Blue Book), officially lasted more than 20 years before finally shutting down in 1969.

Though Blue Book went through ups and downs over the years, it was pretty credible under the first director of the program, and over time they received and examined some 12,618 reports. (You can go see their declassified files yourself at the National Archives.) This being the digital age, you can access copies of everything online as well. If that is not enough, you can read Captain Ruppelt’s own summary of the project.

Believers and skeptics alike will probably both dive in on this, and not a few conspiracy theorists will latch onto the fact that the program was classified and funded through a part of the “secret” Department of Defense budget. And truth be told, if the numbers are to be believed, there has indeed been an uptick in UFO reporting over the past decade.

The openly acknowledged facts, however, suggest that my point about the reasoning for the secrecy was much more benign than some vast government cover-up of “the truth.” Spending only $22 million over five years really is small-beans by most measures. It suggests that this whole effort, averaging $4.4 million per year, was likely conducted by no more than a dozen people. The primary reason was likely classified to prevent political egg landing on anyone’s face.

Sure would be interesting to see what they found though.

Robert Bateman is a military historian and is a fellow at New America. He is a former military strategist.

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Kunst uit de ruimte: NASA geeft adembenemende foto van Jupiter vrij - HLN.be

Bron: NASA

De ruimtesonde Juno legde de atmosfeer van de grootste planeet van ons zonnestelsel vast op de gevoelige plaat. Het onbemande ruimtevaartuig deed er vijf jaar over om het hemellichaam te bereiken en voert nu een jaar lang observaties uit rond Jupiter.

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Deze foto werd midden december vorig jaar genomen vanop een afstand van meer dan 13.000 kilometer van de planeet. In de rechterbovenhoek is de overgang van dag naar nacht te zien, legt NASA uit op haar website.

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Amerika lanceert geheime spionagesatelliet... en is die nu kwijt - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Een Falcon-draagraket van de Amerikaanse raketbouwer SpaceX moest de satelliet in een baan om de aarde brengen. De lancering vanaf Cape Canaveral was om technische redenen al eens uitgesteld.

Northrop Grumman is de bouwer van de satelliet, die de codenaam Zuma droeg en miljarden gekost heeft. Waarvoor de kunstmaan precies was bedoeld, is geheim. Een woordvoerder van SpaceX van Elon Musk wil niet ingaan op de missie. Wel laat hij weten dat op basis van de eerste data de Falcon 9 normaal heeft gefunctioneerd.

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How I discovered the origins of thecigar-shaped alien ‘asteroid’ ‘Oumuamua

Artist’s illustration of planet formation.

Image credit: NASA / Lynette Cook

One of the highlights of 2017 was the discovery of the first object in our solar system that definitely came from somewhere else. At first we thought it was a comet, then an asteroid, and now the International Astronomical Union has reclassified it as something new entirely, an interstellar object. The Hawaiian astronomers who discovered it aptly named it ‘Oumuamua, which means “a messenger from afar arriving first”, reflecting that this object is like a scout sent from the past to reach out to us.

Research has already helped us learn a lot about 'Oumuamua’s rare cigar-like shape, what it’s made of (ice with a carbon-rich surface) and its highly unusual orbit, which will take it out of our solar system at a speed of around 26 km/s. The Breakthrough Listen research program has even investigated whether 'Oumuamua is an alien space ship by scanning the object for life forms with the Green Bank Telescope. No intelligent signals have been identified so far, though further observations are planned.

Now my latest study gives us a glimpse of exactly where 'Oumuamua may have come from. Reconstructing the object’s motion, my research suggests it probably came from the nearby “Pleiades moving group” of young stars, also known as the “Local Association”. It was likely ejected from its home solar system and sent out to travel interstellar space.

Based on 'Oumuamua’s trajectory, I simulated how it has probably travelled through the galaxy and compared this to the motions of nearby stars. I found the object passed 109 stars within a distance of 16 light years. It went by five of these stars from in the Local Association (a group of young stars likely to have formed together), at a very slow speed relative to their movement.

It’s likely that when 'Oumuamua was first ejected into space, it was travelling at just enough speed to break away from the gravity of its planet or star of origin, rather than at a much faster speed that would require even more energy. This means we’d expect the object to move relatively slowly at the start of its interstellar journey, and so its slow encounters with these five stars suggests it was ejected from one of the group.

When was it kicked out of its home?

Stars typically move with an average speed when they are formed and gradually change speed as they encounter very large objects, such as massive stars and molecular clouds and are affected by their gravity. Unlike most nearby stars, 'Oumuamua moves very slowly compared to the average motion of the rest of the galaxy. This suggests it has only been travelling in interstellar space for a relatively short time and hasn’t had a chance to encounter many massive objects that would speed it up.

We also have evidence for 'Oumuamua’s relatively young age from the colour of its surface. Outside of the protection of a star’s magnetic field, objects in space are bombarded with cosmic rays and interstellar dust and gas that gradually alter their surfaces and turn them very red in colour. But 'Oumuamua has a more neutral colour, suggesting it has only been impacted by cosmic rays for, at most, hundreds of million years rather than for the billions of years that our solar system has existed.

How was it ejected?

'Oumuamua is extremely elongated and has quite a different shape from other objects in our solar system. It was probably formed by a relatively high-energy process such as a collision, or ejected from a forming star. Most objects in the outer part of a planetary system are made more of ice and most objects in the inner regions are made more of rocks. Since 'Oumuamua is a more even mix of ice and rocks, it’s likely it came from the middle part of a solar system, similar to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that features a mixture of icy and rocky asteroids.

Perhaps the most plausible scenario is that 'Oumuamua was ejected from a closely separated binary star system made of two stars closely orbiting each other. Objects orbiting one of the stars in a binary system will be strongly affected by the gravity of the other and so can be more easily ejected from the system than if it had just one star.

'Oumuamua is probably just the tip of the iceberg. My research suggests there are likely more than 46m similar interstellar objects crossing the solar system every year. Most of them will be too far away for us to see with our current telescopes. But new telescopes and surveys should soon be able to find these interstellar messengers, which may be sending us important information about how stars and planets formed. Studying more objects like 'Oumuamua will enable us to work out how much debris is left over from star formation and how much this adds to the mass of our galaxy.

Another reason to study these interstellar objects is that they could one day threaten to collide with the Earth and cause catastrophic events such as mass extinctions. The more we know, the better prepared we’ll be if that day ever comes.

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As if astronauts needed one more horror to worry about in the soul-crushing vacuum of deep space. Between the perils of cosmic radiation, the unknown side effects of unexplained genome changes, and the whole blowing up upon launch thing, it’s not easy being a space traveller. Now, a team of international medical researchers has conducted a study of astronauts’ health while aboard the International Space Station and has discovered a new threat: “space fever.” While space fever sounds like a perfect title for a 1950s B movie, the condition is actually a little understood and potentially life-threatening condition which could hamper our plans at deep space travel.

Space very well could be one of the worst places to get sick.

After combing through health records of eleven different ISS astronauts, researchers found that all astronauts’ body temperatures increased by 1°C (1.8°F) after just a few months in space and remained elevated for the duration of astronauts’ time in space. In their published data, the researchers claim that while mild, this “space fever” poses a significant problem for space agencies and their astronauts:

This space fever, as we may call it, has potential implications for long-term spaceflights in terms of astronauts’ health, well-being, and support, including energy, nutrient, and fluid requirements as well as physical and cognitive performance.

Even increase of body temperature of this small magnitude can lead to serious health complications if left unchecked for long periods of time. Along with the increased body temperatures, researchers also discovered increases in certain inflammation markers. Together, these all indicate that the human body is definitely better suited for life on Earth as opposed to space, meaning we have a lot more barriers to overcome than just fuel and food supplies before we can join Elon Musk’s car on Mars. We’ll figure it out though, right?

Should we create a genetically-altered race of deep space supermen to carry our stink throughout the galaxy?

Wouldn’t that be a cruel irony to develop the means of deep space travel but be unable to go due to the limitations of these crude, stinking meat sacs we’re cursed to inhabit. Of course, given recent advances in gene editing, it likely won’t be long before we can simply create genetically advanced astronauts who can withstand deep space much better than our current models. As with everything though, we likely won’t know the long-term implications of such therapies until space stations are crawling with horrifying human hybrids hell-bent on eating brains and chewing gum. And I don’t need to tell you how scarce gum is in space. Should we aim for the stars no matter what the cost? Per aspera ad astra.

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Three UFOs over Spokane, Washington

This video was filmed in April 2015 but was just recently submitted to MUFON.

Witness report:

I was on my way to work and my first turn was down a hill (My city is in a river valley). I saw these three bright lights in the sky not much higher than my current elevation. I drove down the hill and pulled off at a conveinent place and took out my cell phone. I believe it was a iphone 4s. I began to record these slow moving objects. I propped my cellphone on the hood of my truck so the images wouldn’t be too shakey (I do believe in UFOs and I hate shakey videos). Anyway. I saw what looked like a police car (Gonzaga University Police) was my first thought. I was at a new construction site and having worked the US Census in 2010 I knew these guys were no fun to deal with and cut my video because there was an arson fire at a previous build. Anyway, I left. I was hoping to catch the lights again on a bridge over a valley on my way to work (which would have been amazing). But, I never saw the slow moving lights again. I want to add I have about 10 years in Security and was on my way to work at an airport. These lights were not on any flight path I have ever seen (They mostly fly just north of my house). I believe this is the exact date. I am using my cellphones date / time stamp.

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Steve Pierce: Witness to the Travis Walton alien abduction incident

Steve Pierce, witness to the famous Travis Walton alien abduction incident, tells of his trials and tribulations following the 1975 event.

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Filer’s Files #1 – 2018 Happy UFO New Year - PART II

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SpaceX's Secret "Zuma" Mission Is Successful

Here's how the top secret mission for the U.S. government went down.

By Eileen Guo

  

Fourth time’s a charm: SpaceX’s secret “Zuma” mission finally got underway Sunday night as Elon Musk’s aerospace company completed its first mission of 2018.

Zuma is a Northrop Grumman Corporation-made spacecraft, and it was sent into low-Earth orbit, but that’s all SpaceX or the defense contractor has released about the mission, calling Zuma “restricted payload.” Zuma is the third classified mission SpaceX has performed for the U.S. government. (The first was to launch a spy satellite in May and the second was to launch the X-37B spy plane in September.)

A little after 8 p.m. Sunday, precisely as many Americans might have been sitting down to watch the Golden Globes, this rocket was taking off in Florida:

Northrop Grumman has a long history making technology for the military and NASA. It has also made the B-2 stealth bomber, the Global Hawk surveillance drone, and the James Webb Space Telescope, which is undergoing testing ahead of its launch into space in 2019.

The Falcon 9 launched from the SLC-40 launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after being moved from its original launch site, Launchpad 39A, which is currently booked with the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, the rocket system that will test launch in late January. The first stage of the rocket separated from the second and headed back to Earth, while the second stage continued on to put the Zuma payload into orbit. The SpaceX webcast cut out video for this part of the mission.

A few minutes later the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket booster landed safely at LZ-1 near Cape Canaveral, as can be seen in this video from a camera mounted on the rocket:

“And the Falcon has landed,” said Brian Mahlstedt, a SpaceX software engineer who was hosting the Zuma webcast.

The rocket landing was the 21st by SpaceX. The first was on December 21, 2015, also at LZ-1. In addition to LZ-1, SpaceX has landed first-stage boosters on the drone ships Of Course I Still Love You, in the Atlantic Ocean, and Just Read the Instructions, in the Pacific Ocean.

The Zuma mission was first scheduled to launch on November 15 and experienced subsequent delays that led to the launch on Sunday.

With additional reporting by Nick Lucchesi.

Photos via SpaceX

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Proof of aliens? What is the Rendlesham Forest incident? UFO sighting in a Suffolk forest

ALIEN encounters of signs of aliens are some of the most intriguing mysteries for human kind. Was proof of aliens found in the Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk? Local men claimed to have seen UFO sighting.

Alien encounters such as the Rendlesham Forest incident are often the subject of public intrigue.

This event, which occurred in 1980, is still one of the most compelling stories of a UFO sighting recorded in the UK, and it has been referred to as “Britain’s Roswell”.

It even caused the Ministry of Defence to issue a public statement to the people of Briton to assure them it was not a threat to national security.

What was the Rendlesham Forest incident?

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Proof of aliens? What is the Rendlesham Forest incident?

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The Rendlesham Forest incident took place over two nights in December 1980. On 26 December a patrol around RAF Woodbridge reported seeing lights, which appeared to land in the near by Rendlesham Forest.

They rushed to the site, thinking the lights might be a crashed human aircraft, however, they were shocked by what they found.

They claimed to have found a round, glowing metal object with coloured light that scared animals in a nearby farm. 

Returning to the site in the morning all they found were a number of triangular impressions on the ground.

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Alien: Was proof of aliens found in the Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk?

On December 28 deputy base commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt visited the area and took radiation readings. He and his party then claimed to see another flashing light, which hovered and beamed down a stream of light.

Was proof of aliens found in Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk? While some think this could be evidence of an extra terrestrial visit, most agree it is not conclusive. 

Some believe it to be a hoax, while others claimed the object was a downed Soviet spy satellite.

A witness of the event, retired U.S. Airforce officer Steve Longero, told the Sun in December 2016: “I think it was something not from this world.”

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Alien: The Rendlesham Forest incident took place over two nights in December 1980

He said of the object found in the woods: “From what I remember it was like aglow, it was really glowing like a reddish, greenish light. It was really glowing, like something was really hot and it was just glowing.”

He also recalled how the object vanished. He added: “As people were getting close to this thing it kind of came nearer to us and then it would go forward and then go back and all of a sudden it just disappeared, like something out of Star Trek, it was like warp speed and we were all ‘what was that?’”

You can camp in Rendelsham Forest, and the forest has a trial titled the UFO Trail.

Google Maps Street View footage recently revealed footage of a top secret base of a US Air Force airline known as JANET, which flies planes to Area 51 and is based in Las Vegas.

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New Year UFO? Strange emerald fireball blazes through night sky above UK town

CRYSTAL clear footage of a giant emerald fireball zooming across the night sky above Wakefield has caused a stir after going viral online.

By George Mills

The incredible video was reportedly shot on New Year’s Eve, beginning by showing the blazing object travelling at high speed in the sky above a row of houses.

It speeds across the horizon before disappearing behind a cloud.

Wakefield residents James Javens, 22, and his friend Ryan Butterworth, 20, captured the light on film as they walked through Eastmoor.

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MYSTERY: Two lads from Wakefield spotted the mysterious fireball on New Year's Eve

More than 1.5 million people have since seen the video, making waves after it was posted on YouTube.

"It was flying across the sky so fast but luckily we had a phone to hand and were able to catch it on film,” the pair told the Wakefield Express.

"The video has gone viral. We are hoping to find out from an expert what it is.

"It was an absolutely amazing sight. It was a big, bright green light, and it flew across the sky.

VIRALHOG

ILLUMINATING: Professor Brian Cox claimed it was a meteorite

“It was travelling really fast and for a really long time."

TV boffin professor Brian Cox, an esteemed physicist and astronomer, later tweeted: “Quite a few people saying they saw a meteor over the North of England this evening - anyone else?

“Sounds like a bright one."

And the UK Meteor Network seemed to confirm his suspicions, claiming they had received hundreds of similar reports of a meteor sighting from across the UK.

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New Yorkers report seeing EIGHTY FIVE UFOs over the city in two years including round orange orbs, a cigar-shaped craft and fireballs of light

• There have been 27 UFO sightings above Manhattan since 2016, researchers say
• Brooklyn saw 24 over the same period while there were 20 reports from Queens
• Sightings have included 'clusters' of UFOs as well as orange orbs and 'fireballs'

By Julian Robinson for MailOnline

New Yorkers have reported seeing 85 UFOs over the city in two years including orange orbs, a cigar-shaped craft and fireballs of lights, researchers have revealed. 

There have been a total of 27 sightings above the famous skyscrapers of Manhattan since 2016, according to the Washington-based National UFO Reporting Center.

Brookyln saw 24 over the same period while in Queens, there were 20 reports of unidentified objects including a 'group of about seven UFOs, with a leader to the side, and a cluster to its north,' in June.

New Yorkers have reported seeing 85 UFOs over the city in two years including orange orbs, a cigar-shaped craft and fireballs of lights, researchers have revealed

In Queens, there were 20 reports of unidentified objects including a 'group of about seven UFOs, with a leader to the side, and a cluster to its north,' in June, according to the New York Post.

This compared to just eight strange such incidents in The Bronx and just six in Staten Island.

The Post reports that one report from Manhattan told of an object 'rotating like a drill as it was also moving off axis and in a line towards the east'.

While this was happening, the witness said, you could see 'four lights that would only be on one side and seen' after it fully rotated. The unidentified witness, who saw the object out of a gym window, said it was hundreds of feet long and included 'four other smaller craft appeared that were to me saucer or spherical that blipped in and out.'

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said of the findings: 'It only takes one or two regular witnesses, UFO investigators, groups or promoters to highlight UFO activity in one particular area. 

'Another area might have just as many UFO sightings, but if there are no active ufologists there and/or a local media that ignores such stories, then they will never get any attention. 

There have been a total of 27 sightings above the famous skyscrapers of Manhattan since 2016, according to the Washington-based National UFO Reporting Center

'Internet reporting sites like the National UFO Reporting Centre make it easy to report sightings, but this is just raw data that needs to be processed and investigated to make any useful basis for analysis. 

'When looking at this data you need to obtain detailed reports from witnesses who are reliable and credible. 

'Even then expert witnesses, like pilots, can be mistaken and it is notoriously difficult to separate knowns (e.g. misidentified stars, aircraft, rockets etc) from unknowns. 

'Large data bases tend to be riddled with a wide variety of errors due to these problems and only give an accurate guide to levels of UFO reporting rather than UFO activity.' 

In February last year, it was revealed that more people were reporting sightings of spaceships and UFOs than ever before.

Exactly 104,947 UFO sightings had been reported since the first sign of aliens was spotted in 1905, according to data from the Center's data.

And since the 1990s, the number of other-worldly sightings had shot up from 10,000 to 45,000 a year.

The National UFO Reporting Centre, which is based in Washington, is a site dedicated to keeping track of UFO sightings from across the world.

Data from the site released last year showed that people living in the UK, the US and Australia were most likely to report seeing an alien spaceship, while countries such as Russia, China and Greenland rarely catch a glimpse of extraterrestrial activity.

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Alien Spotted Boarding UFO in Romania?

A video purportedly shows a small alien boarding a spaceship in a field.

CLAIM

• A video showed an alien boarding a spaceship in Romania in January 2018.

RATING

 FALSE

ORIGIN

A video purportedly showing an alien boarding a spaceship in a field near the Romanian city of Târgoviște and then flying the UFO over the forest racked up millions of views as it was passed around social media in January 2018.

The most popular iteration of this video was likely the one posted to the Târgoviște+  Facebook page where it garnered more than 15 million views:

Although many expressed skepticism about the footage, some were convinced that this video documented an actual alien making a pit stop in Romania.

This video doesn’t actually show an extraterrestrial being. 

For one, internet users couldn’t quite agree on where this video supposedly took place. Most claimed that the video was shot in Târgoviște, but others shared this video as if showed an incident outside of Bacău, a Romanian city approximately 300 kilometers to the northeast, while others claimed that the footage showed an alien invasion in Alaska. This is a common trope of internet hoaxes. As the footage is not rooted in reality, the location can be changed to make it more appealing to audiences in various locales. 

But this video was not filmed in Romania or Alaska. This video was posted to the YouTube page “Alien Unleash” on 2 January 2018 (the day before the Târgoviște+ video) and was not accompanied by any information about where this incident allegedly took place. Rather, the description for the video was simply a list of relevant keywords: 

Alien, UFO, Real Aliens, 2018, NASA, Thirdphaseofmoon, Spacecraft, Flying Saucer, Humanoid, Area 51, Alien Footage, UFO Sightings, Secureteam10, Grey Alien, Mothership,

The Alien Unleash YouTube page is full of similar videos. Over the last few months, the YouTube page has published videos purportedly showing dragons, alien abductions, motherships, and UFOs all over the world:

In fact, they published a a similar (yet much less convincing) video in October 2017 which showed another little grey alien boarding a spaceship:

This video was not filmed in a field outside of a Romanian city. It originated on an alien-centric YouTube page with a penchant of promoting similar hoax videos.

Although this particular video was good enough to convince some viewers that it was real, it still contained a few errors which revealed it to be a hoax. When the UFO makes its way over the trees, for instance, it appears that the spacecraft is flying through the trees and not over them:

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Real-life X-Files: Former MoD UFO investigator reveals what they know - and how close the sci-fi show is to the truth

Nick Pope worked for the MoD investigating UFOs for more than 20 years where he encountered real cases

By Jo-Anne Rowney, Deputy Audience Growth Editor

Anyone who's driven alone at night and looked up at the vast sky has probably wondered if we’re alone.

Whether you believe in aliens or not, there’s an undeniable fascination with the unknown. It’s part of our psyche to wonder, to look beyond what we can see - the UFO obsession never goes away.

Perhaps no show has achieved this quite as well as The X-Files, the sci-fi phenomenon from the mind of Chris Carter.

The show ran from 1993 to 2002 initially following the exploits of Agents Mulder and Scully -the believer and the sceptic - who took the cases no one else wanted including the search for alien life.

They believed the truth really was out there.

But while we watched the pair run around deserts and the FBI's corridors trying to save the day, government officials sat in their offices thumbing through ‘secret’ files.

Skip forward to 2018 and some of these have already been released, albeit with redacted sections, but thousands of papers are there ready for people to read.

The man behind many of them is former MoD official Nick Pope, who spent 20 years investigating UFOs. Nick spoke to the Mirror about whether we are actually alone, and how realistic The X-Files were.

“I think it’d be inconceivable that we’d be the only life in the universe,” he said. “I suspect in the cosmos things are pretty crowded and there are other life forms and other civilisations too, which I think poses the fascinating question [of] if they are more advanced than us what might they be able to teach us.”

For much of the 90s Pope ran the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project, where his job was to “investigate sightings and assess whether any were of ‘defence significance’”, a term that really doesn’t have a proper definition.

The X-Files began when Pope was in the role, and the links and parallels were unquestionable.

People would whistle the theme tune at Pope as he walked down the Ministry's corridors or popped into the staff canteen, and they even nicknamed him ‘Spooky’ - the same label given to Mulder.

But the investigator brushes it off.

“It was flattering and a piece of fun to liven up the day,” he says. “Absolutely there were similarities: we were a government programme looking at UFOs and because we looked at UFOs we found ourselves really drawn into anything weird and wonderful that was reported because there was no where else in Government that would take those sort of reports.”

And the team really did get everything. From “bread and butter” UFO sightings to the “things people thought were linked to UFOs, alien abductions and crop circles” and then the even more distantly related, like ghosts on military bases or psychics.

“It could be anything!” Pope says. “There is that direct parallel [to The X-Files]. We really were the real-life X-Files unit. Having said that, we didn’t go running around with torches and guns and sadly I didn’t have a Scully either.”

The comparison, of course, isn’t that simple. There are parallels between the fictional series and real-life, but there are differences. While Scully and Mulder had a deep seated distrust of the establishment, Pope and his team were part of it.

“Much of what we did was perhaps what you’d expect [us] to do. We were alongside air force colleagues and much of what we did was to tie in UFO sightings with anything that would be tracked on military radar and going through the process to eliminate a lot of things that gave rise to a lot of these things.”

Pope explains that a lot of ‘sightings’ were explained by matching them with military aircraft or exercises taking place. They also used data on weather balloon launches, astronomical data at Royal Greenwich observatory - basically anything in the skies we could find out about it.

Pope says there were 200-300 cases a year that they tried to tie in with what they knew about or could find out about.

It wasn’t all plain sailing, and there were areas where they had to “tread carefully”.

“We knew some of these things were likely going to be secret prototype sky planes or aircrafts or drones,” Pope explains.

Among all the cases, there were some that couldn’t be explained or were the closest to confirming something extra-terrestrial.

For Pope the stand out case was in 1993 on March 30-31.

“There was a wave of sightings across the UK over a period of about six hours,” Pope says.

“Quite a lot of witnesses were police, military personnel and a civilian who said it was so big he didn’t realise he was looking at a UFO.”

It was dismissed initially as heavy cloud cover, but “one by one, stars disappeared...blocked out by huge triangular shaped craft.”

For Pope it was a direct link back to The X-Files, reminding him of the “alien colonist arc.”

“You see the immense craft, something like that, there’s no middle ground,” he admits. “When they say that and it’s an airforce officer, you can’t turn around and talk about weather balloons and aircraft from unusual angles. I think they’d have a fit!”

Whatever it was, it flew over two air force bases. Pope remembers interviewing one particular officer the morning after - the sighting had been at 2am.

The officer said the “triangular-shaped craft was moving very slowly, no more than 40-50 mph, 200ft or so above the ground, firing a narrow beam of light at the fields.”

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He heard low humming sound and told Pope from the very slow speed it accelerated to the horizon “in an instant”.

Pope has heard similar stories from many witnesses all echoing “that staggering acceleration, that seems a quantum leap above what we can do, even now.”

And that officer? He simply said: “I’ve been in the air force for eight years and never seen anything like that.”

When Pope pushed him to estimate the speed, he added: “Imagine a fast jet like a Red Arrow. Orders of magnitude above and beyond that.”

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Having heard case after case, testimony after testimony, Pope found himself changing the way he thought about UFOs and the alien question.

“I think I started as a Scully but ended up as a Mulder. I really didn’t know much about the whole UFO mystery.”

He admitted he came in and saw it as “another government job.”

“We’re moved around every few years and I’d got a promotional transfer,” he says confessing he thought he’d do three years and then “hopefully move on.”

That didn’t happen - but Pope has clearly learnt so much from his time at the MoD.

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Doesn’t culture just influence our views?

“I think it’s a two-way street, sceptics would say quite a lot of the witnesses are just picking up things they’ve seen in sci-fi,” Pope says, but asks that people look at it another way.

“When you look at something like The X-Files we know Chris Carter did his research at the start (in great depth) so when you look at story lines and in terms of the Government cover up and syndicate and type of UFOS.

“The whole Scully abduction - that reflects in a way what is in the UFO literature. Art imitates life or life imitates art?

“You can’t get away from the fact the Roswell crash is part of pop culture, but when you see that reflected in The X-Files it’s not like it’s come from nowhere, it reflects what people already believe because of what people have already reported.”

The latest The X-Files offerings are no different, with season 11 premiering for Gillian Anderson’s final season, and Audible creating new audiobooks.

The last being Stolen Lives, which Pope says “brings us back to the fundamental questions” of who exactly knows what.

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Though, despite the fact most of us think information is being kept from us, Pope says that’s not really the case, and while there are indeed ‘secret’ files, more and more are being made public.

“It’s huge,” he says. “The MoD has already declassified and released around 60,000 pages of UFO documents, some of which, at the time, were classified as secret ‘UK eyes only’, which is only one down from top secret so there is a vast amount of info out there.”

There’s another batch due for release too, but “there’s been delay after delay after delay”. However, Pope expects the last files to be released soon.

While the documents have been made accessible, it doesn’t mean everything is out in the open.

Due to the FOI (Freedom of information) Act there are exemptions that can’t be released due to intelligence, national security and other security reasons.

When you look at the documents, parts are blacked out. Pope explains: “Now in many cases the reasons are very innocuous, it’s a military base's system, but [with] some redactions I can understand why conspiracy theorists do get quite excited by this sort of thing and why they do believe that they’re not being told the full story.”

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That may not go any way towards appeasing theorists, but Pope’s aim isn’t to dissuade people from believing in aliens. In fact, he has even thought about what we’d say to them when they arrive.

“I think the first fundamental question - I say this with my MoD background - is there a threat to us here? What is the reason for coming? Are they conquerors, explorers, scientists or anthropologists? That question turns up if there’s any threat.”

“The biological hazard is a pretty critical first order question to ask,” he adds. “What would first interest me would be their science or technology. What do they have?

“We can make very few assumptions. One good assumption we can make is if they come here their technology is above and beyond our own. We’re only just taking baby steps into the solar system. They would have mastered interstellar travel. That’s a phenomenal leap!

“What have they got and what would they share with us?” That’s the real question.

*Stolen Lives is the latest The X-Files audiobook from Audible, you can listen here .

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When it comes to UFOs, even seeing isn't enough to believe

Could US government hold key information on Rendlesham UFO sightings?

Katy Sandalls

The UFO trail in Rendlesham Forest.

Picture: TOM POTTER

Information about Suffolk’s best known UFO encounter might be contained in a dossier held by the US government, according to a former MoD staff member.

The incident at Rendlesham back in December 1980 has received a lot of attention from national and global media over the years and has often been called Britain’s Roswell.

American officers stationed at the former RAF Woodbridge site reported seeing strange lights and an alien craft on two occasions in the forest area surrounding the base.

Sceptics have since rubbished the claims of extraterrestrial activity by claiming that the beams were nothing more than lights on a police car or nearby Orfordness Lighthouse.

Recently new information has come to light in the United States about a dossier that may be held by the Department of Defense.

American newspaper the New York Times revealed that over $20 million had been spent on what was known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program or AATIP by the Department of Defense between 2007 and 2012.

Another US publication, the Washington Post, stated that a 490 page report from this program contained alleged historical UFO sightings from foreign countries as well as the United States.

Nick Pope was the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk officer between 1991 and 1994, he led a review into the case years after the event itself.

“For many years the US said we don’t do UFO’s but the Pentagon has had a programme all along,” says Nick.

It is not known exactly what details may be inside the file but Nick believes the incident at Rendlesham has a strong case for inclusion.

“It’s inconceivable to me that information on the Rendlesham Forest incident wouldn’t be in that dossier, as it’s the UK’s best-known and most credible UFO incident, and because it involved US personnel at USAF bases,” says Nick.

“It’s a big deal. It may be that the Pentagon has data nobody in the UK (even in the MoD) has about the case, and possibly a definitive explanation for the Rendlesham mystery.”

What information is or isn’t held about the incident is unclear, but the hope remains that information in the dossier may help to explain what happened nearly 40 years ago.

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AREA 51 SENSATION: 'Whistleblower' says secret USAF base has 'time-travelling Roswell UFO'

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Physicists catch a glimpse of four spatial dimensions with quantum mechanics experiments

BY TIBI PUIU

The world around us makes sense in only three spatial dimensions: left and right, up and down, forward and backward. Mathematically, on the other hand, some very clever people have argued that reality may be comprised of at least four spatial dimensions. Modern string theory even goes as far as postulating up to 10 spatial dimensions.

All of these are rather abstract ideas with equally abstract proofs. This is why a recent experiment performed by Swiss and American physicists is so exciting. Their work demonstrates a possible pathway by which higher-dimensional phenomena can be observed in a lower-dimensional system, perhaps even ours.

As you may have guessed already, such experiments are based on our good old ally — quantum mechanics — which never fails to scramble our fragile reality and boggle the mind.

Essentially, each of the two teams, one in the USA, the other in Europe, devised an experimental setup — one with ultra-cold atoms and another with light particles — that allowed them to glimpse the fourth spatial dimension by virtue of the quantum Hall effect; the dynamical version of the effect to be more precise which was previously predicted to occur in 4-D systems.

To understand what these researchers are on about, it helps to picture a more familiar example. When struck by light, a 3-D object will cast a 2-D shadow. Though the shadow doesn’t have depth, you can still learn much about the 3-D object that casts it. For instance, a circle corresponds to a sphere and a square corresponds to a cube. Conversely, a cube can be considered the shadow or 3-D projection of a 4-D object called a hypercube, which we can’t really fathom, just like a 2-D ‘flat-lander’ has no hope of visualizing 3-D. Carl Sagan explained this crucial difference during a historic program.

Bearing all of this in mind, we can consider quantum Hall physics as the “4-D shadow” manifesting itself in 3-D.

The Hall effect occurs when charged particles move in a two-dimensional plane in the presence of a magnetic field. The magnetic field deflects the particles in the direction orthogonal to their motion. This can be interpreted by reading a transverse Hall voltage, which can only take certain quantized values. These values are identical irrespective of the specific properties of the experimental sample. What’s more, scientists have proven that this quantum effect cannot take place in three-dimensional systems.

For decades, physicists were convinced that the Hall effect can only manifest itself in 2-D systems, but more recently there have been voices that claimed a similar effect could also take place in four-dimensional systems. In 4-D, there would be even more remarkable properties including a novel, non-linear Hall current, or so the prediction goes.

Finally, two separate groups of researchers led by Professor Oded Zilberberg at ETH Zürich and Professor Mikael Rechtsman at Penn State have now demonstrated a way to observe physical phenomena proposed to exist in higher-dimensional systems.

One group employed so-called topological charge pumps that simulate the transport of electric charges between rubidium atoms that are trapped by lasers. The cloud of atoms that are cooled down close to absolute zero by the lasers is then placed in a 2D optical lattice created by another set of laser beams that fire at a certain wavelength along two orthogonal directions. The resulting ‘charge pump’ resembles an egg-carton-like “crystal of light” in which the rubidium atoms can move. Finally, yet another laser beam which fires with a different wavelength in each direction helps create a superlattice. By carefully monitoring and analyzing at which positions in the superlattice the atoms are located, scientists demonstrated that the transverse motion of modulation that the atoms predominantly use is the equivalent of the non-linear Hall response. This is the essential feature of the 4D Hall effect.

illustration of light passing through a two-dimensional waveguide array.

Credit: Rechtsman Laboratory, Penn State.

Another experiment involved passing light through a series of special glassware eerily similar to fiber wire that can control the shape of the light wave. These photonic structures can also reveal the intricate boundary phenomena that accompany this same transverse motion as a result of the 4D quantum Hall effect.

“When it was theorized that the quantum Hall effect could be observed in four-dimensional space,” said Mikael Rechtsman, assistant professor of physics and an author of the paper, “it was considered to be of purely theoretical interest because the real world consists of only three spatial dimensions; it was more or less a curiosity. But, we have now shown that four-dimensional quantum Hall physics can be emulated using photons — particles of light — flowing through an intricately structured piece of glass — a waveguide array.”

Both experiments demonstrate what an effect would look like were it to happen in four dimensions. However, this is not any proof that a genuine four-dimensional system behaves this way.

“Right now, those experiments are still far from any useful application,” Zilberberg admitted.

Though there is no practical application in the short term, this kind of research might help unravel aspects of string theory, according to which many higher dimensions are simply compressed in such a way that only our normal three-dimensional world exists.

Findings appeared in two separate papers, both published in the journal Nature (one and two).

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First topographic map of Titan reveals surprisingly Earth-like features

BY MIHAI ANDREI 

Titan, one of the least Earth-like places in our solar system, turned out to have surprisingly Earth-like features.

Doom Mons (mountain) and Sotra Patera (depression), two remarkable features on the surface of Saturn. Topography has been vertically exaggerated by a factor of 10 for visibility. The false color shows different surface material compositions as detected by Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.

Image credits: NASA/JPL.

Until recently, not much was known about Saturn’s moon Titan. But the Cassini-Huygens mission changed all that. Titan, a Mercury-sized world with a surface shrouded in a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, was found to be the only place other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.

Titan is also a prime candidate for finding extraterrestrial life, which is why researchers have been trying to better understand its structure. Now, in two published papers, astronomers present the first proper map of Titan, revealing its features in unprecedented detail.

It took doctoral student Paul Corlies a year to assemble the map from all existing data. It was no easy feat since only 9 percent of Titan’s topography has been observed in relatively high-resolution. Another 25-30 percent of the topography imaged in lower resolution. The rest was created using an interpolation algorithm — which means we don’t really know how the rest of Titan is like, but we know how it probably looks like.

Cassini’s radar mapper has obtained stereo views of Titan’s surface during 19 flybys over the last five years.

Image credit: NASA/JPL/USGS.

For starters, the map reveals Titan to be a bit flatter (more oblate) than previously thought. This suggests that the thickness of Titan’s crust also varies more than expected. Corlies also reports that the surface of Titan is covered by mountains, though none of them are higher than 700 meters (2300 feet). The map also shows Titan’s lows, allowing scientists to confirm that two locations in the equatorial region are in fact depressions — and not dried seas, as another theory proposed.

Researchers also analyzed Titan’s impressive lakes, but don’t get your hopes up just yet. As opposed to Earth’s lakes, which are covered by water, Titan’s lakes are filled with liquid methane, a hydrocarbon.

Starting from sea level

Corlies found that Titan’s three most massive lakes (or seas) share a common equipotential surface — which is just a fancy way of saying that they have a common sea level. Titan’s lakes communicate with each other through the subsurface; the lakes that are dry are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity. Alex Hayes, assistant professor of astronomy and also an author, predicted this in his previous models of Titan.

“We don’t see any empty lakes that are below the local filled lakes because, if they did go below that level, they would be filled themselves. This suggests that there’s flow in the subsurface and that they are communicating with each other,” said Hayes. “It’s also telling us that there is liquid hydrocarbon stored on the subsurface of Titan.”

The fact that astronomers are understanding so much about a satellite so far away from Earth is truly astounding, yet this is only a stepping stone for other research. Study authors say that the map will help others working on Titan’s geology and morphology, as well as those trying to improve models for extraterrestrial bodies. Ultimately, it could even help scientists understand whether or not life exists on Titan.

“We’re measuring the elevation of a liquid surface on another body 10 astronomical units away from the sun to an accuracy of roughly 40 centimeters. Because we have such amazing accuracy we were able to see that between these two seas the elevation varied smoothly about 11 meters, relative to the center of mass of Titan, consistent with the expected change in the gravitational potential. We are measuring Titan’s geoid. This is the shape that the surface would take under the influence of gravity and rotation alone, which is the same shape that dominates Earth’s oceans,” said Hayes.

Journal References:

1. P. Corlies, et al. Titan’s Topography and Shape at the End of the Cassini Mission. Geophysical Research Letters, 2017; 44 (23): 11,754 DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075518
2. A. G. Hayes, et al . Topographic Constraints on the Evolution and Connectivity of Titan’s Lacustrine Basins. Geophysical Research Letters, 2017; 44 (23): 11,745 DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075468

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Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights. Israeli archaeologists called it the Wheel of Giants when they discovered it in 1968.

Credit Yuval G

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Massachusetts in the early 1600s was a bleak destination, though one with promise. In the early years of the settlement of the Massachusetts Bay, Governor John Winthrop brought just shy of 1000 colonists over from England, first stopping at Salem before moving on toward the Shawmut Peninsula, where they would establish the settlement that would eventually become Boston.

Nearly 200 of the settlers died under the extreme living conditions of that first American winter. Others, if not ill from the harsh weather, were sick of the trials of settlement; a number of the disillusioned returned to England in the spring. However, with the slow growth of the settlement, living conditions improved under the labors of Winthrop and the steadily growing population of New Englanders; by the beginning of 1640, settlers in the new land exceeded 20,000.

During this first pivotal decade in the history of Massachusetts, John Winthrop kept a detailed journal of occurrences in the region, from those civic or political in nature to noteworthy religious events and other happenings.

There were other occurrences, too, which Winthrop chronicled in his journal, some of them quite curious. Such were the details of the entry marked for March 1, 1639, a portion of which read as follows:

In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton, and so up and down about two or three hours. They were come down in their lighter about a mile, and, when it was over, they found themselves carried quite back against the tide to the place they came from. Divers other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place.

The account given is a strange one, though not unlike the circumstances popularly reported in conjunction with sightings of strange lights in the skies in modern times. It was, in other words, very much a sighting of an unidentified flying object, though what the actual phenomenon witnessed may have been cannot be easily determined solely from Winthrop’s narrative. Filtered through the puritanical mindset of a pre-Newtonian world, there is indeed much left to the imagination.

There are nonetheless aspects of the report Winthrop gives us that are of interest. Of particular note had been his description of the witnesses, which may imply some degree of disorientation caused by observing the light. As the observers “found themselves carried quite back against the tide to the place they came from,” some might discern from this that something akin to “missing time” had occurred. Indeed, certain similarities to popular UFO reports of the last few decades come to mind here, namely the alleged 1976 Allagash UFO incident, where those involved claimed to have observed a light over the course of several consecutive nights, along with the requisite missing time of many UFO abductions of the era (there have been questions raised about the veracity of this 1976 UFO incident in recent years, which are beyond the scope of the present discussion).

This would not be the sole inclusion of anomalous aerial phenomena in the governor’s journal. Winthrop recorded a similar incident several years later, dated January 18, 1643, where he noted:

About midnight, three men, coming in a boat to Boston, saw two lights arise out of the water near the north point of the town cove, in form like a man, and went at a small distance to the town, and so to the south point, and there vanished away. They saw them about a quarter of an hour, being between the town and the governor’s garden. The like was seen by many, a week after, arising about Castle Island and in one fifth of an hour came to John Gallop’s point.

One week after this incident, lights were seen again in the region and, as Winthrop notes in the following passage, were apparently “seen by many”:

A light like the moon arose about the N. E. point in Boston, and met the former at Nottles Island, and there they closed in one, and then parted, and closed and parted divers times, and so went over the hill in the island and vanished. Sometimes they shot out flames and sometimes sparkles. This was about eight of the clock in the evening, and was seen by many.

In conjunction with the appearance of lights in the sky, Winthrop notes a peculiar circumstance pertaining to this second observation of the Massachusetts “mystery lights”, where voices were allegedly heard along the waterways between Boston and Dorchester:

About the same time a voice was heard upon the water between Boston and Dorchester, calling out in a most dreadful manner, boy, boy, come away, come away: and it suddenly shifted from one place to another a great distance, about twenty times. It was heard by diverse godly persons. About 14 days after, the same voice in the same dreadful manner was heard by others on the other side of the town towards Nottles Island. These prodigies having some reference to the place where Captain Chaddock’s pinnace was blown up a little before, gave occasion of speech of that man who was the cause of it, who professed himself to have skill in necromancy, and to have done some strange things in his way from Virginia hither, and was suspected to have murdered his master there; but the magistrates here had not notice of him till after he was blown up. This is to be observed that his fellows were all found, and others who were blown up in the former ship were also found, and others also who have miscarried by drowning, etc., have usually been found, but this man was never found.

In Winthrop’s narrative, the lights were thus attributed to the devilish dealings of this man, who possessed “skill in necromancy” and other kindred arts of darkness. As to what might really have caused the illuminative apparitions Winthrop recounts is a matter of speculation, although many of the key suspects remain in modern times: these range from natural atmospheric plasmas (i.e. ball lightning), to other related natural illuminations like earthquake lights.

Arguably, these peculiar items in Winthrop’s journal outline what can be considered the first instances of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New World.  }While they leave a lot to the imagination, they nonetheless offer a unique, albeit an atypical view of Puritan life in early America.

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The technology needed to get a craft is yet to be created that can search for life outside our solar system in the three-star Alpha Centauri system.

By : Nupur Jha

This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

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Three UFOs over Spokane, Washington

This video was filmed in April 2015 but was just recently submitted to MUFON.

Witness report:

I was on my way to work and my first turn was down a hill (My city is in a river valley). I saw these three bright lights in the sky not much higher than my current elevation. I drove down the hill and pulled off at a conveinent place and took out my cell phone. I believe it was a iphone 4s. I began to record these slow moving objects. I propped my cellphone on the hood of my truck so the images wouldn’t be too shakey (I do believe in UFOs and I hate shakey videos).

Anyway. I saw what looked like a police car (Gonzaga University Police) was my first thought. I was at a new construction site and having worked the US Census in 2010 I knew these guys were no fun to deal with and cut my video because there was an arson fire at a previous build. Anyway, I left. I was hoping to catch the lights again on a bridge over a valley on my way to work (which would have been amazing). But, I never saw the slow moving lights again. I want to add I have about 10 years in Security and was on my way to work at an airport. These lights were not on any flight path I have ever seen (They mostly fly just north of my house). I believe this is the exact date. I am using my cellphones date / time stamp.

The Problem with Paradigms: In Search of Earth’s Hidden History

Arecibo fotografeert asteroïde Phaethon

Tim Kraaijvanger

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Dit zijn de beste plaatsen om buitenaards leven te vinden (denken we)

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Dit zijn de zeven plaatsen waar wij als eerste zouden gaan kijken.

1. Europa

Terwijl astronomen buiten ons zonnestelsel jagen op potentieel leefbare planeten vinden we de eerste aliens misschien wel veel dichter bij huis: op Europa. Als je deze maan van Jupiter bekijkt, ziet deze er misschien niet zo gerieflijk uit, maar schijn bedriegt. Want onder de dikke ijskap van de maan zit waarschijnlijk een wereldwijde oceaan verstopt. Die oceaan zou uit vloeibaar, zout water bestaan en een aardse chemie bezitten. Bovendien mag de oceaan (en eventueel leven in dit zoute water – zich dankzij het dikke pak ijs erboven beschermd weten tegen gevaarlijke kosmische straling. Al met al zien veel astrobiologen Europa dan ook als de beste plek om op zoek te gaan naar buitenaards leven. Die zoektocht lijkt overigens zo langzamerhand vorm te krijgen: er liggen verschillende plannen klaar om Europa in de nabije toekomst eens van dichterbij te gaan bekijken.

Enceladus.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.

2. Enceladus

Nog zo’n ijzige maan: Enceladus. Te vinden rond Saturnus en eveneens voorzien van een ondergrondse oceaan. Ook deze oceaan is gevuld met zout, vloeibaar water. Naast vloeibaar water beschikt de maan over nog twee andere basisingrediënten voor het leven zoals wij dat kennen: een energiebron om de stofwisseling gaande te houden en de juiste chemische elementen (sowieso koolstof, waterstof, stikstof en zuurstof en waarschijnlijk ook fosfor en zwavel). Recent onderzoek suggereert verder dat de ondergrondse oceaan van deze maan al enkele miljarden jaren meegaat: voldoende tijd voor het ontstaan van leven, dus!

3. Mars

Oké. Ook deze planeet oogt vandaag de dag niet direct heel gastvrij, met zijn koude, droge oppervlak en flinterdunne atmosfeer. Maar in het verleden is dat echt anders geweest. Miljarden jaren geleden was de atmosfeer van Mars dikker, waardoor het oppervlak minder te duchten had van kosmische straling en bovendien een stuk warmer was. In die tijd zou de temperatuur op Mars heel behaaglijk zijn geweest en waren op de rode planeet zelfs meren en rivieren te vinden. Kortom: een walhalla voor het leven zoals wij dat kennen. Velen achten het dan ook waarschijnlijk dat er op de rode planeet in ieder geval leven is geweest. Is Mars dan alleen interessant voor de zoektocht naar gefossiliseerde aliens? Niet zo snel! Het leven aan het oppervlak van Mars mag dan zwaar en misschien zelfs onmogelijk zijn: diep onder het oppervlak is dat wellicht heel anders. En dus sluiten onderzoekers niet uit dat er ondergronds nog wat stugge microben te vinden zijn. Dat we Mars met volle overtuiging in dit rijtje opnemen heeft echter met name te maken met het feit dat we hier al enig materieel hebben rondrijden en er nog genoeg plannen liggen om de rode planeet verder te verkennen. Als er leven is, lijkt het dan ook een kwestie van tijd voor we het vinden.

Marsrover Curiosity poseert op Mars.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.

LEEFBARE ZONE

Een leefbare zone is een denkbeeldige zone rond een ster. Planeten die zich in deze zone bevinden, ontvangen voldoende warmte van de ster om te voorkomen dat eventueel vloeibaar water op hun oppervlak bevriest. Tegelijkertijd ontvangen ze ook weer niet zoveel warmte dat datzelfde vloeibare water de kans krijgt om te verdampen. Kortom: een planeet die in de leefbare zone staat, kan in theorie vloeibaar water herbergen op het oppervlak. En dat maakt een planeet interessant, aangezien vloeibaar water een onmisbaar ingrediënt is voor het leven zoals wij dat kennen.

4. LHS 1140b

De superaarde is ietsje groter dan de aarde, bevindt zich in de leefbare zone en heeft waarschijnlijk een atmosfeer.

Tijd om eens buiten ons zonnestelsel te kijken. Want ook daar bevinden zich hemellichamen die er uitnodigend uitzien voor leven. LHS 1140b bijvoorbeeld. De planeet is ietsje groter dan de aarde, bevindt zich in de leefbare zone (zie kader) en lijkt bovendien te beschikken over een atmosfeer. Bovendien gedraagt de moederster zich ook nog eens voorbeeldig: de rode dwerg roteert langzaam en geeft minder hoogenergetische en potentieel schadelijke straling af dan vergelijkbare sterren met weinig massa. Een mooie extra is dat deze planeet – vanaf de aarde gezien – regelmatig voor zijn moederster langs beweegt, waardoor we regelmatig de kans krijgen om de atmosfeer van de planeet te bestuderen. Wellicht kunnen we in de toekomst met krachtige telescopen – zoals James Webb – gaan zoeken naar sporen van leven in de atmosfeer van LHS 1140b. “Een beter doelwit voor één van de belangrijkste zoektochten in de wetenschap – die naar tekenen van leven buiten de aarde – kunnen we ons nauwelijks wensen,” zo concludeerde astronoom Jason Dittmann eerder dit jaar.

5. Proxima b

Het is natuurlijk één van de wetenschappelijke hoogtepunten van 2016: de ontdekking van Proxima Centauri b. Deze exoplaneet cirkelt om de dichtstbijzijnde ster en is slechts 4 lichtjaar van ons verwijderd. De planeet is 1,3 keer zwaarder dan de aarde en bevindt zich in de leefbare zone, wat betekent dat er mogelijk vloeibaar water op het oppervlak te vinden is. Wel zijn er zorgen over de ster waar Proxima b omheen draait. Die zou nogal onstuimig zijn, waardoor er gevaarlijke straling richting de planeet stroomt. Grote vraag is of de planeet zichzelf – en eventueel leven op het oppervlak – middels een krachtig magnetisch veld tegen die straling kan beschermen. Dat zal vervolgonderzoek uit moeten wijzen. Voorlopig zijn astronomen optimistisch en zetten ze de planeet in de bovenste regionen van het lijstje der potentieel leefbare exoplaneten.

Een artistieke impressie van Proxima b.

Afbeelding: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

6. Trappist 1e, -f en/of -g

Eerder dit jaar werd bekend dat rond de rode dwergster Trappist 1 maar liefst zeven aardachtige planeten cirkelen, waarvan er drie – Trappist 1e, -f en -g – in de leefbare zone te vinden zijn. Direct werd er natuurlijk druk gespeculeerd over buitenaardse wezens die wellicht in het relatief kleine Trappist 1-systeem van planeet naar planeet hoppen. Maar met dergelijke speculaties lopen we een beetje te hard van stapel. Want er zijn gerede twijfels of in dit systeem wel leven te vinden is. Zo is nog onbekend of de planeten over een atmosfeer beschikken. En opnieuw zijn er zorgen over de moederster die mogelijk nogal wild is.

Een artistieke impressie van het planetenstelsel. Je ziet de ster TRAPPIST-1 op de achtergrond staan. Op de voorgrond de planeten. Uit het plaatje blijkt ook dat de binnenste drie waarschijnlijk te warm zijn om vloeibaar water te bezitten. De andere planeten – op de buitenste planeet na, want die is waarschijnlijk te koud – lijken de juiste temperatuur te hebben om vloeibaar water te bezitten.

Afbeelding: NASA / R. Hurt / T. Pyle.

7. Ross 128b

Een artistieke impressie van Ross 128b, met op de achtergrond de inactieve, kleine rode moederster. Dit is op dit moment officieel de meest nabije planeet die om een kalme ster cirkelt.

Afbeelding: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

Deze planeet is echt nog maar net ontdekt, maar nu al razend interessant. En wel omdat deze ongeveer net zo groot is als de aarde en de temperaturen op de planeet mogelijk vergelijkbaar zijn met die op de aarde. En het wordt nog mooier: de ster waar Ross 128b omheen cirkelt, is opvallend kalm. Het vergroot de kans dat hier leven stand kan houden. Is er dan niets op deze planeet aan te merken? Nou, één klein dingetje dan: het is nog onduidelijk of deze zich in, buiten of op het randje van de leefbare zone bevindt.

Het valt nog niet mee om planeten aan te wijzen waar leven zou kunnen zijn. Er zijn immers zoveel factoren die een rol spelen. En dan gaan we nog uit van leven zoals wij dat kennen (en dat bijvoorbeeld water vereist). Maar wie zegt dat buitenaards leven net zo in elkaar steekt als het leven op aarde? Misschien hebben aliens wel heel andere behoeften dan wij. Dan zou het bovenstaande lijstje er heel anders uit kunnen gaan te zien. En de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven ook!

Stel dat jij een ruimteschip cadeau krijgt. Waar zou jij dan als eerste gaan zoeken naar buitenaards leven? Laat het ons hieronder weten!

Bronmateriaal:

Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA / ESA / K. Retherford / SWR

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Onderzoekers zijn er nog niet uit: wat is die sliert toch in het midden van onze Melkweg?

Vivian Lammerse

“Het pad naar het antwoord toe is hoe dan ook fascinerend.”

Onze Melkweg bevat voor wetenschappers nog steeds verassingen. Op dit moment proberen astronomen te achterhalen wat die lange sliert toch is, die zich nabij het supermassieve zwarte gat in het centrum van onze Melkweg bevindt. In 2016 werd het ongewone filament ontdekt. Sindsdien zijn er veel astronomen die zich het hoofd breken over de sliert. Het filament is ongeveer 2,3 lichtjaren lang en buigt zich rondom de punt van Sagittarius A*, het supermassieve zwarte gat in het centrum van onze Melkweg.

Afbeelding
Een team van astronomen heeft een poging gedaan om het antwoord dichterbij te brengen. Met gebruik van een baanbrekende techniek is het ze gelukt om de sliert op hoge kwaliteit op beeld vast te leggen. “Hierdoor kunnen we het filament nu veel dichter bij het centrale zwarte gat volgen,” zegt Mark Morris, hoofdauteur van het onderzoek. “We hebben echter nog steeds veel werk te verrichten om te achterhalen wat de ware aard van dit filament is.”

Op de afbeelding is het centrum van onze Melkweg te zien. De pijlen geven de mysterieuze sliert en het zwarte gat aan.

Afbeelding: NSF/VLA/UCLA/M. Morris et al.

Drie verklaringen

De onderzoekers hebben al wel drie verklaringen voor de sliert overwogen:

• 1) De sliert wordt veroorzaakt door deeltjes die met hoge snelheid uit het magnetisch veld van een zwart gat worden geschoten, ook wel jets genoemd.
• 2) De sliert is eigenlijk een kosmische snaar. Echter is het bestaan van kosmische snaren nog in nevelen gehuld.
• 3) De positie en de richting van de sliert is slechts een toevallige superpositie en er is geen enkele associatie tussen het filament en het zwarte gat. Toch is zulk toeval erg onwaarschijnlijk.

Scenario’s
Welk van de onderzochte scenario’s het uiteindelijk ook zal zijn, elk van hen zou een intrigerend inzicht verschaffen. Stel dat optie 1 waar is, dan zou dit bijvoorbeeld belangrijke informatie over het magnetisch veld in deze speciale omgeving kunnen onthullen. Maar als optie 2 waar blijkt te zijn, dan zou dat het eerste bewijs leveren voor een tot nu toe zeer speculatief idee. Dit zal diepgaande gevolgen hebben voor het begrijpen van zwaartekracht, ruimte-tijd-verhoudingen en het universum zelf.

Dat de sliert bijzonder is, staat hoe dan ook vast. Want zelfs als het filament niet fysiek verbonden is met supermassieve zwarte gat, dan nog is de bocht in de sliert erg ongebruikelijk. “Hoewel we het antwoord nog niet hebben, is het pad naar het antwoord toe fascinerend,” zegt co-auteur Miller Goss. “We zullen blijven zoeken totdat we een verklaring hebben gevonden.”

Bronmateriaal:

"Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole" - CFA 
Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NSF/VLA/UCLA/M. Morris et al.

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Juno kiekt grillige atmosfeer van Jupiter

Tim Kraaijvanger

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Op jacht naar aliens: een bijna onmogelijke zoektocht

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Zoeken naar aliens: we moeten het doen, maar we weten eigenlijk niet hoe. “De kans dat we buitenaards leven in onze directe omgeving gaan vinden, is héél klein.”

Het Scientias.nl-archief zit vol met ‘pareltjes’: artikelen waar we trots op zijn, die een interessante discussie hebben losgemaakt of waarin mensen aan het woord komen met een vernieuwende en verrassende kijk op wetenschappelijk gerelateerde kwesties. Het is eigenlijk zonde dat die artikelen naarmate de tijd vordert, wat stoffig worden. En dus stoffen we er zo af en toe eentje af en plaatsen ‘m opnieuw. Dit is zo’n ‘gouwe ouwe’. Het artikel verscheen in mei 2017 op de site, maar heeft aan actualiteitswaarde nog niets ingeboet. Enjoy!

Al decennia speuren we met behulp van radiotelescopen naar signalen van buitenaards leven. Zonder resultaat. Misschien zou je bijna gaan vermoeden dat het leven op aarde uniek is. De meeste wetenschappers willen daar echter nog niet aan. Zij kunnen zich onmogelijk voorstellen dat er in een universum gevuld met miljarden hemellichamen maar één planeet is waarop intelligent leven is ontstaan. Ook Heino Falcke, als radioastronoom en astrodeeltjesfysicus verbonden aan de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, acht het bestaan van aliens “aannemelijk”. Maar op de vraag of hij denkt dat er buitenaards leven is, antwoordt hij wat terughoudender. “We moeten het eerst vinden, tot die tijd weten we het gewoon niet.”

Zeldzaam
En het vinden van die aliens: dat blijkt nog niet zo eenvoudig. “Wat is een succesvolle methode om aliens op te sporen? Dat weten we eigenlijk pas als we ze vinden.” Maar dat de radiotelescopen van SETI ondanks dat ze al decennia op zoek zijn naar buitenaardse signalen nog geen succes hebben gehad, wil niet gelijk zeggen dat die methode niet deugt of dat er geen aliens bestaan. “Intelligent leven is zelfs in de geschiedenis van onze planeet een heel zeldzaam verschijnsel,” stelt Falcke. Het lijkt dan ook aannemelijk dat intelligent buitenaards leven ook niet zomaar overal ontspringt. En dus is het zoeken naar een speld in een hooiberg. Die spreekwoordelijk hooiberg is enorm. “Je moet de omvang van het heelal nooit onderschatten.” En op het moment kunnen we zelfs met de krachtigste radiotelescopen in een gegeven periode slechts in een klein hoekje van die hooiberg naar de spreekwoordelijke speld zoeken. “De kans dat we buitenaards leven in onze directe omgeving gaan vinden, is klein,” denkt Falcke. Maar hoe meer planeten en sterren we op steeds grotere afstand van de aarde bestuderen, hoe groter de kans wordt dat het een keer raak is.

“WAAROM ZOU JE WILLEN COMMUNICEREN MET IEMAND DIE ONS WEL KAN BEZOEKEN, MAAR WAAR WIJ NIET NAAR TOE KUNNEN?”

METI
Terwijl SETI in een fractie van dat enorme universum op zoek is naar buitenaardse signalen, gaan er ook stemmen op voor een actievere zoektocht naar leven: METI. METI staat voor Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Het is eigenlijk heel simpel: in plaats van te zoeken naar buitenaardse signalen gaan we zelf radiosignalen uitzenden in de hoop dat aliens die dan opvangen. Falcke is echter niet enthousiast. “Ten eerste denk ik niet dat het wat oplevert. De kans dat iemand dat oppikt, is klein. Ten tweede vind ik het geen goed idee om met heel veel energie echt in de Melkweg bekend te maken dat wij er zijn. Je weet tenslotte nooit wat je tegenkomt.” Want de kans dat aliens de signalen opvangen, is klein, maar weldegelijk aanwezig. En daar krijgt Falcke eerlijk gezegd de bibbers van. “We weten uit de geschiedenis dat een botsing tussen twee beschavingen altijd uitvalt in het voordeel van de beschaving met grotere resources en betere technologieën. In dit geval zou dat de beschaving zijn die de ander kan bezoeken.” En dus lijkt het erop dat we bij voorbaat al aan het kortste eind trekken. “Waarom zou je willen communiceren met iemand die ons wel kan bezoeken, maar waar wij niet naar toe kunnen?” Falcke lijkt er nu al van uit te gaan dat we van aliens geen amicale houding hoeven te verwachten. “Waarom zouden zij beter zijn dan wij? Mensen die dat denken, zijn naïef.”

Aan boord van de beide Voyager-ruimtesondes bevindt zich een boodschap voor aliens. Mocht buitenaards leven de sondes – waarvan er één vermoedelijk al in de interstellaire ruimte is beland – tegenkomen, kunnen ze dankzij de grammofoonplaat onder meer aardse geluiden (wind en vogelzang) horen.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL.

LOFAR
Maar als SETI – tot op heden – onsuccesvol is en METI ronduit gevaarlijk, hoe moeten we dan verder? Falcke is wel te spreken over Breakthrough Listen, een project waarbinnen met meerdere radiotelescopen naar buitenaardse radiosignalen en laserpulsen wordt gezocht. “Dat is een slimme aanpak.” Maar als Falcke het voor het zeggen had – en een ongelimiteerd budget toegewezen kreeg – zou hij de zoektocht naar aliens toch net wat anders aanpakken. “Ik zou zoiets als LOFAR (een radiotelescoop met duizenden radioantennes, red.) opnieuw gaan bouwen, maar dan groter. En dan de hele hemel doorzoeken.” Met een beetje geluk resulteert het in het oppikken van een buitenaards signaal. “En anders levert het sowieso fantastische wetenschap op.” Maar zo’n LOFAR 2.0 blijft – ondanks dat we in staat zijn om deze te bouwen – voorlopig een hersenspinsel, denkt Falcke. “Voor zoiets heb je miljarden nodig.”

Vragen
Terwijl wetenschappers zich het hoofd breken over hóe we die aliens nu het beste kunnen vinden, rijst wellicht bij jou de vraag waarom we zo nodig op zoek moeten naar buitenaards leven. Falcke kan er kort over zijn: “Het is een bijzonder fundamenteel vraagstuk.” Hij wijst erop dat er wel miljoenen vragen te bedenken zijn die met de ontdekking van buitenaards leven wellicht beantwoord kunnen worden. “Hoe werkt het leven ergens anders? Welke kennis hebben de aliens? Hoe zit hun samenleving in elkaar? Hoe kijken zij naar het heelal of naar religie?” somt Falcke op. “En door naar anderen te kijken, ga je ook nadenken over jezelf.”

“STEL JE STUURT: “IK BEN ER, ZULLEN WE NAAR DE KROEG GAAN?”, DAN BEN JE AL DOOD VOOR JE ANTWOORD KRIJGT”

Communiceren
Om die miljoenen prangende vragen te kunnen beantwoorden, moeten we echter niet alleen buitenaards leven ontdekken, maar ook een manier vinden om ermee te communiceren. En dat is waarschijnlijk een stuk lastiger dan veel mensen – afgaand op sciencefictionfilms – denken, vertelt Falcke. “Waarschijnlijk bevinden aliens zich op grote afstand. Als we een signaal van hen oppikken, is dat misschien al wel 1000 of 10.000 jaar onderweg.” En dus is niet bewezen dat de beschaving die dit signaal uitzond er nog steeds is. “Wie zegt dat wij er over 1000 jaar nog zijn?” En als je dan een signaal terugstuurt, is dat ook weer duizenden jaren onderweg. “Stel je stuurt: “Ik ben er, zullen we naar de kroeg gaan?”, dan ben je al dood voor je antwoord krijgt.”

Falcke was vorig jaar te zien in de documentaire ‘Searching for Aliens‘. De documentaire gaat over vijf mensen die op verschillende manieren zoeken naar buitenaards leven. Je kunt de documentaire online bekijken.

Religie
Maar zelfs als communiceren lastig of onmogelijk is, zal de wetenschap dat aliens bestaan of bestaan hebben, toch verstrekkende gevolgen hebben op aarde? Falcke denkt van niet. “Misschien dat de kranten er de eerste dag vol van staan, maar de volgende dag gaat het leven weer verder. Dat gaat onze beschaving echt niet op zijn kop zetten.” Zelfs religies zouden het bestaan van de alien kunnen overleven, denkt Falcke, zelf christen. “Bijna 900 jaar geleden werd er binnen de kerk al gediscussieerd over het bestaan van andere planeten. En toen werd besloten dat het verboden was om uit te sluiten dat andere werelden bestaan. En een Parijse bisschop voegde er later aan toe dat je niet mocht zeggen dat buitenaards leven niet bestaat. Want zo beperk je de macht van God en je moet God niet voorschrijven wat hij wel en niet mag creëren.”

Aliens zetten de wereld dus niet op hun kop. Anders is dat voor de wetenschappelijke wereld. “Als we ze vinden, leren we ontzettend veel. Dan verdubbelt in één klap het aantal beschavingen in de Melkweg! En misschien vinden we wel leven op planeten waarop we het helemaal niet verwacht hadden.” Een andere optie is natuurlijk dat we geen intelligent, maar eenvoudig buitenaards leven vinden. “Plant- of dierachtigen of eenvoudige cellen,” somt Falcke op. Hij benadrukt dat het vinden van sporen van die levensvormen misschien nog wel lastiger is dan het vinden van intelligent leven. “Daarvoor moet je in de dampkring van planeten kijken en daar heb je heel krachtige telescopen voor nodig.” Met de nieuwe generatie telescopen – zoals de James Webb-telescoop – kunnen we die dampkringen onder de loep gaan nemen, maar grote doorbraken verwacht Falcke nog niet. “De komende decennia verwacht ik dat we zo af en toe horen dat er misschien een aanwijzing voor buitenaards leven is gevonden.” Maar zeker zullen we daar – zonder nog betere telescopen – dus niet van zijn. Dat het zo lastig wordt om aliens te vinden, kan eigenlijk geen verrassing zijn. Neem nou Mars, een planeet waarvan sterk vermoed wordt dat deze ooit leven herbergde. “Deze bevindt zich in de achtertuin en we kunnen de planeet bezoeken en nog weten we niet zeker of er leven is geweest.” Of buitenaards leven bestaat, kan dan ook nog eeuwen een raadsel zijn. “Maar dat raadsel kan ook morgen opgelost zijn.”

Bronmateriaal:

Interview met Heino Falcke
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Project ISIS: The Extraterrestrial Mummy found by the KGB in Egypt (Video)

A documentary was broadcast exclusively in 1998 by the US television network Sci-Fi, called “The Secret KGB Adduction Files” based on a video showing an extraterrestrial mummy found in Egypt by the KGB.

Work of concealment of a real event or simply a false incident?

The only authorized opinion was provided by the same US television station at the time of the broadcast, according to which the team of experts that evaluated the film confirmed its authenticity.

The US network has broadcast the film only once, and there is no other copy available from the video, except those that are available thanks to those who took the time to record the broadcast.

The film would show a secret expedition from the KGB to Egypt as part of the “Isis Project”, in which Soviet intelligence discovered the existence of what appears to be an extraterrestrial mummy . Before the broadcast, the film was never shown outside the structures of the KGB.

Is it an elaborate and expensive deception, or could the “ancient astronaut of the grave” be the discovery that will revolutionize the understanding of the principles of human civilization?

It all started with the revelations of Viktor Ivanovich , a neurologist and a Russian astrophysicist hired by the Kremlin as a scientific advisor for the development of advanced propulsion systems. As Sci-Fi says, Ivanovich had access to some secret files of the KGB, which narrate an expedition in 1961 as part of the “Isis Project”, aimed at discovering remnants of knowledge and technology from Egypt that could be used for military applications.

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Extraterrestrial mummy found by the KGB

The mission team consisted of Egyptologists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Alekseen Herman (supposed Egyptologist at the Hermitage Museum), military experts specializing in chemistry and radioactivity, some astronomers, including Vladimir Yuri and Sami Sharaf, Secretary of Gamel Abdel Nasser, second president of the Republic of Egypt.

The extraterrestrial mummy found by the KGB in Egypt

If we consider the historical period in which the expedition will take place, the political axis between Egypt and the Soviet Union is not surprising. Since the conflict in 1956, when Israel invaded Egyptian territory, as a result of the Canal crisis, the Soviet Union sided with Egypt. It is estimated that when the Isis Project was started, a Soviet military contingent of 20,000 units arrived in Egypt.

The expedition was organized after the accidental discovery of a mysterious tomb by two Bedouins Magbarat Alzoar in one of the pyramids of Giza. These were the first people who entered the tomb, and were the first victims, having to be hospitalized due to being very sick. When questioned by agents of the KGB and Egyptian intelligence, the Bedouins said they had found the “visiting God” .

Since then, the “Isis Project” became the highest priority and everything was organized to find and analyze the tomb discovered by the two Bedouins. The expedition was organized jointly by the two countries in secret, for fear that the CIA and the US intelligence services might have knowledge of the discovery.

According to the report held by Ivanovich, the Soviets found the tomb full of artifacts. This is read in a note addressed to a senior official of the KGB:

Note addressed to a senior KGB officer about the discovery.

This is followed by the following list of information: Place of discovery: not revealed; 15 boxes of artifacts; 1 partially mummified body; A stone sarcophagus, 8 samples of hieroglyphs.

In the report prepared by one of the first scientists to enter the tomb, it reads: “During the inspection of the walls we have noticed a strange repulsive force that comes out of the walls. We could not find any scientific explanation. ” Finally, the report prepared by one of the cryptographers, who participated in the partial decoding of the engravings on the walls of the tomb message, reads a prophecy that implies the “return of the winged” . But the most surprising thing about the discovery is related to the mummy. The mummy seems to have a height of more than 2 meters high, much higher than the average height of the inhabitants of ancient Egypt.

Extraterrestrial mummy found by the KGB

Carbon 14 analysis conducted by molecular biologist Boris Timoyev revealed that the body dates back about 12,000 years ago, thousands of years before the Egyptian dynastic period.

Could the mummy found in the sarcophagus be of the god Osiris?

According to Egyptian mythology, a family of gods descended from the stars in Egypt. They taught them knowledge and wisdom. Later, when their work was over, they left Earth to return to heaven, with the exception of Osiris , who was left with the task of protecting and maintaining the ancestral knowledge given.

The god Osiris. According to Egyptian mythology, Osiris came down from heaven in a “flying ship”. Was it a UFO?

Osiris brought civilization to men, taught them to cultivate the land and the production of wine, and was loved by the people. After his death he was mummified and buried in a secret place.

On the basis of this ancient myth, shortly after the discovery of the visitor’s tomb, a group of scientists, computer programmers, doctors and other academics met to discuss the scope of the event. The group was convinced that the body in the coffin was the mummy of Osiris, the alien king! The group adopted the name of “followers”, a movement of almost religious borders, dedicated to the adoration of the “visitor of the stars”.

The Kremlin took the matter under a more pragmatic profile. Soviet scientists began to wonder what would have been the  actual function of the pyramids and if they had been designed for a particular purpose. Some of them had the hypothesis that they are powerful machines capable of channeling part of the energy of the cosmos or some type of interstellar transmitter.

The KGB and the encounter with the Ancient Astronaut

What sparked the interest of science fiction in the subject was a film that seems to have obtained the American chain of the Russian mafia through an intermediary.

The film obtained from the archives of the KGB and the high security images show the discovery of the sarcophagus inside the tomb of the stellar visitor. The science fiction experts guarantee the authenticity of the film.

The black and white video shows a number of soldiers and officers entering what appears to be an Egyptian burial chamber without gas masks. In the opening of the sarcophagus, you can see a cloud of toxic gas that invades the environment and the reaction of the soldiers affected by the breath and fear, to see the mummy that was contained in the sarcophagus.

Later, the place seems to have been organized for further scientific analysis. Now the soldiers are wearing special protective suits

KGB personnel wearing protective masks enter the site to protect themselves from the gases issued in the first incursion.

On the walls of the compound the KGB agents find a series of hieroglyphics and engravings.

What value can this film be given? 

Is it a joke made on the basis of Ivanovich’s revelations? There is no doubt that the video shows the concordance with the data contained in the Ivanovich documents. This, according to some, would be another test to support the authenticity of the film.

In addition, it seems that during the private screening organized by the Sci-Fi team, issued before the documentary was broadcast, a daughter of those who were part of the “followers” group, recognizing her father in the film’s images , begins to cry.

“There is no doubt that a small group of Russian scientists with military experts have discovered a tomb in Egypt in 1961,” says Ivanovich. “But in the documents has never been revealed exactly what was found inside the sarcophagus. Only through the sources of the highest ranks of the KGB do we know that we have found the remains of an alien creature that died in Egypt 10,000 years before Christ. ”

If the information released by Dr. Ivanocih is true, we have to reconsider the entire cultural evolution of human civilization. Constantly, there is news that reveals the past of the Earth much more sophisticated and enigmatic than previously thought.

“The fundamental question about ancient Egypt is to understand how such an advanced civilization, at the height of its development around 2500 BC, has lasted through time and has appeared on the world stage,” says McNaughton of the Roselyn Institute of Egyptology. “All other ancient civilizations have experienced a progressive historical development in the design of their technology in hundreds or even thousands of years. This has not happened in ancient Egypt. A completely formed society suddenly came out of the desert. ”

See below the complete documentary:

“Project ISIS: The secret KGB abduction files”

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Blue Velvet: Jupiter's Cloud Tops Appear Azure in New Juno Image

By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer

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Are Alien Civilizations Technologically Advanced?

The answer may depend on exoplanet sociology

By Abraham Loeb 

SpaceX lanceert ultrageheime satelliet van Amerikaanse overheid -  HLN.be

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Bron: Belga

Een zeventig meter hoge Falcon-9 van SpaceX vertrok vandaag om 02.00 uur Belgische tijd op Cape Canaveral met de ‘Zuma’. De Zuma had al twee maand eerder moeten vertrekken, maar er kwam om technische redenen herhaaldelijk uitstel. Noch de raketbouwer, noch het Pentagon wilden iets kwijt over de aard van de missie die de naam draagt van een album van de Canadese rockster Neil Young en van de Zuid-Afrikaanse president. 

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Lancering van SpaceX verward met komst van aliens op sociale media

SpaceX had voorheen voor de Amerikaanse overheid twee keer een geheime lancering verricht. Bijna routinematig liet SpaceX de eerste rakettrap terugkeren. Die landde minder dan acht minuten na de start weer op Cape Canaveral. Daarmee is de raketbouwer aan een 21ste succes toe qua hergebruik van de eerste trap. Dit drukt de lanceerkost. SpaceX boekt ook zijn negentiende succes op rij. Het was de eerste lancering van SpaceX dit jaar, na vorig jaar aan een record van achttien stuks te zijn gekomen. Dit jaar rekent het bedrijf op 25 tot 30 missies.

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ER WONEN 250 MILJOEN MENSEN OP DE MAAN, VOLGENS VOORMALIG CIA-PILOOT ( VIDEO )

Alle nieuws dat we via mainstream media tot ons nemen over UFO's en/of buitenaardsen is niet omdat kranten op dit gebied nu de waarheid zouden spreken zoals sommigen beweren. 

Het heeft alles te maken met afleiding van wat er werkelijk gebeurt en tot welke dingen de geheime ruimtevloot op dit moment al in staat is. 

John Lear is een bijzondere man die heel wat uren in de lucht heeft doorgebracht. Als piloot heeft hij in meer dan 150 verschillende vliegtuigen gevlogen in meer dan 50 verschillende landen. 

Hij is de zoon van William P. Lear, de ontwerper van de Learjet, de 8 track stereo en oprichter van de Lear Siegler Corporation en heeft maar liefst 17 wereld snelheidsrecords op zijn naam met de Learjet.

John Lear is inmiddels is gepensioneerd en heeft tijdens zijn werkzame leven onder andere gewerkt als captain in de burgerluchtvaart, maar ook als piloot voor het uitvoeren van (geheime) missies voor de CIA en andere overheidsinstellingen.

Nu verschijnt er een opmerkelijk bericht waarin John Lear zegt dat er minimaal 250 miljoen mensen op de maan wonen en dat er zich daar enorme steden bevinden, zowel aan de voor- als aan de achterkant van de maan.

John Lear beschikt over de volgende foto die een enorme stad op de maan laat zien met de naam Damoiseau City.

Alles wat ons door NASA over de maan wordt verteld, is een leugen, aldus Lear. Volgens hem heeft ook de maan wel degelijk een atmosfeer, alhoewel veel kleiner dan die van de aarde. Ook zijn mensen niet volledig gewichtloos, maar bedraagt de zwaartekracht daar ongeveer twee derde van die op aarde. Dit betekent dat mensen die daar komen ongeveer een week nodig hebben om te acclimatiseren, maar verder kunnen ze daar gewoon rondlopen.

Het verhaal van Lear ligt wel aardig in lijn met wat wij altijd hebben geschreven over de geheime ruimtevloot, de ontbrekende biljoenen dollars en het feit dat wij als mensheid technologisch vele malen verder zijn dan officieel bekend wordt gemaakt. 

 

John Lear is geen onbekende op deze website, want we hebben al eerder over hem geschreven, in verband met onthullingen door hem over dat wij al meer dan 40 jaar actief zijn op planeten zoals Mars, wat weer precies in lijn ligt met eerdere dingen die wij schreven zoals de ontdekkingen door de Engelse hacker Gary McKinnon en de geheime ruimtevloot van de Bilderbergers.

Zo was hij op 11 mei 2006 te gast bij het radioprogramma van George Noorey op Coast to Coast radio, waar hij vertelde dat wij als sinds het begin van de jaren zestig op Mars komen. Niet alleen komen we sinds die tijd op Mars, maar gaan we ook op reis door ons gehele zonnestelsel. 

Een interessant gegeven is dat hij zegt dat het ISS ruimtestation hoort bij een afleidingsmanoeuvre om de waarheid voor de bevolking verborgen te houden. 

Je kunt hem dat zelf horen vertellen in het volgende radiofragment:

Tijdens diezelfde radio-uitzending belt er een vrouw, Jackie genaamd. Zij woont iets ten noorden van Las Vegas en vraagt of John Lear haar kan helpen met de oplossing van een raadsel waar ze al 27 jaar mee rondloopt. 

In die tijd werkte zij voor NASA en was verantwoordelijk voor de binnenkomende telemetrie gegevens. Zij vertelt dat terwijl ze op een nacht samen met haar collega’s naar de schermen kijkt waar de beelden van Mars binnenkomen, ze ineens twee mannen in een soort pak (niet echt een ruimtepak) ziet lopen op het Mars oppervlak. 

De twee mannen verschenen aan de horizon en liepen naar de Viking. De beeldverbinding werd plotseling verbroken.

Het bovenstaande zou een verklaring kunnen zijn voor de vele UFO’s die we bij het ISS waarnemen. 

Indien dit verhaal op ware feiten berust, dan rest de vraag natuurlijk hoelang NASA er nog in zal slagen om de waarheid voor de mensheid verborgen te houden.

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CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGES OF MULTIPLE UFOs

BY GARY LITE 

CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGES OF MULTIPLE UFOs

Yesterday, a gentleman named Mauricio Morales posted some remarkable pictures on the internet that ended up going fairly viral across social media. They were snaps of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs, which does not mean they are extraterrestrial in origin).

That being said, don’t be fooled, there is a tremendous amount of evidence pointing toward the fact that some of these UFOs, whose presence were officially acknowledged within the mainstream using declassified documents and hundreds of high ranking military/political whistleblowers, are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.

There is ample evidence suggesting that many are ‘ours’ as well.

We’ve written about this quite extensively, and if you want to learn more about that and sift through all of the evidence we’ve accumulated over the past 8 years, please visit the exopolitics section of our website here.  Another great place to start is with UFO researcher Richard Dolan.

Here’s Morales’ statement on what he experienced from his Facebook post:

“As I was driving back to Phoenix this evening, I was a few miles past Parker, AZ when I saw a shooting star with a green hue in the corner of my eye. I kept driving for a few miles and noticed a small orange light far in the distance to my right. At first I thought that maybe a meteor had hit nearby and set a fire in the desert or possibly a distant antenna light.

I didn’t quite think much of it and continued to drive for another three miles. I noticed that the light was gone. I drove another half of a mile and I saw the light appear again. This is when I realized that whatever this was, wasn’t normal.

I was about a quarter of a mile from the crossing between Highway 72 and Highway 95 between Parker and Quartzsite, Arizona.

I immediately pulled over and attached my camera to my tripod. To my SW direction, there were six orange-red lights floating around in the horizon. Some of them would dim out and then brighten back up, others just seemed to float and hover away slowly. They seemed to travel in a parallel pattern with a very bright fiery glisten. I took photos and videos and in less than 15 minutes, the mysterious objects vanished without a trace.

All of the photographs are timestamped and are not edited whatsoever. The video is slightly cropped for better viewing.

Whatever this was, I have never seen anything like this in my life before. Super cool experience.

*UPDATE* 4/11/17 11:22pm
I have noticed that my cameras clock is set 8 minutes ahead. Which means that the time stamps are all 8 minutes ahead. I also saw a video of the same exact thing but from the opposite end in El Centro, CA. That means that whatever this was, it was visible for at least 100 miles.

ABC15 is reporting that the photos were part of the meteor. They were not. The meteor struck about 10 minutes before I pulled over on HWY 95 and got footage of these lights. The difference in lighting you see in the photos is because I was using different settings to get a more visible photo of what they were.”

Below are a few pictures, but you can view the video Timelapse on his Facebook page.

Some Recent Video Footage

Below is some footage from Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Known to some as the “Father of the Disclosure Movement,” he was instrumental in bringing forth hundreds of military whistleblowers of all ranks, with verified backgrounds, to share their experiences and testify on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon.


He has had high-level meetings within the Pentagon about this issue, and that was confirmed (in his documentary Sirius Disclosure) by Apollo 14 astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the Moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell.

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. . . . I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”

– Doctor Edgar Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the moon (source)(source)(source)

“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wishful thinking.

– Theodor C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)

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Has NASA just found traces of alien fossils on Mars?

After having landed on the Red Planet more than five years ago, the Curiosity Rover has explored the red planet unlike any other rover before it, making incredible discoveries that helped us understand just how similar Mars is to Earth.

Every new image snapped by the Curiosity Rover has helped scientists get to know Mars a bit better.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

By analysing different images, scientists have managed to formulate an idea of how Mars looked like in the distant past.

Now, thanks to a fresh batch of images taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), and beamed back from the surface of the red planet, researcher Barry DiGregorio, author of Mars: The Living Planet and The Microbes of Mars spotted something very unusual on the surface of the red planet.

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While speaking to Inside Outer Space, he said that this could be a groundbreaking discovery:

“They look exceptionally similar to Ordovician trace fossils I have studied and photographed on Earth,” he said. “If not trace fossils, what other geological explanations will NASA come up with?”

Despite the fact that the Curiosity Rover has offered us an unprecedented view of Mars with amazing images of the Martian landscape, the recently spotted tiny formations on Mars may be the biggest discovery to date.

Mysterious ‘stick-figures’ are clearly visible on the surface of Mars in what NASA says may be crystals or minerals left in the gaps where crystals dissolved.

However, some researchers like DiGregorio have a different theory: Trace Fossils which offer indirect evidence of life in the past, such as the footprints, tracks, burrows, borings, and feces left behind by animals, rather than the preserved remains of the body of the actual animal itself.

Now, the Curiosity Rover will head back to the area it first spotted the enigmatic features to take another look. “This site was so interesting that we backtracked to get to where the rover was parked for this plan,” wrote Curiosity team member Christopher Edwards in the January 3 Curiosity mission update.

Despite the fact that the most likely explanation for the mystery structures is a natural formation, Pascal Lee of the Mars Institute said: “The Curiosity images really pique our curiosity,” he said. “It’s difficult to tell what the mystery sticks are, and a strictly mineral origin is, of course, the most plausible.”

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity captured this image on Jan. 2, 2018.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

The enigmatic miniature tubes could be evidence of bioturbation, which is something that happens when organisms residing in sediments leave an imprint on their structure.

“A typical example of bioturbation is the creation of worm burrows,” Lee explained. “The burrows once refilled with sediments, fossilized, and then exposed by erosion, can end up looking like wiggly sticks.”

“To claim that we’re seeing bioturbation on Mars — which I did not say — would be an extraordinary claim,” he added.

The difficult part is to science the sh*t out of the discovery, and find out what they are. The structures are really small, around a millimeter wide and five millimeters long. Experts indicate that their angular nature indicates that they might have been formed by tiny crystals.

Crystal molds are often found on Earth and form when crystals in rock dissolve.

However, the difficult part is finding out what they are because, despite the fact that NASA’s Curiosity rover is a small mobile laboratory, it would be nearly impossible to find out whether the structures are organic in nature without taking them back to a lab on Earth.

“That’s pretty challenging on Earth to distinguish those two things without being able to put these things into a lab to look for the presence of organics,” said Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist for Curiosity.

“We have a very limited capability overall to understand whether something is biological or not.”

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DR. STEVEN GREER: “WE DID GO TO THE MOON, BUT THE FOOTAGE WAS FAKE” (VIDEO)

There is no shortage of conspiracy theory lore when it comes to the moon and contemplating what really happened on the moon. As we’ve witnessed within the past few years alone, not all that we are told is actually true. Whether it’s information that a select few deem too mind-altering for the human race to handle, or information that threatens big corporate and/or the financial interests of the powerful “1 percent”, it’s no secret that our world is currently drenched, and has been drenched in tremendous amounts of secrecy. This fact became even more known when NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden released official documentation of clandestine black budget operations.

“It is ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects with both congress and the commander in chief no nothing about.”

We really should have listened to president Eisenhower  when he warned us about the military industrial complex, and the potential for a rise of “misplaced power” and how it exists and will persist. Right after him, President Kennedy warned humanity “that an announced need for an increase in security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of censorship and concealment.” Stating that this is something he does “not tend to permit, so long as it’s in my control.”

Who is in control of this shadowy world? Perhaps it’s, as president Rosevelt referred to, the “invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”  

Senator Daniel K. Inouye once referred to it as the “shadowy government” that has “its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” 

Today, all of this secrecy is locked up in “Black Budget Special Access Programs” as well as “unacknowledged black budget special access programs.” We previously published an article going in depth into these programs. It’s a heavily sourced article that provides a good overview into our world of secrecy, linked below:

These programs, admittedly from a 1997 senate report linked below, have absolutely no oversight from congress.

The Black Budget: This is What The Secret Government Doesn’t Want You To Know

The point is,  not all that goes on behind the scenes is told to the public, and this is becoming way more evident, and will continue to do so as we move through 2018 and beyond. Secrecy is a problem, but truth always comes out. Paradigm shifts are big moments in human history, and we still have plenty of “the Earth is not flat” moments on the way.

Related CE Article:

• Invention Secrecy At An All Time High – Thousands of Patent Applications Placed Under Secrecy Orders

The Moon

“Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.”

–  Retired Army Veteran Robert Dean (source)

A big part of government secrecy deals with space, and what’s happening in outer space. This became even more evident at the end of 2017, when the Pentagon, for the first time ever, released an official video of Navy pilots tracking a UFO (articles linked below). Keep in mind, military encounters with UFOs is nothing new, as over the past few years millions of pages of documents have been released by multiple governments and intelligence agencies  detailing encounters with technologically advanced objects that can perform maneuvers no known air-craft can, as well as defy the laws of physics.

Whatever they are, it’s clearly something we shouldn’t be ignoring.

Related CE Article:

• Shoot First & Ask Questions Later – What Happens When A UFO Is Tracked On Military Radar

This is exactly what the Pentagon UFO did, you can watch the video and read more about it in the articles linked below:

• US Navy Pilot Who Flew Close To UFO Discloses A Technology That’s “Not From This World.” 
• US Department of Defense Releases Video of a UFO Rotating In Mid-Air For The Very First Time
• High Ranking US Government Official Blows Whistle on UFOs a Week After Leaving The Pentagon

The UFO topic is actually filled with an overwhelming amount of evidence. We know something is going on, but nobody can really say for certain what exactly is going on. To read our archived articles about the topic of UFOs and extraterrestrials, you can refer to the exopolitics section of our website here, where we’ve documented some of that evidence.

When it comes to the moon, there is no shortage of interesting information available, just as there was for the topic of UFOs before their official disclosure.

Related CE Article: It’s Official We Know That UFOs or UAP are Real, So Are They Extraterrestrial or Not?

What I mean by that is, before we had the documents and evidence of video footage as well as radar tracking, we had witness testimony. Not just any witness testimony, but testimony from some of the highest ranking military personnel in the world, of all ranks. This also included similar people within the realms of politics, aerospace, academia and more. From a scientific standpoint, this was not really considered credible, but that’s ridiculous given the fact that there are hundreds, furthermore, we’re talking about extremely credible people who have been in the position to “know,” from Generals, to defence ministers, to astronauts, to directors of corporations like Lockheed Martin and Bigelow Aerospace, and more.

In 2011, Dr. Jacques Valle, codeveloped the very first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA among others things, gave quite the speech at the Global Competitiveness Forum regarding the physical evidence that’s been made available to scientists. You can watch that here.

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The point is, we have the same with regards to the Moon.

Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the The Disclosure Project, and the main brain behind the hit documentary, “Unacknowledged.”  He is the man who created the platform for these whistleblowers, with verified credentials, to speak up. They came forward years ago, at the National Press Club.

It’s interesting how the US government recently gravitated towards Tom Delonge and To The Stars to let people know that UFOs are real, and some of them are probably extraterrestrial, instead of someone like Dr. Greer, who has been doing this type of work for a long time.

The main point of the recent US governments disclosure of UFOs seems to be emphasizing the “threat” that they propose. Perhaps this is why they didn’t want to go with Greer, because he’s been creating awareness about how the US government wants to use the UFO subject as they do with others, like terrorism, to create a “false flag” event.

He’s even had high level meetings within the Pentagon, which was confirmed by Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, in Greer’s documentary “Unacknowledged.”

We covered the topic of a false flag alien invasion in a previous article, for more details you can refer to it below:

Is A False Flag Alien Invasion In The Works? Wernher Von-Bruans Colleague Seems To Think So

So, What Happened On The Moon?

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”

– Dr. Edgar Mitchell (source) (source) (source)

Who are the people who have made some strange comments about what really happened up there? There are a few Apollo astronauts, and a number of Ex-NASA personnel, reputable scientists who’ve worked within the industry, and more.

We’ve covered the moon in detail, and instead of re-typing what we’ve already provided, you can refer to the below articles for more detail. One of the articles goes into specifically what Dr. Greer mentions below. All articles provide sources to let the reader make up their own mind.

Faking The Moon Landing Isn’t The Conspiracy – It’s What Really Happened When We Got There

New Study – Unusual Structures On Far Side of the Moon Could Have Been Made By Extraterrestrials

The United States Tried To Detonate A Nuclear Weapon On The Moon – Somebody Responded When We Did

“They’re Parked On The Side of the Crater, They’re Watching Us.” – When Neil Armstrong Landed On The Moon

Classified Photos From NASA of Big Extraterrestrial Vehicles Taken By Multiple Astronauts & Robotic Probes

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UNIVERSITY IMPLEMENTS COURSE ABOUT ALIENS TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT

With so much disclosure happening right now, it was only a matter of time before a university or college created a course to take the topic more seriously. It’s about time, and comes as no surprise given the fact that the topic is rapidly creeping its way into mainstream discussion.

Academia and extraterrestrial contact go hand in hand, and it started decades ago. For example, a declassified document from the CIA’s own electronic reading room shows that the agency actually tried to recruit renowned quantum physicist John Wheeler to look into their “flying saucer problem.” This was decades ago, and even further back, ever since President Truman went on live television and announced that the UFO problem is discussed at “every conference that they’ve had with the military,” many people have been paying attention.

Combined with all of these leaks over the years, there has no doubt been a campaign of official secrecy and ridicule,” where “many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” This is according to the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Roscoe H. Hillekoetter, speaking to the New York Times in 1960.

Today, we have physical evidence, papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and statements from some of the highest ranking military, political, and government personnel, with the latest examples coming from Tom Delonge, a former rock star who just brought forth recently retired Steve Justice, a director of Lockheed Skunkworks, to let the world know that these things are real. For more information on that, you can check out To The Stars Media.

“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc. . . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.”

– Theodore C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire

The course at the Turkish university will be called “Ufology & Exopolitics,” and the purpose of the class is to prepare students for the possibility of extraterrestrial contact.

A class tutor, Erhan Kolbasi, told the Dogan News Agency,

 “We believe representatives from the world and extraterrestrial civilizations will soon be making official contact with each other. We thinking they will be in an open and mass contact. . . . It will be the biggest change seen in the history of the world.”

The course will concentrate on the history of the UFO/extraterrestrial contact, and well as the implications of extraterrestrial contact and more. According to the Dogan, Kolbasi expects open extraterrestrial contact to happen within 15 years, and claims that extraterrestrials have been and are visiting our planet.

Again, he’s part of a long and growing list of people who seem to think so, and with all of the evidence that’s emerged over the past few years, it’s not hard to see why he feels that way.

Where is the evidence you say? Well, that depends on your definition of evidence. Many people don’t believe witness testimony to be credible, but when you have military generals, NATO generals, high ranking politicians, academics, and people who have and do hold high positions for several military contractors, like Lockheed Martin, making these statements, it should clearly be taken into consideration.

“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”

 – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)

There are also documents that detail objects travelling at tremendous speeds performing maneuvers that no known air craft can, and you can view some examples and links within this article to learn more:

Here’s What Happens When A “UFO” Is Tracked on Military Radar

“There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases —perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies — for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to.” 

– Margaret Mead, “UFOs – Visitors from Outer Space?,” Redbook, vol. 143, September 1974

Below is one of many recent tweets about the exciting news in Europe.

Kolbaşi is currently the deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center in Istanbul. This is a big step for disclosure. The implications are tremendous, and will touch all aspects of human life as we know it, from history, science, and technology to our understanding about the nature of reality and more.

Of course, there is also the problem of beliefs, and our tendency to label things as “good” or “bad,” “angels” or demons.”  ET disclosure has more implications than we can possibly imagine, and perhaps this was one out of several reasons for the cover-up.

There are a lot of questions to be answered, and still many who are in their infancy regarding knowledge of what’s really been happening .

Collective Evolution has covered this topic extensively with multiple heavily soured articles. Feel free to browse through them, as all of our articles are archived. You can do this by visiting the exopolitics section of our website.

Below is a great little speech by Richard Dolan, one of the world’s leading authorities on the topic. It provides a great introduction for those who are new to the topic. His work is a great place to start.

You can check out our exclusive interview in our Explorer Lounge where Richard discusses recent UFO related happenings – including Trump’s reformation of the Space Council.

The below speech was given a couple of years ago at the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure.

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SpaceX lofted the super-secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government tonight (Jan. 8), successfully executing a mission that also featured yet another landing by the first stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket.

The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT on Jan. 9) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on Florida's Space Coast

The booster's two stages separated 2 minutes and 19 seconds into flight. The second stage continued carrying the mysterious Zuma to its destination in low-Earth orbit (LEO), while the first stage began maneuvering its way back to terra firma for a touchdown at Landing Zone 1, a SpaceX facility at Cape Canaveral. [How SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 Rockets]

The first stage aced that landing, a little less than 8 minutes after taking off.

SpaceX now has 21 successful first-stage touchdowns under its belt, nine of them at Landing Zone 1 and the other 12 on "autonomous spaceport droneships" stationed in the ocean. (SpaceX has two of these uncrewed vessels, which are named "Just Read the Instructions" and "Of Course I Still Love You.") 

These landings are part of SpaceX's effort to develop fully reusable rockets and spacecraft — technology that company founder and CEO Elon Musk has said will slash the cost of spaceflight. To date, SpaceX has re-flown five of these landed boosters, as well as two of its uncrewed Dragon cargo capsules, which make resupply runs to the International Space Station. (The Falcon 9 that lifted off tonight was brand-new.)

But the main goal of tonight's flight was getting Zuma aloft, so the spacecraft can start going about its business. Just what that business may be is unclear; little has been revealed about the payload.

We do know that aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman procured Zuma's launch atop a Falcon 9 for the U.S. government — but we don't know which agency will operate the satellite, or if its mission is civilian or military.

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