The subject of UFOs has undergone a bit of a renaissance in recent weeks, following a landmark New York Times report that detailed the Pentagon’s ongoing interest in the phenomenon. However, these recent revelations are not the only government information that has been released on the subject in the last few years, nor are they by any means the most perplexing.

And to wit, neither is the United States the only country to have revealed documents that detail its interest in UFOs. Among the most unusual UFO disclosures that have occurred since the new millennium were the release of a series of Russian Navy files in 2009, detailing a number of bizarre underwater encounters with the strange objects.

“At last!” exclaimed Phil Ewing, writing at Navy Times‘ Scoop Deck blog. “Some post-Soviet documents the world can really sink its teeth into! Enough of this people-who-the-KGB-tried-to-assassinate nonsense: The Russian Navy has declassified its records of encounters with UFOs.” According to one naval intelligence officer quoted after the release, “[The objects] are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea,” prompting former Russian navy officer Vladimir Azhazha to claim the documents “are of great value.”

So looking back, just what did the documents have to say on the subject, and how does it contrast with more recent dialogue on the subject of UFOs, following the release of information about a (possibly ongoing) Pentagon UFO program?

“On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed,” one sub commander was quoted by Wired. “Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development.”

Russian language users on the popular Above Top Secret forum also managed to post translations of some of the relevant portions of the document, which included reports of strange lights that appeared to emanate from deep below the lake, which some observers had likened to light produced by electric welding:

(There is) very impressive data on the observation of a UFO in Baikal lake. (Within) the depths of the lake sailors repeatedly observed luminescence resembling searchlights and flashes similar to electric welding, as well as in the lake radius in the form of unexplained bright luminous silver discs and cylinders.

However, the most tantalizing incident that the report detailed, and one that was widely reported coinciding with the release of the Russian documents, involved an alleged incident that occurred in 1982, during which several divers were killed during a training exercise under mysterious circumstances:

In summer 1982 military divers, during their training, dived in the water of Lake Baikal several times and almost came face-to-face with underwater swimmers in their body-fitting silver jumpsuits. They looked similar to normal people, only about three meters tall. In addition, at a depth of 50 meters, (the beings) had neither an aqualung, or any other devices, but their heads were concealed in spherical helmets. Attempting to catch (the) unidentified divers ended tragically. From seven people trying to do this using a net, four became disabled and three died.

Laik Baikal as seen from satellite imagery, featuring an unusual circular area of think ice believed to have been caused by convection.

These incidents, and in particular the 1982 account involving divers that were injured or killed, are very unusual, to say the least. In truth, they have perplexed many of us for years; are they an early instance of Russian “fake news” and propaganda, which media in different countries–America in particular–bought hook, line, and sinker? Or, to the contrary, had the odd nature of the Russian releases been due to the fact that the tone of the information differed from the way U.S. government agencies might have dealt with similar disclosures (which have traditionally maintained secrecy toward the UFO subject)?

On an interesting side note, Lake Baikal has long been associated with strange phenomena and, yes, even UFOs. In 1946, Russian science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev wrote a fiction short story titled “A Visitor From Outer Space” which offered an imaginative explanation for the 1908 Tunguska Blast: it was caused by the explosion of a Martian spacecraft’s nuclear engine, as it attempted to gather water from the lake.

The U.S. Navy has also disclosed information pertaining to incidents that seem to have involved UFOs. One widely reported case involved the USS Princeton, which according to a 2004 report had been tracking mysterious objects for several weeks. Popular Mechanics reported of the incident that “two F/A-18F (twin seater) Super Hornets from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz were flying 100 miles off the coast of San Diego when a nearby U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser, the USS Princeton, contacted them and asked what weapons they were carrying.”

Still image from footage of one of the responding Super Hornets during the famous 2004 USS Princeton incident.

At the time, the Super Hornets were carrying unfirable AIM-9 Sidewinder “dummies,” to which the USS Princeton responded by saying, “Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” which led to an interception attempt with a pair of objects, one of which had been located directly below an area of churning water, the other hovering approximately 50 feet above the surface. Neither of the unusual objects, detailed in the Popular Mechanics article, were able to be intercepted or identified. The fighters from the Nimitz were able to document parts of this interception on film, parts of which were publicly disclosed last year coinciding with the December 2017 New York Times article.

For many who ignored UFO reports such as these, and dismissed them as being far-fetched, the December 2017 New York Times article on Luis Elizondo and the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. program (along with accompanying video purporting to show the objects) was indeed revelatory. However, as such naval records obtained from both U.S. and Russian sources listed above have shown, the Times article was only the most recent installment in a long, confusing narrative involving unusual phenomenon in our skies–and our seas–for which no conclusive explanation has yet been offered.

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Professional Mountaineer Captures UFO Flying Way Above Mount Everest

Professional mountaineer and photographer David Breashears has spotted in a photo of Mount Everest an unidentified flying object. In one photo out of 447 that Breashears were taken for a climate change project, a strange saucer can be seen hovering high above the world’s tallest mountain in one of the most remote areas on Earth.

The object in the video looks like a flying disc, and its silhouette can be clearly seen. Judging its location from the Mount Everest, it is safe to assume that the object in question is flying way above the height where drones or helicopters would fly. No additional information about the object, but it is interesting to see it’s apparently there, hovering over one of the highest mountains in the world.

The video has also made references to conspiracy theories that claim the existence of a secret underground base beneath Mount Everest and the Yeti.

Many believe that the object is not a human-made creation nor any kind of flying animal, judging on its altitude. No simple explanation for the strange dot in the picture.

Sceptics say that it is just dirt. The photograph is a high-resolution image, which makes sceptics think that the object is only a little dust or debris on the camera lens.

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5 fireballs over Laguna Beach, California 20-Feb-2018

Check out this image of a bright orbs hovering in the sky above Laguna Beach in California. This was filmed on 20th February 2018.

Witness report: 

5 fireballs appeared in sky, then one by one they slowly disappeared. I’m working at a house on top of a hill with a great view of the valley below. I looked out the window and saw this event happening, but didn’t get to my phone in time to film it. Two minutes later it happened again and I ran outside to film it. The fireballs appeared one by one, and then almost as soon as they would appear, they began to disappear.

Author (source: MUFON)

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UFO Fires Two Projectiles Into The Sun?

Secchi Stereo satellite captured two strange objects flying towards the Sun.

If you look closely at the bottom of the video, you can see how two objects appear from nowhere flying straight towards the sun.

You might think these objects are comets but according to Myunhauzen74, two comets cannot follow the same trajectory at the same moment but these two objects do follow the same trajectory at the same moment and right behind each other.

After analyzing the strange event near the sun he concluded that both objects are some sort of projectiles fired by a disguised alien craft with the aim of hitting the sun.

Below the footage and decide for yourself whether the objects are comets or projectiles fired by an alien craft.

  

10 Most Bizarre Flying Machines in Aviation History

The invention of elaborately constructed flying machines to journey via the Earth’s environment ranks amongst mankind’s biggest improvements. The sphere of aviation is outlined by difficult the boundaries and arising with daring new concepts, however these plane merely defy all ideas of normalcy.

• 10. Convair V2 Sea Dart
• 9. Goodyear Inflatoplane
• 8. NASA A1 Pivot-Wing
• 7. Vought V-173
• 6.XF-85 Goblin
• 5. SR 71 Blackbird
• 4. Convair Pogo
• 3. McDonnell Douglas X-15
• 2.Blohm und Voss BV 141
• 1. Ekranoplan (literally from Russian means' Sea skimmer'

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MEER VREEMDE DINGEN IN DE LUCHT

Overal ter wereld, van China tot Nederland, worden de laatste weken vreemde dingen waargenomen in de lucht. 

Van een lichtbron aan de hemel voordat de zon opkomt, tot grote bizarre vreemde wolken die niets anders zijn dan grote ruimteschepen in vermomming. 

Iedere week opnieuw worden er vreemde dingen waargenomen boven onze hoofden. Een aantal daarvan zal te maken hebben met de eindtijd, weer anderen met buitenaardse bezoekers en voor weer andere fenomenen zal een natuurlijke verklaring te vinden zijn.

Vandaag een aantal van die bijzondere dingen te beginnen in China, waar een vrouw, Zhi Ruo Lu, de volgende opname maakte.

Ze liep buiten op straat toen ze het fenomeen opmerkte. Eerst dacht ze dat ze hier te maken had met een bijzondere wolk, maar toen ineens begon het te gloeien en zich te verwijderen van de andere wolken. 

 

Van China naar Tenerife waar de volgende opnames werden gemaakt. We ontvingen deze via een lezer (dank!) die het volgende zegt:

Hierbij een paar mooie foto's van een vreemde "wolk" die in Tenerife (Puerto de la Cruz) werd gefotografeerd eind 2017 (september-oktober). Ik heb de foto van een vriendin die er woont ontvangen en vond het een zeer vreemd fenomeen.

En wat te denken van de volgende opname die op 18 februari 2018 werd genomen in Guatemala? 

Dan komen we in Nederland en daar worden vreemde luchten gefotografeerd (dank!):

Hoi, naar aanleiding van het bericht over het paarse licht heb ik misschien wel een heel bijzondere foto voor jullie die mijn dochter enkele weken geleden naar mij stuurde. 

De foto is gemaakt in etten-Leur vlak bij Breda. Vandaag las ik over het paarse licht en moest gelijk aan deze foto denken dus dacht ik stuur hem even naar jullie op want het is idd vreemd en dat is voor mij vrij normaal want ik weet gewoon dat ons iets te wachten staat. 

Ik hoop dat jullie wat aan de foto hebben maar daar ben ik wel van overtuigd en ben al meer dan 10 jaar dit soort berichten aan het volgen dus denk dat dit soort berichten wel belangrijk zijn. 

De foto is genomen met een nieuwe Iphone en is zeker nooit bewerkt

En dan een ander vreemd verschijnsel in Nederland:

Een lezer filmt de lucht in Bodegraven (dank!) voordat de zon opkomt en er is duidelijk een soort tweede lichtbron te zien die er niet hoort te zijn.

Alsof er voordat de "normale" zon opkomt er zich al een tweede zon boven de horizon bevindt.

De lezer die de opname maakte, schrijft het volgende:

Ik denk dat mijn filmpje wel interessant is, hoop dat jullie eens tijd hebben ernaar te kijken, lijkt of er een planeet of iets dergelijks voorbij komt? Benieuwd naar jullie visie.

Tijdstip filmje 7:47 VOOR de zon op kwam dus

En omdat veel van de tekenen die nu voorkomen volgens menigeen te maken hebben met de eindtijd en een mogelijke opname in verband met de vele ruimteschepen bij de zon, hier een mening van een christen (dank!), die de volgende theorie heeft:

Graag wil ik in gaan op het gezegde ( EINDTIJD)

Dat is een begrip dat veelzijdig is ;

Maar beginnend bij de (opname). Als die genoemd word, en gebeurd  dan begint dan pas de eindtijd .( openbaring 12 de zoon weggerukt tot Gods Troon)

Na de opname verschijnt Jezus Christus na 7 jaar op de Olijfberg als een overblijfsel in Jeruzalem dat nog niet verwoest is, Hem zullen aanroepen en de berg zal splijten voor een doorgang.

En Hij zal die ,die door de doorgang kunnen ontsnappen leiden  naar een plaats in de woestijn  ( de vrouw die een plaats in de woestijn heeft openb. 12)

Daarna als de gelovigen in de Hemel aankomen zal er een gevecht zijn volgens openb 12 vanaf vers 7 ; zij gaan er namelijk uit !( hier kom ik later op terug)

Dan gaat Jezus Christus aan het werk met het Israël dat in de woestijn is ,en zij gaan het land opruimen. Daar vestigt Hij namelijk Zijn Koningschap , en van daar uit over de wereld in een tijds bestek van om en na bij 33 jaar, daarna komen de 1000 jaren nog ( de leeuw bij het schaap/de slang speelt met het kind / de ouden worden niet ouder , staat allemaal in de Bijbel.

Dus eind der dagen nog lang niet, maar je bekeren tot God kan al vanaf nu!(hoe dat moet staat ook in die zelfde bijbel )…..

Dan de objecten die jij aangeeft met zeer kolossale ruimte schepen ,die voor de zon langs gaan,  de zon is in jou gedachte iets heel groots ;wat volgens het b

Bijbels principe niet zo is . de zon zit volgens dat geburen in de aarde met de maan en de andere sterren (de aarde omgekeerd ). Aardschaal naar buiten en alles er midden in .

(stichting vlichthus heeft hier wel een verdere beschrijving voor)

Als de waarheid dit uitbeeld dan is alles in een keer heel klein, en is de aarde de grootste diameter .

Terug komen op hen die uit de hemel gaan ,zijn zij die vermeld staan als de duivel en zijn engelen , die moeten dus een ander plek in nemen en dat is hier alleen nog op aarde ,waar zij ook geoordeeld zullen worden.

Geloof is niet moeilijk ,maar gewoon doen .

Onderzoek de schriften want zij zullen van Mij getuigen (Jezus de Christus)

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NASA ontwerpt nieuw ruimtepak met... ingebouwd toilet - HLN.be

Bron: space.com

Tot nu toe bedraagt de gemiddelde tijd die een astronaut zich in zijn ruimtepak bevindt ongeveer tien uur. Vooral luiers worden als noodoplossing gebruikt. Ideaal is het echter niet. “Het werkt niet altijd naar behoren. Soms is er een lek, maar het zorgt er wel voor dat je je ruimtepak niet hoeft uit te trekken om naar het ruimtetoilet te gaan. Dat is altijd een lastig karwei”, vertelt Kirstyn Johson, een ingenieur van het NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. 

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Bovendien kunnen astronauten tijdens een wandeling buiten het ruimtetuig  niet naar het ruimtetoilet. Ze dragen dan een luier onder hun pak, maar kunnen die niet te lang aanhouden vanwege de hygiëne. Ontlasting gaat momenteel nog in zakjes en urine in speciale tanks die teruggaan naar aarde en daar worden verbrand. De garderobe van de astronauten was dan ook dringend aan een update toe vonden ze bij NASA. 

Het resultaat is een nieuw ruimtepak dat door de astronauten zes dagen lang gedragen kan worden. Ze kunnen in dit pak zowel eten als hun behoefte doen op een ingebouwd toilet zonder dat ze hiervan hinder zullen ondervinden. Het ingebouwde toilet is overigens niet het enige voordeel van het nieuwe pak. Zo worden astronauten voortdurend voorzien van schone lucht, water  en voldoende zuurstof. Genoeg om het zes dagen uit te houden. 

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Last November, an unusual incident over Oregon made headlines after a mystery aircraft–resembling a jet by some descriptions–was tracked by various aviation authorities. The incident produced no results in terms of who had been piloting the aircraft, and for what reason, although attempts to communicate with and track the aircraft ultimately proved unsuccessful, as it had reportedly been “invisible” on radar at the time.

However, new details about the case have now emerged, following a new Freedom of Information Act request which provides further details on the unusual incident.

Tyler Rogoway, a writer for The Drive‘s “The Warzone,” first heard about the story from associates of his in aviation, as well as via a Reddit thread that appeared seemingly in relation to the incident. This information was later confirmed through dialogue with the FAA, NORAD, and USAF officials.

Along with a summary Rogoway penned for The Warzone, a series of Freedom of Information Act appeals were made in relation to the incident. Now, several months after the incident took place, FOIA data released to The Drive helps to further corroborate the incident, and according to Rogoway, represents what “could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF.”

Included with the release were a number of audio recordings of telephone conversations between officials, discussing the incident and the actions that were taken by official agencies in response to it.

According to the newly released data, the object was described as being a large aircraft by the pilots who saw it, who most commonly referred to it as a jet. Its coloration appeared to be white, or at least light-colored, and the aircraft was flying at an altitude of approximately 37,000 feet. It was also reported that the object was “moving at a clip” (fast, in other words) and that it was neither responding to attempts at radio communication nor was it being detected on radar or by traffic collision avoidance systems on the nearby aircraft.

What can we determine from this, and do any observations come to mind immediately? One thing that seems clear is that the object was probably not an experimental drone, as some suggested previously since it is unlikely that any unmanned remote-controlled aircraft would have to be as large as the aircraft seen over Oregon. Also, while it may be tempting to treat the object as an “unknown,” most descriptions did indicate that the object most closely resembled a jet (although distance had been a prime factor in making further details about its appearance less easily determinable).

Altogether, Rogoway has done a fine job reporting on the incident and gathering additional information about it. Also, he acknowledged what the circumstances here seem to entail, in light of the New York Times report on the Pentagon’s “secret” UFO program, noting that, “after recent reports unmasking how the Pentagon remains highly interested in encounters just like this one, it holds even more weight than it did three months ago.”

As to the origins of the aircraft that was observed over the northwest last fall, there is still a lot that remains unclear. Despite reports that likened the object’s appearance to that of a large jet, we can’t be certain as to what kind of plane the incident involved. Equally perplexing is the question of what it was doing flying at this altitude, and in broad daylight, while remaining unresponsive to queries from the FAA and other agencies (and let us not forget that concern over the aircraft’s presence prompted the scrambling of a group of F-15s, with the mission of intercepting the object).

As with the more esoteric incidents involving unexplained aerial phenomenon, this one leaves a lot to the imagination and even more questions than answers with the release of the new FOIA data. Pending further data in the future, this UFO “cold case” will for now remain one of the many mysteries of the skies that occasionally still transpire in modern times.

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An unexplored underwater labyrinth full of ancient mysteries might sound like the stuff of adventure fiction, but archeologists in Mexico have discovered just that. The recent discovery of the underwater cave network is being described as “the most important submerged archaeological site in the world.” That’s according to Guillermo de Anda, an underwater archaeologist from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History who is working on exploring and excavating the underwater tunnels system beneath Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The tunnels, known as the Sac Actún System, were discovered last year and immediately stunned geologists with their size. So far, researchers have discovered a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels stretching for 347 kilometres (216 miles), but it is believed that there are more tunnels which haven’t been discovered yet.

Some of the entrances are so small, divers must remove their breathing equipment to enter.

While the tunnel network itself is fascinating, it’s what’s been inside the tunnels that has archaeologists so excited. The labyrinth is believed to have flooded sometime between 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, creating the perfect conditions to preserve all of the archaeological wonders inside. So far, some of the most tantalizing finds are human remains believed to belong to ancient Maya people. The Maya weren’t known to be this far east in Mexico during those years, leading researchers to speculate that this underwater labyrinth could have once been a cave system used as a shelter on a long-forgotten ancient trade route before it flooded.

Footage from one of the dives shows the cave is full of human remains waiting to be analyzed. Or, you know, left in peace.

Also found in the caves are Maya burial sites, ceramic fragments, and remains of extinct plant life dating back to before the end of the last Ice Age. One of the archaeologists working at the site calls the Sac Actún System “a tunnel of time that transports you to a place 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.” Guillermo de Anda adds that these tunnels occupied an important place in Maya belief systems and cosmology, possibly meaning there could be even more mysterious discoveries waiting at the bottom of this underwater labyrinth:

It is a very powerful, magical region, where the supernatural reigns, where the gods and deities lived, where the good and the bad coexist, and it was also where men came from.

Who knows what could be down there in tunnels yet to be explored? The blind race of Morlocks descended from ancient Maya traders know. But they’ll never tell.

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South Australia's X-Files: Curious Adelaide cracks open our most mysterious UFO cases

PHOTO: It seems there is no X-Files division in Australia, so we at Curious Adelaide stepped up. (Fox Broadcasting Company)

It's a question many of us have asked ourselves: are we alone in the universe?

From flying saucers to balls of light rocketing through the sky, South Australia has had its fair share of reported UFO encounters.

One avid ABC reader has asked us to delve into the history of the state's major cases, as part of our Curious Adelaide campaign.

So we dusted off some of South Australia's oldest X-Files to find answers.

Nightmare on the Nullarbor

PHOTO: The Daily Mirror reports on the Nullarbor incident. (The Daily Mirror)

We'll start in the outback, where a traumatised family was allegedly lifted off the ground by aliens.

It was still dark in the early hours of January 20, 1988, when the Knowles family was driving along the remote Nullarbor Plain.

The seemingly mundane trip from Perth to Melbourne quickly turned to terror when they encountered an unidentified flying object that tormented them for 90 minutes.

A large glowing object "like a big ball" chased Faye Knowles and her adult sons Patrick, Wayne and Sean down the highway, before landing on their roof and plucking them into the air.

"It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite violently and forced the car back down on the road with such pressure that one of the tyres was blown," a police spokesman told media at the time.

In a state of shock, Sean Knowles put his foot on the accelerator as his mother screamed but, according to reports, their voices distorted like time was slowing down.

PHOTO: Perhaps the treeless expanse of the Nullarbor resembled a Martian homeland. (ABC News: Jarrod Lucas)

"I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof... all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff," Faye Knowles told reporters after the incident.

"It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball.

"We thought we were dying, then we got out the car and we hid behind a little tree and the bushes and it couldn't find us."

The family eventually made it to Ceduna and reported the bizarre events to police who took the report seriously, given the state of the car, which was dented and had dust over it.

The story made headlines around the world with sceptics and believers alike trying to make sense of what happened on that lonely stretch of road.

Flying saucers and lights in the sky

PHOTO: A photo of a possible UFO sighting over Sheffield, England in 1962 released by the CIA. (Supplied: CIA)

UFO reports in the state can be traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century but it wasn't until the early Cold War that they started appearing all over the place.

Rockets were a new invention, originally for military purposes, that made the stars seem closer than ever before.

It seems that, in an atmosphere of heightened political tension, people became spooked by strange lights in the sky.

UFO researcher Keith Basterfield said Port Augusta was home to one of the state's first sightings.

"Even in the beginning of the flying saucer era in 1947 when the whole thing took off, we had one of the earliest sightings in Port Augusta," Mr Basterfield said.

"Five metallic objects were seen by three people working at the Commonwealth railways there.

"Even the government astronomer — we had such a person at the time — couldn't explain that sighting."

PHOTO: The Bunyip reported on a widespread flying saucer sighting in January 1954. (The Bunyip)

Reports made the front pages of newspapers of strange objects sighted from Eyre Peninsula to the outskirts of Adelaide.

On January 22, 1954, The Bunyip newspaper reported three people had sighted a flying saucer over Gawler.

"As the object approached at terrific speed they could make out the perfect shape of a saucer — pure white," the report stated.

"It looked no bigger than an ordinary saucer because of its great height."

One case that still stumps Mr Basterfield took place outside the remote community of Kimba on the Eyre Highway on the night of February 4, 1973.

PHOTO: Keith Basterfield travelled to Kimba to investigate the1973 sighting. (Supplied)

Four people in three separate cars all spotted it in a clearing they passed — an orange rectangle similar to an illuminated door in the scrub, with a strange figure standing inside.

Police were baffled, so Mr Basterfield and his team drove out to investigate.

"We had a look at the site, we took soil samples from the area, we had the samples analysed looking for something unusual there," he said.

"That's not your typical flying metallic saucer but it's a very, very strange set of observations by a group of independent people.

"And we never did get to the bottom of it."

PHOTO: Another possible UFO sighting captured in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1960 and released by the FBI. (Supplied: CIA)

Another strange happening, in South Australia's Flinders Ranges in 2006, was witnessed by scores of people many kilometres apart.

Service station owner John Teague was outside pumping tyres when something plummeted through the sky.

"For some reason I glanced up and I yelled, 'look at that Lloyd', and this thing was hurtling through the air," he said.

"Looked like [it was] about the size of a baseball just flying through the air rapidly."

Mr Teague made such a noise that a group across the street looked up and saw the same thing.

"Then all of a sudden, and this was quite some time later, a huge sonic boom rattled through the air," he said.

"I thought it might have been a meteor going through the air in daylight, I didn't know what it was, maybe space junk coming back.

"But it would have had to be pretty big for space junk for it to be that size way up in the air."

To this day, what it was remains a mystery.

So how common are UFO sightings in South Australia?

GIF: Lee-Anne Peters filmed this footage of what authorities later said was an aircraft over Tasmania

South Australia's Astronomical Society's Paul Curnow said it's pretty common.

"The average city person doesn't look at the sky very often and sometimes when they do look up and see something strange, they can't really explain it," Mr Curnow said.

Late last year, the Pentagon admitted that up until 2012, it had been running a secret investigation into UFOs, but it seems that Australia's aerospace and security agencies don't keep detailed records or data on UFO sightings — at least, that's what they told us.

When Curious Adelaide phoned SA Police to check whether it could shed some light on the matter there was a moment of silence, before some laughter.

Senior constable Mick Abbott did however make the following comment:

"If you stay on the line, I'll transfer you to agents Mulder and Scully from our X-Files division."

When the ABC contacted the CSIRO there was a similar reponse.

According to Paul Curnow, it's still common to get several dozen to hundreds of UFO reports each year in South Australia alone.

But what's being reported is changing, he told us, with fewer sightings of flying saucers hovering over the land.

"Probably for every 10 cases you get, nine can be explained in mundane terms," Mr Curnow said.

The majority of cases, unfortunately for those hoping for an encounter with the extra-terrestrial, have a logical explanation.

"Quite often people report a little silver dot in the sky [and it] turned out to be an aircraft," he said.

"A lot of these things like planes, satellites, planets, even searchlights sometimes, can all add to what people are reporting."

So is the truth really out there?

UFO researcher Keith Basterfield was based in Adelaide when the Knowles family incident occurred.

"My first thought was 'here is a very interesting story that we can carry out some hard science on'," he said.

"We've got a vehicle, we've got reported unusual dust on a vehicle, we've got a number of witnesses.

"If we could document all that we'd have a very strong case for saying something unusual occurred."

However, the conclusion he reached was far from the extra-terrestrial encounter portrayed by the media.

The car had been forensically tested with nothing unusual found, and Mr Basterfield had a more ordinary explanation for the bright light.

"We figured it was potentially a mirage caused by a temperature inversion that night," he said.

That kind of mirage can make lights a long way in the distance curve over the Earth's horizon and appear to be much closer than they actually are.

"Although they saw the light approaching them, they never saw the [source of the] light reach them, so it never actually got to them," Mr Basterfield said.

"It disappeared at that point in front of them so we figured a mirage of a track light several kilometres away could explain that."

YOUTUBE: Derryn Hinch speaks to the Knowles family in 1988

He also had a simple explanation for the car jumping and vibrating.

"If a tyre explodes under your car going at really high speed you're going to get vibrations, you're going to get brake dust entering the vehicle," Mr Basterfield said.

"It was simply a case of misunderstanding, of seeing a light in the distance, a tyre bursting and those things had built up into a story."

While it seems science offers an explanation for many of the sightings in the state, you'll need to decide for yourself whether it's more tale than truth.

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UFO METAL MYSTERY: Material allegedly stored by Pentagon is 'not from this earth'

SUBSTANCES allegedly recovered from a UFO were found to be made of materials "not from this earth”, it has staggeringly been claimed. A top UFO expert told Express.co.uk he has been assured that the material has been tested and has been found to have inexplicable properties.

Un OVNI a été observé au-dessus de La Garde dans le Var

Le vendredi 16 février 2018, dans la soirée, des habitants de La Garde, dans le sud de la France, ont observé « une lumière rouge stationnaire au-dessus du plan de la Garde ». Cet OVNI a filé « brutalement vers le littoral » avant de virer « au vert ».

Michel Durbano est agriculteur et conseiller municipal. Ce soir-là, il a, lui-aussi, été témoin de cet phénomène inexplicable. Il raconte qu’au moment des faits, il « n’avait rien bu ». Il a expliqué ce qu’il a vu :

« Nous avons aperçu mon épouse, un ami et moi-même vers 18h35, une lumière rouge intense dans le ciel nous avons d’abord pensé à un drone. La hauteur semblait raisonnable (une centaine de mètres). Elle ne bougeait pas et était silencieuse. »

« Puis d’un coup cette lumière s’est élevée rapidement et est devenue verte. Mon ami, qui a un drone, a dit que ça allait trop vite et trop haut pour un drone, sauf peut-être un drone militaire. La lumière est ensuite rentrée dans les nuages en restant juste à la limite. Le plafond était plus haut que le sommet de la Colle noire et du paradis qui nous entourent, nous avons continué à l’observer. »

Après 2 minutes d’observation, l’OVNI est parti à une vitesse inimaginable :

« Puis toujours en silence elle est partie plein sud à très grande vitesse. En 2 ou 3 secondes, elle est passée de l’aplomb à la limite La Garde – Le Pradet (vers le carrefour de la Diligence) à l’aplomb de la mer . Ensuite après quelques secondes sur place toujours en limite des nuages, elle s’est dirigée toujours à très grande vitesse vers l’est et est passée derrière la Colle noire et nous l’avons perdue de vue. »

Malgré son scepticisme et sa prudence, l’homme avoue que ce qu’il a vu ce soir-là est difficilement explicable :

« Compte tenu de la vitesse de déplacement, ça ne pouvait pas être un hélico. Ni un avion parce qu’il tournait à angle droit et sans un bruit. Il n’est pas possible non plus que ce soit une lanterne thaïlandaise parce que la lumière se déplaçait à contresens du vent. »

Tony C., un autre habitant de la commune de la Garde, a aussi assisté à ce phénomène. Il témoigne :

« Mot pour mot, je peux faire la même description s’étonne-t-il. C’était en début de semaine dernière et je promenais mes chiens à la sortie de La Crau, derrière le nouveau cimetière. Il était environ 18h30 quand on a aperçu, mon fils et moi, une lumière rouge qui planait au-dessus des champs. »

« Tout d’un coup, elle s’est mise à monter à la verticale et la lumière est devenue verte. Après quelques instants elle a complètement disparu, sans doute à cause de l’altitude. Mon fils a pensé à un drone mais la vitesse à laquelle l’engin est monté laisse septique. Depuis je continue de scruter le ciel tous les soirs quand je sors mes chiens mais je ne la vois plus. »

Source: Var Matin, le 19 février 2018

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Who's Been Running MUFON?

By Jack Brewer
The UFO Trail
2-12-18

The Mutual UFO Network recently announced a new Director of Research, Dr. Christopher Cogswell. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and "hopes to bring a seriousness and strong research focus to this field," according to the MUFON website.

While we wish the doctor the highest degree of success, we would be remiss if we failed to observe the organization where he chooses to volunteer has an infamous history of substantially obstructing the very efforts he claims to undertake. His predecessor, Robert Powell, bailed for reasons reportedly including the MUFON choices of speakers at its annual symposium in 2017. In a nutshell, the organization's missionstatement of dedication to scientific study is miles apart from many of its actual activities. If Dr. Cogswell is going to help the situation a number of circumstances will need to be addressed, from employing hypnosis as a memory retrieval tool to endorsing psychic channeling, and those are just some of the problems.

A lack of transparency and public accountability has long plagued MUFON. We have explored it at length on The UFO Trail, including posts such as UFO Community Members Weigh in on Dubious MUFON Speakers. Long before Powell's concerns became more widely known, writers and researchers such as Nigel Watson, Frank Warren, Robert Sheaffer, and several more expressed relevant points about the quality of MUFON speakers and contributed to the 2015 post. 

Back in 2014 we attempted to obtain explanations of what MUFON termed a collaboration with a French government agency, GEIPAN, that investigates unexplained aerial phenomena. Statements from MUFON leadership arguably were embarrassingly vague, while, in stark contrast, the head of GEIPAN proved quite willing to discuss the circumstances when contacted.

Other posts, such as parts one and two of the 2013 offering, MUFON, Science and Deception, further demonstrated the leadership's lack of willingness to field questions. MUFON's Jan Harzan has been contacted numerous times, including for comment on how an org dedicated to scientific study could promote such entirely speculative notions as Barbara Lamb's claims surrounding ET-human hybrids, but did not respond. 

Likewise, Harzan failed to respond to inquiries about the criteria used to grant David Jacobs a lifetime achievement award. Jacobs is a historian who practices hypnosis as a memory enhancer, claimed to have been harassed by an ET-human hybrid that sent him instant messages, and suggested to Emma Woods to wear a chastity belt during a long distance telephone hypnosis session, among numerous other dubious actions.

In preparation for a 2013 article on a reported UFO crash in Casselberry, Florida, attempts were made to consult several MUFON personnel. Multiple emails inquiring about the case were sent to the Executive Director, Director of Investigations, Florida State Director, and a former Florida Chief Field Investigator. None responded. We could go on at length, but the issues run even deeper still than irresponsibly promoting unsubstantiated conjecture under the guise of science or failing to share information about investigations.

From where I sit, it is significant that the Pentagon indirectly admitted funneling funds to MUFON via Robert Bigelow. This was clearly done through Bigelow's now known receipt of funds and subsequent MUFON-BAASS initiative, yet it is virtually a non-story in UFO Land. Community members for years accused MUFON of acting as an arm of the federal government, and are now validated for all practical purposes, yet the wheels of sensationalism continue to turn with hardly a pause. You can't say we weren't warned.

The Pentagon acknowledges the Defense Intelligence Agency invested money in the UFO community. Up until that time, such interests and circumstances were officially denied. They were taboo, scandalous. It was out of bounds to so much as speculate the IC was in bed with UFO researchers and their organizations. Capital "S" Skeptics cried conspiracy and called for proof. Now it's confirmed and met with a shrug on both sides of the UFO community aisle.

I'd like to direct our attention for a while, please, to the fact the intelligence community has full on acknowledged involvement in the UFO community - this century, here and now. Others told us so and they are now validated, yet it's seemingly not a story, in lieu of analyzing film clips, exchanging opinions on inconclusive claims about alleged aliens, and minimizing its potential significance. In my opinion, if funding sources for one project are called into question, then funding sources for many projects are called into question, especially those involving the same individuals and organizations.

MUFON has a long way to go to gain any credibility, not to mention competently addressing who's been running its organization. Please join me in considering some of the circumstances that brought us to the point in which the Pentagon casually confirmed what amounts to funding the Mutual UFO Network.

The Carpenter Affair. Let's start there. 

During the 1990's, the org's lead alien abduction researcher "confidentially," as he put it to me in a series of emails, provided Robert Bigelow - the guy who would later play point man on the DIA's Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program - with data from case files of alleged abductees in exchange for a reported $14,000. John Carpenter, a Missouri social worker and hypnosis advocate, defended his actions, which included choosing not to obtain consent from the 140 people prior to releasing their files to Bigelow and his National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS). 

MUFON officials, including John Schuessler, who sat on a NIDS board, primarily chose the stance of silence on the topic. Col. John Alexander, a former employee of the Bigelow-founded NIDS, declined comment in 2013. Alexander was asked about any interest he may have had in the files; why he suspected his employer, Bigelow, may have desired to obtain them; if other alien abduction researchers also shared files with Bigelow as Carpenter claimed may have been the case; and if Alexander was at liberty to discuss any relationships between Bigelow corporations and intelligence agencies. Alexander, a man who has repeatedly presented himself as willing and able to talk inside baseball on UFOs and the intelligence community, didn't want to discuss it.

The above image is a copy of the second page of a 1996 letter apparently composed from Carpenter to Bigelow, discussing copying and sending 140 case files, as well as expressing thanks for payment. The image was obtained from researcher Gary Hart, who included the letter and other items in complaints filed to MUFON and the State of Missouri Division of Professional Registration. Read more in the 2013 blog post on the Carpenter Affair linked above.

In 2017 I published a post about NSA largely releasing a document via my FOIA request about an NSA assignee's attendance at a UFO symposium. The existence of the document, though previously withheld, was long known to researchers such as Philip Klass. Although we did not previously know its specific contents, Klass confidently suspected it was authored by Tom Deuley. Klass was in all likelihood correct for reasons provided and linked in my 2017 post. The document proved to be a memo, titled Information request solicitation, in which its author informed NSA of events and actions of researchers at the 1978 MUFON Symposium.

From the now mostly declassified memo:

In 2014 I did a blog post on the ill-fated Ambient Monitoring Project (AMP). The undertaking was initially titled the Abduction Monitoring Project, but was changed for reasons that reportedly included efforts to increase credibility and attract qualified researchers. The initiative involved placing instruments to measure environmental changes in the homes of individuals reporting alien abductions. It was headed up by long time ufology staple and career intelligence officer Tom Deuley, who likely composed the above NSA memo and served in leadership capacities of multiple UFO organizations, including MUFON. Funding sources for the AMP were not clearly disclosed and details of project results were never released. From the 2014 blog post:

Deuley wrote in the 2008 Journal article that the AMP was jointly proposed to MUFON, FUFOR [Fund for UFO Research] and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). The collaboration reportedly resulted in the UFO Research Coalition, or the URC, as Deuley dubbed it. Exactly where the funding originated, however, was not clear, and Deuley did not at all address the amount and specific terms of project funding.

The proposal was given to the Fund for UFO Research, Deuley stated in the article, “with the intention that they in turn offer the idea to some prospective donors who might be interested in this project.”

“Over time,” he continued, “the Fund’s efforts led to sufficient funding for the work.”

“With a good prospect for a sponsor,” Deuley not so clearly explained further, “the URC continued to fine-tune the proposal. After several rounds of changes and negotiation with the prospective funding organization, the proposal for the Ambient Monitoring Project was accepted.”

Who ever the “prospective funding organization” of which Deuley may have been referring, how ever the proposal may specifically have been “accepted,” and where ever reported “sufficient funding” may have actually originated, Richard Hall told UFO Updates List the project was out of money. Hall informed them of that nine months before Deuley's July, 2008, article which suggested funding was in hand and data was in the process of being analyzed.

[...]

In 2008 I emailed inquiries about the project to various board members of the UFO organizations involved. An email was sent to Deuley, who I requested provide details that might be available for public release, particularly concerning such information as final analysis and project personnel. He replied August 2, 2008: 

“The analysis is in progress and will include a full report when all of the cases have been analyzed. Until then we feel it is prudent to not publicize who is doing the analysis or where it is being conducted. The report is most likely to be printed in theMUFON Journal, and if extensive to be published for sale by the UFO Research Coalition.”

I sent a similar inquiry to David Boras of CUFOS, who briefly replied on August 3, 2008, “Statistical analyses are ongoing and not yet available.”

Astronomer Dr. John Carlson, also of FUFOR, and I exchanged some brief messages. Even after I made him aware Deuley had just days prior stated in an email to me that AMP data was in the process of being analyzed, Carlson wrote in an August 5, 2008 email there were no funds to analyze the data, so he believed the project was effectively dormant.

Such discrepancies and contradictions within MUFON and UFO orgs have now become common to the point of no longer attracting meaningful discussion. Inaccuracy and a lack of direct answers from leadership have come to be expected. 

There may be some events of interest under the descriptions of high strangeness or things in the sky. I don't claim to know, and as regular readers are aware, my primary area of focus migrated into social aspects of the UFO community. While I don't profess to conclusively know much about what all is being reported and witnessed, I'm pretty confident you aren't going to get any substantial explanations from the latest crowd of self-proclaimed insiders, researchers, and disclosure activists. We simply have no reason to think so, barring extreme changes of operating procedures. It is more than reasonable at this point, if not arguably naive not to call into question the funding sources and agendas of those directing the UFO research community.

It is also reasonable to desire financial accountability from tax-funded projects, such as the AATIP, and nonprofit corporations, namely MUFON, that collect public financial support while enjoying tax benefits. You are entitled to expect accurate and reasonably transparent reporting of budgets and activities. We clearly have a long, long way to go to achieve such transparency in the UFO community. I am strongly of the opinion its obstruction and the related issues are much more worthy of attention than the unsubstantiated sensational claims promoted by the involved parties.

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A.I.'s Rapid Advance Should Be Truly Scary If You're Paying Attention

By Kevin Litman-Navarro

When it comes to identifying existential threats posed by technological innovations, the popular imagination summons visions of Terminator, The Matrix, and I, Robot — dystopias ruled by robot overlords who exploit and exterminate people en masse. In these speculative futures, a combination of super-intelligence and evil intentions leads computers to annihilate or enslave the human race.

However, a new study suggests that it will be the banal applications of A.I. that will lead to severe social consequences within the next few years. The report — “Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence” — authored by 26 researchers and scientists from elite universities and tech-focused think tanks, outlines ways that current A.I. technologies threaten our physical, digital, and political security. To bring their study into focus, the research group only looked at technology that already exists or plausibly will within the next five years.

What the study found: A.I. systems will be likely expand existing threats, introduce new ones and change the character of them. The thesis of the report is that technological advances will make certain misdeeds easier and more worthwhile. The researchers claim that improvements in A.I. will decrease the amount of resources and expertise needed to carry out some cyber attacks, effectively lowering the barriers to crime:

The costs of attacks may be lowered by the scalable use of AI systems to complete tasks that would ordinarily require human labor, intelligence and expertise. A natural effect would be to expand the set of actors who can carry out particular attacks, the rate at which they can carry out these attacks, and the set of potential targets.

The report makes four recommendations:

1 - Policymakers should collaborate closely with technical researchers to investigate, prevent, and mitigate potential malicious uses of AI.

2 - Researchers and engineers in artificial intelligence should take the dual-use nature of their work seriously, allowing misuserelated considerations to influence research priorities and norms, and proactively reaching out to relevant actors when harmful applications are foreseeable.

3 - Best practices should be identified in research areas with more mature methods for addressing dual-use concerns, such as computer security, and imported where applicable to the case of AI.

4 - Actively seek to expand the range of stakeholders and domain experts involved in discussions of these challenges

How A.I. can make current scams smarter: example, spear phishing attacks, in which con artists pose as a target’s friend, family member, or colleague in order to gain trust and extract information and money, are already a threat. But today, they require a significant expenditure of time, energy, and expertise. As A.I. systems increase in sophistication, some of the activity required for a spear phishing attack, like collecting information about a target, may be automated. A phisher could then invest significantly less energy in each grift and target more people.

And if scammers begin to integrate A.I. into their online grifts, it may become impossible to distinguish reality from simulation. “As AI develops further, convincing chatbots may elicit human trust by engaging people in longer dialogues, and perhaps eventually masquerade visually as another person in a video chat,” the report says.

We’ve already seen the consequences of machine-generated video in the form of Deepfakes. As these technologies become more accessible and user friendly, the researchers worry that bad actors will disseminate fabricated photos, videos, and audio files. This could result in highly successful defamation campaigns with political ramifications.

Beyond the keyboard: And potential malfeasance isn’t restricted to the internet. As we move toward the adoption of autonomous vehicles, hackers might deploy adversarial examples to fool self-driving cars into misperceiving their surroundings. “An image of a stop sign with a few pixels changed in specific ways, which humans would easily recognize as still being an image of a stop sign, might nevertheless be misclassified as something else entirely by an AI system,” the report says.

Other threats include autonomous drones with integrated facial recognition software for targeting purposes, coordinated DOS attacks that mimic human behavior, and automated, hyper-personalized disinformation campaigns.

The report recommends that researchers consider potential malicious applications of A.I. while developing these technologies. If adequate defense measures aren’t put in place, then we may already have the technology to destroy humanity, no killer robots required.

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A UFO sighting in Dewsbury? Well, not quite..

BY ALEX MILLER

A loud bang and fast-moving flashing lights in the Dewsbury night sky had imaginative residents fearing a UFO attack this week.

It transpired that the commotion was likely to do with a heavy-duty military aircraft on a fly-over.

A mysterious light above Dewsbury.

The GR4 Tornado flew over the region at 3000ft. Footage of the sighting was sent in by Reporter series reader Aron Kennedy.

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NASA warns of asteroid skimming close to Earth within 48 HOURS

AN ASTEROID darting through space at a staggering 16,553mph is set to brush past Earth within the next 48 hours.

By Joshua Nevett 

The space rock, named Asteroid 2017 DR109, is expected to hurtle past the planet at a hair-raisingly close distance on Saturday February 24, NASA has warned.

At around 5.18am on Saturday, DR109 will come within 0.007AU of Earth, the distance between the US and China 85 times over.

Flying at speeds of 16,553mph, the asteroid will shoot by the planet at a minimum distance of more than one million km away.

However, the asteroid only measures a tiny 11 metres in diameter, meaning its impact on Earth would be negligible.

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CLOSE SHAVE: Asteroid 2017 DR109 is set to brush past Earth on Saturday February 24

NASA does not consider 2017 DR109 to be a Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) – a space object that makes an exceptionally close approach to Earth.

PHAs are larger than 100 metres in diameter and come within 0.05 AU – approximately 19.5 lunar distances – to Earth, according to NASA’s classification.

NASA monitors all asteroids that come within close range of planet under its Near Earth Object programme.

Using Sentry – a highly automated collision monitoring system – NASA keeps a handle on celestial objects threatening to smash into Earth within the next 100 years.

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“Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth.”

NASA

Many are not even named because of the sheer number that pass Earth every year.

NASA said: “Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles.

“About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface.

“Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage to the area.

“Only once every few million years, an object large enough to threaten Earth's civilisation comes along.

"Impact craters on Earth, the moon and other planetary bodies are evidence of these occurrences.”

Some 20 asteroids are forecast to skim past Earth in February alone.

Eight asteroids soared past Earth within 48 hours on February 13 and 14.

Last week NASA named a PHA that is expected to approach Earth on March 7.

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Ancient civilisation used sound energy to 'LEVITATE and contact aliens' – shock claim

ARCHAEOLOGICAL findings suggest previous civilisations used circular structures as energy-generating devices to create man-made portals in time, according to boffins online.

By Callum Hoare 

The research – which extended over a two-year period – suggested that human beings from thousands of years ago produced natural sound harmonic frequencies produced from the surface of the Earth.

In the clip, the narrator explains that the Sumerian civilisation may have inhabited parts of southern Africa thousands of years ago.

The Sumers are one of the earliest known civilisations known to walk the Earth.

They are said to date back to 3,000BC.

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The technology they apparently used is said to be similar to the way we use laser technology today.

Some of the frequencies recorded are believed to reach more than 380 gigahertz – much greater than any levels used today.

The discovery has left many confused as to what this previous society could possibly have done with the energy they created and whether they could have possibly known more about our planet than we do today.

The video was uploaded to YouTube channel UFOmania yesterday, and has already racked up more than 5000 hits.

And viewers suggested that previous societies have been in contact with extraterrestrial life.

One comment read: “Sound is one of the most abundant forms of free energy on the planet.

“It is the primordial source of all things and is the common denominator of all creation.

“With that being said, if an extraterrestrial race wanted to harvest energy from the planet, it could create such energy with sound.

“Sound was used as energy to levitate objects in order to create the monuments that opened vortices which allowed spacecraft to come and go."

And another added: “I always thought that many ancient rock carvings show a spiral, which could be some kind of sound wave.

“This is something they can only draw and couldn't put into words.

“Many petroglyphs around the world show a spiral of some kind I think it's some kind of sound energy that we cannot understand at this point in time.”

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Researchers find ancient rock art with paintings of whales and sharks in the desert

A dramatic scene has been found by experts exploring the Atacama Desert in Chile as they have come across hundreds of pieces of stunning 1,500 year-old-rock art, depicting the slaughter of whales, turtles and even sharks.

In the north of Chile, located right between the Pacific Ocean and the beginning of the vast Atacama Desert is the archaeological site of El Médano. North of it, researchers have discovered a new archaeological site with more than 300 ancient paintings.

The archaeological site of El Médano features a valuable set of rock paintings which were discovered in 1918 by an amateur archaeologist named Augusto Capdeville.

But, now, a team from the University of La Sorbonne, has located in the vicinity, new previously unknown rock art.

The new site called Izcuña, located a few miles north of Médano depicts drawings which are approximately 1,500 years old.

There, using strokes of red color, the ancient inhabitants of the region made rock art depicting the hung of whales, swordfish, marlin, squid, sea lion, turtles, and sharks.

All the paintings were made with a pigment of a red color and show the harpooned animals, but not their hunters.

Scientists explain how these hunting scenes are based on the everyday experiences of the ancient inhabitants living near Chile’s coastline.

The same scenery was present in the rock art researchers discovered at the beginning of the 20^th century, although those paintings recreated hunting scenes of terrestrial animals.

The value of this finding is enormous because it helps document how the inhabitants of the area extracted a large part of their resources from the ocean, and also what techniques they used for it.

As noted by experts, the ancient inhabitants had advanced fishing and hunting technologies that included fish hook built from shell, bone, cactus spines, copper, and even rafts made of sea lion skin.

As noted by the Daily Mail, archaeologists have discovered around 328 paintings at Izcuña, on 24 blocks of rock.

“Archaeological evidence attests to a society specialized in marine resource exploitation. Its sophisticated fishing and hunting technology included fish-hooks made from shell, bone, cactus spines and copper, and cotton lines, nets, stone weights, harpoons and rafts made of sea lion skin,” explained researchers in the study.

“This specialization and the resource-rich Pacific coast allowed the inhabitants to be hugely productive, thereby facilitating permanent residential camps located near water springs and on natural jetties. From here, small groups could explore vast territories.”

Source: Ballester 2018 – El Médano rock art style: Izcuña paintings and the marine hunter-gatherers of the Atacama Desert

Image credit: Francisco Gallardo

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Disclosure Time? Unpublished Project Blue Book Documents Released To The Public

One of the officers working on the Blue Book Project dared to rescue photographs, books, texts, documents, letters and trash memos, when the government-funded-initiative, project Blue Book; the study of UFOs was completed in 1969.

Now, thanks to researcher Rob Mercer and John Greenewald founder of The Black Vault, previously unknown documents have been digitized and posted online for the world to see.

The documents—which have all been declassified—were found behind a pile of firewood at a garage auction that took place in Fairborn, Ohio.

The Wright-Patterson Air Base, home of Project Blue Book and rumored to be the place where the remains of the ET ship that crashed in Roswell were taken to, is also located in Fairborn.

This last fact motivated investigator Rob Mercer, who immediately suspected that there was a possibility that the documents were genuine and decided to acquire them.

The investigation to determine the veracity of the find led Mercer to one officer responsible for having saved the archives instead of destroying them: Carmon Marano, a US Air Force lieutenant who worked at Project Blue Book, one of the US government’s attempts to explain the UFO phenomenon and, many times, debunk it before the public.

The Documents, already verified as genuine, have been posted online by John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault.

Marked with a circle, Lieutenant Carmon Marano. Beneath him, in the center, Hector Quintanilla, the last director of Project Blue Book.

You can consult and download them directly from this link.

Project Blue Book was a series of studies on UFOs by the United States Air Force (USAF).

The objective of Project Blue Book was to determine if UFOs were a potential threat to national security.

Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed and archived.

This has been the last USAF project related to UFOs that have been made public so far.

According to investigations, towards the end of 1951, several influential high ranking generals of the USAF were so dissatisfied with the state of UFO investigations of the Air Force that they dismantled the so-called Project Grudge and replaced it with Project Blue Book in early 1952.

During the time that Blue Book lasted, which was completed in 1969, 12,618 UFO reports were collected. Experts at the time had concluded that most ‘sightings’ were misinterpretations of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft.

Image credit Shutterstock.

A few sightings were considered frauds.

701 cases—approximately 6%—were classified as unexplained.

The reports were archived and are available under the Freedom of Information Act, but the names of the witnesses and other personal information have been removed.

The decision to terminate Project Blue Book was based on several factors, such as the evaluation of a report written by the University of Colorado entitled “The scientific study of UFOs”, the review of this report by the National Academy of Sciences, the UFO cases previously studied and the experience of the Air Force, which investigated UFO reports between 1940 and 1969.

As a consequence of these investigations, studies, and experiences, the conclusions of the Project Blue Book were:

• 1) No UFO which the Air Force investigated ever posed a threat to National Security.
• 2) The Air Force has not found any evidence that the observations classified as “unidentified” represent objects or technological principles that go beyond the scientific knowledge of the time.
• 3) There has been no evidence to indicate that the observations classified as “unidentified” were extraterrestrial vehicles.

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Controversial Study Claims: Man Began Using Words 1 Million Years Ago

According to a new study, ancient man began using words around One Million years ago, as experts believe without ‘speech,’ ancient humans would not have been able to build boats and sail the planet in order to populate the planet.

“What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo Erectus, about one million years ago or more.”

Experts may have just solved the riddle as to how and when ancient humans began speaking.

A controversial new study claims that speech was invented to help them organize, and build boats to populate the world.

Without ‘speech’ ancient man would not have been able to build boats and populate the world, say, researchers.

Image Credit: Shutterstock.

If we take a look at human origins, we will find that our earliest known ancestor, Homo erectus took a huge leap forward by starting to walk upright, more than one million years ago.

However, while he could walk like we can today, researchers have not been able to find evidence that he could talk. As noted by experts, language was not something that Homo erectus was capable of.

All of this is based on anatomy, as scientists believe Homo erectus did not have a bone called the Hyoid, which is a bone that helps anchor the tongue. Homo Sapiens did have it.

Therefore, experts suggest that Hom erectus wasn’t really capable of speech, he was only capable of howling.

This means that language is believed to have arrived together with Homo Sapiens.

However, a new controversial study forces us to rethink human origins, saying that Homo erectus must have had the ability to speak.

Researchers now claim that without language, Homo erectus would have never been capable of building the boats needed to travel across Earth’s vast oceans.

Furthermore, experts note that if Homo erectus had not developed speech, he would not have been able to sail across the globe in large numbers populating the planet.

What is the greatest technology we have ever had as a species, the answer is language. Who invented it? Homo erectus, about one million years ago or more. Those are controversial claims. Everybody talks about Homo erectus as a stupid ape-like creature, which of course describes us just as well, and yet what I want to emphasize is that erectus was the smartest creature that had ever walked the Earth,” says Daniel Everett, Professor of Global Studies, at Bentley University, Massachusetts.

Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, professor Everett explained: “Oceans were never a barrier to the travels of erectus.”

Homo erectus was able to travel all over the world. He traveled to the Island of Flores, across one of the greatest ocean currents on Earth.

“They sailed to the island of Crete and various other islands. It was intentional they needed craft and they needed to take groups of twenty or so at least to get to those places. And this is the consensus of the archaeological evidence. Erectus needed language when they were sailing to the island of Flores. They couldn’t have simply caught a ride on a floating log because then they would have been washed out to see when they hit the current,” explained Professor Everett.

“They needed to be able to paddle. And if they paddled they needed to be able to say ‘paddle there’ or ‘don’t paddle. You need communication with symbols not just grunts. They accomplished too much for this to simply be the sort of communication that we see in other species without symbols,” he added.

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Countless Maya Artifacts And Human Remains Found In World’s Largest Underwater Cave

Researchers have found sacred Maya relics together with a 10,000-year-old Human skeleton in an underwater cave in Mexico.

In what is considered the world’s most important underwater archaeological site, experts have discovered sacred ancient Maya relics, together with human remains and Ice Age Animal Bones. So far, experts have discovered a total of 198 objects, including walls, altars and a Mayan burial site with human remains. Some of these objects date back more than 10,000 years and belonged to the first settlers of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

The team in charge of the Great Maya Aquifer Project found a human skeleton which is believed to be 10 thousand years old, in what is considered the largest cenote in the world, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.

The recently found bone structure is the fourth skeleton found so far, of what are believed to be the first settles in the area.

Image Credit: INAH

Lead Archaeologist Guillermo De Anda reported in a press conference the discovery of a cenote with stairs and altars dedicated to Ek Chuah, the God of war and commerce.

“I think it’s overwhelming. Without a doubt, it’s the most important submerged archaeological site in the world. It is very unlikely that there is another site in the world with these characteristics. There is an impressive amount of archaeological artifacts inside, and the level of preservation is also impressive.”

It is assumed that this space was used as a pilgrimage point by Mayan merchants.

Image Credit: INAH

Archaeologists found a large number of pottery remains and a mask representing the Ek Chuah.

The land routes used by the Maya for trade needed points of “ritual pilgrimage,” according to De Anda.

“On their way inland, they had to make stops at altars and in sacred places to make an exchange with the gods and, in some way, this is one of the traces they have left,” he said.

The so-called Cave of the God of Commerce has a temple and a stairway that allows access to the cave.

Image Credit: INAH

Throughout 347 kilometers of tunnels under the soil of Quintana Roo, archaeological and paleontological remains are concentrated in 198 places.

The team researching the world’s most important underwater archaeological site has the support of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and National Geographic to explore the flooded galleries, where unique elements have been found so far, such as a cave with remains of Pleistocene fauna embedded in the walls.

Experts have uncovered a total of 198 objects in the cave system.

As noted by De Anda, the remains found could account for “a catastrophic event” that allowed these bones to remain in that place.

“We still need to determine what these bones belong to, but the project is integrating a resident paleontologist to understand these contexts and take care of them as they should,” he concluded.

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Serendipitous supernova explosion caught on camera

An Argentine stargazer captured the death of a star in series of nearly 100 images

BY  LISA GROSSMAN

RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME  In September 2016, an amateur astronomer was looking at spiral galaxy NGC 613 (shown), located about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, and caught a supernova exploding.

SMARTT/QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, NASA, HUBBLE/ESA, ROBERT GENDLER

An amateur astronomer caught a supernova on camera during the explosion’s earliest moments, giving physicists a glimpse of a long-sought phase of stellar death.

Víctor Buso spotted the supernova from his rooftop observatory in Rosario, Argentina, on September 20, 2016, when he aimed his telescope straight overhead at spiral galaxy NGC 613 to test a new camera. To avoid letting in too much light from the city sky — Rosario is a city of about 1.2 million people — he took a series of about 100 images that were each exposed for 20 seconds, spanning about an hour and a half.

Over the last half-hour of Buso’s observations, the supernova appeared and then doubled in brightness. In 2013, astronomers spotted a supernova within hours of its explosion (SN Online: 2/13/17), but this is one of the first to be spotted before it exploded.

Because there is no way to predict when and where a supernova will go off, this sort of observation is extremely rare, says astrophysicist Melina Bersten of the National University of La Plata in Argentina, who reports details of the supernova in the Feb. 22 Nature.

NOW YOU SEE IT The black spot toward the bottom right of this image is a supernova going off near galaxy NGC 613. An amateur astronomer in Argentina captured the explosion in nearly 100 images taken with a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor camera.

VÍCTOR BUSO AND GASTÓN FOLATELLI

“This is completely unusual, and was something that many people were searching for around the world without success,” Bersten says. “It was incredible.”

Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave from a massive star’s collapse ricochets back from the star’s core and pushes stellar material outward.

Citations

• M.C. Bersten et al. A surge of light at the birth of a supernova. Nature. Published online February 21, 2018. doi:10.1038/nature25151.

Further Reading

• E. Conover. Supernova spotted shortly after explosion. Science News Online, February 13, 2017.
• C. Crockett. 30 years later, supernova 1987A is still sharing secrets. Science News. Vol. 191, February 18, 2017, p. 20.

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“Tropische superstormen zijn zo krachtig dat schaal 5 niet meer volstaat” -  HLN.be

Bron:  AD.nl

Tropische stormen of cyclonen worden al naar gelang hun kracht ingedeeld volgens de schaal van Saffir-Simpson. Bedoeling daarvan is bewoners in bedreigde gebieden voor te bereiden op de verwachte schade en risico’s. Een orkaan van categorie 2, 3 en 4 is bijvoorbeeld tien, vijftig, honderd keer zo verwoestend als een zwakke orkaan van categorie 1. Tot nu toe is categorie 5 het gevaarlijkst. Dan gaan de daken eraf van de meeste huizen en bedrijven. Bij een stormvloed langs de kust wordt de meeste laagbouw weggespoeld en kunnen de golven tot wel vier kilometer landinwaarts gaan.

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VS maakten voorbije 22 jaar meeste klimaatgerelateerde rampen mee, maar keren Klimaatakkoord toch rug toe

320 kilometer

Volgens klimatoloog Michael Mann van Pennsylvania State University dekt categorie 5 niet langer de lading. Een nieuwe categorie 6 zou een betere aanduiding zijn om de werkelijke kracht aan te geven van stormen van 320 kilometer per uur”, zegt hij in de Britse krant The Guardian. Uitbreiding van de schaal zou volgens hem benadrukken dat er wel degelijk een klimaatverandering gaande is die stormen krachtiger maakt dan ooit. 

Aanpassing is ook nodig omdat het schadebeeld vertekend is, aldus Mann. Sinds de schaal van Saffir-Simpson werd opgesteld, in 1969, is er veel verbeterd in de stevigheid van bouw en infrastructuur. Dat er desondanks gebouwen omwaaien, zegt wat over de toegenomen kracht, aldus de wetenschapper. Recente stormen als de orkaan Patricia in 2015 met geschatte windstoten van tegen 400 kilometer per uur (8 doden, bijna 400 miljoen euro schade) en orkaan Winston in 2016 (44 doden, 4 miljard euro schade) passen volgens Mann in een nieuwe buitencategorie. Volgens de Nieuw-Zeelandse klimaatminister James Show zou orkaan Winston zeker een zes hebben gekregen ‘als die categorie had bestaan.’ 

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Amateur-astronoom test zelfgebouwde telescoop en ziet iets wat geen enkele wetenschapper ooit al heeft gezien -  HLN.be

Bron: Belga

“Beroepsastronomen zoeken al lang naar een dergelijk evenement”, (de start van) een ontploffende ster, schreef Alex Filippenko van de Universiteit van Berkeley. “Het is zoals de ‘kosmische jackpot’ winnen”, “uitzonderlijk”. “De metingen van Victor Buso vormen een geheel van data zonder voorgaande”, weet Federico Garcia van het Franse Commissariaat voor Kernenergie. 

Lees ook

Astronomen zagen ster 10,5 miljard jaar geleden ontploffen

Supernova

Op 20 september 2016 beslist de door sterren gepassioneerde Argentijn een nieuw fototoestel op zijn telescoop te testen. Hij had de telescoop zelf gebouwd op het dak van zijn huis in de stad Rosario, ten noorden van Buenos Aires. Hij kiest voor zijn eerste foto’s sterrenstelsel NGC 613, op ongeveer tachtig miljoen lichtjaar van ons, in het sterrenbeeld Beeldhouwer. Bingo: een enorme ster beleeft de laatste uren van haar leven in een cataclystische ontploffing die bekendstaat als een supernova.

Spectaculair fenomeen

De fenomenen die daarmee gepaard gaan, zijn hevig. Want volgens de theorie wordt de materie van de ster aan snelheden van duizenden kilometer per seconde uitgespuwd. Vanwege de ongelooflijke hoeveelheid uitgestoten energie is het evenement helder en is het van op onze planeet te zien. Maar het is een zeldzaam en vooral niet te voorzien evenement. Astronomen ontdekken het in het algemeen pas na enkele dagen en nooit sinds het begin. Dat geluk had Victor Buso wel.

Hij sloeg alarm via de Amerikaanse vereniging van waarnemers van variabele sterren AVVSO en bracht een kettingreactie op gang. Een batterij astronomen en natuurkundigen richtte zijn instrumenten op het fenomeen. Sommigen observeren het vervolg gedurende meer dan twee maanden. Volgens de studie in het Britse Nature laten de nieuwe data toe beter de fysieke structuur te begrijpen van een ster vlak voor ze ontploft, alsmede de natuur zelf van de explosie.

Eén kans op tien miljoen

De ploeg wetenschappers kon uitmaken dat de initiële massa van de ster ongeveer twintig keer die van onze Zon was. Ze zagen ook de helderheid van de supernova spectaculair toenemen. Op minder dan een half uur tijd verveelvoudigde die met factor 3, zegt de Franse universiteit Paris Diderot. Volgens Melina Bersten van het Instituut voor Astrofysica van La Plata in Argentinië had Victor Buso “maar één kans op tien miljoen of zelfs 100 miljoen” om het spektakel te kunnen aanschouwen.

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Mysterious Bright Object falls from the sky over Bahia, Brazil

Residents of Salvador, the capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, reported a bright object falling from the sky with a huge flash before it exploded at low altitude on February 20, 2018.

Residents of Monte Gordo, in the district of Camaçari in the metropolitan region of Salvador heard the explosion too.

Credit image: Canal TV Noticias - Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo.

Land owner Edinei da Silva Almeida said that he was burning vegetation when he heard the explosion. Then Mr. Edinei da Silva Almeida accompanied by his neighbors started looking in the direction of the explosion and soon they found a strange object in an area of vegetation near a material store. The object looks like iron and weighs about 2.9 kg and is 15 cm in size.

Credit images: Juliana Almirante – G1.Globo. 

While most of the experts believe that it was a small piece of a meteorite that fell to the ground, the Brazilian Meteorological Monitoring Network (Bramon) suggests there is also the possibility that a part of a rocket, which was sent by Russia to the International Space Station, may have come loose and have fallen in Bahia reports Globo.1.com.

Whatever it may have been remains a mystery for the time being.

  

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I-Team: Mystery metal studied in Las Vegas

Pulsating aurora mysteries uncovered with help from NASA's THEMIS mission

by Mara Johnson-Groh, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Sometimes on a dark night near the poles, the sky pulses a diffuse glow of green, purple and red. Unlike the long, shimmering veils of typical auroral displays, these pulsating auroras are much dimmer and less common. While scientists have long known auroras to be associated with solar activity, the precise mechanism of pulsating auroras was unknown. Now, new research, using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms—or THEMIS—mission and Japan's Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace—shortened to ERG, or also known as Arase—satellite, has finally captured the missing link thought responsible for these auroras. The answer lies in chirping waves that rhythmically pulse the particles that create the auroras.

Earth's magnetic bubble—the magnetosphere—protects the planet from high-energy radiation coming from the Sun and interstellar space, but during particularly strong solar events, particles can slip through. Once inside, the particles and the energy they carry are stored on the nightside of the magnetosphere, until an event, known as a substorm, releases the energy. The electrons are then sent speeding down into Earth's upper atmosphere where they collide with the other particles and produce the characteristic glow.

Pulsating auroras, however, have a slightly different cause. The magnetosphere is home to a type of plasma wave known as whistler mode chorus. These waves have characteristic rising tones—reminiscent of the sounds of chirping birds—and are able to efficiently disturb the electrons. When these waves make their appearance within the magnetosphere, some of the electrons scattered by the wave careen down into Earth's atmosphere, causing the pulsating auroras.

While scientists have long believed this mechanism to be responsible for pulsating auroras, they had no definitive proof until now. The multipoint observations from the ERG satellite and ground-based all-sky cameras from the THEMIS mission allowed scientists to pinpoint the cause and effect, seeing the event from start to end. The results were published in the journal Nature.

Research done with NASA's ground-based camera and Japan's spacecraft in the near-Earth laboratory has applications further afield. Chorus waves have been observed around other planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Saturn. Likely, the processes observed around Earth can help explain auroral features on these gas giants as well as on planets around other stars. The results also help scientists better understand how plasma waves can influence electrons—something that occurs in processes across the universe.

 Explore further: Scientists directly observe electron dynamics of the Northern Lights

More information: S. Kasahara et al. Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves, Nature (2018). DOI: 10.1038/nature25505 

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Neptune’s Great Dark Spot is also shrinking

BY MIHAI ANDREI

After just yesterday we wrote that Jupiter’s emblematic Giant Red Storm was quieting down, Neptune’s own giant storm is about to suffer the same fate.

Dark spot on Neptune full color (left) and blue light (right).

Although not as famous and easily visible as the Great Red Spot, Neptune’s Great Dark Spot (creative names, I know) has its own remarkable history. Also an anticyclonic storm, the first Dark Spot was first observed in 1989 by NASA’s Voyager 2. It was big enough to cover the entire Atlantic, from the US to Europe’s West Coast, but unlike Jupiter’s storm, it had a much shorter lifespan. I say “the first” Dark Spot because, since its discovery in 1989, several others have appeared and disappeared, and the initial one is long gone. Hubble discovered two dark storms that appeared in the mid-1990s and then vanished. The current storm was first observed in 2015, but it’s already shrinking.

We don’t really know that much about Neptune. The farthest planet from the Sun (sorry Pluto) remains largely a mystery, with most of our information coming from remote observations or from the Voyager days. The way it was discovered says a lot about this: Neptune was the first and only planet in our Solar System found by mathematical predictionrather than by empirical observation. Astronomers believe that Neptune has a solid rock core, a mantle consisting of water, ammonia and methane ices, and an atmosphere. The top of the atmosphere is covered by top clouds, while the rest consists of hydrogen, helium, and methane  The Dark Spot is interesting because it allows astronomers to indirectly deduce certain aspects about Neptune’s atmosphere.

The Great Dark Spot is thought to represent a hole in the methane cloud deck of Neptune, generating large white clouds made of frozen methane. The dark spot itself might also contain hydrogen sulfide, a substance commonly found in crude petroleum, natural gas, volcanic gases, and hot springs.

It seems a bit strange if you think about it — why would white clouds, including ice, create a dark spot? Well, it isn’t that they’re necessarily dark, just that they’re less bright than the rest of the atmosphere. Joshua Tollefson from the University of California at Berkeley explained.

“The particles themselves are still highly reflective; they are just slightly darker than the particles in the surrounding atmosphere.”

This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over 2 years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune. The oval-shaped spot has shrunk from 3,100 miles across its long axis to 2,300 miles across, over the Hubble observation period. Image credits: NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong and A.I. Hsu (UC Berkeley).

But other than this, we don’t really know much about the nature of these storms. We don’t know why or how they form, and no missions other than Voyager and Hubble are able to visualize them.

“We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate,” said Agustín Sánchez-Lavega from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. “It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.”

Unlike Jupiter’s storms, Neptune’s storms don’t last as long. Neptune doesn’t have atmospheric conveyor belts, which keep the storm trapped, and it doesn’t have the proper atmospheric conditions to fuel the storm. So quite soon, the Dark Spot will fade away — but another one will eventually rise up to take its place.

 “It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael H. Wong of the University of California at Berkeley, referring to work by Ray LeBeau (now at St. Louis University) and Tim Dowling’s team at the University of Louisville.

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My recent 2-part article on the Roswell affair of July 1947 (part-1here and part-2 here) provided a couple of reasons why, in my opinion, nothing of an extraterrestrial nature came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. But, something definitely came down. And it wasn’t a weather-balloon or a Mogul balloon. And there wasn’t a crash-test-dummy in sight. Not a single one. My down-to-earth views on what reallyhappened at Roswell are well-known by those who follow the controversial saga of “The R-Word.” But, those same ufologists have little time for theories that blow the E.T. angle out of the water. Too bad that when it comes to Roswell the “I want to believe” factor is so dominating. But, if one day, the truth really does surface – to an undeniable degree – and it’s found that Roswell had nothing had to do with aliens, how will the UFO research community react? I’ll tell you.

What Really Happened at Roswell ? The Truth will shock you!

When Roswell topples (as it will, one day) there will be a fair degree of denial. Probably a huge degree of denial. No aliens at Roswell? Ridiculous! Nonsense! That will be followed by a sudden increase in the sales of comfort-blankets – and prescriptions for anything and everything that will lessen anxiety and lower blood-pressure. Should all of that happen, the small numbers of people like me won’t suffer. I will be knocking back the beer and the brandy  – thus ensuring an entire week of head-spinning celebrations and an endlessly revolving-door of babe-tastic strippers. Those who will suffer are those who cannot accept that Ufology’s number-one case will become a rotting, stinking corpse. And, you know what we do with them: we bury them or burn them.

There is also the matter of how the extermination of Roswell will have a spiraling effect on various other aspects of Ufology. Let’s face it, whatever happened at Roswell, the majority of UFO researchers accept the alien angle. But, if Roswell – perceived as the best crash case on record – does collapse, what does that say about all of the other crash cases? Not at lot, that’s what! The December 1965 affair at Kecksburg, PA is seen as a good, solid UFO case by many. But, if Roswell goes belly-up, then it’s all but inevitable that people will soon develop doubts about the second-best case (or third, or fourth, depending on your personal perspective).

If aliens didn’t die on, or over, the Foster Ranch then the tale of Philip J. Corso – and his “back-engineering” schemes of alien technology – completely falls apart. That would then make people question the back-engineering-based claims of Bob Lazar, too. If there were no aliens at Roswell, then that means no extraterrestrial corpses were secretly taken to what is, today, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.  That will provoke questions about whether or not there were ever any such corpses at the base.

This gets us to the heart of the big problem with Roswell: it supports so many aspects of what pro-Roswell UFO researchers believe and want to hear. And when the case crumbles, all of those related aspects – the back-engineering, the Wright-Pat legends of “dead aliens on ice,” and the other crash-based cases – will plummet to the ground.

Few people ever give much thought at all to just how much of present-day Ufology is so deeply plugged-in to Roswell – directly or indirectly. If Roswell was seen as just another case – but, admittedly, a high-profile one, wherever it leads – then it could be explored and investigated without the issue of it holding up the whole damn subject. But, when you have one, single case which is loudly championed as the incident to beat all other incidents, you are on dangerous and rocky ground.

To a degree, though, and when it comes to Roswell, most people in Ufology will deny any and all kind of disclosure than the one they want to hear. No E.T.s at Roswell? It must be disinformation. No dead aliens at Wright-Pat? “They” secretly transferred the bodies to somewhere else. No back-engineering? It all got moved from Area 51 to the Dugway Proving Ground. Roswell completely and utterly dictates Ufology. Which is a terrible and unfortunate thing.

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Dying sucks. It’s a sad fact of human existence. When you’re young, the inevitability and permanence of death are hard to conceptualize, but experiencing the deaths of loved ones sure makes it real in a heartbeat – or lack thereof. Despite our impotence in the face of what is surely an inescapable fate, humans have been trying to find ways to avoid death since time immemorial. Modern medicine and digital media have come a long way, but the fact remains that we’re all just going to rot in the ground someday – that is, unless one of these kooky scientists proclaiming the advent of human immortality turns out to be right. This week, yet another self-proclaimed “futurologist” has issued his prediction for the strange, immortal future humanity likely has in store. Will we really soon be able to cheat death with the help of technology?

The bigger question is why the future is always depicted in blue and orange.

These latest predictions were made by engineer and futurologist Ian Pearson who has been a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and a fellow of both the World Academy for Arts and Science and the World innovation Foundation. He claims his predictions have been shown to have “about 85% accuracy when looking 10-15 years ahead.” In an interview with The Sun, predicts humans will be able to cheat death by the year 2050. Well some humans, anyway. The rich ones. The really, really rich ones:

One day your body dies – maybe you get hit by a bus or a nasty disease – but it doesn’t matter, because your mind will still be there. You’ll be able to use an android body instead of the organic one you just lost. For normal people on everyday salaries, it’s more likely that you’ll have to wait a little longer. By 2060, people like you or I will be able to buy it, and by 2070 people in poor countries on modest incomes will be able to buy it.

In his prediction about human immortality, Pearson cites three emerging technological trends which have the potential to indefinitely extend the human lifespan, or at least the lifespan of human consciousnesses: rejuvenating body parts with anti-aging gene therapies or swapping out body parts for lab-grown replacements; digitizing the human consciousness and downloading it into biohybrid android sleeves à la Altered Carbon; or developing technologies which will allow our consciousnesses to exist forever in virtual realities. I don’t know about you, but that last one sounds the best to me.

We might one day look at swapping out body parts the same way we look at getting a haircut.

While these kinds of transhumanist predictions are great material for sci-fi and surely have led to some generous research grants, I can’t help but wonder if these are merely some kind of new techno-religious belief system emerging. These kinds of technological immortality sound a lot like concepts of the afterlife, reincarnation, or the soul tossed around by many world religions. Will we really ever be able to digitize the human consciousness? Do we really want to? Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

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By Cathy Zhang

F-15 fighters were unable to locate the UFO over Oregon on Oct. 25, 2017.

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On Oct. 25, 2017, a mysterious aircraft was spotted, in broad daylight, near a busy flight route over the state of Oregon. U.S. Air Force jet fighters were then launched to investigate. But found nothing.

Originally reported by The War Zone blog from auto news site The Drive, the unidentified aircraft was initially picked up on radar at around 4.30 p.m. The object was traveling at high speeds through Northern California at 37,000 feet, according to the site.

There was no flight path recorded for the aircraft, and it did not respond to radio calls. Neither did it appear on any nearby aircraft Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems.

The object then turned north and merged with nearby commercial air traffic, before disappearing from radar.

Shortly after, several pilots radioed into air traffic control to report sightings of a white aircraft flying at 37,000 feet, but at distance too far to make an identification. This occurred for a period of half an hour and over hundreds of miles.

US Air Force F-15 interceptor fighters were then scrambled from Portland. But despite their speed and radar capability, the fighters could not locate the mystery aircraft.

The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), and the U.S. Air Force both confirmed to War Zone that the event did occur.

Recently, War Zone obtained, via a freedom of information request, audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made by FAA staff during and after the event.

The recordings paint a fuller picture of what happened as authorities struggled to determine what they were dealing with.

In a recording after the initial spotting by air traffic control, a controller reported an object traveling “very fast at 37,000,” before remarking: “That’s crazy.”

When the F-15 fighters enter the scene, they can be heard calling air traffic control asking for an update. The controller responds that the aircraft “must be in stealth mode or something.”

Phone interviews with the pilots who saw the UFO conducted after the event provide further details about the craft.

The pilot of Southwest 4712 noted that he had not seen anything like this in his nearly 30-year flying career.

“If it was like a Lear [private jet] type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear. This was a white airplane and it was big,” he said. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were… It was a larger aircraft yeah.”

Online users on Reddit have speculated that the object may have been a drug smuggling aircraft or a secret military stealth plane. However, it was a test run for a new stealth craft, flying through a commercial carrier route during daylight hours would seem to be an odd move.

A news.com.au writer conjectures that Russia and China, which also have developed aircraft stealth technology, could also be capable of a flyover such as this.

Whatever theories we may have about the strange white aircraft, the recordings show that even the officials didn’t have a clue.

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Mysterie verklaard: waarom Turkse ‘poort naar de hel’ zo dodelijk is - HLN.be

Bron: Earth Chronicles

Ook het laatste decennium nog vielen vogels die te dicht bij Ploutonion (‘poort naar de hel’) vlogen dood neer. De overlevering wil dat de adem van Hades - de Griekse naam voor Pluto, god van de onderwereld - dodelijk was. In de Griekse en Romeinse oudheid werd ook beweerd dat mensen bedwelmd werden door de giftige dampen. Maar priesters konden blijkbaar wel overleven op de heilige plek.

Onderzoekers ontdekten dat de dampen voornamelijk bestaan uit dodelijke concentraties CO2-gassen, die opborrelen uit de aardkorst. De nieuwe studie werd gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences.

Meer dan 2.000 jaar geleden schreef de Griekse historicus en geograaf Strabo al: “Deze ruimte is gevuld met dampen, zo mistig en dicht dat je nauwelijks de grond kunt zien. Elk dier dat binnenkomt, valt onmiddellijk dood. Ik gooide er mussen in en ze bliezen meteen hun laatste adem uit en vielen neer.”

Het heiligdom werd in 2011 door Italiaanse archeologen opnieuw blootgelegd. Tijdens de opgravingen stelden ze al vast dat de dampen verscheidene vogels hadden gedood. In de kleine tempel offerden priesters stieren aan Pluto, terwijl ze zelf lichtjes hallucineerden door de giftige dampen. Die blijken nu op te stijgen uit een onderaardse kamer waar een warmwaterbron boven een breuklijn ligt. 

In de grot zelf kon de CO2-concentratie oplopen tot 91 procent, wat dodelijk is voor mens en dier. Rond de tempel konden priesters het hoofd hoog genoeg houden om zelf niet te bezwijken. Daar waren de concentraties veel lager. Vandaag ontsnappen volgens het onderzoek nog altijd kleinere gifwolken uit de grot, “die verbazingwekkend genoeg fataal kunnen zijn voor insecten, vogels en zoogdieren”. 

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Black Knight Satellite FILMED by International Space Station, UFO watchers say

THE International Space Station (ISS) appears to have recorded the mysterious and ancient Black Knight Satellite floating near to the Soyuz spacecraft, according to space watchers.

Is This The Gate To Hell? Researchers find Ancient ‘Portal To The Underworld’

Despite the fact that the discovery sounds like an excellent beginning for a new Indiana Jones Movie—We love Indy—researchers say they have found what they are calling “The Gates of Hell.”

Obviously not in a literal way, this mythical portal to the underworld was mentioned by ancient Greeks and Romans alike.

“This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell,” wrote Greek historian Strabo (64 BCE – 24 CE).

An inscription at the site to underworld gods Pluto and Kore.

Image Credit: Francesco D’Andria/University of Salento

The site discovered by experts is located in ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now Pamukkale in southwestern Turkey

The great majority of ancient legends refer to the different ways of reaching the underworld, going through different stages that increase the suffering of the soul that leaves the body.

For many Romans, this process began in “the gateway to the underworld” and scientists have recently revealed that the site still exists.

The place is actually a cave that has been rediscovered by researchers from the University of Salento (Italy). The place belonged to ancient Phrygia and was used to perform animal sacrifices by priests.

The site as it looks today.

Image Credit: Francesco D’Andria/University of Salento.

However, what the ancients considered a reality as a portal to the underworld is something entirely different, and we can thank science.

After finding the location of the ancient ‘portal to the underworld’ scientists have found out why animals that approached the site died nearly instantly.

The cause is an underground seismic activity, through which a large amount of volcanic carbon dioxide is expelled to the surface that killed the animals, but not to the priests performing the sacrifice.

The ancient priests must have surely thought they were favored by their gods, while in fact, it was just science, all along.

Specialists from the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Germany, took samples of the levels of carbon dioxide in the area surrounding the cave and found that the gas forms a kind of “lake” that rises 40 centimeters above the ground.

Deadly Gases Still Emerge From This Ancient Portal to the Underworld.

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One of the most surprising facts is that this area continues to be as deadly as it was back in the days of the Ancient Romans and Greeks.

The gas is dissipated by the sun during the day but is more deadly at dawn. The concentration reaches above 50 percent at the very bottom of the lake, rising to around 35 percent at 10 centimeters, which could even kill a human – but, above 40 centimeters, the concentration drops rapidly, reports Science Alert.

However, above 40 centimeters, the concentration decreases rapidly.

“While the bull was standing within the gas lake with its mouth and nostrils at a height between 60 and 90 cm, the large grown priests (galli) always stood upright within the lake caring that their nose and mouth were way above the toxic level of the Hadean breath of death,” the team wrote in their paper.

“It is reported that they sometimes used stones to be larger.”

Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was fully functional until the 4th century AD, but remained a place of sporadic visitation by visitors for the next two centuries. The temple was destroyed in the 6th century AD by Christians, while later earthquakes may have further damaged the site

The research has been published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

• Featured image credit: Illustration of the arena, with noxious fumes emanating from the gate.
• Image Credit: Francesco D’Andria/University of Salento

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Hell On Earth: A Massive Crater In The Middle Of The Desert Has Been Burning For Decades

Ladies and gents, meet the Gateway, or Doorway to hell.

There is a mysterious crater in the middle of the desert that simply put, can’t stop burning.

This massive crater located in Turkmenistan has not stopped burning since 1971, the year in which it was created by accident.

In the middle of the Karakum desert, in Turkmenistan, a singular flaming hole emerges from the earth: the well of Darvaza, popularly known as “Door to Hell.”

It is a huge crater that burns day and night without ceasing for nearly 50 years.

The strange circular depression, near the small village of Darvaza, is located on a huge desert that occupies practically 70% of the territory of the country and is very rich in oil and natural gas.

The origin of the crater goes back to a accident that took place in 1971, when a group of Soviet geologists, believing they had found a natural gas field, was conducting a survey in the area.

However, in the middle of their research, the earth split open and swallowed their machinery and the tents, before the astonished look of the researchers.

Turns out they had discovered an underground cave filled with natural gas.

Aware of this, and fearing that the dangerous gases escaped, the geologists decided to set it on fire thinking that it would eventually cease to burn in a few days. Little did they know how wrong they were.

The Door to Hell, a burning natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan. This image is made from three 17mm shots stitched together and the field of view (~170°) is larger than it may appear (the field has roughly the size of two basketball courts).

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Ever since it was set on fire, the Door To Hell burns without stopping and offers a show so impressive that it attracts tourists and adventurers to the remote area. Since 2009, 50,000 touristshave visited the site. The gas crater has a total area of 5,350 m². The surrounding area is also popular for wild desert camping.

And although there have been several attempts to put out the crater flames, 69 meters in diameter and 30 meters deep, the flames continue to urn just as they started burning 47 years ago.

Inside the Door To Hell, the temperatures reach 1000 degreesCelsius.

Curiously, Canadian explorer George Kourounis—a man with real cojones—became the first person to descend into the crater, in 2013.

The well is a tourist attraction.

Image Credit: Shutterstock.

To achieve this extraordinary feat, Kourounis used a special system of pulleys, a heat-resistant suit, and breathing equipment.

Inside the well, he was able to take samples that allowed him to discover a methane-rich bacteria present in the burning environment.

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Are we ‘them’?

Extraterrestrial life forms. We have watched them in movies, read them in books, saw them as the friends we always wanted and, also, the enemy that was too dangerous to be true. Some say they are us, but different while others say they are made up by the mind because it’s such a genius magician but a lousy researcher. We argue, debate and still find it difficult to come to a conclusion about their very existence. In the midst of it all, people make their own theory, their own story of how aliens are related to us or how they helped us progress at a great pace. One of the fiction is here which became more and more interesting as I thought about it over and over again. And after I wrote it, I said, “They are not very different than we are.”

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (not a Star Wars fan-fiction), there was a planet like ours. There resided the most intelligent beings that were known to their kind because life did not exist in planets and galaxies near them. They studied the atmospheric conditions of other planets which led them to conclude that most of them were barren and lifeless. This was a very disappointing conclusion because the planet, and its people, were breathing their last.

Much like our own planet Earth, their planet had also been victim of pollution, exploitation of resources and inevitable death. To sustain their kind, a group of astronauts were sent, on regular intervals, to different planets and galaxies, to know if there is any flicker of light that their kind might survive the apocalyptic end. After a certain period of time, it became mandatory for beings that fall under a certain age, to fly and seek life. The chances of survival were slim but it was the chance they had to take to ensure survival.  For simplicity, let us assume, the beings to look something like the one in the cover photo.

They were long strides ahead of us in terms of technology but the basic problem of poverty, malnutrition, income inequality was also evident in their planet. It was too late to do anything. Land were infertile for agriculture, the air was so deadly that almost everyone had to take in regular medicines to find the oxygen among them and breathe, the water neither tasted tasteless nor looked colorless. The water treatment plants surrendered to the workload that was imposed on them. Euthanasia was made legal in most of the countries and number of suicides grew every week. Technologically, they possessed the ability to travel in time but only if they could go back in it.

An astronaut, like all the others, was depressed by the sight of its own planet. He wanted to go out there and find a planet where life would exist. If not now then later in the future. The thought of taking beings into the other planet, if life was found, was meaningless. The offspring’s chances of survival were uncertain in a foreign land because, even if a planet was found, it would’ve taken years before it was approved habitable. This led to debated between the scientific community and the other powerful ministers in the world. They finally decided to not send the beings but their DNA. If beings were present in the planet with life, then the infusion of DNA can either kill the being, have no effect or lead to something that was beyond imagination.

It set out with the same mission like any others’. Find home.

After travelling and skipping galaxies (due to technology, the spaceships could travel at light speed), the being finally came to our planet. But it was not like any other planet it had seen. The sky thundered, the clouds poured rain, asteroids and meteorites continued striking the planet and it was established that life was impossible here. But, just out of curiosity, the astronaut travelled in time unless he saw tall, thick trees, huge mountains, blue sky and large animals (dinos, of course).

Dodging their feet and camouflaging in the surrounding, the being experimented with the DNA of the animals and waited until their offspring was born. It was easy with the time travel, results could be seen instantly.

While some species had no effect, others died. The experimented was not limited to the huge animals as new, more evolved animals came into being. They could fly, swim, adapt between land and water, lived underground and eat each other. The range of animals impressed the astronaut and it motivated it to continue its experiments. But slowly as no progress was seen, the astronaut was starting to lose all the hope it had gained. After a particular time-travel, he didn’t see any huge animals at all. They had disappeared somewhere but the planet hadn’t changed.

As days went by, the astronaut grew more and more impatient and would often kill the animals because of frustration and annoyance. Sometimes it would lay down in the night and look at the stars, one might have been its planet, he could never know for sure. The beings there were dying and here it couldn’t find progress. It was the inevitable death, he thought, with no beginning.

During its stroll, he came across a peculiar primate that was small in comparison to huge gorillas. With lost hope, he experimented with them and travelled in time to see if anything, at all, happened. To its surprise, something had changed. The primates walked relatively straighter, the hair in their body reduced significantly, their round facial bone structure was now promising of a stronger cheekbone and they seemed to be less strong than they were.

This overwhelmed the astronaut with unknown emotions and he experimented with some more of the same species. It was working. Some years down the line and the body had much less hair, they walked straight and they were less strong but were much smarter now. They built home and wheel and fire which was never thought of by other animals, evident by their shock. Time grew and so did the intelligence. They built machines to carry people, to fly, to go swimming underwater but also those which killed each other when the time came.

The astronaut witnessed all these. It was not sure how old it was but it didn’t matter. Its kind survived. Someday the other astronauts might come and see the life dancing, as it should. As time passed further, the people grew less and less strong. Their shoulders hunched, many couldn’t walk with a straight back and the size of their head grew was larger than ever before. They looked abnormal to their kind but the astronaut knew what was going on.

After some centuries of wait, finally, almost everyone looked like the astronaut (although all of them had hunched back). The astronaut was filled with extreme joy by now but it felt week physically. Maybe it was time of its death but it was ready now. It would just be a matter of time before others discover this planet and group together to inhabit it with the other beings that live rather peacefully. The new beings were not smart or intelligent. Technologically they were years back than the specie of the astronauts but they knew how to live with each other (after many wars), and the astronaut died, thinking that its kind would be welcomed the same way.

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Leaked files reveal the US government had tested and stored ‘unknown material’ from alien spaceship wreck

Scientists have been following signals, sightings, and appearances supposedly paid by Aliens, however, there is no concrete proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. But what if these aliens were real? What if the sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) were real? A UFO research group has leaked highly-confidential files belonging to the Government of the United States or Army to the Internet which made some striking revelation about the materials founded. The papers as quoted by a major news website were written between 2007 and 2012 classifying the materials found due to extraterrestrial sightings and UFOs. The paper elaborates that these ‘unknown’ materials have been tested and currently stored in a private facility thereby keeping everything under wrap.

It is not the first time when the United States Government or Army has been alleged of hiding valuable information such as the Apollo Moon Landing, the shape of the Earth, etc. According to the papers, some unknown materials were found across the United States which were recovered. It could be potential alien crash sites leaving the unknown material as wreck which is then supplied to the Department of Defence (DoD) which in turn, stores it in private and confidential facility. These revelations also hint towards the total expenditure of £16 million invested by DoD towards UFO budget to the private company ‘Bigelow Aerospace’ based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The files that were leaked recently had quoted that Bigelow Aerospace has been modified as a storage area where these materials can be stored without any hassle.

According to a former NASA employee, James Oberg stated that the Government of the army may not be directly involved with the Bigelow, however, there are chances that the latter contracted UFO research groups who would search and provide details on such sightings to Bigelow and then, the latter would inform the DoD about it. On the flip side, a former UFOs investigator for British Ministry of Defence stated that the material found can be mistaken as something not from Earth. He further explained that when a former or someone notices a UFO-like strange sighting and then finds any material alongside, he/she could mistakenly assume it to be from the UFO as well.

In a different story, enthusiasts have found what is said to be a UFO in the Arizona desert. The group revealed that they found the photos of that strange structure black in color in the Arizona Desert near deciduous trees. Many Ufologists have claimed that it could be a potential alien spaceship. In the pictures shown by Google Maps, there is a black spot over the structure which is a well-known trick used by governments to hide something from the satellites and it has happened in many instances.

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