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Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy Theories

by NICK POPE

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Nick Pope is one of the world’s leading experts on conspiracy theories. He has discussed the subject on numerous TV shows, and written news stories and features about conspiracy theories (including tie-in publicity material for the second X-Files movie, and extensive material for truTV’s Conspiratorium), covering topics that include JFK, the moon landings, 9/11, UFOs, and many other conspiracy theories – some well-known, others less well-known. If you’ve ever read one of those media features listing the world’s top 10 conspiracy theories, it may well have been written by Nick Pope!

Having investigated UFOs for the British Government, Nick Pope has been the subject of some conspiracy theories himself, with many people believing that he was part of a government cover-up aimed at hiding the truth about UFOs. Despite having left the UK’s Ministry of Defense in 2006, the belief that he’s still secretly working for the government is widely held in the conspiracy theory community.

Nick Pope is a conspiracy theory skeptic. While he thinks that challenging the government’s position on issues is an important part of any free, open and democratic society, he believes that many conspiracy theories arise from a lack of critical thinking, and a poor knowledge of the way in which government works. He’s particularly concerned when conspiracy theories are used as justification for anti-Semitic views, or have fueled the anger of people with mental health issues.

In his work as an author, journalist and broadcaster, Nick Pope has covered conspiracy theories extensively. The following article is a distillation of his current position, and is meant as a quotable resource for academics, students, journalists and other media professionals looking at the subject.

 

Introduction

This article is a personal overview of the conspiracy theory ‘genre’. While I’ll be citing a few individual conspiracy theories to illustrate some particular points, it’s not my intention to drill down into any individual conspiracy theories in great detail here. Many others have done this and in a sense, the purpose of this article isn’t to debate whether any individual conspiracy theories are true or false, but to make some more general observations about the subject as a whole.

Personal Background

I write this article with a number of different hats on. Firstly, I worked for the British Government for 21 years, at the Ministry of Defense (MoD). Accordingly, I have considerable knowledge of the way in which government works and – in relation to the topic in hand – have a pretty good idea of the boundaries: what governments do and what they don’t do. Secondly, one of my MoD jobs involved investigating UFO sightings reported to the Department, as well as handling policy, media enquiries and public correspondence on the issue. Given that many people believe the MoD is covering up the truth about UFOs, this exposed me directly to accusations concerning conspiracy theories. Thirdly – and related to the previous point – despite having left the MoD in 2006, I’m the subject of a conspiracy theory myself. The accusation is that my departure from MoD was a ruse and that I’m still secretly on the payroll, with a role variously described as being either to put out disinformation about UFOs, to infiltrate/discredit the UFO community, to acclimatize people to an extraterrestrial reality ahead of ‘Disclosure’ (official confirmation of extraterrestrial visitation), or to promote belief in (non-existent) extraterrestrials ahead of a “false flag alien invasion”. Such mutually-contradictory theories are not unusual in the conspiracy theory community – see, for example, the work done by Dr. Karen Douglas at University of Kent, who discovered that those who believed Osama bin Laden was already dead before the US raid that purportedly killed him in 2011 were also more likely to believe that he is still alive. Fourthly, I now work as a journalist and broadcaster covering – among other subjects – conspiracy theories. Fifthly, through speaking at various conferences, I have had considerable exposure to the conspiracy theory community.

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One of Nick Pope's newspaper features on consipiracy theories


Definitions and Terminology

This subject is not helped by the lack of agreed terminology and definitions of words and phrases such as “conspiracy” and “conspiracy theory”, or by the relationship with words like “collusion”. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines conspiracy as “an agreement between two or more persons to do something criminal, illegal or reprehensible” – but what constitutes “reprehensible” is a subjective judgement. The OED defines collusion as “a secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy in order to deceive others”.

Related to this is the way in which “conspiracy theorist” is sometimes used as a pejorative. This is unhelpful, given that some conspiracy theories are true, and it leads to situations where 9/11 conspiracy theorists refer to the US Government’s version of what took place as the “OCT” (Official Conspiracy Theory). This dogfight over language muddies the waters before we even get to the issues.

It’s worth noting that the conspiracy theory community has a number of linguistic tropes. “Sheeple” is used to describe people who are not “awake” in a political sense and tend not to question the ‘party line’. Such terms are combined in phrases like “wake up, sheeple”. “Crisis actors” are people alleged to play the parts of grieving relatives or bystanders at fake mass-shootings or terror attacks. The bad guys in the conspiracy theory universe are sometimes individual governments, but often more shadowy forces such as the Illuminati, the New World Order, or some variation on this theme. Dissent from fellow conspiracy theorists with differing views is often dealt with by stating or implying that the dissenter is a “shill”, secretly working with the bad guys. Conspiracy theorists know just enough about the world of intelligence to be familiar with terms such as “useful idiot”, “disinformation”, “psyop”, “agent provocateur”, “false flag” and “cointel”, without really understanding the realities.

Dissent from outside the conspiracy theory community is generally ignored. The Popular Mechanics investigation into the most widely held 9/11 conspiracy theories is often dismissed out of hand, as is the 9/11 Commission Report. Most 9/11 conspiracy theorists haven’t read the latter, and justify this by saying that it’s obvious propaganda and is itself part of the conspiracy.

Conspiracy Theories and Government

It’s an important but often overlooked fact that a common thread that runs through most conspiracy theories is that the event under discussion generally involves government or some official agency. Only a very few conspiracy theories (e.g. “Paul McCartney is dead”) don’t involve the government and even here, one can make a case for saying that ‘Big Business’ is an extension of government in the minds of conspiracy theorists, and that there were obvious financial reasons for covering up McCartney’s death. But the fact that most conspiracy theories revolve around the supposed actions of government, the military and the intelligence agencies is extremely important in understanding the root causes of conspiracy theories, and suggests that distrust of government lies at the heart of the matter. Sometimes, however, the tendency to focus on specific conspiracy theories can blind us to such overarching points.

Conspiracy Theories and Popular Culture

It would be remiss not to mention the issue of how conspiracy theories are portrayed in popular culture. In a TV series like The X-Files or in films such as The Matrix trilogy, not only could the main protagonists be categorized as conspiracy theorists and portrayed as heroes, but they live in a world where the conspiracy theories are true and where – in the Matrix universe – reality itself is a lie. Movies like Conspiracy Theory and Mercury Rising are also good examples, as are numerous sci-fi movies dealing with UFOs/extraterrestrials, where part of the plot often involves the government or the military being aware of the alien presence, but trying to keep the knowledge from the public. Arguably, Hollywood portrays conspiracy theories as more likely to be true than is the case in real life, and portrays conspiracy theorists in a more favorable light than the media portrays their real-life counterparts. It’s unclear what effect such a portrayal (generally positive) of conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists has (it may act as a partial validation of people’s fringe beliefs, especially if they empathize with ‘heroic struggles’ in conspiracy theory fiction), but it’s worthy of study. It also highlights another irony of the conspiracy theory universe, where people often allege that Hollywood is part of the ‘system’ and – particularly in relation to extraterrestrials – is complicit in a campaign to acclimatize/indoctrinate people to a particular view. 

Conspiracy Theories, the Internet, and the Multi-Media World

The internet has played a huge role in giving voices to those who, previously, would have had little or no chance of having their say. Social media sites have played a large part in this too. The Arab Spring is an oft-cited example of this. More generally, there has been a fundamental shift in the concept of journalism, where the center of gravity has moved away from the mainstream news media. A good example of this shift is the fashion industry, where the rising (and arguably disproportionate) influence of a handful of influential bloggers has caused huge tensions, but where changes reflect a new power dynamic. The use of sites such as Twitter to name and shame celebrities who have taken out ‘super injunctions’ to try to prevent negative news stories being published is another example of this.

The internet has had a similar and massive effect upon conspiracy theories. It’s arguable that every issue and point of view has been changed and amplified by the internet, but it seems that alternative viewpoints have been disproportionally affected. Previously, fringe issues often tended to be squeezed out, but they now have more of an outlet. 

Tied to this is the increase in media outlets. I was brought up in the UK when there were three TV stations: BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. Nowadays, there are a multitude of TV stations, and while a lot of material is repeated, there’s more demand for new content than has ever previously been the case. All this broadcasting time – and the same is true for radio – has to be filled, and this gives conspiracy theories an outlet that they have not previously enjoyed. Indeed, some networks such as Edge Media TV (later known as Controversial TV and broadcast on Sky Channel 200) were almost exclusively devoted to alternative views and conspiracy theories.

It’s not clear whether the rise of the internet and the transition to a multi-media society has significantly changed people’s views, as opposed to having held up a mirror to views that were already there. Again, this is a point worthy of further study.

Notwithstanding the above, there remains an odd disconnect. 9/11 conspiracy theories, for example, have a huge ‘internet footprint’, but enjoy comparatively little mainstream media coverage. The same could be said about other topics, such as ‘chemtrails’. Skeptics might say this is a good thing, as it shows that that the ‘evidence bar’ is set at an appropriately high level, which alternative theories about 9/11 have yet to reach. As a journalist, however, my intuitive feeling is that this is wrong, and that even if pretty much every conspiracy theory relating to 9/11 is flawed (as I believe to be the case), the fact that so many people believe otherwise should lead to greater mainstream news media engagement – even if it’s the belief in these conspiracy theories that is, itself, the news story. The danger otherwise is that large numbers of people feel disenfranchised by the media, and believe the media is letting them down by not asking tough questions of the authorities. Worse still, some people may – and do – come to believe that the media (the “controlled media” as various people in the conspiracy theory community are fond of saying) is complicit in the cover-up. 

The announcement on the BBC of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 is a good example of how people come to believe that elements of the media are “controlled”. A newsreader announced that the building had collapsed while it was still standing. Only later did it collapse. The building was on fire and the firefighters had been pulled out, so collapse was arguably imminent, but how did the collapse get announced before it had actually occurred? Let’s look at the possible explanations. Had the newscaster misunderstood, or perhaps misheard what the producer said via the earpiece? It was a fast-moving and stressful situation for everyone in the newsroom, and that’s the likely explanation. But a surprising number of people believe that the BBC knew about the collapse in advance (because these people think the whole attack was pre-planned by Western authorities, or elements thereof), but weren’t following the script carefully enough, and thus let the cat out of the bag by announcing a pre-planned event a little too early. As an ex-government official who now works as a broadcaster and journalist, I can’t help but observe how absurd this is: the idea that a small group of conspirators would plan an insidious false flag attack that – if discovered – would shake the Establishment to its core and result in jail terms (and possibly the death penalty) for all those involved – and then tip off one of the largest news organizations on the face of the planet. But for the purposes of this article, the point isn’t whether or not such things are true – which will always be a subject of debate – but whether people believethey’re true, which is undeniably the case. Such a view of the media is unfortunate, because from Watergate in the US to more recent UK stories such as cash for questions, cash for honors and MPs’ expenses, the media actually has a good, proven track record of going after powerful Establishment figures when suspicions or allegations of wrongdoing emerge.

Contradictory Conspiracy Theories

I mentioned earlier the work of Dr. Karen Douglas at University of Kent, who found that those people who believed Osama bin Laden was already dead before the US raid that purportedly killed him were also more likely to believe that he’s still alive. This may seem counter-intuitive, if not downright absurd, but it’s symptomatic of a wider issue with some conspiracy theories, where mutually-contradictory theories are put forward for what’s alleged to be going on. The chemtrail conspiracy is a good example, with some people believing the aim of this supposed chemical spraying campaign is to alter the weather, while others think it’s aimed at behavior modification, or that it’s part of a campaign to poison people, as part of a mass-extermination plan. Clearly, even if chemtrails were real, most conspiracy theory belief about them would be false. We see the same with 9/11 conspiracy theories: some people believe it was an “inside job”, some people believe America “looked the other way”, some people believe aircraft hit the Twin Towers, while other people (the so-called “no-planers”) think the aircraft seen hitting the buildings were holograms and that the buildings were brought down by a controlled demolition (or, at the extreme end of the belief spectrum, some sort of anti-gravity weapon). In situations like this, the proponents of more extreme beliefs are often accused of being shills, infiltrating the so-called “Truth Movement” and discrediting it by making overly ridiculous claims.

Close, But No Cigar

Few conspiracy theories are without some element of half-truth or ambiguity. There are apparently reasonable points that, at first, give one pause for thought. The CIA, for example, was aware of 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi, but didn’t put them on the State Department’s TIPOFF watchlist, or inform the FBI. Does this mean that the authorities knew 9/11 was going to happen but “looked the other way”? In fact, such failings are not uncommon, and in most cases are the result of factors such as overwork, information overload and – critically – poor intelligence-sharing between different agencies. On this latter point, inter-agency rivalry, mistrust and even antipathy is much more common than the public (who often view government as a single entity) are generally aware. To these factors can be added the tendency of people entrusted with classified or sensitive information to be overly-protective (particularly in situations where a key concern is to avoid compromising a sensitive source), to the extent that it becomes useless – the intelligence isn’t actionable. So using the Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi example, what may look suspicious to the layperson is immediately recognizable as standard practice to those of us with a background in government/intelligence. 

Conspiracy Theories and Science

Related to the above are arguments that may initially seem scientific, but on closer examination (which often doesn’t happen) aren’t. Again, 9/11 provides a nice example. Conspiracy theorists point out that aviation fuel doesn’t burn at a high enough temperature to melt steel. Therefore, they argue, aircraft alone, slamming into the Twin Towers, couldn’t have brought the buildings down. This opens the door to speculation about a controlled demolition. While the argument might initially sound reasonable, more careful consideration leads us to the answer: steel loses its structural integrity at a much lower temperature. This, plus gravity, was more than enough to bring down the buildings. 

A basic understanding of science would result in a more informed debate about many conspiracy theories. The chemtrail conspiracy is a good example of this. Undeniably, there have been government/military attempts to modify the weather. Operation Popeye (cloud seeding during the Vietnam War, aimed at making it rain on the Ho Chi Minh trail, thus bogging down the main Vietcong supply route) is a well-documented example of this. So, if chemtrails are real, it’s scientifically plausible that they have something to do with weather control or even climate change. However, researching crop spraying and seeing how low the aircraft have to fly for the spray to have a discernible effect on the crops should – even for believers in chemtrails – eliminate the idea that they have anything to do with poisoning people or modifying their behaviour. You couldn’t target a spray with any degree of accuracy from the heights at which it’s alleged chemtrails are discharged (commercial aircraft cruising height of around 35,000 feet), and any chemicals sprayed from such heights would have a negligible effect on anyone at ground level. In any case, the economy of scale argument could be brought into play – why not simply put chemical into the water supply? Surely even the New World Order would choose a cheaper and easier strategy if one was available! The point is, applying science can eliminate some aspects of a conspiracy theory and result in a more focused debate on that part which remains.

Conspiracy Theories – The Good

Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true, and while governments don’t lie as often as many people seem to think, they constantly dissemble and spin. Accordingly, a healthy skepticism in respect of what we’re told by government (and the authorities more generally) is actually a very good thing, and is a healthy indicator of a modern, open, democratic society. More generally, it’s good in terms of critical thinking. So it’s right to doubt and challenge what we’re told by those in power, and to ask searching questions if something doesn’t look or feel right. But there’s a danger in going too far and in assuming that because one conspiracy theory is true, most or all of them are (The few academic studies done into this suggest that if you believe in one conspiracy theory, you’re more likely to believe in others). As ever, the trick is to get the balance right. As the old saying goes, it’s good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.

With this in mind, it would be a good thing (and would help a more informed debate) if conspiracy theorists and skeptics could find some common ground in terms of a conspiracy theory that turned out to be true. Interestingly, one that’s often cited as true (that the Nazis started the Reichstag fire to discredit the communists and consolidate their power) is the subject of more debate between historians than most people realize. Conversely, few people on either side of the debate are familiar with one of the best documented conspiracy theories in recent years, i.e. the fact that senior figures in the Northern Ireland Office, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Catholic Church knew (or strongly suspected) who was responsible for the bombings in Claudy, County Londonderry, in 1972 (attacks in which nine people died), and that actively conspired to cover it up, because the alleged perpetuator was a Catholic priest. The Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman’s 2010 report into the bombing and the subsequent events found that this conspiracy almost certainly took place, and their conclusion was widely reported by the mainstream media – including the BBC. 

The review of the original investigation into the Claudy bombings makes interesting reading for those interested in conspiracy theories (on whichever side of the debate) because of what it tells us about inquiries in modern times. When wrongdoing (including conspiracy – even if it’s only a conspiracy of silence) is found, it’s generally exposed, with criticisms being made. The Hutton Inquiry (into the apparent suicide of government weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly) is seen by some as a whitewash, and itself part of a conspiracy to cover up what really happened. But if people use this to imply that all official inquiries are going to give the government an easy ride and support the party line, they’re mistaken. The Saville Report (into the Bloody Sunday shootings) was extremely critical of the Army and concluded that a soldier fired the first shot. Charles Haddon-Cave QC’s report into the fatal crash of an RAF Nimrod aircraft in Afghanistan in 2006 contains damning criticisms of the MoD and defense contractors. The ongoing Iraq Inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot is likely to contain robust criticisms of various government figures in relation to the Iraq War, though it’s unlikely to support the conspiracy theory that “we went to war on a lie” – i.e. that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Again, all this should be required reading for conspiracy theorists and conspiracy theory skeptics alike, as it’s a useful template for how the authorities respond when things go catastrophically wrong.

Conspiracy Theories – The Bad and the Ugly

There’s a dark side to some conspiracy theories. Firstly, the irony is that while they can sometimes be healthy in terms of encouraging critical thinking, they can also be extremely unhealthy, in terms of people believing unsubstantiated rumors simply because they accord with their (generally anti-Establishment) worldview. Far more worrying, however, are three other factors. 

Firstly, some conspiracy theories, particularly those involving a ‘New World Order’, imply that the world is secretly run by a small group of families and corporations – a sort of ‘shadow government’. In relation to such ideas, one often hears the phrase “conspiracy of international bankers” or “small group of families who secretly rule the world”. Often, such wording is used to mask anti-Semitism. The accusation of anti-Semitism is often met with the defense that those involved are only against “Zionism”, but have nothing against Jewish people more generally. In some cases this is true, and on a related issue it’s a dangerous situation where any criticism of the Government of Israel is automatically labeled as being anti-Semitic. But in other cases the defense about being anti-Zionist sounds like a convenient ‘get out’, not a million miles away from the cliché about the racist who begins an argument with a phrase “Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got black friends”. Even if not motivated by racism, such views make it easier for racism to take root. At a UFO conference held in Leeds in 2011, for example, a question from the floor turned into a lengthy comment which included the sentiment that Hollywood was “run by the Jews”. Significant numbers of audience members (and even some of the other speakers on the panel) seemed to be nodding in agreement, and only one person in the audience was courageous enough to take the individual concerned to task.

Secondly, medical conspiracies (e.g. those surrounding Swine flu) can be dangerous. Many people believe that certain diseases were bio-engineered deliberately, and that they – and/or the associated vaccination programmes – are part of a conspiracy to exterminate large numbers of people, to bring the world population down to a more manageable/sustainable level and – perhaps – to bring about a New World Order. If people who are ill with such diseases use conspiracy websites to inform their decisions, as opposed to seeking medical advice, the consequences could be fatal. As a practical illustration of this, I once saw a father post a question about vaccinations for his baby on the Facebook wall of a conspiracy theorist who had recently expressed the view that a false flag alien invasion would be staged at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.

The third – and possibly least commented upon – area where conspiracy theories can be dangerous relates to the feelings of rage and powerlessness that they can engender. With certain personality types, this runs the risk of making them feel they have no stake in the democratic system, and no conventional way for their voice to be heard. Though the situation is not clear-cut, there are very strong indications that John Patrick Bedell (who opened fire on Pentagon police officers in 2010 and was subsequently shot dead) was motivated in part by 9/11 conspiracy theories, and that Jared Lee Loughner (who killed six people in Tucson in 2011) was obsessed with conspiracy theories on 9/11, the New World Order and Mayan prophesies apparently suggesting that the world would end in 2012. This is a controversial area and one on which experts in psychopathology are best-placed to comment. One could doubtless argue that such people would always find something to latch onto, that tips them over the edge. But at the very least, we must be mindful of the negative effects that conspiracy theories can have on individuals, and indeed on groups of people. The think-tank Demos, for example, has done some interesting research into the link between conspiracy theories and extremism.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

There’s an interesting aspect of some conspiracy theories that’s worth knowing if one is to truly understand the mindset of some conspiracy theorists. On one level it looks like a cheap trick, but on another level it offers a useful insight into the conspiracy theory universe. Again, the supposed false flag alien invasion at the 2012 Olympic Games is the perfect example. If it happened, self-evidently proponents of such a theory would have been proved correct and would have claimed credit. But when it didn’t happen, the ‘get out’ was that those involved prematurely exposed the New World Order’s plan and thus forced them to back down. In this case and in others, conspiracy theorists can actually take credit for what, in reality, is nothing more than a failed prediction.

National Differences

As a British citizen who now lives in the United States, the issue of national differences in conspiracy theories is of particular interest to me. It’s noticeable that a number of US conspiracy theories (e.g. those about the Sandy Hook school shootings and the Boston Marathon bombings) revolve around the central premise that the intention is to create an environment where the government will be able to declare martial law and “take away our guns”, thus overturning the right to bear arms that’s enshrined in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Interestingly, proponents of such theories seldom cite what might initially sound like a compelling argument, i.e. the fact that a school shooting in Scotland (the 1996 Dunblane school massacre) did lead to extensive gun control in the UK. However, even if this was to be cited as a precedent for how governments can clamp down on private gun ownership, it would be based on a misunderstanding of the fundamental differences in US and UK public attitudes to firearms, and on a failure to appreciate the unique protections afforded by the Second Amendment. Such factors must be borne in mind when looking at conspiracy theories regarding mass shootings – arguably one of the most prevalent types of conspiracy theory in modern day America.

A Testable Hypothesis

Belief in conspiracy theories clearly has a number of root causes, including mistrust of government, feelings of personal disempowerment, and lack of knowledge of the way in which government, the military and the intelligence agencies work. It seems to me that much of this is testable. On the knowledge of government point in particular, where answers are either right or wrong, it would be possible to conduct double blind experiments which could score someone’s believe in various conspiracy theories and their knowledge of officialdom, to see if there’s a relationship. I’ve discussed this with at least one academic (and have drawn up some questions for a study) but I believe further work in this area would be fruitful.

Conclusion

As I pointed out previously, belief in conspiracy theories has been the subject of comparatively little academic study. Exceptions include the aforementioned Demos work on conspiracy theories and extremism, Cambridge University’s Conspiracy and Democracy project, led by Sir Richard Evans, and a March 2015 conference on conspiracy theories organized by Professor Joseph Uscinski at University of Miami. However, given the profound impact conspiracy theories can have on people’s beliefs and actions, more work is needed, and while I support academic research into this subject, I believe we need to be more inclusive. A wider conversation on the subject needs to take place, involving not just social scientists and academics, but the media and – critically – conspiracy theorists themselves. It’s this latter engagement that will prove most difficult (because of conspiracy theorists’ mistaken perception that conspiracy theory skeptics are Establishment debunkers), but is essential for any proper understanding of the subject. It seems to me that a greater understanding of the conspiracy theory community and their mindset is a prerequisite to such engagement. In this respect, blanket dismissal of such people as crazies is singularly unhelpful.

Conspiracy theories are an important part of contemporary belief. In our globalized society, with its 24/7 media coverage, conspiracy theories start almost immediately after newsworthy disasters, high-profile deaths, and mass-shootings. They then spread rapidly, in our increasingly interconnected world. Even if most popularly-held conspiracy theories are demonstrably false, dismissing conspiracy theory culture in its wider sense would be to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Rather, we should be asking why people believe such things, and what this tells us, not just about the individuals concerned, but about 21st Century society and culture as a whole.

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Who Or How Were Earth’s Ancient Structures Built? Ancient Aliens or Forgotten Technology? … Or Both?

Who Or How Were Earth’s Ancient Structures Built? Ancient Aliens or Forgotten Technology? … Or Both?

Exactly how were the great pyramids in Egypt and Mexico built?

How were the famous Inca & Mayan stones squashed into each other?

How was the great stones of Stonehenge placed high on top of each other?

These questions and many more have fascinated people for centuries. Not only are they structures which were built during periods where technology was supposed to be very basic but the more we learn about them the more they baffle us.

For example, the Sphinx and the Pyramids in Egypt are thought to be older than what we are being told. Geologists say that weathering patterns on the Sphinx show rain damage which puts the building date of the Sphinx well past the date of the Egyptians we are lead to believe were responsible for building it.

The pyramids themselves hold many mysteries, much of it appears as scientific code. The layout of the pyramids in Giza are an exact copy of the stars in the Orion’s Belt constellation. Spread out over miles of Egypt’s land the smaller pyramids also line up with the stars of the same constellation. Is Egypt a star map of where our ancestors came from?

More interesting is the coordinates of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt . Their coordinates are 29.9792458 degrees North and what is the speed of light in a vacuum? 299.792,458 metres per second. Coincidence or planned as a message to modern man?

However it should be mentioned that modern latitude is set so that the prime meridian goes through Greenwich England which did not exist at the time the pyramids were built so whatever system they would have used would not have been this one… unless… they were time travellers and knew what system would be in place several thousand years later. Now that would blow the socks of modern man if that were true!

The pyramids are also mentioned on an ancient Sumerian tablet. The Sumerians were in Egypt thousands of years before the ancient Egyptians who are believed to be responsible for building them. This ages them thousands of years more than what is publicly believed.

The Great pyramid hasn’t dropped more than a feet yet the weight of the structure is immense. Modern skyscrapers are designed to drop more once built. The blocks of stone that the pyramids are made from are huge and weigh so much that even modern cranes would struggle to move them. As far as we know there were no modern cranes around.

Portuguese Navy Study Huge Extra-terrestrial Pyramid found Under The Sea. Possibly Atlantis?

So how were they built? How were the big stones of Stonehenge lifted? Were there aliens involved in the construction? Was alien technology used? Was there an Atlantis type super race of ancient humans building these structures or did basic man know more about physics than we believe.

The Mayans, Egyptians and Incas are all supposed to have cosmology knowledge and understanding which far surpassed that of which we believe they should have so did they have a better understanding of quantum physics and the little known vibrational physics than we first thought?

The reason I say vibrational physics is that there is a story of a Swedish dr who went to Tibet in 1939 to visit the Dalai Lama. It is said that while he was there the monks were building a high wall using heavy stones. The story goes that he observed the monks lifting up the heavy stones by levitating them using sound.

The monks set up drums and horns in an arc shape a certain distance away from the stones and then began to make sounds which lifted up the heavy stones and they were then pushed into place. Meditation and Eastern philosophies put a lot of emphasis on sound. Especially the Ohm sound which is the Universal vibration rate sound.

Did our forefathers know something that we are just beginning to understand? Was this kept a secret from us?

The Swedish doctor apparently recorded this on film but the film was confiscated from him by British authorities and never seen again. Funny that?

We know about the law of attraction, things which vibrate with the same or similar frequency are drawn to each other like magnets. We have seen what some metals do when they are near magnets but everything has a vibration and a specific rate so that means that everything can be lifted up like a magnet if you hit the right frequency.

Acoustic Levitation in Egypt – Ancient High Technology

Alien abductees talk about being lifted up out of houses. Do aliens know something about acoustic levitation or vibrational physics? Did they give that knowledge to us years ago and has been kept secret by those in the know or did ancient man know about it but it somehow got forgotten about? Maybe it was lost when modern style governments were formed and knew that there would be no profit or tax in construction if everyone had access to this knowledge.

If you are not sure whether you have been abducted by aliens then use this checklist here to find out:  

Have You Been Abducted By Aliens? 15 Signs That Say You Were Abducted By Aliens But You Didn’t know… Until Now!

Another puzzling ancient mystery is the stone walls in south and central America. They have been cut and shaped to fit so tight and snug that even to this day people cannot slide pieces of paper between them.

They are also oddly shaped which is interesting. What people do not know is that how they were carved and made. There have been stories and theories that say that the Ancient Mayan and Incan builders were able to soften the stones and mold them into position.

Megalithic Softening of Stone Part 1

A very old story spoke about how an explorer discovered that a  mixture made from plants which were found in central America would somehow soften the stone which was then pushed and molded into shape. How true this is no one knows.

What is interesting is that there are very little scratch and tooling marks to see. We do have thousands of years of weathering so the smallest marks might have been eroded but the stone work across central and south America is pretty impressive.

Maybe the stone was an ancient version of concrete and were molded and fashioned into shapes. This is another theory being put forward today.

What do you think? Were our ancestors smarter than we give them credit for using technology we no longer use or were these impressive structures built by or with the help of Ancient Aliens?

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A Floating 'Brain' Will Assist Astronauts Aboard the Space Station

A Floating 'Brain' Will Assist Astronauts Aboard the Space Station

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This Star Shines with the Light of Millions of Suns!

This Star Shines with the Light of Millions of Suns!

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Astronomers May Have Witnessed A Star Giving Birth To A Black Hole

Astronomers May Have Witnessed A Star Giving Birth To A Black Hole

Written by Ashley Hamer

Most dying stars go out with a bang—a supernova, more specifically. But scientists recently observed a star that went out with a whisper, skipping the supernova phase and going straight into a black hole. The discovery not only teaches us more about stars; it could also uncover the mysteries behind some of the universe's most massive black holes.

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Star N6946-BH1 before and after it vanished out of sight by imploding to form a black hole.

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Scientists at The Ohio State University have, for some time, been watching a galaxy 22 million light-years away. That galaxy, called NGC 6946 and nicknamed the "Fireworks Galaxy," sees a large amount of supernovae that scientists observe via the help of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT).

In 2009, scientists noticed that one star, N6946-BH1, was beginning to weaken. In 2015, it disappeared—no big flash, no epic supernova. The scientists concluded that it had instead become a black hole, something that scientists usually believe can only happen after a supernova. Scientists aptly called this unusual trajectory a "massive fail," and published their results in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

"The typical view is that a star can form a black hole only after it goes supernova," said Ohio State astronomy professor and study researcher Christopher Kochanek in the press release. "If a star can fall short of a supernova and still make a black hole, that would help explain why we don't see supernovae from the most massive stars."

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The doomed star, named N6946-BH1, was 25 times as massive as our sun. It began to brighten weakly in 2009. But, by 2015, it appeared to have winked out of existence. By a careful process of elimination, based on observations researchers eventually concluded that the star must have become a black hole. This may be the fate for extremely massive stars in the universe.

What This Could Tell Us About Black Holes

Scientists still don't know how often stars go through massive fails, but researcher Scott Adams predicts that it occurs in about 10 to 30 percent of massive stars.

The findings could help explain the origins of very massive black holes, since they may be easier to form if no supernova is necessary. That's because the explosion of the supernova ends up blasting out the star's outer layers, leaving behind less mass to create a black hole. If no supernova was involved, more of the star's mass would be available to transform into a more massive black hole.

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The Stunning Speed of a Core Collapse Supernova

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  3. Supernova 1987A took 85 days to reach peak brightness after its core collapse.02:55

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  1. A black hole with the mass of a nickel would cause an explosion three times bigger than both atomic bombs combined.00:42

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  3. A black hole with the radius of a nickel would destroy the Earth and draw the moon into an elliptical orbit.01:58

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The Hynek Scale is a Six-Item System for Classifying UFO Sightings and Alien Contact

The Hynek Scale is a Six-Item System for Classifying UFO Sightings and Alien Contact

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IF ALIENS ASKED YOU TO BOARD THEIR CRAFT,..WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

IF ALIENS ASKED YOU TO BOARD THEIR CRAFT,..WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

If Aliens Asked You to Board Their Craft,..What Would You Do?

This is a question I ponder many times when thinking about UFO’s and a possible Extraterrestrial Presence on Earth.

What would I do if a Extraterrestrial craft landed in my backyard and the door opened or some kind of entry appeared where it seemed like I was being invited in to the craft?

Here is my thoughts on how my experience may play out! Please tell me what yours may be!

Maybe “they” would even be beckoning me telepathically or even standing by the entrance gesturing for me to come forward into the craft.

So hopefully after my initial shock and disbelief I would be still be thinking rationally and come up with a answer and either move forward and enter or maybe try to ask a few important questions like, “So you’re not going to poke and probe?”,..and “We are coming back right?”

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As I run this scenario thru the my thought process, I realize I also should be documenting my experience with photo’s and video! “Where’s my Camera?”, “I’m Excited, Overwhelmed and Delirious in What I should Do!”

Then reality sets in and questions rise up as to why I would be experiencing this?

Why Me?

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If a highly advanced race of Aliens made the journey to earth ,…why my backyard?

Surely Stephen Hawking, Seth Shostak (head of SETI), or even Giorgio A. Tsoukalos the “Alien Guy” would be a better choice?

This can’t be Good!

I revert back to instinct and a voice in my head screams load and clear!

“NOT IN MY BACKYARD!”

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Humans are the Species on Earth that claims ownership to the Planet and the dirt beneath its feet. Although we share the Planet with millions of other species we have claimed that we are the dominate species and ruler of the Planet,..and its Galaxy. With our technological advances we have claimed the Moon, Mars and more as ours. If we land there,we own it type attitude. Consuming property as our history as shown over and over again with each human empire pushing for more land and more control.

We defend what we own.

As humans we own our backyard and eliminate any intruders we find “unworthy”. We manicure our lawns and eliminate pests, rodents and plants we consider undesirable. We get angry if our space is trespassed by other people, I myself have been frustrated with teenagers who use my backyard as a short cut between streets. Also in our community complaints arise about crop duster noise and low flying planes over “MY BACKYARD”.

Even if we traverse past our own claimed domains we make temporary ownership. We camp in a forests and bring weapons to protect agonist predators!… in their own backyard! We dam rivers, manipulate weather, and continue to defy mother nature and build wherever we want to.

We may decide that parts of the Amazon are needed for our expansion?,..Oh we have done that!,.. or the Moon is ripe for strip mining! The Planet Mars for our new home away from home!

Haman quest is to always to reach past that final frontier and stake the flag indicating ownership.

“Planting the flag” usually means making a claim to something, usually … Throughout history men have “planted the flag” claiming ownership.

Realizing that no self-respecting galactic colonization force can conquer other planets without a proper flag, Oskar Pernefeldt created the International Flag of Planet Earth and showed off how it might look on a spacesuit and planted on extra-terrestrial soil.

The International Flag of Planet Earth 217 119 26 Finally, a signpost to plant when we conquer alien worlds.

So what would I do if an Alien Craft landed in my backyard?

Well, I didn’t go into the backyard at night without some protection!

As the craft approached and attempted landing in my garden I unleashed a a warning shot over its spinning translucent top.

With visible extraterrestrials in the cockpit and as they ignored my warnings and landed on my sweet corn I took action.

I unleashed my Pit bulls on the open door in the craft! They took off as I unloaded the remaining bullets in the clip and although as they took off with my earth enslaved animals and seemed to explode in space due to the carnage I expect on board, I cant help wonder if they came in Peace?

This is just my thoughts and yours could be vastly different!

I hope they are and would love to hear them! (Cause I’m not a good ambassador candidate, obviously)

So What Would You Do?

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Zo zagen de eerste sterren in ons universum eruit

Zo zagen de eerste sterren in ons universum eruit - HLN.be

Bron: TIME.com

De National Science Foundation maakte een schatting van hoe het universum er bij de vorming van de eerste planeten uitzag.

 NSF  De National Science Foundation maakte een schatting van hoe het universum er bij de vorming van de eerste planeten uitzag.
 Het duurt 8 minuten en 20 seconden voor het licht van de zon onze aarde bereikt. Hoe groter de afstand, hoe langer het duurt, wat betekent dat je met een telescoop letterlijk terug in de tijd kunt kijken. En nu hebben astronomen voor het eerst een glimp opgevangen van het eerste licht in ons universum.

Dat ons universum ontstond met de big bang weten we allemaal, maar wist je dat er daarna niet meteen licht was? De eerste 180 miljoen jaar (ongeveer) bestond alles uit een mengsel van waterstof en helium, en was het donker en koud. Pas toen de eerste planeten ontstonden, die een ultraviolet licht uitstootten, viel er iets te zien. Astronomen van de Arizona State University hebben dat licht nu voor het eerst kunnen opvangen met behulp van een radio-antenne.

De antenne in kwestie is niet veel groter dan een koelkast en kostte ‘maar’ 5 miljoen dollar, een peulschil in vergelijking met de peperdure Hubble-telescoop. Twee jaar geleden kon het ding, dat opgesteld staat in een Australische woestijn, een zacht radiosignaal opvangen, waarna de wetenschappers het jarenlang analyseerden. In het resultaat van dat onderzoek, gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Nature, vertellen ze nu dat het radiosignaal afkomstig is uit de periode van de eerste planeten.

Onze eigen oorsprong

De wetenschappers zijn enorm trots op hun ontdekking, omdat het een periode van ons universum is waar we weinig tot niets van afweten. Sommigen vinden het ontstaan van de sterren belangrijker dan de Big Bang, aangezien wijzelf ook opgebouwd zijn uit ‘sterrenstof’ en we dus letterlijk naar onze eigen oorsprong kijken. En dat is niet het enige opmerkelijke aan deze vondst, want het zou ook de bevestiging van donkere materie kunnen zijn.

Het radiosignaal wees immers duidelijk op het bestaan ultraviolet licht 180 miljoen jaar geleden, maar bevatte daarnaast ook enkele vreemde eigenschappen. Zo konden de onderzoekers afleiden dat de waterstof tussen de eerste planeten een stuk kouder was dan eerst werd aangenomen. “We gingen altijd uit van tien graden boven het absolute nulpunt, maar het bleek maar om vijf graden te gaan.” Voor de leken, dat is -268 graden Celsius. 

Een van de theorieën is dat de waterstof tussen de sterren afgekoeld werd door zwarte materie. Die materie is nog steeds een raadsel voor de wetenschappelijke wereld. We weten uit het bestuderen van de zwaartekracht dat 27 procent van het universum eruit bestaat en dat het niet opgebouwd is uit ‘normale’ deeltjes, maar veel verder is nog niemand gekomen. Als de radiogolf het bestaan van die materie kan bevestigen, is dat een enorme stap vooruit. “Als dit nieuws bevestigd kan worden, verdient deze ontdekking een Nobelprijs”, klinkt het. “In de kosmologie is donkere materie het belangrijkste dat er is.”

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Belgische wetenschappers vinden duizenden kleine meteorieten op Antarctica - HLN.be

Belgische wetenschappers vinden duizenden kleine meteorieten op Antarctica - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Matthias van Ginneken en de Zwitserse veldgids Raphael Mayoraz bij een plaats waar meerdere micrometeorieten werden gevonden.

 BELGAONTHESPOT  Matthias van Ginneken en de Zwitserse veldgids Raphael Mayoraz bij een plaats waar meerdere micrometeorieten werden gevonden.
 Twee Belgische wetenschappers hebben op Antarctica zo’n 30.000 tot 50.000 micrometeorieten verzameld. Dat zijn erg kleine deeltjes van een meteoroïde. De oogst overtreft de stoutste verwachtingen, en is belangrijk om ons zonnestelsel beter te begrijpen.

De twee wetenschappers, Matthias Van Ginneken van de ULB en Steven Goderis van de VUB, trokken voor hun onderzoek naar de Belgische Princess Elisabethbasis, en prospecteerden er het Sør Rondane-gebergte op zoek naar meteorieten met een diameter kleiner dan 2 mm. 

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“We hadden erg veel geluk met het droge, heldere, maar koude weer op de Zuidpool”, zegt Goderis. “Daardoor konden we onafgebroken op het terrein. Soms moesten we door het ijs kappen om bij de gesteenten te komen. In andere gevallen namen we ijsstalen die we smolten en waarin we dan de micrometeorieten konden oogsten. Uiteindelijk verzamelden we veel meer materiaal dan we voorop hadden durven stellen. Op zowat alle plekken die we vooraf hadden aangestipt voor onze bemonstering, waren hoge concentraties micrometeorieten te vinden.”

‘Uiteindelijk verzamelden we veel meer materiaal dan we voorop hadden durven stellen’

VUB-wetenschapper Steven Goderis

Zonnestelsel

Micrometeorieten zijn erg belangrijk voor het begrijpen van ons zonnestelsel. Ze bevatten andere informatie en zijn soms anders samengesteld dan de grotere meteorieten die we kennen uit onze musea. Daardoor kunnen ze leiden tot het ontdekken van nog onbekende asteroïden. Het onderzoek moet inzicht geven in de moederlichamen, waarvan de micrometeorieten afkomstig zijn. Verder hopen de wetenschappers meer duidelijkheid te krijgen over de oorsprong en het transport van kosmische stof in de binnenste delen van het zonnestelsel, en over de fysicochemische veranderingen die plaatsgrijpen bij hun doorgang door de atmosfeer. Jaarlijks komt naar schatting 40.000 ton buitenaards materiaal op onze planeet terecht. 

Micrometeorieten zijn erg belangrijk om ons zonnestelsel te begrijpen

“We gaan proberen om de ouderdom van onze micrometeorieten te bepalen aan de hand van zogenaamde cosmogene nucliden”, zegt Goderis. “Een nuclide, een zeldzaam en specifiek type atoom of zijn nucleus, wordt gekarakteriseerd door een welbepaald aantal protonen en neutronen. Wanneer gesteentenmateriaal blootgesteld wordt aan kosmische straling, worden in de loop van soms tienduizenden jaren cosmogene nuclides gevormd. Dat gebeurt als de hoogenergetische straling interageert met de kern van een atoom. Daarbij worden door bepaalde atomen protonen en neutronen afgestoten. Door die zeldzame nuclides te tellen per gewichtseenheid, kan je de duurtijd van blootstelling en zo dus de leeftijd van het gesteente bepalen.” 

Collectie

Al sinds 2009 hebben drie Belgisch-Japanse wetenschappelijke expedities meteorieten teruggebracht uit Antarctica. Dat resulteerde in een Antarctische meteorietcollectie van meer dan 1.200 goed bewaarde fragmenten, geconserveerd in het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, een van de grootste collecties in Europa. Met de laatste expeditie wordt de Belgische collectie micrometeorieten op slag ook een heel pak rijker.

“We gaan nu de 105 kilogram verzameld sediment met micrometeorieten in detail bestuderen en de micrometeorieten stuk per stuk bekijken in onze laboratoria aan de ULB en de VUB”, zegt Goderis. “Het materiaal dat we meebrachten bevat misschien ook wat interplanetair stof, de fijnste fractie extraterrestrisch materiaal, dat misschien van nog andere reservoirs in het zonnestelsel afkomstig is. Verder gaan we onderzoeken hoe het komt dat er dergelijke concentraties aan buitenaards materiaal kunnen ontstaan op Antarctica en welke mechanismen er aan de basis liggen van die accumulatie.”

‘We gaan onderzoeken hoe het komt dat er dergelijke concentraties aan buitenaards materiaal kunnen ontstaan op Antarctica’

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CLOSE ENCOUTER OP DE LEUSDERHEIDE ( VIDEO )

CLOSE ENCOUTER OP DE LEUSDERHEIDE ( VIDEO )

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Als wij in Nederland een Roswell zouden hebben, dan is daar maar één plaats die daarvoor in aanmerking komt en dat is de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg. 

Er zijn meerdere getuigen geweest van spectaculaire UFO waarnemingen in de jaren zeventig en nu is er het verhaal van de dame die aan het paardrijden was enkele kilometers van Soesterberg toen....


Het jaar 1979 was voor UFO liefhebbers bijzonder in ons land. Want toen gebeurde er iets heel spectaculairs op de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg.

Maar, eerst gaan we nog even iets verder terug en wel naar het jaar 1977, toen er ook iets gebeurde dat beschreven staat in een eerder artikel:

Misschien wel de belangrijkste UFO-interceptie case in Nederland betreft een poging tot onderschepping door een F-4 op vliegbasis Soesterberg. In augustus 1977 werd een schotelvormig object waargenomen boven de vliegbasis, waarna een F-4 Phantom van het Amerikaanse 32nd Tactical Fighter Squadron werd ingezet om de UFO te onderscheppen. Het vliegtuig was uitgerust met een compleet wapenarsenaal, wat erop wijst dat het niet ging om een routinevlucht. De F-4 crashte uiteindelijk in de Noordzee.

Daarna volgt het jaar 1979 en weer een deel uit een eerder artikel:

Op 3 februari 1979 werden door meerdere militairen UFO's boven vliegbasis Soesterberg waargenomen. Dit voorval is uitgegroeid tot de Roswell-case van Nederland. Al vanaf 1964 zijn tientallen meldingen gedaan van objecten die boven de basis zijn gezien. Ook heeft Niburu bij monde van vele getuigen te horen gekregen dat via EMP's bepaalde onderdelen van de basis werden uitgeschakeld die verbonden waren met het nucleaire arsenaal. Rond 1990 heeft de VPRO hier op de radio aandacht aan besteed.

Eerder zond de VPRO, ook via de radio, een reconstructie uit van wat er die dag in februari 1979 gebeurde:

De VPRO, die kort na het incident een tip ontving, besloot verhaal te halen bij de luchtmacht. Dit leidde tot een fascinerende reconstructie waarin maar liefst tien getuigen vertellen over hun waarneming, hun angst en de ridiculisering die volgde wanneer ze erover spraken. Ook de officiële verklaring van de luchtmacht, luchtspiegelingen, wordt in de reconstructie door de wachtcommandant en zijn personeel weggelachen. Op de vraag waarván het dan een weerspiegeling zou zijn grapt een deelnemer: “Van een ufo verderop!” De reconstructie werd op 27 april 1979 uitgezonden in het radioprogramma Expres VPRO en is hieronder te beluisteren.



Dan, rond diezelfde tijd heeft een dame op haar paard een soort Close Encounter, enkele kilometers verwijderd van de vliegbasis.

Op een namiddag in februari 1979 reed Josie Zwinenberg, toen 21, met haar paard vlakbij militair oefenterrein Leusderheide. Het object dat zij hier doodstil boven een bosrand zag hangen zou ze nooit meer van haar netvlies krijgen. Toch gingen er jaren voorbij voordat Josie haar verhaal zou delen.

Ze begint haar verhaal als volgt:

Het was in de namiddag bij daglicht. Rond vier à vijf uur, zo’n twee uur voor zonsondergang, voor de schemer. We zouden de Leusderheide op gaan. Dus bos, veel bomen en dan heb je een haakse bocht waar je het ruiterpad op komt. En dat loopt loodrecht naar de Leusderheide. Dus ik ga de bocht om, het ruiterpad op en daar was het. Pal voor me. Het was er al, het hing al in de lucht.

Later heeft ze een tekening gemaakt van het object wat er ongeveer als volgt uit zag.


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In de volgende video vertelt Josie Zwinenberg voor het eerst na al die jaren haar eigen verhaal. 


Het verhaal van Josie krijgt nog een bizar vervolg in Ierland en wij raden eenieder aan om dat hier te lezen.

Ook na het beruchte jaar 1979 gebeurden er vreemde dingen zoals het volgende dat wij in maart 2016 publiceerden:

Het betreft een melding van een getuige die enkele dagen geleden binnen is gekomen bij Mufon en is geregistreerd onder zaaknummer 74907. 

De waarneming speelde in 1991 en wanneer je het verhaal van de getuige leest, wordt duidelijk waarom dat nu pas naar buiten komt. 

De getuige is anoniem en vertelt het volgende verhaal: 

In de nacht van 17 februari 1991 liep ik de nachtdienstwacht op de militaire basis Soesterberg in Nederland. 

Samen met een andere cadet kwam ik om 3.00 uur in de ochtend aan bij de centrale parkeerplaats en zie een grote cirkel in de lucht, recht boven ons. Het had geen bepaalde vorm, maar alleen felle lichten die langzaam tegen de wijzers van de klok indraaiden. De lichtpunten zelf roteerden niet, maar de kleuren (veranderden) op een soort vloeibare manier. 

Ik schat dat het object ongeveer 30 tot 50 meter in doorsnee was. Het eerste dat wij beiden dachten, was dat het hier ging om een luchtschip, een Zeppelin, zo eentje als GoodYear heeft met lichtschermen aan de zijkanten. 

Dat dit ding heel erg laag hing en heel stil, maakte dit alles echter vreemd, heel erg vreemd. 

Na een paar minuten begonnen de lichten sneller rond te draaien en plotseling steeg het object op met een onvoorstelbare snelheid richting westen. 

Een paar seconden later voelden we een harde wind die om ons hoofd blies, zoals dat gebeurt met bijvoorbeeld een helikopter. 

Als er een manier zou zijn om de snelheid van dit ding te beschrijven dan zou ik dat doen, maar die is er niet. We hadden een onbelemmerd uitzicht van ongeveer 30 kilometer. Dit ding legde die afstand vanuit stilstand af in ongeveer een tiende van een seconde. 

Ik ken de luchtvaart en ik heb zelf vliegervaring en daarnaast ben ik erg technisch. Door dit soort acceleraties zou een mens veranderen in een vloeibare stof. 

Jarenlang is dit een onbesproken hoofdstuk geweest in mijn leven. Ik wilde niet over dit voorval spreken omdat direct na het incident de andere cadet en ik om onverklaarbare redenen heel erg ziek werden. Dagenlang hadden we hoge koorts en moesten we overgeven. De ziekte was zo erg dat het hele voorval mij getraumatiseerd heeft en ik er jarenlang niet over heb kunnen praten. 

Tot zover het verhaal van de getuige. 

Het verslag sluit natuurlijk naadloos aan op de eerdere UFO-waarnemingen boven de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg. Voor een uitgebreid artikel hierover verwijzen wij naar Ufo wijzer. 

Sommigen kunnen zich misschien nog wel de reportage van RTV Utrecht herinneren over de waarnemingen uit 1979. 

We hebben deze video al eerder gepubliceerd, maar voor de volledigheid hier nogmaals. 

Een ding lijkt duidelijk en dat is dat er zich heel wat meer afspeelde rondom deze voormalige NAVO basis dan ons ooit verteld zal worden. En wie weet, misschien komen door bovenstaande wel meer getuigen naar voren.
 


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Strange ball of light spotted in the night sky over Sweden

Strange ball of light spotted in the night sky over Sweden

On February 25, 2018 the owner of the Svensson Ranch in Sweden was out to give the horses hay and stayed out to take some photos of the moon and the pretty color of the indoor arena.

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When the owner was on the other side of the houses she turned around and saw a ball of light hovering in the night sky.

Then, at some point a sphere can be seen above a ray of natural blue light pillars that is caused by ice crystals reflecting on the sphere that turns completely into a blue sphere.

An interesting footage; pay attention to the time stamps and the explanation of the owner of the ranch.

  

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Are These Mysterious Ancient Maya Artifacts Evidence Of Ancient Alien Contact?

Are These Mysterious Ancient Maya Artifacts Evidence Of Ancient Alien Contact?

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Maya developed into one of the most influential ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica.

Occupying a territory from Mexico to El Salvador, the powerful Maya became one of the dominant forces in the region, creating massive cities, trading routes, and breathtaking temples and pyramids.

The Maya stood out in the American Continent due to their hieroglyphic writing, one of the few fully developed writing systems of the pre-Columbian American continent, as well as for its art, architecture, and systems of mathematics, astronomy, and ecology. They were one of the most developed ancient cultures in America.

The Ancient Maya developed in the region that encompasses the southeast of Mexico, corresponding to the states of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and the eastern part of Chiapas, as well as in most of Guatemala, Belize, the western part of Honduras and El Salvador.

This region is composed of the northern lowlands that encompass the Yucatan peninsula, the highlands of the Sierra Madre that extends through the Mexican state of Chiapas, southern Guatemala to El Salvador, and the southern lowlands in the south.

The Mayan civilization developed sophisticated forms of art using both perishable and durable materials, including wood, jade, obsidian, pottery, carved stone monuments, stuccoes and finely painted murals.

The Mayans produced a great variety of architectural structures and left an extensive architectural legacy, which placed the Mayan civilization among the great pre-industrial civilizations of the world.

Mayan architecture also incorporated glyphic texts and various art forms.

The Mayan masonry architecture is evidence of the existence of artisan specialization in Mayan society, as well as a centralized organization and political means to mobilize a large workforce.

Long story short? The Maya were a civilization unlike any other in America.

And because of their extreme level of advancement, many researchers and ancient astronaut theorists have pondered whether it is possible that the ancient Maya obtained their advanced knowledge in engineering, astronomy, and mathematics from an otherworldly influence?

Mysterious artifacts, evidnece of ancient alien contact?

Over the years, numerous alleged artifacts said to have belonged to the ancient Maya civilization have been excavated in Central America.

More than six years ago, a stunning set of images made the news after a number of researchers claimed to have rediscovered long-lost ancient Maya artifacts depicting what appear to be spaceships, alien figurines, and star-maps.

Because of the nature of the claims, these artifacts were quickly labeled as a hoax, and the fuss behind the discovery vanished into history as one of the many hoaxed objects found around the globe.

Different artifacts have been discovered throughout the years. The first set of artifact (see below) were allegedly discovered in Calakmul, Mexico. 

The site is located in the central/southern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, in southern Mexico and includes the remains of the important Maya city Calakmul, set deep in the tropical forest of the Tierras Bajas.

Here are the alleged items that were supposedly carved by the ancient Maya, and are evidence of ancient alien contact:

The above artifacts, allegedly made by the ancient Maya have been heavily criticized by experts who maintain they are an elaborate hoax.

The first article I read when I started looking for information about these strange articles was this one from the Guardian. There is a lot of stuff that seems out of place here. The biggest mistake in the article is that they mention president “Álvaro Colom” and speak about him being Mexico’s president which is a mistake, he, in fact, is a Guatemalan politician who was the President of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012.

From there everything went downhill and the little belief I actually had was gone (you really cannot make a mistake like that, can you?).

The article also seems to mention several statements of high ranking officials from Mexico and Guatemala that discussed these artifacts, yet I have not been able to find transcripts or anything like that online.

I did, in fact, find the images of these artifacts and I must admit they seem impressive. From what I have read about the subject, there is little to none credible information, and the archaeological discovery itself is questionable.

But the above artifacts are not the only ones that have been found so far.

In fact, numerous other similar objects have been discovered throughout the years.

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Here are a few:

Countless images of mysterious figurines are available across social networks.


 

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FASCINATING FLOATING CITY SHAPED LIKE A MANTA RAY WOULD BE 100% SELF-SUSTAINING

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FASCINATING FLOATING CITY SHAPED LIKE A MANTA RAY WOULD BE 100% SELF-SUSTAINING

French architect Jacques Rougerie has envisioned a giant floating city which bears a striking resemblance to a manta ray. He discusses his love for the ocean in an interview, where he calls himself a “mérien,” a term he coined which translates to “one belonging to the sea.” His dream is for like minded individuals to populate his City of Mériens, to conduct research on the surrounding ocean.

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Is the U.S. Government Hiding New Proof of Alien Life?

Is the U.S. Government Hiding New Proof of Alien Life?

The U.S. government spent millions on a project dubbed the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, which studied UFO phenomena. Many claim they found life outside of our planet. 
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When Project Blue Book, the infamous U.S. government program to study the possible threat of alien life, was shuttered in 1969, it signaled to most Americans that this danger was all but ludicrous. But in December 2017, The New York Times broke the story that the U.S. government had been secretly continuing the program.

According to unclassified documents, the government quietly spent nearly $22 million over about four years on a project dubbed the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Stuff They Don't Want You To Know wanted to find out more and invited ufologist Jeremy Corbell in with them to chat on the podcast How the Government Secretly Tracked UFOs — and also talk about what AATIP did and didn't find.

The AATIP began in 2007 and studied UFO phenomena, mainly because of the 2004 Tic Tac Incident. That's when several U.S. Air Force pilots witnessed unidentified flying objects off the coast of California — and documented them on video. These objects were unknown to the pilots, and behaved strangely, as if physics didn't apply — they were flying fast and rotating in unpredictable movements.

It seems that since then, the Pentagon has taken on investigating whether these objects can be identified and, if not, where they came from, and if they're a threat. However, when The New York Times story broke, the official word was that the program ended in 2012. But Luis Elizondo told CNN it's still ongoing — and he would know. Elizondo was the military intelligence official running the program from the Pentagon until he quit in October 2016 in protest that the government wasn't taking the threat of aliens seriously enough.

The project, which received $22 million in funding, wouldn't have even gotten that much if it weren't for retired Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada. He and fellow retired senators Ted Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, and Daniel K. Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, got the program started. Most of the funding went to billionaire business owner Robert Bigelow's company, Bigelow Aerospace, which stored objects and alloys, and solicited research. Bigelow is a well-known believer in aliens. He told "60 Minutes" that he's "absolutely convinced" that not only are aliens real, they're also already living among us.

Bigelow's so convinced, he purchased property in Utah and transformed it into a compound dedicated to studying aliens. And it's not just any ranch — it's Skinwalker Ranch, an infamous place known for bizarre sightings that include everything from tall, slender humanoid forms and mutilated cattle to strange lights in the sky.

This story has everything. But it raises even more questions than it answers. Many UFO enthusiasts think this news is proof of life on other planets; why else would the U.S. government keep studying it? So what do Ben and Matt think? And what about ufologist Jeremy Corbell — what's his take? Do they think we're alone? You'll have to listen to the podcast to find out.

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UFO spotted shooting across the moon in SHOCKING footage

UFO spotted shooting across the moon in SHOCKING footage

GIANT triangular UFOs have been spotted circling the moon which has led alien hunters to believe that our lunar satellite is actually an extraterrestrial base.

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UFO spotted shooting across the moon in SHOCKING footage

Conspiracy theorists were sent into a frenzy when “amateur astronomers” spotted what they believe is clear evidence of a UFO gliding across the moons surface.

Conspiracy YouTube channel Secure Team 10 posted a video which shows the shadow of a ‘craft’ flying over the moon.

The UFO itself is not seen but the narrator of the video believes that this is due to it being so close to the moon that one can only see its shadow from Earth.

The narrator of the video says: “You can tell that this is a shadow because you can see the shadow wrapping around the craters.

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“You can tell that this is a shadow because you can see the shadow wrapping around the craters."

“This was emailed to me by not only an amateur astronomer, but a guy who was the CEO of a corporate jet fleet in Texas.”

Some believe that this is clear footage that a UFO.

Responding to comments below the footage, YouTube user TUFORC wrote: "People who think it was a bird or bug really don't understand what they are seeing or understand telescope or video camera focal points or depth of field.

"One other thing to note. A satellite traveling in earth orbit passes the entire moon in less than a second of time.

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The shadow of the 'UFO'

“This UFO was viewed for at least six seconds over a small part of the moon surface.”

Another person believed that this is a sign of the end for humanity, writing: “The end is near, humans deserve it as well. It will let the worlds wildlife flourish as it should. The human race is too destructive to survive.”

However, some were not so convinced by its authenticity.

The Matt 222 wrote: “It doesn't make sense if the shadow is that dark and small the craft needs to be near to the shadow!!(near enough to see the whole craft)”.

Orion added: “It’s a ladybug crawling on the camera lens”.

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Pilots report intruder ‘UFO’ spotted in broad daylight

Pilots report intruder ‘UFO’ spotted in broad daylight

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Constitutional Duties and Responsibilities

Constitutional Duties and Responsibilities

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Why the world's top UFO researchers chose Tom DeLonge as their mouthpiece

Why the world's top UFO researchers chose Tom DeLonge as their mouthpiece

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WHAT UFO 'ENCOUNTERS' CAN TELL US ABOUT FAKE NEWS AND CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL

WHAT UFO 'ENCOUNTERS' CAN TELL US ABOUT FAKE NEWS AND CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL

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Local News Station Films Strange Objects over Milwaukee

Local News Station Films Strange Objects over Milwaukee

A still image taken from Fox6 News' video.

A still image taken from Fox6 News' video.

Fox6 News out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, captured video of a swarm of strange objects flying over the city early Tuesday morning.  The video was shot from one of the news outlet's tower cameras at around 4:43 a.m. 

A similar video was also recorded by Fox6 at approximately 5:27 a.m. on Wednesday, February 21st.

Amy DuPont, a correspondent for the news station, was on location when she was asked by producers if she was aware of any odd aerial activity.  She reported a large flock of seagulls outside of the Milwaukee County Courthouse about 30 minutes after the video was recorded.

"About 30 minutes later we were sitting in our truck here outside of the Milwaukee County Courthouse and we heard them, birds," DuPont said.  "There are just a huge flock of seagulls here this morning."

Light reflecting off of seagulls is sometimes used to explain UFO sightings, since the birds are said to be relatively reflective; something Fox6 is using to explain the unusual aerial phenomenon. 

However, this explanation hasn't satisfied local investigators.

"Seagulls they say, but I’m not convinced unless they can explain why the camera is interpreting them like that, and what is illuminating them," said Milwaukee fortean investigator Allison Jornlin.

Illinois Mutual UFO Network State Director Sam Moranto shared similar concerns.

"At night [seagulls] like to catch thermals and go higher than normal, but they are low flying birds," Moranto said.  "What gets me is the speed and apparent size. We can reasonably assume that they are flying over the brightly lit area. That's some distance away.  These whatever-they-are seem to be clipping along. Very interesting for sure."

So far, no report has been filed with MUFON by any eyewitnesses.

If you witnessed these objects, please contact us here at The Singular Fortean Society on our contact page, or email us at info@singularfortean.com.

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Ancient Mayan Artifacts: Massive Underwater Caves Reveal Staggering History

Ancient Mayan Artifacts: Massive Underwater Caves Reveal Staggering History

 By Arzu Paksoy

Ancient Mayan Artifacts: Massive Underwater Caves Reveal Staggering History

Archaeologists exploring the word’s biggest flooded cave in Mexico have discovered ancient human remains at least 9,000 years old and the bones of animals who roamed the earth during the last Ice Age.

A group of divers recently connected two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to be the biggest flooded cave on the planet, a discovery that could help shed new light on the ancient Maya civilization.

The Yucatan peninsula is studded with monumental relics of the Maya people, whose cities drew upon an extensive network of sinkholes linked to subterranean waters known as cenotes.

Researchers say they found 248 cenotes at the 347-kilometer cave system known as Sac Actun, near the beach resort of Tulum. Of the 200 archaeological sites they have discovered there, around 140 are Mayan.

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Some cenotes acquired particular religious significance to the Maya, whose descendants continue to inhabit the region.

Apart from human remains, they also found bones of giant sloths, ancient elephants and extinct bears from the Pleistocene period, Mexico’s Culture Ministry said in a statement.

The cave’s discovery has rocked the archaeological world.

“I think it’s overwhelming. Without a doubt it’s the most important underwater archaeological site in the world,” said Guillermo de Anda, researcher at Mexico’s National Anthropology and History Institute (INAH).

De Anda is also director of the Gran Acuifero Maya (GAM), a project dedicated to the study and preservation of the subterranean waters of the Yucatan peninsula.

According to the INAH, water levels rose 100 meters at the end of the Ice Age, flooding the cave system and leading to “ideal conditions for the preservation of the remains of extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene.” The Pleistocene geological epoch, the most recent Ice Age, began 2.6 million years ago and ended around 11,700 years ago.

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Venus may once have been habitable. Now it can tell us if other worlds might be as well.

Venus may once have been habitable. Now it can tell us if other worlds might be as well.

It’s time to return to our hellish neighbor.

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Astronomers find unique water-rich exoplanet similar in mass with Saturn

Astronomers find unique water-rich exoplanet similar in mass with Saturn

 BY TIBI PUIU

Researchers were surprised by how much water vapor they found in a 'hot Jupiter' -- three times more than on Saturn. Credit: NASA, ESA.

Researchers were surprised by how much water vapor they found in a ‘hot Jupiter’ — three times more than on Saturn.

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Although NASA has already confirmed thousands of exoplanets — planets outsides our solar system — what’s perhaps most staggering is their sheer diversity. Take, for instance, WASP-39b, an exoplanet located about 700 light-years away with about the mass of Saturn but which could not be any more different. By studying it in great detail, astronomers might not only learn how it formed but how planets in our own solar system’s backyard came to be as well.

A water-rich planet on fire

With the help of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers were able to peer inside WASP-39b’s puffy atmosphere right to its very core. By filtering the incoming light partly absorbed by the far-away planet into individual colors, scientists could dissect the composition of its atmosphere.

“This spectrum is thus far the most beautiful example we have of what a clear exoplanet atmosphere looks like,” said lead investigator Hannah Wakeford of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of Exeter in Devon, United Kingdom.

This is how they learned that WASP-39b contains three times more water vapor than Saturn does. This was exciting to learn and totally atypical for a “hot Jupiter” —  a class of gas giant exoplanets that are inferred to be physically similar to Jupiter but whose close proximity to the parent star results in high surface-atmosphere temperatures.

WASP-39b takes only four days to come full circle around its parent star. It’s about 20 times closer to its parent star than Earth is to the sun. It’s also tidally locked, meaning it always shows the same face to its star, like the moon.

Being this close to its star, the planet’s day-side temperature hovers at a scorching 1,430 degrees Fahrenheit (776.7 degrees Celsius). And because the exoplanet’s atmosphere is circulated by powerful winds, the night-side of the planet is also just about as hot. Unlike Saturn, WASP-39b doesn’t have any rings. What’s more, it’s atmosphere is free of high-altitude clouds, which allowed Wakeford and colleagues to easily peer down to its depths.

“WASP-39b shows exoplanets can have much different compositions than those of our solar system,” said co-author David Sing of the University of Exeter in Devon, United Kingdom, in a statement. “Hopefully this diversity we see in exoplanets will give us clues in figuring out all the different ways a planet can form and evolve.”

Due to its high water content and hot proximity to its parent star, scientists are convinced WASP-39b must have formed very differently from Saturn. Most likely, it was bombarded by many icy bodies during its early history and, quite possibly, obliterated other planetary objects in its migratory path.

WASP-39b is truly a unique world, the likes of which we’ve yet to encounter. Scientists hope to learn even more about it once the much anticipated James Webb Space Telescopelaunches in 2019. The powerful instruments on board the space telescope will allow astronomers to study exoplanets in much greater detail and which are much farther away than currently possible.

“By calculating the amount of carbon and oxygen in the atmosphere, we can learn even more about where and how this planet formed,” said Wakeford.

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New tardigrade species with unusual eggs found in Japanese parking lot

New tardigrade species with unusual eggs found in Japanese parking lot

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Tardigrades are the most indestructible known complex organism on Earth, and perhaps the cutest of all microorganisms. Although they look like tiny space-bears, they can survive without water for 10 years, in extreme pressures and temperatures, and even in space. Forget cockroaches — tardigrades will outlive us all. Now, researchers from the Jagiellionian University in Poland have identified a new species in Japan. With this information, they were able to more precisely classify tardigrades within this taxonomic group based on their egg appearance.

The new species of tardigrade.

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The half-a-millimeter long critters are more diverse than you would think. There are about 1,200 known species, with about 20 new ones discovered each year.

The researchers sampled moss in a car park in Japan and examined it for tardigrades. From the samples, they isolated 10 individuals and started raising them in the lab.

“Tardigrades are very difficult to maintain in the lab, often because we do not know what to feed them, so M. shonaicus was a rare case where we can maintain the culture, where I succeeded to feed them algae as food. We later found out that they can also feed on rotifers. Many tardigrades are parthenogenetic, where only females exist and all offsprings are produced without mating. But Macrobiotus species, such as [the new species] M. shonaicus, often have two sexes, and require mating,” said co-author of the study Dr. Kazuharu Arakawa from Keio University, Japan.

They were luckily able to successfully breed the tardigrades in the lab and it was actually their eggs that made it clear that they are a new species. The eggs have a solid surface with flexible filaments attached. The individuals and the eggs were examined under phase contrast light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy for a closer look. The DNA was also sequenced for four molecular markers to confirm that this is a brand new species.

The surface of the tardigrade’s egg.

Image credits: Stec et al (2018).

It turns out that the larger taxonomic group to which these species belong—the Macrobiotus hufelandi complex— can be further split up into two clades (groups with shared characteristics): one group with filaments on the eggs and ones that have eggs that look like mushrooms or inverted goblets. This new species is placed in the same clade as species from Kenya (Macrobiotus paulinae), Ecuador (Macrobiotus polypiformis), Scotland (Macrobiotus scoticus), and Argentina (Macrobiotus kristenseni). It is the only known member of this species complex in Japan.

The new species of tardigrade–a rare video of a tardigrade defecating. Video credits: Kazuharu Arakawa/YouTube.

It may seem a bit odd that the tardigrades in Japan are most closely related to ones of South America, Africa, and Europe, but these little creatures are excellent at dispersing.

“Terrestrial tardigrades can enter an ametabolic state called anhydrobiosis as the surrounding environment dries, and the animals stay dormant until they are rehydrated by, for example, rain. The microscopic dried tardigrades are blown like specks of dust in the wind, so tardigrades can travel widely in this form. Some species are found worldwide, probably because they join the world’s ‘aeroplankton’ and establish wherever they land,” explained co-author of the study Dr. Kazuharu Arakawa from Keio University, Japan.

The new species is called Macrobiotus shonaicus and brings the number of tardigrade species in Japan up to 168. It isn’t not known for sure, but hypothesized that they have a wider distribution around the Shonai area in Japan after which they are named. There are likely to be even more species to be discovered, as researchers only searched in a car park and there are sure to be other locations with other new species.

Journal reference: Citation: Stec D, Arakawa K, Michalczyk ? (2018) An integrative description of Macrobiotus shonaicus sp. nov. (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Japan with notes on its phylogenetic position within the hufelandi group. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0192210. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192210

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HOW HUMANS MIGHT OUTLIVE EARTH, THE SUN…AND EVEN THE UNIVERSE

HOW HUMANS MIGHT OUTLIVE EARTH, THE SUN…AND EVEN THE UNIVERSE

Nuclear war. Runaway climate change. A global pandemic. Today our world faces all manner of existential threats. But scary possibilities like these are nothing compared to what astronomers say lies in store for Earth. Our planet’s ultimate destiny is to be baked, blasted, and eventually disintegrated.

There’s nothing we can do to prevent this cataclysm. Yet according to scientists who study the far future, including Yale University astronomer Gregory Laughlin, the prospect for life is, oddly, rather bright. Given technological advances and the continuing evolution of our species, humans should be able to survive — in some form — long after Earth has ceased to exist.

But our distant descendants are going to have to do some planet-hopping.

THE MULTIPLANET ERA
The first major cosmic crisis will strike in about 1.5 billion years. At that point, according to projections by environmental scientist Andrew J. Rushby at the University of East Anglia in England, the brightening sun will set off what might be termed “super-global” warming. Earth will be heated until the oceans boil.

By then, though, will we care? We already have the technology to establish bases on the moon and Mars. So a billion and a half years from now, we’ll likely have colonized the whole solar system — and perhaps other star systems in our Milky Way galaxy.

As the sun grows hotter, other planets will become more appealing. Just as Earth becomes too toasty to sustain life, Mars will reach a temperature that makes it habitable. Cornell University astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has run models showing that the Red Planet could then stay pleasant for another 5 billion years.

About 7.5 billion years from now, the sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and switch to helium. That will cause it to balloon into an enormous red giant. Mars as well as Earth will be fried. On the other hand, the once icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn will have become tropical water worlds — prime real estate for human colonies. We could live there for a few hundred million years.

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Jupiter’s moon Io is dotted with volcanoes heated by gravitational friction.

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About 8 billion years from now, the flaring sun will make conditions intolerably hot all the way out past Pluto. “The exact dates depend on how much mass you estimate the sun will lose and how much planets will move,” Kaltenegger says. But the message is clear: Life will be impossible in our solar system.

THE STAR-HOPPING ERA
Fortunately, Laughlin points out, there are 200 billion other stars in the Milky Way, most with planets of their own. Perhaps our descendants will have mastered near-light-speed travel. Even with current technology, however, interstellar travel is conceivable on the kind of timescales we’re talking about.

The fastest spacecraft built to date, Voyager 1, is racing away from the sun at 38,027 miles per hour. At that speed, it would take 70,000 years to reach the nearest star. But future humans might build interstellar arks, giant ships on which generations of travelers would live and die before delivering colonists to a new destination. Such star-hopping colonists could spread across our entire galaxy before Earth overheats, even assuming no advances in rocketry.

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An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space.

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At first, those voyagers might choose to set sail for planets around midsize, yellow stars similar to our own. That will take care of us for quite a while, since sunlike stars last 12 billion years before they fizzle. As one star ages and dies, we can move on to the next. We’ve got time.

Fifty billion to 100 billion years from now, though, all of the raw material for new stars will be used up. The last generation of sunlike stars will burn out, and humans will need a new kind of place to live.

It turns out that we have better options than yellow stars like our sun. The Milky Way is dotted with red dwarfs, cooler and dimmer than our sun but built to last. “For the next 10 trillion years, the red dwarfs are just coming into their own,” Laughlin says.

And so planets around red dwarf stars may be our homes until about 15 trillion years from now, when they too will expire.

THE GRAVITATIONAL ERA
Red dwarfs will be the last generation of stars. Once they die, the universe will go dark — literally. Even so, Laughlin doesn’t see this as the end of the line for life. Instead, we will enter what he calls “the gravitational era.”

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Illustration depicting the end of life on Earth, after the Sun turns into a red giant.

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In this dark future, we might build enormous space power plants around black holes, lowering masses toward them to harvest their gravitational pull “like the weights pulling down in a grandfather’s clock,” says Princeton physicist J. Richard Gott. Or we might tap the internal heat of planets to generate energy: The gravitational interaction between celestial bodies creates friction, which can keep planets hot inside even without any starshine.

Don’t picture cave dwellers huddling around geothermal heaters. Trillions of years of evolution will have long since transformed us, Laughlin says. Perhaps we will have merged with our computers. Perhaps we won’t even have a physical form. The only thing our descendants will definitely have in common with us is the essential spark of life: not flesh and blood necessarily but information.

“That’s the most important lesson from thinking about the far future universe,” Laughlin says. “We’re being naïve when we think of life only in terms of Earthlike planets and carbon-based life.”

Information-based life can keep going almost forever. The gravitational era that begins around 15 trillion years from now could continue for quintillion years and beyond, Laughlin estimates. A quintillion is a 1 followed by 18 zeroes. It is trillion times as long as the entire history of our hominid line on Earth.

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Still, even this near-eternity is not the same as eternity. At some point, life runs into the physical limits of matter itself.

Physics theories suggest that sometime between 10^34 (1 decillion) and 10^64 (1 vigintillion) years from now, the protons found in the nuclei of all atoms will decay. That means black holes will be the only organized form of matter in the universe. Future humanity can’t have any physical form at this point.

At 10^100 years — 10 duotrigintillion years A.D. — even black holes will evaporate. There will be no energy or structures of any kind — just a cold, eternal mist of farflung particles. This really is the end point for life.

Or maybe not. Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University, one of the founders of modern cosmological theory, is exploring a model in which the universe goes through endless cycles of creation. His latest version, developed with Anna Ijjas of Columbia University, suggests that the universe could experience a new Big Bang well before the final black hole apocalypse.

If it does come, a new Big Bang would wipe away all traces of this universe — unless we can find a way to leapfrog into the next cosmic cycle. Current physics offers no guidance here.

Then again, we have quite a while to ponder the problem.

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Do you see what I see? Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive

Do you see what I see? Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive

EEG data used to show how our brains perceive images

Don Campbell

A new technique developed by neuroscientists at U of T Scarborough can, for the first time, reconstruct images of what people perceive based on their brain activity gathered by EEG.

The technique developed by Dan Nemrodov, a postdoctoral fellow in Assistant Professor Adrian Nestor’s lab at U of T Scarborough, is able to digitally reconstruct images seen by test subjects based on electroencephalography (EEG) data.

“When we see something, our brain creates a mental percept, which is essentially a mental impression of that thing. We were able to capture this percept using EEG to get a direct illustration of what’s happening in the brain during this process,” says Nemrodov.

For the study, test subjects hooked up to EEG equipment were shown images of faces. Their brain activity was recorded and then used to digitally recreate the image in the subject’s mind using a technique based on machine learning algorithms.

It’s not the first time researchers have been able to reconstruct images based on visual stimuli using neuroimaging techniques. The current method was pioneered by Nestor who successfully reconstructed facial images from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data in the past, but this is the first time EEG has been used.

And while techniques like fMRI – which measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow – can grab finer details of what’s going on in specific areas of the brain, EEG has greater practical potential given that it’s more common, portable, and inexpensive by comparison. EEG also has greater temporal resolution, meaning it can measure with detail how a percept develops in time right down to milliseconds, explains Nemrodov. 

“fMRI captures activity at the time scale of seconds, but EEG captures activity at the millisecond scale. So we can see with very fine detail how the percept of a face develops in our brain using EEG,” he says. In fact, the researchers were able to estimate that it takes our brain about 170 milliseconds (0.17 seconds) to form a good representation of a face we see.

This study provides validation that EEG has potential for this type of image reconstruction notes Nemrodov, something many researchers doubted was possible given its apparent limitations. Using EEG data for image reconstruction has great theoretical and practical potential from a neurotechnological standpoint, especially since it’s relatively inexpensive and portable.

In terms of next steps, work is currently underway in Nestor’s lab to test how image reconstruction based on EEG data could be done using memory and applied to a wider range of objects beyond faces. But it could eventually have wide-ranging clinical applications as well. 

“It could provide a means of communication for people who are unable to verbally communicate. Not only could it produce a neural-based reconstruction of what a person is perceiving, but also of what they remember and imagine, of what they want to express,” says Nestor.

“It could also have forensic uses for law enforcement in gathering eyewitness information on potential suspects rather than relying on verbal descriptions provided to a sketch artist.”

The research, which is published in the journal eNeuro, was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and by a Connaught New Researcher Award.

“What’s really exciting is that we’re not reconstructing squares and triangles but actual images of a person’s face, and that involves a lot of fine-grained visual detail,” adds Nestor.

“The fact we can reconstruct what someone experiences visually based on their brain activity opens up a lot of possibilities. It unveils the subjective content of our mind and it provides a way to access, explore and share the content of our perception, memory and imagination.”

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Mysterious People and Outlandish Tales of InterPlanetary Travel

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Mysterious People and Outlandish Tales of InterPlanetary Travel

For as long as we have looked up at the stars and wondered about what lies beyond that vast, black void between us there has been the yearning to set out and explore the reaches of our planet, solar system, and beyond. We as a species have spent vast quantities of money and time towards this end, and yet at this moment we are confined to a relatively small region around our own planet. Yet throughout the years there have been those who have claimed to have actually managed what we desire, and have reportedly managed to travel between planets. Whether it be by space ship, teleportation, or other mysterious means, such bizarre reports claim that free travel amongst the cosmos is not only possible, but that it has already happened. Here are some of the weirder of these.

Perhaps the most common way that people have claimed to have been whisked off around the solar system is the old-fashioned way; aboard some sort of alien spacecraft. One early account of this type was the deeply odd story of a Dana Howard, who in 1936 allegedly made contact with a towering, 8-foot tall, golden haired woman from Venus who called herself Diane. Howard claims that the Venusian took her aboard a spaceship, described as being gem-studded and translucent, and she was flown off to the distant Venus. There she found inhabitants of ethereal physical beauty, who manipulated life essences to heal themselves and had teleportation technology. Howard would even claim to have married a Venusian and to have had children living there. She went on to describe Venus and its people in great detail over the years in numerous books, including My Flight to Venus (1954), Diane: She Came From Venus (1956), Over the Threshold (1957), and Vesta, the Earthborn Venusian (1959), all of which were purportedly helped along by the occasional visits from the mysterious Diane.

Another apparent traveler to Venus was Howard Menger, who in the 1950s claimed to have had frequent contact with extraterrestrials from when he was a child, and to have made several trips out into the solar system aboard UFOs over the years. He reportedly went to Venus, with its groves of huge redwood-like trees, as well as to the Moon, which apparently had advanced domes and hover trains, and Saturn, where he would claim he had originally been born as a man named Sol du Naro, who had been romantically involved with a woman from Venus. According to Menger, while on Saturn he had learned that he had died and then had his consciousness beamed into 1-year-old Howard Menger, after which he had grown up as an Earthling. Menger wrote several books about his completely bonkers tales, and made quite a splash in UFOlogy at the time. Making it all even weirder is that he would later claim that none of it had happened at all, and that it was all an illusion implanted into his mind during CIA mind control experiments. Again, whether any of it is real or not, it sure is a wild ride.

Venus

Even more well-known is the tale of Polish immigrant George Adamski, who in 1952 apparently made contact with a Nordic-looking Venusian named Orthon in the Mojave Desert. Adamski would then allegedly make numerous trips to both Venus and the Moon aboard a giant bell-shaped spacecraft. The people of Venus were said to have blonde hair, blue eyes, and to be very beautiful, and the moon was described as having forests, cities, and mountains, as well as lights that glittered in the air like “millions of fireflies.” Although Adamski’s stories are mostly accused of being cheap knock-offs of pulp science fiction stories, he has nevertheless gone on to become one of the more well-known UFO contactees.

Such claims of strange travels around the solar system were not done aboard any sort of space craft, but rather through supposed mental powers, psychic projection, or other mystical means. One of the earliest and weirdest of such reports is the case of the Swedish philosopher, inventor, scientist, and mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg, who claimed that in 1774 he had had a potent spiritual awakening. During this time, he said he gained the power to open his mind to speak with angels or demons, and to make psychic journeys, an ability which he used to travel across Heaven, Hell, and to other parts of the solar system, not through the power of any technology, but through the power of God.

Swedenborg claimed that he had been guided along on this journey by God and angels, and that he saw many wondrous things in other parts of our universe. Among his many detailed accounts, some of the more interesting are what he claimed to have seen in our solar system. He said that he had visited Mars, the Moon, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus, and that each of these places had their own unique civilizations. The Martians were described as being totally without body hair and wearing tree bark for clothing. They apparently lived in a peaceful Utopian society where there was no crime or war. On Venus there were two races of people, a benevolent, peaceful tribe, and another dedicated to violence, war, and thievery. Saturn had its humble people who lived simple lives and buried their dead by covering the bodies with leaves, and the Moon had a race of stout dwarves with booming voices. The people of Mercury were said to wear tight-fitting clothing and to be stern and serious deep thinkers and philosophers, while the population of Jupiter were jovial jokesters and liked to walk about on their hands.

All of these things were explained in meticulous detail in Swedenborg’s writings of his experiences, and although it seems pretty obvious now that there are no such beings as far as we know on any of these planets, at the time it was eaten up by those who followed him and it captured the imagination. He would spend the rest of his life trying to fulfill what he saw as his mission from God to reform Christianity, and he would publish a total of 18 tomes to this effect, the most well-known being his book The Heavenly Doctrine. Did he see any of this at all, perhaps existing in an alternate dimension or reality, or is this all the ramblings of a delusional mind?

In the late 19th century we have the account of the Denton family of England, who were claimed to have the power of psychometry, which means they could basically hold or touch an object and divine facts about it. In the case of William Denton and his family, they could see past events in vivid detail simply from touching historical objects or fossils, and some of them even claimed to have used this power to project themselves to other parts of the solar system. Denton’s son claimed that he had visited Venus and seen numerous strange and wondrous animals, as well as massive trees shaped like mushrooms and water that was “heavy but not wet.” Other members of the family and Denton himself supposedly visited Mars, which had yellow-haired people with four fingers who possessed fantastical flying machines, as well as Jupiter, whose inhabitants apparently had large blue eyes, long flowing blonde hair, and the ability to float through the air at will. Although the Dentons could have very well been attention seeking cranks, it is all very outlandish and entertaining nevertheless.

In the early 1900s there was also the purported 1906 psychic journey of a Sackville G. Leyson, who happened to be the president of the Society for Psychical Research at the time. Through astral projection, Leyson said he had managed to travel to Mars, of which he gave a quite detailed description. According to Leyson, the landscape was perpetually shrouded in red clouds and mist, and there was an odd substance like snow that often fell, but which was not cold and made the ground soft. He said that the planet was populated by two different races of beings with vastly different physical appearances. One was a race of hulking giants covered in hair, who towered over him and had a single eye in the middle of their foreheads, elephant-like ears, the nose of a lion, and who lived in rock huts aboveground. There was also claimed to be a smaller race of dwarves, who only came up to Leyson’s knees. These diminutive creatures supposedly live in underground lairs, had webbed hands and feet, a fish-like face with no nose, bulbous eyes on the sides of their heads, and the ability to scale sheer walls like an insect. It is widely believed that this report was likely a piece of creative journalism, but it is certainly strange enough to warrant mention.

In more modern times we have far-out tale of Ingo Swann, who was allegedly a psychic with the power of remote viewing, which basically entails being able to witness things happening in different locations far away from the person’s actual physical body. In this case it was far away indeed, because Swann would claim that in a remote viewing experiment along with fellow psychic Harold Sherman they had managed to project all the way to Mercury and Jupiter to make observations of these places before the U.S. had even launched its Mariner 10 and Pioneer 10 space probes to explore these regions of the cosmos. While at Mercury, Swann claimed that he had discovered the planet had a thin atmosphere, a magnetic field, and solar winds, and that its sky was painted with constantly shifting lights akin to the Aurora Borealis.

He also claimed that Mercury had a primitive form of plant life like a sort of lichen, which covered the rocks on the surface. Shockingly, when the Mariner 10 did a flyby of the planet 3 weeks later, it found that indeed Mercury was very much as Swann had described it, although the probe was not close enough to be able to verify the presence of lichen on the surface. It had previously thought that Mercury had no magnetic poles or any atmosphere at all, but Swann had apparently seen this first, and the Mariner 10 findings backed this claim up somewhat.

Concerning Jupiter, Swann described it as a frigid place with a noxious, poisonous atmosphere possessing a myriad of colors like a “giant fireworks display.” He also said that he had seen vast, raging tornadoes on the surface, as well as ferocious winds far stronger than any on Earth, and he claimed the planet also had strong magnetic forces and a 30,000-foot-high mountain range. Eight months later the Pioneer 10 passed Jupiter and saw that many of these predictions were all strikingly true. It was impressive enough that former American astronaut Edgar Mitchell was reported as saying:

He described things and gave details that were not known to scientists before the Mariner 10 and Pioneer 10 satellites flew by and got the information. These are things that Mr. Swann couldn’t have guessed or read about. His impressions of Mercury and Jupiter cannot be dismissed.

Pioneer 10

Another who praised Swann’s findings was former scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who said “His impressions of Jupiter, along with his experience with Mercury, most certainly point the way to more experimentation.” It seems all very impressive, but it has over the years become apparent that the story was played up to be a lot more amazing than the actual facts. One of the problems is that only the things that matched up with what was found by the space probes were apparently reported on, when in fact there were many other details that were flat-out wrong and just not mentioned. Indeed, renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov found that half of Swann’s observations were wrong, and that the other half could have been lucky guesses based on information already available on planets in science books of the time. Even more damning still was an assessment made by famous astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, Carl Sagan, who at one point said after looking through the whole case:

Recently, two courageous American mystics made an “astral projection” trip to Jupiter, describing the nature of the planet prior to the arrival of the Pioneer 10. I was asked to examine the accuracy of their account. If their reports had been submitted in my elementary astronomy course, they would have received grades of “D.” These reports were not better than what can be extracted from the worst popularizations of planetary astronomy; they were filled with the most obvious misunderstandings both about Jupiter and Pioneer 10. There is no evidence that any mystic has done better in guessing the nature of the planets than he could do without his mystical powers but with the ability to read the better elementary astronomy books.

Ouch. It appears that the very few things the two remote viewers had happened to stumble upon as correct were played up in news reports and a legend was born. It is important to note that in later years Swann did not stop making claims of the weird. In the 1970s he began trying to establish psychic connections with plants, and through this he claimed that he had learned of an impending ecological disaster through mental images projected into his mind by the plants. He wrote of these efforts and other various psychic pursuits in his 1975 book To Kiss Earth Good-Bye. Considering the time-frames involved coinciding with heavy drug culture and the damning skepticism against him, whether any of this planetary travel was achieved through the use of mind powers or the tripping of balls is left open to speculation and interpretation.

In more recent reports we have yet another Mars story and those bases. In 2014, a man only known as Captain Kaye came forward to claim that he was a whistleblower for a military base on Mars. Kaye said that he had spent 17 years on the Red Planet in a program called “The Mars Defense Force,” which had the purpose of protecting the solar system from invading alien races, and which has a colony on the planet called Aries Prime. Eyebrows might be raised even more than they are when hearing that Kaye explains that Mars has a completely breathable atmosphere and a balmy, pleasant climate. According to Kaye, military personnel at the base were ordered to retrieve an alien artifact at a cave on Mars, and this resulted in a catastrophic battle that would see around 1,000 soldiers lose their lives. It has since been determined that Kaye’s real name is Randy Cramer, and that he is a vocal advocate of the idea that the U.S. faked the moon landings in order to cover up the work being done on Mars, so make of that what you will.

These are truly outlandish claims to be sure, seemingly ripped straight from a science fiction story, and perhaps they are just that: science fiction. After all, we have no evidence at all of any of this other than these, let’s be honest, rather implausible claims. However, some of these have gone on to be discussed and debated, and they do go to show that we will probably always have stories like these of people supposedly breaking out of the confines of our planet to reach out towards the stars. Whether real or not, such reports serve to capture the imagination, and illustrate our fascination with the universe beyond what we know

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Do 12,000-Year-Old Texts Hint An Atomic Bomb Exploded On Earth Destroying Civilization?

Do 12,000-Year-Old Texts Hint An Atomic Bomb Exploded On Earth Destroying Civilization?

Does this 12,000-Year-Old Text Reveal An Atomic Bomb Exploded on Earth In The Distant Past?

More than 12,000 years ago, an incredible event left a mark in the ancient Hindu civilization.

Countless ancient texts describe fascinating accounts that many authors believed, occurred thousands of years ago on Earth. While many ancient civilizations across the globe have left a mark in history with countless ancient scripts, monuments, and objects that force us to reevaluate what we know about history, many of these accounts are perceived with a notion of disbelief by mainstream scholars. Some call these accounts as mythology, some refer to it as folklore, but the truth is that there are countless ancient texts that indicate how ancient civilizations around the globe experienced incredible things, and they made sure to document them as well as they could.

Controversial as it may be, many people around the world believe there is a high chance that in the distant past, tens of thousands of years ago, mankind was visited by beings, not of Earth. Many people still believe we are being visited even today, and there is ample evidence that suggests we are continuously visited by civilizations, not from Earth. Today, evidence of visitations can be found in countless images, videos, and recordings made available to the public. There are countless videos and images of alleged UFO sightings. Some of them may not be real, but some of them could very well be the real deal.

However, how would ancient mankind, thousands of years ago document what they had seen? Imagine living 10,000 years ago somewhere in India, and you look up to the sky and see what is today referred to as a UFO. How would you best document that experience?

Ancient civilizations across the world resorted to rock art, petroglyphs, geoglyphs, pottery art, and even in writing. From the Gods who came down from heaven, mentioned in numerous ancient cultures across the globe, to incredible flying ‘discs’ mentioned by the ancient Egyptians thousands of years ago, evidence that suggests we have been visited by ancient aliens can be found all around us.

Possible written evidence of ancient alien contact and advanced technology existing on Earth thousands of years ago can perhaps be found if we take a look at the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

These ancient texts are believed to document incredible technologies, and stories of what many believe is evidence of flesh and blood aliens among us.

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

It consists of 100,000 verses divided into 18 parts or books that are equivalent to eight times the Iliad and Odyssey combined.

The snake sacrifice of Janamejaya.

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These ancient texts are more than a historical narration.

It is a combination of facts, legends stories, and myths.

A vast collection of didactic discourses written in a beautiful language, nurturing all Hindu mythology and creating one of the major world religions: Hinduism.

Among those historical texts, we see a story of a devastating event that occurred thousands of years ago. This event, incomparable to any other historic even in ancient history, sounds very familiar to events that rocked modern history: The use of atomic bombs.

Historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli, argues that the Mahabharataand the Ramayana are full of descriptions of large nuclearholocausts that are apparently of incredibly higher proportions than those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Curiously, when a student asked Dr. Oppenheimer if the first nuclear device that went off was the one at Alamogordo. during the Manhattan Project, he responded… Well … yes. In modern times, yes, of course.

So, what does that ancient text say? And how can you be sure it actually describes a nuclear event, unfolding on Earth thousands of years ago?

A manuscript illustration of the Sky Battle of Kurukshetra, fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, recorded in the Mahabharata Epic.

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The ancient Hindu text, the Mahabharata:

“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful Vimana,
hurled a single projectile
charged with the power of the Universe.

An incandescent column of smoke and flame,
as bright as ten thousand suns,
rose with all its splendor.

It was an unknown weapon,
an iron thunderbolt,
a gigantic messenger of death,
which reduced to ashes
the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.

The corpses were so burned
as to be unrecognizable.

Hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
and the birds turned white.

…After a few hours
all foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire
the soldiers threw themselves in streams
to wash themselves and their equipment.”

 A second passage:

“Dense arrows of flame,
like a great shower,
issued forth upon creation,
encompassing the enemy.
A thick gloom swiftly settled upon the Pandava hosts.
All points of the compass were lost in darkness.
Fierce wind began to blow
Clouds roared upward,
showering dust and gravel.

Birds croaked madly…
the very elements seemed disturbed.
The sun seemed to waver in the heavens
The earth shook,
scorched by the terrible violent heat of this weapon.

Elephants burst into flame
and ran to and fro in a frenzy…
over a vast area,
other animals crumpled to the ground and died.
From all points of the compass,
the arrows of flame rained continuously and fiercely.”

— The Mahabharata

The above text describes a violent and terrible event, one that many authors argue, can only be compared to a nuclear bomb detonating on Earth.

However, there are many other references in the Ramayana which seem to be very similar to those described in the above text.

But is there evidence, other than the texts supporting the theory that a nuclear device detonated on Earth thousands of years ago?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, there is.

The evidence, note ancient astronaut theorists, was found in 1992, when researchers discovered in Rajasthan, 16 kilometers west of Jodhpur, a layer of radioactive ash, covering an area of about eight square kilometers.

The radiation was allegedly so intense that it still contaminates the area today.

The ancient archaeological sites of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are treated as another important piece of evidence- There, experts discovered skeletons scattered throughout the area almost as if a sudden, extremely destructive event occurred there, devastating entire cities.

“(It was a weapon) so powerful
that it could destroy the earth in an instant–
A great soaring sound in smoke and flames–
And on it sits death…”

— The Ramayana

So what really happened thousands of years ago? What did ancient man document in these ancient texts? Is it really possible that a device similar to an atomic bomb exploded on Earth, some 12,000 years ago?

Do the Mahabharata and the Ramayana really describe nuclear weapons? If so where did these weapons come from? The Gods?

If an atomic bomb really went off in the past, was a crater left behind? Ancient Astronaut theorists say yes, and point to a crater with 2154 meters in diameter, located 400 kilometers from Mumbai.

The date the crater was created, according to experts, ranges from 12,000 to 50,000 years ago.

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Scientists Suggest The Moon Was Created 1,000 Years Before Our Planet, And It Formed Inside Earth

Scientists Suggest The Moon Was Created 1,000 Years Before Our Planet, And It Formed Inside Earth

Not only do researchers suggest the moon formed before the Earth, but they also indicate how the moon formed ‘inside’ a sort of vaporized Earth at temperatures of 2,200 ° C to 3,300 ° C and pressures of tens of atmospheres.

The Moon formed within a cloud of vaporized rock, and perhaps it came into existence before our own planet suggests a new scientific theory.

Most scientists believe that the Moon originated as a result of the impact of a Mars-sized body called Theia against Earth, some 4.5 billion years ago.

The violent clash threw rocks and molten metals into the orbit of our planet that ended up merging with each other, eventually forming Earth’s eternal companion we see in the sky.

However, a new study led by the University of California Davis and the Harvard University tells a different story than we have heard in the last few decades; The Moon may have formed before our planet, radically changing everything we know about our satellite and planet.

“The new work explains features of the moon that are hard to resolve with current ideas,’ said Sarah Stewart, a professor at the University of California Davis.

“The moon is chemically almost the same as the Earth, but with some differences,” she said. “This is the first model that can match the pattern of the moon’s composition.”

Researchers suggest how Earth’s satellite was formed before, and at much higher temperatures, than the formation of our planet.

The new explanation, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, recognizes episodes of the collision, but not in the way that was counted so far.

Meet Synestia, a new theory of formation

(Sarah Stewart/UC Davis based on NASA rendering)

According to the new version, the Moon arose inside the Earth, when our planet was inside a “synestia,” a huge, spinning, doughnut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock.

It is a new type of planetary object, recently proposed by the same authors, which is also formed by the brutal clash of other large bodies.

Its name derives from «syn» together, and «Hestia» the Greek goddess of architecture.

The authors of the new study believe that these cosmic donuts were gigantic, up to ten times the size of Earth, but probably did not last long, only around hundreds of years.

They shrink rapidly as they radiate heat, which causes the rock vapor to condense into liquid and eventually collapse into a molten planet.

“Our model starts with a collision that forms a synestia,” explains Simon Lock, a Harvard researcher.

“The Moon was formed inside the vaporized Earth at temperatures of 2,200 ° C to 3,300 ° C and pressures of tens of atmospheres,” he concludes.

Mr. Lock indicates how isotope tests have revealed a fingerprint which undoubtedly proves that our planet and its faithful companion, the moon, are nearly identical.

Despite this fact, studies have proven that our moon has far less volatile elements like potassium, sodium, and copper, which are relatively common on Earth.

“There hasn’t been a good answer for this,” Mr. Lock said.

“People have proposed several explanations for how the moon could have wound up with fewer volatiles, but no one has been able to quantitatively match the moon’s composition.”

As explained in the new synestia theory, cosmic bodies are created within a so-called ‘seed,’ a relatively small amount of liquid rock located in the center of the swirling cloud of super-hot matter.

As the material cools over time, the vaporized rock turns into a liquid.

Eventually, the molten rock falls down throughout the cloud and most of it gathers around the seed to form a plane.

Scientists suggest that as our planet was formed, some of the rock-rain condensed at the surface of the Synestia, and rained down onto the proto-moon, while the Earth synestia gradually shrank.

The moon was created before, and at much higher temperatures.

Scientists say that apart from this difference, the celestial bodies are nearly identical.

According to the new theory, the moon may have formed around 1,000 Years before our planet as it emerged from the synestia much faster.

Mr. Lock explained how “the rate of rainfall is about ten times that of a hurricane on Earth.”

“Over time, the whole structure shrinks, and the moon emerges from the vapor. Eventually, the whole synestia condenses and what’s left is a ball of spinning liquid rock that eventually forms the Earth as we know it today,” he added.

And despite the fact that scientists came up with a relatively solid theory, there’s still some work to do.

“We’ve done calculations of each of the processes that go into forming the moon and show that the model could work, but there are various aspects of our theory that will need more interrogation. For example, when the moon is in this vapor, what does it do to that vapor? How does it perturb it? How does the vapor flow past the moon? These are all things we need to go back and examine in more detail.”

The research has been published in the Journal of GeophysicalResearch.

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Moon formed when small planet CRASHED head on with Earth creating ‘dust doughnut’

Moon formed when small planet CRASHED head on with Earth creating ‘dust doughnut’

THE Moon was formed when a planet in its infancy crashed into Earth which resulted in a ‘dust doughnut’ around our planet that would go on to become the lunar satellite.

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SARAH STEWART UC DAVIS BASED ON NASA RENDERING

Moon formed when small planet CRASHED head on with Earth creating ‘dust doughnut’

Experts had previously believed the Moon was formed when a Mars-sized infant planet – known as Theia – hit Earth with a glancing blow, striking at a 45 degree angle some 4.5 billion years ago.

As a result, chunks of Theia and Earth collected in Earth’s orbit to eventually form the Moon.

But experts from Harvard University, the University of Bristol and University of California now believe the chance the collision actually happened are virtually impossible.

New research suggests Earth did hit another small planet some 4.5 billion years ago, but the collision was head on.

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The impact was so intense that it vaporised the smaller planet, creating a ring of dust – called a synestia – around Earth.

Chunks of molten rock from Earth joined the synestia, which allowed the Moon to form.

In astronomical terms, synestias are extremely brief, only lasting for a couple hundred years, before they shrink rapidly, causing rock vapour to condense into liquid, which ultimately becomes the core of a planet, or in this case the Moon.

According to experts in the study, this would explain why the Moon has a different chemical composition from Earth as the majority of it is formed from another planet.

Sarah Stewart, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at University of California, said: "The Moon is chemically almost the same as the Earth, but with some differences.

"This is the first model that can match the pattern of the Moon's composition."

Simon Lock, graduate student at Harvard and visiting student at UC Davis who first developed the idea of synestias, said: "Our model starts with a collision that forms a synestia.

"The Moon forms inside the vaporized Earth at temperatures of four to six thousand degrees Fahrenheit and pressures of tens of atmospheres."

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Unprecedented: 7,000-Year-Old Submerged Archaeological Site Found Off The Coast Of Florida

Unprecedented: 7,000-Year-Old Submerged Archaeological Site Found Off The Coast Of Florida

“This will forever transform the way we approach offshore archaeology.”

An ancestral burial site belonging to native America culture has been found under the ocean near Key Manasota (Manasota Key Offshore, MKO), on the west coast of the Florida peninsula, local secretary of state Ken Detzner recently announced.

The research carried out so far shows that during the Early Archaic Period, when the sea level was much lower than at present, the area where the Cay is located was not submerged and there was a small freshwater lake where the ancient Floridians buried their deceased.

The site near the community of Venice was first discovered by an amateur diver in June 2016, who reported the find to the Archaeological Research Office (BAR) pointing towards the existence of possible human remains in the area.

A carved wooden stake discovered by divers. Image Credit: Ivor Mollema/Florida Department of State

As it is illegal to excavate any site where there are burials, underwater archaeologists had to use other techniques and tools. Experts used sonar and magnetometers for their research and, after a year and a half, they are finally able to claim that the area, with less than an acre of extension (around of 4 thousand square meters), was firm land not covered by the sea during the Early Archaic Period.

Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a statement that the archaeological site called MKO is located on the continental shelf, off the west coast of the state, in what was once a freshwater lake, when sea levers where much lower than at present.

As the sea level rose, that lake was submerged by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and covered by material known as “peat.” This is a brown material consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter forming a deposit on acidic, boggy, ground; This peat remained intact in the seabed, which helped preserve the ancient remains.

Underwater archaeologists mapped the entire site.

Image Credit: Ivor Mollema/Florida Department of State

According to Detzner, BAR archaeologists have done “an incredible work of documentation and research that can help understand the native peoples better.”

The Secretary of State stressed that “out of respect for the individuals buried there and their possible alive descendants,” divers and other persons are prohibited from accessing the site, already protected by the laws of Florida and controlled by representatives of the forces of order that perform frequent patrols.

Timothy Parsons, director of the Historical Resources Division of the State Department, said that the MKO deposit is “a revelation for the world of archeology.”

Ryan Duggins, supervisor of underwater archeology at the BAR, considered “inspiring” the fact that found a submerged field under the Gulf of Mexico “so well preserved.”

“This will forever change the way we approach offshore archaeology.” 

Image Credit: Ivor Mollema/Florida Department of State

“We now know that this type of site exists on the continental shelf,” said Duggins.

On behalf of the Seminole people, Paul Backhouse, head of tribal historical conservation, expressed his satisfaction at being able to elaborate a plan with other institutions that will “allow the ancestors to continue resting in peace without human interference for the next 7 thousand years.”

“We are truly humbled by this experience,” Duggins explained in a statement.

“It is important to remember that this is a burial site and must be treated with the utmost respect.”

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Als je in een zwart gat springt kun je eeuwig blijven leven. Deze studie laat zien waar je mogelijk uitkomt

Als je in een zwart gat springt kun je eeuwig blijven leven. Deze studie laat zien waar je mogelijk uitkomt

Als je in een zwart gat springt kun je eeuwig blijven leven. Deze studie laat zien waar je mogelijk uitkomt

Als je in een zwart gat springt zul je niet aan stukken worden gescheurd, maar kom je in een vreemde realiteit terecht. Dat suggereert althans een nieuwe studie.

Zwarte gaten zouden je verleden uitwissen en je naar een parallel universum sturen met een oneindig aantal mogelijke toekomsten.

Als gevolg daarvan zou je eeuwig kunnen leven, zo claimen onderzoekers.

Ander universum

In ons universum is er vanwege de natuurkundige wetten maar één toekomst mogelijk.

Wiskundige Peter Hintz van de Universiteit van Californië – Berkeley kwam tot de ontdekking dat in zogeheten Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter-zwarte gaten andere wetten lijken te gelden.

Als je in zulke zwarte gaten springt, kun je dat mogelijk navertellen. Als je namelijk de singulariteit weet te omzeilen kun je in een ander universum terechtkomen.

Tegelijkertijd

Wat er vervolgens gebeurt is niet bekend, omdat de relatie tussen oorzaak en gevolg in een dergelijk universum niet bestaat. Alles wat is, was en zal zijn is tegelijkertijd mogelijk.

Professor Hintz bestudeerde een specifiek soort niet-roterend zwart gat, dat een zogeheten Cauchy-horizon bevat.

Die Cauchy-horizon zorgt ervoor dat het verleden niet langer de toekomst bepaalt. Natuurkundigen hebben altijd gezegd dat deze horizon je zou vernietigen.

Uitzondering

Uit de berekeningen van dr. Hintz blijkt dat Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter-zwarte gaten een uitzondering op de regel vormen. Hier zouden ruimtereizigers ongedeerd doorheen moeten kunnen gaan.

Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Physical Review Letters.

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Unusual Heat Anomaly Detected In The Gulf Of Mexico

Unusual Heat Anomaly Detected In The Gulf Of Mexico

An unusual observation has been noticed in the Gulf of Mexico as a persistent heat anomaly continues to appear on multiple instruments and weather maps.

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Is an underwater volcano starting to erupt or is a hydro thermal vent possibly? The last reading was 133 degrees!

One of the largest underwater volcanoes, a so-called asphalt volcano, resides in the Gulf of Mexico and is discovered in 2003 by a research expedition to the Gulf of Mexico.

But they not only discovered the underwater volcano, also they discovered alongside the asphalt were areas soaked with petroleum and methane hydrate, also spewed from the volcano.

Is it possible that the strange heat anomaly comes from this huge underwater volcano and could it be a sign of an underwater eruption or a sign that the volcano has come back to life?

  
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Pilots report intruder ‘UFO’ spotted in broad daylight

Pilots report intruder ‘UFO’ spotted in broad daylight

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STASI: Don’t worry, chances of an alien cyber-attack are much lower than total human annihilation

STASI: Don’t worry, chances of an alien cyber-attack are much lower than total human annihilation

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If aliens wanted to attack us, they don't need to hack our computers, they'd just bio-germ us into non-existence.

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Cyber-attack anyone? Never mind the Russians — what about the Martians?

Two astrophysicists, whose heads are more in the clouds than in outer space, have just published a research paper proposing that aliens could/might cyber hack attack the Earth causing chaos, mass destruction or maybe universal (like the whole universe) good times. And it's getting a lot of international, and perhaps even inter-species, attention.

The non-peer reviewed paper, (in other words not written for other astrophysicists to evaluate it), by Michael Hippke of the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany and John Learned, of the University of Hawaii, says this cyber attack could come from something as simple as a friendly message about possible communication between us and E.T.

Or as they put it: "A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk averse case."

STASI: Alien invasion would play out like 'Independence Day'

Not so fast, brother. I asked two people who know more about this stuff, than, well, anybody if that makes any sense.

Hell, they said, if aliens wanted to attack us, they don't need to hack our computers, they'd just bio-germ us into non-existence. So rest assured, there is no risk, repeat no risk of E.T.s hacking your Instagram account and posting naked pictures of themselves.

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Why would aliens from deep space bother hacking our Facebook pages when they can just steal our DNA?

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Retired Army Col. John Alexander, a former Green Beret and founder of the Advanced Theoretical Physics Group, who ran the military's psychokinesis group (bending metal with the mind) and author of the book UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, told me, "While hypothetically possible, the probability is so remote as to not be worth any concern, let alone time and effort in countering it." Ouch.

"E.T. alien cyber-attacks don't make sense on any level. They don't need to sow discord as we already have that on our own. If they were to invade, a biological attack makes far more sense. If E.T. understands the physics of getting to Earth, they also understand biology. Therefore, if control or depopulation is the goal, bio-warfare is far easier than mano-a-mano ala Hollywood. Why risk a fight when they could wipe us out without loss of any of their lives. They could also repopulate using cloning technology and just raise a docile herd."

SpaceX rocket launch sparks confusion, rumors of alien takeover

Dr. Alexander believes the real threat comes more from AI that we create ourselves than from a cyber hack attack from outer space.

Even Bill Birnes, who starred in History Channel's "UFO Hunters," and is the author of the upcoming, "UFOs and The White House: What did Our Presidents Know and When did They Know It?" said, "Art from as far back as the Middle Ages, notations in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and stories from other cultures all point to the presence of some types of anomalous craft in the skies. Even Ezekiel is specific about what is flying above him. If aliens wanted to take over this planet, why worry about computer code?"

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And he continued, "An advanced species looking to inhabit Earth would concern themselves more with the DNA code and seek gradually to hybridize our race. Hybridizing our species, which I believe is already taking place, is the most efficient and logical way to take over a planet."

So in other words, why would aliens from deep space bother hacking our Facebook pages when they can just steal our DNA?

Kendrick Lamar says he was ‘probably’ abducted by aliens as a kid

Birnes, who has devoted his life to researching UFOs and the aliens aboard them, believes, "We have already become a hybridized species-when our planet was first visited hundreds of thousands of years ago."

We are the extraterrestrials.

Damn! It's just my luck I got to be one of the short greys and not one of tall ones with the giant eyes who never have a bad hair day.

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Newly Discovered Tardigrade Species Is Not Cute

Tardigrade (Water Bear)

The darling of the microscopic world is the tardigrade, a hardy little microbe that’s so tiny it’s invisible to the naked eye. Nicknamed the “water bear,” this minuscule metazoan can survive some of the harshest climates in our universe, like deep oceans, red-hot geothermal vents, and even the walls of space-bound rockets. But that’s not why humans like them so much. We love them because, up close, the tardigrades we’re familiar with are plump, doughy, and altogether very cute.

But tardigrades are not a species but rather an entire family of organisms, and not all of its members evolved such pleasing aesthetics. On Wednesday, in the journal PLoS One, researchers led by Daniel Stec, Ph.D., from the Jagiellonian University in Poland report the discovery of Macrobiotus shonaicus sp. nov., a newly discovered species of tardigrade.

In this video uploaded by study co-author and Keio University biologist Kazuharu Arakawa, Ph.D., one can’t help but notice this tardigrade is not as cute. If the tardigrades we’re used to seeing look like little water bears, this one looks like a mid-length water bear turd with legs or a small, impaired platypus … if you’re feeling generous.

Alas, like humans among all the great apes, not all tardigrade species can be so lovable. The tardigrade type you’ve probably cooed over is the eutardigrada, images of which are commonly used as visual shorthand for the tardigrade class as a whole. Indeed, close-up shots of eutardigrades themselves, a subclass of over 700 species, make them seem quite cute.

Eutardigrades, in contrast, are objectively adorable.

But there are many species of tardigrades, found all over the world and probably beyond. The new species, M. shonaicus sp. nov., is actually one of 168 known tardigrade species in Japan alone.

The researchers found this aesthetically impaired little guy in a similarly homely place: a scoop of moss from a car park in Tsuruoka-City, Japan, where Arakawa rented an apartment nearby (“specific permission was not required,” the authors note). Using phase contrast light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, they snapped close-up shots of the new species, revealing a scary mouth, scary claws, and really scary eggs.

Here it is in its entirety, looking rather bland:

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Kind of leech-like, if you ask me. 

Here’s its scary mouth:

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M. shonaicus's freaky mouth.

Here are its freaky claws:

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Yikes.

The eggs are the pièce de résistance. Close up, they’ve got a bulbous middle that narrows into a floppy opening crowned with wild, ragged filaments. They do not look unlike a ripe pimple caught mid-pop.

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See? Not cute.

These scary eggs, however, were key to the organism’s classification as a new species. Though the organism as a whole is most similar to M. anemone from the United States, M. naskreckii from Mozambique, and M. patagonicus from Argentina, the researchers determined that M. shonaicus’ eggs put it into a class of its own.

“[It] can be easily distinguished from these species by the presence of thin flexible filaments on terminal discs of the egg process,” they write, describing the flailing, itchy-looking things in the image above. The eggs, furthermore, have a solid, poreless surface, putting them in a subclass known as the persimilis. The new classification is as follows:

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Despite itself, M. shonaicus has earned its place on the tardigrade family tree.

In the biological world, it’s not easy to earn your place as a unique species with its own classification. Perhaps it’s for the best, then, that M. shonaicus has so many, uh, unique features, even though its overall appearance leaves much to be desired.

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A Bus-Size Asteroid Will Whiz by Earth Friday

A Bus-Size Asteroid Will Whiz by Earth Friday

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Black-Hole Bursts Turn 'Mini-Neptunes' into Rocky 'Super-Earths'

Black-Hole Bursts Turn 'Mini-Neptunes' into Rocky 'Super-Earths'

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Silicon-based life on Earth? Only artificially, so far — but maybe natural on other planets

Silicon-based life on Earth? Only artificially, so far — but maybe natural on other planets

Scientists have successfully nudged a strain of bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds for the first time. Such research will help flesh out our understanding of silicon-based life — which doesn’t appear on Earth but could on other planets.

Pure Quartz.

Quartz, or rock crystal, the second most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust, is a mixture of (mostly) silicon and oxygen. The first most abundant mineral, feldspar, also contains (mostly) silicon.
Image credits Stefan Schweihofer.

You may not think of it much, but silicon is actually really common here on good ole Earth — it’s the second most common element in our planet’s crust after oxygen. About nine-tenths of crustal rocks contain silicon in the form of silica or other silicates. The processor that’s allowing you to read ZME Science contains silicon — the glass panes on your windows, too. It’s so ubiquitous in our planet’s chemical makeup that a geologist can tell you which volcanoes will explode, and which would simply ‘flow’ on eruption, just by looking at how much silicon its magma contains. Sitting just one step away from carbon in the periodic table, silicon shares most of the properties that made carbon ideally suited for organic use.

Which makes the following point that much more curious: life as we know it simply isn’t that big on using silicon. It pops up here and there, in the tissues of certain plants or the shells of some marine organisms, but surprisingly little overall. Instead, Earthlings much prefer carbon.

Research from the California Institute of Technology, however, may put the element back on biology’s menu. The team successfully coaxed E.coli into producing a protein that can form carbon-silicon (C-Si) bonds. Their work sheds more light on why the latter element seems to be shunned by Earthly life, and where we might find organisms that don’t feel the same way.

Silly cons

The team started by engineering a strain of E. coli bacteria to produce a protein normally found in bacteria from Icelandic hot springs which can bind silicon to carbon. When the team first used their engineered strain to produce the protein in question, the compound proved to be very inefficient. Successive iterations and natural mutations, however, resulted in an enzyme that could forge organic silicon molecules some 15 times more efficiently than any chemical process the team could apply to the same goal. Using this molecule, the team produced twenty organic C-Si compounds, all of which proved to be stable.

So, by this step, they had proven that life can incorporate silicon — it’s just that it doesn’t particularly want to.

“You might argue, gosh, it’s so easy for a biological system to do it, how do you know it’s not being done out there?” says coauthor Frances Arnold. “We don’t really know, but it’s highly unlikely.”

Arnold was referring to other planets in this context, but the point he’s trying to make can also be applied to Earth. Do we know beyond a doubt that there isn’t silicon life on Earth? Well, no. But we have reasonable grounds to assume that there isn’t.

The issue here is a problem of availability. Silicon is much more common on Earth than carbon, but virtually all of it is extremely costly for life to access. Silicon is so prevalent in the crust because it’s a huge fan of oxygen, and it will bind with any available atom of the gas to form rocks. All of the silicon compounds that the team fed their bacteria to make these new compounds were manmade and life wouldn’t have any chance of finding them in the wild.

Carbon, on the other hand, is very stable chemically. Its relative lack of interest in hooking up with oxygen is especially useful for life, as it can use the atom to create huge molecules without much risk of them oxidizing and breaking apart. It also allows carbon to exist in a pure state (graphite for example) in nature, while silicon can’t — this is a very important distinction, as in molecular ‘economy’, this means carbon can be acquired at a much, much lower price (energy expenditure) than silicon. Finally, when you burn carbon you get a gas that can then be re-used by life; silicon lacks this perk.

Silicon optics.

But it can be quite shiny, as these silicon optic pieces showcase.

Image credits Crystaltechno / Wikimedia.

Finally, silicon-based life couldn’t use water as carbon-based life does; the two simply don’t have chemistry. Instead, it would have to substitute another liquid, such as methane, for the job — but that’s not stable under normal conditions on Earth, either.

In the end, the heart of the matter isn’t that silicon can’t be a foundation for life — it’s just that, on Earth, carbon can do the job much more easily, at greater efficiency, and at a lower cost. The ‘job’ here being life.

However, that’s not to say silicon-carbon bonds aren’t useful. We produce such compounds in the lab all the time and use them in products ranging from electronics to pharmaceuticals. The team hopes that their bacteria can help produce these substances much faster, much more cheaply, and with a lesser environmental footprint. It could also open the way to whole new materials.

“An enzyme can do what chemists thought only they could do,” Arnold says.“The chemical bond could appear in thousands and thousands of different molecules, some of which could be useful,”

“They’re all completely new chemical entities that are easily available now just by asking bacteria to make them.”

Silly life

Beyond the immediate practical considerations, the research also begs the question: is Earth-based silicon life feasible? The results showed, at the very least, that silicon isn’t harmful to life as we know it. Perhaps, if life had ready access to the element, it would incorporate it more in its structures and processes, despite its limitations.

And that invites the question of whether life can be made to incorporate elements that we’ve never seen it use before.

“What happens when you incorporate other elements?” Arnold asks. “Can nature even do that?”

“Presumably we could make components of life that incorporate silicon—maybe silicon fat or silicon-containing proteins—and ask, what does life do with that? Is the cell blind to whether carbon is there or silicon is there? Does the cell just spit it out? Does the cell eat it? Does it provide new functions that life didn’t have before?”

“I’d like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.”

One particularly well-suited solution to the limitations of silicon on our Earth is to move the context to another planet. Any seasoned lover of sci-fi, and I proudly count myself among their number, has run into the idea of silicon-based aliens at least once. For now, the “alien life” part remains in the domain of fantasy, but the chemistry behind that idea is very firmly lodged in the domain of science. For example Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, sports a chilly average temperature of -179° Celsius (-290° Fahrenheit), very little oxygen (that’s locked in water ice), and an abundance of methane rivers and lakes.

[Read Further] Yes that’s weird, but the weather gets even weirder on other planets — even simple rain.

In this context, silicon would be much better suited as a biochemical base for life than carbon. In what is perhaps a sprinkling of cosmic irony, however, Titan sports a lot of carbon (even more than Earth), but precious little silicon — and most of it is buried deep, near the moon’s core. But it goes to show that there are worlds out there where silicon is the way to go, not carbon. Overall our chances of finding silicon-based life, or life that incorporates silicon, are pretty slim. And that, again, comes down to the fact that carbon is the more stable of the lot. In the grand scheme of things, there can be silicon life out there — but it will probably be pretty rare.

Still, for now, research into C-Si bonds could usher in a new method of cheaply producing what, today, are relatively pricey compounds. And organic silicon compounds could have very valuable uses in medicine and other applications. So, while we look and pine for silicon-based life out in the universe, we stand to gain a lot from studying it on Earth.

The paper “Directed evolution of cytochrome c for carbon–silicon bond formation: Bringing silicon to life” has been published in the journal Science.

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The moon may have formed from a giant spinning donut of vaporized rock

The moon may have formed from a giant spinning donut of vaporized rock

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The moon could have formed from a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, which scientists call a ‘synestia’. Scientists at the University of California, Davis and Harvard University claim that this novel lunar formation model ties several loose ends that competing and more established formation theories could not resolve.

This artist's rendering shows the hot, molten Moon emerging from a synestia, a giant spinning donut of vaporized rock that formed when planet-sized objects collided. Credit: Sarah Stewart/UC Davis based on NASA rendering.

This artist’s rendering shows the hot, molten Moon emerging from a synestia, a giant spinning donut of vaporized rock that formed when planet-sized objects collided.

Credit: Sarah Stewart/UC Davis based on NASA rendering.

According to the mainstream lunar formation theory, early in our planet history, Earth collided with a Mars-sized object called Theia. The highly energetic collision threw molten rock and metal into orbit which eventually coalesced, forming the moon. For more than 20 years, this has been the canonical model for the formation of the moon and modern planet Earth. But, compelling as it may be, this model is likely wrong, according to Simon Lock, a graduate student at Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Modern analyses show that both the Earth and the moon have nearly the same isotopic “fingerprint”, suggesting they both formed from an identical source. What’s more, trajectory models suggest that there’s a very narrow range of collisions that might be able to get enough mass into orbit. “There’s only a couple of degree window of impact angles and a very narrow range of sizes…and even then some impacts still don’t work,” Lock said in a statement.

“Our model explains, for the first time, how the Moon acquired its distinct composition. The Moon has a very similar composition to Earth in the major rock-forming elements (e.g., Al, Mg, Si) but depleted in elements that are more easily vaporized. Because the Moon formed within the synestia, surrounded by hot vapor, it inherited its composition from Earth but only retained the elements that are more difficult to vaporize. The more volatile elements remained in the vapor of the synestia. When the synestia cooled and contracted inside the Moon’s orbit, it took all the more volatile elements with it. We have shown that the pressures and temperatures at which the Moon would have formed inside the synestia would give it a composition similar to that observed in our Moon. Ours is the first model to be able to quantitatively explain the Moon’s composition,” Lock told ZME Science.

“Our model can also help explain why Earth and the Moon appear to have formed from the same material and why our Moon is so big,” he added.

Lock, along with colleagues from Harvard and UC Davis, have devised a new model that is better able to account for these inconsistencies. It relies on a new type of planetary object called synestia — a rapidly spinning mass of molten and vaporized rock, with some matter belonging to the body in orbit around itself. The whole thing looks a lot like a giant planetary-sized donut made of vaporized rock. “Synestia” comes from “syn-,” “together” and “Hestia,” Greek goddess of architecture and structures.

The term “synestia” was coined by Lock and Sarah Stewart, who is professor of planetary science at the University of California, Davis. Both researchers are academically focused on studying what happens when planet-sized objects smash into each other. Particularly, the two are interested in what happens during the collisions of massive spinning objects.

Any rotating object has an angular momentum which needs to stay conserved. The law of conservation of angular momentum states that when no external torque acts on an object, no change of angular momentum will occur. If the net torque is zero, then angular momentum is constant or conserved.

It’s the conservation of angular momentum that can explain why an ice skater can increase the angular acceleration by bringing his or her arms and legs close to the vertical axis of rotation. Because the moment is conserved, when the skater decreases rotational inertia, the rotation rate must increase. Ultimately, the skater’s angular momentum is the same. And when two ice skaters catch ahold of each other, the angular momentum of each skater adds up — again, per the law of conservation of angular momentum, the summed angular momentum must remain the same. As a nice bit of trivia, it’s because of this law that the solar system is flat.

Now, imagine what happens when your two skaters are actually two planets that crash into each other. When Lock and Stewart modeled what happened to Earth-sized rocky planets after a collision with other large objects over a range of high temperatures and high angular momentum, they found this completely new planetary structure.

“The main challenge in this research was breaking our preconceptions about what the aftermath of giant impacts should look like. Two of the most significant ‘Eureka’ moments were that the realization that impacts were creating a very different type of planetary structure, synestias, and that the synestia was so large that the Moon would be forming inside the vapor of the synestia,” Lock told ZME Science.

Out of the Earth-synestia, chunks of molten rock which were injected into orbit following the impact formed the seed for the moon. Synestias likely don’t last long — not more than a couple hundred years — because they can’t sustain their heat for too long, and shrink rapidly, finally collapsing into a molten planet. And while the Earth-synestia gradually shrank, vaporized silicate rock rained into the proto-moon, which explains how the moon inherited its composition from Earth. At the same time, because it formed at high temperatures (4,000-6,000°F), the moon lost the easily vaporized elements which is why the moon also has a distinct composition.

The synestia model answers many long-standing questions about Earth’s and the moon’s formation, but this work is still in its infancy. Much more work must be completed to refine the model further. For instance, scientists would like to know how the vapor that formed the moon flowed and behaved in more detail.

“The study of forming Moon-formation from a synestia is still in the preliminary stages. We have shown that each of the steps to form the Moon from the synestia are feasible, but there is a lot more detailed interrogation of each of these steps yet to do. Also, by better constraining the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth and the Moon, we can find new tests of our model to see whether it truly can produce a Moon that looks like our own,” Lock said.

“It may be possible to observe synestias in upcoming exoplanet surveys, but the lifetime of terrestrial synestias is so short and the possibility of observing one is quite low,” he added about the possibility of witnessing a synestia in the making.

“Forming the Moon within the vaporized Earth is a fundamentally new environment for Moon formation. This model changes the emphasize of the study of Moon formation from a particular impact to the properties of the synestia produced by the impact. There are a range of very different impacts that could have formed our Moon.”

If you’d like to learn more about the synestia moon formation model, Lock made a website explaining it in great detail. You’re welcome to check it out. 

Scientific reference: Simon J. Lock et al. The origin of the Moon within a terrestrial synestia, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (2018). DOI: 10.1002/2017je005333. <

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PENTAGON UFO BOMBSHELL: Former defence minister claims US IS storing 'ALIEN UFO parts'

PENTAGON UFO BOMBSHELL: Former defence minister claims US IS storing 'ALIEN UFO parts'

A FORMER minister of defence has sensationally claimed the remains of recovered alien technology are being secretly stored away from public view and claims the US has weapons to bring down UFOs. Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of Defence alleges the US Government has been in contact with extraterrestrials for years, and claims Washington has obtained flying saucer technology, but has covered it up.

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Paul Hellyer is convinced aliens are being hidden from the public.

His bombshell claims come just weeks after it emerged the US Pentagon had a top-secret UFO investigation team from 2007 to 2012, that allegedly obtained "materials from UFOs".

In December, a New York Times article revealed details of a top-secret £16 million US Pentagon study into the potential threat posed by UFOs.

The report claimed the Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme (AATIP) even recovered "unknown alloys" believed to have come from a UFO that had been tested and found to have properties unknown to science.

Mr Hellyer, who was a minister in the 1960s, believes top secret departments have been harvesting technology from the advanced lifeforms to develop hi-tech weaponry and aircraft, Dailystar.co.uk reports

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They’ve been working on technology that they got from the aliens and not only that but the particle guns based on the work of Tesla and others.

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In a recent Lazarus Effect YouTube podcast he claimed some of this groundbreaking knowledge had “most certainly” been shared with the UK.

A former US Air Force Charles James Hall, who has written about his alleged encounters with aliens at a Nevada base, reportedly told Mr Hellyer they had a hangar for a “mother ship that came into the side of a mountain on the nights of the full moon”.

Mr Hall claims the air force, back in the 1960s, had already been exchanging technological information with “tall whites”, an alleged blonde-haired human-like race of aliens, according to Hellyer.

In the podcast, Mr Hellyer, 93, said: “If the US was that far advanced in the exchange of technology in the 1960s where are they today?”

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“They’ve been working on technology that they got from the aliens and not only that but the particle guns based on the work of Tesla and others.

“That is the primary purpose of the anti ballistic missile shield, the weapons are ones that can be aimed in either direction to control the situation on earth but equally, if not more important, to shoot down UFOs.

“I do believe they have developed two or three kinds of weapons that are capable of disabling and bringing down UFOs.”

Mr Hellyer has remained in Canadian politics throughout his career and is the longest serving current member of the country’s Privy Council.

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His theory claims that four species of aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.

Mr Hellyer is not alone in this thinking, with many so-called alien disclosure campaigners claiming the alien cover up has been in place since the alleged Roswell UFO crash of 1947.

Conspiracy theorists claim that a UFO was found crashed outside the New Mexico town and the remains of it have been hidden away ever since.

Since news broke of the AATIP broke there have been calls for the metal and any reports on it to be produced, but so far nothing has materialised.

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Grootste vliegtuig ter wereld is breder dan een voetbalveld - HLN.be

Grootste vliegtuig ter wereld is breder dan een voetbalveld - HLN.be

Het grootste vliegtuig heeft een spanwijdte van maar liefst 117 meter.

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 Al bijna zeven jaar werkt Microsoft-medeoprichter Paul Allen aan een gigantisch vliegtuig waarmee hij raketten de ruimte in wil sturen. Na enkele succesvolle stuur- en remtests op het tarmac is de Stratolaunch weer een stapje dichter bij zijn eerste vlucht.

Het is haast een surrealistisch beeld, het vliegtuig met twee rompen en een lange rechte vleugel in het midden van de Californische woestijn. De Stratolaunch, met een spanwijdte van maar liefst 117 meter, wordt het grootste vliegtuig ter wereld. De 28 wielen moeten meer dan 590 ton (het gewicht wanneer het vliegtuig geladen is) dragen, terwijl zes Boeing 747-vliegtuigmotoren al dat gewicht de lucht in moeten krijgen.

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Het kolossale gevaarte vliegt tot een hoogte van zo’n 11 kilometer. Daar wordt de raket met satelliet afgevuurd naar een lage baan om de Aarde. Paul Allen hoopt met het vliegtuig de kostprijs van zo’n lancering stevig te drukken, want voor het afschieten van dergelijke raket vanaf een lanceerplatform op de grond is veel brandstof - en dus veel geld - nodig.

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Een bedrijf tekende in anderhalf jaar geleden al een contract met Stratolaunch Systems. Met het vliegtuig van Allens bedrijf wil Orbital ATK zijn Pegasus XL, dat gebruikt wordt om kleine satellieten te vervoeren, naar de ruimte brengen.

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Maar daar is het dus nog even op wachten: de Stratolauch moet nog uitgebreid getest worden. Het van zijn stellingen halen en naar buiten rollen was alvast een eerste mijlpaal. Gisteren werden de motoren getest. Oorspronkelijk waren de eerste testvluchten al voorzien voor 2016 en 2017, maar zoals dat met projecten van zo’n omvang gaat, werden die al uitgesteld naar volgend jaar. Dan kan het paradepaardje met vleugels groter dan een voetbalveld eindelijk de lucht in.

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Paul Allen, volgens Forbes een van de rijkste mensen ter wereld, beschreef in zijn memoires Idea Man al hoe hij als kind geobsedeerd was door de ruimtevaart. Hij droomde van het ontwerpen van raketten die Mars zouden verkennen. “Andere interesses kwamen en gingen, maar mijn obsessie met raketten is gebleven”, schreef hij. “Na Apollo legde NASA de nadruk op onbemande raketten. De ruimtevaart verloor zijn stempel, maar nooit mijn interesse.”

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US Fighter Jets And A UFO Apparently In A Dogfight Over Lincoln County, Nevada

US Fighter Jets And A UFO Apparently In A Dogfight Over Lincoln County, Nevada

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Two planes and a third object were captured on photos silhouetted against the sky above a patch of desert in Lincoln County, Nevada. Many believe that the dramatic photos show US fighter jets battling a UFO over Area 51, an alleged top-secret alien site.

UFO researchers Tim Doyle and Tracey Su captured the photos while they were camping out 12 miles from the military base.

They claimed that they spotted the two fighters soaring above and they decided to take pictures. Then a third shape appeared when they looked back at the images later.

The pair believed the trio were involved in a plane dogfight.

Tim described the UFO as similar to a triangular unmanned drone because it was probably too small to have a person inside it.

Tim added that it definitely looked as though the three crafts are interacting with each other.

The US Air Force base, located approximately 80 miles from Las Vegas, is thought to be the home of experimental aircraft development and testing.

The CIA only acknowledge its existence after a Freedom of Information request in 2013.

Many conspiracy theorists claim the highly secretive facility has been used for reverse engineering of a crashed alien spacecraft at Roswell in 1947.

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Mysterious Lights appear in the Sky over Milwaukee - FOX6 News

Mysterious Lights appear in the Sky over Milwaukee - FOX6 News

On Tuesday morning, February 27, 2018 strange moving lights appeared over Milwaukee and were captured live on TV from FOX6.

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They quickly explained that it was just a huge flock of seagulls but not everyone is convinced because a few days earlier another mysterious light fell from the sky over Milwaukee and they believe that both events are connected to each other.

Elisabeth Zillinskas who recorded the bright light over Milwaukee on February 24, 2018 states that she has no idea what exactly fell from the sky, it is a complete mystery.

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Filer’s Files #8 – 2018 Portals Are Opening - PART I

Photos taken on February 12, 2018 at Hurricane Cane Lodge, Washington
Photos taken on February 12, 2018 at Hurricane Cane Lodge, Washington

Filer’s Files #8 – 2018 Portals Are Opening - PART I

February 25, 2018

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Bigelow Aerospace Director “Cannot Comment” On What They Do With UFO Reports, Scientist Admits Portals Are Opening Around Earth, Nobel Prize awarded to Gravity LIGO Founders, Unusual u.s. Aerial Observations During World War Ii, DNA Tests Indicate Elongated Skulls from Alien Race, Geodesic Dome ET Painting, Indian Hieroglyphics, and Mexican Drug Traffickers Use a Drug 50 Times More Powerful Than Heroin

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Massachusetts New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, France, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, and England in the United Kingdom.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.  will be in Mt Shasta this summer and wish to encourage people to come and see this conference.

Join us at the conference

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Bigelow Aerospace Director “Cannot Comment”

On What They Do With UFO Reports

 Mike Gold – Former Director of Operations for Bigelow Aerospace was asked about Bigelow’s involvement with UFO reports. He gives an interesting answer with some interesting expressions on his face. He mentions how he finds the subject matter very interesting. He also mentions the recent congressional hearing held regarding Earth like planets that are probably teeming with life. He mentions he cannot comment on what Bigelow Aerospace does with UFO reports. He goes on to state how he is glad that somebody is taking the reports because these are important issues that deserve serious attention. (It appears Bigelow Aviation provides data to the government and allegedly is rewarded with UFO crash debris.

Bigelow Aerospace is a space technology company that is known for its work on expandable space station modules. They are now working on space habitats for space agencies and corporate clients. They have a long history of working for NASA.

Earlier this month the Founder of Bigelow Aerospace, Robert Bigelow, announced that he is planning a real estate  empire in outer space.

The Federal Aviation Administration refers its UFO reports to BAASS. Which stands for Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. Robert Bigelow mentions how UFO sightings led him to his interest in space. Bigelow Aerospace has spun off a new commercial space company called Bigelow Space Operations (BSO), which will act as the sales, operations, and provider for the inflatable space stations he’s developing. According to Bigelow, these stations will be the largest, most complex structures ever built for human habitation in space. Arjun Walia

The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS)

The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), now defunct has catalogued the Triangle sightings, sifting through and combining databases to take a hard look at the mystery craft. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, NIDS was privately funded by Robert Bigelow science institute with a strong research focusing on aerial phenomena.

Correction: It was stated in last in weeks Filer’s Files 7  in“The Great UFO Deception” article stated, Bigelow paid Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center for the triangle information contained in the NIDs report. Peter Davenport says, although he was asked to be part of NIDs and refused, he was never paid in any way for the data on Peter’s National UFO Reporting Center.web site.

I spoke at length with Peter and he indicated the triangle reports are increasing in recent months and they do not show standard aircraft lighting that all military and commercial aircraft display as required by law.

Scientist Admits Portals Are Opening Around Earth

– Proof that Project Pegasus is Real?

Stargate  Portal

Many people believe the Universe can be explored in almost a blink of an eye, using energetic portals and our consciousness. Portals are defined as a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a worm hole into space or another dimension.

Allegedly, the Ancients knew about these means of traveling to other Star Systems, but also to the inner Earth using crystals, pyramids, and other earthen structures aligned with the ley lines of our planet. Fantasy literature is full of symbolism referring to portals that allowed the passage to inconceivable worlds. Many researchers feel ET is not arriving from planets millions of miles away but from another dimension that exits parallel to his one.

The plot of Stargate SG-1 TV picks up a year after the conclusion of the events recounted in the original feature film. It follows the present-day adventures of SG-1, a military team from Earth. SG-1 and a dozen other SG teams venture to distant planets using an alien portal known as a Stargate, which in the series is housed in a top-secret United States Air Force military base known as Stargate Command (SGC) in the underground Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the first eight seasons, the mission of the SG teams is to explore the galaxy and search for alien technology and allies to defend Earth against the Goa’uld, a snake-like parasitic alien race that takes humans as unwilling hosts. The premise of the series may be closer to reality than generally beloved.

Within this scheme we can look at the work of a NASA scientist who disclosed that every day, portals open and close every day. Such gateways can be found within Earth’s magnetic field, falling in a direct line to the Sun’s atmosphere 93 million miles away. NASA hasn’t tagged them as portals, instead opting to call them Boom Tubes, electron diffusion regions or ‘X’ points, their existence being due to magnetic resonance. It’s truly a shame “real” scientists are paid to dismiss their presence in our scope.

Jack Scudder, a NASA plasma physicist from the University of Iowa, refers to X-points as:

 “Places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun. These portals can be elusive, however, so if one were to imagine utilizing them for space travel, they would have to be an expert in space geography and mathematics to time them correctly.”

Some claim that a military underground subdivision possessed the knowledge to perform time travel through Stargate portals for almost 40 years. Apparently, there needs to be an open portal at the destination for successful conclusion of the travel.

Laura Magdalene Eisenhower the great-granddaughter of Dwight David Eisenhower,  and  Andrew D. Basiago  claim they were Independent Mars colony recruits. They claim the existence of a secret human survival colony on Mars. They were former active members of  DARPA’s Project Pegasus (1968-1972), claiming that the government had successfully achieved Tesla-based quantum teleportation and time travel in the time-space hologram, initiating the U.S. program of time-space travel called “Chrononauts”.

Since the 1970s, the military has been crossing worlds, and for more than 10 years, Basiago has been spreading the word about portal-based time travel, similar to the “Stargate” TV series. The military could travel ahead in time and location to delete people who would pose a risk to the government such as  North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

 Attorney Andrew Basiago

Not only did Basiago talk about time travel, but he also claims that the CIA has a program named Mars-jump-room which grants our military units the ability to build their own bases on Mars. He claims he has worked with some of the physicists leaders in quantum physics.  According to Basiago, he was engaged in two – allegedly – secret military programs. He claims he was one of the great deal of American children chosen to take part in experiments involving time travel. His reports on his experiences are determined based on logic alone and it is hard to  disregard his tales as being sheer fantasy. It is, by all means, for the best that the US military keeps this kind of technologies secret, since they can be turned into weapons. This is no secret, ever since Rumsfeld has declared that one of the advantages of research done within Project Pegasus is the capacity to use teleportation in order to deliver troops to the proper place on the battlefield.

  • “Radiant energy is a form of energy that Tesla discovered that is latent and pervasive in the universe and has among its properties the capacity to bend time-space.”
  • – Andrew Basiago

While passing through this veil of energy, Vancouver, Washington lawyer Basiago would enter a “vortal tunnel” that would send him to his destination. The other teleportation devices included a “plasma confinement chamber” in New Jersey and a “jump room” in El Segundo, California. There was also some kind of “holographic technology,” that allowed them to travel “both physically and virtually in time and location.”

However advanced, this unconventional transportation process had its pitfalls. Basiago’s admission is controversial, to say the least. The technology he describes could solve a lot of mankind’s problems, but it could destroy us just as well. Collectively, we don’t even know what time is, why it is or why it flows the way it does. The human mind finds it hard to wrap around concepts like time travel and the paradoxical consequences of altering past timelines. But then again, there is nothing in Einstein’s General Relativity that can sink the notion of time travel. http://www.ewao.com/

Nobel Prize awarded to Gravity LIGO Founders

The LIGO Laboratory, comprising LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Caltech, and MIT are excited to announce that LIGO’s three longest-standing and greatest champions have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics: Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT.

The Nobel Committee in Stockholm Sweden announcement the winners of the Nobel prizes. The very ideafor LIGO came to Rainer Weiss in the early 1970’s when, as associate professor of physics at MIT, he had to find a way to explain gravitational waves (a prediction of general relativity) to his students.

In an interview with MIT news writer, Jennifer Chu, Weiss recalled his revelation: “That was my quandary at the time, and that’s when the invention was made. I said, ‘What’s the simplest thing I can think of to show these students that you could detect the influence of a gravitational wave? …  The obvious thing to me was, let’s take freely floating masses in space and measure the time it takes light to travel between them. The presence of a gravitational wave would change that time. [Later] knowing what you could do with lasers, I worked it out: Could you actually detect gravitational waves this way? And I came to the conclusion that yes, you could detect gravitational waves…”

Sometime later, in 1972, Weiss carefully thought through and wrote down his idea, subsequently publishing it as a paper titled, “Electromagnetically Coupled Broadband Gravitational Antenna” . In this paper, Weiss described in great detail, the design and promise of using laser interferometry to detect gravitational waves. Within its 22 pages, the paper laid out the blueprint for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (at the time, Weiss called it an antenna.)

Rainer Weiss’ original design for a Laser Gravitational Wave “antenna” (Copyright. R. Weiss (1972). “Electromagnetically Coupled Broadband Gravitational Antenna”. Quarterly Progress Report, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT. 105: 54.)

Today, no one disputes the fact that LIGO owes its very existence to Rainer Weiss.

Transforming LIGO from concept to reality, however, would take another 20 years.. In 1975, a fateful meeting between Weiss and Kip Thorne of Caltech would set into motion the development of one of the most complicated and risky scientific experiments ever conceived. Thorne, commanded a level of respect among peers, colleagues, research groups, and funding agencies that was unequalled. As much as Rai is responsible for conceiving of LIGO, Kip Thorne is equally responsible for convincing countless others of LIGO’s potential for success. As a result of his interactions with Weiss, Thorne convinced Caltech to create a gravitational-wave research group.

Thus was formed the LIGO triumvirate. In 1989, Weiss and Thorne, along with Ron Drever, Fred Raab, and Robbie Vogt, submitted a proposal for LIGO to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) which has enthusiastically supported this effort from the start. In 1994 construction began on the twin LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana.

That’s when Barry Barish joined the trio. Barish became LIGO Principal Investigator in 1994, helping the growing cadre move from a small intensely focused group cooking up basic ideas to a large and broad team that could actually deliver the Observatories and hardware. His insights led not only to construction of the Observatories and the initial detectors, but also to the creation of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and to the successful proposal to build Advanced LIGO—the instrument that would finally make the first detection. Barry was the perfect complement to Kip and Rai to bring LIGO to success.

Another 21 years would pass before the efforts of Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish finally paid off. On September 14, 2015, LIGO detected the gossamer flutters of spacetime created by the merging of two massive black holes some 1.3 billion light years away. Nearly half-a-century after its conception, LIGO had fulfilled its destiny.

Structure is able to detect gravitational waves.

So, while this Nobel Prize is being awarded barely two years after LIGO’s historic detection, it acknowledges 45 years of effort: from conception, through design, planning, testing and prototyping, through decades of research and engineering, invention and innovation, advances in computing, lasers, and optics, and especially the championing and advocating of three remarkable men: Barry Barish, Kip Thorne, and Rai Weiss. There can be no doubt; their recognition by the Nobel Committee is well earned. It is apparent UFOs over come gravity now we have proof of gravity waves.

Unusual U.S. Aerial Observations During World War II

UFOs had become a distinct topic of discussion beginning in 1947.  Prior to that time the phenomena didn’t have a particular title, so that observations of peculiar aerial objects fell into no organized category, other than being interesting recollections with most often no permanent record kept.

South Pacific Flying Disk in US Hangar

This is a story told me by a coworker at Boeing in the late eighties. He was stationed in the South Pacific near the end of World War II, a marine guard at an airfield on a South Pacific Island on June 15,1945. He was assigned to guard the airfield and one night his commanding officer told him the field lights would go out sometime in the night and when that happened he was to turn his back to one of the hangars, and was not to look, nor turn around until the lights went back on. As he was told, later that night the field lights went out. His curiosity overcame him, and he looked toward the hangar as the hangar doors opened, and a disk flew slowly in. At that point the hangar doors were closed, and the field lights came back on. The process was reversed several nights later, the field lights went off, the hangar doors opened, the disk flew off, the field lights came back on, and he never saw it again.
((NUFORC Note: We cannot confirm this report. However, we have received many of alleged sightings during the Second World War, and many from the 1940’s. PD)) Depiction of UFO. Ufo Historical Revue – Issue #1 – June 1998

DNA Tests Indicate Elongated Skulls from Alien Race

DNA test results on the elongated skulls discovered in Peru have been released by a researcher investigating if the bones could belong to an alien race. The 3,000-year old Paracas skulls, with elongated craniums, have long been held up by UFO hunters as evidence of ancient alien visitations due to their extraordinarily huge foreheads.

DNA Ancient Skull Concludes Its Alien, Peru, Feb 2018, UFO Sighting News.

The long skulled people also are found in England and had their capital at Stonehenge and were the first to lay down the ley system as their monuments are the oldest and set the locations for the leys and ley systems. Perhaps with larger brain capacity they sensed and perceived the land differently to you and I.

The other picture is from NASA showing the skull or a sculptured rock from Mars that suggests Martians or other aliens had elongated skulls. Some areas of Mars have pyramids and Pharaoh like statues. The entire Stonehenge area has the exceptional people with elongated skulls that may have come from Mars or some other planets. They built Silbury Hill the largest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe called the “Hill of the Shining Beings, We know that Mars atmosphere and water diminished with some type of catastrophe and that gravity there is only one sixth of Earths

Some of the persons with elongated skulls were buried in the West Kennet Long Barrow a Neolithic tomb, about 3600 BC, which is some 400 years before the first stage Stonehenge

UFOs and strange phenomena are frequently reported in the area. Some people claim Wiltshire is a portal where craft from other planets arrive.

Silbury Hill and Stonehenge, barrows and Cursus were skillfully crafted by our ancient ancestors. The prehistoric architects of ancient sites were acutely aware of the Earth’s magnetic energies, which they carefully integrated into the foundation plans of their monuments. At Stonehenge, for example, certain megaliths, such as the Altar Stone, were positioned above a geometric earth energy pattern, known as geospiral, to harness the earth force, which perpetually charged the stone with magnetic energy. “Looking through the viewfinder of digital cameras – vertical columns of rose colored light rising up from the ground. There is quite a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that extraterrestrial civilizations choose to enter our world at specific planetary locations. These are either on ley-lines or on fault lines where the earth’s electromagnetic field is stronger or weaker than in the surrounding area.”

 Geodesic Dome ET Painting

Letter from Dan Johnson – The painting is of a geodesic dome similar to the famous California Integratron. This geodesic dome is in Black Mountain, NC and is at the home of Jim Goure, who has since passed, Jim was very active in 1970s UFO research when I met him. He was also connected to and was at Walter Russell’s death bed when Walter died on his birthday in 1963. It’s coincidental that Walter Russell and Nicola Tesla knew each other and were in contact with one another.

This picture is a painting that hung prominently on Jim’s wall at his home in Black Mountain. It depicts, I believe, a controversial and large Jesus, and Mary Magdalene standing on the dome. Notice what Jesus has in his right hand. It looks remarkably like a G.E.M. Sphere that Judy Beebe Re-created through Nicola Tesla’s inspiration in 2002 or so, many years after Nicola’s death. Also, the mere size of the figures reminds me of the nearly 85 foot beings that I have seen in my back yard in the Virginia, Mountains. More people are seeing these Beings besides myself. Some have seen as many as 60 or 70 beings.

They’re even showing up in our front yard and all around the Monroe Institute property. These Beings are very tall, in other dimensions and are translucent, like the painting. Was the artist and Jim Goure possibly showing Jesus as being ET in nature? It all makes one think doesn’t it?  Also, many orbs are showing up which is how I believe these Beings and ETs are traveling from other worldly places and dimensions. Thanks to Dan Johnson

Indian Hieroglyphics

While exploring Utah’s Sego Canyon with his father and admiring the Native American artwork found at the site.

C2C listener Curtis couldn’t help but notice this rather jaw-dropping pictograph which one could almost image being the depiction of some kind of space-faring people.

Could be an indication that ancient astronauts once visited the location?

Thanks to https://www.facebook.com/coasttocoastam 

Mexican Drug Traffickers Use a Drug 50 Times More Powerful Than Heroin

A middle-aged couple had just arrived in the United States from Mexico had dinner at an IHop and returned home only to be arrested. US anti-narcotics agents, with a search warrant in hand, entered the apartment located in Queens. Inside one of the many suitcases the couple had arrived in the United States with, the officers found drugs, but not “the usual ones.”


It was pure fentanyl, a synthetic and extremely dangerous opioid, 50 times more powerful than heroin according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which indicate that more than 60,000 people died from overdoses in the United States last year.
The couple owned 141 pounds, almost 64 kilos, of that substance. It was the largest fentanyl seizure in the history of the United States.

According to the Drug Control Administration (DEA), in those 64 kilos there was enough of the drug to kill 32 million people. Rogelio Alvarado Robles, 55, and Blanca Flores Solis, 52, were arrested. And although they had no criminal record, they were both drug runners to negotiate the sale of tens of millions of dollars in narcotics. To the DEA, the Mexican drug cartels seek to turn New York into their distribution center.

In 2017, the DEA seized more than 350 pounds, of pure fentanyl in New York City, 10 times more than in 2016. Fentanyl seems better than heroin for trafficking because of its various advantages. First because it is Its manufactured cheaply in Mexico much more profitable.
It does not have to be grown such as poppy, heroin base plant, this, like methamphetamine, can be manufactured in clandestine laboratories using relatively inexpensive chemicals.

Not to mention that its potency makes it able to be diluted to exponentially increase the doses at street level, either in the form of powder or alternative pills pressed to look like brands such as OxyContin and Percoset. For James Hunt, head of the New York Division of the DEA, the way in which this drug is distributed in the city is also different.

Many of the 64,000 killed by Mexican drugs are found with a syringe still in their arms.

The drug traffickers become “evil businessmen”, who invest 3 thousand dollars and earn millions of dollars. “They are smart,” says Jimmy Arroyo, a special agent of the DEA that leads the team that in recent months has made several important arrests related to Mexican traffickers. “They know that if they shoot people, they will attract attention.”

The criminal organization responsible for bringing fentanyl to the United States is the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel .According to the DEA, 80% of the fentanyl seized in the New York area is related to the Sinaloan drug lords.

National Assessment on the Threat of Drugs, claims the Sinaloa Cartel has one with the largest presence in the United States even its former leader, Joaquín Guzmán Loera “El Chapo ” is incarcerated in a Manhattan prison. So perhaps the defense of the criminal boss can be financed with the billions of profits made with the sales of fentanyl made only a few meters from his cell. President Donald Trump declared that opiate addiction was a public health emergency. For his part, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has defined fentanyl as “the number one killer drug in the United States. Thanks The Washington Post Borderland Beat Reporter El Profe

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Filer’s Files #8 – 2018 Portals Are Opening - PART II

Filer’s Files #8 – 2018 Portals Are Opening - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Lights

Fountain Hills — While on vacation in the Phoenix area in March 8, 2014 at 4:40pm  my girlfriend was taking random pictures of homes. I had watched a documentary on the Phoenix Lights and noticed six white spots in a slight V pattern in the sky in her photo. Comparing the photo she took to the Phoenix Lights we noticed similarities. We have no idea what is in the picture, but it is quite obviously something. I have examined this photo many times an am no further ahead in explaining it.

I should have sent this to you sooner, but I wasn’t aware of your organization and only found out from a friend while telling this story. The photo was taken on a Samsung G3 cell phone with no filter. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Arkansas Lights

Mena — The following describes an initial Light Event witnessed on February 18, 2017, reported to MUFON by phone, and was investigated by MUFON’s Special Assignment Team (SAT). Due to the fact that this location, Board Camp Crystal Mine, near Mena, Arkansas, has been the site of ongoing phenomenon and investigation since the February 18, 2017, this event was not publicly reported online until now. The reporting parties are the property owners and/or witnesses of numerous events are reporting for the benefit of public education and scientific research. On the night of February 18, 2017, at the property known as Board Camp Crystal Mine, , the 3 eye-witnesses were standing on a hill gazing out over the crystal mine property. About 10 pm, about 900 feet away the witnesses saw a glow of white light appear at the treetops of the horizon silhouetting the treetops from behind. Three large white vertical beams of light appeared out of the glow, seeming to be 30 feet wide and seeming to shoot up to about 300 feet high above the ground. The beams were described as being flat across the top, and appeared for 10 seconds, then disappeared. There were no lights at ground level and no sound of a vehicle or animals. Three large floodlights could have made the lighting but no equipment was noticed. The next morning, the 3 witnesses visited the crystal mine but, there was no evidence of a human visitation, but all metal objects such as fence posts and tools were noticed to be affected, characterized by movement of the objects from their previous positions.

MUFON was contacted and the witnesses were phoned by Arkansas state investigator Race Hobbs. Because of the credibility of the witnesses and the strong physical evidence left behind after the Light Event occurred, MUFON sent the SAT to investigate, led by Chase Kloetzke. Race Hobbs accompanied the SAT. During the SAT’s examination of the metal objects with various devices recording readings for radiation and electromagnetism (EM), it was confirmed that the metal objects at the Event Site were not only magnetized but also polarized, and EM and radiation levels were increased. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Object

San Jose — Saw a flying disc in sky on February 16, 2018.

They changed direction, changed colors, got video and stills.

First thought in orbit, they followed Orion’s Belt 25-40 degrees left, 40-50 degrees up from street.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

RanchoSanta Margarita — We had just finished playing tennis at 11am on February 18, 2018, when one of the players looked up and said “What is that?”

We observed the object for about 5-10 minutes. At first I thought it was silver balloons, but they weren’t gaining altitude or being moved by the wind. And then, based on height and distance from us, it seemed too big to be balloons.

It reminded us of this, but we couldn’t see the movement caught in this video because of distance.

The photo was taken from their video, but very much reminds us what we saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Lights

LeHigh Acres — I was outside taking a picture to send to my brother during the Christmas holidays on December 2, 2017.

That’s when I noticed the object after the picture was taken. I then looked in the sky and nothing was there.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Davenport — My girlfriend and I were returning home from a friend’s a few blocks away on January 1, 2018

It was now New Year’s morning and we noticed the object right away. It was in the sky even after we returned home and looked out the back door to the yard it was still there. It was the largest craft I’d ever seen. And I’ve seen a few. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts Object

Maisen — I was taking pictures of the heavy spraying of chemtrails and I noticed what I thought was a spec on my phone’s screen on February 20, 2018

Upon further review it’s obviously some type of a craft. It was never visible to my naked eye, I looked right up after I noticed it on the camera and there was nothing in that part of the sky.

I never saw it except on my picture. If you look at it closely there is some type of an aura around it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Chemtrails

Toms River — I was sitting on the couch watching TV on February 7, 2018 at 16:30  and noticed a lot of planes putting out abnormal chemtrails criss crossing in about 6 to 9 lines. Two even made a cross in the sky. I started to take some photos, and then sat back down. I kept looking to the sky’s outside of my friends window when to my amassment I saw a strange black object fly in a straight line amidst the chemtrails fading in the sky. Two days later sitting in my car February 9, 2018, waiting for my girlfriend while watching planes put down more chemtrails, I saw two bright none flashing orbs That is three different sightings within three days, Thank you David Thompson.

North Carolina Light

Carolina Beach –On February 6th, 2018, at 10 pm, I was at the beach with my dog, looking at the stars. I was surprised to see a pulsating, then spinning object, randomly changing white, blue and green, hovering east over the ocean, for 5 minutes. I took a couple of videos with my phone that pulsated for about 2 minutes and changed to a cube spinning on its corner. At one point, a smaller light appears at the upper right of the object, but it only lasts for about a second. It then slowly moved north/northeast for about a minute. I lost sight of it when it started getting smaller, giving me the impression that it was moving further out to sea. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tennessee Orbs

Gatlinburg — My son sent me this picture as he took it upon entering the Smokey Mountains without seeing the objects in the picture on February 18, 2018.

I asked him if that was a ufo and he said, “no he was sending a pic of the mountains.” I will attach the original pic and the zoom pic.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Diamond

Hurricane Ridge Lodge — This photo is from the webcam at the Hurricane Ridge Lodge.

The elevation at a little over 5,200 feet. I captured the photo, and saved it.

Then I put it in Photoshop to enlarge it and cropped it to just the object. See both photos taken on February 12, 2018

Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Object

Miranda NSW — Taking my grandson down my drive to meet his mother, I looked up to see this object in the sky on July 29, 2014. It didn’t look like a plane, so I asked my grandson, “What do you think that is?” (It’s on the video). He wasn’t sure. I knew it was something significant. Firstly it was pink, travelling straight across my vision boomerang shape. Not one person has an explanation. I took video and photos with my iPhone 5 at the time, and when I zoomed in was really amazed at what I saw. So I keep looking up! I have my own theories as to how this all unfurls. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Tear Drops

Calgary — I was traveling back to Calgary from visiting my sister in Winnipeg on a Westjet flight at 40,000 feet. I glanced for a second outside and seen two white kind of tear drop things flying off in the distance. I had my iPhone in my hand and quickly took one pic before the two objects were gone. They were white in color with no exhaust trails which made them look real bizarre. I knew it had to be two UFOs. Sighting lasted maybe 7 seconds. It was incredible!

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Costa Rica Disc

Quepos –1. I was a passenger in the front seat of a friend’s car on the Pan American Highway on my way to go fishing in Quepos, Costa Rica, at approx. 4:25pm on January 31, 2018.
2. I decided to take a vacation photo of the palm trees though the windshield as we were driving.
3. I observed an object moving erratically on the screen of my tablet camera, when I looked up, the object was not visible. Yet as soon as I again looked at the tablet, the object was observable and moving erratically and at high speed. 4. The object was invisible to the naked eye and could only be seen with the aid of the camera lens on the tablet screen. I never even really saw it until later in the evening, when I got a chance to look at the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Dominican Republic Orb

Punta Cana — I was at a resort in just starting my vacation lying in the sun by a swimming pool and looked up at a perfectly clear sky on February 12, 2018.

I noticed an object that was moving across the sky, I thought it was an airplane because of how high up it was.

The object stopped and hovered for at least an hour before I lost interest in the object so I took some video and pictures.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

France Disc

Houssen — I looked out the window and saw a low-flying object, while I reached the camera, the UFO flew about 500 meters at an altitude of about 30 meters and began to drop to a height of 10 meters. On February 10, 2018

I will not describe what a UFO was in detail, in the face, it could disappear and become invisible, such as a portal or masking. Five minutes later I cycled to the field for the last time I saw the UFO.
But after a while, then began to occur paranormal things always, then I found a dozen different types of UFOs.   Thanks to MUFON CMS

Korea Lights

Hwa Jeong Duk Yang Ku — Last May, one night I looked up to the sky to see the stars in front of my house. Then, suddenly I happened to see the blinking slowly flying object in the sky around at 9 p.m. At first, I thought it was a helicopter it didn’t make any noise. After that incidence, in fact, I could often see it 2 or 3 times a week on average.
Once I climbed up the mountain and succeeded to see it very closely. Its shape is a black right triangle with three blinking lights on its three corners with a faint red light in the center. It’s bigger than a helicopter but not bigger than a plane. It shows up every night regardless of the weather searching. It has a traveling routine orbiting the town and flies over the mountains and military facilities. – It follows me wherever I go See Korean UFO hunter on YOU TUBE. The real Area 51 is in Korea! Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Light

Cancun — When zooming in on the photo I took, I could see what looks like an outer shape to the object,

Photo taken on February 19, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 New Zealand 1909

Otago Daily Times told its readers on Monday 26 July 1909 that:

SUPPOSED AIRSHIP. SEEN AT KELSO

 The mysterious “airship” has been seen again, this time in broad daylight. On Saturday Mr. Gibson, of Kelso [S45°54’, E169°13’], telephoned us stating that at noon on Friday [23 July 1909], the school children be held in the air a strange machine, which they described as shaped like a boat, with what seemed like the figure of a man seated in it. The “airship” approached from the direction of the Blue Mountains [S45°55’, E169°22’], circled high over the school, and then disappeared in the direction whence it came. The phenomenon was also observed by Mrs. James Russell, of Kelso. Possible depiction of craft.

Our Kelso correspondent telegraphed as follows; – “There is not the slightest doubt that the airship was seen at Kelso yesterday at noon. I have eye witnesses to prove this. It is cigar or “boat” shaped and pointed at each end. Those who saw it had no idea of the probable height of it above them. It did not appear to be very long in build, but was very broad. The children who saw it say that it had a pontoon-shaped part above the boat and a short pole or mast, in the centre. It flew over and past the school ground, turned round, and went back the way it came. It was flying along very easily, and had no trouble in turning. It came from the direction of the Blue Mountains and over The Wooded Hill above Kelso, and seemed to make back direct to the mountains again. It was seen by at least five persons, and their statements are all in accord.”

This daylight account, which mentions an aviator, was circulated throughout New Zealand by the UPA wire service. It created great public interest and launched the “Kelso Airships” as a media phenomenon.


UK/England Disc

Cornwall — I was on holiday we stopped to take some pictures of the beautiful countryside and I noticed a lot of strange objects in the pics on July 1, 2018 24, 2017. I know there was no sound and no sighting by eye but they are there in the pics the other one I was taking pics as we were driving past an RAF airbase and there seems to be ufos in those also one being chased by a plane or something also we never saw with our eyes but they are in the pics, you have to zoom in but they are there. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Gainsborough — I had just bought a new camera and was trying it out by swizzling around and napping pictures to see if the was any blurring on August 3, 1998.. I took about 10 pictures doing the same thing I only looked at the first couple and they seemed good quality. so I downloaded them into a file on my computer and never thought any more about it.
then I acquired a program called Picasa which found lots of photos on my computer looking through them I spotted this one I thought it might have been a bird in flight and passed it by. I have never bothered to much about it and it might be nothing at all, I will let you judge. Best Regards Derek

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Ex-Canadian Transport Minister: US Has Technology for Shooting Down UFOs

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Ex-Canadian Transport Minister: US Has Technology for Shooting Down UFOs

Paul Hellyer, a whistleblower and alien conspiracy theorist, says that the US not only traded technology with aliens for years, but even possesses technology capable of shooting down extraterrestrial spaceships.

The United States has developed technology capable of downing alien spaceships, says Hellyer, a 94-year old Canadian engineer, politician, writer, commentator and alien conspiracy theorist.

"I do believe they have developed two or three kinds of weapons that are capable of disabling and bringing down UFOs," he told the Daily Star.

According to Hellyer, the United States has been exchanging technology and even salvaging technology from the advanced lifeforms.

"That is the primary purpose of the anti-ballistic missile shield, the weapons are ones that can be aimed in either direction to control the situation on Earth but equally, if not more important, to shoot down UFOs," he told the Daily Star.

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What makes this claim particularly noteworthy is the fact that Hellyer was once minister of national defense of Canada from 1963 to 1967 and minister of transport from 1967 to 1969.

In 2014, Hellyer told RT that there are at least four different alien species that have visited Earth for thousands of years. Some of them are actually interacting with the US military at an Air Force base in Nevada. According to Hellyer, the US military have been exchanging technology with "Tall Whites," as he describes the alien race, since the 1960s.

According to the Daily Star, he cited former US Air Force serviceman Charles James Hall, who has written about his alleged encounters with aliens at a Nevada base, as having told Hellyer they had a hangar for a "mother ship that came into the side of a mountain on the nights of a full moon."

However, despite having weapons capable of shooting down a UFO, there is no need to do that, as the aliens are actually friendly and are more concerned about the way humans treat their planet.

"They are friendly, most observers believe, so why would we shoot at friends?" he asked.

It's also possible that the US has not shot any UFOs because, as Hellyer said in 2013 in another interview for RT, that would spark an "interstellar war."
On the other hand, if the alien world turned out to have oil…

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