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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

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Ministry of Defence ‘is withholding three top-secret UFO files’, insider claims

Ministry of Defence ‘is withholding three top-secret UFO files’, insider claims

This is not actually a UFO, it’s a group of starlings

(Stock image, Rex)

concealing evidence that UFOs are real? Almost certainly not, but three ‘missing’ documents are stirring up the usual conspiracy theories about flying saucers." data-reactid="31" style="text-align: justify;">Is the Ministry of Defence concealing evidence that UFOs are real? Almost certainly not, but three ‘missing’ documents are stirring up the usual conspiracy theories about flying saucers.

The documents were ‘missed out’ when the Ministry of Defence agreed to open up its ‘X Files’ – or at least that’s what former MoD employee (and UFO fan) Nick Pope reckons.

Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980 – often described as ‘Britain’s Roswell’." data-reactid="33" style="text-align: justify;">The documents released so far have shed light on incidents such as the Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980 – often described as ‘Britain’s Roswell’.

But so far, they’ve not contained any ‘proof’ of alien life – and Pope says that the failure to release the last three files is stoking conspiracy theories.

Nick Pope said, ‘Having worked on the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project and having written many of the documents that have already been released, I’m extremely disappointed that ten years after the release of the first files, the project is still incomplete.

Pope claims that three documents have shuttled back and forth between the MoD and the National Archives.

Sometimes referred to as the “British Roswell,” the 1980 incident in Rendlesham Forest outside Suffolk, England, remains one of the U.K.’s most compelling stories of a UFO encounter
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Pope said, ‘A lot of people think the government is covering up the truth about UFOs and this unfortunate situation is only adding fuel to the fire with regard to these conspiracy theories.’

Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University claims that there might be a very real reason why there is no ‘smoking gun’ in the Ministry of Defence’s ‘X-Files’.

Clarke says that government efforts to investigate UFOs in 1997 deliberately focused on other explanations – and that officials deliberately destroyed files after a report which discounted the possibility of alien sightings, the Guardian reports.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/06/documents-reveal-how-mod-played-down-ufo-thesis-in-x-files-study

Messages between analysts and the Defence Intelligence Service said that investigations should focus on foreign powers and technology, and that it ‘It shouldn’t be driven by a UFO thesis’.

The report, completed in 2000, gave the Ministry of Defence grounds for a new policy where it no longer accepted reports of alien sightings.

But Defence Intelligence Service officials then destroyed the database, Clarke discovered after filing Freedom of Information requests.

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Bizarre viral video claims to show 'UFO' sucking energy from a lightning bolt

Bizarre viral video claims to show 'UFO' sucking energy from a lightning bolt

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A bizarre YouTube video posted by conspiracy theory channel SecureTeam10 has gone viral as it purportedly shows a UFO sucking energy from a lightning bolt.

The video, entitled "They Dwell in the Lightning," appears to show an object in the sky near a lightning bolt in the Czech Republic. The video was posted 5 days ago and has already racked up nearly 500,000 views.

The herky-jerky footage purportedly shows a "triangular-shaped UFO" following the lightning bolt with ease. Commenters on the video are mixed about what they are seeing, with some claiming it is indeed a UFO, while others believe it's a hoax.

[T]they" are clearly recharging their "batteries" using natural sources of lightning's energy.," one commenter wrote.

"Aliens aren't real, they were invented by Hollywood in the 40's," another wrote.

Several even made references to the "Back to the Future" movies because of a bolt of lightning provided energy to Marty McFly's car. "Doc Brown did it in back to the future, now aliens using bolts to power their vehicles," one commenter wrote.

SecureTeam10, which has its videos narrated by "Tyler Glockner," is known for posting conspiracy theory videos.

In the past, the YouTube channel has posted videos purporting to contain an "alien tank"found on the Moon and a giant hole found on Mars could be the work of aliens.

Neither of these instances has ever been confirmed by NASA or any other government agency.

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What Is the Big Bang Theory?

What Is the Big Bang Theory?

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Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence

Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence

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Listen To How Artificial intelligence Poses As A Human And Makes Phone Reservation

Listen To How Artificial intelligence Poses As A Human And Makes Phone Reservation

Listen To How Artificial intelligence Poses As A Human And Makes Phone Reservation

This is scary and awesome at the same time. Google’s new AI sounds like a human on the phone, and some experts say, we should be very worried.

During the last few years many companies have used the term “artificial intelligence” to talk about their virtual assistants, but let’s admit it, neither Siri nor other mobile phones ‘assistants’ really feel as smart as we expect.

However, the Google assistant has improved so much that ‘it’ can pass off as a human, and it’s kinda’ very scary and awesome at the same time.

Google’s AI

Google has recently presented the new version of Google Assistant, its intelligent virtual assistant, during the initial conference of Google I / O 2018.

Sundar Pichai wanted to demonstrate the capabilities of the platform, which now seems to be so far ahead of the competition that it tricks ordinary people into believing they are speaking with another human and not some creepy AI assistant.

During the demonstration, Google had the AI Assistant ask for an appointment in a hairdressing salon, and the conversation feels so natural that it is practically impossible to distinguish a real person from the AI.

Check out the video below and hold on to your seat.

If this isn’t scary then what is?

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I am genuinely bothered and disturbed at how morally wrong it is for the Google Assistant voice to act like a human and deceive other humans on the other line of a phone call, using upspeek and other quirks of language. "Hi um, do you have anything available on uh May 3?" #io18

The intonation of the words by the AI, the expressions that it uses, the small doubts when “speaking,” simply put, Google has made a wonder.

However, many experts would definitely agree that what Google has achieved, as well as being surprising, is terrifying, especially if you have seen how science fiction movies involving artificial intelligence end.

It is noteworthy to mention that the new Google Assistant is still in development, so for now it has no arrival date to the public.

Now imagine combining Sophie, the creepy human robot, and Google’s AI assistant.

As noted by the verge, “if robots can freely pose as humans the scope for mischief is incredible; ranging from scam calls to automated hoaxes. One effect of AI phone calls might be to make us all a little bit ruder. If we can’t tell the difference between humans and machines on the phone, will we treat all phone conversations with suspicion?”

And they’ve got a point there, after all the possibilities are endless, despite the fact that there are more good sides than bad sides to it.

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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life Rapidly Advancing with Discoveries of Earth-like Planets

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life Rapidly Advancing with Discoveries of Earth-like Planets

Infinite Opportunity


By Chuck Brooks  


As our technology has become more sophisticated, so has the search for other potential life in the universe. Some NASA scientists are now estimating that we may have contact with extraterrestrial contact in as little 25 years. 

Last year, scientists announced the discovery of a planet, a red dwarf 12.36 light years away; only four light years away from Earth located in the Alpha Centauri system. The planet is called Proxima Centauri, and it may be habitable. This discovery, along with recent discoveries of other potential exoplanets that can harbor life has led many leading astronomers to come to the conclusion that we likely are not alone in the universe. 

Just last week, A team of researchers just used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) to discover a low-mass alien planet orbiting the red dwarf star Ross 128 just 11 light years away from our solar system. What makes this notable is this planet has a mass that is similar to Earth’s.


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A project aimed at listening for signals of other intelligent life, SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), has been active for several years analyzing signals from outer space of intelligent sourcing. A spin-off of the SETI project is called METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is focused on designing and transmitting messages to possible life-bearing planets. METI Project Scientists recently transmitted a signal to a relatively nearby star called Luyten’s Star (GJ 273). The signal sent to Luyten’s Star incorporates “a scientific and mathematical “tutorial,'” as well as 33 short musical compositions by artists in the Sónar community, according to Space.com.


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Some new factors to consider based on advanced radio telescopes and on Kepler data, (Kepler is aspace observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars), is thathabitable exoplanets similar to Earth are much more common than originally thought, and the universe is more expansive than we have believed. We are learning more each day and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, planning to launch between March and June 2019, will exponentially add to our understanding.

Scientists from UC Berkeley and the University of Hawaii issued a study that 22 percent of sun-like stars may harbor planets roughly the size of Earth in their habitable zones that have been overlooked because these planets are harder to detect. One of the study’s co-authors, Andrew Howard, stated “With about 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, that’s about 20 billion such planets … That’s a few Earth-sized planets for every human being on the planet Earth.” Read about Earth-like exoplanets.

The estimates of potential earth-like planets vary among astronomers and exobiologists (those who study extraterrestrial life). NASA estimates conclude that there are probably more than 100 billion Earth-like planets based on the assumption that our universe has 500 billion billion stars similar to our own. That figure contemplates nearly identical conditions for life to evolve on these planets. Evidence derived from new powerful telescopes, including Kepler’s exploration of the Milky Way and various space probes in our own solar system, have shown that the water is more common place that thought and the organic building blocks of life are abundant.


These estimates are generally based upon a formula of probability created by astronomer Dr. Frank Drake in 1961. His “Drake Equation” sought to arrive at an estimate of the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

It was based on:

N = The number of civilizations in The Milky Way Galaxy whose electromagnetic emissions are detectable.

R* = The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life.

fp = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems.

ne = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life.

fl = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears.

fi = The fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges.

fc = The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.

L = The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.


Drake Equation


In addition to radio telescope scanning, analytics in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is significantly improving. A new capability based upon machine learning and artificial intelligence was created by researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. The computing capability is believed to be up to 1,000 times faster at predicting whether a planet is potentially habitable. Researchers will also use the AI tool to study NASA's impending Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which is set to launch in 2018.

Beyond the Milky Way, The numbers of planets that could support life, as we know it, are really mind-boggling. Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 billion habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. Multiplied by the 500 billion plus galaxies in the universe, they estimate around 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5×1022) habitable planets, or 50 sextillion in the universe. Of course, forms of life that could potentially evolve without Earth eco-systems would exponentially change that estimate to even a greater number. 

There are a variety of projects dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) now scanning space with sensitive optical and acoustic technologies. Also, Gravitational Microlensing is being used for detection of planets using techniques measuring the bending of light emitted by a star as a result of gravity from orbiting objects. 

There are those who say with all the possibilities of life out there – where is it and why have we not yet discovered it? This is commonly called the “Fermi Paradox” noting the contradiction between the high probability that life that is predicted to be in our universe, and the lack of evidence that advanced life exists anywhere else but Earth. But as such a young civilization that only discovered electricity in a recent era, there is not really much of a paradox. We are just at the doorstep of exploration and cannot not expect to know what we do not know yet. Man’s real quest for the stars has really just begun.

As mankind’s technology (especially artificial intelligence) and computing capabilities continue to grow, so will our ability to explore in greater detail the expansiveness of space and the multitude of galaxies. What was yesterday’s science fiction is now today’s reality. Someday, we may even have the capacity to travel beyond our dreams as humans, perhaps as cyborgs or replicating robotic probes. The continued discovery of Earth-like planets in our galaxy and beyond is another small step in our pondering of an understanding of what may be out there as we peer among the night sky.


 



Chuck Brooks is President of Brooks Consulting International. LinkedIn named Chuck as one of “The Top 5 Tech People to Follow on LinkedIn” out of their 500 million members. He has published more than 150 articles and blogs on cybersecurity and technology issues. In both 2017 and 2016, he was named “Cybersecurity Marketer of the Year by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Chuck’s professional industry affiliations include being the Chairman of CompTIA’s New and Emerging Technology Committee, and as a member of The AFCEA Cybersecurity Committee. In government, Chuck has served at The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the first Legislative Director of The Science & Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. He served as a top Advisor to the late Senator Arlen Specter on Capitol Hill covering security and technology issues on Capitol Hill. In academia, Chuck was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Johns Hopkins University where he taught a graduate course on homeland security for two years. He has an MA in International relations from the University of Chicago, a BA in Political Science from DePauw University, and a Certificate in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law.

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Crop Encounters of the Archaeological Kind!

Crop Encounters of the Archaeological Kind!

We mentioned in a previous blog that our drone “Dronita” had picked up some spectacular crop marks, but what creates these marks, and what can we actually determine from them?

When we mention crop marks most people’s first response is “crop circles? Wow!” But there are no mysterious alien forces at work here! A crop circle is a design pressed into the crop (by whichever process you choose to believe) but a crop mark is an area of land where subsurface archaeology has prevented or limited the growth of the crop. Much less exciting (or more, if you’re an archaeologist)! As a result, when a field is in full crop it can be easy to spot lines or structures as there are sections where nothing has grown.

But how exactly does the underlying archaeology prevent the crop growing? Obviously we’re not talking about small pieces of pottery here, but much larger structures such as buildings or roads. The bricks and stones below ground prevent roots from growing to their full ability and as a result the crop grows less well and appears more stunted than those surrounding it which can grow without any obstructions.

Additionally, the presence of stones takes water away from that area and into other sections of the soil, making them more fertile and in these sections the plants will grow more robustly than the others.

Depending on the crop, the marks can be more or less obvious. Thankfully, M.C. the crop growing in many of the fields we surveyed in 2017, was quite short and completely unable to grow above the subsurface archaeology, which made the crop marks incredibly apparent, which was great for us!

Crop Marks

Here you can see some structures and even possible paving stones from the road!

More difficult to see from the drone is a “positive crop mark” which is essentially the opposite of what we’ve been talking  about above. With a positive crop mark, the area below the plant is likely a depression deeper than the rest of the field. Often, these ditches or holes are filled with much more organic and fertile soil, thus resulting in the plants growing stronger than others in the field.

You can see in this rough diagram (drawn by yours truly) how all this works.

Crop marks at work!

Crop marks at work!

And that is everything you need to know about crop marks! Any questions? You can always ask on our Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram . We’ll be answering some FAQs in a later blog, so if there’s something you’ve always wanted to know about archaeology, Italy, or our field school in general, get in touch! And if you’ve been enjoying our recent updates, don’t forget you can follow our blog by email and get notifications every time we post, so you’ll never miss an update!

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Alien life could possibly be discovered by taking a look at a planet’s altering seasons

Alien life could possibly be discovered by taking a look at a planet’s altering seasons

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Why havent we discovered alien life?

Hundreds of probably liveable planets have been discovered exterior the Solar System, orbiting close by stars. It could possibly be doable to slim down this seek for extraterrestrial life by taking a look at a planet’s environment and finding out seasonal adjustments.

It is very unlikely that people are going to go to exoplanets anytime quickly, so the seek for life ought to start by taking a look at their atmospheres, says a brand new examine, studies Phys.Org. Called biosignatures, these are likened to fingerprints that organic life is more likely to depart within the environment. Researchers consider that they are often measured utilizing superior, next-gen telescopes on the lookout for the composition of gases in planets a number of mild years away.

However, the report additionally factors out that biosignatures based mostly on single measurements may be inaccurate and even deceptive. So to make this an efficient methodology to search for alien life, researchers are creating the primary ever quantitative framework to detect dynamic biosignatures which might be based mostly on Earth’s atmospheric seasons and the way it adjustments yearly, notes the report. It is being executed with funding from the NASA Astrobiology Institute and by scientists on the University of California, Riverside’s Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center.

If there are seasonal adjustments in exoplanets, that would imply there’s life on the marketCreative Commons

“A probably highly effective method to assess exoplanets for inhabitation could be to look at their atmospheres all through their orbits to see if we will detect adjustments in these biosignature gases over the course of a yr,” stated lead creator is Stephanie Olson. “In some circumstances, such adjustments could be troublesome to elucidate with out life and will even permit us to make progress in direction of characterizing, reasonably than merely recognizing, life on an exoplanet.”

Earth, on its tilted axis, receives completely different ranges of daylight in numerous components of the yr, this results in seen adjustments within the climate and the size of days within the floor. However, the adjustments in climate additionally has an impact on atmospheric composition, notes the report. The northern hemisphere, for instance, has a majority of the planet’s vegetation, so in the summertime, the northern hemisphere has a measurably decrease degree of carbon dioxide and better degree of oxygen.

“Atmospheric seasonality is a promising biosignature as a result of it’s biologically modulated on Earth and is more likely to happen on different inhabited worlds,” stated Olson. “Inferring life based mostly on seasonality would not require an in depth understanding of alien biochemistry as a result of it arises as a organic response to seasonal adjustments within the setting, reasonably than as a consequence of a particular organic exercise that is perhaps distinctive to the Earth.”

Apart from axis tilt like on Earth, extraordinarily elliptical orbits might additionally trigger seasons to vary on exoplanets, notes the report. Using an imaging approach known as spectroscopy, it could possibly be doable to mannequin fluctuations of gases like oxygen in these alien planets.

“It’s actually necessary that we precisely mannequin these sorts of eventualities now, so the area and ground-based telescopes of the long run may be designed to establish essentially the most promising biosignatures,” stated Edward Schwieterman, a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow at UCR. “In the case of ozone, we would want telescopes to incorporate ultraviolet capabilities to simply detect it.”

“Both oxygen and methane are promising biosignatures, however there are methods they are often produced with out life,” he added.

The paper, titled “Atmospheric Seasonality As An Exoplanet Biosignature,” was first printed within the  Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL ETIQUETTE: HOW SHOULD HUMANITY INTERACT WITH ALIEN LIFE?

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL ETIQUETTE: HOW SHOULD HUMANITY INTERACT WITH ALIEN LIFE?

Coming up with a strict set of guidelines that govern the way people on future interstellar space missions study and interact with aliens is imperative before anyone blasts off to a distant world, according to attendees at Starship Congress in August.

While a “prime directive” — the rule that prevented Star Fleet officers from interfering with the business of alien life-forms on TV’s “Star Trek” — might be a little extreme, such a rule could help govern interactions between aliens and humans.

“In the event that we discover evidence of intelligent life on another world, that will be a social, cultural and technologically influential event to human affairs which will need to be managed with great care and to ensure our culture and their culture remains intact and not disrupted by this new knowledge,” Kelvin Long, the founder of Project Icarus, said during a panel on Aug. 16.

People traveling to distant stars will be carrying  tangible and intangible aspects of human culture with them, so it should be curated responsibly before being sent to an alien planet, one expert said.

“I think it comes down to how we’re going,” Armen Papazian, the CEO of the International Space Development Hub, said. “Do we trust that this is a beautiful universe, an incredible cosmos? Do we really believe that it’s an amazing landscape, it’s a bed of stars? What do we think we’re going out there to find and are we going to embrace it or are we going to utilize? Are we trying to export our scarcity economics or are we trying to enjoy the abundant cosmos? … Whatever we are here, we’re going to export wherever we go.”

It’s possible that humans in the future will have no desire to land on exoplanets after free-roaming in space for years at a time, Icarus Interstellar president Richard Obousy said.

“I’m not convinced that when we have the capabilities to build starships … that we’ll want to go from one gravitational abyss to another gravitational abyss,” Obousy said. “I’m not convinced that settling on planets or even moons is going to be necessary.”

Humans can’t help but explore and interact with the world around them, Icarus Interstellar’s James Benford said during the panel.

“We won’t leave them alone,” Benford said. “We would like to explore alien ecology extensively to understand if there are any interactions leading to incompatibilities. We would need to establish human research stations to do that because it’s a complex problem. It seems unlikely that there would be interference between separately evolved ecologies, especially if we minimize contamination and wear the appropriate suits.”

Les Johnson, of the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, takes Benford’s ideas a little further. Johnson and his group have developed three moral principles that he hopes will serve as a guide for any interactions with all kinds of extraterrestrial life:

  • Learn all you can learn before risking any kind of direct interaction
  • If it seems to be alive, leave it alone.
  • Avoid bringing samples to the home world because it might not be totally incompatible with our ecosystem.

When developing a strategy for first contact, it might also be important to think about the mental and physical well-being of the aliens with whom humans could come into contact, panel members stated.

Finding out that a more advanced civilization exists somewhere in the universe could be as jarring for humans around the globe as it was for native peoples when the conquistadors came to North America for the first time, Benford said.

“It wasn’t just guns, disease and steel, it was the shock of finding out that you’re not even No. 1, you’re not even No. 3,” Benford said. “That is a thing to really worry about.”

In spite of all of these rules, it will be up to the people on the starship to ultimately enforce or do away with whatever rules were in place before they left the planet.

“A vibrant interstellar civilization will be essentially ungovernable, and that observing such guidelines will be strictly left up to each and every first contact team to obey or not obey at their discretion,” Johnson said. “When someone is several light-years from home and they’ve encountered something they never encountered before, they’re going to be making the decisions regardless of what the guiding moral principles might have been when they left home.”

Source www.space.com


Also published on Medium.

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UFO fires on fast moving object in the sky over Michigan?

UFO fires on fast moving object in the sky over Michigan?

On May 8, 2018 ‘Watchingtheskysabove’ was driving the Michigan roads when he noticed that the skies looked a little weird like they’ve been looking lately, so he pointed his cellphone to the sky not knowing what he would capture.

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The footage shows two fast moving unknown objects in the sky over Michigan when suddenly several red glowing objects, like some sort of plasma balls, appear close to the first flying object.

A closer look at the footage shows a UFO at some distance from the first object. Although I am not sure whether the red glowing objects are just flares or that the UFO has fired some sort of energy weapon towards the first flying object, it is noticeable that the position of the UFO, which is visible in just a few frames of the footage, is in a straight line with the red glowing objects and the first flying object.
  

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Amazing triangle UFO sighting over Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico 8-May-2018

Amazing triangle UFO sighting over Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico 8-May-2018

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Triangle-shaped craft was filmed over Air Force Base in New Mexico on 8th May.

Witnes report: 

at first two orange yellow lights just stationary In the sky then a third appeared in a triangle like formation. driving home from work on base, and casually glanced to my right (south) and noticed two orange yellow lights floating and casting a lot of light on the ground between 1 & 7 miles away. I pulled over to look closer and as I was recording with my phone a third appeared in a triangle formation with with the other two. they did not appear to move or fall I heard no audible noise. i know it was not flares from anything cause they were stationary and the only thing in the direction i was looking was open desert.nor was it an aircraft. after i observed for around 5 minutes they all just disappeared within quick succesion.

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UFO Researcher Reveals the Flight Path Of A Crashed UFO In The Welsh Mountains

UFO Researcher Reveals the Flight Path Of A Crashed UFO In The Welsh Mountains

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A newly disclosed map might have an answer to the question whether a flying saucer that crashed in the Welsh mountains left a strange halo fire.

The incident took place in 1974 in the Berwyn Mountains and now popularly known as the Welsh Roswell. However, only recently UFO researcher Russ Kellett disclosed the map to the public.

According to Kellett, witnesses to the incident gave him the map showing the flight path of the UFO.

People reportedly heard a huge bang and felt tremors on earth, which took place amid claims of brilliant light sighting in the sky above the mountain range at around 8:30 on the night of January 23, 1974.
People at Llandderfel and Llandrillo reportedly heard an explosion, which measured 3.5 on the Richter scale.
Police reportedly arrived in the area while the search and rescue team of RAF was scrambled from Anglesey. There were claims that other military personnel were also present.
According to the Gwynedd police report, a massive explosion had taken place in the area and an enormous fire in the mountainside. One statement from a witness at the time said that they saw bright, coal fire red light in a vast perfect circle, similar to a big bonfire.

However, sceptics offered a simple explanation saying that a meteor, an earthquake or poachers were the cause of the noise and the alleged strange activity.

Mr Kellet claimed five witnesses had given him the map showing the flight paths of RAF jets and the UFO.

The map allegedly shows a red dot indicating the area of the incident and black dotted lines from the west leading to the dot revealing the alleged path of the UFO and RAF jets.

Mr Kellet claimed the five saw an unusual object and went out to have a look, but the military was in the area and asked them to leave. These witnesses then reportedly moved to a better position and began to take pictures.

The five witnesses were all friends, and four served in the military during the World War Two. After their sighting, they decided to investigate the case, and the map is the result.

Mr Kellet said that he received a package from the witnesses after his talk in Bala to a packed audience around the late 1990s or early 2000s. As he gets older, he decided to reveal the map to the public and see if anybody else could shed light on the incident.

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Filer’s Files #18 -2018 Flying Triangles - PART I

Disc taken over Turkey on April 29, 2018
Disc taken over Turkey on April 29, 2018

Filer’s Files #18 -2018 Flying Triangles - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Flying Triangles, North Korea, and 856 March Sightings

Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia. Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wisconsin.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, China, Sweden, Turkey, 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.

Major George Filer Editor of The National UFO Center, would like to invite join him in Mt Shasta this summer July 27-29th 2018. He will present a wonderful program at the “From Venus with Love” conference.

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George A. Filer III

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Special Projects

Flying Triangles

Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

 Fifty years ago (March 7, 1971), a prototype of a new class of aircraft, so odd-shaped that John McPhee of The New Yorker dubbed it the “Deltoid Pumpkin Seed” completed its one and only successful test flight at the FAA Test Center in New Jersey. The craft was an early attempt at a hybrid airship that would rely on both an aerodynamic shape and internal helium to lift heavy cargo loads at low cost, and into remote areas where large cargo planes could not land.

The aircraft was intended as a forerunner of much larger craft thatwould contain helium; these designs were dubbed “Dynairships.” One proposal, the AEREON 340, was to have been 340 feet (100 m) long, with a wingspan of 256 feet (78 m) and total lift of 400,000 pounds (180,000 kg). Powered by four 5,500 horsepower Rolls-Royce Tyne turboprop engines, it was claimed to be capable of carrying intermodal containers or semi-trailers, operating slightly heavier than air. A patent for “a cargo-carrying air ship comprising a gas-filled, low aspect ratio deltoid wing” was granted in 1969; according to this patent, “extremely large ships, having lengths in excess of 1,000 feet (300 m)” and capable of economically transporting “large payloads, ranging up to 1,000 long tons or more” over long distances, were feasible.

Generally, the craft are flown at night and kept in hangars or underground. There are legitimate needs for secrecy. A series of low flying black or dark grey triangles have been flying over the US and UK for several decades. They have generated thousands of reports. They generally fly well below the flight level of normal commercial aircraft. They may alien or a copy of alien craft. Some craft fly only a few feet above the trees or buildings. Numerous reports claim the craft

The craft are a dull, non-reflective dark grey color, without visible markings, (they have ID’s that respond to the proper RF interrogation, similar to the old IFF systems) and they are flown at night. It is likely the intial pumpkin seed design was upgraded and large triangle craft were built. The intial designs were

“David” in the UK writes  at last we have more proof that Black Triangles are likely ours. The British military have had large triangles on test flights around the UK and Europe for the past 10 years according to my data,  remember the Belgium sighting from the early 90’s and countless others?.  Black Triangles are Top Secret and Classified and according to the NEXUS Magazine there D Notices, (i.e they do not exist in the interest of national security the UK media will not report any sightings of triangles. I believe that triangles will eventually become Grey projects in time, just as the stealth bomber has become de-classified as a grey project, so black     triangles will also be. They are often seen in South Cumbria around the Morecombe Bay area, and over various coastal Nuclear Powere Stations.

AEREON LIFTING BODY

The Aereon Lifting body is one of a series of black triangle aircraft operating in the US and UK inventory.  The larger platforms are lighter-than-air vehicles that use the latest composite materials in construction to reduce their radar image.  They are used for Airborne Warning and Control systems,  reconnaissance,  the covert insertion of troops and airlift of classified materials.  Similar craft such as the Aereon 340, Aereon 26, etc., were on the drawing board in the 1960s.  US Patent 3,761,041 shows a lifting body that was designed to carry large bulky loads such as large phased array radars similar that mounted in Aegis class ships. Small piloted experimental aircraft were test-flown at Atlantic City Airport before the whole thing was covered up.

Although Aereon appeared to develop the original patents and ideas they do not appear to have been given the contract for building the actual aircraft.  I was shown video of the early successful flights of the Aereon craft by the President William Miller. Work undertaken by various experts was classified in 1976/7.

It is believed some of the advantages of the Navy’s Aegis system were incorporated into the Aereon lifting body.  The photos of how the Aegis system looks at the Lockheed Martin Combat System Engineering Plant, in Moorestown, New Jersey.  This system is normally mounted on a Navy destroyers and cruisers. The Aereon craft could be  used by the military to handle exceptionally large amounts of cargo, fuel, or a huge, horizontal triangular phased-array radar antennas (somewhat like an airborne version of the “Pave Paws” ballistic missile detection radar). The is kept in the air by multiple internal helium balloonets and powered by quiet ducted turboprops.  Based on eye witness description near Pine Bush, New York the craft seems to be composed of numerous squares of triangular shaped balloons or blimp like structures.  Sometimes a superstructure similar to a large ship is observed rising above the main bulk of the craft.  Several up close observers such as Ellen Crystal  stated the ship was measured sixty feet on each side of the triangle and was bristling with antennas.

 Ellen Crystal’s drawings of craft seen near Pine Bush, NY. Dr. Ellen Crystall claims in her 1991 book, Silent Invasion, that she detected evidence for an underground alien base near Pine Bush, NY. .

AEREON Lifting Bodies flying triangle craft are one of the most frequent UFO shapes sighted in recent years.  Detailed identifications of these craft indicate one or more is in continuous operation in various parts of the world.  In the mid 1980s they were most frequently spotted in the Hudson Valley of the Northeastern part of the United States. In the late 1980s, the area of operation appeared to move to Belgium, in the 90s the sightings occurred mostly over the southeastern coast of England and the North Sea.  A black triangle was spotted hovering over Mohonk Mountain Resort New Paltz, NY in November 6, 1998, by several employees of the resort.  This craft appears to operate in Canada and the  Northeastern part of the US.  There have been no announcements by any nation claiming that these large V-shaped craft belong to them.

One possibility is that they deliberately designed the craft to be stealth like by making the craft look like an UFO, so nobody takes the matter seriously.  Ridicule and refusal by the news media to publish these stories work to keep the craft secret.  The craft can do what they want over populated areas due to the very nature of their appearance.  The movement near the Hudson Valley and along the East Coast of England infers these crafts have a long range radar capability. Because it is continually moving enemy forces would have a difficult time targeting its location.

Witnesses report the craft to be black, with white lights at each corner and a red light in the middle.  The craft is said to be larger than the width of a super highway, sometimes as large as a football  field and either completely silent or accompanied by a faint hum.  The craft hover or travel at a very slow speed, 45 mph or less, a speed  that would seem incapable of keeping the object airborne.  The craft  has also been reported to have a phenomenal acceleration, disappearing  from over-head to out-of-sight in a few seconds!  Sometimes the object  ‘blinks out’ and just disappears.  The object may carry missiles and other devices to fool the observer.

The earliest reliable witness to these craft occurred Norm Buckallew  was at a drive in movie in the summer of 1968.  His eye caught a huge object coming from the south east in a brightly lit sky. The full moon  made it stand out like a neon sign. He threw the speaker out the window and got in gear, to the complete surprise and quick complaints of my friend.  Off we sped, in my 65 Corvair following the highway for seven miles as it drifted slowly along, not going over 40-45 miles an hour the entire time we followed watching it.

We stopped and watched this huge thing glide over us  without sound.  Its size caused goose bumps to travel up and down my spine.  What was this huge black object?  It looked like a pyramid. The total size would be about two blocks wide at its rear end, it was  a good fifteen to twenty feet thick with rounded edges.  There was no sign of any engines at all and no outside lights.  However.   Along the side toward us we could see clearly a row of windows with a yellow light emitting from them.  We could also see figures moving around inside looking out the windows at the ground. There was quite a number of them.  We could make out no features but, they had heads, torso, arms and legs like our own.  This huge silent craft sounds exactly like what was seen all over Arizona, I know for a fact this was no normal air plane. Its altitude was about 800 feet as it passed over their heads.   I have seen UFOs all my life, this was the largest I ever saw and the slowest.

The craft was hovering over large buildings, such as a church in Belgium, and homes in the Northeast.  The witnesses agree that the craft is exceptionally large, bigger than any known aircraft.  One of the largest aircraft in the world C-5s regularly operate over the Hudson Valley and are based at Stewart Air National Guard Base.  Witnesses claim these FT craft are two to five times larger than the C-5 whose wingspan is 223 feet and length is 248 feet.  If we double the size of the flying triangle it has roughly both a wingspan and fuselage length of 500 feet.  The solid deltoid wing shape obviously it would make it appear as a huge and massive craft.  Some estimates imply a thousand foot wing span.  Several photos have surfaced that indicate a large triangle with rounded corners at the alleged wing tips.

I met with William Miller the President of Aereon and had him speak to our Air Force Association Group.  He showed our group video of the development and flight of his experimental craft.  He indicated his company had developed several patents for this kind of technology.  One of them, incredibly, was for a huge, triangular, lighter-than air AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) carrying giant phased-array radar antennas, based on the old Aereon lifting-body design and powered by turboprops!  They apparently have received limited funding in the past from the Air Force, but he assured me they had not built the craft in the photos and drawings.  They are simply called  lifting bodies.

They are often seen in the general vicinity of Stewart Airport near Newburg, New York, and Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts.  There is speculation that a secret base is somewhere in the Catskills or atFort Drum in northwestern, New York.  They are seen as far south as Georgia and Florida. The craft seem to move along a low level military corridor in the Appalachian Mountains. The secrecy may be related to violation of SALT treaty provisions or hopes of keeping the aircraft secret until needed.   There were also intriguing reports of “slow-moving triangles” near the military flight test center at Edwards AFB, CA in this period.

I have detailed knowledge of the close encounter between UFOs and Belgian F16’s in March 1990.  It was recorded on radar tape that  one of the unknowns accelerated to 40 Gs.  This is claimed to be clear cut evidence  for the ET origin of this vehicle, because terrestrial craft  fighters  have a maximum acceleration capacity of about 10 Gs.  An aircraft that can carry unusually large radars, would likely also be able to send out radar signals they may have fooled the Belgian F-16s into thinking it was taking high G evasive action.

The craft may have perfected a unique camouflage system.  The skin of the craft could change color to mimic the sky or ground on its reverse side.  A large slow moving, low flying  craft would be very vulnerable to enemy action and need both camouflage and stealth operation.  The large size of the craft indicates it would need a crew of fifteen to twenty operate the various functions such as  radar, take off and landing, cargo, navigation, etc.   New composites and plastics can be made clear, or designed to change color with light.  An effective camouflage technique is to provide enough light to an object so that it has the same amount of light has the background.  During daylight an object can be made almost invisible by simply flooding it with enough light to match the sky, either from within or by bathing light on the exterior.  Lights can be switched off and on causing the craft to appear and disappear as by magic.  My wife and I happened to see six lights moving in unison over Marlton, NJ.  I gave chase in my car reaching speeds of 60 mph. It out distanced us flying towards Philadelphia.  It was dusk and an overcast day, we could clearly see the lights but no structure.  The lights were either flying formation in a roughly triangle shape or they were attached to an object that neither of us could see.  I have tried to determine the technology to hide an aircraft.  Additionally, this craft would need to hide from the prying eyes of satellites and enemy fighters.  Flying slow and low changing its colors to match the terrain below it, the craft would appear virtually invisible from above.  During night time operations it could use small lights to look like stars.   However, the Aereon at night is often are described using three very bright spotlights, shinning down on the ground.  Often a large red light is also described either in the nose or the center of the craft.  This may be a device to pump hot air into the craft similar to what is used on hot air balloons.  During peace time night operations the greatest danger to this craft would come from mid-air collisions.  Consequently, the bright lights are used to avoid collision but also to appear from out of this world.

If a Third World War should break out in Europe, most long range radars would be destroyed in the initial minutes of the war.  Lockheed Martin Corporation and others have designed this type of equipment for use on Aegis Class destroyers and cruisers.  The Aereon may have been designed to carry this relatively large and bulky equipment.  To accomplish this task a different type of aircraft was needed.  Generally Airborne Warning and Control aircraft have a limited 250 mile range radar.  With rapidly increased fighter and bomber air speeds, a moveable very long range radar was needed for increased survivability, surveillance and to control defense applications. Additionally, solid-state Radar was needed for detection and tracking of tactical ballistic missiles and cueing for defensive missile systems.  Additionally, defense is needed against attacking fighters, helicopters and ground fired weapons. New  3-D radars with L-band operating frequency could provide superior detection performance on all types of targets and improved detection in all types of weather.  Both a fixed radar site and high flying AWACs aircraft are relatively vulnerable.  Communication with satellite data links and air defense units would be needed to control the actual battle.  Daylight operation would be the most dangerous to a blimp like aircraft.  It could hide among the radar ground clutter or be built of stealth materials that are not easily detected on radar.  The craft may be equipped for modern battlefield needs, command flexibility, and reliable detection of rotary wing and fighter threats.  A short range air defense system,  anti-aircraft missiles and high velocity weapons may be installed for point defense.  A sophisticated radar system may be installed to detect, classify, and track distant targets  The craft is likely equipped with advanced countermeasures (ECCM).  The radar should be able to simultaneously monitor and track more than 20,000 targets. The Aereon because of its size and lift capability provides both mobility and survivability.

UNITED KINGDOM

typical night for the Aereon Lifting Body is to travel around Southeastern England, moving  among the three Nuclear Power Stations at Sizewell in Suffolk, Bradwell in Essex  and Dungeness Nuclear Power Plant in Kent.  These plants are watched closely due to thier importance to the British Electrical power grid and large easily spotted chimneys.  During 1996 and 97 there were almost nightly visits to the vicinity of these power plants.  This may be accidental due to the fact any craft moving along the Eastern coast would eventually cross near these plants.

British aviation enthusiasts point out that these craft operate near known military bases.  It is interesting the Soviets have built a similar blimp like disc shape craft.  This craft appears to be some 400 feet in diameter and may be used for carrying large amounts of crude oil.   The large number of sightings suggest these craft are man made.  It is likely that they operate with NATO forces and may be an upgraded long range Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center (ABCCC).  They may also perform an anti tactical missile role.  They seem to operate along the Appalachian Mountains mostly in the northeast and in England.

TR3B

There is likely a hypersonic version operating a speeds above 5 times the speed of sound. The first hard evidence the USAF (or the National Reconnaissance Office) was testing a hypersonic aircraft surfaced in 1990.  Strange double-sonic-booms rocked sleeping Californians awake and triggered earth quake detection-equipment.  Stealth watchers were quick to catch on and dubbing the booms “skyquakes”.  ccording to Jim Mori, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, the sonic boom signatures recorded by the 220 seismic sensors, operated by the U.S. Geological Service, emanated from aircraft traveling at high-supersonic speed.  Mori also said “Òther frequency and shape of the seismic waves indicated the sonic booms were caused by an aircraft, much smaller than the Space Shuttle,  a hypersonic aircraft about the size of an SR-71.  At that time the only operational  SR-71 was based at Edwards AFB, flown by NASA and was not in the air at the time of the “skyquakes”.  On many occasions, the booms came in pairs (minutes apart) suggesting that there was more than one hypersonic aircraft on a test flight at the same time.  USGS seismic sensors indicated the craft was over Southern California and into Nevada, on a heading for a landing Groom Lake where much of the Pentagon’s covert technology is tested and based.

Accompanying the skyquakes were multiple sightings of  wedged- shaped aircraft all over the United States and abroad.  An aircraft with a diamond shaped pattern of lights was seen flying in a formation of F-117s, refueling with a KC-10 tanker over Beale AFB, near Sacramento, California.  According to a February 1992 issue of the “Scotsman Sunday Post”, high altitude tests of an American hypersonic aircraft were conducted over the North Atlantic.  The mystery aircraft  were observed landing at the U.S. Special Forces base at Machrihanish, Scotland.  Numerous press reports of loud-roaring- wedge-shaped-aircraft scaring sheep on the Scottish Mull of Kintyre and mysterious fast-moving radar blips speeding above Mach 3 by civilian air traffic controllers in Scotland began filing UK newspapers.     In 1989, oil drilling engineer Chris Gibson, an accomplished aircraft observer (having served 12 years with Royal Observer Corp.Õs international aircraft recognition team) witnessed a black- wedge shaped aircraft flying over the North Sea.  The aircraft was refueling with a KC-135 tanker and escorted by two F-111 chase planes, reinforcing claims  that the aircraft was being based somewhere in the British Isles.

Military insiders say that a project involving a hypersonic reconnaisance aircraft was cancelled in 1993. Other sources say that the project (called Q) became too expensive and considered unfeasible. The Aurora aircraft is said to be in flyable condition (in storage) at the mysterious Groom Lake flight-test facility located inside the Nellis Test Range in Nevada. According to some insiders, one components of the Aurora/Senior Citizen system was not abandoned. A stealthy high-speed reconnaissance drone,

originally launched off the back of “Aurora” (much like the D-21 drone and SR-71 mothership concept) did survive. This is the craft possibly  responsible for the strange “donuts-on-a-rope” contrails  reported seen over the southwest. In any event, evidence does support that something high-flying and stealthy is still transiting the night skies of the world.  The high speed hypersonic Aurora may be an unmanned robotic drone.  KC-10 tankers at Mc Guire Air Force Base regularly refuel high performance type aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean.

Triangle  preparing to attack  in  Soviet Draawings

 The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union. The following year I met with two Soviet ColoneIs who

Triangle  Craft Landed shooting at radar site

claimed the Soviet Union was under attack by triangle craft that were destroying key military facilities through out the country. The Colonels claimed Mikhail Gorbachev had been visited by aliens and threatened the anailation of the Soviet Union if they would not disolve amd remove the threat of nuclear war. President George Herbert Walker Bush senior was in charge and may have set up the historic confrontation. President Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the beginning of World War II. He flew am Avenger and was shot down and recoveed to fly another 68 combat missions. He served until September 1945, then attended Yale Univerity. He had later been Director of the Cia and directed a series classified missions. The successful attacks on the Soviet Union were carried out by triangle shaped craft with no markings and brought the Cold War to an end.

North Korea

There has been a sudden change in North Korea’s stance, from bragging they are able to hit the US mainland with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles to claiming they are surrendering this capability. In 2017, North Korea under Kim Jong Un overcame technological hurdles to its long quest to build a modern nuclear weapons program, conducting a large underground detonation and test launching at least 17 ballistic missiles. . One or more might be able to reach the US unless knocked down by US antimissile systems. Pyongyang recently said. “Washington was considering a pre-emptive strike against it and the US had moved anti-missile systems, advanced aircraft and ships into the South Korea area.” The U.S.likely started flying high speed triangle aircraft over North Korea. Kim Jong Un’s rogue regime went to China and Russia for support and were basically turned down..

Various bombers were flying along the North Korean border and along the coasts and allegedly their radar was having trouble tracking the B-1 bombers.The US biefed up its forces near the Korean border and likely flew high speed craft over North Korea on fairly routine missions showing Kim Jong Un the US could strike any target at will. Kim Jong Un likely decided peace was better than anilation. He got the world’s attention and President Trump has agreed to meet with him and probably willing to provide finacial help. In rural areas people are poorly fed and undernourished and defections are common.

Kim Jong Un is a basketball fan has a certain fascination with the West and probably wants the best for his people. To help make his decision the North Korea nuclear test site mountain partially collapsed and may be out of action according to a China study under the stress of multiple explosions,.

A controlled explosion in September caused an initial magnitude-6.3 tremor, that is believed to have triggered four more earthquakes over the following weeks. The findings suggest the partial collapse of the mountain that contains the testing tunnels, as well as the risk of radiation leaks, have potentially rendered the site unusable.

The findings could cast doubt on North Korea’s sincerity in announcing last weekend that it would stop testing nuclear weapons. Apparently, playing tough with is what he understands.

In April, B-1Bs flew further north along North Korea’s coast than at any time in the past 17 years. The sortie prompted Pyongyang’s foreign minister to warn that U.S. bombers could be shot down even if they did not enter North Korean airspace.

A satellite image from 13 April 2017 shows North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site.

Photograph: HO/AFP

U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster said at the weekend the possibility of war was “increasing every day.” He said Trump was prepared to take action against North Korea but was working to convince China, Russia and others to do more to press Pyongyang to get it to give up its weapons programs.”

Appaently with U.S. pressure, Kim Jong Un has decided to at least try a more peaceful position. Trump calls Kim ‘very honourable’ and says North Korea wants summit as soon as possible

March UFO Sightings

March 2018 saw a total of 640 UFO sightings reported to the Mutual UFO Network, MUFON from around the world.

  • United States 446,
  • Canada 66, UK 42, France 11,
  • Australia 9, Mexico 7,
  • Brazil and Spain 6.

National UFO Reporting Center by Peter Davenport reports 216 in March

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Filer’s Files #18 -2018 Flying Triangles - PART II

Filer’s Files #18 -2018 Flying Triangles - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Comet

El Mirage — Was standing out back of our house smoking a cigarette on Feburary 6, 2018, I saw a strange light that wasn’t normal. I called to my husband to come look. We started to take pictures and I recorded a short video of our experience. Shortly after when we tried to show friends they were unable to view anything in the video other than darkness. Upon watching it again we were able to see the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 California Object

Stockton – I saw a yellowish orange triangle flying very low and completely silent on March 30, 2018.
I looked out my window and saw a triangular shaped object flying silently thru the sky from the west moving south east. Moving very fast and did not make a sound. Kind of looked like flames coming out of the top. After about 3 minutes it flashed and than flashed a few more times and than it was gone. Thanks to Peter Davenport www.ufocenter.com

 Colorado Lights

Demver — I was watching the news on the morning of April 25, 2018 and at the end of the broadcast they showed a shot of Downtown Denver. The scene is normally without anything in the sky but on April 25th there were two disc like lights in the sky. I contacted the network (Channel 4 CBS) and received a reply that it is a sunspot. I would like you to take a look and tell me what it is. It looks exactly like a UFO to me. Right below where these lights appeared is where the Colorado State Capitol is located.
The objects did not move and are visible for about 8-10 seconds until the video ends.. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Lights

Homestead — Object not present in photo one second before then appears. Expand the photo and look at the bottom edge of the large quarter moon.

Visited Coral Castle took still photos noticed object when I arrived home and observed photos. In Third frame not second frame one second beforehand . CMS

Georgia Lights

Atlanta — When I moved to Atlanta in October 2015 my dad visited and then headed back. While he was flying after a storm had ended he spotted a bright object in the sky. He was flying around 30,000 feet and tested his new iPhone 8 on a star. Days later he zoomed in it to realize it wasnt what he thought it was. He sent me the live picture of the UFO and if you see the picture it looks like a castle like ship where the tower like structures were spinning. The red ‘ribbon’ was moving or flying around the ship. My dad was flying around 30,000 feet and it seemed like it was about 35,000 feet above the plane. My dad knows that we’re not alone.  I have witnessed many anomalous events as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kansas Disc

Wichita — I had gone to Wichita Kansas with my brother to stay at his girlfriend’s parents home for Thanksgiving on November 24, 2007. I took my son with me. We were sleeping in front of a large sliding glass door that looked out into the backyard to a pond. It was  7:15 AM, I woke up on my back, to see something over the pond. I flipped over real quick, to make sure of what I was seeing. As I looked out the window on my stomach now. I could see an object hovering 10 foot over the pond. It was about 30-40 feet across in the center of the pond. It was a Silver, purplish gray with matt finish. It had rounded edges flat ends with a flat bottom with a round half dome on the top. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Louisiana Triangle

Shreveport — I had gone outside to smoke and looked up and there was this object flying directly overhead on November 3, 2016. It was too slow to be an airplane and made no sound. This thing was huge and had four lights on it. I saw it very well. It was black with white lights on each tip and a red light on the underbelly. It was gone too fast to go back inside to grab a camera as we have woodlands pretty much around us. I have attached a picture I got from the internet. It is what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts Triangle

Northampton –. Noticed an object near local small airport, figured it was a plane, but realized there were no wings. Saw red light and said to my 11 year old here comes a helicopter. So we watched as it was coming closer, until it slightly turned and the Sun brightly reflected off its side and nearly made it invisible. A triangle ufo was the following river upstream

I realized it was a perfect triangle making  no sound. Staying at about 600′ above ground, it traveled North filling the Connecticut River, winding as the river does. Seemed to be mapping the river. Thanks to Peter Davenport www.ufocenter.com

New Jersey Sightings

Eatontown  — I was driving down the highway, I noticed I very large dark cigar shaped object with no lights hovering, I snapped a pic. I saw a huge cigar shaped object hovering on April 20, 2018.

Weird things have been happening with me, a week before this sighting I really thought they took me. I woke up with bruises all over me on March 30, 2018. I sent those pictures in also. I’ve been feeling things lately. I just feel like they’re following me or watching me. We chased this thing for 20 miles, over the lake. It just vanished. Most nights I can feel them before they come and when I wake up I know they have been here mostly because the power is usually out and I have a horrible headache. I’ve always felt things, ever since I was a little girl but now things seem to be happening at a much faster pace. Thanks to MUFON CMS.

New York Object

Windam — I was with my brother George and his girlfriend Crystal on April 10. 2015. We were visiting a local hot-spot on a summer 80 degree day called Point-Lookout, in East Windham. Its known for its 5 state view, at  “The Captains Inn.” What made us notice the object was afterwards once the photo was already taken. Although it is clearly in the picture, there was not a plane, a helicopter, or anything I could possibly think of in the sky that day. I don’t know how to explain it, but it wasn’t anywhere’s but in the photo. I’ve had other experiences but this one is by far the closest proof I’ve ever had. The feeling I got afterwards was extremely intense, looking at the picture. I felt the energy of being watched. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Lights

North Royalton — On May 1, 2018, I was at home closing my blinds when I looked out and saw a large headlight flying towards my building. It was about 9:30 PM. I recorded it on my cell phone.
The huge circular headlight with 5 little lights on the right side of the object.   Object flew a straight pattern with the little lights moving around the body of the object. As it flies past strobe lights are seen on the left and right side of the headlight.  I was just in awe, as it flew over my building. I heard what sounded like a plane in the distance. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Oklahoma Object

I was outside of my home town watching the sunset as I always do and taking pictures because of the obvious beautyon August 18, 2017, and I always take multiples, but I never noticed this object until a year later, me and my grandpa was talking about my pictures and I started pointing things out, so I started going through all of my pictures and realized how many pictures I have of diffrent entity(s), the object, or whatever it may be is smaller in size,solid black but it looks as if it has two or three possible lights projecting from the object, or maybe just a reflection, it’s hard to observe considering I’m on my mobile phone. There was no motion at all, in a’ll three of the shots I took, it stayed in the same position the entire time. Again it’s been a year sense I took the shots and just now realize it, but I was excited to see these object’s. And Again, sense it’s a year later and I didn’t realize it at the time, I’m not sure what happened to this object. Or the means of what may have happened to it.

Texas Cigar

Houston – I never thought I’d have something to add. Just observed this near Memorial Drive and Shepard on April 29, 1018.

Object was moving north northwest. Was keeping the same elevation and didn’t move like balloons.

Much larger, vertical structure like a floating tower with a pointed tip at the top.

Don’t know what the hell that was. Freaking out a bit.

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Utah Lights

St.George — I was driving home from to Enterprise on Mayl 1, 2018 4, 2018, heading northwest on Highway 18 at  2:45 am. At mile marker 38 I saw two green lights to the southwest as I drove on the lights came closer towards me and were descending from the dark sky. Then as the lights got closer I realized this was a bigger object than I thought and it began hovering next to me. I turned right down my street there were the two green lights again, about 150 yards in front of me and 20 feet above the ground coming at me so I turned my lights off and grabbed my phone. As I snapped two pictures the object just hovered in place for about 15 seconds and red light blinking below the green lights, then it floated away. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Wisconsin Object

Arena — Working a field for planting I did not see the object until I looked at my pictures.

Photo was taken on Mayl 1, 2018

Bird I don’t know. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Disc

Laxenburg / south of Vien — I was walking through the village with my Canon 70D (100 mm Macro lens).

Made some pictures and went back home on April 28, 2018. After downloading I detected these strange objects on the screen (Adobe Photoshop) .. ! That’s all.

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Canada Object

Gabriola Island — The object was evident in a photograph taken of my brother on Gabriola Island on October 6th 2012. I had taken two photos of my brother standing on a rock with my iPhone 4. The photos were taken in quick succession, no more than 5 seconds apart. In the second photo an object is apparent over the water to the right and just above my brother’s head. It appears to reflect the sun and to be about a mile away or more. The object is not apparent in the first photo taken. Thanks to MUFON CMS

China Lights

 Xi’an — 1. Over the sky in Xi’an, China
2. Astigmatism lasts about 20 minutes
3. Constant astigmatism
4. Astigmatism rotates
5. Feeling weird
6. Into the cloud it disappears on April 12, 2018.

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 Sweden Objects

Luleå — I was walking towards the bus and randomly looked up in the sky because the sun was shining and there they were 6-8 flying black diamond/triangle shaped objects in a wide line on February 9, 2018. No noise was made by them. Another strange thing was that after I took photos on my smartphone I could still see them in the sky but couldn’t catch them in a video. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Turkey Sphere

The objects passed in four pieces.
They were blinking white lights on what appears to be a metallic surface. What appeared as lights may be sun reflecting off shiny surface.

Photo was taken on April 29. 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 UK Triangle

Stonehouse — I was up on my roof stargazing on April 19, 2018, when suddenly I noticed a black triangle moving southwest slowly across the sky. It was travelling at a steady commercial aircraft pace. I stargaze frequently but this was unlike anything I have ever seen.
The craft was clearly a solid and complete a triangle, It had six white lights around the edge, evenly spaced. The craft kept moving at the same pace until it went beyond my view. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Two helicopters spotted 'chasing' UFO sparks IMMINENT alien invasion fears

Two helicopters spotted 'chasing' UFO sparks IMMINENT alien invasion fears

ALIENS are on the brink of invading Earth and the US military knows about it, according to wild claims online.

By Callum Hoare 

Video footage has emerged appearing to show two helicopters chasing a small black orb through the skies of Colorado Springs, USA. 

The two choppers seem to surround the mystery object before escorting the UFO away. 

The clip then cuts before we know what happens next. 

It is unclear whether the vehicles involved are military standard or not. 

Two helicopters filmed 'chasing' UFO

UFOMANIA

BIZARRE: The two choppers were filmed chasing the UFO

The video was submitted to MUFON recently before being shared on YouTube channel UFOmania today. 

The Mutual UFO Network is an American-based non-profit organisation that investigates cases of alleged UFO sightings

Since the video was uploaded it has already racked up more than 9,400 hits. 

And viewers were quick to speculate what it could be. 

One comment read: “It is an anti-gravity craft.”

And another added: “Great footage exposing the truth. The government will claim it’s a balloon.”

Before a third even claimed: “Aliens are planning to invade soon.

“The army know it’s coming, they don’t want to warn us because the panic it will cause.”

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Real-life X-Files reveal Britain tried to bury its UFO problem

Real-life X-Files reveal Britain tried to bury its UFO problem

By James Rogers, Fox News

The truth is out there … and it’s not from another planet. Previously unseen documents reveal how officials at the UK’s Ministry of Defence handled the “UFO mania” of the late 1990s.

In 1997, there was a massive spike in interest around UFOs, fueled by the 50th anniversary of the purported UFO incident in Roswell, New Mexico, and the global popularity of the “X-Files” TV series.

Set against this backdrop, over-worked officials at the Ministry of Defence sought to cut their commitment to investigating UFO reports, the Guardian reports.

The documents were obtained from the MoD by Dr. David Clarke, a principal research fellow at the UK’s Sheffield Hallam University. “The new papers show the UFO desk head in 1997 ‘wanted to get rid of’ an issue they considered a ‘diversion from their main duties,’” Clarke wrote in a blog post. “Within the files civil servants, intelligence officers and military staff debate how the British Government should respond to growing public interest in the phenomena and what they called ‘the media’s obsession with UFOs.’”

The files run to more than 2,500 pages and some of the more sensitive papers, declassified from “secret,” are heavily redacted, according to Clarke. “What has survived the censor’s pen paints a fascinating picture of the arguments that raged behind closed doors in Whitehall around the 50th anniversary of the UFO mystery in 1997,” he wrote.

One RAF Wing Commander, for example, urged caution on shifting focus away from UFOs. “He argued that as MoD had not carried out any study of the UFO data they had collected since the 1970s it was not credible – and also politically risky – to continue to claim UFOs posed no ‘threat to the realm’,” Clarke explained.

In 1996, the MoD commissioned a defense contractor to produce a comprehensive report on UFO sightings, which were carefully described as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

The report, which analyzed a database of sightings between 1987 and 1997, was delivered in 2000. The study duly found that most sightings could be explained by a range of known phenomena, both natural and man-made.

This opened the door for the MoD to start scaling back its UFO-related operations. The DI55 department, which had secretly collected data on potential UFO sightings since 1967, closed at the end of 2000. The MoD’s UFO Desk closed in 2009.

It appears, however, that the writing was already on the wall for the MoD’s UFO operations long before the report was finished. In a document dated April 16, 1998, the report’s author writes: “I am particularly looking ahead to my expected recommendation, that DI55 should no longer be involved in UAP monitoring.”

“It was the end-game,” Clarke told Fox News. “They created a definitive study that would draw a line under their involvement in the subject.”

The academic notes that in 1997 MoD officials were clearly swamped with reports of UFO sightings. At that time, the Ministry even had a UFO hotline that members of the public could call. “The workload on the subject had trebled as a result of what was going on in popular culture,” he said.

The hotline eventually closed in 2009.

“All our historic files which refer to UFOs have either been released, or are in the process of being released to The National Archives,” explained the MoD, in a statement emailed to Fox News. “The MoD continues to have no opinion on the existence, or otherwise, of extra-terrestrial life and does not investigate reported unidentified flying object sightings.”

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UFO Updates – Bigelow, New UK UFO Files and Scott Kelly – May 8, 2018

UFO Updates – Bigelow, New UK UFO Files and Scott Kelly – May 8, 2018

Open Minds UFO Radio: Martin and Alejandro discuss the latest UFO news, including new information about the Department of Defense UFO project and Bigelow Aerospace, the release of new UK UFO files, and Alejandro’s recent interview with astronaut Scott Kelly.

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Scientists Find Mysterious Time Crystals In Children Toys

Scientists Find Mysterious Time Crystals In Children Toys

Ok, so you’d probably ask what the heck are time crystals and what are they doing in kids’ toys?

We’d have to define first what crystals are. Crystals—ordinary crystals—are defined as being a structure made of a homogeneous solid substance having a natural geometrically regular form with symmetrically arranged plane faces.

Crystals—like quartz or even salt—are composed of atoms that are arranged in a fixed grid. These atoms don’t move around. In other words, if we take a look at a diamond, for example, we will find that the atoms are arranged in a repeating pattern through space.

However, in time crystals these laws do not apply.

Atoms inside of Time Crystals tend to oscillate. These atoms have a tendency of spinning in one direction and when exposed to electromagnetic pulses, they switch direction and spin the opposite way.

However, when that same electromagnetic pulse is irregular, this doesn’t change as time crystals seem to be locked into a particular frequency which guards their irregularity.

In other words, the pattern behind time crystals repeats in time.

CURIOUS CRYSTAL A time crystal appears in monoammonium phosphate (shown). The spins of atomic nuclei in the crystal flip at regular intervals when hit with radio waves.

Image Credit: Yale

Time crystals are composed of a bunch of interacting atoms that never ‘settle down’ to thermal equilibrium. They are like really cool rebel crystals.

Also dubbed DTC’s or Discrete Time Crystals, scientists at Yale discovered one made from monoammonium phosphate (MAP) crystals. Thee happen to be the crystals that kids know and love when they get them in toy kits to grow their own crystals at home. Which is why researchers at Yale were left stumped when they detected them.

Scientists used nuclear magnetic resonance to spot the DTC’s signature in a map crystal that had been intended for an entirely different test.

“We decided to try searching for the DTC signature ourselves,” said physicist Sean Barrett, senior author on two new papers about this discovery.

“Our crystal measurements looked quite striking right off the bat. Our work suggests that the signature of a DTC could be found, in principle, by looking in a children’s crystal growing kit.”

“We realized that just finding the DTC signature didn’t necessarily prove that the system had a quantum memory of how it came to be,” said Yale graduate student Robert Blum, co-author on the studies.

“This spurred us to try a time crystal ‘echo,’ which revealed the hidden coherence, or quantum order, within the system,” added lead study author Jared Rovny, also a Yale graduate student.

“It’s too early to tell what the resolution will be for the current theory of discrete time crystals, but people will be working on this question for at least the next few years,” Barrett said.

Scientists say that one day, time crystals could be used in atomic clocks, gyroscopes, and magnetometers, among other devices.

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The Sword Of Goujian, The Weapon That Challenged Time, An Oriental Excalibur

The Sword Of Goujian, The Weapon That Challenged Time, An Oriental Excalibur

Despite having been crafted more than 2,000 years ago, the Goujian sword has a sharp blade, as sharp as the day it was crafted, and shows no signs of tarnish. Such resistance to tarnish rarely seen in artifacts so old. 

In 1965 an archaeological expedition fifty tombs belonging to the period of the Springs and Autumns (722 to 481 BC) in China’s Hubei Province, located around 7 kilometers from the ruins of Jinan, capital of the former state of Chu.

Sword of Goujian, Hubei Provincial Museum.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

In one of those tombs, next to the skeletal remains of a man, researchers discovered an ancient sword whose structure and sharpness had not been altered despite being crafted more than two thousand years ago.

At the archeological site, experts recovered more than 2,000.

The sword, which is currently housed in the Hubei Provincial Museum, was carefully sheltered in a virtually airtight lacquered wooden box.

The sword measures 55.6 cm long and weighs 875 grams.

The sheet is manufactured with an alloy of copper and tin, decorated with blue and turquoise crystals and covered with millenary ideograms.

The hilt of the sword is wrapped in silk moorings while the knob is formed by 11 concentric circles.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Experts in traditional Chinese language eventually analyzed the inscriptions of the sword and translated their symbols.

The researchers concluded that the sword was forged by King Goujian (496 – 465 BC), and called it the Goujian Sword, the ancient weapon that defied time.

The ancient sword was unlike anything experts had seen.

The weapon did not have a single trace of rust, something that experts found hard to believe.

Incredibly, the sword’s blade, despite the time that had gone by, managed to cut the archaeologist’s finger as he tested the sharpness of the sword, upon finding it.

However, in addition to being a weapon that seemed to have been crafted recently, with unprecedented quality, its extremely intricate decoration features turned it into one of the most unique swords ever discovered in China.

The ancient sword is a treasure of ancient Chinese history.

In fact, some scholars even compare the Goujian Sword to the legendary Excalibur, believed to have been the sword of King Arthur.

The Goujian Sword

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

After careful studies, experts quickly noted that the enigmatic sword belongs to a class of swords known as Jian: straight, double-edged swords, used in China for the last 2,500 years.

These weapons are considered as the oldest swords in China and are closely associated with their rich and plentiful mythology.

In Chinese folklore, this weapon is called the “Knight of the Arms” and is one of the four primary weapons, along with the stick, the spear, and the saber.

Why the sword remains sharp despite the fact that it had been forged more than 2,000 years ago remains a mystery, but experts point to the weapons composition, claiming that it remained in such an impeccable state thanks to the metals with which it was made, which allowed it to stay so well preserved.

Studies have revealed that a high proportion of sulfur and copper sulfide have allowed the sword to remain stainless.

The weapon is made according to a millenarian tradition of Chinese blacksmiths.

Its owner, King Goujian was the ruler of the Kingdom of Yue (present-day northern Zhejiang) near the end of the Spring and Autumn period. Goujian’s reign coincided with arguably the last major conflict of the Spring and Autumn period, the struggle between Wu and Yue, wherein he eventually led his state to victory, annexing the rival. As such, King Goujian is sometimes considered the last of the Five Hegemons.

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Ancient, Exiled Asteroid Discovered Beyond Neptune

Ancient, Exiled Asteroid Discovered Beyond Neptune

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ERIC DAVIS, PHYSICIST, EXPLAINS WHY SCIENTISTS WON’T DISCUSS THEIR UFO INTERESTS

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For a very long time, the scientific community has been wary of studying UFOs, and the scientists themselves hesitate to talk about their beliefs of unexplained aerial phenomena

But that attitude is changing, and many scientists are joining the discussion without fear of ridicule.

“UFOs are real phenomena. They are artificial objects under intelligent control. They’re definitely the craft of a supremely advanced technology,” says physicist Eric Davis, a researcher of light-speed travel.

Davis, a research physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, studies propulsion physics, which he hopes will one day allow humans to travel easily and quickly through our galactic neighborhood.

VIDEO: Eric Davis explains how humans will be able to travel through space at faster-than-light speed.

 
He’s aware of the public perception — mostly from skeptics and debunkers — that no legitimate scientists would ever touch the subject of UFOs.
 
“They’re wrong, naive, stubborn, narrow-minded, afraid and fearful. It’s a dirty word and a forbidden topic. Science is about open-minded inquiry. You shouldn’t be laughing off people. You should show more deference and respect to them … Scientists need to get back to using the scientific method to study things that are unknown and unusual, and the UFO subject is one of them.”
 
Davis is one of several scientists who are presenting their views this weekend on a variety of UFO-related topics at the 2013 MUFON Symposium in Las Vegas.
 
The physicist, who recently won an award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for his study, “Faster-Than-Light Space Warps, Status and Next Steps,” knows many colleagues who quietly study UFOs.
 
“There are scientists who are aware of evidence and observational data that is not refutable. It is absolutely corroborated, using forensic techniques and methodology. But they won’t come out and publicize that because they fear it. Not the subject — they fear the backlash from their professional colleagues. The impact on their career might be detrimental and they’d get bad publicity.
 
“It’s not an acceptable, funded line of research. The National Science Foundation does not accept UFOs as a subject for scientific study.” 
 
It may come as a surprise that many scientists have been interested in UFOs for decades.
 
For 20 years, astronomer J. Allen Hynek was the U.S. Air Force scientific consultant on UFOs during its famous Project Blue Book UFO study that ended in 1969.

Watch this 1977 video of Hynek talking about astronomers and UFOs.

” Davis believes that the domain for UFO investigations doesn’t really belong in the hands of scientists.

“It’s the domain of military intelligence,” he suggests. “The fact that [unknown] craft are flying around Earth is not a subject for science — it’s a subject for intelligence-gathering, collection and analysis. That’s because UFOs are not a natural phenomenon, and that’s what science studies.” 

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Breakthrough Listen Launches New Search for E.T. Across Millions of Stars

Breakthrough Listen Launches New Search for E.T. Across Millions of Stars

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UFO intrigue: How the UK dealt with 'real-life X-Files'

UFO intrigue: How the UK dealt with 'real-life X-Files'

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Snowball Earth due to plate tectonics?

Snowball Earth due to plate tectonics?

New research suggests that as great land plates began to shift and move on Earth’s surface, our world became what geologists call a Snowball Earth.

Artist’s concept of a Snowball Earth, via MIT/Space.com.

About 700 million years ago, the Earth is known to have undergone a period of climate change that sent the planet into a deep freeze. The freeze, lasting millions of years, is what geologists now refer to as the Snowball Earth period. Several theories have been proposed to explain what might have triggered this dramatic cool-down, which occurred during a geological era called the Neoproterozoic. A new study suggests that those major climate changes can be linked to one thing: the advent of plate tectonics.

The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth’s crust and upper mantle – a layer called the lithosphere – is broken into moving pieces, or plates. Today’s scientists measure the movement of these plates and know they move very slowly, about as fast as your fingernails and hair grow. Plate tectonics on Earth – the grinding, slipping and sliding of land plates with respect to each other – produces earthquakes and volcanoes and, over time, great geologic features like mountain ranges.

The study researchers – Robert Stern at the University of Texas/Dallas and Nathaniel Miller of the University of Texas at Austin – said they expect their hypothesis to generate controversy. That’s because geologists usually place the start of plate tectonics at least 3 billion years ago, while their new hypothesis puts the process during the Neoproterozoic, about 542 million to 1 billion years ago.

According to Miller and Stern, there are a variety of traces in the geologic record that could be consistent with plate tectonics not getting started until the Neoproterozoic – around the same time as the era of the Snowball Earth. The researchers examined a suite of published scientific data on the geological activity during the Neoproterozoic and found many links between plate tectonics and a cooling world.

Their study, published in the April 2018 edition of the journal Terra Nova, lists 22 proposed ways plate tectonic activity could have brought about the global cooling that caused the Earth to be covered pole-to-pole with ice. The researchers mention explosive volcanoes cooling the planet by releasing sulfur into the atmosphere; the shifting of the plates changing the planet’s rotational axis; and increased rock weathering pulling CO2 — a greenhouse gas — out of the atmosphere and back into the Earth. Stern said:

This climate crisis could have been caused by a number of proximal causes, but the overall great cause was this revolution in Earth’s tectonic style.

The authors note that the geologic interval preceding the Neoproterozoic shows a lack of geological activity — a feature that has it earned it the nickname the Boring Billion.

In the study, they considered possible non-tectonic reasons for cooling that came from space — in other words, causes that don’t agree with their theory. These range from asteroid impacts to the collapse of ice rings that could have formed around Earth. If these were the cause of Snowball Earth, Stern and Miller’s theory falls apart — but the researchers say there’s not much evidence to support these triggers.

As usual, the authors say, more research is needed to test the link between the dawn of plate tectonics and Snowball Earth. They hope that this research will lead other geoscientists to consider the evidence and test the hypothesis. Stern said:

Revolutions in our field don’t happen often or very easily. You plant ideas and then you go and look for more data that either supports them or refutes them.

During the Snowball Earth phase, our world might have resembled this one, Enceladus, a snow-and-ice-covered moon of Saturn.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Bottom line: A new study suggests that the dawn of plate tectonics could have been responsible for Snowball Earth.

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Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano

Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano

Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Here are images and video from its ongoing eruption in Hawaii.

NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image on May 6, 2018. Massive sulfur dioxide plumes from Kilauea volcano are shown here in yellow and green. A smaller, but thicker, sulfur dioxide gas plume can be seen coming from Kilauea. The prevailing trade winds blow the plumes to the southwest, out over the ocean.

Image via NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems/Japan ASTER Science Team.

Lava and sulfur dioxide gas are continuing to spew from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, where flows of lava across a rural neighborhood have caused evacuations. By late Tuesday (May 8, 2018), some 104 acres were covered by lava. Hawaii Civil Defense said that 35 structures — including at least 26 homes — had been destroyed.

A total of 12 volcanic fissures had formed as of late Tuesday. Residents were voicing frustration and anxiety against a backdrop of flowing lava and hazardous fumes.

May 4, 2018 Third Leilani Eruption from Mick Kalber on Vimeo.

Videographer Mick Kalber was on the ground in Leilani Estates on May 5, where he told captured the dramatic video above and told this story:

This is a killer video! And may be one of the last ground level shots I’ll be able to get before I have to evacuate … After all the lava drained out of the Pu’u ‘O’o Vent (the main vent of the 35 year long current eruption) last Monday [April 30, 2018], the contents moved down the East rift zone, causing hundreds of earthquakes as far away as Kapoho, some 15 miles downslope. All week, a new eruption had been forecast … cracks appeared on roadways, as the Earth began to swell. And then, on Thursday afternoon [May 3, 2018], Pele (the Volcano Goddess) made her appearance in the lower part of Leilani Estates Subdivision. At first, fountains of lava shot up into the air … but within a few hours, she had settled down into a lava flow that now threatens dozens of nearby homes, and a geothermal power plant just a quarter mile downslope. That flow has now stopped… but several more continue to pop out nearby. I live in the subdivision, and we are continually experiencing rolling earthquakes … it ain’t over till it’s over!

Meanwhile, the video below, also from Mick Kalber, shows the view from the air:

May 6, 2018 HUGE Fissure Eruption from Mick Kalber on Vimeo.

The eruptive activity began on April 30, 2018, when the floor of Kilauea’s crater began to collapse. Earthquakes followed, including one that measured magnitude +6.9, a very strong earthquake. All the while, lava was being pushed into new underground areas that eventually broke through the ground in such areas as the Leilani Estates (population 1,560 at the 2010 census) near the town of Pahoa, Hawaii.

Evacuations in Leilani Estates began on May 4.

The USGS is doing a good job following the volcano on Twitter.

Follow @UGSGVolcanoes on Twitter.

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Peer into Kīlauea Volcano’s summit lava lake, now ~700 ft below the crater rim. https://bit.ly/2I01mWf 

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This video of Halema‘uma‘u lava lake from May 7 shows the agitated lake surface caused by intermittent rock falls. On May 6 the lake level was about 220 m (240 yards) below the crater rim and it continues to drop. #KilaueaErupts #usgs #hvo #hawaiianvolcanoobservatory #kilauea

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Another @CivilDefenseHI update: No change in activity; lava has covered 104 acres and destroyed 35 structures

https://www.facebook.com/hawaiicountycivildefense/posts/892679310931362 …

Also, a new website has been set up to help the community response:

https://www.punalavaflow2018.com/ 

#KilaueaErupts #LeilaniEstatesEruption #LeilaniEstates

Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, and it’s the youngest and southeastern-most volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Eruptive activity along the East Rift Zone has been continuous since 1983.

Bottom line: Images from the May 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island.

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Aliens Or Demons? Pentagon And MoD Officials Feared UFOs Were Works Of The Devil

Aliens Or Demons? Pentagon And MoD Officials Feared UFOs Were Works Of The Devil

So are aliens demons? Are UFOs the result of ‘divine’ forces? According to new claims, Pentagon and MoD officials feared UFOs were either ‘demonic’ or sent by God, former UFO researchers reveal.

Researchers who carried out the UFO programs of the Pentagon and the British Ministry of Defense were hampered by alleged religious beliefs.

Demons, not Aliens?

The United States has—or better said had—a mysterious program dedicated to studying UFO sightings, financed with 22 million dollars per year.

Luis Elizondo, a former member of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), revealed this information a few months ago. Elizondo has now claimed that several high-ranking officials undermined his work in the belief that unidentified flying objects had a ‘demonic’ or ‘divine’ origin.

The purpose of the so-called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was to research and study flying foreign weapon threats. Many of the reports included details of pilots, who encountered a number of unidentified flying objects which were also later confirmed on radar.

UFO’s, a divine technology?

“What we found many times was the fact that the aircraft did not belong to anybody,” Elizondo said.

Sometimes, he added, the flying objects displayed behavior the AATIP team couldn’t explain.

Halfway around the world in the UK, Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense (MoD), has confirmed what Elizondo said.

“I was aware that Pentagon pushback on UFO research was in part due to the religious belief of some of those involved,” he revealed.

“It was an odd irony that UFO investigations were being hampered because some people’s belief in God meant that they either didn’t believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life or that they regarded UFOs and extraterrestrials as demonic.”

It is not surprising that religion often gets in the way of UFO research.

“Religious people often do not believe in the existence of extraterrestrials or characterize them as demons. This seems to be rooted in Satan’s biblical description as “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2: 2), “he added.

“Luis Elizondo says he opposed the religious beliefs of the top brass ruining their investigations while working for the Pentagon. I can say that I have seen evidence of the same in the MoD, “he concludes.

Not long ago, a spokesman of the Department of Defense within the Pentagon itself confirmed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program had shut down in 2012. However, the New York Times has exposed that this work may still be operational in some capacity.

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SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE DISCOVERED THE FIRST METEORITE FROM MERCURY

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SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE DISCOVERED THE FIRST METEORITE FROM MERCURY

So, spurred by the Messenger orbiter’s close scrutiny of Mercury’s surface, the hunt has been on to find meteorites from the innermost planet. All previous candidates (called angrites and aubrites) are close but imperfect matches to the unique composition found by Messenger on Mercury’s surface: dark igneous rock enriched in magnesium but virtually free of iron.

Now, finally, they might have one in hand.

Weighing just a bit more than 100 g, this is the largest fragment of the meteorite NWA 7325. Note the amazing light-green color of its fusion crust — one of many characteristics hinting that it might be from the planet Mercury. The cube at right is 1 cm square. Click here for a larger view.
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The new Moroccan find is now officially known as Northwest Africa 7325. Ralew sent samples to the laboratory of Anthony Irving (University of Washington), well known for his expertise with unusual meteorites from the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere.Last April, German meteorite dealer Stefan Ralew bought a clutch of 35 small meteorites that had been found a few months earlier in the Moroccan desert. The fragments from a single fall totaled about 12 ounces (354 g). Right away he could see that they were unusual: Their fusion crust, created by flash heating while decelerating in Earth’s atmosphere, was greenish. This was especially evident in the largest, golfball-size piece, weighing just over 100 g. “Green and glassy fusion crusts are known from a few lunar meteorites,” Ralew explains, “but they all don´t have an extreme color as this one.”

The stones’ interiors are full of relatively large and obvious crystals, suggesting that the magma from which they solidified had cooled slowly. The stunning emerald-green color comes from a silicate mineral called diopside that’s infused with chromium. Irving and his team found lots of magnesium and calcium in the suite of silicate minerals, but even more important is what they didn’t find: there’s virtually no iron.

Irving, who’ll present his team’s findings at a planetary-science conference next month, is trying to keep his enthusiasm in check. “NWA 7325 is tantalizing, and certainly more consistent with the Messenger results than either angrites or aubrites,” he explains, “but we need a [spacecraft-returned sample] for ‘ground truth’.”

A polished cut surface of the meteorite NWA 7325 reveals green crystals of the silicate mineral diopside (colored by chromium ions). This meteorite contains abundant magnesium and calcium yet almost no iron — hallmarks of what geochemists believe rocks from Mercury should be like. The cube is 1cm tall. Click here for a larger view. Stefan Ralew / sr-meteorites.de

Shoshana Weider (Carnegie Institution of Washington), who’s spent years studying Messenger’s spectra of Mercury, likewise offers a cautionary note. The planet’s surface seems to be rich in the silicate mineral enstatite, which is not obvious in NWA 7325. Also, there shouldn’t be so much calcium. To explain these discrepancies, she and Irving agree that meteorite might have been a deeply buried rock — well below the surface — before a powerful collision sent it flying off into interplanetary space.

There are still many unknowns about these weirdly green space rocks. Tests are under way to determine how long ago they crystallized and how long they were exposed to cosmic rays as they drifted in space before reaching Earth.

One way to zero in on planetary paternity would be to see if NWA 7325 exhibits remanent magnetism. After all, Mercury has a robust magnetic field that would have been imprinted on any rock as it crystallized. (That said, possible complications might arise from the shock-heating these rocks experienced as they were being ejected into space, or from the strong magnets that Moroccan nomads use when searching for meteorites in the desert.)

A second approach would be to see if the meteorite’s ratios of three magnesium isotopes match what Messenger’s gamma-ray spectrometer is seeing on Mercury. It’s a challenging observation, explains Patrick Peplowski (Applied Physics Laboratory), because the GRS has a magnesium housing. “There does exist the potential to detect different magnesium isotopes, but I expect that the errors on any resulting isotopic ratios would be at the ~5% level,” Peplowski says. “I suspect that this is larger than would be needed to compare to NWA 7325, but I’m not sure.”

(One problem with using magnesium isotopes is that their ratios don’t vary much from place to place in the solar system.)

Finally, researchers could melt one of the NWA 7325 stones and then let it cool and recrystallize under controlled conditions, to see how closely the result mimics Mercury’s surface composition. “A lot of scientists will want to get their hands on this,” Weider notes.

However, anyone wanting a piece big enough to melt down will likely have to get in line. So far Ralew has donated less than 1 ounce of NWA 7325 for scientific analysis, and he’s got the rest. It’s not inconceivable that bits of this unique find could fetch $5,000 per gram on the sometimes-frenzied meteorite market. For now, at least, he’s holding off offering any of it for sale, to give researchers the chance to run the entire gamut of analytical tests.

“If this rock isn’t from Mercury, it’s still amazing,” Irving notes. It’s from a planet, he says — we just need to figure out which one.

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Rotsblok dat miljarden kilometers ver is weggeslingerd ontdekt in uiterste rand zonnestelsel - HLN.be

Rotsblok dat miljarden kilometers ver is weggeslingerd ontdekt in uiterste rand zonnestelsel - HLN.be

Bron: ANP, ESO

Een artistieke impressie van de ruimterots 2004 EW95.

 ESO/M. Kornmesser  Een artistieke impressie van de ruimterots 2004 EW95.
 Aan de koude rand van ons zonnestelsel is een bijzonder rotsblok gevonden. De asteroïde is in de beginjaren van ons zonnestelsel gevormd tussen de planeten Mars en Jupiter. Daarna werd hij miljarden kilometers weggeslingerd. Het is de eerste keer dat het bestaan van zo’n soort ruimterots is aangetoond. De rots is een goed voorbeeld van een overblijfsel van onze vroege zonnestelsel.

De rots heeft de wetenschappelijke naam 2004 EW95. Hij staat in de zogeheten Kuipergordel, een verzameling steen- en ijsblokken nog voorbij de planeet Neptunus. Die gordel is vernoemd naar de Nederlandse astronoom Gerard Kuiper. Eigenlijk hoort 2004 EW95 in de Kuipergordel helemaal niet thuis, het rotsblok is de enige koolstofrijke planetoïde in de omgeving.

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Het kan dan ook niet anders dat het blok in de planetoïdengordel tussen Mars en  Jupiter is ontstaan in de kolkende beginjaren van ons zonnestelsel, en daarna miljarden kilometers is weggeslingerd. Dat gebeurde waarschijnlijk door de zwaartekracht van een rondzwervende planeet.

2004 EW95 is 300 kilometer groot, maar toch is hij heel moeilijk te zien: het oppervlak is pikzwart en hij staat op ongeveer 4 miljard kilometer afstand van de aarde. Hij was al in 2004 ontdekt, maar nu is het pas gelukt om hem goed te bestuderen. De samenstelling van de steen bracht zijn afkomst aan het licht.


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VIDEO: Volgens legende liep dit UFO-dorp 40 jaar geleden leeg na reeks zelfmoorden en geestverschijningen. Nu ziet het er pas echt spookachtig uit - HLN.be

VIDEO: Volgens legende liep dit UFO-dorp 40 jaar geleden leeg na reeks zelfmoorden en geestverschijningen. Nu ziet het er pas echt spookachtig uit - HLN.be

Koen Van De Sype 

Bron: Exploring the Unbeaten Path, Ozy Magazine

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 Bob Thissen
Het is geen plaats waar je spontaan vrolijk van wordt, tenzij je van vliegende schotels en verval houdt. San-Zhi in Taiwan is een echt spookdorp geworden nadat de architecturale curiositeit in de jaren tachtig plots verlaten werd. Volgens plaatselijke legendes na een vreemde reeks zelfmoorden en geestverschijningen. Aanleiding genoeg voor enkele Nederlands-Vlaamse urban explorers om erheen te trekken. En dit zijn de beelden waarmee ze terugkwamen.

De bijzondere huisjes werden 40 jaar geleden gebouwd en moesten eigenlijk dienen als luxueuze strandhuisjes met uitzicht op de Oost-Chinese Zee. Ze werden gebouwd door de Finse architect Matti Suuronen in opdracht van een zakenman, die bemiddelde toeristen wilde aantrekken. Toeristen die op zoeken waren naar zon, zee en… een beetje scifi.

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Extreme weer

Maar toen de jaren tachtig aanbraken, liep het dorpje langzaam leeg. Als gevolg van het extreme weer aan de kust, de dreigende oliecrisis en een gebrek aan investeerders. Maar lokale legendes maakten volgens Liao Minghua van het vlakbijgelegen tourismecentrum van Yehliu ook gewag van een “vreemde reeks zelfmoorden” en geestverschijningen, die de bouwvakkers wegjaagden. 

Wat er ook van aan zij, de verhalen droegen bij tot het mysterieuze karakter van het futuristische dorp, waarvan de verlaten resten nu vooral in trek zijn bij avonturiers. De Nederlandse urban explorer Bob Thissen trok er ook heen met zijn team en maakte er beelden. En er bleken in enkele van de huisjes toch nog mensen te wonen. Het volledige filmpje van hun avontuur vind je op het YouTubekanaal van Thissen. Daar zijn ook beelden te zien van andere expedities die hij ondernam, onder meer naar Fukushima en een verlaten loods met Russische ruimteschepen in Baikonur. 

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Beware ‘Demonic' Aliens: UFO Probes in US, UK Hampered by Religious Fears

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Beware ‘Demonic' Aliens: UFO Probes in US, UK Hampered by Religious Fears

Though it was officially announced in 2012 that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a secret US Defense Intelligence Agency program that studied UFOs, was shuttered over budget pressures, it has since been revealed that its closure had more to do with senior officials and their religious beliefs.

Speaking with Las Vegas Now on Friday, Luis Elizondo, a former intelligence officer with knowledge on the matter, explained that senior officials pushed back on the secret program over concerns that the study would become an embarrassment for the department and because it conflicted with their religious beliefs.

Elizondo, who previously spoke out about the five-year-old program to the New York Times in December 2017, stressed that though the government's funding ended in 2012, the study continues as officials from the US Navy and the CIA offered resources to further the program. It is speculated that the program is still active, just through private funding.

"There were other folks related to our efforts," Elizondo told Las Vegas Now. "It is a confederated approach so you had folks in the Navy, in DIA [the Defence Intelligence Agency], in pockets here and there. We worked collectively."

It should be noted that following Elizondo's big reveal, two videos were released by the US Department of Defense that showed servicemembers encountering unidentified flying objects.

But Elizondo isn't the only official spilling the beans on secret government programs investigating UFOs.

Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator with the UK's Ministry of Defense, told the Metro UK that he, too, encountered pushback.

"I was aware that Pentagon pushback on UFO research was in part due to the religious belief of some of those involved," Pope told the outlet. "It was an odd irony that UFO investigations were being hampered because some people's belief in God meant that they either didn't believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life or that they regarded UFOs and extraterrestrials as demonic."

"The fact that some people regard UFOs as demonic seems to have its roots in the biblical description of Satan as being ‘the prince of the power of the air' from Ephesians 2:2. Luis Elizondo says that he came up against religious pushback from senior staff when he ran the Pentagon's UFO program and I saw some evidence of this at the MoD too," Pope added.

Prior to the Metro UK's revelation Tuesday, the Guardian published an article Sunday showing that talks were going on inside the Ministry of Defense regarding the UK's UFO investigations dating back to the late 1990s.

Messages obtained by the publication stated that investigations should focus "on the possible threat to the UK [from foreign hostile powers] and technology acquisition" rather than "X-Files activities such as alien abductions."

Another memo goes on to add that inquiries "shouldn't be driven by a UFO thesis."

David Clarke, a research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University who obtained the files from the ministry following a freedom of information request, told The Guardian that UK officials have only "encouraged conspiracy theorists through their own paranoia."

"They always say that the public gets the wrong idea about UFOs, but they've actually encouraged that themselves by destroying the files," Clarke said, noting that the UK government had destroyed files they'd collected on the topic of UFOs over the years.

After deciding that staff could be better used elsewhere, The Guardian reported that the Ministry of Defense closed its UFO desk in 2009. This was the same reason that US officials cited when revealing that their official investigation into UFOs had concluded.

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‘Duivelse’ aliens? Hoe het onderzoek naar UFO’s en buitenaardsen zwaar wordt belemmerd door religieuze angst

'Duivelse' aliens? Hoe het onderzoek naar UFO's en aliens zwaar wordt belemmerd door religieuze angst

‘Duivelse’ aliens? Hoe het onderzoek naar UFO’s en buitenaardsen zwaar wordt belemmerd door religieuze angst

Officieel werd het UFO-onderzoek van de Amerikaanse overheid in 2012 beëindigd wegens budgettaire druk, maar nu blijkt dat dit vooral te maken had met de religieuze overtuigingen van hooggeplaatste functionarissen.

Luis Elizondo, de man die jarenlang aan het hoofd stond van het geheime UFO-onderzoek van het Pentagon, onthulde in een gesprek met Las Vegas Now dat de functionarissen het onderzoek dwarsboomden omdat het in strijd was met hun religieuze overtuigingen.

Ook Nick Pope, die voor het Britse ministerie van Defensie onderzoek deed naar UFO’s, werd naar eigen zeggen tegengewerkt.

Duivels

“Het is ironisch dat UFO-onderzoeken worden belemmerd omdat sommige mensen die in God geloofden niets moesten hebben van buitenaards leven of UFO’s en buitenaardsen zagen als iets duivels,” zei hij tegen de Britse krant Metro.

Zowel Elizondo als Pope werden door hooggeplaatste ambtenaren tegengewerkt omwille van religieuze overtuigingen.

Allesbehalve objectief

The Guardian publiceerde deze week een artikel waaruit blijkt dat een Britse overheidsstudie naar buitenaards leven allesbehalve object gebeurde.

Sterker nog: het doel was vanaf het begin om het ministerie van Defensie vrij te spreken van onderzoeken naar waarnemingen van vliegende schotels.

Het ministerie vernietigde uiteindelijk de documenten waarop het rapport gebaseerd was, wat het vuur voor complottheorieën alleen maar aanwakkerde.

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Five so-called “conspiracy theories” that are actually supported by mainstream science

Five so-called “conspiracy theories” that are actually supported by mainstream science

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(Natural News) Telling the truth about a scandal that hasn’t been approved by the legacy media and their owners often yields a predictable result: You’ll be labeled a conspiracy theorist — even when there is plenty of evidence to support the truth. Comfortable lies may help some people sleep at night, but the truth is that many supposed “conspiracy theories” are actually real, and are supported by science. Who would have thought? Here are five truths that are widely misrepresented as conspiracy theories, and the evidence which supports them:

1. Atrazine disrupts, damages the endocrine system

Atrazine is on the fast-track to becoming one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States. And because of this, there is a high amount of it in groundwater. It is consistently detected in public water supplies — which in and of itself is really quite concerning. But when the profound potential for this toxic chemical to spur endocrine disruption is taken into account, atrazine becomes downright frightening.

Research led by Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a scientist from the University of California at Berkeley, has shown that in frogs, atrazine is capable of causing lasting endocrine damage. In males, the disruption to endocrine function can be so severe that it results in chemical castration. In one study, Hayes exposed 40 tadpoles to water tainted with atrazine, at a concentration of 2.5 parts per billion — well within the EPA’s allotment for drinking water.

Nearly one-tenth of the tadpoles that were reared in the atrazine-laden water became “functionally female,” according to Hayes. Despite reportedly being born male, they ended up producing eggs.

And as sources report, “After being exposed to atrazine, many of the 36 male-presenting frogs reportedly showed decreased testosterone, reduced breeding gland size, poor laryngeal development, suppressed mating behavior, and reduced fertility. Similar effects have been seen in other amphibious creatures.”

Studies from Purdue University and other esteemed research teams have found similar results regarding atrazine’s potential to disrupt the endocrine system — even at amounts regarded by federal agencies as “safe.” Indeed, it would seem they are emphatically notsafe. Perhaps that’s why Europe banned atrazine. So, why is it still used in the U.S.?

2. Cellphones cause brain tumors

Is this really that far-fetched? That cellphones produce radiation is well established at this point — as is radiation’s connection to cancer. It’s often reported that because cellphones produce a different type of radiation (compared to say, nuclear radiation), it poses no health risk. But numerous scientific studies have said otherwise. Indeed, the risk of cellphone use is widely under-reported.

Recently, research again implicated cellphones as a player in the cancer-causing game: This time, mobile devices were linked to brain and heart tumors. In a study of rats, exposure to radio frequency radiation produced by cellphones led to the onset of a few different types of cancer — including rare Schwann cell tumors in the brain and heart.

At a 2016 conference, one doctor bravely declared that the potential for cellphones to cause cancer was obvious. “The weight of the evidence is clear: Cell phones do cause brain cancer,” stated Dr. Devra Davis, president of the Environmental Health Trust. Children are particularly susceptible to the woes of cellphones, and Davis contended further that pregnant women should be especially careful about their cellphone use and storage. “Keep the phone away from the abdomen — especially toward the end of pregnancy,” she cautioned.

There have been multiple warnings about the threat of cancer posed by cellphones, but many refuse to acknowledge the science that backs it up.

3. Chemtrails and geoengineering are real

Mentioning the word “chemtrails” is a great way to earn the scorn of mainstream media pundits and their ilk. But a quick search of the term “geoengineering” yields a number of results — including a Geoengineering program at University of Oxford. The program page notes that stratospheric aerosols (more commonly known as chemtrails) are one tool of choice in the geoengineering industry.

There are many reports on the facts about geoengineering efforts. While there are many facets to the geoengineering scheme, chemtrails have long been one of the most easily visible tactics — and also the most denied. According to the U.S. government’s own records, aerosol spraying efforts have been underway for decades. Even NASA has reportedly admitted to spraying lithium into the atmosphere. And in 2017, an EPA scientist was fired for sounding the alarm on the dangers of spraying aluminum into the atmosphere.

These efforts may be an attempt at controlling the climate — but as many have warned, geoengineering may come with a hefty price.

It seems that the only thing “fake” about geoengineering are the claims that it isn’thappening.

4. Fluoride is a neurotoxin

The mass fluoridation of the American people is probably one of the greatest shams of all time. First and foremost, there is no evidence to support the claim that fluoride consumption prevents cavities. Fluoride is not an essential nutrient (quite the opposite, really) and it is not necessary for human health in any way, shape or form.

But it’s not just “nonessential,” this compound is actually quite dangerous to human health — especially when it comes to the health of your brain. Nearly 60 studies have reported a link between fluoride consumption and a reduction in IQ.

Water fluoridation has also been linked other health problems, like bone loss, cancer, and negative effects on the immune system, thyroid and pineal gland. Many have likened the fluoridation of public water supplies to mass medication, especially given fluoride’s link to lower IQs in children and other neurological impairments. Even research from Harvard University has shown this potential for harm.

There is no shortage of reasons to end water fluoridation, but mainstream media and their keepers surely don’t want you to know about that.

5. Vaccines contain mercury, aborted fetal cells and other hazardous ingredients

Last but certainly not least is perhaps the most widely contested truth of all: Vaccines are a veritable cocktail of unsavory ingredients. From thimerosal in flu shots to aluminum adjuvants to human diploid cells from fetal tissue, there’s no shortage of things to be disgusted with when it comes to vaccines — or the vaccine industry’s propaganda, for that matter.

Despite media attempts at misinforming the public, the FDA admits that some vaccines still contain thimerosal as a preservative — and some vaccine-makers still use thimerosal as part of their “manufacturing process.”

As the FDA itself notes, thimerosal is 50 percent mercury by weight — and a thimerosal-containing vaccine will deliver a 25-microgram dose of mercury to its recipients that are over the age of three. Children under three get a half-dose, which means they’re still being injected with over 12 micrograms of mercury. This may not sound like a lot, but as Trace Amounts explains — that is more than enough to do harm. A child would have to weigh 550 pounds to safely withstand a 25-microgram dose of mercury. Mercury is a toxic heavy metal with no currently identified safe level of exposure. It does not belong in any vaccine, whether it’s being labeled as “preservative” or a “manufacturing process” agent.

Mike Adams, founder of Natural News and Director of CWC Labs, has repeatedly broken stories about the presence of other detestable vaccine ingredients. In 2017, the Health Ranger revealed that the chicken pox vaccine was made with human embryonic lung cell cultures and human diploid cell cultures, among other crazy things like guinea pig cells — information he pulled from the CDC’s own website.

Adams has also reported on the presence of African Green monkey kidney cells in vaccines intended for people — a find which a CDC report later confirmed as 100 percent correct.

Sadly, the list of scandalous ingredients in vaccines doesn’t end there; there are many parts to a vaccine cocktail, and none of them sound like anything you’d want injected into your body.

Learn more about the truth behind so-called conspiracy theories at Conspiracy.news.

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Vijf zogenaamde complottheorieën die worden ondersteund door wetenschappelijk bewijs

Vijf zogenaamde complottheorieën die worden ondersteund door wetenschappelijk bewijs

Vijf zogenaamde complottheorieën die worden ondersteund door wetenschappelijk bewijs

Veel vermeende ‘complottheorieën’ worden ondersteund door wetenschappelijk bewijs. We noemen er vijf.

1. Atrazine kan de hormoonhuishouding verstoren

Atrazine is één van de meest gebruikte onkruidbestrijdingsmiddelen ter wereld. In de Europese Unie is het middel verboden, maar in de VS is het gewoon toegestaan.

Dr. Tyrone Hayes van de Universiteit van Californië – Berkeley heeft laten zien dat atrazine de hormoonhuishouding kan verstoren.

Hij stelde 40 kikkers bloot aan water met atrazine en hoewel ze waren geboren als mannetjes, werden het vrouwtjes en begonnen ze eitjes te produceren.

Ook onderzoek van de Purdue University heeft aangetoond dat ‘veilige’ hoeveelheden atrazine de hormoonhuishouding al verstoren.

2. Mobiele telefoons veroorzaken hersentumoren

Verschillende studies hebben inmiddels aangetoond dat de straling van mobiele telefoons kan leiden tot hersentumoren.

“Het bewijs is duidelijk: mobieltjes veroorzaken hersenkanker,” zei dr. Devra Davis tijdens een bijeenkomst in 2016.

Ze waarschuwde dat vooral zwangere vrouwen moeten oppassen. “Houd de telefoon bij je buik vandaan, vooral tegen het einde van de zwangerschap.”

3. Chemtrails zijn echt

De Oxford-universiteit heeft een heus ‘Geoengineering Programme’ dat gericht is op het sproeien van aerosolen in de atmosfeer (beter bekend als chemtrails).

Uit Amerikaanse overheidsdocumenten blijkt dat dit al decennialang gebeurt.

In 2017 werd een wetenschapper van de Amerikaanse milieubeschermingsdienst EPA ontslagen omdat hij de noodklok had geluid over de gevaren van het sproeien van aluminium in de atmosfeer.

4. Fluoride is een neurotoxine

In een aantal landen wordt nog altijd fluoride toegevoegd aan het drinkwater. Er zijn inmiddels bijna 60 studies die laten zien dat de consumptie van fluoride leidt tot een lager IQ.

Fluoridering is ook gelinkt aan andere gezondheidsproblemen, zoals kanker en negatieve effecten op het immuunsysteem, de pijnappelklier en de schildklier.

5. Vaccins bevatten kwik, weefsel van geaborteerde baby’s en andere schadelijke ingrediënten

De Amerikaanse medicijnwaakhond FDA erkent dat in sommige vaccins nog steeds het kwikbevattende thiomersal zit.

Het gaat in de meeste gevallen om een dosis van 25 microgram. Dit lijkt weinig, maar volgens Trace Amounts is deze hoeveelheid al voldoende om schade toe te brengen.

Mike Adams, oprichter van Natural News, ontdekte vorig jaar dat het waterpokkenvaccin werd gemaakt van onder meer longcellen van menselijke embryo’s.

Hij ontdekte verder dat vaccins bestemd voor mensen niercellen van de groene meerkat bevatten.

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The Passing of Brad Steiger

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The Passing of Brad Steiger

As someone who has worked in radio and as a writer, the passing this spring of two legends in those fields is a time for respect and reflection. Last month, the paranormal world lost broadcaster Art Bell and today we learned of the passing of prolific paranormal author Brad Steiger.

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Brad E Steiger

February 19, 1936 - May 6, 2018

Obituary for Brad E Steiger

Brad Steiger, 82, of Mason City, IA, died Sunday, May 6, 2018, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit. A private family gathering will take place at a later date.

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“The Strange World of Brad Steiger” (a syndicated newspaper column he wrote in the early 1970s) began in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on February 19, 1936. Born Eugene E. Olson, he was a typical Iowa farm boy until August of 1947 when a severe farm equipment accident gave him a near-death experience that altered the directions of his religion, his career ambitions and his life. While he recovered physically, everything else seemed to have changed. In an interview with the Des Moines Register, Steiger gave an example:

“Among my earliest memories are the man and the woman who would walk into my bedroom at night and stand at my bedside, looking down at me.”

He believed that couple was his great-grandparents who had lived in the house.

Steiger left the farm after college to teach English at a high school and then journalism and creative writing at Luther College, his alma mater. Fortunately for the world, he wrote in his spare time and a published biography of silent movie star Rudolph Valentino and his interest in the paranormal drew him into the field and led to his first book contracts, starting with Ghosts, Ghouls and Other Peculiar People, published in 1965. When he quit teaching to write full-time, a woman gave him his pen name, which she said meant “to one who guides others to higher awareness” (possibly from the Dutch meaning of ‘steiger’ which is ‘scaffolding’). Steiger always believed that he was one to be guided as well.

“We are all spiritual beings. The paranormal is just part of the world we all share but do not fully comprehend.”

One area where he needed no guidance was writing. In his long career he penned over 2,000 articles on paranormal subjects and authored or co-authored over 175 books, both fiction and non-fiction, which have sold 17 million copies. Everyone’s list of Steiger favorites will be different, but they’re sure to include such popular titles as “Mysteries of Time and Space”, “Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places”, “Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier”, “Project Bluebook”, “The Rainbow Conspiracy” and many more. Don’t forget “The Source: Journey Through the Unexplained,”which he co-authored with none other than Art Bell, and “Four-legged Miracles: Heartwarming Tales of Lost Dogs’ Journeys Home” which he wrote with his second wife and spiritual companion, Sherry Hansen Steiger.

With his many books and articles and accompanying appearances on paranormal radio shows and podcasts, Steiger attracted countless fans, widespread admiration and, of course, some criticism. That comes with the territory when the territory includes Atlantis, giant humans, ancient aliens and numerous other controversial paranormal topics that Brad wrote and talked about.

Brad Steiger will surely be missed by Sherry, their two sons, three daughters, and ten grandchildren. His passing will leave a hole in our bookshelves and on the schedules of paranormal podcasters worldwide. The best way to honor his life and contributions to the field is to continue to read his books … and remember:

“We are all spiritual beings. The paranormal is just part of the world we all share but do not fully comprehend.”

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Secretive USAF Unit Depicts Aliens, Area 51, and Strange Symbols on Official Coins

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Secretive USAF Unit Depicts Aliens, Area 51, and Strange Symbols on Official Coins

It’s no surprise that the United States Air Force is up to some pretty secretive stuff. Area 51, for example, is an Air Force-run facility and detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in nearby southern California. It’s public knowledge that the USAF tests some of its most secretive and cutting-edge technologies in Nevada’s Groom Lake and the Nevada Test Site, but little information about what goes on at these bases is actually made public. Still, there are some tidbits of information available to the public if you look in the right places. The military units which operate at these top-secret bases, for example, don’t always hide the fact that they’re up to some weird stuff out in the desert.

This week, Tyler Rogoway’s military technology blog The War Zone shared pictures of the official challenge coin of the USAF’s 72d Test and Evaluation Squadron Detachment Two, and the coin seems to imply that the unit revels in the fact its testing ground is steeped in UFO, alien, and otherwise spooky lore. The bizarre challenge coin, which can be seen here, is a collage of odd symbols, cryptic imagery, and mysterious slogans all of which point to the fact that this unit is up to some seriously shadowy work in the Nevada desert. What exactly was this unit trying to depict with the coin?

Challenge coins.

Challenge coins are small tokens of appreciation or commemoration issued by units of the military and often traded among service members. The most prominent aspect of this strange coin is a large B-2 bomber spanning the entire width of one of its faces. The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron Detachment Two is charged with testing and evaluating the B-2 Spirit aircraft, more commonly referred to as the Stealth Bomber. It’s believed that this single-wing aircraft is responsible for many “flying saucer” sightings due to its flat profile and near-silent operation. Surrounding the bomber is the unit’s cloud and lightning bolt insignia and a series of strange unknown symbols believed to depict antenna arrays at Area 51. The edge of the face contains the US Post Office’s motto of “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

B-2 Spirit, otherwise known as 'a hot death from above.'

B-2 Spirit, otherwise known as ‘hot death from above.’

The coin’s other face bears the motto ‘Denego, Decipio, Depopulor,’ Latin for “Deny, Deceive, Destroy,” and depicts the Las Vegas skyline with a cryptic map-looking image beneath it. The meaning of this image is unknown, but it appears to depict some sort of tunnel system, road map, or other similar structure. Superimposed on this image is a typical grey alien which appears to be scratching its head in disbelief as a B-2 flies over Las Vegas as a lightning bolt striking the ground before it. It’s a truly disconcerting image, and I encourage you to visit The War Zone to check it out and read Rogoway’s analysis of the coin and the history of the unit behind it.

Is this coin merely a tongue-in-cheek reference to the otherwordly folklore surrounding the USAF’s bases like Area 51, or might this coin be a way of hiding knowledge of higher mysteries in plain sight? What would be the gain in that, other than to laugh at us mortals down here in the dark? Like all things with these top secret units, we’ll likely never know.

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The Straith Letter: UFOs and a Hoax

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The Straith Letter: UFOs and a Hoax

Having extensively written about the “Contactee”/”Space Brothers” issue in my 2006 book, On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, and in my 2009 book, Contactees, I quite often get asked what I think about the likes of George Adamski, Dana Howard, Truman Bethurum, Orfeo Angelucci, and the many others who, in the 1950s, claimed face-to-face contact with long-haired aliens from other worlds. I think some of them had legitimate experiences with...something (but definitely not with space-hippies from Venus). Others may have been the victims of early “mind-control” operations. Some were definitely engaged in hoaxing. Others were just plain nuts. But, there is one Contactee-linked affair that I get asked about at least a couple of times a year – an affair that is highly entertaining, but for reasons you might not think. It’s a story of how two men hoaxed George Adamski and created something that still circulates among his followers. Well, among at least some of them.

It all began back in 1957 and involved a pair of friends who decided to play a prank on Adamski – which they did. But, it had unforeseen circumstances. That aforementioned pair of friends were Jim Moseley and Gray Barker. Moseley, who died in 2012, is mostly noted for his highly amusing newsletter, Saucer Smear and his 2002 book, Shockingly Close to the Truth, co-written with Karl Pflock, which is hilarious. As for the late Gray Barker, he’s noted for having written the first book on the Men in Black (1956’s They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers), as well as the first book on Mothman (The Silver Bridge, which was published in 1970). Both men were notorious pranksters. Barker was someone who played fast and loose with facts – particularly so in his books. And Moseley, at times, would go along with Barker’s escapades. All of which brings us to the matter of what went down one night in 1957, and of what became known as the Straith Letter.

At the time, Barker had a friend who, back in the 1950s, was in his late teens. It turns out that the kid’s father worked for the U.S. Government, specifically in an office of the Department of State. Barker and the unnamed teenager got talking one day and the kid brought up the fact that he had seen a bunch of unused Department of State-headed paperwork in his father’s office. This gave Barker an idea: he asked his friend if he could get his hands on some of that same letter-headed paperwork. So, the next time the kid visited his father’s office, he quietly and quickly grabbed a bunch of DoS documents and stealthily got them to Barker. He even provided Barker with Department of State envelopes. It wasn’t at all long before the Barker-Moseley caper began.

On one drunken night in Clarksburg, West Virginia – where Barker lived – the two cooked up a plot to hoax Adamski, then the most famous Contactee on the planet. And, having got not photocopies of Department of State-headed paper, but originals, made their plan even easier to con Adamski. Barker started to type. The pair decided they would create a completely fictitious employee of the Department of State. They called him “R.E. Straith,” of the “Cultural Affairs Committee.” In the letter, the actually-non-existent Straith tells Adamski that he – Straith – and several of his colleagues are right behind Adamski, but cannot publicly provide support for him and his claims of contact with aliens, because of their jobs in the government. And then, Barker and Moseley mailed the letter to Adamski – in one of those Department of State envelopes. Of course, Adamski loved it. Whether he believed the letter to be the real deal, or if he suspected it was a hoax, is a matter we’ll never likely know. But, for Adamski, it didn’t really matter: this was just what he needed to show to his followers (and his critics too) that he had government support. Which he didn’t. Then, things got a bit worrying for Barker. Not so much for Moseley though, who thought it was all great fun.

It turns out that Adamski began showing the faked letter to various people in Ufology, and waving it around at lectures. Not only that, a copy of the Straith Letter reached the FBI (maybe even from Adamski himself, who enjoyed mixing things up to his advantage). The G-Men were, unsurprisingly, far from impressed. They quite rightly suspected a hoax and told him to quit all of his foolishness. When word of all this got to Barker, he totally freaked out – and to the point that he actually broke the typewriter into small pieces and, one day, buried the bits and pieces in the fresh cement of a building then being constructed in Clarksburg. Of course, the “cement story” may have been yet another of Barker’s jokes, adding even more layers to the legend. But, we know for sure that Barker wasdeeply worried by the fact that the FBI were now onto a matter than began as a late-night prank put together by a couple of booze-soaked buddies. Barker was even grilled by the FBI, but it came to nothing. Barker never revealed the name of the kid who got the Department of State paperwork – at least, not publicly. He certainly shared the name with Moseley, though, who took it with him to the grave (his name, however, was James Villard). The FBI eventually dropped the matter.

The reason why I mention all of this, is because just last week I was asked about the Straith Letter – yet again – and by someone convinced that it was (and still is) the real deal. It’s not! The Straith Letter is the product of two people who liked to screw with the collective minds of Ufology for their own entertainment. And, in this case, they excelled themselves. Far too many people – whose “I want to believe” approach to Ufology has affected their common-sense – see the letter as something notable. But, let’s be clear: it’s a joke. It was alwaysa joke. And it always will be a joke. Case closed? I dunno. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if – in the not too distant future – someone else resurrects the letter and waves it around as evidence that the U.S. Government was secretly supporting George Adamski.

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Vast Reserve of Frozen Water Might Hide Beneath the Moon’s Surface

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Vast Reserve of Frozen Water Might Hide Beneath the Moon’s Surface

We often forget how mysterious our moon is. Maybe it’s due to seeing it every night, just hanging out in the sky, predictably waxing and waning. Of all the celestial bodies in our solar system, the moon is probably taken for granted the most. That’s too bad, because the moon is weird, and scientists are making new discoveries about our dear Luna all the time. The latest is that the moon is likely hiding huge amounts of ice under her dusty surface, which could be mined and used as crucial supplies for space exploration and colonization missions.

The discovery was made after analyzing a lunar meteor that fell in the African desert 13 years ago, according to Space.com. Scientists discovered that the meteor fell from the moon containing large amounts of moganite, a mineral close in structure to quartz but which is only formed in the presence of alkaline fluids like water. Specifically, it’s formed in the evaporation of  water. Masahiro Kayama, a scientist at Tohoku University in Japan who led the team that made the discovery, believes that this moganite formed when water in the surface dust of the moon was evaporated by the harsh rays of the sun, and says that there is likely more water below the surface:

In a moganite, there is less water, because moganite forms from the evaporation of water. That’s the case on the surface of the moon. But in the subsurface, much water remains as ice, because it’s protected from the sunlight.

Moon could have ice in the soil.

There may be large amounts of water ice beneath the moon’s dusty surface.

Kayama says that the concentration of moganite in the lunar meteor suggests that the subsurface of the moon may be made of as much as 0.6 percent water, meaning that extraction could yield 6 liters of water for every cubic meter processed. While that pales in comparison to the amount of water on Earth, it could be enough that future colonists on the moon wouldn’t need to rely on water from Earth to survive. It could also be used to supply missions to Mars and beyond, and hydrogen could be extracted for rocket fuel. Kayama says:

We wouldn’t need to bring all the water for drinking and the fuel to return to Earth or to travel to Mars, for example, with us from Earth. If water is abundant in the lunar subsurface, we can easily use it.

Mining the moon for space travel.

We may be able to mine the Moon for water as well as hydrogen and helium, facilitating space travel.

While this is the first sign of ice in the lunar soil, we’ve already detected water on the moon. NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite found water near the Moon’s south pole, and India’s Chandrayaan-1 found traces of water in the thin atmosphere surrounding the moon. Perhaps water is far more abundant in our solar system and galaxy-at-large than we’ve always assumed.

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Rare footage of disappearing moon filmed from the International Space Station

Rare footage of disappearing moon filmed from the International Space Station

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev posted a video of a disappearing moon on Saturday. He filmed the interesting natural phenomenon, called a moonset, from the International Space Station (ISS).

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Watching the footage it looks really odd, the moon appears to be distorted and turns completely blue.

  

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Newest Crops Circle Found In Wiltshire, UK On May 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Newest Crops Circle Found In Wiltshire, UK On May 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Location of discovery: Willoughby Hedge, Nr Mere, Wiltshire, UK
Date of discovery: May 2018 

Here is an drones view of a crop formation found in Wiltshire, UK this week. Inside the circle is a six pointed object. On the edge of the circle are four round patches, possibly planets. Inside the circle are one patch that could be a planet and and an location where there should be a round patch but has nothing there. 


It has been long believed that crop formations are messages sent from aliens who cannot travel here themselves. Also some say these are the landing marks of the UFOs. 


Scott C. Waring


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This Alien World Is the 1st Cloudless Exoplanet Ever Discovered

This Alien World Is the 1st Cloudless Exoplanet Ever Discovered

In a first, an international team of scientists has discovered an exoplanet with no clouds.

The team, led by Nikolay Nikolov, an astronomer at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, detected this hot gas giant, known as WASP-96b, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. The team determined the atmospheric makeup of the exoplanet by studying it as it passed in front of its host star and measuring how the planet and its atmosphere affected light from the star.

A planet's atmospheric makeup influences the light that scientists can measure as it passes by its host star. This creates a spectrum, which is like a unique fingerprint. Typically, clouds obscure the light released by a planet and affect the spectrum that researchers can study from Earth, according to a statement released yesterday (May 7) by the University of Exeter. [The Biggest Mysteries of Saturn]

This is an artistic visualization of the exoplanet WASP-96b, which appears blue.
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But for WASP-96b, an extremely clear signature for the element sodium was observed. Because clouds typically obscure such signatures, the clarity of this spectrum suggested that the planet's atmosphere has no clouds at all. With its his is the first evidence of an entirely cloudless planet and the first time a planet with such a clear sodium signature has been found, the researchers said.With its uniquely clear signature, WASP-96b is the first-ever cloudless planet discovered. Being the first of its kind, the exoplanet is now considered "a benchmark for characterization," Nikolov said in the statement.

WASP-96b's sodium fingerprint is a clear, "tent-like" shape unobstructed by clouds.
Credit: N. Nikolov/E. de Mooij

This characterizing spectrum appears in the shape of a camping tent. This uncommon and easy-to-identify shape had never been seen before "because the characteristic 'tent-shaped' profile can only be produced deep in the atmosphere," Nikolov said. He added that for most planets, clouds get in the way, making this shape difficult to discern. 

Aside from having an unusually cloudless, sodium-rich atmosphere, WASP-96b is extremely hot, at 1,300 kelvins (1,900 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1,000 degrees Celsius), and extremely large — 20 percent larger than Jupiter. The planet's mass is similar to Saturn's, so researchers classify the alien world as a "hot Saturn."

In addition, the sodium levels in WASP-96b's atmosphere are similar to those found throughout our solar system. Sodium is the seventh most abundant element in the universe, and for a long time, scientists have thought that large gas giants had sodium-rich atmospheres, according to the statement. But until now, such clear evidence to support this idea has not existed, so the observance of WASP-96b solidifies scientists' understanding of gas giants.

Because of WASP-96b's cloudless skies, studying the exoplanet will provide researchers with a "unique opportunity to determine the abundances of other molecules, such as water, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, with future observations," Ernst de Mooij,a researcher at Dublin City University and a co-author of a new study describing the findings, said in the statement.

So, by identifying the signatures of other molecules using telescopes like Hubble and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, scientists can gain a better understanding of planets both within and outside our solar system, the researchers said.

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On 'One Strange Rock,' How Terraforming Makes Our Planet Even Stranger

On 'One Strange Rock,' How Terraforming Makes Our Planet Even Stranger

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Disappearing Moon Filmed By Astronauts Aboard The ISS

Disappearing Moon Filmed By Astronauts Aboard The ISS

What better way to observe the moon than while orbiting our planet?

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have one of the best views not only of Earth but Earth’s faithful companion the moon as well.

Now, a recent video has emerged showing the moon like many of us have never seen it before.

Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has managed to film a uniquevideo of Earth’s moon “vanishing” mysteriously behind the Earth during moonset, while in low orbit around Earth.

Oleg Germanovich Artemyev is a Russian Cosmonaut for the Russian Federal Space Agency. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003.

He was a Flight engineer of Expedition 39and 40 to the International Space Station, and in 2018 he returned to space as the Commander of Soyuz MS-08.

Artemyev was a crew member in the 15-day and 105-day precursor studies of the MARS-500 program between 2007 and 2009.

The short video filmed by the Russian cosmonaut was published on a number of social networks around the globe and provides a fresh, unique, and extraordinary perspective of Earth’s satellite.

“The Moon is setting. It’s like the heartbeat,” Artemyev says while filming the rapidly moving satellite. “Now a little more and it will reach the atmosphere.”

This doesn’t mean there’s a mystery to it. In the video filmed by Artemyev, we can observe the moon gently touching our planet’s atmosphere as it ‘vanishes’ without actually reaching its edge.

This strange disappearing moon phenomenon can only be witnessed while in low orbit around Earth.

According to Artemyev, the video speed of the moon was not altered and actually represents the real-time speed of the moon, as seen from the International Space Station.

The moon seems to travel very fast because the International Space Station itself travels at a staggering 7.66 kilometers per second.

The Russian cosmonaut has filmed a number of stunning videos and images from the International Space Station.

This video below, for example, is the @SpaceX #Dragon CRS-14 cargo ship after undocking from the International Space Station.

The below image was filmed by Atemyev as the International Space Station was just above Dubai.

Video Courtesy: Oleg Artemyev: https://www.instagram.com/olegmks/

Featured Image Credit: Oleg Artemyev / Instagram

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NASA Wants to Send Robo-Bees to Mars

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NASA Wants to Send Robo-Bees to Mars

If you were to choose the soundtrack for a robot explorer landing on Mars, what piece of music would you choose? Maybe something epic, like Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War." Maybe something more science-fictiony, like David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Well, as apropo as either of those choices would be, the next rover to touch down on the Red Planet might best be suited by "Flight of the Bumblebee."

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Bee, Two, One, Blast Off!

They're still working out the kinks, but this solution that NASA has just decided to start funding could make exploring Mars a lot faster and cheaper — not to mention give us more opportunities for Oprah GIFs. The Marsbee program (yes, it's really called that) involve a swarm of bee-sized flying robots. They'd all pack into a rover, which they'd treat as their mobile hive. While it rolls along the ground, the swarm takes flight, covering a much broader area than anything on wheels.

Once deployed, a Marsbee will start gathering data on its environment using teeny-tiny, yet sophisticated sensors. Its chief concern will be the atmosphere — these bees are searching for traces of methane. Previously, the gas had been detected by the Curiosity rover, and scientists are eager to see if they can find more since it could be a sign of Martian life. Regardless of whether the Marsbee finds the gas it's looking for, it'll end each long day of searching with a return to the rover in order to recharge its batteries.

Marsbees are being developed by two teams, one from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and one based out of Japan. The American team will develop a mathematical model for flapping-wing flight in the Martian environment, while the Japanese team will draw on its previous success with Earth-based, hummingbird-like fliers to build and test Marsbees in a controlled environment. And great news: those controlled environments can be found all over the world since the tiny mass of the robots makes them testable even in relatively small facilities.

The Bee's Needs

When engineers make drones to fly on the planet Earth, they usually use rotary wings like the ones on a helicopter. When honeybees fly on Earth, they do it by flapping their tiny, 1-centimeter (o.4-inch) wings up and down. These honeybee-sized robots, however, will fly on flapping wings about the size of a cicada's (roughly 1 inch or 3 centimeters), which would let them take flight even in the thin atmosphere of Mars. But even with those extra-large wings, the robo-bugs will only be able to achieve lift-off on the Red Planet thanks to the fact that it has much lower gravity than the Earth.

Big wings make sense in a thin atmosphere, but why do they have to flap? If rotary wings work so well on Earth, then why not rely on them on other planets? Helicopter-style flight does allow for greater control, but the Marsbees' flexible wings each feature an energy-storing spring to reduce their overall power consumption. As an added bonus of the compact, energy-friendly design, the Marsbees will be able to adapt to the tasks at hand by using their battery power entirely on their reconfigurable sensor systems. Overall, this cyber-hive could turn out to be the key to our next steps into the solar system.

Why Mars?

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Scientists Say Our Sun's Death Will Be Even Creepier Than We Thought

Our sun is still in its glory years at the ripe age of 4.5 billion years. In about 10 billion years, the sun’s core will lose massive amounts of hydrogen and helium, turning it into a red giant star. At least that’s what we all learned in middle school, right? Apparently, that doesn’t tell the whole story.

A new study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy gives more detail to previously existing ideas about what’ll happen once our sun dies. According the research, our sun will become a ghostly ring of expanding gas known as a planetary nebula.

“When a star dies it ejects a mass of gas and dust — known as its envelope — into space,” Professor Albert Zijlstra of the University of Manchester explains in a statement. “The envelope can be as much as half the star’s mass. This reveals the star’s core, which by this point in the star’s life is running out of fuel, eventually turning off and before finally dying.”

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Planetary Nebula Abell 39

By developing a new kind of stellar data model, the team tried to plot out the sun’s final act. The model predicts the brightness of our sun’s planetary nebula based on the age and luminosity of other stars’ gaseous envelopes. Though scientists had long assumed that our sun wasn’t massive enough to form a planetary nebula, the team showed it is in fact a possibility.

The team’s models show that stars like our sun, although lower in mass compared to many others, can get really hot very quickly, even as it dies. This would mean that our sun could still eject gasses and dust to make a visible planetary nebula.

“We found that stars with mass less than 1.1 times the mass of the sun produce fainter nebula, and stars more massive than 3 solar masses brighter nebulae, but for the rest the predicted brightness is very close to what had been observed,” Zijlstra adds.

Could this settle the long-standing debate around our sun’s death? Not exactly, I mean, it’s just one study. That said, at least we have some compelling ideas about what’ll happen to our favorite sun when it’s finally time for it to die — it could become a ghost.

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Breakthrough Listen Project Begins Massive Survey To Search For Aliens In Our Galaxy

Breakthrough Listen Project Begins Massive Survey To Search For Aliens In Our Galaxy

We could soon find out whether or not there is intelligent alienlife in our galaxy.

In recent decades, the idea that life exists elsewhere in our galaxy has aroused the interests of astronomers around the globe.

The Milky Way has a diameter between 100,000 and 180,000 light-years and experts estimate that it contains up to 400 Million stars. According to calculation, astronomers further estimate that our galaxy alone contains some 100 billion planets.

(Check out this 9-gigapixel map of the Milky Way Galaxy. The jaw-dropping image contains around 84 million stars and its unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The original image has 24.6 gigabytes).

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This is just one SMALL part of the massive 9-gigapixel image. Image credit ESO.

Image Illustration: Prometheus movie.

If we take a look at a larger picture, we’ll find that there are around 500 billion galaxies in the known universe, which means there are around 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5×1022) habitable planets.

Now, the Breakthrough Listen Project has launched a massive survey to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the universe.

Astronomers plan to use the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales in order to comb through millions of stars in our galaxy, looking for signs, more precisely signals, of intelligent alien civilizations.

According to reports, a recent upgrade on the telescope will allow astronomers to record unprecedented data over huge areas of the sky.

The Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales was recently equipped with 13 brand new beams, which means the Parkes telescope has the ability to cover ALL of the galactic plane visible from New South Wales in Australia.

It is one of the most massive searches for intelligent life ever done. Thanks to the upgrade of the Parkes Telescope, the Breakthrough Listen project will be able to handle 130 gigabits of data per second. Furthermore, each of the 13 beams will scan more than 100 million radio channels.

As noted by astrobiology.com, the new survey commits the Parkes telescope to 1500 hours of observations in 2018, resulting in raw data volumes totaling almost 100 petabytes.

Feeling small yet?

Danny Price, Parkes Project Scientist with the Breakthrough Listen project at UC Berkeley, explained that “With these new capabilities, we are scanning our galaxy in unprecedented detail.”

“By trawling through these huge datasets for signatures of technological civilizations, we hope to uncover evidence that our planet, among the hundreds of billions in our galaxy, is not the only where intelligent life has arisen,” added Price.

However, the Breakthrough listen project will also have the ability to peak into the Milky Way’s Galactic center, one of the densest areas in our galaxy, and home to a number of massive black holes.

The raw details of the search:

– Total observing time: 1500 hours
– Galactic Plane survey: galactic longitude -174 degrees to +60 degrees, and galactic latitudes of 6.5 degrees above and below the plane (total area 3000 square degrees, or the equivalent of 15,000 full moons)
– Galactic Bulge: +/- 12 degrees in Galactic latitude and longitude
– Other targets including nearby dwarf galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds
– Frequencies covered: 1.23 – 1.53 GHz
– Sensitivity (5-minute integration, 3 Hz bandwidth): 420 mJy (8 sigmas)
– Sensitivity to a transmitter at the distance of the Galactic Center: 4 x 1014 W equivalent isotropic radiated power (8 sigmas) – 20 times the power of the Arecibo radar

So, what do you think? Will the new project finally find traces of advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way?

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Has NASA Just Accidentally Exposed Life On Mars? UFO Hunters Claims Spark Online Debate

Has NASA Just Accidentally Exposed Life On Mars? UFO Hunters Claims Spark Online Debate

Has NASA just accidentally revealed there is in fact alien life on Mars? Claims made by UFO hunters have sent the internet into a heated debate about an image snapped by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

The Bizarre footage, which has recently emerged on various Social Networks claims that NASA is HIDING traces of life on Mars.

A Video uploaded to YouTube by ArtAlienTV shows the alleged evidence which was photographed on January 20, 2018, on the surface of the red planet.

This image was taken by Front Hazcam: Left B (FHAZ_LEFT_B) onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 1940 (2018-01-20 14:57:11 UTC). 

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The image reveals an eerie Martian landscape and something ‘flying’ in the sky.

The miniature object, according to UFO hunters, represents some sort of alien bird.

“What looks like a UFO on Mars in Gale Crater. It is probably quite small and close to the rover but it is hard to tell. It may be some windblown debris of some sort but seems to have symmetry and an almost insect-like appearance. Rocks don’t fly. An open mind is required when viewing images from other planets. One day our very survival may depend on it,” wrote the uploader in the video’s description.

The narrator of the video explains that the object seen by NASA’s Curiosity rover cannot be something on the lens, as following images taken by Curiosity do not show the object anymore.

Some even claim that the image wasn’t actually taken on Mars, but that the image was snapped on Earth, suggesting that NASA never made it to Mars.

The video, images and theories surrounding the bizarre claims have created a heated online debate, resulting in different comments and opinions.

One user wrote Wow that is awesome – absolutely crazy, and another one added: “Woah, what the Hell.”

Other users suggested that the enigmatic object may have been a meteor that was caught burning up in the thin Martian atmosphere: “It could have been a little meteorite that hit the upper layer of the atmosphere. That would mean that they briefly light up brightly and leave a splash/static charge in the atmosphere, as this one but only for a very short period,” commented Star Zone.

In the past, numerous wild claims have been made about Mars. Many videos have surfaced on YouTube (and still continue to do so) showing what uploaders hail as the ultimate evidence of alien life on Mars.

However, many of these videos can easily be explained as Pareidolia— a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists. Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the Man in the Moon, the Moon rabbit, etc.

On the other hand, a very few images are spot on and really do make you wonder if there is a slight possibility that in the distant past, perhaps millions of years ago, there was intelligent alien life on Mars, as some scientists have suggested in the past.

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Scientists Want To Bring Dinosaurs And Neanderthals Back To Life

Scientists Want To Bring Dinosaurs And Neanderthals Back To Life

Remember that not long ago, scientists said they wanted to clone Mammoths? Well apparently, Mammoths aren’t really that interesting, and as experts say, we could bring back dinosaurs and Neanderthals back to life.

Speaking to Big Think, Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, asks what if we could bring back Neanderthals back to life, or a dinosaur, using only their genomes?

Do we have that sort of technology? Technically we could, but the idea of doing so raises a number of problems, the biggest one being Bioethics: is it ethical to clone a Neanderthal? Is it inhumane? And should we even attempt it?

According to Dr. George Church, a geneticist, and director of Harvard University’s Church Labs thinks that not only can we clone a Neanderthal, we can do so in our lifetime.

According to Dr. Church, the only thing we’d need to start cloning ancient humans is “one extremely adventurous human female.”

However, Dr. Church isn’t saying we should attempt cloning a Neanderthal right away, but he does encourage the scientific community should discuss the matter.

Dr. Church believes that with current stem cell technology and our completed sequence of the Neanderthal genome, we are equipped with all the necessary prerequisites to successfully clone a Neanderthal.

The idea of cloning a Neanderthal dates back to 2013, when Dr. Church said it could be possible. Back then, Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the NYU Center for Bioethics said that cloning a Neanderthal “lurches too close to exploitation. It rubs up too closely as starting to turn into bringing somebody into existence just as an object of other people’s interest.”

Neanderthals became extinct tens of thousands of years ago. Cloning one of them could kickstart a never-before-seen era on Earth, where science and medicine would break free of ethical constraints.

And if we actually manage to clone a Neanderthal—not saying we should—what about trying to clone a living creature that existed on Earth some 65 million years ago? What about trying to clone a dinosaur?

I know what you are thinking: Jurassic Park in real life.

Dr. Kaku believes that successfully cloning a Dinosaur is going to be a really difficult project, not nearly as complicated as cloning a Neanderthal or a Mammoth. However, he notes, that doesn’t mean it is impossible.

According to Dr. Kaku, we need to create a genetic sequence in order to clone dinosaurs. This could be achieved using a supercomputer. According to Dr. Kaku, proteins discovered in the soft tissues of dinosaur femurs resemble those of chickens, frogs, and reptiles, and confirm they are somehow related.

If we manage to produce a genetic sequence, we could then create the necessary prerequisites to clone Dinosaurs though epigenetics.

We’ve got the necessary tools, but should we do it?

When you think about cloning dinosaurs and mammoths there aren’t really that many ethical questions in the way.

However, when it comes down to cloning living human beings, Neanderthals, a lot of issues pop up, the biggest one being how ethical it would be.

Dr. Kaku asks a number of really important questions regarding the cloning of a Neanderthal.

What would society do after bringing a Neanderthal child to life: Should he or she be placed in captivity like some kind of zoo animal? Would they face a lifetime of study? What if the Neanderthal is naturally aggressive — should it be drugged or confined at all times?

Many scientists would agree that attempting to clone a Neanderthal is too inhumane, and we should not even attempt it.

Source: YouTube, LiveScience, howstuffworks, Futurism

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DO ALIENS EXIST?

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An alien child asking father if there is life on Earth?

DO ALIENS EXIST?

Yes, they do.

No! I mean they don’t.

Aww! What am I saying? Do aliens exist or do they not? Well, that’s the question I’m going to answer from my knowledge in the next few minutes.

First of all, let’s see what we know about aliens. According to the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, an alien typically means a “being from another world”. And then you know the rest. Green body, large black eyes (sometimes white), evil little green men, and so on. But in fact, do aliens really exist? And if they do, how exactly do they look like? My answer: Yes, they do exist. And as for what they look like, I’ll leave that to your own imagination.

So going forward with our topic, science believes that aliens do not in fact exist. But for some conspiracy theorists, they claim that not only do aliens exist, but they have also been visiting Earth since the ancient past. The conspiracy theorists believe that when aliens do arrive Earth, they are usually held captive by the united states and held in “Area 51”. If you’ve watched the movie “Race to Witch Mountain”, starred by Johnson Dwayne, that movie is a very typical example of many people’s belief about the existence of aliens. Another movie that centers around aliens is the movie series “Roswell”. It also talks about aliens visiting Earth and the government trying to cover it up by trying to hold the alien guys captive. “Men in Black” is also another good example of alien movie. The aliens visit Earth, but this organization of Men in Black has their duty in ensuring the general public do not know about their existence, let alone their visits. They are sort of the alien police force. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of other movies and books too that centers about the existence of aliens and sometimes their visiting our planet Earth. Yet science tells us that it simply is not possible for aliens to exist. One, they say, Earth is the only planet that has enough of both the two important elements which life needs before it can thrive, which are water and oxygen. And two, we’ve been searching since eternity and yet haven’t found any traces of them anywhere.

ANSWER THE QUESTION!

But I’m not here to talk about movies or books. I’m rather going to answer the question of whether aliens exist or not. Like I have said above: yes, they do exist and the following are my reasons for saying that.

  1. Science tells us that only water and oxygen can support life, both of which can be found abundantly on Earth only. I agree with the second part of them being found on Earth only (if we’re talking about our own solar system alone, that is). However, let me point out a possible flaw in this theory of science. The Universe contains a very large number of Galaxies. So large that even physicists and cosmologists do not have an exact idea of how many they are and therefore put the approximate value at around 100 billion galaxies (according to Hubble), a number which they say is still likely to increase to about 200 billion as “telescope technology in space improves”. Looking at this fact, let us consider how many of these galaxies have been studied thoroughly. A very infinitesimal number I’d say.
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    Still, in our own Milky Way galaxy alone, there are about 200 billion stars present, our sun inclusive, and judging by this, if we say that only about 10% of these stars have their own solar systems (that is, planets revolving around them), that should put us to about 20 billion solar systems. And now let’s just imagine that each of these solar systems contain only a single planet (not minding the fact that our own solar system contains 9, or eight? planets), that should give us an estimated value of 20 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy alone. Just imagine that! 20 billion planets. That is 200,000,000,000! If we have “only” 200 billion planets in our own galaxy, then how slim is the chance that at least another one of all these planets, apart from Earth, have the right combination of all the necessary requirements to sustain life? But that’s not all. If we go back to our calculations above about the number of galaxies we have, which we say is 100 billion, then imagine again that each of these galaxies also has approximately 20 billion solar systems too, multiply that by the possible number of solar systems in the possible number of stars we have, we should be having around 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets. That’s two sextillion planets! And it’s just a very rough estimate.

    Now again. What is the probability that not another one of these planets apart from Earth contains life? How come none of them will have the water and oxygen in abundance enough for life to thrive there? I’d say the probability of that is about really, really slim.

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  2. Second reason: On Earth, and according to science, before life can exist, two things have to be present and abundant, and they have been mentioned above: water and oxygen. But what if that is the situation for ONLY Earth? What if in another planet in another solar system, they DO NOT need water, or oxygen, before life can exist? Here on Earth, it has been discovered that some animals actually do exist in conditions of no oxygen. Read about it here. If this was discovered in our own home, then what about out there? There is the very real possibility that it is only on our own planet that life needs oxygen and water. It is possible that life on other planets need maybe methane to survive. What if it was actually hydrogen that some species on some other planets need to survive? Considering the fact that here on Earth, we are carbon based life forms and we need oxygen to survive, then maybe, just maybe, on some other planets, they are phosphorus based, or chlorine based, or fluorine based (just check your periodic table). If we look at this from this viewpoint, then we are bound to accept the fact that there may very possibly be life on other planets too. Intelligent life too, at that!
  3. The third reason is rather simple. What if the only reason we have not discovered life on other worlds is simply because we’re not looking in the right places? It may be that we have been seeing alien life all around us, but have only been too blind to see it.

    If you know this concept called “expectancy theory”, then you know that sometimes when we are looking for something, which we already believed will not be there in the first place, we may end up not seeing that thing. The reason is simply because once we have believed and convinced our brain that it’s not there before looking for it, our brain then constructs the image of that thing not being there even when we are looking at it. This may actually be the reason why we’ve not seen alien life in the universe so far. Generally speaking, when science goes looking for signs of alien life in space, we usually expect to find something quite near to our own physiology. We expect the aliens we see to be at least humanoid in form. With this in mind, is it so surprising that when scientists do see something that does not at all fill our own expectancy of life in other planets, they simply agree that it is some chance of nature that has formed it and not living beings at all.

    In this regard, the movies and books may have actually been getting it right when they show us aliens that are simply too grotesque for human beings. If we agree with number 2 above, then we will also agree that different genetic and chemical makeup will bring about different physiological makeup as well. If you have watched Tom and Jerry’s trip to Mars, you will see that the aliens in that movie all look like mice, but that does not in any way reduce their intelligence.

  4. Lastly, we may not have discovered alien life so far because scientists have been landing in the wrong place during interplanetary expeditions! Imagine, if an alien spaceship coming to Earth lands in the middle of the Sahara Desert, or the Arctic region (also a desert too, in case you don’t know), and then explored many kilometers north, south, east and west, what do you think will be their conclusion. You probably guessed it, that there is no life on Earth. The same may be true for scientists leaving our Earth too for other planets. They may have been landing in the wrong places, where there are no life or signs of life, and just as well concluded that there is no life, what with all the evidences as discussed in number two above.

So, having considered all the above stated reasons, I arrived at the conclusion that there is indeed life on other planets apart from our Earth. The only thing that I’m worried about is that I still be around when it is finally discovered.

And perhaps, aliens have been visiting Earth already, and as discussed in number 3, we simply have been too blind to see them, or like some conspiracy theorists will argue, they are simply being held hidden in Area 51, considering the many UFO sightings been yearly reported.

But what do YOU believe about extraterrestrial life? Please leave your comments below!

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Astronomers report success with machine deep learning

Astronomers report success with machine deep learning

Deep learning is a form of artificial intelligence. In 2 unrelated studies, astronomers report “surprising” success using it to perform research that’s hard or impossible otherwise.

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence (AI) that has networks which are capable of learning unsupervised from data that is unstructured or unlabeled.

Image and caption via Quora.

We published a story in April about an art historian using an innovative analysis technique to unlock architectural secrets. He was using a machine learning method called deep learning – which is used in, for example, facial recognition and speech recognition software – to do science. Similarly, more and more astronomers are reporting the use of machine deep learning techniques to perform research that humans can’t do using more traditional methods.

Below we describe two recent examples of using deep learning for astronomy. The first is related to planets orbiting two stars, and the second to classifying galaxies.

Artist’s impression of Kepler-16b, discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission and the first confirmed circumbinary planet. It is a gas giant that orbits close to the edge of its binary system’s habitable zone.

Image via T. Pyle/NASA/JPL-Caltech/RAS.

First, planets orbiting two stars. 

Can computers predict whether planets orbiting binary stars remain in stable orbits? That’s an important question because many (perhaps most) stars in our Milky Way galaxy appear to be in multiple star systems, and because planets in stable orbits might be expected to be the most habitable planets.

And, it turns out, the answer is yes. Researchers reported on April 23, 2018, that computers which undergo deep learning can predict the stability of planets in binary star systems more successfully than human astronomers. A studyon this subject looked at what many astronomers call Tatooines, planets orbiting two stars, named for the fictional Tatooine first introduced in 1977 as Luke Skywalker’s home in the original Star Wars movie. Researchers Chris Lam and David Kipping were both, at the time, at the Cool Worlds lab at Columbia University in New York (Lam has since obtained his Ph.D. and moved on). Their study is published in the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The authors explained in a statement:

Tens of these planets have so far been discovered, but working out whether they may be habitable or not can be difficult.

Moving around two stars instead of just one can lead to large changes in a planet’s orbit, which mean that it is often either ejected from the system entirely, or it crashes violently into one of its twin stars. Traditional approaches to calculating which of these occurs for a given planet get significantly more complicated as soon as the extra star is thrown into the mix.

These researchers simulated millions of possible planets with different orbits using traditional methods and found that planets were being predicted as stable that were clearly not, and vice versa. Their new study showed how machine learning could make accurate predictions possible, even if the standard approach – based on Newton’s laws of gravity and motion – breaks down. They said:

After creating ten million hypothetical Tatooines with different orbits, and simulating each one to test for stability, this huge training set was fed into the deep learning network. Within just a few hours, the network was able to out-perform the accuracy of the standard approach.

Read more about this study via the RAS

In the video below from Cool Worlds Lab, David Kipping explains why three-body systems are so tricky and how deep learning analysis methods can save the day. It’s called Droids [Machines] Ponder Tatooine:

Second, classifying galaxies.

 Also on April 23, 2018, astronomers at UC Santa Cruz reported using machine deep learning techniques to analyze images of galaxies, with the goal of understanding how galaxies form and evolve. This new study has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal and is available online. In the study, researchers used computer simulations of galaxy formation to train a deep learning algorithm, which then:

… proved surprisingly good at analyzing images of galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The researchers said they used output from their simulations to generate mock images of simulated galaxies as they would look in ordinary Hubble observations. The mock images were used to train the deep learning system to recognize three key phases of galaxy evolution. The researchers then gave their artificial neutral network a large set of actual Hubble images to classify.

The results showed a remarkable level of consistency, the astronomers said, in the classifications of simulated and real galaxies. Joel Primack of UC Santa Cruz said:

We were not expecting it to be all that successful. I’m amazed at how powerful this is. We know the simulations have limitations, so we don’t want to make too strong a claim. But we don’t think this is just a lucky fluke.

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Un OVNI triangulaire apparaît au cours d'un orage

Un OVNI triangulaire apparaît au cours d'un orage

Il y a peu, un OVNI de forme triangulaire a été filmé au moment précis où un éclair le percutait. Cette vidéo est rapidement devenue virale peu après sa publication.

Le 5 mai 2018, la chaîne YouTube, Secureteam10, a publié cette vidéo qui était initialement parue sur Instagram par un homme connu uniquement sous le pseudonyme de « MrsLampshade».

Tyler Glockner, ufologue, précise que cette scène a été filmée quelque part en République Tchèque bien qu'elle ait été postée depuis le village de Petrcane, en Croatie. Le spécialiste suggère que l'OVNI a pu « siphonner l'énergie » produite par la décharge électrique.

Cette vidéo a grandement ravivé l'intérêt pour les ovnis, les technologies extraterrestres et la vie sur d'autres planètes.

Une étude d'un observatoire allemand suggère que la technologie de vol utilisée par des extraterrestre vivant sur des Super-Terres, c'est-à-dire des planètes gigantesques ayant plus de 10 fois la masse de la Terre, nécessiterait des fusées massives utilisant des alternatives au carburant chimique pour échapper à leurs forces gravitationnelles exponentiellement supérieures. Ainsi, selon cette étude, la probabilité de voir un tel engin spatial est exceptionnellement improbable, du moins d'un point de vue humain.

D'autres experts, y compris l'ancien employé du Pentagone Luis Elizondo, ne sont pas d'accord avec ces explications. Ils prétendent que non seulement la vie extraterrestre existe, mais que certains vaisseaux spatiaux extraterrestres ont déjà visité la Terre et qu'ils posséderaient même une technologie capable de déformer l'espace-temps.

Secureteam10 et d'autres chaînes YouTube consacrées aux OVNIS sont parfois critiquée quant à leurs réelles intentions. Les sceptiques pensent que ces ufologues utilisent ce réseau social à des fins uniquement pécuniaires.

Selon le site UFO Theatre, dont le slogan « La vérité est compliquée », Glockner est une « farce» qui utilise des « scénarios inventés » pour impressionner son auditoire incrédule composé de plus de 1,5 million d'abonnés.

Selon Social Blade, un site d'analyse, Secureteam10, qui se décrit comme « la chaîne [YouTube] n°1 dans la diffusion de rapports sur les nombreux mystères de notre univers », générerait un revenu estimé entre 3000 $ et 60 000 $ par mois, en plus des revenus provenant du site Patreonet des ventes de t-shirts.

Même si toutes ces données étaient vraies, cela ne signifie pas que les intentions de Glockner sont moins sincères ou que ses vidéos ne sont que des montages uniquement destinées à faire le buzz.

Par ailleurs, depuis qu'il diffuse le fruit de ses recherches sur YouTube en 2011, il a déjà accumulé plus de 420 millions de vues …

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