Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airman Still Unexplained

ADAM JANOS

A plane of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron circa 1944. (Credit: The U.S. Army Air Force)

It was nearly the end of World War II. But for the airmen of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, it felt more like the beginning of War of the Worlds.

Lt. Fred Ringwald was the first to see it. He was riding as observer in a night fighter piloted by Lt. Ed Schlueter, with Lt. Donald J. Meiers on radar. It was a late November evening in 1944, partly cloudy with a quarter moon. They were roaming the Rhine Valley just north of Strasbourg on the French-German border when Ringwald said, “I wonder what those lights are, over there in the hills,” according to an American Legion Magazine story on the sightings from 1945.

There were eight to 10 of them in a row, glowing fiery orange. Then Schlueter saw them off his right wing. They checked with Allied ground radar, but they registered nothing. Thinking that the lights might be some kind of German air weapon, Schlueter turn the plane to fight…only to have the lights vanish.

At first the men said nothing, fearing they’d be ostracized. But then the sightings spread through the unit.  

More crews, more sightings

On December 17, 1944, near Breisach, Germany, a pilot was flying at approximately 800 feet when he saw “5 or 6 flashing red and green lights in ’T’ shape.” The lights seemed to follow him, closing in “to about 8 o’clock and 1,000 ft.” before disappearing as inexplicably as they came.

Then on December 22nd, two more flight crews sighted lights. One crew, near Hagenau, reported two lights in a large orange glow, seeming to rise from the earth to 10,000 feet, tailing the fighter “for approximately two minutes.” After that, the lights, “peel off and turn away, fly along level for a few minutes and then go out. They appear to be under perfect control at all times,” according to Keith Chester’s Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II.

And then there was Lt. Samuel A. Krasney’s experience: a wingless cigar-shape object, glowing red, just a few yards off the plane’s wingtip. Lt. Krasney, justifiably spooked, instructed the pilot to attempt evasive maneuvers, but the glowing object stayed right next to the jet for several minutes before it “flew off and disappeared.”

Eventually, the airmen named the lights: foo fighters, inspired by the comic strip “Smokey Stover,” in which Smokey (a firefighter) would often declare, “Where there’s foo, there’s fire.”

An illustration depicting the December 22, 1944 encounter with ‘foo fighters’ during a daylight bombing raid on Germany during World War II.

(Credit: Chronicle/Alamy Photo)

The ‘combat fatigue’ explanation

An Associated Press reporter broke news of the foo-fighter sightings on January 1st, 1945, and theories about their origins quickly abounded: The sightings were flares, or weather balloons or St. Elmo’s Fire—a phenomenon where a light appears on the tips of objects in stormy weather. But the members of the 415th rejected all those theories. Flares and weather balloons can’t track planes like these objects could, and they’d seen St. Elmo’s fire and could distinguish the two.

Then there were those who claimed that the airmen were suffering from “combat fatigue,” a polite way of saying that war stress was driving them insane. But there was scant evidence to suggest collective psychosis: The 415th had an otherwise excellent record, and when a reporter for American Legion Magazine went to report on the squadron he described them as “very normal airmen, whose primary interest was combat, and after that came pin-up girls, poker, doughnuts and the derivatives of the grape.”

Lt. Krasney’s son, Keith Krasney, says his late father didn’t fit the stereotypical profile of a UFO theorizer. In fact, he never even suggested that the glowing wingless cigar-like object that flew next to his plane was extraterrestrial in origin.

“He was very level-headed, very analytical,” says Krasney of his father, adding that he kept a notebook where he wrote about (and drew) his foo-fighter sighting. But although he never seemed prone to conspiracy theories, Krasney says his father was open to one: “He entertained the idea that it could be late-breaking German technology. He did express the view that there were a lot of things during the war that were kept quiet.”

This photo is said to show a ‘foo-fighter’ observed by a German pilot in May 1945, near Karnten, Germany.

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Was it the work of Nazi astrophysicists?

Holding Nazi Germany responsible for the flying glowing orbs isn’t too far-fetched. For one thing, the sightings took place over Nazi-occupied Europe, at a time when Germany’s Luftwaffe was making tremendous strides. Then there’s the fact that the sightings stopped once the German army was defeated.

But the most compelling link to the foo fighters might be Wernher von Braun, a 32-year-old wunderkind rocket engineer. Von Braun helped the Nazis develop the V-2 rocket: a long-range guided ballistic missile that Hitler was using in 1944 against Belgium and other parts of Allied Europe. It’s not to hard imagine pilots—unfamiliar with long-range ballistics—comparing these rockets to a cigar-like wingless planes. The V-2 could even explain the glow, since its tail emitted a long burning plume.

Nicholas Veronico, an author who has written several books on military aviation history, says that explanation comes up short.

“The V-2 rocket doesn’t have the maneuverability,” he says. “It couldn’t turn on a dime and change its acceleration pattern. Once it started burning, it burned and produced thrust at one rating.”

Nothing in Nazi Germany’s military-aviation arsenal can explain the foo-fighter description, Veronico says. One airman’s observation from the time—that the foo fighters follow the fighters so closely as to seem almost magnetized to them—is particularly confounding, given that “there just wasn’t the propulsion or metallurgical technology that could enable something like that.”

German-born rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who was brought to the United States to work for the U.S. Army circa 1946.

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And yet von Braun’s career after World War II is worth considering. Following the collapse of the Third Reich, the engineer was recruited to be part of Operation Paperclip, a clandestine U.S. military program that spared 1,600 Nazi scientists prosecution for war crimes, moving them instead into the American military, where their past was whitewashed to the public.

By 1952, von Braun had reinvented himself as a space-flight advocate, writing a piece that year in Collier’s magazine declaring that “within the next 10 or 15 years, the earth will have a new companion in the skies, a man-made satellite that could be either the greatest force for peace ever devised, or one of the most terrible weapons of war—depending on who makes and controls it.” His prediction proved overly conservative: The Soviets launched Sputnik 1 only five years later. Von Braun helped the U.S. Army launch Explorer 1 shortly thereafter. By 1960 he was with NASA, where he became the chief architect on Saturn V—the rocket that sent Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew to the moon.

As von Braun recast himself as an American patriot, his career in the Nazi party shadowed him, an ambiguous secret that reporters would playfully poke at. At one press conference before one Apollo launch, a reporter asked von Braun to assure the press that the rocket wouldn’t hit London. But they could never prove his involvement, and it was only in 1985—several years after von Braun’s death—that CNN broke news of the full extent of the aerospace engineer’s Nazi past, more than 40 years after the fact.

Veronico hopes the foo-fighter narrative will follow a similar trajectory.

“The fantasy is that 100 years after the war, the U.S. or Soviets will release information about what they captured, and it’ll blow all our minds. But I think they would’ve capitalized on it by this point,” the historian says. “Or weaponized it.”

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Pilot wanted for secretive 'Janet Airlines' to fly to Area 51

By Chris Irvine | Fox News

Report: Images show Area 51 expanding

If you’ve got loads of experience in top secret missions and an affinity for UFOs, then a job opportunity has arrived that may be impossible to pass up.

'Janet Airlines,' the unofficial name of the classified fleet for the U.S. Air Force, is looking for a pilot to join their secretive ranks at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

Inconspicuous: Janet planes are painted white with a horizontal red band along the side, and reportedly transport military employees and contractors to restricted sites, including Area 51.  (AP)

The planes, which don’t carry any company logos and are painted white with a horizontal red band along the side, transport military and contract employees to restricted sites, including the infamous Area 51 and the TonoPah Test Range in Nevada.

They are referred to as ‘Janet’ because that is the call sign they use while flying over civilian airspace — it's believed to stand for “Just Another Non-Existent Terminal."

A job opening has been posted on the website of private defense contractor AECOM for a First Officer based in Vegas. Although it doesn’t go into specifics about where they will be flying, the demands for those applying are high.

The posting calls for the applicants to "have a minimum of 3,000 fixed wing flying hours in-seat with 300 in-seat hours within the last 5 years." The advert also says applicants “must qualify for and maintain a TS government security clearance and associated work location access."

In January, AECOM also posted a job opportunity for flight attendants.

Founded in 1972, the ‘Janet’ fleet as of 2015 consisted of six Boeing 737-600s, as well as five smaller executive turboprops, according to Jalopnik.

The CIA only acknowledged the existence of Area 51 back in 2013 thanks to declassified documents.

George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it five years ago.

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Bermuda Triangle

Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors.The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery. The vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle is amongst the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with ships frequently crossing through it for ports in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean islands. Cruise ships and pleasure craft regularly sail through the region, and commercial and private aircraft routinely fly over it.

Triangle area

In 1964, Vincent Gaddis wrote in the pulp magazine Argosy of the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle, giving its vertices as Miami; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda. Subsequent writers did not necessarily follow this definition. Some writers gave different boundaries and vertices to the triangle, with the total area varying from 1,300,000 to 3,900,000 km² (500,000 to 1,510,000 sq mi). "Indeed, some writers even stretch it as far as the Irish coast." Consequently, the determination of which accidents occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reported them.

Origins

The earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950, article published in The Miami Herald (Associated Press) by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five US Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. In it, author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars." Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis' article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region.^[1] The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.

Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis' ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974); Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

Criticism of the concept

Larry Kusche

Lawrence David Kusche, author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved (1975) argued that many claims of Gaddis and subsequent writers were often exaggerated, dubious or unverifiable. Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved in the initial incidents. Kusche noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Another example was the ore-carrier recounted by Berlitz as lost without trace three days out of an Atlanticport when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents that sparked allegations of the Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it. Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

Kusche concluded that:

• The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.
• In an area frequented by tropical cyclones, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part, neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.
• Furthermore, Berlitz and other writers would often fail to mention such storms or even represent the disappearance as having happened in calm conditions when meteorological records clearly contradict this.
• The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat's disappearance, for example, would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may not have been.
• Some disappearances had, in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937, off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.
• The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.

In a 2013 study, the World Wide Fund for Nature identified the world's 10 most dangerous waters for shipping, but the Bermuda Triangle was not among them.

Further responses

When the UK Channel 4 television program The Bermuda Triangle (1992) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area. Lloyd's determined that large numbers of ships had not sunk there.Lloyd's does not charge higher rates for passing through this area. United States Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion. In fact, the number of supposed disappearances is relatively insignificant considering the number of ships and aircraft that pass through on a regular basis.

The Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle, noting that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, much documentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the Triangle authors. In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker V. A. Fogg, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup. In addition, V. A. Fogg sank off the coast of Texas, nowhere near the commonly accepted boundaries of the Triangle.

The NOVA/Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle, aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating that "When we've gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery evaporates. Science does not have to answer questions about the Triangle because those questions are not valid in the first place ... Ships and planes behave in the Triangle the same way they behave everywhere else in the world."

Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves and Barry Singer, have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very popular and profitable. This has led to the production of vast amounts of material on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle. They were able to show that some of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or inaccurate, but its producers continue to market it. Accordingly, they have claimed that the market is biased in favor of books, TV specials, and other media that support the Triangle mystery, and against well-researched material if it espouses a skeptical viewpoint.

Explanation attempts

Persons accepting the Bermuda Triangle as a real phenomenon have offered a number of explanatory approaches.

Paranormal explanations

Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts to explain the events. One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions. Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968, as referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road. Believers describe the formation as a road, wall, or other structure, but the Bimini Road is of natural origin.

Other writers attribute the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

Charles Berlitz, author of various books on anomalous phenomena, lists several theories attributing the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces.

A paranormal explanation in the 2005 three-part US-British-German science fiction miniseries The Triangle, says the triangle is a wormhole.

Natural explanations

Compass variations

Compass problems are one of the cited phrases in many Triangle incidents. While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalies have not been found. Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators have known for centuries. Magnetic (compass) north and geographic (true) north are exactly the same only for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000, in the United States, only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico. But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something mysterious about a compass "changing" across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.

Gulf Stream

The Gulf Stream is a major surface current, primarily driven by thermohaline circulation that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and then flows through the Straits of Florida into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and, like a river, it can and does carry floating objects. It has a maximum surface velocity of about 2 m/s (6.6 ft/s). A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current.Gulf Stream

Human error

One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error. Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958.

Violent weather

Hurricanes are powerful storms that form in tropical waters and have historically cost thousands of lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane. These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents related to the Triangle.

A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986. The crew of the sunken vessel noted the wind suddenly shifted and increased velocity from 32 km/h (20 mph) to 97–145 km/h (60–90 mph). A National Hurricane Center satellite specialist, James Lushine, stated "during very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from aloft can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward like a giant squall line of wind and water."^[31] A similar event occurred to Concordiain 2010, off the coast of Brazil. Scientists are currently investigating whether "hexagonal" clouds may be the source of these up-to-170 mph (270 km/h) "air bombs".

In August 2018, British scientists speculated that 100 feet (30 m) "rogue" waves could be the reason why so many boats have been sunk in the Bermuda Triangle.

Methane hydrates

 

Publications by the USGS describe large stores of undersea hydrates worldwide, including the Blake Ridge area, off the coast of the southeastern United States. However, according to the USGS, no large releases of gas hydrates are believed to have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 15,000 years.An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates (a form of natural gas) on the continental shelves. Laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water; any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream. It has been hypothesized that periodic methane eruptions (sometimes called "mud volcanoes") may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning.

Notable incidents

Ellen Austin

Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881. According to the stories, the derelict disappeared; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew on board. A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of Meta, built in 1854, and that in 1880, Meta was renamed Ellen Austin. There are no casualty listings for this vessel, or any vessel at that time, that would suggest a large number of missing men were placed on board a derelict that later disappeared.

USS Cyclops

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier Cyclops, carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss. In addition, two of Cyclops's sister ships, Proteus and Nereus were subsequently lost in the North Atlantic during World War II. Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage. In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking.

Carroll A. Deering

Flight 19A five-masted schooner built in 1919, Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on January 31, 1921. Rumors and more at the time indicated Deering was a victim of piracy, possibly connected with the illegal rum-running trade during Prohibition, and possibly involving another ship, Hewitt, which disappeared at roughly the same time. Just hours later, an unknown steamer sailed near the lightship along the track of Deering, and ignored all signals from the lightship. It is speculated that Hewitt may have been this mystery ship, and possibly involved in Deering's crew disappearance.

U.S. Navy Avengers

One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion^[43] and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident. According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation.Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 mi (227 km), north for 73 mi (117 km), and then back over a final 140-mile (230-kilometre) leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance is attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.

Star Tiger and Star Ariel

G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948, on a flight from the Azores to Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated by British South American Airways. Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island.

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Explanations for the "Shadow People" Phenomenon

Is it just our mind playing tricks on us, or something more?

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This military analyst notices a this familiar military jet plane in the middle of a Chinese city. The question is, is the plane real one stolen or just a model to test it ?

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Phytoplankton Is Affecting Earth's Climate in the Ocean's 'Twilight Zone'

Phytoplankton blooms are seen in this image taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. Phytoplankton influence Earth's climate, and researchers are working to figure out exactly how.

Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory

"The continued exploration of the ocean, its ecosystems and their controls on the carbon cycle as observed with advanced technologies by EXPORTS will provide unprecedented views of Earth's unseen world," Paula Bontempi, an EXPORTS program scientist at NASA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C., said in the statement.

This "unseen world," known as the twilight zone, lies 650 feet to 3,300 feet (200 meters to 1,000 meters) below the ocean's surface, where there is little to no light. This dim region is home to a wide variety of species, including zooplankton. Some species of zooplankton — which, depending on the species, can be microscopic like phytoplankton or large enough to be seen with the naked eye — live in this twilight zone but rise to the surface to feed on phytoplankton.

These creatures make a mass migration to the surface and return to the twilight zone at sunrise, according to the statement. So, the organic carbon that the phytoplankton take in is then "transferred," so to speak, to the larger zooplankton, which are then often eaten by larger animals.

Some of the organic carbon that travels from the phytoplankton to the zooplankton to larger animals re-enters the atmosphere through respiration — zooplankton, like all animals, breathe out carbon dioxide — and when those animals die and decompose, according to the statement. But some of this organic carbon, coming from feces or decomposed bodies, sinks down to the twilight zone.

The EXPORTS team is working to better understand this twilight-zone carbon, and how it may be contributing, ultimately, to Earth's climate.

"It's a tiny fraction, a fraction of a percent of biomass that makes it deeper down in the ocean where the water stays away from the atmosphere for a long time, from decades to thousands of years," Heidi Sosik, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and a member of the EXPORTS team, said in the statement. "We have pretty good information that tells us these processes are happening, but we have much less information to help us to quantitatively assess their impact on things like carbon cycling and, ultimately, Earth's climate."

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Google Earth : des internautes pensent avoir découvert « une piste d’atterrissage pour extraterrestres »

 PAR FLORIAN BAYARD, 

Grâce à Google Earth, des internautes pensent avoir découvert une piste d’atterrissage secrète réservée aux vaisseaux extraterrestres. Repérée au beau milieu du désert de Gobi, dans le nord de la Chine, cette base secrète génère les théories les plus folles chez les internautes. 

« Les théoriciens du complot Blake et Brett Cousins ont fait cette découverte en utilisant le logiciel de cartographie »rapportent nos confrères du DailyStar. Comme vous vous en doutez, ils n’ont pas tardé à partager leur « trouvaille » sur leur chaîne Youtube, dédiée à leurs farfelues théories.

Google Earth : une base secrète dans le désert de Gobi affole les internautes

« Nous n’avons toujours pas d’explications à l’utilité de cet endroit » expliquent-ils dans la description de la vidéo. « Cela pourrait être une piste d’atterrissage pour les extraterrestres !!? » imaginent les deux internautes. La piste est couverte de symboles géométriques. Les complotistes attribuent évidemment les tracés de cette piste à la présence d’extraterrestres.

« Cette base semble ne jamais avoir été utilisée et c’est au milieu du désert » s’interroge la chaîne Youtube. « Je pense que nous venons de découvrir, pour la première fois, une sorte de programme spatial secret caché dans le désert de Gobi au milieu d’un aéroport abandonné » conclut le théoricien.

Suite à la mise en ligne de cette vidéo, vue plus de 140 000 fois, les commentaires se sont multipliés sur Youtube. Si certains adhèrent aux propos de la chaîne, d’autres émettent des théories plus crédibles. « On dirait plutôt un outil d’étalonnage pour les nouveaux satellites ou les équipements de radar orbital » tempère un commentaire. Un autre internaute assure plutôt qu’il s’agit plutôt « d’une zone test pour les avions de reconnaissance, leurs caméras et l’équipement de ciblage ».

D’après les précédentes images satellites capturées par Google Earth, 4 appareils au moins se sont posés sur cette piste au cours des 13 dernières années, assurent nos confrères du DailyStar. Il ne s’agit donc pas vraiment d’une zone abandonnée comme le prétend la vidéo. Pour plus de mystères, découvrez les 10 lieux les plus insolites découverts sur Google Earth.

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Meteorite Bombardment Likely Created the Oldest Rocks on Earth

A Fireball and a Wall of Sound: What NASA's Epic Solar Probe Launch Felt Like

UFO enthusiasts launch into frenzied speculation after video of motionless craft above North Carolina lake goes viral.... but is the truth a bit closer to home?

• An unidentified flying object was spotted hovering over Lake Norman, near Charlotte on May 29 and it was captured on video 
• Jason Swing recorded the object on camera calling it a 'space craft' 
• Video is shaky but it has some UFO enthusiasts excited he caught it on camera
• Meanwhile some conspiracy theorists believe it is an Advanced Military Aircraft
• The video has garnered over 150,000 views with people speculating what it is
• However the answer to the mystery of the hovering object may be more pedestrian than it seems at first glance  

By JESSICA FINN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

A video of an object hoovering eerily over North Carolina's Lake Norman has UFO enthusiasts eager to deduce we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings, but perhaps there is a more grounded explanation. 

The footage recorded by Jason Swing on May 29, is extremely shaky but when the video isn't bouncing up and down it shows, clear as day, a large object that appears to be hovering in mid-air.

During the short clip Swing posted to YouTube he announces 'This is a spacecraft.' The clip is accompanied with a brief explainer of the video.

'It had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman,' Swing says in a post with the video. 'When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.'   

'This is a spacecraft': Jason Swing announces at the beginning of the eerie video shows a large object that appears to hover over Lake Norman in North Carolina 

The video has garnered over 150,000 views and then it received an additional boost in viewers when on Thursday the YouTube video channel 'The Hidden Underbelly 2.0,' a site focused on UFO and creature videos picked it up.

While some people were excited about the possibility of the large object being a UFO, others wondered if the government was behind the large flying object. 

On commenter on The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 channel said: 'I believe there are advanced Military Aircraft, in our skies. It's amazing people don't know how to use the video, and focus on their camera's. They are pre programming the masses, EVERYTHING lately is about Aliens and UFO's.'

They added 'Anytime, MSM, TV shows, Movies, all of a sudden exposing the "ALIENS from a Planet in Outer Space Invasion" False Flag Alert! I have popcorn ready for this Grand Deception!'

Others were gravely disappointed in Swing's shoddy camerawork, with on person saying, 'I know three year olds that have a steadier hand. Unwatchable.' 

Swing (pictured) took the video, which some people were pretty upset turned out as shaky as it did, however he did seem pretty excited about the prospect that this could be a spacecraft

UFO? Some people commented that perhaps this isn't a UFO and its instead an Advance Military Aircraft 

And yet others were more realistic with their guess as to what this flying object could be, with some people, likely accurately guessing, it was the GoodYear Blimp.

GoodYear saw the video, and claims, as much as some wish it were a UFO, that the object seen in the shaky footage, is there blimp that was in the the Charlotte area on May 29, for NASCAR's Coca Cola 600.

The GoodYear Blimp's account shared: 'We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us. We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600.'  

North Carolina is also the home to multiple military bases, including Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base and Camp Lejeune Marine Corps facility.

The state is in the top 10 for 'UFO' sightings.   

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As the Mighty Quasars Flow

Are billions of black holes behind some of the universe’s mysterious energy signals?

Black holes, such as the one in galaxy NGC 3783 illustrated above, are some of nature’s most prodigious spewers of energy. Could that energy be enough to account for a long-standing mystery?

ESO/M. Kornmesser

Gaze up at the sky on a clear night, far from the city lights, and you might see the moon and some stars, a few planets and maybe even the fuzzy glow of the Milky Way. “In between, there seems to be nothing but emptiness and darkness,” says Xiawei Wang, an astronomy graduate student at Harvard University. “At least that was our view of the cosmos until 50 or so years ago when astronomers realized that space was not as empty as we once thought.”

In 1964, astronomers were surprised to discover a uniform sea of radiation coming from all directions, all the time. Later dubbed the cosmic microwave background (CMB), this low-energy light turned out to be the residual radiation from the Big Bang itself, cooled during its journey over the past 13.8 billion years. Studying the CMB has led to tremendous insights about the structure and composition of our universe, its exact age and even its shape.

In the decades since, astronomers have learned there’s much more to the unseen universe, finding background radiation at practically every wavelength observed. The highest frequency and most energetic background signals they’ve found are made up of a form of light called gamma rays, plus exotic particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays. And, unlike the CMB, the source of these emissions is still enigmatic. No one knows where they come from.

In three recent papers, Wang and her adviser, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, advanced a new idea that suggests not one source for this high-energy background, but literally billions.

It all comes down to a phenomenon called quasar outflows.

Initially discovered as unexplained signals picked up by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Laboratories (above), the cosmic microwave background (below) — the universe’s oldest light — is now mapped with incredible accuracy.

NASA

NASA/WMAP Science Team

A Chorus of Quasars 
Quasars are among the most luminous objects in the universe. Each one greatly outshines the combined output of all the stars in their host galaxies. (For instance, in 2015 astronomers announced they’d found a quasar that shines some 400 trillion times brighter than our sun.)

All large galaxies have giant black holes at their centers, and a quasar forms when one actively starts feeding, pulling in matter like gas and dust. But this stuff doesn’t fall directly into the black hole — it circles around the abyss at ever-increasing speeds while spiraling inward. Eventually, the cosmic food becomes so hot (from friction) that it pours out light before some of it makes its way into the black hole. The object that generates this prodigious amount of light — the black hole and cloud of debris swirling around it — is a quasar.

But a black hole doesn’t eat everything in sight; its mouth is simply not big enough. Some of the surrounding material gets ejected in different ways. Ten percent of known quasars shoot out matter — at more than 99 percent of the speed of light — through a pair of spectacular jets.

Astronomers seeking a source for that exotic, high-energy radiation took a close look at these powerful jets. But observations showed they weren’t enough: All the universe’s quasar jets could account for only about half the gamma rays, and none of the neutrinos and cosmic rays.

The unexplained emissions, according to Wang and Loeb, may stem from a more subtle feature of every quasar: their milder but steadier outflows. What a black hole doesn’t eat, or shoot away in jets, it flings off at relatively moderate speeds — a few thousand miles per second, or about 1 percent the speed of light. After interacting with the local gas, these outflows can ultimately produce small amounts of all three components of the high-energy background: gamma rays, neutrinos and cosmic rays.

Individual outflows don’t release enough energy for us to notice, which is why no one really considered them before — but a big enough number of them would add up. And in Wang and Loeb’s scenario, the process is taking place at every quasar in the universe. A little energy times a lot of sources could, in theory, produce all that mysterious energy.

Running the Numbers 
Wang and Loeb set out to see if the numbers backed up their premise. In 2015, they started by focusing on gamma rays. Step one was trying to determine the tiny amount coming from each source. It wasn’t easy. They had to approach the problem theoretically because the emissions from an individual quasar are actually too weak for direct measurements. Drawing upon emissions in other wavelengths that they could observe for guidance, Wang and Loeb eventually came up with an estimate.

The next step was to factor in contributions from the billions of quasars in our universe to figure out the total gamma-ray signal from all quasar outflows. This calculation was also complex, incorporating estimates of the total number of quasars, their general distribution in the sky and the range in observed brightness. (Brighter quasars emit more gamma rays.) In the end, the total value Wang and Loeb arrived at, miraculously, was about half the gamma-ray background signal — perhaps comprising the “missing” half quasar jets could not explain.

Encouraged, they repeated this exercise in late 2016 and early 2017 for neutrinos, and then cosmic rays. In both cases, their tallied sums closely matched experimentally obtained values for the neutrino and cosmic-ray backgrounds. The numbers could work, suggesting they might have found the answer to the high-energy background problem.

An active black hole lies at the center of galaxy Centaurus A.An active black hole lies at the center of galaxy Centaurus A.

ESO/WFI/MPIfR/APEX/A.Weiss et al./NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al.

The Full Score 
Unfortunately, the idea remains hypothetical until astronomers can get direct measurements of all three forms of radiation coming from a single quasar outflow. Luckily, more sensitive instruments for detecting gamma rays, neutrinos and cosmic rays are in the works.

If their quasar outflow idea is ultimately confirmed, it would do more than just clarify a long-standing astronomical puzzle. “It would be another step toward answering the question of what’s out there in the universe and where it comes from,” says Wang. “Sometimes, the answers to the biggest questions in science lie in small and subtle things. These less visible entities are often neglected, but in the aggregate, they can be brighter and more powerful.”

She compares the situation to a piano concerto. The piano is loud enough to drown out any of the dozens of individual string instruments in a full orchestra. But when you put all the strings together, their contribution is substantial. In the same way, the cumulative output of quasar outflows could make a difference on a cosmic scale.

So the next time you look at the night sky, “remember that what we see with the naked eye is a tiny, tiny fraction of the things happening in the cosmos,” says Wang. Appreciating the piano concerto of the universe involves learning to hear all the instruments, no matter how faint and unimportant they might seem.

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The Search for Life on Europa Just Got Easier

We may be able to recover potential biosignatures without drilling.

In a new paper published in Nature Astronomy, Tom Nordheim from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and his colleagues put Jupiter’s moon Europa back on the front burner in the search for life beyond Earth.

They found that potential biosignatures such as amino acids might be preserved at high to mid-latitudes of Europa only a few centimeters below the moon’s icy surface. Even in the equatorial regions, where the radiation hazard is much more brutal, detectable levels of amino acids may still be recoverable at depths of only 10 centimeters—assuming the ice crust is not older than 10 million years.

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Calling All Earthlings Changes The Course of Time

A real time machine built with alien intelligence keeps a community in the Mohave desert frozen in the 1970s.

 

Tony Sokol

Mystery, murder and meditation meet aliens, federal agents and time travel in Calling All Earthlings. The documentary follows George Van Tassel, who mixed alien intelligence with the writings of inventor Nikola Tesla to come up with The Integratron, a time machine powered by electromagnetic energy. The documentary opens with a collage of witnesses testifying to strange lights, craft, and creatures with glowing red eyes, and then gets weird.

Tassel was far ahead of his time, both technologically and socially. He started a spiritual UFO cult which was stalked by busybodies worried about chants of love, peace and prosperity, while the FBI worked to infiltrate and influence the Integratron intelligentsia against their communistic ideas about free energy. Jack Parsons, the black magic rocket scientist who worked with the Great Beast Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard, explored free love as part of rocketry’s Suicide Club. But offering free energy proves more dangerous than a Babalon Working for Tassel.

Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and inspector. He opened a small airport and cafe in the desert town of Landers, California, where some good smoke was being puffed, according to one of the locals interviewed. He set up shop next to a big rock considered sacred by Native Americans.

Tassel began the communication that led to the basic blueprints for the machine on August 24, 1953, when he was woken up by a man named Solganda who looked human and spoke English. The man from Venus gave Tassel plans for a dome that spins and creates a powerful electromagnetic field which promotes cellular rejuvenation allowing Van Tassel to grow old and wise enough to save humanity.

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"Dedicated to Research in Life Extension,” the Integratron built as a “a time machine for basic research on rejuvenation, anti-gravity, and time travel.” The site in the Mojave Desert was chosen because of its proximity to magnetic vortices and its relationship to the Great Pyramids in Giza. The 21st century version of Moses’ Tabernacle is held down by a donut of cement that forms a small oculus at the apex of the dome. The structure is ringed by a rotating wheel of metal spikes. The two-story wooden building was metal-free. There were no nails or screws used because they could have interfered with the machine's conductive properties. He also inadvertently invented Ikea.

It took Tassel 18 years to build the dome about 20 miles north of Joshua Tree National Park. The work was paid for by covert payments from legendary recluse Howard Hughes, members of Van Tassel’s Ministry of Universal Wisdom, Inc., and revenue from an annual Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention.

Archival footage of Van Tassel shows a normal enough looking guy. He wears a tie, and lost a lot of hair for a man who has been rejuvenated. But it's when he goes into trance that he gets all Edgar Cayce, channeling love, harmony and good will from the cosmos. He became a follower of the Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda, who started sending people on pilgrimages to help the man under the great rock.

Van Tassel channeled his messages during the beginnings of the Cold War, and the new-age movement. His story is ripe with paranoid mythology. Van Tassel died mysteriously in 1978 just before making a TV appearance. Ruled a natural death by heart attack, some think his wife, who cooked at the diner was a government agent who poisoned him. Van Tassel’s papers disappeared after he was cremated.

Jonathan Berman, previously directed Commune, about the 1960s commune Black Bear Ranch, says he's a skeptix who wants to believe in magic. The dome is a talisman to Berman. He doesn't explore what Van Tassel got from Tesla, he lets a medium channel Van Tassel's spirit. The experts who talk about the dome sound both impressed and a little off-kilter. Social scientists and futurists Dr. J.J. Hurtak and his wife Dr. Desiree Hurtak give running commentary, along with Bob Benson, who helped print Van Tassel’s the newsletter Proceedings. The score was recorded by guitarist Elliott Sharp, who slides his bottleneck while lounging on the desert rocks as part of the proceedings. Eric Burdon, former lead vocalist for the sixties British Invasion group The Animals. Burdon apparently spilled win and dug some girl in the Mohave Desert.

The FBI considered Van Tassel a "mental case,” according to declassified files used in the documentary, and scoffed at the belief that communication with extraterrestrials was possible. But the agency also wondered whether the annual Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention, which he hosted near a major military base for over 20 years his UFO conventions, was a commie front. Maybe because Van Tassel would have provided free sound baths to everyone.

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Pilot’s strange act before UFO sighting

A FLIGHT to an island off Tasmania ended with a terrifying radio call and a vanishing pilot. Forty years on, there’s still no explanation.

Ally Foster

news.com.au

UBR- UFO Report 114: Tasmania UFO Mystery Usolved

“IT IS hovering and it is not an aircraft.”

These are the last words anyone ever heard Frederick Valentich say before his radio cut off and he, and the aircraft he was piloting, were never seen again.

On October 21, 1978, a 20-year-old Valentich rented a single engine plane out of Victoria’s Moorabbin Airport with plans of heading to Tasmania’s King Island to catch seafood.

But things took a terrifying turn when he noticed he was being followed by another aircraft.

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It has been 40 years since the young Aussie pilot disappeared over the Bass Strait and in that time no one has come any closer to finding out what happened to him.

Frederick Valentich standing next to a plane similar to the one he disappeared in 40 years ago.Source:Supplied

The only clue left behind was a radio conversation between him and Melbourne Airflight Service Controller, Steve Robey.

It was 7pm when Valentich radioed in to ask if there were any known aircraft in the area, just after something zoomed overhead.

Robey informed him that there was “no known traffic” in the area and inquired as to what type of plane it was.

“I cannot affirm. It is four bright, it seems to me, like landing lights. The aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above,” Valentich said.

As the transmission went on things got even more unnerving, with Valentich reporting that the mystery aircraft was “playing” with him.

“It seems to me that he’s playing some sort of game,” he said.

“He’s flying over me two, three times, at a time at speeds I could not identify.”

Valentich told controllers he could not identify the object.Source:Supplied

The conversation continues with the controller trying to get more information about what the object actually is.

Valentich describes it as long, metallic and with a green light.

At one point the aircraft vanishes before suddenly reappearing on his other side.

It’s at this point that Valentich says his final, terrifying words: “It is hovering and it is not an aircraft.”

There is silence for 17 seconds before the transmission abruptly cuts off.

An extensive search was conducted of the water and any surrounding land but Valentich nor any indication of a crash site was ever found.

Photograph taken off Cape Otway 20 minutes before Valentich flew overhead.Source:News Limited

The incident gained worldwide attention and sparked many conspiracy theories, with the most popular being that Valentich was abducted by a UFO.

Others concluded that he faked his own death or was flying upside down and the lights he saw were actually his own reflecting on the water before he crashed.

After the story came out there were contradicting reports about why the inexperienced pilot was heading to the island.

He had told his father that he was heading out to catch crayfish but later told flight officials that he was picking up some friends.

But even more questions were raised about Valentich’s intentions when it was revealed that he had not informed King Island airport of his intention to land.

A plaque at the Otway lighthouse commemorating his disappearance.Source:Supplied

In a disturbing coincidence it was also discovered that Valentich was obsessed with UFO’s and had watched numerous movies and collected articles on the topic.

A week after he vanished the young pilot’s dad, Guido, told reporters that he was sure his son was still alive and was adamant that he had been taken by the UFO.

“All I am worried about is that he was released in a different area, very far away from where he was taken,” he told reporters.

All that remains now of Frederick Valentich’s infamous flight is a plaque at Otway lighthouse commemorating his strange disappearance.

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MICHAEL EN ZIJN ENGELEN HADDEN OORLOG TE VOEREN TEGEN DE DRAAK ( VIDEO )

De Eindtijd is de dramatische slotfase van de menselijke heerschappij, die onder de verderfelijke heerschappij staat van satan, die de heerser of god van deze wereld wordt genoemd. 

Wanneer je zo om je heen kijkt, dan lijkt het duidelijk dat we in de eindtijd zoals in de bijbel beschreven, zijn aanbeland en ook steeds meer christenen beginnen de nodige vraagtekens te zetten bij wat er gebeurt. 

Zelfs mensen die geloven in de door mensen veroorzaakte opwarming van de aarde krabben zich soms achter de oren, want zoveel geweld op onze planeet moet toch eigenlijk wel een andere oorzaak hebben. 

Iemand die ook tot die conclusie komt is de Amerikaanse advocaat Michael Snyder die normaal gesproken schrijft over economische toestanden in de wereld, maar nu toch ook een uitgebreid artikel heeft gewijd aan de steeds sneller accelererende aardveranderingen. 

Er vinden verschuivingen plaats van het weer op aarde. Plekken die normaal redelijk koel zijn, worden nu bloedheet en andersom. 

Zoals Michael toch wel min of meer verbijsterd vaststelt, gebeuren er op dit moment dramatische dingen met onze planeet. En dat wat er gebeurt niets te maken heeft met de hoeveelheid CO2 die door de mensheid wordt uitgestoten. 

Hij gaat dan vervolgens verder met het opnoemen van een aantal extreme situaties die zich op dit moment voor doen, zoals in de bekende Amerikaanse Death Valley waar het de afgelopen maand het heetste was ooit in een gebied op aarde gemeten. 

Of je nu kijkt naar Europa de afgelopen weken of landen zoals Noord Korea, overal was er hitte en vooral ook droogte. Niet alleen op het noordelijk halfrond hebben mensen te kampen met enorme droogte, ook op het zuidelijke, waar boeren in Australië soms niet meer weten hoe ze aan water voor hun vee moeten komen. 

De enorme droogte veroorzaakt natuurlijk ook enorme branden overal en in Californië spreken ze over de ergste bosbranden ooit in de geschiedenis van de staat. Er zijn daar op dit moment meer dan 15.000 brandweerlieden actief om de minimaal 18 grote branden te bestrijden. 

En dan hebben we het natuurlijk nog niet eens over de verschijnselen waar men zo langzamerhand aan gewend lijkt te zijn zoals sinkholes, vulkaanuitbarstingen, aardbevingen en overstromingen. Want als het eenmaal begint met regenen in sommige gebieden, dan is er geen houden meer aan. 

Michael Snyder vraagt zich af waarom dit allemaal gebeurt? 

Michael is een christen en gelooft nog heilig in de maatschappij en dat datgene wat ons in de mainstream wordt verteld de waarheid is, maar ook hij gelooft niet meer dat dit alles wordt veroorzaakt door de uitstoot van broeikassen. 

Wat het dan wel veroorzaakt weet hij ook niet, maar hij komt wel tot de conclusie dat we te maken hebben met fundamentele veranderingen op aarde en dat we pas aan het begin staan van wat het ook moge zijn. 

Ook is hij van mening dat mensen misschien nu nog kunnen doen alsof ze gek zijn en er niets aan de hand is met de wereld, maar dat ze dit niet erg lang meer vol kunnen houden. 

En over de nadering van een mini zonnestelsel als datgene wat verantwoordelijk is voor dit alles, spreekt bijna niemand, ook Michael Snyder niet. 

Als je denkt dat het allemaal wel meevalt op aarde, dan willen wij je adviseren om even de twee volgende video’s te kijken. Zij geven een goed beeld van wat er de afgelopen week op onze aarde gebeurde. 

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En er kwam oorlog in de hemel; Michaël en zijn engelen hadden oorlog te voeren tegen de draak; ook de draak en zijn engelen voerden oorlog, maar hij kon niet standhouden, en hun plaats werd in de hemel niet meer gevonden. En de grote draak werd (op de aarde) geworpen, de oude slang, die genaamd wordt duivel en de satan, die de gehele wereld verleidt; hij werd op de aarde geworpen en zijn engelen met hem.

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Kevin Randle has a new article online right now. Its title is “The Decline of Roswell.” It’s on the matter of who, within the U.S. military, should have been briefed on what happened outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947, if indeed a UFO had crashed there. Kevin states that the late ufologist Karl Pflock discovered a “…document that reported on the Scientific Advisory Board Conference held on March 17 – 18, 1948, in the Pentagon. Colonel Howard McCoy was discussing Project Sign, the number of reports they had received, suggesting that there was something important going on. He said, ‘I can’t tell you how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are.'”

Given that Colonel McCoy was the intelligence-officer at the Air Materiel Command and to Wright Field, Ohio (the very place where, supposedly, dead aliens from the Roswell site were secretly taken), then he should have known about – and he should have been briefed on – the crash of a UFO. McCoy’s words, though, suggest he knew zero about a UFO crash –anywhere. Kevin says of this: “Here’s where we stand on this. The documentation that does exist, that came from identified government sources, signed by the men involved who we are able to vet, suggest that they know nothing of crash recovered debris. Being who they were and what their jobs were, they would have known and the discussion would take a different track.”

Kevin continues: “For those believing Roswell involved the crash of an alien spacecraft, this has to be worrisome. It is arrayed against testimony that suggests otherwise. The problem is that it is just testimony and over the years much of that testimony has been found to be inaccurate. The longer we investigate the more of these testimonies have fallen by the wayside.”

All of this brings to mind an important question: how could something so significant have occurred near Roswell, but a man of Colonel McCoy’s standing and important connections apparently knew nothing about it? Well, it’s important to note that this is only relevant to those ufologists working on the assumption that what happened at Roswell, New Mexico involved aliens. Maybe, something of deep concern did indeed happen on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County in the summer of 1947; something that was of national security proportions, and which McCoy knew all about. But, something that had nothingto do with flying saucers. Would Colonel McCoy have shared such a thing with others who may not have had a need-to-know about Roswell? Surely not. After all, consider this: the subject matter of the McCoy documentation was just flying saucers. As a good intelligence operative, he would hardly have brought up sensitive, secret military projects (and related crashes of military vehicles) in a debate only about saucers.

It’s worth noting that a great deal of controversial and highly secret programs were underway in the post-Second World War era, much of it undertaken in New Mexico – where the Roswell event occurred. Flying saucers, in other words, weren’t the only odd things soaring around the skies of the southwest. Back in 2012, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe, titled “UFOs: a Controversial Time-Line.” It gave a number of examples of how, and why, we should be open-minded to the possibility that what came down outside of Roswell was a craft attached to a highly secret program. Not of aliens, but of us. As I noted in that article: “During the latter stages of the Second World War, the Japanese military is working to perfect highly advanced balloons as a weapon of war – to the extent that on 4 June 1945, a Japanese military spokesman states that the launches of its ‘Balloon Bombs’ of the previous few months are merely precursors for something far more dangerous, including large-scale attacks with ‘death-defying Japanese’ manning the balloons.”

I continued: “At the close of hostilities, scientific, aviation and medical experts from Japan and Germany are secretly brought to the United States – via Operation Paperclip and its Japanese equivalent – where human experimentation and advanced aircraft research continues unabated and under the strictest security. As President Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments notes: At least 1,600 scientists and their dependents were recruited and brought to the United States by Paperclip and its successor projects through the early 1970s.”

I also stated: “In the summer of 1947 and against this backdrop of (a) nuclear and biological tests on human subjects; (b) revolutionary aircraft programs; and (c) an influx of senior scientific, medical and aviation experts into the United States from Japan and Germany, a series of events and accidents occur in New Mexico that collectively become known as The Roswell Incident.”

So, where am I going with all of this? Well, I’ll tell you. There’s no doubting the fact that Colonel McCoy’s words have a negative and troubling impact on Roswell – but only if what happened at Roswell was extraterrestrial. We must be aware of this: In 1948, Colonel McCoy was specifically and only talking about, and commenting on, not having any knowledge of a crashed saucer. He was very particular on what he was talking about. If, however, what happened at Roswell was highly-classified, but completely unconnected to the UFO phenomenon – and the colonel knew this – there would be no reason at all for him to complicate matters by bringing up the Roswell affair in what was just a UFO debate. Simply because, as a military project, the Roswell incident would have had nobearing on the UFO phenomenon. We could argue that the only people who have turned the 1947 incident into a spacecraft event are us, the UFO community.

Colonel McCoy may not have known about a flying saucer crash at Roswell, but he may well have known about something elsethat came down at Roswell  – and that it was terrestrial, highly-classified and very controversial. But, which had absolutely no relevance to the issues discussed in the March 1948 meetings in the Pentagon. So, he didn’t bring it up. There is not a single reason why he would have.

Perhaps, the goal should now be to search for just about any and all documents that concern Colonel McCoy, that were prepared by and for him, and that cover July 1947 onward. Maybe, some interesting data will surface…but it may not be relevant to flying saucers.

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1973 was quite a year for UFO reports in the United States. Amidst a countrywide rash of reports where people claimed to see unusual lights and, occasionally, more structured craft over America, one incident from that year stands out in UFO literature as being one of the most detailed and complex situations ever reported.

On the night of October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing together at an abandoned shipyard near the place they worked together. As the story goes, a blue light emerged from the clouds above them, and the men watched a football-shaped object descend and hover nearby, from which two very unusual “beings” emerged. Hickson and Parker were somehow forced onto the aircraft, in which examinations were performed on them before they were released again, bewildered and badly frightened.

The two men subsequently went to local authorities (and the press), at which time a secret recording was made by law enforcement of the two men privately discussing how terrified they were. Thus the world soon learned of what became known as the Pascagoula incident.

The details are astounding indeed, whatever they might entail. I say this not with cynicism about the pair’s retelling of events, per se, since the details of their story remained remarkably consistent over the years. However, despite being generally a “good case” as far as the crazier UFO reports go (there was never any evidence that the men had conspired as attention seekers, for instance), there are some peculiarities with Pascagoula incident that are worthy of mention.

For instance, as it must be admitted outright that Hickson and Parker’s story is quite unlike most other UFO reports. In fact, many aspects of the incident were completely unique and bore no common features with other popular UFO narratives. Chief among these had been the entities encountered during the experience: as skeptic Joe Nickel has noted in the past, “Three robotlike aliens exited from the craft; although they were gray humanoids just over five feet tall, they were otherwise of a type not reported before or since.”

The Clarion-Ledger recently reported that Parker, the younger of the two witnesses, has recently authored a book about his experience, in which he described the craft as it first appeared to them as follows:

“A big light came out of the clouds,” Parker said. “It was a blinding light.

“It was hard to tell with the lights so bright, but it looked like it was shaped like a football. I would say, just estimating, (it was) about 80-foot. (It made) very little sound. It was just a hissing noise.”

While the craft described by the witnesses is often likened to a blue-colored football, it is important to note how Parker describes it here, in “breaking his silence” about the incident after all these years (so says the Ledger at least; he’s actually discussed the incident several times, and has seemingly changed or updated aspects of his encounter over the years, more of which we’ll discuss later).

Hickson and Parker, shortly after the 1973 incident.

As Parker says, it was hard for he and his companion to tell precisely what the shape of the object was, due to the lights it produced. Additionally, although Parker says the object made little in the way of sound, he does describe a “hissing” noise, similar to the “zipping” noises described by the witnesses in previous interviews.

It might seem like a stretch to propose that this could have been any kind of conventional aircraft (i.e. something manmade). However, it might be worthwhile to compare this part of the narrative to another famous UFO incident from a few decades earlier: that of Brazilian farmer Antonio Villa Boas, who on an October evening in 1957 was taken aboard an unusual aircraft, and made to have sexual relations with a beautiful woman with large eyes and other appealing assets. Villa Boas described the aircraft that appeared on the night in question as being oval-shaped and having made little noise apart from a sort of whirring sound.

I recall talking with my friend and fellow Mysterious Universe writer Nick Redfern about the case a few years back, and remarking that Villa Boas “would have been able to identify the object had it merely been a helicopter.” What Nick said in response to this surprised me.

“Well hold on,” he began. I could hear him ruffling through papers and files over the phone, as he looked for his notes about the actual wording used by Villa Boas in the description he had given of the incident, rather than that of the later writings and rewritings about the incident in UFO literature, which simply described an oval or “egg-shaped” object. Sure as hell, in Villa Boas’ original description, he discussed there being something above the oval shaped craft that appeared to be spinning; in retrospect, the incident sounds a good bit like it could have involved some kind of helicopter, perhaps of a military variety that employs a variety of stealth technology that would lessen the sound of the helicopter blades (this fact has also been pointed out by researcher Mark Pilkington in his book Mirage Men).

With this in mind, if we give further consideration to Parker’s description of the object, where he says, “It was hard to tell with the lights so bright, but it looked like it was shaped like a football,” and that it made “very little sound” apart from a “hissing noise,” similarities do emerge between the two incidents. Granted, rather than being definitive details about the two alleged craft, what the similarities suggest is that neither man got a very good look at the actual shape of the object, and in at least one of the two cases, it sounded a lot like a helicopter of some kind!

Another interesting parallel between Parker’s narrative and the Villa Boas incident only came to light years later, when Parker began to express in interviews that he had apparently had additional “encounters” in the decades following Pascagoula. Parker also made the claim that many years later, his memories of the time he spent on board the aircraft in the original 1973 incident began to return, in which he recalled additional details that included a woman on board the craft, and that he was subjected to some variety of sexual examination while there. It’s not as far out as what Villa Boas reported from his time with a woman on board a UFO… but the similarities here are notable, regardless. But why did Parker only recall this so many years later, and why so often do these alleged abductions bear elements that involve sexuality in this way?

Parker wasn’t the only one who claimed to have had ongoing contact with these UFO beings, however. Hickson also claimed to have had numerous UFO sightings the following year, and further claimed that the “beings” on board the craft communicated to him “that they were peaceful.”

Another lingering question involves why Hickson and Parker seemingly cooperated with the beings that attempted to bring them onboard the aircraft. As Parker recently recounted for the Ledger, “I think they injected us with something to calm us down,” Parker said. “I was kind of numb and went along with the program.”

Nick Redfern has also speculated recently about the possible role of mind-altering drugs in some UFO cases. Citing similar ideas proposed by researcher Rich Reynolds, he recently wrote about it here at MU, saying:

“Having known Rich for far more than a few years, I should note that he has a deep interest in the possibility that at least some significant UFO incidents may have had a hallucinogen of some kind at their core. We’re not, however, talking here about using LSD for recreational purposes. Instead, we’re talking about situations which may have been utilized – by military and intelligence services – to, in essence, fake a UFO event.”

Faithful devotees to the idea of an alien presence, in relation to some of the more bizarre UFO events that have occurred over the years, will dislike such spe+culations presented here. However, the ideas should at least be given consideration, since they are of greater merit than the polarized views of hopeful Ufologists that have tossed all their chips in on an extraterrestrial hypothesis, or on the other extreme, the all-or-nothing skeptics who argue in every such instance that UFO “experiencers” are just liars, frauds, or publicity seekers.

Neither of these extreme views presents a truly objective assessment… something that will be required if we ever wish to understand the true circumstances behind some of these longstanding UFO cases.

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Filer’s Files #32 – 2018 ET Presence on Earth - PART II

Video shows ‘huge UFO’ emitting strange hum as it hovers over lake

Jimmy McCloskey

Shaky video footage shows what appears to be a huge UFO emitting a strange humming noise as it hovers over a lake.

Jason Swing recorded the large gray object sitting in the sky for over two minutes close to Lake Norman near Charlotte, NC. Swing, who shot the clip on May 29, calls the object a ‘space craft’, and adds: ‘It had been raining all morning.

‘Rain finally stopped so we went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman.

‘When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.’

He films the object for around a minute, before declaring ‘This is all I can get.

I gotta go.’ The video gained widespread attention after being spotted by the Daily Star last week, with viewers offering a range of theories as to what it shows.

Some claimed they had seen similar ‘cigar-shaped objects,’ and speculated whether it was an alien spacecraft.

But skeptics wondered whether it was just a blimp floating by – and criticized Swing for not holding the camera steadily enough.

{ https://metro.co.uk/ }

Do these Google Maps images really show 'China's Area 51'? Conspiracy theorists claim Stonehenge-like structure spotted in the Gobi desert is a 'secret military base'

• The circular formation was spotted on Google maps located between Kathmandu in Nepal and Mongolia
• The site has been dubbed 'China's Area 51' by some conspiracy theorists, while others claim it's a military base
• It is not the first time a Google Maps satellite has spotted bizarre structures during a sweep of the vast desert

By PHOEBE WESTON FOR MAILONLINE

Sharp-eyed conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted a secret 'military base' in the middle of the Gobi desert.

The circular formation of buildings, which has been likened to the shape of Stonehenge, was spotted between Kathmandu in Nepal and Mongolia on Google Maps.

The site has been branded 'China's Area 51' by some wayward conspiracy theorists, while others have speculated it could be a huge circular array of solar panels or a secretive military base.

The site is less than 100 miles (160km) from Jiuquan, where China's space programme headquarters and launch pads can be found, suggesting may have a military purpose. 

MailOnline has contacted military experts to find out if they know the function of the structure.

This is not the first time a Google Maps satellite has photographed such structures during a sweep of the vast desert, which have subsequently sparked a number of strange theories around what they could be.

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Sharp-eyed conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted a secret 'military base' in the middle of the the Gobi desert. The strange circular formation, which has been likened to the Stonehenge, was spotted between Kathmandu in Nepal and Mongolia using Google Maps

Conspiracy theorists Blake and Brett Cousins, who run the popular YouTube channel 'thirdphaseofthemoon', believe the circular site is a 'runway for extraterrestrials'.

According to the video creators, three aircrafts are clearly stationed in the middle of the circular base, with trucks and control towers also stationed around the site. 

'Three airlines within the circular formation of rocks and buildings, I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at,' the Cousins brothers wrote. 'It almost looks like Stonehenge from this aerial view'.

The Cousins brothers also suggested it could be 'an area 51 for China'.

Readers flooded the controversial post with their own opinions about exactly what caused the formation.

'Maybe it's a huge solar panel for under ground living,' wrote YouTube user 'Jolene N'.

A user called 'Steve' said that it 'looks like a old military base'.

'Stop with the hype, it's a test rang for reconnaissance aircraft, their cameras and targeting equipment,' wrote another YouTube user who comments under the name 'joshreynolds72'. (sic)  

Previously, a set of strange shapes were spotted in a similar area on the borders of Gansu province and Xinjiang in northwestern China.

The internet was buzzing with theories about what their purpose was, with suggestions ranging from giant QR readers to practise targets for military satellites.  

Unidentified: One bizarre structure (pictured) was spotted by a Google Maps satellite on the borders of Gansu province and Xinjiang. The internet was buzzing with theories about what their purpose was, with suggestions ranging from giant QR readers to practise targets for military satellites

Some internet users have been trying to overlay one of the strange structures on to various U.S. city maps, worried that there may be a sinister military purpose behind them.

Others have pointed out that if China wanted to attack a US city, it doesn't need a practise map in the desert.

It is also difficult to tell what the structures are made of – whether they are painted on or dug into the landscape.

Speculation: Some internet users have been overlaying the strange structures over maps of US cities while a closer view shows burnt out vehicles (right) which have raised questions about whether the desert has been used for military purposes

Close-up: Experts say that the most likely explanation is that the clearest of the symbols are used as 'calibration' for spy satellites - a common practice for superpowers such as China

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15 Quick Scientific Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

BY TIBI PUIU

Why don’t more people appreciate science? Personally, I believe it has something to do with science communication and the way we teach science in our schools.

With this in mind, here are a couple amazing scientific facts that I hope will inspire you to learn something new every day — they’ve certainly done so for me. However, this list is much too short; keep it growing by adding your own science facts in the comments section.

1. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times

The human genome (the genetic code in each human cell) contains 23 DNA molecules (called chromosomes), each containing from 500,000 to 2.5 million nucleotide pairs. DNA molecules of this size are 1.7 to 8.5 cm long when uncoiled — about 5 cm on average. There are about 37 trillion cells in the human body, so if you were to uncoil all of the DNA encased in each cell and place the molecules end to end, it would sum to a total length of 2×10¹⁴ meters — enough for 17 Pluto round-trips (the distance from the sun to Pluto and then back again is 1.2×10¹³ meters). As an added bonus, you should know that we each share 99% of our DNA with every other human — just to show that we’re far more alike than different.

2. The average human body carries ten times more bacterial cells than human cells

It’s funny how we compulsively wash our hands, spray our countertops, or make a grimace when someone sneezes near us, when, in fact, each and every one of us is a walking petri dish! All the bacteria living inside you could fill a half-gallon jug — there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells, according to Carolyn Bohach, a microbiologist at the University of Idaho. Don’t worry, though: most of these bacteria are helpful. In fact, we couldn’t survive without them.

For example, bacteria produce chemicals that help us harness energy and nutrients from our food. Germ-free rodents have to consume nearly a third more calories than normal rodents to maintain their body weight, and when the same animals were later given a dose of bacteria, their body fat levels spiked despite the fact that they didn’t eat any more than they had before. Gut bacteria is also very important for maintaining immunity. (image source).

3. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth

A photon travels, on average, a particular distance before being briefly absorbed and released by an atom, which scatters it in a new random direction. To travel from the sun’s core to the sun’s surface (696,000 kilometers) so it can escape into space, a photon needs to make a huge number of drunken jumps.

The calculation is a little tricky, but the conclusion is that a photon takes many thousands and many millions of years to drunkenly wander to the surface of the Sun. In a way, some of the light that reaches us today is energy produced millions of years ago. Amazing!

4. At over 2,000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth

Coral reefs consist of huge numbers of individual coral polyps (soft-bodied, invertebrate animals) that are linked together by tissue. The Great Barrier Reef is an interlinked system of about 3,000 reefs and 900 coral islands divided by narrow passages, located just beneath the surface of the Coral Sea. Spanning more than 2,000 km and covering an area of some 350,000 sq km, it is the largest living structure on Earth and the only one visible from space. However, this fragile coral colony is beginning to crumble, battered by the effects of climate change, pollution, and manmade disasters.

5. There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean

A teaspoon of water (about 5 mL) contains 2×10²³ water molecules, but each water molecule is comprised of 3 atoms: two hydrogen atoms and one of oxygen. Moreover, if you’d laid down end to end each water molecule from a teaspoon down end to end, you’d end up with a length of 50 billion km — 10 times the width of our solar system.

6. In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world

The average moderately active person takes around 7,500 step/day.  If you maintain that daily average and live until 80 years of age, you’ll have walked about 216,262,500 steps in your lifetime. Doing the math;  the average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles — which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equator.

7. There are actually over two dozen states of matter (that we know of)

Everybody knows that there at least three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. If you’re a little bit more versed in physics, you also know about the fourth fundamental state of matter called plasma —  a hot ionized gas, with prime examples including lightning or neon signs. But beyond these common states of matter, scientists have discovered a myriad of exotic states of matter that occur under special conditions. One of them is the Bose-Einsteincondensate, where atoms chilled to only 0.000001 degrees above absolute zero start behaving like waves, rather than particles as they ought to on the macroscopic scale. Essentially, the atoms behave like one super atom, acting in unison.

Another interesting exotic state of matter is represented by time crystals — regular, boringly ordered crystals with a twist: A fourth dimension, time, is added so that the material exhibits different periodic structures over time. What makes these crystals particularly remarkable has less to do with the fact that they repeat in time but rather more with the fact that they’re intrinsically out of equilibrium. Because time crystals are never able to settle down, say into a diamond or ruby, there’s a lot we can learn from them.

8. Killer whales are actually dolphins

Despite their name, killer whales or orcas are the largest members of the dolphin family. Technically, orcas are also whales because delphinids belong to the Cetacean order within the toothed whale (Odontoceti) suborder. However, the term whale is typically reserved for baleen whales of the Mysticeti suborder.

The major physical feature that ensures orcas are dolphins is the presence of a melon — a fatty deposit that assists the animals in echolocation and only exists in dolphins.

Orcas are highly intelligent, highly adaptable and able to communicate and coordinate hunting tactics. They are extremely fast swimmers and have been recorded at speeds of up to 54kph! A wild orca pod can cover over 160 kilometers a day, foraging, and socializing.

9. Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies

Unlike humans, grasshoppers do not have ears on the side of their head. Like the ears of people, the grasshopper sound detector is a thin membrane called a tympanum, or “eardrum”. In adults, the tympanum is covered and protected by the wings, and allows the grasshopper to hear the songs of its fellow grasshoppers.

The grasshopper tympanum is adapted to vibrate in response to signals that are important to the grasshopper. Male grasshoppers use sounds to call for mates and to claim territory. Females can hear the sound that males make and judge the relative size of the male from the pitch of the call (large males make deeper sounds). Other males can hear the sounds and judge the size of a potential rival. Males use this information to avoid fights with larger male grasshoppers or to chase smaller rivals from their territory.

10. You can’t taste food without saliva

In order for food to have taste, chemicals from the food must first dissolve in saliva. It’s only once they’ve been dissolved in a liquid that the chemicals can be detected by receptors on taste buds. During this process, some salivary constituents chemically interact with taste substances. For example, salivary buffers (e.g., bicarbonate ions) decrease the concentration of free hydrogen ions (sour taste), and there are some salivary proteins which may bind with bitter taste substances.

Here’s a quick science experiment to test this out — get out a clean towel, and rub your tongue dry; then place some dry foods on your tongue, one by one, such as a cookie, pretzel, or some other dry food. After this session, drink a glass of water and repeat. Did you feel a difference?

11. When Helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°F or -273°C, the lowest temperature possible), it becomes a liquid with surprising properties: it flows against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container!

We all know helium as a gas for blowing up balloons and making people talk like chipmunks, but what most people don’t know is that it comes in two distinct liquid states — one of which is borderline creepy. When helium is just a few degrees below its boiling point of –452°F (–269°C), it can suddenly do things that other fluids can’t, like dribble through molecule-thin cracks, climb up and over the sides of a dish, and remain motionless when its container is spun. No longer a mere liquid, the helium has become a superfluid — a liquid that flows without friction.

“If you set [down] a cup with a liquid circulating around and you come back 10 minutes later, of course, it’s stopped moving,” says John Beamish, an experimental physicist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

This happens because atoms in the liquid will collide with one another and slow down.

“But if you did that with helium at low temperature and came back a million years later,” he says, “it would still be moving”.

12. If Betelgeuse exploded, transitioning from the red supergiant stage to supernova, it would light our sky continuously for two months. It could happen anytime — within a couple of thousand years, tomorrow or even now

Betelgeuse lies some 430 light-years from Earth, yet it’s already one of the brightest stars in Earth’s sky. The reason is that Betelgeuse is a supergiant star — the largest type of star in the Universe. Betelgeuse has a luminosity about 10,000 times greater than that of the Sun and its radius is calculated to be about 370 times that of the sun. If it were positioned at the center of our sun, its radius would extend out past the orbit of Mars. Because it’s near the end of its lifetime, Betelgeuse is likely to explode into a supernova.

13. Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood

Two of the hearts work exclusively to move blood beyond the animal’s gills, while the third keeps circulation flowing for the organs. When the octopus swims, the organ heart stops beating, which explains why these creatures prefer to crawl rather than swim (it exhausts them).

An octopus also has nine brains — well, sort of. There’s one ‘main’ brain where all the analysis and decision making takes place and eight ancillary brains — one at the base of each arm — that function as preprocessors for all the information obtained by that arm. Two-thirds of an octopus’ neurons reside in its arms, which can independently figure out how to open a shellfish, for instance, while the main brain is busy doing something else.

Our blood is red due to the fact that it contains iron-based hemoglobin to transport oxygen to cells. Octopuses, on the other hand, use the copper-based cyanoglobin, which performs the same function, albeit less efficiently — this makes octopuses have less stamina than you might expect.

14. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body

You have about 5 liters of blood in your body (at least, most people do) and the average heart pumps about 70 mL of blood out with each beat. A healthy heart also beats around 70 times a minute. So, if you multiply the amount of blood that the heart can pump by the number of beats in a minute, you actually get about 4.9 liters of blood pumped per minute, which is almost your whole body’s worth of blood. In just a minute, the heart pumps the entire blood volume around your body.

15. The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy. In the Milky Way alone there might be as many 100 billion Earth-like planets. Still think we’re alone?

{ https://www.zmescience.com/ }

They’ve ‘Seen Things’

A group in Los Angeles has attracted U.F.O. enthusiasts from all over the world. They’ve formed together around the common question: What are these things in the sky, exactly, and how can they know more about them?

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Can aliens survive climate change? Read on

Isabella O'Malley
Climate Change Reporter

RJ Eskow: If Aliens Civilizations Die, Can Humans Survive?

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There is a hole in the Sphinx's head and it is now covered up

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Here's How Ludicrously Fast A Space Probe Is

  Michael Ballaban

Your regular commercial airliner, like a Boeing 747 is fast. A super-spy jet like the SR-71 Blackbird is much faster than that, traveling at over three times the speed of sound. So how does a deep-space probe like New Horizons, which recently flew past Pluto, compare? Thanks to this animation, you can see it’s very, very fast indeed.

Your regular commercial airliner, like a Boeing 747 is fast. A super-spy jet like the SR-71 Blackbird is much faster than that, traveling at over three times the speed of sound. So how does a deep-space probe like New Horizons, which recently flew past Pluto, compare? Thanks to this animation, you can see it’s very, very fast indeed.

Clay Bavor

✔@claybavor

Flying at 37k feet, this is what it would be like to look out the window of a 747 vs. an SR-71 vs. a New Horizons.

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The animation was created by Clay Bavor, who works at Google in his day job. As he notes in his caption on it:

To put 36,000 mph in perspective, at that speed, you’d be able to fly from San Francisco to New York in about five minutes. Of course, you’d also be turned into a ball of searing hot plasma. 

I guess we should be happy, then, that New Horizons wasn’t going at crazy speeds through our own atmosphere.

In case you can’t read the words on the video above because you’re illiterate (in which case HOW ARE YOU READING THESE WORDS), a 747 typically cruises somewhere around 550 miles per hour, the SR-71 was claimed to have hit 2,700 MPH, but New Horizons is zooming through space at a staggering 36,000 MPH.

In fact, part of the reason why New Horizons didn’t stop and orbit Pluto is because it’s just so damn fast. Part of the reason for that is because NASA wanted it to get to Pluto in a reasonable amount of time, but I suspect that most of the reason for that is because we’ve all grown up wanting to know how fast we could shoot something into the sky. And when you’re NASA, your idea of shooting something into the sky includes a gravity assist from Jupiter.

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L’ovni du triangle des Bermudes…

PAR HOLLOWSOUL

Un explorateur de la chaine Discovery Channel affirme avoir découvert les restes d’un appareil d’origine extraterrestre au find du triangle des Bermudes…

Darell Miklos, est un journaliste et un explorateur qui travaille en partenariat avec un chaîne de découverte. Récemment, il était à la recherche d’une épave encore inexplorée. Pour se faire, il a utilisé une ancienne carte datant des années soixante. Sur ce document, il a été répertorié une centaine d’anomalies magnétique dans le fond de l’océan. C’est en explorant l’une de ces anomalies qu’il aurait découvert une étrange épave.

C’est à une profondeur de 300 pieds que notre explorateur à mis à jour une structure très étrange.

La formation était trop grande pour être un navire. La structure est composée d’une partie principale avec des sortes de bras de la taille d’un canon de cuirassé sortant sur les côtés, en tout, quinze de ces appendices sortes de l’appareil. L’ensemble de cette formation est entièrement recouvert de coraux, d’après le chercheur, ils auraient plusieurs centaines voir des milliers d’années.

L’appareil en question est totalement non identifié. Il ne s’agit clairement pas d’un bateau et pour Darell, il pourrait s’agir d’un appareil d’origine extraterrestre.

Sur les images publiées, il est difficile de vraiment savoir à quoi, nous avons affaire. On devine des formes qui pourraient être artificiel, mais rien ne permet vraiment d’en connaître l’origine. Il faudra attendre des prélèvements et des analyses poussées afin d’en savoir plus. L’objet est étrange, mais rien ne permet d’affirmer qu’il s’agit d’un ovni.

Il faut espérer que cette affaire ne finisse pas en fiasco comme l’ovni de la baltique… https://mysterium-incognita.com/2018/02/21/la-curieuse-anomalie-de-la-baltique/

OVNI 2016 le triangle des Bermudes documentaire paranormal en français

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Schilderijen van Astrid, via haar instagramaccount

Via gemeenschappelijke vrienden stuitte ik onlangs op de instagrampagina van Astrid de Wolff, een vijfentwintigjarige vrouw uit Waspik. Ze is een typische journalistiekstudent die de wereld rondreist en naar festivals gaat. Ook wordt ze al haar hele leven bezocht door buitenaards leven, waar ze soms seks mee heeft. Dat schrijft ze althans zelf onder foto’s van haar alien-schilderijen, die tussen de vrolijke vriendinnenfoto’s en reiskiekjes op haar Insta staan. De schilderijen maakt ze na elke ontmoeting met een buitenaards wezen, als manier om het te verwerken. Ik sprak haar over haar ontmoetingen en haar schilderijen, dit is hoe ze het vertelde.

Voordat ik mijn verhaal vertel, wil ik benadrukken dat dit niet per se de ultieme waarheid is. Dit is mijn verhaal, mijn eigen interpretatie van een reeks ingrijpende momenten in mijn leven en dus mijn waarheid. Ik wil gewoon mijn verhaal kunnen vertellen, want ik heb ontdekt dat dit niet alleen mijn verhaal is, maar ook dat van vele andere mensen.

Ik ben een vijfentwintigjarige vrouw en afgestudeerd als journalist. Nederland voelde nooit echt als mijn thuis, dus werkte en reisde ik door Europa als henna-artiest, burlesquedanseres en als beveiliger tijdens de Oktoberfeesten in Duitsland. Nu ben ik terug in Nederland, en na een tijdje hoofdredacteur te zijn geweest, werk ik nu als werkcoach voor mensen met een handicap.

Mijn moeder zei dat ik me als baby al vreemd gedroeg, alsof ik niet goed kon omgaan met mijn kleine, lompe babylichaampje. Ik was drie jaar toen ik me voor het eerst heel erg slecht begon te voelen. Ik was altijd ziek, kon niet stoppen met huilen en voelde me erg naar en misselijk zodra iemand me op zijn of haar schoot nam. De dokter wist niet wat er met me aan de hand was, mijn moeder was ten einde raad. Ze besloot uiteindelijk een alternatieve geneesheer te raadplegen, iets wat destijds erg controversieel was. Hij zei dat ik overprikkeld was en sloot met wat speciale technieken de energie af in mijn kamer. Het klinkt abstract, maar het hielp wel.

Enkele jaren later werd ik weer angstig. Ik had het gevoel dat ik elke nacht bezocht werd door een indringer die me mee wilde nemen. Elke nacht was ik bang om in slaap te vallen. Ik verstopte me tussen een fort van vijf teddyberen en sliep altijd met mijn stokpaardje dicht bij me, omdat dat me een gevoel van veiligheid gaf. Als er de volgende ochtend een knuffel was verplaatst, of mijn deken was omgewoeld, wist ik het zeker: iemand was die nacht in mijn kamer gekomen. Ik was vijf jaar, en doodsbang.

Toen ik zeven was had ik mijn eerste slaapverlamming. Ik viel in slaap, schoot weer wakker, maar kon me niet bewegen. Mijn lichaam was volledig verlamd. Iemand fluisterde constant mijn naam in mijn oor, en ik hoorde ratelend, mechanisch gezoem – zoals een wasmachine. Zodra ik wakker schoot, liep ik naar mijn moeder om het te vertellen. Ze zei dat er niets was waar ik me zorgen over hoefde te maken.

Het is nooit mijn moeders intentie geweest, maar vanaf dat moment durfde ik niet meer over mijn ervaring te praten. Ondertussen werd het steeds erger.

Toen ik een dertien was werden die nachten alsmaar intenser. Tijdens een nacht hoorde ik weer dat mechanische gezoem. Ik was volledig verlamd en terwijl ik me wilde omdraaien, voelde ik dat mijn benen werden opengeduwd. Plots had ik het gevoel dat er een grote nagel van misschien wel vijftien centimeter bij me naar binnendrong, en mijn eitjes weggeschraapt werden. Ik voelde me misbruikt en dacht dat ik krankzinnig was geworden, maar wilde er nog steeds met niemand over praten. Een van mijn rauwste ervaringen was een ontmoeting met een man die me vertelde dat ik was uitgekozen om seks te hebben met een god. Hij vertelde me dat het een eer was, en dat het respectloos was om het af te wijzen, maar ik wilde het niet. Toch liet ik me ompraten, maar de seks was allesbehalve spiritueel of verlichtend. Ik werd wakker met een intense pijn aan mijn vagina. Het was een ongelooflijk traumatiserende ervaring.

Die slechte nachtrust en vreselijke ervaringen zorgden ervoor dat ik op instorten stond. Ik was zodanig futloos en angstig, dat mijn moeder me naar school moest brengen en weer ophalen, anders hield ik het niet vol. Mijn moeder besefte dat er iets moest veranderen en probeerde zich open te stellen voor mijn vreemde verhalen, om beter te kunnen begrijpen wat er met me gebeurde.

Vanaf toen ben ik mijn ervaringen en dromen gaan analyseren en bestuderen. Ik kwam erachter dat ik me tijdens die verlamming in een andere dimensie bevond, mee kon luisteren met de gesprekken, en zelfs mee kon praten. Zo ontdekte ik steeds beter wat er met me aan het gebeuren was. Elke nacht leerde ik meer van de wezens die me bezochten, door naar gesprekken te luisteren en te kijken naar wat er om me heen gebeurde. Ik werd steeds minder bang, omdat ik zo leerde dat die wezens me geen kwaad wilden doen. Ik bleek namelijk enkel een onderdeel te zijn van hun voorplantingprogramma – ze gebruiken mijn eitjes om nieuwe wezens te maken. Door deze kennis kon ik langzaam herstellen van al die traumatiserende nachten.

Je vraagt je waarschijnlijk af hoe zeker ik ben dat dit me allemaal echt is overkomen. Ten eerste herinner ik me de gesprekken net zo helder als telefoongesprekken. Mijn zus – die altijd naast me sliep – heeft bovendien het bed geregeld zien bewegen, en me vaak vreemde dingen horen zeggen in mijn slaap. Ook werd ik soms wakker met fysiek letsel, zoals twee blauwe plekjes op de plaatsen waar ik een injectie kreeg door een alien tijdens mijn uittreding. Toch zijn ook dat niet echt bewijzen, althans niet voor de buitenwereld, maar ik hoef me ook niet meer te bewijzen. Ik weet wat ik meegemaakt heb, en ik heb het ook nooit anders gekend

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• alle schilderijen / illustraties zijn gemaakt door Astrid  de WOLF

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Radioactive sheep found in Australia bolster claims that Israel conducted illegal nuclear weapon test over the Indian Ocean four decades ago

• Study sheds new light on the mysterious September 22, 1979 Vela Incident
• Double flash was detected over the southern Indian Ocean by US satellite
• Security experts long suspected Israeli nuclear test with South African help
• Now researchers reveal radioactive isotope found in Australia sheep thyroid 
• The also analyze hydroacoustic signal detected by undersea US listening net
• Israel remains mum and dismisses claim as 'simply a ridiculous assumption'

By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Radioactive isotopes found in Australian sheep have added credence to the theory that Israel conducted an illegal nuclear test over the Indian Ocean 39 years ago.

The findings, published in a new study for Science and Global Security, shed intriguing new light on the mysterious Vela Incident, as it is known, of September 22, 1979.

At 12.53am GMT on the date, the US satellite Vela 6911 detected the 'double flash' characteristic of a nuclear explosion in the southern Indian Ocean, near the Prince Edward Islands about halfway between Africa and Antarctica.

Advisors to then-President Jimmy Carter rushed to brief him on the incident, and security officials immediately speculated that the event was an Israeli nuclear test conducted in cooperation with apartheid South Africa, Carter wrote in his memoirs.

This map published with the new study extrapolates the likely nuclear plume from a detonation near the Prince Edward Island. The areas in purple show rainfall that could have carried fallout

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However, an official US government panel convened to study the matter delivered an equivocal finding that downplayed the likelihood of a nuclear explosion. 

Israel, whose presumed nuclear arsenal is considered an open secret by many, has steadfastly refuse to confirm or deny whether it has a nuclear program.

Now, the new study by Christopher Wright of the Australian Defence Force Academy and retired Swedish Defence Research Agency nuclear physicist Lars-Erik De Geer, offers new clues.

The researchers reveal the discovery of iodine-131 in the thyroids of some Australian sheep in October and November of 1979. The thyroids were sent to the US for analysis at the time, but the results were never made public. 

The researchers write that the isotope levels 'would be consistent with them having grazed in the path of a potential radioactive fallout plume from a 22 September low-yield nuclear test in the Southern Indian Ocean.'

The study reveals that the isotope iodine-131 in the thyroids of some Australian sheep in October and November of 1979. Pictured: Sheep in New South Wales earlier this month

The findings include analysis of weather patterns that suggest the fallout plume from a nuclear explosion would have looped over parts of Australia.

As well, the study analyzes declassified descriptions of an underwater sound wave detected by US listening posts that correlated with the double flash near the Prince Edward Islands, which are uninhabited except for a South African government research station.

The new study 'removes virtually all doubt that the 'flash' was a nuclear explosion,' Leonard Weiss wrote for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

'This strengthens previous analyses concluding that Israel likely carried out a nuclear test in violation of US law and the Limited Test Ban Treaty,' the nuclear nonproliferation expert wrote.

'Israel was the only country that had the technical ability and policy motivation to carry out such a clandestine test, which, according to some sources, was the last of several and was detected by the Vela satellite because of a sudden change in cloud cover,' Weiss wrote.

Israel for its part maintains a strategic silence on the question of a nuclear weapons arsenal.

Asked if Israel was responsible for the Vela Incident, Israel's Ambassador to New Zealand, Itzhak Gerberg, told the New Zealand Herald: 'Simply a ridiculous assumption that does not hold water.' 

The Limited Test Ban Treaty went into force in 1963 and bans nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water, rendering legal only those nuclear tests performed underground. 

Israel signed the treaty in 1963 and ratified it in 1964.

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With as many nuclear weapons as there are out there in the world, it’s amazing there haven’t been more mishaps, accidents, or rogue detonations. While there have been a few close calls like the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash in my home state of North Carolina, so far we’ve been lucky not to have any major incidents. That we know of, that is.

Although it’s kind of hard to hide a mushroom cloud. Unless it’s underground or underwater…

While a nuclear weapon detonation would be pretty difficult to conceal, unexplained clouds of radiation circling the globe over the last year or two might suggest that someone is testing weapons on the sly. While in this most recent case there’s little to go on other than anomalous radiation detection, a still unexplained incident from 1979 came complete with an unidentified double flash of bright light. The American-operated Vela Hotel satellite detected two anomalous bright flashes of light near the Prince Edward Islands off the coast of Antarctica. It was determined at the time that the flashes likely came from a secret nuclear detonation – yet the perpetrator remained unknown.

Now, new research conducted by scientists at the Otago University at Wellington add to the suspicion that the Vela incident was indeed a nuclear detonation. The researchers examined previously unpublished studies of sheep thyroid glands conducted by U.S. military researchers in Australia following the incident and discovered abnormally high levels of iodine-131, a byproduct of nuclear weapons. According to their publication, these findings support the theory that the Vela anomaly was indeed the result of a clandestine nuclear test:

Iodine-131 found in the thyroids of some Australian sheep would be consistent with them having grazed in the path of a potential radioactive fallout plume from a 22 September low-yield nuclear test in the Southern Indian Ocean. Further, several declassified letters and reports which describe aspects of still classified hydroacoustic reports and data favor the test scenario.

Based on intelligence gathered by American spy agencies, it was assumed in the wake of the incident that Israel and South Africa likely conducted a joint nuclear test. That intelligence was then likely buried in order to preserve the United States’ strategic alliance with Israel. Even so, Otago University’s Nick Wilson told the New Zealand Herald that this study of sheep thyroids “adds to the evidence base that this was an illegal nuclear weapons test, very likely to have been conducted by Israel with assistance from the apartheid regime in South Africa,” a test which would have been in violation with the Limited Test Ban Treaty.

Who knew sheep thyroids could help solve one of the world’s nuclear mystery?

This incident really has to make you wonder: how many nuclear detonations or tests have gone undetected or have been assumed to be something else entirely? Even if the answer is “one,” it’s a pretty chilling thought.

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In a recent article at his UFO Conjectures blog, Rich Reynolds addressed the matter of UFOs and LSD. The article is titled “LSD, Hallucinations, and UFOs.” You can find it here. Rich says: “Most of you know about the notorious CIA program, MK-Ultra, that, in 1959, experimented with LSD on military personnel and volunteers.” He adds: “I’ve always thought (and written) that the Pascagoula encounter (Hickson/Parker) and Travis Walton’s ‘abduction’ may have been drug induced.”

Alien Abduction Series part 1: A Variety of Contact Experiences

Having known Rich for far more than a few years, I should note that he has a deep interest in the possibility that at least some significant UFO incidents may have had a hallucinogen of some kind at their core. We’re not, however, talking here about using LSD for recreational purposes. Instead, we’re talking about situations which may have been utilized – by military and intelligence services – to, in essence, fake a UFO event. The reason? Maybe to try and gauge the extent to which the human mind can be manipulated? To fake alien encounters as a means to make us believe we have extraterrestrials among us when, perhaps, we don’t? To determine how easy it might be to create a bogus extraterrestrial event? The controversial questions are many. The answers are far less so. What we can say, though, is that there are a surprising number of cases on record that just might fall into one or more of the above categories. I’ll share with you three of many.

We’ll start with a man named Orfeo Angelucci. He was one of that controversial band of people who claimed – largely in the 1950s – encounters with very human-like ETs. They were known as the Space Brothers. As for the eyewitnesses like Angelucci, they were titled the Contactees. Angelucci’s aliens were here to save us from self-destruction – as were most of the Space Brothers of that era. It was when Angelucci started talking about the Space-Brothers (and Sisters too) being Communists, and also claiming meetings with mysterious human characters wh0 wanted Angelucci to insert the Communist angle into his lectures, that things got very strange. It was then that Angelucci got a weird visitor. And a weird experience, too.

Angelucci claimed that on one particular evening in December 1954, he traveled out to a diner in Twentynine Palms, California. The reason was to meet with an odd, enigmatic character called Adam, who wanted to discuss his, Angelucci’s, experiences. Although Adam appeared human, Angelucci wasn’t at all sure that was the case. Things got weird when, as they sat and chatted, Adam asked Angelucci to take a pill, which he passed to him. Incredibly, Angelucci did exactly that: he put it in his mouth and knocked it back with a mysterious drink provided by Adam.

It wasan’t long before Angelucci felt decidedly spaced-out. He began to hallucinate: nothing less than a little woman (and I do mean little, as in just inches tall) danced in his drink. Reality had gone right out of the window. And, on top of that, Angelucci was aware of two men in military uniforms sitting close by. They were intently watching every move that Angelucci made, and they seemed to note his every word spoken to Adam. Something caused Angelucci to spill the beans on his connections to the Space Brothers, the matter of communism, and more. Maybe someone in government wanted to find out what Angelucci really knew about communist aliens. Or, maybe, it was a case of concerns that Angelucci was being used – wittingly or not – to promote communism via the UFO subject. Whatever the answer, it seems very likely that Angelucci had been drugged by something that caused him to tell all that he knew and, in the process, fall into a deeply drugged state.

Then, there is the matter of Antonio Villas Boas. He was a Brazilian man who claimed, in late 1957, to have had wild sex with an equally wild babe from the stars, after having been kidnapped onto a UFO. An early alien abduction? Yep. Or maybe not. In the late-1970s, the aforementioned Rich Reynolds had contact with a very controversial – and by all accounts unlikable – figure named Bosco Nedelcovic, who had links to the world of intelligence, and who claimed that the Villas Boas affair was not what it appeared to be. He told Rich that, in reality, Villas Boas was the unwitting player in a new and novel experiment. According to Nedelcovic, the UFO that Villas Boas saw over his family’s property was really a helicopter. Not only that, Villas Boas was supposedly hit by some kind of mind-altering aerosol spray that quickly placed him into an altered state, after the pilot of the helicopter flew right over him. As for the girl from the stars, she was said to have really been a hooker, a girl hired to take Villas Boas on the closest encounter of all. But, it was all a ruse: a mind-bending event designed to fabricate a UFO incident.

Like it or not, but the fact is that Villas Boas’ own words suggest strongly that he was indeed taken on-board a helicopter. Read Villas Boas’ words carefully. The craft, he said, was “like an elongated egg.” On the top of the craft there was, “something which was revolving at great speed  and also giving off a powerful fluorescent reddish light” (rotor-blades? Probably, yes). As the craft took to the skies, it made a loud noise, “a sort of beat” (which is a perfect description of the noise associated with a helicopter). Put all those factors together and it sounds very much like a helicopter. Moving on…

In his article, Rich mentioned the famous October 1973 alien abduction of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker at Pascagoula, Mississippi. The case has become a classic in alien abduction circles. It’s a little-known fact, though, that just a few miles from where Parker and Hickson were taken is a stretch of land called Horn Island. In the latter stages of the Second World War, the military used Horn Island as a place where biological-warfare research was undertaken. Matters were brought to an end when the Second World War was over. The official line is that research in the area was cancelled. There are, however, local tales of covert operations and experiments into mind-manipulation as late as the early 1970s, and only around ten-to-twenty miles away, within newer facilities. In terms of what may have specifically been used in these operations, fingers point in the direction of BZ. Or, to give it its correct name: 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate. It’s most well-known name is “Buzz.” It can provoke significant hallucinations.

Is it possible that some classic UFO events were actually nothing of the sort, but that were – in a very strange way – even weirder…?

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Astronomers Delivering the Lunar Truth - UFO’s and Alien Structures

Home-based astronomers coming through where others are failing us, thanks to these people who are revealing the truth about what actually is going on the Moon.

This is an interesting compilation of Moon anomalies, cities, flying objects over the Moon, structures, machinery and more.

  

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Three UFOs Kicking Up A Dust Storm On The Moon, Apollo 10 Photos, UFO Sighting Daily News.

Date of discovery: Aug 14, 2018

Location of discovery: Earths Moon, crater MARE FECUNDITATI

NASA Source: 

• https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS10-33-4904

Guys, I found three UFOs in one NASA Apollo 10 photo today. Two of the UFOs are oval mushroom-like and one is very long and wide. All the UFOs are kicking up a big dust storm on the surface of the moon, because they are flying so low to the surface. I actually believe the that they may have scraped the surface to deliberately cause a dust storm as a warning to the Apollo 10 astronauts on board the module. The aliens may have felt threatened by the presence of the humans and probably wanted to send a message to stay away, the moon belongs to someone else. If you look carefully at the photos, you will see that the two round UFOs do have trails behind them caused by the dust and their propulsion system. Also the long UFO is so close to the surface of the moon that its shadow and dust are visible below it. The long UFO is so close to the surface that the distance from the ground to the UFO is actually the width of UFO itself. This all took place near MARE FECUNDITATI crater. 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan 

'Waarschijnlijk geen aliens in Omega Centauri'

Vivian Lammerse

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The Pentagon secretly studied ‘exotic and sophisticated’ UFO technologies, bombshell letter reveals

Jasper Hamill

The Pentagon’s secret UFO research programme carried out investigations into a range of ‘exotic’ futuristic technologies, a letter between a US Senator and the Deputy Secretary of Defence has revealed.

Documents relating to a highly sensitive investigation government project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) confirm that the US has studied a range of futuristic technologies which would allow it to exercise global military dominance for decades to come.

This programme is dedicated to exploring ‘ unexplained aerial phenomena’ and is believed to have written a 490-page report which collects together UFO sightings from around the world.

The world first heard about AATIP last year, when footage of an encounter between an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet and an oval-shaped UFO travelling at astonishing speed was released.

A photograph of a fast-moving UFO spotted over the Atlantic by two US Navy pilots

Now a letter sent from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to William Lynn III, Deputy Secretary of Defense, has revealed tantalising new details of the US government’s exploration of ‘disruptive aerospace technologies’.

Although the correspondence does not mention aliens or UFOs, it appears to confirm the US Senate ordered an assessment of ‘far term foreign aerospace threats’. It is not known whether these threats were alien in origin – or came from some rival military power.

It said these include ‘extremely sophisticated concepts within the world of quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetic theory, gravitics [anti-gravity], and thermodynamics’. technologies ‘have the potential to be used with catastrophic effects by adversaries’ Senator Reid warned in his letter, which was obtained by Las Vegas Now.

The letter also said ‘much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings’.

‘Ultimately, the results of AATIP will not only benefit the US Government but I believe will directly benefit the Department of Defense in ways not imagined,’ he wrote.

‘The technological insight and capability gained will provide the US with a distinct advantage over any foreign threats and allow the US to maintain its preeminence as a world leader.’

Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the British Ministry of Defence, said the ‘bombshell’ document ‘reveals much more about the AATIP project than was previously known’.

‘These staggering revelations show just how seriously the US government took the issue. Irrespective of what they believed about the true nature of the UFO phenomenon, this letter gives a telling insight into the reasons why the Pentagon was interested, and what they thought the threats and opportunities might be,’ he told The Metro

However, what the document does not give us is the answer to the question of whether humanity is alone in the universe.

In fact, there is no mention of aliens in the letter and it only really discusses the military implications of futurist technology.

Pope previously told Metro AATIP looked at UFO sightings as part of a wider intelligence assessment of the threat from next-generation aircraft, missiles and drones,

‘The UK government took a similar view, and some of us involved in looking at this subject in the MoD referred to the ‘novel military applications’ that we felt might be derived from a fuller understanding of the phenomenon,’ Pope added.

The truth about the US Government’s UFO programme is probably not as out there as some alien hunters would hope

‘Weaponisation was one of the things in our minds, and we shared US concerns that certain foreign nations (particularly Russia and China) were looking at this too, and might beat us to the punch.

‘In the MoD, we dropped the term ‘UFO’ and replaced it with ‘UAP’ (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), both to reframe the debate and to obscure our true goals.

‘Harry Reid’s letter goes one better. The project was described in terms designed to give anyone not cleared for access the impression that this was some sort of study into next-generation aircraft, missiles and drones.

‘Whatever the truth of the matter, it’s time to drop our prejudices about the subject and to stop referring to “flying saucers” and “little green men”.

‘It’s time to realise that whatever we’re dealing with, there are serious defence and national security issues involved and that the US, the UK, Russia, China – and maybe others – are engaged in potentially game-changing work on this subject.’

Luis Elizondo, former head of the AATIP

(Picture: UFO Congress/YouTube)

Last year, the AATIP program manager, Luis Elizondo, said he believed there is ‘very compelling evidence we may not be alone’.

He also recently suggested mysterious ‘metamaterials’ which may have come from crashed alien spacecraft are being stored by the American government in specially modified warehouses in Las Vegas.

The AATIP programme was closed down in 2012, although the New York Times reporters that exposed its work believe it is still operational in some capacity.

MORE:

• Pentagon and MoD officials feared UFOs were either ‘demonic’ or sent by God, former investigators reveal

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On July 16, 2016, British ufologist and conspiracy theorist Max Spiers died in Poland days before he was to speak at a conspiracy theory conference and just after allegedly vomiting two liters of a mysterious black liquid. Before he left England, Spiers sent his mother a text message: “Your boy’s in trouble. If anything happens to me, investigate.” That investigation is ongoing and Spiers’ death has still not been solved. Now, a new twist emerges. During a pre-inquest review last week, lawyers for Spiers’ mother revealed that her son’s laptop computer had data on it at the time of his death but had been wiped clean when it was returned to her. Apparently, the SIM card from his phone was also either erased or removed. Who is behind this and will it be resolved before the inquest in Poland in January 2019?

The pre-inquest review was held at Guildhall in Sandwich, Kent, on August 10, 2018. The attorney for Spiers’ mother, Vanessa Bates, requested that the members of the Polish emergency services to appear as witnesses at the inquest, most likely to explain how such a strange death could have been ruled to be due to “natural causes.” He also wants to know if disciplinary actions were taken against any of the police officers involved with the case. However, no request caused as much mayhem as the questions about the missing computer data and phone SIM card.

“The way in which they were returned and what was done to them is clearly one of the big mysteries. The family has no knowledge whatsoever of what the results of that analysis were. The issue is the Sim card and what was on it. Without sight of the report, the family has no answer to these questions.”

Neither does anyone else. The attorney asked that Spiers’ girlfriend at the time of his death, Monika Duval, be in attendance at the inquest. Spiers was found dead on Duval’s couch and she was considered to be a suspect by those who thought he was murdered, as was Spiers’ fiancé back in England.

“He was very fit and healthy when I said goodbye to him. Everything that we have in terms of health records before he went were that he was in great health. This was an enormous blow. I miss him dreadfully.”

Vanessa Bates and others were shocked by Spiers’ sudden death and the inquest is supposed to focus on how and why the investigation into Spiers’ death and his autopsy were so mishandled by Polish officials. With the questions about the computer data and the phone SIM card, there will obviously be questions about the conspiracy theories that Spiers was probing into the practice of “black magic” by well-known figures in politics, business and entertainment, or that this lifelong ufologist was actually a “supersoldier selected at birth by aliens.”

Coroner Christopher Sutton Mattocks said the four-day inquest will be heard starting on January 7, 2019, at the Archbishops Palace in Maidstone. He said:

“It is extremely important that when we start everybody is completely ready for this and we have all the information available.”

Will they be completely ready? Will the missing data be found or explained? Will they clear up the mysterious death of ufologist Max Spiers? Or will the mystery deepen?

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