What brand of beer do extraterrestrials drink? If you’re a fan of the movie “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” you might think it’s Coors, the beverage E.T. consumed a six-pack of. Of course, that was in 1982. Today, craft beers have taken over and any aliens here for a take-over might first make a stopover at a craft brewery. At least that’s what the owners of The Unknown Brewery want you to believe. They posted a picture this week of what appears to be a UFO hovering over their North Carolina facility. Did E.T. pick up another six-pack or a keg?

‪”Ummmm so we took a pic of a UFO last night…”

That’s the extent of the details posted on The Unknown Brewery’s Facebook page along with a picture of the alleged UFO. For skeptics who commented that it was a reflection through a car window, they pointed out that the video was taken outdoors. Surprisingly, the people standing in line, possibly waiting to get into the taproom, weren’t looking up at the UFO and the videographer didn’t point the triangle of lights out to them. If they had seen it, the fans of the brand might have recommended a spaceship-oriented brew like the Tele-Porter (a coffee porter) or the Cloudbuster (a white India pale ale).

Trying to call a UFO with beer?

“But it’s just lens reflection, mirrored about the center. You can see this by copying the lights at the top, rotating them 180 degrees, and then overlaying them on the bottom half of the image. I use a “subtract” blend mode, which makes the bright light look dark, and you can see they match exactly with the lights around the building.”

Mick West of the Metabunk.org website refused to play along and gave this explanation of how a lens reflection could be the cause, while ufoofinterest.org said simply “UFOs? Nope, massive lens flares :).” (Did they need to rub it in with a smiley?) If asked, the makers of UFO beer might wonder why the UFO wasn’t over their breweries in Boston, Massachusetts, or Windsor, Vermont.

What do they drink on the Dog Star?

Fans of Star Trek might point out that aliens wouldn’t stoop to Earth beer when they could drink Romulan ale like Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy did in the original series (for medicinal purposes only). not be over a brewery but a distillery instead. When back on Earth, Mr. Spock might make a stop at the real place known as The Federation of Beer in Vulcan, Canada, for a glass of Vulcan Ale (“The aroma consists of sweet malts, bread, apple and some grassy hops. The flavour is of mild hops upfront, sweet apple, bread, malts, nuts and an earthiness.”) Of course, Scotty and Chekov would never drink anything but Scotch and vodka, respectively, so they’d be looking for a distillery or liquor store.

Hats off to The Unknown Brewery for their great publicity stunt. Now, to take tongue out of cheek and fill the void with some Tele-Porter.

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“In the beginning,” so it is written, “God created the heavens and the earth.”

Sometime after that, humans came along in this cosmological origin story too (although I would wager that this occurred more than just a few days later, despite what the text quoted above has to say about it). Thereafter, we spent ages bumbling around on our little mudball, during which the rise and fall of chiefdoms, city-states, and civilizations occurred, along with countless wars and conflicts over land disputes, material shortages, kidnappings, killings, and the like.

At some point, things seemed to have calmed down a little–agriculture certainly helped with this, as did the formation of laws and governance–and humans finally had time to rest, and perhaps more importantly, to think. After a few thousand years of contemplation along these lines, finally, within the last few hundred years or so somebody had the idea that we might not be the only ones the Big Guy upstairs took the time to bother to create… if you prescribe to that sort of thing.

Formation of the idea that there might be inhabited worlds beyond our own first required understanding that Earth is, in fact, a round planetary body in space, and that several others exist in our cosmic neighborhood, all encircling our sun (hat tips are in order here for Galileo, Kepler, Pythagoras, Eratosthenes, and various others who contributed to such thought over the ages). In light of this, the idea of leaving Earth to visit nearby celestial bodies has actually been around for quite a while: mention of such things as travel to the moon had already been left to posterity as early as the second-century in Lucien’s satires, and a few centuries thereafter, philosophers were seriously debating the idea of whether other planets existed, and what kinds of “people” might reside there (“Cosmic Pluralism,” in other words).

By the 17th century, discussion of such likelihoods had become fairly commonplace. Eighteenth-century writers of no less esteem than Washington Irving and François-Marie Arouet (or Voltaire, as he’s better known, for those of you who slept through French Enlightenment history) had written stories where anthropomorphic “aliens” visited Earth.

There were a number of consistent themes in early science fiction writing about aliens. In particular, aliens were generally anthropomorphic (that is, they resembled humans), and were often even referred to as “people.” In fact, for some authors of alien fiction, these beings didn’t merely resemble us: visitors from other worlds actually were humans. This isn’t hard to imagine, given consideration that prior to the publication of Darwin’s The Origin of the Species in November 1859, concepts like evolution would have been remote, to say the least. In times prior to Darwin’s influence, the notion that humans were literally “made in God’s image” was more widely accepted; hence our human shape and form had been divinely inspired, not as a result of adaptations to our environment over long stretches of time.

It only stood to reason, then, that if God made us in his image, and that we lived on a planet orbiting the sun, then perhaps there were other “people” made by God, who lived elsewhere in the universe on alien planets similar to ours. Thus, the theological concept of “aliens” still entailed beings that were essentially human. Authors whose written works followed Darwin’s widespread influence reflected themes of evolution and adaptation in relation to the alien concept, such as Camile Flammarion’s 1862 work, The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds.

Decades later, H.G. Wells pointed us in a less anthropocentric direction with the octopoidal Martian invaders featured in his The War of the Worlds. The inclusion of tentacled antagonists set a new precedent for how alien life would look in the fiction of the years to come; however, rather than diversifying as Wells did, and allowing their aliens to take other unusual shapes and forms, many writers simply followed suit and incorporated tentacled, squid or octopus-like aliens into their own work (even H.P. Lovecraft, for all his imagination, appeared to strongly favor this motif). There are some notable exceptions, of course (insectoids, bodiless brains, symbiotes, robotic beings, etc), but the “tentacled alien” is a trend that nonetheless continues today, as seen in films like The Arrival and countless other stories.

Of particular interest in our brief look at the evolution of the “alien” idea is that concepts involving biological alien entities from other planets were in use for centuries before the word extraterrestrial ever came along. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, the word extraterrestrial is defined as follows:

extraterrestrial (adj) also extra-terrestrial, “occurring or originating outside the Earth,” 1812, from extra- + terrestrial. As a noun from 1956.

While OED gives us the correct definition, there are a few things to point out about the history given here; they provide a rather obscure, earlier date of 1812 for the origin of the term (without further context or reference to where this occurred), and later its appearance as a noun in 1956. As far as finding the earliest print appearances of this expression (and specifically in relation to alien life), once again we must return to Wells, who after giving us the first non-anthropomorphic aliens in popular fiction, also seems to have been the first popular writer to gift us with a new term for them. The passage below appeared in the third chapter of The War of the Worlds, entitled “On Horsell Common,” where we can see that Wells was using the word more than half a decade earlier:

‘It required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the gray scale of the Thing was no common oxide, that the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder had an unfamiliar hue. “Extra-terrestrial” had no meaning for most of the onlookers.’

It is possible that the earliest use of a non-hyphenated, nominative variant of extraterrestrial didn’t appear in print until the 1950s, although L. Sprague de Camp also appears to have used the expression in 1939 in an article, “Design for Life (Part 1 of 2),” which was first published in the May 1939 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction (this was actually one of two pieces de Camp published in that issue, although his other contribution, a short story called “Employment,” was published under a pseudonym due to the magazine’s policies against publication of more than one contribution by an individual within a single issue). It was also de Camp who first shortened Wells’ term into the popular acronym “E.T.” as seen today, and borrowed famously by Steven Speilberg for his famous film of the same name.

L. Sprague de Camp

So while it does appear that Wells was first to use the hyphenated form of the word in popular literature in 1898, there is one other noteworthy example of a similar concept that does come to mind. In the 1885 preface to his Beyond Good and Evil, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche also uses the term “super-terrestrial,” although not in reference to the idea of biological alien life (I happened to notice Nietzsche’s use of this expression quite apart from any research for this article, and so admittedly I find it to be novel, albeit not particularly relevant to our search for the etymological origins of extraterrestrials in the English language. Also keep in mind that Nietzsche would have written the word in German, appearing as überirdischen, which directly translates to mean “unearthly,” or in the context in which he used it, might also be taken to have meant “supernatural.” In my estimation, the translation of this word into “super-terrestrial” had been a selective interpretation made by the translator, who in this case would likely have been Helen Zimmern, whose first English translation of the book appeared in 1906. Thus–spake Zarathustra?–we might even stretch a bit further to speculate that Zimmern could even have read Wells’ The War of the Worlds, and had come across his use of “Extra-terrestrial,” which for all we may know could have influenced her later translation of Nietzsche… so in essence, the point is still awarded to Wells for this one).

But why is there any need for a further distinction between “alien” and “extraterrestrial” in the first place? Actually, if we look back at Wells’ first use of the word, he wasn’t referring explicitly to a biological alien entity, per se: he had been using the term in relation to the description of “the gray scale of the Thing,” which “was no common oxide,” and also “the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder”. In other words, Wells described the appearance of the cylindrical vessel in which the invading Martians have arrived. Quite obviously, it had been later authors that would begin to use the term in relation to alien beings themselves.

And for such authors, another reason for the “shift” might be that the word alien, in modern usage, has a variety of different meanings and interpretations. In the strictly terrestrial sense, it has relevance to things that may be seen as foreign or different to a given person or group; this has led to some problems, since the use of alien as a noun, which entails “a foreigner, someone who isn’t a naturalized citizen“ has a hard time escaping associations with its adjective form, which generally means “distasteful or odd” (one can clearly see the reasons for controversy here over its use in relation to such things as immigration, particularly in North America and parts of Europe). On the other hand, there is nothing about the word extraterrestrial that can be misconstrued as pertaining to earthly affairs.

The evolution of the extraterrestrial idea, as we can see, moved at a slow creep across the ages. Looking back over time at the conceptual development of human attitudes toward alien life is fascinating in a number of ways, and of course, far more could be said of this subject than the brief overview presented here. If anything, the gradual revelation that other forms of life could exist somewhere “out there”–and perhaps more importantly, that such a thing as “out there” existed in the first place–did more than merely introduce the concept of alien life; it caused humans to think about ourselves, our origins, and ultimately, what it actually means to be human.

Perhaps with the innovation and discovery of the coming years, we will also begin to glean some idea about what it could mean to be “extraterrestrial,” if such life from other worlds is eventually proven, without question, to exist.

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PILOTEN ZIEN UFO's BOVEN IERLAND 9 november 2018

Woord vooraf – Paul Harmans – ufowijzer.nl Voor alle duidelijkheid, NIEMAND weet nog wat deze snel bewegende lichten op 9 nov. 2018 in het luchtruim boven Ierland waren, dus worden ze UFO’s genoemd. Dat betekent niet meteen dat het buitenaardse toestellen zijn, maar uitsluiten kun je het op basis van het al tientallen jaren beschikbare bewijs niet.

Meteen na de meldingen van de piloten kwamen de bekende ‘leunstoel experts’ naar voren en beweerden dat het om vallende sterren ging. Vallende sterren, de naam zegt het al: ‘vallen’, en vallen doe je naar BENEDEN. In eerste instantie deden deze lichten dat ook, maar vervolgens meldt één van de piloten dat de lichten weer op zeer hoge snelheid omhoog gingen. Dat doen vallende sterren NIET!

De zwaartekracht dicteert dat alles in ons luchtruim zonder eigen voortstuwing naar het aardoppervlak valt, dus niet omhoog, maar naar BENEDEN (dat hoeft overigens niet volledig verticaal zijn). Jammer dat veel mensen de media klakkeloos geloven, alwaar dit onlogische leunstoelverhaal breed wordt gebracht als de oplossing voor de lichten die de piloten boven Ierland zagen.

Leunstoel-astronomen doen vaker volkomen onlogische beweringen als het om UFO-waarnemingen van piloten gaat. Zo beweerden zij ooit dat een Japanse piloot twee heldere planeten verwarde met een UFO. Dat de piloot meldde dat hij de UFO tegen de achtergrond van een bergketen zag, dus onder de horizon, dat deert dergelijke ‘ontkenners’ niet. De piloot meldde ook dat de UFO rondjes om zijn 747 vloog en rondom gekleurde lichten voerde en vele malen groter was dan een 747. Dat deze UFO ook werd waargenomen op de radarschermen van zowel de FAA als de luchtmacht, ach, een kleinigheidje, voor dergelijke ‘astronomische domkoppen’ verschijnen planeten blijkbaar ook op radar.

Relevante links naar mijn video's met NL ondertiteling:

• Japan Airlines 1628 UFO Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMIAq...
• Geheim Pentagon UFO programma onthuld https://youtu.be/JfQ1zmyJwFE
• Interview met piloot van het USS Nimitz UFO incident https://youtu.be/2SpPivcRXVw
• TUCKER CARLSON VAN FOX NEWS INTERVIEWT LESLIE KEAN OVER UFO’s. https://youtu.be/3nstBwxZg5g 
• Interview met Luis Elizondo over de 3e AATIP UFO video en de Pentagon UFO studie https://youtu.be/POZCebKB0e8
• SENSATIONELE ONTHULLING BEWIJST DAT 'ZE' HIER ZIJN https://youtu.be/IVci4tEH3WM
• Interview met Nick Pope over het USS Nimitz UFO incident https://youtu.be/vD7vD2YkFtQ

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Scientists find huge 19-mile impact crater under Greenland’s ice sheet

BY TIBI PUIU

Researchers recently identified a huge bowl-shaped crater measuring a staggering 19 miles (31 km) across under half a mile of Greenland ice. The immense crater was likely formed by the impact of a mile-wide iron meteorite, which must have unleashed 47,000,000 times the energy of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the very end of WWII. The biggest question on everybody’s mind right now is when it all happened.

Kurt Kjær, a Professor at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, suspected an impact crater might be hidden away under Greenland’s ice after NASA radar images showed a massive depression of the bedrock beneath the Hiawatha glacier, in the northwestern part of the island.

In May 2016, one year after the satellite images were released, scientists flew over the glacier pointing a cutting-edge ice-penetrating radar onto the glacier to map the underlying rock. The 3-D images clearly show all the hallmarks of an impact crater — a 19.3-mile-wide circular feature with a rim around it and an elevated central region.

The crater’s basin is about 300 meters deep, suggesting it was perhaps made by a one-mile-wide meteorite. This immediately classes the impact site among the top 25 largest known craters on Earth. According to the researchers, the impact would have melted and vaporized approximately ~20 km³ of rock.

“There would have been debris projected into the atmosphere that would affect the climate and the potential for melting a lot of ice, so there could have been a sudden freshwater influx into the Nares Strait between Canada and Greenland that would have affected the ocean flow in that whole region,” co-author John Paden, Associate Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Kansas University, told the AFP.

The meteorite was likely mostly made of iron, judging from geochemical tests performed on particles of shocked quarts collected from a nearby floodplain.

“Beyond the grains in the sediment sample that we interpret to be possible ejecta, no ejecta layer associated with this structure has yet been identified. Despite the absence of such additional evidence, an impact origin for the structure beneath Hiawatha Glacier is the simplest interpretation of our observations,” the authors wrote in their new study.

When exactly did the impact actually takes place is not at all certain. Kjær and colleagues are confident that the crater is no older than 3 million years, the time when ice began to cover Greenland.

“The age of this impact crater is presently unknown, but from our geological and geophysical evidence, we conclude that it is unlikely to predate the Pleistocene inception of the Greenland Ice Sheet,” the authors wrote in the journal Science Advances. 

As for the lower limit, radar images show that the deepest layers of the glacier that are older than 12,000 years are very deformed compared to upper layers and are filled with lumps of rock. To be sure, researchers will have to use radiometric dating techniques on material from the crater — that means drilling through half a mile of ice. It might take a few years before this happens, however.

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‘Oumuamua, our first interstellar visitor, is actually smaller than we thought

 BY TIBI PUIU

‘Oumuamua is the first interstellar object astronomers have detected in our solar system. For decades, scientists had been expecting to come across such an object, but it only happened in October 2017, while the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii was surveying near-Earth asteroids. Astronomers tried pointing NASA’s mighty Spitzer Space Telescope onto ‘Oumuamua, however, the comet-like object was too faint to observe directly — but this was a valuable result in and of itself.

According to a new study that worked with Spitzer data, previous estimates of ‘Oumuamua’s size have been too generous. In reality, the intriguing cosmic object is much smaller than scientists initially thought.

“‘Oumuamua has been full of surprises from day one, so we were eager to see what Spitzer might show,” David Trilling, lead author on the new study and a professor of astronomy at Northern Arizona University, said in a statement. “The fact that ‘Oumuamua was too small for Spitzer to detect is actually a very valuable result.”

Besides setting new upper and lower boundaries for the size of ‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh MOO-uh MOO-uh, meaning ‘scout’ in Hawaiian), the study also reveals new spicy details about our lone interstellar visitor. One rather amazing finding is that ‘Oumuamua is expelling gas, which acts like a small thruster pushing the small asteroid. This explains the slight changes in speed and direction of the object when scientists tracked it last year.

In the months following is discovery, astronomers conducted multiple observations with ground-based telescopes but also using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. These optical observations reported large variations in brightness, suggesting that ‘Oumuamua has an elongated shape, resembling a cigar, and that it probably measures less than half a mile (800 m) across its longest side.

However, Spitzer’s instruments can see things in infrared, meaning it can measure how much heat ‘Oumuamua radiates — and this can be helpful in measuring the object’s size with better accuracy than optical evaluations alone could. By measuring infrared light emitted by an object, scientists can essentially measure temperature which, in turn, can be used to determine the reflectivity of an object’s surface — what’s technically called albedo.

The new study estimates what ‘Oumuamua’s diameter would be if it were spherical. Trilling and colleagues used three separate models, each with its own different assumptions about the object’s composition but which only slightly differed from one another, and ultimately came up with three possible diameters for ‘Oumuamua: 1,440 feet (440 meters), 460 feet (140 meters) or even as small as 320 feet (100 meters).

The findings suggest that ‘Oumuamua may be up to 10 times more reflective than the comets we can find our solar system. A typical comet will constantly change its albedo as its ice warms and turns into gas during its close approaches to the Sun. However, ‘Oumuamua likely traveled through interstellar space for millions of years before entering our solar system, far from a star’s ‘touch’. Once it actually made it close to the sun, ‘Oumuamua’s surface likely suffered some transformations. For instance, some of the released gas may have covered the surface of the object with ice and snow that increase reflectivity.

At the moment, ‘Oumuamua is beyond Saturn’s orbit and is exiting the solar system. But scientists expect other interstellar visitors to follow. In the meantime, data gathered on the asteroid could shed light on how planet form in the solar system.

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Barnard’s star may not be barren, after all

A massive crater hides beneath Greenland’s ice

Whether the impact is related to a period of cooling called the Younger Dryas is unknown

BY CAROLYN GRAMLING 

SPACE ROCK  An iron asteroid hurtles through space in this artist’s conception of an event that left a large crater in northwest Greenland sometime in the distant past.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK, CRYOSPHERIC SCIENCES LAB/GSFC/NASA

There’s something big lurking beneath Greenland’s ice. Using airborne ice-penetrating radar, scientists have discovered a 31-kilometer-wide crater — larger than the city of Paris — buried under as much as 930 meters of ice in northwest Greenland.

The meteorite that slammed into Earth and formed the pit would have been about 1.5 kilometers across, researchers say. That’s large enough to have caused significant environmental damage across the Northern Hemisphere, a team led by glaciologist Kurt Kjær of the University of Copenhagen reports November 14 in Science Advances.

Although the crater has not been dated, data from glacial debris as well as ice-flow simulations suggest that the impact may have happened during the Pleistocene Epoch, between 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago. The discovery could breathe new life into a controversial hypothesis that suggests that an impact about 13,000 years ago triggered a mysterious 1,000-year cold snap known as the Younger Dryas (SN: 7/7/18, p. 18).

Hidden bowl

A crater was discovered at the edge of Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. Airborne radar data revealed a round depression (bottom image) buried beneath almost a kilometer of ice. Researchers also found deformed quartz minerals and other signatures of an ancient impact within sediments collected just outside the edge of the ice (black circle).

K.H. KJÆR ET AL/SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018

Members of the research team first spotted a curiously rounded shape at the edge of Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland in 2015, during a scan of the region by NASA’s Operation IceBridge. The mission uses airborne radar to map the thickness of ice at Earth’s poles. The researchers immediately suspected that the rounded shape represented the edge of a crater, Kjær says.

For a more detailed look, the team hired an aircraft from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute that was equipped with ultra-wideband radar, which can send pulses of energy toward the ice at a large number of frequencies. Using data collected from 1997 to 2014 from Operation Icebridge and NASA’s Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment, as well as 1,600 kilometers’ worth of data collected in 2016 using the ultra-wideband radar, the team mapped out the inner and outer contours of their target.

The object is almost certainly an impact crater, the researchers say. “It became clear that our idea had been right from the beginning,” Kjær says. What’s more, it is not only the first crater found in Greenland, but also one of the 25 or so largest craters yet spotted on Earth. And it has held its shape beautifully, from its elevated rim to its bowl-shaped depression.

“It’s so conspicuous in the satellite imagery now,” says John Paden, an electrical engineer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and a member of the team. “There’s not another good explanation.”

On the ground, the team hunted for geochemical and geologic signatures of an asteroid impact within nearby sediments. Sampling from within the crater itself was impossible, as it remains covered by ice. But just beyond the edge of the ice, meltwater from the base of the glacier had, over the years, deposited sediment. The scientists collected a sediment sample from within that glacial outwash and several from just outside of it.

The outwash sample contained several telltale signs of an impact: “shocked” quartz grains with deformed crystal lattices and glassy grains that may represent flash-melted rock. The sample also contained elevated concentrations of certain elements, including nickel, cobalt, platinum and gold, relative to what’s normally found in Earth’s crust. That elemental profile points not only to an asteroid impact, the researchers say, but also suggests that the impactor was a relatively rare iron meteorite.

SHOCKED QUARTZ This grain of quartz shows crystal deformation that is a signature of a massive impact event.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK, CRYOSPHERIC SCIENCES LAB/GSFC/NASA

Determining when that iron meteorite slammed into Earth is trickier.

The ice-penetrating radar data revealed that the crater bowl itself contains several distinct layers of ice. The topmost layer shows a clear, continuous sequence of smaller layers of ice, representing the gradual deposits of snow and ice through the most recent 11,700 years of Earth’s history, known as the Holocene. At the base of that “well-behaved” layer is a distinct, debris-rich layer that has been seen elsewhere in Greenland ice cores, and is thought to represent the Younger Dryas cold period, which spanned from about 12,800 to 11,700 years ago. Beneath that Younger Dryas layer is another large layer — but unlike the Holocene layer, this one is jumbled and rough, with undulating rather than smooth, nearly flat smaller layers.

“You see folding and strong disturbances,” says study coauthor Joseph MacGregor, a glaciologist with Operation IceBridge. “And below that, we see yet deeper, complex basal ice.” Radar images of that bottommost ice layer within the crater show several curious peaks, which MacGregor says could represent material from the ground that got incorporated into the ice. “Putting that all together, what you have is a snapshot of an ice sheet that looked fairly normal during the Holocene, but was quite disturbed before that.”

Those data clearly suggest that the impact is at least 11,700 years old, Kjær says. And the rim of the crater appears to cut through a preexisting ancient river channel that must have flowed across the land before Greenland became covered with ice about 2.6 million years ago.

That time span — essentially, the entire Pleistocene Epoch — is a large range. The team is working on further narrowing the possible date range, with more sediment samples, simulations of the rate of ice flow and possibly cores collected from within the crater.

The date range does include the possibility that the impact occurred near the onset of the Younger Dryas. “It’s the woolly mammoth in the room,” MacGregor says.

HIDDEN TREASURE A newly discovered 31-kilometer-wide crater, long buried underneath Greenland’s ice sheet, may be the remnants of an iron asteroid that struck Earth sometime in the distant past.

Planetary scientist Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., notes that “there are plenty of roughly circular landforms on Earth of many different sizes, most of which are not impact craters.” Still, he says, the paper presents several lines of evidence that strongly support the conclusion that the object is a crater, including the shocked quartz and the topography.

As for the idea that a crater may have formed within the last couple of million years, Chapman says, it’s “quite unlikely.” Such strikes are rare in general, he adds, and asteroids barreling into Earth are far more likely to land somewhere in an ocean. “[And] it would be at least a hundred times less likely that it could have happened so recently as to have affected the Younger Dryas.”

Regardless of when the crater formed, it is “a straight-up exciting discovery,” MacGregor says. “And we’re just happy not to have to keep it a secret anymore.”

Citations

• K.H. Kjær et al. A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. Science Advances. November 14, 2018. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.eaar8173.

Further Reading

• C. Gramling. Why won’t this debate about an ancient cold snap die? Science News. Vol. 194, July 7, 2018, p. 18.
• S. Perkins. Once upon a lake. Science News. Vol. 162, November 2, 2002, p. 283.
• S. Perkins. Ice Age ends smashingly: Did a comet blow up over eastern Canada? Science News. Vol. 171, June 2, 2007, p. 339.
• S. Perkins. Signs of giant comet impact found in cores. Science News Online, March 30, 2010.
• E. Wayman. New pathway proposed for ancient flood. Science News. Vol. 182, December 29, 2012, p. 11.

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UFO sightings are back on the radar – but are they meteors or real mysteries?

Two recent sightings over the Irish coast have brought UFOs back into the headlines - but what should we make of it all?

The act of reporting a potential UFO sighting dates back to around the 1940s.

(Photo: Barney Wayne/Keystone/Getty)

Florence Snead

It was “moving so fast” said the British Airways pilot who contacted Shannon air traffic control to report a UFO.

µThe mysterious object appeared as a “very bright light” that came up along the left side of the airliner before it “rapidly veered to the north”.

At first, the pilot of BA94 from Montreal to Heathrow thought she might have been looking at some kind of military aircraft.

Bright lights

But she was told there were no military exercises taking place in the area and the fast-moving object did not appear on air traffic control’s radar systems.

A second pilot, flying a Virgin Atlantic plane from Orlando to Manchester, confirmed the sighting, suggesting it might be a meteor or “another object re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere”.

He saw “two bright lights, [which] seemed to bank over to the right then climb away at speed”.

David Moore, head of Astronomy Ireland, favours the meteor theory. He told The Times he was “1,000 per cent sure” the mysterious light was a fireball, or a flaming meteorite, tumbling through the atmosphere.

A flying saucer model created by US plastic artist Peter Coffin’s in 2009.

(Photo: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty)

One thing is certain: the truth is out there, and the Irish Aviation Authority intends to find it.

The organisation, which has launched an investigation into the 9 November sightings over Ireland’s south-west coast, has said it is unlikely that the incident involved alien life.

Yet these are simply the latest close encounters to fuel the imaginations of those who believe we are not alone.

The act of reporting a UFO sighting dates back to the 40s, with the first official account widely accepted to be that of a private pilot in 1947.

He reported seeing nine strange objects moving at speed across the state of Washington, comparing them to “saucers skipping on water”.

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There have been hundreds of alleged sightings – often involving unusual lights – since. Some are hoaxes, some can be explained by natural phenomena; others are seemingly genuine mysteries.

For years, people in the UK were able to report their sightings via a special Ministry of Defence (MoD) hotline.

The MoD eventually closed its dedicated UFO desk in November 2009, saying it served “no defence purpose” and was taking staff away from “more valuable defence-related activities”.

Declassified papers released by the National Archives in 2013 revealed the Ministry had logged 643 reported sightings in its final year, treble the previous year and the second-highest recorded since 1978, when there had been 750 alleged sightings.

The papers also contained reports from someone who had been “living with an alien” in Carlisle and sightings of UFOs over Stonehenge, Parliament and Blackpool Pier.

Further afield, cases such as the Roswell incident – the high-altitude weather balloon that crashed in New Mexico in 1947 and spawned a thousand conspiracy theories – show just how much interest the idea of UFOs can generate.

A store in Roswell, New Mexico, selling UFO souvenirs.

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Television shows such as The X-Files have indulged our fascination with all things extraterrestrial and, thanks in part to social media, people are still sharing their strange encounters.

Indeed, a video of what some believe to be a UFO was recorded in Northern Ireland just minutes before the recent sightings by the two pilots.

The dashcam footage, recorded by a member of the public as they drove to work in Coleraine, showed what they described as a “bright object” shooting across the sky.

In 2014, a pilot claimed he had experienced a close encounter while flying a passenger jet at 34,000ft over Berkshire the previous year.

According to reports, the captain was so convinced that the “silver, rugby ball”-shaped object would smash into his Airbus that he ducked as it headed towards the cockpit.

The UK Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses in British airspace, said that no other aircraft had been in the vicinity at the time. It also ruled out meteorological balloons. No military radars picked up any sign of a UFO, however.

How to report a sighting

For those who think they have seen something, the British UFO Research Association is among the organisations which will analyse sightings.

The voluntary organisation, which has been running for more than 50 years, receives between five and 20 reports a week – though only a few of these remain a mystery.

“Up to 98 per cent of sightings can be explained if they are reported very quickly and with accurate information,” says national investigations co-ordinator Heather Dixon.

“We have a form on our website for people to report sightings which asks the relevant questions.

“Eighty per cent of all sightings are now photographed, [but] that doesn’t mean anything on its own – we have to have supporting information." 

Dixon explains that in cases where there are photos, the UFOs can normally be explained. A low-quality photo is often the problem in more difficult cases.

Heather Dixon, of the British UFO Research Association, said it is important to be objective about all potential sightings.

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She says that UFO sightings highlight how differently people can perceive and interpret something in the sky.

“If you see something and you have no way to understand what that is, you use imagery that you have downloaded over your lifetime.

“The brain has to do something to identify or make some kind of explanation for what is happening.

“So if someone has a strong belief in the subject, and the idea that there are cover-ups, then they will relate that to their sighting.”

But, she adds: “That’s not to say there aren’t mysteries.

‘You have to be objective’

“On a personal level, I am very sceptical, but I have had a handful of things happen to me – not UFO-related – that have been stranger and have made me think.

“But you have to be objective. You have to investigate and research in a meticulous way. What I have learnt is the more you learn about anything, the less you realise you know.”

For Robert Massey, deputy executive director at the Royal Astronomical Society, a meteor is the most likely culprit behind the latest sighting. 

“The idea that it is something entering the Earth’s atmosphere – a meteor – is the most likely case,” he says. “It is perhaps an unusually bright one and that, I imagine, is what they have seen.”

Dr Massey adds that the speed of the object lends credence to the object being a natural one – such as a meteor – as opposed to something like debris from a satellite.

“That would also explain why it won’t be on the radar,” he explains. “Meteors are pretty high up in the Earth’s atmosphere – well above the altitude you’d expect for a commercial flight.

“There’s no reason to jump to the conclusion that it is any kind of spaceship. It will almost certainly have a more mundane explanation.

“But the thing that’s nice to take from this is that there’s an awful lot of drama in the night sky. “It just reminds us that even the things for which we do have an explanation can be pretty spectacular.”

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Glowing, Stationary Light Haunts Houston Neighborhood

When: October 21st, 2018 Where: Houston What: Greenish-yellow, stationary, cylinder-shaped object Video of a flashing, glowing, and elongated light over Houston has been uploaded to YouTube, along with a long and detailed narration and witness description. The object had apparently been hovering in the nighttime sky for several minutes before the witness started recording: Went outside for a smoke. Saw it and thought it was lightning. Sat back for the show, the night air was cool and sweet, and I was having a good day. But it didn't act like lightning and after five or ten minutes, I dragged my stepdad out of bed to see it. He saw it too. After a few more minutes of signaling the strange lights with various lights and flashes, he ran to get a camera. Long story short, no batteries. So he started using his phone. Once I felt we had a good amount of footage on his phone saved, I ran for my phone (Samsung S9+), it had a superior camera. But it's still grainy af. That's a little disappointing. The cameras at least picked up the flashing lights and my voice narration. The film cuts out because my camera spontaneously shut down. My fingers could have slipped, I was shaking like a leaf and you can hear how freaked out I am. The camera shut off on its own when I was at an awesome angle. It was overhead maybe a mile up, 300 yards long, moving in a slow triangle pattern and flashing. The camera picked up a strange pulsating aura of colors my eyes couldn't pick up. It responded to a halogen torch when I flashed back. It communicated. Footage lost. This is just 5 minutes from a 30 minute encounter I panicked and ran inside to make sure the video was saved. It was! I immediately uploaded it to YouTube and posted a link on my Facebook page. We went back outside to find it. It was hiding from spotlights. We flashed at it again then it pulsed and as the spotlights zeroed in, it flew off at high speeds quieter than a whisper.  Ps. I apologized to my stepdad for snapping. I was really freaked out. They are #real. We aren't alone. Could this sighting be related to another sighting of a "yellow-greenish" rectangle over San Antonio, which occurred earlier this month? What do you think of this recent Texas UFO sighting? Does it show top-secret military or even alien tech? Or is there an easier explanation? Share your thoughts and theories in the comments below, or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. And as always, if you've seen a UFO, report your sighting! { https://www.texasufosightings.com/ }

Japanese Space Capsule Prototype Survives Fiery Fall to Earth

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宇宙ステーション補給機「こうのとり」7号機（HTV7）より分離された小型回収カプセルの実験試料は、11月13日4時50分に南鳥島に接岸し到着。同日5時17分に航空機により南鳥島を出発し、同日11月13日9時42分に筑波宇宙センターに到着しました！

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During this mission, which was the first test flight of the HSRC, the little capsule demonstrated its flight capabilities as well as its ability to protect its internal payload against the extreme temperatures of re-entry. "We expect that these efforts will lead to securing flexibility in our future space flight activities," JAXA president Hiroshi Yamakawa said in a statement.

With a successful test mission under its belt, JAXA can start using the HSRC to bring science experiments back to Earth using a Japanese aircraft, rather than having to hitch a ride with SpaceX's Dragon capsule — the only cargo spacecraft built to survive re-entry. JAXA's next HTV cargo resupply mission is scheduled to launch to the space station in mid-2019.

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Aarde slorpt eigen oceanen gulzig op - HLN.be

Bron: Nature

De oppervlakte van de aarde bestaat uit zeven grote tektonische platen en acht kleinere. Die platen verschuiven jaarlijks enkele millimeters (5 tot 85 millimeter), op een zeer traag tempo. Dat proces wordt aangeduid met de wetenschappelijke term ‘platentektoniek’. Wanneer de aardplaten verschuiven wordt er een beetje water mee onder de aardkorst getrokken. Maar dat beetje blijkt drie keer meer te zijn dan eerst gedacht werd.

Dat roept natuurlijk een aantal vragen op. Hoe komt het dat wetenschappers zich zo lang vergisten, wordt de inhoud van onze oceanen daardoor kleiner, en zal de aarde zichzelf uiteindelijk uitdrogen waardoor er binnenkort geen oceanen meer bestaan?

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Geen vermist water

Wetenschappers veronderstelden jarenlang dat de hoeveelheid water die onder de aardkorst verdwijnt veel kleiner zou zijn. Dat komt omdat er ook wat water vrijkomt bij de beweging die de aardplaten maken. Er is geen water vermist, de inhoud van de oceanen bleef met andere woorden tamelijk stabiel. Dat veronderstelt dat de hoeveelheid die naar buiten wordt gestuwd ongeveer gelijk is aan de hoeveelheid die onder de aardoppervlakte verdwijnt. 

Aardbevingen en tsunami’s

Voor onze oceanen maakt de grotere hoeveelheid water die de aarde opslokt dus geen groot verschil. Anderzijds speelt de hoeveelheid wel een belangrijke rol bij het ontstaan van aardbevingen en tsunami’s.

De aanwezigheid van water kan de temperatuur waarop gesteente smelt immers sterk beïnvloeden. Daardoor draagt het water onder de aardoppervlakte bij tot de ontwikkeling van magma –het vloeibare gesteente dat ook in de vorm van lava uit vulkanen stroomt. Die magma doet de platen trouwens ook bewegen. Wanneer de hoeveelheid magma groter wordt, kan een tektonische plaat plots sneller verschuiven. En door het enorme gewicht van de aardplaten kan de verschuiving een grote spanning creëren. Vervolgens barst die in één ruk los, in de vorm van een aardbeving. 

De nieuwe bevindingen kunnen helpen bij het accurater voorspellen van zulke aardbevingen. 

Vertragingen 

Voor hun onderzoek bestudeerden wetenschappers hoe snel de trillingen van aardbevingen zich voortbewegen. Eenmaal die beweging vertraagt, ontstaat een subductiezone waarbij een oceanische aardplaat –zwaarder dan de continentale platen- onder een continentale schuift en water met zich meetrekt. Aan de hand van de vertragingen konden ze de breuken detecteren die zich vulden met water. 

Tektonische platen

De zes grote tektonische platen zijn de Afrikaanse, de Antarctische, de Australische, de Euraziatische, de Noord-Amerikaanse, de Pacifische en de Zuid-Amerikaanse Plaat. Daarnaast zijn er nog acht kleinere platen. 

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Wetenschappers ontdekken ijskoude ‘superaarde’ - HLN.be

Bron: Nature

In de afgelopen twintig jaar ontdekten onderzoekers een paar duizend exoplaneten, planeten bij andere sterren dan de zon. Daar zitten veel ‘superaardes’ tussen: planeten die een flinke slag groter zijn dan de aarde en een paar keer zo zwaar. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat Barnard b minstens 3,2 keer zoveel massa heeft dan onze aarde.

Wetenschappers onthullen dat er geen leven mogelijk is op Barnard b. De planeet doet immers 233 dagen over een rondje rond zijn moederster, een zogeheten rode dwerg. Dat is een kleine, koele ster die maar weinig licht geeft. Daardoor krijgt de planeet maar 2 procent van de hoeveelheid licht en energie die de aarde van de zon krijgt. 

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Daarnaast is de afstand tussen Barnard b en de moederster klein: ongeveer 0,4 keer de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon. Hoewel de planeet zich dichtbij de moederster bevindt, is het op Barnard b bijzonder koud, zo’n -170 graden Celsius. Er is met andere woorden geen vloeibaar water, een noodzakelijke voorwaarde voor de levensvormen die we tot nu toe kennen.

“De ontdekking van de planeet biedt astronomen de mogelijkheid om theorieën over het ontstaan, de evolutie en de fysica van exoplaneten te toetsen”, zo zegt het European Southern Observatory (ESO). Een filmpje, gemaakt door het ESO, toont hoe het oppervlak van Barnard b er vermoedelijk uitziet:

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UFOs might have been extra-terrestrial vehicles: retired McGill prof

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"People have close encounters of the second kind," says Don Donderi, a retired McGill professor who has studied UFOs since 1965. "Pilots have reported seeing vehicles within 100 yards of them." 

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Just as Harvard scientists weigh in on that massive thingamajig that zipped past the sun last year — the flat, elongated ‘Oumuamua’ was possibly a probe sent to Earth by “an alien civilization,” they said — British pilots flying home from Montreal have reported other UFOs off the coast of Ireland.

This time, the unidentified objects were bright lights, heading north, at “Mach 2” speed, they told air-traffic controllers.

But they might also have been extra-terrestrial vehicles, says Don Donderi, a retired McGill professor who has studied UFOs since 1965.

It wouldn’t be the first sighting, Donderi said. Some pilots have seen them up close.

“There are cases going back 50 years of pilots seeing what we call nocturnal lights,” Donderi said. “They provide some evidence that some of what people see in the sky and call UFOs are extra-terrestrial vehicles.”

A Perseid meteor flashes across the night sky above Corfe Castle in the U.K. in August. 

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In this most recent case, two sets of pilots, from British Airways and Virgin Airlines, both flying over the Atlantic last Friday, reported the sightings to air-traffic control, inquiring about any military exercises in the area.

“It was moving so fast,” the BA pilot said of the object that appeared along the left side of the aircraft “then rapidly veered to the north.”

It was “a very bright light,” she continued, that “disappeared at very high speed.”

The Virgin Airlines pilot, flying from Orlando to Manchester, reported the same thing, but described it as a “meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry.”

Whatever is was, it was enough for the Irish Aviation Authority to open an investigation under the “normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”

It was also enough for the Twittersphere, if not the stratosphere, to light up.

The news, including audio of the pilots’ conversation with Irish air traffic control, travelled across the globe, at Mach internet speed, while others turned to mockery.

“As a skeptic, I think it’s probably nothing stranger than flying leprechauns up to their usual mischief again,” said one commenter.

It was the same attitude taken by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a renowned American astrophysicist and author, when asked to comment on the existence of extra-terrestrial UFOs. “Call me when you have a dinner invite from an alien,” he said.

But Donderi, who was a professor of psychology but now teaches a class called “UFOs: History and Reality,” says some sightings have been unnervingly detailed — and harder to dismiss.

“People have close encounters of the second kind,” Donderi said. “Pilots have reported seeing vehicles within 100 yards of them. They see an actual shape, an object suspended in the sky, hovering over them, with windows, surrounded by a luminous glow  — and then it moves off abruptly.”

Some of the reports, by qualified individuals, backed up by instruments (like radar) turn out to be things humans can’t make, Donderi said.

“Machines that fly faster and manoeuvre more abruptly than (vehicles) we can make.”

He situates himself somewhere between the DeGrasse Tyson “establishment,” which denies there is any evidence of extra-terrestrial contact with Earth, and those who see in UFOs proof of the second coming.

The revelation in December of the U.S. Department of Defence’s now-defunct Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, along with footage of pilots seemingly chasing UFOs, have bolstered Donderi’s beliefs.

Luis Elizondo, one of two Pentagon officials who resigned at the time because he felt the program was too secretive, described the objects they researched: “These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,” he told CNN.

“Those who study it say that some of the UFOs are extra-terrestrial vehicles,” Donderi said Tuesday. “They’re here. And sometimes there’s interaction between aliens and people. There is evidence. But what it means and where we go from here, I don’t know.”

Donderi says humans find it easier to convince themselves there is no evidence, and prefer to see those affirming the existence of ETs as crazy, or seeking adventure or profit.

“If everyone realizes we’re being surveilled by extra-terrestrials who have better machinery than we do, we have a potential problem,” he said. “But any sensible person will say the first step in dealing with any problem is admitting it exists.”

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There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.

China’s march towards domination of Earth and space alike continues as the Middle Kingdom prepares to be the first to launch a spacecraft to the far side of the moon next month. You know – the Dark Side. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the uncharted territory on the far side of the moon, and the mission has the potential to open up whole new avenues of lunar study. A second mission planned for 2019, meanwhile, will be the first to return moon rocks to Earth in over forty years. The missions are named after Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess, and show that the Chinese fully intend to become a leading superpower when it comes to space exploration.

The voyage to the dark side of the moon presents several new technical challenges. Because the moon is tidally locked, meaning the same side always faces us, astronomers here on Earth won’t be able to communicate directly with the Chang’e-4 rover on the dark side because the moon would block all transmissions. To overcome this, the Chinese space agency has launched a transmission relay satellite to the other side of the moon to bounce signals back and forth between the far side of the moon and Earth.

That satellite, named Queqiao, has defense analysts in the West worried. Any craft or satellite sitting in at the far equatorial side, or L2 point, would remain almost completely undetectable by current defense satellites if it should come flying back towards Earth. At a recent Air Force Association event, senior intelligence engineer Jeff Gosse of the Space and Missile Analysis Group at the Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center says that such a satellite could pose a unique threat to American defense satellites in traditional geostationary orbits (GEO):

You could fly some sort of a weapon around the moon and it comes back — it could literally come at [objects] in GEO…and we would never know because there is nothing watching in that direction. Why do you need a relay satellite flying around L2? So you can communicate with something that’s going to land on the other side of the moon — or so you can fly around the other side of the moon? And what would that mean for our assets at GEO?

Defending communications and support satellites has become a chief concern of the armed forces, particularly as Russia and other actors seem to be waking up their space-based arsenals. When politicians talk of war in space, they don’t mean zero-gravity laser rifle battles; they mean satellite-to-satellite warfare.

Taking out another nation’s GPS and communication satellites are an easy way to cripple forces on the ground.

Still, others aren’t so convinced that the Chang’e missions represent a new mineshaft gap for the Space Force, as there are perfectly peaceful reasons why a space agency would want a satellite on the dark side of the moon – particularly one sending a rover to said dark side. When the U.S. launched the Space Shuttle program, the Soviet Union feared that the shuttle was a new form of space weapon, and we all know how wrongthose fears turned out to be, right?

We better turn some satellites around.

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Former Army Officer Tells Us What He Saw While Out In The Wilderness

Former army officer tells us what he saw while out in the wilderness. An army officer explain that while out in the wilderness he came across something he couldn't explain.

Over the years many interesting stories have been told by people in the military. This person encountered something strange while out in the woods. He said the following "I experienced something strange during my time in the army. I'm 65 now and this encounter happened over 25 years ago. I don't like to give away too much personal information as my story is truly bizarre.

On this particular occasion me and other officers were trekking close to Michigan. While here we were performing some basic exercises. We was here for 2 days but during our first night something bizarre happened. It got to 10pm and at this point it was dark...

  

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Artifacts Discovered In Utah Link To Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen

The Lady of Elche is one of the most enigmatic faces of human history that dates back of the Iberian culture. Despite the Lady high lineage clothing, her identity is not known. However, as the years passed by, enigmas have become more evident, and new hypotheses are at least surprising.

A medal discovered in 1966 in Utah has an engraved lady similar to that of Elche, particularly the ritual earrings and necklaces. It has been thought that the two relics reveal a connection despite the vast distances between Utah and Elche.

The earmuffs were Atlantis representative as well. In Bolivia, Peru and the Andes there has always been a trail of Atlantis, which had capital on Lake Titicaca. The lake is in the mountains and with remains of Anunnaki. Legends say that there had been Venus men visited the area and had that type of earmuffs.

With the interesting link from the medal to the statue, the mystery only deepens.

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Multiple Pilots Report UFO Sightings Off Ireland Coast

Reports of UFOs and bright lights off the southwest coast of Ireland have reached the Irish Aviation Authority, and they are investigating the case.

According to the report, the strange aerial activity started at 06:47 local time on November 9, Friday. Shannon air traffic control received a question from a British Airways pilot.

The pilot wanted to know if military exercises were conducted in the area after seeing something moving so fast.

The air traffic controller answered there was none.

The pilot reported seeing a very bright light while flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow. The object was reportedly coming along the left side of the aircraft before it quickly veered to the north.

She had no idea about the strange object, which did not appear to be heading for a collision.

Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in suggesting that it might be an object or a meteor re-entering the atmosphere of the Earth.

He said there were several very bright objects following a similar trajectory. He saw two bright lights over to the right that climbed away at speed.

Another pilot said the speed was around Mach 2, which was astronomical and twice the speed of sound.

The Irish Aviation Authority said they received reports from a small number of aircraft on November 9 of the strange air activity and filed a report. According to the IAA, the report will be investigated according to the confidential occurrence investigation process.

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UFO sightings recorded closer to Dublin as Ireland becomes hotbed of alien activity

By Pat Flanagan

Aliens (Image: Getty)

The sightings of UFOs over the coast by three sets of airline pilots has led to Ireland being seen as a hotbed of alien activity.

It has emerged the crews who reported an unidentified object streaking through the skies over Co Kerry are not alone.

Dublin Live has been inundated with reports of similar sightings around the country in recent weeks.

The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the appearance of the mysterious objects which were first spotted by a British Airways pilot early last Friday.

But at around 4.30pm the next day Donal Brady reported another strange sighting while looking towards Cork city from Bishopstown.

He said: “I don’t know what it was. I was at my friend’s house and I’d just dropped off my daughter and stepped out to have a cigarette and just noticed this thing in the sky.

“It was extremely bright, a beautiful day. At first I thought it was a high-altitude airliner reflecting in the sun.

“I observed it for a minute or two and I noticed it was stopping, hovering and moving side to side.

“It wasn’t going in a straight line and it wasn’t going away from and wasn’t coming towards me.

“Then along came this plane and it wasn’t reflecting anything and I thought that was unusual.

“That’s when I started to video it. If it was an airliner you’d expect contrails and some lights, which there weren’t.”

Mr Brady thought no more about it until it was reported pilots from British Airways, Virgin and Norwegian Air saw an unidentified object over Co Kerry just before 7am last Friday.

He added: “I watched the video again and thought it was something that might be related to that. I’m not pushing it in any shape or form, it is what it is.”

Another Irish Mirror reader sent in a video of what appears to be a UFO in Co Carlow.

Gerard Pollard said: “On the 2nd November at 8.32am I saw two lights in the sky coming from the south west, over Mount Leinster.

“I thought at first it was an airplane heading to Dublin Airport.

“Then I noticed it was going too fast for a plane. They seemed very high in the sky.µ

“I took my phone from my belt and took a photo. I enhanced the photo to my iPad and you can just see two small light dots in the sky.

“I can say these two craft were travelling at great speed, but there as no sound from them.”

Meanwhile, Laura Byrne shared pictures of three dots she spotted over Wicklow town.

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Filer’s Files #45 – 2018 UFO Sightings Increasing - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Light

Phoenix — My wife and I were on holiday and visited the 2018 Arizona State Fair where we took some pictures on an Apple IPhone.
Later, I transferred the photographs to my PC I noticed 3 lights in the sky in two of the photos.
From what I can see in the two pictures, 3 orbs or sources of light seem to move from right to left.
I don’t believe the light sources in the two pictures are reflective light, because of their position in both photos. The images are original and have not been altered or enhanced in any way. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Object

Capitola  — I started this video at 9:17 am, and it lasted  over 8 minutes. at 2155 Wharf Road facing east. It was only upon review of the video that I became aware of that it included a tremendous amount of UFO activity It is my intuition that these events (the chemtrails and UFOs) were not a coincidence. I saw white lights behind a treetop that would grow long and then short. It was there for over ten seconds in the video. A descending UFO appears to change forms during its flight. There might be two rows of multiple orbs around a dark center, but then very complex changes occur. To begin with, there were three flights moving toward the south over Wharf road. That already is unusual. Flights 2 and 3 crossed over each other, creating a huge X, and flight 2 crossed over a the top portion of an impressive segment trail from flight 1 Thanks to MUFON CMS

Colorado Light

Monument Park — We were flying to Raton, NM for a mountain flying trip. I wanted to get some photos. We departed KEWK at about 0830 landed in KLBL at about 1230. after I got back I found odd images on my photos that I did take. I would just like to know what I have. I have about 90 photos that I took on the trip if you guys would like them I would be glad to give you a copy of the entire trip. Photos taken on October 27, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Connecticut Light

 Freetown — I was taking a smoke break at work and chatting with my girlfriend on the phone at the time on November 8, 2018. All of a sudden a light in the distance caught my eye. At first I figured it was an airplane in the distance and that the sun was reflecting off of it. However, I realized it wasn’t getting closer and the glow was increasing. I kept my eye on it a few moments longer and then saw it start to slowly move north stop intermitted.

It continued like this until it was behind the tree line. I work security, so I hopped in the patrol vehicle and drove to where I had access to our security cameras. It took me less than 2 minutes. By the time I got the cameras locked on to that position in the sky, the object was gone. I drove back to the spot I had observed it from at the beginning, and it was gone from the sky all together. I felt a combination of creeeped out and the adrenaline rush of a hunter. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Object

I noticed a white cloud turning and moving fast, turning, rising, and then slowly moving down. A military helicopter fly’s by very quiet and then it disappears.’

Photo was taken on November 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Lights

Evanston — Myself and 3 others were driving down Clark Street on November 3, 2018. There were three objects hovering and descending slowly. One or two intermittently gave off large trails of sparks. Lights were far too slow to be meteors and a plane would not have sparked in this way. They were moving around each other in a somewhat irregular patterns blinking on and off irregularly. They were giving off a trail of sparks intermittently and could be meteors, as some had been reported the night before, but they never disintegrated and continued to hover and intermittently move downward slowly. We lost sight of them behind buildings. Soon thereafter, a helicopter appeared to be circling around the area. The whole event lasted 2.5 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kentucky Lights

Grayson — I was sitting in the living room when my step dad called me to come there to look outside. He said there was a light in the hill adjacent to our house; he thought it was coon hunters.  I step outside and there’s a UFO and not a plane.

It just hovered, then it started moving slowly with two enormous lights to the side with another one beneath it. The sound was faint and buzzing. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Louisiana Cylinder

Lafayette — I get to work and I see the moon is full and it has a rainbow shining on top of it so I take two pictures and I go inside and I show my friend the pictures on September 29, 2018and he says what is that green thing I said where and then I see it one picture shows that it moves a little then we look at the next one and it moves way to the right within 3 minutes I it was in front of the moon I should have video it thanks. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Hampshire Light

Kingston — I was driving through New Hampshire at 10 pm on Route 107 and notice extremely bright lights in the sky. The lights seemed to be too bright to be a plane.. I slowed down my car and as it got closer and could see the lights were shaped differently than on planes. The craft was shaped basically like a”V” and on each wing there were two very big bright lights positioned close to each other. There were also two bright white lights in the front of the craft but those were much smaller than the ones on the wings. The craft flew right over my head and it was extremely big and silent and much bigger than a passenger airplane.. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oregon Clinger

 Port Orford — At a beach just south of Port Orford taking photos, I did not see or hear anything at the time, I was talking to a lady just before and after and she did not mention anything about this. I saw this the next day while going through my photos.

I shot this in Jpeg and CR2 RAW. The object is almost centered in photo above the flat roc.  Photo was taken on September 24, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS

South Carolina ‘Objects

 Hilton Head Island  — On the beach around 3:30 pm, on October 29, 2018, I saw boats on horizon and then looked up and saw two strange shaped clouds that looked like an upside down mushrooms with a circle in the mushroom head.  It seemed unnatural for a cloud. Then both small clouds changed shape at the same time. Shape changed to a more natural small cloud shape. No clouds anywhere in the sky except these two. Took photo and didn’t think anymore about it until I got home and looked at the photo and zoomed in. Saw black dots over both clouds and some around the cloud. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Light

 San Antonio — I am in leadership seminar for my client looked up and saw a large Chevron/inverted V shaped ‘airplane’ with a white flashing light at the V point flying low and slow, no sound. I couldn’t believe my eyes – it was so low and over the highway 1604 going SW along the road, right next to a large shopping center area with a lot of lights and cars. I grabbed my iPhone to try and video and photograph it. My video didn’t record but I did get ONE ‘live’ iPhone photo which shows the object (changed shape/color!) as a yellow-orange disc that appears to be a fluid energy source? There was movement from left to right. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia object

Monroe Institute  — This is the same photo, (IMG_5082A1), that I sent you a little while ago, however, it is slightly bigger. I was in error. It was taken on November 6, 2018, one day after I took my photo (DSC06516A), which was taken on 11-5-18. They are very similar except maybe they were taken from different angles. Love and Light, Dan Johnson

Wyoming Triangles

Buckhorn — Photo was taken October 15, 2018, of a herd of Black Angus cattle on Highway 85 some 5 miles from crossing into South Dakota. There were about 200 head of cattle and cowboys on horseback, the calves were scared and bellowing, Took me 20 minutes to drive through the wandering and upset cattle and took photos.

Later on after checking into the Elk Ridge Resort cabin in Spearfish, North Dakota, I took a look at the attached photo….that’s when I saw the 4 white triangles that look like spacecraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Object

 I was sitting in car around 6:30 am on my phone on August 29, 2018. it was dusk, just becoming light. I couldn’t get off the phone quick enough as I saw this light traveling across the sky, which appeared to have come from the west coast, the ocean is a few kilometer’s away from where I live near the west coast of western Australia. I quickly started my Samsung galaxy s5 phone camera and filmed it for a few minutes, It traveled in easterly direction, making no noise at all. there is an airport just out of town and I hear them flying most days very clearly, however this light object made no noise at all. it disappeared into smallish cloud and came out other side, then I followed it as it moved into more cloud cover and never came out  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Cigar

Vaughan — Was taking a picture of the cool clouds outside the house.

When I looked at the pictures I noticed in the second picture what appeared to be a black cylinder hovering in front of the clouds.

Photo was taken on November 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Guatemala Light

 Antigua –This photo was taken  in December 2011 and was taken above the Volcano “El Agua” with a little light above the clouds. It was the fifth picture of a sequence of 12 pictures I took in the same direction, in just a few minutes. No one of the other photos showed the light. The light that appears above the clouds did not appear in the other photos.

I noticed it later when I checked the photo a few minutes later. Although the clouds were well focused, the strange light was blurred suggesting high speed Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Hungary Lights

 Budapest l — I was watching a live webcam feed on Earth Cam at around 6 pm UK time on November 7, 2018. I noticed strange lights in the sky. I was watching on my iPad. As you can see I fumbled around with my phone then turned out the light to show the footage better. This is live and in real time. I was amazed and fascinated. The actual display lasted at least an hour before the webcam changed angles. The craft were almost playing with each other. Their movements are so fluid like a dance and they are leaving light trails behind themselves. They are moving in all directions at great speed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

India Disc

DAIPUR – RAJASTHAN  — Yes, it was 07:30 pm, on November 8, 2018, and my sister and I were standing on our balcony. We saw an orange and white colored thing in the sky, which was coming towards us I asked, “What’s that?” It was totally different in color from a helicopter and suddenly it stopped there and stayed for 5 seconds, so we waved towards that thing,
and it went back a little. We realized that we had seen something we were not supposed to see. That made us bring out our phone and record that incident, and when i was recording it just disappeared in thin air. we were so excited that we were shouting and shocked. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Puerto Rico Object

 
Naguabo – I found cigar shape object after reviewing sequences of photos on left of photo.

The event took place during sun, 26 August 2018 at 08:51 am in saguaro, Puerto Rico.

I was taking a ride through the rainforest.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Orb

 Cardiff — I was on the beach with my partner and two children at around 19:08 on September 29, 2018.  I started to film the sea because it was so calm/ My partner mentioned seeing the moon because of how bright the light was. After I watched the film back I showed my partner the light but it was no longer there. The sky was very clear?

Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Certainly, that’s a very controversial question to ask. It was put to me last week, while doing radio. For many researchers, the Mothman is perceived as being a creature of purely cryptozoological proportions. Others take the view that the Mothman was (and, perhaps, still is) something of a definitively supernatural nature. But, to get back to the matter of that question put to me, let’s see what the evidence, testimony and data provides. But, first a bit of background on the weird winged-thing is required. There can be few people reading this who have not at least heard of the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who so terrorized the town and the surrounding area between November 1966 and December 1967, and whose diabolical exploits were chronicled in the 2002 hit Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere: The Mothman Prophecies, so named after the book of the same title written by Mothman authority John Keel.

A winged monster with red eyes, Mothman came out of nowhere. Some say its presence culminated in high tragedy and death. But what was the Mothman of Point Pleasant? And how did the legend begin?  To answer those questions we have to go back to the dark night of November 12, 1966, when five grave-diggers working in a cemetery in the nearby town of Clendenin were shocked to see what they described as a “brown human shape with wings” rise out of the thick, surrounding trees and soar off into the distance. Three days later, the unearthly beast surfaced once again. It was at the highly appropriate time of the witching-hour when Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette – two young, married couples from Point Pleasant – were passing the time away by cruising around town in the Scarberrys’ car.

As they drove around the old factory, the four were puzzled to see in the shadows what looked like two red lights pointing in their direction. These were no normal lights, however. Rather, all four were shocked and horrified to discover that, in reality, the “lights” were the glowing, self-illuminating red eyes of a huge animal that, as Roger Scarberry would later recall, was “…shaped like a Mothman, but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings folded against its back.” Not surprisingly, they fled the area at high speed. Unfortunately for the Scarberry’s and the Mallette’s, however, the beast seemingly decided to follow them: as they sped off for the safety of Point Pleasant, the winged monster took to the skies and shadowed their vehicle’s every movement until it reached the city limits.

Water River Point Pleasant Bridge West Virginia

The four raced to the sheriff’s office and told their astounding story to Deputy Millard Halstead, who later stated that: “I’ve known these kids all their lives. They’d never been in any trouble and they were really scared that night. I took them seriously.” And even though a search of the area by Halstead did not result in an answer to the mystery, the Mothman would soon return. Again and again. And again. As far as the question concerning Mothman being an extraterrestrial is concerned, I would be inclined to completely dismiss this “E.T.” theory were it not for one thing. Namely, that there was indeed a great deal of UFO- and alleged alien-themed activity going on at that time – and in relatively close proximity to Point Pleasant. In other words, where UFOs were seen, so were strange lights in the sky. Moving on…

Susan Sheppard is a friend of mine, who has expert knowledge of the strange tale of a man named Woodrow Derenberger and a creepy character named Indrid Cold. I’ll now turn you over to Susan: “…strangeness that enveloped West Virginia and Ohio Valley did not begin with the Scarberry encounter along route 2 north of Point Pleasant. There had been another puzzling event that occurred in Parkersburg 12 days before. This happened on November 2, 1966 one mile south of the city limits of Parkersburg. It involved a sewing machine salesman whose life was about to be disrupted in such a way that he would never entirely recover. His name was Woodrow Derenberger, but everyone called him ‘Woody.’ It was shortly after 6 p.m. in the evening, when Woody Derenberger was driving home from his job as a sewing machine salesman at J.C. Penny’s in Marietta, Ohio to his farmhouse in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The ride home was overcast and dreary. It was misting a light rain.

“As Derenberger came up on the Intersection of I-77 and Route 47, he thought that a tractor trailer truck was tailgating him without its lights on, which was unnerving, so he swerved to the side of the road and much to his surprise, the truck appeared to take flight and seemed to roll across his panel truck. To his astonishment, what Derenberger thought was a truck was a charcoal colored UFO without any lights on. It touched down and then hovered about 10 inches above the berm of the road. Much to Derenberger’s surprise a hatch opened and a man stepped out looking like “any ordinary man you would see on the street – there was nothing unusual about his appearance.

“Except the man [Indrid Cold] was dressed in dark clothing and had a ‘beaming smile.’ As the man proceeded to walk toward Derenberger’s panel truck the ‘craft’ jetted up to about 40 feet in the air where it floated above the highway. What happened next was unsettling, because as the darkly-dressed man came up toward the vehicle Woody Derenberger heard the words, ‘Do not be afraid, I mean you no harm, I only want to ask you a few questions.’ Derenberger did become afraid because as the man spoke to Woodrow his lips did not move. The man then moved to the opposite of the truck and told Derenberger to roll down his window so they could talk better, which he did. Next what formed in Derenberger’s mind were the words, ‘Now you can speak, or you can think… it makes no difference, I can understand you either way,’ … this is what the dark man said. Later, when Derenberger was questioned on local live television he was scrutinized over what seemed a contradiction because if the dark man communicated through a type of mental telepathy why would Derenberger need to roll down his window to talk? Wouldn’t it be easier just to talk mentally?

“Woodrow Derenberger explained it was because Indrid Cold wanted to look directly at him as they spoke and he felt that, really, Cold wasn’t so interested in what was said but more interested in keeping up a communication with him. To Derenberger, that seemed the entire point of it all. Derenberger also noted that when Cold stared into his eyes, it was as if he knew everything about Woodrow Derenberger, and also, if he could only let go of his fear and do the same, he felt he would also know and understand all about Cold. In any event, Cold spoke through the passenger side window the entire time. The physical description of Cold was commonplace. Derenberger described him as about 35 years of age, having a trim build, was about six feet tall, 185 pounds with dark eyes and dark hair slicked straight back. Cold wore a long dark coat and beneath the coat Woodrow Derenberger was able to glimpse the fabric of his “uniform” that glistened beneath the coat. He also described Cold as having a ‘tanned complexion.’ Throughout the conversation Cold kept a frozen smile and curiously hid his hands beneath his armpits most of the time.

“Cold did, however, point at the city lights above the distant hills of Parkersburg and asked Mr. Derenberger, ‘What do you call that over there?’ Derenberger said, ‘Why, that’s Parkersburg and we call that a city.’ Cold responded, ‘Where I come from we call it a gathering.’  Cold later added the curious statement that “’I come from a place less powerful than yours.’ As the men talked cars passed under the craft which drifted above the road. The occupants were seemingly unaware of the spaceship being there. After all, there were no lights that could be seen. Cold then asked about Parkersburg, ‘Do people live there or do they work there?’ Woody Derenberger answered, ‘Why, yes, people live and work there.’ Cold interjected ‘Do you work, Mr. Derenberger?’ (Woodrow told Cold his name as the conversation began)   Derenberger answered, ‘I am a salesman. That’s what I do. Do you have a job?’ Cold answered, ‘Yes. I am a searcher.’

“After that the conversation became mundane. Cold seemed to notice Woodrow Derenberger was scared and commented on it. Mr. Derenberger claimed Cold asked him, ‘Why are you so frightened? Do not be afraid. We mean you no harm. You will see that we eat and bleed the same as you do,’ and then added an emotive note, ‘We only wish you happiness’ which Cold said to the frightened man more than once. While Mr. Derenberger was being interviewed on live television on WTAP-TV, he attributed this puzzling statement to Indrid Cold, “At the proper time, the authorities will be notified about our meeting and this will be confirmed.” The entire conversation took between five and ten minutes and then Indrid Cold looked inside Woody’s car with his ever-present smile, and said, ‘Mr. Derenberger, I thank you for talking to me. We will see you again.’

There ends an extract from an excellent paper that Susan very generously prepared for me.

Moving on, there’s the matter of the Men in Black. In his classic book, The Mothman Prophecies, John Keel said of one such case: “On a rainy night in April a man from Ohio had been driving along Route 2 near the Chief Cornstalk Hunting Grounds when a large black form rose from the woods and flew over his car. ‘It was at least ten feet wide,’ he claimed. ‘I stepped on the gas and it kept right up with me. We were doing over seventy. It scared the hell out of me. Then I saw it move ahead of me and turn toward the river.’” Keel continued: “Months later, late in October, he returned home from work and found a prowler in his apartment. ‘When I opened the door I saw this man standing in my living room,’ he reported. ‘I think he was dressed all in black. I couldn’t see his face, but he was about five feet nine. I started to fumble for the light switch when he took my picture. There was a big flash of light, so bright I couldn’t see a thing. While I was rubbing my eyes the burglar darted past me and went out the open door. I guess I arrived just in time because nothing was missing.’”

Mary Hyre was a woman who played an integral role in the series of 1960s-era events that led John Keel to write The Mothman Prophecies. In January 1967, Hyre was visited by a creepy, bowl-haired MIB of around 5-feet in height and who had oddly hypnotic eyes. Throughout the encounter, the black-clad “man” kept staring at Hyre’s ballpoint pen. To the point where Hyre told him he could keep it. He took it, laughed loud in a strange fashion, and vanished as mysteriously as he first arrived. As The Demoniacal notes: “Mary Hyre was the Point Pleasant, WV, correspondent for the Athens, OH, newspaper titled, The Messenger. Hyre documented strange occurrences happening in Point Pleasant in 1966-1967 and was well loved by locals due to her professional and open-minded take on the subjects. In one weekend alone, Hyre received 500 reports of UFO sightings from locals. Hyre’s fascination with flying saucers stemmed from her own sighting of a UFO which she claimed flew over her backyard.”

All of which brings us back to the matter of the Mothman. As we have seen, at the same time the Mothman was soaring around the skies of Point Pleasant, Mary Hyre had a close encounter with a weird Man in Black. The MIB are, of course, inextricably linked to the UFO phenomenon. Not only that, Hyre was the recipient of hundreds of UFO reports and someone who became one of Keel’s closest friends. Add to that the saga of Indrid Cold and what we have is an area that was dominated by not just the famous, flying monster, but by a number of UFO-related issues too. I consider it highly unlikely that the Cold controversy, the experiences of Mary Hyre, and the Mothman and MIB presences were completely unconnected. So, that’s why I am at least open to the idea that the Mothman just may have been an extraterrestrial – and not a creature of Cryptozoology or even of something of paranormal origins.

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UFO – A Myth or a Fact – Real Life UFO Sightings

Though people have reported about seeing strange objects in the sky since ancient times, UFO is a rather new-age phenomenon. Basically, UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. This particular term appeared for the first time in the 1950s. Until then the strange flying objects were referred to as Flying Saucers.

Does it ring any bell?

Yeah, that’s the term that we’re more accustomed to.

The weird flying machines were called flying saucers because of their disc- like shape. The term flying saucers for the UFOs became a trend after a US pilot Kenneth Arnold reported about seeing a saucer-like object. He was flying over the Mount Rainier when he saw it. Until the late 1940s, the flying saucer was the term that defined UFOs.

Originally, the term UFO was used for almost any strange object seen floating or flying in the sky. Whenever a pilot saw an experimental plane that couldn’t identify, he believed it to be a UFO.

Gradually, the definition and specification of UFOs got more refined. After the 1940s, the aircraft sightings believed to be from another planet were labeled as UFOs. In fact, the idea became deeply embedded that UFOs were flown by aliens. People believed that UFOs were outer-worldly vehicles.

There were many reports of people being abducted by the aliens and taken along to an unknown destination. A majority of the UFO sightings have come from pilots. In many incidents, the pilot claims to have seen a strange flying object unlike any aircraft he’s seen before.

Unidentified Flying Object or UFO as a term for flying saucers was firstly recorded in 1953. It was firstly used in a book authored by Donald Keyhoe, a famous writer and US aviator. In 1956, the term UFO formally replaced flying saucer and the credit goes to Edward Rupplet, a USAF officer.

Rupplet was responsible for investigating the strange flying objects. He believed that flying saucer wasn’t a suitable term. UFOs offered a broader description of these objects, in his opinion. Thus, this is how the world was formally introduced to the UFO phenomenon.

Pretty soon there were reports of potential UFO sightings from around the globe. So extensive was the impact that investigations were launched to study the phenomenon. The study of UFOs was officially named as Ufology in 1959 and the field experts were categorized as Ufologists in 1963.

Flying Saucers- A Brief History:

It all started from June 24, 1947. A civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying over the Pacific Northwest in his private aircraft. There came a point when he realized that there was something else flying alongside his plane. As his plane closed in to the Mount Rainier, Washington, he spotted some objects. In his own words, there were “nine objects, glowing bright bluish-white.”

These 9 objects were flying quite close to his aircraft. Eight objects, claimed Arnold, were disc-shaped. The ninth one was much bigger than the rest and was shaped like a crescent. He also noted that all the objects were flying in a customary V-shaped formation at roughly 1,200miles an hour. He suspected it to be a military exercise. However, he was sure that the objects were saucer-like in shape. He hadn’t yet seen such a weirdly designed aircraft. Moreover, at the time no aircraft could fly in this formation.

While he was giving interviews to the press and at the radio station, his comment saucer was highlighted a lot. Physical description of the strange objects was, thus, associated with the term saucer since then on.

Immediately, rumor mills got activated and all sorts of theories emerged. The most popular one was that the objects were from outer space. This was regarded as a ground-breaking discovery as it indicated there was life on other planets.

However, by that time aliens weren’t specifically associated with the visitors in the strange objects. It was in the 1970s that people started speculating about the presence of aliens on UFOs. It was an era when environmental concerns were rising and the threat of a nuclear war was looming. Hence, conspiracy theorists came up with the idea of alien species visiting the earth.

By the 1990s, though, this narrative reached a new height of extremity. Not hundreds but thousands of reports about people being abducted by aliens emerged. It was believed that aliens are kidnapping humans to perform medical experiments. Even the thought of being abducted by the aliens is eerie. Isn’t it?

Who are the Sky People AKA Aliens?

Theories of aliens and ancient astronauts have remained the center of human imagination for centuries. There are many legends and artifacts from thousands of years ago that describe sightings of unidentified flying objects. Their shape, size, and characteristics do vary though. Back then, aliens were referred to as the Sky People. It was believed that the sky people come from a highly advanced civilization.

Legend has it that the first ever contact with the sky people occurred soon after the cataclysm. Theorists proclaim that this contact has occurred several times in the history of the planet. This information has been substantiated by archaeological, geological, anthropological, and paleontological data as well. Evidence suggests that there have been several cataclysms on the planet. Every time there was a change at the global level such as climate change or mass extinction, this contact occurred.

One of the legends claims that after the catastrophe, human civilization was reduced to the Stone Age. Then the sky people descended on the Earth from their spacecraft and rebuilt the civilization. Could they be aliens or just an illusion?

It is evident from many historical accounts that there are various kinds of sky people who are part of legends. These could be gods, aliens or planetary bodies like the sun, moon, stars, etc. Investigators in the TV show Ancient Aliens attempted to know the reality behind ancient gods. Their conclusion was that they were aliens.

However, this judgment lacks substance. For instance, the Greek sun god Apollo is just that- a sun god. It cannot be an alien flying through the sky in a saucer-like spaceship. Moreover, the spacecraft that many legends refer to as vimanas and flying machines, could very well be from previous civilizations on earth.

Many legends state that the spacecraft transported some of the humans to another planet during the catastrophe. This planet could be the Moon, Mars or Venus. It may also be somewhere under the sea or the earth.

There isn’t any clear indication of the reality of the sky people. So, if the accounts are true and not mere myths, then sky people might be humans who somehow built flying machines.

Most Famous UFO Sightings:

We may disregard the concept of a UFO as a mere myth or product of crazy fiction. But, the unexplainable sightings in such a large number do hint that UFOs could be for real. Some of the famous sightings are listed below.

The 1940s-50s:

Nearly 12,618 sightings were reported only between 1947 and 1969. These sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. It was the name of an ongoing UFO research project headquartered at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Out of these, about 701 still remain unidentified.

The first and probably most talked about sighting involved Kenneth Arnold who identified 9 strange flying objects in 1947. We have already discussed this incident at length earlier in the article.

The same year, on July 8 New Mexico’s public information office reported about recovering a crashed flying disc. It was recovered nearby a ranch in Roswell. The military later explained that it was the debris from an experimental observation balloon. However, critics weren’t buying this explanation. They even criticized the government for hiding the truth. It was firmly believed that an extraterrestrial aircraft was found near Roswell. They were also certain that not just the spacecraft but its occupants were also captured from the location.

In 1948, a 25-year old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas Mantell died while chasing a UFO. He was an expert airman and had actively participated in the WWII as a pilot. So, it came as a surprise to many that he died in a plane crash. The two co-pilots who were flying with Mantell that fateful day couldn’t clearly explain the object they were pursuing.

In November 1953, First Lieutenant Felix E. Moncla Jr. received strange orders while he was flying. He was tasked to intercept an unidentified object. The object was tracked by the radars installed at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. As Moncla Jr. got closer to the object, his plane simply vanished from the radar. It was never found again.

The Mariana UFO Incident from 1951 is another popular case of UFO sighting. Great Falls’ pro baseball team’s manager managed to capture images of two UFOs. The spaceships were flying over Great Falls. The footages were analyzed quite extensively by the USAF and independent researchers too but they couldn’t explain it.

In 1959, a Pan American flight was traveling to San Francisco from Honolulu. The crew suddenly encountered a UFO while flying at 21,000feet over the Pacific. Pilots from two other airlines also confirmed the sighting. Reporters were later told by Captain George Wilson that there was a very bright light surrounded by smaller lights. The UFO was traveling at lightning speed.

“I’m a believer now” concluded Wilson.

1980s-90s:

In Belgium, between 1989 and 1990 a large object containing huge lights was identified by not one or two but hundreds of individuals. Those who saw the object included air traffic controllers, cops, and Air Force officials. However, their claims about seeing a UFO were rejected and the object was termed as a polystyrene fake. This was a rather hilarious logic offered to explain something witnessed by hundreds.

On July 11, 1991, Mexico City was observing an eclipse when many people saw and even recorded glimpses of a UFO.

A similar incident occurred in Belgium in 1997. It became famous as the Phoenix Lights. This particular incident was also witnessed by a multitude of people including politicians and air traffic officials. This story was featured on the National Geographic documentary titled “Secret History of UFOs” too.

The ex-governor of Arizona Fife Symington stated that he himself had witnessed the Phoenix lights.

“I suspect that, unless the Defense Department proves it otherwise, it was some form of an alien spacecraft,” said Symington.

Key Abductions:

Apart from UFO sightings, there have been countless reports about people being abducted by aliens. Travis Walton is one such abductee.

In NatGeoTV’s show Chasing UFOs the story of Walton was reported in which he claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens. He also identified witnesses who observed strange UFO activity soon after his alleged abduction.

Investigators although disagree with Walton but it’s a fact that his story remained consistent throughout the investigation, which continued for decades. This story made a sensational debut in the movie Fire in the Sky as well.

Another famous incident of abduction by aliens is that of Betty and Barney Hill. The couple was traveling to a road nearby Portsmouth, in 1961, when they believe aliens abducted them. While narrating the events, they said that a spaceship landed and they were taken inside the craft. There, they had to undergo thorough body inspection. They claim that aliens performed the inspection. This incident attracted worldwide attention and was also explored in the movie The UFO Incident.

Astronauts and UFO Sightings:

If you think that only common people have seen UFOs so far then you are mistaken. The fact is that a majority of the UFO sightings have been reported by astronauts. In 1977, Stanford University’s space science and astrophysics professor, Peter Sturrock, decided to find out the same thing. He mailed over 2,500 questionnaires to the American Astronomical Society members.

The purpose was to find out more about their experiences of UFO sightings if any. Surprisingly, out of the 1,356 responses, 62 astronomers reported about witnessing unexplainable aerial occurrences. The rate of UFO sightings witnessed by astronauts turned out to be 4.6%. This is similar to 5% of the total UFO sightings that are still unexplained. Further investigation revealed that most of the UFO observations reported by astronomers occurred at nighttime.

The article titled “Apollo Astronaut Chats About UFO, Alien Belief” published in Discovery magazine explained more about the discovery at Roswell. In the article, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell surprisingly admitted that the crash at Roswell involved aliens and a spacecraft. He also claimed that the Phoenix Lights was also an out-worldly event.

“Three humongous craft flew over Phoenix, very slowly in the middle of the night that clearly were not local stuff, home-grown stuff” confirmed Mitchell.

However, the government quickly came out in its defense. NASA released this statement:

“NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.”

What Do the Experts Say?

For decades, researchers have been trying to explain the phenomenon of UFOs. However, the biggest challenge that they face in studying it closely is that these spaceships appear suddenly. For science to explain something, it is important to verify conclusions using testable evidence. UFO sightings cannot be controlled or repeated. This is why Ufology is such a challenging study.

The general public has also been fascinated by the UFOs to such an extent that any explanation from experts is quickly dismissed. Most of the explanations provided by scientists and the governments declare them as weather phenomenon or human acts. There is no substantial evidence that could justify the sightings to involve aliens, extraterrestrial, spaceships, and flying saucers.

Experts believe that there has never been any extraterrestrial visit on the planet. There are no aliens and certainly no flying saucers. But, there is so little evidence that their theories can never be backed by solid arguments.  The most they do is regard the topic as off-limits.

In 2010, Dr. Michio Kaku, a well-known scientist, settled all the confusion once and for all by admitting that the UFOs are real. In his statement, he clearly said that at least 5% of the sightings are unidentified objects. These objects, added Dr. Kaku, behaved oddly and scarily.

However, a majority of scientists believe that UFOs are simply planes and clouds. These could also be celestial events like meteors or planets that sometimes appear unusually bright.

Despite investigations, some of the cases of sightings remain unexplainable to date. Scientists argue that the sightings could be of common objects that appear different in the skies. Some say that it could just be a normal balloon that appears unidentifiable high up in the air.

Final Thoughts:

It is simply not possible to dismiss thousands of UFO sightings as that of a balloon or the planet Venus. Still, a majority of the sightings are unexplainable while only a few could be regarded as manmade objects. In the past few decades, approximately millions of people have witnessed strange objects. There are pictures and videos available as well. So, can we disregard all of them and start believing that instead of a flying object, it could be a balloon?

What about the abductions? Are such incidents merely hallucinations?

Okay, hallucination can be the case once or twice but not always!

It’s been exactly 71 years since Kenneth Arnold first reported about a UFO. Science is nowhere near the truth as yet. Whether it is a secret spying project by the intelligence agencies or aliens visiting our planet, there is no clarity.

When there is doubt and mysteriousness surrounding an event, people will create theories. Despite that there isn’t any solid evidence of extraterrestrial involvement but can we completely rule it out? That’s not possible either.

So, let’s believe in the unbelievable until science gives us a credible explanation of the UFO phenomenon.

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Un enquête ouverte sur la possible présence d'OVNI au large de la côte irlandaise

Le Pentagone reconnaît l'existence d'un programme d'étude des ovnis - © Belga

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L'Autorité de l'aviation irlandaise enquête sur des informations faisant état de lumières et d'OVNI au large de la côte sud-ouest de l'Irlande, selon la BBC.

Tout a commencé à 9 h 47, heure locale, le vendredi 9 novembre, lorsqu'un pilote de British Airways contacte le contrôle du trafic aérien de Shannon. Il voulait savoir s'il y avait des exercices militaires dans la région parce qu'il y avait quelque chose "qui bouge très vite".

Mais aucun exercice n'était en cours. Le pilote, qui volait de Montréal à Heathrow, a déclaré qu'il y avait une "lumière très brillante" et que l'objet était monté le long du côté gauche de l'avion avant qu'il ne "vire rapidement au nord".

Un autre pilote d'un avion Virgin a suggéré qu'il puisse s'agir d'un météore ou d'un autre objet pénétrant dans l'atmosphère terrestre. Il a déclaré qu'il y avait "plusieurs objets qui suivaient le même type de trajectoire" et qu'ils étaient très brillants. Le pilote a déclaré avoir vu "deux lumières brillantes" vers la droite qui s'éloignaient rapidement.

Un pilote a déclaré que la vitesse était "astronomique, c'était comme Mach 2", ce qui correspond à deux fois la vitesse du son. "Suite à des informations sur une activité aérienne inhabituelle annoncées vendredi par un petit nombre d'aéronefs, l'IAA a déposé un rapport", a déclaré l'Irish Aviation Authority (IAA). "Ce rapport fera l'objet d'une enquête dans le cadre du processus d'enquête normal sur un événement confidentiel."

Un porte-parole de l'aéroport de Shannon a déclaré qu'il ne serait pas approprié que l'aéroport fasse des commentaires pendant que l'enquête de l'IAA est en cours.

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Is UFO a sign of alien life?

 KWANDOKUHLE NJOLI

The object was called “Oumuamua” which means “a messenger that reaches out from the distant past” in Hawaiian. It was picked up by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.

Since its discovery, scientists have been at odds as they tried to explain its unusual features and origins.

Researchers first called it a comet, then an asteroid. When the object failed to satisfy the criteria of either, they labelled it a first of its kind: a new class of “interstellar objects”.

Given its high speed and its unusual trajectory, the reddish, stadium-sized whatever-it-is clearly came from outside our solar system.

But its flattened, elongated shape and the way it accelerated through the solar system set it apart from conventional asteroids and comets.

In a paper, researchers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics raised the possibility that the elongated dark-red object, which is 10 times as long as it is wide and travelled at speeds of more than 300000km/* , could be of “artificial origin”.

“Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilisation,” they wrote in the paper, which has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The theory is based on the object’s “excess acceleration”, or its unexpected boost in speed as it travelled through and ultimately out of our solar system in January.

Religious leaders also expressed mixed views on the possibility of other life forms.

According to Bishop Rubin Phillip, head of the Anglican Church in KwaZulu-Natal, God created all life in the universe, not just on Earth.

As a result, it was his belief that Christianity could include the possibility of life beyond our planet.

“The Bible talks about God creating every living creature. God created all life and not just life on Earth alone, but in the whole universe.

“If life is discovered in the universe, this is not a contradiction of our beliefs, because God created life and we believe that there is life all over,” said Bishop Phillip.

Dr Faisal Suliman of the SA Muslim Network said there was nothing in the Qur’an that negated the possibility of other creations in the universe.

“Yes, we believe that we may not be the only creations in the universe.

“The Qur’an does not say that we are the only creation,” said Suliman.

However, Ashwin Trikamjee, president of the SA Hindu Maha Sabha, rejected the notion of alien life.

“Hinduism believes in Karma and that if you have been doing good, you come back again.

“The soul finds itself another body to live in.

“Therefore there is no space for any other life,” he said.

Shembe (Ebuhleni) spokesperson Thokozani Mncwabe also dismissed the idea that there could be life on other planets.

“I do not wish to stretch much on the matter, however, we strongly believe that all living creatures are on Earth and anything else is a fable,” said Mncwabe.

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This Discovery In A 4,500-Year-Old Quarry Solves The Mystery Of Egypt’s Great Pyramid

A new archaeological dig has led to an important discovery about how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramids.

It seems that the Egyptians could have used a system of ramps and pulleys to make work easier for builders of the Pyramids. The picture below indicates a ramp structure that could be used to pull blocks up with ropes. This 4,500-year-old ramp was unearthed in an ancient quarry in the Eastern Desert. Ancient Egyptian architects probably realized that an incline plane can decrease the amount of force required to pull up these blocks. Each block can weigh around 2.3 tons, which is equivalent to 4,600 pounds!

The Great Pyramids are one of the last surviving Wonders of the World today, built during the reign of Khufu, and we still do not know exactly how they were built. This graphic could lead to more discoveries into the building of the Pyramids.

The workers would have used wooden poles which they pulled ropes around to hold the blocks. These poles acted as pulleys showing that the Egyptians understood more than one way to decrease workload.

Dr. Roland Enmarch of the University of Liverpool says:

'The arrangement allows people to be spaced up and down the ramp, and all the force to be exerted in the same direction'

• Mount the block onto a sled
• Tie ropes around sled and drag ropes around wooden poles
• Have workers above and below the sled pulling on ropes to move the block

The reason it has taken so long to discover these ramps is that they would have been removed immediately after construction. Now that we see the Egyptians did indeed use ramps, we can make more conjectures about exactly how these 481-ft Great Pyramid were built. The workers probably mounted a block onto a sled which was tied with ropes wrapped around the wooden poles. The ramp was probably at a gradient of 20 percent relieving as much work as possible to allow the blocks to slide easily up the ramp into place.

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The Sky Turns Purple In The US And Nobody Knows Why

An odd and out of the ordinary purple glow has been reported on multiple occasions illuminating the sky over various places across the United States. The reasoning for this weird occurrence in the sky is yet to be determined.

Many videos have surfaced over the internet revealing the purple sky found in the United States. One video reveals a purple sky found over a large tree and house in a residential area. The purple sky seems to be hovering in the sky above the house. The sky around it is of a typical shade.

The video above was recorded on October 13th, 2018. Another video on that same day in Cleveland shows another purple sky as a person is driving down the street and approaching the purple sky. Once again, the sky appears to be in a small area of the sky, as most of the surrounding sky is of a regular formation.

Many people who are posting the videos are describing the purple sky as above the clouds, as opposed to below it. The purple sky is also being described as motionless. Two more videos showing the purple sky can be viewed at the following links;

Many of the videos show the purple sky with a location in Ohio. People are posting many videos from Cleveland, River Kuyahoga, and Dayton. The weird sky has not been limited to Ohio however, as reports are coming in from Wisconsin, Washington, and other areas across the country. All of the videos clearly show a purple sky and express uncertainty concerning the purple sky and why it is there and what it represents.

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A 2,100-year-old pit containing a mini "Terracotta Army" has been discovered in China.

Army Of Miniaturized Terracotta Warriors Discovered Guarding 2,100-Year-Old Chinese Prince’s Tomb

A 2,100-year-old pit discovered in China was found to contain not only chariots and miniature statues of cavalry, horses, watchtowers, infantry, civil officials and musicians, but at its center was a scaled down version of the famous “Terracotta Army.”

“The pit, along with several other archaeological sites, was discovered in the winter of 2007 during construction work” and was excavated by the Cultural Relics Agency of Linzi District of Zibo city. According to an article in Live Science archaeologists from this agency teamed up with researchers from the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and they published a report journal Wenwu, recently translated into English and published in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics .

A Miniature Force for the Afterlife

The southern part of the pit was found to have been filled with:

“formations of cavalry and chariots with models of watchtowers that stand 55 inches (140 centimeters) high and at the pit's center… 300 infantrymen stand alert in a square formation, while the northern part of the pit has a model of a theatrical pavilion holding small sculptures of musicians.”

The archaeologists noted that the newly discovered soldiers are smaller than those in the Terracotta Army and that the infantry sculptures are between 9 and 12 inches (22 and 31 cm) tall, much shorter that the famous life-size soldiers buried near the tomb of the First Emperor.

The miniatures include cavalry, horses and watchtowers.

( Chinese Cultural Relics )

Fit for a Prince?

Based on “the date, size and location of the pit,” archaeologists believe it might been built for Liu Hong, a prince of Qi (a part of China), who was the son of Emperor Wu (reign 141–87 BC).” Based in Linzi, near the pit, Hong  died in 110 BC without any heir, archaeologists wrote in their journal article. The scientists also wrote that “the vehicles, cavalry and infantry, laid out in a square formation, were reserved for burials of the monarchs or meritorious officials or princes” and they suspect Hong’s royal burial might lie undisturbed nearby.

Substantiating their suspicions, older residents in the area reported descriptions of “a prominent earthen mound, some 13 feet (4 meters) high, near the pit,” reports which are corroborated by an aerial photograph taken in 1938 by the Japanese Air Force. However, the study says that “Sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, workers removed the earth and flattened the area in order to widen the Jiaonan-Jinan Railway” and while “There are possibly architectural remains or a path leading from the pit… There is no way to explore the main burial chamber” believing that “the tomb itself may have been destroyed.”

There are around 300 infantry in a square formation at the center of the pit. 

(Chinese Cultural Relics )

What Was The Function of Chinese Terracotta Armies?

This particular form of ritualized funerary art began with the burial of the First Emperor in 210 to 209 BC which is arguably one of the most famous archaeological sites anywhere in the world, discovered by villagers in 1974. According to a Daily Mail article about the latest terracotta findings “The figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. Current estimates [of the full sized terracotta army at X’ian] are that there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried.”

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Part of the terracotta army of First Emperor Qin Shi Huang at Xi’an, China.

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Archaeologists know that the specific purpose of the warriors was to ‘protect’ emperors in their journeys into the corridors of the afterlife and they are thought of as of “crucial importance to our understanding of his attempts to control the world even in death.” Second in importance to being protected after death, Chinese emperors, it would seem, also required to be ‘entertained’, a claim which is made evident in the discovery of terracotta “acrobats, bureaucrats, musicians and bronze birds” at the First Emperor’s grave and the “model of a theatrical pavilion holding small sculptures of musicians” found at the new pit.

Terracotta Warrior Wrangle

Over the last decade the terracotta grave warriors have travelled from China and have been displayed in museums and universities in several countries, but these new statues won’t be coming to North America any time soon. And this has nothing to do with current trade wars or political wrangling, but because of the open wound in American - Chinese cause in 21st December 2017 when a 24-year-old American man was arrested by the FBI for breaking off and then stealing part of a $4.5 million Terracotta Warrior.

According to a report on Ancient Origins the Chinese government was pressing for a heavy jail sentence and as of yet the case is not closed, and until such times that it is, no more Chinese artifacts will find their way to American shores.

Top image: A 2,100-year-old pit containing a mini "Terracotta Army" has been discovered in China.

Source: Courtesy of Chinese Cultural Relics

By Ashley Cowie

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Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)

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Ancient Mysteries of Our Time Biggest Secrets Answered via Graham Hancock (Video)

Graham Hancock as you’ve never seen before, answering a multitude of questions on ancient origins. Graham traveled to Ethiopia and then to Israel, to uncover the lost secrets of the Ark of the Covenant.

 

The Sign and the Seal took him to Egypt and opened his eyes to the incredible enigma of the Great Pyramid of Giza, while the “technological” aspects of the Ark had alerted Hancock to the existence of out of place technologies in antiquity.

 

The stage was now set for his next project – a worldwide investigation into the possibility of a lost, prehistoric civilisation that resulted, in 1995, in the publication of Fingerprints of the Gods, undoubtedly his best known book.

 

Graham will answer questions of these subjects and many more in this previously unseen lecture.

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Ancient Mysteries of Our Time Biggest Secrets Answered via Graham Hancock (Video)

Graham Hancock as you’ve never seen before, answering a multitude of questions on ancient origins. Graham traveled to Ethiopia and then to Israel, to uncover the lost secrets of the Ark of the Covenant.

 

The Sign and the Seal took him to Egypt and opened his eyes to the incredible enigma of the Great Pyramid of Giza, while the “technological” aspects of the Ark had alerted Hancock to the existence of out of place technologies in antiquity.

 

The stage was now set for his next project – a worldwide investigation into the possibility of a lost, prehistoric civilisation that resulted, in 1995, in the publication of Fingerprints of the Gods, undoubtedly his best known book.

 

Graham will answer questions of these subjects and many more in this previously unseen lecture.

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Egypt SHOCK claim: 'Evidence is in front of our eyes' that pyramids were 'built by aliens'

EGYPT'S Great Pyramid of Giza was built using "advanced high technology" and the evidence is there for all to see, according to a bizarre documentary.

“I was born in a dark matter hurricane.”

The Rolling Stones song “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” was recorded 50 years ago this year, but If Keith Richards was born today, or at least during the current week, his signature opening line about a crossfire hurricane (which referred to a World War II German air raid on London) might have been updated to the dark matter hurricane slamming into the solar system and planet Earth as we speak. A what?

“The cosmic weather forecast calls for strong dark matter winds in our region of the Galaxy. The prediction is based on a new study of a nearby collection of stars that are all moving in the same direction.”

In the study “Dark matter hurricane: Measuring the S1 stream with dark matter detectors” published this past week in the journal Physical Review D and summarized in Physics, researchers from the University of Zaragoza in Spain reveal – a little too late – that Earth is presently in the midst of a ‘stellar stream’ that may contain a large amount of dark matter. Let’s break that down and see if we should look up at the sky or bend over and kiss our butts goodbye.

A stellar stream is the remains of a dwarf galaxy that was destroyed by a larger one. In this case, a stream called S1 by the researchers who discovered it last year using the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite is the remnants of dwarf galaxy eaten by the Milky Way billions of years ago. It appears to contain remnants of about 30,000 stars and is traveling through the galaxy at a speed of about 500 kilometers (310 miles) per second. How do they know this? Because it’s blowing past and around the sun and our planet right now.

That in and of itself doesn’t put us in any danger, according to the study. However, what happened on its journey here might. While passing through the rest of the galaxy, S1 has been picking up dark matter and is now bombarding us with it at such a high speed that study co-author Ciaran O’Hare named it a “dark matter hurricane.” (A new song would have to credit O’Hara to avoid the controversy Keith had with Stones bass player Bill Wyman over his uncredited contribution to the opening guitar riff of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”)

Inferred distribution of dark matter (blue) through the effect of gravitational lensing

Since we’re already theoretically surrounded by dark matter, the hurricane itself isn’t hurting us. In fact, it’s helping astronomers and physicists potentially identify what dark matter really is. One theory is that it’s a form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). O’Hara’s team believes current detectors won’t be able to pick them up but future WIMP detectors might. They’re more excited about identifying axion dark matter (theoretical particles 500 million times lighter than electrons) which “should exhibit a broad bump with an additional narrow peak if the S1 hurricane is truly buffeting our shores.”

So, we’re not going to get hit by any of the big pieces in S1 and we’re theoretically in no danger of the load of theoretical dark matter it’s dumping on us. The S1 dark matter hurricane is one of those things that will only give wet dreams to astronomers, physicists … and possibly future songwriters and heavy metal bands.

“Here I am … rock you like a dark matter hurricane.”

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It’s an inevitability that when we find extraterrestrial life, despite the funding and civic pride and hope the nations of the world have put into their space programs, it’s going to be a rich dude that finds it. When you’ve got more money than you can count in a lifetime, the reasonable thing to do is hunt for aliens. What else is there to do? Yachts get boring after number 7 or 8, and you’re guaranteed an immortal legacy if you’re responsible for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is trying to be that rich dude, and he recently signed an agreement with NASA for their help with his planned mission to hunt for alien life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

According to New Scientist, NASA is providing concepts, plans, and consulting work for Milner’s mission, which would be the first ever privately funded mission to deep space. From their report:

Agreements signed by NASA and Milner’s non-profit Breakthrough Starshot Foundation in September show that the organisations are working on scientific, technical and financial plans for the ambitious mission. NASA has committed over $70,000 to help produce a concept study for a flyby mission. The funds won’t be paid to Breakthrough but represent the agency’s own staffing costs on the project.

Non-profit is a funny word. Some things are worth more than money and discovering alien life represents an incalculable profit.

The Breakthrough Initiatives were founded in 2015 by Milner and his wife Julia, their board of directors includes Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg. The late physicist Stephen Hawking was on the board of directors, but we live in a world where the Facebook guy is going to discover aliens instead of Stephen Hawking. Let that sink in. Not too deep though, it’s incredibly depressing.

Enceladus.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Breakthrough Starshot is just one of the initiatives that the foundation is undertaking. Others include designing tech like solar sails and there are initiatives to fund both the listening for extraterrestrial civilizations and the sending of our own messages that someone might listen to. Which we can all agree is a terrible idea.

As to why they’re choosing Enceladus, the ice moon represents one of our best chances for finding life outside the cozy blanket of Earth’s atmosphere. Enceladus is cold. Its surface temperature never reaches above −324 °F (−198 °C). Despite its surface temperature, the Cassini spacecraft found evidence of a large ocean of liquid water beneath the ice surface in 2014. Cassini also observed geysers of ice and other compounds shooting into space, shows internal geothermal activity. Enceladus is locked in orbital resonance with another moon, Dione, and the resulting tidal activity in Enceladus’ subsurface ocean seems to be driving that activity. There’s something else too: on June 27, 2018, NASA revealed that Cassini had detected complex organic matter in the ice jets coming out of Enceladus.

Cross section of what Enceladus’ interior probably looks like.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

So we’ve got a water ocean, geothermal activity, and complex organic matter being shot into space from that ocean. Yeah, that seems life a fair place to look for life.

We’ll see. The beginning states of the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative will begin next year, as the team begins working through the concepts and planning phases. For all the problems with ultra-wealthy individuals making themselves the standard-bearers of humanity, there is an undeniable truth that money makes things happen. If enough money is thrown at these projects then it’s a sure bet that something will get done. What it is and what we’ll find is anyone’s guess at this point, but it will probably be pretty neat.

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The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating a series of unexplained sightings reported by pilots flying over Ireland’s west coast last week. The incident began on Friday, November 9 when Shannon Air Traffic Control received a call from a British Airways Boeing 787 pilot flying from Montreal to Heathrow. Around 6:47 a.m. local time, the pilot radioed in to ask air traffic controllers if any military exercises were taking place at the time after he says his plane was buzzed by a “really bright light” which intercepted his plane before zooming away to the north “at a very high speed.”

Air traffic control reported nothing on radar.

Two other planes also reported witnessing similar objects in the area around the same time. Audio of those interactions between pilots and Shannon Air Traffic Control have been posted to YouTube. A nearby pilot can be heard suggesting that the objects may be meteors entering the Earth’s atmosphere, noting that multiple bright objects were following the same trajectory. A third pilot then joins in, adding “Glad it wasn’t just me.”

In response to those sightings, the Irish Aviation Authority issued the following statement to the Irish Examiner:

Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9th November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report. This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.

We could very well never know what it was these pilots saw given the lack of any other evidence. Still, this incident adds to the growing body of recent sightings documented by recordings between pilots and air traffic controllers. Do these suggest some type of high strangeness going on overhead, or possibly that the skies aren’t quite as friendly as they used to be?

I always tend to side with theories which pin UFO activity and anomalous sightings on military activity or new types of unknown or unmanned aircraft. Given the somewhat testy geopolitical climate of today, it could be merely that we’re getting glimpses of things to come: hypersonic and space-based warfare, governmental misdirection, and a whole lot of confused civilians on the ground.

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Big UFO Near Our Sun In NASA Satellite Image, Nov 12, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Nov 12, 2018 13:06 EIT
Location of discovery: Earths sun
Source: https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

I was checking out the NASA SOHO images from their satellite that monitors the sun. The EIT filter captured a strange shaped UFO near the sun. The object appears to be white metallic with a reflection of yellow over it, probably caused from being so near the surface of the sun. The video is in HD so make it full screen to get a better view. 
Scott C. Waring

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Three pilots report Many UFOs Over Ireland, coast of Kerry Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 12, 2018
Location of sighting: Ireland
Source: 

• https://www.independent.ie/videos/irish-news/listen-the-moment-pilots-report-ufo-sightings-over-co-kerry-37519270.html
  

Updated source with photo: 

• http://en.protothema.gr/ufos-spotted-off-irish-coast-under-investigation-audio/
  

Updated: Made a video analysing the UFO...Video below. 

I am searching for some photos of these UFOs. They reported multiple UFOs, glowing flying twice the speed of sound one after another and that just incredible. We have to believe aircraft pilots...we put our families lives at risk when flying with them...trusting them to do their job well. They are trained pilots who have trained for everything...except this. Listen to this audio tape and just maybe it will open some eyes about the existence of aliens. 
Scott C. Waring

Below you see that I added contrast, which reveals that there are spinning parts of this orb...separate parts which rotate in unison around the UFO. These panels that are seen on the UFO below rotate together and allow this UFO to travel faster than light speed. When the pilots and radar operators saw them, the UFO fleets speed was twice that of the speed of sound. These are built for speed and for carrying passengers across the universe. 
SCW

News states: 

At 6.47am on November 9, 2018, the pilot of a British Airways flight contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to report a mysterious object travelling at high speed, and to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace through which her Boeing 787 was passing. She was told that no military exercises were taking place, and that there was nothing unusual showing up on radar. The pilot responded: “OK. It was moving so fast.” The controller then asked: “Alongside you?” She described how the UFO came up along the left-hand side of the aircraft, “then rapidly veered to the north”. She said it was “a very bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed”. The pilot of a Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 then joined the conversation and said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory”. Shannon ATC asked if the pilots knew which direction the objects were heading. The Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “11 o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right”, that then climbed away at speed. The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the sighting.

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Skinwalker Ranch UK Documentary 2018 Werewolves, Bigfoot, Men in Black and UFO (Video)

So what is going on here? Inter-dimensional visitors from the Otherworld? Advanced military projects? Extraterrestrials? Black magic? Spirits of the land? We live in a more unusual world than most of us ever really notice. The type of incidents detailed in this documentary occur the length and breadth of our island and planet and have done arguably for as long as we have existed.

This is a classic piece of citizen investigation. Strange lights in the sky, people disappearing, big cats stalking the landscape, werewolves in the woods, fairy folklore, little humanoid creatures, this is high strangeness galore! The veil between worlds seems to be very thin in this area of East Yorkshire.

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Military Abductions: Covert Disclosure of Rectangle Antigravity UFO (Video)

On the morning of October 23, Exopolitics long-time source JP (a pseudonym) was once again instructed to look up into the sky by a nearby covert operative where he saw a rectangle platform shaped UFO.

He used his camera phone to take five photos of the UFO. He then noticed that he had missing time and when he tried to recall what had happened he had memory flashes of being inside the flying rectangle he had just photographed.

It seems the military use antigravity rectangle UFOs to carry out special abduction and mind control operations!

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1942: Is This Original Footage of the Battle of Los Angeles UFO Incident? (Video)

The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942 over Los Angeles, California.

The incident occurred less than three months after the United States entered World War II as a result of the Japanese Imperial Navy’s attack on Pearl Harbor, and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood on 23 February 1942.

Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the incident a “false alarm.” Newspapers of the time published a number of reports and speculations of a cover-up.

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NASA's Sun-Kissing Solar Probe Survives 1st Flyby of Our Star

Members of the Parker Solar Probe mission team celebrate on Nov. 7, 2018, after receiving a beacon indicating the NASA spacecraft is in good health following its first close solar flyby.

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The German-American Helios 2 mission had held both the speed and close-approach records. In April 1976, that probe reached 153,454 mph (246,960 km/h) and got within 26.55 million miles (42.73 million km) of the sun.

The Parker Solar Probe will break both of its new records many times over the next seven years. The spacecraft will make 23 additional solar flybys during this span, getting closer and closer to our star. 

(Artist's depiction of the Parker Solar Probe in orbit around the sun.

Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)

The final close approach, in late 2025, will take the Parker Solar Probe to within just 3.83 million miles (6.16 million km) of the sun's surface. During that dramatic flyby, the sun's gravity will accelerate the spacecraft to around 430,000 mph (690,000 km/h), NASA officials have said.

The $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe mission launched on Aug. 12, tasked with helping scientists better understand the sun's structure, composition and activity. The observations the spacecraft makes during its flybys should help solve two longstanding solar puzzles, mission team members have said — why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than the surface, and how the flow of charged particles known as the solar wind gets accelerated to such high speeds.

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UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

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The pilots spotted fast flying objects and bright lights in the sky

The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating reports of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland.

It began at 06:47 local time on Friday 9 November when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control.

She wanted to know if there were military exercises in the area because there was something "moving so fast".

The air traffic controller said there were no such exercises.

The pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow, said there was a "very bright light" and the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft before it "rapidly veered to the north".

She was wondering what it could be but said it did not seem to be heading for a collision.

Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in and suggested it might be a meteor or another object re-entering the earth's atmosphere.

He said there were "multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory" and that they were very bright.

The pilot said he saw "two bright lights" over to the right which climbed away at speed.

One pilot said the speed was "astronomical, it was like Mach 2" - which is twice the speed of sound.

What could it have been?

Apostolos Christou, an astronomer from the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, said what the pilots saw was probably a piece of dust entering the earth's atmosphere at very high speed.

"It was most likely what are commonly called shooting stars," he said.

"It appears the matter was extremely bright so it must have been quite a large piece of material.

"I cannot say from the pilots' description, but it could have been the size of a walnut or an apple."

The astronomer said November tended to be a very busy month for such activity.

"It also appears there were bits coming off the object and flying past the aeroplane, that is also what you would expect if it was a particularly large rock from space hitting the atmosphere, it would tend to fragment."

"Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9 November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report," the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said.

"This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process."

A spokesperson for Shannon Airport said it would not be appropriate for the airport to comment while the IAA investigation is ongoing.

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