Alien Abductee Recounts Amazing Encounters with Greys & Reptilian Beings (Video)

COAST TO COAST AM. George Knapp welcomed abductee Niara Isley as she recounted her experience which began after she witnessed a mysterious craft at the military’s secretive Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.

She explained that, soon after being sent to the base to train pilots on how to avoid being detected by radar, she spotted a UFO in the sky, which she thought might be a back-engineered US test craft.

Strangely, she noted that there were armed guards standing nearby and their intent seemed to be to ensure that Isley and her colleagues saw the UFO.

The group was then herded onto an old school bus with blacked-out windows, and they were taken to a medical facility.

At a later date, she said, her superiors forced her to board a craft, which was manned by both a grey and reptilian alien, and she was actually taken to the moon.

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The American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been conducting research on Hawaiian monk seals for more than 40 years, as they are an endangered species. On November 2, 2018, the NOAA website posted good news that seal pups are on the rise. On Dec. 5, 2018, however, they posted a bit of strange news on their website, detailing a new issue among Hawaiian monk seals – getting eels stuck up their nose.

An adorable photo of such an issue was shared on the administration’s Facebook page just after the update on their website. Apparently, the issue is a relatively new one, only having been observed a few times in the last couple of years. Scientists are currently investigating the cause of this new phenomenon, and are not sure if it is indicative of a new trend.

According to the report, Hawaiian monk seals feed through foraging. They forage for food by shoving their mouths and noses into underwater crevices. This is to find food sources who hide, including eels. So while monk seals are shoving their noses around the nooks and crannies of the ocean’s depths, eels may try to defend themselves, which could lead to them charging into the creatures’ nostrils, or the seals themselves may have regurgitated the eels through their nose.

Scientists from the NOAA admit they may never know why the seals are getting the eels stuck in their nose, adding they gently remove the eels from the seals’ noses when they are discovered, with a 100 percent success rate. The seals do not seem to have any negative effects from that removal, nor having them there in the first place. The eels, though, are dead when they are removed from the noses of the seals.

Those working firsthand to pull the eels from the nostrils of the seals said the phenomenon started becoming an issue around two years ago. While the eels are in their noses, the seals are described as both calm and serene. At least one scientist working with the animals told a reporter from the Washington Post he wished the seals would “make better choices.”

One thing is for certain with for the scientists regarding this phenomenon – it is not directly human-related. Much of this monk seal/eel nonsense is occurring on remote islands only visited by scientists. It probably has more to do with monk seal feeding patterns, as eels are a steady part of their diets, alongside octopus and other species of fish.

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In the early hours of November 20, 1952, controversial Contactee George Adamski and his secretary, Lucy McGinnis, headed out of Palomar Mountain and drove to Blythe, California. It was all as a result of a sudden, out of the blue hunch that Adamski had – one which led him to believe that a close encounter was looming on the horizon. As dawn broke, they met with several fellow saucer-seekers, Al and Betty Bailey, and George Hunt Williamson, who was a fellow Contactee who also caught the secret attention of the FBI, as we shall soon see. After breakfast, Adamski had an eerie feeling that the group needed to head off to Parker, Arizona – which they quickly did. It wasn’t long before one and all was shocked and amazed by the sight of a huge, silver-colored UFO that was “cigar”-like in shape and maneuvering high in the clear skies over Parker.

An excited Adamski shouted to the group to follow it: they raced for their cars and hit the dirt road in pursuit of the craft from another world. According to Adamski and his friends, the craft shot out of the area after being pursued by a squadron of military aircraft. Soon after, though, a much smaller, Flying Saucer-type vehicle landed on a nearby mountain. For Adamski, this was a sign the aliens wanted to converse with him, face to face. That, we’re told, is exactly what happened. As the rest of the group kept their distance, Adamski tentatively walked towards the alien craft. A door on the vehicle opened and Adamski, holding his breath, was confronted by a long-haired, human-looking figure dressed in a one-piece suit, not unlike the kind of outfit worm by today’s military pilots.

Adamski said that the long-haired, human-looking being claimed his name was Orthon, that he came from the planet Venus, and that he was here to warn the world of the perils of nuclear weapons. Orthon told the excited and shocked Adamski that he, Adamski, was to be a part of a worldwide program designed to push human civilization away from planet-wide annihilation and towards a new paradise. With that all said, Orthon returned to his Flying Saucer, which raced into the heavens and vanished from view.

In mere minutes, Adamski was a new man with a new plan. He claimed further controversial encounters with the Space-Brothers and, in 1953, co-authored with Desmond Leslie a book on the entire affair titled Flying Saucers Have Landed. The book proved to be a huge hit. Adamski had gone from a figure of relative obscurity to one that countless numbers of people were listening to – and listening to very carefully. Those listeners included none other than some of the finest special-agents of the FBI.

It’s important to note that the stories of George Adamski – who died in 1965 – have both their believers and their disbelievers. That Orthon looked extremely human and claimed to be a Venusian, has had many a UFO researcher rolling their eyes – and quite understandably. On the other hand, and even to this day, Adamski still has a faithful following which shows no signs of going away anytime soon. For the FBI, though, it wasn’t so much whether or not Adamski’s claims were true or not which bothered J. Edgar Hoover’s G-Men. Rather, it was the influence that Adamski was having on the American public that had them worried. Deeply so, too.

Had Adamski just told his readers, and listeners, tales of exciting encounters with spacemen and space-women from other worlds, then, in all probability, the FBI would not have cared in the slightest. But, things didn’t end there. According to the FBI’s files on Adamski, his aliens were communists. Those same records state that Adamski claimed that the Soviet way of life was also the way of the future. That the Russians would be the victors in a looming Third World War, and that the Space Brothers would then usher in a new era in which alien communists would sculpt a new Earth.

Today, much of this might sound farcical, unimportant and far-fetched, but it was the thousands upon thousands of people who completely bought into all this which had the FBI concerned. As a result, J. Edgar Hoover ordered a file to be opened on Adamski. It ran from 1952 to 1965, amounts to around 130 pages, and is now available under Freedom of Information legislation. The file makes it very clear that the Bureau was far from impressed by anything that Adamski had to say about his alleged alien encounters. The issue of how Adamski insisted on spreading the word of communism, though – and doing so via the message and the medium of the Space Brothers – continued to worry and vex the FBI. Hence the existence of the strange file.

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In the last several decades, astronomers have confirmed a few thousand exoplanets, while there are still thousands more that are considered candidates. Astronomers discovered more of these planets that are orbiting distant stars, and on December 3, 2018, 104 more exoplanets were confirmed. And of those 104, at least 18 of them are less than two times bigger than Earth (but smaller than Neptune) and it’s believed that they have rocky compositions with atmospheres which are comparable to what we have right here on our planet.

Those eighteen planets have little to no atmosphere which means that they don’t have thick or deep atmospheres like the ice or gas planets in our solar system. This means that they would have thinner atmospheres very much like Earth as well as other rocky planets, such as Mercury.

Around two dozen of the newly discovered planets are in multi-planet systems with some of them having extremely short orbital periods which last less than 24 hours. Astronomers have named them ultra-short period (or USP) planets. These USP planets are normally large gas planets (like Jupiter) but they orbit their own stars at very close range. In fact, one of the newly found planetary systems, called K2-187, includes four known planets with one of them being a USP planet.

Astronomer John Livingston from the University of Tokyo led the most recent study of the newly discovered planets and also created a video visualization describing the planets and their temperatures compared to Earth’s. Click here to see Livingston’s visualization.

These newly discovered exoplanets were in two different parts. First of all, researchers from the University of Tokyo, as well as the Astrobiology Center of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Japan, announced that they had discovered 60 new exoplanets from data which came from NASA’s Kepler mission and ESA’s Gaia mission. And before that, in last August, 44 other planets were previously discovered, which brings the total to 104 newly found exoplanets.

The most recent find of the 60 new planets came from analyzing a total of 155 planetary candidates that were discovered in the K2’s second year data. K2 is the modified second phase of the Kepler planet-hunting mission and Livingston believes that hundreds more exoplanets are out in there waiting to be confirmed. He said, “By extrapolating our analysis of these 155 candidates, we estimate that hundreds of planets remain unconfirmed in the K2 data.”

The Kepler Space Telescope has officially been retired by NASA, but there is another telescope that’s called TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) that is currently collecting data and has already found numerous new exoplanets.

There have been thousands of exoplanets discovered and while some are just candidates and others have been confirmed, there is so much of the universe that has yet to be discovered and there’s no doubt that with further research, many more of these exoplanets will be located.

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One of the most mysterious types of cryptid creatures is that of what are called living dinosaurs, said to be relic populations of those enormous lumbering lizards that once thunderously crashed over the face of our planet with ponderous might. While most may assume that these creatures went extinct eons ago, it is surprising how many reports there are of actual dinosaurs still alive and roaming about in the most isolated parts of our planet as they did millions of years ago. One place that has proven to be a veritable Lost World of supposed living dinosaurs  is the dark continent of Africa, and here in the remote unexplored jungles dinosaurs still allegedly reign supreme as if they were never gone at all.

By far the most famous of the supposed lost African dinosaurs is none other than the one called Mokele-mbembe, which literally translates to “one who stops the flow of rivers.” The habitat of this creature is deep within the furthest recesses of the steamy swampland and dark jungles of the Congo river basin, in particular an expanse of sprawling isolated wilderness called the Likouala swamp region. The beast in question lives up to its name, larger than an elephant and with a lang neck topped by a smallish reptilian head and with stocky short legs, resembling a brontosaurus and which has been a part of the landscape here for the native tribes since time unremembered. Semi-aquatic in nature it is rarely seen even by the natives, and although a vegetarian makes for a frightening sight, with a mighty roar that is said to create great fear and dread in all who hear it. A good description of the Mokele-mbembe can be found in a 1980 issue of Science, within an article called Living Dinosaurs, which reads:

In the swampy jungles of western Africa, reports persist of an elephant-sized creature with smooth, brownish-gray skin, a long, flexible neck, a very long tail as powerful as a crocodile’s, and three-clawed feet the size of frying pans. Over the past three centuries, native Pygmies and Western explorers have told how the animals feed on the nutlike fruit of a riverbank plant and keep to the deep pools and subsurface caves of waters in this largely unexplored region.

Although the tribes and missionaries of this land of impenetrable swamp had long known of the creature, it was not until the early 1900s that its existence would finally trickle out to the Western world. In 1909, the renowned big game hunter Carl Hagenbeck wrote of the creature in his autobiographical work Beasts and Men, in which he told of hearing tales from the natives of a hulking, frightening beast that was described as being half elephant and half dragon. Hagenbeck looked into this phenomenon further, speaking with the naturalist Joseph Menges, who told him that indeed the natives had a rich lore of this beast, and that he personally believed it to be some kind of dinosaur similar to a brontosaurus. Yet another of Hagenbeck’s sources was the German adventurer, filmmaker, and big game hunter Hans Schomburgk, who told him that the natives of the area blamed the Mokele-mbembe for killing all of the hippos at a place called Lake Bangweulu.

Another well-publicized account was made in another area in 1913, by German adventurer and Captain Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz, who at the time was surveying a region of present day Cameroon for potential spots for colonies. Natives told him many tales of the Mokele-mbembe, which were surprisingly consistent across the board from many independent sources, although Lausnitz remained rather skeptical himself at first. This version of Mokele-mbembe painted it as a vicious force to be reckoned with, an aggressive behemoth that the natives steered well clear of, and he would later write of the mysterious beast:

The animal is said to be of a brownish-gray color with a smooth skin, its size is approximately that of an elephant; at least that of a hippopotamus. It is said to have a long and very flexible neck and only one tooth but a very long one; some say it is a horn. A few spoke about a long, muscular tail like that of an alligator. Canoes coming near it are said to be doomed; the animal is said to attack the vessels at once and to kill the crews but without eating the bodies. The creature is said to live in the caves that have been washed out by the river in the clay of its shores at sharp bends. It is said to climb the shores even at daytime in search of food; its diet is said to be entirely vegetable. This feature disagrees with a possible explanation as a myth. The preferred plant was shown to me, it is a kind of liana with large white blossoms, with a milky sap and applelike fruits. At the Ssombo River I was shown a path said to have been made by this animal in order to get at its food. The path was fresh and there were plants of the described type nearby. But since there were too many tracks of elephants, hippos, and other large mammals it was impossible to make out a particular spoor with any amount of certainty.

These accounts, along with other scattered reports from explorers and missionaries in the region of these brontosaurus-like animals roaming the swamps really captured the public imagination, with the thought of lumbering dinosaurs from ages past wallowing through the mists of this lost world proving to be absolutely irresistible. Many expeditions were launched into the forbidding terrain of this mysterious domain in search of the enigmatic Mokele-mbembe over the decades, with some of them funded by such respected institutions as the Smithsonian, and even the famed cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson made an excursion there in 1932. Sanderson would come across large tracks that the natives explained as being from the creature, and he also spotted something very large disappear into the water which he could not explain. In the 1930s the lore was further fueled by a report from the region’s Lake Tele of a tribe of pygmies that had actually managed to kill one of the creatures. According to the tale, two of the Mokele-mbembe tried to smash through a wall of stakes designed to keep the beasts out, and were set upon by fierce, spear wielding tribesmen. After an epic thrashing battle, they were allegedly able to kill one of them, after which they brought it back to the village and had it cooked and eaten as part of a celebratory feast. The story goes that everyone who ate the meat of this mysterious animal became violently ill and later died.

Perhaps the most famous of these expeditions was that of a University of Chicago biologist named Roy Mackal, who ventured to the Likouala swamp region multiple times in 1980s in order to investigate the stories. Although he would not find any physical evidence or see one of the creatures himself, the team did find things like large swaths of broken branches caused by something very large barreling through, footprints, and claimed to have heard the creatures as well. Mackal would bring back numerous native reports of the Mokele-mbembe, which he compiled into a book entitled Living Dinosaur?. Another rather interesting expedition was carried out in 1981 by a Herman Regusters, who brought his team to the remote Lake Tele. This particular expedition would come back with quite a bit of supposed evidence of the creatures, such as droppings, a footprint cast, and even an alleged recording of the Mokele-mbembe’s roar, which you can listen to here, although it is pretty inconclusive at best and could be anything.

Indeed, the 1980s saw several promising expeditions into the region. In 1980 there was one launched by German adventurer and engineer Herman Regusters and his wife. The couple would claim to have seen the beast on several occasions, both in the water and on land, as well as hearing its roars, and they even produced an alleged photograph of it. In 1983 a zoologist by the name of Marcellin Agnagna led an expedition to Lake Tele and claimed to have seen the creature when it raised its head and long neck out of the water, which he described as having a thin, reddish head and reptilian oval eyes that stared at him for a time before vanishing beneath the murky depths. Interestingly, the only known video footage of the Mokele-mbembe was taken at Lake Tele in 1987, when a Japanese film crew was flying over the lake to survey the area. The footage is grainy at best, but shows what appears to be a very large animal of some sort moving across the water, with what looks like it could be a head and neck but which has been criticized as being merely two natives on a canoe.

Expeditions and reports of the Mokele-mbembe have continued on into later years, with some of them proving quite spectacular indeed. One British expedition led by explorer and cryptozoologist William Gibbons in 1992 trekked through a large portion of the region and came back with a photograph of what might be the head of a Mokele-mbembe taken at Lake Tele. In 1999 there was also a rather incredible report printed in the Sunday Times of London, which claimed that members of the Kabonga tribe had killed one of the creatures, but it is unknown how much veracity this report holds as no body was ever presented for scrutiny. Despite all of the expeditions and reports, which continue to this day, there has not been any solid evidence provided for the existence of Mokele-mbembe, but it remains the most talked about and sought after “living dinosaur” of Africa. Is it out there or not? Considering the lack of many modern day sightings, is there even the chance that if it did exist, has it finally gone extinct after all?

If Mokele Mbembe is in fact a real living dinosaur and really exists, then it also has some company, and there are various others said to lurk within the muck and trees here, inhabiting the exact same area, within the remotest, most impenetrable areas of the Congo’s Likouala swamp region. One is a large, saurian creature said to prowl Lake Bangweulu, and which the natives call the nsanga. This ferocious beast is described as looking very similar to a crocodile, only much larger and without scales and with formidable, over-sized claws on its feet. The German adventurer Lt. Paul Gratz claimed in 1911 to have been presented with strips of skin from the creature.

A rather more well-known member of this menagerie is called the Emela-ntouka, which literally translates from the local tribal language to “Elephant Killer.” It is said to be a massive dinosaur-like reptilian beast that is said to be about the size of a full grown elephant and takes a stout, tank-like form with an armored body, a ponderous thick club-like tail, and a prominent and formidable horn protruding from its head similar to that of a rhinoceros. The creature is supposedly semi-aquatic, spending much of its time lurking hidden within the muddy waters of the swamp and, although a vegetarian, stays true to its name, storied by local tribes for its explosive aggressiveness, attacking anything that approaches and indeed killing elephants, as well as buffaloes or hippos on occasion with apparent ease, usually while unleashing a reverberating, distinctive growl.

Although this mysterious creature has long been known to the native tribes of the region, the wilderness itself is so forbidding and closed off from the rest of the world that it wasn’t until the 1930s that stories of the existence of this single-horned killing machine prowling the dim swamps began to come in from outsiders. One of the first mentions of the creature by Western explorers was by the adventurer J.E. Hughes, who wrote of a local tribe along the shores of the Luapula River who had killed one of the beasts, an account buried within an otherwise non-sensationalist 1933 travel book called Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu. Interestingly, there was another of the creatures supposedly killed by tribesmen in the early 1930s near a place called Dongou. In 1954 the creature was really propelled to the public consciousness when a former Likouala game inspector named Lucien Blancou wrote of it in an article for the scientific journal Mammalia, saying of it:

The presence of a beast which sometimes disembowels elephants is also known, but it does not seem to be prevalent there now as in the preceding districts. A specimen was supposed to have been killed twenty years ago at Dongou, but on the left of the Ubangi and in the Belgian Congo.

In the 1980s, when Dr. Roy P. Mackal made his way into the hostile wilderness of the Congo looking for the legendary Mokele Mbembe, he too heard the stories of the Emela-ntouka, which he also included in his famous 1987 book A Living Dinosaur. Mackal himself believed the creature to be perhaps a surviving relic population of the Centrosaurus, an extinct dinosaur that possessed a large single horn, a theory supported by the legendary cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, although this cryptid is not said to have the same prominent head ridge that these dinosaurs displayed. Another idea is that the creature is not a dinosaur or even a reptile at all, but rather something more like a new species of semi-aquatic rhinoceros, but considering the incredibly isolated area and the relative small number of sightings by outsiders it is likely we will never know for sure, and indeed that like the Mokele Mbembe might even be already extinct once and for all.

The Emela-ntouka seems to somewhat resemble in some respects other supposed living dinosaurs within the uncharted wildernesses of Africa, particularly an immense squat, armored beast covered in bony plates and with a thick tail said to inhabit the jungles of Kenya and called the Muhuru. Also, roaming the savanna region of Cameroon is also a cryptid called the Ngoubou, which is said to be a buffalo-sized hoofed creature with a thick, muscular body and with an imposing array of 6 horns upon its head, which it used to chase off, and on occasion kill, elephants. It is uncertain what connection either of these have to the Emela-ntouka but the passing similarities are interesting.

Getting back to the Likouala Region of the Republic of Congo we have yet another apparent living dinosaur to join Mokele Mbembe and the Emela-ntouka, in this instance one called the Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu, or literally “the animal with planks growing out of its back.” As its name suggests its main feature is an array of protruding armored ridges running along its back, and is said to be almost completely aquatic in nature, rarely seen out of the water, and villagers of the region in which it is seen say that its back is typically covered with a sheen of green algae.

This is rather similar to yet another Congo dwelling dino called the Nguma-monene, which allegedly takes the form of a massive lizard, or in some accounts a snake, with intimidating ridges down its back. The Nguma-monene is reported from along a tributary of the Ubangi River called Dongu-Mataba, and one of the most famous sightings by an outsider was made by a pastor Joseph Ellis in 1971, who saw it swimming alongside him as he rode a dugout canoe, and who described it as absolutely gigantic, with a portion of the tail alone measuring the same size as the vessel he was in, and with clearly visible diamond shaped protrusions all along the top. The truly massive creature apparently created a rush of ripples and waves that were enough to threaten to overturn the canoe as it glided past. This creature is also apparently very aggressive, and supposedly hates hippos, killing them on sight. Hippos seem to just do that to these dinosaurs.

Also from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is an apparent dinosaur more in appearance like the terrible Tyrannosaurus Rex, reported from the remote rainforests of a place called the Kasai Valley. The creature in question is most spectacularly known from a report made in 1932, by a Swedish plantation owner named John Johanson, who at the time was travelling through the region with a local guide. At one point during their trek through the mosquito choked interior jungles they allegedly came across a rhinoceros going about its business. As they stood looking at the creature, they claimed that an enormous bipedal dinosaur-like monster, estimated as around 43 feet long, came erupting forth from the trees to pounce upon the rhino and kill it, after which it actually began to eat the carcass, apparently unaware that the two startled men were standing there watching it go about its hunt. Johanson would describe it by saying,“It was reddish in color, with blackish-colored stripes. It had a long snout and numerous teeth. The legs were thick; it reminded me of a lion, built for speed.”

There was another rather intriguing report from that very same year from the same area of what may or may not have been the same creature, which was published in the Rhodesia Herald. In this account, a hunter made his way to the Kasai Valley along with his gunbearer. As they made their way through the jungle, they supposedly cam across two large elephants standing there in the mist. As the two witnessed surveyed the area their gaze fell upon what they described as “a monster, about 16 yards in length, with a lizard’s head and tail.” Of course the hunter did the human thing and fired upon it, hey if you don’t understand it kill it, and he would say of what happened next:

I was shaken by the hunting-fever. My teeth rattled with fear. Three times I snapped; only one attempt came out well. Suddenly the monster vanished, with a remarkably rapid movement. It took me some time to recover. Alongside me the boy prayed and cried. I lifted him up, pushed him along and made him follow me home. On the way we had to transverse a big swamp. Progress was slow, for my limbs were still half-paralyzed with fear. There in the swamp, the huge lizard appeared once more, tearing lumps from a dead rhino. It was covered in ooze. I was only about 25 yards away. It was simply terrifying. The boy had taken French leave, carrying the rifle with him. 

At first I was careful not to stir, then I thought of my camera. I could hear the crunching of rhino bones in the lizard’s mouth. Just as I clicked, it jumped into deep water. The experience was too much for my nervous system. Completely exhausted, I sank down behind the bush that had given me shelter. Blackness reigned before my eyes. The animal’s phenomenally rapid motion was the most awe-inspiring thing I have ever seen.

Stories of similar creatures have been told in the region, but the credibility of the so-called Kasai Rex has been the subject of some skepticism. One of the main things that has detracted greatly from its veracity are two photographs of the alleged creature, both of which were found to be doctored hoaxes. There is also the inconvenient fact that the natives of the region don’t seem to have any knowledge of this particular creature, and it has mostly only been sighted by outsiders, making the reports all the more questionable. Whether it is real or not, they are interesting accounts nonetheless.

Other areas of Africa are not without their own stories of roving dinosaurian monsters. Cameroon, which is also thought to be a haunt of the Mokele-mbembe and others, also has a monster of supposedly truly epic proportions known locally as the M’kuoo M’bemboo. This creature is said to be truly gargantuan, with its head alone described as being the size of a full grown hippo. The M’kuoo M’bemboo is described as being a jet black in color, and has a flattened head reminiscent of that of a seal. The creature is known for its rumbling, gurgling roar, and it is said to kill hippos but not eat them. Hippos just can’t catch a break here. Cameroon is also purportedly home to what are called the Jago-Nini, and the Amali, which are said to be immense aquatic dinosaurs that glide through the rivers here, oddly not killing hippos. The adventurer and ivory trader Alfred Aloysius Smith wrote of these mysterious creatures thus:

Aye, and behind the Cameroon there’s things living we know nothing about. I could ‘a’ made books about many things. The Jago-Nini they say is still in the swamps and rivers. Giant diver it means. Comes out of the water and devours people. Old men’ll tell you what their grandfathers saw but they still believe its there. Same as the Amali I’ve always taken it to be. I’ve seen the Amali’s footprint. About the size of a good frying pan in circumference and three claws instead of five.

Perhaps one of the strangest “living dinosaur” of all is one supposedly native to the wilds of Sudan, in the wetlands of Bhar el Zeraf, and well as in Sudan’s Lake No, and in Lake Victoria. The creature is called the Lau, which is said to look like “a donkey with flippers,” possesses bizarre tentacles on its face, and measures up to 100 feet in length. It is said to emit a truly terrifying roar that sounds like “the thundering of elephants.” There have been many reports of the creature since the 1800s, and in 1914 there was a Lau allegedly killed in the swamps of Addar, but the body was never recovered. In 1924, a supposed vertebrae from one of the beasts was received by a British officer from a native tribesman, but where it went is anyone’s guess and we are left with no physical evidence at all.

It is rather frustrating because that is the situation we are left with all of these cases, a lack of any clear evidence and only these mystifying stories and native accounts to go by. It is certainly not an indication that these creatures cannt exist, and the terrain itself makes it a given that these places should be unexplored. After all, we are dealing with some of the most unexplored places on the planet, walls of nearly impassable jungle filled with diseases, dangerous wildlife, and often in wartorn areas patrolled by nefarious bands of cutthroats, all conspiring with the extremely vast areas involved, meaning that it is very difficult to mount thorough expeditions and investigations into the matter. The reliance on reports from natives is also not a damning thing, as many known animals such as the gorilla and the okapi got their start in tribal reports that at the time seemed every bit as outlandish. In the end we are left with the question of whether any of these creatures are real, and if so, are they indeed living dinosaurs? It is impossible to say, but if there are dinosaurs still roaming the earth, then these dark uncharted jungles are pretty much exactly where one would expect them to be.

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A variety of different kinds of unexplained illuminations have been reported over the centuries. These mysterious luminous phenomena are reported both by day and by night (although perhaps a majority seem to occur nocturnally), and many are observed passing through the air; in modern times, such unexplained aerial phenomena are often linked to UFO sightings, and occasionally appear to display features that may indicate the objects are intelligently controlled.

In an incident that occurred on May 4, 1997, the S.T.S. Astridhad set sail from the Azores, and was passing through the North Atlantic Ocean while en route to Dartmouth when something very peculiar happened.

According to a report on the incident published in the Marine Observer in 1997, “At 0443 UTC a light was sighted high in the sky above the ship. The light was of the style of a satellite in appearance. However, it was seen for about 10-15 seconds moving west to northwest, with a pulsating white light.”

“At one point,” the report continues, “the light stopped and turned in the direction of the ship. The light no longer pulsated, and for about one second it was in the form of a spotlight lighting the surrounding area. The light then turned back again and moved very, very fast across the sky before it was lost below the horizon in a matter of seconds.”

Such a report leaves much to the imagination, of course, although the description of both the spotlight, as well as the flashing and intermittent stop-and-go behavior described here is consistent with a number of UFO reports from over the years, where larger objects which appear to possess flashing or strobing lights, or simply blinking lights all by themselves, have been observed by pilots and ground-based observers.

Could any of these flashing objects have a natural origin? There are at least some anecdotal reports that involve descriptions of intermittent pulsating or blinking by unusual aerial lights, such as with the luminous phenomenon that has been observed for decades at Hessdalen, Norway. According to Hessdalen.org, a website devoted to the study of these unusual nocturnal illuminations, there are several varieties of lights, among which white or blue-white flashing lights are included.

“They are usually high up in the air, close to the top of the mountains or even higher,” the description at the website says. Usually lasting only a few seconds, these nocturnal displays have on some occasions lasted up to a minute, and according to the website, during their visible periods, “the light flashed several times while it is moving.” Other varieties of lights observed at Hessdalen are composed of yellow lights “with a red light on the top,” with the red upper portion also described as flashing intermittently.

The Hessdalen lights, it is widely believed, could represent some kind of natural phenomenon; possibly an earthlight formation akin to ball lightning, although some recent estimates have suggested everything from piezoelectricity, to cosmic radiation as possible sources. Whatever the case, their presence could provide a unique instance where a variety of luminous phenomenon in nature has been observed pulsating or flashing in this way.

Another oceanic incident similar to the one described earlier was reported by M.E. Guy in the Marine Observer a few years earlier, this one taking place on May 6, 1984. It occurred over the Equatorial Eastern Atlantic ocean, and involved a series of flashing white lights that were observed as the sailing vessel in question neared the equator. The crew later reported that visibility was good at the time, with little disturbance on the ocean, and the moon in its first quarter. “At first it was thought that there were three lights, one being bright and the other two relatively dim,” the report reads, “but as the vessel approached it it was decided that there were only two, one bright and one dim.”

This unusual pair of flashing lights was also tracked on radar at the time. “The target, once detected,” the report indicates, “gave a very strong echo and gave the impression of being a large target. It was plotted and found to be stationary.”

According to the observers at the time, neither of the two lights seen by the crew appeared to be flashing or operating under any kind of pattern. “Instead they just flashed at random, but never together.” Notably, the intensity of the brighter of the two lights, according to one observer, “would have put many a lighthouse to shame,” seemingly indicating a manufactured source for the illumination.

The crew was unable to identify the source of this light, although the incident described here was not the only time it was observed. According to the Marine Observer report, “two previous voyages had been to Brazil and France and the lights were observed on every occasion near the equator; they were identical in every way, but in the previous encounters the lights, both dim and bright, were more numerous.”

Reports of unusual luminous phenomena, especially those which occur at sea, are fairly common in scientific literature, and many can be easily attributed to bioluminescence and other identifiable causes. However, the descriptions of “flashing” lights, as provided here, are far from typical in almost any case, land or sea. The source of such illuminations could certainly still be mundane, although a few of the more unusual reports like these may also represent some unique variety of natural phenomenon… and one which, at present, remains undetermined.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

On November 29, 2018 a UFO has been photographed over Lautoka, Fiji and it is the same UFO that has been photographed above the ocean near Long Island on November 19, 2018.

Image left: Long Island UFO - Image right: Lautoka, Fiji UFO

The resident of Lautoka who has submittted the image to Mufon states: I was sitting outside cooling off from the summer heat on 29 November 2018.The time was about 9.30 pm Fiji time.

I felt being watched and suddenly turned around and took several shots of the sky surrounding the breadfruit and pawpaw tree. I had done this previously but seen nothing out of the ordinary. I used my mobile camera with flash.

But this time as I enlarged the image of the frame on my laptop, I saw the conical shaped object in the sky.I was elated and exclaimed "gotcha".

I rushed back outside and took pictures with flash on the same spot but the object did not appear again. The sky was still dark. This proved to me that it must have been a moving object.

Original Image of the Lautoka, Fiji UFO

The witness talks about a conical-shaped UFO but after changing the night sky image into real colors we see the shape of the UFO which is identical to the Long Island UFO.

It seems the UFO has moved from Long Island to Lautoka, Fiji which is a distance of 14,000 kilometers.

Image left shows the Long Island UFO - Image right shows the Lautoka, Fiji UFO

As we wrote in our previous article, this UFO will probably be a type craft similar to the secret man-made TR-3B which uses 'reverse-engineered' alien UFO technology.

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The first-ever Sound of Wind on Mars picked up by NASA's InSight Lander

Listen to Martian wind blow across NASA’s InSight lander, which landed on Mars on November 26, 2018 and designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars.

The spacecraft’s seismometer and air pressure sensor picked up vibrations from 10-15 mph (16-24 kph) winds as they blew across Mars’ Elysium Planitia on Dec. 1, 2018.

The seismometer readings are in the range of human hearing, but are nearly all bass and difficult to hear on laptop speakers and mobile devices.

We provide the original audio and a version pitched up by two octaves to make them audible on mobile devices.

Playback is suggested on a sound system with a subwoofer or through headphones. Readings from the air pressure sensor have been sped up by a factor of 100 times to make them audible.

Bruce Banerdt is InSight principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Banerdt said in a statement:

“Capturing this audio was an unplanned treatbut one of the things our mission is dedicated to is measuring motion on Mars, and naturally that includes motion caused by sound waves.”

 

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Proof of aliens in New York state captured on video, Dec 6, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: December 6, 2018
Location of sighting: Utica, New York, USA
Source: MUFON 96854

This video was taken in New York state last week. The UFO is seen passing though the clouds and totally caught by accident. Moving so fast it looks like only a shadow, but this UFO compared to the size of the cloud is easily 15-30 meters across. Also the fact that this object passes behind the cloud rules out insects, birds, drones. 
Very cool catch, but with I had the full length video of the capture with sound. 
Scott C. Waring

{ http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/ }

UFO caught on tape over La Puente, California

This was filmed over La Puente in California back in August 2017 but it was just posted on MUFON recently.

Witness report: 

Sphere shaped black object that hovered, then proceeded while turning clockwise. I had been working temporarily as a yard driver for a distribution company when I noticed a few of my coworkers staring at an object in the sky, pointing and taking pictures. It was early in the morning, about 7 am. When I first saw it I thought it could be a weather balloon but it seemed so large. I felt excited since I’ve never seen anything in the sky I couldnt identify. One coworker had a pair of binoculars which I looked through. I could tell the object was spherical and it hovered for a while. Afterwards it moved from the north to northeast while rotating in a clockwise direction slowly like the earth rotating. I noticed on the other side of the object there was silver or chrome parts. At one point an airplane passed and it looked larger, however the airplane could have just been flying higher. I have the videos I took on snapchat uploaded here. If anyone has any information please let me know, make me a believer!

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

UFO AANGETROFFEN IN CASTRICUM, NEDERLAND

Je hoort er niets over in het NOS journaal, maar toch heeft men in Castricum een ufo aangetroffen. 

Ze noemen het ufo (unidentified floating object), omdat niemand weet wat voor mysterieus voorwerp daar is aangespoeld.

Ufoloog Scott Waring woont al jaren in Taiwan en via zijn website kwamen wij erachter dat er een vreemd object is aangetroffen in Castricum, aan de kust van Noord Holland.

Wat het is weet niemand en Scott noemt het een buitenaardse sonde die veel lijkt op de helmen die hij heeft aangetroffen op de planeet Mars.

Het object in kwestie is niet zo groot en ziet eruit als volgt:

In het originele bericht van Uitkijkpost staat het volgende:

In het 'depot' van strandvondsten van het Strandvondstenmuseum is tussen oude netdrijvers en andere aanspoelsels een voorwerp aangetroffen, waarvan de herkomst tot nu toe niet te achterhalen is. Het voorwerp bevond zich vermoedelijk al een poosje in de verzameling van een inmiddels overleden strandjutter, die zijn verzameling aan het museum heeft nagelaten, maar ook dat is niet helemaal zeker. 

Het museum heeft verschillende deskundigen geraadpleegd over de mogelijke herkomst van de 'aluminium druppel met vleugeltjes'. Volgens een museumbezoeker, die luchtvaartdeskundige is, heeft het ding in ieder geval een hydrodynamische vorm in plaats van een aerodynamische. 

Na vervolgens foto's van het mysterieuze object naar het NIOZ en de Koninklijke Marine opgestuurd te hebben, konden deze instanties ook geen helderheid over de functie en herkomst het object dat ze in huis hebben. 

Mocht je het voorwerp herkennen dan hoort het museum dit graag via: info@strandvondstenmuseum.nl

Kortom, niemand weet wat het is.

Scott Waring denkt dat het weleens (deel van) een buitenaardse kleine ufo kan zijn die door onbekende oorzaak in de oceaan terecht is gekomen. Hij adviseert dan ook om het materiaal te laten onderzoeken om te bepalen waar dit object uit bestaat. Want, als het buitenaards is, dan zal het waarschijnlijk hoge concentraties van onbekende metalen bevatten. Wanneer het uit gewoon staal bestaat, dan is het volgens hem zeker niet buitenaards, want aliens hebben een hekel aan dat metaal.

Hij denkt verder dat het weleens gerelateerd kan zijn aan het soort helmen die op verschillende locaties op Mars zijn aangetroffen.

Heeft Scott gelijk en is het een buitenaards object? Of heeft iemand een beter idee over wat dit vreemde voorwerp zou kunnen zijn. Het zou wel mooi zijn als de marine het niet kan oplossen, maar lezers van deze site wel.

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Video Shows SpaceX Falcon 9 Spinning Over Florida Before Ocean Landing

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ASpaceX Falcon 9 rocket gently touched down in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, after an attempted landing at Kennedy Air Force Base in Florida went awry.

The reason for the “water landing,” in the words of SpaceX engineers, was due to a failed hydraulic pump that controls the grid fin, a large directional fin used to guide the rocket into an upright landing on Earth after its reentry into the atmosphere.

A video camera mounted on the rocket’s first stage caught the spin-out while it descended toward Florida. In the seconds between the reentry and landing burns, the Falcon 9 began to spin and hit transonic speed.

This was the video from the rocket’s point-of-view in that moment:

And this is video from a camera that Musk shared on Twitter. It’s unclear where the camera was positioned, but you can see plant life in the lower-right-hand corner:

The crowd of SpaceX engineers who watch the landings live from its Hawthorne, California, headquarters can be heard collectively gasping. Then, a video producer at SpaceX cut away from the footage. Watch:

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted the grid fin explanation on his Twitter account a few moments later and said the rocket appeared undamaged and was transmitting data. A recovery ship had been sent to retrieve it.

Musk also posted on Twitter that there was no back-up system in place because landing the rocket wasn’t mission-critical. “Given this event, we will likely add a backup pump & lines,” replied Musk to a Twitter user.

Musk also said the video cut-away was a mistake. “We will show all footage, good or bad,” he posted on Twitter. He added that the rocket may be re-used for an “internal SpaceX mission.” Musk posted the full splashy video — watch it above — on his Twitter at 2:29 p.m. Eastern Wednesday.

The mission, named CRS-16, was the 20th for SpaceX in 2018, and all missions up to this one had gone off without a hitch. It was also the 16th time SpaceX has sent cargo to the International Space Station.

{ https://www.inverse.com/ }

Recording reveals details of UFO sighting where 300 children saw ‘alien’ craft landing

Rob Waugh

It’s one of the most mysterious and widely witnessed UFO sightings of all time – when 300 Australian children and teachers all saw a strange saucer-shaped object landing near them.

Now a new recording has surfaced, more than 50 years on – seemingly from one of the teachers who witnessed the strange, silent object in Westall, Australia in 1966.

Teacher Andrew Greenwood says in the recording that he initially refused to come out of his classroom when a girl rushed in saying there was a UFO outside.

But when he came out, he says he saw an object shaped like a ‘plate with a bulge in the middle’ – and watched it play ‘cat and mouse’ with planes. 

Other witnessses (who have held reunions in the 50 years since the incidents) have described a similar, strange object.

Sceptics have suggested that the object was a weather balloon.

The new recording was published by a UFO site and is believed to be an interview between Greenwood and American physicist, Dr James E McDonald).

News.com reveals that Mr Greenwood said, ‘I observed the object everyone was looking at. It was grey against a blue grey sky so I didn’t see it immediately.

‘The only thing I’ve got to compare it against is some smaller sized cessna aircraft and it was approximately two thirds the length of one of those.’

‘It did hover at times, it seemed to be able to accelerate and disappear out of sight and then someone would see it over in another part of the sky.

'It moved a considerable distance away very rapidly and then moved back again.’

‘It came towards us, not that we could see it actually coming towards us, but we could see that it was closer now than it was before. It would go up and down. It could move slowly, but generally it seemed to hover or move really fast.’

Westall High School, as it looks today in Clayton South, Victoria, Australia

Greenwood describes how the object seemed to play ‘cat and mouse’ with an aircraft, saying ‘it moved over to another part of the sky very rapidly. The plane followed it over and it moved back again.’

{ https://metro.co.uk/ }

An Astronaut Spotted a Soyuz Crew Launch from Space and the Video Is AMAZING!

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In to orbit: Spectators watch as the Soyuz rocket disappears in to the sky on its way to a successful docking. The crew were congratulated by Mission Control in Moscow on arrival

An image taken using a fish-eye lens and with a long time exposure, shows the Soyuz-FG rocket's path as it blasts off at the Baikonur cosmodrome

An image taken from NASA-TV shows the Soyuz spacecraft approaching the International Space Station's docking port

The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.

In some ways, the planet's worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.

Fossilized crinoids, marine invertebrates that lived during the Permian Period, found in western Australia. Scientists say the Great Dying, which wiped out 96 percent of all life in the oceans, was caused by global warming, which deprived the oceans of oxygen. CreditCreditJohn Cancalosi, via Getty Images

 By Carl Zimmer

Some 252 million years ago, Earth almost died.

In the oceans, 96 percent of all species became extinct. It’s harder to determine how many terrestrial species vanished, but the loss was comparable.

This mass extinction, at the end of the Permian Period, was the worst in the planet’s history, and it happened over a few thousand years at most — the blink of a geological eye.

On Thursday, a team of scientists offered a detailed accounting of how marine life was wiped out during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Global warming robbed the oceans of oxygen, they say, putting many species under so much stress that they died off.

And we may be repeating the process, the scientists warn. If so, then climate change is “solidly in the category of a catastrophic extinction event,” said Curtis Deutsch, an earth scientist at the University of Washington and co-author of the new study, published in the journal Science.

Researchers have long known the general outlines of Permian-Triassic cataclysm. Just before the extinctions, volcanoes in what is now Siberia erupted on a tremendous scale. The magma and lava that they belched forth produced huge amounts of carbon dioxide.

Once in the atmosphere, the gas trapped heat. Researchers estimate that the surface of the ocean warmed by about 18 degrees Fahrenheit. Some researchers argue that the heat alone killed off many species.

Others believe that the warmth reduced oxygen in the ocean, asphyxiating the species living there. Rocks from the mass extinction appear to have formed when at least some of the ocean was lacking oxygen.

In previous research, Dr. Deutsch has explored how living animals adapt to temperature and oxygen levels in the seas. Animals with a fast metabolism need a lot of oxygen, for example, and so they can’t live in parts of the ocean where oxygen falls below a certain threshold.

Warm water makes the challenge even more difficult. Warmer water can’t hold as much dissolved oxygen as cold water. Even worse, warm water can also increase an animal’s metabolism, meaning it requires more oxygen just to stay alive.

Cod, for example, are not found below a latitude running roughly from New England to Spain. South of that line, warmth and low oxygen are just too great for the species.

Dr. Deutsch and Justin Penn, a graduate student, recreated the world at the end of the Permian Period with a large-scale computer simulation, complete with a heat-trapping atmosphere and a circulating ocean.

As the Siberian volcanoes flooded the virtual atmosphere with carbon dioxide, the atmosphere warmed. The ocean warmed, too — and according to the model, it began losing oxygen.

Some parts lost more than others. On the surface, for example, fresh oxygen was produced by photosynthetic algae. But as the ocean warmed, its circulatory currents also slowed, the model demonstrated.

Oxygen-poor water settled to the bottom of the oceans, and before long, the deep was gasping.

Rising temperatures and plunging oxygen must have made huge swaths of the oceans uninhabitable. Some species survived here and there. But most disappeared completely.

“Everything was losing a lot of habitat, creating the risk of extinction,” said Dr. Deutsch. “But the risk was actually higher in places that were cold. That was a bit surprising.”

You might expect that animals near the Equator would be at a greater risk, because the water was warm to begin with. But Dr. Deutsch’s model suggested a very different kind of apocalypse.

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Animals in oxygen-rich cold water could not handle the sudden drop, while those in tropical waters were already adapted to poor oxygen. And the cold-water species could not find refuge elsewhere.

To test their simulation, the researchers teamed up with Jonathan Payne and Erik Sperling, paleontologists at Stanford University. They dug into a huge online database of fossils to chart the risks of extinction at different latitudes during the catastrophe.

When they were done with their analysis, they sent their graph to Seattle. Dr. Deutsch and Mr. Penn compared it to the prediction from their computer model.

They matched. “This was the most exciting moment of my scientific life,” said Dr. Deutsch.

Michael Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England, who was not involved in the study, said that it resolved the roles of heat and oxygen as causes of the mass extinction. “This makes a clear case that, of course, the two are linked,” he said.

The new study offers an important warning to humans over the next few centuries.

The Siberian volcanoes ultimately delivered much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than we will ever emit by burning fossil fuels. But our annual rate of carbon emissions is actually higher.

The carbon we released over the past two centuries already has made the atmosphere warmer, and the ocean has absorbed much of that heat. And now, just as during the Permian-Triassic extinction, the ocean is losing oxygen. Over the past fifty years, oxygen levels have declined by 2 percent.

“The way the Earth system is responding now to the buildup of CO2 is in the exact same way that we’ve seen it respond in the past,” said Dr. Kump.

Just how much warmer the planet will get is up to us. It will take a tremendous international effort to keep the increase below about 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

If we proceed to use up all the fossil fuels on Earth, it could warm by as much as 17 degrees Fahrenheit by 2300.

As the ocean warms, its oxygen levels will continue to drop. If ancient history is any guide, the consequences for life — especially marine life in the cooler parts of the ocean — will be disastrous.

“Left unchecked, climate warming is putting our future on the same scale as some of the worst events in geological history,” Dr. Deutsch said.

{ https://www.nytimes.com/ }

Rising sea levels could become overwhelming sooner than previously believed, according to the authors of the most comprehensive study yet of the accelerating ice melt in Greenland.

Run-off from this vast northern ice sheet – currently the biggest single source of meltwater adding to the volume of the world’s oceans – is 50% higher than pre-industrial levels and increasing exponentially as a result of manmade global warming, says the paper, published in Nature on Wednesday.

Almost all of the increase has occurred in the past two decades – a jolt upwards after several centuries of relative stability. This suggests the ice sheet becomes more sensitive as temperatures go up.

“Greenland ice is melting more in recent decades than at any point in at least the last four centuries, and probably more than at any time in the last seven to eight millennia,” said the lead author Luke Trusel, of Rowan University.

“We demonstrate that Greenland ice is more sensitive to warming today than in the past – it responds non-linearly due to positive feedbacks inherent to the system. Warming means more today than it did even just a few decades ago.”

The researchers used ice core data from three locations to build the first multi-century record of temperature, surface melt and run-off in Greenland. Going back 339 years, they found the first sign of meltwater increase began along with the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s. The trend remained within the natural variation until the 1990s, since when it has spiked far outside of the usual nine- to 13-year cycles.

Greenland currently contributes about 20% of global sea-level rise, which is running at 4mm per year. This pace will probably double by the end of the century, according to the most recent models used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. How the new study affects those projections will be the subjects of future study by the authors. If all the ice in Greenland melted, it would raise sea levels by seven metres. At the current pace that would take thousands of years, but the ongoing acceleration could bring this forward rapidly.

“At some point, sea-level rise will be too fast for us to adapt to, so we really have to avoid this situation by reducing emissions,” said the study’s co-author Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University. “I think this is one of the many wake-up calls that we have had in the last few decades. It clearly links manmade global warming to sea-level rise.”

The research comes out as policymakers from around the world are attending UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland, where governments are trying to set new rules to keep global warming to between 1.5C and 2C. The authors said the paper underlined the dangers of exceeding even the lower figure.

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“On a personal level it is worrying to see this – along with the vast array of other scientific evidence showing that we’ve entered unprecedented or exceptional times,” said Trusel.

“The ice has no political agenda – it either grows or melts. Today it is melting as humans have warmed the planet. The ice sheets have tipping points, and how quickly they impact our livelihoods through sea level rise depends on what we do now and in the very near future.”

Other academics, uninvolved in the paper, said the new study was an important confirmation of what scientists have long suspected: that the recent increase in ice melt is ominously unusual.

“The Greenland ice sheet is like a sleeping giant who is slowly but surely awakening to ongoing global warming, and there are surprises in its response. However, the response may be more rapid than previously believed,” said Edward Hanna, professor of climate science and meteorology at the University of Lincoln.

{ https://www.theguardian.com/international }

UFOs Are Real: Ex Air Force Officer Claims He Chased A ‘8000mph’ Craft

A retired Air Force officer came clean saying that the UK government hides extraterrestrial life as a top-secret, further describing his own UFO confrontation.

George Filer III is 82 years old and currently serves as the New Jersey director of MUFON, which is an American based non-profit association that studies the UFO phenomena. He is one of the many ex-military and NASA veterans to speak openly about UFOs.

However, he also happens to have 20 years of experience as an Air Force officer. He revealed that some of the events he experienced in the air are rather inexplicable.

Namely, during the Cold War, Filer was placed in Scotland. He remembers piloting a military aircraft that tried to intercept a weird object that was as big as a bridge on the radar.

As they were getting nearer, they were able to see lights off in the distance. He described the lights looked something like a cruise ship at night. There were multiple all over the object.

“As we got, I don’t know, about 5 miles from it – it went up into space. We were doing over 400mph and I would say it was doing 10, 20 times our speed and it was this huge object,” Filer stated.

In the end, they were convinced the object was not something common. In his opinion, however, it looked like a really long cylinder.

Ever since Filer spilled the beans with the American Asbury Park Press, his story went viral online. Now, of course, it’s one of the most favorite topics of the conspiracy theorists.

{ http://www.mysteryupdated.com/ }

Gigantic 'object' spotted towering over Earth from ISS – before NASA live feed is CUT

A BIZARRE blue object has been spotted hovering over Earth on a NASA live feed from the International Space Station – before the footage was mysteriously cut.

By Emmet McGonagle 

In a video posted online, a mysterious object seems to appear above the planet.

The glowing object – which appears blueish in hue with a white centre – can be seen in the background of NASA’s live feed.

As the camera zooms in, the alarming size of it becomes clearer as it towers over the planet.

Bright-blue gases surrounding the figure seem to shift and change on the screen, appearing in the background behind the International Space Station.

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But NASA’s feed is promptly cut short, reading: “Please stand by.

“The High Definition Earth Viewing experiment is either switching cameras, or we are experiencing a temporary loss of signal with the International Space Station.”

Unsurprisingly, the unexpected cut left conspiracy theorists up in arms.

One stunned viewer wrote: “That was a weird looking blob next to the space station?”

WHAT IS THAT? A strange blue object is spotted on the ISS feed 

(Pic: YOUTUBE/JOETHAI)

Another added: "NASA is lying."

A third argued the object could be a “space ice ball”, with viewers noticing the object looked like “a drop of water in zero gravity”.

But this is by no means the first time the ISS feed has picked up on something strange in the earth’s atmosphere.

Earlier this year, viewers noticed a white object floating across the International Space Station’s live feed.

It is not just space where UFOs have been seen in recent months.

Footage surfaced earlier today of a bizarre triangular-shaped object hovering over Ohio.

Earlier this week, there were fears an alien portal had opened up in Australia during a thunderstorm.

Tt comes after Daily Star Online revealed how alien technology may have been used in the biblical story of the walls of Jericho.

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{ https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ }

A video of a UFO sighting in the skies of Turkey in the shape of a flying saucer has been recorded, which is considered the most important record of the phenomenon of flying saucers or so-called UFO so far.

“I do not know what these things are, we have filmed them a number of times but have remained totally unknown to us, I was very happy to see them and I want to assure the whole world that the flying saucer are already there,” Yalsen Yalman said. “He said.

The two-and-a-half-hour footage in the summer of 2008 includes a variety of exotic objects, ranging from the bodies of a disk-shaped UFO to clusters of lights Orbs hovering in the night sky. “The physical shape of these objects and their metal structures were clearly visible, especially in the close-ups of this recording. The researcher studied the analysis and analyzed it and reached the result that it was 100%,” researcher Haktan Akdugan of the Cyrus Center for Space Science and UFOs in Turkey said. Was unique and found that the body structures shown in the picture were not the result of a natural phenomenon, astronomical objects or known aircraft
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After doing a video check by specialists showing what is incredible:

Real extra terrestrial alien space creatures, clearly visible from the windows of the alien spaceship, do not resemble any human beings on Earth, asserting that there is a clever life for extraterrestrial creatures.

Source: RED STONE

{ https://www.sightings.info/ }

50 miles away from Dulce, New Mexico we find the San Luis Valley; a mysterious region described as the playground of the paranormal.
Geophysical formations within this valley provide ideal conditions for portals to form, connecting our world with parallel realities.
Sometimes, something crosses over giving rise to reports of unexplainable phenomena such as UFOs, Bigfoot, and aliens.

Thus, counterintelligence operatives actively work to destroy the legitimacy of eyewitness accounts, through decoy operations. It is the pervasiveness of Native American traditions, which tell of an ancient extraterrestrial presence living deep underground known as the Ant people, which may provide the best explanation for the unexplainable activity in this valley of portals.

{ https://www.sightings.info/ }

GOVERNMENTS ARE MAKING SURE THAT RESEARCHERS DON’T GET THEIR HANDS ON CLASSIFIED UFO FILES BY USING ALTERNATIVE ACRONYMS.

The Freedom of Information Act is a pain in the government’s backside, former prime minister and leader of the labour party Tony Blair was at the forefront of implementing the Information Act into UK Law. It was one of Blair’s top policies in his manifesto at the time, several years on and Blair has said that the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act was one of his biggest regrets.
There is no doubt that the freedom of information laws both in the UK, USA and other western countries, has opened the floodgates for journalists and researchers alike. What government workers once thought was private or would not be seen in our lifetime, is now open for the whole world to see.

Now the floodgates are open, behind the scenes governments are working on sneaky ways to keep sensitive information from prying eyes.

For decades governments have been telling their citizens that they have little to no interest in UFO’s, not only have they said they have no interest in the subject but they have gone to great extents to ridicule anyone or anything that has an interest in the subject.

For this reason, it came as a great surprise when freedom of information requests was put in for any documents relating to UFO’s and the likes of Project Bluebook and the British MOD’s investigations into UFO’s came to light. For governments that said they had little to no interest in UFO’s there certainly were a lot of files released under the freedom of information act!

The freedom of information laws has no doubt caused a stir behind the scenes and governments are now left trying to find loopholes and creative ways to keep sensitive information private.

One way they are doing this was revealed by Hillary Clinton during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel.

During this interview, Hillary told Kimmel that there was a new name for UFO’s and that government officials now referred to UFOs and Unexplained Aerial Phenomena.

Nick Pope, who worked for the UK’s ministry of defence, recently explained why the government use alternative and new acronyms for UFOs. During a talk at the Awakening Conference in Manchester, he explained that government used these lesser known acronyms to throw a spanner in the works for those putting in freedom of information requests.

While the public now knows about the alternative phrase for UFO’s used by the government (UAP), you can bet that there are still a dozen more freedom of information requests for files on UFO’s than there are on UAP’s.

But that’s not the only way that governments are trying to throw a spanner in the works for researchers and journalists. There are far too many sensitive issues that they don’t want to be revealed to the public. One way they ensure certain issues stay secret is by putting certain projects in charge of the private sector.

Many people would have heard of billionaire Robert Bigelow, Bigelow is the CEO and founder of Bigelow Aerospace, a company that has taken on many government projects and contracts, due to Bigelow Aerospace being a private company, they are not subject to freedom of information request laws, which is probably much to the delight of government agencies working with Bigelow.

A rather telling interview with Robert Bigelow took place on 60 Minutes. Bigelow told the reporter who was interviewing him that he is ‘absolutely convinced’ aliens exist and that ‘there is and has been’ an ET presence on Earth. Bigelow was also asked whether or not he thought that we’d find intelligent life in the galaxy, to which he replied “you don’t need to go anywhere” the reporter then asked if he meant that you can find ET life here on Earth to which Bigelow replied “yes”.

For a man that has, as he puts it, “spent millions and more than anyone else” on this subject and works on secret government projects, it’s rather telling that he states, with such conviction, that he is certain aliens exist and that we needn’t look further than our own planet to find them as they are right under our nose.

As an old saying goes, sometimes the best place to hide a secret is in plain sight, which does draw many questions when you look at the logo Bigelow has on the side of his Bigelow Aerospace unit.

Source: UFOreport.co.uk

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Long before Dave Grohl copped the name for his excellent band, Foo Fighters were the mysterious UFOs and strange aerial phenomena that bedeviled Allied aircraft pilots (and reportedly Japanese and German pilots as well) during World War II. While most of the reported sightings occurred during that war, there were some seen in the aerial battles during the Vietnam War. However, most references to Foo Fighters since then are about the band, which is why a recent sighting over an Air Force base in San Antonio, with pictures of UFOs amongst US aircraft and a connection to Foo Fighters, is worthy of attention.

“My residence is located under one of the flight paths for Kelly AFB in San Antonio. I regularly take photographs with a Nikkon camera of military airplanes flying over and around my residence in daylight and at night. On November 26, 2018 I was doing yard work in the morning and witnessed two Air Force Fighter jets with full after burners flying very low, and loudly, over my residence. I had heard them taking off from Kelly AFB a few minutes before I saw them. They were flying toward the southwest.”

That MUFON report, case 96768, was picked up by the TexasUFOs website which posted the photographs under the headline “Unidentified objects escorting Air Force Fighter Airplanes” and made the “foo fighters” connection. To their credit, they also point out that the unnamed witness didn’t see the UFOs in the air during the two different times, 2 pm and 2:04 pm, that the photographs were taken and didn’t notice them in the pictures until a few days later. TexasUFOs also says that they obviously could be specs of dust or a lens anomaly. (See the photos here.)

The witness didn’t notice anything unusual about the flight patterns which would indicate the pilots saw anything in their airspace or on their radar screens. There haven’t been any military reports or videos of UFOs around Kelly AFB … no flying Tic-Tacs. That’s why “foo fighters” is really a misnomer for the San Antonio sighting. Most World War II pilots who saw them described them as ball of light or fireballs following their planes but never actually catching up, flying past or showing any unusual maneuvers. And, since there are no reports of them attacking, the term “fighter” shouldn’t have been used in either case. Since they were close, meteors can be ruled out as well (the probable cause of UFOs seen recently by Canadian pilots over Baffin Island). A luminous electrostatic phenomena like St. Elmo’s fire or reflections of light on ice crystals, combined with the stress and intensity of aerial warfare, still seem to be more likely causes.

As for the San Antonio “foo fighters” … the needle at the moment is pointing to foo on the lens. You can have your band name back Dave.

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My recent article, “Before Lazar: UFOs at Area 51 (Or Not…)” began as follows: “In a recent article here on Bob Lazar, UFOs, Area 51 and Russian spies, I noted how the whole UFO angle of Area 51 might be a big game; an operation chiefly designed to try and reel in Russian spies. In my new book, Area 51, which will be published on January 1, I tell the story of another man who found himself in a very similar situation to Lazar, but close to two decades before Lazar was on the scene. The entire story is way too long to tell here, but here’s a summary: To demonstrate that the connection between Area 51 and UFOs goes back a significant number of years – and long before Bob Lazar almost became a household name – we have to go back to the dawning of the 1970s. The story comes from a man I’ll call John, and who I met back in the mid-2000s. It’s a story of incredible proportions and which clearly demonstrates that when it comes to the matter of aliens and the legendary secret base, nothing is as it seems to be. In fact, it’s much weirder.”

In light of the above extract from the earlier article, I thought I would share with you one of the weirdest stories that John shared with me. The strangest file of all, John stated, was titled “Suit Study 48 Armageddon.” This was a very long document which was directed towards addressing the nature of the clothing found on at least some of the strange, alien aviators who had lost their lives and who came from who knows where. The location: Nebraska, which is also where the study secretly went ahead, the files on which having later reached Area 51. In these particular cases, the outfits worn by large-headed, humanoid creatures were of a bright yellow color and somewhat resembled the outfits worn by military pilots. The biggest problem of all was removing the clothing. There were no zips, no buttons, no nothing. It took the team tasked with examining the clothes several hours to remove them – but, when they understood the process, it all became relatively simply. It turns out that the suits were held together by something that vaguely resembled today’s Velcro. But, with one amazing difference: it was as if the fibers were alive and bonded according to the particular wearer. An intelligent, self-aware outfit? As incredible as it sounded, that’s exactly what the files John read suggested.

On one occasion, one of the team volunteered to try on one of the suits; as a six-footer he just about managed to squeeze himself in. It was something he sorely regretted in rapid-fire fashion. When the man climbed into the one-piece uniform, the fibers seemingly recognized that the man was taller than the average alien and the suit altered – size-wise – accordingly. Things got even more bizarre – and terrifying, too. Within seconds, the man revealed later, his mind was filled with imagery of worldwide destruction, of countless cities in ruins, of billions of dead, and the Earth in an Armageddon-like state. The man started to panic, to the degree that he started to hyperventilate to a major degree. His colleagues and friends quickly tore the suit off him. After recovering, the man was extensively debriefed by an out-of-state team of Intelligence personnel. He told them that he felt – or speculated – the alien outfit somehow retained the memories and thoughts of its previous wearer.

The result was that when the man put the suit on, he had picked up on the apocalyptic images which flooded his mind. This led one and all to suspect that the aliens were deceptive, dangerous entities that wanted us, the human race, gone – hence the images of what looked like a worldwide nuclear war designed to wipe us out. Personnel from both NASA and the CIA expressed a deep interest in the suits, but John was unable to remember any specifics as to what the outcome of that angle may have been. Notably, though, the one thing that really stayed in John’s mind was the revelation that the suits were deemed to be somehow alive. As a result, they were locked away, with clearance limited to only a very small group of people who knew how to handle them and who knew the potential dangers and hazards they promised.

Well, that’s quite a story, to say the least. As I mentioned in my previous article, John came to believe that all of these controversial documents were bogus – and probably designed to confuse and manipulate the Russians when  the Cold War was still at its height. I have to agree. The story above is – in my view – nothing but wild science-fiction. If it looks like sci-fi and it reads like sci-fi, then it probably is. As many know, I’m not much of a fan of sci-fi at all. But, I do know it when I see it! And this is clearly such an example. So, who might have been the creator of this wild, bogus shit? You can find the answer to that question in this previous article from me…it was a woman tied to both the CIA and the world of science-fiction…

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Ancient alien statue or fossil found on Mars surface in NASA photos, Dec 2018, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: December 2018

Location of discovery: Mars

Source photo:

• http://areo.info/mer/spirit/417/tn/2P163382053ESFA808P2569L5M1_L4L5L5L5L6.jpg.html

 

Here is a strange sculpture of an alien face found near the Mars rover. The face at first looks demon like, but in reality is a person wearing a mask. I colored the screenshot above so you can see it more easily. Now if they were an ancient race that lived longer than us, then they will have more than 3 strands of DNA and with every stand of DNA...their body becomes harder to break down in the environment when they die. So...its possible this is a fossil of a face of a species that once lived on Mars and died in battle. 

Scott C. Waring

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UFO Caught On TV News In Texas Is The Real Deal, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Dec 7, 2018

Location of sighting: San Antonio, Texas, USA

 

A news caster was talking when a UFO shot past and off into the distance. A few things about this sighting makes me 100% convinced that this is an alien craft. 

 

1. Its shape, unlike anything known to fly today. 

2. When its close its true color is black-gray

3. When its further away by 50 meters its color turns white.

 

When I was filming on my roof a few years ago, using meditation to call orbs as I have seen done on Youtube many times, I was surprised by a UFO that was baseball shape and pearlescent sphere so much it was mesmerising...just 2.5 meters from me. When I realised what I was looking at I flipped around my camera on tripod 180 degrees and that little bugger was already 50 meters away when I did get video, all I got on video was a white speck in the blue sky. The color had changed to white for some unknown reason. Thats why I know this is a real sighting. 

Scott C. Waring

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DISCLOSURE LIJKT NU TOCH DICHTERBIJ TE KOMEN ( VIDEO + UPDATE )

Het is een tijd waarin dingen razendsnel veranderen en waar steeds meer dingen "normaal" worden die we tot voor kort niet voor mogelijk hielden, zoals de fenomenaal snelle ontwikkeling van robots. 

Als robots onderdeel kunnen uitmaken van onze samenleving, dan is het ook niet zo'n grote stap meer om te geloven dat er andere wezens bestaan van buiten onze aarde. 

Update: 6-12-2018

In het originele artikel staat onder andere de vooraankondiging van het komende interview dat Tyler van Secureteam zou hebben met de man die persoonlijk heeft gewerkt aan buitenaardse schotels, Bob Lazar.

Het interview heeft inmiddels plaatsgevonden en volgt hierna. Er is op dit moment geen Nederlands ondertitelde versie voor zover ons bekend. Mocht deze alsnog komen (Paul Harmans misschien?), dan zal die de hier geplaatste video vervangen. 

 
Origineel artikel: 23 november 2018

Wanneer je bij veel mensen diep in hun hart kijkt, dan zullen ze best geloven dat er buiten ons mensen om ook vast meer is in het enorme heelal en dat buitenaardse wezens helemaal niet zo'n gekke gedachte is.

Alleen hebben heel veel van die mensen er nog grote moeite mee om dat publiekelijk uit te spreken, want het is ongeveer de standaard geworden dat iemand flauwe grappen hoort te maken als ze het woord buitenaards horen.

En dat is best vreemd, want nergens wordt zo lacherig over gedaan als buitenaards leven. Mensen kunnen daar maar heel moeilijk mee omgaan en dus hoort het zo dat er grappig op moet worden gereageerd. Daarmee geven ze dan ook aan dat ze zelf natuurlijk niet in zoiets geloven.

Voor de "normale" wereld bestaat buitenaards leven dan ook nog steeds niet, maar voor de machthebbers achter de schermen is het een ander verhaal. Zij beschikken niet alleen over contacten met buitenaardsen, maar ook over hun techniek. Deze vorm van de buitenaardsen overgenomen techniek heet "reverse engineering" en vormt de basis voor wat wij noemen de geheime ruimtevloot van de Bilderbergers. 

Het bestaan van een dergelijke vloot is ook aangetoond door hacker Gary McKinnon die wist in te breken in systemen van de Amerikaanse overheid en daar lijsten met namen aantrof van buitenaardse officieren.

Al met al betekent dit dat het voor ons gewone mensen heel verwarrend is, omdat we nooit met zekerheid weten of waargenomen UFO's nu echt buitenaards zijn of onderdeel vormen van de geheime ruimtevloot. Beiden bestaan en dat maakt het zo moeilijk om ze precies te identificeren.

Om het nog een beetje gecompliceerder te maken weten we van de voormalig Nazi en later Amerikaanse raketwetenschapper Wernher von Braun, dat de machthebbers achter de schermen op een gegeven moment een nep buitenaardse invasie zullen uitvoeren, om er zo voor te zorgen dat de mensheid zich unaniem wil verenigen in een wereldverbond/-regering om zo de dreigingen van buiten de aarde het hoofd te kunnen bieden.

Voorzetten voor dit spektakel dat nog moet plaatsvinden werden destijds al gemaakt door de voormalige Amerikaanse president Ronald Reagan.

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RAADSELS IN DE LUCHT

Boven onze hoofden gebeuren veel meer dingen dan dat een doorsnee burger ooit zal weten. 

De mainstream media berichten er nauwelijks over en het gros van de bevolking kijkt naar hun smartphone in plaats van naar de lucht.

Het volgende is een voorbeeld van zo'n toevalligheid. Het gaat hier om een dame, Diana, die een aantal foto's maakte van één van de bekende Goodyear luchtschepen, ook wel "blimps" genoemd.

Dan op een gegeven moment ziet ze een vreemd object verschijnen, hoog boven het luchtschip.

Even later vliegt het object richting luchtschip en gaat er als het ware achter hangen.

Het is een vreemd object. Het is geen drone en ziet er vierkant uit. De beelden zijn door de dame opgestuurd naar Mr. MBB333. Wanneer het geheel wordt uitvergroot en er een aantal filters worden toegepast ziet het er zo uit. Suggesties over wat dit zou kunnen zijn, zijn uiteraard van harte welkom.

Een opvallend fenomeen dat zich de laatste tijd steeds vaker voor doet, in verband wordt gebracht met de nadering van de planeet Nibiru en waar wij regelmatig over schrijven, zijn de paarse luchten.

Een mooi voorbeeld hiervan werd door een abonnee uit de Amerikaanse staat Winsconsin opgestuurd naar Mr. MBB333. Veel paarser dan dit zal je ze waarschijnlijk niet vinden.

En dan een raadsel dat is opgestuurd door een lezer (dank!). 

Op 1.8.18 wou ik gewoon het dak van mijn vroegere woning fotograferen, het vliegtuig zag ik plots maar fotografeerde, pas later zag ik het 'voorwerp' er achteraan...hing er niet aan vast. 

Hebben jullie enig idee?

Een van de redactieleden hier denkt dat het een drone/afstand bedienbaar vliegtuigje of een sportvliegtuigje betreft. Een ander weet het niet.

En tenslotte:

De volgende foto is genomen op IJsland en formeel betreft het hier uiteraard een wolk. Wederom het bekende patroon. Een wolk in een verder wolkeloze hemel is meestal geen wolk, maar wel degelijk een ufo.

En zo zie je dat er heel veel vreemde en bijzondere dingen te ontdekken zijn in de lucht. Mochten mensen interessante beelden hebben of een verklaring voor de hierboven getoonde vreemde objecten, laat het ons weten.

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NASA Asteroid Warning: 360-Foot-Wide Monster Asteroid on 'Earth Approach' Tomorrow

AN ENORMOUS asteroid large enough to wipe out an entire city will zip past the planet Earth tomorrow afternoon, space agency NASA warned.

A dense, iron-packed asteroid as little as 40ft across (12m) has the power to wipe out buildings across a 3.6-mile radius (5.79km). And the bad news is one about three times as big is currently barreling towards the Earth at breakneck speeds of 14,808.5mph (6.62km per second).

The giant space rock tracked by NASA, officially labelled Asteroid 2018 VX4, is expected to fly by the planet on Sunday, December 9. The space agency said the asteroid’s trajectory matches the parameters of a so-called Earth Close Approach.

The asteroid was dubbed a Near-Earth Object (NEO) as a result of its close brush with the Earth.

NASA’s scientists at the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) believe it will be closest to Earth around 5.06pm GMT (UTC) tomorrow.
The astronomers estimate VX4 measures somewhere in the terrifying range of 157.5ft to 360.9ft (48m to 110m).

At 360 feet in diameter, the asteroid is as wide as an American football field is long, and NASA believes space rocks this big are lethal threats.

Source

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In a recent article here on Bob Lazar, UFOs, Area 51 and Russian spies, I noted how the whole UFO angle of Area 51 might be a big game; an operation chiefly designed to try and reel in Russian spies. In my new book, Area 51, which will be published on January 1, I tell the story of another man who found himself in a very similar situation to Lazar, but close to two decades before Lazar was on the scene. The entire story is way too long to tell here, but here’s a summary: To demonstrate that the connection between Area 51 and UFOs goes back a significant number of years – and long before Bob Lazar almost became a household name – we have to go back to the dawning of the 1970s. The story comes from a man I’ll call John, and who I met back in the mid-2000s. It’s a story of incredible proportions and which clearly demonstrates that when it comes to the matter of aliens and the legendary secret base, nothing is as it seems to be. In fact, it’s much weirder.

From the latter part of the 1940s to around the end of the fifties, John was employed by the New York Police Department. The work was exactly what one would expect in a packed, bustling city like the Big Apple. There was, however, one unusual aspect to John’s career. It was in late 1957 that John and a couple of his colleagues were brought into a program to assist the FBI in uncovering a Russian spy-ring which was afoot in the city. The belief was that the Soviets were trying to infiltrate a certain company that worked in the field of weapons-development for the U.S. Government. By all accounts, the operation ran as smoothly as these things can: two Soviet operatives were rounded up and arrested, as were a couple of Americans, too.

In 1970, John was contacted by an old friend in the police who said that a prestigious job was coming up that John might find of interest. Intrigued, John asked his friend what the gig was. The response was a job with what was then called the Wackenhut Corporation. Today, it’s G4S Secure Solutions (USA). It’s a company that was established back in 1954 and which provided security to numerous companies that undertake contract work for the U.S. military, government and the intelligence community. Wackenhut also had the contract, in 1964, to provide all of the security for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Wackenhut was involved in matters relative to national security on a daily basis. And, John would have a significant position in the field of security – if, of course, he chose to take the job.

According to John’s friend, the jb that was coming up would be at a highly sensitive facility in the Nevada desert. You know the one. John’s friend informed him that the pay would be very good, that the job would guarantee John a lot of new contacts in his working career, and that it was definitely not an opportunity to be missed. John was sold on the idea. Little did he know at the time just how strange his life and world were about to become. John continued his work out at the facility for a pre-planned period, after which he moved into the world of private security, specifically doing background checks on people who were seen as useful for working on highly classified programs at Area 51 and within NASA. John continued with such work until 1981, when he retired.

It turns out that while at Area 51, John was exposed to a wealth of allegedly top secret files that told incredible stories of what the U.S. Government really knew about UFOs: crashed saucers, dead aliens; the usual stuff. Rather notably, despite being shown an astonishing wealth of material out at Area 51, John began to wonder if his whole time spent there was nothing but a cover for something else. After all, John wondered, given that he worked specifically – and only – in the field of security, why on earth was he given access to controversial and jaw-dropping data on the supposed history of aliens on our planet? What would have been the point? The whole situation completely defied logic. John clearly recognized this and speculated on the possibility that it was all some sort of intricate mind-game: to flood John’s mind with bizarre tales and documents relative to dead extraterrestrials, alien autopsies, and spacecraft from other worlds. Maybe, John suggested, it was a loyalty test: to see if he ran to the Washington Post or to the New York Times. John did neither. Rather, he stayed quiet (at least until the 2000s, when he was well into his old age), and as a result of his silence he was offered further, prestigious positions.

John also speculated on another possibility; it was a possibility which involved the Soviets. Although he was somewhat reluctant to address the matter in-depth – which is intriguing – John said he heard a few snippets of data suggesting that there was a small program at Area 51 which was trying to convince the Russians that the United States Government had not just alien bodies, but extraterrestrial technology; even highly advanced, powerful alien weaponry. John wondered if all of this was a mind-game – one designed to scare the Russians into thinking we had something that we never really did, but which the staff at Area 51 were hoping the Russians would come to believe. And come to fear, too. John died in 2013. His widow stated that in his final years John came to believe even more that what he saw and read out at Area 51 in the early 1970s was connected to a project of mind-blowing proportions; a highly detailed and intricate fabrication designed to have the Russians running around like headless chickens, wasting their time on disinformation dressed up as incredible truths and ultimately getting arrested. Ingenious Cold War-era disinformation of a very strange kind, in other words.

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Alien Probe Found On Beach In Netherlands Matches Two Objects Found On Mars! Dec 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: December 7, 2018
Location of discovery: Castricum, Netherlands
Source: 

• https://castricum.uitkijkpost.nl/nieuws/algemeen/30736/ufo-aangetroffen-unidentified-floating-object-
  
  

This could be a UFO probe that was hit by lightning or crashed into the ocean for unknown reasons. I would guarantee that this is a alien probe if I could do a metallurgy test on it. If the metal turns out to be high concentrations of unknown metals or of aluminium, then the evidence it tilting towards alien device, similar to the alien artefact that Bob White retrieved. Aliens do not use steel and dislike it almost as if they were afraid of it. 

We have seen two similar objects on the surface of Mars near the NASA rovers in photos over the years. Both look like WWII soldier helmets...but maybe they were drones. So...you ask, how the hell does Scott know these could be alien? Their shape...and from the two objects we found on Mars...matching the same basic shape. This object found on the beach in Netherlands...looks alien to me. 
Scott C. Waring

Link to helmet 1: 

• http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2013/05/curiosity-finds-wwi-helmet-on-mars-nasa.html
  

Link to helmet 2: 

• http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2017/01/another-war-helmet-found-on-mars-near.html

News states: 

In the 'depot' of beach discoveries of the Strandvondstenmuseum an object has been found between old net drivers and other windings, the origin of which can not yet be traced. The object had probably been in the collection of a now deceased beachcomber, who left his collection at the museum, but that is not entirely certain. The museum has consulted several experts about the possible origin of the 'aluminum drop with wings'. According to a museum visitor, who is an aviation expert, the thing has at least a hydrodynamic shape instead of an aerodynamic one. After sending photos of the mysterious object to the NIOZ and the Royal Netherlands Navy, these authorities were also unable to clarify the function and origin of the object that they possess.

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Portland, Oregon Woman Sees Many UFOs Nightly Over Home Near Volcano! Nov 2018, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 2018
Location of sighting: Mount St Helens, Oregon, USA
News source: 

• https://www.counton2.com/entertainment/st-helens-woman-reports-ufo-sightings/1597113286

This is amazing. A woman in Oregon near Mount St Helens  has witnessed many UFOs for several nights over her home. Not only that...Mount St Helens is an active volcano...so we may have found the exact location of their alien base...UFOs are often exiting bases that are 4-6km below volcanos, because its a location where humans rarely go. 

What we are seeing here is not a drone. Drones do not light up like a ball. Also there is no way that this is an airplane since its hovering in place much of the time. Just the fact that its near St Helens convinces me that this is a serous sighting and that it has a higher chance of be real. These UFO orbs have been seen around the world. If you go to youtube you literally will find thousands of such videos, and yet the governments don't acknowledge this evidence, nor do they answer us what it is. 
Scott C. Waring

News states: 

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Multiple unidentified flying objects have been spotted in St. Helens, according to one woman who said they've appeared over her house two nights in a row. Michelle Gabrielli shared her videos and pictures with KOIN 6 News. She said she counted at least 15 of the strange lights -- and that they seemed to fly apart then back together. "I don't know what that was last night," she said. "I don't know. I can only speculate...it's an unidentified flying object... that we didn't do."

 

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Amazing TR-3B UFO sighting over Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2-Dec-2018

This amazing footage of a possible TR-3B (triangle UFO) was shot on 2nd December 2018 over FIRST TELECOM INDUSTRIES company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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New Steven Greer Huge Alien Disclosure of Close Encounters of the 5th Kind

Steven Greer shows how advanced trans-dimensional ET technologies interface with the coherent meditative and thought states during Close Encounters of the 5th Kind (CE-5) events. Understand how ET craft and beings can appear around us in ways that are astonishing and very close and very usually overlooked. For many years people have been seeing UFO’s in the skies and in space and it is an undeniable fact that our earth has been visited by extraterrestrial life forms in the past and present. Close Encounters of The Fifth Kind was first coined by Dr. Steven Greer and is the fifth type of contact on the Hynek’s scale.

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No Global Cooling Miracle: Sun's Activity Lull Will Stop Soon, Study Suggests

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Bob Lazar Speaks About The UFO He Examined At Area 51

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Intriguing 'Structure' on Asteroid Bennu

this is a weird-looking structure on the asteroid that US OSIRIS-REx probe just arrived at.

Here is a video of Bennu's complete rotation in which the structure appears prominently as something jutting out from the surface.

Here is another video for you to get an idea of how big the asteroid is:

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Un astronaute de la NASA a repéré “la preuve formelle” qu’un OVNI gigantesque a foncé non loin de l’ISS

Un astronaute de la NASA a été stupéfait lorsqu’un énorme “objet non identifié” est passé devant lui alors qu’il travaillait à bord de la Station spatiale internationale.

Des extraits vidéo montrent le moment où Chris Cassidy a contacté par radio le centre de contrôle de la mission pour signaler le passage de l’OVNI. On peut voir un petit objet rond qui se dirige vers le satellite artificiel comme une traînée de lumière orange. Un autre angle révèle comment l’objet semble se déplacer vers le haut, avant de disparaître complètement de l’angle de vue.

Une femme, à l’autre bout de la radio, s’empresse de remettre les pendules à l’heure, révélant à Cassidy que ce n’est pas un OVNI.

“Il s’agit d’un couvercle d’antenne, qui a été identifié par les contrôleurs des mission russes”, explique-t-elle.

Cependant, l’incident bizarre qui s’est produit le 19 août 2013 fait encore l’objet de discussions aujourd’hui.

Le clip a maintenant cumulé plus de 100 000 vues, et beaucoup pensent que c’est la meilleure preuve que des extraterrestres seraient en train d’observer l’ISS.

“Regardez la façon dont les lumières sont allumées – c’est un vrai OVNI”, a déclaré un téléspectateur.

Un autre a ajouté : “La NASA ment.”

Et un troisième a revendiqué : “L’une des preuves les plus évidentes, mais bien sûr, ce n’est qu’un ‘couvercle d’antenne’.”

Aujourd’hui, 20 ans se sont écoulés depuis que les premiers astronautes sont montés à bord de l’ISS en 1998.

Depuis lors, elle est habitée en permanence et devrait l’être jusqu’en 2028.

L’ISS est le plus grand engin spatial humain en orbite terrestre basse et on peut souvent la voir à l’œil nu depuis la Terre.

• Source: Express.co.uk, le 5 décembre 2018 
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The Most Powerful Ion Drive in Space Is Ready for Its Visit to Mercury

The team also needed to fit in that testing during the time when the spacecraft would always be visible from and point its antennae toward Earth so that they could properly monitor the tests. In mid-December, the thrusters will begin the series of 22 long burns that will be necessary for it to reach Mercury. The entire journey will cover 5.6 billion miles (9 billion kilometers).

BepiColombo's powerful ion thrusters are located on the Mercury Transfer Module, which is ferrying the mission's two science orbiters to Mercury. Once the assembly arrives in 2025, the three spacecraft will separate and the orbiters will bid farewell to the electric engines and their eerie blue glow.

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MIT designs and builds a plant-robot plantborg that can move towards light

BY ALEXANDRU MICU

An MIT Media Lab team build a plant-cyborg. Its name is Elowan, and it can move around.

Image credits Harpreet Sareen, Elbert Tiao // MIT Media Labs.

For most people, the word ‘cyborg’ doesn’t bring images of plants to mind — but it does at MIT’s Media Lab. Researchers in Harpreet Sareen’s lab at MIT have combined a plant with electronics to allow it to move. The cyborg — Elowan — relies on the plant’s sensory abilities to detect light and an electric motor to follow it.

Our photosynthesizing overlords

Plants are actually really good at detecting light. Sunflowers are a great example: you can actually see them move to follow the sun on its heavenly trek. Prior research has shown that plants accomplish this through the use of several natural sensors and response systems — among others, they keep track of humidity, temperature levels, and the amount of water in the soil.

However, plant’s aren’t very good at moving to a different place even if their ‘sensor and response systems’ tell them conditions aren’t very great. The MIT team wanted to fix that. They planned to give one plant more autonomy by fitting its pot with wheels, an electric motor, and assorted electrical sensors.

The way the cyborg works is relatively simple. The sensors pick up on the electrical signals generated by the plant and generate commands for the motor and wheels based on them. The result is, in effect, a plant that can move closer to light sources. The researchers proved this by placing the cyborg between two table lamps and then turning them on or off. The plant moved itself, with no prodding, toward the light that was turned on.

While undeniably funny, the research is practical, too. Elowan could be modified in such a way as to allow it to move solar panels on a house’s roof to maximize their light exposure. Alternatively, additional sensors and controlling units would allow a similar cyborg to maintain optimal temperature and humidity levels in, say, an office. With this in mind, the team plans to continue their research, including more species of plants to draw on their unique evolutionary adaptations.

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Space Rules!

Before humans settle or even set foot on Mars, engineers and scientists have to solve all sorts of problems, like protecting space travelers from dangerous radiation. This will be immensely difficult, but it shouldn’t overshadow other types of challenges — like the legal and political questions — raised by extraterrestrial colonization.

In an essay published Tuesday in Aeon, Marko Kovic, a consultant and president of a think tank named The Zurich Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, broke down what he sees as the four most important unanswered questions for the political structures of off-world settlements.

Break It Down

First off, Kovic poses the question of who’s actually permitted to colonize space. Should individual nations establish their own settlements, or should that right be reserved for international coalitions? What about powerful corporations?

Secondly, there’s the matter of developing laws that are relevant to life on Mars or wherever else. Right now, astronauts are subject to the laws of their home countries, but Kovic argues that it doesn’t make sense to wait the many weeks or months it would take for Earthly legal systems to investigate the first space murderer. Rather, the settlement would need its own legal structure that’s not dependent on Earth.

Kovic’s third question may never have a clear answer — he pondered how various nations like the U.S. China might respond differently to rebellious colonies. When should these settlements become independent, if they should at all?

Fourth, Kovic argued that, independent or not, policymakers should figure out exactly how various settlements on the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else will all interact among each other and with Earth society. Will they all fall under one governing coalition, or will they be separate entities?

Analog Culture

The challenge to each of these comes from the fact that Earthly analogs don’t always hold up — future space societies may find themselves in need of entirely novel governmental structures. On Earth, colonization by and eventual succession from governing nations has often been a bloody mess, so it’s not like we have useful historical examples to guide us.

When you factor in the fact that various terrestrial governments with conflicting philosophies and structures (think representative democracies versus dictatorships) will all have interests in space settlements, a crowd-pleasing solution becomes even harder to find.

So Now What?

Beyond the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that declares space ought to be explored, not exploited or used for military purposes, there are very few rules that govern space. And even that treaty no longer does as good a job as it used to — Kovic said in his essay that it would prohibit Russia, China, or America from colonizing the Moon or Mars, but not a private entity like SpaceX or Blue Origin.

Before we hand the keys to the galaxy over to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, perhaps we should take a moment to come up with some updated ground rules.

Editor’s Note: This post previously misidentified the think tank of which Kovic is president as “The Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research.” It has been updated.

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Un scientifique de la NASA n’exclut pas que des extraterrestres soient déjà parmi nous

Bien que la NASA n’ait pas encore trouvé de preuve irréfutable de l’existence d’extraterrestres, un scientifique de l’agence affirme dans un article publié sur le site officiel que les aliens auraient déjà visité la Terre. Selon lui, il pourrait s’agir d’une «entité super-intelligente» et «extrêmement petite».

Silvano P.Colombano, qui travaille dans un centre de recherche de la NASA, également professeur, n’exclut pas dans son article que des formes de vie extraterrestre auraient déjà visité la Terre. Il affirme que la vie intelligente peut ne pas être basée sur le carbone, ou ce à quoi nous sommes habitués.

«Je veux simplement souligner le fait que nous pourrions trouver d’autres formes d’intelligence, ou que ces formes pourraient choisir de nous trouver (si ce n’est pas déjà le cas), qui ne seraient pas du tout produites par des organismes à base de carbone comme nous», écrit-il dans un article de recherche publié sur le site Web de la NASA.

Si ces formes de vie extraterrestre ne sont pas basées sur le carbone, cela changerait les hypothèses existantes sur ce qu’il faut rechercher. «À quel point cela pourrait-il changer les hypothèses concernant les voyages interstellaires? Notre durée de vie typique ne serait plus limitée (même si celle-ci pourrait être traitée avec des missions multigénérationnelles ou une cryogénisation) et l’entité pourrait être extrêmement petite mais super intelligente.»

Dans le document, il suggère également que des extraterrestres pourraient avoir découvert une technologie que les êtres humains ne pourraient pas comprendre. «Si nous adoptions un nouvel ensemble d’hypothèses sur les formes d’intelligence et de technologies supérieures que nous pourrions trouver, certains de ces phénomènes pourraient correspondre à des hypothèses spécifiques et nous pourrions entamer une enquête sérieuse», a-t-il souligné.

Plusieurs médias ont repris les propos du scientifique et, vu la résonance médiatique, le scientifique a tenu à expliquer ses propos à la revue Live Science.

«Mon point de vue était simplement que les rapports de phénomènes aériens non identifiés devraient faire l’objet d’une étude sérieuse, même si les chances d’identifier une technologie étrangère est très faible», a-t-il expliqué. Source

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SETI Institute found no traces of aliens on the “interstellar asteroid”

Long-term observations of the Oumuamua asteroid at the time of its approach to the Earth exclude the presence on its surface of “any artificial sources of radio waves or other signals.” This conclusion was made by astronomers from the SETI Institute for Extraterrestrial Civilizations, who published an article in the journal Acta Astronautica.

“We tried at least some signal that indicated the man-made character of this object. We didn’t find anything like that, despite the very high sensitivity of our telescopes. On the other hand, it’s impossible to say for sure that our observations completely exclude the fact that Oumuamua created the aliens, “says Gerry Harp from the SETI extraterrestrial civilization search institute in Mountain View (USA).

In the middle of October last year, the Pan-STARRS1 automated telescope discovered the first “interstellar” celestial body. This object was tentatively called a comet, received the temporary name C / 2017 U1, and dozens of ground-based and orbital telescopes began to follow it.

Before it left the near-Earth space, scientists managed to get a lot of pictures and data on its physical properties, which indicated that this object is more like an asteroid than a comet. It was renamed 1I / 2017 U1, and later received the name Oumuamua, which means “intelligence officer” in the language of the indigenous inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands.

Subsequently, the unusual cigar-shaped form of Oumuamua and the presence of large quantities of organic matter on its surface once again forced scientists to rethink what it really was – the nucleus of an “extinct” comet, a real asteroid or something completely different.

For example, at the beginning of November, astronomers from Harvard suggested, basing on this fact and the fact that the trajectory of the “interstellar scout” movement changed in an unusual way when it approached the Sun, that it could be a man-made object.

According to them, Oumuamua is a kind of interstellar “sailboat”, launched by aliens in the direction of the solar system. His unusual form helped him not to stray from the course and reach the Earth in several million years of flight.

Harp and his colleagues checked whether this was the case using the data collected by the ATA radio telescope after Oumuamua reached the Earth as close as possible when this celestial body crossed the orbit of our planet in late November and early December 2017.

The short distance and high power of the ATA allowed astronomers to check whether there are even the smallest sources of radio waves on the surface of the interstellar “scout”, whose power is tens and hundreds of times inferior to cell phones and walkie-talkies.

The maximum power of the radio transmitter, which would remain invisible for this observatory, is only 500 milliwatts, which is clearly not enough to establish contact with the Earth or to communicate with other planetary systems.

All this, according to Kharp, suggests that Oumuamua can hardly be an “interstellar probe” created by aliens to establish contact with Earth. Nevertheless, observations of it and the subsequent interstellar objects will help us to understand how the worlds are arranged outside the solar system and how suitable they are for life.

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252 million years ago, climate change nearly wiped out life on Earth; something similar is happening today

 BY MIHAI ANDREI

Great climatic changes triggered the Earth’s biggest extinction, which wiped off 70% of terrestrial life and 96% marine life 252 million years ago, a new study suggests. A similar process seems to be taking place today, researchers warn.

The barbary ape is one of the many creatures currently threatened by extinction as a result of human action.

Then…

We’re 252 million years in the past, in a period called the Permian. Almost all of the Earth’s landmass is clumped together into a supercontinent called Pangaea. Although it’s still in its earlier phases, life on Earth has developed to be remarkably diverse. But evolution was about to suffer a massive setback — a dramatic extinction that came to be known as “The Great Dying.”

“It was a huge event. In the last half a billion years of life on the planet, it was the worst extinction,” said Curtis Deutsch, an oceanography expert who co-authored the research with University of Washington colleague Justin Penn and Stanford University scientists Jonathan Payne and Erik Sperling.

Despite the magnitude of this event, researchers have found relatively few clues about it — until some 20 years ago.

The problem is that 252 million years is a long time (even in geological terms), and finding reliable evidence that survived the onset of this much time is not easy. However, modern dating techniques (particularly the U–Pb dating of zircon crystals) allowed geologists to pinpoint this extinction to a few thousands of years — which given the scale of things, is quite impressive.

Similarly, radiometric studies have revealed that the extinction coincided with (and was likely caused by) massive volcanic eruptions. However, not all was clear. Specifically, it was unclear how the volcanic eruption and the extinction event were related.

Now, a new study suggests that the determining mechanism was an all too familiar one: climate change.

Image credits: University of Washington.

Essentially, the eruptions caused intense and abrupt global warming, which in turn depleted the oxygen from the oceans, causing the ocean’s creatures to effectively suffocate. Using a complex model powered by a supercomputer, the authors found that the combination of these two factors alone (warming water and low oxygen) can “account for more than half the magnitude of the ‘Great Dying’”.

If those two factors seem somewhat familiar, it’s because they’re also taking place today.

… and now

The story seems remarkably similar to what we’re experiencing today, as researchers themselves underline in the study.

“Voluminous emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, rapid global warming, and a decline in biodiversity—the storyline is modern, but the setting is ancient,” Penn State geosciences professor Lee Kump, who was not part of the research team, wrote in a Science piece responding to the new findings.

Indeed, it’s stunning how similar the two situations are. In both cases, an event caused temperatures to rise in a relatively short amount of time — but whereas 252 million years ago that was a volcanic eruption, in this case, it’s the greenhouse gas emissions outputted by mankind.

“The ultimate, driving change that led to the mass extinction is the same driving change that humans are doing today, which is injecting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” Justin Penn, a University of Washington doctoral student in oceanography and the study’s lead author, told the Seattle Times.

“The study tells us what’s at the end of the road if we let climate [change] keep going,” warned Curtis Deutsch, Penn’s co-author and PhD adviser, as the latest projections show emissions hitting record-breaking levels this year. “The further we go, the more species we’re likely to lose… That’s frightening. The loss of species is irreversible.”

Scientists are also tracking oxygen depletion in the oceans, and have reported some worrying trends, which already start to resemble what was happening in the late Permian.

Simply put, we may be witnessing the start of another catastrophic period for Earth’s biodiversity, and contrary to popular belief, life doesn’t necessarily “bounce back” — it may be permanently affected. Previous studies have indicated that it took life at least 4-6 million years to recover after the Great Dying, while other authors put that figure towards 30 million years.

Credits: NASA.

Another striking similarity between the Great Dying and modern times is the devastation of insect populations. The ancient extinction is the only known mass extinction of insects — and insect populations have declined dramatically in the past few decades — the blink of an eye, in geological time.

If this all seems a bit alarming, well, it should. Finding so many similarities between the world’s greatest extinction event and today’s times is not something to be happy about. If our greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, life on Earth (including humans) may be irreparably damaged.

“As our understanding of the drivers and consequences of end-Permian climate change and mass extinction improves,” Kump wrote, “the lessons for the future become clear.”

Within the Paris Agreement, countries pledged to reduce emissions and limit global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial levels, but globally, action has been lackluster, and several studies have found that an increase of over 4 degrees Celsius is much more likely.

World leaders are currently meeting in Katowice at the annual UN climate summit (in which the Paris Agreement was also signed) to decide the best course of action, but despite some remarkable initiatives, there are few reasons for optimism.

It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of such massive processes, but it’s important to remember that collectively, our decisions are one of the most powerful geological forces in our planet’s history. Your decisions do matter — make it count.

• The study “Climate change and marine mass extinction” has been published in Science.

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NASA verspreidt unieke geluidsopname: “Luister naar de windop Mars” - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Sensoren in de seismometer en een weerinstrument registreerden de vibraties tengevolge van wind op Mars. “Hoofdtelefoon en subwoofer aanbevolen”, zegt de NASA. Het is allemaal “bas”. InSight doet, met medewerking van de Koninklijke Belgische Sterrenwacht, in het bijzonder onderzoek naar het binnenste van de Rode Planeet.

In onderstaand Youtube-filmpje kan je de wind op Mars beluisteren:

Lees ook

Marslander InSight stuurt nieuwe foto’s door van de rode planeet

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Chinezen onderweg naar ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, een plek waar nooit eerder ruimtetuig landde - HLN.be

Ponsaerts 

Vanavond om 19.30 uur onze tijd lanceren de Chinezen met hun ‘Lange Mars-4’-draagraket vanaf de Mongoolse grens een onbemande ruimtesonde richting de Maan. Niks speciaals, zal u denken: Neil Armstrong zette daar al voet aan grond, volgende zomer zelfs al 50 jaar geleden. In die halve eeuw werd de Maan ook zowat ‘platgelopen’, of beter ‘gereden’ door de vele robotwagens die er al op verkenning gingen. Tóch gaan de Chinezen nu voor een opmerkelijke primeur. Als eersten willen ze hun maanlander met robotjeep op de achterkant van het hemellichaam neerzetten, een plek waar nog nooit eerder iemand landde.

“Dat de Chinezen op een plek zullen landen van waarop de aarde nooit is te zien, is een absolute primeur”, weet ook Koen Geukens van Volkssterrenwacht Urania. “De maan blijft immers altijd met dezelfde zijde naar ons gericht. Dat alleen al maakt Chang’e-4 een héél speciaal project.” Maar naast prestige speelt er ook een wetenschappelijk belang. “De achterzijde van de Maan wordt als de ideale locatie beschouwd om het heelal te bestuderen, zonder storende invloeden zoals radiosignalen afkomstig van de aarde”, legt de sterrenkundige uit. “De Chinezen hopen onder meer straling op te vangen van waterstofgas uit de begintijd van het heelal. Analyse van bodem en gesteente moeten voorts uitmaken of de achterzijde verschilt van de voorzijde. Waarschijnlijk kennen beide een andere voorgeschiedenis. Zo weten we al dat er aan de andere kant amper of geen donkere zeeën zijn. Alle bijkomende info leert ons ongetwijfeld meer over de voorgeschiedenis, en mogelijk ook het ontstaan van de enige natuurlijke satelliet van onze aarde.”

Aardappelen en bloemzaden

De robotwagen van Chang’e-4 neemt ook aardappelen en zaden van bloemen mee naar de maan. Niet om daar te planten of te zaaien, wel om te bestuderen hoe deze zich in die omgeving zullen ontkiemen. “Ook dat is een primeur. De info kan nuttig zijn om voedsel te verbouwen in het toekomstige bemande ruimtestation dat de Chinezen binnen enkele jaren rondom de maan zou willen laten cirkelen”, zegt de ruimtevaartspecialist.

Wél licht aan de ‘Dark Side of the Moon’

Anders dan Pink Floyds legendarische album ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ uit 1973 doet vermoeden, is er dus wel degelijk licht aan de andere zijde. “Voor of achter, het heeft niks met licht of donker te maken. Net als aan onze kant is er een dag- en nachtcyclus van ongeveer vier weken”, legt Geukens uit. “Tijdens Nieuwe Maan, wanneer wij vanaf de aarde tegen de onverlichte helft van de maan aankijken, baadt de achterkant in het zonlicht.” Ook al gebeurt dat in het licht, landen wordt er wel relatief lastig. “De maan belemmert natuurlijk de radiocommunicatie tussen het commandocentrum en de lander. De Chinezen hebben daarom in mei communicatiesatelliet Queqiao gelanceerd. Vanop zo’n 455.000 kilometer moet die, van achter de Maan, de signalen van de maanrover en -lander naar de aarde doorsluizen. Ook dat werd nooit eerder gedaan.”

Als alles volgens plan verloopt, zal de Chang’e-4 na een vlucht van 27 dagen kort na Nieuwjaar op de zuidelijke maanpool landen. Voor wie er stiekem al op hoopte: buitenaardse wezens zullen de Chinezen ook daar níet aantreffen. Daarover brachten eerdere satellietbeelden van onder meer de Nasa al uitsluitsel.

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