Birthplace of Earth's Continents Discovered Under These Mountains

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1st Color X-Rays of Human Body Are Bloody Amazing

By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer 

Stunning new color X-ray images, from a company called Mars Bioimaging, in New Zealand, seem to make flesh and bone translucent and hyperreal.

A scan of an ankle rotates in this GIF.

Credit: Mars Bioimaging

The gif above shows one of the company's strange and fascinating images: a slice of human ankle, with off-white, rugged bones, bloody-looking muscle tissue and a pad of fat smeared protectively under the heel with a whipped-cream texture.

This image shows a wrist with more muscle, less visible bone, almost no fat and a clearly-articulated watch:

Gigantische holte ontdekt op Antarctica onder “gevaarlijkste gletsjer ter wereld” - HLN.be 

Bron: Science Advances

De gigantische leegte onderaan de Thwaites-gletsjer is bijna 300 meter hoog en meet 10 op 4 km. Met een oppervlakte van zo’n 40 km² is de holte groter dan de stad Oostende en beslaat ze twee derde van heel Manhattan. De opening is zó groot dat het een duidelijke brok is van de zowat 252 miljard ton ijs die Antarctica elk jaar kwijtspeelt. Volgens een nieuwe studie verschenen in Science Advanceszou er ooit 14 miljard ton ijs hebben ingepast, maar alleen al in de laatste drie jaren  ging het grootste gedeelte van dat volume verloren.

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Pietro Milillo, hoofdauteur van het artikel, zegt dat zo’n holte onder een gletsjer een aanzienlijke rol kan spelen in het wegsmelten van het ijs. “Als er meer warmte en water onder de gletsjer geraken, smelt die sneller.” Niet onbelangrijk, omdat de Thwaites-gletsjer op dit moment een aandeel van ongeveer 4 procent heeft in de stijging van het globale zeeniveau. Mocht de hele gletsjer zo groot als de staat Florida wegsmelten, dan stijgt de zeespiegel naar schatting met 65 centimeter.

En dat is niet eens het slechtst denkbare scenario. De Thwaites houdt ook aangrenzende gletsjers en ijsmassa’s meer landinwaarts in bedwang. Als die ondersteuning zou wegvallen, zijn de gevolgen niet te overzien. Dan zou het zeepeil nog eens met een extra 2,4 meter stijgen. Vandaar dat de Thwaites-gletsjer beschouwd wordt als cruciaal in de natuurlijke structuur van het Antarctische gebied.

Hoelang de Thwaites-gletsjer het nog zal volhouden, is moeilijk in te schatten. Wetenschappers zijn onlangs letterlijk van wal gestoken voor een expeditie in het kader van een van de belangrijkste onderzoeken wereldwijd in het huidige tijdperk.

Ter illustratie, de woorden van David Holland, geoloog aan de New York University, vorig jaar aan The Washington Post: “Voor de globale wijziging van de zeespiegel in de volgende eeuw kan zowat alles herleid worden tot de Thwaites-gletsjer”.

Over de ontdekking van de serieuze holte zegt glacioloog en co-auteur Eric Rignot, verbonden aan de University of California in Irvine en aan NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena: “We vermoeden al jaren dat Thwaites niet stevig vasthangt aan het grondgesteente eronder. Dankzij de nieuwe generatie van satellieten kunnen we nu eindelijk ook de details zien.” 

Volgens de studie is de verborgen leegte slechts één geval van het “complexe patroon van terugtrekking en van smeltijs” op de Thwaites-gletsjer.  In sommige delen ervan trekt de gletsjer elk jaar met wel 800 meter terug en smelt het driftijs er aan een tempo van 200 meter per jaar. In andere delen is dat minder. Het patroon past niet in de huidige modellen over de verhouding tussen ijskap en oceaan en vereist verder onderzoek naar de interactie tussen water en ijs in de ijskoude maar opwarmende omgeving van Antarctica. Dat onderzoek zit in de pijplijn: de  U.S. National Science Foundation en de British National Environmental Research Council hebben samen een grootschalig veldproject van vijf jaar opgezet om meer te weten te komen over de Thwaites-gletsjer, overigens een van de moeilijkst bereikbare plaatsen ter wereld.

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Emotioneel redeneren zoals Yoda of analytisch zoals Spock: wie van de twee maakt slimste beslissing? - HLN.be

Psychologen van de Univeristy of Waterloo onderzochten het effect van emoties bij het oplossen van moeilijke vraagstukken

De ene laat zich beïnvloeden door zijn emoties, de andere maakt alleen maar weloverwogen en berekende beslissingen. Het onderscheid tussen die twee verschillende manieren van nadenken, sluit aan bij de fictieve karakters van Yoda (Star Wars) en Spock (Star Trek), maar wie van de twee personages is wijzer? Spoiler: Yoda wint dit gevecht alvast volgens de psychologen die het onderzoek leidden.

Het groene mannetje uit de Star Wars-saga houdt immers rekening met zijn gevoelens én die van anderen. Op die manier maakt hij gebalanceerde keuzes. Op vlak van wijsheid is hij dan ook de ‘sterkste’ Jedi die er bestaat.

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Yoda versus Spock

De kenmerken van het fictieve personage staan in het onderzoek pal tegenover die van zijn - al even legendarische - concurrent: Spock. De ruimtevaartofficier in de televisieserie Star Trek laat zich, net zoals Yoda, leiden door het verstand, al pakt hij vooropgestelde problemen op een ietwat andere manier aan. Zijn personage tracht voornamelijk logisch te redeneren, zonder rekening te houden met gevoelens. Bijkomende schade? Zolang die het het algemeen belang dient, is dat een gefundeerde beslissing. 

Maar om verstandige keuzes te maken, moeten individuen wel rekening houden met de emoties die zijzelf alsook anderen ervaren, zo stellen de onderzoekers.

Emotionele diversiteit

Om tot die conclusie te komen, voerden enkele psychologen van de University of Waterloo talrijke experimenten uit. In totaal namen er zo’n 3.700 participanten deel aan het onderzoek. De proefpersonen werden gedurende vier jaar regelmatig geconfronteerd met emotionele uitdagingen, situaties die interpersoonlijke conflicten uitlokten, en moeilijke geopolitieke vraagstukken.

De onderzoekers concentreerden zich daarbij op de emotionele diversiteit - het vermogen om verschillende emoties, negatief en positief, te ervaren – van de deelnemers. “Een diversiteit aan emoties kan niet alleen de fysieke en emotionele gezondheid van een individu bevorderen, ze maken die personen ook wijzer”, aldus hoofdauteur van de studie Igor Grossmann. “Verder brengt deze studie talrijke manieren in kaart die wijs redeneren stimuleren, rekening houden met persoonlijke ervaringen is daar een voorbeeld van.” Bij een gebrek aan emoties of zonder een gezonde mix aan negatieve en positieve gevoelens, zadelden de deelnemers anderen (of zichzelf) vaker op met meer conflicten of problemen, zo bleek.

Kortom, wie zich af en toe laat leiden door emoties neemt de verstandigste beslissingen. Dat is natuurlijk op voorwaarde dat die emoties in balans worden gehouden. Eenmaal de negatieve of positieve gevoelens domineren, zijn wijze beslissingen ver zoek.

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Deep space radio waves baffle astronomers; aliens not ruled out

By JON SCHLOSBERG

WATCH: New space discovery has astronomers buzzing

Aliens!

Astronomers can’t rule out that possibility after an exciting new discovery. A team in Canada recently stumbled upon ultra-brief repeating waves from deep space for only the second time in history.

Appearing on ABC News Live, Senior SETI astronomer Seth Shostak talked about the fascinating find: "Could that be aliens that are in those galaxies and they have some need to get in touch... well maybe."

• (MORE: Report of Possible Alien Signal Sets SETI Community Abuzz but Many Scientists Remain Skeptical)

"It is something new, every time we see something we’ve never seen before that is an opportunity to learn something new about the universe," astrophysicist Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi told ABC News Live.

Shostak also shared behind-the-scenes information about a promising signaldiscovered by SETI in 1997 and how he reacted at the time.

"We had picked up a signal, it was passing all the tests. This looked like the real deal, I was there waiting for the Men in Black to show up... " he said.

Watch the video above for the best moments from the ABC News Live segment.

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BUITENAARDS CONTACT BEKEND GEMAAKT TIJDENS VN VERGADERING ( VIDEO )

Net voor afgelopen kerst publiceerden wij een artikel met daarin opnames van een piramidevormige ufo boven het Pentagon.

Nu verschijnt er uitgelekte opname van een geheime vergadering bij de VN waarin wordt gezegd dat er een buitenaards piramidevormig ruimteschip is gesignaleerd boven het Pentagon.

De herkomst van de opname is onduidelijk omdat de originele beelden in sneltreinvaart door de censuurcommissie van Youtube werden verwijderd. Gelukkig zijn een aantal mensen erin geslaagd de video te kopiëren zodat deze nog steeds te bekijken is. 

Wat daardoor wel ontbreekt zijn de mogelijkheden om te kunnen controleren waar deze opname vandaan komt en of deze echt is. Coen Vermeeren, lang werkzaam bij de Technische Universiteit (TU) in Delft en met jarenlange ervaring als het gaat om ufo's, spreekt zich uit over de VN beelden en denkt/hoopt dat ze echt zijn.

In de gelekte video zien we een deel van een sessie bij de Algemene Vergadering van de VN. Wanneer is niet duidelijk en er wordt aan de aanwezigen gevraagd om niets te filmen of om audio opnames te maken en absolute geheimhouding te bewaren over wat er bekendgemaakt gaat worden. Verder een waarschuwing dat als mensen toch proberen opnames te publiceren zij vervolgd zullen worden.

Vervolgens geeft de voorzitter, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, het woord aan een dame genaamd Aliva Prokofveva,oprichter en CEO van het ruimteplatform Galaktika. 

Ze zegt dat ze een mededeling heeft en die is dat afgelopen december (welke dag wordt niet gezegd) er een piramidevormige ufo verscheen boven het Pentagon. 

Een object met een doorsnede van zo’n 100 meter dat vloog op een hoogte van 500 meter en om zijn eigen as draaide. 

Dit gebeurtenis werd ook vastgelegd en gevolgd door een groep specialisten van NASA, die allerlei gegevens ontving van het vreemde object. Deze zijn geanalyseerd en het resultaat daarvan wordt dan door Prokofveva gedeeld in de VN vergadering. 

Ze hebben daarvoor radarbeelden gebruikt, visuele waarnemingen en radiosignalen die afkomstig waren van de ufo. Conclusie is dat ze zeker weten dat hier sprake is van een object met onbekende herkomst. 

Dan valt inderdaad het woord buitenaards en er wordt bij gezegd dat de intenties van het schip niet vijandig waren. 

Tenslotte zegt Prokofveva dat de vreemde radiosignalen die eerder deze maand door een observatorium in Canada werden opgevangen van een melkwegstelsel op een afstand van 1,5 miljard lichtjaren identiek zijn aan de signalen die afkomstig zijn van de piramidevormige ufo. 

Hier volgt de bewuste video (Redactie: in het geval deze ook weer weg is gecensureerd is een kopie opvraagbaar bij onze redactie.Tekst gaat onder de video verder):

Ondanks dat de waarneming boven Moskou negen jaar geleden plaatsvond, is niemand er nog is geslaagd om hier een verklaring voor te vinden. 

Om te zien hoe het er in Moskou destijds uitzag, hierna nog eens de opname:

Nu zijn we negen jaar verder en wordt er boven het Pentagon in Amerika een vergelijkbaar object 
waargenomen. 

Omdat er meerdere opnames zijn, ook van de UFO boven het Kremlin, lijken filmbewerkingen in deze gevallen uitgesloten. Ook een Russische politicus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Pushkov ) heeft de UFO boven het Kremlin dus besproken in zijn politieke praatprogramma op de Russische televisie, en hij heeft het zeer serieus genomen. 

De opname vanuit een auto, op 19 december, is naar mijn mening echt spectaculair. Ze rijden vlak langs het Pentagon en ze zeggen op een gegeven moment dat de UFO verdwenen is, terwijl op hetzelfde moment op hun opname, boven in beeld, je de gigantische UFO nog gewoon kan zien, maar ze kijken er onder door of ze herkennen de vorm even niet. 

Volgens mij zijn deze beelden net zo spectaculair als indertijd de UFO boven de Rotskoepel op de Tempelberg in Jerusalem, alleen gaat het nu om een veel groter object dat ook veel langer is blijven hangen, met name indertijd in Moskou boven het Kremlin, en dit object is kennelijk geïnteresseerd in de beleidsmakers/machtscentra van de twee grootste kernmachten.

Tot zover de lezer.

Hier volgt een derde opname gemaakt van de vreemde ufo boven het Pentagon: 

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Jose Canseco is at it again. No, the former Oakland Athletics star is not attempting a comeback at baseball nor mixed martial arts, nor is he dipping into the steroids bag again. Jose is back to tweeting about aliens of the space kind and has now added a new twist – his theories on time travel that he claims were given to him by extraterrestrials. Is this for rel or is he trying to get an invitation to compete on Dancing With The Stars?

“We are in communication with aliens with a very flexible body composition called the AI51”

That was Canseco’s first of a series of tweets on January 30th about aliens. It’s not clear what “AI51” is, although it’s possibly a combined abbreviation of ‘Artificial Intelligence, Area 51’, but searches come up with nothing on aliens with that name regardless of body composition. Is this a new classification?

“These aliens are going to teach us how to try and travel the brain can physically travel without the body.”

Hmm. Is he alluding to time travel via astral projection? Is he communicating directly with these aliens or does Jose have access to some secret government files?

“Aliens have been trying to teach us how to time travel but first we have to change our body composition which we are not willing to do we have tried with animals and it has failed.”

Sounds like Jose just watched The Island of Dr. Moreau. Or is he privy to secret cloning and genetic experiments going on in China?

“Time travel puts 42,651 pounds of pressure on a human skeletal structure…. can you detach the brain from the body and equalize the pressure it could be done”

Where did that figure come from? Some scientists say the maximum pressure a human can endure is 70 times normal atmospheric pressure or 1029 pounds per square inch. Is that what you’re talking about, Jose? And isn’t the brain part of the body? How can pressure on the brain alone be equalized? What kind of science is this?

“Our science is totally irrelevant to aliens”

Oh, well that explains it … not! At least it explains why these “aliens” are communicating with Jose Canseco and not Neil deGrasse Tyson. Or perhaps they’re fans of the 1980s Oakland Athletics and the “Bash Brothers” – Canseco and Mark McGwire, the team’s steroid-infused home run tandem. Or could it be that Canseco has dealt with them before?

“Jose we do not want you to run for president. You’re destined for much greater things in the battle against the androids and the alien masters. Elements of the United States government are compromised by the androids and aliens, they are deeply in at all levels, cannot trust.”

Jose’s time machine?

In December 2018, Canseco tweeted that he was considering running for president and @YabaiKankei begged him to stay where he’s at – wherever that is – and battle the aliens in the government from there. Why would @YabaiKankei know that Canseco was fighting against aliens?

“Some aliens deleted my acc.”

In 2012, Canseco disappeared from Twitter for a time and revealed why when he returned. Or did he?

“I actually died over night and came back to life now I am a vampire and you are my apprentice”

Died and came back? Was he dabbling in time travel in 2012? And why is he complicating things by throwing in vampires?

“When I died I saw Elvis and micheal they said hello”

OK, Jose. We skeptics need more clarification. Let’s hope the aliens don’t take away his Twitter account again before Canseco can explain more about time travel, aliens, vampires, Elvis and Michael.

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This week’s mystery booms were spread out throughout the eastern half of the United States, yet they all seemed to occur on the same day. Could they be connected? In Chicago, Illinois, residents reported “loud booming” or poppig noises late in the evening of Tuesday, January 29. Some people said the booming was so loud it shook the earth under their feet.

O’Hare International Airport in Chicago

Our page is inundated with reports of this stuff,” says Adam Lucio of Illinois Storm Chasers, “People have been reporting that they’ve been hearing these loud booms that sound like thunder or a car crash and in many cases, it’s scaring them because they aren’t sure what it is.” In the Chicago incident, so far the best theory is that the booms were caused by cryoseisms, sometimes called “frost quakes.” These rare geological events are thought to occur when soil or bedrock breaks apart as groundwater freezes, but aren’t well understood.

While the cryoseism theory sounds plausible in icy Chicago, two other booms which occurred on the same day can’t so easily be explained. Farther to the east in Pennsylvania, residents of south Philadelphia were awoken late on the evening of January 29 by a boom loud enough to shake their houses and windows. After Philadelphia police received several reports of explosions, the U.S. Geological Service and the Department of Defense were contacted, but neither agency knows anything about the mystery booms.

That is, at least publicly.

Meanwhile, houses in Panama City, Florida were shaken on the same day by what was reported as a “loud bang,” although this one was reported in the afternoon. Curiously, some residents even reported feeling pressure changes and unexplained headaches after the noise was heard. Floridians took to social media to speculate about the cause of the bang, with explanations ranging from earthquakes to military activity. Neither the National Weather Service nor nearby Eglin Air Force Base had any information to share, but Bay County Emergency Management services are investigating the incident.

Why have these booms become so common recently?

With no information from authorities, what are we left with? Three mystery booms in three states all on the same day within twelve hours of each other. I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to get genuinely creeped out over the frequency of these mystery booms and the total lack of explanation. While no information has been offered up by any official channels, I’m confident that someone or some agency somewhere knows at least something about these mystery booms – something they’re not sharing with the public. What’s more terrifying: the thought that clandestine military activity is causing sonic booms around the country, or that some unknown natural force might be behind the phenomenon?

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Top Secret Aurora Project Blue Triangle Craft Seen In NASA Shuttle Mission Photo! UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: January 31, 2019

Location of discovery: Earths orbit at space shuttle

NASA Source: 

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Here is a blue triangle UFO I found in the STS-052 shuttle mission archives. This occurred in Nov 1992. Now this triangle UFO reminds me of the same blue triangle seen over the UK that was a USAF top secret project called The Aurora Project. It looks like even back in 92 this secret craft was up and flying around. 

The Aurora legend started in March 1990, when Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term "Aurora" had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U.S. budget, as an allocation of $455 million for "black aircraft production" in FY 1987. According to Aviation Week, Project Aurora referred to a group of exotic aircraft, and not to one particular airframe. Funding of the project allegedly reached $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987, according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week. The blue triangle was repeatedly seen over the UK for several years, always near a USA military base. 

Project Aurora was a triangular craft that glows blue and was built with an alien tech propulsion system. Yes it works, yes its real, yes it can reach up to one quarter the speed of light. 
Scott C. Waring

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The co-writer/director of The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick, is returning to his shaky-cam roots with his new movie, Skyman, which follows, documentary-style, the fictional story of Carl Merryweather, a man who believes he had an alien encounter in the desert when he was 10 years old and is now attempting to re-establish contact at the same location.

Daniel Myrick

In a statement made last week on the 20th anniversary of the Blair Witch release, Myrick said:

“I’m elated to finally be able to share the first look at Skymanon such a monumental occasion – the 20th year anniversary of Blair Witch. We’re all curious about the beyond… I’m excited for you to join me on this journey.”

I’ll go out on a limb and say this will be a must-watch for UFO buffs as it will likely tap directly into some fascinating elements of UFOlogy and UFO lore. Blurring the lines between fact and fantasy, the trailer for Skyman opens with actual UFO footage captured in the 1950s, well known to UFOlogists. I interviewed Daniel Myrick back in 2014 in connection with his 2008 sci-fi movie The Objective, which drew inspiration from UFO conspiracy theories and Ancient Astronaut lore.  Myrick described to me how he had grown up in the 1970s watching TV series and documentaries exploring Ancient Astronauts. “They had a huge influence on my imagination and world view about earth and the cosmos,” Myrick explained.

The Objective (2008)

Myrick also told me he is a firm believer in life elsewhere in the cosmos and is hopeful that contact might be established within his lifetime. However, he was far from sold on the extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs. He acknowledged in our correspondence:

“Well, there is a ‘phenomenon’ to be sure. Exactly what is the root cause is more open to speculation. Scientifically, I find it hard to imagine that a race of beings with the capability of space travel over such distances would come all this way only to leave blurry remnants of themselves for us mere mortals to argue over in the ensuing years after their departure. More likely we’ll be making contact via radio telescope or some other technology that has yet to be invented.”

Judging by the trailer and poster for his new film, though, it may be that Myrick is finally finding his believer boots…

Skyman will be released later this year.

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A possible “missing link” has been discovered in orbit around the Sun close to Pluto. While it would be a lot cooler if this was the ‘half-ape, half-man’ kind of missing link found floating frozen in space and proving ancient astronaut speculation to be true, this curious object is more of the ‘half-planetoid, half-asteroid which may prove planetary formation theories true’ type of missing link. The Japanese astronomers who discovered this mysterious space object believe it could help further explain how planets in our Solar System formed, and in the process shed light on the origins of Earth as we know it.

The object was discovered by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) who spent 60 hours with small 11-inch telescopes observing 2,000 different stars looking for any objects which might pass in front of them. That old-school space sleuthing paid off, because the astronomers found evidence of a tiny body known as a planetesimal orbiting the Sun close to Pluto. Planetesimals are protoplanets, small planet-like objects around 1 kilometer in diameter. Given enough time, these objects’ gravity can attract enough matter to become full-fledged planets. The full study of this new planetesimal has been published in Nature Astronomy.

“This is a real victory for little projects. Our team had less than 0.3 percent of the budget of large international projects. We didn’t even have enough money to build a second dome to protect our second telescope! Yet we still managed to make a discovery that is impossible for the big projects,” astronomer Ko Arimatsu said in a NAOJ press release. Geez, somebody get these guys some funding.

The object is estimated to be around 2.6 kilometers (1.6 miles) in diameter and orbits the sun in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is becoming one of the most-studied areas of our Solar System. This belt of asteroids and objects like this new planetesimal is thought to contain answers to some of the as yet unsolved mysteries of our cosmic neighborhood. How could this tiny planetesimal be related to the long-suspected Planet 9, if such a planet exists at all?

Whether or not this discovery turns out to be Earth-shattering astronomical news, it shows that a bunch of dudes with retail-level telescopes on their roof can still discovery new objects within our Solar System. How cool is that?

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In a 1900 book, History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, written by Dr. Paul Carus, we get to see what some of our ancient ancestors had to say about the unholy offspring that a coupling between an Incubus and a man, or a Succubus and a woman could create. And if you’re not aware of the incubus-succubus issue, read on. Carus recorded: “The theory of incubi and succubi is presented in all its indecency on the authority of St. Thomas Aquinas, who in his commentary on Job (Chap. 40) interprets Behemoth (a large animal, probably the elephant) as the Devil, and derives from the mention of the animal’’s sexual strength (verse 16) the theory that evil demons can have intercourse with human beings. Satan is supposed to serve first as a succubus (or female devil) to men, and then as an incubus (or male devil) to women; and St. Thomas declares that children begotten in this way ought to be regarded as the children of the men whom Satan served as succubus. They would, however, the more cunning than normal children on account of the demoniacal influence to which they were exposed in their pre-natal condition. Matthæus Paris mentions that within six months one such incubus-baby developed all its teeth and attained the size of a boy of seven years, while his mother became consumptive and died.”

There was a strong belief that something decidedly non-human was behind the offspring of these terrifying, late night couplings. As for St. Thomas Aquinas, to whom Carus referred, he was highly knowledgeable on this matter. He said of assaults on the sleeping and the unwary, and of the nature of the children that resulted: “Still, if some are occasionally begotten from demons, it is not from the seed of such demons, nor from their assumed bodies, but from the seed of men, taken for the purpose; as when the demon assumes first the form of a woman, and afterwards of a man; just so they take the seed of other things for other generating purposes.”

One of the biggest problems when it comes to the incubus and the succubus is the matter of their physical appearance. Or, more correctly, their multiple appearances. People who have experienced such things have described encounters with the so-called “Gray” extraterrestrials of UFO/”alien abduction” lore. Others have claimed rape by demons. More than a few have found themselves under the sway of the closest thing one could imagine to a real-life, shape-shifting, werewolf. Many have experienced horrifying visitations from a phenomenon called the “Old Hag.” It’s a creature that surfaces all around the world, but which is most curiously prevalent, for reasons that remain unknown, among the people of Newfoundland, Canada. As its name suggests, this breed of creature manifests as a white-or-black-haired, withered and wailing, ancient crone. A welcome visitor, she is not.

The prevailing, skeptical view on encounters with an incubus or a succubus is that they are provoked by something called Hypnagogia, better known as “Sleep Paralysis.” It is an age-old phenomenon that was finally given a name in the 19^th century, by a French physician, Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury. Essentially, sleep paralysis is a physical state that is somewhere between being awake and being asleep. At that hazy moment, when transition from one distinct state to another is occurring – and, more importantly, if and when that transition is violently interrupted – both body and mind act in decidedly strange fashion.

Sleep Paralysis plunges a person into a dream-like condition in which they, literally, cannot move. For all intents and purposes they are physically paralyzed, and that includes their vocal chords, too: the person is unable to shout, or scream, for help. They also, typically, detect a deeply malevolent presence in the room in which they are sleeping – or, on other occasions, experiencers will describe predatory forms slowly, and in creeping fashion, approaching the room. It’s an experience that can be accompanied by strange and menacing voices, incomprehensible words screamed or whispered at the terrified soul in rapid-fire time, and the sense of something dangerous looming over the affected person, as they struggle to both wake up and move. When they finally manage to do so, the dark atmosphere and attendant malevolent entity are gone, as in practically immediately.

Those skeptical of the idea that Sleep Paralysis has external origins would likely say that the large number of Old Hag encounters that originate in Newfoundland are caused by cultural conditioning, and subconscious knowledge of how the experience should play out. Of only one thing can we be certain: when Hypnagogia occurs, an absolute multitude of supernatural forms appear out of the ether and subject us to violent, sexual encounters.

It’s easy to understand why Hypnagogia is perceived as being the cause of attacks of the incubus and succubus variety. But, there are important questions that needs answering. Sleep Paralysis is an undeniable, real phenomenon; there is no doubt about that. But, is it a product of the internal intricacies of the mind, the dream state, and the subconscious? Maybe not. It might actually be provoked by an external, supernatural source; one that can invade our dream states and manipulate them accordingly.

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Strange ‘pill-shaped’ object seen pulsing in North Carolina Sky, Jan 25, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 25, 2019
Location of sighting: North Carolina, USA

This is a great video of a cigar UFO over NC last week. The eyewitness is an avid birdwatcher and known on Youtube as SpaceBret. He noticed an object flying near an airplane and got some great close up video of it. When an eyewitness uses the best of the best camera lens...Leica...I sure as hell take that evidence seriously. UFOs often fly towards any other flying object in the vicinity in order to scan the latest human tech. Because each high tech craft made by humans is one step closer to making light speed craft and flying across the universe. And they don't want to miss that historic moment in human evolution.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

Eyewitness states: 

Yesterday while walking around outside looking for birds to film and photograph I noticed a strange flashing light in the sky near an airplane. It was moving slowly in the sky, a little slower than the planes flying around. I could see the random flashing coming from the object for about 10 seconds. I tried to film it with my camera. Using my GH5 and Leica 100-400mm lens I was able to grab a few frames of the object. I did not think I captured it at all because the focus would only hunt and not lock on. When I got inside and checked the footage I was blown away by what I saw. I have no idea what this object is. It is pill shaped with bullet headed ends. This is in rural North Carolina just outside of Greensboro. Enjoy the video and let me know if you have any idea as to what this object is. 

Camera: GH5 Lens: Leica 100-400mm at 400mm Camera settings: F6.3 ISO 800 Shutter 1/250th Focal Length 400mm - Equivalent to 1177mm on 35mm FPS 59.94 in 8bit VLOG 

Thought I was shooting 1/1000th shutter speed but heat of the moment probably knocked it down, or video recording mode automatically knocked it down. The meta data does not lie. Used the Daylight Linear GHAlex lut and changed gamma to bring in as much detail as I could.

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Black Square UFO Seen Over Conyers, Georgia on Jan 30, 2019, MUFON Report #98202 UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 30, 2019
Location of sighting: Conyers, Georgia, USA
Source: MUFON #98202

An eyewitness records this dark square shaped UFO over Conyers yesterday. Heavy winds, but this object is not turning or rotating like a balloon, nor does it have stings...its huge! Like a 727 in size, but I do notice a wobble to it slightly. Also, if you fast forward to the 1:18 mark I noticed there are two UFOs there for about 7 seconds....one dark black square, the other is semi transparent and far above it...but almost in the same position. Wow I really hope we get more footage from more people in Conyers. I'm sure others must have seen it, but believe it or not, only 1 out of 6 will actually think about recording the UFO on their phone at the time of any sighting. There must be more footage out there. 
Scott C. Waring

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Did Boeing secretly test a mysterious UFO space plane above Area 51?

Jasper Hamill

Boeing has released pictures which appear to show a hyper-advanced space plane sitting on a runway at a base which looks a lot like Area 51.

The concept drawings may have been sketched as long ago as the 1980s and depict several super-advanced reusable spacecraft.

Although it’s not clear whether the futuristic flying machines were actually built, one image features a ‘mothership’ which appears designed to carry a baby which hangs beneath it and resembles a cross between a UFO and the Space Shuttle.

At least four of images were shared as an Instagram story last January, which means they disappeared from view after just 24 hours. They do not appear to have been shared again by Boeing, although this does not necessarily show they prove something explosive such as the existence of a top-secret research program at a military base.

It’s not clear if this image was sketched by someone who actually saw this space plane in action, or whether it’s a work of pure imagination

(Image: Boeing)

We could not find the images on Boeing’s Instagram page because they were shared as a ‘story’ so automatically disappeared after they were posted

Most of the images were also released on a tweet published in August last year, which you can see above.

The picture of a mothership and its baby was released on January 14 2019, The Drive reported, but we have been unable to find the image on Boeing’s social channels or website.

The motoring and defence publication was also first to suggest the backdrop of the images resembled Area 51, a nickname for the Edwards Air Force Base.

These drawings show several space planes. It not known if any of them were ever built

(Images: Boeing)

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This secretive facility believed to be dedicated to researching and building ‘exotic’ aircraft – and potentially spaceships as well. Its work is highly classified.

But in the public imagination, Area 51 is forever linked with aliens and is at the centre of all sorts of bizarre conspiracies claiming it has secretly studying extraterrestrial technology or built craft which resemble UFOs.

The background certainly does look a lot like Area 51, while some of the planes resemble the craft pictured in a patent for a ‘horizontal-takeoff transatmospheric launch system’ filed in 1984 and granted in 1989.

These images were drawn in 1984 or before but like the sort of spaceship you’d see in a science fiction movie

(Image: Boeing)

Boeing wrote: ‘This invention is directed toward providing a transatmospheric launch system that is essentially totally reusable, provides wide flexibility in choice of orbit, and may be launched quickly on short notice.

‘The system of the invention is a two-stage horizontal takeoff and landing system. An orbiter vehicle is integrated into the underside of an aircraft.’

We have written to Boeing to ask if it tested spaceships at Area 51 and will update this article if it replies.

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 UFO sighting: Spaceship 'with ALIENS on board' seen landing in Doncaster garden

A UFO has been seen landing in the front garden of a house in Doncaster, which alien enthusiasts are claiming is proof of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth.

By SEAN MARTIN

A video which was titled “UFO Ship with Aliens on Board Crashed into the Sand Pile on my Driveway” was uploaded to YouTube by the user Tiho Gro. The video quickly racked up thousands of visitors because of the strange activity, which some are struggling to explain. A bright pulsating light can be seen drifting slowly towards the ground.

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The user who uploaded the video said: “Aliens exist and now living in my 10 ton sand pile on the drive way.”

The sighting was quickly picked up by conspiracy theorists, with some claiming it is proof of alien activity.

Prominent alien hunter Scott C Waring shared the sighting, which occurred on January 17, on his blog UFO Sightings Daily.

Mr Waring said: “The video shows a globe of light (UFO) that lands in the garden of a house in the town of Doncaster, located in South Yorkshire (England).

UFO sighting: ‘Alien spaceship’ seen landing in Doncaster garden 

(Image: GETTY • YOUTUBE)

“In the security cam video you can see how the sphere of light, once landed, seems to stand for a few seconds in the garden.

“The eyewitness then states that the light then suddenly in a flash of light disappears, but I don't see this in the video.

“Perhaps the eyewitness cut it out for some unknown reason.”

A Chinese lantern was touted as a probable explanation 

(Image: GETTY)

While some believed the footage was proof of aliens, others were not so convinced by its authenticity and offered simpler explanations.

YouTuber Larry Maxweel commented on the original video: “Probably a Chinese lantern. Candles put off A LOT of light which would look exactly like it does in video.”

Another commenter, SFearFox, agreed, writing the simple explanation beneath the video: “It’s a Chinese lantern landing”.

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UFO News and Updates with Alejandro and Martin – January 29, 2019

Posted by: Alejandro Rojas 

Open Minds UFO Radio: In this episode, Alejandro and Martin review fresh UFO news including the recent release of files related to the Pentagon’s UFO program.

We take a look at the serious topic and related issues of objects observed in the skies above us that remain a mystery. Host Alejandro Rojas shares updates and credible information regarding Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) including the search for extraterrestrial life and our quest to become a space fairing species.

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Underwater ‘UFO’ Was Pinned to Coast of North Atlantic By US Nuclear Attack Submarines

By Arjun Walia

The idea of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is no longer taboo, and has been officially verified by multiple governments around the world including the United States.  These objects are often tracked on military radars and seen by the pilots who are sent out to take a closer look. There have been millions of pages of UFO related documents declassified detailing these encounters, hundreds of testimonies from credible people within military, intelligence, and government agencies exposed, and tons of electro-optical data and physical evidence released. You can read about some examples of military encounters in more detail here.

In 1979, General Carlos Cavero told the world that “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. On a global scale, the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” There are tons of similar, reputable statements like this out there, including the following one made by the first CIA director, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” (source)

Despite the vast amount of evidence in support of extraterrestrial and UFO phenomena, the ‘secrecy campaign’ is still ongoing, influencing the minds of the masses and convincing people that it’s all a “conspiracy theory.” Perception manipulation is a tool frequently used by the ‘powers that be’ in all areas, especially within the political realm.

Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,” a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barry Goldwater stating that “I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified,” or an Apollo 14 astronaut  saying that  “yes, there have been crashed craft and bodies recovered,” there is no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality of this phenomenon.

However, this goes far beyond mere witness testimonies.

One of the biggest mouthpieces for “the establishment,”  The New York Times, admitted something that the establishment has been concealing for years: UFOs are real. The Times broke the story about a secret Pentagon program about UFOs, but any UFO researcher knows these programs are far more in-depth, expensive, and expansive than anything that’s described within the article.

This was then followed by a Washington Post article written by Christopher Mellon, a member of To The Stars who spent 20 years in the federal government, holding prestigious roles including the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations. To The Stars is a company founded by the musician Tom Delonge, which aims to inspire a newfound appreciation for ‘the profound yet unresolved mysteries involving science and the universe,’ including UFO phenomena.

All of a sudden, after these articles, UFOs were perceived as ‘real’ within mainstream media. Many have criticized Tom Delonge and To The Stars, claiming that the company is a deep state operation looking to bring about misinformation about UFOs. Some will post pictures of Tom Delonge with John Podesta, for example, and claim that he is ‘one of them.’ However, I do not believe these accusations.

It’s similar to Harvey Weinstein being pictured with Oprah. A single image doesn’t make Oprah a rapist or a supporter of sexual misconduct, and we shouldn’t judge others based on a photograph or who they spend their time with. Tom might be completely unaware of Podesta’s reputation, as it’s quite clear his main interest is the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. Delonge has done nothing but good for the UFO movement and has inspired massive awareness surrounding the subject.

Perhaps we should be more concerned with the transparency of the US government than with Tom Delonge’s motives. So far, the US government has proven that they cannot be trusted when it comes to being transparent about this subject. This is why it’s ok to have concerns about where this mainstream disclosure movement is headed, and whether or not it’s rooted in good will.

• Related CE Article: Tom Delonge & To The Stars Seem To Be Legit: But Here Are My Concerns

It’s evident that politicians are becoming more and more persuaded and coerced by corporations and the global elite, something Roosevelt referred to as the “invisible government” that “sits enthroned” behind the “ostensible government.” (source)

Another great quote:

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation . . . The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. – John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925, (source)(source)

It remains to be seen where To The Stars will take this, but I fully believe that if there are some sort of ‘sinister’ intentions within To The Stars, Tom and most of the team probably have no idea about it. So far things are looking good, and they’ve done nothing but create awareness.

The team he assembled is actually pretty extraordinary, as their backgrounds are quite impressive, and Tom deserves all the credibility he’s garnered. Sure, there is no evidence that his claims are true (like the image pictured below), but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t entertain his thoughts, especially given the fact that thousands of similar encounters have been reported. Here is one of many great examples of verified encounters with documented proof, in case you were curious.

Why Would Multiple Nuclear Attack Submarines Do This?

As an avid researcher into the field of UFOs for nearly half of my life, I can confidently say that not only are there unidentified crafts performing maneuvers that defy our known laws of aerospace and physics, but these crafts have been spotted entering and exiting our oceans as well. This is something that’s still new to many UFO researchers just entering the field now.

I’d like to highlight one thing here. After decades of military encounters, it seems the protocol for multiple governments is to try and shoot these crafts down.

Below is a quote from Dr. Steven Greer, creator of the most popular documentary on Netflix last year, Unacknowledged. Greer is well known for the Disclosure Project, where he amassed hundreds of military/intelligence personnel with verified backgrounds to come together and share their testimonies and experiences regarding UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence.

Below he shares a perspective many may not know about:

Here is a great quote from Paul Hellyer,

Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. The inevitable result was that some of our planes were lost, but how many were due to retaliation, and how many were a result of our own stupidity, is a moot point.” (source)

By the way, “the preservation of the planet” (Colonel Ross Dedrickson, from thisinterview with Dr. Greer) is a common theme in extraterrestrial lore. However, that is not to say that some malevolent forces aren’t at work as well. Who really knows!

If you’re interested in learning more, here’s a related CE Article: “This Planet Will Be Theirs” – Professor Explains His Startling Conclusions About Alien Abductions

Dr. David Clarke, an investigative journalist, reader and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in England, and the former curator for The National Archives UFO project from 2008–13, outlined what some of the UK’s documents say regarding this type of technology.

These documents reveal how the RAF expressed great interest in finding UFOs to help come up with new and innovative ways to become their enemies during the Cold War. Apparently, they were gathering evidence that other nations had collected this technology. Having been an avid researcher into the field myself for more than a decade, I can confidently say that stories of crash retrievals of unknown aerial objects are abundant–Roswell is certainly not the only example.

Dr. Clark told The Daily Mail,

Even though they have been partly censored they can’t conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology or what they coyly refer to as ‘novel weapon technology’…And the files reveal they were desperate to capture this technology – wherever it came from – before the Russians or the Chinese got hold of it first….Although this was 1997, Russia was still regarded as an undefeated enemy with a weapons programme regarded as a threat to the West.

The Takeaway

What makes us think this planet belongs to us? What right do we have to shoot down intelligently controlled crafts that may have been around for decades? Clearly, if there was a threat associated with them or some type of ‘armageddon’ scenario, it would have happened already.

All the global military industrial complex wants to do is find out what’s going on and what’s inside these crafts, even if that means disregarding basic morals.  These are not actions we should be proud of, as they highlight just how difficult it may be for any potential outside visitors to explore our planet.

Does the elite actually care about the preservation of our planet? Or do they only care about looking out for their own interests, regardless of the implications their actions have on others?

The extraterrestrial/UFO phenomenon truly leaves no area of humanity untouched. The implications on spirituality and human consciousness are huge, and it’s a topic that will eventually force us to take a closer look at who we are, where we came from, how we treat our planet, and why we are so much more than the bodies we inhabit.

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“This Planet Will Be Theirs” – Professor Explains His Startling Conclusions About Alien Abductions

By Arjun Walia

Yeah, the title of this article can seem quite scary, but this is one perception and there is a lot to talk about here.

To even contemplate the idea that (some) intelligent extraterrestrials are taking human beings against their will for unknown reasons, subjecting them to several different experiences that will be elaborated on later in this article, and then (in most cases) returning them from where they were taken, can completely destroy one’s worldview paradigm.

It seems like something out of a horror movie, perhaps it would be best to take the perspective of all the animals that we take for our own entertainment and scientific purposes, that animal would most-likely have a difficult time comprehending what exactly is going on and would probably assume there is nothing but malevolent forces at work. Furthermore, we ourselves, have a difficult time communicating with that animal, and cannot get through to it due to the fact that it’s so extremely panic ridden.

Is this what’s going on in abductions? Perhaps there is something greater at play, even for our own good? Perhaps not. Many abductees, although subjected to much trauma, have had a sense of comfort and also telepathic communications letting them know that they’ll be alright. What’s going on here? Some sort of science experiment? Genetic manipulation? Human/alien hybridization?

Abductees vs Contactees

Before we get into it, it’s also important to mention the fact that when it comes to extraterrestrial contact, of which millions of people have claimed to have had, there are multiple categories. There are abductees, as described above, and there are contactee’s, those who are not taken forcefully but rather have encounter(s) with supposed intelligent extraterrestrials, sometimes friendly, and other times a quite fearful experience as well. Then there are those who claim to be ‘channeling’ extraterrestrial beings, but have not experienced physical contact.

An example of a ‘contactee’ experience would be when more than 60 school children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe witnessed the landing of a spacecraft by their schoolyard. Two beings apparently came out of the craft and were seen by the children. These beings were also conveying telepathic messages to the children. The messages included the care-taking of our planet, and what would happen if we don’t turn it around. Many of them had disturbing visions, and are still speaking about the encounter today, which was made public by Harvard psychiatrist John Mack. You can read more about that story in detail, here.

Mack, now deceased, is a great source for information when it comes to abductees and contactee’s, another great one is Dr. David Jacobs a recently retired Professor and historian at Temple University who makes a very interesting point,

Now, let us suppose it is not happening, all those things still remain, and yet it’s not happening, there is no such thing as the abduction phenomenon. If that is the case, we have found the most important thing ever in the history of neurology, brain function, cognition…all these people are saying the same thing at their risk, this is not going to bring applause to them , that they say they’ve been abducted by aliens from outer space. High functioning people say this knowing full well it could destroy their careers, and they say this around the world…And it’s not happening then what? (source)

Why Are They Abducting Humans?

Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans – Don Donderi, Retired McGill University professor, Department of Psychology (source)

There are multiple theories based on the abductees and those who are actively involved with the research. One common theme seems to be an alien/human hybridization program. Many abductees claim to have been subjected to strange procedures, from having their sperm or egg extracted from the body, sometimes for males this occurs through forced orgasm. Others report being forced to breed with a human-like extraterrestrial.

Many women who are abducted and subjected to these procedures become pregnant shortly after they are returned, and during their pregnancy they experience another abduction event where they are returned without their fetus inside of them. After this, the next abduction usually occurs years later, and involves the abductee inside of a ‘meet and greet’ with their hybrid child, or children. They spend time together aboard the craft, and are observed during this type of activity by the extraterrestrials.

This is extremely common for women, women have these experiences all the time. 

– Jacobs

According to Dr. Jacobs, in a recent interview he gave with UFO researcher and historian Richard Dolan (see below), there is some type of ‘take-over agenda.’ Some of these hybrids return to Earth with their mother, and are, according to Jacobs, currently living amongst us. They do not know our ways, have many questions, and seem to be in ‘observation’ mode. Dolan describes them as lacking emotion, Jacobs feels that they are very logical and very curious about our ways. He’s even been in contact with a supposed hybrid, via the parent. He hypothesizes that “this planet will be theirs.” These hybrids also apparently have the ability to neurologically control humans to some extent, from a close distance of a few feet.

When they come here, I’m making very large claims of course, when they come here, as people have told me, they are naive . There is only so much they can learn being on board a UFO, once they come here to live in human society, they learn that there is a lot more to learn. So, the abductee takes them to the supermarket, and teaches them how to buy food etc…They are amazingly good at remembering things…all information is remembered…Their brains are different than ours. They can  control us, from a few feet away, and that control is, that’s a bad one.

– Jacbos

Keep in mind, we are talking about the typical Gray alien here. It’s important to mention that abductees and contactees have reported multiple beings, from the grey alien, to reptilian beings, insect and animal like beings all the way to human looking extraterrestrials of various sizes, and obviously, hybrid looking type of humanoids as well.

The ability to neurologically control others, is indeed scary, and for a being of those capabilities, you would hope that they are nothing but service to others, as I am sure we all do.

Furthermore, we are talking about regular people, doctors, lawyers, university professors, people who are struggling, living in poverty etc. These abductees are located all over the world, from all walks of life, and all share practically the exact same story when they are hypnotically regressed. We’ll get to that point shortly as I want to elaborate on it more.

It does not matter what country they come from, they all say the same thing.

-Jacbos

This is amazing, considering the fact that thousands of these people have been regressed by researchers.

It’s also interesting to note that hybrids are not only composed of half human, and half alien, but there are also exchanges between hybrids with humans as well. There are multiple generations with varying amounts of alien/human, based on the research of those mentioned in this article.

Are They ‘Good’ or ‘Bad?’

Obviously, we don’t know the answer to this question, but the overall gist from most researchers is that the main idea is the preservation of our planet. This comes from experiences like the one mentioned earlier in the article about the 60 school children in Zimbabwe. Not only that, this narrative comes from multiple credible ‘insiders’ with very interesting backgrounds.

There is what seems to be a lot of benevolence when it comes to examining the intention of these supposed beings, but there are also hints of malevolence as well.

Colonel Ross Dedrickson is one of many examples I’ve used in the past. He was assigned to the US Atomic Energy Commission and has had a long service there between 1950-1958 made him privy to some very sensitive information. He eventually decided to go public and tell the world that the “preservation of the planet is their main concern.” He did so in this interview with Dr. Steven Greer.

He was not talking about hybrids, but simply extraterrestrials. Who knows if the group he was referring to is the same group involved with the hybridization program?

Again, we are talking about what could be multiple groups visiting our planet, others with perhaps some benevolent intent, and others, unfortunately, with some malevolent intent. It seems that the Gray alien is most involved with the abduction phenomenon, along with insect like beings and reptilian type beings as well.

But what about this hybridization program? Is it benevolent or malevolent? There are differing opinions here among those who are involved with this research. In the interview with Jacobs, Dolan compares these hybrids to psychopaths who don’t seem to have any empathy, at least that’s the way it can look sometimes. He claims that some of them are “faking their way,” simply to find out more about what’s going and how we operate here, or at least this could be a possibility.

This goes along with Jacobs’ hypothesis, that the purpose here is the colonization of the Earth.

I’m not sure if I agree with the empathy comments by Dolan. These are things we do not know, we do not know how they feel towards others, how they would react if they saw someone in a helpless situation. It’s also important to keep in mind that Dolan could be correct, they are after all half alien, and an important part of some sort of unknown agenda that’s going on that’s been conducted by this ET group. How do we know if ET’s have the same emotional capacity as us? Does that make them bad or good? It’s our human perception in the end that filters what we see.

Perhaps the ‘abductors’ are ‘working’ for someone else? Another group? Who knows.

Are they seeding the planet with a hybrid population? Is this simply another step in our evolution and how it’s happened all along? Is this some sort of take over agenda for self serving purposes, or have human beings messed up so much that the preservation of the planet requires a completely new race? We don’t really have many answers yet to be honest. At this point, we can’t really draw any conclusions.

I do not believe feelings and intuition should be used to decipher mass truth about the phenomena at this point, but I personally feel there is an important role to play for hybrids, and that they will know this role when the time comes. But again, who knows, everything at this point, for the most part, is speculation, except for the fact that they are here and that they are increasing in numbers.

Perhaps all of us are some sort of hybrid?

We don’t know enough yet, and there is still a lot to find out as time goes on. It seems that there is simply a hybridization program taking place and that these hybrids have been walking amongst us for quite some time. If something overly sinister was supposed to happen, I feel it already would have. But then again, there is a possibility that this phenomenon did not start until after World War 2, at least Dr. Jacobs seems to believe that based on his research (he mentioned that in the interview).

If this is the case perhaps we are looking at some type of military component? I say this because based on my research, some ‘alien’ abductions may be military abductions that utilize psychotronic weapons.

In the interview, Jacobs mentions a colleague of his who is also heavily engaged in abduction research. He does not seem to share the same ‘grim’ type of perspective, despite the fact that he is getting the exact same results.

The colleagues name is Young-hae Chi, who also engages in abduction research. He is a professor at the University of Oxford.

Below is a link to the entire interview with Dolan and Jacobs if you’d like to listen to it in its entirety. Later on you will find a lecture from Young-hae Chi.

The Findings Are The Exact Same

We know that the phenomenon is very, very widespread around the world. People think that this is an American phenomenon, it is not. I’ve worked with people from Africa, and Asia, and Latin-America, and Europe and so forth… All say the same thing all around the world, it does not matter where they’re from. People often ask me whether there’s any consistency in abduction accounts, the consistency is mind-boggling. – Jacobs. (source)

Chi, Jacobs, and others before them, have regressed and researched thousands of people. Chi, in Korea, and Jacobs in the United States.  They correspond with each other, as virtually all abduction researchers have found. They’ve found that the stories coming out of hypnotic regressions are the same, with very similar but unique differences, for practically everyone.

How jaw-dropping is this? Either there is some sort of new mental condition, or some type of psychosis happening that’s not looked at or mentioned, or, something is really going on here.

It seems the latter, especially given all of the evidence that already exists for the existence of UFOs that are piloted by an extraterrestrial being.

Jacobs believes that the purpose for these programs is the colonization of Earth, as mentioned. But Young, however, based on his research, believes in the benevolent theory, that this is being done to spark a more compassionate and environmentally aware citizenry who actually care about the planet they live on.

Interesting isn’t it?

Below is a full lecture by Chi discussing his conclusions.

The Takeaway

The UFO phenomenon is no longer taboo, and the idea that some of these craft may be piloted by intelligent extraterrestrial beings has, in my opinion, strong evidence behind it. We have statements from thousands of credible people from within the military, intelligence agencies, governments, academia and more that has all been complimented by physical evidence and electro-optical data. The conversation gets deeper into why they are here, what are they doing, how their craft work etc…It leaves no area of humanity untouched.

The abduction phenomenon in particular can be quite ‘scary,’ but as you can see based on the information provided within this article, there are many unknowns, and it’s still hard to determine what exactly is going on. To be honest, I still believe it’s something far greater than we may be able to comprehend at this moment.

Based on witness testimony, and the fact that many of these craft have taken, as former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer once said, “corrective measures to avoid our aircraft,” it seems they are not here to harm. That being said, the protocol still seems to “shoot first and ask questions after,” which is how, possibly, Dr. Edgar Mitchell knew that “there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered.”

One thing is for certain, we are not alone, and we’ve never been alone.

Perhaps the preservation of the planet is something more important than WE are…

Related CE Article

We’ve been writing about this topic in depth for years, below is one article out of hundreds that touches on what’s currently happening in the mainstream with regards to UFO disclosure. If you’d like to read more of our articles on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon, visit the disclosure section of our website.

• The US Government Just Admitted To Recovering Materials From UFOs – Here Are The Latest Updates

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Chilean Air Force Receives A Radar Return of A UFO Equal To The Size of Ten or More Aircraft Carriers

By Arjun Walia

UFOs are perhaps the most searched subject on internet search engines at the moment and if they’re not, they’re close to the top. Interest in the subject matter continues to grow, and the Deep State community has certainly recognized it. Years and years of petitioning from the citizenry and UFO disclosure advocacy groups, on top of other international governments acknowledging the phenomenon, not to mention  hundreds of high-ranking people from numerous ranks within military agencies, academia and intelligence agencies have all come forth sharing their knowledge and experiences.

Recently, it seems to have reached a critical boiling point, where a majority of the populace is aware of the fact that something strange seems to be happening in the inside, and outside of our atmosphere and has been for a long time. Perhaps this is why the US government recently decided to end what seems to be, as the first CIA Director Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter alluded to, and official campaign of secrecy?

“Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”  (source)

Because the idea has been ridiculed by the global elite, through movies and mainstream news, it brainwashes mass amounts of people to do the same. This is done with several different topics, and it creates a culture where anyone who raises their voice, is instantaneously vilified by whomever they tell. But things are changing.

The Pentagon recently disclosed this info as well, by approving the release of video footage shot by US military pilots of three different UFOs. All three objects, one the size of two air-craft carries, defied our current known laws of physics and aerodynamics. The videos came from a Pentagon program which located, and video taped unidentified aerial objects to determine if there is a ‘threat’ associated with them.

The head of that Program, who recently retired from the Pentagon, Louis Elizondo, shared the fact that this is actual data, electro-optical data and radar returns. He also emphasized how this type of thing is quite common, and how he believes there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that “we may not be alone, whatever that means.”  He did so on national mainstream television.

UFO encounters with the military is nothing new, there are millions of pages of declassified documents from various governments and agencies showing so.

People like Louis, and others at the To The Stars initiative of which he is apart of, don’t really speak out until they are given the green light. One thing is for certain, the US government has now disclosed the existence of UFOs, and many researchers within the field, including myself, are very cautious of the direction the government wants to take this information.

You can read more about that, and check out some of the footage in the articles linked below:

• More Official UFO Footage Released…This One Was Filmed Zipping Across The Ocean
• High Ranking US Government Official Blows Whistle on UFOs A Week After Leaving The Pentagon
• US Department of Defense Releases Video of a UFO Rotating In Mid-Air For The Very First Time
• US Navy Pilot From The Pentagon UFO Video Shares His Belief That It’s A “Technology That’s Not From This World.”

I only say that because we’ve been lied to and manipulated so much so that it’s almost hard to believe anything that comes from a government agency, unfortunately.

I elaborate on the idea of a ‘false flag’ alien invasion in the article linked below, if you’re interested in that discussion and where it’s coming from:

As far as the question of whether or not these UFOs are extraterrestrial or not, I elaborate on that idea in this article I previously published:

• It’s Official – We Now Know That UFOs or UAP Are Real – So Are They Extraterrestrial or Not? 

This topic is so big and vast that it truly leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. There are facts about this subject that would still blow your mind and we’ve covered many of them. If you want to go through our articles we’ve published on the UFO/Extraterrestrial topic for the past 9 years, you can visit the Exopolitics section of our website, HERE.

Whether it be a former Chairman of the Royal Navy telling us that “there is a serious possibility that we are being visited, and have been visited by people from outer space,” a former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barry Goldwater telling us that “I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified,” or an Apollo 14 astronaut saying that “there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered,” we have no shortage of high-ranking insiders attesting to the reality of this phenomenon.

General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, “everything” has been “in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.” On a global scale, “the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon” and there is “an international exchange of data.” (source)

So, what type of data have they been analyzing? Here’s a quote from December 16th 1978, issued by the Chilean Air Force with regards to a UFO encounter, similar to what the Pentagon released. Again, keep in mind, this is something that’s happened thousands of times over the past few decades, and perhaps thousands of times every single year?

“Two pilots on a training mission, each flying a F5 fighter aircraft, tracked the object on their airborne radar. It gave a return equal to ten or more aircraft carriers-except this object was in the air, not floating on the water. Each pilot assumed his radar equipment was faulty, until he learned that the other pilot was also getting the same return. Not only this, but ground radar from a nearby airport also picked up the object and confirmed its huge size. The pilots also saw the object with their own eyes. One pilot later said that at a distance of twenty miles, it looked “like a plantain banana swathed in smoke.” The pilots were frightened, having no missiles or weapons. As they approached the massive object, which had been motionless all this while, it took off at an unimaginable speed. All at once, it vanished from the three radar screens.” (1)(2)

The very next morning the Chilean Air Force scrambled some F5 fighter jets to intercept another very large UFO. The pilots described this one as very bright, and very large. The Chilean Air Force has officially acknowledged these events, but could not explain what had occurred.

To see some more examples of UFO/military encounters, you can refer to this article:

• “Shoot First & Ask Questions Later”: What Happens When The Military Tracks A UFO On Radar

Since we’re talking about Chile, here’s a CIA document from decades ago that also cites another incident.

It states as follows:

“ANTARCTIC FLYING SAUCERS” – A group of red, green, and yellow flying saucers has been seen flying over Deception Island for two hours by Argentine, Chilean and British bases (military) in Antarctica. The flying saucers were also seen flying in formation over the South Orkney islands in quick circles.”

The Implications?

As mentioned earlier, this topic really leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. Within the lore, if you take some of these objects to indeed be extraterrestrial, there is a consistency among many in the field that many of these beings are here to help humanity to make a transition, and help us.

For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, a high-ranking officer in the Air Force who held special positions at various points in his career dealing with nuclear weapons, the atomic energy commission, and nuclear weapons storage facilities provided video testimony prior to his passing, revealing that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time, and that they do not approve of our nuclear activities. He also revealed that extraterrestrials have shut down nuclear weapons in flight as well as our attempts to detonate and experiment with them, and he’s not the only one to do so. You can watch that interview here.

For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, another high-ranking officer in the Air Force who held special positions at various points in his career dealing with nuclear weapons, the atomic energy commission, and nuclear weapons storage facilities provided video testimony prior to his passing, revealing that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time and that they do not approve of our nuclear activities. He also revealed that extraterrestrials have shut down nuclear weapons in flight as well as our attempts to detonate and experiment with them and he’s not the only one to do so. You can watch that interview here.

Spiritual implications are also referred to quite often, I could go on and on, but I won’t, I’ll let you listen to a recent podcast I did with CE founder, Joe Martino, and Richard Lawrence. He is the Executive Secretary of  The Aetherius Society for Europe and a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. He has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997), who founded the Society, as mentioned above.

There is also the other side, a malevolent side to this whole phenomena which is important to explore as well. But when it comes to an “alien invasion,” the evidence suggests that extraterrestrials have been around for a long time, if that were the case, it probably would have happened. But that’s just my opinion.

Related CE Article: 

• A Man Communicating With An Extraterrestrial From Mars, Taken Seriously By The BBC Live in 1954. 

Sources used:

• UFOs For The 21st Century Mind
• (1) Huneeus, J, Antonio, “A Chilean Overview,” MUFON UFO Journal, 6/86; Huneeus, J. Antonio, “A Historical Survey of UFO Cases in Chilie,” MUFON 1987 International Symposium Proceedings (MUFON, 1987.)
• (2) Department of Defense JCS Message Center, Subject: B6/BAF Has a Close Encounter of the First Kind. Date: 20 May 86. Subject: Numerous Unidentified Objects Were Cited in the Skies over Brazil. But BAF Fighters Were Unable to Intercept Them. Berliner, Don, The UFO Briefing Document, p. 121-127. Huneeus, J. Antonio, “UFO Alert in Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, 11/86. Andrus, Walt, “UFOs Over Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, 9/86. Smith, Dr Willy, “The Brazillian Incident,” International UFO Reporter, 7-8/86. Smith, Dr. Willy, “More on Brazilian OVNIs,” MUFON UFO Journal, 9/86.

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Chilean Air Force Receives A Radar Return of A UFO Equal To The Size of Ten or More Aircraft Carrier

Two pilots on a training mission, each flying an F5 fighter aircraft, tracked the object on their airborne radar.

General Carlos Cavero told the world in 1979, everything has been in of Investigation both and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world.

On a global scale, the nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon and there is an international exchange of data.

So what type of data have they been analyzing?

“The US/UK/Canadian/EU and Rome all know full well what is going on with the alien spacecraft over the last 60+ years, and Rome knows what has been going on for the last 1000+years. We have been all living a LIE for the last 1700 years, with the heretic in Rome (Frances) coming out just last week stating that Hell doesn’t exist. Read between the lines people the great deception is coming down and falling apart, you just need to open your eyes.-Oveida”

Source: UFOMania, YouTube

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Navy Seal Reveals Secret Mission to Ancient Buried Structure in Antarctica

WRITTEN BY DR MICHAEL SALLA 

On January 23, Emmy award winning journalist, Linda Moulton Howe, released the video testimony of a new whistleblower discussing his highly classified mission to a large buried structure found in Antarctica. The whistleblower claims that in a classified mission conducted in 2003, he entered inside a very large octagon-shaped structure located near the Beardmore Glacier that extended down deep into the glacier’s icy interior.

The whistleblower is a retired U.S. Navy Seal who was first interviewed by Howe on July 19, 2018. He used the pseudonym Spartan 1 in Howe’s YouTube video where his face is shadowed out and his voice is altered to protect his identity. Howe says that she personally vetted Spartan 1, who provided ample documentation to substantiate his military career.

Previously, Howe has released the testimony of another military whistleblower, Brian, who was a Navy flight engineer who had flown numerous support missions with the Antarctic Development Squadron from 1983 to 1997. He witnessed a number of anomalies pointing to hidden facilities or bases located deep under the Antarctic ice sheets. He says he witnessed silver flying discs over the Transantarctic Mountains, not all that far, as Howe pointed out, from where the Navy Seal had conducted his mission.

The Navy Seal says that ground penetrating radar had discovered the structure which was an eight-sided octagon, as Howe elaborated:

In 2003, a U.S. Navy Seal Special Operation team traveled to Antarctica to investigate a perfectly geometric 8-sided octagon structure discovered by ground penetrating radar near Beardmore Glacier, about 93 miles from the American McMurdo Station.

Another previous team of engineers and scientists had dug out the top layer of one octagon made of a pure black substance that was built on top of two more black octagonal structures that went down deep into the 2-mile-thick ice.

In the video the Navy Seal (aka Spartan 1) described the launch of his mission from an aircraft carrier voyaging near West Antarctica’s Ross Sea. He was taken by helicopter to McMurdo station, the largest U.S. base in Antarctica, and then taken by ground transport to the structure’s location.

Spartan 1 described entering a doorway approximately 50 feet under the ice. He estimated the walls of the structure as about 18 to 30 feet thick (6-10 meters) and the ceiling height at around 22-28 feet (7-9 meters). He said that the walls, ceiling and floor were made of a black basalt material that looked like shiny black marble.

The interior was heated to around 68-72 degrees Fahrenheit (20-22 Celsius), and was also lighted by a lime green source projected from the ceiling and floor. He did not see any heating or lighting equipment, which added to the mystery of the buried structure.

Only part of the structure, he stated, has been uncovered so far by the archeological teams, with the rest buried under the ice and extending far below. Ground penetrating radar had shown the structure to be an Octagon in shape, and covering an area of 62 acres (about 0.5 square kilometers).

Spartan 1 described the walls and doors as being covered by hieroglyphs that were about eight inches (20 cm) high and about two inches (5 cm) deep. The hieroglyphs were neither Egyptian nor Mayan, but appeared similar to both in terms of depicting animals and other strange symbols.

Egyptian and Mayan Hieroglyphics.

Sources: Wikipedia Commons

Significantly, one of the symbols was very similar to the Black Sun image used by the Nazi SS, who had a large version of it built on the floor of their headquarters at Wewelsburg Castle. The Black Sun image continues to be banned in Germany under their Nazi propaganda law. Howe said future episodes featuring Spartan 1 will return to the Black Sun symbol.

Black Sun symbol Wewelsburg Castle

Spartan 1 explained that part of his mission was to transport scientists who would document the buried structure and the hieroglyphic symbols, by taking photos and making drawings. He said that his team had to leave one of the scientists behind who insisted that more time was needed to do a proper inventory of what was discovered.

Spartan 1 was told and believed that the structure had been built by a human looking group of extraterrestrials, who were involved in the genetic engineering of humanity.

Spartan 1’s testimony is very significant since it provides a rare eyewitness account of what is actually inside one of the buried structures whose age stretches back into antiquity. Howe’s previous Antarctica eyewitness, Brian, did not actually get to see or go inside one of the artifacts. The closest he got was when he saw a large hole going deep inside the South Pole, while flying overhead through restricted airspace.

To date, only two other whistleblowers/insiders have come forward to share their accounts of being taken inside or witnessing the ancient artifacts buried deep under Antarctica’s ice sheets. These are Corey Goode and Pete Peterson who both say they witnessed some of the buried artifacts during their respective visits there.

Goode claims to have been taken to Antarctica in early 2016 and 2017, where he saw secret bases and the remains of an ancient civilization buried deep below the ice sheets. He says he witnessed some bodies of human alien hybrids who were part of the genetic experiments conducted by a tall human looking extraterrestrial race thousands of years ago. He described three very large motherships buried under the ice that were used to start a global civilization with Antarctica as a hub.

Peterson says that he was taken to Antarctica during classified missions where he was tasked with the job of understanding the advanced technologies found near three motherships, one or more of which he witnessed during his missions. Peterson’s testimony corroborates Goode’s account of an ancient extraterrestrial base that was used as a hub for a global civilization.

This raises some intriguing questions. Was the Black Sun symbol a pictorial representation of an ancient global civilization where the South Pole was the hub with spirals going out to its distant colonies? In the book, Antarctica’s Hidden History, I present evidence that German nationalists using the black sun symbol established a colony in Antarctica, where they built spacecraft for deep space colonization.

According to Howe’s analysis, the structure witnessed by Spartan 1 dates as far back as 33 million years, which is the general date conventional geologists give for when Antarctica was last ice free. In Antarctica’s Hidden History, contrary evidence is presented that Antarctica was ice free as recently as 11,700 years  ago, which is the approximate date for the destruction of Atlantis according to Plato. This raises the question, “how old are the ruins being currently discovered in Antarctica?”

Spartan 1’s independent testimony corroborates important elements of what Goode and Peterson described, and what others claim lies hidden under the frozen continent. As more of Spartan 1’s testimony is released through Howe’s video series, we may get important answers to questions about what lies hidden deep below the Antarctic ice sheets

Further Reading

• Antarctic Ice Shelf Destabilized as Race for Ancient Alien Artifacts & New Weapons Heats Up
• Possible New Source on Discovery of Frozen City under Antarctic Ice
• Did Martian Refugees Settle in Antarctica over a Million Years Ago?
• Visit to Antarctica Confirms Discovery of Flash Frozen Alien Civilization
• Antarctica and Imprisoned Fallen Angels from the Book of Enoch
• Impending Announcement of Ruins from Futuristic Civilization Found in Antarctica
• Antarctica’s Secret History – Extraterrestrial Colony Created Elite Bloodline Rulers

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“At present, we have no idea of the origin “

This is not what you want to hear from the people who run the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) project. Yet that was the message issued on January 25th by the astronomers running the ATLAS-HKO telescopes at the top of the Haleakalā volcano on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. (If your job is to look for asteroids that could kill you, it’s at least nice to know you’ll die in Hawaii.) They were watching a Near Earth Object that was about as near as you can get – 600 km (370 miles) above Earth’s surface at the perigee of its highly elliptical orbit whose apogee is 1.4 times the distance to the Moon. If they don’t know what it is and it’s orbiting the Earth, then it must the …

Black Knight Satellite!

Wouldn’t that be a great story to take our minds off of the rest of our problems? Unfortunately, A10bMLz (they had to give it a name so they could record it in the log and get paid) is not the alleged extraterrestrial satellite which has been orbiting the planet for at least 13,000 years and was supposedly detected by Nikola Tesla. However, it’s definitely a mysterious object that most people outside of the space field have probably never heard of before … an Empty Trash Bag Object (ETBO). A what?

“This suggests that it is what is known as an “empty trash bag object”: A piece of light material (probably metallic foil), left over from a rocket launch. It is not clear yet when A10bMLz has been launched.”

That observation comes from the Northolt Branch Observatories of London, which was tasked with identifying the 1 km (2.2 lb.) A10bMLz using Project Pluto astronomical software. (See a video on their Facebook page.) As one would expect, the name comes from the fact that the object behaves like a trash bag being blown about by the wind. The difference is that this ETBO Is at least 370 miles up – the highest observance of one of these rare objects.

The “trash bag” part makes it sound pretty safe. Are we in any danger from this ETBO? Well, its behavior is unpredictable and there’s no past history to use in a model.

“As with an empty trash bag blowing down the street, it may zig and zag in unpredictable ways. The nominal orbit, though, suggests that this object had a much higher perigee; it dropped to within a few hundred kilometers on this most recent perigee. I do not see any recent lunar flybys, and would not speculate on when it might hit the earth or moon or leave the earth-moon system.”

So, we’re not in any danger and neither is the Moon. Unfortunately, A10bMLz is far less intriguing that the Black Knight Satellite … unless this whole Empty Trash Bag Object is just a ruse to cover-up an accidental observation of it. Or is it an outer-space ploy by environmentalists to finally put an end to the wasteful usage of plastic bags?

At least the ETBOs are empty.

For now, it’s a good example of the ever-increasing variety of space junk in orbit that is endangering the ever-increasing number of private space flights being planned. Which will come first … the accident or the Space Junk and Empty Trash Bag Objects Collection Mission?

Sept. 20, 2002: Something odd is circling our planet. It's small, perhaps only 60-ft long, and rotates once every minute or so. Amateur astronomer Bill Yeung first spotted the 16th magnitude speck of light on Sept. 3rd in the constellation Pisces. He named it J002E3.

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Robert Powell, USS Nimitz Tic-Tac UFO Update & More

01-29-19 – Alejandro Rojas with UFO Updates, Robert Powell Robert Powell is back to talk about being part of an extensive report that the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) wrote on the USS Nimitz Encounter, we take several calls and in hour two, he discusses triangle UFOs and more.

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Once Around the Sun! NASA's Parker Solar Probe Aces 1st Trip Around Our Star

US Military Space Plane Wings Past 500 Days on Latest Mystery Mission

Scientists Engineer Chickens With Dinosaur Snouts

VIA YALE 

A team of researchers have reverted the beak structure of a chicken embryo back to its ancestral state—a time when dinosaurs roamed the land with snouts instead.

"The beak is a crucial part of the avian feeding apparatus, and is the component of the avian skeleton that has perhaps diversified most extensively and most radically—consider flamingos, parrots, hawks, pelicans, and hummingbirds, among others," Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, lead author of the study published in the journal Evolution, explained. "Yet little work has been done on what exactly a beak is, anatomically, and how it got that way either evolutionarily or developmentally."

There are two different genes that a developing embryo needs in order to construct a bird skull with a beak. The team decided to see what happened when they repressed those genes. To do this, they used small-molecule inhibitors to block the beak genes. The effects were shocking.

The beak structure of the chicken embryo returned to its ancestral anatomy, along with the palatine bone on the roof of the mouth. The skull of the chicken embryo developed a reptilian 'snout' instead of a beak. Two bones manifested themselves in this snout-like structure, which is reminiscent of the nose of a modern-day alligator. "This was unexpected and demonstrates the way in which a single, simple developmental mechanism can have wide-ranging and unexpected effects," Bhullar said.

The skull of a chicken embryo ready to hatch has a beak (left), but when certain proteins are blocked (middle), it develops a reptilian 'snout' from two bones, rather like a modern-day alligator (right)

via Bhart-Anjan Bhullar

The chickens didn't actually develop snouts, per se, but changes to the actual embryo are noticeable: There is a little flap of skin covering the gene-altered chicken-embryos' would-be beaks.

It must be noted that the genetically altered embryos were never hatched. "Our goal here was to understand the molecular underpinnings of an important evolutionary transition, not to create a 'dino-chicken' simply for the sake of it," said Bhullar.

We are still far from identifying the genetic changes that are responsible for nature's first beaks, but identifying the genes involved is a great start. The team won't be building a zoo of little dino-chickens anytime soon. The purpose of this experiment was to examine the evolutionary pathways on a molecular level, not create a real-life Jurassic Park.

[Via Nature, Evolution, Yale]

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Solar storm WARNING: Devastating space weather could hit Earth by 2020 - NASA warns

POWERFUL solar storms ejected from holes in the surface of the Sun could wreak havoc across Earth as early as 2020, NASA has warned.

Solar storm WARNING: Devastating space weather could hit Earth by 2020 - NASA warns

POWERFUL solar storms ejected from holes in the surface of the Sun could wreak havoc across Earth as early as 2020, NASA has warned.

How History Channel’s Ancient Aliens takes the mickey out of Australian history

Ancient aliens and exploring Egyptians. According to the History Channel, all visited Australia 50,000 years ago. And the evidence is … out there.

Jamie Seidel

Over the Australia-Day long weekend, the world was hammered with History Channel’s perspective of our Land Down Under.

One show cited Indigenous art as absolute evidence of ancient alien visitation.

Aboriginal cave paintings in rock shelter – Gwion Gwion (formerly called Bradshaw) rock art, depicting a fish hunt. Raft Point Gallery, Kimberley Region, Western Australia. 

(Photo by Auscape/UIG via Getty Images)

Another ‘finds’ Australia’s own version of Stonehenge.

And then there’s the increasingly popular notion that this continent was explored by … ancient Egyptians.

The Wandjina figures … highly stylised images that sparked the whole aliens visited Australia story with Erich Von Daniken's 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods.

Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied

But it takes barely more than a scratch at the surface of each of these stories for them to start unravelling. So why does a network with the grandiose name like the History Channel so consistently indulge in such flights of fancy?

“It’s really unbelievable that the History Channel chose not to speak to any archaeologists about this — all of these supposed sites of Egyptian or Phoenician settlement have been debunked over and over,” Flinders University archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman told News Corp. “I guess they wouldn’t have had the story they wanted …”

EGYPTIAN EXPLORERS?

The Ancient Aliens promotion is credulous: “Deep in the Brisbane Water National Park is a mysterious site known as the Kariong Glyphs. The site consists of two massive eight foot (2.4m) high walls engraved with 300 ancient carvings — carvings that experts say do not resemble indigenous artwork, but Egyptian heiroglyps”.

Trouble is, the site isn’t mysterious.

They are naturally formed rocks, not artificial walls.

The ‘ancient’ engravings are no more than 50 years old.

Yes: they do ‘resemble’ Egyptian hieroglyphs.

But they’re not authentic.

Brisbane Water National Park, Gosford, is about an hour’s drive north of Sydney.

It’s become something of an alternate history flashpoint.

Some insist the carefully collected — and bitterly contested — lines of research that form our academic understanding of the past cannot be true.

How can so many diverse cultures across the enormity of the planet so often separately discover the same solution to the same problems, they ask?

It's odd … therefore aliens? An Aboriginal dreamtime image of one of their mystical beings.

Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied

It looks good, so it must be true? A History Channel computer-graphic interpretation of an Aboriginal rock-painting.

Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied

Surely there must have been an ancient source of knowledge — a ‘super race’ such as Atlantis, or prehistoric manipulations by aliens — to help these ignorant ape-descendants along their path to enlightenment?

In the case of Gosford, the only thing apparently linking it with a civilisation 13,200km and 4500 years away are 250 remarkably childlike hieroglyphs gouged into a rock face.

The eroded grotto rock structure is within 100m of a road, and near an old housing subdivision. But no verifiable mention of the hieroglyphs was made before the 1970s.

• MORE: How we’d know if there had been a prehistoric civilisation

This is itself odd. It’s not as though the region hadn’t been explored many times previously. And anthropologists and treasure hunters seeking Aboriginal rock art had repeatedly scoured the area since the late 1800s, and especially during the 1920s Great Depression.

Not one of them mentioned Egyptian hieroglyphs.

How did they all overlook such an easily accessible, promising rock grotto?

The glyphs, most likely a 1960s and 70s hoax, are etched into sandstone boulders in Brisbane Water National Park, near Sydney. 

Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied

DREAM TIME

History Channel’s Ancient Aliens calls local historian Ray Johnson an Egyptologist. He wasn’t. He was a self-professed amateur enthusiast who died in 2004. He was so excited by the appearance of the hieroglyphs he translated them himself. He insisted the pictograms proclaimed the site to be the burial place of Lord Nefer-ti-ru.

We know he sent letters seeking verification of his find to experts in both Egypt and Australia. We don’t know if anyone replied.

“There is also an eminent Egyptologist called W Raymond Johnston from the University of Chicago. Confusion about him and the amateur from Australia has been used to fuel uncertainty about the legitimacy of the claimed reading of the inscription,” says NSW senior heritage specialist and archaeology doctorate student Mr Denis Gojak.

Gosford’s Mr Johnson said the glyphs told the tale of the intredip member of the Egyptian royal family who died in the area while leading an expedition with his brother, Nefer-Djeseb.

The story flared again in 2012.

Dr Hans-Dieter von Senff (a Doctor of Philosophy) declared he had found a new chamber above the Kariong Glyphs, suggesting the NSW site of Woy Woy had been an Egyptian settlement some 5000 years ago.

‘‘Australia was discovered in the Third Dynasty (Egypt’s Old Kingdom). The Egyptians landed at Cape York Peninsula and moved south,’’ Dr von Senff said in a press release at the time.

Evan Strong, author of Ancient Aliens in Australia, who was interviewed by the History Channel's Ancient Aliens.

Picture: History ChannelSource:Supplied

To support this claim, History Channel interviews ‘local ancient astronaut theorist’ Evan Strong while visiting the site.

“Wow … That’s incredible …”

Then the supposed tale the stones record is recited:

“At least one panel talks about two brothers, two princes, coming here from Egypt. They were shipwrecked. One of them ended up getting bitten by a snake. He then died. The theory is then he was interred here and that’s why you’ve got hieroglyphs here,” Mr Strong says.

“But, there’s these other walls with a mixture of symbols. This one over here is more of a philosophical, astrophysics style thing with symbols meaning all sorts of esoteric stuff …”

But, aliens?

• MORE: How the Atlantis myth helped justify genocide

“So this one here we call the UFO glyph, and people have called it that since they’ve been coming here because it kind of looks like a UFO …”

“It definitely has the classic UFO shape…,” the commentator observes.

“I think someone suggested jewellery, but it’s a completely different symbol that’s upside down and it really doesn’t quite fit in. It’s one of those symbols here that doesn't’t fit into the canon.”

Aliens! Really? This shape scratched out of the sandstone face of a Gosford rock formation is being interpreted as representing an ancient flying saucer.

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UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

There’s a reason so many of the symbols don’t fit the ‘canon’ of any Egyptian-era text.

They’re not.

The Gosford History Group has repeatedly told different researchers over the years that the engravings were made by schoolchildren in the 1960s.

And the council worker who first reported them, Alan Dash, has described how he noticed large glyphs had been added between his visits in the early 1970.

Blogger Steve Spillard has undertaken a deep-dive into the history and mythology of the Gosford glyphs. His work can be found here.

A quick look at the hieroglyphs show them to be remarkably clean, sharp-edged and unweathered for their alleged 4500-years of age.

It’s doubly unusual given the comparatively high rate of erosion for local sandstone.

This was something highlighted by a late 1970s survey by the National Parks and Wildlife service. It found the engravings were so fresh the exposed rock was bright and white, even where the hieroglyphs had been cut through lichen growths.

Once qualified Egyptologists looked at them, they found the form of the engravings to be … amateurish. The simplistic symbols were randomly arranged — not in the neat structured rows found in actual Egyptian engravings. That, and the fact different forms on the rock face were used in a variety of eras thousands of years apart.

Stark relief … the engravings found in the Brisbane Water National Park, left, as compared to the real thing from Egypt, right.

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It was, they said, as though someone had been looking at Egyptology books, picking and choosing the characters that inspired them most.

Professor Boyo Ockinga from Macquarie University’s Ancient History Department in Sydney, told the ABC in 2017: “I’d be the first person who’d welcome some sort of link that because it would make my subject relevant to Australian history. It’d be wonderful … but I’m afraid it’s just not possible.

‘‘People just don’t want to believe they are fake; they want this connection with ancient Egypt to be true, but unfortunately it’s not.’’

Dr Gorman is less diplomatic: “This obsession with finding evidence of ‘classical’ civilisations is really just about legitimatising the theft of Aboriginal land, like altering a will to steal someone else’s inheritance. It’s a pretty tired cliche by now.”

Proto-Egyptian, or fake? Some of the less 'canon' engravings found at the Gosford, NSW, site.

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EXPLODING MYTHS

Tales of Ancient Egyptians visiting Australia are nothing new.

In 1875 Chevert expedition travelled up the Queensland coast to Papua New Guinea ‘for the promotion of science'. It was a well documented mission, as the University of Sydney highlights.

Torres Strait traditions included preserving some bodies, but it was not mummification in the Egyptian sense.

“ The claimed parallels were exploited by Australian anatomist and physical anthropologist Grafton Elliott-Smith, whose idea was that most critical cultural innovations associated with civilisation originated in Egypt and spread outwards from there,” says Mr Gojak. “His ideas became known as the Hyper-diffusionist school of thought. It was heavily debunked at the time [early 20th century] and has no credibility with archaeologists now because it is completely contrary to the evidence.”

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Then there’s Walsh’s Pyramid. It’s a 922 metre tall sandstone peak with a roughly pyramidal appearance about 20km south of Cairns in Queensland. It isn’t all that odd. A pyramid is a naturally stable shape, which is why most mountains roughly look that way. It’s also why the Egyptians built pyramids in the first place.

Context counts: UFO's hovering above ancient indigenous population? Or ochre-blown outlines of bark shields, along with weapons such as boomerangs and spears?

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This particular mass fully conforms with the geology of the landscape. And there are no signs of ancient artificial assembly or earthmoving.

But that doesn’t stop it being cited as further evidence of Egyptian visitation.

As is the case of a bronze coin minted in the era of Ptolemy IV (221 and 204BC).

It was reportedly found by a farmer digging a post hole in a far north Queensland rainforest.

Whatever the case, the finder — Andrew Henderson — said he had shoved it in a draw and forgotten about it for some 40 years. That’s when he handed it over to neighbour’s son.

Cited as an Aboriginal elder and healer, Gary Simon Jagamarra is actually an Aboriginal arts performer. 

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Later, Hank Gilmore handed the coin and its tale over to the Cairns Museum.

How did it get there. A careless Egyptian explorer? Indigenous traders? Or an unlucky gold prospector?

It comes down to context.

Indigenous traders and thousands of hopeful gold prospectors were known to have used a trail that passed through Henderson’s land. And the region has a total lack of any other link to Ancient Egypt.

Dr Andrew Connor, a lecturer in ancient history from Monash University, told the ABC last year that the coin was most likely dropped by a miner. “We know conclusively that this is the sort of thing that people would bring with them when they emigrated to Australia in the 19th Century,” Dr Connor said.

Dr Gorman says she is dismayed at how so much airtime is given to such Euro-centric flights of fancy.

“Wouldn't it have been nice to focus instead on real achievements of Aboriginal culture and science — the tidal fishtraps made of extensive stonework, the mining and geology of stone tool industries, and the monumental works of art, such as you see on the Burrup Peninsula?” she asks.

Mr Gojak says some of the responsibility must also be borne by Australian archaeologists and historians: “‘Ultimately much of the idle speculation about other civilisations comes from a perception that Australia’s actual human history is dull and unexciting. It should be a challenge to educators and professionals in history and archaeology to fairly represent the amazing complexity and texture of our history. That is our best defence against cranks and pseudoarchaeology.”

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NASA asteroid WARNING: Asteroid bigger than Great Pyramids on Earth approach TODAY

A MASSIVE asteroid two-times bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza will zip past the Earth later today, NASA’s asteroid trackers have revealed.

‘Aliens BUILT the pyramids’ Soviet scientist’s shock Egypt claim to KGB revealed

CONSPIRACY theorists believe they have found "proof" that "aliens built the pyramids" in Egypt.

Great Pyramids of Egypt: Evidence That the Stone Blocks Might Have Been Cast, Not Quarried

"This is not my day job," begins Michel Barsoum as he recounts his foray into the mysteries of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. As a well respected researcher in the field of ceramics, Barsoum never expected his career to take him down a path of history, archaeology, and "political" science, with materials research mixed in.

As a distinguished professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, his daily routine consists mainly of teaching students about ceramics, or performing research on a new class of materials, the so-called MAX Phases, that he and his colleagues discovered in the 1990s. 

These modern ceramics are machinable, thermal-shock resistant, and are better conductors of heat and electricity than many metals — making them potential candidates for use in nuclear power plants, the automotive industry, jet engines, and a range of other high-demand systems.

Then Barsoum received an unexpected phone call from Michael Carrell, a friend of a retired colleague of Barsoum, who called to chat with the Egyptian-born Barsoum about how much he knew of the mysteries surrounding the building of the Great Pyramids of Giza, the only remaining of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

The widely accepted theory — that the pyramids were crafted of carved-out giant limestone blocks that workers carried up ramps — had not only not been embraced by everyone, but as important had quite a number of holes.

Burst out laughing

According to the caller, the mysteries had actually been solved by Joseph Davidovits, Director of the Geopolymer Institute in St. Quentin, France, more than two decades ago. Davidovits claimed that the stones of the pyramids were actually made of a very early form of concrete created using a mixture of limestone, clay, lime, and water.

"It was at this point in the conversation that I burst out laughing," Barsoum said. If the pyramids were indeed cast, he said, someone should have proven it beyond a doubt by now, in this day and age, with just a few hours of electron microscopy.

It turned out that nobody had completely proven the theory … yet.

"What started as a two-hour project turned into a five-year odyssey that I undertook with one of my graduate students, Adrish Ganguly, and a colleague in France, Gilles Hug," Barsoum said.

A year and a half later, after extensive scanning electron microscope observations and other testing, Barsoum and his research group finally began to draw some conclusions about the pyramids. 

They found that the tiniest structures within the inner and outer casing stones were indeed consistent with a reconstituted limestone. The cement binding the limestone aggregate was either silicon dioxide (the building block of quartz) or a calcium and magnesium-rich silicate mineral.

The stones also had a high water content — unusual for the normally dry, natural limestone found on the Giza plateau — and the cementing phases, in both the inner and outer casing stones, were amorphous, in other words, their atoms were not arranged in a regular and periodic array. Sedimentary rocks such as limestone are seldom, if ever, amorphous.

The sample chemistries the researchers found do not exist anywhere in nature. "Therefore," Barsoum said, "it's very improbable that the outer and inner casing stones that we examined were chiseled from a natural limestone block."

More startlingly, Barsoum and another of his graduate students, Aaron Sakulich, recently discovered the presence of silicon dioxide nanoscale spheres (with diameters only billionths of a meter across) in one of the samples. This discovery further confirms that these blocks are not natural limestone.

Generations misled

At the end of their most recent paper reporting these findings, the researchers reflect that it is "ironic, sublime and truly humbling" that this 4,500-year-old limestone is so true to the original that it has misled generations of Egyptologists and geologists and, "because the ancient Egyptians were the original — albeit unknowing — nanotechnologists."

As if the scientific evidence isn't enough, Barsoum has pointed out a number of common sense reasons why the pyramids were not likely constructed entirely of chiseled limestone blocks.

Egyptologists are consistently confronted by unanswered questions: How is it possible that some of the blocks are so perfectly matched that not even a human hair can be inserted between them? Why, despite the existence of millions of tons of stone, carved presumably with copper chisels, has not one copper chisel ever been found on the Giza Plateau?

Although Barsoum's research has not answered all of these questions, his work provides insight into some of the key questions. For example, it is now more likely than not that the tops of the pyramids are cast, as it would have been increasingly difficult to drag the stones to the summit.

Also, casting would explain why some of the stones fit so closely together. Still, as with all great mysteries, not every aspect of the pyramids can be explained. How the Egyptians hoisted 70-ton granite slabs halfway up the great pyramid remains as mysterious as ever.

Why do the results of Barsoum's research matter most today? Two words: earth cements.

"How energy intensive and/or complicated can a 4,500 year old technology really be? The answer to both questions is not very," Barsoum explains. "The basic raw materials used for this early form of concrete — limestone, lime, and diatomaceous earth — can be found virtually anywhere in the world," he adds. 

"Replicating this method of construction would be cost effective, long lasting, and much more environmentally friendly than the current building material of choice: Portland cement that alone pumps roughly 6 billion tons of CO2 annually into the atmosphere when it's manufactured."

"Ironically," Barsoum said, "this study of 4,500 year old rocks is not about the past, but about the future."

By Sheila Berninger and Dorilona Rose, LiveScience.com

Editor's Note: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the federal agency charged with funding basic research and education across all fields of science and engineering. 

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The CIA Confirms There’s Extraterrestrial Activity on Our Planet

A wave of recently declassified UFO files and statements of high rank officials are slowly turning the UFO phenomenon into reality.

by EWAO

Believing that we are the only civilization in the physical Universe – which scientifically speaking is infinite – shows not only an immense ego, but also an unfathomable ignorance. But what happens when high rank officials

On December 2012, the Russian prime-minister Dmitri Medvedev gave a live interview aired simultaneously on five television channels.

After that, the Russian ex-president revealed to a journalist that every leader of the Kremlin is handed two folders with classified information regarding the visit of extraterrestrial beings.

At that time, Medvedev’s statement was a worldwide premiere, since it was the first time when a high level official publicly acknowledged the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations during the presidential mandate.

A riveting news article was published in 1980 in the “Sputnik” magazine about the perceptions and experiences of UFOs. This article contains reports from ten Soviet and American astronauts. Only one of these astronauts refused the possibility of UFOs getting in and out of our galaxy.

Ievgheni Krunov declared that it’s actually impossible to deny the presence of UFOs, and we should admit that these are more than simple optical illusions, even some of their characteristics like the rapid change of flight course at a 90 degrees angle offers us a lot of food for thought.

Astronaut Ghenadi Strekalov mentioned that he witnessed numerous strange and inexplicable phenomena, but hesitates to classify these events in any way.

Still, he described a phenomenon observed on September 28 1980, during his day shift on the Mir space station: a flying sphere above the Earth, at an altitude of 20-30 km, around Newfoundland.

The atmosphere was clear and the visibility was perfect, so he could watch for about 10 seconds how the sphere was shifting beautiful vivid colors, and afterwards disappearing almost instantly.

Strekalov remembered that the UFO had a perfect oval shape. He claimed that he reported the event to the Mission Control Center, but it did not classify as a UFO, concluding that he must be more precautious in the relation with his superiors.

According to publicly released documents, in the year of 1952 alone have been checked and confirmed over 100 UFO phenomena with no logical explanation, that were registered and labeled in the CIA archives as “inexplicable”.

“Almost 100 believable confessions remain inexplicable at the moment. However, the CIA monitoring will continue and no reports will be made public,” the report notes.

To the disappointment of ufologists around the world, the declassification of those 10 documents coincides with the relaunch of the “X Files” series and apparently those documents do not contain any information regarding crashed UFOs, encounters or kidnappings.

According to the CIA spokesman, the organization believes that the public will find the information extremely fascinating:

"We have decided to release to publicity a few files that even the most skeptical individuals will find appealing. Five of these files are fit for 'X Files' agent Fox Mulder, but the other 5 files are perfect for his skeptical partner, agent Dana Scully.”

Conspiracy theorists believe that CIA’s decision to make these documents public does not coincide with the relaunch of the new X Files series, but rather are an attempt to warm-up the audience for later disclosures.

“Apparently, the CIA used the rebirth of the X Files franchise to remind the people that the agency has agents investigating these cases,” declares Stephen Basset, executive director of Paradigm Research Group, an organization that militates at the White House in order for the government of the United States to admit that aliens are real.

If the world will eventually accept the UFO reality we are yet to find out, but hopefully it won’t take long until our governments will spill the beans about the existence of extraterrestrials.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talks about aliens on Earth with curious reporter:

Reporter: You know absolutely everything. For example, have aliens visited Earth, you know, those same green men?

Medvedev: Malyana (name of reporter?), so, I'm telling you for the first and the last time. Together with a briefcase containing nuclear codes, a special folder is delivered to the president of the country. On it is written "Completely Secret" (Top Secret). And it is entirely and wholly devoted to the visitors who came to our planet.

Simultaneously, a report is given by an absolutely closed (secret) special service, which deals with the control (regulation?) of aliens on the territory of our country. So, these two folders are given, along with the nuclear briefcase. After the conclusion of the term, of course, these folders are given to the new president.

More detailed information on this topic, you can obtain by watching a famous, chronically-documented film People in Black (the documentary is included below). Several versions have come out.

Reporter: How many of them among us?

Medvedev: How many of them among us I will not say, because it may cause panic.

This is the documentary that Medvedev mentioned: Men In Black (Russian Documentary With English Subtitles)

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The Hubble Telescope's Deep View of the Universe Is Now Even More Astounding!

"What we have done is to go back to the archive of the original images, directly as observed by the HST, and improve the process of combination, aiming at the best image quality not only for the more distant smaller galaxies but also for the extended regions of the largest galaxies," study leader Alejandro Borlaff, from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in the Canary Islands, said in a statement.

The new work revealed that some of the galaxies in the HUDF view are nearly twice as big as previously thought, study team members said.

The Hubble Space Telescope launched to Earth orbit in April 1990 aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery. The scope got off to an inauspicious start; its initial images were blurry, a problem that mission team members traced to a slight flaw in Hubble's primary mirror.

Spacewalking astronauts fixed that problem in December 1993, giving Hubble the sharp focus it's known for today. 

That was the first of five servicing missions that repaired, maintained and upgraded the telescope over the years. The most recent of these, which occurred in May 2009, installed what is today Hubble's main eye on the universe, an instrument called the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

The HUDF image has long been a work in progress. The first version combined data gathered by Hubble from late 2003 to early 2004; later updates have incorporated additional imagery in various wavelengths of light.

The new study, which was published this month in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, looked at the 2012 incarnation of the HUDF, which relied heavily on data gathered by the WFC3. 

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Can moons have moons? Yes, and they're called 'moonmoons'! Earth, Saturn and Jupiter's natural satellites may have objects the size of SKYSCRAPERS in orbit around them

• Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of so-called moonmoons 
• They could exist around at least four larger moons in the solar system
• These include Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Callisto, and Saturn's moons Titan and Iapetus

By HARRY PETTIT FOR MAILONLINE 

Earth's moon may be orbited by a mysterious smaller moon that has alluded scientists for decades, according to a new study.

This submoon, also known as a moonmoon, could be as large as a skyscraper but has yet to be spotted by astronomers.

It is one of at least four moonmoons that may exist in our solar system, according to new calculations.

Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Callisto, and Saturn's moons Titan and Iapetus all have the perfect conditions to host one - if they exist in our star system at all.

Earth's moon (file photo) may be orbited by a mysterious smaller moon that has alluded scientists for decades, according to a new study. This submoon, also known as a moonmoon, could be as large as a skyscraper but has yet to be spotted by astronomers

Scientists at Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Bordeaux team up for the new study.

Following decades of speculation, the team's calculations revealed for the first time the conditions required for a moonmoon to form.

Computer models showed such an object could only exist around large moons that are relatively distant from their parent planets.

It would need to orbit close enough to remain within the gravitational pull of its moon rather than the larger planet - but far away enough to avoid being torn apart or pulled out of orbit by its moon.

Meeting these stringent requirements would be difficult, but not impossible, according to the calculations.

A moonmoon would have to orbit within a very fine distance margin to avoid being pulled away by the larger planet. Jupiter's moon Callisto (top left), and Saturn's moons (top right) Titan and Iapetus all have the perfect conditions to host one. Uranus and Neptune do not

Four moons in the solar system could host a mini-satellite, including Earth's moon, Jupiter's moon Callisto, and Saturn's moons Titan and Iapetus.

Even if these moons have the right conditions to host a moonmoon, it remains extremely unlikely that one has landed in the right spot.

'Something has to kick a rock into orbit at the right speed that it would go into orbit around a moon, and not the planet or the star,' study coauthor Dr Sean Raymond, of the University of Bordeaux, told New Scientist.

If that moon shifted its position during the course of its evolution, as Earth's moon has, its unlikely that the moonmoon would have remained in its orbit, he said.

This may explain why a moonmoon has yet to be spotted in our solar system, experts said.

'I think we can say for sure that there's not a moonmoon that's kilometres across around Jupiter or Saturn,' Queen's University Belfast astronomer Michele Bannister, who was not involved in the study, told New Scientist.

'A moonmoon down to the size of a skyscraper could exist out there, but I'd call it moonmoonlet.'

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Most of the planets in our solar system have orbiting moons, and even some asteroids have their own moons. But do any moons have moons? Is it possible? Could there be so-called submoons? Carnegie Science’s Juna Kollmeier said her 4-year-old son sparked her interest in this subject by asking this seemingly logical question. It’s a simple enough question. If most other objects in the solar system can have moons, why not moons themselves?

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Kollmeier decided to try to answer the question, along with her colleague Sean Raymond of Université de Bordeaux. Their results have now been published in a new peer-reviewed paper in the February 2019 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

As explained by Raymond in a statement from Carnegie Science:

Planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets, so it was natural to ask if smaller moons could orbit larger ones.

So far at least, no submoons have been found orbiting any of the moons considered most likely to support them – Jupiter’s moon Callisto, Saturn’s moons Titan and Iapetus and Earth’s own moon. According to Kollmeier:

The lack of known submoons in our solar system, even orbiting around moons that could theoretically support such objects, can offer us clues about how our own and neighboring planets formed, about which there are still many outstanding questions.

The researchers found that only large moons on wide orbits from their host planets would be capable of hosting submoons. Usually, any submoons orbiting smaller moons closer to their planet would have their orbits destabilized by tidal forces. Jupiter’s large moon Callisto, Saturn’s large moon Titan, another Saturn moon called Iapetus and Earth’s moon could all theoretically have submoons, so why don’t they?

There may be other sources of submoon instability, such as the non-uniform concentration of mass in Earth’s moon’s crust, according to the researchers.

Part of the answer might also have to do with how the primary moons formed in the first place. Earth’s moon is thought to have been born out of a collision between Earth and another body about the size of Mars – and that collision may have helped life on Earth to get started. But some other moons, like those orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, originated from the same cloud of gas and dust that the planets themselves formed from. Kollmeier added:

And, of course, this could inform ongoing efforts to understand how planetary systems evolve elsewhere and how our own solar system fits into the thousands of others discovered by planet-hunting missions.

It may be that in many or even most cases, there are multiple factors that make the orbits of submoons inherently unstable. Knowing whether that is true or not may have to wait for discoveries of moons orbiting distant exoplanets. Moons themselves are much harder to detect and only one promising candidate has been found so far – a possible exomoon orbiting the Jupiter-sized exoplanet Kepler-1625b. That possible moon – about the size of Neptune – is large enough and far enough from its planet that submoons should be possible as well. Astronomers will need to verify that primary moon first – if it does exist – before looking for any submoons.

Even though Earth’s moon doesn’t have a submoon now, it may in the future, according to the researchers – an artificial one, perhaps NASA’s planned Lunar Gateway. The Lunar Gateway would help to establish humanity’s presence in deep space, as outlined by William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters:

The Gateway will give us a strategic presence in cislunar space. It will drive our activity with commercial and international partners and help us explore the Moon and its resources. We will ultimately translate that experience toward human missions to Mars.

Raymond has also written a cool poem about moons having moons, which you can enjoy on his blog here.

Bottom line: The possibility of moons having their own moons is a fascinating one, even though we haven’t found any examples yet. This new research from Carnegie Science shows that it is indeed possible, but only under the right circumstances.

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Climate Collapse: Wind Chill Temperatures Will Hit Minus 60 in the Midwest This Week as Global Weather Patterns Shift

By Michael Synder  /  Economic Collapse

The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week.  Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is being projected that some spots will actually get hit by wind chill temperatures of up to -60 degrees.  A shift in the polar vortex is being blamed for this life-threatening weather, and we are being told to expect the coldest temperatures to arrive on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.  But all-time records are already being set.  For example, according to Accuweather the temperature in the city of International Falls, Minnesota hit 45 below zero on Monday morning…

The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for hypothermia and frostbite to occur in minutes during the final days of January.

The deep freeze continued across the Upper Midwest on Sunday with temperatures plummeting well below zero in the morning. The low of 45 below zero F in International Falls, Minnesota, shattered the day’s record of 36 below zero F from 1966.

Please keep in mind that was not a wind chill temperature.

That was the actual temperature outside.

As the week progresses, bitterly cold temperatures will be accompanied by heavy snow and strong winds across the Midwest.  The polar jet stream has weakened, and as a result the polar vortex will “dip into parts of North America”…

The wintry onslaught will be driven by the Northern Hemisphere’s polar vortex, the pocket of cold air sitting atop the North Pole. When temperatures rise in the Arctic, the polar jet stream — the torrent of westerly winds that hold the polar vortex in place — can weaken and dip into parts of North America.

“Occasionally this ring of winds deforms or even splits, which allows the cold air to spill southward over mid latitudes — this is exactly what’s happening now,” said Jennifer Francis, a senior research scientist with Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, in an email. “It just so happens that the lobe of cold air is located over central North America, with Chicago in the crosshairs.”

This is an extremely dangerous situation, and we will probably read about some people that underestimate the danger and end up dead.

According to weather.com, the air will be so cold that it “could lead to frostbite on exposed skin in a matter of minutes”…

This bitter cold will be accompanied by strong winds at times Tuesday through Thursday, leading to life-threatening wind chills in the Midwest that could lead to frostbite on exposed skin in a matter of minutes. A large swath of the Midwest will have wind chills in the 30s, 40s and 50s below zero by Wednesday. A few spots in Minnesota and eastern North Dakota may see wind chills in the 60s below zero.

Unless you absolutely must go out for some reason, if you live in the Midwest you should stay inside until temperatures begin to warm up again.

This weather is so unusual that even President Trump is tweeting about it…

In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!

Now that even the president of the United States is acknowledging that this winter could be “the coldest ever recorded”, I want to remind everyone that we were warned about this months in advance…

• –“Climate Chaos: Following Record Heat This Summer, Experts Are Predicting There Will Be A Nightmarishly Cold Winter”
• –“November Snow In Texas? Experts Warn Decreased Solar Activity Will Shatter All Global Climate Models”
• –“The Coldest And Snowiest November Ever? Here Is Why America’s Freakish Weather Is Only Going To Get Worse…”
• –“A Mini Ice Age? NASA Scientist Warns That Diminished Solar Activity Could Mean The Coldest Winter In Modern Times”
• –“-75 Wind Chill On Thanksgiving??? Why This Could Be The Coldest Winter In America EVER…”

I wrote article after article warning that this would happen, and now it is happening.

At this hour, schools and businesses are closed throughout North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin as blizzard-like conditions sweep through both states.  And Chicago is bracing for what will likely be the coldest day ever in the history of the city…

After seeing a high around 34 on Monday at O’Hare International Airport, temperatures will drop to near zero before the end of the day, according to the National Weather Service. By Tuesday night, temperatures are expected to take another plunge, to 23 below zero, flirting with Chicago’s coldest temperature ever: minus 27 on Jan. 20, 1985.

Temperatures are forecast to inch up to a daytime high of about minus 14 on Wednesday — the first subzero high temperature in five years and the coldest winter high ever recorded in Chicago — before dipping, again, to about minus 21 overnight. The coldest daytime high in Chicago was minus 11 on Christmas Eve 1983.

Our planet is changing, our climate is collapsing, and this is going to put an increasing amount of strain on social order.

And we are already starting to see evidence of this.  In fact, Chicago police are telling us that in recent days people have been getting robbed of their expensive winter coats at gunpoint…

Chicago police are reporting gunpoint robberies targeting people wearing pricey Canada Goose jackets as temperatures plunge in the city.

Over the past two weeks, police say there’s been a spate of the thefts in which people wearing the luxury coats have been targeted and forced to give up the jackets. The coats can cost upward of $1,000 and are often seen on celebrities.

Six people had their Canada Goose coats stolen last week and two more were targeted Wednesday.

Unfortunately, this is only just the beginning.

Global seismic activity is rising, weather patterns are becoming more extreme, and a worldwide environmental collapse is already well underway.  If you have any doubts that this worldwide environmental collapse is happening, just read this excellent article by Chris Martenson.

We have been making the wrong decisions for decades, and now the consequences of those decisions are starting to catch up with us.  The clock is ticking, but most Americans are still completely and utterly clueless about what is coming.

About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally-syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including Get Prepared Now, The Beginning Of The Endand Living A Life That Really Matters.  His articles are originally published on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News.  From there, his articles are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the nation.  If you would like to republish his articles, please feel free to do so.  The more people that see this information the better, and we need to wake more people up while there is still time.

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Not only is it clear that the next war will be fought in space, but it looks like we’re inching ever closer to it breaking out any day now. Many of my favorite topics to cover here at MU (space weaponry, mystery booms, unidentified aircraft) all seem to be making the headlines with increasing frequency, suggesting a new space race is underway – one that will end with the fiery wrecks of satellites and space stations crashing to the ground and one of the world’s superpowers becoming the new undisputed king of space. Who will come out on top?

“GET SOME, SPACE COMMIES!”

Certainly not the average schmoes like you and me. Whether or not we’re actually standing on the precipice of a shooting war in space is still up in the air, but one thing is certain: the U.S. Air Force is hard at work preparing for it. Since 2010, the Air Force has been testing its secretive X-37B space plane in orbit above the Earth, and nobody really knows what it’s been doing up there. Well, someone knows, but not us average schmoes. Schmoes never know the good stuff.

The X-37B has once again reached another milestone this week, surpassing 500 days in continuous flight above the Earth. The X-37B is operated by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and controlled by the 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. Despite the numerous milestones and records the super-secret spacecraft has chalked up, Air Force officials are still tight-lipped about its true purpose. Interestingly enough, the craft was also caught on camera yesterday; it’s quite a spooky sight as it zooms quickly by stars in the background. What’s the X-37B doing up there?

The X-37B is essentially hiding in plain sight.

When the craft was first put into orbit in 2010, officials with the USAF assured everyone the X-37B has no offensive capabilities and was there to support “technology risk reduction, experimentation and operational concept development.” It’s long been suspected that the craft has something to do with surveillance, tracking spy satellites, or is even a type of reusable spy “satellite” itself, one which can land and be serviced when needed. Could it be that whatever the craft is spying on or doing up there is so sensitive that the Air Force can’t risk transmitting data back to Earth at all, hence why it must land every once in a while?

Who knows. Everything is pure speculation at this point. It’s also unknown when the X-37B might come back down to Earth. Will we ever know what this secretive craft is up to?

Anyway, happy 500th day, supersecret scary spaceplane. Please don’t blow us all up.

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Airplane passenger captures an alien craft "Fast Mover" under the water

Interesting footage of a USO also called a “Fast Mover” at high velocity under the water filmed from an airliner en route to LAX.

A plane passenger has filmed a USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) at the moment the commercial plane flew above the Sea of Japan and even the plane is flying at a cruising speed of almost 1,000 km per hour the USO goes even faster.

Some people will say that the long dark trail/object underwater is just a shadow of the plane but if we compare the shadow of a plane on water with the USO then we see that is completely different.

What we are seeing is the USO with a long trail of water displacement behind it, indicating that the USO is moving through the water at high speed.

The plane passenger is not the only person who has witnessed such an underwater alien craft also Marc D’Antonio, an astronomer and chief video analyst for UFO organisation MUFON witnessed what he believes must have been an alien craft travelling at impossible speeds under the water while he was on board a US Navy submarine in the North Atlantic ocean.

According to Marc D’Antonio the US Navy is running a top secret programme to detect unidentified submerged objects “fast movers” beneath the sea.

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White UFO Shoots Past Drone At 300 meters per second over Spain, Jan 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 2019
Location of sighting: La Rioja, Spain
News source: 

• https://nuevecuatrouno.com/2019/01/29/video-avistamiento-ovni-rioja/
  
  

This UFO was recorded by a drone in Spain last week. The UFO was sitting on the mountain side and noticed the flying drone...so it immediately did a flyby to investigate it. The object moved incredibly fast, so fast it appears to be a tube, when actually its an oval disk. In the close up you can see that its actually caught four times in the photo...thats how fast this is moving. Those four time are stretched out touching each other so that it appears to be long, when its not. UFOs are often atrracted to aircraft and this one was no exception. Yes UFOs can be small like this one. Aliens have drones, because not all species of aliens can walk among us without being noticed, and many breath different gases. 
Scott C. Waring

News states (translated from Spanish: 

According to his conclusions, the object captured by the camera of the drone is "cylindrical shape, with a length of about 2 meters". "It comes out of a brush and travels about 600 meters in a time of about two seconds, which would be about 1,080 kilometers per hour," something that "completely discards the explanation of an insect or any animal." "We may talk about a vehicle about two meters long that I doubt very much that it is human technology and that it goes out to see what is approaching," he concludes. Do you believe it? Do not? The truth is out there.

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Giant Glowing UFO Over Homes In Colombia Frighten Residents, Jan 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 2019

Location of sighting: Velez Santander, Colombia, South America

 

Check out this video of a huge glowing white ball behind a cloud. The object is big and right above a neighborhood thats staring in awe at the UFO above them. The craft his hiding 75% inside of a cloud that it made, but part of it is exposed, probably so that the aliens on board can see out their windows first hand. Staring at a computer screen would seem less personal and so really, who could blame them? I placed the screenshot in negative format below and the UFO turns dark black...and really stands out. 

Scott C. Waring

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Here's Why Auroras on Earth Are Different in the North and South

It all comes down to Earth's magnetic tail, which is created by interactions between our planet and the sun. Those interactions begin with Earth's magnetic field, which scientists believe springs from the innards swirlingthrough Earth's core and creating an electrical charge. Magnetic fields — from refrigerators to planets — create invisible magnetic field lines arcing between the North and South Poles that can govern the behavior of material around them.

But Earth's magnetic field isn't the only one out there — the sun also has one, which affects the constant flow of highly charged plasma particles that streams out in every direction. The magnetic field embedded in that stream, called the solar wind, interferes with the one Earth produces, squishing it on the daylit side of Earth facing the sun and stretching it on the nightside facing away from the sun into a tail-like shape.

Magnetic field lines carry through the contorted field, and they aren't fixed in place — they break and reform in dramatic events called reconnections. This phenomenon in the tail is what scientists had thought caused nonmatching northern and southern auroras. (It's the tail that matters for the aurora because that's the side of the magnetic field that's in darkness, and auroras are only visible at night.)

Instead, the team behind the current research realized that the solar wind's magnetic field doesn't always line up precisely with Earth's. When it's skewed, it introduces asymmetry between the North and South Poles into Earth's magnetic field — and that, in turn, causes the mismatch between northern and southern auroras.

Auroras from Space Station

Credit: Tim Kopra/NASA via Twitter (@astro_tim)

NASA astronaut Tim Kopra captured this stunning view of auroras over Earth as seen from his window on the International Space Station on May 4, 2016.

Aurora and the Pacific Northwest

Credit: ESA/NASA

Colorful aural lights dance exquisitely across the Pacific Northwest in this amazing photo from the International Space Station captured in early 2016.

Unusual Aurora Over Canada

Credit: Jeff Williams (via Twitter as @AstroJeff)

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, aboard the International Space Station, tweeted a photo of an aurora over Canada on April 5, 2016.

Aurora Corona and the Moon Over Sweden

Credit: Mia Stålnacke

Astrophotographer Mia Stålnacke sent in a photo of an auroral display alongside the moon on Jan. 23, 2016, taken in Sweden

Tim Peake Tweets Aurora Australis

Credit: ESA/NASA

Tim Peake tweeted an image of the Aurora Australis taken from his vantage point on the International Space Station, April 17, 2016.

So, the researchers gathered simultaneous far-infrared observations of northern and southern lights and tracked how closely the two auroras matched. Then, they added in data about reconnections in Earth's magnetic tail. But when they compared the two sets of measurements, they saw exactly the opposite of what they had expected to see — instead of these dramatic reconnections increasing the asymmetry of auroras, they nudged the auroras back into matching.

Understanding the auroras themselves isn't vital, as auroras are just symptoms of how the sun affects the Earth through a set of phenomena called space weather. But space weather can interfere with navigation and communication satellites and even put power grids out of commission. And scientists are still trying to figure out precisely how space weather works and how they can better predict it. Auroras are just the prettiest phenomenon to start cracking.

The research is described in a paper published last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

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NASA Probe Snaps 1st Photos from Just a Mile Above Asteroid Bennu and the View's AMAZING!

It’s time to start taking the search for E.T. seriously, astronomers say

Some scientists are pushing for NASA to make looking for alien technology an official goal

BY LISA GROSSMAN 

WE’RE LISTENING  A radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., was the first to listen for signals from intelligent aliens in 1960. Now scientists are using another instrument, the Green Bank Telescope (shown), to search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Long an underfunded, fringe field of science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may be ready to go mainstream.

Astronomer Jason Wright is determined to see that happen. At a meeting in Seattle of the American Astronomical Society in January, Wright convened “a little ragtag group in a tiny room” to plot a course for putting the scientific field, known as SETI, on NASA’s agenda.

The group is writing a series of papers arguing that scientists should be searching the universe for “technosignatures” — any sign of alien technology, from radio signals to waste heat. The hope is that those papers will go into a report to Congress at the end of 2020 detailing the astronomical community’s priorities. That report, Astro 2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, will determine which telescopes fly and which studies receive federal funding through the next decade.

“The stakes are high,” says Wright, of Penn State University. “If the decadal survey says, ‘SETI is a national science priority, and NSF and NASA need to fund it,’ they will do it.”

SETI searches date back to 1960, when astronomer Frank Drake used a radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., to listen for signals from an intelligent civilization (SN Online: 11/1/09). But NASA didn’t start a formal SETI program until 1992, only to see it canceled within a year by a skeptical Congress.

Private organizations picked up the baton, including the SETI Institute, founded in Mountain View, Calif., in 1985 by astronomer Jill Tarter — the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in the movie Contact (SN Online: 5/29/12). Then in 2015, Russian billionaires Yuri and Julia Milner launched the Breakthrough Initiatives to join the hunt for E.T. But the search for technosignatures still hasn’t become a more serious, self-sustaining scientific discipline, Wright says.

“If NASA were to declare technosignatures a scientific priority, then we would be able to apply for money to work on it. We would be able to train students to do it,” Wright says. “Then we could catch up” to more mature fields of astronomy, he says.

Wright himself is a relative newcomer to SETI, entering the field in 2014 with a study on searching for heat from alien technology. He was also one of a group to suggest that the oddly flickering “Tabby’s star” could be surrounded by an alien megastructure — and then to debunk that idea with more data (SN: 9/30/17, p. 11).

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