The Long, Strange History of People Filing Flying Saucer Patents

From the “Discopter” of Alexander Weygers to a soaring car.

BY ERNIE SMITH

An articulated view of a Discopter in flight, floating through the night sky above the San Francisco Bay. WITH PERMISSION FROM DISCOPTER.COM

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Early in the summer of 1947, an amateur pilot from Idaho named Kenneth Arnold spotted something in the Washington skies that kind of blew his mind.

Despite the skies being clear that day, he saw a series of nine flashes of horizontal light. He landed, told others what he saw, and his story spread through the popular consciousness, taking on a life on its own, as well as a name—the flying saucer.

Two weeks later, a much more famous incident in Roswell, New Mexico, involving a weather balloon (if you believe what the government tells you), further cemented the idea of the flying saucer in the public consciousness.

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Not long after, hobbyists of all kinds suddenly felt inspired make their own—and they’ve been flooding the patent offices globally ever since.

But the guy who got to the U.S. Patent Office first, surprisingly, wasn’t actually inspired by the popular perception of the UFO at all. He had the idea, in fact, years before Kenneth Arnold took his fateful flight.

“They did not appear to me to whirl or spin but seemed in fixed position traveling as I have made drawing.” From Arnold’s account of his UFO sighting. PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Dutch painter and sculpture artist Alexander Weygers, who grew up in the Dutch East Indies—now Indonesia—and spent most of his adult life in the U.S., was something of a 20th-century Leonardo da Vinci. He had both an engineering and artistic background, and his work spanned sculpture, illustrations, photography, and many other fields.

In 1927, he conceptualized a device that predicted the infatuation with flying saucers before they even had that name. And as an engineer, he did so with a practical eye toward the failings of the device he hoped to replace.

“Helicopters are vulnerable,” he said in an interview with UPI in 1985. “People were being killed in them during the 1920s. They go down like a brick. The saucer became the logical answer.”

His creativity was driven by tragedy. In 1928, his wife died during childbirth, as did his son. The painful incident ended up pushing him closer to art, with the losses inspiring some of his most notable sculptures.

A similar tragedy—the capture of his family, still in the Dutch East Indies, by Japanese forces during World War II—pushed him in the early 1940s to complete his saucer project, which he had first started in the 1920s. He called the device a “Discopter.”

The idea was inspired not by spaceships or science fiction, but by a practical desire to create a vehicle that could be used to rescue people in incidents not unlike the one that faced his family members. His frame of reference was his own prior work.

Weygers’ patent for his Discopter.  GOOGLE PATENTS/ US2377835A

He filed for a patent in 1944, and that patent was granted the next year. A key passage from that patent:

To a helicopter, a craft constructed on the principles of my invention bears a superficial resemblance in that both types are sustained by at least one horizontal rotor. From this point on, however, all similarity between the two types of flying craft ends. A craft embodying my invention is distinguished from a helicopter in that the rotor or rotors in my craft are enclosed within a substantially vertical tunnel, the rotor regarded as a whole is mainshaftless and the external form of the craft is not very different from the familiar discus of the athlete, in common with which the craft enjoys certain aerodynamic advantages characteristic of the passage of the discus thru the air. Not only the rotors and power plant compartments but all of the usual moving and fixed protruding parts, present in both airplanes and helicopters, such as stabilizing and directing means and otherwise, are entirely enclosed within the strikingly simple and cleanly streamlined contour line of the craft when regarded from exteriorly thereof in any elevation view, thereby concealing from the casual view such parts.

Alexander Weygers wasn’t trying to invent the flying saucer. He was trying to reinvent the helicopter, along with aviation in general, so that it could be used more practically. (It should be noted that the device was never built.)

But the existence of everything that came afterwards meant that his name would forever be associated with futurism and science fiction, elements that didn’t actually inspire his invention.

Weygers envisioned large passenger ships with windows all the way around the edge of the disc. WITH PERMISSION FROM DISCOPTER.COM

Soon after the flying saucer hit the public consciousness in the late 1940s, people noticed what Weygers had done. A 1950 article in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Morning Call, dedicated column space to a dentist named Dr. Harold T. Frendt, who used the existence of the patent to argue against the existence of aliens. Frendt suggested that the patents were being used to create these saucers, despite his only evidence being Weygers’ patent.

“They should be operated at high altitudes instead of exposing them for observation to the general public and the pro-communistically inclined, and thereby stimulating a trend of foolish speculation,” Frendt told the newspaper at the time.

Frendt’s statement is ironic, because he’s also speculating. There probably was no flying saucer.

While Weygers was certainly first, the folks that followed him clearly were inspired by whatever happened in Washington and New Mexico back in 1947, perhaps with a little touch of H.G. Wells in the mix as well.

Reporting on Roswell. PUBLIC DOMAIN

As soon as there was a popular “spark,” the inspiration that had us looking up in the sky and wondering what if, the saucer was everywhere. It’s been keeping patent offices around the world busy ever since—first, with a spate of flying saucer toys in the early 1950sthat looked like frisbees, and soon, in the form of aircraft clearly inspired by flying saucers, like this 1953 design and this helicopter/flying saucer hybrid.

Buried in the USPTO’s many classifications for airplanes and helicopters is the indexing code “B64C 39/001,” which represents “flying vehicles characterised by sustainment without aerodynamic lift, often flying disks having a UFO-shape.” Yes, USPTO got so many patent applications for flying saucers that it earned its own classification.

So how many flying saucer patents are we talking about? According to Google Patents, around 192 items in this specific classification are listed as being produced in the U.S., with three particular surges in their creation—an initial jump in the years between 1953 and 1956, a second wind between 1965 and 1971, and an unusually dramatic surge in such inventions between the years 2001 and 2004. USPTO handled 37 flying saucer-related patents during that particularly busy time in U.S. diplomatic history.

There’s a lot to look at, and it’s entirely possible that due to the complexity of the patent system, this doesn’t cover everything. Fortunately, someone with a pseudonym and apparently a large amount of time already did a huge amount of curation for you.

Earlier this year, an Internet Archive user named Superboy collected more than 100 flying saucer patent filings spanning the past 75 years or so. It took the user over three months to gather the documents from the U.S. patent offices and other patent offices globally, and is split upover two pages.

(Superboy helpfully noted that the documents prove “that humans have obtained and incorporated flying saucers for personal and secret use.”)

Some of the patents look like massive frisbees; others like tiny, squat planets; and others still look like they’ve taken clear inspiration from movies set in space. (And of course, Weygers’ groundbreaking craft made the list. It had to.)

Most patents were credited to individuals, with a handful of companies involved.

The patent document for this 2003 invention describes it as a “ring-shaped wing helicopter, which is similar to a flying saucer in appearance.” GOOGLE PATENTS/ US 20030122033 A1

The weirdest such applications—though eventually withdrawn—came from a man named John Quincy St. Clair. People have been wonderingabout St. Clair for years. During the 2000s, he filed for for dozens of patents for all sorts of bizarre things. (It should be noted that filing for a patent isn’t cheap, even if it’s withdrawn.) Among his greatest hits: a “magnetic vortex wormhole generator” and a “walking through walls training system,” which comes complete with instructions on how to print the “training system” using a home printer.

One of his applications, from 2006, was for something called a “photon spacecraft.” “This invention is a spacecraft propulsion system that employs photon particles to generate a field of negative energy in order to produce lift on the hull,” he wrote.

Of course, not every flying saucer patent has been produced by a hobbyist, an eccentric inventor, or an engineer who turned tragedy into creativity.

San Francisco’s future, according to Weygers. WITH PERMISSION FROM DISCOPTER.COM

Some of the largest companies in the world have occasionally taken interest in the flying saucer idea. In 2014, for example, Airbus invented a device that has a lot in common with the modern flying saucer, but also looks like a stealth fighter jet with a donut in the middle.

As CNBC reported at the time, it wasn’t intended for either outer space or the military—it was a reinvention of the passenger jet that was intended to help reduce cabin pressure. And there’s a good chance we’ll never even see it.

“It’s just one of many ideas,” a company spokesman told Fortune. “It doesn’t mean that we’re going to be working on making it a reality.”

That actually sounds somewhat sedated compared to an attempt by the British Rail to patent a spacecraft that relied on “controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction.”

And of course, the future may have room for a flying saucer—or at least a flying car—yet. As Bloomberg Businessweek reported last year, Google co-founder Larry Page has been investing in the idea of flying cars for years through his startups Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, with Weygers cited as an early inspiration for what could come next.

Earlier this year, Kitty Hawk released a video for a product that, if you squint hard enough, shares a lineage with what Weygers did way back when, with maybe inspiration from all the things that have come along since.

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Nature is a fantastic thing that offers many weird and wonderful occurrences. One of these things is light. With different colors, patterns, and shapes, light can create beautiful scenes for so many people to admire. The Northern Lights are probably the most famous example of this, but that doesn't mean there aren't others. For example, a similar occurrence which took place in the province of Sulu this year has been captured in several photos shared by netizens. Now, they've spread all over the world for everyone to see, and they're spectacular.

Amarkhan Jidara, who has shared several photos of the spectacular dance of lights in the night sky, has said that the latest celestial show the province has witnessed was last Sunday, June 30th, 2019 at 7 p.m. local time. There have also been a number of other sightings throughout this year, as well as previous years with Sulu residents claiming to see at least one or two of these peculiar light shows every year. According to Jidara, the residents were awestruck at the sight of lights in the sky, as anyone would be. Just looking at these stunning images is enough to blow anyone away, that's for sure.

What are they?

As with any strange event, people want to know what it is and what's causing it. Here, it's not that simple. There are a huge number of theories and names for these lights but no one has been proved right as of yet. Local Tausugs call the lights "Lansuk-Lansuk" or candles but have opposing beliefs about the appearance of the lights. Some think it brings bad luck or tragedy, while others look at it as a sign of good luck and fortune.

Many scientists have said that, similar to the Northern Lights, it's simply electrons and gases interacting in such a way where they release photons giving off light and creating the beautiful aurora that is seen from Earth. That said, these aren't the Northern Lights and there really is any number of possible events that could be causing it.

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Artificiële intelligentie: het einde van menselijke controle of niet?

Wat is artificiële intelligentie?

In een vorig artikel hadden we het al over digitale assistenten zoals Siri, Alexa en Cortana die bijvoorbeeld je digitale agenda bijhouden, je favoriete muziek afspelen en je leven op allerhande manieren efficiënter maken. Een digitale assistent is een voorbeeld van artificiële intelligentie, maar het gaat nog veel verder dan dat.

AI (artificiële intelligentie) is een enorm uitgebreid wetenschappelijk domein waarin onderzocht wordt hoe computers, machines en apparaten zelfstandig problemen kunnen oplossen. Met behulp van ingewikkelde algoritmes verwerken de systemen gigantische hoeveelheden data om daaruit te leren en zo menselijke intelligentie te imiteren.

Artificiële intelligentie leert de menselijke intelligentie te imiteren.

Zo’n zelflerend algoritme kan patronen herkennen, en door te leren uit de eigen fouten, levert het achteraf een beter resultaat. Op dit moment zijn de meeste intelligente systemen nog maar gespecialiseerd in één taak, en ze zijn zich niet bewust van de taken die ze uitvoeren. Zo kunnen ze bijvoorbeeld wel een kat herkennen op een foto, maar ze beseffen zelf niet wat een kat precies is. Daarvoor moet AI nog verder ontwikkeld worden.

Waarschijnlijk maak jij ook al gebruik van AI in je dagelijkse leven, bijvoorbeeld met:

• Waze, een navigatie-app die de reisgegevens van jou en andere gebruikers inzet om de snelste route te berekenen,
• Online chatbots, soms word je op een website te woord gestaan door een chatbot die antwoorden kan formuleren op vaak gestelde vragen,
• Facebook, de manier waarop en welke berichten je te zien krijgt in je nieuwsoverzicht, ja hoor, daar is ook AI mee gemoeid.

Bedreiging voor de mensheid?

AI evolueert aan een razendsnel tempo. Daarom waarschuwen sommige experts voor de risico’s die het met zich meebrengt.

Zo kan het voor een stuk de controle van de mens wegnemen als er steeds meer beslissingen automatisch genomen worden. Daarom vreest men dat we op langere termijn onze kennis en initiatiefzin kwijtraken.

Daarnaast zijn het vooral grote bedrijven en overheden die inzetten op AI. Wat als ze alle data die de systemen vergaren gaan misbruiken en inzetten als een politiek wapen? Of als een oorlogswapen? Legers over de hele wereld hebben de afgelopen jaren hun investeringen in autonome technologie aanzienlijk verhoogd. Daarmee zouden ze wel eens wapens kunnen ontwikkelen die zichzelf besturen en kille, onmenselijke beslissingen kunnen nemen.

Andere experts voorspellen dan weer dat artificiële intelligentie veel jobs zal overnemen en dat er hierdoor een chaos in de samenleving zal ontstaan.

Of verrijking voor mensheid?

• Gezondheidszorg

De overgrote meerderheid van experts in het domein zien de toekomst positiever in en verwachten grootse dingen van AI, vooral in de gezondheidszorg. Zo kan AI de levenskwaliteit en overlevingskansenverhogen van patiënten in de gezondheids- en ouderenzorg.

AI kan nu al beter dan 'echte' artsen longontstekingen detecteren en autisme voorspellen.Intelligente software kan bijvoorbeeld net zo goed als artsen symptomen interpreteren en diagnoses stellen bij bepaalde aandoeningen. Volgens het Amerikaanse wetenschappelijke tijdschrift IEEE Spectrum is AI vandaag zelfs al beter dan ‘echte’ artsen in staat om longontstekingen te diagnosticeren en autisme te voorspellen op basis van hersenscans.

Daarnaast kan AI je helpen om langer, veiliger en comfortabel thuis te blijven wonen. Slimme toestellen kunnen iemand verwittigen in noodsituaties, je eraan herinneren je medicijnen te nemen of zelfs detecteren wanneer je gevallen bent of wanneer je hartslag onregelmatig is.

• Ogen voor blinden en slechtzienden

Verschillende bedrijven ontwikkelen software die beelden omschrijft aan blinden en slechtzienden met spraaktechnologie. Zo maakt de app ‘Lookout’ van Google handig gebruik van artificiële intelligentie: het enige wat de gebruiker moet doen, is z’n smartphone richten naar iets dat ie wilt zien, en de app vertelt welke personen, tekst of objecten zich voor de camera bevinden. In de eerste fase heeft Google de app beperkt uitgebracht in de VS om hem te blijven verbeteren op basis van feedback de gebruikers. (Foto: Google Play)

Ook Facebook en Instagram werken aan een tool die de inhoud van beelden herkent, zodat ook blinden en slechtzienden sociale media kunnen gebruiken.

• Eerlijkere rechtspraak?

Juridische processen kunnen zeer traag en inefficiënt verlopen. Artificiële intelligentie zou hier een oplossing voor kunnen bieden en ook vandaag wordt het al ingezet. Zo berekenen algoritmes hoe groot de kans is dat iemand een misdrijf nog eens zal plegen en helpen ze rechters te beslissen of ze een borgtocht weigeren of aanvaarden.

Er zijn onvolkomenheden aan deze aanpak, omdat de software gevoed wordt door criminele feiten uit het verleden en op die manier zelf verbanden leert leggen die misschien niet altijd kloppen voor de persoon over wie een oordeel geveld moet worden. Toch kan AI ook een meerwaarde betekenen voor het gerecht: algoritmes worden bijvoorbeeld niet beïnvloed door een slechte nachtrust, aankomende verkiezingen of een voetbalwedstrijd die ze willen bijwonen, rechters wel.   

• Robocop

Politierobots waren een paar jaar geleden misschien nog sciencefiction, maar we zullen ze in de toekomst steeds vaker tegenkomen. Politierobots kunnen repetitief of saai werk overnemen, maar ze kunnen ook ingezet worden op gevaarlijke of moeilijk bereikbare plekken. Zo vergroten ze de veiligheid van zowel de burgers als de ‘echte’ politieagenten en vullen ze het groeiende tekort aan politieagenten op.

Verschillende politiekorpsen ter wereld maken al gebruik van robotica, en sinds dit jaar is de eerste robotagente in dienst in een korps in India. De KP-Bot, een vrouwelijke onderofficier, zit aan de balie in het politiebureau en begeleidt bezoekers naar de juiste afdelingen. Ze kan verbaal met mensen communiceren, klachten opnemen en informatie tonen op haar scherm.

Veel onderzoek nodig

Er zijn nog een heleboel andere toepassingen van artificiële intelligentie, maar het is duidelijk: AI biedt ons de mogelijkheid om enerzijds het werk efficiënter aan te pakken in verschillende bedrijfstakken en anderzijds om ons leven op allerhande manieren makkelijker te maken. Om de risico’s en knelpunten aan te pakken, is er nog veel onderzoek en tijd nodig om artificiële intelligentie een waardesysteem aan te leren en zelfs een gevoel voor empathie.

Om deze complexe technologie te ontwikkelen, en de systemen te controleren, onderhouden en blijven verbeteren, blijven er natuurlijk mensen nodig. AI zal sommige jobs overbodig maken, andere aanvullen, maar het zal er ook heel veel creëren.

Wij zijn alvast benieuwd wat de toekomst brengt! En jij?

Auteur: BEEGO

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Space station mold can survive 200 times more radiation than you or me

 BY ALEXANDRU MICU

Unlike our pinkish, frail frames, mold may be able to survive on the outside walls of our spaceships. Even when drenched in hard radiation.

Image via Pixabay.

The International Space Station isn’t as squeaky-clean as you’d expect: in fact, it turns out that our current home in space is plagued by mold. Every week, astronauts spend several hours scrubbing and cleaning its inside walls to prevent this mold from impacting their health.

However, new research suggests that efforts to completely de-mold the ISS may be in vain. Mold spores can survive even on the outside walls of the station and can bear radiation levels thousands of times harsher than ourselves. The results also point to mold as a useful ally on space travels, which could help supply the crew with biological products such as antibiotics or vitamins.

Stowaways, cosmic rays

“We now know that [fungal spores] resist radiation much more than we thought they would, to the point where we need to take them into consideration when we are cleaning spacecraft, inside and outside,” said Marta Cortesão, a microbiologist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, who presented the findings at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference.

“If we’re planning a long duration mission, we can plan on having these mold spores with us because probably they will survive the space travel.”

Mold spores can withstand extreme temperatures, ultraviolet light, chemicals and dry conditions. This resiliency makes them hard to kill. Spores of the two most common mold types on the ISS — Aspergillus and Pennicillium — can survive exposure to X-ray levels at over 200 times the deadly dose for humans, the team found. The findings show how important planetary protection protocols designed to prevent spacecraft from contaminating other planets with Earth-borne life are, and that we need to reconsider how much of a threat fungi spores are from this point of view.

The good news is that these two species aren’t generally harmful to humans. They can impact people with weakened immune systems in cases of extreme exposure (i.e. when inhaling a large quantity of these spores). However, Cortesão believes we can coax these molds to work in our favor. Fungi are more similar to us, genetically, than bacteria: they’re made up of complex cells with a structure resembling ours, and they come equipped with the biochemical machinery to synthesize polymers, food, vitamins, and other useful molecules astronauts may need on extended trips beyond Earth.

“Mold can be used to produce important things, compounds like antibiotics and vitamins. It’s not only bad, a human pathogen and a food spoiler, it also can be used to produce antibiotics or other things needed on long missions,” Cortesão said.

In the lab, Cortesão exposed fungal spores with ionizing radiation, high-frequency ultraviolet light, and heavy ions to see how they fared. Ionizing radiation kills cells by damaging their DNA and other essential cellular infrastructure but gets blocked by our planet’s magnetic field (the ISS also benefits from this shielding). Earth’s ozone layer protects us from high-energy UV down here on the surface. However, spacecraft going to the Moon or Mars would be exposed to both.

Cortesão reports that the spores survived exposure to X-rays up to 1000 gray, exposure to heavy ions at 500 gray and exposure to ultraviolet light up to 3000 joules per meter squared. Gray is a measure of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation (joules of radiation energy per kilogram of tissue). Half a gray is the threshold for radiation sickness in humans, while five gray is the lethal threshold.

A 180-day voyage (about as long as we’d need to get to Mars) is estimated to expose passengers to around 0.7 gray. In other words, it could cause some issues for the human crew, but not for the mold.

In the future, the team plans to expand its search to understand how the combination of radiation, vacuum, low temperature, and low gravity in space affects the fungi.

The findings ” Fungal Spore Resistance to Space Radiation” have been presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon 2019) on the 28th of June.

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Are We Really the Smartest Kid on the Cosmic Block?

It’s unlikely, and if we keep thinking otherwise, we might be missing some important clues about the existence of extraterrestrial life

By Abraham Loeb 

Credit: Alberto Ghizzi Panizza Getty Images

It is unclear how many intelligent civilizations have arisen in the Milky Way galaxy so far, but if some have, a pressing question comes to mind: were they or are they more intelligent than we are?

When reading the morning newspaper, it is difficult to avoid the thought that our own intelligence bar is not particularly high nor difficult to surpass. We fight among ourselves in “lose-lose” situations; we do not promote long-term solutions over short-term fixes; and we have been broadcasting our existence to the galaxy with radio waves for over a century without worrying whether about whether there are any predators or competitors in outer space. (If it’s the latter, they might have been ignoring us because we appear so incompetent.)

If other civilizations do exist, one key in becoming aware of them is whether we are intelligent enough to adequately interpret their signals or to identify a piece of their technology if it should appear in our solar system. One fact is clear: if we assign a zero prior probability for such evidence coming our way, as some scientists did in the case of ‘Oumuamua by invoking the principle “it’s never aliens,” we will indeed never find any. We will be like ostriches burying our heads in the sand.

In fact, this attitude may be one sign that our intelligence isn’t very impressive—that the human race as a whole suffers from the Dunning-Kruger effect, in which those with mediocre abilities insist that they’re unusually talented or smart.

How can our civilization mature? The same way kids do: by leaving home, going out into the neighborhood, meeting others and comparing notes with them. In other words, we can develop a balanced perspective on our current technological accomplishments by engaging in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Since our own technological development accelerates exponentially with an e-folding time of a few years, it is difficult to imagine what a much more advanced technology crafted by a civilization that had lived for a cosmic timescale—billions of such e-folding times—would look like.

As natural as this suggestion to search might seem, however it is evident that SETI faces a hostile mainstream culture in astronomy. The simple proposal to consider the possibility that ‘Oumumua is technological debrisas an explanation for its unusual properties, for example was met with controversy on social media.

True, SETI carries non-scientific baggage related to unrealistic aspects of the science fiction literature and unsubstantiated reports about unidentified flying objects (UFOs)—something SETI researchers sometimes refer to as the “giggle factor.” But at the same time, it would be a strategic mistake for observers to restrict the interpretation of data from their telescopes and not search for “other kids in our neighborhood” just because of this baggage. The existence of extraterrestrial intelligence has nothing to do with the credibility of science fiction stories of UFO reports. The problem with adopting this wrong attitude is that it delays scientific progress. Grant applicants are frequently asked to forecast the scientific discoveries they will make if their application is approved—but by bracketing the range of possibilities in advance, we might never discover the unexpected. Instead we cultivate a scientific culture that tends to replicate what we already know.

History teaches us that this is a mistake. The search for extrasolar planets encountered mainstream resistance in its early days. Observing proposals to search for low-hanging fruits, such as “hot Jupiters”—which are easiest to detect—were rejected by conservative committees of telescope-time allocation that argued that such planets should not exist in nature based on what we know about the solar system. But discovery forged ahead as some observers dared to challenge this prejudice, demonstrating that hot Jupiters are abundant. There was 40-year delay, however, given that the first theoretical proposal to do such a search was made by Otto Struve as early as in 1952.

Hence, an obvious obstacle to identifying our neighbors is the tendency to limit our imagination to what we already know. But this should not necessarily remain the case in the future. What we imagine for extraterrestrial life should not be solely defined by the natural chemical and geological processes that took place spontaneously on Earth. We could, for example produce synthetic life in the laboratory under a broader range of conditions than those with which we are familiar. Metaphorically, we could bake new kinds of cakes using the same ingredients, expanding the book of recipes handed to us by Mother Earth.

Realizing that life can exist under new conditions will improve our forecasts for where to search for it in space and how to interpret our findings, in just the same way that the laws of physics—which were first revealed in laboratory experiments—allowed astrophysicists to study the universe billions of light years away.

An important survival skill in the company of unknown neighbors is to listen before speaking out. Given our sloppy behavior in transmitting signals to outer space without restraint, we can only hope that we have not become the laughingstock of our galactic neighborhood by now. But even if we have, we can still get our act together and do better in the future. In order to know how to behave, we should find out first who is on our street by searching with our best telescopes for unusual electromagnetic flashes, industrial pollution of planetary atmospheres, artificial light or heat, artificial space debris or something completely unexpected.

Fortunately, we possess instruments that are sensitive enough to find out not only whether we have neighbors but also whether they have noticed us already.

The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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Ancient humans in east Asia were modifying their SKULL to turn their head into an egg-shape as a signal of wealth and status 12,000 years ago

• Scientists unearthed 25 skeletons dating back as far as 12,000 years ago 
• Eleven of the skulls had artificially elongated brain cases and flattened bones
• Researchers know that five belonged to adults with four men and one woman 
• Cranial modification, or skull stretching, was to signify group affiliation or social status, according to the researchers

By VICTORIA BELL FOR MAILONLINE

Excavation of ancient Chinese tombs have revealed the oldest human skulls which were intentionally reshaped as part of a ritual to show status and wealth.

At a site called Houtaomuga, scientists unearthed 25 skeletons dating to between 5,000 and 12,000 years ago and 11 had the egg-shaped craniums.  

The practice of skull elongation - to signify group affiliation or social status - originally was thought to date back between 9,000 and 10,000 years.

It was common in various tribal cultures around the world, such as the Mayans, North American natives and Aboriginal people.  

The team, from Texas A&M University in Dallas, say five of the skulls belonged to adults, including four men and one woman. 

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At a site called Houtaomuga, scientists unearthed 25 skeletons dating to between around 12,000 years ago and 5,000 years ago. Of those, 11 featured skulls with artificially elongated braincases and flattened bones at the front and back of the head

The ages of death for all 11 skulls is estimated to range from three years old right up to 40.

According to the study, skull reshaping was reserved for high-status individuals and certain families. 

The three-year-old with the elongated skull was buried with pieces of pottery and other artefacts, suggesting he was from a wealthy family.

The woman had a number of shell ornaments placed on her body, which indicates she was also of high status.

'It is too early to tell whether intentional cranial modification first emerged in East Asia and spread elsewhere or originated independently in different places,' paleoanthropologist Qian Wang.

Cranial modification, or skull stretching, occurred over a long stretch of time at the site than at any other archaeological dig the researchers said. 

Skull stretching it isn't a new phenomenon. The head moulding styles fell into three groups: flat, round or conical.

Artificially remodeled human skulls unearthed at a site in northeastern China include one of a man from around 12,000 years ago (left in this composite image) and another of a woman from about 5,000 years ago (right), the study found

According to the study, skull reshaping was reserved for high-status individuals and certain families. The three-year-old with the elongated skull was buried with pieces of pottery and other artefacts, suggesting he was from a wealthy family

Specific head modifications may have been used as signs of social status. 

Oddly shaped, intentionally stretched  skulls have been found in many parts of the world.

Permanent reshaping of a skull early in life, when cranial bones are soft, can be achieved by compressing an infant's head with one's hands. 

Binding the head with hard, flat surfaces such as boards or tightly wrapping the head in cloth similarly remodels immature cranial bones.   

Houtaomuga was excavated from 2011 to 2015 and the skulls found a the site add to a growing body of evidence of cranial reshaping from the site which stretches back 6,000 years, the study said.

A man's skeleton with a modified skull was found in a tomb dating to between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, based on styles of pottery found in the same sediment layer. 

Radiocarbon dating of the skeleton placed it at around 12,000 years old. Two sediment layers dating to between 6,300 and 5,000 years old contained 10 skeletons with reshaped skulls. 

The research was published in the Journal of Physical Anthropology. 

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The oldest human skulls that were intentionally elongated were excavated from ancient Chinese tombs at a site called Houtaomuga from 2011 to 2015 (pictures of the skulls can be seen here). Scientists uncovered 25 skeletons that date back from between 5,000 and 12,000 years ago. Of those 25 that were discovered, 11 of them had elongated egg-shaped skulls with five of those belonging to adults (four men and one woman). The age of death for the eleven skulls was between 3 years of age and 40 years of age. This is significant because it was previously believed that elongated skulls dated back only between 9,000 and 10,000 years ago.

The woman that was uncovered was buried with shell ornaments that were placed on her body which indicated that she was of high social status. Pieces of pottery and several other artifacts were buried with the three-year-old which also indicated that he belonged to a wealthy family. One of the men who were found was buried with pottery that date back between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago.

Copy of a statue showing an elongated skull

The ancients reshaped their skulls in order to demonstrate wealth and social status. It was in fact a quite common ritual in different tribal cultures from different parts of the world, such as Aboriginals, North American natives, and the Mayans. However, it is still uncertain where skull elongation originated from. “It is too early to tell whether intentional cranial modification first emerged in East Asia and spread elsewhere or originated independently in different places,” stated paleoanthropologist Qian Wang.

Cranial modification (or skull stretching) occurred for the longest period of time at the Houtaomuga site, more than any other archaeological site. There were three different types of skull stretching – flat, round, and conical.

(Not one of the elongated skulls found at Houtaomuga)

Skull reshaping was conducted in early childhood when the cranial bones of an infant’s head were soft and the skull was compressed by the hands of an adult. First, the child’s head would be wrapped in a tight cloth. The cloth would stay on the infant’s head beginning when the child was a month old and remained there for around six months. In order to flatten the skull, the head would be placed between two boards.

The research was published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology which can be read here.

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Brian Sharpless woke up in the middle of the night with the haunting feeling that he wasn’t alone. Slowly, his bedroom door creaked open, like a hand was lightly touching it. Moonlight from the hallway window streamed through the open door. He wondered if he was getting robbed. Then Sharpless discovered something even more alarming: He couldn’t move. He lay paralyzed as he watched a dark form with a long, serpentine neck creep through the doorway. “I saw a shadowy face that looked like a ninja mask with red eyes,” Sharpless told me. It stared at him, moving closer and closer, and Sharpless felt … relieved.

Sharpless is a researcher who studies sleep disorders, and as he watched this demonic creature slip into his bedroom, he realized he wasn’t in danger. He was, for the first time, experiencing sleep paralysis himself.

Normally while you’re dreaming, your body is paralyzed so that you don’t act out your dreams. But in sleep paralysis, you wake up while your body is still frozen. And even though you are fully conscious, looking around your real room, part of your brain is still dreaming. People often hallucinate creepy things — shadowy forms, monsters, and aliens — in their bedrooms.

I talked to Sharpless, associate professor at the American School of Professional Psychology and author of Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders, and Michael Breus, fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and founder of The Sleep Doctor website, to learn more about this mysterious disorder and what you should do if you find yourself in the middle of it.

How common is sleep paralysis?

As weird as waking up to hallucinations sounds, the experts I talked to say it’s more common than you might think. An estimated 8 percent of the worldwide population has experienced it, according to Sharpless, and that’s a conservative estimate. The number jumps to 28 percent for college students and 32 percent for psychiatric patients.

“I think really anybody could have it if the circumstances are right,” Sharpless said. Just being sleep deprived can make someone experience it. In fact, researchers induce sleep paralysis in labs all the time. They wait until a person has fallen asleep and gone into REM, then touch them lightly. Sometimes, that’s all it takes.

Even though many haven’t heard of the term “sleep paralysis,” people knew about the disorder long before there were sleep labs or even modern countries. Ancient Greeks called it “Pan ephialtes,” explained Sharpless, which means something like “when the god Pan leaps on your chest.” In fact, the word “nightmare” used to mean to what we now call sleep paralysis. In Middle English, nightmare referred to a “female spirit or monster” that would “settle on and produce a feeling of suffocation in a sleeping person or animal,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. (“Mare” used to mean “evil female monster.”) After all, people dealing with sleep paralysis often feel as if a monster — be it a Greek god, a female spirit, or an alien — is sitting on their chests. “Nightmare” only started meaning “bad dream” in the 20th century.

What causes sleep paralysis?

Sleep is, to drastically understate matters, really complicated. For one thing, the different states of sleep — light dreaming, deep dreaming, etc. — aren’t actually so separate. A lot can go on in the transition between being awake and being asleep.

“The more complicated you make a computer or the more complicated you make a car, the more things can go wrong,” Sharpless explained. In sleep paralysis, you wake up before your brain stem, which stops your muscles from moving while you’re asleep, realizes it’s awake. As a result, it continues sending neurotransmitters that tell your muscles to freeze. Scientists still don’t know why this happens.

How do these hallucinations work?

“The hallucinations seem to happen in stages,” explained Sharpless. First, you wake up with the sense that you’re not alone. “It’s kind of like when you’re walking down a lonely street at night,” Sharpless continued. “You wake up, your eyes open, and you feel this uneasy feeling.”

As your brain tries to make sense of what’s going on, it creates something to explain why you feel so uneasy. It might whip up a menacing figure to watch you, often one that fits into your worldview.

“If you’re in 21st century America, you might see an extraterrestrial,” Sharpless said. “If you were in 15th century France, you might see a witch or a demon.”

It doesn’t stop at seeing imaginary things. You can feel them too. Sharpless says that, just as the brain can create imaginary sights and sounds, it can create imaginary physical sensations, too. People say that the monster in their room sits on them, and they can sense the pressure on their chest. Sharpless notes that the anxiety from seeing monsters may create or add to this feeling, since anxiety can cause chest pain. Sometimes, people experiencing sleep paralysis can’t breathe for a few seconds. In really scary cases, people feel like something is attacking or sexually assaulting them.

Are some people more likely to have sleep paralysis than others?

Sharpless says that anyone who easily dissociates — that is, goes into a kind of trance where they lose awareness of the world around them — may be more likely to have sleep paralysis. That might conjure images of prophets or fortunetellers, but dissociation is usually pretty mundane. If you drive along a highway and you zone out, then come to after a couple miles, you’re dissociating. People who do so more often might be more likely to develop sleep paralysis.

How do you stop sleep paralysis when it happens to you?

Nobody actually knows how to stop sleep paralysis, but there are ways to make it less scary. Simply knowing what’s going on can help. During Sharpless’s own sleep-paralysis episode, just knowing he was hallucinating made “the demonic thing with the giraffe neck” seem silly rather than scary, he explained.

“Either look at it dismissively, ignore it, or find humor in it,” he suggested. “You might say to yourself, ‘“Am I really seeing a demon in the bedroom now? Really?’” You can also try and focus on a body part or reassure yourself that what you’re seeing isn’t real. If your brain is creating an imaginary monster, making your brain pay attention to something else can cause the imaginary thing to cease to exist, or at least not be so scary. Sharpless says some of his patients have tried these methods and reported that they help, as they takes focus off of the monsters.

Is sleep paralysis harmful to your health? Can you die from it? 

“Other than that it scares the crap out of you, it’s not dangerous,” Breus told me. Still, your reaction to sleep paralysis could cause problems. Some people who get recurring sleep paralysis take stimulants at night or try other methods to stay awake, which can be pretty unhealthy. In one 19th-century case, a man paid his manservant to watch him all night in order to wake him up if he got sleep paralysis. (Spoiler: This did not help him sleep.)

And then of course, if you don’t know what’s going on, you could believe all sorts of creepy things when you’re awake. You might think you’re being regularly attacked by demons or kidnapped by aliens. “I’ve had people say to me, ‘the Devil possessed me,’” Breus said.

These sorts of beliefs can really strain your relationships with friends and family. “Some people think they’re going crazy,” said Sharpless. It’s especially tough on people who already have psychosis; they have an even more difficult time distinguishing between reality and hallucination.

How do you treat sleep paralysis?

If you only get sleep paralysis occasionally, you don’t need to treat it. But some people get it every day, or even a few times a night. They may choose to go on antidepressants to help them sleep better. Working on underlying issues like anxiety can help too.

How do you prevent sleep paralysis?

There are some simple things you can do. Sleeping on your side makes sleep paralysis less likely. Avoiding alcohol improves matters since alcohol interferes with sleep. Most importantly, getting regular, quality sleep is the best way to avoid sleep paralysis. Sharpless, for instance, got his moment of sleep paralysis when he was jetlagged from giving a presentation in England on, coincidentally, sleep paralysis.

“Now I’m wondering if I’m going to get sleep paralysis or something,” I told Sharpless after we’d been talking about the disorder long enough to make me nervous.

“You just might,” he said playfully. “They used to talk about it being contagious in ancient Rome, but we don’t have any good data on that.”

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Pilot films two circular objects flying over Grand Canyon sparking UFO conspiracy meltdown

A PILOT captured two UFOs flying in tandem over the Grand Canyon, conspiracy theorists have claimed.

By Katy Gill 

The footage begins by showing a panoramic view of the Grand Canyon National Park, in Arizona, US.

Once it reaches the far left-hand side, two objects come into view.

They seem to be in formation and in tandem as they make their way over the famous site.

Conspiracy YouTuber The Hidden Underbelly later shared the clip, captioning it: “Two UFOs captured lying in tandem over the Grand Canyon in Arizona.”

Thousands have since flooded in to watch the clip.

One person said: “Alien ships!”

Another added: “That’s awesome.”

A third, however, shared her own similar experience at the location.

She said: “I was watching my latest vlog (also in Arizona) and caught something that looked like it was cigar-shaped too.”

It is not the first time bizarre sightings have been spotted.

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Over 120,000 alien hunters are planning to ‘storm Area 51’ to discover the truth

Jeff Parsons

Ancient aliens TV guy says he knows when the extraterrestrials are coming back

picture: Getty

Over 120,000 people have pledged to meet up and ‘storm Area 51’ in the Nevada desert to try and find evidence of alien contact.

The audacious plan is set for September 20, 2019 at 3am and is being organised through Facebook. Those taking part will meet at the Area 51 Alien Center in Amargosa Valley, Nevada and then proceed to Area 51 – a classified remote part of the US Air Force’s Edwards Air Force base.

Now, far be it from us to be cynical of such a plan, but the fact the Facebook group proposing the event is called ‘S***posting cause im in shambles’ gives us some cause for concern.

Nevertheless, at the time of writing, 129,000 people have indicated they’ll be taking part in ‘Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All Of Us’ and a further 163,000 have said they are interested.

Clearly not ones to sweat the finer details of such a daring attempt, the group’s organisers have outlined the approach thus:

‘If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.’

Naruto running is a meme inspired by an anime character called Naruto Uzumaki who has a distinctive running style.

The attempt to storm Area 51 is being organised on Facebook

(Metro)

Dodging bullets is something that needs to be considered because last time someone tried to speed past the site, he was shot. In January a man carrying an unidentified cylindrical object was shot by the local sheriff’s office and Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) officers after attempting to drive into the site.

Whether or not the response will be the same when thousands of alien enthusiasts turn up to try and gain access remains to be seen.

The Guard Gate at Area 51 near Rachel, Nevada

(Photo by Barry King/WireImage)

However, given the nature of the group, we’re going to chalk this one up to internet trolling on a grand scale rather than any legitimate attempt to gain access to the mysterious Area 51.

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Dutch astronomer captures rare photographs of mysterious US Air Force X-37B space plane

• Ralf Vandebergh, an astrophotographer and ardent skywatcher in the Netherlands, said he had been trying to spot the X-37B space plane for months
• He finally spotted it in May but wasn't able to get photos of it until last week
• The X-37B is currently on its 667th day of its fifth flight mission, called OTV-5 
• Officials have revealed few details about the OTV-5 mission but there has been a suggestion it could be part of a push for a US Space Force 

By MEGAN SHEETS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

A Dutch astronomer captured rare photographs of the US Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane after searching for it for months.  

Ralf Vandebergh, an astrophotographer and ardent skywatcher in the Netherlands, said he had been trying to spot the robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in May. 

It wasn't until last week that he was able to take photographs of the elusive X-37B as it passed overhead on June 30 and July 2.  

'It is really a small object, even at only 300 kilometers [186 miles] altitude, so don't expect the detail level of ground-based images of the real space shuttle,' Vandebergh said of the vehicle, according to Live Science. 

He said he was impressed by the level of detail he was able to capture on the spacecraft, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), which looks like a miniature version of NASA's retired space shuttle.  

'We can recognize a bit of the nose, payload bay and tail of this mini-shuttle, with even a sign of some smaller detail,' Vandebergh said.

He was shooting with a 10-inch F/4,8 aperture Newtonian telescope and an Astrolumina ALccd 5L-11 mono CMOS camera after having tracked the X-37B manually with a 6×30 finderscope. 

Dutch astronomer Ralf Vandebergh captured rare photographs of the US Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane last week after searching for it for months

The unmanned plane is currently on its 667th day of its fifth flight mission, called OTV-5. 

It launched from one of Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 7, 2017. 

Officials have revealed few details about the OTV-5 mission but there has been a suggestion it could be part of a push for a US Space Force. 

The space plane is 29 feet long, 9.6 feet tall and weighs around 11,000 lbs. 

It is orbiting at around 200 miles high and is powered by solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.  

Little is known about what it is carrying but on board OTV-5's payload is a US thermal spreader which will test the longevity of electronics and heat pipes in the space environment. 

The X-37B is currently on its 667th day of its fifth flight mission, called OTV-5. The artist rendition above shows what the unmanned plane might look like orbiting the earth

Known as the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-II, it was developed by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), to test experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long-duration stints in the space environment.

According to the AFRL, the payload’s three primary science objectives are to measure the initial on-orbit thermal performance, to measure long-duration thermal performance and to assess any lifetime degradation

In June last year, President Donald Trump announced that he is directing the Pentagon to a new Space Force as an independent service branch aimed at ensuring American dominance in space.

The president framed space as a national security issue, saying he does not want 'China and Russia and other countries leading us'.

One expert has suggested that this aircraft could already be part of an early US Space Force.

'Ironically, the X-37B is exactly the type of program — toward giving the U.S. flexibility of operations in space — that seems to be prompting the current push for a Space Force, yet are already underway,' said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, Space.com reported.

Four previous X-37B missions have been launched by United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets. 

Each time the unmanned space plane has carried a mystery payload on long-duration flights in Earth orbit.    

WHAT IS THE X-37B SPACE PLANE?

The U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane looks similar to Nasa's space shuttle but is much smaller. 

The space plane is 29 feet (8.8 metres) long, 9.6 feet (2.9 metres) tall and weighs around 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms).

It is orbiting at around 200 miles (320 kilometres) high. 

The U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane looks similar to Nasa's space shuttle but is much smaller. The space plane is 29 feet (8.8 metres) long, 9.6 feet (2.9 metres) tall and weighs around 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) 

Officials have revealed few details about the OTV-5 mission (the aircraft's fifth) but according to the Air Force, one on board OTV-5 payload is US thermal spreader which will test the longevity of electronics and heat pipes in the space environment.

The craft is powered by solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.

Four previous X-37B missions have been launched by United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets. 

Each time the unmanned space plane has carried a mystery payload on long-duration flights in Earth orbit.   

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“This was the formal weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. More skill than simple sight was required for its use. An elegant weapon. It was a symbol as well. Anyone can use a blaster or a fusioncutter—but to use a lightsaber well was a mark of someone a cut above the ordinary.”
―Obi-Wan Kenobi

It’s the dream of every Jedi wannabe, especially those who played with the plastic flashlight versions and realized just how far off into the future the real thing must be. Take hope, young Skywalkers … that day may be coming sooner than you think. Physicists have discovered a new and easy way to make hybrid light particles that behave more like matter. Can the mechanism fit in a light sword handle and how many batteries will it need?

“First, we show that periodically modulating an excited state of rubidium splits its spectral weight to generate new lines—beyond those that are ordinarily characteristic of the atom—separated by multiples of the modulation frequency. Second, we use this capability to simultaneously generate spectral lines that are resonant with two chosen spatial modes of a non-degenerate optical cavity, enabling what we name ‘Floquet polaritons’ to exist in both modes. Because both spectral lines correspond to the same Floquet-engineered atomic state, adding a single-frequency field is sufficient to couple both modes to a Rydberg excitation. We demonstrate that the resulting polaritons interact strongly in both cavity modes simultaneously. The production of Floquet polaritons provides a promising new route to the realization of ordered states of strongly correlated photons, including crystals and topological fluids, as well as quantum information technologies such as multimode photon-by-photon switching.”

There’s your blueprint, junior Jedis – courtesy of physicists at the University of Chicago who published details of their research this week in the journal Nature. ‘Floquet’ sounds like a bunch of wet flowers but it’s a branch of differential equations. ‘Polariton’ sounds like an arctic movie monster but it’s actually a “quasiparticle resulting from the strong coupling of photons with a dipole-carrying excitation.” That simple description is explained in greater detail by the scientific blog Mapping Ignorance (thanks for rubbing our noses in it) with a video that helps non-physicists wrap their heads around the idea of an excited hybrid light particle which acts like it has mass and can cut through the limbs of the Sith. Or can it?

“Floquet polaritons are full of surprises; we’re still continuing to understand them better. Our next order of business, though, will be to use these colliding photons to make topological ‘fluids’ of light. It is a tremendously exciting time.”

Study co-author Logan Clark explained in a press release how others had first created polaritons as a bi-product in other quantum experiments but his team was the first to make them intentionally by making a simple change to the shaking technique used to excite them. Unfortunately, he doesn’t see these new easy polaritons as a solid form of light for lightsabers but rather as a kind of fluid. Light-supersoakers? Clark might go for that idea.

“It turns out shaking things is not only a lot of fun, but can lead to some really fascinating science.”

Can? Do or not do, junior Jedi. There is no “can.”

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Strange UK UFO Emits Light and Sound!

Very strange UFO in the skies over the United Kingdom recently posted on Youtube on July 6th.  Listen to the strange sounds it makes when the light flashes near the beginning of the video.  It’s not thunder that’s for sure!   Never seen anything like this one before.

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George Knapp: The Big Cover up of Real Giants Is Continuing Right Now

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NASA Is Sending a Life-Hunting Drone to Saturn's Huge Moon Titan

By Mike Wall 

Dragonfly will launch in 2026, if all goes according to plan.

An artist's depiction of the Dragonfly spacecraft on the surface of Titan.

(Image: © Johns Hopkins APL)

NASA is going to Titan.

The space agency announced today (June 27) that the next mission in its New Frontiers line of medium-cost missions will be Dragonfly, a rotorcraft designed to ply the skies of the huge, hazy and potentially life-hosting Saturn moon.

If all goes according to plan, Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and land on Titan eight years later, NASA officials said. The probe will then spend at least 2.5 years cruising around the 3,200-mile-wide (5,150 kilometers) moon, making two dozen flights that cover a total of about 110 miles (180 km).

• Related: Amazing Photos: Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon

The 10-foot-long (3 meters) Dragonfly will gather a variety of data at each of its stops. Such work will help scientists learn more about Titan, the only solar system body other than Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface. 

Titan's surface lakes, rivers and seas aren't composed of water, however: The frigid moon's climate system is based on hydrocarbons, in particular methane and ethane.

The mission is geared toward characterizing Titan's chemistry in detail. Complex organic molecules are known to swirl in the moon's thick, nitrogen-dominated atmosphere, and some scientists think its hydrocarbon seas could host exotic forms of life.

Titan also hosts another potentially habitable environment — a buried ocean of liquid water, which sloshes beneath the moon's icy crust.

Dragonfly could conceivably find evidence of Titan life, if the moon is indeed inhabited. And, because Titan is very similar to the early Earth, the mission's observations may shed light on the chemical processes that helped life get going on our planet, NASA officials said.

"Titan is unlike any other place in the solar system, and Dragonfly is like no other mission," Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. 

"It's remarkable to think of this rotorcraft flying miles and miles across the organic sand dunes of Saturn's largest moon, exploring the processes that shape this extraordinary environment," he added. "Dragonfly will visit a world filled with a wide variety of organic compounds, which are the building blocks of life and could teach us about the origin of life itself."

Dragonfly will land among Titan's dunes, then make its way toward its final destination, the 50-mile-wide (80 km) Selk Crater. Selk is a particularly good place to study prebiotic chemistry and look for signs of life, NASA officials said. That's because the three ingredients necessary for life as we know it — liquid water, organic molecules and energy — mixed during the impact that created the crater. (Titan's bedrock is water ice.)

Dragonfly will be nuclear powered, like NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, the New Horizons Pluto probe and many other deep-space explorers. 

Dragonfly will be the fourth mission in the New Frontiers program, following New Horizons, the Juno probe to Jupiter and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission. Dragonfly's development costs are capped at $850 million, though the mission's total price tag, including launch, will probably top $1 billion.

The other finalist for the mid-2020s New Frontiers launch slot was the Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission, which proposed snagging bits of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — the same icy wanderer studied up close by Europe's Rosetta mission.

Dragonfly won't be the first craft to land on Titan. That honor belongs to Europe's Huygens probe, which touched down on the moon in January 2005. Huygens traveled to the Saturn system with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited the ringed planet from mid-2004 through September 2017.

• Landing on Titan: Pictures from Huygens Probe on Saturn Moon
• The Rings and Moons of Saturn (Photos)
• In Photos: Cassini Mission Ends with Epic Dive into Saturn

Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.

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Our Crazy Relationship with the Subject of UFO's

Over the last few months, I have been sent a steady stream of emails from people all over the United States telling me that they had a UFO sighting. I have had reports of silver oval crafts , groups of bright lights moving at incredible speeds and Orbs, mostly red Orbs.

People continue to see strange things in our sky daily all over this planet. You would think by now we would know what they are seeing and from where these things originate. The truth is we are exactly where we were now from where we were years ago when I first started to write and interview people about this subject.

The people who contact me when they have seen something that they realized was not like anything they had ever seen before all hold one thing in common. Every single person is stunned and wants me to have an OMG reaction to the fact they saw something considered unknown or unexplained.

They also think that now that they saw something that it should be front page news. The fact that people have been reporting UFO’s , and having encounters with these unknowns from the start of time seems to  be completely lost to people who have a sighting with their own eyes. It is clear to me that our society is so backwards and lacking in  any knowledge about this subject that they are stunned when they see one with their very  own eyes .

 They learn very quickly what it is like to be on the other side of the coin and now the one looking for acknowledgement that they did see something that was strange and unexplained, They also know what it is like to look  for protection and understanding to instead be laughed at  and told  it was a plane and turn away from them when they know they had just seen a damn UFO. Funny how we act towards one another with this subject.

When they contact me I tell them they are now part of  the club of millions worldwide who also have seen a UFO and that they now have the knowledge that they exist.

I often get back emails wanting me to be more stunned or shocked or shout in a hysteria that they actually did see a real object in the sky and do not understand why I do not do something. I explain that I have seen UFO’s and I know that they exist and have spoken to many people who also have seen UFO’s . It is not earth shattering news to me that yet another human looked up to find something they did not recognise looking back down at them.

I ask the people that have this type of reaction why they are so shocked that they finally saw something? The answer always is that they really did not think they existed.

I have to wonder how so many can still be walking around this planet when the internet, TV and media, in general, is covered with videos, stories and photos of UFO’s from all over the world? The fact we still are so reluctant to understand this is part of our reality on earth for me is actually frightening.

How is it we are so blinded and kept controlled by something so huge and seen by so many?

How is it that the people do not demand answers and are far happier to stay on a UFO rat-wheel of ignorance never wanting any answers? We have  millions reporting seeing a strange object. Our reaction is to say wow, maybe look at the photo or video and then just  yawn and walk away. Is it me or are we a bit insane not want to know more? Honestly, what the hell is wrong with us?

I often have people ask me where is the official place to report a UFO sighting. They seem to think there is some government agency or organisation that is seriously dealing with this issue. I think at times that society thinks that somewhere someone who knows what they are doing is taking care of all of this UFO stuff so they do not have to worry about it.  Well gang, sorry to be the one to tell you, but when it comes to UFO’s it is everyone for themselves as you are on your own with this issue.

Other nations have department’s or government agencies that do collect and keep data on the UFO issue in their country but we here in America are NOT one of them. If you call the police you do not get anywhere. If you call the military you get nothing.  We are set up to shut up and shut down people who try to discuss what they are seeing. Using ridicule and laughter has worked for years to silence the public on this subject and obviously continues to work as we are still locked on this rat-wheel of stupidity with this ever growing issue of UFO’s flying all over our country and nothing being done or explained or addressing the problem at all.

I had a man complain to me that he placed his sighting on MUFON but nothing happened. I asked him what he wanted to happen? He thought a big truck with white lab coat researchers would show up at his location to investigate his encounter.

I hated to be the one to tell him MUFON is a privately owned website, no hangers or buildings involved and the guy who owns it , well who knows what he does with the reports. It is not connected to any agency or government or military in any way so hs should stop waiting for any official reaction from them.

It is not the guy who owns MUFON or the TV shows making a fast buck off of our curiosity or the media or the thousands of internet pages that talk about this subject it is us, you and me to blame for our rat-wheel approach to this serious issue that needs to be addressed.

Why do we want to look at the subject as we do? Why do we treat is as  a scary movie but not want to digest the fact that these things are real and flying over our heads often? We may be in deep trouble and real danger yet we refuse to look up or ask why these objects are watching us. I fear them and I know you should too. Why are they here? What do they want? Who are they? Are they ours? Good God I think we need to know.

 Why is it we will see a UFO and still just go about our business as usual? Why do we just want to NOT KNOWN what the hell these things are and why do they fly around watching us?  I will not even address the fact that they take some of us. The question has to be what is wrong with all of us. We can sit and listen to an hour-long radio show on this subject, yawn and go to bed and give no thought at all to the fact that maybe we all need to know what is going on with these things. It is almost insane in my thinking that we are content to do nothing at all about asking questions of those who should have the answers for us. We should in mass be demanding our government and military tell us what these objects are and if we need to fear them. I want to know , I really am fearful and want to know, don’t you?

For now, I will watch as we run round and round on a large UFO rat- wheel of blissful ignorance refusing to get past the point of chatting about the issue and stay locked in the dangerous dark ages of  looking away , ignoring or denying  what and who  it  is that is flying our skies and watching us as we ignore it all in ignorance bliss. Maybe we are hypnotised or brainwashed or drugged to be so complacent about this serious subject, I just do not know  I will pray for us all.

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This video shows what I feel is a real sighitng of something unexplained. I it was seen close to vhere I live in Sept 2016.

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Did a Flying Rectangle shoot down a Nuclear Ballistic Missile aimed at Hawaii?

On July 3, 2019, a photo was released of a flying rectangle shaped UFO near the island of Maui that was taken over a year earlier, and only recently discovered by the photographer. What is remarkable about the photo is that it shows what appears to be a craft very similar to one photographed near MacDill Air Force base in October 2017, which was revealed by my Florida source, JP, to be a weapons platform used by U.S. Air Force Special Operations.

The similarity of the craft seen in the respective photos raises the intriguing possibility that the flying rectangle photographed near Maui may have been involved in the shooting down of a nuclear ballistic missile aimed at Hawaii on January 13, 2018, widely thought to have been a false missile alert.

First, here is the photo of the Maui rectangle along with an insert showing a close-up.

According to the photographer:

While driving up mount haleakala in maui i took this picture and didnt notice anything until weeks later when i was going over my vacation photos. the object was not seen live. the object was in only one frame, nothing before or after. unkown altitude but as you can see it was above the cloud line [sic].

The photo was taken on May 24, 2018, but the flying rectangle only discovered and reported by the photographer on July 3, 2019, to MUFON.

Now here is some important background for understanding the deep significance behind the 2018 Maui rectangle UFO sighting in terms of photos previously sent to me by JP.

I have known JP since 2008, and he has regularly given me updates on his multiple contact experiences with human looking extraterrestrials, along with his experiences with covert Air Force operatives who have abducted and interrogated him at classified facilities or in their antigravity spacecraft. My evaluation of him is that he is a reliable and credible source, and I have created a webpage with my articles about the photos he regularly sends me.

In October 2017, JP sent me a series of photos of a rectangle shaped UFO that he witnessed near MacDill Air Force Base, home of US Special Operations Command. He took the photos after being prompted to do so by two mysterious men he believes were covert Air Force operatives.

One set of nine photos taken on October 19, 2017, shows a rectangle shaped UFO flying together with a triangle shaped craft.

 In another set of five photos taken on October 23, 2017, JP witnessed a rectangle UFO flying alone near MacDill. Both incidents involved covert operatives encouraging JP to take the photos. What follows is a short video featuring the October 23 photos and with some close-ups.

In one of the October 2017 incidents, JP recalls having been taken aboard the flying rectangle where he saw personnel wearing the patches of Air Force Special Operations.  He says that during his visit to the flying rectangle, he was in a corridor where he could peer outside and saw many instrument panels. He later speculated that these were part the craft’s weapons control system.

JP’s experience matched other insider accounts that flying rectangles are heavily armed weapons platforms used by a secret space program run by the Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. Corey Goode, a prominent Secret Space Program insider, had the following to say about the weapons systems of flying rectangles:

I think similar platforms or UFOs have been reported in the 80s and 90s as they were first building out of these platforms that have modular weapons and personnel delivery systems or configurations. They were built up on that superstructure type frame a long time ago and they been on improved upon since but these are pretty old technologies both the TR 3B and the square platform.

JP recalled his experience aboard the rectangle craft only after he photographed it as a result of being prompted by the two Air Force covert operatives. After being prompted and taking the photos, he then remembered being just taken aboard the craft as his head gradually cleared from a daze after receiving an injection during the abduction.

In my earlier analysis of JP’s photos and his eyewitness testimony, I concluded that the flying rectangle is a weapons platform used by Air Force Special Operations that can be deployed in the upper atmosphere and in Earth orbit.

The similarity between the flying rectangles photographed by JP in October 2017, with the UFO photographed near Maui on May 24, 2018, is remarkable. Here is a side by side comparison of the Maui photo with what was photographed by JP on October 19 and 23.

What lends great significance to the Maui photo is that it was taken four months after the alleged “false ballistic missile alert” for Hawaii issued on January 13, 2018.

I covered the alleged false missile alert in a series of online articles (see here, here & here), and more recently in an extensive chapter in my 2019 book, the U.S. Air Force Secret Space Program: Shifting Extraterrestrial Alliances and Space Force.

Remarkably, the military intelligence group QAnon, appeared to have given a warning of an impending false flag attack involving a “Defcon 1″ scenario in a series of posts beginning on January 7, 2018, only six days before the Hawaii alert.

What my research revealed was that the ballistic missile alert was not a false alarm at all, but was instead a false flag attack intended to start World War III by framing North Korea. What stopped the false flag attack was the US Air Force Secret Space Program (SSP), which had recently undergone a dramatic change in attitude, policies, and leadership, the genesis of which I discuss in great detail in my 2019 book.

There were multiple witnesses of something being shot down on the morning of January 13, 2018, near Maui. The US Coast Guard subsequently spent the next week scouring the ocean for debris of what had been shot down as Maui boat captains have confidentially reported to me and others.

These witness reports, along with the testimonies of multiple whistleblowers all support the conclusion that a nuclear ballistic missile was shot down by White Hats within the US military opposed to a Deep State effort to covertly start another world war.

The false flag attack occurred in January 2018, and four months later a flying rectangle is accidentally photographed near the island of Maui. Given the photos and testimony of JP, it appears that a flying rectangle used as a weapons platform by Air Force Special Operations was being secretly deployed near the Hawaiian islands during the critical months after the attack. If so, it may have been also directly involved in neutralizing the January 13 false flag attack on Hawaii.

Synchronistically, a day after the release of the Maui flying rectangle photo, President Donald Trump declared at the July 4 Independence Day celebration that Space Force was soon to be created as the sixth branch of the US military.

It is highly likely that soon after the formal inauguration of Space Force, and its incorporation of classified space units manned by Air Force Special Operations, that some of its secret arsenal of antigravity vehicles will be revealed to the general public.

In a future July 4 celebration, perhaps as early 2020, flying rectangles may be among the highlights of the air show as they drop down from space directly over the Washington Mall. Included among the flying rectangle craft may be the one that was photographed near Maui in 2018, and which may have also been involved in shooting down a ballistic nuclear missile attack on Hawaii that was intended to start World War III.

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Further Reading

• Covert Disclosure of Antigravity Rectangle Weapons Platforms by USAF Special Operations
• Covert Disclosure of Antigravity Craft near MacDill AFB
• QAnon Exposes Hawaii False Flag Missile Attack & Points to Secret Space Program Intervention
• Do We Need Space Force to Protect us from Space Pirates?
• Trump’s Plan for US Space Force challenges Deep State Secrecy
• Trump call for Space Force a Step towards Disclosure of USAF Secret Space Program
• New Book! US Air Force Secret Space Program – Shifting ET Alliances & Space Force

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Fast Radio Burst Pinpointed to Distant Galaxy

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most enigmatic and powerful events in the cosmos. Around 80 of these events—intensely bright millisecond-long bursts of radio waves coming from beyond our galaxy—have been witnessed so far, but their causes remain unknown.

 

Owens Valley Radio Observatory

Credit: Caltech/OVRO/G. Hallinan

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Abduction- Questions and Answers by Real TIme Abductees

I had an interesting conversation recently concerning my article about  two sisters and their difficulties over a lifetime of lost time abduction encounters.

The conversation was based on the fact that not only have I come to the conclusion that writing about  real time abductions was a waste of  my time and the Real Time Abductees time too.

 I explained that writing about this group of   unusual  people and their experiences did not seem to interest the public or any other group or researchers at all. The fact the real time abductees could have been a wealth of data on the subject of abduction and lost time did not seem to be of interest to anyone in any form.

I am sure a great deal of it was due to the fact that my articles about their experiences were told as they related it which was in a logical truthful fashion. My articles were not filled with movie script type detailed colorful descriptions of amazing aliens and their crafts. I do not write horror or fantasy I write what really goes on which I feel is just too boring and black and white for the paranormal reader.

 Long ago the lines between good entertainment for fun and real research became so distorted in the subjects we consider unknown that truth , fiction, fraud and research became so convoluted that all real answers to real questions have been lost, Trying to work in this area using fact or truth without the color became impossible  or so confused that it is at the  point of being  impossible.

Real-time abduction is events that occur to people who are fully awake and alert who are going about the business of their normal daily routines who are suddenly abducted against their will.

These people suffer lost time and find they are returned often to a different place from where they were taken . They are ill , dazed and at times hurt. They can recall when the event starts but have little memory of what happens to them before they find themselves waking hours later.

 Some of the abductees have flashed memories of what took place during their abductions. Some return with knowledge or skills or thoughts they did not have before they were taken. Many suffer these events more than once during their life. All are somehow changed during the experience.

During my years of writing about these fascinating people, I promised them that I would answer without embellishment any questions giving the most truthful answers I could to the questions asked.

 It took courage for the abductees to allow me to write about them or to   questions concerning their experiences.  The fact that  not one person or group or organization ever wanted any information concerning their ordeals with these strange abductions  made these people recoil from reaching out and closed the door at my attempts at finding answers.

 Finally, after all of  these years, we have had someone ask a few questions about their abduction events. After a conversation with the abductees, it was decided that I could answer the handful of questions before I end my adventure of writing about this group of people I refer to as the Real Time Abductees.

Adding salt to the wound of rejection for the abductees is the fact that the questions were not even asked directly to me or them but came by way of an email of a third party who was corresponding with the  person who finally did ask a few questions about the abductees encounters. I found the questions to be thoughtful and decided as my last article on the subject of Real-Time Abduction to answer these questions, I know that there is a wealth of data being lost with these people however, I have tried my best to find an audience or place that could benefit and learn from them and have found only silence and disinterest in what they have to say or warn us about concerning their abduction encounters,

Below are the questions with the answers following each question:

Question :  What occurred during the abductions? 

Answer:  Nothing during this abduction of  the two sisters case as it was stopped ,however, during the battle to stop it both women were hurt as the article about the two sisters  explains. 
 Other abductees do have flash memories of what took place including the recall of multiple beings surrounding the abductee or bright lights making it difficult to see what is going on around them.

 The abductees I refer to as the Real Time Abductees have no clear memory of being examined or touched. All of the abductees agree that they have had their memory wiped clean of the events before they are returned. Some flashes of what took place do remain in a few of the abductees . Others feel their abductors wiped too much memory taking with it parts of their lifetime  memories  that they can no longer remember.

 Question :  What are the lingering health problems? 
Answer: 
This is a very lengthy list that includes many different problems for different people. I will give the overall problems they all share. 

The spine , neck and skeleton of the abductees all have been altered leaving them with issues from compression to actual breaks. Many have had large spurs grow in odd places that burrow into the surrounding muscle leaving them in constant pain Almost all have had to seek long-term medical help to deal with some form of spinal and bone issues. It has been common for an abductee to be told that they show that bones they never broke now show clear signs upon being x-rayed of having been broken.

There are cases when  a shoulder or large bone shows it was without question broken and  has healed poorly.

 Back fractures also are commonly found. One of the abductees was asked when they had the accident as both a bad shoulder and broken back were found that had healed in the past was found when they had  X-rays taken for a different health issue. Of course, the abductee never had an accident or broken bones that they knew of until X-rayed  This is a scenario that plays out often with abduction victims.

All of the abductees suffer from a flu-like sickness with a red raised rash on their back or chest that lasts for about two weeks after an abduction.  It can flare up at will during their lifetime for a few years after an abduction,

All the abductees have problems with light and cannot tolerate bright sun or bright lights of any kind including fluorescent lighting. All of the abductees require very dark sunglasses and sit in shaded areas as the bright sun both blinds them and causes their eyes to hurt.

Many of the abductees suffer from very large red rashes that come and go which are uncontrollable and painful. One abductee has a growing reptile like scale rash spreading across her body that does not respond to any treatment.

The abductees have issues that would be presented in those who have had problems with their adrenal , pituitary and thyroid functions. 

This is just a partial list of the problems they deal with, On the other side of the coin the abductees all have had their IQ increase and have been able to increase their skill sets with ease. 

The strangest thing they all share and cannot explain is that they return with new knowledge about something  they did not have before the abduction or with thoughts or visions of what will happen in the future that always prove to be true.


Question: What did the abductors look like?

Answer:
Since the abductees memory is always wiped or cleaned before they are returned it is very hard to  answer this question. The main combined agreed description by the abductees is  that their abductors are built or shown in a human form with one head , two arms and two legs. Some feel they are hairless with light skin while others feel they are covered in some type of skin or suit , They do not recall their faces or features. They do all agree that they have a bad odor similar to mold and sulfur. 


Question: What was inside the green light?

Answer:
Nothing but a large sweeping ray of green light that runs from a very hot area that can turn extremely cold in a second. It does have a vibration or hum to it. It is part of a tool used to scoop up their victims. 

  
Question: Is there a merge between supernatural and extraterrestrial, or is this a terrestrial demonic attack? 

Answer:
There seem to be ways that dimensions we have no knowledge of can intermingle when needed that we do not understand. It seems clear in the two sisters  case that the energy of  this woman’s departed family members was able to manifest in order to protect the woman from her abductor.

 No one  on this planet  understands how the dimensions work or how those who are part of them enter and exit our dimension that we live in.

 In this case, we see that all the things we do not understand  come into focus as a mix of dimensions clearly took place in front of the family in the two sisters abduction case. 

Obviously,  it is a simple case of our not being  able to understand the way the universe or how  the dimensions work.  The fact is  that they do know how to manipulate  and transport between them when needed. 

The sisters did not feel this was a demonic issue but one of her family warning the unknown creature or alien  that it needs to stop.

 The creature has not returned and for now, all abductions seem to have ended for the two sisters  family. 

Time will tell the answers to  all of  these questions as eventually we will learn how all of this works and we will be able to understand and handle our human dimension with intelligence, For now, we seem very content on remaining in the dark ages on many things we do not understand and label paranormal. It is, of course, all science we simply do not yet grasp. 

We received a question last year that was left on my voice mail from a man that I  will answer now too.

 The caller asked if any of the abductees were told to tell us anything by the aliens or asked the abductee any questions about being a human?

I did not answer this question at the time It was left as I had just finished and published an article on warnings given by the abductees 
All the abductees have returned with the impressions of  both natural and man-made disasters and world war impressed upon them . They also were given warnings concerning giving up our humanity so easily to technology which provides easy access to our control. I have written about all of those things repeatedly.

The interesting question the man left on the voice mail   was if the aliens had ever asked any of their human captives any questions.

 I thought about this and remembered an older man who had been taken many times during his life telling  me that he did have an encounter once with a very curious alien who did ask him via thought and images questions that he found very unusual.

 The interview with this abductee stuck out in my mind and I was able to locate the notes I took while talking with him. He was not comfortable with me writing his encounters and until now I  had nowhere to write about the part of his interview that discussed the alien questions.

The man told me the alien communicated by showing him visions or images or placed thoughts in his head. 

The first thing the alien asked was  by  showing him images or visions of large groups of people eating. Eating around tables , at fast food restaurants and just about every scene you could image of people eating lots of food.

 The next thing he was shown were images of people starving to death. All kinds of people from all over the world , many children. The images the abductee told me were heartbreaking and made him feel terrible when he  viewed them. 

The alien wanted to know why?  We have so much food yet some have it and waste it and others die from not having it.  The alien wanted to know why we do this?. He even placed images of rows of farming and piles of  freshly caught fish in the man’s head. Again the alien asked him why do humans fed some too much and starve others? The abductee told me his mind went blank as the only answer he had was that he did not know why we do this.

The older abductee also in the manner of thoughts and images or visions was asked why we have the technology but only a few humans are educated or advancing?

 He was shown an image of what looked like a science lab of some sort with a handful of people working in the lab, He was also shown  a huge movie screen with what looked like thousands of people cheering at zombies or monsters on the  movie screen. The alien did not understand why only a few are educated while the mass of the population does not advance which keeps our planet at a slow growth when it comes to science or advancement. The old man knew his captor thought of us as very primitive and ignorant.

 I know we think we are superior beings as we walk upon the earth with smartphones and techie gadgets hanging from our belts. The fact is that   only a few of us invent,  build and advance the planet is confusing to a being who obviously comes from a civilization far different and far more advanced than ours,
  Obviously, where he comes from everyone  is educated and  advances. Sad for the human race that we do not do the same.

The last questions the man was asked were very interesting to me and ones that really spoke to the fact that we are as strange to them as they are to us.

The alien asked the man why only two or even one human raise the children. He was shown a single mother and a family with four or five children sitting on a couch with their mother and father. The being that had abducted the old man wanted to know why only one or two adults raise the children.?

 Obviously, the alien does not come from a male /female type of union like we do on earth nor did he seem to understand the family unit as we know it. His confusion on this makes me believe his civilization does not form family units and must  raise their young in groups with many adults involved in the care of their young,

The  last question really gave me an idea of how our visitors view the human species .

The alien asked the older man why we are self-killing? At first, the man thought he was asking about war which we have as an ongoing  constant on this planet. The alien stopped this thought in the man’s head quickly and was able to communicate that they already knew we were an extremely violent species. The alien kept  repeating  self-killing.

The abductee was  then shown images of very overweight people eating large plates of food and a man smoking who was nearly invisible under a thick layer of smoke as well as what looked like homeless people laying on a city street. He was also shown images he did not understand but he got the message. Why did humans not take care of their human bodies?

The older abductee told me he tried to answer the questions to the best of his ability but could tell his captor remained confused and did not seem to understand what he was trying to convey to him.

The abductee mentioned a few times while telling me about  this event that the alien completely lacked any signs of emotion or understanding emotion. He recoiled if the man cried or yelled and if his fear got the better of him and he shook his fist in anger  or begged to be let  go.  The man told me that emotion  seemed to confuse or even frighten  and back off his captors.

I believe this lack of emotion is why the  two sisters were able to escape as well as other people who also displayed outbreaks of emotion that backed off their captors using the element of surprise by displaying something they simply do not understand.

I was happy to answer these questions in this last article about the Real Time Abductees  but realize that the overall interest in the subject of real time abduction does not exist  in the public or in the paranormal community. If it did I am sure we would have had over the years of sharing the real time abductees experiences more then the handful of questions I have answered in this article.

This will be the last article I write on abduction I  have other areas of the unknown I want to explore and will be giving my time to that. If I find things I think my readers will be interested in I will continue to share them on my blog.

 For now remain aware of your surroundings as one day you may find you are the one standing alone in the dead of night and find you are face to face with  a cold , emotionless strange being

 ♥ Copyright ©  2016 Chris Holly all Rights Reserved
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It’s a comet! It’s an alien space ship! It’s an asteroid! It’s a space ship! It’s a weird comet! It’s a weird space ship! It’s a weird asteroid! It’s a (weird or otherwise) something else! It’s ‘Oumuamua, the interstellar space object that has mystified, enthralled and enraged astronomers, rocket scientists and the general public ever since it wagged its almost non-existent tail as made its turn around the sun and headed out to parts unknown before anyone could get a good look at it … which is just one of the problems that has caused the controversies and debates over what it is. The latest “this is what ‘Oumuamua REALLY is or isn’t” comes from the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy which contradicts all of those Giorgio Tsoukalos memes that say it’s definitely a spaceship. But do they know what it REALLY is?

“We have never seen anything like ‘Oumuamua in our solar system. It’s really a mystery still. But our preference is to stick with analogs we know, unless or until we find something unique. The alien spacecraft hypothesis is a fun idea, but our analysis suggests there is a whole host of natural phenomena that could explain it.”

In a report published in the current edition of the journal Nature Astronomy, Matthew Knight, an associate research scientist in the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy, reviewed all of the actual data collected up to and including the rear-end tracking that narrowed its origin down to one of four stars. Knight was one of the first to study ‘Oumuamua, co-authoring a study on its rotation and shape in December 2017 – just a few months after it was discovered.

“The alien-spacecraft camp threw the jets model out of the window.”

On his blog, co-author Sean Raymond lists the many “It’s aliens” arguments and attempts to scientifically debunk all of them. For example, it has comet-like outgassing which could both propel and spin it, but its small size makes it difficult to see. He also points out that we know so little about interstellar objects that ‘Oumuamua’s strange shape – which we still don’t know for sure if it’s cigar-like or maybe a weird pancake – could actually be pretty common. Nor do we know enough about how planets form to say many definitive things about how the ancillary space junk around them forms and how it might be kicked out of or escape from its solar system.

“We may start seeing a new object every year. That’s when we’ll start to know whether ‘Oumuamua is weird, or common. If we find 10 to 20 of these things and ‘Oumuamua still looks unusual, we’ll have to reexamine our explanations.”

Since we’re no longer getting new data from ‘Oumuamua, Knight is already looking to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to help spot future interstellar objects earlier and get better looks and more data on them. Sending a space probe to meet up with one is still pretty far out in the future.

So, we still don’t know for sure what ‘Oumuamua is. Does this new study convince you that it’s not an alien spaceship or probe?

Or is this study a cover-up of what it really is? Tom DeLonge? Any thoughts?

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There are 1,500 potentially active volcanoes on Earth, but lava lakes are much rarer. In fact, until recently, there were only seven known persistent lava lakes in the world. Scientists in the United Kingdom have discovered an eighth lava lake which is located inside of the active volcano Mount Michael which sits on the Sounders Island in the sub-Antarctic South Sandwich Islands.

While Mount Michael has been active for nearly 200 years, studying the volcano is pretty much impossible since the island is so remote, as well as the extremely challenging environment. “The island has been visited on numerous occasions, but no one has ever climbed the mountain,” stated geospatial analyst Peter Fretwell who is from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

(Not Mount Michael)

He explained the challenging environment to BBC, “If you look at the imagery you can see why: the peak is surrounded by a huge snow-mushroom, extremely soft snow with an icing-sugar-like consistency, probably caused by the continual venting of steam by the volcano.” Researchers can’t walk on that type of snow, so they would have to dig through it, which would be extremely dangerous since it’s an active volcano. Pictures of the volcano and the lava lake can be seen here.

ImagecopyrightUSGS/NASA/LANDSAT-8Image caption

This satellite image has been coloured to highlight the lava lake

Image copyrightBAS/PETE BUCKTROUTImage caption

Dangerous to climb: The stratovolcano is just under 1,000m high

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Nyiragongo volcano in the DRC maintains a persistent lava lake

Image copyrightMODIS/NASAImage caption

In this image taken last month, a vapour train is seen to lead away from Mount Michael

Image copyrightCOPERNICUS DATA/SENTINEL-2/ESAImage caption

The satellites flying today now have the ability to resolve what's going on inside the crater

In the 1990s, satellites noticed thermal anomalies at Mount Michael, but they weren’t consistent with magma that overflowed from the volcano, and instead suggested that there was a lava lake hidden there. For comparison, lava pools are only temporary during times of volcanic eruptions, but lava lakes can last long after the eruption – sometimes up to 100 years.

The lava lake underneath Mount Michael is approximately 110 meters wide with the temperatures of the molten lava reaching as hot as 2,334 degrees Fahrenheit.

(Not Mount Michael)

BAS geologist Alex Burton-Johnson explained how incredible this extremely rare discovery is, “Identifying the lava lake has improved our understanding of the volcanic activity and hazard on this remote island, and tells us more about these rare features,” adding, “And finally, it has helped us develop techniques to monitor volcanoes from space.” Their findings have been posted in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

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The next video taken by a drone in June 2019 shows a possible cloaked UFO leaving a mountain in Sweden.

Drone owner:

I caught something strange when filming with my drone in the Swedish mountains.
Take a look at the video where I have pointed out some details I have noticed.

Could this really be an alien UFO sighting or maybe it´s some other craft or just some weird weather phenomenon?

  

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Pilot Records Two UFOs Captured Flying In Tandem Over The Grand Canyon In Arizona. July 1, 2019 UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 1, 2019
Location of sighting: Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

This is a unique video that shows two white UFOs flying low through the canyon. The UFOs are only seen in a few seconds of the clip but appears to be real. They begin defending at a 45 degree angle at a high rate of speed and disappear behind some hills. Since the canyon is so deep already, it makes a great location for a doorway to an underground base. Someone at the bottom of this canyon is a cloaked entrance to an alien city. The base will be about 4-5km below the ground. I think someone should investigate that area of the canyon and scan it with lasers to map it and see its true design. They may find a doorway. 
Scott C. Waring

Video states: 

This was captured by pilot Mike Wagner and in this footage we can see two highly reflective objects cruising over The Grand Canyon before going out of view.

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Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane Caught on Camera (Photo)

By Leonard David 

We still don't know what the X-37B is doing up there, however.

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B robotic space plane in orbit, as photographed by satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh. 

(Image: © Ralf Vandebergh)

Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane.

Vandebergh said he'd been hunting for the robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in May. But it took a bit longer to get photos of the vehicle.

"When I tried to observe it again [in] mid-June, it didn't meet the predicted time and path," Vandebergh explained. "It turned out to have maneuvered to another orbit. Thanks to the amateur satellite observers' network, it was rapidly found in orbit again, and I was able to take some images on June 30 and July 2." 

The X-37B's recent passes were almost overhead, Vandebergh added.

• Related: The X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts

Beyond expectations

The X-37B, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), looks like a miniature version of NASA's retired space shuttle. 

"It is really a small object, even at only 300 kilometers [186 miles] altitude, so don't expect the detail level of ground-based images of the real space shuttle," Vandebergh said.

Taking this into consideration, the newly captured imagery far exceeded Vandebergh's expectations. 

"We can recognize a bit of the nose, payload bay and tail of this mini-shuttle, with even a sign of some smaller detail," he said.

Vandebergh captured the photos using a 10-inch F/4,8 aperture Newtonian telescope with an Astrolumina ALccd 5L-11 mono CMOS camera. Tracking was fully manual through a 6×30 finderscope, he said.

Classified duties

The X-37B has winged past 666 days of flight on this latest mission, which is called OTV-5 because it's the fifth flight for the program.

OTV-5 began on Sept. 7, 2017, with a launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 boosterfrom NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

X-37B missions are carried out under the auspices of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, and mission control for OTV flights is handled by the 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado. This squadron oversees operations of the X-37B and is tagged as the Air Force Space Command's premier organization for space-based demonstrations, pathfinders and experiment testing, gathering information on objects high above Earth and carrying out other intelligence-gathering duties.

And that may be a signal as to what the robotic craft is doing — both looking down at Earth and upward.

• Related: US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane (Infographic)

Flight-duration record

Each X-37B mission has set a new flight-duration record for the program:

Most X-37B payloads are classified, and the Air Force releases few details about the spacecraft's orbit and activities. The only OTV-5 payload that Air Force officials have revealed is the Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader, or ASETS-II.

Developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), this cargo is testing experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipes for long-duration stints in the space environment.

According to AFRL, the payload's three primary science objectives are to measure initial on-orbit thermal performance, to measure long duration thermal performance, and to assess any lifetime degradation.

Tarmac touchdown

Exactly when OTV-5 will end is unknown.

The last X-37B mission touched down at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility — a first for the program. All prior missions had ended with a tarmac touchdown at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Several website postings say that the sixth mission, OTV-6, is planned for this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas-5(501) rocket. Launch would be from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex-41.

Reusable vehicles

The classified X-37B program "fleet" consists of two known reusable vehicles, both of which were built by Boeing.

The X-37B vehicles were built at several Boeing locations in Southern California, including Huntington Beach, Seal Beach and El Segundo. The program transitioned to the U.S. Air Force in 2004 after earlier funded research efforts by Boeing, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The military space plane is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of nearly 15 feet (4.6 m).

The X-37B's payload bay, which measures 7 feet (2.1 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m), can be outfitted with a robotic arm. The spacecraft has a launch weight of 11,000 lbs. (4,990 kilograms) and is powered on orbit by gallium-arsenide solar cells with lithium-ion batteries.

Prior to OTV-5's launch, Randy Walden, the director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, said there were many firsts on this mission, making it a milestone for the program. "It is our goal to continue advancing the X-37B OTV so it can more fully support the growing space community," he said at the time.

The Air Force also noted that OTV-5 was launched into, and will be landed from, a higher-inclination orbit than prior missions to further expand the X-37B's orbital envelope.

• Gotcha! US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Satellite Tracker
• In Photos: SpaceX Launches X-37B Space Plane, Lands Falcon 9 Rocket
• Gallery: Declassified US Spy Satellite Photos & Designs

Leonard David is author of the recently released book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook. 

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NASA: Afwezigheid zonnevlekken kondigt kleine IJstijd aan! - PART I

NASA: Voor het eerst in 200 jaar een Grand Solar Minimum:

Op weg naar een  kleine ijstijd

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NASA: Afwezigheid zonnevlekken kondigt kleine IJstijd aan!

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Ing. Harry Zandvliet

Je hoorde er niets over op het nieuws, maar wel dat er na 200 jaar weer de eerste wolvenwelpjes geboren zijn in Nederland. Ik zal je vertellen waarom je er niets over hoorde, en tevens wat er aan de hand is, en wel goed gedocumenteerd, en wat er nu moet gebeuren. Wat betekent het bijvoorbeeld dat we op 28 juni 2019 al meer dan 40 dagen zonder zonnenvlekken zitten? Veruit het grootste nieuws van deze eeuw is de huidige voorspelde Grand Solar Minimum die zich weer toont, nu na 200 jaar. Deze Grand Solar Minima luiden al sinds mensenheugenis de kleine ijstijden in. Laten we dus dáár beginnen, met allereerst de vraag te beantwoorden:

WAT IS EEN GRAND SOLAR MINIMUM?

Volgens de laatste voorspelling van NASA hebben we voor het eerst in 200 jaar weer te maken met een Grand Solar Minimum (hierna GSM genoemd). Deze fase zal een enorme invloed hebben op ons leven door de grote klimaatveranderingen. Voordat men de weersveranderingen straks zal gaan framen als ‘global warming’, eerst maar eens uitleggen wat er aan de hand is bij een GSM. De komende 10 jaar kunnen we er al wat van gaan merken en er moet écht wat gebeuren en wel heel snel.

Zo ongeveer eens in de 200 jaar wordt het Noordelijk halfrond bijna letterlijk overvallen door een kleine ijstijd. De laatste was ‘Dalton’ (200 jaar geleden), en de grootste en diepste die we ook goed kennen was de Maunder ijstijd, 400 jaar geleden. Begin 17^e eeuw was er een wetenschapper die een verband vermoedde tussen de zonnevlekken en het klimaat, waarop hij besloot met gaan optekenen van deze vlekken (1613). Zijn naam was Galileo Galilei, inderdaad dezelfde die voor een kerkelijk rechtbank moest verschijnen, omdat hij ‘durfde beweren’  dat de aarde om de zon draait, in tegenstelling tot de gedachten van die tijd, dat de Aarde het middelpunt was.

De Aarde is plat staat centraal. En zon en maan trekken aan de hemel voorbij; het beeld uit de tijd van Galileo Galileï.

Ironisch is dat mensen die Galileïsch theorie over de zonnevlekken en het klimaat delen, op dit moment via allerlei in elkaar geflanste YouTubes tegengewerkt worden. Zoals middels restricties en de melding krijgen van youtube of facebook dat hun mening niet in overeenstemming is met de science community . Deze groep staat nu inmiddels te boek als ‘klimaat ontkenners’.

Wetenschappers ontdekten dat tijdens de Maunder ijstijd, die in de 17^e eeuw begon en pas 75 jaar later zou eindigen, er geen, of heel weinig zonnevlekken te zien waren. Dat duurde 65 jaar. En dit fenomeen herhaalde zich tijdens de Dalton ijstijd (200 jaar geleden); een periode die iets minder heftig was maar waar wel sprake was van een jaar zonder zomer. De rivier de Theems vroor regelmatig dicht (er werden zelfs markten op het ijs gehouden) en in Nederland vroren de kanalen regelmatig dicht, want evenals de rest van West Europa was het vaak bitter koud in deze winters.

Hoe zit dat dan met die zonnevlekken?  
De zon doorloopt telkens een cyclus van 11 jaar. Aan het eind van die 11-jarige cyclus keren de magnetische polen van de zon zich, en noord wordt dan zuid en zuid wordt noord (wat op aarde ook gebeurt, maar dan eens in de miljoenen jaren). Aan het begin van een cyclus beginnen de zonnevlekken zich te laten zien, na 5 jaar zijn ze op maximale hoeveelheid, daarna nemen ze in aantal af en na 11 jaar begint het opnieuw.

Bij een kleine ijstijd is er in een zonnecyclus(bijna)  geen  zonnevlekken te zien, ook niet na jaren. Er is sprake van een Grand Solar Minimum (GSM). Normaal gesproken wordt deze 1^e  11-jarig cyclus gevolgd door een reeks aan GSM’s, bij de Maunder ijstijd waren het er 6 op rij. Dat is 66 jaar dus geen of nauwelijks zonnevlekken.

DEZE WERD VOORSPELD DOOR EEN ‘EENLING’..
Ik ga je nu iets vertellen over een professor in de wiskunde en astronomie, Valentina Zharkova.  Zij had een rekenmodel gemaakt, omdat, volgens haar, de zon zich gedraagt, voorspelbaar als een uurwerk (oscillator). En als je daar dus de parameters van weet, kun je voorspellen wat die zon verder gaat doen. Anders dan andere rekenmodellen  keek ze naar de 4 magnetische velden op de zon en hun structuur en verwerkte dat in een ingewikkeld algoritme. Daar kwamen alle koude periodes uit tot voor Christus.

Ze maakte een forecast van cyclus 24 (we gaan dit jaar naar cyclus 25) en voorspelde dat die zwak zou zijn. Ze had gelijk. Maar ze keek verder, want ruim 13 jaar geleden voorspelde ze al, dat zonnecyclus 25 de eerste GSM  zou worden sinds 200 jaar, en eentje die aan de vooravond zou staan van een heftige kleine ijstijd..! NASA had ook een rekenmodel en verwees haar voorspelling naar het rijk van de fabels. Afgelopen april, schreef NASA nog over reeks 25:

Solar Cycle 25: Scientist rule out Maunder-type Solar Minimum (HIER)

Solar physicists predict another weak 11-year solar cycle ahead. At the same time, they expect the coming cycle to break the trend of weakening solar activity seen over the past 4 cycles, and they add there’s “no indication we are currently approaching a Maunder-type minimum in solar activity.”

Laat dit op u inwerken. NASA erkent dus dat er een verband is tussen de Maunder ijstijd en een GSM. Maar NASA was heel stellig en overtuigd wat hier aan de hand is. Die Maunder-type solar minimum komt er niet. Slightly above 24, was haar voorspelling. En haar model bleek tot nu toe ook betrouwbaar. Tot nu toe!

Toen kwam Zharkova’s simpele als duidelijke reactie op het commentaar van NASA op haar voorspellingen: “They are wrong.”

Pas geleden heeft NASA een nieuwe berekening gedaan van reeks 25 en het bleek volgens deze forecast (voorspelling) van haar een GSM, de eerste in 200 jaar. Zharkova voorspelde weer klip en klaar: “Ze (NASA) zullen mij gelijk geven, maar ook dit nieuws begraven tussen insignificant nieuws” (They will burry this news).

En zo geschiedde: NASA gaf Zharkova gelijk tussen onbeduidend nieuws (HIER):

The Sun’s activity rises and falls in an 11-year cycle. The forecast for the next solar cycle says it will be the weakest of the last 200 years (NASA). The maximum of this next cycle – measured in terms of sunspot number, a standard measure of solar activity level – could be 30 to 50% lower than the most recent one. The results show that the next cycle will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025.

Maar professor Valentina voorspelde niet alleen de GSM, maar ook hoe zwaar die zou gaan worden (dus hoeveel 11-jarig reeksen hierna komen met weinig of geen sunspots). NASA hoopt inmiddels op een Dalton, die al verschrikkelijke gevolgen had voor bijvoorbeeld de oogsten maar waar nog mee te leven valt, maar Valentina denkt aan iets anders.  Bij Maunder waren namelijk 2 polen uit lood, nu zijn het er 4.  Als 2 polen elkaar tegenwerken duurt het lang voordat er herstel is (Maunder), Zharkova denkt dat bij 4 het nog veel langer gaat duren. Deze kleine ijstijd, zijn naam zal ‘EDDY’ zijn  (waarom niet Zharkova?), zal volgens Zharkova niet alleen langer duren dan Maunder maar ook dieper zijn. Pas rond 2055 zijn we op het dieptepunt. HIER

Deze kleine ijstijd, kan dus 2.5 tot 4 keer zo lang duren dan Maunder, en die duurde al 75 jaar.  Er is één politicus die bang was voor de global cooling. Zijn naam: Donald Trump. Hij werd daarom uitgelachen en verketterd door de media. De boeren in Amerika lachen niet meer en zijn al bezig met zaden die sneller ontkiemen, en andere voorbereidingen op de komende kleine ijstijd terwijl wij nog bezig zijn met een warmtepomp, ik kom er zo op terug.

Jack Eddy maakte van een grote legpuzzel één geheel
J.A. Eddy was een Amerikaanse astronoom.  Hij publiceerde in 1976 een boek die een mijlpaal was in de wetenschap, getiteld: ‘The Maunder Minimum’.  Hij borduurde voort op het werk van Maunder en Spörer en identificeerde een tijd tussen 1645 en 1715 als een tijd waar de zonneactiviteit zeer laag was (weinig zonnevlekken) . Hij legde een verband tussen kleine ijstijden en zonnecycli , hij bewees dat een afname in zonneactiviteit resulteert in lagere aarde temperaturen.

Hij interpreteerde hiervoor de telescoop observaties van Galilei en andere tijdgenoten, historische rapporten van de aurora borealis (noorderlicht), visuele waarnemingen van zonnevlekken met het blote oog, opgetekend in het verre oosten tijdens zonsop- en ondergang (China), koolstof-14 dateringen in bomen (indicatie van zonneactiviteit), en hij vond ook andere koude periodes met lage zonneactiviteit.

Toen aan John Allen Eddy gevraagd werd wat hij er van vond dat men de toekomstige kleine ijstijd naar hem wilde vernoemen wuifde hij dat weg, zijn antwoord kwam er op neer dat hij ‘op reuzen had gestaan’. Dat waren met name Edward W. Maunder (naar wie de Maunder ijstijd van de 17^e eeuw is vernoemd) en Gustav Spörer (mini ijstijd Spörer is naar hem vernoemd)

GEVOLGEN VAN EEN KLEINE IJSTIJD

Nou ben ik een optimistisch mens, en geloof vast dat we hier doorheen gaan komen. Ik bedoel dat dan natuurlijk ons nageslacht als het heel erg tegen zit. Eerst moet ik vertellen wat er gebeurt in zo’n kleine ijstijd, want het wordt niet alleen maar koud. Verre van dat. Die zonnevlekken zijn enorme magneten, een aantal keren de grote van de aarde per vlek. Ik meen 10x keer de Aardgrootte.. Als die vlekken uit zijn, de zon heeft zijn ogen gesloten voor een lange periode in rust, (althans volgens de menselijke maat) dan neemt zijn magnetische straling op de aarde af. De belangrijkste gevolgen daarvan zijn drieledig: je kunt het HIER nalezen.

Ik baseer me op Michaël E. Mann een Amerikaanse Amerikaanse paleoklimatoloog en auteur van meer dan tachtig vakartikelen. En ik heb het vertaald naar het Nederlands:

Als de pieken van zonnecycli ver uiteen liggen, de elektromagnetische schild is voor een lange periode en tijd afwezig, krijgen kosmische stralingen (HZ: o.a. overblijfselen van super nova’s)  de kans in de aardse atmosfeer en zorgen voor aanzienlijke wolkenvorming. Vervolgens komt er meer regen en sneeuw en de planeet wordt koeler.

Kleine IJstijd:

• extreme hittegolven
• extreme koude-
• en extreme droogteperioden en
• extreme aansluitende natte periodes

Mann legt uit dat het in de kleine ijstijd niet alleen iets kouder wordt, maar dat er tegelijkertijd ook sprake is van enorme hittegolven, die Engeland bijvoorbeeld teisterden tijdens de Maunder periode. Toen was het zomers regelmatig bloedheet, wellicht rond de 40 graden. Hele droge koude jaren worden afgewisseld met extreem natte jaren. Hoe is dat mogelijk? Mann legt het uit:

Onze aards atmosfeer begint te krimpen, zo leerde observaties van NASA. Lager in onze atmosfeer drijft de zon onze winden, en de meest belangrijke winden, veel belangrijker dan alle anderen bij mekaar, zijn de jet streams. Die verplaatsen zich met 160 km per uur. Wanneer de atmosfeer krimpt ontstaat een ruimte probleem . De Jets beginnen te slingeren. De wolken verplaatsen zich ook iets lager. De Jet stream behouden hun snelheid in een solar maximum en ook hun plaats (Noordpool, Warme zuiden) .

De zon is de herder van de grote winden, maar die herder gaat het laten afweten in een kleine ijstijd, de zon zal enige tijd rusten. De Jet streams gaan schudden als de atmosfeer krimpt. Dat schudden zorgt er dus voor dat tijdens de kleine ijstijd wij soms in de winter te maken krijgen met een noordpool Jet stream (Vortex) en in de zomer een Jet stream uit Afrika.  Mann zei ergens dat een kleine ijstijd eigenlijk een tijd is van extreem weer.

Toch denk ik dat de naam ijstijd plausibel is, binnen een ijstijd groeien de gletsjers  in Europa namelijk weer aan. Alle gletsjers in de alpen zijn ontstaan en gegroeid in kleine ijstijden, ze zijn in het huidige interglaciaal al een keer bijna verdwenen. In Amerika is toevallig dit jaar de Jet stream in het noorden doorgebroken (Vortex), wat door de media gespind werd als gevolgen global warming.

The Gurardian Polar vortex 2019: eight dead as Arctic air spreads across midwest Thousands of flights canceled, schools close, and post office halts deliveries as Chicago lows approach record The Guardian (HIER)

What is the polar vortex – and how is it linked to climate change? The polar vortex has broken into ‘two swirling blobs of cold air’, bringing the most frigid conditions in decades to the midwest

Door de veranderingen in magnetische stralingen is er gedurende een lange Grand Solar Minimum meer kans op vulkaanuitbarstingen, in zee maar ook op land. Het gaat nu te ver hier diep op in te gaan, op internet is hier veel over te vinden. Ze worden getriggerd door de verandering van de magnetische krachten. Bij een vulkaanuitbarsting wordt de global cooling versterkt, wat vooral tijdens het Dalton tijdperk gebeurde, die een year without a summer  tot gevolg had..

Hagel in zomer
Het hagelt ook veel vaker in de zomer (veroorzaakt door de kosmische stralingen). Wolken boven de zee zorgen er op langer termijn voor dat minder water verdampt door de zon. In het algemeen wordt het droger, op het noordelijk halfrond met name, maar op sommige plaatsen aldaar is sprake van juist grote water overlast.

Michaël E. Mann, de genoemde Amerikaanse paleoklimatoloog hierover:

In a Grand Solar Minimum, cosmic rays trigger larger flash floods, hailstorms and – due to jet stream disturbance and mixing of atmospheric layers –  local long-duration precipitation events (e.g. atmospheric rivers).

At the same time as the increased local flooding events occur, more cloud cover and less sea surface water heating means less evaporation of sea water, specific humidity is reduced, overall rainfall amounts are reduced, despite regional precipitation records and flooding.

vertaald:

In een GSM, zorgt kosmische straling ervoor dat er grotere overstromingen plaatsvinden, hagelstormen en -vooral door de verstoring van de jetstream en het mixen van de atmospherische lagen- lokale, langdurige afzetting van sediment (bijv. atmospherische rivieren). Tegelijkertijd, als deze toegenomen plaatselijke overstromingen plaatsvinden, betekenen meer bewolking en minder opwarming en verdamping van zeewater, een specifieke afname van de vochtigheidsgraad, regenval die over de hele planeet sterk verminderd wordt, ondanks plaatselijk en regionale overstromingen en sedimentafzettingen.

Het grootste probleem kleine ijstijd: kleine zaai- en oogsttijd
Kleine ijstijden kenmerkten zich door hongersnood, epidemieën etc. Bekend zijn de zg. honger stenen (HIER) in Tjechië aan de Elbe. Als die tevoorschijn kwamen dan was er sprake van droogte. Mensen schreven jaartallen op deze stenen (vaak uit de kleine ijstijden) en teksten zoals: Zie je mij, huilen “Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine“.

De laatste paar jaar is de oogsttijd al korter geworden in Noord Amerika. En dit jaar dreigt de slechtste oogst in tientallen jaren. Op de website IceAgefarmer (HIER) ontmoeten boeren elkaar en geven elkaar tips, zoals bij een zoektocht naar snel ontkiemend zaad. Veel boeren houden al rekening met een nieuwe kleine ijstijd..! HIER kun je meer lezen over de korte zaai- en oogsttijd en de rampzalige Amerikaanse oogsten die dit jaar worden verwacht. En de mogelijke oplossing, waar opmerkelijk weinig media aandacht voor is in Nederland.

Overigens gelooft Donald Trump wel degelijk in climate change, eerder speculeerde hij op een global cooling en heeft hij ook een team samengesteld die dit moet onderzoeken, tot woede van de media. Happer gelooft dat er sprake is van een beginnende global cooling. ‘Climate denyer’ is zoals gezegd, de nieuwe frame van de media, waarbij ze dat soort fram- woorden gebruiken om mensen die anders denken te stigmatiseren en van een ‘heksenlabel’ te voorzien.

Als je googled op Happer dan zul je zien dat hij overal wordt gedemoniseerd omdat hij niet het narratief volgt die de media voorschrijft, overtuigd van haar eigen gelijk. Ik denk dat de wetenschappers er voor gaan zorgen dat er planten komen die snel ons van eten kunnen voorzien. Overigens zijn er nu al mensen in Amerika die zich voorbereiden om zelf snel ontkiemende zaden te zaaien, en wel thuis.

Mensen treffen voorbereidingen maar het  wordt tijd dat de overheid plannen gaat ontwikkelen, over wat te doen in een kleine ijstijd. We hadden al planten kunnen hebben die het relatief goed doen in een kleine ijstijd. De aardappelplant is zo’n plant, afkomstig uit Zuid-Amerika, maar die tijdens de laatste kleine ijstijden enorme belangrijk was om te overleven.

Zien we al wat gebeuren?
Zoals Mann al uitlegde moet er eerst sprake zijn van een langdurige solar minimum voordat dit zeer duidelijk effect krijgt. Toch zien we al de eerste voortekenen, en niet alleen de hagel die we gezien hebben in deze zomer in diverse landen in West Europa. Zuidpoolijs groeit sneller aan dan dat die afkalft zegt NASA (HIER):

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago, is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed   to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008

Zelfs de grootste apostel van global warming kan er niet meer omheen, Groenland gletsjer groeit weer, (en dat komt door global warming volgens de media..??):

Hier op CNN : https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/world/climate-change-greenland-glacier-growing-wxc-trnd/index.html

En niet alleen op Groenland groeit het ijs aan. HIER en HIER

According to researchers from the University of Iceland, ALL Icelandic glaciers are projected to expand this year, this would make it the first time the glaciers wouldn’t have shrunk year-on-year in a quarter of a century.

vertaald:

“Volgens de onderzoekers van de Universiteit van IJsland, zullen naar verwachting ALLE GLETSJERS OP IJSLAND gaan groeien dit jaar. Het zou het eerste jaar zijn, dat deze gletsjers op jaarbasis niet krimpen, in de laatste 25 jaar.”

Koud deel voorjaar, ook in Nederland: https://skiinformatie.nl/mei-waarschijnlijk-koudste-maand-sinds-40-jaar/

Het zal je niet zijn ontgaan, het is de afgelopen weken ontzettend koud geweest voor de tijd van het jaar. Tijdens het bevrijdingsweekend viel winterse neerslag in Limburg en maandagochtend zat er zelfs een licht ijslaagje op m’n autoruit. Bizar gewoon.
Zeker als je bedenkt dat het de afgelopen jaren veel warmer was rond deze tijd. Maar niet alleen in Nederland was het koud, ook in de Alpen was dat het geval. Mei 2019 gaat waarschijnlijk de boeken in als de koudste meimaand sinds 40 jaar.

Voor het eerst sinds 40 jaar sneeuw in mei in Nederland en Griekenland https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2988274/zware-sneeuwval-in-deel-griekenland

ATHENE – Zware sneeuwval heeft grote delen van Noord- en Midden-Griekenland veranderd in een winterlandschap en gezorgd voor aanzienlijke verkeersproblemen. Volgens de staatstelevisie ERT was het voor sneeuwploegen moeilijk om de belangrijke noord-zuidverbinding sneeuwvrij te houden. De weg verbindt de havenstad Thessaloniki met Athene.

https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/5077163/spanje-zet-leger-in-overlast-hevige-sneeuwval.html

Spanje heeft zondag een legereenheid ingezet om mensen te helpen die vastzaten in de sneeuw. Duizenden automobilisten waren volgens Spaanse media gestrand op de snelweg AP6 tussen de hoofdstad Madrid en de stad Segovia, in het noordwesten van het land.

Niet alleen Europa ziet winters weer, ook in de Sahara in Afrika ligt een dik pak sneeuw. Met een laag van een meter diep lag er nooit meer sneeuw in de grootste en warmste woestijn ter wereld.  https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/sahara-bedolven-onder-meter-sneeuw~a44bc65a/

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NASA: Afwezigheid zonnevlekken kondigt kleine IJstijd aan!-PART II

Wat is de rol van CO2?

Dat CO2 een broeikas gas is zal wel kloppen, maar wat is zijn rol? Is die groot? Uit ijsboringen blijkt die rol, zo die er al is, niet doorslaggevend. Verre van dat. Via de luchtbelletjes in het ijs van  Groenland weet je wat voor atmosfeer er is geweest. Een pdf over klimaatveranderingen van genevo.nl kun je HIERdownloaden. Een citaat:

Als de grafieken van FIG 1 meer gedetailleerd worden weergegeven, is te zien dat bijvoorbeeld aan het einde van het glacialen de primaire temperatuurstijging steeds is voorafgegaan aan de toename van de broeikasgassen. Er moet dus een andere oorzaak zijn voor deze primaire temperatuurstijgingen. Pas na enkele decennia tot eeuwen volgt dan de stijging van de broeikasgassen en die kunnen dan het hogere temperatuursniveau bestendigen totdat er door de primaire oorzaak een temperatuursdaling komt, weer gevolgd door een daling van de gassen en bestendiging van het lagere niveau.

Het idee is dus dat deze primaire factor een externe factor is, die van buitenaf het aardse klimaatsysteem beïnvloedt. Immers de broeikasgassen spelen een grote rol in het interne klimaat systeem op Aarde. Als het klimaat zou veranderen door interne factoren, zouden de verandering in de broeikasgassen waarschijnlijk in veel gevallen vooraf gaan aan de veranderingen in temperatuur.

Eerst warmte dus, en daarna CO2. Trek zelf je conclusie. De zee neemt CO2 op als het koud is, en geeft die af als het warm is. CO2 volgt de temperatuur, maar leidt die niet. Overigens is er wel een veel groter probleem met CO2. In de tijd van de dino’s was het CO2-gehalte 20 maal zo hoog. Deze is gestaag gedaald. Dat komt omdat de planten de CO2 uit de lucht hebben gezogen en opgeslagen onder de grond als fossiel. Na iedere ijstijd dus minder CO2.

Na de laatste ijstijd was de CO2 tot levensgevaarlijke sterfte-peil gedaald. Het was 180 ppm, en bij 150ppm gaan planten dood. Nog nooit zo laag dus (zie Life on earth was nearly doomed). De warmte heeft de CO2 vanuit zee weer terug gebracht. Gelukkig is de CO2 level nu voorlopig op veilige hoogte. Met dank aan de fabrieken en auto’s…! Toch ben ik geen CO2 adept. Ik ken namelijk niet de gevolgen van te veel CO2. Voorlopig hebben we genoeg in de atmosfeer. Ik ben daarom voorstander van nieuwe energie vormen.

Echter, laten we niet 1000 miljard besteden aan onrendabele energie vormen die nooit de oplossing gaan brengen (behalve in hoofden van politici en papieren werkelijkheden), maar laten we eerst zorgen dat er een goede vervanging is voor fossiel. En die staat er aan te komen. Thorium centrales en in China zijn ze al heel ver met kernfusie.  Duurt nog wel 20 jaar. We kunnen nu al over op kleine (minder gevaarlijke) mini kerncentrales, als je zo graag af wilt van CO2. Dus geen paniekvoetbal dus en we hebben nu wel grotere problemen aan onze hoofd als die deskundigen gelijk hebben.

Grafische weergave uit 2009 van de zonne-activiteit in de afgelopen 20 jaar. De mega-invloed van de cycli van de zon, op het weer op Aarde, zijn nog nauwelijks onderwerp van wetenschappelijk onderzoek.. Laten we ons daarom leiden, door de enkelen die dit wel conscencieus doen..! Zoals professor Zharkova.

Wat nu?
Wat er op dit moment moet gebeuren is bewustwording. Dat de media zwijgt over de voorspelde GSM en dat voorspelt niet veel goeds. Op basis van huidige berichten wordt elke weersverandering, die goed te verklaren zijn door de verminderde zonnen activiteit, gespind als oorzaak van Global Warming, soms zelfs als de schuld van Trump. Het werd warmer op aarde, maar ze vertellen er niet bij dat het ook op Mars warmer werd, een groot deel van de warmte te verklaren is door een  solar maximum die we gehad hebben. (HIER),

Zharkova heeft ook een 2000 jaar cyclus ontdekt, die begonnen is rond het jaar 1600. Heeft te maken met de stand van de aarde en hoe de elips rond de zon is (HIER). Tot het jaar 2600 zal de temperatuur stijgen, tot 2.5, tot 3 graden max, ook al stoppen we met CO2 te produceren. De 1000 jaar daarna zal zij weer dalen. In de Romeinse tijd was het ook zo warm als rond 2600, in Schotland kon je toen grapefruits verbouwen. Ook de middeleeuwen kende een hele warme periode. Zie haar paper, waarvan de link aan het begin staat van dit document.

Het probleem is, de MSM media noch de alternatieve media, op enkele uitzondering na zoals WantToKnow, erover willen berichten; en geloof me ik heb het geprobeerd! In Amerika zijn er wel steeds meer alternatieve media die los gaan op het orgel. Het punt is, de overheid moet voorzorgsmaatregelen nemen, en wel nu!  Ik maak me daar zorgen over, dat men hoopt dat het wel overdrijft, maar de voorspellingen nu doen het ergste vermoeden. Eigenlijk wilde ik dit artikel niet schrijven maar het overlaten aan onderzoekers bij de (alternatieve) media maar kreeg nul op mijn rekest.

Ik denk overigens dat het niet lang meer duurt voordat ook de alternatieve media aan banden is gelegd, onze kinderen zullen niet meer weten hoe het is om alle informatie van de wereld beschikbaar te hebben die alle invalshoeken toont.  Dit laat zien dat de alternatieve media belangrijk kan zijn, als klokkenluider. We moeten de media en politici laten merken dat steeds meer mensen geïnformeerd willen worden over dit mogelijke grote gevaar in plaats van het hoofd in het zand te steken.

Op het moment dat er genoeg mensen zijn met dezelfde mening zal de media wel moeten berichten over de GSM, daarna zal de overheid in actie moeten komen. U kunt er bij helpen. Als er weer een Vortex doorbreekt, wellicht boven Europa, en de NOS framed dit als gloobal warming en de schuld van Trump, mail ze dan dat dit wellicht komt door de grand solar minimum en het krimpen van onze atmosfeer, en dat we bezig zijn om een kleine ijstijd in te gaan.

Als de media een melding maakt over alweer een hittegolf van boven de 37 graden, mail de media dan dat dit juist een kenmerk is van een ijstijd. Doe de citaten erbij uit bijvoorbeeld dit document of google zelf verder. Wilt u misschien meer weten over de GSM en echt de diepte in dan adviseer ik u deze video serie aan van Scott Chapman: (HIER). Als er bewustvorming is dan kan er ook wat gedaan worden.

Het kan natuurlijk ook zijn dat een KNMI deskundige die dit leest, van mening is dat er helemaal niets van klopt wat ik geschreven heb, of wat anderen (Eddy, Mann, Zharkova, Galilei en vele anderen de afgelopen eeuwen) hierover zeiden. Dat kan, misschien zie ik het fout en mijn bronnen ook, en ziet de KNMI het goed. Maar dan zou ik zeggen: overtuig ons KNMI!  Vertel ons dan, waarom deze geconstateerde GSM geen voorbode is van een nieuwe kleine ijstijd, of dat het nog te vroeg is om dat te concluderen (misschien is dat wel zo, ik hoop het oprecht)  maar dat jullie het wel serieus nemen. Dat zou al een hele stap zijn! Maar door stilte over dit onderwerp komen we niet verder.

Ing Harry Zandvliet

21-6-2019

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Guadalajara EIND JUNI 2019..!!

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NASA asteroid WARNING: ‘New York in RUINS’ in planetary defence exercise

NASA has simulated an asteroid striking New York, as the US space agency readies for the worst-case scenario.

The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled

By Leah Crane

These may be the weirdest stars we’ve ever seen. A pair of stars about 360 light years away experienced 28 dips in their light over the course of 87 days, measurements that would normally indicate an orbiting system of planets – except that the timings of the dips seem totally random. Astronomers are completely stumped.

The stars, collectively called HD 139139, were spotted behaving strangely by the Kepler space telescope before it ran out of fuel and ceased observations. Kepler hunted exoplanets by watching for regular decreases in stars’ light caused by a planet passing between the star and the telescope on its orbit. These passes are called transits.

The dips in HD 139139’s light look just like transits, all similar in size and shape, but when Andrew Vanderburg at the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues took a closer look at the data, they found that their timings seemed totally random – the researchers calculated that no more than four of the dips could be caused by the same orbiting object.

“We’ve been looking at stars with this kind of precision for about ten years now, but this is the first time that we’ve found something that looks like looks like a transiting planet but has no apparent periodicity,” says Hugh Osborn at the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Marseille in France. “Something weird is going on.”

If the transits are caused by planets, the researchers calculated that there would have to be lots of them, far more than any other planetary system we’ve ever seen. “I could construct for you a system of planets that would explain these dips, but it would be really contrived,” says Vanderburg. “It just doesn’t feel right.” And neither do any of the other explanations the team came up with.

One potential explanation was a disintegrating planet or disc of asteroids puffing out dust as they pass in front of the stars, which blocks out some light and then dissipates. But a disintegrating planet would still produce patterns in the transit timings, and the asteroids would have to all be emitting dust clouds of the same size and density, which is unlikely.

Sunspots and internal variations in the star’s light don’t quite work either, because they would have to appear and disappear in a matter of hours. The dark spots that we have seen on our own sun last from days to months, so this would require a new type of sunspot.

With all of the simple explanations ruled out, it’s tempting to consider that the light variations might be caused by a huge alien structure that has been constructed around the stars. We cannot definitively rule that out, but both Osborn and Vanderburg consider it highly unlikely.

“In astronomy we have a long history of not understanding something, thinking it’s aliens, and later finding out it’s something else,” says Vanderburg. “The odds are pretty good that it’s going to be another one of those.”

• Reference: arxiv.org/abs/1906.11268

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Up To 20 Ufo Orbs Spotted 25 Miles East Of London

JANUARY 26, 2018 ………GRAVESEND ENGLAND

A British witness reported watching a “string of spherical red orbs” rising into the sky, according to testimony in Case 91153. The witness was walking home at about 8:15 p.m. on January 26, 2018. “I live in a small town about 25 miles east of London,” the witness stated. “As I walked along the pavement, something in the night sky caught my eye. I stopped, turned to the west and looked into the sky. I saw a string of small, bright red orbs rising up into the sky at an angle (not vertically). They were as many as 20 small red orbs, all the same size, all constantly moving at the same speed, close together, moving as if attached to a cord (like a string of red Christmas tree lights).

The orbs were a constant bright red, constant spherical shape, and constant speed. They were quite some distance away, maybe 10 miles away, so it is difficult to estimate the speed, but these objects were covering quite a distance in the sky, so I judged them to be moving fast, at a steep angle and much faster than planes, and very nimbly.”

The witness described their movement. “As I watched, they rose up from 30 degrees, following each other up into the sky to about 60 degrees up, then moved in a circular motion at the same speed, swirling around within a large cloud that was in the sky, some traveled back down again. The red orbs were some miles away, which would put them above East London area. The red orbs were much bigger than aeroplane lights that I’m well used to seeing in the night sky above my hometown. I live directly under a busy flight corridor, so I am used to looking at planes gliding overhead (east-west), flying to several major airports in the London area. These red orbs moved fast, and swirling around in a tight turning radius, nothing like how a plane would move, and there were so many of them packed together, up to 20 all following each other. I got my phone out of my pocket and checked the time. I stood, rooted to the spot, watching these red orbs fly around the sky for several minutes. I was surprised by what I was seeing in the sky, it caught me by surprise. I did not stop to think that this might be worth taking a picture or video of. I wanted to get home, so I continued walking back home, leaving the red orbs still moving around the sky.”

NOTE: The above image is CGI.

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“I’m not a believer, but you know, I guess anything is possible.”

If you’ve been curious about what President Trump thinks about UFO’s, in an interview with Tucker Carlson from the Fox News Channel, which took place while the president was in South Korea recently, he revealed that he’s “not a believer” in unidentified flying objects. If you’re curious about what he thinks in particular about the UFOs that Navy pilots have been reporting and which have been recorded on radar, he had this to say:

“Well, I don’t want to really get into it too much. But personally, I tend to doubt it.”

That answer comes after the president was briefed on those sightings by the Pentagon, Navy officials and staff from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, other members of Congress and their staffers of the Armed Service and Defense Appropriations committees were also briefed. Is the president saying he doubts that they are unidentified or he doubts that they are alien?

“I mean, you have people that swear by it, right? And pilots have come in and they said — and these are pilots that have — not pilots that are into that particular world, but we have had people saying that they’ve seen things.”

“That particular world.” Is the president implying that people who believe in, research or are at least open to the possibility of UFOs existing are in some way different than others? Does this make them somehow less believable? Carlson didn’t ask the president about the UFOs that have been seen in his own airspace. UFOs were seen following his plane during his campaign and twice on the day of his inauguration. Four were reported over the Trump Turnberry golf course in Scotland in 2018. One would think that the president would have been notified – either in his capacity as commander-in-chief or as the owner of the course. Wouldn’t he have wanted to know?

Here’s a better question … would he have believed the report, especially if it had come from someone ‘in that particular world’? He seemed to answer this question when Carlson pressed him about a report that the U.S. is in possession of UFO wreckage at a facility on an Air Force Base – which has been rumored for decades about multiple crashes and multiple bases.

“I don’t assume it’s correct. But, I have an open mind, Tucker.”

So, even if it’s a person who will “swear by it,” even if it’s evidence that warrants briefings by high-ranking military officials to high-ranking government officials all the way up to the president himself, he still doesn’t assume it’s correct?

The president has given similar answers to two different news channels on opposite ends of the political spectrum but possibly similar ends of the UFO one. It would be easy to assume he’s being evasive for national security reasons … except he’s ignored those reasons for other questions.

Is it too late?

The Navy pilots have identified themselves and risked their careers to report what they saw. These are members of the military honored on the Fourth of July … and are now “‘in that particular world.” Can we still keep saying there are two of these worlds?

Get ready, Mr. President. These questions are not going away.

(You can watch the interview here.)

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Mold in your house can make you sick, weaken the foundation and make it impossible to sell. If your house is the International Space Station, it’s even worse. Although the crew is only renting and the foundation remains solid, a new study found that the mold they’re dealing with on the space station is not only unhealthy but mutant … and that mutation may make it immune to the radiation that is so deadly to humans in space. That means this mutant mold could easily survive trips to other planets and contaminate their houses too … not to mention possibly killing the life forms living in them. Is the best weapon against space aliens that sandwich that’s been in the office refrigerator since last year?

“If we’re planning a long duration mission, we can plan on having these mold spores with us because probably they will survive the space travel.”

In fact, they’ll survive far better than the rest of the crew, according to a presentation by Marta Cortesão, a microbiologist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon 2019). Mold was everywhere on the MIR space station and continues to thrive on the ISS, but it was assumed that the radiation bombardment encountered during interplanetary space travel or living on a planet with little or no radiation barriers, like Mars, would kill molds, especially Aspergillus and Pennicillium, the two most common molds on the ISS.

To test that theory, Cortesão bombed common black mold (Aspergillus niger) with what she called “stupid amounts” of radiation – 1000 grays (a gray is a measure of the amount of absorbed radiation energy – one gray is one joule of radiation energy per kilogram of matter). For comparison, the radiation that is encountered on 180-day trip to Mars is 0.7 gray and the radiation on the surface of Mars is 0.2 gray per year. Nothing should be able to survive 1000 gray — right, Marta Cortesão? RIGHT?

“We now know that [fungal spores] resist radiation much more than we thought they would, to the point where we need to take them into consideration when we are cleaning spacecraft, inside and outside. If we’re planning a long duration mission, we can plan on having these mold spores with us because probably they will survive the space travel.”

Probably? That’s enough radiation to instantly pop all of the popcorn in the solar system (or something like that) and it didn’t kill a simple black mold! Cortesão obviously isn’t planning to be on a mission to Mars. And “take them into consideration when we are cleaning spacecraft, inside and outside” … has she seen our houses? Mold is everywhere! Being a true microbiologist, Cortesão puts in a good word for mold.

“It’s not only bad, a human pathogen and a food spoiler, it also can be used to produce antibiotics or other things needed on long missions.”

In other words, it may kill you and any other life forms you encounter, but … penicillin! The study does point out that, even though the mold may be immune to radiation, something else encountered on a space mission might kill it. And this is good news? If it can kill something as tough as this mutant mold, won’t it kill us too? And don’t forget, we won’t have any penicillin if it doesn’t because the mold is dead.

Is this what Mars will look like?

Are we REALLY ready for a mission to Mars? Shouldn’t we figure out how to rid our Earth space stations of mold first?

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The black object in SOL 2446 clearly shows characteristics of a winged anomaly that flies independently through the sky, whether it is a UFO or a bird.

It certainly is not a camera error or dirt on the camera lens since this object only appears in 1 image taken by the Curiosity. The images taken shortly before and after do not show the object.

Link SOL 2246:

https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=NRB_614635188EDR_S0760988NCAM00595M_&s=2446

  

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The transcript of a conversation between a US Navy Vice Admiral and a leading scientist discussing a failed attempt to gain access to a highly classified program involving a crashed extraterrestrial craft has been recently released online. The conversation took place on October 16, 2002, and involved the retired Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson, speaking with Dr. Eric W. Davis, a scientist working on the feasibility of exotic propulsion systems with EarthTech International, an advanced technology think tank established in Austin, Texas.

In the 15 page document comprising the transcript, summary notes and an accompanying letter, Davis describes what Wilson told him about an April 10, 1997 “briefing” where he (Wilson) received information from former Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Dr. Steven Greer (founder of the Disclosure Project) about a classified UFO program that they had codeword information about. At the time, Wilson was a Rear Admiral (upper class); Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; and Vice Director for Intelligence (VJ2), for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a position he held from November 1994 to September 1997.

When Wilson inquired into the program’s existence from a regulatory body created for Special Access Programs, he learned it involved a corporate Research and Development effort involving a retrieved extraterrestrial craft but was denied access by three corporate officials working for a major US aerospace contractor.

The 1997 briefing was first publicly discussed by Greer and his associate Shari Adamiak only a month after it occurred and was corroborated by Mitchell over a decade later. In a May 1997 interview with Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM Greer said:

Joint Chiefs of staff level fellow that I briefed while I was in Washington about a month ago … After he looked at all this and heard the witness, he turned to us and said: ‘Well I have no doubt this is true but I am horrified that I hadn’t known about it’…Because of his position. And very, very senior … I can’t say who it was but a very, very senior position…And then they begin to come to grips with well: ‘Who the hell does know about it, what is going on here?’ And then they become frighten[ed].

Years later, Greer released a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) document containing code words and locations that sparked Wilson’s failed attempt to gain access to the classified UFO program. In a workshop Greer explained the NRO document’s contents and what happened when Wilson investigated it:

“It’s the National Reconnaissance Office document.  …..The reason it’s important is not so much for its content… …..  Take note of the distribution list, please. ….. …….’Blue Fire’, which is a code name, 1991, Commander’s Net, Royal Op’s, Cosmic Op’s…so, cosmic clearance…you’ve heard of this? It’s not a myth.  It’s real.  Maj Op’s, MAJI…It’s MAJIC Op’s.  It goes through a whole bunch of them…Nellis Division, all these code numbers and you get down to some really interesting things. … this secret document went to the admiral [Admiral Tom Wilson] prior to our meeting, and he actually recognized one of these entities and made an inquiry, and it was being run by a contractor.  …..  And the contractor…one of these corporate contractors…when he called them up, he said, ‘I’m Admiral Tom Wilson…at that time he was Head of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff… I want to be read into this project.’  Guess what happened?  They said, ‘Sir, you don’t have a need to know.’  This is the guy who’s supposed to give the intelligence briefings for the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States.  He was told, ‘You don’t have a need to know’… and Admiral Wilson said, ‘Goddamn it, if I don’t have a need to know, who does?’  They said, ‘Sir, we cannot discuss this with you further’ and they hung up and blocked his line.  This all happened before the stand-up meeting I did for [him with] Edgar Mitchell…6th man to walk on the moon…myself, my military adviser, and a few other people met with the Admiral in what’s called a ‘stand-up’ briefing.  I was doing the presenting.  It was supposed to be 45 minutes. 

In 2007 Mitchell began publicly confirming that the briefing had indeed taken place, corroborating what Greer had revealed a decade earlier.

A detailed chronology of articles and interviews referring to the 1997 Wilson briefing is provided by Croatian UFO researcher Giuliano Marinkovic.

The transcript of the 2002 conversation between Wilson and Davis was first discussed in radio interviews by UFO researchers Grant Cameron and Richard Dolan in December 2018. Cameron said he was given the 15 page document, which he shared with Michael W. Hall a former lawyer and Superior Court judge. Hall has given several interviews in March 2019 discussing the document’s origins and authenticity.

Cameron, Dolan, and Hall believe the document is authentic, and its consistency with what Greer and Mitchell had earlier revealed does point to this. I contacted Dr. Eric Davis to comment on the document’s authenticity, and he replied saying: “I have no comment on this.” If the document was a hoax, I see no reason why Dr. Davis would not have said so.

All this leads me to conclude that the document is an authentic transcript of what Dr. Davis and Admiral Wilson discussed back in 2002 about the April 1997 meeting and Wilson’s subsequent investigation. The transcript was very recently released online and are available for public viewing.

The transcript, summary notes, and accompanying letter provide compelling documentary support that the 1997 briefing had occurred, exactly as Greer and Mitchell had reported up to two decades earlier. Importantly, the notes substantiate one of Greer’s major claims that he was regularly briefing senior officials in the Clinton Administration about the UFO coverup – something many UFO researchers had previously dismissed or ridiculed. 

The transcript provides a fascinating insight into how a US Navy admiral who was Vice Director for Intelligence (VJ2), for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, was denied access by corporate officials to a classified UFO program, which he firmly believed fell under his field of responsibility.

The briefing and unsuccessful investigation did not negatively impact Wilson’s career. Two years later, in May 1999, Wilson was promoted to Vice Admiral and became the 13^th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), a position he served in until July 2002.

Three months after his retirement, Wilson met with Davis to discuss the 1997 meeting and its aftermath. In the transcript, we learn about Wilson’s perspective on what had happened.

Presumably, the recording and transcription of Wilson and Davis’ conversation were intended for a small audience at EarthTech International, founded by Dr. Hal Puthoff, which was studying exotic propulsion systems, and releasing feasibility studies of them to interested scientists and journals.

In 2009, Davis and EarthTech included some of these exotic propulsion feasibility studies as Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, two of which were first leaked online in December 2017 by Corey Goode who says a confidential DIA source gave him them.

In the transcript, Davis (EWD) describes how Wilson (TW) began by confirming that the April 1997 meeting did take place and involved Greer, Mitchell, and US Naval Reserve Commander Willard H. Miller, who was Greer’s top military advisor.

Miller played a critical role in the various “UFO briefings” Greer gave senior officials and politicians during the Clinton administration:

TW: Confirmed Greer/Miller/Mitchell gave talk in Pentagon Conference room. Adm Mike Crawford, Gen. Pat Hughes (Hughes his boss) were present (others too.) Date April “97. (Ed Mitchell said 4/9/947.) After group broke up, Miller/Wilson talked (privately) 2 hours on UFOs, MJ-12, Roswell, crashed UFOs/alien bodies, etc. TW intrigued – knew about intelligence on US mil/intel UFO close encounters – and foreign gov’t encounters. Seen records. Told Miller. [Transcript/Summary p. 1]

Wilson was here acknowledging that the serving Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Pat Hughes, also sat in on the meeting. After the meeting broke up, Miller and Wilson continued to discuss issues that had been raised:

TW: Yes, Miller asked the question on MJ-12/UFO cabal – crashed UFO. Confirmed he called Miller ca. late June ’97 and told that he/Miller was right – there is such an organization in existence. [Transcript/Summary p. 1]

Wilson was here acknowledging that after being informed about the existence of the classified UFO program by Greer and Mitchell in April 1997, he had inquired into the program’s existence, and discovered that MJ-12 was real and that there indeed was a UFO cabal running classified operations involving crashed UFOs. This accounted for why Admiral Wilson later failed to gain access to the crashed UFO program, as explained later in Davis’ summary notes.

Miller subsequently told Greer and Mitchell about what Wilson had revealed to him in June 1997, after he [Wilson] was denied access to the classified program that Greer and Mitchell had told him about earlier in April. Admiral Wilson [TW] was furious that Miller had told Greer and Mitchel about Wilson’s failure to access it, as Davis’ [EWD] transcript make clear:

TW: Very furious – very angry about Miller (facial expression tense, angry voice)

• • Violated personal and professional trust – especially among intelligence colleagues/Navy officers
    • There’s Navy camaraderie among officers – brotherhood
    • Violated that and confidentiality

EWD: How?

TW: Miller told Greer their conversation

• • Who knows whom else he and Greer told.  (EWD note – Miller told Ed Mitchell who only told me in 1999)

The significance of all this is that Admiral Wilson did not want the details of what he learned during his investigation of the classified program that Greer and Mitchell had first brought to his attention becoming public. By telling Greer, Commander Miller had in Wilson’s opinion broken trust shared between naval intelligence officers to keep the information confidential. That is why he was so angry.

However, if it were not for Miller taking the risk he had, Greer and the world would probably not have learned the truth of what happened, and how corporate contractors had sidelined Wilson and US naval intelligence over a classified reverse engineering program of a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle.

In part two, I review what Admiral Wilson told Dr. Davis about the classified UFO crash retrieval program and its significance.

© Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. Copyright Notice

• [Note: The 15 page leaked Document is available here]

Further Reading

• New Investigation Shows Disputed MJ-12 Document Exposing Extraterrestrial Contact is Authentic
• New Majestic Document Reveals US Diplomatic Relations with Extraterrestrials
• Advanced Technology Reports Leaked by Corey Goode Confirmed by Leading Scientist
• Above Majestic Producer Reveals Secret Space Program Disclosures & Document Dumps Imminent
• Full ET disclosure plan involves document dumps & whistleblowers coming forward
• Wikileaks Reveals USAF General involved in UFO & Secret Space Program Disclosures

{ https://www.exopolitics.org/ }

[Cont. from Part 1] In the transcript/summary of a 2002 conversation between Vice Admiral Thomas Wilson and Dr. Eric Davis it was revealed that a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle was being reverse engineered by a major aerospace company. Wilson first learned about the classified UFO program through a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) document shared with him at a confidential April 10, 1997 meeting with Dr. Steven Greer, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, and Navy Commander Willard Miller.

The recently released transcript describes what Admiral Wilson [TW] told Dr. Davis [EWD] about Wilson’s efforts up to June 1997 to learn the truth about the classified UFO program, and the associated reverse engineering effort revealed to him in the April meeting.

EWD: Okay then, what happened in April-June ’97?

TW: After parting with Miller (week later, he thinks) – I made calls, knocked on a few doors, talked to people – went on for 45 days (thereabouts) on and off

• • Suggestion came from Ward (Gen. M. Ward) to go through the records groups files (like an index system) in OUSDAT (Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology)
  • Ran into Bill Perry in May ’97 – talked about this quietly – he suggested the same thing
  • They told me of a special projects record group not belonging to usual SAP – a special subset of the unacknowledged/carve-outs/waived programs – not belonging to usual SAP divisions as organized in ’94 by Perry himself – set apart from rest but buried/covered by conventional SAPs. (Transcript/Summary, pp. 6-7)

Wilson was here referring to different categories of Special Access Programs (SAPs), where the most important – unacknowledged/carve-outs/waived – were hidden behind conventional SAPs.

The method of hiding the most highly classified programs behind less classified ones was verified in one of the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden called Sentry Eagle. It graphically depicted how Exceptionally Compartmented Information (ECI – an Intelligence Community classification similar to an Unacknowledged SAP used by the Pentagon) would be hidden behind a Non-ECI Program (similar classification status to a conventional SAP)

NSA leaked slide showing SENTRY EAGLE program where different DHS, DOD, and NSA clasified programs are hidden within less classified national programs.

(NSA)

Wilson went on to describe the aerospace company that ran the classified reverse engineering effort, without naming it:

EWD: Who was the project contractor or USG agency that runs the program?

TW: An aerospace technology contractor – one of the top ones in US

EWD: Who?

TW: Core secret – can’t tell

EWD: Defense contractor?

TW: Yes, the best one of them.

The reference to the “best one of them” firmly points to Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks division which has a long track record of successfully working on cutting edge aerospace programs. For example, Skunkworks former Director, Ben Rich, was fond of ending lectures by declaring: “We now have the technology to take ET home”.  

Slide Ben Rich used to end lectures with comment about taking ET home

Wilson then explained what happened when he discovered which company was running the classified UFO program and contacted it to gain access:

EWD: What happened with you found contractor?

TW: I made several calls (end of May ’97), first to Paul, Mike & Perry to confirm I had right contractor and program manager to talk to.

EWD: They confirm?

TW: Yes.

EWD: Then?

TW: (End of May ’97) Made three calls to the program manager – one of them conference call with security director and corporate attorney.

Confusion on their part at to why I was looking for them and what I wanted from them or wanted to know about.

Very testy tone from all of them. [Transcript/Summary, pp. 8-9]

Wilson next explains how he was denied access to the classified UFO program by the three corporate officials (program manager, security director, and attorney):

TW: I told threesome I wanted formal briefing, tour, etc. – was exploiting my regulatory authority as Deputy Director DIA/Assistant Joint Chief of Staff J-2 – Told them my not being briefed was oversight they needed to correct – I demanded!

TW: They needed to discuss this (his demand) so hung up. Got called 2 days later and they said they don’t want to talk on phone and arranged for face-to-face meeting at their facility.

EWD: Did you go?

TW: Yes, ten days later (mid-June or so). Flew out there

• • Met in their conference room in their secure vault
  • Three of them show up

EWD: 3 guys with whom you had telecon?

TW: Yes, same 3

• • Security director (NSA-retired, a CI expert)
  • Program director
  • Corporate attorney
  • Called themselves “the watch committee” or gate keepers [Transcript/Summary, p. 10]

Wilson describes how the “watch committee” told him about a prior incident years ago where the present security system was set up after an agreement was reached with the Pentagon’s Special Access Programs Oversight Committee (SAPOC), which was overhauled in 1994, very likely due to the incident Wilson was told about. The agreement gave the corporate contractor running certain categories of SAPs the authority to restrict access to UFO related programs from Pentagon officials regardless of their rank and position:

– [TW] Said after that episode a formal agreement was struck with Pentagon people (SAPOC) to prevent this in future – didn’t want a repeat

–      Special criteria were established in agreement

• • A special circumstance that must meet rigorous access criteria set by contractor committee
    • No USG personnel are to gain access unless they met the criteria – to be administered by contractor committee (program director, attorney, security director) irregardless of the tickets and position USG personnel possess
    • Literally their way or the highway. [Transcript/Summary p. 11]

The “watch committee” told Admiral Wilson that despite him being Deputy Director of the DIA and Vice Director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that he was not on the “bigot list” – those with a “need to know” access – who could be briefed about the UFO program:

TW: They said my tickets were all confirmed and valid, but I was not on the bigot list

• • My tickets alone were not enough
  • I didn’t meet the special criteria so need to know authorization was not being granted….

TW: Argued more – they wouldn’t accept my arguments that they fell under my statutory oversight and regulatory authority as Deputy Director DIA – under purview for my right to have need to know (oversight, audit, justification issues, etc., etc.)

• • Regulatory and statutory authority as Deputy Director DIA not relevant or pertinent to nature of their program!
  • Then they pulled out their bigot list to convince me otherwise – several pages long – dated 1990, updated 1993. [Transcript/Summary, pp. 11-12]

The transcription goes on to cover Wilson and Davis’ conversation about names on the bigot list, and who in the Pentagon and White House was allowed access:

EWD: Who was on it? Recognize names?

TW: That is core secret.

Willing to say that most were program employees – names and titles (job titles) – civilians – didn’t recognize any military personnel – could be there.

EWD: Any politicians?

TW: No

No White House names, no President!

No Congressional peopleµ

No Congressional staffers

EDW: Any in Clinton or Bush Sr. Administrations?

TW: No! But handful of names were Pentagon individuals I recognized – few from OUSDAT, one from another department, another at the NSC who is Pentagon SES employee. [Transcript/Summary, p. 12]

Stunningly, Wilson learned that no members of the Legislative (Congress) or Executive (White House) branches of government were briefed about the corporate UFO program. Only a few Pentagon officials were given access. This corroborates what Greer and others have been claiming for decades over the unconstitutional nature of the secrecy system developed for the UFO issue.

Next, the transcript elaborates on how Wilson tried to gain access by identifying the type of program that was underway attempting to link it to his official field of responsibility as Deputy Director DIA:

– [TW] Program Manager said they were

• • Not any weapons program
  • Not any intelligence program
  • Not any special ops or logistics program
  • Doesn’t fit these categories [Transcript/Summary, p. 12]

Finally, Wilson was told that the UFO program was a reverse engineering program of a recovered extraterrestrial vehicle, exactly what Greer, Mitchell, and Miller, had told him at the April 10, 1997 meeting. Importantly, Wilson expressed his surprise thinking that the UFO term was merely a cover for acquired foreign aerospace technology built by the USSR or China:

• • I asked what they were then
  • Loud groan from Program Manager
  • Security Director and attorney say it’s okay to say it.

EWD: Say what?

TW: There were a reverse engineering program –

• • Something recovered years ago in the past
  • Technological hardware was recovered
  • So I thought they meant recovered Soviet/Chinese, etc. hardware and reverse engineer it – like a missile or intel platform or aircraft – actually came to meeting expecting to find a sensitive foreign collection and reverse engineering operation – thought “UFOs” used as a cover for that –
  • So I said that and they said they weren’t that either
  • They had (program manager talking) a craft – an intact craft they believed could fly …
  • Program manager said they didn’t know where it was from [they had some ideas on this] – it was technology that was not of this Earth – not made by man – not by human hands [Transcript/Summary, pp. 12-13]

Wilson next described that he was told the corporation had encountered great difficulty in its reverse engineering efforts:

• • [TW] Said they were trying to understand and exploit technology: their program was going on for years and years with very slow progress
  • Agonizingly slow with little or no success – painful lack of collaboration to get help from outside community of experts and facilities to assist effort – must remain isolated and use own facilities and cleared personnel – tough environment to work – about 400-800 (bigot list count) workers varying in number funding or personnel changes. [Transcript/Summary, pp. 12-13]

When Wilson threatened to go to the Special Access Program Oversight Committee (SAPOC) he was told to go ahead by the corporate “watch committee” and was eventually denied access by the Senior Review Group running SAPOC Pentagon committee set up to oversee Special Access Programs:

TW: Before last week of June (’97)

• • They told me (TW) that they were sustaining the contractor, that I was to immediately drop the matter and let it go – forget about it as I did not have purview over their project, it didn’t fall within my oversight, etc.
  • I became very angry – started yelling when should have kept my mouth shut…
  • … Senior Review Group chairman said if I didn’t follower their suggestion that I would not see Director DIA promotion, get early retirement, lose 1 or 2 stars along the way
  • Really incredibly angry – upset over this – livid!!!
  • Why such a big deal over this considering the position of trust I have in the Pentagon – I do have relevant regulatory/statutory authority over their program – that’s my position!!! [Transcript/Summary, p. 14] 

The refusal to grant access was the critical moment that Wilson realized that the corporation was being supported by a powerful group linked to the Pentagon to hide the corporation’s reverse engineering of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, as an Unacknowledged/waived SAP, hidden within the labyrinth of conventional SAPs conducted by the Pentagon and its corporate contractors.

The refusal was ultimately why Wilson believed that a UFO cabal/ MJ-12 was in charge of UFO related projects, and even senior officials at the DIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were out of the loop. This is what he told Commander Miller back in June 1997, who in turn relayed Wilson’s conclusions to Steven Greer and Edgar Mitchell who respectively revealed more details over the next two decades.

[Continued in Part 3. Click here for Part 1]

© Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. Copyright Notice

[Note: The 15 page leaked Document is available here]

Further Reading

• New Investigation Shows Disputed MJ-12 Document Exposing Extraterrestrial Contact is Authentic
• New Majestic Document Reveals US Diplomatic Relations with Extraterrestrials
• Advanced Technology Reports Leaked by Corey Goode Confirmed by Leading Scientist
• Above Majestic Producer Reveals Secret Space Program Disclosures & Document Dumps Imminent
• Full ET disclosure plan involves document dumps & whistleblowers coming forward
• Wikileaks Reveals USAF General involved in UFO & Secret Space Program Disclosures

{ https://www.exopolitics.org/ }

There are several important conclusions from Admiral Thomas Wilson’s failed efforts to learn about and gain access to a classified UFO program that involved a clandestine corporate effort to reverse engineering a retrieved extraterrestrial spacecraft as described in the leaked 15 page document received by Canadian UFO research Grant Cameron in November 2018, and uploaded to the internet on April 19, 2019.

First, Wilson’s failure to gain access to the classified UFO program described in parts one & twoof this series confirms one of Dr. Steven Greer’s major contentions that senior military officials are out of the loop when it comes to UFOs, despite the obvious national security implications they carry. The “bigot list” mentioned by Wilson in his conversation with Dr. Eric Davis about who was granted “need to know” access to the program, was dominated by corporate employees, with only a few Pentagon officials being briefed, and no one from the Executive and Legislative branches of government.

This is very surprising given the clear national security implications about UFOs due to the advanced technologies they possess, and the possibility that these could be or had been weaponized by foreign nations. A few years later this was the rationale for the creation of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) in 2007 with Congressional funding of $22 milliion. Significantly, some of the principal figures involved in the Wilson UFO briefing, e.g., Dr. Eric Davis, were also involved in the AATIP program.

A second conclusion is that corporations have been given an inordinate amount of power when it comes to deciding who gains access to the category of unacknowledged/waived SAPs that involved the study of retrieved extraterrestrial technologies. The corporate “watch committee” described in part two, bluntly turned down Wilson’s request for access.

What really surprised Admiral Wilson, however, was that the Pentagon’s Senior Review Group running the Special Access Program Oversight Committee (SAPOC) also turned his request for access down, despite him being DIA Deputy Director, and Vice Director for Intelligence (V-J2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. All this is very telling about the power of corporations when it comes to who is really in charge of the research and development of extraterrestrial related technologies.

Another conclusion is that Wilson’s testimony provides powerful support for the existence of a UFO cabal/control group running extraterrestrial related projects in a way that escapes conventional government and military oversight. Leaked documents going back to September 1947 have referred to this control group as Operation Majestic 12/MAJIC 12/MJ-12. 

Admiral Wilson’s experiences is telling us that the UFO control group is very real and exercises great power through its ability to restrict “need to know” access to whom it chooses regardless of an official’s constitutionally backed duties and positions. While it has long been known that US presidents and members of Congress were routinely cut out of the loop of such UFO related projects, it is was not known that this was occurring to senior Pentagon officials until the 1997 Wilson briefing.

Fourth, who leaked the 15 page document to UFO researcher Grant Cameron in November 2018? Was it one or more “white hats” wanting the disclosure process to move forward by leaking one of the most important UFO documents ever to publicly emerge as contended by UFO historian Richard Dolan describing it as the “UFO leak of the century”? Alternatively, was the leaking part of a limited hangout promoting Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy through the involvement of figures such as Dr. Eric Davis as contended by Kerry Cassidy from Project Camelot?

Dolan addressed these questions in a blog post (insert video) published on June 15. He pointed out that Cameron’s source for the document is an Australian space/UFO enthusiast, James Rigney. In a Q and A with Dolan, Rigby wrote:

It is unlikely that these documents would ever have found their way to anyone within the UFO community were in not that for the fact that for number of years I was very active in the ‘Space’ community, belonging to an organization in Australia and making frequent trips to the US to attend conferences and other events. Along the way I was fortunate to make acquaintance in the US with several people in the US who knew of my interest in, knowledge of, and credible approach to the UFO/UAP phenomena, as well as my passive and occasional involvement in the UFO community.

The events that lead me to obtaining the documents were strangely the result of this strange and unlikely intersection between the usually incompatible Space & UFO fields….

Over a period of a couple of years, I gained [the] trust of these people to a point where I was invited to look over some documents, copy what I wanted, and get them into the right hands if I thought that was appropriate. Certainly there was no intrigue or ‘smoking gun’ type discussions at the time.

Digby was here confirming that the document’s original source was an individual connected to the US Space community who provided the document to him a few years ago. There is growing speculation that the leaked 15 page document came from the files of the deceased Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. If so, who gave the document to Mitchell? The most likely source is Dr. Davis given his direct role in recording/summarizing the meeting with Admiral Wilson, but as mentioned in part 1, Davis had no comment on the 15 page document when I contacted him by email.

Tracking the ultimate source for the leaked document is very relevant given present circumstances surrounding topics concerning space and UFOs. The fact that the 15 page document was publicly uploaded on April 19 is significant given recent public interest over Navy pilots reporting UFO incidents, and the creation of a Space Force, as a new branch of the US military, which takes me to my last conclusion.

Finally, the three corporate officials in the “watch committee” that denied access to the classified program, claimed that the reverse engineering of the extraterrestrial vehicle was very slow, and little progress had been made over the years. Were they telling the truth or providing a cover story for successfully reverse engineered extraterrestrial technologies, which had been covertly deployed in a corporate run secret space program that was kept away from the prying eyes of the DIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff?

In the US Air Force Secret Space Program, I describe how differently sized and shaped antigravity vehicles were successfully reverse engineered by corporate contractors, including Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks division, and began to be deployed in the 1970s and 1980s by the USAF. This suggests that there are many Unacknowledged SAPs that involve the research, development, and deployment of antigravity spacecraft by different military services and corporate contractors.

There is no indication in the leaked 15-page document over whether Admiral Wilson was aware of secret space programs runs by the USAF and the US Navy. He merely expressed his surprise that the UFO program that Steven Greer and Edgar Mitchell pointed out to him, which he was unaware of, involved a retrieved extraterrestrial spacecraft.

It’s quite possible that Wilson was aware of military-run space programs but simply had not been briefed about the specific reverse engineering program that was being run by the corporate contractor for unknown purposes, one of which involved a corporate run secret space program.

It’s perhaps not coincidental that the leaked transcript and summary of Admiral Wilson and Dr. Davis 2002 conversation emerges as Space Force is about to be formally launched. The US Congress is poised to pass legislation authorizing the creation of Space Force as a separate branch of the US military under the authority of the Department of the US Air Force.

The emergence of Space Force will ultimately address many of the questions and issues raised by Admiral Wilson’s investigation of the corporate reverse engineering program back in 1997, and the secret construction of antigravity spacecraft by multiple corporate contractors for the US military or other unknown customers.

Space Force will also provide a powerful institutional foundation for disclosing many secrets concerning antigravity technology, alien life, the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technologies, and secret space programs. The leak of the Wilson Davis conversation comes at a propitious time for the disclosure process to move forward, and Space Force is the most likely institutional catalyst for all to be revealed.

[Go to Part 2, Part 1]

© Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. Copyright Notice

• [Note: The 15 page leaked Document is available here]

Further Reading

• DIA Confirms List of Exotic Propulsion Papers Corroborating Insider Testimony on Warp Drive & Wormhole Travel
• Advanced Technology Reports Leaked by Corey Goode Confirmed by Leading Scientist
• Do We Need Space Force to Protect us from Space Pirates?
• Trump’s Plan for US Space Force challenges Deep State Secrecy
• Trump call for Space Force a Step towards Disclosure of USAF Secret Space Program
• New Investigation Shows Disputed MJ-12 Document Exposing Extraterrestrial Contact is Authentic
• Full ET disclosure plan involves document dumps & whistleblowers coming forward

{ https://www.exopolitics.org/ }

Distances in space are brain-meltingly vast. Compared to the stars and planets billions of light years away, our Moon is barely 4 lakh kilometres from us—a simple Uber ride, in interstellar terms. And with things getting increasingly hairy on Earth thanks to freak weather, scary resource shortages, and environmental messes of every description, the Moon is looking more appealing than ever: as Earth’s first space outpost, a transit stop and fuelling station for journeys to other worlds... perhaps even a future human colony!

But despite being one of the most explored celestial bodies out there, the Moon still harbours many mysteries. This has led to renewed efforts by global space agencies to study and explore it. For India, a society that’s been looking at the skies for centuries due to its Vedic roots in astronomy and astrology, the quest to reach the Moon was more than merely symbolic. Now, as Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) starts the countdown for its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, let’s recap how we reached the Moon a decade ago.

In 2008, India launched its first deep space mission, Chandrayaan 1. It was a historic moment for ISRO, which launched its first satellite, Aryabhatta, six years after the US Apollo 11’s crew landed on the moon. Considering its delayed entry into the space club, India and ISRO has made a remarkable progress in space exploration over the last three decades.

Chandrayaan-1’s story is well known. In a nutshell, India’s first deep space mission lasted approximately a year from its October 2008 launch to its abrupt end in August 2009. Its biggest claim to fame was helping find water ice at the Moon’s poles. Perhaps all that sudden fame was hard to handle, because in August 2009, the satellite lost contact with its controllers at ISRO. However, Chandrayaan-1 was rediscovered by NASA in 2017. While it has long been defunct, it is probably still silently orbiting the Moon, perhaps waiting to hail its compatriot, Chandrayaan-2, with a cheery ‘namaste’ when the latter swings by later this year.

The mission

Humankind has sent probes to the Moon for six decades now. The first lunar flyby happened in 1959; the first touchdown in 1966, and the first crewed landing (Neil Armstrong’s big moment) in 1969. Between 1959 and 1976, the race to the Moon was dominated entirely by the US and Soviet space agencies. But as technology and wherewithal spread, Japan, Europe and China stepped in with their own lunar missions in 1990, 2003 and 2007 respectively.

India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission, also its first lunar mission, was announced by the government in 2003. The objective was to map the chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic features of the Moon and create a 3D atlas of its near and far (dark) side. As the precursor to Chandrayaan-2, the first lunar mission would also test conditions for an eventual soft-landing on the Moon’s surface.

Over the next 5 years, ISRO rapidly developed the spacecraft’s components: the PSLV-C11 rocket that carried it into space, an orbiter, and a Moon Impact Probe (MIP). It was a budget spaceship, built at a cost of Rs.386 crore, or US$76 million, only 4% of ISRO’s (then) budgetover 3 years. (For comparison, China’s Chang’e 1 lunar mission, launched in 2007, cost $180 million. Chandrayaan-2 will cost about $143 million. India’s upcoming human space flight programme? An estimated $1.46 billion.)

Coming back to Chandrayaan-1, the orbiter was based on Kalpana-1, a meteorological satellite launched by India in 2002, and carried a phalanx of instruments, from sophisticated cameras to equipment for studying the external and internal features of the Moon. A 32-kg Moon Impact Probe (MIP), meanwhile, was designed to crash into the surface after taking videos of the surface and studying the lunar atmosphere during the descent process. In addition to five Indian instruments, Chandrayaan carried equipment from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, and Bulgaria— most notably, a Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument from NASA.

The 1.4 tonne (at launch) Chandrayaan-1 blasted off on October 22, 2008, meeting all takeoff and Earth orbit success parameters. Then, on November 8, Chandrayaan moved into lunar orbit. And that’s where the real mission began.

Journey and results

After orbiting the Moon for a few days, Chandrayaan eventually reached a height of 100 km above the surface. On November 14, the Moon Impact Probe left the orbiter and crashed near the lunar South Pole. As it free-fell for some 25 minutes, the probe reportedly took readings that suggested the presence of water vapour in the moon’s atmosphere. However, that data is apparently inconclusive.

More significantly, the probe sent readings back to the orbiter that indicated the presence of water on the surface and the sub-surface (“tens of metres deep”) under the north and south poles of the Moon. In parallel, NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), which remained in the orbiter, also found data that eventually confirmed the presence of solid water ice in the shadows of craters near the poles, where temperatures hover around -157°C.

These findings made huge waves in the space community and global media. To be clear, this wasn’t the first time evidence of surface ice was found on the Moon—the Soviets claimed they found water in moon rocks brought back in 1976. NASA’s own probes have analysed reflected radio waves that showed the signature of water ice. However, the findings were inconclusive, and as NASA admitted, could have been explained by other phenomena, such as “unusually reflective lunar soil”.

In 2009, the US sent a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and impact probe (LCROSS) that complemented Chandrayaan-1’s discovery of water at the lunar poles. And in 2013, the same M3 team from NASA also detected ‘magmatic water’, i.e. water from beneath the Moon’s interiors, on the surface of a crater—yet another feather in the mission’s cap.

Unfortunately, after making 3400 orbits of the Moon, equipment failure forced the mission to be abandoned after August 28, 2009—nearly a year prematurely. However, ISRO says that 95% of mission objectives had been met by then.

Chandrayaan-1 enabled the confirmation of water on the Moon. In the process, it also enhanced humankind’s thirst for interstellar adventure. There’s no looking back.

{ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ }

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