Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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Berichten van 1 september 2019 tot 30 september 2019
I was looking over a live volcano cam when I found an unknown object flying through the plume of smoke over the volcano. The object has no wings, tail or contrail. When I focus the object using a photo program, it appears to be a white disk with a dark hump at its lower center. There are no identifying marks on the craft. Also the second cam in the upper left corner caught nothing at all. It was invisible to that cam! That sound like the cloaking technology of aliens to me. So I'm calling this a real UFO. Scott C. Waring
Glowing White UFO Seen Over Ukraine Aug 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 2019 Location of sighting: Ukraine Source: Email Report This was sent into me from an Youtube subscriber living in the Ukraine. The video shows a glowing object moving across the sky. The object has no wings, windows, tail. It keeps its reflective white appearance the whole time. But there are a few seconds where this UFO looks triangular in shape. That could mean its a TR3B in the hands of the Russians. Russia and China have their own share of recovered UFOs, also NASA worked with the Russians during the covert Apollo 18, 19, 20 missions...which recovered a lot of alien technology from some crashed ships on the moon. This could be a secret military craft. Scott C. Waring
Stone Disk Found In Coal Mine In Russia, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Location of discovery: Russia Date of discovery: 2015 I believe what they have found is a UFO drone ship. These smaller drones are used as scouts for keeping larger ships safe. Often a UFO will have these small scouts or even smaller baseball size orbs rotating around the UFO like a protective shield. Many such UFO disks have been found around the world, always heavy and appear to be made of stone. However I do not believe its really stone, but a condensed nano bot micro material that strengthens the UFO like stone, but actually is a complex network. I believe if we looked at its material under an electron microscope, we would find evidence of micro alien tech. Scott C. Waring News states:
A mysterious boulder resembling a flying saucer was unveiled on Sunday after it was unearthed at a coal mine in the Belovo District, Kemerovo at the end of January. The disc is 1.2m (3.9ft) in diameter and weighs approximately 200kg (441lb).
I found two interesting structures today in a Mars gigapan photo. The two structures appear to be ships that landed at the center of craters. You can see the black shinyness of the objects. One is very round and dome like the other is less thick and more turtle shell shaped. I believe both are ships that can leave at any time. By landing in the craters, astronomers and others who record them will assume that they are mere shadows. But as you see, they are real objects hiding in the craters.
Two UFOs Seen Over New York During Day, Sep 2, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 2, 2019 Location of sighting: Clayville, New York, USA Source:MUFON #103083 This report just came into MUFON today. Two UFOs were seen passing over trees in the small town of Clayville, New York. Clayville has a population of 350-400 residents. The daytime footage is 56 seconds long. If it were CGI often its so hard to make it that people will only make about 10-15 seconds of footage. So this rules out CGI. The UFOs are also matching color with the clouds in the sky as many UFOs have done in past reports. It is however very rare to see them traveling outside the cloud. Usually they dart from cloud to cloud. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
I was looking through the old Spirit rover photos when I found a screaming face in the dirt. It was a skull that resembled part reptilian and part bird. It had been run over, because thats the only thing NASA is good at doing on mars...running over alien artifacts and evidence. This skull resembles some of the ancient dinosaur bird creatures that once lived here on earth. Ask yourself...if you found this in your back yard, would you even hesitate at thinking it was a dinosaur fossil? You would probably assume its as such instantly. The fact that its on Mars alone should rock the world of paleontology. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
See China Hit Typhoon With Microwaves To Break It Into Pieces! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Sept 4, 5, 6, 2019 Location of discovery: North of Nigde, China I was using a weather map radar and noticed some peculiar beams shooing from China and hitting the eye of the Typhoon heading towards us in Taiwan. That blue dot, thats me. The last seven typhoons that have come at us head on have all stopped abruptly just as it hits our shores...then either dies or changes direction. Typhoons so powerful that the movement usually declares a no work day, but then its a sunny day and they feel angry about it. Now HAARP or weather modifications often use lasers that shoot out microwaves...yes you heard me right. The kind thats deadly to most living creatures...and yet its used anyways. Here in this video I show the typhoon being hit in the eye with several beams from china. There has never been more proof of weather modification ever than this. This is 100% proof weather modification is being used...but is it to steer typhoons or does it actually create the typhoons? It probably can do both. Scott C. Waring
UFO Seen During Daytime Over Town Of Livingston, Montana On Aug 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 18, 2019 Location of sighting: Livingston, Montana, USA Source:MUFON #103147 This just in at MUFON. An eyewitness states that he took a photo of his brother walking along the sidewalk and later noticed a dark disk in the upper right corner of the photo. The UFO in the photo is a dark football shaped craft with the sunlight reflecting off of it. Its slightly blurry, so it must have been traveling very fast at the time of the photo. Livingston has a low population of only 7,000 and most UFO reports do come from lower populated areas. Scott C. Waring
UFO Seen Over Tiny Island Of Mauritius In Indian Ocean, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighing: December 22, 2018 Location of sighting:Island of Mauritius, Le More, Indian ocean. Source:MUFON #103156 This person caught a UFO over the mountain on an island in the Indian Ocean last December, but just reported it today. The UFO looks rectangle shaped and seen from the side. It has a lot of right angles and I believe its headed into a cloaked doorway in the mountain. Most of the the UFO bases on earth are below the floor of the ocean and this mountain may be an ancient entrance that this alien pilot seems to remember. Absolutely amazing UFO shape. 100% proof that an alien base sits under Mauritius island. Scott C. Waring
UFO Seen Flying Over Hamptons, Long Island, New York Coming From Coast, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 12, 2019 Location of sighing: Long Island, New York, USA Source: Email report Guys this was sent to me the other day. An eyewitness and his family were near the Hamptons, Long Island and saw a white disk flying through the sky. The object has no wings, sound, trail or tail. It could be a secret military craft, but there is no military base nearby. It probably came from the ocean area from an underground alien base off the coast of New York. This footage is undeniable proof that aliens are visiting New York. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
This was captured August 12th on eastern Long Island. At the 49 sec mark there appears to be another object far in the background. My wife and a child of a friend saw this as they were swimming the same time I did. They have been listening to me talk about ET's for awhile, so they are on the lookout.
Alien Face Found In Jenner Crater, Moon, Face Is 25,000km Across! UFO Sighting News.
Location of discovery: Jenner Crater, Earths Moon
Source: Book, Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas. Correction: In the video I said miles, I meant meters. My bad.
I found this extraordinary human looking face on earths moon in Jenner crater. Jenner crater is huge, 74,000 meters in diameter or 119,000 meters. That means the face itself is also huge at 25,000 meters.
The source of the photograph is actually a disk that comes in a book. The book is Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas and it has some good stuff inside with some original unedited photos of our moon.
The face is 100% proof that aliens exist, and they are leaving signs across the universe for us to find...when we are ready to accept them.
Amazing Structures On Dark Side Of Moon, UFO Sighting News.
Source: Book...Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas by Charles Byrne.
I found these structures in a book about the moon about ten years ago, and I don't believe I have made a video about it yet, so here it goes. The objects are not glitches in the photo process as some would say. They actually have shadows thrown a long ways. The photo above is actually a hill like structure that turns into this fungus structure. Amazing huh? Watch the video to see the other 7 photos of these objects on the dark side of the moon. These photos were taken down by NASA over 15 years ago, but this book has a CD in the back with those photos and index ID numbers still on them. Absolute proof of life on the dark side of the moon. Scott C. Waring
Awesome UFO Shoots Past SOHO NASA Satellite In High Detail! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Sept 12, 2019 Date of event: August 8, 2019 Source:Helioviewer.org Hi guys, this was sent into me by a Terry who runs the Youtube channel Terrys Theories. He caught a UFO in high detail near the SOHO NASA satellite lens. The UFO is big, about 300-1600 meters across, but is it a craft or is it a living organism? Thats the real question. The sun in the background would be about the same size inside that black circle. The sun is about 1/2 the size of that black circle. These UFOs have been seen a lot before and every time I always discuss the possibility that these are living creatures. Why? They often move in groups, but this one is alone. I feel we have to keep an open mind to all possibilities. Something NASA closed the door on long ago. Scott C. Waring
On September 6, 2019, a UFO which looks like a bright orb is seen inside a jet contrail. After just a few seconds the contrail just dissipates. Very strange!
According to Sonofmabarker the dissipation of the contrail suggests possible energy field around the object.
US government 'is silently monitoring snake-like UFOs' seen across the country
EXCLUSIVE: A former police detective believes the US government is well aware of the mysterious objects that have appeared over several different states
The US government is likely aware of the snake-like UFOs that have been spotted across the country and are monitoring them, a former police detective has revealed.
Over the past several months, people from all parts of the US have claimed to have captured bizarre objects in the skies on camera, which bear similarities to snakes in their movement.
The sightings started in June, when a popular YouTuber was shocked to discover a bright light above the Mojave Desert in California.
"I certainly believe that the US government and military know much more about ET visitation," he continued.
"I suspect that we only know 10% of the truth about UFOs and ET contact which means 90% is still in the secret world of military intelligence.
"Providing the sightings are numerous and have multiple witnesses, I have no doubt that someone in authority will be 'silently' monitoring the activity [of snake-like UFOs]."
Gary went on to say he has "met many people who were formerly military pilots" who have had had UFO encounters.
"There is no doubt in my mind that a small proportion of UFO reports involve ET visitation (3%)," he added.
Gary runs the Police Reporting UFO Sightings database, where he claims to have more than 500 reports of UFO sightings from police officers dating back to 1901.
He worked in the British Transport Police for 24 years before retiring in 2013 and now describes himself as the UK’s leading researcher UFO sightings.
Amerikaanse overheid monitort in het geheim ‘slangachtige UFO’s’. Hier worden ze gezien
Een oud-rechercheur heeft gezegd dat de Amerikaanse overheid weet dat slangachtige UFO’s op verschillende plekken in het land zijn gesignaleerd.
In de afgelopen maanden hebben mensen uit alle hoeken van de Verenigde Staten bizarre objecten vastgelegd in de lucht die vanwege hun rare bewegingen doen denken aan slangen.
De waarnemingen begonnen in juni, toen een populaire YouTuber een fel licht ontdekte boven de Mojavewoestijn in Californië.
Decennia
Ze zouden ook zijn gezien tijdens een meteorenzwerm in Wyoming en in New York.
“Sigaarvormige UFO’s worden al decennia gezien,” zei ex-rechercheur Gary Heseltine tegen Daily Star Online.
“Soms worden er ‘slangachtige’ objecten gemeld,” voegde hij toe.
Mexico en Peru
“Deze waarnemingen zijn zeldzaam en worden van tijd tot tijd gemeld, met name in landen als Mexico en Peru,” aldus Heseltine.
Hij zei verder dat de Amerikaanse overheid en het leger veel meer weten over buitenaards bezoek dan ze ons willen doen geloven.
“Ik schat dat slechts 10 procent van de informatie over UFO’s en buitenaards contact naar buiten is gekomen, wat betekent dat de overige 90 procent nog in handen is van de militaire inlichtingendiensten,” klonk het.
Buitenaardse makelij
Hij zei ervan overtuigd te zijn dat de overheid de activiteit van slangachtige UFO’s in het geheim monitort.
Heseltine zei dat hij veel voormalige straaljagerpiloten heeft ontmoet die UFO’s hebben waargenomen in het luchtruim.
Hij schat zelf dat ongeveer drie procent van de UFO’s van buitenaardse makelij is.
Mysterious object from interstellar space ‘approaching our solar system’
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
A MYSTERIOUS object from deep space is fizzing towards the Solar System – and scientists have no idea what it is.
Dubbed "C/2019 Q4", the high-speed body appears to be on a path originating from another star system that will see it fire past Mars in October.
Simulation of C/2019 Q4's possible orbital path (green) through the solar system. The object may pass between the orbits of Mars (orange) and Jupiter (purple) in October
That would make it only the second interstellar visitor ever known to have reached the Solar System.
The first, a cigar-shaped object called Oumuamua, took the world by storm when it careened past Earth in 2017.
A pair of Harvard scientists claimed it could be an alien spacecraft, sparking a frantic flurry of scans as the object closed in on the Solar System.
Experts found no signs of alien signals, and Oumuamua whizzed past Earth before its true origin could be determined.
The European Southern Observatory in GermanyCredit: ESO
Now researchers at European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany say an object once thought to be from the Solar System may actually be an interstellar traveller.
C/2019 Q4 was spotted on August 30 by amateur Ukrainian astronomer Gennady Borisov, and scientists have studied it ever since.
"It's so exciting, we're basically looking away from all of our other projects right now," Dr Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer with the ESO, told Business Insider.
Dr Hainaut was also part of a team that studied Oumuamua during its brief visit.
"The main difference from 'Oumuamua and this one is that we got it a long, long time in advance, " he added.
"Now astronomers are much more prepared."
Artist's impression of the interstellar object OumuamuaCredit: Getty - Contributor
Early images of C/2019 Q4 suggest it's followed by a tail of dust.
That's typically what you see coming out the back of a comet, though scientists say they can't be sure that's definitely what the object is.
With more observations of C/2019 Q4, scientists have worked out the shape of its orbit.
If the object is indeed interstellar, scientists should be able to study it until early 2021, when it will grow too dim to see.
That means we'll have way more time to study it than Oumuamua, which was only visible for a few weeks before it disappeared into deep space, never to be seen again.
Back in January, a Harvard space chief claimed Oumuamua could be an alien spacecraft that broke down on its interstellar journey.
That may explain why we didn't spot any signals coming out of it – though not all scientists agree.
In July, an international team of scientists concluded that Oumuamua has a "purely natural origin". They reckon it's a hunk of rock ejected by a giant gas planet.
What is Oumuamua?
Here's everything you need to know...
Oumuamua is a cigar-shaped asteroid that sped past Earth in 2017
Some boffins think the space rock was an alien probe sent by a distant civilisation
It was spotted by scientists in Hawaii, and its name means 'scout' in Hawaiian
Researchers involved in SETI- the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - used a powerful dish to scan Oumuamua
They found no signs of radio signals, suggesting it wasn't an alien spaceship after all
Recent research suggests that the object could have been ejected by a gas giant planet
It's now moving away from Earth so fast that we're unlikely to ever find out
Speaking to The Sun, space expert Lembit Opik said the new object shows how easy it is for interstellar objects to reach the solar system.
"Although it is unlikely that ‘Oumuamua is of alien origin, there are still some fascinating possibilities to emerge from its appearance," said Lembit, Chairman of Parliament for Asgardia, a group attempting to build the first "space nation".
"Due to the nature that it was travelling from one solar system to another that wasn’t our own, it implies two possible outcomes.
"Firstly, it shows that interstellar travel is possible. Humans and other lifeforms can potentially use phenomena such as ‘Oumuamua to travel on, taking us to unexplored corners of the universe.
"The other likely outcome is that lifeforms can be transported across all reaches of the universe.
"Whether it be bacteria or other such minute forms of life, it potentially means that life originating from one solar system could develop in another, potentially unlocking a mystery regarding the origin of life within the universe."
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Mysterieus object uit interstellaire ruimte nadert ons zonnestelsel, en wetenschappers hebben geen idee wat het is
Er komt een mysterieus object uit de diepe ruimte op ons af en wetenschappers hebben geen idee wat het is. Dat schrijft The Sun.
Het object, C/2019 Q4 gedoopt, lijkt uit een ander zonnestelsel te komen en zoeft naar verwachting in oktober langs Mars.
Het is de tweede interstellaire bezoeker ooit in ons zonnestelsel.
Buitenaards ruimteschip
Het eerste object, de ruimtesigaar Oumuamua, zorgde in 2017 voor de nodige consternatie toen hij langs de aarde kwam.
Harvard-wetenschappers claimden dat het een buitenaards ruimteschip zou kunnen zijn.
Onderzoekers van de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht in Duitsland zeggen nu dat een object waarvan in eerste instantie werd gedacht dat het uit ons zonnestelsel afkomstig is, waarschijnlijk een interstellaire bezoeker is.
Spannend
C/2019 Q4 werd op 30 augustus gespot door de Oekraïense amateurastronoom Gennady Borisov, waarna wetenschappers hun telescopen op het object richtten.
“We laten al onze andere projecten liggen,” zei astronoom Olivier Hainaut. “Het is zo spannend.”
Dr. Hainaut was ook onderdeel van een team dat onderzoek deed naar Oumuamua.
Stofstaart
“Het belangrijkste verschil is dat astronomen nu veel beter voorbereid zijn,” zei hij.
Wetenschappers zouden het object tot begin 2021 moeten kunnen bestuderen. Daarna is het te zwak.
C/2019 Q4 lijkt een stofstaart te hebben. Dat zie je vaak bij kometen, maar wetenschappers kunnen niet met zekerheid zeggen wat het is.
A former US Marine has claimed mass of UFO sightings are connected to mega earthquakes and other natural disasters.
Nick Karnaze, a former United States Marine Corps soldier who served in Afghanistan as an Intel Officer, is part of an investigation team tasked with collecting evidence to prove aliens have been in contact with Earth.
As part of his staggering findings for Discovery show Contact, the ex-soldier told Daily Star Online how he noticed a correlation between UFO sightings and natural disasters.
"We’re seeing a lot of sightings connected to earthquakes, which is very interesting," Nick told this site.
“Sarah [Cruddas] and I were looking at a lot of sightings around a series of earthquakes, relatively large for the area too.
US marine claims the sightings are related to natural disaster sites
“And I know the team in South America were also looking into similar patterns."
Nick revealed he found it "interesting that we have a correlation between mass UFO sightings and natural disasters".
However, he added: “There are a few possible explanations but not nothing is really jumping out as definitive to say ‘this is what's causing it, and this is why’.”
Footage has emerged over the years claiming to show UFOs in the region of earthquakes.
Massale UFO-waarnemingen kunnen worden gelinkt aan mega-aardbevingen. Amerikaanse marinier doet opmerkelijke uitspraken
UFO-waarnemingen zijn te linken aan mega-aardbevingen en andere natuurrampen. Dat heeft een ex-marinier gezegd.
Nick Karnaze, die als inlichtingenofficier gestationeerd was in Afghanistan, onderzoekt in de nieuwe tv-serie ‘Contact’ bewijs waaruit zou blijken dat aliens de aarde hebben bezocht.
De oud-soldaat denkt een verband te hebben gevonden tussen UFO’s en natuurrampen.
Erg interessant
Aan de serie, te zien op Discovery Channel, werken ook oud-CIA-officier Myke Cole, analist Michael Livingston, astrofysicus Sarah Cruddas en journalist Paul Beban mee.
“We zijn tot de ontdekking gekomen dat veel waarnemingen gelinkt kunnen worden aan aardbevingen, wat erg interessant is,” zei Karnaze tegen de Britse Daily Star.
“Ik deed samen met Sarah [Cruddas] onderzoek naar een aantal waarnemingen rond plekken waar aardbevingen zijn geweest,” zei hij.
Soortgelijke patronen
“En het team in Zuid-Amerika zocht naar soortgelijke patronen,” voegde hij toe.
Hij benadrukte dat hij niet met zekerheid kan zeggen dat buitenaardsen hiervoor verantwoordelijk zijn.
Door de jaren heen zijn er geregeld beelden verschenen van vermeende UFO’s in regio’s waar zich aardbevingen hebben voorgedaan.
Militaire installaties
In één filmpje zijn meerdere UFO’s te zien boven locaties die waren geraakt door een beving. In een andere video wordt geclaimd dat een UFO de oorzaak is van een natuurramp.
De ex-marinier merkte verder op dat er ook UFO’s zijn waargenomen in de buurt van militaire installaties.
The study offers new perspectives on the Fermi paradox, which asks why we haven't found signs of intelligent extraterrestrials in our galaxy.
There are plenty of scenarios in which aliens could exist but we haven't heard from them, the study's authors wrote. Aliens may have even visited Earth, they say — just not recently enough for us to have noticed.
The study suggests that aliens might wait for stars to move closer to one another before spreading across the galaxy.
The Milky Way could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations — we just don't know about it because they haven't paid us a visit in 10 million years.
The astrophysicist Michael Hart explored the question formally when he argued in a 1975 paper that there had been plenty of time for intelligent life to colonize the Milky Way in the 13.6 billion years since the galaxy formed, yet we'd heard nothing from them. Hart concluded that there must be no other advanced civilizations in our galaxy.
The new study offers a different perspective on the question: Maybe aliens are just taking their time and being strategic, the authors suggest.
"If you don't account for motion of stars when you try to solve this problem, you're basically left with one of two solutions," Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, a computational scientist and the study's lead author, told Business Insider. "Either nobody leaves their planet, or we are in fact the only technological civilization in the galaxy."
Stars (and the planets around them) orbit the center of the galaxy on different paths at different speeds, and as they do, they occasionally pass one another, Carroll-Nellenback pointed out. So aliens could be waiting for their next destination to come closer to them, his study says.
In that case, civilizations would take longer to spread across the stars than Hart estimated. So they may not have reached us yet — or maybe they did, long before humans evolved.
A new idea about interstellar travel
Several antennas that are part of the Allen Telescope Array, radio telescopes that search for signals from alien life.SETI Institute
Researchers have sought to answer the Fermi paradox in several ways. Studies have investigated the possibility that all alien life forms in oceans below a planet's surface and have posited that civilizations might be undone by their unsustainability before accomplishing any interstellar travel. There's also the "zoo hypothesis," which imagines that Milky Way societies have decided not to contact us for the same reasons we have nature preserves or maintain protections for some uncontacted indigenous peoples.
A 2018 Oxford University study, meanwhile, suggested that there's a roughly two-in-five chance that we're alone in our galaxy and a one-in-three chance that we're alone in the entire cosmos.
But the authors of the newest study said that previous research hasn't accounted for a crucial fact of our galaxy: It moves. Just as planets orbit stars, star systems orbit the galactic center. Our solar system, for example, orbits the galaxy every 230 million years.
If civilizations arise in star systems far from the others (like our own, which is in the backwaters of the galaxy), they could make the trip shorter by waiting until their orbital path brings them closer to a habitable star system, the study said. Once they're settled in that new system, the aliens could wait again for an optimal travel distance to make another hop, and so on.
Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, is 4.25 light-years from Earth.ESA/Hubble/NASA
In this scenario, aliens aren't jet-setting across the galaxy — they're just waiting long enough for their star to get close to another star with a habitable planet.
"If long enough is a billion years, well then that's one solution to the Fermi paradox," Carroll-Nellenback said. "Habitable worlds are so rare that you have to wait longer than any civilization is expected to last before another one comes in range."
The Milky Way could be full of settled star systems
To explore the scenarios in which aliens could exist, the researchers used numerical models to simulate a civilization's spread across the galaxy. They factored in a variety of possibilities for a hypothetical civilization's proximity to new star systems, the range and speed of its interstellar probes, and the launch rate of those probes.
An illustration of NASA's Voyager spacecraft drifting through space. Voyager 2 launched in 1977 and reached interstellar space in 2018.NASA
The research team did not attempt to guess at aliens' motivations or politics — a tendency that some astronomers view as a pitfall in other Fermi paradox solutions.
"We tried to come up with a model that would involve the fewest assumptions about sociology that we could," Carroll-Nellenback said.
Still, part of the problem with modeling the galactic spread of alien civilizations is that we're working with only one data point: ourselves. So all our predictions are based on our own behavior.
But even with this limitation, the researchers found that the Milky Way could be filled with settled star systems that we don't know about. That still held true when they used conservative estimates of the speed and frequency of aliens' interstellar travel.
"Every system could be habitable and could be settled, but they wouldn't visit us because they're not close enough," Carroll-Nellenback said, though he added that just because that's possible doesn't make it likely.
So far, we've detected about 4,000 planets outside our solar system, and none has been found to host life. But we haven't looked that hard: There are at least 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, and even more planets. One recent study estimated that up to 10 billion of those planets could be Earth-like.
So the study's authors wrote that concluding that none of those planets hold life would be like looking at a pool of ocean water and finding no dolphins, then deciding that the entire ocean has no dolphins.
Aliens may have visited Earth in the past
Another key element in debates about alien life is what Hart called "Fact A": There are no interstellar visitors on Earth now, and there is no evidence of past visits.
But that doesn't mean they were never here, the authors of the new study said.
A group of protesters march in front of the General Accounting Office in Washington, DC, on March 29, 1995, to raise awareness about the agency's examination of documents about a weather-balloon crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. The protesters believed the balloon was a crashed UFO.Joshua Roberts/AFP/Getty Images
If an alien civilization came to Earth millions of years ago (the Earth is 4.5 billion years old), there might be no remaining signs of their visit, the authors wrote. They pointed to previous research suggesting that we may not be able to detect evidence of past alien visits.
It's even possible that aliens have passed near Earth since we've been here, but decided not to visit. The paper called this the "Aurora effect," named for Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Aurora."
What's more, aliens might not want to visit a planet that already has life, the authors said. To assume that they would, they added, would be a "naive projection" of a human tendency to equate expansion with conquest.
The study accounted for all these considerations — the calculations assumed that alien civilizations would settle only a fraction of the habitable worlds they encountered.
Still, the researchers said, if there are enough habitable worlds, aliens could easily have spread across the galaxy by now.
There's still much more to learn
For now, the researchers don't think we should get discouraged by any perceived silence from the universe.
"It doesn't mean that we're alone," Carroll-Nellenback said. "It just means that habitable planets are probably rare and hard to get to."
In the next few years, our ability to detect and observe other potentially habitable planets is expected to improve dramatically as new telescopes get built and launched into space.
The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consists of 18 hexagonal mirrors. NASA/Chris Gunn
The Kepler telescope made leaps and bounds in the search for planets that might host life in our galaxy. In Earth's orbit today, the Hubble Space Telescope and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite are continuing the search. NASA is also building the James Webb Space Telescope, which may be able to see as far through space and time as the Big Bang; it's set to launch in 2021.
Of course, what would really improve scientists' ability to estimate the probability that we're alone in the universe would be more data on the speed or ranges of interstellar probes. A better sense of how long hypothetical alien civilizations last would be useful too.
"We're in desperate need of some data points," Carroll-Nellenback said.
Nieuwe studie: aarde is mogelijk al bezocht door buitenaardse beschavingen. Waar zijn ze nu (en komen ze ooit weer terug)?
In de Melkweg kunnen mogelijk talloze buitenaardse beschavingen worden gevonden, blijkt uit een nieuwe studie. We weten alleen niet dat ze bestaan, omdat ze heel lang geleden voor het laatst op bezoek zijn geweest.
Uit de studie, gepubliceerd in The Astronomical Journal, blijkt dat intelligent buitenaards leven een sterrenstelsel waarschijnlijk op zijn gemakje verkent.
Onderzoekers hebben op basis van een aantal modellen gesimuleerd hoe een beschaving zich over een sterrenstelsel verspreidt.
Geen sporen
Wetenschappers stellen dat er op dit moment geen interstellaire bezoekers op aarde zijn en dat er geen bewijs is dat ze er ooit zijn geweest.
Maar dat hoeft niet betekenen dat ze nooit op onze planeet zijn geweest, stellen de auteurs van de nieuwe studie.
Als een buitenaardse beschaving honderdduizenden of zelfs miljoenen jaren geleden naar de aarde is gereisd, zijn er mogelijk geen sporen meer te vinden van hun bezoek, aldus de auteurs.
Aurora-effect
Ze verwezen naar eerder onderzoek dat suggereert dat we bewijs voor buitenaards bezoek in het verleden mogelijk niet kunnen detecteren.
Het is zelfs mogelijk dat aliens de aarde zijn gepasseerd terwijl er mensen op leefden, maar dat ze hebben besloten om er niet te landen.
In dit geval spreekt men ook wel van het Aurora-effect, vernoemd naar het boek ‘Aurora’ van Kim Stanley Robinson.
Two-thirds in U.S. say government knows more than it's saying on UFOs
One-third thinks some UFOs are actual sightings of alien spacecraft
Residents of the West show highest belief
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As an internet campaign called "Storm Area 51" has nearly two million people pledging to break into a highly secure military base later this month in the hopes of uncovering possible secrets about UFOs, a recent Gallup poll finds two-thirds of Americans believe the government knows more about the subject than it has conveyed.
Government Information About UFOs
In your opinion, does the U.S. government know more about UFOs than it is telling us?
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For decades, UFO enthusiasts have claimed the government is warehousing crashed UFOs, and possibly aliens, at Area 51, part of an Air Force base in southern Nevada. In other UFO news, the Navy recently issued new guidance for personnel to report "unexplained aerial phenomena" after a spate of unusual sightings by Navy pilots.
The 68% today who believe the government is withholding information about UFOs is comparable to the 71% found in 1996. Both times, the results were similar among all main demographic groups, including by age, education and party identification.
However, it appears that only about half the number who think the government is hiding something about UFOs think it is covering up information about alien space landings, specifically. This conclusion is based on the finding that far fewer people give credence to UFO sightings or have witnessed them, personally, than think the government knows more than it's telling.
33% of U.S. adults believe that some UFO sightings over the years have in fact been alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies.
The majority, 60%, are skeptical, saying that all UFO sightings can be explained by human activity or natural phenomenon, while another 7% are unsure.
16% of Americans say they have personally witnessed something they thought was a UFO while the vast majority (84%) have not.
Even as most Americans are skeptical that aliens have visited Earth, the majority (56%) believe that those who spot UFOs are seeing something real, not just imagining it. This is up from 47% in 1996, possibly reflecting public awareness of military testing and the proliferation of drones which people may think can be mistaken for UFOs.
Separate from possible space landings on Earth, about half of Americans, 49% think that people somewhat like ourselves exist elsewhere in the universe. Even more, 75%, believe that some form of life exists on other planets.
Western U.S. Leads Nation in Believing UFOs Are Alien Spacecraft
UFO believers are found in all demographic and political segments of society, but are particularly likely to be residents of the West. That is the home of Area 51, as well as nearby Roswell, New Mexico -- where a crash of some kind in 1947 sparked the Area 51 conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
Forty percent of residents of the West believe some UFOs can be attributed to alien visitors. This compares with 32% of residents in the East and South and 27% in the Midwest.
Westerners are also a bit more likely than those in other regions to say they have personally seen a UFO: 20% in the West vs. 12% in the East and 15%-16% elsewhere.
Additionally, the new poll finds significant differences in UFO sightings by education and income, with lower socio-economic Americans being more likely than their counterparts to report belief.
Notably, Americans identifying as Protestant and Catholic are similar to the national average in believing UFOs are real. However, Americans with no religious affiliation are more likely to put stock in UFOs, with 40% saying some have been alien visitors.
Americans' Key Views of UFOs
We have a question about Unidentified Flying Objects, also known as UFOs. Which comes closer to your view -- some UFOs have been alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies, or all UFO sightings can be explained by human activity on Earth or natural phenomenon? Have you, yourself, ever seen anything you thought was a UFO?
Think some UFOs are alien spacecraft^
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^ Source: Aug. 1-14, 2019 Gallup poll ^^Source: June 19-30, 2019 Gallup poll
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Bottom Line
While not a majority, 33% of Americans believe alien spacecraft have visited Earth at some point. This group is potentially sympathetic to those who want to uncover what the government knows about alien landings, once and for all.
Another third or so of Americans may assume the government isn't being completely transparent about what it knows, but not because it is hiding something. For example, they may believe officials are keeping quiet because unidentified sightings could unnecessarily alarm the public, or because refuting UFOs would require disclosing sensitive military information.
Regardless of what Americans think of UFOs or the government's awareness of them, the subject is part of the nation's consciousness with 86% of U.S. adults saying they have heard of or read about unidentified flying objects.
De overheid houdt informatie over UFO’s achter. Nieuwe peiling toont verrassende resultaten
De meerderheid van de Amerikanen gelooft dat de overheid meer weet over UFO’s dan zij doet vermoeden.
Dankzij het evenement ‘Bestorm Area 51’, waar miljoenen mensen zich voor hebben aangemeld, is het UFO-onderwerp populairder dan ooit.
Uit een recente peiling blijkt dat 68 procent van de Amerikanen denkt dat de overheid informatie over UFO’s achterhoudt. In 1996 was dit nog 71 procent.
Doofpot
De helft van deze groep denkt dat informatie over landingen van buitenaardsen in de doofpot is gestopt.
Daarentegen meende 29 procent van de ondervraagden dat de Amerikaanse overheid alle informatie over het onderwerp al heeft gedeeld met het volk.
Een andere peiling laat zien dat 33 procent van de Amerikaanse volwassenen van mening is dat sommige UFO’s buitenaards zijn.
Gecrashte UFO’s
Deze groep wil graag dat de waarheid over landingen van aliens naar buiten gaat komen.
Zestien procent claimt zelf eens een UFO te hebben gezien.
UFO-enthousiastelingen zeggen al decennia dat de overheid gecrashte UFO’s en mogelijk ook aliens bewaart in Area 51 in het zuiden van de staat Nevada.
Vreemde dingen
Daarnaast kunnen straaljagerpiloten sinds kort waarnemingen van UFO’s melden bij de Amerikaanse marine.
De reden hiervoor is dat ze heel vaak vreemde dingen in het luchtruim zien.
Strange life forms found deep in a mine point to vast 'underground Galapagos'
The rock-eating, sulfur-breathing microbes have scientists wondering what other strange creatures dwell deep below Earth's surface.
A nematode in a biofilm of microorganisms. This unidentified species from Kopanang gold mine in South Africa lives 4,600 feet below the surface.
Courtesy Gaetan Borgonie / Extreme Life Isyensya
By Corey S. Powell
Something odd is stirring in the depths of Canada's Kidd Mine. The zinc and copper mine, 350 miles northwest of Toronto, is the deepest spot ever explored on land and the reservoir of the oldest known water. And yet 7,900 feet below the surface, in perpetual darkness and in waters that have remained undisturbed for up to two billion years, the mine is teeming with life.
The single-celled organisms don’t need oxygen because they breathe sulfur compounds. Nor do they need sunlight. Instead, they live off chemicals in the surrounding rock — in particular, the glittery mineral pyrite, commonly known as fool’s gold.
“It's a fascinating system where the organisms are literally eating fool's gold to survive,” Sherwood Lollar said. “What we are finding is so exciting — like ‘being a kid again’ level exciting.”
Barbara Sherwood Lollar's team at work in the mine.Stable Isotope Laboratory / University of Toronto
Sherwood Lollar is excited not only because of the peculiar the mine’s rock-eating life seems, but also because of the growing realization that strange forms of life might not be so peculiar after all. Scientists are starting to find similar microbes in other deep spots, including boreholes, volcanic vents on the bottom of the ocean and buried sediments far beneath the seafloor.
“The deep microbial realm reveals a biosphere that’s more extensive, resilient, varied and strange than we had realized,” said Robert Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, and co-founder of Deep Carbon Observatory, a global project to study the deep biosphere.
Cut off from light, air, and any connection to the surface, this shadowy realm seems more like an alien world than part of Earth. Hazen said exploring it could help us understand how life might have begun on other planets as well as on our own. We might even find alien-like creatures living undetected right beneath our feet.
Lots of life at the bottom
Sherwood Lollar’s work builds on a 2018 report by Deep Carbon Observatory scientists who tried to map the total extent of Earth’s deep biosphere comprehensively for the first time.
In the eye-opening report, a team led by Cara Magnabosco, a geobiologist at the Swiss technical university ETH Zurich, estimated that some 5 x 10^29 cells live in the deep Earth: that’s five-hundred-thousand-trillion-trillion cells. Collectively, they weigh 300 times as much as all living people combined. The team describes this hidden ecosystem as an “underground Galapagos.”
An exterior shot of Kidd Mine.table Isotope Laboratory / University of Toronto
The denizens of the deep are an exotic bunch even beyond their appetite for solid rock. One species, the microbe Geogemma barossii, can live at temperatures of 250 degrees Fahrenheit — well above the boiling point of water and close to the theoretical limit at which vital organic molecules start to disintegrate.
“We’re finding that we don't really understand the limits to life,” Sherwood Lollar said.
The pace of existence in the deep also seems radically different from that on the surface. In ancient environments like the trapped waters at the bottom of the Kidd Mine, food and energy are scarce. To compensate, cellular metabolism slows almost to a standstill.
“Many of the microbes may survive for thousands of years or more without dividing, just replacing their broken parts,” said Karen Lloyd, a University of Tennessee microbiologist who studies life at the bottom of the ocean.
There are so many deep microbes that, despite a seemingly lazy existence, they collectively exert a huge impact on their habitats. For instance, a community of cells on the ocean floor consume methane gas that bubbles up from ancient sediment. “Deep subsurface microbes eat massive amounts of methane that would otherwise be released,” Lloyd said, helping curb atmospheric levels of a potent greenhouse gas.
Back to beginnings
One of the big questions facing Sherwood Lollar is how the deep-life community at the Kidd Mine is related to those found in other mines or stretched out beneath the oceans. “The number of systems we've looked at so far really is limited,” she said, “but they probably had a single origin at some point in life’s 4-billion-year history.”
If so, there should still be clues about when and how life first colonized the deep.
Fossils show that surface life has changed enormously over billions of years, but slow-motion deep life may retain much of its primitive characteristics. That’s especially true at the Kidd Mine, which is in one of the oldest, most stable portions of Earth’s crust. (The rock in and around the mine have lain undisturbed for 2.7 billion years, and have been cool enough to support life for at least 2 billion years.)
Cara Magnabosco and colleagues collect ancient water samples 4,300 feet deep within the Beatrix Gold Mine, South Africa to investigate the diversity and abundance of deep microbes. Image courtesy of Gaetan Borgonie (Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium) and Barbara Sherwood Lollar.University of Toronto, Canada
Sherwood Lollar wants to sequence the genes of the Kidd Creek microbes and then do a 23andMe-style analysis to unravel their kinship to other residents of the deep Earth: Are they all still close relatives, or have they diversified and adapted significantly to their local environments? It’s a delicate project, but she hopes to have results within a year or two.
Such studies could offer hints about where life first arose on Earth. Charles Darwin imagined the beginning might have occurred in a warm little pond, but “there's absolutely no reason why it could not have been a warm little rock fracture,” Sherwood Lollar said. In many ways, she noted, sulfur-breathing microbes living beneath thick, protective layers of rock would have been well suited to the brutal conditions on our planet when it was young.
Another, even wilder possibility is that life originated more than once, with other forms still surviving somewhere on Earth. “We've literally only scratched the surface of the deep biosphere,” Hazen said. “Might there be entire domains that are not dependent on the DNA, RNA and protein basis of life as we know it?” Perhaps we just haven’t found them yet.
Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University, has long advocated systematic searches for such “shadow life.” The recent forays into the deep biosphere show how it might be done. Since known organisms cannot survive above 250 degrees Fahrenheit, Davies suggests going to extreme environments (around undersea volcanic vents, for instance) and checking for anything that appears alive at temperatures around 300 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
"That would stand out as a candidate for shadow life,” he said.
Ever cautious, Sherwood Lollar points out that she hasn’t found any evidence of shadow life at the Kidd Mine. But she heartily agrees that scientists need to keep a wide-open mind about what could be lurking within the deep world: “We see only what we look for. If we don't look for something, we miss it.”
Vreemde levensvormen in mijn wijzen op ‘ondergronds Galapagos’ op kilometers onder het aardoppervlak. Is hier schaduwleven?
De Canadese Kidd Mine is de diepste plek op aarde die ooit verkend is. De mijn bevindt zich op bijna drie kilometer onder de grond, het is er altijd donker en toch wemelt het er van leven.
Veel wetenschappers betwijfelden of leven onder dergelijke extreme omstandigheden zou kunnen bestaan.
Onlangs ontdekte geoloog Barbara Sherwood Lollar van de Universiteit van Toronto samen met haar collega’s opvallende microben in het water in de mijn.
Klatergoud
De organismen hebben geen zuurstof nodig omdat ze zwavel ademen. Ze hebben ook geen zonlicht nodig, en doen zich tegoed aan mineralen in de rotsen, vooral pyriet of klatergoud.
“Het is een fascinerend systeem waar organismen letterlijk klatergoud eten om te overleven,” zei Sherwood Lollar.
Plekken zoals de Kidd Mine hebben geen toegang tot de buitenlucht en zonlicht. Toch zijn er allerlei ecosystemen te vinden.
In 2018 hebben wetenschappers geprobeerd de biosfeer in het binnenste van de aarde in kaart te brengen.
Ondergrondse Galapagos
Zij schatten dat alle organismen in de diepe aarde 300 keer meer wegen dan alle mensen tezamen.
Het team omschreef dit verborgen ecosysteem als het ‘ondergrondse Galapagos’.
Eén van de organismen, Geogemma barossii geheten, kan temperaturen van ruim 121 graden Celsius weerstaan.
Uit onderzoek in de Marianentrog blijkt verder dat sommige organismen weten te overleven op zo’n 10 kilometer onder de zeebodem, waar de druk extreem hoog is.
Schaduwleven
Het is bovendien mogelijk dat er soorten zijn die niet afhankelijk zijn van DNA, RNA en eiwitten.
Sherwood Lollar merkte op dat ze dergelijk ‘schaduwleven’ nog niet is tegengekomen, maar voegde toe dat wetenschappers een open geest moeten houden.
“We zien alleen datgene waar we naar zoeken,” zei ze. “Als we ergens niet naar zoeken, missen we het.”
A physicist claimed that Earth and the entire universe could already be inside a black hole. According to the physicist, this theory is related to the idea that the Big Bang was actually a black hole.
As indicated in various scientific reports, black holes can form through a number of ways such as when a massive star bigger than the Sun collapses on itself and dies. This occurrence causes a supernova and a formation of a black hole. Scientists also believe that a collision between two neutron stars can create a black hole.
In theory, these scenarios indicate that black holes are formed when a massive volume of mass exists at a certain spot in space. This causes a rift in the space-time fabric, which then leads to a black hole, according to Express.
Due to this theory, many scientists believe that the Big Bang, which is credited as the creator of the entire universe, was actually a black hole. According to supporters of this theory, the Big Bang was a black hole that opened in a different universe. The cosmic material absorbed by the black hole became the building blocks of the universe.
For theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski of Poland, this concept points to the possibility that the universe where Earth is in was formed inside the Big Bang black hole.
“Our universe may exist inside a black hole,” he stated in an article he wrote for Inside Science. “This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today.”
“It’s a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself,” he added.
If this theory is true, then it would explain why the universe is still growing and expanding. Since the Big Bang black hole is still active, the cosmic material that it is continuously absorbing becomes part of the growing universe.
Poplawski noted that this could also explain why space agencies cannot observe what is happening inside other black holes.
“Every black hole would produce a new, baby universe inside,” he stated. “If that is true, then the first matter in our universe came from somewhere else. So our own universe could be the interior of a black hole existing in another universe.”
“Just as we cannot see what is going on inside black holes in the cosmos, any observers in the parent universe could not see what is going on in ours,” he added.
Scientists continue to study the nature of dark matter. Pictured: In this handout from NASA/ESA, an artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) revealed millions of potential black holes in its survey of the sky in 2011.
Bevindt de aarde zich al in een zwart gat? Deze wetenschapper zegt van wel
Volgens sommige wetenschappers bevindt ons hele universum zich in een enorm zwart gat, dat deel uitmaakt van een nog groter heelal.
Dat impliceert dat zwarte gaten eigenlijk een soort tunnels zijn die naar andere universa leiden.
Eén van de wetenschappers die deze theorie bestudeert, is Nikodem Poplawski van de Universiteit van New Haven in Connecticut.
Moeite
Volgens hem zijn wormgaten mogelijke alternatieven voor de theorie van Albert Einstein, die stelt dat in het centrum van een zwart gat een singulariteit ontstaat wanneer de dichtheid van de materie te groot wordt.
Ondanks de vele aanwijzingen hebben wetenschappers moeite om deze theorie te aanvaarden.
Poplawski gebruikt een aangepaste versie van de algemene relativiteitstheorie om zijn theorie te ondersteunen.
Bouwstenen
Deze versie houdt ook rekening met het draaien van atoomkernen, iets wat Einstein zelf niet deed.
Als Poplawski gelijk heeft, wordt de materie in een zwart gat niet samengeperst, maar afgestoten om vervolgens de bouwstenen te vormen voor nieuwe sterrenstelsels, sterren en planeten in een ander universum.
Gevangen
Volgens deze theorie is ons heelal er slechts één van vele. Het zou zich in een veel groter universum bevinden waarin elk zwart gat een ander heelal kan huisvesten.
Het universum dat we om ons heen zien uitdijen, zit volgens Poplawski gevangen in een reusachtig zwart gat.
However, the animal was identified as a basket star, which belongs to an echinoderm group known as brittle stars, with a disk-shaped body and five flexible arms.
Others concerned viewer said: "Put it back in the water and let it be!"
"He shouldn't be out of the water, he can't breathe!" another commented.
Sarah explained: "I was out halibut fishing with my mom and some friends and when My mom reeled up her line the basket star was on the hook.
"Also it was put back in the water unharmed."
It has been identified as basket star which lives deep under the sea(Image: Getty Images/500px)
Basket stars have highly branched arms that could help them move easily along the sea floor.
They can grow up to three feet long and inhabit the deep sea.
Bizar zeewezen met tentakels gevangen voor de kust van Alaska. Heb je ooit zoiets gezien?
Een vrouw heeft tijdens het vissen in Alaska een bizar zeewezen uit het water gehaald dat van een andere wereld lijkt te komen.
Het wezen is gevangen door Sarah Vasser-Alford, die afgelopen maand voor de kust van Prins van Wales-eiland aan het vissen was met vrienden en familieleden.
De groep was erg verbaasd toen ze een vreemd oranje wezen met lange tentakels aan de haak sloegen.
Alien
Vasser-Alford plaatste een filmpje van de bizarre vangst op Facebook, dat al ruim een miljoen keer is bekeken.
Sommigen vergeleken het zeewezen met de facehugger uit de film Alien.
Medusahoofd
Uiteindelijk bleek het te gaan om een medusahoofd, behorende tot de stekelhuidigen.
Vasser-Alford heeft het dier overigens weer teruggezet.
Huge Unknown Object Crashes Into The North Side Of The Moon Captured Live
On September 9, 2019 Sky-watcher BruceSeesAll captured a huge unknown space object at the moment it crashes onto the Moons' surface.
Bruce states: "Something huge crashed onto the North Side of the moon... Three explosions after impact and it was smoking on the way down to the moon travelling at high speeds."
Meteorite - Space Junk - UFO?
We may wonder why space agencies remain silence on this impact on the moon!
Mysterious Humanoid Figure on Air Vehicle appears above Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Moon, New Mexico
Teotihuacan is a vast Mexican archaeological complex northeast of Mexico City. Running down the middle of the site, which was once a flourishing pre-Columbian city, is the Avenue of the Dead. It links the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Pyramid of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Sun.
Ancient Teotihucan is surrounded in mysteries. The population with over 150,000 inhabitants vanished without a trace. Teotihuacan‘s layout resembles a computer circuit board with two large processor chips (the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid) and archaeologists have discovered hundreds of mysterious, metallic spheres buried deep beneath one of the ancient pyramids.
And now a tourist while visiting Teotihuacan on August 28, 2019 captured a very strange object in the sky above the Pyramid of the Moon.
The object can best be described as a humanoid figure sitting on an air vehicle. (the humanoid's position is the same as someone who drives a water scooter).
The photographer has submitted the above original image to Mufon.
Like Machu Picchu in Peru known for its many UFO sightings and mysterious anomalies in the sky that have been reported over the years, it seems that Teotihuacan also has more secrets and otherworlds activities than we know.
Unknown craft caught exiting sub-glacial launch facility in Antarctica
Anew discovery in Antarctica. According to Florida Marquis, Google Earth shows a craft that takes off from a secret sub-glacial launch facility in Antarctica.
It is remarkable that the 2019 imagery layer shows the area completely covered with snow. The location that can be seen in the imagery layer of 2010 has been vanished!
Google Earth Pro *2010 Historical Imagery Layer.
SpaceCraft Mid Launch.
Google Earth coordinates: 77° 5'33.29"S 157°37'3.17"W
The FRB 121102 millimeter Pulse Radio and listen to Alien communication
Known as FRB121102, it was first discovered in 2012 and found to repeat in 2015. Analysis of data later located the source of the signal coming from a dwarf galaxy three billion light years away.
Credits
Credits attached images of FRB121102: Gemini Observatory/AURA/NRC/NSF/NRAO
On August 30, 2019 China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) which is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope detected a pulse from FRB121102 and on Sept 3 alone, more than 20 pulses were detected reports Asiatimes.
Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST)
But according to Xinhuanet, now it appears that FAST already have detected more than 100 of the strange signals, the so-called radio bursts from from unknown but high-energy sources out in space
Researchers at the space observatory are continuing to monitor the signals, with the hope that further analysis will indicate how these radio pulses are being generated.
Watch the next video of Ryan Walsh who shows the FRB 121102 millimeter Pulse Radio and listen to alien communication.
A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host S. Chatterje et al.; Nature doi:10.1038/nature20797.
According to Ryan Walsh: A repeated message with frequency voltage shifts. These Certain Pulse Carrier are visible in the crests of the FRB. (A crest is the point on a wave with the maximum value of upward displacement within a cycle).
The most important part of the FRB is the maximum upward displacement. That is the key fundamental.
At first we can suggest that it is a pulsar - It does sound similar to a pulsar. But later the message develops into a voice tone and with voltage frequency shifts.
To Ryan’s opinion, these pulsars or radio bursts is alien technology and is a sign of intelligent life of another universe.
After all, what could motivate a society to produce signals that are so intense they can be seen from other galaxies?
Flying Saucer photographed over Livingston, Montana
On August 18, 2019 the photographer took several photos of the surrounding area of Livingston, Montana. The series of photos show that an object is flying towards the photographer.
The photographer who submitted the images to Mufon said: I was looking through photos from a road trip that I took this summer and found something interesting in a photo of my brother! It’s located in the clouds on the right side of the photo.
UFO stops mid-air and radiates pink glow around the fuselage recorded over Poland
Aphotographer in Poland recorded a strange object in the sky on June 23, 2019. He pulled out his camera and managed to zoom in on approx. x200 zoom and while he couldn't tune it completely, some contours are clearly visible.
He said "This object was very far away, I could barely see it with the naked eye, BUT it was moving very strangely.”
"Once it seemed to fly very slowly and once faster, and for some time even it stopped mid-air. If I am not 100% sure about something, I always say that it is of terrestrial origin - a plane, a drone, a balloon or something but what surprises me is that the object has no wings, instead there is a pink glow around the fuselage.”
Stunning restored authentic footage shows German Flying Discs!
Jeff Rense posted two amazing short clips of German flying saucers restored from old film. the footage also included are many photographs of German flying saucers from the 30s and 40s!
The first clip at the beginning shows a German flying saucer flying over a field while the second clip starts at the 5:30 mark in the video and is labeled “Haunebu Test Flight – Nazi Germany 1939!
This ties in with all the whistleblowers who claim Germany did have antigravity working in the 30s and went on to have bases on the Moon and Mars in the 30s and 40s and created a breakaway civilization. Read full story on German Secret Space Program at UFOcasebook.
Sky-watcher films deep space UFO traveling at incredible speed
On September 4, 2019, a sky-watcher in Ukraine recorded a UFO flying through space at an incredible speed.
It is not satellite. This object travels much faster than a satellite can do. Just watch the video how it covers a very large distance in just a few seconds.
Mysterious UFO recorded by the ISS Live Feed Camera
While watching the ISS live feed on September 4, 2019, Nicolas from Montreal, Canada noticed an unknown object appearing in the view of the ISS camera so he started recording it.
The footage shows that the object is clearly moving through the atmosphere. Besides the strange object there is also another unknown object in the background of the ISS.
The video of MRmb333 starts with the recording of the mysterious UFO and continues with a collection of other strange observations in the sky.
Congressman Says Navy Withholding Information on UFO Sightings
The Navy has been withholding information about reports of UFOs, according to a top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee after officially requesting more information on the mysterious encounters.
North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker, who is the Intelligence and Counterrorism subcommittee ranking member, asked Secretary Richard V. Spencer in July to outline the resources being used by the Navy to investigate the sightings. He also asked if officials have found physical proof to support the claims and whether they are aware of any private companies or foreign nations that have introduced breakthrough technologies that could explain the UFO sightings.
In a response through a brief letter on July 31, Navy Undersecretary Thomas Modly stated that the Department of the Navy takes such reports very seriously and continues to monitor them and investigate the sightings.
However, Walker said that the Navy seems to be unwilling to provide his committee with more information about the so-called unidentified aerial phenomena – the term the government prefers over the more traditional “unidentified flying objects” or UFOs. Walker has publicly expressed concern that the craft could pose a threat to American forces or U.S. territory.
He said that he is encouraged the Navy Under Secretary confirmed that encounters of unidentified flying objects are thoroughly investigated but at the same time frustrated with the lack of answers to specific questions about the threat that advanced aircraft flying in the U.S. airspace may pose.
Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher responded saying that the service is prepared to accommodate any further congressional requests for data. Gradisher explained that they hadn’t received any new requests for updates on this matter.
Walker specifically questioned the Navy on unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified flying objects, not drones, citing reports of mysterious flying objects moving at speeds and displaying maneuvers that go well beyond what is thought to be technologically possible.
In July 16 letter, Walker asked Spencer a series of specific questions on the sightings, including if the Department continues to dedicate resources to investigating and tracking the claims and to what measure. Walker also asked the Department if they found physical evidence or otherwise that supports these claims.
Walker believes in the possibility that the U.S. government agencies already know about the truth, but the rest of us don’t.
Here are some highlights from an expert on WWII capabilities of the Germans!
The Germans hit the moon with an unmanned spacecraft, decades before the US reached there!
They generated the antigravity effect of their flying saucers using conventional engines in the 1940s.
They put regular guns on them until after World War 2 was over. Later, they used free energy to power them and utilized beam weapons. That’s the reason they destroyed Admiral Byrd completely and sent down his Navy task force to Antarctica in 1947.
Germans created unmanned spherical drones as foo fighters. These drones were controlled from the ground with television cameras and had heat-seeking, acoustic, and magnetic targeting. Turbojets powered them. The Germans made a master race at the south pole, which is still there until today. They have cures for diseases, and they live longer. Many whistleblowers have been talking about German governments populating many other planets and moons in our solar systems as well as throughout the galaxy!
Jeff Rense posted two incredible clips from the restored old film showing German flying saucers. There were also several photographs of German flying saucers from the 1930s and 40s!
This is not fake and not a Hollywood movie! The first clip shows a German flying saucer moving above a field in the beginning while the second clip starts at the 5:30 mark in the video.
This connects to all the whistleblowers who say Germany did have antigravity working in the 30s and went on to have bases on Mars and Moon in the 30s and 40s! The demonic Draco reptilian aliens (fallen angels) aided a German breakaway civilization.
From other sources, we have been told there are now between half a million and a million Germans on Mars.
Sources now say the Germans flew over the White house in the 50s to show their force and forced governments in different parts of the world into a treaty where they were provided access to all companies and governments on the planet to help them build their bases and ships in our Solar system and beyond.
Snake-Like UFO Appears Over Italy After Former American Marine Says Similar Sightings Are Worldwide
A snake-like UFO was spotted over a town in Italy just a few days after a former US Marine claimed such UFOs had been spotted across the globe.
The strange aerial objects have been observed multiple times over the past few months across the US.
Some suggested they could be military in nature, but ex-Marine Nick Karnaze ruled it out recently.
He claimed that similar sightings had been reported in different parts of the world, which ruled out the UFOs being part of a classified military programme.
Just days after his claim, a mysterious object has been recorded on video over the Italian city of Ravenna.
The footage shows a bright light with what seems to be a tail following behind as it circles in the air.
Witnesses can be heard in the background gasping in shock at the strange sight.
YouTube username M89_GAMER posted it online on August 30.
One commenter wrote in the comment section that it was a UFO in their opinion.
Another one suggested that it was a rocket, a crazy plane, or a star.
Some said the sight was just a kite.
However, the uploader reacted to those claims saying it was not fake.
The uploader explained that several people in Ravenna had seen the same thing and no one has understood what it was.
Alien Festivals in Nevada Towns Get Final Approval
Strict guidelines have been approved by a rural Nevada county on Tuesday for a pair of festivals scheduled to take place later this month in a famous desolate desert area.
Participants of an internet event dubbed “Storm Area 51” originally planned to raid the military installation that has been the focus of extraterrestrial conspiracy theories. Event organizers, however, changed it and planned to hold a pair of festivals instead in the nearby military installation.
The Lincoln County guidelines involve a music festival for around 5,000 people in Hiko and another 10,000 people camping in Rachel for an event in the town nearest to Area 51.
Event organizers said the desert is a nearly three-hour drive from Las Vegas and for the participants to survive there needs to be food, water, and entertainment. Cellphone service is expected to be overwhelmed.
Producer of the Hiko musical event Harris and Keith Wright assured that they have planned carefully and do not want people to trespass on Area 51. Wright said security staff, trash bins, food, water, and toilets would all be tucked in. They presented aerial photos of the site on Tuesday and said they would announce performers in coming days.
Commissioner Bevan Lister said about the plans for the September 20-22 events that people have to be respectful and everyone will have a good time.
Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee and County Commissioner Varlin Higbee said people would be arrested if they approached the gates of Area 51. Lee said that more than 150 law enforcement officers would be available during the duration of the events. He added that Nevada Guard units would also be available for logistical help. Guns and illegal drugs are strictly not allowed in the festivals.
Former US Marine Says Wide Spread Sightings of Cigar-Shaped UFOs Across the World Are Not Military
An ex-US Marine suggests the cigar-shaped UFOs that have been observed across the country in recent months could be something beyond a secret military programme.
Such strange UFOs first came to light back in June when a YouTube user observed an unusual light over California’s Mojave Desert. They often appear long, thin and shaped like a cigar or snake.
Soon, several UFO enthusiasts went to the internet to show their videos of the strange aerial objects from one being seen in Wyoming during a meteor shower to another in New York that seemingly moving like it was alive.
Nick Karnaze, a former US Marine Corps soldier who served as an Intel Officer in Afghanistan, has now revealed that the objects have been observed across the Earth.
Nick travelled around the globe recently along with other investigators to collect proof of their theory that aliens have been in contact with Earth.
Nick said that people are usually assuming that those types of objects could be a potentially classified government programme and that they are restricted to certain areas. However, they have reports from different parts of the world of witnesses seeing similar objects.
For Nick, it indicates something potentially beyond a secret programme because the military community would only test those classified programmes in certain areas.
He added that deploying that kind of technology should be with extra caution on where it should take place.
He further explained that deploying it to a random country outside any present threat to the US or any open war zones would be very unusual.
When asked what he thought these mysterious objects could be, Nick said he could only classify them as unidentified flying object (UFO) or unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP).
He added that it allows imaginations of everyone to run wild with what these odd objects could be when ruling out classified military programs.
Ghost Cities: The Island Of Vampires & Nazis: The Dark Side of Santorini...
SANTORINI IS HAUNTED! Did you know that the island of Santorini was supposedly once a vampire graveyard? And that there was an extremely bloody Nazi massacre on the island?
Join us as we ghost hunt on the Greek island of Santorini, one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations, a place full of dark history and sunshine. 👻
Santorini, officially Thira and classic Greek Thera, is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast of Greece’s mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago, which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades…
I publish this article on my blog because the next 10 days I will visit Santorini and Naxos... I 'll asking the people of Santorini about those stories and nevertheless I hope to enjoy this trip. Kind regards.
That doesn’t exactly sound like a vote of confidence, but when it comes to the two events that have evolved from the original “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” extravaganza, that’s the best one of the members of the county commission responsible for the area around the secret base can say about the thumbs-up vote he and fellow commissioners gave to Alienstock, the latest name of the original Storm Area 51 event, and the Storm Area 51 Basecamp, a competing festival in nearby Hiko. While these two get the chance to be ugly or decent, local officials denied a permit for Peacestock 51 – clever name but what about the aliens? Get your “Keep your Area 51 festivals straight program” here!
“We’ll give people something to do so they don’t run amok.”
Amok
That’s the sales pitch that got George Harris, owner of the Alien Research Center, his permit for the Basecamp, which will be centered at the Research Center in Hiko on the Extraterrestrial Highway, according to an Associated Press report picked up by many local and national news services. Harris came in after Alienstock got all of the initial attention and protests and started off with the best plan for security and management of the site, plus he kept the original “alien” intent with guest speakers familiar to ufology fans, like Jane Kyle (UFO Jane), journalists Alejandro Rojas and Jim Goodall, and documentarian Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, producer of “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers.”
“I’m elated and shaking inside. It’s all laying on my shoulders because someone said, ‘Hey, meet me in Rachel.’ Now it’s realer than ever.”
We’re gonna need a bigger bus.
That’s the reaction of Connie West, owner of the Little A’le’Inn motel in Rachel, who got the shock of her life when the “Storm Area 51” event was announced on Facebook and 2 million said they were interested — before the comedian who posted it finally admitted it was a hoax. By then it had received worldwide attention and much of it focused on the Little A’le’Inn – the only motel in the area. West told the commissioners that her campgrounds can handle 10,000 people, which is the much-reduced and more realistic number of the estimated potential crowd size for Alienstock, an event that will have corporate-sponsored food and beer trucks and a stripper-mobile, but still hasn’t listed any confirmed musical events.
“We gave the county a new location in Beatty that would be perfect and had a letter of intent prepared and the local government still feels it’s too risky to add us to the agenda.”
David VanDerBeek, the organizer of Peacestock 51 in Nye County, announced the bad news that his festival didn’t make the cut, despite the fact that it had the best lineup of indie bands (Stereo Love, Lori Hardman and more) and tribute bands (Sweet Home Alabama, U2 LV and others). Perhaps he should see how the others go and give it another try next year. After all:
In 1988, construction workers in the Aydıntepe district of Bayburt Province, Turkey, were doing work on a site when they accidentally stumbled across a rather strange discovery. Meandering off into the ground was some sort of passageway that down into the gloom right under a major residential area, and when it was explored it was found to be quite the amazing sight indeed. More than just a series of passages, it turned out that this was an entire ancient subterranean city carved directly into the rock, its creators a mystery, and it what has gone on to become known as the underground city of Aydıntepe has become one of Turkey’s most mysterious and archeologically important sites.
The city itself lies an average of 2 to 5 meters (6.5-8.2 feet) under an area full of houses, offices, and streets, where it long lay undetected coexisting with a modern world that didn’t even know it was there. It is a vast complex, which features a network of chambers, corridors, galleries, and hallways, and various other rooms such as cellars, storage rooms, water source and even a pool, all hewn directly into the rock, which is a type of volcanic tufa rock formation. Most of the chambers, galleries, and halls have ceilings at a height of 6.6 feet, and the halls themselves are an average of 1 meter (3.2 feet) wide, making them very tight and difficult to navigate for the average person. The rooms range in dimension from 2 meters by 1 meter (6.5 feet in length, 3.2 feet in width), to the larger chambers that are much more spacious. Oddly, above the hallways are conical shafts with purposes unknown, although they are thought to have been perhaps used for ventilation or keeping an eye on visitors. At the entrance to the whole thing is a round slab of rock that can be moved to position itself as a sort of door barring entry.
A corridor in the underground city
It has been estimated that the structure dates back to around 3,000 years ago in the Late Roman or early Byzantine era. What makes it all particularly impressive is that none of it uses any building materials, with all of it expertly carved into the stone displaying an incredible engineering prowess for the time. Aydıntepe District Governor Yeliz Yıldızhan has said of this amazing construction:
The most important feature of the city is that it was created without using any construction material. It was carved out of the main rock. The opposing chambers, galleries, water ditches, observation spots, ventilation pipes and holes on the walls for lighting amaze us with the engineering and architecture skills of the era [it was created]. How the bedrock was carved to form that work of art, how this structure is made with human labor astonish people today.
While we know when it was built and how it was built, a big mystery of the underground city is what purpose it served or why it was built underground. There seems to be no evidence of permanent habitation or religious imagery, making it unlikely it was used for rituals or as a dwelling, and there are no tombs within it. One idea is that it might have served as some form of prison or dungeon, which would explain why there are openings over the halls that could have been used for surveillance of prisoners, and still another idea is that it might have been used as a shelter in times of need, although a shelter from what is unclear. One archeologist working on the site has said of this theory:
The mechanisms to close the doors of the city in entrance and exit, the shapes of the ventilation windows and the locations of the rooms show us that the city served as a shelter. Some experts say that people used this place as a settlement since the winter is so cold in the region. Of course, further examinations are needed to make these theories clear.
Another mystery is that no one is even really sure how big it is, with new galleries and passages uncovered all of the time, and although 1,200 square meters (13,000 sq. feet) have been unearthed so far, it is thought to span a much vaster area, perhaps even all the way to the city of Bayburt, around 25 km (15 miles) away, and the use of ground penetrating radar has become commonplace in investigations of this mysterious place. The entire site was put under protection by the Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board in 2008, and in addition to ongoing archeological studies to uncover its true size, origins, and purpose, it has also become a popular tourist attraction in the region, drawing in an estimated 16,000 visitors in 2018. Perhaps as we learn more the secrets of this magnificent buried place will be gleaned from it, but for now it remains as much a mystery as it always has been, and a tantalizing peek through time at a civilization long lost.
The world’s largest non-polar desert, is actually the widespread burial grounds of countless, mysteriously unknown, ancient ruins and civilizations, that have long since been forgotten, having been consumed and hidden by the sands of time, thousands of years ago.
And here’s the thing…when I say “thousands of years ago”…that’s the part where things start to get really strange…
Researchers believe signs of inhabitation can be found dating back some 11,500 years, from the point the glaciers of the last ice age retreated from the landscape.
What happened to the mysterious humans of the Sahara 7,000 years ago?
6,000 years ago the Sahara desert was tropical, so what happened?
5,000 years ago the Sahara desert was home to people, animals, and lush vegetation.
An ancient river network and three ancient rivers created a passage to the Mediterranean were discovered under the Saharan sand.
Beneath the sands of the Sahara desert scientists have discovered evidence of a prehistoric mega-lake. Formed some 250,000 years ago when the Nile River pushed through a low channel near Wadi Tushka, it flooded the eastern Sahara, creating a lake that at its highest level covered more than 42,000 miles.
Hundreds of mysterious ancient structures found in the Sahara desert. The structures come in carious shapes and forms and appear to date back thousands of years and even Real-life "castles in the sand" made by an ancient culture have been revealed by satellites, archaeologists say.
So, what really turned the Sahara Desert from a green oasis into a wasteland?
We know that about 11,000 years ago the Sahara was once green and alive, pocked with lakes, rivers, grasslands and even forests.
But between 8,000 and 4,500 years ago, something strange happened: The transition from humid to dry happened far more rapidly in some areas, resulting in the Sahara Desert as we know it today.
So what happened? What caused the ancient climate to change so dramatically?
The biggest factor affecting earth’s climate is the Sun!
Fluctuations in Earth’s climate are caused by slight wobbles in the tilt of the Earth’s orbital axis, which in turn changes the angle at which solar radiation penetrates the atmosphere.
The seasonal and latitudinal variations of solar radiation that hit the earth in different ways, and at different times, have the greatest impact on earth’s changing climate patterns according to Smithsonian.
So what about the Global Warming threat?
NASA admits that climate change occurs because of changes in Earth’s solar orbit, and NOT because of SUVs and fossil fuels.
According to Natural News, for more than 60 years, NASA has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. But the space agency, for whatever reason, has chosen to let the man-made global warming hoax persist and spread.
In the year 2000, NASA did publish information on its Earth Observatory website about the Milankovitch Climate Theory, revealing that the planet is, in fact, changing due to extraneous factors that have absolutely nothing to do with human activity.
The green Sahara always would’ve turned back into a desert even without humans doing anything.
Climate change - global warming - that’s just how Earth’s orbit works.
In new book, retired Air Force major claims alien was killed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
Erik Larsen Asbury Park Press
Was an alien shot and killed in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey?
A new book, titled “Strange Craft: The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs,” claims that a military police officer shot an extraterrestrial being at Fort Dix in the early morning hours of Jan. 18, 1978.
In the book by author John L. Guerra and published by Bayshore Publishing Co. of Tampa, Florida, retired Air Force Major George Filer III — a decorated former intelligence officer for the 21st Air Force, Military Airlift Command at the adjacent McGuire Air Force Base — recounts the extraordinary tale from America’s disco age.
Filer, now 84 and living in Medford with his wife, Janet, said what has been an urban legend first promulgated by UFO enthusiasts since the early 1980s is indeed true. That’s because he was there and wrote a top-secret memo about it, he said.
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In the freezing winter darkness of that day in January 1978, a bipedal creature, described as about 4 feet in height and grayish-brown in color, with a “fat head, long arms and slender body,” was shot to death with five rounds fired from a service member’s .45-caliber (military issue M1911A1) handgun.
As Guerra explains it in his book, the soldier had originally been in a police pickup truck, driving through the wilderness of the base in pursuit of a strange, low-flying aircraft that had been observed passing through the military installation’s airspace about 2 a.m. that morning.
About an hour into the drive, the soldier became aware — in typical, horror movie fashion — that the craft, oval-shaped and radiating a blue-green glow, was hovering directly over his vehicle.
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That’s when the “creature” emerged from the shadows on foot, revealing itself to the soldier by stepping into the beams of the vehicle’s headlights where the panicked MP drew his weapon, ordered the alien to freeze, and he fired.
According to the retired major as told in the book, the alleged alien succumbed to its gunshot wounds on the Air Force side of what is now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County; its remains giving off a foul-smelling, ammonia-like stench.
A new book titled, “Strange Craft: The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs,” claims that a military police officer shot an extraterrestrial being at Fort Dix in the early morning hours of Jan. 18, 1978.
Erik Larsen, Asbury Park Press
Later that morning, a cleanup crew from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio — headquarters of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center — flew in to retrieve the body, behaving as if the creature was, well, not entirely alien to them.
The Asbury Park Press reached out to the Air Force at the Joint Base for comment about this story, but never heard back.
Filer, who has most recently served as the state director for an organization called MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network, which catalogs and investigates UFO sightings throughout the United States), never actually saw the dead alien. However, Filer said he knows for a fact that the story is true. It should be noted that Filer has claimed to have seen UFOs throughout his entire life, starting when he was 5 outside his boyhood home in Illinois.
‘There are UFOs buzzing around the pattern like mad’
On that January morning in 1978, Filer said he arrived on base before dawn to prepare his daily 8 a.m. intelligence briefing for his superior officers. In the book, he explains that when he arrived, security at the base had been tightened and he personally observed the emergency response in the aftermath of the incident. He also said he interviewed some of the witnesses from the scene for a report on what happened that he was required to file. However, he was denied access to and was never cleared to see photos that he said were taken at the scene.
Major George Filer III is the eastern regional director of MUFON
Brian Johnston
“The senior master sergeant runs everything, from who sweeps the floors to organizing the staff schedules and making sure phones and faxes are up and running,” Filer is quoted in the book. “He was agitated; his face was pale and his eyes were wide open. Then he said the strangest thing: ‘An alien has been shot at Fort Dix and they found it on the end of our (McGuire AFB) runway.’”
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Filer said he replied: “Was it an alien from another country?”
“No, it was from outer space, a space alien,” the sergeant explained. “There are UFOs buzzing around the pattern like mad.”
Later, the Air Force classified everything as top secret and silenced the witnesses through national security restrictions and good old-fashioned intimidation. Everyone that is, except Filer.
Filer has spoken publicly about the 1978 incident before and the incident itself has been the subject of discussion and speculation in the UFO enthusiast community since the early 1980s. Details about it appear to have been first reported in The Trentonian on July 10, 2007.
The Trentonian had reported 12 years ago that the Air Force repeatedly denied the claim, telling the newspaper that “the case was discredited as a hoax years ago.”
UFOs were all the craze in the 1970s
It’s perhaps important to understand the era in which the incident took place. Five years after the end of the Apollo moon program, the imagination of most Americans remained captivated by the seemingly endless possibilities of space travel.
The idea that the universe was filled with intelligent and civilized beings — perhaps hundreds or thousands of years more advanced than humans — had been a staple of the popular culture since the start of the space race between the United States and Soviet Union.
On Jan. 18, 1978, Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster hit “Close Encounters of The Third Kind” — a movie about little gray aliens with fat heads, long arms and slender bodies visiting Earth amid a government cover-up — was still playing in local movie theaters two months after its release date.
Indeed, an ad for the film appears on page A6 in the Press from that date with the tagline “We Are Not Alone,” over a brilliant light emanating from just over a mountainous horizon, down a long road.
A move listing and advertisement on Page A6 of the Asbury Park Press on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1978, the same day as the alleged incident at Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base.
Asbury Park Press archives.
During the previous summer of 1977, the original “Star Wars” had debuted and was not just a mega-blockbuster hit, but made terms such as “Darth Vader” and “The Force” part of the lexicon of the culture.
UFO sightings carried an air of greater credibility back then — there were 377 references to UFOs published in the Press between 1977 and 1978, compared to 85 references between 2017 and 2018.
Even President Jimmy Carter had acknowledged that he had seen one, a decade earlier. He had made a post-Watergate campaign promise in 1976 to learn whatever secrets about UFOs the government may have been hiding.
Everyone was looking up for strange lights in the night sky back then, including NASA. The Associated Press reported just two days before the McGuire-Dix incident, that the federal space agency had outlined in a memo to the Carter White House that it was willing to analyze “bona fide evidence from credible sources.”
Then there was the matter of the strange booms from the sky that were heard over the Jersey Shore and indeed much of the East Coast between December 1977 and March 1978, which had frightened some of the population.
The phenomena had started on Dec. 2, 1977 and was violent enough that it caused a tremor in southern Ocean County. Indeed, officials at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey had ordered the evacuation of non-essential staff on that day out of an abundance of caution.
The scientific consensus at the time was that the noise came from the supersonic Concorde, the British-French airliner — transatlantic service to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York had begun a week earlier — that could travel twice as fast as the speed of sound. The sonic boom was thought to have been augmented by a combination of frigid atmospheric conditions and a slight deviation from the aircraft’s normal flight path.
However, the data was inconclusive and subsequent booms did not necessarily conform to the Concorde’s schedule.
In the past few years, there has been renewed interest in UFO phenomena after declassified video and audio last year showed U.S. Navy pilots apparently encountering a strange aircraft as they flew their Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet off the East Coast in 2015.
In June, President Donald Trump told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that he had been briefed about the subject matter but expressed skepticism that extraterrestrial beings were operating some kind of vehicle within Earth’s atmosphere.
“People are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly,” Trump said.
Aliens or not, what if anything, happened at McGuire Air Force Base on Jan. 18, 1978? Whatever it was, it’s now part of folklore of the Pinelands — and beyond.
Erik Larsen has covered politics, crime and unusual events at the Jersey Shore for more than 20 years. Contact him at 732-682-9359, elarsen@gannettnj.com or on Twitter at @Erik_Larsen.
Buitenaards wezen doodgeschoten op Amerikaanse legerbasis. Gepensioneerde majoor doet opmerkelijke uitspraken
In 1978 is op Fort Dix, een Amerikaanse legerbasis, een buitenaards wezen neergeschoten door de militaire politie. Dat heeft een gepensioneerde luchtmachtmajoor gezegd.
We schrijven 18 januari 1978. De politie van de Amerikaanse staat New Jersey wil toegang tot de McGuire Air Force Base.
Boven die basis en boven de nabijgelegen basis Fort Dix zijn eerder op de avond UFO’s waargenomen. Maar de politie was niet alleen op zoek naar vreemde lichten in de lucht.
De politieagenten lieten weten dat een militaire politieagent die op Fort Dix was gestationeerd een onbekend object over zijn auto had zien vliegen.
Schieten
Hij trapte in paniek op de rem, waarna er voor zijn auto een klein wezen met een groot hoofd, zwarte ogen en een slank lichaam opdoemde.
De agent stapte uit en richtte zijn wapen op het wezen. Hij beval het op de grond te gaan liggen en toen het niet reageerde, begon hij te schieten.
Het gewonde wezen vluchtte en rende naar McGuire, waar het op een landingsbaan op de grond in elkaar zakte en stierf.
Blauwe baretten
De soldaat die op wacht stond, sergeant Jeff Morse (waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem), verschafte de politie toegang tot de basis om naar het wezen te zoeken.
Ze troffen al snel het levenloze lichaam van het wezen aan. Het gebied werd afgesloten, waarna plotseling een groep legerofficieren arriveerde.
Op een afstandje keek Morse toe hoe de groep blauwe baretten, die hij nog nooit eerder had gezien, de leiding nam.
Grijsbruine kleur
UFO-onderzoeker Leonard Springfield interviewde Morse, die niet dicht genoeg bij het wezen stond om gezichtskenmerken of handen en voeten te kunnen onderscheiden.
Hij herinnerde zich wel dat de huid van het wezen nat en glimmend was en een grijsbruine kleur had. Het deed hem denken aan de huid van een slang.
Morse keek toe hoe de blauwe baretten de alien besprenkelden met een vloeistof en afdekten met een wit laken. Het werd vervolgens in een grote metalen container met blauwe letters geplaatst.
Verhoord
Vervolgens werd het wezen in een C-141 vrachtvliegtuig geladen en naar Wright-Patterson Air Force Base overgebracht.
Morse en de politieagenten kregen te horen dat ze gelijk zouden worden ontslagen als ze ooit over het incident zouden spreken.
Twee dagen later werden Morse en enkele andere getuigen overgevlogen naar Wright Patterson waar ze werden verhoord.
Zwijgplicht
“Ze zeiden dat ik mijn mond moest houden,” verklaarde Morse jaren later. “Ik ondertekende een formulier waarna ik de rest van mijn leven zwijgplicht had.”
Toen Morse toch met de andere getuigen begon te praten, werden ze overgeplaatst naar het buitenland. Zo kwam Morse terecht in Okinawa.
Tot op de dag van vandaag wordt hij naar eigen zeggen constant bedreigd. Het leger is heel ver gegaan om hem de mond te snoeren.
Stil
Morse kreeg bijval van luchtmachtmajoor George Filer, die destijds als inlichtingenofficier was gestationeerd op McGuire.
Hoewel hij die bewuste avond niet getuige was van het incident, hoorde hij er de volgende ochtend over.
In een interview met Katelynn Raymer en David Ruppe van ABC News zei Filer: “Onze veiligheidspolitie trof de alien aan het einde van de landingsbaan dood aan. Ze vroegen mij om de generale staf in te lichten.”
Filer merkte op dat de twee bases er alles aan deden om iedereen de mond te snoeren.
Doofpot
Hoewel hij niet kon bewijzen dat het ging om een alien, was iedereen ervan overtuigd dat er sprake was geweest van een UFO-landing en dat één van de bemanningsleden was gestorven.
De doofpot rond dit incident is zo diep dat de betrokkenen bang waren hun baan te verliezen of zelfs vreesden voor hun leven.
Schoot een militaire politieagent die avond een alien neer? Waarschijnlijk zullen we het antwoord op die vraag nooit te weten komen.
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