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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! 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! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

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A New Technique for “Seeing” Exoplanet Surfaces Based on the Content of their Atmospheres

A New Technique for “Seeing” Exoplanet Surfaces Based on the Content of their Atmospheres

In November of 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JMST) will make its long-awaited journey to space. This next-generation observatory will observe the cosmos using its advanced infrared suite and reveal many never-before-seen things. By 2024, it will be joined the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), the successor to the Hubble mission that will have 100 times Hubble’s field of view and faster observing time.

These instruments will make huge contributions to many fields of research, not the least of which is the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets. But even with their advanced optics and capabilities, these missions will not be able to examine the surfaces of exoplanets in any detail. However, a team of the UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the Space Science Institute (SSI) have developed the next best thing: a tool for detecting an exoplanet surface without directly seeing it.

The paper that describes their research, titled “How to Identify Exoplanet Surfaces Using Atmospheric Trace Species in Hydrogen-dominated Atmospheres,” recently appeared in The Astrophysical Journal. As they indicated, the team sought to develop ways to study the surfaces of exoplanets based on their atmospheric composition. This is necessary since none of the upcoming space telescopes have the capacity to study surface features of an exoplanet indirectly.

However, these same telescopes will be excellent tools for determining the composition of exoplanet atmospheres. Beyond the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes, a number of next-generation ground-based observatories will become operational in the coming years that will have similar capabilities. These include the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).

With their combination of high-sensitivity, coronographs, and adaptive optics, these observatories will be able to conduct Direct Imaging studies of exoplanets, where light reflected directly from an exoplanet’s atmosphere will be studied to determine atmospheric composition. This will help astronomers and astrobiologists place tighter constraints on which exoplanets are “potentially habitable” and which are not.

However, the conditions we consider prerequisites for life also include geological processes like volcanic activity and plate tectonics, which are discernible from their associated surface features. While we may not be able to discern these in the near future, Xinting Yu (an Earth and Planetary Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSC) and her colleagues have proposed a novel way to determine surface features based on the abundances of atmospheric gases.

As Dr. Yu explained to Universe Today via email, the inspiration for this method came from two bodies in our Solar System – Jupiter and Titan (Saturn’s largest moon). Both bodies have dense gaseous atmospheres with two chemical species – ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) – that play a major part in atmospheric processes. Said Yu:

“Titan has a cold and shallow surface with almost no (or not supposed to be any) ammonia and methane, while Jupiter’s atmosphere has lots of ammonia and methane. Why is this happening? In the upper atmosphere of both Jupiter and Titan, ammonia and methane are destroyed by UV photons constantly, forming nitrogen (for ammonia) and more complex hydrocarbons (for methane). On Titan, the photochemistry-formed nitrogen and complex hydrocarbons keep forming and piling up.”

Titan's atmosphere makes Saturn's largest moon look like a fuzzy orange ball in this natural-color view from the Cassini spacecraft. Cassini captured this image in 2012. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Cassini image of Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

In short, methane and ammonia are destroyed in Titan’s atmosphere and then consumed to form nitrogen and hydrocarbons. This is what led to nitrogen becoming the dominant gas in Titan’s atmosphere (98% by volume) and the large deposition of hydrocarbons on its surface, leading to the formation of an organic-rich environment. Due to the extreme cold of Titan’s surface, this conversion process is irreversible.

Jupiter, on the other hand, also has ammonia and methane in its dense atmosphere but has no surface to speak of. As Yu explained, this results in a rather different process where the chemical species involved:

“Because there is no surface on Jupiter, the atmosphere just extends all the way to thousands of Earth surface pressures and thousands of kelvins. The photochemistry-formed nitrogen and complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere can transport to this deep, hot part of the atmosphere. There, they could combine hydrogen to reform methane and ammonia. The reformed methane and ammonia are then “recycled” back into the upper atmosphere. This cycle continues to replenish the destroyed methane and ammonia.”

Another key point addressed by Yu and her team has to do with the current exoplanet census. To date, the majority of exoplanets discovered have been mini-Neptunes – i.e., planets that are less massive than Neptune but have a thick atmosphere dominated by hydrogen and helium. In fact, of the 4,401 confirmed exoplanets to date, 1,488 have been identified as “Neptune-like,” with masses ranging from 9 times that of Earth to slightly less than Jupiter.


Jupiter’s atmosphere, as imaged by the Juno mission (colorized by Kevin M. Gill). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Because of their gaseous envelopes and the distances involved, it is impossible to determine if these planets have surfaced and where they are located. Because of their statistical significance, Yu and her team decided to use one in particular to test their novel approach. This was K2-18b, a mini-Neptune with about 8 times the mass of Earth that orbits within the habitable zone (HZ) of a red dwarf star (K2-18) located 124 light-years from Earth.

Originally detected by the Kepler Space Telescope in 2015, K2-18b is the first HZ exoplanet found to have significant amounts of water vapor in its atmosphere. Using a photochemical model, Yu and her team simulated how the presence of a surface on this exoplanet would affect the atmospheric evolution of K2-18b. They also accounted for different atmospheric pressure and temperature levels, factors that are linked to surface elevation.

“We are wondering if we can use the abundance of species like ammonia and methane to tell if an exoplanet has a surface or not,” said Yu. “A cold and shallow surface would cut all the “recycling” reactions that require high temperatures and pressures in deep planetary atmospheres to reform methane and ammonia. Thus, we expect to see little methane and ammonia on an exoplanet with a cold and shallow surface, and lots of methane and ammonia on an exoplanet with no surface or a deep and hot surface.”

What they found was that ammonia and methane, as predicted, were both sensitive to both the presence and elevation of a surface. This is consistent with what has been observed with exoplanets that have cold and shallow surfaces, where chemical species like water, hydrogen cyanide, and heavier hydrocarbons are broken down by UV exposure. Meanwhile, species like carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide (which are less prone to UV destruction) are retained.


Artist’s impression of a Super-Earth planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

What was unexpected, however, was the way that different chemicals are sensitive in different ways to different levels of elevation. According to Yu, this is due to the fact that carbon and nitrogen species have a “sweet spot” where they can be fully recycled. Whereas ammonia and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) are sensitive to atmospheres with densities of 100 bar at the surface (100 times that of Earth, similar to Venus), methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide are sensitive to pressures below 10 bar at the surface (ten times that of Earth).

These findings present multiple implications for the study of exoplanets, foremost of which are the fact that planetary surfaces matter. Said Yu:

“Previously, scientists were predicting the atmospheric compositions of exoplanets using thermochemical equilibrium models. The atmospheric compositions are solely determined by the pressure and temperature of the atmosphere. But our study shows, even if pressure and temperature are the same, adding a surface can drastically change the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet!”

Another implication of this study is that it is possible for astronomers to learn about exoplanet surfaces based on their atmospheric composition. “For example, when the observers see depleted amounts of ammonia and HCN, we can tell this exoplanet has a surface of less than 100 bar,” added Yu. “Then if we also see depleted quantities of methane, hydrocarbons, and an increased amount of carbon monoxide, that indicates a surface less than 10 bar. That is pretty promising for identifying habitable exoplanets!”

Beyond the characterization of mini-Neptunes, this research also has implications for all other types of exoplanets – including rocky, “Earth-like” ones. In fact, as long as the planet in question has an atmosphere and is subject to UV radiation in its upper atmosphere, the size of the exoplanet is irrelevant. In all cases, astronomers will see the same differences in chemical abundances depending on whether or not there is a surface.


Artist’s impression of the Earth-sized, rocky exoplanet GJ 1132 b, located 41 light-years away around a red dwarf star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech)

According to Yu, it is the smaller colder exoplanets that are more promising testing targets for this method since they are more likely to have shallow and cold surfaces. However, smaller planets are also more likely to have interior or surface processes that will affect the abundance of certain chemicals in their atmospheres – such as volcanic activity and plate tectonics. The smaller they are, the more significant these processes could be.

These and other concerns are things that Yu and her team look forward to studying in greater detail in the future to determine the robustness of their results and how it might be affected by different perturbations from the surface/interior of the exoplanets. Their efforts, and those of astrobiologists in general, will benefit greatly from the launch of the JWST, which is currently scheduled to take place sometime in November of 2021. Said Yu:

“Our study points out an exciting science angle for JWST. It is fine to have solely atmospheric characterization data. Without direct surface observations, we can still tell if an exoplanet has a surface, and even roughly where the surface is located. Knowing whether an exoplanet has a surface is also undoubtedly important for astrobiology. A liquid or a solid surface is likely necessary for sustaining complex lifeforms. Thus, the existence of a surface would be an essential thing to look for when assessing an exoplanet’s habitability.”

The ability to study exoplanets directly, combined with the ability to constrain their surface conditions, will advance the study of astrobiology considerably. The field will also benefit from innovative methods that could allow scientists to search for life (aka. biosignatures) based on different levels of entropy in an environment or different levels of complexity with organic particles. Little by little, we are narrowing the focus and tightening the constraints!

If there is life out there to be found, we find it sooner or later!

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 19 - 06 - 2021

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 19 - 06 - 2021

UFO Sighted Over Mendoza, Argentina ( June 17, 2021 )

UFO Sighted Over Mendoza, Argentina on June 17, 2021

STATEMENT : q me dicen de este viedo ??? muy pocos me dieron una explicación ovni !!!!sucedio en mendoaza Argentina!!!!!!

TRANSLATE : What do they say about this video??? Very few gave me an explanation UFO!!!! it happened in Mendoza Argentina!!!!!!

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Ancient Alien Tech Discovered ( June 13, 2021 )

Amazing Ancient Alien Tech Discovered on June 13, 2021 by ght375 فارس بلاجوات

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UFO Sighted Over Peterhead, Scotland ( June 13, 2021 )

STATEMENT : Some strange UFO in the night
I’m telling you all it’s not a drone my I live rural in the county side of Scotland with fields of sheep around me. I have 2 neighbours and one does have a drone for the young boy. He’s used it a couple times and it’s obviously a low flying object. Your able to judge it’s distance like a bird flying about. My other neighbour is a farmer I know him well he does not own a drone. This was very far away.

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UFO Sighted Over San Juan, Puerto Rico ( June 16, 2021 )

Impressive UFO sighting from an aircraft landing in San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital and largest city on : June 16, 2021

Closer and more evident every day

  • credit : Paolo Cafarelli

UFO Sighted Over Boa Vista, Brazil ( June 16, 2021 )

STATEMENT : registro no céu de Boa Vista Roraima. As 18:28 da noite. 16/06/21

TRANSLATE : record in Boa Vista Roraima sky. At 18:28 pm 16/06/21

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UFOs Sighted Leaving Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico ( June 16, 2021 )

Impressive sighting of UFOs coming out of Popocatepetl volcano Mexico.
At 6: 06 minutes of the morning of the June 16, 2021 via Mexico's Web Cam Monitoring equipment, it was possible to obtain extraordinary evidence in which you can see how two unidentified flying objects emerge from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano ....
The equipment is located in the Tlamacas area, very close to the colossus of fire and we can see how these objects emerge directly from the crater of this active giant.
We can even see them as they shine brightly when leaving the crater.
Would Popocatepetl Volcano be an UFO base or a dimensional portal?
One thing is already certain and unquestionable, they are already among us...

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UFO Sighted Over Pakistan ( June 15, 2021 )

Impressive UFO sighting in Pakistan, UFO was sighted on June 15, 2021 by All A.

They are already here more evidence every day

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Large Pill Shaped Object REC Over Ebensburg Pennsylvania?

arge Pill shaped object recorded over Ebensburg Pennsylvania on June 9th 2021.

  • Source of video MUFON Case # 116227

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Colorado UFO investigator talks upcoming report to Congress

Colorado UFO investigator talks upcoming report to Congress

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A UFO report is due to Congress by June 25. Jeremy Jojola talks with a Colorado UFO investigator about the upcoming report and how her group approaches sightings.

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Watch | UFO Hovers Over Ocean, Disappears Into Water in Officially Confirmed US Navy Video

Watch | UFO Hovers Over Ocean, Disappears Into Water in Officially Confirmed US Navy Video

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A leaked US Navy UFO sighting video shows a mysterious object disappearing into the water. The US defense departments have confirmed that military personnel recorded the video.

Documentary filmmaker and UFO enthusiasts Jeremy Corbell released the footage that shows an unidentified flying object (UFO) vanishing into the water off California in the US. ACCORDING TO CORBELL, the US Navy captured the footage off the coast of San Diego in July 2019.

The video shows a black spherical object captured in an infrared camera. The UFO is seen flying over the ocean and then disappearing into the water.

“It splashed,” a military person can be heard saying as the object vanishes. Corbell released the leaked footage on May 15.

The US Department of Defense has confirmed military personnel recorded the video.

Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, established in 2020 to look into the nature and origins of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, will review and analyse the video.

Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough confirmed that Navy personnel recorded the video and that the UAPTF included it in their ongoing examinations.

The leaked UFO video has garnered more than 9 lakh views on Twitter and has been widely shared on other social media.

Jeremy Corbell said that the UFO looked like a transmedium, capable of traveling through air and water.

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Jeremy Corbell mentioned that it is noted in intelligence reports that the UFO could not be found after it entered the water. A submarine was utilized in the search, but they recovered nothing.

According to Corbell, a member of the Navy aboard the USS Omaha recorded the footage on July 15, 2019.

In 2019, the Navy reported several Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings, the Pentagon’s term for UFO sightings. The USS Omaha was one of the vessels that observed the UFO close to the coast of California.

In 2020, the Pentagon officially released three UFO clips recorded by Navy pilots in 2004 and 2005.

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Report Claims UFO Tracking Station is Being Built on Florida’s Gulf Coast by the Air Force

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Report Claims UFO Tracking Station is Being Built on Florida’s Gulf Coast by the Air Force

Where is the best place in the U.S. to see UFOs? Roswell and Area 51 get a lot of votes, and the U.S. Navy might say off the Pacific coast off of California or the Atlantic coast off of Virginia beach. However, if you ask the U.S. Air Force, it’s the Gulf coast Florida. That’s where an engineer who is also interested in UFOs claims he was told a new facility the USAF is building which will be used to track unidentified aerial phenomena.

“Normally, I wouldn’t look at this particular project with too much zeal especially since MacDill Air Force Base is about 45 miles south at the southern tip of Tampa Bay. MacDill is Central Command for Middle Eastern operations. However, being that I am a life-long UFO enthusiast and given everything occurring recently, my radar went off, no pun intended.”

This story comes from the website 528hz.space and Jeff Blask, the Plans Examiner Supervisor for Pasco County’s Building Department who wrote about the project on his blog, The Jolt. That’s right – what might be the biggest revelation in how serious the federal government is about UFOs is revealed by a lowly local government building inspector called in early April 2021 to check out plans for a few unusual structures on a Gulf coast land parcel. those structures include:

100′ Tall Tower with Radar Dome
2, 50′ collapsible Auxiliary Towers
An elevated Monitoring building with observation deck

Approved plans (Public Record)

What was being built here? Blask says he joked with the project engineer presenting that it looked like a UAP tracking station. To his surprise, the engineer responded:

“You got it! And as a matter of fact, if you are interested in that subject it may also interest you to know that this facility is not being manned and monitored by MacDill Air Force Base… it’s being monitored in its entirety by Eglin.”

Eglin Air Force Base is much farther from the site than nearby MacDill. Nervous that knowing this would end up in him receiving a visit from the Men in Black, the engineer assured Blask that the plans were not classified (Blask provides the public domain drawings on his site), but warned that “this facility will be under heavily armed guards and only people with Top Secret clearance will be allowed in” and – this is the big one – it’s just the first of a series of similar facilities planned for other coastal areas.

“This development is most likely connected to Aviator Ryan Graves’ assertion that there were sensitive air space intrusions practically daily on Florida’s East Coast for two years.”

Approved plans

(Public Record)

528hz.space links the UFO tracking facility to the revelations made last month on “60 Minutes” by former Navy Lt. Ryan Graves, who says he saw UFOs off the coast of Virginia in 2019 that are a “security threat” to the U.S. and, despite that, these UFOs continued to buzz the Atlantic coast for two years without a military response – at least none that he knew of.

That’s all there is so far. Is Blask correct in his revelation that the US Air Force is building a UAP tracking station on the Gulf Coast near Tampa? Will any details on this be covered in the upcoming Pentagon report on UAPs? Will anyone ask questions if it isn’t?

Is anyone besides Jeff Blask nervous yet?

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The Strange Mystery of the Hessdalen Lights of Norway

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The Strange Mystery of the Hessdalen Lights of Norway

Located out in a small valley in the central part of Norway, in the municipality of Holtålen in Trøndelag county, is the scenic valley of Hessdalen. Surrounded by scenic mountains, it is an isolated, sparsely populated area, the largest settlement being the tiny village of the same name, which has a population of just 150 people. Not much typically goes on here, and the people live a quiet, peaceful life among the picturesque scenery away from the bustle of city life, but beginning in 1981 their serene lives would be interrupted by a spate of sightings of mysterious lights in the sky that have remained unexplained.

Hessdalen Valley

Although strange lights had been sporadically seen in the valley since the 1940s, the activity of the phenomenon now known as the Hessdalen lights really picked up and became known in 1981, when villagers in the valley were startled by a myriad of mysterious orbs of light in the sky that would regularly appear at various places throughout the valley both night and day. These lights could be anywhere from the size of a basketball to the size of a car, sometimes even much larger, and had a wide variety of characteristics and behaviors. They would usually be bright white, yellow or red, and depending on the report usually appearing below the horizon but sometimes above the mountains. They would alternately zip away at high speeds to vanish, slowly float about, hover in midair, speed up or slow down, away from side to side, or do aerial acrobatics. They would sometimes merely appear and disappear in a flash, while others were observed floating and zipping about for up to 2 hours, with larger orbs frequently seen to spew out smaller orbs. On occasion, the orbs were said to hover over water or approach or shy away from observers when approached, demonstrating what seemed to be intelligent control, and in some daytime sightings the objects were described as looking metallic. Whatever they were, they were sighted very frequently, in their peak being seen 15 to 20 times a week, frightening locals in the process. One article in the online science journal Frontiers in Earth Science has described the lights in detail:

In spite of their irregular occurrence—i.e., 15 to 20 times per week from 1981 to 1984 and 10 to 20 times per year nowadays— the Hessdalen lights (HL) have been consistently observed and possess a series of recurring features: (1) they have the appearance of a free-floating light ball with dimensions ranging from decimeters up to 30 m. (2) they are characterized by geometric structures that are often accompanied by small, short-duration pulsating “spikes” in the high frequency and very low frequency radio ranges, (3) they show an absolute luminosity that has been estimated to be 19 kW, and (4) they have a time duration ranging from seconds to hours. HL are also characterized by the formation of light ball clusters and the ejection of mini light balls. They may also show very high velocities. Furthermore, HL are thunderstorm-independent events, as opposed to other rare and poorly understood transient luminous phenomena occurring in the atmosphere (i.e., ball lightings, blue jets, red sprites and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes).

The Hessdalen lights quickly became big news, drawing in droves of all manner of curiosity seekers and UFO researchers, as well as mainstream scientists eager to get to the bottom of the mystery. In the summer of 1983, an ongoing scientific field investigation was launched to study the lights, and by the conclusion of their 1-year investigation there were 53 light observations made. More scientific investigations have been carried out as well, including one in 1985, and another from 1997–1998 which managed to capture footage of the lights in a bizarre pyramid shape that bounced up and down. In 1998, an automated station was installed in the valley, called the Hessdalen Automatic Measurement Station (Hessdalen AMS) to monitor the lights year round, collecting reams of photos of the lights, as well as various readings on scientific equipment, and there have been various peer reviewed papers on the lights published in scientific journals. Indeed, the Hessdalen lights constitute one of the most well researched mysterious phenomenon there is. However, despite all of this study, no one can quite figure out what they actually are.

The number of theories as to what the lights might be is vast. One idea is that some sort of combustion is occurring involving hydrogen, oxygen and sodium, helped along by large deposits of scandium in the area. Another is that they are caused by piezoelectricity, which is an electrical charge that accumulates in certain materials including certain kinds of rock such as quartz, crystals, certain ceramics, and even some biological materials like bone. Considering that the valley has large deposits of crystal rocks, it is speculated that these may build up a charge that is released to form these balls of light. Other theories include plasma balls, ball lightning, meteorites, mirages, igniting gases, and even the idea that the valley itself acts as a sort of battery that generates a current, as well as many other numerous hypotheses and speculations. However, no single explanation can really account for all of the different characteristics reported with the lights. Of course, the lights have been claimed to be ghosts and alien UFOs as well, and UFO researchers have long held keen interest in this place. Yet, as much as this lonely valley has been studied, the secrets of its strange lights have remained evasive, and we still have no idea what they are, keeping them in the realm of mystery and speculation.

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The Strange Mystery of the Naga Fireballs

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The Strange Mystery of the Naga Fireballs

Every May and October, a curious phenomenon occurs along a 160-mile-long stretch of the Mekong River in the Isaan region in northeast Thailand. For a few nights during these two months, one can see the eerie sight of numerous glowing balls that seem to erupt from the very river itself to fly high into the air and vanish. Descriptions for these luminous orbs vary, ranging from the size of tiny bubbles or sparklers to larger ones said to be around the size of a basketball, usually a reddish color, but sometimes a bluish or yellowish hue and sometimes white. These balls typically will launch themselves upwards several hundred meters into the air before suddenly blinking out of existence, never making a sound and emanating no smoke or plume. They will continue for a time before stopping just as suddenly as they appeared, and there can be tens to thousands of these lights seen throughout a given night, rain or shine, with the most intense activity occurring during the night of Wan Ok Phansa at the end of Buddhist Lent in late-October and the most lights seen in the vicinity of a small village called Phon Phisai. Formerly called simply the “ghost lights,” they are now officially called bung fai phaya nak, and more commonly referred to by outsiders as the “Naga fireballs,” and no one is quite sure just what they are.

According to local tradition, the Naga fireballs have their origins in a type of giant river serpent prevalent in Buddhist folklore, called a Naga, in this case specifically a Naga called the Phaya Nak, or “the king of nagas.” These are said to be enormous semi-divine serpents and servants of Buddha with supernatural powers that lurk within the Mekong river or its estuaries, and are not only responsible for strange wave formations and other phenomena, but also are known from time to time shoot blazing fireballs into the air. Far from merely myth and folklore, a great many people in the rural areas of Thailand sincerely believe the Phaya Nak exist. There have been numerous sightings of them, and there are even supposed bones, teeth, and the egg of a Naga kept at a temple in Phon Phisai, and so it therefore goes without saying that for the locals the fireballs are coming from these beasts, as a display of celebration for the end of Buddhist Lent. However, of course there are plenty of other theories from scientists skeptical that the fireballs are coming from magical giant river serpents.

One theory that has been thrown around is that it is merely people firing tracer rounds, flares, or even just fireworks, the sound deadened by the distance and the often very noisy crowds of people who pour into the region to see the lights every year. Indeed, the annual 4-day Phayanak Festival in October attracts tens of thousands of people, who come to see the lights and enjoy the many festivities and events, including food stalls, Naga legend information, fireball exhibitions, a night bazaar, light and sound shows, and long-boat races prior to the main event of the fireballs themselves. With all of this activity it would seem that many of the lights might just be a show put on to draw in visitors, as the festival brings in huge amounts of revenue for the tiny rural local economy. However, while some of the Naga fireballs might be this, it does not explain the fireballs that originally began the festival, why they seem to come directly out of the water, or why they will often pop out in various different areas along the river. There are also frequent Thai boat patrols through the area to deter people from doing dangerous things like firing into the air. There is also the fact that the fireballs have been seen at other times of the year, and are only really paid attention to at the end of Buddhist Lent. They are also frequently reported as coming from smaller tributaries of the Mekong and even ponds in other areas, as well as some claims that these things have been seen for centuries. One reporter Andrew Biggs has said of the hoax angle in an article in the Bangkok Post:

First of all, the lights have been around a long time. Fishermen have reported seeing what locals still call “ghost lights” in the darkness of the Mekong River way before local governments attached the myth of Phayanak to them. Also, these lights apparently don’t just appear on the end of Buddhist Lent. It’s just that we pay attention to them on that night, which isn’t the same as saying they only pop up once a year. The biggest quandary of all is that we are living in the era of digital record. Everything is filmed, photographed and uploaded onto Instagram. People photograph their morning coffee, for god’s sake — what happens when it’s an event like weird coloured balls in the river? And yet despite all this, nobody has captured any hoax perpetrators.

It is also the scale of the operation. Just say I wanted to play a prank on Northeast believers and shoot a couple of coloured lights off the Mekong River. Who knows the specifics of the operation, but let’s say I do indeed do that. Last Sunday night, starting at 6.28pm, the first fireballs were spotted by those 300,000 visitors camped along the banks of the river at Ban Tha Muang, Rattanawapee district. Then, another one was spotted in a different district. And another. And another. All in all, a total of seventy fireballs shot up throughout the night, and that was in Rattanawapee alone. There were more in the districts of Sangkhom and Pone-pisai. By the end of the night, there were more than 300 fireballs. That’s a really big, expensive hoax!

For these reasons, it seems that surely not all of them could be caused by hoaxes or partiers, so what else could they be? Another possibility put forward is that the fireballs are caused by plasma orbs formed by the release of surface electricity, or even the old standby for UFO sightings called swamp gas. This is basically methane gas produced by the decomposition of organic material igniting when exposed to oxygen, and it has been used by skeptics to explain away a variety of ghost light and UFO phenomena, but this would not explain why it only happens most prominently at specific times of the year like clockwork, and it has also been called out as an unsuitable explanation for this phenomenon in other ways. Skeptic Brian Dunning has given a thorough and amusing skeptical debunking of the typical skeptical argument of swamp gas causing the Naga fireballs, saying:

There are two fatal flaws with this hypothesis. First, methane can only burn in an oxygen environment within a specific range of concentrations. It can only spontaneously ignite within an even narrower range, and requires the presence of phosphine combined with phosphorous tetrahydride. The needed proportions of these gases are unlikely to be found in nature. Second, in laboratory experiments designed to replicate the conditions needed for spontaneous ignition, the combination of oxygen, methane, and phosphorus compounds burns bright bluish-green with a sudden pop, producing black smoke. Under no conditions does it burn slowly, or red, or rise up in the air as a fireball. So even if the improbable conditions did exist in the Mekong river, the resulting display would not look like the Naga Fireballs.

Whatever is shooting up into the air, you’ve got to figure that it has some solid mass. When you watch the videos you can see that the red-orange lights go up very fast, consistent with fireworks, small rockets, or even tracer rounds (very much like a 12-gauge shotgun tracer round, which is comparatively slow). How is it possible for any flaming object to move that quickly through the air without blowing out? That’s not a problem for something like a firework or a tracer round, things designed for exactly such a purpose. But it’s a major problem for a burning ball of gas, which has an insufficient mass to drag ratio to move that quickly through the air. Even a pyrotechnic explosion that billows into the sky rises at a slow rate consistent with hot air rising through cold air; it does not and cannot streak like a bullet at hundreds of feet per second. For the Naga Fireballs to move as they do, they must enclose an object significantly more massive than the air they’re moving through. This necessarily means they’re heavier than air. And since they’re rocketing skyward, this means they must have been physically propelled.

So, from what we can observe, it’s actually more plausible that a river dragon is spitting flaming balls of dragon-mucus skyward, than it is for the Naga Fireballs to be naturally produced burning gas bubbles.

The Naga Fireballs have as of yet remained unidentified. What are we looking at here? Is this some rational, explainable phenomenon? Is it gases, atmospheric phenomena, or merely fireworks and people firing tracers into the air? Or is it perhaps something else altogether? The festival at the river still goes on every year, and if you talk to any local they will say it is the doing of the mysterious Naga, with perhaps even some spite thrown your way if you should say otherwise. Whatever the explanation may be, the Naga fireballs continue on, and have evaded understanding to this day.

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Meteorites that have hit Earth come from an UNKNOWN and SINGLE spot in the asteroid belt, study says

Meteorites that have hit Earth come from an UNKNOWN and SINGLE spot in the asteroid belt, study says

  • Meteorites may have a common, unknown origin, a new study says 
  • The research looked at more than 500 million years worth of meteorites
  • Meteorites generally come from a very small area in the asteroid belt 
  • The process that spits out meteorites has been 'remarkably stable over the past 500 million years'
  • Over 1 million asteroids are known to exist, but more haven't been identified
  • Understanding their origins can help us understand how the Solar System formed and which space rocks might endanger humanity in the future

Scientists have long thought that meteorites, pieces of asteroids that hit the Earth's ground, have emanated from different space rocks in the asteroid belt.

A new study suggests they may have a common, unknown origin, however.

The research looked at more than 500 million years worth of marine sedimentary rock containing meteorites, examining 15 different windows of time and found that all originate in the asteroid belt, but it's unclear where in the asteroid belt they're coming from.

'We argue that meteorites and small asteroids delivered to Earth in deep time are not primarily linked to the sequence of asteroid family-forming events,' researchers Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz wrote in the study's abstract. 

'Another, as yet unknown, delivery process appears to be associated with a very restricted region in the asteroid belt.'

Meteorites may have a common, unknown origin, a new study has found

Meteorites may have a common, unknown origin, a new study has found

'Another, as yet unknown, delivery process appears to be associated with a very restricted region in the asteroid belt,' researchers said

'Another, as yet unknown, delivery process appears to be associated with a very restricted region in the asteroid belt,' researchers said

Experts looked at more than 500 million years worth of marine sedimentary rock containing meteorites, examining 15 different windows of time and found that all originate in the asteroid belt, but it's unclear where in the asteroid belt they're coming from

Experts looked at more than 500 million years worth of marine sedimentary rock containing meteorites, examining 15 different windows of time and found that all originate in the asteroid belt, but it's unclear where in the asteroid belt they're coming from 

What the researchers were able to glean from their researcher is that meteorites generally come from a very small area in the asteroid belt.

Additionally, the process that shoots them out 'remarkably stable over the past 500 million years.' 

In an interview with Inverse, Schmitz, a professor at Lund University, said he had traveled all over the world -- California, Sweden, China and Russia -- to get a diverse sample of sedimentary rock to examine.

After looking at the different rock, he was left with more questions than answers about the origins of meteorites.

'That's a problem with our study, and it's a problem in science today, a big problem,' Schmitz told the news outlet. 'We don't know where the meteorites that dominate the flux come from in the asteroid belt.'   

After collecting the rock samples from each site, they were placed in hydrochloric acid, with the leftovers revealing the residue and the chrome-spinel grains, a common mineral found in meteorites.

'We looked for tiny, tiny needles in the big haystack,' Schmitz explained. 'So we basically burn the haystack.'   

Most asteroids live in the main asteroid belt, an area in space between Mars and Jupiter.

Most asteroids live in the main asteroid belt, an area in space between Mars and Jupiter. According to NASA , more than 1 million asteroids are known to exist, but many more have yet to be identified

Most asteroids live in the main asteroid belt, an area in space between Mars and Jupiter. According to NASA , more than 1 million asteroids are known to exist, but many more have yet to be identified

According to NASA, more than 1 million asteroids are known to exist, but many more have yet to be identified.

A piece of an asteroid or comet is also known as a meteoroid. Upon entering Earth's atmosphere, it turns into a meteor, fireball or shooting star. The pieces that reach the ground are known as meteorites.

It's widely believed that 'the variations in the flux of micrometeorites and meteorites to Earth is today generally described by the collisional cascading model,' the researchers wrote in their study, but after looking at more than 20,000 pounds (10,000kg) of rock, Schmitz and Terfelt were unable to find a known collision event.

'It's a big conundrum, a big enigma,' Schmitz told Inverse.  

Understanding meteorites origins can not only help us better understand how the Solar System formed, but which space rocks might endanger humanity in the future, Schmitz said.

The study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Explained: The difference between an asteroid, meteorite and other space rocks

An asteroid is a large chunk of rock left over from collisions or the early solar system. Most are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt.

A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the solar system.

A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up.

This debris itself is known as a meteoroid. Most are so small they are vapourised in the atmosphere.

If any of this meteoroid makes it to Earth, it is called a meteorite.

Meteors, meteoroids and meteorites normally originate from asteroids and comets.

For example, if Earth passes through the tail of a comet, much of the debris burns up in the atmosphere, forming a meteor shower.

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The Mysterious Area in the Asteroid Belt Where Meteorites Come From

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The Mysterious Area in the Asteroid Belt Where Meteorites Come From

Based on recent research conducted by geologist Birger Schmitz from Lund University, the majority of meteorites that have fallen to Earth came from a mysterious and unknown location in our Solar System’s asteroid belt. The asteroid belt contains millions of pieces of space rocks that orbit between Mars and Jupiter. While the majority of these space rocks are somewhat small (between the size of a boulder to a few thousand feet), some are a lot bigger.

Meteorites are smaller pieces that have broken off from much larger objects. The initial hypothesis was that these meteorites came from a major event that involved massive asteroids breaking apart in space. The problem with that theory is that according to Professor Schmitz, the meteorites that have fallen to Earth over the past 500 million years don’t coincide with any known collision event.

Asteroid belt

Schmitz has traveled the world looking for meteorites that date back millions and even billions of years. So far, he has gathered 10,000 kilograms of space rocks that have fallen to Earth in the last 500 million years. The samples were then put in hydrochloric acid so that the only thing left was a small amount of residue so that the extraterrestrial chrome-spinel grains could be analyzed.

While the purpose of his project was to find out the origins of these meteorites, the research has resulted with more questions than answers. It has been long believed that different meteorites originated from different parent bodies in the asteroid belt; however, Schmitz’s research seems to point to them all coming from one specific body that has been sending them our way for a steady 500 million years. There are still so many questions left unanswered though, such as what and where the parent body is, and how the meteorites ended up falling to Earth.

The research will hopefully help experts in regards to finding and studying asteroids that may one day threaten Earth. In an interview with Inverse, Schmitz said, “Meteorites tell us something about what type of objects threaten us in the future,” adding, “What type of objects do we have to be particularly aware of.”

Additionally, the data may help researchers learn more about the origins of our Solar System in addition to how our planets formed and evolved. Nicholas Castle from the Planetary Science Institute (but was not involved with the study), told Inverse, “Most meteorites date back towards the very early days of the Solar System,” adding, “So that’s sort of our first clues for how did we go from big gas clouds to solid material.”

The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences where it can be read in full.

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China lanceert voor het eerst bemanning naar eigen ruimtestation

De Chinese astronauten Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, en Liu Boming zwaaien tijdens een vertrekceremonie voorafgaande aan hun ruimtevlucht naar het Hemels Paleis 'Tiangong', het eerste echte ruimtestation van het land. De Chinese astronauten Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, en Liu Boming zwaaien tijdens een vertrekceremonie voorafgaande aan hun ruimtevlucht naar het Hemels Paleis 'Tiangong', het eerste echte ruimtestation van het land.  © EPA

China lanceert voor het eerst bemanning naar eigen ruimtestation

China heeft donderdag de eerste drie bewoners naar zijn eerste echte ruimtestation gebracht. Ze zijn om 09.54 uur Belgische tijd met de capsule Shenzhou-12 aangekomen. Die was afgelopen nacht van op de basis Jiuquan in het noordwesten van China met een Lange Mars-2F draagraket gelanceerd en koppelde op automatische piloot aan de Tianhe-basismodule van het ruimtestation Tiangong (‘Hemels Paleis’), aldus het officiële persbureau Xinhua. 

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12 Amazing Discoveries in Egypt That Baffled Scientists

12 Amazing Discoveries in Egypt That Baffled Scientists

The ancient Egyptians are such a mysterious group of people that due to their antiquity it’s hard to solve the many mysterious surrounding their time and world. All that’s left now is to work with the countless artifacts that has been discovered in recent history which brings up a lot more questions than answers. Some discoveries are so reality-shattering that it questions the very foundation of how civilizations evolved over the millennia. Ancient Egyptians have time and again defied our expectations of what is possible in ancient times. Here are 12 amazing discoveries found in Egypt which Scared scientists. Let’s begin.

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The Lunar Lantern Could be a Beacon for Humanity on the Moon

The Lunar Lantern Could be a Beacon for Humanity on the Moon

In October of 2024, NASA’s Artemis Program will return astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era. In the years and decades that follow, multiple space agencies and commercial partners plan to build the infrastructure that will allow for a long-term human presence on the Moon. An important part of these efforts involves building habitats that can ensure the astronauts’ health, safety, and comfort in the extreme lunar environment.

This challenge has inspired architects and designers from all over the world to create innovative and novel ideas for lunar living. One of these is the Lunar Lantern, a base concept developed by ICON (an advanced construction company based in Austin, Texas) as part of a NASA-supported project to build a sustainable outpost on the Moon. This proposal is currently being showcased as part of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the La Biennale di Venezia museum in Venice, Italy.

The Lunar Lantern emerged from Project Olympus, a research and development program made possible thanks to a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract and funding from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Consistent with ICON’s commitment to developing advanced construction technologies, the purpose of Olympus was to create a space-based construction system that will support NASA and other future exploration efforts on the Moon.

To realize this vision, ICON partnered with two architectural firms: the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), and Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+). Whereas BIG is renowned for its iconic architecture and its work on multiple Lunar and Martian concepts in the past several years, SEArch+ is recognized for its “human-centered” designs for space exploration and its long-standing relationship with NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Langley Research Center (LRC).

In fact, SEArch+ past involvement with NASA includes their work as part of the Human Habitability Division at NASA JSC and the Moon to Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies (MMPACT) team. They have also participated in multiple Phases of the NASA 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge (2015-2019) which included the Mars Ice House and Mars X-House V2 (the winning entries of Phase 1 and Phase 3, respectively).

The result of their collaboration is the Lunar Lantern, a comprehensive lunar outpost that can be constructed on the Moon using automated robotic 3D printers. Consistent with the philosophy of these companies and NASA’s Artemis Program, the construction of this outpost leverages a number of burgeoning technologies as well as In-Situ-Resource Utilization (ISRU) to minimize dependence on Earth.

For the sake of their presentation at the Architectural Exhibition, SEArch+ prepared an updated video of their base concept (shown below) that illustrates how the Lunar Lantern concept will enable a sustained human presence on the Moon. To address the various hazards of the lunar environment, the main habitat employs three structural components: a Base Isolator, Tension Cables, and a Whipple Shield.

Base isolators are essentially seismic dampeners, which are deployed at the foundation to absorb the shocks and stresses caused by regular “moonquakes” – which are either “shallow” or “deep.” Shallow quakes occurr at depths of 50-220 km (31-137 mi and are attributed to changes in surface temperature and meteorite impacts. Deep quakes are more rare and powerful, originating at depths of ~700 km (435 mi), and are caused by tidal interactions with Earth.

Then there are the externally mounted tension cables, which apply compressive stress to the habitats 3D printed walls. The outermost component, the Whipple Shield, is a double shell made up of an interior lattice and external shield panels. This provides protection against ballistic impact from micrometeorites and ejecta (caused by impacts nearby) while also shielding the interior structure from the extreme heat caused by direct exposure to the Sun.

In addition to protecting against the extremes in temperature, radiation, and seismic activity, one of the chief concerns is the hazard posed by all the jagged and statically charged lunar regolith (aka. “moon dust”). As they illustrate, the Lunar Lander base is equipped to contain (and benefit from) this problem:

“The Lunar Lantern outpost consists of habitats, sheds, landing pads, blast walls, and roadways. Landing pads, thought to be one of the first lunar structures, will need to contain and control the supersonic and subsonic dust ejecta created during launch and landing. SEArch+’s design offers multiple strategies for dust mitigation and dust collection in printability, form, and function.”

Artist’s impression of the interior of the Lunar Lantern habitat.

Credit: ICON/BIG

As the animation demonstrates, the configuration of the landing pads allows for the dust to be collected, preventing it from dispersing across the surface and interfering with operations. The collected dust can then be used as feedstock for the construction robots, which rely on regolith to fashion 3D printed structures. This way, the design not only prevents ejecta from becoming a serious hazard but also provides a steady supply of material that can be used to effect repairs to the structure.

As for the name, this was inspired by another important design feature, one which ensures human comfort. In short, the Lantern admits light from the lunar surface and then turns it into interior lighting that is adjusted (based on the section of the habitat) and turned off entirely to simulate nighttime. Or as they explain in the video:

“In order to replicate the Earth’s daily circadian rhythms and seasonal cycles, the Lunar Lantern utilizes a fiber optic system which captures the nearly perpetual light at the Moon’s south pole and modulates it in both brightness and color temperature. The interior of the habitat is organized vertically, with three designated levels – for work and exercise, dining and social, sleeping and private spaces.”

There are also a few “Easter Eggs” in the video, which commercial space and space exploration aficionados will not fail to notice! In both videos posted above (particularly the one produced by SEArch+), some familiar vehicles can be seen on the landing pads. This includes the SpaceX Starship, which Musk has promised will be ready to transport cargo and crews to the Moon in a few years, and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander – possibly the Human Landing System (HLS) variant specifically designed for NASA’s Artemis Program.

Artist’s impressions of the Lunar Lantern’s interior. Credit: ICON/SEArch+

There is no shortage of ideas for how humans could live on the Moon and Mars someday. While the design elements differ from one concept to the next, they all share the same commitment to leveraging 3D printing, sustainability, and the ability to provide for water, power, and food using local resources. Each also emphasizes how planning to live sustainably in a hostile environment can shape how we live on Earth.

The Lunar Lantern is not the only space architecture exhibition featured at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition (which will run until Nov. 21st). The European Space Agency (ESA) – in partnership with the international architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) – are also showcasing their proposal for a fully operational semi-inflatable lunar habitat, known as the “Lunar Village.”

These two proposals beautifully illustrate how proposals for living beyond Earth are becoming a part of mainstream architecture. As this decade comes to a close, this trend is likely to continue, eventually becoming an entirely new form of architectural, industrial, and interior design. If and when humans begin to settle on the Moon and Mars, we can expect the real estate industry will follow suite!

Further Reading: ICON, Search+, Biennale Architettura 2021

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The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light-Years Long

The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light-Years Long

We’ve known for a while about the large-scale structure of the Universe. Galaxies reside in filaments hundreds of millions of light-years long, on a backbone of dark matter. And, where those filaments meet, there are galaxy clusters. Between them are massive voids, where galaxies are sparse. Now a team of astronomers in Germany and their colleagues in China and Estonia have made an intriguing discovery.

These massive filaments are rotating, and this kind of rotation on such a massive scale has never been seen before.

Obviously, there’s no way to take an actual picture of the Universe’s large-scale structure. But there are some almost-famous images that come from the Millennium Simulation Program. The Millennium Simulation was a super-computer simulation of a cubic portion of the Universe over 2 billion light-years on each side. The image contains about 20 million individual galaxies organized in filaments and clumps, and it was our first real glimpse of the Universe’s LSS.

It’s remarkable to look at that image now and imagine those filaments rotating.

Image of the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing filaments and voids within the cosmic structure. Credit: Millennium Simulation Project

The team of astronomers behind this discovery worked with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS.) The SDSS created a very detailed 3D map of the Universe, so SDSS data was critical to the team’s discovery.

“By mapping the motion of galaxies in these huge cosmic superhighways using the Sloan Digital Sky survey – a survey of hundreds of thousands of galaxies – we found a remarkable property of these filaments: they spin.” says Peng Wang, first author of the now published study and astronomer at the AIP (Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam).

Each of the galaxies in the filaments amounts to no more than a speck of dust on the grand scale, and they’re not only rotating but moving along the tendrils as if they’re pipelines.

“They move on helixes or corkscrew like orbits, circling around the middle of the filament while travelling along it.”

Noam Libeskind, Study Co-Author, AIP.

“Despite being thin cylinders – similar in dimension to pencils – hundreds of millions of light years long, but just a few million light years in diameter, these fantastic tendrils of matter rotate,” added Noam Libeskind, initiator of the project at the AIP. “On these scales the galaxies within them are themselves just specs of dust. They move on helixes or corkscrew like orbits, circling around the middle of the filament while travelling along it. Such a spin has never been seen before on such enormous scales, and the implication is that there must be an as yet unknown physical mechanism responsible for torquing these objects.”

The fact that these filaments spin is difficult to visualize, and fascinating once you succeed. But the discovery is about more than our own fascination. These are the largest objects we’ve ever seen spinning, and that means that angular momentum can take place on a massive scale. One of the mysteries in cosmology is how that angular momentum is generated on such a massive scale since there was no primordial rotation in the early Universe.

The discovery rests on observations of individual galaxies in the filaments and their Doppler shift. In this study, red-shift is a proxy for rotation, Red-shifted galaxies are receding, and blue-shifted galaxies are approaching.

This figure from the paper shows the filament rotation speed as a function of the distance between galaxies and the filament spine. The distance of galaxies from the filament spine in the receding region is displayed in red and ascribed positive values, while the distance of galaxies in the approaching region is marked in blue and ascribed negative values. Error bars represent the standard deviation about the mean. Image Credit: Wang et al 2021.

This figure from the paper shows the filament rotation speed as a function of the distance between galaxies and the filament spine. The distance of galaxies from the filament spine in the receding region is displayed in red and ascribed positive values, while the distance of galaxies in the approaching region is marked in blue and ascribed negative values. Error bars represent the standard deviation about the mean. Image Credit: Wang et al 2021.

In the current working model of the Universe’s structural formation, overdensities grow via gravitational instability. Material from underdense regions flows into regions of overdensity. But that flow of material has no rotation or curl to it. That’s why cosmologists say that there was no rotation in the early Universe. And here’s where this discovery gets more interesting.

The rotation evident in these filaments of galaxies must be generated as the structures form. And these filaments and the rest of the cosmic web are connected to the formation and evolution of galaxies themselves. They also have a powerful effect on the spin of individual galaxies and can regulate how a galaxy and its dark matter halo rotate. There’s an unknown piece in all of this: scientists don’t yet know how our current understanding can predict that the filaments themselves spin.

“Such a spin has never been seen before on such enormous scales, and the implication is that there must be an as yet unknown physical mechanism responsible for torquing these objects.”

Noam Libeskind, Study Co-Author, AIP.

Before this study, other scientists have theorized that these filaments spin. For example, Dr. Mark Neyrinck, a Fellow at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, is known for theorizing on this. He’s also known for developing the “origami” description of cosmic structure formation. In a 2016 article in The Paper he said, “…if galaxies rotate (and they do), so must filaments sticking out of them. Furthermore, galaxies joined by a filament should rotate mostly together, like objects attached to the ends of a rod. In fact, this is consistent with astronomical observations; nearby galaxies tend to be spinning in the same direction.”

Dr. Neyrinck’s work was an important starting point for the team behind this paper.

“Motivated by the suggestion from the theorist Dr. Mark Neyrinck that filaments may spin, we examined the observed galaxy distribution, looking for filament rotation,” says co-author Noam Libeskind. “It’s fantastic to see this confirmation that intergalactic filaments rotate in the real Universe, as well as in computer simulation.”

The team used a sophisticated mapping method that divided the observed galaxy distribution into segments. Then each of the filaments was approximated by a cylinder. The galaxies in the filament were then divided into two regions on either side of the filament’s spine. Then they carefully measured the mean redshift difference between the two regions. “The mean redshift difference is a proxy for the velocity difference (the Doppler shift) between galaxies on the receding and approaching side of the filament tube,” the authors write. That’s how they measured the filaments’ rotation.

In their paper, the team writes that what they found cannot be random. “What is measured and presented here is the redshift difference between two regions on either side of a hypothesized spin axis that is coincident with the filament spine. The full distribution of this quantity is inconsistent with random regardless of the viewing angle formed with the line of sight…”

However, the researchers caution, their results don’t imply that every filament in the Universe is rotating. That would be an over-reach. “This work does not predict that every single filament in the Universe is rotating,” they write, “rather that there are subsamples—intimately connected to the viewing angle end point mass—that show a clear signal consistent with rotation. This is the main finding of this work.”

“Taken together,” the team writes in their conclusion, “the current study and  demonstrate that angular momentum can be generated on unprecedented scales, opening the door to a new understanding of cosmic spin.”

Lead author of this work is Peng Wang, an astronomer at the Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP). The title of the paper is “Possible observational evidence for cosmic filament spin.” It’s published in Nature Astronomy.

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Linda Moulton Howe: Huge Non-Human Craft Attempts to Land at Iraqi Base

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 18 - 06 -2021

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 18 - 06 -2021

UFO Sighted Over Los Angeles, California ( June 17, 2021 )

STATEMENT : REAL UFO IN CALIFORNIA SKY I KNOW ITS NOT A LATERNS CUASE THE UFO LIGHTS AND SHAPE SHIFTS COMES AND GOES IN THE SKY

ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : CITY OF ANGELS #DODGERS4EVA

ORIGINAL VIDEO URl : https://youtu.be/5nvPnOxKQ3A

UFOs Sighted Over Lehi. Utah ( June 14, 2021 )

UFOs Sighted Over Lehi. Utah on June 14, 2021

STATEMENT : Hey ya’ll I’m in Lehi Utah west and south of Skinwalker and I saw these up in the air anybody else seen these?

2 videos

  • credit : Jason Gustavson

UFOs Sighted Over Charlestown, Rhode Island ( May 24, 2021)

UFOs Sighted Over Charlestown, Rhode Island onMay 24, 2021

STATEMENT : Charlestown, RI May 24th, 2021 9:28 p.m.

  • credit : Shawn Carter

note : no audio

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UFO Sighted Over South France ( March 13. 2021 )

STATEMENT : 13th march 2021 south of France weather balloon ? Other ?

ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : Réha

ORIGINAL VIDEO URL : https://youtu.be/k_9jm_r8Y40

Large Pill Shaped Object REC Over Ebensburg Pennsylvania?

Large Pill shaped object recorded over Ebensburg Pennsylvania on June 9th 2021.

  • Source of video MUFON Case # 116227

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 18 -06-2021

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 18 -06-2021

MUFON CASE : 116327 Los Banos, California ( June 17, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Four semi trucks buzzed
Long Description of Sighting Report

I was the third truck of four, that were running together. We left Oakland after a concert we were touring with, headed to San Diego. At about 3am I happened to see a light shine out across in front of us maybe two miles or so ahead of us on the right, and it went out. I didn't think much of it. I thought at first someone was shinning deer. Than I saw a beam shine downward but didn't see anything else. The origin of the light looked to be about 100ft above the ground. Then it went out. Then you could see white marker lights as it crossed the 5 and turned north on the other side and came at us. before it reached us it turned back and went south and crossed back over the 5 to the west and the lights all went out and I couldn't see it anymore. The fella in the truck in front of said he saw it off the the right just sitting there hovering. I saw light shinning in my passenger side window coming at me from a little behind me. I thought it was going to slam into the side of my tractor. It came straight at me. There were three very bright white lights across the front edge ot this thing, shinning right into my side window. It came to almost a complete stop, rotated tipped up on its edge and slid over the top of my tractor, and out over the front of my windshield. When we stop later that morning, and I stopped my video cameras to go back over that segments to see if it got recorded. I didn't think it would catch it, because the cameras are set to look down out over the hood of my truck to the road in front of me. I would estimate that craft was about 30 to 50 feet above the truck in front of me. With a high degree of certainty it would say that this thing was about 14ft at it widest point. probably close to 20ft long. My tractor is 19.5ft long and 13.4ft tall. As it came over and out into view I got a really good look at it (see drawing) the edge of this was slightly larger than the light placement on the underside. Interstate lanes are 12ft x2 plus 11ft for both shoulders, that's a total of 35ft. This was just a little larger than a single lane. Smallest Cessna has a 32ft wing span, and crop dusters are 34ft. this was no plane. it had no visible propulsion system. It could be a new military style drone. but can drones hover without propellers or a fan system? More to the point, why would the military put people on the highway at risk. Im still baffled that there is absolutely no light flash in my cab when it came at me. should have seen the inside of my cab light up in the video. Just another strange aspect. I would have to say my buddies where really excited over this event, trying to put it into some kind of contexts. I tried to tell them you can't. You'll always have this with you, wondering what it was. i told them this was the third time I've had events in very close proximity with arial phenomena, and it wasn't even the strangest, and if you tell it to people that have never experience something like this, they'll tell you, what you saw, isn't what you saw. When we first saw it and it crossed the 5 heading east, a couple miles ahead of us, had it kept going straight, it just would have been a low flying airplane under 500ft. At night!

Date Submitted : 2021-06-17
Date of Event : 2016-08-05
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 050816I5MileMarker377.5California.M4V : no audio

MUFON CASE : 116320 Corpus Christi, Texas ( June 17, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : White round circle with connection to another circle
Long Description of Sighting Report

It seems to be a main circle controlling a smaller circle have video the video was taken by security camera object was detected by motion sensor

Date Submitted : 2021-06-17
Date of Event : 2021-06-15
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.64DCCBDBFBED4F668061BE2C5FF3935F.MOV : no audio

MUFON CASE : 116315 Seminole, Texas ( June 17, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Light or something

Long Description of Sighting Report

Pulled it up on the door bell camera

Date Submitted : 2021-06-17

Date of Event : 2020-12-10

MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.90C791379874466C97C69204D8EBB938.MOV

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Two UFO Shoot Out Of Volcano Mouth In Mexico On Live Cam, June 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Two UFO Shoot Out Of Volcano Mouth In Mexico On Live Cam, June 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: June 16, 2021
Location of sighting: Popocatepetl, Mexico
 
This live volcano cam caught two UFOs shooting out of the mouth of the famous Popocatepetl volcano this week. Then a third UFO shoots across the top of the volcano, since this is an active volcano, we know it's not a plane. No pilot in his right mind would fly over a volcano that blows twice a week. The close up of the video clearly shows the brightly glowing UFOs exiting the mouth and wavering back and forth and then shooting straight up! Absolutely mind blowing! This should be impossible, but I do know that UFOs have been seen entering and exiting this volcano for almost a decade. I also know there is an alien base 5-6km below the ground level that contains the alien base itself. 100% proof that aliens live on Earth and come and go any time they want. 
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Phoenix Lights Over City of Lehi, Utah June 14, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Phoenix Lights Over City of Lehi, Utah June 14, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: June 14, 2021
Location of sighting: Lehi, Utah, USA
 
Wow this video is amazing! Those lights in the sky remind me of the famous Phoenix lights UFO incident long ago. At first what I thought was a reflection from the street traffic lights turned into something more monumental. This is not a four UFOs, but actually a single larger craft that is cloaked from view...however sometimes the propulsion systems are visible and sometimes the ship itself become visible for a few seconds to a few minutes during sunset. Thats why we see them here. Aliens like to think they are superior in all ways, but truth be told, they make mistakes just like us. I'm pretty sure the US military will try to take credit for it and spread disinformation and make the public believe its nothing at all, but its 100% alien! 
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Human like figure buried in the sands of Mars caught by Perseverance Rover

Human like figure buried in the sands of Mars caught by Perseverance Rover

Images captured by Perseverance Mars Rover shows a human-like figure buried in the sands of Mars.
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Something must have happened in the past that caused this human-like figure to get entangled under the sand.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired the images using its Right Mastcam-Z camera on April 14, 2021 (SOL53).
Not only do the images show a human-like head/face and hands/fingers sticking out of the sand, but it's also a sign of past life on Mars.

  

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*MUST SEE* Triangle UFO flying over the highway in Los Banos, California

*MUST SEE* Triangle UFO flying over the highway in Los Banos, California

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Here’s one really interesting footage of a possible TR-3B (triangle UFO) flying across the night sky above Los Banos, a city in Merced County, central California. This happened on 8th May 2021 but it was just today submitted to MUFON’s website.

Witness report: 

I was the third truck of four, that were running together. We left Oakland after a concert we were touring with, headed to San Diego. At about 3am I happened to see a light shine out across in front of us maybe two miles or so ahead of us on the right, and it went out. I didn’t think much of it. I thought at first someone was shinning deer. Than I saw a beam shine downward but didn’t see anything else. The origin of the light looked to be about 100ft above the ground. Then it went out. Then you could see white marker lights as it crossed the 5 and turned north on the other side and came at us. before it reached us it turned back and went south and crossed back over the 5 to the west and the lights all went out and I couldn’t see it anymore. The fella in the truck in front of said he saw it off the the right just sitting there hovering. I saw light shinning in my passenger side window coming at me from a little behind me. I thought it was going to slam into the side of my tractor. It came straight at me. There were three very bright white lights across the front edge ot this thing, shinning right into my side window. It came to almost a complete stop, rotated tipped up on its edge and slid over the top of my tractor, and out over the front of my windshield. When we stop later that morning, and I stopped my video cameras to go back over that segments to see if it got recorded. I didn’t think it would catch it, because the cameras are set to look down out over the hood of my truck to the road in front of me. I would estimate that craft was about 30 to 50 feet above the truck in front of me. With a high degree of certainty it would say that this thing was about 14ft at it widest point. probably close to 20ft long. My tractor is 19.5ft long and 13.4ft tall. As it came over and out into view I got a really good look at it (see drawing) the edge of this was slightly larger than the light placement on the underside. Interstate lanes are 12ft x2 plus 11ft for both shoulders, that’s a total of 35ft. This was just a little larger than a single lane. Smallest Cessna has a 32ft wing span, and crop dusters are 34ft. this was no plane. it had no visible propulsion system. It could be a new military style drone. but can drones hover without propellers or a fan system? More to the point, why would the military put people on the highway at risk. Im still baffled that there is absolutely no light flash in my cab when it came at me. should have seen the inside of my cab light up in the video. Just another strange aspect. I would have to say my buddies where really excited over this event, trying to put it into some kind of contexts. I tried to tell them you can’t. You’ll always have this with you, wondering what it was. i told them this was the third time I’ve had events in very close proximity with arial phenomena, and it wasn’t even the strangest, and if you tell it to people that have never experience something like this, they’ll tell you, what you saw, isn’t what you saw.

When we first saw it and it crossed the 5 heading east, a couple miles ahead of us, had it kept going straight, it just would have been a low flying airplane under 500ft. At night! The map thats attached gives context to what interaction occurred. The circle up by the Chevron Station is roughly where we were when I first saw the light shoot out to the east. The M4V video has been cleaned up to brighten it up. Its from the camera mounted on the driver side. Its the exact same video as, South Bound MM377.5.mov, just shortened. and no audio in either one. The Mile Marker 377.7 South Bound.mov is from the camera thats mounted on the passenger side. With audio. Because the vehicle enters the frame just above the camera, you don’t see the vehicle as deep into the center of the video, as explained they’re not designed to be looking up.

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NASA’s ‘Moonikin’ Will Boldly Go Where No Test Dummy Has Gone Before

NASA’s ‘Moonikin’ Will Boldly Go Where No Test Dummy Has Gone Before

A naming contest for the inanimate Artemis crew member launches today.

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Should all go according to plan, NASA’s new SLS megarocket will finally make it to space this coming November, in a journey that will take an Orion capsule to the Moon and back. No human will take part in the inaugural Artemis mission, but a soon-to-be-named manikin will come along for the ride, along with a pair of simulated torsos.9bd5f03d03b395b6b99f4fa256608270.jpg

The manikin strapped in its Orion chair and in launch position.
Image: NASA

NASA’s Space Launch System is coming along nicely, so it’s only natural to start thinking about a crew, or at least, a stand-in for the real crew (the actual Artemis team has already been chosen, in case you’re wondering). Having flesh-and-blood humans participate in an inaugural rocket launch would be unspeakably reckless, which is why NASA is preparing a manikin for the mission.

But this ain’t your ordinary storefront manikin, for this dummy will be fitted with two radiation sensors to record data during the Artemis I flight, and wear NASA’s next generation flight suit, also known as the Orion suit. A pair of sensors will also be fitted to the manikin’s seat—the commander’s seat, no less—to track the spacecraft’s vibration and acceleration during the trip. The seat also features an energy dampening system, called the Crew Impact Attenuation System. This safety feature is currently going through qualification testing in anticipation of a crewed mission to the Moon.

Indeed, the first Artemis mission will pack a big punch. In addition to launching SLS for the first time, NASA will send an unscrewed Orion capsule—with all due respect to the manikin—on a 280,000-mile (450,000-kilometer) journey to the Moon and back. Astronauts will experience 2.5 times the force of gravity during the ascent, and endure high radiation levels during passage through the Van Allen belts—clouds of high-energy particles located between the Earth and Moon (prior to the Apollo missions, NASA was concerned that the Van Allen Belts might actually prove fatal to the astronauts, which didn’t turn out to the the case).

The Orion spacecraft will also return to Earth’s atmosphere at speeds reaching 6.8 miles per second (11 km/s), which will be the fastest reentry ever for a crewed space capsule. Orion will also experience temperatures reaching 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius), which will be hotter than what the spacecraft endured during its 2014 test flight.

So yeah, sending a dummy on this first flight is a smart idea, as the exercise could reveal potentially dangerous conditions for astronauts. What’s more, data collected during Artemis I “will be used for Orion crew simulations and to verify crew safety by comparing flight vibration and acceleration against pre-flight predictions, then making model refinements as necessary,” Mark Baldwin, Orion’s occupant protection specialist for Lockheed Martin, explained in a statement. Success in the mission will set the stage for Artemis II, in which the exact mission will repeat, save for the presence of an actual crew.

To be clear, the Artemis manikin is no crash test dummy, which is a separate category of human stand-in, as NASA explains:

Similar to manikins, NASA uses Anthropometric Test Devices, or “crash test dummies,” that are equipped with various instruments for other crew safety evaluations. Dummies are used in tests that drop a test version of Orion from an aircraft, with the final set of tests scheduled for later this year, to verify the Artemis II seat and suit can limit the risk of head and neck injury during the most severe acceleration environments – abort and landing. During water impact drop tests at Langley, dummies also occupied crew capsule prototypes to help engineers better understand what Orion and its crew may experience when landing in the ocean after missions to the Moon.

Artemis I will also include a pair of simulated torsos named Helga and Zohar. The pair will be strapped into the lower two seats on Orion, and record radiation exposure during the mission. One torso will be used to test a radiation-shielding vest, called AstroRad, which is designed to reduce exposure.

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The two test torsos, one of which is equipped with a new vest to protect against radiation.
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The phantom torsos have names, but the manikin does not. At least not yet. NASA has launched a contest to name the dummy, but those of you hoping to submit Manikin McManikinface will be in for a profound disappointment, as the space agency, likely in anticipation of this, has supplied a predetermined set of names (captions provided by NASA):

  • ACE: Straightforward, practical. Stands for Artemis Crew Explorer.
  • CAMPOS: Resourceful, problem-solver. A dedication to Arturo Campos, key player in bringing Apollo 13 home.
  • DELOS: Nostalgic, romantic. The island where Apollo and Artemis were born, according to Greek myth.
  • DUHART: Warm, welcoming. A dedication to Irene Duhart Long, chief medical officer at Kennedy Space Center.
  • MONTGOMERY: Pioneer, innovative. A dedication to Julius Montgomery, first African American to work at the Cape Canaveral Space Facility as a technical professional.
  • RIGEL: Bright, inspirational. The giant superstar in the Orion constellation.
  • SHACKLETON: Secretive, abundant. A crater on the Moon’s south pole and a reference to a famous Antarctic explorer.
  • WARGO: Enthusiastic, passionate. A dedication to Michael Wargo, the agency’s first Chief Exploration Scientist.

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Starting today, NASA will be asking social media users on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to choose one of two names. Eventually, the naming brackets will be whittled down to two, and a final winner will be announced on June 28.

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The Meaning of Mecca, Islam’s Holiest City

Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Source: Haris Gunawan / Adobe Stock

The Meaning of Mecca, Islam’s Holiest City

Mecca (also spelled as Makkah) is regarded as the holiest city in Islam. Apart from the fact that Mecca was the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, it is also the city where Islam’s holiest place of worship, the Great Mosque (more commonly known as al-Masjid al-Haram) is located. In addition, it is in the direction of Mecca that Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. Furthermore, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, the Hajj, or Pilgrimage, involves an extended visit to the city.

Where is Mecca?

Mecca is located in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula, in what is today the Makkah region of Saudi Arabia. The sacred city is historically part of the Hejaz, which stretches along the Arabian Peninsula’s Red Sea coast from Jordan in the north to the Asir region in the south. Mecca is situated 73 km (45 mi.) inland from Jeddah, the commercial hub of Saudi Arabia.

The city sits in the Wadi Ibrahim (Valley of Abraham), and is surrounded by the Sirat Mountains. There are four passes through the mountains that grant access to the holy city.

Panoramic View of Mecca, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 1845. From the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage. (Khalili Foundation/CC BY SA 4.0)

Panoramic View of Mecca, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 1845. From the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage.

(Khalili Foundation/ CC BY SA 4.0 )

Mecca is most closely associated with the Islamic faith. Nevertheless, the city was already a significant religious center and key spot for trading even before the founding of Islam. This is due to the fact that Mecca was an oasis on the trade route that linked the Mediterranean world with Southern Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian subcontinent.

Due to Mecca’s strategic geographical location, it was developed during the Roman and Byzantine periods. It is possible that Mecca was also known to the peoples of the Hellenistic period. In Ptolemy’s Geography, a city in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula called Macoraba is mentioned. Macoraba has been traditionally identified with Mecca, though some modern scholars have cast doubts on this identification.

The Earliest History of Mecca

Still, ancient writings referring to Mecca seems to be scarce. Instead, the main source of information for this part of the city’s history comes from later Islamic and Arabic sources. Islamic tradition, for example, traces the history of Mecca all the way back to the beginning of time .

It is believed that when Adam and Eve were thrown out of Paradise, they were separated. Adam landed on the island of Sri Lanka, while Eve found herself in the area that is now Jeddah. After wandering the earth on their own for a period of time, Adam and Eve were reunited by God on Mount Arafat, to the east of Mecca. Arabic sources also state that Adam was buried in Mecca. Eve, on the other hand, was buried in nearby Jeddah.

The next appearance of Mecca in Islamic tradition is in the story of the Great Flood. It is said that during the flood, Noah’s ark came to Mecca, and passed around the disinterred body of Adam seven times. According to the Quran, Abraham and Ishmael (Abraham’s son by Hagar) were responsible for building (or rebuilding) the Kaaba in Mecca (more about the Ka’aba later in this article). The city is also associated with Abraham by the belief that it was there that Hagar nursed Ishmael back to health with the waters of the Well of Zamzam.

The Arabian Peninsula Before Islam

Muslims refer to the period on the Arabian Peninsula before the arrival of Islam as Jahiliyya, which may be translated to mean ‘Age of Ignorance’. The term Jahiliyya is normally used pejoratively to refer to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula. The Jahiliyya period is important for Muslims, as it is serves to highlight the change brought about by Islam to the Arab way of life.

Some features of the Jahiliyya period include: the worship of idols, tribalism, and the practice of female infanticide. In short, the Jahiliyya period was thought to have been a dark age. Interestingly, the term Jahiliyya is considered to be positive with regards to Arabic literature, as pre-Islamic Arabic poetry is esteemed by Muslims.

"Bayad plays the oud to the lady", Arabic manuscript for ‘Qissat Bayad wa Reyad’ tale (late 12th century). (Public Domain)

"Bayad plays the oud to the lady", Arabic manuscript for ‘Qissat Bayad wa Reyad’ tale (late 12th century).

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Mecca and the Birth of Islam

The birth of Islam is normally portrayed as a radical break from the Jahiliyya period. The story of Islam began in Mecca in 570 AD. According to tradition, this was the year that the Prophet Muhammad was born.

For the first 40 years of his life, Muhammad lived as an ordinary man. Muhammad’s father is said to have died before he was born, while his mother died when he was six years old. The future prophet was raised by his paternal grandfather until the latter’s death two years later.

Finally, he came into the care of his uncle, Abu Talib, who had become the new head of the Hashim clan. According to one story, while accompanying his uncle on a trading journey to Syria, Muhammad was recognized as a future prophet by a Christian monk. At the age of 25, Muhammad married a wealthy woman named Khadijah, who was 40 years old. Khadijah had employed Muhammad to oversee the transportation of her goods to Syria, and was so impressed by him, that she offered to marry him.

Every once in a while, Muhammad would seclude himself in a cave on one of the mountains near Mecca. One night in his fortieth year, as Muhammad was meditating in the cave, the angel Jibril (Gabriel) appeared to him, and gave him his first revelation. The angel taught him the opening verses of Surah 96 of the Quran: “Recite in the name of your Lord who creates, / creates man from a clot! / Recite for your Lord is most generous…”

The encounter with the angel left Muhammad feeling disturbed, but he was reassured by Khadijah and her cousin, Waraqah ibn Nawfal (a Christian who confirmed Muhammad’s prophethood). Muhammad continued receiving revelations from Jibril, but for the next three years, limited himself to speaking about them in private.

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The angel Jibrîl stands before Muhammad and instructs him on the call to prayer. 

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The Prophet Muhammad at Mecca

Eventually, Muhammad was commanded by God to preach publicly. Initially, the Meccans did not oppose Muhammad. When the prophet began proclaiming that there is no god but Allah, however, he began to face opposition from the Quraysh of Mecca.

This is due to the fact that the monotheism preached by Muhammad was perceived as an attack on the religious beliefs and practices of the Quraysh. Moreover, the Quraysh feared that the economy of the city would be affected if they accepted Muhammad’s message and became monotheists because pagan pilgrims would stop coming to the city.

Although Muhammad faced opposition from the majority of the Meccans, he received protection from his clan, and was therefore able to stay in the city. In 619 AD, however, his uncle, Abu Talib, died, and leadership of the clan passed to another of the prophet’s uncles, Abu Lahab.

Abu Lahab opposed Muhammad, so he withdrew the clan’s protection of the prophet. This meant that Muhammad was no longer safe in Mecca. In 622 AD, Muhammad and his followers left Mecca for Medina, a journey which is referred to as the Hijrah. 622 AD is also the year in which the Islamic calendar begins. In 630 AD, the Muslims were strong enough to march an army on Mecca. The Meccans submitted, and an amnesty was declared by the prophet.

The Holy City of Mecca

Interestingly, despite being the holiest city in Islam, Mecca never became the capital of any Islamic state. The immediate successors of Muhammad, the Rashidun caliphs, for instance, ruled from Medina (with the exception of the fourth caliph, Ali, who moved the capital to Kufa). The Umayyads who followed ruled from Damascus, while their successors, the Abbasids, were based in Baghdad. The latter moved to Cairo after the Mongols invaded.

Lastly, the Ottoman caliphs ruled from Constantinople. Nevertheless, Islamic rulers continued to contribute to the upkeep of the holy city, and served as its defenders. The title ‘Protector of the Two Holy Cities’ (referring to Mecca and Medina), for instance, has been used by various Muslim rulers in history.

As a holy city, Mecca retained its significance in the Muslim faith. The most obvious sign of this is the fact that when Muslims perform their daily prayers, they do so in the direction of Mecca. Another clear sign of Mecca’s religious significance is the role it plays in the Hajj. This is the last of Islam’s Five Pillars, which states that every Muslim who is physically and financially able to do so should make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lifetime.

The Hajj is an annual pilgrimage that takes place during the during the Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic year. More precisely, it begins on the 7th day of that month, and ends on the 12th day. One of the most important rituals of the Hajj is the tawaf, which is the circumambulation of the pilgrims around the Ka’aba seven times in an anti-clockwise direction. The Ka’aba is a small shrine located near the center of the al-Masjid al-Haram, and is considered by Muslims to be the most sacred spot on earth.

The Ka’aba, Mecca. (ETC )

The Ka’aba, Mecca.

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Miracles at Mecca

According to Islamic belief, Abraham was instructed by God to bring Hagar and their son, Ishmael, to Arabia from Palestine to protect them from the jealousy of Sarah. Abraham brought the two of them to the site of Mecca, and left them there, as instructed by God. Although he gave them some supplies of food and water before leaving, it ran out.

Soon, Hagar and Ishmael were suffering from hunger and thirst. In desperation, the mother ran up and down two hills, Safa and Marwa, to see if she could spot any help in the distance. Finally, Hagar collapsed beside her son out of exhaustion, and prayed to God for help. At that moment, Ishmael struck his foot on the ground, and water gushed out, and thus the two were saved. This is said to be the origin of the Well of Zamzam. The Spring of Zamzam, from which the well draws its waters, is believed to be a tributary of the Waters of Paradise.

Historic Zamzam well mouthpiece. The description reads: (line 1) The mouthpiece of the well of Zamzam. (line 2) The pulley for lifting Zamzam water dating back to the end of the fourteenth century of Hijrah. (line 3) The brass bucket which was used to be in the well of Zamzam dating back to 1299 Hijrah. (Mohammad Bahareth/CC BY SA 2.0)

Historic Zamzam well mouthpiece. The description reads: (line 1) The mouthpiece of the well of Zamzam. (line 2) The pulley for lifting Zamzam water dating back to the end of the fourteenth century of Hijrah. (line 3) The brass bucket which was used to be in the well of Zamzam dating back to 1299 Hijrah.

(Mohammad Bahareth/ CC BY SA 2.0 )

The miracle not only saved Hagar and Ishmael, but also allowed them to make a living, as they were able to trade their water with passing nomads for food and supplies. Sometime later, Abraham returned to check on Hagar and Ishmael, and was commanded by God to build the Ka’aba. According to one interpretation of the verse, Abraham was told to rebuild the shrine.

This may mean that there was an older shrine, one said to have been erected by Adam, the foundations of which were left by the time of Abraham. As time went by, the people of Mecca became polytheists, and idols were placed in the Ka’aba. When the Meccans surrendered to Muhammad in 630 AD, the Ka’aba was cleansed of its idols.

The Meaning of the Ka’aba Black Stone at Mecca

In the eastern corner of the Ka’aba is the Black Stone. As part of the tawaf, pilgrims touch and kiss this sacred object. The Black Stone is believed to date to the time of Adam and Eve. According to Islamic belief, the stone was given to Adam when he was cast out of Paradise so that he could obtain forgiveness for his sins.

The Black Stone is said to have been concealed during the Great Flood, but was restored to Abraham when he was building / re-building the Ka’aba. Legend has it that the stone was originally white in color, but turned black as a result of absorbing the sins of the countless pilgrims who have touched and kissed it.

Mecca’s status as the holiest city in Islam has been maintained from the faith’s beginning till this day. In the almost 1400 years since Islam was established, Mecca has seen its fair share of ups and downs. Ownership of the sacred city, for instance, has switched hands many times in its long history.

Wide panoramic view on entire Masjid Al Haram mosque from Clock Tower Abraj Al Bait, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Andrey Markelov /Adobe Stock)

Wide panoramic view on entire Masjid Al Haram mosque from Clock Tower Abraj Al Bait, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

( Andrey Markelov /Adobe Stock)

In 1269, for example, Mecca came under the control of the Mamluks, while in 1517, the city fell into the hands of the Ottomans. In 1925, Mecca was captured by the Saudis, and it has remained a part of their kingdom since then. For the faithful, however, such political changes are of secondary importance, as the Hajj has been performed over the centuries, regardless of who is in charge of the city.

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'UFOs could pose a threat to America's national security': Capitol Hill lawmakers issue dire warning after classified briefing ahead of Pentagon's highly anticipated report on unidentified flying objects

'UFOs could pose a threat to America's national security': Capitol Hill lawmakers issue dire warning after classified briefing ahead of Pentagon's highly anticipated report on unidentified flying objects

  • Concern was evident from the reaction of some politicians following a highly-classified briefing with the Navy and FBI on Wednesday 
  • The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation was briefed
  • A Pentagon report on UFOs could be released any time this month, which would be one of the biggest government reveals on the subject 
  • Some lawmakers received a peek at a 'sensitive compartmented information facility,' or SCIF, but wouldn't say what they saw inside 
  • Instead, they focused on expressing their concern about how UFOs could threaten national security in the United States 
  • 'Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,' Rep. Tim Burchett warned after the briefing 

Lawmakers have expressed serious concerns about the threat of UFOs to America's national security, with one lawmaker going as far as to say 'something’s going on that we can’t handle.'

The comments emerged after a highly-classified briefing from the Navy and FBI to members of the House Permanent Select Committee on counterterrorism, on Wednesday - ahead of the Pentagon's highly anticipated report on UFOs this month.

'Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,' Rep. Tim Burchett warned after the briefing.

Sean Patrick Maloney added that they were taking the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena 'seriously' - especially when it comes to the national security interests of the United States - 'so we want to know what we’re dealing with.'

'There are legitimate questions involving the safety and security of our personnel, and in our operations and in our sensitive activities, and we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,' Maloney told the New York Post. 

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'Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,' Rep. Tim Burchett warned

'Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,' Rep. Tim Burchett warned

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said 'We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said 'We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States

This video grab image obtained April 26, 2020 courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots. Politicians are expressing increasing concern about the impact UFOs may have on national security

This video grab image obtained April 26, 2020 courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots. Politicians are expressing increasing concern about the impact UFOs may have on national security

The Pentagon's UAP Task Force is set to deliver its report on UFO sightings by the military to Congress on June 25.  An unclassified version will be made public, while a more detailed classified one will remain secret - and anticipation has been mounting over what might be revealed. 

This week, some lawmakers received a peek at a 'sensitive compartmented information facility,' or SCIF, but wouldn't say what they saw inside.

Instead, they focused on expressing their concern about how UFOs could threaten national security in the United States.

Rep. Val Demings said, 'You know it’s always about our safety and security — our national security is [priority] number one — and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.'

'It was an interesting briefing,' Rep. Adam Schiff stated. 'I did learn things that were certainly new to me. But I think I’m going to leave it at that.' 

Not every politician was as concerned, however, with Rep. Peter Welch saying of the forthcoming report, 'I’m not on the edge of my seat.'

At least one ex-pentagon official has already expressed concerns that could relate to national security, saying that UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear technology, even forcing some facilities to go offline.

Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told The Washington Post last week that UFOs or as they are officially identified UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon) have actually interfered with U.S. nuclear technology.

'Now in this country we've had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities,' Elizondo said in an interview.

Rep. Adam Schiff was among those briefed Wednesday
Rep. Val Demings was among those briefed Wednesday

Rep. Adam Schiff (left) and Rep. Val Demings (right) were among those briefed Wednesday

The Pentagon's UAP Task Force is set to reveal their findings when they submit a long-awaited report on UFOs to Congress on June 25

The Pentagon's UAP Task Force is set to reveal their findings when they submit a long-awaited report on UFOs to Congress on June 25

Elizondo was asked about several UFO sightings above secret nuclear weapons facilities and the fact that almost every major nuclear power across the globe has reported and declassified these sightings. 

He said that the phenomenon is a national security 'concern,' and added that the same observation has been made in other countries, making it a 'global issue.' 

Elizondo said some people have suggested that UFOs bringing U.S. nuclear capabilities offline could be interpreted as a sign that the unidentified objects are 'peaceful' but said in other countries the UFOs have actually turned on nuclear technology.  

'So that is equally, for me, just as concerning,' he said of their interference either way. 'I think that there is certainly at this point enough data to demonstrate there is an interest in our nuclear technology, a potential to even interfere with that nuclear technology.'

Elizondo also told the Post that the Pentagon's upcoming report will definitively state that UAPs are not U.S. technology, despite speculation. 

He said he believed the findings would conclude that they were also not Russian or Chinese technology either, saying that instead he believes it is 'next generation' technology, decades ahead of our own. 

'You know, through observations we are, we are quite convinced that we’re dealing with a technology that is multigenerational, several generations ahead of what we consider next generation technology, so what we would consider beyond next generation technology,' he said. 'Something that could be anywhere between 50 to 1,000 years ahead of us.'  

Leaked video confirmed by the Pentagon shows a UFO buzz a stealth ship and dive

Leaked video confirmed by the Pentagon shows a UFO buzz a stealth ship and dive

At least one ex-pentagon official has already expressed concerns that could relate to national security, saying that UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear technology, even forcing some facilities to go offline (potential UFO sighting pictured)

At least one ex-pentagon official has already expressed concerns that could relate to national security, saying that UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear technology, even forcing some facilities to go offline (potential UFO sighting pictured)

Earlier this week, a top physicist also expressed alarm of UFOs, though physicist and science writer Mark Buchanan wrote in a recent Washington Post op-ed that he was concerned that alien contact could result in 'the end of all life on earth.'  

'Chances are, we should all be grateful that we don't yet have any evidence of contact with alien civilizations,' Buchanan writes.

'Attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials, if they do exist, could be extremely dangerous for us.' 

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence astronomer Joe Gertz echoed Buchanan's sentiments, stating that all of our attempts at communicating with extraterrestrials could ultimately cause 'the reckless endangerment of all mankind, and be absolutely proscribed with criminal consequences, presumably as exercised at the national level, or administered through the International Court of Justice in The Hague.' 

Buchanan compared a possible alien encounter to Christopher Columbus coming to North America, where an older civilization was vulnerable to the more technologically-advanced Europeans. 

However, astronomers and scientists from a differing school of thought believe extraterrestrial contact could only benefit humanity through the use of alien technology, which in turn could improve the planet's sustainability.

Douglas Vakoch, an American astrobiologist, search for extraterrestrial intelligence researcher, psychologist, and president of METI International, is one of those astronomers who not only believes in contacting aliens, he's actively doing so. 

While UFOs have been sighted by civilians for decades, their existence was brushed off as nothing more than a conspiracy theory. 

But public opinion has shifted in recent years, especially after video footage and pictures taken by U.S. Navy pilots between mid-2014 and March 2015, was leaked to the New York Times, three years ago. 

The images showed a 30 to 40ft object, shaped like a Tic Tac, with no wings or rotors, yet able to hover, turn and accelerate through the sky at hypersonic speeds. The flabbergasted Navy pilots can be heard exclaiming in awe: ‘Oh dude!’

A New York Times also reported on a shadowy organization based at the Pentagon dedicated to reports of UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — AATIP.   

In April 2020 the Defense Department released several videos, one of which shows a US Navy aircraft encountering 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' including objects flying and moving at speeds and directions that are impossible for human-made flight.

Just a year prior, leaked Pentagon footage showed an unidentified flying object hovering over San Diego, suggesting that maybe a 'close encounter of the third kind' isn't so far off from happening. 

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Congressional Committee Concerned After Pentagon UFO Report Briefing

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Congressional Committee Concerned After Pentagon UFO Report Briefing

With a June 25 deadline, the Pentagon has just one more week to release its report on unidentified aerial phenomena, but the U.S. House Intelligence Committee received a detailed briefing on June 16 by Navy and FBI Personnel, and many of the members expressed concern – not only that it doesn’t reveal enough but also but that there is a real unease about things that can’t be explained. Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told a TMZ reporter before the briefing that “Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle.” Specifically:

“It has to be something that is out of our galaxy, it just has to be if it in fact is real.

“I think Roswell was covered up.”

Burchett also referenced what he said (and many agree with) were UFO references in the bible, particularly in the book of Ezekiel. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the committee chairman, said in The New York Post that the briefing was “interesting” and he “did learn things that were certainly new to me,” but wouldn’t give any details. Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois said was glad the “stigma is gone” from UFO discussions and “the fact that they are taking this sort of thing seriously for the first time, I think, is important.” If one needs more proof this briefing was considered important, look no further than the fact it was held inside a SCIF, or “sensitive compartmented information facility.”

“Everyone who’s paid enough attention to it understands they need to take it seriously. But once you go beyond that circle, you get people who are understandably resistant because of the tinfoil hat stigma. If [these objects] had the flag of Russia on the side, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Every one of these would be reported; everyone would be on top of it.”

Burchett said there was no way the UAPs seen by Navy personnel were Russian, as did former deputy defense secretary David Norquist, who set up a task force in 2020 to investigate UAPs but was not part of the briefing. He told CNN the “tinfoil hat” skeptics may have prevented more from being revealed. Which side is President Biden on? Burchett told TMZ he didn’t think Biden brought it up with Vladimir Putin in their summit in Geneva – which coincidentally occurred at about the same time as the briefing.

Don’t drag me into this!

“If the Russians had UFO technology, I mean, they would own us right now, they used to say that they’ve heard people talk about how the Nazis had it in the second world war that they did, they would have won. That is ridiculous.”

A discussion of who owns UFOs between two world leaders is “ridiculous”? No wonder Burchett thinks they’re from “out of our galaxy.”

If there’s one positive takeaway from the briefing, it’s that there really is a Pentagon report on UAPs and all signs indicate it wall be released soon. Congress members are concerned. The suspense is becoming unbearable. Let’s hope these are signs it will be worth the wait.

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The Strange Mystery of the Scandinavian Ghost Rockets of 1946

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The Strange Mystery of the Scandinavian Ghost Rockets of 1946

There have been plenty of strange flaps of mysterious lights and luminous phenomena in the skies of our world. Such spates of sightings often come in a wave, only to just fade away leaving no explanations and plenty of awe and debate. One such case happened in Northern Europe in the region of Scandinavia back in 1946. During this one year period there would be thousands of sightings of something very odd going on up in the sky, which have never really been explained and have come to be known as the Ghost Rockets.

Beginning in 1946, mysterious objects in the sky began to appear frequently over a variety of Scandinavian countries, in particular Sweden and Finland. These objects were typically described as tubular or cigar or spindle-shaped objects, sometimes with visible wings and sometimes without, that typically streaked fast across the sky but also displayed all manner of erratic behavior. These objects were reported as speeding up or slowing down, doing aerial maneuvers, and even flying in formation, typically leaving no exhaust trail and almost always described as being completely silent, although a few reports described a hissing or rumbling sound. They were seen at all hours of the day and night, and were so bright they could even be seen in broad daylight. The first real recorded sighting of what would go on to be called “Ghost Rockets” was made in Finland on February 26, 1946, but soon the entire region would experience a surge of sightings of these things in the sky, with around 2,000 sightings reports made between May and December of that year alone, often with radar signatures to back them up.

Alleged photo of one of the lights

At times, there were even reported crashes of Ghost Rockets, usually with the rockets coming down into large bodies of water such as lakes or the sea. There were quite a few such crashes that allegedly happened, and on more than one occasion Swedish authorities moved in to investigate, even sending divers in to look for evidence of any mysterious objects on the bottom. One of the most well-known of these investigations was carried out at Sweden’s Lake Kölmjärv, where on July 19, 1946 a gray, rocket-shaped object with wings reportedly came down after an earsplitting boom, to go skidding over the surface and sink. The Swedish Air Force quickly moved in and spent around 3 weeks scouring the bottom of the lake, but they would officially find nothing but a large patch of lake bottom that had been disturbed and looked like something very big had impacted there. No fragments or reason why this crater was there could be found, and one Swedish Air Force officer would state:

There are many indications that the Kölmjärv object disintegrated itself. The object was probably manufactured in a lightweight material, possibly a kind of magnesium alloy that would disintegrate easily, and not give indications on our instruments.

Several more military investigations were carried out at other similar crash sites, but on every occasion it was claimed that nothing was found. In the meantime, sightings of the Ghost Rockets were pouring in from all over Scandinavia, and although Sweden tried to keep a lid on it all, there were simply too many reports to keep it all a secret, with headlines around the world covering the strange phenomenon. When pressed for answers as to what was going on, Sweden projected a skeptical stance that anything truly unexplainable was happening, largely writing it off as a mixture of atmospheric phenomena, meteors, aircraft, and overactive imaginations. However, they did concede that not all of the reports of Ghost Rockets were so easy to dismiss, and in October of 1946 the Swedish Defense Staff would tell a press conference:

Most observations are vague and must be treated very skeptically. In some cases, however, clear, unambiguous observations have been made that cannot be explained as natural phenomena, Swedish aircraft, or imagination on the part of the observer. Echo, radar, and other equipment registered readings but gave no clue as to the nature of the objects.

Most in the scientific community wrote it off as meteors, as several alleged fragments from the Ghost Rockets that had been examined turned out to be either pieces of meteorites or just plain old coke or slag, in other words, rocks. However, not everyone was so sure all of the phenomena could be attributed to meteorites, due to the fact that the objects often were seen doing acrobatics, flying horizontally, flying in formation, or accelerating and decelerating, none of which are things meteorites are known to do, and they also did not typically leave trails behind them.

The phenomenon also attracted the interest of the United States, and two U.S. experts on aerial warfare, a General Jimmy Doolittle and General David Sarnoff, went to Sweden in August of 1946, ostensibly on other unrelated business, but who also asked around to the Swedish military about the Ghost Rockets. In fact, they were given briefings on the phenomenon and able to interview many senior officers with the Swedish Air Force. The two generals went away convinced that the Ghost Rockets were a real thing and not a myth. When they brought their findings back to the United States, the Americans came to the conclusion that these were actual missiles being seen, likely top-secret V-1 or V-2 missiles being fired by the Germans from a rocket facility at the German seaside town of Peenemünde. Lt. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, who was the director of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), would write a Top Secret memo to President Truman explaining this theory, saying:

The weight of evidence pointed to Peenemünde as origin of the missiles, that a US MA [military attaché] in Moscow had been told by a ‘key Swedish Air Officer’ that radar course-plotting had led to conclusion that Peenemünde was the launch site. CIG speculates that the missiles are extended-range developments of V-1 being aimed for the Gulf of Bothnia for test purposes and do not overfly Swedish territory specifically for intimidation; self-destruct by small demolition charge or burning.

The problem with this is that not only had there been no reported launches of any sort of missile or rocket from Peenemünde at the time, but missiles don’t speed up and slow down or do the extreme aerial acrobatics seen with the Ghost Rockets any more than meteorites do. Despite the widespread belief that these Ghost Rockets must have been meteorites, rockets, or both, the U.S. government seemed to remain open to the idea that they could have been something more outlandish and mysterious. In a top secret document by USAFE (United States Air Force Europe) from 1948 that was declassified in 1997, the Swedish Ghost Rockets are mentioned, as is a supposed crash of one of them that left a crater at the bottom of the lake, and the document says:

They (UFOs) have been reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking. When officers of this Directorate recently visited the Swedish Air Intelligence Service, this question was put to the Swedes. Their answer was that some reliable and fully technically qualified people have reached the conclusion that ‘these phenomena are obviously the result of a high technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth’. They are therefore assuming that these objects originate from some previously unknown or unidentified technology, possibly outside the earth. We are inclined not to discredit entirely this somewhat spectacular theory [extraterrestrial origins], meantime keeping an open mind on the subject.

The lights would disappear just as suddenly as they started, reports would dry up, and we would be left to wonder just what was going on here. To this day there has been no clear explanation for what caused the Ghost Rockets flap of 1946, despite much discussion and debate. Were these meteorites, rockets, some weird atmospheric phenomena, or all of the above? Or was it perhaps something altogether stranger and more otherworldly? Why did it all congregate in this region in 1946 and what is it that the governments involved might not be telling us? No one really knows, and the Scandinavian Ghost Rockets remain a curious unsolved mystery.

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When Cryptozoology and Ufology Clash in the Strangest Ways

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When Cryptozoology and Ufology Clash in the Strangest Ways

My previous article was on the subject of the Bigfoot-UFO connection. It’s important to note, however, that Bigfoot is not the only cryptozoological creature that has been tied to aliens. Take, for example, the matter of the mysterious Dogmen. There’s no doubt that the leading researcher in the field of the Dogman is Linda Godfrey. And, interestingly, Linda has a relevant story to tell about the Dogmen; a story that ties the creatures to aliens.  In 2005, Linda was contacted by a man – a military whistle-blower, we might say – who was an expert in the field of remote-viewing. According to Linda’s Edward Snowden-like source, the U.S. Government has uncovered data suggesting that the werewolf-like Dogmen are a very ancient, alien race that closely resembles a certain ancient deity of the Underworld. And who might that be? It’s Anubis, that’s who. Linda’s informant also discovered – via remote-viewing – that the Dogmen can “jump” from location to location via portals or doorways in the fabric of space and time. Wormholes, we might say. That’s quite a story told to Linda.

Moving on: between the nights of December 26 and 29, 1980, multiple, extraordinary events of the UFO kind occurred within Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. They were events that involved military personnel from the nearby Royal Air Force stations of Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Since that now long gone period, countless U.S. Air Force personnel, who were stationed in the area at the time, have spoken out regarding their knowledge of a small, triangular-shaped object that was seen maneuvering in the forest. Others described seeing in the dark woods almost ghostly, extraterrestrial-type beings of short size and with eerie, feline-like eyes. Strange and unknown lights were seen dancing around the night skies, circling both the forest and the twin military facilities. There were stories that the amazing movements of the UFOs were caught on radar. There is, however, something else: a strange creature seen in the very same forest.

Rendlesham Forest, as well as the Suffolk locales of West Wratting and Balsham, is reportedly home to something equally as strange – maybe even far more so – than a vehicle and creatures from another world. It is a beast that, locally, has come to be known as the Shug Monkey. Described as being a bizarre combination of giant dog, muscular bear, and large ape, the creature is said to take its name from either (A) an old English word – scucca – which means demon, and which, as we have seen already, also has a link to the naming of Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire; or (B) an old east-coast term – shucky – that translates, into modern day terminology, as hairy or shaggy. Maybe the name is even born out of a curious melding of both terms. But, whatever the true nature of the name applied to the foul, hairy entity, its presence in the woods of Suffolk is enough to strike deep terror into the hearts of those souls unfortunate enough to have crossed its path.

Now, let’s take a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland – the home of the legendary Nessies. Just like the Bigfoot creatures, the Dogmen and the Shug Monkey, the Loch Ness Monsters have connections to UFOs. On August 13, 1971, a notable encounter occurred at Loch Ness. Not with a monster, but with a UFO. The witness was one Graham Snape, who told Nessie-seeker Ted Holiday that he saw an unidentified object crossing the skies above Loch Ness in a left to right fashion, quickly, and with not even a bit of accompanying noise. The somewhat circular-shaped UFO was purple with a white center. By his own admission, Snape was unsure of the size of the object but suggested it was around five-feet in diameter. More Loch Ness weirdness hit the news in 2011, specifically in August of that year. The UK’s Daily Express newspaper splashed a headline across its pages that read: “Alert as UFO is sighted over Loch Ness.” The story was, undoubtedly, an odd one. That something occurred does not appear to be in doubt. It is, however, the nature of the “something” that remains open to debate. It was on the night of August 20, 2011 that a number of people –many being completely independent of each other – encountered something unusual in the skies over Loch Ness.

Witness descriptions of the movements of the object fell into two camps: those who said they saw it descending into the loch and those who maintained it was actually hovering above the expansive waters. As for the appearance of the UFO, it very much depended on who one asked. But, whatever it was, it quickly caught the attention of the emergency services, who were contacted by worried locals. Martin Douglas, of the Loch Ness Life Boat crew, told the Daily Mail that someone in the area had seen what, superficially at least, resembled a microlight or a hang-glider, and which actually seemed to enter the loch in a controlled flight. Oddly, however, others who saw the unknown craft described it as being somewhat balloon-shaped. Then there were those who opined it looked eerily like a fully-open parachute.  There was, then, no real, solid consensus on what was seen – or on what wasn’t seen.

And, of course, there’s the Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia that plagued the area from 1966 to 1967. The red-eyed, winged thing was not the only strange thing seen in and around the city. Men in Black prowled around, terrifying witnesses to UFOs and the Mothman itself. What all of this tells us (including the information in my Bigfoot-UFO article) is that, like it or not, where strange, cryptozoological creatures are seen, so are UFOs. Somewhere there’s an answer to all of this, but outright denying the reality of these weird connections between UFOs, aliens and monsters will get us nowhere. In fact, it will push us back, rather than forward.

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Space pinball! Four planets locked in a rhythm around their star 135 light years away are destined to be sent 'pinballing' around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, study claims

Space pinball! Four planets locked in a rhythm around their star 135 light years away are destined to be sent 'pinballing' around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, study claims

  • Four planets 135 light years from Earth will 'pinball' around when their star dies
  • They will fly loose from their 'perfect' orbits in HR 8799 system, researchers say
  • But Warwick and Exeter scientists believe it won't happen for three billion years

Four massive planets 135 light years away from Earth will be sent 'pinballing' around their solar system when the sun they orbit eventually dies, a new study suggests.

Astronomers say the planets, more than five times the mass of Jupiter, will fly loose from their orbits and bounce off each other's gravity in a similar way to a game of pinball.

They are currently locked in a 'perfect rhythm' around a 30 to 40 million-year-old star, with each one completing double the orbit of its close neighbour. 

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Pinball machine: Four massive planets 135 light years away from Earth will be sent careering around their solar system when the sun they orbit eventually dies, a new study suggests. The planets are in rhythm around a star in the HR 8799 system (pictured in an artist's impression)

Pinball machine: Four massive planets 135 light years away from Earth will be sent careering around their solar system when the sun they orbit eventually dies, a new study suggests. The planets are in rhythm around a star in the HR 8799 system (pictured in an artist's impression)

WHAT IS THE HR 8799 SYSTEM AND WHEN WAS IT DISCOVERED? 

The HR 8799 system is made up of four unusually massive planets orbiting a star that is 30 to 40 million years old.

It was discovered almost 13 years ago and has been 'iconic' for exoplanetary science ever since, according to one researcher.

The four planets, which are more than five times the mass of Jupiter, are currently in a 'perfect rhythm' around their sun 135 light years away from Earth, researchers have said.

Although this is expected to continue for the next three billion years, it will break when the star enters its red giant phase.

It will then expand to several hundred times its current size and eject nearly half its mass, finishing as a white dwarf.

For every orbit the furthest planet completes, the next closest completes two, the next completes four, while the closest completes eight. 

Despite the effects of Galactic tides and close flybys of other stars, this is likely to continue for the next three billion years, researchers from the universities of Warwick and Exeter determined.

However, it will break when the star in the HR 8799 system enters its red giant phase.

At this point it will expand to several hundred times its current size and eject nearly half its mass, finishing as a white dwarf and wreaking havoc with the gravitational forces in the solar system.

The planets will then start to pinball and become a highly chaotic system where their movements become very uncertain.

Changing a planet's position by even one centimetre at the start of the process can dramatically change the outcome, researchers say.

Lead author, Dr Dimitri Veras, from the University of Warwick department of physics, said: 'The planets will gravitationally scatter off of one another.

'In one case, the innermost planet could be ejected from the system. Or, in another case, the third planet may be ejected.

'Or the second and fourth planets could switch positions. Any combination is possible just with little tweaks.

'They are so big and so close to each other the only thing that's keeping them in this perfect rhythm right now is the location of their orbits.

'All four are connected in this chain. As soon as the star loses mass, their locations will deviate, then two of them will scatter off one another, causing a chain reaction amongst all four.'

This wide-field image shows the surroundings of the star HR8799 in the constellation of Pegasus. This picture was created from material forming part of the Digitised Sky Survey 2

This wide-field image shows the surroundings of the star HR8799 in the constellation of Pegasus. This picture was created from material forming part of the Digitised Sky Survey 2

As well as the star and four unusually massive planets, the HR 8799 system also contains two debris discs – one inside the orbit of the innermost planet and the other outside the outermost. 

When the pinball game is triggered, researchers are certain the planets will move around enough to dislodge this debris and knock it into their dying sun.

They hope this modelling can offer new insight into how white dwarfs with polluted atmospheres originally evolved.

Astronomers are analysing this type of debris today to discover the histories of other white dwarf systems.

Dr Veras added: 'These planets move around the white dwarf at different locations and can easily kick whatever debris is still there into the white dwarf, polluting it.

'The HR 8799 planetary system represents a foretaste of the polluted white dwarf systems that we see today. It's a demonstration of the value of computing the fates of planetary systems, rather than just looking at their formation.'

Co-author, Professor Sasha Hinkley, of the University of Exeter, said: 'The HR 8799 system has been so iconic for exoplanetary science since its discovery nearly 13 years ago, and so it is fascinating to see into the future, and watch it evolve from a harmonious collection of planets into a chaotic scene.'

The research is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

THE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE IS A POWERFUL GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENT IN CHILE

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

It is called the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and is widely regarded as one of the most advanced optical instruments ever made.

It consists of four telescopes, whose main mirrors measures 27 feet (8.2 metres) in diameter.

There are also four movable six feet (1.8 metre) diameter auxiliary telescopes.

The large telescopes are called Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun. 

The European Southern observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and called it the Very Large Telescope (VLT).

The European Southern observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and called it the Very Large Telescope (VLT).

The first of the Unit Telescopes, 'Antu', went into routine scientific operations on April 1, 1999.

The telescopes can work together to form a giant 'interferometer'.

This interferometer allows images to be filtered for any unnecessary obscuring objects and, as a result, astronomers can see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.  

It has been involved in spotting the first image of an extrasolar planet as well as tracking individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

It also observed the afterglow of the furthest known Gamma Ray Burst.

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Four Worlds in Multi-Planet System Will Eventually Play “Pinball”

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Four Worlds in Multi-Planet System Will Eventually Play “Pinball”

Four large worlds located in a multi-planet system called HR 8799 will someday end up playing space pinball with one another. As of right now, these planets are orbiting their host star located about 135 light-years away from us in an organized and locked rhythm, but that will eventually change when their sun dies.

According to astronomers in a new study, these massive planets (they are over five times the mass of Jupiter) will be sent “pinballing” around their system after their star dies (it is currently between 30 and 40 million years old) as they will lose their perfect orbits and starting crashing and bouncing off of each other.

Their orbits are presently perfect as one planet completes double the orbit of the previous closest world. To understand this better, when one planet completes an orbit, the next one does two orbits, followed by the next world completing four orbits, and the last one doing eight.

(Not the HR 8799 system)

Researchers from the universities of Warwick and Exeter have calculated that the “pinballing” event won’t happen for another three billion years when the host star will begin its phase of becoming a red giant. When this happens, the star will lose almost half of its mass and grow several hundred times the size it is now until it becomes a white dwarf.

At that point, the planets will begin to bounce around as explained by Dr. Dimitri Veras from the department of physics at the University of Warwick, “The planets will gravitationally scatter off of one another.” “In one case, the innermost planet could be ejected from the system. Or, in another case, the third planet may be ejected.” “Or the second and fourth planets could switch positions. Any combination is possible just with little tweaks.”

He went on to say, “They are so big and so close to each other the only thing that’s keeping them in this perfect rhythm right now is the location of their orbits.” “All four are connected in this chain. As soon as the star loses mass, their locations will deviate, then two of them will scatter off one another, causing a chain reaction amongst all four.”

(Not the HR 8799 system)

And that’s not all as there are two debris discs located in the system – one inside the innermost planet’s orbit, and the other on the outside of the outermost world’s orbit. When the “pinballing” event happens, the debris in the discs will more than likely become scattered and fly into the star. (A picture of the HR 8799 system can be seen here.)

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IMAGE: ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF THE FOUR PLANETS OF THE HR 8799 SYSTEM AND ITS STAR. view more 

CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK/MARK GARLICK

The study was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society where it can be read in full.

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Congress Briefed on Pentagon UFO Report

Congress Briefed on Pentagon UFO Report

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It may seem easy to dismiss the UFO phenomenon for the average human going about their daily lives. From Ancient Aliens to War of the Worlds, pop culture around the world has banked off the idea that we are not alone in this universe for nearly a century. Yet, as time moves forward and technological capabilities increase, the thought still remains. And questions about the subject are more widespread than ever before. 

Today, concerns on the issue may deepen. And acceptance over the potential issue is set to grow. The United States Congress itself is to be briefed over what the Pentagon claims to know so far about what has possibly been lurking over the human world. 

In a report from The U.S. Sun, what is known about the truth of the matter from U.S. intelligence agencies will be told to lawmakers in Congress as of today.

Experts from the Navy, the FBI and the Pentagon will reveal what they know so far to Congress. 

Representative Andre Carson will chair the classified briefing. He claims that the meeting is a “significant and timely topic” due to growing concerns that the unidentified aerial phenomenon might be an issue of national security. Some in congress have warned that this may be an unknown technological advantage from the likes of Russia or China. But others are not so quick to reduce the idea to human efforts.

Representative Tim Burchett told TMZ that, “If they had the kind of advanced technology pilots have reported seeing, Putin would already own America.” The news does come on the same day that Biden and Putin had a conference meeting. But doubts are high that there is any correlation on that matter. 

This is the first time since the Disclosure Project event at the National Press Club on May 9th, 2001 that government officials have gathered to reveal truths on the matter. Before that, Project Blue Book from the U.S. Air force researching the idea had come to the conclusion that there was nothing to see. It ended its own research in 1969. Humans across the United States have to question the matter on their own. There is little official reporting from any news or government agencies since the time. Now, that narrative has seemed to have come to a great change.

In recent years, the Pentagon has released a few important but hardly decipherable videos claiming to show UFO activity.

The videos have sparked intense debate and conversation across media outlets worldwide. But the public has not seen anything concrete or entirely revealing as of now. The briefing to Congress is still a big step in a direction towards understanding what is actually happening here. 

UFO documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell said in a recent statement to Newsmax that, “It leaves us with some uncomfortable truths that these are not ours. Soon we’re going to know it’s not Russian, it’s not Chinese, it’s not any foreign nation that is technologically developed as we know it… They fly with impunity through our airspace. They outmaneuver, outperform our greatest warships and warcraft. The big question is who’s operating these unidentified flying objects and what is their intent? We need to start asking the hard questions and eradicating the stigma associated with these because they’re right in front of your eyes.”

Thousands of UFO sightings are reported and documented every year, according to statista.com.

The number has jumped from 319 in 1990 to 7,267 in 2020 alone. These individual reports include everything from triangle-shaped UFOs in the skies to UFOs breaking apart into geometric fleets. They also include reports of UFOs, astonishingly, coming from the ocean instead of coming down from the sky. Some have been reported to shut down nuclear facilities. Some have been reported to actually abduct humans from the Earth.

The truth still seemingly remains unknown. But as information is set to be declassified sooner than later, let us hope that the real truth is what we are about to see and not further games from players on the world stage with a set agenda of God knows what. There is a great deal of hype around the subject. And many are prepared to build an understanding of what is happening here. 

My big question, personally, is why now?

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 17 - 06 -2021

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 17 - 06 -2021

UFO Sigted Over Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia ( June 11, 2021 )

June 11. The gentleman speaking on the video asked if anyone else saw it and if anyone knew what it was. No one seemed to think it was a UFO. Most people said it was the the lunar eclipse. In the video he said it wasn’t a fire but that he saw vapour. Whatever it was it was giving off enough heat to cause vapour in the cold temperatures we have at night.

STATEMENT : What do you believe this to be It’s lowering towards the ocean water.

  • credit : Emanoel Acevedo

UFO Sighted From Phoenix to San Diego ( April 30, 2021 )

What's going on in the mountains of San Diego, California!

STATEMENT : Saw this object on our flight from Phoenix to San Diego 2021 04 30

UFO uploaded : May 18, 2021

ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : Tony GPhoto

ORIGINAL VIDEO URL : https://youtu.be/A9nQl2Taajc

Bright UFO Filmed Keeping Pace With Commercial Airplane Over San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 4, 2021

This object was sighted as the witness was coming into land at San Juan in Puerto Rico and of the bat we can tell that this is not a reflection from a light inside the plane as when the buildings we see that the object goes behind them and remerges. If this is another plane then where is the Navigation lights, These should blink every two to three seconds and in the footage their are no blinking lights. As for a boat this would have to be a pretty fast & big boat to keep pace with the airplane. So what do you guys think this could be??

Thanks to paolo cafarelli for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original: https://youtu.be/V-QuQuiFtFI

OVNI avistado desde avión aterrorizando a San Juan de Puerto Rico

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Flying Saucer Type UFO Spotted Over Lake Michigan, Chicago. June 12, 2021

This object seen to look like the classic saucer shape craft and could these crafts making a return? The object looks metallic with the sun shining upon the top part of the UFO leaving the bottom part a darker gray color. Certain parts of this object's movement it seem to be spinning and this would be what you would see from a flying saucer. I only wished that they filmed for longer but i would rather have this than nothing at all...

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 17 -06-2021

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 17 -06-2021

MUFON CASE : 116308 Oak Lawn, Illinois ( June 16, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Saw as a black circle hovering in the distance. By the time I got the camera focused it started to move, then it went behind the trees.

Long Description of Sighting Report

Saw as a black circle hovering in the distance. By the time I got the camera focused it started to move, then it went behind the trees. I went to the street to get a better view, but it was gone.

Date Submitted : 2021-06-16

Date of Event : 2021-06-16 / 8:40PM

MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : UFO.MP4

MUFON CASE : 116280 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ( June 15, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Orbs above Myrtle Beach

Long Description of Sighting Report

On vacation with my husband we enjoy sitting and talking on the beach in the evenings and listening to the waves. On June 13th we were sitting on the beach and heard someone say what is that? We looked to our left and 2 reddish orbs were above the beach almost looked like they were flying towards us. We watched a couple minutes or so trying to come up with an explanation of what they could be but we have seen tons of helicopters and planes in the skies at night and it was clearly not either one. They never moved away from one another , they stayed the same distance from each other and didn’t appear to be carried by wind. By the time I got my phone out to record them one just seemed to dim out, not long after the other did the same. Not sure what we saw but it seemed to also puzzle the others on the beach around us.

Date Submitted : 2021-06-15

Date of Event : 2021-06-13  / 10:00PM

MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.05ED006558A745E5AD77A5F3F6FAFA6D.MOV

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5km White UFO In Crater On Planet Ceres, June 17, 2021 UFO Sighting News.

5km White UFO In Crater On Planet Ceres, June 17, 2021 UFO Sighting News.

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Date of discovery: June 17, 2021
Location of discovery: Dwarf Planet Ceres, Astroid Belt
Source Ceres map: 
While searching a Ceres map I noticed that the map was deliberately lightened by NASA to hide the details. So I added some contrast and the things started popping out. Adding too much light, making photos black and white and also using false color (mars photos) to confuse the public so that we don't notice the alien artifacts on the surface of the moons and planets. But once you become use to this...its easy to focus it and restore the photo to its original glory most the time. 
 
This UFO is parked in a crater, where most the UFOs I find on planets and moons are commonly found. The crater is about 25km by 35km more or less and that would make the size of this spaceship 5km from wing tip to wing tip. It could easily carry tens of thousands of passengers. It's like a small city inside this craft. 
 
Can you imagine what Elon Musk would say if he knew about this craft? I bet it would be, "I'll get there in 30 days." But I'm sure Elon Musk gets alot of alien tech from DARPA program. They leak it out bit by bit to get it into the public sectors. I think even President Biden has no clue to the existence of this alien spacecraft and others out there. Even US presidents are kept on a need to know basis about aliens and alien tech. 
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Long UFO Sighting in North Richland Hills, Texas June 16, 2021.

Long UFO Sighting in North Richland Hills, Texas June 16, 2021.

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Date of sighting: June 16, 2021

Location of sighting: North Richland Hills, Texas, USA
 
UFO sightings have increased dramatically ever since the pandemic began and I might add...the UFOs have been getting stranger and stranger looking. This one was spotted over a shopping area of Richland Hills, Texas and if you look carefully you will notice that its darker on both ends, yet lighter in between. It also rotates on end. What odd is its out during the daytime...and its allowing itself to be seen uncloaked. It's very possible this object is hovering over a location that is of particular interest to it. Maybe a hospital or residence of a person infected with covid...with a special immunity or reaction never before seen. Something important sits below this UFO. 
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My mom was getting her hair done in North Richland Hills, TX and witnessed this sighting. Any explanation? It looks like a man on a hover board in the sky. 

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UFOs could threaten US security, pols say after Capitol Hill briefing

UFOs could threaten US security, pols say after Capitol Hill briefing

Just in time for Independence Day.

Capitol Hill lawmakers said Wednesday that UFOs could pose a pressing threat to America’s national security, as the pols emerged from a highly classified briefing with Navy and FBI officials on the unexplained phenomena.

Ahead of the release of a highly anticipated Pentagon report on unidentified flying objects before month’s end, members of the House Intelligence Committee received a hush-hush sneak preview inside a SCIF, or “sensitive compartmented information facility.”

As for the existence of extraterrestrial life, the lawmakers largely left the secrets inside the surveillance-proof room, declining to tell reporters what they learned.

But some did voice concerns that the UFOs — which may be espionage assets controlled by America’s foreign adversaries, in a possible explanation just slightly less terrifying than the vanguard of an alien invasion — could pose a danger to national security.

Members of the House Intelligence Committee received a sneak preview inside a SCIF — a sensitive compartmented information facility.HANDOUT/DoD/AFP via Getty Images

“We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States, so we want to know what we’re dealing with,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY).

“I think it’s important to understand that there are legitimate questions involving the safety and security of our personnel, and in our operations and in our sensitive activities, and we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,” he continued. “We need to understand the space a little bit better.”

Added Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), “You know it’s always about our safety and security — our national security is [priority] number one — and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.”

Congresswoman Val Demings said “our national security is [priority] number one.”Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the committee chairman, implied that the briefing was eye-opening, but also declined to get into specifics ahead of the release of a public report.

“It was an interesting briefing,” he said. “I did learn things that were certainly new to me. But I think I’m going to leave it at that.”

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), who has been heading efforts on the UFO inquiry, said Americans should expect an eventual public hearing on the report’s findings.

“We’re looking forward to having a public hearing at some point,” he said. “I mean, there’s some national security concerns that we want to take into consideration.”

Rep. Adam Schiff implied that the briefing was eye-opening.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) said that, if anything, the landmark report shows that UFOs are finally being taken seriously.

“The stigma is gone,” he said. “Now that’s as big a change in policy as I’ve witnessed about this issue in my lifetime. So the fact that they are taking this sort of thing seriously for the first time, I think, is important.”

Referencing the 1997 sci-fi flick “Contact” — adapted from a Carl Sagan novel — Quigley admitted that the report won’t have all the answers and that some things remain unexplainable.

There is a highly anticipated Pentagon report on unidentified flying objects that is expected to be released before the end of the month. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

“What do they say in ‘Contact’? Occam’s razor,” he said. “I still think that’s what’s real, and there are things we can’t explain.”

But with so many mysteries of the universe still beyond human understanding, Quigley cautioned Americans against getting their hopes up for the report.

“If I had to predict how the public will react to this, one word would be ‘disappointing,'” he said.

Added a clearly unimpressed Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), “I’m not on the edge of my seat.”

Lawmakers said that UFOs could pose a pressing threat to America’s national security after they were briefed Wednesday by FBI and Navy officials. HANDOUT/DoD/AFP via Getty Images

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Exposing the Big Lie - America's UFO Technology

Exposing the Big Lie - America's UFO Technology

The Director of National Intelligence is scheduled to release a comprehensive report on June 25, 2021 to the US Senate that will assert, according to official leaks, that UFOs are an unknown national security threat! 
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Prior to the scheduled to release of the comprehensive report on June 25, Capitol Hill lawmakers said on June 16, 2021, that UFOs could pose a pressing threat to America’s national security, as the pols emerged from a highly classified briefing with Navy and FBI officials on the unexplained phenomena.
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Why is this a 'Big Lie'? What’s the Deep State agenda behind promoting this now through the mainstream media after decades of dismissing the UFO phenomenon? 
Watch this short film about how America has been secretly reverse engineering captured extraterrestrial spacecraft since the WW II era, and is on the verge of releasing some of its secret UFO technologies through the United States Space Force.
  

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We are about to discover if the UFO truth IS out there: As Barack Obama hints they may not be a hoax, a Senate report is poised to lay bare the real X-Files. Here, a defense expert says they could be earth-shattering

We are about to discover if the UFO truth IS out there: As Barack Obama hints they may not be a hoax, a Senate report is poised to lay bare the real X-Files. Here, a defense expert says they could be earth-shattering

President Biden has been in office less than a year but now, in the midst of grappling with the coronavirus and with a wealth of other issues on his plate, he is facing perhaps the biggest question of all: are we alone?

The idea that we may share our universe with alien life is far from new, and there have been regular sightings of UFOs — Unidentified Flying Objects — for decades.

But these have, until recently, been dismissed as hoaxes, or misinterpretations of natural phenomena.

Despite Hollywood’s enthusiasm for the subject, the U.S. Defense Department has always downplayed the significance of such reports and sightings.

Now, however, no less a figure than Barack Obama has raised the stakes by admitting on The Late Show that, when President, he asked whether there was a lab somewhere ‘where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’

President Biden has been in office less than a year but now, in the midst of grappling with the coronavirus and with a wealth of other issues on his plate, he is facing perhaps the biggest question of all: are we alone? Pictured: Video taken on board the USS Omaha showing an object moving, hovering, and disappearing into the Pacific Ocean

President Biden has been in office less than a year but now, in the midst of grappling with the coronavirus and with a wealth of other issues on his plate, he is facing perhaps the biggest question of all: are we alone? Pictured: Video taken on board the USS Omaha showing an object moving, hovering, and disappearing into the Pacific Ocean

Leaked Pentagon footage shows UFO flying over San Diego in 2019

The answer was no, but he did acknowledge the existence of objects without an ‘easily explainable pattern’.

His comments come days after U.S. fighter pilots revealed seeing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) off the coast of Virginia ‘every day’ for two years.

The idea of the government secretly investigating sightings of UFOs and other strange incidents has long been thought to belong to the realms of Hollywood or TV: it’s no mistake that The X-Files, featuring a secret organisation dedicated to such other-worldly phenomena, was described as a science fiction drama.

No longer. Once a preoccupation of hardcore sci-fi fans, UAPs (or UFOs) are now being taken extremely seriously at the very heart of government.

Easy as it may be to discount sightings and photos of UFOs by civilians, video footage and pictures taken by U.S. Navy pilots between mid-2014 and March 2015 that emerged three years ago could not be dismissed so easily.

Barack Obama has raised the stakes by admitting on The Late Show that, when President, he asked whether there was a lab somewhere ‘where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’ The answer was no, but he did acknowledge the existence of objects without an ‘easily explainable pattern’

Barack Obama has raised the stakes by admitting on The Late Show that, when President, he asked whether there was a lab somewhere ‘where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’ The answer was no, but he did acknowledge the existence of objects without an ‘easily explainable pattern’

They showed a 30 to 40ft object, shaped like a Tic Tac, with no wings or rotors, yet able to hover, turn and accelerate through the sky at hypersonic speeds. The flabbergasted Navy pilots can be heard exclaiming in awe: ‘Oh dude!’

The footage was leaked to the New York Times, whose report also revealed the existence of a shadowy organisation based at the Pentagon dedicated to reports of UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — AATIP.

Its $22million budget was buried within the defence department’s £600billion a year funding.

The titles of some of the studies conducted by AATIP read like something out of an episode of Star Trek: Invisibility Cloaking; Traversable Wormholes, Stargates And Negative Energy; Warp Drive, Dark Energy And The Manipulation of Extra Dimensions; and Metallic Spintronics.

But its work was shrouded in secrecy and its former head, Luis Elizondo, resigned in 2017 in protest at this cloak-and-dagger approach.

The UK has been similarly secretive about UFO sightings, although the Ministry of Defence did at least set up a department dedicated to otherworldly phenomena, which I headed from 1991 to 1994, earning myself the name ‘Real Life Fox Mulder’, after The X-Files detective played by David Duchovny.

This department was eventually wound up, but the sightings have continued and — as in the U.S. — while many can be discounted, there are some that have no reasonable, scientific explanation.

The pressure is now on the U.S. Defense Department to go public with what it knows about UFOs and what the implications are for national security.

The leaking of the pilots’ footage prompted it to announce in 2020 the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), led by the Navy.

The stated mission of this body was ‘to detect, analyse and catalogue UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.’

The Senate Intelligence Committee — which oversees the tangle of 18 or more departments and organisations dedicated to intelligence-gathering in the U.S. — last year demanded a report on UFOs.

It is due next month, and it will be unclassified, although I suspect they will hide anything deemed too sensitive and secret within a classified annex to the report.

Certainly the government can no longer get away with dismissing those who have reported sightings of UFOs as cranks. If they know what these strange phenomena are, then they should be transparent, and tell us. And if they don’t — well, then we really do have reason to worry

Certainly the government can no longer get away with dismissing those who have reported sightings of UFOs as cranks. If they know what these strange phenomena are, then they should be transparent, and tell us. And if they don’t — well, then we really do have reason to worry

Although this material too could be leaked. There has already been a great deal of leaking of photographs, official footage and documents relating to these unexplained sightings, notably the Navy pilots’ footage, and of other documents doing the rounds.

It is the existence of this information that has made it impossible for the government to deny or debunk such sightings and refuse to investigate them — as they have done since the 1960s.

What might the report contain? I believe there are three possible theories behind the strange sightings.

The first is that these strange aircraft are a U.S. ‘black project’ technology — a secret weapon developed by the U.S. Air Force that it is blind-testing against the Navy, to determine its efficacy.

After all, one unanswered question has been: where is the Air Force in all this? They have been strangely quiet, given that it is an issue about aircraft and airspace.

In this scenario, everything about UFOs is just a deception operation. The second theory is that the craft involved are secret prototype aircraft or drones operated by Russia or China — a troubling explanation, given the capabilities observed by the Navy pilots.

The third possibility is that we are in unknown territory — this would include the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or even a strange atmospheric plasma phenomenon that looks like an aircraft.

The Defense Intelligence Agency seems to want to play down the extraterrestrial theory but it is interesting to note that among the footnotes to the letter to Congress is a reference to a study of the Drake Equation, designed by the astronomer Frank Drake to calculate how many non-human civilisations there might be.

I sincerely hope that the intelligence community co-operates with the Senate report and gives us some idea of what we are dealing with. If we don’t know what it is, we cannot take defensive measures against it, if necessary.

And I trust that the findings — even the classified ones — will be shared with the UK, its closest defence ally.

Having studied unexplained sightings for many years, not only in my role at the MoD, but as the author of several books about such phenomena, including an investigation into the UK’s Rendlesham Forest Incident in 1980, about the landing of UFOs there witnessed by U.S. airmen, I believe that unexplained objects in our skies cannot simply be ignored.

My understanding is that there are disagreements within the defence and intelligence services about what it is that we are dealing with, and what steps we must take. For so many years scepticism and secrecy have prevailed. Now, at last, we are beginning to see some transparency.

But what we have learned so far is, I believe, just the tip of the iceberg. If these are the videos and pictures that have been leaked, how many more sightings are going on that we are not seeing? I suspect a lot.

Other pictures are emerging, captured on phones — one recently recorded an unidentified object disappearing into the ocean.

The U.S. Navy has even issued guidance to its pilots about what to do if they encounter these mysterious aircraft.

They wouldn’t bother doing that if there had been three or four incidents. This suggests ongoing encounters.

This could just be one of those interesting instances where conspiracy theorists turn out to be right. Not about aliens — I don’t think little green men are about to descend on us — but about the unexplained aircraft.

Certainly the government can no longer get away with dismissing those who have reported sightings of UFOs as cranks.

If they know what these strange phenomena are, then they should be transparent, and tell us. And if they don’t — well, then we really do have reason to worry.

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What Do We Know About UFOs?

What Do We Know About UFOs?

Nuclear UFOs

A highly anticipated Pentagon report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – also known as UFOs – has raised lots of interest from astronomers, journalists, and even former president Barack Obama. The Canadian military has documents of reported UFO sightings going back decades. What explains this? Is it proof of extraterrestrial life? Or, a foreign military using advanced technology? Our panel discusses the new interest in these mysterious sightings.

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If we ever encounter aliens, they will resemble AI and not little green martians

If we ever encounter aliens, they will resemble AI and not little green martians

Artificial intelligence aliens may not be as appealing as those who are warm-blooded and squishy, but it’s probably more accurate to imagine them that way
‘If extraterrestrials come to Earth, the ensuing scenario would be quite different than picking up an alien radio signal or detecting a flashing laser in the sky.’
‘If extraterrestrials come to Earth, the ensuing scenario would be quite different than picking up an alien radio signal or detecting a flashing laser in the sky.’  Photograph: Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

I’m an astronomer at the Seti Institute, a non-profit research organization in California’s Silicon Valley. My colleagues and I look for extraterrestrial life, including intelligent beings – or in the vernacular, aliens. It’s exciting times for people like me, because extra-terrestrial life is being widely discussed now in the lead-up to the Pentagon’s highly anticipated report on so-called unexplained aerial phenomena.

Yet I should say straight away that I am not expecting any big revelations out of the report. I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that aliens are present in our galaxy. But I don’t believe they’re hanging out in our airspace. Not now, and not in historic times.

Everyone is now serious about UFOs. But they reveal more about earthling politics
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Claims that extraterrestrials helped build large, pointy monuments in the Egyptian desert 5,000 years ago are, frankly, laughable. And I don’t think that videos made by cameras on navy F-18 Hornets actually show alien craft darting around the skies above the Pacific. There are more prosaic explanations for these videos: no extraterrestrials required.

But in a galaxy in which every third star is likely to host an Earth-size planet, it hardly seems possible that our world is the only one sporting intelligence. Which raises the possibility that we might someday make contact. If that occurs, what might the inhabitants of other worlds be like? The question is especially relevant if – as often happens in science-fiction – the aliens decide to pay us a visit.

If extraterrestrials come to Earth, the ensuing scenario would be quite different than picking up an alien radio signal or detecting a flashing laser in the sky, modes of discovery being pursued by my colleagues and myself. The aliens producing such signals will be light years away, and their appearance and intentions wouldn’t be of much concern. But those of anyone landing their spacecraft on our turf would be.

Consider their looks. On Earth, nature has spawned a wide variety of living forms, and presumably would do so anywhere multicellular life exists. All terrestrials have DNA blueprints, and share similarities in molecular makeup. Nonetheless, few of our fellow Terrans resemble us. The extraterrestrials wouldn’t either.

This argues against the iconic aliens of film and TV, those little gray guys who are no more than modified humans. Their four appendages, upright stance, and absence of body hair are simple extrapolations of ourselves. Yes, Hollywood offers up these beings as residents of faraway worlds. But really they’re just the guy next door, lacking in eyebrows and whites in their eyes.

Any aliens that trek to our planet are unlikely to be carbon-based life forms, either hirsute or hairless. Their cognitive abilities will probably not be powered by a spongy mass of cells we’d call a brain. They will probably have gone beyond biological smarts and, indeed, beyond biology itself. They won’t be alive.

The reason is a simple consequence of the staggering distances to the stars. Even the nearest, Proxima Centauri, is 25tn miles from Earth. Our fastest rockets would take 75,000 years to reach it. Neither humans nor Klingons are built to withstand such trips.

You might be thinking that the aliens might have far speedier spacecraft. Without doubt, that’s possible. But there are natural limitations to high-speed rockets. Suppose that an alien would like to cover the distance between Proxima Centauri and Earth in 10 years. Their rocket would need to muster 600m times as much energy as a Saturn V rocket. Double that number if they plan to come to a stop at Earth and engage with the locals.

This may sound like an annoying practical matter that can be dismissed by noting that aliens could be far more advanced than us. And that’s easily possible: The universe is three times the age of our solar system, so the Galaxy may house societies that are millions or even billions of years ahead of Homo sapiens. Nevertheless, while their technology might be in a different league, the aliens must operate under the same laws of physics. Star Trek and similar scenarios aside, it’s extremely difficult to traverse light-years of space in less than a lifetime – anyone’s lifetime. You can call up Scotty in the engine room, but he won’t be able to help.

Traveling from one solar system to another is incredibly difficult and expensive. However, if you’re not in a hurry, the prospects for an interstellar voyage brighten considerably. Such leisurely trips aren’t going to appeal to biological passengers who will die long before their destination is reached. Machines, on the other hand, won’t complain if they’re cooped up in a spaceship for tens of thousands of years. They don’t require food, oxygen, sanitation or entertainment. And they don’t insist on a round-trip ticket.

Artificial intelligence aliens may not be as appealing as those who are warm-blooded and squishy, but we shouldn’t get hung up on an anthropocentric viewpoint. Researchers who work in AI estimate that machines able to beat humans on an IQ test will emerge from the labs by mid-century. If we can do it, some extraterrestrials will have already done it.

Therefore it’s reasonable to expect that any cosmic intelligence paying us a visit will be synthetic. That rules out easy speculation on what the “aliens” will look like. But if it’s a machine, who cares?

Of greater concern would be its intentions. Most sci-fi stories postulate that visitors would be noxious, arriving with a primal urge to obliterate Los Angeles or London. Frankly, if that’s what’s on their mechanical minds, it’s probably impossible to keep them at bay. Chimps couldn’t outsmart humans in any serious confrontation. Likewise, devices who can manage a trip to Earth will have the capability to do whatever they wish once they get here.

It’s a sure bet that any face-to-face encounter with extraterrestrials will be fraught. So, if alien craft ever do settle on the White House lawn, you can hope that whatever’s inside is friendly. If not, there’s always negotiation.

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Filer’s Files 24, 2021 False Flag UFO Invasion - PART I

Mirabella, Spain captured UFO on June 2, 2021
Mirabella, Spain captured UFO on June 2, 2021

Filer’s Files 24, 2021 False Flag UFO Invasion - PART I

Major George A. Filer, III retired USAF

New Jersey State Director

MUFON Eastern Region Director

www.nationalUFOcenter.com

 Special reports concerning FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings, False Flag Alien Innovation, 1989 Soviet Attack Possible False Flag, Strange Craft and Carbon 60.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee Texas, and Virginia.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.  Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.

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 FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings

10,000  UFO/UAP reports

 The Federal Aviation Administration has seen a dramatic increase in drone-related incidents, recording approximately 10,000 reports in the last five years. The War Zone has identified a substantial number of military encounters with unidentified aircraft among those reports, often in sensitive airspace.  When I flew out of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia in 1967, we used to see them periodically. Navy divers told us they saw them under water moving at high speed around the coast. This was before drones existed.

FAA reports, while some of the incidents represent typical hazards associated with commercial drones, others are indicative of advanced capabilities, including the ability to fly at relatively high altitudes and to potentially operate in coordinated groups. More so, it is not just what’s happening, it is where it is happening that is so intriguing.

Typical Craft seen Entering and leaving Ocean

The incidents appear to have predominantly impacted the U.S. Navy and Air Force, with a pronounced geographic nexus off the coast of the southeastern United States, as well as another in the southwestern United States. Many of the incidents we identified occurred far out over the ocean in military training ranges that have become known for ongoing sightings of unusual aircraft. Notably, there were far fewer similar incidents reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in other areas that also host a great deal of military activity, such as off the West Coast or around Florida. It is unclear if this is because fewer incidents happen in those locations or if it is because reporting practices are inconsistent, or a mixture of both. Thanks to Bill LaParl

False Flag Alien Innovation

False Flag Invasion

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers…” “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places EPHESIANS 6:12 KJV

Momentous UFO events are taking place for the first time UFOs are being treated with respect by our government telling us they are real like I told you in these Files for 25 years. Frankly I’m very suspicious of grand announcements like the government closing pipelines and shutting down oil drilling leases increasing oil prices by 50, % the greatest increase of inflation in decades.

Carol Rosin was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space-based weapons. I met Carol at the Disclosure Project at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in May 2001 when we both testified. Carol is known for having helped start the movement to prevent the weaponization of space.   Carol Rosin was a close friend of Wernher von Braun (23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect. Von Braun joined Fairchild Industries as a Vice President for Engineering and Development. Fairchild Industries was one of the aerospace contractors that was secretly involved in building a ring-shaped space station.

Von Braun was the leading figure in the development of the v-2 rocket technology in Nazi, Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology. While in his twenties and early thirties he helped design and co-developed the V-2 rocket at Peenemunde during World War II.  He was also likely participating in the development of the Space Force.

Following the war, he was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked for the U.S. Army on an intermediate range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that successfully launched the United States’ first space satellite Explorer! Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. wrote that Von Braun was committed to eliminating weapons in space as he convinced Rosin during the final years of his life, or was he a double agent secretly working for the Fourth Reich Antarctic Germans? In 1960, his group was assimilated into NASA, where he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V heavy lift Launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo Spacecraft to the Moon

William Tomkins worked with him and NASA developing the Apollo Control Room. He announced that Germany had gained the secret of anti-gravity that was later used I the Space Fleet. He was aware of the various advancements in technology and the race to the Moon in competition with the Soviet Union.  He was likely aware of the Hangar near Chicago where a false area of the Moon was set up and a movie made to show the landing on the Moon. The movie was made to insert a false narrative if the landing was not successful on the Moon.

I met Carol Rosin, a high-ranking manager at Fairchild Industries on several occasions. Each time she told me that Von Braun’s had been briefed of a False Flag Alien Invasion – a genuine warning or a Fourth Reich deception or other key forces wishing to take control of the world?

From 1974 – 1977, Werner Von Braun began privately telling, about a sequence of contrived global false flag scenarios of an extraterrestrial invasion, which would usher in a New World Order. The scheduled release of new information about UFOs may be part of the false flag scenario he warned about. The locking up of the country for the Chinese release of the Corona Virus may have been a test of how willing the country was to accept fear of danger and to stay inside, wear masks, etc. The next big fear is likely to be the sky is falling concerning meteorites, or an alien invasion is taking place.

Von Braun had been it the SS and knew how powerful Nazi propaganda against the Jews had been. He knew that a clever propaganda campaign controlled by the six companies that control the television media in the U.S. can carry out a false flag extraterrestrial invasion, just as they have ignored any threats from China. If the country was told that the extraterrestrials were now in control, stay inside so they don’t harm you, and listen to the news. What would Americans or the people of the world do?

The extent of the Fourth Reich in Red

It’s possible World Communist/Marxist Governments or the remnants of the Fourth Reich, have the UFOs and Direct Energy Weapons, media and computer technology to give Von Braun’s prediction capability. Von Braun a former Nazi SS officer would know about the existence of a breakaway Nazi colony in South America and Antarctica. We can assume his multiple warning was genuine and he had held high classified positions in our government, contact with German scientists in the Soviet Union and some contacts the Fourth Reich. If the people believe aliens are about to attack or global false flag “cards” such as asteroid impacts and extraterrestrial invasion, would lead to the militarization of space and usher in a New World Order.

After NASA made the decision to end the Apollo Program, Von Braun decided to retire on May 26, 1972, six months before the launch of Apollo 17, the last moon landing mission. He had been the Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (1960-1972), where he led the largely German engineering teams designing the Saturn V rockets that would power the Apollo Program.

In return for its covert help through the Apollo program, the US military gained scientific assistance in its efforts to study and reverse engineer captured extraterrestrial technologies. Werner Von Braun was among a select group of Operation Paperclip scientists who were asked to evaluate the remains of the 1947 Roswell Crash.

Roswell Newspaper Photograph

Dr. Von Braun explained how he had been taken to the crash site and how the exterior of the space craft was not metal as we know it, but appeared to be made of something biological, like skin. There were alien bodies which were being kept in a medical tent near the UFO. The beings were small, very frail, and reptilian in nature. Von Braun compared their skin to rattlesnakes that he and his group had encountered at White Sands. Von Braun was puzzled by the nature of the debris. The material was very thin, aluminum colored, like chewing gum wrapping, unlikely to have traveled from another planet according to the scientist.

. German Paperclip scientists were helping the USAF study and reverse engineer alien technologies?  During the 70s, industry was able to back engineer and build electromagnetic and torsion field propulsion systems that were put into newer craft.

Wernher von Braun’s Deathbed Warning reportedly admitted late in life that German humans have possessed anti-gravity / beam-energy technology since WWII…Von Braun also pointed out in the 70’s that humanity could now easily convert to a long-suppressed, free-energy technology at any time”.

I net Carol Rosen at various conferences where she always emphasized Von Braun’s False Flag Alien Invasion that some group would use it to put weapons in space. There is strong evidence that the weapons do in fact exist aboard various objects in space.

1989 Soviet Attack Possible False Flag

Nancy and Ronald Reagan

 Ronald Reagan liked to say, “God has a plan for everything.” He and Nancy were expected at a casual dinner party with friends in Hollywood when they were first married and showed up a half hour later quite upset. “They stated that they had seen a UFO coming down the coast.”

 In 1974, California Governor stated, “I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around.” “I went up to the pilot and said, “Have you ever seen anything like that?” He was shocked and he said, “Nope.” And I said to him: “Let’s follow it!” “We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.” “We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.”

When he became President, he frequently discussed UFOs with his staff, and received numerous reports on sightings, and made frequent references to UFOs in his speeches.

On September 28, 1981, President Reagan received a letter from Colonel Ret. Colman VonKeviczky, Director of the International UFO Galactic Spacecraft Research and Analytic Network (ICUFON) that claimed UFOs were an intergalactic task force that will destroy earth unless world leaders’ band together to end their hostile actions against UFOs.” 

Chief  Advisor of the White House, Major General Robert Schweitzer replied, “The President is well aware of the threat you document so clearly and is doing all in his power to restore the national defense margin of safety as quickly and prudently as possible.” Dated November 21, 1981.

General Douglas MacArthur also spoke of “an ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy.

On December 4, 1985, Reagan made a speech at Fallston High School in Maryland talking about his meeting in Geneva where in five hours of private conversations with Soviet Premier Gorbachev he had brought up the alien scenario:

Regan Felt an Alien Attack Could Happen

 “I couldn’t help but – when you stop to think that were all God’s children, wherever we live in the world, I couldn’t help but say to him (Gorbachev) just how easy his task and mine might be if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We had forgot all the little local differences that we have between our countries, and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this Earth together. Well, I guess we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us, but I think that between us we can bring about that realization.”

 Reagan showed his perception of UFOs at the United Nations General Assembly September 21st, 1987, when he stated, “In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you,” he went on, “is not an alien threat already among us? What could be more alien to universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”

 Was Regan considering creating his own false flag alien invasion on the Soviet Union?

 President Reagan apparently developed a plan to defeat the USSR, and Communism that he called the Evil Empire. A key part of the plan was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced in 1983 and called the “Star Wars” defense system that could destroy Soviet missiles and probably UFOs. Reagan proposed a complex set of defensive lasers and missiles intended to shoot down Soviet IBCMs. He even offered the defense system to the Soviets.

Whether inspired through his conversations with President Reagan, or through information provided by his own intelligence, Gorbachev had his own interest in UFOs.

Premier Gorbachev

On February 16, 1987, in an important speech, at a conference at Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on the “Survival of Humanity,” Gorbachev stated, “At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, although I think it is early yet to worry about such an intrusion. It is much more important to think about the problems that have entered in our common home.”

   Hundreds of reports of abductions were reported in the Soviet Union, astronauts were reporting UFOs, fighters were being launched to chase them, and while rumors persist Gorbachev himself was visited by an alien and given a stern warning.

Not generally known is that the Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev prepared and nearly carried out a nuclear attack on the United States according to two Soviet KGB Colonels “At the age of 54, Gorbachev was elected to the General Secretariat by the Politburo on 11 March 1985. This was the beginning of a series of fundamental Soviet reforms”.

President Reagan ordered a massive buildup of the United States Armed Forces in 1981, directing funding to the B-1 Lance bomber, the B-2 Spirit bomber, cruise missiles, the MX missiles, and the 60 ship Navy.

Reagan and Gorbachev

In response to Soviet deployment of the SS-20, long range nuclear missiles and a potential alien threat. The Strategic Defense Initiative dubbed Star Wars was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983. The idea was to block nuclear missiles and allegedly attack alien craft and after several years was meeting initial success. In June 1987, American president Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and demanded that Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev “Tear down this wall!”

.President Reagan Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Governors Island on December 7, 1988 -American President Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for help from Russia to ‘fight the alien invader.’

 Gorbachev agreed that the nations of the world would fight together. The Soviet Union’s first step in the end of the Cold War came when Mikhail S. Gorbachev implicitly abandoned the Brezhnev Doctrine. On 14 April 1988, the Governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the United States and Soviet Union serving as guarantors, signed an agreement known as the Geneva accords. This included five major documents, which, among other things, established a timetable that ensured full Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan by 15 February 1989. Gorbachev was secretly preparing and nearly launched an attack on the United States.

Gorbachev demanded that the retreat be orderly and dignified — he did not want television images reminiscent of the chaotic 1975 US pullout from Vietnam. “We must not appear before the world in our underwear or even without any,” he told the Politburo inner circle. “A defeatist position is not possible.” The withdrawal was intended as a sign of conciliation toward the West and reassurance to the East Europeans, but it encouraged others to challenge Soviet power.

 In 1989, one-fourth of the entire Soviet population was engaged in military activities and preparing for a possible strike at the US. Soviet Bloc countries were threatening to escape Soviet leadership and war would likely keep them in line. I believe Gorbachev decided to take a chance and see if the US defense was down. The Inauguration of George H. W. Bush as the 41st President of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1989. Bush might easily be fooled concerning Soviet attentions and quickly surrender to a surprise attack.

Typhoon Class Nuclear Sub the largest ever built

The Soviet Navy was a large part of the Soviet Union’s strategic plan in the event of a conflict with the opposing superpower, the United States; Soviet Navy had 63 ballistic missiles submarines.

These Soviet subs generally carry 16 missiles, and many are multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) that if launched could have hit key military installations and cities in a few minutes after launch and likely succeed before the SDI Star Wars was operational.

The Soviet Unions also had 72 cruise missiles submarines and 64 nuclear attack submarines plus bombers and Intercontinental missiles. It had the older III/IV SSBNs that carry 16 of the older Sineva Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles with a range of up to 5,100 miles with a full payload. It is reported that the Sineva missiles have been upgraded to the new Layner standard, a highly advanced derivative of the Sineva, which carries up to 12 MIRVs (warheads can be of a mixed set with various yields).

Normally four of five Soviet nuclear missile submarines came on station near the U.S. shores. After several months on station the missile subs would be replaced by more subs and the initial subs would return to the Soviet Union. However, the initial subs did not return, and the additional subs came on station in the spring of 1989. Soviet military forces had now left Afghanistan in January of 1989 and were now ready to launch an attack on NATO… Fortunately the airborne Sub tracker aircraft were on station looking for the Soviet subs.

VP-64 t Orion P-3 Aircraft of the Naval Reserve

VP-64 t Orion P-3 Aircraft of the Naval Reserve unit from Willow Grove Naval Air station near Philadelphia allegedly were the first units to spot the Soviet buildup. They noticed the subs on station were not returning while there was a buildup of the new subs. Also, Soviet subs were spotted off the Florida coast. Twenty Soviet subs on each coast could launch 320 nuclear missiles plus MIRVs hitting multiple targets with only a few minutes warning. Long range missiles could knock out key Minuteman missiles and nuclear equipped bombers in a fifteen-minute attack before the US could respond. The Soviet attack submarines would hope to knock out US Polaris missile subs near the Soviet Union.

Once key military installations were knocked out in the US, it was doubtful NATO forces would put up much of a fight. Large Soviet underground facilities would protect most of the Soviet population if some retaliatory missiles got thru. If the numerous subs were not detected the US would likely surrender.

Once the alarm was sounded large US Navy forces of dozens of P-3s and attack helicopters and naval vessels moved into hover over the Soviet submarines. US attack subs had followed several of the Soviet subs across the Atlantic Ocean and a picture of the Soviet intentions developed. Gorbachev felt if the subs had not been detected most key military bases in the US could be destroyed before the US could retaliate. Fortunately, the subs were tracked by Orion Aircraft and US attack submarines and the Soviet Union gave up their secret attack plan and a nuclear was averted.

UFO Crash After Being Shot  Down

According to the “Secret KGB UFO files” TV program UFO craft were discovered after crashing possibly after Soviet intercepts.  UFOs were swarming over the Soviet Union in an apparent response to the Soviet failed attack.

Besides numerous abduction scenarios, UFOs were destroying key Soviet installations, and intercepts of Soviet communications indicated fighters were being launched to ward off further UFO attacks. General Igor Malsev, Chief of the General Staff for Air Defense Forces (PVO), admitted that over a hundred observations of UFOs had been reported to him, mostly by pilots, on March 21, 1990. The Soviets were overly concerned about the attacks and the new threats provided by UFOs.

Attacking Triangle Overs USSR

In May 1990, shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union Gorbachev made a second more direct statements about UFOs. “The phenomenon of UFOs does exist,” he stated, “and it must be treated seriously.”

According to filmmaker and Russian ufologist Dr. Vladimir Avinsky, on September 13, 1990, just after midnight a Soviet radar station near Samara was attacked by a black triangular shaped UFO. It was about 50 feet in length on each leg of the triangle. A fire stated and the radar antennae seemed to melt. These extraordinary events were reported in the Red Star Military Newspaper. Dr. Avinsky provided these drawings of the attack.

These pictures were given to me by two Soviet KGB Colonels

Triangle UFOs Attacks Key USSR Facilities

 According to Timothy Good in his excellent new book “Need to Know” on September 28, 1990, cosmonauts on board the Mir Space station saw a UFO over Newfoundland. Astronaut Gennadi Manakov states, “It was a great, silvery sphere and it was iridescent at 22:51 hours.  It was much larger than a huge ship and had a regular shape, but what it was I don’t know, perhaps an enormous, experimental sphere, or something else“. snip

 Officially it is stated the Soviet Union collapsed because of economic problems, but from its beginning it always had serious financial problems and its huge oil production was coming online. I suggest UFOs participated in the collapse of the Soviet Union to protect their interests.

Boris Yeltsin came to power on June 12, 1991, and was elected president of Russia becoming the first popularly elected president, and completing the fall of the Communist USSR and essentially ending the Cold War.

 According to two Soviet KGB Colonels I met the Extraterrestrials were well as where of the Soviet plans and may have helped in uncovering the Soviet planed attack The aliens have a strong dislike for nuclear war in that it may make living on the planet intolerable. Shortly after the failed attack the Soviet Union was attacked almost nightly by triangle shaped craft and key installations were destroyed.  According to the KGB Colonels, Gorbachev was visited by Exterrestrials who told him the world cannot have two Superpowers ready to destroy the Earth and the Soviets had been chosen to in effect to surrender and dissolve the Soviet Union. The failed attack was the momentum for various Soviet Bloc countries to start to withdraw from Soviet rule and suddenly the Soviets seemed weak and unwilling to occupy its Soviet Bloc nations as they had previously done in the past. By the summer of 1989 Gorbachev’s domestic reforms had run into serious trouble. The centrifugal forces in the “outer empire” stimulated and accelerated those in the “inner empire”, as the Soviet republics sought sovereignty and then independence. As the center disintegrated and Gorbachev opened the political process with glasnost (openness), the old communist “barons” in the republics saw the handwriting on the wall and became nationalist.

Shortly after Poland’s electorate voted the Communists out of government in June 1989, Gorbachev announced that the Soviet Union would not interfere with the internal affairs of the Eastern European countries. By October, Hungary and Czechoslovakia followed Poland’s example. The second act of the drama began in the fall of 1989 with peaceful revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe (except Romania) and the fall of the Soviet “outer empire.”

On 09 November 1989, the East German Government opened the Berlin Wall. East Germany, the center of contention throughout the Cold War, was united with West Germany and integrated into NATO.

Collapse of Soviet Union Lost Numerous Nations and Area

As one historian noted, in Poland communism took ten years, in Hungary ten months, in East Germany ten weeks, and in Czechoslovakia ten days to disappear. In Romania — the bloody exception to the rule of peaceful transition — the end came with the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife on Christmas Day. The Eastern Bloc. Charter 77 (Czechoslovakia) Solidarity (Poland) Jeltoqsan (Kazakhstan) Braşov rebellion (Romania) January Events (Lithuania) The Barricades (Latvia) April 9 tragedy (Georgia) Black January (Azerbaijan). The collapse of the Warsaw Pact a year later plus the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe [that substantially reduced Soviet superiority in conventional forces in Europe resulted in a stronger Western alliance — so strong that the US could redeploy forces from Europe to the Persian Gulf for use against Iraq.

President Bush and Yeltsin Declare End To Cold War

At the of Malta Summit on December 2 and 3, 1989, both the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union declared the Cold War over. Taking place on December 2–3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was their second meeting following a meeting that included Ronald Reagan, in New York in December 1988.

At the Malta Summit, new US President George HW Bush, announced that the superpowers had ‘buried the Cold War at the bottom of the Mediterranean.’

My history of the world is quite different than that of the news media. Perhaps the real history will be revealed some day.

In 1991, the two countries were partners in the Gulf War against Iraq a longtime Soviet ally. On 31 July 1991, the START I treaty cutting the number of deployed nuclear warheads of both countries was signed by Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev and U.S. President George Bush. However, many consider the Cold War to have truly ended in late 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

After the fall of the Soviet Union’s the CIA obtained KGB reports that the remains of the ‘petrified soldiers’ were transferred to a secret research institution near Moscow. “Specialists assume that a source of energy still unknown to Earthlings instantly changed the structure of the soldiers living organisms, having transformed it into a substance whose molecular structure was no different to limestone like reports in the Bible. A CIA representative stated: ‘if the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case. “The aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions’.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin is frequently cited as calling the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” But that is not how the Kremlin translates his words. In his annual address to the Federal Assembly on 25 April 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin “Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century.

Thatcher and Reagan

Margaret Thatcher reminded us, ” President Reagan won the Cold War.” I feel he had help from our visitors in UFOs or was it a false flag scenario making the Soviets beehive aliens were attacking them? In Raegan’s last public announcement, he revealed, “When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours, and eternal optimism for its future.”

 Strange Craft

The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs

 U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II.  These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft. During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings.  Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer. From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters, Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book.  As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public. Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.  https://amzn.to/2SK3SIQ

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Filer’s Files 24, 2021 False Flag UFO Invasion - PART II

Mirabella, Spain captured UFO on June 2, 2021
Mirabella, Spain captured UFO on June 2, 2021

Filer’s Files 24, 2021 False Flag UFO Invasion - PART II

Major George A. Filer, III retired USAF

New Jersey State Director

MUFON Eastern Region Director

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 Special reports concerning FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings, False Flag Alien Innovation, 1989 Soviet Attack Possible False Flag, Strange Craft and Carbon 60.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee Texas, and Virginia.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.  Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.

UFO Sightings in the United States

Sightings are from MUFON CMS

Arizona Sphere

 Tucson – on May 12, 2021, while waiting at a bus stop on Speedway Blvd and Palo Verde, I observed what looked like a ball in the NW direction. At first, I thought it could have been a metallic type of balloon. But the ball shaped figure got closer and stayed at a low elevation and did not rise like a balloon but flew SE toward the Rincon Mountains. The movement was not erratic, it did not change elevation, just a shiny, metallic sphere with no windows or appendages. just a smooth round shiny ball moving about 75 feet above the power lines.

California Object

Morongo Valley – on June 4, 2021, was on a trip to LA with some buddies when we passed through Morongo Valley, and I spotted this object. It looked flat but was extremely far in the distance, so it was hard to tell anything about it. I grabbed my I phone and recorded it. My friends all saw it too. The object zoomed off at supersonic speeds.

Colorado Disc

Cortez — on July 15th, 2019, while on a trip to Colorado heading south on highway 145 in the San Juan Mountains range, I stopped and started taking pictures of the mountain peaks with my Nikon 5600 camera with a Tamron 28-400 mm lens which equals a 600 mm on the Nikon and with my Samsung Note 9. After the trip noticed this black object in the sky on pictures with the Nikon and the Samsung Note 9.

With my Samsung I was doing a panoramic of the mountain peaks and I noticed in one of the panoramic photos there is this black object. t would have been too big for a bird. So, I am perplexed as to what I’m seeing in these photos.

I have a raw file from the Nikon, and the ones attached are jpgs. with no edits.

Thanks for any information if you think there is something to these photos. It might be nothing, but attached you see the images I took

Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/

Florida Object

 Miami – on May 29, 2021, I was in the pool floating on my back when I noticed a shiny star on a clear blue sky. It was around 6-6:40pm a shiny silver color reflecting the sun light getting brighter at times and then dimming. It was extremely high up in the sky. The object took a slight path to the south then stopped. I was surprised to see a silent star like object in broad daylight for 35minutes.

Georgia Lights

Thomaston – on June 1, 2021, stars and sky were blinking uncontrollably with orbs flying around.

Minnesota Lights

Bloomington – on May 25, 2021, spotted some weird lights in the sky that dimmed on and off. Sighting took place at approx. 9:30 pm at Bush Lake Park for 30 minutes. I left before the lights disappeared. Video recorded with an iPhone.

New Jersey Lights

 Bellville – on June 6, 2021, was getting motion alerts in the backyard all night. Finally on this one I saw these orb formations take off from the ground and it scared the heck out of us! No clue what this is.

New York Object

 Outside Rachel – on June 6, 2021, f family and I were traveling from Zion to Reno. About 20 minutes after turning on 375 my wife wanted to photograph a Joshua Tree. After several minutes, a circular object shining light suddenly appeared above us. I grabbed my cell phone from my car and took a video. We had no clue, but we were near area 51 and had never even heard of the ET highway and I am not a believer in aliens but all four of us are positive in what we saw. We learned later where we were located.

Orgone Dark Object

Medford – on June 9, 2021, I wanted to get some video of the lighting storm and we have secret cameras that are PTZ means so I can zoom, tilt, and track a person. I picked a spot where I see some lighting and this object comes in on the right side of the screen it is an oval dark shape and It’s moving in the clouds; it flies around then drops down into an area that’s sunny and disappears. Seconds later it reappears flies around and disappears.

Tennessee Object

 Sevierville – on June 8, 2021, I saw a black looking tilting side to side, then climbed, then hovered in air.  I could not tell what it was but it’s very strange.

 Texas Lights

 San Antonio – on November 15, 2018, I heard a buzzing sound coming from the front of the apartments. I went out front and noticed what I thought were 35 Chinese lanterns. Held onto the video for quite some time. Then started seeing other videos pop up remarkably similar like mine. The orbs seem to fly in a pattern and some even combine then separate which I thought was odd.

Virginia Light

Springfield – on May 25, 2021, witness this caught on ring camera. Have seen this one other time

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Canada Lights

British Columbia – on May 20, 2021, we are sure that we saw a UFO flying towards the southeast (Seattle) from where we were (downtown Vancouver, BC). I have attached a shorter clip. There is a longer clip which is 39 megabytes. Note: The witnesses likely saw Star-Link communication satellites. The video is not shown as it does not reveal much detail. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/

Kyrgyzstan Lights

 Too Ashuu – on May 1, 2021, the Too-Ashuu pass is in the Ala-Too Mountains on the strategic Bishkek-Osh route, which connects the northern and southern regions of Kyrgyzstan. The height of the pass is 3,400 meters above sea level. I took a photo of the mountains, and got a UFO image

Mexico Object

Zapopan – on January 15, 2021, on a flight from Chiapas to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. I took a photograph that shows how an object made of spheres passes under another plane in the opposite direction to my flight and leaves a beam of smoke. Note: May be an aircraft in the distance.

Philippines Lights

Manila – on January 20, 2017, I have four pictures of this object, which I first thought was unusual with beautiful colors in the sky but after I zoomed in on the pictures you will see for yourself. This was taking on a flight between Japan in Philippines.

Spain Disc

 Marbella – on June 2, 2021, brilliant glimmering light in the sky, y although with slight movement left and right may be due to humidity in atmosphere and high temperature. Wind on ground light to medium from east, object did not vary in position during 15-minute sighting. Took 3 photos, best one showed clear outline. Used flight tracker app to confirm no commercial aircraft in the area.

 UK/England Object

White Waltham Maidenhead – on May 29, 2021, I was relaxing in front of the Club house, and took a picture of my vintage plane. Above the left propeller is a UFO. UFOs normally fly so fast that the human eye does not see them, and it could be that I have captured a UFO.

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Stephen Hawking is Right Again — Black Holes Can Only Get Bigger

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Stephen Hawking is Right Again — Black Holes Can Only Get Bigger

Somewhere in the afterlife, Stephen Hawking has his legs back and is undoubtedly jumping for joy after he’s been proven right again by scientists back on Earth. In a new paper published in Physical Journal Letters, researchers explain how they used data from gravitational waves to confirm one of Hawking’s best-known theories about black holes – that they can only grow, not shrink. If only clothing were made of black holes!

I knew it! Tell me more!

“It’s the first time that we can put a number on this.”

In a corollary to the Internet trope. “It’s not real if you don’t have a photo,” scientists know that it’s just a theory until you have some numbers to support it. That’s why MIT astrophysicist Maximiliano Isi, co-author of the paper, told Science News he and other astrophysicists decided to search for data to back up Stephen Hawking’s 1970s black hole area theorem that their surface area can only increase over time. That’s true with entropy or disorder and there’s nothing in the universe more disorderly than black holes gulping down everything in their path. While one would naturally assume that its diet would cause it to expand, a black hole eating a spinning object should cause it to spin and lose surface area. Hawking said no – the additional mass would offset it. He just didn’t have the numbers to back up the theory.

To find the numbers, Isi and his team looked at GW150914, the first gravitational waves directly observed in 2015. Those waves were caused by the merger of two black holes that spiraled inward and merged into one bigger black hole. Looking at the before-and-after data generated, they determined that the surface area of the newly formed black hole was greater than that of the two initial black holes combined. That’s one for Stephen Hawking – and another one for Albert Einstein and his general theory of relativity.

“We’re like, ‘aw, it was right again.’”

So what else is new?

Astrophysicist and study co-author Will Farr of Stony Brook University in New York and the Flatiron Institute in New York City told Science News that physicists can’t believe how often the general theory of relativity holds up against new challenges. One such challenge is quantum mechanics – what works on the large scale of black holes doesn’t always hold at the tiny quantum end of the spectrum. We’re still here, so no apocalyptic laws have been broken – so far.

Would the merger of the two great minds of Hawking and Einstein follow Hawking’s theorem and merge into a brain greater than the two added together? They’re probably working on it right now.

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Close Encounters of the Hairless Kind: When Aliens Try to Look Like Us

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Close Encounters of the Hairless Kind: When Aliens Try to Look Like Us

Quite possibly, that’s the strangest title I’ve ever come up with for an article! And it gets even stranger. In issue 187 of Fortean Times magazine, writer Mark Pilkington did a review of the FortNite 2004 gig. Pilkington highlighted certain material that was disclosed at the gig by the now late Budd Hopkins, the author of Missing Time: “…in order to better blend in with us humans, the Greys have taken to wearing wigs and sunglasses…the aliens are also experimenting with growing hair on the heads of their genetic hybrid grey-human creations…they’re also developing pupils to get around those giveaway wraparound black eyes.” Yes, it sounds totally bizarre. It should be noted, though, that there are numerous stories of mysterious, alleged alien entities who wear wigs to hide their true, hairless appearances. By now, you’re probably thinking “WTF???” And I certainly can’t blame anyone for that. Now, let’s get to the cases. Gloria is an elderly woman who lives in Decatur, Texas and who I met with on the afternoon of the 22nd. I decided to make the approximately 110-mile-roundtrip, after hearing a bit of her story down the phone the previous evening. I set off early, wondering, as I always do, what exactly I might be in for. It was a typical November day in Texas when I hit the road. It could have been a less than extraordinary experience – as is sometimes the case. But, not this time. On this occasion, the trip was well worth it.

I arrived at an old house – probably dating from the 1940s, and which was well kept and that had a welcoming porch, on which were a couple of chairs. I knocked the door and in just a few seconds it opened. In front of me was Gloria, a white-haired lady who smiled broadly. At least, her experience wasn’t affecting her character, I thought. She invited me in and I sat down, as a couple of caged canaries bid me welcome. At least, I think that’s what they did. On July 19, 2012, Gloria told me – as we drank coffee and ate homemade lemon cake in her living-room – she briefly saw what can only be accurately described as a flying saucer, which hovered over her home as she sat in her backyard, reading a book and with her two dogs for company. In fact, it was the barking of both dogs – which stared intently and rigidly at the sky – that alerted Gloria to the presence of the weird craft. It didn’t stay around for long, however. It was a case of here one second and gone the next second. But that was not all. The next afternoon, that of the 20th, there was a knock at the door. It was a pale-faced, thin woman of about thirty, wearing a long black wig and dressed in a black jacket, a white blouse, and a flowing, black skirt. And then there were the huge sunglasses. And the Woman in Black smelled of dirt – something I have heard before. Gloria felt deeply uncomfortable as, upon opening the door, the Woman in Black proceeded to warn her not to talk about the UFO she had encountered the previous day, due to the claim that “the government is concerned.” Concerned about what was never explained. The Woman in Black quickly exited the scene.

Karen Totten is an artist and sculptor who has had a wealth of anomalous experiences throughout her life, one of which was with an entity that falls definitively into the Woman in Black category. She says: “…when I was 17 I was working in a small convenience store, when a woman came in to buy cigarettes. At first I didn’t pay any attention to her until I saw her hand (when she handed me the money) – it was not like a normal human hand. This startled me so I looked up and saw a very pale entity, wearing a thin black coat (like a rain coat) with collar turned up to cover her neck, a heavy long haired wig, and very large black glasses. This did not entirely hide her strange face: a very pointed chin, scant lip and nose. She did not speak. Took her cigarettes and left! I was kinda stunned.” No doubt!

The following account, sent to me by a Facebook friend, is without doubt one of the most disturbing and chilling stories I have on record; and I don’t make such a statement lightly. The source – who prefers the term “A Hesitant Believer” – says of an experience which occurred in late 2008: “I worked as a bar manager at a sports bar in Tampa, Florida, and at 2:00 AM I cashed out the servers and sent them home and closed down the kitchen. The bar itself closed at 3:00 AM, but my last few barflies stumbled out before 2:30. I closed out the credit cards, counted the register, abused my free credits on the jukebox, and sat down to wait out the clock. At about ten minutes to three a couple walked in. I told them it was last call and cash only at this point, and locked the doors behind them, not even really paying attention to them (rude, I know, but after 12 hours, give me a break). When I did notice them, I began to feel uneasy.

“Neither one of them sat down on the stools in front of the bar. They each ordered a non-alcoholic beer, and then just stood there holding their drinks, about two stools apart. Then I noticed how they were dressed. I dress in a ‘goth’ style and prefer black, but these two were definitely not goths, despite the (almost) all-black attire. The man, who appeared older than the woman, maybe about 40-ish, wore a black double-breasted suit of an outdated cut. I’d say maybe 1950’s style, with a rumpled black shirt and a crooked black tie. I’d say he was about 5’9 with a thin build. He had incredibly pale skin that showed blue veins underneath (I had turned on all of the house lights by this point, so they stood out in stark contrast), a very high forehead, prominent cheekbones, and deep-set, large, brilliant blue eyes, possibly the most vibrant blue I have ever seen. He had thin, dry, unhealthy-looking silvery-grey hair pulled back in a ponytail, with seemingly random dark brown patches in it, as if he gave a half-assed attempt to dye it and gave up halfway through the process.

“The woman, who was about 5’6, emaciated, and looked about mid-20s, wore a black evening gown with elbow-length satin gloves and had a clashing bright green knit shawl around her shoulders. She had a short bob haircut with bangs, though it really looked like a poorly cared-for wig. She had the same high forehead, cheekbones, and blue eyes as her partner, although her eyes were more narrow and slightly slanted. Neither one had eyebrows.” As they were leaving, the pair gave “A Hesitant Believer” very disturbing grins. Is it really possible that we have among us strange, unearthly creatures that look somewhat like us, but who need a bit of “camouflage” to make them look “more human”?

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UFO or Something Else? A Mysterious Meteorological Event in the UK

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UFO or Something Else? A Mysterious Meteorological Event in the UK

A great number of UFO reports that have been logged over the years have resulted in attempts at providing rational explanations which, perhaps more often than not, have drawn from weather-related phenomena as possible sources.

Naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena actually do often spark claims of UFO sightings, with sources as varied as “sundogs” or parhelion, to saucer-shaped lenticular clouds, and even more curious natural phenomena like ball lightning which, though confirmed and widely recognized, remains somewhat mysterious.

However, there are other instances where peculiar natural occurrences may point to weather-related phenomena which might account for unusual UFO-like observations. Some of these, as is the case with ball lighting, may leave us with more questions than they do answers.

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Such an account was described in 1992 in an entry published in the U.K. Journal of Meteorology. The author, a Mr. Brian Hayes, wrote to the journal with additional details about a bizarre sighting that occurred in September of the previous year.

“I follow up my telephone call to you with further details of Mr. Barrie Brumpton’s unusual sighting which he related to me in October 1991,” wrote Hayes, who stated that his interview with the witness had occurred just days after the observation took place.

“Having read The Circles Effect and its Mysteries and The Goddess of the Stones I was able to pounce upon a chance remark made by Mr. Brumpton, and this led to my interviewing him closely. I hope that this will help with your investigations.”

Hayes stated that Brumpton’s sighing occurred near Colden Common, Winchester in Hampshire. The time had been approximately 2230 BST, having taken place on Saturday evening. The date was September 29, 1991.

“The weather was generally very wet and stormy,” Hayes said the witness had described to him, “but a lull had occurred during which the rain stopped and the wind dropped.” What Brumpton described as a light breeze had been blowing from the east, in the direction of New Road. The witness had been approximately 30 yards from the western end of the road, when he first noticed an “object” that was roughly 150 yard away, prompting him to think he had been “seeing things.”

Hayes then provides the following account:

“The object ‘filled the highway’, so this suggests a width of eight metres or so. It was ‘on the ground’ and ’round-topped’, suggesting to me a [hemisphere]. The ‘object’ was a ‘mass of mist’ and ‘looked very wet’. It seemed to ‘roll’ toward the subject at a speed that he estimated at 30 m.p.h. However, his estimate of half-a-minute for travelling 150 yards gives a speed of 20 m.p.h.”

“Let us not forget,” Hayes added in his report, “that time is difficult to estimate after an event.”

According to Brumpton’s description, the mysterious “mass of mist” appeared to be producing a noise that sounded almost identical to heavy rain pounding against asphalt. The observer noted, however, that there had been no precipitation at the time of the sighting, although he had considered whether a hard rain was about to fall, and that he might run the risk of “getting soaked” where he stood.

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Another peculiar aspect of the incident had been that Brumpton was able to see the object very clearl at all times, despite the time of night that the observation occurred. “This suggests the possibility that the ‘object’ was luminous,” Hayes speculated.

“The observer moved into a driveway on the south side of the road, but when a few yards away ‘the object moved over’ to the north side and ‘just vanished’.”

What had the unusual object been that Brumpton observed in September 1991? Although certain aspects of the incident do appear reminiscent of UFO-type observations from over the years, the seemingly weather-related aspects of the events described appear to point to the possibility of a natural explanation.

Cases such as these cause us to wonder about the varieties of natural occurrences that might have led to at least a few UFO sightings over the years. Regardless, they are occurrences that may represent genuine mysteries in their own right, despite their apparent natural origin.

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Gigantic Blinking Star Observed in the Heart of the Milky Way

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Gigantic Blinking Star Observed in the Heart of the Milky Way

A very large star located about 25,000 light-years away from Earth and close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy had dimmed by 97% before slowly getting brighter again. Described as being a blinking star, it is huge, measuring in at a hundred times larger than our sun.

The star, which has been named VVV-WIT-08, began to fade in the early part of 2012 and by April of that year it had almost completely disappeared. Then over the following hundred days, it began to brighten back up. Astronomers were able to study the event by analyzing data collected by the Vista Telescope that is run by the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

As for what caused the mysterious fading of the star’s light, it is believed that it was either from a companion star or an orbiting planet that has a dust disc surrounding it. The astronomers have calculated that the disc would have had a radius that measured a quarter of the distance been Earth and our sun at the very least.

(Not VVV-WIT-08)

Experts are unsure as to when VVV-WIT-08 will dim again, but it may possibly occur within the next 20 to 200 years. Interestingly, astronomers have also found two other blinking stars in close proximity to VVV-WIT-08; however, they have a lot less information on those two – at least for now. (Pictures of VVV-WIT-08 fading and returning back to its normal brightness can be seen here.)

The discovery of the blinking VVV-WIT-08 actually wasn’t the first one to be found. The huge star Epsilon Aurigae becomes approximately 50% dimmer every 27 years for a period of up to 730 days because of a large dust disc passing by it.

And in a binary system called TYC 2505-672-1, a huge red star is dimmed every 69 years for a period of three and a half years because of a disc surrounding its companion star.

Not any of the stars mentioned in this article.

These are important discoveries in regards to learning more about blinking stars. Dr. Leigh Smith from Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy explained, “Once you start to build up collections of several of these things, you can look at their properties in aggregate and unpick the mysteries of where these discs come from,” adding, “It allows us to learn how these systems evolve and what they do at the end of their lives.”

The study was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society where it can be read in full.

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Astronomen ontdekken waarom reuzenster Betelgeuze verduisterde

Het Orioncomplex met linksboven Betelgeuze. Het Orioncomplex met linksboven Betelgeuze.  © Wikimedia

Astronomen ontdekken waarom reuzenster Betelgeuze verduisterde

Eind 2019 stond de astronomische wereld even op zijn kop. De heldere oranje ster Betelgeuze in het sterrenbeeld Orion werd plots donkerder. Even dacht men dat de reuzenster op ontploffen stond. Een onderzoeksteam onder leiding van de KU Leuven heeft nu aangetoond dat dit niet het geval is. De ster bleek zich gedeeltelijk te verschuilen achter een stofwolk. 

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 16 - 06 -2021

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 16 - 06 -2021

Entity Sighted In Quebec, Canada ( June 14, 2021 )

Entity Sighted In Quebec June 14, 2021

STATEMENT : Caméra de surveillance capte un antité extraterrestre au Québec. Surveillance camera captures an alien entity in Quebec.

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UFO Sighted Over San Gabriel Mountains, California ( June 15, 2021 )

UFOs Sighted Over Phoenix, Arizona ( April 2021 )

STATEMENT : Impossible Aliens? Planes? Lights in Phoenix Lights in Phoenix AZ April 2021

published : May 15, 2021

ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : Angie Zulka

ORIGINAL VIDEO URL : https://youtu.be/iDsn84K_JIM

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UFO Sighted Over Lake Lago Puelo, Argentina ( June 14, 2021 )

Mysterious image captured on Lake Puelo
The image was achieved by renowned photographer Nito Cortez during Monday afternoon while taking shots at the lake in the area of El Turbio
ElTurbio | Neighbor of the Shire gives us these images.

Misteriosa imagen captada en Lago Puelo
La imagen fue lograda por el reconocido fotógrafo Nito Cortez durante la tarde del lunes cuando realizaba tomas en el lago ,en la zona de El Turbio”
ElTurbio | Vizinho do Condado nos dá essas imagens.

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Lake Puelo is a lake located in the northern part of Chubut Province, in Argentine Patagonia.

UFO Sighted Over Puebla, Mexico ( June 15, 2021 )

UFO sighted over Puebla, Mexico on June 15, 2021

STATEMENT : algo que grave en (Puebla Mexico) disculpen la calidad del video
TRANSLATE : something serious in (Puebla Mexico) sorry for the video quality

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High-Ranking Government Officials Scramble Before UFO Report Disclosure

High-Ranking Government Officials Scramble Before UFO Report Disclosure

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The New York Times reported that they already had the initial conclusions from the upcoming Pentagon UAP report, bringing out a chain reaction of questions and statements from the government high-ranking members.

The New York Times received the initial conclusions that didn’t offer conclusive evaluations of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The leaked documents state that the Pentagon cannot rule out foreign intrusions, nor can they rule out extraterrestrials.

Bill Nelson, the new NASA administrator, was asked several questions about UFOs in an interview with CNN. Nelson mentioned that he encouraged scientists to engage the issue of UAP and carry their research.

Nelson hopes to drive off the stigma surrounding the subject in the scientific community. He said there was no enough data, and scientists should be free to follow these leads, and it should not be stigmatized.

Nelson doesn’t believe UAPs as simple optical illusions because of the characteristics that those Navy jet pilots described. He added that the bottom line is, they want to know.

Documents are now coming out showing that the military has been encountering the same objects for decades, even as early as 1953.

Answering to a question during a press briefing, Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had obtained a briefing on the Task Force’s work so far.

This weekend, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox News, saying that he believes the number of UAP sightings is far greater than previously reported.

Ratcliffe also dismisses the theory that these crafts could be Chinese or Russian because both didn’t have transmedium and hypersonic vehicles in 2004.

China has confirmed their version of a UAP task force that utilizes artificial intelligence to investigate the phenomenon, the South China Morning Post reports.

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Navy Pilot Who Filmed the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Speaks: ‘It Wasn’t Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics’

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Navy Pilot Who Filmed the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Speaks: ‘It Wasn’t Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics’

In the 15 years since Chad Underwood recorded a bizarre and erratic UFO — now called “the Tic Tac,” a name Underwood himself came up with — from the infrared camera on the left wing of his F/A-18 Super Hornet, he’s become a flight instructor, a civilian employee in the aerospace industry, and a father. But he has not yet spoken publicly about what he saw that day, even now, two years after his video made the front page of the New York Times. As he explained before speaking with Intelligencer, Underwood has mostly wanted to avoid having his name “attached to the ‘little green men’ crazies that are out there.”

The story of the Tic Tac begins around November 10, 2004, when radar operator Kevin Day first reported seeing odd and slow-moving objects flying in groups of five to ten off of San Clemente Island, west of the San Diego coast. At an elevation of 28,000 feet, moving at a speed of approximately 120 knots (about 138 miles per hour), the clusters were too high to be birds, too slow to be conventional aircraft, and were not traveling on any established flight path, at least according to Day.

In a military report made public by KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, another crew member with 17 years of experience on similar cruisers would later observe that the objects “exhibited ballistic-missile characteristics” as they zoomed from 60,000 feet to 50 feet above the Pacific Ocean, alarmingly without producing sonic booms. All told, radar operators with the Princeton spent about two weeks attempting to figure out what the objects were, a process that included having the ship’s radar system shut down and recalibrated to make sure that the mysterious radar returns were not not false positives, or “ghost tracks.”

Eventually, David Fravor, commanding officer of the Black Aces, made visual confirmation of one of the objects midair during a flight-training exercise. An hour later, Underwood made his infrared recording on a second flight. “That day,” Underwood recalls, “Dave Fravor was like, ‘Hey, dude. BOLO.’ Like, be on the lookout for just something weird. I can’t remember the exact terms that he used. I didn’t really think much about it at the time. But once I was able to acquire it on the radar and on the FLIR [forward-looking infrared camera], that’s kind of where things — I wouldn’t say ‘went sideways’ — but things were just different.”

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The footage appears to depict what Fravor had identified as a 40-foot-long, white, oblong shape (hence “Tic Tac”), hovering somewhere between 15,000 and 24,000 feet in midair and exhibiting no notable exhaust from conventional propulsion sources, even as it makes a surprising dart leftward in the video’s final moments. Of the three UFO incidents captured by U.S. Navy airmen via infrared gun-camera pods, Underwood’s footage remains unique for its lack of cross talk between the pilots — a fact that has led to some speculation about its authenticity. But “there wasn’t anything on it that was protected,” Underwood’s retired former commanding officer Dave Fravor told Intelligencer. The missing audio, he says, “just didn’t make the copy that was taken from the storage drive.”

A former fighter pilot who served on the Nimitz in 2004, who spoke to Intelligencer on condition of anonymity, recalled an exhilarating group screening of the FLIR1 video inside the Nimitz’s Carrier Vehicle Intelligence Center (CVIC): “Debriefs were usually pro forma in the CVIC, but this one in particular was so odd,” the former pilot said. “There weren’t really a lot of skeptics in that room.” Years later, Fravor told ABC News that he didn’t know what the Tic Tac was, but that “it was really impressive, really fast, and I would like to fly it.” In the CVIC that day, the anonymous pilot told Intelligencer, “We all had that. We all wanted to fly it.”

Of the many people to have spotted or recorded the objects, a handful, like Fravor or Princeton’s (retired) Chief Master-at-Arms Sean Cahill, who reported seeing what appeared to be another grouping of the objects from the missile cruiser’s deck, have spoken to journalists or documentarians. Others have not: Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, a Marine Hornet squadron commanding officer who was also asked to intercept the Tic Tac, still has not done an on-the-record interview. (Three years after the sighting, however, Kurth did take a job as a program manager at Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Studies in Las Vegas, whose owner Robert Bigelow has been a well-known private funder of UFO and paranormal research for decades. It was during this same period that Bigelow became a military contractor working on the Pentagon’s once-secret UFO investigation program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.)

Underwood now joins Fravor, Cahill, and others, in speaking about his experience with the Tic Tac. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

What did you think of Dave Fravor’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience?

I’m glad Dave went on Joe’s show. He nailed every detail. At the time of the incident, he was essentially my boss, my commanding officer. I was just a pilot in his squadron. Are you familiar at all with how aircraft-carrier air operations work?

Probably not. 

So, usually, we fly for about an hour, hour and a half, and then land. Then there’s the next wave of folks that take off and do their mission, blah, blah, blah. That day, Dave Fravor was landing at the same time I was getting my gear on, and we crossed paths just after he’d seen it. I really don’t want to get into what Dave saw, specificallyTo summarize Fravor’s eyewitness account to the New York Times, the pilot reported seeing a large submerged object that was causing the ocean to churn. Hovering about 50 feet above that churn, the 40-foot Tic Tac zipped erratically around the submerged object. Fravor observed the Tic Tac as he banked his F/A-18 in a spiral descent to get a closer look. As he told the Times, the Tic Tac “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen” and left him “pretty weirded out.”, because I didn’t see it with my own eyeballs. But I told him, “The Princeton” — again, which has got a really good sophisticated radar — “is reporting that there’s an object out there that they wanted us to see if we could find and, if we’re able, track.”

So, we go out to where our designated training area is. We’re not necessarily looking for something, but the Princeton had a specific object that they wanted us to hunt, for lack of a better word. And all of a sudden, I got this blip on my radar.

The “Tic Tac.”

The term “Tic Tac,” I actually coined that. So, any time you heard the term, “It looked like a ‘Tic Tac’ out there in the sky,” I was the one that kind of coined that.

Was that named based on what you saw with your own eyes, or from looking at the screen on the camera?

No. I was more concentrated on looking at the FLIRAdvanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) is an optical electric- and thermal-imaging system that was developed for U.S. Navy pilots by Raytheon in the late 1990s, mainly for the detection and identification of tactical targets and the delivery of autonomous precision targeting to smart weapons. In the mid-2000s, as well as today, ATFLIR was capable of detecting and tracking targets within a range of 40 nautical miles.. It was inside of 20 miles. You’re not going to see it with your own eyes until probably 10 miles, and then you’re not going to be able to visually track it until you’re probably inside of five miles, which is where Dave Fravor said that he saw it. So, at that point I didn’t see anything with my eyeballs. I was more concerned with tracking it, making sure that the videotape was on so that I could bring something back to the ship, so that the intel folks could dissect whatever it is that I captured.

The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by “erratic” is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets. It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible.

And it was doing that during your engagement too? 

Yes. That was the thing that was the most interesting to me: how erratic this thing wasJim Gillingham, an engineering consultant who worked on ATFLIR for Raytheon, suggested in an interview with Intelligencer that “if there were several things in the sky to look at, but none were quite where the pilot was trying to look,” it might produce erratic results, a glitch he’d experienced using the ATFLIR to track planes from the ground during development testing. “We ran into this when trying to get a lock and there were two aircraft climbing out. (LAX has four parallel runways). Sometimes the image would switch back and forth vigorously until we took steps to bias the lock some way.”. If it was obeying physics like a normal object that you would encounter in the sky — an aircraft, or a cruise missile, or some sort of special project that the government didn’t tell you about — that would have made more sense to me. The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics. You’re up there flying, like, “Okay. It’s not behaving in a manner that’s predictable or is normal by how flying objects physically move.”

From looking at the video at the time and more recently, do you get a sense as to how much heat this thing was giving off?  

Well, normally, you would see engines emitting a heat plume. This object was not doing that. The video shows a source of heat, but the normal signatures of an exhaust plume were not there. There was no sign of propulsion. You could not see the thing that the ATFLIR pod should pick up 100 percent of the time: the source of heat and exhaust that a normal object flying would give youFormer Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot Vincent “Jell-O” Aiello expressed a similar reaction to the object in the FLIR1 video during a telephone interview. “Where it looks different to me is that it has no wings like an aircraft, and there’s no perceptible heat signature from the engines or from intakes like an aircraft,” he said. “If you’re close enough to an actual aircraft and you’re tracking it, you can see heat spots at different places either leading edges of wings, where it’s hotter because of friction, or exhaust ports from where bleed air comes out, and, of course, the actual exhaust of the engines themselves.”. Does that make sense?

Yeah, it does.

Like, no method of propulsion or exhaust — and the exhaust part of it was the thing that kind of made me raise my eyebrows and be like, “Okay, this is interesting.”

Were you approaching the Tic Tac head-on? Some people have suggestedThe main source for this theory is a longtime contributor to the Skeptical Inquirer, retired Air Force Major James McGaha, whose primary flight experience, per his bio with the skeptic’s group, is with large C-130 military transport aircraft. Not fighter jets, in other words, nor their instruments. that the Tic Tac’s rapid leftward movement toward the end of the video was actually the result of your F/A-18 banking to the right and dragging the camera along with it.

We were pointed nose-on to it. Maybe 10 to 20 degrees of azimuthAzimuth is a horizontal angular measurement between a fixed direction, which in this flight navigation case is straight-ahead of the aircraft, and an object or location. In aviation, azimuth is paired with a vertical angular measurement called altitude, which should not be confused with the more common use of the word as a synonym for elevation., either left or right.

Ergo, when the object kind of darts away to the left—

I was not aggressively maneuvering the aircraft in the manner that would make the FLIR pod would do thatUnderwood’s recollections on this were corroborated by Steven T. Cummings, a former technical director for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems who worked on ATFLIR in its R&D phase and reviewed the FLIR1 video for this story. That said, Cummings made a point of adding that he will remain skeptical about most of the Nimitz UFO witness’ accounts until the military releases more electronic data from the incident.. But look: At that point, I did not actually see the object aggressively accelerate to the left, as the video shows, to actually prove that.

Because you were at a distance where you couldn’t make visual contact with your own eyes—

Right.

And so what’s happening in the video is a little ambiguous as a result. 

Right. Yeah. And that part kind of sucks, because I can’t confirm that the object aggressively accelerated that way. But I have my feelings, based off of my experience with my equipment — and also just logic, when it comes to, you know, physics.

I want to ask you some questions based on theories that America’s armchair skeptics have put forward — like whether it was birds, or whether it was some sort of thermal weather event. I mean, I’m sure you have had enough flight time that you’ve seen birds. 

Yup. Birds normally fly close to the surface of the ground. So, for example, you’re not going to see birds flying at 5,000 feet. You’re going to see them more down at like 2,000 feet and below, like down to the surface. That’s just kind of how birds normally operate. And they’re typically not alone. So you can you can physically see them, in a flock or whatever. You don’t see birds at 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 feet. That’s just not how birds operate. So birds are out of the question.

And just so that I anticipate your next question: There are weather balloons that people launch, but this was not a weather balloon — because a balloon, it just ascends and floats from low to high altitude; it doesn’t behave erratically. I mean, it’s just a damn balloon. So that was out of the question.

It wasn’t — to the best of my knowledge — a cruise missile or any other kind of test aircraft that we possibly may have not known about, just because of the way it was behaving. Like I said, it was just very erratic. It would go from like 50 feet off the ground, which when you’re out in the open ocean, you know, off the coast of San Diego, it looked like it was just hovering over the water. But there was no method of propulsion that was keeping it airborne: no wings, no heat, keeping it airborne or aloft.

Have you ever seen a weather event on an ATFLIR? 

I would say if I captured this object on my sensors independently, like I was the only one that saw it or tracked it, I might have blown it off as something like a weather event. But the amount of people and sensors from other independent sources who found it — given the time period Dave Fravor saw it, and an hour and a half later I went out and saw it, and we captured basically an object with the same description — leads me to believe that a weather event would be unlikely.

Did it surprise you or provide any kind of relief seeing the Navy officially declare the Tic Tac video genuineBefore the New York Times vetted and published the FLIR1 video, the short clip floated around samizdat-style on various online UFO forums, a situation that had led skeptics and “galaxy brain” conspiracy theorists to suspect that the video was a hoax perpetrated by the first known group to host the video on its servers, a German 3-D animation company called Vision Unlimited. In an interview with a German paranormal-news website, Vision Unlimited manager Philip Schneider said the video was not its work product, but could not explain why its servers were hosting it all the way back in 2007. and a genuine UAP when that happened in the Washington Post last September?

No, not surprised. Validation for sure.

This might be a good time to talk about what the mood was on the Nimitz after all of this.

Once I landed, I saw one of my buddies from my sister squadron. He said, “Hey, did you see something out there too?,” in a very jokey manner. And I was like, “Actually, MFer, because I know you want to make fun of me, I got it here on video.” Although, I didn’t say “MFer.” I said the actual term. He’s a good friend of mine, so it was in jest. We pop the tapes into the playback machine. I’m like, “Here, this is where it is.” Those little video cutsIn a podcast interview earlier this year, Sean Cahill (Princeton’s Chief-Master-at-Arms) recalled that the name of this shortened FLIR1 video, the only version that the public has seen, was named “14November_condensed or something like that.” As Cahill told the podcast’s host, Alejandro Rojas, the video file was shared widely by crew members of the Nimitz and the Princeton using the carrier group’s low-bandwidth, circa 2004 Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), before much later being published by the New York Times in December 2017. — that you see of my FLIR recording — were taken there at the intelligence center. What they do with it from there, I don’t have a whole lot to deal with.

When I was still in my flight gear, so probably within about 20 minutes or so, I spoke to someone that I assume was from NORAD. I described it exactly as I just told you. I didn’t get debriefed. The interesting thing was, normally, if you see something out in the middle of the ocean that’s a test project, we would get debriefed on it, one-on-one, in a dark room. Whether it’s from the folks at Edwards test siteSince the end of World War II, Edwards Air Force Base has been one of the premiere testing sites for new U.S. military aircraft, and later home to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center for the testing of advanced spacecraft. Naturally, Edwards has been a perennial subject of American UFO lore — including an extended October 7, 1965 sighting in which base personnel struggled for over five hours to identify a series of mystery objects invading their airspace. Some fun, less intuitive trivia: The base also has its own folklore about a desert Bigfoot creature they call Yucca Man. or something like that. “Hey, yes, we were testing a project. This is what you saw.” Without going into great detail, it will be like, “Yes. This is project ‘Umptysquat’” and, basically, “This is what you saw. Don’t talk about it.” That never happened, which leads me to think that it was not a government projectA former fighter pilot currently working with the Tailhook Association, who spoke on condition of anonymity, corroborated this idea that the lack of a formal debrief for Underwood describing a top-secret aircraft would be suggestive of something more unusual than a classified test-flight program..

Or, at least, not one—

Not one that they wanted to give any acknowledgment of. And, you know, I’ve got top-secret clearance with a ton of special-project clearances. So, it’s not like I wasn’t cleared to know. But, as I’m sure you’ve found in your research, to have clearance to know something, you have to have both the clearance that it’s elevated to and you have to have the “need to know” it. And, clearly, whatever it was, if it was a government project, I did not need to know.

Yeah. Understood. Here’s something I’m curious about, because of this NORAD aspect: Did it come up that this telephone debriefing was maybe involved with something called an Operations Event Incident Report or NORAD’s OPREP-3 reporting system?Documents made public via the Freedom of Information Act, alongside other government documents including “Air Force Instruction 10–206 Operational Reporting” (AFI 10–206) published by the Secretary of the United States Air Force (SEC–USAF) on October 15th, 2008, have indicated that a US military–wide secured reporting channel dubbed OPREP-3 for “operational report category 3 Event/Incident” have become a primary means of delivering realtime information on UFO incidents up the national security chain of command, from the service members tracking the object up through to the White House. Documents released via FOIA have shown the OPREP-3 channel used to deliver information about a spate of Oct, 30th, 1975, UFO events at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan, and overlapping sightings at Loring Air Force Base in Maine, among others.

Honestly, Matt, I have no idea. Like like what level up to who I was talking to. I just wanted to answer them. I was just basically handed a telephone and said, “Hey. Answer these questions.”

Fair enough. So, Between talking to the NORAD guy and Fravor going public, there’s a several-year period where this is just like a thing that happened in your life. Did it come up very often at all?

There would be associations. I would be sitting at lunch five years later with some of my colleagues. Rumors tend to have legs. “Hey, you were out on the Nimitz in ’04. Someone told me about some alien spacecraft.” And I’m like, “Well, (1) the video that you see is my video. And no, I’ve never said that this is what I think it was or speculate as to what I think it was. That’s not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.

When did you find out Fravor was going to go public? Did a lot of people approach you during that reporting or afterward? 

It’s funny, seeing your boss’s name and face on the news, given what he was putting out there. You know, obviously, our encounter happened in 2004 — so a while back — but everything that Dave has put out there in the interviews is absolutely, 100 percent, exactly what happened on that day. And we’re still good friends to this day, so I started texting him. We had about a two-hour-long phone call and I’d be like, “Dude. Like what made this pop up?” Like, “Where was this like, you know, 12, 14 years ago?” Now it’s 15 years ago. And, I guess, that was when the Pentagon released — whatever project they called it. I can’t even remember it.

AATIP.

Yeah. AATIPThe Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) ostensibly ran from 2007 to 2012 with a budget of about $22 million. It was preceded by, and may have overlapped with, another Defense Intelligence Agency program, dubbed the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), with a wider and weirder purview that included “dark energy and the manipulation of extra dimensions.” In October 2017, New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal and longtime UFO researcher Leslie Kean met with a former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI), Luis Elizondo, who had been involved with AATIP — and depending on which reporters and low-level Pentagon spokespeople you care to trust, may have led the program. Working with several other individuals from the U.S. military and intelligence world, and however improbably with Blink-182 front man Tom DeLonge, Elizondo and the Times brought news of AATIP — and with it, David Fravor’s account of the Tic Tac — to the public that December. The extent of the Pentagon’s official involvement declassifying this material is unfortunately still one of the more frustrating, unresolved, and contentious aspects of this story two years later..

Did the New York Times reach out to you? Ask for background just to confirm anything? 

No.

Interesting. 

Not that I really care. At no point did I want to speculate as to what I thought this thing was — or be associated with, you know, “alien beings” and “alien aircraft” and all that stuff. I’m like, “No. I do not want to be part of that community.” It is just what we call a UFO. I couldn’t identify it. It was flying. And it was an object. It’s as simple as that.

Yeah.

I’ll let the nerds, like, do the math on what it was likely to be. I just happened to be the person that brought back the video.

This story originally identified the man who quoted in the military’s report as reporting that the objects “exhibited ballistic-missile characteristics” as Kevin Day. The identity of this man has not yet been publicly reported. We regret the error.

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