On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act into law, authorizing the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System to provide access between U.S. military bases in the event of a war with the Soviet Union and its allies. Fortunately, the main benefit of the interstate system was to fuel the growth of the United States geographically and economically, but the military is now thinking about the need for another superhighway system to protect the U.S. against new enemies … in space. Who will build this space superhighway? The Space Force, of course!

“If you read their language, if you read their products — which I am a vigorous student of — if you look at what they do they telegraph everything that they’re going to do, they believe that the Moon is manifest destiny for them (and part of their) economic … and security equation.”

Space Uber driver?

Speaking last week at a National Defense Transportation Association seminar on space logistics, Space Force Brigadier General John Olson warned the audience that China is his perceived enemy in space based on their activities recently with a lunar rover on the Moon’s far side, a quickly constructed space station and two recent tests of hypersonic space gliders that could possibly be nuclear-tipped. Olson is an Air Force reservist, has NASA experience, served in the Obama White House at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and is now Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Technology and Innovation of the Space Force and Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations, so it’s no surprise that his solution to winning a space race with China is through Space Force mobilization. But … a space superhighway?

In the near term, Olson told the attendees this means encouraging industry to push forward the boundaries of space activities to make real the promise of future space utilization. Space Force is in the early stages of working with industry via Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs, which involve no funding) on figuring out how to build the space infrastructure required — such as re-fueling depots along a “space superhighway,” he explained.

Breaking Defense was in attendance at the meeting and reports that Olson pitched the benefits of commercial space logistics – just like the interstate highway system – to help the US military “dominate” Space Command’s Area of Responsibility (AOR) which is defined as 100 km above the Earth to infinity, and support a support “resilient and persistent occupation” of space by the US “at a lower cost.” And like the interstate highway system and the current private space program, Olson sees “90-to-95 percent” of the investment in the space superhighway coming from industry.

This interspace highway system won’t be a concrete ribbon to the Moon – Olson sees it at first as a series of refueling depots. It will start with “Rocket Cargo” – using rockets to deliver military supplies point-to-point on Earth. That will lead to delivering supplies (and possibly weapons) to future space stations and eventually to the Moon and beyond. Does this mean the U.S. is abandoning the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) which bans any nation state from claiming sovereignty over the Moon and other celestial bodies, and prohibits military maneuvers or weapons testing or establishing military bases on celestial bodies? Olson says no – or perhaps not yet – but implies that China’s actions seem to indicate it plans to – despite being a signatory with Russia on the OST.

Could a space superhighway start out with a military purpose and then evolve into a commercial and public highway like the interstate system? It’s possible, although the highway system was built when Americans were already driving – no one but billionaires are traveling to near space at the moment. IS the Space Force equipped to build such a highway? It’s sounds more like private corporations will do the building for a share of the toll fees, while the Space Force will be the traffic cops.

Does this sound like the militarization of space? What do you think? What would President Eisenhower think?

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The topic of today’s article is on the fact that there are two groups of M.I.B., rather than just one. There might be more than two, but two is enough for today. I have to say that this issue – of there being two types of M.I.B. – is one of the most misunderstood within the UFO subject. Almost certainly, that explains why Gray Barker saw the M.I.B. as government agents, while Albert Bender saw them as something akin to high-tech, multi-dimensional demons. One of the groups originated with the U.S. government. The other, however, had – and still has – very different origins. Over the years, I have come to realize just how weird this two-pronged phenomenon is. Now, you will too. Some M.I.B. come from the worlds of government, the military, and the intelligence agencies of several countries. The FBI, at the order of J. Edgar Hoover, opened a file on Barker in the Fifties. The CIA’s “Robertson Panel” recommended keeping a secret watch on UFO groups – in the event they had “Red” leanings – in the 1950s. Clearly, some visits to UFO witnesses and researchers were from one or more of the various “ABC” agencies of the U.S. government. And those visitors were not beyond intimidating some of the early figures in Ufology. They did so by flashing ID cards and ordering those same figures to walk away from it all. Those who came calling and knocking loudly on front-doors in the post-Second World War era wore suits and fedoras – and often black. It just so happens, though, there was that other group of black-suited characters. They wore fedoras, too. These are what we might justifiably call the real M.I.B. They’re still around and they are most definitely not human.

It must be said this second group of M.I.B. were far removed from the world of government. They still are far removed from government.  They are pale, skinny, cadaverous figures who look like they would be at home in an old, 1930s-era, black-and-white horror movie – and with Bela Lugosi at the helm. To this day, they still look like that: sickly and zombie-like. It gets weirder. Witnesses to the M.I.B. (and to their comrades, the Women in Black) tell of feeling sick and ill in their presence: as if they are being drained of energy. “Crashing” would be a good word to use. Yes, the vampire parallels are easy to make in M.I.B. world. Those unfortunate enough to encounter the Men in Black report poltergeist activity in their homes and in the wake of the confrontations. The real M.I.B. are far less like Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, and far more like the menacing characters-in-black in the 1998 movie, Dark City. You want to see what the M.I.B. really look like? Check out Dark City.

It’s unclear which group of M.I.B. came first – the government ones or the much stranger ones. Most of the data, however, suggests the supernatural group were first on the scene – in the late 1940s. By the early 1950s, however, government agencies knew enough of this weirder side of Ufology. And, as a direct result, government agents “hijacked” the real M.I.B. phenomenon for their own purposes. When they needed to cover their tracks, those in the intelligence world, and/or those in the military whose job it was to intimidate people who had seen UFOs, would put on the black suits and the black fedoras. They became the M.I.B. Essentially, they were playing a role that was inspired by a much stranger mystery. Documentation declassified via the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act makes it clear that, in the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Air Force and the FBI were on the trail of the M.I.B., but they had no real idea of who or what they were. This didn’t stop the world of officialdom from pretending to be the M.I.B., however, when the time and the place was deemed appropriate.

So, in conclusion, yes, the M.I.B. are indeed all too real. In the early years of the Cold War, a genuine enigma of a supernatural – possibly extraterrestrial – nature was carefully, and brilliantly, mimicked by intelligence agents to ensure their real identities were never known. Those same government agents may actually not have had any real idea of what, or who, it was they were copying. Even up to today, they probably still don’t know. But, here’s the important thing in all of this: that lack of understanding of what the M.I.B. are has not stopped spies, agents and experts in the fields of surveillance and intimidation from passing themselves off as M.I.B. Meanwhile, in the background and in the shadows, the real, non-human Men in Black – with their plastic-looking faces and their bulging eyes – continue to lurk, waiting for their next target.

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 Linda Moulton Howe: More Strange Booms and 20 Nukes Turned Off by UFOs

Linda Moulton Howe: More Strange Booms and 20 Nukes Turned Off by UFOs

TOPICS: From October 12th in Arizona to October 17th in Louisiana — citizens, law enforcement, and scientists are baffled by reports of strong house-shaking booms without any physical evidence. And the big military secret that UFOs have repeatedly turned off 10 Minuteman missiles at a time since the 1960s has military witnesses who think the public and Congress should know the truth.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments. Hope everyone has a great week.

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White TicTac UFO Over Conyers, Georgia 10-25-2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 25, 2021

Location of sighting: Conyers, Georgia, USA

Source: MUFON 

Watch as a white tictac UFO shoots across the sky over Georgia yesterday. The object is moving fast and it has no visible tail, wings, engines, windows of any sort. He says its silver and it probably is, since silver metallic objects appear white if videos when the sun is reflecting off of them. This UFO seems to be darting from one cloud to another to hide within. Either this is a UFO or its a top secret craft used by the US military in the area. The US military have many different secret craft, many of them have alien technology built into them. This tictac...may be the latest top secret US secret project. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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NASA chief Bill Nelson: "Who am I to say that planet Earth is the only location of a lifeform that is civilized and organized like ours." 

The current NASA Director Bill Nelson says he hopes that UFOs are not originating from an adversary here on Earth in an unprecedented statement. 

Who is out there? Who are we? How did we get here? How did we become as we are? How did we develop? How did we civilize? 

And are those same conditions out there in a universe that has billions of other suns and billions of other galaxies? It’s so large I can’t conceive it, he added during a live stream hosted by politics professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.  

 

 The full interview can be seen in the video below:

  

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Russian Documentary About USOs

Take a look at this Russian documentary about USOs or Unidentified Submerged Objects. It’s truly baffling. This documentary is from 2006. They are talking about “tic-tac” shaped fast objects 30 meters in length, even things that divide into two pieces, which reminds me of the UFO Aguadilla coast guard UAP video. Any thoughts?

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We’re no strangers to ‘alien’ false alarms – one was caused by a microwave oven

The group of Russian astronomers spotted something unusual. They were observing the rather innocuous star HD 164595, located in the constellation of Hercules 94 light years (or about 900 trillion kilometres) from Earth. It’s a sun-like star of a similar age to the Sun and is known to have at least one large planet orbiting it. So it was with some surprise that the astronomers at the RATAN-600 radio telescope, located in Zelenchukskaya and led by Nikolay Bursov, received a short but loud radio burst from the direction of HD 164595.

News of the signal broke in mid August this year – even though it was originally picked up on May 15 2015. Given the possible origin of the radio signal, its frequency, and the signal strength there has been much speculation about what the source could be, including the possibility that it is a beacon signal from an advanced alien civilisation.

Such a short duration and bright radio burst is difficult to explain as a naturally occurring, if it is at the distances suggested by the direction it came from. The strength of the signal was 0.75 Janskys, which might not seem much given that a mobile phone at a distance of a kilometre has a signal strength of 110m Janskys. But at the distances involved (if it is coming from HD 164595) it is a very powerful signal indeed.

In response to the announcement, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) institutes are turning the Allen Telescope Array and the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory towards the star. They hope that if this bank of radio telescopes built in part to look for alien life can recover the signal, they can learn more about its nature and origin.

Too powerful for aliens?

So is the mysterious signal likely to be a message from space? If it is a beacon signal, sent in all directions, the transmitter would need a hundred million trillion watts of power. This power consumption is about a hundred million times the entire energy output of all the power stations on Earth.

The power requirement could be reduced quite a lot by pointing the beam at the Earth, rather than broadcasting in all directions. This would reduce the power needed to just about the entire Earth’s output. However, at a distance of 94 light years, the radio signal from HD 164595 would have to have been sent years before the source received any of the radio signals that leak out into space from the Earth. Which raises the question why any alien civilisations would have targeted our planet.

The frequency that the HD 164595 signal was detected is in the military wave band and not at a frequency we would expect a “Hello” signal to be. We would expect such a signal to be broadcast at a frequency with little noise that astronomers, alien or human, would be using such as the 21cm hydrogen frequency. The detected frequency of the transmission and its strength mean it is more likely a military signal that has bounced off some space debris and into the Russian observatory than an alien signal from deep space. A local source such as this would explain both the short duration and the intensity of the signal. It is also telling that in the previous thirty-eight HD 164595 observations, no trace of any radio signal has been seen.

False detections have been made before. The most recent signal was found to be caused by a kitchen microwave being opened while it was still running. In the 1960s, the first pulsar was mistaken for an extra-terrestrial beacon, and even named Little Green Men 1, before being recognised as a rapidly rotating core of a dead star.

Unexplained signals

However, not all SETI signals have been explained. The most famous, the WOW signal of 1977, was both brighter and longer than the 15th May signal. And despite follow up observations, the WOW signal was never observed again and remains largely unexplained. Likewise, KIC 8462852, a star in the constellation of Cygnus, that appears to be changing in brightness in a strange way that currently cannot reasonably be explained. It might even be a mega structure being built around the star by an advanced civilisation.

Perhaps the most important thing that comes out of the HD 164595 signal is that there is still a lot of things out there we don’t yet understand and we need to keep looking.

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Richly Adorned Egyptian Tomb Could Rewrite the History of Mummification

A new analysis of a Fifth-Dynasty official’s mummy suggests sophisticated embalming techniques are 1,000 years older than previously believed

 Livia Gershon - Daily Correspondent

Researchers discovered Khuwy's richly painted tomb in 2019. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

A new analysis of an ancient Egyptian mummy suggests that sophisticated techniques for preserving the dead may be 1,000 years older than previously believed. The discovery centers on the tomb of a high-ranking Old Kingdom official known as Khuwy, reports Kamal Tabikha for the National.

Archaeologists excavated the mummy at the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, in 2019. Hieroglyphs on the wall of the tomb where the deceased was laid to rest show that the burial took place during the Fifth Dynasty period, which spanned the early 25th to mid-24th century B.C.E. Pottery and jars used to store body parts removed during the man’s mummification also appear to date to the time of the Old Kingdom.

As Dalya Alberge reports for the Observer, researchers previously believed that high-quality linen dressings and resin of the kind employed in Khuwy’s mummification weren’t used until much later.

“Until now, we had thought that Old Kingdom mummification was relatively simple, with basic desiccation—not always successful—no removal of the brain, and only occasional removal of the internal organs,” Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo, tells the Observer. “Indeed, more attention was paid to the exterior appearance of the deceased than the interior.”

Ikram and her colleagues are set to share their initial findings in an upcoming episode of the National Geographic series “Lost Treasures of Egypt.” The team plans to conduct additional tests on the mummy, investigating the possibility that it may not be Khuwy, or that the tomb was repurposed for a different burial much later. 

“I remain hesitant until we can conduct carbon-14 dating,” Ikram tells the National.

She adds, “If this is indeed the mummy of Khuwy, this will truly be a unique discovery that dramatically shifts our understanding of the history of the Old Kingdom.”

The findings will be featured in an upcoming episode of National Geographic's "Lost Treasures of Egypt" series.  National Geographic / Windfall Films

The tests, which will take six to eight months to complete, will offer a more definitive answer regarding the mummy’s age. If dated to the Old Kingdom, the find would expand scholars’ understanding of Fifth-Dynasty trade networks, suggesting extensive trade with neighboring empires. The resin used to preserve the body would likely have been imported from Lebanon.

Tom Cook of Windfall Films, which is producing the National Geographic series, tells the Observer that Ikram was initially skeptical of the idea that the mummy dated to the Fifth Dynasty.

“[Researchers] didn’t think the mummification process [then] was that advanced,” he says. “So her initial reaction was ‘This is definitely not Old Kingdom.’ But over the course of the investigation, she started to come round.”

The tomb where the mummy was found features remarkable wall paintings rendered in “royal colors”—a choice that suggests Khuwy may have been related to Fifth-Dynasty pharaoh Djedkare Isesi, reported Jessica Stewart for My Modern Met in 2019. The L-shaped tomb’s architecture, particularly a tunneled entrance more typically found in pyramids, further indicates that Khuwy was a person of high status, per Jack Guy of CNN.

The team’s findings will appear in a November 28 episode of “Lost Treasures of Egypt” titled “Rise of the Mummies.”

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Mogelijk eerste planeet buiten onze Melkweg ontdekt

Voor het eerst lijkt er een planeet te zijn ontdekt in een heel ander sterrenstelsel, dus buiten onze Melkweg. Helemaal zeker is het nog niet, en het is sowieso bijzonder moeilijk om bevestiging te krijgen, maar de metingen kunnen wetenschappers een nieuwe plek bieden om naar planeten te zoeken.

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• Tiener ontdekt nieuwe planeet op derde stagedag

Extrasolar planet, star cluster and nebula in outer space 

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Snake-like UFO Floats Across Lavonia, Georgia Oct 20, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 20, 2021

Location of sighting: Lavonia, Georgia, USA

 

An eyewitness was driving though Lavonia, Georgia last week when he noticed this glowing necklace like object flying across the sky. The object has trouble coming into focus and he is driving so that may explain it...however the reflectiveness of the object also contributed to it not showing more detail. What ever the hell this is...I have to say, such UFOs do exist...however are rare and mostly seen in South America. At one point, the craft changes shape into a human figure...feet, body and lowered head looking down. Thats creepy as hell and seems like it was created intentionally for those on the ground. All I'm saying is...keep an open mind. We don't know 100% what it is yet. But maybe more video footage of this object will come in over the next few weeks. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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 Football Shaped UFO Over Metro Detroit Area, Oct 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 20, 2021

Location of sighting: Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA

News Source: WDIV Detroit TV News

 

This glowing football shaped object was seen shooting across the night sky over Detroit last week. The object moved way too slow to be a metoer and its not pulsing like meteors do. Also the majority of scientists say that meteorites burn up long before they hit the Earth...this one is huge...and its unlikely a 747 size meteor would burn up from that low altitude. The object is a UFO. It's moving across the sky, not falling from space. The shape is similar to many other UFO photos and videos...the shape is like a football...or a fat disk. Notice that no debris flies off the glowing object...because it's not a meteor. Only FAA and military radar could really track this object and tell us what direction it went and if it landed somewhere. But they wont cooperate..they see UFOs all the time. It's something they are trained to ignore...at least in the US military. When I focused the close up screenshot...I got a craft thats more flat rectangle in shape with a raised cockpit on its top front area...see photos below. This is 100% proof that it's an alien craft. 

Scott C. Waring - A USAF vet living in Taiwan

 

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Huge UFO caught on tape over Sandy Springs, Georgia 2021

I just receive this UFO sighting video. It was filmed on 23rd September 2021 over Sandy Springs, GA.

What do you think this object is? Please leave your comments below!

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UFOs in formation drop to the ground – Russia

This family recorded these different colored lights from a distance all in a straight line hovering, after about 3 minutes, they drop in a very weird way in groups, sorted by color. It looks very weird and i suspect that these are not flairs for that reason, as they are hovering all together for 3 minutes, but then suddenly drop. This happened over Russia on 1st June 2020.

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Boo Who? The World’s Oldest Ghost Drawing May Have Been Found on an Ancient Babylonian Tablet at the British Museum

The object is among many early examples curator Irving Finkel has documented that show humans' eternal fascination with the spiritual realm

Amah-Rose Abrams

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My previous article was on the subject of Project Moon Dust, a U.S. Air Force program designed to secretly retrieve technology from crashed and foreign space satellites, rockets and more. Most of those cases were somewhat mundane: fuel-tanks, pieces of engines and so on. There are rumors, though, that Project Moon Dust recovered more than a few crashed UFOs – as in alien spacecraft. I’m skeptical of the claims that Moon Dust recovered any alien ships. There is, however, one story that really stands out. It dates from May 1978. The location: Bolivia. And, I’m about to share it with you. The story is an important one, because I’m quoting from U.S. government files. And those same files are actually very intriguing. So with that said, let’s have a look at the case and what we can learn from it. The first piece of data that surfaced was a U.S. Department of State telegram. Dated May 15, 1978, it was titled “Report of Fallen Space Object.” The Department of State report told a fascinating story: “The Bolivian newspapers carried this morning an article concerning an unidentified object that apparently recently fell from the sky. The paper quotes a “Latin” correspondent’s story from the Argentine city of Salta. The object was discovered near the Bolivian city of Bermejo and was described as egg-shaped, metal and about four meters in diameter. The Bolivian Air Force plans to investigate to determine what the object might be and from where it came. I have expressed our interest and willingness to help. They will advise. Request the department check with appropriate agencies to see if they can shed some light on what this object might be. The general region has had more than its share of reports of UFOs this past week. Requests a reply ASAP.”

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Then, on the same day, there were the words of the CIA: “Many people in this part of the country claim they saw an object which resembled a soccer ball falling behind the mountains on the Argentine-Bolivian border, causing an explosion that shook the earth. This took place on May 6. Around that time some people in San Luis and Mendoza provinces reported seeing a flying saucer squadron flying in formation. The news from Salta confirms that the artificial satellite fell on Taire Mountain in Bolivia, where it has already been located by authorities. The same sources said that the area where the artificial satellite fell has been declared an emergency zone by the Bolivian Government.” One day later, May 16, there was a CIA update on the affair titled “Reports Conflict on Details of Fallen Object.” The CIA  said:

“We have received another phone call from our audience requesting confirmation of reports that an unidentified object fell on Bolivian territory near the Argentine border. We can only say that the Argentine and Uruguayan radio stations are reporting on this even more frequently, saying that Bolivian authorities have urgently requested assistance from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in order to determine the nature of that which crashed on a hill in Bolivian territory. Just a few minutes ago Radio El Espectador of Montevideo announced that there was uncertainty as to the truth of these reports. Argentine sources indicated that they border with Bolivia had been closed but that it might seen be reopened. They also reported that an unidentified object had fallen on Bolivian soil near the Argentine border and that local Bolivian authorities had requested aid from the central government, which, in turn, had sought assistance from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration to investigate the case.”

There was more to come from the U.S. government:  “A La Paz newspaper said today that there is great interest in learning about the nature of the fallen object, adding that local authorities for security reasons had cordoned off 200 km around the spot where the object fell. The object is said to be a mechanical device with a diameter of almost 4 meters which has already been brought to Tarija. There is interest in determining the accuracy of these reports which have spread quickly throughout the continent, particularly in Bolivia and its neighboring countries. Is it a satellite, a meteorite, or a false alarm?” Then, on the 18th of the month, the Department of State reported: “Preliminary information provided has been checked with appropriate government agencies. No direct correlation with known space objects that may have re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere near May 6 can be made; however, we continue to examine any possibilities. Your attention is invited to State Airgram A-6343, July 26, 1973, which provided background information and guidance for dealing with space objects that have been found. In particular any information pertaining to the pre-impact observations, direction of trajectory, number of objects observed, time of impact and a detailed description including any markings would be useful.”

Just about a week later, the Department of State reported: “This office has tried to verify the stories put forth in the local press. The Chief of Staff of the Bolivian Air Force told DATT/AIRA this date that planes from the BAF have flown over the area where the object was supposed to have landed and in their search they drew a blank. Additionally, DATT/AIRA talked this date with the Commander of the Bolivian Army and informed DATT that the Army’s search party directed to go into the area to find the object had found nothing. The Army has concluded that there may or [may] not be an object, but to date nothing has been found.” The mystery was over, aside from one thing: all of the available  material was handed over to Project Moon Dust. What happened from there we don’t know. Maybe, one day, someone will launch a new investigation of this admittedly intriguing case of 1978.

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REVEALED: US military report for Congress says UFO sightings by Navy pilots could be aliens or new hypersonic technology from Russia or China - but are not a secret US government project

• The unidentified aerial phenomena remain unidentified, though officials definitively said they are not a part of a secret U.S. government project

• Senior officials told The New York Times that they are worried China or Russia could be experimenting with hypersonic technology

• If that is the case, hypersonic research in Russian and China has 'far outpaced' the same research in the United States, the officials said

• An unclassified version of the intelligence report is expected to be released to Congress by June 25 

ADAM SCHRADER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Government officials have leaked details about the highly anticipated classified report on ufo sightings expected to be released this month, noting that there is no evidence to support that they are alien spacecraft.

But the report does not rule aliens out either, senior administration officials who were briefed on the report told The New York Times. 

The report also theorizes the objects could also be new weapons developed by Russian or China - and definitively says the phenomena are not a part of a secret project from within the United States government.

The report looks at more than 120 incidents of unidentified objects seen by U.S. Navy pilots in the past 20 years.

The UFOs were observed moving in patterns that remain difficult to explain, including their acceleration, ability to change direction and ability to submerge underwater.  

Senior officials told the outlet that the objects could be evidence of Chinese or Russian hypersonic technology - which means the countries may have 'far outpaced' the US in weapons development.

Hypersonic weapons are aircraft and missiles that can reach atmospheric speeds faster than Mach 5, or or about 4,000 miles per hour - making them almost impossible to intercept.

Still images from a newly released video show a spherical object diving into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell says the video shows 'FLIR [forward looking infrared] data' that is complimented by the radar footage

Video showing an unidentified flying object splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego two years ago has now been corroborated by military radar which shows a ship, the USS Omaha, being swarmed by aerial phenomena in July 2019. The image above shows nine unexplained objects - some of which were traveling at speeds in excess of 160mph

Last year, lawmakers added a provision to President Donald Trump's budget demanding that the secretary of defense and director of national intelligence release a report on what the government knows about such UFOs.

Government officials have previously conceded that the sightings are credible, and that the UFOs' origins remains unknown.

An unclassified version of the intelligence report is expected to be released to Congress by June 25, but will include a classified annex that 'will not contain any evidence concluding that the phenomenon are alien spacecraft.'

However, the officials said the government could also 'not definitively rule out' theories that they might be alien spacecraft, The New York Times reported. 

In some cases, the report rules out explanations such as weather balloons or other research balloons because of changes in wind speed during the sightings, the officials told the Times.

In the report, intelligence officials examined foreign military powers and believe at least some of the UFOs could be explained as hypersonic Russian or Chinese weaponry - into which both countries have been heavily investing. 

Examples of the unexplained sightings 'maneuverable' spherical objects which were seen flying in restricted airspace near Virginia Beach almost every day from 2015 to 2017.

F/A-18 fighter pilot Ryan Graves' F/A-18, whose squadron spotted the objects, has previously said: 'I am worried, frankly. You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hanging out up there, it would be a massive issue.'

Officials briefed on the report also described a giant Tic Tac-shaped object about the size of a commercial plane which was encountered by Navy fighter jets off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

Senator Marco Rubio warned last month that UFOs pose a serious threat to national security and can no longer be laughed off by lawmakers. 

'Some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic and some kinda, you know, giggle when you bring it up. But I don't think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question,' Rubio said.

Rubio said the possibility that drones or aircraft from a rival military power - or from another civilization - were entering U.S. airspace without permission should be getting more attention and resources.

Former Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves, who regularly witnessed UFOs in restricted airspace, called them a threat to national security

'I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously,' Rubio told 60 Minutes.

'I want us to have a process to analyze the data every time it comes in. That there be a place where this is cataloged and constantly analyzed, until we get some answers.'

'Maybe it has a very simple answer. Maybe it doesn't.'

John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence, told Fox News that these are not just eyewitness accounts - they're videos and measurements taken after 'multiple sensors that are picking up these things.'

'When we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don't have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,' he said.

Even former President Barack Obama raised recent interest in UFOs while appearing on The Late Late Show with James Corden last month.

'What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are,' Obama said.

John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence, told Fox News that these are not just eyewitness accounts - they're videos and measurements taken after 'multiple sensors that are picking up these things'

From 2007 to 2012, the Pentagon catalogued reports from Navy pilots of unidentified aerial phenomenon through its shadowy Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, funded at the request of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Last year, the Pentagon formed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force to research sightings of aerial objects that could pose a threat to national security.

Harry Reid demands report on UFOs to be released by Senate Intelligence Committee and say's he has 'no problem' if aliens exist 

Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid has penned an article demanding the Senate Intelligence Committee release a report on UFOs lawmakers have commissioned

Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid recently penned an article demanding that the Senate Intelligence Committee release a report on UFOs lawmakers have commissioned.

Reid, 81, also detailed in his article for The New York Times how the former Senate Majority Leader became 'increasingly interested in UFOs' and said he has 'no problem' if aliens exist. 

In December, Sen. Marco Rubio - then-acting head of the Senate Intelligence Committee - called for Pentagon reports into the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) to be declassified. The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has until June to report its findings to Congress. 

'I believe that there is information uncovered by the government's covert investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena that can be disclosed to the public without harming our national security,' Reid wrote for The New York Times.

'The American people deserve to know more — and hopefully they will soon, with the release of a comprehensive government report requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the military's encounters with UFOs.'

He added: 'Let me be clear: I have never intended to prove that life beyond Earth exists. But if science proves that it does, I have no problem with that. Because the more I learn, the more I realize that there's still so much I don't know.' 

In the article, Reid described first becoming interested in unidentified aerial phenomena, what most people refer to as UFOs, in 1996 after being invited to a conference on topic by an investigative reporter for KLAS-TV.

He said his interest in UFOs grew through conversations with former astronaut John Glenn, a fellow senator, but his staff warned him 'stay the hell away' from the topic publicly.

'I politely ignored them. I was inquisitive and, like Senator Glenn, I thought it was an issue that demanded attention, and I was in a position to act,' he said.

Reid, while serving as Senate Majority Leader in 2007, worked to secure $22 million in funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. 

'This clandestine Pentagon operation investigated reports of UFOs and other related phenomena, including UFO encounters involving American military personnel,' he wrote.

Reid noted that program no longer exists but the government continues to study UFOs through the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.

He said that, as a senator, he visited Area 51 and saw classified information that fascinated him. 

The top-secret Air Force testing site in southern Nevada has long associated with UFOs and related 'conspiracy theories' in popular culture. Reid noted that its existence wasn't publicly acknowledged by the U.S. Government until 2013.

'What I saw fascinated me, though much of it must remain classified. During one visit I traveled a short distance to the facility that housed the Air Force's secret new stealth fighters,' Reid wrote.

Reid explained that 'there's still a great deal we don't understand' but UFOs and it remains unclear how to explain some of these 'strange sightings' scientifically.

USS Omaha in 2019 in restricted waters off the coast of southern California (leaked May 2021)

The USS Omaha filmed a round object making a controlled flight above the water for an extended period of time before it finally entered the ocean. Investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell shared the footage on May 14 with Mystery Wire.

Still images from that video were first released in April as the Pentagon confirmed that a set of images and videos showing unidentified flying objects buzzing over Navy warships off the coast of California in 2019 'were taken' by branch personnel.

Staff could be heard exclaiming excitedly as the object made a controlled, gradual descent into the Pacific Ocean, before disappearing with a splash.

No explanation for the spherical object has been given...   

The USS Omaha filmed a round object making a controlled flight above the water for an extended period of time before it finally entered the ocean

One of the images appears to be a pyramid-shaped object while others were thought to be drones or balloons; however, the Navy has listed them as unknowns.

In a statement, a Pentagon spokesperson told Mystery Wire: 'I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel. The UAPTF has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations.'

The confirmation came a week after Admiral Michael Gilday, the chief of naval operations, admitted that he has no idea where the swarm of mysterious Tic Tac-shaped drones that menaced four US destroyers in July 2019 originated.

Gilday led an investigation into the incident in which a group of what some have called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) chased the destroyers for up to 100 nautical miles off the coast of California.

The Independence Class littoral combat ship USS Omaha (LCS 12) transits the Pacific Ocean

F/A-18E Super Hornets assigned to the Tomcatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31 returned to their home base at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana in Virginia Beach

Flight logs revealed as many as six mystery aircraft swarmed the warships close to a sensitive training area at the Channel Islands at speeds of up to 40mph and with a greater maneuverability than US military drones.

When asked directly if the Navy had confirmed the identity of the drones at a media event, Gilday responded: 'No, we have not.'

The Drive revealed in February that US Navy warships stationed off the coast of Los Angeles had encountered swarms of mysterious drones, which pursued them at high speed in low visibility. 

The outlet obtained ship logbooks and internal emails from the Navy under the Freedom of Information Act, and eyewitness descriptions from the staff on board, to establish the UAVs had a far greater aeronautical capability than any previously known drones.  

Former US Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves in a F/A-18 fighter off the Virginia coast between 2015 and 2017 

Graves' F/A-18 fighter squadron spotted the 'maneuverable' spherical objects flying in restricted airspace near Virginia Beach almost every day from 2015 to 2017, he said.

'I am worried, frankly. You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hanging out up there, it would be a massive issue,' Graves told 60 Minutes.

'But because it looks slightly different, we're not willing to actually look at the problem in the face. We're happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there, watching us every day.' 

He said pilots for the U.S. Navy saw UFOs off the coast of Virginia so frequently they got used to them despite them 'watching us' every day

Graves' F/A-18 fighter squadron spotted the 'maneuverable' objects flying in restricted airspace near Virginia Beach almost every day from 2015 to 2017

He said that pilots who have witnessed what the government calls 'unidentified aerial phenomena' have speculated that they might be anything from a secret U.S. technology to an enemy spy plane.

Graves also conceded the aircraft could be something else entirely.  

'This is a difficult one to explain. You have rotation, you have high altitudes. You have propulsion, right? I don't know. I don't know what it is, frankly,' Graves told 60 Minutes while viewing one of the unclassified videos.

'I would say, you know, the highest probability is it's a threat observation program.'

A color image shows one of the unidentified aerial phenomena. Their technical capabilities far exceed that of any known aircraft, sparking fears for US national security 

Pilots have speculated that they might be anything from a secret U.S. technology to an enemy spy plane

The outlet noted that Graves did not rule out the possibility they could be some sort of Russian or Chinese technology.

Luis Elizondo, a former official with the Defense Department, told 60 Minutes that the UAPs appear to have 'far superior' technology to anything the United States currently has in its known inventory.

'Imagine a technology that can do 600 to 700 G-forces, that can fly 13,000 miles an hour, that, that can evade radar and can fly through air and water and possibly space,' Elizondo said.

'And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing.'

Pyramid shaped objects spotted by hovering above the USS Russell, July 2019 (footage leaked April 2021) 

Footage filmed around the same time as the spherical ball sighting - but released two months earlier - showed multiple pyramid-shaped objects hovering around 700 feet above the USS Russell Navy Destroyer. 

It is also believed to have been filmed off the southern California coast, although it is unclear why Mystery Wire leaked this sighting before the sphere.   

The April photos were leaked from a Pentagon investigation of UFOs by the UAP Task Force, which has been gathering evidence for a report for Congress that's due in June, according to Mystery Wire.

The image show unidentified objects flying above four US destroyers, including the USS Kidd Navy destroyer.

The outlet had also previously released video reportedly taken in July 2019 by naval officers using a night vision device, which showed pyramid shaped objects hovering 700 feet above a Navy destroyer

Mystery Wire says the triangular objects are part of the same incident as the spherical object diving into the sea

The video was taken in July 2019 by naval officers using a night vision device

US Navy pilot made visual contact with object on November 14, 2004 

At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14, 2004.

The encounters, which are documented in numerous interviews with first-hand witnesses, remain a mystery, and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial in origin.

The original FLIR video from the USS Nimitz encounters leaked online as early as 2007.

Witnesses say that clips of the video had been circulated widely on the Navy's intranet - used to communicate between ships in the carrier group - and an unknown sailor in the group likely first leaked it.

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea in formation during a Strait of Hormuz transit on September 18, 2020

Navy Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight had been flying about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego (pictured) in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets (pictured) when they encountered an unidentified flying object described as a 'Tic Tac'

The USS Nimitz, a US Navy aircraft carrier, was at the center of a bizarre UFO sighting saga in 2004.

The clip became one of the most-touted pieces of evidence in the UFO community when the Pentagon confirmed its authenticity in 2017.

In January, Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine.

He said the oblong, wingless 'Tic Tac' shaped object was spotted off the coast of Mexico over the Pacific.

He also revealed that for about two weeks, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.

The radar contacts were so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and restarted to to check for bugs - but operators continued to track the unknown aircraft.

Then on November 14, Commander David Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.

As Fravor landed on the deck of the Nimitz, Underwood was just gearing up to take off on his own training run.

Fravor told Underwood about the bizarre encounter, and urged Underwood to keep his eyes open.

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History Channel Has Analyzed This Video As Genuine Hypersonic UFO

Off the coast of Cornwall, a glowing orb has been spotted flying at supernatural speeds.

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Woah! NASA Chief Bill Nelson talks UFOs / UAPs & possible ET life 19-Oct-2021

NASA Chief Bill Nelson ( 14th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) talks UFOs / UAPs and possible ET life.

Date: October 19, 2021.

Bill Nelson Wikipedia: 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson

• The video should start at 53:40!

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Los Angeles: Fleet Of UFOs Show Sign of Intelligence

Video shows multiple objects at night just moving in the sky as what some people would call balloons moving. then once he stabilizes the video, you can see 2 objects start to accelerate and pass all the other objects and turn and angel their line of path showing its not just a balloon. if it were wind in the sky, it would move the objects at once direction but these are all over the place. think of it as a cigarette smoke, when i smoke outside on windy days, the smoke either goes left or right, it never goes both ways at the same time. At 1:30 you will see the creator put an arrow on the part i am talking about, and you will see the objects moving.

Witness report: 

This was a really interesting capture I caught at almost 9pm on July 29, 2020 over Los Angeles. I was getting ready to come in to bed and took one last look up…and all these objects just appeared in the sky. Sorry for the repetitive dialog by me. Love to hear what you all think of this one.

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Revealed: China 'has tested TWO hypersonic orbital nukes capable of breaching missile defences' as panicked analysts say it 'defies the laws of physics' and is unlike any weapon the US has

• China has carried out two tests of an orbital vehicle believed to be a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile

• First test took place on July 27 while second took place on August 13, intelligence sources have claimed 

• Scientists are still trying to work out exactly what the 'weapon' is capable of and say it appears to 'defy the laws of physics' and is unlike any technology the US has developed 

• Beijing has acknowledged one of the tests, but says it was actually launching a 'peaceful' civilian spacecraft 

By CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE 

China carried out a second test of what is believed to be a hypersonic orbital missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead earlier this year, intelligence sources have claimed.

The new test is believed to have taken place on August 13 and involved a similar 'hypersonic glide vehicle' to one launched into space on board a Long March rocket back in July, which was first reported earlier this week.

Beijing has acknowledged one of the tests, claiming it launched a 'peaceful' civilian spacecraft. But analysts believe the craft can actually be tipped with a nuclear warhead which would be able to evade missile defences.

Even government scientists are struggling to work out exactly what the new craft is capable of, with one source telling the Financial Times that it appears to 'defy the laws of physics' and is unlike any technology the US has. 

The White House has refused to comment, while the US Department of Defense has refused to confirm or deny the existence of any hypersonic weapons tests. 

China is thought to have carried out two tests of a hypersonic orbital nuke - the first on July 27 and the second on August 13 this year. Observers believe the 'weapon' is an updated version of a Soviet concept called a 'Fractional Orbital Bombardment System', or FOBS. It is designed to evade powerful US radar systems and anti-missile defences designed to shoot down traditional ICBMs by flying in low-Earth orbit, making it harder to spot, track and destroy 

China, the US and Russia are engaged in a global arms race that now includes the development of hypersonic missile technology. Here, the MailOnline has compared (from left) each country's main nuclear weapon, the latest hypersonic technology they have tested, their most up-to-date aircraft carriers, main battle tanks, and cutting-edge jets 

China launched the dummy weapon into space on board a Long March 2C rocket (pictured) during a test in mid-August which it did not disclose at the time and was only revealed at the weekend by security analysts assigned to work out its purpose

Pictured: China launches the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft on October 16, carried on the Long March-2F carrier rocket, to Chinese Tiangong space station

What is the new 'weapon' that China has tested?

The first test was disclosed earlier this week, when the FT quoted five intelligence sources who said that China had tested what appeared to be an orbital hypersonic nuclear missile some time in early or mid-August. 

Beijing subsequently acknowledged the test, but said it had taken place on July 16. Intelligence sources now believe the test which the FT initially reported and the test acknowledged by the Chinese are different.

The newspaper now reports that the first test took place on July 27, before a second test of the same technology a little over two weeks later, on August 13.   

Observers say the weapon appears to be an update of Cold War-era Soviet technology called a 'Fractional Orbital Bombardment System' - or FOBS.

Soviets developed the technology to get around powerful US radar arrays designed to detect the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) tipped with nukes, and defence systems designed to shoot them down.

FOBS works by putting the nuclear warheads into a low-Earth orbit, allowing them to circle the globe and manoeuvre in flight before coming down on their targets.

This makes the warheads harder to detect, track and destroy than those carried on board ICBMs. 

China appears to have updated the concept by fitting the nuclear warhead on to a 'hypersonic glide vehicle', which is designed to travel faster and manoeuvre easier - making it even harder to stop.

After the second test was disclosed, Hu Xijin - the editor of the state-owned Global Times newspaper - said the US needs to be 'rational' and accept the idea of 'mutually assured destruction'.

'The US must abandon the crazy idea that it can strike China and Russia, but they can’t strike it,' Hu tweeted.

However, he stopped short of confirming the test had taken place - describing it as 'speculation'.

A follow-up editorial in the Global Times also stopped short of confirming the test, but said - if true - the development of hypersonic missiles would 'help contain the US strategic arrogance over China and further exclude the possibility that the US blackmails China with nuclear weapons.'

The paper claims that US policy has been to develop nuclear weapons that will allow it to strike other nations while they cannot strike it - but calls this 'an unattainable mad idea' and says Washington must accept a reality in which all superpowers can strike one-another, describing it as a 'balance of nuclear terror'.

'Absolute security does not exist in today's world,' the editorial concludes.

The Chinese foreign ministry has yet to make a statement on the latest test claims. 

Several countries, including the US and Russia, are developing their own hypersonic glide vehicles - though neither of them have put them to the same use as China.   

China has shown off hypersonic glide vehicles before, including one mounted to the nose of the DF-17 nuke which featured prominently in military parade in 2019.

Analysts believe something similar was launched into space on board a rocket during its two recent hypersonic tests, and then released into low Earth orbit - circling the planet before being brought back down and aimed at a target.

It is thought the craft missed by some 24 miles, but the test still stunned analysts who believed China was far off being able to launch such technology.

Beijing did not report the test or its results at the time, but after it was disclosed earlier this week the country's state media mocked America by saying it is a 'new blow to the US's mentality of strategic superiority over China'.  

An op-ed in the Chinese state media outlet Global Times, Beijing's mouthpiece, said the test means 'there is a key new member in China's nuclear deterrence system', adding that this is a 'new blow to the US's mentality of strategic superiority over China'.  

It is just the latest move in a global arms race between Russia, China and the US which is taking place against the backdrop of mounting tensions between the superpowers in the eastern Pacific.  

All three countries are engaged in wholesale updates of their militaries including the development of new nuclear technology with which they can strike each-other at range. 

Russia and China have, in recent years, unveiled new and more-powerful ICBMs which are capable of launching multiple nuclear warheads at targets many thousands of miles away. 

The United States, Russia and at least five other countries are also working on hypersonic technology, and last month North Korea said it had test-fired a newly-developed hypersonic missile.

Russia has previously tested a hypersonic cruise missile known as Zircon, but it flies below the atmosphere and uses fuel to power itself to hypersonic speeds rather than the Earth's orbit.  

The Pentagon did not comment on China's testing of the hypersonic missile, but did acknowledge China as their 'number one pacing challenge'. 

'We have made clear our concerns about the military capabilities China continues to pursue, capabilities that only increase tensions in the region and beyond,' John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesperson, told Fox News. 'That is one reason why we hold China as our number one pacing challenge.'

An op-ed in Beijing's state media outlet Global Times said: 'If the FT report is to be believed, it means that there is a key new member in China's nuclear deterrence system, which is a new blow to the US' mentality of strategic superiority over China.

'It is important to note the unstoppable trend that China is narrowing the gap with the US in some key military technologies as China is continuously developing its economic and technological strength.'

China unveiled a hypersonic glide vehicle during a military parade in 2019, which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Beijing has now used a hypersonic vehicle to test a low-orbiting weapon capable of defeating nuclear defences

'China doesn't need to engage in an 'arms race' with the US – it is capable of weakening the US' overall advantages over China by developing military power at its own pace,' the editorial added.  

It is just the latest episode of nuclear sabre-rattling to come out of Beijing, after a senior Chinese diplomat suggested that Beijing should abandon its long-standing policy of not using nuclear weapons first in conflict.

Sha Zukang, the country's former ambassador to the UN, told a summit of Chinese nuclear policy experts that it is time to 're- examine and fine-tune' a long-standing commitment to only use nukes in retaliation as the US 'builds new military alliances and as it increases its military presence in our neighbourhood.'

Beijing's current policy - which has been in place since the 1960s - has given China the 'moral high ground' but 'is not suitable . . . unless China-US negotiations agree that neither side would use [nuclear weapons] first,' he said at a meeting in Beijing last week

 Zukang's comments - which come as China builds hundreds of new nuclear missile silos - are significant because Beijing often floats changes of policy through senior diplomats. The body he was speaking to - the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association - is officially independent, but has strong ties to the Communist party.

China became a nuclear power in 1964 with its first successful test of a bomb, and adopted its 'no-first-use' policy four years later. It states that Beijing will never be the first to use nukes in a conflict, but will use them if struck first.

It mirrors a policy that Russia implemented between 1982 and 1993, though abandoned due to fears that the weakened state of its army following the break-up of the Soviet Union could encourage an attack by the US.

The US has a policy to never use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against a majority of other nations including all those without nuclear weapons - but has exempted China, Russia and North Korea from the policy.

Global nuclear policy is rapidly changing as a number of Cold War-era treaties - notably New START and the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - expire, with Washington hoping to renegotiate them to include China.

Zukang, in his speech, said it is 'only a matter of time' before such a deal is negotiated, but that Beijing should be prepared to take a more-aggressive stance until the trio put pen to paper.

China is in the midst of a major upgrade of its nuclear forces, which in recent years has seen it unveil more-advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and hypersonic nuclear missiles that are thought to be un-stoppable by current missile defence systems.

Beijing is thought to possess around 320 nuclear warheads that can be fitted to those missiles at present, but is also thought to be in the midst of a major expansion of that arsenal.

A second site, under construction near Yumen, has space cleared for up to 120 silos - meaning China's arsenal of nukes could expand from roughly 320 at present to almost 900

Both sites were identified by distinctive tents erected over the top of the under-construction silos that hide their inner workings from spy satellites

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“The simplest way to imagine this new weapon system is to imagine the space shuttle, put a nuclear weapon in the cargo bay and then don’t bother with the landing gear. (It’s launched) and it glides back to Earth just like the space shuttle, except for when it gets where it’s going, it goes boom.”

Just a few days ago, the Financial Times revealed that China launched a hypersonic missile test in late August that allegedly circled the globe in low-Earth orbit before coming close to its intended target. China immediately denied it, saying it “was not a missile, it was a space vehicle.” Before the cable news shows could get riled up about what Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, described as an armed space shuttle, the Financial Times dropped another bombshell about this hypersonic bomb carrier – there was a second prior test in July.

The spaceplane is a glider so no exhaust.

“On July 27 the Chinese military launched a rocket that used a “fractional orbital bombardment” system to propel a nuclear-capable “hypersonic glide vehicle” around the earth for the first time, according to four people familiar with US intelligence assessments.”

Should we be concerned that China has twice tested a “fractional orbital bombardment” “hypersonic glide vehicle”? An unnamed person told The Financial Times that the first test stunned the Pentagon and US intelligence, while another said the two demonstrated a new weapons capability which the US does not currently possess – one that appears “to defy the laws of physics.”

While the rest of the media is addressing this news as an indication of an “arms race,” let’s look at the potential of this “hypersonic glide vehicle” to be seen by unsuspecting witnesses worldwide as a UFO. Since it’s a glider, there’s no exhaust to be seen. It appears this is a one-orbit vehicle so one would have to be looking at the right spot to see it. There’s nothing so far on its gliding altitude, but it’s obviously high enough to not create a sonic boom as it passes over at five times the speed of sound – unless it is descending towards its target. Despite being a glider, it appears it can be controlled and it can change direction at that high speed. While that’s not as impressive as the maneuvers made by the ‘Tic Tac’ UAPs seen by U.S. military pilots, it could be what one source said was a sign of defying laws of physics. Finally, don’t forget that the U.S. Air Force has its own secret spacecraft – the X-37B space plane that has been in orbit for over 500 days multiple times. Even with the secrecy surrounding it, it has been spotted by amateur astronomers.

It looks like the chances of mistaking China’s “fractional orbital bombardment” “hypersonic glide vehicle” or whatever it is for a UFO are slim. As for it really is? Good luck getting a straight answer on that.

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One of the most important revelations in the Rendlesham Forest “UFO landing” of December 1980 concerns the locations of where the monumental events happened. I’m actually not talking about Rendlesham Forest. Rather, I’m talking about the surrounding locales and their mysterious histories. And why do I consider it my duty to bring your attention to those same surroundings? I’ll tell you: it’s vital to note that for decades the entire area around those famous woods acted as a powerful magnet for classified government programs, sensitive military operations, and top secret projects. They were all of a highly important – but down to earth and domestic – nature. On January 28, 1935, the Tizard Committee, established under the directorship of Sir Henry Tizard, convened its first meeting. It ultimately led to the top secret development of a workable radar system of the type that was employed in the Second World War. In an article titled “The Tizard Mission and the Development of the Atomic Bomb,” David Zimmerman says:

“In August 1940 Sir Henry Tizard led a group of British scientists and technical experts to North America. Over the next four months, the members of the Tizard or British Technical Mission undertook one of the greatest transfers of technical and scientific information in history. In over 150 meetings with American military, technical, and scientific experts the mission provided almost all of Great Britain’s military technical secrets to the United States. The United States reciprocated in kind.” Much of that highly classified research was conducted at Bawdsey Manor on the Deben Estuary. It’s just north of the town of Felixstowe, and a mere stone’s throw from what were, for so many years, the military bases of Royal Air Force Bentwaters and Royal Air Force Woodbridge.

The alternative cover to my book on the Rendlesham Forest affair of 1980

To understand the wider scope of this part of the story, we must address one of the strangest – and one of the most enduring – stories from the Second World War. Arguably, it has become a legend; a most grim and grisly one, too. It concerns a small village in Suffolk called Shingle Street. It is located in between the aforementioned Bawdsey and Orford. As the Guardian newspaper says: “Shingle Street itself has been the subject of fevered speculation ever since it was evacuated in 1940. Conspiracies include rumors of a German landing and a shoreline littered with burning bodies, schemes to protect the coastline with an impenetrable barrage of flames and the testing of experimental chemical bombs. Four dead German airmen were certainly washed up on the beach, and weapons testing did result in the Lifeboat Inn being blown up. As for the rest, the conspiracy theories rumble on.”

The BBC, too, has addressed the matter of what did, or what didn’t, happen at Shingle Street all those decades ago: “A World War II mystery over a ‘failed Nazi invasion’ at a remote beach in Suffolk may have been manufactured by Britain’s head of propaganda, a BBC documentary suggests. The BBC East Inside Out team investigated the events of 1940 at Shingle Street. The program suggested that Sefton Delmer, a former Daily Express journalist who – during the Second World War – organized Britain’s ‘black’ propaganda unit, could have spread rumors of a failed Nazi invasion to boost morale. The rumors may have even been used to cover up the loss of lives on a British naval destroyer. Since 1940 there have been continuing rumors of a sea on fire and a failed invasion attempt at Shingle Street, near Woodbridge, Suffolk [italics mine]. Mike Paintin said that his father, a soldier during World War II, told how he was called out to pick up dead bodies from Shingle Street. ‘My father and the rest of his colleagues were called out to pull bodies from the sea,’ he said. ‘‘The common link was that they were all in German uniforms and were all badly burned.'”

(Nick Redfern)

Then, just a few years later – specifically in 1943 – much of Rendlesham Forest was cleared to allow for the construction of the highly strategic RAF Woodbridge. The forest suffered even more devastation on October 15-16, 1987. That was when a huge amount of damage was caused to the woods: they, and significant other parts of the U.K., were hit by the almost unfathomable power of a massive, destructive cyclone. I was working and living in Harlow, Essex, England at the time, as a van-driver, and got to see the terrible destruction up close. It took years for the forest to recover. We’ll now take a look at a place called Orford Ness and what went happened there in the 1950s. The U.K.’s National Trust state: “The 1950s saw the construction of specialized facilities to exploit new post-war technologies such as nuclear power. AWRE [Atomic Weapons Research Establishment] Orford Ness was one of only a few sites in the U.K., and indeed the world, where purpose-built facilities were created for testing the components of nuclear weapons. At the height of the Cold War AWRE and the Royal Aircraft Establishment used Orford Ness for developmental work on the atomic bomb.”

Moving onto the 1960s, there is the following from the Trust: “In 1968 work started on the top secret Anglo-American System 441A ‘over-the-horizon’ (OTH) backscatter radar project, finally code-named ‘Cobra Mist.’ The Anglo-American project, whose main contractor was the Radio Corporation of America, was set up to carry out several ‘missions.’ including detection and tracking of aircraft, detection of missile and satellite vehicle launchings, fulfilling intelligence requirements and providing a research and development test-bed…” All of this makes me think: if so many secret experiments were undertaken near Rendlesham Forest, then why shouldn’t the famous “UFO landing” of 1980 have been a classified project, too?

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Nasa lanceert in februari vlucht om terug te keren naar de maan

De cruciale missie was aanvankelijk voor het einde van het jaar gepland. Met de missie gaat het Artemis-programma echt van start. De Verenigde Staten willen daarmee weer met mensen naar de maan, onder wie de eerste vrouw.

Op de eerste testvlucht zal er geen astronaut aan boord zijn. De nieuwe gigantische raket van de Nasa, SLS genoemd, moet de Orion-capsule naar de maan stuwen, vooraleer die terugkeert naar de aarde.

“Het venster voor de lancering opent zich op 12 februari, de laatste kans in februari is de 27ste”, zei Mike Sarafin, de verantwoordelijke voor de missie, op een persconferentie. In geval van nood, bijvoorbeeld als de raket niet op tijd klaar is, zijn er nog mogelijkheden in maart en april.

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This is the third time within 2 months that high speed UFOs passing fighter jets during air shows. Why do these objects every time appear during the Blue Angels and Red Arrows air shows? 

First incident on 2021-08-28: UFO passing the Blue Angels during an air show in Thamesford, Ontario. 

Second incident on 2021-09-19: UFO passing the Red Arrows during an air show in Chorley, England. 

Third incident on 2021-10-07: UFO passing the Blue Angels during an air show in Loveland, Colorado U.S.  

If these unknown objects keep coming during air shows, we could be waiting for a serious accident!

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Eyewitness Discloses Startling 1964 Alien UFO Encounter

For the first time ever, Donald Shrum, 73, reveals an incredible encounter he and two other hunters had with a UFO and strange creatures in the Tahoe National Forest in September 1964. This video features photos and other evidence from the encounter and audio from an interview with author Noe Torres from Inception Radio & Jamie Havican.

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Stories of pig-human chimeras – where cells of humans and pigs grow together into one body or organ – and pig-human hybrids made from parts of both species have been becoming more frequent in the U.S. … which leads many to believe that countries without strict regulations are much further along. In April, scientists announced they had successfully grown human muscle tissue in pig embryos that were grown to term – but with cells removed via CRISPR gene editing so no brain cells were merged. This week, doctors in New York City performed another controversial experiment – they attached a kidney grown in a genetically-altered pig to a human and the organ did its job for nearly three days. Is this a sign the day of pig organ farms has arrived?

“It had absolutely normal function. It didn’t have this immediate rejection that we have worried about.”

Dr. Robert Montgomery, spokesperson and leader of the NYU Langone Health surgical team which performed the test, explained that the pig’s cells had been genetically edited to remove a sugar that causes rejection in humans. Outside of that, this was a normal pig’s kidney – not a chimera organ grown from implanting human stem cells in a pig embryo. A controversial experiment of pig-human chimera creation took place earlier this year and resulted in human muscle tissue developing in the pig.

This week’s experiment is controversial for two reasons – the kidney is from a genetically-altered pig bred solely for organ donation and the recipient was a brain-dead woman whose family agreed to allow her body to be used after it was deemed that her organs were not suitable for donations per her wish. The woman’s body was kept alive on a ventilator while the kidney was attached outside of her body. According to the team, it began functioning immediately, making urine and the waste product creatinine, and continued for 54 hours until the experiment was ended.

“This allowed us to answer a really important question: Is there something that’s going to happen when we move this from a primate to a human that is going to be disastrous?”

Make that three controversial reasons – Dr. Montgomery tells The New York Times that the goal is still to use primates as organ donors rather than pigs since their bodies are closer to humans. Besides the standard objections by animal rights proponents to using animals for human experiments, primates kick it to the next level by looking so much like us – we humans are conditioned to accept pigs as dispensable … but killing chimps is still too emotional for most people. That may change as the population continues to age and the demand for kidneys, hearts and other organs increases. NPR interviewed Karen Maschke, a research scholar at the Hastings Center, who will help develop ethics and policy recommendations for the first clinical trials of pig organ implants under a grant from the National Institutes of Health, asks the critical question:

“The other issue is going to be: Should we be doing this just because we can?”

Should we?

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Over the last couple of days I’ve written articles on two of the most controversial creatures of Cryptozoology: mysterious apes and equally mysterious flying winged-monsters. The ones I chose to pick were the lesser-known ones. There is, however, another category of beast that’s worth looking at. That’s the lake-monsters of our world. So, with that said, you can guess what today’s feature is about. That’s right: the lesser-known (far less, in fact!) creatures of our lakes. Forget Nessie. Forget Ogopogo. And, forget Champ, too. Here are the ones you probably haven’t heard of. But, that are definitely worth addressing – as you’ll see right now. Although far less well known than its counterpart in Loch Ness, Scotland, the mysterious beast of Lake Storjson, Sweden, has been seen on far more than a few occasions. The late cryptozoologist, Mark Chorvinsky, said to me in an email, more than a few years ago number of years ago: “Fisheries officer Ragnar Björks, 73, was out checking fishing permits on Sweden’s Lake Storsjön when he had the fright of his life. From the placid waters a huge tail suddenly broke the surface near Björk’s 12 foot row boat. The colossal creature attached to the tail appeared to be 18 feet long, grey-brown on top with a yellow underbelly. When Björks was alongside the monster, he struck at it with his oar, hitting it on the back. Angered, the creature slapped the water with its tail and the rowboat was thrown nine to twelve feet into the air. ‘At first I didn’t believe that there was any monster in the Storsjön…but now I am convinced.’

Chorvinsky said to me: “Does Nessie have a relative in Lake Storsjön in the mountains of Northern Sweden? A large unknown creature has been seen in the lake for over 350 years. Since 1987 the Society for Investigating the Great Lake has collected some 400 reports of “Storsjöodjuret,” as the Swedes call the monster. There is no clear picture of the beastie. Some witnesses describe a large neck undulating back and forth that looks like a horse’s mane; others observed a large wormlike creature with recognizable ears. Reports of the creature”s size range from 10 to 42 feet in length. Like the Loch Ness Monster, one of the numerous theories is that during the Ice Age 15,000 years ago, the monster may have become trapped in the Swedish Lake.”

Make mention of Scottish lake monsters to most people and it will inevitably conjure up imagery of the world’s most famous unknown water beast, the Loch Ness Monster. It’s a little known fact, however, that there are more than a few Scottish lakes with legends of diabolical creatures attached to them. While many of the stories are decidedly fragmentary in nature, one of them is not. Welcome to the world of Morag, the resident beasty of Loch Morar. It’s a creature that very much resembles the Nessies of Loch Ness. Indeed, and in all likely, they are the same type of creature. After all, what are the chances of there being more than one type of monster in Scotland’s lakes! At just over eleven and a half miles in length, it has the distinction of being the deepest body of freshwater in the British Isles, with a depth of just over 1,000 feet. Unlike Loch Ness, the water of which is almost black, Loch Morar can boast of having practically clear water. It takes its name from the village of Morar, which is situated close by and specifically at the western side of the loch, and which was the site of the Battle of Morar – a violent, death-filled confrontation between the Mackenzie and MacDonell clans.

(Nick Redfern)

As for the monster, Morag (or, more likely, the Morags), the tales are many. What makes them so different to the ones coming out of Loch Ness, however, is not the descriptions of the creatures, but that such reports are often hard to uncover. Unlike Loch Ness, Loch Morar is an isolated, seldom visited loch. It is bereft of much in the way of a large population, and not particularly easy to access. The result is that tourists to Scotland very rarely visit it. The same goes for native Scots, too! For that reason, just like Las Vegas, what happens at Loch Morar is very often destined to stay there. Nevertheless, there are enough classic cases on record to strongly suggest strange things lurk in Loch Morar. Now, onto England’s Bownessie.

A resident of Lake Windermere, England, Bownessie was hardly ever heard of before 2006. In terms of the publicity stakes, however, it has certainly done a great job in catching up. As for Lake Windermere itself, Britannica.com state the following: “The lake is 10.5 miles (17 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and has an area of 6 square miles (16 square km). It lies in two basins separated by a group of islands opposite the town of Bowness on the eastern shore and is drained by the River Leven. Part of Lake District National Park, Windermere is a popular tourist center with facilities for yachting and steamers operating in the summer.”  As the above data demonstrates, Lake Windermere is much smaller than Loch Ness; yet, that has not stopped a mysterious creature from appearing in its depths, which extend to 219-feet at their deepest. Now, with that all said, let us take a look at the saga of Bownessie and how and why it has become a monster of the modern era. One of the first people to have encountered Bownessie was a journalist named Steve Burnip, who saw the creature in 2006. He said of his close encounter of the monstrous type: “I saw a straight line of broken water with three humps. It was about twenty feet long and it went in a straight line up the lake. I nudged my wife and watched open-mouthed as it gradually faded from sight. The water was not choppy, so I know it wasn’t the wind, and I know what the wake from motor boats looks like and it wasn’t that either.”

(Nick Redfern)

Now, let’s take a look at Big Wally – the lake-monster with the least hair-raising name of all! On November 5, 1885, the Wallowa Chieftain newspaper ran an article on its resident monster, which has been given the distinctly non-monstrous name of “Big Wally.” It is said to dwell in Wallowa Lake, Oregon, an approximately fifty-one square-mile body of water with a depth of around 300 feet. The article states: “A prospector, who refuses to give his name to the public, was coming down from the south end of the lake on last Friday evening in a skiff shortly after dusk, when about midway of the lake he saw an animal about fifty yards to the right of the boat, rear its head and neck up out of the water ten or twelve feet, but on setting him it immediately dived. He ceased rowing and gazed around in astonishment, for the strange apparition which he had just seen, when it raised about the same distance to the left, this lime giving a low bellow something like that of a cow. It also brought its body to the surface, which the prospector avers was one hundred feet in length. The monster glided along in sight for several hundred yards. It was too dark to see the animal distinctly, but it seemed to have a large, flat head, something like that of a hippopotamus, and its neck, which was about ten feet in length, was as large around as a man’s body.”

The story continues: “Now this story may have been coined in the imagination of the narrator, but he was very earnest in his recital. However, it is a known fact that there is a tradition among the Indians that the lake has a big sea cow in it, which on one occasion, many years ago, came up one evening and swallowed a young warrior and his dusky bride as they were gliding over the surface of the lake in a canoe. And to this day an Indian of the tribes who formerly frequented its shores cannot be induced to go upon its waters. The lake has been sounded to the depth of 270 feet, and it is a bare probability that some monster does inhabit its unexplored depths.”

It’s unlikely that this was a hoax – on, or by, the newspaper – as other reports have since surfaced. In 1978, a couple by the name of Bryant saw Big Wally on not just one occasion but two! On the first occasion, they saw three hump-like protrusions break the surface of the lake, albeit briefly. Some months later, the Bryant’s watched an approximately twenty-foot-long, snake-like animal circle a certain portion of the lake for several minutes. Three years later, Bert Repplinger and Joe Babic were amazed by the brief sight of a three-foot-long head and neck that broke the surface of Lake Wallowa. While the number of sightings of Big Wally is scarcely anywhere near the likes of some of its far more famous cousins, the fact that occasional reports continue to surface is a fairly good indication that the lake is home to something unusual. Exactly what it may be, however, remains unknown.

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

Cubed Shaped UFO Rotating Over Springfield Missouri?

Cubed shaped UFO witnessed over Springfield Missouri on Oct. 19 of 2021.
Video Source MUFON Case # 118701

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Bright UFO "Orb" Sighted Over A Highway Shortly Before Taking Off In Atlanta, Georgia.

This sighting took place on October 16, 2021 and this sighting left the witness and his friend baffled to what they saw as for what started out as a bright dot in the sky started to move. The witness quickly rule out a helicopter and we can rule out planes as there are no Nav lights and with this object making a straight climb upward with a over head pass until this UFO was out of sight.

Thanks to Donavon Gray for allow me the use of his footage and to view the original: https://youtu.be/kAG228juNwE

Huge Illuminated Cigar Shaped UFO Spotted By Truck Driver At Paita Port In Peru. October 21, 2021

This was spotted at dawn today in the city of Paita, Peru..

The strange "visitor" appeared at 5:53 this morning and flew over Paiteño airspace for a few seconds.

Thanks to the "Truck Driver" for recording this and sharing with us... Source footage:

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During nearly all of its 53-year life, Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), was the world’s largest single-aperture telescope and the go-to telescope for searching for signs of intelligent life. After two cable breaks in 2020, Arecibo collapsed before it could be given a proper sendoff, but it still remains a sentimental favorite among radio telescope fans. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China is working hard to change that. Just days after it was announced that FAST was responsible for picking up over 1,600 fast radio bursts from a single source in a 47-day period, a respected scientist says FAST is the key to finding self-replicating probes from other civilizations … and is probably pointed at them right now.

“In this paper we have extended our previous work (Osmanov 2019) and considered spectral characteristics of interstellar non-relativistic Type-II and Type-III Von-Neumann probes. It has been shown that by means of the proton capture, required for replication, strong bremsstrahlung emission will be generated. We have found that for both types of civilizations the probes might be visible mainly in the infrared spectral band, but as it has been found the probes might be visible in the ultraviolet as well. For both cases it was shown that differential power has dips for equally spaced frequencies, which might be a significant fingerprint to identify such exotic interstellar objects.”

Here they come!

In his preprint paper, Dr. Zaza Osmanov, Professor of Physics at the Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia), explains that he chose to search for von Neumann probes – self-replicating spacecraft first conceived by mathematician John von Neumann – because they appear to be the most efficient method of exploring the galaxy without the need for mortal living creatures onboard. Banking on the odds that there are civilizations that have been around far longer than Earthlings and are far more advanced, Osmanov speculates that their power usage would also be more advanced. The Kardashev scale is popular way to estimate a civilization’s overall energy usage on a planetary or star scale (Type II civilization can use and control the energy of its planetary system; Type III civilization can control energy of its entire galaxy), and Osmanov thinks it can be tuned for focus on the energy output of a swarm of self-replicating Von Neumann probes traveling around the galaxy.

Image of the fully constructed FAST telescope.

Credit: FAST

“Like all imperfect systems, those self-replicating machines would emit some form of radiation, which, after some simplifying assumptions, Dr. Osmanov calculates should be visible in the radio spectrum. Specifically, it would fall right in the middle of the spectrum that FAST is designed to pick up.”

Universe Today explains that according to Dr. Osmanov, the key is not picking up the energy output of the von Neumann swarm but calculating how far away from us it is – key information if it’s headed our way to conquer our almost-intelligent civilization so their advanced civilization can abandon their collapsing planet and take over … or some such scenario. Since Type III civilizations use more power, their von Neumann machines will be more powerful and thus able to be seen farther away. Osmanov says FAST could be tuned to spot von Neumann swarms within about 16,000 light-years for Type II civilizations, and within 400 million light-years for a Type III civilization – that would be from a nearby galaxy.

Too late — they’re here!

The most exciting part of Osmanov’s theory is that FAST is capable of seeing the radio emissions of von Neumann swarms right now – assuming they exist. All he has to do now is get his peers to review the paper and get time on FAST to look for them. And if he can do that, FAST may soon make us forget Arecibo.

Credit: Universe Today

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Astronomers Use Planet-Hunting Satellite To See White Dwarf “Switch On and Off” for First Time

An artist’s impression example of a white dwarf – in this image the white dwarf MV Lyrae – accreting as it draws in material from a companion star.

Credit: Helena Uthas

Astronomers have used a planet-hunting satellite to see a white dwarf abruptly switching on and off for the first time.

The researchers led by Durham University, UK, used NASA

White dwarfs are what most stars become after they have burned off the hydrogen that fuels them. They are approximately the size of the Earth, but have a mass closer to that of the Sun.

The white dwarf observed by the team is known to be accreting, or feeding, from an orbiting companion star.

With the new observations, astronomers saw it lose brightness in 30 minutes, a process only previously seen to occur in accreting white dwarfs over a period of several days to months.

The brightness of an accreting white dwarf is affected by the amount of surrounding material it feeds on so the researchers say something is interfering with its food supply.

They hope the discovery will help them learn more about the physics behind accretion – where objects like black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars feed on surrounding material from neighboring stars.

The findings are published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

TW Pictoris is a relatively bright binary system where a white dwarf accretes material from a companion star. Observations with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have revealed how TW Pictoris suddenly and abruptly fades in less than 30 minutes. The figure shows how the TESS observations reveal this transition from a bright mode marked in blue, to a faint mode marked in red.

Credit: Simone Scaringi

The team observed the phenomenon in the white dwarf binary system, TW Pictoris, which is found about 1,400 light years from Earth.

TW Pictoris consists of a white dwarf that feeds from a surrounding accretion disc fuelled by hydrogen and helium from its smaller companion star. As the white dwarf eats – or accretes – it becomes brighter.

Using the precise observational detail offered by TESS – normally used to look for planets outside our solar system – the Durham-led team saw abrupt falls and rises in brightness never before seen in an accreting white dwarf on such short timescales.

Because the flow of material onto the white dwarf’s accretion disc from its companion star is relatively constant it should not drastically affect its luminosity on such short timescales.

Instead, the researchers believe what they are witnessing could be reconfigurations of the white dwarf’s surface magnetic field.

The fully integrated Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which launched in 2018 to find thousands of new planets orbiting other stars. Researchers led by Durham University, UK, used TESS to observe the white dwarf binary system TW Pictoris.

Credit: Orbital ATK / NASA

During the “on” mode, when the brightness is high, the white dwarf feeds off the accretion disc as it normally would. Suddenly and abruptly the system turns “off” and its brightness plummets.

The researchers say that when this happens the magnetic field is spinning so rapidly that a centrifugal barrier stops the fuel from the accretion disc from constantly falling onto the white dwarf.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Credit: NASA/Frankie Martin

During this phase, the amount of fuel the white dwarf is able to feed on is being regulated through a process called magnetic gating.

In this case, the spinning magnetic field of the white dwarf regulates the fuel passing through a “gate” onto the accretion disc, leading to semi-regular small increases in brightness seen by the astronomers.

After some time, the system sporadically turns “on” again, and the brightness increases back to its original level.

Lead author Dr. Simone Scaringi, in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, at Durham University, UK, said: “The brightness variations seen in accreting white dwarfs are generally relatively slow, occurring on timescales of days to months.

“To see the brightness of TW Pictoris plummet in 30 minutes is in itself extraordinary as it has never been seen in other accreting white dwarfs and is totally unexpected from our understanding of how these systems are supposed to feed through the accretion disc. It appears to be switching on and off.

“This really is a previously unrecognized phenomenon and because we can draw comparisons with similar behavior in the much smaller neutron stars it could be an important step in helping us to better understand the process of how other accreting objects feed on the material that surrounds them and the important role of magnetic fields in this process.”

As white dwarfs are more common in the Universe than neutron stars, the astronomers hope to look for other examples of this behavior in future research projects to learn more about accretion.

Reference: “An accreting white dwarf displaying fast transitional mode switching” by S. Scaringi, D. de Martino, D. A. H. Buckley, P. J. Groot, C. Knigge, M. Fratta, K. Iłkiewicz, C. Littlefield and A. Papitto, 18 October 2021, Nature Astronomy.
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01494-x

The research was funded in the UK by Durham University. The research team also included the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, the South African Astronomical Observatory, the University of Cape Town and the University of the Free State, both also South Africa, Radboud University, The Netherlands, the University of Southampton, UK, and the University of Notre Dame, USA.

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Astronomers have witnessed a white dwarf abruptly “switching on and off” in a first-of-its-kind discovery. The research team, which was led by Durham University, UK, made the observation by using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

© Reuters white-dwarf-file.jpeg

When a star burns off all of its hydrogen, what remains is a white dwarf that is typically the size of a planet such as Earth. The space material surrounding a white dwarf is what affects its brightness as when it feeds, it becomes brighter. And the one that the astronomers observed was feeding off of a companion star that is orbiting it (this process is also called accreting).

What they noticed was that it lost its brightness in a span of just 30 minutes. This process has only ever been witnessed occurring for numerous days to even months which means that this newest discovery was by far the quickest “switching on and off” of a white dwarf that has ever been observed.

The white dwarf is like a light switch turning on and off.

This unique phenomenon was observed in the white dwarf binary system called TW Pictoris that is located approximately 1,400 light-years away from Earth.

Dr. Simone Scaringi from the Center for Extragalactic Astronomy at Durham University, UK, went into further details about this phenomenon, “The brightness variations seen in accreting white dwarfs are generally relatively slow, occurring on timescales of days to months.” “To see the brightness of TW Pictoris plummet in 30 minutes is in itself extraordinary as it has never been seen in other accreting white dwarfs and is totally unexpected from our understanding of how these systems are supposed to feed through the accretion disk. It appears to be switching on and off.”

She went on to explain, “This really is a previously unrecognized phenomenon and because we can draw comparisons with similar behavior in the much smaller neutron stars it could be an important step in helping us to better understand the process of how other accreting objects feed on the material that surrounds them and the important role of magnetic fields in this process.”

It is believed that the reasoning behind the white dwarf abruptly turning on and off has something to do with its surface magnetic field being reconfigured. When it is “switched on”, it appears bright and that’s when it feeds off of the accretion disk. But when it turns “off” and loses its brightness, its magnetic field is spinning so fast that a centrifugal barrier doesn’t allow the fuel of the accretion disk to come onto the white dwarf. Then the process suddenly turns back “on” and it is bright again.

An artist’s impression of a white dwarf

The study was published in Nature Astronomy where it can be read in full.

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Human Cloning: Reality Or Fantasy? Military Industrial Complex Whistleblower Tells All! - We The People News

Cloning illegal! But when has that stopped evil ones especially the cabal from doing wrong! And who knows what aliens & gruesome creatures they have created!

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Ancient Alien Face, Pillars, And Totem Pole Found On Mars Near Rover! Oct 22, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: October 22, 2021
Location of discovery: Mars, Perseverance 214
Source photo:

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I found this alien faces with extended forehead in a Mars photo today. The face was only visible on one side, since it was laying on its side and the other was laying in the shadows. However I decided to cut the photo in half to make two matching sides (above photo, left side). The dark black eyes are very similar to reports of grey aliens who are so sensitive to light, that they have genetically manipulated their DNA to evolve sun glasses eyelids. The size of the head is about 1 foot by 2.5 feet long. Yes, they have a second set of eyelids. In the sculpture above you can see the shoulders, upper ribs, chin, nose, cheeks, eyes, eye ridges, and a unique design on its forehead. Its obvious from the color and the texture that this is not part of the rock its laying against, since the rock its attached too is...yellow and the alien head is black and white! Its clearly a sculpture against a wall formation that has long ago fallen down on its side. Lucky for us...mother nature has not destroyed it or covered it up with sand. Funny though...how NASA rover tire prints are just meters away from this alien head sculpture. This is undeniable proof that advanced aliens...existed on Mars...and NASA refuses to report such discoveries!

 

I also found a totem pole, at the top of a hill, laying on its side. It almost looks like a cannon with its burnt end, but its a totem pole, to be viewed from far way to show the location, name and owners. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Father William Gill: Papa New Guinea 1959 UFO/People Encounter

The Boainai incident is one of the most mysterious and fascinating UFO events in history. The year was 1959 and it involved one Father Gill and more than three dozen students in a missionary school. For nearly three consecutive nights strange objects were observed in the sky, with one large hovering object about a hundred meters above the ground, the object being about forty feet across. It was a circular shaped object, metallic in appearance, wider at the bottom with several portholes, that incredibly kept returning back every night very near the school.

It stayed hovering mostly accompanied by two or more smaller objects higher up in the sky. Father Gill and his entourage (students) all watched it for hours. They saw figures emerge on top of the object getting engaged in some repair-type activity whose attention they tried to get by waving at them. To their surprise the figures that looked like “humans” to father Gill waved back at them several times. The astonished priest and his students also shook a flashlight at the object and the occupants, by which time the figures had left the deck, and the object started to make a rocking motion from side to side as if to match the swinging motion of the flashlight, and appeared to come closer and closer to the crowd below.

It never landed though but had four landing gears that were visible to the entire group of people observing from below. It was clearly not a dirigible from all accounts, and appeared in such a remote area of the world, with landing gears, hovering characteristic for hours, and very fast departure speed from a relatively stationary state.

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Daytime Tic-Tac UFO over Yorktown, Virginia 2021

Here’s one new UFO footage of a bright Tic-Tac UFO filmed in the sky above Yorktown on 29th August 2021.

Witness report: 

I captured a video on August 29 at 7:38 PM here in Yorktown, VA of what appears to be a tic-tac shaped UAP. I don’t think it’s a plane. It doesn’t appear to have wings or a tail and the body is just way too big for a plane. (I am facing eastward and am just off Coventry Blvd. And this is the route planes take to the Newport News Airport, but this simply isn’t one.)

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Researchers Create Self-Reconfigurable Swarms of Multi-Legged Robots

A team of U.S. researchers has developed a reconfigurable swarm of identical low-cost four-legged robots — with directionally flexible legs and tail — that can be linked on demand and autonomously.

“Legged robots can navigate challenging environments such as rough terrain and tight spaces, and the use of limbs offers effective body support, enables rapid maneuverability and facilitates obstacle crossing,” said Dr. Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, a robotics engineer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

“However, legged robots face unique mobility challenges in terrestrial environments, which results in reduced locomotor performance.”

For the study, Dr. Ozkan-Aydin and her colleague, Professor Daniel Goldman from the Georgia Institute of Technology, hypothesized that a physical connection between individual robots could enhance the mobility of a terrestrial legged collective system.

Individual robots performed simple or small tasks such as moving over a smooth surface or carrying a light object, but if the task was beyond the capability of the single unit, the robots physically connected to each other to form a larger multi-legged system and collectively overcome issues.

“When ants collect or transport objects, if one comes upon an obstacle, the group works collectively to overcome that obstacle,” Dr. Ozkan-Aydin said.

“If there’s a gap in the path, for example, they will form a bridge so the other ants can travel across — and that is the inspiration for this study.”

“Through robotics we’re able to gain a better understanding of the dynamics and collective behaviors of these biological systems and explore how we might be able to use this kind of technology in the future.”

Using a 3D printer, the scientists built four-legged robots measuring 15 to 20 cm (6-8 inches) in length.

Each was equipped with a lithium polymer battery, microcontroller and three sensor: a light sensor at the front and two magnetic touch sensors at the front and back, allowing the robots to connect to one another.

Four flexible legs reduced the need for additional sensors and parts and gave the robots a level of mechanical intelligence, which helped when interacting with rough or uneven terrain.

“You don’t need additional sensors to detect obstacles because the flexibility in the legs helps the robot to move right past them,” Dr. Ozkan-Aydin said.

“They can test for gaps in a path, building a bridge with their bodies; move objects individually; or connect to move objects collectively in different types of environments, not dissimilar to ants.”

The researchers tested their robots over grass, mulch, leaves and acorns.

The robots were also tested over shag carpeting, and rectangular wooden blocks were glued to particle board to serve as rough terrain.

When an individual unit became stuck, a signal was sent to additional robots, which linked together to provide support to successfully traverse obstacles while working collectively.

“There are still improvements to be made on our design,” Dr. Ozkan-Aydin said.

“But we expect the findings will inform the design of low-cost legged swarms that can adapt to unforeseen situations and perform real-world cooperative tasks such as search-and-rescue operations, collective object transport, space exploration and environmental monitoring.”

The team’s work was published in the journal Science Robotics.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Records Martian Sounds

NASA’s Perseverance rover carries two microphones which are directly recording sounds on Mars, including wind gusts, rover wheels crunching over gravel, motors whirring as Perseverance moves its arm, and the Ingenuity helicopter.

“It’s like you’re really standing there,” said Dr. Baptiste Chide, a planetary scientist at L’Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie.

“Martian sounds have strong bass vibrations, so when you put on headphones, you can really feel it.”

“I think microphones will be an important asset to future Mars and Solar System science.”

Perseverance is the first rover to record Martian sound using dedicated microphones — both of which were commercially available, off-the-shelf devices.

One rides on the side of the rover’s chassis. The second microphone sits on the rover’s mast as a complement to the SuperCam laser instrument’s investigations of rocks and the atmosphere.

SuperCam studies rocks and soil by zapping them with a laser, then analyzing the resulting vapor with a camera.

Because the laser pulses up to hundreds of times per target, opportunities to capture the sound of those zaps quickly add up: the microphone has already recorded more than 25,000 laser shots.

Some of those recordings are teaching scientists about changes in the planet’s atmosphere.

After all, sound travels through vibrations in the air. From its perch on Perseverance’s mast, the SuperCam microphone is ideally located for monitoring microturbulence and complements the rover’s dedicated wind sensors, which are part of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA).

MEDA’s sensors sample the wind’s speed, pressure, and temperature one to two times per second for up to two hours at a time.

SuperCam’s microphone, on the other hand, can provide similar information at a rate of 20,000 times per second over several minutes.

“It’s kind of like comparing a magnifying glass to a microscope with 100 times magnification,” said MEDA’s principal investigator Dr. Jose Rodriguez-Manfredi, a researcher in the Centro de Astrobiología at the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial.

“From the weather scientist’s point of view, each perspective — detail and context — complements one another.”

The microphone also allows for research on how sound propagates on Mars.

Because the planet’s atmosphere is much less dense than Earth’s, scientists knew higher-pitched sounds in particular would be hard to hear.

In fact, a few scientists were surprised when the microphone picked up the Ingenuity helicopter’s buzzing rotors during its fourth flight, on April 30, 2021 from a distance of 80 m (262 feet).

Information from the helicopter audio enabled researchers to eliminate two of three models developed to anticipate how sound propagates on Mars.

“Sound on Mars carries much farther than we thought,” siad SuperCam scientist Dr. Nina Lanza, a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“It shows you just how important it is to do field science.”

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Rapid Climate Change Wiped Out Woolly Mammoths, Study Confirms

In a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and mammal communities, an international team of researchers have analyzed 535 permafrost and lake sediment samples from across the Arctic spanning the past 50,000 years.

“Scientists have argued for 100 years about why mammoths went extinct,” said Professor Eske Willerslev, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and director of the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Copenhage.

“Humans have been blamed because the animals had survived for millions of years without climate change killing them off before, but when they lived alongside humans they didn’t last long and we were accused of hunting them to death.”

“We have finally been able to prove was that it was not just the climate changing that was the problem, but the speed of it.”

“They were not able to adapt quickly enough when the landscape dramatically transformed and their food became scarce.”

“As the climate warmed up, trees and wetland plants took over and replaced the mammoth’s grassland habitats.”

“And we should remember that there were a lot of animals around that were easier to hunt than a giant woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) — they could grow to the height of a double decker bus!”

Woolly mammoths and their ancestors lived on Earth for approximately 5 million years.

During this period, herds of these huge animals as well as reindeers and woolly rhinoceroses thrived in the cold and snowy conditions.

Despite the cold, a lot of vegetation grew to keep the various species of animals alive — grass, flowers, plants, and small shrubs would all have been eaten by the vegetarian mammoths who probably their tusks to shovel snow aside and are likely to have used their trunks to uproot tough grasses. They were so big because they needed huge stomachs to digest the grass.

Mammoths could travel a distance equivalent of going around the world twice during their lifetime and fossil records show they lived on all continents except Australia and South America.

Populations were known to have initially survived the end of the latest Ice Age in small pockets off the coasts of Siberia and Alaska — on Wrangel Island and St Paul Island — but the new research found they actually lived longer elsewhere too and the breeds of mammoths on both the islands were closely related despite being geographically separated.

The authors also sequenced the DNA of 1,500 Arctic plants for the very first time to be able to draw these globally significant conclusions.

“The most recent Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago when the glaciers began to melt and the roaming range of the herds of mammoths decreased,” said Dr. Yucheng Wang, a researcher in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

“It was thought that mammoths began to go extinct then but we also found they actually survived beyond the Ice Age all in different regions of the Arctic and into the Holocene — the time that we are currently living in — far longer than scientists realised.”

“We zoomed into the intricate detail of the environmental DNA and mapped out the population spread of these mammals and show how it becomes smaller and smaller and their genetic diversity gets smaller and smaller too, which made it even harder for them to survive.”

“When the climate got wetter and the ice began to melt it led to the formation of lakes, rivers, and marshes.”

“The ecosystem changed and the biomass of the vegetation reduced and would not have been able to sustain the herds of mammoths.”

“We have shown that climate change, specifically precipitation, directly drives the change in the vegetation — humans had no impact on them at all based on our models.”

The team’s results appear today in the journal Nature.

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You may have seen the new book from James T. Lacatski D. Eng., Colm A Kelleher Ph.D., and, George Knapp. Its title: Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders’ Account of the Secret Government UFO Program. The description for this independently published book reads as follows: “Skinwalkers at the Pentagon unmasks the massive scope of the Pentagon’s landmark UFO study that ran from the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP investigated the ‘Tic Tac’ and other ‘nuts and bolts’ UFO events, analyzed intrusions of UFOs onto US military bases, as well as probed the plethora of bizarre phenomena that government investigators encountered on Skinwalker Ranch. Written by two program insiders and a respected journalist, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon comes to a conclusion that has never before been revealed! Encountering UFOs often led to the ‘attachment’ of strange phenomena to military personnel who visited the Ranch and brought ‘something’ home to their families, resulting in frightening eruptions of paranormal events in their households that terrorized and sometimes injured their children. By the end of the two-year program, more than 100 separate technical reports, some of which ran to hundreds of pages, were delivered to the Defense Intelligence Agency. Among them was a 149-page report on the Soviet (and now Russian) UAP investigation/analysis capability. Another details the design and build of a functional prototype for an autonomous Unidentified Aerial Phenomena surveillance platform.”

There’s no doubt that’s a wild body of material. I’ll be reviewing Skinwalkers at the Pentagon very soon. So, I thought that while, right now, there’s a deep interest in this creepy phenomenon – not to forget the government connections to the phenomenon –  I would share with you the background on this undeniably dangerous beast. In the Middle Ages, the most feared of all the many and varied shapeshifters was the werewolf, and particularly so throughout much of Europe. Today, however, a very good, solid case can be made that the Skinwalker is one of the most dangerous transformer of all. It is a creature that dominates the culture and the folklore of certain Native Americans – and to the extent that some will not even utter its name, for fear of it creating a backlash against the person who dared to speak the deadly S–word. But what, exactly, are these things that instill such fear in countless numbers of people? Let us take a look. The answers are many, but you might not be happy with what you are about to learn.

For certain Native American people, the Skinwalker – tales of which date back centuries – is a definitive witch, a crone-like thing that has the ability to change its form, and radically so, too. And it is not just one specific type of beast into which the witch can change, but multiple ones. While a shapeshifting Native American witch can take on, quite literally, hundreds of forms, the most often reported guises are bears, coyotes, various types of birds, and – at the top of the list – wolves or wolf-like animals. This latter issue, of course, emphasizes that the Skinwalker is not that dissimilar at all to the traditional European werewolf, despite being separated by distances of thousands of miles. There can be no doubt that, in recent times, at least, interest in the Skinwalker mystery soared in 2005. That was when Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp penned their best-selling book, Hunt for the Skinwalker. It was a book which detailed strange and terrifying activity on a remote ranch in Utah – activity which suggested manipulative Skinwalkers had descended on the ranch and who quickly began wreaking havoc – maybe, simply, because they could. As well as experiencing countless UFO encounters, and sightings of large and hairy Bigfoot-type beasts, the family also had confrontations with a huge, malevolent wolf; a monster-size animal upon which bullets had absolutely no effect at all. As George Knapp noted in Hunt for the Skinwalker, with regard to the many and varied phenomena that caused chaos and mayhem on the ranch:  “…reality isn’t what it used to be.” For the Native Americans, however, reality hasn’t been what it appears to be for a very long time.

The process by which a witch can become a Skinwalker is a highly complex one, and one which involves several different processes. For example, witches who are both learned and skilled in magical arts can transform themselves into a wide variety of creatures, and all by focusing on its image in their minds – very often in the confines of their teepee. In most cases, however, a witch will secure the hide of the animal they wish to become and wrap it around their shoulders and back. By effectively wearing the hide, the witch – slowly and step by step – becomes the very beast it specifically seeks to emulate. And, so Native American teachings maintain, that includes adopting its keen senses of smell and sight, its agility and speed, and even its complete, physical form. Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the Skinwalker is that it has the ability to supernaturally infect people with deadly diseases and life-threatening illnesses. Strangely, on more than a few occasions, those who have found themselves in the direct, close presence of a Skinwalker have –in mere days – succumbed to very rare medical conditions. Precisely how the Skinwalker can perform such a hostile thing remains unknown. It is, however, worth noting that the Skinwalker is said to have an expert knowledge of medicine, both ancient and modern. No wonder Native Americans avoid them at all costs. And it is not just people who can fall victim to this dangerous beast. Animals – very often, farm animals – have also become the targets of these multi-formed creatures.

For example, cattle-mutilations, that reached their peak in the 1970s – but which are still occasionally reported to this very day – are believed by some, certain Native Americans to be the work of crazed Skinwalkers. The approach of the creatures is to remove organs and blood from cattle, specifically to use it in yet further rites and rituals designed to enhance its paranormal powers to even greater degrees. This may not be quite as strange, or as unlikely, as it might seem: between 1975 and 1978, police officers investigating dozens of cattle mutilation events in New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona found that many such attacks had specifically occurred on Native American reservations – something which is most assuredly food for thought. Of course, there is one critical issue we have yet to touch upon: namely, why would anyone even want to become a Skinwalker in the first place? The answer, as you may have already deduced, is not a good one. Adopting the guise of an animal can, quite literally, allow a person to get away with murder. After all, if the target of the Skinwalker is violently slaughtered by a rampaging bear or a savage wolf, who would even – or ever – dream of the possibility that the beast was actually a transformed human? Almost certainly not many, to be sure!

As for why the Skinwalker issue is steeped in so much mystery – despite it being the subject of a bestselling book – it is chiefly because Native Americans fear that if they speak openly on the matter, it may well lead those same Skinwalkers to target them. I found this out for myself, to a graphic level, in August of 2010. I was out in the Californian desert, specifically in Joshua Tree, where a spate of very savage attacks on animals occurred, amid claims that a shapeshifting Skinwalker was the culprit. Vital organs were removed from the animals, as was blood, in massive amounts. My reason for being there was no coincidence: I had been hired by the VH1 channel to be filmed for a documentary on the phenomenon for the now-long-defunct show, Real and Chance: The Legend Hunters. On the second day of shooting, the film crew and I headed out to a local animal sanctuary – a place that specialized in caring for, and rehabilitating, wolves. I quickly learned just how much the Skinwalker phenomenon was feared in and around Joshua Tree. And, in all likelihood, it still is. I also saw for myself a deep reluctance on the part of the staff of the sanctuary to ever utter that dreaded word. By now, you know the word I mean.

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SpaceX begins installing ‘Mechazilla’ arms designed to catch Starship rockets

After a busy few weeks spent attaching Mechazilla’s two rocket-catching arms to a carriage-like backbone, SpaceX has begun the process of installing the integrated structure on Starbase’s ~450 ft (~135m) tall Starship ‘launch tower’.

Once complete, SpaceX will have created a first-of-its-kind launch tower designed to stack and manipulate Starships and Super Heavy boosters in far worse conditions than cranes can tolerate and catch both rocket stages out of mid-air. Referred to internally as ‘chopsticks,’ the giant pair of steel arms will join a third ‘quick disconnect’ (QD) arm tasked with stabilizing Super Heavy during Starship installation and feeding the reusable upper stage power, comms links, and some 1200 tons (~2.65M lb) of propellant.

Together, they will enable SpaceX to attempt Starship’s first orbital test flights and, perhaps one day, help the next-generation rocket launch in almost any weather and achieve unprecedentedly rapid reusability. But first, SpaceX needs to finish installing and rigging the massive structure.

Beginning on August 29th after less than three months of assembly, SpaceX installed Starship’s QD arm on the launch tower. About a month later, the QD arm was mostly finished off with the installation of a claw-like grabber meant to stabilize Super Heavy and is now only missing its namesake quick-disconnect (an actuating device that will connect Starship to the pad and rapidly disconnect at liftoff). Assembly of the last three major components of Mechazilla – a carriage-like structure and two giant arms – began in July and, much like the tower’s QD arm, wrapped up about three months later.

On October 6th, SpaceX began combining those three main parts by flipping the carriage – a bit like a spine and ribcage with ‘skates’ that attach to rails on the launch tower’s legs – vertical and staging it on a temporary support structure. Both ‘chopsticks’ were then flipped into the correct orientation and moved into position with separate cranes for installation on the carriage/backbone. From start to finish, that process took around 9-10 days and culminated with the installation of two giant cylindrical pins with built-in bearings on October 14th and 15th. By the 17th, both cranes had detached from the assembled Mechazilla arms and carriage were, leaving it precisely balanced against the support structure and more or less freestanding.

One of at least two human-sized pins that connect both catch arms to their carriage; Oct 14th. 

(NASASpaceflight)

The arm and carriage assembly was more or less freestanding by October 17th. 

(NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal)

Just a few days later, after a last-second attempt on October 19th was called off as night fell, SpaceX tried again on the 20th and completed the first step of installing Mechazilla’s catch arms on the launch tower without apparent issue. Likely weighing several hundred tons, Starbase’s largest crane lifted the massive structure up and over an adjacent launch mount and then carefully inched it closer to the tower. Prior to the lift, SpaceX technicians staged 12 ‘skates’ on three of the tower’s four legs – two upper and two lower skates per leg.

Once the carriage was in the right position, workers were able to wrap its upper arms around the tower and began connecting the carriage to those skates with several more large pins. It’s unclear how much progress was made in the hours after the lift but it appears that the carriage has been attached to maybe four or five of six upper skates. Work continued well after nightfall, meaning that it will likely only take a few days to complete all 12 connections. However, even after all skates are installed, the carriage, arms, and skates will still be hanging by crane or winch.

To truly install the structure on the tower, SpaceX will have to finish installing and rigging thousands of feet of steel cable that – via a complex system of pulleys – will connect to powered ‘drawworks’ that will support the carriage and catch arms and lift the assembly up and down the tower like an elevator car. The catch arms and carriage will also need to be mated with a giant ‘cable carrier’ (already staged on the tower) that will connect the structure to ground and control systems.

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Artificial Muscles Robotic Arm Full Range of Motion + Static Strength Test (V11)

Source: Automaton Robotics

We have achieved strong, fast, power-dense, high-efficiency, biomimetic, soft, safe, clean, organic and affordable robotic technology. Dumbbell weights 7 kg (15,6 lb) , forearm with hand only 1 kg (2,2 lb).

This artificial muscles robotic arm is operated by water and consumes 200W at peak. We invent and produce our electro-hydraulic mini valves to have complete controllability of speed contraction and compress the whole powering system (for a full body) inside humanlike robot torso.

At this moment our robotic arm is operated only by a half of artificial muscles when compared to a human body. Strongest finger-bending muscle still missing. Fingers are going to move from left to right but they don’t have muscles yet. Metacarpal and left-to-right wrist movement are also blocked. This version has a position sensor in each joint but they are yet to be software-implemented. We are going to add everything mentioned above in the next prototype.

The movement sequence was written and sent by simple commands to a hand. We wish to develop a platform for reinforcement learning purposes, prosthetic arms and ultimately a full humanoid robots to serve people for fun, as butlers, cleaners, chauffeurs, construction workers (also in space) and even achieve human immortallity by transplanting the brain into the machine.

Automaton Robotics

In this video we show you the new kind of artificial muscles that don’t explode after puncture but just bleed without a visible decrease of performance. We also present our robotic arm. Since the last time we have shown it we made a very big progress in valve contruction to keep it leaktight, durable and energy efficient. We increased the durability of the muscles to operate under higher pressures and sustain much more life cycles. Next step is to add the second half of the forearm muscles to achieve all of degrees of freedom of a human arm.

If you want to see updates on the project, please share, like, comment and hit that subscribe button.

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Someone is Occupying Our Moon Visual Evidence Captured by NASA Suggests

Someone is Occupying Our Moon Visual Evidence Captured by NASA Suggests

Many researchers have asked the question, why has NASA not been back to the moon since the 1970s? Could it be that our moon was already occupied thus any moon projects after Apollo went black? There are many NASA photographs that show technology across the lunar surface and evidence of what looks to be some kind of ancient glass structures.

It’s feasible to consider our moon was some kind of observation outpost for thousands upon thousands of years. Presented by Mike Bara Filmed by New Living Expo – Backdated Catalogue

What do you think? Staying cool this week I hope! Thanks for stopping by. Stay tuned for more BIN news.

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Aliens Created Bitcoin In Order To Help Humanity Evolve Faster! Oct 2021, UFO Sighting News.

 

Wow, and Bitcoin just hit its ATH...all time high. Even companies and governments are considering it more seriously. No government can regulate it, control it. It's bigger than that, because aliens created it. 

 

This may sound crazy, but I have a thought for you guys. I was watching Logan Pauls podcast with Andrei Jikh about Bitcoin and how magnificent it is and it really made me think. Everything about Bitcoin is so utterly perfect. There are no real flaws in its idea and there’s no real way to exploit it, something which is very rare in most human created concepts and ideas. They also talk about how this is the next step in human civilization which I agree with. That could be linked to the theory that aliens are waiting for us to develop both technologically and morally before contacting us. Bitcoin was actually planted by aliens to help accelerate our learning curve! Yes you can argue Vitalik Buterin created Ethereum but he used the idea of Bitcoin and what it is to then create his own ideology. It just completely baffles me that a human could create such a genius concept that cannot be faulted, cannot be exploited even by the power of governments etc and yet he or she has remained anonymous this whole time. Food for thought. Bitcoin...100% proof alien technology is right here on earth and anyone can get some. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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UK Delivery Driver Spots UFO, Oct 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 8, 2021
Location of sighting: Stonehaven, Scotland
News source: 

• https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/photo-of-ufo-cloud-shared-25246577

Often people mistakenly say this is a lenticular cloud...yeah, made by a freaking alien UFO hidden inside the freaking lenticular cloud. Seriously, humans wear camouflage when they go hunting, to blend into the environment and not get noticed. So it is not difficult to understand that aliens have rules that forbid them and their ships from being seen by humanity? Aliens do not want to cause a frenzy on Earth and just want to observe and record data. Why? Because most alien species evolved on planets that were billions of years old, maybe even ten billion years old...long before Earth ever existed. Thus...they are so old of a race that they probably lost most data of events millions of years earlier. We as humans don't even know 100% what happened a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago...one hundred thousand years ago. We are lost for answers...aliens...look for developing civilizations like ours and watch, record and thus learn about their own earliest evolution. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

News states:

A delivery driver was stunned when social media users suggested his photo of a ' UFO -shaped' cloud could be aliens. John Stephens was out delivering groceries when he snapped the amazing sight over the hills of Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, but after posting it online on October 8, some people were quick to suggest it could be a visitor from outer space. The 57-year-old soon discovered the 'interesting-shaped' formation was likely to be a lenticular cloud, which commonly forms the shape of a flying saucer due to wind direction. But his Facebook post has attracted almost 1,000 reactions and 60 comments from people noting its likeness to a spaceship - with one even suggesting it 'took the wrong turn' and ended up on Earth.John, from Inverness, said: "The first picture does look like the shape of a UFO. "If I see something interesting, I'll just take a picture of it. "When I saw it, I thought 'there's a cloud'. It's just a cloud. It's a reasonably interesting-shaped cloud, but I wasn't thinking half the things that some of the people commenting thought. "They're saying it's a lenticular cloud. They form over the hills and mountains and make layers. "People seem baffled by what it is. There are some scientific explanations too - but only a few."

 

Photo of UFO and eyewitness...John Stephens.

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Triangle UFO filmed over Lehi, Utah

Strange triangular-shaped formation was filmed in the sky above Lehi, UT back in March 2021.

Witness report: 

I filmed this while I was in Lehi, Utah. The area I saw the objects was near the Provo canyon entrance, which so happens to be the general direction you go to get to Skinwalker ranch. I did add a filter to this video to try and make the lights visible a bit more. I do have some other more recent footage of what appeared to be a cigar shaped craft flying very slowly above a mountain peak behind my house. In person, you could clearly make out what seemed to be an electrical field around the craft, almost looked like a plasma. Absolutely blew my mind!

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Former CIA official says aliens live under the moon’s surface

The Moon has generated many controversies over the years, but very few from any US government official. A former CIA pilot has stated that our satellite is inhabited by aliens living under the lunar surface.

John Lear , a former CIA pilot, stated that the United States government has information about the Moon and its subterranean inhabitants

Specifically, “the population is 250 million gray aliens , where there are laboratories where they do genetic experiments.”

“250 million aliens under the lunar surface”

Lear, one of the greatest popularizers of the 80s and 90s, has always denounced secret information related to aliens.

He said that “in 1953, an alien ship crashed on Earth, capturing an alien known to EBE 3 “.

“This being later helped the US government build some spacecraft with advanced technology.”

«In 1962, the North American country already had vehicles that did not move faster than light, such as land vehicles . But these were fast enough to reach the Moon in just 60 minutes . In turn, they reached Mars in hours.

“Thus, the first flight that reached Mars was in 1966 , even on the red planet there are around 600 million aliens and some human colonies.”

Lear says that “everything we have been told about the Moon is a lie.” According to his statements, “he discovered secret structures on the satellite, showing photographic evidence of artificial formations.”

Obviously, despite the fact that the statements of a former CIA pilot carry a lot of weight, there is no conclusive evidence of what he said.

There is no way to show proof of an alien entering an underground base, or images of the labs.

However, what cannot be denied is the technological advance that space science has made since the 1960s.

Is the planet a prison?

A prison planet?

Another surprising statement that Lear has given is about planet Earth .

The popularizer said that “Earth is actually a prison planet that serves as a kind of prison institution.”

“In it, the prisoners, that is, the humans, must reach the highest possible level of development. Both technological and species ».

This is not the first time that an official, whether active or retired, has made similar statements . Regardless of whether they are on the planet or the Moon.

In fact, a short time ago the theory of the ” intergalactic zoo ” was made known. This hypothesis suggests that human beings are in a planetary prison for other species to observe us.

In the same way, other characters have declared that there are colonies of different alien races , including humans, on the Moon.

It is possible that our satellite has already been colonized in the past. Giving weight to the statements of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong during the moon landing .. What do you think?

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US Submarine Strikes Unknown Object

Last week, the USS Connecticut ran into a "mystery object" while submerged in the Indo-Pacific region. The nuclear-powered Seawolf-class submarine sustained damage and 11 crew members were injured in the underwater collision. Officials have not yet released details about the object nor the nature of the attack submarine's mission. According to a statement by the US Pacific Fleet Public Affairs, the severity of the damage is being evaluated, and an investigation into the strange incident will be initiated.

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