Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
A Scots man who believes he may have seen aUFO while bagging a munro has described it as "a special moment" for him.
Derek Craig, of Knightswood in Glasgow, had been bagging Ben Vorlich and Stùc a' Chròin at Loch Earn on Monday, January 3 when he noticed something in the sky.
The 41-year-old had been joined by two of his own friends, Scott McCandless, 43, and Christopher Lee, 43, as well as his son and his two friends.
As the older group made their way back down to join 26-year-old Callum Smith, and his pals, something suddenly caught their attention.
Asked whether it could possibly have been a shooting star, the 41-year-old replied: "No, this thing just moves in so many directions, a shooting star shoots but this thing was doing loop-de-loops.
"At one point, it shoots right up and it pulses twice and it zooms away, it was like something out of Star Wars.
"It also zig-zags in the sky, disappears and then it just appears again."
The trio saw a strange object shooting across the sky
Derek, who had started his own YouTube channel just weeks before, had been filming the expedition to share online later.
Although he was initially surprised at the sight in real life, he only realised just how much of a unique experience it really was at home.
The Glasgow native continued: "I've never experienced anything like this in my life.
"It's all I'm thinking about constantly, it's so strange what's happened to me."
Derek, who first took up the popular Scottish hobby of munro bagging with Callum in March 2021, has also changed his thoughts on whether there is other life out there.
He said: "I never thought before that there was, I was really skeptical but since I've seen this, I totally believe this was something else.
"That video has changed my beliefs.: He joked: "I don't think we're even human now, it's playing with my head that much."
Derek added: "I can't stop thinking about it, it's absolutely changed my life.
Some ancient cave paintings assumed to be animal symbols actually represent star constellations, scientists have claimed.
New research suggests humans had a sophisticated knowledge of the stars as long as 40,000 years ago.
They also appear to have kept track of time by watching how stars slowly change their position in the night sky.
The phenomenon, known as precession of the equinoxes, is caused by the gradual shift of Earth's rotational axis.
Its discovery was previously credited to the ancient Greeks thousands of years later.
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Pictured is the Lascaux Shaft Scene in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of France. The work features a dying man and several animals. According to a new study, it may commemorate a comet strike around 15,200 BC
The cave artists looked to the stars to mark major events such as comet strikes, according to the researchers.
Study leader Dr Martin Sweatman, from the University of Edinburgh, said: 'Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of the night sky within the last ice age. Intellectually, they were hardly any different to us today.'
Teams from the universities of Edinburgh and Kent studied details of Palaeolithic and Neolithic cave art sites in Turkey, Spain, France and Germany.
Animal symbol pictures daubed on the walls of the caves were aged by chemically dating the paints used.
Computer software was then employed to predict the positions of stars when the paintings were made.
The results showed that what looked like abstract depictions of animals could be interpreted as zodiac signs based on constellations as they appeared at the time.
At every site, the cave artists practised a method of time keeping based on astronomy, the scientists claimed.
This was despite the fact that the paintings were separated in time by tens of thousands of years.
The world's oldest sculpture, the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany (pictured), an ivory carving almost 40,000 years old, was also found to support the zodiac symbol theory
The world's oldest sculpture, the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany, an ivory carving almost 40,000 years old, was also found to support the zodiac symbol theory.
Researchers said an ancient carved stone pillar from Gobekli Tepe in Turkey provided them with their 'Rosetta Stone' - the key to unlocking the zodiac code.
It was thought to commemorate a devastating meteor impact in North America 11,000 years ago that led to the Younger Dryas Event, a period of sudden climate cooling that triggered a mini-ice age across the northern hemisphere.
The authors wrote in their paper: 'The date carved into the Vulture Stone is interpreted to be 10,950 BC, to within 250 years.
'This date is written using precession of the equinoxes, with animal symbols representing star constellations corresponding to the four solstices and equinoxes of this year.'
The scientists also decoded what is probably the best known ancient artwork, the Lascaux Shaft Scene in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of France.
The work features a dying man and several animals.
It may commemorate another comet strike around 15,200 BC, the researchers suggest.
Dr Sweatman added: 'These findings support a theory of multiple comet impacts over the course of human development, and will probably revolutionise how prehistoric populations are seen.'
WHAT EXAMPLES OF EARLY HUMAN ART HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED WORLDWIDE?
It seems that humanity and its ancestors have been driven to create patterns, abstract images and representations of the world around them for thousands of years.
The earliest known engraving, a zig-zag pattern, incised on a fresh water shell from Trinil, Java, was found in layers of sediment dated to 540,000 years ago.
A recent article proposed that painted representations in three caves of the Iberian Peninsula were 64,000 years old and therefore produced by Neanderthals.
The oldest known shell (top) to have been engraved by an early human has been uncovered in a Dutch museum collection, where it remained unnoticed since the 1930s. Pictured here is its polished edge (bottom)
Lifelike images found at sites such as the famous Lascaux Cave in south-west France, which date to around 30,000 years ago, are said to demonstrate an ability to depict animal movement superior to that seen today.
In 2018, experts uncovered evidence of art made by humans dating back 73,000 years in an African cave.
Scientists say the drawing, which consists of three red lines cross-hatched with six separate lines, was 'intentionally created' on a smooth silcrete flake.
That makes the drawing, found in the Blombos Caves site in South Africa, the oldest drawing by Homo sapiens ever found, experts say.
Ancient Star Maps: “40,000-Year-Old Ancient Paintings Reveal Highly Advanced Knowledge in Astronomy”
According to a scientific study, 40,000-year-old rock paintings with star maps demonstrate a fantastic application of advanced astronomy in ancient times.
Advanced astronomical representations can be found in ancient rock art.
What were thought to be archaic animal glyphs turned revealed to be an ancient star map.
According to new research, our forefathers were demonstrated to have a significant astronomical understanding of early rock art. This suggests that knowledge was not that different between the old ice era and today.
Star charts from the past.
Observing how the stars altered their positions in the sky, scientists discovered that ancient humans had excellent control over the passage of time.
This has been demonstrated by art unearthed in many parts of Europe, which is not only animal images as previously thought.
And it’s because these figures are actually depictions of star constellations in the night sky. They were used to symbolize, date, and commemorate significant events.
According to researchers at the University of Edinburgh, ancient peoples fully comprehended the impact of progressive changes in the Earth’s axis of rotation.
The ancient Greeks were originally credited with discovering the phenomena known as the precession of the equinoxes.
These findings, according to researcher Martin Sweatman, corroborate the notion of several comet impacts during human evolution. As a result, it’s conceivable that they’ll change the way people think about prehistoric civilizations.
The research was based on cave explorations in Turkey, Spain, France, and Germany, with the art being chemically dated to determine its age.
It was originally thought to be a portrayal of wild creatures, but it turned out to be a representation of constellations.
Knowledge of constellations at a high level
The scientists were able to anticipate the position of the stars at the time the paintings were created thanks to the use of computer tools.
This revealed that it is about deciphering constellations as they appeared in the past.
These cave paintings are, in fact, compelling proof that ancient humans used a complex form of timekeeping based on astronomical calculations, according to the researchers.
Even though the cave drawings were separated in time by tens of thousands of years, all of this was conceivable.
For example, scientists determined that the Lion-Man from the Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave is the world’s oldest sculpture, dating back to 38,000 BC. This works with the previous time system.
The figurine commemorates the disastrous collision of an asteroid 11,000 years ago, which kicked off the Younger Dryas Event. A period in which the weather abruptly cools.
How did early humans acquire such a sophisticated understanding of constellations? It’s still a mystery. It would appear nonsensical without modern technology and instruments.
Deze foto heeft voor veel verwarring gezorgd: Greta Thunberg gevonden op een 123 jaar oude foto
De meeste mensen in de moderne wereld hebben gehoord van Greta Thunberg. Ik bedoel, hoe zouden ze dat niet kunnen hebben?
Deze 18-jarige klimaatactiviste heeft meer gedaan om het huidige ultravervuilende systeem waarin we leven te bestrijden dan de meeste zogenaamde “wereldleiders” samen.
In een tijd waarin goed zijn in niets doen en vragen ontwijken je een succesvolle politieke carrière oplevert, is het verfrissend om te zien dat iemand het opneemt tegen de chagrijnige dinosaurussen aan de macht en weigert de nijpende situatie te accepteren waarin onze planeet zich momenteel bevindt.
Maar nu, een afbeelding die online floreert suggereert dat ze misschien terug in de tijd is gereisd…
Ze zeggen dat alle mensen op aarde een dubbelganger hebben, iemand die er precies hetzelfde uitziet. Of je erin gelooft of niet, is natuurlijk aan jou – maar het lijkt erop dat Greta Thunberg er in ieder geval één had.
Een foto uit 1898
Een zwart-wit foto die volgens Metro uit de archieven van de Universiteit van Washington komt – toont drie kinderen die werken in een goudmijn in het Canadese Yukon Territory in 1898 – maar iemand die we kennen staat er op… Greta Thunberg!
De foto is dus 123 jaar oud, en het meisje links lijkt griezelig veel op de Zweedse klimaatactiviste. Zou het kunnen dat de 18-jarige Zweed terug in de tijd kan reizen?
Nah, natuurlijk niet – toch? .. Ik zou me nog steeds zorgen maken als ik Donald Trump of Jair Bolsonaro was.
Lijkt sprekend op Greta Thunberg
Sommigen beweren dat de foto nep is. Wij kunnen niet garanderen dat dit niet het geval is, maar verschillende grote mediakanalen – zoals de New York Post, 7 News, en Unilad – zeggen dat de foto echt is.
Kijk eens extra naar het meisje op de genoemde foto – lijkt ze niet griezelig veel op Greta Thunberg?!
A stunning green fireball lit up the skies over Hungary this past Thursday night. The bright meteor was caught on multiple cameras by a variety of witnesses. UPI reports that, at this time, it's not known whether any fragments hit the ground or the entire object burned up in the atmosphere. View additional videos on this Hungarian website.
Underground Race Of Aliens: UFOs Can Come From Inside The Earth
For the first time, researchers started talking about an unknown underground people in 1946. This happened after the writer, journalist and scientist Richard Shaver told readers of the American paranormal magazine Amazing Stories about his contact with aliens living underground.
According to Shaver, he lived for several weeks in the underworld of mutants, similar to demons, described in ancient legends and tales of earthlings.
By the way, practically any nation has similar myths telling about the race of ancient creatures that inhabited the planet Earth millions of years before a human foot set foot on it. Infinitely wise, talented and culturally advanced, they do not want to have anything to do with people.
One could attribute this “contact” to the writer’s wild imagination, if not for hundreds of responses from readers who claimed that they also visited underground cities, communicated with their inhabitants and saw various miracles of technology, not only providing the underground inhabitants of the Earth with a comfortable existence in its very depths, but also giving the opportunity to… control the consciousness of earthlings!
This extraordinary story, oddly enough, had a huge impact on scientists and gave a new impetus to the study of the paranormal.
However, the fact that the Earth is an empty sphere was claimed in his writings by the 17th-century English astronomer Edmund Halley, the writers Jules Berne in his novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, Edgar Poe in Arthur Gordon Pym’s Narrative, and some others.
Moreover, in the 18th-19th centuries in the United States of America, the possibility of equipping a special scientific expedition was even considered, which would prove that our planet is a hollow sphere and it is easy to penetrate into its depths through holes in the earth’s crust.
But as it turned out over time, getting underground is not so easy.
The deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the “Kola well.” It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970.
After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft). Work continued until the project was abandoned in 1989 because the drill became stuck in rock at a little over 12km (almost 40,000ft or 8 miles) deep. That is the current record for a depth reached by humans.
So, the shell of the Earth is much larger than scientists can unearth.
Hollow Earth according to the maps of the Third Reich.
Scientists of the Third Reich were also very interested in the mysterious world of the underground. For example, back in 1942, with the support of Goering and Himmler, an expedition, which included the most advanced minds of National Socialist Germany, went to look for an underground civilization in an atmosphere of great secrecy.
The “home” of the super-developed peoples of antiquity was supposed to be found on the island of Rugen, located in the Baltic Sea. The expedition had other goals as well. German scientists seriously hoped that if they could place fundamentally new radar devices underground, they would come close to the goal of world domination.
In 1963, two American miners, David Fellin and Henry Thorne, while tunneling, saw a huge door, behind which marble steps descended.
The Story brings us to the events on August 13,1963, at Sheppton, located in the anthracite coal belt of Schuylkill County in eastern Pennsylvania where the famed Sheppton Mine Disaster and Rescue transpired. Three men were trapped some 330 feet beneath the earth after the collapse of a mining shaft.
Some two weeks later, on Tuesday, August 27th, two of the miners, Henry Throne and David Fellin, were brought safely to the surface, after rescuers successfully drilled a 17 1/2-inch and later 28-inch borehole into their chamber, while the third miner, Lou Bova, being trapped in another part of the mine, regrettably perished.
The story of Throne and Fellin’s survival and rescue were enough to captivate the world’s attention, but it was what they claimed they saw and heard, while entombed, that fascinated the public, statements which both men swore as to their authenticity, both separately and publicly, emphatic declarations which they took to their graves, though others believed they had simultaneously witnessed the same hallucinations.
David Fellin’s ‘affidavit’ was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on August 29, 1963, wherein he remarked how, “Now they’re trying to tell me those things were hallucinations, that we imagined it all. We didn’t. Our minds weren’t playing tricks on us. I’ve been a practical, hard-headed coal miner all my life. My mind was clear down there in the mine. It’s still clear.”
Fellin went on to remark, how some of the things he and Throne saw, they couldn’t explain in words, while on the other hand, he stated that, “On the fourth or fifth day, we saw this door although we had no light from above or from our helmets. The door was covered in bright blue light. It was very clear, better than sunlight. Two ordinary looking men, not miners, opened the door.
We could see beautiful marble steps on the other side. We saw this for some time and then we didn’t see it… We saw many other things like that that you couldn’t explain. But I’m not going to tell you about them because I feel too deeply about all this.”
Other miners, already in England, digging an underground tunnel, heard the sounds of working mechanisms coming from below. When the stone mass was broken through, a staircase leading to an underground well was also discovered.
The sounds of running machines intensified. Frightened to death, the workers ran away, and returning after some time to this place, they could no longer find either the entrance to the underground well or the stairs.
In the 1970s, interesting photographs were obtained from an American satellite, which then went around many Western scientific journals: in the place where the North Pole should be located, the satellite discovered a dark spot of the correct form, similar to a huge hole. It would be possible to attribute these pictures to failures in the equipment, if not for exactly the same photos taken a few years later.
Also interesting are the testimonies of the anthropologist James Macken, who examined a cave in Idaho, which is notorious among the indigenous population. Makkena and his companions, after several hundred meters of careful movement along a wide stone corridor, suddenly heard screams and groans, and soon terrible finds in the form of human skeletons appeared before them. Unfortunately, further exploration of the cave, which in these parts was considered the entrance to the underworld, had to be stopped: the smell of sulfur was simply unbearable.
If we turn to the opinion of scientists, then geologists do not share the theory of the ubiquitous cavity of the Earth, although they do not deny the possible presence of huge hollow spaces in its depths.
It is unlikely that people could live there, because inside our planet there is not only a rather high temperature, but also very little oxygen, but it is full of other gases that are incompatible with human life. All this prompted restless researchers to create a new hypothesis: perhaps the underground civilization has an extraterrestrial origin?
And why not? Perhaps, alien beings, tired of the constant wars and strife of mankind, moved underground, from where they still observe our development … And it is from under the earth, and not from other galaxies, that they appear from time to time. time in the sky on flying saucers, come into contact with people and conduct their cruel experiments on them.
But here a legitimate question arises: if our Earth is still hollow from the inside, then why the entrance to the underworld has not yet been discovered. The group of scientists from the United States came closest to the possible truth, which suggested that underground cities exist … in the fourth dimension.
And only when the Earth’s electromagnetic field changes from time to time, tunnel entrances open on its surface, allowing you to see underground cities and their inhabitants. At other times this is not possible.
And if we really lean towards the hypothesis that some kind of intelligent beings lives in the bowels of our planet, many mysterious phenomena would find their explanation.
In 1953, the most famous UFO Contactee, George Adamski, gave a number of lectures in the Los Angeles area, stating that his data on UFOs and aliens had “all been cleared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Air Force Intelligence.” It most definitely had not been cleared. Personnel from both the FBI and the Air Force heard of this and descended on Adamski, warning him to quit his crap. For a while, Adamski did exactly what he was told to do: Stop! Unfortunately for Adamski, he was a magnet for publicity and praise. So, yet again he told his foaming fans he had supporters in the FBI and the Air Force. That the FBI had agents sitting in every lecture Adamski ever gave in California in the fifties, meant that Hoover’s finest were getting more and more frustrated and angrier by the day. They made a decision: they paid Adamski another visit. Whereas on the first occasion Adamski was “warned” to stop, on the next occasion, as the now-declassified reports show, the FBI “severely admonished” him for all of his extra-terrestrial idiocy. The FBI demanded that Adamski would never, ever again make such claims about the military and the FBI. To ensure that, one of the FBI agents whipped out an official document they demanded Adamski sign. He did. One of the agents signed it too, as did a somewhat bemused Air Force officer who thought the whole thing was a farce of epic proportions. Surely that would have made Adamski get the message. It didn’t.The man who claimed to have met 1960s-era hippy-looking aliens was about to find himself in a bucketful of serious shit with a band of unsmiling G-Men.
Declassified into the public domain by the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (and free for anyone to read and use) is just one page of Adamski’s 300-pages-plus FBI file.
It was roughly nine months further down the line when the FBI’s Los Angeles office received a visit from a representative of the L.A. Better Business Bureau. Staff of the BBB were concerned that Adamski’s 1953 book Flying Saucers Have Landed (co-written with Desmond Leslie) was one big scam. One way or another, their staff was determined to get the answers. One of the BBB went knocking on Adamski’s door. The whole story of alien encounters was true, Adamski said earnestly to the man. It’s hardly surprising that the BBB was having none of this book of lies and exaggerations. Adamski hit back by saying his book was endorsed by the U.S. government. To prove this, Adamski pulled out of his pocket a document that had a “blue seal in the lower left corner, at the top of which appeared the names of three Government agents,” as the FBI described things. One of those names was attached to an Air Force officer. Two were of FBI agents. Incredibly, and recklessly, what Adamski had shown to the BBB employee was actually that document Adamski had been ordered to sign some nine months earlier, at the order of the FBI. Worse still for Adamski, he had altered the document. He’d taken real FBI paperwork, fiddled around with it, and changed it for his benefit. This was the last straw for the men in black suits. An FBI summary of this run-around, of December 16, 1953 reads:
(Nick Redfern)
“[Deleted] instructed Willis to call on Adamski at the Palomar Gardens Café, Valley Center, California. (This is located five miles east of Rincon, California, near the Mount Palomar Observatory.) Willis was told to have the San Diego agents, accompanied by representatives of OSI if they care to go along, call on Adamski and read the riot act in no uncertain terms pointing out he has used this document in a fraudulent, improper manner, that this Bureau has not endorsed, approved, or cleared his speeches or book, that he knows it, and the Bureau will simply not tolerate any further foolishness, misrepresentations, and falsity on his part. Willis was told to instruct the Agents to diplomatically retrieve, if possible, the document in issue from Adamski. Willis said he would do this and send in a report at once.” Adamski was very lucky he didn’t end up with some degree of jail-time. Maybe, that would have given him even more publicity, something both the FBI and the Air Force were extremely keen and careful to avoid. That Adamski had the wrath of God put into him finally ensured that his document-doctoring days were over. And, by the late-1950s, Adamski’s “career” as a ufological guru began to tail off. He lived until 1965, by which time many people in Ufology had dismissed the man and his wacky, “I flew to Venus”-style pseudo-science.
‘UFO’ Docu-Series Exposes The Cover-Ups And Alien Encounters
In 2017, a bombshell New York Times article revealed that the US government had been secretly tracking UFOs for years. And now, the explosive new Paramount+ docu-series ‘UFO’ delves deeper to expose the cover-ups and alien encounters that will change the way you think.
The Real Story of Medusa: Protective Powers from a Snake-Haired Gorgon
In ancient Greek mythology, Medusa is the most famous of three monstrous sisters known as the Gorgons. The earliest known record about the story of Medusa and the Gorgons can be found in Hesiod’s Theogony. According to this ancient author, the three sisters, Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa, were the children of Phorcys and Ceto and lived “beyond famed Oceanus at the world’s edge hard by Night”. Of the three, only Medusa is said to be mortal. But she is also the most famous and the myth of her demise at the hands of Perseus is often recounted.
Why Did Medusa Get Cursed?
Although Hesiod gives an account of Medusa’s origins and the death of Medusa at the hands of Perseus, he does not say more about her. By contrast, a more comprehensive account of Perseus and Medusa can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In this work, Ovid describes Medusa as originally being a beautiful maiden. Her beauty caught the eye of Poseidon, who desired her and proceeded to ravage her in Athena’s shrine. When Athena discovered the sea god had ravaged Medusa in her shrine she sought vengeance by transforming Medusa’s hair into snakes, so that anyone who gazed at her directly would be turned into stone.
Thus, the description of Medusa changed from one of an alluring lady, as Ovid describes in Metamorphoses:
Medusa once had charms; to gain her love A rival crowd of envious lovers strove. They, who have seen her, own, they ne'er did trace More moving features in a sweeter face. Yet above all, her length of hair, they own, In golden ringlets wav'd, and graceful shone. – Ovid, Metamorphoses
To a monstrous being which Virgil writes of in a far less attractive manner:
“In the middle is the Gorgon Medusa, an enormous monster about whom snaky locks twist their hissing mouths; her eyes stare malevolently, and under the base of her chin the tail-ends of serpents have tied knots.”
Some other variations of the myth suggest that Medusa and the other Gorgons were always hideous monsters and covered with snakes.
The Legend of Medusa and Perseus
The full myth of Perseus and Medusa begins years before they battled. Perseus was the son of Danae, daughter of Acrisius the King of Argos, and Zeus. The god had impregnated the princess in the form of a shower of gold after her father had locked her away upon learning from an oracle that he would be killed by his grandson. Acrisius feared the child, but wanted to avoid Zeus’ wrath, so instead of killing Perseus, he sent the baby and Danae out to sea in a wooden chest.
Dictys of the island of Seriphus rescued the two and he raised Perseus like a son. However, there were others close by who weren’t so kind to the boy. In the myth of Perseus , the hero is sent by Polydectes, Dictys’ brother and the king of Seriphus, on a quest to bring him the head of Medusa. This was a trick because Polydectes desired Perseus’ mother and wanted to get rid of her son, who was not in favor of the relationship. Such a mission would have been equivalent to suicide for Perseus and Polydectes did not expect him to ever return to Seriphus.
As Perseus was the son of Zeus, he was aided by the gods. Perseus received the Cap of Invisibility from Hades, a pair of winged sandals from Hermes, a reflective bronze shield from Athena, and a sword from Hephaestus. With these divine gifts, Perseus sought out Medusa and decapitated her with the bronze shield while she was asleep.
Immediately after the Gorgon was beheaded, the winged horse Pegasus sprung out from her neck. In the Theogony, Hesiod also mentions that the golden giant Chrysaor, who was born with a golden sword in his hand, emerged from the severed neck of Medusa. Medusa’s sisters also arrived on the scene around the same time and chased Perseus. But the hero escaped by using the Cap of Invisibility. Some versions of the myth say he took Pegasus with him as well.
After this, Perseus flew away via Hermes’ sandals or Pegasus, setting course for Seriphus. But he had several other exciting events before returning to the island. Although Perseus may be at the center of these stories, it could be argued that it is the transformative powers of Medusa’s severed head that played a pivotal role in the hero’s subsequent adventures.
Pegasus emerges from the body of Medusa. ‘The Perseus Series: The Death of Medusa I’ by Edward Burne-Jones.
When the blood dripped from Medusa’s head onto the plains of Libya, each drop of blood transformed into venomous serpents. The power of Medusa’s head is seen again when Perseus encountered the Titan Atlas. When Perseus asked Atlas for a place to rest for a short while, his request was refused. Knowing that he would not be able to defeat the Titan with brute force alone, he took out Medusa’s head and Atlas was turned into a mountain.
Perseus also encountered Andromeda, the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. Using Medusa’s head, Perseus succeeded in rescuing the princess, who was being sacrificed to Cetus, a sea monster sent by Poseidon to punish Cassiopeia for boasting that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids. Medusa’s petrifying power is also used on Phineus, Andromeda’s uncle whom she was betrothed to, Proetus, the usurper of the throne of Argos, and finally Polydectes himself. Perseus’ friend Dictys took the throne and, now finished with the relic, Perseus gave Medusa’s head to Athena, who wears it on her aegis whenever she goes into battle.
Perseus Confronting Phineus with the Head of Medusa by Sebastiano Ricci.
Although Medusa is commonly regarded as a monster, her head is often seen as a protective amulet that would keep evil away. In fact, the name Medusa comes from an ancient Greek verb meaning “to guard or protect.”
The image of Medusa’s head can be seen in numerous Greek and subsequent Roman artifacts such as shields, breastplates, and mosaics. One such example of a protective Medusa head pendant appeared in the form of a late 2nd to 4th century AD Roman artifact recently unearthed in the Cambridgeshire countryside . A 2,000-year-old marble head of Medusa was found not too long ago at a former Roman commercial center in Turkey as well. There are also numerous coins that bear not only the imagery of Perseus holding the head of Medusa, but also the head in its own right.
A Roman cameo of Medusa’s head from the 2nd or 3rd century.
Today, the most well-known image of Medusa’s head belongs perhaps to the logo of the Italian fashion company, Versace. And let’s not forget that Medusa also made headline gaming news in the not so distant past as a tough boss battle for players in the newest game of the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise . These factors remind us that myths of the ancient world are still alive and with us in the modern world.
Top Image: Detail of a modern representation of Medusa.
A couple of days ago I wrote here at Mysterious Universe on why, in my opinion, the 1950s-era “Space Brothers” should not have been trusted. Not only that, I briefly highlighted the work of the late writer Mac Tonnies, who suspected that the Space Brothers may not have been aliens at all, but were possibly from right here on our planet. In other words, Tonnies pondered on the possibility that the Space Brothers were, collectively, an ancient human society that has the power to move among us in stealth. In terms of his theorizing, Tonnies said to me: “After devouring countless books on the UFO controversy and the paranormal, I began to acknowledge that the extraterrestrial hypothesis suffered some tantalizing flaws. In short, the ‘aliens’ seemed more like surreal caricatures of ourselves than beings possessing the god-like technology one might plausibly expect from interstellar visitors. Like Jacques Vallee, I came to the realization that the extraterrestrial hypothesis isn’t strange enough to encompass the entirety of occupant cases. But if we’re dealing with humanoid beings that evolved here on earth, some of the problems vanish. My hypothesis works too when we apply it to Martians stranded [on Earth] and who, I sometimes wonder, are waiting for the day when our world becomes theirs.”
(Nick Redfern)
Just before he died, Mac Tonnies gave me this piece of artwork as a gift. A Cryptoterrestrial and not an Extraterrestrial?
Tonnies continued: “I envision the Cryptoterrestrials engaged in a process of subterfuge, bending our belief systems to their own ends. And I suggest that this has been occurring, in form or another, for an extraordinarily long time. I think there’s a good deal of folkloric and mythological evidence pointing in this direction, and I find it most interesting that so many descriptions of ostensible ‘aliens’ seem to reflect staged events designed to misdirect witnesses and muddle their perceptions.” Tonnies also acknowledged that at least some of the Cryptoterrestrials looked somewhat different to us. Yes, they could move among us, but if you looked at them too close you would see there was something very strange about them. With that said, let’s look at these “slightly different ones,” as I put it. It occurs to me that the Men in Black and the Women in Black just might be Cryptoterrestrials. Consider this: they look like us, but take a nearer look and you’ll see their skin often has a plastic-like appearance to it. Their eyes bulge. And you’ll see them wearing wigs and wraparound sunglasses. All of that suggests that the MIB and the WIB just might be examples of what at least some of the Cryptoterrestrials look like.
(Nick Redfern)
They’re just not quite right
Author and UFO researcher Denise Stoner told me of a very strange experience she had some years ago: “My Mom and I had gone to the mall on Christmas Eve for a couple of last minute stocking stuffer type gifts. We actually knew what we wanted so parked outside J.C. Penney’s on the side where those goods were. We went in and immediately noticed that in late afternoon, there were only a few shoppers. We picked out our gifts and got in line at the cashier in back of two other people. We could easily see the exit door and the sun in the parking lot, we were facing that way. The glass doors opened and two very tall, thin women entered. They had long almost waist length blond hair parted in the middle on top and it was thin in texture. Their skin was also pale and I did not notice any make up but each had huge piercing blue eyes.” Over the years, Denise has had run-in with these not-quite-normal characters.
Now, onto a strange saga that went down in early 1967. The location: Melville, New York. It involved a rancher whose farm was located in a rural, isolated part of town. Only days before he received a most unwelcome visit, the man saw a definitive flying saucer hovering over one of his fields, and which – somewhat amazingly – had what was described as a “ladder” hanging from its underside. At least, until the ladder was hastily retracted and the saucer shot away, high into the sky, and vanished from view. That was hardly the end of the matter, however. Just a few days later, the man heard a knock at the door. Given that his home was in the middle of pretty much nowhere, he opened the door both slowly and cautiously. Stood before him was a “Gypsy lady” who was dressed in a gray dress that reached her ankles and who wore sandals. Just like so many of the Men in Black, her skin was noted for its deep, olive complexion, and her eyes were described as “Oriental.” The rancher added that she stood around five-feet and four inches tall, and had long hair that was “so black” it “looked dyed.” And, finally…
(Nick Redfern)
Hats and Darkness: perfect camouflage for a Cryptoterrestrial
It was a wintry, freezing, and dark Saturday afternoon in the latter part of January 1987 and a man named Bruce Lee – who worked as a senior editor at a New York publishing house, William Morrow & Co. – walked into a bookstore on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was the now- closed-down Womrath’s, on Lexington Avenue. Also with Lee was his wife. It turns out that William Morrow & Co. had then very recently published Whitley Strieber’s New York Times’ bestseller, Communion – a book that told of Strieber’s very own and deeply personal encounters of the so-called “alien abduction” variety. Womrath’s had a large display set up for Communion and they also stocked a couple of Lee’s own books. Quite naturally, Lee, who had also worked for Reader’s Digest and Newsweek, was curious to see how both of the displays looked. At this point, Lee and his wife parted and she headed off to the fiction section.
Lee’s attention was suddenly drawn to a strange couple that entered the store. In his own words, the pair headed “directly for Communion.” He explained: “I mean, it was just, you could see them come in – they didn’t know where the book was, you couldn’t see it from the street – and they came in and headed right back for where that rack was. Most unusual, if you see what I mean.” Yes, we do. That was not the only unusual thing about that fateful, Saturday afternoon. Both the man and the woman were barely five feet in height – maybe even slightly smaller. They had scarves that covered their chins, hats pulled tightly down, and huge, black sunglasses. They also appeared to begin speed-reading the book, noting out loud – one might even suggest for Lee’s benefit – where Strieber had “got this wrong” and “got that wrong.” They also giggled in a strange, unsettling fashion. We’ve seen that before, too. Quite naturally, given that he worked for the very publisher that had just released Communion, Lee walked over and asked the pair what was wrong with the book. The woman suddenly looked up, at which point Lee was able to see through her sunglasses that her eyes were not just large, but huge, and shaped like almonds. Lee, by his own admission, felt the hackles on the back of his neck rise, and got a “mad dog”” feeling emanating from the woman. He was likely not wrong when he observed: “I got to feeling that I was in eyeball contact with somebody who did not like me at all.”
Could all of these slightly strange characters be prime examples of Mac Tonnies’ Cryptoterrestrials? Perhaps, that’s exactly what they were.
Extreme Close Up! Orb On Live Space Walk At Space Station, Jan 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:January 19, 2022 Location of sighting:Space station
Guys, I made an extreme close up of the UFO that appeared during a spacewalk at the space station. I made two close ups and slowed the speed down by 6X so that you can see its full detail. Its totally focused and easy to see that yes its an orb. But I noticed something odd. The orb radiates a fluctuation in its luminosity and all the while the color of it changes ever so slightly. To show this, I added shadows and added color enhancing...its in the end of the video. Hope the video stirs your imagination as much as it excites mine.
Here is a buildings I discovered in one of the photos of Mars...the photos that USGS tried to hide by taking down their site, but returned the site after they saw me release the cache of photos for download to the public in an earlier post. Follow me on Twitter for up to the minute updates at @scottcwaring
Anyways, its not hard to find and there are a lot of structures in each photo. However I didn't have time to go though this entire photo, but only picked out the first ones I found. I added yellow color to make it easier to see, and included the uncolored version for you to compare.
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Orb On Live Space Walk At Space Station, Jan 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 19, 2022 Location of sighting: International Space Station
Source: ISS Live Cam
While the Russian astronauts were making repairs on the space station during a space walk on Jan 19th, something unexpected happened. A semi-transparent white orb move past the camera and within a meter of the astronaut himself, before moving away. The object was small, about the size of a baseball. This object an an intelligent...because it deliberately moved toward the astronaut, but didn't want to hit the person, only wanting to investigate closer what the astronaut was doing.
Now if you remember when I spoke to astronaut Leland Melvin on twitter back in 2018? He told me when he was on board the space station, he saw something...organic semi transparent looking out the window. I'll put a screenshot of that twitter conversation below. Anyway, Leland said it looked organic...living tissue! This object also looks similar...this object in the video at the space station is an organic creature...living in space!
Here is something to think about that no-one has ever mentioned. If China (CCP) really did plan the release of Covid-19 on purpose and this was all part of a bigger plan. Then China would have needed the head of the WHO to help them convince the world that it wasn't Chinas fault. So...this is the juicy part...China back in 2017 helped Tedros, a known head of the communist party in Ethiopia to secure his 5 year position in the WHO, on the condition that he helps convince the world to see China in a better light. Unbeknownst to Tedros...China was already planning the covid release back in 2017, but he thought it would be an easy road to travel with good pocket money from China...until covid was released in late 2019. Why else would China need the head of the World Health Organization in Chinas pocket? Also note the photo above...Tedros immediately met with the China Premier after he secured his WHO position.
This is only a theory, not definitive proof, however China has never been forthcoming about covid info from the start...and its up to the public to put the pieces of the puzzle together to find the true answers.
The USGS site returned back online and is no longer giving a 404 error code today. After I published a report about finding a 25km building in one of the photos, the USGS tried to prevent others from doing the same. However I downloaded all the pdf photos of the full mars map and released it to the public yesterday. Clearly they no longer saw a point to being down.
Carl Rogers once said, "the truth will set you free, but first it will hurt like hell." The USGS must be feeling it right now.
This Is Not An Alien UFO From Outer Space, This Is Actually a Top-Secret Anti-Gravity Plane Called TR-3B
In the instance of the TR-3B Black Manta, it refers to a craft that employs highly pressurized mercury propelled by nuclear energy to make plasma, which produces an anti-gravity field surrounding the craft.
Its motive power system has an electromagnetic coil, which produces an electromagnetic drive that interacts with the Higgs-Boson field at the quantum level. It’s all quite interesting!
So, instead of using a traditional turbine or rocket engine, an anti-gravity aircraft uses a propulsion system that generates thrust by creating high-energy plasma. ‘Flux liners’ is another name for these planes.
Anti-gravity technology, like many other diverse aviation technologies, may be traced back to the late stages and aftermath of World War II, notably the clandestine US initiative known as Operation Paperclip.
The goal of Operation Paperclip was for the United States to obtain as much leverage as possible over the Soviet Union in the military weapons technology race, which is why the operation was crammed to the rafters with Nazi-affiliated German experts.
That implies the United States has spent over 70 years researching anti-gravity technologies.
It is the culmination of ideas about gravity, quantum gravity, and general relativity, the latter of which was initially proposed by Albert Einstein himself.
Anti-gravity is of great interest to both the military and scientists because it is theoretically possible to lower an aircraft’s mass to zero by employing electromagnetic propulsion.
It’s no surprise that organizations like NASA, the US Air Force, and Lockheed Martin have all engaged in theoretical research into the potential to change inert mass.
The TR-3B Black Manta, according to analysts, would utilize conventional thrusters situated at the aircraft’s tips to allow it to conduct a dizzying amount of quick high-speed maneuvers.
Perfect right-angle turns and rapid acceleration are among the features available. And it could do so along with all three of its axes.
Remember, the TR-3B was built to be a stealthy subsonic surveillance plane.
For one thing, other than a minor humming sound, it’s a pretty quiet airplane. The TR-3B’s plasma has the unique side effect of dramatically lowering the aircraft’s radar signal, making it perfect for missions when stealth is critical.
As a result, the TR-3B Black Manta could fly into almost any country’s airspace without being noticed by its air traffic control or air defense systems.
This little black number has been linked to many sightings of flying triangular aircraft above Antelope Valley, a desert region in southern California popular with UFO enthusiasts.
Given its closeness to many known military research and testing facilities, this desert area of California also attracts those interested in clandestine black projects or “black operations aircraft projects.”
Edwards Air Force Base and USAF Plant 42, the latter of which is only 60 miles (97 kilometers) from Los Angeles.
In my perspective, the US Air Force should thank its fortunate stars for UFO enthusiasts and extraterrestrial spacecraft believers.
After all, as reported by Popular Mechanics, a lot of claims of so-called black triangle UFOs were most likely covert military aircraft.
The TR-3B Black Manta would undoubtedly be a standard black operations project for the United States Air Force and Navy.
The 1950s U2 espionage plane, the 1980s SR-71 jet, and today’s F-117A stealth craft are just three examples of planes that the US Air Force denied existed for years, all of which were originally secretly created at Nevada’s infamous Area 51 station.
Let’s not forget that Area 51 was only formally confirmed by the US government in June 2013, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made eight years prior. Is it, however, real?
Of course, there are claims that the TR-3B was developed by the military utilizing reverse-engineered alien technology.
Even Forbes magazine speculated in 2021 that the patents granted to Salvatore Cezar Pais may be a cover for extraterrestrial technology obtained by the US military over the years.
So, how’s the TR-3B Black Manta doing? Is there a way to find out how far back it goes, if at all?
Is it connected to the aforementioned 2018 patent granted to Pais and the United States Navy?
Is it an aircraft, a bird, or even Superman himself?
No, it’s simply the US Air Force playing with our minds once more.
An exciting radio signal from outer space has been spotted by the Juno mission.
Less than a week after the Juno mission was officially re-extended for another 5 years, it has once again hit the headlines with a massive discovery. This time, however, it is not about Jupiter. The latest news are connected to the gas giant’s largest moon – Ganymede. As the report goes, Juno has intercepted an FM radio signal coming from the moon.
Having seen all the recent news about radio signals from space, can’t we, for once, hear a confirmation that it is of extraterrestrial origin and it actually means something? Unfortunately, this one from Ganymede will not be it either since NASA officials are convinced it is of natural essence.
If you need the scientific name, the signal was a “decametric radio emission” but we actually know it by its much more widespread name – Wi-Fi. The range of the frequency corresponds to that used by our Earthly signals.
FM Radio Signal
The radio signal from Ganymede lasted only 5 seconds but this is mainly due to the high speed at which Juno was passing. Credit: Louis et al. [2020]
The FM radio signal was detected when Juno was orbiting near Jupiter’s polar regions close to the magnetic field that connects with Ganymede. As for the actual source, scientists believe that it was caused by electrons that were oscillating slower than their normal rate. This process is called cyclotron maser instability.
It has long been known that radio waves exist on Jupiter but never before have such been intercepted from its moons. Although it is not of alien origin, the simple fact that it is the first such radio signal from Ganymede makes it no less significant.
Once again, Ganymede proves that it is one of the most mysterious objects in the Solar System. In the past decade, scientists have made several significant discoveries about the largest moon in our system that put it high on the scientific list of exploration targets.
Artist’s concept of Jupiter and its largest moon Ganymede. The moon’s auroral belts have also been illustrated in blue. Credit: NASA
For example, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted signs of an underground ocean, buried under more than 150 kilometers of ice. According to scientific estimates, this ocean could also be 10 times deeper than our oceans on Earth.
Then, in 2018, the Galileo Probe spacecraft discovered extremely powerful and unusual electromagnetic waves around Ganymede. Known as Chorus waves, such have been detected around the Earth but the ones around Ganymede surprised scientists with their power.
Anyhow, discoveries like this of the FM radio signal coming from Ganymede prove the importance of the Juno mission and why it should remain in operation for as long as it can. For now, the mission has been extended until 2025 or earlier if there is a systems failure.
Many similar missions have continued for many years after the original estimates and it is possible that Juno will continue to operate even after 2025.
In each case, the final day of the mission, whenever it comes, will be a huge loss for astronomy and science and it will take years until a similar mission could reach Jupiter’s orbit.
If you get an organ transplant from a pig, is it covered by medical or veterinary insurance? That may sound absurd, but the potential for this kind of question is real and it’s here. Barely a week after a genetically modified (to prevent rejection) pig’s heart was successfully transplanted into a living human who is still living with his beating porcine organ, doctors successfully transplanted two genetically modified pig kidneys into the donated body of a brain-dead human and they functioned normally until the experiment was terminated 77 hours later – a record set in just the second attempt at a pig-to-human kidney transplant. Let the ethical, medical, insurance and animal rights debates begin!
Do I get a say?
“Our study demonstrates that major barriers to human xenotransplantation have been surmounted, identifies where new knowledge is needed to optimize xenotransplantation outcomes in humans, and lays the foundation for the establishment of a novel preclinical human model for further study.”
Yes, this is a big deal — according to Jayme Locke, M.D., director of the Comprehensive Transplant Institute in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Surgery and lead surgeon for the study published in the American Journal of Transplantation. The FDA defines xenotransplantation as “any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation or infusion into a human recipient of either (a) live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman animal source, or (b) human body fluids, cells, tissues or organs that have had ex vivo contact with live nonhuman animal cells, tissues or organs.” In this case, the “clinical-grade” genetically modified pig kidneys (called UKidney™) came from the biotechnology company United Therapeutics Corporation’s subsidiary Revivicor, Inc.
The human recipient was Jim Parsons, a registered organ donor whose organs were not suitable for donation when he died at age 57, so his family agreed to allow his brain-dead body be kept functioning on a ventilator during the study.
“Jim would have wanted to save as many people as he could with his death, and if he knew he could potentially save thousands and thousands of people by doing this, he would have had no hesitation.”
Jim Parson’s family discussed his participation in a press release, which also stated that the wait for a donated kidney can be as long as 10 years in some states, and almost 5,000 people per year die waiting on a kidney transplant. This experiment showed that the modified genes in the pig kidneys prevented blood clots and other known immune reactions, and demonstrated that the pig kidney could have lasted even longer while withstanding the higher blood pressure of a human body.
While both this and the recent pig heart transplant are medically revolutionary and potentially lifesaving, that doesn’t preclude the ethical concerns. It was revealed a few days ago that the pig heart recipient was convicted in 1988 of stabbing a man seven times – the victim was paralyzed for life and died in 2007, while the organ recipient spent six years in prison. The religious concerns of creating potential hybrids or chimeras vary, while animal rights activists have long fought the idea of setting up animal organ farms. And, while we continue to suffer from and search for the cause of the COVID pandemic, the fear of viruses jumping from animals to humans via organ transplants is real – despite the meticulous preventative measures taken in this experiment.
The debate is a long way from over.
Are we ready for pig organ transplants? If not, can we stop it? Whose decision is it — science, the public or the profit-making hospitals and insurance companies?
Thanks to data collected by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists were able to study a mysterious world known as XO-3b. But their analysis has left them with even more questions, such as whether XO-3b is even a planetor something else.
XO-3b is a gas giant that orbits an F-type star. It has a mass that is 7.29 times that of Jupiter, but has a radius that is only 1.41 times larger than our Solar System’s Gas Giant. It orbits its host star at an exceptionally close range of 0.04529 AU (one AU is the distance that Earth is to the sun).
A year on XO-3b lasts just three Earth days and during that time, it goes through two different seasons – a one-day summer and a two-day winter. In a recent news conference that was held by the American Astronomical Society, Lisa Dang, who is a Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at McGill University in Canada, stated, “We saw seasonal temperature variations hundreds of times stronger than what we experience on Earth.”
(Not XO-3b)
Furthermore, the seasons on XO-3b are due to its oval orbit around its host star and the amount of radiation it gets. Since the planet and the star are so close to each other, the furthest part of XO-3b’s orbit continues to be brought closer to the star because of their gravitational interactions which causes the unusual orbit.
With that being said, it is believed that the planet has only been orbiting the star for a relatively short amount of time as Dang noted, “The oval shape that we see here on this very short-period planet suggests that we’re catching it in the middle of migrating.”
Another odd fact about the planet is that based on the detection of infrared light, it is much hotter than initially thought, which can’t be explained by the rapid and extreme seasons. Dang explained this further, “This extra heating that we saw with Spitzer isn’t seasonal, it’s seen throughout the year,” adding, “Our investigation of this hot Jupiter finds that it’s heated not only by the nearby planet star, but it’s also heated from the interior of the planet.” Additionally, it is “puffier” than expected.
(Not XO-3b)
As for why the planet has so much extra heat, it could be caused by tidal heating caused by the star’s gravity pulling at the planet, causing it to become deformed and stretched. Another option is that it might not even be a planet after all. It could be a brown dwarf (also known as a “failed star”) or “…it might be not necessarily a failed star yet, but at the peak of its lifetime as a star.” Whatever it is, it’s definitely unusual. (An artist’s impression of XO-3b can be seen here.)
An artist's depiction of the planet XO-3b on an eccentric orbit around its star.Planet XO-3b has an internal source of heat, possibly from tidal heating, which is caused by the squeezing of the planet’s interior by the gravity of its parent star. This could be increased by the planet’s slightly elliptical orbit (shown on the right), meaning it’s more oval-shaped than circular.
Na alarm in ISS rond opgeblazen Russische satelliet vliegt ruimtepuin nu rakelings langs Chinese satelliet: “Extreem gevaarlijk incident”
Brokstukken van een Russische satelliet die Moskou een tijdje geleden doelbewust met een raket heeft kapotgeschoten, hebben deze week een Chinese satelliet bijna "gestreeld". Peking is boos en spreekt van een “extreem gevaarlijk incident”.
Op 15 november voerde het Russische ministerie van Defensie met succes een anti-satelliettest uit waarbij de inactieve Russische satelliet Tselina-D, die sinds 1982 in een baan om de aarde vloog, werd verpulverd. Dat gebeurde met een vanop de grond afgevuurde raket.
De vernietiging van de oude satelliet zorgde voor een wolk van puin, met een slordige 1.500 traceerbare brokstukken als gevolg. Volgens Rusland zouden die geen gevaar vormen voor ruimtestations en satellieten.
Daar dacht de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA toen al meteen anders over, want vlak nadat de Russen de satelliet hadden opgeblazen, ontstond er volgens NASA een reëel gevaar voor het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS. Het ISS scheerde namelijk elke 90 minuten gedeeltelijk door of langs de schrootwolk van de kapotgeschoten satelliet in haar baan om de aarde.
De zeven astronauten die op dat moment aan boord van het ruimtestation waren, moesten hun toevlucht zoeken tot de ruimteschepen die aangemeerd waren aan het ISS (een Crew Dragon van SpaceX en een Russische Soyoez), om zich voor te bereiden op een eventuele noodevacuatie. In geval van bijvoorbeeld een catastrofale botsing kunnen die reddingsschepen dan snel naar huis. De crew schuilde zeker twee uur in de capsules. Uiteindelijk konden ze zonder problemen weer aan boord.
De brokstukken vormden volgens de Amerikanen niet alleen een bedreiging voor het ISS, maar ook voor de duizend andere satellieten in de baan om de aarde, waarop landen vertrouwen voor een breed scala aan activiteiten zoals communicatie en lokalisatie. “Ik ben verontwaardigd over deze onverantwoorde en destabiliserende actie”, verklaarde Bill Nelson, de topman van NASA, destijds in een zeer scherp communiqué.
Chinese satelliet bijna ‘gestreeld’
Maanden later hebben de Russen zich nu ook de woede van de Chinezen op de hals gehaald. Peking zegt dat enkele brokstukken van wijlen de Russische satelliet dinsdag op "slechts 14,5 meter" van de wetenschappelijke Chinese satelliet Tsinghua zijn gescheerd.
Liu Jing, een expert in ruimtepuin, noemde het tegenover de krant Global Times “zeldzaam” dat brokstukken en ruimtetuigen een tiental meter bij elkaar in de buurt komen.
China was vorige maand ook al boos, maar dan op de Amerikanen. Dit omdat een botsing tussen het Chinese ruimtestation en twee Starlink-satellieten van het Amerikaanse SpaceX alleen maar was vermeden door het station te laten uitwijken. Wetenschappers hebben er bij verschillende regeringen al eerder op aangedrongen om ruimtedata te delen, zodat het risico op in potentie catastrofale botsingen wordt verkleind.
Curiosity rover finds 'tantalizing' signs of ancient Mars life
Mike Wall
NASA's Curiosity rover has found some interesting organic compounds on the Red Planet that could be signs of ancient Mars life, but it will take a lot more work to test that hypothesis.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used two different cameras to create this selfie in front of a rock outcrop named Mont Mercou, which stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall.
Some of the powdered rock samples that Curiosity has collected over the years contain organics rich in a type of carbon that here on Earth is associated with life, researchers report in a new study.
But Mars is very different from our world, and many Martian processes remain mysterious. So it's too early to know what generated the intriguing chemicals, study team members stressed.
"We're finding things on Mars that are tantalizingly interesting, but we would really need more evidence to say we've identified life," Paul Mahaffy, who served as the principal investigator of Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) chemistry lab until retiring from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in December 2021, said in a statement. "So we're looking at what else could have caused the carbon signature we're seeing, if not life."
Curiosity landed inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater in August 2012 on a mission to determine if the area could ever have supported microbial life. The rover team soon determined that Gale's floor was a potentially habitable environment billions of years ago, harboring a lake-and-stream system that likely persisted for millions of years at a time.
In the new study, which will be published Tuesday (Jan. 18) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research team looked at two dozen powdered rock samples that Curiosity collected with its percussive drill from a variety of locations between August 2012 and July 2021. The rover fed this material into SAM, which can identify and characterize organics — carbon-containing molecules that are the building blocks of life on Earth.
The scientists found that nearly half of these samples were enriched in carbon-12, the lighter of the two stable carbon isotopes, compared to previous measurements of Mars meteorites and the Martian atmosphere. (Isotopes are versions of an element that contain different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei. Carbon-12 has six neutrons, and the far less abundant carbon-13 has seven.)
These high-carbon-12 samples came from five different locations within Gale Crater, all of which featured ancient surfaces that had been preserved well over the eons.
On Earth, organisms preferentially use carbon-12 for their metabolic processes, so enrichment in this isotope in ancient rock samples here is generally interpreted as a signal of biotic chemistry. But carbon cycles on Mars aren't understood nearly well enough to make similar assumptions for Red Planet finds, study team members said.
The researchers came up with three possible explanations for the intriguing carbon signal. The first involves Mars microbes producing methane, which was then converted into more complex organic molecules after interacting with ultraviolet (UV) light in the Red Planet air. These larger organics then fell back to the ground and were incorporated into the rocks that Curiosity sampled.
But similar reactions involving UV light and non-biological carbon dioxide, by far the most abundant gas in Mars' atmosphere, could have generated the result as well. It's also possible that the solar system drifted through a giant molecular cloud rich in carbon-12 long ago, the researchers said.
"All three explanations fit the data," study leader Christopher House, a Curiosity scientist based at Penn State University, said in the same statement. "We simply need more data to rule them in or out."
The new find is especially intriguing because of the carbon-12 enrichment, but Curiosity has detected organic compounds on Mars before. For example, the mission team previously reported the detection of organics in powdered rock samples. The six-wheeled robot has also driven through plumes of methane, the simplest organic molecule, on multiple occasions.
It's unclear what's producing Mars' gaseous methane or how old it is. For example, the compound may be generated by microbes busily metabolizing beneath the frigid Martian surface today. It could alternatively be produced by underground interactions of rock and hot water, with no life involved. It could also be ancient material, produced either by organisms or abiotically, that was trapped underground long ago and occasionally "burps" up onto the surface today.
The Curiosity team would love to drive through another methane plume and determine its carbon-12 content, exploring the origins of these organics further. But that would take a lot of luck, given that researchers cannot predict when and where such plumes will appear.
Further helpful data could also come from another Mars rover — Perseverance, a NASA robot that landed inside a different Red Planet crater in February 2021. Perseverance is hunting for signs of ancient Mars life and collecting dozens of samples that will be returned to Earth for analysis, possibly as early as 2031.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or on Facebook.
Rover Curiosity vindt "prikkelende" tekenen van mogelijk leven op Mars vroeger
Marsrover Curiosity heeft interessante organische verbindingen ontdekt in stenen op de rode planeet. Wetenschappers hebben er drie verklaringen voor. Een daarvan spreekt het meest tot de verbeelding en leidt tot de hypothese dat het tekenen zijn van vroeger leven op Mars. Maar dat is nog erg voorbarig.
In stalen van gesteenten die Curiosity door de jaren heen - de rover landde in de Galekrater op Mars in augustus 2012 - met een klopboor op vijf verschillende locaties in de krater heeft verzameld, blijken organische stoffen te zitten die rijk zijn aan een soort koolstof (koolstof-12 genaamd) die hier op aarde in verband wordt gebracht met leven. Maar het is nog te vroeg om te bepalen wat deze intrigerende chemicaliën heeft gegenereerd op Mars, benadrukt het onderzoeksteam. De rode planeet is erg verschillend van onze aarde en heel wat processen op Mars blijven een mysterie.
Haarscherpe 360°-panoramafoto toont landschap van Mars
“We vinden dingen op Mars die prikkelend interessant zijn, maar we hebben echt wel meer bewijs nodig om te kunnen zeggen dat we leven hebben geïdentificeerd”, aldus Paul Mahaffy, die in december op pensioen ging als hoofdonderzoeker bij NASA. “Dus we bekijken wat er nog allemaal de oorzaak kan zijn van deze koolstof, als het toch niet leven zou zijn.”
Wetenschappers stelden eerder al vast dat de bodem van de Galekrater, waar Curiosity in 2012 neerstreek, miljarden jaren geleden een potentieel bewoonbare omgeving was, waar zich een systeem met een meer en een stroom bevond dat waarschijnlijk miljoenen jaren is blijven bestaan.
De onderzoekers zien in hun artikel, dat gepubliceerd is in PNAS, drie mogelijke verklaringen voor de intrigerende koolstof-12. De eerste is dat microben op Mars methaan produceerden dat vervolgens werd omgezet in complexere organische moleculen na interactie met ultraviolet licht in de lucht van de rode planeet. Deze grotere organische moleculen vielen daarna terug op de grond en werden opgenomen in de rotsen die Curiosity opboorde.
De tweede verklaring wijst niet op vroeger leven op Mars, maar stelt vast dat soortgelijke reacties met UV-licht en niet-biologisch kooldioxide, verreweg het meest voorkomende gas in de atmosfeer van Mars, ook tot dit resultaat zouden kunnen hebben geleid. Ten slotte is het, volgens de onderzoekers, ook mogelijk dat het zonnestelsel lang geleden door een reusachtige moleculaire wolk is gedreven die rijk was aan koolstof-12.
“Alle drie de verklaringen passen bij de gegevens”, verklaart studieleider Christopher House, Curiosity-wetenschapper van de Penn State University. “We hebben gewoon meer gegevens nodig om ze op te nemen dan wel uit te sluiten.”
Glowing Objects Over Richland, Oregon, Google Map! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: January 20, 2022
Location of discovery: Richland, Oregon Google map coordinates: 44.737573°N 117.109588°W
Now this was reported just today by a woman living in Richland. She found three glowing objects moving over the mountain area on Google Earth map. So I had to make a video of it. She had only a screenshot. At first when I look at it, they almost look like birds, but the shape is where the similarity totally ends. You see they are glowing white with a rainbow aura coming out the back end...which is some kind of propulsion. I have seen birds in google earth, but never like this. This is not birds. They may be fighter jets flying in unison, but again, I've never seen this shape of fighter jet before. These really appear to be UFOs. I checked the photos before and after this time in the same area (watch video) and there is nothing, no buildings, no debris, no cars, planes nothing that would indicate it was just a reflection off the ground. These things were flying, they were big and they were moving fast and had something coming out the back. That is 100% alien technology. I bet there is an alien base nearby about 5-6km below the surface of this very hill they are on.
UFO Seen At Bullhead city, Arizona Jan 18, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:January 18, 2022
Location of sighting: Bullhead City, Arizona, USA
Source: MUFON
Wow, this just in 5 min ago! A guy was working at a park in Bullhead City when he noticed a strange light in the sky. The light came close and closer until we can almost see a metal disk with a glow at its center. He said in the video the UFO was over the Yucca Valley region...where he has heard about many reports of UFOs over the years. Fantastic sighting and amazing video. I just wish he drove over there to get a closer look, but as he stated, he was on the job at the time and you can't just take off anytime you feel like it when you are supporting a family. Wow, just wow!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I am an employee of Mohave County at Davis Camp county Park which is located in Bullhead city ,Az. Thed park is a camping facility and as I was making my rounds early morning,I observed a brilliant stationary light in the Clouds. Looking west towards the Needles or Yucca Az area I estimate the miles at 40- 50 miles away as the crow flies, I witnessed this brilliant light or large orb descending with brilliant light and appeared to be strobing and spinning. I grabbed my phone and proceeded to video tape the event.
Hey everyone. I managed to download all the photos of the Mars elevation set that the USGS/NASA tried to hide by taking down the whole website after the story got into world news 6X in 24 hours about the 25km building found in one of the photos. Each pdf photo is between 1.8 and 4MB in size.
To get the photos I found the cache (past memory) of the site and downloaded it from there. I believe I have all or at least most of the photos and I put them into a file. The only way you will find anything in the photos is if you follow my instructions in the video below or it may take you days or longer to do on your own.
1. open pdf on computer, then export as JPG format...make sure its set on maximum quality.
2. Change jpg to black and white.
3. Increase size of photo by 2X under size settings.
4. start editing in photo program. I use PhotoscapeX but any program you know well will work. I use deepening, focus, light, contrast and zoom.
Good luck, and remember to make a video of your discovery and post it on Youtube to share with the world, so we can learn together.
Orb Pulsating Over Darlington, England Jan 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Jan 19, 2022
Location of sighting: Darlington, England
Source: MUFON
This eyewitness caught a glowing red orb over the UK last night. The orb moved around silently and had no other color of lights. No engines or sound was heard from the craft as it moved above him. The object was perfectly round and is huge. Strange how it hovers in place so long and then moves off. Darlington is a very old city with many buildings going back hundreds of years. It's an excellent location for aliens to study about how humans preserve older structures and appreciate the beauty and designs of long ago.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Saw this orb south east pulsation, then picked up spreed moving south east towards a star.
Another of what are considered the “classic” mass UFO sightings in the United States that have made their way into the lore and legends of UAP studies is the event that has come to be known as the St. Clair Triangle sighting of 2000 in southwestern Illinois. It’s also referred to as “the UFO Over Illinois,” the name of a television documentary released later the same year. Other shows and books have featured it prominently. Today The Debrief will look at the lore surrounding this event and compare it to the significant amount of original source data available.
We’ll begin with a brief summary of the details frequently seen in the ufology literature. The tale begins early in the morning on a frigid January 4th, 2000, in Highland, Illinois. 66-year-old miniature golf course owner Melvern Noll was stopping by his business to ensure the pipes hadn’t frozen. Upon exiting his building he saw a brightly lit object in the skies that he would go on to describe as looking like “a flying house with windows on the top and bottom.”
The stunned Noll quickly called the police to report what he had seen. The dispatcher he spoke to forwarded the information to Police Officer Ed Barton in Lebanon, Illinois. Barton initially responded skeptically, asking if the caller had been drunk, but went to investigate as instructed. Observing a bright light in the sky as he drove his cruiser, he closed in on the object before pulling over and exiting his vehicle. He would go on to report seeing a “huge” object in the sky that was triangular, longer than it was wide, with three white lights and one red light. It accelerated away at high speed to the southwest toward Shiloh, Illinois.
Shiloh Police Officer David Martin was on the lookout for the object and reported seeing something very similar before he too claimed that the slow-moving object sped off in the same direction at amazing speed. A third officer in Millstadt, Illinois, Craig Stevens, picked it up and reported it next. He even managed to snap a picture of it with a Polaroid camera. A fourth officer in Dupo, Illinois would later report seeing ‘something’ that might be related. Other civilian witnesses would chime in with their own accounts at later dates, but the object eventually disappeared after more than an hour of confirmed sightings.
Interestingly, musician Sufjan Stevens would go on to write a song about the event:
EXAMINING THE SOURCE DATA FOR MORE DETAILS
One of the larger challenges involved in examining any of these legendary sightings is how much “legend” winds up being inserted into popular reports over the years. Television documentaries and books supporting the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) can tend to focus on the more exotic aspects of a report while downplaying or even ignoring inconvenient anomalies in the data. Similarly, skeptics and debunkers will tend to latch onto inconsistencies while failing to acknowledge some of the more credible evidence. Today The Debrief will look at both with a (hopefully) more critical eye.
Rather than being forced to rely on the potentially fading memories of witnesses or the video simulations provided by video producers, the St. Clair triangle UFO event offers substantial original evidence from the time of the sighting. This trove includes not only transcripts of conversations between dispatchers and police officers, but original recordings of radio traffic and interviews with witnesses conducted shortly after the sighting. These are included in an excellent 2014 documentary from an investigative reporter who collected and released all of the source material.
One of the first areas of evidence to examine is the collection of descriptions of the UFO as originally reported by the witnesses. Some do seem to be consistent while others demonstrate disparities that have been seized upon by skeptics.
Melvern Noll, the miniature golf course owner, described “a flying house with windows in the top and bottom.” This is starkly different than the descriptions offered by law enforcement officials. But it has been suggested that Noll only saw the object for moments with no forewarning at four in the morning in the freezing cold before rushing to contact the police.
THE TESTIMONY OF THE POLICE OFFICERS
Officer Ed Barton in Lebanon, Illinois, at 4:21 am, described a triangular object, “longer than it was wide.” Barton estimated the altitude of the object as being between 1,000 and 1,500 feet. He described seeing three white lights and one red light. The object suddenly sped away, going eight miles in three seconds in the direction of Shiloh, Illinois. It is worth noting that in the original radio traffic recording, Barton describes how he was reaching into the squad car to grab his microphone. When he emerged, the object was far away. He did not actually see it accelerate at exotic speeds.
Shiloh Officer David Martin offered a roughly similar description at 4:23 am. He described it as being an “arrow shape, triangular-shaped object… floating in this sky over this field… with three big bright lights, lighting up the entire sky just beneath the flying object.” He put the altitude at 1,000 to 1,500 feet before the object moved to the far end of the fields “in the snap of a finger, the wink of an eye.” He heard no sound from the object despite having the windows of his cruiser down.
At 4:39 am Millstadt Police Officer Craig Stevens reports that he has an object in sight. “It’s huge.” He describes it as an “arrowhead-shaped object.” Stevens describes the craft as having “three lights to the rear, one in the center and two to either side.” Stevens adds an additional detail, saying that it is “concaved in the rear” rather than a pure triangle. But he also says “in the concave section” there is a strobing white light going side to side. His drawing makes it clear it’s the rear of the craft, not the bottom. He further describes a “red blinking light” that is on the bottom. He estimates that the object is between 500 and 2,000 feet in altitude. The object then “banked” and headed toward Dupo, Illinois.
At that point, Stevens grabbed a Polaroid camera out of his car and took a picture as it flew away. That should have been the most compelling piece of evidence, but sadly it’s not a very good photograph, showing only some blurry lights against a dark background.
One of Officer Stevens’ original polaroid images depicting illuninations purportedly associated with the massive traingular craft he observed (Credit: Craig Stevens).
Perhaps significantly, Officer Stevens says that he could hear a “low frequency buzzing noise” that seemed to be related to the craft.
At 5:03 am the final purported sighting by a law enforcement official is recorded. Officer Matt Jany is located in Dupo, Illinois, and has been on the lookout for the craft after following the radio traffic generated by the previous sightings. He claims to have spotted the object, but reports that it is “pretty far off” and he was looking at it through binoculars. He thought the lights looked “pretty bright” but it was “hard to tell.”
Officer Stevens is still on the radio and reiterates that the object was “about 500 feet above me and it was huge.” Jany responds, saying that “it’s usually where planes are. It’s not low at all.”
This discrepancy in the perceived altitude ties in with Jany’s description of the lights, at one point mentioning a blinking green light. The other reports only mentioned white and red lights. Green blinking lights (along with red ones) are typical of commercial airliners and are required by the FAA. These factors have led many analysts to conclude that Officer Jany did not see the same craft the other officer described and instead was simply seeing a conventional aircraft flying over the area. This would not be unusual since Dupo is located between the international airports in St. Louis and Chicago and also not far from an Air Force base.
At that point, Jany reports that dispatch told him that Lambert Airport is on the phone saying there is nothing in the area on their radar. This was a reference to Lambert International Airport in St. Louis.
THE AIR FORCE CONNECTION AND RADAR DATA
Some analysts seeking explanations for this event have put forth suggestions that nearby Scott Air Force Base might be involved, launching either misidentified conventional craft or experimental classified aerial vehicles. This is where the source data becomes highly intriguing and may suggest a governmental or military coverup. Two conflicting descriptions of Scott Air Force Base have emerged in previous analyses. One theory describes the base as having a 24-hour, fully staffed control tower, but claims that it was not online due to “an unexplained suspension of operations.” The other says that it’s primarily a hospital base with a small airfield and had no operations at 4 am. The original sources suggest that both of these descriptions miss the mark.
In the documentary linked above, the St. Clair Police radio dispatcher claims to have called Scott Air Force Base and was told they could see nothing on the radar. But later, Scott AFB personnel told a reporter from the Lebanon Advertiser that “Scott Air Force Base has denied any knowledge of the sighting, reporting that it “no longer has radar on the field and that control tower personnel were not on duty at that hour.”
The information supplied to both the police and journalists by Scott Air Force Base is not only contradictory but highly suspicious, to say the least. Also, the claims about the base in previous documentaries are frequently inaccurate, leading to many justifiable questions. First of all, the idea that the base is a small medical facility with limited airfield capability is flatly wrong.
Scott Air Force base has been in continuous operation since shortly after World War 2. It’s true that they have an impressive medical facility there (the 375th Medical Group), including a fleet of Learjet C-21 twin turbofan-engine aircraft used for medical transport and evacuations which can take place at any hour of the day. They also host a fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers used for in-flight refueling of other aviation assets at any time. These massive planes require a sizable airfield. On top of that, Scott Air Force Base boasts a group of C-40 B/C transports that ferry dignitaries around the globe and are the size of Air Force 1.
The idea that a base such as Scott would have “removed their radar” or not had anyone manning the control tower is implausible in the extreme. So the answers provided to both police dispatchers and local media outlets seem dubious. The responses were also contradictory in two regards. If you had no radar, why would you bother staffing an air control tower? And why would they say they had “nothing on the radar” if there was no radar? The Debrief reached out to the Public Affairs Office of Scott Airfield for comment but received no answer prior to publication.
THE SKEPTICS HAVE THEIR SAY
Debunkers have made spirited attempts to shoot down this story, raising some interesting possibilities. The most common of these is that all of the witnesses actually misidentified a blimp. It’s true that the location of the sightings was not far from the base of the American Blimp Company, later bought out by the Van Wagner Airship Group. Blimps are large and very quiet, often equipped with a variety of different types and colors of lights for advertising purposes. Also, the top speed of these blimps is roughly 45 mph depending on the wind, so a blimp could have made it from Lebanon to Dupo in the one-hour and three-minute period when the live reports were recorded.
The main problem with this avenue of debunking is that it’s entirely speculative. As already noted, a blimp could have made that journey and displayed lights that would be considered unusual. Some have spoken with people in the airship industry who agree that it’s plausible. But investigators checked with the American Blimp Company and later Van Wagner and none was able to produce a record of a flight by one of those ships on that date, though one would imagine that all trips by such an expensive aircraft would be recorded.
Further, a blimp could have made the trip in the time allowed if it flew directly to Dupo. But the various witnesses described the craft as slowing, stopping, and changing directions. Also, unless we are to dismiss the testimony of the officers in Lebanon and Shiloh, the craft they observed not only hovered but shot away at a stunning velocity. Blimps are simply not capable of that type of behavior.
CONCLUSIONS
As we have discovered, there are complicated aspects to the St. Clair Triangle sighting, and the legends that have grown around it in books and television programs do not always match the record. For one thing, such shows frequently depicted the “classic” triangle, with one bright white light on each corner of the craft fixed to the bottom and a red light in the center. None of the witnesses described the lights in that fashion. And the original witness, Melvern Noll, described something that sounded entirely different, so some level of skepticism may be warranted.
With that said, the descriptions provided by all but one of the law enforcement witnesses (who likely saw a conventional aircraft) are similar enough in terms of its physical appearance and curious flight characteristics that they are difficult to ignore. Their stories remained unchanged over the years.
The baffling responses from Scott Air Force base do little to discredit the witnesses. While it seems unlikely that such a base would be home to highly classified, exotic aircraft programs, they should have been able to provide corroborating radar data or at least a confirmation that they recorded no targets in the subject area. It is not inconceivable that they had standing orders to never comment on anything UFO-related. This is a pattern the Air Force has adhered to ever since the days of Project Blue Book.
The poor quality of the photograph taken by Officer Stevens is disappointing to researchers, but the fact that it was taken at night on a dated Polaroid Instamatic pointing up at the night sky makes it understandable. Additional electronic data would make the case much stronger, but the inexplicable responses from Scott Air Force Base at least suggest that such may have existed at one point.
In conclusion, the viability of this case rests heavily on the credibility of multiple professional witnesses from different locations who would seem unlikely in the extreme to have cooked up a tale of this sort as a hoax. The lack of electronic signature data is disappointing but perhaps understandable as we already discussed. And the alternative options offered by skeptics do little to explain away the recorded, original observations as misidentified mundane phenomena. As with most of these famous, multiple-witness sightings, the final determination remains in the eye of the beholder. But the available source evidence is compelling and none of the alternate explanations are very satisfying.
Follow and connect with author Jazz Shaw on Twitter:@JazzShaw
Will aliens invade our planet this year? A surprising 14% of people say yes. A new survey conducted by Ipsos asked more than 22,000 adults in 33 different countries what their predictions are for 2022 and the results are quite interesting to say the least.
The majority of people have high hopes for this year as 77% of those surveyed said that they are optimistic 2022 will be better for them than 2021 was, while 61% of people believe the global economy will be stronger than last year. As for 2021, 77% of people said that it was a bad year for their country, and 58% admitted that it wasn’t a good year for them or their family.
In regards to the COVID-19 pandemic, a little more than half of those polled (56%) believe that at least 80% of the world’s population will get at least one vaccine this year.
When asked if there will be more extreme weather in their country this year compared to 2021, 60% said yes. A surprising 45% of those polled believe that less people will choose to fly compared to 2019.
As for society getting back to a somewhat state of normalcy, 71% of people say that their city centers will become busy again as more people will get back to working in their offices on a more permanent basis. On the other hand, a rather small percentage of those surveyed (28%) believe that people in their country will become more tolerant of each other – this percentage included a whopping 83% of people living in China, but only 9% of those in France.
A little more than 40% of people surveyed have confidence that the stock market will be stable this year; although there is a lot of worry regarding rising prices with 75% of people thinking that the prices will increase faster than their income.
As for aliens invading our planet, 14% of pollsters believe that will happen – interestingly, that percentage includes nearly a third of those living in India. While that may be a surprising percentage, it is quite low compared to other scary events – 39% think that a natural disaster will affect a major city in their country; 38% say that foreign government hackers will cause a global IT shutdown; 34% believe nuclear weapons will be used in a conflict somewhere in the world; 27% say that a rogue artificial intelligence program won’t be able to be shut down; and 16% think an asteroid will hit our planet.
All in all, people are remaining optimistic that 2022 will be a better year than 2021, with a stronger global economy and more people getting vaccinated. But there are some concerns as well, such as rising prices and more extreme weather events. Not to mention aliens invading our planet.
The great distances covered by visiting "aliens" may be ones of time rather than space, a recent book argues.
Close encounters with our future selves?
(Image credit: thortful.com)
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have captured the public's attention over the decades. As exoplanet detection is on the rise, why not consider that star-hopping visitors from afar might be buzzing through our friendly skies by taking an interstellar off-ramp to Earth?
On the other hand, could those piloting UFOs be us — our future progeny that have mastered the landscape of time and space? Perhaps those reports of people coming into contact with strange beings represent our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study us in their own evolutionary past.
The book was written by Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University in Butte. Masters thinks that – given the accelerating pace of change in science, technology, and engineering – it is likely that humans of the distant future could develop the knowledge and machinery necessary to return to the past.
The objective of the book, Masters said, is to spur a new and more informed discussion among believers and skeptics alike.
"I took a multidisciplinary approach in order to try and understand the oddities of this phenomenon," Masters told Space.com. "Our job as scientists is to be asking big questions and try to find answers to unknown questions. There's something going on here, and we should be having a conversation about this. We should be at the forefront of trying to find out what it is."
Human evolution
Dubbing these purported visitors "extratempestrials," Masters notes that close-encounter accounts typically describe UFO tenants as bipedal, hairless, human-like beings with large brains, large eyes, small noses and small mouths. Further, the creatures are often said to have the ability to communicate with us in our own languages and possess technology advanced beyond, but clearly built upon, today's technological prowess.
Masters believes that through a comprehensive analysis of consistent patterns of long-term biocultural change throughout human evolution — as well as recent advances in our understanding of time and time travel — we may begin to consider this future possibility in the context of a currently unexplained phenomenon.
"The book ties together those known aspects of our evolutionary history with what is still an unproven, unverified aspect of UFOs and aliens," he sai
But why not argue that ET is actually a traveler from across the vastness of space, from a distant planet? Wouldn't that be a simpler answer?
"I would argue it's the opposite," Masters responded. "We know we're here. We know humans exist. We know that we've had a long evolutionary history on this planet. And we know our technology is going to be more advanced in the future. I think the simplest explanation, innately, is that it is us. I'm just trying to offer what is likely the most parsimonious explanation."
Artist's view of an aerial encounter with an unidentified flying object. (Image credit: MUFON)
Archaeological tourism
As an anthropologist who has worked on and directed numerous archaeological digs in Africa, France and throughout the United States, Masters observes that it is easy to conceptualize just how much more could be learned about our own evolutionary history if we currently possessed the technology to visit past periods of time.
"The alleged abduction accounts are mostly scientific in nature. It's probably future anthropologists, historians, linguists that are coming back to get information in a way that we currently can't without access to that technology," Masters said.
"That said, I do think that some component of it is also tourism," he added. "Undoubtedly in the future, there are those that will pay a lot of money to have the opportunity to go back and observe their favorite period in history. Some of the most popular tourist sites are the pyramids of Giza and Machu Picchu in Peru … old and prehistoric sites."
Masters calls his UFO research "an evolving project."
"There's certainly still missing pieces of the puzzle," he said. "There are aspects of time that we don't yet understand. Wanted is a theory of quantum gravity, and we can meld general relativity and quantum mechanics. I'm just trying to put forth the best model I can based on current scientific knowledge. Hopefully, over time, we can continue to build on this."
Solve this mystery
"Masters postulates that using a multidisciplinary scientific approach to the UFO phenomenon will be what it takes to solve this mystery once and for all, and I couldn't agree more," said Jan Harzan, executive director of the nonprofit Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
"The premise that UFOs are us from the future is one of many possibilities that MUFON is exploring to explain the UFO phenomenon. All we know for sure is that we are not alone," Harzan added. "Now the question becomes, 'Who are they?' And Masters makes a great case for the time-traveler hypothesis."
Tic-Tac-shaped objects were recently reported zipping through the sky by jet-fighter pilots and radar operators. The Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was created to research and investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), including numerous videos of reported encounters, three of which were released to the public in 2017. (Image credit: U.S. Department of Defense/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science)
'Highly dubious claim'
But not everybody is on board with the idea, as you might imagine.
"There is nothing in this book to take seriously, as it depends on the belief that 'time travel' is not only possible, but real," said Robert Sheaffer, a noted UFO skeptic.
Supposedly our distant descendants have mastered time travel, Sheaffer said, and have traveled back in time to visit us. "So, according to Masters, you just spin something fast enough and it will begin to warp space, and even send stuff backwards in time. This is a highly dubious claim," he said.
Moreover, Sheaffer said that Masters tries to deduce aliens' evolutionary history from witness descriptions, "suggesting that he takes such accounts far too literally."
David Darling is a British astronomer and science writer who has authored books on a sweeping array of topics – from gravity, Zen physics and astrobiology to teleportation and extraterrestrial life.
"I've often thought that if some UFOs are 'alien' craft, it's just as reasonable to suppose that they might be time machines from our own future than that they're spacecraft from other stars," Darling told Space.com. "The problem is the 'if.'
Darling said that, while some aerial phenomena have eluded easy identification, one of the least likely explanations, it seems to him, is that they're artificial and not of this world.
"Outside of the popular mythos of flying saucers and archetypal, big-brained aliens, there's precious little credible evidence that they exist," Darling said. "So, my issue with the book is not the ingenuity of its thesis, but the fact that there's really no need for such a thesis in the first place."
Reported UFOs take on all shapes and sizes. (Image credit: U.K. National Archives sightings chart, circa 1969)
Exotic physics?
Larry Lemke, a retired NASA aerospace engineer with an interest in the UFO phenomenon, finds the prospect of time-travelling visitors from the future intriguing
"The one thing that has become clear over the decades of sightings, if you believe the reports, is that these objects don't seem to be obeying the usual laws of aerodynamics and Newtonian mechanics," Lemke said, referring to the relationship, in the natural world, between force, mass and motion.
Toss in for good measure Einstein's theory of general relativity and its consequences, like wormholes and black holes, along with other exotic physics ideas such as the Alcubierre warp-drive bubble.
"There's a group of thinkers in the field of UFOs that point out that phenomena reported around some UFOs do, in fact, look exactly like general relativity effects," Lemke said. Missing time is a very common one."
Lemke said that the idea that somebody has figured out how to manipulate space-time, on a local scale with a low-energy approach, would explain a lot of things across the UFO phenomenon, including those baffling Tic-Tac-shaped objects recently reported by jet-fighter pilots and radar operators.
"No matter how much knowledge we have, how much we think we know, there's always some frontier beyond," he said. "And to understand that frontier is getting more and more esoteric."
Leonard David is the author of the recently released book,"Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter@SpacedotcomorFacebook.
Filer’s Files Jan. 15 2022 UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941 - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Filer’s Files will be sent out twice monthly due to my macular degeneration instead of weekly.
Special reports are: Admiral Fahrney on UFOs, UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941, Lt. Colonel Talks about Investigating UFO Sightings, Mars Cave Opening, Super Interesting Plane and Drone Designs, Structure Deep Within Antarctica, Monsters of the Deep, Jet Stream Attack, Top 20 UFO Hotspots, Iran Pledges to attack U.S. Homeland, Carbon 60 and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Admiral Fahrney on UFOs
Navy Admiral Delmar S. Fahrney, former head of the Navy’s guided-missile program, statement was printed in New York Times, January 17, 1957
Rear Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney said he has talked with a number of scientists and engineers who reported seeing strange flying objects. He added, “There are signs that intelligence directs such objects because of the way they fly. They are not entirely actuated by automatic equipment.” He said, “By the way they change position in formations and override each other would indicate that their motion involves a tremendous amount of technology of which we have no knowledge, and that their development must have taken an extended period of time.”
Fahrney also stated, “Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds and controlled by thinking intelligence’s.”
“There are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds… No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve….
On January 16, 1957 – the day after NICAP’s Board of Governors met for the first time – Board Chairman Delmer S. Fahrney called a press conference. News media all over the country quoted his statements identifying him as one of the few “top brass” to speak out in defense of UFOs.
Note: A friend of mine Commander Bethune a pilot for Navy VIPs often flew Admiral Fahrney to Wright Patterson Air Force Base where he claimed some alien craft were kept and examined. The Navy became primary researchers to develop our own space fleet for the government while the Air Force took most the heat from the news media.
UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941
By Paul Blake Smith, the 1941 UFO crash might well be the most exciting, shocking, and impact event that is now the subject of a new book.
Did three extraterrestrials really crash-land their circular spaceship on a farm just outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Police authorities called Pastor William G. Huffman to travel immediately to a crash site on April 12, 1941, He was to administer the last rites to the three-member alien aircrew. Paster Huffman was escorted to the site and saw a crashed metal spaceship. Three identical Grey aliens flew the craft.
This stunning recovery was then allegedly taken to a secret hiding place beneath the most recognizable building in the world. Was an aspect of the scientifically examined alien craft’s propulsion system applied to the U.S. nuclear weapons program to help win World War II?
The serious, amazing pre-Roswell claims and quotes, rumors and insights, opinions and documented facts are all examined here, in proper chronological, easy-to-read order, the only book to explore ever comprehensively the wildest nonfiction story of all time.
This book indicates the US had a crashed saucer from space to evaluate and to back engineer its technology as early as 1941; Huffman said he was given a photo of two men holding up one of the aliens, but the image was taken by a so-called photo expert and never returned to the Huffman family. he believes the aliens and their damaged craft were initially brought to the Sikeston Missouri Institute for Aeronautics, before being stored in an underground facility beneath the Capitol building in Washington DC. According to two sisters from Ohio, their father, Rev. Turner Holt, was taken on a tour of the secret rooms in the 1940s by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and shown three large jars, each containing a non-human with big eyes. Read the full recap here.
This is a declassified oval office Top Secret memo indicating the alien crash was real and the recovered crash helped in the development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project. Also, they now have the opportunity to extend our technology.
First US Jet Disc Vought Flying Flapjack XF5U-1
During World War II and immediately after the Navy developed a disc shaped craft. It’s possible the crashed Cape Girardeau craft helped in the development of the first US Jet Disc.
The first flight of the V-173 with conventional propellor engines was on 23 November 1942 with Vought Chief Test Pilot Boone Guyton at the controls. The aircraft’s most significant problem concerned its complicated gearbox that routed power from the engines to its two long propeller shafts. The gearbox produced unacceptable amounts of vibration in ground testing, delaying the aircraft’s first test flight for months. Flight testing of the V-173 went on through 1942 and 1943 with 190 flights, resulting in reports of UFOs from surprised Connecticut locals. Charles Lindbergh piloted the V-173 during this time and found it surprisingly easy to manage and exhibiting impressive low-speed capabilities. On one occasion, the V-173 was forced to make an emergency landing on a beach. As the pilot made his final approach, he noticed two bathers directly in his path. The pilot locked the aircraft’s brakes on landing, causing the aircraft to flip over onto its back. Remarkably, the airframe proved so strong that neither the plane nor the pilot sustained any severe damage.
The basic wing area (427 sq ft.) and plan form (less elevators and propeller nacelles) of the V-173 and XF5U-1 were identical tested. A developed version of the original V-173 prototype, the XF5U-1 was a larger aircraft. Of all-metal construction, it was almost five times heavier. A modernized version with jet engines is shown in the photo.
The Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics established the Navy Liaison Office at Edwards AFB on August 28, 1946, to oversee development of the Vought XF5U-1 Skimmer.
Lt. Colonel Talks about Investigating and Debunking UFO Sightings
Lieutenant Colonel Dick French’s
Recently at the International UFO Congress, an ex-fighter pilot approached Open Minds Antonio Huneeus and asked to share his story.
Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dick French’s 27 years of military experience has taken him around the world. He has flown fighter jets in Vietnam and Korea, operated in military intelligence, and been exposed to some of our nation’s biggest secrets. His career started in the AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) where he would conduct stakeouts to remove personnel who were breaking the military’s code of conduct. He then moved on to pilot training school and became a pilot.
Later he was transferred to the 6004’s Air Intelligence Security Squadron where it was his duty to investigate any reported UFO sighting. He would collect any photographic evidence, question witnesses on the size and shape of the object, its estimated capability, and any other occurrences that surround the sighting. In the end though,
Lt. Col. French talked to me on several occasions and spoke very openly that UFOs exist, and some are extraterrestrial. He indicated we did have pieces of alien craft but not much could be discerned from them. French met Army Lt. Colonel Philip Corso who claimed key UFO parts were sent to aviation companies without explaining their source. He also claimed various advanced technology was back engineered.
Lt. Col. Richard French was a lead investigator on Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs. Superiors told him to debunk the sightings however he could. They personally did not believe in alien UFOs. This position allowed him to travel to many interesting UFO hot spots while meeting high-ranking officials. Given his job, French never dreamed he would end up in Newfoundland one day watching what appeared to him to be two extraterrestrials performing repairs on a submerged, unknown circular craft.
Col. Richard French, Capt. Jim Courant, Major George Filer, FAA John Callahan at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure with six Congressmen (ret.)
Washington, D.C., recently, the 83-year-old retired officer testified at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure in May3, of 2013 at the National Press Club in Washington D.N.A. panel of six former members of Congress about his work as a UFO debunker in 1952.
French recounted how the Newfoundland incident unfolded in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen off the coast of St. John’s. French’s superiors ordered him to look into the situation.
“They told me there were two UFOs involved and that they were deep under the water, after entering the water doing roughly 100 miles an hour. “There were a 100 people assembled on the wharf looking in amazement at the water, including several local policemen.” French recalls the water was very clear and he could see two circular craft, each one about 18 feet in diameter and approximately 3 feet thick. He said the two objects were floating below the surface of the water, a couple of feet apart, not more than 20 feet from the shore. And he saw two beings in the water near the ships.“The first thing I saw was the UFOs, and it was apparent to me that they were doing something to the craft, and I couldn’t really tell what because they were on the bottom side of it and not visible to me except when they would occasionally get over to the side where I could see them. The water was fairly clear, and I could see without any trouble. They weren’t down at the bottom of the [seabed] — they were about halfway down.”
The beings he saw “were about 2 or 3 feet tall, light grey in color, very thin, long arms with either two or three fingers. The top of their heads was much wider than their jaw line, their eyes were very slanted, and you couldn’t see pupils in them. They looked the way [aliens] have been depicted in motion pictures.”
As French watched, one of the ships began to rise out of the water.
“When it hit the [surface], it was going about 100 miles an hour. It then accelerated to somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 3,000 miles an hour and disappeared. It returned about 20 minutes later, slowed down to a stop before it entered the water, then went down, and the two [beings] worked together.
“It took them about 20 minutes and then the two ships departed together, again slow when they exited the water, and immediately they sped up to an extremely high speed. I believe they were repairing [the ship] and tested that the repairs had been adequate, and then away they went.” Thanks to Lee Spiegel and Antonio Huneeus
The planet Mars
Mars Cave Opening
Mars Cave
The Cottonwood science class was participating in the Mars Education Program housed at Arizona State University, which offers students the opportunity to access imaging data from the Mars Odyssey orbiter. The group of 16 students from Cottonwood were pursuing their interest in lava tubes and the images that the students selected for their project appeared to bear evidence of several lava tubes, but something else became evident: a small, circular dark area, which was eventually determined to be a surface opening to a lava tube cave system, perhaps caused by gravity-induced collapse. A similar feature was also found on the Moon. Thanks to PhysOrg, Photo by NASA.
Mars had oceans, just like Earth
Mars Oceans in Blue
In new research published in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Colorado identified 52 delta regions on Mars fed by numerous river-like systems. All lay at about the same height, suggesting that they marked the shoreline edge of a huge river-fed ocean, which they believe covered a third of the planet.
The Daily Telegraph reports, A vast Earth-like Ocean covered a third of the surface of Mars 3.5 billion years ago, new research suggests. Scientists believe it stretched around the planet’s northern hemisphere and held 10 times more water than all the Earth’s oceans combined. The water may have provided a cradle for the emergence of extraterrestrial life, researchers claim, that may have flown to Earth
“Our findings lend credence to the hypothesis that an ocean formed on early Mars as part of a global and active hydrosphere,” said the researchers, led by Dr Gaetano Di Achille and Professor Brian Hynek.
Super Interesting Plane and Drone Designs
By Bob Spearing MUFON News
RQ-180, or the Great White Bat, or also the Shikaka
The RQ-180 is a major step toward combining endurance and survivability in a high-end unmanned aerial vehicle
It’s a spy drone that has already been seen over California and the Philippines.
Tim Aines is the Chief Field Investigator in Illinois under the State Director, Sam Maranto. Illinois has a talented team of people including great photo analysts like Greg Cisko. Tim Aines is also a retired military intelligence officer and MUFON certainly needs to bring individuals like Tim to the forefront due to their incredible knowledge base!
Tim has provided me with several spectacular illustrations of current government projects that may be accounting for numerous UFO sightings occurring across the United States in our CMS Database currently!
Per Tim, “On November 8th, the US Air Force released a rah-rah public relations video called “Heritage Today – ISR and Innovation” and in it they embedded a few teaser shots that only lasted a few seconds of two new aircraft, both of which are presumed to be flying now.
Celera 500L
Finally, this is Otto Aviation’s new aircraft called the Celera 500L. It’s currently flying all around the country right now doing FAA flight testing at various airports. Guess what it looks like from a distance with wings and how many CMS reports it will generate. 18–25 mpg fuel economy (a comparable jet aircraft gets 2 – 3 mpg)
$328 hourly operating costs, (a comparable jet aircraft costs $2,100 per hour) . Max cruise speed projected to be in excess of 460 mph,4,500 nautical mile range,
Payload – 6 adult passengers, Comfort – 6’2” cabin height with 6 first-class seats. Thank you Tim Aines and Bob Spearing MUFON News
F/A-XX fighter
Editor’s Note:The United States’ sixth-generation F/A-XX fighter could destroy satellites in Space. It is the newest member of American military mind-burgling tech that has been evaluated, with a full-scale prototype having flown. Both Russia and China are developing sixth-generation fighters of their own, but many would agree that the advanced avionics and armaments of the American representatives are alien and powerful enough to become the beast of the future. The US Military has two separate programs with $1bln investment: one for the Navy to replace the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the other for the Air Force to retire the F-22.
Illuminated structure deep within Antarctica
Illuminated structure deep within Antarctica By Mary Joyce, website editor
A structure was found beneath Antarctica’s ice that appears to be
internally illuminated. It’s wall of “windows” is 385 feet in length.
Sixth cluster of structures emerging in Antarctica
All the right angles within the brownish portion of the Google Earth image below indicate another cluster of structures is emerging from Antarctica’s This is the sixth city or cluster of structures that’s been found. emerging from melting ice in Antarctica since September 2021. The ruins emerging from the continent’s melting ice are the oldest in the world. We continue to wonder why evidence of a 34-million-year-old civilization in Antarctica is being covered up? That should be exciting news, not something to be hidden from the public.
Photos of two entrances into Antarctica’s interior
We first posted photos of these two entrances into Antarctica One entrance appears to have a bowl-shaped metal “awning” over it. The other is big enough for a Boeing 747 to fly into with a 50-foot clearance off each wingtip. Drastic efforts have been made to hide the second entrance from public view. Above are Google satellite photos of two entrances into the interior of Antarctica. The first one has a metal bowl-shaped “awning” over it. The second one is said to be 295 feet at its widest point and 98 feet in height. To give a perspective to this, the wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is 196 feet. We intended to provide coordinates for the two entrances so anyone could find them by copying and pasting them into the Google Earth search bar.
LEFT IMAGE: -6636’12.58”, +9943’12.72” RIGHT IMAGE: -6633’6.60”, +9050’24.84”?
The coordinates for the left image worked for us every time. It’s a different story with the right image. The coordinates no longer work. So, we found an old video showing the two entrance locations marked with yellow pushpins
The Germans allegedly tracked the alien humanoids from Atlantis to Antarctica to follow the Aryan race according to John Ramirez a retired GS-15 rank CIA Officer who investigated UFOs.
Here is a quick clip of the Air Force’s new drone the SR-72. This is presumed to be the new hypersonic space plane. Replaces legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Hypersonic means a minimum of 5 times faster than sound, or 3,800 mph plus. It is called the SR-72 and is a drone that replaces the SR 71.
Monsters of the Deep / UFO Encounters in Italy
Coelacanth fish
Nick Redfern a researcher of all things weird and mysterious, half to discuss unexplained monsters of the deep. Redfern used the example of the discovery of the coelacanth, a fish long thought extinct and only known from the fossil record, discovered alive in the Indian Ocean in 1938 (“a shock to zoology”) to illustrate his idea that many unknown and extinct animals may still exist and await discovery. Redfern said that the UK’s National Archives actually contains official reports of what appears to be sea serpents filed by the Royal Navy throughout the 19th century. He recalled a dramatic account from 1848 of a captain of a British ship called the Daedalus, who observed, along with his crew, an apparent life and death struggle where a “large serpent-type animal was seen coiled around a huge sperm whale.”
1876 /Captain Drevak and crew observe monster in Barque Pauline
The famed Loch Ness Monster first reported about 1500 years ago, the creature has been photographed, tracked on sonar, and even been the object of attempted exorcisms. Although some believe that the animal may be a surviving dinosaur, Redfern offered that it “may be something supernatural rather than flesh and blood.” He also recalled that in 1997, the US Navy detected anomalous underwater audio that sounded like some massive living thing– they called it the “Bloop” sound. Redfern said, “the government may have stumbled onto something not too different than [legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s apocalyptic creature named] Cthulhu.”
Loch Ness Monster
There are at least 1,000 close encounters of the second and third kind and abduction cases in Italy, showing the frequent, intelligent, and alien nature of UFO phenomena in that country. Renowned UFO researcher, Dr. Roberto Pinotti, appeared in the second half to discuss the history of UFO sightings in Italy and what the Italian government knows. Pinotti entered the Italian military in the 1960s at age 27. He was asked to author a report on UFOs for his superior officers, and it was actually published in an official Army journal. Since 1979, when UFO investigation was assigned to the Italian Air Force, Pinotti said that they have officially logged about 500 cases. In contrast, he said that his organization now has “more than 13,000 cases” that they have investigated.
Pinotti described a 1963 case when the Italian President’s car was approached closely by a UFO, which looked like an “English WWI helmet with portholes.”
English WWI helmet
An official report was created and later sent to the Pentagon in the US, which did not respond. He also revealed that in 1996, his group came into possession of UFO files from the Mussolini era, which they considered genuine after four years of forensic document research. One described an apparent 1933 UFO crash in which debris and even bodies were recovered. Pinotti said that the materials and “corpses of the pilots” were later taken to the United States by the Allied forces after WWII. He also discussed a statement from one of the directors of the Vatican astronomical observatory that, if aliens were ever found to be real, we could consider the “extraterrestrials [as] are our brothers.” George Knapp’s News 8/23/20
Jet Stream Flow Suggests Weather Control
Jet Stream very high in Alaska then brings cold to U.S.
Jet Stream that controls most weather streams are fast flowing winds above the surface of the Earth. I flew in them to get 100 MPH tail winds. The jet stream movement seems to be controlled possibly by China’s six HARPs causing massive high altitude bone dry clouds to alter the Jet Stream patterns.
As a doctoral student at George Mason University, Sam Monfort crunched the data from the National UFO Reporting Center and determined that the following locations are the top 20 hotspots for UFO sightings around the world. He published his data in early 2017.
Top 20 UFO hotspots in world
1. Stephenville, Texas,
2. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
3. Elk River, Minnesota,
4. The ‘M’ Triangle, Russia,
5. Manitoba, Canada,
6. Colares Island, Brazil,
7. Sochi, Russia
8. Istanbul, Turkey
9. Mexico City, Mexico
10. San Clemente, Chile
11. Phoenix, Arizona
12. Bonny bridge, Scotland
13. Broad Haven Triangle, Wales
14. Wycliffe Well, Australia
15. Little A’LE’INN, Nevada
16. Extraterrestrial Highway, Nevada
17. Nazca City, Peru
18. Warminster, England
19. Nullarbor Plain, Australia
20. Pacific Coast Highway, California
The map below shows the number of UFO sighting reports per 10 million people.
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In December 2021 there were 593 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries: UNITED STATES 497, AUSTRALIA 23, CANADA 21, UNITED KINGDOM 17, FRANCE 7, NEW ZEALAND 3, MEXICO 3, UKRAINE 3, VENEZUELA 2, VIET NAM 2.
600 + total
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows.
California 52, Florida 43, Texas 31, New York 26, Tennessee 24, Pennsylvania 23,
Colorado 17, Illinois 17, New Jersey 13
Iran Threatens U.S. Homeland
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi
Raisi vowed revenge on Monday for the US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani two years ago unless former US President Donald Trump was put on trial.
“If Trump and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo are not tried in a fair court of law for the criminal act of assassinating General Soleimani, Muslims will take their martyr’s revenge,” Raisi said, according to state news agency IRNA.
“If not, I’m telling all American leaders, don’t doubt that the hand of revenge will come out of the sleeves of ummah,” Raisi said, referring to the worldwide community of Muslims.
Iran and allied groups in Iraq have been holding vigils to honor Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the IRGC, who was killed in a drone strike in Iraq on January 3, 2020, along with Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the United States is fleeing from the region due to resistance of regional nations and has no more room to operate in West Asia.’
General Salami
Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks while addressing a ceremony saying, “In the political battle [with the West], Islam and Muslims have emerged victorious, and this is a reality. A proof [to this reality] is the humiliating escape of the [American] enemy from Afghanistan.” The Iranian forces will now strike at the U.S. heartland with our people already in the U.S “We are in the final stages of the resistance and this juncture has always been difficult, but the Iranian nation is certainly about to score a great triumph.”Salami said.
Large /amount of Arson Already Going on
I have been to Iran numerous times, flown in their military aircraft and this nation is very efficient and you can expect various forms of sabotage, attacks, and murder, which is likely already occurred. When the Iranians boast that strong attacks of the U.S. will happen as millions of illegal immigrants from a hundred of different countries including Iranians cross our Southern Border and are flown throughout the U.S.
The U.S. Government will likely not admit any sabotage and will call them accidents or the result of climate change. For example, Colorado wildfires destroy a thousand homes on December 31st near Denver — Winds driving fast-moving fires that forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate their homes outside DenverInvestigators are still trying to determine what sparked a massive fire, but no power lines were down near the fire.
There is no question that the jihadists are concluding that they are winning, and now, with the frail, weakened Ghost in the White House it is time for them to STEP UP THEIR GAME to CONQUER THE WORLD.
Two armed Iranian drones were shot down as they approached a military facility hosting American forces at Baghdad’s international airport followed by several the following day.
It is likely the Iranian’s have perfected their nuclear weapons and could attempt to explode them in a soft target like Washington D.C., New York Harbor or Tel Aviv.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels captured a military cargo” ship of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Red Sea. A vessel named Rawabi was kidnapped at 23:57 (2057 GMT) Sunday by the Houthi militia while off Hodeidah province according to Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV.
Iran’s military has threatened retaliatory attacks inside the US over the American assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations also called on the UN Security Council to hold the US and Israel responsible for assassinating General Soleimani.
“Given the dire implications of this terrorist act on international peace and security, the Security Council must live up to its Charter-based responsibilities and hold the US and the Israeli regime to account for planning, supporting and committing that terrorist act,” Takht Ravanchi said in his letter to the UNSC.
At the time of the drone strike that killed Soleimani, the US justified its actions to the UN as “self-defense” and said it was prepared to take any additional actions “as necessary” in the Middle East to protest US personnel and interests.
Read more:
Iran claims current US administration is also responsible for killing of Suleimani.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and aviators who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book, by John L. Guerra.
Filer’s Files Jan. 15 2022 UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941 - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Filer’s Files will be sent out twice monthly due to my macular degeneration instead of weekly.
Special reports are: Admiral Fahrney on UFOs, UFO Crash in Missouri in 1941, Lt. Colonel Talks about Investigating UFO Sightings, Mars Cave Opening, Super Interesting Plane and Drone Designs, Structure Deep Within Antarctica, Monsters of the Deep, Jet Stream Attack, Top 20 UFO Hotspots, Iran Pledges to attack U.S. Homeland, Carbon 60 and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Elk– on December 30, 2021, when the sunsets I take pictures and noticed orb when I scanned over them. A blue object pops up, looks like it had 5 lights, then disappears. It does movements no plane could do. The pictures were shot at 4:52-53 PM. With the backlight from the sunset, any rocket contrails would have stood out, but there is none for 2 pictures. This was nothing like Vandenberg AFB 2nd stage ignitions.
Note: The photos have been requested, but no response. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Colorado Lights
Phoenix– on December 1, 2021.
Connecticut Object
New Haven— on January 4, 2022, saw these weird clouds I’ve never seen. Looked closed saw object shooting upward from the base. Note: Likely a plane.
Florida Lights
Hialeah— on January 2, 2022, I want you to analyze the video and tell me if this is accurate. This is the best footage I have. The video at right shows UFO diving into the ocean.
Georgia Lights
On January 3, 2022, as flying along at 39,000 feet in an Airbus A320 somewhere over Georgia I shot the beautiful Milky with my iPhone 13. Tried to take a video of another aircraft flying just above us and noticed this V shaped object. It appears to be between us and the other aircraft. Both Captain and I would like to be anonymous.
Illinois Triangle
Sims – on December 20, 2021, while traveling north on Route 5, I saw what looked like a bright light in the distance. As it came closer it “glided silently” over my vehicle with 3 lights on the bottom going across the triangle shaped object. The lights were horizontal in the middle of the object. We turn around as fast as we can and see it off to the left across the fields that are there. Then we lost it again since there was no road to follow/
Kentucky Object
Adolohus — on January 10, 2022, on my way home I saw a flame looking thong in the sky. I lost it over the trees and found it, so I was able to get a picture.
New Jersey Lights
Pelican Island – on December 29, 2021, driving towards the Jersey coast over the ocean I observed 4 separate sphere like lights all in different shapes and colors that moved south. I observed them near Seaside Heights. I’m an astronomy buff and I know these were not stars, or aircraft the way they moved. They were pulsating and seemed to change colors and objects were in a triangular pattern with the 4th object located south of the other 3.
New York Object
Brooklyn – on October 19, 2021, I saw a shimmering stationary object in the sky that was changing shape very quickly It looked like a portal was rotating across the object and there was a small light which blinked on and off about 20 feet away.
South Carolina Lights
Orangeburg— on January 6, 2022, I have taken pictures of frequent UFO activity and like to record proof. I have seen many UFOs that were far off, but this was close. The craft came from the tree line pulsing multicolored lights and two orbs came out of it and began to blink red. I worked on C-17s in the Air Force and know that this was no aircraft. These crafts were moving slow and disappeared in the trees. Note: Similar sighting in Australia on January 3, 2022.
Texas Object
Lake Dallas –on January 8, 2018, I have pictures of two UFOs my daughter took. I also saw two in Dallas on different dates. Both were translucent orange the smaller one was almond shaped and was following a Southwest jet. I saw both of these around sunset heading northeast.
Santa Anna– on December 27, 2021, the object is passing in front of the sun at high-speed wit vapor trails.
Note:The witness didn’t elaborate much on the details of the sighting.
Update – Jan 9, 2022: The witness sent two more photos taken with a game camera. The second photo above (12:40 PM) shows the object. I have no idea of the identity of this object, but it’s not a kite, balloon, or drone. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
West Virginia Lights
A8gusta– on November 18, 2021, took the dog outside to discover these three objects flying directly over my house. They had many lights, some of which were steady and some flashing. They were moving slowly while emitting a humming sound.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
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Maleny — on January 3, 2022, y wife, our 2 sons and their partners were sky watching when we noticed an extremely low bright light. It was heading from north and at one stage zipped extremely fast then faded out nowhere near the horizon. You can see it zip really fast as another one also seems to fade in above it.
Canada Object
Red Deer – on December 18, 2021, while delivering a food item I witnessed an object that was red in color. At first thought it could be a balloon, but it suddenly changed shape from oval to triangle and emitted a bright red light on top and bottom. It was gone in seconds.
Hudson Bay–- on March 21, 2021, they look like really bright twinkling stars that move around like no stars or satellites or anything celestial ever could. They are there outside of Cranbrook every night going on 16 months now. I have seen videos from 35 U.S. states and 11 other countries of similar objects. They look like the things flying around the Space Shuttle. Zoom in and they look like round disks of plasma pulsating, and changing colors, changing to diamond, square, or rectangle. They are now a global phenomenon that often project faces of humans or alien faces. I have hundreds of images with faces with them.
France Light
Le temple sur lot– on December 24, 2021, orange ball at medium altitude moving fast.
Germany Light
Altenriet– on December 31, 2021, I took a series of 12 photos from 11:55pm to 11:57pm., and early an object in a circular shape of lights appears with a second light near it. The shape changes to a triangle of three lights very high. Someone 2.5 hours north reported having also seen the object.
Mexico Lights
Tijuana– on December 24, 2021, while shooting a landscape picture showing Venus a light flew south over the Pacific coast was captured. It “looks blurry” because it moved so fast but next picture is fine. I noticed a hovering cloud next to the bright star. The main shape is oval, and it has three luminescent spots.
Philippines Light
Manila – on December 29, 2021, sitting on my balcony I noticed a mall bright white flying northeast, 1-2 kilometers away. It was definitely not an aircraft. Minutes later, the object re-appeared heading west. It flew directly over my building emitting a yellow light underneath.
Puerto Rico Light
Dorado– on January 2, 2022, it was floating then it just continues west over us.
Philippines Light
Manila– on December 29, 2021, sitting on my balcony I noticed a mall bright white flying northeast, 1-2 kilometers away. It was definitely not an aircraft. Minutes later, the object re-appeared heading west. It flew directly over my building emitting a yellow light underneath.
UK/England Object
Bicester on January 5, 2022, two large brown/black silent craft flew 20-40 feet above me quickly. After sunset they looked like a lozenge shape a little bigger than cars with small wings on each side. They were in formation with no lights, no sound, very low.
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Curiosity, the silver-haired veteran of the Red Planet rover corps, has proven once again there’s still life in its batteries and surface samples driller – but has it proven that there’s life on Mars? Many recent headlines seem to be blaring this, but David Bowie wouldn’t be adding a verse just yet, and NASA agrees … although what Curiosity dug up is definitely an unusual carbon signature that is one of the signs of life. But … is it THE sign of life on Mars?
Curiosity
“After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists today announced that several of the samples are rich in a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes.”
That’s a pretty strong opening sentence in NASA’s press release on the discovery, which highlights findings soon to be published in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Before we dig into what Curiosity dug up, a shout-out is in order for SAM – the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) chemistry lab aboard Curiosity whose Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) instrument inside it heated 24 samples from geologically diverse locations in the Gale crater (Curiosity’s Daytona International Speedway) to about 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (850 degrees Celsius), releasing their gases and then measuring the isotopes. They surprisingly showed that nearly half of their samples containing high amounts of carbon 12 compared to the Martian atmosphere or Martian meteorites found on Earth. Drop the mic time?
“The hardest thing is letting go of Earth and letting go of that bias that we have and really trying to get into the fundamentals of the chemistry, physics and environmental processes on Mars.”
Not yet, says Goddard Space Flight Center astrobiologist and study participant Jennifer L. Eigenbrode. One explanation for the carbon signatures is that the Solar System once passed through a giant, molecular cloud of dust that left the carbon deposits behind. Another is that ultraviolet light converted CO2 to organic compounds through abiotic (non-biological) processes – this can happen on Earth as well. Finally, there’s the biggie – Mars may have once had methane-producing microbes living on its surface.
“All three possibilities point to an unusual carbon cycle unlike anything on Earth today. But we need more data to figure out which of these is the correct explanation.”
We need to send some humans.
In a separate press release, Penn State geoscientist and study leader Christopher House points out that not only is Mars not like Earth today, it may have never been much like its close neighbor. The same could be said of Curiosity – it may not have its own helicopter like Perseverance, but its discoveries keep revealing more details about the freakiest show that may one day answer David Bowie’s most famous question — is there life on Mars?
Guys, I was looking into this photo again that I reported a 25km structure on Mars in...and the URL is giving me a 404 error code and it says, "The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists." If that doesn't scream out guilty by NASA then I don't know what does. This photo was just taken off line after making it into world news several times! Look at the screenshot below to see it in the news.
This is why I make videos and give you the sources...but NASA is using my information, stealing it, to edit their photo index! That means what I found...is 100% real! And NASA just admitted to it by deleting it!
Here is a great interview with some UFO eyewitnesses and experts in Senganomori, Japan. There is a mountain area there that is a hotspot for UFOs. They say the mountain stone contains a lot of metal and magnetism...and this is what could be attracting the UFOs. Another theory they said is that there may be an alien base below the mountain area. This video shines a light on the unknown craft in our sky and over Japan...and how we see them today is so much more realistic than how we ignored and laughed at such things decades ago. The truth is coming out, little by little. But...truth cannot hide forever. Every person who helps raise awareness of UFOs is helping the cause. Helping all of humanity come...one step closer to full alien disclosure.
I think I found the alien base the UFOs come from. There is an area in the ocean that contains several huge structures on the ocean floor. These structures have a complex design which looks to be made by intelligent beings. This may be the base of the UFOs. Google ruler puts the biggest structure at 10km long and 1.5km wide. It seems undeniable proof that there is an alien base in Japan waters.
A low flying UFO shaped cloud flew over Beijing two months ago.
Aliens have rules, not our rules, but their rules, and one of them is that they have to at least attempt to keep us from seeing them so they don't cause panic down here. So they make a cloud around the UFO. This is also a great way to come in low and bold just a hundred meters over the land itself so they can monitor our internet, phones, and even scan the people, homes, tech within the homes. Mostly its gathering intel, but...why? I hope its just out of curiosity of learning early development of our society in general, but they could be using the data to access if we are worthy to continue living on this planet...a test that may never end, but happen again, and again, and again throughout human history.
Also the winter olympics are going to be held in Beijing in the communing weeks. Perhaps this UFO wanted to look over the area so that they could see the athletes training and competing there. In the face of threat of covid, war, discrimination and political differences...the nations of the world will unite...in peace. That could intrigue aliens a bit.
George Knapp & Luis Elizondo – UFOs: What’s Next?… COAST TO COAST AM 2022
COAST TO COAST AM – January 2022. UFOs were a hot topic in 2021, from a new program approved by Congress to study the phenomenon to dramatic statements issued by intelligence and military officials. Lue Elizondo, a former intelligence officer who spent ten years working with a secret DOD effort investigating UAP, joined George Knapp in the first half to discuss what comes next.
Trivia buffs will know that Italy contains two other countries within its boundaries – the famous Vatican City and the not-so-famous San Marino. The Most Serene Republic of San Marino is located in northeastern Italy, has a population of over 33,000, and is led by two equal heads of state known collectively as Captains Regent. The current Captains Regent may make San Marino more famous than Italy or Vatican City as they recently approved allowing the country to make a historic United Nations request to host periodic UFO/UAP conferences.
San Marino’s Mount Titan castle
“On January 12, 2022, in fact, an important meeting took place in San Marino. Dr. Roberto Pinotti and Dr. Augusto Casali were received by the Most Excellent Captains Regent [Capitani Reggenti], the Heads of State of the Republic of San Marino. The object of the cordial meeting, which lasted over an hour, was the presentation of the Titano Project to the highest authorities of the Republic.”
The meeting was announced by Paolo Guizzardi, creator and project manager of Project Titan (Titano Project) – named for Mount Titano, the highest peak in San Marino. Roberto Pinotti is the President of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale (CUN) of Italy, President of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research (ICER), the UFO organizations behind the project, and former editor of UFO magazine. Pinotti is also the author of “UFO Contacts In Italy: Volume One : 1907 – 1978” which contains photos he claims are of real extraterrestrials that landed in Francavillia, Italy, starting in 1956.
The author of “UFO Contacts In Italy: Volume One : 1907 – 1978” is Dr. Robert Pinotti, the founder of the National UFO Center (CUN) who is considered to be a leading expert in European UFO sightings. In that capacity, he has acted as a UFO consultant for the Italian government and claims to have seen secret documents on encounters from the Italian Department of Defense.
Augusto Casali is San Marino’s former Minister of Tourism who previously helped hold a series of International Symposia on Unidentified Flying Objects under the auspices of the San Marino government.
“Dr. Pinotti then gave a clear picture of the latest developments of the situation in the USA that sees the full “clearance” of the UAP phenomenon, making it clear that the only reasonably foreseeable obstacle that could have had negative repercussions for San Marino was now overcome.”
According to Guizzardi, the Captains Regent were impressed with the presentation and like the idea of San Marino and Mount Titan becoming the new “Geneva of UFOs.” The next step is for Francesco Mussoni and Giacomo Simoncini, the current Captains Regent, to the Grand and General Council, San Marino’s legislative body, for approval. (They need to do this quickly because they only serve six month terms as Captains Regent). Since this is an international program, Guizzardi says the proposal would then be presented to the United Nations for a preliminary examination, discussion and ultimately a vote by the General Assembly.
I didn’t know there was another Geneva.
Project Titan obviously has two purposes – to tap into the rising interest of UFOs around the world by becoming a center for international meetings, and to use that publicity to turn it into a tourist attraction. It obviously has a high-powered and highly experienced UFO research team behind it. However, Pinotti points out that this was tried once before in 1978 by Sir Eric Gairy, then Prime Minister of Grenada, who made a similar proposal to the UN which was shut down by the UK.
Will San Marino become the “Geneva of UFOs”? Let’s hope so. It beats Area 51 in the summer.
An odd and surprising discovery was made when water vapor was detected in the atmosphere of a giant exoplanet. The Neptune-like planet, which has been named TOI-674 b, has a mass that is 23.6 times greater than Earth’s. It is located about 150 light-years away from us in the constellation Antlia.
During the recent virtual American Astronomical Society media briefings, Jonathan Brande, who is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, stated, “We think we see water vapor on TOI-674 b, which is really exciting.” It’s also very odd because the planet completes a full orbit its host star (a red dwarf) every two days, so the radiation from the star should have stripped the planet of its atmosphere.
As a matter of fact, TOI-674 b orbits its star at a very close distance of just 0.025 AU (one AU is the distance of Earth to the sun), so it’s baffling as to why water vapor was detected. Furthermore, the planet would have temperatures of 680 degrees Fahrenheit (360 degrees Celsius).
(Not TOI-674 b)
Brande, as well as his advisor, astronomer Ian Crossfield from the University of Kansas, detected the water in TOI-674 b’s atmosphere by analyzing data from the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. They studied the atmosphere when the planet traveled in front of its host star during three separate occasions.
TOI-674 b is one of only a few examples of water vapor being found on this type of planet. They have such short orbital periods that are so rare that astronomers call that area the “Neptune Desert”.
Another mystery is finding out where exactly TOI-674 b was formed, particularly in comparison to the water ice line (this is at a distance from the star where the temperature would be cold enough to sustain solid ice). In an interview with Astronomy, Brande explained this in further detail, “Planets forming closer to their host stars inside the water ice line should have less atmospheric water than those forming further away, outside the water ice line.”
(Not TOI-674 b)
It’s still unclear as to how much water is in the planet’s atmosphere, but if the amount can be calculated, experts would be able to determine where TOI-674 b formed. “…it almost certainly didn’t form this close to the star and needed to migrate into its current orbit somehow,” Brande added.
An artist’s impression of TOI-674 b can be seen here.
TOI-674b orbits its red dwarf host star about every two days. Despite its close orbit, the super-Neptune, seen in this artist's concept, has water vapor in its atmosphere.
It seems one can’t buy a car these days that isn’t equipped with obstacle-detection and accident-avoidance systems to compensate for the blind spots that hide these dangerous encounters. Too bad the same isn’t true for planets! NASA just revealed that its fancy-schmancy asteroid detection system has a major blind spot that causes it to miss not the really fast asteroids but the slowest moving space rocks. Show we all point our doorbell monitors upwards until they fix it?
We’ll try anything!
“For some objects that approach Earth from east of opposition, the induced topocentric motion coming from Earth’s rotation cancels the natural eastward motion in the sky, making the object appear to be almost stationary, This makes discovery difficult.”
Near Earth Objects (NEOs) don’t become problems until they’re Nearer-and-nearer Earth Objects. That’s why the JPL Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS) tracks and models their orbits in support of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. It’s also why space agencies are working on asteroid defense programs such as the recently launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) to test if crashing a spacecraft on an asteroid can knock it off a collision course. Unfortunately, the news over the past few years has been more about large asteroids that show up without anyone noticing their approach until they hit the ground, splash into the ocean, blow up in the atmosphere or shoot by on their way to another unsuspecting planet. Fortunately, a new study has found the cause of the blind spot these asteroids are sneaking through and may be able to fix it before we become a real-life version of the hit movie “Don’t Look Up.”
“In the event that we find something that is going to hit the earth we would like to do something about it. It’s not a matter of finding them and sitting there and letting it hit.”
According to Professor Richard Wainscoat, head of the research team whose NASA-funded study was published this week in the journal Icarus, the current detection systems are programmed to search for objects on the most common path of traveling west in the sky due to Earth’s eastward rotation. However, when an extremely slow asteroid approaches from the east heading west, it appears to the programs to be stationary and harmless. While even one large asteroid sneaking past the sentry is bad news, the study found that 50 per cent of space rocks coming in from the east are the slow-motion, blind spot kind.
“The bright moon produces temporary blindness for surveys in areas of the sky adjacent to the moon.”
If that’s not bad enough, Wainright points out that asteroids approaching from a direction close to the moon are also hard to see – think about what it’s like driving into direct sunlight in the early morning or late evening. So far, only 40% of large asteroids that are closely approaching Earth have been catalogued and Wainscoat says he won’t feel comfortable until that number reaches “more than 90%.” Unfortunately, that means depending on existing tracking systems — Pan-STARRS, the Catalina Sky Survey, ATLAS, the Rubin Observatory and ESA’s Flyeye Telescope – because the planned NEO Surveyor Mission (NEOSM) (scheduled to launch in 2026) will survey the sky from inside Earth’s orbit and be unable to detect impacting asteroids in the blind spot.
Artist’s depiction of the NEO Surveyor Mission (NEOSM)
“This isn’t happening, right? Kate, this isn’t real, right? This is just some sort of alternate reality, right? Say something.” (Dr. Randall Mindy, played Leonardo DiCaprio, in “Don’t Look Up.”)
Astronomers have spied three more exoplanets. But the discovery might not last long. Each planet is in a separate solar system, and each orbits perilously close to its star. Even worse, all of the stars are dying.
The results?
Three doomed planets.
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other planet-hunting endeavours have found thousands of exoplanets in the last few years and decades. The exoplanets vary widely, from Earth-like planets in their stars’ quiet habitable zones to planets so hot that vaporized iron falls as rain.
But these three exoplanets have something in common. They have very short-period orbits—some of the shortest ever found—around sub-giant or giant stars. For planets like these, the writing is on the wall: they’ll spiral inward towards their stars, which will eventually engulf them.
A team of researchers presented these grim findings in a new paper titled “TESS Giants Transiting Giants II: The hottest Jupiters orbiting evolved stars.” The Astronomical Journal accepted the paper, and it’s up on the pre-press site arxiv.org. Samuel Grunblatt is the lead author. He’s a postdoctoral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and the Flatiron Institute.
The discovery might sound macabre: three doomed planets that’ll spiral inwards toward their end, with stars that are also inching towards death as they leave the main sequence. But that would be misrepresenting the discovery. Instead, think of it as planetary archaeology.
“These discoveries are crucial to understanding a new frontier in exoplanet studies: how planetary systems evolve over time,” Grunblatt said in a press release. “These observations offer new windows into planets nearing the end of their lives before their host stars swallow them up.”
The three planets are TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI-2669b. TOI stands for Tess Object of Interest, and the number is the star. The “b” denotes the planet closest to the star in each system.
This figure shows what TESS data can look like after it’s processed. Each panel was processed differently, but each one shows the same overall result. In this study, a nearby star contaminated the stellar flux data from TOI-4329, so the researchers used data processed in three different ways to strengthen their results. TESS gathered the data over 2.9 days of observations. Image Credit: Grunblatt et al 2022.
All of the planets are gas giants, similar to Jupiter in our Solar System. Astronomers found them during a survey looking for new planets orbiting evolved host stars. The worlds range from 0.4 to 1.8 Jupiter masses and 0.8 to 1.8 Jupiter radii. The stars range from about 1.2 to 1.5 solar masses and about 2.3 to 4.1 solar radii.
The planets have a wide range of densities, which indicates that each of the solar systems underwent a chaotic period of planet-to-planet interactions. Astronomers think that the history of those interactions contributed to the density variations through unpredictable heating rates and timescales.
The James Webb Space Telescope may be able to tease out some of the details in at least one of these systems. When it examines the TOI-4329 system, the presence or lack of water vapour and CO2 in the planet’s atmosphere could restrain the location where the planet formed. It could also provide insight into the types of planetary interactions that put the planet into its current orbit.
The spectrographs onboard the James Webb Space Telescope provide scientists with the data needed to analyze the materials that make up stars, nebulae, galaxies, and planets’ atmospheres. Image Credit: ESA
In planet-star configurations like these, astronomers expect the planets to inflate as they inch closer to the stars and as the stars expand. The stars will eventually engulf the planets as their orbits spiral inwards. So far, TESS hasn’t detected any evidence of a decaying orbit. But TESS found these planets during its Prime Mission. It’ll gather more data during its Extended Missions, and that data will form a longer baseline of observations. That more extended baseline may indicate that the planets are already in their death spirals.
Planetary inflation is becoming an important metric in understanding exoplanets. Why do some planets as massive as Jupiter have much greater radii? Gas giants experience radiative cooling from their inner depths, inhibiting inflation over long timescales, beginning shortly after formation. Proximity to a star might delay that cooling and promote inflation.
But there’s also growing evidence that proximity to a star can actively cause inflation through stellar flux. In a previous paper by lead author Greenblatt in 2017, the authors wrote, “Stellar flux flowing to the planets’ deep convective interiors could therefore explain their current size, an indication that planet ‘inflation’ is directly tied to stellar irradiation rather than delayed atmospheric cooling after the planets’ formation.”
Scientists think that gas giants like Jupiter have a deep radiative zone that transfers heat to a convective zone. Over time, the release of heat keeps the planet from inflating. But as a gas giant comes closer to its star, stellar flux can add heat to the planet, causing inflation. Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI
But planetary inflation is a complicated issue. In the same 2017 paper, the authors write that “Planets may be inflated by methods that are more strongly dependent on other factors such as atmospheric metallicity than incident flux.”
Though there’s no indication of orbital decay in the planets yet, there is evidence of inflation for at least one planet. TOI-2337b has the shortest orbital period of any world ever found around a red giant star, but it shows no sign of inflation. The TOI-2669b system is the most evolved system of the three, yet the planet doesn’t show any signs of inflation either. TOI-4329b, however, does show signs of inflation.
TOI-2669b is a brighter target than the other two in this study. That makes it a good target for spectroscopy with the James Webb Telescope. That data, along with tighter constraints on the planet’s eccentricity, “… could place new constraints on planet inflation and migration mechanisms and timescales.”
The three planets in this study are just the beginning. TESS should find many more of them. “We expect to find tens to hundreds of these evolved transiting planet systems with TESS, providing new details on how planets interact with each other, inflate, and migrate around stars, including those like our Sun,” said Nick Saunders, a graduate student at UH IfA and co-author of the study.
TESS had some help in this work. While it found the planets with the transit method, those findings only reveal candidate exoplanets. Confirmation as exoplanets requires ground-based follow-up observations. The Keck Observatory provided those via its High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) instrument. Data from HIRES fleshed out the discoveries.
The Sun sets on Mauna Kea as the twin Kecks prepare for observing. Credit: Laurie Hatch/ W. M. Keck Observatory
“The Keck observations of these planetary systems are critical to understanding their origins, helping reveal the fate of solar systems like our own,” said UH IfA Astronomer Daniel Huber, who co-authored the study. Studies like this one might also be tiny steps towards answering humanity’s most significant question: Are we alon
All of this might sound academic to a casual reader. But our own Sun will one day leave the main sequence and begin to expand into a red subgiant and will likely engulf Earth. It’s doubtful that humanity will survive until then since it won’t happen for billions of years. Extinctions are the norm here on Earth, but maybe humanity will somehow beat the cosmic odds.
In the meantime, at least we’re learning more about nature and the Universe we’re a part of.
Alien Underground-Phil Schneider True Story. New Documentary by Darcy Weir
Alien Underground-Phil Schneider True Story. New Documentary by Darcy Weir
THE UNDERGROUND – A HIDDEN REALITY AND THE TRUE STORY OF PHIL SCHNEIDER BY DARCY WEIR New and Improved Documentary about the mysterious life of Phil Schneider and the claims he made about underground bases built by the government to house Alien technology and secrets.
Phil Schneider died in 1996. Previous to his death he had been on tour across the United States speaking out about various subjects including his involvement with building a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico for the military. During this time, he was said to have had an encounter with a violent E.T race in the late 1970′s which would change his whole life immediately after. This documentary explores some of the information Phil Schneider spoke about to the public in the 1990′s by examining each claim in detail with expert opinions from Richard Dolan, Richard Sauder, and Cynthia Drayer (Phil’s Ex-Wife). In this documentary you will find never before published photos of Phil’s Autopsy, documents about the Philadelphia Experiment from Oscar Schneider’s files (Phil’s father) and a very well explained background about Underground Bases. — Darcy Weir
Now this is one of the best detailed structures I have ever found on Mars. According to the photo ruler at the bottom of the photo, the structure measures 25km and could be up to 45km across! Now I thought that was amazing and it really blew my mind, but then I thought about it and decided to look around the photo more and found that there were dozens of blurred out areas...almost 10% of the entire photo! Some of those areas had blurred structures slightly visible (about 20-30% transparent) and then I realized...NASA had fooled me into thinking there were less structures on Mars. But this photo proves that theory wrong. There are hundreds of structures in this photo alone! I feel like a fool to not have known earlier. I guess the regular photos I looked through were too highly edited, but these elevation photos, were much less edited. Anyways, in the video I not only show people what I found, but teach others how to find such things. The video is in HD so the detail is great.
100% proof aliens inhabited Mars on a global scale!
Black Object Shoots Past Plane 9-24-2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 9-24-2018, but reported yesterday to MUFON Location of sighitng: London, UK Source: MUFON
Note that on the close up of the UFO above there are no wings, not propellers, nothing to indicate its anything but a UFO. UFOs often scout out the most high tech devices they can in order to scan them and learn about our current technological levels of humanity. Here we see a perfect oval UFO shoot past the passenger jet as if it were standing still. Also note, most UFOs are cloaked from radar, and our radar tech is the same today as it was back in the 1970, so that tech is basically stunted (stagnate) and easy to hide from. What we see here in this 2018 video is 100% proof that UFOs investigate passengers jets, jeopardizing the crew and passengers by coming incredibly close to the plane before shooting away.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
We were out on our balcony at our Airbnb in London, UK. We were directly under a flight landing path, and my girlfriend took this video. After examining it later, we noticed at the 25 second mark, something flew by this plane. It went from tail to nose. Left hand side of the video. If you slow it down you’ll see something fly from the bottom left, up toward top left of the screen. Pretty amazing because the plane was right there beside it in the video, and can give you a great scale of the size comparison.
Harvard Professor Explores Does extraterrestrial intelligence exist? UFO Sighting News.
Date of interview: Dec 11, 2021 Location of interview:University of Harvard, USA
Professor Avi Loeb is interviewed about the existence of intelligent alien life in the universe. The answers are enlightening. He says that humanity is trying to comprehend beyond itself to better understand the possibility of intelligent life out there, but its hindered by the fact that most humans can't see beyond themselves, but mostly focus on the self. The big picture is ignored, but he is optimistic that humanity will continue to evolve and science will one day unlock all doors including finding intelligent life in the universe. As a Harvard professor it may be bit difficult to come out and just say, yes, aliens exist, but in his long winded and well explained interview...he did state it already. He doesn't want to jeopardize his position at an ivy league university. So yes, he believes there is life more intelligent than humans, but they are so intelligent and beyond us that we cannot comprehend such creatures even exist. Very exciting really. I totally agree 100%.
Light Over Home At Tupelo, Mississippi 1-17-2022,UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 17, 2022 Location of sighing:Tupelo, Mississippi, USA Source: MUFON
Now one of the complaints from inexperienced viewers I often get is that those are planet lights. The first comment on this video stated, "Come on...anything that flashes like that is...a plane. But his impatiences and inexperience shows. You see I can quote hundreds of UFO reports that state the UFO had "flashing lights"...such incidences can be found in Project Blue Book, MJ12 files, US Pentagon documents and much more. So...flashing lights doesn't mean its always a plane. It just means the lights can easily cause a human to BELIEVE it's only a plane. Aliens are masters at deception...since they have mostly gotten away with hiding from us for so long. This video below...it's a UFO. Welcome to the truth, the truth will set you free, but first it will hurt like hell.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Moved slowly through the air with a low humming noise and had a pulsing reddish orange light and the shape of a sphere.
George Knapp is an author, speaker, and the chief investigative reporter at KLAS TV in Las Vegas, NV. Jeremy Corbell is a contemporary artist and documentary filmmaker.
Men in Black Really Exist – A Strange US Air Force Memo Suggests
UFO seekers have had to deal with the enigmatic Men in Black throughout the years.
According to John Keel, Men in Black are persons who act as military commanders with the intent of suppressing the UFO mystery inquiry, reducing the credibility of those participating in such investigations, and instilling terror in witnesses.
A previous US Air Force report corroborates this, stating that the branch and the Blue Book Project were aware of these black guys and had recorded multiple occasions in which they intimidated UFO witnesses and seized photographic evidence.
What our fans have to say:
“I’ve seen the guys in black and they absolutely exist, but not in the context of UFOs. You will encounter these folks if you are one of the unlucky ones working on a SAP. I’m not sure why they dress in all black and have such a commanding presence, but they do… they don’t only deal with UFOs, they deal with black projects in general. It all sounds a little over-the-top and somewhat comical to me, but these men are dead serious, and I’m quite sure they have carte blanche to do whatever they want.”
“They’re also in Canada… their attitudes are out of this planet… simply ignore them like a nightmare… did I or didn’t…(?)”
Take a look at the video below and let us know what you think.
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Scots munro-bagger who may have spotted UFO says it 'changed my life'
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