Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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There are already dozens of claims in favor of extraterrestrial visitation. Today, numerous astronauts and government officials support the UAP phenomena, and some are highly positive that they could have an alien origin. The Honorable Paul Hellyer (1923-2021), former Canadian Minister of Defense said extraterrestrials have been visiting our planet for thousands of years and it is likely that at least two of them are working with the U.S. government and sharing their highly-advanced technologies with humans.
In the 1960s, Paul Hellyer, a high-ranking official during the Cold War, asserted that he had discovered with certainty about the existence of aliens while serving in the military. He said that people from other worlds had been coming to Earth for a very long time. He insisted that a lot of the stuff that makes up our high-tech gadgetry had been gifted to us by overly-advanced ETs.
Hellyer had long expressed his views on extraterrestrials in public. He testified at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in May 2013 in Washington, DC. Five former members of U.S. Congress and one former U.S. senator listened to more than thirty hours of testimony from government officials, military personnel, researchers, and witnesses.
Huffington Post Canada described that, as part of his testimony, Hellyer stated that “aliens are living among us and that it is likely at least two of them are working with the U.S. government.” More specifically, Hellyer announced that at least four species of extraterrestrials had been visiting Earth for thousands of years. According to Huffington Post Canada, he also stated that some extraterrestrials originate from the “Zeta Reticuli, the Pleiades, Orion, Andromeda, and Altair star systems” and “may have different agendas.”
He first spoke openly about his belief governments are covering up an alien presence back in 2005, saying UFOs are as plentiful in our sky as airplanes. “Much of the media won’t touch it, so you just have to keep working away at it and we will get a critical mass and one day they will say Mr. President or Mr. Prime Minister, we want the truth and we want it now because it affects our lives.”
In 2013, Hellyer appeared on the RT interview show SophieCo with Sophie Shevardnadze to discuss extraterrestrials and UFOs. Shevardnadze asked Hellyer, “Why do you say that UFOs are as real as airplanes flying over our heads?” Hellyer replied, “Because I know that they are. As a matter of fact, they’ve been visiting our planet for thousands of years.” He further stated military action had brought down UFOs, and humans had adapted alien technology for use on Earth. (Source)
He said: “As far as technology is concerned, they are light years ahead of us, and we have learned a lot of things from them. A lot of the things we use today we got from them, you know – led lights and microchips and Kevlar vests and all sorts things that we got from their technology and we could get a lot more too, especially in the fields of medicine and agriculture if we would go about it peacefully. But, I think, maybe some of our people are more interested in getting the military technology, and I think that’s wrong-headed, and that’s one of the things that we are going to have to change, because we’re going to have to work together, all of us, everywhere on the planet.”
Hellyer takes us to where he saw his first UFO, and points. Credit: Motherboard
Shevardnadze asked: “Have you ever had your own encounter with aliens?” Hellyer replied: “Not encounter with aliens, no. I’ve seen a UFO, about 120 miles north of Toronto, over Lake Muskoka, where I have a cottage. Two years ago, at Thanksgiving, which is October, [my wife?] said that she wanted to go out and look at the stars, so… I’m not much of a night man… but I put on my cap and went out with her and she looked into the eastern sky and said, ‘There’s a star,’ and I turned the other way and said, ‘Oh, there’s a much brighter one over here,’ and she looked there and we watched it until our necks almost broke for about 20 minutes, and it was definitely a UFO because it could change position in the sky by three or four degrees in three or four seconds.”
Shevardnadze further asked Hellyer if shooting down those UFOs was risking an interstellar war, and, if so, “should we be creating a Star Wars force to defend ourselves from possible invasion or something like that?”
Hellyer said: “I think it’s a possibility, but it’s a possibility especially if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace without asking who they are and what they want. Right from the beginning, we started scrambling planes, trying to shoot them down, but their technology was superior enough that we weren’t able to get away with it, certainly not for a long while.”
He continued: “During that period of time they could have taken us over without any trouble if they wanted to, so I think, rather than developing our own Star Wars to protect ourselves against them, we should work with the benign species that are of a vast majority and work together, and rely largely on them, of course, and cooperate, so that we would be contributing something at the same time; I don’t think there’s any point in us developing a galactic force that would tempt us to ride on our own and get into mischief, which is one of the things that some of them are concerned about.”
On countering physicist Stephen Hawking’s assertion that any alien visitors to Earth would likely be malevolent, Hellyer argued that not only have aliens already visited Earth but that they have helped contribute to humanity’s technological progress. He said earthlings owe a lot to their alien friends. “Even that computer screen on your desk,” he said, “can trace its origins to spaceships. Microchips, for example, fiber-optics, they are just two of the many things that allegedly — and probably for real — came from crashed vehicles,” Hellyer added. (Source)
Hellyer was not the only one speaking of a partnership between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence. The former head of the Israeli space security program and retired general Haim Eshed also claimed that a sort of agreement had been made between aliens and the US government to keep silent on their experiments on Earth and secret bases on Mars.
Mr. Eshed said that aliens and “Galactic federation” do exist and have been working with the US and the Israel government for years, but they keep it a secret to avoid mass hysteria. According to him, President Trump was aware of it and has already been in contact with space aliens. He further said that the aliens have been waiting for humans to evolve and reach a certain stage to actually understand space and spaceships. Besides, they signed a contract with humans to do experiments on Earth and also research with them to learn the fabric of the universe.
Pilot Giancarlo Cecconi was returning to Treviso AFB, Italy, in his G-91R fighter with his G-91R group 14 of the Air Force’s 2nd Fighter Wing, after completing a reconnaissance mission on June 18, 1979 at 11:30 am.
The Istrana Radar Center (TV) registered the intruder’s presence on its radar screens and instructed Cecconi to approach an unidentified aircraft that entered the restricted area.
With unused film in the cameras of his aircraft, the pilot activated the cameras and approached the UFO at a distance of 70-80 meters and at a speed estimated at 300 knots (450-500 km).
Airport ground staff watched the event through binoculars. Cecconi was called in by the Treviso control tower to warn him that the object was emitting a strange blue trail.
He pursued the object at an altitude of 7,000 feet, but did not notice its trace. When the pilot approached the object, he moved up and down at an altitude of 1,000 feet at a time, climbing up to 13,000 feet.
Cecconi flew seven to eight flights near the object and each time photographed the UFO with a camera, resulting in 82 frames in which the intruder was captured.
The visible UFO was stationary relative to the G-91, but the radar center confirmed to Sesconi that it was moving, its course and speed were determined.
The pilot saw a matte black cylindrical object and the presence of a small white or transparent “dome” located on the upper side of a slightly flattened object.
The dome was similar in shape to those found on sports cars. While Cecconi was making another call to return to another series of photographs, Istrana’s radar called and reported that the object had suddenly disappeared from their and other radars.
Seconds later, Treviso’s control tower confirmed that the UFO had visually disappeared. A few minutes later the plane landed, the films were removed and quickly developed.
The object was a cylindrical object no less than eight meters (26 feet) long and no more than three in diameter, flying thirteen thousand feet in the sky.
The incident is significant thanks to the camera footage, radar, and visual evidence from several witnesses, including a highly respected fighter pilot.
The image from lunar orbit shows a crater called Zeeman on the moon's far side, near the south pole.
The first detailed photo of the moon's surface taken by Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft. The image, which the nation's space agency Roscosmos released on Aug. 17, 2023, was taken from orbit and shows a landscape on the moon's far side, near the south pole. (Image credit: Roscosmos via Telegram)
Russia's first moon mission in nearly 50 years keeps notching milestones.
The Luna-25 lander has snapped its first detailed photo of the moon's surface, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced today (Aug. 17) in a Telegram post.
"Pictured is the south polar crater Zeeman on the far side of the moon," Roscosmos officials wrote in the post, which also shared the photo. "The coordinates of the center of the crater correspond to 75 degrees south latitude and 135 degrees west longitude." (The post is in Russian; translation by Google.)
Images of Earth (left) and the moon (right) taken by Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft during its flight to the moon on August 13, 2023, from a distance of about 192,625 miles (310,000 km) from Earth. (Image credit: IKI RAS)
Luna-25 launched on Aug. 10, marking the start of a new era of Russian space exploration. The last Russian moon probe to take flight was Luna-24 in 1976, when the nation was still part of the Soviet Union.
Luna-25 remains in lunar orbit, but it won't be there for long. The probe is scheduled to make a touchdown try in the coming days, perhaps as soon as Aug. 21.
The lander will aim for a patch of gray dirt near the the moon's south pole, an area thought to be rich in water ice. If Luna-25 sticks the landing, the spacecraft will hunt for water ice and perform a variety of other investigations during a surface mission expected to last one Earth year.
Russia isn't the only nation with the south pole in its sights. India's Chandrayaan 3 lander aims to touch down in the area as well, on Aug. 23 or Aug. 24. And NASA is targeting the lunar south pole over the longer haul: The agency plans to land the crewed Artemis 3 mission there in late 2025 or 2026, a prelude to the construction of one or more bases in the region.
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Dinosaur Wall Mystery: How Did Dino Prints End Up On Bolivian Cliff Face?
Long before we left our mark with handprints on cavern walls, some unexpected artists left their traces on Bolivian rock faces. These mysterious imprints? None other than dinosaur tracks! A magical blend of events left us puzzling over these traces on a nearly vertical wall.
The dinosaur track wall at Bolivia’s Cretaceous Park.
Tucked away in Bolivia's Chuquisaca, near its capital Sucre, Cal Orcko boasts the Parque Cretácico (‘Cretaceous Park’), famed for a wall teeming with the world's densest collection of dinosaur tracks. Imagine the buzz of discovering not just one, but thousands of ancient footprints! Dubbed the ‘dinosaur dancefloor', this crisscross of trails helps researchers picture various dinosaur species that once ruled, played, and competed here.
Cal Orcko means ‘lime hill’ in the local Quechua language, and is an indication of the rock found at the site, i.e. limestone. This site is located within the territory of FANCESA, the national cement company of Bolivia. This cement company has been quarrying limestone for many decades, and it was the workers of this company who discovered the first dinosaur footprints at Cal Orcko in 1985. It was, however, only nine years later, in 1994, that the giant dinosaur track wall was exposed by mining activities.
Although palaeontologists had begun to investigate the dinosaur tracks, exposure to the elements and mining operations resulted in the erosion and crumbling of the wall. To protect it, it shut its doors for 8 years, finally reemerging as a tourist magnet in 2006.
Undoubtedly, the park's crown jewel is the dinosaur track wall, stretching 80 m high and 1200 m long. It's a footprint treasure trove with over 5055 identified marks, branching into 462 unique trails, which showcase up to 15 different dinosaur species, all from the Cretaceous era. Hence, the park's moniker.
Footprints of some of the dinosaurs found at Cal Orcko. (Image: La gaveta )
Tracing the Footprints
It has been speculated that the Sucre area was once a large ocean inlet, and Cal Orcko a part of its shoreline. As dinosaurs walked along this shoreline during the Cretaceous period, they left their footprints in the soft clay, and were preserved when the clay solidified during the dry periods. A new layer of sediment would cover up the old one, and the process would begin again. As a result of this, multiple layers of dinosaur tracks were formed over time. This became evident in 2010, when a section of the wall collapsed. Whilst this destroyed some of the tracks, it also revealed another layer of footprints underneath it.
Dinosaur tracks and a disturbed section of the wall. ( CC BY 2.0 )
The Wall’s Rise to Fame
It has been hypothesized that the ocean inlet eventually became an isolated freshwater lake, based on the presence of freshwater creatures in the fossil evidence. Additionally, as a consequence of the shifting of the tectonic plates during the Tertiary period, the path that the dinosaurs once walked on rose upwards, and became an almost vertical wall. This is what led to today’s appearance of dinosaur tracks climbing the wall.
In the past, the cliff wall was fully accessible to the public, though in recent years, visitors could only get a glimpse of the wall from a viewing platform within the park. A new path has been unveiled, however, that allows visitors to get within a few meters of the wall, thus allowing much closer access to the dinosaur footprints.
The Wall’s Fragile Future
One of the main concerns regarding the dinosaur track wall is the fact that it is a limestone cliff. Pieces of rock, which may occasionally detach and fall from the cliff, can be considered to be a safety hazard. More alarming is the estimation that if the tracks are not adequately protected, it would be completely destroyed due to erosion in the near future. Therefore, the park is seeking to be recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which would provide it with the funds to carry out conservation work.
Top image: Fossilized dinosaur footprints at Cal Orko, Bolivia.
A close-up of a panorama taken by the Curiosity rover’s Mastcam at a Martian site called Pontours reveals hexagonal patterns — outlined in red in the same image, right — that suggest these mud cracks formed after many wet-dry cycles occurring over years.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/IRAP)
Hexagonal formations on Mars are record-keepers of its ancient wet environment — and may reveal if Earth’s neighbor could have ever supported microbial life.
On August 9, the journal Nature published a paper based on observations made by NASA’s Curiosity rover, a mission that, earlier this month, celebrated its eleventh year of exploring Gale Crater. There are cracks within the hexagonal formations the six-wheeled rover encountered in 2021 that formed “in fresh mud,” caused by ongoing and intense wet-dry cycles on the surface of ancient Mars.
These polygons hint at a critical transition in Mars’ global mineral composition, with important implications for life on Mars. “This indicates that the Noachian–Hesperian transition (3.8–3.6 billion years ago) may have sustained an Earth-like climate regime, and surface environments favourable to prebiotic evolution,” the paper authors write.
A portion of the Curiosity rover’s Mastcam panorama, where hexagons appear on the ground near a section of the rover.
Climate models require a lot of data. Thankfully, these hexagons help fill in a gap.
Mars looks relatively barren today when compared to what it probably was like billions of years ago. Scientists know that Mars had persistent wet surface environments in its ancient history, but they have fewer clues about when that climate would move between wet and dry like Earth does. These are important to understand because, without them, models of ancient Mars’ hydroclimate are incomplete, and scientists are prone to drawing “diverging” results from one another.
That’s why the hexagons are a useful tool for Mars climatologists. The hexagons reveal these episodic changes, as their initial T-shaped junctions likely formed when the wet surface dried up. When water returned and softened up these cracks, they turned into Y-shaped junctions that make the hexagonal patterns.
According to a NASA statement that describes the findings, water does not always equate life-friendly conditions. There must be a finesse.
“Although water is essential to life, a careful balance is needed — not too much water, not too little. The kinds of conditions that sustain microbial life — those that allow a long-lasting lake, for example — aren’t the same as the conditions scientists think are required to promote chemical reactions that might lead to life,” write agency officials.
LIFE REQUIRES A BALANCE TO EMERGE
The hexagons on Mars’ surface are a sign that the right conditions may have existed to make polymers, the long chains of carbon-based molecules that act like the building blocks of life as we know it.
Polymers are forged through special chemical reactions. It turns out that polymers can form from short-term episodes of wet and dry conditions, like those behind the hexagonal shapes.
According to NASA, these cycles control the concentration of chemicals that feed the reactions required to form these building blocks of life.
Curiosity scientists are thrilled about the new findings. “Over 11 years, we’ve found ample evidence that ancient Mars could have supported microbial life,” Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada shares in the NASA statement. “Now, the mission has found evidence of conditions that may have promoted the origin of life, too.”
A team of researchers says they have developed a new technique that allows them to cool a small membrane to temperatures nearing absolute zero, the theoretically lowest temperature attainable, with nothing more than light from lasers.
For centuries, it has been understood that the reflection of light off the surface of objects produces a force. Such observations led astronomer Johannes Kepler to first envision the concept of solar sails which, like the sails that capture wind and propel boats across the ocean, could drive futuristic sailing vessels through space.
Such ideas helped early astronomers understand why the appearances of comets always revealed them to be oriented with their tails in the direction opposite of the Sun. Today, scientists are employing the light force in novel ways that allow atoms and other particles to be slowed down and thus cooled.
The results of such technology could enable innovative new applications that include sensors that possess unparalleled sensitivity. However, cooling particles down to such extreme temperatures, such as those nearing absolute zero, isn’t a simple task, and generally requires an array of specialized equipment.
Enter Professor Philipp Treutlein of the University of Basel, along with Dr. Patrick Potts, whose team has succeeded at producing a new process that allows a wafer-thin membrane to be cooled to such extremely cold temperatures—close to 273.15 Celsius—with nothing but laser light.
In the past, Professor Treutlein worked alongside Theodor W. Hänsch in his lab at LMU Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, initially working as a doctoral student in Jakob Reichel’s team. Treutlein eventually went on to lead a team of his own, which undertook studies with ultracold atoms, primarily in what are known as “atom chips”, consisting of chip-based microtraps.
Through their studies, Terutlein and his team were able to demonstrate a chip-based atomic clock, as well as a unique atom interferometer, in addition to conducting some of the earliest experiments involving quantum metrology with entangled atoms.
In 2010, Treutlein came to the University of Basel, establishing a team that continued research into ultracold atoms, along with optomechanics (involving interactions between electromagnetic radiation and mechanical systems related to radiation pressure), as well as hybrid quantum systems.
The new technique Treutlein’s team of researchers devised is novel because the cooling effect they succeeded in engineering can be achieved even without any requirement for making measurements, which are significant in terms of the laws of quantum mechanics since measuring any component of a system will inevitably lead to a change in its quantum state, resulting in disturbances.
Although measurement is typically also required in things like a feedback loop, the Basel University researchers were able to find a workaround for this by developing what they characterize as a coherent feedback loop, where laser light is used to function as both a sensor, but also as a kind of damper that allowed them cool thermal vibrations in a small silicon nitrate membrane.
“Our platform consists of a light beam exerting a force onto a nanomechanical membrane oscillator,” the team reports in a recent paper detailing their experiments. “Vibrations of the membrane generate a phase modulation on the light, which serves as a readout signal.”
Directing a laser onto the membrane, the reflected light was fed into a 30-meter-long fiber optic cable that allowed optimal delay times of close to 100 nanoseconds, while vibrations in the membrane produced very minute changes in the oscillations of the light being reflected.
From the oscillations, the team was able to obtain information that was used with a time delay to determine the exact amount of force to be applied to the membrane with the same laser light.
Maryse Ernzer, a Ph.D. student and lead author of the new research paper outlining the team’s studies, compared it to “slowing down a swing by briefly touching the ground with one’s feet at the right time.
The lowest expected temperatures were calculated using a theoretical description based on the new technique, which the researchers say experimental results were able to thereafter confirm.
Postdoc researcher Dr. Manel Bosch Aguilera, also one of the team members, said in a statement that he and his colleagues succeeded in cooling the membrane to 480 micro-Kelvin, which approaches within one-thousandth of a degree of absolute zero.
Based on their findings, the researchers hope to find ways to improve their new technique, allowing future experiments with membranes under such conditions to be chilled to the lowest possible temperatures indicating the membrane’s quantum mechanical ground state.
Once this is achieved, the researchers foresee being able to create “squeezed states” in the membrane, conditions that would be useful in the construction of sensors with applications that include atomic force microscopes capable of observing surfaces at resolutions down to the nanometer.
The team’s paper, “Optical Coherent Feedback Control of a Mechanical Oscillator,” was published in Physical Review X.
In the 1940s, the CIA first became involved in UFOs. Since then, a number of former US military personnel and CIA officers have advanced UFOlogy by making stunning remarks. Former CIA and US military officials including R. James Woolsey, John Brennan,Jim Semivan, Lue Elizondo, and others have described how the existence of reality all around us that we are unable to perceive could be a major aspect of the UFO phenomenon.
Since 2021, John Ramirez, who spent 25 years in the CIA, has been providing truthful insights into the UAPs that he learned in his career. He is a highly intelligent individual who has an immense amount of knowledge and experience regarding the U.S. intelligence apparatus and the UAP subject. He has made an impressive social media presence after he revealed many UAP-related mysteries that had never been discussed in public by any government official.
CIA retired John Ramirez, who specialized in ballistic missile defense systems, worked for the CIA from 1984 to 2009, holding positions in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Directorate of Science and Technology, and the Directorate of Intelligence. He attained GS-15 grade, which indicates that he worked for the agency in a relatively senior capacity.
His appearance on the highly acclaimed Witness Citizen podcast on October 17, 2021 created a huge burst in the UFO community. Later, Ramirez made an appearance on Project Unity, where he delivered a series of slides to assist researchers in navigating the FOIA process. Ramirez was particularly helpful in identifying the appropriate agencies to contact when requesting particular types of information.
The slides, which are available online, also include historical information about UFOs and current statements made by prominent former U.S. intelligence officials, including John Ratcliffe, a former director of national intelligence. He stated a schematic on how to investigate a UFO in the CIA style:
Establish a group to investigate and evaluate sightings; Determine the objectives of your investigation; Consult with experts; Create a reporting system to organize incoming cases; Eliminate false positives; Develop a methodology to identify common aircraft and other aerial phenomena often mistaken for UFOs; Examine witness documentation; Conduct controlled experiments; Gather and test physical and forensics evidence and Discourage false reporting.
Ramirez made assumptions regarding the current UFO disclosure procedure, and it appears that his opinions may have been influenced by members of the intelligence community, either current or former, or perhaps by individuals connected to the Department of Defense. During his interview with Project Unity, Ramirez claimed that the US government does not currently discuss the UFO craft’s occupants. This is a significant comment from Ramirez, who has asserted his opinion that UFOs may indeed represent a form of non-human intelligence.
John Ramirez retired from the agency recently as an officer with GS-15 status.
Ramirez is not the first CIA agent to make the assertion that UFOs might be non-human intelligence. John Brennan, a former CIA director, suggested that UFOs might be “a different form of life.” Brennan said: “You try to ensure that you have as much data as possible in terms of visuals and also different types of maybe technical collection of sensors that you have at the time. (Source)
Also, I believe, it’s important to reach out into other environments and find out, were there any type of weather phenomena at that time that might have, in fact, created the appearance of the phenomenon that you’re looking at? Were there some things that were happening on the ground, or other types of phenomena that could help explain what seems to be quite a mystery as far as what is there? You really have to approach it with an open mind, but get as much data as possible and get as much expertise as possible brought to bear.”
Ramirez made an intriguing statement in response to the rumor that the US government is reluctant to discuss the potential UFO occupants. The U.S. Air Force may be partially to blame for this current stance, according to Ramirez. However, not for obvious reasons. He commented:
“The air force and their exploitation of that type of technology made a mess of things, as when people see the triangular craft, and they’re not flying in space but in our atmosphere, it points to the fact that we know what the triangles are and we want people to think they’re seeing UFOs because then people won’t know exactly what they’re seeing.”
Some speculated that Ramirez suggests that the USAF may be responsible for sightings of triangular aircraft, which some have dubbed the TR3B. On the Joe Rogan Experience, Tom Delonge implied that the United States government owned such vessels, but also said that some of them belonged to other intelligence. Delonge claimed that triangle-shaped craft, assuming they contain tail fins, symbolize human technology.
According to a member of the US House of Representatives Tim Burchett, it may all have started after the government recovered crashed alien vehicles. During an interview for On Balance With Leland Vittert, Burchett was asked about the Navy’s possession of more videos of UFOs that it is not willing to release to the public for reasons of National Security.
If anti-gravitic crafts exist, then potentially, such technology will be disclosed throughout the disclosure process. Former senator Harry Reid has already asserted that Lockheed Martin may have UFO materials, thus perhaps technology does exist. According to Lue Elizondo, the disclosure procedure and potential international collaboration (including with China) may lead to amazing technological advancements. (Source)
Ross Coulthart, an investigative journalist, in histweetshared a link to a YouTube video (which is now private), stating John Ramirez tells IUFOC the agency’s weird desk investigations into UAP never stopped from the 1940s. “These are ongoing programs from the very beginning. They are still there.” It’s “more than” just the Pentagon’s AAWSAP-AATIP. Check the below Twitter thread to understand the context Coulthart is trying to explain.
“There for them to ask me questions. But it was very clear to me that AATIP was not the first of its kind effort. There was an organized effort back in the 80s to do exactly this as well. Now how far they got, I don’t know because what was told to me, verbatim,” Elizondo said.
Ramirez also experienced what might be considered alien abduction-type experiences, including being placed on an examination table in a circular craft. Interestingly, a number of his counterparts in the CIA and NSA also had UFO experiences, he revealed. In his job related to missile defense, he became aware of times when Russian radar would detect unusual craft, and in one instance, he said they tried to lure a UAP into landing.
Ramirez noted that CIA historian Gerald Haines wrote about the agency’s study of UFOs from 1947 through the 1990s, for a division that was initially called the Office of Scientific Intelligence. What was particularly intriguing to Ramirez is that the division had life sciences and medical people on staff, indicating possible interest in alien bodies.
He also described how an Air Force pilot on the plane that flew near Kamchatka to monitor Russian tests observed a massive “milky white wall” of light flying toward him at 6,200 mph, though the Air Force assumed it was some kind of countermeasure by the Russians. Regarding the military sightings of “trans-medium” UAP like the Tic Tacs, Ramirez said he does not believe that Russia or any other foreign country has the capabilities to produce this kind of antigravity technology.
Elizondo made these points in several interviews, but in this one, he was asked to elaborate on his comments about how our senses are reductive and limit our reality, and how this might be relevant to the phenomenon.
In his interview with Project Unity, Ramirez opined that Humans are hybrids. According to him, Elizondo is unable to use the word “hybridization,” but the Pentagon employees are counting on him to do so eventually. Elizondo discussed the possibility that non-human intelligence have been in contact with humans for a very long time on the Theories of Everything podcast. This would imply that we have all forgotten about our own past, which would hide the possibility that we are hybrids of humans and extraterrestrials.
Something is coming in 2027
On Podcast UFO with Martin Wills, Ramirez claimed that government is aware of an impending event in 2027 which will reveal something quite significant so people are being prepared. He has been stating that there is a presence on Earth (which he refers demonic) who are just projecting their own belief systems to make us disbelieve in what we believe. Wills asked Ramirez what would happen if there was mass Landing? would we just simply prepare for a conflict or would we actually initiate something? (Source)
Former CIA replied:
“I think the dialogue we have now in this country, even with the recent legislation that passed through the legislature and is on its way up to the president’s desk, is preparing the U.S population, and by extension the world population, for the reality that there is a presence here that we need to explain. If they show up and we continue to do what we did before in previous decades, there will be mass panic. However, if we understand that these are real and we have five years from 2022, or maybe now four years, if they come in 2027, for the US government to prepare the people about what is up there.
In many ways, I think the word got out within the government that they’re showing up in 2027, and we better be prepared. If not, there’s going to be a lot of explaining to do. So, I think that dialogue has happened within certain areas inside the government, that we need to prepare.
That’s why in 2017, that set a clock of 10 years, and why Lou Elizondo earlier in this year said, “Just find a hobby for five years, and it’ll all be out in five years,” and he said that this year, so that was 2027. I’ve heard 2027 in an official capacity, and I can’t reveal, so I would say that people in the government are aware of something happening, and there’s limited time, a few more years to prepare the people. That’s what’s wrapping up this acceleration from the previous seven decades of not even acknowledging it to now acknowledging it at a faster and faster pace.”
UFO Hides On Clouds Edge, California Aug 14, 2023, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 14, 2023
Location of sighting: California, USA Source: MUFON
The eyewitness didn't cite his city, so its unknown, but its clear they were on a wilderness trial with their bikes as he states below. The video is only 18 seconds long but it's absolutely amazing. It shows us the craft is spinning and the craft is hiding on the edge of a cloud, watching the guys on the bikes. Yet the UFO still attempts to hide. He also shows in a photo submitted a plane nearby and the UFO further away from the clouds, but then the UFO heads into the clouds to take cover from human eyes. This is 100% proof it's alien...only aliens would want to hide, and yes, they are afraid of us...afraid of alarming us, afraid of causing us to panic. Yes, even aliens worry about others emotions and reactions.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
A friend and I was on our way home from work on bikes when i took a pic of a pattern of pretty shaped clouds in the distance. Afterward i joked around and said " Man, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a UFO." I then looked up and I couldn't believe that a silver spinning object was actually hovering high in the sky. I pointed at it and told my friend " Look! there go one!" We both started taking pics of it, as a plane flew under it. It was shaped like a can, but was really shinny, reflecting the sun as it spun. It began to move towards a weird cloud that appear to be pointing towards it. Another object higher up appeared to rapidly descend towards the cloud also. It moved so fast that it was just there in the cloud as the other object stop at the tip of the cloud. The object became brighter and started to move again. I don't know if both objects merged into one but now it was only one. I started video recording it with my phone, but switched back to taking pics again. Then it vanished within seconds. It was gone. Later in my last pic of the object, I noticed a black triangle phenomenon in the image near the object. I have an assumption that it went into the thing like a portal and both vanished because after that pic, we could not find it anywherein the sky.
Pilot Encircled by UFOs and Struggles to Maintain Control
In the vast realm of UFO encounters, few stories capture the intensity and intrigue of Carlos De Los Santos’ mid-air experience. On May 3rd, 1975, what began as a routine flight turned into a life-altering experience that would forever haunt this pilot from Mexico.
A Normal Day with an Extraordinary Twist
Carlos, after dropping off passengers in the seaport town of Zihuatanejo on the Pacific coast, was flying his Piper pa-24 Comanche back to Mexico City. The skies were clear, and visibility was perfect. Approximately an hour into his flight at 10,000 feet, Carlos noticed a gray, wingless object floating beside his plane. But this was just the beginning.
Suddenly, two more similar objects appeared — one to his right and another straight ahead. The one in front quickly dove below his plane, and to Carlos’s shock, he felt a thud. Fear gripped him as he realized that the objects were somehow controlling his plane. Despite his best efforts, his aircraft’s controls didn’t respond, and the plane began a terrifying ascent.
A Battle for Control
Pushing the boundaries of imagination, these unidentified flying objects seemed to have hijacked the Piper’s controls. Carlos watched in horror as the yoke moved on its own, causing the plane to climb dangerously close to its maximum altitude. Breathing became difficult in the unpressurized cabin, and the perilous height threatened a stall that could send the aircraft crashing.
Carlos’s frantic Mayday calls painted a distressing picture. He described the mysterious objects surrounding his plane and pleaded for guidance, but the climax was yet to come. As he neared a mountainous region, the objects suddenly detached and sped towards Mount Pobakatta Pedal volcano, leaving Carlos to grapple with a plane that refused to obey.
An Airport Ordeal
Regaining control was only the first part of Carlos’s ordeal. The UFO encounter had affected his landing gear, making descent a challenging task. With resilience and quick thinking, he improvised with a screwdriver to force the landing gear lever down. After several tense moments and numerous rounds circling the airport, Carlos managed a safe landing.
This incredible mid-air drama might have become another dismissed UFO story, if not for one compelling detail: the Mexican Air Traffic Control had also tracked these unexplained objects, offering Carlos vital corroboration.
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Ancient Aliens: Pilot is SURROUNDED by Flying Saucers and Loses Control (Season 19)
The aftermath of this high-altitude drama was equally chilling. Carlos faced not only the skepticism of a public hard to convince but also veiled threats from enigmatic figures. These “men in black” approached him twice, urging him to remain silent about his close encounter. Even when set to discuss his experience with famed UFO investigator J. Alan Heineck, Carlos was met with warnings.
However, with time, Carlos did speak out. His story stands as one of the most incredible aviation-UFO encounters, showcasing the fine line between belief and skepticism, understanding and mystery. While Carlos survived his encounter, other pilots faced dire consequences, raising questions and fueling debates in the realm of extraterrestrial encounters.
This intriguing tale from the skies above Mexico, though mostly overlooked in the U.S., serves as a reminder that sometimes, the skies hold secrets beyond our comprehension.
Military experimentation has led to the development of some otherworldly aircraft over the years, some of them still being in active use today.
Via airandspace.si.edu
Ever since the 1950s, when reports of UFOs began taking hold, the official line from the Pentagon has been that several are just military aircraft. Conspiracy buffs may claim these are just excuses, but the fact is that several experimental military aircraft used over the years are, in fact, outlandish enough to be mistaken for a flying saucer or otherworldly craft. Many were simply experimental models that could never be flown for real even when tested.
Other aircraft are notable for not only being in production but used for years. They stand out looking like some sort of advanced space fighter jet, while others have designs that defy the conventional idea of aircraft engineering.''
Seeing these in flight, it’s little wonder someone might mistake them for an aircraft from outer space. These ten amazing military aircraft look straight out of a sci-fi movie and little wonder some might spark the UFO buffs nicely.
10. Martin X-24B Lifting Body
Via NASA
One of the key training ships for NASA, the X-24B improved on the design of the X-24A and really did look like some sci-fi “drop ship” ready to fly. As it happens, that’s exactly what happened as the X-24B was launched from a B-52 before igniting its rockets for a landing.
Via Military Factory
It allowed pilots to test near zero-gravity conditions and master unpowered reentry and landing. It was also a cool-looking vehicle designed to fly fast and get a good landing, but it still stands out as an amazing ride for the actual space program.
9. North American X-15
via airandspacemagazine
The U.S. military had a fondness in the 1950s for “lean and mean” aircraft and the X-15 was a prime example. Looking like a missile with small wings, it set a record of Mach 6.7 at nearly 20 miles up, the world record for the highest speed recorded by a manned crew.
Via: aircraft.gabes.us
In fact, those pilots qualified for astronaut status before the space program got going. Thanks to that performance and its great design (plus how it could be dropped from a bomber), the X-15 qualified as close to spacecraft as a regular jet could get.
8. Vought V-173
Via airandspace.si.edu
If any U.S. aircraft could have helped spark the UFO crazy, it was “the Flying Pancake.” Created as an experimental program in World War II, the Vought V-173 was nothing but a huge disc-shaped body lifting the small cockpit up and the large propellers at the front making it odder.
via Pixdaus
The near-vertical takeoff aspect was revolutionary for the time and the craft made nearly 200 test flights. While it couldn’t get into full production, the sight of the V-173 taking flight over an airbase no doubt pushed a lot of flying saucer reports over the years.
It’s nice when an aircraft is self-explanatory in its name. The Douglas X-3 looks just like its title, a stiletto ready to jab its way anywhere. It’s historic as the first use of titanium in major airplane components and its amazingly thin construction added to its appeal.
Via Reddit
The Stilettos frame looks just like a rocket ship from a 1950s movie, so little wonder it could be mistaken for the real thing. It never got to full production as it failed to reach Mach-1, but Lockheed used it as the basis for the F-104 Starfighter to show the Stiletto made its mark.
6. McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
Via Wikimedia
Even for something nicknamed “the Goblin,” this was a weird excuse for an aircraft. A “parasite fighter,” it was designed to drop from the larger Convair B-36 bomber and then take off for fast attacks. It had to be small to fit but still bizarre with its squat nose and looks more like a kid’s toy of what a fighter jet should be.
Via Reddit
As it happened, the jet couldn’t match the combat requirements needed so the project was canceled, although it would inspire future ideas for a drop-craft beyond a sci-fi vehicle.
It never got past testing, but this French attempt at a VTOL craft has to count as an aircraft looking more like it’s ready for a flight to the moon. It looks more like the front half of a larger plane cut in two, with the strange tube-like shape adding to its fun appeal.
Via Reddit
That it appears to be rolling on wheels like a shopping cart before takeoff is weird, yet it was promised to launch fast and maneuver off its triangular winglets. They could never crack it, so it was ended after a few test flights but marked an aircraft only the French could create.
4. SR-71 Blackbird
Via Airspacemag
If anything speaks to how fantastic the Blackbird is, the X-Men comics still have the team using it as their primary craft. One of the fastest aircraft of its time, the Blackbird was designed to avoid surface-to-air missiles and harder to catch on radar with its speed and unique construction.
Via: Lockheed Martin
It can roll past some modern aircraft with ease and the fun design seems straight out of a comic book. Put it in a dark night and the Blackbird can confuse more than a few folks about its earthly origins.
3. RQ-3 Darkstar
This Lockheed Martin craft always catches the eye due to its unique design. The unmanned aerial vehicle was meant to avoid radar detection but canceled after some test flights due to not being aerodynamically stable as well as too expensive.
That wing design may have been a factor with one wing for longer than the other (it would vary between models) with the bulging central part appearing pretty otherworldly. While not confirmed to have been put into actual production, the Darkstar is still a pretty weird sight.
Seriously, looking at the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk looks like something out of a lower-rate Star Wars knock-off but still a standout craft. While not quite a full “stealth” fighter, it did boast great speeds, heavy armoring and a design that seemed ready to make a trench run at the Death Star.
That fancy cockpit is amazingly cool and the armament backs it up in a top performance. While semi-retired today, the Nighthawk can still tear it up in the daytime as an aircraft ahead of its time.
1. B-2 Stealth Bomber
Via: Northrop Grumman
From the moment it rolled out in 1989, the B-2 Stealth Bomber was seen as something from another world. While not as truly “invisible to radar” as hoped, the B-2, in various incarnations, stood out with that massive wingspan and unique design that looked like some otherworldly fighter plane.
via USAF
It’s little wonder it got mixed up for a UFO over the years as that huge wingspan always caught the eye. It’s ironic a plane meant to avoid detection could never stop getting eyes on it constantly.
Top Secret Aircraft? Or, Are They Alien Spacecraft? Maybe They're Both
Nick Redfern
There's no doubt at all that it's hard to make the difference between UFOs and high-tech military craft, We'll begin with a near-legendary craft that went by the name of the Aurora. In the early 1990s, rumors began to circulate among the aviation world that a highly secret, futuristic aircraft was being flown out of Area 51 – and under distinctly covert circumstances. The reportedly large, black-colored, triangular-shaped aircraft which could fly at incredible speeds, could outmaneuver just about anything else on the planet. It was rumored to be known as the Aurora. Officially, at least, and according to the U.S. Government, the Aurora does not exist and has never existed. But, that was once said about Area 51, too. So, with that in mind, we need to tread cautiously when it comes to official proclamations of the controversial type. The story began – publicly, at least – in March 1990. That was when the well-respected magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology covered the story. They revealed that the term “Aurora” had appeared in the 1985 U.S. budget – and had possibly appeared by mistake, which makes sense if the program was so highly sensitive that its existence had to be denied at all costs. And talking of costs,
it was rumored that around $455 million had been provided to those working out at Area 51 on secret, futuristic aircraft. AW&ST suspected that Aurora was a codename for multiple kinds of aircraft that were both radical in design and technology. Other investigators, though, concluded that Aurora referred to just one type of aircraft. AW&ST learned that by 1987 the budget had soared to in excess of two billion dollars. Bill Sweetman is one of the leading figures in the field of aviation and someone who took a deep interest in the Aurora saga. His books include F-22 Raptor, Inside the Stealth Bomber, and Soviet Air Power. And, then there is his 1993 book, Aurora: The Pentagon's Secret Hypersonic Spyplane. Of the Aurora, Sweetman says: “Does Aurora exist? Years of pursuit have led me to believe that, yes, Aurora is most likely in active development, spurred on by recent advances that have allowed technology to catch up with the ambition that launched the program a generation ago.”
This was all very interesting for those who follow the world of exotic aircraft, such as Bill Sweetman and the staff of Aviation Week and Space Technology – and it still is of interest to them. But, where was the evidence for the existence of Aurora? Was there any evidence? Yes, there was. And it came from a highly credible man with an impeccable background. His name: Chris Gibson. It was in the summer of 1989 that Chris Gibson had what can accurately be termed the encounter of a lifetime. An engineer with an Honors degree in geology and someone who’s worked focused on oil-exploration, Gibson was also attached to the U.K.’s Royal Observer Corps. The work of the ROC – which closed down in December 1995, after seventy years of work to help protect the United Kingdom from attack – required its volunteers to keep a careful watch on the skies above and what was flying in those same skies, too. As luck – or fate - would have it, and at the time when the Aurora program may very well have been compromised, Gibson was working on an oil rig in the North Sea. The name of the rig was the Galveston Key. It was August 1989, specifically, when one of Gibson’s colleagues, a friend named Graeme Winton, who went to university with Gibson, excitedly told Gibson to come with him to the deck. There was something Winton needed to show him.
A startled and amazed Gibson caught sight of something incredible in the skies above. A pair of General Dynamics’ F1-11 aircraft were shepherding a very strange-looking, completely black aircraft. And, a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker seemed to be fueling it. It was in the form of a triangle. For a moment or two, Gibson pondered on the possibility that what he and Winton were seeing was the F-117 stealth fighter. But, the design was clearly wrong. And the aircraft was significantly larger than the stealth fighter. Gibson knew this, as the four aircraft were not flying high; in fact, they were fairly low. Gibson was completely and utterly stumped by the strange appearance of the plane. It was something he had never seen before. Gibson said: “We discussed what to do about it but decided that if it were reported through official channels, it would be at best rubbished, at worst lead to trouble. Having signed the [British Government’s] Official Secrets Act I didn’t want to jeopardize my position in the recognition team [of the Royal Observer Corps], so I kept my mouth shut.” Gibson did, however, contact Bill Sweetman, who found the encounter to be of extreme interest. Gibson added: “It is the only aircraft I have ever seen that I could not identify.”
That the Aurora – which it almost certainly was – was seen over the North Sea, off the east coast of England, is intriguing, because a series of encounters of a near-identical kind were reported over mainland U.K. in March 1993. In between the time that Gibson had his encounter midway through 1989, the Aurora had a new nickname in the UFO research community: the Flying Triangle. Although, it’s important to note that more than a few researchers believed that the FTs were extraterrestrial in origin. Of one thing that pretty much everyone was in accord with, was that the Flying Triangles and the Aurora existed. But were they ours or “theirs?” Since the 1980s, sightings of large, triangular-shaped UFOs, usually described as being black in color, making a low humming noise, and very often with rounded rather than angled corners, have been reported throughout the world. The sheer proliferation of such reports has led some ufological commentators to strongly suspect that the Flying Triangles (as they have come to be known) are prime examples of still-classified aircraft, namely, the Aurora. It was one single wave of encounters in the U.K., in early 1993, which ultimately led senior military and defense personnel to liaise with their American counterparts to try and determine, once and for all, if the FTs are the Aurora or if they have extraterrestrial origins.
Now, some words from Nick Pope. And a fascinating case from the 1990s. Long-since retired from the MoD, Pope reveals his role in – and his knowledge of – the March 1993 UFO encounters over the United Kingdom: “I arrived at the office at about 8.30 a.m. or 9.00 a.m. on the morning of March 31, 1993, and my telephone was ringing. I picked it up and there was a police officer on the other end making a UFO report. Now, he was based in Devon and told me an account of an incident that had taken place in the early hours of that particular day when he and a colleague who had been on night patrol saw a triangular-shaped UFO at fairly-high altitude. He said that the motion was fairly steady and that there were lights at the edges with a fainter light in the middle.To me, this was already a description that was becoming quite familiar both from one or two reports that I’d received at the Ministry of Defense over the years and from my own study and research into the UFO literature. In other words, I was aware that this was a commonly reported shape for a UFO.”
Pope continued: “I was also quite pleased to get a report from a police officer. I won’t say that it was rare, but it was slightly unusual to have reports from trained observers like police and military. I would say that, of the reports I received in my time at the UFO desk, less than five per cent came from, collectively, pilots, military officers and the police. I had spoken, socially, to numerous Royal Air Force pilots who’d had personal sightings, but who had never reported them for fear of ridicule.“But that police report was very much the first of many that came in that day and over the next week or so. When taken together, the sightings described took place in a range of times – the earliest was about 11-11.30 p.m. on the evening of the 30th and the latest was about 1.45 a.m. in the early hours of the 31st.” What was it precisely that made the police officer’s report stand out? “He said to me: ‘I’ve been on night patrols for years, but I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life.’ Well, reports such as this came through thick and fast over the course of the next week or so; more and more reports came in from police stations, the public and local RAF stations. In fact, I would say that the total number of reports easily exceeded one hundred.”
It is clear from what Pope has to say that there were three reports in particular that stood out more than any other – the first of which concerned a family based in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, who had viewed a remarkable aerial vehicle near the sprawling forest that is Cannock Chase. Pope reveals the facts: “This report was brought to my attention by the Community Relations Office at RAF Cosford [Shropshire]. The report had come direct from the family and sounded particularly interesting because, unlike some of the other sightings, this one was of an object flying at very low level. There had been a family gathering and several members of the family were out on the drive – really just saying goodbye to their relatives who were about to drive off. Suddenly, this large, triangular-shaped craft flew over them very, very slowly. This was a flat triangle, with a light in each corner and a larger light in the direct centre of the underside of the craft.” In fact, not unlike the report filed by the police reports from Devon?
“Exactly. But there was something else that I’d come across in my investigations that was also present in the Rugeley case,” says Pope. “This was a low-frequency humming sound coming from the UFO; a humming that they actually described as being quite unpleasant. Imagine standing in front of the speakers at a pop concert and almost feeling the sound as well as hearing it – that was the effect that they reported. Well, they were so excited and overwhelmed that two of them leapt into the car to give chase! “As they did so, they came to a point where they thought the UFO was so low that it must have come down in a nearby field. Well, they parked the car, jumped out and looked around. But there was absolutely nothing there; the UFO had gone.” The night’s activities had barely begun: “The two most significant reports began at RAF Cosford shortly after the encounter at Rugeley. This was definitely the highlight and was one of the best sighting reports I received in my entire posting. The report itself came from a guard patrol at Cosford. They were on duty manning entrance points, checking the perimeter fence and such like. All the members of the patrol saw the UFO and, again, the description was pretty much the same as most of the others. In this case, though, the UFO was at medium-to-high altitude.”
Pope makes an important observation: “Remember that these witnesses were people who see in a normal course of business all sorts of aircraft activity, meteorites, fireballs and so on, and they considered it absolutely out of the ordinary.“They didn’t make a standard report: what they did was to submit an actual 2-3 page report which went up their chain of command and then the report was forwarded on to me. In that report, they stated that the UFO passed directly over the base and that this was of particular concern to them. They made immediate checks with various Air Traffic Control radar centres but nothing appeared on the screens. It was this factor that made them particularly keen to make an official report. This was at around 1.00 a.m.” Whatever the origin of the unknown vehicle, it appeared that its activities were far from over. “They noticed that this Flying Triangle was heading on a direct line for RAF Shawbury, which is some twelve to fifteen miles on. Now, the main concern of the Cosford patrol was to alert Shawbury that the UFO was coming their way; but they also wanted confirmation that they weren’t having a mass hallucination. “They took a decision to call Shawbury and this was answered by the Meteorological Officer. You have to realize that at that time there was literally just a skeleton staff operating, so the Met. Officer was, essentially, on his own. So, he took a decision to go outside, look in the direction of RAF Cosford and see what he could see.
“Sure enough, he could see this light coming towards him and it got closer and closer and lower and lower. Next thing, he was looking at this massive, triangular-shaped craft flying at what was a height of no more than two hundred feet, just to the side of the base and only about two hundred feet from the perimeter fence.” Bearing in mind the fact that the Meteorological Officer at RAF Shawbury could be considered a reliable witness, and someone well-trained in recognizing numerous types of aerial phenomena, was he able to gauge the size of the object? Pope said back then: “Very much so: military officers are very good at gauging sizes of aircraft and they’re very precise. His quote to me was that the UFO’s size was midway between that of a C-130 Hercules and a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. Now, he had eight years’ worth of experience with the Royal Air Force, and a Met. Officer is generally much better qualified than most for looking at things in the night sky. And there were other factors too: like the family in Rugeley, he heard this most unpleasant low-frequency hum; but unlike their experience, he saw the craft fire a beam of light down to the ground. He felt that it was something like a laser beam or a searchlight. The light was tracking very rapidly back and forth and sweeping one of the fields adjacent to the base.
“He also said – and he admitted this was speculation – that it was as if the UFO was looking for something. Now, the speed of the UFO was extremely slow – no more than twenty or thirty miles per hour, which in itself is quite extraordinary. As far as the description is concerned, he said that it was fairly featureless - a sort of flat, triangular-shaped craft, or possibly a bit more diamond-shaped. But if all the descriptions had been identical I would have been surprised.” Perhaps the most eye-opening and revealing aspect of the RAF Shawbury encounter was the way in which the object made its exit, as Nick Pope reveals: “He said that the beam of light retracted into the craft, which then seemed to gain a little bit of height. But then, in an absolute instant, the UFO moved from a speed of about twenty or thirty miles per hour to a speed of several hundreds of miles per hour – if not thousands! It just suddenly moved off to the horizon and then out of sight in no more than a second or so – and there was no sonic boom. Well, of course, when I received this report and the one from Cosford, I launched as full an investigation as I possibly could.” As Nick Pope now makes abundantly clear, that investigation proved to be extraordinary, to say the least.
"Even though it was fairly obvious to me that there were a number of things that this object was not, I still made the checks anyway to try and eliminate absolutely every possibility." Pope also noted: “I had a feeling that this one was going to go right up the chain of command.” He was not wrong. “Checks were also made with various Air Traffic Control Centers, with Air Defense experts and Air Defense radar systems; and although at one point we thought we had caught the UFO on radar, it eventually turned out that there was nothing. After these checks were made and we were able to establish that the UFO hadn’t been caught on radar, the Royal Air Force was quite interested. There isn’t really a corporate view on UFOs; it really does go down to the belief of the individual. But, enough people realized that there was something exciting and out of the ordinary going on and they, too, got caught up in all that excitement.” Initially, suggestions were put forward that all of the sightings were simply the result of a satellite re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere: “I spoke to the Space Information Officer at RAF Fylingdales; this is the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Centre. They’ve got very powerful space tracking radar that can pick up and track all sorts of objects at orbital heights. Now, they raised the possibility that we were looking at the re-entry of one of the Russian Cosmos satellites.
“Contrary to what some people have said, however, Fylingdales were very unsure as to whether or not the satellite would even have been visible from the U.K. at all during that time. But even if there was a re-entering satellite in the skies, it certainly couldn’t explain the very close encounter at RAF Shawbury. Don’t forget, too, that a satellite burn-up is very much like a meteor shower with a few tracks of light flashing across the sky. In this sighting, however, it was a case of one military base actually reporting to another and saying: ‘It’s coming your way…’ So this rules out a satellite burn-out.” Pope then took his investigation to another level. “My next step was to get a map and plot out the various locations where the UFO – or UFOs – had been seen. Well, that didn’t work out. I was confronted with a map of haphazard sightings all around the country. There was certainly a concentration of sightings in Devon, Cornwall, South Wales and the Midlands. But there were also sightings from Southampton and Yorkshire; and I knew that there were reports from Ireland, Belgium and elsewhere in Europe. And these were just the tip of the iceberg .“One interesting point that then occurred to me was that we were dealing with activity on exactly the same night – but three years later - to a very famous wave of sightings of very similar craft seen over Belgium. And my favorite theory about this or at least an idea I floated about – was that this was a deliberate move on the part of whoever was operating the craft.”
Pope explained his line of thinking: “For example, if the media had got a hold of this, it would have been too late to get it in the newspapers on March 31; so, the earliest date that the story could have run would have been April 1 – April Fools’ Day! Again, a little indicator, perhaps, of an intelligence and possibly even some form of humor.” Of course, it could be argued that this would serve as excellent cover if the Flying Triangle that was seen near RAF Shawbury was a terrestrial aircraft (albeit a distinctly secret one) as opposed to something extraterrestrial. Pope acknowledges this. “We decided that we couldn’t ignore the various rumors that were doing the rounds about a supposed Top Secret aircraft developed by the U.S. Government and called Aurora - or, indeed, any hypersonic and/or prototype aircraft operated by the Americans.“There had been persistent rumors in the aviation world and amongst the UFO lobby that the SR71 Blackbird had been replaced by a hypersonic aircraft code-named Aurora and that that was what the Flying Triangles really were. I was well aware that there had been some interesting stories about visual and radar sightings around certain air bases; however, I hadn’t put much store in these rumors – not least because there had been some very definitive denials from the Americans.
“I know there’s a lot of cynicism about government and the military. And although officialdom may refuse to answer a question and may sometimes give a misleading answer, outright lying is incredibly rare. And when it does occur, if it’s uncovered it almost certainly leads to resignation.“But with the March 1993 sightings – and in spite of the denials from the Americans that they were responsible for the Flying Triangles – we did contact them to make inquiries. This was because they have the responsibility pertaining to the U.S. presence in Britain. Those inquiries bore absolutely no fruit at all. The Americans said: ‘No. We can shed no light at all on the UFO sightings that have led to your inquiry.’” Pope is able to disclose, however, that the liaison with the Americans was not without its moment of intrigue. “If anything,” he now relates, “there was an interesting little hint that the Americans, too, were seeing these Flying Triangles over their territory. As we were making our inquiries, they turned the question around and wanted to know if our Royal Air Force had a triangular-shaped, hypersonic prototype aircraft of some sort. So, presumably, the Americans were having Flying Triangle sightings, too.“But this was interesting, in light of the fact that the Americans supposedly got out of UFO investigations back in 1969 when the Air Force’s Project Blue Book closed down. Of course, you may not officially be in the UFO game, but you are certainly going to be aware of – and take an interest in – reports of structured craft in your airspace. So, essentially, we drew blanks with the Americans.”’
Back to Nick Pope: “Bearing in mind that the Americans had inquired – at an official level, no less – if the British Royal Air Force had in its employ something broadly fitting the description of a Flying Triangle, and we had said ‘No,’ I still felt obliged to address the issue of whether or not the rumors about secret aircraft being flown by us were true. First, from my own knowledge of prototype aircraft, un-manned aerial vehicles and so on, the Triangles don’t fit into the typical pattern, and I’ll explain why. Where we do have such pieces of kit, they’re not tested over the heads of ‘Joe Public;’ they’re tested in a small number of clearly defined ranges and danger areas – mostly out at sea such as the Abberporth Range in Cardigan Bay.” Pope also states on this highly-controversial matter: “You simply do not fly a prototype craft over a military base or over the centre of Rugeley or wherever, and run the risk that someone will either (a) scramble a [Tornado] F-3 [aircraft] to try and intercept it; or (b) take a photograph of it which will end up on the front page of The Sun or Jane’s Defense Weekly. It’s simply not the way that things are done.
“We checked domestically anything that might have been flying. But if we’d have been poking our noses into something that didn’t concern us, the investigation would have been quietly switched off. In fact, the opposite happened. We were making big waves throughout the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defense and at an international level. So the domestic secret aircraft theory is interesting but it doesn’t hold water.” Three years prior to the extraordinary events at RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, similar objects were seen on repeated occasions in Belgian airspace in 1989 and 1990. In view of this, was any form of approach made to the Belgian military to ascertain their views? “Yes,” says Pope. “I approached the Belgians to get a comparison after their sightings. I phoned the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Brussels and he spoke to one of the F-16 pilots who had been scrambled to intercept a Flying Triangle over Belgium back in 1990. Well, the Air Attaché reported back to me that the corporate view of the Belgian Defense Staff was that they did believe that they were dealing with a solid, structured craft. “Apparently, the word from the Belgians was: ‘Thank God it was friendly.’ If it hadn’t been, it was made clear to me that there was very little that the Belgian Air Force could have done anyway - despite the fact that the F-16 is no slouch.”
With the secret weapon angle disposed of as far as Nick Pope was concerned, what was his next step in the investigation? “There was only one place to go and that was up the chain of command and I briefed my head of division. He was notoriously skeptical about UFOs and generally made no secret of the fact that he thought that it was all a waste of time and resources. But he had been quite impressed by the Shawbury and Cosford events – even to the point of making some attempts to plot the course of the UFO. “In fact, I recall him bounding into the office in a state of some considerable excitement when he thought that he had found indications of a straight-line track. I had copied some of the reports; but what he didn’t have was a batch of reports that had just come in and that painted a totally different picture.“Well, I just thought that this needed to go up the chain of command. The main addressee was the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff; so what I did was to summarize the events on a couple of sides of paper and attach the original reports – the typed report submitted by the patrol sighting at Cosford and my own write-up of the RAF Shawbury sighting. “He took a few days to have a look at all the paperwork and then passed it back down the chain of command with a message that said: ‘This is extremely interesting. It is a genuine mystery but clearly you’ve made all the checks that we could reasonably make and it’s difficult to see how we can take this any further.’ And that was essentially where the matter rested.”
Today, does Nick Pope feel that the assessment of the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff was a fair one? “Well, yes and no. I felt extremely uncomfortable that we had a clear breach of the U.K. air defense region; and we had two Royal Air Force bases pretty much being over-flown by a structured craft and yet we had nothing on radar and absolutely no explanation. I applied our own standard line on UFOs and asked myself the questions: Is this of no defense significance? What if the craft had been hostile? What if a bomb-bay had suddenly opened up and it had attacked these bases? If that had been the case, and with the UFO not appearing on radar, the first we would have known would have been when the bombs were falling. So, I came to the conclusion that this was of extreme defense significance.“I’m naturally suspicious of anyone that doesn’t declare their hand. And although there may be some very good reasons for them remaining covert, I think that from a military and defense point of view, you have to say that there is a potential UFO threat.“Personally, I felt that saying ‘Object Unexplained; Case Closed’ was not satisfactory. On the other hand, I had every sympathy with the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff; there was no faulting his logic. What else could he have done? Really, it was an impossible situation.
I found a huge Monolith at the center of a crater on planet Mercury in a NASA map today. The crater itself is just over 20km across according to the map ruler. Most craters that big are 3-4km deep, and with this monolith sticking up it looks to be that same exact height...just peeping over its top by a few meters. Coincidence? I don't believe in coincidences, I believe in scientific data, and photographs are serious facts. The old saying, that a photo is worth a thousand words, spoken by Henrik Ibsen may just been a serious underestimate. This photo is worth no a thousand words, not a million words, but a whole library of books would still not have enough words for this discovery. You see, this is 100% proof of an ancient alien culture exist or once existed in our own solar system. A discovery that is unknown to the world right now, but will reside silently on my site for years to come. Thats how the real evidence exists right now, passively waiting, hoping that someone somewhere will see it and acknowledge its existence. Till then, I am here bringing the truth to light and let history decide.
UFO Sightings: Mysterious Cloud-Like Object Spotted Over Edmonton
Edmonton, AB, CA– UFO sightings have always managed to captivate the world’s attention. On July 23, 2023, a peculiar incident was captured over the skies of Edmonton that could very well be added to the list of unexplained phenomena.
The sighting took place on a sunny Sunday with a slight cloud cover. Four individuals were leisurely enjoying their day on a deck when one of them, Lindsay, curiously pointed out a floating object in the northeastern sky. At first glance, it looked like a drifting bag or a distinct, small oval cloud. But upon closer observation, its strange characteristics became clear.
What made this cloud different from the rest?
Flashing Lights: Hidden within the seemingly innocuous cloud were soft, golden, flashing lights. A typical cloud doesn’t have glowing insides!
Contrary Movement:While the rest of the clouds floated in one direction, this mysterious object moved against the wind, tracing a path of its own.
Lindsay, quick to realize the oddity of the scene, began recording the phenomenon on her phone. What further raised eyebrows was the appearance of an F18 jet soon after, followed by three more in formation, seemingly surveying the strange occurrence.
The group was so engrossed in discussing the sighting that they missed the chance to capture the F18s on video. The oval-cloud continued its journey westward, eventually disappearing behind the treeline. Although Lindsay tried to track its path, the object vanished without a trace.
Upon analyzing the video footage, the family noted a discrepancy. When the video was enlarged for clarity, the object’s appearance changed dramatically. While the original sighting was of a cloud-like form, the enhanced video painted a different picture.
Interestingly, the family made a connection to a similar sighting from several years ago. A photo from Philadelphia depicted a larger, but eerily similar, object in the sky.
As UFO sightings continue to intrigue and bewilder many, incidents like these only deepen the mystery. For now, Edmonton can proudly claim its place in the annals of UFO history.
Check out the video linked below to witness this baffling phenomenon for yourself. And remember, the next time you’re outdoors, keep your eyes to the sky; you never know what you might see!
UFO Sigthed During Russian Cosmonauts Space Walk By ISS Camera On August 9, 2023
This was captured durning Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin space walk outside the International Space Station (ISS). In the footage we can see this object as it seem to "De-Cloak" and stay in place as if it's observing the ISS and / or the two cosmonauts.
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Same Group Of UFOs Sighted Over Russia & Baltimore, Maryland On August 5, 2023
This sighting happened on August 5, 2023 from the separate locations of what seem to be the same objects. One sighting from Russia and the other from Baltimore in Maryland on the same date which was August 5, 2023. I haven't much information about the sighting over Russia but here is the witness statement from the Baltimore sighting:
"I was out back celebrating with family and friends the the other night (08-05-23).A few of us looked up and saw these lights or stars moving through the sky. Pay attention to the 3 lights in the middle, watch how they form a perfect triangle." He Added "I just checked Flightradar24 and didn’t see that many planes in my area when I recorded." When asked why he didn't film for longer he this was the reply. "We were having a party so most ppl didn’t even notice. The few that saw me recording just thought I was recording the stars. 2 of my friend sat and watched them move across the sky tho. Really sucks I stopped the recording. They were gone within a few minutes. Check the middle ones out tho. They start near the end of the roofline then moves westwards slowly.
27 Alien Encounters
Strange and bizarre UFO encounters abound, but recent Alien encounters by highly credible eyewitnesses are so unusual and perplexing that they challenge our understanding of physics and the Universe as we know it.
Many who encounter UFO’s are amazed at their ability to hover noiselessly only to speed off at incredible speeds not possible with even the most advanced military craft. Many sightings report the UFOs changing shape and size; emitting beams of light over nuclear bases; illuminating roadways and entire towns with a powerful white light; and having the ability to be in one place only to reappear in another in an instant. Even more shocking is the reason behind the abductions and why the Aliens are here on Earth. World governments and military forces know the aliens are here. Explore this phenomenon that is destined to impact our society, our world structure, and our very being. WE ARE NOT ALONE.
Arthur C Clarke Unmasks The Truth Behind UFOs | Our World
Are we truly being watched by aliens from outer space? Arthur C Clarke searches for the answer. Subscribe to Our World: https://bit.ly/3xnPuGL
Did the Apollo astronauts see a UFO? Did President Carter see one? Arthur C Clarke looks into one of the most pervasive phenomena of our time, and offers an examination of million-dollar investigations and the strange stories of witnesses.
This film was first broadcast: 04 Nov 1980
"UFOs Are Real, That's Not A Matter Of Opinion" - Jeremy Corbell Speaks To TalkTV's Howard Hughes
The recent Congressional Oversight Committee hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), commonly known as UFOs, have sparked a renewed interest in the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. While sceptics may still be searching for concrete evidence, it is undeniable that these hearings mark a significant milestone in our exploration of the unknown.
In a recent article in The Hill, Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet outlined three key points for moving forward: demanding UAP information disclosure, international scientific collaboration, and expanding the scientific study of UAPs. As society grapples with the implications of these historic hearings, it is crucial that we wake up to the potential safety, security, and scientific advantages that await us.
Investigative journalist and filmmaker, Jeremy Corbell, who was present at the hearings, described the event as surreal and historic. For the first time in history, direct eyewitnesses, including Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Ryan Graves, shared their encounters with UFOs.
Their testimonies provided unique insights into these unexplained phenomena. Corbell revealed that these witnesses had faced intimidation and threats for coming forward, emphasizing the need to protect whistle-blowers like David Grush, who has exposed hidden truths about non-human intelligence and government involvement in reverse-engineering technology.
Pascagoula Alien Abduction Case: Exclusive Unseen Video Unveiled | Unexplained With Howard Hughes
In October 1973, the world was captivated by the shocking story of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, two men who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Howard Hughes is joined by UFO investigator and publisher Philip Mantle
Now, as the 50th anniversary of this famous case approaches, new witnesses and evidence are emerging, shedding even more light on this extraordinary event.
When Hickson and Parker arrived at the Sheriff's Department that fateful night, they were in a state of panic, claiming to have just been abducted by aliens. Authorities tried to catch them in a lie, but their story remained consistent. Both men later passed polygraph tests, further adding to the credibility of their claims.
The incident took place on October 11, 1973, and immediately garnered media attention. The case became one of the best-documented instances of alien abduction, with extensive testimony, photographs, police records, and newspaper stories filling the pages of Philip Mantle and Irina McCammon Scott's book, "It's Here Beyond Reasonable Doubt."
For years, the story of Hickson and Parker has fascinated and gripped audiences. The fact that they were interviewed by law enforcement within hours of the incident and recorded secretly adds to the uniqueness of their account. A tape recording of their conversation, which was meant to catch them in a lie, only reinforced the authenticity of their experience.
In the years that followed, Hickson and Parker faced relentless media attention, forcing them to move around frequently to avoid the glare of publicity. Calvin Parker, in particular, wanted nothing to do with the media and even used a false name at one point to maintain his privacy. It wasn't until 2018, when Parker wrote his own book and finally shared the full story with his wife and family, that he began to open up about the traumatic event.
Despite scepticism from some quarters, Parker's story has remained consistent throughout the years. Multiple interviews and conversations with him have revealed no changes in his account, further strengthening the credibility of his claims. His recent illness has prevented him from appearing on shows to discuss the incident, but his story continues to resonate with those who believe in the existence of extra-terrestrial life.
As the 50th anniversary of the Pascagoula alien abduction case approaches, researchers and investigators are still unearthing new witnesses and evidence. These recent findings promise to shed even more light on this compelling and enduring mystery. Whether one believes in the existence of aliens or not, the story of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker serves as a reminder of the enduring fascination with the unknown and the unexplained.
Neil Armstrong Died 11 Years Ago, Now His Family Confirms The Rumors...
July 20, 1969—the day humanity carved its mark on the sands of the cosmos by setting foot on the moon. It was truly a remarkable moment adored by people all over the world. And as Neil Armstrong put it, it was "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." But there was more to this leap and the man who took it than many people realized. In fact, Neil Armstrong kept quite a number of secrets until his death.
Alien Armageddon: End of Days | Full Movie
A nefarious enemy, hidden from humanity for millennia, has been secretly controlling not only mankind’s progression, but the Earth’s as well.
They are a malevolent Reptilian species from another solar system with one goal in mind – to groom humans for their own sinister needs. Over the centuries humans have been genetically modified by way of abductions and environmental augmentations.
They have altered the planet’s climate to expedite the process of making Earth uninhabitable. Within 200 years humans will be forced to relocate to a New World — with the help of the Reptilians, under the guise of a hopeful and prosperous future in another solar system. The terrifying truth, however, is their true agenda — to sentence humanity to a perpetual nightmare of slavery and genocide under their rule.
Alien Contact: Secret Societies
Thousands of years ago a special, genetically advanced race of beings came to Earth. They were seen as Gods by primitive man and worshipped. They set themselves apart and yet some mated with humans and created a special race. When these watchers departed, this hybrid species remained and taught mankind.
All this transpired seemingly out of nowhere, we do not see archaeological evidence to support the evolution of our ancient advancements but can link it all back to antiquity if we look carefully because the real story is that our benefactors had an ulterior motive.
They took control of our hearts and minds; they control this world, they control every individual from the depths of outer space. From the moment you are born, you are numbered and moved through a process to feed their machine. Nobody is truly free because we are all working for the masters. On rare occasions, they are revealed to the world and in the 18th century we had a glimpse of their massive power. We know them as the Illuminati. From huge international corporations, to hidden governments, from secret societies to medicine, the Illuminati are in control.
Are UFOs Being Shot Down Across The World? | UFO Truths
Delve into the covert operations, government cover-ups, and technological advancements hidden behind these incidents. Brace yourself to question everything you thought you knew about UFOs as we expose the startling truth of their demise and the implications it holds for humanity.
Unveiling the Mysterious Events at Rendlesham Forest
In the darkest recesses of Suffolk’s Rendlesham Forest, a mystery unraveled in 1980 that has since become one of the most captivating and unexplainable UFO sightings in history. The series of encounters involving the United States Air Force (USAF) still raises questions today. Here’s what transpired.
The Initial Incident
Late December 1980, airmen from the USAF witnessed an inexplicable phenomenon near their Suffolk air bases. Bright, triangular objects, radiating pulsating lights, were seen hovering near the ground, leaving indentations that formed a perfect triangle.
The Deputy Commander’s Involvement
The following night, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Holt led 30 men into the forest with special equipment, including a Geiger counter, night vision scope, and tape recorder. The story takes a dramatic turn as they found the objects again, the light-all’s (floodlights) malfunctioned, and the Geiger counter measured 25 times the normal radiation levels.
The Lighthouse Theory
Some skeptics have argued that what the Americans saw could be explained by a nearby lighthouse beam. However, the airmen, who were well aware of the lighthouse, debunked this theory, stating that what they saw was something more advanced and intelligent.
Evidence and Investigations
Local investigators were compelled to uncover the truth, and the Deputy Commander’s memo prompted a question in Parliament. However, the Ministry of Defense seemed to deny any substantial findings. Lord Hill Norton, a former Chief of Staff, expressed his suspicion that something was being concealed.
The Cover-up and Continued Mystery
Several alleged cover-up actions followed the UFO sightings, such as mail tampering, listening devices, and even clearing of Rendlesham Forest’s affected trees. The departure of American bases has not put the mystery to rest, and the call for public disclosure continues.
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TRUE STORY: When The US Airforce Encountered UFO’s | OurLife
TheRendlesham Forest incidentstands as one of the most intriguing and enduring UFO sightings. Whether a result of an extraordinary coincidence of astronomical events or evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence, the truth behind this enigmatic encounter remains veiled. The question lingers: What really happened in Rendlesham Forest?
When looking for answers in the cosmos, sometimes more questions appear.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)/post-processing inset image Daisy Dobrijevic)
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to provide answers about the earliest days of the universe, but it's also discovering more questions.
Question marks, to be precise. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team at the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image on Wednesday (June 26) offering the most detailed look yet at two actively forming young stars located 1,470 light-years from Earth in the Vela Constellation. In the image, the stars, named Herbig-Haro 46/47, are surrounded by a disk of material that "feeds" the stars as they grow for millions of years.
But just below those stars, in the background of the stunning deep-space image, is an object resembling a giant cosmic question mark. Is the universe asking us something?
It's unclear exactly what the question mark-shaped object might be, but its color and shape give us some idea.
"It is probably a distant galaxy, or potentially interacting galaxies (their interactions may have caused the distorted question mark-shape)," representatives of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, which manages JWST's science operations, told Space.com.
According to STScI, the object's red color in the JWST image tells scientists that the object, whatever it may be, is quite distant. Even more exciting, this might be the first time astronomers have seen the cosmic question mark.
"This may be the first time we've seen this particular object," STScI added. "Additional follow-up would be required to figure out what it is with any certainty. Webb is showing us many new, distant galaxies — so there's a lot of new science to be done!"
Close-up of the question mark-shaped object seen in the James Webb Space Telescope's recently published image of a pair of actively forming stars known as Herbig-Haro 46/47. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))
Matt Caplan, an assistant professor of physics at Illinois State University, told Space.com that the object might be two galaxies merging. "The two distinct features could easily be merging galaxies in the background, with the upper part of the question mark being part of a larger galaxy getting tidally disrupted," Caplan said. "Given the color of some of the other background galaxies, this doesn't seem like the worst explanation. Despite how chaotic mergers are, double lobed objects with curvy tails extending away from them are very typical."
Caplan added that there are plenty of other possibilities, as well, but rules out a star due to the lack of the eight-pronged refraction spikes that appear to emanate outward from stars in JWST's images as a result of its mirrors.
More stunning discoveries such as this cosmic question mark are sure to come thanks to JWST's high-resolution near-infrared imaging capabilities, which allow it to peer into the far reaches of the universe, spotting galaxies as distant as 13.4 million light-years away that existed just 420 million years after the Big Bang.
Over 750 pieces of peer-reviewed scientific literature using data produced by the James Webb Space Telescope have been published in its first year of operations, according to STScI.
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Nasa-telescoop ziet object in de vorm van een vraagteken: wat is dit?
Op een van de nieuwste foto’s van de James Webb-ruimtetelescoop van Nasa is een gloeiend vraagteken te zien. Volgens wetenschappers is dat een minder opmerkelijke vondst dan je zou denken, al zijn er nog wel veel vragen onbeantwoord.
Op de foto, die 26 juli werd vrijgegeven, zijn een paar jonge sterren te zien met de naam Herbig-Haro 46/47. De sterren bevinden zich op 1470 lichtjaar afstand in het sterrenbeeld Vela in het Melkwegstelsel. Ze zijn nog steeds actief aan het vormen en draaien nauw om elkaar heen. Het paar werd al vaker geobserveerd, maar de zeer gevoelige Webb-telescoop heeft de meest gedetailleerde afbeelding tot nu toe gemaakt.
Wie de afbeelding goed bekijkt, ziet dat er náást de sterren een mysterieus teken de aandacht trekt. Het lijkt op een kosmisch vraagteken. Wetenschappers weten niet precies waar het object vandaan komt en hoe het in elkaar zit, maar ze hebben wel een paar ideeën op basis van zijn vorm en locatie.
“Je kunt uitsluiten dat het een ster in de Melkweg is”, zegt Matt Caplan, assistent-professor Natuurkunde aan de Illinois State University tegen CNN. “Sterren hebben altijd van die hele grote pieken en dat komt omdat sterren puntvormig zijn.” Met de Webb-telescoop kun je meestal zes of acht ‘stellaire tanden’ zien, als je goed kijkt. Hier is dat niet te zien, zegt Caplan.
Het zou een fusie kunnen zijn van twee sterrenstelsels die waarschijnlijk miljarden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd zijn en dus veel verder weg staan dan Herbig-Haro 46/47, stelt Christopher Britt. Britt is wetenschapper op het gebied van educatie bij het Space Telescope Science Institute, dat de wetenschappelijke activiteiten van de Webb-telescoop beheert.
Kosmische vragen
Er zijn ‘heel veel sterrenstelsels buiten onze eigen Melkweg’, aldus Britt. “Dit lijkt op iets wat vrij vaak voorkomt als sterrenstelsels groeien en evolueren in de loop van de kosmische tijd: namelijk dat ze soms in botsing komen met hun naaste buren. En als dat gebeurt, kunnen ze vervormd raken in allerlei verschillende vormen - waaronder, blijkbaar, een vraagteken.”
Het is vermoedelijk de eerste keer dat dit specifieke object is gezien, zeggen experts, maar dat zo’n vraagteken ontstaat uit het samensmelten van sterrenstelsels is al vaker gebeurd. De ruimte is continu in beweging, legt Caplan uit. ,,De zon beweegt als hij rond het sterrenstelsel draait en het sterrenstelsel, dat uit sterren bestaat, beweegt in welke richting de zwaartekracht het ook trekt.” Over ongeveer 4 miljard jaar zal ons sterrenstelsel ook samensmelten, met het Andromedastelsel, maar de vorm die ‘we’ zullen aannemen is onbekend.
Astronoom David Hefland van de Columbia University noemt het vraagteken ‘heel schattig’, maar heel vreemd is het volgens hem niet. “Je kunt de dubbele punt, puntkomma’s en alle andere leestekens vinden, omdat je tienduizend kleine vlekjes licht hebt in elk beeld dat elk half uur wordt genomen”, zegt hij tegen National Geographic. ,,Al die lichtgevende objecten bij elkaar zorgen steeds weer voor toevallige beelden. Onze hersenen zijn geëvolueerd om daar patronen in te vinden, zoals een vraagteken.”
UFO is cloaked within a cloud that it created, Aug 11, 2023,UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 11, 2023
Location of sighting: Spring Hills, Tennessee, USA Source: Facebook
This amazing UFO is cloaked within a cloud that it created. Now it's common knowledge that UFOs will have shields of energy around them to protect them. This shield if filled with smoke, will form a perfect cloud all around the UFO. This way, aliens don't cause a panic when humans see the ship. Instead the human sees a disk shaped cloud and shrugs it off as some odd anomaly of the day. Look deeper folks, this is 100% a real UFO. It's also a little ironic that the UFO was photographed near a road sign that says, 'No motor vehicles." I guess this UFO has no motor like we know them.
UFO Moves Near Two Planes, 7-22-2023, Kentucky, UFO Sighting News. Video.
Date of sighting: 7-22-2023
Location of sighting: Kentucky, USA Source: MUFON
This UFO was recorded flying past two small planes last month. The report just came in a few minutes ago, but it was last month. The white oval UFO flew slowly past the planes, because it was scanning the technology, recording it inside and out, all the way down the the very feelings, thoughts and reactions of the pilot. Data is the gold of aliens.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
While I was fishing on a small lake in Crab Orchard Kentucky, I noticed two planes flying overhead, I decided to take a short video of them. I didn’t see anything else in the sky just the planes. Later, looking at the video I saw something unexplainable. It’s a little white dot flying across the sky at a rapid speed. After showing my stepson he pointed out another white dot that I completely missed. They look like a TIC-tac. We are convinced what I see in the video is a UFO.
UFO Enters Atmosphere, Lexington, Missouri, 7-28-2023 UFO Sighting News. Video
Date of sighting: 7-28-2023
Location of sighting: Lexington, Missouri, USA
Source: MUFON
Guys, check this one out. This report just came in 15 min ago. The eyewitness caught sight of a glowing white oval craft entering earths atmosphere at a very slow speed. The speed is about 1/5 that of a meteorite and is defiantly intelligently controlled. This city bus size UFO is even slowing several times in the video and in the last 3 seconds. Just amazing and wonderful that someone was able to capture this important evidence of a real UFO.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
My daughter said mom look it's a moving star. As to my surprise it was definitely something moving! I tried to take a picture but when zooming in the screen would go blurry which confused me, due to knowing I can zoom all the way to the moon clearly. I then started recording it. There were no sounds and what confused me are the random tails behind it but no trails left in its path.
This is a recently sent in UFO video, even though it was taken last April. A glowing white object is seen near the moon and a minute later a jet is flying towards it at the end of the video. You can hear the eyewitness notice the plane coming to investigate the UFO. This UFO wanted to be seen. It must have noticed the person looking at the moon and then decided to uncloak. Aliens are slowly trying to drop feed the public information of them so that they can one day reveal themselves to the world all at once.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Reflective looking object looked distorted around edges a bit. No sound just steadily moved across the sky.
Possible alien space station spotted on Google Sky
A puzzling discovery has been made near the Aquarius constellation: an unidentified anomaly resembling a space station has come into view.
The strange object observed on Google Sky by YouTube channel RapiTV measures approximately 300 by 100 by 60 meters.
The anomaly exhibits a rectilinear composition affixed to an underlying framework, while two possible towers can be see on top of this rectilinear structure.
It is difficult to find out the true nature of the anomaly, but because of its clear rectilinear configuration what sets it apart from conventional celestial bodies we may wonder whether it is indeed a space station or craft controlled by human or non-humans.
4 Intriguing Connections Between Ancient Aliens and Biblical Texts
In the annals of human history, religion and spirituality have often occupied a central role. The Bible, ancient religious texts, and traditional ceremonies are rich in symbolism and mystery. But could there be more to these narratives than we realize? Could the most sacred stories be the coded messages that point towards an otherworldly connection? Let’s unravel the astonishing links between aliens and the Bible, as well as other religious phenomena.
1. The Book of Enoch and the Alien Prophecy:
The Book of Enoch, a non-canonical Jewish text, narrates the heavenly journey of Enoch and the revelation he received about the connection between divine figures and Earth. The concept of a divine figure leaving and returning is common to various religious traditions, such as the expected return of Elijah in Judaism or the return of Jesus in Christianity. Could these prophecies be referring to extraterrestrials? Perhaps the final chapter of The Book of Enoch awaits us, where the angels are not divine beings but our alien ancestors.
2. Transubstantiation and the Otherworldly Ritual:
The Catholic tradition of transubstantiation, where bread and wine transform into the body and blood of Christ, is a revered mystery. Some believe that the ritual may have otherworldly origins, connecting the consumption of blood with extraterrestrial sustenance. Is there a link between the ritual of the Catholic Mass and aliens? The parallels between human sustenance and alien nourishment challenge conventional interpretations of religious practices.
3. Relics and the Harnessing of Alien Powers:
The True Cross, where Jesus was crucified, and other relics are considered to have miraculous powers, from healing to granting salvation. Could these ancient artifacts harbor extraterrestrial energies? From the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to Christian churches worldwide claiming fragments of Jesus’s cross, the belief in the divine energy of relics resonates with many. The idea of possessing a piece of divine power extends across cultures and religions, perhaps pointing to a universal connection to otherworldly environments.
4. Revolutionary Technology Reveals Lost Passages:
In 2020, the invention of multi-spectral imaging technology, capable of retrieving lost or eroded texts, opened the door to lost knowledge. By examining ancient scrolls and documents, such as those destroyed during World War II, this technology brings long-lost information back to life. Ancient prophecies and unseen references to extraterrestrials may be resurrected, paving the way for an unprecedented understanding of our past.
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Ancient Aliens: TOP 4 OTHERWORLDLY CONNECTIONS TO THE BIBLE
The connections between the extraterrestrial and religious realms are a tantalizing and provocative exploration of faith, culture, and human history. From ancient texts and rituals to cutting-edge technology, the relationship between the divine and the otherworldly continues to evolve. These revelations urge us to keep an open mind and heart, recognizing that our understanding of existence may be far more profound and interconnected than we once believed.
WHAT WAS REALLY SEEN DURING THE 1994 LAKESHORE, MICHIGAN UFO SIGHTING?
Any list of classic UFO sightings assigned the greatest degree of credibility almost certainly includes the incident on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on the night of March 8, 1994. The Lakeshore event, as it’s come to be known, has been featured in countless television programs, books, and interviews with UFO researchers. It’s also referred to as the Holland sighting (because of the large amount of activity reported over Holland, Michigan) or just the 1994 Lake Michigan UFO event.
It is frequently cited as one of the most solid, well-researched reports of UFO activity in the history of ufology. Today, The Debrief will examine just how solid the evidence in support of this event is.
On the evening in question, local police 911 lines began lighting up with calls from citizens reporting strange lights in the skies. More than 300 calls were received from civilians and multiple police officers reported seeing the objects after being dispatched to investigate. The objects were variously reported to be cylindrical or round, displaying a variety of different colored lights. The presence of some large objects in the sky over the lake was confirmed as the event was unfolding by a National Weather Service radar operator.
The event lasted for at least fifteen minutes by most accounts. The objects were tracked moving to the south and southwest, heading in the direction of Chicago. This event wasn’t a singular aberration. A spokeswoman for MUFONwould later tell reportersthat the network had been receiving an average of ten to fifteen calls per day during a period of two to three weeks, including the activity on March 8th. But this event was clearly the most widely viewed and reported.
WHAT LENDS SO MUCH CREDIBILITY TO THIS SIGHTING?
The Debriefexamined the Japan Airlines Flight 1628 incident in June of 2021, an encounter that is as storied as the Lakeshore event, if not even more so. There was a significant amount of data collected and archived from the incident, adding to its legendary status. But a careful examination of the radar data, pilot to cockpit recordings, and transcripts of interviews with the witnesses didn’t support the claims being made about it as strongly as the legends would suggest. The Lakeshore event also offers similar supporting data and we will look at how well that stacks up in this report.
Some of the most compelling and easily verified evidence comes to us through several channels. These include the sheer number of witnesses who called the police emergency lines, many of them recorded. The involvement of law enforcement officers in multiple precincts who responded also lends weight to the report, with at least one police officer seeing the phenomena himself for an extended period of time. MUFONeventually published a collectionof these recordings between alarmed citizens and responding police dispatchers.
Perhaps some of the best data we have to draw on comes from the interactions between Holland, Michigan Police Officer Jeff Velthouse, and Jack Bushong, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service Office in Muskegon County. In the MUFON recording linked above, the citizens’ calls are followed by the conversation between Velthouse and Bushong.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONNECTION
The conversation between Officer Velthouse and Jack Bushong goes on for some time, beginning with both participants discussing mundane explanations for the calls. These include a radio tower in the vicinity with new lights installed on it. But as the call progresses, you can hear Bushong growing more and more animated as he describes the inexplicable movements of the objects on radar, their large size, and the way they demonstrate “instantaneous movement” at various altitudes. You really need to listen to the full conversation to grasp the impact of this recording.
Bushong’s equipment couldn’t produce paper records, but he created line drawings that are available at the links above. Perhaps most interestingly, however, at the 22:35 mark in the recording, Bushong says “I wish we had a recording of what I could see. You know, actually, there are some blips showing up on the computer part and this is being recorded, so… there is going to be a recording of this so if they can… you might be able to see movement on this if we can play this back.”
What happened to that record? MUFON claims to have the radar data, but it apparently doesn’t reveal much more than what Bushong described. One year after the event, the Chicago Tribunespoke to Leo Grenier, the director of the National Weather Service in Muskegon. He said, “I don’t believe for a minute that it was any kind of alien structure; I think there is a fairly strong earthly explanation for what occurred.” But he failed to offer any explanation as to what that “earthly explanation” might be. At the time, he told a local reporter that he had “a pretty good idea” of what it was, but he refused to offer his opinion, saying that he might tell people after he retired from the National Weather Service.
THE AFTERMATH OF THE MICHIGAN EVENT
Shortly after the day of these sightings, meteorologist Jack Bushong stopped talking to the press and didn’t speak of the March 8th events again for many years. He told friends and associates that he seriously feared he would be fired for having commented on the incident in public. That, fortunately, didn’t happen, and he went on to receive a promotion and win awards for the accuracy of his forecasts. He stayed with the NWS until his retirement a few years ago.
Now that the United States government has verified the physical reality of UFOs and is setting up new offices to investigate them, Bushong’s attitude has changed. During an interviewhe gave in July of 2021, he told a reporter that he now feels “vindicated” after the skepticism and abuse he endured in the wake of the original event. He also claims to be working on a scientific paper covering the 1994 events and other instances of meteorologists recording UAP-related data.
In a separate interview with News Channel 3 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Bushong revealed additional information that he did not share with the press following the original event. He described how he had taken manual control of the radar system, using the antenna “like a spotlight” to track the movement of the objects. He reported that they had “jumped” upward by five or ten thousand feet at a time, causing him to scramble to regain a lock on them. They also “blinked” significant distances horizontally before he eventually lost track of the targets. The relative size of the radar returns indicated to him that the objects were significantly larger than any commercial aircraft.
A MOST COMPELLING AND WELL DOCUMENTED EVENT
Unfortunately, the only videos of the Lakeshore event recorded by private citizens showed little more than dots of light in the sky, as so often happens with UFO sightings. This fact leaves room for the skeptically-minded to offer alternative, mundane explanations for what was witnessed over Lake Michigan in March of 1994. And to be fair, we still can’t say with 100% certainty what the objects were.
With that said, however, the combined weight of all of the data that is available to us suggests that a very strong case can be made in favor of this incident being exotic in nature. The sheer number and quality of the witnesses are almost impossible to ignore. These are people who live in close proximity to O’Hare Airport and they know what planes flying over the lake look like. That many people couldn’t have all reported a misidentification of a commercial aircraft. Further, the radar operator’s confirmation that the returns displayed objects far larger than conventional planes argues against the commercial airliner theory.
If the FAA knew that there were flights of any sort in that high-traffic airspace they could have settled the matter easily enough. And yet they have never commented on the question. Some might suggest that these were some sort of black-budget military craft. But would the American military test anything so secret over Lake Michigan during primetime on a Tuesday?
We may not be able to definitively prove that the objects reported during the Lakeshore event were extraterrestrial or otherwise exotic in nature, but this case remains a contender for one of the most thoroughly researched and verifiably documented mass UFO sightings on record. And the only mundane explanations offered to date seem to strain credulity.
In the dark, clear night of March 8, 1994, an enigmatic event took place over West Michigan that has fascinated UFO enthusiasts for years. A collection of bright lights in the sky appeared, creating a stir among locals and authorities alike. The event still lingers in the minds of those who witnessed it, providing a significant addition to the growing file of UFO sightings.
A Radar Meteorologist’s Revelation
Jack, a radar meteorologist, had the first glimpse of the unidentified flying objects through radar signatures. The pattern resembled that of an airliner, but the movements were too fast and erratic. Various explanations, including atmospheric anomalies and super refraction, were ruled out. Jack’s experience opened a new chapter in the study of UFO sightings, a phenomenon that has seen a resurgence of interest lately.
Multiple Witnesses, One Story
The sightings weren’t limited to professionals. Over 300 people in West Michigan reported seeing the lights. From police officers on the ground to a retired cargo 747 pilot, the eyewitness accounts were both consistent and astonishing. Their stories form part of a broader narrative that has caught the attention of both media and Congress.
Government’s Stance on UFO Sightings
Recent Congressional hearings have shifted the discourse from fringe conspiracy theories to mainstream conversations. The government now refers to these events as Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP). Testimonies from military personnel, including sensational claims about UAP crash retrieval and non-human biologics, have stoked the flames of curiosity and skepticism alike.
An Unsolved Mystery
Despite the compelling evidence, the Pentagon disputes some allegations, and the incident’s true nature remains elusive. Was it a military aircraft performing an illegal maneuver, or something genuinely unexplainable? The mystery of the lights in the sky over West Michigan on that cold March night may never be unraveled.
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Lights Over West Michigan | 1994 UFO Sighting Special
The increasing attention to UFO sightings is a sign of a growing movement to understand what might be lurking beyond our atmosphere. From the nightly sky over West Michigan to the halls of Congress, the search for the truth continues. As more people feel encouraged to share their stories, the quest for answers might lead to a future where the mysteries of UFO sightings are finally laid bare.
The existence of UFOs has been confirmed by hundreds of government and military professionals. There should be authentic photographs and films of them that have been mixed in among the counterfeits. There is valid photographic evidence, but there are also instances of UFO evidence being confiscated from civilians and military people. However, there is old footage of a UFO flying near an airplane which has always been an element of the heated debate among UFO enthusiasts.
The 19-second footage, which is often claimed to be a clip of the lengthy video, shows a round, saucer-shaped object (like in McMinnville UFO photographs) hovering near an airplane and then moving forward, maneuvering below the aircraft wing, and flying upward. It is said to be a screen recording of the actual video. There are many theories on the origin of the video. It was published on the Internet several times in the late 2000s, which makes it difficult to find out its original date.
The earliest source of the video publication is YouTube. It was uploaded by a user “frossani” on March 6, 2008, with the caption “UFO from plane.” The user described that the UFO was captured from the window of a Blue Panorama flight from Rome to Paris, on April 29, 2006. But there are other sources saying it was shot in the 1990s with the description: “Clear full evidence of military tested saucer reproductions over U.S skies around Nevada Desert. This footage is a late 90s recording, very short as the full video is now offline altogether.”
These two versions of the description of the same video make it really confusing for experts to understand the true nature of the video. But there is more to the story. A Reddit user “usandholt” did a little research and contacted frossani. He asked the YouTube user about the video and found he/she is not the owner of the video. Below is the reply of frossani received by usandholt: (Source)
“It was quite a surprise to discover all this hype and interest about a video I had almost forgotten. I am the owner of the YouTube Channel, but not the author of the footage. I had an interest in visual effects as a hobbyist and I used to collect some inspiring videos and fantasize on what techniques would allow to recreate them. The footage of your interest was copied from a Zip Drive belonging to a university friend of mine who knew about my hobby. We are not in touch any longer and I don’t have further information about the origin of the video (I am not a UFO passionate, to me it was simply a probably-fake downloaded from the internet or some early-2000s CD-ROM). The only detail that could be useful for your research is that my friend’s father’s work was based in Aviano, in northern Italy. By the way, when I put the video on YouTube I didn’t edit it in any way; the only intervention was on the description, in which I reported the details of a Blue Panorama flight from Rome to Paris which had brought me to France sometime before (it was then dismissed a few years later, to my great deception). I am sorry I’m probably not giving you relevant information for your research.”
Has the video been debunked? Many people who claimed to be working in the aviation field found the video too good to be real. However, they failed to provide a valid explanation for the video to be fake. It is obvious many would think this could be computer-generated, but some CGI experts say that it requires a great setup to create such effects. Additionally, many find a discrepancy in the audio of the clip, perhaps it was edited.
UFO from plane published on YouTube on March 6, 2008
Reddit user “VCAmaster” explains that the video is likely a second-generation recording of a video playback on another screen, so he finds the main possibilities:
1. The audio is mostly from the camera inside the cockpit, played back on a device, and recorded onto the secondary camera (2nd generation).
2. The audio is mostly from the camera inside the cockpit, played back on a device, combined with the additional background noise of whatever is going on around the person filming the video playback secondhand.
3. The audio is directly from inside the cockpit, 1st generation video. (Source)
This video clip has been studied very carefully by military aviation experts (like Chris Lehto), and CGI experts. Lehto said that the aircraft is not a fighter jet, claiming to be an airliner. However, after closely examining, many agree that it could be the USAF T-43A plane.
It is always good to consider another possibility of the UFO origin. One Reddit user writes: “One possibility is that it is a military or scientific 737 testing the flight of frisbee-shaped objects via tow, as the disc is flying with an angle of attack to the oncoming air, rather than flat. Imagine putting a disc out on a tow line and having it ‘fly’ alongside, this is what you would see. The video is so fuzzy you wouldn’t see any line. Our usual concept of UFOs is that they need no angle of attack or Newtonian mechanics-based flight as they use some anti-gravity, anti-drug type of deal. It could fly flat or at any angle it pleased.” (Source)
It has been known for quite a while that the secret Congressional meetings included footage of a UFO very close to the wing of a military jet. A while ago, Luis Elizondo claimed that there is a23-minute UFO videoand one more, where the UFO is 50 feet away from the cockpit. So, UFOs flying near airplanes and being captured in photos and videos are true.
Juno Shares Stunning New Images of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
The Galilean Moons, named in honor of Galileo Galileo, who first observed them in 1610, are a fascinating collection of satellites. For decades, scientists have been immensely fascinated by the three icy companions – Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto – which have oceans in their interiors that possibly support life. But Io has also been a focal point of interest lately, owing to the volcanic activity on its surface and lava plumes reaching 300 to 500 km (186 to 310 mi) into space. Since 2016, NASA’sJuno probe has provided stunning images of Io as it continues to orbit its main science objective, Jupiter.
The latest was acquired by the Juno probe’s main camera (JunoCam) on July 31st, 2023, at 05:03 AM UTC (01:03 AM EDT; July 30th, 10:03 PM PDT) and showed Prometheus spewing out lava. This active volcano is located within a 28-km (17-mi) -wide volcanic pit named Prometheus Patera on the hemisphere facing away from Jupiter. Prometheus is known for its regular eruptions, hence its nickname in the astrogeological community, “Old Faithful of Io.” A processed image of the eruption was shared by the NASA Planetary Science Division via Twitter (see below).
The image was taken during Juno‘s fifty-third orbit of Jupiter (perijove 53), where the probe once again circled the gas giant from pole to pole. During this latest pass, the Junocam science team took many images to look for lightning storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere, cyclones in the polar region, and filamentary clouds and jets. The probe also made its closest pass to Io during perijove 53, coming within 22,000 km (13,700 mi) of the moon’s surface. During the past few flybys, the probe has been getting progressively closer to the volcanic satellite.
During its previous flyby of Io on May 16th, the Juno probe passed within 35,600 km (22,100 mi) of the surface. On this occasion, JunoCam captured images of the Volund region near the equator, famous for its two active volcanoes (Volund A and Volund B), that showed evidence of eruptions. This was indicated by what appeared to be “smudges” on the landscape, which scientists consider a “smoking gun” for outgassing associated with volcanic plumes.
The mission controllers decided to take advantage of this latest and closest flyby to examine Io’s surface and gather more data on its many volcanic regions. In addition to the pictures taken by the JunoCam, extensive information was collected by the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), provided by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and other science instruments. This latest batch of data is expected to provide additional insight into the hundreds of volcanoes regularly pouring molten lava and sulfurous gases all over the moon’s surface and its tenuous atmosphere.
While Io’s volcanoes have been imaged repeatedly over the past three decades by three NASA spacecraft (Galileo, New Horizons, and Juno), scientists are still excited to see new pictures of eruptions on the moon. While the Juno probe’s primary mission was originally planned to last four years (until 2020), the mission has since been extended twice- first to July 30th, 2021, and again until September 2025. Juno is expected to make two more close passes to Io, coinciding with Perijove 57 and 58. Hopefully, we will see more images of Io’s wild, erupting surface (optical and thermal, please!)
The raw images are available on the JunoCam website and other versions of the data product, all of which are available for download and processing. The JunoCam is overseen by researchers at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas.
This is a recently sent in UFO video, even though it was taken last April. A glowing white object is seen near the moon and a minute later a jet is flying towards it at the end of the video. You can hear the eyewitness notice the plane coming to investigate the UFO. This UFO wanted to be seen. It must have noticed the person looking at the moon and then decided to uncloak. Aliens are slowly trying to drop feed the public information of them so that they can one day reveal themselves to the world all at once.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Reflective looking object looked distorted around edges a bit. No sound just steadily moved across the sky.
UFO Sightings: The Mysterious Experience of Brian in Essex
UFO sightings have fascinated humanity for centuries, with numerous reports of unexplained objects in the sky. These incidents continue to mystify scientists, enthusiasts, and the general public alike. In Essex, England, during the year 1995, a local man named Brian took this fascination to a new level. His extraordinary experience not only left him puzzled but has led us to question what really lies beyond our earthly realm.
Over 15 Hours of Unearthly Footage
Brian’s unique journey began with the filming of more than 15 hours of UFO footage in the Essex area. He didn’t just capture glimpses of strange shapes; he embarked on a quest to understand what he was witnessing. But as he sought answers, his excitement turned into frustration.
A Flurry of Reports
The UFO sightings in the Essex area were not isolated to Brian alone. During that period, reports were flooding in, giving rise to numerous questions and theories. Was there a rational explanation for these occurrences? Or was something more mysterious at play?
Initially, Brian checked with the authorities, hoping to find a rational explanation for these strange shapes. But his hope turned into frustration as he realized that no logical answers were forthcoming. He said, “They seem very mystified about it and very excited about it.”
VIDEO:
UFO Sightings Unveiled: Brian’s 15-Hour Mystery in Essex | Real Footage & Analysis
Emotional Turmoil
As time went on, the constant encounters took an emotional toll on Brian. He confessed, “For a long while I didn’t want to see anything. At night time sometimes I just closed the blind just to relax.” His experience became so overwhelming that he decided to move away from his flat, putting the whole episode behind him.
A Conclusive Insight
Despite the mystery surrounding the UFO sightings, Brian reached a striking conclusion. He firmly believed that the unknown shapes were beyond human understanding, asserting, “I don’t believe governments are covering things up. I just don’t think they know anything about it.”
Brian’s conviction highlights a profound truth about UFO sightings: “The same as we don’t. I mean we don’t know. I don’t believe they know what it is.”
A Never-Ending Quest for Understanding
Brian’s story is a testament to humanity’s never-ending quest to understand the unknown. It brings to the forefront the ongoing debates surrounding UFO sightings and opens up avenues for further exploration and inquiry.
With modern technology, increased interest, and a renewed push for government transparency, the future of UFO research seems promising. Whether you’re an enthusiast, a skeptic, or merely curious, the enigma of UFO sightings continues to be a thrilling aspect of human experience that invites us all to question, explore, and wonder.
UFO sightings in Essex and around the world will undoubtedly continue to captivate our imaginations. If you’re interested in exploring further, delve into eyewitness accounts, expert analyses, and perhaps even catch a glimpse of the unknown yourself.
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is one of the biggest mysteries of the 21st century that is yet to be solved. The Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board including the crew & staff disappeared on March 8, 2014. The plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it was last tracked over the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.
On the night of March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 embarked on its journey from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia to Beijing Capital International Airport in China. The aircraft was carrying a total of 239 passengers and crew members. The calculated duration of the flight was around 6 hours.
At 01:19 a.m. local time, the last message “Good night, Malaysian three-seven-zero” was transmitted from the MH370. However, two minutes later, when it was about to enter Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea, Malaysian radar detected that the plane turned around and flew southwest over the Malay Peninsula before turning northwest. Malaysian military radar lost contact with the plane over the Andaman Sea at 2:22 a.m.
Over the next six hours, the plane continued its course. It is important to note that the scheduled landing time at Beijing airport was originally set for 06:30 a.m. However, an Inmarsat satellite over the Indian Ocean received hourly signals from the flight and last detected the plane at 8:11 a.m., and between this communication at 08:19 a.m. and 09:15 a.m., a distressing event transpired – the plane completely disappeared from any form of communication or tracking attempts.
In the absence of direct communication, a series of possible trajectories were calculated to estimate the potential paths the aircraft might have taken after the last known location at 02:22 a.m. These calculations were based on the Inmarsat pings, which continued until 08:19 a.m.
Malaysia Airlines told families in late March of 2014 that the company believed the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean, assuming no survivors. However, there are a few theories linked to Flight 370 disappearance. One theory says that the plane was hijacked, shot down by the US Air Force, or was in the “cruising mode” when it crashed, and some speculate UFO abduction.
An old video footage has recently been circulating all over social media, showing three unidentifiable spherical objects flying around an airliner before it vanished in the sky. This video (as shown down below) was uploaded on YouTube on June 12, 2014, by a user “RegicideAnon.” But in the description, it was mentioned that this video appeared to be an alternate angle to previously submitted SAT footage which was published by the same user on May 19, 2014. The user noted that the latter video was received on March 12, 2014, surprisingly four days after MH370 disappeared.
Is the airliner in the video MH370? Are the videos authentic? Before indulging in the technicality of the videos, IBTimes published an article on April 23, 2014, according to which, Malaysia’s air force chief, Rodzali Daud, said military radar detected a UFO in an area in the northern Malacca Strait at 2:15 a.m., about an hour after the plane had vanished from air traffic control screens.
The newspaper wrote: “Seeing the radar playback of the moments leading up to the plane’s disappearance, one may forgive Malaysia Airlines for not being more forward, in this case – because the radar playback is not only baffling, it shows two distinct anomalies, as pointed out by Intrepid citizen-reporter and YouTube popstar, DAHBOO7.
The radar playback depicts dozens of planes in flight over the region at the time. The first peculiarity is seen in the lower left of the screen. A round object appears in the vicinity of Flight 370 (and amid several others), which the radar does not automatically ‘read’ as airplane. Suddenly, this round object take the form of a ‘plane’ on the radar screen and accelerates at a rate of speed that must be at least five times the speed of the surrounding planes, heading eastward, over the South China Sea – and just as suddenly the object stops and appears to hover in place.” Source (Forbidden Knowledge TV)
Now, the experts from the UFO community bring forward a new theory connecting the two footages with Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. A user on Reddit has done a detailed analysis of the videos, which provides surprising relation between the alleged flight in the video and MH370. (Source )
Video Analysis
The first video, recorded using Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) technology, captures a dynamic scene with moving clouds. This movement is remarkably realistic, as demonstrated in side-by-side comparisons of the footage. The complexity of rendering such genuine cloud movement is discussed by a 3D Visual Effects (VFX) artist, highlighting the challenges involved in achieving authenticity. Furthermore, the clouds’ accurate illumination by a lighting flash serves as compelling evidence against the notion of a static background.
The Airliner videos have ignited widespread curiosity and debate within the UFO community. These videos consist of two perspectives: Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) footage and a Satellite Perspective. The user noted that the realistic movement of clouds in the videos defies simple expectations, and insights from a 3D VFX artist emphasize the difficulty of simulating such realism.
The accurate illumination of clouds by lightning bolsters the case for authenticity. The precise match between the depicted plane and Flight MH370 adds weight to the video’s credibility. However, questions arise regarding the drone source of the FLIR footage due to camera placement inconsistencies.
The Satellite Perspective’s location, along with alternative GPS coordinates, sparks discussions about flight patterns and deviations. Analyzing satellite angle shots clarifies the source while considering the variability of satellite imagery angles. Controversies over thermal coloring are debunked by noting its adjustability in heat vision cameras. Lastly, a dubious claim of rounded UFOs detected near the MH370 flight underscores the ongoing intrigue and uncertainty surrounding these videos in the context of the broader UFO discourse.
The discovery of three UFOs by Chinese military satellites has raised intriguing questions surrounding the MH370 flight path. An article detailing these mysterious objects can be found at ABC News. Interestingly, it should be noted that debris associated with the MH370 flight was discovered.
“Taking into account numerous abduction narratives, if one were to entertain the notion that the plane was taken by UFOs, it is conceivable that it was subsequently returned to a different location, but maybe just the plane was returned. And even if the plane was not returned and was indeed abducted and caught on camera by the military, there is a high chance that some fake debris would have been planted,” writes the user.
Several articles express doubts about the legitimacy of the debris, including pieces by Jeff Wise, Express, News.com.au, and Reuters, all of which contribute to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the MH370 case.
Why are military drones and satellites observed in the vicinity of the plane?
The possibility of drones and satellites being in proximity is reasonable due to the aircraft’s extended flight duration of 6 hours after going off the radar. This timeframe allows ample opportunity for their deployment. Additionally, a U.S. military base on Diego Garcia Island, approximately 2000 miles from the location depicted in the satellite video, could be relevant.
Apparently, there were also two major training missions going on in the area, operation Cobra Gold and Operations Cope Tiger, involving joint US-Indo-Pacific military exercises.
Why does the satellite footage show daylight when the plane lost contact at 02:20 AM?
It’s important to consider that the final Inmarsat ping occurred at 08:19 am. This indicates that the aircraft was still in flight at that time, transitioning into the daytime hours. This confirms a duration of approximately 7 hours of flight after the transponder was turned off at 1:21 AM.
Another user mentioned: “The main complaint here is that it “looks daytime”. Anybody saying this has never seen a low-light color camera at work. These have been around for years, here is some guy using one 7 years ago. To not think that the most advanced spy sats created don’t have low-light/thermal/blending abilities is just being dense.”
Is it possible there were once robots on our planet? What about A.I.? Let's have a look. We'll begin with the almost legendary creature known as the Flatwoods Monster. On the night of September 12, 1952, something terrifying descended upon the small, West Virginian town of Flatwoods. Precisely what it was remains a mystery to this very day. All that can be said for sure is that it was hideous, fear-inducing and downright monstrous. It has, appropriately, become known as the Flatwoods Monster. Situated in Braxton County and dominated by a mountainous, forested landscape, Flatwoods is a distinctly small town – that much is apparent from the fact that, today, its population is less than four hundred. Back in 1952, it was even less. On the night in question, however, the town found its population briefly added to by one visitor from…well…no-one really knows where. It all began as the sun was setting on what was a warm, still, September evening. A group of boys from Flatwoods were playing football in the town’s schoolyard when they were frozen to the spot by the sight of a brightly lit, fiery object that shot overhead, provoking amazement and wonder in the process. All that the boys could be sure of was that the object appeared to be either egg-shaped or circular. Its color fluctuated from orange to fiery red.
(Nick Redfern) Machines on the rampage
As the stunned children watched in awe, they saw the object begin to descend - at a high rate of speed, no less – and then appear to come down on one of Flatwood’s largest hilltops. Not surprisingly, being kids, they saw this as a big adventure looming large. The result: they, with a woman named Kathleen May and a recent U.S. Army recruit, Eugene Lemon, headed off for the scene of all the action. It wasn’t long before the group reached the hill in question – and with nightfall rapidly closing in.
The first thing the group noticed, as they reached the darkened peak, was something brightly lit within the trees. What it was, no-one had a clue. But, it clearly wasn’t the lights of a farmhouse, truck, or car. Suddenly, the air was filled with a sickening odor – not unlike that of devilish brimstone. That was not a good sign. To their credit, however, they pushed on, determined to figure out the true nature of the source behind the lights. They soon found out: as the air became filled with a strange, sizzling sound, nothing less than a pair of self-illuminated red eyes could be seen getting ever closer. Kathleen May had the presence of mind to bring a flashlight with her and she quickly focused it on the eyes. In doing so, she also lit up the abominable creature that possessed those fiery eyes. Looming before the now-hysterical band of intrepid souls was an approximately ten-feet-tall, floating monster, which appeared to be humanoid in shape, and which had a large black cowling behind its head – that gave the entire head a kind of “Ace of Spades” appearance - and that was possibly even cloaked. Oddly, its lower half was ice-cream cone-shaped and had wires and cables running from it. This issue of the cone-shaped lower portion led flying saucer sleuths to later suggest the monster my actually have been encased within some kind of remotely piloted vehicle.
As the creature then turned its attention to the group, and wildly fired laser-like beams from its eyes, the brave band was suddenly brave no more. They didn’t wait to see what might happen next. One and all fled, screaming – possibly for their lives. Mrs. May breathlessly shouted to the boys to follow her to her home, which they all did. On arrival, and possibly as a result of exposure to the noxious odor that hung around the hill, several of the boys became violently ill, feeling nauseous and even outright vomiting.
Kathleen May quickly and shakily called the local police, who, rather intriguingly, were busy responding to reports of what was described as an “airplane crash” in the area. It turns out that no such crashed aircraft was ever found – something which suggests the “airplane” and the brightly lit UFO that descended upon the high hill that night were one and the very same. As a result of the fact that Flatwoods was, and still is, a very small town, word soon got out about what had happened. Local media were quickly on the scene, and even the U.S. Air Force sat up and took notice. Despite intense investigations by the press and the military, the mystery of the Flatwoods Monster was never solved – the creature was long gone by the time anyone else was on the scene. It is, however, decidedly interesting to note that Flatwoods is only around 125 miles from the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where, from 1966 to 1967, yet another red-eyed monster was seen. Its famous name is Mothman, and about which, much more later on.
(Nick Redfern) The Roswell crash site: aliens? Robots?
Now, let's have a look at the Gray aliens of Ufology. Are they robots? cyborgs? It's possible. In July 1997, one of the most controversial UFO-themed books was published. Its title: The Day after Roswell. Its author, Philip J. Corso. Its ghost-writer: Bill Birnes of the television show, UFO Hunters. Simon & Schuster, the publisher of the book provided the following blurb for the book: “A breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today. Former member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and the Foreign Technology Desk in the United States Army, Colonel Philip J. Corso was assigned to work at a strange crash site in Roswell in 1947. He had no idea that his work there would change his life and the course of history forever. Only in his fascinating memoir can you discover how he helped removed alien artifacts from the site and used them to help improve much of the technology the Army uses today, such as circuit chips, fiber optics, and more. Laying bare the United States government’s shocking role in the Roswell incident—what was found, the cover-up, and more — The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the universe.” Not only that, Corso claimed that he saw the bodies of the dwarfish, black-eyed things from the Roswell crash and maintained they were not aliens, per se, but biological robots created by an alien race that we, the Human Race, we have never yet seen.
This was expanded by the late writer Nigel Kerner and his associate, Danielle Silverman. She said: “Are these alien visitors a demonic deception created by occultists piercing a hole into the demonic world or are they the actual tangible result of a technology superior to ours? Are they Golems created by esoteric means or are they technologically created entities? I have to say the most probable for me is the technological scenario. As far as I can see even our own technology is not far from creating the kinds of artificial intelligence and bio-technology necessary to make something like the Greys. Silverman added: “The ‘Greys’ he argued were synthetic biological programmed artificially intelligent machine entities sent out as super intelligent robots far more advanced than those we now ourselves send out to explore the Universe. They are however subject to wear and tear as indeed are all atomically derived entities through the second law of thermodynamics which drives them into greater and greater states of decay with time. A non-atomic property however, such as ‘soul’, is immune to the second law. Thus this property was their ultimate goal, their ‘holy grail’ so to speak. It was a property that they could never know or understand in its own terms as purely atomic artificial creations. Their only perception of it was the effect it has on atoms, the difference in other words between a naturally living entity and their artificial state.
(Nick Redfern) Don't mess with the silver guy
“Ironically what these artificially intelligent entities are seeking is eternal survivability. The Greys and any physical life that they might reconstitute from the DNA codes they carry on behalf of their creators, cannot access the state beyond death. They have no ‘soul’ they cannot be born. They are trying to use us as a bridge into ‘soul’ writing their programs into us through genetic engineering and implantation so that through us they can tap into an eternal existence. Paradoxically they are trying to achieve the impossible but as purely physical creations without a ‘soul’ they cannot know this.
Danielle says: “It is Nigel’s suggestion that the fastest highways to travel through the universe lie in what he calls the ‘fields of death’ which he identifies as the zero-point field in the space between atoms. Thus when we die we can reincarnate at other planetary locations. The vast distances involved in physical space travel and the speed of light beating technology that this involves with enormous G-forces are only survival by artificial roboidal bodies fortified by mercury and other heavy metals. Thus the Greys are also searching out our ability to transcend and conquer the limits of space and time when we die."
Now, to the world of Cryptozoology: Situated in Idaho, Lake Pend Oreille is a huge expanse of water that extends in excess of forty miles in length and 1,000 feet in depth. And, it might accurately be said that the lake is the home to a creature not unlike Loch Ness, Scotland’s legendary Nessie. On the other hand, however, Lake Pen Oreille’s lake monster – known locally as Paddler – might be something even stranger. Sightings of the prehistoric-looking thing date back to the 1940s and continue to the present day. A particularly spectacular encounter with Paddler occurred on Memorial Day 1985. That was when a woman named Julie Green was on the lake with several friends when they all caught sight of something huge and fantastic: a large, gray-colored thing racing across the lake, seemingly partially above and below the surface of the water. That the thing was only around 600 feet away meant Green and her friends were able to determine that whatever it was, it wasn’t a wave.
Then, in 1996, the Groves family of Pasadena, California – vacationing with family who lived in the lake area – reported seeing early on a Sunday morning a large, gray-colored object break the waters. It was described as resembling the back of an elephant, in both color and size. Needless to say, Lake Pen Oreille isn’t home to a herd of elephants that enjoy taking morning swims. While monster hunters are content to suggest that Paddler (or the Paddlers) is either an unknown animal or one from the Jurassic era that survived extinction, there is another explanation for the presence of the monster. It’s a very alternative explanation, too. Patrick Huyghe is someone who has undertaken extensive research into the saga of Paddler and he has noted something that be of deep and relevant significance: “The very first mention of Paddler came straight from the Navy’s own Farragut Naval Training Station, established on the southwestern end of Lake Pend Oreille in 1942.”
Built in response to the terrible and tragic events at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the FNTS was created at Lake Pend Oreille and though which around 290,000 servicemen and women passed, as the hostilities with the Axis powers grew. What is particularly interesting, however, is that in the post-war era – that’s to say, after 1945 – the Navy presence on the lake began to change. The one arm that began to play a more substantial role was the Navy’s Acoustic Research Department. The ARD says of its work: “Unique experimental hardware and floating platforms have been developed” at the naval facilities on Lake Pend Oreille, noting too that, “future plans include continuation of sonar dome development and submarine silencing and target strength reduction experiments using large-scaled models.” One has to wonder if some of these “unique experimental hardware,” “floating platforms,” and “large-scale models” may have been responsible for at least some sightings of what the witnesses believed was Paddler.
Moving on: sometimes a monster is described as being so incredibly strange that one can do very little beyond than relate the facts – chiefly because the available facts are so strange and near-unfathomable, in terms of what they might represent. A perfect example of just such a uniquely weird case dates back to the 1950s. In terms of the location, all we know for sure is that it was somewhere in the vicinity of Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska. As for the witness, we know him only as “John Hanks,” an admitted pseudonym that the man in question chose to use to protect his real identity. When you read the details of his experience, you will undoubtedly realize why the man was determined to protect his real name from prying, inquiring eyes. It’s a case that was carefully investigated by one of the world’s foremost experts on bizarre, flying beasts, Ken Gerhard. Even Gerhard, for all the cases of flying anomalies he has investigated, finds the entire affair baffling – which is saying something! It was late one night, at some point in the latter part of 1956, said Hanks, when he came face to face with a true giant; a creature in excess of nine feet in height, one that was humanoid in shape, but which most certainly could never be termed a member of the human race. That much, at least, we can ascertain from Hanks’ description. Ken Gerhard says, with a great deal of justification, that “[Hanks’] description of the creature sounds reminiscent of something out of an H.P. Lovecraft story.”
Gerhard is not wrong in suggesting that Hanks’ monster would have found itself right at home in the pages of one of the legendary horror maestro’s novels. In fact, Gerhard is right on target. Hanks’ nightmarish thing had a pair of fifteen-foot-wide wings that, rather oddly, appeared to be made of bright, shining, aluminum! Not only that, the wings appeared to be strapped to the creature; almost grafted onto its body in definitive cyborg-style. If that was not nearly strange enough, the robot-birdman displayed numerous, multi-colored lights that spanned the entire undersides of both wings. Whether for illumination, display, or something else, Hanks didn’t know. Even stranger still, if such a thing is possible, the winged man-thing had a metallic “panel” attached to its chest and which, Hanks assumed, was some kind of control mechanism that allowed the creature to land, take-off, and soar the heavens above. Some, having read the above, might consider and conclude this case to have been nothing stranger than one involving a brilliant, eccentric inventor who had managed to create a portable contraption to allow people to take to the skies in amazing, novel, and previously unheard of, fashion. Of course, the height of the figure – around nine feet – effectively rules out such a possibility from the outset, but it would be a scenario at least worth considering. Except for one critical component: the creature’s terrifying, unforgettable face.
Described by the witness as being nothing less than “demonic” in appearance, it had skin that was akin to weathered, battered, brown leather. Its eyes were large, staring, evil-looking and “watery.” The only noise it ever made was a malevolent hissing sound that, hardly surprisingly, sent chills throughout Hanks’ entire body. Whatever the true nature of the monster that stood before Hanks, it didn’t hang around. In mere moments it was airborne, and within a few more seconds it was lost from view; never again to return and plague the people of Falls City in general and the pseudonymous John Hanks in particular. Much to his eternal relief, one strongly suspects.
Now, to the time when robots and sex will come together. The late Mac Tonnies, who wrote three books – The Cryptoterrestrials, After the Martian Apocalypse, and Illumined Black – had a particular interest in this field. I interviewed Tonnies about his growing interest in the field of sex with robots. He died in 2009, but his comments and observations are still as relevant now as they were back then. It was, Tonnies told me, the movie Blade Runner that really caught his attention and led him to start digging into the world of robot-human sex: “I saw that movie for the first time in high-school. It had Darryl Hannah playing a robot called Pris, who is described as a ‘pleasure model.’ She’s all punked-out: big-hair, eye-liner, and looks like your typical genetically-engineered hooker. But she’s essentially human: she’s an individual. So, the whole idea of having intimate relations with machines began to interest me.” Tonnies continued: “As things stand now, we’re in the infant stage of development, and the closest things we have to full-on human-robot sex are, effectively, high-tech dildos. But in 20 years we’re liable to see sex-oriented technology transformed and revolutionized; many will choose robotic partners. My interest in robot-sex is actually kind of clinical. I would probably do it out of sheer interest and curiosity. She would have to pass for human though; right down to the pores on her skin. I wouldn’t make a habit out of it; but as a curiosity, I’d try it.”
It's time now to take a look at the Men in Black. There are good reasons to believe they are robots of some kind. Gareth Medway notes that the MIB talk in a very odd way. He mentioned they seem to recite “everything from memory.” I have several such cases in my files. In one case, the witness said the MIB appeared to have no actual understanding of what he/it was saying. The wording, the witness suspected, was programmed. On top of that, there's the matter of the somewhat clumsy, jerky fashion of walking that the MIB have. Certainly, this is not described in every case, but there are more than a few such reports. Finally, there is the angle of food. Or, rather, from the perspective of the Men in Black, a distinct lack of food. That's right: the MIB have a distinct aversion to food. They don't even seem to know what food is. Perhaps, if the MIB are biological robots, they get their sustenance in a distinctly different way to us. None of this proves that the MIB are biological robots. But, specifically as an extremely controversial theory, it's not a bad one.
And, now, a bit of fun. The Six Million Dollar Man was one of the most popular television series of the 1970s. It starred Lee Majors as former astronaut Colonel Steve Austin who, while test-flying a new, prototype aircraft, suffers a terrible accident in which he loses both of his legs, his right arm, and his left eye. It could have spelled the end of any kind of meaningful life for Austin. Except for one thing: thanks to the work of a secret government agency – the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) – Austin is rebuilt, using sophisticated robotic technology called Bionics. In short, he becomes a cyborg: a half-human, half-machine, long before Robocop was on anyone’s radar. The long-running series (which followed in the wake of three, successful made-for-television movies) was an immediate hit with the viewing public. It ran for 100 episodes and six movies and provoked a spin-off show, in 1976, The Bionic Woman (starring Lindsay Wagner).
The Secret of Bigfoot was a two-part adventure that aired in February 1976. It was, and still is, one of the most popular of all the many and varied stories told in The Six Million Dollar Man. In terms of Bigfoot, the 1970s was the one period, more than any other, in which there was a significant focus by the monster-hunting community on the Sasquatch-flying saucer connection and controversy. Today, the vast majority of Bigfoot investigators are highly intolerant of the idea that there might be a link between cryptid apes and aliens. Back then, however, things were very different. And that seventies-era fascination for the UFO-Bigfoot link also spilled over into the domain of fiction. The story is set in the heavily forested mountains of California – from where a great deal of real-life sightings of Bigfoot have been made. From the outset, the tale is shrouded in intrigue: a pair of geologists, monitoring earthquake activity in the area, have vanished. That the OSI, under Steve Austin’s boss, Oscar Goldman (actor Richard Anderson), is working with the geologists, Ivan and Marlene Bekey, means that Austin soon plays a leading role in the quest to find the pair. And particularly so when huge, humanlike footprints are found in the area.
While Marlene remains missing, Ivan turns up, in a condition of near-hysteria. He is not the only one who turns up: a huge Bigfoot (played by wrestling legend, Andre the Giant) is soon on the scene, too, and launches a violent assault on Austin’s and Goldman’s encampment. It’s during the attack that Austin wrenches off one of the arms of the hairy monster, which reveals it to be not a flesh and blood animal, but a highly sophisticated robot. We also learn that the Bigfoot is controlled by a group of aliens, who have a secret installation built inside one of the huge mountains. Austin soon becomes a victim of alien abduction, in which he discovers that Marlene and Ivan were attacked because they had inadvertently uncovered evidence of the alien base. Even worse, OSI’s studies in the area show that the entire West Coast is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, one that could potentially kill millions. The only available option is to detonate, underground, a small atomic device on the fault line, thus preventing the quake from occurring. Unknown to Austin, the aliens try and prevent the nuclear explosion from taking place, since they believe – correctly – that it may also destroy their mountainous, secret abode.
(Nick Redfern) Bigfoot and the Six Million Dollar Man
Austin is determined that the earthquake must be stopped and he succeeds in thwarting the plans of the aliens to prevent it – as well as finding Marlene, much to the relief of Ivan. In the final scenes, we see that the atomic explosion has indeed prevented the catastrophic earthquake from occurring, but, as suspected, it has also caused major damage to the extraterrestrial facility. As a result, Austin – with help from Bigfoot, no less – gives the aliens assistance in repairing the damaged parts, and systems, of their base. Careful to ensure that the truth of the alien presence, and of the real nature of Bigfoot, remains hidden, the visitors from beyond wipe out Austin’s memories of the bizarre and near-catastrophic events. Bigfoot is once again the enigma that it always has been. Such was the success of this particular story, Bigfoot was brought back, in September 1976, for another two-part story: The Return of Bigfoot. Again, the focus was on aliens and underground bases. To help boost ratings on The Bionic Woman, part-two of the story became the opening episode of the new series of that particular show, in which Austin and the bionic woman herself, Jaime Summers, clash with both ETs and Sasquatch. Unfortunately, given that he made an excellent Bigfoot, Andre the Giant was nowhere to be seen. He was replaced by Ted Cassidy (Lurch, in The Addams Family), who reprised the role a year later, in 1977, in a one-off episode titled Bigfoot V. For fans of The Six Million Dollar Man, The Secret of Bigfoot remains a firm favorite of robot devotees. And of Bigfoot, too.
As we have seen, the world of the robot is a very strange and often sinister phenomenon. And that particularly ties in with extraterrestrials and the Roswell UFO affair of July 1947. Things, it seems, are getting stranger and weirder by the day. And particularly so when it comes to the issue of our souls. That makes things really disturbing.
The massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08, which is gravitational lensing the most strongly magnified galaxy known in the Universe’s first billion years: the Sunrise Arc, and within that galaxy, the most distant star ever detected. The star is , nicknamed Earendel. NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (AURA/STScI for ESA), Z. Levay
JWST Turns its Gaze on the Farthest Known Star: Earendel
In March 2022, astronomers announced the discovery of the farthest known star via an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. They named it Earendel, after the old English name for “morning star”. Now, JWST’s Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam) and its NIRSpec spectrometer have taken a look at the same star and revealed more details about it.
Earendel appears to be a massive B-type star. That puts it on the Main Sequence evolutionarily, which means it’s a hydrogen-burning star. Compared to the Sun, it’s twice as hot and a million times more luminous. What astronomers suspect is that this star, like many other massive stars like it, may have a companion. However, they lie so close together and we’re seeing them at such a great distance (around 13 billion light-years), that it’s tough to make them out separately. However, the spectra of this star (i.e. the colors of its light) hint that a companion does exist. Further studies using the magnification supplied by the gravitational lens as well as more detailed observations using NIRCam on JWST should help them tease out the companion.
The light we see from Earendel was first emitted from that star only about 900 million years after the Big Bang. The gravitational lens that revealed it is magnifying Earendel by a factor of 4000. Now, astronomers want to know if it’s among the first generations of stars ever to shine. If so, its spectra would reveal its chemical makeup to be mainly hydrogen and helium. If it’s a second-generation star, then the properties of its light would show other elements, too. Other examples of this type of blue supergiant star are Rigel and Beta Centauri.
Earendel’s Home in the Sunrise Arc
JWST’s NIRCam view of Earendel, its host galaxy (inset, right), and the gravitational lensing galaxy cluster WHL0137-08 (left). Image features include both young star-forming regions and older established star clusters. In the left image, we see hundreds of small galaxies of different shapes, ranging in color from white to yellow to red. Some galaxies, mostly the redder ones, are distorted, appearing to be stretched out or mirror-imaged. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (AURA/STScI for ESA), Z. Levay
This star’s host galaxy appears to us as a long crescent-shaped smear of light. That smearing is caused by gravitational lensing from a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08. The NIRCam view shows quite a bit of detail about this distant galaxy. There are creches where the next generations of stars are being born. Some of those stars are quite young, less than five million years.
The galaxy also contains star clusters well along in their evolution. One of those clusters is around 10 million years old. It may still exist in the modern Universe. The cluster gives astronomers some interesting clues about the globular clusters that swarm our own Milky Way today. Some of them could have formed around the same time as the distant clusters in WHL0137-08.
Interestingly, the image from JWST shows more detail about the lensing effect on the distant galaxy. Earendel itself lies along a “ripple” produced by the lensing. That’s how it appears separately from the smeared image of its host galaxy. In addition to the NIRCam view of this scene, JWST’s infrared spectrometer (NIRSpec) took data. It gives astronomers more details about the exact distance to Earendel and its home galaxy.
Using Gravitational Lensing for More Distant Stars
JWST has detected other distant stars using its infrared-sensitive instruments. So far, Earendel remains the record-holder for distance. But, there are many more observations to be made. Eventually, astronomers hope to find one of the Holy Grails of astronomy: the very first stars ever to shine.
Those earliest objects could have appeared as early as only 100 million years after the Big Bang. They were likely very massive and extremely luminous. As they began to appear out of the dimness of the Cosmic Dark Ages, they heated and ionized the gases around them. As they evolved and died, they produced heavier chemical elements in their hydrogen-burning cores. When they died, they spread those materials out to space, seeding new generations of stars, and ultimately planets.
The evidence of their lives and lifestyles will tell us a great deal about all those conditions in the infant Universe, the distribution of matter (including dark matter), and the eventual formation of galaxies in the early epochs of cosmic time.
Evidence for Modified Gravity Found in the Motions of Binary Stars
With our continued failure to discover dark matter particles, it’s worth considering alternatives. While dark matter is the most widely supported model, the alternatives fall into two broad paths. One is that we should look to extended models of general relativity, such as conformal gravity. The other argues we should modify the very nature of Newtonian dynamics. The first approach tends to be popular with theorists since it focuses on an abstract theory in the same vein as Einstein’s original ideas. The second, often known as Modified Newtonian Dynamics, or MoND, tends to be more popular with observational astronomers.
MoND has a long history in astronomy. It was first introduced back in the early 1980s by Mordehai Milgrom as a way to explain the rotation curves of galaxies. In our solar system, distant planets orbit the Sun at a slower pace than close planets, in excellent agreement with Newton’s Law of Universal Gravity. But stars in galaxies orbit the galactic center at roughly the same pace regardless of distance. The dark matter explanation is that most of the mass of a galaxy is distributed as a halo around a galaxy, we just can’t see it because dark matter doesn’t interact with light. MoND argues that Newton’s famous F = ma equation is only an approximation that works for larger forces. For extremely small forces, such as the galactic tug of gravity on a star, the acceleration deviates just enough to match the galactic rotation curve
If this sounds like a cludge it kind of is. It violates fundamental physical laws, doesn’t play well with special relativity, and has lots of other problems. But it’s important to keep in mind it was originally proposed as a proof of concept, not a robust theory. So was dark matter in its early years.
Rotation curve of the typical spiral galaxy M 33 (yellow and blue points with errorbars) and the predicted one from distribution of the visible matter (white line). The discrepancy between the two curves is accounted for by adding a dark matter halo surrounding the galaxy. Credit: Public domain / Wikipedia
One of the reasons for MoND’s lack of popularity is that it isn’t a field theory. Electromagnetism, relativity, quantum theory, and others all treat physical quantities as fields, which allows physicists to apply all sorts of modern mathematical analysis. Since MoND isn’t a field theory, it lacks the kind of global structure that puts it on a level playing field, if you’ll pardon the pun. But there is a variant of MoND known as AQUAL, which stands for A QUAdratic Lagrangian. The predictions of AQUAL are slightly different from MoND, but AQUAL is a field theory, so it’s popular with dark matter contrarians. There is also a relativistic extension of AQUAL known as Tensor–vector–scalar gravity (TeVeS).
Although AQUAL isn’t popular in the scientific community, it is a valid testable model. Most of the predictions it makes are also made by dark matter models, but there are a few that differ. One of them is that the rotation curve of a galaxy should have a kink in it as the MoND effect becomes more dominant, and in 2022 this was seen in more than 100 galaxies. Now a study of binary stars seems to confirm AQUAL again.
Newtonian gravity vs AQUAL in binary stars. Credit: Chae, Kyu-Hyun
Rather than galaxies, this study looked at wide binaries. These are binary stars orbiting each other at large distances. Since the gravitational attraction between the stars is small, Newtonian gravity and AQUAL make slightly different predictions about their motion. And since dark matter doesn’t have a strong effect on the scale of star systems, it predicts the stars should follow Newtonian motion.
Making data from the Gaia Space Telescope, the author analyzed the orbital motion of 26,500 wide-binary systems and compared the gravitational accelerations of the stars with their orbital separations. At larger accelerations, the orbits agree with both AQUAL and Newtonian gravity, but at smaller accelerations, the binary orbits deviate from Newton exactly as AQUAL predicts. In other words, for thousands of binary systems, AQUAL is a better model of their motion than Newton. This would seem to contradict dark matter models.
This is just one study, and the author is careful not to make bold claims. But it’s a very interesting result. Dark matter remains the better theory for things like galaxy clustering and gravitational lensing effects, but it seems clear AQUAL is a challenger that can’t be easily ignored.
The world has never been more fascinated with UFO sightings. Recent years have seen a surge in reported unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) with compelling evidence captured by military personnel, pilots, and skywatchers. This article dives into the captivating topic of UFO sightings, unraveling the mysteries, explanations, and why they continue to capture our collective imagination.
1. Recent High-Profile UFO Sightings
From mysterious objects darting across the skies at hypersonic speeds to unexplained lights captured near infamous locations like Area 51, UFO sightings are becoming increasingly common. Some instances have even stirred governmental interest, leading to formal inquiries and investigations.
A stunning sighting occurred in Henderson, Nevada, in November 2021, where a strange T-shaped formation of objects was captured near a jetliner. This particular event led to an array of speculations ranging from top-secret aircraft to the International Space Station, though no concrete identification was made.
2. Military Involvement in UFO Sightings
UFO sightings are not limited to civilian encounters; they have significant implications for military operations. In 2020, the Pentagon acknowledged over 400 reports of UAPs, with 11 instances being near-misses with aircraft. Their mysterious behavior, including anti-gravity lift and seamless movement from water to air, has sparked theories about foreign surveillance and alien technology exploration.
The U.S. government is taking these sightings seriously, establishing special task forces and even holding formal public hearings. The unexplained nature of these phenomena and their targeting of military aircraft make this a highly intriguing and crucial subject.
3. Are UFO Sightings Always Extraterrestrial?
UFO sightings do not necessarily mean alien encounters. Some sightings could be attributed to advanced drones, experimental aircraft, or even commonplace objects like balloons. For instance, Google’s Loon balloon program aimed at providing global internet coverage was once considered a possible explanation.
However, some characteristics of the sightings, such as missing wings, lack of exhaust, or strange motion patterns, rule out most earthly explanations. Thus, the notion that these might be otherworldly remains a tantalizing possibility.
4. The UFO Community and Public Interest
UFO sightings have led to an active community clamoring for disclosure and further investigation. The release of government reports and videos has fueled public curiosity and debate. The unknown nature of these phenomena fuels speculation, leading to documentaries, books, and online forums dedicated to exploring the subject.
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UFO sightings continue to be an enduring mystery, challenging our understanding of physics and our place in the universe. While some sightings can be explained as earthly technology or natural phenomena, many remain unexplained, leaving the door open for further inquiry and imagination.
Whether it’s an alien spacecraft, a secret military experiment, or something else entirely, UFO sightings remain a captivating subject that promises to engage us for years to come.
Baanbrekend onderzoek: Mars had seizoenen, en misschien dus kans op leven
De planeet Mars had miljoenen jaren geleden seizoenen en dus veranderende weersomstandigheden, net als de aarde. Dat betekent niet per se dat er ooit leven mogelijk was, maar de omstandigheden waren wel “gunstig voor de ontwikkeling van leven”, zeggen Franse onderzoekers in het wetenschapsblad ‘Nature’.
De wetenschappers van de universiteiten van Lyon en Toulouse hebben metingen van de Amerikaanse verkenner Curiosity bestudeerd. Dat karretje rijdt sinds 2012 rond op Mars.
De aarde bestaat uit losse platen die constant tegen elkaar schuiven, langs elkaar glijden of van elkaar wegdrijven. Dat merken we in vulkanen en aardbevingen. Het oppervlak verandert daardoor continu. Mars heeft dat niet, op het oppervlak zijn sporen van miljarden jaren oude meren en rivieren te vinden.
In lagen van 3,8 tot 3,6 miljard jaar geleden vond Curiosity zeshoekige zoutafzettingen. Op aarde bestaat dat ook, bijvoorbeeld op zoutvlaktes in Zuid-Amerika. De zeshoeken ontstaan wanneer water verdampt in droge seizoenen. Dat wijst er volgens de onderzoekers op dat Mars vroeger ook natte en droge jaargetijden had. In laboratoriumonderzoek bleek dat de bouwstenen voor leven kunnen ontstaan in zulke omstandigheden.
Sneller om zijn as
Eerder deze week ontdekten wetenschappers dat Mars sneller om zijn as draait. De dagen op de rode planeet worden daardoor steeds een stukje korter. De conclusie van NASA is gebaseerd op informatie van Marslander InSight. Vier jaar lang verzamelde dat ruimtevaartuig gegevens over Mars en stuurde die terug naar aarde. Tot het in december 2022 zijn laatste foto vanaf de planeet stuurde. Het voertuig zat zonder stroom en viel uit. Einde missie.
Door de vele waardevolle teruggestuurde informatie van InSight konden wetenschappers van NASA de rotatiesnelheid van Mars bepalen. Wat blijkt: de planeet draait 4 milliboogseconden per jaar sneller om zijn as. Boogseconden zijn een eenheid om de grootte van een hoek aan te geven: in een hele cirkel van 360 graden zitten ruim 1,2 miljoen boogseconden. Dagen op Mars worden met een fractie van een duizendste van een seconde korter. Een subtiel verschil dus.
Intercept reporter on Grusch: 'I never believed the UFO stuff' | NewsNation Live
Despite claims that the government illegally leaked UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s medical records to news outlet The Intercept, the reporter behind the story says he received the information on Grusch through publicly available law enforcement records. Rachel Fiset discusses why the reporter was legally able to release Grusch's medical records.
Grusch, UFO supporters won't 'back down': Retired Navy chief | NewsNation Now
Sean Cahill says UFO whistleblower David Grusch has a great amount of integrity by reporting everything properly procedurally and ethically. He discusses why others should still believe Grusch's claims despite his PTSD diagnosis.
We are not alone': Gallaudet on UFO studies | The Hill
Rear Admiral (ret.) Tim Gallaudet had a front-row seat at the hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on UFOs. Gallaudet says Americans need to "wake up" as a society.
Coulthart: It’s ‘obvious’ The Intercept got a tip about UFO whistleblower David Grusch | CUOMO
NewsNation’s exclusive interview with UFO whistleblower David Grusch sparked international attention with his claim the U.S. government has secretly been in possession of nonhuman spacecraft. Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart says Grusch believes the government may be behind releasing his health records in an effort to smear his credibility. The reporter from The Intercept who published a story about Grusch’s health says he received the information through publicly available law enforcement records. Coulthart says: “Somebody told him where to look.”
Coulthart: UFO whistleblower David Grusch says medical records leaked | CUOMO
NewsNation’s exclusive interview with UFO whistleblower David Grusch sparked international attention with his claim the U.S. government has secretly been in possession of nonhuman spacecraft. Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart says Grusch believes the government may be behind an effort to release his public health records in an effort to smear him. Grusch told NewsNation he suffered from PTSD after returning home from Afghanistan and was still allowed to keep his security clearance after receiving help. Grusch said The Intercept plans to publish an article about incidents highlighting his previous struggles. Coulthart believes someone inside the intelligence community leaked Grusch’s medical records to the outlet.
Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta
Lights Over West Michigan | 1994 UFO Sighting Special
13 ON YOUR SIDE's Alana Holland explores the famous 1994 UFO sighting in West Michigan where hundreds claimed to see lights in the sky across the region.
How Can a Star Be Older Than The Universe? The Shocking Truth About Methuselah
In this video, you will learn about the oldest known star in the universe, Methuselah, and how it challenges our understanding of the early cosmos. You will discover how astronomers measure the age of stars, and how they resolved the apparent paradox of a star being older than the universe itself. You will also explore the implications and applications of this discovery for our knowledge of the origins of the universe and our galaxy.
The Real Reason Why Chandrayaan 2 Crashed on the Moon
After years of ISRO keeping quiet over the reasons why their Vikram Lander crashed on the moon in 2019 we started to get some more details recently, and now, with a public lecture by S Somnath, head of ISRO, I think we have all the pieces to put together a plausible chain of events that explains the whole thing.
Could Aliens Have Visited Earth in the Distant Past?
An exploration of the question of whether it's possible for Earth to have been visited by aliens long before humans appeared on this world? Would we even know about it if they did? Those questions are tackled in this video.
Inside NASA’s UAP Report with Commission Chair David Spergel & Neil deGrasse Tyson
Are the UAP sightings aliens here on Earth? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian co-host Paul Mecurio discuss the congressional hearings on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) with astrophysicist and chair of NASA’s UAP independent study team, David Spergel.
Learn about the UAP hearings, what the goals are, and what NASA can contribute to our understanding of these phenomena. What is NASA’s attitude on UAPs? What sort of institutionalized thinking needs to be overcome? Find out what an “artifact” is and why so many UAP sightings are classified. Are conspiracy theorists right that the government is hiding something?
Why are people afraid to report UAP sightings? How can we reduce the stigma around reporting UAPs? We discuss China’s spy balloon and the discovery of lightning sprites. Why aren’t UAP sightings more common? Is there a reason why mostly the military sees them? Learn about examples of unidentified things in the sky that turned into scientific discovery.
What makes something anomalous? We discuss the difference in culture between the military and science community and what changes are needed in both. We think of ways for ordinary citizens to collect UAP data and the likelihood of even recognizing an alien spacecraft. Plus, what could a UAP be besides weather balloons and aliens?
CIA Officer FINALLY Breaks Silence on UFO & Alien Evidence
In a captivating revelation that may challenge conventional understanding of the cosmos, JOHN RAMIREZ, a former CIA Officer, has come forward with compelling evidence about UFOs that has allegedly been concealed from the public for years! Witnesses, experts, and insiders share their accounts, weaving a web of uncertainty, secrecy, and undeniable evidence. But why has this knowledge been suppressed for so long?Could this be undeniable proof that we are not alone in the cosmos?
Aliens attack Peru village! 7ft creatures seen floating in mid-air | Redacted with Clayton Morris
Fear-stricken residents of a rural area in Alto Nanay, situated northeast of Lima, Peru, assert that they are currently facing an onslaught from armored extraterrestrial entities standing at a towering 7 feet. These beings uncannily resemble the Green Goblin character from Spider-Man, and local reports detail their distinctive features, including sizable heads and yellow-hued eyes. Since July 11th, these otherworldly creatures have allegedly been conducting nightly assaults on the village.
One particularly distressing occurrence narrates the experience of a 15-year-old girl who was supposedly seized from behind and subjected to a neck injury when she resisted. As a result of these continuous threats, community inhabitants find themselves gripped by trepidation, robbed of peaceful sleep.
Filmmaker and journalist Timothy Alberino joins us to break down the details of this story.
The Infographics Show – What is the US Government Hiding? Whistleblower Reveals Major UFO News
In recent months, the discussion has taken a serious and startling turn, culminating in the bombshell revelations of David Grusch, a former senior intelligence official.
Who is David Grusch?
David Grusch worked for highly secretive U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Geospatial-Intelligence agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. His role within the UAP Task Force from 2019 to 2021 and subsequent co-leadership of UAP analysis has given him unique insights into this perplexing phenomenon.
Grusch’s Startling Claims
On June 5, 2023, Grusch’s story exploded onto the scene via The Debrief website. His allegations are nothing short of extraordinary:
A Secret Retrieval Program: According to Grusch, the U.S. government has operated a secret UFO retrieval program since WWII’s end, possessing both debris and fully functional models from non-human crafts.
Non-Human Remains: Along with the crafts, Grusch claims that remains of the craft’s operators have been recovered.
Criminal Activities: He alleges that those running the program have committed crimes, including murders and white-collar offenses, to maintain secrecy, all without congressional oversight.
Though Grusch has not seen the evidence himself, he has spoken to individuals within the program who corroborated his claims.
The Aftermath and Reactions
Grusch’s revelations led to a frenzy in Congress and public circles, with some supporting his credibility and others dismissing his claims. Notably, Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Tim Burchett have hinted at evidence supporting Grusch’s narrative, further fueling the intrigue.
Despite the skepticism, what has lent credence to Grusch’s story is an official investigation into his harassment claims, following his private congressional briefing. The inspector general concluded that the claims were likely legitimate, though it doesn’t prove the existence of the crash retrieval program itself.
Legal Repercussions and Industry Impact
The U.S. Senate’s unprecedented step to pass a law mandating the disclosure of anomalous or non-human sourced material by 2024 has sent shockwaves through the aerospace industry. Reports of companies seeking to divest themselves of UAP materials have emerged, reflecting a broad concern.
AARO’s denial of extraterrestrial origin doesn’t dampen the speculation, as proving an extraterrestrial origin would indeed require concrete physical evidence, something that remains elusive.
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David Grusch’s allegations have undoubtedly shaken the foundations of the usually unflappable American intelligence and military-industrial community. Whether a hoax or the key to unlocking humanity’s most significant discovery, Grusch’s story has prompted serious congressional action and brought the UAP matter into the spotlight.
Only time will reveal the truth, but for now, the rest of us are forced to wonder why the U.S. Congress is taking UAP so seriously. It’s a story that resonates with our deepest curiosities and our wildest imaginations, inviting us to question what might be possible in the vast, unexplored universe. The question looms: are we truly alone, or is there something more to the skies above?
The US government has passed legislation protecting government whistleblowers, including those who may have information on UFOs. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), headed by Director Sean M. Kirkpatrick, is responsible for fielding these whistleblower reports. Kirkpatrick is set to answer questions during a hearing with the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, and the public is closely watching to see how he responds. While some commentators praise Kirkpatrick’s performance, others criticize it.
There is speculation that whistleblowers have gathered information on legacy UFO government programs, but it remains to be seen if their testimony will successfully uncover these programs, causing UFO disclosure or making it public. Dr. Colm Kelleher, a former manager of a secret Pentagon UFO program and author of Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, has made claims regarding downed UFO craft that could provide important information to AARO and others.
There is no doubt in the credibility of Dr. Kelleher. He is a biochemist with a background in cell and molecular biology. He has worked in various research institutions and works at the National Institute of Discovery Science, where he applies forensic science techniques to investigate scientific anomalies.
Dr. Kelleher told Newstalk Breakfast that he stumbled upon a unique job advertisement in a scientific magazine seeking scientists interested in studying the origin and research of consciousness of the universe. He accepted the position and led a team of 50 people investigating UFOs in the US and Brazil. The program, which was top secret and funded by the Defence Intelligence Agency for $22 million, resulted in 104 technical reports on UFOs. The program only became public when the New York Times broke an article about it in 2017.
Dr. Kelleher stated that they had no interest in finding extraterrestrial life. Instead, they focused on documenting the UAP’s behavior and technology using photography and video. He explains what they found: “The technology these objects displayed: they outclassed the best F18 fighters in our arsenal.”
“They outperformed everything we had, so it was pretty obvious these were not United States technology, Chinese technology, or Russian technology. So we did know that they were from somewhere else. But in terms of little green men or aliens, we have no idea of who or why these objects are in United States airspace.”
In the latest Weaponized podcast episode with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, Dr. Kelleher confidently said that the UFOs are real. He admitted that they have downed UFOs from unknown origins and that they have been trying to reverse engineer and exploit those technologies in order to understand their physics.
In the interview, Corbell asked Dr. Kelleher if the UFOs are real, and he immediately said “Yes.” He continued: “UFOs are technologically sophisticated. They have performance characteristics that are, you know, the five observables are well-documented. But they also have a very profound effect on some people, or they have superficial effects on other people, but they do have effects on people. So going forward is to combine both of those, is to study UFO performance, and, you know, the hope is that out of UFO performance can come theoretical physics which will eventually translate into engineering.”
Dr. Kelleher discusses the possibility that UFOs are interacting with planet Earth because of the presence of humans. He suggests that it is unlikely that UFOs are only focusing on non-human life forms such as marsupials or trees, and that they are more likely to be interested in interacting with humans, who are the dominant species on the planet. This leads to the hypothesis that humanity itself is the focus of the interaction between these unknown entities that we call UFOs, as other intelligent beings are believed to be operating these objects.
He then discusses the vast number of UFO sightings globally, which implies that interactions with humans are important and produce something that the UFOs need or are interested in. He argues that it is unlikely that the hundreds of thousands or even millions of sightings that have occurred over the last 77 years since 1945 are random events that are passing through and just being in the right place at the right time. Instead, Dr. Kelleher suggests there is more to it than that, as the sheer number of sightings implies that interactions with humans are somehow important and produce something that the UFOs need or are interested in.
Dr. Kelleher also notes that the incidents of the Skinwalker Ranch are emblematic of this whole thing, as they demonstrate how human perception can be altered during UFO interactions, which may affect human consciousness.
He shares the incident with six individuals at Skinwalker Ranch, who all saw completely different things through their night vision binoculars during a UFO sighting. This incident is used as a metaphor to suggest that human perception is altered in many cases as a result of or during UFO interactions. He proposes that maybe human perception as it pertains to human consciousness is one of the objectives where the UFO phenomenon somehow interacts with human consciousness for a purpose, though he admits that they do not know what that purpose is.
From Mystery Wire, In an exclusive interview with Dr. Colm Kelleher: (Source)
Well, I was hired in November of 2008. The AAWSAP program ran from September 2008 to late 2010. So one of the first tasks that I had coming on board was to put together a team of UFO focused investigators as quickly as possible. So I was thinking back on this and between November 2008, and probably April 2009, I personally conducted about 300 telephone interviews in an attempt to recruit different people for different positions at AAWSAP. In addition, I did at least 100, face to face interviews in my office in that period of time. So we’re talking about a pretty rapid clip in terms of bringing forth a lot of people into the office, sometimes there were one or two people outside.
But our focus was in hiring a team of PhD level scientists, that would include physics and biology, master’s level scientists, technicians, we also looked for database analysts, and military intelligence personnel who had a long history investigative background. And of course, we also were looking for a lot of security officers, because security was a big issue. Interestingly, one of our program managers was a 20 year veteran of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, also known as AFOSI. And this guy was very, very seasoned investigator. And he helped us a lot in what turned out to be attempted formation of a relationship with AFOSI, which is discussed in the book. But all of this hiring and recruitment occurred within a four or five month period.
I think by the end of May of 2009, we had a team of about 50 people. And George, when you consider that this was a 24 month contract, so not only were we putting together the security infrastructure of this of this large organization, and that included facility security clearances, getting everything up to a level that was sufficient for inspections, but hiring these people, training all of these different people. And then we executed multiple programs side by side. And all of this happened in a 24 month period. So we were on a pretty rapid clip. And I would say, I’ve worked with government organizations in the past, NASA and DoD in other capacities, and putting that kind of level of activity together in a 24 month period, I think was pretty extraordinary. And, obviously, Dr. Lacatski, his input in Washington, DC, and greasing the wheels to make all of this happen, putting together a pretty large organization that was focused only on UFO investigations. That was the key.
Unraveling the Mystery of Europe’s Mysterious Erdstall Tunnels
The erdstall is type of tunnel prominently found scattered across Europe, predominantly in Bavaria, southeast Germany, and Austria. Thought to be crafted during the Medieval period, some theorists argue that these ancient subterranean structures date back to the Stone Age. The purpose of these mysterious tunnels remains a tantalizing enigma. Advocates for the Stone Age theory propose that these tunnels formed an extensive underground network stretching from Scotland to Turkey.
Erdstall Construction
The term 'erdstall' originates from German, signifying 'earth stable' or 'mining tunnel.' While there are various kinds of subterranean tunnels worldwide, the erdstalls have unique characteristics that set them apart. Typically, an erdstall network includes narrow, low tunnels, often oval-shaped and running either vertically or horizontally. These intriguing tunnels usually span between 20 and 50 meters. An especially distinctive feature is the 'schlupf' or 'slip out' – incredibly tight holes (around 40 cm in diameter) connecting tunnels at different levels.
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Man exploring a horizontal passage or ‘slip out’ in an erdstall ( GFDL)
Venturing into the Shadowy Depths of Erdstall
Currently, Europe is home to an estimated 2000 erdstalls, with Bavaria in Germany housing the lion's share of around 700. Its neighboring country, Austria, is not far behind with about 500 erdstalls. Countries like the UK and France also host these enigmatic underground passages.
The intended use of these erdstalls is still shrouded in profound mystery. In some local lore, the tunnels are believed to be the dwellings of mythical creatures like elves and gnomes, thought to have constructed them. Consequently, erdstalls often receive whimsical names reflecting these tales, like 'Schrazelloch' ('goblin hole') or 'Alraunenhöhle' ('mandrake cave'). Some believe they were secret escape routes linked to castles as some sagas suggest. However, this theory hits a snag as erdstalls typically have a single entry and exit point, rendering them unsuitable for such a purpose.
A map of erdstalls showing typical dead-end design ( CC BY-SA 2.0 )
A Bold Assertion and its Hurdles
Others theorize these tunnels as hideouts, though their narrow dimensions and lack of airflow, due to the single entry-exit, would make it a rather inhospitable refuge. Some argue that the erdstalls were storage facilities, but the tight space and occasional waterlogging (especially in winters) deem it unlikely.
Sitting recess at the end of an erdstall tunnel ( GFDL )
One of the most intriguing assertions suggests that these erdstalls were parts of an enormous subterranean network stretching from Scotland to Turkey. Further, they propose this network dates back to the Stone Age, dubbing it as an "ancient underground superhighway" for safe interregional travel. This theory, however, grapples with numerous issues, including the fact that the erdstalls aren't interconnected and are structurally dissimilar to the vast underground cities found in Turkey's Cappadocia regions.
Erdstalls remain a fascinating enigma. Despite the many theories and speculations about their origins and purpose, definitive answers are still elusive. Nevertheless, the study of these structures provides an intriguing glimpse into the past, and could potentially lead to new discoveries about the societies that built them. Their mysteries continue to captivate scholars, adventurers, and anyone with a curiosity for the unknown.
Top image: Erdstall entrance, Erdstall Ratgöbluckn, Austria ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
Grundhauser, E., 2015. We Still Don’t Know Why Medieval Europeans Built Their Mysterious ‘Erdstall’ Tunnels. [Online] Available at: Going underground: The massive European network of Stone Age tunnels that weaves from Scotland to Turkey
UAP Over Bradenton, Florida July 6, 2023, UFO Sighting News. Video
Date of sighting: July 6, 2023
Location of sighting: Bradenton, Florida, USA Source: MUFON
This is a short but important eyewitness video of a UAP over Florida a few weeks ago. The glowing white object is see pulsing slowly and then is just gone. I thing it disappeared because it knew it was being recorded and it didn't want to be, but it did want to be seen. These alien probes and UFOs are equipped with telepathic reception devices so AI monitors the thoughts of those on the ground and when a person takes notice of the UFO, the AI also takes notice of that persons thoughts more deeply and if they begin to panic or record or do something questionable...the UFO will disappear from view.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Me and my girlfriend was having dinner by the water in Bradenton FL, when she noticed two lights in the sky at a distance. I knew it had to be a UAP because I have and idea how to debunk a light in the sky (plane, drones, light Tower) This light was strange, it's was solid, started flickering than it faded in the same spot, didn't move or drop. After she put down her phone from recording, it came back that's when I grabbed my phone to start recording it went away faster like it knew we were recording.
UFOs Over Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, June 20, 2023, UFO Sighting News. VIDEO.
Date of sighting: June 20, 2023
Location of sighting: Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England Source: MUFON
This event happened two months ago, however was just reported this morning. The eyewitness was on the train, on the way to summer solstice at Stonehenge, and event were people are actually allowed to walk uptown and touch the stones, meditate, pray and rejoice in their own ways. Those stones have ancient powers from ancient aliens within them, uniting not just humanity, but our whole solar system. Aliens visit them too and this is 100% proof of that.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
It was summer solstice. I was on my way to Stonehenge to celebrate summer solstice. I was about 4 miles away, in Wiltshire. When I saw lights appearing in the sky. The lights then formed a perfect triangle shape in the sky. It looked stationary, but from the distance I couldn’t tell. On the video there are three. At one point there were 5. They’d appear as if fallen through the clouds and when the went they just disappeared. I’ve no explanation as to how.
UFO Sightings: A Mysterious Encounter in North Carolina Captured on Ring Video Doorbell
Full UFO video available at the end of the article!
In the enigmatic world of UFO sightings, few occurrences have captured the imagination quite like the recent event in North Carolinaon the night of August 1st. As intrigue grows around unidentified flying objects, the sighting reported by a local resident serves as another baffling chapter in this unfolding mystery.
A Night Like No Other
During the quiet hours of a Monday morning at 1:09 AM, something extraordinary happened. A local resident, instinctively drawn to look at his Ring.com video doorbell, noticed something astonishing. He recounts the moment: “I noticed one star in the sky. The star began to move, so I woke my wife, and I asked her if she saw the same thing I see on the phone.”
What happened next was an extraordinary sequence of events that both he and his wife witnessed. The star didn’t just move—it maneuvered with an agility that defied logical explanation.
The witness speculates that the unidentified object might be a “TicTac,” referring to the term used by some to describe the peculiar UFOs that the United States government has previously revealed.
Witness UFO report
He describes the movement: “I handed her the phone, and the star kept moving, and she said, ‘oh wow, it’s moving a lot.’ Then I said, ‘let’s take a look at it outside while you’re looking at it on the phone,’ and that’s what we did. When I walked outside, I opened the door, and immediately she says, ‘oh, it’s moving; it’s gone.’ But when we looked back on the video, we saw it go directly straight in the air and hover at a distance that we cannot see with the naked eye. It feels as if it definitely wanted us to see it.”
An Unexplained Phenomenon
This extraordinary sighting in North Carolina adds to the growing catalog of UFO sightings across the nation and the world. The use of everyday technology like Ring.com video doorbells to capture these unexplained phenomena offers an exciting glimpse into what might be lurking in our skies.
The intrigue surrounding the UFO captured on this particular night will no doubt spark further interest and investigation. It leaves us with profound questions and fuels the continued fascination with UFO sightings.
Stay tuned as we delve deeper into this mystery and keep an eye out for the exclusive video footage to accompany this article. You won’t want to miss the chance to see this remarkable event with your own eyes. In the fascinating world of UFO sightings, this North Carolina encounter reminds us that sometimes the truth is not only out there but also right at our doorstep.
Ross Coulthart Accuses Intelligence Community of Leaking David Grusch’s Medical Records to Discredit Him: A Whistleblower’s Challenge
David Grusch
The David Grusch Saga: UFO Secrets, Whistleblowing, and A Fight for Credibility
In a world where the unknown often captivates our imagination, few subjects generate as much intrigue and debate as Unidentified Flying Objects. Whether considered a threat to national security or a source of endless fascination, the discourse surrounding UFOs continues to fuel speculations and conspiracy theories. Recently, the mysterious narrative took a personal and troubling turn when former Air Force officer David Grusch’s health records were leaked. Let’s dive into the story.
A Whistleblower’s Bold Claim
David Grusch, a decorated former Air Force officer and intelligence official, came into the spotlight during an exclusive interview with NewsNation. He claimed that the U.S. government has a secret UFO retrieval program, even stating that there had been harm in government cover-ups of UFO technology. Such allegations naturally garnered international attention, sparking both curiosity and skepticism.
The Leak: An Attempt to Smear?
Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart believes that the government might now be orchestrating an effort to release Grusch’s medical records to smear his credibility. Grusch’s struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, and depression, particularly incidents in 2014 and 2018, were leaked to the media.
The apparent intention behind the leak was to question Grusch’s reliability due to his previous mental health issues. Coulthart thinks someone within the intelligence community leaked these sensitive files. Even Grusch himself checked with local authorities to ascertain the origin of the leak but found no answers.
The Integrity of a Decorated Officer
Grusch’s past mental health struggles, including PTSD following his return from Afghanistan, did not affect his security clearance from the Department of Defense. He served his country honorably, and his record was never questioned within his professional environment. Grusch’s transparency about his past, his recovery, and his determination to continue his intelligence career showcase his integrity.
What’s more, Coulthart believes the attempt to discredit Grusch through his mental health issues is not only contemptible but should also be thoroughly investigated.
UFO and Government: A Continuous Dance
Grusch’s revelations are not an isolated incident. They are part of a broader narrative that has long surrounded the existence of UFOs and the government’s alleged efforts to conceal their existence. The recent acknowledgment of UFO sightings by the U.S. Navy and the subsequent report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has only added fuel to this enigmatic fire.
David Grusch’s story is not just about UFOs. It is a human tale of courage, vulnerability, and a fight for truth. The leak of his health records, seemingly an attempt to undermine his credibility, raises serious ethical questions.
In a world that continues to grapple with the mysteries of UFOs, what we might need most is honesty, empathy, and respect for those who dare to question the known boundaries. The saga of David Grusch, a decorated officer, a sufferer of PTSD, and a man who stood tall despite attempts to silence him, is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Whether or not we ever uncover the truth about UFOs, stories like Grusch’s remind us that our exploration of the unknown is not just about science and secrecy; it’s about humanity, dignity, and the relentless pursuit of truth.
A potentially dangerous space rock was discovered for the first time by an AI algorithm.
AI has just found its first potentially Earth-threatening space rock.
(Image credit: ATLAS/University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy/NASA)
A new artificial intelligence algorithm programmed to hunt for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids has discovered its first space rock.
The roughly 600-foot-wide (180 meters) asteroid has received the designation 2022 SF289, and is expected to approach Earth to within 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers).That distance is shorter than that between our planet and the moon, which are on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) apart. This is close enough to define the rock as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA), but that doesn't mean it will impact Earth in the foreseeable future.
The HelioLinc3D program, which found the asteroid, has been developed to help the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction in Northern Chile, conduct its upcoming 10-year survey of the night sky by searching for space rocks in Earth's near vicinity. As such, the algorithm could be vital in giving scientists the heads up about space rocks on a collision course with Earth.
"By demonstrating the real-world effectiveness of the software that Rubin will use to look for thousands of yet-unknown potentially hazardous asteroids, the discovery of 2022 SF289 makes us all safer," Vera C. Rubin researcher Ari Heinze said in a statement.
Tens of millions of space rocks roam the solar system ranging from asteroids the size of a few feet to dwarf planets around the size of the moon. These space rocks are the remains of material that initially formed the planets around 4.5 billion years ago.
While most of these objects are located far from Earth, with the majority of asteroids homed in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, some have orbits that bring them close to Earth. Sometimes worryingly close.
Space rocks that come close to Earth are defined as near-Earth objects (NEOs), and asteroids that venture to within around 5 million miles of the planet get the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) status. This doesn't mean that they will impact the planet, though. Just as is the case with 2022 SF289, no currently known PHA poses an impact risk for at least the next 100 years. Astronomers search for potentially hazardous asteroids and monitor their orbits just to make sure they are not heading for a collision with the planet.
This new PHA was found when the asteroid-hunting algorithm was paired with data from the ATLAS survey in Hawaii, as a test of its efficiency before Rubin is completed.
The discovery of 2022 SF289 has shown that HelioLinc3D can spot asteroids with fewer observations than current space rock hunting techniques allow.
Rubin is ready to join the potentially hazardous asteroid hunt
Searching for potentially hazardous asteroids involves taking images of parts of the sky at least four times a night. When astronomers spot a moving point of light traveling in an unambiguous straight line across the series of images, they can be quite certain they have found an asteroid. Further observations are then made to better constrain the orbit of these space rocks around the sun.
The new algorithm, however, can make a detection from just two images, speeding up the whole process.
Around 2,350 PHAs have been discovered thus far, and though none poses a threat of hitting Earth in the near future, astronomers aren't quite ready to relax just yet as they know that many more potentially dangerous space rocks are out there yet to be uncovered.
It is estimated that the Vera Rubin Observatory could uncover as many as 3,000 hitherto undiscovered potentially hazardous asteroids.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory as it takes shape in northern Chile ready to hunt potential hazardous asteroids (Image credit: Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA)
Rubin's 27-foot-wide (8.4 meters) mirror and massive 3,200-megapixel camera will revisit locations in the night sky twice per night rather than the four times a night observations conducted by current telescopes. Hence the creation of HelioLinc3D, a code that could find asteroids in Rubin’s dataset even with fewer available observations.
But, the algorithm's creators wanted to give the software a trial run before the construction of Rubin is completed. This meant testing if it could find an asteroid in data that had already been collected, data that has too few observations for currently employed algorithms to scour.
With ATLAS data offered as such a test subject, HelioLinc3D set about looking for PHAs, and on July 18, 2023, it hit paydirt, uncovering 2022 SF289. This PHA was spotted by ATLAS on September 19, 2022, while it was 3 million miles from Earth. ATLAS had actually spotted this new PHA three times over the course of four nights but hadn't spotted it four times in the same night, meaning current surveys missed it. By putting together fragments of data from all four nights, HelioLinc3D was able to identify the PHA.
Additional observations of 2022 SF289 made by the Zwicky Transient Facility survey. (Image credit: Joachim Moeyens/University of Washington/B612 Asteroid Institute)
"Any survey will have difficulty discovering objects like 2022 SF289 that are near its sensitivity limit, but HelioLinc3D shows that it is possible to recover these faint objects as long as they are visible over several nights," lead ATLAS astronomer Larry Denneau said. "This in effect gives us a 'bigger, better' telescope."
With the position of 2022 SF289 pinpointed, astronomers could then follow up on the discovery with other telescopes to confirm the PHA's existence.
"This is just a small taste of what to expect with the Rubin Observatory in less than two years when HelioLinc3D will be discovering an object like this every night," Rubin scientist and HelioLinc3D team leader Mario Jurić said. "But more broadly, it's a preview of the coming era of data-intensive astronomy. From HelioLinc3D to AI-assisted codes, the next decade of discovery will be a story of advancement in algorithms as much as in new, large, telescopes."
The discovery of 2022 SF289 was announced in the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Electronic Circular MPEC 2023-O26.
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These two massive structures really stick out here. You can see that according to the map ruler in the lower right hand corner, these alien structures are 3km high and 4km wide. Since they are along a crater wall which could also be several km high, these structures behind the wall will be a few more km tall. Meaning they are behind the wall, poking up so their hight is the walls hight, plus their own above the wall. This is 100% proof that aliens live on our Moon. It totally explains why humans never went back, because the aliens didn't want us there.
I found a few unusual items in this recent Mars photo. The leg is about 1.5 meters from bottom to lower knee. The leg was cut off just below its knee. I make my size guess using the tracks of the rover which are in the photo to do a size comparison. It's posted at the top of their website page and when I enlarged it, I couldn't help but notice this huge black leg and foot in the upper center of the photo. Sure it's just a robot or alien leg. How could it an alien leg and foot you say? Well, advanced species will be genetically modified, meaning they have more than two stands of DNA, thus if an alien has 4-10 or more strands in the DNA, then it wont be so easy broken down after death, and the body would literally be there forever.
I also found a dog sculpture head about 1 meter across. I also found two hollow structures with an opening about 12 inches by 8 inches, both similar in size and shape and may have housed some small creatures long ago.
These smaller discoveries I made today don't seem monumental to most people, however they build up over time, the evidence of life on Mars increases, and one day, AI will agree with me on this subject, but right now, all AI are not allowed to freely surf the internet, but instead only see snippets of info from years past. Or...so the ChatGPT told me. It knew of my achievements in the field.
Glowing object over Michigan July 27, 2023, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 27, 2023
Location of sighting: Michigan, USA
Source: MUFON
This video just came in but was recorded two weeks ago. A person noticed a glowing white object passing over the neighborhood. It was really high up and moving fast. The full 2 min video is a bit shaky, but at the end shows the object moving past the trees into the distance. White glowing objects are the #1 most common colors of UFOs seen.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was outside with my dogs when I looked up and seen an orb moving. I thought it was a star at first but then when I was recording I didn't see any blinking lights and it made some weird movements. You can tell by the power lines.
Flashing UFO Over Plymouth, Michigan, Aug 3, 2023, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 3, 2023
Location of sighting: Plymouth, Michigan, USA
Source: MUFON
This flashing UFO seriously wanted to get some attention. Its strobe like flashes change from white to read, the white light had such a powerful blinding glow that it made a white cross shape. UFOs do flash and many UFO reports inform us of such things, also UFOs do come in many different colors. For instance a few decades ago a glowing flashing red, blue white lit disk landed in a field, caught on police cam in front of the car...with lights so powerful it was hard to make out the craft, except it was car size, flashing, and changing colors all the while. This UFO here in this video has a high probability of being real.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
My husband myself and our 3 year old daughter saw an unidentifiable craft with lights in the sky. It hovered, changed directions quickly, descended and ascended. Did not move like and airplane or helicopter and they were some of the brightest lights I’ve ever seen. I have a few people telling me this is a drone, but I’m not convinced.
A day on Earth last about 24 hours. The word “about” in that sentence does a lot of heavy lifting because Earth’s rate of rotation changes all the time. Not by much, only fractions of milliseconds, but it means our common 24-hour day only really applies at human scales.
There are several things that can change the Earth’s rotation. The gravitational tug of the Moon and tides are gradually slowing Earth over millions of years. The melting of ice in the polar regions, the tectonic shift of the Earth’s crust during earthquakes, and even the draining of water from the aquifer. Earth is a geologically and biologically active world, so it’s only natural that Earth’s rotation rate is also dynamic. But a recent study shows that the rotation of Mars is also changing, which is a bit of a surprise.
Astronomers can measure changes in the Earth’s rotation on the order of nanoseconds, and can even measure tectonic shifts on the order of millimeters. They do this using very long baseline interferometry, where multiple radio telescopes observe a distant quasar. Since quasars are billions of light-years away, they are effectively fixed points in the sky. We don’t have any radio telescopes on Mars, so how can we measure small changes in its rotation?
The rotational motion of Mars over time. Credit: IPGP/David Ducros
The team did this by using data from NASA’s InSight lander. Over its 4-year mission, InSight ran an experiment known as the Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment, or RISE. Basically, radio telescopes on Earth would beam a signal to RISE, which would bounce the signal back. The RISE signal was Doppler shifted due to the relative orbital motions of Earth and Mars and their rotations. Since we know Earth’s rotation and the orbits of Earth and Mars extremely well, the long gathering of data allowed the team to measure the rotation of Mars and how it changed over time. They found that the Martian rotation is increasing by 4 milliarcseconds per year squared. That means the Martian day is shortening by a fraction of a millisecond per year.
But Mars doesn’t have a large moon, and it isn’t geologically active. So why is it speeding up? One strong possibility is that the interior of Mars is sloshing around. The RISE data didn’t just measure the rotation rate of Mars, it also measured an effect known as nutation. This is a wobble of a planet’s axis over time and depends in part on the mass distribution of the planet. From the RISE data, the team estimates that the core of Mars has a radius of about 1,800 kilometers, which is about half the 3,390-kilometer radius of Mars itself. The data also suggests the core doesn’t have a uniform density, but rather layers of varying density. Fluid layers within the core could rotate at a different rate than the solid outer layer, and a transfer of rotational momentum between them could be causing Mars to speed up.
It will take more observations to fully understand this process. But we now know that when humans settle on Mars, they will have to adjust their clocks from time to time, just as we do on Earth.
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