Noordwest-Europa zet zich schrap voor nieuwe storm: waar, wanneer en hoe hard zal ‘Isha’ toeslaan? En zal dit ook bij ons zijn?

Na sneeuw komt .... storm, zo blijkt uit de weerkaarten voor het noordwesten van Europa. In een mum van tijd schakelen we over van winterweer naar een onstuimig herfstachtig weertype. Want een heuse stormdepressie, die intussen officieel de naam ‘Isha’ kreeg, ontwikkelt zich momenteel over de Atlantische oceaan. Meteorologen waarschuwen nu al voor de zware windstoten waarmee Isha gepaard zal gaan. De Britse en Ierse weerdiensten hebben code oranje voor wind afgekondigd en code geel voor de vele regen die zal vallen. Maar hoe zwaar zal de storm precies uitpakken? Waar en wanneer mogen we de meeste wind verwachten? En moeten ook wij vrezen voor Isha?

Samuel Helsen 

“Een dooi zonder regen of wind, is niet waard dat ‘t eraan begint”, luidt een alom bekende weerspreuk. En actueler kan zo'n weerspreuk niet zijn. De weerkaarten zijn onverbiddelijk: de winterprik van afgelopen week wordt de komende dagen letterlijk weggewaaid en weggespoeld. We lijken over te schakelen van winter naar herfst.

We krijgen de komende dagen te maken met aanvoer van zeer zachte zeelucht van over de Atlantische Oceaan.  © wxcharts

De luchtstroming draait naar het zuidwesten en vanuit die hoek krijgt West-Europa de komende dagen te maken met aanvoer van zeer zachte zeelucht van over de Atlantische Oceaan. Op die manier zal de ene na de andere depressie richting onze contreien worden gestuurd die de nodige wind en regen met zich mee zullen brengen.

Het is vooral zondag en maandag uitkijken voor stormdepressie ‘Isha’. Deze storm bereikt zondag de westkust van Ierland en trekt vervolgens via de Britse Eilanden en Schotland de Noordzee op. Zondagnacht en maandag zal de storm ook de Benelux bereiken en vervolgens doorstoten naar Duitsland en Scandinavië.

Waar komt deze storm zo plots vandaan?

Het aankomende stormweer wordt veroorzaakt door een zeer sterke straalstroom. Dit is een grote luchtrivier op een hoogte van zo’n 10 tot 12 kilometer die depressies meesleurt in z’n kielzog en deze verder doet uitdiepen. De komende dagen is de straalstroom erg actief en bereikt deze windsnelheden tot tussen 240 en 280 kilometer per uur. Een sterke straalstroom staat bij ons garant voor onstuimig weer met veel wind.

De komende dagen is de straalstroom erg actief en bereikt deze windsnelheden tot tussen 240 en 280 kilometer per uur. Een sterke straalstroom staat bij ons garant voor onstuimig weer met veel wind.  © netweather

De verhoogde activiteit van de straalstroom hebben we deels te danken aan de uitbraak van barre winterkou in delen van de VS en Canada. De uitstulping van de poolwervel met ijskoude lucht nabij de VS en Canada aan de andere kant van de oceaan staat in schril contrast met de nog steeds erg hoge temperaturen in de Atlantische oceaan en de bijhorende zeer zachte luchtmassa die zich boven de oceaan bevindt.

Dit scherp contrast tussen de erg koude en erg zachte lucht is de drijfveer voor het aansterken van de straalstroom, die op zijn beurt de motor is voor het ontstaan van de stormdepressies.

Hoe fel zal de storm tekeer gaan en waar mag men de meeste wind verwachten?

Storm Isha is een zuidwesterstorm en zal gepaard gaan met zware tot zelfs zeer zware windstoten op veel plaatsen in Noordwest-Europa. De storm bereikt als eerste de westkust van Ierland op zondag, waar de hoogste windstoten verwacht worden. Gemiddeld komt er zo’n 8 tot 10 beaufort te staan op zee en in de kustregio’s. Op dit moment wordt uitgegaan van windstoten die kunnen pieken tot 120 km/u. Een uitschieter naar 130 km/u is zelfs niet onmogelijk volgens sommige weermodellen.

Daarna raast het stormveld in de loop van de dag verder over het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Schotland. Ook daar is het vooral in de westelijke kustgebieden alsook in de hoger gelegen gebieden uitkijken voor windstoten tot 120 km/u. In het binnenland worden veelal windstoten verwacht tot 100 km/u. Daar waait de wind krachtig tot hard en in sommige gebieden stormachtig.

Windstoten tot 120 kilometer per uur zijn niet uitgesloten bij storm Isha.  © wxcharts

Zowel de Ierse als de Britse weerdienst kondigden al code oranje af op zondag en maandag voor de felle windstoten. “Er bestaat een kans dat er stroomuitval zal zijn”, luidt het. De storm zou ook een impact kunnen hebben op het verkeer. Er worden dan ook heel wat vertragingen en schrappingen verwacht bij het openbaar vervoer, het luchtverkeer en de ferrydiensten. Naast stormschade door wind is het ook opletten voor stormvloed met hoge golven. Op volle zee kunnen de golfhoogtes pieken tot wel 10 meter hoog en ook langs de westkusten zijn golfhoogtes mogelijk tot wel 7 meter hoog.

Tijdens de nacht van zondag op maandag trekt storm Isha dan de Noordzee op als een zware zuidwesterstorm met nog steeds gemiddeld 8 tot 10 beaufort. Vervolgens zal het windveld ook het vasteland bereiken van de Benelux, West-Duitsland en Scandinavië. Vooral op de Waddeneilanden en ook langs de kusten van Denemarken mogen ze ook windstoten verwachten tot 120 km/u volgende de laatste weerkaarten. Elders lijken de windstoten beperkt te blijven tot maximale waarden tussen 90 en 110 km/u. Tegen maandagavond lijkt het ergste gepasseerd en trekt de storm al afzwakkend verder het Europese binnenland in.

Langsheen de westkusten van Schotland, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Ierland, alsook in het westen van Noorwegen kan er in totaal tot meer dan 100 liter water per vierkante meter vallen tussen zondag en woensdag  © wxcharts

Het is trouwens niet alleen oppassen voor wind, want Storm Isha zal ook gepaard gaan met veel regen. Op sommige plekken langsheen de westkusten van Schotland, het VK en Ierland, alsook in het westen van Noorwegen kan er in totaal tot meer dan 100 liter water per vierkante meter vallen tussen zondag en woensdag. Hierdoor is er kans op wateroverlast.

Zal het ook bij ons stormen?

Ook wij mogen ons opmaken voor een onstuimige periode. Vooral zondagavond en tijdens de nacht naar maandag zal de wind fors in kracht toenemen met de doortocht van storm Isha. Zondag overdag staat er al een vrij krachtige wind. ’s Avonds en ’s nachts wakkert de wind verder aan tot zo’n 6 of tijdelijk zelfs 6 à 7 beaufort.

Dinsdag dient zich mogelijk al een volgende storm aan op de weerkaar­ten, genaamd Jocelyn

Daarmee zal het krachtig tot soms hard waaien. Momenteel wordt er uitgegaan van windstoten tot 90 km/u, maar sommige weermodellen berekenen tijdens het hoogtepunt van de storm zondagavond en maandagnacht zelfs windstoten tot 110 km/u. De kans bestaat dat ook het KMI hiervoor een code oranje zal afkondigen in ons land als deze voorspellingen aanhouden. Bij windstoten onder 100 km/u gaat het om code geel. Aangezien het om een zuidwesterstorm gaat zal de impact op onze kust gelukkig eerder beperkt zijn. Door de oriëntatie moeten we niet meteen vrezen voor stormvloeden. Wel is er een aanzienlijke kans op windschade door de stevige windstoten mogelijk.

Een temperatuurstijging van meer dan 10 °C in minder dan 24u op zondag  © weerplaza

Zondag nemen we ook afscheid van het zonnige en koude weer. Met de aanwakkerende zuidwestenwind zal de dooi razendsnel z’n intrede doen en mogen we opnieuw erg zachte temperaturen verwachten. We krijgen zelfs te maken met een heuse temperatuurschok. Op zondag schakelen we abrupt over naar zeer zachte subtropische lucht afkomstig van de Azoren. In de ochtend vriest het mogelijk nog licht, maar tegen de avond zal de temperatuur opnieuw dubbele cijfers bereiken. We halen dan rond 10 °C. Een temperatuurstijging van meer dan 10 °C in minder dan 24u. Dat is best opmerkelijk.

Is er nog stormweer op komst de komende dagen?

De komende dagen zal de winter ver te zoeken zijn. De maxima liggen met 12 of 13 °C rond zeer hoge waarden voor deze tijd van het jaar. Bovendien blijven we te maken hebben met een herfstachtig en vrij onstuimig weertype met regelmatig regenzones die de revue passeren en een stevig windveld.

Dinsdag dient zich mogelijk al een volgende storm aan op de weerkaarten. Deze zal de naam ‘Jocelyn’ dragen. Vooral Ierland, het VK en Schotland mogen zich dan opnieuw opmaken voor stevige windstoten. Volgens de laatste prognoses zou de storm zich vooral richten op de noordelijke delen van Ierland, het VK en Schotland met opnieuw potentiële windstoten tot 130 km/u. Ook bij ons blijft het onstuimig. Na een korte adempauze dinsdagochtend zal de wind dinsdagavond en woensdag opnieuw aanwakkeren met windstoten tussen 70 en 90 km/u.

Na woensdag lijkt het weerbeeld zich stilaan terug wat te stabiliseren. De onstuimige periode lijkt op het eerste zicht van korte duur. Mogelijk schakelen we later in de week over op stabieler weer onder invloed van een hogedrukgebied met ’s nachts lichte vorst en overdag ruim positieve temperaturen.

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Over the past few years, much of the talk in the UAP community has revolved around Brett Tingley’s reporting of unusual patent applications by Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, an aerospace engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). Among those patents are: a “plasma compression fusion device” that promises to generate practically unlimited amounts of clean energy with a small reactor; a “high-frequency gravitational wave generator” that promises to harvest the power of gravity; and a “craft using inertial mass reduction device” that promises to revolutionize transportation.

These patent applications relate directly to UAP observables, in that UAPs seem to defy the known laws of physics precisely by appearing to deploy unthinkable amounts of energy in small regions of space, manipulate gravity at will, and have little to no inertial mass. For this reason, many—such as Ariel Cohen, writing for Forbes—have speculated that Pais’s ostensible inventions may be a cover for reverse-engineered UAP technology, and the associated patents an attempt by the US Navy to stay ahead of China and Russia in the new arms’ race.

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In this essay, I will argue that these speculations are based on a fundamentally wrong understanding of how the game of Intellectual Property Rights—or ‘IPR’ in short, which includes patents—is played. Whatever NAWCAD’s inventions are, they aren’t reverse-engineered UAP technology and almost certainly have no defense significance.

Although I am best known as a philosopher and scientist, I have spent almost 25 years in the high-tech industry doing technology strategy. I have been deeply immersed in the world of high-tech IPR, having even once co-founded a computer company—Silicon Hive, now part of Intel—that dealt in IPR licensing. As such, despite not being a lawyer myself, I am qualified to opine on patent matters.

A patent is a legal monopoly: it gives an individual or a company the right to be the exclusive exploiter of the patented idea for a limited period—usually 20 years—unless the individual or company in question chooses to license the patent to a third-party. The goal is to give companies an incentive to invest in Research and Development (R&D) without fear that its competitors will immediately benefit from the fruits of that R&D without having invested in it. Patent law is at the foundation of high-tech entrepreneurship for this reason. Without it, which company would invest billions in, say, inventing a new drug, just to see its key competitors reverse-engineer the drug and commercialize an identical, cheaper alternative within months?

But patents represent a trade-off. While giving their holders temporary monopoly power, they also force the inventors to publicly disclose the ideas in question. Indeed, patents—and even patent applications—are public documents by law, available on multiple searchable databases such as Google Patents. Moreover, not only do the inventors have to publicly describe their inventions, they must also do so in a manner that a “person skilled in the art”—that is, a minimally competent practitioner in the field in question—can, based on a patent’s text and diagrams alone, implement a working embodiment of the corresponding invention.

As such, patents are the opposite of industrial secrets. Before deciding whether to patent an idea, a company needs to weight its monopoly benefits against giving the competition a head-start; for this is exactly what a patent application does: it broadcasts to the world the lines along which a company is developing its technology.

Sometimes, the decision of whether to patent an invention or keep it a secret is straightforward. For instance, it may be impossible to hide an idea, either because it is a visible and advertised product feature—such as a fingerprint reader or facial scanner to unlock your phone—or because the product can be easily bought from a shop and reverse-engineered. In these cases, it’s best to patent the whole thing in advance, as the secret cannot be kept.

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THE VANISHING STAR ENIGMA AND THE 1952 WASHINGTON D.C. UFO WAVE

BEATRIZ VILLARROEL·

As we look up at the starry sky, countless celestial bodies silently peer down upon us. Most of these have been there for billions of years as stellar processes slowly unfold, starting from their birth until their final demise. Light from other celestial objects, though long vanished, has only recently reached us. In other instances, swift changes in the sky occur at timescales as short as seconds or minutes, like when a dwarf star momentarily flares up or when a human satellite crosses the field of view.

My team has been searching for objects that may have vanished. As an unexpected result of our searches, we found cases where multiple star-like objects (transients) appeared and vanished in a small image within an hour, and even more peculiarly, two of our brightest cases happened in July 1952, coinciding in time with the 1952 Washington D.C. UFO flyovers. But what have we actually found, and how do these two events potentially link to one another?

In the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, our team has been dedicated to the search for celestial objects that vanished over the span of 70 years. In the grand scheme of cosmic time and the billions of years needed for a low-mass star to turn into a white dwarf, seventy years is only a fleeting moment in cosmic time. But 70 years is also much longer than the time needed for a satellite to pass through the telescope’s field of view. Our original objective was to search for a star that had vanished, with the hope of detecting instances where a star directly collapses into a black hole (failed supernova), an event predicted by supernova theoreticians. Alternatively, we were intrigued by the prospect of finding a star that vanishes entirely without a trace or explanation; a signature of a highly advanced civilization.

However, this task was far from straightforward. My colleague spent two years developing powerful methods [5] for sifting through the vast terabytes of image data involved. In parallel, we were (and still are) running a citizen science project together with scientists, amateur astronomers, and students primarily in Algeria and Nigeria, to search for these vanishing stars.

For our searches, we employed an object catalog sourced from the US Naval Observatory (USNO) together with archival images dating back to the early 1950s, captured at the Palomar Observatory in California. The images from Palomar predate the dawn of human space exploration. This night sky was pristine, and a far cry from today’s sky that is littered with tens of thousands of debris pieces from human satellites in orbits around the Earth, many producing flashes lasting fractions of a second as they reflect sunlight and tumble through space. These images we compared to the modern databases from Palomar Sky Survey, PanSTARRS, and the Gaia satellite in our quest to find disappearing objects.

Then we executed the search. We identified two candidates that were statistically significant and had unlikely alignments of transients and an additional three statistically weaker candidates (in total 5 candidates). Our best candidate, Candidate 5, had a probability of p ~ 0.0001 to exist by chance (see Figure 1 below). Regrettably, one journal after another declined to send our paper for peer review, informing us that the topic of the paper consistently fell ‘outside the scope of the journal’. Only one journal sent the paper to referees, which ended up being rejected after several confusing rounds. The paper remains on the arXiv preprint server.

Meanwhile, our team continued its search efforts. One year ago, my colleague presented the team with a case that he had uncovered during the automated searches [5]. The image showed three bright and beautiful objects looking just like stars in a POSS-I image from the 19th of July 1952 that appeared and vanished within a plate exposure [3] (see Figure 2 below). The three bright objects seemed as real as Betelgeuse itself. We explored a gravitational lensing hypothesis, considering the possibility that a massive foreground object could bend the passing light so that three images appear only to vanish moments later. Perhaps, a supermassive black hole located just a few light-years from Earth, with a mass ten times that of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, could explain the triple transient? We were not convinced. The article was recently published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Figure 2. The left image shows three transients on the 19th of July 1952 in the First Palomar Sky Survey. The right image shows the same star field in the Second Palomar Sky Survey, about 30 years later. This image is an adaption of the images in Solano, Marcy et al., 2023.

Let us have a closer look at the time period of the observations. July 1952 was a very special month in Washington D.C. Between July 12th and July 29th, 1952, a multitude of UFO sightings occurred over Washington D.C. in the United States involving radar-visual sightings in simultaneous observations, and even circumstances where a Navy pilot was authorized to shoot down an object (with some debris collected). The highest number of sightings took place during two weekends: July 19th – 20th and the weekend of July 26th – 27th, 1952.

An official record from the National Archives of Australia reveals that while the average monthly number of UFO reports of sightings between 1948 and 1951 was 15 per month, there were approximately 536 reports in July 1952. The US Air Force held a large press conference at the Pentagon (the largest press conference since the end of World War II), claiming that the radar observations were caused by temperature inversions, citing a theory produced and promoted [6,7] by the astronomer and UFO skeptic Donald Menzel, who had the highest clearances within the National Security Agency in the United States. Further work cast serious doubts on Menzel’s explanation. Also, the US Air Force failed to explain the numerous eyewitness reports.

This is where things get fun. The three transients we found were, indeed, observed on the night of July 19th, 1952, which coincided with the first weekend of the Washington UFO flyovers – a coincidence first noticed by my friend David Altman. As scientists, we recognize that coincidences will occur from time to time, no matter how remarkable they may seem. Yet, I couldn’t help but wonder about whether any of the five top candidates in our previous 2022 arXiv paper could have been observed during the Washington flyovers.

Indeed, our absolute top candidate (Candidate 5, with a mere 0.0001% probability) was observed on July 27th, 1952, aligning with the second weekend (Author’s Note: In the arXiv paper and all presentations, including one I presented at the Sol Foundation event at Stanford University in October, 2023, and up until December 2023, I have quoted the wrong date of 28th of July 1952. The correct date for the XE141 plate, according to the STScI plate archive, is the 27th of July 1952). Ironically, our two most prominent and brightest cases of multiple transients coincided in time with the two weekends of the renowned Washington UFO flyovers.

What types of events might lead to the detection of multiple transients in plates from the same period? One possible explanation is that these transients are indeed UFOs. Another hypothesis is that high-altitude atomic bomb tests could have generated aurora-like phenomena over Washington. These events might have produced nuclear fallout in other regions of the vast country, which–perhaps–could be detected as false stars on the photographic plates. Perhaps, in this instance, Occam’s razor suggests that the first hypothesis requires less of a stretch.

A dataset that possibly could help to solve the mystery is the Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) project, which comprises digitized portions of Harvard College Observatory’s photographic plate collection. The observatory’s plate collection consists of 550,000+ plates that played a pivotal role in cutting-edge astronomy research spanning over a century. Given that the Harvard Observatory is considerably closer to Washington D.C. than Palomar, it might possess valuable records from the time of the Washington D.C. UFO flyovers. As recently as a few weeks ago, the DASCH project came back online after a several years-long hiatus; a blessing to many astronomers.

Despite its numerous successes, Harvard’s photographic plate collection faced many challenges during its history. In the early 1950s, Harvard University chose to destroy a portion of its own photographic plate collection under the directive of its Director Donald Menzel who entered office in 1952. This story is carefully retold in the astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit’s autobiography, Misfortunes as Blessings in Disguise. Furthermore, Donald Menzel stopped Harvard’s observatory from conducting further photographic plate surveys of the sky in 1953. The latter event is now commonly referred to as the ‘Menzel gap‘. Constraints related to storage space and budgetary limitations were cited. Only fifteen years later, Harvard resumed its surveillance of the sky upon Menzel’s retirement.

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CHRIS SHARP: Get over it, UFOs DO exist… as the latest extraordinary sighting proves. Now the terrifying question: which power has the technology that has us baffled - and beaten?

By CHRISTOPHER SHARP FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

It's balloons.

It's a smudge.

It's Superman!

Is there anything social media naysayers won't conjure up to dismiss new footage of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) flying above an overseas U.S. airbase in 2017?

Video of the mysterious floating object – dubbed the 'jellyfish' for its dangling tentacle-like appendages – was published last week by investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.

The release has since unleashed a torrent of wild speculation from armchair debunkers. But there's good reason not to dismiss this disclosure so easily.

As a journalist covering the UFO beat, I regularly work with Corbell and Knapp who have been behind much of the groundbreaking reporting in this field.

Knapp is a two-time winner of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow journalism award.

In 1989, he famously revealed the still-controversial allegations of Bob Lazar, who claimed he was hired to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology at a secret Nevada site near a U.S base – a facility that has come to be known as Area 51.

Corbell, too, has earned his place among pioneering UFO reporters.

In 2021, Corbell published leaked footage of a spherical object - filmed by the crew of the U.S.S. Omaha - off the coast of Southern California. The oblong orb is seen flying into stiff headwinds before disappearing into the ocean.

Video of the mysterious floating object – dubbed the 'jellyfish' for its dangling tentacle-like appendages – was published last week by investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell (left) and George Knapp (right).

The duo have now released six pieces of footage showing potentially unexplainable UFOs over conflict zones in the Middle East.

For decades, the U.S. government has dismissed this journalism as conspiracy until 2017 when the Pentagon confirmed the existence of long-running secret programs that studied these strange occurrences.

In 2023, under growing public pressure, Congress held its first hearings to investigate claims of ex-military pilots who testified under oath on their first-hand accounts of mysterious flying objects encountered around the world.

Now as more and more UFO evidence surfaces, the government has no choice but to be more transparent. And it is in this spirit of openness that Corbell and Knapp step forward.

They hold no theories on what the 'jellyfish' UFO is, and - yet again - as no plausible explanations have emerged others have rushed to judgment.

Some proclaim the allegedly military-grade infrared footage recorded from a surveillance blimp shows a smudge on the camera lens - bird poop, perhaps.

The 'smudge theory' was soon rubbed out by sleuths who zoomed in on the object revealing that it rotated as it passed over Al-Taqaddum Airbase in central Iraq in 2017.

A lens smear would exhibit two dimensions. Only three-dimensional objects can appear to spin on video.

Another conjecture was that the 'jellyfish' is a cluster of balloons. An expert on infrared videos, Dave Falch, has seemingly burst that bubble.

Falch, known for his in-depth analysis of such footage, demonstrated through an experiment posted on his Twitter feed that latex balloons are not visible when viewed using infrared.

Some proclaim the allegedly military-grade infrared footage recorded from a surveillance blimp shows a smudge on the camera lens - bird poop, perhaps. 

Another conjecture was that the 'jellyfish' is a cluster of balloons. An expert on infrared videos, Dave Falch, has seemingly burst that bubble. 

Falch's analysis is also supported by the accounts of anonymous first-hand military witnesses, who have reportedly spoken with Corbell and Knapp.

These witnesses, who have been trained to differentiate between harmless balloons, surveillance aircraft, and other, potentially dangerous, airborne objects, to this day cannot explain what they saw.

The world is left with no concrete answers, which can be an uncomfortable position for some. But if solving UFO mysteries were straightforward, the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence apparatus wouldn't have found it necessary to create an entirely new unit in July 2022 - the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (ARRO) – to investigate them.

UFOs exist. Get used to it.

There are things in our skies, oceans and outside the atmosphere, which cannot be explained.

What the 'jellyfish' UFO footage doesn't show is what witnesses have reported to Corbell and Knapp: that the UFO is said to have descended into the nearby Habbaniyah Lake for 17 minutes, then re-emerged from the water and accelerated rapidly at a 45-degree angle until it disappeared from the frame.

If those claims are proven true, then the 'jellyfish' footage will be another piece of sobering evidence suggesting that the most powerful nation in history is not its most technologically sophisticated.

In 2021, Corbell published leaked footage of a spherical object - filmed by the crew of the U.S.S. Omaha - off the coast of Southern California. The oblong orb (above) is seen flying into stiff headwinds before disappearing into the ocean.

The duo have now released six pieces of footage showing potentially unexplainable UFOs over conflict zones in the Middle East. (Above) A metallic-looking orb flying over an Iraqi city was allegedly caught on video by a US spy plane.

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe implied as much last year when he conceded that the U.S. government has a responsibility to scrutinize 'objects that demonstrate technologies that seem to defy the law of physics and capabilities that we don't have as the world's superpower.'

The situation is so concerning that Five Eyes – the intelligence alliance comprised of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States report – has published a classified report on the increased frequency of UFO encounters, according to Corbell's reporting.

Many in Congress, even Democratic Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have demanded more disclosure. But worryingly, some in the U.S. government may be turning back the clock on secrecy.

Following the declassification of three UFO videos in 2020, the U.S. Navy has explicitly stated that it will not declassify any more footage over 'national security' concerns. This week the Pentagon issued a statement on the 'jellyfish' UAP refusing to confirm or deny the authenticity of the video or whether it has been reported to AARO.

The public should push harder for answers. Whatever the 'jellyfish' is - it is, without a doubt, part of a broader discussion about transparency and trust.

As much as the doubters and government censors might wish it away as a smudge, the issue won't be wiped up so easily.

• Author Christopher Sharp is the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Liberation Times 

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Inside secret UFO briefing in DC: Congress finds 'many' claims about US government harboring aliens and spaceships 'have merit' after grilling top US spy watchdog

• America's top spy watchdog gave Congress a top secret UFO briefing Friday
• READ MORE: Inside the battle that watered down the bipartisan UFO bill that would disclose confidential 'non-human intelligence' data to the public

By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Lawmakers say they are one step closer to the truth about humanity's place in the universe today after a top secret briefing on UFOs in Congress.

America's top spy watchdog met with members of the House Oversight committee on Capitol Hill today — a meeting previewed by DailyMail.com's anonymous intelligence community insider.

The meeting aimed to get to the bottom of last year's explosive charges alleging the existence of an illegal UFO crash retrieval program.

Those allegations, made by the formerly high-ranking US intelligence official David Grusch, accused the US military and its private contractors of covering up retrieved UFOs and alien 'beings,' plus retaliation campaigns to keep their secrets.

'We've now made, I would say, progress on some of the claims Mr. Grusch has made in his complaint,' Democratic Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz told reporters.

'Based on what we heard,' Rep. Moskowitz said, 'many of Grusch claims have merit!

Grusch's allegations were first made in detail via this classified formal complaint, a 'Disclosure of Urgent Concern(s); Complaint of Reprisal' filed to the office of the US Intelligence Community's Inspector General (IC IG) in May of 2022.

'I think this one [today's briefing] is going to lead to a lot of things,' Rep. Moskowitz said. 'There's a lot of new questions and a lot of new areas to ask and poke in.' 

'I think everybody left there thinking and knowing that Grusch is legit,' said Republican Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, Rep. Moskowitz's colleague on the House Oversight Committee, which spearheaded today's secret UFO conclave.

Burchett added, 'if they didn't think that before.'

The Tennessee legislator, who has become a strong voice calling for transparency on what officials now call 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' or UAP, did retain some of his criticisms, telling reporters 'by design this issue is very compartmentalized.'

'We've now made, I would say, progress on some of the claims Mr. Grusch has made in his complaint,' Democratic Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz told reporters. 'Based on what we heard,' Rep. Moskowitz said, 'many of Grusch claims have merit!'

'It's not about little green men in flying saucers,' Burchett said steps from a 'Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility' or SCIF where the classified meeting was held. 

'The issue is tens of millions of dollars,' he emphasized, 'on an issue that we've been told does not exist since 1947.' 

Rep. Moskowitz, who has joined Rep. Burchett and others in the House UAP Caucus on what has become an bipartisan effort to get to the truth on these airborne mysteries, also acknowledged continuing bottlenecks with over-classification. 

'Well, obviously, look: the process is extremely frustrating,' Rep. Moskowitz told reporters assembled outside the SCIF. 

'But actually this is the first real briefing that we've had,' the congressman said, 'the first time we kind of got a ruling on what the IG thinks of those [Grusch's] claims.' 

'I think everybody left there thinking and knowing that Grusch is legit,' said Republican Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett (left), Rep. Moskowitz's colleague on the House Oversight Committee, which spearheaded today's secret UFO conclave

'It's not about little green men in flying saucers,' Burchett said steps from a 'Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility' or SCIF (above) where the classified meeting was held

Republican Representative of Arizona Andy Biggs (above) arrives to attend today's closed-door intelligence briefing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)

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The revelations came amid an invite-only UFO gathering at Stanford University. But, many speakers at the exclusive event expressed worry over the risk of social and economic upheaval. One former CIA scientist said that Washington insiders had deeply weighed both the positive and negative ramifications of declassifying America's top-secret UFO programs in 2004. They came to believe that the risks of UFO 'disclosure' were just too great. 

'So this meeting, unlike the one we had previously [with the Department of Defense's office of the Inspector General], this one actually 'moved the needle.''

Despite these promising statements of forward momentum, it is unclear whether or not members of House Oversight were actually permitted to review Grusch's official classified IC IG complaint, or what hard facts they learned behind closed doors.

Last week, a source with direct knowledge of standard operations inside the US Intelligence Community's Inspector General's office (IC IG) told DailyMail.com that a review of the complaint would be unlikely.

'I do not expect that to occur,' the source told DailyMail.com.

According to the DailyMail.com's well-placed US intelligence community source, IC IG would likely endeavor to satisfy lawmakers while telling them as little as possible. 

'The IG, when he goes and briefs Oversight, his job, between you and I, is going to be to make them feel as though they're getting information,' this source said, 'and basically tell them nothing.'

This source believes Attorney Thomas Monheim, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, and his staff would be forced to juggle the expectations of multiple competing congressional committees. 

'He's in charge of what he's going to tell them,' the source told DailyMail.com.

'I would be very shocked if they hear the same things the Intel committees heard,' the source elaborated, 'not because he doesn't want to tell them — because they're Congress.' 

'But because HPSCI [the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] and SSCI [the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence] have probably said to him, 'Hey! We are your committees of jurisdiction, not Oversight,'' so this source advised.

Nevertheless, Rep. Moskowitz presented a carefully worded comment on the progress made by the committee and the roadmap ahead in their quest for answers about the govenment's closely held, long-rumored UFO portfolio. 

'Let me just give you a hypothetical, because I am not going to share anything from a classified briefing,' the Florida congressman began.

'If someone makes ten claims, and then someone says, 'Well, we didn't look into all ten, because they weren't all in the report. But, hey, we found these six very credible,'' Rep. Moskowitz said, 'well, then you'd wanna go attack those six.' 

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Mysterious Burning Object seen over Charlotte, NC last night. Jan 19, 2024, UFO Sighting News. Whats going on In North Carolina? 

Burning UFO making a hard right turn.

UFO in below screenshot over contrail of the other UFOs. 

Date of sighting: Jan 19, 2024

Location of sighting: Charlotte, NC, USA

Source: Twitter 

 

Guys this just in. A huge burning object was seen with long flames coming out of it over a city in North Carolina last night. The object or objects were seen flying low and leaving a smokey trail behind them. Very odd indeed. Clearly this is a burning UFO that is barely making back to an underground base somewhere in North Carolina. The object is one large object breaking apart. As of yet, the Carolina news has not talked about it or explained what it might be.

Scott C. Waring

 

 

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The Enigma of Post-WWII Alien Aeronautics: Unraveling the Secrets of Operation Paperclip

In the aftermath of World War II, amidst the ruins and reckoning, a new chapter of intrigue and technological pursuit began to unfold. This chapter, steeped in secrecy and speculative theories, revolves around the clandestine Operation Paperclip and its alleged connection to extraterrestrial technology and aeronautics.

Operation Paperclip: A Covert Endeavor

At the core of this enigmatic period was Operation Paperclip, a top secret program initiated by the United States government. Its primary objective was to recruit and leverage the expertise of former Nazi scientists, particularly in the fields of aeronautics, rocketry, and various other scientific disciplines. This strategic move was aimed at ensuring that the U.S. did not fall behind in the burgeoning Cold War technological race.

The Roswell Incident: A Catalyst for Conjecture

The narrative takes an intriguing turn with the 1947 Roswell incident, where a mysterious object crashed in the New Mexico desert. This event, reported by the Roswell Daily Record, sparked widespread speculation. While many believed the object to be of extraterrestrial origin, an alternative theory proposed that it was a product of the advanced aeronautical experiments stemming from Operation Paperclip.

Nazi Innovations and UFO Sightings

The theory gains traction from the fact that Nazi Germany was known for its unconventional aircraft designs. Notably, the Horten 229, a flying wing bomber, exhibited design elements that strikingly resembled descriptions of UFOs reported around the same period. This parallel has led some to speculate that what were perceived as extraterrestrial UFOs might actually have been misidentified experimental aircraft, developed by the very scientists recruited through Operation Paperclip.

Speculations and Unanswered Questions

The hypothesis that Operation Paperclip might have been instrumental in analyzing and possibly reverse-engineering recovered alien technology adds another layer of mystery. The notion is that if any alien crafts were obtained, the most adept minds in aeronautics and rocketry at the time – many of whom were part of Operation Paperclip – would have been called upon to study and understand these advanced technologies.

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While the narrative connecting Operation Paperclip to alien aeronautics is compelling and intriguing, it remains largely speculative. The lack of concrete evidence and reliance on anecdotal accounts means that these theories continue to float in a realm between documented history and the corridors of conspiracy theories. The true extent of Operation Paperclip’s involvement in post-WWII aeronautics, and its possible intersection with extraterrestrial technologies, remains an enigmatic topic that continues to fascinate and provoke discussion.

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The Beijing Sky Mystery: Unraveling the Truth Behind the Recent UFO Sighting

The evening skies over Beijing and several other regions in China recently became the canvas for an extraordinary and mysterious spectacle. Residents were captivated by the sight of an unidentified flying object (UFO), leading to a whirlwind of discussions, theories, and intrigue. This article delves into the details of this enigmatic occurrence, exploring eyewitness accounts, expert analyses, and the eventual explanation that demystifies this celestial event.

The Sighting: 

On a clear Sunday evening, just after 6 PM, residents across Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces witnessed an unusual phenomenon in the sky. Described as a glowing, isosceles triangle-shaped object with three distinct light sources, this UFO moved rapidly from west to east. The object stood out for its silence and the absence of flashing lights typical of aircraft. Eyewitnesses reported that it eventually dissipated like mist and disappeared without leaving a trace.

This event quickly escalated in prominence, becoming a hot topic on Chinese social media platforms like Weibo. With over 900,000 threads, people shared images and descriptions of the object, each adding to the tapestry of this aerial mystery.

Speculations and Theories: 

The lack of immediate explanation led to a flurry of speculations. Some hypothesized extraterrestrial involvement, while others pondered secret military technology. The diverse descriptions – ranging from a “moving cloud-like object” to a luminous, non-flashing entity – only fueled the public’s curiosity and diverse theories.

Scientific Explanation: 

The mystery began to unravel with insights from Wang Zhuoxiao, a researcher at Tsinghua University’s Centre for Astronomy Technology. He proposed that the sighting was likely the result of a SpaceX rocket launch, specifically for the Starlink satellite mission. This mission involved the deployment of 22 satellites into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Wang explained the rocket’s trajectory, inclined at 53 degrees to the south, would have made it visible in northern China during sunset or before sunrise. Following the deployment of satellites, the rocket was programmed to jettison its excess fuel. This process can create a scattering of light around the rocket, forming a cloud-like appearance. The tumbling motion of the rocket for fuel disposal might also explain the changing shapes observed by the witnesses.

Supporting Wang’s explanation, an anonymous astronomer from the Beijing Planetarium agreed that the UFO was likely a rocket launched from the US. This theory was consistent with similar past events in northern China, where rocket clouds formed after spacecraft launches had been mistaken for UFOs.

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The UFO sighting over Beijing and neighboring regions, initially shrouded in mystery and excitement, turned out to be an extraordinary display of human technological prowess rather than extraterrestrial visitation. This incident underscores the importance of scientific inquiry and critical thinking in interpreting unusual phenomena. While the allure of a UFO sighting captivates many, often the truth lies in the realms of our expanding technological and scientific understanding. The Beijing sky mystery, now solved, serves as a fascinating reminder of the wonders of our universe and human ingenuity in exploring it.

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Footage recently emerged showing a 'jellyfish UFO' supposedly flying over a US military base in Iraq in 2018 - and now the Pentagon has issued a statement in response

The 'jellyfish' UFO, supposedly filmed in Iraq in 2018 

(Image: @JeremyCorbell/Twitter)

The US government has issued a statement in response to a video showing what has been dubbed the "jellyfish" UFO.

The video was shared by journalist Jeremy Corbell and appears to show a jellyfish-shaped object floating over a military base.

Corbell claims it was recorded over a US base in Iraq and dates back to 2018. He also said the object was officially designated as an "unidentified aerial phenomenon" (UAP) by the Pentagon.

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Corbell claims the object was officially designated as a UAP by the Pentagon 

(Image: @JeremyCorbell/Twitter)

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Corbell said on X/Twitter: "An incursion by an object of unknown origin was filmed at a United States joint operations base in Iraq. The object was designated UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), and was tracked for a durational period. The object moved through a sensitive military installation - and eventually traversed over a body of water, where it actuated a controlled descent - submerging into the water.

"After an observational period of about seventeen minutes - the UAP re-emerged from the body of water and shot-off at an extreme rate of speed - beyond the optical scope of the observation platform. The origin, intent and capability of the Anomalous Aerial Vehicle remains unknown. Official designation remains UAP."

The US Department of Defence has now responded, but refused to share details on "material that may have been leaked". The statement from spokeswoman Sue Gough reads: "We do not comment on the authenticity of alleged DOD material that may have been leaked. DOD takes public interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena seriously and is committed to openness and accountability to the American people.

"This commitment must be balanced with the department’s obligation to protect sensitive information, sources, and methods. To that end, AARO will provide updates to the public via its website as it resolves UAP cases, including sharing the analytic approach and method used for each case, as well as imagery, when approved for public release."

The Pentagon has previously released other videos leaked by Corbell and confirmed they were UAPs

Expert Ross Coulthart, special correspondent for NewsNation, said the Pentagon's response this time around was "very revealing for what it doesn't say".

"It doesn’t reveal a categorical denial," he told the news station. "It’s the last resort of governments and intelligence services when they don’t want to answer a question." He added that the video has proved to be a "very big issue" for the Pentagon.

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Webb Detects Oldest Black Hole Yet Known

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a small and vigorous black hole in GN-z11, an exceptionally luminous galaxy that existed just 420 million years after the Big Bang, more than 13 billion years ago. That this black hole with a mass of a few million solar masses even exists so early in the Universe challenges current assumptions about how black holes form and grow.

GN-z11, shown in the inset, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang.

Image credit: NASA / ESA / P. Oesch, Yale University / G. Brammer, STScI / P. van Dokkum, Yale University / G. Illingworth, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Astronomers believe that the supermassive black holes found at the centre of galaxies like the Milky Way grew to their current size over billions of years.

But the size of this newly-discovered black hole suggests that they might form in other ways: they might be ‘born big’ or they can eat matter at a rate that’s five times higher than had been thought possible.

According to standard models, supermassive black holes form from the remnants of dead stars, which collapse and may form a black hole about a hundred times the mass of the Sun

If it grew in an expected way, this newly-detected black hole would take about a billion years to grow to its observed size.

However, the Universe was not yet a billion years old when this black hole was detected.

“It’s very early in the Universe to see a black hole this massive, so we’ve got to consider other ways they might form,” said Dr. Roberto Maiolino, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge.

“Very early galaxies were extremely gas-rich, so they would have been like a buffet for black holes.”

Like all black holes, the young black hole in GN-z11 is accreting material from its host galaxy to fuel its growth.

Yet, this ancient black hole is found to gobble matter much more vigorously than its siblings at later epochs.

GN-z11 is a compact galaxy, about one hundred times smaller than the Milky Way, but the black hole is likely harming its development.

When black holes consume too much gas, it pushes the gas away like an ultra-fast wind.

This ‘wind’ could stop the process of star formation, slowly killing the galaxy, but it will also kill the black hole itself, as it would also cut off the black hole’s source of ‘food.’

“It’s a new era: the giant leap in sensitivity, especially in the infrared, is like upgrading from Galileo’s telescope to a modern telescope overnight,” Dr. Maiolino said.

“Before Webb came online, I thought maybe the Universe isn’t so interesting when you go beyond what we could see with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.”

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Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… here within the first weeks of 2024, we are already hearing about tantalizing hints that a major scientific discovery may be on the way. In our analysis, we’ll be looking at 1) why many experts seem very certain that the discovery of alien life will be confirmed sometime in 2024, 2) what we know about the potential evidence currently in-hand, and 3) why some aren’t so sure that it’s aliens… but there is more than enough reason to remain open to the possibility.

• QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

– ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Latest News: In recent coverage from The Debrief, Tim McMillan reports on how the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Threats Report identifies misinformation and disinformation as the top global risk, highlighting urgent need for action. Elsewhere, the United States Space Force has charged Microsoft with designing a cutting-edge space simulation program to train Guardians. You’ll find links to all our recent stories and other items at the end of this newsletter. 

Podcasts: In podcasts from The Debrief, this week on The Micah Hanks Program I provide a complete breakdown of what we know about the recent classified briefing lawmakers on Capitol Hill received from members of the Intelligence Community about UAP. Elsewhere, on The Debrief Weekly Report, MJ, Steph, and Kenna Castleberry look at blue light technology that can help you fall asleep, why you probably hate vegetables, and new research into dark energy. You can get all of The Debrief’s podcasts by heading over to our Podcasts Page.

Video News: In the latest installment of Rebelliously Curious, Chrissy Newton is joined by Paul Root Wolpe as they delve into the world of genetic engineering and the fascinating intersection of science, ethics, and the future of life. Also, check out the latest episode of Ask Dr. Chance and all the other great content from The Debrief on our official YouTube Channel.

And now, it’s time that we shift our attention over to one of the most tantalizing questions humans have ever asked about the universe and our place in it… and whether an answer could finally be on the horizon.

ALIEN MUSINGS

“Have we just discovered aliens?” read the title of an eye-grabbing piece published by The Spectator on January 8, 2024.

Quoting respected members of the scientific community that included UK astrophysicists Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Becky Smethurst, as well as astronaut Tim Peake, all of whom seemed to strongly allude to a discovery currently still on the path toward peer review

“I think we are going to get a paper that claims to have strong evidence for a biosignature in an exoplanet’s atmosphere very, very soon,” Smethurst was quoted saying. “Let’s just say it’s on my bingo card for 2024.”

Peake had been even less ambiguous while speaking during a CNBC interview in the first days of the new year, where he said the prospects that alien life might have been discovered were looking increasingly good.

“Potentially, the James Webb telescope may have already found [it],” though also emphasizing that nothing conclusive had been released yet since scientists involved in the prospective discovery “don’t want to release or confirm those results until they can be entirely sure,” though adding cryptically that “we found a planet that seems to be giving off strong signals of biological life.”

In other words, if these observations are what they appear to be, then it seems like there’s a good chance that we may already be on course for a tremendous discovery this year; one that could potentially offer the most convincing evidence to date that life may exist on worlds beyond our own.

A POSSIBLE BIOSIGNATURE OF ALIEN LIFE?

In the Spectator article, author Sean Thomas offered that the intriguing series of statements “suggests they are referring to the same thing: namely a scientific paper, probably British in origin… which will provide firm evidence of alien life on an exoplanet”.

Thomas sensibly guesses that the discovery—if such a discovery has indeed been made—will involve biosignatures detected in the atmosphere of an alien world that strongly points to the presence of conditions where life could thrive.

“These biosignatures might be combinations of methane and oxygen, or methane and CO2, and so on,” Thomas wrote, adding that speculations (apart from his own) were already being aired on social media, where UAP enthusiasts were already “claiming that this is merely stage one of ‘disclosure’,” and part of a bigger role-out we’re all destined to see in the months ahead as the powers that be finally clue the rest of us in on the reality that we are not alone.

However, as promising as the collection of cryptic statements curated by Thomas for The Spectator article had been, it wasn’t long before others were chiming in with what seemed to be far less enthusiasm about the idea that a revelation about strong evidence supporting the existence of alien life was on the near horizon.

LIFE ON DISTANT WORLDS? NOT YET… WELL, SORT OF

Wasting no time weighing in on the matter, Eric Berger, the stalwart senior space editor at Ars Technica, was quick to pour some cold water on the alien life claims.

Reaching out to NASA about whether its James Webb Space Telescope had indeed made a discovery involving tantalizing biosignatures, Berger reported that the answer was essentially no, “But it was not a hard no.”

According to Knicole Colón, deputy project scientist for exoplanet science with the James Webb Space Telescope team, “JWST has not found definitive evidence of life on an exoplanet,” but it appears to be anticipated that observations made by the telescope could lead to “the initial identification of potential biosignatures that could make habitability more or less likely for a given exoplanet.”

Artist’s rendering of K2-18 b, an exoplanet suspected of being a location where alien life may soon be discovered

(Credit: ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser).

Adding a touch of context to the admittedly vague statement, Berger mused that “Colón is certainly referring to K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth that is 120 light years from our Solar System,” an exoplanet which is likely to possess oceans similar to ours, and an atmosphere rich in hydrogen and, even more intriguing, dimethyl sulfide.

Why is the presence of dimethyl sulfide of such interest? Primarily because it is a compound that, as far as any Earthling know, is only produced in the presence of living organisms. So even in the absence of definitive proof of life on another world, if dimethyl sulfide has been found on K2-18 b, it’s the surest bet we currently have in terms of places where alien life is likely to be found… and that discovery—if confirmed—would truly be a game changer.

So while the answer to the question “have we just discovered aliens?” officially still remains inconclusive, it is certainly sounding like much closer to being “maybe” than a flat-out “no”… and if the current speculations we’re seeing are any indication, then 2024 is indeed already shaping up to be a historic year in terms of our understanding of the universe, our place in it, and answers to some of the greatest questions we have about the cosmos.

That concludes this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief. You can read past editions of The Intelligence Brief at our website, or if you found this installment online, don’t forget to subscribe and get future email editions from us here. Also, if you have a tip or other information you’d like to send along directly to me, you can email me at micah [@] thedebrief [dot] org, or Tweet at me @MicahHanks.

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Aerospace Billionaire Claims UAPs & Consciousness Are Linked; G-LOC Makes Human Soul Enter Another Dimension

The entire reality of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) is extremely complicated, spread across numerous branches, and consciousness is somewhere entangled in this enigma, playing a significant role in understanding the phenomena. Human consciousness has become the subject of experiments, leading experts to believe that it is connected to UFOs. Astronomer Jacques Vallée developed an alternative hypothesis, suggesting that UFOs are part of a mechanism for controlling mankind.

In simple terms, “consciousness” is just an awareness of the human mind about its internal and external environment. For millennia, many have explained consciousness in psychology and scientifically. However, it is not entirely known how and where consciousness occurs and where it goes after life ends.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander believes there is a scientific revolution happening that will completely change how we see the world. According to him, the brain is not the creator of consciousness but acts more like a filter that lets consciousness in. He argues that the brain does not control consciousness; instead, consciousness is the fundamental force that creates and governs the entire universe.

Dr. Alexander mentions evidence for things like reincarnation and past-life memories, suggesting that if you believe the brain produces consciousness, it can not explain these phenomena. He points out the mystery of quantum physics, where experiments show that consciousness plays a fundamental role, and our free will affects outcomes, challenging the idea that everything is determined by chemical reactions and the laws of physics.

He introduces the concept of the brain being a “reducing valve,” allowing certain conscious states to exist. According to him, quantum physics emphasizes the importance of the observer, suggesting that awareness of existence is a deep mystery. In essence, he believes that we are conscious despite our brains, and when our physical bodies die, our conscious awareness expands significantly.

Leslie Kean, a respected journalist says that there is a bundle of evidence that posits that the UFO phenomena are linked with an “Alternate dimension.” She believes UFOs could be connected to “the afterlife” and “near-death experiences” and could come from another “dimension.”

In a podcast with Chris Letho, Leslie said that there are two distinct aspects of the UFO phenomenon. The first one is the physical aspect, involving UFOs being detected on radar and approached by the military in a traditional, empirical manner. However, Kean also highlights the second, more enigmatic layer of UFO experiences.

Leslie told Lehto that she is increasingly sure there is a connection between the supernatural, near-death experiences, and unexplained sightings. She said, “Certainly, the more paranormal elements of the UFO phenomenon seem to have some relationship to what people describe in near-death experiences and other types of activities that take place in terms of just consciousness-related anomalous experiences that people have, which are very varied. There just is some kind of crossover air, and I don’t know what it is. I mean, there is the whole component of UFOs, which is just purely physical.”

Leslie speculates that there might be a connection between UFOs and some form of alternate dimension that exists beyond the boundaries of our five senses. This dimension, she suggests, may overlap with our own, providing a possible explanation for the mysterious and often inexplicable aspects of UFO phenomena.

CIA Experimented on Human Consciousness

CIA was profoundly interested in understanding human consciousness. Below is the shocking official CIA document on human consciousness that states: Consciousness is not a part of our body at all; it is stored in our brain but not considered a part of it. Our consciousness, or “us,” is its own being — a ghost version of ourselves.

The document discussed the technique dubbed “the Gateway Experience,” which was essentially described as a training system to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres that would alter the consciousness, pushing it outside the physical space, escaping restrictions of time and space.

Basically, it was seen as a way to put minds in a different state of consciousness, controlling the human brain with the motive of interacting with non-physical aspects of reality. According to the CIA report, ranged from converting energy to heal one’s body to traveling across space and time to learn and access new information.

CIA approved testing for this under the eyes of US Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M McDonnell. The project was classified by the CIA until 2003, which allowed it to be accessed by anyone. In the 1980s, McDonnell was asked to work on the Gateway Experience project. This happened during a time when the United States was very curious about psychic research. The interest grew because the Soviet Union was also exploring things like psychokinesis and extrasensory perception (ESP) for their spy missions in the Cold War.

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To test his new method, independent brain specialists studied people who tried it. Surprisingly, the results showed up clearly on brain scans. Both sides of the brain were working at the same strength and speed. This showed that Monroe’s work was helping people reach different states of awareness.

Bigelow: UFOs & Consciousness Are Linked

In this interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, American billionaire Robert Bigelow talks about the possibility of having out-of-body experiences, which can be artificially induced. He learned about this from an Air Force general who experienced it while undergoing a process called centrifuge training. In this training, individuals get into a device called a G-LOC at around 7 to 7.5 Gs (gravitational force) without any other equipment. They try to hold their breath and stay conscious before passing out.

According to the Air Force general’s account, he had an out-of-body experience during one of these sessions. After completing twelve sessions (although there are now rules limiting it to three), he stepped out of the centrifuge capsule, and instead of being in his body, he found himself above it. He could see his body getting out and walking down a hallway, being aware of activities in adjacent rooms and hearing conversations he should not normally be able to hear. This was not a near-death experience but an artificially induced one.

The general continued his out-of-body journey, going down the hallway to his office. He passed through walls, hovered near the ceiling, and observed his body opening doors and performing actions. The out-of-body experience ended when his body sat in the chair at his desk, and at that moment, his consciousness slammed back into his body.

“A related event occurs to modern fighter pilots when they experience intense G forces during extreme combat maneuvers. It has been reported that pilots will lose consciousness during maximum G forces and undergo a brief out-of-body state of consciousness. The U.S. military has conducted extensive research into this potentially dangerous phenomenon and has officially named the experience “G-LOC.” The popular television show Sightings did an entire segment on G-LOC-induced OBEs that was titled “Simulated Out-of-Body Experiences.” Several U.S. military pilots participated in an experiment where G-LOC was created in a NASA centrifuge. Each interviewed pilot reported that he had passed out and then described a detailed out-of-body state of consciousness.”

— The Secret of the Soul: Using Out-of-Body Experiences to Understand Our True Nature by William Buhlman.

Bigelow is absolutely convinced that there is a presence of non-human intelligent life among us, perhaps there are other dimensions where such entities exist. He spent millions of dollars on this subject which allowed him to believe that [aliens] are here right in front of people. He even has his own close encounters.

In an interview with award-winning journalist George Knapp, Mr. Bigelow shared his own experiences that got him interested in life after death and UFOs. He discussed the possible connection between studying consciousness and UFOs, as well as the risks of trying to communicate with the unknown.

“That’s been mainly what I’ve been doing except for the skinwalker ranch thing for 20 years as the space world has been huge in my life to pursue the legitimate parochial kind of you know using fire engines rockets to get you there. We didn’t expect anything like this to happen and so there this is different. This is the holy grail and is different than the second holy grail. If the second one is ‘Beings’ (E.T.), then the first one: Is there any part of your consciousness that survives your bodily death? That’s a big deal. That’s a huge story. That’s gigantic.”

“Be a little careful about what you wish for. So on the face of it, communication sounds great and that by the way has been tried forever ever since the oracle of Delphi. I mean you can go back thousands of years and that’s been attempted. So It’s not now you know the last 100 years through electronics and using some kind of electrical apparatus to try to have some kind of communications. And you know communication can be at all different kinds of levels. There might be communication that just causes you an awareness.”

Mr. Bigelow’s investigative team, headed by Colm Kelleher, the institute’s scientific administrator and biochemist, documented their own paranormal events, according to a 2005 book “Hunt for the Skinwalker,” by Dr. Kelleher and Mr. Knapp.

Mr. Bigelow said he saw “interdimensional” forces at play through portals at certain paranormal hot spots like Skinwalker. But he also said he had frequently visited the ranch without experiencing the kind of chilling events others reported, as if some intelligence were selecting the people to act upon. “I slept like a log every single night,” he said. And no human was physically harmed, but he said he and other visitors often carried strange things home, like a sulfurous stink in a certain part of his house. His wife felt the presence of a faceless creature pressing down on her side of bed.

David Grusch made significant assertions regarding the NHI, stating that these entities might be extraterrestrial or interdimensional, or possibly both. Astronomer and UFO researcher Jacques Vallée states that UFOs and related events of a paranormal nature involve visitations from other “realities” or “dimensions.” The idea proposes that these alternate realities exist separately yet parallel to our own. In 1975 book “The Edge of Reality,” Vallée and Hynek considered the possibility of what they call “interlocking universes.”

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Two Republican Congressmen claim UFOs could be 'angels' sent by GOD as they say sightings are consistent with scriptures from the Bible

• Rep. Eric Burlison views 'angels' as synonymous with 'extradimensional beings'
• Rep. Burlison joins Rep. Tim Burchett in citing religious texts as answers on UFOs
• READ MORE: Bizarre footage shows several UFOs hovering above Philadelphia

By MATTHEW PHELAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A second Republican congressman has publicly floated the idea that UFOs may be angels sent by God.

Missouri lawmaker Eric Burlison, who has been privy to classified briefings on the phenomena, advanced the sensational theory on an amateur podcast this week.

'They may not fit exactly the Biblical narrative, but whenever I use the term "angels,"'  as he told That UFO Podcast Tuesday, 'to me, it's synonymous with an extradimensional being.'

He added: 'In a lot of different scriptures, including the Bible and others, that's really the way that you describe messengers of God or angels.'

Rep Burlison's comments echo statements by fellow GOP Congressman Tim Burchett, who told reporters last year that he believes 'the first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear of a UFO sighting.'

Above, Rep. Tim Burchett (left) next to fellow 'UAP Caucus' member Rep. Eric Burlison during a press conference held by members of the House Oversight committee last July ahead of the committee's public UFO hearing 

Congressman Eric Burlison told 'That UFO Podcast' Tuesday he believes 'non-human intelligences' described by UFO whistleblower David Grusch might be angelic: 'Whenever I use the term 'angels,' he said, 'to me it's synonymous with an extradimensional being'

Their comments highlight the frenzy of UFO speculation in Washington D.C. over the past seven months — provoked by whistleblower David Grusch's testimony that the Government is in possession of off-world craft.

Congressman and Marine veteran Mike Gallagher, who also serves on the House Oversight committee with Reps. Burlison and Burchett, suggested last June that UFOs might be time-traveling craft piloted by humans from the future. 

Rep. Gallagher compared the scenario to the plot of the 1984 film 'The Terminator.'

The Wisconsin Republican also floated his hypothesis that UFOs 'could actually be [from] an ancient civilization that's just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself,' in this same June appearance on ESPN analyst Pat McAfee's sports talk show.

Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett, who serves on the House Oversight committee, told reporters last year 'the first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear of a UFO sighting'

UFOs and the Bible? Rep. Burchett claimed UFOs are mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel, citing the King James version of the Bible for his analysis (right)

Congressman Burlison made his statements Tuesday on a program devoted to the subject of these unsolved aerial mysteries, 'That UFO Podcast' hosted by Andy McGrillen in the United Kingdom.

Rep. Burlison had appeared for a 'special update pod' following House Oversight's classified UFO briefing last Friday, which covered a series of allegations made by former intelligence officer Grusch - who testified under oath that both the US military and its defense contractors are stonewalling on evidence of crashed UFOs, recovered 'beings,' and even UFO-related deaths.

'When I read Grusch's report, that's public, that anyone can read,' Rep. Burlison told McGrillen and his listeners, 'he described that one of the theories is that what we're encountering are beings that are extradimensional or interdimensional.'

While Grusch has publicly discussed theories that what are now called unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, might originate from the higher-order dimensions theorized by physicists, those concepts do not appear in the unclassified version of his complaint.

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• Pentagon ordered to re-investigate 1945 crash of mysterious 'avocado' UFO dubbed 'Roswell before Roswell' - as expert reveals eyewitness accounts of the encounter

President Biden signed into law a December 2022 amendment to investigate a UFO case from 1945. The 1945 UFO sighting was dubbed the 'Roswell before Roswell' and involved an 'avocado-shaped' craft that crashed in New Mexico. Jaques Vallée, a former contractor for the government's UFO office, wrote a book about the case and described the August 1945 crash to DailyMail.com. Vallée and his co-author interviewed witnesses who were just young children at the time of the crash, on the edge of the atomic bomb testing site near San Antonio, New Mexico - about 100 miles from the infamous Roswell crash two years later.

The 'extradimensional or interdimensional' hypothesis also does not appear in what has been made public from Grusch's written statements first submitted for approval to the Pentagon's Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR).

Nevertheless, Grusch did answer Rep. Burlison's questions on this theory under oath, during the House Oversight committee's public UAP hearing last July.

'An alien species that is technologically advanced enough to travel billions of light years gets here and somehow is incompetent enough to not survive, is something that I find a little bit farfetched,' as Rep. Burlison opined at the hearing.

'You have mentioned that there is interdimensional potential,' he continued, asking, 'Could you expound on that?'

Grusch noted first that 'regardless of your level of sentience, you know, planes crash, cars crash, and a number of sorties [...] a small percentage are going to end in "mission failure," if you will, as we say in the Air Force.'

'In terms of multidimensionality,' the UFO whistleblower said, 'the framework that I am familiar with, for example, is something called the holographic principle.' 

'It derives itself from general relativity and quantum mechanics and that is if you want to imagine a 3D object such as yourself casting a shadow onto a 2D surface that is the holographic principle.'

'So, you can be projected — quasi projected — from higher dimensional space to lower dimensional [space],' Grusch explained. 

'It is a scientific trope that you can actually cross, literally, as far as I understand, but there's probably guys with PhDs that could probably argue about that.'

Speculation linking UFOs to religious visitations and/or theories about interdimensional beings have been recurring features within the discourse on the topic since the early 20th Century. 

The concept gained its highest and arguably most reputable profile with the publication of the book 'Passport to Magonia: from Folklore to Flying Saucers' by the astronomer and Internet pioneer Jacques Vallée in 1969.

Vallée, who later served as the inspiration for François Truffaut's character in Steven Spielberg's UFO blockbuster 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' had spent years pouring over volumes of ancient texts for the groundbreaking tome.

He paired 1180 encounters with 'luminous' flying 'earthenware vessels' reported over Japan, Roman accounts of hovering 'shields' and Native American stories of 'baskets from heaven' to argue a continuity with modern 'flying saucer' cases. 

In more recent years, Vallée, now a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and computer scientist, published a study of physical evidence from a UFO crash in a peer-reviewed science journal, Progress in Aerospace Sciences. 

As he told Wired, Vallée hopes that research will become 'a template [...] for what serious UFO research could be in the future, if one plays by the rules.'

But similar arguments, linking UFOs to demonic entities or angelic miracles, have also been made in less scholarly form on cable TV shows like 'Ancient Aliens,' and online by conspiracy theorists and evangelical Christians, among others. 

The editor for Phenomena Magazine, Brian Allan, to cite one account, spoke to Anglican Pastor Ray Boeche who claims that a faction within the Pentagon deeply believes that UFOs are the product of demonic forces.

'The Defense Intelligence Agency were looking at this demonic element, and they labelled these sorts of aliens as 'non human entities,' Allan said. 

'They believed that there was a demonic component to the UFO phenomenon: they are not invading us, it's Biblical.'

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Two Republican Congressmen claim UFOs are 'angels' sent by God

By MATTHEW PHELAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A second Republican congressman has publicly floated the idea that UFOs may be angels sent by God. Missouri lawmaker Eric Burlison, who has been privy to classified briefings on the phenomena, advanced the sensational theory on an amateur podcast this week. 'They may not fit exactly the Biblical narrative, but whenever I use the term "angels,"' as he told That UFO Podcast Tuesday, 'to me, it's synonymous with an extradimensional being.' He added: 'In a lot of different scriptures, including the Bible and others, that's really the way that you describe messengers of God or angels.'

Rep Burlison's comments echo statements by fellow GOP Congressman Tim Burchett, who told reporters last year that he believes 'the first chapter of Ezekiel is pretty clear of a UFO sighting.' Their comments highlight the frenzy of UFO speculation in Washington D.C. over the past seven months — provoked by whistleblower David Grusch's testimony that the Government is in possession of off-world craft. Congressman and Marine veteran Mike Gallagher, who also serves on the House Oversight committee with Reps. Burlison and Burchett, suggested last June that UFOs might be time-traveling craft piloted by humans from the future. Rep. Gallagher compared the scenario to the plot of the 1984 film 'The Terminator.'

The Wisconsin Republican also floated his hypothesis that UFOs 'could actually be [from] an ancient civilization that's just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself,' in this same June appearance on ESPN analyst Pat McAfee's sports talk show. Congressman Burlison made his statements Tuesday on a program devoted to the subject of these unsolved aerial mysteries, ' That UFO Podcast ' hosted by Andy McGrillen in the United Kingdom. Rep. Burlison had appeared for a 'special update pod' following House Oversight's classified UFO briefing last Friday , which covered a series of allegations made by former intelligence officer Grusch - who testified under oath that both the US military and its defense contractors are stonewalling on evidence of crashed UFOs, recovered 'beings,' and even UFO-related deaths.

'When I read Grusch's report, that's public, that anyone can read,' Rep. Burlison told McGrillen and his listeners, 'he described that one of the theories is that what we're encountering are beings that are extradimensional or interdimensional.' While Grusch has publicly discussed theories that what are now called unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, might originate from the higher-order dimensions theorized by physicists, those concepts do not appear in the unclassified version of his complaint . The 'extradimensional or interdimensional' hypothesis also does not appear in what has been made public from Grusch's written statements first submitted for approval to the Pentagon's Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR).

Nevertheless, Grusch did answer Rep. Burlison's questions on this theory under oath, during the House Oversight Committee's public UAP hearing last July. 'An alien species that is technologically advanced enough to travel billions of light years gets here and somehow is incompetent enough to not survive, is something that I find a little bit farfetched,' as Rep. Burlison opined at the hearing. 'You have mentioned that there is interdimensional potential,' he continued, asking, 'Could you expound on that?' Grusch noted first that 'regardless of your level of sentience, you know, planes crash, cars crash, and a number of sorties [...] a small percentage are going to end in "mission failure," if you will, as we say in the Air Force.'

'In terms of multidimensionality,' the UFO whistleblower said, 'the framework that I am familiar with, for example, is something called the holographic principle.' 'It derives itself from general relativity and quantum mechanics and that is if you want to imagine a 3D object such as yourself casting a shadow onto a 2D surface that is the holographic principle.' 'So, you can be projected — quasi projected — from higher dimensional space to lower dimensional [space],' Grusch explained. 'It is a scientific trope that you can actually cross, literally, as far as I understand, but there's probably guys with PhDs that could probably argue about that.'

Speculation linking UFOs to religious visitations and/or theories about interdimensional beings have been recurring features within the discourse on the topic since the early 20th Century. The concept gained its highest and arguably most reputable profile with the publication of the book 'Passport to Magonia: from Folklore to Flying Saucers' by the astronomer and Internet pioneer Jacques Vallée in 1969. Vallée, who later served as the inspiration for François Truffaut's character in Steven Spielberg's UFO blockbuster 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' had spent years pouring over volumes of ancient texts for the groundbreaking tome.

He paired 1180 encounters with 'luminous' flying 'earthenware vessels' reported over Japan, Roman accounts of hovering 'shields' and Native American stories of 'baskets from heaven' to argue a continuity with modern 'flying saucer' cases. In more recent years, Vallée, now a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and computer scientist, published a study of physical evidence from a UFO crash in a peer-reviewed science journal, Progress in Aerospace Sciences. As he told Wired, Vallée hopes that research will become 'a template [...] for what serious UFO research could be in the future, if one plays by the rules.' But similar arguments, linking UFOs to demonic entities or angelic miracles, have also been made in less scholarly form on cable TV shows like 'Ancient Aliens,' and online by conspiracy theorists and evangelical Christians, among others.

The editor for Phenomena Magazine, Brian Allan, to cite one account, spoke to Anglican Pastor Ray Boeche who claims that a faction within the Pentagon deeply believes that UFOs are the product of demonic forces. 'The Defense Intelligence Agency was looking at this demonic element, and they labeled these sorts of aliens as 'non human entities,' Allan said. 'They believed that there was a demonic component to the UFO phenomenon: they are not invading us, it's Biblical.'

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UFO seen over Beijing Divides Into Three Craft, Jan 15, 2024, Video UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Jan 15, 2024

Location of sighting: Beijing, China

Source: 

• https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3248504/ufo-seen-over-beijing-could-have-been-spacex-rocket-astronomer-says
   

Guys, this is odd, a UFO was seen in a cloudless sky in China a few days ago. The object soon broke into three separate objects. With all this happening apparently it didn't show up on radar because no military jets were seen trying to investigate the UFOs. Now thats strange. Yes Musk does launch a lot of rockets, but over China? I guess only Elon Musk could answer that big mystery. To me this looks, acts and moves like an alien craft. It doesn't look at all like a rocket. It's an interdemensional craft, which phases in and out. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

News states: 

People in the capital and other parts of China saw ‘glowing object’ that flew rapidly from west to eastResidents of Beijing and other parts of China reported seeing a UFO on Sunday evening, The unusual sighting caused a stir on Chinese social media – by noon on Monday it was the fifth most searched topic on Weibo, with more than 900,000 threads about it. Posts started appearing on social media after people saw and photographed an unidentified flying object in the sky just after 6pm on Sunday.Another gave a more detailed description, saying the weather in Beijing was “very clear, with no clouds, and then I saw a glowing object looming, but the light was not flashing”. The luminous object “had three light sources and was shaped like an isosceles triangle”, the person wrote, adding that it eventually “dissipated like a mist and disappeared without a trace”. The UFO was reported by people in a number of places in China, including the nearby city of Tianjin, as well as in the central province of Shanxi and Shandong in the east. They described the object as “a misty ball of light” that flew rapidly from west to east and made no sound. Many who saw it noted that there were no flashing lights so it was not likely to be a plane.

 

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Searching for anomalies in Antarctica using Google Earth I found an unidentified device measuring 4 meters by 4 meters by 2 meters in height in a remote area near Rothschild Island in Antarctica. It appears that some form of energy is being released from the device leading to the observed emission of light. 

A remarkable detail is that the device is placed directly in front of what appears to be two stone walls. 

Rothschild Island is an island which is surrounded by mystery, with rumors suggesting covert operations occurring in the vicinity. Interestingly, Google Earth has blacked out the island by overlaying simulated snow. 

I don't know what the object could be, but is it plausible that it serves as a power generator providing electricity to operate an unknown underground (alien) device or system in Antarctica, as it appears as if the device is placed above a large opening in the ice crust, and that this supposed power generator plays a role in an operation managed from the island?

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Accounts of Alleged UFO Abductions and Hybridization Theories

In recent times, a rather extraordinary claim has emerged in the realm of UFOlogy and extraterrestrial studies. Various individuals have come forward with personal narratives suggesting that they were victims of alien abductions, purportedly for a purpose as bizarre as it is fascinating: the creation of hybrid human-alien offspring.

Among these individuals are two women whose stories, though unique, share eerie similarities. They recount experiences of being taken aboard spacecrafts, subjected to medical procedures, and the sensation of information being implanted in their brains. These accounts often involve descriptions of stark, sterile environments, advanced technologies, and encounters with beings of otherworldly origin.

One of the women describes her ordeal as lasting approximately three hours, during which she was exposed to an intense information transfer. The narrative takes an even more intriguing turn with the claim that her father, a man with a background in aeronautics and connections to government projects, was also part of this so-called hybridization program. This connection to her father’s work suggests a multi-generational aspect to the abductions, weaving in elements of deep government involvement and secret experiments.

The entities reportedly behind these abductions are identified as the Pleiadians, a group often mentioned in UFO circles. The Pleiadians are described as humanoid with distinctive physical features, and they are alleged to be conducting these abductions as part of an interspecies hybridization initiative.

What could be the motive behind such a program? The answer remains shrouded in mystery and speculation. Some suggest that these extraterrestrial beings view humans as a lesser species, useful only for their genetic material, similar to how humans might view animals used in agricultural breeding. Others ponder the possibility of a more benevolent agenda, perhaps an attempt to enhance human evolution or to create a new species altogether.

VIDEO:

• UFO Witnesses Claim They Were Abducted To Make Hybrid Human/Alien Babies | UFO Witness

• https://youtu.be/EYYDtLHq9ho

Further complicating the narrative are accounts of collaboration between different alien species, such as the Pleiadians and the Greys, another commonly cited group in alien abduction stories. This cooperation, if true, hints at a much larger and more complex interstellar agenda involving multiple extraterrestrial civilizations.

Despite the compelling nature of these accounts, they remain controversial and largely unverified. The scientific community requires empirical evidence and rigorous methodology to substantiate such claims, which these abduction stories lack. Nonetheless, they continue to intrigue and bewilder, occupying a significant space in the study of paranormal phenomena and the search for extraterrestrial life.

In conclusion, while these tales of alien abductions and hybridization programs captivate the imagination, they also underscore the vast unknowns of our universe and the ongoing quest to understand our place within it. Whether these stories are grounded in reality or are the products of human imagination, they undeniably contribute to the ever-evolving narrative of humanity’s relationship with the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

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'UFO' reported over China with 'three light sources' that moved quickly without emitting any sound - and witnesses say it was not an aircraft

• Thousands of people reported seeing a UFO in the skies over China on Monday
• Reports described the object having three light sources shaped like a triangle
• READ MORE:  Air stewardess films pink 'UFO' during flight from Luton to Poland

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Reports of a UFO in China are circling the web, with residents of Beijing and nearby towns claiming to have seen 'a moving cloud-like object' with three light sources.

Images and videos of the observation flooded Chinese social media platforms Monday, with many users commonly describing it as a 'misty ball of light' that moved from west to east without emitting any sound.

More than 900,000 threads about the sighting surfaced online Monday afternoon. 

One person shared on Weibo that the weather was clear in Beijing when they witnessed 'a glowing object looming' and determined it was not an aircraft because there were no flashing lights.

Reports of a UFO in China are circling the web, with residents of Beijing and nearby towns claiming to have seen 'a moving cloud-like object' with three light sources.

The ball of light appeared Monday morning above the nation's capital and as far as Tianjin and the central province of Shanxi and Shandong in the east.

One user shared the object had three light sources and [being] shaped like an isosceles triangle' and disappeared 'like a mist and disappear without a trace.'

Another posted on Weibo: 'There were three light sources flying very fast.

'At the same time, there was a large halo on the east side of the light group. There was no sound.' 

Images and videos of the observation flooded Chinese social media platforms Monday, with many users commonly describing it as a 'misty ball of light' that moved from west to east without emitting any sound

One person shared on Weibo that the weather was clear in Beijing when they witnessed 'a glowing object looming' and determined it was not an aircraft because there were no flashing lights

A Beijing resident commented: 'What is this thing? And it flies very fast, and it is in front of me all of a sudden.' 

An astronomer also weighed in on the sightings, theorizing the UFO could have been a Space rocket used to launch SpaceX's Starlink satellites on Sunday - but the suggestion has yet to be confirmed.

Wang Zhuoxiao, a researcher at the Centre for Astronomy Technology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, also posted online with his speculation, according to the South China Morning Post.

Zhuoxiao suggested the glowing object was excess fuel released by a SpaceX rocket that launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Sunday  at 3:59am ET.

The statements align with what is known as the 'Twilight phenomenon,' which is produced when unburned particles of propellant and water left in the vapor trail of a launch vehicle condenses, freezes and then expands high up in the less dense upper atmosphere.

Zhuoxiao noted that the circular shape was likely formed as the rocket was performing a tumbling motion to release unneeded fuel to help it climb to orbit, 

The ball of light appeared Monday morning above the nation's capital and as far as Tianjin and the central province of Shanxi and Shandong in the east. More than 900,000 threads about the sighting surfaced online by Monday afternoon

New Zealanders witnessed a nearly identical event in 2022 when a glowing blue swirl appeared in the night sky, which was created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster

• READ MORE: Bizarre footage shows several UFOs hovering above Philadelphia

A witness uploaded the bizarre video of the sighting on Reddit and described the large cluster of lights as 'spinning and darting back and forth.' 

An anonymous astronomer from the Beijing Planetarium also said it could have been a rocket launched from the US.

The astronomer mentioned a similar sighting in China on September 13, 2023 that was later found to be linked to a rocket cloud formed by a previous SpaceX launch.

New Zealanders witnessed a nearly identical event in 2022 when a glowing blue swirl appeared in the night sky, which was created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster.

The rocket spun to vent its fuel, it created a vapor trail that reflected the sunlight and produced a visible blue swirl that eyewitnesses said moved 'serenely' across the night sky.

The plume lit up the sky over Nelson, a city at the tip of New Zealand's south island, and travelled 466 miles (750km) south to Stewart Island by about 7:30pm.

The two-stage rocket had been launched on Sunday morning from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

It was carrying a communications satellite for the Louisiana-based company Globalstar, which SpaceX said was deployed about 1 hour and 50 minutes after launch as planned.  

After dispatching its payload, the Falcon 9 began venting its fuel, while the rocket's first stage returned to Earth for a vertical landing on SpaceX's droneship.

However, the recent event in China has not been confirmed to be linked to a SpaceX rocket just yet.

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By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

DailyMail.com has obtained a stunning clear video of a dark orb UFO floating outside an airfield used by the maker of the infamous Reaper drone.

Contractor Andy Segobia, 52, was driving to work at El Mirage airfield near Adelanto, California, in August 2020 when he saw a 10ft sphere hanging in the air.

He took out his iPhone 7 and started filming the object that was no more than 50 ft in the air, shooting a surprisingly clear video compared to many grainy or blurry UFO footage.

Segobia told DailyMail.com that to the naked eye the object looked like dark tinted glass, was the size of the top of a palm tree, about six to 10 feet in diameter, and was completely silent.

'I thought it was a balloon at first. As I got closer, I could see it wasn't tethered to anything,' he said. 

'There was no sign of propulsion, there was no noise, it was just sitting there.' 

Andy Segobia, 52, shared footage of what appeared to be a dark orb UFO floating outside El Mirage airfield near Adelanto, California, in August 2020

Segobia told DailyMail.com the spherical object looked like dark tinted glass, was about six to 10 feet in diameter, and was completely silent

At the time he was doing building maintenance work for General Atomics, a military contractor that makes the MQ-9 Reaper drone.

After filming the 90-second video of the stationary object, he said he had to go inside a building to take some measurements, and emerged less than a minute later to find it had disappeared.

'We went into this building 15 feet away and took one measurement, walked back out the door and it was gone. It had been maybe 30 seconds,' he said.

'I looked everywhere, it was a clear day, I would have seen it float away. It either disappeared or just shot out of there. I was bummed I didn't get that footage.'

Segobia's foreman, Juan Valdez, was with him that day. Valdez confirmed to DailyMail.com that he saw the object too, but did not comment further.

'I looked around, I even walked over to see if it came down to the ground,' Segobia said. 

'It was gone, nowhere to be seen. If I'd just stayed there another minute I would have seen it zoom away or disappear.'

Segobia said he would regularly see plane-shaped unmanned drones taking off and landing at the El Mirage airstrip, and that General Atomics worked on building and repairing drones there.

But he said the orb was unlike anything he'd ever seen.

'It came out silver when I shot the video. But it was a black tinted ball. It was giving off some kind of heat or something, some kind of wave where I couldn't see inside the ball.

Segobia, a contractor, was doing building maintenance work for General Atomics, a military contractor that makes the MQ-9 Reaper drone, when he spotted the unusual object 

Metadata from the video shows it was filmed using an iPhone 7 Plus at 7:08am on August 4, 2020, with coordinates at El Mirage Field near Adelanto, north east of Los Angeles. Weather data for Adelanto at that time shows winds of around 7mph blowing south

'When you're driving to Vegas and it looks like there's water in the street, it was kind of like that. It was giving off some kind of wave, I'm assuming it was a heat of some type.

'I saw it up close. There was only a fence and a little piece of dirt dividing us. It was off their property in the middle of the desert. I don't know what it was doing there.

'It struck me as odd because it was floating there off the property.

'It's very quiet out there, in the middle of nowhere. It was a clear day.'

Metadata from the video shows it was filmed using an iPhone 7 Plus at 7:08am on August 4, 2020, with coordinates at El Mirage Field near Adelanto, north east of Los Angeles.

According to WeatherSpark.com, weather data for Adelanto at that time shows winds of around 7mph blowing south.

The object filmed by Segobia in 2020 appears similar to silver orbs caught on camera by Reaper drones in the Middle East, and published by the government's UFO investigation office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

The existence of the Reaper footage was first revealed by DailyMail.com in October 2022.

In testimony to the Senate in April last year, then-AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick showed some of the 'metallic orb' footage and revealed statistics showing that 34% of 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena' (the government's term for UFOs) are spherical or orb-shaped.

The object filmed by Segobia in 2020 appears similar to silver orbs caught on camera by Reaper drones in the Middle East (shown during a Senate hearing on the Pentagon's Anomaly Resolution Office in April) 

Then-AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick showed video of an 'unresolved' case in the Middle East, where a drone picked up a 'metallic orb'

El Mirage Field is about 25 miles southeast of Edwards Air Force Base, which has been a focus of extraordinary UFO stories dating back to 1957.

Decorated Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper claimed he caught on camera a flying saucer hovering above the ground and landing in a dry lake bed at Edwards in 1957.

The late Air Force veteran said when approached the object lifted off, retracted its landing gear, and shot off at high speed.

Cooper said he gave the footage to his commanding officers, and never saw it again.

In declassified 1965 audio tapes from the base, radar operators can be heard tracking between seven and 12 unidentified objects traveling at high speed tens of thousands of feet over Edwards.

The tapes revealed the base had a 'UFO officer' that the case was referred to, with 'plenty of live data and visuals'.

An F-106 plane was scrambled to check out the objects, but it couldn't catch them as they shot up above 40,000 feet.

Radar man Chuck Sorrels told 1996 documentary 'UFO Sightings' that he knew they were not helicopters or airplanes, but couldn't identify what they were.

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Congressmen Propose Religious and Extradimensional Theories for UFO Phenomena

In an unprecedented turn of events, Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison and fellow Republican, Congressman Tim Burchett, have publicly connected unidentified flying objects (UFOs) to religious and extradimensional theories. Their statements, which have stirred considerable interest, were made amidst a surge of UFO interest in Washington D.C.

Religious and Extradimensional Theories

Speaking on ‘That UFO Podcast,’ Congressman Burlison proposed that UFOs could be angels or extradimensional beings. His theory, an amalgamation of religion and science, leaned heavily on various scriptures as a basis. Burlison also referenced the controversial testimony of whistleblower David Grusch, who claimed that the U.S. government is in possession of off-world craft. Burlison extrapolated on this, suggesting that these UFOs could potentially be from higher-order dimensions.

UFOs and Biblical Events

In a separate statement, Congressman Burchett drew parallels between UFOs and a biblical event described in the Book of Ezekiel. His interpretation fits a pattern of increasing attempts to relate modern UFO phenomena with ancient religious texts and symbols.

Ancient Relics or Time-Traveling Crafts?

Meanwhile, Congressman Mike Gallagher, a member like Burlison and Burchett of the House Oversight committee, proposed an alternative theory. Gallagher suggested that UFOs might be time-traveling crafts from the future or even relics from an ancient civilization revealing itself. His statement has added yet another layer of complexity to the ongoing UFO discourse.

Increased UFO Interest in Washington D.C.

These statements from Burlison, Burchett, and Gallagher come in the context of heightened UFO interest in the nation’s capital, particularly following Grusch’s allegations of stonewalling by the military and defense contractors regarding evidence of crashed UFOs and related phenomena. In December 2022, President Biden lent credibility to these discussions by signing a law to investigate a 1945 UFO case, known as the ‘Roswell before Roswell,’ involving an avocado-shaped craft that crashed in New Mexico.

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Machine Learning Could Find all the Martian Caves We Could Ever Want

Previously, most detections of Martian PCEs have come from a manual review of visible satellite imagery, with images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) and High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) cameras. A database from that manual review called the Mars Global Candidate Cave Catalogue (MGC3) contains the coordinates and brief descriptions of over one thousand identified PCEs on Mars.

“Manual review of satellite imagery for Martian cave detection is far from efficient on a planet-wide scale,” wrote Watson and Baldini in their paper, published in the journal Icarus, “due to the time constraints associated with reviewing such a large dataset. Machine learning presents an intriguing solution to this problem, reducing the dataset to only include imagery computationally determined to contain a PCE.”

The caves on Mars are created by lava tubes, which were formed by flowing lava on ancient Mars. As the outside of the flowing lava cooled and solidified into a ceiling and walls, the interior stayed molten and kept flowing. Eventually, the lava flowed out of the tube in a downslope direction, leaving the tube intact and open. Sometimes these lava tubes are apparent from linear pit chains on the surface – many of which are likely connected linearly underground. But more commonly, they are found by locating a “skylight” or collapsed lava tube ceiling in an orbital image. That skylight provides an entrance to the underground cave.

Lava tubes can be found on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Even though Earth is larger than Mars, some incredibly large lava tubes have been found on Mars, bigger than those found on Earth. On Earth, lava tubes are usually only as large as 14–15 meters (46–49 ft) wide – and typically much narrower. In 2020, the HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) took a picture of a collapsed lava tube ceiling that is pit crater is 50 m (150 ft) across. The subsurface lava tube cave is likely larger than that.

Regular neural networks are commonly used for natural language processing and speech recognition. But CNNs or ConvNets are more often utilized for classification and computer vision tasks. CNNs can recognize patterns in images and provide image classification and object recognition to projects both large and small. For example, in a previous study, CNNs were trained to recognize Martian surface features, such as craters, and achieved accuracies of more 90%

Watson and Baldini created and trained their CNN model, called CaveFinder by having it look at images from the MGC3 catalog from the Tharsis and Elysium regions on Mars, which has the highest concentrations of volcanoes.

After the training period, CaveFinder achieved a test accuracy of 77%. It found four PCEs that Watson and Baldini highlighted for having specific qualities that make them interesting for further research, including one PCE nicknamed Marvin, which was the largest PCE identified, as well as another they called Emily, whose low altitude could enable surveyance by drone. Additionally, CaveFinder identified twelve regions that appear to have multiple PCEs, which the authors say be a great place to explore multiple caves with a future mission, due to the proximity and abundance of PCEs.

But the researchers say that CaveFinder needs more work before being used on a large, planet-wide database. It had a large number of false positives, and it appears to have a limited ability to identify “lone small cave types, such as skylights and pinholes.”

“CaveFinder is still not considered appropriate for detection on a planet-wide scale, due to the high number of false positive outputs requiring manual assessment,” Watson and Baldini wrote. “However, it could prove effective in smaller regions perhaps already known to contain PCEs.”

For future tests, they plan to increase the size of the training dataset used. Other ideas for improving CaveFinder’s accuracy is to use thermal imagery alongside the visible data. Higher resolution images from a future Mars orbiter would also be beneficial for CaveFinder’s increased detection and accuracy.

“Overall, this survey’s findings indicate that, with these additions, machine learning has a great potential to advance remote cave detection, which is key to future Martian exploration,” the researchers concluded.

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NASA Confirms that 2023 was the Hottest Year on Record

How much hotter was 2023? “Global temperatures in 2023 were around 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period (1951-1980),” NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) said.

Anyone who follows news from around the world knows the world is facing more severe weather. In the USA, a mega-drought meant that parts of the Southwest suffered from a water shortage. Reservoirs were reduced to historically low levels.

In Canada, massive, numerous, and stubborn forest fires dominated the summer, with smoke moving south and enshrouding some of America’s largest cities for days. Many of those fires are still burning as zombie fires that will spring back to life after this winter.

In Asia, a record-breaking heat wave struck India, China, Vietnam, and other countries. In India, major cities exceeded 45 Celsius, schools and other places were shutdown, and rolling blackouts, triggered by air conditioner use, made things even worse.

In the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the temperatures reached 49 C in some places. In Europe, the Cerberus Heatwave brought temperatures above 40 C to many countries, including Spain, where temperatures reached 45 C.

Hundreds of millions of us faced extreme temperatures during the summer of 2023. Millions of us watched helplessly as forest fire smoke clouded our skies and damaged our lungs. Farmers struggled, and food prices rose.

But climate change isn’t just about heat, smoke, and fire. It’s also about extreme rainfall, flooding, and hurricanes. Whatever the consequences, it’s not something humanity has seen before.

“The exceptional warming that we’re experiencing is not something we’ve seen before as a species,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of GISS. “It’s driven primarily by our fossil fuel emissions, and we’re seeing the impacts in heat waves, intense rainfall, and coastal flooding.”

Most of what the Earth is going through is due to human-caused climate change. But other things still contribute to the climate, like El Nino and El Nina. Climate scientists consider all these things when trying to understand what’s happening.

But we have no control over El Nino. Our carbon emissions are the only thing we have control over. Vegetation and the oceans only absorb about 50% of our emissions, and the rest persists in the atmosphere.

It’s not just Earth’s atmosphere that warms. Our oceans absorb most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, about 90% of it. The oceans are a gigantic heat sink, and they’ll continue to warm as the atmosphere does. That changes the biochemistry and the overall health of the oceans and also accelerates the melting of our major ice sheets.

“Just like global temperatures, ocean temperatures are on the rise,” said Josh Willis, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “They have been rising for the last century or more, and they are not slowing down. If anything, they are speeding up.”

The world will keep warming for the next several decades or more, no matter what changes we make today. But the future is still in play. Scientists still need as much detailed climate data as we can gather, even though we know we’re responsible for the warming world. We can still prepare for the worst of it while developing and implementing solutions.

“We are very interested in the weather and extremes of any particular year because those are the things that impact us,” said GISS Director Schmidt. “But the key difference between this decade and the ones before is that the temperatures keep rising because of our activities, principally the burning of fossil fuels.”

NASA’s results show the future we face. More heatwaves, more devastating forest fires, more pressure on agriculture and food prices, and a bleak future for some of the world’s poorest people.

But it’s not foreordained. There are solutions, and they’re being implemented. Renewable energy use is on the rise, for example, and people around the world are demanding that governments implement more changes. And while arcane scientific arguments about atmospheric chemistry and physics are not that impactful for many people, extreme heat is a much more effective alarm bell. So are the things that extreme heat brings, like flooding, fire, smoke, heat waves, rising sea levels, and higher food prices.

Let’s hope the next generations and the politicians that accompany them don’t keep pressing the snooze button like we have.

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Polarized light is light where its waves oscillate in a particular direction, rather than randomly in various directions. It’s often used in things like polarized sunglasses, which filter out light scattered off shiny objects, and water, which helps to eliminate glare. There are lots of things in space that emit polarized light, such as pulsars and matter within accretion disks. Radio telescopes in particular can detect the polarization of this light, which gives astronomers more information than they’d otherwise have.

One of the properties of polarized light is that different frequencies move through ionized gas at slightly different speeds. This gives a beam of polarized light and effective rotation depending on how much ionized gas it travels through. Since ionized gas is caught by magnetic fields, we can map the magnetic fields by looking at the polarization of various light sources.

This has been done before, and it has given us a rough map of magnetic fields in our galaxy. What these studies found was that the magnetic fields of the Milky Way tend to fall uniformly along the disk shape of the galaxy. This new study took this one step further. Using data from the Gaia spacecraft, the team had a detailed map of the distribution of stars and nebulae in the local region of our galaxy. They then combined this with polarization observations of the Sagittarius spiral arm. Together this gave them a detailed 3-dimensional magnetic field map of the region.

They found that the magnetic fields aren’t uniform, and don’t simply lie along the galactic plane. Even within the diffuse regions of interstellar space galactic magnetic fields can take complex forms. Many of their field lines diverge significantly from the galactic plane. They also found that these galactic magnetic fields can strongly interact with stellar nurseries, penetrating them and affecting the motion of gas and dust. This could explain how some stellar nurseries have regions of star formation that could not have formed from gravity alone.

As we capture a more detailed view of magnetic fields, we will better understand how they interact with the galaxy as a whole. They not only affect the formation of new stars but could impact the structure of galaxies and how they evolve over time.

Reference: 

• Doi, Yasuo, et al. “Tomographic Imaging of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm’s Magnetic Field Structure.” The Astrophysical Journal 961.1 (2024): 13.

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Astronomers Rule Out One Explanation for the Hubble Tension

Cepheid variables are a type of variable star that varies in brightness at a rate proportional to its overall luminosity. This period-luminosity relation was first discovered by Henrietta Leavitt in the 1800s, and has been central to cosmology ever since. If you measure the period of a Cepheid, you know its actual brightness and compare it to its apparent brightness to determine its distance. Cepheids were used by Edwin Hubble to discover cosmic expansion in the first place, and the method has proven quite reliable.

But over the years we found that Leavitt’s period-luminosity relation is a bit more subtle than originally thought. For example, we now know that the period of a Cepheid is slightly different based upon its metallicity and other factors. Perhaps there’s some variation in the data we’ve missed.

A few years ago Cepheid observations from Hubble were used to see if adjustments in the period-luminosity relation could account for the Hubble tension, but the results didn’t look promising. Now a study using JWST observations has been released. One advantage of JWST over Hubble is that Webb observes Cepheids in infrared light, which penetrates interstellar dust more readily. The Webb observations are also better at addressing the issue of “crowding,” where light from the Cepheid can be overwhelmed a bit by the light of stars in the same cluster. So these latest results are the most accurate Cepheid observations we have. In this new study, the team looked at more than a thousand Cepheid variables and was able to pinpoint the distance relation for Cepheids with extreme precision. From this, they proved that Cepheid variable error can’t account for the Hubble tension.

The Cepheid solution to the tension problem is ruled out at a statistical level of 8-sigma. In science, a 5-sigma result is considered “certain,” so the Hubble tension is very, very real. Whether it’s spacetime structure, dark energy, or something we haven’t yet discovered, there is something we simply don’t understand about cosmic expansion.

Reference: 

• Riess, Adam G., et al. “JWST Observations Reject Unrecognized Crowding of Cepheid Photometry as an Explanation for the Hubble Tension at 8 sigma Confidence.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04773 (2024).

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This Day in UFO History: The 1957 Yokohama UFO Sighting Photo

1957 Yokohama UFO photo

January 17th marks a significant date in UFO history, particularly recalling a fascinating event from 1957 in Yokohama, Japan. On this day, an extraordinary sighting was reported, capturing the attention of UFO enthusiasts and researchers globally.

The Sighting

In the early hours of the morning, UFO researcher Yusuke J. Matsumura, affiliated with the Flying Saucer Research group in Japan, experienced something unprecedented. He was about to leave his residence in Yokohama for Tokyo when a sudden, metallic flash caught his eye. This flash emanated from above his house, drawing his immediate attention.

The Encounter

Matsumura, equipped with his Primoflex Automatic camera, managed to photograph a mysterious object. This object, described as a UFO, was estimated to be around 20 to 30 feet in diameter. Hovering at a height of about 60-70 feet, the UFO presented a mesmerizing spectacle, reflecting the morning sun with its metallic surface.

The Departure

The UFO remained in sight for approximately one to two minutes, offering Matsumura a brief window to document this momentous event. The object is reported to have ascended at an astonishing speed, estimatGezondheided to be Mach 152, in a 70-degree elevation, heading in the southeast direction toward Tokyo Bay.

The Aftermath

The incident, taking place near 1687 Hama Isogo Ku in Yokohama, became a topic of considerable intrigue. The photograph taken by Matsumura has been subjected to numerous analyses over the years. Experts in the field have scrutinized the image, finding no evidence of manipulation or tampering, further adding to the mystery and credibility of the sighting.

The Legacy

This event remains one of the most credible and well-documented UFO sightings in history. It continues to be a subject of study and fascination among UFO researchers and enthusiasts. The Yokohama UFO sighting of January 17, 1957, stands as a testament to the enduring mystery and intrigue surrounding unidentified flying objects and their possible implications.

There don’t appear to be any recent updates or new developments specifically related to the UFO sighting in Yokohama, Japan, on January 17, 1957, by UFO researcher Yusuke J. Matsumura. The incident, where Matsumura captured a photograph of a metallic UFO, remains one of the more credible sightings in UFO history, with experts having analyzed the photo and found no evidence of manipulation or tampering.

However, interest in UFOs and extraterrestrial life continues in Japan and around the world. For instance, a rural community in northeastern Japan, known for numerous UFO sightings, has been promoting itself as a “home to aliens” to revitalize its local economy. This area in Fukushima has become a hub for UFO enthusiasts, featuring a UFO museum and various UFO-themed events and paraphernalia. The International UFO Lab, established in 2021 in this region, collects and disseminates UFO sighting reports globally, indicating an ongoing global interest in UFOs, especially after the U.S. Department of Defense released video footage of unidentified aerial phenomena in 2020.

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Ex-CIA Officer On UFOs & Aliens: Says ‘They Are Showing Up In 2027’

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.

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.”

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.

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• Italy Had UFO Crash & Recovered Alien Bodies Prior To Roswell: Is USA Holding Them?
• Ex-Apollo Astronaut Claimed Humans Are Ancient Aliens, Visited Earth From Space

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 his tweet shared 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.

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In a world where the lines between science fiction and reality often blur, the discovery of what appeared to be alien mummies in Peru grabbed headlines and captivated imaginations globally. These seemingly otherworldly specimens, unearthed in the hustle of Lima’s airport within a DHL office, sparked a flurry of UFO sightings theories and extraterrestrial speculations. However, the recent forensic analysis has unveiled a truth much closer to home, turning a story of potential alien life into a fascinating case study of human creativity and scientific inquiry.

The journey of these ‘Peruvian aliens’ began when customs agents intercepted a package containing diminutive, mummified figures and a separate three-fingered hand. The package, destined for Mexico, raised immediate questions about its contents. Were these the remnants of an unknown, alien species, or was there another explanation? The intrigue only deepened with Mexican journalist and self-proclaimed UFO expert Jaime Maussan’s presentation to Mexico’s Congress, claiming these were ancient extraterrestrial beings.

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• Unveiling the Mystery: Ancient “Alien” Corpses Displayed in Mexico’s Congress

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However, science, the ever-reliable arbitrator of truth, stepped in to demystify the enigma. The forensic analysis, conducted at the behest of Peru’s prosecutor’s office, was led by forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada. His findings were conclusive and surprisingly mundane. The ‘alien’ figures were not visitors from another planet but rather intricate assemblages of animal bones, artfully crafted and bound together with modern synthetic glues. These were not relics of an undiscovered alien civilization but earthly creations, dolls fabricated with a blend of creativity and deception.

Estrada’s revelation at the press conference in Lima was a sobering reminder of the fine line between fact and fiction. It also highlighted the human penchant for weaving extraordinary narratives around unexplained phenomena. Estrada emphasized the distinction between grounded scientific evidence and the realm of pseudo-science, often fueled by economic or other less scholarly interests.

While Estrada did not explicitly link the findings in Peru with Maussan’s presentation in Mexico, the implications were clear. Both instances involved objects that, despite their initial presentation as potential evidence of extraterrestrial life, were ultimately rooted in earthly materials and human ingenuity.

This episode serves as a captivating narrative about our collective fascination with the unknown, particularly the enduring allure of aliens and UFO sightings. It underscores the vital role of scientific rigor and forensic analysis in dispelling myths and unearthing truths, no matter how mundane they may be compared to the mysteries of outer space. As we continue to gaze at the stars and wonder about life beyond our planet, the Peruvian ‘aliens’ remind us that sometimes, the answers we seek are much closer to home.

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UFO Revolutions docuseries 'blow up decades of conspiracies' and introduces key figures who helped force Congress and the Pentagon to investigate if extraterrestrial crafts exist

• A new docuseries called UFO Revolutions has introduced key figures who helped force Congress and the Pentagon to look into extraterrestrial crafts
• Jeremy Corbell, a documentary filmmaker involved in the series said the series shows 'How the American people have been lied to' about UFOs
• Whistleblowers, including US government officials have also supported claims of UFO activity 

By EMMA RICHTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A new docuseries called UFO Revolutions has introduced key figures who helped force Congress and the Pentagon to investigate if extraterrestrial crafts exist. 

The series has gone on to 'blow up decades of conspiracies' about the cover up of UFO's threatening national security in the US. 

Investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who is featured in the three-part series said that video of a UFO captured in Iraq by US military 'was treated with spectacular secrecy.' 

Corbell has long followed extraterrestrial activity on the planet and the movement of UFOs as they approach the earth. The US government has been under constant scrutiny that they are concealing key evidence of UFOs flying into the county and around the world.

'It's really powerful, man. This is more than just a docuseries. It really peels back the veil and lets people see how many people are fighting for this. How the American people have been lied to. It just blows up decades of conspiracies,' Corbell told Fox News Digital. 

Investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who is featured in the three-part series said that it 'is more than just a docuseries' and that it shows 'How American people have been lied to' 

The Pentagon explained the previously released video of green triangles that looked like alien spacecraft were simply drones photographed through night-vision lenses

Included it the docuseries is a video of a 'jellyfish' or 'chandelier' shaped UFO that was captured on raw footage in 2018 as it flew over a military base

This metallic-like orb was the first time that the public saw a UFO in an active war zone. 

'This is a problem, because if we get two nations firing upon these unknowns, these unidentified flying objects, then what we have is a potential for crossfire and a potential for each country thinking it's the other's asset,' Corbell said in an interview with Fox Digital in February. 

Another person who has gone on to warn the American public of these designated UFOs was Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett. 

Burchett has been outspoken about the threat and is featured in the docuseries. In July, he warned the public that humanity 'can't handle' the technology that he's witnessed in these shocking videos. 

'If they're out there, they're out there, and if they have this kind of technology, then they could turn us into a charcoal briquette,' the Congressman admitted. 

In other news, bizarre footage of a group of UFOs was recently spotted hovering over Philadelphia as two of the crafts seemed to merge together. 

A witness uploaded the bizarre video of the sighting on Reddit and described the large cluster of lights as 'spinning and darting back and forth.'

The user said the multicolored lights were flying 'very high' above the city.

Footage of the peculiar sighting was very shaky, which the witness said was because their wife couldn't stop the car, so the mysterious objects were unclear. 

A different Reddit user joked 'next time you see UFO's in the sky, please, politely, tell your wife to STOP THE F***ING CAR!'

Despite the shaky footage - the group of strange lights were obviously seen floating amid the bright blue sky in the middle of the day. 

Mysterious footage shows a group of UFOs flying above Philadelphia - with two of the crafts even strangely merging together

On New Year's Day another eerie video captured Miami Police responding to an incident that appeared to show an alien-type creature floating around.

It was widely shared by conspiracy theorists on social media who claimed a 10-foot-tall silhouette walking near cop cars was from another planet. 

One user claimed a 'glowing figure' was walking through smoke during the chaotic scene.

It came after around 50 teenagers started a riot outside Bayside Marketplace and caused a panic by setting off loud fireworks.

The Miami Police Department has since revealed that the strange figure in the video was actually just a shadow of someone walking. 

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The fake alien twins that sparked an out-of-this-world search for the truth: How 'UFO experts' led the world to believe 'alien corpses' found in Peru were real

• Images of the pint-sized extraterrestrial pals triggered a bout of mass ET hysteria

By DAVID AVERRE

In the annals of cosmic curiosity, the unveiling of two alien like figures in South America last year stands out as a moment which sparked unbridled joy among believers - and even caused some sceptics to sit up and take notice. 

Emergent images of the pint-sized extraterrestrial pals triggered a bout of mass ET hysteria in September, when Mexican journalist José Jaime Maussan stood before the nation's Congress and declared they were 'non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution'.

Cue months of congressional hearings which saw researchers make a string of astounding claims - including that they couldn't identify 30% of the hybrid being's DNA - prompting Maussan to allege the supposedly fossilised lifeforms would 'rewrite history' and 'were intelligent and lived with us'. 

Now, it seems, the game is up.

Forensic scientists in Peru revealed last week the public had been duped, declaring that two near-identical figures seized by customs agents in a shipment destined for Mexico were nothing more than dolls glued together using animal bones, paper and chunks of metal. 

But the question remains - how was Mexico's Congress, and much of the scientific community, seemingly caught out by a pair of papier-mâché imposters? 

And why did it take so long for the scientific community to establish what the sceptics had said all along - that this had to be a hoax?

Here, MailOnline recaps this calamitous cosmic comedy in its entirety. 

The emergence of images of the pint-sized extraterrestrial pals - discovered by Peruvian customs agents intercepting a suspicious package en-route to Mexico - triggered a phase of mass ET hysteria

Flavio Estrada (R), forensic archaeologist of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Lima of the Public Ministry

The mystery of Mexico's 'aliens' has been solved... and they're not extraterrestrials

Peruvian archaeologist Flavio Estrada, member of the Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences Institute, shows what has been believed to be remains of an extraterrestrial alien during a press conference where forensic experts rule out the existence of alleged extraterrestrial mummies 

A tiny body of a specimen, that Mexican journalist and UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan says is not related to any known Earthly species, undergoes a CT scan, at Noor Clinic, in Huixquilucan, Mexico September 18, 2023 

This celestial caper began on September 12 when Mexico announced it was holding its first ever congressional hearing on UFOs.

The announcement prompted widespread speculation that was exponentially compounded when the first images emerged of what was billed as 'the face of an extraterrestrial being'. 

Shocked viewers were greeted by a chalky grey face peeking out from a dark, wooden casket in which the 'alien' had been laid. 

Sporting slit-like eyes, a misshapen nose and a small coin-slot mouth, the figure's head and neck were not too dissimilar to that of Steven Spielberg's ET - but were accompanied by a tiny, wafer-thin body with spindly limbs and three digits on each hand.

And there were two of them.

Many immediately dismissed the figures as fakes - but the dramatic reveal was followed in short order by a series of convincing testimonies to the seeming authenticity of the specimens.

Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Maussan led the testimonies, claiming the childlike bodies lying before Congress were not related to any life on Earth.

Maussan said the bodies were actually unearthed in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017.

'This is the first time extraterrestrial life is presented in such a form and I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with non-human specimens that are not related to any other species in our world and that any scientific institution can investigate it,' Maussan said.

'We are not alone,' he concluded. 

Moments later, Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, Director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican navy, said X-rays, 3-D reconstruction and DNA analysis had been carried out on the remains.

'I can affirm that these bodies have no relation to human beings,' he said.

This seemingly official stamp of authenticity caused many to reexamine their preconceived notions, and was perhaps reinforced by a recent reduction in the stigma that has long been associated with reporting UFOs.

Mexico's Congress also heard testimony from former US Navy pilot Ryan Graves, one of the leading figures pushing for research into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) who has participated in US Congressional hearings about his personal encounters with unidentified craft while serving. 

The Pentagon has been actively investigating reported sightings in recent years by military aviators, and NASA announced the creation of a new panel studying UFOs - the first of its kind by the space agency.

A group of international experts hold a hearing in Mexico's lower house to discuss extraterrestrial sightings, with Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan (C) presenting alleged bodies of 'non-human' beings, in Mexico City, Mexico on September 13, 2023

Mexican legislators held another hearing dedicated to the potential for extraterrestrial life forms and UFOs in November

A screen shows what Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan claims are extraterrestrial life forms

One of the two 'non-human' beings displayed to the media is seen during a press conference of Mexican journalist and UFO expert, Jaime Maussan, at the Camino Real hotel, in Mexico City

Two months after Maussan's bombshell claims before Congress, Mexico held another hearing on November 7 which only served to further complicate the saga.

In this hearing, Maussan ushered in a team of researchers who performed a DNA analysis on the figures.

They claimed at least 30% of the bodies' DNA was 'not from any known species' and declared without caveat that each figure was 'authentic' and complete with its own skeletal structure. 

'This is the first time extraterrestrial life has been presented in this manner, Maussan said to Congress.

'We have a clear example of non-human specimens unrelated to any known species on our planet. 

'The public has the right to know about non-human technology and beings. This reality unites humanity rather than dividing us. We are not alone in this vast universe; we should embrace this truth.' 

Maussan added that the two corpses had sturdy bones, were toothless, and contained implants made of the soft, slivery-white metal cadmium and the bluish-white metal osmium - rare elements on Earth. 

A squad of medical experts later carried in a letter signed by 11 researchers from San Luis Gonzaga National University in Ica, Peru, declaring the same.

One anthropologist from the university, Roger Zuniga, claimed: 'There was absolutely no human intervention in the physical and biological formation of these beings.'

The scientists' letter made clear the team was not implying the bodies were 'extraterrestrial' - though it also said they could not say where the figures had originated from. 

But Argentine surgeon Celestino Adolfo Piotto ramped up speculation even further when he said he believed, after reviewing test results and images of the bodies, the figures were actually an evolved version of today's human beings, calling them 'our descendants'. 

These claims came after two near-identical figures were seized by Peruvian customs authorities when they were sent in a shipment destined for an unnamed recipient in Mexico, only adding to the mystery surrounding their origin and the details of their ownership. 

Two pieces that look like small mummies that were seized in October 2023 at the Lima airport and that were going to be sent to Mexico

One of the two pieces that look like small mummies that were seized in October 2023 at the Lima airport and that were going to be sent to Mexico, is presented by the Ministry of Culture of Peru with the results of an expert opinion, in Lima, Peru, 12 January 2024

Different experts from the Ministry of Culture and the Peruvian Prosecutor's Office described as 'fraud' some alleged extraterrestrial mummies very similar to those presented by the 'ufologist' Jaime Maussan

On January 12, authorities in Lima held a press conference in which its scientists firmly rained on the ET-lovers' parade.

Speaking on the two figures seized by customs authorities in October, lead forensic expert Flavio Estrada said flatly: 'They are not extraterrestrials, they are not intraterrestrials, they are not a new species, they are not hybrids.'

Estrada explained his team of experts from the Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences Institute had painstakingly analysed the figures and concluded they were simply dolls that had been pieced together with paper, glue and metal over a frame composed of human and animal bones.

'The conclusion is simple: they are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues, therefore they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times,' Estrada told reporters. 

'They are not extraterrestrials; they are not aliens.'

It must be said that the figures analysed by Estrada's team are not the same as those presented to Mexico's Congress by Maussan.

But they appeared to be almost exactly the same in size, appearance and weight. 

Estrada was plain in his condemnation of what he called 'pseudo-science' on the part of Maussan and his researchers, accusing them of trying to peddle claims with no scientific backing.

'[The figures] are none of those things that this group of pseudo-scientists who for six years have been presenting with these elements,' he said. 

It has since transpired that Maussan has been disproven before. 

In 2015, the self-confessed UFO enthusiast reported on the discovery of what was then billed as an extraterrestrial life form - which was later revealed to be the remains of a human child. 

While there very well may be extraterrestrial life, it seems safe to assume that those little grey figures in Mexico's Congress are very much a product of earthly deception.

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Bizarre Video Of ‘UFO’ Taken By Flight Attendant Over Europe

• Denisa Tanase, 36, was working on a flight when she spotted a stunning view 
• She took video but only noticed interesting detail when she reviewed footage

By JAMES CALLERY

A stewardess believes she has filmed a pink UFO during a flight from Luton to Poland. 

Denisa Tanase, 36, was working on the Wizz Air flight when she spotted a stunning view out of the window.

The mother-of-two grabbed her phone and took a video, but thought nothing more of it.

When she reviewed the footage 20 minutes later, she saw an unidentified flying object.

Ms Tanase, from Corby, Northamptonshire, said: 'I've been a flight attendant for a year and have never seen anything like this.

Denisa Tanase, from Corby, Northamptonshire, grabbed her phone and took a video, but thought nothing more of it. But when she reviewed the footage 20 minutes later, she saw an unidentified object

The Wizz Air stewardess, 36, was working on a flight from Luton to Poland when she spotted a stunning view out of the window

'I couldn't see anything with my bare eyes.

'But when I checked the video 20 minutes later, I spotted it and I spoke to the pilot to ask if they knew anything.'

She added: 'Everyone was confused. They hadn't seen anything while flying and there had been no turbulence.

'It was a weird shape, like a circle flashing pink.

'At first we thought maybe it was a reflection of our pink uniform but on the video you can see the motion – you can see it's flying.'

Despite being confused by what she caught on film, Denisa was not concerned by the footage.

A close-up of the purple 'UFO'. Denise said: 'At first we thought maybe it was a reflection of our pink uniform but on the video you can see the motion - you can see it's flying'

She had always wondered about whether alien life could exist, but she is now sure that it does.

Ms Tanase said: 'I was just happy that I got something on film. I thought: "How is this possible?"

'I've seen stuff before on the internet and thought, "hmm this could be Photoshop", but I had it on video myself.

'Now I definitely believe more than before.

'My family and friends think it is definitely aliens. My husband said: "You're my wife, I believe you."'

Ms Tanase, who has travelled all over Europe with Wizz Air, has not seen any other UFOs since the incident last week and continues her job as normal.

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Scientists Solve Major Puzzle in Moon’s Geology

New research from the University of Bristol sheds light on the origin of titanium-rich basaltic magmas on the Moon.

A map of the titanium abundances of the Moon’s surface, obtained from NASA’s Clementine spacecraft; the red parts indicate extremely high concentrations compared to terrestrial rocks.

Image credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Surprisingly high concentrations of the element titanium (Ti) in parts of the lunar surface have been known since NASA’s Apollo missions, back in the 1960s and 1970s, which successfully returned solidified, ancient lava samples from the Moon’s crust.

More recent mapping by orbiting satellite shows these magmas, known as high-Ti basalts, to be widespread on the Moon.

In a series of high temperature lab experiments with molten rocks and sophisticated isotopic analyses of lunar samples, University of Bristol’s Professor Tim Elliott and his colleagues identified a critical reaction that controls the composition of these distinctive magmas.

This reaction took place in the deep lunar interior some 3.5 billion years ago, involving exchange of the element iron in the magma with the element magnesium in the surrounding rocks, modifying the chemical and physical properties of the melt.

“The origin of volcanic lunar rocks is a fascinating tale involving an ‘avalanche’ of an unstable, planetary-scale crystal pile created by the cooling of a primordial magma ocean,” Professor Elliott said.

“Central to constraining this epic history is the presence of a magma type unique to the Moon, but explaining how such magmas could even have got to the surface, to be sampled by space missions, has been a troublesome problem. It is great to have resolved this dilemma.”

“Until now models have been unable to recreate magma compositions that match essential chemical and physical characteristics of the high-Ti basalts,” said Dr. Martijn Klaver, a researcher in the Institute of Mineralogy at the University of Münster.

“It has proven particularly hard to explain their low density, which allowed them to be erupted some three and a half billion years ago.”

“We managed to mimic the high-Ti basalts in the process in the lab using high-temperature experiments,” the researchers said.

“Measurements of the high-Ti basalts also revealed a distinctive isotopic composition that provides a fingerprint of the reactions reproduced by the experiments.”

“Both results clearly demonstrate how the melt-solid reaction is integral in understanding the formation of these unique magmas.”

• The findings appear today in the journal Nature Geoscience.
• M. Klaver et al. Titanium-rich basaltic melts on the Moon modulated by reactive flow processes. Nat. Geosci, published online January 15, 2024; doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01362-5

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Alien appears on Mountain In surprising eyewitness, Baker Hot Springs, Utah, Jan 7, 2024, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 13, 2024

Location of sighting: Baker Hot Springs, Utah, USA
Source: Facebook 'Saber Cape'

•  https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=saber%20cape

Now this is a strange one and the rarest of the rare encounters. A person was is a desolate location in Utah where there are only a few dirt roads when they looked up on the hill and saw a tall person with a very large head. When I added light to the photo, it reveled a violet thin robe and an almost religious stance...like Jesus. Also the neck is very long and thin. No face can be made out, however we may be looking at it from behind. 

 

Also know, this is Utah, my current home since Taiwan is in jeopardy of being taken over by China. Right now it's snowing in Utah out my window...as I write this and yesterday was colder than today at 26-34F temperatures. 

 

This has all the signs of being a real alien. Also know, there were a few other alien sightings this week, aliens may be deciding on revealing themselves very soon. Remember the alien video from Miami, Florida last week? Or the video from a Brazil island? Yeah...I see a pattern, they are pushing a big reveal soon. 

 

Scott C. Waring - Utah

 

Eyewitness states: 

You guys! I'm not big on ufos or aliens buy wth do you think this is?! We were out at baker hot springs (very desolate area) and were hiking around and saw this. My husband wouldn't let me hike up the mountain to see haha. Creepy af and I'm wondering if someone just set it up.

 

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UAP Disguised As Meteor, Northford, Connecticut Jan 7, 2024, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Jan 7, 2024
Location of sighting: Northford, Connecticut, USA

 

Watch carefully and you will notice a dark disk with a hump at the center of the meteor. The closeup I made shows that there really is a UFO trying to disguise itself as a meteor. This is the first time I had ever seen a dark round center of a meteor as it falls and I had to make an enlargement and slow motion to be certain of my suspicions. This is 100% proof UFOs come and go and do disguise themselves so humans will dismiss what they see. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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Does Lockheed Martin have its own Alien Recovery Team? Yes you heard me right... a team that gets a phone call and goes out and recovers downed UFO's? 

A whistleblower at Lockheed Martin has come forward with details about a Lockheed's secret alien recovery program and reverse engineering program. 

The whistleblower said that Lockheed Martin already created its own nonhuman intelligent craft in the 70s and that such a Lockheed reproduction alien craft crashed in Nevada in 2004. 

The whistleblower's claim fits well with the statement of Ben Rich the former second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works who passed away in 1995. 

During a presentation Ben Rich gave at Wright Patterson airbase and also at the UCLA School of Engineering Alumni speech on March 23, 1993 he made several groundbreaking statements. 

One of his statements was that they already have the technology enabling interstellar travel, but these "alien" technologies are locked up in black projects. 

He was telling about a whole new level of craft, spacecraft, advanced propulsion systems, technologies that are already 50 years ahead, that anything you can imagine they already know how to do.  

Given the recent revelations by the whistleblower that Lockheed Martin already created its own nonhuman intelligent craft in the 70s and the three-decade span since Rich's disclosures, we can bet that today's advancements in Lockheed's secretive "alien technology" projects likely extend far beyond our current understanding. 

And don't hope they make this technology available for use in the private sector, more likely they use this technology, among other things, in a covert space program that none of us have a clue about. 

Ben Rich's statement during his presentation in 1993; "The U.S. Air Force has just given Lockheed a contract to take ET back home" says a lot!

In the video below Clayton Morris from Redacted interviews Lockheed's whistleblower.

  

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Aliens Among Us | Full Documentary

In recent years, the topic of UFO sightings has captivated the public imagination like never before. With a history shrouded in mystery and intrigue, these sightings pose questions that challenge our understanding of the universe and our place within it. This article delves into the fascinating world of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the possibility of alien life, drawing insights from various sources including the groundbreaking work of Dr. Michael Wolf.

The Enigma of UFO Sightings

UFO sightings have been recorded throughout history, but it’s the modern era that has seen a significant surge in these mysterious occurrences. Witnesses describe seeing objects with extraordinary aerodynamic capabilities, far beyond our current technology. These sightings often come with detailed descriptions, leading to widespread speculation and debate about their origins and intent.

The Controversial Figure of Dr. Michael Wolf

Central to the discussion about UFOs is Dr. Michael Wolf, a figure who reportedly spent over 30 years engaged in U.S. military and government projects studying alien entities. Wolf’s claims are controversial and have been met with skepticism, yet they offer a unique perspective into the clandestine world of extraterrestrial research. According to Wolf, his work involved studying the technology and biology of alien beings, including the infamous ‘gray aliens‘.

Secret Government Projects and Extraterrestrial Technology

Dr. Wolf’s narratives describe secret government projects aimed at harnessing extraterrestrial technologies. These include ‘Project Sentinel,’ an initiative to create super soldiers devoid of human conscience and emotions, eerily reminiscent of science fiction. Such projects, if true, indicate a profound and hidden impact of extraterrestrial technologies on military and scientific advancements.

The Role of Majestic 12 and Government Secrecy

An intriguing aspect of Dr. Wolf’s story involves his alleged association with Majestic 12, a secret government group purportedly formed in 1947, coinciding with the Roswell incident. This group, according to Wolf, plays a crucial role in managing UFO information and extraterrestrial interactions. The secrecy and alleged disinformation campaigns surrounding this group add a layer of complexity to the UFO phenomenon.

The Human Connection: Genetic Ties and Cultural Influence

Dr. Wolf’s revelations extend into the realm of genetics, where he suggests the discovery of extraterrestrial genes within human DNA. This assertion leads to the tantalizing possibility that human evolution and culture have been influenced, directly or indirectly, by extraterrestrial beings. Such claims, while controversial, invite us to reconsider our origins and the broader connections we might share with the cosmos.

The Ethical and Existential Implications

The narrative of UFOs and aliens among us is not just a tale of scientific and technological intrigue; it also carries profound ethical and existential implications. The alleged experiences and technologies described by Dr. Wolf challenge our understanding of consciousness, ethics, and our very nature as human beings. They compel us to ponder the broader implications of our place in the universe and the possibility of other intelligent life forms.

VIDEO:

• Aliens Among Us | Full Documentary

• https://youtu.be/M3oUbXoLcE

The topic of UFO sightings and the possibility of alien life among us opens doors to uncharted territories of knowledge and understanding. While skepticism is natural, the continued reporting of UFO sightings and the intriguing claims of figures like Dr. Michael Wolf ignite our imagination and curiosity. As we stand at the frontier of this cosmic mystery, it beckons us to explore, question, and perhaps one day, understand the true nature of our universe and our place within it.

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Unveiling the Mystery: The Falcon Lake Incident and Its Place in UFO Sightings

In the realm of UFO sightings, few incidents have captivated the imagination and spurred as much debate as the Falcon Lake Incident. This enigmatic event, which unfolded on May 20, 1967, near Falcon Lake, Canada, has remained a cornerstone in UFOlogy, offering a blend of intrigue, skepticism, and enduring mystery.

The Encounter of Stefan Michalak

The central figure of this incident, Stefan Michalak, an immigrant from Poland and an amateur geologist, ventured into the wilderness of Falcon Lake for a day of prospecting. His routine excursion took an extraordinary turn when he encountered what he described as two cigar-shaped, glowing objects in the sky. As one of the objects descended and transformed into an oval shape, Michalak’s curiosity was piqued, leading him to an experience that would impact the rest of his life.

A Close Encounter and Its Aftermath

Approaching the landed craft, Michalak noted its metallic surface, changing colors, and the intense heat radiating from it. His encounter took a harrowing turn when a blast of hot gas from the craft inflicted burns on his body, leaving grid-like patterns. This physical evidence, coupled with Michalak’s declining health following the incident – marked by nausea, headaches, and weight loss – added a tangible dimension to his otherwise fantastical tale.

Investigations and Skepticism

The Falcon Lake Incident sparked a flurry of investigations by various authorities, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and even the United States Air Force. Despite extensive searches and analyses, the incident remained shrouded in mystery. Skeptics pointed to the possibility of hallucinations or a fabricated story, perhaps influenced by alcohol or a desire for attention. However, Michalak’s consistent accounts and the physical evidence of burns and radiation at the site challenged these dismissals.

The Legacy of Falcon Lake

What makes the Falcon Lake Incident particularly compelling in the history of UFO sightings is its detailed documentation, the physical aftermath experienced by Michalak, and the inconclusive nature of the investigations. Unlike many UFO sightings characterized by fleeting visuals and lack of physical evidence, Falcon Lake presents a case where the impact transcended the immediate encounter.

Broader Context of UFO Sightings

The incident fits into a larger pattern of UFO sightings, which often leave more questions than answers. Each year, numerous sightings are reported, with a small percentage defying conventional explanations. These instances fuel the ongoing debate between believers, who see them as evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, and skeptics, who seek more mundane explanations.

VIDEO:

• Pinnso – Falcon Lake Incident
• https://youtu.be/hgNuiO2JxtU

Today, the Falcon Lake Incident stands as a significant chapter in the annals of UFO sightings, a testament to the enduring human quest for understanding the unknown. While definitive answers may elude us, stories like Michalak’s keep the door open to possibilities, inviting us to explore, question, and ponder the mysteries of our seemingly boundless universe. Whether viewed through the lens of skepticism or belief, the Falcon Lake Incident reminds us that the sky above is a canvas of infinite mysteries, continuously igniting our imagination and curiosity.

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Een oeroude tand verandert alles wat we weten over de prehistorie

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Deze vondst zou onze geschiedenisboeken kunnen veranderen

Het verhaal van de oude menselijke geschiedenis is de afgelopen jaren langzaam bij elkaar gebracht uit een handvol verkalkte botten die op interessante plaatsen zijn gevonden en van elkaar gescheiden zijn door enorme tijdsverschillen.

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Het herschrijven van menselijke geschiedenis
Maar de ontdekking van een enkele prehistorische kies in een tamelijk oninteressante grot zou wel eens de belangrijkste sleutel kunnen zijn om alles wat we dachten te weten over de prehistorie van de mensheid te herzien.

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Grotte Mandrin
De tand in kwestie werd opgegraven in de Grotte Mandrin in Frankrijk, een grot in de Rhônevallei en een gebied dat volgens het Smithsonian Magazine ooit een bloeiend ecologisch centrum was.

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Een aantrekkelijk thuis voor Neanderthalers
Grotte Mandrin was zo bijzonder dat er tienduizenden jaren lang migrerende neanderthalers woonden, maar zij waren misschien niet de enige levende primaten.

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Er was leven in Europa 10.000 jaar voordat we dachten
In 2022 publiceerden onderzoekers nieuw bewijs over een menselijke tand die mogelijk bij Grotte Mandrin was gevonden en die suggereerde dat homo sapiens 10.000 jaar eerder in Europa leefde dan eerder werd gedacht, zo schreef de New York Times.

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"Dit is echt interessant en spannend"
"Dit is echt interessant en spannend", verklaarde Katerina Harvati van de Eberhard Karls-Universiteit Tübingen in een e-mail van toen haar studie over de tand werd gepubliceerd in de New York Times.

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"De complexiteit van de verspreiding van de moderne mens"
"Het illustreert de complexiteit van de verspreiding van de moderne mens op het Europese continent en de uiteindelijke vervanging van neanderthalers", voegde Harvati eraan toe. Maar de vondst bleek nog meer te onthullen.

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Geen vaststelling
Helaas konden de onderzoekers door mislukte pogingen om DNA-monsters te onttrekken aan dierlijke tanden die in de grot waren opgegraven, ook niet vaststellen dat de kleine melktand die ze vonden menselijk was, aldus de New York Times.

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Slechts een theorie
Zonder gedegen bevestiging bleef de theorie dat de mens veel eerder naar Europa migreerde dan we eerder dachten gewoon een theorie. Maar meer dan een jaar nadat de oorspronkelijke studie over de tand was gepubliceerd, beweerde een van de auteurs ervan iets nieuws.

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De werktuigen die bij de tand werden gevonden
Tussen de andere voorwerpen die in Grotte Mandrin samen met de oude tand werden ontdekt, zaten stenen werktuigen waarvan onderzoeker Ludovic Slimak het vermoeden had dat ze door vroege mensen gemaakt zouden kunnen zijn.

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Het bewijs dat onderzoekers nodig hadden
Slimak publiceerde onlangs een predictieve studie die suggereert dat de verfijnde werktuigen gevonden in Grotte Mandrin gemaakt zijn met een soortgelijke techniek die door mensen in Libanon werd gebruikt en dat de parallellen niet louter toeval konden zijn.

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Gereedschap uit Ksar Akil
Smithsonian Magazine bericht dat Slimak in The Peabody Museum een schat aan stenen werktuigen uit de oude prehistorische site Ksar Akil dat niet ver van Beiroet ligt, aantrof, en hij besefte dat de methode om die voorwerpen te maken identiek was aan die van Grotte Mandrin.

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"Een vuursteen kun je lezen als een boek"
"Een vuursteen kun je lezen zoals je een boek kunt lezen", liet Slimak weten aan Smithsonian Magazine. "Het is niet zomaar een eindproduct, je kunt de technische fasen van de productie zien."

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Hetzelfde vervaardigingsproces
"Toen ik die dozen opende," zei Slimak, "stuitte ik op een zeer grote verrassing: het was hetzelfde technische proces. Alle fasen van de vervaardiging waren dezelfde als bij Grotte Mandrin."

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Geen toevalligheden in gereedschapstechnieken
Slimak legde verder uit dat er verschillende manieren waren om vuurstenen werktuigen te maken, maar benadrukte dat de kans dat twee groepen dezelfde technieken gebruikten zeer onwaarschijnlijk was.

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Dezelfde bevolkingen
"Dat is iets wat bijna onmogelijk is, tenzij je gewoon dezelfde mensen bent", zei de Franse archeoloog. "Het was voor mij heel duidelijk dat ik te maken had met dezelfde bevolkingen en dezelfde cultuur".

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Een nieuwe migratietheorie
Aan de hand van deze gegevens stelde Slimak vast dat de menselijke migratie naar Europa in drie verschillende fasen heeft plaatsgevonden en dat de in Grotte Mandrin gevonden tanden en werktuigen vondsten zijn van de eerste golf, die 10.000 jaar eerder plaatsvond dan we eerder dachten!

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