J. Allen Hynek Papers

The following reports were created by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the scientist infamous for having consulted for the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, then later devoting his life to the field of UFO research.

These documents offer a rare glimpse into the life of Dr. J. Allen Hynek -- away from his study into the UFO phenomenon.

John Greenewald, Jr. of The Black Vault gets Hynek papers declassified [2 pages]
- This two page memo to the DTIC downgrades the restriction on 8 of Hynek's
papers. The FOIA case referenced is a letter filed by The Black Vault in 1999.

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #1 [9 pages]

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #2 [8 pages]

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #3 [13 pages]

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #4 [27 pages]

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #5 [21 pages]

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #6 [12 pages]

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #7 [13 pages]

Fluctuations of Starlight and Skylight #8 [24 pages]

The Need For Basic Sky Studies [33 Pages]

Research in Space Science [9 pages]

Carl Sagan, Laurance Rockefeller, and UFOs

REPORT: NO ‘GLOBALWARMING’ FOR 215 MONTHS

By Michael Bastasch, DCNF

The numbers are in and the verdict is that there has been no global warming
for 17 years and 11 months, according to satellite data.

Satellite data prepared by Lord Christopher Monckton shows there has been no warming trend from October of 1996 to August of 2014 — 215 months. To put this in perspective, kids graduating from high school this year have not lived through any global warming in their lifetimes.

According to Monckton — the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a former policy adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — the rate of warming has been half of what climate scientists initially predicted in the early
1990s.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) first predicted in 1990 that global temperatures would rise at a rate of 2.8 degrees Celsius per century. But the temperature rise since the IPCC’s prediction has only been at a rate of 1.4 degrees Celsius per century.

The so-called “pause” in global warming has baffled climate scientists, as many climate models did not predict a prolonged period of little to no warming. While some climate scientists deny the “pause” in global warming even exists, others have looked to places ocean and wind patterns for answers as to why there has been no warming for nearly two decades.

There are now literally dozens of potential explanations for the global warming “pause,” ranging from increasing volcanic activity to Chinese coal-fired power plant emissions.

“The Great Pause is a growing embarrassment to those who had told us with ‘substantial confidence’ that the science was settled and the debate over,” Monckton wrote in his climate analysis. “Nature had other ideas.”

“Though more than two dozen more or less implausible excuses for the Pause are appearing in nervous reviewed journals, the possibility that the Pause is occurring because the computer models are simply wrong about the sensitivity of temperature to manmade greenhouse gases can no longer be dismissed,” Monckton added.

Recent articles have claimed that excess heat has been stored in the Earth’s oceans instead of going up into the atmosphere. A new study in the journal Science claims that global warming “slowdown is mainly caused by heat transported to deeper layers in the Atlantic and the Southern oceans, initiated by a recurrent salinity anomaly in the subpolar North Atlantic.”

Pacific and Atlantic oscillation cycles supposedly force warm water deeper and bring up cooler waters to the surface — the reverse of what ocean patterns were doing in the 1990s when global temperatures were rising.

But meteorologists have been predicting a weak el Niño this fall and winter, which would warm ocean waters and potentially put an end to the “pause” in global warming.

“The Great Pause may well come to an end by this winter,” said Monckton.“An
el Niño event is underway and would normally peak during the northern hemisphere winter. There is too little information to say how much temporary warming it will cause, but a new wave of warm water has emerged in recent days, so one should not yet write off this el Niño as a non-event.”

El Niños occur every few years and can cause global temperatures to temporarily spike. Such events caused temperature spikes in 1998, 2007 and 2010, according to Monckton’s data. But these temperature spikes are often succeeded by huge drops in temperatures due to la Niña events.

Special thanks: DCNF

PERSBERICHTEN

SOPHIE GAAT MET LANGE FRANS OP ZOEK NAAR BUITENAARDS LEVEN

In een nieuw seizoen van het BNN-programma Je Zal Het Maar Zijn ontmoet Sophie Hilbrand mensen met bijzondere fascinaties, met bijzondere relaties, mensen met een opvallend uiterlijk, tweelingen en personen die publiekelijk van hun voetstuk zijn gevallen. In de eerste aflevering reist Sophie met Lange Frans naar Engeland. Ze bezoeken daar onder andere graancirkels en het beroemde Stonehenge, een bekende plek voor wichelroedelopers. Tegen Sophie spreekt Lange Frans openlijk over zijn fascinatie voor buitenaards leven, die hij lange tijd verborgen hield. JZHMZ is vanaf 14 september iedere zondag om 21.15 uur te zien bij BNN op NPO 3.

Pope Francis says he would baptise aliens: 'Who are we to close doors?

Pope Francis has said that he would be willing to baptise aliens if they came to the Vatican, asking “who are we to close doors” to anyone - even Martians.

In a homily yesterday dedicated to the concepts of acceptance and inclusion, Francis recalled a Bible story about the conversion of the first pagans to Christianity, according to reports on Vatican Radio.

He said Catholicism was a church of “open doors”, and that it was up to Christians to accept the Holy Spirit however “unthinkable” and “unimaginable” it appeared.

Describing how, according to the Bible, Peter was criticised by the Christians of Jerusalem for making contact with a community of “unclean” pagans, Francis said that at the time that too was “unthinkable”.

“If, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martians came to us here and one said ‘I want to be baptised!’, what would happen?”

Clarifying that he really was talking about aliens, the Pope said: “Martians, right? Green, with long noses and big ears, like in children’s drawings.”

Brain Implant Will Recover Lost Memories

In just four years, the experimental research wing of the US military, named DARPA, plans to market a medical device that can recover lost memories. Intended for soldiers suffering from brain injury as a result of combat, the device will also work on other neurological disorders like epilepsy and Parkinson's. Lead researcher Michael Kahana, director of the Computational Memory Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, uses modern technological metaphors to describe how memory functions in the brain:

Locating those tags, i.e. finding memories that are no longer accessible to the conscious mind, depends on identifying electrical signals associated with memory encoding and retrieval. Once these signals are found, DARPA's research team will use neural stimulation devices to amplify them, making them easier to detect and bring to the conscious mind. 

While the last two decades have seen massive pharmaceutical investment in drug discovery efforts, industry observers have recently seen those levels fall off dramatically. In the near-term, electrical neuro-modulation devices show greater promise when it comes to treating neurological disorders. 

And while memory retrieval may benefit those with degenerative neurological disorders, devices which disable active memories could be of more use to those suffering from PTSD. In his Big Think interview, NYU bioethics professor Matthew Liao describes such a device:

Read more at IEEE Spectrum

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Wanted: Astronomer with Top Secret Clearance

NASA’s orbiting James Webb Space Telescope will be “the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide, and studying every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.”

So why does its Director need to have a Top Secret/SCI security clearance, as specified in the job description posted last month on USA Jobs?

Clearly, the secrets of the universe do not lend themselves to, or require, national security classification controls, let alone non-disclosure agreements or polygraph testing.

But in practice, the civilian space program intersects the national security space program at multiple points, and former CIA analyst Allen Thomson suggested that the future Webb Director might need a Top Secret intelligence clearance in order to engage with the National Reconnaissance Office on space technology and operations, for example.

The Webb Space Telescope “will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity,” according to NASA. “The longer wavelengths enable the Webb telescope to look much closer to the beginning of time and to hunt for the unobserved formation of the first galaxies, as well as to look inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today.”

The Webb Telescope has a projected launch date in 2018.

Are we doing enough to learn the truth about UFOs

“I know of at least one Australian researcher who is sitting on some very detailed information about this case supplied by an informant and I would like to see them invited to share the knowledge with us all,” Mr Basterfield said.

Questions were also raised about the validity of claims that a high-altitude weather balloon was to blame for the mystery.

Interviews from witnesses on the day the UFO was spotted were played.

Each described seeing three objects hovering over trees.

“I know what we saw that day could not be explained by anyone of this earth,”
one said in a recorded interview.

“I would really like some answers, verification of what we saw.’’

A schoolgirl, who is believed to have come closest to one of the objects that day, was “debriefed’’ but never returned to the school, the conference was told.
A teacher’s camera was also confiscated.

The audience of more than 100 also heard there was mounting evidence to suggest the federal government kept tabs on current sightings even though it had officially closed its books.

Mr Basterfield said it was time a national network of researchers started sharing details of all ”incoming raw reports”.

”At the moment we have no idea of what UFO reports are being made around Australia,” he said. ”I would like to see somebody take that up again.’’

He said the national response unit would operate the same way as The Mutual UFO Network in the US and the French government’s official UFO investigation agency.

”The role of the team would be to receive a case, fly there, interview the witnesses, take samples, document their findings, analyse it and publish it for us all to look at. It is possible for us to do that.’’

Aaron.langmaid@news.com.au