Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
18-02-2014
The Russian Screws: The Mystery Continues (Part two of two)
The Russian Screws: The Mystery Continues (Part two of two)
It’s been nagging at me since I posted the counterpart to this post less than eight hours ago, that I may have dismissed the issue of the Russian Screws with a might too much haste and enthusiasm.
After intensive search online, through Russian language websites, search engines and wiki pages, I am, maddeningly, no closer to an answer. While it seems that others, though only a few, have come to the same conclusion that I did in what I’ll now call part one of this two part saga, all attempts to verify the information contained in Hartwig Hausdorf’s book Wenn Goetter Gott Spielen have hit dead ends.
It turns out though, that Hausdorf misreported or mistranslated the original Russian in his source material. The research organization he identified as ZNIGRI or the Central Scientific Research Institute for Geology and Prospecting for Precious and Non-ferrous Metals, is actually TsNIGRI, or The Federal State Unitary Enterprise – Central Research Geological Exploration Institute of Nonferrous and Precious Metals[1], which operates under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.
This organization is responsible for “…the forecast, the search for, evaluation, exploration, advanced technology exploration, processing and analysis of ores diamonds, gold, silver, platinum, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt, monitoring of mineral resources, geological and economic evaluation deposits of mineral raw materials situation.”[2]
So, at least that part of Hausdorf’s story seems to be legitimate, if not confusing and difficult to verify.
TsNIGRI oversees or controls two journals, National Geology, which was founded in 1933 and is a scientific or industry periodical that publishes articles and commentary on the theoretical aspects of geology, and Ores & Metals, which was founded in 1992 for the “rapid dissemination of information and the creation of an information base for fundamental research in the field of ore deposits and their geological structure and mineral resources.”
Unfortunately, while these journals are archived online through the Russian language E-Library, a searchable database of literally millions of Russian scientific publications and individual articles, I can find no mention of the Narandan Spiral Artefacts (or Narandan Metal Fasteners, as a Russian language wikipedia.org entry calls them, or even through any other variation of the several names that have come up in this research) through either of the mentioned publications, or any other.
Hausdorf mentions two researchers by name in his book, as originally cited in part one from Arthur Neuman’s Rense.com article, a Dr. Valerii Ouvarov and Scientific Assistant Mme. Dr. E. W. Matveyeva.
Matveyeva apparently is, or was, a researcher with TsNIGRI, but all searches for him or her return results directly related to Hausdorf’s book and claims. The same problem occurs with Ouvarov, with the exception of some obscure references to a UFO Report DVD, apparently developed by him or her. There is also a book written by a Russian UFOlogist named Mr. Valery Uvarov titled The Pyramids. If this is the person in question, it adds no credibility to Hausdorf’s claim. The problem is exacerbated of course, by the apparent misspellings or transliterations of both names, alternately given as Jelena Matveev and Valery Ouvarov or Uvarov.[3] Making the search quite difficult.
As mentioned in part one, the rivers cited, in the Ural Mountains where the supposed artefacts were found, were also not found in any listings of waterways in the area. However, after adjusting for Hausdorf’s apparent difficulty with translating either from Russian to German, or from German to English, a spelling variation of one of the rivers returned a result for Koim.[4] Which is a tributary of Kosjun of the Komi Republic in Russia. The other rivers, Narada (or Naradan) and Balbanyu are still unaccounted for, though again, this may be due to incorrect spellings.
So, all in all, it seems clear that Hausdorf’s claim that “critics will find it very difficult to accuse [him] of pseudo-documentation or embarrassing behavior” is patently wrong. If he were trying to make this issue impossible to research, he could scarcely have done a better job. It could be said though, that it’s not entirely his fault.
In the end, we’re left with the same problems as were mentioned in part one; none of his story can be verified. It’s interesting to note that the Wikipedia entry for the Naradan Metal Fasteners, as mentioned above, lists Hausdorf’s book as well as two further websites – mystae.com and ufoligie.net, both of which are no longer operating – as the only sources for the entire entry. Of further interest though, is that the only website listed on that entry that is still in operation (listed as an external link, not a source) displays a verbatim abstract of Hausdorf’s book, precisely as it appears on Rense.com. From the dates of the web pages, it seems clear that Arthur Neuman did some copy/pasting from that earlier accounting. And those of you who are paying attention, will find the same broken URL identified in part one listed near the very top of the page.
Well now, we’ve come full circle. Yet we still don’t have any answers. Are the Narada or Naradan Spirals real? Are they 20,000 years old? Were they examined scientifically by a Russian Federal agency, or by some crackpot UFOlogist? Did Hausdorf make the whole thing up? It seems obvious that something was found, there are pictures after all. But a recurring anecdote keeps resurfacing with every dead end, and that is that there is or was some manufacturing or industrial factory located near to or upstream from the excavation area in question. The suggestion, though completely unqualified as far as I can tell, is that these so-called artefacts are nothing more than metal wastes from some manufacturing process, carelessly dumped into the wilderness of the Ural mountains.
I can no more tell you that these things are discarded tips from mechanical pens, than I can say they’re proof of ancient alien contact. What you can take away from all this though, is that there is no part of this story that is certain, not my view or Hausdorf’s, or any of the people who seem to have plagiarised his work. It seems we have a genuine mystery on our hands, but I still think it’s unlikely that aliens are involved.
[1] TsNIGRI: (Федеральное государственное унитарное предприятие ЦЕНТРАЛЬНЫЙ НАУЧНО-ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКИЙ ГЕОЛОГОРАЗВЕДОЧНЫЙ ИНСТИТУТ ЦВЕТНЫХ И БЛАГОРОДНЫХ МЕТАЛЛОВ) http://www.tsnigri.ru/index.htm
Ica, Peru is an exciting place, if you happen to be interested in ancient cultures and archaeology. Many old world curiosities have come out of this region of the world, like the Ica Stones for instance, and in fact, one of the most impressive collections of ancient textiles came from Ica. That may seem quite the opposite of exciting to you, but to those of us who study such things, the findings of Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello in the Paracas peninsula of the Pisco province of Ica, have been ground-breaking in terms of understanding at least one lost culture of Peru.
In 1925, Julio Tello, the father of indigenous Peruvian archaeology, felt he was close to exposing the lost Paracas culture, and after a few years in field, he finally cracked the case for the Paracas when in 1927 he uncovered a necropolis in the desert that contained 429 ancient mummy bundles. This find proved the case for the Paracas culture, and it opened up vast avenues for research, including a study of the various patterned textiles used in the burial bundles.
The Paracas people, for whom the entire Paracas peninsula is named, inhabited the coastal region from 800 BC to 100 AD, which makes them one of the oldest known Andean cultures. They had an aptitude for irrigation and water management, and their culture was rich in art and spiritual practices.
This is all well and good, it’s interesting but hardly headline worthy, at least not 87 years after the discovery, but there’s more to this situation than meets the eye.
The Paracas culture were one of the ancient Andean peoples who practised skeletal modification. They would bind the heads of their infants with rope, cloth and wooden boards in order to elongate their skulls. This was done for spiritual or religious reasons, and scholars believe it was an effort to make themselves look more like their deities.
The resulting skull shape does indeed seem otherworldly, and they’ve captured the attention of a great many Fortean researchers and Ancient Alien theorists. World famous Ancient Aliens proponent and author David Childress has long theorised that these elongated skulls are the product of contact between extraterrestrial beings at or before the height of the Paracas culture. He has alternately asserted that the Paracas skulls are either the result of attempts by humans to emulate these alien visitors, who may have been perceived as gods, or that they are the actual aliens.
An artist’s impression based on a Paracas skull. Photo credit: Marcia Moore / Ciamar Studio
Owner/curator of the local Paracas History Museum, Juan Navarro, has a collection of some 35 preserved examples of Paracas elongated skulls, as well as many other historical artefacts related to the Paracas culture. The skulls are said to have a cranial capacity of 24-40% larger than a regular human skull, which some claim is evidence that their brains were bigger and they were thus more intelligent than modern humans or humans of the same era. This is not necessarily true, but we’ll get to that.
In 2011, alternative history author Brien Foerster, and self-proclaimed expert on ancient elongated skulls, apparently convinced Navarro to allow several samples to be taken from the museum for analysis. Hair samples, including roots, a tooth, skull bone and skin samples were taken from five different skulls and were given to the late Lloyd Pye, of the Starchild Project fame, who then allegedly passed them on to an unnamed geneticist in Texas for DNA analysis (we can only hope it wasn’t DNA Diagnostics). [See update below]
Well, it seems Foerster would like us all to believe he has preliminary results of that analysis in hand, and through an appearance on JustEnergyRadio, he has released some rather spurious details that on first glance seem quite intriguing, but upon closer inspection, aren’t really all that impressive.
Several bloggers who specialize in the paranormal, have published posts telling of these preliminary conclusions, claiming that the DNA offered unexpected results. Headlines such as ‘Initial DNA analysis of Paracas elongated skulls released – with incredible result’ are giving people the wrong impression of the situation.
Foerster is claiming that mitochondrial DNA was found in at least one sample and that analysis of that DNA showed mutations that don’t conform to mutations known in humans or other animals.
“It had mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far. But a few fragments I was able to sequence from this sample indicate that if these mutations will hold we are dealing with a new human-like creature, very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans.”
What does that mean?
Not much really. At best it’s inconclusive. The DNA would be identified as human, but with anomalies; anomalies that could be caused by any number of contaminants or procedural flaws. It could be that this DNA really does provide unusual results, but the only thing that can be said of it at this point is that it requires further study. The sensational release of unconfirmed and unverifiable information such as this on a radio show, is not worthy of the attention this story is receiving.
Brien Foerster with an elongated skull
The problems don’t stop there, though.
Who is doing this analysis and where/when can we expect peer-reviewed publication of these results? Foerster isn’t telling, which sends up a huge red flag. In the quote above, Foerster refers to himself as doing the “sequencing”. Is this a slip of the tongue? He’s definitely not a geneticist. Secondary to this is the way in which he has “released” these findings, which is reminiscent of Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot debacle of 2012. This is not the way science is done, though some might argue that he is not a scientist, and not much argument would be found in response.
Some people are buying into what seems to amount to Foerster’s latest effort to sell books, without really thinking about the situation critically. The Paracas elongated skulls are strange, but the features people like Foerster and Childress hold out as evidence that they have an other-worldly origin doesn’t really hold up to close scrutiny.
There are fossilized skulls of a race of proto-humans called the Boskop Man. They were found near a small town in South Africa of the same name, and these skulls sparked a heated debate among anthropologists and archaeologists when they were presented in 1913. They were given as evidence for a species of human that had a significantly larger brain and therefore greater intelligence than contemporary species. The Boskop skulls offered a cranial capacity of 40-50% larger than any other known humanoid species, but it’s been demonstrated that this doesn’t necessarily equate to greater intelligence. More isn’t always more.
The Paracas skulls, aside from looking strange, are anatomically identical to regular skulls, and since we know how and why their culture undertook skeletal modification, it seems credulous to inject conspiracy where none exists to begin with.
Where ever you see this story posted in the next couple weeks, be sure to ask how the poster verified the information Foerster is offering.
UPDATE:
As mentioned above, at the time of writing Brien Foerster hadn’t publicly identified the Texas geneticist that was processing these DNA samples, but Sharon Hill over at Doubtful News, along with some other sleuths, have determined that it is indeed Melba Ketchum of DNA Diagnostics who is performing the analysis. This information places this story squarely into the ‘seriously sketchy’ category, if it wasn’t there already.
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE:
This story is turning into a circus over at Doubtful News, as Foerster has threatened legal action against Sharon Hill (who used this post as the basis for hers), and has now directly denied the involvement of Melba Ketchum…sort of. He says he is working with her on this project, but that she didn’t work on the samples in question.
On top of everything, it’s been suggested that he may have violated international import/export laws, or at the very least Peruvian export laws, which require credentialed permits to remove any kind of archaeological material from the country. It appears Foerster had no such permit, though this is as yet unconfirmed.
Er wordt gezegd dat de Russische stad Sotsji, waar op dit moment de Olympische Winterspelen worden gehouden, een galactisch knooppunt is voor bezoekers van andere planeten.
Als je in Sotsji naar de lucht kijkt, kun je met gemak buitenaardse ruimteschepen zien, aldus ufoloog Vladislav Karabanov.
Vladislav is er zeker van dat het gebied rond zijn woning en de top van het Bytkha-gebergte nabij Sotsji door buitenaardsen worden gebruikt als een poort tussen werelden. Hij heeft al honderden UFO's vastgelegd. Lokale stammen zagen het gebied honderden jaren als heilig.
De Oebychen meenden dat het Bytkha-gebergte een heilige plaats is. Ze hebben er een heiligdom gebouwd. Mensen voelen er een andere energie, een energie die je elders niet kunt voelen, aldus Vladislav.
Hij hoopt dat Sotsji op een dag niet alleen een olympische stad, maar ook een centrum voor UFO-toerisme wordt.
Une bombe scientifique vient de tomber au Pérou....
Michel Lhomme le
Avec les Mochicas, nous touchons l'une des cultures péruviennes les plus importantes. Paracas est une péninsule désertique située dans la Province de Pisco dans la région de l'Inca, sur la côte sud du Pérou. On s'y rend pour ses îlots, pour son havre écologique, ses pingouins et les célèbres lignes de Nazca. Mais c'est aussi ici que le grand archéologue péruvien, Julio Tello, avait fait une découverte étonnante en 1928 : un cimetière contenant des tombes remplies des restes de personnes avec des crânes allongés, une des découvertes les plus mystérieuses de la planète. Au total, Tello avait trouvé plus de 300 crânes allongés, censés remonter à environ 3 000 ans. Une analyse ADN vient d'être réalisée sur l'un des crânes retrouvés par Julio Tello. Brien Foerster, expert chargé de cette analyse a publié ses informations préliminaires concernant ces crânes énigmatiques.
Les crânes de Paracas seraient ainsi différents des crânes allongés recensés ailleurs en Amérique latine. Le volume crânien serait jusqu'à 25 % plus grand et plus lourd que les crânes humains classiques, ce qui signifie qu'ils ne pourraient pas avoir été intentionnellement déformés par le biais de liaison/aplatissement de la tête comme on le pratique dans certaines tribus amazoniennes. Ils contiendraient également une seule plaque pariétale, plutôt que deux. Le fait que les caractéristiques de ces crânes ne soient pas le résultat de la déformation crânienne signifie que la cause de l'allongement reste obscure.
M. Juan Navarro, propriétaire et directeur du musée local d'histoire de Paracas, qui abrite une collection de 35 des crânes de Paracas, avait autorisé l'année dernière le prélèvement d'échantillons de cinq de ces crânes. Les échantillons étaient constitués de cheveux, y compris des racines, une dent, des os de crâne et de la peau, et ce processus a été soigneusement enregistré de manière scientifique par des photos et des vidéos. Des échantillons de trois crânes ont ensuite été envoyés à l'analyse, mais le généticien n'avait pas eu connaissance de ce qu'il devait rechercher, pour ne pas favoriser les idées préconçues.
Les résultats de l'analyse de l'ADN de l'un des crânes sont maintenant de retour, et Brien Foerster, auteur de plus de dix ouvrages et expert sur les crânes allongés d'Amérique du Sud, vient de livrer à la communauté scientifique un véritable scoop. La conclusion des analyses effectuées est sans appel : l'ADN mitochondrial de ces crânes présente des mutations inconnues sur n'importe quel homme, primate ou animaux recensés à ce jour. Quelques fragments, séquencés de cet échantillon indiquent que si ces mutations se confirment, nous avons à faire à une nouvelle créature humanoïde, très éloignée de l'Homo sapiens, des Néandertaliens et des hominidés de Denisova.
Les implications d'une telle découverte sont évidemment énormes, le généticien ajoutant « Je ne suis pas sûr qu'il rentre même dans l'arbre évolutionnaire connu ». Il a ajouté que si les individus de Paracas étaient si biologiquement différents, ils n'auraient pas pu se croiser avec les humains. Le résultat de cette analyse ne constitue qu'une première phase d'autres expérimentations qui doivent avoir lieu bientôt et se poursuivre.
A strange phenomena is happening in some Russian forests. People are finding strange, deep holes.
They appear in the dense forest, in the places you can’t get on the car or truck to bring any device to drill the ground. There is no soil nearby that should be taken from such deep hole.
When people are brave enough to venture into the holes, they find that they end abruptly in the darkness. There are no any reasonable ideas on how these holes appear and what they are being used for. No one knows who or what is digging these holes or why.
Publisher's Note: Nick Redfern wrote an excellent piece on government agents and the secrets they hide away such as the Ark of the Convenant from the exciting movie 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' The article was published originally on the Mysterious Universe website and then picked up by the Conspiracy Journal newsletter. Enjoy Dirk
In the 1981 blockbuster movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, which starred Harrison Ford as archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones, the Nazi hordes of Adolf Hitler were in hot pursuit of the legendary Ark of the Covenant, a mysterious chest said to have housed the Ten Commandments as allegedly provided to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.
Given that the Ark was supposed to possess powers both awesome and devastating, Hitler’s intention was to harness those same powers, use them against anyone and everyone who might stand in his way, and then take control of the entire world. Fortunately, things did not go Hitler’s way.
After a wild adventure that took him from Peru to the United States and from Egypt to an island in the Aegean Sea, Indiana Jones saved the day, wrestled the Ark out of the clutches of Hitler’s minions, got the girl and all was good. But, it’s the final moments of the movie that are the most memorable.
As Raiders of the Lost Ark told it, after the Nazis were defeated, the Ark of the Covenant was transferred to the United States, where U.S. military intelligence personnel assured a pleased and satisfied Jones that the priceless artifact would be studied carefully by the finest minds and scholars available. That assurance, however, was nothing less than a brazen lie. Instead, something very different happened.
Unbeknownst to Jones, the Ark was not studied. The U.S. Government, perhaps fearful of unleashing the incredible forces the Ark possessed, took what it considered to be the wisest and safest course of action: The Ark was placed into a wooden crate, which was then carefully and firmly sealed, and taken to a huge, secure warehouse away from any and all prying eyes and inquiring minds. The government was intent on keeping the genie firmly in the bottle, so to speak, never again to be released.
Raiders of the Lost Ark was, and more than thirty years after its release still is, a work of highly-entertaining, on-screen fiction. The deep and secret involvement of the U.S. Government in the study of ancient artifacts, religious relics, and numerous archaeological wonders, however, is most assuredly not fiction. As far back as 1947, the Pentagon has dug very deeply, and undercover of overwhelming secrecy, into such controversial areas.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the origin and final resting place of Noah’s Ark, the incredible question of whether or not the Pyramids of Egypt may have been built via the use of levitation, the reasons for the construction of England’s famous Stonehenge, rumors that ancient nuclear warfare was fought by an advanced civilization in India in the very distant past, a highly thought provoking Mars-Egypt connection, and even the controversy concerning the Mayan prophecies and 2012 are all issues that have attracted the lengthy, and highly secret, attention of the Pentagon’s finest minds for nothing less than decades.
Not surprisingly, this has collectively led to an absolute plethora of very significant questions at an official, classified level, including: Are some of our oldest and most cherished religions actually based upon visitations not from gods, but aliens in the distant past? Was Noah’s Ark not just a huge vessel of the waters designed to survive a mighty flood, but actually a highly advanced spacecraft from another world?
And the questions go on and on: Did the pharaohs of Egypt possess secret, arcane knowledge of how to move massive, multi-ton stones using what, today, we might call anti-gravity? Is there a connection between the Pyramids of Egypt and the very similar structures that have been photographed on the surface of the planet Mars?
From the mysterious depths of ancient Egypt to the standing-stones of old England, from the now long gone cultures of the Maya and the Inca to the heart of India, and from Mars to the Middle East, the Pentagon has spent decades carefully and clandestinely studying the very foundations of our civilization as it exists today, and has come to a shocking, paradigm-changing conclusion: our history is not at all what it appears to be. It’s actually much stranger. Perhaps, “out of this world” would be far a better, and much more appropriate, term to use.
Indeed, the CIA has a file (portions of which remain classified) on Noah’s Ark titled “The Ararat Anomaly.” In 1947, a highly regarded CIA employee, Miles Copeland, became embroiled in a conspiracy-tinged affair involving the Dead Sea Scrolls. Official files were opened on “ancient astronaut” researchers/authors Morris Jessup and Bruce Cathie. None other than Edgar Cayce became a target of what might be termed “official interest.” The reason: his theories on Atlantis, no less. And the list – and the attendant ancient mysteries – goes on and on.
Millennia-old visitations from alleged extraterrestrials, highly advanced and devastating technologies in the hands of early civilizations, mysterious artifacts displaying incredible powers, and aliens perceived as gods are just a few of the controversial issues that have, for years, kept the finest minds in official secretly, and worriedly, focused on times, people and eras long gone.
I had taken my dog outside to have a cigar and about halfway through my cigar, I started to notice flickers and flashes of light in both crescent shapes and orbs. There was cloud cover but no thunderstorms. The light seemed to be both in the clouds at times, and also under the clouds. This did not even loosely resemble lightning. As I watched this very lengthy light show, I was aware of a passing car. My dog then began to get unnerved and looked in the same direction as I was looking. As the car came closer down the road, across the street I noticed a pair of eyes as if an animal’s eyes were reflecting in the light, except they were a deep purple/indigo. As the car passed, I watched the spot where I had observed the eyes, and was shocked to see a whitish humanoid shape stand up and quickly walk into the neighbouring yard across the street. My heart began to race and I became quite unnerved. I called my wife outside and told her what I’d seen and asked her to look at the lights in the sky as well. She confirmed that something was flickering/flashing in multiple spots. We both got very nervous and came inside the house. As I write this, my heart is still pounding in my chest. All through this episode the dog also was alert and cautiously raising and lowering her head, as she watched something more that we couldn’t see across the street. Also, I heard a jet pretty low with a loud roaring sound afterwards.
Location: Dakelia Cyprus Date: September 1968 Time: 03:00 a.m.
At a British Army barracks, a sergeant was suddenly alerted by his fierce Turkish wolfhound of something strange that was going to happen, the dog, seemed terrified and would not respond to none of his normal commands. The sergeant then became aware of a high-pitched whine. He opened the door to see what it was and was horrified to see a weird figure floating up the stairs. The figure was humanoid and very tall; it wore a blue tight fitting suit. Its face glowed orange, it had large round eyes, and it had red hair that was standing up in all directions. The being swiveled its head at an impossible angle and looked at the now terrified witness. The witness locked the door and sat on his bed trembling. The loud whine now increased as the dog became even more terrified. The witness then armed himself but eventually the whining sound ceased and the humanoid apparently left. Another soldier found him in shock later. The dog was useless as a guard dog after the incident.
HC addition # 570 Source: Jenny Randles, UFO Reality Type: E
Location: Felixstowe, Suffolk, England Date: September 20 1965 Time: 22:30
Geoffrey Maskey had stopped his car in Walton Avenue, with him were two of his friends, Michael Johnson and Mavis Fordyce, they young people chattered when, suddenly, Michael opened the door and left the vehicle without explanation and was lost in the night. His friends, although disconcerted, thought that perhaps he had responded to a natural urge, so they did not worry. A few minutes after the departure of their friend, they young man and the girl who remained in the car heard a humming and high-pitched sound, and saw an orange object, very luminous, of oval shape, approximately 2 meters long, which hovered above the car. All the surrounding landscape was bathed of an orange gleam. Then, very quickly, the object moved and disappeared behind the trees. At the end of a few minutes, recovering from their surprise, the two young people realized that Michael was still missing. Anxious, they started to call him, without success. Alarmed, Geoffrey started the car and drove in reverse gear before calling him again. At the end of a few moments of distress, Michael finally reappeared, but he looked shocked, staggering and holding his head. His friends first believed he was joking, but when the young man suddenly collapsed, they rushed to help him. Michael had lost consciousness and they did not manage to make arouse him, so they took him to the vehicle and drove him as fast as possible to the hospital. There, Michael finally came back to his senses, but did not recognize his friends. The doctors diagnosed a serious state of shock, and looked after his wounds at the back of the neck—burn marks—and a contusion above the right ear. By safety, he was moved to the hospital of Ipswich, better equipped, from where he could go away the next day afternoon having recovered his senses. He then told his friends that when he had abruptly left the car without a word, he was obeying an unknown and pressing “force”. He had walked a distance he could not estimate, and was suddenly face to face with a humanoid being with large slanted and luminous eyes, surrounded by orange flames. He has no other memories of what occurred then, until he woke up at the hospital. In Later years remember additional details in which he saw a glowing silver/orange object descending next to where he was standing about twelve feet above him. Standing on the side of this craft were two humanoid figures wearing steel colored suits, with arms outstretched at chest height, showing long pointed fingers. He saw them go back into the craft and the next thing he remembers was waking up in the hospital.
Date: August 1985-Time: 7:00pm-Location: Mayfair-Witnesses: family
A gentleman called to relate an experience he and his family had back in 1985. They had just returned home from having been out. They all got out of the truck when suddenly a ‘mini-submarine’ came from nowhere, hovering approximately the height of a grain elevator. The object was approximately 100 feet long and was greyish black in colour. The gentleman’s wife, son and daughters froze in their places as they watched the craft. The gentleman grabbed his rifle. Using the rifle scope he observed eight or nine windows with beings moving around inside the object. The object then took off to the hill and then turned back around, coming straight towards him. A bright light was noticeable on the front of the object. It made no sound. The craft hovered right in front of him. Beings inside the window were observing him very intently. The gentleman said he felt a vibration throughout his whole body, like he was pulsating. The beings had big dark eyes, he remembers. Then as quick as you can count one, two, three, the object took off so fast, that he could hear it moving through the air. Meanwhile, his family were still looking in the original direction of where the object had first been seen. Then they seem to come around, as if they had been in a trance. They were blank. They went into the house as if nothing had ever happened. They had no recollection of the object. However, four years later the son asked about the red light. Another family elsewhere near the area had also seen the same strange light that evening.
In 1938, the Third Reich claimed New Swabia in Antarctica. The vessel called “Schwabenland” just before the outbreak of WWII,, headed into western Antarctica. This was done under the auspices of “securing Germany's whaling industry.” This seemed feasible, given the fact that much could be manufactured from whales including nitroglycerin, margarine, and mechanical lubricants.
It was also apparently their goal to build a base there for operations, but the war broke out and much of these hopes were put on the backburner, but legends persist.The most persistent of those legends is that the Nazis reverse engineered a UFO that crashed in Germany. This legend says that the Germans took a lot of their important people, scientists and even concentration camp occupants to Antarctica to begin a secret base called “New Berlin.” This legend gets even more boastful that there are 2 million citizens of this secret base there today.
Because of the stray UFO reports in the Antarctica area, even more excitement exists that such a thing is possible. (I'm not quite sure why popular culture likes the idea of the Nazis still being around unless it's just a desire to beat their asses twice.) In 1976, the Japanese reported 19 round objects that dove into the water near Antarctica on their radar screens, reportedly.
Supposedly adding credence to this concept was an interview done with a spy, Angel Alcazar de Velasco at his home near Madrid in 1998 before he passed on. He admitted that, not only did the Nazis have UFO technology, but that today's UFOs were attributed not to outer space, but to the Nazi ones from Antarctica.
In this interesting article, it discusses the 2012 legend that when Lake Vostok (large freshwater lake found under Antarctica) the Russians who discovered it might have also seen a huge golden swastica there, feeding the legend the Nazis went underground.
“It is thought that towards the end of the Second World War, the Nazis moved to the South Pole and started constructing a base at Lake Vostok. In 1943, Grand Admiral Karl Dontiz was quoted saying “Germany's submarine fleet is proud that it created an unassailable fortress for the Fuehrer on the other end of the world,” in Antarctica.According to German naval archives, months after Germany surrendered to the Allies in April, 1945, the German submarine U-530 arrived at the South Pole from the Port of Kiel. Crewmembers constructed an ice cave and supposedly stored several boxes of relics from the Third Reich, including Hitler’s secret files.
It is also rumored that later the submarine U-977 delivered the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to Antarctica for DNA cloning purposes.The subs then entered the Argentinean port of Mar-del-Plata and surrendered to authorities.”
With an ongoing popular UFO conspiracy legend that Asia and America have fought UFOs over Antarctica repeatedly, it adds fuel to the fire. Isn't the easiest conspiracy to perpetuate the one that is hardest to disprove? With few folks poking around Antarctica to see what's up and almost no eye witnesses out there staring at the skies, this belief just grows with time.
The legends persist and with the remoteness and unknown territory of Antarctica, it seems feasible that something could be hidden there and there is no creepier threat than Nazis out of time and place defying the odds. I expect we will see lots of future “insider witness” reports upcoming and a regular feed on this subject because of the high weird factor and exotic and magical attributes.
Er is altijd veel te doen geweest rond de maanlandingen. Zijn we er echt geweest? Hebben astronauten maansteen mee teruggenomen naar de aarde?
Op onze vraag of mensen echt op de maan zijn geweest hebben inmiddels 18.414 mensen antwoord gegeven. Meer dan een derde van de stemmers denkt dat Neil Armstrong de eerste was die in 1969 voet op de maan zette.
Volgens een kwart van de respondenten zijn de maanlandingen een hoax. Een vijfde denkt dat de mens wel echt op de maan is geland, maar niet in 1969. De rest twijfelt.
Versteend stukje hout
Mensen houden er heel wat verschillende denkbeelden op na. Uit recent onderzoek is bijvoorbeeld gebleken dat een kwart van alle Amerikanen niet weet dat de aarde om de zon draait.
Er worden nog altijd veel vragen gesteld bij de beelden die zijn gemaakt tijdens de maanlandingen. Ook voorwerpen die afkomstig zouden zijn van de maan, blijken geregeld een aardse herkomst te hebben.
In 2009 werd bijvoorbeeld ontdekt dat de maansteen die de Nederlandse oud-premier Willem Drees in 1969 van de Amerikaanse ambassade had gekregen, nep was. Het ging om een versteend stukje hout. Onderzoekers begonnen argwaan te krijgen toen ze de steen op een expositie in het Rijksmuseum zagen.
Een select groepje wetenschappers was al een jaar op de hoogte van de vervalsing. Drees kreeg te horen dat de steen afkomstig was van de 21 kilogram gesteente die door de eerste astronauten op de maan was verzameld. Meer dan 100 bevriende naties kregen in 1969 en de jaren zeventig een paar gram maansteen.
Zoekgeraakt
Onderzoekers kregen toestemming om een schilfer van de maanklomp te beitelen. Het fragment werd onder een microscoop en een spectroscoop gelegd, toen de houtcellen zichtbaar werden.
Al snel werd de vraag gesteld waarom de Amerikaanse regering Nederland had afgescheept met een nepsteen. Na de ontdekking werd de tentoonstelling in het Rijksmuseum met een maand verlengd.
Enkele weken na de ontdekking bleek dat een groot deel van de verzamelde brokjes steen die door de regering van de toenmalige president Richard Nixon aan bevriende landen werden uitgedeeld, was zoekgeraakt. De NASA noch het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken had bijgehouden aan wie de stenen waren geschonken. Het grootste deel van het maansteen en –gruis wordt achter slot en grendel gehouden.
.PROJECT CAMELOT: KERRY LIVE UPDATE AT THE UFOCONGRESS 2014 (EDITED) .
Project Camelot· Published on 16 Feb 2014
Edited briefly to remove footage containing members of the public…due to permissions restrictions. via YouTube Capture… CLICK HERE TO DONATE: http://projectcamelotportal.com/donate This is filmed using my iphone live on the scene at the UFO Congress in Phoenix AZ. If you wish to see more updates please email me: kerry@projectcamelot.tv Kerry Cassidy
Worldwide research, interviewing key witnesses and discussing the subject with astronauts, military and intelligence specialists, pilots, politicians and scientists, has established Timothy Good as a leading authority on UFOs and the alien presence.
Timothy Good has lectured at universities, schools, and at many organizations. In January 1989, following the dissolution of the Soviet empire, he became the first UFO researcher from the west to be interviewed on Russian television. He was invited for discussions at the Pentagon in 1998, and at the headquarters of the French Air Force in 2002. He has also acted as consultant for several U.S. Congress investigations.
He returns to discuss his latest book, Earth: An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History. We’ll discuss the book that tells the story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy. In the second hour, we’ll discuss the story of a former member of MI6 who revealed her conversation with Neil Armstrong at a NASA conference, when he confirmed that there were “other” spacecraft on the Moon when Apollo 11 landed in 1969. Armstrong also confirmed that the CIA was behind the cover-up. Timothy also talks about the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev who revealed that “the president of Russia is given a special top secret folder [that] in its entirety contains information about aliens who have visited our planet. Along with this, the president is given a report of the Special Service that exercises control over aliens in our country. I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.” http://www.timothygood.co.uk
TIMOTHY GOOD on VERITAS RADIO – EARTH – AN ALIEN ENTERPRISE NOV. 7 2013
S y n o p s i s
Humanity is on the verge of enormous change.More than a paradigm shift, human consciousness is engaged in a process of integration with a higher mind. The process is occurring through encounters with non-ordinary reality that are known as high strangeness events.
What exactly are these events? They are incidents that defy the laws that govern our physics and the expectation of our experience. They include interactions with UFO, orbs of light, strange sounds, human and mysteriously made crop circles, and altered states of awareness and/or perception. They include messages from deceased loved ones, the sense of interaction with an unknown presence, answered prayer, spontaneous healing and synchronicities that bring meaning to seemingly random occurrences.
Such events represent an interface with the unknown, an interaction with parts of reality we do not yet understand. They are not paranormal or supernatural, although both words are used to describe them. Rather, they are normal and natural to a worldview that we are presently being introduced to and will one day inhabit. These interactions are creating a shift in paradigm resulting in a new view of reality. – See more at: http://www.colinandrews.net/#sthash.mp3k8qIX.dpuf
Timothy Good is back to discuss a shocking new exposé of the twentieth century’s extraterrestrial visitations (and cover-ups).
We discuss the fascinating story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy.
For the first time, a former member of MI6 reveals her conversation with Neil Armstrong at a NASA conference, when he confirmed that there were “other” spacecraft on the Moon when Apollo 11 landed in 1969. Armstrong also confirmed that the CIA was behind the cover-up.
In a further admission in December 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev revealed that “the president of Russia is given a special top secret folder [that] in its entirety contains information about aliens who have visited our planet. Along with this, the president is given a report of the Special Service that exercises control over aliens in our country. I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.”
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Worldwide research, interviewing key witnesses and discussing the subject with astronauts, military and intelligence specialists, pilots, politicians and scientists, has established Timothy Good as a leading authority on UFOs and the alien presence – the most highly classified subject on Earth.
He became interested in the subject in 1955, when his passion for aviation and space led him to read a book by Major Donald Keyhoe describing UFO sightings by qualified observers such as military and civilian pilots. In 1961, after reading a book by Captain Edward Ruppelt, a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, he began to conduct his own research. Since then, he has amassed a wealth of evidence, including several thousand declassified intelligence documents.
Timothy Good has lectured at universities, schools, and at many organizations, including the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Naval Air Reserve Branch, the House of Lords All-Party UFO Study Group, and the Oxford and Cambridge Union societies. In January 1989, following the dissolution of the Soviet empire, he became the first UFO researcher from the West to be interviewed on Russian television. He was invited for discussions at the Pentagon in 1998, and at the headquarters of the French Air Force in 2002. He has also acted as consultant for several U.S. Congress investigations. He is known to millions through his numerous television appearances and has co-produced several documentaries on the subject.
Timothy Good’s first book, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (1987) became an instant bestseller, and is regarded widely as the definitive work on the subject, together with the fully revised and updated book replacing it, Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat (1996), which remained for five weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret (1991) spent thirteen weeks on the same bestseller list. Alien Base: Earth’s Encounters with Extraterrestrials (1998) went to No.4 on the Guardian bestseller list. His book, Unearthly Disclosure: Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2000) was serialized in the Daily Mail. He has also edited a number of books on the subject, including the bestselling Alien Update (1993). Four of these books have a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of the Defence Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (2006/2007) is now published in paperback in the U.K., U.S and Canada. Good’s latest work – EARTH: An Alien Enterprise – is due for publication by Pegasus Books (New York) in November 2013.
Born in London, Timothy Good completed his formal education at The King’s School, Canterbury. As a violinist he gained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he won prizes for solo, chamber and orchestral playing. His professional career began in 1963 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He played for fourteen years with the London Symphony Orchestra, and has freelanced with the English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mantovani Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra, among others. Composers he has played for include Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky and William Walton. He has also freelanced as a session player for television dramas, commercials, feature films, and recordings with pop musicians. Among those he has recorded for are Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, George Harrison, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, and U2.
A California witness at an Orange County beach reported watching what appeared to be a military jet chasing a sphere-shaped UFO about midnight on February 15, 2014, according to testimony in Case 54101 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witnesses in California and Missouri reported similar incidents occurred on February 11, 2014, where the military was apparently chasing a UFO. See Military chasing UFOs? Witnesses in two states file reports. The description of the California object in the earlier case was also described as orb-like and occurred just four days earlier in nearby Anaheim.
This latest case witness was sitting in a vehicle at the beach when the sound of a jet was heard.
“Heard a loud jet noise approaching,” the witness stated. “I got out of the car to see.”
The witness then noticed a military jet in the near distance.
“A loud military jet was going south to north about 500 feet high and one-half mile out from coast.”
But then the witness noticed something in front of the jet.
"Saw a white orb or sphere in front of the jet. It (the jet) seemed to be chasing the light. Clear night, no fog, as I thought the light might be a headlight from the jet? Pretty sure the jet was chasing the light though."
No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on February 16, 2014. Orange County, CA, has a population of 3,010,232. The county is famous for its tourism, including Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, and has several beaches along its more than 40 miles of coastline.
California has a UFO Alert Rating of 3 with a high number of recent reports nationally. California had 102 reports during January 2014 - the highest reporting state in the nation.
You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.
The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or man-made. If California MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
FEBURARY 4, 2014 ….. FLIGHT BETWEEN TENNESSEE AND CALIFORNIA
I was on a commercial airline flight from Tennessee to Southern California on February 4, 2014. I was looking out of the port-side windows, observing the blanket of cloud cover. I then saw a black object moving in roughly the opposite direction of the aircraft I was in. The object was flying a bit higher, but within a few hundred feet of the altitude of my aircraft. We had reached cruising altitude, which for a domestic flight may have been approximately 20,000 feet. I estimate the object’s distance as approximately 1,000-2,000 yards away from the aircraft I was in. The objects shape was rounded; not a sphere, but with width and height that were approximately the same length. The object had rounded details that protruded both from the sides and from top to bottom. The object was very dark black in color. At first glance I thought the object was another plane moving the opposite direction. As I continued observing the object I saw that it was moving at a pace that was unusual. It was at that time I also mentally noted the objects black color and unconventional shape. It was moving in a very straight line at a fast pace, one that did not seem at all consistent with a commercial or known military aircraft. The pace of the object surprised me and made me observe it more closely. At this time, after observing the object for less than 10 seconds, I looked down at my phone briefly, for only a second or two. I then looked immediately back to where the object had been and it was nowhere to be seen. When I had looked down, the object was not about to pass behind my place and out of sight. I was startled to see that the object was no longer in the sky, and leaned forward to look out of the window farther towards the front of the airplane, where I could look farther behind us. The object was gone. NOTE: The above real photo is from a KLM flight to Amsterdam on March 19, 2012.
Greensburg Pa Ufologist John Ventre has landed the lead role in the History Channels new series “Hangar 1”. The show will air Fridays at 10 PM after “Ancient Aliens”. Ventre said, “I got the Giorgio role only without the hair for obvious reasons”. Ventre is referring to Giorgio Tsoukalos with the Einstein hair from Ancient Aliens. Ventre is the Pennsylvania Director for the Mutual UFO Network, author of five books and the retired state Security and Public Affairs Director for UPS.
In the area of cinema, 60 years ago was the release of the movie “War of the Worlds”. This is actually a significant movie since the Brookings Institute and our Government based its policy regarding UFOs on the panic that followed the original Orson Wells Panic Broadcast on radio in 1938. The policies regarding the implications of extraterrestrial contact are that we cannot tell the public the truth regarding ETs out of fear of riots and a breakdown of the religious and scientific communities. My guess is that it has more to do with the control of technology.
Twenty years ago, we had another cinematic anniversary with the pilot of the TV show, the “X-Files”. This show featured two FBI agents investigating bizarre events with an underlying conspiracy as one agent was a believer and the other a semi skeptic. The X-Files also influenced a generation of baby boomers as did “Star Trek” almost 30 years prior to the “X-Files”. In the UFO genre, it appears that a classic show comes around every 20-30 years. We now have the MUFON based TV series on History channel’s H2 station entitled “Hangar 1” premiering on February 28 2014.
John Ventre on left and Jeremy Ray on right
The cast includes Jan Harzan, John Ventre and Jeremy Ray of MUFON and Jason McClellan of Open Minds radio along with other cameo cast members including Richard Dolan, Grant Cameron, Leslie Kean and Michael Schratt.
The premise of each show is to piece together three MUFON cases that tie in to historic UFO events and try to show what the alien agenda may be. Actual footage, recreations and narratives will be used along with expert testimony. The Hangar 1 title comes from the actual Hangar 1 where the vast archive of 70,000 MUFON cases and evidence are stored including the Leonard Stringfield files. The show clearly pits MUFON against the U.S. government cover-up of UFOs.
Ventre drives a black SUV with a MUFON 1 license plate. If you see it in your neighborhood, you’ll know the MUFON hunters are in your area. Most summers are spent vacationing and tending to the lawn or backyard barbeques. Our summer was spent researching the archives and filming the first eight episodes in Los Angeles. Stay tuned because the “truth is out there” or shall I say, it’s actually in “Hangar 1”. Ventre can be reached at www.johnventre.com .
Bold Prediction: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040
Bold Prediction: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040
The first detection of intelligent extraterrestrial life will likely come within the next quarter-century, a prominent alien hunter predicts.
By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
“I think we’ll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments,” Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASAInnovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
“Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems” 24 years from now, Shostak said. “A million might be the right number to find something.”
Many potentially habitable worlds
Shostak’s optimism is based partly on observations by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which has shown that the Milky Way galaxy likely teems with worlds capable of supporting life as we know it.
“The bottom line is, like one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up,” Shostak said. “That’s a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there’s on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds.”
Shostak and his colleagues think at least some of these worlds host intelligent aliens — beings that have developed the capability to send electromagnetic signals out into the cosmos, as human civilization does every second of every day. So they’re pointing big radio dishes toward the heavens, hoping to detect something produced by living beings.
This search started in 1960, when pioneering astronomer Frank Drake scanned two sun-like stars with an 85-foot-wide (26 meters) West Virginia antenna. It has ramped up considerably over the past half-century, as astronomers have taken advantage of significant advances in electronics and digital technology.
However, getting enough funding to keep scanning the skies is a constant problem. For example, the Allen Telescope Array in northern California — which the seti Institute uses — was designed to consist of 350 radio dishes, but just 42 have been built to date. And the array had to go into hibernation in April 2011 due to budget shortfalls. (It came back online in December of that year after more funding was found.)
The funding situation colors any discussion of seti activities and timelines, Shostak said.
The 24-year estimate, for example, “depends on continued seti funding, which is in dire straits right now,” he told Space.com after his talk at the NIAC symposium.
A three-way race to find life in space
The search for alien life does not focus solely on technological societies, of course. Many other scientists are keying in on simple life forms, which must be distributed much more commonly throughout the universe.
The first evidence of microbial life on Earth, for instance, dates from 3.8 billion years ago — just 700 million years after our planet formed. But it took another 1.7 billion years for multicellular life to evolve. Humans didn’t emerge until 200,000 years ago, and we’ve become a truly technological species in just the last century or so.
Shostak thus views the alien life hunt as a three-way race. The contenders are researchers looking for advanced, intelligent civilizations; scientists scouring solar-system bodies such as Mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa for simple organisms; and researchersfocusing on finding signs of microbial life on nearby exoplanets using future instruments such as NASA’s $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2018.
The race may come down to the wire, as Shostak thinks all three approaches could bear fruit in the next few decades.
“I think any of these horses has a pretty good chance of succeeding — just my opinion — a pretty good chance of succeeding in the next 20 years, say,” he said during the NIAC talk.
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Huge triangle shaped UFO recorded over Moon on 14th February 2014
Huge triangle – shaped UFO recorded over Moon on 14th February 2014
UFO sightings – New amazing video footage of a strange huge triangle – shaped UFO recorded over over Moon on 14th February 2014.
Witness said: It is a pleasure to share my latest sighting of what appears to be a Triangular UFO hovering/descending towards the Lunar surface. This footage was taken using a 150mm/1400mm reflector telescope, from the vantage point of my backyard in Taylors Hill, Victoria, Australia.
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