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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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...
05-10-2014
Was this UFO just another hallucination?
Was this UFO just another hallucination?
In another post I pointed out that the easiest way to systematically explain away sightings of weird phenomena consists of merely asserting that the witnesses have experienced long-lived and complex hallucinations.
Besides fantasy-prone personality, another explanation consists of the hypothesis that people witnessing UFOs are actually experiencing hallucinations spawned by magnetic fields which appear very real to them.
Interestingly, this speculative approach isn't only applied to putative extraterrestrial apparitions but also to poorly understood phenomena, thereby denying their physical reality.
"Ball lightnings have killed humans, how could this have come about through an electromagnetic hallucination?" psychologist and meteorologist Alexender Keil opines in APA-dialog.
No proofs
"Roughly half of all ball lightnings could be explained through luminous phenomena called Phosphene" think physicists Alexender Kendl and Josef Peer. Magnetic fields of thunderstorm lightings which discharge themselves several times should act precisely like the artificial magnetic fields of transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS) which stimulate nerves in the brain and trigger electromagnetic hallucinations This hypothesis, which, according to Keul, was already formulated by Englishman Mark Stenhoff in 1999, sounds elegant and illuminating but has never been verified experimentally, Keul and neuroscientist Paul Sauseng criticize. Sauseng also points out that delusional perceptions during artificial brain stimulations last at most one second whereas ball lightnings exist on average for 5 seconds. Moreover, hallucinations through artificial stimulations would only occur if there were strong magnetic field differences of several centimeters in the brain, which is incredibly unlikely to happen during close lightning impacts. "Since the brain surface of every human has different folds, two persons undergoing simultaneously ball lightning hallucinations should see completely different things, which isn't by any means what is reported." says neuroscientist Sauseng.
Many unverified theories
Keul emphasizes that ball lightnings can also cause damages or get photographed, what both physicists leave wholly unconsidered in their neurological explanation. And in the clinical literature about lightning and electricity accidents one can find absolutely nothing about the alleged hallucinations. "If pilots during thunderstorms were really at risk of undergoing hallucinations, there would not only be flight prohibitions during the presence of vulcanic ashes. And routine investigations of brains under the strong fields of magnetic resonant tomography (MRT) would be an extremely wild undertaking, indeed." According to ball-lightning researcher Keul, enough theories about the phenomenon have been developed but there are too few empirical tests and inter-disciplinary cooperations.
******************************************************************************************* The delusion hypothesis appears now to lie on very shaky grounds.
It is noteworthy that this "theory" strongly resembles the entirely unproven hypothesis according to which sightings of unidentified triangular flying objects stem from hallucinations induced by plasma.
(Not long ago, the American B2-bomber would have been simply written off as the delusion of an agitated brain).
The ethics of skepticism
In 1877, Skeptical British philosopher William K. Clifford wrote an essay entitled "the ethics of belief" in which he argues that "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
While I take such crass generalizations with a grain of salt, I agree, of course, that the acceptance of unsupported opinions can trigger all sort of unpleasant consequences. But the flip side of the coin is that the pseudo-skeptical rejection of still unexplained phenomena for which we have normal evidence can be equally devastating for our collective knowledge and our global progress.
Besides ball lightnings one can also mention continental drift as well as meteorites whose existence have been denied during a long period of time, despite trustworthy testimonies or clues, because one had no explanation for them.
Another moral problem is that the conviction of debunkers that something doesn't exist does not rarely lead them to accuse decent persons of having set upextraordinary hoaxes (see here for a good example).
Therefore it is fair enough to demand Skeptics to provide us with compelling grounds as to why a given phenomenon should be seen as extremely improbable a-priori. As I argued, the burden of proof isn't unidirectional.
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“Stenen van Ica bewijzen dat mens op dinosaurussen reed”
Een groep creationisten uit de Amerikaanse staat Idaho is bezig geld in te zamelen voor een nieuw museum, dat bezoekers uitdaagt ‘kritisch na te denken over de geschiedenis van de aarde’. In de aankomsthal zal een replica van de Ark van Noach te zien zijn, aldus geoloog Doug Bennett.
Bezoekers kunnen voor zichzelf bepalen welke theorie het meest aannemelijk is en het beste aansluit op het bewijs dat we in de wereld om ons heen zien. “Geloof niet alles wat je te horen krijgt, denk voor jezelf. Denk kritisch na en vraag jezelf af of het logisch klinkt,” zegt Bennett in een promotiefilmpje.
“Ons doel is het presenteren van echte wetenschap die verborgen is gehouden voor het publiek,” zei paleontoloog Stan Lutz. “We hebben voorwerpen die zelfs de meest fervente aanhangers van de evolutietheorie niet kunnen verklaren.” Lutz doelt met name op de zogeheten stenen van Ica, die volgens hem bewijzen dat mensen en dinosauriërs hebben samengeleefd.
Lutz claimt dat de stenen minder dan 6000 jaar oud zijn, wat erop zou wijzen dat mensen en dinosauriërs naast elkaar leefden. “Als ze niet wisten hoe dinosaurussen eruitzagen, hoe konden ze deze dieren dan zo gedetailleerd in de stenen graveren?” vraagt hij zich af.
Dr. Javier Cabrera beweerde in 1974 dat de stenen afkomstig waren van een verloren beschaving. Volgens hem waren ze miljoenen jaren oud. Op de stenen stonden onder andere afbeeldingen van telescopen, hartoperaties en dinosaurussen.
De Franse auteur Robert Charroux schreef dat de stenen ooit onderdeel waren geweest van de bibliotheek van Atlantis. Eind jaren negentig maakte een televisieploeg beelden van een indiaan die een Ica-steen maakte. Dezelfde indiaan zei dat hij een groot deel van de verzameling van Cabrera had gemaakt. Cabrera heeft altijd volgehouden dat zijn collectie echt was.
Lutz stelt dat het Northwest Science Museum beschikt over authentieke Ica-stenen. “Deze steen bevat bijvoorbeeld een afbeelding van een man die op een Triceratops rijdt,” zei hij. “We hebben stenen met tenminste 14 dinosaurussoorten die allemaal zeer nauwkeurig zijn weergegeven.”
Creationist museum: Our fraudulent ‘Ica Stones’ prove man rode on triceratops dinosaurs
Creationist museum: Our fraudulent ‘Ica Stones’ prove man rode on triceratops dinosaurs
Ica Stone (Wikimedia Commons)
Agroup of creationists in the Boise, Idaho area are seeking funds to build The Northwest Science Museum, which they claim will urge visitors to “think critically” about the Earth’s natural history, Boise State Public Radio (BSBP) reports.
Geologist Doug Bennett told BSPR that the “first thing” visitors will see when they walk up to the Science Museum is “a full scale replica of Noah’s Ark.” In a promotional video, he further explains that what will set this Science Museum apart is “that it will explain both the Biblical and naturalistic points of view side-by-side.”
“This way,” he continues, “visitors can see both views and determine for themselves which theory makes the most sense, and which theory matches the evidence we see in the world around us.”
“We want to bring that out and say, ‘Ok, people. Let’s make your choice here.’ Don’t just believe because you’re being told that. Think for yourself. Use critical thinking and think, does this make sense?” Bennett says. “Or is it better to believe what the Bible says — that God created all things.”
Stan Lutz, a field paleontologist, adds “that our goal here is present the true science that has been hidden from the public. We have artifacts that even confound the most ardent evolutionists,” most notably the so-called “Ica stones,” which as Lutz explains in another video, proves that humans and dinosaurs interacted.
Lutz claims the stones are less than 6,000 years old, which to his mind, proves that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. “After all,” he says, “if they didn’t know what dinosaurs looked like, how can they carve them in these stones so intricately?”
The Ica Stones are a favorite artifact of many conspiracy theorists, even though a 1977 Nova documentary revealed that they were the creation of the man who allegedly found them, Dr. Javier Cabrera, who also confessed to having sculpted them.
This finding has not deterred creationist, however, who insist that just because “there are some fake Ica Stones out there…and frauds have been made, doesn’t mean the real ones have been discredited.”
In both videos, Lutz claims the Northwest Science Museum contains “genuine” Ica Stones. “This stone right here, you can see there’s a man on it riding on a triceratops dinosaur,” he says in one of the videos. We have rocks showing at least 14 species of dinosaur that are all accurately drawn.”
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Het 'langverwachte bewijs' dat buitenaards leven bestaat
Het ‘langverwachte bewijs’ dat buitenaards leven bestaat
Op onderstaande foto is een mysterieus organisme te zien dat in de ruimte gevonden is. Het organisme laat volgens wetenschappers zien dat al het leven op aarde, inclusief de mens, zijn oorsprong in de ruimte heeft. Dat meldt de Britse Daily Express.
Het is ontdekt in stof dat hoog in de stratosfeer van de aarde is verzameld. Onderzoekers stellen dat het een ‘biologische entiteit’ is die uit koolstof en zuurstof bestaat. Het is volgens de ontdekkers niet mogelijk dat het organisme van de aarde afkomstig is.
Het ‘drakendeeltje’ (Universiteit van Buckingham)
Professor Milton Wainwright en zijn team van de Universiteit van Sheffield en de Universiteit van Buckingham hebben ballonnen opgelaten, die op 27 kilometer hoogte deeltjes uit de ruimte hebben verzameld.
Wainwright claimt dat de ontdekking niet alleen bewijst dat leven in de ruimte bestaat, maar ook dat buitenaardse organismen continu op de aarde terechtkomen. “De foto toont een structuur die het drakendeeltje is genoemd. Uit wetenschappelijk onderzoek blijkt dat het bestaat uit koolstof en zuurstof en geen onderdeel uitmaakt van kosmisch of vulkanisch stof.”
“Dit is duidelijk een biologische entiteit, hoewel we niet precies weten of het onderdeel is van een enkel organisme of uit kleinere, individuele microben bestaat,” ging hij verder. “Het is een ongewoon organisme en lijkt in niets op het leven dat op aarde wordt aangetroffen.”
Enkele weken geleden zeiden astronauten dat ze levensvormen hadden ontdekt op de buitenwand van het internationale ruimtestation ISS, dat in een baan om de aarde draait. Het was voor het eerst dat complexe organismen in de ruimte zijn gevonden. Experimenten hebben eerder al aangetoond dat bacteriën buiten onze planeet kunnen overleven.
“Als onze bevindingen kloppen, zullen ze voor altijd onze kijk op het leven en de geschiedenis van de aarde veranderen en moeten we onze schoolboeken herschrijven,” zei professor Wainwright. “Het is een geweldige ontdekking en het bewijs dat deze organismen uit de ruimte komen is overweldigend.”
Eerder dit jaar werd de Mercatorprojectie verkozen tot tweede beste Belgische uitvinding door luisteraars van het Radio 1-programma ‘De bende van Einstein’. Dankzij de uitvinding van Mercator konden zeevaarders eeuwenlang hun weg over zee vinden met behulp van kaarten die volgens zijn projectie opgesteld werden.
Ook vandaag de dag doet Mercators projectie nog dienst: onze GPS in de auto is gebaseerd op dit principe. Zelfs op Amerikaanse kaarten staat dat de projectie van de hand van Mercator is. Onze wereldkaarten zijn nog steeds gebaseerd op de Mercatorprojectie en daardoor kloppen ze niet. Zelfs met satellietgegevens lukt het kennelijk niet om de wereld goed in kaart te brengen.
Op wereldkaarten die in klaslokalen hangen lijkt Noord-Amerika groter of even groot als Afrika. In werkelijkheid past Noord-Amerika in Afrika en is er nog ruimte over voor India en Argentinië. Groenland lijkt groter dan China, maar in werkelijkheid is China vier keer zo groot als Groenland. Alaska lijkt groter dan Mexico, maar dat is niet het geval.
De Mercatorprojectie (Wikimedia Commons)
Scandinavië lijkt groter dan India, maar in werkelijkheid is India drie keer groter. Brazilië lijkt kleiner dan Alaska, terwijl het land vijf keer groter is. Rusland lijkt een gigantische omvang te hebben, maar in realiteit is Afrika groter.
De Mercatorprojectie wordt nog veelvuldig gebruikt in schoolboeken en klaslokalen. Volgens de Britse krant The Guardian houdt Google deze projectie aan ‘vanwege technische problemen’. De internetreus stelt dat het geen doen is om de perfecte wereldkaart te maken.
Anderen zien er ideologische verklaringen voor, aangezien we de wereld op een andere manier zouden zien. De vorm van de landmassa klopt wel, maar de rijke noordelijke landen op de wereldbol worden nu veel groter uitgebeeld dan ze in werkelijkheid zijn.
De projectie van Gall-Peters (Wikimedia Commons)
James Gall presenteerde de projectie van Gall-Peters in 1855 en Arno Peters in 1967. De oppervlaktegetrouwheid van deze projectie, waarbij ontwikkelingslanden er groter op kwamen te staan dan met de alom bekende Mercatorprojectie het geval was, bracht de Unesco ertoe kaarten op basis van deze projectie uit te brengen.
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – Who said Roswell has the market cornered on UFOs? Rio Rancho will host the first New Mexico UFO Conference on Saturday from 1:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the Sabana Grande Recreation Center. It will feature five speakers, including one Rio Rancho man who has an extensive collection of evidence on UFO reports including everything from declassified military reports to audio clips of air traffic control communications.
David Marler said he has researched UFOs for nearly 25 years. In his garage alone, he has 14 filing cabinets full of audio files, government files and newspaper clippings that date back to 1897.
“I don’t know what these things are, but based on almost 25 years of active investigation, there is enough smoke to indicate that there’s some fire,” Marler said.
In digging through all the headlines and images, Marler said many reports over the last 20 to 30 years describe triangular UFOs not the stereotypical “flying saucer.” At the conference Saturday, he said he plans to present his evidence and leave it up to the audience to decide what it all means.
“Whether you relegate UFOs to fact, fiction or folklore, I always come down to the simple premise, it’s part of our history,” Marler said.
He said, despite many nights camping outside, searching for UFOs, he has never spotted one himself.
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X-Files Axed: UFO Reports To Be Destroyed
X-Files Axed: UFO Reports To Be Destroyed
By Huw Borland, Sky News Online
Pictures from recently released UFO files
The Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo has revealed.
Britain's official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December.
Since then, reports of strange sights in the skies sent to the MoD have been kept for 30 days before being thrown out, the newly released policy document showed.
This stance was adopted so defence officials would not have to publish the information in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests or pass it to the National Archives.
The memo, dated November 11, 2009, sets out the MoD's reasons for shutting its UFO unit and ceasing to invite the public to send in details of sightings.
It noted the number of reports the department received soared last year, taking up extra resources and diverting staff from "more valuable" defence-related activities.
The MoD recorded 634 UFO sightings in 2009, the second highest annual total after 1978, when there were 750, according to UFO expert Dr David Clarke.
This compares with an average of about 150 reports a year during the past decade.
The memo said: "The dedicated UFO hotline answer phone service and e-mail address serve no defence purpose, and merely encourage the generation of correspondence of no defence value."
The memo revealed that MoD chiefs made a point of not discussing their plans to close the UFO unit with other countries because of fears this could be perceived as part of a global cover-up.
Dr Clarke, a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, obtained the memo through an FoI request.
The expert said the MoD's new policy on destroying UFO reports would make it much more difficult to uncover the truth about incidents in the future.
"Even if something quite serious happened, perhaps where there was a near-miss with an airline, the MoD will say, 'We may have had a report on it, but we've destroyed it,'" he said.
La base de lancement Cap Canaveral / Centre Spatial Kennedy
Cap Canaveral est la principale base américaine. Créée en 1950 pour tester des lanceurs, elle s'est largement étendue avec plusieurs aires de lancement nécessaires au développement de l'astronautique. Les vols s'effectuent sous la responsabilité de la Nasa, agence spatiale créée en 1958.
Une autre base militaire construite en 1941, rebaptisée Vandenberg en 1958, est utilisée pour les lancements de satellites et de certaines sondes.
Le cosmodrome soviétique porte le nom d'une ville située à 370 km de la base. Créé en 1955, tenu secret pendant longtemps, il se situe en réalité dans le désert de Kazakhstan. Bien que ressemblant à une zone industrielle, le cosmodrome Baïkonour assure encore aujourd'hui, le plus grand nombre de lancements au monde.
D'autres bases ont été créées, le cosmodrome de Plessetsk, le cosmodrome Dombarovski, le cosmodrome Svobodny.
En 1954, le gouvernement soviétique commande à Sergueï Pavlovitch Korolev un missile capable d'atteindre les Etats-Unis, depuis le sol russe pour répliquer à une éventuelle attaque des Etats-Unis.
Le 29 juillet 1955, le porte parole du Président Eisenhower annonce que les Etats-Unis ont l'intention de lancer un satellite artificiel autour de la Terre. Cette annonce est confirmé au mois d'août par un scientifique, au cours du 6ème congrès astronautique à Copenhague.
Le 02 août 1955, le Président de la déléguation soviétique à Copenhague annonce le lancement d'un satellite artificiel au cours des deux prochaines années.
R-7
A la tête d'une section chargée de la construction des fusées, Sergueï Pavlovitch Korolev met au point un puissant lanceur, la fusée R-7. Avec quatre moteurs d'appoint, autour d'un corps central, alimentés par une turbopompe, la fusée R-7, baptisée Semiorka, est un puissant lanceur d'une poussée de 500 tonnes. Avant la mise à feu, il faut procéder à une longue préparation. Couchée sur une plate forme et tractée par une locomotive, Semiorka est redressée sur son pas de tir où commence le remplissage des réservoirs d'oxygène liquide et de kérosène.
Après trois échecs de lancement, le quatrième tir de la R-7 est un succès. La fusée atteint sa cible située à 6 500 km.
En 1939, la performance des scientifiques allemands reste sans égal.
Dans l'armée allemande, les travaux militaires sont consacrés à des missiles puissants, des bombes téléguidées, des fusées énormes.
Dans la base de recherche de Peenemünde, une fusée d'une grande technologie est développée, sous la direction de Wernher von Braun. La fusée A4, de 14 mètres, se propulse à plus de 5 000 km/h sur une cible d' une distance de 320 km et atteint 90 km d'altitude. Elle devient ensuite la fusée V2 et est opérationnelle. L'avance des allemands dans le domaine technique aéronautique ouvre la voie au lanceur à combustible liquide.
Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, la plus grande usine souterraine au monde "Mittelwerk" est allemande. C'est ici que la fusée V2 est fabriquée en série, dans d'immenses laboratoires et ateliers. Dès 1944, Londres subit les premiers bombardements...
En 1945, l'armée américaine récupère des fusées V2, des documents scientifiques consacrés à la fusée et 104 ingénieurs allemands issus de la base de recherche de Peenemünde. Ils font signer un contrat à leurs prisonniers scientifiques qui devront travailler pour eux, aux Etats-Unis. Parmi eux, Wernher von Braun.
De son côté l'armée soviétique trouve dans les ateliers de fabrication de Mittelwerk des fusées V2, des documents, des schémas de construction importants qui seront étudiés par leur spécialiste en fusée, Sergueï Pavlovitch Korolev. Cinq mille scientifiques allemands sont déportés en Union Soviétique. Parmi eux, Helmut Gröttrup, brillant collaborateur de Von Braun, qui lancera la première fusée soviétique. Sept ans plus tard, tous seront rapatriés en Allemagne.
Ancient astronauts or ancient aliens is a hypothesis that posits intelligent extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistory. Proponents suggest that this contact influenced the development of human cultures, technologies, and religions. A common claim is that deities from most, if not all, religions are actually extraterrestrial in nature, and that such visitors’ advanced technologies were wrongly understood by primitive men as evidence of divine status.
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(N.Morgan) There’s been another sighting in Erie PA of what appears to be a very sophisticated UFO. It floats casually behind a reporter in one frame and then lazily floats around buildings in another frame. When I first watched it, I had wondered if perhaps it was a drone, but on further inspection, I’m not so sure. It moves with an unnatural grace, unlike a drone. It hovers, floats, and then takes off at a very fast pace. What I have noticed with these sighting is that it seems they happen in the early morning or at night. The air is denser then and I have pondered whether it the density of the air helps the UFOs to travel more efficiently.
A UK Defence Intelligence report suggests a military witness may have been exposed to UFO radiation. Plus, Jason McClellan talks with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell about lectures from the 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure that were just released as video-on-demand. That and other UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!
The Nazca Lines and Geoglyphs are famous around the world as enigmas in the desert of Peru. Many theories have tried to explain who made them and why, however, no single theory works. They were made over the course of 1000 years by the Paracas, and then the Nazca people. Brien Foerster recently released the below video about The Nazca Lines.
British MoD Forced to Release More UFO Documents in 2015: The Alleged “Last Remaining Files” Were Declassified Last Year...
By Robert Hastings www.ufohastings.com10-3-14
On September 23, 2014, a newspaper story in the UK revealed that the British Ministry of Defence would be releasing 18 more UFO documents next year. This action was precipitated by the filing of a Freedom of Information request by British researcher Andy Russell, one month earlier, in which he asked:
“Whether documents covering the period 1971-76 and 1996-2000 titled ‘UFO policy’ and three other documents covering the periods June-Dec 2000, Dec 2000-Mar 2004 and March 2004 exist, and if so are they still ‘classified’.”
A search turned up the hitherto unacknowledged files, thereby contradicting the MoD’s earlier claim that all of its UFO files had been released to the public.
In June 2013, after it had been announced that the final “tranche” or batch of UFO files had just been declassified, I wrote an articlesaying that the MoD was almost certainly withholding additional, very sensitive, UFO-related documents. My piece featured comments by former MoD UFO Desk administrator Nick Pope, who agreed with my contention. He wrote:
Careful scrutiny of the released material shows plenty of documents have been redacted or withheld in entirety. And that's not including several of the more interesting files, documents, films and photographs that the MoD claims have been ‘inadvertently destroyed’ or ‘lost’.
In government, access to classified information is a product of your security clearance and your 'need to know'. Thus, in a sense, you can never say for sure whether you're privy to all the information on any particular topic, because even if you're the ‘Subject Matter Expert’, there may not just be specific things to which you're denied access, but areas the existence of which you're not even aware. Think of this in terms of ‘unknown unknowns’. So while I had a Top Secret SCI security clearance for much of my MoD career and certainly believe I saw all the UFO files, I can't be certain: ‘I don't know what I don't know’ is another way that those of us who have dealt with highly-classified material sometimes characterize this situation.
Regarding British UFO debunker Dr. David Clarke—who has slavishly repeated every MoD claim about the supposed lack of credible information on UFOs in its hands, and endorsed those claims as the final word on the subject—Pope said this:
Having done as a government job what he did as a hobby, I can confirm that larke has never worked for the MoD or held a security clearance. MoD redacts the files before sending them to the National Archives, so he's only ever seen the same unclassified material as any other member of the public.
One MoD document referred to him as a ‘UFO spotter’—a disparaging term used to describe somebody with a nerdish and slightly obsessive attitude to the subject...Some people would probably use the term ‘useful idiot’ to describe his parroting the MoD ‘no defense significance’ sound bite, which was designed solely to keep Parliament, the media and the public off our backs.
Pope’s last comment about Clarke received a lot of attention. Regarding the disparaging epithet, one reference website says, “In political jargon, ‘useful idiot’ is a term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause.”1 However, the far more interesting and significant comment by Pope was his revelation about the MoD’s underlying motivation for its claim that UFOs posed no threat to the UK.
Regarding the newly-acknowledged documents, Pope recently said, “This is a huge embarrassment for the MoD and will have UFO enthusiasts up in arms...The 18 files include ones from RAF radar specialists and from the ultra-secretive Defence Intelligence Staff, so there may be some fascinating revelations still to come."2
Having investigated the December 1980 UFO incidents at RAF Bentwaters at great length, I can confidently assert that two members of the MoD’s Air Staff Secretariat DS8 were present for some of the secret debriefings of U.S. Air Force personnel, relating to the sightings there. Even though those individuals did not conduct the interrogations, and were merely observers, where are the MoD’s records summarizing what occurred during those witness interviews? Certainly there was nothing about them in the files released thus far.
My own Bentwaters researchhas focused on the events at the base’s Weapons Storage Area (WSA), during the early hours of December 28, 1980, when a UFO reportedly directed one or more laser-like beams into the bunker complex. At the time, the WSA was America’s largest tactical nuclear weapons depot in Europe, according to my former/retired U.S. Air Force sources.
Then-Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the Deputy Base Commander at the time, has described seeing the UFO and the mysterious beams in the distance—as he was investigating unexplained lights in nearby Rendlesham Forest—while at the same time hearing radio chatter from Air Force Security Police posted at the WSA, who were excitedly reporting the unknown object in the sky and one or more beams apparently falling among the weapons bunkers.
Surely the British Ministry of Defence would be interested in such an event. If so, where are its documents discussing it? Col. Halt first publicly admitted his knowledge of the incident in an Unsolved Mysteriestelevision show that aired in 1991. In other words, the MoD had to have known about the UFO activity at the very sensitive WSA at least as early as that date—if not earlier. Wouldn’t one or more of MoD’s intelligence groups have mentioned Halt’s dramatic public admission in writing? If so, why didn’t those files end up being declassified?
I also have reliable sources who have discussed relatively recent UFO incursions at the Royal Navy’s Faslane base, in Scotland, where the UK’s Trident nuclear missile-carrying submarines are based. If my civilian sources, who live nearby, know about these events, presumably the MoD does as well. At least, hopefully it does. Where are the documents relating to the sightings at the base? They were not among those released thus far, even though the reported incidents occurred in 2011.
In summary, the British Ministry of Defence has apparently not been entirely candid with the citizens of the UK or, at least, was very sloppy in its earlier searches for UFO-related files. The newly-discovered documents strongly suggest that other still-unacknowledged batches of files exist. Hopefully this development will result in a renewed effort on the part of British researchers to press for a truly comprehensive declassification of the entire cache of MoD files.
Anyone wishing to review a few of the nuclear weapons-related UFO documents released by the U.S. government should go to my documents page.
On September 27, 2010, I sponsored the UFOs and Nukes press conference in Washington D.C., at which seven U.S. Air Force veterans discussed their involvement in, or knowledge of, classified incidents involving UFO activity at American nuclear weapons sites. CNN streamed the event live and the full-length video may be viewed here:
Based on the analysis of WISE and Spitzer data, the authors concluded that “Kardashev Type III civilizations (a civilization that extracts fusion energy, information, and raw-materials from multiple solar systems) are very rare in the local universe”.
I remind you that we had a SETI hangout on this topic with this group, including as well Jill Tarter and Freeman Dyson in September 2013.
MJ-12: Stanton Friedman Fires Back; The Disputation with Kevin Randle Continues ...
I have always had a grudging admiration for Kevin's ability to write fiction. Anybody who can write many dozens of novels deserves respect. I guess I can accept a smart computer that somehow says the opposite of the truth about the CT Memo. At least we both agree it is not signed and there is no /s/. But why not note that the absence of signature is a sign of genuineness? We didn't know until well after the memo was discovered that Cutler was out of the country at that time. Why didn't the supposed (mythical) hoaxer merely add one or the other?? He is accused of adding Truman's signature. Why accuse me of saying the latter was an exact match to the one on the Bush letter? It was Kevin not me that said "exact" match. I have accepted the official findings of forensic document examiner Black as stated to Dr. Robert M. Wood that it was appended because of the feathering. Ike might well have preferred documents with signatures. Even Karl Pflock agreed that the CIA could have copied the signature.
Yes, let us talk about provenance. What is the basis for the claim that all leaked documents have a provenance? In this case the Provider of the EBD was guilty of a crime. A hoaxer wasn’t. As Kevin knows full well photographing and distributing a TOP SECRET Restricted document to somebody without an appropriate security clearance and need-to-know is a violation of the law. Hoaxing generally is not. Why not just say "gotcha?!" Suppose the CTM was taken by one of the declassifers (all of whom had high level clearance) and put in a jacket pocket and then later placed in Box 189? Two step process. Nobody would tell me their names.
Yes, let's not argue about the distance to the crash site. We have a highly classified preliminary briefing about an extraordinarily important event which happened 5 years earlier. The approximate distance really doesn't matter. Which route was taken?
How did the (mythical) hoaxer know that, contrary to the official claims made, that TOP SECRET RESTRICTED was in use?? Psychic I guess. How did he know that Donald Menzel would pass muster as having a very high security clearance and a very long connection with the NSA … psychic I guess.
I never talk about Willingham. What is meant by "we believed"? As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger: what do you mean "we", white man? Why is it the fatal flaw? I know that I do not have access to classified files at Sandia or elsewhere and so far as I know, Kevin doesn't either. That he didn't find anything about an "El Indio- Guerrero" crash in the unclassified world means nothing. Any information about a crashed saucer recovered on December 6, 1950, and taken to Sandia would have been highly classified just as was any analysis of the Roswell, Plains of San Agustin, or Aztec crashes. December 6, 1950, was the date of a major security alert involving motion of an object(s) in the sky. Roswell and Kenneth Arnold were highly publicized events. The Plains and Aztec were not. I strongly recommend the outstanding and comprehensive research about Aztec done by Scott and Suzanne Ramsey as reported in "The Aztec Incident"... Bruce Maccabee and Grant Cameron have written about the Dec.6, 1950 national security alert.
I don't think Kevin has provided some sort of statement that this preliminary briefing would provide a listing and details of all saucer crashes. The first one provides the basic data saying Man is not alone... an incredibly important statement. The Briefing of Ike at the Pentagon on November 18, 1952, only lasted under 50 minutes. As stated "It should be regarded as introductory to a full operations briefing intended to follow." Introductory surely doesn't mean comprehensive.
I certainly am not impressed by a kind of guilt by association with Richard Doty and the Aquarius documents. Let us look at the EBD, CT, and TF. No, I don't want to get into the false testimony of Frank Kaufmann and others. At least he admitted he had lied about taking Blanchard and Marcel to the Debris field. I still would like to know from those who say the 3 documents are phony and why they make that claim. How did anybody know the details that unexpectedly turned out to be true???
MJ-12: Kevin Randle Rails Against Stanton Friedman's Rebuttal
Really? This is the best you can do? I produce a long analysis of the MJ-12 mythology, complete with documentation and the best you can do is point out a mistake that is the result of a misplaced phrase and a computer glitch.* Of course I knew that Cutler had not signed the memo. You said so in your book. This is trivia. Instead, let’s discuss the lack of provenance. In every other leak of classified material into the public arena, there is a provenance. The reporter, researcher, recipient of the material knows the source who is available to them for questions and authentication. With MJ-12 none of those factors are in evidence and in the world of leaked and questioned documents, this is a huge red flag. You are unable to provide the name of the source or a repository of the information that can be used to verify the authenticity. Without that, you have a work of fiction. In fact, that could well be the genesis of MJ-12. Bill Moore, Bob Pratt, and probably Richard Doty collaborated on a novel that had the working title MAJIK – 12, but Moore changed the name to The Aquarius Project. It is the blueprint for MJ-12 and was written two YEARSbefore the film allegedly arrived at Jaime Shandera’s house. When MJ-12 was revealed to the world, Bob Pratt thought it time to “dust off” the novel and see if they could sell it. Isn’t that an interesting coincidence? And you must remember that Bill Moore talked to you about creating a “Roswell” document in the hopes it would suggest to some witnesses it was now legal for them to talk about the classified research. Yes, you have denied this in the past, but Moore mentioned it to others so it is not from a single source, it is the genesis of MJ-12. Let’s talk about Project Aquarius, which you ignore. This is, in fact, the original program that evolved into MJ-12. The first mention of MJ-12 is in a document that also mentions Project Aquarius, which it turns out, is a hoax. Isn’t it interesting that this initial appearance of MJ-12 is a hoax? And I haven’t even mentioned the MJ-5 fiasco. And don’t forget that you have said repeatedly that the Cutler/Twining memo was planted in the National Archives. We just disagree on who placed it there. You fail to mention that the carbon copy was folded as it would have been if mailed (and which makes it easier to conceal in the inside pocket of a suit jacket), but there is no reason to fold it because it would have been filed flat. To me it was planted to provide a provenance for an MJ-12 document as a way to blunt that argument. It failed in that respect. I don’t really care to argue about the trivia of the distances to the debris field but will say this. It would seem that in a document that includes a section of maps (unavailable to us) it would have the distances calculated precisely, especially from a military organization that contains a couple of dozen trained navigators. Their jobs were critical in combat, so they would have been able to provide precise distances and locations (grid coordinates) which should have been reflected in the body of the EBD but are not.
But the fatal flaw is the Robert Willingham nonsense. Here is something that reflects the state of UFO research in the mid-1980s. Many of us believed in the 1980s that Willingham’s tale of seeing a crashed flying saucer was true when his affidavit appeared. We believed him because he was a high-ranking Air Force officer telling a tale that seemed to be plausible. We believed that Todd Zechel had verified Willingham’s credentials, and now, in the EBD, there was further evidence that his story was true. But the first version of Willingham’s tale took place in 1948 and involved three objects, one of which crashed. This version was published in 1968 in Skylook and told us Willingham was a CAP officer as opposed to an Air Force officer. To make it worse, he claims to have been flying a fighter that wasn’t operational in 1948. In the version that appears in the MJ-12 document, the crash took place on December 6, 1950. This can be traced to Zechel and Moore and suggests the UFO was “incinerated” upon impact. Willingham tacitly agreed with that date, but later changed it so that he could tell his ridiculous story about flying fighters in Korea in December 1950. In the last version, Willingham said that the events took place in 1954 or 1955. If true, then the tale couldn’t appear in a document created in 1952. And further research proved that Willingham had not been an Air Force officer nor was he a fighter pilot. His tale was invention and shouldn’t appear in a document created at the highest levels for the president. They would have known it wasn’t true if it had been told prior to the creation of the EBD, unless, of course, the EBD was created in the 1980s by those who weren’t on the inside and believed the tale at the time. There is absolutely no evidence of a crash in the El Indio - Guerrero area of Mexico. And before we have to hear that “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence” I should point out that I have searched everywhere for evidence of this event. Friends and colleagues have searched for anything related to this published in the right time frame or witnessed in the right time frame at the locations mentioned and have failed. There is nothing to suggest a UFO crash on December 6, 1950. At this point, given the situation, those advocating the authenticity of MJ-12 must present something other than the MJ-12 document as evidence that this crash happened and if unable to do so, should then reevaluate their opinion on MJ-12. Or, to put a point on it, absence of evidence is evidence of absence in this case.
In fact, let’s take it a step farther, if you are advocating a crash on the Plains of San Agustin in July 1947, then you must explain why that is not mentioned in the MJ-12 document. These two points seem to be mutually exclusive. If MJ-12 is real, then this crash must not have happened. If there was such a crash, then MJ-12 must be in error. There would be no reason to withhold this information from a document prepared for the president. Both can’t be authentic and I suspect both are fraudulent. Or, if you believe there was a crash in Aztec, NM in March 1948, then why wasn’t it mentioned in the MJ-12 document? Doesn’t its absence argue against the authenticity of the Aztec crash? Conversely, if Aztec is a real event, then doesn’t that argue against the authenticity of MJ-12?
What we have in the MJ-12 document is the situation as it existed in the mid-1980s. At that time, those who faked the document didn’t believe in Aztec or the Plains crash but did in the Willingham tale. They attempted to create a document that seemed to have been written in 1952, but these elements have helped us date it. Willingham’s UFO crash tale is the real fatal flaw in MJ-12. But rather than talk about these points critical to MJ-12, we delve into minutia of it with little regard to the overall picture. We engage in “gotcha” argument rather than something of substance that actually helps us resolve this dilemma. So there is a minor error in my analysis? Does that negate the overall challenge to MJ-12? No, these arguments about it just obscure the truth. I could drag in aspects of this in which you have made mistakes, including your belief that the signature on the Truman memo is an exact match until you learned that no two signatures are an exact match. Then you changed your tune, but overlooked the minor alteration to the stroke crossing the “T” in Truman. The reason was Truman’s signature habitually touched the text and it was necessary to carefully remove the evidence of where it bushed those letters. And, I expect to hear about how Phil Klass paid you one thousand dollars because you provided samples of pica type on White House letters. But if we wish to understand this MJ-12 mess, then it is necessary to understand the major issues arguing against authenticity rather than minor problems with the analysis. Let’s resolve the major issues before we begin with the minor and irrelevant ones.
*For those who have corresponded with me on a regular basis, you know that my computer regularly launches emails in the middle of sentences. It has to do with the way the touch pad is laid into the lap top. I’m not sure what causes it… but this same flaw also will highlight text and delete as I type. I usually catch it and can recover it, but sometimes I don’t see this happening. I catch it on proofreading because there are usually two sentences or two paragraphs jammed together that have no transition. In this case, it took out several paragraphs in which I was discussing, as you did, the sample from Cutler’s office that had been signed. The flow seemed natural and I didn’t catch the change which says that Cutler had signed the memo. Of course he hadn’t and I knew that.
You can take it from there. I have no desire to prolong the agony.
I cannot speak for others, but I certainly accept the challenge. All of the information I provided came from viable sources, and tells the FULL story. I do not understand how any complete analysis of the MJ-12 documents could not include the circumstances behind how they were brought to the public. These facts cannot be swept under the rug. I highly respect Stanton and his work, and I included Stanton's comments in my story, but with all due respect, although Menzel's background is interesting, it is completely circumstantial and proves no connection to extraterrestrials. Just because the facts related to Doty, Moore, Shandera, and Bennewitz are complicated and difficult to understand and cast doubt on the veracity of the documents, they are still very pertinent. Using the uranium atoms analogy, the credibility of the scientists and the reputation of the labs where scientific tests are conducted are certainly weighed heavily when it comes to the veracity and accuracy of scientific claims. It is too late to add such a debate to the roster of the 2015 International UFO Congress. We schedule that out many months in advance, and if you go to the event's website you will see the line-up has been set. The only TBAs are people we are in the final process of confirming and have not yet announced their names. We certainly can look to holding such a debate in 2016. However, I propose that we debate this matter on Open Minds UFO Radio in the near future.
I would hereby like to Publicly challenge Kevin and/or Robert Hastings, and/or Barry Greenwood, and/or Alejandro Rojas or all together to a debate about the legitimacy of the the Cutler Twining Memo, The Truman Forrestal memo, the Eisenhower Briefing Document. I have long acknowledged that there are a large number of phony documents out there. The question is whether those three are legitimate as I have demonstrated. I think an appropriate site would be during the IUFOC in February in Arizona.The debate I had 2 years ago there with John Alexander was very well attended.I have no idea why people think it is more important to talk about the machinations of Richard Doty, Bill Moore, Jaime Shandera, Paul Bennewitz etc than about all the facts that I noted which were not known to be true until after the documents were received.How did a hoaxer know those facts?As a nuclear guy I long ago leaned to focus on what is relevant. That 99.3% of uranium atoms in nature are not fissionable, tellls us nothing about the 0.3% that are. I would say let all sell their books What say you all?
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