UFO sighting in Meridian, Idaho [VIDEO]

(Before It's News)

A witness noticed a UFO streaking through the sky above Meridian, Idaho on Wednesday, October 8.

Kaitlyn Ellis noticed the aerial object from her backyard at approximately 2:45 p.m. She recorded video of the UFO as it moved across the sky. She asserts that she then saw a plane with a long contrail following the unknown object.

UFO over Meridian. (Credit: Kaitlyn Ellis/KBOI)

Witnesses in Meridian’s neighboring city, Boise, also reportedly saw the UFO.

KBOI 2 News contacted Colonel Tim Marsano with the Idaho National Guard to get his opinion of the UFO over Meridian. “I really don’t have any idea what that is,” he explained. “But I can tell you for sure it’s not anything that belongs to the Idaho National Guard or the Army National Guard.”

The news station also contacted amateur astronomer John McVey who opined that the object in the video is too slow to be a meteor.

Although the object in question was not related to Idaho National Guard or Army National Guard exercises, its behavior and appearance are consistent with a conventional aircraft. And military craft aren’t the only craft flying over Idaho. So it’s plausible that the object in the video is simply a private or commercial plane.

But the object has not officially been identified.

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-sighting-meridian-idaho-video/30545

12-10-2014 om 21:09 geschreven door peter  

‘It Came From The Big Muddy River’

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Around midnight on June 25, 1973, a young couple was parked by a desolate riverside for a romantic interlude when they came face to face with a huge, wet, hairy, mud-slathered monstrosity with a penchant for disturbing teenage lovers.

During two harrowing weeks in the summer of 1973, the rural town of Murphysboro, Illinois  became the epicenter of a terrifying series of encounters with a huge, albino beast, which would come to be known as the “Murphysboro Mud Monster” or the “Big Muddy Monster.”

This bizarre beast tormented the citizens of this small community for approximately fourteen days before its reign of terror abruptly ended, resulting in one of the strangest and, in some ways, most frightening cases in the history of hairy hominid research.

The first official encounter with this decidedly unhygienic beast occurred at approximately midnight on the on June 25th, 1973. A youthful couple, Randy Needham and Judy Johnson, who were parked at the foot of 23rd Street, in Riverside Park, near the town’s old boat ramp overlooking the Big Muddy River.

According to their account, Johnson claimed that they were listening to the radio, engaged in a debate about when they should leave and, presumably, doing what couples are want to do, when they heard a piercing roar (which Needham compared to an “eagle shrieking into a microphone”) that seemed to emanate from the thick underbrush not far from his car. Needham quickly snapped off the radio and scanned the area, listening intently.

Suddenly, another horrific shriek echoed through the night accompanied by a rattling of the brushwood in front of them. Needham flicked on his headlights and Johnson gasped as they both saw a huge, foul scented creature lumbering toward them...a creature whose very existence would tax the limits of their imaginations.

Needham wasted no time in starting his car and accelerating away from the scene with his frightened girlfriend. As the pair entered more civilized territory they made a beeline for the Murphysboro Police Station.

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The couple arrived at the station and made out what is known as an “unknown creature” report, describing a beast that looked like an “over-sized gorilla,” which they estimated to be almost 8-feet tall, with matted, mud streaked, white hair. Former patrolman, now retired Murphysboro police Chief, Ron Manwaring, was still able to recite the facts of this strange incident from memory almost three decades later:

“The first report came in just before midnight on June 25. A couple had been ‘parked’ near the boat dock on the southwestern edge of Riverside Park, next to the woods.”

“The two, who were not married, said they were in the car when they heard a loud screaming sound in the wooded area and observed a large creature approximately 7- feet tall. The creature appeared to have light-colored hair matted with mud. The creature appeared to be walking on two legs and was proceeding toward his car.”

Manwaring felt that the couple’s account was lent credibility due to the fact they risked exposing their alleged indiscretions...which would no doubt bring them public ridicule and, even more alarmingly, Johnson’s father’s wrath. They were so frightened by what they had seen by the river: “There was no advantage for them to come up and report this.”

While the officers who took down Needham and Johnson’s statement were understandably skeptical of the event, they dutifully sent out two patrolmen, Meryl Lindsay and Jimmie Nash, to investigate their report. Within minutes of the sighting the officers arrived at the boat ramp in the Riverside Park area to inspect the scene.

Officer Nash was the first to discover a plethora of “peculiar” tracks, “approximately 10 to 12-inches long and approximately three inches wide”, deeply impressed in the mud by the riverbank.  Nash claimed that as he bent over to inspect the prints from a closer vantage point he was shocked to hear a horrifyingly shrill screech nearby. Nash took off posthaste, accidentally dropping his revolver in his panic.

The officer, who admitted that he initially thought the story to be little more than hogwash, described the hideous sound as: “The most incredible shriek I’ve ever heard. It was in those bushes. It was no bobcat or screech owl. We hightailed it out of there.”

Nash and Lindsay quickly went back to the station to report their findings and gather more men for a search party. The officers later estimated that whatever had made that sharp cry was no more than 300-feet away from them.

Approximately two hours later, at 2:00 am. on the 26th of June, officers Nash and Lindsay returned to the scene accompanied by officer Bob Scott and Needham. The quartet swiftly discovered another spate of tracks near the river. As Lindsay ran back to the patrol car to retrieve a camera the rest of the group intrepidly followed the prints along the bank.

Without warning, the stillness of the black night was shattered by the same horrible scream that Needham and Nash had heard earlier. Fear rapidly usurped curiosity as the trio of men summarily abandoned their search and raced back to the patrol car for safety.

After huddling in the car for what must have felt like an eternity. No doubt waiting for the beast to attack, the men managed to regain their courage and continued their pursuit of this enigmatic monster once more. This mini-posse worked until dawn trying to track down the “splashing” sounds, which they described as being like a large creature rushing through the knee-deep water in the distance...to no avail.

As the sun rose, the officers felt that this so-called “monster” would evaporate with the rest of the night-shadows, never to be seen again, but this presumably nocturnal fiend had a surprise in store for them.

At approximately 10:30 pm. on the evening of June 26th, 5 year-old Christian Baril was playing in his backyard, which was located relatively close to the Big Muddy River, attempting to catch fireflies in the glass jar his mother had given him.

The child frolicked about delightedly when he spied a colossal, white shape looming up from behind the fence that separated his yard from the neighbor’s property...the Ray family.

The terrified Baril dropped his jar and raced inside, crying out: “Daddy, Daddy! There’s a big ghost in the backyard!”  The child’s father was understandably dubious of his son’s story, that was, until, his neighbors corroborated the tale.

This account of a terrifying backyard encounter is uncannily similar to one that befell another young Illinois boy named Greg Garrett just a few months earlier on April 25th, 1973.

Garrett claimed to have been attacked while playing in his backyard by a truly bizarre, slimy, three-legged beast known as the 'Enfield Horror'. Like Baril, Garrett immediately retreated to the relative safety of his parent’s house.

While Baril was sobbing in his father’s arms, teenager Cheryl Ray was sitting on her darkened back porch next door with her young suitor, Randy Creath. The pair claimed that they were talking and looking at the stars when they heard a rustling in the bushes about 15-feet away from the porch.

Assuming that is was neighborhood kids come to spy on them; an enraged Ray went inside to turn on the porch light, while Creath, the son of a state trooper, now a minister at the First Baptish Church in Sheffield, Iowa, leapt to his feet and opened the door. This intention vanished the moment that the light came on revealing the same appalling apparition that had terrified Baril just minutes before — as well as Needham and Johnson the previous night. Ray recounted the scene:

“Randy and I were sitting in my parents’ breezeway when we heard something in the woods. We both went down, but Randy was walking a little bit ahead. Then he said ‘Come here,’ and there it was. We stood there looking at it.”

Creath and Ray stood frozen with shock as this filthy, white monstrosity seemed to stare back at them. Creath recalled the moment vividly:

“The thing I remember was the bulk of it, the shape, the human form, and the stench of the river slime it apparently had on it. It was about eight feet tall, and at least as stocky as NY football player. We were within 15-feet of it, close enough to see the body, the texture of the fur, long and hairy, like an English sheepdog.”

Ray also described the beast, which she claimed bore inhuman features and stood more erect than an ape:

“It was real tall, hairy. I think it was white, but it was dirty, matted. It had a real bad odor. It was really rank. I never smelled anything like it. It seemed like an eternity we stood there, and then it just turned around and walked off into the woods. We could hear it trampling through the woods.”

Creath claimed that the “animal” stared at them for what felt like a long time, although he later estimated that the incident lasted only about 30 seconds. Both agreed that the creature had “glowing red eyes,” which Creath accredited to the glow of a distant streetlight.

This description of the eyes is significant if one is to assume that the Murphysboro Mud Monster is actually a prototypical Bigfoot-like creature that just happens to be albino. While pink eyes are a common trait in animals lacking pigmentation, Ray would insist that this beast’s eyes were actually “glowing” and were not reflecting light from some other source.

After this strange interaction, the couple claimed that the shaggy beast simply turned and pushed through the shrubbery, thrashing its way back to the nearby river.

Creath and Ray testified that the creature they saw weighed at least 350-pounds, stood about 7-feet tall. They also stated that it had a “roundish” head and long, gorilla-like arms. Officers Nash and Manwaring were swiftly dispatched to the scene, where they noticed a powerful odor that quickly dissipated. They also found a cluster of footprints where the creature had been lurking.

Following the officer’s discovery, Chief Toby Berger immediately dispatched the rest of his men to the scene then sent for an officer and trained dog handler with the nearby Carbondale Police Department, a man named Jerry Nellis.

Nellis was the owner of a tough German Shepard named “Reb,” who had assisted the Murphysboro police in the past as a search and rescue, attack dog and, most pertinently, as a tracker.

The officers discovered a trail of unidentified “black slime” that seemed to lead directly from the Ray’s back porch to the river. Officer Manwaring confirmed the existence of this still unknown material:

“I saw this substance and smelled the smell myself.”

Almost instantly, Reb picked up the scent of his prey and took off. The men then followed the dog down the recently forged path of broken tree limbs and trampled underbrush toward their bizarre quarry.

The dog managed to track the monster through the dense forest and down a steep embankment toward a small pond, but the brush became too thick for it to continue. The officers began searching the area with flashlights for clues as to where this creature might have escaped, but in no time Reb picked up the scent again.

The determined dog darted toward an abandoned barn on the Bullar property, which was located just east of the Ray’s house and a little north of the river, but once he got to the decaying door the usually courageous canine began trembling and yelping with fear.

This mystified both Nellis and the officers who had noted over the years that Reb was the most relentless tracking dog in the county. Nellis attempted to grab the dog by the scruff of his neck and thrust him through the open door of the barn, but Reb just dropped to his belly and scampered backwards, whimpering.

The usually bold Reb’s terrified reaction to whatever lurked within the barn was enough to convince Chief Berger to call in the “troops.”

He radioed for help from neighboring police departments and within hours a dozen patrol cars had responded to his call.

Unfortunately, in the time that had elapsed between Reb’s fearful display the arrival of backup, whatever it was that had hidden in the barn managed to slip out through the back. Not long after, the search was called off for the night and the disappointed officers returned to their home bases.

But this would not mark the end of the Murphysboro Mud Monster saga as sightings of this mysterious man-beast were reported two more times during the next week and a half. Berger claims that during this period he was worried less about the monster and more about one of the 10,000 Murphysboro residents shooting another in one of the many armed posses that seemed to spring up like wildfire.

The next reported encounter with the beast occurred approximately 10 days later after a traveling carnival set up camp in Riverside Park. The carnival workers chose a pleasant glade near the river between the boat ramp and the sewage treatment plant located below the Ray house.

At 2:00 am. on July 7th, long after the carnival had closed up for the night, three carnies, Otis Norris, Ray Adkerson and Wesley Lavender, where sitting behind one of the carnival trucks discussing the day’s receipts when they heard a series of whinnies coming from the Shetland ponies that were tied to the bramble on the other side of the truck.

The men quickly got up to see what the commotion was all about and were shocked to find the usually docile ponies where in a tizzy with their eyes rolling in terror, furiously tugging at their ropes in a desperate bid to free themselves from their constraints. It wasn’t long before the carnies would see what the frenzy was all about.

The men maintained that they spied an 8-foot, 400 lbs. creature that seemed to be “calmly” watching the ponies. The men decided not to wait around to see what happened next and immediately ran for help, claiming that the monster also ran in the opposite direction.

About an hour later, one of the carnival workers called in to help deal with this beast, Charles Kimbal, claimed that he saw the creature once again staring at ponies with its head cocked to the side in what was described as a “deeply curious” pose.

While this would prove to be the last “eyewitness” report of the creature, its reign of fear was not quite complete. Later that same night a woman named Nedra Green asserted that she heard a screaming sound coming from a shed on her rural farm. She chose to remain inside her home rather than go out to investigate.

Berger’s concerns for the townsfolk’s safety led to a request from the town fathers to bring in “expert” help.

The man they chose for the job was St. Louis insurance agent and serious researcher of Sasquatch reports Harkan Sorkin. Sorkin led a group of five men, including reporters from the Kansas City Star and a lawyer, into the woods near Murphysboro in the fall of 1973, in an effort to track and possibly capture the Murphysboro Mud Monster.

Sorkin claimed that private groups had offered as much as $2.5 million for the creature’s capture. With that in mind this small expedition came armed with a stun gun with the capacity to take down a for a 500-pound animal, as well as chocolate and bananas, which Sorkin stated they would use to pacify the beast.

They also carried loaded shotguns, which they claimed would only be used if their safety were threatened. Sorkin further claimed that they had local zoos standing by and that arrangements had been made for a cage to be flown in by helicopter should they get lucky and manage to imprison the monster.

Needless to say, this mini-expedition met with very little success. Sorkin asserted that they heard “a very loud yell or guttural sound, between a roar and a bellow” and saw huge footprints and found two-inch saplings pulled out of the ground.

Of course, it wasn’t long before the press got their talons into this tale of a colossal, mud-caked critter. The local paper, The Southern Illinoisan, ran a small story on the search, which was eventually picked up by the New York Times.

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman investigated the sightings in the 1970s and came to the conclusion that the Mud Monster was a Bigfoot-type creature, stating: “I think it’s within the context of other reports of a Bigfoot.”

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Coleman also felt that the Murphysboro Mud Monster represented a distinct type of ape-like creature distinct from its west coast counterparts in that they are known to be more aggressive: “There’s something very unique about this eastern-midwestern Bigfoot. From the reports from the Mud Monster it seemed to frighten people the way it didn’t in the west.”

Over the next three years there were sporadic reports throughout the area of animals that resembled the Mud Monster. Perhaps the most intriguing of these sightings occurred on January 26th, 1975, when four truckers, all of whom were traveling separately, radioed in reports of seeing a bizarre “bear-like” creature near the Illinois 149 junction west of Murphysboro.

On July 7th, 1975, two Murphysboro men reported a sighting of a strange creature that they believed may have been the Big Muddy Monster near a pond in the Harrison community, north of Murphysboro. Needless to say these isolated events in no way compared to the tremendous flap of encounters that had plagued the community in the summer of ’73.

The case of the Mud Monster is just one of two cases that remain unsolved in the history of the Murphysboro Police Department. Police Chief Berger puts it most succinctly when he said: “A lot of things in life are unexplained, and this is another one. We don’t know what the creature is, but we do believe what these people saw was real.” - americanmonsters.com - unexplainable.net - trueillinoishaunts.com

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Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/10/it-came-from-big-muddy-river.html

12-10-2014 om 13:03 geschreven door peter  

12-10-2014 om 12:53 geschreven door peter  

Spacing Out 92 – Police and NORAD investigating UFOs in Colorado?

Police and NORAD said they were investigating a mass UFO sighting in Colorado. But they now claim otherwise. That and other UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

12-10-2014 om 12:37 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting over Lorain County, Ohio on 7th October 2014

New amazing video footage of a bright UFO sighting recorded in the night sky above Lorain County, Ohio on 7th October 2014.

Witness said:
Recorded approx 530am, October 7th, 2014, this is NOT a star, or a house, this is an Unidentified Flying Object, you were not here to see what we have seen AND recorded, so don’t be so quick to dismiss! We have seen ufos around this area 2 other times a few years back but we didn’t have a camera to record those at the time, now we do!

12-10-2014 om 12:33 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Diver Finds Evidence of Giant Race of Humans in Arkansas

12-10-2014 om 12:28 geschreven door peter  

Daily 2 Cents: Unknown ‘Falling’ Object — ‘Vampire Grave’ Found in Bulgaria — Dudley Castle’s ‘Grey Lady’

(Before It's News)

Falling Metal Object Mystifies New Jersey Plant Workers

Workers at a New Jersey treatment plant say they saw a heavy, metallic object fall from the sky Wednesday, and they want to know where the potentially deadly projectile came from.

The employees at Secaucus Treatment Works said the 5-by-5 inch piece of metal debris hit a railing, ricocheted off a concrete tank, then hit the ground. It landed about 25 feet from where employees were working.

"It came close. It came pretty close," said employee Victor Suppa.

It "could have killed somebody, absolutely" if it hit anyone, added operations foreman Steven Bronowich.

A 5-by-5 inch piece of metal that appears to be made of ceramic, metal and rubberlike layers fell from the sky.

The workers said the object isn't part of the plant and there were no planes in the sky at the time. They were afraid to touch it at first, but they later picked it up and examined it.

They went online in search of answers and came up with all sorts of theories.

"We went on the website and we looked up space shuttle tiles, and you could see that picture there, it basically matches up with that," said Bronowich.

It seems unlikely; the last space shuttle mission was more than three years ago. So far, no one has been able to give employees a theory that seems to fit.

Employees handed the tile over to the county health department. Officials there tell NBC 4 New York it appears to be made of ceramic, metal and rubberlike layers. They were giving the piece to the FAA Friday. - NBC New York

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1978 - Tyler Texas - One In A Million Million UFO Sighting

This one is from Rick Phillips...MUFON report received on 7/15/14 - about an event at a Drive In Movie Theater seen by everyone - and even video (filmed) taped - that involved the government and more....go to 1978 - Tyler Texas - One In A Million Million UFO Sighting

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'Vampire Grave' Found in Bulgaria

A "vampire grave" containing a skeleton with a stake driven through its chest has been unearthed by a man known as "Bulgaria’s Indiana Jones".

Professor Nikolai Ovcharov – a crusading archaeologist who has dedicated his life to unearthing mysteries of ancient civilisations – said that he had made the discovery while excavating the ruins of Perperikon, an ancient Thracian city located in southern Bulgaria, close to the border with Greece.

The city, inhabited since 5,000 BC but only discovered 20 years ago, is believed to be the site of the Temple of Dionysius – the Greek God of wine and fertility. And among the finds at the site, which includes a hilltop citadel, a fortress and a sanctuary, are a series of "vampire graves".

On Thursday Professor Ovcharov announced that he had found a remarkably-preserved Medieval skeleton at the site in what he termed "a vampire grave". Read more at Telegraph

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Dudley Castle's 'Grey Lady'

A couple from Birmingham believe they captured a chilling image of the ghost the Grey Lady who has supposedly haunted Dudley Castle for centuries.

They took the photo on August 30th in the courtyard and it was only when they were looking through the images that night that they noticed a glow coming from a window.

Dudley is believed to be the most haunted castle in England.

Amy saw a glow, as though a light was on, on the top window level. On zooming in we noticed on the bottom, inside an arch, there was a lady and what appears to be a girl, too. Neither of us are ghost hunters but we do wonder if this could be the Grey Lady ghost – the picture is quite clear.”

Built in 1071, Dudley is believed to be the most haunted castle in England.

The Grey Lady is thought to be he spirit of Dorothy Beaumont, who died in the castle, along with her baby, shortly after childbirth.

She'd requested to be buried next to her daughter and for her husband to attend the funeral but neither happened and so it's thought she now wanders the castle and its grounds. - ITV

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Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/10/daily-2-cents-uknown-falling-object.html

12-10-2014 om 00:31 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Aliens And Astronomical Alignments

(Before It's News)

Mysterious Universe

Few people would deny that one particular subset of “astronomical” alignments does occur, namely those associated with the sun rather than the night sky. Even mainstream archaeologists can grasp the fact that seasonal movements of the Sun were relevant to ancient cultures. Hence they have no problem with things like the solar alignment of Stonehenge at sunrise on the summer solstice, or the creeping shadow serpent of Chichen Itza at the equinoxes.

It’s a different matter when it comes to night-time astronomy – things like stars, planets and constellations. That’s where the big divergence of opinion sets in. Mainstreamers have no difficulty accepting that Newgrange – a Neolithic site in Ireland that is older than Stonehenge – is aligned with the rising sun on the winter solstice. But to claim that the same site is patterned after the constellation of Cygnus – as some non-academic researchers have suggested – strikes them as preposterous. What possible interest could Neolithic people have had in stars that are hundreds of light-years away from Earth?

Cygnus is one of a number of constellations that seemingly crop up again and again in the design of ancient structures around the world. Another is Draco, which appears to be reflected in the layout of the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia and the Serpent Mound of Ohio, both dating from around a thousand years ago. An even more famous example is the constellation of Orion. The three stars of Orion’s belt are reflected in the arrangement of the three pyramids of the Giza plateau, and also in the Thornborough Henges of northern England, which date from a similar period – around 2500 BC.

Alignment of pyramids with the stars of Orion’s Belt (public domain image captioned in Italian)

An important factor that has to be taken into account when analysing astronomical alignments is the phenomenon of precession. This occurs because the direction of the Earth’s north-south axis oscillates relative to the inertial frame of the stars with a period of approximately 26,000 years. As a consequence, while the constellations would have had the same shape thousands of years in the past, they would have appeared in a different orientation in the sky at a particular time of year.

The remarkable thing about the Giza pyramid alignment is that – taking precession into account – the match was most perfect around the year 10,500 BC. At the same epoch, another artifact at Giza, the Great Sphinx, would have been aligned with the constellation of Leo at dawn on the spring equinox – and the Sphinx’s lion-shaped outline is also reminiscent of the constellation Leo.

Conventional wisdom dates the construction of the pyramids and the Sphinx around 2500 BC, eight millennia after the period at which the alignments make most sense. There are a number of ways this discrepancy can be interpreted. Mainstream academics say there is nothing to be explained, because the whole idea of astronomical alignments can be dismissed as pseudoscience. Other theorists contend that the artifacts are actually much older than archaeologists believe. Another possibility is that the existing structures are correctly dated, but they were built on the site of earlier ones. Most intriguing of all is the possibility that the ancients understood the concept of precession – either through interaction with extraterrestrials, or simply from their own human intelligence.

The idea of ancient astronomical knowledge seems ridiculous to many people – professional academics and the general public alike. But this is an erroneous view, originating from the modern cultural perception of space and the stars.

Today, an interest in outer space is virtually synonymous with geekdom. The stars are associated almost exclusively with oddball preoccupations – science fiction, ufology, space travel, astrophysics, cosmology. The modern world sees such interests as strange and slightly pathetic. Even if proto-geeks with such interests existed in ancient cultures – so the argument goes – they wouldn’t have had the influence or resources to build vast stone structures based around their rather weird hobby.

Contemporary society sees the subject of outer space as inextricably linked to UFOs and science fiction

It’s a mistake, however, to apply modern values to ancient cultures. Why is astronomy, in the modern world, seen as such a fringe interest? There are two reasons. First, it’s irrelevant to daily life, dealing as it does with objects that are hundreds or thousands of light years away, without any possibility of influencing human affairs. Secondly, it’s a notoriously difficult and boring subject, being based on abstruse branches of science such as nucleosynthesis, radiative transfer and orbital dynamics.

Neither of those things was true in the ancient world – in fact it was quite the opposite. In the days before street lighting and built-up cities, the night sky was ablaze with stars that looked almost close enough to touch. Many stars and constellations were given names based on the best-loved characters of mythology, so it’s ridiculous to suggest the ancients didn’t take an intimate, personal interest in them.

In the ancient world, too, the motion of the stars was the most predictable aspect of the natural world. Down-to-earth things like droughts, famines and plagues were totally unpredictable – and hence mysterious. The movement of the constellations, on the other hand, could be predicted with mathematical certainty. Nowadays people say “it’s not rocket science”, implying that anything to do with space is too difficult for an ordinary person to understand. But in ancient times the opposite was true. Space science was the only kind of science people could hope to grasp.

It doesn’t take a knowledge of advanced physics to track stellar motions. It just requires careful observation of the night sky, year after year, and for information to be passed down from one generation to the next. Even the mystery of precession would be within the grasp of meticulous observers. To suggest the ancients weren’t capable of this – as the mainstream archaeologists insist – is a double insult. It’s an insult to the intelligence of ancient people, and it’s an insult to astronomers for treating their subject as if it was a trivial irrelevance.

I don’t know if the Ancient Alien theorists are right or wrong – I’ve got an open mind on the subject. But there’s one thing I’m certain of – the debunkers who flatly deny the possibility of ancient astronomical alignments are dead wrong.

The night sky away from modern civilization is a very different sight (image: European Southern Observatory)

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11-10-2014 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

NASA HAS A UFO SIGHTING PROTOCAL–SHUT OFF THE CAMERAS

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NASA has a UFO Sighting Protocol!

A new footage recorded by Streetcap1 shows a disk-shaped UFO near the ISS on August 29, 2014.  Not surprisingly, NASA cut the live stream and changed the live feed from Cam 1 to Cam 2.  Astronauts working on the International Space Station spot something unexpected, flying objects near or hovering around the space station, the first thing they try to do is to take pictures of what they see, so they have photographic evidence!  Let’s make it clear, NASA has itself allegedly encountered many UFOs through the years, they have thousands of pictures, photographic evidence of the existence of UFOs, but those UFO pictures having never reached the general public. 

 NASA is funded by the government with all of our tax dollars. Actually owned, by the government, (nasa.gov) but as long as the Government keeps silent on UFOs, we will never see the NASA UFO Photo’s.

KENS NOTE:  Apparently our Government is going to waste trillions of OUR dollars or more exploration on the Moon.  MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE WRITES :While recent media attention has focused on the somewhat remote (and ethically problematic) possibility of colonizing Mars within the next 10 to 15 years, the Moon is a much safer bet. But even when we’re talking about the Moon, there are some clear challenges that we’re going to have to overcome before we’re ready to settle in. The biggest of these challenges: making sure that there are enough resources on the lunar colony to actually keep the human beings we send there alive. And the most important of these resources is probably going to be water.  Unfortunately, there’s a huge amount of water ice on the Moon. Unfortunately, we don’t know exactly where it is.  Within the next five years two NASA probes, the 2017 Lunar Flashlight satellite and the 2018 Resource Prospector Mission (RPM)rover, will (with any luck) tell us exactly where this water ice is and how we can access it:

“’If you’re going to have humans on the moon and you need water for drinking, breathing, rocket fuel, anything you want, it’s much, much cheaper to live off the land than it is to bring everything with you,’ said Lunar Flashlight principal investigator Barbara Cohen, of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center … It’s therefore important to ‘understand the inventory of volatiles across the whole moon and their purity, and their accessibility in particular.’”

Once we’ve solved the water problem and developed adequate radiation shielding, we’ll be ready to set up a long-term lunar colony—a worthy successor to the International Space Station (ISS) after it shuts down in 2020.

KENS NOTE:  Well it looks like our children and our children’s children will be ripped off by our government and NASA.  If the Moon fell out of the sky, I would not care.  Lets concentrate on cleaning up the air and feeding our homeless and less fortunate here in the states and across the world. I believe our economy is over 14 trillion in debt.  I wonder how many trillions of dollars have been wasted on this so called space exploration.

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11-10-2014 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

UFOS OVER SAN CLEMENTE, CHILE – PART II

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11-10-2014 om 22:54 geschreven door peter  

THREE EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENCOUNTERS

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11-10-2014 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

New Treasures Recovered From Ancient Antikythera Shipwreck

Photo credit:         B. Seymour/ Return to Antikythera 2014

More than a century ago, a group of sponge fishermen were making their way home to the Greek island of Syme when they were caught in a violent storm. After being blown off course, they managed to anchor on a shallow shelf near a small island called Antikythera. After riding out the storm, the crew decided to make good of a bad situation and explored the new area. But what they discovered was of far greater value than a few sea sponges: an ancient shipwreck, buried for millennia beneath ocean sediment.

After a grueling nine months of intense work, a trove of ancient treasures were recovered by the divers, including statues made of bronze and marble, jewelry, furniture and ancient glassware which were all brought to a museum in Greece. Many of the artefacts were fragmented, so archeologists gradually tried to piece them together. At some point, a corroded lump that was thought to belong to one of the statues cracked open, revealing what would later be identified as one of the most complicated antiques in existence: the Antikythera Mechanism.

Image credit: Ze'ev Barkan, Antikythera zodiac, via Flickr. CC by 2.0

This ancient clockwork device is thought to have been constructed around 87 B.C.E, but was lost in 76 B.C.E when the ill-fated cargo ship carrying it sunk. It’s thought that this bronze instrument was a kind of mechanical “computer” used to calculate the positions of astronomical objects. The mechanism was composed of at least 30 different gears, but various pieces are missing today. That’s why a team of divers and archeologists recently returned to the wreck, embarking on a new exploratory project which they hoped would yield new antiquities.

After spending over a month excavating the wreckage, with the help of a $1.3 million exosuit, the team recovered a series of intriguing finds, demonstrating that much of the cargo still remains preserved beneath the sediment. Furthermore, many components of the ship are still attached, such as anchors and rigging rings, proving that some parts are still intact. Bits and pieces of the wreckage are also strewn across a huge area, some 300 meters of seafloor, suggesting that the ship was considerably larger than originally believed, maybe even 50 meters long.

Among the findings were a ceramic table jug, a bronze rigging ring and part of an ornate bed. But the most remarkable treasure by far was a giant, two-meter-long bronze spear. This was probably far too heavy to have been used as a weapon, so the researchers believe it may be part of a statue, perhaps the goddess Athena. Although they didn’t find the missing pieces of the Antikythera Mechanism, the team will return to the wreck next year to search it further. “We have a lot of work to do at this site to uncover its secrets,” archeologist Theotokis Theodoulou said in a news release. 

Image credit: Brett Seymour/ Return to Antikythera 2014.

[Via BBC News and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]

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11-10-2014 om 20:23 geschreven door peter  

Brain surgery 2,300 YEARS ago: Drill holes on ancient skulls reveal gruesome procedure – and it was successful

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Scientists have discovered evidence of 2,300-year-old surgical procedure on two ancient skulls.

The skulls, unearthed in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, belonged to the Pazyryk nomadic tribe and showed clear signs of recovery after brain surgery.

Using similar tools and techniques, scientists now plan to recreate the same, high-risk procedure – albeit on skulls of the dead.

The skulls, unearthed in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, belonged to the Pazyryk nomadic tribe and showed clear signs of recovery after brain surgery. The skulls showed clear evidence of recovery after undergoing the process called ‘trepanation’. It belonged to a man believed to be 40 to 45-years-old at the time of death

The skulls showed clear evidence of recovery after undergoing the process called ‘trepanation’, according to a report in the Siberian Times.

Trepanation was a risky ancient medical procedure which involved drilling a hole, or surgically scraping into a human skull.

It was used, among other things, to relieve brain swelling, and historians believe it may also have been mistakenly used to treat problems with the nervous system.

One of the skulls, which belonged to a man aged 40 to 45, showed signs of suffering a trauma to the head.

Scientists believe he developed a subdural haematoma, a condition where blood forms between the skull and the surface of the brain.

30-year-old woman’s skull from Kyzyk-Dzhar-IV shows that she died during the surgery or soon afterwards

The haematoma would have led to him suffering headaches, vomiting and movement problems in his right leg and hand.

Trepanation would have removed the haematoma and evidence of later bone growth suggests the man lived for years after the surgery.

The second male had a hereditary deformation, which was successfully improved with by drilling a hole into the skull.

‘In the middle 19th century, the survival of patients after trepanation in the best hospitals in Europe rarely exceed 10 per cent,’ Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences told Siberian Times. 

Trepanation was a high-risk ancient medical procedure which involved drilling a hole, or surgically scraping into a human skull. Pictured is the second male, who had a hereditary deformation of the skull

Scientists have now created computer models of the two skulls, along with a third skull found of a woman in which the procedure was unsuccessful

‘[Trepanation] was associated with an extremely high risk of infectious complications, and this operation was committed only when patients had very severe traumatic brain injury.’ 

‘Even today, with advanced neurosurgical techniques, successful implementation of trepanation requires the serious knowledge and training, and the procedure itself is not considered as absolutely harmless.’

Archaeologists believe the Pazyryk tribe may have had knowledge of the Hippocratic Corpus, a set of ancient Greek medical texts associated with the physician Hippocrates.

They claim results of the ancient operations on these two skulls to be ‘astonishing’ given the risks associated with such surgery.

Scientists have now created computer models of the two skulls, along with a third skull found of a woman in which the procedure was unsuccessful.

The 30-year-old woman’s skull indicated injury consistent with a fall, and further analysis suggests she died during the surgery or soon afterwards.

By recreating the procedure, scientists at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography hope to understand more which tools were used, and why the procedure was carried out.

‘It may have been related to the rituals through which man reached altered states of consciousness required for religious and magical activities,’ they say.

The Altai Mountains, where the skulls were found, are a mountain range in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together

Source : http://sciencetech-blog.blogspot.com/2014/09/brain-surgery-2300-years-ago-drill.html

11-10-2014 om 15:22 geschreven door peter  

ALIEN LIFE FOUND PROVES WE COME FROM EXTRATERRESTRIALS

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Mark this day on your calendars, this is the day when humankind found out where we come from. Extraterrestrials. Unequivocally the biological entity was “like nothing found on earth”.

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Researchers at the University of Sheffield, and the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, claim to have found particulates of matter in the Earth’s stratosphere thatis the long awaited proof of extraterrestrial life. Not being content with solving one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however, the researchers also claim that their findings explain the origins of humanity and reveal that all life on earth originally came from space.

As with all amazing discoveries this revelation has it’s expected detractors. Obviously more testing is required to fulfill scientific methodology. More testing is scheduled. This is such a paradigm shaking discovery that a lot of our current theories of our origin will have to be scrapped, and rightfully so. Such as all the mythological religious ones. A quick search in the blogosphere finds many bible thumpers are up in arms. This discovery when replicated and verified will be just one more nail in the cross (pun intended) of religious dogma. The God of the gaps just lost another huge gap.

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11-10-2014 om 15:14 geschreven door peter  

Multiple UFOs show up in Georgia I-85 photos

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A couple driving westbound along I-85 near Lavonia, GA, discovered multiple anomalies on photos taken of cloud formations, according to testimony in Case 60508 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The two witnesses only saw the objects in the photo – and not in the sky. Pictured: Laconia, Georgia. (Credit: Google)

“My wife held the cell phone out the window and was snapping shots as we rode,” the reporting witness stated. “After about seven shots she stopped. Nothing was visible in sky as we rode.”

But then they reviewed the images that were taken about 7:15 p.m. on October 4, 2014.

“On the last photo we saw the four objects which looked like exhaust coming out of the bottom. One or two previous shots showed faint blurred images which I assume were part of this four but not as close. Never saw the items. They only appeared in the photo.”

Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)

Cropped and enlarged version of the original witness image. (Credit: MUFON)

The witness included one image with the MUFON report, which was filed on October 10, 2014.

Georgia has a current UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Georgia had 7 UFO reports in September 2014 – the 23rd highest reporting state – calculated at .30 sightings per million population – while California had 93 reports as the highest reporting state. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 150 or more reports for the month are rated an Alert 1; states with 100 or more reports are rated an Alert 2; 25 reports or more for the month are rated an Alert 3; 13 or more reports are rated an Alert 4; and those states with less than 13 reports for the month are an Alert 5.

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11-10-2014 om 15:08 geschreven door peter  

American University to hold UFO panel discussion

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One of the most prestigious universities in the United States has announced that it will hold a serious panel discussion on UFOs, hosted by former CNN anchor, and UFO witness, Miles O’Brien.

Often UFO researchers and enthusiasts voice their concern that mainstream establishments do not take the UFO topic seriously. Well, once in awhile events like the one scheduled at American University take place and suggest that things might be changing.

American University recently announced that it will hold a panel discussion called UFOs: Encounters by Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials. It includes ” four prominent national figures,” and is based on the Honors Colloquium, Alien Contact: Science and Science Fiction, by professor and filmmaker John Weiskopf.

The events page for the panel includes a video from Weiskopf describing the event (seen above). He says, “This panel gives you an opportunity to hear from leading investigators, and from eye witness Colonel Charles Halt, the Air Force Deputy Base Commander near Rendlesham Forest. He stood 20 feet away from a UFO, and he recorded the event.”

Along with Halt, the panel will also include investigative journalist and author Leslie Kean. The title of the event is taken from her New York Times best-selling book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.

Leslie Kean being interviewed by Chilean media during a visit in 2012. General Ricardo Bermúdez, head of  CEFAA, Chile’s official department of UFO investigation, stands to her right. (Credit: DGAC)

Other panelists include author Thomas Carey, one of the leading experts on the Roswell incident, and Dr. Richard Haines. Haines is the co-founder of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NICAP), and is a former NASA researcher. Haines served as the Chief for Space Human Factors Office at NASA’s Ames Research Center from 1986-88.

As you can see, all of the panelists are people who either had their own UFO experience or research the topic. Although skeptical, none of them are skeptics. The discussion appears not to be a debate, but rather, the presentation of compelling evidence for the serious investigation of the UFO phenomena.

I am sure many will feel that American University holding such an event is quite shocking. Weiskopf appears to be aware of the novelty of the event. In the video he notes, “There has been no program likes this.”

Miles O’Brien (Credit: PBS)

The choice of the moderator is also very interesting. The tone of a panel is set by the moderator, who can easily sway the focus to be comedic, or incredulous. However, the moderator in this case is beloved and credible, and perhaps one of the more prominent figures to have admitted that he also has seen a UFO.

The moderator for the event, Miles O’Brien, is a former anchor for CNN, and has largely specialized in science, technology, and aerospace. Recently, he has won the hearts of many with the amazingly positive attitude he has had towards the loss of his left arm due to an accident.

O’Brien shared his UFO experience on CNN after the airing of one of a series of news reports on UFOs he had put together. He introduced the piece mentioning that the believed in UFOs, and after the piece played, one of his co-anchors asked him about his UFO comment.

He explained:

Well, you know, I saw something that was very odd about 20 years ago with my wife. We’re in Maine. It was dusk. We saw what looked like, you know, a planet, you know, bright planet, but then it took a 90-degree turn and took off at about Mac 20. And I’m a pilot. I know speed. It was amazing. I’ve never seen anything like it. Could have been a meteor. Could have been some block program. Could have been something else.

The panel at American University will be held on November 12, 2014 from 7:30 – 10 pm. According to a tweet by Kean, it will be free and open to the public.

The panel is made up of some of the most respected, credible, and well spoken individuals to ever research the UFO topic, and with a beloved moderator who has also had his own UFO experience, the event is sure to make people who had not thought much of the topic to a closer look.

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11-10-2014 om 14:57 geschreven door peter  

COLLEGE STUDENTS ALIEN ABDUCTION IN PENNSYLVANIA

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COLLEGE STUDENTS ALIEN ABDUCTION IN PENNSYLVANIA

1958 ….    MONT ALTO PENNSYLVANIA

I had an incident in 1958 when I was a young man going to college in Mont Alto, PA.  It was late evening and I was in my room sitting in a lounge chair trying to read and stay awake at the same time. I was near graduation and had a lot of things on my mind. As I sat there, I had a strange feeling like someone was watching me and I became very restless. After a few minutes I ‘sensed’ that something was on the other side of the closed door to my room. I still can’t explain it. So I got up from the chair and went to the door, opened it a bit and looked out. There were two men dressed in black suits and black furry hats. They looked like identical twins. They were dark complexioned with Asian eyes, but they were not Asian.  As I stood there, they didn’t said a word but I knew that they were ‘talking’ to me through my mind, saying ‘…are you ready?’ For some unknown reason, I knew deep down what they were referring to. I was shirtless with only a pair of shorts, so I reached for a jacket, ‘…that will not be necessary. No one will see you.’ The three of us walked out in the hallway and suddenly we were standing on a small hill behind the student hall. I noticed the headlights of a car coming down the street and ducked behind the two men. I heard them laughing at me in my mind, ‘….we told you no one would see you’.  I was scared and turned away for a minute wondering if I should try to run. I thought better of it, turned to say something to them and noticed that they we looking up. I followed their gaze and realized that something was suspended above us. I continued to look when an opening appeared in its center and blue-white light came tumbling out of it. I started to feel dizzy and a bit nauseous, like when you are on a roller coaster or airplane that is dropping too fast. Then I realized we were floating up toward whatever the object was. I must have fainted because I only remember that I was lying on my side when I woke. I raised up and looked around. The entire room was empty except for the small table on which I was sitting.  The room was bathed in a soft glow but had no apparent light source that I could see. Then I heard a female voice say, ‘…he’s awake.’ I looked around to see if I could see anyone but saw nothing. About this time on the far wall a door appeared and opened. Although the hallway was dark, there was a bluish white illumination that appeared as though it was materializing. Two shadows seemed to move across the doorway but I couldn’t tell anything about the shapes.  I received a mental image of two people approaching, one carrying a tray full of some kind of surgical instruments and syringes. Then I went blank. My next memory was of being back in my room and in my chair reading. I got up and felt like I had just woke from a deep sleep. Then I noticed several items were missing including three books and a framed photo of my parents.  I have never had any affects (that I know of) from my experience though I have had a remarkable healthy life. As well, I am constantly told I look 20 years younger than my actual age.  Now, the reason I am now writing about my encounter. A few days ago, a large box arrived at my daughter’s house that was addressed to me.
The reason why it was sent to her address is a mystery. As well, there was no return address and it was shipped from Oakland, California (the state where I now reside). My grandson brought the package to me a day or so later. While he watched, I opened the box. It contained the three missing books and the framed photo of my parents that went missing the night of my encounter. There was also a battered shoebox that looked very familiar. When I opened the shoebox, there were a variety of small items (pens, buttons, coins, etc) that I realized I had lost at some period in my young life. That is when I revealed my past experience with my astonished grandson.  I’m still confused after receiving the package a few months ago. Who were these men and what did they want? Have you heard of a similar experience? You have my permission to copy this email. I really need some answers.  Thank you so much. D.L. 

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11-10-2014 om 14:23 geschreven door peter  

Complicated Military Aircrafts - Engineering and Manufacture (HD Documentary)

Gepubliceerd op 22 sep. 2013          

Complicated Military Aircrafts - Engineering and Manufacture (HD Documentary)

This documentary and the rest of the documentaries presented relate to important times and figures in history, historic places and sites, archaeology, science, conspiracy theories, and education. 
The Topics of these video documentaries are varied and cover ancient history, Rome, Greece, Egypt, science, technology, nature, planet earth, the solar system, the universe, war, education, Biographies, television, archaeology, Illuminati, Area 51, serial killers, paranormal, supernatural, cults, government cover-ups, corruption, martial arts, space, aliens, ufos, conspiracy theories, Annunaki, Nibiru, Nephilim, satanic rituals, religion, strange phenomenon, origins of Mankind

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11-10-2014 om 13:54 geschreven door peter  

Secret Cold War Bombers of the Americans and Russians (Full Documentary)

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11-10-2014 om 13:50 geschreven door peter  

Two bright UFOs recorded in front of a Helicopter over New York City in October 2014

New amazing video footage of two bright UFOs recorded in the daytime sky above New York City while flying in front of a helicopter in October 2014.

Witness said:
Two Ufos hover in front of a helicopter October, 2014.In this video you can see a helicopter hovering in one position observing two UFOs in the middle of New York City. The Ufos appear to be shining and they hover as well before veering off at a very high rate of speed. These couldn’t be birds or drones because drones and birds could never fly off that fast. They appear to be to orb shaped UFOs with a light source.

11-10-2014 om 12:31 geschreven door peter