Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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...
02-12-2014
UFO mania: The Great Wall of Texas Could Change History
UFO mania: The Great Wall of Texas Could Change History
Usually, when someone thinks of the “Great Wall,” instantly China comes to mind. But, Texas holds a “Great Wall” of its own, roughly 3.5 miles wide by 5.6 mile long. It’s quite small compared to the length of the Great Wall of China. However, resting at least 40 feet high, it was quite an achievement for whoever built it—if it is indeed man-made.
Discovered in 1852 by three farmers who were digging a well, the Great Wall of Texas has received little attention over the years from the scientific and archaeological community. Harvard-trained architect John Lindsey and geologist James Shelton have been among the scientists calling for further investigation into the anomalies of this structure.
If it is man-made (rather than a natural formation), it could require a reevaluation of history. The nearby Caddo Native American tribe has no history of building such structures, and it’s commonly accepted that they were also incapable of building the structure.
“After compiling past records, data, and documents, including recent studies and research, evidence of a prehistoric structure built by man is mounting,” said Architect John Lindsey in 1996, according to the Rockwall County Historical Foundation.
A home video filmed during an excavation at the site in 1998:
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Why Are Aliens Visiting Earth? The Answer May Surprise You
Why Are Aliens Visiting Earth? The Answer May Surprise You
UFOs Have Been Visiting Earth For a Long Time, Why?
While many acknowledge the presence of extraterrestrials in our world they are at a complete loss to explain why they are here. As with most things in life the explanation is fairly straightforward and not that difficult to comprehend. Understanding the primary motive for extraterrestrials visits will help explain the UFO Phenomena.
Most people believe that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth to monitor the progress and behavior of humanity. To a certain extent that might be true, but it is much more likely that they are periodically coming here to examine the health of Planet Earth. After all, even our scientist are beginning to come around to the idea that Planet Earth is a living sentient being. In the greater cosmos, human and extraterrestrial life may be fairly common. On the other hand what little we know about other planets, and the universe at large, indicate that our home planet is an extremely desirable and rare occurrence within the cosmos.
People have wondered for a long time why ET has not made their presence known. If we are not the primary reason why they are here, why would they disclose their existence. The survival of mankind is probably very far down their list of priorities. For that matter survival of humanity may not even be on their list of priorities. Have you ever stopped to consider that Planet Earth has more value to an alien race if there were no humans inhabiting the planet.
Everything we need to sustain life has been provided for us on Planet Earth. We are blessed with an abundance of water, sunshine, breathable air, enough land and food to house and feed 7 billion people. We share Earth with millions of species of plant, animal and insect life, each playing an important role in the ecosystem, that in itself is remarkable. It makes our planet an astonishing place, a very rare and unusual gem among the stars.
Those that follow UFOs closely, know the largest wave of UFO sightings in modern time coincided with the discovery of splitting the atom and the use of Atomic Energy during WWII. In other words, when we discovered how to manipulate nuclear energy we triggered an unprecedented wave of UFO sightings.
There are well documented cases of UFOs hovering over nuclear military facilities in both the United States and Russia. Reliable witnesses state that the craft were tampering with the nuclear armament control systems. This behavior by UFOs and their occupants was not an accident and it was clearly a message to humanity.
Many people 'want' to believe that if things get out of control and WWIII gets under way our extraterrestrial brethren will step in and save humanity, nothing could be further from the truth. ET may step in and save Planet Earth, but they will have little time and no admiration for a species that never understood how good they had it in the first place.
There is little doubt that Earth's oceans, forest and species of plants and animals are worth saving. The living, breathing, self-regulating sentient being that we are living on is at the core of their mission.
UFOs have a long and documented history of appearing just after natural or man-made catastrophic events. There is not much question that they are keeping their eye on the prize we call Earth.
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UFOs, Russia Erects First Monument to Aliens and UFOs. UFO News, Alien News, Video
UFOs, Russia Erects First Monument to Aliens and UFOs. UFO News, Alien News,
Russia's First monument to UFOs and Aliens
Russia’s first ever statue of an alien has been unveiled near the city of Perm, in the Urals. It marks the site of the most frequent UFO sightings in Russia. The wooden statue, almost two meters tall, was erected at the entrance to the village of Molebka. This place was not chosen accidentally as it is considered one of the most popular UFO hotspots in Russia, Itar-Tass reports. Many believe that UFOs land there more often than in other places. The so-called Molebsky triangle was discovered in the 1980s.
"This is Russia's first monument to a UFO," the news agency quoted Nikolay Subbotin, the head of the Russian UFO Research Station (RUFORS), as saying. The monument with characteristic alien eyes was done by a local skilled craftsman, carver Viktor Sazanov, and cost local authorities 45,000 rubles (about US$1,600).
Subbotin said that now local ufologists are thinking of opening a UFO museum in Molebka with an observatory shaped like a flying saucer. They want to send the proposal to colleagues in the US city of Roswell, the most famous zone among ufologists.
The “first contact” has already been established, as guests from Roswell attended the festival of creativity and design called “Fact and Fiction of the Molebsky Triangle.”
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Mystery of the Crystal Sphere of Atlantis
Mystery of the Crystal Sphere of Atlantis
Theories about Atlantis mention the extensive use of crystals by Atlanteans. Crystals varied in slight, color, and harmonic frequencies. Crystals follow harmonic frequencies and could be used with an instrument that looks like a tuning fork.
Atlantis Seed Crystal
Atlanteans allegedly harnessed the energies of the pyramids, using harmonics linked to crystals to that end. As we have the Great Pyramid at the center of the planet linked to the grid matrix that creates our reality, so, too, did the Atlanteans.
Their pyramid allegedly sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean which is a metaphor about returning to the collective unconsciousness or source of creation.
Grids point are often marked by pyramids. The Atlanteans used this energy, combined with crystals, to transmit energy from one pyramid to another or, as aliens, to enter and leave the planet.
Mystery Energy Beam
Depending on the tilt of the Earth's axis at a particular time of the year, one pyramid would function to intensify and transmit energies to other pyramids which would then act as receiving devices and would disperse energy as it was needed. The opposite would apply when that pyramid was at an unfocused point to their celestial alignment, when other pyramids would be used as transmitters.
It was an intricate matrix crystal grid system.
As controversial as the land of Atlantis remains, it is still an enigma that cannot be disproved. To add more mystery to the dilemma, a baffling mystery exists, surrounding an unusual crystal sphere said to have been found in a submerged pyramid in the waters near the location where Atlantis was said to have existed.
The Astounding Discovery of Dr. Ray Brown
Known as Ray Brown’s Atlantean Crystal Sphere, the discovery of the sphere occurred during a scuba diving trip to the Bari Islands in the Bahamas in 1970.While diving, Ray Brown – a naturopathic doctor – became separated from his friends and while he searched for them, he came upon a strange pyramid structure.
Though startled by the find, he investigated and was amazed that the sides of the pyramid were completely smooth and the joints between the individual blocks to be nearly imperceptible. Upon entering the pyramid, Ray was further astounded by the clean, smooth sides of the interior: no algae or coral grew on the walls.
Not only that, but he was able to see the interior clearly as the room was well lit but there was no detectable source of light. He tried to remove a a multi-faceted red gemstone attached to a metallic rod that descended from the center of the ceiling, but was unable to dislodge it. About four feet below the point of the red gemstone, stood a bronze metal sculpture of two open hands, and resting upon the palms of the hands was a crystal sphere, about four inches in diameter. He was surprised that he could lift the crystal sphere easily.
And so he seized his prize and headed toward the exit. As he did so, he felt an invisible presence come near and a voice that warned him never to return. Concerned that his prize might be taken away from him by the government as salvage treasure, Ray kept the unusual sphere – and his story – hidden until 1975.
For What Purpose Was the Crystal Sphere Created
The Original Crystal Sphere (It is the size of a tennis ball)
Inside the sphere are the images of three pyramids, one in front of the other. Some, entering into a meditative or alpha brainwave state of consciousness, are able to clearly see a fourth pyramid, in the foreground of the other three. At another angle, some have claimed to see a faint image of a large single eye serenely gazing out at them. Thousands of tiny fracture lines also appear and may be electrical in nature, like some form of microscopic circuit ry. The use of the crystal sphere in ancient times is not clear: only speculative at this point. Some say that the crystal sphere was used in conjunction with other powerful faceted stones (perhaps the red stone Ray Brown saw in the underwater Pyramid?) to draw in and concentrate enormous energy from the earth, then generate and project the resulting tremendous power. For good or for ill purposes, no one can say.
Ray Brown's Atlantean crystal sphere has only made a few public appearances since 1975. It was at the 9-9-9 Crystal Skulls World Mysteries Conference in Arizona and the 10-10-10 Legend of the 13 Skulls Conference in New York.
Version of The Atlantean Sphere on 11/11/11 at the Mayan Crystal Skull Conference in Los Angeles - Photos by Robyn Swick
Paranormal Events
Interestingly, whenever Ray Brown's Atlantean crystal sphere has been displayed, mysterious occurrences have often been reported: phantom lights; feeling a breath of wind; hot and cold sensations; tingling of energy; hearing voices. Some have claimed to experience healing from the sphere. At times, compasses have been affected when placed next to the crystal while some metals seemed to have become temporarily magnetic.
Demonstration of the power of the crystal sphere at 2.42 minutes:
When Ray Brown passed on at the age of 89, the Atlantean sphere came into the guardianship of Arthur Fanning.
Dr. Brown's crystal sphere is the source of a variety of paranormal events. People have felt that activation of the sphere is increased through high intensity sound waves in combination with ancient mantras.
A compass needle placed next to the sphere will spin counterclockwise, then begin turning in the opposite direction when moved only two inches away.
Metals are temporarily magnetized in close contact with it. There are even recorded instances where one person has been temporarily healed of an ailment by touching the crystal sphere, but then the next person to come into its range took on the symptoms of the ailment of the other person, as if the crystal could draw out and then activate human disorders at will.
Trance reading on the mysterious sphere adds that there were four identical spheres created: two were destroyed in Atlantean times as they were used for evil purposes; the third still remains hidden in a submerged temple; the fourth is in possession of Arthur Fanning. Do the positions of the three pyramid images in the crystal hold a key to finding a fourth, as yet unfound subterranean pyramid, that is the fabled Hall of Records? Maybe...
Just what the purpose of the crystal sphere was, and what role it once played in the enigmatic instrument Brown found inside the sunken Bahaman pyramid, remains a mystery, though of course there are some interesting possibilities.
One idea proposed is that the sunken pyramid once attracted, accumulated and generated cosmic forces. The suspended rod may have conducted forces accumulated in the capstone; the faceted red gem at its end concentrated and projected the energy to the crystal sphere below it, showing the evidence of an energy transfer, probably amplified the release of energies; while the crystal sphere acted as the tuner and broadcaster of the energies.
All that we know for certain is that the crystal sphere Dr. Brown retrieved from this system is by itself testimony to a most sophisticated technology, for as experts at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington noted, the technology for cutting quartz stone to the perfection exhibited in the crystal sphere was not accomplished by our civilization until after 1900.
Uses of Crystals
01. Healing, childbirth, crossing over 02. Meditation, awakening, increasing psychic abilities 03. Increasing mental capacity and clarity of thought 04. Science and technology 05. Dematerialization 06. Teleportation 07. Telekinesis 08. Magnetic force fields 09. Libraries 10. Storing records and other knowledge, much like a computer 11. Botany and agriculture 12. Weather Control 13. Huge crystal tower power generators 14. Communication
Crystals have the ability to transfer energy, to retain it, to maintain its intensity, to focus and transmit it over great distance to similar receivers as are equal or comparable to the transmitter. The larger stones, called Fire Crystals, were the central receiving and broadcasting stations, while others acted as receivers for individual cities, buildings, vehicles and homes. On a higher spiritual level, rooms made of crystals were places where the Initiates left their bodies in the Final Transcendence, often never to return.
ENORMOUS TRIANGLE UFO SHAPED CRAFT OVER LOUISIANA NOVEMBER 5, 2014 ……. ZACHARY LOUISIANA
Large Triangle with Loud Rumbling Sound Moving Northwest in Baton Rouge. I was on my front porch looking at my phone when I suddenly hear a low rumbling noise that began to slowly get louder. At first being near Baton Rouge with our chemical plants, I thought the noise was the plant kicking up their flame stacks to burn more chemicals. Sometimes at night they do this and you can hear it for about 30 minutes to an hour. I walked out to get a better idea of which direction it was coming from and immediately noticed a group of flashing lights in the sky. I knew this couldn’t be airplanes flashing in the distance because of first off the lights were in a triangle shape and they were all the same distance from me. Also the lights were flashing in sequential order from left to right in perfect timing. I watched as the sound got louder and then noticed they were all moving together towards northwest from original location I spotted it in. The lights lead me to believe instead of 5 different objects, this was one very large object; as large as my town and half of my town of Zachary, Louisiana. This would make it roughly 4 miles across. As it moved away I ran and woke my mother to have a second witness. My mom does not believe in UFOs and she was also convinced it was one large triangle. As it got further away the rumbling stopped and also the front light became solid and stayed on until no lights were visible. I would LOVE to know if anything was reported on Radar being I live near Baton Rouge airport. This also means I am used to flashing lights from planes and also study passing satellites and orbiting rocket bodies using a sky monitoring app for satellites in the sky. Lots of cloud cover tonight but clouds were very high. I did not see any single planes tonight though. These were the only lights. I always see strange objects because I watch the skies. I have seen more than one anomaly in the same direction from my front yard. But this was the first ever hearing anything and first triangle craft or at least formation.
Your UFO reports: 22nd November – 29th November 2014
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Scottsdale, Arizona – 30 November 2014 I saw a formation of 4-5 lights over the freeway in Scottsdale az tonight. Thought they were helicopters but then realized there were no flashing lights. One by one they went straight up into the sky and disappeared. I was driving or I would have taken a picture. I should have pulled over.
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I-35 headed South, one mile North of Lathrop exit. – November 28, 2014 Looked like a triangular object hovering at about 15,000 feet. It was either reflecting sunlight or it had lights on it. It hovered for a couple minutes in one spot and then just disappeared. No jet stream, it was as if it just faded out and disappeared.
Kristy
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Marysville, MI – Friday, Nov 28, 2014 Facing west and looking upward at about a 60 degree angle, at 6AM I noticed 3 bright lights, which I first mistook as stars, forming a perfect equilateral triangle. But then I noticed that these “stars” were drifting apart and flattening out until they eventually aligned themselves into a straight line. At that time the leftmost light headed to the southeast in a straight line away from the other two lights. Definitely NOT typical star behavior!
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L’Anse-Saint-Jean Quebec Canada – 17 nov 2014 My neighbor took this photo and even din’t notice the object on the right upper corner. It was around 8 o”clock in the morning, the sun is rising on the left . But , if you look at the enlarge photo, you can see the reddish color of the sun under the UFO.
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Sanbach, Cheshire England – 24/11/2014 60, to 70 orbs looking like triangle shape, very hi in sky. about 8:45pm
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Nipomo Ca. – 11-24-2014 Bright orb in eastern sky apoxamently 30-40 degrees of the horizon. I went to grab my camera be hind me and it disappeared.
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Iran- Kermanshah – actually it’s almost a month (October 2014) Every night some strange lights appear in the Sky…some nights there are several lights together that blinking and moving so many faster than an Airplane..some nights it’s just one…We are Damn Sure it is not airplane…so many people in this City have already approved that ! there is an ancient place near this City called Tag Bostan (طاق بستان) people say those things fly toward this place and stop on top of there and then disappear! years ago some UFO Spaceship activites have reported in this place
Fragneto Monforte, Italy – 9 October, 2014 october 9, 2014 an UFO was observed above Fragneto Monforte. Three people, among them dott. Angelo Carannante and ing. Ennio Piccalunga, have seen an UFO and shot some photos. Then they have informed the Centro Ufologico Mediterraneo (CUFOM), whose specialists have analyzed the interesting pictures. On official CUFOM youtube channel, “CUFOMTV”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F-nm6XNnVc, it’s possible to find a video trailer about this interesting UFO sighting. News updates and further information about the results of the investigations will be given soon.
The President of the Centro Ufologico Mediterraneo (CUFOM) Dr. Angelo Carannante
The Charlotte, FL, witness was westbound along Midway Boulevard when traffic slowed to a stop as a UFO moved overhead. Pictured: Charlotte, FL. (Credit: Google)
A Florida witness at Port Charlotte driving westbound along Midway Boulevard at 6:34 p.m. on November 30, 2014, reported getting stopped behind several cars just as a “pretty large white orb” UFO moved overhead, according to testimony in Case 61753 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
“I came to a stop behind a few cars in the middle of the road,” the witness stated. “People were looking up to the north. I head a low humming and saw a pretty large white orb. Inside was a small pill-sized and shaped black- metallic UFO.”
The object was changing colors and moving abruptly up and down before stopping to hover. Pictured: Charlotte, FL. (Credit: Google)
The witness described the object.
“It was changing colors, moved abruptly up and down, east and west, and then it hovered for a half a minute, and flew at an incomparable speed.”
The witness is not familiar with the type of craft that was seen.
“It scared me badly because I used to live near a military base and an airport in Maryland and have never seen any craft like this – it barely made any sound!”
The other drivers at the scene noticed the object too.
The witness was upset by the incident because the object could not be identified. Pictured: Charlotte, FL. (Credit: Google)
“When it shot out of sight, the cars started moving again, but during the incident a male in the car in front of me actually yelled out his window, ‘What the “blank” is that?’ I knew we were all thinking what the heck it really was. I can tell you now – I’m no longer a skeptic when it comes to UFOs.”
Port Charlotte is an unincorporated community in Charlotte County, Florida, population 54,392.
Florida has a current UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Florida had 30 UFO reports that occurred during October 2014 – calculated at 1.55 sightings per million population.
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 4.01 or higher reports per million residents are rated an Alert 1; 3.01 – 4.0 reports are an Alert 2; 2.51 – 3.0 are an Alert 3; 2.01 – 2.5 are an Alert 4; and those states with 2.0 or lower are rated an Alert 5.
Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
In 2011 I was invited by the Saudi Arabian government to attend and speak at the Global Competitiveness Forum, an event similar to the World Economic Forum held in Davos. Former US President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker and other attendees included the former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The core audience was the business community, and attendees included CEO and board level representatives from companies such as Google, IBM, Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Reuters. My panel discussion was titled “Contact: Learning from Outer Space” and I was seated next to Michio Kaku. I spoke about the economic and financial implications of discovering extraterrestrial life, but while my presentation was well-received in Riyadh, some people in the UFO and conspiracy theory communities were outraged. How dare I drag the sordid issue of money into the equation? Why did I do it? Let me explain.
In the various discussions that take place about the societal consequences of discovering alien life, whether these are discussions among ufologists, astrobiologists, or SETI radio astronomers, certain themes and questions crop up repeatedly. Would there be panic in the streets? What would be the effect on religious belief? What about the political ramifications? How would people incorporate this new information into their personal paradigm and worldview? But of all the issues that would arise, the one that hardly ever gets a mention is money. I spoke about this at the Global Competitiveness Forum because when we find alien life, there will undoubtedly be financial implications. Some people may find this distasteful, but feeling uncomfortable about an issue doesn’t make it go away. So let’s follow the money trail.
Discovering extraterrestrial life may happen in a variety of different ways. The scenarios include something along the lines of the archetypal landing on the White House lawn; discovering an alien probe or artefact on Earth or in the solar system; discovering microbial life in our solar system – probably on Mars, Europa or Enceladus; detecting a radio signal from another civilization; or using the next generation of telescopes in parallel with spectroscopy to detect the ‘biosignature’ of life – probably oxygen, ozone and methane. Clearly there are lots of variables here, but in almost every scenario, vast sums of money will be made.
Discovering microbial (or other very simple) life in our own solar system would have huge potential benefits in terms of biotechnology, including bioweapons. Again, I appreciate that this isn’t what a lot of people want to hear, but I’m telling it like it is. Bear in mind, of course, that space missions are increasingly going to be undertaken not by the likes of NASA, ESA, or by nation states, but by the private sector. History will show that the recent crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo was only a minor setback to the inevitable private sector domination of space. Alongside biotechnology, consider the value of any form of alien life to private collectors. There are plenty of billionaires out there, who would be happy to pay through the nose for something truly out of this world.
Another scenario relates to discovering an exoplanet where life is detected (or reasonably deduced to exist) through spectral analysis. Whilst the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has rules on naming celestial objects, they freely admit that they have no monopoly here, and that anyone can adopt whatever name they like. So while an exoplanet discovered by a NASA telescope would probably be named according to IAU conventions (which preclude purely commercial names), it would be difficult – if not impossible – to place naming constraints where the discovery is made by an individual or a corporation. In such a situation, the person making the discovery could, in theory, opt for Planet Pepsi. How much would these naming rights and other commercial opportunities (e.g. advertising) be worth?
What about that scenario so beloved of ufologists – the UFO crash? What if the entity that acquires such wreckage isn’t a nation state, but a corporation? Bear in mind that technology acquisition is a pretty good reason for UFO secrecy, and remember that quote from the final report of the UK MoD’s Project Condign, which talked about the “novel military applications” (e.g. the development of a directed energy weapon) that might result from a better understanding of the UFO phenomenon. How much might extraterrestrial technology be worth to a private corporation that might hope to secure a monopoly on exotic new energy sources, propulsion systems, etc.? And how far do you think such corporations might go to acquire such technology, and then keep it secret from potential competitors, the media and the public, until such a time as it could be properly developed?
Lastly, let’s look at one of the most likely scenarios by which we’ll discover the existence of extraterrestrial civilisations: radio astronomy. Efforts such as SETI are underway already, and need no more tools to detect a signal from another civilisation than the tools they already have. A radio signal may be detected today. But the next generation of radio telescopes (such as the Square Kilometre Array) will substantially increase the odds of detecting such a signal. What then? SETI says the answer is to verify and then to disclose, but there may be other players in the game. One highly likely scenario is that a signal would be detected, but that it would be indecipherable. How comfortable do you think governments would be should such data be disclosed? What if we detect what science writer Timothy Ferris dubbed the “Galactic Internet” and/or downloaded an ‘Encyclopedia Galactica’? Information designed to help civilisations build the ultimate power station could doubtless be used to build the ultimate bomb. Humans are pretty good at weaponising things. But again, what if the ‘first discoverer’ here is an individual or a corporation? How much might it be worth to be the first to download an ‘Encyclopedia Galactica’?
It may be that certain corporations first got into the UFO business by accident. Governments pushed some or all of their UFO research and investigation into the private sector to take it outside the scope of Congressional/Parliamentary scrutiny, and to take it outside the scope of Freedom of Information legislation. But corporations aren’t stupid, and must recognise the potential payouts here, even if they do regard them as low probability/high impact scenarios. A new space race is underway, and the potential rewards for the winner(s) won’t be measured in millions, or in billions, but in trillions.
Nick Pope is a former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence. From 1991 to 1994 he ran the British Government's UFO project and has recently been the public face of the ongoing initiative to declassify and release the entire archive of these UFO files. Nick Pope held a number of other fascinating posts in the course of his 21-year government career, which culminated in his serving as an acting Deputy Director in the Directorate of Defence Security. He now works as a broadcaster and journalist, covering subjects including space, fringe science, defence and intelligence. Nick Pope’s latest book, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World's Best-Documented UFO Incident, co-written with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, was published by Thomas Dunne Books on 15th April and is available via Amazon and all good bookstores.
The Fortean Slip 58 Someone Call John Titor We Have An Ancient Computer Episode. This week Chris and Steve look at out of time/place objects around the globe. They also look at an untranslated sculpture, UFOs visiting a volcano in Costa Rica and human waste used as rocket fuel. This webcast is uncensored.
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for November 2014
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for November 2014
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In November 2014 there were 541 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country
Number of Reports
UNITED STATES
426
CANADA
28
UNITED KINGDOM
15
INDIA
14
MEXICO
5
AUSTRALIA
5
ISRAEL
3
NEW ZEALAND
3
ITALY
3
GERMANY
3
AUSTRIA
2
IRELAND
2
GREECE
2
SPAIN
2
BRAZIL
2
SWEDEN
2
MYANMAR
1
NICARAGUA
1
EL SALVADOR
1
INDONESIA
1
NETHERLANDS
1
POLAND
1
NORWAY
1
PERU
1
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
1
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
1
TURKEY
1
CUBA
1
AFGHANISTAN
1
ROMANIA
1
FRANCE
1
BULGARIA
1
MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF
1
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
1
URUGUAY
1
SOUTH AFRICA
1
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
1
CHILE
1
COSTA RICA
1
SURINAME
1
TOTAL:
541
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State
Number of Reports
California
66
Pennsylvania
25
Texas
22
Arizona
21
Florida
21
Massachusetts
15
New York
15
Washington
15
Michigan
14
Indiana
13
Missouri
13
Minnesota
12
Ohio
12
Georgia
12
New Jersey
9
Tennessee
9
Nevada
9
Illinois
8
Kentucky
8
Alabama
7
North Carolina
7
Oklahoma
7
Virginia
7
Louisiana
7
Oregon
7
West Virginia
7
Colorado
6
Utah
6
Maine
6
Maryland
5
Arkansas
5
Iowa
5
New Mexico
4
Mississippi
4
Idaho
3
South Carolina
3
Wyoming
3
Wisconsin
2
Kansas
2
New Hampshire
2
South Dakota
1
Hawaii
1
If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.
ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.
If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during November 2014 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object
Number of Reports
Sphere
88
Disc
57
Triangle
56
Unknown
45
Other
42
Star-like
40
Circle
34
Oval
22
Cylinder
20
Boomerang
20
Fireball
20
N/A
18
Square/Rectangular
14
Cigar
13
Diamond
8
Egg
8
Flash
8
Bullet/Missile
6
Blimp
5
Chevron
4
Cone
4
Saturn-like
3
Teardrop
3
Cross
2
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness
Number of Reports
< 100 ft
69
101-500 ft
85
501 ft - 1 Mile
128
Over 1 Mile
127
Unknown
164
NO VALUE
18
Most impressively there were 25 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 1 Entities observed.
To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.
I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.
UFO Congress in Argentina Highlights Shocking Claims
UFO Congress in Argentina Highlights Shocking Claims
The Seventeenth International Ufology Congress held in Capilla del Monte addressed major questions about life on Mars and invisible beings. A city in Argentina located 800 kilometers or almost 500 miles west of Buenos Aires, the Capilla del Monte hosted a four-day gathering that ended on Sunday, November 9, 2014.
Argentine and foreign UFO researchers gave updates on their work, discussed their personal experiences, and presented audiovisual records of contacts with alien UFOs. Almost 200 people attended the congress.
The congress was organized by Luz Mary Lopez, who told the audience that they fulfilled the goal of demystifying Mars and showed evidence that people may be closer than they think.
The congress featured some shocking revelations, including those from Andrew Basiago and Laura Eisenhower.
Basiago, who was in the event, and Eisenhower, who made a presentation through Skype, said they both picked by the government on secret missions that involve Mars teletransportation.
Basiago said on a two-hour presentation that he was on Mars 40 times and revealed that there are Martian and human lives in there.
A woman attendee named Mabel said that the UFO gathering gave her chills. She believes that scientists hide so much from the people, and the UFO subject could be true as she has seen UFOs personally.
Astronomer and reporter of a television show, Fernando Correa, supports Basiago’s story saying the Red Planet has evidence on the existence of humans. He explained that Google Mars application has been showing a human base on Mars.
The Mexican astronomer hosted one of the closing talks. He presented security camera videos that apparently show invisible entities and shadows from different parts of the world.
Correa said that the so-called paranormal phenomena, which are difficult to explain with science, actually more normal than the rest in reality.
Silvia Simondini of Vision Ovni center in Victoria city, located 124 miles or 200 kilometers from Buenos Aires, made presentations at the conference of analyses done on spaceship fragments, presented local spacecraft stories, and discussed collective UFO sightings all over Argentina.
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Did yesterday's mysterious booms hint at military's HYPERSONIC future?
Did yesterday's mysterious booms hint at military's HYPERSONIC future
So secret, its existence is not even acknowledged: Futuristic 'Aurora' spy plane that travels at SIX TIMES the speed of sound is blamed for mysterious booms heard at the weekend
Sounds reported at the weekend from Aberdeen to Devon in the UK
Similar noises were also reported in Lockport and Clarence in New York
A woman in south London managed to record the mysterious bangs
One expert claims the noises sound like a 'pulse detonation engine'
Conspiracy theorists say power source could be behind a hypersonic US spy plane, dubbed Aurora
The top-secret Aurora project was first first reported on in 1989 and it could be behind Lockheed Martin's SR-72 plane concept
The origin of the mysterious bangs heard across the UK and New York at the weekend are yet to be officially identified.
But a leading theory is that they were created by an aircraft possibly travelling at supersonic or hypersonic speeds above the Atlantic.
This has led conspiracy theorists to attribute the booms to a spy plane rumoured to be under development by the US military, under the codename Aurora.
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Aurora is rumoured to be a top secret aircraft that has been in development since 1989. These claims originated in Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine in 1989. In November 2013, Lockheed Martin announced it was developing a similar SR-72 spy plane (illustrated) said to be able to accelerate up to Mach 6
Dr Bhupendra Khandelwal, an engineering research associate from Sheffield, claims the loud bangs were created by a type of experimental jet engine called a pulse detonation engine.
Claudia Angiletta, a resident from Croydon, South London, recorded the sounds as she was watching TV at home at around 10pm GMT on Saturday.
Dr Bhupendra Khandelwal, an engineering research associate from Sheffield, claims the loud bangs were created by a type of experimental jet engine called a pulse detonation engine.
Claudia Angiletta, a resident from Croydon, South London, recorded the sounds as she was watching TV at home at around 10pm GMT on Saturday.
Enthusiasts claim that such a supersonic or hypersonic plans could be what caused the strange noises at the weekend. In particular, an expert said the sound is similar to that created by pulse detonation engines. An artist's illustration of what the Aurora plane could look like is pictured
People described it as loud enough to shake their homes and rattle windows.
This has led conspiracy theorists to claim the power source could be behind a hypersonic US spy plane, dubbed Aurora.
Aurora is rumoured to be an ultra top secret aircraft that has been in development since 1989.
THE AURORA RUMOURS
Aurora is rumoured to be a top secret aircraft that has been in development since 1989.
It could be a successor to the Mach 3.35 Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird craft that was retired in 1998.
By comparison, extreme reports claim the Aurora could hit up to Mach 11.8.
These claims originated in Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, which ran an article in 1989 about a a mysterious entry in the 1985 US budget.
The entry said $445 million was attributed to 'black aircraft production' under the name Aurora.
These reports did not reference a single craft, instead they discussed a series of planes.
Other reports suggest the Aurora programme kicked off at Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks in 1987.
The firm was said to be looking into replacing its SR-71 Blackbird.
In November 2013, Lockheed Martin announced it was developing for its SR-72 spy plane.
It said the plane can accelerate up to Mach 6, or 4,567mph (7,349km/h) - three times faster than Concorde.
It could be a successor to the Mach 3.35 Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird craft that was retired in 1998.
By comparison, extreme reports claim the Aurora could hit up to Mach 11.8.
These claims originated in Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine, which ran an article in 1989 about a mysterious entry in the 1985 US budget.
The entry said $445 million was attributed to 'black aircraft production' under the name Aurora.
These reports did not reference a single craft, instead they discussed a series of planes.
Other reports suggest the Aurora programme kicked off at Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks in 1987.
The firm was said to be looking into replacing its SR-71 Blackbird, which was later retired in 1998.
However, the former head of Lockheed's Skunkworks division, Ben Rich, said Aurora was a codename for the stealth project which eventually led to the B-2 Spirit.
But, in November 2013, Lockheed Martin announced it was developing a spy plane with similar technologies called SR-72.
The firm said the plane can accelerate up to Mach 6, or 4,567mph (7,349km/h) - three times faster than Concorde.
Co2corde flew no faster than Mach 2, primarily because the materials weren’t available in the Sixties that could withstand greater heat.
Technology has advanced since then, and the SR-72 will be a so-called ‘warm structure’ - it will heat up rather than reflect the heat using the sort of ceramic tiles that covered the Space Shuttle.
Concorde wasn’t allowed to fly supersonic over land because of the ‘sonic boom’ - the sound associated with the shockwaves created by a craft moving faster than the speed of sound.
Aurora is rumoured to be a top secret aircraft that has been in development since 1989. It could be a successor to the Mach 3.35 Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird craft that was retired in 1998 (pictured). These claims originated in Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine in 1989
A PDE engine works by using force from a series of explosions, caused by mixing a fuel mist and air intake, to thrust itself forward. It can theoretically power planes at five times the speed of sound. A PDE can detonate between 60 and 100 times a second and its contrails appear to look like 'rings on a rope' (pictured), or a spine
According to experts, including Dr Phillip Atcliffe, senior lecturer in aeronautical engineering at Salford University, if a passenger jet flew at Mach 6 at current jet altitudes of around 30,000ft (9,144 metres), the sonic boom could damage buildings.
Officials routinely deny Aurora exists. But that has not dampened the spirits of the theorists, who point to a sighting of a mysterious triangular object by a North Sea oil engineer in August 1989.
Dr Khandelwal was keen to distance himself from the world of conspiracy theories, though he conceded there could always some things unknown to the public.
‘Of course we can’t know for sure if someone else could have the technology already,' he said.
Dr Khandelwal, is among a team of scientists working on the technology behind such types of 'pulse detonation engine'.
'It makes the same kind of pulsing sound as the one on this audio,' he told MailOnline.
WHAT WOULD AN AURORA PLANE LOOK LIKE?
Speed: Speeds are reported to be in the range of Mach 5 to 8.
Length: 110ft (33.5 metres)
Wingspan: 60ft (18.2 metres)
Engine: There are a number of possible engine technologies that have been linked to the Aurora project.
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In November 2013, Lockheed Martin announced it was developing for its SR-72 spy plane (pictured) said to be able to accelerate up to Mach 6
One in particular, which Dr Bhupendra Khandelwal an engineering research associate from Sheffield believes may have caused the booms heard over the UK and New York, is called a pulse detonation engine (PDE), or pulse detonation wave engine (PDWE).
At regular speeds, the craft would be powered by a traditional jet engines built into the lower fuselage.
Once it hits supersonic speed, the PDE takes over.
A PDE works by sending liquid methane or liquid hydrogen into the engine. The fuel mist is then ignited.
This detonation is made inside a specially designed chamber and occurs when the aircraft is travelling beyond the speed of sound.
At these speeds, a 'thrust wall' is created.
This is when the craft is travelling so fast, air is pushed near the nose that creates a 'wall'.
When the detonation occurs, the aircraft's thrust wall is pushed forward, and this is repeated numerous times to propel the aircraft forward.
Alternatively, pulsejets could compress the air caused as the craft travels forward to make it more streamline, while fuel is ignited in a combustion chamber.
The pressure of the expanding gases in this chamber then propel the jet forward.
Weapons: Rumours claim the Aurora may be equipped with air-to-ground weapons, but this would add weight to the craft, suggesting it is more likely that the plane would be used to reach destinations and reconnaissance missions instead.
When we run a test engine it’s a real industrial noise and you can hear it for miles. We have people coming to us asking to make less noise or keep it to the daytime.'
A PDE engine works by using the force from a series of explosions, caused by mixing a fuel mist and air intake, to thrust itself forward. It can theoretically power planes at five times the speed of sound.
The technology builds upon 'pulsejet' principles which first emerged in the early 1900s and were used in German V-1 flying bombs.
Test flights using the most recent forms of the technology have lasted only a few seconds, but it is still listed by conspiracy theorists as a possible way of powering the so-called Aurora spy jet.
Concorde flew no faster than Mach 2, mainly because the materials weren’t available in the Sixties that could withstand greater heat. Technology has advanced, and the SR-72 (engine details pictured) will be a so-called ‘warm structure’ - that will heat up rather than reflect the heat
Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists, said: 'If an aircraft is responsible, then it’s worth noting that it may not be local at all.
'Because the sound wave that causes the boom can be reflected by the stratosphere, the source of the event could conceivably be hundreds or thousands of miles away from the place where it is heard on the ground.'
But Dr Andrew Taylor, a senior lecturer in aviation at Buckinghamshire New University, said the noises did not sound like a normal sonic boom.
WHAT IS HYPERSONIC TRAVEL AND WHAT CAUSES THE SONIC BOOM?
A supersonic plane is one that flies faster than the speed of sound, at Mach 1 or greater, using a jet engine.
Mach 2.5 is about the speed limit for gas-turbine engines. Any faster and the temperature and pressure of air entering the engine is too high for the turbo machinery inside.
To fly at hypersonic speed - Mach 5 and above - requires a different type of engine such as a supersonic-combustion ramjet, or scramjet.
These engines have no moving parts. Instead of the rotating compressor and turbine in a jet engine, air is compressed and expanded by complex systems of shockwaves under the front of the aircraft, inside the inlet and under the fuselage at the rear.
Travel becomes hypersonic when temperatures get so hot that air molecules become unstable and begin losing electrons. At these speeds the air becomes an electrically-charged field.
At supersonic speeds, air moves through a series of channels until is slowed down to a point where fuel can be more easily injected and ignited. This releases energy and thrust.
At hypersonic speed, this air moves even faster, which makes it difficult to slow down to the speed of sound and therefore requires specialist fuel and technologies, as seen in engines including the pulse detonation engine (PDE).
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Air reacts like a fluid to supersonic objects. As objects travel through the air, molecules are pushed aside with great force and this forms a shock wave much like a boat creates a bow wave. The width of the so-called boom 'carpet' beneath the aircraft is around one mile (1.6km) for each 1,000ft (304 metres) of altitude
A PDE can make between 60 and 100 detonations a second.
The sonic boom is created when an aircraft or other type of vehicle flies overhead faster than the speed of sound.
Air reacts like a fluid to supersonic objects. As objects travel through the air, the air molecules are pushed aside with great force and this forms a shock wave much like a boat creates a bow wave. The bigger and heavier the aircraft, the more air it displaces.
The width of the so-called boom 'carpet' beneath the aircraft is around one mile (1.6km) for every 100ft (30.5 metres) of altitude.
An aircraft, for example, flying supersonic at 50,000ft (15,240 metres) can produce a sonic boom cone about 50 miles (80km) wide.
'Because the sound wave that causes the boom can be reflected by the stratosphere, the source of the event could conceivably be hundreds or thousands of miles away from the place where it is heard on the ground.'
Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists
The sonic boom, however, doesn't sound the same at each point.
The maximum intensity is heard directly beneath the aircraft, and this decreases as the lateral distance from the flight path increases until it ceases to exist because the shock waves refract away from the ground.
The spread of the sonic boom depends only upon altitude, speed and the atmosphere - and is independent of the vehicle's shape, size, and weight.
Although the speed at which it was travelling, and its location above the Atlantic could reduce this altitude and spread.
Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists, said: 'If an aircraft is responsible, then it’s worth noting that it may not be local at all.
'Because the sound wave that causes the boom can be reflected by the stratosphere, the source of the event could conceivably be hundreds or thousands of miles away from the place where it is heard on the ground.'
But Dr Andrew Taylor, a senior lecturer in aviation at Buckinghamshire New University, said the noises did not sound like a normal sonic boom.
Meanwhile, Professor Trevor Cox, an acoustic engineer from Salford University told MailOnline: 'To have heard a noise simultaneously in New York and the UK, the source of the sound must have been flying half way between.
'That's an awful long way - about 4,000 miles. You do get cases of sounds travelling a long way, for example, in 2005, sounds from the Buncefield fire travelled around 125 miles to Belgium.
'But in this instance, it sounds quite unlikely.'
'With smaller fighter jets just a single boom would be heard, or, as with Concorde, a "double boom" might be heard from larger aircraft as both the nose and tail cause shock waves,' he said.
'It sounds like gunfire or other ammunition, similar to what I used to hear as a child growing up in Lincolnshire when the RAF and USAF aircraft used to do bombing runs on the east coast bombing ranges.
THE RACE FOR SUPERSONIC AND HYPERSONICTRAVEL
Scramjets have been under development for decades, but a breakthrough came in May 2013, when the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Boeing X-51A WaveRider flew for 240 seconds over the Pacific on scramjet power, reaching Mach 5.1 and running until its fuel was exhausted.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works - builder of the Mach 3.5 SR-71 Blackbird spyplane - then unveiled plans to develop a successor, dubbed the SR-72, pictured
The next step is to build a high-speed cruise missile, able to strike distant targets in minutes, not hours.
Designed for reconnaissance and strike missions, the SR-72 would combine turbojet and ramjet/scramjet engines to enable the aircraft to take off from a runway, accelerate to a Mach 6 cruise, and then return to a conventional runway landing.
If it can secure funding from the U.S. Defense Department, Lockheed Martin believes a prototype could be flying as soon as 2023 and the SR-72 could enter service by 2030, potentially paving the way for commercial applications of scramjet technology.
'It could be geological or meteorological, but certainly not aeronautical in my opinion.'
Many Twitter users suspected sonic booms, similar to ones which shook Kent last month when two RAF jets intercepted a Latvian cargo plane in British airspace.
But a Ministry of Defence spokesman told MailOnline last night she had no records of any jets being scrambled.
Others suggested unusual weather conditions might be the source, but the Met Office dismissed those claims and said there was nothing out of the ordinary.
A spokesman told MailOnline: 'It definitely wasn't meteorological'.
The Metropolitan Police said there had been a fireworks display in Croydon, but Twitter users insisted that could not explain sounds in Bedfordshire, Glasgow, North Devon, Leicestershire and West Sussex.
At around the same time, a loud boom was reported by a number of people in the upstate New York areas of Buffalo, Cheektowaga and Clarence more than 3,000 miles away.
People described it as loud enough to shake their homes and rattle windows.
In the US, in particular, the boom was attributed to a micro-earthquake.
But Brian Baptie, seismologist at the British Geological Survey told MailOnline: 'Micro earthquakes are small.
'Usually too small for people to feel and it’s extremely unlikely that the noises were caused by this.
'Even small earthquakes some have audible phenomenon. For example, the Folkestone earthquake of 2007, that had a magnitude of 4.3, had a loud booming noise.
'This is because the vibrations travel through the ground, and when this is coupled with the atmosphere it generates sound waves that can be heard over a large distance.
'But, observing this noise across such a large distance, including across countries, is unlikely.
Many of the reports were picked up by Twitter user Virtual Astronomer (pictured), who said space debris re-entering the earth's atmosphere could have been responsible. He also said he was convinced the noises were created by aircraft sonic booms
One possible explanation is that the loud noise and ground shaking could have been a meteorite breaking up in the atmosphere, which would result in a sonic boom - but this was dismissed by another expert
'It’s a well-known phenomenon and happens for big earthquakes, but if this was the case it would have been felt as well, too, so it is unlikely the booms would just be down to an earthquake.'
Ms Angiletta, who recorded the sounds told MailOnline: 'I was just at home watching TV when I couldn't hear the program due to the loud noises. It was very distracting as it went on for ages.
'I went out to look for fireworks but I couldn't see anything in the sky. That's when I recorded the clip to send to my family to see if they could hear the same thing.'
The 27-year-old said that her family, who live roughly seven miles away in Norbury, south London, could also hear the sounds, which lasted for about 30 minutes. She then turned to Twitter to see if anyone could explain what they were.
If an aircraft is responsible, then it’s worth noting that it may not be local at all... The source of the event could conceivably be hundreds or thousands of miles away
Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists
Many of the reports were picked up by Twitter user Virtual Astronomer, who said space debris re-entering the earth's atmosphere could have been responsible.
'Space debris such as old satellites and things can cause sonic booms heard over very large areas,' he told MailOnline. 'It's the same for big meteors or rocks that come in.
'There was very little wind last night so conditions were perfect for sound to travel very long distances.'
Science writer David Dickinson was among the experts who dismissed the meteor theory.
He told MailOnline that there was one piece of debris from Russian satellite Kosmos 2251 scheduled for re-entry, but said that the timing was 'not a good fit' for it to have been over the UK.
He added: 'I do not think it was a meteor or a piece of space-junk, as the noises mentioned spanned a large segment of time. Plus, unless it was cloudy over the U.K., there would've been visual sightings.
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The Truth Behind The Malibu Underwater 'Alien Base'
The Truth Behind The Malibu Underwater 'Alien Base'
A little more than 6 miles off the coast of Point Dume in Malibu, California, an unusual-looking structure sits on the sea bed floor. Based on images obtained on Google Earth, the oval-shaped object has a huge flat top and what appear to be pillars or columns that seem to reveal the entrance to a darker, inner place.
The anomaly -- for the moment, we'll call it that -- is approximately 2,000 feet below the surface of the water, measuring nearly 3 miles wide. What exactly is this thing?
According to the website of a California-based radio program, "Fade to Black," this may be "the Holy Grail of UFO/USO [unidentified submerged objects]" that researchers have been looking for over the last 40 years.
Watch this video created by "Fade to Black" radio host Jimmy Church about the Malibu underwater anomaly.
Jimmy Church, who hosts "Fade to Black" on the Dark Matter Radio Network, told The Huffington Post one of his listeners -- someone named Maxwell -- contacted him last month with a Google Earth image showing something odd, underwater off the coast of Malibu. Church then asked graphic designer Dale Romero to capture as many angled images of the anomaly as he could.
"I needed him to find a way to get it under and above the water," Church said. "My first impression was that it was Greek, it looked artificial and didn't look natural.
"When you're looking at it from above, it's a nearly perfect oval shape," Church continued. "In the natural surroundings, nothing is symmetrical. Everything is eroded and covered in rocks and sloping and peaking, and right here, for 2 miles, it is a perfect oval with a black separation or outline to it.
"It just stands out that it has to be some type of roof. It's not unlike a domed stadium or a covered indoor race track or an Olympic arena -- it's got that feel to it. It looks like a perfect oval manmade structure sitting on a construction site."
Using the Google Earth coordinates -- which are, by the way, 34° 1’23.31″N 118° 59’45.64″W -- Church and Romero came up with a series of images, starting from due south, looking north, all the way around and ending up at due north, looking back south.
Check out this Google Earth slideshow of the alleged Malibu Anomaly.
As unusual as this "anomaly" appears, is alien-UFO base the only realistic explanation for it?
"I didn't see anything special about it. I think it's because it looks like there's a flat surface and then, below it, it looks like there are these vertical columns, so somebody can say, 'Oh, this is the entryway to something special,'" said earthquake geologist David Schwartz of the U.S. Geological Survey.
"I think it's natural and is a part of the continental shelf," Schwartz told HuffPost. "It's just a complicated part of what's now offshore that has seen some erosion and, maybe, slumping when perhaps this was partially exposed when sea level was lower. This is a really major earthquake area and perhaps some of these features are a result of slope failures, due to shaking.
"There's no flag under the water that says: 'I'm the entrance to an alien base.' There's nothing unnatural-looking about it -- it's just showing some sort of variation in the offshore coastal morphology," Schwartz said.
Schwartz shared with HuffPost a research paper published in 2009 by the Geological Society of America, showing cross-sections of the anomaly area -- designated as Sycamore Knoll -- by those who actually studied this underwater region.
The following image is from that paper. If you look to the left of the middle of the illustration, you can clearly see the oval-shaped "anomaly" some refer to as an underwater UFO base:
"This is interpreted as a thrust fault," Schwartz said, "meaning one side of the crust moves up over the other -- and what we're looking at is interpreted as being the surface expression of this Dume thrust, which is part of a large fault system in Southern California."
The bottom line, he added, "is that people have recognized this."
Could that be the final truth of what this object is?
HuffPost reached out to John Anthony West, an independent Egyptologist, who won an Emmy award for his research for the 1993 NBC documentary, "Mystery of the Sphinx," in which he and geologist Robert Schoch presented evidence that the Great Sphinx of Giza may be thousands of years older than previously thought.
West examined the images of the Malibu underwater object.
"The pictures are a bit misleading in that it looks as though it's on the shore," West told HuffPost. "My first reaction -- knowing that it was 2,000 feet under the water -- was that, under no circumstances could it, in fact, be artificial, manmade. And I have enough experience, looking at geology and distinguishing between what could perhaps be artificial, and then there's sort of a gray area in-between. As far as I'm concerned, there's no gray area."
West says he's inclined to go along with the geological explanation.
"It doesn't look at all manmade. It has what look like pillars there, but they're unevenly spaced and then, to the right, you see other seemingly pillars still attached, actually, to the bedrock, in the process of forming."
And yet, West acknowledges Unidentified Flying Objects.
"I'm convinced that UFOs are a reality -- there's too much evidence out there. Beyond that, we don't know anything. We don't know who they are, why they're here, [or] how much of this stuff is our own government. A point beyond that is that anything that isn't explained or that can't be explained by current scientific methods, automatically it's aliens. It's the explanation of last resort, and I just don't buy that."
Also weighing in on the Malibu mystery is former FBI Special Agent Ben Hansen, who has an extensive background investigating and analyzing questionable pictures and videos.
Hansen supplied HuffPost with the following Google Earth image of the underwater object in question:
"This was taken from a different angle of the 'mysterious base,'" Hansen told HuffPost in an email. "The dark areas that people are saying look like the inside of the base really starts to look just like shading of indentations to the shelf, and the 'pillars' are now represented as jagged ridges."
Hansen cautions about how we interpret things we see on Google Earth.
"Google obtains their underwater data from several different sources, including satellite radar and echo sonar from the Navy, NOAA, NASA and other agencies. Because they often use very different technologies, the derived information isn't always going to agree. When it doesn't, Google relies on its automatic 3D auto-generation programs to make sense of it.
"We're dealing with limited information to render the graphic because we can see it evidenced in the disparity of image quality between the anomaly and the areas immediately surrounding it," Hansen added. "The blurry sections and jagged edges obviously suggest a patchwork of image processing has taken place."
In the end, we're left with a variety of theories to explain the Malibu anomaly, a.k.a. Sycamore Knoll. Will the UFO-alien-underwater-base proponents be eventually proven right, leaving geologists in the deep blue dust, scratching their heads and wondering how they got it wrong?
West concedes the possibility that this object could be an entrance of sorts, in the same way that the action of moving water can form caves below the surface.
"There's no big mystery to this thing 2,000 feet under the sea in terms of it being an entrance," West said. "Of course, until you get a camera there, you don't know where the entrance is leading. I'd hazard a guess that it doesn't go in too far, and if they do get in there, I think the chances are that they're not going to find the lost treasures of Atlantis."
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Dr. Roger Leir testifies at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure
Dr. Roger Leir testifies at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure
Gepubliceerd op 16 mrt. 2014
Dr. Roger Leir was one of the worlds most important leaders in physical evidence research involving the field of extraterrestrial releated phenomena.
He, and his surgical team, performed 17 surgeries on alleged abductees, resulting in the removal of thirteen separate and distinct objects suspected of being "implants". These objects have been scientifically investigated by some of the most prestigious laboratories in the world including Los Alamos National Labs, New Mexico Tech, and the University of California at San Diego. Their findings have been baffling and some comparisons have been made to Meteorite Samples. In addition, some of the tests show isotopic ratios not of this world.
Dr. Leir has also been involved in investigations of other areas involving physical evidence. He has traveled to Brazil and performed exhaustive research into the Varginha, Brazil case. In 2003, Dr. Leir, the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) and other world scientists completed a DNA study pertaining to evidence collected in a famous California Abduction Case. He recently formed a non-profit organization for this purpose called "A&S Research Inc."
He had been interested in the subject of extraterrestrial related phenomena since his early childhood and had several sightings of unknown flying objects. He also had two Near-Death Experiences. Because of this, his cousin Kenneth Ring Ph.D., eminent author of numerous books, including The Omega Project, relinquished all of his personal research pertinent to the subject of Ufology to Dr. Leir. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Leir pursued a quest for knowledge within this field with great intensity. As a result he served as a medical consultant to MUFON as well as holding the office of State Section Director for Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
Roger Leir was a podiatric surgeon, who had been in private practice in Ventura County, California, for over 40 years. He was a Graduate of the California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco, California and attended San Fernando Valley College and the University of Southern California (USC). He held degrees in Podiatric Medicine, a Bachelor of Science and an Associate in Arts.
He was a Director of Research, involving a Tendon Regeneration Project, in 1964. During 1964-1965 he was a preceptor in Foot Surgery at Bella Vista Hospital in Los Angeles, California. From 1971 to 1972, he was a Podiatric resident at Simi Valley Doctors Hospital and continued on as Director of Podiatric Residency Training. During this period Dr. Leir was awarded a Professorship in post-graduate education from the California College of Podiatric Medicine. He served as the Chief of Podiatric Clinic at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, California. He has served as Chief of Podiatry in many Southern California Hospitals, including; Simi Valley Doctors Hospital, Simi Adventists Hospital, Woodland Park Community Hospital, Conoga Park Hospital, Midvalley Community Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital.
Dr. Leir was Board Certified in the following: The National College of Foot Surgeons The American Board of Podiatric Sports Medicine The American Board of Foot Surgery The American Circulatory Society and the Society for Non-Invasive Vascular Technology. He was licensed to practice in the states of California and Oregon and held a certificate from the National Board of Podiatric Medicine.
Dr. Roger Leir passed away on March 14th, 2014. He will be missed by many.
A Nineteenth Century Japanese Folk Tale Still Inspires UFO-Believers
A Nineteenth Century Japanese Folk Tale Still Inspires UFO-Believers
In the early 1800s, two folk tales circulated around Japan. Both involved a very strange woman emerging from a very strange ship. Her dress and appearance seemed out of this world. What happened?
There are two versions of this story. One was written in 1825 and one in 1844. In both versions, some Japanese sailors happened to notice, floating in the ocean, a very strange vessel. It was circular, which was not so unusual. What caught there attention was that it seemed to have a lid that covered the top of the ship, and glass windows. When they got it to shore, out came a very beautiful woman holding a very mysterious box. She wouldn't let anyone touch it. They couldn't ask her about it, because she didn't speak their language. All the materials making her ship, her clothes, and her box, were completely unknown to them. Eventually, the woman went back to her boat, and drifted out to sea again.
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Well, that's the boring 1844 version. The 1825 version plays out more like an old BBC murder mystery. You can tell, because the woman is more of a vamp. She has bright red hair and eyebrows, and red hair with white extensions. Plus, the box was bigger. The size of the box provided a crafty local with an important clue, and, after consideration, he announced his conclusions. The woman was a foreign princess who had had an illicit love affair. The lover had been beheaded, and the princess was put to sea in a craft, with his head in a box. The villagers, aghast at the hussy in their midst, pushed her and her vessel into the sea again.
As short as it is, the myth about the strange-looking vessel made with foreign materials has become an enduring favorite of ufologists. They believe that, possibly, a flying saucer crashed in the sea, and washed up on land. Possibly aliens were trying to blend in by matching our technology, sending flying saucers when we could fly and sailing saucers when all we could do was sail. When people argue, the ufo believes point to the unnatural substances of the woman's clothes and ship. They argue that, although people weren't as savvy in those days as we are today, they people in the legend were hardly yokels. They would have recognized most kinds of materials and most kinds of vessels. This utterly foreign being might have been crash-landed, or might have been on a scouting ship.
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Nasa Secretly in Contact With Aliens? Alleged Ex-Employee's Revelation Fuels UFO Conspiracy
Nasa Secretly in Contact With Aliens? Alleged Ex-Employee's Revelation Fuels UFO Conspiracy
Artist's concept depicting a Viking lander on the surface of Mars.NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
In a recent development that could easily be part of a Men in Black movie, a woman claiming to be a former Nasa employee revealed that she saw humans on Mars in 1979.
According to a Yahoo News report, the woman, called 'Jackie', called in to American radio station Coast to Coast AM with the claim – which reignited gossip over a 'secret space programme' kept from the general public.
Jackie claims to have seen space-suited humans via a live video feed from Mars - but apparently, the information was covered up by Nasa bosses.
Jackie claimed to have been part of a 'downstairs' team working on downlink telemetry from the Viking Lander - the first vehicle to send back images from the surface of Mars.
"I wonder if you could solve a 27-year-old mystery for me," she asked the presenter. "That old Viking rover was running around. Then I saw two men in space suits – not the bulky suits we normally used, but they looked protective. They came over the horizon walking to the Viking Explorer."
As per Jackie, she along with six others rushed to the main Nasa office to report what they had witnessed, only to have the door shut in their faces.
"We ran upstairs – but they locked the door, and taped paper over the door so we couldn't see. My question is – were they our guys?"
None of the other employees who were allegedly with Jackie when she spotted the aliens have corroborated this story – but UFO sites have joined it with other reports of a 'secret space programme' which began when humans landed on Mars in 1968.
"Conspiracy theorists believe that this is being kept from the ordinary public for various sinister reasons - and that NASA and other governments are covertly in contact with aliens," states the Yahoo report.
"In November 2005, a contact called 'anonymous', who said they worked for the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) started sending information about an extraordinary alien exchange programme, called Project Serpo. Basing his claims on a 3,000-page document written in the late 1970s, he boldly claimed that six aliens were recovered from the Roswell crash.
"Claims that aliens living and/or dead were recovered from the Roswell crash are nothing new, but in this case it was stated that an alien survivor from the crash, called EBE 1, helped to organise twelve specially trained people to visit his home planet Serpo in the Zeta Reticuli solar system. This mission occurred in 1965 and they remained there until 1978. During their stay two of them died, two remained on the planet and the rest, after returning to Earth, have died because of the high levels of radiation they were exposed to on Serpo."
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Pakal the ancient Mayan astronaut and his Spacecraft
Pakal the ancient Mayan astronaut and his Spacecraft
Maybe one of the best surviving ancient artifacts regarding the ancient astronaut theory is that of the image of a Maya ruler sculpted on the lid of a stone sarcophagus deep within the Temple of Inscriptions pyramid situated at the site of Palenque, Mexico.
The Maya ruler named Pakal the astronaut (Pakal means ‘Sun Shield’) portrayed in relief on that stone slab appears to be seated at a control panel within a housing device, very similar to today's spacecraft.
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