Chinese Monks Spot UFO Hovering Over their Monastery in the Anhui Province

Monks have always been considered as the holy people, which make them reliable witnesses. Therefore, it’s difficult to doubt the reports made by monks in China who saw a UFO hovering over their monastery. Fortunately, the occurrence captured on surveillance footage. It shows a luminous, glowing object that is continuously changing its shape. When it flew into the hall of the temple in Anhui province on Friday night, the Monks were alerted. Father Shi Xing Kong said that as soon as he hears the alarm, he got up to turn the alarm system off before checking and didn’t see unusual things. He saw the UFO when he looked at the monitor, as reported by the Chinese People’s Daily Online.

The mysterious shimmering object has left the monks completely baffled. As for the hypothesis, a meteorological expert has ruled out lightning. For seven minutes, the video shows the object hovering over the monastery, changing shapes and flying inside the temple for a brief moment. Afterwards, the UFO started to rotate quickly. At first, the monks thought that the UFO has an apple-shaped a flying saucer.

As for the final verdict on its appearance, assumption outside the temple might range from insect to toy drone to ball lightning. When the local meteorologist felt that the UFO is a slow-moving phenomenon, he discounted the ball lightning theory and preferred the bug idea, claiming that the latter glow as the camera gets closer. Did he combine the principles and thought that it’s a lightning bug? Furthermore, the meteorologist questioned whether or not the UFO went into the temple.

In China, social media users have been trapped by the mysterious object. One person joked that Aliens came to buy tofu, making an allusion to the nearby Mountain where the tofu originated. Whatever the UFO was, the monks are fully charged in anticipation of the next visit.

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05-06-2015 om 23:25 geschreven door peter  

2,000 UFO Enthusiasts Gather in California for UFO Conference

Contact in the Desert is a UFO conference held annually. The first contact took place on August 9-11 at Joshua Tree, California. The event’s motto was about weekend exploration into UFO sightings, Ancient of aliens, crop circles, human origins and the information that must be known. Recently, the UFO conference called Contact in the Desert was highly anticipated by 2000 UFO enthusiasts. The crowd was highly evident as they all descended to attend the four-day conference. Furthermore, nearly 50 presentations were featured. The event is the fastest and largest growing conventions throughout U.S in 2015 due to the increasing number of attendees.

For conspiracy theorists and alien researchers, the conference is a haven. The purpose of the LA event coordinator Paul Andrews is to provide a safer environment and be able to discuss crop circles, ancient aliens, extensive government cover-up and gigantic secret pyramids. In short, believers can consider certain things without anyone snickering on them. The area had been chosen because it has a long UFO sighting history.

While almost all Contact attendees have common distrust issues of official government with regards to their explanations of UFO activity, not all have shared the same alien theories. As you can see, there are loads of theories you can find in this world full of co }mplexities. Among the theories include conventional, unconventional and many more. If you are not familiar with unconventional, the best illustration would be the belief that the earth is flat.

Patrick Hart, a 72-year-old Oregon chiropractor, observed that almost all attendees are researchers. Another alien researcher named Marshall Clearfield has also observed that all participants are devoted because most of them brought tents to be able to listen well during the conference. The fundamental questions are about God, nature, the existence and the purpose of attending this conference.

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05-06-2015 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

10 Explanations For UFOs Weirder Than Aliens

10 UFOs Are Earthlights

Some people believe that the appearance of UFOs is simply the result of an unknown natural byproduct of the Earth. This idea was developed by Professor Michael Persinger in the 1970s as tectonic strain theory, which we have mentioned in a previous article. These ideas were built upon by author Paul Devereux. He believes that while most UFO sightings can be explained as misidentified mundane aerial objects, mirages, hoaxes, and hallucinations, there are some that result from an unexplained electromagnetic phenomenon related to earthquake lights and ball lightning. He believes tectonic stress and strain in the Earth’s crust creates luminosity in the atmosphere, as do other geological and meteorological sources of energy.

He refers to the phenomenon as “earthlights,” though earlier theorists called them “spooklights” or “ghost lights” and believed they were the explanation behind historical sightings of dragons, fairies, bodhisattvas, corpse candles, foo fighters, and ghost rockets. UFO behavior such as apparent intelligence and downright illogical movement and appearance suggest to Devereux that UFOs may be a form of macro quantum phenomenon, meaning UFOs represent phenomena that should only exist on the subatomic quantum level but have somehow manifested in the macroscopic, visible world.

9 UFOs Are Four-Dimensional Objects

Imagine a flat plane on which two-dimensional creatures live. They cannot perceive our third dimension, but we can see them. Say you stick your finger into their plane. From their point of view, an object has suddenly and inexplicably appeared out of nowhere. It also appears to change size and shape depending on exactly what cross-section of your finger is in their plane. When you pull your finger out, the object disappears, and no one believes the two-dimensional creature who saw it because he was drunk and is always making up crazy stories.

A comparable theory has been promoted to explain UFO phenomena, particularly how some UFOs appear to change size and shape, morphing in the air. If a four-dimensional sphere—a hypersphere—passes through our three-dimensional space, it would appear to our limited perceptions to be a small sphere that appears suddenly, then rapidly grows in size before it shrinks again and vanishes altogether. Any four-dimensional object that entered our three-dimensional plane would appear to be capable of shape-shifting, impossible movement, and dematerialization, reflecting many reports of “morphing” UFOs.

Claims of bizarre magnetic effects caused by UFOs could be explained as changes in the structure of three-dimensional space caused by the passage of a four-dimensional object in the same way a pebble dropped into water creates ripples on the surface. Some argue that entities from other planets or other three-dimensional universes could be using four-dimensional space as a convenient means of traveling to our world.

8 UFOs Are Demons

Some believe sightings of UFOs are actually manifestations of demonic activity prophesied to increase during the Last Days. Satan knows in the End Times he will be forced out of the spiritual realm entirely and therefore needs to corrupt human beings in large numbers. This theory posits that UFO abduction is actually abduction by Satan’s advancing forces. These forces take people to engage in sinful, sexual congress and open them up to possession, just as the fallen angels had sexual intercourse with human females in the days before the Great Flood, creating the giant race known as Nephilim. The entities onboard UFOs are demonic but pose as extraterrestrial visitors to weaken faith in Christ and prepare for the creation of a unified world occult religion venerating the fake aliens.

The appearance of UFOs is also linked with the occult. Many UFO abductees have had previous experience with occult practices. Some claim there have been increased numbers of UFO sightings in areas where the Soviets conducted occult research as well as areas associated with US military research and Native American shamanism. Crop circles, meanwhile, represent an esoteric form of communication related to Kabbalah and the Illuminati, a secret demonic language. Of particular interest here is the Milk Hill Script, Hebrew-like letters that appeared in a field of crops in England.

Animal and human mutilation during abductions is the result of demonic experiments to create artificial physical bodies for Satan’s forces to inhabit during the End Times. Abductees and psychics have reported sightings of “grays” relaxing in a vat of “human stew” made from blood and body parts in the hope of absorbing nutrients such as adrenaline. This stew is created by torturing and traumatizing human victims before death, particularly children.

7 UFOs Are Nazi Anti-Gravity Vehicles

Ernst Zundel is most famous for his Holocaust denial, but he was also famous for theorizing that UFOs are actually advanced craft created by the Third Reich. He was preceded by the work of Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, who claimed the Vril Society, an occult Nazi conspiracy, made contact with Aryan aliens living in the Aldebaran system. The strange “foo fighters” reported by Allied pilots were actually the first prototypes of anti-gravity craft designed by the society, incorporated into the SS. The craft was allegedly powered by an electromagnetic-gravitic engine known as the Thule Triebwerk. After the war, the surviving Nazis regrouped to Antarctica to continue development. Bulgarian physicist Vladimir Terziski went even further, asserting that the Nazis had by 1942 landed on the Moon and later established bases there, which he claims has an atmosphere, water, and vegetation despite NASA’s propaganda to the contrary.

But it was Zundel, working off the success of von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods and other UFOlogy books, who truly popularized the idea. Writing under the pseudonym Christof Friedrich, he claimed a secret Nazi expedition to Antarctica discovered an almost tropical area the size of Germany where they established bases and withdrew in a massive convoy in 1945 with their secret weapons in tow. The CIA and KGB collaborated to keep the truth of the UFO phenomenon secret while they plotted to destroy the Nazis and establish a global dictatorship. Thankfully, an investigation of the evidence by UFOlogist Kevin McClure concluded the Nazi UFO mythos, like Holocaust denial, is nothing more than bigoted delusion.

6 UFOs Are Archons

According to the Gnostic theory of alien intrusion, the truth about UFOs was ascertained by ancient Gnostic seers known as siddhis 1,600 years ago. The theory claims the Nag Hammadi texts discovered in Egypt in 1947 contained information about a jealous group of predatory inorganic beings known as Archons, led by Jehovah. These arose during the formation of the solar system due to a wave of plasmatic energy from the galactic core and now intrude upon the Earth.

They have two forms: a neonatal, embryonic form resembling aborted human figures and a more developed reptilian form, which corresponds with common descriptions of gray aliens and reptilian aliens. They are soulless bodies, robotic in behavior and lacking our ability to innovate and drive to create, and they hate us for it. They are also able to feed on our emotions, particularly fear, but they are no more powerful than we are. They merely have greater technology in the fields of virtual reality, space travel, and telepathy. They use mental conditioning techniques to influence the way we see the world and foster belief in Jehovah while secretly controlling the solar system like clockwork.

They are occasionally visible to the mentally disturbed or drug abusers, who cannot truly comprehend them. The ancient Gnostic siddhi were able to perceive the truth of the universe and explore the heavens through remote viewing techniques, but they were wiped out by the bloodlust of those members of Abrahamic religions deluded by the Archons, who are themselves deluded into thinking they are our rightful rulers. Only through communion with the goddess Sophia, the Gaia spirit of the organic Earth, will humanity overcome these interlopers.

5 UFOs Are Extremophiles Or Plasma-Based Life

There is a theory that UFOs are indeed from space, but rather than being the vehicles of a technologically advanced interstellar race, they are instead biological in nature and indigenous to our very own solar system. The theory asserts there is a species living in interplanetary space, and sightings of these creatures explain many UFO sightings in the upper atmosphere and in orbit. One theorist believes the entities are either extremophiles (organisms that can survive in extreme conditions like thermal vents or deep space) or possibly a form of plasma life. They are said to resemble single-cell or simple multicellular organisms like algae with four distinct morphologies: sperm-shaped, cloud-shaped, donut-shaped, and cone-shaped.

It is theorized they are attracted to electromagnetic energy created by storms, hurricanes, and tethered satellites, perhaps for reproductive purposes. They migrate between Jupiter, Venus, and Earth in search of storms. Another version of the theory suggests they may be beings of pure energy called “energyzoa,” resembling deep sea creatures like jellyfish or squid and existing on the edge of our three-dimensional space, which explains their abilities to appear and disappear, move great distances, and pass through solid objects. One of the earliest of these theorists was Trevor James Constable, who claimed in his 1959 book They Live in the Sky that while some UFOs were mechanical vehicles, others were invisible biological entities native to our atmosphere. He dubbed them “sky critters” and claimed they  could usually only be photographed with infrared cameras

4 UFOs Are Time Travelers

Perhaps UFOs do not come from distant space but rather a distant time. The visage of the famous gray aliens is considered by many the future evolutionary form of the human race. These humanoid beings have perhaps returned to this time period to help guide our genetic development. Some believe these future beings have become dependent on technology and suffered an erosive genetic atrophy. They are forced to visit our time period to take tissue samples through abductions, perhaps in an effort to cure future diseases. Dr. Bruce Goldberg, hypnotherapist and (self-declared) “world’s foremost authority on futuristic time travelers” believes human “chrononauts” from a few thousand years hence have traveled back to our time period via the fifth dimension in order to further our spiritual growth.

One website claims that the UFO that landed at Rendlesham Forest in 1980 transmitted a sequence of ones and zeroes to US serviceman Jim Penniston after he touched strange symbols on the side of the craft. Penniston noted the sequence down in his journal but apparently didn’t think to check if it was some kind of code until 2010 at the 30th anniversary of the UFO encounter. The translated binary code began “EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY. CONTINUOUS FOR PLANETARY ADVANCE. FOURTH COORDINATE CONTINUOUS.” The code indicated an origin point in southern England in the year 8100 and listed a number of sites supposedly visited by the time travelers: Caracol Pyramid in Belize, Arizona, the Giza pyramids in Egypt, the Nazca Lines in Peru, China’s Tai Shan Mountain, and the Temple of Apollo in Greece. These future beings are said to be behind the crop circle phenomenon, which are theorized to be a way of navigating between parallel time streams like someone leaving marks in tree bark, warnings and portents of future events, or even the secrets of time travel and parallel dimensions.

3 UFOs Are A Metaphysical Control System

French-American computer scientist and astrophysicist Jacques Vallee was an early proponent of the idea that UFOs had an extraterrestrial source. But as time went on, his views began to change. In his 1969 book Passport to Magonia, he advanced the theory that UFOs are paranormal in nature and have been with us in various forms throughout human history, manifested as fairy lore and religious miracles. Vallee saw a deep connection between reports of UFOs and legends of devils and supernatural tricksters. Later, in his 1975 book The Invisible College, he asserts the UFO phenomenon is a control system influencing human understanding of reality, guided by a metaphysical intelligence of unknown nature.

In his autobiographical book Forbidden Science, Vallee wrote, “[The UFO phenomenon] is physical in nature and it remains unexplained by contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness we have not yet recognized or developed, which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them.” He believes there are three levels to UFOs. The first is the physical object, the exact nature of which he declines to speculate on but which surely contains a large amount of electromagnetic energy in a small area. The second is the perception of witnesses, who may be viewing an actual physical object or experiencing hallucinations caused by radiation. The third layer is the social, the effect of the UFO reports on society, which he claims to be most interested in.

UFOs represent something fundamental about the nature of the universe, a technology or phenomenon able to affect the psychic environment of the witness and causing paralysis, hallucinations, space and time disorientation, and personality changes. They often first manifest in an amorphous way before assuming an appearance in accordance with the expectations of the viewer. He suspects physical traces of UFO activity are left as a deliberate deception, in the same way the British created artificial tank tracks to fool the Germans in World War II.

2 UFOs Come From The Imaginal Realm

The Imaginal Realm is a hypothetical alternate reality only perceivable by those in an altered state of consciousness. This theory was developed by psychiatrist Dr. Kenneth Ring to explain out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, shamanic experiences, psychedelic experiences, night terrors, and encounters with UFOs. Ring describes this realm as “the cumulative product of imaginative thought itself.” This realm has throughout history been associated with fairies and other creatures of legend, but the modern world perceives entities from the realm as extraterrestrial beings. This is said to explain the history of supposed sexual liaisons with both fairies and elf-like creatures in folklore and with humanoid aliens in some abduction reports.

Shamans, mystics, and visionaries are gifted with the ability to view this realm. It is possible to gain access to it via the use of psychotropic drugs, religious rituals, trances, and the heightened use of imaginative powers. UFO encounters are said to resemble near-death experiences with the sensation of being taken away into a strange environment, often featuring glowing lights. However, while near-death experiences are usually transcendent experiences, UFO abductions are more likely associated with feelings of violation and post-traumatic stress disorder. Both are seen by some as shamanic initiations into the world of the imagination.

1 UFOs Are Of Cryptoterrestrial Origin

This theory by late American author and blogger Mac Tonnies asserts that if we accept that UFOs are vehicles created by an advanced civilization and apply Occam’s razor, we can conclude that it is most likely the civilization originates from the Earth itself rather than a distant planet. Tonnies suggests that we share our planet with a humanoid race much older than humanity but related to us (explaining their physical form) and more technologically advanced. He dubbed these entities the “cryptoterrestrials,” rejecting “ultraterrestrial” as too linked to theories of humanoid visitors from other dimensions and “cryptohominid” as too suggestive of Bigfoot.

Tonnies suggests the entities may be a dying civilization given to subterfuge by hiding underwater or underground. These entities promote and encourage the idea that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin as a cover story to throw investigators off from the truth. Reports from abductees of aliens warning humanity to care for the Earth make more sense if they are fellow Earth residents rather than visitors from thousands of light-years away. As for the Roswell crash, Tonnies has an interesting take on it. Perhaps the cryptoterrestrials aren’t terribly more advanced than us after all, explaining why the unusual wreckage found at Roswell didn’t look all that high-tech. It may have been something like a weather balloon after all, but rather a balloon sent up into the atmosphere for surveillance by the cryptoterrestrials beneath the Earth’s surface.

The US Air Force isn’t trying to cover up a threat from above, but the existence of another, slightly more advanced civilization below us. Tonnies admits that some alien encounters could very well be of extraterrestrial or interdimensional origin, but he believed the majority are the result of a deception campaign by a desperate, Earth-based military force of subterraneans hoping to keep our eyes fixed firmly on the skies.

David Tormsen also hails from the world of the imagination. Send him a line at tormentedsentences@oath.com.

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05-06-2015 om 17:19 geschreven door peter  

5th June 2015 – The Pope Is To Declare “The Aliens Are Coming” (Apparently)

It has been said many times before that the Vatican is preparing to declare to the world that they are going to start preparing for Alien contact….And the evidence is building up to this being a very true story!

 

There is a rumour going round at the moment that the Vatican/Pope is about to announce to the world on the 5th June 2015, that they are preparing for Alien contact, but how true this is, is a completely different question!?

The Catholic church has been pondering over whether there indeed is a far more technologically and intellectually advanced sentient species elsewhere in the galaxy?! Pope Francis believes apparently believes so and according to rumour on June 5th he will not only announce his intentions to prepare the human race for ET contact, BUT he will (according to many rumours) denounce the international corporate capitalist system, that is currently contaminating the planet with toxic consciousness and greed and making us all slaves to the dollar!

One of the many images from the past which shows the connection between religion and Aliens

 The Vatican’s Astronomer 

More evidence building up towards the Vatican’s acceptance of aliens was when the president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation confirmed that it is only a matter of time before alien life forms are discovered, which will pave the way to questions about God’s relationship to intelligent beings outside our planet.

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno speculated that the general public will not be too surprised when life on other planets is eventually discovered, and will react in much the same way it did when news broke in the ’90s that there are other planets orbiting far off stars.

Consolmagno, who is a leading planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids as an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since 1993, told Catholic News Service that discovery of alien life will not prove or disprove the existence of God, but will pave the way to questions on salvation and how it relates to intelligent species.

Consolmagno also argued that there is no conflict between science and religion, and that both fields can complement each other….something which goes against many extreme religious folks views!

The Vaticans Astronomer believes religion and Aliens can work together!

“Eventually you learn that the kinds of questions you ask as a scientist and the kinds of answers you get as a scientist are only the kinds of questions that lead to more questions. They’re all very contingent. Now I understand how this works, but that opens up a new mystery that I hadn’t seen before and now I can explore that mystery,” Consolmagno said.

“The bigger questions, the religious questions, they’re handled by science. The religious questions give you the framework that gives you the motivation to ask the science questions, gives you the confidence the science is going to work and explains to you why I get this excitement at holding a rock from outer space.”

Back in May, Roman Catholic Church leader Pope Francis mentioned alien life forms in one of his sermons, and suggested that even Martian’s, should they visit Earth, would be welcomed to be baptized.

“If, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martian’s came, and some of them came to us, here … Martians, right? Green, with that long nose and big ears, just like children paint them. … And one says, ‘But I want to be baptized!’ What would happen?” Francis asked.

According to constitutional and public interest lawyer and educator Daniel Sheehan, the Catholic Church is actively preparing for the discovery of and contact with a highly advanced sentient alien species. He spoke today at Contact in the Desert 2015, a landmark UFO conference in Joshua Tree in Southern California, where he described what will be a historic papal encyclical decree calling for nothing less than the disassembly of the power structures that are destroying our civilization and preventing us from joining an enlightened galactic partnership.

Sheehan’s speech started with a summary of his work as a people’s advocate for alien disclosure that has included access to classified sections from Project Bluebook, which supposedly contains photographic evidence of a downed craft with alien symbols.

Sheehan went on to describe how Pope Francis wants to avoid the kind of chaos that engulfed the Catholic Church during the time of Galileo when it was revealed Earth is not the centre of the Universe. For the next major shift in human consciousness, he wants to position the Catholic Church and the Jesuit Order to integrate the reality of alien existence as well as the evolution of a 6th faculty of human consciousness.

This 6th faculty will constitute a new form of religion and a new form of contact between humans and advanced telepathic aliens!

Some believed that the previous Pope was going to confirm the Vatican’s knowledge of Aliens.

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Daniel Sheehan, constitutional and public interest lawyer, believes that the Catholic Church is now a 100% actively preparing for the discovery and contact with a highly advanced Alien species.

Mr Sheehan recently spoke at ‘Contact in the Desert 2015′, which is a landmark UFO conference in Joshua Tree in Southern California, where Daniel described what will be a historic papal encyclical decree calling for nothing less than the disassembly of the power structures that are destroying our civilization and preventing us from joining an enlightened galactic partnership…..A man who appears to share the opinion of many Truth Seekers around the world!

Daniel Sheehan at the ‘Contact in The Desert’ Event.

Sheehan’s speech started with a summary of his work as a people’s advocate for alien disclosure that has included access to classified sections from Project Bluebook, which supposedly contains photographic evidence of a downed craft with alien symbols.

Most importantly Mr Sheehan went on to explain how Pope Francis wants to avoid the kind of chaos that engulfed the Catholic Church during the time of Galileo when it was revealed Earth is not the centre of the Universe. For the next major shift in human consciousness, he wants to position the Catholic Church and the Jesuit Order to integrate the reality of alien existence as well as the evolution of a 6th faculty of human consciousness…..Times are changing for religion and the acceptance of Aliens, and it is the leaders of each religion that have a responsibility to help educate the masses before ‘Disclosure Day’

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Source: http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/

05-06-2015 om 00:33 geschreven door peter  

UFO DIGEST NEWSLETTER JUNE 4, 2015

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This week we begin with Nick Pope’s column about Mummies, Money and UFOlogy. Next, Sean Casteel writes an article about folksinger Joni Mitchell, Morgellons and the possible alien connection. Then, Steve Erdmann reports on Kevin Randle and the Roswell crash. New contributor Sasha Alex Lessin writes about the Sumerian Civilization and the Anunnaki. Debra Skye investigates a ghost in the land of myth and magic. Then Scott Corrales reports on a solar halo in Mexico. Deanna Jaxine Stinson writes about the panther. Next, Ron Murdock reports on psychic vampires. Pat Regan writes about a witnessed who saw a UFO over Sugarloaf Mountain in New Brunswick. Finally, Theresa J Morris writes about the ACO UFO Community. Enjoy Dirk

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MUMMIES, MONEY AND UFOLOGY  by Nick Pope.

Now that some time has passed since the unveiling of the so-called Roswell Slides, what do I – as someone who has investigated UFOs for the UK Government – think of this whole affair, and what does it tell me about the current state of ufology.  More....

 

HAVE UFO OCCUPANTS CREATED DEADLY PLAGUES THROUGHOUT HISTORY? FOLKSINGER JONI MITCHELL’S BATTLE WITH MORGELLONS, THE NEW SCOURGE  by Sean Casteel.

On March 31, 2015, the legendary folk singer Joni Mitchell was hospitalized after being found unconscious in her Los Angeles home. At the time, it was unclear what had caused her to pass out, but Mitchell, who was 71 at the time of her hospitalization, had long identified herself as sufferer of the strange and controversial condition called Morgellons Disease.  More....

 

RANDLE'S ROSWELL REPORT  by Steve Erdmann.

Kevin Randle, a full-time writer of more than 100 books of fiction and nonfiction, over 15 books about UFOs (was also an Army helicopter pilot and Air Force intelligence officer, including a Ph.D. in psychology), speaks about his investigation into the infamous crash of an alleged alien aircraft on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico about July 2, 1947.  More....

 

SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION: OUR ANUNNAKI ASSETS (& LIABILITIES)  by Sasha Alex Lessin.

Three hundred thousand years ago, Homo sapien ET goldminers from the planet Nibiru adapted their genome to Earth. They added copper, African clay and genes from Homo erectus--Bigfoot's ancestor, and mitochrondrial DNA from their wombs--to make us, a worker race, to slave for them. Our very existence, our life itself, comprises the most precious asset they bestowed on us.  More....Also read:  SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION: OUR ANUNNAKI ASSETS (& LIABILITIES)- Part II.

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A GHOST IN THE LAND OF MYTH AND MAGIC  by Debra Skye.

Back in 2012, my life was forever changed after I witnessed a full-bodied apparition in Guatemala. My name is Debra, and I am a New York City born Italian-American. My romantic love affair with a Don Juan, combined with a month in Central America would have been thrilling enough without paranormal experiences! I met "Juan" from Guatemala in 2011 who owned a trucking company in New York. We were inseparable from our first date, which is when his story unfolded.  More....

 

A SOLAR HALO IN MEXICO WITH..UFOS?  by Scott Corrales.

Contributing editor Ana Luisa Cid has sent us a link to her latest video on YouTube, a collaboration with Captain Antonio Herce, an airline pilot. The sequence of photos is followed by a video of the solar halo by Rodney Steve, a Swedish singer-songwriter currently residing in Mexico.  More....

 

LEGENDS OF FAMILIAR ANIMALS: PANTHER  by Deanna Jaxine Stinson.

I want everyone who reads this to know that they are never alone. Although it may feel like it, the universe is a huge place and exists in the past, present and future. Being alone is probably one of my greatest fears in life. Many people also experience this fear. Because of this profound emotion, stories left throughout the ages has comforted many of us; legends of familiar spirits, animals and Gods.  More....

 

PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM TOXIC PSYCHIC VAMPIRES  by Ron Murdock .

 Many of us have come across situations where we've been around an individual or any sized group and felt drained. It doesn't matter if you know the psychic vampire(s) or not, they will suck as much energy out of you as they can or are allowed to. It leaves a person feeling tired to the point of no return, a severe case of brain fog that clouds one's thinking ability or lashing out at anything are just some of the symptoms of being around a psychic vampire.  More....

 

UFO WITNESSED OVER SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN IN CAMPBELLTON, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA  by Pat Regan .

UFO witness Nathalie Savoie was taking her child to school when she saw something inexplicable close to the mountain. Nathalie described the UFO as follows... “What I saw was black balloons all together with orange and grey little lights on it, I think I saw the bottom half part, because it looked like an arch, it was at least 30 feet long by 20 feet high”. More....

 

ACO UFO COMMUNITY!  by Theresa J Morris .

One might ask how does one know ACO stands for Alien Contact Origins, and UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Objects in our community? We decide just like a Mime. We share our desires, opinions, thoughts, and even communicate our assumptions while developing our own hypthosis. More....

 

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05-06-2015 om 00:15 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 6/4/2015

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• What on earth are they? Pictures emerge of bright light UFOs flying over Cheltenham late last night – Gloucestershire Echo
• Watch A 15 Year Old Denis Coderre Talking About How He Saw A UFO In The 1970s – MTL Blog
• Four years since the last UFO sighting in Gladstone – Gladstone Observer
• Why Is Illinois a Hotbed of UFO Sightings? – CityLab
• Weather Whys: UFO clouds – The Eagle

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-642015/33821

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Randle's Roswell Report

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04-06-2015 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

NASA believes we will “meet” aliens (officially) in the next 25 years

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Lets imagine for a minute that out there, somewhere in the universe, there is an intelligent alien species that has the technological ability to travel to our planet, making first contact. And that these beings haven made contact in the past with human beings.

If a species like that really exists, they would probably be hundreds of years ahead of our time, more advanced technologically and intellectually then we could imagine at this point. How this alien species might have been thousands of years in the past is an interesting question, they might as well have had similar technologies like we do today, with their limitations at that point in history. Of course, they have become advanced completely changing their lifestyle and society.

04-06-2015 om 23:48 geschreven door peter  

A Stargate? –  Mysterious Radio Signals Detected From Ancient Underwater ‘Structure’ Near Malibu – Massive Underwater Entrance Discovered Off The California Coast

MessageToEagle.com -  A mysterious underwater structure near Malibu, which conspiracy theorists believe could be a  ‘stargate’ used to travel to alien planets has emitted strange new radio signals.

A ham radio enthusiast captured audio of the strange radio signals emitted from the ‘ship’, which some  believe has been known about by indigenous Chumash people for thousands of years," reports Yahoo News.

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‘Every day I would come across these signals,’ says Mr Emmett, 93, who has been an amateur radio operator since 1938.

‘The amazing thing about them is that they are steady as you like. I knew the signal had to be extremely close.

His claims are disputed, with many saying the object is natural.

Stanley claims that the strange object could be a ‘stargate’ - a wormhole used by aliens to visit Earth -  and that it is constantly investigated by mini-submarines piloted by the U.S. government.

Nigel Watson, author of the ‘Haynes UFO Investigations Manual says, ‘There are many rumours and stories of  underground and underwater alien bases scattered throughout the world, usually in very remote areas that  are associated with UFO sightings and other unexplained events. 

The Malibu structure is fascinating because it has produced an whole chain of theories and speculation.’

             ‘Author Robert M. Stanley claims he discovered, what he believes to be this ancient structure, in 2010  by looking at Google maps on his computer. 

When he contacted an old friend who lives in that area, he was told that he knew about the presence  this structure for 10 years. His friend had recorded HAM radio signals coming from it, and it was his  belief that the structure was a large spacecraft that had taken residence here perhaps since ancient times.’

‘Whether a base or a spaceship, Robert claims it is in perfect alignment with several megalithic monuments  in Malibu, and it fits in with the oral legends of the Chumash that claim this area was flooded 12,000 years  ago. 

Robert also thinks the US Navy know about this base, as there are many rumours that they operate  mini-submarines inside ancient lava tubes along the Californian coast that are linked to underground  military bases in the Mojave desert.’

‘On reflection Robert thinks that this could be a portal, wormhole or stargate that are used by aliens to visit Earth.’

‘As with most areas of UFO research there are lots of ideas but little solid evidence. It could be wishful  thinking that the radio signals are coming from this structure. It would be fantastic if this was some  ancient space probe or alien base lurking off the coast of Malibu, but until anyone can actually go there  it remains frustratingly enigmatic.’

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Magnificent Ancient Underground City Of Kish And Its Amazing Hydraulics System

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04-06-2015 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

Alien Crop Circle in Gray Has Residents Wondering (Video)

(Before It's News)

Date of discovery: June 1, 2015
Location of discovery: Gray, Tennessee, USA
News source: http://www.wjhl.com/story/22237587/aliens-or-teenage-prank-crop-circle-in-gray-has-residents-wondering

Its a little ironic that this circle was discovered in a city call Gray, as if named after the species of aliens that are 1 meter tall with grey skin and big heads. This is the second time the crop formation was seen in this area and it may be a messages, or it may be the landing marks of a UFO that wanted to take measurements and analyse the crop for any DNA modifications of the food. SCW

News states:
Some folks that live on Old Gray Station Road are asking questions about a strange sight that popped up overnight.

Tim Blumberg was putting a letter in his mailbox this morning, when he turned around and saw what appears to be a crop circle.

The high grass in the hay field has been pushed down, into what appears to be the design of two half moon shapes, facing opposite directions, connected by a bar of some kind, with another circle inside each one.

“I couldn’t explain it,” said neighbor Tommy Carty, “if it was something out of the ordinary, if the wind had done something out of the ordinary or peculiar, or if it was a sign from Heaven.”

While he can’t explain it, Carty said he is sure of one thing… “if the little green men are coming this way, I’m not ready for them, I’m ready for the good Lord to come after me,” he said.

Both men say they know there is a good chance this is a prank, but both walked out into the field and said there are no tracks, human or machine, anywhere near the strange diagram.

So what will they do now?

“Take lots of pictures I guess,” says Blumberg, “hope we don’t get any alien abductions… Count your cows.”

Check out more contributions by Jeffery Pritchett ranging from UFO to Bigfoot to Paranormal.

Thanks http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/

04-06-2015 om 23:33 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: “40 jaar oude NASA-video toont UFO die maanlanding Apollo 15 volgt”

UFO-jagers hebben naar eigen zeggen beelden gevonden van een maanlanding waarop een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object is te zien.

Het beeldmateriaal, dat tijdens de maanlanding van Apollo 15 in 1971 is gefilmd door NASA-astronaut Jim Irwin, toont in de verte een ‘gelande vliegende schotel’. De mensen achter het YouTube-kanaal Paranormal Crucible hebben een korte video gemaakt van wat in hun ogen een buitenaards schip is dat de activiteiten van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap nauwgezet volgt.

“Er zijn opmerkelijke beelden opgedoken van een mogelijke vliegende schotel die de bemanning van Apollo 15 op de maan gadeslaat,” aldus de beschrijving onder de video. “Op de beelden, die zijn gemaakt door astronaut Jim Irwin, is een schotelvormig vaartuig te zien dat boven het maanoppervlak zweeft.”

Onder de beschrijving is een link te vinden naar de oorspronkelijke NASA-video. Irwin was de achtste man op de maan en stierf in 1991 op 61-jarige leeftijd aan hartfalen.

Paranormal Crucible heeft de kleuren in de video aangepast zodat het object gemakkelijker is te zien. Een robotstem zegt dat de schaduw van de UFO duidelijk waarneembaar is nadat dit eenmaal is gedaan.

Sceptici zijn van mening dat er een meer aardse verklaring is voor het object, waaronder lichteffecten, vreemd gevormde stenen of beeldmanipulatie.

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04-06-2015 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

Real-Time Satellite Imagery Wallpaper Provided By Skrillex

Today, phones are becoming the most popular gadgets on the market. Like most products, there’s much more to this item than what initially meets the eye. Indeed, you can’t leave the store without buying at least one phone accessory. That’s why the team has collaborated with the world’s top artists to make it happen. Skrillex is an American singer, songwriter, DJ, and electronic dance music producer. He has created three designs inspired by his lifelong fascination with space. The first is the Space Shield, which has a white background with black eruption. The second one is the Circuit Bae, which has a green circuit board with three red lines in the middle. Last but not the least is the Planet, which has an Earth’s image covered by a smiling face of aliens. They all come with similar support and function but different appearances.

The Rolling Stone Interview

Skrillex with Travis Walton

In an interview, he expresses a belief that God was alien. Furthermore, he put humans on Earth and learned technology from them. Look beyond the stars because there are more that humans don’t know about it. In a birthday bash party of Skrillex, Travis Walton, the most person under the most famous alien abduction cases in the history was spotted. Apparently, he was not the only UFO celebrity to attend the party because Georgio Tsoukalos was also there.

The alien inspired phone case, app, and wallpaper are available for Android phones in a limited edition. If you want to get the Live Case, you will have an early access to OWSLA album for free from Skrillex and Google Play updates, which will be sent directly to their phones. A built-in shortcut button on the Live Case will give you one-touch access to Skrillex’s YouTube. To launch phone camera, open your favorite apps, or visit Skrillex’s website, customise the button.

The Live Case brings you VIP access and experience wallpaper to the screen.

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04-06-2015 om 23:25 geschreven door peter  

Bob Lazar at the 2015 International UFO Congress

Interview with the scientist Bob Lazar at the International UFO Congress. After 25 years of silence he confirmed that he was working with an alien spacecraft and a gravitational anti-reactor that extraterrestrials are using to travel in the universe.

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04-06-2015 om 23:21 geschreven door peter  

Rectangular Craft Spotted In Pennsylvania

(Before It's News)

RECTANGULAR CRAFT SPOTTED IN PENNSYLVANIA
 MAY 23, 2015  …………   WEST VIEW PENNSYLVANIA

I saw something odd in the skies over West View on Saturday May 23, 2015. It was around 1 pm. I was walking back from Bellevue, on the bridge headed back to West View, the one that passes over Route 279.  I looked up and to my right, maybe 15-20° or so, I saw something very strange: a square object off to the right in the general direction of the West View Park Shopping Center and as much as several hundred feet off the ground. It looked like it – guessing here – maybe a mile away. It was about as big as a postage stamp at arm’s length.  Here is the obligatory crackpot disclaimer: I’m not one. This is my first such report and my first such experience.  Just so it is clear, I saw this object, whatever “it” was, I saw it as plainly as I have ever seen anything in my life. My problem is that I don’t know what I unmistakably saw. This isn’t a case where something flashed by – maybe – and I wondered not only what I had seen but whether I had seen anything at all.  I saw this; I saw it distinctly; I watched it for a good five minutes. It was outlined completely against the sky so it was unmistakably IN THE AIR. It was a dark green though I couldn’t make out any further detail.  It wasn’t shaped like any aircraft I have ever seen (nor did it resemble any flying saucer I have ever seen in books).

There were no wings or rotors or propellers or fins. It made no noise; at least that I could hear. It was a SQUARE; A BIG DARK GREEN SQUARE UP IN THE AIR. I couldn’t even tell if it was a cube. It was like it was facing me.  I thought at first that it might be some kind of promotional float at the WVPSC especially with it being a holiday weekend, but it was moving and it had no writing on it (at least that I could see). (West View had its Memorial Day parade on Monday, two days after my sighting.) It ended up drifting off directly away from me, in an easterly direction until it disappeared over the tree-line.  It wasn’t a balloon. It wasn’t tear-drop shaped; there was no basket underneath it with people in it. It was much too big to be a kite. It wasn’t shaped like a blimp or anything that flies around. Other people had to see it. It was just off a major thoroughfare, Route 279 in the middle of a sunny weekend day.  If you’re wondering, I don’t have a camera phone so I don’t have a picture of it.

My hope is that someone else has already contacted you about what I saw and so you already know what it is I saw.  While I have numerous books about UFO, I remain unconvinced of any particular viewpoint. The only thing I am certain of is that the official explanations in all the best cases are unconvincing. 

NOTE: The above image is a rendering

04-06-2015 om 01:25 geschreven door peter  

Former Airman Abducted Experimented On And Forced Into Life Of Slavery On Secret Moon Base

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Former Airman Abducted Experimented On And Forced Into Life Of Slavery On Secret Moon Base

A former U.S. Air Force radar tracking operator recalls her traumatic experience of being abducted multiple times, experimented on, and forced into slave labor on a secret moon base.

In 1980, an unexpected event changed Niara Terela Isley’s life forever. While traveling with some of her colleagues on a mission at the Tonopah Test Range, their aircraft encountered a glowing UFO that maintained course alongside them. Ground control instructed them to get a radar lock and intercept the flying saucer.

Upon landing, Isley and her colleagues were quickly taken into custody by one of the Air Force’s covert branches.

In a book she wrote, the former airman describes her ordeal. Over the course of several months, Isley was abducted about 8 to 10 times and taken to a secret moon base on the dark side of the Moon. The base was under the control of reptilian beings but operated by human personnel. Isley claims that like her, most of them were held there against their will.

Many abductees say one of the bases on the Moon resembles the Pentagon.

• I was very poorly fed and worked hard during the day cycle, operating some kind of electronic equipment for excavation at times, and doing physical manual labor at others, such as lifting and stacking boxes.
• Worst of all, I was used for sex during what passed for night there, from man to man,” she wrote.

The pinnacle of this inhumane treatment was a long string of experiments designed to mentally wear her down and remove her free will. The medical procedures were performed by Gray extraterrestrials, which means that the conspiracy runs deep.

And so it went on and on for months until she was finally released. But Isley is convinced she wasn’t set free without first being subjected to a memory wipe.

In fact, she says that an acute absence of memories from that period tipped her off she might have been the victim of an abduction. For a period of three months in 1980, Isley had no memories although at the time she was working for the U.S. Air Force.

Unnerved by her missing time, she underwent hypnosis and recovered her suppressed memories. It seems like the memory wipe was unsuccessful.

Niara Terela Isley and many other abductees are convinced that most—if not all—abductions are actually performed or supported by military forces worldwide. A popular conspiracy theory calls these operations MILABs (Military Abductions) and hypothesizes they are way more common than you would think. Isley and her peers recommend hypnosis therapy to anyone who’s experienced long periods of missing time.

While Isley brings little evidence in support of her testimony (besides her testimony), she does bring up several interesting points.

The presence of a joint Reptilian-Gray-human secret base on our satellite is worrisome and the abduction phenomenon is alarming, to say the least. But the perspective of unwillingly carrying memories of being forced into slavery and routinely experimented on is something else—the seed of paranoia.

If Isley is true, we’re all living a lie.

Source: http://locklip.com/former-airman-abducted-experimented-on-and-forced-into-life-of-slavery-on-secret-moon-base/

04-06-2015 om 01:20 geschreven door peter  

Vreemde UFO boven  en in Chinese tempel ( Video )

Chinese monniken zien in de late avond van afgelopen 29 mei een vreemde spookachtige UFO boven hun klooster hangen.

Het object dat alsmaar van vorm verandert, hangt zo’n zeven minuten boven en in de tempel in de plaats Anhui.

De monniken zeggen dat ze werden gealarmeerd doordat de alarminstallatie afging.

Wat het ook was dat de monniken zagen boven hun tempel, het veranderde alsmaar van vorm. In eerste instantie werd het omschreven als een appel, toen als een klassieke vliegende schotel en later als een soort zittende boeddha.

Een geraadpleegde “expert” komt met de uitleg van een insect die te dichtbij de camera vloog.

Het object was in ieder geval groot/krachtig genoeg om de alarmsystemen te laten afgaan toen het de hal van de tempel binnenvloog.

De videobeelden die onderaan staan laten zien dat het object uit de lucht kwam rond elf uur ’s avonds en boven de Baita tempel bleef hangen.

Het verdween kort enkele minuten uit het zicht en op een gegeven moment verscheen het weer in de hal van de tempel voor een seconde of tien.

Het schijnt dat na een minuut of zeven de UFO snel begon rond te draaien om vervolgens uit beeld te schieten, middenin een zware regenbui.

De monniken in de tempel stonden en staan met de mond open en hebben geen flauw idee wat dit zou kunnen zijn.

Eén van de monniken, Shi Xingkong, zei: “Toen ik het alarm hoorde afgaan, stond ik op om het uit te doen en ging naar buiten waar ik niets ongewoons zag.

Het was pas toen ik op de monitor keek dat ik de UFO zag, waarover hij bovendien zegt dat hij er nooit eerder een heeft gezien. 

Een andere monnik, Chen Songzheng, zei: “Als de UFO niet de tempel was binnen gegaan dan had het niet het infrarode alarmsysteem in werking gezet en hadden wij niet geweten dat het daar was.

Uiteraard komen dan de “experts” ten tonele die wel even zullen uitleggen wat het dan wel was. Volgens de ene was het een insect die te dichtbij de camera kwam en volgens een andere jawel daar istie weer, een drone.

Het voorval is hoe dan ook ontzettend populair op de sociale media in China en een groot deel van de bevolking houdt het dan ook op een buitenaards voertuig.



Bron:

Daily Mail

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04-06-2015 om 01:15 geschreven door peter  

UFOs Down Under: How Real Australian UFO Hunters Train Their Investigators

Victorian UFO Action members (from left) - Investigator Ivan Rigoni, Director Ben Hurle and Founder Andrew Arnold   VUFOA

An Australian group of UFO hunters has introduced in-house training and an examination, to ensure that its members know how to deal with the public properly, but the exam will not be added to the TAFE curriculum in the near future, as reported by the Australian media. 

"Our first test was held on Sunday but its still in its infancy," Ivan Rigoni, Victorian UFO Action's (VUFOA's) investigations case coordinator tells IBTimes UK.

"The test touches on preliminary research and investigation. It's an educational tool to help our investigators realise the difference between natural phenomena like meteors, stars, the lunar cycle, ball lightning and cloud formations, as opposed to man-made phenomena like weather balloons, aircraft and drones.

"The test also touches on how to write a report; how to conduct yourself with a witness, what questions to ask; and how to determine whether someone might be hoaxing or if it's a misidentified object."

Their training manual is two inches thick and the group hopes to eventually be able to offer advanced investigation training to their members. However, while they wouldn't rule out making their qualification a formal one, it's not the most important thing.

Unidentified, not extra-terrestrial

VUFOA was started in 2008 by Andrew Arnold, a keen documentary maker who continues to document the group's cases in YouTube videos.

Anyone can join VUFOA – they just have to have a genuine interest in UFOs, pass the in-house test, and make an efffort to attend weekly meetings.

The group's main activities consist of investigating UFO sightings in Victoria, as well as researching and collating data on UFOs in a database and manning a 24-hour hotline for the public. 

The 15-member strong team includes investigators, a disclosure document specialist with access to 240,000 previously classified documents from different countries, and a qualified in-house hypnotherapist, who is available to counsel citizens who claim to have been abducted by aliens.

However the group makes a clear distinction to demonstrate that it operates from a position of science.

"UFO stands for unidentified flying object, we don't perceive it as being extra-terrestrials," explains Rigoni.

"We like tangible evidence that can be qualified and quantified. We tend to stay away from alien abduction. It's foolish to assume we're alone in the universe and we all presume [extra-terrestrials exist], but I've never seen or touched ET or an alien space ship."

The group investigates about 150 cases a year of reported sightings of UFOs, and the hotline is most busy during winter and summer.

Often, people will call VUFOA claiming to see lights in the sky during the summer, says Rigoni.

However, these sightings are usually confused with the planet Venus, which is visible low in the sky, and as the Earth rotates, appears to move over half hour-to-hourly intervals.

Unsolved cases

Besides investigating new sightings, the group also looks into infamous UFO cold cases that have puzzled Australians for decades.

One of the cases they recently looked into was the Burkes Flat case, which is one of the most famous UFO incidents in Victoria's history.

Two men experienced a UFO encounter on two separate nights in 1966 in the same location. The first, Ron Sullivan, saw coloured floating lights in a field by the road. He also saw his car headlights bend off to the right, causing him to almost drive straight into a tree.

The Albanvale UFO, recorded on video last year by Ivan RigoniVUFOA

Unfortunately, the same thing is believed to have happened to another man, Gary Taylor, who was killed in a car accident when his car collided with the same tree two nights later.

When police investigated Sullivan's report, they found a shallow depression in the ground exactly where Sullivan saw the coloured lights.

Each member of VUFOA has seen an unidentified flying object and continues to search for answers, including Rigoni, who recorded seven minutes of footage last year of a strange floating object in Albanvale. 

"Through history, the [Australian] government and authorities have willingly and knowingly hidden possible cases and occurrences to which they have no answer for," he says.

"I think that the perception of UFOs [in Australia] is changing. They're more accepting of it now. There are a lot of cases out there that don't get reported, but it's definitely getting bigger."

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04-06-2015 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

04-06-2015 om 00:56 geschreven door peter  

U.I.P World Exclusive: Nick Pope Answers YOUR Questions

We recently asked you guys for YOUR questions to Nick Pope, John Burroughs and Jim Penniston (John and Jim were two of the key witnesses to the Redlesham Forest incident) and we now have your answers!

Nick Pope has kindly agreed to answer the questions in full and has come back with some very thought provoking/interesting answers!

As most of you will know Nick is ex British Ministry of Defence (MOD) and in his time spent a long stint being responsible for the UK’s UFO investigations, which even though he has now retired from the MOD he is still hungry for the TRUTH.

Nick has become a very popular face in the UFO world of research, he was part of the team involved with the ‘Citizen Hearing’ event back in 2013, answering questions and discussing about the events that happened in Rendlesham Forest – Nick has worked closely with John Burroughs and Jim Pennsiston, in order to help try and uncover what they had witnessed that night back in 1980. Nick, John and Jim all helped put together the incredible book ‘Encounter in Rendlesham Forest‘ (U.I.P highly recommends to you all).

A book we all at U.I.P recommend you own!

Nick has attended many TV shows and news channel interviews throughout the world and has appeared as contributor on numerous US and UK documentaries on networks including Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic and the BBC.

Nick also lectures all around the world, has addressed the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union Society, as well as speaking at the Royal Albert Hall, the Science Museum and Global Competitiveness Forum 2011, where other speakers included President Bill Clinton and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair….BUT now our U.I.P followers it is YOUR time to ask the questions to Nick Pope.

This is now U.I.P’s second major U.I.P interview (please check Steve Bassett’s out HERE)  and we would like to personally thank Nick sincerely for this kind time and efforts with this.

U.I.P

Nick Popes Answers to your questions

Question: I have a couple of questions please (1) what does John Believe it is he saw in the Forest that night? And (2) Nick do YOU believe Aliens are visiting us? Thank you (Scott Wicker)

Answer: I don’t think there’s any definitive ‘you can take that to the bank’ proof, but there’s plenty of intriguing evidence, and I certainly remain open-minded about the possibilities. We should always bear in mind that the skeptics need to be right every single time, but the believers only need to be right once! (N.P)

Question: for both, Nick and John. I’m interested in Glowing Orbs phenomena, similar to Hessdalen Lights or Fire, recently seen over Massachusetts, and few more places across America and the rest of the world. So, do you think that those glowing orbs have any connection with bigger form of intelligent life? Sent like patrol, and do they observe us in a way, since they reveal their existence, or there is something bigger in question? (Matea Pandzic )

Answer: Orbs are certainly a global phenomenon, but as with UFOs, I very much doubt that there’s a single, neat solution that’s going to explain every sighting. So, as with the wider UFO phenomenon, there are likely to be several things going on here, in parallel: some misidentifications, some hoaxes, and maybe something else. (N.P)

Question: Nick and John I have both read your fantastic book, thank you! Question to you both, do you believe that what John saw that night was there for a reason and will one day return?! (Mikey)

Answer: Thank you for your kind words about our book. I’m glad you enjoyed it and found it interesting. I think it’s clear that whatever John Burroughs, Jim Penniston and others encountered in Rendlesham Forest was under intelligent control. That being the case, it was certainly there for a reason. As to whether or not it will return, I don’t know. I certainly hope so. (N.P)

Question: Does John think they were malevolent or benevolent aliens? Do they think when we finally get disclosure will it be a watered down version or full disclosure??(Rex)

Answer: It depends what there is to disclose. If there’s a spaceship in a hangar smoking gun, fair enough, there’s something tangible to reveal, but what if the situation is less clear-cut? What if even the authorities have no clear idea of what’s going on? That’s why I make the distinction between disclosure with a big D and disclosure with a little d. (N.P)

Question: My question for Nick is if disclosure comes, will is negatively or positively affect the world’s religious beliefs and the world Government system? (Anietie Joseph Stephen)

Answer: It’s almost impossible to answer questions like this, because there are so many variables. But I attended two Royal Society discussion meetings in the UK back in 2010 that addressed questions such as this, and interestingly, the consensus was that barring some “Independence Day” style alien invasion, simply announcing the discovery or existence of extraterrestrial life might not have the big impacts people often think about. The main reason is that so many people already think this is a reality, and self-evidently, you don’t shock people by telling them something they already believe. Theologian Ted Peters has done some specific research into the likely implications for religion, and far from finding that the existence of alien life would shatter people’s faith, he found it would reinforce their religious belief, by making God’s creation seem even more expansive. One can clearly see the Catholic Church positioning itself for such an announcement. Do they know something? I doubt it. Are they hedging their bets so they can say “we told you so”? Very possibly! (N.P)

Question: Has there ever been an alien incident where they have gained entry to the air force bases that they know of? (Rex Kelly )

Answer: There have been plenty of cases where UFOs have been seen in close proximity to military bases, and indeed directly overhead, but I can’t recall anything that would fit the description “gained entry”. That said, a UFO over a close to a military base is, in and of itself, a security issue. (N.P)

Question: Has there been any more progress deciphering the code imprinted on john (Vanessa)

Answer: It’s Jim Penniston – and not John Burroughs – who’s associated with the binary code message. Work on this real-life Da Vinci Code is continuing, and an eclectic mix of computer programmers, esoteric authors, cryptographers, physicists and ufologists are struggling to make sense of the codes. A potential decoding of the message was given in our book on the case, “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest”, but people are digging deeper, to see if there’s a message hidden deeper in the code. If I still worked at the MoD I could have asked GCHQ to try to crack the code (and maybe they’ve tried to do this anyway), but now that I’ve left government service, these resources are no longer available to me. Jim Penniston is best-placed to update people on The Rendlesham Code. (N.P)

Question: I would love to ask nick pope & john Burroughs a question; what the best and most compelling evidence of UFO and alien existence you have witnessed and why? And was this evidence ever released or seen by the public? Many thanks (Cj Bird)

Answer: I think the most compelling UFO incident that I’ve come across is the Rendlesham Forest incident, and if you’ll forgive a book plug, I put the best available evidence in “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest”, the book on the case that I co-authored with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston. (N.P)

Question: And for plate shaped UFO’s, do they have any connection with the military, because I believe the most of real seen UFO’s are military connected., so the last question remains; where they got that kind of technology? Thank you. (Matea Pandiz)

Answer: UFOs come in all shapes and sizes, but so do aircraft and drones, so it’s often difficult to tell whether some UFO sightings are misidentifications of secret prototype aircraft/drones, or something else. In strictly aerodynamic terms, however, saucer-shaped craft are very difficult to fly. (N.P)

Question: Does Nick/John think these UFOs we are seeing as lights and orbs are extra-dimensional?(Evon Aherne )

Answer: I don’t know. A few years ago such a concept would have been dismissed as science fiction, but now, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are openly discussing the possibility that the LHC will discover proof of so-called “hidden dimensions”, so who knows? (N.P)

Question: I’d like to ask about the something I heard about the president’s book of secrets. Of course it is a secret so may not be easy to answer, but…I’ve heard there was 1 hostile/aggressive encounter. Do u have any info on this encounter? Thanks! (Julie Moore)

Answer: I suspect the idea that there is a “President’s Book of Secrets” owes more to fiction than fact, but I guess if such a thing exists, there may well be information about UFOs in it. (N.P)

Question: Do they believe official full disclosure will happen anytime soon? (Dave Avery)

Answer: With the declassification and release of various country’s UFO files we’re arguably already getting disclosure with a little d. As to disclosure with a big D, as I’ve said previously, it depends what there is to disclose. (N.P)

Question: Is the top secret TR-3B a reversed alien technology from other secret bases besides area 51? And which aliens are we working with between the 4 types that we know of. And last, is there any truth the illuminati group and are they have connections to alien alliances?(David Brooks)

Answer: If we had extraterrestrial technology I’m certain we’d try to back-engineer it, but so far as I’m aware, all the top secret prototypes we have are the product of decidedly human ingenuity. I don’t buy into theories about the Illuminati, I’m afraid. (N.P)

Question:  Nick/John – what do they think of the possibility that the world really is already run by either one or several Alien races? And that is why we the ordinary people of the human race never get to know the real truth. (Teemu Nyholm)

Answer: I don’t believe such theories at all. If aliens are secretly running the world, they’re doing a pretty poor job. (N.P)

Question: What am I possibly seeing when I look up (with telescope) at night, e.g., bright blue lights, pulsing, more than 1 at times, – an always moving at incredible speeds, and impossible manoeuvring stopping, then moving off at different angles, side by side, I saw this on 2 diff locations (like the lights were playing, almost,) on different nights, months apart,
What could I be seeing in the late-night skies, every other night? (Christopher Leigh Hamilton)

Answer: It’s almost impossible to say from a description only, and I recommend that you contact an organisation such as BUFORA or ASSAP, so that they can investigate these sightings thoroughly. (N.P)

Question: Have you heard of a pulse drive technology? Is this from alien involvement or is technology from our government. And what do you think of ancient aliens program and the truth behind the show….(David Brooks)

Answer: I’ve heard of pulse drive technology, though as ever, there’s something of a dogfight over this, between theoretical physicists and engineers. In other words, it’s one thing to come up with theories and ideas, but it’s quite another to actually build something! I’ve appeared on “Ancient Aliens” many times, but I don’t buy into the central premise of the show, so I confine my interviews to my own areas of knowledge and expertise. Love it or hate it, the show has been a huge success and has done a lot to show TV network executives just how much interest there is in all this. (N.P)

Question: Nick, He sits on the fence sometimes and yet says something and then nothing. Do you still have to be careful with what you say Nick as I have read that you cannot disclose specific information until so many years after working for the MOD? (Peterkirklive Bideford)

Answer: I’ve heard the accusation that I “sit on the fence” and while I take the point, I think it stems from the fact that unlike true believers or die-hard debunkers (who are absolutely certain that their view is correct) I’m not afraid to say “I don’t know”. But to answer the specific question, my secrecy oath (The UK’s Official Secrets Act) binds me for life, and inevitably this places limits on what I can say. (N.P)

Question: when is NASA going to tell the TRUTH. Do you believe NASA are hiding secrets from us about the UFO’s? (Daniel Vargo)

Answer: I know a few people in NASA and the funny thing is that they’re quite open to a lot of this. A lot of other scientists criticise NASA for being too keen to say “aliens”. Look at the row over the Martian meteorite, cited by NASA as being evidence of fossilised microbial extraterrestrial life. Many scientists accused NASA of jumping the gun and being too credulous. Most NASA/UFO theories revolve around people spotting anomalies in NASA’s own photos and videos, so it would be a pretty inept cover-up if the gatekeepers of this great secret kept slipping up and accidentally releasing evidence of extraterrestrial activity. (N.P)

Question: Nick – Whilst working for the MOD, did you come across something or maybe some secret video project related to aliens, which makes you want to carry on exploring the aliens even after you have left your job? (Dalibor Lalic)

Answer: No, I didn’t. But the mystery was too exciting to abandon and the question of whether or not we’re alone in the Universe is one the biggest and most profound questions we can ask, so that’s why I stay involved, long after I stopped working for the government on this issue. (N.P)

Question: Are we ever going to unite with Alien neighbours? When there was an intergalactic fight in the sky long ago, were they protecting us/earth – is there any proof of this?? (PJ Trivium)

Answer: If there are other civilisations out there, I’m sure that we’ll take our place alongside them at some stage. But there’s no proof of ancient battles between alien races, with the earth being protected somehow. (N.P)

Question: Jordan 1996 British Army I was witness to a UFO nick was this ever reported to you (Maximus Orillias Price)

Answer: My time on the MoD’s UFO project (N.P)

Question: Nick – I read an article the other day, I’ve tried to find it again to double check names, (it was on another page) but it appeared to dismiss the whole Rendlesham thing. A guy I think called Conroy who was a superior officer, claims the whole thing was a hoax. Perpetrated by other US. Personnel after the original investigating guys confused the nearby lighthouse for an alien craft. He even said the Geiger counter picked up nothing unusual. Which contradicts everything I had heard previously. Are Mr Pope and the others aware of this, and have they retained any physical evidence, other than what we know already exists. I.E the actual radio/ phone tapes etc.? It sounded to me like a smokescreen to undermine the actual facts of the case, I can’t believe so many military personnel would confuse a fricking lighthouse for a UFO over 2 separate nights but I’m curious if they are aware of this sideways shift in the story? (Simon Farren)

Answer: I’m not sure what article you’ve seen, but the senior officer you mention is almost certainly Colonel Ted Conrad, who was the base commander at the time of the incident. One ufologist claims to have spoken to him, but I’m not aware of any independent corroboration of this, so it’s far from certain this actually happened. As for the theory about the lighthouse, this is being perpetuated by an amateur astronomer dishonestly trying to position himself as an expert on the case. The lighthouse isn’t even visible from most of the locations from which the UFO was seen, so this theory holds no water.(N.P)

Question: Is the latest outbreak in the past 5-10 years of “mainstream” media covering and reporting and UFO activity (i.e. documentaries, news reports, movies etc.) an attempt at a global preparation of acceptance?(Mitchell Keena)

Answer: I don’t think so. I think it simply reflects the fact that TV network executives, newspaper editors and other media professionals recognise that there’s huge public interest in this subject at the moment. (N.P)

Question: Hi I have a question:
The base air traffic controller stated that he saw an inbound bogey coming in extremely fast, however it then flew onto Bentwaters airfield right alongside the ATC tower and then stopped, hovered with bright multi coloured lights and was massive, only to then shoot off at unbelievable speed.
Can he comment on the validity of this storey and was it witnessed by other personnel at the base? (Tony Eve)

Answer: We detail some of the radar data relating to this case in “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest”, name the personnel involved, and reproduce one of the key MoD documents relating to radar evidence. This is certainly one of the most important and best-evidenced aspects of the Rendlesham Forest incident.  (N.P)

Question: “Yes” or “No” do you believe the Roswell incident was indeed a crashed UFO? (Nic Jarvis)

Answer: No.

Question: I would like to know where I should go on vacation to most likely have a UFO sighting. (Jody Kyle Faulkner)

Answer: Probably Rendlesham Forest! It’s still an active location, by all accounts. In America, you can probably hang around Area 51, but anything strange you see may just be the next generation stealth fighter. (N.P)

Question: If it is true that the reptilian control the illuminati, so it means that reptilian are a threat to humanity? Or is this all one big made up story? (Agnes Dolosa)

Answer: It’s all one big made up story. (N.P)

Question: Nick – ok here is a question… Could the mysterious humming sounds that are heard around the UK be caused by a hidden Alien communication station located near or in the forest? A friend of mine says that apparently the sound is super intrusive that people have committed suicide because of it. (Renata Gill)

Answer: I’m sceptical about this theory, and suspect it has more to do with power lines than with anything extraterrestrial. (N.P)

Question: Could you ask Nick on his views of UFOs using Lightning as a power source? I have been lucky enough to have seen this seen several during a thunder and lightning storm and would like to know his opinion? (Robbie Hodson)

I’ve heard various theories about what any visiting extraterrestrials might be using for power, including water, nuclear energy and lightning. They’re all good theories, I think, but the honest answer is that we simply don’t know. It’s all just speculation. (N.P)

Question: Do they think that it’s the ETs who are stopping disclosure from happening and not the governments?? (Chris Davis)

Answer: There’s certainly some logic in the argument that if we’re being visited by intelligent extraterrestrials, they – and not our own governments – would be setting the agenda. But again, the honest answer is that we simply don’t know. (N.P)

Question: In 2012 in the month of July I was on vacation with my daughter in Greece on the island of Lefkada, for 3 days in the sky there were three unknown objects shaped fireball coming down at high speed, stopped and then made the rounds and stunts above me and my daughter to a supersonic speed that any land vehicle would not have been able to do. It seemed that these fiery objects were playing with us, we were changing the direction of the car and they did the same, when we were still, even these unknown objects were standing. The day we boarded the ship to Italy, these three objects have skirted the ship doing frighten all passengers, rose shooting then descended on us giving impression that they would hit the ship, then they went racing .. .. All this and lasted about two hours, after which they stopped on the ship for about 5 minutes and then departed rocket disappearing from sight in about 10 seconds. All passengers were terrified, see 3 balls of fire that turned around the ship giving impression that at any moment to another we would hit and sunk … but then are splashed up and disappeared…. I do not understand why these 3 fireballs have done all this, because we have passed two hours of terror on the ship if he showed that they did not want to hurt any of us??? In your opinion what is the point to do all this and then fly out after letting us take a great fear??? (Nina Rubino)

Answer: Thank you for sharing this fascinating account, and I’m sorry that everyone was so scared by this. I can only suggest that you contact a UFO organisation such as MUFON, and ask that they conduct a full investigation into what happened. (N.P)

Question: Can you ask either of them if they have heard of ‘Daryll Anka’ who apparently channels another being called ‘BASHAR’… And what do they think of him and the details of the history and future of our race as well as the 2015/16 events leading up to 2025/30 first contact?? (Alex Summers)

Answer: The old intelligence analyst assessment “interesting if true” applies to Bashar and indeed to all channelled information. If any of this is to be accepted as true, we’d need some proof, e.g. a solution to some unsolved mathematics problems such as the P versus NP problem. Until and unless Bashar can come up with a solution, there’s no need to take any of these people seriously.(N.P)

Question: Nick in your opinion, do you personally think the triangles are man-made? We have seen them twice and we can’t explain how they could be…?(Melissa Sanders Giger)

Answer: Some delta and triangular-shaped UFOs are almost certainly secret prototype aircraft and drones, but as for the rest, we don’t know. As I often say, the believers only have to be right once. (N.P)

2 Questions – Jim Fisher

1)      Is it really possible a shadow organization within our government keeps information from the president…..Truman didn’t know about the A bomb until he was president …..If so, who really controls our government?

I’m sceptical about this, because the President – as Commander-in-Chief – is the only person authorised to launch military action. So it’s difficult to envisage any circumstances under which the President wouldn’t be briefed on all this. (N.P)

2) What if these visitors are really time travelling humans, coming back to research ancient history? I personally believe many of the sightings are just that….not aliens from another planet just humans from the future. …?
Do they have any thoughts on this?

Answer: Theories about time travel are just as valid as those about extraterrestrials, or other dimensions. The truth is, we simply don’t know.(N.P)

Question: What’s taking so long for them to make contact with everyone not just random people?? (Frank Camarillo)

Answer: We should try to avoid taking an anthropocentric view of the situation, and realise that not everything revolves around us. If we’re being visited by extraterrestrial civilisations, the chances are that they’re considerably more advanced than us, so they’ll be setting the agenda and the timescale – not us. (N.P)

Question: To Nick Pope: in your opinion, do you think disclosure could happen this year or will there be a false flag event? I feel the more we are coming to disclosure the more the powers that be are creating wars as diversion (Nile Jordan)

Answer: I’m not a believer in false flag events (I don’t believe in conspiracy theories about 9/11) and as for disclosure, as I’ve said before, it depends what there is to disclose. (N.P)

Question: I would like information on the rumours of an Earth/ alien solar system space fleet rumoured to exist with a list of non-terrestrial officers also, any information on alien bases on the moon.(Michael Howard)

Answer: Such claims are based on the work of computer hacker Gary McKinnon, and I’m afraid I can’t evaluate of this. Again, “interesting if true”. (N.P)

Question: Just want to ask nick Pope his thoughts on the Dudley Dorito UFO?? (Brian Horton)

Answer: There have certainly been some bizarre sightings in this area, but whether there’s a single explanation, I’m afraid I don’t know.(N.P)

Question: After 2 white light UFO sightings, I have seen a weird bat like creature appear out of an area of light in the night sky. Was that a mothman? Are mothmen connected to ufos? Do you believe in the Mothman myth?? (Rosalie Dunstan)

Answer: This sounds fascinating, but I’m not an expert on the Mothman theories, so I’m afraid I can’t offer any definitive explanation as to what you saw. (N.P)

Question: Why UFO are being sighted all over the world? Is the time near for them to be openly visible to human and why only now? (Tairain Dyaran)

Answer: I think the UFO phenomenon has always been global, but as to whether or not it’s time for them to be openly visible, I’m afraid that I don’t know. (N.P)

Question: I recently saw what I took for a UFO (I am thinking black triangle) but the light patterns were different that those previously reported. I am wondering with the amount of evidence available as to different shapes of craft how much evidence is there about different lighting patterns? (Richard Buie)

Answer: I think that for any meaningful trend analysis, as opposed to examining UFO sightings on a case by case basis, one would have to engage with an organisation such as U.I.P or MUFON. (N.P)

Question: Has there ever been an instance when a missing person returned from an abduction exactly the same way they were last seen or returned in a different country? (Tracer Hamilton)

Answer: Not as far as I’m aware. The best such case that I’m familiar with is that of Travis Walton, who had a UFO encounter and was declared missing, only to appear some days later and some considerable distance away. (N.P)

Question: We keep hearing dates for disclosure, Is there a very probable date or do we really don’t know??? (Johnny Styles )

Answer: We don’t really know, though I’m tempted to say that when the Square Kilometre Radio telescope is fully operational, towards the end of the 2020s, we’ll be able to detect any other civilisations in this small corner of our Milky Way galaxy. (N.P)

Question: Can you ask Nick if he thinks activity has spiked all over the world or is it that more people are aware and now there is a camera in most people’s hands 24/7 making documentation easy? Just interested to see if what we are seeing is record sightings. (Hashim Yilmaz)

Answer: I think it’s a chicken and egg situation. We don’t really know whether or not sightings have increased, or whether it’s simply that because more people carry cell phones capable of taking photos or videos, we have more data.(N.P)

I have a few questions to both gentlemen… (Obviously they are quite a few lol so if not possible to answer all, I would be happy with answers to whichever ones they or you choose) First of all, I want to say THANK YOU to both of them for agreeing to do this as well as UIP for arranging it all. (Hellie Flow)

My questions are:

Regarding the Rendlesham Forrest Incident….

1) Why Rendlesham Forrest? Why do you think these beings, whoever they are chose to land there and what is the reason there has been so many sightings in that particular area? What do you think or know they were doing there? Why is that particular place on Earth of such interest to them?

Answer: I suspect that RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge are inherently more interesting than Rendlesham Forest.

2) Did you feel any different physically or mentally during and after the incident?

N/A

3) Do you think whoever was there was aware you too where there? Do you think they knew you saw them?

N/A

General Questions….

1) How many alien races are you aware of that are visiting us at this point?

Answer: We have no idea. The answer could be none, or it could be an incredibly high number.

2) Do you believe there may be one or more alien races that are actually protecting us and trying to help us and vice versa, do you believe one or more alien races have bad intentions towards us and want to harm us?

Answer: Again, sadly, I have no idea. I think we should try to get away from anthropocentric ideas of good aliens and bad aliens. The truth may be far more subtle and complex.

3) Why do you think aliens are interested in us? Do you believe they created us and have always been around (which is what I believe)? Or do you think we are in some way unique and special compared to other planets out there and they are probably just fascinated by us?

Answer: If we’re being observed by intelligent extraterrestrials, I suspect they’d be interested in us for the same reason that we’d be interested in them. They’d be scientists, explorers and anthropologists.

End Of Questions.

A big thank you again to Nick from all of us here at U.I.P and all of our fantastic followers for your time and effort with answering these questions, lots of fantastic thought provoking answ }ers here!

We look forward to supporting Nick  in the exciting times ahead…

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There’s a planet between Mars and Jupiter you’ve probably never heard of…

This animation showcases a series of images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.

Way out beyond Mars, but before you get to Jupiter, is a planet.

You read that right. There’s a planet between Mars and Jupiter.

You may not have heard of it, but it was discovered in 1801 — 129 years before Pluto. It originally was called a planet, then later an asteroid and now it’s called a dwarf planet.

Its name is Ceres (pronounced like series) and you’ll likely be hearing a lot more about it in the coming weeks.

Ceres is one of five named dwarf planets recognized by NASA and the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The other four are Eris, Pluto, Makemake and Haumea.

But Ceres is the first of these worlds to get a visitor from Earth: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is arriving on March 6.

“Ceres is a ‘planet’ that you’ve probably never heard of,” said Robert Mase, Dawn project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Ceres may be considered a dwarf planet, but it’s “the giant of the main asteroid belt,” Dr. Marc Rayman, chief engineer and mission director of the Dawn mission, told CNN. “It is not only the largest object between Mars and Jupiter, it is the largest object between the sun and Pluto that a spacecraft has not yet visited.”

“We are tremendously excited,” Rayman said. “We have guided this robotic probe for well over seven years on an interplanetary journey of more than 3 billion miles. Along the way we sailed past Mars. We spent 14 months orbiting and scrutinizing the giant protoplanet Vesta. … Now, finally, we are on the verge of conducting the first exploration ever of the first dwarf planet.”

New images from Dawn, taken when the probe was about 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) from Ceres, show craters and what NASA calls mysterious bright spots. Rayman said its surface is pretty beaten up and that the craters that are “scars from life in the rough and tumble asteroid belt.”

Why study a beaten-up space rock? Rayman said because it’s a survivor — and a mysterious one. Made up of rock and ice, Ceres may even have liquid water deep beneath its surface — “perhaps as ponds or lakes or even oceans,” Rayman said.

He said Ceres “appears to have been in the process of growing to become a full-sized planet when Jupiter terminated its growth nearly 4.6 billion years ago.”

So by studying Ceres, scientists learn more about how the rest of the solar system formed. And he said, we should study Ceres because it’s there — and we need to understand the universe we live in. “We should study it because we hunger for knowledge and understanding. Grand undertakings like this nurture our spirit,” Rayman said.

Rayman said that if you had learned about the solar system 200 years ago, “you would have learned that Ceres was a planet, just as people who learned about the solar system in more recent generations learned that Pluto is.”

Speaking of Pluto, the most famous of the dwarf planets gets its own visitor in July. The New Horizons spacecraft is closing in for a flyby of Pluto and its moons.

This talk of planets and dwarf planets is still a little confusing, so here’s the most recent tally: NASA currently recognizes eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and the five named dwarf planets we listed earlier.

But a sixth possible dwarf planet already is on NASA’s watch list.

Called 2012 VP113, it’s believed to be one of the most distant objects in our solar system. On its Solar System Exploration website, NASA says the object was nicknamed “Biden” after Vice President Joseph Biden because of the VP in its initial designation. It will be up to the IAU to decide whether i2012 VP113 is a dwarf planet and whether it gets an official name.

But expect the numbers for planets in our solar system to keep changing. Mike Brown, the CalTech astronomy professor who helped discover dwarf planet Eris and who takes responsibility for killing off Pluto as a full-fledged planet, has his own tally listing more than 360 possible dwarf planets. And NASA has said there may be many more dwarf planets that we haven’t found yet.

So Ceres, and its cousins, may soon outnumber the traditional planets you learned about in grade school.

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04-06-2015 om 00:39 geschreven door peter