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...
14-07-2015
RENDLESHAM: UFO hunter claims Men in Black tapped phone and tried to end her alien probe
RENDLESHAM: UFO hunter claims Men in Black tapped phone and tried to end her alien probe
A UFO chaser who has investigated Britain's most controversial sighting for 35 years claims "Men in black" from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have tried to scare her into stopping her work.
Brenda Butler claims "Men in Black" have tapped phones and followed her
Brenda Butler, who visits Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, every week hoping to gather evidence of alien visitations, claimed she and two co-authors have been hounded by MoD officials and police trying to halt their research.
Speaking at a UFO conference to mark 35 years since the mysterious Rendlesham incident next to an RAF base in 1980, she claimed the MoD had tried to make her and a fellow investigator sign a contract to silence them over their findings, and said she was even chased by an "army jeep" down country roads at 80mph.
The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery UFO crash said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
The UK alien sighting is said to involve three USAF officers based at RAF Bentwaters who claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
Mrs Butler, who together with Dot Street and Janny Randals wrote the 1984 book Skycrash: A Cosmic Conspiracy, about the incident, said she even believes a 22-year-old man who witnessed the UFO may even have been murdered because he was investigating the case.
Men in Black is a conspiracy theorist term for black-suited men claiming to be government agents who harass UFO witnesses to keep them quiet.
The phrase led to Marvel's Men in Black comics and the movie trilogy of the same name starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones about a secretive agency hiding the existence of aliens.
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Brenda Butler during the conference
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Mysterious "Men in Black"
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A selection of some of the strange pictures Brenda Butler has taken while investigating the forest
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Sketch of the "UFO" seen by a villager during the incident
The conference hall was covered in displays of Butler's research and scores of photographs taken at night in the forest, which she claims show UFOs, strange orbs, mists and lights.
She told the audience in Woodbridge, Suffolk: "We have had phone calls, been followed and threatened. The police came to check our car numbers.
"People have come to my home and stood in my drive."
She said once she was with a man in a vehicle after visiting the forest and an "army jeep" blocked their way.
She added: "It followed us up the road. We had to do 80mph to get away.
"That night we went back to the forest and got pictures of all these orbs. There was a police car and police helicopter observing. They said don't come here again. Why after 35 years are they still bothering us if nothing happened?"
Mrs Butler told of the many "civilian witnesses" to the UFO before the remarkable claims.
She added: "We still get phone calls, the police check on us."
She also claimed the three were asked by MoD officials to sign a contract to "stop going to the forest and asking people about Rendlesham."
She said: "I said you prove to me what happened and I will, but they wouldn't so I didn't.”
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Odd mists caught on camera by Mrs Butler
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Brenda Butler claimed her phone was tapped by the MoD
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Statements obtained by her and pictures of the Rendlesham sighting drawn by witnesses
That night we went back to the forest and got pictures of all these orbs. There was a police car and police helicopter observing. They said don't come here again. Why after 35 years are they still bothering us if nothing happened?
UFO investigator Brenda Butler
She recalled several interviews with locals, including an 11-year-old boy, who said they saw strange lights heading toward the forest up to New Year's Eve, two days after the air base sightings.
Another man, who saw what looked like a "helicopter with an upside down ice cream cone beneath it," was warned off entering the forest by a security guard who said there was "an unexploded bomb," she claimed.
She added: "I interviewed Michael Sims and two lads in 1983. They saw white lights that split into three at the time. I later found out he was murdered in a hotel room.
"I heard another lady who spoke out died when she was 26."
In a phone interview after the conference, Mrs Butler insisted it was all true.
She claimed the MoD had tapped their phones, and a mystery caller warned Mrs Street and Mrs Randals they may "end up at the bottom of the ocean".
Mrs Butler, from Leiston, Suffolk, said: "They asked us to sign the contract in the 1980s, they said it was about national security of the bases," but she did not have a copy.
She said: "Ralph Noyes, who retired from the MoD told us our phones were tapped. We used to hear the clicking noise on our phone. We ended up using phone boxes, we had codes for them like Blue One."
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Mrs Butler and a dog pictured surrounded by so-called orbs
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More pictures shown by the researcher
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Artwork of the Rendlesham incident displayed at the conference
"Michael (Sims) told me he was going to track down other witnesses when he was in the US. After he was killed one of his friends said he thought it was to do with Rendlesham. I met his dad at the conference who thinks it was just Random, but he asked me to send him everything on Michael."
An online tribute records that a Michael Sims, 22, from Suffolk, was found murdered in a hotel room in Trinidad, Colorado, where he stayed in September 1985 enroute to visit his grandparents during a trip to the states.
The MoD did investigate the Rendlesham sightings, but concluded there was no threat posed so closed the case.
It was looked at again by Nick Pope, who carried out research for the MoD into UFOs.
Mr Pope said: "Brenda's claims don't make any sense. The MoD axed its UFO project in 2009 and even if they were still involved, they wouldn't, and couldn't, tell a civilian not to investigate. I can only assume that there's been a misunderstanding and that perhaps they've told her not to trespass on MoD land. I'd like to see the contract she refers to."
An MoD spokesman would not be drawn on any of the claims.
He said: "Our interest in UFOs ended in 2009. There was no defence risk identified and we no longer comment on the subject."
A Suffolk Police spokeswoman referred us to an archive document which showed the force was aware of the three women, but only to refer another interested party to their book.
She added: "I have found no suggestion of any other involvement and have checked with current local officers who have no knowledge of anything further."
Just minutes before the long-awaited flyby took place at 7:49AM ET, NASA “teased” the final full-frame color image of Pluto set to be released before the event by publishing it on Instagram. It was taken at about 4PM ET on July 13th, according to NASA, from 476,000 miles away. The high-resolution image was released after the flyby, and can be seen above.
In the image, we can see the “heart” of Pluto in much greater detail than before, craters that were impossible to make out in previous images, and a great view of the dwarf planet’s dark equatorial belt.
The New Horizons team celebrates the new image of Pluto
There are more images of the face of pluto to come. The first true high-resolution mosaic image will be released tomorrow afternoon, and a few more will be released throughout the week. A much larger set will be released starting in September.
THERE ARE MANY MORE TO COME
While the chance is around one in 10,000 that New Horizons will come into contact with debris during the flyby, spirits are high at mission control in Maryland. “Tonight we’re going to get the signal — and we will get the signal,” said Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Source
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Lithopanspermia. The word is a mouthful but represents one of the most intriguing theories about the origin of life on Earth. Quite literally, it means life began from an extraterrestrial source and brought here by hitching a ride on a rock, more specifically, a meteorite. The idea the entirety of biological life coming from afar makes for fantastic sci-fi fodder but the story proving it as possible fact has been even more entertaining.
The initial idea of panspermia began in Ancient Greece but wasn’t fully accepted until the early 1900s when German physicist Svante Arrhenius outlined just how this could happen. In the vastness of space, dormant seeds and spores resistant to the harsh conditions hitch a ride onto particles and travel the universe. Some eventually are drawn in by the gravity of a planet and end up on the surface. If the conditions are right, they can rise from their slumber and start growing, thriving, and evolving. The idea is hard to believe and for over a Century, there was little evidence to prove the postulate. Yet by the turn of the 21st Century, some of the clues began to fall into place.
First, spores were indeed able to survive in space as long as they were protected from cosmic rays. When tested in the matrix of a meteorite, the survival increased to levels capable of initiating life on another planet. Over the years, other microbes were added to list suggesting part of the theory was indeed plausible.
Of course, survivability in space does not a terrestrial microbe make. Depending on the timing of entry, the Earth would not be the inviting environment it is today. Several factors would be extreme, including temperature, atmosphere, and nutrient supply. But amid the myriad of species on Earth, several are capable of surviving the harshest of conditions. Aptly named extremophiles, these species could indeed survive the conditions of pre-historic times and thrive.
Even with the ability to survive in space and on land, there is still a gap in the ability to turn fantasy into plausible reality. The microbe has to survive the stress of atmospheric entry. The heat could potentially kill the hardiest of spores and leave nothing more than a lifeless organic husk – or ash – on the soil. Proper shielding could offer hope but the evidence was scarce at best. One particular study in 2010 managed to send a species of algae through the entire entry process but it did not survive. In 2014, another study revealed DNA could survive the journey but this could not be extrapolated to life itself.
Last week, the theory received a boost thanks to a study by a team of Russian scientists. They found fully formed bacteria shielded by a meteorite could survive the entry process and initiate growth. The results may help to spark a new wave of tests to determine which species could actually represent the origin of life on Earth.
The group worked with a thermal-resistant extremophile known as Thermoanaerobacter siderophilus. It was discovered in 1999 in vents proximal to the Karymsky volcano in Russia. The bacterium is capable of not only surviving high temperatures, but also can grow in the presence of iron and form endospores in stressful environment. This made it the perfect candidate for testing. The species was grown up, dried and placed into an artificial meteorite. The test object was 2¾ inches in diameter and comprised of a compound considered to be excellent for mimicking meteorites, basalt.
The meteorite/bacteria combination was placed onto the outside surface of the FOTON-M4 satellite and then sent up into orbit. After 45 days, the satellite returned to Earth exposing the meteorite to the extreme conditions of entry including a stretch where the temperature was over 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the ordeal was complete, a parachute brought the satellite to Earth allowing for testing to be completed.
Back at the lab, the bacteria were put into media for any signs of growth. To be sure no contamination was possible, strict aseptic technique was performed and sterility controls were used. With no extraneous growth detected, the researchers knew any signs of life would be solely from the samples.
It took five days but eventually, there was growth. Not all of the samples survived (4 of 24) but those that did grow as if nothing had happened. For the researchers, this was an incredible observation. Although it didn’t help to answer the greater questions on the origins of life – T. siderophilus is most likely not our original life form – the results did reveal lithopanspermia is entirely possible.
This study was the first documented case of microbial survival but the researchers suggested this is only the beginning. Future tests can now be performed on other microbial species using T. siderophilus as a positive control. This will allow for more scientifically valid experiments as well as open the door to testing a wider variety of species. Though the journey may be slow, the path towards finding the truth behind lithopanspermia is now clear and may offer hope to finally figuring out how life began on this pale blue dot we call home.
Most black holes have little mass compared to their host galaxy, but a recently discovered black hole grew so quickly the host galaxy couldn’t keep pace.
The discovery has astronomers questioning assumptions about how galaxies develop.
Benny Trakhtenbrot, a researcher at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, together with an international team of astrophysicists, was hunting for ancient massive black holes using the 10 meter Keck telescope in Hawaii. Although this kind of observations are routine for them, Trakhtenbrot and the team were surprised by the first black hole they observed.
The data, collected with a new instrument, revealed a giant black hole in an otherwise normal, distant galaxy, called CID-947. Because its light had to travel a very long distance, the scientists were observing it at a period when the universe was less than two billion years old, just 14 percent of its current age (almost 14 billion years have passed since the Big Bang).
An analysis of the data collected in Hawaii revealed that the black hole in CID-947, with nearly 7 billion solar masses, is among the most massive black holes discovered up to now. What surprised researchers in particular was not the black hole’s record mass, but rather the galaxy’s mass.
“The measurements correspond to the mass of a typical galaxy,” says Trakhtenbrot, a postdoctoral fellow working within the Extragalactic Astrophysics research group of Professor Macella Carollo. “We therefore have a gigantic black hole within a normal size galaxy.”
The result was so surprising, that two of the astronomers had to verify the galaxy mass independently. Both came to the same conclusion. The team reports its findings in the current issue of the journal Science.
WAS THE EARLY UNIVERSE THAT DIFFERENT?
Most galaxies, including our Milky Way, have a black hole at their center that holds millions to billions of solar masses.
“Black holes are objects that possess such a strong gravitational force that nothing—not even light—can escape. Einstein’s theory of relativity describes how they bend space-time itself,” explains ETH professor Kevin Schawinski, coauthor of the new study.
The existence of black holes can be proven because matter is greatly accelerated by the gravitational force and thus emits particularly high-energy radiation.
Until now, observations have indicated that the greater the number of stars present in the host galaxy, the bigger the black hole.
“This is true for the local universe, which merely reflects the situation in the universe’s recent past,” says Trakhtenbrot.
This link, along with other evidence, led the scientists to assume that the growth of black holes and the formation of stars go hand-in-hand. This is quite reasonable, if a common reservoir of cold gas was responsible for the formation of the stars and the “feeding’” of the black hole at the galaxy’s center, says Trakhtenbrot.
Previous studies suggested the radiation emitted during the growth of the black hole controlled, or even stopped, the creation of stars, as the released energy heated up the gas. The latest results, however, suggest these processes work differently, at least in the early universe.
STARS WERE STILL FORMING
The distant young black hole observed by Trakhtenbrot and his colleagues had roughly 10 times less mass than its galaxy. In today’s local universe, black holes typically reach a mass of 0.2 to 0.5 percent of their host galaxy’s mass.
“That means this black hole grew much more efficiently than its galaxy—contradicting the models that predicted a hand-in-hand development,” Trakhtenbrot explains.
Although the black hole had reached the end of its growth, stars were still forming, the researchers conclude. Contrary to previous assumptions, the energy and gas flow, propelled by the black hole, did not stop the creation of stars.
The galaxy could continue to grow in the future, but the relationship between the mass of the black hole and that of the stars would remain unusually large. The researchers believe CID-947 could be a precursor of the most extreme, massive systems that we observe in today’s local universe, such as the galaxy NGC 1277 in the constellation of Perseus, some 220 million light years away from our Milky Way.
Er zijn gebieden op aarde waar meer schijnt te gebeuren op buitenaards gebied dan op andere plekken.
Éen van die plaatsen is het Canadese dorp Terrace, waar vreemde geluiden worden gehoord en regelmatig UFO’s worden waargenomen.
Iets wat overal ter wereld in toenemende mate wordt waargenomen, zijn wolken die er niet uit zien als normaal, zich vaak niet door de lucht bewegen zoals gebruikelijk en/of zich manifesteren in een verder volkomen onbewolkte lucht.
De officiële verklaring staat altijd heel snel klaar want het zijn altocumulus lenticularis wolken, ook wel lenswolken genoemd en daar blijft het dan bij.
Afgelopen dinsdag maakte Bob Wall, een inwoner van het dorp Terrace in het Canadese British Colombia, de volgende opname:
Alhoewel de officiële verklaring lenswolk was, waren de bewoners van Terrace er allesbehalve gerust op.
Velen vermoeden dat het hier toch gaat om een UFO in vermomming en ufoloog Scott Waring kan zich hier zelfs enorm over opwinden.
“Het nieuws zegt dat het gaat om een lenswolk, natuurlijk, gemaakt door een verdomde buitenaardse UFO in een verdomde lenswolk. Echt, mensen dragen camouflagekleren wanneer ze op jacht gaan zodat ze één worden met de omgeving en niet worden opgemerkt. Waarom is het dan zo moeilijk om te begrijpen dat buitenaardsen regels hebben waardoor het hen verboden is om zichzelf en hun schepen te vertonen aan de mensheid.
Sceptici liegen zichzelf voor omdat wanneer ze zeggen dat het mogelijk een UFO kan zijn, hun hele wereld en eigenwaarde inelkaar valt en een bedreiging vormt voor alles wat ze ooit hebben geloofd.
Daarom houden ze zichzelf voor de gek en doen dat ook met anderen om de waarheid verborgen te houden. Dat geeft de sceptici troost, net zoals een teddybeer dat bij een kind doet. Wij weten de waarheid over sceptici en over buitenaardsen”.
Zoals eerder gezegd, is Terrace één van die plekken waar vaker vreemde dingen voor komen. Zo maakte een andere inwoner, Dale Stewart, in juli 2012 de volgende opname van een aantal UFO’s in de lucht boven Terrace.
Deze prachtige opname laat een aantal kleinere UFO’s zien die dikwijls worden waargenomen, terwijl ze de UFO-wolken in en uit vliegen.
Er gebeuren nog meer vreemde dingen in Terrace die niemand kan verklaren. Bizarre geluiden die eveneens op steeds meer plekken op de wereld worden waargenomen.
Misschien toch niet zo vreemd dat de inwoners de verklaring van een lenswolk niet zomaar als zoete koek slikken.
Strange Huge Reddish Sphere Hovering Over Arkansas, California and South Africa
Strange Huge Reddish Sphere Hovering Over Arkansas, California and South Africa
In the past month, a witness came to report about the strange sighting that described as a reddish sphere appeared in the skies over South Africa and US. Due to its unusual appearance, a lot of people think that it is a planet Nibiru. This type of planet was referred by the Sumerians as Planet X because it supposedly our 10th planet in the solar system.
Fremont, California Sighting (June 15, 2015) At 8:16 pm, while the witness was driving home from work. As it crossed the Dumbarton bridge and at about 50mph, heading north on Paseo Padre, the witness got the urge to take a picture of the sunset. The spectator continued driving, rolled down the window and snapped few pictures with the phone. After then, the viewer had forgotten about it. On the next morning, upon reviewing the photos, solid, yellowish and half-circles are lens flares. But, the audience has never seen half circles as lens flares as always comes in solid shapes. Furthermore, the image moves in ways that do not correspond to lens flares.
South Africa Sighting (June 14, 2015) A witness captured sphere images as seen in the time-lapse video circulated on the internet.
Arkansas Sighting (June 14, 2015) As a resident of Arkansas, Vickie Acklin captured a series of images of twelve spheres. He reported seeing the strange image after the sun goes down and claimed that it was seen clearly and brightly with her naked eyes. The image was an intense and bright pink. Since it moved quickly, it went below the treeline minutes away and could no longer see it. The spectator used a good zoom lens and an excellent camera.
There is no sufficient proof of UFOs being a fact, but research is still going on. For believers, they hope to find beings other than humans in this galaxy.
UFO's are monitoring us: Military video shows UFO being pursued
UFO's are monitoring us, and the evidence is all around us!
If you are looking for proof of Alien life and extraterrestrial technology, this video might just be what you are looking for.
The video, taken by a Homeland Security helicopter with infrared, shows two Unidentified flying object in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico on the night of April 25, 2013.
On April the 25th at 21:22 local time (Puerto Rico), the air patrol of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was making a routine patral when they ecnountered a UFO. The object was first seen by the captain then by the operator of the control tower.
The crew first believed that the object in question was some sort of smuggler and decided to pursue it and record using the IR camera. The UFO circled the Aguadilla airport and made his way to the ocean. The UFO changed its shape when it approached the ocean. The Unidentified flying object flew just above the surface of the water before entering the water without being affected by hydrodynamic forces.
Watch the video carefully at 1:24:39 minutes, the time is located in the upper left corner, when the object in question becomes dark (hot), at that moment another UFO comes out of the ocean and joins the first UFO in their original formation, after this, both submerge controllably into the ocean. Many would say that undoubtedly there is alien technology hidden under the oceans of planet Earth, and this video might just prove to be the best evidence out there.
The video in infrared, was recorded using a MX15 L3 EOIR camera using background IR heat, meaning that objects that are hot or give away energy are shown as dark objects.
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DETAILED UFO ALIEN ORB SIGHTING IN SOUTH JERSEYJULY 11, 2015 ……….. NORTHFIELD NEW JERSEY
At approximately 9:45 pm, I was in my front yard, smoking a cigarette, sort of gazing across the street at my neighbor’s house. After a few moments, my eyes started to wander off to the left (westward) towards the bike path that is provided to us by our municipality.
As I started to look that way, I noticed something in the sky. I glanced up and instantly dropped my cigarette. Above the tree line on the bike path, there were two red objects hovering. They glowed a bright red light and seemed to flash and change colors from red to white. After a second or two of standing there, I ran inside to grab my iPhone so I could record this event. I work in television production and have been around drones for a lot of that work. I also fly weekly for my job. I’m in and around planes and airports and have been for the last 12 years. These objects were not drones. They were not planes. I took 2:30 mins of footage before my phone’s battery started to die. It was inside on the charger initially and was only around 5% charged when I took the footage. The two objects hovered for awhile, then one took off and flew away. Far away. They were both pretty large at first. Smaller than a full moon but much larger than a star. The one that flew away though did eventually become small enough that it looked like a star.
After a few more seconds, 20 maybe, the one that flew off – which was the one situated on the right hand side – reappeared on the left hand side, lower – again by the tree line and much larger. The two hovered again for about a minute. My phone was dying. I ran back inside to charge it and after a few minutes, I came back outside with my 3 year old son. We recorded another 20 seconds of footage and he – though very young and being a child – was able to identify the object and you can hear his voice call it “the flashing star”. I’m well educated. I work for a Fortune 500 company. I have a child and I’m an excellent father. I’ve been around drones and planes for my work. This was neither. My very first reaction was to run and grab a camera. That wouldn’t have been my reaction if I had ever seen anything like this before. It’s also important to note that Northfield is a very normal and pristine little borough outside of Atlantic City. The area here is quiet and family oriented and filled with decent people. This is not a hoax or a gimmick or some weird thing. I saw two UFO’s. These two objects hovered, flew, flashed bright red and appeared to travel great distances in very short time.
‘X’ is For Xtension: Area 51 Gets New Massive Hangar
‘X’ is For Xtension: Area 51 Gets New Massive Hangar
This month, NASA administrator Major Charles Bolden made the headlines of several media outlets, although not because of some major astronomical discovery or the announcement of an exciting new space mission. During a Q&A session with a group of British school children, Mr. Bolden was asked by one of them –10-year-old Carmen Dearing– whether he believed in aliens or not; his answer, of course, was the cookie-cutter “they are out there, somewhere” reply any NASA representative usually gives, and the fact he didn’t even bother to mention UFOs is a veiled indicative of the official contempt for the phenomenon.
Curiously enough, Major Bolden also mentioned the existence of Area 51 in that same event –though the newspapers carrying the story were scarce on details regarding what kind of question prompted his admittance; perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us even the younger generations are privy to the infamous military base, given how it’s even been used as a gag in the Looney Tunes’ 2003 film Back in Action.
Major Bolden had this to say to Her Majesty’s younger subjects about the best-known secret place in the world:
“There is an Area 51,” he said. “It’s not what many people think. I’ve been to a place called that but it’s a normal research and development place. I never saw any aliens or alien spacecraft or anything when I was there.
“It thinks because of the secrecy of the aeronautics research that goes on there it’s ripe for people to talk about aliens being there.”
I took umbrage with Bolden’s remarks at The Daily Grail, because they made the Groom Lake Air Force base look like just a regular, run-of-the-mill facility where uncle Sam carries out ordinary, albeit sensitive stuff –kind of like an IRS office in the middle of the desert!– but if it’s such a normal place, why all the secrecy?
There are many military installations in the United States which allow guided tourist visits inside their premises. But Dreamland will never be among those, despite what Mr. Bolden’s words would make us or the kiddies believe; and that’s because even though Area 51 has apparently turned into a laughing stock to the rest of the world, and the 2 digits have permeated every instance of our pop culture, the top-secret base is STILL very much operational and as busy as ever.
Proof of that is a humongous new hangar which is just about to be completed, located at the south of the base and away from the rest of the other buildings. The first one who made me aware of this was Mr. Norio Hayakawa, a seasoned UFO and Area 51 researcher, who’s been investigating the mysteries surrounding Groom Lake with a very skeptical eye –Norio is definitely NOT a fan of the ETH. He was even able to come up with a link to the latest satellite images of this new hangar, at the TerraServer aerial imagery service.
As of June 29th of 2015, feeding Google Earth with the TerraServer coordinates does not show the new hangar, which in understandable given the free software is still using 2002 images in that area. Google Earth was still useful to one of Norio’s contacts to try and get a rough estimate of the hangar’s size, which he calculates to have an area of about 46,200 square feet.
The Aviation-dedicated website Foxtrot Alpha have also taken notice of Terraserver’s new images, and have been speculating about the possible purpose of this new massive building since 2014, in two-part post [1] [2]. I’m no Aviation expert, but common sense makes me agree with both Foxtrot Apha’s analysis that whatever the Air Force is pretending to store inside their new hangar has to be a) rather large; and b) very sensitive.
A new hypersonic prototype perhaps, capable of surpassing the SR-71 Blackbird’s Cold War-era speed records?
One of those hybrid blimp-like ships intended to carry large amount of cargo and personnel to the battlefront, or conduct surveilance during extended missions?
Or what about something a bit more exotic, like the supposedly super secret aerial vehicles which are said to be behind so many sightings of huge, black, triangled UFOs? Here we enter the mined field of the legendary TR-3B, a huge nuclear-powered, anti-gravity platform which would make Nick Fury greener than the Hulk with envy. The TR-3B has also been said to operate on the principle of rotating mercury, which links it with both the mystery of the Nazi Bell and the ancient vimanas.
Unfortunately, the existence of this or other breakaway vehicles have never been confirmed… yet. And although the purpose of Area 51’s new hangar will be probably be more mundane and less UFO-like, it still proves the Air Force has no immediate intention to retire its historic top-secret military aerospace testing facility any time soon.
Who knows? Maybe they’ll end up having the bigger laugh yet, by using this new distraction to divert us all from where they keep the REAL reversed-engineered alien craft, at Area 52 –just like Bugs and Daffy were saying all along.
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RENDLESHAM: US commander feared attack after 'UFO fired laser' and 'explosion in woods'
RENDLESHAM: US commander feared attack after 'UFO fired laser' and 'explosion in woods'
A FORMER US Airbase commander at the centre of the UK's most controversial mass UFO sighting insists "we are not alone," but world leaders are "covering up" the truth.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, the most senior former US servicemen to go public about alien sightings, also said he has obtained "new evidence supporting" claims that a UFO LANDED in Rendlesham, Suffolk, next to an RAF base in 1980.
Returning to the area 35-years on, Mr Halt's claims included:
• Rendlesham Forest was mobbed with US military personnel "hunting UFOs" at the time
• A "UFO exploded " before his eyes and another "shot down a laser beam" from 3,000 feet above
• The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) later hid documents relating to Rendlesham
• US personnel who "lost 40 minutes" during the sighting have been denied access to medical files
Speaking at a UFO conference in Woodbridge, Suffolk, he said: "There is no doubt in my mind we are not alone and there are some people (in power) who know this, but even Mr (Barack) Obama won't get through to them."
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Charles Halt at the conference
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Charles Halt photographed at the time of the incident
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A more recent "UFO sighting" at Rendlesham woods taken by a local researcher
The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery UFO crash said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
Mr Halt, 75, who was base deputy commander at the time, was not present during the first encounter, but was told next morning.
He claimed the officers who first saw the lights and then a UFO "on the floor" could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air".
The three - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston, later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.
Mr Halt then said on the evening of December 27 1980 that officers had shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back."
He went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.
A plaster cast was later taken of one of the holes, but mysteriously disappeared from a box it was stored in.
He said soon after they saw a mysterious object in a field between the woods and a farmhouse with "a red light moving."
"It came towards us into the forest, moving, bobbing up and down in the trees. It was oval, about 100 to 150 yards away, with a dark centre and red around it," he said.
He claimed there were "sparks" coming from it and after a minute it "exploded and disappeared."
They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up.
One was "elliptical, but became a "full circle".
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Charles Halt showing a photo of the missing plaster cast of one of the indentations
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The case is so infamous there is a recognised UFO trail through Forestry Commission woods
To the south were two bright white lights, almost like landing lights. One approached directly overhead at very high speed and sent down a laser beam at about 10 to 12 inch in diameter. We thought, is it a weapon, a communication, a warning, what do we do
Former Lt Col Charles Halt
Mr Halt added: "To the south were two bright white lights, almost like landing lights. One approached directly overhead at very high speed and sent down a laser beam at about 10 to 12 inch in diameter. We thought, is it a weapon, a communication, a warning, what do we do?"
Mr Halt, who flew from Virginia to attend UFO conference in Suffolk, said they continued to observe for an hour before returning to base at 3am, where he recorded an account on a tape.
But his wing commander, who heard it, told him: "It happened off the base - It's a British affair - case closed."
He wrote a memo for the MoD, so they could investigate but they never responded.
Subsequent requests for MoD documents from the time came back with papers missing "from that exact time frame," he said.
He claimed Mr Burroughs and the two others have been unable to obtain medical records because of secrecy surrounding what happened.
Mr Burroughs this year won a court battle forcing the US Veterans Association to pay his legal bill for heart failure treatment amid claims he suffered radiation poisoning during the UFO search.
While still on scene, Mr Halt had radar checks done at Bentwaters, nearby RAF Wattisham, and even the "Healthrow Tower", but they all came back negative.
Subsequent checks by the MoD, in response to researcher's inquiries years later, also found no radar observations.
However, Mr Halt told the conference he now had statements from former operatives at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Wattisham, saying an unidentified object darted across their screens at the time.
He said: "I have confirmation that (RAF Bentwaters) radar operators saw the object go across their 60 mile scope in two or three seconds, that's thousands of miles an hour.
"It came back across, stopped near the water tower, they watched it and observed it go into the forest.
"At Wattisham, they picked up what they called a bogie - an enemy craft - and lost it near the Forest."
Mr Halt, who became an airbase commander at Kunsan in South Korea, claimed the former service people were too scared to speak out until after retirement
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Military fencing around the former RAF Bentwaters base
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Charles Halt cuts a cake to mark 35-year anniversary of the sightings
Alternative theories claim the light came from either the Orfordness lighthouse, military tests, a helicopter carrying a dummy Apollo capsule, or was even a UFO prank by airmen that spiralled out of control.
Sceptics have pointed to inconsistencies in various witnesses' accounts and more detail being added over time.
Mr Halt did little to dampen this, after refuting the accounts of several of his former colleagues made in various books.
The Suffolk UFO conference was organised by ex-cop UFO researcher John Hanson, who said Mr Halt was "a reliable witness" and backed the "cover up" claims.
He added the new radar evidence "undermined" Government suggestions the mass sightings were down to the lighthouse.
Members of the public also claimed to see lights heading towards the forest around the same time.
But, two police officers also investigated the reports at 4:11am on Boxing Day morning 1980, but reported no trace of anything.
Nick Pope, who later investigated UFOs including Rendlesham, for the MoD, said: "One needs to bear in mind that he's the most senior military officer ever to have seen and reported a UFO while on duty. He's a man of the utmost honesty and integrity, and when he makes claims - however extraordinary they may sound - you can take it to the bank."
Media captionCol Charles Halt saw an unidentified flying object over a Suffolk airbase in 1980
New evidence has been gathered to back up claims a UFO landed near a US airbase in Suffolk, a former deputy commander has claimed.
Col Charles Halt told the BBC he saw unidentified objects at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.
He says he now has statements from radar operators at RAF Bentwaters and nearby Wattisham airfield that an unknown object was tracked at the time.
Col Halt claimed it was seen by himself and base security staff.
Col Charles Halt gave a talk at Woodbridge Community Centre on Saturday - tickets were £20
The 75-year-old, who was deputy commander at the Bentwaters base and now lives in the US state of Virginia, said some former service people had not wanted to speak until they retired but had now provided written statements to him.
The Ministry of Defence told the BBC it no longer deals with reports of UFOs.
Rendlesham Forest UFO mystery: who, what, where?
United States Air Force security personnel John Burroughs and Jim Penniston were the first to report sightings of strange lights on 26 December 1980
Col Halt recorded a running commentary into a dictation device of their efforts to find the source of the lights
RAF Bentwaters was an airbase used by the United States Air Force during the Cold War until 1993
Other suggestions as to what was seen at Rendlesham include military project testing, a helicopter carrying a dummy Apollo capsule, light from the Orford Ness lighthouse and pranks by airmen
In 1983, the News of the World ran a front page story which proclaimed: "UFO LANDS IN SUFFOLK, And that's OFFICIAL"
"I have confirmation that (Bentwaters radar operators)... saw the object go across their 60 mile (96km) scope in two or three seconds, thousands of miles an hour, he came back across their scope again, stopped near the water tower, they watched it and observed it go into the forest where we were," said Col Halt.
"At Wattisham, they picked up what they called a 'bogie' and lost it near Rendlesham Forest.
"Whatever was there was clearly under intelligent control."
UFO researcher John Hanson said he found Col Halt to be a reliable witness and there had been a "concerted effort to hide the truth".
He said the evidence of the UFO being picked up by radar seriously undermined the suggestion by the government at the time that the reported phenomena was due to witnesses seeing the light from Orfordness lighthouse and misinterpreting what they saw.
Col Charles Halt with UFO author John Hanson at the Woodbridge event Forestry Commission staff at RAF Woodbridge's East Gate where reported sightings were made
In this new video I will show you more unique material. Besides Image Analysis Team members till this day no one has seen these images before.
The (in)famous Bob Lazar UFO has often been referred to as the “Sportsmodel” because of its very aerodynamic – and typical saucer shape. What do you think are UFO really saucer shape? Perhaps some of them do but not this one. This “Lazar UFO” looks like a “McDonalds Double Mac” and is best described as two floating discs or double saucers in the center of the craft right on top of each other.
I have used it also in my new channel banner. Around the two discs we see numerous “energy fields”. We believe that this UFO is in a super high energetic – or as scientists would call it quantimize state. Basically the UFO has fully dematerialized and changed its physical state from solid into a higher state or “something else”. While flying the UFO has become transparant / translucent and we therefore can literally look through it and also see the inner parts of the UFO. There is no (human) crew visible so perhaps this craft is remote controlled?
We have already shown you the unique way of how BAS and polynomial texture mapping technology can be used to make an object or in this case a UFO visible. In the introduction video you have seen a very basic enhancement of a BAS images stacked UFO and a much more detailed 48 angle PTM video created from a single video frame. This frame (internally known as frame 243) was taken from the uncompressed raw video of Bob Lazar’s UFO Homevideo. The details in the first video where already pretty amazing but in this sequel other and more sophisticated techniques have been used to dive deeper into the mystery of the Lazar UFO.
We know that people (not the most friendly and usually uncivilized) will come forward and try to convince you that this video is bullshit. This is fully understandable as why should anyone believe what we show you? Honestly, when a stranger would show me a UFO this detailed I also would question it.
With so many fake UFO photos and videos on the internet we, the Image Analysis Team, understand that there is the need to provide you with evidence. We the I.A.T. want everyone to be able to verify that what we do, have done and show you is real and therefore we are currently creating a video series as part of a new project which we call “UFO School”. In this video series, which we hope to release soon, we will “tell and teach” everyone interested where to download or to obtain the applications freeware) and show you in full detail how to use these techniques so you can do your own enhancements.
Debunkers claim that these UFO we are seeing are nothing but the landing lights of airplanes (e.g Janet flights) or are the result of military flares. Well … we will also show and teach you a few simple methods to distinct UFO from these beforementioned objects.
On Thursday, 13 March 1997, an anomalous series of lights flew in steady formation over the American southwest, eventually settling in over Phoenix, Arizona. The lights appeared to be connected to a large craft, and the underbelly of that craft was so big it blocked out much of the sky above. The event was witnessed by thousands of people for a number of hours, including the governor of Arizona.
Utilizing new data from two of the best remote viewers on the planet today, Dick Allgire and Daz Smith, and using methodologies derived from those developed and used by the U.S. military for espionage, we now know that this event involved at least one huge extraterrestrial spacecraft. But there is more. The data for this project, recorded live on video, includes stunningly corroborating data, and what appears to be a direct communication between a being on the craft and one of the remote viewers, a communication that spans the years 1997 to 2015. This revolutionary documentary was conducted at The Farsight Institute, the leading scientific venue for full public projects involving remote viewing.
Do not let others decide for you what is real and what is not. See the data for yourself, and make up your own mind.
In Turkije bestaat veel belangstelling voor een opname van een driehoekige UFO.
Met name gaat het om de verbazingwekkende manoeuvres die dit object uitvoert en dat het “verdwijnt” om een seconde later verderop weer op te duiken.
Zo lijkt het bijvoorbeeld alsof het van het ene gedeelte van de lucht naar het andere “springt”.
De opname is afkomstig van een bekende Turkse UFO-onderzoeker, Haktan Akdogan. Hij haalde met de volgende opname ook de Turkse nationale televisie.
Dat televisieoptreden heeft naar het schijnt voor nogal wat consternatie gezorgd omdat de opname heel duidelijk is en vanwege de bizarre bewegingen van het object.
Zeker wanneer je de opname is slow motion bekijkt dan is het heel bijzonder. Het is alsof het object voor een seconde als het ware “verdwijnt” om vervolgens in een ander deel van de lucht weer op te duiken.
Het enige wat je waarneemt is een lichtflits wanneer het object door de lucht “springt”.
Hier volgen twee afbeeldingen. Op de eerste zie je de driehoekige UFO zoals deze door de lucht vliegt en op de tweede zie je de lichtflits die plaatsvindt wanneer het object zich met duizelingwekkende snelheid verplaatst.
Na onderzoek blijkt dat het object geen zonlicht reflecteert, wat normaal gesproken bij een solide massa wel het geval is. Het witgekleurde object is omringd door een soort energie.
Uit de manier waardoor het object na het “springen” door de wolken vliegt, kun je afleiden dat we hier te maken hebben met een intelligent bestuurde vlucht.
Deze opname vertoont veel overeenkomsten met een eerdere die in 2010 gemaakt is in Bulgarije die ook te zien is in onderstaande video.
Toen werd een metallic uitziend draaiend object gefilmd door een toerist. Deze UFO hing al draaiend stil in de lucht tot het ineens in een fractie van een seconde weg schoot.
In beide gevallen, zowel in Turkije enkele dagen geleden als het eerdere voorval in Bulgarije, kun je zien met wat voor enorme snelheden deze UFO’s kunnen weg schieten.
Papyrus Reveals Extraterrestrials Visited Ancient Egypt — Now Allegedly Lost
Papyrus Reveals Extraterrestrials Visited Ancient Egypt — Now Allegedly Lost
One of the most intriguing ancient texts, the Tulli Papyrus chronicles one of the earliest mass UFO sightings. It also has an interesting backstory. In 1933, Alberto Tulli, director of the Egyptology section of the Vatican Museum, discovered a unique papyrus in one of Cairo’s antique shops. Unfortunately, it was priced too high — even for the Vatican — so Tulli resorted to copying down its contents. When he later returned, the papyrus was gone. Two decades later, Italian Egyptologist Prince Boris de Rachewiltz announced that he had located the original papyrus, “untranslated and unpublished.”
While incomplete, the papyrus painted a pretty clear picture:
“In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day […] among the scribes of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odor. “Its body was one rod (172 feet or approximately 50 meters) in length and one rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty’s house. Their heart became confused through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the King to report it. His Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty meditated on all these events which were now going on.”
A copy of a copy of the Tulli Papyrus
“After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of heaven[…] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks. “The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles rained down from the sky, a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country. “And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] forever.”
The pharaoh in question is Thutmose III, and the event happened in the first years of his reign, somewhere around 1480 BC.
As evidenced by the existence of this text, this event was one of great importance. The scribes’ reactions of fear and bewilderment are consistent with the unprecedented apparition of an enormous flying object.
It is described as being silent while its exhaust emitted toxic gasses. Its shape is described as a disk with “no head”, possibly metallic due to its high reflectiveness. A few days after being visited by this scout, the entire UFO armada reveals itself.
The fleet’s departure is marked by a strange, unprecedented event: fish and “other volatiles” raining down from the sky. Did the UFOs refuel using water from the Nile and then dump the extra passengers scooped up? Could be.
The Tulli Papyrus does not mention whether a contact was established with the visitors, but it’s interesting to see that a decidedly alien civilization was interested in the Egyptian Empire while it was at its height.
Nobody knows where the original papyrus is today. When researcher Samuel Rosenberg wrote to the Vatican Museum to get the chance to examine the ancient text, he got the following reply:
“Papyrus Tulli not property of Vatican Museum. Now it is dispersed and no more traceable.”
Classic!
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Alien life forms might be living right under our noses, but how can we find them if we don’t know what we’re looking for?
Alien life forms might be living right under our noses, but how can we find them if we don’t know what we’re looking for?
by Sarah Scoles
In the late 1670s, the Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked through a microscope at a drop of water and found a whole world. It was tiny; it was squirmy; it was full of weird body types; and it lived, invisibly, all around us. Humans were supposed to be the centre and purpose of the world, and these microscale ‘animalcules’ seemed to have no effect – visible or otherwise – on our existence, so why were they here? Now, we know that those animalcules are microbes and they actually rule our world. They make us sick, keep us healthy, decompose our waste, feed the bottom of our food chain, and make our oxygen. Human ignorance of them had no bearing on their significance, just as gravity was important before an apple dropped on Isaac Newton’s head.
We could be poised on another such philosophical precipice, about to discover a second important world hiding amid our own: alien life on our own planet. Today, scientists seek extraterrestrial microbes in geysers of chilled water shooting from Enceladus and in the ocean sloshing beneath the ice crust of Europa. They search for clues that beings once skittered around the formerly wet rocks of Mars. Telescopes peer into the atmospheres of distant exoplanets, hunting for signs of life. But perhaps these efforts are too far afield. If multiple lines of life bubbled up on Earth and evolved separately from our ancient ancestors, we could discover alien biology without leaving this planet.
The modern-day descendants of these ‘aliens’ might still be here, squirming around with van Leeuwenhoek’s microbes. Scientists call these hypothetical hangers-on the ‘shadow biosphere’. If a shadow biosphere were ever found, it would provide evidence that life isn’t a once-in-a-universe statistical accident. If biology can happen twice on one planet, it must have happened countless times on countless other planets. But most of our scientific methods are ill-equipped to discover a shadow biosphere. And that’s a problem, says Carol Cleland, the originator of the term and its biggest proponent.
The idea came to Cleland, a philosopher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, when she spent a sabbatical year at the Centro de Astrobiología in Spain. She was studying the scientists, who were studying microorganisms.
‘If you have a sample of soil,’ she asked them, ‘how will you recognise what’s in it?’ The scientists rattled off the usual answers: slide it under a microscope, put it in a Petri dish, make millions of DNA copies, catalogue the genes. But that party line disturbed Cleland. ‘You couldn’t detect anything that wasn’t almost identical to familiar Earth life,’ she said. Their methods assumed that all microbes have genetic material that works like ours. Isn’t it possible, Cleland wondered, that life arose more than once here? If so, organisms from a second (or third) genesis would never turn up in our tests, because our tests are only meant to turn up familiar life. ‘But these organisms, if they exist, would leave traces in the environment,’ Cleland says.
In 2007 in the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Cleland wrote about just such a trace: desert varnish. It’s a strange sheen, like a hardened waterfall, that covers desert rocks all over the planet. The streaks run down rocks from the desert of El Azizia in Libya to Antartica’s Dry Valley. Desert varnish – into which people have scraped petroglyphs for thousands of years – appears layer by layer, growing only the width of a human hair each millennium. The varnish is replete with arsenic, iron and manganese, although the rocks it coats are not. No known geochemical or biological process can account for its ingredients. And yet there it is. Since that discovery, Cleland has urged scientists not to discount – but to seek out – such anomalies as the varnish, things that don’t quite seem to fit. Because maybe they don’t fit.
Science’s modern-day explorers have unearthed increasingly anomalous organisms that are technically ‘familiar life’ – familiar in that they do adhere to the Central Dogma of molecular biology which explains the flow of genetic information in a biological system. Toxitolerants can live in nuclear waste; acidophiles can live in battery acid; obligate anaerobes die in the presence of oxygen; thermophiles thrive around hot vents deep in the ocean. Life, as they say in the movie Jurassic Park, finds a way.
But even the most familiar forms of life can be difficult to find. According to the latest estimates, we’ve discovered just 14 per cent of the dogma-following species on the planet. Of those, we can make only 1 per cent grow in the lab. A shadow biosphere might help us understand why. ‘Although we have good theoretical reasons for believing that life could be at least modestly different … we don’t know how different it could be,’ Cleland wrote in the seminal paper ‘The Possibility of Alternative Microbial Life on Earth’ (2005), co-authored with the astrobiologist Shelley Copley, also of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Just as a hammer and a sledgehammer can both pound a nail, other chemical combinations could lead to organisms that grow, adapt, respond to stimuli, and reproduce – that live, in other words. But which chemicals? And how? To understand that requires going back to the beginning.
Life on Earth might have begun in a ‘warm little pond’, as Charles Darwin said, or around an ocean vent. Or it might have come from a Martian meteorite. We just don’t know. What we do know is that half a billion years after Earth became a planet, molecules began to make copies of themselves. Many scientists believe that the first self-replicating molecules – a primitive form of gene-only life – were RNA. This ‘RNA World’ morphed into an increasingly complex place, where RNA led to DNA and proteins, rendering itself a backseat driver in the process. Others say that a long chain of purely chemical reactions spat out increasingly complicated organic molecules, which then sped up the reactions that produced even more organic molecules. This metabolism led to genetic ingredients after many cycles. And, eventually, to genes themselves.
Maybe different alphabetical combinations are still locked inside ancient organisms that putter invisibly around ocean vents
‘Modern’ DNA is the eventual conclusion of all the origin stories. DNA has three parts: a sugar called deoxyribose, a phosphate molecule, and one of four nucleic acid bases — either adenine, cyanine, guanine, or thymine (RNA uses another, called uracil, instead of thymine). But six other bases occur naturally, and the biodesigner John Chaput of Arizona State University wonders whether different molecules could do what DNA does. Maybe different alphabetical combinations are still locked inside ancient organisms that putter invisibly around ocean vents.
DNA isn’t the only place where other life could diverge, chemically, from the familiar. DNA instructs our bodies to produce certain proteins, which are conglomerations of 20 different amino acids. With the right starting ingredients and a UV nudge, amino acids naturally assemble themselves in the lab. They also coat comets, and their building blocks float aimlessly in interstellar space. They’re easy, abundant. And 100 of them exist. Shadow life could have 80 extra options on their hands (or whatever).
Even the same amino acids our DNA uses could have different shapes. If you make amino acids and sugars in the lab, you get two mirror-image types, called ‘left-handed’ and ‘right-handed’. But inside living things, you’ll find only left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. Shadow life could be ambidextrous, or a mirror image of regular life: its molecules could be flipped as if Photoshopped. The astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and the geneticist George Church at the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative want to build such mirror-world organisms. One day, they hope, their manufactured microbes will fall ill. ‘If there are right-handed lifeforms out there, many of them will be viruses – which will attempt to hijack the DNA of our bionic cells,’ Sasselov told The Guardian in 2013. And if viruses attack, we will know viruses exist. And if they exist, some of their prey must exist outside Harvard’s labs, having formed long before Harvard and long before labs.
Telling scientists to find a shadow biosphere is like asking a chimpanzee to add oil to a car: they don’t know what they’re looking for or what tools to use. Nevertheless, Cleland has some suggestions. First, look at life in places where life ‘shouldn’t’ be. Even the most sauna-happy microbes, called hyperthermophiles, wilt above 122° C. If we find anything living at 150° C, then there’s a good chance they’re not of our ilk. Send balloons into the upper atmosphere; scramble up to high plateaus; snowmobile to the South Pole; drive Land Rovers into the Atacama Desert; don end-of-world suits and venture into uranium mines. Remain alert for phenomena that make us say not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘Huh, that’s weird.’ And then consider that their explanation might, in fact, be very, very weird.
Another mysterious finding, like the desert varnish, involves excess gas. If you catalogue all the carbon that living things burp out, and then you count the carbon you find in the atmosphere, the two don’t match: there’s 5 per cent more hanging over our heads than there ‘should’ be. Maybe that extra comes from shadow organisms whose excretions we aren’t counting. Maybe not. Maybe we have already found shadow organisms – some of the shy- and stubborn-seeming microbes that won’t reproduce in our labs, which scientists build as breeding grounds for dogma-obeying life. Maybe they really are just reticent. But we should wonder harder.
if we look for life only as we know it, that’s all we’re going to find
So far, no systematic shadow-search plan exists. But back in 2010, a team led by the astrobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon at NASA did look for weird life in the salty, alkaline, arsenic-saturated waters of Northern California’s Mono Lake. Inside, Wolfe-Simon’s team found an organism that they dubbed GFAJ‑1. All known life on Earth uses phosphorus in its DNA. But when the team deprived GFAJ‑1 of phosphorus, it seemed to substitute the arsenic in its place. This pinch-hitting would kill the cells in your body, because although phosphorus sits just above arsenic on the periodic table and so shares sibling-like traits, the resemblance isn’t quite close enough. But GFAJ-1 seemed to continue just fine using arsenic. While that wouldn’t have made it exactly a shadow organism, it seemed only a step removed: familiar life that could behave, under duress, like shadow life.
The team sent a paper to Science, and NASA rushed a press conference. But Wolfe-Simon’s 15 minutes quickly became infamy, when other scientists failed to replicate her results. The bacteria grew in the arsenic bath, sure, but they still needed – and were still using – phosphorus. Just like a Siberian hermit is still human, GFAJ-1 was just regular life. The team’s minds were perhaps too open to the possibilities, but if we look for life only as we know it, that’s all we’re going to find.
The discovery of life as we don’t know it would hint that biology is a universal law, like physics and chemistry. If you drop a trombone off a terrestrial building, it will fall to the ground – every time. If molecular clouds have just the right density, dynamics and ingredients, they will collapse into new stars – every time. If they collapse into new stars, the leftover gas and dust will always collapse into planets. Maybe when those planets have the right ingredients baked at the right temperature, they always make life. A shadow biosphere – evidence that biology emerged more than once on Earth – suggests that biology emerges as a normal consequence of Goldilocks or just‑right conditions, rather than being a mysterious lottery-ticket phenomenon.
In 1670, when van Leeuwenhoek viewed the invisible microbial world, people were already accustomed to the idea of a world too small to see. It wasn’t really the philosophical existence of that world that set humanity’s throne teetering – it was that world’s newly revealed concreteness and complexity.
Today, if asked whether life concocts itself given the right conditions, many people would respond affirmatively. It’s not a new idea. But concrete, complex proof that we are the predictable result of a predictable law would tip over our throne, once and for all.
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