03-10-2015 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

‘Aliens would NOT encrypt their messages’: Author of The Martian dismisses claims that ET is sending secret codes to Earth 

• 'If aliens were attempting to contact us, they would make it as easy as possible,' Andy Weir said. 'I don’t see why they would encrypt their data'
• Comes after Edward Snowden said aliens may be encrypting messages
• Andy Weir was speaking ahead of the launch of the film, The Martian 

Andy Weir is a stickler for accuracy.

A self-described 'hard-core dork', Weir has captivated the world with his largely realistic portrayal of life on Mars in his novel, The Martian.

But while he believes sending man to Mars could soon be possible, he has dismissed claims that aliens are trying to contact Earth as unrealistic.

'If aliens were attempting to contact us they would try to make it as easy as possible,' he told DailyMail.com. 'I don’t see why they would encrypt their data.'

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Speaking to DailyMail.com, Andy Weir, author of The Martian, says he doesn't believe an advanced alien civilisation is trying to contact Earth.  'If aliens were attempting to contact us they would try to make it as easy as possible,' he said

His views contradict that of NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, who last month told Neil deGrasse Tyson he thinks aliens encrypt their communications.

We can't contact them because we don’t have the ability to detect or decode their messages, he said.

'I do not believe aliens are trying to contact us at all,' added The Martian author.

'I think the odds are very high that there is life out there, other than us, and even intelligent life out there. 

'However, I also believe that we will never find a way to transmit information faster than light. 

Andy Weir's (right) views contradict that of NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, who last month told Neil deGrasse Tyson he thinks aliens encrypt their communications. He is the author of the novel, The Martian (left), which the film is based on

The film, based on the book with the same title, stars Matt Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who is stranded on Mars after a storm causes an evacuation of a human habitat

'So if there is a civilisation out there that’s hundreds of millions of light years away, then it will take hundreds of millions of years before we can interact with them. So we’re not going to run into that.'

Weir was speaking ahead of the launch of The Martian in cinemas on October 2nd in the US and September 30 in the UK.

The California-based author's book has been adapted for the big screen by Ridley Scott, providing a stark account of one man's attempt to survive on Mars.

It stars Matt Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who is stranded on Mars after a storm causes an evacuation of a human habitat.

'In the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option,' says Watney. 'I'm going to have to science the s*** out of this.'

Weir claims the film is about 95 per cent accurate in terms of the science involved. 'Accuracy was definitely one of my primary goals when writing the book,' he said. 'All the challenges, all the conflict, all the problems [Watney] has are based on the nitty-gritty details of space and Mars'

Weir claims the film is about 95 per cent accurate in terms of the science involved. 

'Accuracy was definitely one of my primary goals when writing the book,' he said.

'All the challenges, all the conflict, all the problems [Watney] has are based on the nitty-gritty details of space and Mars. If you don’t get the nitty-gritty details right, then what’s the point?'

The botanist only has a few weeks of supplies to provide himself subsistence for the four years he would need to stay alive to be rescued.

Watney hatches a plan to grow his own food by converting the floor of the research station into a field.

The film shows him using sprouts from potatoes the astronauts brought along for a Thanksgiving meal.

This involved calculating how many calories he would need to survive four years - 2,137,500 - and how many potatoes that requires, as well as how much land would be needed.

To map Watney's 3,200 mile journey across Mars, Weir studied Nasa satellite images and used Google Mars to analyse the planet's elevation

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (stock image) says aliens could be trying to contact us on Earth, but we may never detect them because their messages are likely encrypted so we unable to spot them

In reality, Mars is a relatively ideal place to put up a greenhouse, according to Nasa.

The day and night cycle is almost identical to Earth's, and the total solar energy hitting the surface is enough for a plant's needs.

Weir also had to calculate out the chemical reaction that would allow Watney to make 600 litres of water out of hydrazine and CO2.

To map Watney's 3,200 mile journey across Mars, Weir studied Nasa satellite images and used Google Mars to analyse the planet's elevation. 

It shows him being flung about by storms and a powerful explosion that throws him out of his habitat. At one point, he frantically attempts to seal a crack in his helmet using duct tape.

But there are some glaring omissions, such as the effect of radiation. All of the equipment was designed to withstand the environment, but space suits typically don't offer much protection. 

A three-year Mars mission would violate the total dose requirements for younger astronauts. It remains to be seen how the film deals with this issue, if it does at all.

Nasa's discovery of signs of liquid water on the red planet last week has thrown Mars back into the spotlight. Pictured are marks on Mars, which lengthen and darken as the seasons change. Scientists say these are first evidence of their kind ever found on another planet and they're the first step in confirming life can exist there

'I made deliberate concessions for dramatic purposes, notably the sandstorm at the beginning of the book. 

'A real Martian sandstorm wouldn’t cause damage like that, it could barely knock down a piece of paper. And people will surely call me out on that, and they have. 

'But it’s a story, and the point is to entertain.' 

Nasa's discovery of signs of liquid water on the red planet last week has thrown Mars back into the spotlight.

But while Mars fascinates Weir, he would not accept a free ticket to travel there in the future.

'I write about great people, I’m not one of them. 

'Absolutely not. In the words of Great Britain’s own Pink Floyd, I am an Earth-bound misfit.'

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03-10-2015 om 23:21 geschreven door peter  

Where in the Solar System is it Possible for Alien Life?

The prospect of seasonal liquid water flows on the surface of Mars instantly revived discussions about whether the planet most like Earth in the solar system could host present day life. But it’s not the only place where scientists are looking.

At a congressional hearing this week, scientists listed their top four candidates for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Other researchers are scanning radio and optical emissions from distant stars to hunt for technically advanced civilizations. In the future, scientists plan to look for chemical signs of life in the atmospheres of planets circling nearby stars.

Here’s a look at the most likely spots for life among Earth’s neighbors.

Photo: The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) hunts for radio signals from intelligent alien life in our galaxy.

Without hesitation, NASA's chief scientist Ellen Stofan told lawmakers that Mars is her top candidate for finding life beyond Earth.

"We now know that Mars was once a water world, much like Earth, with clouds and a water cycle and indeed some running water currently on the surface. For hundreds of millions of years about half the northern hemisphere of Mars had an ocean possibly a mile deep in places," Stofan said.

"Life as we know it requires liquid water that has been stable on the surface of a planet for a very long time. That's why Mars is our primary destination in our search for the life in the solar system," she added.

NASA's next rover, scheduled to launch in 2020, will be outfitted with instruments to look for ancient microbial life, though Stofan, a geologist by training, believes it will take astronauts on Mars, cracking opening rocks and running experiments, to make the definitive discovery.

Photo: Scientists have found recent evidence of liquid water on the surface of Mars in the dark narrow streaks that cut into cliff walls all around the planet's equator.

Mars Water: Follow the Toxic Stream to Find Alien Life

The Jupiter moon Europa is roughly the size of Earth's moon, yet it hosts a salty ocean that has twice as much water as Earth's oceans.

The Europa sea contacts a rocky core, which presents suitable conditions for life to brew. The moon also has abundant sources of energy. That leaves one big question in the search for life: Does it have organics?

A mission targeted for launch in the 2020s will attempt to find organics that have welled up from the sea into cracks on the moon’s icy surface. It also will search for a mysterious plume that may be behind a 2012 Hubble Space Telescope detection of water vapor above Europa’s southern polar region.

Scientists also want to know how deeply the ocean is buried beneath Europa's frozen crust.

"That will be important for coming up with a strategy to search for life there," Cornell University planetary scientist Jonathan Lunine told the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology.

"There's a lot of groundwork that has to be done on Europa ... if there are fresh organics in the cracks, that’s a good place to go," he said.

Photo: Artist's illustration of a plume of water vapor shooting off the icy surface of Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moon Europa.

Diving on Europa? Here's How We Could Penetrate That Ice

One of the biggest surprises from NASA’s Cassini mission at Saturn was the discovery of plumes shooting into space from the moon Enceladus, now known to host a global subsurface ocean.

"Make a list of the requirements for terrestrial-type life -- liquid water, organics, minerals, energy and chemical gradients and Cassini has found evidence for all of them in the plume," said Cornell University’s Jonathan Lunine.

"The most straightforward way to look for life is fly through the plume, which Cassini has done lots of time, with modern instruments that can detect signatures of life," he said.

Photo: Light reflecting off Saturn illuminates the surface of Enceladus and backlights the plume in this April 2013 image.

Enceladus Has Potentially Life-Giving Hydrothermal Activity

Saturn's largest moon Titan presents intriguing prospects for life, though it likely would be very different than anything found on Earth.

It is the only moon in the solar system with a thick, protective atmosphere. Cassini and its companion Huygens lander revealed a world with methane clouds, rain, gullies, river valleys and methane-ethane seas.

"We cannot resist asking whether some biochemically novel form of life might have arisen in this exotic, frigid environment," Cornell University's Jonathan Lunine said. "Titan is a test for the universality of life as an outcome of cosmic evolution."

To look for life, Lunine said a spacecraft would likely drop a capsule into a Titan sea so that can float across the surface and make measurements.

"We don't know what we're looking for here, so a generalized search for patterns and molecular structures and abundances that indicate deviation from abiotic (non-biological) chemistry is appropriate," he said.

Photo: Scientists assembled this mosaic of near-infrared images of Titan taken by the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft.

Photos: 10 Years Later: When Huygens Landed on Titan

So far, we only know life exists on one planet, Earth, but scientists don't know how it started or even if it had one or more false starts before ultimately taking hold.

"Since Earth remains for now the only instance of an inhabited planet, the search for life also requires that we further develop our understanding of life on Earth," NASA's lead scientist Ellen Stofan said.

"We know life is tough, tenacious, metabolically diverse and highly adaptable to local environmental conditions," she added.

Scientists have discovered microbial life that consumes what would be considered toxic to others and life that can withstand radiation, cold, heat and other extreme conditions.

"We do know that life evolved very rapidly here on Earth after conditions stabilized. That's a factor that makes us optimistic that there's life elsewhere in the solar system," Stofan said.

Clues about how life started on Earth may be preserved on the moon, which holds the geologic record of the first billion years of Earth.

"That's the time that life began on Earth. To understand what was happening geologically, we can do no better than turn to the moon," Cornell University's Jonathan Lunine said.

"We really have no laboratory model for how life began on the Earth," he added. "One of the reasons for going out to environments in our solar system where the conditions for life are apparently there and possible is to see whether life actually began, to do the experiment in the field rather than in the laboratory."

"It is remarkable that we have found four destinations in our solar system where life may actually exist, or have existed for quite some time in the past. Now is the time to actually go search," he said.

Photo: The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, crosses between the Deep Space Climate Observatory and Earth.

Photos: Stunning Supermoon Eclipse Wows the World

So far, we only know life exists on one planet, Earth, but scientists don't know how it started or even if it had one or more false starts before ultimately taking hold.

"Since Earth remains for now the only instance of an inhabited planet, the search for life also requires that we further develop our understanding of life on Earth," NASA's lead scientist Ellen Stofan said.

"We know life is tough, tenacious, metabolically diverse and highly adaptable to local environmental conditions," she added.

Scientists have discovered microbial life that consumes what would be considered toxic to others and life that can withstand radiation, cold, heat and other extreme conditions.

"We do know that life evolved very rapidly here on Earth after conditions stabilized. That's a factor that makes us optimistic that there's life elsewhere in the solar system," Stofan said.

Clues about how life started on Earth may be preserved on the moon, which holds the geologic record of the first billion years of Earth.

"That's the time that life began on Earth. To understand what was happening geologically, we can do no better than turn to the moon," Cornell University's Jonathan Lunine said.

"We really have no laboratory model for how life began on the Earth," he added. "One of the reasons for going out to environments in our solar system where the conditions for life are apparently there and possible is to see whether life actually began, to do the experiment in the field rather than in the laboratory."

"It is remarkable that we have found four destinations in our solar system where life may actually exist, or have existed for quite some time in the past. Now is the time to actually go search," he said.

Photo: The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, crosses between the Deep Space Climate Observatory and Earth.

Photos: Stunning Supermoon Eclipse Wows the World

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03-10-2015 om 22:54 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 10/2/2015

(Before It's News)

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• UFO Spotted in Northern Suburbs of Oregon – NYC Today
• EXCLUSIVE: British Area 51? Claims secret ALIEN research base uncovered in Farnborough – Daily Express
• ‘I was bullied over childhood UFO encounter,’ reveals witness to famous Welsh ‘Broad Haven Triangle’ incident – Mirror Online
• ‘Aliens would NOT encrypt their messages’: Author of The Martian dismisses claims that ET is sending secret codes to Earth – Daily Mail
• Where Are the Aliens in Our Neighborhood? – Discovery News

03-10-2015 om 22:36 geschreven door peter  

Incredible Alien Craft Witness By Hundrets Over England

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INCREDIBLE ALIEN CRAFT WITNESSED BY HUNDRETS OVER ENGLAND

03-10-2015 om 22:30 geschreven door peter  

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03-10-2015 om 22:19 geschreven door peter  

NASA And 20th Century Fox Decided It Was Time To Announce Water On Mars! Oct 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Release date of movie: Oct 1, 2015
Name of movie: The Martian

Yeah guys, I went to see the movie The Martian today and yes it was awesome. No spoilers don't worry, but I want to tell you about NASA and 20th Century Fox cooperating with one another. 

Water on Mars announcement happened on Sept 27, 2015. The Martian release date was Oct 1, 2015. Less than a week apart. If it wasn't for this movie, NASA would not have made the announcement at all!

Since when does show business Hollywood types dictate what NASA does or doesn't do? Well, they did it. 

What did they do? They cooperated together not just to help make the movie more realistic, but also NASA announced just one week before the movie release date that they found water on Mars. This is NASA trying to drum up publicity for The Martian movie. This is evidence NASA and 20th Century Fox decides what NASA announces. NASA didn't decide this alone. They knew that if NASA made a big announcement about water on Mars, it would drive a lot of publicity for the movie, in turn making 20th Centery Fox money. Conspiracy? Yeah...there sure has hell is one here.  

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03-10-2015 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

NASA Lied About Public Being Allowed To See The HD Cams! Oct 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 2, 2015
Location of sighting: Earths orbit
Source: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

This footage was taken for Youtube user AstronautiCAST which says its the official channel of the Italian Astronautics and Space (ISAA), with AstronautiCAST podcasts and other video material produced by the association.

The footage seems  to be taken from the time-lapse of some of the NASA HD videos that are only shared with employees and not allowed for the public. You can see many UFOs shooting around in different directions at different speeds.

This footage is from one of the two 7 million dollar HD cameras that were installed earlier this year. NASA promised the public that they would be allowed to use them. NASA lied. I have never seen such HD footage on the live cam as of yet and I check almost daily. Some of you may remember when I caused a big tuff when NASA wanted to shut down the public live ISS cams, but I got everyone to organize on the site and send @NASA messages to tell them to leave it up for the public. Needless to say, we won, but since then half the footage we see is now black or blue solid screens, and now we discover NASA isn't really allowing us to see this HD footage at all. I will put the original HD video below for you to see for yourself how high the quality is compared to the live cam we get. NASA cheated us...the public. They promised we could keep on the live cams and use the HD cams, this promise was broken. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

UFOs above are from the stars view below. Below is footage from the real HD 7 million dollar cam we are not allowed to see.

 

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03-10-2015 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

Strange Lights Seen Over Houston Texas On March 30, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 30, 2015
Location of sighting: Houston, Texas, USA
Source: MUFON #65255

The shaking of the video indicates that its a very far distance away, and probably above, not in front of the person. Try holding a camera above your head so you can see the screen for 2 minutes, it will kill your arms, thus shaking. Also zooming in to things far away causes more shaking. The shaking looks real, not faked. The UFO changes luminosity and shape, making me believe this is 100% real. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
At approximately 2:30am on March 30th, 2015 I was outside and noticed a light in the sky. At first I thought it was a star, but then I noticed that it was changing color. I grabbed my camcorder out of the truck and started recording. As I zoomed in, it disappeared from my viewfinder twice. The third time I tried to record I was able to record a metallic gray spherical object in the sky. I recorded it for a little over 3 and a half minutes and during this time, it morphed it's shape, taking on the appearance of the moon at one point. It hovered in the sky above me for quite some time, then it moved slowly across the sky toward the west. it stayed in the sky until about 4:30am, until it began to move again. This time it disappeared into the early morning sky. I was in shock and awe. I am lucky that I had some charge left on my camcorder. Although you can't see in the film, what I saw with the naked eye, I am sure someone might be able to brighten the video enough to identify it as the object I described. I didn't get any ill feelings toward the object and it didn't frighten me. It was more like a sensation of finding out something existed that I never thought I would find out. This was the main object that I paid attention to, however after reviewing my video, I saw that there were several other objects in the sky. I would gladly like someone to take the video and give me a logical explanation for what these objects are. Since the night of March 30th, 2015, I have seen these strange lights in the Northwest Skies of Houston, Texas almost every night. I have since purchased a night-scope to try to capture more video, since I've heard that the nightscope technology might be alien technology, I figured I'd fight fire with fire. I am making an independent feature length film and have published this video on youtube as my trailer or preview of the film.

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03-10-2015 om 21:55 geschreven door peter  

The Secret Files: The Welsh Triangle

originally published in Fortean Times 200 (2005)

The West Wales flap of 1977 is second only to the Warminster “Thing” in British UFO history. Documents released in 2005 have revealed how a secret military investigation was launched into claims that alien craft and their tall humanoid occupants were taking a particular interest in the Welsh coastline. DAVID CLARKE investigates.

The death in 2003 of veteran Welsh UFOlogist Randall Jones Pugh passed without notice within the UK UFO community. But less than three decades ago Pugh, a retired vet, was a leading spokesman for the subject and the key promoter of Britain’s hottest new UFO “flap”. This was focussed upon a strip of rugged coastline within the Pembroke National Park near Pugh’s home which became, for a short time in 1977, the scene of strange encounters which made national headlines.

Earlier in the year Pugh, in an interview for a local paper, discussed sightings in 1976 and predicted there soon would be a spate of similar events in West Wales. But even he was not prepared for what happened next. During lunchtime on 4 February 15 schoolchildren at Broad Haven Primary School said they watched a silver cigar-shaped UFO in fields behind their school. Some of the group, aged from nine to 11 years, claimed they saw a silver man with pointed ears emerge from the craft. Their stories were dismissed as fantasy but the children were so adamant they had seen something unusual they handed in a petition to the police station. Their head teacher later asked them to draw the UFO and was amazed at how similar their pictures were.

Randall Pugh was instrumental in bringing the story to the attention of the media and it became an overnight sensation. Journalists and TV crews flocked to the Welsh coast from all corners of the UK. Flying saucers were soon the main topic of conversation in the principality. By May straightforward lights in the sky had been replaced by stories of giant humanoid figures in spacesuits, similar to those used by astronauts, seen prowling around remote countryside late at night.

A whole gamut of Fortean phenomena appeared to cluster around the Coombs family at Ripperston Farm. Here a dairyman, Billy Coombs, his wife Pauline and their five children told of repeated close encounters with UFOs and their occupants which left a trail of burned out cars and TV sets and spiralling electricity bills. Pauline had a sighting almost every month and one occasion the car she was using to drive her children along a country lane was pursued by a fiery object shaped like a rugby football. Later the couple claimed a herd of cows were inexplicably teleported from a locked field into to an adjacent farmyard. But the most terrifying incident of all happened in the early hours of 23 April as the couple watched a late movie. Suddenly they were terrified by the appearance of a 7ft tall figure in a spacesuit, whose blank face was framed in the window of their sitting room. While later investigators were sceptical of some of the more sensational claims, others were impressed by the genuine terror displayed by the couple at the time. Indeed the policeman who responded to their 999 call said in 1996 that in all his 26 years service “that was the most frightened family I have ever been to see.” There was no doubt the couple had seen something unusual, but what?

The weird events at Ripperston Farm were chronicled in three books one of which, The Welsh Triangle by Peter Paget had been partly inspired by The Sun headline “Spaceman Mystery of the Terror Triangle.” What exactly constituted the Welsh version of the Bermuda Triangle was never entirely clear, but it included most of the southeast corner of St Bride’s Bay along with the towns of Milford Haven and Haverfordwest. The third and last book to chronicle the Welsh weirdness was The Dyfed Enigma, produced by Pugh in collaboration with cryptozoologist Ted Holliday, which linked the UFO stories with Welsh fairy folklore and ley-lines.

Journalist Hugh Turnbull, who chronicled the events for the local weekly, Western Telegraph, told me his pet theory was that “something military” lay behind the sightings. A more extreme version, favoured by Paget, was that aliens had established an underground base beneath the Stack Rocks in St Bride’s Bay, where UFOs had been seen to hover and disappear. This form of speculation – shared by some local people - was founded on the fact that within a 20 mile radius of Broad Haven, where many of the reports were concentrated, there were a range of military bases. To the north was the top secret rocket testing station at Aberporth while Brawdy, near St David’s, trained pilots on Hawker Hunters and housed both a Tactical Weapons Unit and a US Navy underwater research station – in reality a unit which tracked the movements of Soviet submarines using a network of microphones.

RAF Squadron Leader Tim Webb, who oversaw pilot training from the base, said the description of the suits worn by the “spacemen” did not match anything used by base personnel. By a curious coincidence Webb’s son Michael happened to be one of the youngsters who claimed they saw a UFO land behind the primary school at Broad Haven. “I believe him implicitly,” he told The Observer at the time. “I’ve yet to see a UFO but I think there has to be something supernatural or paranormal.” Heady words for an RAF spokesman who would normally be expected to debunk sightings of flying saucers!

Meanwhile, demands were increasing for an official inquiry into the West Wales UFOs. One witness, hotelier Rosa Granville, asked her MP Nicholas Edwards – later to become Welsh Secretary in Mrs Thatcher’s Cabinet – to demand answers from the Ministry of Defence. Mrs Granville ran the Haven Fort Hotel which stands in a dramatic location overlooking St Bride’s Bay. Although she was aware of a legend about a ‘white lady’ ghost haunting the grounds this did not prepare her for the events of 19 April 1977. In the earlier hours of that morning Mrs Granville was disturbed by a strange buzzing noise and, on looking out, saw an oval-shaped brightly-lit UFO and two human-like figures in boiler suits that appeared to be measuring something. The following day, she found a flattened area of grass in the area which, it emerged, overlooked a field which contained a bunker used by the Royal Observer Corps.

Within days of the MP’s intervention a Squadron Leader from RAF Brawdy visited the hotel to interview the owners. According to their account, he told them there “absolutely nothing at RAF Brawdy” that could account for the UFO. And, Mrs Granville claimed “he asked me not to say anything about the incident to anyone, as he thought it was best not to alarm the general public.” However, in his reply to the MP the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Defence James Wellbeloved, said that apart from Mrs Granville’s report the MOD had “no record of unusual activity in the area.”

But behind the public platitudes it seems a discreet investigation was indeed going on, hidden even from the politicians. For on 14 June 1977 the head of S4 (Air), the MoD branch which dealt with UFOs, took the unusual step of asking the RAF Police, in the form of the Provost & Security Service (P&SS) to make a “discreet enquiry” into events in Wales. The P&SS are responsible for policing the RAF and have a section which investigates complaints about low-flying aircraft. Early in 1977 they moved to a secretive facility deep in the Wiltshire countryside called RAF Rudloe Manor. UFO authors Tim Good and Nick Redfern have claimed that Rudloe – rather than the UFO desk in Whitehall - has for many years been the real HQ for the British Government’s UFO taskforce.

The papers released this year throw new light on claims of a conspiracy involving Rudloe Manor. While they do support the claim that P&SS were involved in secret UFO work they suggest it was hardly a priority for them. In their letter to P&SS the MOD wrote: “We have not invoked the assistance of P&SS before on UFOs…and the last thing I want to do is involve you in extraneous problems which would divert you from your more immediate work on low flying complaints.” It goes on to ask them to assess “the volume of local interest and/or alarm and whether there is a readily discernable rational explanation, or whether there is prima facie evidence for a more serious specialist enquiry.” And the writer went to some length to emphasise his request must be treated in confidence, adding: “I have not even told the Minister I am consulting you.”

Due to the covert nature of the investigation, no final report on the P&SS investigation of events in the Welsh Triangle has survived. But in December 1977, in a secret briefing on UFO policy submitted to the MOD’s Defence Intelligence Staff, the head of S4 wrote: “There is always a steady public interest in UFOs and from time to time it tends to increase unaccountably…[in the summer] there was some concern in Wales, although the RAF Police thought this could have been the work of a practical joker.”

The fact that inquiries led the RAF Police to suspect a hoaxer may have been responsible for some of the Welsh UFOs fits with a strong local rumour which persists to this day. Hilary Evans, who debunked some of the more exaggerated stories in an article published in 1982, heard that two members of a round table club were responsible for the sightings of “spacemen” at the Haven Fort Hotel and Ripperston Farm. They came up with the idea after borrowing silver-lined asbestos suits worn by local oil refinery workers for a fancy dress evening in Broad Haven shortly after the children’s sighting.

In 1996 BBC presenter Ray Gosling tracked down one of the jokers for a Radio 4 documentary on the West Wales flap. Shortly afterwards Glyn Edwards, a member of Milford Haven’s Round Table confessed his part to the Western Mail. He described the spaceman outfit as having: “… a solid in-built helmet so I would have looked about 7ft tall. Alien sightings were all the rage, so I took a stroll around for a bit of fun. I remember when I visited the garden of a certain lady, who later called the police, that I had to dive into a hedge because she appeared to be aiming a rifle or a shotgun at me.”

But despite all Gosling’s attempts to persuade the witnesses from Broad Haven school to confess, the boys – now in their forties – stuck doggedly by their story. One of them, David Davies, told him: “I did see something unexplained that day and I will stick to that story for the rest of my life.” The Welsh Triangle may hold onto its secrets for some years to come.

Copyright 2005 David Clarke

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02-10-2015 om 22:21 geschreven door peter  

'I was bullied over childhood UFO encounter,' reveals witness to famous Welsh 'Broad Haven Triangle' incident

More than 12 schoolchildren saw a mysterious craft outside their school - now one has revealed the lifelong effect of this historical sighting

Dave Davies, 49, has spent more than three decades on a quest for answers after witnessing one of Britain's most famous UFO incidents.

Now he has exclusively revealed the personal toll he paid for his refusal to stay quiet about a series of strange events which took place in the skies over rural Wales.

The so-called Broad Haven Triangle encounters have gone down in history as one of the great unexplained British UFO encounters.

In 1977, some 14 schoolchildren saw a strange cigar-shaped craft touch down in a field near Broad Haven primary school, in Penbrokeshire, with some kids claiming to have witnessed a weird silver creature clamber out of the vehicle.

The same bizarre craft and its mysterious driver were also spotted by teachers and dinner ladies.

This astonishing incident is back in the news after Mirror Online revealed allegations that the Ministry of Defence covered up a top secret investigation into the incident, a revelation which prompted a Tory peer to call for a fresh investigation.

The sightings also feature in a new novel called The Watchers , by Neil Spring.

But for Davies, the issue has never been far from his mind.

"I think about it all the time," he told Mirror Online.

"The sighting despite only lasted a few seconds but is burned on my memory like a photograph.

"I've spent my entire life and countless thousands of pounds trying to find answers about what we saw that day.

"It has been a lifetime's fascination driven by a desire to get to the truth."

Now semi-retired after being hit by arthritis, Davies has been reflecting on a difficult adolescence following the UFO encounter.

At the time, he lived in a single parent family and his "highly supportive" mother believed every word of his story.

But although villagers in the tiny town greeted Davies' stories with a mixture of "support and disbelief", his secondary school classmates were less understanding.

"I suffered years of bullying and abuse during my secondary school years," he recalled.

"Some of the bullying was horrific but however much I was beaten I would never recant on my account.

"Even at the age of 11 I refused to abandon my principles. These days I'm quite defensive over the matter."

Although it is not clear exactly where the cigar-shaped craft came from, many UFO observers believe it was linked to RAF Brawdy, a nearby airforce base.

"My personal inclination is that our particular sighting had a terrestrial origin, however I have never ruled anything out," Davies continued.

Davies' story will be told in full at an event at London's Churchill War Rooms tonight for the launch of Neil Spring's book.

In his own words

The unwitting UFO spotter gave writer Spring the following statement, which details exactly what he saw that day.

"The object was pearlescent silvery-grey, approximately 40 feet long, torpedo/cigar-shaped with an upper domed section that covered the central third of the vehicle and which was topped with a red pulsating light.

"I was the last of a dozen or so children to see the object on that day.

"Our sighting was not the last visit to the school though and unbeknown to the children and most of the small community the craft returned a few days later and was on this occasion seen by a teacher and three of the canteen staff.

"I have never in the last 38 years exaggerated or sensationalised the account of what I saw and have never suggested that what we saw was of extra-terrestrial origin.

"Many suggestions have been made that what we saw was either an agricultural vehicle or an aircraft from nearby RAF Brawdy.

"I'd like to state categorically that this is not the case as the majority of the children at the school, myself included, came from farming backgrounds and would have been able to identify any agricultural vehicle and because of Brawdy's proximity we were also familiar with almost every RAF aircraft in the skies.

"It was also independently verified that no vehicle was at the location of the sighting on that day and that because of the boggy ground it was impossible for any vehicle to be there."

He also confirmed that Ministry of Defence staff visited the school to interview the child UFO witnesses.

At the time, the MoD did not admit to running an official probe into the affair.

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02-10-2015 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

NASA Scientists Reveal Four Alarming Facts About Extraterrestrial Life On Mars

02-10-2015 om 21:58 geschreven door peter  

Archeologen hopen op 'vondst van de eeuw' in graftombe van Toetanchamon - HLN.be

Bron: BBC, Wired

De 3.300 jaar oude buste van de Egyptische koningin Nefertiti. © ap.

KONINGIN NEFERTITI Archeologen gaan de graftombe van Toetanchamon uitkammen met radarapparatuur. Ze hopen zo twee verborgen kamers in de graftombe te vinden, waarin mogelijk de legendarische Egyptische koningin Nefertiti begraven ligt.

- Haar naam betekent 'een mooie vrouw is gekomen'
- Ze was koningin van Egypte en vrouw van farao Achnaton, die regeerde van 1352 v.Chr. tot 1338 v.Chr
- Nefertiti en haar man richten de cult van de zonnegod Aten op, en promootten een nieuwe Egyptische kunststijl
- Nefertiti zou met Achnaton zijn getrouwd toen ze ongeveer 15 jaar oud was
- Ze had zes dochters en een zoon
- Volgens sommigen zou Nefertiti de moeder van Toetanchamon zijn geweest

Het was de Britse archeoloog en egyptoloog Nicholas Reeves, van de universiteit van Arizona, die met de theorie van de verborgen grafkamers op de proppen kwam. Volgens hem zijn er twee geheime doorgangen achter de grafkamer van farao Toetanchamon, die zouden leiden naar twee verborgen ruimtes. In een van die geheime kamers zou mogelijk koningin Nefertiti begraven zijn. Zij was koningin van Egypte in de veertiende eeuw voor Christus en de moeder of stiefmoeder van Toetanchamon.

Reeves denkt dat de mummie van Toetanchamon, die stierf toen hij 19 jaar oud was, haastig werd overgebracht naar een buitenkamer van wat oorspronkelijk de graftombe van Nefertiti was. Het lichaam van Toetanchamon werd in 1922 ontdekt. 

De archeloog kwam tot die conclusie na het bestuderen van een gedetailleerde scan van de tombe die werd gemaakt door de Spaanse erfgoedspecialisten van Factum Arte. De scans werden gebruikt om een kopie te maken van de 3.300 jaar oude tombe, die nabij de oorspronkelijke Koningsvallei in de Egyptische stad Luxor ligt. 

Toen Reeves in februari de scans onderzocht, merkte hij enkele merktekens op die volgens hem wijzen op de aanwezigheid van twee verborgen doorgangen.

De Egyptische minister van Oudheid Mamdouh el-Damaty hoopt de radarapparatuur in de komende drie maanden te kunnen gebruiken. "Als dit waar blijkt te zijn, kijken we aan tegen een ontdekking die de vondst van Toetanchamon zelf zou overschaduwen", zei el-Damaty aan persbureau Reuters. "Dit zou de belangrijkste ontdekking van de 21ste eeuw zijn."

Lees ook

• Opgravingen naar legendarische Nefertiti... op onverwachte ple

De Egyptische minister Mamdouh el-Damaty (tweede van links) luistert naar de uitleg van de Britse egyptoloog Nicholas Reeves (derde van links) naast de sarcofaag van Toetanchamon in diens grafkamer in Luxor. © afp.

 

• 'Dit zou de belangrijkste ontdekking van de 21ste eeuw zijn'

Mamdouh el-Damaty, Egyptische minister van Oudheid

Mysterie

Het gouden dodenmasker van farao Toetanchamon. © ap.

De tombe van Toetanchamon was de meest intacte grafkamer die ooit in Egypte werd gevonden. In zijn graf werden zo'n 2.000 voorwerpen gevonden. De vondst werd overschaduwd door een reeks mysterieuze sterfgevallen, waardoor de mythe ontstond dat de tombe vervloekt was.

De kamer zelf stelde archeologen voor een raadsel, omdat ze veel kleiner was dan die van andere farao's. Volgens Reeves heeft dat te maken met het feit dat de tombe eigenlijk ontworpen was als laatste rustplaats voor een koningin en niet voor een koning. 

Nochtans is niet iedereen overtuigd van de mogelijkheid dat Nefertiti in de tombe verborgen ligt. "Het idee dat een doorgang kan leiden naar een eerder bestaande grafkamer, laat staan naar die van Nefertiti, is pure speculatie", zei egyptoloog Aidan Dodson van de universiteit van Bristol aan persbureau Reuters. 

Sommigen stellen dat haar mummie al in 1898 werd ontdekt en momenteel in het Egyptische Museum in Caïro ligt. Anderen denken dat Nefertiti overleed voor haar echtgenoot en begraven ligt in de buurt van de plek waar in 1921 haar wereldberoemde buste werd gevonden. Er bestaat echter nog een andere theorie, die stelt dat Nefertiti na de dood van Achnaton nog een tijdje in haar eentje verder regeerde.

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02-10-2015 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

Nooit eerder zagen we Pluto-maan Charon van zo dichtbij. En het is prachtig - HLN.be

© ap.

STERRENKUNDE Ruimtesonde New Horizons heeft Charon bereikt, de grootste maan van de dwergplaneet Pluto. Hoewel veel sterrenkundigen dachten dat het een saaie bol vol kraters zou zijn, blijkt de maan nu een prachtig grillig en zelfs kleurrijk landschap te herbergen.

De kloven van Charon in detail © nasa.

Bergen, kloven en canyons, kleurvariaties: de New Horizons-wetenschappers keken met open mond naar de hogeresolutiefoto's die de ruimtesonde doorstuurde. "Wij dachten dat het weinig waarschijnlijk zou zijn dat we zulke interessante elementen zouden ontdekken op Charon", zegt Ross Beyer van het NASA Ames Research Center. "Maar ik ben verrukt met wat we zien."

De foto's werden op 14 juli genomen en op 21 september verstuurd naar de aarde. Er is een gigantisch gebied van 1.600 kilometer aan kloven en scheuren te zien. Die zijn vier keer zo lang als de Grand Canyon en op sommige plaatsen twee keer zo diep. "Het lijkt alsof de hele korst van Charon opengebarsten is. "Dit lijkt erg op het weidse Valles Marineris-klovensysteem op Mars."

Lees ook

• "Alsof je er zelf bent": bewonder hier de nieuwe beelden van Pluto
• FOTOSPECIAL Zo gedetailleerd zag u Pluto nog nooit

02-10-2015 om 21:21 geschreven door peter  

Acht onverklaarbare mysteries van moeder Natuur - HLN.be

Bron: MNN

© thinkstock.

WETENSCHAP Dankzij moderne technologieën en wetenschap weten we steeds meer over onze aarde. Toch zijn er nog natuurlijke raadsels die tot op heden een mysterie blijven. Dat moeder Natuur niet zomaar al haar geheimen onthult, bewijzen deze acht fenomenen, opgelijst door nieuwssite MNN.

2. Sterrengelei

© Wikimedia Commons/James Lindsey.

Al sinds de veertiende eeuw duiken in velden en weiden geregeld bolvormige, blubberige substanties op. Volgens de overlevering verscheen het mysterieuze goedje na een meteorenregen - vandaar de naam sterrengelei. De kans dat het spul daadwerkelijk uit de ruimte komt is echter gering.

Wat het wel is, kan niemand met zekerheid zeggen. Het goedje verdwijnt relatief snel nadat het opgedoken is, wat grondige analyses moeilijk maakt. Speculaties gaan van het paranormale over ongekende zwammen tot restanten van amfibieën, maar geen enkele theorie is door de wetenschap bewezen.

4. Catatumbobliksem

De Catatumbobliksem in Venezuela. © Wikimedia Commons/Thechemicalengineer.

Minder zeldzaam, maar niet minder geheimzinnig, is de Catatumbobliksem. Aan de monding van de rivier Catatumbo in het noord-westen van Venezuela onweert het al eeuwenlang zowat elke avond. De eeuwigdurende storm heeft gemiddeld 26 bliksems per minuut en duurt soms tot tien uur per dag. De bliksems gaan niet gepaard met donderslagen.

Toch is er niet elke dag een bliksemstorm. Soms blijft het, even onverklaarbaar, wekenlang stil. Sommige wetenschappers speculeren dat de bliksems veroorzaakt worden door de aanwezigheid van uranium, anderen menen dat het methaan dat vanuit de moerassen opstijgt een rol speelt. Het enige dat duidelijk is, is dat de unieke topografie en de wind een rol lijken te spelen.

6. Het Wow!-signaal

© Ohio State University Radio Observatory/North American AstroPhysical Observatory.

Op 15 augustus 1977 was Jerry Ehman in het kader van een SETI-project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) radiogolven vanuit de ruimte aan het scannen aan de universiteit van Ohio, toen hij plots een zeer sterk signaal opving. Het radiosignaal duurde 72 seconden en leek vanuit de constellatie Sagittarius te komen, bij de ster Tau Sagittarii, zo'n 120 lichtjaren verwijderd van de aarde.

In zijn verbijstering schreef Ehman het woord 'Wow!' op de originele afdruk van het signaal. Waarom? Volgens National Geographic had het opgevangen signaal "precies de juiste frequentie om niet als ruis geïnterpreteerd én niet onderschept te worden". Met andere woorden: als we een signaal de ruimte in zouden sturen in een poging om te communiceren met een buitenaards volk, is dit de exacte frequentie die we zouden gebruiken.

Het signaal is sindsdien bekend als het Wow!-signaal, maar ondanks vele inspanningen is het sindsdien nooit meer gehoord.

7. Devil's Kettle

© Wikimedia Commons/Chris857

Op het grootste deel van zijn traject door de Amerikaanse staat Minnesota is de rivier Brule een rivier als elke andere. Maar op zijn doortocht door het natuurpark Judge C. R. Magney State Park, gebeurt er iets bijzonders. Over een afstand van bijna dertien kilometer daalt de rivier 250 meter. Daarbij worden meerdere watervallen gevormd. Op een bepaald punt wordt de rivier gesplitst door een grote uitstekende rotsformatie. Aan de ene kant komt het water meters lager terecht, om dan rustig verder te kabbelen. Maar aan de andere kant verdwijnt de waterval spoorloos in een gat, gekend als de Devil's Kettle (Duivelsketel). Het is een mysterie dat wetenschappers en bezoekers al eeuwen met verstomming slaat.

Logisch zou zijn dat het water nadien weer opduikt in het nabijgelegen Lake Superior. Onderzoekers hebben echter al elke mogelijke truc uitgeprobeerd om het vermiste water te vinden, zoals het water kleuren en het meer vullen met pingpongballen, maar zonder resultaat.

02-10-2015 om 21:13 geschreven door peter  

UFO Moves Below Space Station On Live Cam, Oct 1, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 1, 2015
Location of sighting: Earths orbit, Space station
Source: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/74506775

This is a UFO caught by WhitehorseUSA of Youtube and shows a glowing object moving towards the space station, but far below its orbit. The object could be a UFO or it could be a top secret project that NASA is involved with like the X-37 remote controlled shuttle that stays in orbit over a year. Its hard to say with only the night view. Its slow movement is a little baffling to me. Whats your thoughts on this craft?
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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02-10-2015 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO Over Manhattan, New York On Sept 14, 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: September 14, 2015
Location of sighting: Manhattan, New York, USA
Source: MUFON #71033

Here is an interesting sighting over the Freedom Tower. A glowing object that is equally balanced in shape on both its right and left sides. The ship in near the upper most part of the building. I'm am surprised that someone saw it at all. I heard people in big cities never look up. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
I wish to submit this picture my friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, too when he was having lunch in September of 2015 outside in New York City. He looked up and saw a bright green glow to the right of the top of the Freedom Tower. After wiping his eyes and shaking his head as he thought he was seeing a glare, he noticed the craft was still there and took a picture. I'd like to see if Mufon can analyze the picture to find out if its a craft used for time travel or inter planetary/dimensional travel.

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02-10-2015 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

India ISRO Rocket Launch Watched By Two UFOs, Sept 27, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 27, 2015
Location of sighting: Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India
Video source 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuogDlOHjDI

Video source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irRumr1Ps_c

I wanted to check out the India ISRO rocket launch videos to see if they accidentally caught any UFOs that were observing the launch, and they did. Just a few seconds after launch, the camera picks up two UFOs on the right side of the rocket. 

Now the problem is, are these alien drones, or military drones with alien TR3B tech designs? Its hard to say since all countries distrust one another. India says the rocket is carrying only a mini Hubble style telescope inside, so that they can observe the universe better than ever. Its carrying a total of 6 satellites, 4 of them are US owned, 1 Canadian. Was the US keeping an eye on their investment?

Maybe thats all it carried, because if there was nukes on board, those drones would have destroyed the rocket before it ever got into orbit. You want to see a drone destroy a rocket  with a secret nuke on board? Click here. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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02-10-2015 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

Similar UFOs over Toronto and Russia

Here’s a TV report from TercerMilenio about these strange sightings that happened earlier this year over Canada and Russia.

02-10-2015 om 20:30 geschreven door peter  

Sphere UFO Caught On Camera Over Houston

A witness in Houston, Texas reported filming unusual lights in the sky that hovered and moved positions for over two hours, according to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database Case 65255 testimony.

On March 30, 2015, the witness went outside at around 2:30 a.m. when the lights were first seen. He thought of a star at first, but the object then changed in color. He took his camcorder out and started recording the strange aerial activity.

As the witness zoomed in, the object vanished from the viewfinder twice. The third time he tried to catch it, he managed to record a metallic gray sphere in the sky. The object then changed shape while the witness was watching.

He said that the recorded the morphing activity for a little over three and a half minutes. At one point, he took the appearance of the moon.

The object hovered above the witness for quite some time before it moved slowly towards the western sky. The witness observed it for around two hours.

He said that it remained in the sky until around 4:30 a.m., then started to move again. This time, it vanished into the early morning sky. The entire bizarre activity left the witness in shock and awe.

The witness noted that some actual scenes he saw with his naked eye can’t be seen in the film. But he’s sure that someone can brighten the video to identify the object as what he’s describing it.

What makes the footage more interesting is the presence of several other objects in the sky, which the witness did not pay attention during the recording.

Since that night, the witness claimed to have seen these mysterious lights in the northwest skies of Houston nearly every night.

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02-10-2015 om 20:27 geschreven door peter