How NASA Plans To Protect Planets Against An Alien Invasion

NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection. Its purpose is not to protect Earth from invasion by some green skinned monsters, but rather to protect the rest of the Universe from us. With the recent evidence of liquid water on Mars , the possibility of life on the red planet has become a bit more possible, and protecting potential martians from an alien threat is a real challenge.

While Earth is the only planet for which the presence of life is certain, we know that living things can be extraordinarily hardy. We’ve seen organisms thrive in areas of extreme temperature and acid environments. Tardigrades (also known as water bears) have survived the cold vacuum of space, and bacteria have been found within nuclear waste. So it’s not unreasonable to imagine a terrestrial organism hitching a ride on a spacecraft. If that spacecraft comes into contact with a potentially habitable environment they could become an invasive species on another world.
An adult tardigrade. Photo: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. CC BY 2.5.

An adult tardigrade. Photo: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. CC BY 2.5.

To protect against such an event, NASA has defined different levels of risk, each requiring a different level of spacecraft decontamination. These categories are part of the Outer Space Treaty, which is in international agreement of space faring nations. Under the agreement there are four broad categories:

I – No risk of contamination. This includes orbiters and landers on Mercury and Jupiter’s moon Io, where the chance of life is (as far as we know) zero.

II – Negligible risk. Landers on the Moon and Venus, for example, where indigenous life is not likely to be found.

III – Slight risk. This typically applies to flybys and orbiters for worlds that might have life, such as Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. These worlds are known to have liquid water and conditions that could sustain life, but the mission is not scheduled to come into direct contact with them.

IV – Possible risk. Landing on potentially habitable worlds such as Mars, Europa and Enceladus.

The last category is further differentiated into three subcategories, based upon whether a lander mission will contain experiments seeking to detect life, or whether it will enter a “special region” such as the areas of Mars where liquid water could be present.

A Viking lander being prepared for dry heat sterilization, which is currently the most stringent method. Credit: NASA

Because of these subcategories the Curiosity rover currently active on Mars is forbidden to study a region with liquid water, even though it’s less than 30 miles away from one of them. NASA’s next generation of Mars rovers scheduled to launch in 2020 cannot study the regions, since they won’t meet the most stringent of sterilization levels.

While robotic missions can be sterilized to high standards, crewed missions cannot. Currently any landing of a crewed mission must first be visited by a robotic mission to verify the region is inhospitable, and humans wouldn’t be allowed to enter special regions. But will that be enough? Our dreams of a human voyage to Mars will be an invasion of terrestrial organisms, and that could put our dreams of finding alien life at risk.

Brian Koberlein is an astrophysicist, professor and author. You can find more of his writing at One Universe at a Time.

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15-10-2015 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

A Stone's Throw From Stonehenge Lies a Massive New Mystery

Located in Wittshire, England, Stonehenge is one of the world's most iconic man-made landmarks. Tourists flock to the raised stones to ponder their origins and meaning. Are these the marks of an alien burial site? Were ancient sacrificial rituals conducted here? How were these stones raised before the advent of modern technology? Stonehenge baffles tourists (and historians) to this day as it sits isolated in the middle of the English countryside.

Recently, a group of archaeologists from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project uncovered the extensive remains of a 90-stone structure less than two miles from Stonehenge. Using remote sensing technologies, the archaeologists were able to detect the presence of the massive stone monument, which is currently buried under a bank of grass. Though the archaeologists aren't entirely sure when the monument was built, they are able to place its construction as contemporary to Stonehenge itself, some time between 2,000 and 3,000 BC.

This new discovery means Stonehenge is not isolated and may in fact be relatively small in comparison to its newfound neighbor. Scientists and archaeologists alike are scrambling to figure out the significance of the new monument and where it figures into the history of the area.

Luckily for them, the new monument is surprisingly well-preserved, and excavation of the stones could lead to specimens more easily researchable than Stonehenge. If full excavation occurs, the monument would form a half moon that dwarfs its sister site. Preemptive hypotheses suggest the new stones might've been used for ancient calendar purposes, as a sacred space for religious acts, or as the wall of an arena.

In a statement released to the press by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, Paul Garwood, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, reflected on the project's game-changing discovery, "The extraordinary scale, detail and novelty of the evidence produced by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project is changing fundamentally our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it. Everything written previously about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be re-written."

Regardless of what scientists uncover, this story will be an important one to watch unfold. And in the near future, the discovery might also be a can't-miss addition to the English travel itinerary.

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15-10-2015 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

Three Ancient Alien Sanctuaries that scientists cannot explain

There are many places on Earth that baffle archaeologists and scholars ever since their discovery but we can probably isolate a few of them which have been built which such precision that modern-day engineers and architects cannot replicate them. Among our favorites are without a doubt Puma Punku, Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, our three Ancient Alien Sanctuaries.

These three majestic ancient citadels have caused quite a debate among researchers and the general population. All three defy our understanding of ancient man in every way, raising numerous questions that modern-day scholars cannot answer.

Just how did ancient mankind construct Puma Punku with such precision? Why is it that at Tiahuanaco, every race on Earth is depicted? And why did the builders of Teotihuacan use mica in their constructions? These are some of the questions that challenge mainstream understanding of ancient mankind.

We believe that ancient mankind was much more advanced than what scholars tell us today. We believe that there are lost technologies somewhere out there that allowed the builders of Teotihuacan, Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco erect such majestic buildings.

Teotihuacan, built by the Quinametzin giants?

This ancient citadel was established around 100 B.C., lasting until its fall between the seventh and eighth centuries. Teotihuacan was one of the largest cities in the ancient world, it is one of the most incredible ancient cities in America, there we can find evidence that the builders , unknown to history, had incredible knowledge in Mathematics, Geology, Astronomy and Engineering. Just as many other ancient cities, Teotihuacan was mysteriously abandoned in 700 A.D.

Among the most interesting findings at Teotihuacan we have MICA.

Mica was known to ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman and Chinese civilizations, as well as the Aztec civilization of the New World. Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures. It has superior electrical properties as an insulator and as a dielectric, and can support an electrostatic field while dissipating minimal energy in the form of heat and is thermally stable to 500 °C. The question is... why did the builders of Teotihuacan use mica in their buildings? The mica used in the buildings of Teotihuacan was brought from Brazil.

Puma Punku is one of the most important places if you want to see what ancient man was capable of. These stone structures are among the biggest ever found.

Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco: Lost in space and time

Puma Punku is a large temple complex or monument group that is part of the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Puma Punku is so unique in the way that it was constructed, shaped and positioned, that it is among the most intriguing ancient site on the planet. No one has been able to explain the precision found at Puma Punku. The massive stones were hewn at quarries over 60 miles away according to archaeologists... and oh just in case you did not know, Puma Punku is located at an altitude of 12,800 feet, which means it is located above the natural tree line, this means NO trees grew in that area which means that no trees were cut down in order to use wooden rollers, the question is how did they transport the stones?

As for Tiahuanaco...

The ancient citadel of Tiahuanaco is located near Puma Punku, less than a quarter-mile northeast of Puma Punku. Scientists believe Tiahuanaco was once the center of a civilization with more than 40,000 inhabitants. It’s said that Tiahuanaco displays all the races of mankind, even elongated skulls, people wearing turbans, people with broad noses, people with thin noses, people with thick lips, people with thin lips, and some of the statues are particularly unusual and are unlike the ones found in the nearby area.

One of the most important archaeological artifacts ever discovered in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl, a ceramic bowl that has Sumerian cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic written on it.

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15-10-2015 om 00:30 geschreven door peter  

'Hand of God' Spotted by NASA Space Telescope (Photo)

The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor's office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft has imaged the structure in high-energy X-rays for the first time, shown in blue. Lower-energy X-ray light previously detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in green and red.
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Religion and astronomy may not overlap often, but a new NASA X-ray image captures a celestial object that resembles the "Hand of God."

The cosmic "hand of God" photo was produced when a star exploded and ejected an enormous cloud of material, which NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, glimpsed in high-energy X-rays, shown in blue in the photo. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory had imaged the green and red parts previously, using lower-energy X-rays.

"NuSTAR's unique viewpoint, in seeing the highest-energy X-rays, is showing us well-studied objects and regions in a whole new light," NuSTAR telescope principal investigator Fiona Harrison, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement.

The new image depicts a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova. What's left behind is a pulsar, called PSR B1509-58 (B1509 for short), which spins around 7 times per second blowing a wind of particles into material ejected during the star's death throes.

As these particles interact with nearby magnetic fields, they produce an X-ray glow in the shape of a hand. (The pulsar is located near the bright white spot in the image but cannot be seen itself, NASA officials said.)

Scientists aren't sure whether the ejected material actually assumes the shape of a hand, or whether its interaction with the pulsar's particles is just making it appear that way.

"We don't know if the hand shape is an optical illusion," Hongjun An, of McGill University in Montreal, said in a statement. "With NuSTAR, the hand looks more like a fist, which is giving us some clues."

The red cloud appearing at the fingertips is a separate structure called RCW 89. The pulsar's wind may be heating the cloud to produce the low-energy X-ray glow, astronomers believe.

The X-ray energies seen by NuSTAR range from 7 to 25 kiloelectron volts, or keV, whereas the energies seen by Chandra range from 0.5 to 2 keV.

The Hand of God is an example of pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of perceiving familiar shapes in random or vague images. Other common forms of pareidolia include seeing animals or faces in clouds, or the man in the moon. Despite its supernatural appearance, the Hand of God was produced by natural astrophysical phenomena.

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15-10-2015 om 00:20 geschreven door peter  

Conférence "Ovnis et Conscience", Lyon, le 27 juin 2015

Published on Jul 5, 2015

Découvrez la conférence inédite réalisée à Lyon, le 27 juin 2015, en présence des auteurs de l'ouvrage "Ovnis et Conscience" paru en avril 2015 chez JMG.

Le site de l'ouvrage :
http://ovniconscience.com/

Le média ufologique francophone :
http://ovnis-direct.com/

Plus d'informations sur la Partie de Philippe Guillemant :
http://www.doublecause.net/index.php?...

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"Originem" by Epica (Google Play • iTunes)

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15-10-2015 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Project Mercury: America's 1st Manned Space Program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration came into being on October 1, 1958. NASA announced the seven Project Mercury Astronauts on April 9, 1959, only six months later. They are: (front, l to r) Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; (back, l to r) Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper.
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Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program. Its major aim was to see if humans could function effectively in space for a few minutes or hours at a time. Each mission flew only one person at once into space, starting with 15-minute long missions and gradually expanding to a day's time.

The first seven astronauts were chosen in 1959, and they and their families instantly became worldwide celebrities. Their fame was further enhanced with an exclusive contract with Life magazine for $500,000 (or about $4 million today). The stories painted the astronauts as American heroes fighting communism with their space missions.

The PR was part of the Mercury program's push to fly a man in space before the Soviet Union did. While Mercury failed in that aim, it did provide a technological basis for the more challenging orbital missions of Gemini and the moon missions of Apollo that took place later in the 1960s.

Early Mercury flights

There were several tests of the Mercury spacecraft before humans were put on board. The first living creature to fly on Mercury was not a test pilot, but a chimpanzee.

The chimp, named Ham (an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Center), blasted off aboard a Mercury Redstone rocket on Jan. 31, 1961. NASA officials wanted to fly Ham first in case the flight ran into technical problems, which it did. The spacecraft flew higher and faster than anticipated and splashed down more than 400 miles off course, but Ham emerged healthy except for mild dehydration and fatigue. [Related: Laika the Dog & the First Animals in Space]

After one more test flight on March 24, NASA felt ready to bring its first astronaut into space. That person was Alan Shepard, a World War II veteran and Navy test pilot. When he lifted off on May 5, 1961, for a suborbital flight, his milestone came just weeks after the first man (a Russian, Yuri Gagarin) made it into space on April 12.

Shepard's 15-minute flight aboard Freedom 7 was a success, but he was frustrated at not making it first. "We had 'em," Shepard is reported to have said about the Soviets at the time. "We had 'em by the short hairs, and we gave it away."

Mercury's next flight on July 21, 1961, ran into a major snag. Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 performed relatively well on the 15-minute suborbital hop until splashdown, when the door unexpectedly blew open. Grissom found himself in the water as the recovery helicopter tried in vain to rescue the spacecraft. The cause of the door problem was never found. Sadly, Grissom died in a launch pad fire aboard Apollo 1; one factor in his death was a hatch door his three-person crew could not open.

Reaching orbit

While the Mercury missions were technological feats for NASA and its contractors, they were quite short — only 15-minute arcs between Florida and the Atlantic Ocean. The Soviets, meanwhile, had already done orbital missions that circled the Earth several times. Getting the Americans to that stage would require a more powerful rocket, among other mission changes.

So when John Glenn aimed for three orbits of Earth, his Friendship 7 spacecraft did it aboard a more powerful Mercury-Atlas rocket combination. He blasted off on Feb. 20, 1962, and during his three-orbit and five-hour mission, discovered strange "fireflies" that were appearing to follow his spacecraft, a phenomenon later explained as ice crystals coming off the hull.

Controllers saw an indication that his landing bag had prematurely deployed. They waited to tell Glenn, then close to re-entry instructed Glenn to keep his retrorocket package strapped on to his spacecraft as a precaution. The indication turned out to be false, and Glenn was upset that he had not been told as soon as the problem arose. He nevertheless became a public hero and eventually parlayed that popularity to make a second career in the Senate before returning to space aboard a shuttle in 1998.

The next mission, Aurora 7, again ran into splashdown problems on May 24, 1962. Pilot Scott Carpenter landed about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off course after about five hours in space. Some space program officials, notably flight director Chris Kraft, blamed the problem on Carpenter's inattention during the mission.

In two oral interviews with NASA, Carpenter said it was a combination of technical problems (some sensors were malfunctioning) and excessive fuel use as Carpenter worked to solve Glenn's firefly mystery. "There was excessive fuel use, which scared a lot of the folks on the ground. There was enough. There was enough for the entry. A lot of people thought there would not be. And it was anybody's guess," Carpenter recalled in 1998. He never flew again.

Closing the program

With the two-man Gemini spacecraft heavily in development, NASA focused the last two missions on making sure that spacecraft and astronauts could be ready for missions that lasted over several days. Wally Schirra, who named his spacecraft Sigma 7 to honor excellence in engineering, went so far as to ask program officials to turn off the automatic controls on his spacecraft so he could better manage fuel use. Schirra launched on Oct. 3, 1962, for a six-orbit mission, carefully rationing his fuel through the mission by using just small bursts of thruster fuel at a time.

By the time he was ready to go back to Earth, more than half of Schirra's fuel was left. In his autobiography "Schirra's Space," the astronaut said he had to dump the remainder. His mission drew praise in NASA and he flew two more missions in the Gemini and Apollo programs, becoming the only astronaut to fly in all three of NASA's manned space programs.

Schirra's success cleared the way for Gordon Cooper to go for 22 orbits between May 15 and 16, 1963, aboard his spacecraft, Faith 7. With astronaut Deke Slayton sidelined due to a heart condition, and the Gemini program ready for flights, NASA shifted its attention to this new program. There, the agency aimed to learn more about orbital maneuvering and human endurance for future moon missions.

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14-10-2015 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

Extensive Ancient Underground Network Discovered From Scotland to Turkey

Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways has claimed.

German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch said evidence of the tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over the continent.

In his book – Secrets Of The Underground Door To An Ancient World – he claims the fact that so many have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original tunnel network must have been enormous.

‘In Bavaria in Germany alone we have found 700 metres of these underground tunnel networks. In Styria in Austria we have found 350 metres,’ he said.

‘Across Europe there were thousands of them – from the north in Scotland down to the Mediterranean.

‘Most are not much larger than big wormholes – just 70cm wide – just wide enough for a person to wriggle along but nothing else.

‘They are interspersed with nooks, at some places it’s larger and there is seating, or storage chambers and rooms.

‘They do not all link up but taken together it is a massive underground network.’

Some experts believe the network was a way of protecting man from predators while others believe that some of the linked tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to travel safely regardless of wars or violence or even weather above ground.

The book notes that chapels were often built by the entrances perhaps because the Church were afraid of the heathen legacy the tunnels might have represented, and wanted to negate their influence.

In some cases writings have been discovered referring to the tunnels seen as a gateway to the underworld.

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14-10-2015 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

Not even close encounters: If UFOs really exist, why would intelligent life forms use 1950s earth technology to travel here?

Sun Kwok says that if intelligent life exists elsewhere in our galaxy, and it probably does, then it will be far more technologically advanced than our own primitive civilisation

Venus is the brightest celestial object in the sky after the sun and moon. Many city folk are often astonished when they suddenly catch a glimpse of Venus.

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When people hear that I am a professional astronomer, they often ask "Do you believe in UFOs?" Sometimes they say, "I have seen a UFO…" and then proceed to describe their incredible encounter. Quite often they say they saw a bright light in the sky; some describe it moving at high speed and following them.

These types of stories are quite common among UFO believers. In 1967, police officers in 11 counties in the US state of Georgia chased after a reported UFO for several days - until someone told them they were chasing the planet Venus.
If extraterrestrials visit our planet, they will travel in forms that are entirely unknown and invisible to us

Venus is the brightest celestial object in the sky after the sun and moon. Since many city folk are not accustomed to viewing the sky, they are often astonished when they suddenly catch a glimpse of Venus. It can at times be very bright, even in early morning or late afternoon light. When the observer is in a moving vehicle, he often has the illusion that Venus is chasing after him. When I hear reports of UFOs, my first response is usually, "Which direction was it?" If the person says west, I then ask, "What time of day did you see it?" If they answer, "In the evening," I reply, "It is quite likely you saw Venus".

     If extraterrestrials visit our planet, they will travel in forms that are entirely unknown and invisible to us

Casual observers have been known to confuse planes, balloons, meteors, fireballs, clouds and optical atmospheric phenomena with UFOs. Our skies are crowded with artificial satellites that move quickly across the sky. When sunlight reflects on them, they may be perceived as UFOs.

UFO believers may accuse me of being narrow-minded or conservative. But I would argue that it is they who are conservative. If an alien civilisation was capable of space travel and came hundreds of light years to reach us, why would they travel in a primitive mechanical device? Why would their spacecraft emit visible light, when they have the entire electromagnetic spectrum available? We forget that visible light is only a very narrow part of the spectrum, and our eyes are tuned to this narrow part to take maximum advantage of sunlight.

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Intelligent life forms other than humans likely exist, and may already be among us. But would we recognise them?

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Our galaxy is 10 billion years old and has 100 billion stars. There are probably more than 100 billion planets in it. It is therefore not unreasonable to think that it contains other intelligent life forms, and we are not alone. We must, however, remember that we are a very young and primitive civilisation. Humans have been around for only 100,000 years, and we have been capable of distant communication for only about 100 years. Given the age of our galaxy, probability suggests that if there are alien civilisations in it, they will be millions of years older and technologically far more advanced.

We cannot imagine technologies 100 years from now, let alone 1,000 years. I am sure, however, that visiting aliens won't be using 1950s earth technology, which is what a light-emitting flying saucer is. If extraterrestrials visit our planet, they will travel in forms that are entirely unknown and invisible to us. They may actually be here already.

If you dropped a thumb drive onto a street in Paris or London 100 years ago and someone picked it up, would they know that it contained thousands of songs, hours of movies and volumes of books? Would they have any idea what it was? Almost certainly not. This is what technological progress can do - and that is only a few decades, not thousands of years.

READ MORE: Why 'anti-science' idiocy may have far-reaching consequences for us all

UFO believers are often adamant about what they have seen and describe their encounters as emotional or even spiritual experiences. They can be highly educated. It is very difficult to convince them that they are probably wrong.

I think the physicist Richard Feynman said it very well: "It is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extraterrestrial intelligence." Along this line of thought, I suggest that UFO studies should be pursued as a branch of psychological research. There are more mysteries in the human mind than bright lights in the sky.

Sun Kwok is a professional astronomer and president of the Astrobiology Commission of the International Astronomical Union. He serves as dean of science and chair professor of physics at the University of Hong Kong

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14-10-2015 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

Drone Video: The Gigantic New Telescope China's Building To Hunt Aliens

Bigger is better when it comes to radio telescopes--and China is building the biggest.

China began constructing the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope this past summer. New drone footage released by China Central Television shows they are making rapid progress. The telescope is expected to be ready by September of next year.

When it's finished, the Five-hundred-meter-Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) dish's diameter will surpass the current record holder, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, by 200 meters. It will be able to detect radio signals from planets a billion miles away, potentially widening the search for alien life. It could also detect new exoplanets, pulsars, and galaxies, while helping to shed light on the evolution of the cosmos.

The telescope dish will be supported and moved around by a system of poles and cables, which can be seen in the video. Read more about how it will work.

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14-10-2015 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

DEMONT: The mystery of Shag Harbour, 48 years on

Museum of photos, articles about alleged UFO sightings still draws many visitors

The Chronicle Herald published an article Oct. 7, 1967, about alleged sightings of a UFO at Shag Harbour.

There’s always something spooky weird about places meant for people — fairgrounds, amusement parks, hotels, seaside holiday spots — during the off-season.

The UFO museum in Shag Harbour is no exception.

A kindly woman named Dorothy Nickerson was there when I arrived Wednesday, a few weeks after the museum closed for the year. Outside, the wind howled, but it was quiet in the museum, which possessed the kind of stillness that can give you the feeling someone has just left.

I arrived, as is obvious, in a Fox Mulder frame of mind. Because 48 years is long enough to wait to see if the truth is actually out there where the land ends on the southwest corner of this province.

Nickerson was a young busy mother of four back on Oct. 4, 1967. So it was the next day before she learned the village was abuzz over something strange that had been glimpsed flying over the nearby waters.

It’s all there in the clippings and photos on the walls of the converted store on Shag Harbour’s main drag.

How a range of witnesses saw an object with orange flashing lights flying from the northwest. How the unidentified object was said to emit a loud noise — in some cases, described as a whistle; in others, a whoosh — as it flew over them. And how, picking up speed, the object hit the water with a loud noise and then seemed to glide along, either on or in the water, before disappearing.

All it left behind, according to a Chronicle Herald story headlined “Could be Something Concrete in Shag Harbour UFO — RCAF”, was “an extremely large patch of bubbling water and foam.” That and a nearly half-century mystery that people just can’t seem to let go of.

There’s a Shag Harbour “incident” stamp. Books have been written about it, including one called Dark Object with the intriguing subtitle, The World’s Only Government-Documented UFO Crash, and films and television shows shot about it.

Go online and it’s like Canada’s Roswell just happened. This summer, they had to add a couple of days to the village’s annual UFO festival.

All told, more than 1,500 people visited the museum from June to September. Some of them are skeptics, but just as many are believers who make references in the museum guest book to The X-Files, the sci-fi movie classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and alleged UFO sightings elsewhere. One woman named Michelle just wrote “wants to believe.”

“Nobody around here thinks it was some little green men,” says Nickerson, who housed the museum in her barn until it outgrew the space.

“But there was something there.”

Count the museum’s vice-chairwoman, Dale Nickerson — perhaps some distant relative to Dorothy — among that group. She was just a schoolgirl living in nearby Woods Harbour that night 48 years ago.

“We’re trying to stay away from the alien stuff at the museum in the future,” she said over the telephone.

That moment isn’t quite yet. As well as displaying UFO literature and a series of hand-painted rocks showing what the aliens’ journey might have been like after their crash, the museum sells UFO cookie cutters, alien-themed plates and Star Wars paraphernalia.

I can hear Dale shrug across the phone line when I ask what she thinks went down in those waters.

The Cold War was underway, she points out; lots of weird things were flying around in lots of places back then.

“If it was Canadian, American or Russian, I really don’t know.”

If any government knows the answer, the 50th anniversary of the event in 2017 would be a great time to reveal it.

“On the one hand, I would love to know,” Dale says.

“On the other hand, the mystery is gone, and I guess so is the museum.”

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14-10-2015 om 22:43 geschreven door peter  

One in four Ukip voters believe aliens have made contact - but government is hiding it

YouGov survey finds Ukip voters most likely to believe that extra-terrestrial life has made contact but the government is suppressing the news

E.T. from Steven Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Photo: UNIVERSAL
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By Michael Wilkinson, Political Correspondent

One in four Ukip voters believe that aliens have made contact but the government has covered it up.

A YouGov survey found that 24 per cent of people who support Ukip think that extra-terrestrial life has been in touch but the government is suppressing the news.

Some 18 per cent of Labour voters and 14 per cent of Conservative voters believe the same, while only eight per cent of Liberal Democrats agree.

Aliens have made contact but the government is hiding it

While just 12 per cent of men agree that there is a government cover-up, 25 per of women believe the same.

Asked whether they thought humans were created by God or another higher being, 24 per cent of Tories agreed with the statement, while just 10 per cent of Labour voters supported the idea.

The survey comes after Nasa scientists confirmed that water exists in liquid form on the surface of Mars, making it possible for life to be sustained on the Red Planet.

Nasa hailed the “strongest evidence yet” of intermittent flows of briny water on Mars after scientists identified hydrated salts in dark streaks that ebb and flow down the planet’s slopes.

The dark marks, which appear in summer months, are thought to be caused by the salty water wicking up from a shallow flow beneath the surface – although the origins of the briny flows remain a mystery.

Humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies entirely independent of Earth by the 2030s, Nasa has also said.

The US space organisation has released its plan for establishing permanent settlements on the Red Planet, setting out in detail plans to create ‘deep-space habitation facilities’ which will act as stepping stones to Mars.

In a new report entitled ‘Journey to Mars’ Nasa said the mission was ‘historic pioneering endeavor’ similar to the early settlers in America and Moon landing.

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14-10-2015 om 22:32 geschreven door peter  

“Ik werd door reptielachtige wezens ontvoerd naar de achterkant van de maan”

Een oud-medewerker van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht heeft een aantal opmerkelijke uitspraken gedaan. Ze beweert namelijk dat reptielachtige aliens haar hebben meegenomen naar de maan, waar ze kratten moest tillen en bovendien werd verkracht. Dat meldt de Britse Daily Mirror.

Niara Terela Isley zei dat ze werd ontvoerd door een ‘humanoïde met een staart’, die haar meenam naar een geheime basis op de achterkant van de maan. Isley zei dat ze destijds was gestationeerd op de Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, maar dat ze zich daar erg weinig van kon herinneren.

‘Geheugen gewist’

Ze verklaarde dat ze eerst werd verkracht door veiligheidsmedewerkers, nadat ze met een mysterieuze drug in haar nek was gespoten. Isley vermoedde dat haar geheugen was gewist. Onder hypnose kwamen de herinneringen weer terug.

Tijdens een interview met aquarianradio claimde ze dat ze op 25-jarige leeftijd acht tot 10 keer is meegenomen in de ruimte. Ze zei dat ze op een legerbasis op de maan met zware machines graafwerkzaamheden moest verrichten.

Doofpot

Op de maan werd ze naar eigen zeggen vrijwel iedere avond misbruikt door de reptielachtige wezens. Ze zei dat ‘grijze aliens’ en andere mensen hielpen bij de werkzaamheden. In 1980 kwam er een einde aan de incidenten, aldus de vrouw.

Isley, een moeder van twee die momenteel in Colorado woonachtig is, zei: “’s Avonds mocht ik niet slapen. Ik was bang. Ik wilde terug naar mijn dochter dus ik deed wat ze zeiden.”

Volgens veel complottheorieën is de Amerikaanse overheid betrokken bij de ontvoeringen en bied zij hulp aan de ‘grijzen’. Dit zou ook de reden zijn dat berichten van (voormalig) medewerkers in de doofpot worden gestopt.

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14-10-2015 om 22:19 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Mexico Neighbourhood Startles Residents On Oct 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 11, 2015
Location of sighting: Iztacalco, Mexico

UFOs are frequently seen in Mexico and may have been mistaken by the ancient Aztecs and Mayans as gods. These sightings are very common as is this shape of UFO in the area.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
UFO recorded at 7PM west south-east in him DF Mexico. Iztacalco. October 11, 2015

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14-10-2015 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

Disc – shaped UFO sighting over Sofia, Bulgaria on 8th October 2015

New interesting UFO sightings photo of a Disc – shaped UFO sighting recorded over Sofia, Bulgaria on 8th October 2015.

Poster said:
I was taking a picture of some new skyscraper in the area, then suddenly this disc like UFO appared over the city and moved very fast. It made sharp turns and was extremely fast. I thought I had to take a picture of it so I did. I took about 10-15 photos, but only one came out non blurry, as the object was stationary at that time. After this it shot up into the sky and disappeared.

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14-10-2015 om 22:10 geschreven door peter  

Is Sodom gevonden? ‘Monsterlijk grote’ vindplaats komt overeen met stad die in de Bijbel door God wordt verwoest

Archeologen hebben naar eigen zeggen in Jordanië resten van de stad Sodom gevonden. Dat zou betekenen dat de Bijbelse stad, die in het boek Genesis van het Oude Testament wordt vernietigd, echt heeft bestaan. Dat meldt Popular Archaeology.

Wetenschappers zijn al tientallen jaren op zoek naar mogelijke resten van de stad die door God werd verwoest in een regen van zwavel en vuur. Het gebied aan de rivier de Jordaan komt overeen met de regio waar volgens de Bijbel de stad Sodom was gevestigd. Archeologen besloten daarop in dat gebied te zoeken.

Connectie met Sodom ‘zeer waarschijnlijk’

Na 10 jaar onderzoek hebben archeologen in de regio Tall el-Hammam een grote stad blootgelegd. “De connectie met Sodom is zeer waarschijnlijk,” aldus Steven Collins van de Trinity Southwestern University in New Mexico.

De resten van de ‘monsterlijk grote’ stad stammen waarschijnlijk uit de periode tussen 3500 en 1450 voor Christus. “We hebben een belangrijke stadstaat gevonden die voor de start van dit project in 2005 nog onbekend was,” zei Collins, die ervan overtuigd is dat de Bijbelse stad eindelijk gevonden is. “Zelfs de meeste archeologische kaarten van het gebied waren grotendeels oningevuld.”

Aardbeving

Volgens de archeoloog is de stad verwoest als gevolg van een aardbeving. Indertijd kon een dergelijke natuurramp ook worden gezien als een boodschap van God. De stad, die minstens vijf tot 10 keer groter is dan alle andere steden uit de bronstijd in de regio, stond meer dan 700 jaar leeg, maar werd daarna weer in gebruik genomen.

De reusachtige stad werd omgeven door een 5,2 meter dikke en 10 meter hoge muur, bestaande uit miljoenen kleistenen.

Kijk hier voor meer foto’s.

[Nieuwsblad]

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14-10-2015 om 21:55 geschreven door peter  

Low Flying Orb Over Naples, Italy On Oct 8, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 8, 2015
Location of sighting: Naples, Italy

This fast moving orb was recorded over a park in Italy this week. It hovers in place observing the people below, then suddenly darts away. Very cool catch and not to far from the alien base below Rocca Pia, Italy. The W56 probably own the UFO.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
Ball of light flying at low altitude over the park Pomigliano in the presence of numerous witnesses.

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14-10-2015 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting over Iztacalco, Mexico on 11th October 2015

New interesting video footage of a UFO sighting recorded over Iztacalco, Mexico on 11th October 2015.

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14-10-2015 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

The Aztecs and the Ancient Giants of Mesoamerica

Not only are Giant beings mentioned in cultures and ancient civilizations around the world, their existence is a key part of folklore and history. Their presence and existence is confirmed in religious texts such as the bible and many other ancient sacred texts. Yet, for some mysterious reasons, mainstream scholars have found it very hard to believe that such beings existed in the past.

According to the Codex Rios, or the Vatican A codex, the Italian translation of an ancient manuscript written during the Spanish Conquest, Giant beings lived in Mesoamerica. According to the depictions of the codex, Aztec warriors fought against giant beings, and interestingly, and in the ancient manuscript, next to the image of the Giant we can see the name of the giant: Quinametzin which in translation means the old ones.

The Quinametzin Giants, according to Aztec Mythology, populated this world during the previous era of the Sun Rain.

Interestingly, it is said that the Quinametzin giants built the ancient citadel of Teotihuacan (Place where men become Gods) and the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Ten Quinametzin are mentioned in ancient Aztec mythology. It is said that when the Spanish conquistadores came to America, they saw, real flesh and blood giants.

According to legend, and accounts of the Spanish invasion in the book “The Broken Spears” Giants lived among the Aztecs, and one of their heroes, Tzilacatzin helped fight the Spanish during an attempt of hostile takeover of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan.

Tzilacatzin managed to defend Tenochtitlan by throwing huge stones at the Spanish Conquistadores, and his courage and strength can be seen in the Florentine Codex.

As you can see, Giant beings are widely mentioned in ancient times, and not only were some of these giant beings considered as divine, some of them like Tzilacatzin are real flesh and blood proof that such beings lived among humans in the distant past, stories that ancient religious texts back up.

There were giants [nephilim] on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown (Genesis 6:4)

Dominican Fray Diego Duran tells us a lot about Aztec history and culture.
His writings offer some of the oldest texts about the ancient Aztecs, their life, religion, customs and mythology. Duran learned nearly everything there is to learn about the Ancient Aztecs, and by winning their trust, he had access to material no one else before him had. When it comes to giant beings, Duran wrote the following: "It cannot be denied that there have been giants in this country. I can affirm this as an eyewitness, for I have met men of monstrous stature here. I believe that there are many in Mexico who will remember, as I do, a giant Indian who appeared in a procession of the feast of Corpus Christi. He appeared dressed in yellow silk and a halberd at his shoulder and a helmet on his head. And he was all of three feet taller than the others." ‑Fray Diego Duran, The Aztecs (New York: Orion Press, 1964), pp. 5-6. The manuscript lay for nearly three centuries in the National Library of Madrid. The first of three volumes from it was first published in 1867, under the title History of New Spain.

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14-10-2015 om 01:36 geschreven door peter  

Documentaire : Nos ancêtres extra-terrestres - Et s'ils étaient déjà venus

Depuis des millénaires, nous nous demandons si nous sommes seuls dans l'univers, ou si la vie a pu apparaître également ailleurs. Parmi les 200 milliards de planètes que compte l'Univers, il est fort probable que les conditions de la vie ont été réunies à nouveau. Mais où ? Et quelles formes étranges la vie a-t-elle pu adopter sous d'autres environnements ?

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14-10-2015 om 01:23 geschreven door peter  

The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy

Astronomers have spotted a strange mess of objects whirling around a distant star. Scientists who search for extraterrestrial civilizations are scrambling to get a closer look.

In the Northern hemisphere’s sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the harp that accompanied poetry in ancient Greece, from which we take our word “lyric.”

Between these constellations sits an unusual star, invisible to the naked eye, but visible to the Kepler Space Telescope, which stared at it for more than four years, beginning in 2009.

“We’d never seen anything like this star,” says Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

Kepler was looking for tiny dips in the light emitted by this star. Indeed, it was looking for these dips in more than 150,000 stars, simultaneously, because these dips are often shadows cast by transiting planets. Especially when they repeat, periodically, as you’d expect if they were caused by orbiting objects.

The Kepler Space Telescope collected a great deal of light from all of those stars it watched. So much light that Kepler’s science team couldn’t process it all with algorithms. They needed the human eye, and human cognition, which remains unsurpassed in certain sorts of pattern recognition. Kepler’s astronomers decided to found Planet Hunters, a program that asked “citizen scientists” to examine light patterns emitted by the stars, from the comfort of their own homes.

In 2011, several citizen scientists flagged one particular star as “interesting” and “bizarre.” The star was emitting a light pattern that looked stranger than any of the others Kepler was watching.

The light pattern suggests there is a big mess of matter circling the star, in tight formation. That would be expected if the star were young. When our solar system first formed, four and a half billion years ago, a messy disk of dust and debris surrounded the sun, before gravity organized it into planets, and rings of rock and ice.

But this unusual star isn’t young. If it were young, it would be surrounded by dust that would give off extra infrared light. There doesn’t seem to be an excess of infrared light around this star.

It appears to be mature.

And yet, there is this mess of objects circling it. A mess big enough to block a substantial number of photons that would have otherwise beamed into the tube of the Kepler Space Telescope. If blind nature deposited this mess around the star, it must have done so recently. Otherwise, it would be gone by now. Gravity would have consolidated it, or it would have been sucked into the star and swallowed, after a brief fiery splash.
“It looked like the kind of thing you might expect an alien civilization to build.”

Boyajian, the Yale Postdoc who oversees Planet Hunters, recently published a paper describing the star’s bizarre light pattern. Several of the citizen scientists are named as co-authors. The paper explores a number of scenarios that might explain the pattern—instrument defects; the shrapnel from an asteroid belt pileup; an impact of planetary scale, like the one that created our moon.

The paper finds each explanation wanting, save for one. If another star had passed through the unusual star’s system, it could have yanked a sea of comets inward. Provided there were enough of them, the comets could have made the dimming pattern.

But that would be an extraordinary coincidence, if that happened so recently, only a few millennia before humans developed the tech to loft a telescope into space. That’s a narrow band of time, cosmically speaking.

And yet, the explanation has to be rare or coincidental. After all, this light pattern doesn’t show up anywhere else, across 150,000 stars. We know that something strange is going on out there.

When I spoke to Boyajian on the phone, she explained that her recent paper only reviews “natural” scenarios. “But,” she said, there were “other scenarios” she was considering.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish an alternative interpretation of the light pattern. SETI researchers have long suggested that we might be able to detect distant extraterrestrial civilizations, by looking for enormous technological artifacts orbiting other stars. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a “swarm of megastructures,” perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.

“When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright told me. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”

Boyajian is now working with Wright and Andrew Siemion, the Director of the SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The three of them are writing up a proposal. They want to point a massive radio dish at the unusual star, to see if it emits radio waves at frequencies associated with technological activity.

If they see a sizable amount of radio waves, they’ll follow up with the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, which may be able to say whether the radio waves were emitted by a technological source, like those that waft out into the universe from Earth’s network of radio stations.

Assuming all goes well, the first observation would take place in January, with the follow-up coming next fall. If things go really well, the follow-up could happen sooner. “If we saw something exciting, we could ask the director for special allotted time on the VLA,” Wright told me. “And in that case, we’d be asking to go on right away.”

In the meantime, Boyajian, Siemion, Wright, the citizen scientists, and the rest of us, will have to content ourselves with longing looks at the sky, aimed between the swan and the lyre, where maybe, just maybe, someone is looking back, and seeing the sun dim ever so slightly, every 365 days.

{ http://www.theatlantic.com/ }

14-10-2015 om 01:06 geschreven door peter