The stealth superwing: Next generation 'Air Dominance' fighter jet that will have built in laser weapons and could even travel at supersonic speeds revealed 

• Northrop Grumman say concept is known as NG Air Dominance
• Will feature laswer weapons capable of tracking multiple targets
• Expected to be able to reach supersonic speeds 

By MARK PRIGG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

Northrop Grumman has revealed a tantalising image of a new stealth 'superjet' capable of firing laser weapons.

The so called 'sixth generation fighter' is rumoured to fly at supersonic speeds, although Northrop Grumman, who are developing it, say the specifications are still secret.

The stealth craft is expected to use advanced cooling systems to help disguise its laser systems. 

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Known internally as NG Air Dominance, the craft features laser weapons. The so called 'sixth generation fighter' is rumoured to fly at supersonic speeds, although Northrop Grumman, who are developing it, say the specifications are still classified.

Chris Hernandez, Northrop's vice president for research, technology and advanced design, told BreakingDefence the sixth-gem fighter will be long range because it won't have many bases to operate from overseas; it must 'carry a lot of weapons;' survivability will be key.

What do those requirements and physics lead you to? 

'This looks a lot like a baby B-2 and this is really getting into our sweet spot,' Hernandez said.

Northrop Grumman has two design teams working on the new aircraft. 

However, the firm would not discuss the plane's speed, saying that would have to wait for clearer direction from the Pentagon in the future.

It is expected to use laser weapons - and this has caused major problems around heat.  

As Northrop president for aerospace Tom Vice said, managing heat will be key. 

'Add in all the aircraft's power and thrust systems, and you have an enormous heat challenge,' said Hernandez. 

The craft is expected to be used in 2030.

In April 2012, the Navy issued a formal request for information for the F/A-XX. 

It calls for an air superiority fighter with multi-role capabilities to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft in the 2030s,

Boeing and Northrop Grumman are both developing concepts. 

Lockheed Martin has been working on next-generation air dominance-related activities with the U.S. Armed Services and most recently the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine the best way to maintain air dominance in the post-2035 world.

In October of 2012, Frank Kendall, Undersecretary of Defense, tasked DARPA to explore concepts for the next generation of air dominance. 

Boeing (pictured) and Northrop Grumman are both developing concepts.

In an attempt to break the battle space into smaller pieces, DARPA defined separate focus areas that span capabilities across the air dominance battle space.

'This decomposition may not be perfect and will most certainly be fine-tuned over time, but it does provide a logical construct for looking at the future battle space,' said Mark Jefferson, director of Next Generation Air Dominance programs at the Skunk Works.

Previous reports say the superjet might even not have a pilot.

According to the Pentagon, it may partially fall in the hands of artificial intelligence (AI).

Reports say that both the US Navy and Air Force are planning next-generation fighters that don't have just a human pilot.

Future fighter jets may have an AI co-pilot on board that can help with sensory data in addition to autonomously landing the plane on an aircraft carrier. 

According to the US Naval Institute (USNI), artificial intelligence will feature prominently on the successors to the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.

The US Navy is working on the F/A-XX and the Air Force on the F-X, with both designed to replace their predecessors by 2030 at the earliest.

While the exact purpose of AI in aircraft isn't known yet, it could have a number of uses from acting as a co-pilot to carrying out autonomous landings.

According to Popular Science the robotic co-pilots would be especially helpful for aircraft carriers, which are difficult to land on.

Recently the Navy's X-47B experimental drone landed autonomously on an aircraft, demonstrating the usefulness of AI in such a situation.

AI could also help with something known as advanced sensor fusion.

This involves combining data from various sensors to get a more accurate reading of a situation or location.

The Navy and Air Force are also hoping to get help from industry experts in Silicon Valley to aid them in the design of such sixth-generation fighters. 

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22-12-2015 om 00:48 geschreven door peter  

Humanoid Alien Lands Red UFO in India, Leaves Witnesses in Shock

India has been an attractive region for UFOs lately, such objects being filmed over the skies of the capital city, New Delhi, and the Indira Gandhi airport.

 

Authorities have taken public notice and the air force pilots have received orders to fire at will on UFOs, if they return.

 

This time, a red glowing spacecraft landed somewhere in the west of India and put an entire village on their toes. Scared witnesses described a human like shape emerging from the UFO for a few seconds and retreating just before the ship went airborne, covered in what villagers saw as a glowing fire that was leaving sparks behind.

 

 

Investigators sent to Kangal to question witnesses, somewhere in the Mysuru region, concluded that :

 

"The women claim that the spacecraft descended close to 500 feet from them and they could spot humanoid figures. They have no clue about aliens and they have not even heard about such things. So we are assuming that they are not lying.”

 

There were 7 people who claim to have experienced the encounter, which took place in broad daylight on the 1st of October, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.

 

They say the alien was wearing orange apparel and approached them in order to gather information or quickly study them, before reentering the UFO and taking off. The burning debris left behind is very unusual, as almost all UFOs encountered make no noise and leave no residue behind.

 

 

This particular UFO might have been plagued by technical difficulties and looking for the right place to gather the needed resources and proper hiding spot for repair. Indian UFOlogists have even claimed that this is the same UFO from the international airport, or at least a similar one, ran down by the Indian Air Force and probably damaged as a result.

 

Skeptics say that the villagers could’ve easily seen just a military aircraft, which would also be completely unknown and strange for farmers in that region of India. The skeptics, however, have failed to explain the orange suited alien.

 

As the Indian authorities are clearly taking this matter seriously, we can expect to hear more on the subject before too long.

 

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22-12-2015 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

Titan ressemble vraiment à la Terre

Carte composite de Titan avec des détails de la surface visibles sous la brume. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho

22-12-2015 om 00:31 geschreven door peter  

CURIOSITY UNCOVERS MYSTERIOUS MATERIAL IN MARTIAN DRILLHOLES

The first manned mission to Mars is still a goal for the future, so the best we can do to explore the Red Planet is to send robots. Curiosity has proven itself to be a good stand-in for boots on the ground, though. After rolling farther than any rover before it, Curiosity has found something new on Mars — silica. There’s silica everywhere on Earth, but we haven’t seen much of it on Mars before no, and that’s what makes this find so important.

Our story starts seven months ago when Curiosity was passing through an area called Marias Pass. It stopped and used its ChemCam laser drill into the rock to perform a mineral analysis, as it had done at many points since landing on Mars in 2012. The data was acquired and Curiosity went along its way up Mount Sharp. Then, NASA did something it almost never does — it turned the rover around and sent it back to do more science in Marias Pass.

It was the presence of silica in the sample that got scientists so excited. That sample analyzed by Curiosity showed concentrations of up to 90 percent silica, which is a big change from seeing only traces of silica in all previous samples. Curiosity spent the next four months checking various areas around Marias Pass, which is where two different sediment layers converge, to see how extensive the silica enrichment was. It turns out, pretty extensive.

The presence of silica is important because it points to the presence of water in Mars’ geologic past. Of course, we now know that Mars has a little flowing water now, and that it had large lakes and flowing rivers in the past. Curiosity has found the dried lake and river beds, after all. All those dry lake beds only tell us there was water, not whether or not it would have been suitable for life. The water could have been too salty or acidic for live to develop, and it’s hard to know what conditions were like millions of years ago.

A high concentration of silica could, however, help us make draw some conclusions about the nature of Martian water from ages ago. Silica in these concentrations would probably end up there because of other minerals dissolving (acidic environment) or deposition of silica (neutral pH). Silica precipitates out of water at pH 7 or 8, so the layer of strata in Marias Pass and surrounding areas could have been ideal for living organisms. Scientists are still examining the data from Curiosity’s stop-off in Marias Pass in hopes of determining how the silica got there, which might change the way we imagine an ancient Martian environment ( via extremetech.com ).

MORE: NASA: Curiosity's First Color Image of the Martian Landscape

MORE: Nasa's Curiosity rover 'sniffs' Martian air for the first time

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22-12-2015 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

Scientists discover possible ninth planet in the solar system

This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth in this image released on October 17, 2012. Alpha Centauri B is the most brilliant object in the sky and the other dazzling object is Alpha Centauri A. Our own Sun is visible to the upper right. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO?s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Reuters/ESO/L. Calcada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/Handout

Astronomers spotted a faint, distant object located in the outer region of the solar system. Using the Atacama large millimetre/submillimetre array (ALMA), a powerful telescope located in Chile, the scientists said that this object could possibly be the ninth planet of the solar system.

The object can possibly be a super-Earth, a planet with a mass higher than Earth but substantially below that of Neptune and Uranus. However, other scientists have doubted the discovery. Mike Brown, an astronomer from the California Institute of Technology, remarked that the evidence to support the claim is too little and finding a ninth planet is very unlikely.

"One possibility (and I think the most likely) is that it's an extreme trans-Neptunian object about 100 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun," claimed astrophysicist Brian Koberlein, Christian todaynotes. "Another possibility (which seems more likely to the object's discoverers) is that it is about 300 AU away and about 1.5 times the size of Earth, making it the first 'super-Earth' found in our solar system."

The discovery has been submitted but has not been peer-reviewed or formally published yet due to scepticism. However, the discoverers defend that they need other scientists’ opinion to confirm the discovery. If proven to be incorrect , they will fully withdraw the papers.

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21-12-2015 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Reveal That Quantum Time Travel Exists

21-12-2015 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

Remains of Ancient Extraterrestrial Laboratory Discovered in China

Thirteen years ago, a group of Chinese researchers located and explored an ancient structure so unusual that an extraterrestrial hypothesis was promptly taken into consideration.

 

The fascinating ruins were discovered in the remote wilderness that makes up most of the intersection between China’s Qinghai province and the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Throughout history, humans have seldom settled in this harsh and inhospitable area. Only occasionally, migrant herdsmen pass through the mountainous regions to the north.

 

No industrial facilities can be found in the zone, much less the remnants of civilizations with advanced metalworking capabilities.

 

Despite this, atop a rocky ridge called Mt Baigong lies a pyramid-shaped ruin with three triangular entrances. Two of them are collapsed but the remaining one leads into an artificially-dug cave going deep into the heart of the mountain. Embedded in the cave walls and floor are hundreds of ancient metal pipes, arranged in what appears to have been a sophisticated network of unknown purpose and origin.

 

 

The rusted pipes range from toothpick-sized to 1.5 feet in diameter and connect the cave to nearby Toson Hu, a saltwater lake 300 feet away. On the northern shore of Lake Toson, erosion exposed hundreds more of these archaic ducts. This detail led researchers into believing whoever built the pipework either used it as a drainage system or as a way to pump saltwater from the lake.

 

Baffled by the complexity of the network of pipes, the researchers took samples of the strange metallic tubes to the Beijing Institute of Geology for analysis. That’s when they had their biggest surprise.

 

Making use of a process called thermoluminescence dating, the scientists were able to analyze the pipes’ crystalline structure and determined they had been subjected to extreme heat approximately 140-150,000 years ago. In other words, the pipes had been smelted long before humans started dabbling in metalworking. An advanced civilization building complex structures 145,000 before us? Could it have been alien?

 

 

The chemical analysis revealed even stranger details. The pipes had been smelted using a strange alloy composed of 92% common metals and minerals like ferric oxide, silicon dioxide and calcium oxide but it also contained 8% unknown materials. This intriguing aspect did not prove the pipes were out of this world but it did pave the way for speculation.

 

Unable to identify the exotic 8 percent, researchers turned to the remaining constituents and discovered another puzzling aspect: the pipes contained a proportion of silica that is specific to Mars.

 

The news fell like a bomb, the story quickly went viral and people started flocking to Mt Baigong to gawk at the anomalous artifacts. They even erected a monument with a satellite dish on top, a direct reference to the efforts to contact extraterrestrial civilizations.

 

 

As a consequence, the Chinese Government closed off the area and posted guards at the entrance to the cave. This attitude is highly suspicious, to say the least.

 

Skeptics say the Baigong pipes are nothing more than fossilized tree roots that somehow got lodged in sediment, hardening over the years and eventually becoming the unusual structures that stumped everyone. If this is the case, why would the authorities step in and have the military guard the site?

 

This situation led conspiracy theorists to believe Mt Baigong was once visited by an advanced extraterrestrial race, possibly originating from Mars. For whatever reason, they constructed an artificial pyramid on top of the mountain, housing what appears to have been a laboratory. This theory is intriguing for a number of reasons.

 

The entire area surrounding the mountain consists of wide expanses of flat terrain that would have been an ideal landing site for large spacecraft. The mountaintop makes for a perfect vantage point one could use to oversee landings and takeoffs.

 

THE ENTRANCE IS GUARDED AND ACCESS IS DENIED TO OUTSIDERS.

 

Recently, mineral explorations have shown the area contains various ore deposits. Any industrious civilization, no matter how advanced, could see the utility of extracting and managing these resources. In order to do so, they would have needed some type of energy source and that is where the pipes’ purpose might become obvious.

 

The Chinese scientists wondered why the pipes went into saltwater when another freshwater lake was even closer to the pyramid. Why the need for water containing a greater percentage of sodium chloride? Let’s examine some of our own activities and perhaps we can find an answer.

 

Modern chemistry and manufacturing makes use of a process called electrolysis, which basically requires passing an electric current through a solution or a molten substance. This triggers a chemical reaction which allows for the separation of materials. When water undergoes electrolysis, it breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen but this only works when saltwater is used. And it’s worth noting that a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is commonly used as rocket fuel.

 

LAKE TOSON

Admittedly, this is all speculation but when combined, the totality of the details start painting a clear picture for the open-minded:

 

-Scientists discover ancient artifacts that predate modern history.

 

-Evidence suggests they were part of a much more complex structure.

 

-Complexity of said structure suggests the presence and activity of an advanced civilization, possibly from Mars.

 

-Government intervenes and prevents access.

 

-This scenario seems all too familiar to overlook.

 

Naturally, some have claimed the Baigong pipes are nothing more than a hoax. Unfortunately, this proposition seems to ignore the facts. The Chinese Government is well-known for its attitude towards those who sabotage the country’s image in the eyes of the rest of the world. It would have taken measures to punish those responsible for spreading false information rather than occupying the ancient pyramid.

 

Whatever the truth behind this perplexing discovery might be, one thing is certain: it doesn’t seem to fit in any of our traditional textbooks.

 

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21-12-2015 om 16:59 geschreven door peter  

[1937] UFO Descends Over City Hall, Two Brothers Photograph the Craft Before Takeoff

History has many ways of surprising us if we know where to look. However, our attention has to be pointed at the alternative history, at the obscure events which mean nothing to science, but in reality they could change the way we see and understand life in our Solar System and beyond.

 

In 1937, Leonard Lamoureaux, age 21 was on leave from the army when he decided to visit Vancouver City Hall in order to take a few photos of the brilliant Christmas light display. Accompanying him was his brother Wilfred.

 

After they found a good spot to take the photos, a sudden “bright blue light” descending from the sky puzzled them both. It became larger and larger as it zoomed into their line of sight, and after a while the two brothers managed to see the source from where all this bright light was coming.

 

 

Leonardo depicted the bizarre sighting as “two saucers” with open ends, facing each other and glowing bright blue. After the UFO got quite close to the city hall, it started to slowly move horizontally across the sky until it reached the top of the flagpole. From there, the luminous craft hovered for a moment in front of the two astounded brothers, and fortunately that was enough for Leonardo to immortalize the moment using his camera.

 

After that brief moment, the bright UFO took off rapidly without making any specific engine sound, as the two described. They were shocked because of what they’ve seen, and couldn’t explain what actually happened there.

 

We’ve never seen anything fly so fast.

 

Even though Leonard Lamoureux and his bother Wilfred passed away some time ago, their unique UFO episode still lives on through Leonard’s daughter, Debra DeCamillis who still resides in the Vancouver Lower Mainland area.

 

The negative has been lost due to the passing of time, thus leading some skeptics into believing that what the picture reveals is nothing more than a watermark defect caused by the development of the print. However, Leonard’s daughter contradicts the nonbelievers by telling about her father who seemed so excited every time he told others about this peculiar event. Debra also stated that:

 

I know for a fact there was no bubbles on the film, or watermarks because I was fascinated by negatives as a child and saw that negative many times. On the rest of the pictures there was nothing but pictures of lights, so I know it had no bubbles or watermarks on it.

 

 

She provided additional details regarding this UFO encounter, all the information originating from her father’s tales and analysis of the event:

 

The camera was on a tri-pod of sorts because Dad was trying to take sequential shots of the courthouse to capture all the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure, his camera was not sophisticated enough. He did say that he could actually see the bubble or tail as he called it that the object was encapsulated in.

 

The detailed description of the event along with the disputed picture offers amazing proof of the UFO phenomenon seen almost one hundred years ago in a time when CGI and Photoshop were nothing but faint idea.

 

Another thing to note is the remarkable likeness between the object from this photo and another seen in a fresco from 1350. The objects from both images show similar characteristics, while at the same time fitting the description of present days ET crafts and some UFOs

 

 

Could there be indeed a link between these two appearances? If so, could this connection extend to religion, since both objects appear in a religious and holy environment? Is it possible that extraterrestrials beings were involved (and maybe still are) in religious affairs, thus explaining the miraculous deeds of different saints or prophets throughout history?

 

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21-12-2015 om 16:49 geschreven door peter  

[1937] UFO Descends Over City Hall, Two Brothers Photograph the Craft Before Takeoff

History has many ways of surprising us if we know where to look. However, our attention has to be pointed at the alternative history, at the obscure events which mean nothing to science, but in reality they could change the way we see and understand life in our Solar System and beyond.

 

In 1937, Leonard Lamoureaux, age 21 was on leave from the army when he decided to visit Vancouver City Hall in order to take a few photos of the brilliant Christmas light display. Accompanying him was his brother Wilfred.

 

After they found a good spot to take the photos, a sudden “bright blue light” descending from the sky puzzled them both. It became larger and larger as it zoomed into their line of sight, and after a while the two brothers managed to see the source from where all this bright light was coming.

 

 

Leonardo depicted the bizarre sighting as “two saucers” with open ends, facing each other and glowing bright blue. After the UFO got quite close to the city hall, it started to slowly move horizontally across the sky until it reached the top of the flagpole. From there, the luminous craft hovered for a moment in front of the two astounded brothers, and fortunately that was enough for Leonardo to immortalize the moment using his camera.

 

After that brief moment, the bright UFO took off rapidly without making any specific engine sound, as the two described. They were shocked because of what they’ve seen, and couldn’t explain what actually happened there.

 

We’ve never seen anything fly so fast.

 

Even though Leonard Lamoureux and his bother Wilfred passed away some time ago, their unique UFO episode still lives on through Leonard’s daughter, Debra DeCamillis who still resides in the Vancouver Lower Mainland area.

 

The negative has been lost due to the passing of time, thus leading some skeptics into believing that what the picture reveals is nothing more than a watermark defect caused by the development of the print. However, Leonard’s daughter contradicts the nonbelievers by telling about her father who seemed so excited every time he told others about this peculiar event. Debra also stated that:

 

I know for a fact there was no bubbles on the film, or watermarks because I was fascinated by negatives as a child and saw that negative many times. On the rest of the pictures there was nothing but pictures of lights, so I know it had no bubbles or watermarks on it.

 

 

She provided additional details regarding this UFO encounter, all the information originating from her father’s tales and analysis of the event:

 

The camera was on a tri-pod of sorts because Dad was trying to take sequential shots of the courthouse to capture all the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure, his camera was not sophisticated enough. He did say that he could actually see the bubble or tail as he called it that the object was encapsulated in.

 

The detailed description of the event along with the disputed picture offers amazing proof of the UFO phenomenon seen almost one hundred years ago in a time when CGI and Photoshop were nothing but faint idea.

 

Another thing to note is the remarkable likeness between the object from this photo and another seen in a fresco from 1350. The objects from both images show similar characteristics, while at the same time fitting the description of present days ET crafts and some UFOs

 

 

Could there be indeed a link between these two appearances? If so, could this connection extend to religion, since both objects appear in a religious and holy environment? Is it possible that extraterrestrials beings were involved (and maybe still are) in religious affairs, thus explaining the miraculous deeds of different saints or prophets throughout history?

 

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21-12-2015 om 16:48 geschreven door peter  

FIRST CONTACT WITH EXTRATERRESTIALS WOULD HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON THE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE OF PUNY HUMANS

If we were to discover an alien civilisation in the far-reaches of space, it would have little impact on humanity and our day-to-day life, a Seti scientist has said. John W Traphagan, a trustee at Seti International and professor of religious studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, posed the question of what would happen if we did find an alien megastructure around the star KIC 8462852.

The idea of this megastructure came about because KIC 8462852 showed extremely unusual patterns of dimming – with something cutting out over 20% of its light. The biggest planets in our solar system would only block out around 1-2%, in comparison. This led some to speculate an advanced alien civilisation had built a huge structure around the star to harness its energy – a theory first proposed by theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson decades ago.

Since then, researchers have found no evidence of such a structure and Nasa has said it is probably comets. Nevertheless, Traphagan asked what would happen on Earth if they had finally found evidence of alien life.

In a blog for Seti International, he said the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be "one of the biggest discoveries in human history", but it would probably not change humanity – at least in the short term. Traphagan said that for scientists, it would be tremendously exciting, while "religious zealots", who believe we are somehow special "because god made us", would likely claim the data was incorrect.

"Then there's everyone else," he said. "Will impoverished people in Haiti or Africa be changed by this? Will those billions who simply struggle to get from one day to the next care about the fact that we are not alone in the universe? ... I'm not so sure. In fact, while discovery of an alien civilisation may, in the very long run, have a significant influence on humanity, in the short run I doubt it will have much impact at all."

Traphagan said for most people, the discovery of alien life would not matter a great deal because this knowledge would have little impact on their lives. He said: "[The] discovery of ET may represent little more than a brief, intriguing blip on the radar as they build careers, raise families, and look at their smartphones ( via ibtimes.co.uk ).

"The fact is that as important discovery of ET may be in the abstract, at the concrete level of daily life, learning that another civilisation exists/existed 1,400 light years away from us doesn't necessarily mean much to many of Earth's inhabitants. It's interesting, but it may not be very relevant to life on a very self-absorbed world.

" He concludes by saying that regardless of if and when we find alien life, just considering the possibility it is there could help to make people a little less focused on themselves. Traphagan added: "Maybe thinking about others out there might get some to think more about others right here on Earth."

MORE: Humans could contact aliens within 12 years, says UFO expert

MORE: Federal agencies differ on potential impact, timing of solar flare 

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21-12-2015 om 16:36 geschreven door peter  

Britain's Roswell: the truth behind the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident

Did an extra-terrestrial craft land in a Suffolk forest during the winter of 1980? The maker of a new film, The Rendlesham UFO Incident, believes so

The truth is out there? The Rendlesham UFO incident is the subject of a new film Photo: Eyevine

By Rupert Hawksley

Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, the Rendlesham Forest incident, which took place over a series of nights in December 1980, continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists. It is easy to understand why. Consider the following three statements, for example:

1) “This was not some vague ‘lights in the sky’ sighting – the UFO actually landed.” – Nick Pope, a Ministry of Defence employee from 1985 to 2006.

2) “When I arrived [at the scene], it was going in and out through the trees and at one stage it was hovering.” – Sgt. Adrian Bustinza, a security police commander who investigated the incident at the time.

3) “Okay, we’re looking at the thing; we’re probably about two to three hundred yards away. It looks like an eye winking at you... And the flash is so bright to the starscope that it almost burns your eye.” – Taken from the Halt tape, recorded on December 27 1980 by United States Air Force lieutenant colonel Charles Halt.

Only last month, a dog walker uploaded fresh footage of unidentified lights in the sky above Rendlesham Forest, while a new film on the subject, produced by long-time Suffolk resident and Rendlesham Forest incident expert Daniel Simpson, has recently been released. There is even an official UFO trail for walkers to follow through Rendlesham Forest. But what actually happened? And, 35 years after the event, are we any closer to unravelling the mystery?

^{The start of the Rendlesham Forest UFO trail}

As the years have passed, the facts have become increasingly hazy, as statements change and new witnesses come forward. But what we do know for sure is that, in the early hours of December 26 1980, US military personnel (sections of the US Air Force were temporarily stationed at RAF bases in Woodbridge and Bentwaters) spotted strange lights above Rendlesham Forest.

One of these men, John Burroughs, accompanied by his supervisor and one other individual, went to investigate the blue, red, orange and white lights. In his subsequent witness statement, published in 1981, Burroughs explains: “As we went down the east-gate road and the road that leads into the forest, the lights were moving back and they appeared to stop in a bunch of trees... Also, the woods lit up and you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises, and there was a lot of movement in the woods. All three of us hit the ground and whatever it was started moving back towards the open field… We got up to a fence that separated the trees from the open field. You could see the lights down by a farmer’s house. We climbed over the fence and started walking toward the red and blue lights and they just disappeared.”

Jim Penniston, who accompanied Burroughs into Rendlesham Forest on December 26, claims to have encountered a craft, covered in hieroglyphic-like characters. “I estimated it to be about three metres tall and about three metres wide at the base,” Penniston later explained. “No landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like she was on fixed legs. I moved a little closer. I had already taken all 36 pictures on my roll of film. I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”

Burroughs does not recall this. Indentations on the forest floor, as well as damage to the trees in the area where the lights had been spotted, were found the following morning, however. Radiation levels recorded at the site of the indentations were also unusually high.

In the book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, which was published last year, Penniston writes: “I left the forest a different man… I was in awe of the technology and yes, a knowing that it was not an aircraft which could have been manufactured in 1980 or even now.” Both Penniston and Burroughs have since suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Two nights later, a different set of military personnel experienced a similar series of events. On this occasion, when the lights were spotted, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt was prepared. A pragmatic character, Halt intended to disprove the wild rumours swirling around RAF bases Woodbridge and Bentwaters. Arming himself with a recording device, he set out to investigate. The subsequent audio tape is now considered one of the most valuable pieces of evidence in the Rendlesham Forest incident.

The transcript of the tape runs to some 18 minutes but includes statements from Halt such as: “I see it too... it’s back again... it’s coming this way... there’s no doubt about it... this is weird... it looks like an eye winking at you... it almost burns your eyes... he’s coming toward us now... now we’re observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground... one object still hovering over Woodbridge base... beaming down”. Halt has since given interviews in which he claims that these occurrences were picked up by British radar. “I didn’t know this until recently,” he told AOL News. “Because people have come forward after they’ve retired. There were two radar confirmations.”

The following night, December 28, one final group of men claim to have encountered something out of the ordinary in Rendlesham Forest. Larry Warren, an 18-year-old soldier who was not even at either RAF base on the night of the first incident, was sent out on patrol with Sgt Adrian Bustinza and a number of other military personnel. Sometime after 11pm, the men departed their trucks and headed towards the field where lights had been seen on the previous two nights.

There, Warren claims to have seen “disaster preparedness officers out here with geiger counters, going in an almost half-clockwise motion around this thing on the ground.” A small red light was then seen approaching from the direction of the coast. “It moved in a downward arc, so fast. [It] stopped and hovered about 20 feet off the ground,” said Warren. “It was the size of a basketball, [an] American basketball. [It was] self-illuminated, not quite red, yet that’s the closest I can describe it.”

Things were about to get even stranger, though. This red light suddenly exploded and a craft appeared on the forest floor. According to Warren, it had “no windows, no markings, no flag or country of origin. Nothing. You could hardly look at it head on, and if you looked at it through the side of your peripheral vision you’d get a shape of it… and there it was, clear as a bell.”

_{A 1983 News of the World headline about Rendlesham sightings (Ian Ridpath/NoW)}

At this stage, Warren and Bustinza were asked to retreat by a senior man. From a distance, they then claim to have witnessed Wing Commander Gordon Williams approach the craft and encounter some alien being with “what looked like eyes, facial features, bright clothing and some other device.” Warren is clear that a “silent stand-off”, rather than any communication, took place.

At around 4.30am, Warren returned to his base but Bustinza claims to have seen the craft depart. “When it took off, it was, like, hovering. It went up and, like, took off at about a forty-five-degree angle, and if you would have blinked, you would have missed it… And we got a cold draft of air that lasted about a good ten seconds. You know, like when you get a good blow of dust or wind. No noise though; I do remember that.”

It is understood that almost half of all UFO correspondence directed at the Ministry of Defence relates to the Rendlesham Forest incident. Despite claims of a cover-up, the MoD’s stance has never wavered. It states: “No evidence was found of any threat to the defence of the United Kingdom, and no further investigations were carried out. No further information has come to light which alters our view that the sightings of these lights was of no defence significance.”

Daniel Simpson takes a different view, however. The director of The Rendlesham UFO Incident, a fictionalised account of the story set in the modern day and filmed on location in Rendlesham Forest, is convinced that either there has been a military cover-up or that something extra-terrestrial occurred in December 1980. And moreover, he believes he has uncovered further evidence to prove it. While filming in Rendlesham Forest – “It does have a very strong atmosphere of something strange” – he asked the Forestry Commission to investigate a series of hatches, which Simpson describes as “mysterious”.

“I got the Forestry Commission to tow one of those hatches off with a four wheel drive and there’s a ladder going down,” he explains, as we discuss his film. “Now, they will tell you that those are drainage systems for the airfield but it’s a very elaborate drainage system.”

_{A drawing from Jim Penniston's original witness statement}

Simpson believes that “the twin bases [RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters] are connected by tunnels underneath, which isn’t that far out a thing to suggest, because a lot of these bases do have an underground facility, especially as it’s a nuclear facility. You don’t keep nuclear weapons on ground level, they have to drop down.”

He continues: “I recently heard a very interesting story of a guy that went up to the Bentwaters air base and, because it’s privately owned, some of those buildings are rented out to people. A company up there wanted to have their internet sorted out and this guy dug down and – he was a telecom guy – he came back and he was sheet white. He couldn’t believe it. He said he’d just come across these cables, two foot down, and they were cables delivering such a powerful internet connection – but they were cables from 1980. I haven’t ever told anyone that story. They [the cables] were from 1980 and yet they were so in advance of what we’ve even got now. I’m told that all the time what we get [technologically] is much behind what they [the military] actually know.”

So what, I wonder, is the truth? Simpson appears conflicted about whether this is a military cover-up at a nuclear facility or something even more alarming. “I honestly believe something very strange went on there and I believe that somewhere is the evidence to prove it but that’s hidden away. I think it’s an extra-terrestrial encounter. I do.”

I put a series of theories to Simpson, which I hope might explain away the idea that extra-terrestrial life landed in a forest in Suffolk 35 years ago. But he bats them all away. Could the lights have come from nearby Orford Ness lighthouse, for example? “The lighthouse theory is rubbish,” he scoffs. “Lighthouses don’t fly down into forests, split up into five different lights and zap off into space at Mach-3. They don’t move through the trees and get mistaken by up to 20 witnesses from the United States Air Force.”

^{Daniel Simpson's film, The Rendlesham UFO Incident, was shot on location in Rendlesham Forest}

The Rendlesham UFO Incident is out now on DVD

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21-12-2015 om 16:23 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers Excited Over Possible Alien Signals From Space

21-12-2015 om 16:11 geschreven door peter  

‘Extraterrestrials’ force Spanish pilot to land

‘Extraterrestrials’ force Spanish pilot to land

November 14, 1979: ‘Whatever the objects were, they were certainly interested in my piece of metal,’ the pilot said

A Spanish Caravelle jet aircraft on a charter flight from Salzburg to the Canary Islands was forced to make an emergency landing in Valencia because, the pilot claims, it was buzzed by UFOs.

This story was confirmed yesterday by the pilot of the plane, Captain Javier Lerdo Tejada, in Arrecife, the capital of the Canary Island of Lanzarote. “What I saw,” he said, “was an unidentified flying object.”

The aircraft, belonging to the Spanish charter company TAE, was flying 109 German and Austrian tourists to Tenerife, with a refuelling stop at Palma, Majorca, when Captain Tejada saw the object. The passengers were told that the emergency landing was due to a fault.

“I have never known such danger,” Captain Tejada said yesterday. “Whatever the objects were, they were certainly interested in my piece of metal. I saw two very strong red lights. I had never seen anything like it before. They moved very fast and kept together both vertically and horizontally and came closer. They were with my plane for 10 minutes or more.

“I first saw them when they were at 23,000ft. They appeared to be 15 miles away. At 28,000ft they were half a mile away and at 29,000ft they were on top of me on a collision course.

“Earlier, I had ordered passengers to fasten their seat belts and had turned on landing lights as a precaution. I radioed Barcelona control but they could see nothing on their scanner. Then I radioed the Air Force in Madrid, which is part of Spain’s early warning system and uses more sophisticated equipment. They picked up the objects when they were very close to me.

“I then took emergency procedure, turning sharply away from them. The objects were then clearly spotted by Madrid. The objects followed me down, 12,000ft in 30 seconds. I have never heard of a plane capable of doing that. When I was 30 miles outside Valencia they disappeared.

“A Mirage interceptor was sent up from the air base at Albacete. What the Mirage saw is a military secret but I spoke to the pilot later and he confirmed what I had seen.”

Captain Tejada is an experienced pilot. He served with the Spanish Air Force for six years, and has been a commercial pilot for the past nine years.

 The Guardian

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21-12-2015 om 16:03 geschreven door peter  

UFO Consumed by Strange Vortex over CERN

A very peculiar phenomenon was recorded by a group of US tourists who were visiting an area near CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

 

Located in Geneva, Switzerland, the renowned CERN is a research organization that operates the largest particle accelerators in the world. The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light, and through that scientists want to discover what the universe is made of and where did all life begin.

 

As fancy and promising as this sounds, the results might surprise even the scientists at CERN, and as some skeptics claim, the resulting experiments might be catastrophic for all humanity. It appears that so far, the CERN facility is attracting UFOs and who knows what else. The video below shows how a peculiar vortex is present over the sky, until an unexpected guest gets sucked into it and the whirlwind suddenly dissipates.

 

 

At first, the vortex has a considerable size, but as it vacuums the matter of the clouds found nearby, it compresses considerably until it disappears. If you look closely, a strange ball of light enters the scene from the bottom right of the video. It strongly resembles to the orb UFOs seen so many times lately.

 

After the UFO gets to the center of the vortex, everything return to normal; even the wind stops howling. So what could this strange phenomenon be? Is it part of the CERN experiments? Or maybe a side effect of those?

 

 

To understand the complex experiments undergoing at CERN, one has to understand that they’re responsible for the discovery of the “god particle” – a particle that binds together the universe as we know it, and as Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of CERN stated:

 

We have made the discovery of a new particle – a completely new particle – which is most probably very different from all the other particles. It’s nearly a once in a lifetime experience, I would say.

 

However, after such a promising start, scientists engaged into even more daring projects. So, on September 23, 2015, CERN has gradually increased the number of collisions, while remaining at the same energy level. Even more, they are now running tests with lead ions instead of protons, in the hope of achieving exclusive results for science.

 

Even though many people expressed their concerns about the power-increase in CERN’s experiments (and the fears are real since we’re talking about nuclear energy and more), officials of the facility reassured everyone that the situation is under control. However, only a few months after the beginning of this, strange appearances like the one seen above have begun to surface. Should we fear for what CERN might discover in the near future?

 

Whatever may happen, we are too small to make a difference and influence the decisions of renowned scientists working here in Geneva, but at least we can spread the word and show what is happening there. Assuming the vortex sucking up a orb UFO was indeed an authentic phenomenon and not the work of CGI, our assumptions that CERN is into something big this time might prove to be real.

 

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21-12-2015 om 14:30 geschreven door peter  

21-12-2015 om 14:24 geschreven door peter  

Is Our Universe a Fake?

21-12-2015 om 14:17 geschreven door peter  

The real color of the red planet: Is Mars really red?

Remember a couple of months ago, that super-viralized controversial question about the infamous dress? While some people saw it as being golden and white there are others who saw it as being blue and black.

The same question could be asked about Mars… What is the true color of the red planet… and is ti really red, or is it possible that mars is actually… very similar to Earth? Is it possible that Mars is very similar to Earth? Today we know that the red planet has liquid water flowing on its surface, we also know that there are anomalous traces of methane registered by NASA’s rovers on Mars, and not long ago we learnt that in the distant past, Mars had an atmosphere very similar to that of Earth.

Just as with the dress which managed to divide the world into two groups, the color of Mars has created immense debate among scientists and astronomers. It might turn out to be that the red planet isn’t so red after all, since researchers have failed to reach an agreement on the true color of Mars.

NASA has recognized that the color photos of the Martian surface are largely an “artistic” vision, and not as representative of the true colors of the surface, due to unique scientific analysis.

Certainly the images obtained on the planet are a mosaic of various pieces of landscape that could be taken at different times and in different weather conditions.

Furthermore, the cameras used for photographing Mars snapped the same image three times using different filters recreating a color balanced image. Subsequently, the information must travel a distance of about 200 million kilometers to reach the screens of astronomers, scientists and researchers.

This is why, the photos beamed back by different rovers reflect a Martian surface with a variety of changing tone colors. For example, photographs taken in 1976 show a blue sky due to special adjustment of the balance between white colors which made Mars look very much like the surface of Earth.

Many people believe that NASA is actually hiding a lot of information on Mars. Numerous ufologists suggest that NASA has intentionally altered the images from Mars to make it look like a desolate and lifeless planet while the truth is very different from what NASA and other space agencies are telling us.

One of the last photographs of the Martian surface by the Curiosity, reveals an apparent blueish-grey surface. While astronomers have proposed several explanations for the phenomenon, the fact is that no one yet knows for sure what color the planet Mars.

The red planet might not be so red after all, and we might just prove that Mars is actually very similar to Earth, or at least was in the distant past.

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21-12-2015 om 14:09 geschreven door peter  

Shadowy UFO Captured on Tape, then Reported in Different States (VIDEO)

This mysterious flying object was first caught on video as it slowly departed by a father and son who were filming the sunset near the border between Kentucky and Ohio on the 24th of October.

 

Soon after they posted the footage online, the video became viral and the UFO community started debating what the aircraft is and where it might come from. Its triangular or rather butterfly shape led many to believe it’s a military Stealth aircraft, but those have been antique pieces for some time now and being held in museums.

 

Few claim it’s just a commercial airliner and tech experts say it’s definitely a home-made drone, but the size makes anybody question that theory. Even the people who agree it’s a drone say it was engineered after previously found alien craft.

 

As the debate raged on, reports of identical sightings started coming in from all over the country. Keith Hart, a resident of Atlanta posted this picture, taken before the Ohio father and son tape, and couldn’t hide his amazement: ” I swear, with very little, I mean VERY little adjustment, the sighting in Atlanta a couple days ago, looks identical to the sighting last night in Ohio. I mean crazy similar. Same depth ‘tier’ type ship. Maybe at a slightly different angle, or a slight shape shift which has been mentioned. They stills look very similar!”

 

 

 

Some even claim the same aircraft was visible when astrologists studied the distant planet named Ceres, though we have very little clear evidence to support that possibility. The same butterfly shaped aircraft was spotted in the skies above Phoenix, Arizona and people posted photos of it on twitter. The debate is now centered around weather the aircraft is man or alien made, and few people believe it’s just a hoax.

 

The footage captured near the Kentucky border seems very real and it would take a lot of time for even the most accomplished professional to forge it this good, but, of course, there are skeptics who claim it is fake.

 

 

 

Tyler Glockner, the man operating the YouTube channel where the video was first uploaded, made the following statement:  “The reason I am calling this an alien craft rather than just a UFO… is in the stunning detail, where we can see the true structural characteristics of this ship. And guys you take a look and tell me with a straight face this has anything to do with humans. The features on this thing don’t make any sense.”

 

Mainstream media has failed to approach this story, which leads us to believe governing forces wish it to be overlooked. The aircraft is not similar to any official commercial or military model, from any country, so it could also be prototype being tested or a man-made spaceship built in complete secrecy.

 

It’s doubtful this is the last we’ll hear on the matter, as reports of sightings and pictures continue to surface from different parts of the US. We’ll keep you updated.

 

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21-12-2015 om 13:55 geschreven door peter  

Crashed UFO Discovered on the Surface of Mars (VIDEO)

Over a couple of years, Curiosity rover has gathered countless pictures from the surface of the Red Planet, many of them resembling to lost relics from a former Martian civilization.

 

We now know that water once flowed over this now-desolated wasteland, therefore the conditions for supporting life had been ideal.

 

The data received from Curiosity rover indicates that life on Mars might have ended sooner than some scientists believed.

 

This picture captured by Curiosity caused quite a stir among viewers, as it reveals what seems to be a flying saucer, crashed into the rocky terrain of the Red Planet.

 

 

While some people saw nothing more than a strangely shaped rock, others considered it to look like an artificially-made device of some sort, cleverly resembling to a flying machine used by extraterrestrials.

 

By looking at the terrain on which the object stands, we noticed that the nearby stones are nothing like it, and there is no similar structure around it.

 

Is it possible that Curiosity rover photographed a relatively new UFO crash site?

 

With a hemispheric form below the flat, central disk and a similar, narrow dome on top, it fits the classic appearance of a UFO.

 

In addition to the classic features, the surface of the central disk is smooth and seems to slightly reflect light.

 

Even though the object is covered with a dense layer of dust from the surface of Mars, it looks rather undamaged , ending there as a result of a forced landing instead of a crash.

 

 

 

UFO supporters have claimed that it’s unlikely that the object was formed due to natural phenomenon which occurred on Mars, because it looks distinct and is also the first and only one of its kind.

 

There are also skeptics saying that it is most likely a rock with classic UFO features formed along the course of many years, which happens to look like an earthen concept of a flying spaceship, and that people see whatever they want in images such as this.

 

Whatever the truth might be, this photo shares some evidence regarding the supposition of life being found on Mars or even more, an advanced species that has once dwelt here.

 

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21-12-2015 om 13:36 geschreven door peter  

When UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena Clash

On more than a few occasions I’ve been asked why – for the most part – I don’t take a mainstream “nuts and bolts” approach to the UFO phenomenon. Well, it’s true: I don’t. The reason being that I see clear cross-overs between certain Ufological events and multiple other paranormal phenomena. Take, for example, the more than a few reports on record of Bigfoot seen at the same time and place as strange lights in the sky. Or, the parallels between alien abduction encounters and reports of incubus- and succubus-style activity. Then there’s the matter of UFOs and synchronicities. As I see it, we’re dealing with something far stranger than an extraterrestrial equivalent of NASA. A perfect example of all this is a case from 1980. It’s one that has been hailed as a UFO classic (and in many respects it is). But, when we look deeper, we find it’s steeped in high-strangeness; much of which takes it far away from Ufology.

Back in November 1980, a then-serving English policeman named Alan Godfrey had a profound UFO encounter in Todmorden, Yorkshire – a pleasant locale that has its origins in the 17th century. Godfrey’s encounter came just five months after he was involved in the investigation of a curious death in town. The victim was a man named Zigmund Adamski. As most people will know, the not exactly common name of Adamski is a very famous one in Ufology. It was just one of those strange synchronicities that proliferate when the UFO phenomenon looms large.

Alan Godfrey

As for Godfrey’s UFO encounter, it occurred undercover of darkness, in the pre-dawn morning of November 29, 1980, while he was out on patrol in his police-car. As he drove along one particular stretch of road, Godfrey was amazed by the sight of what he first thought was a bus positioned oddly in the road. As Godfrey got closer, however, he could see it was something else entirely. It was actually nothing less than a somewhat egg-shaped UFO.

There then followed an experience that contained certain, key elements of the UFO phenomenon, such as missing-time, and recollections of being taken on-board a craft. However, the entity Godfrey was confronted by on the craft was not the typical black-eyed, dwarfish “Gray.” Rather, it was a human-looking figure dressed in a long gown and sporting a beard. In that sense, there was more of a “Contactee”-style component to the incident. But, there was even more to the affair, too. And this is where things become intertwined with matters of the paranormal kind.

While undergoing hypnotic regression, Godfrey said that also aboard the UFO was a large black dog. This was not the first encounter Godfrey had with an anomalous hound. Years earlier, he had seen a ghostly Labrador. There was also an odd occasion – in the 1960s, and near Todmorden – when what seemed to be a woman with a large black dog stepped out in front of Godfrey’s vehicle, causing him to slam the brakes on. Both the woman and the dog vanished. It just so happens that Todmorden has in its midst centuries-old legends of what are known as the “Gabriel Hounds.” They are akin to the UK’s wider, ancient, phenomenon of so-called “Phantom Black Dogs” of the kind that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to pen the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Todmorden is also home to Blackheath Barrow, a Bronze Age site at which, legend suggests, the long-dead sometimes show themselves. Missing time, weird balls of light, and strange and dwarfish entities have been reported from within Blackheath Barrow. So, what we have is a man who, in November 1980, had a profound UFO encounter in a fairly small town that has been steeped in weirdness for centuries. That Alan Godfrey recalled – under hypnosis – seeing a large black dog aboard the UFO, and in a town that has a phantom-hound tradition attached to it, is intriguing.

For me, at least, all of this suggests that whatever the truth of the UFO phenomenon, it’s far stranger than anything of that aforementioned “nuts and bolts” nature.

 TAGS: Alan Godfrey, Phantom Black Dog, ufo

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21-12-2015 om 13:28 geschreven door peter