NASA reveals the robotic ICEBOTS set to tunnel through the icy surface of Europa to hunt for alien life in its underground oceans

• NASA unveiled a team of robots that could make the trip to Europa in 10-15 years
• Robots were designed to withstand cryogenic temperatures and rugged terrain
• One can burrow miles into icy ground and another is a folding robotic arm
• Another can remove ice pieces and the last one can gather samples 164ft away 

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

Because Jupiter's moon, Europa, has oceans lying beneath its surface, it said to be one of the most likely places in the solar system for life to thrive – researchers just have to burrow through miles of ice to find out.

Now, NASA has unveiled a team of robotic prototypes equip with special tools to penetrate the frozen terrain and search for signs of living microbes.

The squad of 'icebots' includes a machine that tunnels through the icy surface, a folding boom arm, an ice gripping claw and a projectile launcher capable of grabbing samples up to 164 feet away.

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The team of 'icebots' includes a machine that tunnels through the icy surface, a folding boom arm, an ice gripping claw (pictured) and a projectile launcher capable of grabbing samples up to 164 feet away

Since 2015, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has been developing new technologies for use on future missions to ocean worlds.

The new prototypes were created as part of the Ocean World's Mobility and Sensing study, a research project funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington.

And each of the technologies are specifically designed to gather samples from and below the surface of an icy moon.

'In the future, we want to answer the question of whether there's life on the moons of the outer planets - on Europa, Enceladus and Titan,' said Tom Cwik, who leads JPL's Space Technology Program.

'We're working with NASA Headquarters to identify the specific systems we need to build now, so that in 10 or 15 years, they could be ready for a spacecraft.'

The team has conducted extensive research to understand the harsh elements these robotic helpers would face millions of miles away.

This includes temperate reaching hundreds of degrees below freezing and rovers crossing icy terrain that behaves like sand.

'Robotic systems would face cryogenic temperatures and rugged terrain and have to meet strict planetary protection requirements,' said Hari Nayar, who leads the robotics group that oversaw the research.

'One of the most exciting places we can go is deep into subsurface oceans - but doing so requires new technologies that don't exist yet.'

Now, NASA believes they are headed in the right direction with their latest set of robotic tools, which could one day make their way to Europa.

Brian Wilcox, an engineering fellow at JPL, designed a prototype inspired by so-called 'melt probes' used here on Earth - which the  team calls, ice gripping claw 

These probes have been used to melt through snow and ice to explore subsurface regions since the late 1960s.

However, the machine's downfall is that it does not use heat efficiently.

Europa's crust could be 6.2 miles deep or it could be 12.4 miles deep (10 to 20 kilometers) and if a probe doesn't manage its energy, it would have to cool down until it stopped frozen in the ice.

Brian Wilcox, an engineering fellow at JPL, designed a prototype inspired by so-called 'melt probes' used here on Earth - which the team calls, ice gripping claw These probes have been used to melt through snow and ice to explore subsurface regions since the late 1960s

The robot would toss the pieces off ice back onto its body, where they would be melted by the plutonium and pumped out behind it. Removing blocks of ice would ensure the probe drills at a steady pace through the ice without being blocked 

But Wilcox believes he has solved the issue with a capsule insulated by vacuum - the same way a thermos bottle is insulated.

Instead of radiating heat outwards, it would retain energy from a chunk of heat-source plutonium as the probe sinks into the ice.

He suggested adding a rotating saw blade on the bottom of the probe, which would slowly turn and cut through the ice.

The robot would toss the pieces off ice back onto its body, where they would be melted by the plutonium and pumped out behind it.

Removing blocks of ice would ensure the probe drills at a steady pace through the ice without being blocked.

After deployment from a boom arm or a projectile launcher, the claw could anchor itself using heated prongs that melt into the ice and secure its grip. This ensures that a drill's bit is able to penetrate and collect a sample 

The ice water could also be sampled and sent through a spool of aluminum tubing to a lander on the surface.

And once there, the water samples could be checked for biosignatures.

'We think there are glacier-like ice flows deep within Europa's frozen crust,' Wilcox said.

'Those flows churn up material from the ocean down below.' 

'As this probe tunnels into the crust, it could be sampling waters that may contain biosignatures, if any exist.'

Researchers also looked at the use of robotic arms, which are essential for reaching samples from landers or rovers.

For targets that are even farther away, a projectile launcher (pictured)  was developed that can fire a sampling mechanism up 164 feet (50 meters). Both the arm and the launcher could be used in conjunction with an ice-gripping claw

On Mars, NASA's landers have never extended beyond 6.5 to 8 feet (2 to 2.5 meters) from their base.

And for a longer reach, you need to build a longer arm.

However, the JPL team though of using a folding boom arm, which when unfolded, extends almost 33 feet (10 meters).

For targets that are even farther away, a projectile launcher was developed that can fire a sampling mechanism up 164 feet (50 meters).

Both the arm and the launcher could be used in conjunction with an ice-gripping claw.

JUPITER'S ICY MOON EUROPA 

Jupiter's icy moon Europa is slightly smaller than Earth's moon.

 Europa orbits Jupiter every 3.5 days and is tidally locked - just like Earth's Moon - so that the same side of Europa faces Jupiter at all times. 

Unlike on Earth, Europas ocean is deep enough to cover the whole surface and being far from the sun, the ocean surface is globally frozen over

It is thought to have an iron core, a rocky mantle and a surface ocean of salty water, like Earth. 

Unlike on Earth, however, this ocean is deep enough to cover the whole surface of Europa, and being far from the sun, the ocean surface is globally frozen over. 

Many experts believe the hidden ocean surrounding Europa, warmed by powerful tidal forces caused by Jupiter's gravity, may have conditions favorable for life.

This claw could someday have a coring drill attached to it and if scientists want pristine samples, they'll need to bore through up to eight inches (about 20 centimeters) of Europa's surface ice - which is thought to shield complex molecules from Jupiter's radiation.

After deployment from a boom arm or a projectile launcher, the claw could anchor itself using heated prongs that melt into the ice and secure its grip.

This ensures that a drill's bit is able to penetrate and collect a sample.

This coming July will mark a 20-year legacy of NASA rovers traveling across Martian desert.

Researchers found that granular ice in cryogenic and vacuum conditions behaves more like sand dunes, with loose grains that wheels can sink into. JPL researchers turned to designs first proposed for crawling across the moon's surface

And although it would see the agency has gained the experience in designing rovers for missions, building one for an icy moon is different from any others before.

Places like Saturn's moon Enceladus have fissures that blow out jets of gas and icy material from below the surface. 

They'd be prime science targets, but the material around them is likely to be different than ice on Earth.

Instead, tests have found that granular ice in cryogenic and vacuum conditions behaves more like sand dunes, with loose grains that wheels can sink into. 

JPL researchers turned to designs first proposed for crawling across the moon's surface. 

They tested lightweight commercial wheels fixed to a rocker bogey suspension system that has been used on a number of JPL-led missions.

Each of these prototypes and the experiments conducted with them were just starting points. 

With the ocean worlds study complete, researchers will now consider whether these inventions can be further refined. 

A second phase of development is being considered by NASA. 

Those efforts could eventually produce the technologies that might fly on future missions to the outer solar system. 

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01-04-2017 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

British witness videotapes UFOs over Gosport

A Great Britain witness at Gosport reported watching and videotaping three lights that at times formed a triangle low in the sky and made random movements before all disappearing from view, according to testimony in Case 81450 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Object image created from witness video.

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The witness stepped outside at 10:50 p.m. on January 9, 2017, to dispose of rubbish bags in his work as a cleaner.

“I noticed three green lights at around a 30-degree angle northwest of my position,” the witness stated.“Distance and height were too difficult to estimate from my position, but after checking on Google maps there are mostly only fields in that direction. The postcode I observed from was PO13 0HR.”

The witness described the lights.

“The lights were evenly spaced in a large triangle formation with one more forward than the others when I first noticed them. They then all turned purple and started to move. You can observe in the video how they moved. I had full zoom using a phone camera so quality isn’t great, but they were all bright purple in color and didn’t change again. They seemed to move in a random manor, moving side-to-side and up and down very quickly and turning very sharply. They would pass each other to swap sides, sometimes coming back to form triangles for a few seconds before moving again.”

Object image created from witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness stated that several times it looked as though one moved into another and became one light before breaking apart again.

“They disappeared below the houses several times so that I couldn’t see from my position what they were doing until the final time when I waited several minutes before giving up that they wouldn’t appear again. So whatever it was possibly landed because they didn’t appear above the houses again.”

The witness went back inside the building onto the second level to view from a higher angle and could see one light again just above the house, but it quickly disappeared downwards.

“That was the last I saw of them. They never went higher than the initial height I observed them at. There were no other aircraft I noticed in the area, although there is a small airfield behind my position. The weather was dry (although rain earlier in the day), the sky seemed clear, stars were visible overhead but none visible at the angle/height of these lights, presumably because of light pollution. When I left where I was 30 minutes later, the sky around the area where the lights were was a hazy red color. The rest of the sky in the surrounding area was black, but this area specifically was a different color. I thought this might be some kind of heavy light pollution in that direction, but according to Google maps, there are mostly just fields there, nothing that would give off unusual light pollution.”

Object image created from witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

Gosport is a town and borough on the coast of Hampshire in southern England, population 82,622. Great Britain National Director Jack Turnbull investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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31-03-2017 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ASTRONAUTS RETURNING FROM SPACE. SEE FOR YOURSELF!

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31-03-2017 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

NUCLEAR PHYSICIST WARNS: ALIENS ARE HERE ON EARTH AND WILL TAKE OVER

One of Canada’s top nuclear physicists went on record to admit that aliens are already among us and that they make visits to Earth regularly. Stanton Friedman said that extraterrestrials had visited Earth many times and one day they plan on quarantining people on Earth. 

 

Friedman, 82 years old, said that the government has deliberately been keeping secret evidence of alien visits to Earth, in what he said was part of a truth embargo. The Physicist went on to say that there is enough proof without any shadow of a doubt that Earth is continually being visited by aliens. 

 

Friedman claims that the evidence is being kept from people due to the fact that the world would be in upheaval, as people would find alien visits distressing, and there would be mass panic. He also made it clear that if the aliens wanted people to know they were on Earth, they would. 

 

Part of the proof that Friedman claims are being hidden include CIA files that have been declassified on sightings of UFOs. The physicist believes that aliens want to stop humans colonizing space and he firmly believes that they will quarantine people on Earth to stop humans from venturing out into space. 

 

Friedman said that the track record of humans isn’t good; people are evil and said that the government is taking full advantage of the aliens being on Earth so that they can harness their technology, with the aim of achieving world supremacy. It is the belief of Friedman that the first country able to copy alien technology will be able to rule Earth. 

 

 

He also pointed out that there was a political aspect to the government keeping aliens on Earth a secret, as the US government would not want to put anything out there if the Chinese or Russians don’t. 

 

Friedman has in the past written extensive documentation on aliens and UFOs, and he said the secrecy was the Cosmic Watergate, which of course was about the cover-up scandal of President Nixon, during the 70s. The physicist tours the world giving talks at conferences and universities about his beliefs, but it seems that there are many skeptics out there who he hasn’t been able to convince. 

 

 

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31-03-2017 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious ‘underwater wall’ that encompasses the entire planet found on Google Earth

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31-03-2017 om 23:24 geschreven door peter  

THE ROSWELL ROCK: THE KEY TO ANOTHER DIMENSION?

Finding a rock isn't something unusual. We see them all the time, yes some can be beautiful and maybe worth collecting. Some may hold secrets of past life by having fossils found within. But this particular rock which was discovered near one of the two legendary alien crash sites in Roswell, New Mexico is like no other rock ever found before. 

 

The rock which was found by a 56-year-old man by the name of Robert L. Ridge back in 2004 seems to be truly a unique find. According to Mr. Ridge, he discovered the rock while out bow collecting and just happened to catch his eye, with good reason. Although completely covered in dirt at the time there was still something strange about the object that caught his interest. When he took the rock home to be cleaned, he found that it was even more of a mystery than he first thought. 

 

The rock was perfectly smooth and rounded, but this was just the beginning of what was different about it. Turns out that this rock also mysterious symbols on it. The only way to describe the symbols on the rock were that these seem to resemble the unexplained crop circles that have also appeared on the earth with no given explanation. The symbols on the rock were like two crescent moons that were joined in the center corners. 

 

 

Given the proximity of the rock to one of the notorious Roswell alien crash sites could it be something that was carried on one of the space crafts? According to Mr. Ridge, the look of the rock makes it almost seem impossible that such an object could have an origin to the planet earth given it's smooth and perfect edges along with the pattern. Some who have seen this rock believe that it could have been left by the aliens as a message to the earth. It is believed that maybe the aliens were trying to warn the earth of what could be an impending doom. 

 

These, however, are just theories about what the rock cold mean. So far the origins or even the fact that this rock does have any true purpose is still a mystery that is out. Kind of like the famed alien crash sites in Roswell, New Mexico. 

 

 

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31-03-2017 om 23:20 geschreven door peter  

The International Space Station films the Black Knight Satellite in orbit

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31-03-2017 om 23:16 geschreven door peter  

ANUNNAKI: THE 'FORBIDDEN' MOVIE THAT NEVER CAME TO THE CINEMAS, WHY?

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31-03-2017 om 23:11 geschreven door peter  

Proof of Alien contact? Experts unearth Ancient Maya statue depicting an ‘Alien’ humanoid

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31-03-2017 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

4th man to walk on the moon makes surprising claims about Aliens

31-03-2017 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

SpaceX lanceert eerste gerecycleerde raket - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

De lancering van de SpaceX Falcon 9 in Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. © afp.

VIDEO Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX heeft zijn Falcon 9-raket gelanceerd met een gerecycleerde eerste trap. Dat meldt het bedrijf van Tesla-topman Elon Musk. Het gaat om de eerste lancering ooit waarbij een raket gebruikt werd voor twee verschillende missies. Het bedrijf wil door de recuperatie en recyclage van onderdelen de lanceerkosten drukken.

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De draagraket met een telecommunicatiesatelliet van het Luxemburgse bedrijf SES werd gelanceerd vanop de basis in Cape Canaveral om 18.27 uur plaatselijke tijd (23.27 uur Belgische tijd). De eerste trap, die 41 meter hoog is en na 2 minuten en 41 seconden loskomt van de rest van de raket, keerde terug naar de aarde en werd succesvol opgevangen door een platform op zee, dat de naam 'Of Course I Still Love You' kreeg. 

De trap werd eerder al gebruikt in april 2016 voor de lancering van een Dragon-capsule naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS voor een eerste bevoorradingsmissie in het kader van een contract met NASA
  
Tweede lancering
"Ongelooflijk trots op het SpaceX-team om deze mijlpaal in de ruimtevaart te bereiken. Het volgende doel is een tweede lancering in 24 uur", tweette CEO Elon Musk na de lancering, aldus CNN.

SpaceX heeft al veertien pogingen ondernomen om de trap te recupereren, en in negen gevallen lukte dat ook. Volgens algemeen directeur Gwynne Shotwell van SpaceX wil het bedrijf met de recuperatie van de trappen de kosten voor de lancering met 30 procent verminderen. Elke lancering kost ongeveer 62 miljoen dollar (58 miljoen euro).

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31-03-2017 om 22:56 geschreven door peter  

31-03-2017 om 22:32 geschreven door peter  

AUSTRALISCHE ASTRONOMEN VRAGEN HULP AAN PUBLIEK OM ONBEKENDE PLANEET TE VINDEN ( VIDEO )

Op 30 december 1983 verscheen er een artikel in de Washington Post waarin werd gesteld dat er een mysterieus hemellichaam was ontdekt in de richting van het sterrenbeeld Orion. 

Op 30 december 2016 verschijnt er een bericht bij NASA waarin wordt geclaimd dat men de net ontdekte Planet Nine kan vinden in de richting van de sterrenbeelden Orion en Stier. 

Het is niet toevallig dat Planet Nine net wordt ontdekt. Het is uiteraard dezelfde planeet die in 1983 is ontdekt, alleen was toen de tijd nog niet rijp om dit aan het grote publiek bekend te maken. De reden is onder andere dat de elite voldoende tijd nodig had om haar grote ondergrondse schuilplaatsen voor te bereiden. 

Planet Nine is dan ook niets anders dan een voorzichtige bekendmaking van de onbekende planeet Nibiru oftewel Planet X. 

Op 30 januari 1983 verscheen er een artikel in New York Times waarin zij onder andere schreven: 

“Er is iets net buiten de verste regionen van ons zonnestelsel dat schijnt te trekken aan Uranus en Neptunus. Er is een zwaartekracht actief die de twee reuzenplaneten blijft verstoren, waardoor er onregelmatigheden in haar omloopbanen ontstaan. Deze kracht wijst op een aanwezigheid ver weg van een onzichtbaar groot object dat heel goed de lang gezochte Planeet X zou kunnen zijn”. 

Nog geen jaar later, op 30 december 1983, schreef de Washington Post onder andere het volgende: 

“Er is door een ruimtetelescoop van NASA een hemellichaam ontdekt in de richting van het sterrenbeeld Orion, dat mogelijk zo groot is als de enorme planeet Jupiter en dat zich zo dichtbij de aarde bevindt dat het onderdeel is van ons zonnestelsel”. 

Men wist dat er “iets” was, omdat dit was ontdekt door de IRAS infrarood telescoop, maar zoals Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, hoofd van het IRAS onderzoeksteam destijds zei: “Het enige dat ik u kan vertellen is dat wij niet weten wat het is”. 

Een onbekend object, gevonden in de richting van het Orion sterrenbeeld waar vervolgens de eerstvolgende ruim 30 jaar over wordt gezwegen en waar nu ineens in 2016 een Planet Nine wordt ontdekt in de richting van het Orion sterrenbeeld. 

Begint het ergens te dagen?

Natuurlijk is het geen toeval dat deze Planet Nine wordt ontdekt in dezelfde richting als waar men in 1983 Planet X had ontdekt. 

In de loop van 2016 komen er steeds meer verhalen over Planet Nine zoals de vraag op de bekende website Space.com of Planet Nine misschien wel verantwoordelijk is voor het kantelen van de zon. Op Forbes verscheen in dezelfde maand een artikel waarin stond dat Planet Nine wel eens verantwoordelijk zou kunnen zijn voor alle verstoringen in ons zonnestelsel. 

En plots schrijft niemand meer over nepnieuws of aluhoedjes, want dan opeens is het wél echt. 

Enkele dagen geleden verscheen er een oproep van astronomen uit Australië aan het publiek om mee te helpen zoeken naar deze Planet Nine.

Natuurlijk noemen ze deze planeet Planet Nine en niet Nibiru of Planet X, omdat dit een slapende massa teveel wakker zou maken en doen inzien dat ze, op z'n minst, meer dan 30 jaar voor de gek zijn gehouden, terwijl de elite zich bezighield met haar voorbereidingen. 

Naast alle andere verstoringen die optreden in ons zonnestelsel zoals steeds heftigere aardbevingen, meer en grotere vulkaanuitbarstingen en een steeds groter wordende stroom asteroïden, doet zich nog iets bijzonders voor. 

Een mysterieus “iets” zorgt voor een zodanig heftige zonnewind dat zelfs NASA niet in staat schijnt te zijn om dit te meten. 

De zonnewind is een stroom van geladen deeltjes die ontsnapt aan het oppervlak van de Zon. 

Het is als een geweldige golf energie die de aarde raakt en ook dit probeert men te verbergen. 

 

Iemand die de voorbereidingen van de elite op de komst van de planeet Nibiru nauwlettend heeft gevolgd, is onderzoeker Bob Fletcher. In de onderstaande video vertelt hij uitgebreid over de verschillende aspecten van die voorbereidingen. 

Hoe ze zich voorbereiden op een “grote gebeurtenis” en hoe ze enorme hoeveelheden voedsel en dergelijke hebben overgebracht naar geheime ondergrondse schuilplaatsen. 

Ook gaat hij in op de vele miljarden dollars aan “verdwenen geld” (black budget) en de vele redenen waarom hij denkt dat de 1 procent zich al lange tijd heeft voorbereid op een “bijbelse gebeurtenis”. 

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31-03-2017 om 22:18 geschreven door peter  

The MetroSpiritual: Disclosing UFO government secrets could help heal a divided nation

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31-03-2017 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

By Ben Guarino 

Of all the pop-punk bands to emerge in the 1990s, few achieved success like Blink-182. Massive hits like “What’s My Age Again?” and “All the Small Things” fueled its distinct brand of cheery-cum-snotty adolescence. By October 2001, the band could draw 15,000 eager fans to Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. There the crowd watched as Blink-182, then composed of Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge, performed in front of a giant four-letter word set ablaze.

But all flaming swear signs must burn out. The band went on hiatus between 2005 and 2009. In 2015, four years after the New York Times declared that, “no punk band of the 1990s has been more influential than Blink-182,” guitarist and vocalist DeLonge walked away. Hoppus and Barker, in a statement to Rolling Stone, said that DeLonge had left Blink-182 “indefinitely.” The band continued without him.

A different kind of stardom — space, and the aliens who lived there — seduced DeLonge.

Now 41, DeLonge has found success in his post-punk pursuit. In February, the Arizona-based International UFO Congress, which each year holds the largest convention of UFO investigators in the world, awarded DeLonge its UFO researcher of the year award. In March, DeLonge published a book, “Sekret Machines: Gods, Man, & War,” with occult historian Peter Levenda. The book, DeLonge said, marked the first nonfiction entry in a sweeping project that includes science-fiction novels, concept albums and movies.

All of those works are related, in one way or another, to a subject DeLonge calls “the Phenomenon.”

More than 20 years of research and reflection led to the new book. DeLonge’s perspective turned to the heavens in early adolescence, he told The Washington Post in a recent phone interview, after witnessing the conflict between his mother, a devout Christian, and his father, who was “not religious at all.” He began to wonder if something sinister was at work.

“I realized early on there was something odd with the human life experience,” DeLonge said. “There’s all these wars. I had a really difficult, broken family. I got kicked out of high school.”

DeLonge’s phenomenon is a grand unified theory of extraterrestrial encounters. It encompasses virtually all aspects of human culture, including religion, technology, media and science. “It is the UFO phenomenon, to be sure, but that is a box too small to contain it in all its glory,” DeLonge and Levenda wrote in their new book, “as no two experts can agree on what it is.” In “Sekret Machines,” a metaphor for the phenomenon emerges: the human experience as cargo cult.

During World War II, indigenous tribes in the South Pacific, who rarely interacted with outsiders, observed planes airdropping food and medicine. “To this day there are religions based on worshiping those planes,” DeLonge said, “because they did not know what they were.” 

There is no question that cargo cults have existed on our planet. One group of villagers in the Vanuatu islands honor a holy savior named John Frum, the spirit of an American who lives in a nearby volcano. (It has been speculated that the name John Frum came from World War II soldiers who greeted the villagers, saying, “I’m John from America.”)

“John promised he’ll bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him,” one village elder told a Smithsonian magazine reporter who visited the island in 2006. “Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful things.”

Similar events happened on an interplanetary scale, DeLonge said. “Whether it is Joseph Smith meeting an angel and forming the Mormon religion, or it’s the star of Bethlehem or light hovering over a manger,” he said, “what happens is, is people see these things and they create religions off of them. We wanted to say, ‘Well, hey, we are all some form of a cargo cult.’ The question is, why?”

DeLonge’s book will not convince any skeptics about the reality of aliens. Sufficient evidence already exists, DeLonge told The Post, citing the scale of the universe. “There are trillions of galaxies,” he said. “There’s trillions of planets within each galaxy, and people go, ‘Are we alone?’ ” DeLonge dismissed his own question with a word Blink-182 once set on fire.

He also had little time for those who doubt whether aliens had visited Earth. “It’s all out there already,” DeLonge said. “It’s so frustrating when people say they’re waiting for some big person to say something. Well, there’s been a hundred books, national press events in D.C., meetings in Congress and multi-star generals on the record.”

There is no evidence of contact between aliens and humans, according to scientific consensus. “At the moment, life on Earth is the only known life in the universe, but there are compelling arguments to suggest we are not alone,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote in 2003.

When Bill Clinton was president, he denied that the White House had proof of aliens. “No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947,” Clinton said during a 1995 speech while in Ireland, responding to a letter sent by Ryan, a 13-year-old resident of Belfast. “And Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn’t tell me about it, either, and I want to know.”

(As recently as Monday, scientists publicly dismissed the idea. “I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth,” said Alan Bean, 85, the fourth person to walk on the Moon, to an Australian newspaper.)

In his search for information, DeLonge said he made his way into upper echelons of the American government. In October, the Wall Street Journal reported that DeLonge corresponded with John Podesta, the chair for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to emails WikiLeaks had released; Podesta, for his part, has frequently advocated for the United States to declassify any information regarding Area 51 or other UFO incidents.

It took DeLonge a year, but he managed to set up “very high level meetings” with members of the Defense Department, he said. “And I got to the people that are in charge of this stuff.” He declined to confirm to The Washington Post whether he had met with Podesta or any specific government officials. “I can’t comment on who I met with,” he said, “or what those meetings were about.”

A Defense Department spokesman said in an email to The Washington Post that neither the Defense Department’s Community Relations nor the Air Force had records of such a meeting. The spokesman “did see one open source story that named generals who supposedly worked with Mr. DeLonge.” Both of the generals mentioned had retired, the representative said, the first in October 2013 and the other in June of 2014.

Several scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, are optimistic that any alien life advanced enough to happen upon Earth would also be benevolent. “I doubt aliens would drop what they’re doing to come over here and wipe out Clapham Junction — why would they do that?” Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, told the Guardian in July. “They probably have what we have at home — except for our culture, maybe they are big Cliff Richard fans or like our reality television.”

But DeLonge’s air of secrecy — and the government’s — stemmed from the danger that alien contact posed, the former Blink-182 guitarist said. It was a pessimistic view of alien intelligence, a fear shared by physicist Stephen Hawking (though Hawking still supports SETI initiatives such as Breakthrough Listen). DeLonge had been “briefed on things” that caused him to lose sleep “for multiple days on end,” he said. “Because it really, really threw me down the stairs.”

DeLonge’s view was not completely dour, however. Far from it. He said that exposing the phenomenon as a malevolent extraterrestrial influence would persuade humans around the world to cooperate. He likened current global conflicts to someone incorrectly fighting a fire. “When I was in high school, I wanted to be a firefighter. I learned that you spray the base of the flame. You squirt water on the fuel, not the flame itself,” DeLonge said.  

“I feel that lot of the fighting taking place across the world, when we drop bombs — that’s spraying on the flames. The fuel of all these wars are our belief systems. And the sooner we attack that,” he said, “that we’ve been duped about our belief systems, maybe we’ll start to realize we’re much more connected.”

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UFO sightings beaming up -- as are explanations

Quebec led country with 38.5 per cent of reports

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REVEALED: THESE are the world’s best places to spot an ALIEN

ALIENS can be tricky to pin down, but heading to these extraterrestrial hot spots will give you the best chance of having a close encounter with a UFO.

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Bright lights, light-fingered aliens: all part of annual report on UFO sightings

A handout photo of a sketch of a UFO reportedly observed in Falcon Lake, Man. in 1967.

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 Brit Rockstar Reveals Encounters With Aliens After Sighting UFOs

A musician has shared the story of his unexpected encounters with aliens, as well as physic communication with ETs.

Famous British rocker Dave Davies, 70, claimed he first observed UFOs in northern Devon sky.  The Kinks guitarist, who is a believer of life in space, even stated aliens have already made contact with humans.

He further said that the government has knowledge of extraterrestrial life, but did not comment on the alleged wide-scale cover-up.

The revelations have come after Apollo astronaut Alan Bean disclosed that he believes aliens exist out there.

The rock musician, however, does not think extraterrestrials have touched down on Earth.

According to Davies, he began receiving physic impressions or communications from ETs after seeing them in the sky.

Davies told in an interview that he had several experiences of seeing UFOs and they were interesting. He shared his UFO sightings in north Devon, England where he spotted lights and zigzags in the skies.

Rolling Stone Magazine named Davies as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He collaborated with Ray Davies, older brother, in The Kinks.

Dave explained that after experiencing with a UFO, he has been keeping those feelings, and then getting into his subconscious and super-conscious.

He continued that he started to understand those feelings when he got into ufology.

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31-03-2017 om 20:55 geschreven door peter  

UFOs Showing Up All Around Guys House! March 30, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: March 30, 2017

Location of sighting: Unknown

 

From the sound of it, I would say this UFO was seen in Scotland or England, but not sure on that. Still there eyewitness posted it yesterday and is fantastic! He catches several UFOs and as he is talking and says hello to a second one, the UFO hesitates, as if it can hear him, or read his thoughts, then continues on its way following the other. 

I will ask him where he recorded this, and will update soon.

Scott C. Waring

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