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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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11-10-2017
'UFO' emerged from behind hill and zigzagged across the skies over a supervolcano in eerie CCTV
'UFO' emerged from behind hill and zigzagged across the skies over a supervolcano in eerie CCTV
The grainy footage shows a bright object zipping across the sky over Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
Rachel Burford
This is the eerie moment CCTV caught a ' UFO' zigzagging in the skies over a supervolcano.
The grainy footage shows a bright object zipping across the sky over Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
The round object first emerged from behind a hill before getting bigger and brighter as it flew higher into the air.
Smoke from the volcanic hot spots can be seen billowing up as the spot passes over in the three minute clib.
The video was taken at the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
The video was filmed on June 9 but was only recently uploaded to YouTube, according to Fox News .
Yellowstone is a nearly 3,500-square mile national park atop a volcanic wilderness and has become a hot spot for UFO sightings.
There have been hundreds of reported sightings in Wyoming going back to 1871, according to the National UFO Reporting Center .
The spot emerged from behind a hill
Over the summer there were more than 400 earthquakes in just one week near Yellowstone volcano.
An expert told the Star Valley Independent: "This is the highest number of earthquakes at Yellowstone within a single week in the past five years.
"But is fewer than weekly counts during similar earthquakes swarms in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010,” scientists explained in a June statement to the Star Valley Independent."
The UFO appeared to get bigger and brighter as it flew higher into the air
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Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.
Sprites appear as luminous reddish-orange flashes. They often occur in clusters within the altitude range 50–90 km (31–56 mi) above the Earth's surface. Sporadic visual reports of sprites go back at least to 1886, but they were first photographed on July 6, 1989 by scientists from the University of Minnesota and have subsequently been captured in video recordings many thousands of times.
Sprites are sometimes inaccurately called upper-atmospheric lightning. However, sprites are cold plasma phenomena that lack the hot channel temperatures of tropospheric lightning, so they are more akin to fluorescent tube discharges than to lightning discharges.
Photographer Paul Smith said he thinks this may be the 1st documented capture of a red sprite over Oklahoma. They’re large-scale electrical discharges – high above thunderstorm clouds – flickering in the night.
Red sprite over Oklahoma, caught by Paul Smith on October 6. Visit Dramatic sky photography by Paul Smith on Facebook.
Paul Smith wrote on October 7, 2017:
This is my personal favorite (EVER) picture, from last night at 11:40 p.m. as a squall line was grinding up around Canton Lake, Oklahoma.
This red sprite was captured from Western and Prairie Grove road, just up north of Waterloo in Edmond. The storm was about 85 linear miles away, so just imagine the size of this structure above it …
To me, red sprites are just so awesome in their magnificent color, structure and science.
Such a fun night. Two hours of clear , relatively dark skies between me and the storms as the squall line moved closer. Once it became apparent which area was hot for sprites, I was able to hone in on it and catch a beautifully bright sprite center frame towards the end of the night (second from last in the video) Click on HD for best viewing. As always share as you please
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Bottom line: Red sprites – large-scale electrical discharges – over Oklahoma on October 6, 2017.
Tropical Storm Harvey: Color Gigantic Jet Lightning, Red Sprites and More
I created this animation because I wanted to show how the sky looked before and during the sprite event. I used a photo taken just 2 seconds before the sprite appeared to created this animation. This sprite was located 90 KM southwest of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico and was taken on August 28, 2016 at 1:01am local time or 5:01 UTC. It was taken with a full spectrum Canon T3 camera.
Asteroid 2012 TC4 is being used as a test of Earth’s global asteroid defense system. How to see it online.
In this flyby simulation, Earth is the blue dot. A geosynchronous satellite and its orbit are purple. The moon’s orbit is white. The asteroid’s path sweeps by on a green path. Watch how the orbit of 2012 TC4 gets deflected as it passes by Earth, turning darker as it dips below the ecliptic plane. Image Created with orbitsimulator.com, via Tony873004/AstroBob.
The Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California – and other astronomers and observatories around the globe – are watching a small asteroid, designated 2012 TC4, which will pass safely but close to Earth – within the moon’s orbit – on October 11-12, 2017. Amateur astronomers using small telescopes are already capturing its image. Asteroid scientists have a plan to utilize this asteroid as a test NASA’s network for global defense against asteroids. You can see the asteroid, too, by watching online.
Prior to this year, this object was observed for just one week in the year 2012. Astronomers tracked its orbit well enough to know it would return – and come close to Earth – but they didn’t have its orbit pinned down precisely. Last summer, experts were already saying they knew this space rock wouldn’t hit us, but they thought 2012 TC4 might give us a close shave, passing as close as 4,200 miles (6,800 km). In late July, though, astronomers recovered the space rock – picked it up telescopically again, after not seeing it for some years – and the new observations let them refine their knowledge of 2012 TC4’s orbit and better compute its closest distance to Earth later this month.
Thus we now know the object will pass around 30,000 miles (50,000 km) above Earth’s surface.
Asteroid 2012 TC4 is 0.72 million miles from Earth in this October 10, 2017 image by Mike Olason in Denver, Colorado, on it’s way to a close approach with Earth on October 12.
2012 TC4 will come closest to Earth around 05:42 UTC on October 12 (12:42 a.m. CDT; translate to your time zone). It’ll come close enough that Earth’s gravity will slightly alter the asteroid’s path. Later in the day on October 12 – at 19:19 UTC(2:19 p.m. Central), the asteroid will pass some 172,000 miles (277,000 km) from the moon.
The asteroid is currently travelling at a speed of about 30,000 mph (nearly 50,000 kph). When astronomers first recovered it from the depths of space, it was exceedingly dim, but it has brightened a bit as it’s gotten closer.
Can you see asteroid 2012 TC4 as it sweeps past? Not with the eye alone, surely. But experienced observers with telescopes and charting software will be able to pick it up, and you can watch online as the asteroid passes. The Virtual Telescope Project in Italy will offer two online observing sessions, on October 11 and 12, in cooperation with Tenagra Observatories in Arizona. Click here to go to Virtual Telescope’s observing page for 2012 TC4.
This animation depicts the safe flyby of asteroid 2012 TC4 as it passes under Earth on October 11-12, 2017. It’ll pass fewer than 9,000 miles above the belt of communications satellites that ring the Earth in geosynchronous orbits, which are about 26,000 miles (40,000 km) above Earth. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UANews.
Experienced backyard observers have a shot at the asteroid, too. To see it, you’ll need to make your own tracking map using sky charting software. AstroBob has instructions on how to do that at his blog. He wrote:
Observers in the Americas (especially South America) will get the best views as 2012 TC4 hurtles from Capricornus across Microscopium and into southern Sagittarius during early evening hours. [The locator map below], with stars to magnitude 8, shows the asteroid’s trajectory across the evening sky on the evening of October 11. Positions are shown every hour starting at 8:30 p.m. CDT. 2012 TC4 will be much fainter, around magnitude 13.
Chart showing the path across our sky of asteroid 2012 TC4, created with Chris Marriott’s SkyMap, via AstroBob.
Meanwhile, CNEOS is working with astronomers of the International Asteroid Warning Network on a plan to utilize asteroid 2012 TC4 in an exercise to test NASA’s network for planetary defense against asteroids. They’ve said they intend to test out their ability to recover, characterize and report on a potentially hazardous object approaching Earth.
Recover, in this sense, doesn’t mean recovering a sample from an asteroid; it means recovering the object via telescopes as it moves across the heavens, using tracking data from an earlier pass. The calculations on the October, 2017 pass of asteroid 2012 TC4, for example, were originally based on only seven days of tracking it, shortly after it was discovered in 2012. Then we lost the object again, in the depths of space, as it sped away from us. That’s an exceedingly common scenario for close-passing asteroids, which are, after all, just flying chunks (some more like flying mountains) of rock in space. They sweep past, then go their way.
These astronomers are trying out their planetary defense systems – a global protection against asteroids on a possible collision course with Earth – which they’ve been discussing for decades and developing over the last few years.
Vishnu Reddy of the UA Lunar Planetary Laboratory. “The question is: How prepared are we for the next cosmic threat?” Image via Bob Demers/ UANews.
Brightness measurements made during the week it was observed in 2012 gave an estimated size of 30 to 100 feet (10 to 30 meters) for asteroid 2012 TC4. That’s comparable to the meteor that caused a shock wave and explosion in Earth’s atmosphere, over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, in February 2013, injuring 1,500 people and damaging over 7,000 buildings. The Chelyabinsk meteor, before it struck Earth’s atmosphere, is estimated to have been about 20 meters wide.
Astronomers also know that 2012 TC4 is an elongated and rapidly rotating asteroid.
And they know that asteroid 2012 TC4 has made many close approaches to Earth in the past.
Illustration of a possible orbit for asteroid 2012 TC4, via NASA.
Bottom line: A small asteroid designated 2012 TC4 will pass Earth safely – but closely – on October 12, 2017. Experts are certain it won’t hit Earth. This summer, an international collaboration of telescopes is trying to reacquire the asteroid – that is, find it again in space – with the goal of precisely determining its orbit.
Jupiter and Two of Its Biggest Moons Loom in Stunning Juno Photo
Jupiter and Two of Its Biggest Moons Loom in Stunning Juno Photo
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter and two of its biggest moons, Io (right) and Europa (left), on Sept. 1, 2017. This color-enhanced version was processed by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the probe's JunoCam imager.
Credit: Roman Tkachenko/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Two of Jupiter's largest and most intriguing moons hover near the giant planet in a striking photo snapped by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
The color-enhanced image — which Juno captured on Sept. 1, 2017, during its most recent close flyby of Jupiter — shows the 2,260-mile-wide (3,640 kilometers) moon Io hugging the gas giant's limb and the 1,900-mile-wide (3,100 km) Europa a bit farther out. NASA released the image on Friday (Oct. 6).
Io and Europa are two of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, which are so named because famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered them back in 1610. (The other two Galilean satellites are Callisto and Ganymede.) Io is the most volcanic object in the solar system, and astrobiologists regard the ocean-harboring Europa as one of the best bets to host life beyond Earth. [More Amazing Jupiter Photos by Juno Citizen Scientists]
Juno was 17,098 miles (27,516 km) from Jupiter's cloud tops, at about 49.4 degrees south latitude when it took the image, NASA officials said.
Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko processed the photo using raw data collected by Juno's JunoCam imager. Mission team members encourage anyone to do such work. If you're interested, go to the JunoCam page at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam.
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The spacecraft is studying the planet's composition and structure, as well as its gravitational and magnetic fields. Juno gathers most of its data during close flybys like the Sept. 1 encounter, which occur every 53.5 Earth days. (The spacecraft is looping around Jupiter in a highly elliptical orbit.)
Juno's observations should help researchers better understand how Jupiter, and the solar system itself, formed and evolved, mission team members have said.
Photos: Spotting Satellites & Spaceships from Earth
Photos: Spotting Satellites & Spaceships from Earth
By SPACE.com Staff
Credit: Marco Langbroek
1. Ships That Pass in the Night
The sky is full of stars and galaxies, but eagle-eyed skywatchers can also spot satellites, space shuttles and stations from Earth too. Take a look at some of the best photos of spaceships caught on camera. NASA's space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station are seen in this time-lapsed image as they fly over Leiden, The Netherlands, just before the two spacecraft docked on March 17, 2009 during the STS-119 mission. The shuttle is the object slightly fainter and lower in the sky. Movement is from right to left
Credit: NASA
2. Moon and International Space Station
Multiple images of the International Space Station flying over the Houston area have been combined into one composite image to show the progress of the station as it crossed the face of the moon in the early evening of Jan. 4, 2012. [Full Story]
3. International Space Station over Central Florida
Astrophotographer Mike Killian caught the ISS on Jan. 5, 2012, and wrote: "ISS made a 6 minute pass over central FL last night, viewing conditions were perfect."
Credit: ESA/Ralf Vandebergh, used with permission
4. Phobos-Grunt Viewed from the Ground
Phobos-Grunt image taken from the ground on November 29, 2011, by amateur astronomer, Ralf Vandebergh, in The Netherlands.
Credit: Ralf Vandebergh
5. Close-up Skywatcher Photo of Phobos-Grunt
A close-up shot of Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt probe, snapped by astrophotographer Ralf Vandebergh on Nov. 29, 2011.
Credit: NASA
6. Moon and Space Station
Multiple images of the International Space Station flying over the Houston area have been combined into one composite image to show the progress of the station as it crossed the face of the moon in the early evening of Jan. 4, 2012. [Full Story]
Credit: Marco Langbroek
7. Above the Treetops
Another view of NASA's space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station as they streak across the sky in this time-lapsed image as they fly over Leiden, The Netherlands, just before the two spacecraft docked on March 17, 2009 during the STS-119 mission. The shuttle is the object slightly fainter and lower in the sky. Movement is from right to left.
Credit: NASA/Thierry Legault
8. Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel)
In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA/Thierry Legault
9. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Here, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, in a tightly cropped view, side by side during solar transit at 12:17 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds.
Credit: NASA/Thierry Legault
10. Just Passing By
The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side in this solar transit image made at 12:17 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from Vero Beach, Florida. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds. (Shuttle and Hubble are viewable in the lower left of the image.)
Credit: Dirk Ewers
11. I Can See for Miles
This image provided by amateur astronomer Dirk Ewers, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008 at around 17:44 GMT, using a 4,200-millimeter refractor telescope in Hofgeismar, Germany, shows the Space Shuttle, left, advancing on the international space station ISS in an earth orbit at some 350 kilometers.
An ISS flare photographed as the space station passed over the town Nydek in the Czech Republic.
Credit: Mike Tyrell
13. We All Shine On
An ISS flare, caused by sunlight reflecting off the solar panels of the space station, was captured by amateur astronomer Mike Tyrell as it passed over England.
Credit: E. Morana
14. Don't Pass Me By
Skywatcher Ed Morana routinely hunts for the International Space Station as it passes in front of the Moon. This multiple image was assembled from images he took of the ISS passing in front of the Moon on Feb. 13, 2006.
Credit: IfA/Rob Ratkowski
15. Satellite's Gone
Debris from the shot-down spy satellite USA 193 was visible from Maui, Hawaii.
Credit: Greg Roberts
16. There's Always Someone Looking At You
This image is a still from a short video produced by Greg Roberts of the U.S. secret satellite DSP-F23 (bright dot at bottom) as it approached the ASTRA 1 constellation group.
Credit: ESA/NASA
17. Crackin' Up
Two NASA chase planes captured the European ATV space cargo ship breaking up in the atmosphere upon successful reentry and completion of the mission.
Credit: ESA
18. Blaze of Glory
This is one of the first images taken by the DC-8 aircraft which observed the re-entry of Jules Verne ATV over the Pacific Ocean.
Credit: Jeff Berkes
19. ISS Over West Chester, Pennsylvania, August 2011
Photographer Jeff Berkes caught the International Space Station over West Chester, Pennsylvania, on August 13, 2011.
Credit: Thierry Legault
20. Phobos-Grunt Captured in Video
The failed Russian mission to one of Mars' small moons was captured by Thierry Legault and Emmanuel Rietsch (http://legault.perso.sfr.fr) on video, New Year's Day 2012.
Documentary on alien implants convinces filmmaker topic not so crazy
Documentary on alien implants convinces filmmaker topic not so crazy
A paranormal documentary filmmaker who explores people’s extraordinary beliefs, has tackled the often ridiculed topic of alien abduction, and the related phenomenon of alien implants. However, this documentary features an actual doctor, a credible alleged abductee and some science. All of which has convinced filmmaker Jeremy Corbell that alien implants deserve a serious examination.
Jeremy Corbell investigating the alien implant case in a scene in Patient Seventeen.
(Credit: Jeremy Corbell/ExtraordinaryBeleifs.com)
Of all of the fringe ideas in the UFO field, the idea that people are being snatched up by aliens and then returned without their knowledge is pretty hard for many to swallow. Added on top of that the claims some of these people have had implants placed inside of them by the aliens, well, for many, that is bat-poop crazy.
When first asked to document a surgery to remove an alleged alien implant, Cobell responded it was “way outside of my scope of knowledge or interest.”
“It seemed too wild for me to put my mind around,” explained Corbell.
However, since he was asked by friends, and has an interest in extraordinary beliefs, Corbell decided to do it. His experience ultimately resulted in his newly released documentary, Patient Seventeen.
One of the main characters, who Corbell grew very fond of, is pediatric surgeon and alien implant specialist, Dr. Roger Leir.
Dr. Roger Leir post-surgery.
(Credit: Jeremy Corbell/ExtraordinaryBeleifs.com)
Incidentally, Leir was also skeptical when he was approached years ago with the request to remove a suspected alien implant. He thought it was ridiculous. But when he removed the object, begrudgingly, he said it was unlike anything he had seen before, and became very interested in the topic. He then removed, or aided in the removal, of dozens of the objects before passing away in 2014.
Corbell says Leir passed away while he was putting his documentary together, but it was not so much Leir that convinced him the alien abduction and implant phenomenon may be real.
The suspected alien implant removed from patient 17.
(Credit: Jeremy Corbell/ExtraordinaryBeleifs.com)
“It was the patient that transformed my opinion,” says Corbell.
Corbell describes the man he refers to as patient 17, the namesake for his film, as an “average guy of above average height.”
He is six foot nine.
He is referred to as patient 17 because he wishes to remain anonymous, and because he was Leir’s 17th patient to undergo an “alien implant” removal. Corbell says patient 17 is a very down to earth person.
In fact, Corbell says, “He was, and remains, the biggest skeptic that this object removed from his leg — that is hands down extraordinary — has anything to do with his abduction experiences.”
The man known as patient 17.
(Credit: Jeremy Corbell/ExtraordinaryBeleifs.com)
So what is so extraordinary about the object? Well, for the full story you will have to watch the film, but, according to Corbell, some experts have interpreted the data from test results conducted thus far as being made off-world.
Corbell admits more testing has to be done, but he is convinced this thing is really weird.
The object removed from patient 17 under a microscope.
(Credit: Jeremy Corbell/ExtraordinaryBeleifs.com)
A short version of Patient Seventeen was entered into the EBE Film Festival at the International UFO Congress several years ago. Although I knew Leir personally, the film exposed me to aspects of his life I was not familiar with, such as a beautiful scene of Leir playing a gigantic organ. The scene was very intimate and moving.
As for patient 17, the man. He did come across as credible, and certainly does not fit the mold of what many think of as an “alien abductee.” He came across as an independent professional who did not seem interested in seeking attention.
I admit, alien abduction is a weird topic that can be uncomfortable. The awkwardness of the phenomenon is portrayed well in the comedy television show People of Earth on TBS. However, if there was ever a documentary that would convince those interested in hard evidence, this may be the one. Not only that, I have to admit, I am partial to Corbell’s shooting style, which is intimate, beautiful and up close and personal.
As of today, Patient Seventeen is available on iTunes, and will be available on other streaming outlets soon.
For more on Patient Seventeen, visit the website at: ExtraordinaryBeleifs.com. You can also hear Corbell and I discuss his film and other current projects on Open Minds UFO Radio.
Tom DeLonge’s UFO research team revealed, includes government insiders
Tom DeLonge’s UFO research team revealed, includes government insiders
Rocker Tom DeLonge has finally released information about a big UFO project he has been teasing for months, and is planning a live event tomorrow morning to provide more information.
In February 2016, rocker Tom DeLonge made headlines when he announced at the International UFO Congress that he had big UFO news to reveal and it would be coming in a few weeks time. HIs address to the conference was recorded and in response to being awarded the UFO Researcher of the Year. However, the news never came. Some gave up on anything being revealed. I had faith, but I also had messages from DeLonge letting me know he had been delayed, but that the information was still on the way.
Finally, the wait is over, and we now know his new project will be tiled To the Stars Academy, and its mission is to “strive to be a powerful vehicle for change by creating a consortium among science, aerospace and entertainment that will work collectively to allow gifted researchers the freedom to explore exotic science and technologies with the infrastructure and resources to rapidly transition them to products that can change the world”
The To the Stars Academy logo. The three areas represent: “Three synergistic divisions of Science (research), Aerospace (application) and Entertainment (storytelling).”
(Credit: To the Stars Academy)
You may ask, why take a rockstar seriously? That goes back to why he won the researcher of the year award. Tom had been announcing plans to reveal secret information about UFOs and aliens for some time. Many thought he was full of hot air, but that changed late last year with the release of John Podesta’s emails via WikiLeaks.
Among his emails were conversations with DeLonge about his UFO project. In the emails it was revealed that Tom had attended a meeting arranged by Podesta that included a former assistant to the commander of U.S. Air Force Space Command, an executive at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works (the managers and creators of Area 51) and a general who had been in charge of labs at Wright-Paterson Air Force base, which, as DeLonge pointed out in an email to Podesta, is where it is rumored alien bodies were stored.
This demonstrated that Tom was really getting somewhere and that he really was talking to insiders. To me, this justified paying very close attention, and this latest revelation demonstrates he is still working with some very serious people who shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Leslie Kean
The first glimpse we got today on what DeLonge is up to came via a HuffPost article posted by Leslie Kean. Kean is the author of the New York Times best-seller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. Several of her UFO articles since have created a stir, and this one follows suit.
Kean writes: “Something extraordinary is about to be revealed. Former high-level officials and scientists with deep black experience who have always remained in the shadows are now stepping into the light.”
“The team includes a 25-year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations; a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at ‘Skunk Works’; a former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; a DoD Senior Intelligence officer who, among other sensitive responsibilities, ran a Pentagon aerospace ‘threat identification’ program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies,” Kean continues.
A team like this getting together to pursue answers to the UFO question is unprecedented, and their comments show they are serious.
Hal Puthoff, who has spent many years advising the government on technology, and is known to dabble in UFOs, told Kean, “We scientists are beginning to take seriously such ideas as warp-drive spaceflight right out of Star Trek, the high probability of extraterrestrial intelligence, and the realization that most of what will constitute the science of the future is well beyond our present comprehension. Given that the observation of anomalous aerospace phenomena in our skies might, in principle, incorporate elements from all three, it’s an irresistible challenge beckoning to be addressed.”
Luis Elizondo
(Credit: To the Stars Academy)
Luis Elizondo ran a Department of Defense program to study “anomalous aerial threats.” He says, “Unlike the other efforts that many people in the Pentagon knew I was associated with, the topic of aerial threats was a much more limited audience that few had any idea I was part of, with the exception of a select few individuals.”
When asked, he told Kean that the unidentified object he studied were considered to be threats, however, “something unexplained is always assumed to be a potential threat until we are certain it isn’t.”
“From our observations, my opinion and that of others is that the phenomenon is very real. On the bright side, I believe we are closer than ever before in our understanding of how it operates,” he continued.
Elizondo had just left his job the day prior to speaking with Kean in order to join DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy.
Stephen Justice, retired Program Director for Advanced Systems and Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works says the flight characteristics of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), another term for UFO, are what interest him. He concludes the UFO phenomenon is real due to a number of credible cases he has reviewed. And if they are real, Justice tells Kean, “That means it can be done – these unusual flight characteristics can be done. So how do you do it? I want to dig into how you do it. It can be done!”
Chris melon, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for two administrations, says figuring out the UFO phenomenon is going to take an effort outside of the government.
Chris Melon
(Credit: To the Stars Academy)
“This is another case in which the system will not repair itself and people outside of government need to take action for breakthroughs to occur,” Melon told Kean. “This team has the skill set to process information others avert their eyes to and turn it to the advantage of the nation and the world.”
I got the opportunity to talk to To the Stars Academy Vice President of Operations Jim Semivan. He served for 25 years in the CIA, and was a part of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service. He has received the CIA’s Career Intelligence Medal.
One question I had was, simply, why?
“A lot of people in our group are former government employees who know this stuff is going on. When it comes to UAPs, we feel there is something to it,” Semivan explained. “People in the government are like people anywhere, some have had unexplainable experiences, and others are curious.”
OK, so why now, I asked.
“At the age of 65, I feel it is time I do what I can to find out what is behind this mystery. This is the big question. What does it all mean, and what is real? What is behind the veil? I have maybe 15 years of life left, and this is what I want to do, and when I got connect with Tom I found out he feels the same.”
“Nature is incredibly big and this sort of exploration allows us to reach out and touch the divine. I want to get close to it and understand it. It is a quest.”
Jim Semivan
(Credit: To the Stars Academy)
There are already negative rumblings in the UFO community. Some feel that DeLonge and the group are just in this for the money. To this, Semivan says, “None of us want to do this for money. We are retired.”
To the Stars Academy will be a public company, in particular a public-benefit corporation, and the proceeds will go towards research. Semivan points out that this sort of research, done right, takes funding.
He says, “We felt this project was the best way to bring people in and help do this thing.”
There will be a live streamed event tomorrow morning, October 11, 2017, at 9 pm PT to announce the creation of the organization. We will find out more then, but what we know so far is pretty exciting.
There are those who were hoping some sort of government disclosure was on the way, but according to DeLonge, there is still much to be shared.
“To The Stars… concept for an Advanced ElectroMagnetic Vehicle that can manipulate space-time as observed in the UFO Phenomenon. To The Stars Head of Aerospace and Technology Steve Justice, and Fmr. Director of Advanced Programs at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, aims to lead a group of elite aerospace engineers to bring this technology to the world.” Click to enlarge. (Credit: To the Stars Academy)
UFO DISCLOSURE SOON? TOM DELONGE JUST MADE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT
UFO DISCLOSURE SOON? TOM DELONGE JUST MADE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT
Tom DeLonge, the former musician, and UFO enthusiast just released this announcement on Facebook:
"Thank you all for waiting for an announcement that is literally 2 years in the making. I have assembled a team of insiders that I believe can possibly change the world. All are current consultants to the US Gov on National Security Matters, and some literally left days ago from the Department if Defense to join me in this initiative. Fmr. High Ranking Government Officials and Senior Intelligence Officers from CIA, DOD, and also a Chief Engineer (Director of Advanced Programs) from Lockheed Martin’s the Skunk Works have come together aiming to BUILD A REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY for the world, research the unknown and finally tell the “story of the millennia” through Feature Films. NO ONE GOVERNMENT, INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTION should own what can truthfully help the world. We all can own it together. To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science is allowing a group of those who are interested to join us on day one. http://Www.ToTheStarsAcademy.Com
On Wednesday, October 11, at 9:00 AM PT and 12:00 PM EST, Tom Delonge's team will launch the new initiative at an event to be live-streamed from Seattle.
Tom will introduce his colleagues and explain the intentions and purpose of the new company, and its need for public support.
Personally, I find these statements very vague. It seems that this team doesn't have any knowledge about the UFO phenomenon yet. At this point in time, I advise you to wait and see what happens.
VREEMDE LICHTJES BEWEGEN ZICH VAN ZUID NAAR NOORD DOOR DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
VREEMDE LICHTJES BEWEGEN ZICH VAN ZUID NAAR NOORD DOOR DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
Als je echt wilt, dan zijn er iedere avond vreemde lichtjes te zien die bewegen door ons luchtruim; meestal van zuid naar noord.
Er gebeuren veel dingen boven ons hoofd zoals nieuwe opnames laten zien, waarin een verkeersvliegtuig wordt gevolgd door een onbekend object.
Het mooie van een grote schare lezers is toch wel dat deze soms met interessante dingen komen. Zoals de volgende die ons een bericht stuurt over een waarneming die volgens hem iedereen kan meemaken (dank!).
Vreemde lichtjes die zich door de lucht bewegen en voor iedereen die dat wil zichtbaar zijn.
Hij schrijft het volgende:
Niet lang geleden heb ik mij opgegeven voor deze nieuwsbrief. Die lees ik met veel aandacht en plezier.
Ik waardeer het dat u de tijd neemt om de lezers van deze nieuwsbrief erop attent te maken wanneer er zich opmerkelijke zaken manifesteren die in de media minimale aandacht krijgen.
Ook ik ben een van die mensen die niet klakkeloos aanneemt wat het mainstream nieuws opdist en heb in de jaren geleerd om tussen de regels door te lezen.
Sinds een ongelooflijke ervaring in 2012 kijk ik met regelmaat - en bij heldere lucht - 's avonds naar het schouwspel aan de hemel.
Een ervaring die ik met niemand durf te delen omdat ik voor gek zou worden verklaard.
Een ervaring die ik meemaakte samen met nog 4 andere volwassenen en nog drie kinderen erbij als getuige.
Op zoek naar die " lichtjes" die zich meestal van zuid naar noord begeven.
Ze zijn elke avond te zien, op sommige dagen meer en andere dagen minder.
Sommige van die lichtjes " flitsen" en soms bewegen ze niet maar zijn ze stationair op een vaste plek en geven om de zoveel tijd een felle flits af.
Iedereen kan ze zien, als mensen maar de tijd zouden nemen- en het geduld kunnen opbrengen - om 's avonds vanaf pakweg een uur na zonsondergang naar de hemel te staren.
Hoe langer er wordt gekeken, hoe duidelijker het verschil te zien is tussen overtrekkende vliegtuigen ( die geluiden maken ) en deze lichtjes - ze zijn doodstil.
Er is ook parallelliteit tussen het aantal zichtbare lichtjes en aanslagen of rampen elders in de wereld.
Bij een of andere calamiteit ergens in de wereld zijn er die avond heel weinig van deze bewegende lichtjes te zien. Alsof ze zich naar of in de buurt van de rampplek hebben begeven.
Dit ontdekte ik zelf door maanden achtereen bijna iedere avond de lucht te hebben bekeken voor zover dat niet door wolken werd verhinderd.
Omdat ik nog niet zo lang de nieuwsbrief ontvang en mijn bovenstaande constatering misschien al eerder door Niburu is gepubliceerd, vraag ik mij af of er een groep, een vereniging van mensen is die dit fenomeen ook bestudeert. Al dan niet in groepsverband.
Ik weet dat ze in de VS bestaan, zo'n beetje elke staat heeft wel een aantal groepen.
Ik zou namelijk graag in contact willen komen met deze groepen, met deze mensen om hier samen wat mee te doen.
Als u dit weet zou ik het bijzonder op prijs stellen om dat van u te horen.
Tot zover de lezer.
Wij weten het niet, maar misschien anderen wel. Mocht iemand iets weten over bovengenoemde ervaringen of een tip hebben, laat het ons weten.
Van een andere lezer ontvingen wij (dank!) het volgende bericht:
Mijn moeder en ik kwamen vanuit Izmir terug naar Amsterdam (schiphol). We zaten in het vliegtuig die vertrok om 16:05 turkse tijd.
In het vliegtuig rond de klok van 17:21 uur heb ik een raar object gezien en mijn moeder ook!Had mijn telefoon aan mijn moeder gegeven om een foto te maken, maar helaas was zij te laat!
Ik heb ook geen flauw idee over welke land we vlogen. Helaas zijn woorden geen harde bewijzen.
Ik heb op youtube gekeken en op google en uiteindelijk ben ik hier bij jullie terechtgekomen. Jullie hebben een foto op de website die een jongen van 7 jaar op 7 april 2017 heeft gefotografeerd. Hetgeen op de foto is exact hetzelfde wat wij hebben gezien.
Mijn vraag aan jullie is wat heb ik precies gezien!
Hierna volgt een stuk van het artikel waaraan de lezer refereert en deze objecten lijken veelal een soort vermomde (cloaked) moederschepen te zijn. Schepen vaak in de vorm van een wolk, waar dan dikwijls kleinere UFO's/orbs uit tevoorschijn komen.
Op 7 april 2017 reist een gezin met een vliegtuig van de luchtvaartmaatschappij Frontier van Philadelphia in Pennsylvania naar Charlotte in North Carolina.
Het is rond de middag en hun 7-jarige zoon zit bij het raam en roept naar zijn ouders om naar buiten te kijken omdat hij een ruimteschip in de lucht ziet.
De ouders nemen meerdere foto’s en wanneer je inzoomt, dan zie je inderdaad een aantal objecten die niet thuishoren in het landschap.
Volgens UFO experts zijn het ook grote objecten, ongeveer een paar kilometer in lengte. Waar deze waarneming veel op lijkt, zijn de UFO’s die enkele jaren geleden door mijnwerkers in Chili werden waargenomen en waar toen kleinere UFO’s uit tevoorschijn kwamen.
Wat we wel hebben geleerd in de loop der jaren is om dit soort objecten niet af te doen als “wolken”, want dikwijls blijken ze dat echt niet te zijn.
Van de Nederlandse lucht naar de Amerikaanse waar Tyler van Secure Team met een leuke opname komt van één van zijn abonnees waarop duidelijk een UFO zichtbaar is die een verkeersvliegtuig volgt.
In de video hieronder zijn de bewegende beelden te zien met de UFO die het vliegtuig blijft volgen. Bijzondere opnamen en Tyler gaat nog een stuk verder door te proberen erachter te komen om wat voor soort UFO het hier gaat.
Hij gelooft dat het geen ronde is, maar een driehoekige zoals we die vaker zien en die regelmatig in verband worden gebracht met de TR3B, waar wij ook al vaker over hebben geschreven.
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Strange things spotted in the skies over Hawaii and Germany
Strange things spotted in the skies over Hawaii and Germany
On October 9 and 10, 2017 strange objects appeared in the night skies over Kalaheo in Hawaii and Nordendorf in Germany. Witnesses were able to take images of both objects. As for the object in the sky over Hawaii the witness states:
A friend of mine called me at four in the morning. He is on Eastern Time, six hours ahead of us, and didn't realize it was 4am for me. I walked outside, so I wouldn't wake my wife.
As we talked, I looked straight up noticing the moon and how bright it was. Then, as I lowered my head I noticed this bright object way off, like a star, but much brighter.
I could see two nearby stars to use as reference points. The object was very bright and had a symmetrically shaped bright swirl on both sides of it, a mirror image of each other.
The object as well as the aura surrounding it moved South in the sky maintaining its size and shape the whole time.
I ran inside and brought my wife outside to see it. As we watched it, it continued to move south and grew in size getting much bigger than it originally was, yet maintaining its shape perfectly.
It finally began to fade in brightness and eventually just disappeared completely, before leaving our line of site. While I watched the object I took two pictures. One at normal focus, and then I zoomed in and took another shot. Mufon case file 87251.
One day later a photographer captured a UFO-like circle in the night sky over Nordendorf in Germany.
The object that appears to consist of three spheres surrounded by a circle gradually changed into one sphere while the circle slowly faded away. Mufon case file 87263.
Do aliens exist? This question has baffled humans for centuries.
From Roswell to Suffolk's Rendlesham Forest, these are the sightings which UFO hunters have hailed as proof of extra-terrestrial life.
How many alien and UFO sightings have there been?
The number of UFO sightings is currently flying at an all-time high, according to data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort.
The alien expert reckons there have been nearly 105,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years.
And Sam is far from the only believer on our planet.
From an "alien autopsy" video dating back to 1995 to a video of fighter jets apparently chasing a UFO over the M5, there are hundreds of videos which people have claimed to be proof of alien life.
There's even a clip of a UFO supposedly attacking a Taliban compound, as well as 'sightings' in Peckham and Warminster.
Most of the videos have been debunked by experts. In the M5 clip, for example, the motorway lorries look like models.
While the Peckham UFOs were "almost certainly Chinese lanterns", former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope told the Sun Online.
Strange lights appear over Grand Parkway in Katy, Texas
Strange lights appear over Grand Parkway in Katy, Texas
MUFON says they received this video as part of a reported UFO sighting in Katy.
KATY, Texas -- Was E.T. checking for traffic jams in Katy, Texas last month?
A person who was driving along Hwy 99 Grand Parkway north towards I-10 and Highland Knolls shot video of several unidentified lights in the sky.
In the cellphone video, three lights can be seen flying in close proximity to one another before a fourth light emerges.
The driver was headed home around 8:20 p.m. on Sept. 18 when the lights appeared.
"There is no airport in the area," the eyewitness said. "...Flickered in and out, then one disappeared as another flicked into view."
The driver believed the lights may have been flares before seeing the last light move "rapidly to the east at a 90-degree angle until it was out of sight beyond the treeline."
The Mutual UFO Network said it received the video as part of a reported UFO sighting in Katy.
Inside Knowledge About Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Could Lead To World-Changing Technology
Inside Knowledge About Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Could Lead To World-Changing Technology
TTS Academy
Something extraordinary is about to be revealed. Former high-level officials and scientists with deep black experience who have always remained in the shadows are now stepping into the light. These insiders have long-standing connections to government agencies which may have programs investigating unidentifed aerial phenomena (UAP). They intend to move into the private sector and to make all declassified information, and any future knowledge, available for all to see.
The team includes a 25-year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations; a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at “Skunk Works”; a former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; a DoD Senior Intelligence officer who, among other sensitive responsibilities, ran a Pentagon aerospace “threat identification” program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. And well placed and experienced professionals, from Intelligence and high academic positions, are also on board ― please see information on the Team for reference as you read.
What is going on here? Is this the beginning of some sort of trend towards a new openness on the part of the U.S. government? These people know more than any of us do, so the question of their motivation is fundamental.
It all started with award-winning platinum recording artist and producer Tom DeLonge, whose bands Blink182 and Angels & Airwaves sold over 25 million records in the 1990s. Tom spent many years studying UFOs, and essentially left his previous lucrative career to devote himself to this pursuit, using his own personal income and resources to set up an entertainment company called To The Stars (TTS). It had the goal of disseminating information about UFOs, consciousness, the paranormal and other unexplained mysteries through artistic pursuits such as fiction and non-fiction books, feature films, and television productions.
Most importantly, while doing so, Tom was gradually able to establish relationships with flag officers and other highly placed insiders in the aerospace industry, intelligence, the Department of Defense and NASA. These independent sources provided him with information about the UFO phenomenon and worked with him to develop a plan for the incremental release of this information through TTS, which would be particulary geared towards reaching younger audiences.
Like many others, I was astonished at Tom’s ability to win the trust of these impressive advisors, who at first wished to remain anonymous yet obvioulsy believed that this information belongs to all of us. I talked to Tom and found him to be serious, passionate, very sharp, articulate and highly motivated to find the truth. I understood how he was able to engage this group - he did his homework, worked very hard, was sincere, and knew how to conduct himself when meeting such people. Early on, Tom allowed me to speak with one of his advisors, which helped me understand more about his effort.
Then, in late 2016, Wikileaks published a number of Tom’s emails to John Podesta, which revealed the names of some of these sources. Among his advisors were two generals: one was a commander of the U.S. Air Force’s research laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and responsible for managing the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program; the other was the Special Assistant to the Commander of Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base. As devastating as this was to some, it established for those who doubted him that Tom was indeed telling the truth about his high level contacts.
Tom’s plans for TTS were delayed at this point, but he persevered. Subsequent delays have been out of his control, but everyone involved agrees with the necessity for a gradual release of information. “I think they really do want us to know. I really do think they do. I do, at this point, feel like it’s going to be a tough thing to swallow for people and I think there are elements about it that people are not ready for,” Delonge told George Knapp, the chief investigative reporter for KLAS TV in Las Vegas and weekend host of Coast to Coast AM.
TOM DELONGE
Tom DeLonge after a long meeting in Sept., 2017.
Fast foward to the present. Now, these early advisors have mostly receded to the background and Tom has moved on to something even bigger. He has assembled a new team of collaborators and created The To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science(TTS/AAS), for which he is President and interim CEO. The Academy includes three synergistic divisions: Science, Areospace, and Entertainment. The Public Benefit Corporation is seeking to serve the public good through exploring “the outer edges of science and the understanding of phenomena,” and making all of it public.
On Wednesday October 11, at 9:00 AM PT and 12:00 PM EST, the team will launch the new initiative at an event to be live-streamed from Seattle. Tom will introduce his colleagues and explain the intentions and purpose of the new company, and its need for public support. To tune in, or to watch it aftewards, click here.
According to a TTS /AAS statement, it’s team members who have been “operating under the shadows of top-secrecy for decades” believe that “there is sufficient credible evidence of UAP that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human experience.” The Science divison will conduct the research, which will also include consciousness, engineering space-time, brain-computer interface, genomics, and creating a database of supranormal experiences. Aerospace will apply the science to create “next-generation energy and propulsion concepts for transportation and spaceflight that could forever change movement across land, water, air”, and Entertainment will offer “informative storytelling that provides insight into the journey and provokes curiosity in the profound yet unresolved mysteries of the world.”
On Oct. 4, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jim Semivan (TTS/AAS Vice President Operations), Harold Puthoff (Vice President Science and Technology), Christopher Mellon (National Security Affairs Advisor) and Luis Elizondo (Chief of Security and Special Programs) for a four hour meeting in Washingon DC. (I have known Hal Puthoff for many years, and worked with Chris Mellon previously for another HuffPost story.)
Hal Puthoff, who has spent over five decades publishing papers and advising government agencies on leading-edge technologies, explained that “these days, science fact is outstripping science fiction. We scientists are beginning to take seriously such ideas as warp-drive spaceflight right out of Star Trek, the high probability of extraterrestrial intelligence, and the realization that most of what will constitute the science of the future is well beyond our present comprehension. Given that the observation of anomalous aerospace phenomena in our skies might, in principle, incorporate elements from all three, it’s an irresistible challenge beckoning to be addressed.”
TTS ACADEMY
(left to right) Luis Elizondo, Jim Semivan, Stephen Justice, Hal Puthoff, and Christopher Mellon at a recent meeting in Seattle
At the meeting, I was given information on background and shown some revelatory documents and data off the record, some of which will eventually be made public. I was especially curious to meet Luis Eiizondo because he ran a program at the DOD involving the study of anomalous aerial threats. Luis had resigned this position literally the day before we met. I was able to verify who he was and what his tasks were at the Pentagon. He received the highest commendatons from his superiors. I learned that important unclassified data and documentation is expected to be released through the Academy’s on-line Community of Interest (COI) in collaboration with the US government, which will be set up soon.
Luis told me that among several portfolios he managed, he found the issue of unexplained aerial threats and related phenomena to be particularly interesting and perplexing. “Unlike the other efforts that many people in the Pentagon knew I was associated with, the topic of aerial threats was a much more limited audience that few had any idea I was part of, with the exception of a select few individuals,” he said.
I asked him if these unidentified objects were considered to be threats. “They did not exhibit overt hostility,” he said. “But something unexplained is always assumed to be a potential threat until we are certain it isn’t.” I find it highly significant that Luis Elizondo is moving from this Program buried within the DOD into the private sector. “From our observations, my opinion and that of others is that the phenomenon is very real. On the bright side, I believe we are closer than ever before in our understanding of how it operates,” he told me.
Following the meeting, I spoke to Stephen Justice (Aerospace Division Director), who recently retired as a Program Director for Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin after a thirty-one year career in the Skunk Works. “How dare we think that the physics we have today is all that there is,” he said, referencing this as an important message he learned from his father. “Let’s pick at those boundaries and figure out what we don’t know. Let’s remove the artficial constraints, the assumptions we’ve applied to things, and look for opportunity.” The opportunity here, as he sees it, is to “stand in the future and look back.”
Regarding UAP, he told me that since so many smart, credible people have seen them, he has concluded they must be real. “That means it can be done - these unusual flight characteristics can be done. So how do you do it? I want to dig into how you do it. It can be done!”
For example, one objective is to harvest the technology to build a vehicle that will allow for almost instantaneous travel through land, air, oceans and space, by engineering the fabric of space-time. Such a vehicle could also float, like something from science fiction. Steve says we have had glimpses of the science that could make this possible. It is not outside the realm of possibiity, if the necessary resources are in place.
A TTS Academy concept for a vehicle drawn by Stephen Justice, embodying the technology they seek to understand and develop - a visionary concept for a revolutionary electromagnetic vehicle based on technology observed in unidentified aerial phenomena
Everyone I spoke to has some kind of unique relationship to or profound interest in “the Phenomenon” (UAP), and their own sense of a path forward. Jim Semivan joined the CIA in 1983 and retired after twenty-five-years. “I have come to realize that the Phenomenon is curiously multifaceted, exasperatingly complex and appears to exist both in our consensus reality and in another unknown space,” he wrote in an email to me after we met. “Perhaps, if we are very lucky, someday we may understand its ultimate purpose.”
Jim states that the planet seems to lack an organization that has the necessary funds to explore the Phenomenon in any detail and for a sustained period of time. “TTS/AAS hopes to raise enough money through its public offering and through expected profits from its entertainment and aerospace divisions to fund research into the Phenomenon and related exotic technologies for global consumption. Imagine a global, transparent, research organization tackling ideas that most scientists today will not entertain for fear of ridicule, involving young scientists from around the globe.”
I now understand the strong argument for taking this work out of government, where the priorites are different, funding is not available, and where this topic is such a hot potato that no one wants to touch it. Personal ideology and even religious fundamentalism lead to ridicule and efforts to suppress these investigations. We all know the limitations of the current system, even though some on the inside have worked hard to change that.
Chris Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for two administrations and early in his career drafted the legislation that established the US Special Operations Command at a time when terrorism was not yet on the radar. He sees similarities between that and the present situation in terms of a lack of awareness of a major problem and a need for change.
“This is another case in which the system will not repair itself and people outside of government need to take action for breakthroughs to occur. This team has the skill set to process information others avert their eyes to and turn it to the advantage of the nation and the world.”
For many Americans, the US government is the only entity that can speak authoritatively on these issues. That will need to happen eventually if the current stalemate is to be broken. But does the movement of this knowledgeable, well-connected group out of the official world into a public company mean that government is beginning to relent? Who else might be waiting in the wings to participate? Could this endeavor be a catalyst for greater government openness?
The inspiration, the vision, and the excitement about the possible breakthroughs that this new venture offers are infectious; the intentions are of the highest order. Accomplishing the task is a mammoth - but it can be done. The TTS Academy intends to release game-changing information of the type interested people have been seeking for a long time. “The fact is, we might not necessarily be alone,” Luis Elizondo says. “Now is the time to move forward and try to answer some of life’s deepest mysteries.” This is not going to happen if we stick with the status quo.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Jeremy Corbell, is an American contemporary artist and investigative filmmaker based in Los Angeles California. He documents ExtraOrdinary individuals and their belief systems. This research has taken him into the worlds of nanotechnology, aerospace exploration, exotic propulsion systems, as well as, an in-depth examination into the life and discoveries of the enigmatic “Godfather of Conspiracy” John Lear. Corbell has documented the surgical removal of alleged Off-World Alien Implants, and with access to NASA, he has filmed the analysis of anomalous materials alleged to be physical evidence of extraterrestrial nano-technology from UFO landing sites. Corbell has obtained death-bed confessions from former CIA and government intelligence officials, who claim to expose the truth about the UFO reality and the worldwide coverup of the ultimate truth. Corbell’s film work reveals how ideas, held by credible individuals, can alter the way we experience reality and force us to reconsider the fabric of our own beliefs.
In this episode, Jeremy and I discuss Patient Seventeen, his latest film which is launching on iTunes, today. It covers some of the most credible alien implant research ever documented, some of which is brand new to this project. We also discuss some exciting projects Jeremy is working on that he has not shared publicly. Exciting stuff!
This article highlights three previously unknown military aircraft programs that originated in the early 1970s. Two of these programs utilized elements of stealth technology, which have been incorporated into modern low-observable aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. The third program brings to light a single-seat high-performance attack aircraft that used swing wings and angled sides to reduce its radar cross section (RCS). The drawings included in this article are based on original sketches provided by the senior project design engineers who worked on the programs. Although these historically significant aircraft programs were never built, they were officially funded by the U.S. government and are presented here to the general public for the very first time.
Model of the “Silent Night” stealth concept.
(Credit: Michael Schratt/Open Minds Magazine)
Silent Night
During the early years of the Vietnam War, American forces, flying F-4, F-100, and F-105 fighter/bomber aircraft, were experiencing heavy losses due to Soviet surface-to-air-missile sites and anti-aircraft artillery. In an effort to reverse this deadly trend, the Office of Naval Research proposed a feasibility research study to explore a low-RCS “stealth” attack aircraft that could neutralize these threats. The aircraft was specifically designed to address four important areas of stealth, which included, radar, infrared, acoustic, and visual. The government-funded program ran from 1971 to 1973. In February 1972, North American Aviation submitted a proposal for a naval attack aircraft referred to as “Silent Night.” The craft featured a tailless flying-wing configuration and a crew of two. The pilots sat side-by-side, although later variants included tandem seating. An asymmetrical canopy widow helped the weapons officer to identify targets.. Provisions for carrier operations included folding wings and a standard tail-hook with a pop up dorsal fin for directional stability.
To reduce the RCS, the Silent Night’s four-foot diameter twin-pack turbo-shaft-driven ducted fan engine was buried deep inside the body of the craft, with a single air-intake overhead. The craft featured tricycle landing gear, with provisions for either two AGM-65 Maverick surface-to-air missiles, or two AGM-78 standard anti-radiation missiles. A single Ka band mapping radar was located in its nose, which fed data to a 5” by 7” CRT screen. Silent Night had a wingspan of 70.71 feet and an overall length of 45.46 feet. Enthusiasts who follow the development of stealth aircraft will recall that Lockheed’s “Have Blue” prototype made its first flight on December 1, 1977 at Area-51. Although Silent Night was never built, North American Aviation’s concept predates Lockheed’s prototype by approximately three years, making it one of the very first government-funded stealth aircraft programs.
Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Schratt/Open Minds Magazine)
Flying Banana
The so-called “Flying Banana” was one of the first stealth aircraft programs to utilize smooth contouring along with twin-canted vertical stabilizers. The craft featured tricycle landing gear and a twin-pack turbo-shaft-driven four-foot diameter ducted fan for propulsion. Wing control surfaces were designed to be smoothly deflecting and seamless by the use of piezo-electric actuators. Use of off-the-shelf components to keeps costs down included a canopy from a Fury jet aircraft. The Flying Banana featured a wing span of 40 feet, and a length of 38 feet. The mission for the Flying Banana was defined as “low observable light attack” with an internal weapons bay.
Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Schratt/Open Minds Magazine)
Surprise Fighter
The “Surprise Fighter” was designed so that the wings could fold completely under the fuselage, like a stealth missile. In this configuration, lift for high speed flight (subsonic .95 Mach number) was provided by the shape of the fuselage. The craft featured a single overhead air-intake that fed a modified turbofan engine by way of an S-shaped duct. The flat-plate fuselage sides were angled in at 10 degrees to reduce the RCS. To reduce the infrared signature of the craft, an infrared suppression system was used, along with the mixing of outside cold air with the exhaust. A specially configured diffuser was used inside the exhaust port to prevent enemy radar from seeing the turbine blades from behind. The specific mission for the Surprise Fighter is still classified to this day, as are the RCS pole testing results per comments made by the senior project design engineer.
Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Schratt/Open Minds Magazine)
(Due to the classification level of stealth technology during the early 1970s, very little additional technical information regarding payload and range was available for the Flying Banana and Surprise Fighter programs. A detailed Freedom of Information Act request dated October 13, 2010 to the Office of Naval Research has gone unanswered as of this magazine’s publication date.)
This article originally appeared in Issue 6 of Open Minds Magazine. This issue is out of print.
Miguel Claro recently sent Space.com this beautiful image of the moon and Earthshine taken from Almada, Portugal on Feb. 1, 2014. “I could see the night side of the moon very well illuminated by the Earth reflected light, like if it was full moon,” Claro wrote Space.com in an email. “This impressive phenomenon known as Earthshine, was described and drawn for the first time, by the great Leonardo Da Vinci about 500 years ago in his book Codex Leicester.”
Observers on Earth might notice that the moon essentially keeps the same side facing our planet as it passes through its orbit. This may lead to the question, does the moon rotate? The answer is yes, though it may seem contrary to what our eyes observe.
The 'dark' side of the moon
The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. Scientists call this synchronous rotation.
The side of the moon that perpetually faces Earth is known as the near side. The opposite or "back" side is the far side. Sometimes the far side is called the dark side of the moon, but this is inaccurate. When the moon is between the Earth and the sun, during the new moon phase, the back side of the moon is bathed in daylight.
The orbit and the rotation aren't perfectly matched, however. The moon travels around the Earth in an elliptical orbit, a slightly stretched-out circle. When the moon is closest to Earth, its rotation is slower than its journey through space, allowing observers to see an additional 8 degrees on the eastern side. When the moon is farthest, the rotation is faster, so an additional 8 degrees are visible on the western side. [The Moon: 10 Surprising Lunar Facts]
If you could journey around to the far side of the moon as the Apollo 8 astronauts once did, you would see a very different surface from the one you are accustomed to viewing. While the near side of the moon is smoothed by maria — large dark plains created by solidified lava flows — and light lunar highlands, the far side is heavily cratered.
Although you can't see the back side of the moon from Earth, NASA and other space agencies have glimpsed it with satellites.
"It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon," Adam Szabo, project scientist for NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statementafter the satellite captured the moon crossing Earth's face. "Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface."
The rotational period of the moon wasn't always equal to its orbit around the planet. Just like the gravity of the moon affects ocean tides on the Earth, gravity from Earth affects the moon. But because the moon lacks an ocean, Earth pulls on its crust, creating a tidal bulge at the line that points toward Earth. [Infographic: Inside Earth's Moon]
Gravity from Earth pulls on the closest tidal bulge, trying to keep it aligned. This creates tidal friction that slows the moon's rotation. Over time, the rotation was slowed enough that the moon's orbit and rotation matched, and the same face became tidally locked, forever pointed toward Earth.
The moon is not the only satellite to suffer friction with its parent planet. Many other large moons in the solar system are tidally locked with their partner. Of the larger moons, only Saturn's moon Hyperion, which tumbles chaotically and interacts with other moons, is not tidally synchronized.
The lunar rotation determined whether the infamous Man in the Moon, a face-like pattern of dark maria on the Earth-facing side, wound up pointing toward our planet. Gravity created an Earth-side bulge in the moon, slowing down its rotation in the past to create the synchronous rotation and keeping the longer lunar axis toward our world. Recent research suggested that the side of the moon facing Earth was determined by how quickly the lunar rotation slowed. Because the moon lost speed slowly, there was about a two-to-one chance that the Man in the Moon would wind up facing Earth rather than keeping a space-bound view.
"The real coincidence is not that the man faces Earth," Oded Aharonson, a planetary science researcher at the California Institute of Technology who studied why the Man in the Moon stares down at Earth, said in a statement. Instead, the real coincidence is that the moon's slowdown was just enough to load the coin.
The situation is not limited to large planets. The dwarf planet Pluto is tidally locked to its moon Charon, which is almost as large as the former planet.
Earth (and other planets) do not escape completely unscathed. Just as the Earth exerts friction on the spin of the moon, the moon also exerts friction on the rotation of the Earth. As such, the length of day increases a few milliseconds every century.
"The moon and Earth loomed large in each others skies when they formed," then-graduate student Arpita Roy said in a statement.
"At the time of the dinosaurs, Earth completed one rotation in about 23 hours," Daniel MacMillan, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. "In the year 1820, a rotation took exactly 24 hours, or 86,400 standard seconds. Since 1820, the mean solar day has increased by about 2.5 milliseconds."
On June 30, 2012, an extra second was added to all of the clocks on Earth because of this phenomenon.
A 'Pale Green Dot': Why Proxima Centauri b May Have a Shiny Tint
A 'Pale Green Dot': Why Proxima Centauri b May Have a Shiny Tint
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
An artist's impression of the planet Proxima Centauri b as it orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
A world orbiting the sun's closest stellar neighbor may have a shiny green tint to it — and not necessarily because it's covered in leafy plants.
Researchers have found a way to characterize potential auroras on the nearby exoplanet Proxima Centauri b and found that, if the planet sports oxygen in its atmosphere, the auroras may give the atmosphere a greenish cast.
"The northern and southern lights [on Proxima Centauri b] would be at least 100 times brighter than on Earth," Rodrigo Luger, a postdoctoral student at the University of Washington, who led the study of how the planet's auroras could be spotted from Earth, told Space.com by email. Luger said the auroras might be so bright as to be visible with very powerful telescopes. [Proxima b By the Numbers: Possibly Earth-Like World at the Next Star Over]
Pale Green Dot
The active star Proxima Centauri lies only 4.2 light-years from the solar system. A small world orbits in the star's habitable zone, the region where liquid water could survive on the surface. Its radius remains a mystery. However, scientists know it is about 1.3 times as massive as the Earth, which its initial discovers said suggests a rocky planet.
Proxima Centauri is a small star, dimmer than Earth's sun, so its habitable zone is closer to the star than the habitable zone of the sun. As a result, Proxima Centauri b is 20 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun, and completes an orbit every 11.2 Earth-days. The red dwarf star is more active than Earth's sun, firing off far more frequent flares that may douse the planet in radiation that could be harmful for potential life.
Those same flares may help scientists better understand the planet. If Proxima Centauri b has a magnetic field, it may capture the charged particles in the flares and funnel them toward the poles, creating brilliant auroral displays.
Observing the auroras can help researchers characterize the planet's atmosphere. On Earth, the different color glow of the northern and southern lights corresponds to reactions with different molecules in the atmosphere. According to Luger, who presented the results at the Astrobiology Science Conference in Mesa, Arizona, in April, if Proxima Centauri b is a terrestrial world with an Earth-like atmosphere and a magnetic field, the green light of the oxygen auroras would grow 100 times stronger than on Earth.
Because of the potential for green light, the researchers dubbed such a world "the pale green dot," a nod to Carl Sagan's categorization of Earth as a pale blue dot.
Periods of intense stellar activity could make the auroras even brighter. While coronal mass ejections and flares have the strongest impact on generating auroras, Luger said, they aren't really predictable in advance.
"But the sun certainly has periodic activity cycles, so if we understand those of Proxima Centauri, we might be able to use that to our advantage," he said.
He went on to say that the extreme activity of the star may make such knowledge unnecessary — astronomers could simply count on a high likelihood that the star would flare and cause the auroras to brighten.
Charged particles and magnetic fields could make Proxima Centauri b glow green, as in this photo of Earth taken by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station.
Credit: Alexander Gerst (via Twitter as @Astro_Alex)
Optimal for auroras
While several studies have described searches for auroras on gas giant exoplanets that orbit close to their parent stars, none have been spotted on worlds beyond the solar system. But Luger remains confident.
"Proxima Centauri b is optimal for auroral detection," he said.
He gave several reasons that auroras may be soon spotted on Proxima Centauri b. The planet is nearby — it's the closest known exoplanet to Earth — making it easier for instruments to collect detailed observations. The extreme magnetic activity of the star, coupled with the planet's close orbit, means Proxima Centauri b is bombarded with solar particles far more vigorously than Earth. At the same time, the star is faint, so a glowing green planet would show up more easily than it would around a sun-like star. Finally, the short orbit means that the world moves around its sun at a rapid clip; when a light source is moving toward or away from an observer, this motion can be observed through a phenomenon called redshift, or Doppler shift. Luger said the Doppler shift of the auroras' light waves would be significantly larger than they would be on their own, making lines that would otherwise be hard to see more visible. That would make it easier to identify any oxygen in the atmosphere.
Unfortunately, this "pale green dot" won't be spotted with current telescopes. NASA's upcoming powerhouse telescope ― the James Webb Space Telescope ― will hunt for infrared light, so Luger said it won't be able to detect the green oxygen aurora, which is in the visible light range.
"Our best bet for detection is the [Thirty-Meter Telescope] or similar next-generation extremely large telescopes," he said.
The Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) — so-named because its primary mirror would be 30 meters (98 feet) wide — began construction on Hawaii's Mauna Kea peak before it was halted in 2015 after protests over the sacred nature of the land. The project remains at a halt today, though some astronomers have lauded the benefits of moving the telescope to Spain's Canary Islands.
But even TMT would take some time to identify the signature of oxygen from the auroras, with Luger estimating "tens of hours" of observation. The same is true for the Large UV/Opitcal/Infrared Survey (LUVOIR), a proposed design for a telescope with a primary mirror between 9 and 15 meters (30 and 50 feet). With telescope time extremely competitive, it could be hard to study the system so extensively.
In order to produce auroras, a planet must have a magnetic field. Out of the four terrestrial planets in Earth's solar system, only two have a worldwide field — Earth and Mercury. Mars has a patchy field, and Venus has none. If Proxima Centauri b is similarly lacking, it might not produce auroras.
However, the planet may get a brightness boost from airglow, the faint emission of light from the atmosphere that keeps nighttime on Earth from ever being completely dark.
"The planet is likely also to have strong airglow, which is planetwide," Luger said. "Airglow is not generated by magnetic fields, and is typically weaker than aurorae, so we did not calculate it. But it should be quite strong on Proxima Centauri b, and could cause the entire planet to glow green."
Sometime between 3.7 and 4.5 billion years ago, life appeared on earth. How exactly it materialized from the primordial goop, however, is still a fundamental mystery about our planet — one that a group of scientists from McMaster University and the Max Planck Institute say they are one step closer to solving. Darwin, they argue in a new study, may have been right all along: It seems that life really did emerge in earth’s “warm little ponds.”
In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they posit that life on Earth started out in ancient hot tubs — warm pools of water that emerged as the continents rose out of the early global ocean. Using data from a new numerical model that simulates the conditions of the ancient earth, they explain that the building blocks of life could indeed have emerged if the right interstellar ingredients were added to the mix.
“In order to understand the origin of life, we need to understand Earth as it was billions of years ago,” co-author Thomas Henning, Ph.D., explained in a statement. “As our study shows, astronomy provides a vital part of the answer. The details of how our solar system formed have direct consequences for the origin of life on Earth.”
A figure representing the various influences acting on chemicals in warm little ponds during the dry phase and wet phase of the cycle.
Their argument relies on the assumption that the early earth was bombarded with meteorites that carried life-starting essential elements. As the meteorites crashed into these ponds, they leached their contents into the water over numerous wet and dry cycles. In this hot soup, the first RNA polymers — precursors to relatively more complicated DNA — emerged roughly 4.17 billion years ago.
The researchers posit that the world was, at first, inhabited by only RNA-based life. They argue that DNA, which we now consider to be the fundamental building block of life on earth, is “too complex” to have been the first element of life to emerge.
There’s a growing body of evidence showing that meteorites can indeed carry the essential components of nucleotides, the building blocks that make up RNA and DNA. Scientists first realized that there were components of DNA in meteorites in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until 2011 that researchers proved that they were actually created in space and didn’t just represent contamination from terrestrial life. That year, NASA-funded researchers at the Goddard Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory found the nucleobases adenine and guanine, as well as hypoxanthine and xanthine, in samples of comet Wild 2 from NASA’s Stardust mission.
A modern example of a warm little pond in Lassen Volcanic National Park that resembles ancient ponds.
In a competing theory, called panspermia, scientists argue that life didn’t emerge on Earth at all and was instead transported in after developing elsewhere. In panspermia,extraterrestrial life — probably bacterial spores — hitched a ride on bombarding space rocks to our planet.
This theoretical paper is just the first step in gaining a better understanding of how life on Earth began. Next year, the scientists behind it plan on testing their theory in the new Origins of Life laboratory at McMaster University, which will allow them to replicate earth’s pre-life conditions in a sealed environment.
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