NASA ontwerpt nieuw ruimtepak met... ingebouwd toilet - HLN.be

Bron: space.com

Tot nu toe bedraagt de gemiddelde tijd die een astronaut zich in zijn ruimtepak bevindt ongeveer tien uur. Vooral luiers worden als noodoplossing gebruikt. Ideaal is het echter niet. “Het werkt niet altijd naar behoren. Soms is er een lek, maar het zorgt er wel voor dat je je ruimtepak niet hoeft uit te trekken om naar het ruimtetoilet te gaan. Dat is altijd een lastig karwei”, vertelt Kirstyn Johson, een ingenieur van het NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. 

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Bovendien kunnen astronauten tijdens een wandeling buiten het ruimtetuig  niet naar het ruimtetoilet. Ze dragen dan een luier onder hun pak, maar kunnen die niet te lang aanhouden vanwege de hygiëne. Ontlasting gaat momenteel nog in zakjes en urine in speciale tanks die teruggaan naar aarde en daar worden verbrand. De garderobe van de astronauten was dan ook dringend aan een update toe vonden ze bij NASA. 

Het resultaat is een nieuw ruimtepak dat door de astronauten zes dagen lang gedragen kan worden. Ze kunnen in dit pak zowel eten als hun behoefte doen op een ingebouwd toilet zonder dat ze hiervan hinder zullen ondervinden. Het ingebouwde toilet is overigens niet het enige voordeel van het nieuwe pak. Zo worden astronauten voortdurend voorzien van schone lucht, water  en voldoende zuurstof. Genoeg om het zes dagen uit te houden. 

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23-02-2018 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

Last November, an unusual incident over Oregon made headlines after a mystery aircraft–resembling a jet by some descriptions–was tracked by various aviation authorities. The incident produced no results in terms of who had been piloting the aircraft, and for what reason, although attempts to communicate with and track the aircraft ultimately proved unsuccessful, as it had reportedly been “invisible” on radar at the time.

However, new details about the case have now emerged, following a new Freedom of Information Act request which provides further details on the unusual incident.

Tyler Rogoway, a writer for The Drive‘s “The Warzone,” first heard about the story from associates of his in aviation, as well as via a Reddit thread that appeared seemingly in relation to the incident. This information was later confirmed through dialogue with the FAA, NORAD, and USAF officials.

Along with a summary Rogoway penned for The Warzone, a series of Freedom of Information Act appeals were made in relation to the incident. Now, several months after the incident took place, FOIA data released to The Drive helps to further corroborate the incident, and according to Rogoway, represents what “could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF.”

Included with the release were a number of audio recordings of telephone conversations between officials, discussing the incident and the actions that were taken by official agencies in response to it.

According to the newly released data, the object was described as being a large aircraft by the pilots who saw it, who most commonly referred to it as a jet. Its coloration appeared to be white, or at least light-colored, and the aircraft was flying at an altitude of approximately 37,000 feet. It was also reported that the object was “moving at a clip” (fast, in other words) and that it was neither responding to attempts at radio communication nor was it being detected on radar or by traffic collision avoidance systems on the nearby aircraft.

What can we determine from this, and do any observations come to mind immediately? One thing that seems clear is that the object was probably not an experimental drone, as some suggested previously since it is unlikely that any unmanned remote-controlled aircraft would have to be as large as the aircraft seen over Oregon. Also, while it may be tempting to treat the object as an “unknown,” most descriptions did indicate that the object most closely resembled a jet (although distance had been a prime factor in making further details about its appearance less easily determinable).

Altogether, Rogoway has done a fine job reporting on the incident and gathering additional information about it. Also, he acknowledged what the circumstances here seem to entail, in light of the New York Times report on the Pentagon’s “secret” UFO program, noting that, “after recent reports unmasking how the Pentagon remains highly interested in encounters just like this one, it holds even more weight than it did three months ago.”

As to the origins of the aircraft that was observed over the northwest last fall, there is still a lot that remains unclear. Despite reports that likened the object’s appearance to that of a large jet, we can’t be certain as to what kind of plane the incident involved. Equally perplexing is the question of what it was doing flying at this altitude, and in broad daylight, while remaining unresponsive to queries from the FAA and other agencies (and let us not forget that concern over the aircraft’s presence prompted the scrambling of a group of F-15s, with the mission of intercepting the object).

As with the more esoteric incidents involving unexplained aerial phenomenon, this one leaves a lot to the imagination and even more questions than answers with the release of the new FOIA data. Pending further data in the future, this UFO “cold case” will for now remain one of the many mysteries of the skies that occasionally still transpire in modern times.

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23-02-2018 om 01:00 geschreven door peter  

An unexplored underwater labyrinth full of ancient mysteries might sound like the stuff of adventure fiction, but archeologists in Mexico have discovered just that. The recent discovery of the underwater cave network is being described as “the most important submerged archaeological site in the world.” That’s according to Guillermo de Anda, an underwater archaeologist from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History who is working on exploring and excavating the underwater tunnels system beneath Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The tunnels, known as the Sac Actún System, were discovered last year and immediately stunned geologists with their size. So far, researchers have discovered a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels stretching for 347 kilometres (216 miles), but it is believed that there are more tunnels which haven’t been discovered yet.

Some of the entrances are so small, divers must remove their breathing equipment to enter.

While the tunnel network itself is fascinating, it’s what’s been inside the tunnels that has archaeologists so excited. The labyrinth is believed to have flooded sometime between 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, creating the perfect conditions to preserve all of the archaeological wonders inside. So far, some of the most tantalizing finds are human remains believed to belong to ancient Maya people. The Maya weren’t known to be this far east in Mexico during those years, leading researchers to speculate that this underwater labyrinth could have once been a cave system used as a shelter on a long-forgotten ancient trade route before it flooded.

Footage from one of the dives shows the cave is full of human remains waiting to be analyzed. Or, you know, left in peace.

Also found in the caves are Maya burial sites, ceramic fragments, and remains of extinct plant life dating back to before the end of the last Ice Age. One of the archaeologists working at the site calls the Sac Actún System “a tunnel of time that transports you to a place 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.” Guillermo de Anda adds that these tunnels occupied an important place in Maya belief systems and cosmology, possibly meaning there could be even more mysterious discoveries waiting at the bottom of this underwater labyrinth:

It is a very powerful, magical region, where the supernatural reigns, where the gods and deities lived, where the good and the bad coexist, and it was also where men came from.

Who knows what could be down there in tunnels yet to be explored? The blind race of Morlocks descended from ancient Maya traders know. But they’ll never tell.

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23-02-2018 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

South Australia's X-Files: Curious Adelaide cracks open our most mysterious UFO cases

PHOTO: It seems there is no X-Files division in Australia, so we at Curious Adelaide stepped up. (Fox Broadcasting Company)

It's a question many of us have asked ourselves: are we alone in the universe?

From flying saucers to balls of light rocketing through the sky, South Australia has had its fair share of reported UFO encounters.

One avid ABC reader has asked us to delve into the history of the state's major cases, as part of our Curious Adelaide campaign.

So we dusted off some of South Australia's oldest X-Files to find answers.

Nightmare on the Nullarbor

PHOTO: The Daily Mirror reports on the Nullarbor incident. (The Daily Mirror)

We'll start in the outback, where a traumatised family was allegedly lifted off the ground by aliens.

It was still dark in the early hours of January 20, 1988, when the Knowles family was driving along the remote Nullarbor Plain.

The seemingly mundane trip from Perth to Melbourne quickly turned to terror when they encountered an unidentified flying object that tormented them for 90 minutes.

A large glowing object "like a big ball" chased Faye Knowles and her adult sons Patrick, Wayne and Sean down the highway, before landing on their roof and plucking them into the air.

"It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite violently and forced the car back down on the road with such pressure that one of the tyres was blown," a police spokesman told media at the time.

In a state of shock, Sean Knowles put his foot on the accelerator as his mother screamed but, according to reports, their voices distorted like time was slowing down.

PHOTO: Perhaps the treeless expanse of the Nullarbor resembled a Martian homeland. (ABC News: Jarrod Lucas)

"I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof... all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff," Faye Knowles told reporters after the incident.

"It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball.

"We thought we were dying, then we got out the car and we hid behind a little tree and the bushes and it couldn't find us."

The family eventually made it to Ceduna and reported the bizarre events to police who took the report seriously, given the state of the car, which was dented and had dust over it.

The story made headlines around the world with sceptics and believers alike trying to make sense of what happened on that lonely stretch of road.

Flying saucers and lights in the sky

PHOTO: A photo of a possible UFO sighting over Sheffield, England in 1962 released by the CIA. (Supplied: CIA)

UFO reports in the state can be traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century but it wasn't until the early Cold War that they started appearing all over the place.

Rockets were a new invention, originally for military purposes, that made the stars seem closer than ever before.

It seems that, in an atmosphere of heightened political tension, people became spooked by strange lights in the sky.

UFO researcher Keith Basterfield said Port Augusta was home to one of the state's first sightings.

"Even in the beginning of the flying saucer era in 1947 when the whole thing took off, we had one of the earliest sightings in Port Augusta," Mr Basterfield said.

"Five metallic objects were seen by three people working at the Commonwealth railways there.

"Even the government astronomer — we had such a person at the time — couldn't explain that sighting."

PHOTO: The Bunyip reported on a widespread flying saucer sighting in January 1954. (The Bunyip)

Reports made the front pages of newspapers of strange objects sighted from Eyre Peninsula to the outskirts of Adelaide.

On January 22, 1954, The Bunyip newspaper reported three people had sighted a flying saucer over Gawler.

"As the object approached at terrific speed they could make out the perfect shape of a saucer — pure white," the report stated.

"It looked no bigger than an ordinary saucer because of its great height."

One case that still stumps Mr Basterfield took place outside the remote community of Kimba on the Eyre Highway on the night of February 4, 1973.

PHOTO: Keith Basterfield travelled to Kimba to investigate the1973 sighting. (Supplied)

Four people in three separate cars all spotted it in a clearing they passed — an orange rectangle similar to an illuminated door in the scrub, with a strange figure standing inside.

Police were baffled, so Mr Basterfield and his team drove out to investigate.

"We had a look at the site, we took soil samples from the area, we had the samples analysed looking for something unusual there," he said.

"That's not your typical flying metallic saucer but it's a very, very strange set of observations by a group of independent people.

"And we never did get to the bottom of it."

PHOTO: Another possible UFO sighting captured in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1960 and released by the FBI. (Supplied: CIA)

Another strange happening, in South Australia's Flinders Ranges in 2006, was witnessed by scores of people many kilometres apart.

Service station owner John Teague was outside pumping tyres when something plummeted through the sky.

"For some reason I glanced up and I yelled, 'look at that Lloyd', and this thing was hurtling through the air," he said.

"Looked like [it was] about the size of a baseball just flying through the air rapidly."

Mr Teague made such a noise that a group across the street looked up and saw the same thing.

"Then all of a sudden, and this was quite some time later, a huge sonic boom rattled through the air," he said.

"I thought it might have been a meteor going through the air in daylight, I didn't know what it was, maybe space junk coming back.

"But it would have had to be pretty big for space junk for it to be that size way up in the air."

To this day, what it was remains a mystery.

So how common are UFO sightings in South Australia?

GIF: Lee-Anne Peters filmed this footage of what authorities later said was an aircraft over Tasmania

South Australia's Astronomical Society's Paul Curnow said it's pretty common.

"The average city person doesn't look at the sky very often and sometimes when they do look up and see something strange, they can't really explain it," Mr Curnow said.

Late last year, the Pentagon admitted that up until 2012, it had been running a secret investigation into UFOs, but it seems that Australia's aerospace and security agencies don't keep detailed records or data on UFO sightings — at least, that's what they told us.

When Curious Adelaide phoned SA Police to check whether it could shed some light on the matter there was a moment of silence, before some laughter.

Senior constable Mick Abbott did however make the following comment:

"If you stay on the line, I'll transfer you to agents Mulder and Scully from our X-Files division."

When the ABC contacted the CSIRO there was a similar reponse.

According to Paul Curnow, it's still common to get several dozen to hundreds of UFO reports each year in South Australia alone.

But what's being reported is changing, he told us, with fewer sightings of flying saucers hovering over the land.

"Probably for every 10 cases you get, nine can be explained in mundane terms," Mr Curnow said.

The majority of cases, unfortunately for those hoping for an encounter with the extra-terrestrial, have a logical explanation.

"Quite often people report a little silver dot in the sky [and it] turned out to be an aircraft," he said.

"A lot of these things like planes, satellites, planets, even searchlights sometimes, can all add to what people are reporting."

So is the truth really out there?

UFO researcher Keith Basterfield was based in Adelaide when the Knowles family incident occurred.

"My first thought was 'here is a very interesting story that we can carry out some hard science on'," he said.

"We've got a vehicle, we've got reported unusual dust on a vehicle, we've got a number of witnesses.

"If we could document all that we'd have a very strong case for saying something unusual occurred."

However, the conclusion he reached was far from the extra-terrestrial encounter portrayed by the media.

The car had been forensically tested with nothing unusual found, and Mr Basterfield had a more ordinary explanation for the bright light.

"We figured it was potentially a mirage caused by a temperature inversion that night," he said.

That kind of mirage can make lights a long way in the distance curve over the Earth's horizon and appear to be much closer than they actually are.

"Although they saw the light approaching them, they never saw the [source of the] light reach them, so it never actually got to them," Mr Basterfield said.

"It disappeared at that point in front of them so we figured a mirage of a track light several kilometres away could explain that."

YOUTUBE: Derryn Hinch speaks to the Knowles family in 1988

He also had a simple explanation for the car jumping and vibrating.

"If a tyre explodes under your car going at really high speed you're going to get vibrations, you're going to get brake dust entering the vehicle," Mr Basterfield said.

"It was simply a case of misunderstanding, of seeing a light in the distance, a tyre bursting and those things had built up into a story."

While it seems science offers an explanation for many of the sightings in the state, you'll need to decide for yourself whether it's more tale than truth.

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23-02-2018 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

UFO METAL MYSTERY: Material allegedly stored by Pentagon is 'not from this earth'

SUBSTANCES allegedly recovered from a UFO were found to be made of materials "not from this earth”, it has staggeringly been claimed. A top UFO expert told Express.co.uk he has been assured that the material has been tested and has been found to have inexplicable properties.

23-02-2018 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

Un OVNI a été observé au-dessus de La Garde dans le Var

Le vendredi 16 février 2018, dans la soirée, des habitants de La Garde, dans le sud de la France, ont observé « une lumière rouge stationnaire au-dessus du plan de la Garde ». Cet OVNI a filé « brutalement vers le littoral » avant de virer « au vert ».

Michel Durbano est agriculteur et conseiller municipal. Ce soir-là, il a, lui-aussi, été témoin de cet phénomène inexplicable. Il raconte qu’au moment des faits, il « n’avait rien bu ». Il a expliqué ce qu’il a vu :

« Nous avons aperçu mon épouse, un ami et moi-même vers 18h35, une lumière rouge intense dans le ciel nous avons d’abord pensé à un drone. La hauteur semblait raisonnable (une centaine de mètres). Elle ne bougeait pas et était silencieuse. »

« Puis d’un coup cette lumière s’est élevée rapidement et est devenue verte. Mon ami, qui a un drone, a dit que ça allait trop vite et trop haut pour un drone, sauf peut-être un drone militaire. La lumière est ensuite rentrée dans les nuages en restant juste à la limite. Le plafond était plus haut que le sommet de la Colle noire et du paradis qui nous entourent, nous avons continué à l’observer. »

Après 2 minutes d’observation, l’OVNI est parti à une vitesse inimaginable :

« Puis toujours en silence elle est partie plein sud à très grande vitesse. En 2 ou 3 secondes, elle est passée de l’aplomb à la limite La Garde – Le Pradet (vers le carrefour de la Diligence) à l’aplomb de la mer . Ensuite après quelques secondes sur place toujours en limite des nuages, elle s’est dirigée toujours à très grande vitesse vers l’est et est passée derrière la Colle noire et nous l’avons perdue de vue. »

Malgré son scepticisme et sa prudence, l’homme avoue que ce qu’il a vu ce soir-là est difficilement explicable :

« Compte tenu de la vitesse de déplacement, ça ne pouvait pas être un hélico. Ni un avion parce qu’il tournait à angle droit et sans un bruit. Il n’est pas possible non plus que ce soit une lanterne thaïlandaise parce que la lumière se déplaçait à contresens du vent. »

Tony C., un autre habitant de la commune de la Garde, a aussi assisté à ce phénomène. Il témoigne :

« Mot pour mot, je peux faire la même description s’étonne-t-il. C’était en début de semaine dernière et je promenais mes chiens à la sortie de La Crau, derrière le nouveau cimetière. Il était environ 18h30 quand on a aperçu, mon fils et moi, une lumière rouge qui planait au-dessus des champs. »

« Tout d’un coup, elle s’est mise à monter à la verticale et la lumière est devenue verte. Après quelques instants elle a complètement disparu, sans doute à cause de l’altitude. Mon fils a pensé à un drone mais la vitesse à laquelle l’engin est monté laisse septique. Depuis je continue de scruter le ciel tous les soirs quand je sors mes chiens mais je ne la vois plus. »

Source: Var Matin, le 19 février 2018

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23-02-2018 om 00:07 geschreven door peter  

Who's Been Running MUFON?

By Jack Brewer
The UFO Trail
2-12-18

The Mutual UFO Network recently announced a new Director of Research, Dr. Christopher Cogswell. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and "hopes to bring a seriousness and strong research focus to this field," according to the MUFON website.

While we wish the doctor the highest degree of success, we would be remiss if we failed to observe the organization where he chooses to volunteer has an infamous history of substantially obstructing the very efforts he claims to undertake. His predecessor, Robert Powell, bailed for reasons reportedly including the MUFON choices of speakers at its annual symposium in 2017. In a nutshell, the organization's missionstatement of dedication to scientific study is miles apart from many of its actual activities. If Dr. Cogswell is going to help the situation a number of circumstances will need to be addressed, from employing hypnosis as a memory retrieval tool to endorsing psychic channeling, and those are just some of the problems.

A lack of transparency and public accountability has long plagued MUFON. We have explored it at length on The UFO Trail, including posts such as UFO Community Members Weigh in on Dubious MUFON Speakers. Long before Powell's concerns became more widely known, writers and researchers such as Nigel Watson, Frank Warren, Robert Sheaffer, and several more expressed relevant points about the quality of MUFON speakers and contributed to the 2015 post. 

Back in 2014 we attempted to obtain explanations of what MUFON termed a collaboration with a French government agency, GEIPAN, that investigates unexplained aerial phenomena. Statements from MUFON leadership arguably were embarrassingly vague, while, in stark contrast, the head of GEIPAN proved quite willing to discuss the circumstances when contacted.

Other posts, such as parts one and two of the 2013 offering, MUFON, Science and Deception, further demonstrated the leadership's lack of willingness to field questions. MUFON's Jan Harzan has been contacted numerous times, including for comment on how an org dedicated to scientific study could promote such entirely speculative notions as Barbara Lamb's claims surrounding ET-human hybrids, but did not respond. 

Likewise, Harzan failed to respond to inquiries about the criteria used to grant David Jacobs a lifetime achievement award. Jacobs is a historian who practices hypnosis as a memory enhancer, claimed to have been harassed by an ET-human hybrid that sent him instant messages, and suggested to Emma Woods to wear a chastity belt during a long distance telephone hypnosis session, among numerous other dubious actions.

In preparation for a 2013 article on a reported UFO crash in Casselberry, Florida, attempts were made to consult several MUFON personnel. Multiple emails inquiring about the case were sent to the Executive Director, Director of Investigations, Florida State Director, and a former Florida Chief Field Investigator. None responded. We could go on at length, but the issues run even deeper still than irresponsibly promoting unsubstantiated conjecture under the guise of science or failing to share information about investigations.

From where I sit, it is significant that the Pentagon indirectly admitted funneling funds to MUFON via Robert Bigelow. This was clearly done through Bigelow's now known receipt of funds and subsequent MUFON-BAASS initiative, yet it is virtually a non-story in UFO Land. Community members for years accused MUFON of acting as an arm of the federal government, and are now validated for all practical purposes, yet the wheels of sensationalism continue to turn with hardly a pause. You can't say we weren't warned.

The Pentagon acknowledges the Defense Intelligence Agency invested money in the UFO community. Up until that time, such interests and circumstances were officially denied. They were taboo, scandalous. It was out of bounds to so much as speculate the IC was in bed with UFO researchers and their organizations. Capital "S" Skeptics cried conspiracy and called for proof. Now it's confirmed and met with a shrug on both sides of the UFO community aisle.

I'd like to direct our attention for a while, please, to the fact the intelligence community has full on acknowledged involvement in the UFO community - this century, here and now. Others told us so and they are now validated, yet it's seemingly not a story, in lieu of analyzing film clips, exchanging opinions on inconclusive claims about alleged aliens, and minimizing its potential significance. In my opinion, if funding sources for one project are called into question, then funding sources for many projects are called into question, especially those involving the same individuals and organizations.

MUFON has a long way to go to gain any credibility, not to mention competently addressing who's been running its organization. Please join me in considering some of the circumstances that brought us to the point in which the Pentagon casually confirmed what amounts to funding the Mutual UFO Network.

The Carpenter Affair. Let's start there. 

During the 1990's, the org's lead alien abduction researcher "confidentially," as he put it to me in a series of emails, provided Robert Bigelow - the guy who would later play point man on the DIA's Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program - with data from case files of alleged abductees in exchange for a reported $14,000. John Carpenter, a Missouri social worker and hypnosis advocate, defended his actions, which included choosing not to obtain consent from the 140 people prior to releasing their files to Bigelow and his National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS). 

MUFON officials, including John Schuessler, who sat on a NIDS board, primarily chose the stance of silence on the topic. Col. John Alexander, a former employee of the Bigelow-founded NIDS, declined comment in 2013. Alexander was asked about any interest he may have had in the files; why he suspected his employer, Bigelow, may have desired to obtain them; if other alien abduction researchers also shared files with Bigelow as Carpenter claimed may have been the case; and if Alexander was at liberty to discuss any relationships between Bigelow corporations and intelligence agencies. Alexander, a man who has repeatedly presented himself as willing and able to talk inside baseball on UFOs and the intelligence community, didn't want to discuss it.

The above image is a copy of the second page of a 1996 letter apparently composed from Carpenter to Bigelow, discussing copying and sending 140 case files, as well as expressing thanks for payment. The image was obtained from researcher Gary Hart, who included the letter and other items in complaints filed to MUFON and the State of Missouri Division of Professional Registration. Read more in the 2013 blog post on the Carpenter Affair linked above.

In 2017 I published a post about NSA largely releasing a document via my FOIA request about an NSA assignee's attendance at a UFO symposium. The existence of the document, though previously withheld, was long known to researchers such as Philip Klass. Although we did not previously know its specific contents, Klass confidently suspected it was authored by Tom Deuley. Klass was in all likelihood correct for reasons provided and linked in my 2017 post. The document proved to be a memo, titled Information request solicitation, in which its author informed NSA of events and actions of researchers at the 1978 MUFON Symposium.

From the now mostly declassified memo:

In 2014 I did a blog post on the ill-fated Ambient Monitoring Project (AMP). The undertaking was initially titled the Abduction Monitoring Project, but was changed for reasons that reportedly included efforts to increase credibility and attract qualified researchers. The initiative involved placing instruments to measure environmental changes in the homes of individuals reporting alien abductions. It was headed up by long time ufology staple and career intelligence officer Tom Deuley, who likely composed the above NSA memo and served in leadership capacities of multiple UFO organizations, including MUFON. Funding sources for the AMP were not clearly disclosed and details of project results were never released. From the 2014 blog post:

Deuley wrote in the 2008 Journal article that the AMP was jointly proposed to MUFON, FUFOR [Fund for UFO Research] and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). The collaboration reportedly resulted in the UFO Research Coalition, or the URC, as Deuley dubbed it. Exactly where the funding originated, however, was not clear, and Deuley did not at all address the amount and specific terms of project funding.

The proposal was given to the Fund for UFO Research, Deuley stated in the article, “with the intention that they in turn offer the idea to some prospective donors who might be interested in this project.”

“Over time,” he continued, “the Fund’s efforts led to sufficient funding for the work.”

“With a good prospect for a sponsor,” Deuley not so clearly explained further, “the URC continued to fine-tune the proposal. After several rounds of changes and negotiation with the prospective funding organization, the proposal for the Ambient Monitoring Project was accepted.”

Who ever the “prospective funding organization” of which Deuley may have been referring, how ever the proposal may specifically have been “accepted,” and where ever reported “sufficient funding” may have actually originated, Richard Hall told UFO Updates List the project was out of money. Hall informed them of that nine months before Deuley's July, 2008, article which suggested funding was in hand and data was in the process of being analyzed.

[...]

In 2008 I emailed inquiries about the project to various board members of the UFO organizations involved. An email was sent to Deuley, who I requested provide details that might be available for public release, particularly concerning such information as final analysis and project personnel. He replied August 2, 2008: 

“The analysis is in progress and will include a full report when all of the cases have been analyzed. Until then we feel it is prudent to not publicize who is doing the analysis or where it is being conducted. The report is most likely to be printed in theMUFON Journal, and if extensive to be published for sale by the UFO Research Coalition.”

I sent a similar inquiry to David Boras of CUFOS, who briefly replied on August 3, 2008, “Statistical analyses are ongoing and not yet available.”

Astronomer Dr. John Carlson, also of FUFOR, and I exchanged some brief messages. Even after I made him aware Deuley had just days prior stated in an email to me that AMP data was in the process of being analyzed, Carlson wrote in an August 5, 2008 email there were no funds to analyze the data, so he believed the project was effectively dormant.

Such discrepancies and contradictions within MUFON and UFO orgs have now become common to the point of no longer attracting meaningful discussion. Inaccuracy and a lack of direct answers from leadership have come to be expected. 

There may be some events of interest under the descriptions of high strangeness or things in the sky. I don't claim to know, and as regular readers are aware, my primary area of focus migrated into social aspects of the UFO community. While I don't profess to conclusively know much about what all is being reported and witnessed, I'm pretty confident you aren't going to get any substantial explanations from the latest crowd of self-proclaimed insiders, researchers, and disclosure activists. We simply have no reason to think so, barring extreme changes of operating procedures. It is more than reasonable at this point, if not arguably naive not to call into question the funding sources and agendas of those directing the UFO research community.

It is also reasonable to desire financial accountability from tax-funded projects, such as the AATIP, and nonprofit corporations, namely MUFON, that collect public financial support while enjoying tax benefits. You are entitled to expect accurate and reasonably transparent reporting of budgets and activities. We clearly have a long, long way to go to achieve such transparency in the UFO community. I am strongly of the opinion its obstruction and the related issues are much more worthy of attention than the unsubstantiated sensational claims promoted by the involved parties.

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A.I.'s Rapid Advance Should Be Truly Scary If You're Paying Attention

By Kevin Litman-Navarro

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Animation Tool Helps Alien - Hunting Scientists Track a Planet's Habitable Zone

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Amateur Astronomer Wins 'Cosmic Lottery' with 1-in-10-Million Supernova Shot

22-02-2018 om 15:50 geschreven door peter  

A UFO sighting in Dewsbury? Well, not quite..

BY ALEX MILLER

A loud bang and fast-moving flashing lights in the Dewsbury night sky had imaginative residents fearing a UFO attack this week.

It transpired that the commotion was likely to do with a heavy-duty military aircraft on a fly-over.

A mysterious light above Dewsbury.

The GR4 Tornado flew over the region at 3000ft. Footage of the sighting was sent in by Reporter series reader Aron Kennedy.

{ https://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/ }

22-02-2018 om 15:26 geschreven door peter  

1962 UFO Crash at Nellis Air Force Base Outside of Las Vegas, NV

22-02-2018 om 15:14 geschreven door peter  

The Crop Circle Mystery: A Closer Look

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22-02-2018 om 14:56 geschreven door peter  

Manhattan reported more UFO sightings than any other borough

By Dean Balsamini

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NASA warns of asteroid skimming close to Earth within 48 HOURS

AN ASTEROID darting through space at a staggering 16,553mph is set to brush past Earth within the next 48 hours.

By Joshua Nevett 

The space rock, named Asteroid 2017 DR109, is expected to hurtle past the planet at a hair-raisingly close distance on Saturday February 24, NASA has warned.

{ https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ }

22-02-2018 om 14:28 geschreven door peter  

Ancient civilisation used sound energy to 'LEVITATE and contact aliens' – shock claim

ARCHAEOLOGICAL findings suggest previous civilisations used circular structures as energy-generating devices to create man-made portals in time, according to boffins online.

By Callum Hoare 

The research – which extended over a two-year period – suggested that human beings from thousands of years ago produced natural sound harmonic frequencies produced from the surface of the Earth.

The technology they apparently used is said to be similar to the way we use laser technology today.

Some of the frequencies recorded are believed to reach more than 380 gigahertz – much greater than any levels used today.

The discovery has left many confused as to what this previous society could possibly have done with the energy they created and whether they could have possibly known more about our planet than we do today.

The video was uploaded to YouTube channel UFOmania yesterday, and has already racked up more than 5000 hits.

And viewers suggested that previous societies have been in contact with extraterrestrial life.

One comment read: “Sound is one of the most abundant forms of free energy on the planet.

“It is the primordial source of all things and is the common denominator of all creation.

“With that being said, if an extraterrestrial race wanted to harvest energy from the planet, it could create such energy with sound.

“Sound was used as energy to levitate objects in order to create the monuments that opened vortices which allowed spacecraft to come and go."

{ https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ }

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Researchers find ancient rock art with paintings of whales and sharks in the desert

A dramatic scene has been found by experts exploring the Atacama Desert in Chile as they have come across hundreds of pieces of stunning 1,500 year-old-rock art, depicting the slaughter of whales, turtles and even sharks.

In the north of Chile, located right between the Pacific Ocean and the beginning of the vast Atacama Desert is the archaeological site of El Médano. North of it, researchers have discovered a new archaeological site with more than 300 ancient paintings.

The archaeological site of El Médano features a valuable set of rock paintings which were discovered in 1918 by an amateur archaeologist named Augusto Capdeville.

But, now, a team from the University of La Sorbonne, has located in the vicinity, new previously unknown rock art.

The new site called Izcuña, located a few miles north of Médano depicts drawings which are approximately 1,500 years old.

There, using strokes of red color, the ancient inhabitants of the region made rock art depicting the hung of whales, swordfish, marlin, squid, sea lion, turtles, and sharks.

All the paintings were made with a pigment of a red color and show the harpooned animals, but not their hunters.

Scientists explain how these hunting scenes are based on the everyday experiences of the ancient inhabitants living near Chile’s coastline.

The same scenery was present in the rock art researchers discovered at the beginning of the 20^th century, although those paintings recreated hunting scenes of terrestrial animals.

The value of this finding is enormous because it helps document how the inhabitants of the area extracted a large part of their resources from the ocean, and also what techniques they used for it.

As noted by experts, the ancient inhabitants had advanced fishing and hunting technologies that included fish hook built from shell, bone, cactus spines, copper, and even rafts made of sea lion skin.

As noted by the Daily Mail, archaeologists have discovered around 328 paintings at Izcuña, on 24 blocks of rock.

“Archaeological evidence attests to a society specialized in marine resource exploitation. Its sophisticated fishing and hunting technology included fish-hooks made from shell, bone, cactus spines and copper, and cotton lines, nets, stone weights, harpoons and rafts made of sea lion skin,” explained researchers in the study.

“This specialization and the resource-rich Pacific coast allowed the inhabitants to be hugely productive, thereby facilitating permanent residential camps located near water springs and on natural jetties. From here, small groups could explore vast territories.”

Source: Ballester 2018 – El Médano rock art style: Izcuña paintings and the marine hunter-gatherers of the Atacama Desert

Image credit: Francisco Gallardo

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22-02-2018 om 13:50 geschreven door peter  

Disclosure Time? Unpublished Project Blue Book Documents Released To The Public

One of the officers working on the Blue Book Project dared to rescue photographs, books, texts, documents, letters and trash memos, when the government-funded-initiative, project Blue Book; the study of UFOs was completed in 1969.

Now, thanks to researcher Rob Mercer and John Greenewald founder of The Black Vault, previously unknown documents have been digitized and posted online for the world to see.

The documents—which have all been declassified—were found behind a pile of firewood at a garage auction that took place in Fairborn, Ohio.

The Wright-Patterson Air Base, home of Project Blue Book and rumored to be the place where the remains of the ET ship that crashed in Roswell were taken to, is also located in Fairborn.

This last fact motivated investigator Rob Mercer, who immediately suspected that there was a possibility that the documents were genuine and decided to acquire them.

The investigation to determine the veracity of the find led Mercer to one officer responsible for having saved the archives instead of destroying them: Carmon Marano, a US Air Force lieutenant who worked at Project Blue Book, one of the US government’s attempts to explain the UFO phenomenon and, many times, debunk it before the public.

The Documents, already verified as genuine, have been posted online by John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault.

Marked with a circle, Lieutenant Carmon Marano. Beneath him, in the center, Hector Quintanilla, the last director of Project Blue Book.

You can consult and download them directly from this link.

Project Blue Book was a series of studies on UFOs by the United States Air Force (USAF).

The objective of Project Blue Book was to determine if UFOs were a potential threat to national security.

Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed and archived.

This has been the last USAF project related to UFOs that have been made public so far.

According to investigations, towards the end of 1951, several influential high ranking generals of the USAF were so dissatisfied with the state of UFO investigations of the Air Force that they dismantled the so-called Project Grudge and replaced it with Project Blue Book in early 1952.

During the time that Blue Book lasted, which was completed in 1969, 12,618 UFO reports were collected. Experts at the time had concluded that most ‘sightings’ were misinterpretations of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft.

Image credit Shutterstock.

A few sightings were considered frauds.

701 cases—approximately 6%—were classified as unexplained.

The reports were archived and are available under the Freedom of Information Act, but the names of the witnesses and other personal information have been removed.

The decision to terminate Project Blue Book was based on several factors, such as the evaluation of a report written by the University of Colorado entitled “The scientific study of UFOs”, the review of this report by the National Academy of Sciences, the UFO cases previously studied and the experience of the Air Force, which investigated UFO reports between 1940 and 1969.

As a consequence of these investigations, studies, and experiences, the conclusions of the Project Blue Book were:

• 1) No UFO which the Air Force investigated ever posed a threat to National Security.
• 2) The Air Force has not found any evidence that the observations classified as “unidentified” represent objects or technological principles that go beyond the scientific knowledge of the time.
• 3) There has been no evidence to indicate that the observations classified as “unidentified” were extraterrestrial vehicles.

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