Is this the oldest map in Europe? Giant stone slab with markings etched 4,000 years ago depicts a region of France during the Bronze Age

• A stone slab forgotten for a century has been deemed the oldest map in Europe

• The stone slab dates back to some 4,000 years ago during the Bronze Age 

• It was first discovered in France in 1900 and then sat in a castle cellar until 2017

• Experts recently analyzed the slab, which shows etchings of West Brittany

• There is a 3D shape to represent the valley of the River Odet in France 

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A Bronze Age stone slab unearthed in France in 1900 has been rediscovered in a new analysis that deems it to be the oldest known map in Europe.

A team of French scientists determined the markings were etched 4,000 years ago and depict an area in Western Brittany, France.

The slab, dubbed Saint-Bélec Slab, includes elements the team says they would expect in a prehistoric map - including 'repeated motifs joined by lines to give the layout of a map.

The engraved surface suggests that the slab's topography was purposely 3D-shaped to represent the valley of the River Odet, while several lines appear to depict the river network.

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A Bronze Age stone slab unearthed in France in 1900 has been rediscovered in a new analysis that deems it to be the oldest known map in Europe

A team of French scientists determined the markings were etched 4,000 years ago and depict an area in Western Brittany, France. Pictured: the team's interpretation of the engravings on the Saint-Bélec Slab (top left) as compared with the early Bronze Age structures known in the Montagnes noires area (top right) and known river and princely barrow features (bottom left). The final map (bottom right) shows the area of France depicted on the map with respect to other barrow locations and their corresponding theorised territories

'A map is 'a drawing or plan of the earth's surface or part of it,' the team wrote in the announcement.

'The Saint-Bélec Slab does indeed bear the three elements that are most probative of prehistoric cartographic representation: homogenous composition with engravings that are identical in technique and style and repetition of motifs.'

The slab had been forgotten throughout time as it moved to different locations around France.

It was first re-used in a burial structure during the end of the early Bronze Age.

A team of French scientists determined the markings were etched 4,000 years ago and depict an area in Western Brittany, France

Using high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry of the slab, the team was able to confirm the engravings matched 80 percent of an area that surrounds the 18-mile long River Odet

The slab formed one of the walls of a stone-made coffin that held a number of bodies with the engravings turned toward the inside of the tomb.

When first unearthed in 1900, experts moved it to Museum of National Antiquities in 1924 and then it was relocated to a caste in France until it was found in 2014.

However, it wasn't until 2017 did researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), Bournemouth University and University of Western Brittany lay eyes on the carved slab.

Using high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry of the slab, the team was able to confirm the engravings matched 80 percent of an area that surrounds the 18-mile long River Odet.

The slab, dubbed Saint-Bélec Slab, includes elements the team says they would expect in a prehistoric map - including 'repeated motifs joined by lines to give the layout of a map.

When first unearthed in 1900, experts moved it to Museum of National Antiquities in 1924 and then it was relocated to a caste in France until it was found in 2014. However, it wasn't until 2017 did researchers uncover its true meaning

'This is probably the oldest map of a territory that has been identified,' Dr Clément Nicolas from Bournemouth University, one of the study's authors, told the BBC.

'There are several such maps carved in stone all over the world. Generally, they are just interpretations. But this is the first time a map has depicted an area on a specific scale.'

The sheet of rock is five feet by 6 feet long and is said to highlight that the area was a territory of hierarchical political entity that tightly controlled a territory in the early Bronze Age, and breaking it may have indicated condemnation and deconsecration.

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08-04-2021 om 17:50 geschreven door peter  

An ancient engraving on a very old stone slab has been called the oldest 3D map of Europe.

The stone, which measures 2 meters by 1.5 meters (6.6 feet by 5 feet), has been named the Saint-Bélec Slab. It was initially found back in the year 1900 by archaeologist Paul du Chatellier during a dig at a prehistoric burial ground in Finistère, western Brittany, and was rediscovered in the cellar of the French castle, Château de Kernuz, over a century later in 2014.

Recent analysis of the stone revealed that it dates back approximately 4,000 years (between 1900 BC and 1650 BC during the early Bronze Age) and contains what archaeologists believe is an ancient map of an area in France’s northwestern region of Brittany.

The map was engraved on a large stone slab (not the stone mentioned in this article).

According to the Bulletin of the French Prehistoric Society, the “presence of repeated motifs joined by lines” indicates that it was engraved to represent an area of Finistère. Furthermore, experts who analyzed the stone believe that the indentations on the slab depict the River Odet valley and additional lines seemingly show the river network. As a matter of fact, thanks to high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry, the experts were able to determine that the engravings on the stone are about 80% accurate to a location in Brittany that surrounds an 18-mile long stretch of the River Odet.

The 2.2-metre by 1.53-metre stone was first discovered in 1900 but then lost until 2014. 

Photograph: Denis Gliksman

The slab is believed to have been used as one of the walls of a stone tomb. 

Photograph: Denis Gliksman

In an interview with the BBC, Dr. Clément Nicolas from Bournemouth University stated, “This is probably the oldest map of a territory that has been identified.”

He went on to explain the slab in further detail, “There are several such maps carved in stone all over the world. Generally, they are just interpretations. But this is the first time a map has depicted an area on a specific scale,” adding, “It was probably a way to affirm the ownership of the territory by a small prince or king at the time.”

River Odet

It’s incredible to think that someone who lived around 4,000 years ago created such a detailed three-dimensional map on a stone slab. “We tend to underestimate the geographical knowledge of past societies. This slab is important as it highlights this cartographical knowledge,” Dr. Nicolas noted.

Pictures of the stone slab with the engraved map can be seen here.

image captionThe slab is covered in patterns of engravings

image captionThe slab was first discovered in Brittany in 1900.

image captionMarkings on the rock are believed to depict an area of western Brittany

image captionThe "map" matches a a stretch of the River Odet valley

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08-04-2021 om 17:38 geschreven door peter  

CLOSE FOOTAGE UFO IN MEXICO/ Could This Be "The BEST" UFO Sighting EVER? Believe me!

CLOSE FOOTAGE UFO IN MEXICO

Could This Be “The BEST” UFO Sighting EVER? Believe me

UFO abducting a helicopter to another dimension | @SECRET SPACE TUBE​

UFO sightings floating above the sea - April 2021 |   @SECRET SPACE TUBE

[ MUFON Case ] Twin soul orbs meet fuse and disappear - Austria - Jan, 28, 2021 |  @SECRET SPACE TUBE

Two Snake UFO dancing in the sky - Mexico - March 2021 | @SECRET SPACE TUBE

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08-04-2021 om 17:07 geschreven door peter  

Former CIA Director Now Thinks Aliens Might Be Real - Navy Issues Statement on Creepy UFO Incident

FORMER CIA DIRECTOR NOW THINKS ALIENS MIGHT BE REAL, NAVY ISSUES STATEMENT ON CREEPY UFO INCIDENT

TIC-TAC SHAPED UFO CAPTURED ON VIDEO OVER BRAZIL ON 3-25-2021  

INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE OF SEVERAL UFOs FLYING OVER HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA 3-26-2021

UFO footage that collides with an unknown object and crashes – April 2021 | @SECRET SPACE TUBE

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08-04-2021 om 16:48 geschreven door peter  

Here’s a Strange Rock That Perseverance Shot With its Laser

Perseverance has been busy lately.  After testing its systems out, taking the first sound recording ever on the Red Planet, and dropping off its helicopter sidekick, now it has the opportunity to work on its primary mission: stare at some rocks.  And occasionally zap them with a laser.

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has made an interesting discovery

(Nasa)

That laser is part of the Supercam system we reported on previously.  It sublimates part of a rock with its laser. The gas given off by the sublimation is then analyzed by spectroscopic cameras onboard the rover.  That spectroscopy of the smoke emitted by the rock helps determine what the rock is actually made out of.  

Recently, the rover came across a unique rock that piqued its scientific team’s interest.  They duly zapped the rock with a laser, and Perseverance posted a picture of the now slightly more pockmarked rock on its Twitter feed.  

The rover even challenged its followers to try to find the additional pockmarks created by the laser, which Twitter user @justpaladone and a number of others managed to do in replies to the main tweet.

Another Twitter user, Nicolas Worth, pointed out the similarity between the rock Perseverance is researching and one found by Opportunity in 2005 now known as the Heat Shield Rock. That rock turned out to be a meteorite made of 93% iron, and was the first meteorite found on another planet. 

Whether or not Perseverance blasted a possible meteorite with a laser is still up for debate, and it’s probably going to be awhile before any results from the Supercam science mission will be released.  Until then Perseverance will continue blasting rocks and patiently waiting for its winged friend to take flight, which should happen in the coming weeks.

The Perseverance rover used its SuperCam laser to study this strange green rock on Mars. 

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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• UT – Since Perseverance is Searching for Life, What Will it Be Looking for?

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08-04-2021 om 16:36 geschreven door peter  

08-04-2021 om 15:14 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Charlottesville, Virginia On 4-6-2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 4-6-2021
Location of sighting: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Source: MUFON 114606 

 

The eyewitness noticed a bright light moving across the sky. This video footage is only 1 min however in that minute the craft moves across the sky. This is not a satellite, rocket, plane, helicopter, venus or weather balloon. I know people try to justify UFOs being other things than what they are...UFOs. Often people who see them are frightened by the reality of it being a UFO and they will go into a denial stage...it's an emotional wall of protection from the reality that is frightening them. You call them debunkers...I call them frightened children who cant face reality. This is 100% a UFO. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

I was walking my dog in the park as I noticed my dog look up toward me and for some reason I also looked up and noticed the bright roundish shaped object in the video I took. I heard absolutely nothing at all. This area does see it's fair share of military helicopters, osprey, coast guard, and E2 Greyhounds - my father flew c-130's and I've also seen them here as well...and all of them are loud. Sound here travels really far especially at night which is also part of what drew my attention. The video was taken after I confirmed on a flight radar app on my phone that it was not a commercial aircraft - and this app sometimes shows military without call signs - that wasn't present at all so I turned on the camera to film. I checked satellites when I got home and didn't see any with a western trajectory - not to say they don't exist...but this thing wasn't moving satellite fast - it was moving more like a a commercial airliner....but clearly wasn't. My eye didn't detect the flashing you can see in the video - it was definitively *not* flashing to the naked eye as it is in the video.

  

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08-04-2021 om 14:48 geschreven door peter  

MUFON: UFO Over Bellevue, Nebraska On 6-20-2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 6-20-2018
Location of sighting: Bellevue, Nebraska, USA
Source: MUFON 114611

Although this video was taken back in 2018, it was held until today and sent into MUFON a few hours ago. The video shows a round black object in the sky moving around and clearly showing interest in the girl watching it. This UFO was mentally tying itself to the eyewitness, because thats how they communicate with AI devices. We call it telepathy, but aliens call it normal ways of speaking to each other. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

Eyewitness states: 

I was s work. Went outside for my break to smoke a cigarette. When I was about to go inside the building, I had this giant oval thing in the sky floating, circling, even being still in the air. I could clearly see the craft with my own eyes. At that time, I didn't have a good phone with a good camera that can zoom, but I caught it on camera. It was an amazing experience.

  

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08-04-2021 om 14:43 geschreven door peter  

Signs Of Ancient Aliens On Mars, 100% Proof They Exist, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of discovery: 2009-2010, but revisiting today.

Location of discovery: 33°12'29.82"N, 12°55'51.21"W

 

Here's an old discovery I made back in 2010 and wanted to revisit it to see if its still there and it sure was. I really thought that Google Mars map would have edited these faces, figure and giant arrow out...but they didn't and thats rare. Usually objects are edited out within 3-6 months after reporting them on Google Earth, however, Mars map is less edited. 

 

There are four ancient monuments seen here.

1. Face one, human like, but with bigger ears.

2. Face two, non human, near leg of figure. 

3. Tall standing figure, with long arms and legs. 

4. An arrow pointing to the tall figures head.

 

The standing figure measures 8.6km or 5.3 miles from top of head to bottom of feet. The figures long arm measures 3.4 miles or 5.5km long. The Arrow measures 1.9km long, 1.1km wide at tip. The face near the leg is 1.76km from chin to top of head. The human face is 2.0km from head to lower neck. 

 

The detail of these ancient monuments are outstanding. Its hard to believe that NASA has never discussed even one of them, let alone ignoring all four. These are too large to ignore.

 

 

Much like the large face at Cydonia, Mars everyone has heard of. I have found a lot of faces since I was 7 years old at Silicon Valley, CA including the face at Cydonia. Yes others take credit, they always do, but I know the truth and it feels like yesterday, even though it was 43 years ago. I wrote about it several times and is included in my book UFO Sightings of 2006-2009.

Scott C. Waring

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08-04-2021 om 14:39 geschreven door peter  

On April 2, 2021 NASA's satellite EUVI-A 304 captured a massive UFO. One day later, on April 3, 2021 another NASA satellite EUVI-A 284 captured the same UFO at the same location near the sun. 

Seen from different angles as captured by the two satellites there is No doubt that it is the same spacecraft.

  

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08-04-2021 om 14:15 geschreven door peter  

Elena Danaan recounts her personal contact experiences, the most dramatic of which involved an abduction at age nine by five gray aliens.

In the midst of two medical procedures involving implants, she was rescued by two human looking extraterrestrials using laser weapons. In the interview, Elena explains how her rescuers repurposed one of the implants so they could subsequently remain in telepathic communications. Elena learned that her rescuers belong to a Galactic Federation of Worlds that is helping Earth's Great Awakening. 

Elena explains how the Galactic Federation first became interested in Earth after it was advised by another extraterrestrial political organization, the Andromeda Council, that a future galactic tyranny could be traced back to Earth in the present era. This matches the testimony of Alex Collier who said, around 1991, that the sudden appearance of a galactic tyranny four hundred years in our future could be traced back to the Earth, Moon and Mars. 

Elena recounts how President Eisenhower was betrayed by the Majestic-12 Group which made an agreement with Gray aliens without his permission. This matches insider accounts that Eisenhower was on the verge of ordering the US Army to take over the Area 51 S-4 facility controlled by the MJ-12 Group in 1958 for their failure to fully brief him on their activities. 

Elena further explains how in November 2018, she was advised by one of her alien rescuers, Thorhan, that in two years, the Earth would enter a very dangerous phase, but at the end of it, humanity would be liberated by the dark forces that have controlled it for centuries. This brings us to contemporary political events and multiple insider accounts that claim White Hats have set the stage for a series of earth shattering announcements. 

Watch this fascinating interview for a glimpse into how different extraterrestrial factions are battling one another to steer humanity's destiny.

  

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08-04-2021 om 14:11 geschreven door peter  

Former National Intelligence Official Says Upcoming Government UFO Report Will Be Hard to Explain

An upcoming report on UFOs from the government will include details that can’t easily be explained, a former top official of national intelligence hinted.

John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that there are cases where they don’t have good explanations for some of the unusual that they’ve seen. When that details become declassified, he’ll be able to talk more about that.

Ratcliffe said that a report to be released by the Pentagon and other federal agencies would present more details to the American people than declassified UFO sightings in the past.

Ratcliffe said that there had been sightings in different parts of the world, and when we talk about sightings, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite or some intelligence collection. He explained that we have multiple sensors that are picking up these sightings.

In the unreleased sightings, Ratcliffe revealed that elements that are difficult to explain include movements that are not easy to replicate or traveling at speeds that surpass the sound barrier without making a sonic boom.

Maria Bartiromo later said in the program that the report is expected to be released on June 1 of this year.

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08-04-2021 om 13:58 geschreven door peter  

Russian Navy Captain: Aliens Probably Build Their Bases On Earth’s Seabed

Hundreds of new reports on UFOs appear everyday. One percent of those reports remain a mystery unraveled though 99% of them could be explained by natural or man-made factors.

Let us assume that aliens exist and visit Earth on a regular basis. What would be the best place for them to build a secret base? Seabed would be the best option. The oceans cover two-thirds of the planet.

The ocean remains virtually unexplored. We have a much clearer picture of processes that occur on the Moon, our knowledge of things that happen deep under the surface of the sea is scarce. As it turns out, reports about certain mysterious undersea incidents arrive steadily.

Those incidents are reported by naval officers who normally have good technical expertise and composure. The Navy officers are subject to annual medical examinations.

Submarines have no skylights. Maintaining radio communication under the sea is not easy though a radio wave passes through the water a lot better than it does above the sea surface. That is why submariners largely report incidents related to strange acoustic signals.

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07-04-2021 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

US has 'secret evidence of UFOs breaking sound barrier without a sonic boom and performing moves humans don't have the technology for', says Trump's Director of National Intelligence

• In December a 180-day deadline was announced for a report into UFO sightings

• The Pentagon and intelligence agencies must release their report by June 1

• John Ratcliffe, former DNI, said there were more sightings than publicly known

• Ratcliffe said the observations were made by Navy and Air Force pilots

• They were recorded by 'multiple sensors' and had no obvious explanation

• The incidents included supersonic travel without a sonic boom

• Ratcliffe said it was in the public interest that the information be released 

By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

The U.S. has evidence of UFOs breaking the sound barrier without a sonic boom and making maneuvers impossible with known technology, the former Director of National Intelligence has revealed.

The revelations increased excitement about a forthcoming report detailing what the U.S. government has observed.

John Ratcliffe, who served as Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, said that many of the incidents still have no easy explanation.

'There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,' Ratcliffe told Fox News.  

'Some of those have been declassified.

'And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain. 

'Movements that are hard to replicate that we don't have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.' 

John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox News on Friday to discuss the forthcoming report

Ratcliiffe said that there had been more UFO sightings than the public previously knew

Navy pilots recorded seeing unexplained objects spinning in mid air, in the summer of 2014

Ratcliffe told host Maria Bartiromo that the sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' had been observed all around the world.

'When we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you is, it's not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection,' Ratcliffe said.

'Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things, and some of these are unexplained phenomenon, and there is actually quite a few more than have been made public.'

The government was, in December, given a 180-day deadline to disclose what it knew, meaning that the report should be out before June 1.

Ratcliffe said he had hoped to publish their findings before he left office on January 20.

'We weren't able to get it down into an unclassified format quickly enough,' he said.

The report was part of a $2.3 trillion COVID relief bill, which Trump signed into law in December.

The bill contained the Senate Intelligence Committee's Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 that had in it a 'committee comment' section that addressed 'unidentified aerial phenomena.' 

The report, produced by the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, must identify, among other things, any threats posed by unidentified aerial phenomena and whether they may be attributed to foreign adversaries.

'Weather can cause disturbances, visual disturbances,' Ratcliffe said.

'Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or than we realized.

'But there are instances where we don't have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen.'

Avril Haines is now the Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration.

The Defense Department announced in September the creation of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force on August 4.

Videos from the Navy were released last year through the Freedom of Information Act that showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers.

One of the videos was shot in November 2004; the other two were shot in January 2015. The three videos were code-named 'FLIR1,' 'Gimbal,' and 'GoFast.'

In the 2015 videos, Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief. All three UFO videos were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.

The videos were made public and published because of efforts by the New York Times, as well as through efforts by To The Stars Academy, which was founded by Tom Delonge, the founder and lead vocalist for the bands Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves.

Ratcliffe said it would be 'healthy' for as much of this information as possible to be made public.

A week before Ratcliffe stepped down, in January, the CIA released a treasure trove of newly-unsealed records.

They showed chilling accounts of hundreds of UFO sightings across the globe dating back to the 1950s - along with the international intelligence community's efforts to understand them. 

A dossier with nearly 3,000 pages of documents about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) - the government's official term for what are commonly called UFOs - was published on The Black Vault website.  

Thousands of paranormal enthusiasts pored through the collection of more than 700 individual documents, according to Black Vault's founder John Greenewald Jr, who has spent the past two decades suing the CIA to release the records and then scanning the pages into his database one by one.  

The CIA purports that the files account for its 'entire' collection of declassified UAP intel, but Greenewald cautions that there's no way to verify that claim and has vowed to continue searching for further records.  

The documents also show correspondence about UFO sightings between CIA officers and members of the military. 

Sometimes the officials brush off observers' stories as purely superstitious, even when another explanation isn't clear. But in other instances the officers show genuine concern that perhaps something dangerous is at play. 

Pictured: A photo from the Project Blue Book archive shows lights misidentified as a group of UFOs over a Coast Guard air station in Salem, Massachusetts in 1952

In December it emerged that two Pentagon reports had been produced, providing detailed classified information about strange sightings.

The DoD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force issued the two classified intelligence 'position reports' in 2018 and summer 2020, and they circulated widely in the U.S. intelligence community, according to a detailed account from The Debrief based on interviews with multiple intelligence sources.

The position reports' startling contents included a leaked photo that has never before been made public, accounts of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) emerging from the ocean and soaring through the sky, and an admission that extraterrestrial origins for the objects cannot be ruled out.

This leaked photo, published by The Debrief in December, was included in the 2018 position report, two DoD and one intelligence source told the outlet

The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000

The leaked photo was was captured in 2018 off the East Coast of the United States by a military pilot using his cell phone camera, the sources said.

The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000. 

It appears that the image was captured by the backseat weapons systems operator of what appears to be an F/A-18 fighter jet. 

Experts were baffled by the photo, but noted that the object somewhat resembles a GPS dropsonde, an atmospheric profiling device designed to be dropped from aircraft, typically over a hurricane. 

'These revelations are extraordinary, and give the public a genuine peek behind the curtain when it comes to how the US government is handling the UFO issue,' Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the UK Ministry of Defence, told DailyMail.com.

'What this new information does is confirm that the US government is taking the UFO phenomenon more seriously than ever before,' he added. 'I anticipate further revelations shortly.'

The Pentagon has not confirmed the existence of the two position reports, as well as the authenticity of a leaked cockpit photo included in one of the reports. 

Even more shocking were the revelations contained in a second, revised report issued by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in early 2020.

The report delved deeply into the possibility that UAP are able to freely move both through the air and underwater, zipping through the ocean undetected and emerging into the air at incredible speeds.

The report contained an 'extremely clear' photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft that emerged from the ocean in front of a F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot, sources told The Debrief.

An artist's recreation (above) shows the image in the 2020 report as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded edges and large, spherical white 'lights' in each corner

Researcher Dave Beaty created this image to depict the object as described by sources who had seen the report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force

That photo has not been leaked publicly, but artist and researcher Dave Beaty's recreation shows it as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded or 'blunted' edges and large, perfectly spherical white 'lights' in each corner.

The encounter occurred off the East Coast in 2019, according to officials who had seen the latest report. 

Two officials said said the photo was taken after the triangular craft emerged from the ocean and shot straight upwards.

Officials say the latest report focused specifically on the possibility of 'transmedium' craft that are able to operate both underwater and in the air.

'Tic Tac' UFO: US Navy pilot made visual contact with the object on November 14, 2004

At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14, 2004.

The encounters, which are documented in numerous interviews with first-hand witnesses, remain a mystery, and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial in origin.

The original FLIR video from the USS Nimitz encounters leaked online as early as 2007.

Witnesses say that clips of the video had been circulated widely on the Navy's intranet - used to communicate between ships in the carrier group - and an unknown sailor in the group likely first leaked it.

The clip became one of the most-touted pieces of evidence in the UFO community when the Pentagon confirmed its authenticity in 2017.

In January, Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine.

Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine in January 

He said the oblong, wingless 'Tic Tac' shaped object was spotted off the coast of Mexico over the Pacific.

He also revealed that for about two weeks, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.

The radar contacts were so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and restarted to to check for bugs - but operators continued to track the unknown aircraft.

Then on November 14, Commander David Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.

As Fravor landed on the deck of the Nimitz, Underwood was just gearing up to take off on his own training run.

Fravor told Underwood about the bizarre encounter, and urged Underwood to keep his eyes open.

He recalls how he suddenly saw a blip on his radar before tracking it on his FLIR camera.

Underwood was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet as part of the USS Nimitz (above) carrier group when he encountered an 'unidentified aerial phenomena'

'The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving,' Underwood told the magazine.

'And what I mean by 'erratic' is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I've ever encountered before flying against other air targets.'

Underwood said the object wasn't obeying the laws of physics and dropped from 50,000 feet altitude to 100 feet in seconds, which he says, 'isn't possible'. He added that he saw no signs of an engine heat plume or any sign of propulsion.

The pilot refuses to speculate as to whether the object is an alien spacecraft or not, however.

'That's not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.'

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07-04-2021 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

When do we know we’ve entered a ‘full disclosure’ zone for UFO information being held by our or any government? When people who are currently still in office or in power do the disclosing. That makes one recent revelation about UFOs following U.S. Navy ships in 2019 so special – it was made by a current admiral. Another recent revelation is of the ‘former’ kind – a former CIA director reveals a UFO encounter that is beyond explanation … unless the explanation is ‘aliens’.

“No, we have not. I am aware of those sightings, and as it’s been reported, there have been other sightings by aviators in the air and by other ships not only of the United States, but other nations — and of course other elements within the U.S. joint force. Those findings have been collected and they still are being analyzed.”

Admiral Michael Gilday

In a speech at a Defense Writers Group event in Washington this week, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday, the U.S. Navy’s top officer, gave that answer when asked if he or anyone in the Navy had positively identified UFOs reported by multiple warships off the coast of California on two consecutive days and nights in July 2019. When asked if they were extraterrestrial, Admiral Gilday responded: “No, I can’t speak to that – I have no indications at all of that.” At all? Or ‘At all so far’? Reporters from The Drive were in attendance and attempted to follow up with the Navy, Coast Guard, FBI, and members of the intelligence and armed services committees in both the Senate and the House and received no answers as of this writing.

Perhaps they should ask former CIA director (1993-95) and former Under Secretary of the Navy (1977-79) R. James Woolsey Jr. Woolsey has released a book with co-author Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former Romanian acting spy chief who defected to America in 1978, entitled “Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin’s Secret War on America” and is making the rounds giving interviews on it. During one with The Black Vault, he as asked about UFOs and said this:

“There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving some kind of aircraft-like airframe. I never thought there was anything to all this, it always seemed pretty far out to me.”

R. James Woolsey Jr.

Sounds like any other politician giving an evasive non-answer … until he added this revelation from someone he “respects.”

“But there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft.”

That’s right … an airplane was reportedly suspended in space by something unexplained. Woolsey said he has no idea what could cause this, but then the former CIA director implied that this is not the first time.

“There had just been enough things like that that have occurred that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years. I’m not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly, but something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent aircraft, experienced pilots.”

You mean like the intelligent aircraft and experienced pilots of the USS Nimitz? Or the experienced crews of the USS Kidd, the USS Rafael Peralta and the USS John Finn who saw UFOs on two nights in July 2019 that neither they nor their highest ranking officer can identify?

Something is definitely going on … if experienced personnel can’t identify it, it’s either secret aircraft a foreign country is testing, secret aircraft our country is testing on its own troops (wouldn’t be the first time) or something from somewhere that’s not either of those.

The most amazing …and unsettling … thing about these latest two revelations is the calm manner in which these two highly respected and highly ranked people delivered them. We could attribute that to experience and training … we could also wonder about brainwashing and mind control.

Until these UFO sightings are explained, all possibilities are open for discussion.

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07-04-2021 om 20:44 geschreven door peter  

The UFO phenomenon is one that goes deep, and extends past what many might at first think. Many cultures around the world have their own legends and tales that feature something that could be seen as UFOs today, no matter whether the original people who told these stories knew what to call them or not. They have variously been attributed to gods, spirits, and other assorted entities, and the main takeaway is that this is a phenomenon that has been taking place in one form or other across cultures and geographical boundaries for a very long time. Native Americans also have their own stories of what in modern lingo would be aliens and UFOs, and even their own story of a crashed alien spacecraft.

One very interesting voice in the UFO field is the author, researcher, and Professor Emeritus at Montana State University, Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke. Coming from Cherokee and Chocktaw heritage, she has been very active in working with the Native American community, raising awareness of their plight, and also writing on their experiences with the UFO and alien phenomena, a point of view that is rarely covered in the field. She has made much mention of the spiritual connection these people give to the phenomena, that UFOs and aliens are just as much a part of the spiritual realm as anything physical, and with some tribes even believing that their souls came from out in space. In an interview with the Skeptiko podcast she mentions of this connection:

It depends on the tribal group, and it’s difficult for me to say, as a general rule, there is this spiritual connection. But there definitely is with some of the tribes. There’s no question about it. Some of the tribes actually talk about the trip across the Milky Way. That when you die you cross the path of the Milky Way. You’ve got a common theme there that the cosmos plays so much a part in afterlife and death and the ability of the deceased that they never really die. They just move on into another dimension and that they can come back and communicate with the living.

She also writes much of what she calls the “Star People,” or ancient entities that came from the skies in their vessels to teach the Native people, and which are present in the lore and legends of many tribes, with some old tales even claiming that they interbred with them. These are not necessarily described as aliens from another world, exactly, but rather as spirits or gods descending from another spiritual realm. She has covered this theory in her book Encounters With Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians, and in some cases it seems that these are far from myth, as there have been tales of meeting these Star People right up to the present. One such tale covered in her book is that of a tribal elder known only as Harrison, a member of one of the Northern Plains tribes and who has quite the bizarre story to tell.

This apparently happened back in 1945, well before the UFO craze took over in the mainstream and indeed even before the infamous Roswell incident. At the time Harrison was just 12 years old, and one evening he was at home with his grandfather when they heard a rumbling as the whole house shook like there was an earthquake happening. The grandfather then ran outside to see that all of his horses had run off in a panic, so he tried to gather as many as possible and decided to search for the rest the following day. That morning, the grandfather went out to look for his remaining horses and came back obviously distressed and afraid of something. Harrison asked him what had happened and the grandfather merely told the boy to follow him. There is no way to know what Harrison expected to see at this point, but there is a good chance he couldn’t have imagined what was in store for him.

His grandfather took him some distance away, where there was a large gouge or crater in the earth, as if something very big had come to smash into the field. At the bottom of this crater was a metallic craft of some kind, with what appeared to be a doorway hanging open and damaged on the side. The two of them stood there staring for some time before the grandfather decided to go look inside, where he apparently found several entities that were described as being 8 feet tall and wearing green suits, with translucent skin and eyes that changed colors. The strangers seemed to be just as surprised to see him as he was to see them, even appearing to be slightly afraid of him and trying to distance themselves. The creatures seemed to shy away from him, and when he tried to speak with them they apparently vanished into thin air. Since the grandfather and Harrison had no notion of aliens from outer space, they thought of them in terms they could understand, that these were the “Star People” that their ancestors had so often spoken of.

Over the next several weeks these mysterious Star People appeared around the property, always keeping their distance and with the ability to appear and disappear at will. It seemed as if they were curious about Harrison and his grandfather, that they were studying them, but they were obviously very wary at first, never coming too close and vanishing whenever they were startled or scared. They were also seen to sometimes gather rocks, plants, and other things, as if taking samples for study. Through all of this, the grandfather always heartily greeted his enigmatic visitors and even offered them food on some occasions, and as the days went by they would approach closer and closer until one day they invited the grandfather onto their ship, which was still lodged into the earth at the bottom of that crater.

On the ship, the entities then communicated with him telepathically, telling them about their realm, which was described as dry and arid like the South Dakota badlands, the terrain so harsh they were forced to live underground in domed cities. They also told him about their history, and their way of life, and explained that they had been visiting Earth for thousands of years but had rarely ever actually interacted with humans as they were doing now, rather merely observing and studying. According to them there were two other ships they had been with at the time of their unfortunate crash, and that they had been sent by a larger mothership, which they were making attempts to contact with their damaged communications equipment. The grandfather would later tell Harrison that he had seen much wondrous technology aboard the ship while he was there, such as screens that could show all manner of images and a special seat that covered whoever sat in it “like an envelope.”

According to Harrison, one night the mothership finally came, a massive cylindrical object that hovered for some time before shooting off into the night. The next morning when they went to see the crater, the ship was gone, along with its strange occupants. Shortly after this Harrison claimed that U.S. military men had arrived and cordoned off the area. They would allegedly confiscate the grandfather’s entire ranch and create a lake at the site where the ship had come down. The grandfather apparently never equated these creatures or their ship with aliens as we know them, as in being from another planet, but he was very sure they were not from around here nevertheless. There is no way to know if any of this really happened or not, but it is certainly a curious UFO case and an account of possibly crashed aliens from another culture and mindset that we rarely get to see. Real or not, it is truly fascinating all the same.

Deeply spiritual cultures remember a time when “people from the stars” freely interacted with members of the human species.

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07-04-2021 om 20:26 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious 'Marsquakes' detected by Nasa's Insight lander in area of Red Planet where volcanic activity and landslides have been spotted

• Mystery rumblings from Mars picked up by Nasa's Insight - an unmanned lander which arrived on the planet in November 2018  

• The quakes occurred almost exactly one Martian year - or two Earth years - after two previous quakes were detected in the same area

• The Cerberus Fossae region is thought to be a center of volcanic activity, and in 2019 a landslide was detected there

• Mars doesn't have tectonic plates like Earth, and so the causes of the quakes are the subject of ongoing research 

• Using its robotic arm, InSight has been able to partially bury the seismometer in order to shield it from the fierce winds and record more accurate data

By BEVAN HURLEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Mysterious rumblings known as 'Marsquakes' have been detected by Nasa's InSight lander, offering further clues about volcanic activity beneath the surface of the Red Planet.

The tremors originated in a region called Cerberus Fossae - an area where Nasa scientists have picked up significant seismical activity and even landslides in the past.  

They believe the tremors were likely caused by a sudden release of energy beneath the surface of the planet, but as Mars doesn’t have tectonic plates like Earth, the precise cause and origins of the rumblings remain unknown.  

The quakes were picked up by InSight's seismometer, an onboard device specially built to capture Marsquakes.

Using its robotic arm, InSight has partially buried the seismometer to protect it from strong seasonal winds and allow for more accurate readings. 

NASA's InSight has detected two large quakes on Mars in a region called Cerberus Fossae, further supporting the idea that this location is seismically active

An artist's rendition of the InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars. It is supporting several other missions orbiting the Red Planet

The area here the quakes were detected - Cerberus Fossae - is a steep-sided area cut into volcanic plains where active landslides were photographed in 2019.

Intriguingly, the quakes occurred almost exactly one Martian year - or two Earth years - after two previous quakes were detected in the same area.

InSight has recorded over 500 quakes to date, but because of their clear signals, these four were the best quake records for probing the interior of the planet, Nasa said in a statement announcing the quakes. 

Taichi Kawamura of France's Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, which provides support to the Nasa mission, said the quakes added to scientists understanding of volcanic activity on the planet. 

'Over the course of the mission, we've seen two different types of Marsquakes: one that is more 'Moon-like' and the other, more 'Earth-like,' he said.

Earthquake waves travel more directly through the planet, while those of moonquakes tend to be very scattered, said Kawamura. 

THREE MISSIONS TO MARS IN 2021: US, UAE AND CHINA AT OR ON THE RED PLANET

Marsquakes fall somewhere in between. 

'Interestingly all four of these larger quakes, which come from Cerberus Fossae, are 'Earth-like.' 

InSight launched from  Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in May 2018, touching down on Mars in November that year with the mission of giving the planet its first thorough check-up since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. 

It is working in conjunction with several missions orbiting Mars and roving around on the planet's surface: including the Curiosity rover.

InSight's ability to adapt to the incredibly harsh conditions on the planet has given in an effort to gain more accurate data. 

It regularly faces extreme swings in temperature - from minus 148 Fahrenheit during the night to 32 Fahrenheit - and fierce seasonal winds. 

Its hoped that the Martian summer will bring calmer weather, making it easier to detect other quakes. 

In order to record more accurate data, the InSight lander has begun using a scoop on its robotic arm to place soil over the cable connecting its seismometer - called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) - to the spacecraft. 

'That allows the soil to get as close to the shield as possible without interfering with the shield’s seal with the ground.'  

Scientists hope insulating it from the wind will make it easier to detect Marsquakes.    

The new quakes were slightly smaller than two previous quakes of magnitude 3.6 and 3.5 detected n the same region.   

InSight has recorded over 500 quakes to date, but because of their clear signals, these are four of the best quake records for probing the interior of the planet. 

Since arriving in November 2018, the InSight lander has worked with several missions orbiting Mars and roving around on the planet's surface: including the Curiosity rover

In 2019, Nasa picked up evidence of active landslides at Cerberus Fossae, a set of troughs cut into volcanic plains on Mars

The Curiosity rover also snapped a pair of panoramas using its Mastcam camera

Earlier this week, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover snapped a picture of itself with a selfie with the 20ft-tall 'Mont Mercou' rock formation.

The selfie shows the rover alongside a rock formation dubbed 'Mont Mercou', a nickname taken from a mountain in France.

And while the photo is impressive on its own, it was actually taken to celebrate Curiosity's 30th sample to date, after the rover drilled a hole at a nearby rock sample nicknamed 'Nontron.'

Curiosity also snapped a pair of panoramas using its Mastcam on March 4.

NASA explained: 'By shooting one panorama from about 130 feet (40 meters) away from the outcrop, then rolling to the side and shooting another from the same distance, the rover created a stereoscopic effect similar to those seen in 3D viewfinders.

'Studying the outcrop from more than one angle helps scientists get a better idea of the 3D geometry of Mount Mercou's sedimentary layers.' 

Curiosity is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars, and is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. 

It launched from Earth on November 26, 2011 and landed on Mars almost a year later, on August 5, 2012.

The rover's key mission is to unravel they mystery of whether or not Mars ever had the right conditions to support life. 

NASA added: 'Early in its mission, Curiosity's scientific tools found chemical and mineral evidence of past habitable environments on Mars. 

'It continues to explore the rock record from a time when Mars could have been home to microbial life.'

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07-04-2021 om 18:44 geschreven door peter  

Several interesting events have occurred on Mars in recent days. NASA’s InSight lander detected two quakes coming from the Cerberus Fossae region – one on March 7^th and the other on March 18^th.

The two quakes, which had magnitudes of 3.3 and 3.1, further validate the theory that the location is seismically active. In fact, InSight has detected more than 500 quakes so far during its mission.-

Experts have revealed that the planet has two types of quakes – one that is “Earth-like” and the other “moon-like”. While earthquakes here travel through our planet, those on the moon are more scattered, and the majority of those on Mars seem to be between the two, although the four largest quakes that happened at Cerberus Fossae were categorized as “Earth-like”.

InSight lander

In other Mars news, a strange green-colored rock was discovered by Perseverance which has experts guessing its origin. The rock, which measures approximately 6 inches in length, was zapped by a laser on the SuperCam instrument in hopes of finding out what it is made of. Is it a meteorite or part of another area on Mars that ended up in a different location? I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the laser detects in the rock. (A picture of the rock can be seen here.)

The Perseverance rover used its SuperCam laser to study this strange green rock on Mars. 

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived as the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has finally touched down on the Red Planet when Perseverance dropped it down to the surface. The helicopter, which weighs just 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms), is scheduled to take its first flight on April 11^th and the data that it collects will be received here on Earth the following day.

It has two cameras that will collect data while flying over the Jezero Crater for 31 days. The helicopter will fly at an altitude of about 16.5 feet (5 meters) and its flight ranges will each be about 300 feet long.

While experts were concerned about the Ingenuity’s first night on Mars, new reports have stated that it survived its first cold night on the Red Planet’s surface. The helicopter’s battery successfully powered its heater to keep a steady temperature of approximately 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius). Now we have to wait and see what kind of data it will collect during its flights.

Perseverance

Another interesting bit of news surfaced recently where studies of a yet-to-be-named crater on Mars indicated that it once had water; however, there were no clues revealing how it ended up there.

Research led by Brown University Ph.D. student Ben Boatwright along with Professor James Head claimed that the unusual features of the crater were probably due to a runoff from an ancient glacier. The water ran off the top of the glacier and directly into the crater as Boatwright described as being “a previously unrecognized type of hydrological system on Mars,” adding, “In lake systems characterized so far, we see evidence of drainage coming from outside the crater, breaching the crater wall and in some cases flowing out the other side. But that’s not what is happening here. Everything is happening inside the crater, and that’s very different than what’s been characterized before.” Their study was published in The Planetary Science Journal.

I’m looking forward to seeing what more secrets Mars will reveal to the world.

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07-04-2021 om 18:30 geschreven door peter  

Sphere UFO making a ladder - April 2021 /Day Time/TIC-TAC SHAPED UFO CAPTURED ON VIDEO OVER BRAZIL ON

Sphere UFO making a ladder – April 2021 - 

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ISS live feed captures a Huge bright spherical anomaly that – April 1, 2021 | @SECRET SPACE TUBE

Strange bumpy light UFO - Toronto, Canada - March 2021 |@SECRET SPACE TUBE

Day Time/TIC-TAC SHAPED UFO CAPTURED ON VIDEO OVER BRAZIL ON 3-25-2021 

High speed UFO across a helicopter - New Zealand 2019 | @SECRET SPACE TUBE

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07-04-2021 om 17:57 geschreven door peter  

Is Bigfoot Real? Let’s Look at Emerging Scientific Evidence

www.Ancient-Origins.net – Reconstructing the story of humanity’s past

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• https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/bigfoot-real-emerging-scientific-evidence-005737

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07-04-2021 om 17:44 geschreven door peter