The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
01-02-2017
This Promising New Tool Can Help Us Find Life on Europa
This Promising New Tool Can Help Us Find Life on Europa
Jupiter’s moon Europa is believed to have a warm, liquid water ocean beneath its surface. Image: NASA
If alien life is out there in our solar system, it’s probably very small and very hard to detect, buried deep beneath the surface of an icy moon. But, rejoice alien seekers: a new test developed by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could improve our chances of spotting extraterrestrial microbes and ending our cosmic loneliness once and for all.
Proteins, the direct expression of DNA, are a key component of life as we know it. The building blocks of proteins, called amino acids, form spontaneously around the universe, but create a distinctive pattern, or “biosignature,” when life is involved in their making. Now, scientists have tailored an old-school chemistry technique to analyze those amino acid patterns, creating a tool for sniffing out alien biosignatures in just a few grams of seawater.
The method, 10,000 times more sensitive than similar techniques used by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, is ideally suited for a life-hunting mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, or Saturn’s Enceladus, lead study author Peter Willis told Gizmodo. Willis and his colleagues have published their work in the journal Analytical Chemistry.
“The astrobiology community has recognized amino acids as uniquely interesting targets in the search for life,” Willis said. “However, the technologies available for performing these analyses are lacking in terms of sensitivity and the number of amino acids that can be analyzed, particularly in the area of chiral analysis.”
Image: Aliens Wiki
Chiral molecules, including amino acids, are molecules that come in mirror-image versions—a “left handed” one and a “right handed” one. When amino acids form in space, scientists expect to see an equal mixture of the two versions. But here on Earth, nearly all amino acids are left handed. That’s because biology requires this basic consistency in order for proteins to properly fold.
Astrobiologists expect that all protein-based life—anywhere—will similarly “choose” to produce only left handed, or only right handed, amino acids. By determining this chirality, Willis’ new process offers a rapid and sensitive test for extraterrestrial biological activity. The technique can simultaneously distinguish 17 common amino acids at very low concentrations.
The researchers tested their method out on Mono Lake, a highly salty, alkaline lake in California that may be chemically similar to the globe-spanning ocean beneath Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Eventually, they’d like to package the tool up on a spacecraft, and send it hunting for life elsewhere in our solar system.
Jonathane Lunine, an astronomer at Cornell University and co-investigator on the “Enceladus Life Finder,” a proposed NASA New Frontiers-class spacecraft whose mission shares its name, said the technique was interesting. “It’s not the first such instrument to operate in this way (in the lab), but no doubt it’s a valuable tool in the arsenal the merits further development,” he told Gizmodo.
Lunine cautioned, however, that new methods have to be tested and proven quite a bit before they’re ready to be shipped off on New Frontiers adventures (the Enceladus Life Finder team is currently seeking funding for a 2025 launch). And in addition to chiral molecules, Lunine says, other indicators, like hydrocarbon patterns, will be needed to prove we’ve found aliens.
Still, it’s always exciting to hear about scientists developing better tools to address the profound question of whether or not humans are alone. Now, let’s see if we can answer that question without angering the space octopus.
Accounts of mysterious flashing lights in the sky, spacecrafts and encounters with “real” aliens reflect high levels of public interest in UFOs and the belief that there is “something out there”. However, many psychologists are less convinced, and think they can provide more down-to-earth, scientific explanations.
Belief in aliens has increased steadily since the birth of modern alien research in the 1940s and 1950s, following the news surrounding a classified US military project at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico. Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be as high as 50% in 2015. And despite the fact that it is considered rare, a significant number of people also believe they have experienced alien abduction.
Present day awareness of alien abduction dates to the 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill, who witnessed odd lights and experienced “missing time” and “lost memories” while driving. The reported consequences of abduction are often loss of memory, missing time, and problems such as sickness, sleepwalking, nightmares and psychological trauma. Following their experience, Betty and Barney experienced psychological problems and subsequently sought therapy.
Although the accuracy of the numbers is questioned, a poll by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research conducted 30 years after this account said that around 3.7m Americans believed that they too had experienced alien abduction.
Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage. Perhaps Roswell is the most famous example. Initial reports from the 1940s left sufficient gaps of explanation for Ray Santilli to release in 1995 what he claimed was film footage showing an alien autopsy from the time, further confusing the issue. He later admitted it was a hoax. The incident sparked controversy and prompted claims that an alien craft had crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and that US authorities were involved in a cover-up.
The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of “experiencers” are frauds. In fact, psychologists have come up with a number of plausible, scientific explanations for people’s supposed alien encounters.
Personality traits
One explanation is that when people believe they have had an experience of alien abduction, they have misinterpreted, distorted and conflated real and imagined events. Hence, sceptics of alien encounters explain them away in terms of psychological processes and personality characteristics.
Several studies report that experiencers do not typically differ from non-experiencers on objective psychopathological measures – those that assess psychological well-being and adjustment – and have no history of mental instability. However, one characteristic that is associated with abduction experiences is a proclivity for fantasy.
Mixed evidence supports the theory that fantasy-prone people engage in elaborate imaginings and often confuse fantasy with reality. There are also other psychological explanations, such as dissociation – where an individual’s mental processes detach from each other and from reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events. A tendency towards being fantasy-prone and dissociation has been linked in studies to childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility.
Psychologists argue that hypnosis encourages the creation and recall of detailed fantasies. For example, Betty and Barney Hill’s account was typical of reported alien encounters: medical examinations or procedures, communication with alien captors, a powerful, mystical feeling, tours of spaceships and journeys to other planets before being returned to the car. And it was under hypnosis that these “missing memories” were “recovered”.
It’s for these reasons that it’s believed alien abduction experiences may arise from a combination of personality characteristics and susceptibility to false memories.
Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move, which occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep.
Experiencers’ claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the environment. The inability to move, a feeling of fear or dread, and the sense of another presence – perhaps evil or malevolent – are common symptoms. Also common are a feeling of pressure on the chest and difficulty breathing, and of being held or restricted to a lying position: most sleep paralysis attacks occur while the individual is lying on their back.
Sceptic Michael Shermer once collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race and his support team rushed to his aid. Shermer was caught in a “waking dream” and so perceived them as aliens from the 1960s television series The Invaders. It also explains some ghost sightings, such as the “night hag”, often experienced by those who suffer from sleep paralysis.
Temporal lobe sensitivity is a theory that suggests the temporal lobes of some people’s brains are more vulnerable to influence from low-level magnetic frequencies. Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Canada, is among those who believes that increased temporal lobe activity can explain paranormal experiences such as alien abduction. His theory is that magnetic fields stimulate the temporal lobes, resulting in hallucinatory experiences similar to those reported by alien abductees.
None of this is to say that many people who believe they have experienced alien abduction are liars, merely that their accounts and experiences can be explained through recourse to theories with a scientific basis. There are many logical, plausible scientific explanations, none of which rely upon the existence of aliens. However, it should also be noted that not all reported alien abduction experiences can be easily explained by any of these scientific theories – and this throws up many more questions.
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UFO Over Santa Monica Pier Sunday--Unidentified Flying Object of Alien Origin?
UFO Over Santa Monica Pier Sunday--Unidentified Flying Object of Alien Origin?
An expression of displeasure with FAA decision to close Santa Monica airport?
By Stan Greene Observer Staff Writer
An Unidentified Flying Object was seen to hover over the Santa Monica pier early Sunday afternoon. It was reported by hundreds of onlookers and photographed by many.
Witnesses said the UFO moved up and down, and left and right at a rapid speed, more rapid than conventional human aircraft are capable of flying. After appearing for half an hour, the craft seemed to disappear into the cliffs.
Alien spacecraft transport themselves not just across space but also through time, so the 110-year-old pier is especially interesting as a landmark to time travelers. Parts of it can be seen across 3 centuries, which is important in the space/time continuum.
Appearing the day after the US Federal Aviation Administration and the City of Santa Monica agreed to close the Santa Monica airport in 2029, the UFO was theorized by some to be a sign of alien displeasure. The airport is an important fueling station for aviation now, will be a principal refueling spot for alien aircraft in the future. Others say it was a sign of displeasure with Donald Trump era policy on illegal aliens.
The FAA did not return our call asking for commentary on the story.
Project Grudge was a short-lived program launched in 1949 to study unidentified flying objects. Containing 273 UFO sighting reports, 23% of these were listed as “unidentified”.
Project Grudge was formed when Project Sign was decommissioned officially on February 11, 1949. The name was about all that would change. Project Sign’s final report was classified “Secret.” At this time in history, there were a number of Air Force investigators who accepted the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence.
One small change from Sign to Grudge was the desire to actually explain or put a tag on every single report; not only a difficult task but totally without precedent. This would look good in a report, yet offer no new scientific theory as to what UFOs were.
One item of interest to the student of UFOs would be an article written by Sidney Shalett of the Saturday Evening Post about the Government’s research into UFOs. At the time, the name Project Grudge was not known to the public, and Shalett used the name “Project Saucer” instead. It has been said that Shalett penned the first public use of the term “UFO” in his article of April 30, 1949.
Grudge would fair no better than its predecessors, and closed down after about eight months. They issued a final report also, containing 273 UFO sighting reports. A whopping 23% of these were listed as “unidentified”.
CRITICISM
Critics of Project Grudge said the program solely set out to debunk UFO reports, and very little actual research was conducted. In his book on the topic, Edward J. Ruppelt, Air Force Captain and director of Project Grudge, wrote: “It doesn’t take a great deal of study of the old UFO files to see that standard intelligence procedures were not being followed by Project Grudge. Everything was being evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn’t exist. No matter what you see or hear, don’t believe it.”
Little was done for a time, until on September 11, 1951. A last gasp effort was organized by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who took over as head of Grudge. Shortly a month later, a new short lived effort was begun. Usually tagged Grudge II, about all that was new was office forms. The Battelle Memorial Institute, actually a think tank, was asked by the Government to take over the job of explaining UFO reports. They were to review all reports to date. In March of 1952, enter Project Blue Book, which would be the official UFO study group for the United States. Blue Book lasted until 1969.
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UFO Spotted: A couple reveals seeing cops and a jet plane following a UFO in California!
UFO Spotted: A couple reveals seeing cops and a jet plane following a UFO in California!
According to the woman's statement to Mutual UFO Network investigators, the movement of the UFO was being tracked by the police from the ground, while an air force plane followed the UFO in the sky
According to the woman's statement to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) investigators, the movement of the UFO was being tracked by the police from the ground, while an air force plane followed the UFO in the sky.
This strange incident occurred at 6:45 pm local time, when the couple was on their way back home in their car. They spotted a luminous object in the sky getting closer to them, as reported by Daily Express.
"Before we knew it, it was flying directly over our car and it was so close we could see details underneath the craft," the woman said, as quoted by Science World Report.
This bizarre incident left the woman baffled, she first thought that the object was a missile. She and her boyfriend tried to figure out what just happened, but were clueless.
They could still see the UFO from their house, along with police cars and a jet plane tracking the unidentified craft.
"When we got home we could still see the craft hovering in the sky from our house. It seemed to go higher in the sky. It hovered in the same spot for about 10 minutes, then it started going back in the direction it initially came from," she said.
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing and both of us still can't comprehend what happened. We finished driving home and saw some police cars headed towards the direction of the scene. It was then the plane became involved," she added.
It's not clear why the information regarding the incident has not been conveyed to the public as yet. Some instances of UFO sightings have been covered up on social media, which has infuriated conspiracy theorists.
These strange happenings are likely to remain a mystery till space agencies such as NASA say they didn't happen, a Daily Star report stated.
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From UFOs and spy tricks, you can now read the CIA's once-secret files online
From UFOs and spy tricks, you can now read the CIA's once-secret files online
By Glenn Garvin Miami Herald
OLIVIER DOULIERY, SIPA USA
Millions of pages of once-classified CIA documents are now available for the first time on your home computer after the agency moved one of its databases online.
MIAMI–If you ever wanted to know the CIA’s secret recipe for invisible ink, how to spot spy messages hidden in suspicious fruit, or which top American spy was asked to appear in Penthouse magazine, you’re in luck. Millions of pages of once-classified agency documents are now available for the first time on your home computer after the agency moved one of its databases online.
The documents run the gamut from classic espionage (a Cold War mission to tunnel into East Germany to tap the Soviet Union’s military telephone system) to borderline-goofball research (trying to see whether “psychic” Uri Geller could read the minds of intelligence officers half a mile away) to tediously mundane housekeeping tasks (the opening of the agency’s new child care center).
Most of the documents have been declassified for decades or even longer. But they were available for viewing only on a handful of computers at an outpost of the National Archives, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. After years of wrangling with open-government advocates, ranging from lawsuits to a mocking Kickstarter campaign to pay for photocopying that was intended to shame the CIA, the agency finally relented this month.
“Now you can access it from the comfort of your own home,” Joseph Lambert, the CIA’s longtime director of information management, said grandly as the database — known as the CIA Records Search Tool, or CREST — went online.
That may sound a bit overblown, but researchers across the United States saluted Lambert. “I’ve been using that database for years, but it’s not easy flying to Washington and driving out to Maryland to get on their computers,” said Jeffrey T. Richelson, the Los Angeles-based author of several well-regarded academic studies of intelligence. “The last few days, I’ve been finding all kinds of things on it that I didn’t even know existed.”
None of them, at least so far, have been blockbusters, though the bits of intelligence run from the oddly fascinating (East Germany, in the summer of 1973, faced a daunting shortage of barbers) to the monumentally incorrect (a breezy pronouncement that Iran’s Muslim clergymen didn’t constitute “a well-organized threat to the regime,” made barely years before they toppled the government and put the country on a disastrous collision course with the United States that persists to this day).
There are even tantalizing hints of James Bondish bang-bang. Who drew that hand-drawn map of an explosives plant in Romania, including a diagram of the wiring of its electronic security gate, and why? Will an answer turn up as journalists and academics plow through the 12 million pages on the database?
But a few days spent sifting random documents reveals a couple of unexpected things. One is the indefinably vast expanse of the CIA’s interests. There are large numbers of documents about UFOs, psychic research and any number of other subjects that would excite a New Age Wiccan priestess.
Some are so peculiar as to defy comprehension. What on Earth prompted a CIA officer to even pick up a leaflet advertising the (now defunct) Buffalo Bill Wax Museum and its “107 life-size wax figures” of Bill, Wyatt Earp and Butch Cassidy’s Hole in the Wall gang (“in living wax!”) — much less to preserve it in an agency file — will likely remain a cryptic secret for generations to come.
What is very clear is that the CIA’s declassification team has the come-on coquetry of a striptease dancer and the piquant sense of humor of the editors at the Onion. The title of one document — “Clarifying Statement to Fidel Castro Concerning Assassination” — sent journalistic hearts pounding across the world. It turns out to be an unremarkable 1977 exchange of notes between then-CIA director Stansfield Turner and an agency press public affairs officer about getting a transcript of a television interview of Fidel Castro by Barbara Walters.
At the bottom of the 26-page file, though, is a payoff of sorts: a letter from the porn magazine Penthouse, requesting an interview. Four decades later, the idea of Turner — a legendarily straight-laced Christian Scientist who didn’t drink, smoke or swear — agreeing to an interview to be sandwiched between Penthouse’s nakeder-than-naked photo displays still makes CIA veterans giggle four decades later. “It would have been hysterical, if he had done it, which I’m sure he didn’t,” said one former agency official. Apparently not; the letter got no reply.
Another wisecrack title is attached to a package of files on the CIA’s interest in UFOs: “Top 5 CIA Documents Mulder Would Love To Get His Hands On,” a reference to Fox Mulder, the FBI agent on TV’s The X-Files who believes the world is secretly governed by space aliens.
Those files, and many others, detail an interesting trajectory in CIA attitudes toward UFO reports. The minutes of a secret 1952 meeting of senior agency officials — conducted at a time when reports of flying saucer-sightings were popping up all over the world — recount a discussion about directing the CIA’s physics and electronic division to investigate.
CIA spies complied enthusiastically, filing report after report about flying saucer sightings around the world, including behind the Iron Curtain, where an East German defector reported having seen a UFO crew poking around on the ground — though, technically speaking, it was really a flying “frying pan” by his account.
But by the next year, a group of distinguished physicists convened by the CIA was dismissing tales of flying kitchen accoutrements of all types, arguing in a report that even talking about UFOs would result in “mass hysteria and greater vulnerability to possible enemy psychological warfare.”
Anyway, the report added, even if space aliens were prowling the skies and streets of the United States, so what? “Extraterrestrial artifacts, if they did exist, are not cause for alarm.” The report conceded that at least one member of the panel disagreed, arguing that any verified evidence of space invaders would be “of immediate and great concern not only to the U.S. but to all countries.” But the report dismissed him as a paranoid war hawk: “Nothing like a common threat to unite peoples!”
The real threat, concluded the report, was not from flying saucers but the people who reported seeing them, who might be pursuing “subversive purposes.” Groups that urged more serious government investigation of UFOs, the report added, “should be watched.”
The CIA’s interest in flying saucers, and even the minutes of the two meetings, have long been known to UFO researchers, said Mark Rodeghier, scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. But he’s happy the documents are finally available on the internet where they can be easily accessed.
UFO researchers — for decades among the most aggressive users of the federal Freedom of Information Act to force government documents out into the open — have been eagerly combing the new database, Rodeghier added, but so far they’ve found no blockbuster revelations, and don’t really expect to: “One of the things the CIA is really good at is never releasing anything that means anything.”
Deviating from the racing-oriented offerings we've seen given away for free on the Humble Store in the form of DiRT Showdown and GRID, we now find ourselves offered a game plucked out of the strategy genre from the stable of MicroProse Software.
X-COM: UFO Defense was originally released in the early 1990s for PC as a DOS title but was later re-released with support for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. Given the game's age, formal game reviews on the web are somewhat scarce compared to modern releases, however, X-COM: UFO Defense for PC still pulls off an admirable GameRankings score of 93.6%.
Normally, the game goes for $4.99 on both the Humble Store and Steam but you can put your wallet away and grab the game for nothing for a limited time.
As always, with Humble Store purchases, head on over to the website and click on the 'Get it Free!' button. You'll then be prompted to log in with your Humble account credentials (or go through the process to create one) before completing the transaction.
Once checkout has been completed, you can click through to obtain your complimentary Steam key which you can then instantly redeem via the Steam client. However, don't wait too long as the offer to obtain X-COM: UFO Defense for free remains available for roughly the next 34 hours. Furthermore, your key must be redeemed by 10:00 am Pacific on Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 otherwise it will disappear from your Humble Store account.
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The science of alien encounters: Researchers reveal what really happens during an 'abduction'
The science of alien encounters: Researchers reveal what really happens during an 'abduction'
By Neil Dagnall, Ken Drinkwater
The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds. Photo / Getty Images
Accounts of mysterious flashing lights in the sky, spacecrafts and encounters with 'real' aliens reflect high levels of public interest in UFOs and the belief that there is "something out there".
However, many psychologists are less convinced, and think they can provide more down-to-earth, scientific explanations.
Belief in aliens has increased steadily since the birth of modern alien research in the 1940s and 1950s, following the news surrounding a classified US military project at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be as high as 50 per cent in 2015.
And despite the fact that it is considered rare, a significant number of people also believe they have experienced alien abduction.
Present day awareness of alien abduction dates to the 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill, who witnessed odd lights and experienced 'missing time' and 'lost memories' while driving.
The reported consequences of abduction are often loss of memory, missing time, and problems such as sickness, sleepwalking, nightmares and psychological trauma.
Following their experience, Betty and Barney experienced psychological problems and subsequently sought therapy.
Although the accuracy of the numbers is questioned, a poll by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research conducted 30 years after this account said that around 3.7m Americans believed that they too had experienced alien abduction.
Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage.
Perhaps Roswell is the most famous example.
A classified US military project at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico, has raised alien questions. Photo / Getty Images
Initial reports from the 1940s left sufficient gaps of explanation for Ray Santilli to release in 1995 what he claimed was film footage showing an alien autopsy from the time, further confusing the issue.
He later admitted it was a hoax.
The incident sparked controversy and prompted claims that an alien craft had crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and that US authorities were involved in a cover-up.
The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds.
In fact, psychologists have come up with a number of plausible, scientific explanations for people's supposed alien encounters.
One explanation is that when people believe they have had an experience of alien abduction, they have misinterpreted, distorted and conflated real and imagined events.
Hence, sceptics of alien encounters explain them away in terms of psychological processes and personality characteristics.
Several studies report that experiencers do not typically differ from non-experiencers on objective psychopathological measures - those that assess psychological well-being and adjustment - and have no history of mental instability.
Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage. Photo / Getty Images
However, one characteristic that is associated with abduction experiences is a proclivity for fantasy.
Mixed evidence supports the theory that fantasy-prone people engage in elaborate imaginings and often confuse fantasy with reality.
There are also other psychological explanations, such as dissociation - where an individual's mental processes detach from each other and from reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events.
A tendency towards being fantasy-prone and dissociation has been linked in studies to childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility.
Psychologists argue that hypnosis encourages the creation and recall of detailed fantasies.
For example, Betty and Barney Hill's account was typical of reported alien encounters: medical examinations or procedures, communication with alien captors, a powerful, mystical feeling, tours of spaceships and journeys to other planets before being returned to the car.
And it was under hypnosis that these 'missing memories' were 'recovered'.
It's for these reasons that it's believed alien abduction experiences may arise from a combination of personality characteristics and susceptibility to false memories.
Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, also could explain claims of alien abduction.
Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage. Photo / Getty Images
Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move, which occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep.
Experiencers' claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the environment.
The inability to move, a feeling of fear or dread, and the sense of another presence - perhaps evil or malevolent - are common symptoms.
Also common are a feeling of pressure on the chest and difficulty breathing, and of being held or restricted to a lying position: most sleep paralysis attacks occur while the individual is lying on their back.
Sceptic Michael Shermer once collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race and his support team rushed to his aid.
Shermer was caught in a 'waking dream' and so perceived them as aliens from the 1960s television series The Invaders.
It also explains some ghost sightings, such as the 'night hag', often experienced by those who suffer from sleep paralysis.
Temporal lobe sensitivity is a theory that suggests the temporal lobes of some people's brains are more vulnerable to influence from low-level magnetic frequencies.
Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Canada, is among those who believes that increased temporal lobe activity can explain paranormal experiences such as alien abduction.
His theory is that magnetic fields stimulate the temporal lobes, resulting in hallucinatory experiences similar to those reported by alien abductees.
None of this is to say that many people who believe they have experienced alien abduction are liars, merely that their accounts and experiences can be explained through recourse to theories with a scientific basis.
There are many logical, plausible scientific explanations, none of which rely upon the existence of aliens.
However, it should also be noted that not all reported alien abduction experiences can be easily explained by any of these scientific theories - and this throws up many more questions.
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The science of alien encounters: Researcher reveal what REALLY happens during an 'abduction' - and say sleep paralysis could be to blame
The science of alien encounters: Researcher reveal what REALLY happens during an 'abduction' - and say sleep paralysis could be to blame
Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be as high as 50%
Accounts of encounters with aliens reflect public interest in UFOs
But many psychologists think they can provide more down-to-earth explanations
Fantasy-prone people can create imaginings and confuse fantasy with reality
Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, also could explain claims of alien abduction
Accounts of mysterious flashing lights in the sky, spacecrafts and encounters with 'real' aliens reflect high levels of public interest in UFOs and the belief that there is 'something out there'.
However, many psychologists are less convinced, and think they can provide more down-to-earth, scientific explanations.
Belief in aliens has increased steadily since the birth of modern alien research in the 1940s and 1950s, following the news surrounding a classified US military project at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico.
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The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds
Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be as high as 50% in 2015.
And despite the fact that it is considered rare, a significant number of people also believe they have experienced alien abduction.
Present day awareness of alien abduction dates to the 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill, who witnessed odd lights and experienced 'missing time' and 'lost memories' while driving.
If there are any intelligent alien life forms out there, Stephen Hawking thinks we're playing a dangerous game by trying to contact them.
The physicist believes if aliens discovered Earth, they are likely to want to conquer and colonise our planet.
'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' he said in an interview.
But co-founder and former director of the Seti Institute, Jill Tarter, doesn't think this will be the case.
She argues any aliens who have managed to travel across the universe will be sophisticated enough to be friendly and peaceful.
'The idea of a civilisation which has managed to survive far longer than we have...and the fact that that technology remains an aggressive one, to me, doesn't make sense,' she said.
The reported consequences of abduction are often loss of memory, missing time, and problems such as sickness, sleepwalking, nightmares and psychological trauma.
Following their experience, Betty and Barney experienced psychological problems and subsequently sought therapy.
Although the accuracy of the numbers is questioned, a poll by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research conducted 30 years after this account said that around 3.7m Americans believed that they too had experienced alien abduction.
Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage.
Perhaps Roswell is the most famous example.
Initial reports from the 1940s left sufficient gaps of explanation for Ray Santilli to release in 1995 what he claimed was film footage showing an alien autopsy from the time, further confusing the issue.
He later admitted it was a hoax.
The incident sparked controversy and prompted claims that an alien craft had crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and that US authorities were involved in a cover-up.
The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds.
In fact, psychologists have come up with a number of plausible, scientific explanations for people's supposed alien encounters.
One explanation is that when people believe they have had an experience of alien abduction, they have misinterpreted, distorted and conflated real and imagined events.
In 1961, the alien abduction story of Betty and Barney Hill (pictured) captured the public's imagination. They claimed to have spotted a UFO while driving from Montreal to New Hampshire and arrived home later than expected, unable to account for the previous two hours
Hence, sceptics of alien encounters explain them away in terms of psychological processes and personality characteristics.
Several studies report that experiencers do not typically differ from non-experiencers on objective psychopathological measures – those that assess psychological well-being and adjustment – and have no history of mental instability.
However, one characteristic that is associated with abduction experiences is a proclivity for fantasy.
Experiencers' claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the environment
Mixed evidence supports the theory that fantasy-prone people engage in elaborate imaginings and often confuse fantasy with reality.
There are also other psychological explanations, such as dissociation – where an individual's mental processes detach from each other and from reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events.
A tendency towards being fantasy-prone and dissociation has been linked in studies to childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility.
Psychologists argue that hypnosis encourages the creation and recall of detailed fantasies.
For example, Betty and Barney Hill's account was typical of reported alien encounters: medical examinations or procedures, communication with alien captors, a powerful, mystical feeling, tours of spaceships and journeys to other planets before being returned to the car.
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And it was under hypnosis that these 'missing memories' were 'recovered'.
It's for these reasons that it's believed alien abduction experiences may arise from a combination of personality characteristics and susceptibility to false memories.
Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, also could explain claims of alien abduction.
Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move, which occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep.
Experiencers' claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the environment.
The inability to move, a feeling of fear or dread, and the sense of another presence – perhaps evil or malevolent – are common symptoms.
THINK YOU'VE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS? IT MAY BE SLEEP PARALYSIS
Some individuals believe they have experienced alien contact but don't remember.
For example, a person may have 'seen' a UFO then after having a 'missing time' experience, notices bruising on their body.
These are sometimes known as 'bedroom invader' incidents and they may be explained by sleep paralysis - the temporary inability to move for a few seconds just as you are about to fall asleep or wake up.
While this is relatively common and a bit disconcerting, some people suffer from rare forms, which cause them to 'feel' an evil presence or hallucinate by seeing lights or grotesque faces, hearing voices and feeling like they're being dragged out of bed.
Scientists have a relatively good understanding on why sleep paralysis is caused.
During deep, or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which is associated with dreaming, the body's muscles are paralysed, perhaps to stop people acting out their dreams.
Sleep paralysis is caused when the mechanisms controlling the sleep cycle go wrong so it's as if the brain is working and the body has yet to catch up.
This means creepy imagery, perhaps involving aliens, creeps through into a person's wakeful consciousness, perhaps inducing terror or a belief in abduction.
Also common are a feeling of pressure on the chest and difficulty breathing, and of being held or restricted to a lying position: most sleep paralysis attacks occur while the individual is lying on their back.
Sceptic Michael Shermer once collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race and his support team rushed to his aid.
Shermer was caught in a 'waking dream' and so perceived them as aliens from the 1960s television series The Invaders.
It also explains some ghost sightings, such as the 'night hag', often experienced by those who suffer from sleep paralysis.
Temporal lobe sensitivity is a theory that suggests the temporal lobes of some people's brains are more vulnerable to influence from low-level magnetic frequencies.
Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Canada, is among those who believes that increased temporal lobe activity can explain paranormal experiences such as alien abduction.
His theory is that magnetic fields stimulate the temporal lobes, resulting in hallucinatory experiences similar to those reported by alien abductees.
None of this is to say that many people who believe they have experienced alien abduction are liars, merely that their accounts and experiences can be explained through recourse to theories with a scientific basis.
There are many logical, plausible scientific explanations, none of which rely upon the existence of aliens.
However, it should also be noted that not all reported alien abduction experiences can be easily explained by any of these scientific theories – and this throws up many more questions.
Paul Hellyer: At least four alien species have visited Earth
A new UFO sighting took place lately between the US and Mexico border.
YouTube screenshot/ secureteam10
A new UFO sighting was reported along the United States' border with Mexico. Eyewitnesses claim that a fleet of seven to eight UFOs flew right over the border control post at Tijuana.
According to reports, hundreds of people were stunned at the bizarre sight. The crowd also included customs and border protection officers.
"The footage was captured on the Tijuana border, on the Mexican side. The clip captures what can best be described as a fleet, or an extremely large grouping, of UFOs that look like they are stopping traffic or at least slowing it down," said Tyler from UFO monitoring group Secureteam, according to the Sun.
The video of these strange flying objects was uploaded on Instagram, and garnered over 30,000 views and 200 comments. The post has since been removed.
"Even border patrol agents can be seen with their cameras, eyes up, focusing on these objects that seem to be just littering the clouds. This was posted on Instagram, but then the page was removed. The footage has been taken down. This is actually really strange," Tyler added.
Instances of such controversial videos and images are often found to go missing off the internet. On November 28, 2016, a group of UFOs was seen hovering in the skies over Istanbul, Turkey.
The videos and images created quite a stir on Twitter. The hashtag #UFOAttacktoTurkey also started trending on Twitter, but the website tried censoring the incident, which left people infuriated.
Four of these UFOs can be seen aligning taking a rectangular form in this screenshot.
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Tyler claims that the video is genuine. The footage shows around seven or eight mysterious luminous objects hovering in the sky. Four of these 'UFOs' can be seen aligning into a rectangular form. One of the UFOs emitting light can be seen going dark in the video.
"At first they are random, but towards the end four of them align in a rectangular formation so they can't be balloons. Whatever they are, even the border control agents were focusing on them," Tyler said.
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Area 51 Revisited
Area 51 Revisited
Area 51 goes by a lot of other names these days, such as Dreamland, Groom Lake, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, Home Back and Waterland. Area 51 was developed in 1955 primarily for U-2 spy plane testing.
Area 51 is a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, and is located about 83 miles north, north-west of Las Vegas. It is a restricted area by land and by air.
The use of Area 51 has been dominated by the CIA, along with the Air Force. Over the years, Area 51 has been a testing ground for top-secret aircraft, new weapon systems and foreign technology evaluation.
We used Area 51 to evaluate aircraft that was shot down or captured from USSR. So the tools and ability of breaking something down and finding out what makes it tick, was already built into Area 51.
If the US Government ever captured, or found a UFO, Area 51 is the most likely place it would end up, under the control of the CIA. The amount of information the United States government has been willing to provide regarding Area 51 has generally been minimal.
In July 2013, following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in 2005, the CIA publicly acknowledged the existence of the base for the first time.
Area 51 and the UFO connection
Its secretive nature and connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led Area 51 to become a focus of modern UFO and conspiracy theories. For Example:
The storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft.
The study of UFO occupants (living and dead).
The manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology.
Meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials.
The development of exotic energy weapons for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or other weapons programs.
The development of means of weather control.
The development of time travel and teleportation technology.
The development of unusual and exotic propulsion systems related to the Aurora Program.
Activities related to a supposed shadowy one world government or the Majestic 12 organization.
There is so much information about Area 51, much of it conspiracy related.
The one thing I know for sure is that the US Government has a tendency to manipulate public opinion, and anyone who even tries to get at the truth of Area 51 is subject to being publicly ridiculed, and considered at nut-job.
NASA Spin-off Advancements
I am not changing the subject here, because I am considering the fact that NASA has claimed a lot of spin-off technology, based on their advancements in space exploration.
Seems like a lot of it is medical related, such as:
Infrared ear thermometers
Ventricular assisted devices
Artificial limbs
Light-emitting diodes in medical therapies
Invisible braces
Scratch-resistant lenses
Space blankets
Plus a lot more.
Other areas of advancements are in :
Consumer, home, and recreation
Environmental and agricultural resources
Computer technology
Industrial productivity
And a lot more.
Seems to me that if NASA has developed all of these new discoveries and advancements, why then was NASA defunded by Obama? Why would you remove or discontinue something that brings so many advancements into the world? Unless – Maybe these advancements didn’t actually come from NASA.
Maybe they came from Area 51 and the reverse engineering of UFOs or collaboration with aliens. I know how this sounds, but just look at all the advancements during the past 60 years.
Is it my imagination, or did man-kind advance super fast during the last 6 decades. It took us thousands of years to go from riding horses, to the invention of motor powered vehicles. Look where we have gone during the past 60 years. From looking at the moon to visiting the moon.
Did we do that on our own? Or did we have help? I know one thing for sure, if our government did have help, they would never admit it. The question that a lot of UFO conspiracy people have is: How much of this is related to UFO or alien technology?
What I think is going to happen during the next few years.
I think the defunding of NASA will come back to bite the government on the ass. For the history of our country, NASA has been the organization responsible for space exploration. Now private companies are getting into the game, with private launches of satellites.
With virtually everyone having a smart phone that is capable of taking photos and sharing them instantly online. Social Media is giving everyone in the world a voice and connection to others. This is going to make keeping something top-secret, very hard to do.
People are starting to trust Social Media over news outlets. My opinion is this is justified because of news outlets only providing stories that suit their agenda.
I understand that there are a lot of crazy people online, but generally speaking, I tend to trust images, and video that comes from places like Twitter. Twitter, Facebook, You-Tube and other social media platforms gives people the ability to by-pass the news organizations, and government cover-ups.
I think we will discover and accept that we are not alone in the universe, and that maybe we have had visitors in the past. That would explain a lot of things.
If you have comments or ideas about this, I would love to hear them!
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The real story behind Close Encounters
The real story behind Close Encounters
Everyone remembers “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The movie was released in 1977, written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss. What you may not know is that the US Air Force and NASA decided not to cooperate on the film. In fact they were totally against the release of this movie.
NASA reportedly sent a 20-page letter to Spielberg, telling him that releasing the film was actually dangerous. The question remains “What were they trying to hide?” Although the movie was created by Spielberg, just the idea of a government cover up made a lot of people nervous.
Maybe it’s because they are really covering up encounters.
During the 1940s a person by the name of Donald Keyhoe investigated flying saucers for True Magazine. Keyhoe believed that flying saucers were from outer space, and were on a scouting mission. Keyhoe claimed that his information came from Air Force and Navy intelligence.
Project Sign, based at Air Technical Intelligence Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its successors Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were officially tasked with investigating the flying saucers. Keyhoe started a civilian investigation group called NICAP and asserted that the US Government was lying about UFOs and doing everything they could to cover them up. Now on the surface you might think, ok so he found some kooks to agree with him, but where is the real evidence?
Consider this fact: Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was a Rear Admiral and an influential board member of NICAP, and Hillenkoetter was also the first director of the CIA. You got to ask the question” If this was all BS, then why would the director of the CIA be involved?
Probably the best example of a UFO government cover up was the 1947 Roswell incident. The United States Air Force actually issued a press release stating that a “flying disk” had been recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. This information was quickly withdrawn and replaced by claiming that a weather balloon was simply misidentified.
About a year later, in 1948 an Air Force pilot by the name of Thomas Mantell was killed in an air accident while in pursuit of an aerial artifact he described as “a metallic object…of tremendous size.” The official government story claims that Mantell had been chasing the planet Venus, a conclusion which was met with extreme skepticism, and later changed to a Skyhook balloon.
Over the years there have been many UFO sightings, and each time the government is quick to discredit the story and in some cased even the person who reported the encounter. Even people who have no reason to lie about something like this are quickly discredited. Many airline pilots have spotted UFOs over the years, but very few report it because of ridicule and the possibility of being fired. According to the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, (NARCAP) there have been over 3,500 documented sightings of “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” by military, commercial, and civilian pilots.
Captain Jim Courant, a commercial pilot for over 31 years spoke to the National Press Club, and said “It is almost astounding how many people are in the know on this subject.” Captian Courant also said “There are many more sightings that are just not reported.” Since Captian Courant was so out spoken and willing to talk to the press, many commercial and military pilots have opened up to him, also claiming to have had encounters with UFOs.
Where did the term “Close Encounter” come from?
The meaning of a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification was started by J. Allen Hynek, a astronomer and UFO researcher. It was first suggested in his 1972 book “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry.” Allen came up with 7 kinds of encounters:
Visual sightings of an unidentified flying object.
A UFO event in which a physical effect is alleged.
UFO encounters in which a creature is present.
A UFO event in which a human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants.
A UFO event that involves direct communication between aliens and humans.
Death of a human or animal associated with a UFO sighting.
The creation of a human/alien hybrid, either by sexual reproduction or by artificial scientific methods.
Hynek’s scale became well-known after being referenced in a 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is named after the third level of the scale. Posters for the film recited the three levels of the scale, and Hynek himself makes a cameo appearance near the end of the film.
A question that has come up since 2010: With everyone having a video camera with them most of the time, why hasn’t there been more UFO sightings?
I think I can answer that questions. First of all, there are a ton of sightings, many of them have been documented on You-Tube and other social media sites. So why aren’t more people talking about this? I think it’s a matter of trusting the videos. Yes, it’s true, just about everyone has a video camera with them at all times with the use of smart phones, however with the increased technology of these devices, we are also have the ability to fake videos. Anyone can do computer generated Images (CGI) now days.
This means that even though you might be viewing an actual image of a UFO you are more skeptical than ever before. If you go back to those earlier films, back in the 1970s or 80s, it was much harder to fake videos. Most people didn’t have the equipment or ability to fake a video, so the images were more believable.
It seems that we have come full circle. Going back before film, people claimed to see UFOs and their only proof was their word. Now that we have the ability to fake encounters on video, we are going back to someone’s word of honor.
I look at it this way, there are a lot of people who have nothing to gain, and are in a position that commands respect, who are claiming to have encountered a UFO in their past. People like airline pilots, very high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, even the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter claims to have seen a UFO.
At some point you have to admit, something is out there.
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30-01-2017
SECRET BASE INSIDE VOLCANO? 'TR-3B UFO' flares into warp speed after 'leaving magma mount'
SECRET BASE INSIDE VOLCANO? 'TR-3B UFO' flares into warp speed after 'leaving magma mount'
ALIEN chasers claim a new video appearing to show a "UFO" burst into a ball of light after "leaving a volcano" boosts their theory extra terrestrials have hidden bases under the ground.
The strange event was caught by a camera of www.webcamsdemexico.com, which has a series of livestreams continuously monitoring magma mountains across the central American country.
The footage was taken at around 6.46pm local time on January 24, according to YouTube channel Streetcap 1, which broadcast it in a video entitled "Awesome Weird Light leaves Mexican Volcano".
Alien chasers think it could be evidence of an secret base inside the Popocatépetl Volcano in the Puebla region of Mexico.
Others think it could be a secret military base and the UFO was actually an alleged top-secret triangular spy plane known as a TR-3B which can allegedly hit "warp speed" in a ball of light.
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A still from the video and (inset) a CGI image of an alleged TR-3B.
The footage shows a small bright light appear from behind the volcano in the background of the shot, which then moves closer to the camera.
The image suddenly increases in size and intensity of light before going out of shot.
Some alien chasers claim there is much UFO activity around volcanoes, because there are secret alien bases inside.
There appears to be no actual evidence for this madcap theory, and sceptics say the UFOs are just magma, or ash being ejected from the volcano, or even out of focus birds.
But the latest ball of light in this video has set tongues wagging, with claims it was a TR-3B.
Conspiracy theorists, who also believe world leaders capture flying saucers and reverse engineer them before creating their own hi-tech space craft, claim a mysterious US Air Force TR-3B has been developed.
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The TR-3B, pictured here in a CGI impression, is a legend among UFO seekers.
The TR-3B is alleged to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
Allegations include the crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens.
The theory claims they are triangular in shape with lights at the corners and a large circular one in the middle that can blast it into warp speed.
Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, said: "This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 over Mexico coming from a volcano. It starts out far away and quickly grows in size.
"That's one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes. The moon could not do that."
That's one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes.
Scott C Waring
Viewers of the video were amazed, with many posting on YouTube: "OMG and WTF.”
One posted: "WTF is that?!! OMG, I'm so scared it’s huge!!!"
Another said: "TR3B 100 per cent. I have done a lot of research, which is freely available.
"I was fortunate to see a similar light above my house, I was gobsmacked, all my research made sense
"It's a plasma ball of light in the craft's middle, you will normally see this on black triangle crafts.
"The plasma light extends to cover all the craft and then will normally disappear cloaking the craft.
"These are facts - God knows how long this technology has been available."
Another commented on the speed, saying: "The video is being played at one frame per second, meaning whatever that thing is it's going at very high speeds."
And, Leandro Murta added: "Just wonder how fast it is from volcano to camera in about 50 seconds, very interesting."
Another poster went back to the alien theory, suggesting: "What if extraterrestrials live in volcanoes because they've got tech that can withstand tremendous heat? It would make a good hiding place, you know."
Scott Brando is a sceptical UFO investigator who claims there has never been any inexplicable UFO video or picture taken yet.
He runs the hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org.
The expert was not phased by the seemingly extraordinary footage and concluded that the bright light effect was caused by the camera having a long exposure, because it was filming at night.
He said it was likely just a standard plane or helicopter.
He told express.co.uk: "Webcams are often set to take images at night with a long exposure, to capture every small source of light. That object is most likely a plane (or a helicopter) with its navigation/landing lights."
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What REALLY happened? MoD’s 'secret investigation' into mass UFO sightings
What REALLY happened? MoD’s 'secret investigation' into mass UFO sightings
MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) chiefs launched a top-secret probe into one of Britain's most notorious mass UFO sighting cases 40 years ago at the height if the Cold War, it has been claimed.
The MoD carried out a secret investigation into UFO sightings, it is claimed.
The 1977 Broad Haven Triangle sightings are being remembered with a special 40th anniversary event.
An explosive novel revealed details of a declassified MoD document which suggests top-ranking officials carried out a covert inquiry into the 1977 sightings in Wales.
The area was gripped by UFO and paranormal fever after several people saw lights and objects hovering in the sky, a being in a metallic space suit, while poltergeists allegedly plagued one family, animals were seen cowering and ghostly figures reportedly peered into farmhouse windows.
Among the witnesses were 14 children who all drew similar pictures of a craft said to have landed near their school.
The book - The Watchers by Neil Spring - is said to be based on "true events" and claims to reveal the truth about what really happened at remote Broad Haven along a strip of rugged coastline in Pembrokeshire National Park near an RAF base.
Mr Spring, who is a key speaker at the event on Saturday, researched the case through documents sent to the National Archives 30 years after the bizarre happenings and after a new witness came forward.
At the time, MoD officials expressed no interest in the sightings, saying there was no threat to national security.
However, among the documents was a letter from the head of the MoD's S4 wing to the Provost & Security Service, the RAF's internal police force.
The S4 chief wrote "I have not even told the Minister I am consulting you" and called for a "discreet enquiry" after expressing bewilderment at the number of apparently "level-headed" witnesses to the strange activity.
Mr Spring said: "(The new witness’) testimony rocked the very foundations of the British Government.
"I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal."
I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal.
Neil Spring
The disclosures prompted Tory peer Lord Black of Brentwood to call for a full explanation from the MoD of what it uncovered.
The Tory peer has been long involved in getting official government files of UFO sightings and inquiries made public.
Lord Black said: "A number of recently released MoD files leave little doubt that a small number of sightings of aerial phenomena - particularly by military personnel, pilots and air traffic controllers - remain unexplained and unidentified.
"There needs to be further examination of these issues in the hope of learning something new."
Three years ago a former US Navy sailor came forward to say that the cause of the silver-suited being was in fact a US military personal wearing their standard fireproof uniform and the UFOs were new harrier gets being flown.
Since disbanding a unit set up to investigate alleged UFO sightings in 2009, the MoD will no longer comment on the subject.
The Swansea UFO Network is holding a Welsh Triangle 40th Anniversary Conference in Broad Haven from 10am to 5pm.
Dubbed the “West Wales flap” of 1977, the incident was second only to the “Warminster Thing” in British UFO history.
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Monday morning fireball sighting in the Mid-South
Monday morning fireball sighting in the Mid-South
By Spencer Denton, Meteorologist
(WMC) -If you saw a bright flash in the sky around 6:16 a.m., it wasn’t lightning. It was a short trail, exploding fireball that lasted around three seconds.
Check out this still image captured by ArkansasSky.com near Greenbrier, Arkansas. They caught a big flash on their camera in the lower part of the sky between 20 and 30 degrees above the horizon.
There were several sightings in Collierville and scattered reports from Louisville, KY to Austin, TX. Check out the map to see all the sightings as of 9:30 a.m.
Did you see it? Go to my Facebook or Twitter page and let me know.
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Many of us have stories. One night as a kid in the car with my dad in Northampton, Pennsylvania, I remember looking out the window as a beam of light flashed down from the sky, seemingly dissipating as it hit the ground. Unsure if my eyes were deceiving me, I stayed silent for a few moments before my dad looked over from the driver's seat and asked with a hint of anxiety in his voice, "Did you see that?"
For all of our stories of unidentified flying objects, there's one place to put them all together. The National UFO Reporting Center, based in Washington state, has been tracking reported sightings since its founding in 1974.
Before you start conjuring up images of tin-foil hats, it's important to know that NUFORC doesn't just post every submitted sighting of bright lights or floating objects on its website.
Peter Davenport, director of NUFORC, said in an email that for each submission, there is a "somewhat careful reading of each report, and we then compare it to other reports that have come in from the same area, and/or for the same time period."
"I believe that someone who is experienced in reading UFO reports is able to detect out-and-out hoaxes," Davenport said, noting that many completely explainable phenomenas are often reported as UFOs.
NUFORC filters hundreds of reports each year. For 2016, there were nearly 200 reported sightings in Pennsylvania alone, Patch notes.
Using NUFORC's reports, PhillyVoice's managing editor Jon Tuleya mapped out all of the reported 2016 sightings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
In the below maps, you can click on the location of each reported sighting to get a date and description, which may sometimes includes notes from NUFORC that point out possible hoaxes or potential explanations.
Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses how shapes of UFOs help determine which ones are off-world crafts.
People ask me all the time about the UFOs I report on in stories or talk about in my statistics. They state incredulously “but Cheryl, they can’t all be real!” I always tell them that as Unidentified Flying Objects, they most certain are real. But are they real off-world crafts? That’s the real question My answer to that: The truth is in the UFO shapes.
In the past, people have put out these statistical charts writing off many sightings to common, ordinary things. The numbers these folks use typically denigrate the potentially real off world craft to percentages numbers around 20 percent and as low as 4 percent.
For the past 14 months, my spouse and I have been compiling a book of UFO sighting counts for all 50 states. In that sighting compilation, we’ve taken great care to tabulate the UFO shapes that have been reported from 2001-2015.
For the sake of a new way of looking at UFO sightings, I decided to remove certain classes of UFO Shapes to illustrate a point.
The chart above lists the top-20 UFO shapes for New York state from 2001-2015. The total number of New York sightings for the 15-year period is 5,141. The top-20 shapes represent 95.6 percent of the shapes reported. Let’s take out the obviously vague and hard-to-pin-down shapes: light, unknown, other, star-like, flash and changing. That exercise just removed 35.24 percent of the undefinable sighting shapes or about 1,811 of the 5,141 sightings.
We kept these shapes that in my opinion couldn’t be easily mistaken for conventional aircraft. These shapes are: circle, sphere, fireball, triangle, oval, disc, cigar, cylinder diamond, formation, chevron, egg and rectangle.
This list represents 60.36 percent of the total New York sighting shapes of unusual silhouettes. The remaining 4.4 percent of shapes with well under 1 percent in each category totals about 226 of the 5,141 sightings.
So if 3,103 UFO sighting reports don’t resemble any conventional aircraft, it begs the question: Are these the genuine articles that everybody wants to believe are off-world crafts?
Wikileaks has revealed a leaked diplomatic cable with evidence of a remarkable chapter in UN history – when Grenada’s PM ‘showed evidence of UFOs’.
UFO believers think that there’s a huge international cover-up of extraterrestrial visits – so naturally, they love this 1978 hearing.
Grenadian PM Sir Eric Gairy said that he had come before the UN because of a ‘deep personal conviction’ that UFOs were of ‘worldwide importance and significance.’
He said that the UN needed to ‘come alive to its responsibilities and take a serious look at the UFO phenomenon to which planet Earth has been conspicuously exposed’.
The leaked cable said, ‘As anticipated, Grenadian PM Sir Eric Gairy addressed the special political committee on Agenda Item 126, and introduced a resolution (datafaxed), which would establish an expert group to set guidelines for a UN study of UFOS.
Picture: WikiLeaks
‘He was followed by Dr Friday (Minister for Education) and four other speakers, all of whom argued in favour of a ‘UN clearing house’ for the exchange of data and and coordination of research on UFOs.
‘The speakers were supplemented by a short film which consisted of still and motion pictures spliced together to depict actual sightings of UFOs.
Picture: Open Minds Production/YouTube
Up to 77% of Americans believe that there is evidence aliens have visited Earth, according to a 2014 Harris poll.
Conspiracy theorists believe that the American government has contacted aliens – but has concealed the fact for decades.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, called for the release of UFO files last year, saying, ‘The American people can handle the truth.’
During her campaign, Clinton said, ‘He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out. One way or another. Maybe we could have a task force go to Area 51.’
Another unidentified flying object was captured on video by NASA’s space cameras. In the video footage, a mysterious object –with a peculiar disk-shaped design—appears to be traveling out of Earth’s atmosphere causing a massive debate on social networks. What was it? Alien vehicle? Space Debris? Optical Illusion, or just Swamp Gas? Some are convinced it is the ultimate evidence Earth is visited by Alien beings while others remain skeptical and still, unconvinced.
Ever since the footage was uploaded to YouTube, it generated great controversy both among those who support the idea that it might be an extraterrestrial object, as among those who are completely skeptical of the subject, and as a joke suggest that “UFO’s that are planning on entering our air space should be registered and pay taxes.”
The truth is that on many occasions only fragments of videos in which these mystery objects are visible are released.
However, the fact that NASA interrupts its live feed transmissions is what arouses more suspicion among those who are eager to find new evidence of the existence of alien life, UFO’s and how we are all part of a massive conspiracy.
One user wrote on YouTube:
“The question isn’t “is this an alien spacecraft?”, but actually “Why NASA didn’t cut or blur this video as they always do with other strange sights?”
According to many people, in today’s era, it isn’t a question anymore whether or not UFO’s are real.
In fact, if we look back into the past we will see numerous fascinating statements made by former astronauts, military officials and scientists about Alien life and the existence of UFOs.
Here are only a few:
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.” – Theodor C. Loder III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.
We cannot address the UFO phenomena without mentioning Dr. Edgar Mitchel, one of the best-known Apollo astronauts and the sixth man to walk on the moon; a retired Captain in the US Navy, aeronautical engineer and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) who had much to say about Alien life:
“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real…Yes, there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe; they have been coming here for a long time.”
Franklin Story Musgrave, an American Physician, retired NASA astronaut who worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program and the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles had very interesting things to say about life elsewhere in the cosmos:
“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligence, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”
SPOTTED: The unidentified couple reported the sighting to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
“We were about a mile from our house and I noticed a really bright light in the sky”
Female witness
UFO investigators are now looking into the incident which happened around 6.45pm in Santa Rosa, California, on Saturday.
The unidentified couple reported the sighting to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) – the world’s biggest organisation dedicated to UFO research.
The woman claimed the pair “could not comprehend what happened to them” in the report.
She said: “It was me and my boyfriend in the car.
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HOTBED: There have been more than 50 UFO sightings in Santa Rosa since 2005
“We were about a mile from our house and I noticed a really bright light in the sky.
“I asked him ‘Woah is that a planet?’
“He said he didn't think so and it just started getting closer and closer.
“Before we knew it, it was flying directly over our car and it was so close we could see details underneath the craft.
“It has red and green blinking lights down the belly of the craft and was long, rectangular and wingless.”
More than 50 UFO sightings have been reported in Santa Rosa since 2005.
Wikileaks has released documents from a country’s PM claiming UFOs are real.
Prime Minister of Grenada Eric Gairy went to the United Nations (UN) to call for a international probe into UFO sightings and reports of alien life.
Documents detailing his appearence at the UN have now been released by Wikileaks.
The woman became convinced “it was some sort of missile”.
She said: “I couldn't believe what I was seeing and both of us still can’t comprehend what happened. We finished driving home and saw some police cars headed towards the direction of the scene.”
It was then that the plane became involved, she said.
She added: “When we got home we could still see the craft hovering in the sky from our house.
“It seemed to go back up higher in the sky. It hovered in the same spot for about 10 minutes, then it started going back in the direction it initially came from.
“While it was hovering we captured a video. It was really high up in the sky at this point.
“It slowly started getting higher in the sky and further away.
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