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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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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.
29-01-2017
CIA declassify UFO documents: The truckloads of information will now help alien hunters
CIA declassify UFO documents: The truckloads of information will now help alien hunters
By Debkumar Mitra
What a way to begin the year for unidentified flying object (UFO) enthusiasts. Finally, they have truckloads of declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents with which to face the naysayers.
Along with scientists of the Seti (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute, flying saucer lovers believe we aren’t alone in the universe. The crucial difference between the two groups is that the latter believe that aliens have been visiting us regularly — some actually having ‘met’ the visitors — while the scientists don’t accept the UFO argument even with barrels of salt.
Often, the ‘scientific’ ET-trackers have been accused by UFOlogists that their Seti research is keeping the truth away in databanks. The Project Blue Book of the CIA, which monitored alien activity and recorded all ‘encounters’, was a closely guarded secret which aroused much suspicion. Despite many announcements by the US government debunking UFO conspiracy theories, the CIA was not let off the hook by conspiracy theorists. The recently declassified documents may ‘prove’ the flying saucer clubs right. There are indeed several ‘incidents’ that the CIA could not ‘explain’.
One such report documents a UFO spotted by two police officers patrolling the Lithuanian border on June 26, 1996. “Vehicleloads of soldiers from the ARAS rapid reaction force, sniffer dogs and police reinforcements immediately arrived on the scene of the emergency,” read an ITAR-TASS report that’s part of the declassified material.
It’s interesting to note that the two policemen were interviewed by the Lithuanian authorities which later deemed that both men were mentally stable and suffered no hallucinations during the encounter. This would be enough to add fuel to the dying embers of UFOlogy.
After its heydays in the 1960s-80s, the UFO is once again flying. But without clinching evidence that is verifiable by independent scientific inquiry, it is impossible to say that Earth has been a playground for alien visitors. Grainy images, a burnt blade of grass, or statements from psychologically stable Lithuanian policemen are not enough to prove these visits. But the documents that recorded them are enough to spread the UFO lore.
Is anybody out there?
UFO or not, one cannot wish away the question: Are we alone in this universe?’ In 2015, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) estimated there were 1billion possible ‘Earths’ in the Milky Way alone. While the data may appear to be too optimistic, there is still a sizeable population of exoplanets — planets that orbit a star outside the solar system — that may be habitable within the realm of scientific possibility.
Whether these other worlds had been sending spaceships to inspect Earthlings is still speculation. These speculations marketed as ‘science’, as in the case of Swiss writer Erich von Daniken in his Chariots of the Gods and other ‘aliens seeded Earth’ books, make fun reading but do no good to Seti research.
The people at the Seti institute have been painstakingly searching various parts of the sky to catch a glimpse of intelligent life forms. They have come across strange signals in the past and their science has not been able to decode the messages as yet. But has not spured them on to tell the world that ‘ET wanted to contact us’.
In 2007, Duncan Lorimer at West Virginia University was rummaging through historical records from the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, when he and his colleagues stumbled across an unusual signal. It was a burst of radio energy that no one had ever seen before. Lorimer published this discovery and that raised a lot of questions including, “Are we looking at a real set of data?”
The reaction of the astronomy community was one of astonishment. But soon it was pointed out that a microwave oven in the kitchen below the control room of Parkes was responsible for the ‘strange signals’. But doubts lingered. When other, similar bursts were later found by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, everyone realised that these quick radio blasts — christened ‘fast radio bursts’ or FRBs — are for real.
What is causing FRBs? The question has to be answered and here are some candidates: It could be a black hole gorging up matter. It could be tell-tale signs of a neutron star. They could be screeches transmitted by intelligent beings. But then, why are the broadcasts so brief ?
There are 18 known FRBs and investigating these would be better for ‘alien hunters’ than peering over inconclusive CIA declassified documents. And if you are on the side of physicist Stephen Hawking, you would stay clear of an alien. The result of such a contact, according to Hawking, would be catastrophic for humanity — as it has for so many human cultures after having encountered a technologically superior alien civilisation.
DISCLAIMER :Views expressed above are the author's own.
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UFO Sighting Reported in Austin
UFO Sighting Reported in Austin
(Fox 7)
By Solange Reyner
People in Austin are saying they spotted UFOs in the sky last Monday and they have video to prove it, Fox 7 reports.
"I believe they were UFOs," Rachel Jensen told the Fox affiliate in Austin.
"By the time they actually got here, it's like they went up and then took off. The speed of them was so fast. Just as I stepped out, I looked to the sky and saw the triangle. Just as it was separating into three. Well there was one in the front and two behind it. They were bright orange, glowing, almost fiery.”
Jensen recorded video and turned it into Fox. The American Meteor Society said it received sighting reports of a fireball by at least five people over Louisiana and Texas.
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Partially uncloaked UFO flies past windmills above Indiana
Partially uncloaked UFO flies past windmills above Indiana
A UFO has been photographed as it flies past windmills in Indiana and although the object is partially uncloaked the outline of the craft is clearly visible.
Witness report: We were on our way to Chicago to see a concert. We didn't actually see the object.
My girlfriend was taking pictures of the windmills at the time and didn't notice the object until a couple of months later when she was looking through the pictures and noticed a light in one of them.
There were no airplanes, helicopters, weather balloons or any other objects in the air at the time of the pictures taken on 2016-030-03. Mufon nr. 81728.
In addition, it is always the question of whether the disc-like object is man-made or an alien craft.
Retired aerospace engineer William Tompkins said a photograph showing a flying saucer that is apparently landing on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck is genuine. Tompkins, who had served leading U.S. corporations for four decades up until 1984, discussed the photo on May 4 in a radio interview. He stressed that the picture was taken from one of the landings by friendly Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs, which were considered regular incidents on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.
Tompkins career started in 1942 as a Naval Intelligence operative. His duties include giving intelligence briefings to select U.S. aerospace corporations on Nazi Germany’s secret development of anti-gravity spacecraft. To support his claims, he supplied multiple documents as proofs he was assigned to such secret operation and operated out of Naval Air Station in San Diego.
Tompkins said that the extraterrestrial craft would land to get the admiral of the naval battle group and bring him to the mothership in space to hold meetings with commanders of a Nordic Space Navy.
Tomkins explained that the alien craft would go down to talk to the admiral in command on a particular battle group. They would then conduct other programs and meetings. The admiral, together with some other people, would get into the extraterrestrial craft to go to the alien mothership. These aliens, of course, brought them back later, according to Tompkins. Tompkins further emphasized during the interview that the UFOs landed on their aircraft carriers many times.
Frank Chille, the one who got the photo, shared the story about it. He said the original photograph that shows the disk landing on the aircraft carrier was shown to him by Graham Bethune over 15 years ago. The photo was on thick paper and the back side it said “U.S. Navy, top secret, eyes only, 1955.” Chille stated that Bethune allowed him to make a copy of it.
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This is the most CONVINCING video footage that proves UFOs exist
This is the most CONVINCING video footage that proves UFOs exist
A recently uploaded video footage shows a disc-shaped UFO traveling at 10,000 mph. A researcher from the Mutual UFO Networks says he is perplexed by the video footage. The video footage has reportedly been sent to NASA for analysis. “The object appears to be solid and emitting its own light, or reflecting light.”
Don’t believe in aliens? Check out this mind-boggling video which apparently shows a small UFO traveling at unimaginable speed. The video has reportedly been sent to NASA for analysis.
I guess its true when they say The truth is out there. The truth is all around us some would say. A newly uploaded video to Youtube, filmed by a US Air Force veteran, 59, sent to the ‘Mutual UFO Network’ for investigation promises to leave you shocked.
The object filmed in the video footage is estimated to have flown around 50 feet of the ground at an estimated speed of 10,000 mph.
In an interview with the Daily Star, the veteran from Ayden, North Carolina said: “This UFO video was captured with my DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K aerial camera. I thought I had seen it all. This footage took me back. I was flying my aerial camera from Ayden District Park. The skies were clear with unlimited visibility. I did not witness this object first hand; it wasn’t until I reviewed the 4K footage on my 4K TV that I first spotted the object on video.”
The video footage has left The Mutual UFO Network’s North Carolina investigator, Sanford Davis perplexed.
In a report detailing the sighting Davis wrote:
“It was observed as the witness was reviewing aerial drone footage.
“The whole sighting occurs within a third of a second – a streak arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground.
“It appears as a white dot, flattening out somewhat into a ‘light disk’ right before it disappears off screen.”
What do you think about the video? What could the object be? Is it really the ultimate proof that the UFO phenomenon is real?
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28-01-2017
WAS THE ROSWELL UFO THAT CRASHED A SECRET NAZI EXPERIMENT?
WAS THE ROSWELL UFO THAT CRASHED A SECRET NAZI EXPERIMENT?
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In 1947 a craft crashed near the town of Roswell. Soon rumors start going arround that the military had captured a UFO.
Later military authorities claimed it was a downed weather balloon, but the genie was out of the bottle and years later UFO researchers are convinced that the government was covering up a UFO crash.
Recently some researchers have claimed that the Roswell UFO crash was actually linked to a testing of the notorious "Bell" (Die Glocke in German). The Bell was a copper coloured aircraft that used anti gravity technology. At the core of the craft was a mysterious propulsion unit.
The craft was a prototype of the stealth fighter that exists today. It was developed by a team of former V2 rocket experts that entered the US via operation Paperclip.
One of them was mass Nazi killer, S.S. general Hans Kammler, head of construction and defence projects´in Germany.
The documentary uses fantastic archived material and is well documented.One of the experts is Igor Witkowski, a Polish former journalist and historian of military and aerospace technology.
This article (Was the Roswell UFO that crashed a secret Nazi experiment?) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with full attribution and a link to the original source on Disclose.tv
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Coyne Helicopter Incident
Coyne Helicopter Incident
Coyne Helicopter Incident
Date: October 18, 1973
Location: Mansfield, OH
The four-man crew of an Army Reserve UH-1H helicopter, based in Cleveland, Ohio, was returning from Columbus, Ohio, at about 10:30 p.m. following regularly scheduled physical examinations. It was a clear, starry night with no moon. They were cruising at 100 MPH at an altitude of 2,500', over a country landscape. Lt. Arrigo Jezzi,was at the controls from the left hand seat. Sgt. John Healey, the flight medic, sat behind him. In the right rear seat was Spec. 5 Robert Yanacek, the crew chief. Commanding the flight from the right front seat was Capt. Lawrence J. Coyne.
About 11:00 p.m. near Mansfield, Ohio, Healey saw a red light off to the left heading south. 3-4 minutes later, Yanacek noticed a single steady red light on the eastern horizon, and reported it to Coyne. About 30 seconds later, Yanacek announced that the light appeared to be converging on the helicopter, and they all watched it warily. As the light continued its approach, Coyne grabbed the controls from Jezzi and began a powered descent of approximately 500 FPM. He made radio contact with Mansfield approach control, requesting information on possible jet traffic. After Mansfield acknowledged their transmission, radio contact was lost on both UHF and VHF.
The red light appeared to be on a collision course, approaching at a speed estimated to be more than 300 MPH Coyne increased the rate of descent to 2,000 FPM until they reached about 1,700', about 600' above the tree tops. With the unknown object about to ram them, the crewmen feared for their lives. Just as a collision appeared imminent, the light suddenly stopped and hovered above and in front of the helicopter. They saw a cigar-shaped, gray metallic appearing, domed object whose apparent size filled the entire windshield.
The object appeared solid, blotting out the stars behind it. It had a red light at the nose, a white light at the tail, and a distinctive green beam emanating from the lower part of the otherwise featureless fuselage. The green beam swung up over the helicopter nose, through the windshield, and into the upper tinted window panels. The cockpit was bathed in intense green light. No noise or turbulence was noted. After a few seconds, the object accelerated and moved off to the west. Coyne and Healey reported that it then made a distinct 45° turn to the right, heading toward Lake Erie. While the object was still visible, Jezzi and Coyne both noted that the altimeter read 3,500' with a rate of climb of 1,000 FPM. Yet the collective was still in the full down position set during the descent. As Coyne cautiously raised the collective, the helicopter continued climbing, as would be expected. At an indicated altitude of 3,800' feet Coyne finally felt that he had regained positive control. Then they felt a slight bump. He descended to the previously assigned cruise altitude of 2,500' and made radio contact with Akron/Canton, which now was easily achieved. The remainder of the flight to Cleveland was routine.
At about 11:00 p.m., Mrs. Erma C. & four children were returning from Mansfield to their rural home southeast of town. As they drove south on Laver Road, they noticed a bright red light flying south. She turned the car eastward and continued on across the Charles Mill Reservoir, a distance of 3.6 miles, covered in about 5 minutes. At this point they saw to the east a red and green light, moving together, coming down rapidly toward them. At first they assumed it was a low flying light plane, but changed their minds almost immediately. The red was too bright, especially compared to the green. They could not see any shape or, at first, hear any sound. When they stopped the car and got out to look, they heard the typical sounds of a helicopter. As they watched, the red light and the helicopter converged.
After the red lighted object stopped, the green light flared up. When we got out, everything was green. I saw that thing and the helicopter. The witnesses agreed that the helicopter was green because of the light from the thing up above, It was so bright that you couldn't see too far. Everything was green. The trees, the car, everything. The helicopter with the other object above and slightly ahead of it moved in tandem from southwest to northeast. Suddenly the green light went out and the object was gone. When the light went out you couldn't see the object. And then the helicopter went northeast. Then we got back in the car and went on,and saw it fly out over the lake. Jeanne Elias, was watching the news at her home southeast of Mansfield just after 11:00 p.m. She recognized the sound of an Army helicopter approaching so loud and near that she feared it was going to crash into the house. The sound persisted for a long time, and when it was over her son John, called out from his room. He had been awakened by the sound, and then had observed a bright green light that lit up the bedroom. The light persisted long enough for him to realize that there must be some kind of object right above the house, because it was coming in so heavy in my room.
Last Updated: 01/14/2017 14:16:00
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UFOs over Nepal? CIA had reported two sightings 49 years ago
UFOs over Nepal? CIA had reported two sightings 49 years ago
File – A bright Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sighted in the sky over Minneapolis, in Minnesota, US, on October 20, 1960. Photo: cia.gov
KATHMANDU: Recently declassified documents of the US intelligence agency revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had reported several sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) over Nepal and neighbouring countries — India and Bhutan — in 1968.
In a confidential “information report” disseminated on April 11, 1968, the CIA listed seven sightings in the region from South Ladakh to Bhutan, including twice over Nepal, from February 19 to March 25 that year.
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US colonel speaks about Roswell UFO crash: ‘circuit chips, fiber optics, and lasers are alien technology’
US colonel speaks about Roswell UFO crash: ‘circuit chips, fiber optics, and lasers are alien technology’
No matter how many years go by the conspiracy of what happened in Roswell, New Mexico seems not to die down. Now it would seem that an army intelligence officer who served under President Eisenhower and witnessed the event first hand has come clean in a new book along with an interview he gave regarding the book. Colonel Phillip Corso, Sr who sat on the President’s security council at that time went into grave detail into what he saw.
FORMER EISENHOWER INTELLIGENCE OFFICER EXPOSES ROSWELL
Corso gave detail account to the fact that he saw dead bodies within the wreckage in the crash scene at Roswell. He went into how the bodies had to be those of Extraterrestrials due to the overall appearance of the carnage. He told how the bodies seem to have no faces such as defined mouths or noses. This was just one of the definite differences in overall appearance to that of an actual person.
So, in writing this book entitled “The Day After Roswell” is Corso trying to profit off of this conspiracy. Well, during the interview Corso stated that he never intended to write the book but he felt that the generations that came after the Roswell incident had a right to the know the truth that he witnessed.
As for the book itself Corso gives a detailed account of how he was involved in the cover-up to try to keep the truth from leaking out to the public. He also goes into how he was witness to technology used by the alien visitors that was so out of our reach at that time being seen for the first time. He also tells how much of this such as integrated circuit chips, lasers and other technological advancements were leaked into the world market over time.
So, is there any truth to what Colonel Corso claims here? No one knows this for sure, it is certainly an account that could give pause no doubt about that. Another thing to bear in mind is no matter how much time seems to go by the incident at Roswell remains one many continue to question. Perhaps it’s one that will never truly be exposed as fact or fiction but it it is certainly something that has drawn the interest of many for decades now.
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Fishermen Films Millitary Jets Chasing UFO Over Mediterranean Sea
Fishermen Films Millitary Jets Chasing UFO Over Mediterranean Sea
A group of Galician fishermen were taking care of business when they heard some loud noises coming from the horizon.
Apparently the footage was captured in late 2009, offering a relatively low quality image but, the streak of events that followed offer a shocking view of a UFO submerging into the Sea with military jets hot on its tail.
Turning the camera on with panic and confusion, the fishermen manage to surprise what seems to be two fighting jets coming in from the right side.
Over a short period of time, a UFO appears to the right, quickly submerging into the water, followed by the two jets that previously passed by the fishermen’s boat.
Panic can be read on the Galician fisherman’s face, unaware of what is happening.
While still in shock, the guy holding the camera surprises a military helicopter approaching the boat, with its personnel yelling at the crew to remain in position.
If this video is supposedly real, then we are witnessing a magnificent scene of an UFO chased and at the same time harassed by the military.
The fishermen’s face is cloaked, and so is the name of the boat for obvious protection reasons, leading towards the conclusion of the video being legit.
As it happens, the Mediterranean Sea has seen other encounters of such sort.
In 1968, a NATO squadron performing in the area on a battleship witnessed a similar event, this time during nighttime.
Strange bright lights appeared over the sea, performing a number of maneuvers and then disappearing into the sky. The lights were like flares and rose out of the water near the port beam.
There were five of these objects, at first coming out of the water and vanishing into the same place but, after a few minutes the mysterious objects rose out of the water and performed synchronized maneuvers, moving up and laterally in perfect formation. The entire scene lasted for about three minutes.
After the bright UFOs performed their spectacle, they flew towards the sky, disappearing into the night.
Aliens and UFOs are believed to possess such technology that allows them to travel underwater or underground. They allegedly pick remote areas to perform their rituals and are sometimes surprised by humans, unaware of what is happening.
We are not surprised that aliens tend to run from us, as they get chased and sometimes even captured by the military or secret agencies. They try to offer us a peaceful lesson by not using their advanced technology against us.
In return for their friendly approach, we show the world how they are greeted by our Governments with battle devices meant only for destruction.
How will humanity manage to establish contact with these advanced species, which prove to exist after all, if all they receive from us is aggression and death?
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Why History PROVES UFO's & Aliens visited us in the ancient past
Why History PROVES UFO's & Aliens visited us in the ancient past
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Why History PROVES UFO's & Aliens visited us in the ancient past
A flyingsaucer (also referred to as a flyingdisc) is a descriptive term for a supposed type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used generically to refer to an anomalous flyingobject. The term was coined in 1930[1] but has generally been supplanted since 1952 by the United States Air Force term unidentifiedflying objects or UFO's. Early reported sightings of unknown "flying saucers" usually described them as silver or metallic, sometimes reported as covered with navigation lights or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or moving rapidly, either alone or in tight formations with other similar craft, and exhibiting high maneuverability.
While disc-shaped flying objects have been interpreted as being sporadically recorded since the Middle Ages, the first recorded use of the term "flying saucer" for anunidentified flying object was to describe a probable meteor that fell over Texas and Oklahoma on June 17, 1930. "Some who saw the weird light described it as a huge comet, a flaming flying saucer, a great red glow, a ball of fire."[1] The highly publicized sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947, resulted in the popularity of the term "flying saucer" by U.S. newspapers. Although Arnold never specifically used the term "flying saucer", he was quoted at the time saying the shape of the objects he saw was like a "saucer", "disc", or "pie-plate", and several years later added he had also said "the objects moved like saucers skipping across the water." Both the terms flying saucer and flying disc were used commonly and interchangeably in the media until the early 1950s.
Arnold's sighting was followed by thousands of similar sightings across the world. Such sightings were once very common, to such an extent that "flying saucer" was a synonym for UFO through the 1960s before it began to fall out of favor. A lot of sightings of the cigar-shaped UFO were reported following it.[2] More recently, the flying saucer has been largely supplanted by other alleged UFO-related vehicles, such as the black triangle.[citation needed] The term UFO was, in fact, invented in 1952, to try to reflect the wider diversity of shapes being seen. However, unknown saucer-like objects are still reported, such as in the widely publicized 2006 sighting over Chicago-O'Hare airport. Interestingly though Hitler had commissioned some covert planes to be build which he coined had to be designed with the rule of 3x a thousand. Hitler wanted a private enterprise or technology company to design and create a flying craft that could Reach a speed of 1000 kilometers an hour, with a range of 1000 miles and with the carry capacity to transport and deliver (drop) a payload of 1000 lbs.
Someone met that challenge too!
The HortenH.IX, RLMdesignation Ho229 (or GothaGo 229 forextensive re-design work done by Gotha to prepare the aircraft for mass production) was a German prototype fighter/bomber initially designed by Reimar and Walter Horten to be built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik late in World War II. It was the first flying wing to be powered by jet engines.[1]
Given this was first flown in 1944 and the above 'drawn' craft was first spotted in 1947...is it possible that the first ever UFO or then called a 'Flying Saucer' was in fact a top secret German military craft?
How similar do they look?
The Horton HO229 was a remarkable aircraft and well ahead of it's time, even then it was a built to a shape that was invisible to radar, in 1944 the Germans had stealth technology!!
It also had jet turbine engines making it the most powerful and maneuverable aircraft in the skies at that time..
This advanced technology really could have turned the war for Hitler!
It had such range and was so fast, by the time it evaded England's radar and was visible to the anti aircraft gunners, it would have been too fast and too close to prevent it dropping 1000lb payload bombs!! - Game over.
So what happened and why did this incredible endeavor fail?
During the final stages of the war, the U.S. military initiated Operation Paperclip, an effort to capture advanced German weapons research, and keep it out of the hands of advancing Soviet troops. A Horten glider and the Ho 229 V3, which was undergoing final assembly, were secured for sending to the United States for evaluation. On the way, the Ho 229 spent a brief time at RAE Farnborough inthe UK,[3] during which it was considered whether British jet engines could be fitted, but the mountings were found to be incompatible[6] with the early British turbojets, which used larger-diameter centrifugal compressors as opposed to the slimmer axial-flow turbojets the Germans had developed. The Americans were just starting to create their own axial-compressor turbojets before the war's end, such as the Westinghouse J30, with a thrust level only approaching the BMW 003's full output.
After the war, the designer Reimar Horten said he mixed charcoal dust in with the wood glue to absorb electromagnetic waves (radar), which he believed could shield the aircraft from detection by British early-warning ground-based radar that operated at 20 to 30 MHz (top end of the HF band), known as Chain Home.[10] A jet-powered flying wing design such as the Horten Ho 229 has a smaller radar cross-section than conventional contemporary twin-engine aircraft because the wings blended into the fuselage and there are no large propeller disks or vertical and horizontal tail surfaces to provide a typical identifiable radar signature.[11][4]
Engineers of the Northrop-Grumman Corporation had long been interested in the Ho 229, and several of them visited the Smithsonian Museum's facility in Silver Hill, Maryland in the early 1980s to study the V3 airframe, in the context of developing the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit.team of engineers from Northrop-Grumman ran electromagnetic tests on the V3's multilayer wooden center-section nose cones. The cones are 19 mm (0.75 in) thick and made from thin sheets of veneer. The team concluded that there was some form of conducting element in the glue, as the radar signal attenuated considerably as it passed through the cone.[11] However, a later inspection by the museum found no trace of such material.
UFO's in the Bible
Earlier still there are recorded events of UFO sightings in the various ancient Scriptures and the Bible. It depends how you chose to read these descriptions as to determine your own interpretation.
Images tell no lies though and there are many ancient pictures that provocatively suggest UFO's did visit humans even back in antiquity..
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6 UFOs sighted over India, Nepal, Bhutan in 1968: CIA report
6 UFOs sighted over India, Nepal, Bhutan in 1968: CIA report
'One white light and simultaneously two blasting sounds were heard,' on March 4, 1968, above Ladakh.
The CIA documented three UFO sightings in Sikkim and Ladakh in March 1968.
(Photo: Pixabay/Representational)
Mumbai: Of the thousands of declassified documents published online by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), one contains details about sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, in India, Nepal and Bhutan.
The CIA documented a total of six UFO sightings over “south Ladakh, north east Nepal, north Sikkim and western Bhutan” in 1968. Three UFOs were sighted in Ladhak, India.
The CIA report, dated April 11, 1968, gives specific details of the date, local time and area of the UFO sightings in the regions. Two flying saucers were spotted in Ladakh, one on March 4 and another on March 25 and one in Sikkim on the night of February 19, 1968, according to the CIA report.
The UFO in Sikkim was flying “from South-east to North-west over Lachung, Lachen, Thangu, Muguthang and Chholamu”. A “thunder sound was heard in Chholamu after sighting the object”.
In Ladakh, “one white light and simultaneously two blasting sounds were heard. Also, one reddish light followed by white smoke,” was seen at 1 pm on March 4, 1968, above Chang La, Fukche and Koyul.
The one cited over Ladakh on March 4 was “following a circular path. Left a trail of smoke behind it”. Another flying saucer was spotted on the night of March 25, 1968, and it was “rocket-like” with a “white-yellow-white trail about 20 yards long at a height of 20-25,000 feet”.
While two UFOs were sighted in Nepal, one on February 19 and another on March 25, one was spotted over Thimpu in Bhutan on February 21.
One “blazing object,” was seen over Kaski in Nepal on the night of March 25, 1968. It was flashing intermittently” and “disintegrated”, the report said. “A huge metallic disc-shaped object with a six-foot base and four feet in height was found in a crater at Baltichaur, five miles NE of Pokhara,” it added.
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UFOs in India? CIA report lists not 1 but 3 sightings
UFOs in India? CIA report lists not 1 but 3 sightings
DECCAN CHRONICLE.
One white light and simultaneously two blasting sounds were heard,' on March 4, 1968, above Ladakh.
The CIA documented three UFO sightings in Sikkim and Ladakh in March 1968.
(Photo: Pixabay/Representational)
Mumbai:Of the thousands of declassified documents published online by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), one contains details about sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, in India, Nepal and Bhutan.
The CIA documented a total of six UFO sightings over “south Ladakh, north east Nepal, north Sikkim and western Bhutan” in 1968. Three UFOs were sighted in Ladhak, India.
The CIA report, dated April 11, 1968, gives specific details of the date, local time and area of the UFO sightings in the regions. Two flying saucers were spotted in Ladakh, one on March 4 and another on March 25 and one in Sikkim on the night of February 19, 1968, according to the CIA report.
The UFO in Sikkim was flying “from South-east to North-west over Lachung, Lachen, Thangu, Muguthang and Chholamu”. A “thunder sound was heard in Chholamu after sighting the object”.
In Ladakh, “one white light and simultaneously two blasting sounds were heard. Also, one reddish light followed by white smoke,” was seen at 1 pm on March 4, 1968, above Chang La, Fukche and Koyul.
The one cited over Ladakh on March 4 was “following a circular path. Left a trail of smoke behind it”. Another flying saucer was spotted on the night of March 25, 1968, and it was “rocket-like” with a “white-yellow-white trail about 20 yards long at a height of 20-25,000 feet”.
While two UFOs were sighted in Nepal, one on February 19 and another on March 25, one was spotted over Thimpu in Bhutan on February 21.
One “blazing object,” was seen over Kaski in Nepal on the night of March 25, 1968. It was flashing intermittently” and “disintegrated”, the report said. “A huge metallic disc-shaped object with a six-foot base and four feet in height was found in a crater at Baltichaur, five miles NE of Pokhara,” it added.
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Document du FBI : la Terre a été visitée par des êtres d’un monde parallèle
Document du FBI : la Terre a été visitée par des êtres d’un monde parallèle
Le FBI a déclassifié un document de consultation incroyablement intéressant qui leur a été fourni par un universitaire anonyme qui a affirmé que la Terre a été régulièrement visitée par des êtres interdimensionnels qui seraient venus d’une autre dimension avec une mission pacifique .
Le FBI déclassifie un document étonnant
Le document, qui a été clairement lu par plusieurs individus, dont beaucoup ont fait des annotations détaillées, met en garde contre la menace d’attaquer les engins spatiaux extraterrestres appelés «soucoupes volantes». Il dit que si les extraterrestres étaient attaqués par un aéronef, ils pourraient répondre avec force, ce qui entraînerait sans doute la destruction immédiate du véhicule humain. Cette éventualité pourrait mener à un certain nombre de conséquences extrêmement graves, y compris la panique du public au sujet des envahisseurs interdimensionnels.
Le professeur a ensuite détaillé certaines informations qu’ils avaient réussi à glaner sur les vaissaux spatiaux extraterrestres et les raisons pour lesquelles les extraterrestres avaient décidé de visiter la planète Terre. En ce qui concerne l’engin spatial, le professeur a écrit que tandis qu’une partie des vaisseaux transportent un équipage, d’autres sont contrôlés à distance. Il a également dit qu’ils possédaient une forme d’énergie radiante qui pourrait facilement détruire tout navire attaquant. Ils étaient également capables de se matérialiser et de dématérialiser à volonté. L’auteur a noté que les vaisseaux n’étaient probablement pas équipés d’équipement radio, mais qu’il était possible que d’autres véhicules volants puissent communiquer avec eux par radar.
Il a également écrit quelques notes sur les extraterrestres eux-mêmes. Il a affirmé qu’ils ressemblaient assez aux êtres humains mais qu’ils étaient beaucoup plus grands en taille. Il a affirmé qu’ils ne venaient pas du plan astral comme les gens ont tendance à le comprendre, mais plutôt d’une autre dimension. Il a dit que cette dimension et le monde d’origine des extraterrestres n’étaient pas perceptibles aux humains en utilisant la technologie actuelle.
Alors qu’il a souligné l’importance d’éviter la confrontation avec ces créatures, il a également été clairement indiqué qu’ils ne représentent pas une menace pour les êtres humains sur la planète Terre. Il a été spécifiquement noté que les extraterrestres étaient en mission pacifique.
Il est très intéressant de noter que le FBI a pris ce document assez au sérieux pour voir qu’il a été largement diffusé au sein du Bureau et pour s’assurer qu’il a reçu une très haute cote de sécurité. Cela pourrait-il prouver qu’ils connaissent les visiteurs interdimensionnels de la Terre depuis plus d’un demi-siècle ?
Vous trouverez ci-dessous une copie réécrite du rapport. (REMARQUE) Certains mots dans le texte original sont illisibles en raison des nombreuses notations censurées.
Le document, reçu le 8 juillet 1947, déclare :
« Ce mémorandum est adressé respectueusement à certains scientifiques de distinction, à d’importantes autorités aéronautiques et militaires, à un certain nombre d’agents publics et à quelques publications. L’écrivain a peu d’espoir que tout ce qui importe sera accompli par ce geste. Le simple fait que les données ci-dessus soient obtenues par des moyens dits supra-normaux suffisent probablement à en faire abstraction par la quasi-totalité des personnes adressées : néanmoins, il semble le rendre public. (Le présent écrivain a plusieurs diplômes universitaires et était autrefois un chef de département d’université).
Une situation très grave peut se développer à tout moment en ce qui concerne les « soucoupes volantes ». Si l’une d’entre elles doit être attaquée, l’attaquant sera certainement détruit. Dans l’esprit du public, cela pourrait créer un vent de panique et une suspicion internationale. Les principales données concernant ces engins sont maintenant à portée de main et doivent être offertes, aussi fantastiques et inintelligibles que cela puisse paraître, à des esprits qui n’avaient pas été précédemment chargés de penser à cela.
1. Une partie des soucoupes transportent des équipages, d’autres sont sous contrôle à distance.
2. Leur mission est pacifique. Les visiteurs envisagent seulement d’observer.
3. Ces visiteurs sont de type humain, mais beaucoup plus grands en taille.
4. Ils ne sont pas des êtres excarnés de la Terre mais viennent de leur propre monde.
5. Ils ne proviennent pas d’une planète comme nous l’imaginons, mais d’une planète éthérique qui interpénètre avec la nôtre et n’est pas perceptible pour nous.
6. Les corps des visiteurs et de l’engin se matérialisent automatiquement en entrant dans la vitesse vibratoire de notre matière dense.
7. Les soucoupes possèdent un type d’énergie rayonnante ou un rayon, qui désagrégera facilement tout navire attaquant.
8. Ils rentrent dans l’éthérique à volonté, et disparaissent ainsi simplement de notre vision, sans aucune trace.
9. La région d’où ils viennent n’est pas le «plan astral», mais correspond aux Lokas ou Talas. Les étudiants en matière ésotérique comprendront ces termes.
10. Ils ne peuvent probablement pas être atteints par radio, mais probablement par radar. Si un système de signal peut être conçu pour cet appareil.
Nous donnons des informations et avertissons et ne pouvons pas faire plus. Que les nouveaux arrivants soient traités avec toutes les bontés. A moins que les soucoupes ne soient (illisibles) (illisibles, illisibles) que notre culture et notre science sont incapables de traiter. Une responsabilité lourde repose sur les quelques personnes autorisées qui sont capables de comprendre cette question.
Addenda : Les Lokas sont ovales, avec de longues cannelures, composés un métal résistant à la chaleur ou un alliage pas encore connu, la partie avant contient les commandes, la partie centrale un laboratoire ; L’arrière contient l’armement, qui consiste essentiellement en un appareil énergétique puissant, peut-être un rayon… »
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Attack Of The Green Goblins | NASA's Unexplained Files
Attack Of The Green Goblins | NASA's Unexplained Files
Published on Dec 6, 2016
For years pilots and the public have reported sightings of mysterious green lights in the sky, but what are the theories behind them? Subscribe to Discovery TV for more great clips: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...
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The Rise Of Fear & The Strange Death Of The UFO
The Rise Of Fear & The Strange Death Of The UFO
by Jeremy Allen
UFOs were once at the heart of popular culture and science fiction, with even an American president claiming he'd had a strange encounter. Jeremy Allen looks at the strange decline of the little green men, asking if it's a symptom of our troubled age
"The lack of any serviceable or even credible ruling ideas has created a situation that resembles a tabula rasa - almost anything might appear. The phenomenon of the UFOs may well be just such an apparition."
- C.G.Jung
During the Cold War heyday of UFOlogy, even the President of the United States claimed to have witnessed something extraterrestrial floating in the sky. "There were about 20 of us standing outside a little restaurant I believe, a high school lunchroom, and a kind of green light appeared in the western sky," recounted Jimmy Carter when he was governor of Georgia in 1973. "This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter and then it eventually disappeared. It didn't have any solid substance to it, it was just a very peculiar-looking light. None of us could understand what it was."
The post war UFO craze was nothing new, of course. "People have seen mysterious objects and lights in the sky since we first looked up, and that was, obviously, a very, very long time ago," Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men: A Journey Into Paranoia, Disinformation and UFOs, tells me. "How those things are interpreted is entirely determined by the prevailing cultures of knowledge, religion, mythology and folklore."
Jacques Vallée, who co-developed the computerised mapping of Mars for NASA, compiled a book full of word-of-mouth unexplained phenomena in his underground classic Passport to Magonia, with sightings stretching back to the Japanese Heian period ("On August, 989, during a period of great social unrest, three round objects of unusual brilliance were observed.") In his bracing 1959 analysis of the extraterrestrial phenomenon, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen In The Sky, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung referenced 16th century pamphlets, yet even these were positively contemporary when compared with reports of "fiery discs" flying over Egypt around 1500BCE.
But shortly after World War II, UFOs became the gold standard paranormal activity, a bellwether that trumped ghost hunting or the pursuit of mythical beasts like Sasquatch, the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster. These manifestations darting in and out of the ether caught the western imagination, given that they could be aliens or stealthy Russian spy planes, at once pulling on our paranoia and fascination with the exotic.
In this climate, UFOs became what Jung described as "a living myth". He wrote "we have here a golden opportunity to see how a legend is formed, and how in a difficult and dark time for humanity a miraculous tale grows up of an attempted intervention by extra-terrestrial ‘heavenly’ powers - and this at the very time when human fantasy is seriously considering the possibility of space travel". Times were superstitious too - "The heyday of astrology was not in the benighted Middle Ages but in the middle of the 20th century," observed Jung, "when even the newspapers do not hesitate to publish the week’s horoscope."
As the iron grip of religion eased people were now looking to the heavens for a different kind of truth. "As recently as the First World War, we still told stories about encounters with angels," John Higgs wrote in 2016 book Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century. "One example, popularised by the Welsh author Arthur Machen, involved angels protecting the British Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Mons. But by the Second World War, Christianity had collapsed to the point where meetings with angels were no longer credible, and none of the previous labels for otherworldly entities seemed believable. As a result, the strange encounters which still occurred were now interpreted as contact with visitors from other planets. The ideas of science fiction were the best metaphors we had to make sense of what we didn’t understand."
As movie special effects improved, so too did people’s appetite for space-age fantasy at the cinema. Three of the top 10 highest grossing films at the box office in the 1970s could be judged to have supernatural or sci-fi content, with Star Wars inevitably leading the pack. By the 1980s, six of the 10 Hollywood blockbusters were sci-fi related (while the three Indiana Jones films had a touch of the supernatural about them). Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was the biggest grossing film of that decade, and the 6th highest grossing film of all time (adjusting to inflation).
"Since the early 1950s, Extraterrestrial spacecraft have been the go-to explanations for mysterious lights and objects in the skies," says Pilkington, "and successive waves of TV and film entertainments have maintained that mythic dominance and exported it to pretty much every corner of the planet. I like to say that UFOs are one of America’s greatest cultural exports." UFO sightings are most frequent when popular fiction related to the phenomenon is at its most fashionable - they increased manyfold while The X Files was on air during the 90s, for instance. Are people more likely to see things when their minds have been stimulated by film or television? "Undoubtedly yes," says Pilkington.
"The stimulus does not cause people to ‘invent’ paranormal or UFO experiences," says Roger Marsh, communications director of The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). "We do believe that the information about an experience, although fictionalised, causes the population to heighten their interest, and then try to report an incident. We quickly discovered that every time an episode of our television show Hangar 1: The UFO Files aired on the History Channel - for the first time or a re-run - our UFO reports dramatically increased. Even as those two seasons move into other markets around the world, we see an increase from the countries where the show is airing."
"The interrelationship between science fiction and UFOs is complex," says Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs and other mysteries for the British government, "and I speak as someone who’s had a foot in both camps, having also been a sci-fi author and a commentator on the genre. I don’t think having seen a sci-fi movie about aliens causes people to see UFOs, but it probably makes it more likely that they’ll report what they saw, because the release of a sci-fi movie creates a receptive environment where people feel they’re less likely to be ridiculed or disbelieved."
1980 arguably saw the peak of UFO activity, coming three years after Spielberg's other paranormal blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind had been to cinemas. Partworks like The Unexplained were all the rage, whilst Charles Berlitz and William Moore’s book The Roswell Incident brought the 1947 New Mexico conspiracy to the wider public for the first time. 1980 also saw Britain’s most notorious "visitation" at Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. Pope, who worked for the Ministry of Defence between 1985 and 2006 - and specifically on UFOs between 91 and 94 - has gone on record to describe the Rendlesham incident as a "smoking gun". I emailed him to ask him how he could be so sure, given that he started working at the MoD five years after the incident took place.
"While investigating UFOs I had access to all the MoD’s previous files on the subject, including the one on the Rendlesham Forest incident. In parallel, I conducted a cold case review in 1994, and over the years I’ve met and interviewed most of the key military witnesses. The ‘smoking gun’, that tells us we were dealing with not just lights in the sky but a landing, is a Defence Intelligence Staff (the DIS is part of the MoD) document that contains an official assessment of radiation readings found at a landing site where there were physical traces of a heavy object having landed on the hard, frozen ground. This scientific assessment states that the radiation levels seemed ‘significantly higher than the average background’. In fact, they were around seven times higher."
If it seemed like we were drawing ever closer to ratifying an alien encounter of some kind, then something inexplicable happened, or rather didn’t happen. As the 20th century became the 21st century, interest in celestial apparitions of an unexplained variety suddenly dropped off, as did sightings. Even just a few years into the new millennium, UFOs felt very much a 20th century phenomenon.
In 2009, the Ministry of Defense closed the desk setup for the reporting of such anomalies, partly to save money after the credit crunch, and partly due to a lack of interest. In a terse statement, the department said: "Please note it is no longer MoD policy to record, respond to, or investigate UFO sightings," adding, "the MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life. However, in over 50 years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom." Nick Pope told The Sun at the time that Britain was leaving itself open to terrorist attacks if there was nowhere to report "something unusual in our skies".
Many investigative organisations began shutting their doors or downscaling, and the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena, or ASSAP, had a meeting in 2012 to decide whether to continue or not. In an article in The Telegraph entitled ‘UFO enthusiasts admit the truth may not be out there after all’, chairman Dave Wood said: "It is certainly a possibility that in ten years time it will be a dead subject. The lack of compelling evidence beyond the pure anecdotal suggests that on the balance of probabilities that nothing is out there. I think that any UFO researcher would tell you that 98% of sightings that happen are very easily explainable. One of the conclusions to draw from that is that perhaps there isn’t anything there. The days of compelling eyewitness sightings seem to be over."
I contacted ASSAP and they’re still a going concern, though Robert Moore who answered the email admitted "yes, interest in UFOs in the UK and Europe is now fairly low, and while UFO reports are still made, most are now resolved very quickly. BUFORA claims they only acquired one ‘high strangeness’ event last year."
In September 2001, two flying objects that were quickly identified as aeroplanes crashed into the World Trade Center, killing nearly 3,000 people and wounding more than 6,000. The trauma inflicted on that day had massive geopolitical and psychological repercussions that we have not yet fully recovered from. Terrorism was nothing new, but an attack on such a massive scale was unprecedented. Soon it became apparent that this was no one off; that the West was now "under attack". The present reality is that the train you’re travelling on, or the rock concert you like to attend, could as easily be a legitimate target as anywhere else on any given day.
"An event is officially ‘traumatic’ only if it opens in the mind a corridor to the apprehension of our essential helplessness and the possibility of death," wrote psychologist Martha Stout in her book The Paranoia Switch. "In this fashion, and in a big way, 9/11 officially traumatised nearly all of us." Soon after the tragedy came the recriminations, and calls for revenge, although against whom it wasn’t clear. "Speeches playing on our existing fears were made by candidates on both sides of the American political fence," wrote Stout, "and we accumulated a new vocabulary of menace to rival any apocalyptic novel: weaponised anthrax, Office of Total Information Awareness, orange alert, terrorist cell, dirty bomb, axis of evil, WMDs, shock and awe, perpetual war."
The War on Terror was a new kind of war too, a clash of civilisations largely driven by ideology. In an article in The Guardian in 2004 called ‘What happened to weird?’, Walter Furneaux, a clinical psychologist from Brunel University specialising in the paranormal and parapsychology, suggested that "to the public the idea of the al-Qaida terrorist, is almost like an alien. We don't quite understand their culture, we don't quite know what they look like, they live far away, and they are a perceived threat, in a way perhaps we thought aliens could have been."
Could it be that we were suddenly too busy looking over our shoulders to bother looking into the sky anymore? Had our brains replaced fear of one alien with another: the illegal alien, sat on a train looking suspicious, carrying a large rucksack? "I suspect that pragmatic and mundane concerns tend to trump extra-mundane ones," says Mark Pilkington. "If you’re busy worrying about how you are going to get your next meal, or whether you are going to get blown up by drones, then you tend not to be so concerned about what ET is doing."
He adds that technology is an issue: "Historically, the technological and flight capabilities attributed to UFOs tend to be just ahead of what we ourselves are capable of, and civilians are aware of. Certainly the military technologies we have now far exceed those attributed to ET visitors up to the mid-1990s. Also with the rise of the civilian drone swarms, I think people are more aware that there are multiple technologies of human origin that they might be mistaking for alien ones."
And then of course, there’s distraction. You only have to stand on a railway platform and observe commuters transfixed by their smartphones to realise people are looking at the sky less. And anyone who’s sat through the frankly risible Australien Skies or other UFO "documentaries" on Netflix will have endured bullshitting cranks and hazy orbs in the distance shot by shaky cameras that could as easily distant street lamps or lights from a teasmaid as intelligent life from outer space. In a world of Facebook and Twitter, virtual reality, gaming, cosplay, Pokemon Go, Bitcoin and immersive online cults, squinting into the night sky hoping that distant entities will deign to appear feels a bit like paranormal trainspotting in the ultra-connected 21st century. The ‘I’m loving aliens instead’ article Jon Ronson wrote for The Guardian in 2008 about his trip with Robbie Williams to a convention in the Nevada desert demonstrated how committed a believer has to be for what appears to be scant reward. Why would anyone in this day and age want to stare up at the sky all night when they can pop little green men to their heart’s content on a high-end games console?
Writing for Aeon in an article called ‘Why we have stopped seeing UFOs in the skies’, journalist and author Stuart Walton ponders on whether or not there were ever any UFOs now that people have stopped spotting them. "Once, the skies were refulgent with alien craft; now they are back to their primordial emptiness, returning only static to the radio telescopes, and offering the occasional meteor shower to the wandering eye," he writes. "It isn’t only flying saucers that have receded into history. They are being followed, more gradually to be sure, by a decline in sightings of ghosts, recordings of poltergeists, claims of psychokinesis and the rest." Walton refers to Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle for inspiration, and theorizes that it’s the bread and circuses of capitalism distracting us: "In the age of electronic mass media, when so much flashes around the world instantaneously, when video clips, in a telling usage, ‘go viral’, there should be no doubt about what is real and what isn’t. Yet the critical mass is no longer critical" (my italics).
Walton wrote that article in 2013, and four years later we have seen just what the uncritical mass is capable of. In a year of political earthquakes such as Brexit and Trump, 2017 promises further surprises in a new age of ‘post-truth’ politics. As The X Files hit the peak of its popularity in 1996 a Texan libertarian and conspiracy theorist called Alex Jones was starting out on public access cable TV, a hive for late night cranks who could easily be dismissed. He quickly moved onto radio and then the internet, with his shows picking up two million listeners weekly in the early 2000s. Jones’ broadcasts and his website Infowars were also dismissed by the mainstream media and the political establishment, though with hindsight we know that that was a mistake.
Jones believes in aliens, UFOs and accompanying government cover-ups. He also believes that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs, and that the Sandy Hook massacre was a setup using professional actors as victims. "Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured", said Jones. "I couldn’t believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids. And it just shows how bold [the establishment] are - that they clearly used actors".
You’d think this could be easily dismissed as the ravings of a madman, but people take Alex Jones and his ilk seriously. We now have to take Jones very seriously indeed; his legacy is assured as the part inspiration for the 2016 Republican campaign for the White House of Donald Trump. As Jon Ronson noted in The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the ‘Alt-Right’, Trump at the Travis County Expo Center, "attendees had basically come here for a Trump version of an Alex Jones show, a brassy, cathartic, crazy, dramatic explosion of anti-political correctness, a night of flipping the bird at the mainstream, a fuck you to the liberal elites for ridiculing or ignoring their concerns. This was evident by the large number of Infowars shirts and Hillary for Prison shirts in the crowd". The sloganeering, like the Leave campaign in Britain, was succinct catchy and deliberately vague: "make America great again"; "build a wall"; "lock her up"; while the more Trump ranted that President Obama had founded ISIS, Ted Cruz’s father was involved with the assassination of JFK, that thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks, the more traction he gained. It appeared the more outlandish the claim, the more voters lapped it up; as did the MSM while tutting disapprovingly as hits went through the roof. These brash, bloviating and blatantly populist proclamations of disinformation by a demagogue are a world away from the quaint and almost embarrassed account of an unidentified light in the sky by President Carter 40 years ago, demonstrating that in 2017, the truth is far stranger than anything fiction has to offer.
In this age of fake news disseminated online, large swathes of Americans believe three million immigrants were allowed to vote for HRC in California, Germans are being told Angela Merkel was in the Stasi and is the daughter of Adolf Hitler, and in France Alain Juppé’s charge to steer the Republican Party towards a moderate right path has been undone by false links to the Muslim Brotherhood. This erroneous sensationalism used to be the domain of newspapers like The National Enquirer and The Sunday Sport that we could easily laugh off. Nobody’s laughing now with Steve Bannon, founder of Breitbart, appointed Trump’s chief strategist and senior counsellor. The age of the dark enlightenment is upon us.
"If sensation is predominant, intuition is barred, this being the function that pays the least attention to tangible facts," said Jung. His friend, Sigmund Freud, meanwhile saw "our culture and civilisation as a thin veneer through which the destructive forces of the underworld could break at any moment", according to the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. If it’s beginning to feel like we’re about to enter our final chapter, then we desperately need some kind of deus ex machina in this narrative to deliver us from untold tragedy. If there really is intelligent life out there, then now would be a good time for our extraterrestrial friends to make an appearance, and save us from ourselves.
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 Researchconducted 30 years after this account said that around 3.7 million 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
Belief in aliens steadily increasing (representational image)istock
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.
A scene from The InvadersQuinn Martin Productions
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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Some scientific explanations for alien abduction that aren’t so out of this world
Some scientific explanations for alien abduction that aren’t so out of this world
There’s got to be a perfectly logical explanation for this. Shutterstock
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.
Many encounters occur in sleep, much like sleep paralysis and associated hallucinations.Shutterstock
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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