The Connection Of Alien Contact And Sudden Psychic Ability: A Scientific Inquiry into An Extraordinary Hypothesis

Abstract

This essay probes a provocative hypothesis: that encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) may be linked to the sudden emergence of psychic abilities in some individuals. Grounded in contemporary psychology, neuroscience, and the philosophy of mind, the discussion reframes “alien contact” and “psychic ability” as components of a broader inquiry into consciousness, perception, and information processing under extraordinary circumstances. While the claim challenges conventional boundaries of science, the paper emphasizes careful methodological thinking, testable predictions, and rigorous skepticism. We outline plausible mechanisms—neurophysiological arousal, altered cognitive states, social and cultural expectancy, and Bayesian inference under uncertainty—that could plausibly produce abrupt shifts in perception or cognition following anomalous encounters. We also present illustrative, hypothetical case studies and suggest research designs that could, in principle, adjudicate the hypothesis without giving undue weight to anecdotal accounts. The aim is not to prove the connection, but to map a disciplined framework for studying a controversial topic with scientific seriousness.

Do alien abductees develop sudden psychic ability?

Introduction: Framing the Question

The claim that contact with alien beings could precipitate sudden psychic abilities sits at the intersection of ufology, parapsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. Throughout modern history, narratives of encounter—dreamlike visions, anomalous communications, or inexplicable sensory experiences—have often coincided with reports of newfound cognitive or perceptual powers. Critics rightly point to the precarious evidentiary standards in many alien-contact accounts and psychic reports: selection biases, cultural storytelling, memory distortion, and confirmation biases. Proponents, however, argue that there is a nontrivial pattern worth investigating: some individuals report a qualitative shift in capability after encounters, such as telepathic sensitivity, precognitive glimpses, or intensified intuition, coupled with profound existential change. A scientifically credible inquiry must separate circumstance from conjecture, identify plausible mechanisms, and implement rigorous, preregistered research protocols that can withstand replication efforts.

This essay therefore adopts a cautious, hypothesis-driven stance. We treat “alien contact” as a defined set of phenomenological experiences characterized by

1. reports of communication or contact with non-human intelligences,
2. timing that is temporally proximate to transformative subjective events, and
3. accompanying neurocognitive or perceptual changes. “Sudden psychic ability” is operationalized as veridically reported or externally corroborated enhancements in domains such as telepathy-like sensitivity, clairvoyant inference, precognition, or profound mnemonic acceleration, lasting beyond a clearly defined initiation period.

Importantly, the essay distinguishes between social-cociological phenomena (e.g., cultural fright or altered belief systems) and genuine perceptual or cognitive shifts that survive methodological scrutiny.

Theoretical Foundations

Why Might a Connection Exist? Several converging hypotheses could plausibly explain a link between alien contact experiences and sudden psychic abilities. While none constitutes definitive evidence, they are worth considering because they map testable predictions:

1. Neurophysiological Arousal and Neural Plasticity A high-stress, emotionally charged encounter could trigger dysregulated autonomic arousal, leading to a cascade of neuromodulatory events (e.g., catecholamine surges, cortisol release) that may transiently enhance certain cognitive faculties or reveal previously latent neural pathways. In some individuals, repeated or intense arousal could promote neuroplastic remodeling in circuits tied to attention, pattern recognition, or interoception. If a person experiences a lasting reorganizing event in the salience network or the frontoparietal control network, novel modes of information integration could emerge, which might be interpreted as “psychic” phenomena.

2. Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) and Realignment of Perceptual Boundaries Encounter narratives can precipitate ASC-like states (vastly increased suggestibility, hypnagogic imagery, altered time perception). These states are known to alter the boundaries between perception and inference, enabling atypical associations. In carefully monitored contexts, ASC can temporarily enhance creativity, pattern detection, and hypothesis generation. If sustained, they might be interpreted as sudden psychic ability, especially if a person learns to perform novel perceptual tasks under these states.

3. Bayesian Inference Under Deep Uncertainty Humans interpret the world with prior beliefs and probabilistic inference. A dramatic, anomalous experience could cause a Bayesian reweighting of priors—particularly priors about the limits of perception, reality, and agency. This recalibration could yield now-apparent correlations, pattern recognition, or predictive impressions that feel “psychic.” If a person becomes adept at distinguishing signal from noise post-encounter, they may report genuine improvements in predictive or telepathic-like tasks.

4. Social and Cultural Reframing Cultural explanations are powerful. A society or subculture that values and teaches “alien communication” or “psychic mastery” can shape interpretation and skill development. Expectation and social reinforcement can lead to observable improvements in performance on tasks framed as psychic, independent of any interface with aliens. Thus, separating genuine cognitive shift from socialized skill is essential in any study.

5. Epigenetic and Long-Term Brain Changes Before-and-after effects of extraordinary experiences could involve epigenetic modifications or long-term synaptic changes in neural circuits related to memory, emotion regulation, and information integration. If validated, these modifications could account for abrupt but enduring changes in cognitive style or perception that users report as “psychic.”

This image symbolizes the profound connection and potential for mutual understanding between humans and extraterrestrial beings.

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Methodological Guardrails

How to Study This Responsibly To advance the debate responsibly, researchers should adopt rigorous, preregistered methodologies, transparent reporting, and careful triangulation of evidence. Key guidelines include:

• Predefine operational definitions: Explicitly delimit what counts as “alien contact” and what qualifies as “sudden psychic ability.” Use objective outcome measures wherever possible (e.g., blinded assessments, standardized tests for intuition, pattern recognition tasks, memory measures).
• Multi-method triangulation: Combine qualitative interviews with quantitative experiments, neuroimaging when feasible, and third-party corroboration. Cross-validate subjective reports with independent observations.
• Control for confounds: Screen for psychiatric conditions, sleep deprivation, substance use, cultural influences, and expectancy effects. Include active control groups where appropriate (e.g., participants undergoing intense, but non-alien-related, transformative experiences).
• Longitudinal design: Distinguish transient ASC-like effects from durable cognitive or perceptual changes. Track participants over time to observe stability of reported abilities.
• Replication and preregistration: Encourage independent replication and make data, protocols, and materials openly available to enable reproducibility.

Illustrative Scenarios and Hypothetical Evidence

To illuminate the hypothesis without presenting sensational claims as proven, below are carefully framed, hypothetical case illustrations. These should be understood as synthetic examples meant to demonstrate how research questions might be operationalized and assessed.

• Case A: Sudden Enhanced Pattern Recognition After a Contact Narrative A participant reports a near-death-like meditation during a vivid alien-communication dream in which a non-human intelligence explains a complex, non-local pattern. In the weeks that follow, they perform a battery of tasks requiring rapid pattern recognition under time pressure and show a statistically significant improvement relative to their baseline and matched controls. A follow-up fMRI study reveals heightened functional connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex and the visual processing cortex during task performance. The researchers predefine thresholds for improvement, preregister analyses, and use blinded raters for task outcomes. They interpret the results as consistent with a plausible link between the encounter’s ASC component and enhanced cognitive integration rather than a lark of chance, acknowledging that replication is required.
• Case B: Telepathic-Style Intuition in a Post-Encounter Context Another participant reports “sensing” the location of a missing object after an alien-contact episode that included telemetric-like transmissions described verbally by an extraterrestrial entity. Across a series of controlled experiments, the participant demonstrates above-chance accuracy in a set of forced-choice tasks where cueing is minimized and experimenters are blind to object placement. The team notes that the effect is small, highly variable, and not replicable in all sessions, but persists across several independent laboratories with rigorous marginal significance. They publish a cautious interpretation: a tentative signal that deserves further study with larger samples and alternative paradigms to rule out subtle biases.
• Case C: Neurophysiological Marker of Changed Sensitivity A participant experiences a lasting shift in interoceptive awareness after an intense alien-contact experience. Using heartbeat detection tasks and cortical interoception imaging, researchers observe increased interoceptive sensitivity and altered insula activity. They propose a mechanistic hypothesis linking alien-contact-induced ASC to recalibrated body-awareness networks, which could underpin unusual perceptual or intuition-based abilities. The effect size is moderate, and the results are explored for robustness by independent labs with pre-registered plans.

5 Examples of people who experienced it

1. Example 1 Mira, a quiet lighthouse keeper from Cornwall, began receiving messages during the stillness of the night. At first, they came as faint whispers in her dreams, then as lucid, star-map images that echoed in her waking minutes. One evening, the sea churned with a green glow, and she felt pressed to sketch a complex symbol she had never seen before. Within days, she inexplicably understood languages she hadn’t studied, and a sudden sense of timing guided her to avert a maritime accident. She now speaks of an ancient intelligence guiding her gaze, a bridge between alien contact and an awakened psychic sensitivity.

2. Example 2 Diego, a Mexican guitarist, discovered his pulse tell stories no instrument could. After a prolonged stretch of creative block, he dreamed of a chrome city floating above the ocean, with music that hummed in frequencies beyond ordinary hearing. He woke with a fierce intuition about chords and scales that reclaimed the heartbeat of his melodies. When he played, audiences swore they could feel distant voices singing through him, as if an alien chorus was lending him a compass. His psychic insight sharpened—he could sense harmonies before they formed, sensing changes just before they happened, like a telepathic resonance with sound.

3. Example 3 Aiko, a nurse in Osaka, began noticing patients’ unspoken needs in vivid flashes—images of distant events that later proved prescient. A routine shift turned miraculous when she “saw” a code blue before it rang, guiding her team to prevent a fatal error. During quiet nights, she heard soft, unfamiliar languages and felt a presence aligning her instincts with the hospital’s rhythm. Her colleagues whispered of an otherworldly mentor. Aiko resumed volunteering with disaster relief, trusting a sudden psychic clarity that seemed to arrive through contact with beings beyond human perception. She calls it a compassionate communication from an unseen network.

4. Example 4 Omar, a software engineer from Cairo, described an encounter that unfolded like a debugging session with reality itself. A flash of geometric light appeared in his apartment, and a calm voice walked him through a sequence of steps to reprogram a stubborn algorithm. The solution was elegant and entirely different from his usual approach. Afterward, he began experiencing precise, instantaneous insights—predicting system outages hours before they occurred and sensing security breaches before they registered. He began documenting dreams of a distant planet where beings communicated through cognitive patterns, a form of linguistic code. He believes alien contact unlocked a latent psychic toolkit in his mind.

5. Example 5 Elena, a grandmother from Porto, woke one night to a chorus of soft siren-like signals that felt both ancient and welcoming. She found herself recalling memories not her own—visions of people she’d never met, their emotions streaming into hers with startling clarity. The next day, she could sense the needs of her grandchildren before words could form: a tense mood, a sudden fear, a small whim she could soothe with a single whispered story. A nurse friend suggested it might be a suppressed ancestral memory unlocked by contact with beings from elsewhere. Elena embraced the gift, a living link between alien contact and sudden psychic empathy.

Critical Evaluation

What the Evidence Could and Could Not Show If the proposed connection exists, we should expect convergent evidence across domains:

• Repetition: Replicable findings across separate samples and laboratories with consistent effect directions.
• Specificity: Cognitive or perceptual improvements that map onto defined tasks associated with heightened pattern recognition, intuition, or nonlocal information processing.
• Temporal coherence: Onset closely follows alien-contact experiences and persists for a plausible duration, with a detectable decay or consolidation trajectory.
• Neurobiological plausibility: Measurable brain or physiological correlates that align with theoretical mechanisms (e.g., ASC-associated networks, interoception, or salience processing).

Conversely, null or equivocal findings would emphasize the dangers of overinterpretation. Many insights from parapsychology have failed to generalize beyond specific contexts; thus, any positive results must withstand robust statistical scrutiny, pre-registration, and cross-lab replication to challenge entrenched skepticism.

Ethical and Societal Considerations

Research into alien contact and psychic abilities intersects with sensitive ethical territory. Researchers must avoid coercive recruitment practices, manage participants’ psychological well-being when engaging with extraordinary experiences, and provide access to counseling resources if distress arises. Care should be taken to avoid sensationalism in public communications that could mislead or stigmatize participants. Moreover, dual-use concerns—the potential misuse of supposed abilities in high-stakes settings—should be anticipated and mitigated through transparent ethics oversight and responsible reporting.

Implications for Science and Philosophy

Even if the link between alien contact and sudden psychic ability remains unproven, the exercise has value for science and philosophy. It pushes researchers to refine measurement standards for subjective experiences at the boundaries of conventional cognition, to design more rigorous ASC research protocols, and to clarify how humans interpret anomalous information. Philosophically, exploring these questions invites reflection on the nature of consciousness, the limits of perception, and the epistemology of extraordinary claims. It challenges the assumption that only modalities with clear causal mechanisms are worthy of investigation and highlights the importance of methodological innovation in studying rare, poorly understood phenomena.

Limitations and Cautions

• The topic inherently invites sensationalism. Maintaining scientific humility is essential.
• Anecdotal reports are insufficient as evidence; any credible claim must be reproducible under controlled conditions.
• Confounding variables are abundant in extraordinary experiences; rigorous control and replication are non-negotiable.
• The lack of consistent, high-quality data on ETI encounters means conclusions are necessarily tentative and provisional.

Conclusion

Toward a Principled Inquiry The proposition that alien contact could be linked to sudden psychic abilities is audacious, but not inherently irrational. A principled scientific approach demands precise definitions, preregistered methodologies, and a commitment to replication and falsifiability. By exploring plausible neurocognitive mechanisms, carefully framing extraordinary experiences, and cultivating robust experimental designs, researchers can illuminate questions about human perception, cognition, and the boundaries of consciousness without surrendering to sensationalism.

The proposed framework does not claim a proven connection. It offers a structured path for inquiry—one that respects scientific rigor while leaving room for the imaginative dimensions of human experience. If future studies converge on consistent, independent findings, we may begin to revise our understanding of how transformative encounters—whether with ETI or other profoundly anomalous stimuli—can catalyze enduring changes in cognition and perception. Until then, the task remains to distinguish rigorous science from compelling stories, and to pursue the truth with a method as extraordinary as the questions themselves.

Appendix: Suggested Research Protocols (Concrete Steps for Future Work)

• Study design: Multisite, double-blind, preregistered experiments assessing performance on psychic-relevant tasks (e.g., pattern recognition, intuition accuracy, nonlocal inference) before and after a documented, controlled “alien-contact-like” experience (e.g., standardized ASC induction paired with immersive storytelling, to ethically model transformative contexts).
• Control conditions: Active controls that mimic emotional intensity and cognitive load without alien-content elements; sham contact experiences to control expectancy effects.
• Outcome measures: Pre- and post-assessments using standardized cognitive batteries, psychophysiological monitoring (heart rate variability, galvanic skin response), neuroimaging where feasible, and qualitative interviews analyzed with systematic coding.
• Data transparency: Open preregistration, data anonymization, and sharing of materials to enable independent reproduction.

In sum, this essay has sketched a disciplined, scientifically minded path for interrogating a controversial hypothesis. Whether future research will establish any genuine connection between alien contact and sudden psychic ability remains an open question. What is essential now is to pursue the inquiry with rigor, intellectual honesty, and a commitment to empirical scrutiny that honors both the demands of science and the profound curiosity that motivates us to ask such questions in the first place.

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04-10-2025 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

U.S. Congressman Says UFOs May Be Machines of a Hidden ‘Ancient Earth Civilization’

BY Vicky Verma

For over 90 years, the UFO enigma has captivated people’s minds worldwide, sparking curiosity, debates, and countless investigations into the phenomenon. The wait is over, as David Grusch, David Fravor & Ryan Graves are set to testify before the US Congress during the congressional meetings scheduled for July 26, 2023.

Meanwhile, various theories were postulated by United States Representative Mike Gallagher on the possible origin of UFOs while he appeared on Pat McAfee’s show on June 27, 2023. The former Marine suggested that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) might possibly represent an enigmatic “ancient civilization” that had remained hidden on Earth until recently when they began to surface.

“This should be an opportunity for the government to be transparent,” he said. “If we have information that disconfirms the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or all these other ones, at least it shows the government doing something competent and being forward-leaning by declassifying information to the public.”

Rep. Gallagher made this statement in response to the wild interview of David Grusch with Ross Coutlhart that hit the media. Mr. Grusch, who is confirmed to testify before Congress in the upcoming hearings, claimed that the US government has proof of alien life and that there are spacecraft from another species. He mentions that there is a significant number of these spacecraft, some of which have landed while others have crashed.

When asked about the duration of the cover-up, Grusch mentions that the first recovery of a UAP occurred in 1933 in Magenta, Italy, during the regime of Benito Mussolini. He explains that the Italian government moved the recovered craft to a secure air base until 1944-1945 when the Vatican informed the Americans about it

Appearing on the sports talk show, Gallagher suggested that one possible explanation of supposed UFO sightings was the so-called “Terminator” theory — derived from the film of the same name — that aliens were actually human beings from the future. Gallagher further put forth another theory, suggesting the following: “Instead of us from the future, it might indeed be an ancient civilization that has been lurking here, and suddenly it’s making its presence known.” Ancient Aliens, does it ring a bell?

A similar theory was also proposed by Tim Peake, one of Britain’s famous astronauts. He said that the UFOs filmed by the US military over 100 times could either time traveling humans or aliens from other civilizations. During an interview with Good Morning Britain in June 2022, Briton astronaut Tim Peake, who spent more than six months on the International Space Station, was asked about the UAP videos, which the Pentagon recently declassified.

Peake said: “I heard one theory where a pilot was talking about that potentially in the future, they’ve developed time travel – is it something that’s come back from the future?” He did not exactly say what the UFOs are but shared some theories that have long been discussed by UFOlogists.

“I don’t think it’s a development of any state nation or non-state organization at all. I think it’s quite remarkable when you see the video footage. It does seem extraordinary as to what these machines are capable of.”

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There is a huge buried UFO hidden outside the US, and Ross Coulthart claimed that he knows the location of this immovable craft. There is no confirmation from Coulthart about the nature of this craft if it was retrieved. However, some have speculated this could be an archeological dig. Could this particular craft potentially be a remnant of a bygone civilization?

Considering Rep. Gallagher’s theory, scientists have explored the possibility of detecting ancient civilizations in Earth’s geological record. A recent paper called “The Silurian Hypothesis” discusses how traces of industrial civilizations could be found. While fossils and artifacts are unlikely to survive over millions of years, anomalous changes in chemical compositions could serve as clues. By studying geological anomalies and applying models to other planets, scientists hope to understand if civilizations existed in the distant past.

NASA has spent many years seeking the truth regarding extraterrestrial life. Furthermore, the space agency has never denied the existence of non-human life beyond Earth in any form. This is sufficient to discuss the idea of non-human life existing beyond Earth in any form, from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard, has supported the idea that there may have been earlier civilizations on both Earth and Mars, and that these civilizations may have been the origin of UAPs. (Click here to read the full article)

Mr. Loeb writes: “Planets like Mars or Earth could have given multiple births to technological civilizations that were a billion years apart and hence were not aware of each other. Like stable parents, the planets recovered from the environmental impact of these civilizations over time. We may have been separated in time from siblings that we never had the opportunity to meet and so we are unaware of their existence.”

Former Pentagon UFO official, Lue Elizondo, shared intriguing insights in an interview about crash retrievals and materials related to UFOs/UAPs. He believes the US government possesses exotic materials but lacks transparency on the matter. (Click here to read the full article)

Elizondo used an analogy of finding an out-of-place object in King Tut’s tomb to emphasize the significance of finding advanced materials before our known technology existed. Some interpreted this analogy as a hint that UFOs could be considered archaeological findings, possibly ancient rather than just old.

Interestingly, Bob Lazar, on the Joe Rogan Experience, mentioned hearing that at least one recovered UFO was found during an archaeological dig, suggesting its ancient origin. Astronomer Avi Loeb suggested that some advanced devices made by early inhabitants of Mars and Earth might still be operational elsewhere in the Solar System, potentially accounting for some Unidentified Aerial Phenomena reports.

Physicist John E. Brandenburg’s 2015 study speculated about a massive thermonuclear explosion that destroyed Mars’ once-Earthlike atmosphere, considering the Cydonian Hypothesis and Fermi’s Paradox. These ideas explore the possibility of ancient advanced civilizations in our solar system.

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03-10-2025 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

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Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiralling out of control – here’s why that’s so dangerous

The idea that aliens may have visited the Earth is becoming increasingly popular. Around a fifth of UK citizens believe Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials, and an estimated 7% believe that they have seen a UFO.

The figures are even higher in the US – and rising. The number of people who believe UFO sightings offer likely proof of alien life increased from 20% in 1996 to 34% in 2022. Some 24% of Americans say they’ve seen a UFO.

This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist. What’s more, given the vast distances between star systems, it seems odd we’d only learn about them from a visit. Evidence for aliens is more likely to come from signals from faraway planets.

In a paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, I argue that the belief in alien visitors is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem.

The belief is now rising to the extent that politicians, at least in the US, feel they have to respond. The disclosure of information about claimed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs rather than UFOs) from the Pentagon has got a lot of bi-partisan attention in the country.

Much of it plays upon familiar anti-elite tropes that both parties have been ready to use, such as the idea that the military and a secretive cabal of private commercial interests are keeping the deep truth about alien visitation hidden. That truth is believed to involve sightings, abductions and reverse-engineered alien technology.

Belief in a cover-up is even higher than belief in alien visitation. In 2019, a Gallop poll found that a staggering 68% of Americans believed that “the US government knows more about UFOs than it is telling”.

This political trend has been decades in the making. Jimmy Carter promised document disclosure during his presidential campaign in 1976, several years after his own reported UFO sighting. Like so many other sightings, the simplest explanation is that he saw Venus. (That happens a lot.)

Hillary Clinton also suggested she wanted to “open [Pentagon] files as much as I can” during her presidential campaign against Donald Trump. As seen in the video below, Trump suggested he’d need to “think about” whether it was possible to declassify the so-called Roswell documentation (relating to the notorious claimed crash of a UFO and the recovery of alien bodies).

Former president Bill Clinton claimed to have sent his chief of staff, John Podesta, down to Area 51, a highly classified US Air Force facility, just in case any of the rumours about alien technology at the site were true. It is worth nothing that Podesta is a long-time enthusiast for all things to do with UFOs.

The most prominent current advocate of document disclosure is the Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer. His stripped back 2023 UAP disclosure bill for revealing some UAP records was co-sponsored by three Republican senators.

Pentagon disclosure finally began during the early stages of Joe Biden’s term of office, but so far there has been nothing to see. Nothing looks like an encounter. Nothing looks close.

Still, the background noise does not go away.

Problems for society

All this is ultimately encouraging conspiracy theories, which could undermine trust in democratic institutions. There have been humorous calls to storm Area 51. And after the storming of the Capitol in 2021, this now looks like an increasingly dangerous possibility.

Too much background noise about UFOs and UAPs can also get in the way of legitimate science communication about the possibility of finding microbial extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology, the science dealing with such matters, has a far less effective publicity machine than UFOlogy.

History, a YouTube channel part owned by Disney, regularly delivers shows about “ancient aliens”. The show is now in its 20th season and the channel has 13.8 million subscribers. The Nasa astrobiology channel has a hard won 20,000 subscribers. Actual science finds itself badly outnumbered by entertainment repackaged as factual.

Alien visitation narratives have also repeatedly tried to hijack and overwrite the history and mythology of indigenous people.

The first steps in this direction go back to Alexander Kazantsev’s science fiction tale Explosion: The Story of a Hypothesis (1946). It presents the 1908 Tunguska meteorite impact event as a Nagasaki-like explosion of an alien spacecraft engine. In Kazantsev’s tale, a single giant black female survivor has been left stranded, equipped with special healing powers. This lead to her adoption as a shaman by the indigenous Evenki people.

Nasa and the space science community do support efforts such as the Native Skywatchers initiative set up by the indigenous Ojibwe and Lakota communities to ensure the survival of storytelling about the stars. There is a real and extensive network of indigenous scholarship about these matters.

But UFOlogists promise a far higher profile for indigenous history in return for the mashing together of genuine indigenous stories about life arriving from the skies with fictional tales about UFOs, repackaged as suppressed history.

The modern alien visitation narrative has not, after all, emerged out of indigenous communities. Quite the opposite. It emerged in part as a way for conspiracy-minded thinkers in a Europe torn apart by racism to “explain” how complex urban civilisations in places like South America could have existed prior to European settlement.

Squeezed through a new age filter of 1960s counterculture, the narrative was flipped to value indigenous people as having once possessed advanced technology. Once upon a time, according to this view, every indigenous civilisation was Wakanda, a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

If all of this stayed in its own box, as entertaining fiction, then matters would be fine. But it doesn’t, and they aren’t. Visitation narratives tend to overwrite indigenous storytelling about sky and ground.

This is a problem for everyone, not just indigenous peoples struggling to continue authentic traditions. It threatens our grasp of the past. When it comes to insight into our remote ancestors, the remnants of prehistoric storytelling are few and precious, such as within indigenous storytelling about the stars.

Take the tales of the Pleiades, which date back in standard forms to at least 50,000 years ago.

This may be why these tales in particular are heavily targeted by alien visitation enthusiasts, some of whom even claim to be “Pleiadeans”. No surprises, Pleiadeans do not look like the Lakota or Ojibwe, but are strikingly blond, blue-eyed and Nordic.

It is increasingly clear that belief in alien visitation is no longer just a fun speculation, but something that has real and damaging consequences.

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03-10-2025 om 18:26 geschreven door peter  

Alien life is no joke

Not long ago the search for extraterrestrials was considered laughable nonsense. Today, it’s serious and scientific

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The question of what constitutes evidence for an extraordinary claim made its appearance in the very first major UFO story. It was 24 June 1947, a good day for flying in the Pacific Northwest. The skies were clear and bright over Mineral, Washington. It was the middle of the day as the amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold found himself navigating his small single-engine plane past the towering peak of Mount Rainier toward an air show in Oregon. But he’d heard that a US Marine Corps transport plane had gone missing, and a reward was being offered for anyone who found its wreckage. Arnold decided to make a few circuits and have a look. He didn’t know it at the time, but he was flying straight into UFO history.

As Arnold surveyed the terrain below him, he saw a flash of light with a blue tinge. A DC-4 was flying off in the distance, but there were no flashing lights coming from it. Then the flashes appeared again. This time he saw exactly where they were coming from: nine objects flying in a diagonal formation, ‘like the tail of a Chinese kite’. Arnold watched as the objects banked and turned in ways that made him think he was watching some kind of advanced military aircraft, until they finally disappeared. The entire incident didn’t last long, but it left Arnold with ‘an eerie feeling’. After landing to refuel, he shared his story with friends at the airfield. What happened next would echo down history, shaping everything we think about UFOs and their connection to aliens from outer space.

Arnold’s tale spread quickly, and reporters from the East Oregonian asked him to come in and give more details. To the newspapermen, Arnold seemed like a credible witness and a careful observer. Laying out the timeline of what he saw, Arnold described both the craft and their motions. Exactly what happened next remains controversial, but when Arnold described the objects as moving like ‘a saucer if you skip it across the water’ he triggered a chain of events leading to one of the most outrageous misquotes in the history of journalism.

The story in the East Oregonian, a small paper, ran with the words ‘saucer-like aircraft’. But, when the Associated Press picked up the story, the description got even more garbled. What Arnold said he’d seen were flying craft shaped like a crescent with ‘wings’ that swept back in an arc. Somehow the AP wire story misinterpreted Arnold’s description, leading The Chicago Sun to run a story with a spectacular frontpage headline: ‘Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted By Idaho Pilot.’

The Chicago Sun piece triggered an avalanche. Within six months, the flying saucer story ran in more than 140 newspapers across the US. Even more remarkable, an epidemic of flying-saucer sightings began to sweep the nation. By the end of summer in 1947, ‘flying saucers’ were officially a thing.

What’s important about the Roswell story is how loose even the idea of evidence becomes

One of the most important lessons I learned from the Arnold affair is the power of a story. Arnold saw the first flying saucer, and his sighting begins a critical thread in the public’s willingness to go along on evidence-free rides of thinking about aliens and UFOs. It was where the idea of technologically advanced, interstellar life here on Earth right now enters the public consciousness as a major phenomenon. But almost as quickly as UFOs appear, so does a UFO culture that tilts towards the incredulous and the paranoid, marked by a willingness to take anything as evidence. Of course, one could find many individuals taking an interest in UFOs while keeping their sceptical sensibilities, who just genuinely wanted to know what was going on. But, as a cultural phenomenon, public discussion of UFOs would come to be dominated by questionable evidence, conspiracy theories and outright hoaxes.

The Roswell affair embodies the most questionable evidence axis of UFO culture. The actual Roswell case involves a rancher who, just a few weeks after the Arnold sighting and its media craze, found some debris on his land made of sticks, wire and foil. While a short, initial hubbub ensued when a story in the local paper claimed the discovery of a flying saucer (what else), that claim was walked back the next day.

The brief affair was then forgotten for 30 years. It was only after that prolonged period that the Roswell story was resurrected in a series of bestselling books and TV ‘documentaries’ claiming a crashed saucer had been found on the ranch. But with each new book, the Roswell story became more complex and convoluted. Each new book added more so-called witnesses and more details, including the account of the mortician Glenn Dennis getting a chance to view the dead aliens. Some books said there were more saucers and more aliens, some dead and some not. Some even said alien bodies were viewed by none other than president Dwight Eisenhower.

What’s important about the Roswell story is how loose even the idea of evidence becomes. Anyone with a vague connection to the events and a story to tell gets added to the list of witnesses. New books pile on old books and theories multiply until even those claiming to be serious UFO researchers can’t sort out which version with how many saucers and bodies is the one they’re supposed to investigate; garden-variety enthusiasts are beyond confused.

While this might have seemed amusing to those on the sidelines at the time, it established a pattern of ‘anything goes’ in the public’s perception of UFOs and, by association, the question of alien life that continues to this day.

That loose relationship between extraordinary claims and the evidence for such claims also had a profound effect on me as a teenager interested in astronomy and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.

At the time, I was reading both hard-science books (Sagan) and speculative works about UFO-related topics. For a time, I’d become enamoured of von Däniken’s book Chariots of the Gods (1968) and its claims that many archaeological mysteries could best be explained by ancient aliens who had once come to visit Earth. That time ended when, one evening, I chanced upon a PBS documentary called The Case of the Ancient Astronauts (1977). It presented interviews with scientists who had actually spent their lives studying the subjects of von Däniken’s ancient alien speculations. The simplicity with which hard-won archaeological evidence trumped von Däniken’s claims left me both angry (I felt duped by his book) and exhilarated. The establishment of proper standards for what counts as evidence is what set the archaeologists apart from von Däniken’s wishful fantasies. The experience of that stark difference ended my own interest in UFOs and visiting aliens of any historical epoch.

If it hadn’t made me so angry, it might have made me laugh – and it’s that giggle factor that has been so harmful to the establishment of the true scientific study of astrobiology that I work in now. When it comes to SETI, at least, UFOs made the nascent field an easy target for scorn. The first true SETI project occurred in 1960, when a young astronomer named Frank Drake used a radio telescope to search for ‘non-natural’ signals from two Sun-like stars. While Drake was looking for an intelligent life that could build technologies like radio transmitters, his project, in attempting to establish evidence for life beyond Earth, was the first true astrobiological experiment ever attempted.

Recognising Drake’s effort as the starting point for modern astrobiology is a rarely discussed but critical point. It’s also essential to understanding the remarkable moment the field stands in now because Drake’s search took that critical idea of standards of evidence seriously. In the design and application of his experiment, Drake and his colleagues paid close attention to questions of signals, noise and, most of all, false positives. They understood that they could be fooled into thinking they’d made a discovery by the data they gathered, and they attempted to prepare and protect themselves from that possibility. Drake’s SETI project and those that followed always attracted enormous popular attention. But building the field into a coherent, sustained scientific enterprise proved difficult, and it is here that UFOs got in the way.

In SETI’s heady first decades, a number of government science agencies had a healthy interest in the search for life, intelligent or otherwise. It was the US National Academy of Sciences that hosted an Interstellar Communications meeting where the Drake equation was born. And NASA was keen to go microbe hunting on the other planets in our solar system if they could be reached. As the 1960s turned into the ’70s, SETI scientists also worked with NASA in ways that went beyond radio astronomy, helping plan new telescope technologies for hunting exoplanets. There was even consideration of Project Cyclops, a massive array of a thousand radio telescopes sensitive enough to find unprecedentedly faint signals of intelligent life among the stars.

In all these projects, the scientists involved had to face the challenging task of understanding how to gather and evaluate evidence while simultaneously facing profound uncertainties concerning the target of that evidence. Researchers were well aware that, while we must begin with life as we know it (that is, Earth life), nature might have other ideas. Life, intelligent or otherwise, originating on a different world could follow entirely different trajectories. Though the field was nascent, astrobiology researchers made slow but steady progress in mapping out how to rigorously gather and evaluate data that would be relevant to the very open question of how life beyond our world might make its appearance.

The public political flogging of SETI as wasteful kookiness, with an implicit link to UFO kookiness, had begun

Then the politics and the UFOs showed up.

William Proxmire was a senator from Wisconsin who liked to think of himself as a fiscal hawk. He took it upon himself to bestow his Golden Fleece Award on anything he considered a waste of US tax dollars. Since the science projects he targeted got only meagre amounts of funding, Proxmire’s award was basically clever politics aimed at targets who couldn’t fight back. In 1978, NASA’s small portfolio of SETI funding fell into Proxmire’s crosshairs. He gave SETI the Golden Fleece Award and, being a powerful and influential senator, got his colleagues to keep the agency from providing any new funding. Proxmire only relented after Sagan, by then a well-respected public scientist, publicly intervened, meeting personally with the senator to discuss the issue. While the ban on SETI funding was eventually lifted in 1983, the public political flogging of SETI as wasteful kookiness, with an implicit link to UFO kookiness, had begun.

NASA’s SETI funding remained minuscule in the post-Proxmire period, but it was still a target. In 1990, NASA tried to ramp up its SETI funding, from $4 million to $12 million, for a new search in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. While this is less than chump change in the federal budget, some politicians once again smelled blood. Making the link to UFOs explicit, the congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts tried to kill the funding, claiming ‘we don’t need to spend $6 million this year to find evidence of these rascally creatures. We only need 75 cents to buy a tabloid at the local supermarket.’

The same game played out again a few years later. In 1993, those $12 million were finally allocated for the new search. Not wanting to attract more congressional attention, the project was stealthily called the High Resolution Microwave Survey. Unfortunately, the senator Richard Bryan from Nevada caught wind of the effort and saw it as an easy chance to make some headlines. He sponsored an amendment killing the project, announcing that would be ‘the end of Martian hunting season at the taxpayer’s expense’. Of course, Bryan knew NASA wasn’t planning on turning their telescopes towards Mars, but who cared? His quip made for great copy and linked SETI to the cultural fringes where UFO enthusiasm lived. What became known as the ‘giggle factor’ had killed the search for life in the Universe again.

In the wake of these very public whippings, NASA learned the lesson that SETI was political poison. While SETI scientists such as Drake and the unstoppable Jill Tarter did their best to show that the field lived within those necessary scientific standards of evidence, the damage was done. While the agency did what it could in the decades that followed, it became an accepted truth among researchers that federal support was going to be hard to come by. SETI scientists soldiered on, raising private money where they could. But, for all intents and purposes, it was running on fumes. The giggle factor had won.

Choking off SETI funding had important consequences for the search for life in the Universe because, basically, it meant there was no search for life in the Universe. Using big telescopes costs big money. If there was no funding for SETI, then no telescope time would be granted for SETI. The political temperament that held sway for so long means our sky has effectively remained unexplored. We simply have not looked.

It’s impossible to deny the role UFOs had in the development of this history. As the historian Stephen Garber put it in an article about SETI and NASA, the field ‘had always suffered from a “giggle factor” that derived from its association in the popular press with searchers for “little green men” and unidentified flying objects’. Because of this association, astronomers never got the chance to get a real search started.

In the early 1990s, it did seem that no one was very interested in the scientific possibilities for life beyond Earth. NASA’s 1976 Viking landers conducted biology experiments on Mars that appeared to close the door on the Red Planet as a home for even microbial life. The trail for life of any kind seemed to have gone cold.

Then, in the mid-1990s, everything changed.

In 1995, scientists announced that they had discovered the first planet orbiting another star – an exoplanet. It was an epoch-making moment. After 2,500 years of arguing about the existence of other worlds, we’d finally proven that the planets in our solar system were not a rarity. Soon, exoplanets were being discovered across the sky. Now we know that pretty much every star you see at night hosts a family of worlds. The next big change came when scientists found a chunk of Mars in Antarctica. The meteorite blown off the red planet (from an ancient asteroid impact) appeared to have signs of fossil life. While that conclusion is no longer accepted, at the time it drove president Bill Clinton to direct NASA to go back to Mars and look for life. Between the discovery of exoplanets and the possibilities of ancient life on Mars, NASA got into astrobiology in a big way. Funding for new research opened up, allowing new and exciting ideas to be proposed and pursued.

Remarkably, when it comes to exoplanets, we are now also able to see exactly which planets are in their star’s habitable zone, where liquid water (the key, we believe, for life) can exist. That means we know exactly where to look in our search for life (something Drake could only dream of).

Even more remarkably, astronomers have learned how to look for alien life on alien worlds using starlight that’s traversed the world’s atmosphere and is then absorbed by a variety of chemicals on the surface. This means we can search for biosignatures – signatures of chemicals that could be in a planets’ atmosphere only because life has put it there.

An open investigation of UAPs could offer a masterclass in how science goes about its business of knowing

Spectacular advances in the hunt for biosignatures have meant a profound refinement in the all-important standards of evidence. The earliest version of a biosignature was the presence of oxygen in an alien atmosphere. On Earth, oxygen is a significant atmospheric constituent only because photosynthetic organisms keep it there. Over the past decade, however, astronomers have discovered key mechanisms through which planets without life might generate oxygen-rich air. This was a crucial step in developing methods for evaluating false positives – the ways we think we’ve gained evidence for life but are, in fact, being fooled. Sophisticated statistical methods for evaluating false positives, as well as other challenges astrobiological evidence will present, are now a robust part of biosignature science.

All these new discoveries and new methods are transforming what we think of as SETI too. A new research field is rising that scientists are calling technosignatures, which embraces the ‘classic’ efforts of SETI while taking the search for intelligent life into new forms and new directions. (Some scientists still use SETI to refer to the field and that’s OK. But for many, including myself, ‘technosignatures’ correctly captures all that is changing in the field.) Rather than planning for someone to set up a beacon announcing their presence (one premise of the first generation of SETI), we can now look directly at the planets where those civilisations might be just going about their business of ‘civilisation-ing’. By searching for signatures of an alien society’s day-to-day activities (a technosignature), we’re building entirely new toolkits to find intelligent, civilisation-building life.

It was in 2019 that NASA awarded me and my colleagues the first grant to study atmospheric technosignatures. While there are still only a handful of technosignature grants compared with biosignature studies, it was the first indication that the giggle factor was finally waning. Since then, our group has worked hard to provide new examples of possible technosignatures including some that might be searched for with the James Webb Space Telescope. We’ve also demonstrated that there is no reason to suppose that biosignatures will be more common than technosignatures. Since the exact same techniques are required to search for both bio- and technosignatures, there’s every reason to carry out both kinds of search at the same time.

And those standards of evidence developed for biosignature searches will be just as relevant for technosignature work. Our group, led by the astrophysicist Manasvi Lingam from the Florida Institute of Technology, recently published the first work attempting to lay out a framework for evaluating false positives in technosignatures. While there is enormous work ahead of us, it’s projects like these that will allow us to fully understand the confidence we can ascribe to any claim of an intelligent-life detection.

With the giggle factor receding for the scientific search for life, where does that leave UFOs and UAPs? There, the waters remain muddied. It is a good thing that pilots feel they can report sightings without fear of reprisal as a matter of air safety and national defence. And an open, transparent and agnostic investigation of UAPs could offer a masterclass in how science goes about its business of knowing rather than just believing. In The Little Book of Aliens, I even explained how such an investigation might be conducted (the recent NASA UAP panel and the Galileo Project are exploring these kinds of options). But if my colleagues and I claimed we’d found life on another world, we’d be required to provide evidence that meets the highest scientific standards. While we should let future studies lead us where they may, there is simply no such evidence surrounding UFOs and UAPs that meets these standards today. In fact, at a recent hearing conducted by NASA’s UAP panel, it was revealed that government studies show only a small percentage of reported sightings failed to find a reasonable explanation. Many of the remaining cases did not have enough data to even begin an attempt at identification. The sky is simply not awash in unexplained phenomena.

In the end, what matters is that, after thousands of years of arguing over opinions about life in the Universe, our collective scientific efforts have taken us to the point where we can finally begin a true scientific study of the question. The next big space telescope NASA is planning will be called the Habitable Worlds Observatory. The name tells you all you need to know. We’re going all in on the search for life in the Universe because we finally have the capabilities to search for life in the Universe. The giggle factor is finally history.

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03-10-2025 om 18:08 geschreven door peter  

National Archives Upload Sparks Renewed Interest in the Roswell Incident

A nearly 22-minute video titled “The Roswell Incident” has recently appeared on the official website of the U.S. National Archives, stirring fresh curiosity around one of the most famous UFO cases in history. The 1947 Roswell event, long shrouded in secrecy and speculation, has been at the heart of countless books, documentaries, and debates about extraterrestrial life.

The sudden appearance of the video—uploaded without fanfare—has triggered widespread discussion online, with many UFO enthusiasts claiming it could contain new evidence related to the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object in New Mexico nearly eight decades ago.

Ross Coulthart: “Just Having a Bit of Fun”

Veteran investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, who has spent years reporting on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), spoke with NewsNation Prime about the upload. He cautioned viewers not to jump to conclusions, emphasizing that there is no verified archival footage of the 1947 Roswell crash.

According to Coulthart, the video is unlikely to represent authentic government documentation of alien debris or bodies. Instead, he suggested the appearance of the material may be someone “just having a bit of a fun game.”

Why the Roswell Story Endures

Despite repeated efforts by the U.S. military and skeptics to explain the Roswell case—most notably as the crash of a high-altitude surveillance balloon—public interest has never disappeared. The possibility of a cover-up, combined with decades of secrecy surrounding UFO research, has cemented Roswell as a cultural touchstone in discussions about extraterrestrial life.

The latest development highlights how easily speculation can reignite. Even when experts like Coulthart dismiss claims of new evidence, the Roswell incident remains an enduring mystery that continues to capture the imagination of the public.

What This Means Going Forward

The posting of “The Roswell Incident” in the National Archives underscores two ongoing themes in the UFO debate:

• Public hunger for disclosure: Any new document, image, or video linked to Roswell instantly becomes a focal point for enthusiasts and researchers.
• Need for verification: As Coulthart stresses, without reliable provenance or supporting evidence, such materials risk spreading misinformation rather than shedding light on historical truth.

For now, the video may add more questions than answers. But in the broader context of recent congressional hearings, military whistleblower testimonies, and growing calls for transparency, it reinforces how the Roswell crash of 1947 continues to shape the conversation about what might be hiding in the skies above us.

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01-10-2025 om 17:30 geschreven door peter  

Saturn's moon could harbour ALIEN life: Scientists discover new complex organic molecules spewing from Enceladus – suggesting it could be habitable

• READ MORE: NASA scientists discover the clearest signs of life on Mars 

By WILIAM HUNTER, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

Saturn's moon, Enceladus, could harbour alien life deep within its underground oceans of water, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). 

Although the moon may appear barren, near the South Pole, tiny grains of ice are constantly being spewed into space through cracks in the icy surface.

Using data collected by the Cassini spacecraft, scientists have found that these ice crystals are packed with complex organic molecules.  

According to a new study, some of these molecules could be part of the chain of chemical reactions that ultimately lead to life. 

The researchers say this discovery means Enceladus now 'ticks all the boxes' to be a world capable of supporting life. 

The moon has a constant supply of liquid water, a source of energy from hydrothermal vents, and the right set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules. 

This isn't necessarily proof that life already exists on Enceladus, but it makes it much more likely that Saturn's moon is habitable.  

Lead researcher Dr Nozair Khawaja, of Freie Universität Berlin, says: 'Even not finding life on Enceladus would be a huge discovery, because it raises serious questions about why life is not present in such an environment when the right conditions are there.'

Scientists have found that grains of ice spewed from Enceladus, Saturn's sixth–largest moon, contain organic compounds that could lead to life. Pictured: Enceladus' south pole as seen by the Cassini spacecraft 

The European Space Agency found that water forced up from the underground ocean carried a set of complex organic molecules that are likely produced by chemical reactions around deep hydrothermal vents

What is Enceladus?

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth–largest moon, at 313 miles wide (504 kilometres).

It is an icy satellite with hydrothermal activity – a rare combination – with vents spewing water vapour and ice particles out from a global ocean buried beneath the moon's frozen crust. 

According to NASA observations, the plume includes organic compounds, volatile gases, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, salts, and silica.  

Microbes on our planet either produce these compounds or use them for growth, leading some to speculate that tiny organisms live in Enceladus' hidden ocean. 

With a diameter of 310 miles (500 km) – about as wide as Arizona – Enceladus is Saturn's sixth–largest moon.

On the surface, conditions are exceptionally cold with temperatures as low as –201°C (–330°F).

However, in 2005, scientists discovered that a huge liquid ocean was actually trapped beneath the icy shell.

Jets of water erupt like geysers through cracks near the South Pole and, while some fall back down to the surface, some escape and form a ring around Saturn that traces the moon's orbit.

When the Cassini spacecraft flew through Saturn's rings, it took samples of these ice grains and found that they showed signs of complex chemical reactions that could be associated with life. 

Dr Khawaja says: 'Cassini was detecting samples from Enceladus all the time as it flew through Saturn's E ring. 

'We had already found many organic molecules in these ice grains, including precursors for amino acids.'

But some of these grains were hundreds of years old, so the scientists couldn't be sure whether the chemicals within had been altered by radiation from the sun.

In 2005, the Cassini spacecraft discovered striking tectonic faults at the south pole known as 'tiger stripes' (bottom right). These allow ice to escape from the oceans into space

Some of the ice falls back to the lunar surface, but much of it escapes into space, where it forms a ring around Saturn. In 2005, the Cassini spacecraft gathered samples from this ring and found that the ice contained organic molecules. Pictured: Artist's impression of Enceladus' surface

That changed when Cassini flew straight through Enceladus' spray in 2008, gathering ice crystals on its Cosmic Dust Analyser (CDA) as they emerged from the moon's interior. 

As Cassini whipped through the cloud at 11 miles per second (18 km/s), it gathered the freshest and fastest ever collected.

That speed actually makes a big difference to the quality of the data, since it helps scientists separate water from other interesting molecules.

'At lower impact speeds, the ice shatters, and the signal from clusters of water molecules can hide the signal from certain organic molecules,' explains Dr Khawaja.

'But when the ice grains hit CDA fast, water molecules don't cluster, and we have a chance to see these previously hidden signals.'

After spending years working through the vast amounts of data collected by Cassini, Dr Khawaja and his co–authors have finally confirmed that these fresh ice crystals also contain organic molecules.

Those molecules included some that had been found around Saturn and some new chemicals that hadn't been detected before.  

That means the molecules found in Saturn's ring and in Enceladus' ice geyser must be formed within the moon's ocean, not created later by reactions with solar radiation. 

Cassini (artist's impression) was able to fly directly through the plumes of ice emerging from the south pole and gather tiny particles of ice at extremely high speeds. This proved that the organic molecules found in Saturn's ring were formed in Enceladus' ocean

On Earth, these molecules are part of the chemical reactions that lead to life. This means that the moon now 'ticks all the boxes' to be a habitable world capable of sustaining living organisms 

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On Earth, these organic molecules are involved in the chains of chemical reactions which lead to life, raising the tantalising possibility that Enceladus could be home to life.

Dr Khawaja says: 'There are many possible pathways from the organic molecules we found in the Cassini data to potentially biologically relevant compounds, which enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable.'

In the future, ESA is planning to launch a mission to Enceladus that will collect more grains of ice from the South Pole plumes and even land on the moon's surface.

This would be the first time that any space agency has landed on Enceladus and could reveal more details about the possible conditions for life. 

WHAT DID CASSINI DISCOVER DURING ITS 20-YEAR MISSION TO SATURN?

Cassini launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1997, then spent seven years in transit followed by 13 years orbiting Saturn.

An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft studying Saturn 

In 2000 it spent six months studying Jupiter before reaching Saturn in 2004.

In that time, it discovered six more moons around Saturn, three-dimensional structures towering above Saturn's rings, and a giant storm that raged across the planet for nearly a year.

On 13 December 2004 it made its first flyby of Saturn's moons Titan and Dione.

On 24 December it released the European Space Agency-built Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan to study its atmosphere and surface composition.

There it discovered eerie hydrocarbon lakes made from ethane and methane.

In 2008, Cassini completed its primary mission to explore the Saturn system and began its mission extension (the Cassini Equinox Mission).

In 2010 it began its second mission (Cassini Solstice Mission) which lasted until it exploded in Saturn's atmosphere.

In December 2011, Cassini obtained the highest resolution images of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

In December of the following year it tracked the transit of Venus to test the feasibility of observing planets outside our solar system.

In March 2013 Cassini made the last flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea and measured its internal structure and gravitational pull.

Cassini didn't just study Saturn - it also captured incredible views of its many moons. In the image above, Saturn's moon Enceladus can be seen drifting before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora. It was captured on Nov. 1, 2009, with the entire scene is backlit by the Sun

In July of that year Cassini captured a black-lit Saturn to examine the rings in fine detail and also captured an image of Earth.

In April of this year it completed its closest flyby of Titan and started its Grande Finale orbit which finished on September 15.

'The mission has changed the way we think of where life may have developed beyond our Earth,' said Andrew Coates, head of the Planetary Science Group at Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London.

'As well as Mars, outer planet moons like Enceladus, Europa and even Titan are now top contenders for life elsewhere,' he added. 'We've completely rewritten the textbooks about Saturn.'

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01-10-2025 om 16:24 geschreven door peter  

UFOs, Aliens, and the Problem of Evil

What is the psychological significance of the UFO or UAP phenomenon?

Stephen A. Diamond Ph.D.

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30-09-2025 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

Ancient elongated alien skull 200 meters long under ocean at Baja California, UFO UAP sighting news

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30-09-2025 om 16:35 geschreven door peter  

A respected congressman has claimed that advanced alien beings could be hiding out in 'five or six' underwater UFO bases right off the US coast.

Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee overseeing UFO reports, drew massive attention on social media after saying that he believed there were alien 'entities' currently living in deep-water areas on Earth.

The September 17 clip posted on X has already been viewed more than 1.9 million times.

During the sidewalk interview with a UFO researcher and documentary filmmaker who goes by the pseudonym Red Panda Koala, Burchett suggested that advanced alien beings or civilizations may have been hiding in Earth's oceans for generations.

He added that there have been frequent sightings of unidentified craft around five or six specific deep-sea areas, which he found significant given how little is known about the ocean compared to the moon's surface.

The congressman also noted that US Navy personnel have reported chasing these underwater craft that move at extraordinary speeds and far surpass the abilities of current US military technology.

Despite these claims, no verifiable physical evidence, such as artifacts or clear footage of these underwater craft, has been publicly presented to confirm the existence of alien bases.

Skeptics have argued that the reliance on anecdotal reports from naval personnel and the lack of peer-reviewed scientific data casts significant doubt on the claims made during recent congressional hearings on UFO phenomena.

Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett (pictured) suggested in a viral clip online that there are alien beings in secret underwater bases near the US (Stock Image)

UFO researcher Dr Michael Salla said these bases are believed to be in a region of the Atlantic near the Bahamas

Following the explosive revelations, Dr Michael Salla, an author and researcher focused on extraterrestrial phenomena, revealed where it's believed these UFO bases may be, singling out a region of the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas.

He added that he's also spoken to credible whistleblowers, including senior military and executive branch officials, who confirm the existence of underwater bases and advanced craft.

Dr Salla highlighted that the US Navy operates a top-secret underwater facility he likened to Area 51 called AUTEC, which stands for the Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Center, right in this region of the Atlantic.

'Just to the right of it is Tongue of the Ocean, which is a very deep part of the ocean there in the Bahamas. It drops off immediately around 3,000 feet,' Salla said while appearing on the Redacted podcast on September 19.

'So that's ideal for a submarine, but it's also a place where people have seen many UFOs, many underwater craft coming into and leaving the water. So, there have been a lot of UFO sightings in that area,' he revealed.

The UFO researcher noted that he had interviewed two eyewitnesses who claimed that they had visited these secret bases, including one who was a US Army whistleblower who used the pseudonym 'JP.'

The whistleblower claimed he was on a mission where he was taken by a Blackhawk helicopter to an ocean platform, then boarded a high-tech submarine crewed by tall, Nordic-looking extraterrestrials.

The submarine, capable of space travel, took him to an underwater city under a dome, resembling Dubai, with a large white pyramid. The mission involved retrieving an artifact, but no physical evidence of this mission has ever been produced.

Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri recently revealed video of a US military drone striking an orb-shaped UFO with a missile, which bounced off and did not stop the craft

Despite Burchett and Salla's lack of tangible evidence, there has been growing interest and testimony from credible sources, including military personnel at congressional hearings, suggesting that UFOs and extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth. 

A recent congressional hearing on September 9 featured new whistleblowers who shared their experiences with UFOs, including a video showing an orb-like object surviving a missile strike and splitting into four parts they kept flying.

'We have naval personnel telling me we have these sightings, these underwater craft they're chasing that go hundreds of miles an hour, and the best we got is something that does maybe a little under forty miles an hour,' Burchett said in the interview posted on X.

'So I got a lot of questions about that stuff.'

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28-09-2025 om 22:41 geschreven door peter  

Buitenaardsen kunnen onze radiosignalen voor ruimtevaartuigcommunicatie onderscheppen

Inleiding

De mensheid zendt al tientallen decennia signalen uit in de ruimte, vooral via radiocommunicatie met ruimtevaartuigen en satellieten. De gedachte dat intelligente wezens anderszins onze boodschappen zouden kunnen onderscheppen is zowel fascinerend als onwennend: wat als onze technologische signalen op een dag door een buitenaardse civilisatie worden opgevangen, geïnterpreteerd en bestudeerd? Dit artikel onderzoekt wetenschappelijk wat het betekent dat “alienen” (aliens) mogelijk onze radiogolven kunnen onderscheppen voor ruimtescheepscommunicatie, welke natuurkundige en technologische principes hierachter schuilgaan, welke mogelijkheden en beperkingen bestaan, en welke ethische en beleidsmatige implicaties volgen.

Achtergrond: hoe radioverenigingen ruimtevaart en communicatie met elkaar verbonden zijn

Ruimtevaartuigen, waaronder satellieten en landers, communiceren via elektromagnetische signalen die meestal in radiofrequentiebanden worden uitgezonden. Deze signalen dienen verschillende doelen: telemetrie (toestand van het vaartuig), telecommando’s (besturing door de aarde), en wetenschappelijke data (metingen, beelden). De gebruikte frequenties worden afgestemd op doel en afstand, met inachtneming van wettelijke regels zoals de International Telecommunication Union (ITU) spectrumtoewijzingen en de Europese/andere nationale regelgevende lichamen. In de diepe ruimte kunnen signalen zelfs in ruisvolle omgevingen met enorme lichtjaren afstand nog worden gedetecteerd met grote radioantenneparken en geavanceerde signaalverwerkingsmethoden.

De hypothese van onderschepping door buitenaardse wezens draait om een fundamenteel principe: elke intelligente beschaving die radiogolven verzendt, maakt zich zichtbaar in het elektromagnetische spectrum. Onze eigen signalen zijn wereldwijd waarneembaar met voldoende gevoeligheid en tijd. In theorie kunnen buitenaardse luisterende civillaties die los van culturele motivaties geïnteresseerd zijn in ons technologische stadium, onze signalen oppikken en op de een of andere manier verwerken. De vraag is niet alleen of dit mogelijk is, maar ook of het waarschijnlijk is, gezien de afstanden, signaalverzwakking en mogelijke privacy- of veiligheidsconcerns.

Signalen van onze ruimteschepen en Marsrovers zouden onderschept kunnen worden door buitenaardse beschavingen.

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Fysica van onderschepping: van signaalsterkte tot detectie

Een cruciale factor bij onderschepping is signaalsterkte op afstand. Het uitgangssignaal van een uitgerust ruimtevaartuig kan variëren tussen tientallen milliwatts tot enkele kilowatts, afhankelijk van missie, antennegrootte en modus. Naarmate het signaal zich voortplant door ruimte wordt het vierkant toegepast met afstand, en verzwakt het door atmosferische, interstellair-materie- en kosmische ruis, plus de efficiëntie van het ontvangende systeem. Voor een buitenaardse luisteraar die op miljoenen lichtjaren afstand zit, zouden onze signalen extreem zwak worden en hoogstwaarschijnlijk onder de ruis van kosmische achtergrondvallen. Toch kan een hypothetische geavanceerde beschaving met gigantische ontvangstantennes en geavanceerde signaalverwerkingsalgoritmen dergelijke signalen detecteren, of zelfs “lineariseren” door gebruik te maken van coherente detectie, matched filtering, en kunstmatige intelligentie.

Een relevante overweging is de soebereiding van de signalen zelf. Wij zenden in specifieke banden (bijv. de ruimtevaartbanden, de S- en X-banden, en mogelijk lagere frequenties voor langeafstandsatellieten). Deze banden worden gekozen om interfering noise te minimaliseren en om praktische antenneontwerpen mogelijk te maken. Een buitenaardse luisteraar die niet gebonden is aan menselijke regelgeving, zou kunnen letten op patronen in het spectrum die wijzen op kunstmatige origine, bijvoorbeeld regelmatige pulspatronen, modulatietechnieken of herhaalde sequenties die niet plausibel zijn als natuurlijke bronnen. Detectie kan verder worden vergroot door middel van disperse onderzoeksmethoden, zoals seriële signal search, afwijkingen in polarisatie en signaalmodulatie diep in de tijd.

In een nieuwe studie hebben wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Pennsylvania en het Jet Propulsion Laboratory van NASA menselijke communicatie in de diepe ruimte geanalyseerd en vastgesteld dat onze transmissies vaak gericht waren op onze eigen ruimteschepen op Mars, de Zon en andere hemellichamen. Omdat planeten zoals Mars het hele signaal niet blokkeren, zou buitenaardse intelligentie die zich langs het pad van interplanetaire communicatie bevindt – wanneer planeten vanuit hun perspectief zijn uitgelijnd – mogelijk signaallekkage kunnen detecteren.

Bron: Zayna Sheikh

Technische mogelijkheden en scenario’s van onderschepping

• Simpele afluisteren: Een buitenaardse luisteraar die passief de ruimte observeert, kan bestaande radiobelten opvangen zonder terug te reageren. Deze scenario vereist geen snelle reactie of enorme signaalverwerking, maar veronderstelt wel dat de andere beschaving constant en langdurig uitzendt en dat hun ontvangstsysteem sterk genoeg is om de zwakke signalen te extraheren.

• Geavanceerde afluistering en decodering: Een hypothetische beschaving met enorme ruimtelijke antennes en krachtige signaalverwerkingskrachten kan patronen herkennen, tijdreeksen analyseren en mogelijk communiceren met ons door terug te zenden of door te anticiperen op hun eigen wijze. Zij kunnen onze modulatietechnieken herkennen, en zelfs simulaties uitvoeren om te begrijpen wat de mensheid communiceert.

• Directe communicatie-alisatie: In een extremere visie zou een buitenaardse beschaving proberen onze signalen te onderscheppen en actief te communiceren of zelfs te sturen. Dit scenario plaatst ons in een contactdilemma: hoe zouden wij reageren, en hoe zouden we onze communicatie beschermen tegen misbruik of misinterpretatie?

• Radiogolven als stille témoen: Een andere mogelijkheid is dat buitenaardse luisteraars onze buitenaardse detectie in de vorm van technologische signatures signalen identificeren die duidelijk kunstmatig zijn, zoals consistent gemoduleerde patronen die wij als technologische artefacten interpreteren.

Ethiek, veiligheid en beleidsimplicaties

De mogelijkheid dat aliens onze radio-communicatie onderscheppen roept ethische en veiligheidsvragen op. Ten eerste, als buitenaardse wezens bestaan die in staat zijn ons te detecteren, moeten we overleggen over deontologie van semantisch zinvol contact. Moeten we openbare communicatie handhaven of voorzichtige, beperkte communicatie hanteren om misinterpretatie of economische of technologische voordeel te voorkomen?

Daarnaast bestaan er praktische overwegingen: het beschermen van gevoelige wetenschappelijke of technologische informatie die in deze signalen is geëtaleerd. Hoewel onze signalen niet bedoeld zijn als privé, kunnen we wel nadenken over het minimaliseren van potentieel schadelijke informatie leakage die buitenaardse luisteraars kunnen interpreteren als brug naar technologische superioriteit. Beleidsmatig liggen er vragen over internationale samenwerking, transparantie en de ontwikkeling van normen voor interstellair contact. Het is niet vanzelfsprekend dat de nationale veiligheids- of wetenschapsinstanties hier een eenduidig antwoord op hebben.

Impliceert onderschepping virale risico’s?

Het samenleven met een mogelijke buitenaardse luisteraar roept de bezorgdheid op dat mislukte interpretaties of verkeerde decodering serieuze gevolgen kunnen hebben. Als een buitenaardse beschaving interpreteert dat de mensheid agressief of vreedzaam is, kan dit leiden tot een gebrek aan vertrouwen of zelfs misbruik van misleidende signalen. Daarom is het van belang dat wetenschappers duidelijk communiceren over de aard van signalen en de beperkingen van menselijke interpretaties, en dat internationale samenwerking versterkt wordt om de risico’s te mitigeren.

Een illustratie van buitenaardse wezens.

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Methoden om onze eigen communicatie te beschermen en te documenteren

• Vergroten van robuuste signaalintegriteit: Door redundantie, foutcorrectie en encryptie-achtige beveiliging in ruimtesignalen te implementeren (waar mogelijk) kunnen we de interpretatie door een onbekende luisteraar bemoeilijken. Dit zou ook kunnen helpen bij het onderscheiden van kunstmatige versus natuurlijke bronnen.

• Transparantie en dataverzameling: Het documenteren van alle detecties en analyses in open wetenschappelijke journals en internationale fora vergroot de reproducibiliteit en minimaliseert misverstanden over wat wel of niet waarneembaar is. Internationale protocollen kunnen helpen bij het harmoniseren van waarnemingsstrategieën.

• Publieke wetenschappelijke educatie: Het vergroten van begrip over wat we zenden en hoe detectie werkt kan helpen bij het demystificeren van de kans dat buitenaardse wezens precies weten wat we bedoelen. Het bevordert verantwoorde publieke discussies over SETI, contact en ruimtebeleid.

Wetenschappelijke context: SETI, kosmische achtergrondruis en de Fermi-paradox

Het onderwerp van onderschepping past in de bredere context van Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Wetenschappers bestuderen of signalen van buitenaardse beschavingen zouden bestaan en hoe we ze kunnen detecteren. De aanwezigheid van technologische activiteit in het universum wordt vaak gedetecteerd door een combinatie van radiosignalen en spectrale lijnen die kunstmatige oorsprong suggereren. De Fermi-paradox, de vraag waarom we nog geen onmiskenbaar bewijs van buitenaards contact hebben gevonden, is relevant: het roept ons op om zowel de kans van detectie als de duur van de signalengebruik-stijging in kaart te brengen. Een mogelijk antwoord is dat signalen te zwak zijn, te kort duren, of dat beschavingen niet lang genoeg bestaan om ons bereiken. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat beschavingen hun signalen bewust paderen of vervangen door niet-radiogebonden wijzen van communicatie.

Concluderende reflectie

Het idee dat aliens onze radiogolven kunnen onderscheppen voor ruimtescheepscommunicatie blijft een mix van wetenschappelijke plausibiliteit en speculatie. De huidige fysica en technologie suggereren dat onderschepping mogelijk is in principe, maar dat de praktische kans dat een buitenaardse beschaving onze signalen detecteert en interesse toont afhankelijk is van enorme afstanden, signaalverzwakking, en de technologische capaciteiten van de luisteraar. Desondanks is het onderwerp waardevol voor de wetenschappelijke dialoog over hoe we communiceren in een ruimtelijke context en welke veiligheids- en ethische overwegingen hierbij horen.

Voor de toekomst betekent dit dat we onderzoek moeten blijven investeren in de detectiekunde, signaalverwerkingsmethoden, en internationale samenwerking. Het ontwikkelen van normen en protocollen rond interstellair contact, transparante communicatie, en bescherming tegen misinterpretatie kan ons helpen voorbereid te zijn op mogelijke toekomstige scenario’s. Terwijl de vraag “Zouden aliens onze signalen kunnen onderscheppen?” hoog in het veld van speculatie blijft, biedt de wetenschappelijke uitleg erachter een solide basis om kritisch en verantwoordelijk na te denken over hoe de mensheid haar boodschap naar de kosmos uitstuurt en hoe we moeten omgaan met de mogelijke ontvangst van geluiden uit de ruimte.

Samenvatting

• Radiocommunicatie met ruimtevaartuigen is gericht op telemetrie, commando’s en wetenschappelijke data, en vindt plaats in gefrequenteerde banden met regelgeving.
• De mogelijkheid dat buitenaardse luisteraars onze signalen onderscheppen hangt af van afstand, signaalsterkte, en capaciteiten van de ontvanger.
• Zowel eenvoudige asociale afluistering als geavanceerde decodering zijn theoretische scenario’s die uitdagingen en kansen bieden voor wetenschappelijke benadering.
• Ethische, veiligheids- en beleidsvragen rondom mogelijk contact vereisen internationale samenwerking en duidelijke normen.
• SETI en gerelateerde wetenschappen bieden een kader om deze ideeën te plaatsen binnen de grotere zoektocht naar buitenaardse intelligentie, met aandacht voor Fermi-paradox en de realistische beperkingen van detectie en interpretatie.

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26-09-2025 om 21:58 geschreven door peter  

Every time NASA engineers send a command to a Mars rover or interplanetary spacecraft, they simultaneously send a message into deep space. Powerful radio signals directed at neighboring planets are only partially absorbed by the target. The other part continues its journey through space-time, spreading out almost infinitely. This “leak” of information, previously considered a side effect, is now seen as a potential beacon for extraterrestrial civilizations.

New research by scientists at Pennsylvania State University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers an interesting hypothesis. Scientists analyzed data from the Deep Space Network (DSN) over the past 20 years. They concluded that an alien intelligence located at a specific point in space could easily intercept our transmissions. The key is that all the planets in the Solar System rotate in roughly the same plane — the ecliptic.

As astronomer Pinchen Fan explains, if an observer is located at the edge of this plane at a distance of about 23 light-years, their chances of entering the radio shadow of our signals to Mars or other planets increase dramatically. Calculations show that the probability of such a coincidence reaches 77%, which is orders of magnitude higher than random detection.

Mirror search

The same idea can be applied to the search for extraterrestrial life. Assuming that other technologically advanced civilizations are also exploring planets in their systems, we can point our telescopes at similar “hot spots.” The most promising exoplanetary systems will be those where, from our perspective, two or more planets periodically line up in a row — transiting in front of their star. From such positions, their potential DSN could transmit signals in our direction.

However, as Fan notes, we are only at the beginning of this journey. At present, only a few systems with multiple transit planets are known. However, future space missions, such as the launch of the Nancy Grace telescope, promise to revolutionize space exploration. This telescope is expected to discover hundreds of thousands of new exoplanets, significantly expanding our map of potential “listening zones.” v

Earlier, we explained why we still haven’t found aliens.

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26-09-2025 om 21:24 geschreven door peter  

Wat als het geen buitenaardse wezens zijn? Wat anders erachter het UFO-mysterie kan zitten

Wanneer mensen spreken over UFO’s, denken velen onmiddellijk aan buitenaardse bezoekers uit verre melkwegstelsels. De beelden van schijnbaar onverklaarbare lichtbollen, snelle figuren die door de lucht schieten of ongewone vormelijke forenzen aan de horizon blijven hangen, roepen een verhaal op waarin het onbekende buitengewoon fascinerend lijkt. Toch is het de moeite waard om het verhaal vanuit meerdere hoeken te bekijken. Wat als de ware verklaring voor veel waarnemingen niet buitenaards is, maar voortkomt uit menselijke technologie, natuurlijke verschijnselen, psychologische processen of gewoon misinterpretatie? Dit artikel onderzoekt verschillende mogelijke alternatieve verklaringen achter het UFO-mysterie en laat zien waarom sommige waarnemingen uiteindelijk niet hoeven te leiden tot de conclusie van buitenissige visitaties.

1. Misidentificaties en perceptuele fouten

Een van de grootste factoren achter de UFO-waarnemingen is simpelweg menselijke misidentificatie. Onze zintuigen zijn niet feilloos, vooral wanneer we onder druk staan, in het donker kijken of een snelle beweging proberen te volgen. Een door de zon verlicht uitziende satelliet kan bijvoorbeeld worden gezien als een vreemd object, net als een verlichte drone die onverwacht reflecteert in het glas van een ruit of het geblauwde spoor van een vliegtuig met contrail. In drukke luchtruimten kunnen weersomstandigheden zoals wolkenranden, silhouetten van bomen of gebouwen en de combinatie van snelle bewegingen met beperkte referentiepunten leiden tot interpretatiefouten. Het is ook belangrijk te erkennen dat mensen vaak op zoek gaan naar patronen en betekenis, zelfs als die er niet is. In de psychologische literatuur wordt dit fenomeen wel aangeduid als pareidolie: het herkennen van bekende vormen in dat wat ogenschijnlijk willekeurig is.

2. Natuurlijke verschijnselen die onverklaarbaar mooi lijken

De geschiedenis laat zien dat veel UFO’s uiteindelijk worden herkend als natuurlijke fenomenen wanneer men uitgebreid onderzoekt. Zeldzame atmosferische optische verschijnselen zoals pilaren van licht, opraamlucht, halo-boogvorming, fogs of iriserende parels kunnen op een verkeerde manier worden geïnterpreteerd als vreemde objecten. Ook lenticolored refractions door ijskristallen kunnen vreemd aanvoelen wanneer ze op onverwachte manieren bewegen of veranderen van helderheid. Comotie rondom lentikulair wolkenvormen of brokstukken van brandend meteoren die kortstondig zichtbaar zijn, kunnen lijken op vliegende schotels of onbekende luchtvaartuigen, terwijl ze simpelweg natuurlijke fenomenen zijn.

3. Menselijke technologie en geheime projecten

Een plausibele en vaak onderschatte verklaring is dat sommige UFO-waarnemingen het gevolg zijn van geheime militaire of ruimtevaartprojecten. Drones, testballonnen, experimentele vliegtuigen, en zelfs satelliettechnologie die nog niet openbaar bekend is, kunnen objecten creëren die door burgers als onverklaarbaar worden ervaren. In de Koude Oorlog-tijd waren er tal van beschuldigingen en geruchten over obscure vliegtuigen die later als prototypes of afgeschermde projecten werden bevestigd. Zelfs vandaag kunnen stealth-technologie en hypersonische programma’s aan de basis liggen van waarnemingen die later “onverklaard” lijken totdat meer officiële informatie beschikbaar komt. Het feit dat sommige regeringen bewust informatie beheren en beperken kan bijdragen aan het mysteriegevoel: het ontbreken van transparantie voedt speculatie.

4. Satellieten, ruimteafval en technologische pareidolie

In een tijdperk waarin ruimtevaart en satellietcommunicatie wijdverspreid zijn, is het logisch dat veel UFO-waarnemingen te maken hebben met ruimteafval en satellieten die op verschillende manieren reflecteren. Een maanverlichte satelliet die voorbij schiet kan in een oogopslag frenetic lijken en verschillende vormen aannemen afhankelijk van hoeken en luchtdichtheid. Veranderende invallingshoek van zonlicht kan ook leiden tot abrupte helderheidsveranderingen en bewegingen die als onregelmatig of zelfs buitenaards lijken. Daarnaast kan de aanwezigheid van luchtvaartjes en draden die in het zicht komen bij snelle transits van vliegtuigen bijdragen aan het beeld van een onverklaard object.

5. Dak- en hemelprocedures:

hoaxes, misleiding en sociale media De hedendaagse digitale cultuur heeft het makkelijker gemaakt om misleiding te verspreiden. Hoax-video’s en misleidende beelden kunnen door sociale media snel viral gaan, waardoor mensen denken dat ze een werkelijk niet-herleidbaar fenomeen hebben gezien. In sommige gevallen zijn de personen die de video’s produceren bewuste grappenmakers; in andere gevallen ontstaan misinterpretaties en delen mensen de clip zonder volledig begrip van wat de camera heeft vastgelegd. Sociale druk en de wens om een “grandioze ontdekking” te doen kunnen ook leiden tot overdreven of geneutraliseerde beschrijvingen van schijnbaar onverklaarbare verschijnselen.

6. Cognitieve biases en journalistieke misvattingen

Onze interpretatie van wat we zien is ook gekleurd door bekende biases. Confirmation bias – de neiging om informatie te zoeken die onze bestaande overtuigingen bevestigt – speelt een grote rol. Als iemand gelooft dat er buitenaards leven bestaat, zullen waarnemingen die in de buurt komen van zo’n idee sneller als bewijs gezien worden. Evenredige reflectie van onzekerheid in rapportages is cruciaal, omdat sommige getuigen niet de volledige context kunnen geven: waar precies zagen ze het object, hoelang duurde de waarneming, welke referentiepunten waren er en welke andere elementen speelden een rol in de waarneming? Teleurstelling of angst kan ook de verslaggeving beïnvloeden; mensen proberen vaak een verhaal te construeren uit fragmenten van informatie die ze waarnemen.

7. Alternatieve perspectieven vanuit de wetenschap

Er is een dagelijkse realiteit waar wetenschap en technologische vooruitgang een grote rol spelen in wat we als “niet-verklaard” beschouwen. In de astronomie en meteorologie zijn er natuurkundig uitlegbare fenomenen die onder bepaalde omstandigheden op “onverklaarmakend” lijken. Een voorbeeld zijn het覰 tori van plasma of luminiscentie die door stralingsvelden in de atmosfeer kunnen worden gevormd, of de manier waarop bliksem of andere elektrische fenomenen het vlak van de hemel beïnvloeden. Onderzoekers kunnen theoretische modellen ontwikkelen die deze verschijnselen voorspellen, waardoor de behoefte aan extraterrestrische verklaringen afneemt. Een open houding ten aanzien van de wetenschap is essentieel; sommige nep-waarheden ontstaan wanneer mensen vasthouden aan het idee van het onbekende zonder de mogelijkheid van een natuurlijke verklaring te overwegen.

8. De sociologie van het UFO-mysterie

Naast individuele waarnemingen heeft het UFO-mysterie ook een rijke sociologische kant. Het blijft een cultureel fenomeen omdat mensen er betekenis aan ontlenen: het idee van het onbekende dat mogelijk de menselijke achterdeur van kennis opent. Verhalen over buitenaards contact zijn vaak geladen met thema’s zoals ethiek, macht, technologie, oordeelsvermogen en de angst voor vernietiging of verlies. Het vertellen van dit soort verhalen fungeert soms als een manier om onzekerheid te beheersen of gemeenschapsgevoel te versterken. In deze zin is het niet slechts een wetenschappelijke puzzel maar ook een sociaal en psychologisch fenomeen.

9. Wat betekent dit voor waarheidsvinding en beleid?

Het onderzoeken van UFO’s vereist een zorgvuldige afweging van al deze mogelijkheden. Voor onderzoekers betekent dit een systematische aanpak: het verzamelen van getuigenissen met specifieke vragen, het verifiëren van beelden via fotometrie en bewegingsanalyse, en het uitsluiten van vaak voorkomende misinterpretaties door onafhankelijke peer review en replicatie. Voor beleidsmakers en defensie kan het betekenen dat transparantie en duidelijke communicatie met het publiek cruciaal zijn om angst en speculatie te verminderen. Het stimuleren van samenwerking met civiele onderzoekers en academische instellingen kan bijdragen aan een genuanceerd begrip van het luchtruim en de factoren die waarnemingen beïnvloeden.

10. Welke lessen kunnen leken trekken?

- Waarnemingen zijn zelden “simpel”: de context is cruciaal. Vraag naar tijd, locatie, hoogte, richting en beweging.

- Vergelijk wat je zag met bekende fenomenen. Vaak zijn er natuurlijke of menselijke verklaringen die niet meteen voor de hand liggen.

- Wees kritisch ten aanzien van beelden en bronnen. Een clip kan zonder geluid of met beperkte metadata misleidend zijn.

- Durf twijfel te benoemen. Een open houding ten opzichte van alternatieve verklaringen versterkt de geloofwaardigheid en bevordert een betere begrip.

Een evenwichtige conclusie

Het UFO-mysterie is geen eenduidig vraagstuk met één vaste oplossing. Het is eerder een kruispunt van verschillende mogelijke verklaringen: van misidentificaties en natuurlijke verschijnselen tot geheime technologische projecten en psychologische processen die de interpretatie kleuren. Dit maakt het onderzoek zowel complex als waardevol. Door een brede blik te hanteren en telkens de basale wetenschappelijke methode toe te passen, kan men gerichter nagaan welke factoren het meest plausibel zijn voor een bepaalde waarneming. In sommige gevallen zal de ware oorzaak gemakkelijk herkenbaar zijn als een bekend verschijnsel; in andere gevallen zal het mysterie onverminderd bestaan. Wat zeker is, is dat het vertellen van een verhaal zonder voorzichtigheid en zonder bewijs niet dezelfde waarde heeft als een zorgvuldig, gelaagd onderzoek.

Een van de meest aansprekende aspecten van dit onderwerp is hoe menselijke perceptie en mentale bias een rol spelen. Een ooggetuige kan een lichte beweging, een vertekende interpretatie door beperkte omstandigheden, of een toevallige combinatie van factoren beschrijven als iets buitengewoons. De kracht van het verhaal ligt dan niet in de objectieve waarheid van de waarneming, maar in de manier waarop herinnering en verbeelding erbij betrokken raken. Daarom is het cruciaal om de context van elke melding te scheiden van de interpretatie die erdoor wordt gevormd. Analyse van verlichting, wegligging, weersomstandigheden, hemellichamen en satellietposities kan tal van misverstanden afvlechten. Een zorgvuldige verslaglegging vereist dan ook concrete data: tijd, locatie, classificatie van objecten, helderheid, hoogte en snelheid. Zonder zulke details blijft een waarneming vatbaar voor akoestische of visuele ruis en kan elk verhaal uiteen vallen in uiteenlopende, soms tegenstrijdige reconstructies.

Daarnaast kan men niet voorbijgaan aan het belang van transparantie en replicatie in elk onderzoek. Wanneer onderzoekers waarnemingen op de kaart zetten, moeten ze niet alleen hun conclusie tonen, maar ook de route ernaartoe: welke alternatieve verklaringen zijn overwogen, welke data zijn uitgesloten, en welke methodes zijn toegepast om tot de eindconclusie te komen. Het is pas wanneer bevindingen herhaalbaar en onafhankelijk toetsbaar zijn, dat het gewicht van een verklaring toeneemt. Dit is een van de hoekstenen van wetenschap: dat elke claim onderworpen kan worden aan toetsing door anderen, die dezelfde of vergelijkbare data onder hetzelfde requirese proces onderzoeken.

Tot op zekere hoogte dragen publieke belangstelling en media-aandacht bij aan het debat door nieuwsgierigheid te stimuleren en expertise uit verschillende disciplines te verbinden: astronomie, atmospherische wetenschap, ruimtevaarttechniek, statistiek en cognitieve psychologie. Een interdisciplinair debat biedt de mogelijkheid om grenzen te verleggen en minder vooringenomen conclusies te trekken. Toch kan overdaad aan media-aandacht ook leiden tot overgeneralisering en sensationele, vooringenomen rapportage. Daarom is het essentieel dat journalisten, analisten en wetenschappers samenwerken aan heldere, onderbouwde verslaggeving die zowel het vermoeden als het bewijs presenteert, zonder sensatie te verheffen tot feit.

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Het idee dat sommige waarnemingen mogelijk buitenaards zijn zal altijd genoeg fascinerend blijven om onze verbeelding te prikkelen. Maar het vergroten van de waarheid vereist dat we onszelf en elkaar blijven uitdagen met alternatieve verklaringen en solide bewijs. Door nieuwsgierigheid te combineren met scepsis kunnen we het UFO-debat niet alleen spannend houden maar ook productiever maken. De komende decennia kunnen we wellicht meer antwoorden krijgen naarmate technologieën zich verbeteren, data toegankelijker wordt en internationale samenwerking toegenomen. Tot die tijd blijft het mysterie van UFO’s een uitnodiging om de grenzen van wat we weten en wat we nog niet begrijpen te verkennen — met een open geest en een kritisch oog. En wie weet, misschien ontdekken we uiteindelijk dat wat we ooit als “ongeïdentificeerd” beschouwden, slechts een ingewikkeld hoofdstuk was in het grotere verhaal van de menselijke nieuwsgierigheid.

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Het is een proces dat voorzichtigheid vereist, maar ook vol hoop mag zijn. We kunnen leren van wat bekend is, en tegelijk openstaan voor wat nog onderzocht dient te worden. Door elk mogelijk scenario met integriteit te benaderen, dragen we bij aan een verstandige, genuanceerde aanpak van het onbekende. Zo wordt het UFO-onderwerp geen sensationalistische saga, maar een continu onderzoek naar waar onze conclusies eindigen en onze vragen beginnen. In die zin blijft het mysterie een motor voor wetenschap, verbeelding en bescheidenheid tegelijk.

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22-09-2025 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

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22-09-2025 om 22:42 geschreven door peter  

Alien hunters claim they have 'solved' Roswell mystery as new 'crash site footage' emerges

Alien hunters reckon they have spotted crashed “UFO debris” and "alien bodies” in newly found footage of the Roswell incident

 BY Aaron Tinney

Alien hunters reckon they have spotted crashed “UFO debris” and "alien bodies” in newly found footage of the Roswell incident.

The ET obsessives claim to have made the discovery after a 22-minute video titled The Roswell Incident quietly surfaced on the US National Archives website.

It has sparked fresh speculation over one of the world’s most enduring UFO mysteries. The footage – largely composed of images from the published Roswell Report, as well as various magazines and books about UFOs – ends with a striking black-and-white image of a crater strewn with metallic debris.

Online users insist the scene resembles long-rumoured accounts of the alleged 1947 UFO crash site.

Roswell continues to be a source of intrigue

(Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Some claim the footage shows an alien body, though experts remain sceptical. UFO researcher Mark Lee said: “Just because it's been added to the National Archives doesn't give it scientific validation. If it came out as a release from the military or Congress, I would take it a lot more seriously.”

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)

He also noted the supposed “alien” is likely pareidolia – the human tendency to see faces in patterns.

Official investigations have long attributed the “UFO debris” to Project Mogul, a Cold War balloon programme designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests. But the newly posted film has reignited debate, with believers hailing it as another piece in the “slow drip” of disclosure over the Roswell mystery.

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21-09-2025 om 19:44 geschreven door peter  

Ex-US Army Claimed Over 100 E.T. Civilizations Have Visited Earth, One Looks Like Humans

The presence of non-human intelligence on Earth has long been debated by UFO enthusiasts as some claim that the US government is hiding the truth from the general public. Many officials who worked within the government have supported these claims on/off camera. Moreover, if Robert O. Dean’s claims about UFOs and extraterrestrials are true, then they have the potential to turn the world upside down.

Robert O. Dean, a former US Army Command Sergeant Major, revealed shocking information regarding extraterrestrial visitation. Drawing upon his experiences and knowledge from his time in the military, Major Dean shared intriguing details about various extraterrestrial groups and their interaction with humanity. His revelations indicate that the reality of extraterrestrial life extends far beyond what we previously imagined.

His credibility cannot be questioned as he worked at NATO headquarter from 1963 to 1967. He claimed to have come across the 1964 report called “An Assessment,” the NATO military study that acknowledged and analyzed the implications of the alien presence on Earth. After his military career, he revealed this information at the Roswell 50th anniversary celebration.

During his lecture on UFOs at Leeds University, Major Dean said that authorities were aware of the presence of four distinct extraterrestrial groups during his active service. However, by the time he retired, this knowledge expanded exponentially. He claimed that the United States military, and likely the British military as well, were aware of at least 12 different groups involved in interactions with Earth.

Astonishingly, he mentioned hearing from trusted sources that there may be well over a hundred different alien groups coming and going from unknown origins. Such a revelation challenged the conventional understanding of alien visitation and suggested a complex interplay between Earth and various extraterrestrial civilizations.

Of the four alien main groups, one particular group caught the attention of high-ranking military officials in 1964 and 1967. This group resembled humans to such an extent that they could seamlessly blend into society, sitting beside people on airplanes, in restaurants, or even in theaters without arousing suspicion.

The uncanny resemblance troubled military leaders profoundly, as their natural paranoia led them to question the possibility of alien intelligence freely navigating the corridors of power, such as SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) headquarters or even the Pentagon. The notion that these beings could potentially infiltrate the White House triggered a mix of nervous laughter and concern among the military personnel present.

However, Major Dean emphasized that the resemblance between these extraterrestrial beings and humans should be interpreted differently. He proposed that it was humanity who shared a likeness with these advanced beings, suggesting a profound connection between the two. He hinted that there existed a compelling reason for this similarity, which he regrettably did not elaborate on during the lecture.

Moreover, Major Dean revealed that extraterrestrial visitation extended far beyond simple interplanetary interaction. The military, scientists, and planners learned that we were dealing with beings from interstellar and even intergalactic origins. Surprisingly, these advanced non-human intellgence exhibited multi-dimensional characteristics, which enabled them to manipulate both matter and time. The repeated demonstrations of these mind-bending capabilities were intended to capture humanity’s attention and challenge our understanding of the universe.

He emphasized that these alien visitors were not merely curious explorers from other planets, but were deeply interested in humanity itself. Their multi-dimensional nature and mastery over time and matter presented a mind-boggling challenge to traditional Newtonian and Einsteinian physics.

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Major Dean expressed that only theoretical physicists, particularly those specializing in quantum physics, were equipped to begin comprehending the intricacies of multi-dimensional visitation. He acknowledged the ongoing collaboration between quantum physicists in the United States and Great Britain, suggesting that they were at the forefront of unraveling this enigma.

As Major Dean admitted, he is not a physicist or scientist, making it difficult for him to explain the intricacies of dimensions. He said: “I’m not a physicist, I’m not a scientist. I can’t begin to tell you what a dimension is, for that matter. I’m told we live in three, and that’s quite a simple world that we have around us. I’m told that time and space is the fourth.

Theoretical physicists have told me that there are as many as ten different dimensions. I cannot, for a moment, grasp what that means. I do, however, accept that it’s probably real. The evidence that I have seen over my last 40 years has told me that this is not fantasy, this is not science fiction, this is all real. And, ladies and gentlemen, this reality, when it becomes known and when it makes an impact upon our world, is going to change our world forever. You talk about a paradigm shift, that’s an understatement. The old world we have known for so long is literally coming to an end, and it’s just around the corner.”

During the Barcelona Exopolitics Summit, on July 25, 2009, Mr. Dean released a set of amazing images. He also explained the Apollo missions and what the astronauts encountered unlike anyone before. He released to the public a set of fascinating images supposedly captured by the astronauts of the Apollo 12 mission, including an image showing some mysterious spacecraft several hundred feet in diameter.

In his 41 years of federal service to the United States, Mr. Dean heard a lot of bizarre things, but the thing that the human race is a hybrid race stunned him. He said: “I’ve learned that we are not merely alone; we have never been alone. We have had an intimate interrelationship with advanced extraterrestrial intelligence from the beginning of our history. And let me tell you that that intimate interrelationship is still going on.”

He continued: “This one race, in particular, apparently reengineered us as a species about 200,000 years ago. What we are here today is what we call homo sapien sapiens — you’re an engineered creature. Your genetics have been manipulated. You’re not the same as what you were and you are not the same as to what your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be in the next hundred years.” (Click here to read the full story)

Major Dean, a prominent figure in the field of UFOlogy, made significant contributions and was recognized with three-lifetime achievement awards. He enjoyed widespread support on the Internet, with many believing in his legitimacy. Sadly, Mr. Dean passed away on October 11, 2018, at the age of 89 in Tucson, Arizona.

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20-09-2025 om 21:43 geschreven door peter  

Buitenaards intelligent leven blijkt misschien nóg zeldzamer dan gedacht

Andrei Stiru - Redacteur

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20-09-2025 om 18:47 geschreven door peter  

A nearly 22-minute video titled 'The Roswell Incident' has been quietly uploaded to the National Archives, reigniting interest in the infamous 1947 crash.

The footage combines still images and motion-control camera shots sourced from the published Roswell Report, as well as various magazines and books about UFOs. 

It opens with a shot of the book 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' and ends with a stark black-and-white image that appears to show a crash site, with debris scattered across a massive crater in the ground.

The video has flooded the internet, with users claiming the crater bears a striking resemblance to eyewitness reports, suggesting it could be 'the first pictures of the 1947 UFO crash site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' 

Some viewers have also pointed to a dark formation on the right side of the image, claiming it resembles an alien body. 

UFO expert Mark Lee told the Daily Mail that the crater image was likely included to add intrigue. 

'In my opinion, it's either a hoax,' he said. 'Just because it's been added to the National Archives doesn't give it scientific validation. If it came out as a release from the military or Congress, I would take it a lot more seriously.'

Lee also noted that the 'alien' in the photo is nothing more than a case of pareidolia, a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimuli.

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)

The newly uploaded video appears to focus on 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert,' a 1995 book that attributes the crashed 'UFO' debris to Project Mogul.

Project Mogul was a top-secret US military program from 1947 to 1949 that used high-altitude balloons equipped with microphones to detect sound waves from Soviet atomic bomb tests. 

A 1994 military investigation concluded that the debris found at the Roswell site was likely pieces of a high-altitude balloon from Project Mogul, not an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 

Despite this official explanation, the newly uploaded video has sparked debate online, with viewers offering widely differing interpretations.

'National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has uploaded a video of the Roswell 1947 UAP Crash site,' one user shared.

Another user posted on X: 'Like noted UFO researcher Grant Cameron has stated plenty of times, sometimes the disclosure of the real deal is a purposefully placed needle in the haystack. Roswell: slow drip…drip, drip, drip.'

In addition to the debris spotted in the footage, one user shared: 'Grey alien in the official video from the Roswell crash site.'

However, some social media suggested the footage 'is B-roll for the Roswell Report, and the images being posted do not show the Roswell debris site, nor does it even claim it's the actual debris site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' He said the debris could not melt or heat up and could not be punctured

One user posted: 'It’s clearly B-roll for that Roswell presentation the government put together in 1996. Someone must have found this and uploaded it in the last couple of days.'

Others have suggested a dead alien can be seen in the image, pointing to what Marcle said following the Roswell incident.

'I later found out that the pilot of the aircraft was a Captain Henderson, who apparently saw far more than just the debris from the impact site... he may in fact have seen the remains of a crew,' the now deceased major said. 

In July 1947, a rancher reported pieces of debris scattered over his land.

Authorities were called to the scene and, after investigating the wreckage, determined the pieces were from a flying saucer.

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army Field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land.

'The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer,' Roswell Daily Record reported on July 8, 1947.

The statement was given by Marcel, who was the first on the scene and led the investigation, which he determined were pieces from an extraterrestrial vehicle. 

He also said that the material spread out from this point into a triangular-shaped area 200 to 300 feet wide at the end of the field, and 3/4 of a mile long.

Shortly after the 'UFO' discovery made headlines, the War Department in Washington released a statement claiming the debris was the remains of a weather balloon.

The US Air Force stated the weather balloon was part of Project Mogul's airborne system invented by Columbia University, New York University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

It was designed to search the atmosphere for weak reverberations from nuclear-test blasts.

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20-09-2025 om 13:32 geschreven door peter  

A nearly 22-minute video titled 'The Roswell Incident' has been quietly uploaded to the National Archives, reigniting interest in the infamous 1947 crash.

The footage combines still images and motion-control camera shots sourced from the published Roswell Report, as well as various magazines and books about UFOs. 

It opens with a shot of the book 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' and ends with a stark black-and-white image that appears to show a crash site, with debris scattered across a massive crater in the ground.

The video has flooded the internet, with users claiming the crater bears a striking resemblance to eyewitness reports, suggesting it could be 'the first pictures of the 1947 UFO crash site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' 

Some viewers have also pointed to a dark formation on the right side of the image, claiming it resembles an alien body. 

UFO expert Mark Lee told the Daily Mail that the crater image was likely included to add intrigue. 

'In my opinion, it's either a hoax,' he said. 'Just because it's been added to the National Archives doesn't give it scientific validation. If it came out as a release from the military or Congress, I would take it a lot more seriously.'

Lee also noted that the 'alien' in the photo is nothing more than a case of pareidolia, a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimuli.

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident' was uploaded to the National Archives. Social media users claim an image in the footage shows UFO debris (left) and an alien body (right)

The newly uploaded video appears to focus on 'The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert,' a 1995 book that attributes the crashed 'UFO' debris to Project Mogul.

Project Mogul was a top-secret US military program from 1947 to 1949 that used high-altitude balloons equipped with microphones to detect sound waves from Soviet atomic bomb tests. 

A 1994 military investigation concluded that the debris found at the Roswell site was likely pieces of a high-altitude balloon from Project Mogul, not an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 

Despite this official explanation, the newly uploaded video has sparked debate online, with viewers offering widely differing interpretations.

'National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has uploaded a video of the Roswell 1947 UAP Crash site,' one user shared.

Another user posted on X: 'Like noted UFO researcher Grant Cameron has stated plenty of times, sometimes the disclosure of the real deal is a purposefully placed needle in the haystack. Roswell: slow drip…drip, drip, drip.'

In addition to the debris spotted in the footage, one user shared: 'Grey alien in the official video from the Roswell crash site.'

However, some social media suggested the footage 'is B-roll for the Roswell Report, and the images being posted do not show the Roswell debris site, nor does it even claim it's the actual debris site.'

Major Jesse Marcel, who recovered debris from the crash, described the scene as 'a large area heavily scattered with metallic debris from a single impact point that scarred the earth.' He said the debris could not melt or heat up and could not be punctured

One user posted: 'It’s clearly B-roll for that Roswell presentation the government put together in 1996. Someone must have found this and uploaded it in the last couple of days.'

Others have suggested a dead alien can be seen in the image, pointing to what Marcle said following the Roswell incident.

'I later found out that the pilot of the aircraft was a Captain Henderson, who apparently saw far more than just the debris from the impact site... he may in fact have seen the remains of a crew,' the now deceased major said. 

In July 1947, a rancher reported pieces of debris scattered over his land.

Authorities were called to the scene and, after investigating the wreckage, determined the pieces were from a flying saucer.

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land

The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army Field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land.

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'The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer,' Roswell Daily Record reported on July 8, 1947.

The statement was given by Marcel, who was the first on the scene and led the investigation, which he determined were pieces from an extraterrestrial vehicle. 

He also said that the material spread out from this point into a triangular-shaped area 200 to 300 feet wide at the end of the field, and 3/4 of a mile long.

Shortly after the 'UFO' discovery made headlines, the War Department in Washington released a statement claiming the debris was the remains of a weather balloon.

The US Air Force stated the weather balloon was part of Project Mogul's airborne system invented by Columbia University, New York University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

It was designed to search the atmosphere for weak reverberations from nuclear-test blasts.

{ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/index.html }

18-09-2025 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

A controversial new scientific paper has sent shockwaves through the academic community by suggesting that life on Earth may not have emerged through natural processes alone, but could instead be the result of deliberate terraforming by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. The research, published by Imperial College London's Professor Robert Endres, applies cutting-edge information theory and AI models to demonstrate that the odds of life spontaneously arising from chemical chaos are so astronomically low that alien intervention becomes a "logically open alternative."

The study, titled " The unreasonable likelihood of being: Origin of life, terraforming, and AI," challenges fundamental assumptions about Earth's biological origins. Using mathematical frameworks based on rate-distortion theory and algorithmic complexity, Endres concludes that assembling a viable protocell within Earth's available timeframe would require persistence over geological timescales that strain credibility.

• Panspermia – The Idea That Life Came From The Stars
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Information Theory Meets Astrobiology

Professor Endres developed a novel approach using Kolmogorov complexity to estimate the informational content required for life's emergence. His calculations suggest that a minimal protocell requires approximately one billion bits of organized information - equivalent to the complexity of sophisticated computer programs. When compared against the estimated entropy of prebiotic chemical environments and molecular persistence timescales, the mathematics paint a sobering picture.

"A purely random soup, made up of molecules that eventually enabled the formation of life on Earth, was too lossy," Endres explains in his yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper. The research indicates that some form of persistent directional process - lasting hundreds of millions of years - would be necessary to accumulate sufficient biological information naturally.

The study draws parallels between ancient theories and modern science, noting that humanity now seriously contemplates terraforming Mars and Venus. "If advanced civilizations exist," the paper argues, "it is not implausible they might attempt similar interventions out of curiosity, necessity, or design."

Image from the paper, Fantasy sci-fi imagery of terraforming. Chatgpt4.0’s hallucination of early Earth with seeded biomaterial, jump starting Darwinian evolution.

(R. Endres)

Directed Panspermia: From Science Fiction to Science

The concept isn't entirely new. In 1973, Francis Crick - the co-discoverer of DNA's helical structure - and chemist Leslie Orgel proposed "directed panspermia" as a potential explanation for life's unlikely emergence. Their theory suggested that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations deliberately seeded Earth with microbial "starter kits" to establish biological evolution.

Dr Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of DNA’s helical structure.

(CC BY 4.0)

Crick and Orgel's hypothesis emerged from recognition of the same statistical improbabilities that drive Endres' modern analysis. Even with primitive 1970s knowledge, the mathematical challenges of abiogenesis appeared formidable. Their proposal offered an elegant solution: relocate the explanatory burden to more advanced civilizations operating under unknown conditions.

Ancient cultures worldwide contain creation myths describing divine or celestial beings bringing life to Earth. From the biblical Book of Genesis to Mesopotamian texts describing sky gods, humanity has long contemplated external origins for terrestrial biology. Modern directed panspermia theories provide scientific frameworks for concepts that have persisted across civilizations.

• Where Did We Come From? Unusual Theories on Human Origins
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The Mathematics of Impossibility

Endres' calculations reveal staggering temporal requirements for natural abiogenesis. His models suggest that without persistent directional bias, random molecular assembly would require time periods exceeding the universe's age by factors of millions or billions. Even with optimistic assumptions about chemical environments and molecular stability, the informational bottleneck remains severe.

The research applies principles from bacterial chemotaxis - where organisms exhibit "run-and-tumble" behavior - to model how chemical evolution might accumulate biological information. If molecular interactions behave like random walks without persistent memory, assembly times become cosmologically implausible.

"With persistence time of one year, the required time is still approximately 10^17 years, about ten million times the universe's current age," the paper states. These calculations suggest that either unknown physical principles accelerate biological organization, or external intervention provided necessary starting conditions.

AI and the Future of Origins Research

The study leverages artificial intelligence tools including AlphaFold protein folding algorithms and comprehensive whole-cell computational models to estimate biological complexity. These modern approaches provide unprecedented precision in quantifying life's informational requirements compared to earlier theoretical frameworks.

Endres acknowledges that invoking extraterrestrial terraforming "violates Occam's razor" by adding explanatory complexity. However, he argues that the mathematical constraints of natural abiogenesis may warrant considering alternatives previously dismissed as science fiction.

The research represents growing intersection between astrobiology, information theory, and AI. As computational models become more sophisticated, scientists can quantify biological complexity with increasing accuracy, potentially resolving longstanding debates about life's origins.

Whether Earth's biosphere emerged through undiscovered physical principles, highly improbable natural processes, or deliberate extraterrestrial intervention remains an open question. However, Endres' work demonstrates that serious scientific investigation of unconventional possibilities may be necessary when conventional explanations encounter mathematical impossibilities.

• Top image: Concept depicting potential alien terraforming of early Earth. 
• Source: dottedyeti/Adobe Stock

By Gary Manners

References

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16-09-2025 om 23:07 geschreven door peter  

Life’s cradle? According to biochemist Steven Benner, life on Earth may have originated in martian rock samples like these. 

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Are We All Martians? An Examination of the Panspermia Hypothesis in the Context of Astrobiology

ALIEN EJECTION

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10-09-2025 om 21:33 geschreven door peter