For decades, the international Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program has focused on technological signatures familiar to us: radio signals or chemical traces of industrial emissions. However, this approach may suffer from “anthropocentric bias” — we only look for things that resemble our own civilization. A new hypothesis offers a radically different approach: what if advanced civilizations communicate with each other in the Universe not through radio waves, but through flashing bursts of light, similar to Earth’s fireflies?

The firefly beacon hypothesis

Researchers at Arizona State University proposed this thought experiment. On Earth, fireflies use a sequence of flashes to communicate, particularly to find a mate. Although the signal is simple, it is effective.

Scientists suggest that a technologically advanced alien civilization could use similar but more complex light codes as a kind of beacon to announce its existence. This could be a logical step for civilizations that have moved from broadband radio to more precise and possibly optical methods of communication.

Lessons from pulsars

To understand what such signals might look like, scientists analyzed more than 150 pulsars — neutron stars that emit strictly periodic radio waves. Although no signs of artificiality were found, pulsars demonstrate that the Universe is full of regular cosmic “flashes.” Distinguishing between technological and natural signals is a key task.

Interestingly, humanity itself demonstrates a tendency that makes this hypothesis plausible. We are becoming increasingly “radio-quiet” to outside observers due to the transition to satellite communications and fiber optics. Therefore, it is natural to assume that older civilizations may also have abandoned “loud” radio in favor of more sophisticated methods, such as optical ones.

Think differently

The authors emphasize that their work is not a discovery, but merely an invitation to think outside the box. “Communication manifests itself in an astonishing variety of forms. Taking non-human communication into account is extremely important if we want to broaden our understanding,” notes study co-author Estelle Janin.

This hypothesis is just one example of what alternative means of communication might look like. It calls on the scientific community to avoid human biases and creatively rethink what other forms intelligent life might take in the infinity of space. Perhaps this approach will one day help us finally receive the signal: “We are here!”

Earlier, we reported on how 100 potential signals from extraterrestrial civilizations were discovered.

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01-02-2026 om 19:58 geschreven door peter  

What information does the Kardashev scale provide us?

Oleksandr Burlaka

When it comes to how much more advanced extraterrestrial civilizations may be than us, the Kardashev scale is often mentioned. It suggests the possibility of civilizations that can control the energy of entire galaxies. But does that mean they are truly advanced?

Aliens

The science of extraterrestrial civilizations is still in its infancy. This is not surprising, given that no representative of such civilizations has ever been seen or heard. However, several concepts have already been developed in this field, which are widely used both in research and in popular presentations of the state of affairs in this area.

One of them is the Kardashev scale, which describes how advanced civilizations we may encounter. They are divided into three types based on the total power of all their activities (machines, power plants, etc.). Type I – those that operate with all the energy of their own planet, 1.74·10¹⁷ W. Type II – those that operate with energy comparable to a star (3.828·10²⁶ W for the Sun). Type III – those that operate with energies comparable to an entire galaxy, 8·10³⁶ W.

As you can easily see, the difference between types I and II is nine orders of magnitude, or approximately one billion times, and between types II and III it is ten orders of magnitude, or 10 billion times. Earth’s civilization does not even reach the first type, and this always shocks people who see this picture for the first time.

The Kardashev scale is often presented as something that really helps us understand how far ahead of us aliens whose civilizations existed millions or even billions of years ago might be. But is this really the case? Let’s figure it out together.

Signal transmission over distance

The main thing to know about where the scale of civilization development came from and why it is the way we know it is that Nikolai Kardashev, its author, was an astrophysicist. He was not a historian, a robotics expert, or a biologist, but rather a person who was accustomed to looking at distant lights in the sky and constructing theories about what they were.

The scale itself was presented in the report “Transmission of information by extraterrestrial civilizations,” presented at the 1964 Byurakan Conference, which took place at the observatory of the same name in Armenia. On the one hand, this meant that the concept very quickly became known to all leading world experts in the study of extraterrestrial life. On the other hand, it was a report read by an astrophysicist for astrophysicists.

Kardashev began by asking himself at what distance an extraterrestrial civilization could send a signal to everyone else in such a way that a meaningful response could be heard, and what would be required to do so. To do this, he uses the Shannon-Hartley theorem, which links the speed of information transmission to the signal-to-noise ratio. In simpler terms, it describes how many bits can be transmitted per second so that most of them are not lost on the way to the recipient.

Kardashev showed that the noise level in a signal traveling through millions of light-years of space is related to the temperature of background radiation. And it depends on the frequency at which the transmission is carried out. That is why the lowest noise level and the highest channel capacity are possible in the centimeter and decimeter ranges. That is, approximately where radio, television, and Wi-Fi operate, and slightly into the operating range of microwave ovens. It is no coincidence that the latter have played a cruel joke on alien hunters at least once.

In fact, it was this part of Kardashev’s Burakan report that had the greatest impact on the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, as it determined the frequencies at which it is best to send signals in space, regardless of biological origin and way of thinking. The most popular wavelength turned out to be 21 cm, but scientists have not yet heard anything about it.

The original Kardashev scale

However, Kardashev did not stop there and moved on from the question of frequency to the required transmitter power. He did not delve into the technical details of its design, simply setting its upper limit as all the energy available to civilization – almost the only figure on Earth that can be estimated without speculation, not only in absolute terms, but also in terms of annual growth.

During Kardashev’s time, these figures were 4×10¹² W and 3-4%, respectively. Currently, the total amount of energy used by humans is approximately 24×10¹³, which is still very little compared to the 1.74·10¹⁷ W that our planet receives from the Sun. As for the growth rate of Earth’s civilization, it has changed several times since the Byurakan Conference, but now, with Asia and Africa in a phase of active industrial growth, it is roughly the same as in the 1960s.

Be that as it may, Kardashev resorted to linear extrapolation of the figures available to him in his work and found that with steady growth in energy consumption, in 3,200 years, we will reach a level of energy consumption comparable to that of the Sun, and in 5,800 years, to that of the entire Milky Way. He called these states civilizations of types II and III and continued to consider them, because we were talking about truly cosmic distances.

Kardashev calculated that if a Type II civilization used all its energy to transmit a signal, useful information from it could be received at any point in our galaxy, even with the antennas that were available to humans in the second half of the 20th century.

At the same time, the maximum speed of information transfer, calculated using the Shannon theorem, is so high that aliens could transmit 10,000 medium-sized volumes of their scientific knowledge every 100 seconds. A Type III civilization could do the same for the entire visible part of the universe.

Where to look for aliens

Based on his own calculations, Kardashev even gives recommendations on how other astrophysicists should search for extraterrestrials. In his opinion, attention should be paid to very powerful but point sources of radiation, i.e., those whose area in the sky is tiny, but which emit an extremely large amount of energy.

Of course, the peak of this energy should fall precisely in the centimeter and decimeter ranges, meaning that it should be best visible using radio telescopes. In addition, the radiation must be polarized, meaning that its oscillations will occur in a single plane.

Kardashev himself was convinced that if not Type II, then Type III civilizations must exist in places where we can currently receive their signals. In particular, he considered the recently discovered CTA 102 source, which was extremely powerful and demonstrated variability, as a candidate for their transmitter.

Unfortunately, Kardashev underestimated the diversity of cosmic objects. We now know of many point sources that exhibit the behavior he described and are completely natural. In particular, STA 102 turned out to be an active galactic nucleus – a quasar that absorbs matter and changes brightness due to the unevenness of this process.

Will energy consumption really grow at a constant rate?

The Kardashev scale became popular thanks to American astrophysicist Carl Sagan. We also owe him the fact that it has changed from a purely rank-based scale, i.e., one with three marks, to a discrete scale, i.e., one that can accept fractional values.

This helped, in particular, to reconcile the numbers named by Kardashev with the amount of energy that the Earth receives from the Sun. It is now believed that humanity has a rating of 0.73 on the energy consumption scale. On the one hand, this makes the situation clearer, but on the other hand, it creates the impression that we are almost three-quarters of the way to reaching “one,” but in reality this is not the case, because the scale is logarithmic, meaning that the further you move, the more watts of power you need to add to the total treasury to add another hundredth. Therefore, in reality, all of human civilization still consumes a fraction of a percent of what the Earth receives from the Sun.

All this raises a much more important question: can our civilization’s energy consumption really reach the levels predicted by Kardashev? Observations of its growth rates over the 60 years since the astrophysicist made his report do not provide a clear answer to this question.

Now scientists, including renowned futurologist Michio Kaku, say that we are still 100-200 years away from Type I civilization, a millennium away from Type II, and hundreds of thousands of years away from Type III. For comparison, it is worth noting that only 10,000 years have passed since the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution, when agriculture began to play a greater role than hunting for people in the Middle East for the first time on Earth. So it turns out that our civilization is at the very beginning of an incredibly long journey.

Does development really mean an increase in power?

In fact, nothing is surprising in the fact that the path to Type III civilization can take hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. Kardashev himself suggested that for some time (thousands of years) the exchange of information would be one-sided, i.e., signals from Type III to Type I would reach their destination, but not vice versa. But eventually, all intelligent beings will get to the point where they can signal across the entire galaxy like a flashlight.

But this view is very one-sided, as Sagan himself pointed out. It is clear that Kardashev was an astrophysicist and, of all the models of extraterrestrial civilization behavior, he chose the one that would be easiest for him and his colleagues to detect. Because if aliens do not use most of their civilization’s power to signal to the entire universe that they are here and they are intelligent, then they remain invisible.

On the other hand, this view of the essence of civilization was very characteristic of the 1950s and 1960s in general. The Cold War was in full swing, and the US and the USSR were spending a lot of resources on demonstrating their power. After all, the Tsar Bomb was tested just three years before the Byurakan Conference.

But as time went on, the situation where an overdeveloped civilization spent most of its enormous power on sharing knowledge with other forms of life that were millions of years behind it seemed increasingly strange. This was because questions arose about the expediency of such activity.

Currently, Liu Cixin’s “dark forest” theory is considered one of the main antitheses to Kardashev’s idea and a possible explanation for the Fermi paradox. Civilizations sit silently because telling everyone around you that you exist and are intelligent means inviting attacks from all sides, because there are no friends in space, only competitors.

In fact, the dark forest theory is no better than Kardashev’s idea of civilizations gushing knowledge throughout the universe, because instead of peaceful megalomaniacal projects, they envisage spending most of a civilization’s power on military projects of no less absurd scale.

In reality, it is much simpler: neither the first nor the second civilizations are really necessary, because most of their members live their own lives and are not interested in other civilizations. Even large-scale projects such as generation ships, space stations for millions of inhabitants, or even terraforming planets require a lot of power, but significantly less than that needed to support Type II and Type III civilization transmitters.

Ultimately, even the very thesis of increasing machine power as the essence of civilization’s development can be questioned. The fact is that 60 years have passed since the Burakan Conference, and the Tsar Bomb remains the most powerful explosion ever created by humans. Moreover, the increase in the power of nuclear reactors essentially stopped several decades ago.

Instead of power, technological development specialists are increasingly talking about efficiency. And in most cases, this means “emitting less energy where it is not needed.” This is particularly evident in the example of information transmission systems. In the 1960s, the main devices used for this purpose were television and radio towers.

The principle behind their effectiveness was simple: raise the most powerful transmitter as high as possible. However, the advent of communication satellites made transmitters capable of sending signals further than 500 km unnecessary. Then, the emergence of various cable networks and automatic data routing systems revolutionized the field of information transmission. Modern cellular networks are generally based on transmitters with a range of several hundred meters. Why would you need more than that if data packets can simply be passed along like a baton?

Kardashev made his calculations for undirected signal radiation, and his followers have long since calculated that it is extremely ineffective at cosmic distances. Our terrestrial television is difficult to receive even near Alpha Centauri, and beyond that, it is lost in noise. But a directional signal can travel much greater distances with less transmitter power.

That is why space communications now increasingly rely on messages sent by a narrow beam, ideally a laser beam, and the problem is that it is practically impossible to intercept them accidentally in space. The argument that “aliens must communicate with each other somehow, and we will definitely hear it” falls away by itself.

Every day, on any city bus, dozens of people communicate with someone outside the bus, and other passengers have no idea what they are talking about. They only know that their neighbor, like themselves, is looking at a smartphone screen.

And in other industries, everything is moving in the same direction. A quadcopter has ridiculous power compared to a ballistic missile from the 1960s. At the same time, to the designers of that missile, it would have looked like a true creation of an extraterrestrial civilization. This is because it uses automatic control and feedback systems that were considered impossible just a couple of decades ago, especially on such a small machine.

All our experience over the past decades shows that power is not unnecessary. It is not the main thing. It is much better to improve the efficiency, reliability, and sophistication of our machines. In many ways, the fact that energy consumption continues to grow is explained by the fact that the world’s population continues to grow, and now even in countries that we are accustomed to calling the “third world,” people want to live according to energy consumption standards that even residents of developed countries in the 1960s would have considered luxurious.

No one knows how energy consumption will change when people across the planet satisfy their needs for the wonders of consumer electronics and electrical engineering, and when these technologies themselves become even more efficient. It is entirely possible that in the coming centuries we will not even reach Type I on the Kardashev scale.

It is quite possible that the future is not a stairway to heaven powered by clean energy, but a house built, at first glance, in the same way as houses were built centuries ago, but in fact filled with clever technology that surpasses a smartphone in functionality as much as a smartphone surpasses a rotary dial telephone.

Ultimately, Kardashev’s theory does not take into account even a more traditional scenario for the development of civilization: settlement within its own star system and beyond. In that case, intelligent beings could indeed have a total machine power comparable, if not to all solar radiation, then to the fraction that reaches Earth. But it would be scattered across a dozen star systems and mainly concentrated on ships flying between them. And there would be no question of any megastructures.

However, Kardashev himself should not be blamed for anything. He was a man of his time and, from the very beginning, did not claim to be anything more than a describer of the characteristics of civilization, the signals of which he could pick up as an astrophysicist. All other interpretations of his scale are later interpretations, and who is to blame for the fact that people continue to repeat them even though the experience of the development of Earth’s civilization increasingly diverges from his assumptions?

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31-01-2026 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

OVER A LARGE BOX of untouched donuts in Washington’s Longworth House Office Building, Congressional representatives sat rapt as a visiting Brazilian neurosurgeon described what it was like to stare back at the large lilac-colored eyes of a highly intelligent, nonhuman being.

So, not your usual Capitol Hill meeting.

The closed-door session on Jan. 15 brought together three members of Congress seeking greater government transparency on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, long called UFOs, and a group of Brazilians who say they witnessed the crash of an otherworldly spacecraft and later encountered its nonhuman occupants.

Coming thirty years after the striking events, the private Washington meeting (to which we alone had media access), followed by a public press conference five days later, raised the prospect of unprecedented Brazilian-American cooperation in unraveling the mysteries of one of the best researched—and shocking—UFO cases on record.

The witnesses included the highly respected neurosurgeon, a forensic pathologist, and a geography teacher. They were brought to the United States by filmmaker James Fox, who interviewed more than two dozen witnesses for a new feature documentary that expands on a 2022 version of his film Moment of Contact. Fox has been investigating the case, with his Brazilian counterpart Marco Aurelio Leal, for over two decades.

“This could settle the debate once and for all that we’re not alone,” Fox told the packed news conference, which he organized at the National Press Club on Jan. 20.

The story is this: On January 13, 1996, in the countryside outside the municipality of Varginha, Brazil, the geography teacher—also an ultralight pilot—reported seeing a cylindrical craft trailing smoke and crashing to Earth. A week later, three girls walking home through a vacant lot reported encountering a cowering creature with reddish eyes and brown oily skin that reportedly communicated its suffering through its eyes. Before long, the streets of Varginha were filled with military trucks and emergency vehicles amid rumors of the capture of two nonhuman beings, one later hospitalized, and a clandestine American operation that spirited them out of Brazil.

Fox said that now, for the first time, he knows the names of those who were in possession of videos of the purported nonhuman entities. Despite the difficulties in obtaining them, he said, “I never give up.”

Susan Gough, a Pentagon spokesperson, did not reply to requests for comment.

The Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), with a mission to scientifically investigate UAP, stated in a 2024 report that “none of these investigations (including USG, foreign, and U.S. academic efforts) reached the conclusion that any of the UAP reports indicated extraterrestrial origin.”

But AARO may not have a free hand. As Fox recalled, in 2024, he met with AARO staff to discuss a video staff members had obtained. They discussed the Varginha case, among others. At one point, AARO director Dr. Jon T. Kosloski came into the room. Fox says he asked Kosloski if there was a plan to inform the public about “what we are ultimately dealing with.” Kosloski replied, “I can’t part my hair without the approval of the DOD. And you can quote me on that.”

There is no question that the Varginha case lacks hard data. No one has yet been able to come up with photographs or videos, physical evidence, official documentation, or medical records that could help verify the episode. Yet over two dozen witnesses to many aspects of the case have come forward independently, providing pieces of a puzzle that seem to fit together to tell a compelling story.

The Congressional meeting, held in Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett’s office, drew two fellow Republicans—Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, chairwoman of the House’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, and Eric Burlison of Missouri—along with staff members. Two Democrats with a longstanding interest in UAP issues—Jared Moskowitz of Florida, and Andre Carson of Indiana, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence—were invited but unable to attend.

“Can you take it from the top?” Luna asked the visiting neurosurgeon, Dr. Italo Venturelli, 73, at the beginning of the meeting, “Who brought the being in? I want detail about what the interaction was, from point A to point B.”

Burchett also pressed a question: “Was the being able to communicate in any way? Was it telepathic or anything like that?”

Dr. Italo (as he prefers to be called), who was on duty that day in Regional Hospital in Varginha, said the captured being was initially treated by his colleague, Dr. Marcos Vinico Neves, who sutured a wound on its cranium. Neves died in 2018, and no medical records were kept of this procedure, according to Dr. Italo.

He says he was shown a brief black and white video of the patient and then spent three or four minutes at its bedside, having been asked to visually examine it after the procedure.

“I’ve been a doctor for forty-six years and have performed thousands of surgeries,” Dr. Italo said in an interview before the meeting. “To me, it was obvious that this was not a human being.”

“It looked like a seven-year-old child,” the neurosurgeon told the representatives with help from a translator in attendance. “Its eyes were lilac color. Both eyes and the cranium were teardrop-shaped. It transmitted calm and tranquility.”

The doctor said it seemed to him that his patient was at peace with everything that was happening, and that he sensed it possessed intelligence greater than his own. He also described feeling as if he were looking at an angel.

“I wouldn’t say it communicated telepathically; it communicated empathetically,” he said, “through its eyes.”

“What did the hands look like?” Luna asked.

Dr. Italo demonstrated, holding up three fingers and a thumb.

He said he had fixated on the eyes, which seemed to communicate power, concentration, and compassion. At one point, the being looked at him, looked out the window at the blue sky, and then looked back at the doctor, as if to communicate its wish to be released.

Burlison, taking notes, asked if it was wearing clothing. Bare above the sheet, said Dr. Italo. The skin was white, the torso was slim, and there were no nipples. A small mouth. A sliver of ears.

Burlison asked if any other medical staff or doctors could corroborate the story.

Yes, said Dr. Italo, but most doctors are afraid to speak out because they have been threatened, or for fear of damage to their careers.

“It’s very important to get the others,” Burlison said.

Dr. Italo said that a near-fatal heart attack and other recent medical issues persuaded him to break his silence last year and provide his full story to Fox for the first time, even though he still works full-time at Regional Hospital.

Carlos de Sousa, the geography teacher and ultralight pilot, told the representatives that he saw a “cigar-shaped” craft that he first thought was a blimp with a lateral tear trailing white smoke and struggling to stay aloft before crashing near a highway.

He said he drove over to help any survivors and was overtaken by a strong odor of ammonia and rotten eggs. Picking up a piece of what looked like aluminum, de Sousa said he was able to crumple it in his fist, but it then immediately sprang back to its original shape. Military trucks arrived within minutes. A soldier approached him and aimed a gun at his head, demanding, “Leave now, or I’ll split your skull,” de Sousa said. Dropping the fragment, de Sousa fled, but said he was confronted shortly afterwards by two men in an unmarked dark vehicle who threatened his family and demanded his silence. He did not speak about the incident for decades.

A third Brazilian visitor, Dr. Armando Fortunato, who has been a forensic pathologist and criminal medical examiner for the Civil Police for over three decades, told the representatives that he had performed an autopsy on a young military police officer, Marco Chereze, who had grabbed one of the beings during its capture and then died a few weeks later from a severe infection after it inadvertently scratched him.

Dr. Armando, as he likes to be called, said a legal request has been filed to exhume Chereze’s body with hopes of collecting bacteria—or even DNA samples—that could undergo further analysis.

Dr. Armando handed the representatives a signed statement from Dr. João Janini, 89, a specialist in pathological anatomy whose biography states he has performed over 50,000 autopsies. Janini attested that he had found a rare form of a bacterium “of extremely high aggressiveness and lethality” in the tissue samples from Chereze. The characteristics of the infection went so far beyond the limits of what is conventional that, in his opinion, “it raises the hypothesis of its alien origin.”

Accounts from former U.S. officials involving alleged UAP crash retrievals and related recoveries of nonhuman bodies have continued to surface, although the Defense Department dismisses them as unfounded.

In a 2023 Congressional hearing, David Grusch, a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Department’s UAP Task Force, testified under oath that the U.S. has retrieved vehicles and “biologics” of exotic origin.

“Biologics came with some of these recoveries,” he asserted, referring to nonhuman bodies and tissue samples, citing “people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program.” Since then, other former officials with high security clearances have echoed his statements, sometimes under oath.

Kirk McConnell, who served for 37 years on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the House Intelligence Committee until retiring in early 2024, opened the Jan. 20 press event. He was among the staff from the two Senate Committees who collaboratively investigated the UAP issue on behalf of senators from both parties.

McConnell told the audience that reports similar to those from the Varginha case reached senators and staff conducting these investigations. The interested senators, who included now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, held meetings and interviews in sensitive compartmented intelligence facilities “with very credible sources reporting both direct and secondhand knowledge of the reality of highly intelligent nonhuman beings, government retrievals and reverse engineering of craft not made by human beings, and the recovery of bodies of non-human beings,” McConnell said.

He had attended some of these classified meetings.

The reports provided to Congress included alleged hidden government activities similar to those recounted in the Varginha case, stretching across many decades. “So what these folks are going to tell you today are astounding, but they’re not the only credible testimony about such events,” McConnell said.

In a video statement screened at the press conference, Jacques Vallée, a French-American computer scientist who has worked on projects at NASA and DARPA, and has been a leading thinker and writer on UFOs for over fifty years, cited a “data warehouse system” that he and a scientific team compiled for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

In addition to over 200,000 reports of anomalous objects in flight, Vallée said the database includes “hundreds of reports of creatures, live or dead, associated with crashed or landed vehicles of unknown provenance, including some similar to those in Varginha,” and that creatures in other documented cases breathed air normally.

Vallée said that the Varginha case is similar to many classified cases in scientific and medical records, but it also “presents exceptional new knowledge”, especially “in the professional description of the anatomical and behavioral features of the live creature recovered by authorities within a short time of the crash, and to the point of its death.”

During the private discussion in Burchett’s office, Dr. Italo said he had learned that the being he saw was taken to ESA military base, then to Campinas, and then to the States.

“All the people we talked to said the exact same thing,” Fox told the representatives.

Luna said Congress should seek Air Force flight logs and a landing permit to confirm any American retrieval operation of bodies and crash debris from Varginha, although it is uncertain whether any paper trail exists.

Later, at the press conference, Col. Fred Claussen, a retired and highly decorated U.S. Air Force colonel who held a top-secret clearance, outlined ways the alleged secret U.S. mission might yet be documented. He said that a Brazilian air traffic controller, Marco Feres, reported that on or about Jan. 20, 1996, a U.S. Air Force cargo plane, most likely a C17, took off from an American base and landed at Viracopos airport in Campinas to pick up an unusual cargo before departing for an unknown location in the U.S.

Any such cargo plane mission, the colonel said, would require paperwork from Air Mobility Command at Scott AFB in Illinois and the Air Mobility Wing at Charleston AFB in South Carolina. Air refueling would require more documentation, as would an international flight plan to Brazil, even if the mission were classified, Claussen said, adding that at Campinas, there would need to be more refueling records and another international flight plan.

Even without a paper trail, he said he believed that thirty to forty Americans involved with the operation should have direct knowledge of this flight and its purpose.

“Here is my plea,” Claussen concluded. “If you were a participant and have knowledge of this mission, come forward.”

McConnell followed by saying there was general misunderstanding that nondisclosure agreements signed by intelligence figures barred them from sharing their information about UAP recoveries with Congress. They were not liable, he said, if they presented their accounts in properly secure facilities like SCIFs. In fact, he said, “It’s illegal to withhold information from Congress.”

No one has ever been prosecuted for providing classified information to Congress, McConnell said. In fact, the President himself “could affirm disclosure to Congress with the stroke of a pen or [on] social media.”

While greater UAP disclosure has been widely regarded as a bipartisan issue in Congress, “we’re not yet at the tipping point for most members of Congress,” McConnell said.

A joint evidence-seeking operation between Brazilians and Americans could be in the works. Brazilian Senator Eduardo Girão, who represents the coastal state of Ceará and led a Brazilian Senate hearing on UAP in 2022, came to Washington to meet with members of Congress and attend the press event.

Acting as a private citizen and not representing the Brazilian Senate, Girão spoke from the podium and commended the three Brazilian witnesses for their courage in speaking out.

During a break, he spoke with Burlison, who said he had gotten up at 4 a.m. that morning to fly from Missouri so he could attend the news conference and present a public statement (the other members did not fly back in time to attend).

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“Are there videos that you think you might be able to get access to, any other material evidence?” Burlison asked Girão.

“I’m going to try,” Girão said.

The two discussed the need for a joint effort to acquire tangible evidence that could help validate the incident. Burlison described having seen interesting UAP videos, but “nothing that is definitive 4K.” He told the Brazilian senator about key American officials who have come forward, including the current Secretary of State.

Obtaining the evidence he would like to see has been difficult, Burlison said, because “there are several government entities that are controlling this and some are willing to be more cooperative, so unfortunately we’re not getting everything.”

Six other Brazilians who wanted to provide testimony on the Varginha case were denied visas by the State Department on the grounds that they might overstay their visas and attempt to remain in the U.S. So, in December, Fox and his producing partner, Aline Kras, returned to Brazil to compile their testimonies on videotape for presentation at the press conference.

One of these witnesses, Liliane Silva, now a 46-year-old early childhood teacher, said that on Jan. 20, 1996, at about 3:20 p.m., she and her sister and a friend were taking a shortcut home when she noticed some graffiti on a wall. Underneath it, she stated, “I saw the creature.”

“It was short in stature, with red eyes, brown skin, as if covered in oil,” Liliane recounted.

“When I saw it, I had a terrible feeling as if the world had stopped.” She screamed to alert the others. “The creature looked at me,” she continued. “I looked into its eyes. It gave me a sensation that it was suffering, that it was asking for help, hiding from someone.”

Then, she and the other girls ran.

Her sister, Valquira Silva, and their friend Katia Xavier provided similar details in their own video statements. It had “three fingers on its hand, a big foot,” Katia said, adding: “It seemed he was suffering, asking me for help.”

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30-01-2026 om 23:32 geschreven door peter  

OVER A LARGE BOX of untouched donuts in Washington’s Longworth House Office Building, Congressional representatives sat rapt as a visiting Brazilian neurosurgeon described what it was like to stare back at the large lilac-colored eyes of a highly intelligent, nonhuman being.

So, not your usual Capitol Hill meeting.

Archival image of witnesses Liliane Silva, 14 (left), Valquira Silva, 16 (center), and their friend Katia Xavier, 21, after encountering the creature on Jan. 30, 1996

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In her statement, the mother of the Silva sisters, Luiza Helena da Silva, said she went back with Katia about twenty or thirty minutes later to find the creature gone. But she said it left behind a footprint with three large toes and an acrid odor that remained in her nose for several weeks.

Sometime later, the mother said she was visited by four strange men dressed in black, offering a briefcase filled with cash if her daughters would go on television and lie by describing the creature as a calf, a sick dog, or a sick human. She refused, saying she was very frightened by the visit.

Yet another videotaped witness, unnamed and his face obscured, said he was in the army in 1996 and helped transport the being from the hospital in Varginha to Três Corações and from there to Campinas, where other soldiers took over. Upon returning to Três Corações, he said, “There was talk the Americans had the creature, having transported it to an undisclosed location.”

At the news conference, Dr. Italo was questioned about his contact with the nonhuman being in the Varginha hospital room. Was it bleeding? Agitated?

“It was initially OK, it just looked out the window,” Dr. Italo replied. He said that instantly, “I was not there as a doctor anymore. The being was looking straight at me. The more he looked at me, the more I had a feeling of peace; it was transmitting peace. It looked at everything happening as if it was taking notes, like a great observer of everything happening around it.”

Asked if he had had any subsequent contacts with nonhuman intelligence, the doctor replied simply, “No.”

Fox said the videos of the entities are held by people too afraid to release them, but that for the first time, he may have the help of Brazilian Senator Girão and Representative Burlison, who is currently working on strengthening whistleblower protection for UAP witnesses.

In Varginha, individuals continue to come forward. On Jan. 26, Rosangela Ramos appeared on camera with James Fox, saying that her late husband, Pedro Luiz Aguiar, the chief of police in Três Corações in 1996, who had been on duty during the incident, claimed he had also witnessed the creature, although she had no further details. Aguiar died in December.

At the news conference, Burlison called for international transparency.

“If there’s any government that’s holding information about the knowledge of whether or not we are alone or not alone in the universe, that is not for any government, no matter how powerful it is, to withhold from the rest of humanity,” Burlison said, to general applause.

Dr. Italo says he has no regrets about coming forward.

“The truth is, I saw the being,” he said. “He was not a being from our planet. We are talking about something that changes the concept of humanity.”

“It’s important for people to know.”

•  Additional materials related to this story, including written statements and video recordings of testimony from Brazilian witnesses, can be found here.
• A Portuguese language translation of this article will soon be published by The Debrief.
• Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, with Helene Cooper, co-authored the 2017 New York Times exclusive that revealed the secret Pentagon unit investigating UFOs, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Blumenthal and Kean broke the story of whistleblower David Grusch in The Debrief in 2023. Blumenthal was a staff reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009 and is the author of The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack (2021, University of New Mexico Press). Kean has reported on UFOs for twenty-five years and is the author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010, Harmony Books/Crown), a New York Times bestseller.
• Images featured in this article have been provided courtesy of their respective creators and may not be reproduced elsewhere without express written permission. 

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30-01-2026 om 23:31 geschreven door peter  

Aliens among us? Inside the beliefs of the Raëlian Movement

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The Raëlians
Humans have always been fascinated by stories about UFOs and aliens. There are those who consider reports of sightings and encounters with creatures anecdotal. However, there are also those who truly believe in the existence not only of life outside Earth but also in its influence on ours. This is the case of the Raëlians.

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A new religious movement
The Raelian movement was founded in 1976, in France by the “prophet” Claude Vorilhon. He claimed to have met extraterrestrials, who made an important communication to him on December 13, 1973.

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The Elohim would create life on Earth
According to Claude Vorilhon, the message said that life on Earth had been created by beings very similar to men: the Elohim, or “those who came from the sky”, thanks to advanced genetic engineering techniques.

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Humans born from an experiment
Therefore, the human beings would be the result of an ingenious experiment by advanced extraterrestrials, who used the DNA of the Elohim themselves. Furthermore, these beings named Vorilhon, as their Raël, or “messenger of the Elohim”.

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Claude Vorilhon as Ambassador of the Elohim
Claude Vorilhon, journalist and former race car driver, later wrote two books on the subject: 'Le Livre Qui Dit la Vérité' ('The Book Which Tells the Truth'), in 1974, and 'Les Extra- terrestrial M'ont Emmené sur Leur Planète' (Extraterrestrials Took Me to Their Planet), in 1975. The latter was based on a hypothetical new encounter with the Elohim.

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The structure of the Raëlian movement
The Raël (i.e. Vorilhon) is located at the top of the six-level hierarchical structure of the Raëlian movement, which requires all its members to follow a healthy lifestyle and a vegetarian diet.

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Embassy for the Elohim
Those who have decided to join the Rëelian movement are invited to donate 10% of their income to the construction of an embassy of the Elohim in Jerusalem, for when they return to Earth.

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Expected return in 2035
The movement believes that the great return of the extraterrestrial Elohim to Earth will occur in the year 2035, as long as humans fulfill certain objectives, such as spreading Raëlian teachings and building the embassy.

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“A kind of headquarters in neutral territory”
According to Ezael De Marco, head of the Raëlian movement in Italy, interviewed by Messaggero, the embassy, with extraterritorial status, would be “a kind of headquarters in neutral territory, consisting of 24 apartments, a restaurant, a conference room and a swimming pool, to establish and found a new order based on the beginnings of science".

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Who will come?
And he added: “A dozen or so individuals will come, accompanied by the great prophets (Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Muhammad), who will leave another planet where they live happily, thanks to a sophisticated cloning process, to be alongside their children".

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How Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha were born
According to the Raëlian movement, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha were prophets sent to Earth to help and guide human beings. All were born from the relationship between a human woman and an Elohim, aided by genetic engineering and DNA synthesis.

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How do you join the Raëlian movement?
To be part of the Raëlian movement one must go through an initiation rite, with characteristics similar to Christian baptism, carried out only by higher-level followers.

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The initiation rite
This ritual can only be performed four times a year: on the first Sunday in April (to commemorate the first time that Raël baptized the first members of the movement), on the 6th of August (to remember the atrocities of Horoshima), on the 7th of October (date on which Raël would have met Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha, during his second meeting with the Elohim) and December 13th (date of the first meeting).

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Telepathic communication
During the initiation rite, according to the Raëlian movement, it is important to communicate telepathically with the Elohim, so that they record all the genetic information of the initiate.

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Immortality for the most worthy
As with most well-known religions, in the Raëlian movement there is a kind of reward for behaving in a dignified manner in this life. The Elohim, after having judged the actions of the members who have reached the end of their earthly existence, will be able to decide whether to guarantee them immortality. How? Through cloning.

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“If we deserve it, we will be recreated”
“At the end of our life journey, they measure with a large space computer whether the personal balance was positive or negative. If we deserve it, we will be recreated and we will keep all the knowledge acquired in the previous life”, Ezael De Marco told the Italian publication Messaggero.

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The Elohim do not work or follow any laws
Di Marco also described how the Elohim spend their days: “They don't work, they are happy and enjoy life. Everything that needs to be done is entrusted to biological robots.” This civilization also does not follow any laws: “Laws are for men, not for gods. The geniocratic government of the Elohim", he says.

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The controversies
The Raëlian movement is not exempt from strong controversies, which have accompanied it over the years, especially with regard to cloning and other types of alleged abuses.

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The Raëlians claim to clone people
In 1997, the Raëlians founded Clonaid, an organization that claims to have cloned a child named Eva and subsequently other individuals. Independent scientists have never had the opportunity to examine the alleged child or the technology used, which is why the scientific community claims it is a hoax.

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Abuse accusations
In the Raëlian movement, sexuality also plays a decidedly important role: free love is promoted. Thus, its members have often been attacked by the media and accused of abusing women.

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The controversial official symbol
Another heated debate concerns its official symbol, made up of a Star of David and a swastika. After numerous public protests, the latter was replaced by a stylized flower, although the old symbol remains very present among the faithful.

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120 thousand members
The Raëlian movement has spread throughout the world over the years. To date, according to Di Marco, around 120,000 people in more than 100 countries have joined.

Most of the information in this gallery is taken from an article written by Anna Kira Hippert and published on the website Religionmediacentre.org.uk..

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24-01-2026 om 21:37 geschreven door peter  

A retired US Air Force fighter pilot claims there is likely an extensive 'paper trail' proving that one of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last three decades really happened.

Colonel Fred Claussen, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice during his career, came forward during a press conference in Washington on Tuesday to reveal who would know about the 1996 incident in Varginha, Brazil.

The alleged incident began on January 13, 1996, when locals reported seeing a UFO crash-landing in a field near Varginha, followed by sightings of strange creatures described as walking on two legs, but having oily brown skin and large red eyes.

In fact, three young women claimed they found one of the extraterrestrials hiding behind a wall near the crash site.

Despite reports that Brazilian police and military captured at least two aliens, the US Air Force allegedly confiscated all of the wreckage, the bodies of dead aliens, and the survivors of the crash, starting a supposed cover-up that has lasted for 30 years.

To this date, the US military has said there has never been any physical evidence recovered that proves the existence of UFOs or alien life, and has not confirmed that this recovery ever took place.

However, Claussen spoke at an event at the National Press Club organized by investigative filmmaker James Fox, which gathered witnesses and other experts to expose what they claim has been buried about the Varginha crash.

'If true, I am certain that 30 to 40 Americans had direct knowledge of this flight and its purpose,' Claussen said.

Former Air Force pilot Fred Claussen (Pictured) claimed that dozens of US military personnel likely know about an alleged UFO crash landing in Brazil in 1996

Carlos de Souza, witness of an alleged UFO crash in Varginha, Brazil in 1996, speaks at a press conference on UFO encounters at the National Press Club on Tuesday

Often called the 'Brazilian Roswell,' Claussen said that even secret missions involve multiple military personnel and various orders that create documented evidence of their existence. 

The decorated Air Force veteran explained that if the US military did launch a UFO recovery mission to Brazil, it would have started within Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. 

They would have received the initial order to send a cargo plane, so senior officers there would have known the Varginha crash existed.

'An international flight plan to Brazil is required even if the mission is classified. Paper trail,' Claussen declared.

From there, a specific Air Mobility Wing at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina would have received a detailed mission order, selected a crew, and prepared a C-17 aircraft for launch - involving dozens of people.

Pilots, loadmasters, schedulers, and commanders at that base would have been in the loop in 1996, and Claussen was convinced the proof of that UFO crash still exists.

Along with the witnesses from Brazil and other UFO researchers, Claussen then challenged the Air Force personnel who allegedly flew to Brazil to become whistleblowers and expose what really happened in 1996.

'We know this mission happened, and you know it, too. Come forward. The time is now,' the former pilot said.

Witnesses claimed that a cigar-shaped object crashed on a local farm and was quickly recovered by Brazilian military and police

According to witnesses, multiple non-human aliens were still alive and were captured after the crash in Varginha, Brazil in January 1996

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The incident 30 years ago played out over several days and also involved the death of a Brazilian police officer who was allegedly contaminated by one of the aliens.

On January 13, 1996, witnesses in Varginha spotted a cigar-shaped UFO that looked damaged and had white smoke pouring out of it.

The supposed spacecraft crashed on a farm outside the city, where witness Carlos de Souza, who attended Tuesday's press conference, found scattered debris and a strange, lightweight metal that reshaped itself after being crumpled.

However, soldiers quickly arrived and de Souza claimed he was ordered to leave at gunpoint. Later, two mysterious men in suits allegedly threatened him at a gas station to stay silent about what he saw.

'You saw nothing. You know nothing. Or you will have problems for the rest of your life,' de Souza recounted about his meeting with the unidentified men.

Days later, on January 20, the three young women encountered a reportedly scared, non-human being in a vacant lot that had a strong ammonia smell.

Brazilian military and police captured at least two of these beings that same day, including one grabbed bare-handed by officer Marco Eli Chereze, whose skin was scratched during the capture.

Chereze developed a deadly infection from the alleged scratch and died weeks later.

Dr Armando Monteiro, a forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Chereze, revealed during the press conference that he discovered a rare, aggressive bacterium that doctors suspected might have been of alien origin in the officer's wound.

Soon after, the beings and debris were reportedly transported to a Brazilian airport, where the secret C-17 cargo plane allegedly loaded them and flew back to America.

Although witnesses have maintained that everything they saw was real, no evidence from the reported crash site has been seen again, and the death of Chereze was reportedly listed as an infection due to the Earth bacteria strain Staphylococcus schleiferi.

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22-01-2026 om 22:59 geschreven door peter  

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22-01-2026 om 15:16 geschreven door peter  

Christina Gomez -NEW INFORMATION JUST DROPPED ABOUT UFO CRASH!

Overview

A blog post published on Astronutter.com on January 18 2026 claims to reveal “new whistle‑blower‑style information” about an alleged UFO crash. Authored by self‑identified researcher Christina Gómez, the entry—titled “NEW INFORMATION JUST DROPPED ABOUT UFO CRASH!”—has quickly circulated through online UFO forums and social‑media channels, accompanied by hashtags such as #UFOCrash, #Whistleblower, and #UFODisclosure. While the post itself offers only brief statements and no verifiable documentation, its emergence has reignited debate over decades‑long claims of extraterrestrial craft recoveries.

New Claims Presented by Gómez

According to the blog excerpt, Gómez alleges that a previously classified incident involving a downed unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) was “recently de‑classified” and that “key witnesses” are now prepared to speak. She references “internal memos” and “photographic evidence” purportedly obtained from a source within a federal agency, but the post does not provide links, file names, or any visual material that can be independently examined. The narrative suggests the crash occurred on U.S. soil, though no specific location, date, or operational details are disclosed. Gómez emphasizes that the information is “whistle‑blower‑like,” implying personal risk for the source, and urges readers to “stay tuned for full documents” in upcoming updates.

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Community Reaction

Within the UFO‑enthusiast sphere, the post has generated a surge of discussion. Reddit’s r/UFOs and the Facebook group “UFO Disclosure Network” posted threads quoting the blog’s headline and sharing the aforementioned hashtags. Some members have expressed cautious optimism, noting that “every new claim pushes the conversation forward,” while others remain skeptical, pointing out the absence of corroborating evidence and the blog’s history of speculative posts. The rapid spread of the story illustrates how digital platforms amplify unverified claims, a pattern observed in prior incidents such as the 2020 release of the Navy’s “Gimbal” and “GoFast” videos.

Expert and Official Perspective

UFO researchers and government‑affairs analysts caution against drawing conclusions from a single, unverified source. Dr. Jacqueline Miller, senior fellow at the Center for Aerospace Policy, remarked, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Until the alleged memos or photographs are made public and authenticated, the claim remains anecdotal.” Similarly, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declined to comment on the specific blog post but reiterated the agency’s commitment to transparency, noting that the 2023 UAP Report acknowledged “limited data” on many incidents and that any newly de‑classified material would be released through official channels.

Context and Historical Background

The notion of a secret UFO crash is not new. The most famous example, the Roswell incident of 1947, has been repeatedly examined, debunked, and mythologized over the decades. More recent government acknowledgments—such as the Pentagon’s 2021 admission of a UAP task force and the 2022 release of classified videos—have lent credibility to some aspects of the UFO discourse, yet they have not confirmed any recovered craft. Gómez’s claim therefore fits within a broader pattern of whistle‑blower‑styled revelations that surface intermittently, often lacking the documentation needed for rigorous verification.

What Comes Next?

The blog author promises to release the purported documents “in the coming weeks.” Observers advise that any forthcoming material should be subjected to forensic analysis, chain‑of‑custody verification, and cross‑referencing with existing government disclosures. Until such steps are taken, the story remains a rumor in the public domain, albeit one that underscores the persistent public appetite for answers about unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers, journalists, and policymakers will likely monitor the situation closely, ready to assess any new evidence against the stringent standards required for credible disclosure.

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20-01-2026 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

NASA Book Argues Archaeology Can Help Decode Alien Signals

Gary Manners

If a genuine extraterrestrial signal ever arrives, the hard part may not be detecting it, but understanding what it means. That is the central idea behind a NASA History Series book that explores how archaeologists and anthropologists - experts at interpreting fragmentary traces of vanished cultures - might help the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The surprising update is that, despite early claims that NASA “pulled” the publication after media confusion, the book is now hosted openly on NASA’s website, complete with official downloads. 

A NASA History Series volume, not a sensational “aliens did it” claim

The story first circulated widely after an Ancient Origins report, “NASA book explores how archaeology could contribute to understanding Extra-terrestrial Communication,” described a new NASA volume edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, then Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, draws parallels between deciphering ancient scripts and interpreting possible interstellar messages. 

NASA’s own official page describes the book as an effort to broaden SETI thinking beyond a purely technical problem, raising questions about whether “meaningful communication” would actually be straightforward.

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Titled ‘Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication’, the book is a collection of chapters by different authors who explore latest research regarding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

In the opening introduction, Vakoch sets out how the field of archaeology can contribute to this search:

• “As we search for analogies to contact at interstellar distances, archaeology provides some intriguing parallels, given that its practitioners – like successful SETI scientists – are charged with reconstructing long-lost civilizations from potentially fragmentary evidence”.

Maya glyphs photographed at Palenque. 

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Anthropologist Ben Finney and historian Jerry Bentley draw a comparison between the decoding of ancient scripts, including Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphics, and how we may be able to understand and possibly communicate with an extraterrestrial civilization, particularly through the ‘universal language’ of mathematics and astronomy. For example, when scholars began decoding ancient Mayan hieroglyphs, their earliest successes were in recognizing the basic numbering system used by the Maya, as well as their calendar systems, which were based on the visible motions of the Moon and Sun.

“Math and science provided the foundation for communication, just as many SETI scientists have predicted will be the case for interstellar communication,” wrote Vakoch.

This is one reason ancient scripts are such a useful mirror for interstellar communication.

Decoding alien messages: why archaeology is the analogy NASA chose

The NASA book argues that SETI researchers could face a situation similar to archaeologists reconstructing societies from incomplete evidence: an interstellar signal might be detected, but its cultural content could remain opaque. The volume’s introduction explicitly frames this as a problem of reconstructing distant civilizations, separated by space and time, much like archaeology reconstructs the human past.

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The Dalgarven Mill cup and ring mark stone replica, Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.

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Rock art, cup-and-ring marks, and the limits of interpretation

A flashpoint in the original media frenzy involved a misunderstanding: some outlets implied NASA was “announcing” ancient rock art was extraterrestrial. But the point presented is more subtle - rock art can be used as a thought experiment about the way we interpret symbols when we lack context.

The part that was confused comes in the book's last chapter, "Constraints on Message Construction for Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence." William H. Edmondson, senior research fellow at the University of Birmingham in England, draws upon an analogy by suggesting that ancient rock art may be an example of the type of symbolic communication that would be used by extraterrestrial civilizations and studying rock art could therefore help us understand possible communication from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

"It is helpful to review some parallels from human existence that pose problems for us today," wrote Edmondson. "One of these is "rock art," which consists of patterns or shapes cut into rock many thousands of years ago. Such ancient stone carvings can be found in many countries.”

Edmondson maintains that posing the idea that ancient markings were created by aliens is helpful for reframing the way we go about searching for signals from other worlds - and how we make contact.

"We can say little, if anything, about what these patterns signify, why they were cut into rocks, and who created them," he wrote. "For all intents and purposes, they might have been created by aliens."

That ambiguity is familiar to readers of prehistoric rock art. Scotland’s cup-and-ring marks, for example, are still debated, and Ancient Origins has previously covered attempts to study major carved stones such as the Cochno Stone. 

Cup-and-ring-marked rock near to Cairnbaan, Argyll And Bute, Scotland.

(Anne Burgess)

Denning’s caution: information is not meaning

However, there is an important warning from archaeologist and anthropologist Kathryn Denning: even if you can measure the complexity of a signal, that does not automatically tell you what it means. And unlike classic codebreaking between humans, an extraterrestrial message comes without any guarantee of shared language or shared assumptions. 

In other words, the “Rosetta Stone moment” may never come.

The key update: NASA hosts the book openly

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an official landing page with download formats, and the PDF is directly accessible on nasa.gov. 

NASA also lists the book on its “NASA and SETI” history page and notes continued NASA interest in astrobiology and technosignatures, even after Congress canceled NASA’s formal SETI program in the early 1990s. (That page shows a “Last Updated” of Jan 05, 2026.)

Why this matters now: NASA’s technosignature era

While the original story framed the debate as SETI and messaging, NASA’s current SETI-history material emphasizes technosignatures - possible signs of technology that might show up in astronomical observations. 

Ancient Origins has also covered modern technosignature thinking, including proposed atmospheric industrial gases as possible “telltale signs” of technology-using life. 

• Top image: Green Bank 100m diameter Radio Telescope (West Virginia, USA).  
• Source: Image courtesy of NRAO/AUI/ CC BY 3.0

By Gary Manners

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16-01-2026 om 23:39 geschreven door peter  

Strange cases are surfacing worldwide, reports of black-eyed children, mysterious phone calls from the dead, and transplant patients inheriting memories. Skeptics dismiss them as urban legends or coincidences, yet the stories refuse to disappear. 

So what’s really going on? 

Case 1 - Two children tap on a car window at night, asking for a ride home. Their eyes are solid black, no whites, no color. Witnesses say they cannot enter unless invited. Those who let them in rarely talk about what happened afterward. 

But those who encounter the Black-Eyed Children (BEK) describe pale, emotionless kids between 6 and 16 and report sudden terror, panic, and an overwhelming sense that something supernatural is at play. 

So what are they? Paranormal entities? Interdimensional beings? Or simply a myth. 

Meanwhile, researchers point to similar unexplained events that blur the line between science and the paranormal. 

For example: Other strange cases that make no logical sense. 

Case 2 — Phantom Phone Calls: A dead man’s mobile phone reportedly dialed rescuers 35 times over 12 hours, guiding them to his body. The battery should have been dead. The phone was never recovered. 

Case 3 — Transplant Memory Transfer: A heart transplant patient developed the donor’s cravings, handwriting, and even married the donor’s widow. Thirteen years later, he died the same way, in the same place, as the donor before him. 

Three cases and No scientific explanation that survives scrutiny. From the Black-Eyed Children phenomenon to phantom calls and organ memory, these cases raise a larger question: Are we looking at mere coincidence and internet fueled folklore, or at consciousness based models not yet recognized by science or could this be evidence of a genuine paranormal phenomenon involving unknown intelligences?

  

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12-01-2026 om 20:43 geschreven door peter  

Among the more curious entries in alien lore, the tall whites stand out — literally.

These pale, lanky beings are said to be over 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall and were made famous by former military weather observer Charles James Hall, who detailed his alleged encounters during his time at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

According to Hall, he was initially terrified but gradually overcame fears during his two years of working near them. In his writings, he describes walking with the tall beings and adapting to their presence through a mix of caution and curiosity.

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11-01-2026 om 21:36 geschreven door peter  

President Donald Trump has allegedly been 'fully briefed' on what the US government has been keeping secret about UFOs and alien life living among humans.

In a recent interview, whistleblower and retired US Air Force Major David Grusch claimed that Trump has received reports on crashed spacecraft and non-human remains retrieved by the US, the origins of these beings, and their intentions.

Grusch, a current advisor to Congress's UAP Task Force, said the president could soon become the 'most consequential leader in world history' by publicly disclosing what America has kept hidden about extraterrestrials.

'Members of this current administration are very well aware of this reality. Certainly, the current president is very knowledgeable on this subject,' Grusch told Fox News.

To this point, previous White Houses, the US military, and even NASA have all denied that humans have made contact with alien life or have ever recovered extraterrestrial technology from crashed UFOs.

No physical evidence has ever been presented publicly that would back up the stories by countless civilians, scientists, and military personnel over the decades, who claim to have seen or interacted with beings from another world.

However, Grusch said the US military has not only recovered UFOs and alien bodies, but he personally viewed intelligence reports, data, and even pictures of non-human bodies with his own eyes.

The whistleblower also allegedly told members of Congress that Trump was even briefed during his first term about the existence of multiple alien races and how one species has been crossbreeding with humans.

David Grusch (Pictured) recently revealed that President Trump has been briefed on the existence of aliens and the effort to recover crashed UFOs

President Trump (Pictured) expressed skepticism that reports of UFOs and alien encounters were real during a June 2024 interview with Logan Paul

Grusch spent 14 years in the Air Force before working as an intelligence officer for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which builds and lunches surveillance satellites for the Pentagon.

From 2019 to 2021, he represented NRO on the UAP Task Force, but eventually became a whistleblower after allegedly learning that elements of the US government had prevented Congressional oversight on matters related to extraterrestrials.

In 2023, he testified before Congress, claiming that secret government departments had been running UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs for decades.

When asked if he would declassify the files about aliens on the Lex Fridman Podcast in September 2024, then-candidate Trump said: 'Sure, I’ll do that. I would do that. I’d love to do that. I have to do that.' 

Missouri congressman Eric Burlison previously echoed Grusch's statements, revealing the alleged existence of at least four alien species humans secretly know about.

Burlison added that Grusch had briefed the president on the existence of a race known as the 'Nordics,' which are generally human in appearance, with fair skin and blond hair, who have created alien-human hybrids.

'He [Grusch] said that the Nordic aliens are like a few hundred years more advanced than we are, but they're not super advanced,' Burlison said during an X space interview on June 27.

'He says that there are aliens that are crossbreeds living in the world,' the congressman added, noting that Grusch did not have an answer when asked how humans would be able to tell if someone was an alien hybrid.

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

Grusch described an alien race called 'the Greys' as being thousands of years more advanced than humans or other alien species humans know about (Stock Image)

Burlison, who appointed Grusch to the government's UAP committee, added that the Air Force veteran described another alien race called the Greys as being thousands of years more advanced than humans.

According to Grusch's reports, these aliens, who were shorter with grey skin and large black eyes, were responsible for sightings of craft that defied gravity and controlled technology using their minds.

As for whether these aliens were peaceful or coming to Earth with hostile intentions, Grusch revealed last month that the US has seen a 'mixed bag of activity.'

'We can't quite understand the intent of some of the sentients and why they're visiting. Could it be because we have interesting genetic material on Earth? We're a Jurassic Park tourist attraction for them. [It] could be a myriad of reasons,' he told Bret Baier of Fox News on November 21.

The UAP advisor added that the US was in a secret arms race with Russia and China, who have also captured and crashed alien spacecraft and have been working to reverse engineer the technology.

Although Grusch believed Trump may soon decide to release the classified reports on extraterrestrial programs and encounters, the president has previously said he was a skeptic when it comes to UFO conspiracies.

'People who are very smart and very solid have said they believe there is something out there, and you know it makes sense that there could be. I've never been convinced, even despite that, you know, I just for some reason it's not my thing,' Trump told the Impaulsive podcast in June 2024.

Despite the skepticism, Grusch claimed that the White House was motivated to 'do the right thing' in terms of disclosing all the whistleblower information Congress has been investigating regarding UFOs.

The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House for comment regarding the claims in Grusch's interview.

Grusch noted, however, that he and others have faced intimidation and threats of physical harm to stay quiet about the existence of alien life, but he did not name who has been behind the cover-up.

'I was physically threatened even before I sent in my intelligence community inspector general report under the previous administration,' the whistleblower alleged.

'I actually had to go and and seek legal protection that way because I was, you know, literally in fear both professionally and in my personal life.'

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09-01-2026 om 20:17 geschreven door peter  

US Military Recovered UFO That ‘Distorted Space-Time’ & Craft Able To ‘Alter Our Reality’ As Mentioned In Bizarre Navy Docs

Physicist Michio Kaku proposes the existence of other dimensions, also known as parallel universes, coexisting alongside our own reality. Within these dimensions, it is plausible that there are beings or entities living alongside us, despite our inability to perceive them. While the concept of alternate dimensions or universes may seem far-fetched to some, it is intricately connected to the subject of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), commonly referred to as UFO phenomena.

We live in a four-dimensional world (if time is included), but scientists propose there are more dimensions. However, they do not believe there can exist more than 11 dimensions because conditions become unstable and particles naturally collapse back down into 10 or 11 dimensions. The 12th dimension, for example, introduces a second time.

“Our understanding of reality is not complete, by far,” says Stanford University physicist Andrei Linde. “Reality exists independently of us.” If they exist, those universes are separated from ours, unreachable and undetectable by any direct measurement (at least so far). And that makes some experts question whether the search for a multiverse can ever be truly scientific.

In the realm of science, our quest for understanding alternate or higher dimensions remains ongoing. However, within the field of UFOlogy, intriguing cases have emerged suggesting the existence of not just other dimensions, but also the presence of entities residing within them. These beings seem to possess the ability to manipulate a bridge connecting their realm to ours, enabling them to embark on regular visits to our world.

Crashed UFO that ‘distorted space and time’

A very strange UFO case has been shared by American attorney Daniel Sheehan with Daily Mail. Sheehan involved in bringing UFO whistleblowers to Congress, claimed that a whistleblower told him a mind-boggling tale about a recovered crashed UFO. He revealed that a crashed UFO recovered by the US military had distorted space-time and was “bigger on the inside.” The whistleblower has reportedly briefed Senate Intelligence Committee staff on the matter.

According to Sheehan, one of the alleged recoveries described by the insider involved a 30-foot saucer partially embedded in the earth. When attempts were made to remove it using a bulldozer, the craft exhibited unusual behavior. As it was being pulled out, it seemingly detached in a pie slice-shaped section, suggesting that it was constructed in a unique way.

The anonymous whistleblower then entered the craft and was astonished to find that the interior was as large as a football stadium, while the exterior was only about 30 feet in diameter. The experience inside caused disorientation and nausea due to the vast size discrepancy. Furthermore, upon exiting the craft in a few minutes, the whistleblower found that four hours had passed outside, indicating time distortion as well.

Sheehan mentions that the craft’s distortion of space and time is consistent with the theories proposed by physicists regarding advanced propulsion systems. These theories suggest that warping space-time could be used to counteract the effects of gravity and achieve advanced forms of propulsion. However, Sheehan does not provide further specific details, such as the location or date of the incident, and admits to being unable to provide concrete evidence to support these claims.

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Moreover, on Jesse Michels’ show, astronomer and UFO researcher Jacques Vallee discussed another UFO case that includes experiencing another dimension by the witness. Valle said: “There was one case in San Jose. A woman had seen something over her house. It was a big disc, and I say, ‘How big was it?’ And she says, ‘Well, it was about the same size as her house. It was, you know, just like that.’ Then I say, ‘Well, when you went inside, you said, uh, you know, there was this being, and the being took you on a staircase.’ I say, ‘Where did the staircase go?’ Well, the staircase went up the side of this big round room. I say, ‘How would you compare it?’ Well, like a movie house, you know, like an M5 theater. I said, ‘That’s bigger than your house.’”

Luis Elizondo, the man who managed the UFO program inside the Pentagon, explains how space-time distortion works and hints that we can manipulate this physics for technological advancement. In an interview with George Knapp in 2018, Elizondo explains:

“Space-time is something we observe in the natural world all the time, especially in relation to gravity and GPS satellites. The clocks on these satellites need constant calibration. Even though the clocks on the satellites are identical to the ones on the ground station, they still require regular calibration. The reason for this is the effect of Earth’s gravity on space-time. The clocks on Earth run slightly slower compared to the clocks on the platforms above Earth.

How is this possible if the clocks are the same? Well, it’s because the closer you are to a massive object, like Earth, the more space-time warps. This phenomenon is explained by the theory of general relativity, which boils down to using the equation E=mc². Essentially, it means that a significant amount of mass or energy warps space-time. When you approach a supermassive object like the sun, the distortion becomes even greater. In fact, near a black hole, time becomes so distorted that it virtually stops.

We have observed this phenomenon through gravitational lensing when studying distant galaxies. We can actually see the effects of gravity on space-time with our own eyes, so it’s a scientific fact, not fiction. The question now is how we can manipulate this physics for technological advancement. Potentially, we could warp space-time in a way that allows us to travel from point A to point B more quickly.”

Is it possible that an advanced extraterrestrial civilization has already accomplished this kind of technology and has been using it to visit our world? Or perhaps we already have such technology?

In 2021, leaked documents revealed that the US Navy had conducted experiments on various far-fetched technologies, including a “space modification weapon.” These documents, disclosed by The War Zone, detailed the research carried out by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) between 2017 and 2019. The most interesting thing is that the technology written in those documents discusses propulsion system that defies gravity, or to devastating weapons that bends the laws of physics and craft that alters the fabric of time and space.

The man behind all the patents is Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, who is an aerospace engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). He has four patents registered in his name that contain the source of technology that would change the world. In these patents, a “Spacetime Modification Weapon” (SMW, a weapon that can make the Hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparison) is mentioned.

Are these patents a cover for the reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology? The Navy’s objective in testing this conceptual system was to keep pace with similar programs being developed in China. The researchers believed that the space modification weapon could revolutionize power and propulsion systems. The technology was based on the “Pais effect” aimed to push the boundaries of science.

Pais made ambitious claims about the potential of this technology, suggesting that it could lead to a propulsion system defying gravity or devastating weapons that bend the laws of physics. He even outlined plans for a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft” capable of altering the fabric of time and space.

The Navy’s aerospace research enterprise supported Pais’s patents, stating that they filed them to keep up with similar technological advancements being pursued by the Chinese military. The “space modification weapon” described in the documents was envisioned to release extremely high energy levels, surpassing the destructive power of a Hydrogen bomb.

However, the experiments conducted between 2017 and 2019 were inconclusive. The elusive Pais effect was neither observed nor disproven during this period. The Pais effect refers to a theoretical physics concept that involves the controlled movement of highly electrically charged matter. If proven possible, it could enable the creation of powerful energy fields capable of fundamentally engineering the fabric of reality.

It is unclear whether the US Navy is continuing its experiments on the Pais effect or if the project has been discontinued entirely. None of the futuristic technologies described in the leaked UFO patents were developed, leaving the ultimate fate of the space modification weapon and related concepts uncertain.

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04-01-2026 om 18:36 geschreven door peter  

Spanish Soldiers Fired on a Tall Humanoid After a UFO Landed Near Their Base (1971)

In March 1971, an extraordinary series of events unfolded at a Spanish military radar installation near the coast. What began as routine perimeter patrols escalated into one of the most unsettling close-encounter testimonies to emerge from Cold War-era Europe. The account comes from Jesus Jofre Mila, a corporal stationed at the base, whose story was later discussed publicly in interviews and investigative programs.

This article is based exclusively on his testimony, reconstructed from later retellings and corroborated by partial witness accounts and secondary investigators.

An Uneasy Night at the Radar Base

On the night of March 25, 1971, something felt wrong almost immediately. The base’s German Shepherd patrol dogs – highly trained and accustomed to night duty, became unusually aggressive and agitated. No amount of calming helped. According to Mila, the dogs reacted as if sensing something entirely unfamiliar.

Shortly after, a guard pointed toward the sky. Above the radar domes, a disc-like craft appeared, described as a classic stacked or double-layered oval shape emitting a golden-yellow light. The glow was bright enough to illuminate the object clearly, yet strangely non-blinding.

Several soldiers watched as the object drifted slowly across the horizon, then suddenly accelerated at tremendous speed toward the sea before vanishing.

A Blinding Flash from the Water

That was not the end of the night’s events.

Another soldier stationed closer to the rocky shoreline later witnessed the object descend rapidly toward the ocean. Upon contact with the water, it emitted a violent flash of light so intense it temporarily blinded him. He was later found clutching his eyes, which remained swollen and red for days. Base medical personnel could not explain the injuries.

No conventional explosion, aircraft, or weapon discharge was reported.

The Green Light Beyond the Fence

Later that same night, Mila and a fellow handler armed themselves and followed one of the dogs toward the perimeter fence after noticing an unnatural green glow in an area where the base ended and open land began.

As they advanced, the atmosphere reportedly felt “charged,” like static electricity. Mila described a tingling sensation on his tongue, similar to touching a battery. Even the dog appeared distressed, shaking its head as if in pain.

Then they heard it.

Heavy footsteps -fast, deliberate, and unnervingly close.

Face-to-Face with a Tall Humanoid Figure

Out of the darkness emerged a very tall figure, estimated between 7 and 7.2 feet in height. The soldiers shouted warnings. There was no response.

Panicking, one soldier opened fire. Mila followed, firing his 9 mm sidearm multiple times. The muzzle flashes briefly illuminated the being.

What they saw was unlike anything human.

The figure was described as:

• Extremely tall and thin
• Pale in appearance
• With long, light-colored hair falling to the shoulders
• Wearing a tight, metallic-looking suit with a high collar
• A belt featuring a distinct inverted triangle symbol at the center

The being did not react to the gunfire.

For a brief moment, Mila described the sensation that time itself had stopped. Then the figure turned calmly and walked away, disappearing toward the fence.

A Fence That Vanished

Moments later, the soldiers heard metallic impacts. At dawn, the evidence was impossible to ignore.

A section of the inner perimeter fence; approximately 50 cm wide, had vanished entirely. The edges were scorched, as if cut or disintegrated. The outer fence beside it was completely intact. There were no footprints, no debris, and no mechanical explanation.

The missing section had to be crudely repaired with wire.

Dreams, Voices, and a Return to the Sky

In the nights that followed, Mila experienced intense dreams involving the encounter. On one night, he reported hearing overlapping voices in his head- unintelligible at first. Days later, he claimed the message became clearer, though he has remained guarded about its content.

On March 27, the lights returned, this time witnessed by dozens of personnel, possibly over a hundred. The object hovered visibly above the base for several minutes.

On March 29, the phenomenon escalated again: two military jet aircraft were reportedly seen approaching the object before all three accelerated away at extreme speed. Officially, no jets were launched that night. Unofficially, radar operators reportedly disagreed.

The Investigation That Left No Records

After the mass sighting, higher command intervened. Soldiers were interviewed individually and instructed to write reports. Shortly after, two American servicemen, accompanied by a Spanish Air Force officer, arrived on base.

According to witnesses:

• Soldiers were questioned separately
• Told explicitly to forget the incident
• Photographed against a white wall using an unusually powerful flash that temporarily blinded them

No explanations were provided. No official findings were released.

Later, Spanish ufologist Antonio Rivera reported that American technicians were seen inspecting coastal cliffs near where the object had descended into the sea. Officially, it was described as radar maintenance. The case was subsequently classified by the Spanish Ministry of Defense.An Unresolved Military Encounter

More than five decades later, the 1971 radar base incident remains unexplained.

There are no radar records, no declassified conclusions, and no conventional explanations that fully account for:

• The disciplined dogs’ reaction
• The blinding light injuries
• The humanoid figure unaffected by gunfire
• The selectively disintegrated fence
• The mass sightings over multiple nights

What remains is the testimony of trained military personnel, men with no incentive to fabricate a story that initially brought them reprimand rather than recognition.

Whether interpreted as a close encounter, a classified technology incident, or something beyond current understanding, the events described by Jesus Jofre Mila stand as one of the most detailed and unsettling military UFO encounters on record.

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03-01-2026 om 20:04 geschreven door peter  

The Roswell UFO Incident: Unveiling a Modern Myth

In the summer of 1947, in the vast, dry landscape of New Mexico, an event unfolded that would forever alter the course of UFO lore and conspiracy theories. On either late June or early July, Mac Brazel, a humble ranch foreman, stumbled upon an unusual discovery that would ignite curiosity, skepticism, and speculation across the globe. What began as a routine day for a sheepherder turned into the foundation of one of the most famous and enduring mysteries of modern times: the Roswell UFO incident.

The official news story from the Roswell Daily Record

A Man of the Land: Who Was Mac Brazel?

William W. “Mac” Brazel embodied the quintessential Southwestern American rancher. He was a hardworking, honorable man, deeply connected to the land and herds he tended. Known for his dependability, Mac had the rustic charm of a Jimmy Stewart type: polite, modest, and genuinely kind. His life revolved around riding the range, herding sheep, shearing, and preparing for the market. His duties kept him miles away from home, often lodging at an old ranch house near the Foster Ranch, where he was employed as a foreman.

Though Mac’s life seemed simple and devoid of intrigue, his unexpected discovery in the summer of 1947 would thrust him into the heart of one of the most persistent mysteries of the 20th century. His integrity and straightforwardness lend credibility to his accounts, which have been scrutinized and analyzed for decades.

The Fateful Night: Thunderstorms and a Strange Explosion

In the early days of July 1947, the skies over the New Mexico desert hosted more than just the usual serenity; they became a battleground of nature’s fierce fury. A formidable thunderstorm swept across the arid landscape, bringing with it relentless lightning, thunderclaps that echoed through the mountains, and a palpable electric ambiance. The storm's intensity was typical for a summer monsoon season, yet amidst this turbulence, a peculiar event unfolded—an explosion, or what sounded like one, which defied explanation by natural phenomena alone.

The night was marked by a powerful lightning strike that caught the attention of local rancher William Brazel, a seasoned observer of the skies and the natural environment. Unlike conventional thunder, which is a sound wave generated by lightning’s sudden energy release, Brazel heard a sharp, metallic noise that seemed to burst through the thunder’s roar. The noise was distinctive—more akin to an explosive blast rather than ordinary thunder. Witnesses in the area reported hearing similar noises, fueling rumors of unusual activity in the region. This oddity prompted Brazel to pay closer attention to the following morning, curious if anything unusual had occurred amid the storm’s passage.

As dawn broke, the remnants of the storm revealed strange phenomena. Lightning had etched fiery streaks across the sky, and the ground beneath showed signs of disruption. The skies had cleared enough for Brazel and a young neighbor, William D. “Dee” Proctor, to investigate the area. Their inspection revealed a landscape that seemed almost alien in its strangeness, illuminated by the early morning light. The ground was littered with strange, shiny fragments scattered over small hills and a dry arroyo—a natural watercourse. The debris’s appearance was unlike anything Brazel and others in the region had encountered before, hinting at an incident far beyond an ordinary storm’s scope.

This event sparked curiosity and suspicion. Was it merely debris from a weather balloon, or was something more extraordinary at play? The unique circumstances of that stormy night laid the foundation for the subsequent mystery that would fascinate and confound the world for decades.

Collecting the Evidence: An Unusual Debris Field

As dawn’s first light illuminated the landscape, Brazel and Proctor started their investigation, searching the area with a keen eye for unusual sights. Their primary focus was to assess any damage caused by the storm and to identify the strange fragments that had fallen from the sky. To their surprise, they discovered a scattering of metallic and rubber-like debris across the hills and plains—irregular shapes that did not resemble any known natural material or typical weather balloon remnants. These fragments gleamed under the sun’s rays, their surfaces smooth yet seemingly resilient.

Recognizing the potential significance of their discovery, Brazel carefully collected samples of the debris, storing them in a makeshift container at his ranch. The material was unlike anything encountered before. It was musty and strange, with a metallic sheen but not metallic in the conventional sense. Instead of being brittle or easily torn, the fragments appeared sturdy, resisting tears and cuts. When Brazel and later others examined the pieces, they noticed how unfamiliar they looked: some resembled foil but were more flexible, and others seemed to have a rubbery texture.

Brazel’s family, now involved, returned to gather more of the debris, recognizing that whatever this material was, it didn’t fit within their prior experiences. Astonishingly, the fragments had a silver-gray sheen, but their composition and strength suggested an advanced or unknown manufacturing process. Curious but cautious, the Brazel family stored the samples carefully in a shed to prevent contamination or loss.

The authorities soon became involved. When the local sheriff’s office inquired about the debris, the official explanation was that it was from a weather balloon launched by the military. This explanation was convenient; weather balloons were common, and their debris could sometimes appear mysterious. However, Brazel’s own recounting, as well as sworn affidavits from his wife, did not align with this mundane explanation. His wife described the debris as large, unusual fragments—some the size of basketballs—covered in strange foil-like material that was difficult to tear or damage.

This collection and the cryptic description of the debris deepened the intrigue. The material seemed to exhibit properties that defied ordinary explanations, leading many to speculate about extraterrestrial involvement. The debris’s unusual features—its resilience, reflective surface, and the manner in which it was scattered—suggested it was from something decidedly advanced or from a source unknown to science. The evidence collected that morning would become central in the decades-long debate over what truly happened that night over the New Mexico desert.

The Material and Its Description

The material Brazel’s family gathered that night became a key focus of investigation and speculation. Its physical characteristics stood out markedly from any known natural or man-made object. The fragments, described in official reports and affidavits, resembled shiny sheets of foil—thin, yet remarkably durable—stuck together with what appeared to be adhesive tape. The largest pieces were about the size of a basketball, emphasizing their substantial nature compared to ordinary debris.

The composition of the material was particularly baffling. One side of the fragments was metallic—foil-like and reflective—while the opposite side had a rubbery appearance, both shades of silver or gray. The surface was smooth but resistant to tearing, crumpling, or damaging with conventional tools. The material's toughness was especially intriguing because ordinary aluminum foil, which has a similar appearance, tears easily; this was clearly something different—more resilient and sophisticated. The tape holding some pieces together was whitish and seemed to be of a tape-like substance used in construction or specialized manufacturing, further adding to the mysterious quality of the debris.

Many experts and enthusiasts over the years have speculated that such material was extraterrestrial in origin. The durability, unusual composition, and the context of the stormy night—that involved a loud explosion—have fueled numerous theories suggesting the debris was from an alien spacecraft. The fact that the material could not be torn or damaged by conventional methods challenged existing scientific understanding and fostered speculation that the remnants were remnants of an alien vessel, possibly fallen or crashed during the storm.

Despite the UFO fad that emerged later, original official explanations remained cautious, emphasizing that the material was likely from a weather experiment or secret military project. Still, the description of its physical properties persisted as compelling evidence for those convinced of extraterrestrial contact. Many hold that this debris field, combined with the strange atmosphere, the explosion, and the storm, marked the first concrete physical evidence of an alien encounter in the modern era. They argue that the meticulous collection and description of the material support the idea that something extraordinary happened that night, and whether the debris was from an alien craft or a secret experimental device, its strange nature continues to fuel people's imaginations and investigations today.

FBI Document

In 1950, an FBI agent named Guy Hottel wrote a memo about a report from an Air Force investigator. The report described three separate alien craft recovered in New Mexico along with their passengers. He wrote that “three so-called flying saucers” were found. They were described as being circular with a raised area in the center, with a diameter of approximately 50 feet.

Inside each craft, there were three occupants of “human shape,” approximately 3 feet tall and dressed in “metallic cloth of a very fine texture.” There was speculation that “high-powered radar” had caused the alien craft to crash by inadvertently scrambling their navigational systems and controls.

Although no dates are mentioned, the memo itself is dated March 22, 1950, with the most detailed location specified as “New Mexico.” He wrote that “no further evaluation was attempted by the Air Force investigator who presented the data.”

This document was posted by the FBI on their website in April of 2011. Several sources have found connections between it and the Roswell incident. However, many sources have shown that this document was revealed to be a fake many years ago, including an article in True magazine published in 1952. The hoax was a scheme by two men, Leo A. Gebauer and Silas Newton. They were hawking a phony machine that was supposed to be able to find gas, oil, gold or other precious items with alien technology. In 1953, the duo was found guilty of fraud.

The 1950 FBI document

(Guy Hottel)

Official Response and Initial Investigations

The initial discovery of unidentified debris in the New Mexico desert led to a swift official response by military authorities. When rancher William Brazel found strange remnants on his property south of Roswell in June 1947, he reported his findings to Sheriff George Wilcox. Recognizing the potential significance, Wilcox relayed the information to military officials, specifically to Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer assigned to the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF). On July 6 or 7 of that year, Major Marcel, along with a colleague, traveled to Brazel’s ranch to examine the mysterious debris firsthand.

During this visit, Major Marcel documented the debris, noting its unusual metallic qualities. They found a variety of materials scattered across the area, including strange metallic shreds, thin fibers, and rubber-like substances. The materials appeared unusual—lighter than aluminum, yet resistant to puncture or damage—adding to the intrigue. Marcel’s initial impression was that the debris resembled a weather balloon. Such an explanation seemed plausible at the time because high-altitude weather balloons were common and routinely launched across the southwestern United States, including New Mexico. The U.S. military frequently used these balloons for atmospheric research and to monitor Soviet nuclear tests.

Despite the seemingly mundane explanation, the mystery surrounding the debris persisted. The military quickly took control of the situation, retrieving the fragments and conducting examinations. They secured the debris, transported it to nearby facilities, and issued statements asserting that the fragments were from a weather balloon. Nonetheless, reports of strange materials continued to circulate, and witnesses, including military personnel, began to come forward with varying accounts. The initial assessment by Marcel and others was based on the limited understanding of the debris at that time. As investigations continued, questions arose about the true nature of the debris and whether the government’s explanation was complete or was a cover-up. Over time, official responses evolved, setting the stage for a complex and often controversial story that would attract widespread interest and speculation.

The Official Explanation: Weather Balloon or Something More?

Following William Brazel’s discovery, the U.S. military issued a formal statement claiming that the debris was from a weather balloon. Specifically, officials from the Roswell Army Air Field stated that they had recovered parts of a balloon from the secret U.S. project called "Mogul." Project Mogul involved high-altitude balloons equipped with sensitive instruments designed to detect Soviet nuclear detonations and monitor ballistic missile tests. These balloons traveled at extremely high altitudes and carried radar reflectors, microphones, and other electronic equipment intended for espionage purposes during the early Cold War period.

The official explanation was that the material Brazel reported was simply the wreckage of one such balloon, which had possibly crashed or landed in the area. The explanation was aided by photographs of balloon parts and the widespread familiarity with weather balloons, which were common in the skies of New Mexico at the time. Additionally, military personnel provided detailed descriptions affirming that the debris resembled standard weather balloons and associated equipment, reinforcing the government’s stance that there was nothing extraordinary about the crash site.

However, public curiosity and skepticism persisted. Many witnesses and UFO enthusiasts argued that the debris was unlike typical weather-balloon material, citing its strange metallic qualities and the way it seemed to resist conventional damage. Over the years, declassified documents, eyewitness testimonies, and recovered photographs cast doubt on the official account. Some claimed the military altered or suppressed evidence, suggesting that the debris could have been from an extraterrestrial craft. The possibility that the government was hiding the truth about alien encounters fueled conspiracy theories. The controversy deepened during the 1970s, when alternative explanations gained traction. Despite the official stance, the story of Roswell remains one of the most enduring and debated UFO mysteries in history.

The Revival of Interest: 1970s Resurgence and Conspiracy Theories

The 1970s marked a pivotal period in the ongoing saga of the Roswell incident, witnessing a remarkable resurgence of curiosity and speculation about what truly transpired in July 1947. While initial reports of the crash had largely faded from the forefront of public consciousness in the years immediately following the event, the 1970s saw a reinvigoration of interest, driven by a variety of factors that reignited debates and inspired new generations to question official narratives. Central to this revival was the emergence of credible-sounding witnesses, particularly former military personnel, who claimed to possess insider knowledge or to have witnessed secret recoveries. These claims often described detailed accounts of crashed spacecraft and alien bodies, painting a picture more sensational than ever before.

UFO researchers and authors of this era played a crucial role in the resurgence. They sifted through existing evidence, interviews, and declassified documents, building a narrative that suggested the government had long concealed extraterrestrial visitation. Their work often involved uncovering seemingly mysterious phenomena that they argued could not be explained by ordinary means, such as weather balloons or classified military experiments. This period also saw the publication of numerous books and magazine articles that promoted theories of cover-ups, secret alien contracts, and clandestine experiments with alien technology. Many of these stories gained traction among the public, creating an atmosphere of intrigue and distrust towards government authorities.

Witnesses, especially retired military personnel and former government officials, began sharing their accounts more openly, often claiming they had been involved in covert operations related to the Roswell debris. These accounts frequently mentioned strange materials that seemed to defy typical metal properties, the presence of bodies that appeared to be extraterrestrial, and hidden facilities where these objects and beings were taken. The narrative of government secrecy and suppression of alien contact intensified during this era, often suggesting that the truth was deliberately kept from the public to prevent panic or to protect technological secrets. Conspiracy theories flourished, with some asserting that the government had recovered alien technology that was being studied in secret laboratories, fueling a culture of suspicion around UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

The 1970s revival transformed the Roswell incident from a mere historical event into a powerful cultural symbol. It became a fixture in science fiction, popular culture, and conspiracy theory communities, inspiring countless films, TV shows, and novels that depicted alien encounters and government cover-ups. The incident’s ambiguity—its blending of verified facts, hearsay, and speculation—helped it become embedded in the collective imagination. “Roswell” evolved into a shorthand for the idea that extraterrestrial life had secretly visited Earth and that powerful institutions were concealing the truth from the masses. This transformation across decades created a mythos where the event represented more than just a crash; it symbolized an enduring quest for truth and transparency regarding humanity’s place in the universe.

The resurgence of interest in the 1970s also coincided with a cultural tumult—distrust in government, the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and a burgeoning alternative information movement, all of which contributed to a fertile environment for conspiracy theories. Many individuals were skeptical of official narratives and sought alternative explanations, especially in a time characterized by political scandals and documented covert operations. The widespread dissemination of UFO literature and the rise of dedicated UFO organizations provided platforms for skeptics and believers alike to share their views. This period also saw the emergence of prominent figures who became influential in shaping public perceptions, such as Stanton Friedman and and others who championed the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

During this era, the media played a crucial role in both reviving and spreading the story. Documentaries and television specials presented interviews with witnesses and researchers, often emphasizing sensational aspects of the story. Despite the proliferation of these stories, many questions remained unanswered, and the incident continued to be shrouded in mystery. The 1970s revival saw the beginning of a shift from a local, isolated event to a global phenomenon, as reports from around the world echoed similar themes of unidentified flying objects, alien encounters, and government secrecy.

In conclusion, the 1970s reignited interest in the Roswell incident by blending documentary evidence, personal testimonials, and a wave of conspiracy theories to craft a compelling narrative that extended beyond the initial four-decade silence. The era’s cultural environment, characterized by skepticism of authority and a fascination with the possibility of extraterrestrial life, helped transform Roswell into a symbol of mystery and intrigue. This resurgence fostered an ongoing belief that the truth about the crash might still be hidden, fueling debates and creative interpretations that continue to capture the imagination of the public today.

The Cultural Impact: From Fact to Myth

The Roswell incident has transcended its origins as a simple military crash site to become an enduring cultural phenomenon. Over the decades, it evolved from a purported event involving mysterious debris and potential extraterrestrial beings into a symbolic touchstone for broader themes of government secrecy, human curiosity, and the search for alien life. Its story has proliferated through various forms of media, shaping public perceptions and inspiring millions of people worldwide. This transformation into myth underscores the incident’s cultural significance, making “Roswell” a household name synonymous with UFOs and conspiracy theories, despite the variability of official explanations and the continual absence of definitive proof.

At its core, the cultural impact of Roswell derives from the ambiguity and conflicting narratives that surround the event. Official reports, including those from the U.S. Air Force, described the debris as weather balloons and classified experimental devices, attempts aimed at dismissing the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Yet, these explanations often failed to satisfy believers, who pointed to eyewitness accounts, alleged secret documents, and unexplained artifacts that appeared to contradict the official line. Over time, these conflicting stories became embedded in popular culture, fostering a layered mythology that blends fact, fiction, and speculation. This mythology has been enduringly appealing because it taps into universal human themes: the desire to discover whether we are alone, the fear of government deception, and the fascination with the unknown.

The influence of Roswell extends beyond skepticism and conspiracy theories—its myth has infiltrated literature, film, television, and even art. From Hollywood blockbusters like “Independence Day” and “The Arrival” to documentaries and conspiracy websites, the event’s story serves as a fertile ground for creative storytelling. It also evokes philosophical questions about humanity's place in the universe and the possible existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. The phrase “Roswell” often evokes immediate associations with aliens and secret government projects, a testament to how deeply the story has been embedded in the collective consciousness.

Crucially, the myth of Roswell has been fueled by a mixture of genuine curiosity and deliberate sensationalism. The media, in both its responsible and sensationalist forms, has perpetuated stories that often blur the line between fact and fiction. Popular culture, driven by entertainment industries and driven by the desire for compelling stories, has contributed to elevating the event into a cultural icon. As a result, myths about government cover-ups, alien bodies, and secret experiments have become intertwined with the actual event, often overshadowing the historical and scientific investigations.

Moreover, the cultural impact of Roswell intersects with broader societal themes: distrust of government authority, the quest for truth in the face of secrecy, and the hope for contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. The incident embodies a collective longing to believe in something greater than ourselves—whether it be otherworldly visitors or the revelation of hidden truths. Whether viewed skeptically or with open-minded curiosity, Roswell has become part of a cultural dialogue about humanity’s place in the cosmos, igniting imaginations and inspiring generations of believers and skeptics alike.

In the digital age, the myth has only gained momentum with the proliferation of the internet and social media. Online communities, forums, and blogs continue to explore, debate, and promote stories related to Roswell and UFO phenomena, often blurring the lines between credible investigation and elaborate storytelling. The incident’s myth has evolved into a cultural legend that persists because it speaks to timeless human questions about existence, truth, and the universe.

Finally, the enduring cultural impact of Roswell hinges on its role as a symbol of mystery and the unknown. Its story challenges conventional understanding, prompting us to confront questions about government transparency, extraterrestrial life, and the limits of our knowledge. The incident’s transformation into myth reflects a collective human desire to explore these mysteries, making Roswell not just a historical event, but an enduring cultural icon that continues to inspire curiosity, skepticism, and imagination worldwide.

Examining the Evidence: What Do We Really Know?

Despite decades of investigation, many of the details associated with Roswell remain unresolved. Skeptics argue that the debris was just a misunderstood weather device, backed by official reports and photographs. Believers contend that the government suppressed proof of alien visitation to avoid widespread panic or political repercussions.

The problem lies in conflicting testimonies, classified documents, and the lack of definitive physical evidence. Several official reports, including those from the Air Force, have attempted to clarify the incident, but their explanations are often met with skepticism by enthusiasts.

Official Investigations and Declassified Documents

The Roswell incident, which occurred in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico, remains one of the most famous and debated events in UFO history. Over the decades, various investigations and the release of official documents have attempted to clarify what actually happened, but many questions still persist.

In 1994, the United States Air Force released a detailed report titled “The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert.” This report aimed to provide an official account of the incident, concluding that the debris recovered by the military was from a top-secret project called Mogul. Mogul was a series of high-altitude balloons designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests during the Cold War. The report dismissed claims that the wreckage was from an alien spacecraft or that extraterrestrial bodies had been recovered. According to the report, the debris consisted of mundane materials like rubber, Teflon, and foil, which were consistent with known Mogul balloon components.

Despite this official statement, skepticism remained among UFO researchers and enthusiasts. In 2000, the Air Force issued a follow-up report that added nuance to their earlier findings. This later investigation acknowledged that some of the materials recovered could not be definitively linked to Mogul. It suggested that some of the materials might have been part of experimental radar or espionage technology, which were highly classified at the time. This acknowledgment opened the possibility that the debris could be related to advanced military experiments rather than extraterrestrial origins, but it still left many questions unanswered.

Beyond these official reports, a wealth of declassified documents and eyewitness testimonies have perpetuated the mystery surrounding Roswell. For example, in the 1990s, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests resulted in the release of numerous documents that shed light on military activities during the late 1940s. Some of these documents referenced the secrecy surrounding certain high-altitude test balloons and classified projects, fueling suspicions that the government was hiding something more extraordinary.

Eyewitnesses, including military personnel and civilians, have provided accounts that conflict with the official narrative. Some report seeing strange debris, bodies, or unconventional craft, which they claim were not consistent with known technology. These testimonies have often been dismissed or considered unreliable, but they continue to influence public perception and discussions about the incident.

Critics argue that the government has been deliberately limited in its transparency, with many key pieces of evidence still classified or missing. They suggest that this lack of transparency fuels conspiracy theories that extraterrestrial craft were recovered and covered up to avoid public panic or national security issues.

In conclusion, while official investigations have provided plausible explanations for the Roswell incident, the continued release of declassified documents and eyewitness testimonies keep the mystery alive. The ongoing debate revolves around whether the government truly possesses secret knowledge about extraterrestrial life or whether the incident was simply a case of military experimentation and misinterpretation of mundane objects. Regardless of the truth, Roswell remains a symbol of UFO fascination and government secrecy worldwide.

Area 51

Area 51 is a military base in the southern region of the state of Nevada in the Western portion of the United States. It lies approximately 83 miles from Las Vegas. While the activities there are top-secret, is widely accepted that the base exists to test experimental weapons and aircraft. While the Central Intelligence Agency does use the name Area 51 in an official capacity, other names used for the base include Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, Dreamland, Home Base and Homey Airport. The airspace around Area 51, known by military pilots as “the box” or “the container,” is restricted.

Area 51 warning signs

Annie Jacobsen published the book “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base,” in which she conducted interviews with many engineers and scientists who worked on the base. She denies any alien narrative regarding Roswell.

She puts forth a suggestion that Josef Mengele was asked by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, to create “grotesque, child size aviators” to be flown and land in the United States to create hysteria. The goal was to duplicate a mass reaction similar to the chaos from Orson Welles radio play “War of the Worlds” in 1938. She believes that instead of landing as planned, an aircraft crashed at Roswell and the incident was kept quiet by military and government officials in the United States. However, her book and theories were debunked by a couple of experts at the Federation of American Scientists for multiple errors.

The Ongoing Debate: Fact or Fiction?

The Roswell incident has stood at the crossroads of skepticism and belief since it first emerged in 1947. At its core, the debate revolves around whether an extraterrestrial spacecraft truly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and whether alien beings were recovered by the military, or if it was simply a misinterpretation of a secretive government experiment. Official reports maintain that the debris recovered was part of a classified military project—most notably, Project Mogul, a top-secret operation deploying high-altitude balloons to detect Soviet nuclear tests. These explanations, however, have often failed to satisfy the public’s curiosity or quell suspicions, especially among UFO enthusiasts who remain convinced of alien involvement.

The military’s narrative initially claimed they had recovered a "flying disc," but this statement was quickly retracted, replaced with the explanation that it was a weather balloon. Such contradictory accounts fueled conspiracy theories, leading to allegations of cover-ups and government deception. Some witnesses and researchers assert that they saw mutilated bodies or alien corpses, accusations that remain unverified and heavily debated to this day. Skeptics argue that these stories are hoaxes or misidentifications of mundane military testing experiments, weather phenomena, or debris from weather balloons. The question of whether there is concrete evidence supporting extraterrestrial visitation remains unresolved.

What sustains the debate is the lack of definitive proof and the abundance of conflicting accounts, testimonies, and circumstantial evidence. The U.S. government, over the years, has released some documents, but many remain classified or redacted, fueling suspicion. In the scientific community, claims about alien encounters are held to strict standards of evidence; because such evidence has not convincingly emerged, mainstream science remains skeptical. Nonetheless, the story persists because it taps into a desire for extraordinary discovery and the allure of the unknown. Despite the absence of conclusive proof, the Roswell incident continues to be a potent symbol of mystery, making it a focal point in the broader discussion about extraterrestrial life and government secrecy.

Why Does the Roswell Incident Still Fascinate?

The enduring fascination with Roswell can be attributed to several interrelated psychological, cultural, and societal factors. First and foremost, the story appeals to the fundamental human curiosity about the universe. Since ancient times, humans have gazed at the stars wondering if life exists beyond Earth. The idea that aliens might have visited our planet at some point provides a tantalizing answer to that age-old question. Roswell symbolizes the possibility that humanity is not alone, igniting imaginations and inspiring countless books, movies, and theories that play on this deep-seated desire.

Second, the secretive nature of the incident and the government's alleged cover-up evoke a sense of suspicion and distrust toward authority figures. Conspiracy theories flourish in environments where official explanations are perceived as insufficient or opaque. Roswell, with its supposed buried evidence and clandestine military operations, becomes the perfect canvas for stories of government deception. This feeds into broader societal anxieties about lost transparency, powers hiding the truth, and the suppression of potentially groundbreaking discoveries.

Third, media and pop culture have significantly contributed to the incident’s mythos. Hollywood films, television shows, and literature have romanticized or dramatized the event, embedding it deep into popular consciousness. Films like "The Fourth Kind" or series such as "The X-Files" have perpetuated the idea that the government is concealing evidence of alien contact, often echoing themes of secrecy and conspiracy. Internet forums and social media platforms have further proliferated theories and 'insider' claims, ensuring the story remains vibrant and relevant, generally detached from scientific skepticism.

Moreover, the narrative of Roswell embodies the human desire for mystery and adventure. It suggests a world where the extraordinary could be real—that beings from other worlds might exist and that humanity is on the brink of discovering this clandestine truth. Regardless of factual veracity, the story becomes a metaphor for the eternal quest to understand our universe and ourselves. It reminds us that despite technological advances, some mysteries remain elusive, compelling curiosity and imagination. In essence, Roswell endures not just as a possible historical event but as a symbol of our desire to explore the unknown and challenge the boundaries of our understanding.

Conclusion: The Legacy of Roswell

The Roswell incident is a landmark event that has transcended its original context to become a cultural and scientific phenomenon. Its legacy persists decades after the initial reports, continuously inspiring debate and speculation. Even if further evidence confirms it was merely a military experiment or some other terrestrial explanation, its impact on popular culture and the collective consciousness remains profound.

What makes Roswell so captivating is this ambiguity—whether the debris was extraterrestrial or not remains unproven, but the stories and theories that have arisen around it have created a compelling narrative. The incident has catalyzed advancements in UFO research, prompting governments worldwide to declassify documents and adopt more transparent policies, although complete openness has yet to be achieved. These revelations have fed into ongoing discussions about government accountability and the secret handling of promising or sensitive technology.

Over the years, numerous investigations, testimonies, and declassified documents have added layers to the story—some supporting, others contradicting—and have thus contributed to a complex mosaic that encompasses fact, fiction, and myth. The excitement surrounding Roswell lies partly in its mystery, partly in the human penchant for storytelling, and partly in our collective hope that we are not alone.

Looking ahead, technological advances such as satellite imagery, drone technology, and improved forensic analysis may shed new light on the event and its context. As archives are opened and new evidence comes to light, our understanding of Roswell may evolve, either reinforcing or dismantling long-held beliefs. However, the incident will likely remain a symbol of curiosity—the quintessential example of humanity’s endless quest to uncover the truth about the universe beyond our planet.

In conclusion, Roswell will continue to inspire questions, theories, and even scientific investigations for generations to come. Whether it was an alien encounter or a government cover-up, its story embodies the human spirit of discovery and skepticism. The legacy of Roswell reminds us that the search for extraterrestrial life is as much about exploring ourselves and our fears as it is about understanding the cosmos. As such, it remains an enduring emblem of our collective fascination with the great mystery of life beyond Earth.

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02-01-2026 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

Could Ancient Aliens Really Have Existed?

Ancient aliens have become a meme and a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi trope, but could ancient aliens really have existed?

By Riley Raul Reese

"Aliens, dude."

Everyone knows that meme with the stoned-looking historian smiling as he waves his arms in the air. The Ancient Aliens series, which aired on the History Channel, was one of the first television shows to really look into the possibility that humans may not be the only species to have found earth.

Unlike other people who have claimed aliens came to settle earth, the History Channel television series suggested that aliens led to the dinosaurs's extinction. This, of course, is insane. Ancient Alienswas blasted by historians, scientists, and archeologists as psuedo-scientific and revisionist in nature.

However, many people do believe that ancient aliens could have existed and they have some kind of contribution to human history - and sometimes, it's hard to deny something odd is going on.

Truth be told, there are many pieces of archeological evidence and strange mishaps that can't really be explained without some serious questions at hand. Here's some of the biggest arguments for the case of ancient aliens, per those who believe in it.

Alien Statues

Quite a few statues exist across the world that depict creatures that look a lot like grey aliens, astronauts, and other similarly sci fi creatures. The artwork always looks the same, with minor stylistic differences, which makes it even stranger.

The statues and paintings in question always either have heads that look like "space helmets" or large, black eyes and large heads reminiscent of the classic grey alien type.

Most recently, the artifacts that archeologists have found matching this description were discovered in an ancient Mayan city in Mexico. One has to wonder what inspired people to create these works of art, considering that sci-fi wasn't exactly a genre back in those days.

Additionally, the Mayan site in question also had artifacts that apparently depict a flying saucer beaming people up into a ship. Could this be a sign that extraterrestrial visitors actually did come to Earth thousands of years ago?

Ancient Geoglyphs

Geoglyphs are massive works of art that are only visible if you are thousands of feet up in the air. They take loads of planning, and, depending on the kind of geoglyph, could also require advanced technology.

So, how, then, did so many different civilizations create geoglyphs? Moreover, why would they do such things when they themselves would not be able to see the works of art they did? Who were they making these strange marks in earth for? And ultimately, does answer the questions whether of not could ancient aliens really have existed?

Evidence On Mars

For years, the Curiosity rover has been taking amazingly detailed photos of the Martian landscape and sending them back to us. A lot of the photos seem to have things that look like humanoid remains, shiny tubes that come out of the ground, and other eyebrow-raising shots that make us wonder what happened all those years ago.

As of now, scientists are 100 percent sure that Mars used to have more water on it than its current ice caps. However, they aren't sure that there was vegetation or actual life on there. Additionally, if societies lived there, many experts noted that there's not much chance that their technology survived.

Due to the markings left on rocks and other items in the Martian landscape, some scientists believe microbes may still live on Mars - or at the very least, once lived on the planet's surface. We must ask, could ancient aliens really have existed on Mars?

That being said, scientists have also noted that Mars has extremely high levels of radiation at certain points. Though these emissions could be explained through natural means, scientists are beginning to believe that these may have been caused by a war between two factions.

But, if this was the case, where were the cities - and where did the archeological evidence go?

Pyramids, Everywhere

It's kind of fascinating to think about pyramids. Historians aren't quite sure how Egyptians made them - or really, why so many different other civilizations have had them as status symbols.

South American cities had them, Egypt had them, many parts of the Middle East had them, and even ancient China had one or two pyramids that were found by archeologists trying to uncover what life was really like.

Though the pyramids alone don't have anything to do with aliens, people are saying that all of the similarities in the architecture may have something to do with visitors from another planet. Imagine our pyramids were proof that ancient aliens could have existed.

Anachronistic Technology

In Egyptian tombs, there are visible depictions of what appears to be a helicopter and a laptop computer on the walls. There are moments where iron pots have been found in the rocks at Stone Age excavation locations. What appear to be sneaker prints have been found in rocks dated to hundreds of millions of years old.

These discoveries have been so commonplace that they now fall under a category of their own called Out-Of-Place Artifacts, or OOPAs. Who's to say that we aren't just getting a glimpse of some items that visitors may have left behind? Who's to say this doesn't prove that ancient aliens could have really existed.

Even if the anachronism is just depicted in art, it makes you wonder, doesn't it?

The Blunt Truth

While there are definitely some head-scratching moments where archeologists can't explain what's going on, the fact is that the truth is often way less interesting than we want it to be. A lot of this could just be due to cultural shifts, or due to happenstance.

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Octopuses could ‘take over the world and build underwater cities’ one day

Professor Tim Coulson could never imagine his dog inheriting the Earth, building a city of kennels with bones as currency.

But he could easily imagine octopuses squirming on land wearing breathing gear, rifle in hand (tentacle?) to hunt deer and sheep.

As much as this sounds like a cheesy sci-fi movie, this is what the University of Oxford biologist has suggested could be in Earth’s future.

But on one condition – humanity is extinct.

Coulson tells Metro that if humans were to be wiped off the map, it would pave the way for another species.

‘The fate of all species is extinction,’ The Universal History of Us author says. ‘In fact, 99.9% of all species that have ever existed are extinct. So humans will go extinct.’

If we don’t cause our own extinction first, the Earth’s dwindling CO2 or the sun’s inevitable explosion in a few billion years will get us first.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though (except for, well, us). ‘Imagine if that asteroid hadn’t crashed into Earth 66 million years ago,’ Coulson says.

‘Dinosaurs would still be around, and mammals would still be kind of rat-sized animals running around their feet.’

What would an octopus civilisation look like?

In much the same way that the dinosaurs’ dying off paved the way for us, our own vanishing act could pave the way for another species.

Coulson doubts it will be primates who will inherit the Earth. ‘My money is on octopus, they’re going to be the next civilisation builders,’ Coulson says.

An octopus society could use tidal power as an energy source, farming crustaceans and looking up and dreaming of what life is like on land.

‘They could make reverse scuba gear,’ Coulson says.

‘They’d need to create robots to help them move around. You never know, they could be hunting deer.

‘I’m not quite sure how they’d cook it underwater…. maybe a thermal vent.’

Are octopuses really that smart?

Octopuses, with their doughnut-shaped brain and hundreds of millions of neurons, have demonstrated intelligence in many ways.

Studies have shown them wriggling out of mazes, building carts and even stealing fish from laboratory containers and covering their tracks.

Evolution can be thought of as creatures adapting to their environment, with intelligence being less about getting an A on a test and more about the cognitive skills that help an animal survive.

Piero Amodio, a researcher in animal intelligence at Italy’s Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn research centre, tells Metro that no one knows why octopuses are smart.

‘There’s a lot of hype around them. They’re not smarter than a pig or a dolphin but we’re eager to make these comparisons,’ he says.

Among the explanations as to why animals become smart is the social intelligence hypothesis: a dolphin fares better in a pod than solo.

Or there’s the ecological intelligence hypothesis, that critters are forced to become savvy to avoid predators or know where to find food.

Yet, octopuses tend to be loners and don’t live long enough to form bonds. It’s not the size of their brains either, with most neurons being in their tentacles.

Amodio suggests that octopuses’ intelligence was years in the making.

About 275 million years ago, their ancestor lost their shell, which it used to stay buoyant. This allowed them to slither into cracks and hunt for prey.

It also meant other predators could hunt them more easily, forcing them to develop large brains to outsmart their foes.

Amodio warns that octopuses will always be limited, as they don’t have ‘overlapping generations’ like people do.

‘The life humans live today does not stem from a single brain,’ he says. ‘We didn’t learn from scratch how to light a fire or go to space – it took generations.’

So Coulson says that octopuses may evolve to live longer.

Humans evolved at a breakneck speed after Africa dried up a few million years ago. A similar environmental push could happen to octopuses.

How did humans get so smart?

Believe it or not but humans are intelligent, Dr Emma Bird, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum, tells Metro.

Our ancestors appeared about seven million years ago, when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk on two legs. We used to be one of many human species, like Neanderthals.

‘While aspects of our cognition played a part in our ultimate survival over all other human species, the story is much more complex and probably has elements of sheer luck,’ says Dr Bird.

While some human species struggled to survive, Homo sapiens used their ‘intelligence’ to chisel crude tools and form long-lasting bonds.

‘These more subtle and complex aspects of intelligence would have allowed them to more rapidly innovate and adapt their behaviour and culture as well as share cultural knowledge between groups,’ she says.

Dr Bird stresses that humanity is not a story of dominance – for one, we’re 20% Neanderthal because of interbreeding.

‘In that sense, Neanderthals have not vanished entirely; they have shaped who our species is today,’ she adds.

If not octopuses, what else could succeed us? A Planet of the Apes-style world is too boring. Dolphins, meanwhile, lack the dexterity to make tools.

His next bet would be crabs, as ‘you can imagine them doing all sorts of stuff with their pincers’, but they would need to work on their intelligence.

‘It’s fun to speculate about,’ Coulson adds, ‘and the great thing about it is, we’ll be extinct.

‘So when all of this happens, no one can prove me wrong.’

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31-12-2025 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

Aliens will be found by 2075, top scientist insists - 'I am absolutely convinced there is life out there'

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By XANTHA LEATHAM, EXECUTIVE SCIENCE EDITOR

It's one of life's biggest questions – are we alone in the universe?

Now, in good news for sci–fi fans, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared she is 'absolutely convinced' there are aliens out there – and they will be found within the next 50 years.

Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock, from University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, said she expects a 'positive detection' of life on another planet by 2075.

And, while it could be something very primitive, it's possible we could encounter a presence that has technology 'far superior' to ours.

'In the whole of the universe there are approximately 200 billion galaxies,' Dame Maggie told the Daily Mail.

'And so although certain conditions were in place for life to start here on Earth, and this is the only example we have of life, I'm absolutely convinced that there's life out there, because with so many stars, so many planets, why would it just occur here?'

Dame Aderin–Pocock made her prediction in an interview with the Daily Mail ahead of giving the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, which will air at the end of this month.

They are Britain's most prestigious public science lectures, and this year's focus is on the big questions space science still has to answer.

Dame Maggie Aderin–Pocock, from University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, said she expects a 'positive detection' of life on another planet by 2075

An illustration of a Hycean world, which experts believe K2–18b could be, orbiting its red dwarf star. Dame Maggie said we are getting 'tantalising glimpses' of possible life on planets such as this

A theory first put forward in 1961 argues that there is a high probability life must exist somewhere else due to the sheer number of planets in the universe.

Dame Maggie said this 'numbers game', also known as the Drake equation, is why she believes we are not alone.

She explained that in just our galaxy – the Milky Way – there are 300 billion stars.

'Each of those stars is a sun like our sun,' she said, 'and now we're detecting planets going around those stars.'

We are already getting 'tantalising glimpses' of possible life from some of these planets, she added, referencing a recent discovery regarding exoplanet K2–18b, which is 124 light–years from Earth.

Earlier this year, scientists detected molecules in the planet's atmosphere that can only persistently exist if there is some form of life.

The discovery was hailed as the most promising sign of life yet outside our solar system, with experts claiming the distant world is likely covered by an ocean and 'teeming' with living organisms.

When asked if she thinks we will find solid proof of life anytime soon, Dame Maggie replied: 'I think that's where the challenge lies – concrete evidence. But to put my money where my mouth is, in terms of getting a positive detection, I would say definitely in the next 50 years.'

The James Webb Space Telescope (pictured) is a powerful infrared observatory searching for signs of life on other planets

K2–18b is thought to be a a class of exoplanet possessing key ingredients for alien species because of their hydrogen–rich atmospheres and oceans of water

In September, NASA announced the discovery of what it believed to be the clearest sign of life ever found on Mars after findings unusual markings on mudstones in a dusty riverbed. 

Scientists think these features contain minerals produced by chemical reactions that could be associated with ancient Martian life.

But while aliens are, traditionally, depicted as little green men in a spaceship, the reality is likely very different.

'Grey sludge is probably the most likely thing we're going to find,' Dame Maggie said. However, there's a chance we could find something more sophisticated.

'We might find something that does evolve and that can communicate – and of course, their technology might be far superior to ours,' she added.

'I love the idea of aliens on the other side of the moon looking back at us, hoping we'll "grow up" soon.'

If – and when – we find life, we will have to be 'incredibly careful' about how we handle it, she warned.

'If there is any form of life, we need to make sure it is totally isolated,' she said. 'It cannot come into contact with any sort of human presence.

While it's likely any life discovered is microscopic, like marine phytoplankton (pictured), Dame Maggie said it's also possible alien life is more sophisticated than us 

In 2024, NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a vein–filled arrowhead–shaped rock on Mars that featured chemical signatures and structures that could have been formed by microbial life billions of years ago

'But we're building facilities to do just that so we can analyse them. Because it's hard to take all our scientific equipment to Mars, for example, but if we can bring samples from Mars to Earth and analyse them here on Earth, we can get a lot more understanding.

'Of course, the ultimate solution is to send me. Some people retire and potter around their garden, and my retirement plan is to potter around Mars.'

When questioned on the future of human space exploration – and possible settlement – Dame Maggie concluded: 'I see us as a space–faring people – I see that as the way forward.

'And I find that exciting that we won't just be Earth–bound. We will expand outwards.

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'It's the stuff of science fiction, literally, but science fiction does become science fact.

'One of the things I love about space is when you look at planet Earth from space, you don't see boundaries, you don't see country borders. You just see our planet. And that's what I would like space to be.

'I think space might be a way that we unite.'

The 2025 Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution – 'Is there life beyond Earth?', with Dame Dr Maggie Aderin–Pocock, will be broadcast on BBC Four and iPlayer on 28th, 29th and 30th December at 7pm.

KEY DISCOVERIES IN HUMANITY'S SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE

Discovery of pulsars

British astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the first person to discover a pulsar in 1967 when she spotted a radio pulsar.

Since then other types of pulsars that emit X-rays and gamma rays have also been spotted.

Pulsars are essentially rotating, highly magnetised neutron stars but when they were first discovered it was believed they could have come from aliens.

'Wow!' radio signal

In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the night sky above Ohio spotted a radio signal so powerful that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data.

In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the night sky above Ohio spotted a radio signal so powerful that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data

The 72-second blast, spotted by Dr Jerry Ehman through a radio telescope, came from Sagittarius but matched no known celestial object.

Conspiracy theorists have since claimed that the 'Wow! signal', which was 30 times stronger than background radiation, was a message from intelligent extraterrestrials.

Fossilised Martian microbes

In 1996 Nasa and the White House made the explosive announcement that the rock contained traces of Martian bugs.

The meteorite, catalogued as Allen Hills (ALH) 84001, crashed onto the frozen wastes of Antarctica 13,000 years ago and was recovered in 1984. 

Photographs were released showing elongated segmented objects that appeared strikingly lifelike.

Photographs were released showing elongated segmented objects that appeared strikingly lifelike (pictured)

However, the excitement did not last long. Other scientists questioned whether the meteorite samples were contaminated. 

They also argued that heat generated when the rock was blasted into space may have created mineral structures that could be mistaken for microfossils. 

Behaviour of Tabby's Star in 2005 

The star, otherwise known as KIC 8462852, is located 1,400 light years away and has baffled astronomers since being discovered in 2015.

It dims at a much faster rate than other stars, which some experts have suggested is a sign of aliens harnessing the energy of a star.

The star, otherwise known as KIC 8462852, is located 1,400 light years away and has baffled astonomers since being discovered in 2015 (artist's impression)

Recent studies have 'eliminated the possibility of an alien megastructure', and instead, suggests that a ring of dust could be causing the strange signals.

Exoplanets in the Goldilocks zone in 2017 

In February 2017 astronomers announced they had spotted a star system with planets that could support life just 39 light years away.

Seven Earth-like planets were discovered orbiting nearby dwarf star 'Trappist-1', and all of them could have water at their surface, one of the key components of life.

Three of the planets have such good conditions, that scientists say life may have already evolved on them. 

Researchers claim that they will know whether or not there is life on any of the planets within a decade, and said: 'This is just the beginning.' 

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22-12-2025 om 21:32 geschreven door peter  

We come in peace! Scientist reveals exactly what our first contact with aliens will look like - and it's nothing like the movies

• READ MORE: Aliens will be found by 2075, top scientist insists

By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

As astronomers scour the universe for traces of alien life, one researcher has revealed exactly what first contact will look like.

However, that meeting won't look like the close encounters of a Hollywood blockbuster.

According to the 'Eschatian Hypothesis', the first extraterrestrial civilisation we encounter is likely to be in its final moments of total collapse.

This is because, just like dying stars and supernovae, civilisations are likely to burn their brightest just before they vanish into darkness.

According to Dr David Kipping, of Columbia University, this theory means the first aliens are likely to be 'unusually loud'.

In a YouTube video, Dr Kipping says: 'Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent species bestowing wisdom to humanity.

'But the Eschatian hypothesis is neither.

'Here, first contact is with a civilisation in its death throes, one that is violently flailing before the end.'

A scientist has revealed what our first encounter with aliens will be like, and it won't look anything like what we have seen in movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind (pictured)

In a new paper, due to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr Kipping argues that finding aliens should follow the same rules as all other astronomical discoveries.

That means the first examples we discover are not typical of their class, but rather 'rare, extreme cases'.

To understand how this 'detection bias' works, imagine looking up at the night sky on a clear night.

Of the thousands of stars you can see, about a third will be giant, dying stars in the final stages of their lives.

This transitory period lasts less than 10 per cent of a star's lifetime, and only about one per cent of stars in the universe are in this giant phase.

However, since dying stars are so much brighter than their typical neighbours, they make up a huge proportion of the stars we can detect with the naked eye.

The same is even true of more extreme events such as supernovae - the vast explosions which occur when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse.

These explosions are staggeringly rare, with a Milky Way-sized galaxy only experiencing one every 50 years.

The supernovae from dying stars (pictured) are incredibly rare, but we see thousands every year because they are so bright. Scientists say that alien civilisations should be the same, in that we are more likely to find one burning brightly in its final moments - even if these are rarer 

For example, a nuclear war would produce a huge burst of energy that intelligent civilisations would be able to detect. Pictured: The Castle Union Nuclear Test, 1954

However, astronomers routinely discover thousands of supernovae every year, just because they are so incredibly bright.

According to Dr Kipping, there's no reason that our first discovery of alien life shouldn't follow the exact same rules.

He says: 'So, by extension, we should expect that the first detection of an alien civilisation to be someone who is being unusually loud.

'Their behaviour will probably be atypical, but their enormous volume makes them the most likely candidate for discovery.'

This means the first aliens we meet will be like a loud, obnoxious party guest - most people in the room don't act like that, but the ones that do get noticed by everyone.

However, when we consider what could cause a civilisation to become loud, the situation becomes a lot more bleak.

As civilisations become more advanced, they become more efficient - wasting less energy and using the energy they do have more sustainably.

Just like how a well-maintained modern house leaks less heat than an old, crumbling home, healthy civilisations shouldn't be giving off huge amounts of excess energy

This means our first encounter with aliens won't be a purposeful communication, like in the new film Disclosure Day. Instead, we are more likely to hear a civilisation's last desperate shouts 

In this sense, the volume of a civilisation is a sign of 'extreme disequilibrium' that heralds impending collapse.

For example, the intense heat and energy released by a nuclear war would cause a planet to light up in a way that sensitive telescopes could detect.

Likewise, some scientists have suggested that aliens could even use rapid human-caused climate change as a sign of intelligent life on our planet.

Some civilisations in total free-fall may even begin broadcasting signals into space in an attempt to reach other life.

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Dr Kipping has suggested that the famous 'Wow! Signal', detected by scientists in 1977, could have been a civilisation broadcasting one last desperate shout.

Instead of doing deep studies of promising star systems or patiently waiting for a coherent message, Dr Kipping says scientists should frequently scan the entire sky.

Brief unexplained signals, sudden flashes, or systems undergoing rapid, anomalous changes could all be signs of a loud civilisation going through collapse.

So, while it might not be a cheering thought, this theory could help find our first signs of life out amongst the stars.

WHAT IS THE FERMI PARADOX?

The Fermi Paradox questions why, given the estimated 200-400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy, there have been no signs of alien life. 

The contradiction is named after its creator, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

He first posed the question back in 1950.

Fermi believed it was too extraordinary that a single extra-terrestrial signal or engineering project has yet to be detected in the universe — despite its immense vastness. 

Fermi concluded there must a barrier that limits the rise of intelligent, self-aware, technologically advanced space-colonising civilisations.

This barrier is sometimes referred to as the 'Great Filter'.

Italian physicist Enrico Fermi devised the so-called Fermi Paradox in the 1950s, which explores why there is no sign of alien life, despite the 100 billion planets in our galaxy

If the main obstacle preventing the colonisation of other planets is not in our past, then the barrier that will stop humanity's prospects of reaching other worlds must lie in our future, scientists have theorised.  

Professor Brian Cox believes the advances in science and engineering required by a civilisation to start conquering the stars will ultimately lead to its destruction.

He said: 'One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself.

‘It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster.'

Other possible explanations for the Fermi Paradox include that intelligent alien species are out there, but lack the necessary technology to communicate with Earth.

Some believe that the distances between intelligent civilisations are too great to allow any kind of two-way communication.

If two worlds are separated by several thousand light years, it's possible that one or both civilisations would become extinct before a dialogue can be established. 

The so-called Zoo hypothesis claims intelligent alien life is out there, but deliberately avoids any contact with life on Earth to allow its natural evolution. 

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22-12-2025 om 21:00 geschreven door peter  

An Area 51 Worker, an Underground Encounter, and the Question We Can’t Ignore

Some stories don’t sound dramatic because they’re polished or rehearsed.
They sound dramatic because the person telling them never wanted to tell them at all.

This is one of those stories.

What follows is not a claim of proof, nor an attempt to convince. It is a human account—filtered through trusted witnesses—of something that allegedly happened deep beneath Area 51, a place already wrapped in secrecy, silence, and unanswered questions.

A Casual Lunch That Took an Unexpected Turn

The story begins far from restricted airspace and warning signs. It starts at a lunch table in Las Vegas.

Legendary big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara, known for riding record-breaking waves in Nazaré and for the HBO documentary series The 100 Foot Wave, was eating with close friends. Someone brought along another guest—an older man with a long career in aerospace and defense work.

At first, nothing seemed unusual. Until someone, half-jokingly, asked the question people always ask when Area 51 comes up:

“So… did you ever see any aliens?”

Instead of laughing, the man reportedly went pale.

That moment, according to those present, changed the entire mood of the table.

Taken Underground

After some hesitation, the man allegedly explained that during his time working at Area 51, he had been escorted deep underground, into sections far removed from aircraft testing and conventional military research.

What he claimed to have seen there was not technology.

It was a being.

Described as reptilian in appearance, the entity was reportedly restrained, possibly chained, and held in some form of custody. The most unsettling part of the account was not how the being looked—but how it communicated.

The man claimed the entity spoke to him telepathically, directly into his mind.

There were no words spoken aloud. No interpreters. Just a sudden, overwhelming sense of communication that caused immediate panic.

He ran.

According to those retelling the story, the experience affected him so deeply that he later went on long-term medical leave, struggling with trauma ever since.

Importantly, the people sharing this story emphasized something crucial:
they were not seeking attention, publicity, or belief. They were simply repeating what a visibly shaken man told them—reluctantly.

A Second Story: “The Mantis Beings Don’t Want Humans Present”

As unsettling as the first account is, it wasn’t the only one mentioned.

Another individual—allegedly involved in monitoring or transcribing communications—overheard references to activities at S-4, a rumored installation often associated with advanced or non-human technology.

The statement he overheard was chilling in its simplicity:

“The Mantis beings don’t want any humans in the room.”

This detail matters because mantis-like entities appear repeatedly across UFO and abduction lore. They are often described as:

• Tall
• Insectoid
• Highly intelligent
• Authoritative, almost supervisory

In many accounts, they are not experimenters—but overseers.

The implication is uncomfortable:
humans may not be participants, but observers tolerated only when allowed.

Area 51 Was Never Just About Airplanes

To understand why stories like this persist, we have to look backward.

Presidential adviser Harold Malmgren publicly stated that he was briefed on “other world technologies” by Richard Bissell, the CIA official credited with founding Area 51.

This suggests something important:
non-human technology may not have arrived later—it may have been part of the original reason Area 51 existed at all.

Before spy planes, the region was an atomic test site. And nuclear facilities, time and again, appear linked to unexplained aerial phenomena.

That connection raises a disturbing but logical question:
Was Area 51 created to hide aircraft… or to hide something far stranger?

Prisoner, Partner, or Something Else Entirely?

One of the most troubling elements of this story is the idea of a non-human entity being held captive.

It doesn’t sit comfortably—even with those who believe in extraterrestrial contact.

Some attempt to reconcile this contradiction by suggesting:

• The entity may not have been a true biological being, but a controlled avatar or drone
• There may have been conflict or rule violations
• Human–non-human cooperation may exist, but not without tension

Claims by figures like Phil Schneider echo similar themes—underground bases, restricted levels, and violent encounters following misunderstandings or breaches of protocol.

Whether these stories are literal, exaggerated, symbolic, or intentionally distorted remains unknown.

Why Serious People Take These Stories Seriously

What stands out in this account is not certainty—but caution.

The speakers repeatedly emphasize that these ideas should be handled with low conviction:

• Don’t dismiss them outright
• Don’t accept them as fact
• Look for patterns, not conclusions

Physicist Hal Puthoff is mentioned as someone who often hints at extraordinary possibilities without direct confirmation—encouraging researchers to connect dots rather than chase headlines.

This approach closely mirrors the thinking of Jacques Vallée, who argued that the UFO phenomenon may involve consciousness, control systems, and intelligence far stranger than “aliens in spaceships.”

The Fringe Is Where the Future Often Hides

History shows us something uncomfortable:
many ideas that later reshaped science and society began at the fringe.

That doesn’t mean every strange story is true.
But it does mean automatic dismissal can be just as unscientific as blind belief.

This account—of a traumatized worker, an underground encounter, and beings who may not want us present—forces us to confront a deeper question:

What if we are not as informed, as central, or as important as we assume?

No one is asking you to “take this to the bank.”

But perhaps it deserves a place on the table—examined calmly, critically, and without ridicule.

Because if even a fraction of these stories reflect reality, then the mystery isn’t just about aliens.

It’s about how long humanity has been standing at the edge of a much larger truth, unsure whether we’re guests… or something closer to bystanders.

And maybe that’s why these stories refuse to disappear.

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21-12-2025 om 21:22 geschreven door peter