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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
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04-12-2025
BOMBSHELL Anti-Gravity Documents Prove Classified Research Continued!
BOMBSHELL Anti-Gravity Documents Prove Classified Research Continued!
Overview
A resurfaced 1990 US Air Force study titled "Electric Propulsion Study" is challenging decades of mainstream scientific consensus by validating controversial research into anti-gravity propulsion. The document, prepared by Science Applications International Corporation, examines the Biefield-Brown Effect—a phenomenon long dismissed by academic physics as mere ion wind—as a genuine candidate for exotic propulsion. This revelation suggests that classified research into technologies with potential UFO-like capabilities persisted well into the late 20th century.
Biefield-Brown Effect: From Fringe to Feasible
For decades, the Biefield-Brown Effect, discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown in the 1920s, has been relegated to the fringes of physics. Brown claimed that high-voltage, asymmetric capacitors could produce thrust through an interaction with gravity, not just by pushing air. Mainstream science has typically explained reported effects as "ion wind," or electrical devices moving by pushing against surrounding air, thus dismissing any gravitational connection.
However, the 1990 Air Force study directly contradicts this view. "It places the Biefield-Brown configuration at the top of its list of legitimate propulsion candidates," the video transcript notes, highlighting the study’s willingness to endorse phenomena that academic institutions have long ignored or denied. The study evaluates the underlying physics of the effect as a real, potentially gravitational phenomenon deserving of further military research.
Mass Fluctuation and Reactionless Propulsion
One of the most striking proposals in the document is the idea that electrical charge and mass may be interconvertible. According to the study, rapidly modulating the energy stored in a capacitor could lead to "genuine fluctuations in mass." This suggests the possibility of dynamically reducing an object’s weight—a concept that, in lay terms, constitutes anti-gravity.
The report goes further, exploring the possibility of violating the traditional law of momentum conservation. "If momentum conservation is broken or bypassed, you can generate thrust without expelling anything," the video points out. This reactionless propulsion is precisely the kind of technology that could explain the silent, high-acceleration, and exhaust-free maneuvers often reported in UFO sightings.
Gravitational Engineering and Energy Potential
The study also delves into unified field theories, suggesting that "power densities 10 billion times greater than nuclear reactions become possible and accessible" under certain interactions. To put this in perspective, nuclear energy already eclipses chemical energy by several orders of magnitude. If such energy densities were achievable, it could revolutionize technology and society overnight.
Additionally, the document proposes that gravitational components of electromagnetic waves could be amplified at specific frequencies. This blurs the line between electromagnetism and gravity, hinting at the engineering of gravity itself by tuning electromagnetic systems. The report even claims that electromagnetic energy could penetrate a superconducting Faraday cage—a device typically impervious to such signals—if transformed into a mixed gravitational mode.
Implications and Continuing Research
While the resurfacing of this study does not provide direct evidence that operational anti-gravity craft exist, it does show that serious military and scientific investigation into these concepts continued far beyond their public dismissal. The presence of such ideas in a formal Air Force document, presented without sensationalism, suggests that classified research may have pursued technologies once thought impossible.
The findings link directly to the behaviors reported in numerous UFO encounters: silent operation, high acceleration, and lack of visible exhaust. While the true extent of the research remains classified, the study’s technical assertions present a significant crack in the facade of mainstream scientific narratives—raising new questions about the limits of physics and the potential for breakthrough propulsion systems.
Are Ancient Sites Interdimensional Doorways to Other Realms of Existence?
There are many ancient sites around the world, many of which have legends that appear to speak of portals and gateways to other realms of existence. So many, in fact, that they surely can’t be dismissed as nothing but a coincidence.
Perhaps a good place to start would be with the Gate of the Gods. Carved into the rock of Hayu Marca Mountain in the Andes Mountains of Peru near Lake Titicaca, the Aramu Muru – or Puerta de Hayu Marca, The Gate of the Gods – is one of the most intriguing and mysterious archaeological sites in South America. The mountain itself is believed to have been a place of worship or other importance to the Inca civilization, and so Aramu Muru is thought by many to have also been of great importance to them. We should note that some researchers have questioned whether the Incas created the Gate of the Gods, or whether it was created much earlier by an unknown civilization and then simply “used” by the Incas.
The Gate of the Gods was discovered in 1996 by Jose Luis Delgado Mamani, who stumbled upon the archaeological marvel while attempting to learn the area's layout, anticipating a new job as a tour guide. In a further strange twist, Mamani even stated that he had a peculiar recurring dream about this enigmatic location in the years leading up to its discovery. In this dream, Mamani would find himself on a pink marble pathway that led him to a large doorway in the rock. However, upon arriving at this doorway, he would see a second, smaller door open with a “brilliant blue light coming from what looked like a shimmering tunnel”.
In reality, this “doorway” is two separate T-shaped doorways carved into the rock of the mountain, with the larger one being 23 feet high and 23 feet across at its widest point, while the other, smaller door is just short of 7 feet high and across. According to legends of the region, the larger doorway was once used by the gods themselves to come and go from this world to their own realm of existence, while the smaller doorway was for “mortals” to pass through, although only very select mortals, with those who crossed then becoming immortal.
We might question whether this reference to “Immortality” is one that we should take at face value or not. Is it referring to the passing of a person into another dimension, a realm where they will truly exist forever? Or might the reference be to a person passing into the afterlife—essentially, the “soul” passing into the realm of the dead? And if the latter is true, might we consider that the site was some kind of funerary location?
One particularly interesting legend about the doorway, however, comes from the sixteenth century when Spanish explorers arrived in the region. As they made their way inland – looting Incan gold and riches as they did so – an Incan priest named Amaru Muru decided to flee his temple, taking with him a mysterious golden disk – The Key of the Gods of the Seven Rays.
Muru made his way to the Gate of the Gods, finding a Shaman priest guarding the entrance. He presented the golden disc to the priest, who then proceeded to perform a ritual with it before inserting it against the rocky wall beside the doorway. Upon doing so, the smaller doorway opened. According to the legend, a tunnel of shimmering blue light stretched beyond this doorway, and Amaru Muru then stepped inside, never to be seen again.
What is further interesting about this legend is that when archaeologists and investigators examined the Gate of the Gods following its discovery, they located a small, round indentation on the right side of the smaller doorway. Even more remarkable, the impressions were such that if a metallic disc like that described in the legend of Amaru Muru was placed in this indentation, it would almost certainly be held in place there, almost as if this indentation had been purposely made.
It is also worth mentioning another Incan ruin across the border with Peru that some have put forward could be another portal to the land of the gods – the Gate of the Sun in Tiahuanaco in Bolivia. This gate is shaped as a square arch and made from a single piece of stone, and it shows not only remarkable workmanship but also intriguing depictions of strange beams of light that could very well be interpreted as a portal.
In fact, legends state that the Sun God, Virachocha, first appeared at Tiahuanaco and began the human race. Of particular interest to us is that legend also states that he used the Gate of the Sun to travel between his world and ours. When the gate was discovered, there was a large crack in the top section near the archway, with one part toppled over. This has led many to believe that it was operational until this damage occurred, either intentionally or due to some kind of natural event (such as an earthquake). Of further interest to us here, the Gate of the Sun sits along the same grid line as the Gate of the Gods in Haya Marca. Something which, given the similarities of their design and equally similar legends, can’t be simply dismissed purely as a coincidence.
According to the Native American tribes that called the region home for hundreds of years, Sedona, a small town in Arizona that they called Nawanda, was once a sacred city. Furthermore, the Red Rock deserts that surrounded the town were “spiritually charged” and capable of creating “vortexes” that could transport a person immediately from one location to another, including to other dimensions or another world. Making these legends even stranger and unsettling are reports from many people of strange, haunting sounds coming from the desert at night, as well as strange, floating lights.
Perhaps strangest of all, though, is an alleged stone archway somewhere in the mountains around the town of Sedona known as the Doorway of the Gods – said to be a portal to another destination in spacetime.
One particularly thought-provoking encounter involving this archway occurred in 1956, when two treasure hunters, Rob and Chuck Quinn, ventured into the surrounding rocky desert in search of gold and lost treasure. After several days in the wilderness – during which time they too spotted strange floating lights during the night hours – they came across a strange stone archway.
They estimated that the archway was around seven feet high and five feet wide and contained columns of andesite around it. The pair further noted that around the bottom of the archway were many broken geodes that glittered brightly as they reflected the sun. They made a note of the archway and went on their way. When they returned to town, however, they learned much more about it.
A Native American guide known only as “John” heard the two treasure hunters speaking of the stone archway following their arrival back in Sedona, and he was more than happy to tell them what he knew of it.
He told of multiple stories of people throwing stones through the archway that would simply not fall at the other side and seemingly vanish, as well as a blue, shimmering light sometimes appearing within the arch.
One particularly disturbing tale dates back to the 1800s, when three members of his tribe stumbled onto the archway while out in the desert. According to John, one of the tribesmen walked through the arch and simply disappeared, never to be seen again. After seeing this, the remaining two tribesmen turned and ran, fearing they had encroached on sacred land.
John also offered that he had had his own bizarre encounter at the archway. He recalled that he was in the desert when a sudden rainstorm swept over the area. With previously bright blue skies now a dark grey, John turned to leave. However, as he did, he caught sight of the archway. To his amazement, the skies through the archway were a bright blue, as if it were a doorway to another world. Cautiously, he walked closer to the arch and peered through it. The scenery on the other side of it was completely the same as that he could see around the arch, with the only difference being the difference in the skies. At this point, he became fearful that something terrible would happen to him, and he turned and set out for home.
Now even more intrigued than ever, Rob and Chuck, along with several other men, decided to return to the area. They quickly located the archway once more and began to perform various experiments. They would throw rocks through it, for example, and even put their arms through. However, nothing out of the ordinary occurred, and they began to wonder if there was anything to John’s seemingly tall tales.
The following day, though, while investigating the site further, Rob and one of the other men saw a bizarre “shimmering” within the archway – a sight they would later describe as looking like a heat mirage. This lasted for several minutes, during which time both men could feel a pressure steadily building in their ears. Then, as soon as it had appeared, the shimmering stopped, and the archway returned to normal.
Although this was the only strange incident the men witnessed themselves, during the trip, they met with another group of treasure hunters who had their own story to tell about the archway. They claimed to have been camping near the archway several days previously when a barrage of stones rained down on them out of nowhere. They left the area not long after.
Just short of two decades later, in 1973, Chuck decided to return to the site once more. As he hiked into the desert, he suddenly had the realization that he could see a canyon that had not been there previously. A little confused, he climbed back down and found an alternative entrance into the canyon. When he entered from this different direction, he suddenly realized that he wasn’t seeing a different canyon, but that he had somehow been transported to the other side of the canyon – a distance of around 250 yards – and was facing a completely different direction. Needless to say, he was more than perplexed by these events, although he eventually concluded that he had somehow stepped through a portal that had immediately transported him from one part of the canyon to the other.
Not only are there claims of some kind of ancient portal existing somewhere deep in Davelis Cave just outside of Athens in Greece, but for several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the American and Greek military were involved in some kind of top-secret operation there. The cave and the surrounding Davelis Mountains have a long history of strange goings-on, with the Ancient Greeks dedicating the cave to their God of Nature, Pan. The Ancient Greeks also used the cave and the surrounding area of Penteli Mountain to quarry marble that was used to build the Parthenon in Athens. This rock, incidentally, contains quartz crystal, something we will return to later.
Over the centuries, there have been many reports of strange, shadowy figures being seen in the area, as well as the sound of strange voices emanating from the cave. In fact, all manner of paranormal activity has been noted in and around the cave as the decades have progressed, with reports still being made today in the early twenty-first century.
In 1977, a mystery military unit – who, incidentally, never officially identified themselves – suddenly arrived and put the area around the cave off-limits. The Greek magazine Tachydromos reported this mysterious activity in their October 6th, 1977 edition, highlighting that armed guards patrolled the barbed-wire fence around the area.
It didn’t take long for the locals to take an interest in the activities of this suddenly appearing group, and onlookers would regularly venture to the area. Rumors quickly began to circulate of heavy-duty machinery and explosives being taken into the cave, as well as suggestions that this unit was made up of American, Greek, and various other NATO soldiers.
One person who took an interest in the strange goings-on at Davelis Cave was Greek paranormal researcher Giorgos Balanos, who had been researching strange events on Penteli Mountain, including Davelis Cave, since the late 1960s. He documented many of these in the book The Riddle Of Penteli, with these events ranging from sightings of strange lights to suffering bizarre confusion and memory loss while in the cave.
He also revealed the existence of intricate tunnel networks and how they connected to the alleged NATO military presence. He made connections with the storage of nuclear weapons, as well as top-secret mind-control projects taking place inside Davelis Cave. Some people even began to question if the military had discovered the existence of an ancient portal in the cave, or if they were attempting to manipulate the naturally occurring energy there to open some kind of gateway for unknown reasons.
One further thing of interest regarding Girogos Balanos is that, in 1977, just before the military unit arrived in the area, Balanos was part of a television documentary about the mysteries of the Davelis Cave and Penteli Mountain. The documentary, however, never aired, and a short time after its cancellation, the entrance to the cave was behind barbed wire fencing.
Writing in an article titled The Riddle of Pendeli’s Cave: A Never Ending Saga in December 2002, Thanassis Vempos stated that the situation around Davelis Cace was “total chaos” with “Greek Air Force, Navy, Army, various secret agencies, NATO and the Americans, various technical companies” all being involved, “but nobody was officially responsible”.
Whatever was going on in Davelis Cave, in 1983, after six years of top-secret activity, the unit packed up the operation and abandoned the location almost literally overnight. In fact, they were seemingly in such a hurry to vacate the area that some of their equipment was left behind.
Following this sudden departure, many conspiracy enthusiasts and adventure seekers descended on the cave. They did indeed discover a network of tunnels, some of them “ruined”, perhaps even purposely. There were also several bunker-like chambers that had been carved into the rock, with some of these chambers appearing to be incomplete, as if they were half-finished when the location was suddenly abandoned.
It is worth noting that these tunnel systems were sealed shut over the years that followed, with the official reason being for the “protection of the public”.
There are several suggestions that have been put forward. Some researchers have suggested that nuclear weapons were stored in the cave in some kind of secure underground compound, and if we keep in mind the climate of the Cold War, such suggestions make a certain amount of sense. However, many experts have stated that the location was simply not at all suited for the storing of such weapons, and so it would be unlikely, at best, if this were the case. This is further corroborated by the fact that the cave and the area around it are of absolute archeological interest, so much so that the Greek authorities would almost certainly have refused permission for such storage simply due to the risk, however minimal, of the location being destroyed.
The fact is, though, the Greek authorities did give permission for some kind of activity involving the American military. Interestingly or not, when asked to comment on the secretive activity at Davelis Cave, the Greek government stated only that it was a “matter of national security”.
With that last point in mind, another suggestion was that the activity surrounding Davelis Cave revolved around mind control. And what’s more, at least according to some suggestions, the participants in these speculative mind control experiments were unwitting ones, to say the least.
According to some observations, after an initially tight security around Davelis Cave after the mystery military unit took it over in 1977, security suddenly began to become lapse after several years, almost too lapse for some. It was noted that many people who ventured into the grounds managed to get in remarkably easily, and once inside, often witnessed strange figures or heard bizarre voices and even music coming from nowhere around them, while others observed strange lights and orbs. Perhaps of most concern, many people reported how they felt sudden despair and fear, as if something was taking over their very emotions.
One particularly intriguing account featured a husband and wife who happened to be hiking in the area when they stumbled onto the cave’s entrance. However, what really captured their attention was the presence of a mysterious car that appeared to be parked above the cave’s entrance on a ledge.
They stared at the car for some time, viewing it from different locations and perspectives below. However, they couldn’t understand or work out just how someone had managed to drive the vehicle to its current location. The only sensible explanation, as bizarre as it sounded, even to them, would be if something had picked the car up and placed it above the entrance to the cave.
Out of curiosity, the couple went on the same hike for the next few days, each time noting that the mysterious car was in the same place above the cave’s entrance. One particular day, curiosity got the better of them, and they made the decision to climb up to the ledge and inspect the vehicle more closely.
They ventured up to the ledge and approached the car. They could immediately see that the vehicle was in brand new, pristine condition, almost as if it had been placed there straight off the factory production line. Literally every part of the vehicle appeared brand new, even the tires, as if it had never even been driven.
The gentleman walked toward the car to take a look inside. No sooner had he left his wife’s side, however, than she let out a piercing scream. He spun around to face her, turning his attention to where she was looking. Although he couldn’t see exactly what had terrified her, he could see movement in the nearby bushes.
After taking a few moments to compose herself, she eventually told her husband that she had seen a strange and menacing “oval-shaped creature” with a pair of large, red, glowing eyes. She further stated that the creature had rushed at her out of the bushes before retreating into them a second or so later.
Incidentally, several days later, the husband found himself in the middle of another unsettling encounter. He claimed that while he was near the cave, he witnessed a “black disc-shaped object” hovering overhead. Strangely, as soon as he set his eyes on the strange craft, he was filled with a sudden feeling of absolute dread. Equally bizarrely, when the object disappeared, the feeling of dread immediately left him.
Some have suggested that this sudden lapse of security was to encourage adventure-seekers to the land around the cave, so whatever technology was inside could be unleashed upon them and the results noted. While there is little proof of this, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that intelligence agencies have used small groups of people as test subjects without their permission or knowledge.
Of course, other suggestions for the mysterious activity are that the cave was conducive to creating some kind of portal, either because of the discovery of some kind of ancient technology, or because of the unique composition of the marble rock in the region. Could the strange, paranormal behavior in the region have somehow alerted the United States military to the potential weaponization of such capabilities?
Could the large amount of ancient crystal in the mountainous region, coupled with the long history stretching back to antiquity of strange powers attributed to the area, as well as the many paranormal encounters reported in the modern age, have alerted the military or the powers that controlled them, to the possibility of utilizing the energy within the cave to create – or recreate – some kind of portal. Further rumors even suggested that the US military intelligence had worked out a connection between the ancient cave and an undisclosed location in West Virginia, in the United States.
What is interesting is that the latter two suggestions (mind control or a portal) could both be achieved, at least in theory, by the use of the manipulation of electromagnetic energy.
Could some kind of naturally occurring electromagnetic energy exist within the confines of Davelis Cave? Or perhaps the environment inside the cave is conducive to such energies being manipulated or tapped into. If this is the case, were the American military, with the Greek authorities, experimenting with opening portals to another realm of existence?
Abu Ghurab, known as the Place of the Gods, is a site steeped in intrigue, mystery, and controversy. While mainstream historians place its creation around the time of the fifth dynasty (around 2400 BC), other researchers, like William Henry, argue for a much older origin. In fact, Henry’s research suggests that Abu Ghurab, according to ancient Khemetian oral tradition, predates the fifth dynasty, making it one of the oldest ceremonial sites on Earth. This was purportedly a place where the Pharaoh could commune with the gods themselves.
This took place at the heart of Abu Ghurab, where there is an ancient platform consisting of ultra-precise circular markings – so precise, in fact, that it suggests to some researchers the use of advanced technology. Furthermore, this platform is made from alabaster, or Egyptian crystal, which is said to react in sympathy with the vibration of the Earth itself (we will return to the potential importance of crystal a little later). It is thought that by being on this alabaster platform, a person’s senses will be opened, allowing them to be “at one” with higher, sacred energies – or the Neters, otherwise known as The Gods.
Interestingly, these descriptions bear a striking resemblance to our modern understanding of portals or gateways. This similarity is further underscored by indigenous tradition, which claims that the Neters once materialized in physical form at Abu Grurab.
There are a few things of interest to keep in mind in relation to the above claims. Many Native American legends speak of similar communication with otherworldly entities, with some of the Cherokee legends being particularly interesting. They speak, for example, of formless “thought beings” who can travel to Earth on “waves of sound” from their home planet in the Pleiades Star System. The great Nikola Tesla also appeared to speak about the importance of energies and frequency. He stated:
“…If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration…”
Was Tesla correct, and did the Ancient Egyptians know this also? And might our collective understanding of energies, frequencies, and vibrations help us to understand the potential reality of stargates and portals to other worlds?
Another intriguing location in ancient Egypt is the ancient city of Abydos, and perhaps specifically, the Temple of Seti I, not least because of some of the hieroglyphics that at least some people have interpreted as looking like modern flying machines, such as a helicopter, and even a saucer-shaped UFO.
Abydos is around six miles from the River Nile in Upper Egypt and was a necropolis for the earliest kings of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Even more fascinating than that, in relatively recent years, private pilot and military aerospace historian, Michael Schratt, claimed that in 2003, the United States military was not only aware of a naturally occurring stargate or portal existing under the ancient city of Abydos, but that they utilized it to send an extraterrestrial entity back to its own realm of existence. Is this what Ben Rich, the one-time Lockheed Skunkworks Director, meant when he offered that “we now have the technology to send ET home”?
Schratt, incidentally, did make some intriguing references to the infamous Area 51. He claimed that the location didn’t house any extraterrestrials or UFOs, but was instead home to highly advanced experimental technologies – many of which were at least 50 years ahead of where we are today. In fact, he stated publicly that the “things you saw in Star Wars and Star Trek – we’ve been there, done that – and either put it to good use or realized it is not worth the effort”.
While some of this advanced technology is indeed experimental aircraft – including some that are similar to the advanced aerial craft described in ancient Hindu texts – other technologies revolve around the harnessing of natural energies to create portals and gateways to other worlds – just one of which resides at Abydos.
Schratt further offered that the government allowed, encouraged, and used the widespread belief in UFOs and alien visitors to hide any evidence or sightings of this technology. Schratt has conducted many talks on this subject at various conferences. And as we might imagine, his claims divide opinion somewhat.
The legends of the Sumerians are also some of the most thought-provoking of the ancient world, not least as they also hint very heavily at some kind of influence from “the gods” who were said to have arrived on Earth from elsewhere.
One researcher who firmly believes the kings, queens, and gods of the Ancient Sumerians were not only aware of such portals but actively used them is Elizabeth Vegh. She believes an ancient stargate is buried under the Euphrates River, likely lost under the ruins of the ancient city of Eridu thousands of years ago. Moreover, Vegh even points to a verse in Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation as further proof of the existence of Stargate. The verse reads:
“…Then, the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from Heaven to Earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the abyss. The star opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the some from the pit. And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth…”
Vegh argues – against scholarly agreement – that the word “abyss” likely doesn’t refer to a body of water but to a portal or gateway to elsewhere.
It is also worth noting some of the Sumerian seals that appear to show, at least according to some interpretations of them, gateways to other worlds. One such seal shows a Sumerian god standing in a doorway with some kind of staircase appearing to stretch away from them on the other side of it. Around the edges of this doorway, there appears to be something shimmering. Another seal shows the Sumerian god, Ninurta, who is standing in a doorway and appears to be pressing a button on the wall, perhaps manipulating the potential portal.
As outlandish as the suggestion undoubtedly is, we should highlight that there have been persistent rumors for years of an “Iraqi Stargate”. Although we should treat the claims with a pinch of salt, the stargate in question was discovered in the 1920s and was said to have sent shockwaves around the archaeological world. As the 1930s progressed and war looked increasingly likely, it appeared that many governments around the world had taken a keen if discreet interest in the alleged stargate, not least the Third Reich.
Against this backdrop, several attempted recovery missions took place, usually under the guise of other military operations. One of these was said to be the 1941 Anglo-Iraqi war—a conflict that ultimately involved Britain fighting Germany and Italy, both of whom had aligned themselves with the Iraqi nationalists. To many, though, the real goal of the conflict was to provide cover for an attempted recovery operation.
There is, of course, no proof of this. We should note, though, that it is well-documented that the Third Reich had an active interest in hunting down and recovering ancient relics, and so considering that they might attempt to locate the Iraqi Stargate is not that much of a stretch of the imagination.
Of course, whatever the truth might be, we can assume that neither the Allies nor the Third Reich were successful in recovering the Iraqi Stargate when we consider some of the claims of the early twenty-first century, specifically that the Stargate was in the possession of Saddam Hussein at the time of the second Gulf conflict.
What’s more, an apparent whistleblower named Dan Burisch even claimed that he was part of an elite unit sent on a secret mission in the country to find and retrieve the portal. Burisch claims that information on creating artificial stargates from “cylinder seals” the military retrieved during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf Wars – information that some researchers claim is extraterrestrial in nature and was given to the ancient Sumerians, who then transferred this information to cuneiform texts. These artificial stargates are said to “tap into” the many natural stargates around the world.
He further asserts that, as well as transporting a person from one place to another, these stargates – of which he claims there are around 50 around the planet – allow people to “physically enter or move material through time and into different time streams”. He even goes as far as to say that extraterrestrials used this stargate technology to “enter into Earth’s timelines”.
This last detail is worth pondering for a moment or so. Most researchers agree, if there is an alien presence on Earth, then it has very likely been here for thousands of years, long before the start of the Modern UFO era that began in the late 1940s. Might that presence stretch across time in a different way than we might think – that is, rather than a prolonged presence, these alien beings are “landing” at different points in time? Might this explain their supposedly extraordinarily long lifetimes, for example?
Burisch himself did state that at least some alien entities were, for all intents and purposes, time-travelers, not least those involved in the Roswell UFO crash in July 1947. He claimed that the occupants of the Roswell crash were, in fact, humans from a future Earth, and that they had traveled back in time in order to alter the timelines due to an upcoming event in their history.
It is perhaps interesting to note here that there have been several other specific UFO events that have had claims of human occupants from the future connected to them. The alleged 1936 UFO crash in the Black Forest in Germany, for example, while a case that should be treated with a pinch of salt, is one such case. According to one researcher, who used “channeling” in order to obtain his information, the occupants of this downed craft were humans from the future. He elaborated that he had obtained a pair of field glasses worn by an SS officer who had attended the crash site, and used the glasses to channel the information, including that all of these human crew were “shot on sight”.
Perhaps more credible is the UFO incident at Rendlesham Forest in England in December 1980. One of the key witnesses to the events was US soldier Jim Penniston. Ultimately, upon investigating strange lights in the woods that night, he claimed a UFO landed in a clearing in the forest. Furthermore, he managed to get close to the object, even reaching out and touching it. When he did so, a surge of information rushed through him.
A little later, back at the base, he began to write a series of 1s and 0s that simply came to him in his mind. When this apparent binary code was analyzed, parts of it contained what appeared to be a message that the occupants of the vehicle were sending from the “Eyes of your Eyes” from the year 8100. This would mean that they were not only human but had traveled from 6000 years in the future.
Burisch makes further remarkable claims regarding stargate technology and different timelines. He claimed that a consequence of the discovery of these stargates was the program, Project Looking Glass, the technology of which came from the reverse-engineering of this ancient stargate technology. Bursich also spoke about the technology retrieved from these stargates enabled the development of a device that allowed people to see into the future. Not only that, but it allows the user to “view into different probabilities of future events or different time streams”.
It was worth noting other alleged advanced devices, such as Die Glocke of the Third Reich, which was said to also allow the viewer to see future and past events. Very similar details are offered for the Chronovisor, said to be developed by the Vatican. While we should treat the claims of these advanced devices with a pinch of salt, it is interesting that persistent claims surface about some kind of long-hidden technology allowing, at the very least, the ability to see upcoming future events, with some even claiming actual traveling in time.
It is further worth highlighting that another whistleblower – a man using the name Henry Deacon – specifically stated that the information given by Burisch on stargates was very accurate. In fact, he would corroborate several details offered by Burisch. It should be stressed that while much of what Dan Burisch says resonates with other apparent whistleblowers, many urge caution with his claims.
With this in mind, however, it is also worth noting the claims of Dr. Michael Salla, who also puts forward that a stargate does indeed exist in Iraq, and that the real reason for the 2003 invasion of the country by the United States was to obtain the ancient device for themselves.
It is claimed that the Stargate had been placed somewhere beneath Saddam’s palace, and so we might assume, if this were the case, American forces would have located it shortly after the fall of the Saddam regime. What is further interesting is that the location where the Stargate was said to reside sits inside what became known as The Green Zone following American forces taking control of Baghdad. This was a diplomatic area and one of the most heavily guarded in the country, leading many familiar with the Stargate claims to question just what was being guarded.
One thing is certain: following the invasion of Iraq in early 2003, widespread looting took place. Within days of the fall of the Saddam regime, something akin to lawlessness engulfed much of Iraq. What followed were days upon days of looting, with many museums and cultural institutions targeted and many archaeological sites destroyed and stripped of any valuable materials.
However, reports soon began to leak out that much of this looting was not done by rioting residents but by highly organized groups, with some people even going as far as to describe them as military units. Further reports mentioned that at many of the sites targeted, heavy-duty military-style trucks were seen near entrances to the respective buildings, with a team of people systematically loading vast amounts of boxes and ancient artifacts onto them.
Further still, many of these locations were not simply looted out of opportunism but had clearly been the subject of intricate planning. Many items, for example, were removed from hidden vaults deep inside the respective buildings, while others were so heavy that it would have taken a team of people to move them and heavy-duty vehicles to transport them (much like the heavy-duty vehicles many people claim to have seen).
Suppose we assume that at least some of these looters were highly organized military units that seemingly targeted specific buildings and locations. Might we also consider that at least one of the items removed was somehow connected to the Iraqi Stargate and that, at the very least, such lootings provided perfect cover for the speculative relocation of the Stargate from beneath Saddam’s palace?
We should also note some of the further statements from Dr. Michael Salla. He claims, for example, that the location of the Stargate was the ancient city of Babylon, around 50 miles to the south of Baghdad. Furthermore, this part of the country sustained some of the heaviest bombardments during the invasion, and this region remains heavily censored on Google Earth.
Salla further offers that “these technologies (stargates) are used quite regularly” and are “found all over the planet”. He elaborated that they are located, for example, in “places like Iran and Syria”, which is why, he asserts, “there is a push for America to go into Iran and (to) intervene in the Syrian civil war”. He described these events as “very significant in what drives international conflict”.
In the caves of Ranmasu Uyana (also known as Gold Fish Park) in Sri Lanka, curious symbols are carved into the stone in what appears to be an ancient star chart or star map. Opposite this stone star map are four stone seats. Some say these symbols are some kind of code that, if cracked, will open the stargate and provide access to another world or realm of existence.
Interestingly or not, this star map – if that’s what it is – is called Sakwala Chakraya, which translates to “The Rotating Circle of the Universe”. What is interesting here is that many depictions of portals or stargates are of rotating, swirling circles – many Native American cave art features such depictions, for example. Perhaps what makes this particular location all the more interesting is that little is known about its origins, age, or purpose. In light of the other locations we have explored here, though, and in terms of potential reference to portals in antiquity, it is certainly worthy of future study.
Perhaps one of the most controversial ancient sites of recent times, not least because its apparent age would alter what we know about civilization, is Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. And while there are no ancient writings of whatever culture inhabited the site to suggest so, some researchers have put forward that a portal existing, or having once existed at the ancient site, is, at the very least, a possibility. Some researchers, for example, point to how the T-shaped columns appear similar to an archway, much like the archways in South America. Furthermore, they point to the fact that the Pleiades star system appears in the shape of T, perhaps suggesting a possible otherworldly destination (we might also recall that many Native American legends speak of “gods” who came from the Pleiades star system). What’s more, the site is said to reside right where multiple ley lines meet, perhaps suggesting a purposeful attempt to harness the energy of the Earth.
In fact, many of these ancient locations sit along ley lines or a convergence of ley lines. In its most basic form, leylines are lines of energy that appear to criss-cross the Earth. What makes these lines particularly interesting is that many ancient sites sit in locations where these ley lines are said to cross. These include almost all of the sites we have explored above, perhaps particularly so with Stonehenge, for example, which has, according to some reckoning, as many as 14 ley lines running through it, making it a particularly potentially powerful location.
Taking this a stage further, it is the belief of some researchers that the ancient world was somehow aware of and tapped into an ancient energy grid, and that these leylines, as part of this grid, somehow connected many of these ancient sites. Indeed, we might ask just how these civilizations of the ancient world, many of whom were supposedly largely unaware of each other’s existence, all appeared to tap into the same lines of energy as each other for the same apparent purpose. Was this by pure chance, or does the recognition of these leylines and convergences of energy where they meet stretch much further back into pre-history – perhaps to an unknown, global civilization?
With all of this in mind, it is worth mentioning that NASA offered in 2014 that portals do appear to exist in the Earth’s magnetic field. According to plasma physicist Jack Scudder, these portals exist at “X-points” high above the planet and are created when the magnetic fields of the Earth and the sun meet. This “joining of magnetic fields can propel jets of charged particles from the X-point, creating an electron diffusion region – or a portal. Of course, where these portals might lead – if anywhere – remains open for debate.
With the suggestions of NASA in mind, might we contemplate that these naturally occurring portals could also exist on the Earth itself, if only temporarily? Could that be the reason so many people go missing without a trace and are, more often than not, never seen again? Could these temporary portals also explain why some people reappear just as mysteriously as when they vanished, often in places that have already been searched? Might this also be why these strange disappearances are often in cluster spots – because they occur near naturally occurring portals that come into existence along leylines of naturally converging energy?
Taking this a stage further, we might also consider that many of these cluster spots are also UFO hotspots and areas with increased Bigfoot sightings. If we consider for a moment that Bigfoot is a supernatural or interdimensional creature, might they, and UFOs, be gaining access to our world through these naturally occurring portals, hence why they are considered hotspots, because they are entry and exit points. Might that be why both UFOs and Bigfoot creatures are seen one minute and then are gone the next?
While the notion of portals and gateways to other dimensions existing at the locations of ancient sites might be far from being established as fact, the idea is perhaps not one that can be fully dismissed without further study. At the very least, the fact that many of these locations do appear to be connected by ley lines suggests a greater understanding of the power of the planet in antiquity than we perhaps have today. Did civilizations from the ancient world purposely tap into the natural energy of the Earth, building monuments and temples at key locations in order to enhance, harness, and manipulate that energy for their own ends, including, perhaps, the creation and utilization of portals? And if so, are these portals depicted in ancient seals and artwork, as well as spoken of in the legends and writings of the ancient world?
Perhaps of more concern to us in our modern world, we might ask just what our respective governments around the world know of this speculative ancient technology. Indeed, if there is any truth to the idea of recovered stargates from the Middle East and the utilization of portals at sites of Ancient Egypt, we might ask just what else this technology has been used for and what it might be used for in the future? The fact is, whatever might be going on behind closed doors, the possible existence of portals and other dimensions is openly discussed in mainstream science today. Indeed, we just might find that if we should understand this area of our very mysterious universe, then that understanding will likely shine a light on other areas of our enigmatic and nuanced reality.
The clip opens on a burning 1980s CRT television that flickers to life with the dancing ghost from Fleischer Studios' 1930 cartoon 'Swing You Sinners!'
Within seconds, the screen jumps to a dark forest where leaflets fall through the trees, followed by shots of soldiers standing among civilians as the words 'We are everywhere' flash across the frame.
The video then appears to rewind to a WWII-era bombing run, showing a plane dropping pamphlets over a crowd below.
A narrator says: 'There's another force applied in combat that we generally don't think of as a weapon of war. That weapon is words.'
His gravel-voiced warning repeats: 'We are everywhere. Words are our weapon.'
The reel ends on the unit's lightning-bolt patch and a pulsing QR code directing viewers to goarmy.com/PSYOP.
The 4th Psychological Operations-Airborne has released a new recruitment video, with the opening scene featuring a clip from a 1930s cartoon
The chilling tagline of the video is 'We are everywhere'
The video is being hailed as the Army's strongest pitch yet for its influence-warfare unit, designed to attract recruits who can craft viral memes as confidently as they can jump out of aircraft.
It opens with a grainy shot of an old Zenith TV in a dark void, VHS lines rolling as a ghostlike version of Koko the Clown flickers on the screen.
The cabinet edges glow with animated flames, and faint 1930s jazz plays under a modern beat
The pacing ramps up immediately. Arabic-script leaflets fall from an aircraft. A soldier rides in a tank strapped with a massive loudspeaker blasting distorted messages.
And there is a brief animated segment that appears to show a quill turning into a dagger.
Inside a dim command tent, PSYOP specialists type across multi-lingual dashboards that track sentiment and morale.
The video is packed with unexpected Easter eggs: nods to conspiracy theories, the WWII 'Ghost Army' that tricked Nazi generals, and even a Pepe the Frog GIF decked out in a clown suit. Pepe is a hate symbol by the alt-right movement.
The WWII 'Ghost Army' was a secret US Army unit officially called the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops.
The video shows what appears to be WWII, with bombers dropping leaflets from the skies
The 4th Psychological Operations-Airborne, based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, specializes in influence campaigns aimed at shaping how enemies think, react and communicate.
Another part of the video conveys the idea of blasting messages to the public as soldiers move through worn-torn towns
Their mission was to deceive German forces about the location, size, and movements of Allied troops.
They used inflatable tanks, trucks, and artillery to create the illusion of large forces where there were none.
Soldiers also played pre-recorded sounds of troops and vehicles over loudspeakers to simulate army movements.
They sent fake radio traffic to trick German intelligence into thinking units were present. Live actors and props were sometimes used to stage fake headquarters.
Their deception efforts saved thousands of lives by diverting German troops from real operations.
The unit's work remained classified for decades and is only recently widely recognized.
The 4th PSYOP is known to conduct 'influence activities to target psychological vulnerabilities and create or intensify fissures, confusion, and doubt in adversary organizations.'
'We use all available means of dissemination – from sensitive and high tech to low-tech, to no-tech, and methods from overt, to clandestine, to deception,' the organization's official website reads.
Soldiers looking to join the PSYOP must endure a physically and mentally demanding training pipeline, which starts with a grueling assessment and selection that lasts for 10 days.
And there is a brief animated segment that appears to show a quill turning into a dagger
Master Sgt. Mathews, the Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) in Charge of the PSYOP Assessment and Selection course, told Task and Purpose: 'We're looking at soldiers who are adept at conducting research to understand target audiences.
'And use critical thinking to determine the best methods and arguments to influence and effectively communicate verbally and in writing using multimedia.'
The first 10 days of PYSOP focus on a candidate's physical fitness, mental resilience, critical thinking, communication skills and sustainability.
Candidates are not just doing physical challenges, but are writing reports, crafting narratives, or presenting arguments, simulating real-world PSYOP tasks.
These individuals also undergo psychological evaluations to determine their suitability for the demanding nature of the operation's roles.
A narrator says: 'There's another force applied in combat that we generally don't think of as a weapon of war. That weapon is words'
Candidates who meet the standards are invited to continue with the Psychological Operations Qualification Course.
This includes studying human psychology, sociology and cultural dynamics to design effective influence strategies, identifying and analyzing groups for tailored messaging and crafting messages that align with mission objectives and resonate with target audiences.
During this time, soldiers will test their abilities in dynamic environments, using tactics to confuse and find vulnerabilities within each other.
They also train on the ethical considerations of PSYOP missions, including avoiding manipulation that violates international law or military ethics.
After the 10-day assessment, soldiers are put through 41 weeks of physically and mentally demanding training, called the PSYOP Qualification Course.
The last few months have seen soldiers learn how to use propaganda and other methods to influence the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of a target audience, often in an enemy territory.
A US Navy 'Doomsday plane' has vanished after embarking on a mysterious transatlantic mission.
The Boeing E-6B Mercury was last seen crossing the Atlantic east of Virginia Beach on public flight-tracking systems around 8.30am ET on Friday.
One of just 16 specialized 'Doomsday planes,' Mercury serves as a command-and-control hub for US Strategic Command, the Secretary of War and the President.
It can also transmit orders to carry out nuclear strikes if necessary.
Flight data showed the aircraft departed Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and followed a routine southeast path over the Chesapeake Bay, skirting the Norfolk naval complex before heading offshore.
About 60 miles east of the Virginia Capes, its public transponder went dark, a normal practice during sensitive operations.
Once over the ocean, Mercury typically enters classified warning zones, lowers a multi-mile trailing wire antenna, and flies racetrack patterns for four to eight hours while sending secure test messages to submarines and ground stations.
Turning off its transponder during these operations has long led trackers to report the aircraft as 'gone dark.'
Flight tracking data spotted the plane taking off around 8.30am and soaring over the Atlantic before vanishing from radar
The aircraft, operating under the callsign AFD FE2, followed a familiar route used for TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) missions that keep US strategic forces, including ballistic-missile submarines, connected to national command authorities even during nuclear conflict.
It came just one day after Thanksgiving, a period when US strategic forces traditionally scale back operations before quickly returning to full readiness.
The 'Doomsday plane' fleet makes up part of Operation Looking Glass, officially known as the Airborne Command Post, which helps communicate with American nuclear forces if ground-based command centers are destroyed.
According to the squadron, its mission is to allow the President and the Secretary of War to directly liaise with US submarines, bombers, and missile silos in the event of a nuclear war.
Boeing built the Navy's fleet between 1989 and 1992.
'The TACAMO airplanes support the Navy's ballistic missile submarine force, providing a vital link to the force from national command authorities,' Boeing's description reads.
'The TACAMO E-6B airplanes are equipped with dual trailing wires that serve as transmitter and antenna, transmitting in the very low frequency spectrum.'
Mercury was built to withstand any large electromagnetic pulse generated by a nuclear disaster.
One of just 16 specialized 'Doomsday planes,' Mercury serves as a command-and-control hub for US Strategic Command, the Secretary of War and the President
The US Navy's 'Doomsday plane' conducted five mysterious flights in March. All missions saw the plane leave Oklahoma and circle Omaha, Nebraska
It relies on older analogue technology rather than digital technology, which would be fried by the pulse.
A previous sighting was in March, when flight radar tracked a Mercury leaving Tinker Air Force Base around 9am ET and soaring around Omaha, where Offutt Air Base is located.
Offutt Air Force Base is a nuclear command, control and communications base that supports national leadership and warfighters.
AirNav Radar, a flight tracker, captured the plane’s path as it circled and weaved in the skies over Nebraska.
The flight tracker spotted three other Mercury planes in the skies on Monday as well.
One of the planes did a shorter trip, circling outside Tulsa and returning to base one hour later.
Another flew south toward Dallas, and the last Mercury was spotted leaving from Maryland.
That flight also lasted no more than one hour. The purposes of the five Mercury flights are unknown.
Time travel and time machines have been a topic of science fiction and countless movies for many decades. In fact, it appears that the possibility to travel in time, either into the future or into the past, has appealed to the imagination of mankind for centuries. While many may think it is absurd to believe that we could travel backwards or forwards in time, some of the world’s most brilliant scientists have investigated whether it could one day be made a reality.
Research into Time Travel
Albert Einstein for example, concluded in his later years that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously, and most are familiar with his well-known concept of relativity. That is, that time is relative and not absolute as Newton claimed. With the proper technology, such as a very fast spaceship, one person is able to experience several days while another person simultaneously experiences only a few hours or minutes. Yet the wisdom of Einstein's convictions had very little impact on cosmology or science in general.
The majority of physicists have been slow to give up the ordinary assumptions we make about time. However, if time travel really was possible, one can hardly contemplate what this may mean for humanity. Whoever had the power to move through time, would have the power to modify history. While this may sound attractive, it would be impossible to know the consequences of any alteration of past events, and how this would affect the future.
Illustration from the Menologion of Basil II of the Seven Sleepers, a medieval legend about a group of youths who hid in a cave to escape persecution and emerged over 300 years later.
If we look at ancient texts, we can find a number of references to time travel. In Hindu mythology, there is the story of King Raivata Kakudmi who travels to meet the creator Brahma. Even if this trip didn’t last long, when Kakudmi returned back to Earth, 108 yugas had passed on Earth, and it is thought that each yuga represents about 4 million years. The explanation Brahma gave to Kakudmi is that time runs differently in different planes of existence.
Similarly, we have references in the Quran about the cave of Al-Kahf. The story refers to a group of young Christian people, who in 250 AD tried to escape persecution and retreated, under God’s guidance, to a cave where God put them to sleep. They woke up 309 years later. This story coincides with the Christian story of the seven sleepers, with a few differences.
Another story comes from the Japanese legend of Urashima Taro, an individual who was said to visit the underwater palace of the Dragon God Ryujin. He stayed there for three days, but when he returned to the surface, 300 years had passed. In the Buddhist text, Pali Canon, it is written that in the heaven of the thirty Devas (the place of the Gods), time passes at a different pace where one hundred Earth years count as a single day for them. There are many more references to time travel to be found within ancient mythology.
Urashima Taro returning from the Dragon King's Palace, only to find that 300 years had passed.
Probably the most well-known story of accidental time travel is the Philadelphia experiment which allegedly took place in 1943 with the purpose of cloaking a ship and making it invisible to enemy radar. However, it was said that the experiment went terribly wrong – the ship not only vanished completely from Philadelphia but it was teleported to Norfolk and went back in time for 10 seconds.
When the ship appeared again some crew members were physically fused to bulkheads, others developed mental disorders, a few disappeared completely, and some reported travelling into the future and back. Allegedly, Nikola Tesla, who was the director of Engineering and Research at Radio Company of America at the time, was involved in the experiment by making all the necessary calculations and drawings and also providing the generators.
In 1960, we have another interesting case report of scientist Pellegrino Ernetti, who claimed that he developed the Chronivisor, a machine that would enable someone to see in the past. His theory was that anything that happens leaves an energy mark that can never be destroyed (something like the mystical Akashic Records). Ernetti allegedly developed this machine that could detect, magnify and convert this energy into an image – something like a TV showing what happened in the past.
Scientists have long been curious as to the possibility of time travel.
In the 1980s, there are reports of another controversial time travel experiment, the Montauk project, which again allegedly experimented with time travel among other things. Whether the Philadelphia and Montauk experiments actually took place is still under debate. However, it is common sense to assume that the military would definitely be interested in the possibility of time travel and would engage in extensive research on the subject.
In 2004, Marlin Pohlman, a scientist, engineer, and member of Mensa with a Bachelor, MBA and PhD, applied for a patent for a method of gravity distortion and time displacement. In 2013 Wasfi Alshdaifat filed another patent for a space compression and time dilation machine that could be used for time travel.
According to PHYS.ORG, the physicist Professor Ronald Lawrence Mallett of the University of Connecticut was working in 2006 on the concept of time travel, based on Einstein’s theory of relativity. At the time, Mallett was absolutely convinced that time travelling was possible. He predicted that human time travel will be possible in our century. Particle physicist Brian Cox, quoted in a 2013 article published in HuffPost, agreed that time travel is possible but only in one direction.
We also have the mysterious story of Ali Razeqi, managing director of the Iranian Centre for Strategic Inventions, who The Daily Mail reported had claimed to have developed a device that could see anywhere from 3 to 5 years in the future. His initial story disappeared from the internet a few hours after it was published.
In theory, time travel is possible, even if it is difficult to comprehend. Has the research cited above brought us closer towards making time travel a reality? If so, we can only hope that the technology does not get into the wrong hands.
What if — stick with us here — an unknown technological civilization is hiding right here on Earth, sheltering in bases deep underground and possibly even emerging with UFOs or disguised as everyday humans?
In a new paper that’s bound to raise eyebrows in the scientific community, a team of researchers from Harvard and Montana Technological University speculates that sightings of “Unidentified Anomalous Phemonemona” (UAP) — bureaucracy-speak for UFOs, basically — “may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the Moon), and/or even ‘walking among us’ (e.g., passing as humans).”
Yes, that’s a direct quote from the paper. Needless to say, the researchers admit, this idea of hidden “crypoterrestrials” is a highly exotic hypothesis that’s “likely to be regarded skeptically by most scientists.” Nonetheless, they argue, the theory “deserves genuine consideration in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness.”
The interest in unexplained sightings of UFOs by military personnel has grown considerably over the past decade or so. This attention grew to a peak last summer, when former Air Force intelligence officer and whistleblower David Grusch testified in front of Congress, claiming that the US had already recovered alien spacecraft as part of a decades-long UFO retrieval program.
That hasn’t dissuaded these Harvard researchers, though. In the paper, they suggest a range of possibilities, each more outlandish than the next.
First is that a “remnant form” of an ancient, highly advanced human civilization is still hanging around, observing us. Second is that an intelligent species evolved independently of humans in the distant past, possibly from “intelligent dinosaurs,” and is now hiding their presence from us. Third is that these hidden occupants of Earth traveled here from another planet or time period. And fourth — please keep a straight face, everybody — is that these unknown inhabitants of Earth are “less technological than magical,” which the researchers liken to “earthbound angels.”
UFO sightings of “craft and other phenomena (e.g., ‘orbs’) appearing to enter/exit potential underground access points, like volcanoes,” they write, could be evidence that these cryptoterrestrials may not be drawn to these spots, but actually reside in underground or underwater bases.
The paper quotes former House Representative Mike Gallagher, who suggested last year that one explanation for the UFO sightings might be “an ancient civilization that’s just been hiding here, for all this time, and is suddenly showing itself right now,” following Grusch’s testimony.
The researchers didn’t stop there, even suggesting that these cryptoterrestrials may take on different, non-human primate or even reptile forms.
Beyond residing deep underground, they even speculate that this mysterious species could even be concealing themselves on the Moon or have mastered the art of blending in as human beings, a folk theory that has inspired countless works of science fiction.
Another explanation, as put forward by controversial Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, suggests that other ancient civilizations may have lived on “planets like Mars or Earth” but a “billion years apart and hence were not aware of each other.”
Of course, these are all “far-fetched” hypotheses, as the scientists admit, and deserve to be regarded with plenty of skepticism.
“We entertain them here because some aspects of UAP are strange enough that they seem to call for unconventional explanations,” the paper reads.
“It may be exceedingly improbable, but hopefully this paper has shown it should nevertheless be kept on the table as we seek to understand the ongoing empirical mystery of UAP,” the researchers conclude.
NASA caught again? ISS feed cuts after odd object passes by
NASA caught again? ISS feed cuts after odd object passes by
Once again, the International Space Station’s live stream has raised more questions than answers. Just days ago, viewers watched the ISS feed suddenly glitch out, right after a strange, dark object drifted past the station.
Moments before the cut, the ISS radio chatter sounded completely normal. Then something slid across the right side of the frame… and NASA instantly switched to their generic “technical difficulties” screen. Coincidence? Or another quiet cover-up?
NASA tried to downplay the incident, claiming the object passed through a known “black spot” on the camera, a sensor artifact where things temporarily vanish. But the timing couldn’t have been more suspicious: the object slipped into that exact blind zone, reappeared briefly, and then the entire feed went down.
One of the loudest critics of NASA’s broadcasts is researcher Justin Robert, who argues that much of the ISS footage is staged using studio tricks, wires, harnesses, green screens, and VR compositing.
According to Justin, NASA’s own videos show:
1. Astronauts glitching or fading like green-screen artifacts.
2. Objects being “grabbed” that aren’t actually there.
3. Crew tugging at what looks like invisible wires.
4. Astronauts getting tangled in harness rigs.
5. Even moments where people appear to pop into the shot.
His central question is simple: If astronauts are orbiting Earth, why do NASA’s feeds resemble Hollywood post-production? Some researchers go further, arguing the ISS “live stream” isn’t even from orbit, claiming it could be filmed from a high-altitude aircraft with a fisheye lens to fake Earth’s curvature, with a curated, pre-processed feed presented as “live.”
But why would NASA lie?
Justin and a growing number of researchers trace the secrecy back to the 1950s. In 1956, Admiral Byrd completed his final Antarctic expedition and allegedly described a lush, temperate landmass the size of the United States hidden beyond the ice.
Then, almost too conveniently, two major events followed: NASA was founded in 1958 and the Antarctic Treaty was signed the same year, locking the continent off from all independent exploration.
Some theories argue NASA became involved in this region because of Byrd’s discoveries and the classified exploration that followed.
These theories suggest: Unknown land, resources, or even civilizations may exist beyond Antarctica and extraterrestrials might not come from deep space, they could be emerging from hidden regions on Earth, or even from beneath the oceans.
Another major red flag: NASA openly admits that many iconic “Earth from space” images, such as the famous blue marble iPhone wallpaper, are Photoshop composites, not single photographs.
Commonly cited issues include:
1. Identical cloud patterns in images supposedly taken years apart.
2. Inconsistent continent shapes, colors, and scales.
3. NASA graphic artists explaining how they constructed Earth images from data.
4. And despite decades of satellites… still no true single shot full Earth photo.
Even Russia has publicly questioned NASA’s authenticity, claiming their forensic analysis of U.S. moon landing photos showed them to be “99% fake.”
The big question NASA never answers:
1. Where are the trillions of dollars going?
2. NASA receives massive budgets, yet: No major breakthroughs in decades.
3. Still no return to the Moon despite superior technology.
4. Endless glitches, blurry footage, and suspicious ISS livestream behavior.
5. Zero transparency.
And every time something strange pops up on camera, like this week’s mysterious object, the feed gets cut instantly.
At this point, it’s no wonder millions believe NASA’s real mission isn’t exploration… but distraction.
NASA SkyCam Captures Bizarre Multi-Arc Object — SpaceTracker Enhances Footage to 8K
NASA SkyCam Captures Bizarre Multi-Arc Object — SpaceTracker Enhances Footage to 8K
Overview
On June 12, 2025, an intriguing event was recorded by NASA’s internal SkyCam system—a highly sensitive camera mounted high in the upper atmospheric region that detected an unusual luminous phenomenon. This event involved a multi-arc formation seemingly suspended in the near-vacuum environment of the thermosphere, hundreds of kilometers above Earth’s surface. The initial footage, captured in 1080p resolution, revealed a faint but luminous structure displaying an intricate pattern of intersecting semi-circular arcs, which sparked immediate interest and skepticism within the UFO (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP) research community, aerospace analysts, and atmospheric scientists alike.
Soon after the event, a civilian open-source platform known as SpaceTracker—which specializes in processing, enhancing, and analyzing aerospace imagery—obtained and analyzed the raw footage. Using advanced image enhancement algorithms, SpaceTracker processed the clip to an unprecedented 8K resolution (7680×4320 pixels), significantly clarifying the features and revealing fine details previously obscured. The enhanced imagery, publicly released on June 20, 2025, has reignited discussions about the nature of high-altitude phenomena that do not conform to traditional explanations, such as natural atmospheric events, space debris, or known satellite activity.
This article provides an in-depth examination of the event, including the technical aspects of the image processing, expert interpretations, contextual significance within the broader UAP phenomena, and the possible scientific and exploratory avenues this incident opens.
Technical Analysis
1. Image Processing and Enhancement Techniques
The transformation from the original 1080p footage to a detailed 8K resolution involved the integration of multiple state-of-the-art image processing methodologies:
Frame Averaging:To improve the signal-to-noise ratio, multiple sequential frames were combined, reducing random noise artifacts while preserving signal details such as faint arcs and subtle halo effects.
De-noising Algorithms: Advanced noise reduction algorithms, including wavelet-based filtering and machine learning-driven denoising networks, were applied to suppress sensor noise yet retain the integrity of luminous features.
Super-Resolution Techniques:Utilizing a combination of deep learning models trained on high-fidelity imagery, the data was reconstructed to a higher resolution. These models infer details beyond the original pixel data based on contextual cues, enabling a crisper, more detailed visualization of the arcs and their geometric structures.
2. Visualization of the Phenomenon
The enhanced footage yields several notable observations:
Geometrically Consistent, Semi-circular Arcs: The arcs are roughly semi-circular, extending across a span of approximately 30 kilometers within the camera’s field of view. Their intersections form a complex, symmetrical pattern reminiscent of a geometric web or a set of overlapping spherical caps.
Luminous Core and Halo:The central region of the formation exhibits a stable, steady luminosity that persists over several seconds. Encircling the arcs, a faint, fine-grained halo—interpreted as a dust or particulate scattering layer—suggests the presence of a tenuous particulate medium around or behind the arcs.
Motion and Orientation:The entire formation exhibits coherent motion, with no observed erratic wobble or turbulence characteristic of debris or re-entry particles. It maintains a consistent orientation relative to the horizon, suggesting a possible aerodynamic or electromagnetic stability that would be atypical for conventional space debris or meteorological phenomena.
3. Data Integrity and Limitations
While the processing has uncovered significant details, it’s crucial to acknowledge the limitations:
The SkyCam system, primarily designed for spacecraft exterior monitoring, was not optimized for scientific observation of transient phenomena. This introduces uncertainties regarding calibration, exposure, and sensor linearity.
The footage's temporal resolution (frame rate)and the camera’s spectral capabilities (spectral filters, IR sensitivity, etc.) limit definitive conclusions about the physical properties—such as composition or thermal signatures—of the observed phenomenon.
Expert Commentary
1. Atmospheric Physics Perspective
Dr. Elena Morales, an atmospheric physicist specializing in high-altitude optical phenomena at the University of Colorado Boulder, approached the footage with scientific caution. She emphasized the importance of ruling out common atmospheric mechanisms:
“The geometric precision of these arcs is unusual. Atmospheric optics often produce optical illusions like parhelia or sundogs, which are caused by light interacting with ice crystals in cirrus clouds. However, these typically produce right-angled halos, not intersecting semi-circular arcs with such stability and coherence. Alternative mechanisms, like gravitational lensing or scattering from localized dust jets, can sometimes create arc-like phenomena, especially in the upper atmosphere where turbulence and particulate activity can vary.”
Morales further elaborated on potential natural causes:
High-Altitude Ice Crystals: In rare cases, high-altitude ice clouds with unique crystal geometries can produce complex light patterns.
Electrostatic or Electromagnetic Interactions: Active phenomena like lightning or transient luminous events (TLEs) such as sprites or elves could generate fleeting arcs, though their typical morphology differs from what is observed here.
2. Defense and Aerospace Analysis
Former NASA flight surgeon Lt. Cmdr. Aaron Patel, now an independent analyst, outlined the operational considerations:
“The SkyCam system is calibrated for spacecraft exterior conditions—monitoring shuttle or station surfaces—and its data integrity is solid for such applications. Its ability to resolve features at 8K enhances the credibility of the visual data. However, corroborating measurements—like radar tracking, infrared imaging, or additional ground-based observations—are crucial for understanding what exactly we’re seeing."
He highlighted the importance of cross-referencing data streams:
Radar & Lidar Data:Would help determine motion, altitude, and possible physical size estimates.
Spectroscopic Analysis: Could reveal composition or ionization states, giving clues about the nature of the material or energy involved.
3. UAP Research Community Response
The incident struck a chord within the global UAP community, especially given the increasing transparent sharing of data by aerospace agencies. Previous episodes, notably the X-Bump event in 2023—captured by the International Space Station (ISS)—showcased structured luminous patterns that defied straightforward classification.
The X-Bump involved high-altitude luminous arcs and structured light, sparking speculation about unknown atmospheric or extraterrestrial phenomena. Similarly, the current footage has drawn parallels to dust jets emitted by cometary bodies—particularly those associated with the recently observed activity of comet 3I/ATLAS, which displayed transient dust streams when passing through the inner solar system.
While the cometary hypothesis is intriguing, it remains speculative because no known cometary activity was recorded near Earth at the time of this capture. Moreover, the arcs’ stability and detailed geometry pose challenges to simple interpretations.
Context Within UAP Research
1. Historical and Recent Occurrences
The 2025 SkyCam event is part of a broader pattern of anomalous high-altitude phenomena captured through various platforms—ranging from ground-based observatories and aircraft to space station cameras and dedicated satellite sensors. Historically, such phenomena have often been dismissed as optical illusions or natural atmospheric effects, but increasingly, they are being documented with high-confidence imagery and multi-sensor corroboration.
2. Significance of the 8K Enhancement
The availability of ultra-high resolution imagery profoundly impacts the investigation process. The detailed visualization of intersecting arcs, halo effects, and stable trajectory—items difficult to detect in standard video—offers new avenues for modeling and hypothesis testing. It also challenges conventional understanding of atmospheric optics and high-altitude physics.
In particular, the detailed patterning resembles:
Structured electromagnetic phenomenaakin to plasma arcs or self-organizing luminous structures.
Potential interference with Earth's magnetic or electric fields, which could stabilize or shape such formations at high altitude.
Path Forward: Scientific and Investigative Steps
1. NASA and Federal Agency Responses
NASA’s UAP Task Force announced it is reviewing this footage along with other sensor data, emphasizing an analytical approach:
“Every phenomenon must be examined comprehensively, considering all conflicting or supporting measurements—radar, lidar, spectroscopic, and infrared. We remain committed to transparency and scientific rigor.”
Government agencies globally are encouraging the collection of additional data. NASA has planned further deployment of near-real-time high-altitude sensing arrays, and private sector organizations are mobilizing to create coordinated multi-platform observation campaigns to:
Capture similar events in different geographic regions.
Cross-validate with ground-based all-sky cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellite sensors.
2. Scientific and Technological Implications
The incident underscores the importance of:
Multi-modal detection infrastructure: The integration of optical, electromagnetic, and radar data streams for real-time anomaly detection and analysis.
Automated analysis and AI-driven pattern recognition: Machine learning algorithms can sift through large datasets, identify recurring features, and generate hypotheses.
High-fidelity simulation models: Physicists can endeavor to recreate the observed phenomena under controlled conditions, testing hypotheses related to high-altitude plasma physics, electromagnetic interactions, and particulate scattering.
2. Interdisciplinary Investigations
Given the complex nature of the observed structure, efforts involve multiple scientific disciplines:
Atmospheric physics and meteorology: To explore natural optical phenomena and rare atmospheric events.
Plasma physics: To understand whether ionized particles or electromagnetic discharges could produce similar structures.
Astrophysics and celestial mechanics: To assess any potential link with cosmic dust streams, meteor showers, or cometary activity—albeit temporally and spatially disconnected in this case.
Materials science and particle physics: To investigate the potential involvement of unknown or exotic particulate materials in the formation and sustained stability of the arcs.
Conclusion: Scientific and Mystical Significance
The enhanced SkyCam footage featuring the multi-arc formation is a remarkable addition to the growing compendium of high-altitude UAP observations. Its visually striking geometry—intersecting semi-circular arcs, a steady luminous core, and surrounding dust halo—poses significant questions for conventional physics and atmospheric science.
While natural explanations such as optical illusions, atmospheric dust, or plasma phenomena remain plausible, the coherence and stability of the structure challenge these interpretations. The precise geometry and persistence suggest either an unknown natural process, a yet-to-be-understood atmospheric physics phenomenon, or, more provocatively, an engineered or new physics-based event indicative of technological or extraterrestrial origins.
The ongoing investigations, increased data collection, and interdisciplinary research promise to broaden our understanding of these mysterious high-altitude phenomena. Whether this event ultimately leads to a scientific breakthrough or remains an intriguing anomaly, it underscores the importance of advanced observational technologies, global cooperation, and open scientific inquiry in unraveling the secrets of our skies.
Voorbij Roswell: Geheimzinnige Programma’s Buiten de Planeet En Zwartgelden Projecten
Voorbij Roswell: Geheimzinnige Programma’s Buiten de Planeet En Zwartgelden Projecten
Onlangs erkende het Pentagon officieel dat gelekte militaire beelden van een UFO authentiek zijn. Hoewel deze bevestiging weinig nieuwe informatie bood, is het een belangrijke gebeurtenis voor de UFO-gemeenschap. Het is nergens zo opmerkelijk dat het ministerie van Defensie en de Amerikaanse overheid dit erkent. Toch bestaan er al decennia lang verdachtmakingen en lekken over UFO’s en bezoekers van andere werelden, met een lange geschiedenis die teruggaat tot het begin van de moderne UFO-tijd.
Hoewel de geloofwaardigheid ervan betwijfeld wordt, blijven geruchten circuleren over geheime ontmoetingen tussen buitenaardse rassen en president Eisenhower. Volgens sommigen zou deze in februari 1954 op Edwards Air Force Base in Californië plaatsvinden. Officieel had Eisenhower daar slechts een spoedbehandeling nodig, maar velen denken dat dit een cover story was. Het vermeende resultaat was een uitwisseling van alien technologie voor beperkte toegang tot het Amerikaanse publiek voor discreet onderzoek – wat we nu "abductions" noemen.
Ook lijkt Eisenhower herhaaldelijk te worden genoemd in verband met contacten met buitenaardse vertegenwoordigers, jaren na dat vermeende geheime overleg. Nog opvallender is het gerucht dat de moord op John F. Kennedy in 1963 te maken zou hebben met zijn intentie om informatie over dergelijke geheime ontmoetingen bekend te maken. Ook Marilyn Monroe wordt al langer gelinkt aan kennis van die geheime deals, hoewel die beweringen met een korrel zout genomen moeten worden. Toch blijven ze de nieuwsgierigheid prikkelen.
Een Decennia Lange Samenzwering
Het is wellicht nuttig om kort de basis te schetsen van de vermeende omstandigheden die zouden hebben geleid tot dergelijke geheime programma’s. De meest gangbare oorsprong ligt bij het bekend geworden UFO-incident in Roswell, New Mexico, in de zomer van 1947. Daar zou een "vliegende schotel" zijn neergestort die mogelijk bestuurd werd door buitenaardse wezens.Maar zoals we al in onze artikelen over de Battle of Los Angeles en geruchten over nazi-technologie uit de jaren 1930 hebben besproken, zou de wortel van deze geheime projecten mogelijk nog dieper liggen.
Zo worden geruchten aangehaald dat Mussolini in 1933 een UFO crash-ophaal werd gedaan in Italië, en dat in 1936 een UFO werd gevonden in het Zwarte Woud tijdens Operation Paperclip. Voorstanders van dit verhaal geloven dat dergelijke buitenaardse technologie vanaf de oorlog haar weg naar de Verenigde Staten vond via geheime programma’s zoals Operation Paperclip. In dat kader noemt men onder meer topgeleerden als Werner von Braun, die in gesprekken met UFO-onderzoekers bevestigde dat de nazi’s hulp kregen van buitenaardse bronnen. Von Braun zou hebben gezegd dat ze, terwijl hij naar de lucht wees, verklaarde: “We hadden hulp van hen!”
ROSWELL, Het Mag Wel Eens Waar Zijn?
In Amerika bestaan er talloze claims en rapporten over UFO-crashes uit de jaren 1940 en zelfs eerder. Sommige getuigen beweren dat niet alleen de ruimtetuigen werden geborgen, maar ook de buitenaardse inzittenden – al dan niet in leven. Hoeveel hiervan waar is, is moeilijk te bepalen. Wat wel vaststaat is dat er vóór Roswell al meer UFO-activiteiten aan de Amerikaanse hemel plaatsvonden dan we vaak denken.
ET Species: Intro tot de EBENs
Minder bekend zijn de claims van vermeende klokkenluider Victor Martinez, die in 2005 een verhaal deelde dat afweek van de gangbare versie. Volgens hem zouden twee UFO’s in 1947 neergestort zijn, waarvan één nog niet was gevonden. Martinez beweert dat een buitenaards pilootje achterbleef en dat het communicatie met de Amerikaanse onderzoekers tot stand bracht. Deze communicatie zou hebben geleid tot reverse-engineering van de buitenaardse technologie en contact met een buitenaards ras, de “Ebens”, in 1964. Deze ontmoeting zou in een geheime militaire basis in New Mexico hebben plaatsgevonden, waarbij de Ebens een soort ruil wilden maken: de terugkeer van hun dode collega’s en een samenwerking met de Amerikaanse geheime diensten.
Mocht dat kloppen, dan werpt dat vragen op over de ontmoetingen tussen Eisenhower en wat men beschouwt als “De Greys”. Beide verhalen zijn dat: verhalen. Maar de toenemende aantallen abducties en contacten sinds de jaren ’60 maken deze theorie mogelijker en aanvaardbaarder...
Reagan en UFO’s: Een Politieke Beleving?
President Ronald Reagan wordt beschouwd als een van de Amerikaanse leiders die het meest met UFO’s worden geassocieerd. Al voordat hij president was, zou hij in de jaren ’60 en ’70 incidenten hebben meegemaakt. In één geval, tussen 1967 en 1975, zag hij samen met zijn vrouw een vreemd object dat hij zelfs als abductie-achtig beschreef. Tijdens een autorit zou het object zich zeer dicht bij hen hebben bewogen. Sommige onderzoekers vermoeden dat Reagan mogelijk blijvende kennis had door deze ervaringen.
In 1974, tijdens een vlucht terug naar Bakersfield, zag Reagan samen met zijn piloot een UFO dat niet alleen snelheden kon halen die onmogelijk waren voor gewone vliegtuigen. Door deze waarnemingen en vermoedelijke abducties wordt gesuggereerd dat hij onder invloed stond van geheime ruimteprogramma’s, waar hij mogelijk insider-informatie over had.
Wat Speelde Zich Af Tijdens de Laatste Jaren van de Koude Oorlog?
Reagan’s Strategisch Verdedigingsinitiatief, beter bekend als “Star Wars”, wordt doorgaans omschreven als een geavanceerd defensieprogramma met als doel het ontwikkelen van een razendsnel en grootschalig nucleair afweersysteem dat in staat was om USSR-raketten te detecteren en uit te schakelen voordat ze hun doelen bereikten. Het project omvatte de constructie van een uitgebreid systeem van satellieten, laserwapens en interceptie-installaties die samen een bijna ondoordringbare verdedigingslinie vormden.
De intentie was om de nucleaire dreiging te neutraliseren en de dreiging van een nucleaire oorlog tot een minimum te herleiden, terwijl tegelijkertijd de militaire superioriteit van de Verenigde Staten werd versterkt. Echter, in de kringen van complotdenkers leeft het vermoeden dat dit project een veel diepere en geheime laag had. Volgens geruchten was er onder de radar werkzaamheden verricht om buitenaardse aanwezigheid en technologie te detecteren, met als doel buitenaardse wezens en objecten te kunnen identificeren en zelfs te communiceren. Een opvallende uitspraak van Reagan in 1985, waarin hij stelde dat het identificeren van een buitenaardse dreiging de wereldvrede zou kunnen bevorderen doordat het de spanningen tussen de supermachten zou verminderen, bevestigt dat er meer op het spel stond dan alleen het afvangen van nucleaire raketten. In 1987 bevestigde Gorbatsjov dat de leiders van de supermachten inderdaad al hadden gesproken over buitenaardse verschijnselen en dat een gezamenlijke aanpak mogelijk was om de verbinding te leggen.
Dit opent de deur naar de mogelijkheid dat de geheime agenda niet slechts ging over het verdedigen tegen menselijke bedreigingen, maar ook over het omgaan met buitenaardse actoren. Mogelijk werden er tijdens geheime bijeenkomsten plannen besproken om samen te werken aan de detectie en veiligheidsmaatregelen rondom buitenaardse invloeden. Het ontbreken van volledige transparantie over deze onderwerpen wijst erop dat er in de hoogste kringen een vermoeden bestaat dat buitenaardse aanwezigheid een rol speelt in het mondiale politieke landschap. Het idee dat buitenaardse wezens invloed uitoefenen op de wereldpolitiek en dat deze informatie onder de radar wordt gehouden, blijft een intrigerend en mysterieus aspect van deze periode.
BLACK BUDGET Programma’s En UFO-onderzoek
Tijdens de laatste jaren van de Koude Oorlog ontwikkelden de Amerikaanse geheime diensten en militaire instanties een breed scala aan geheime ruimtevaartprojecten, die vaak onder de noemer “Black Budget” vallen. Deze programma’s omvatten niet alleen geavanceerde wapentechnologieën, maar ook uitgebreide studies naar mysterieuze waarnemingen van UFO’s en ongeïdentificeerde luchtverschijnselen. In tegenstelling tot het publiekelijk gepresenteerde beeld van een defensie-inspanningsbasis gericht op het afweren van Russische raketten, waren er onder de oppervlakte veel geheime initiatieven gericht op het onderzoeken van ongeïdentificeerde objecten die niet pasten binnen de bekende technologische domeinen.
Leaks en anonieme bronnen suggereren dat een aanzienlijk deel van de onorthodoxe activiteiten binnen deze programma’s gericht was op het verzamelen en analyseren van buitenaardse technologieën of waarnemingen van onverklaarbare verschijnselen in de lucht. In 1985 stelde Reagan dat het detecteren van buitenaardse dreigingen niet alleen een belangrijke strategische meerwaarde had, maar ook de internationale spanningen kon verminderen door het zorgen voor een gedeeld geheim en een gezamenlijke dreiging. Gorbatsjov bevestigde dat nationale leiders tijdens geheime ontmoetingen hun aandacht hadden gericht op buitenaardse fenomenen, wat wijst op de mogelijkheid dat de supermachten serieus onderzoek deden naar buitenaardse technologieën en de mogelijke dreiging die daarvan uitging.
In deze context is het aannemelijk dat er geheime projecten lopen, waarin geavanceerde technologieën worden getest en ontwikkeld, mogelijk gebaseerd op buitenaardse gegevens of technologieën die nog niet publiekelijk bekend zijn. Het bestaan van dergelijke programma’s, vaak aangeduid als “Black Budget” projecten, heeft geleid tot intensieve speculaties over het doelbewust verzamelen van buitenaardse technologie en het onderzoeken van ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten. Alhoewel de publieke wereld slechts een beperkt beeld krijgt van deze operaties, blijven de geheime onderzoeken en betrokkenheid bij UFO’s een intrigerend en onder de radar gehouden onderdeel van de koude oorlogspolitiek. De combinatie van militaire ambitie en het dichten van het gat in kennis over niet-erkende fenomenen zou kunnen wijzen op een ondergrondse strategie om de technologische en geopolitieke macht te versterken, terwijl de geheimhouding de intense fascinatie en speculatie in de samenleving aanwakkert.
Hoe Ver Is de Technologie?
In 2010 kwam er een anoniem gelekt rapport aan het licht dat sprak over “Warp Drives” en de “Manipulation of Extra Dimensions”. Het document beschreef hypothetische manieren om de natuurwetten te omzeilen en sneller dan het licht te reizen, bijvoorbeeld door het creëren van zogenaamde “wormholes” – hypothetische ruimtetijdbruggen die de afstand tussen twee punten in het heelal kunnen overbruggen. Naar verluidt zouden dergelijke technologische doorbraken in de toekomst mogelijk maken dat ruimteschepen niet langer beperkt zijn tot de lichtsnelheid, maar wel noteerde dat de ontwikkeling ervan ver gevorderd zou kunnen zijn. Sommige bekende klokkenluiders, zoals Bob Lazar, ondersteunen de theorie dat dergelijke geavanceerde technologie mogelijk al bestaat en wordt getest in geheime projecten. Reagan’s aantekeningen uit 1985 vermeldden bovendien dat de VS al minstens twintig geheime ruimtevaartstations bezaten, waar honderden astronauten werden ingezet voor geheime missies.
Dit wijst erop dat er alvast grote geheime ruimtevaartprogramma’s bestaan, buiten de publieke waarneming om, en dat deze mogelijk gebruikmaken van technologie die nog niet voor het grote publiek toegankelijk is. Al deze aspecten suggereren dat in de schimmige wereld van geheime projecten en ondergrondse ruimtevaart er een enorme hoeveelheid onzichtbare en geavanceerde technologie geëxperimenteerd wordt. Dit alles wijst erop dat in het verborgene meer wordt gedaan dan wij ons bewust zijn, en dat de wens om buitenaardse technologieën te ontdekken, te onderzoeken en te benutten, een eeuwige drijfveer blijft van militaire en geheime instanties.
De Buitenaardse “Stranger aan het Pentagon”: Valiant Thor
Volgens het boek “Stranger at the Pentagon” zou er in 1957 een buitenaards wezen zijn geweest dat jarenlang op het Pentagon verbleef. Het werd gezien als een grote, menselijk uitziende figuur, die zichzelf “Valiant Thor” noemde. Een politieagent zou getuigen dat hij deze “opmerkelijke gast” in Virginia had gezien, en dat hij namens de “High Council” naar de aarde was gestuurd om met president Eisenhower te spreken over nucleaire wapens.
Thor zou drie jaar op het Pentagon verblijven en zich zorgen maken over de nucleaire ontwikkeling. Hoewel critici dit alles afdoen als fantasie, blijven er geen officiële onderbouwingen. Eén ervaringsgetuige was Harley Byrd, neef van admiraal Byrd, die de verhalen bevestigde.
Een MIX van Leaks en Desinformatie?
Het lijkt erop dat veel informatie over UFO’s en buitenaardse contacten bewust wordt gegeven door de overheid. Sommige beschuldigingen suggereren dat het publieke “bekennen” slechts een afleidingsmanoeuvre is, om eerdere geheime deals in de doofpot te stoppen. Andere theorieën gaan dat de technologie die wij zien of horen, niet van buitenaardse oorsprong is, maar juist voortkomt uit geheime militaire projecten waarvan we slechts vermoeden.
Welke conclusie kunnen we trekken? Het lijkt erop dat de wereld veel meer weet over UFO’s en buitenaardsen dan wij kunnen vermoeden. En dat dit inzicht mogelijk nog veel verder gaat dan wij ons kunnen voorstellen – onder de oppervlakte van onze collectieve realiteit. Eén van de meest verontrustende vragen daarbij is of er niet een programma bestaat dat bedoeld is om mens-buitenaardse hybrides te creëren.
Zijn er Jarenlang Aan Het Effect?
Sommige onderzoekers, zoals David Jacobs en Budd Hopkins, geloven dat abductions niet slechts willekeurige incidenten zijn. Ze zouden onderdeel vormen van een langdurig “hybridenkweekprogramma”, met als doel een nieuwe ras te vormen. Hopkins beschreef dat veel vrouwen herhaaldelijk werden meegenomen en dat hun baby’s waren weggenomen of werden gebruikt voor experimenten. Hij sprak over “hybriden”, deels menselijk, deels buitenaards.
Debbie Jordan-Kauble beschreef haar eigen ontmoeting met een “hybride kind”, dat eruitzag als een klein, bleek wezen met grote ogen en een afwijkend hoofd. Ze vermoedt dat deze hybride mogelijk door buitenaardse ouders is voortgebracht en dat het misschien op aarde wordt getraind.
Verschillende vrouwen melden soortgelijke verhalen: dat zij tijdens abductions hebben meegemaakt dat ze een buitenaards kind hebben gezien of dat hun zwangerschap werd onderbroken. In sommige gevallen wordt zelfs gesproken over het verwijderen van baby’s uit de baarmoeder. Het roept de vraag op: worden er al hybride kinderen op aarde vastgelegd of zelfs opgeleid? En wat zijn de plannen van deze buitenaardse rassen met die hybriden?
Zijn De Hybriden Al Op Aarde?
Volgens onderzoekers zoals Jacobs worden er reeds hybride kinderen op aarde geplaatst. Ze bevinden zich mogelijk onder ons, onopgemerkt. Sommige abductees herinneren zich dat ze werden meegenomen en dat ze later ontdekten dat ze zwanger waren of dat hun baby was weggenomen. Dit soort verhalen, hoe ongeloofwaardig ze ook klinken, passen binnen het bredere plaatje van een verborgen agenda.
Andere verbanden tussen ontvoerden door buitenaardse wezens
Het is waarschijnlijk verstandig om de vele andere details te onderzoeken die worden verstrekt door degenen die beweren slachtoffer te zijn geweest van buitenaardse ontvoering – details die, ondanks dat ze uit verschillende delen van de wereld en over vele decennia worden aangeboden, bijna exact overeen lijken te komen. Immers, als die beweringen overeenkomen en daardoor enigszins geloofwaardigheid krijgen, worden we gedwongen ten minste te overwegen dat de beweringen over mens-buitenaards nageslacht en de systematische training van hen om “op te gaan in” de aarde ook geloofwaardig zouden kunnen zijn.
Bijvoorbeeld, veel ogenschijnlijke ontvoerden spreken over het wakker worden in een ronde kamer, vaak fel verlicht maar zonder duidelijke lichtbron (er zijn bijvoorbeeld geen gloeilampen of lichtstrips). Velen beweren dat het licht uit de muren zelf leek te sijpelen. Ook interessant is dat, hoewel veel mensen een 'zwevend gevoel' rapporteren wanneer ze schijnbaar het vaartuig betreden, ze niet kunnen herinneren hoe ze in de kamer kwamen, en alleen daar wakker worden, vaak op een stenen tafel. Budd Hopkins zou suggereren dat dit kan komen doordat de ontvoerde opzettelijk uitgeschakeld wordt voordat het onderzoek plaatsvindt.Veel ontvoerden beschrijven ook hetzelfde soort wezens, met een groot hoofd en grote ogen, en dat ze schijnbaar onderling en met de ontvoerde communiceren via telepathie. Bovendien blijven deze telepathische vaardigheden vaak bij sommige ontvoerden voortbestaan lang na hun ontmoetingen.
Velen spreken ook over het zichzelf bevinden in vreemde, glasachtige buizen, vaak vergezeld door regelmatige knipperende lichten. Sommige onderzoekers hebben gesuggereerd dat deze vergelijkbaar zouden kunnen zijn met röntgenapparaten en mogelijk de lichamen van de ontvoerden registreren. Natuurlijk, als er een registratieaspect is bij buitenaardse ontvoeringen, zou dit op zich al een zeer specifiek doel en einddoel suggereren.Hoewel velen de beweringen van een buitenaards-menselijk hybridisatieprogramma belachelijk zouden vinden, zijn het suggesties die we wellicht verstandig zouden doen om verder te bestuderen, opdat het niet te laat wordt voor ons om collectief en adequaat te reageren.De onderstaande video onderzoekt wat het Pentagon mogelijk weet over UFO's en UFO-technologie via een interview met twee Amerikaanse
Conclusie
De wereld van UFO’s, geheime programma’s en buitenaardse contacten lijkt veel complexer en gelaagder dan de openbare informatie wil laten zien. Of het nu gaat om druppelgewijs vrijgegeven bewijzen, geheime technologie of verborgen ontmoetingen, duidelijk is dat er een grote sluier van geheimhouding hangt over deze onderwerpen. Het is denkbaar dat we nog slechts de tip van de ijsberg kennen. En dat die meest verontrustende vragen – over buitenaardsen, technologie, en mogelijk hybride programma’s – nog niet volledig beantwoord zijn. Eén ding is zeker: de waarheid ligt misschien dichterbij dan we denken, verborgen achter de sluier van officiële versus geheime kennis.
The exercise will send an unarmed ICBM on a 4,200-mile journey to a test range near Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, a flight expected to take about 22 minutes.
America's ICBM is also capable of carrying three Mk 12A nuclear warheads, each packing up to 350,000 tons of TNT, and is designed to hit targets anywhere in the world within 30 minutes of launch.
While the exercise focuses on a single missile, the US maintains a far larger nuclear arsenal.
According to a 2025 report from the Nuclear Information Project, roughly 1,770 warheads are deployed, including 400 on land-based ICBMs, about 970 on submarine-launched ballistic missiles, 300 at bomber bases in the US and around 100 tactical bombs stationed at European bases.
Officials emphasized that the upcoming test is a routine exercise scheduled years in advance. However, it comes as President Donald Trump claimed that Russia and China are conducting secret underground nuclear weapon tests.
Speaking with 60 Minutes' Norah O'Donnell on Sunday, the president said, 'Russia's testing and China's testing, but they don't talk about it. They don't have reporters that are going to be writing about it, we do.'
The US Air Force is set to launch an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a test of the weapon system's effectiveness, readiness and accuracy. Pictured is a previous launch of the ICBM
America's ICBM is also capable of carrying three Mk 12A nuclear warheads, each packing up to 350,000 tons of TNT, and is designed to hit targets anywhere in the world within 30 minutes of launch
While the Air Force has not disclosed specific details about the test, it has traditionally selected a missile at random from F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming for each exercise.
'The US Air Force operates 400 silo-based Minuteman III ICBMs and keeps another 50 silos 'warm' to load stored missiles if necessary, for a total of 450 silos,' the Nuclear Information Project reported.
'Land-based missile silos are divided among three wings: the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
'Each wing has three squadrons, each with 50 Minuteman III silos, collectively controlled by five launch control centers.'
ICBMs armed with the W78/Mk12A warheads could theoretically carry two or three independently targetable warheads each, giving the land-based missile force a potential total of around 800 warheads.
The ICBM is one of two missiles currently used by the US, the other being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) deployed from underwater submarines.
The weapon remains a vital component of the US military's nuclear forces, capable of delivering a nuclear payload to targets worldwide.
However, it is scheduled to be phased out by 2029 and replaced with the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM.
The exercise will send an unarmed ICBM on a 4,200-mile journey to a test range near Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, a flight expected to take about 22 minutes
Officials emphasized that the upcoming test is a routine exercise scheduled years in advance. Pictured is a previous launch of the ICBM
The US Air Force said that 'the Sentinel weapon system is the most cost-effective option for maintaining a safe, secure, and effective land-based leg of the nuclear triad and would extend its capabilities through 2075.'
The LG-35A Sentinel will replace the Minuteman III ICBM with an initial capability of 2029.
Until full capability is achieved in the mid-2030s, the Air Force is committed to ensuring Minuteman III remains a viable deterrent.
The upcoming test also comes a week after Vladimir Putin claimed the Kremlin's military had tested a nuclear-powered torpedo and a new cruise missile, which followed Trump vowing to restart testing US nuclear weapons in response.
Confusion has surrounded Trump's order to resume testing, particularly if he meant conducting the country's first nuclear explosion since 1992.
The 79-year-old Republican first made his surprise announcement on social media on Thursday, minutes before entering a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea.
No country other than North Korea is known to have conducted a nuclear detonation for decades.
Russia and China have not carried out such tests since 1990 and 1996, respectively.
Mysterious drones were spotted near Belgium's Kleine Brogel air base, where US nuclear weaponsare stored, prompting fears of a potential espionage operation.
Belgium's Defense Minister Theo Francken confirmed that drones entered the base's airspace in two waves on Saturday and Sunday night.
The first involved smaller drones, reportedly testing the base's radio frequencies, followed by larger drones intended 'to destabilize the area and people,' Francken said.
'It resembles a spy operation. By whom, I don't know,' he told public broadcaster RTBF.
The defense minister added that the drones appeared to target sensitive locations, including F-16s and munitions, and that the incidents were under investigation.
'It's not a drone that just happened to cross the military base. It was there for a long time, so it was definitely for spying,' Francken said.
The US stores an estimated 10 to 20 B61 nuclear bombs at the Kleine Brogel Air Base, which plays a key role in NATO's nuclear deterrence strategy in Europe and hosts F-16 fighter jets, according to the base's website.
The site notes that these jets are scheduled to be replaced in the coming years by the F-35A, the US Air Force's newest fifth-generation fighter.
The US stores an estimated 10 to 20 B61 nuclear bombs at the Kleine Brogel Air Base
Belgium's Defense Minister Theo Francken confirmed that drones entered the base's airspace in two waves on Saturday and Sunday night. The first involved smaller drones
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'This was not a simple flyover, but a clear attack targeting Kleine Brogel,' Francken said. 'It is not clear who is responsible for the drone sightings.'
The US maintains an estimated 200 tactical nuclear weapons, with roughly half positioned in Europe. Around 100 of these are thought to be deployed across five NATO member countries, including Belgium, Germany and Turkey.
Unlike strategic nuclear arms, tactical weapons are intended for use in battlefield scenarios or within a limited geographic region.
Kleine-Brogel air base took part in NATO’s most recent annual nuclear exercise, Steadfast Noon, held last month.
In recent months, the continent has seen tense encounters between fighter jets, unexplained sightings of large drones, and deliberate acts of disruption that have affected major airports.
In September, drones were reported over several military installations in Denmark, and flights at Spain’s Gran Canaria airport were rerouted following similar drone activity.
The US maintains an estimated 200 tactical nuclear weapons, with roughly half positioned in Europe. Around 100 of these are thought to be deployed across five NATO member countries, including Belgium, Germany, and Turkey
NATO forces shot down a mystery drone near a base used by US troops in Estonia, less than 30 miles from the Russian border last month
Flights were canceled during German Unity Day, and as Munich prepared for the final weekend of Oktoberfest, which draws over six million visitors annually.
'He is waging an information war against us. He is waging a military war against Ukraine, and this war is directed against all of us,' Merz told broadcaster NTV.
One was blasted out of the sky with an anti-drone rifle, while the second escaped.
Liis Vaksmann, a spokesperson for the Estonian Defence Forces, said: 'Allies detected drones flying in the immediate vicinity of the 2nd Infantry Brigade's military base at 16:30 on 17 October, one of which was brought down with an anti-drone rifle.'
Military and police teams searched for the wreckage but were unable to locate it.
Estonia, viewed as one of NATO's most vulnerable members, hosts both US and British troops as part of the alliance's deterrence force.
Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said NATO must be ready to intercept and shoot down any aircraft violating allied airspace.
'The message must be unequivocal - future violations will meet a response, including, if necessary, the interception and downing of intruding aircraft,' he said.
Perhaps the most chilling theme in his quatrains is the specter of war, as one passage, referencing Mars ruling among the stars and sanctuaries stained with blood, has been linked by modern interpreters to the possibility of World War III.
Surveys from the Atlantic Council and RAND Corporation estimate up to a 30 percent risk of major global conflict by 2026.
Rising tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and friction between NATO and Russia feed this narrative.
Nostradamus wrote: 'When Mars rules his path among the stars, human blood will sprinkle the sanctuary.
'Three fires rise from the eastern sides, while the West loses its light in silence.'
These lines have been linked to emerging powers in the East, while the West 'losing its light in silence' is interpreted as a decline in Western influence and stability.
The French astrologer also foresaw new wars, plagues, and a cosmic fireball falling from the sky, what some believe could be an asteroid or atomic bomb.
Nostradamus was a French physician, astrologer and reputed seer. He trained as a physician and gained experience treating plague victims, which gave him a reputation for medical knowledge
Mars, symbolizing war and aggression, suggests a period dominated by violence, while 'human blood will sprinkle the sanctuary' implies suffering even in sacred or protected spaces.
The 'three fires' rising from the East are often interpreted as conflicts or the emergence of powerful nations in Asia, while the West's fading light indicates weakening influence or power.
Nostradamus was a French physician, astrologer, and reputed seer.
Trained as a physician, he gained experience treating plague victims, which earned him a reputation for medical knowledge.
Later, he became known for astrology, divination and prophetic writings, most notably Les Prophéties, first published in 1555.
Les Prophéties is a collection of 942 poetic quatrains, written in a cryptic, allegorical style, covering war, natural disasters, political upheavals and societal changes.
Nostradamus is often cited for having 'predicted' major historical events, including the rise of Adolf Hitler, the French Revolution, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, though these interpretations are largely retrospective.
His predictions for 2025 appear to be filled with war and bloodshed, but also warns of a cosmic fireball falling from Earth's sky
His writings have also been read as foreseeing a cosmic threat: 'From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, a harbinger of fate, the world pleads.
'Science and fate in a cosmic dance, the fate of the Earth, a second chance.'
Some interpret this as an asteroid or comet, while others suggest it could refer to an atomic bomb, the ultimate intersection of science and destiny.
He predicted that resources would run dry, a scenario eerily reflected in Ukraine's current situation, PennLive reported.
'Through long war all the army exhausted, so that they do not find money for the soldiers; instead of gold or silver, they will come to coin leather, Gallic brass, and the crescent sign of the Moon,' he wrote.
This year, reports confirmed that soldiers in ongoing conflicts are increasingly drained, making Nostradamus' vision of depleted resources eerily resonant.
After relying heavily on US aid since the war began, recent reductions have forced European allies to fill the gap, placing even greater strain on an already stretched coalition.
Nostradamus also foresaw that as one war ends, another could erupt in England, accompanied by a deadly plague: 'The kingdom will be marked by wars so cruel, foes within and without will arise.
'A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.'
Some interpret this as fallout from Brexit or potential conflict over the monarchy.
He even anticipated climate-related disasters in Brazil, home to the Amazon rainforest: 'Garden of the world near the new city, in the path of the hollow mountains: it will be seized and plunged into the Tub, forced to drink waters poisoned by sulfur.'
Another recurring motif is the rise of a 'mysterious leader' who may establish an 'aquatic empire,' possibly symbolizing shifting alliances or new centers of power in strategic maritime regions, especially relevant in today's unpredictable global landscape.
It's a question that has been asked since the beginning of time: does God really exist?
Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of a divine creator.
However, French mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore now say that science 'has become God's ally'.
In a new book, the duo have distilled insights from 62 Nobel Prize winners and more than 100 leading scientists to pinpoint the scientific discoveries that could prove God is real.
This includes everything from the Big Bang – the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe – to DNA and the human genome.
'Until recently, believing in God seemed incompatible with science,' say the authors.
'Now, unexpectedly, science appears to have become God's ally.'
Ultimately, whether science disproves or supports the existence of God remains open to interpretation – but these scientific discoveries offer a tantalising glimpse at the possibility that our world is the result of design, not chance.
It's a question that has been asked since the beginning of time: does God really exist?
Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of a divine creator. However, French mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies (right) and Michel–Yves Bollore (left) now say that science 'has become God's ally'
The Big Bang
The Big Bang is the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe, and posits that the universe exploded into existence from a single point about 14 billion years ago.
According to the theory, in an instant quicker than the blink of an eye, matter and energy, as well as space and time, were suddenly born.
But according to the authors, who are both Christians, such an action dictates there was some kind of higher being that could have triggered it.
In their book, the duo ask if 'it really such a leap to entertain the possibility of a creative act' behind the Big Bang.
'The Big Bang forces us into a corner,' they say in their book.
'To put it bluntly, it brings us face-to-face with the idea of God.
In the book, Bollore and Bonnassies distil insights from 62 Nobel Prize winners and more than 100 leading scientists
This timeline plots the expansion of space since the Big Bang; space, including hypothetical non–observable portions of the universe, is represented by the circular sections
The Big Bang theory
The Big Bang is a cosmological model, a theory used to describe the beginning and the evolution of our universe.
It says that the universe was in a very hot and dense state before it started to expand 13.7 billion years ago.
This theory is based on fundamental observations.
In 1920, Edwin Hubble observed that the distance between galaxies was increasing everywhere in the universe – meaning galaxies had to be closer to each other in the past.
'The fact that we cant really think about the time before the Big Bang, as the categories of time, space and matter simply do not apply, lends credence to the idea of a creative act.
'If there was mathematical information before the Big Bang, who is the incredible "programmer" behind such code?'
It was back in 1965 when two astronomers in New Jersey provided pivotal evidence confirming the theory of the Big Bang.
For the first time, they discovered cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the radiation left over from the birth of the universe, considered the Big Bang's leftover glow.
However, half a century later, there is still not an alternative theory that's supported by experimental observations, the French mathematicians point out.
'We wait in vain,' they add.
A fine–tuned universe
Life only exists on Earth due to a precise combination of factors – such as just the right temperatures, our planet's protective magnetic field and the proportion of oxygen in the atmosphere.
The Creation of Adam, a fresco painting by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, shows the moment humanity was created through the hands of God – a new book by two French mathematicians claims science now backs up the idea of one creator
Other 'vital parameters' include the 'perfect' inclination of Earth's axis of rotation and the thickness of its ozone layer, protecting us from the sun's deadly radiation.
More broadly, everything in the universe is governed by essential forces – such as the strong force, the weak force and the electromagnetic force.
The researchers point out that these constants carry a series of numbers or values, calculated by some of the finest scientific minds such as German physicist Albert Einstein.
Either these 'fine–tuned' numbers are the 'result of chance' – one that is only infinitesimally unlikely – or they come from 'complex calculations of a highly intelligent creator God', say Bolloré and Bonnassies.
'For some of these numbers, a very slight variation by even a distant decimal point would have yielded an unrecognizable Universe, and we would not be here to talk about it,' they write.
This school of thought, known as the fine–tuned universe hypothesis, conjures the image of an almighty creator in the heavens twiddling dials and knobs.
While this image may be a leap of the imagination, the alterative belief that the universe 'is a purposeless accident' is less backed by the perfectly calibrated numbers.
DNA and the human genome
DNA forms part of a 'unique, sophisticated and coordinated coding system' that points to the existence of an 'intelligent designer'
Professor Stephen Hawking: 'There is no God'
Professor Stephen Hawking's last 'profound realisation'was that there is no afterlife or supreme being.
'We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God,' he said.
'No one created the universe and no one directors out fate. This leads me to a profound realisation: there is probably no heaven and afterlife either. I think belief in the afterlife is just wishful thinking.
'There is no reliable evidence for it, and it flies in the face of everything we know in science. I think that when we die we return to dust.
'But there is a sense we live on, in our influence, and in the genes we pass to our children.'
Theoretically, Earth might have existed without harboring the wonderfully diverse range of plants and animals that it does today – but somehow life found a way.
Around four billion years ago, inert matter became the earliest primitive lifeforms and DNA mysteriously came into existence.
The improbability of the 'enormous leap' from inert matter to life is 'dizzying', the French mathematicians explain – and chance alone 'cannot explain the appearance of life'.
In 1953, the discovery of DNA's double–helix structure by Sir Francis Crick and James Watson revealed the existence of a single encoding language common to all lifeforms.
More recently, in 2003, scientists built on the work of Crick and Watson to map the human genome – the entire set of DNA instructions found in a cell.
Crick, himself an atheist, admitted a complex structure like DNA could not have appeared by chance' – and appeared to be 'almost a miracle'.
DNA forms part of a 'unique, sophisticated and coordinated coding system' that points to the existence of an 'intelligent designer'.
Bolloré and Bonnassies suggest life arose when it did due to natural laws set in place by God in the very beginning, or the result of a special intervention by the same creator.
Professor Stephen Hawking's last 'profound realisation'was that there is no afterlife or supreme being. Pictured: Professor Hawking in January 2007
Albert Einstein often recognised the necessity for an 'infinitely superior' being responsible for the creation of the world - although he never acknowledged any personal God or followed any particular religion
'In the last 50 years, we have discovered that the complexity of life surpasses anything we could have imagined,' they say. 'Today's leading figures in science have been humbled by this fact.'
Einstein's theory of relativity
Albert Einstein – who described himself as 'not an atheist' but didn't embrace religion either – developed the Theory of Relativity between 1905 and 1917.
The theory, which altered our understanding of physics, says time, space, matter and energy and interrelated and that no single one of them can exist without the other.
It says light, and specifically the speed of light, is the only 'constant' in the universe – and everything else is relative, even time.
Some Christians have interpreted the theory as proof that God exists by drawing comparisons between light and God – both unchanging constants.
Notably, the Bible says 'God is light' and repeatedly uses the word 'light' to describe an all–present God – such as 'I am the light of the world' and the 'Lord is my light and my salvation'.
The theory says time would stop if something was travelling at the speed of light – while comparably God is eternal, having no beginning and no end.
Albert Einstein's 'God letter'
Einstein penned his famous letter 'God letter' to religious philosopher Erik Gutkind in 1954 as a critical response to his book.
'The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish,' he said in the letter.
He adds: 'No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.'
Although Einstein didn't present this religious interpretation as truth, aspects of his theory certainly support the belief that God exists.
Quantum mechanics
Of all the scientific discoveries in the 20th century, few have left scientists dumbstruck like quantum physics.
Classical models of physics cannot explain the world of quantum mechanics, which challenge our understanding of reality.
For example, a phenomenon called quantum entanglement describes two particles and their properties becoming linked without physical contact with one another.
In recent years, French physicist Alain Aspect, a Nobel prize winner, demonstrated quantum entanglement between two particles about 40 feet apart that were 'dialogued instantaneously' with each other.
Quantum experiments like that have made it clear 'that within the realm of physics there is another later of reality,' the duo say in the book.
'The twentieth–century discovery of the quantum nature of our world – which shows that it is indeterminate and radically subject to chance – is metaphysically essential,' they added.
Einstein penned his famous letter 'God letter' to religious philosopher Erik Gutkind in 1954 as a critical response to his book
'It provides indirect confirmation of the thesis that God exists while undermining the determinist positions held by atheist scientists of the nineteenth century.'
Overall, the authors insist that the evidence for God's existence is 'abundant, clear and rational', and their arguments are grounded in 'reason and careful analysis'.
'Traces of God's actions' in the universe are far more tangible than those of aliens, they add – but somehow scientists spend more effort to finding the latter.
'We are living in extraordinary times,' they conclude in the book.
'Although this shift has gone largely unnoticed by the general public, we are in the midst of an intellectual paradigm shift that fundamentally redefines our approach to the question of God's existence.'
The English–language version of 'God, the Science, the Evidence' has been published in paperback by Palomar
Professor Stephen Hawking's big questions - and his answers
1. Is there a God? 'There is no God. No one directs the universe.'
2. How did it all begin? 'In a hot Big Bang.'
3. Is there other intelligent life in the Universe? 'There are forms of intelligent life out there. We need to be wary of answering back until we have developed a bit further.'
4. Can we predict the future? 'No and yes. In principal the laws allow us to predict the future but in practice it is too difficult.'
5. What is inside a Black Hole? 'Falling into a black hole is definitely bad news. If it were a stellar mass black hole your would be made into spaghetti before reaching the horizon'
6. Is Time Travel Possible? 'Travel back in time can't be ruled out according to our present understanding'
7. Will we survive on Earth? 'The present world order has a future but it will be a very different one.'
8. Should we colonise space? 'I expect within the next hundred years we will be able to travel to anywhere in the Solar System'
9. Will Artificial Intelligence outsmart us? 'A super-intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing goals and if those goals aren't aligned with ours we're in trouble.'
10. How do we shape the future? 'Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.'
Project Aquiline was one of the most unusual and complex spying projects during the Cold War. The idea was to create 12 bird-shaped drones powered by nuclear energy that could fly for up to a month. These drones were meant to be robotic spy planes and deliver secret items, but the project was never finished.
The CIA wanted Aquiline to be the first uncrewed system for gathering intelligence. Its goal was to gather information in areas where access was restricted secretly. The drone, designed by McDonnell Douglas (a defense company known for fighter jets), was very different from the company’s usual aircraft.
Aquiline was a small drone meant to be kept as close to bird-like size as possible—five feet long, 7.5 feet wide, and a takeoff weight of 83 pounds—under the constraints of the time’s technology. A silent 3.5-horsepower, four-cycle engine would give the drone a speed of 47 to 80 knots and an endurance of 50 hours and 1,200 miles. Aquiline’s maximum altitude was estimated at 20,000 feet. CIA file: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/aquiline
Project Aquiline. CIA
Nuclear power was supposed to make Aquiline fly even farther. The CIA suggested adding a system that would use the heat from decaying radioactive materials like plutonium to create electricity. This system, made for deep space missions, would allow the drone to stay in the air for up to 30 days or travel 36,000 miles.
Aquiline was built to carry cameras and spy equipment. It could take photos from a lower height than the U-2 spy plane and collect electronic signals from radios, radar, and other devices for later study.
The CIA described Aquiline as a “small, bird-like surreptitious vehicle with sufficiently small acoustic, visible, and radar cross-section to permit it to operate in the natural physical signal environment of living birds.” Radars and human sentries at sensitive sites would mistake Aquiline for a bird and pay little attention to it.
Aquiline would be launched, controlled, and brought back by mobile teams on the ground. These teams could operate Aquiline from areas near the Soviet Union or China, like Taiwan, Turkey, Norway, or other places, to make sure the drone could fly over enemy land for a longer time.
The small drone would send its data to a modified DC-6 (later switched to a U-2R spy plane) flying nearby. This way, the drone wouldn’t need to carry its data storage, since storage at the time was bulky and heavy, using punch cards, tape, or large hard drives, which would use up too much weight and power.
The concept of the Aquiline includes bird feathers painted on its wing. The drone would have been a very radioactive bird.
The bird drone was supposed to be developed at Area 51, with various documents listing the personnel requirements and what it would take to regularly fly engineers to and from the mysterious base. The program was top secret, with access doled out on a strictly “need-to-know” basis. The program was so secret that it recommended personnel be recruited two years before the first flight to ensure enough personnel could pass the necessary security checks.
In 1969, the CIA agreed with the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Corporation (MDAC) to start working on technologies for the Aquiline program. In 1970, people were sent to Area 51 to begin flight testing. This testing was planned to end in early 1971 when the contract was finished. It was expected that by then, a functioning Aquiline drone would be ready, and the program would become fully active.
Exact specifications and design details are scarce, but what is known is that Aquiline drones were made to resemble birds and featured a single-tail propeller. Initially, the prototypes were powered by chainsaw motors. In one memo in the CIA’s reading room, the Aquiline drone is referred to as a “high characteristic operating model plane with a lot of expensive gadgetry.”
Sensor systems were embedded in the aircraft’s nose and included optical cameras infrared sensors, and even electronic intelligence packages. The drones were intended to have also been able to drop “black box” sensor systems into hostile territory, as well, so some form of payload-carrying capability must have been included in at least some of the Aquiline designs. Specifically, one of the CIA’s documents states that one of the test drones was designed to carry payloads weighing up to five pounds.
The Aquiline drones were hard to spot during testing, so engineers painted one bright orange to make it easier for a chase plane to see during a test flight. Even with the paint, the chase plane crew still had trouble spotting the drone in the air.
The exact range of the Aquiline drones remains unknown and is redacted in all of the CIA’s declassified documents.
However, one account states that Aquiline was able to fly for 130 miles while obtaining “very high-resolution photography,” while another document states one of the proposed mobile control units would have a range of 1,200 miles. A dedicated satellite was planned to offer a long-distance communications link for Aquiline drones but was never launched.
Aquiline drones had an impressive design, but they had a big problem: they didn’t have landing gear. Instead, they had to land by crashing into nets. This often damaged the drones’ wings and propellers, leading to delays because of constant repairs. Three Aquiline prototypes were destroyed during these landings.
In a personal account hosted on RoadrunnersInternationale.com, a site that preserves “the history of the aviation pioneers and programs that developed the U-2, A-12 ,and YF-12 during the Cold War,” John H. Meierdierck, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, offers a brief recollection of the Aquiline program as he remembered it, writing:
The vehicle was a six-foot-long plane that had a small pusher prop and looked like an Eagle or Buzzard when it was in the air. It was designed to fly at very low levels along communications lines and intercept their messages. It also had a small television in the nose as an aid to navigation and to photograph targets of opportunity. There were several successful flights some crashes [reason unknown] and some lousy landings.
It’s unclear why Aquiline was canceled. It was meant to be a very complicated program, dealing with issues like stealth, data transfer, and propulsion in a tiny design. Using a nuclear power source would have made it even more complicated, and the technology of the 1960s might not have been enough to handle it.
Aquiline also depended on a trick, and if the Soviets or Chinese discovered it, their anti-aircraft weapons or MiG jets could have easily shot it down. In the end, Aquiline was just an idea held by a few people in the intelligence community.
If the rumors are to be believed, there’s a chance an example or two of Aquiline still exists among the other strange birds caged up in the darkness at Area 51.
HET GLOBALE BEELD VAN DE SLANG IN DE WERELD: Waarom de symboliek van slangen in elke oude cultuur voorkomt.
HET GLOBALE BEELD VAN DE SLANG IN DE WERELD: Waarom de symboliek van slangen in elke oude cultuur voorkomt.
Inleiding
Het beeld van de slang als symbool doorkruist de mensheid als een constante die zich uitstrekt over tijd en ruimte. Van de sluierachtige schilderingen in grotten tot de hiërogliefen in het oude Egypte, van de kronkelende figuren in de wandelgangen van de Griekse mythologie tot de heilige iconografie in India en de symbolische voorstellingsvormen in China en de precolumbiaanse culturen: vrijwel elke oude cultuur lijkt een serpent te erkennen als drager van betekenis. Maar waarom lijkt deze beeltenis zo universeel?
Dit essay tracht een wetenschappelijke onderbouwing te bieden voor de bewering dat snake-symboliek niet slechts incidenteel voorkomen is, maar een structureel echootje van een gemeenschappelijke menselijke ervaring met de natuur, de biologie van slangen, en de existentiële vragen omtrent leven, dood, cycles en transformatie. De centrale stelling is dat serpent als symboliek komt voort uit een combinatie van (1) ecologische en biogeografische realiteiten van slangen en hun rol in voedselketens, (2) de zintuiglijke indrukken die slangen op mens en dier maken—kracht, subtiliteit, kwetsbaarheid en ook gevaar—en (3) de diepe menselijke neiging om waargenomen orde en betekenis te projecteren op buitenwereldse tekenen via mythevorming en ritueel.
Theoretisch kader
Om serpent-symboliek te plaatsen in een wetenschappelijk kader, biedt het antropologisch- en mythologisch repertoire een combinatie van comparatieve mythologie, cultuurpsychologie en symbolische antropologie. De comparatieve aanpak erkent dat soortgelijke beelden kunnen voorkomen zonder directe culturele overdracht, maar wijst tegelijk op patronen die coherente verklaringen bieden als er systematische overeenkomsten bestaan. Cultuurpsychologie betoogt dat symbolen vaak functioneren als cognitieve instrumenten waarmee mensen complexe ervaringen verwerken: angst, hoop, onzekerheid, zingeving en oriëntatie in de wereld. Ten slotte wijst de iconografie naar gerealiseerde praktijken: rituelen, kunst en architectuur leveren materiële bewijzen van hoe serpentijn-symbolen worden ervaren en ingezet in identiteitsvorming, legitimatie van macht en genezing.
Hoewel de term serpentiner symbool in verschillende tradities uiteenlopende betekenissen kan hebben, vertonen veel culturen een dubbelzinnige karakterisering: slangen vertegenwoordigen zowel potentieel gevaar als vernieuwing, zowel verleiding als kennis, zowel herbouwen als vernielen. Deze ambiguïteit maakt de slang uitermate geschikt om de paradoxen van de menselijke ervaring te symboliseren: leven en dood, ziekte en genezing, verleiding en ethiek, orde en chaos. Een dergelijk pluriform gebruik vereist een systematische vergelijking van kenmerken, contexten en functies van serpentijn-symboliek door middelen van archetypisch denken, rituele praktijk en iconografische industrie.
Een artistieke weergave van de Australische Regenboogslang (bron)
Oorsprong en betekenislagen: historische voorbeelden
Om de universaliteit van de slang te onderbouwen, helpen enkele klassiek gedocumenteerde voorbeelden uit verschillende regio’s om de breedte van de fenomenologie te illustreren:
Egypte en de mediterrane wereld:de ophanging van de cobra (ucht in de heilige slang), samen met de uraeus, is een emblem van koninklijke beschermingsmacht en goddelijke autoriteit. De cobra fungeert als lijfwacht tegen de demonische jagers, maar draagt tegelijk symboliek van genezing en regeneratie door zijn associatie met het oog van de godin Wadjet. Deze dubbelzinnige rol benadrukt de wijze waarop een serpent een bron van zowel bescherming als potentieël gevaar is.
Mesopotamië en het Nabije Oosten: in Mesopotamische kunst en literatuur verschijnen slangen als wevers van geneeskracht en als de beheerders van geheimen, vaak in relatie tot de hemel en de onderwereld. De slang wordt soms geassocieerd met dammen van water, koele adem en de cyclical manifestaties van seizoenen. Hier zien we de combinatie van praktische associaties (water, genezing) met mythologische en cosmologische betekenissen.
Zuid-Azië en Índia: in de teksten van de Upanishads en in de iconografie rond Shiva en zijn cyclus van vernieuwing, verschijnt de naga of serpent als symbool van bewustzijnsverruiming en Kunda-linie van Kundalini. Slangen worden zowel geacht te beschermen als te drijven tot een transformatie-ervaring. Deze traditie toont een spirituele dimensie waarin de slang staat voor innerlijke wijsheid, rijpingsprocessen en de orde van kosmische krachten.
Oost-Azië en China: in sommige Chinees-Daoïstische en Boeddhistische tradities verweven slangen zich in de symboliek van aarde en water, en fungeren ze als wevers van translated harmony tussen hemel en aard. De draak is soms, in westerse interpretaties, verwant aan serpentijnbeelden, maar in bepaalde milieu-contexten blijft de slang een bemiddelaar tussen natuurlijke cycli en menselijke orde.
Midden- en Zuid-Amerika: in precolumbiaanse culturen treffen we serpentijnen aan in reliëfs en beeldhouwwerk die zowel leven-groeien als onderwereld-symbolen kunnen omvatten. De cobra-achtige figuren en de serpente-figuren die zorg dragen voor landbouw en regen weerspiegelen een preoccupatie met wedergeboorte en vruchtbaarheid.
Deze gevarieerde voorbeelden illustreren een patroon: serpentijn-symboliek treedt op als interface tussen menselijke tussenkomst en natuurlijke orde, als teken van kwetsbaarheid en kracht, als kanaal voor rijping en transformatie, en als middelen voor het vestigen van macht en gezondheid. Cruciaal is de waarneming dat dit fenomeen zelden enkel op uiterlijke kenmerken terug te brengen is, maar veeleer verweven is met maatschappelijke functies, rituelen en de wijze waarop een samenleving haar existentiële onzekerheden ordent.
De vlag van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie van de VN (bron)
Ecologische en biologische overwegingen
Een belangrijke dimensie bij het verklaren van de wijdverspreide serpentijn-symboliek is de ecologie van slangen zelf. Slangen bezitten kenmerken die ten grondslag liggen aan de aantrekkingskracht en de potentieel angstwekkende impact: elasticiteit van beweging, het vermogen om als predator te opereren, de lange periode waarin ze verstopt kunnen zijn en plotselinge, vaak onvoorspelbare aanvallen, evenals hun verschillende nageslachtstrategieën en giftige werking. Deze combinatie van kavernose stealth, potentieel gevaar en een scala aan adaptaties maakt slangen tot krachtige metaforen voor zowel bescherming als risico. Vanuit een ecologisch standpunt tonen slangen een buitengewone veelzijdigheid: ze evolueerden in diverse habitats—woestijn, tropisch regenwoud, graslanden, rotsachtige kloven—en ontwikkelden camouflagekleuren en -patronen die hen helpen prooi te besluipen of te ontsnappen aan vijanden. Hun gedrag is vaak subtiel en doch berekend; ze kiezen momenten van activiteit zorgvuldig, wat symbolisch aansluit bij het idee van kennis die in schaduwrijke en verborgen omgevingen heerst. Bovendien spelen hun sociale en weerspiegelende aspecten een rol: sommige soorten paren voor een korte periode met duidelijke hiërarchie, terwijl andere solitair leven maar toch deel uitmaken van complexe ecologische netwerken. De relatie tussen slangen en hun prooi is geregeld via trage of snelle jachtstrategieën, wat de associatie met geduld en precisie versterkt. Ten slotte beïnvloedt de giftige aard van sommige soorten de symboliek rondom macht over leven en dood, wat een kwetsbaar, maar noodzakelijk evenwicht in natuurlijke systemen benadrukt en als krachtige metafoor voor de menselijke wereld dient.
Angst en respect voor zijn eigen lichaamskenmerken: slangen bewegen zonder wapperende ledematen en gebruiken hun slanke, soepele lichaamsbouw om zich te verplaatsen en te herbergen in kleine ruimtes. Dit maakt hen buitengewoon effectief in stealth en ambush-technieken, wat taboes en gevaren symboliseerbaar maakt in veel culturen. Het idee van een onzichtbare dreiging draagt bij aan de symbolische associatie met geheimhouding en kennis die zich in verborgen sferen afspeelt. Biologisch gezien bezitten slangen geen poten en een gewichtloze wendbaarheid die hen in staat stelt in kleine scheuren en ondergronds te gedijen. Die eigenschap creëert een beeld van onaanschouwelijke macht: de ratelslang kan zich snel verplaatsen zonder waarschuwing, terwijl constrictors prooi verzwakken door omarming. De flexibiliteit van hun wervelsegmenten biedt tevens een demonstratie van economisch gebruik van energie en beweging—een les in efficiëntie die in verhalen vaak wordt vertaald naar het vermogen om barrières te doorbreken of te ontwijken. Het feit dat veel slangen hun kop, huid en zintuigen zo hebben aangepast dat ze zowel waakzaam als bedrieglijk lijken, versterkt het idee van kennis als sluimerende kracht die pas bij de juiste prikkel realiseert. In rituele en maatschappelijke verhoudingen weerspiegelt dit hoe men onzichtbare risico’s herkent en toch met respect benadert.
Genezing en vergif:de geneeskrachtige associatie ontstaat door de relatie tussen slangen en geneesmiddelen, wat soms letterlijk is (geneeskrachtige kruiden geassocieerd met slangen). Tegelijkertijd is er de giftigheid van veel slangen het symbool van potentie en gevaar, en dit dualistische beeld werkt als een metafoor voor de scheidslijn tussen genezing en vergif in de menselijke ervaring. Biologisch gezien spelen verschillende functies een cruciale rol: de stofwisseling van giftige slangen levert moleculaire bouwstenen op die in de geneeskunde onderzocht zijn—tand- en beetinjecties triggert het immuunsysteem op unieke manieren; sommige componenten zijn onderzocht voor pijnstilling of remming van cellulaire processen. Slangenhuid, evenals slijm en harsachtige afscheidingen, vertegenwoordigen beschermingsmechanismen, die in culturen vaak symbool staan voor reiniging en vernieuwing. De existentie van anticöpale of antivitamines in de biologie heeft geleid tot bredere metaforen over vernieuwing en voorzichtigheid in menselijke genezingspraktijken. Tegelijkertijd belicht de giftigheid de schijnbaar contradictorische realiteit van genezing: behandeling kan zowel genezen als schade veroorzaken afhankelijk van dosering, context en toediening. In mythologie en rituelen functioneert dit als les in evenwicht tussen helende krachten en gevaar, en onderstreept het hoe menselijke beslissingen zorgvuldig moeten worden genomen voor welzijn en herstel
Levenscyclus en regeneratie: het beeld van slangen die hun huid verliezen en zich vernieuwen, dient als krachtige metafoor voor wedergeboorte en vergankelijkheid. Dit aspect is essentieel voor de symboliek van transformatie: de slang wordt aangeroepen als beeld van vernieuwing en continuïteit in rituelen die de bevordering of hernieuwing van de menselijke gemeenschap omarmen. Biologisch gezien ondergaat elke slang een proces van huidvernieuwing dat regelmaat en herstel symboliseert, wat de grenzen van levenskracht en tijd benadrukt. Deze cyclus van groei, oud worden, en uiteindelijk ontmanteling in een nieuw huidwerkstuk fungeert als instrument van leerervaring: het oude wordt achtergelaten om plaats te maken voor het frisse, een proces dat mensen herinnert aan de noodzaak van verandering en aanpassing in tijden van onzekerheid. In verschillende culturen wordt de huidwisseling gevierd als symbool van reiniging, spirituele onthulling en de hernieuwing van toewijding aan gemeenschappelijke doelen. Bovendien is er een relatie met regeneratieve processen in ecologie: de huidafzettingen dragen bij aan de bodemkwaliteit en kunnen eco-systemen beïnvloeden door micro-ecosystemen te ondersteunen. Het combineren van deze biologische realiteit met spirituele interpretaties levert een diepgaande, veelzijdige resonantie op die in rituelen werkt als een brug tussen individuele transformatie en collectieve hoop. Daarmee fungeert de slang als archetype van vernieuwing die zowel de mens als de gemeenschap aanzet tot voortdurende aanpassing en groei.
Links: Een houten Uraeus uit de Ptolemaïsche periode in Egypte (305-30 v.Chr.), mogelijk van de buitenkant van een kist. Rechts: Uraeus van koperlegering uit de Late Periode (664 v.Chr. – 332 v.Chr.), uit Saqqara in Beneden-Egypte
(Foto's: Manchester Museum Collection Online)
Interpretatieve kaders en functionele rollen
Symbolisch werkt de slang in vele culturen als een polyvalente figuur die kan dienen als:
Beschermende macht:In talrijke culturele tradities fungeert de slang als een polyfunctie-figuur die een beschermende macht vertegenwoordigt. Het dier wordt vaak geplaatst op strategische plaatsen zoals ingangen van paleizen, tempels en heiligdommen, waar het als een waakzame entiteit optreedt die bedreigingen sketcht en indringers af- scheidt. Deze beschermende rol werkt zowel zichtbaar als symbolisch: zichtbaar in architectonische motieven en heraldiek, waar de slang vaak voorkomt als schild of embleem; symbolisch in rituelen en spreuken die gericht zijn op veiligheid en stabiliteit van de politieke orde. De slang fungeert als dyadische kracht, een beweging tussen waakzaamheid en bewaartechniek: enerzijds het functioneren als een alertend systeem dat risico’s opmerkt, anderzijds als een waarborg die orde bewaart door te reageren op verstoringen. Dit impliceert dat de slang niet alleen een symbolisch beeld is, maar ook een semiotisch instrument waarmee macht en autoriteit legitimeren en stabiliseren. In heilige contexten krijgt de slang bovendien een extra laag: zij bekrachtigt de gezaghebbende capaciteit van heersers doordat sabbaticale of ceremoniële returns van gevaar worden getypeerd als gecontroleerd door de beschermende aanwezigheid van het dier.
Genezend medium:De associatie tussen slangen en genezing is wereldwijd wijdverspreid en doordrenkt met zowel mythische als praktische connotaties. In vele tradities fungeert de slang als een medicijn-figuur die goddelijke of natuurlijke krachten kanaliseert ten gunste van gezondheid en herstel. Mythen schilderen vaak hoe slangen geneeswijzen leveren via aankleuringen, spreuken of rituele handelingen, waarbij hun samentrekkende beweging en vergankelijke schubbenles een archetypische taal vormen voor geneeskracht die in het lichaam wordt ingezet. De slang verschijnt bijvoorbeeld als medisch symbool in tempels, apotheekinsignes en in artefacten die helende eigenschappen worden toegeschreven aan de goden die aan deze dieren verbonden zijn. Daarnaast weerspiegelt de verbinding tussen slangen en genezing een bredere epistemologie: kennis van medicinale planten, zuiveringen en preventieve ceremonies kan worden doorgegeven door symbolische legaten, die de gemeenschap helpen ziekten te voorkomen en lichamelijke en spirituele welvaart te beschermen. Deze rol onderstreept ook hoe genezing niet uitsluitend lichamelijk is, maar veeleer een geïntegreerde ervaring van lichaam, geest en ritueel verbonden met de kosmos.
Verdieping van kennis en initiatie:Slangen zijn in veel tradities nauw verbonden met toegang tot verborgen kennis en cartografen van initiatie. Het dier markeert vaak de overgang van onwetendheid naar begrip, door middel van verhalen, rituelen en leertrajecten die pas toegankelijk worden bij een bepaalde rite de passage of inwijding. De serpentijn symboliek werkt als metafoor voor het pad dat van schijnbare chaos naar orde leidt: het dwalen door schaduwrijke kamers van het weten, waarbij de slang zowel als gids als poortwachter optreedt. Initiatiesets, esoterische leringen en mystieke tradities situeren de slang in een context van geheimhouding en verantwoordelijkheid: degenen die de kennis willen dragen, moeten door een proces van beproevingen en zuivering gaan waarin de slang wordt gereciteerd als mentor en testpunt. Dit gebruik maakt van serpentijn symboliek tot markeerder van overgang: het moment waarop onbeheersbare nieuwsgierigheid wordt omgezet in systematische, gecodeerde kennis en waaruit handelen in de wereld wordt onderscheiden als geïnformeerde wijsheid in plaats van impulsieve actie. Zo versterkt de slang de sociale orde door toegang tot de meest intieme waarheden te reguleren en te controleren.
Kosmische orde en cycli:De herhaalde voorstelling dat slangen in dialoog staan met hemel, aarde en onderwereld plaatst hen als representanten van kosmische orde en rituele tijdperken. In veel mythen fungeert de slang als een mediator tussen de verschillende zones van bestaan: bovenwereld, onderwereld en de aardse sferen, waarbij zij de grenzen tussen deze rijken bewaakt en tegelijkertijd meebewoogt met de cyclus van creation, vernietiging en hernieuwde geboorte. De serpente symboliek belicht hoe tijd en ruimte worden ervaren als cyclisch en continu: seizoenen, migratieroutes, en heilige kalenders worden gezien als een voortdurende dans waarin de slang als katalysator of bewaker optreedt. Bovendien verschijnt de slang in rituele kosmologieën als een drager van orde die de orde van regels, wetten en taboes handhaaft, zodat de samenleving in harmonie met de kosmische cycles kan blijven. Door de archetypische aanwezigheid van de slang wordt duidelijk hoe culturen orde en ritueel tijdsverloop verankeren in mythische beelden die geheugen, identiteit en collectieve verantwoordelijkheid vasthouden.
Een artistieke weergave van de slangachtige gorgon Medusa door Arnold Böcklin, 1878 (bron)
Kritische evaluatie en methodologische overwegingen
Hoewel de globaal-wijdverspreide aanwezigheid van serpentijn-symboliek overtuigend lijkt, is er kritisch debat nodig over enkele kernpunten:
Is er echte convergente symboliek of diffusie via cultuurcontact? Met andere woorden: zijn de overeenkomsten te herleiden tot vroeg contact tussen beschavingen of uitdijende universele menselijke cognitie? Een combinatie van beide scenario’s lijkt het meest plausibel: onafhankelijke convergentie aangevuld met uitwisseling en adaptie via handel, migratie en interculturele uitwisseling. In een dergelijk frame moeten onderzoekers de simultane werking van factoren onderscheiden: cognitieve stereotypen die menselijke perceptie sturen, de rol van materiële uitingen zoals artefacten en schrift, en de wijze waarop handelroutes en steden als knooppunten fungeren voor kruisbestuiving van ideeën. Empirische benaderingen kunnen bestaan uit vergelijkende typologieën van serpentijn-symboliek, dateringsanalyses en protocollen voor contextuele codering van vondsten. Daarnaast is het van belang om culturele entiteiten als dynamische systemen te benaderen, waarin symbolen zowel genereren als gerecupereerd worden door latere generaties. Zo ontstaan hybride symbolische repertoires die wrijvingen between differentiatie en overeenkomst weerspiegelen.
Wat is de rol van taal en retoriek in de interpretatie van symbolen? De productie van mythologische verhalen is niet losstaand van de taal die wordt gebruikt en de sociale context waarin deze verhalen worden verteld. Symbolen kunnen van betekenis veranderen door retorische hercontexualisering. Taal fungeert als infrastructuur waarop symbolische betekenissen worden gebouwd, gemobiliseerd en aangepast aan specifieke doelen: legitimering van macht, verantwoording van rituele handelingen, of het scheppen van coherentie in tekensystemen die anders lijken te contradictief. Retorische keuzes—emphase, metaforische overdrijving, en polysemie—kunnen leiden tot divergentie in interpretatie tussen groepen met vergelijkbare symboliek. Bovendien beïnvloedt de sprekerlijke register, ceremonieel of dagelijks, de gevoelde urgentie en de emotionele lading van de symbolen. Methodologisch vereist dit een analyse van discursieve contexten, tekstuele varianten, en performatieve praktijken, evenals de studie van vertalingen en adaptaties over tijd en ruimte.
Hoe verhouden functionele en rituele functies zich tot individuele psychologische processen? Het is onmiskenbaar dat collectieve symboliek spontane uitdrukking geeft aan individuele emoties en existentiële zorgen, maar de mogelijkheid van variatie in interpretatie moet altijd worden erkend. Rituelen bekrachtigen sociale cohesie en structureren de beleving van onzekerheid—ze bieden voorspelbaarheid in onzekere omstandigheden en fungeren als coping-mechanismen tegen existentiële angst. Tegelijkertijd kunnen individuen unieke psychologische drijfveren projecteren op symbolen: persoonlijke trauma’s, verlangens naar controle, of de behoefte aan autonomie. Dit doseert de groepsbetrokkenheid met individuele subjectiviteit en verklaart waarom symbolen soms harmoniseren en soms polariseren. Een robuuste benadering combineert etnografische observaties, psychologische tolk-methoden en cultuuranalytische modellen die rekening houden met variatie in identiteiten, leeftijd, gender en lokale context. Zo kunnen we beter begrijpen hoe collectieve betekenissen privépsychologische-lagen beïnvloeden.
Wat is de invloed van macht en ideologie op de interpretatie van serpentijn-symboliek? Symbolen kunnen fungeren als instrumenten van heersende elites: ideologische middelen die tradities legitimeren of transgressie in het sociale contract reguleren. Macht beïnvloedt niet alleen welke symbolen worden gekoesterd, maar ook hoe ze worden gepresenteerd, gecodificeerd en ingezet bij beleidsvorming of controletactieken. Symbolische vormen kunnen weerstand signaleren, maar tegelijk verinnerlijken leiderschap en autoritaire narratieven. De interpretatie van serpentijn-symboliek kan dus variëren naargelang de politieke context: waar hegemonie heerst, wordt symboliek vaak geïnstrumentaliseerd om structurale ongelijkheid te rechtvaardigen; in periodes van protest kan dezelfde symboliek transgressie markeren en uitdaging uitlokken. Een methodologisch kader omvat discoursanalyse, bronnenkritiek van proclamaties en rituele praktijken, en een historisch-comparatieve benadering die machtsrelaties expliciet traceert door tijd. Zo krijgen we inzicht in hoe symboliek dient als brug tussen cultuur en politiek, en hoe ideologie het geheugen en de normatieve orde vormgeeft.
Empirische bronnen en methodologische benaderingen
Om deze vragen te beantwoorden, kunnen verschillende wetenschappelijke benaderingen worden gecombineerd:
Archeologisch-ikonografische analyse: bestuderen van reliëfs, beeldhouwwerk en voorwerpen waarin slangen voorkomen, waarbij rekening gehouden wordt met context, locatie en tijd waarin deze objecten werden vervaardigd.
Tekstanalyse en vertaling: bestuderen van literaire teksten (mythen, wetten, religieuze teksten) waarin slangen een rol spelen, met aandacht voor metaforische taal en rituele betekenissen.
Vergelijkende mythologie: systematisch vergelijken van serpentijn-figuren over regio’s heen om terugkerende thema’s te identificeren.
Michelangelo’s “Val en Uitdrijving uit de tuin van Eden”
Wetenschap van dieren en ecologie: integreren van biologische kennis over slangen, giftigheid, voortplanting, gedrag en fysiologie om de plausibiliteit van symbolische associaties te evalueren.
Ritueel en sociologisch veldwerk: documenteren hoe serpentijn-symboliek levendig is in hedendaagse rituelen en hoe deze rituelen in historische context kunnen worden geïnterpreteerd.
De Olmec-stèle van Chalcatzingo, met zijn zeven slangen die uit het hoofd van het centrale figuur ontspruiten, is geen geïsoleerd symbool: in Mesopotamië werden de Anunnaki-goden ook afgebeeld met slangen als bewakers van verborgen kennis; in Egypte markeerde de Uraeus—de heilige cobra op het voorhoofd van de farao's—de verbinding met het goddelijke; en in India bewaakten de Nagas de poorten naar andere werelden. Al deze verre culturen lijken dezelfde code te hebben overgeërfd: de slang als kosmische energie, verboden kennis, of zelfs als teken van contact met andere rijken. Toeval, of sporen van dezelfde moedercultuur die oude volkeren leidde onder het symbool van het heilige reptiel?
Conclusie
De bewering dat serpentijn-symboliek in vrijwel elke oude cultuur voorkomt, getuigt van een dieper liggende menselijke neiging: het zoeken naar ordening onder onzekere omstandigheden, het interpreteren van de natuurlijke wereld als een drager van betekenis en het aangaan van rituele praktijken die de grens tussen concreet en transcendent proberen te overbruggen. Slangen imponeren niet slechts door hun lichamelijke verschijning of giftigheid; zij fungeren als complexe metaforen voor thema’s die alle menselijke samenlevingen raken: bescherming en gevaar, kennis en verleiding, verandering en continuïteit, gezondheid en ziekte. Door een gecombineerde benadering—die ecologie, mythologie, ritueel praktijk en sociaal-politieke context meeneemt—kunnen we niet alleen de rijkdom van serpentijn-symboliek verklaren, maar ook de wijze waarop mensen vandaag de dag symbolische systemen gebruiken om hun wereld te begrijpen, zin te geven en hun gemeenschappen te verbinden.
Dankzij deze benadering wordt duidelijk dat serpentijn-symboliek geen toevallige verzameling van verhalen is, maar eerder een sleutel tot een bredere cognitieve en culturele infrastructuur. Het universalisme ervan wijst op een gedeelde menselijke intelligentie die de ervaring van de wereld vertaalt naar betekenisvolle beelden. Slangen, in al hun variaties, fungeren als microkosmische spiegels waarin de menselijke zoektocht naar orde, genezing, macht en morele oriëntatie wordt geprojecteerd. Het bestuderen van deze symboliek blijft een vruchtbare onderneming die ons niet alleen historisch inzicht geeft, maar ook actuele vragen kan beantwoorden over hoe wij vandaag betekenis geven aan angst, hoop en transformatie.
Literatuurverwijzing en suggesties voor verder onderzoek
Een systematische vergelijking van serpent-symboliek vraagt om een breder corpus: typologieën van serpentbeelden in de prehistorie, oudheid en middeleeuwen.
Diepte-analyse van mythologische teksten die slangen centraal stellen, met aandacht voor retorische functies en koesterende thema’s (bescherming, genezing, wijsheid).
Interdisciplinaire samenwerking met biologie en ecologie om de relatie tussen echte slangen en symbolische betekenissen te onderzoeken.
Fieldwork in hedendaagse gemeenschappen die nog rituelen rond slangen praktiseren, om de continuïteit van archaïsche betekenissen te documenteren en te interpreteren.
Uiteindelijk onthult het onderzoek naar The Global Serpent niet slechts de symbolische wijdverspreidheid van de slang, maar ook de diepte van het menselijke vermogen om de natuurlijke wereld te lezen en te vertalen naar morele, spirituele en maatschappelijke kaders. Het is een bewijs van de kracht van beeldtaal in menselijke cultuur: een ogenschijnlijke eenvoudige verschijning als de slang kan een venster zijn op de complexiteit van menselijke kennis en de continue zoektocht naar orde in een wereld vol onzekerheden.
Secret Chinese Space Shuttle Caught in Satellite Photo
Secret Chinese Space Shuttle Caught in Satellite Photo
This article is a work of speculative investigative journalism. It examines rumors surrounding a supposed “secret Chinese space shuttle” captured in a satellite photograph. It does not claim that such a vehicle exists or that the image is authentic or verified. Instead, it analyzes how satellite imagery, geopolitics, and media narratives intersect to produce compelling but often misleading stories. Readers are invited to consider how such claims arise, how they could be verified or debunked, and what the broader implications would be if genuine evidence emerged.
A rumor in orbit: the lure of a secret shuttle In the era of high-resolution commercial satellites, a single image can ignite a wildfire of speculation. A blurred silhouette on the edge of a high-orbit photo, or a shot of a gleaming, winged vehicle tucked among cargo ships and desert scrub, can spark headlines and a rush of social media activity. The strongest appeals of such a story lie not in the photograph alone, but in the political imagination it awakens: national pride, strategic superiority, the possibility of a silent, unseen asset in space that could alter the balance of power. When a claim is framed as “secret” or “hidden from public view,” it hits a nerve for readers who suspect that their government or rival powers are withholding information that would matter to global security.
Yet the mechanics of proving a claim about a “secret shuttle” are notoriously difficult. Space programs—whether manned or unmanned—are complex, with layers of public documentation, procurement pipelines, and visible milestones. A legitimate breakthrough typically produces a traceable record: launch manifests, design reviews, and sometimes even education and contractor announcements. When a claim rests on a single satellite image, the burden of proof shifts toward multiple corroborating signals: verifiable satellite metadata, independent corroboration by other sensors, and, ideally, official acknowledgement or a public leak that is subsequently corroborated. In the absence of these, an image becomes a symptom of speculation, a retouched rumor, or a misunderstanding of ordinary space hardware.
The anatomy of a persuasive image What makes a satellite photo compelling is not just its content but the context in which it is presented. Analysts look for certain cues:
Resolution and sensor characteristics: A genuine image will carry metadata—satellite name, orbit altitude, and timestamp—that can be cross-checked. If the metadata is missing or inconsistent, the claim becomes dubious, though not automatically false, since metadata can be stripped or manipulated.
Known hardware silhouettes: Engineers and space historians develop intuition for what is feasible given the known capabilities of current launch vehicles, orbital stages, or reusable systems. A “secret shuttle” would require a highly unusual combination of propulsion, airframe design, and thermal protection that would, plausibly, have visible features detectable in other data streams.
Telemetry and corroboration: If multiple independent satellites capture the same object from different perspectives, the picture grows stronger. If only a single image exists, it remains vulnerable to manipulation or misinterpretation.
Production quality: A convincing image can still be a hoax, but the more professional the image, the greater the temptation for interest groups to seed misinformation, either for political gain or to test the public’s willingness to believe sensational claims.
The historical parallel:past “secret” projects and the danger of confirmation bias There is a long history of rumors about secret space hardware. Projects that were officially disclosed later often turned out to be less sensational than rumored, while some genuine advances remained classified for longer than the public could easily verify. The cautious approach is to place any current claim within that historical frame: the fact that a claim exists does not equate to its truth; the absence of official confirmation is not confirmation of falsehood either—but it does set a high bar for credibility.
How to evaluate a satellite photograph claim responsibly If a journalist, researcher, or policy analyst encounters a claim about a “secret Chinese space shuttle” in a satellite image, a responsible approach involves a structured verification process:
Source assessment: Where did the image come from? What is the chain of custody? Are there independent confirmations of the image’s authenticity?
Metadata and sensor analysis: Can the image’s metadata be recovered? What satellite captured it? What is the ground resolution, radiometric quality, and atmospheric conditions at the time of capture?
Cross-comparison: Are there other images or sensor data (optical, radar, infrared) that show the same object? Do other sites report similar observations?
Historical consistency:Does the image fit within what is publicly known about that country’s space program, its launch cadence, and its reusability efforts? Are there any recent official statements or budget announcements that would align with or contradict the claim?
Expert consultation:Aerospace engineers, satellite image analysts, and space policy scholars can help parse whether a silhouette could realistically be a shuttle-like vehicle, a test platform, a payload, or a misidentified object such as a standard booster, a debris fragment, or cloud shadows.
China's Proposed Cargo Shuttle, the Haolong
Why a secret shuttle claim stands out in the Chinese context China’s space program has consistently demonstrated rapid progress and ambitious goals, including crewed missions, lunar exploration, and plans for a space station. This environment can create fertile ground for rumors about concealed capabilities. Three features shape the discourse:
Strategic signaling:A claim about a “secret shuttle” is, in part, a narrative device—an indicator that a power is moving beyond conventional boundaries, potentially changing deterrence calculations and alliance dynamics.
Domestic transparency vs. international scrutiny: Chinese space ventures, like those of many nations, operate within a broader political framework. When a story surfaces in international media or on social platforms, it can be read through the lens of competition and credibility, regardless of the factual basis.
Media ecosystems and misinformation: In the digital age, stories spread quickly across disparate platforms, amplified by sensational wording and dramatic visuals. The same image can be repurposed to serve different agendas, from geopolitical posturing to commercial satire.
Image: CCTV
What would count as credible evidence?To elevate the claim beyond speculation, several conditions would need to be met:
Independent verification: Multiple reputable organizations or agencies would need to confirm the existence of a vehicle that resembles a shuttle, preferably with disclosed technical plans or mission objectives.
Official acknowledgment or leakage with corroboration:An official statement from the country’s space agency, or an authenticated leak from a credible insider, would move the needle significantly.
Technical feasibility and public policy alignment:The claimed design should be plausible within known technical constraints and align with the country’s publicly stated space ambitions, budgets, and timelines.
The ethics of publishing unverified claims Journalists and researchers bear responsibility for how they present unverified claims. Labeling something as rumor, framing it as a possibility rather than a confirmed fact, and clearly distinguishing between image analysis, speculation, and reporting are essential. The temptation to publish dramatic headlines for clicks must be resisted when it risks spreading misinformation or stoking geopolitical tensions. Responsible reporting involves seeking corroboration, explaining uncertainties, and avoiding sensationalism that could damage diplomatic relations or public perception.
What if the claim were true? hypothetical implications If, in a hypothetical scenario, credible, independently verified evidence of a secret space shuttle were released, the implications would be wide-ranging:
Strategic balance and defense policy: Verification of a secret operational asset would trigger reassessments of space defense doctrines, arms control considerations, and alliance commitments. It would prompt questions about transparency norms in space security discussions.
International norms and transparency: A breakthrough or secret capability would likely spur calls for new treaties or confidence-building measures to prevent misunderstandings in a crowded orbital environment.
Economic and technical ripple effects:The disclosure could reframe national industrial policy, accelerate investment in related technologies, and influence global supply chains for space hardware and software.
This undated photo shows a model of China's Haoloong space cargo shuttle which will debut at the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China, in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong province.
(PHOTO / XINHUA)
A constructive path forward for readers For readers who encounter sensational claims about space hardware, a practical path is to approach with healthy skepticism, engage with primary sources, and seek out expert analyses. Consider the following steps:
Check the provenance of the image and any accompanying metadata.
Look for independent verification from credible aerospace or space policy sources.
Assess whether the story relies on a single image or multiple corroborating data streams.
Read across different perspectives, including official statements, independent researchers, and security analysts.
Distinguish between legitimate curiosity and speculative sensationalism, especially when geopolitical stakes are high.
A closing reflection: the power and perils of a single photograph In the end, a single satellite image can illuminate possibilities, but it cannot alone prove or disprove a sweeping claim about secret space programs. The human appetite for dramatic discoveries—especially in space, a realm associated with wonder and national pride—will continue to generate headlines fueled by curiosity, suspicion, and occasionally, mischief. The best journalism in this space, as in any other, will blend disciplined verification with thoughtful context, clarify uncertainties, and resist the lure of narratives that require us to suspend critical thinking.
Majestic 12-documenten: Achter de geheimhouding van Amerika’s geheime UFO-programma Majestic 12-documenten
Majestic 12-documenten: Achter de geheimhouding van Amerika’s geheime UFO-programma Majestic 12-documenten
In december 1984 arriveerde er een onopvallend pakketje bij Jamie Shandera, een televisieproducent uit Los Angeles met een fascinatie voor UFO’s. In het pakket zat een onontwikkelde rol 35mm film. Toen deze werd ontwikkeld, onthulden de beelden wat leek op geclassificeerde overheidsdocumenten met stampers “TOP SECRET/MAJIC” die een buitengewoon verhaal presenteerden: een geheime commissie van twaalf invloedrijke wetenschappers, militaire leiders en overheidsfunctionarissen, opgericht door president Harry S. Truman in 1947 om gevonden buitenaardse vaartuigen en lichamen te onderzoeken.
Deze stukken, al snel bekend als de “Majestic 12”- of “MJ-12”-documenten, vormen ofwel de meest ingrijpende openbaarmaking in de geschiedenis, of een van de meest geavanceerde hoaxes ooit gepleegd. Bijna vier decennia lang hebben ze vurige discussies ontketend onder onderzoekers, inlichtingendiensten en skeptici. Als ze authentic zijn, zouden ze ons begrip van de menselijke geschiedenis en staatsgeheimen radicaal veranderen.
Ikzelf heb decennia lang documenten geanalyseerd en via de Freedom of Information Act verzoeken informatie opgevraagd over onverklaarde luchtverschijnselen. De MJ-12-controverse illustreert hoe lastig het is om de waarheid vast te stellen als men geconfronteerd wordt met materiaal dat zich bevindt op het snijvlak van nationale veiligheid, geclassificeerde informatie en buitengewone beweringen.
Oorsprong van de MJ-12-documenten
Het MJ-12-saga begon in december 1984, toen een Los Angeles-seizoenproducent en ufoloog genaamd Jaime Shandera een anoniem pakket ontving op zijn adres. Binnenin zat een onontwikkelde 35mm-filmrol die poststempels bevatte uit Albuquerque, New Mexico. Na ontwikkeling bleken de beelden acht pagina’s te bevatten van een geklasseerde briefingdocument daterend van 18 november 1952. Dit “Eisenhower-brieffdocument” beweerde dat vice-admiraal Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (voormalig CIA-directeur) president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower informeerde over de teruggevonden twee gecrashte UFO’s en de resten van hun buitenaardse inzittenden. Aan de briefing was een éénbladige memo van president Truman gehecht, gedateerd 24 september 1947, waarin zogenaamd de oprichting van een “Majestic 12”-groep werd geautoriseerd om de teruggevonden ruimteschepen en wezens te onderzoeken.
Begin 1985 gingen Shandera en zijn collega William L. Moore (ufoloog en coauteur van The Roswell Incident) op tip naar de Amerikaanse National Archives op zoek naar verwijzingen naar “MJ-12.” Ze vonden een memo van 14 juli 1954 van de assistent van president Eisenhower, Robert Cutler, aan generaal Nathan Twining (Air Force Chief of Staff) waarin werd gesproken over een “MJ-12 Special Studies Project”-vergadering. Deze Cutler/Twining-memo, per toeval in een obscure map gevonden, leek het bestaan van Majestic 12 te bevestigen – al wezen sceptici er later op dat generaal Cutler op de datum van de memo eigenlijk in het buitenland was, waardoor de memo hoogstwaarschijnlijk een hoax was.
Het MJ-12-verhaal bleef vooral bekend bij UFO-insiders totdat 1987, toen de Britse auteur Timothy Good een kopie van de documenten verkreeg en aankondigde ze naar buiten te brengen. Moore en Shandera gingen publiek met hun oorspronkelijke film en met de Cutler/Twining-memo in mei 1987. Het nieuws over het vermeende geheime comité maakte dagelijkse krantenkoppen en leidde tot een mediastorm. Grote kranten- en televisie-programma’s (waaronder The New York Times en ABC’s Nightline) berichtten over de controverse. De plotselinge publiciteit bracht de Amerikaanse overheidsdiensten ertoe te reageren en markeerde het begin van een hevig debat dat tot op de dag van vandaag voortduurt.
Belangrijke beweringen en inhoud van de documenten
De MJ-12-documenten doen dramatische uitspraken over UFO-incidenten en overheidsgeheimhouding. De kern is een rapport over de beroemde Roswell-zaak: volgens het Eisenhower-brieffdocument vond op 7 juli 1947 een geheime operatie plaats om puin van een gecrasht buitenaards schip in New Mexico te bergen. Tijdens de berging zouden de strijdkrachten volgens de stukken vier kleine menselijke wezens hebben aangetroffen (buitenaardse lichamen) die waren uitgevlogen uit het vaartuig en in de woestijn waren omgekomen. De documenten beschrijven dat het geredde buitenaardse vaartuig en de lichamen werden weggevoerd voor wetenschappelijke analyse, waarbij alle informatie streng geheim werd gehouden.
Om de situatie te beheersen, stellen de documenten dat president Truman in september 1947 een uitvoeringsbevel heeft uitgevaardigd dat Operation Majestic-12 oprichtte. Dit was beschreven als een “Top Secret/Eyes Only”-comité van toponderzoekers, wetenschappers, militaire leiders en inlichtingenfunctionarissen belast met het onderzoeken van de Roswell-crash, het exploiteren van buitenaardse technologie en het afhandelen van toekomstige UFO-incidenten. Het memo van Truman (gericht aan minister van Defensie James Forrestal) zou Forrestal en Dr. Vannevar Bush hebben gemachtigd om door te gaan met het MJ-12-project en alle benodigde regelingen te treffen om de hoogste geheimhouding te bewaren. Het latere Eisenhower-brieffdocument (18 november 1952) somt Operation Majestic-12 op – Voorlopig Briefing voor President-Elect Eisenhower. Het blikt terug op vroege UFO-waarnemingen (zoals de beroemde Kenneth Arnold-waarneming in juni 1947) en verklaart dat teruggevonden buitenaardse vaartuigen en lichamen onder het MJ-12-programma worden bestudeerd. Het briefing-document bevatte zelfs gruwelijke details van Roswell, waaruit bleek dat vier ontbonden buitenaardse wezens waren gevonden op twee mijlen van de crash-site en autopsieën waren verricht.
De MJ-12-papers schetsen bovendien hoe de overheid de buitenaardse bevindingen verborgen hield voor het publiek en hoe men samenwerkte met wetenschappelijke en militaire inlichtingendiensten. Ze geven aan dat de Majestic 12-commissie rechtstreeks en uitsluitend verantwoording aflegde aan de President van de Verenigde Staten. In een passage wordt benadrukt hoe extreem gevoelig het project is, met “exclusive control of MJ-12” en dat alleen een speciale geclassificeerde uitvoeringscommande (Truman’s bevel van 24 september 1947) de bevoegdheid ervan vestigde. Het Eisenhower-brieffdocument sluit af met de verwachting van een vollediger operationeel briefing zodra Eisenhower aanzit, wat impliceert dat de aankomende president in de UFO-geheimen zou worden ingelijfd.
Het documenten-pad
Hoe MJ-12 uit de schaduwen kwam De aanvankelijke MJ-12-materialen die Shandera ontving, bevatten twee belangrijke documenten: een zogenaamd memo van Truman aan minister van Defensie Forrestal dated 24 september 1947, waarin “Operation Majestic-12” werd opgericht, en een briefingpapier, zogenaamd voorbereid voor President-Elect Eisenhower in november 1952. Shandera deelde zijn ontdekking met collega’s Moore (co-auteur van The Roswell Incident) en de natuurkundige Stanton Friedman, die begonnen met het onderzoeken van hun authenticiteit.
De spanningsdiamant verzwaarde zich in 1985 toen Moore en Shandera beweerden anonieme tips te hebben ontvangen die hen naar de National Archives brachten. Daar ontdekten ze wat bekend werd als het “Cutler-Twining-memo” — een document van Robert Cutler (Special Assistant to the President Eisenhower) aan generaal Nathan Twining, waarin wordt verwezen naar een “NSC/MJ-12 Special Studies Project”-vergadering. Deze vondst was opmerkelijk omdat het de enige MJ-12-referentie in officiële archieven betrof.
“Ik herinner me de opwinding toen ik die documenten voor het eerst zag,” vertelde een voormalige onderzoeker van de National Archives me. “Het idee dat we fysiek bewijs konden hebben van een geheime UFO-commissie was ongekend. Maar al snel verschenen er rode vlaggen naast de verleidelijke details.”
In de daaropvolgende jaren verschenen aanvullende documenten. In 1994 ontving UFO-onderzoeker Don Berliner een anonieme zending met wat bekend werd als de “Special Operations Manual,” met als ondertitel “Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal,” gedateerd april 1954. Een andere onderzoeker, Tim Cooper, ontving daarna talloze vermeende MJ-12-documenten via een mysterieuze bron met het pseudoniem “Cantwheel,” die beweerde connecties te hebben met de “Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit.”
Tegen het late-1990s-tijdvak was er meer dan 3.500 pagina’s van ogenschijnlijk MJ-12-documentatie opgedoken uit verschillende bronnen, wat onderzoeker Ryan Wood een “Majestic document trove” noemde.
In de documenten
Beweringen over gecrashte schotels en buitenaardse lichamen De kern-JM-12-documenten beschrijven de oprichting van een topgeheim comité na de terugkeer van een gecrasht buitenaards vaartuig bij Roswell, New Mexico, in juli 1947. Volgens deze stukken rapporteerde de operatie dat ze “rechtstreeks en uitsluitend aan de President van de Verenigde Staten” verantwoordelijk waren en de onderzoeking van zowel teruggevonden technologie als biologische entiteiten afhandelden.
Het Eisenhower-brieffdocument stelt dat “vier kleine menselijke wezens” werden gevonden die waren uitgestoten uit een “schijfvormig vaartuig” nabij Roswell. Allen waren dood en leden aan blootstelling en predatie. De rommel en lichamen zouden naar Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio zijn gebracht voor analyse. Een tweede crash zou hebben plaatsgevonden in 1950 nabij de grens tussen Mexico en Texas, bij El Indio en Guerrero.
De documenten noemen twaalf prominente mannen als de oorspronkelijke MJ-12-leden:
Admiraal Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (Eerste CIA-directeur)
Dr. Vannevar Bush (Voorzitter van de National Defense Research Committee)
Secretaris James Forrestal (Eerste Minister van Defensie)
Generaal Nathan F. Twining (Commandant Air Material Command)
Generaal Hoyt S. Vandenberg (Chef van de Staaf van het Luchtleger)
Dr. Detlev Bronk (Medisch fysicus en fysioloog)
Dr. Jerome Hunsaker (Luchtvaartingenieur, NACA-voorzitter)
Sidney W. Souers (Eerste Directeur van Central Intelligence)
Gordon Gray (Secretaris van het Leger, Nationale Veiligheidsadviseur)
Dr. Donald Menzel (Astronoom en astrofysicus)
Generaal Robert M. Montague (Commandant van Sandia Base)
Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner (Fysicus en ingenieur)
Het Special Operations Manual verschaft buitengewone details over het omgaan met buitenaardse biologische entiteiten (EBE’s) en hun technologie, met specifieke classificatieprotocollen voor verschillende typen teruggewonnen materiaal. Het bevat instructies voor het beveiligen van crashplaatsen, het vervoeren van exemplaren en het handhaven van absolute geheimhouding.
De documenten zijn in de loop der jaren uitgebreid met vermeende autopsies van aliens, technische analyses van voortstuwingssystemen en strategische beoordelingen van de potentiële “buitenaardse dreiging.”
De authenticiteitsstrijd: echte documenten of uitgebreide fictie?
Sinds het ontstaan van de MJ-12-documenten is er hevige scepsis over hun echtheid. De debatten blijven vandaag voortduren met overtuigende argumenten aan beide zijden.
Het sceptische kamp stelt dat in 1988, toen de documenten vanuit het Air Force Office of Special Investigations werden ontvangen, de FBI een kort onderzoek deed en ze “volledig nep” verklaarde. Archivisten bij de National Archives identificeerden tal van problemen met de Cutler-Twining-memo, waaronder onjuiste beveiligingsmarkeringen en het ontbreken van registratienummers.
Onderzoeker Philip J. Klass bepaalde dat de handtekening van Truman op het MJ-12-document een exacte fotokopie was van een echte Truman-memo aan Vannevar Bush uit 1947, inclusief dezelfde krasmarkeringen. Verder blijkt uit bronnen dat Robert Cutler, de vermeende auteur van de Cutler-Twining-memo, in feite in het buitenland was op 14 juli 1954, de datum waarop de memo zogenaamd werd geschreven.
“De inconsistenties zijn voor iedereen met verstand van overheidsdocumenten duidelijk,” vertelde een voormalige militaire archivarier me. “Classificeringsmarkeringen, papiertypes, handtekeningprotocollen – dit zijn geen dingen die men zomaar kan faken zonder insiderkennis, en de MJ-12-papers bevatten talrijke fouten.”
Echter, Stanton Friedman, een kernfysicus en een van de meest gerespecteerde UFO-onderzoekers, werd de belangrijkste verdediger van de authenticiteit van de documenten. In zijn boek Top Secret/Majic presenteerde Friedman gedetailleerde argumenten ter ondersteuning van hun legitimiteit.
Friedman merkte op dat de documenten details bevatten over geclassificeerde projecten en individuen die in 1984-1985 niet publiekelijk bekend waren maar later via gedeclassificeerde stukken werden bevestigd. Hij wees op specifieke details zoals beursdata en beveiligingsprotocollen die overeenkwamen met andere geverifieerde documenten uit die periode.
Misschien wel het overtuigendste punt
Friedman betoogde dat Truman een autopen-machine gebruikte voor handtekeningen, wat de identieke markeringen zou kunnen verklaren. Hij vond bovendien talrijke voorbeelden van de betwiste datumvorming in echte overheidsdocumenten, wat een van Klass’ belangrijkste bezwaren weerlegt.
“Wanneer je de specifieke beweringen van de sceptici werkelijk onderzoekt,” vertelde een documentenspecialist mij, “ontdek je dat ze vaak geen stand houden onder kritiek. De authenticiteitskwestie is veel genuanceerder dan beide zijden doorgaans toegeven.”
Donald Menzel
De scepticus met een geheim leven Het meest intrigerende aspect van het MJ-12-verhaal draait om Dr. Donald H. Menzel, een Harvard-astronoom die publiek UFO-rapporten probeerde te ontkrachten door middel van boeken en mediaoptredens. Zijn aanwezigheid op de MJ-12-lijst leek in eerste instantie een flagrante fout of een gemakkelijk te herkennen hoax te suggereren: waarom zou een vooraanstaand wetenschapper als Menzel betrokken zijn bij een geheime commissie die buidellaardse apparaten bestudeert? Maar, zoals Friedman later toeschreef, blijkt Menzel op mysterieuze wijze veel nauwere banden te hebben met het Amerikaanse inlichtingennetwerk dan het publiek ooit vermoedde.
Uit FOIA-verzoeken en archiefonderzoek blijkt dat Menzel lange tijd nauw samenwerkte met de National Security Agency en, via connecties bij de Navy, toegang had tot een reeks “restricted projects” die zelden aan het grote publiek werden onthuld. Dit suggereert een complexer patroon van samenwerking tussen wetenschappers die publiek scepticisme prediken en de stille wereld van nationale veiligheid die buiten het bereik van de nieuwsgierige ogen opereert. Het brengt een paradox naar voren: iemand die publiekelijk de beste UFO-verhalen in twijfel mocht trekken, kon toch diep verankerd zijn in een net van geheime informatie-uitwisseling en cryptografische kennis die de kern raakt van klassificatie en informatiebehandeling.
Menzel’s rol in de MJ-12-discussie werd bovendien ondersteund door een reeks documenten en logboeken die later naar voren kwamen in FOIA-verzoeken en teruglezingen van krantenarchieven. Sommige onderzoekers suggereren dat zijn “sceptische” positie mogelijk diende als een soort legitimatie voor officiële onderzoeken met een semantische dekking van scepticisme, waardoor de overheid gemakkelijker kon blijven communiceren in termen van “geen bewijs voor buitenaards leven” terwijl er in werkelijkheid verschillende niveaus van geheimhouding bestonden. Anderen menen dat Menzel daadwerkelijk een actieve rol heeft gespeeld in het coördineren van wetenschappelijke analyses die later konden worden hergebruikt voor de publieke claims dat “alle UFO-waarnemingen op niets uitliepen.”
In het bredere beeld lijkt Menzel een geval te zijn van hoe de scepticus zelf onderdeel kan zijn van een groter speelveld waarin informatie en non-information elkaar afwisselen. Zijn werk aan de astronomie en zijn publieke debatten over UFO’s gaven hem een autoriteitspositie die zowel door studenten en leken als door beleidsmakers werd erkend. Dit maakte zijn vermeende betrokkenheid bij MJ-12 niet alleen schokkend, maar ook verhelderend in termen van hoe geheimhouding en academische reputatie met elkaar verweven kunnen raken.
De rol van de National Archives en andere officiële bronnen
Naarmate de jaren vorderden, werd het duidelijk dat de discussie rondom MJ-12 niet enkel een zaak was van onsamenhangende stukken en anonieme brieven, maar ook van de manier waarop officiële bronnen worden geïnterpreteerd en gepresenteerd. De National Archives, de FBI, en het Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) speelden een cruciale rol in hoe deze documenten werden bekeken, geclassificeerd en al dan niet verklaard als authentiek of nep. De sceptici wezen erop dat, zelfs als een document in een archief terechtkomt, de context en de metadata – zoals datums, schrijfrichting, schriftuur en de technische achtergrond van de gebruikte beveiligingsmarkeringen – essentieel zijn om de echtheid te bepalen.
Het AFOSI en de FBI voerden in 1988 een kort onderzoek uit waarin werd geconcludeerd dat de MJ-12-documenten “volledig nep” waren. Archivisten bij de National Archives wezen op een aantal inconsistenties, waaronder onjuiste beveiligingsmarkeringen, ontbrekende registratienummers en mogelijke duplicatie van oudere memo’s. Deze bevindingen werden door sceptische onderzoekers aangehaald als aanwijzingen voor vervalsing. Tegelijkertijd geloofden anderen, waaronder sommige onderzoekers die de stukken bestudeerden, dat de combinatie van authentieke elementen en gemanipuleerde details een klassieke hoax-techniek vormde: de overdaad aan realistische elementen maakte het verhaal plausibel, terwijl kleine maar kritieke fouten het mogelijk maakten om geloofwaardigheidsverlies te creëren als men die fouten expliciet zou benadrukken.
Onderzoeker Philip J. Klass, een van de meest bediscusseerde stemmen in het veld van ufologie, leverde een van de meest scherpe argumenten tegen de authenticiteit van MJ-12. Hij analyseerde de handtekening van Truman op de MJ-12-documenten en concludeerde dat het een exacte fotokopie was van een echte Truman-memo aan Vannevar Bush uit 1947, inclusief dezelfde krasmarkeringen. Dit soort overeenkomsten leek op het eerste gezicht een sterke aanwijzing voor authenticiteit, maar Klass wees erop dat dezelfde tekenmatige werkelijkheidskenmerken ook in voorhanden kritische hoaxes konden worden gerepliceerd, vooral door iemand met toegang tot high-level memorandums en ervaring met typografische praktijken van de tijd.
Desalniettemin blijft Stanton Friedman, zoals eerder genoemd, een van de meest invloedrijke verdedigers van de echtheid van een deel van de MJ-12-documenten. Friedman gaf in zijn boek Top Secret/Majic gedetailleerde argumenten waarom sommige inhoudelijke elementen kloppen ten opzichte van wat later in de declassificeerde bronnen naar voren kwam. Hij wees op specifieke details, zoals data, beveiligingsprotocollen en namen die overeenkwamen met het bredere historische landschap van de jaren vijftig en eerder. Friedman betoogde ook dat Truman een autopen-machine gebruikte voor handtekeningen, wat de plausibiliteit van de handtekeningen verhoogde vanwege de technologische context van die tijd. Hij betoogde bovendien talrijke voorbeelden van dezelfde datumvorming in echte overheidsdocumenten, wat in zijn ogen een sterke aanwijzing vormde tegen de claim dat alles gefabriceerd zou zijn.
Toch blijft de debatoverheerlijking rondom MJ-12 vooral gepolijst door de ontbrekende “kolom van onomstotelijk bewijs” – een klassiek begrip in de wereld van geopolitieke documentanalyse. Voor elke bewering van authenticiteit is er wel een tegenargument dat het tegenovergestelde suggereert, en vice versa. Dit maakt de MJ-12-zaak idealiter geschikt voor een bredere discussie over de betrouwbaarheid van geheime documenten die zichzelf als getuigen van een mega-samenspel presenteren.
Autopsies, technologie en de toekomst van onderzoek
Een van de meest schokkende aspecten van de MJ-12-documenten is de claim dat er autopsies van buitenaardse lichamen zijn uitgevoerd en dat dit soort wetenschappelijke analyses al in de vroege jaren vijftig werden uitgevoerd in instellingen die streng geclassificeerd waren. De beschrijvingen van autopsies, voortstuwingssystemen en bevindingen met betrekking tot buitenaardse technologie zetten de toon voor een mogelijk exclusief onderzoeksveld waarin radiaal nieuwe vormen van voertuigentechnologie en bio-mechanische antilichamen zouden kunnen worden blootgelegd. Het idee dat biologische entiteiten bestudeerd en gedocumenteerd werden in een streng beveiligde omgeving, hand in hand met technische experimenten, heeft de verbeelding van veel UFO-onderzoekers en liefhebbers aangewakkerd.
Maar zoals elke claims in dit domein, vereist dit een streng, methodologisch verantwoorde benadering. Het begrijpen van de pseudohistorische structuur van de MJ-12-documenten en het onderscheiden van feit en interpretatieve constructies blijft een uitdaging. Moderne methoden voor documentanalyse – waaronder digitale forensische technieken, metadata-analyse, en cross-referenties metikhailische archieven – kunnen nieuwe inzichten bieden. Daarnaast spelen openheid en de bereidheid om de zwakke plekken in het verhaal te erkennen een cruciale rol bij het heropenen van het debat op een productieve manier.
De rol van het publiek en de media
De publieke belangstelling voor MJ-12 is nooit verdwenen. Het verhaal heeft een blijvende aantrekkingskracht vanwege zijn dramatische reikwijdte: een geheime commissie die mogelijk de koers van de menselijke geschiedenis heeft beïnvloed door het accepteren of negeren van buitenaardse waarheden. Media-aandacht heeft hierin een dubbelrol gespeeld. Enerzijds heeft het bijgedragen aan de verspreiding van fascinerende maar onvermijdelijk speculatieve informatie; anderzijds heeft het juist de verantwoording en het nadenken over nationale veiligheid versterkt. In de hedendaagse tijd, waar informatie snel verspreid wordt via sociale media en digitale platforms, groeit de uitdaging om de echtheid van een stuk documentatie kritisch te evalueren zonder in generalisaties of sensationele claims te vervallen.
Een andere relevante factor is de rol van “whistleblowers” en anonieme bronnen. In de MJ-12-case waren het vaak anonieme zendingen en tip-offs die de oorspronkelijke documenten in omloop brachten. De manier waarop zulke brieven en artefacten worden gebundeld en gepresenteerd – soms als een combinatie van authentic references en heroic myths – kan een beeld schetsen dat zowel intrigerend als misleidend is. Dit vereist een publiek debat waarin wetenschappelijke nauwkeurigheid, archivarische zorgvuldigheid en een verantwoord scepticisme centraal staan.
Conclusies en de huidige status
Het MJ-12-verhaal blijft een verhaal met meerdere lagen. Aan de ene kant bestaat er een consistente en overtuigende narratief, dat een geavanceerde en strikt gecontroleerde innerlijke cirkel van macht en kennis beschrijft die slechts aan een select gezelschap is voorbehouden. Aan de andere kant bestaan er duidelijke aanwijzingen voor inconsistenties, aangevuld met de realistische kritiek van archivarissen en forensische onderzoekers die de echtheid van de kerndocumenten in twijfel trekken. Deze tweespalt zorgt voor een voortdurende, maar productieve dialoog: wat is echt, wat is mogelijk, wat is een interpretatie, en wat is volledig fictief?
Wat we vandaag kunnen aannemen, is dat de MJ-12-documenten een belangrijke katalysator zijn geweest voor bredere discussies over nationale veiligheid, openbaar beleid en de spanning tussen transparantie en geheimhouding. Ze hebben bijgedragen aan een cultuur waarin het idee van een verborgen waarheid over buitenaardse aanwezigheid, en de bereidheid van een staat om die waarheid te beschermen, een onderwerp werd van legitieme publieke interesse en academische studie. Hoewel de meeste onderzoekers er nu op staan dat veel van de documenten waarschijnlijk vervalsingen of opsommingstijdgenieën bevatten, blijft hun onderstroom – de vraag of er ooit een reëel, operationeel geheime programma was dat de publieke ruimte beïnvloedt – bestaan.
Tot slotvormt de MJ-12-zaak een les in kritisch denken en historiciteit. Voor onderzoekers betekent dit:
Wees voorzichtig met anonieme bronnen en test always de primaire bronnen grondig;
Let op valuta van documenten, handtekeningen, typefaces en referenties;
Plaats documenten in hun historische context en kruisverbind ze met de declassifice van andere officiële archieven;
Houd rekening met de menselijke factor: intrige, reputatie en narratieve troeven kunnen evenveel wegen als feiten wegen;
Bewaar een gezonde scepsis over claims die te mooi of te vijandig lijken om waar te zijn.
Hoewel de raid op de waarheid bij MJ-12 nog steeds gaande kan lijken, illustreert deze zaak perfect hoe geheimhouding, wetenschappelijke nieuwsgierigheid en publieke verlangen naar antwoorden elkaar kunnen kruisen en botsen. Voor ons als hedendaagse lezers is het de moeite waard om te blijven vragen: Waar eindigt geloofwaardigheid en waar begint fictie? En hoe ver kunnen en moeten wij gaan in het nastreven van de waarheid, wanneer die waarheid misschien verder weg is dan we ooit hadden kunnen vermoeden?
Een oproep tot openheid en nieuwe onderzoeken
Het verhaal van Majestic 12 laat zien dat het verzamelen van bewijs, het hechten van labels aan bronnen, en het interpreteren van documentatie een voortdurend proces is. Het zou zinvoller zijn als toekomstige inspanningen gericht zijn op het vergroten van transparantie en samenwerking tussen historici, archivarissen, wetenschappers en beleidsmakers. Daarvoor kunnen enkele concrete stappen worden ondernomen:
Een onafhankelijk, publiek toegankelijk archiefproject dat alle bestaande MJ-12-documenten verzamelt, exact dateert en annotateert met commentaar van experts uit verschillende disciplines.
Periodieke, transparante herzieningen van de status van de documenten, inclusief duidelijke uitleg over welke stukken als authentiek worden gezien en welke als twijfelachtig.
Interdisciplinaire onderzoeken die niet alleen ufologie bestuderen, maar ook de sociologie, de politieke geschiedenis en de media-analyse betrekken om de maatschappelijke impact van deze documenten beter te begrijpen.
Een streng peer-reviewproces voor elke bewering die voortkomt uit deze documenten, inclusief replicatiepogingen van forensische analyses en het verifiëren van anonieme bronnen via meerdere, betrouwbare kanalen.
Daarbij blijft de menselijke verlangen naar antwoorden intact, maar in een wereld waarin de hoeveelheid informatie exponentieel groeit en de verleiding van sensationeel nieuws groot is, is het juist belangrijker dan ooit om methodologisch streng en eerlijk te zijn. Het MJ-12-verhaal kan ons leren dat, zelfs als de ultieme antwoorden niet onmiddellijk beschikbaar zijn, het proces van onderzoek, dialoog en auditieve kritiek zelf een waardevol doel op zich kan zijn.
Tot slot
Een waarschuwing en een uitnodiging Het is essentieel om te erkennen dat sommige delen van het MJ-12-verhaal mogelijk nooit volledig kunnen worden opgehelderd. De aard van geheimhouding betekent dat er aantoonbaar geen onbeperkt toegang zal zijn tot alle relevante documenten, en sommige details kunnen voor altijd in een klein groepje verzonken blijven. Desalniettemin kan de universele les hieruit bestaan uit het koesteren van nieuwsgierigheid, zorgvuldigheid bij de interpretatie van bronnen, en de bereidheid om publieke discussies te blijven voeren. De MJ-12-documenten herinneren ons eraan dat waar geschiedenis en geheimhouding elkaar ontmoeten, er altijd een risico is op misinterpretatie en misleiding. Maar ze bieden ook een kans: de kans om te leren hoe men de waarheid benadert in een wereld waarin de staat, wetenschap en het publiek elkaar voortdurend uitdagen.
In de komende decennia kan een hernieuwde interesse in de MJ-12-zaak leiden tot betere methoden voor het onderzoeken van paranormale en onverklaarde fenomenen in relatie tot nationale veiligheid. Dit vraagt om pluralistische benaderingen, waarin zowel sceptici als voorstanders van authenticiteit ruimte krijgen om hun standpunten te presenteren, maar ook waar erkend wordt dat de waarheid vaak in minder dramatische, maar uiterst betrouwbare details ligt. Als we dit pad volgen, kunnen we misschien ooit een stap dichter bij een genuanceerde, weloverwogen conclusie komen over wat er werkelijk achter Majestic 12 schuilgaat – of het nu een waarheid, een mythe, of een product van een complex samenspel van belangen is.
Majestic 12 is the ultimate ufology legend: a powerful committee covering up the truth about alien encounters; or an elaborate hoax designed to mislead and misdirect. Read on as we spill the gravi-tea.
In 1984, a series of government memos were leaked, purportedly revealing a coverup of galactic proportions: that, in 1947, President Truman had secretly assembled a committee of scientists and government and military officials codenamed the Majestic 12. Their task? To investigate the crash of an alien aircraft in the town of Roswell, New Mexico.
The twelve individuals named as members of Majestic 12 were all prominent figures in 1940s-50s government, military, and science circles. According to the documents, the original MJ-12 panel consisted of:
1. Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter – first Director of the CIA (allegedly the MJ-12 briefing officer and “MJ-1”).
2. Dr. Vannevar Bush – top scientific advisor during WWII (led the Office of Scientific Research and Development).
3. James V. Forrestal – U.S. Secretary of Defense (formerly Secretary of the Navy) in 1947.
4. Gen. Nathan F. Twining – commanding general of Air Materiel Command (later Air Force Chief of Staff).
5. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg – Air Force Chief of Staff (and former Director of Central Intelligence in 1947).
6. Dr. Detlev Bronk – biophysicist and chairman of the National Research Council.
7. Dr. Jerome Hunsaker – aerodynamic engineer and chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
8. Mr. Sidney Souers – first Director of Central Intelligence (Central Intelligence Group) under Truman, later NSC executive secretary.
9. Mr. Gordon Gray – Truman’s Secretary of the Army and aide to the National Security Council.
10. Dr. Donald H. Menzel – Harvard astronomer (notable as a public UFO-skeptic, which made his inclusion a surprise to many).
11. Gen. Robert M. Montague – Army general at Fort Bliss and deputy commander at Sandia Base (involved in ordnance research).
12. Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner – physicist and executive secretary of the military’s Research and Development Board.
The US Air Force has denied the existence of any such group. But, to many ufologists, this was yet another attempt to hide the truth. They argue that the group they call the Majic-12 or simply MJ-12 was very much real. And that they were the key to uncovering government activities relating to extraterrestrial phenomena.
So, what’s the truth about MJ-12? Are the Majestic twelve conspiracy theories right? Or was it more fiction than fact? The truth, or as much of it as is out there, is here for the reading.
The Origins of MJ-12
President Harry S. Truman
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In December of 1984 ufologist Jaime Shandera received an anonymous package. It contained a roll of film with photographs of a document marked “Top Secret / Majic eyes only.” It seemed to be a briefing paper dated 18 November 1952, in which Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter advised President-elect Dwight Eisenhower of the existence of a group called the Majestic 12.
The documents outlined a narrative that placed this group at the very heart of the US government. Created by the executive order of President Truman, this secret committee was seemingly tasked with recovering two spaceships which had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, and investigating the incidents. But that wasn’t all. Within the crashed craft were said to be the bodies of four alien beings.
So, was this evidence that human beings were not alone in the universe? And that the US government knew as much? Determined to find out, Shandera joined forces with fellow UFO enthusiast Bill Moore. Together, they searched the National Archives in Washington, where they discovered what became known as the Cutler/Twining memo.
The Cutler/Twining Memo
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The Cutler/Twining memo was sent by Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, Robert Cutler to the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Nathan F. Twining. Dated 14 July 1954, it confirmed the existence of the Majestic 12 or “MJ-12,” and their role investigating and controlling information regarding UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters, and alien technology.
Public Reveal and Scrutiny
US National Archives Building, Washington, DC
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It was only in June 1987 that Moore revealed the existence of the Majestic 12 at a UFO conference. Now in the public sphere, it wasn’t long before the Cutler/Twining memo and other MJ-12 documents came under intense scrutiny.
Several government departments refuted their authenticity, the FBI declaring them “completely bogus.” The National Archives released a statement listing numerous inconsistencies, such as the use of anachronistic language, incorrect formatting, and a lack of corroborating evidence.
The Eisenhower Library also confirmed that Robert Cutler was visiting foreign military installations on the date he supposedly wrote his infamous memo to General Twining. And thus could not have authored it.
The Majestic Twelve Conspiracy: Theories
What did Lonnie Zamora see?
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Despite the repeated denials of the Majestic twelve conspiracy, it nevertheless endures as a truth within parts of the ufologist community. Indeed, some argue that the refutations are all part of the coverup.
According to those who believe in the existence of Majestic Twelve, the group is still tasked even today with managing the retrieval and study of alien spacecraft and beings, suppressing information about their existence, and coordinating disinformation campaigns to discredit credible sightings. Enthusiasts speculate that MJ-12 continues to operate in secrecy, managing extraterrestrial-related incidents and influencing governmental policy on UFO disclosure.
Sceptics on the other hand point to the lack of any evidence beyond the documents, which they label as forgeries, and believe the entire idea of Majestic Twelve to be a hoax. However, even here, there’s uncertainty as to the perpetrators of the hoax. This is partly due to the assertion that the papers included some information that was in fact beyond the public sphere. This has led to speculation that the MJ-12 papers were actually misinformation distributed by none other than the FBI.
MJ-12 in Pop Culture
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The mythology surrounding Majestic 12 has inspired numerous books, films, and television series. The group has appeared in a host of popular fiction, often depicted as the sinister, all-powerful entity orchestrating global disinformation campaigns about alien encounters. In shows like The X-Files, Dark Skies, and The Umbrella Academy, and video games like Deus Ex, MJ-12 is portrayed as a secretive organisation pulling the strings behind the scenes, fueling fascination with government conspiracies and extraterrestrial phenomena in the public imagination.
The Ongoing Mystery of ‘Majic-12’
Artistic rendering of UFO in the sky
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Despite the controversy and scepticism, the mystery of Majestic 12 persists. The group’s alleged activities, coupled with the Cutler/Twining memo and other Majic-12 documents, continue to spark curiosity and debate among UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists alike.
However, rather embarrassingly for the preachers who predicted it, the supposed End of Days has now come and gone without incident.
Now, experts have revealedwhat the apocalypse will really look like.
And the bleak reality of human extinction is far more depressing than any story of Biblical annihilation.
From the deadly threat of rogue AI or nuclear war to the pressing risk of engineered bio–weapons, humans themselves are creating the biggest risks to our own survival.
Dr Thomas Moynihan, a researcher at Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, told Daily Mail: 'Apocalypse is an old idea, which can be traced to religion, but extinction is a surprisingly modern one, resting on scientific knowledge about nature.
'When we talk about extinction, we are imagining the human species disappearing and the rest of the universe indefinitely persisting, in its vastness, without us.
'This is very different from what Christians imagine when they talk about Rapture or Judgement Day.'
While TikTok evangelists predicted the rapture would come this week, apocalypse experts say that human life is much more likely to be destroyed by our own actions than any outside force - such as nuclear war (AI–generated impression)
Nuclear war
Scientists who study the destruction of humanity talk about what they call 'existential risks' – threats that could wipe out the human species.
Ever since humans learned to split the atom, one of the most pressing existential risks has been nuclear war.
During the Cold War, fears of nuclear war were so high that governments around the world were seriously planning for life after the total annihilation of society.
The risk posed by nuclear war dropped after the fall of the Soviet Union, but experts now think the threat is spiking.
However, the worrying prospect is that humanity could actually be wiped out by only a tiny fraction of these weapons.
The nine nations with nuclear weapons currently hold 12,331 nuclear warheads, which could lead to millions of deaths (AI–generated impression)
The five most likely causes of human extinction
1. Rogue AI
2. Nuclear war
3. Engineered bioweapons
4. Climate change
5. Natural disasters or asteroid strike
Dr Moynihan says: 'Newer research shows that even a relatively regional nuclear exchange could lead to worldwide climate fallout.
'Debris from fires in city centres would loom into the stratosphere, where it would dim sunlight, causing crop failures.
'Something similar led to the demise of the dinosaurs, though that was caused by an asteroid strike.'
Studies have shown that a so–called 'nuclear winter' would actually be far worse than Cold War predictions suggested.
Using modern climate models, researchers have shown that a nuclear exchange would plunge the planet into a 'nuclear little ice age' lasting thousands of years.
Reduced sunlight would plunge global temperatures by up to 10˚C (18˚F) for nearly a decade, devastating the world's agricultural production.
Meanwhile, a global nuclear war would kill 360 million civilians immediately and lead to the starvation of 5.3 billion people in just two years following the first explosion.
Even a limited nuclear exchange could plunge the world into a 'little nuclear ice age' which would drop global temperatures by 10°C (18°F) for thousands of years (AI–generated impression)
Dr Moynihan says: 'Some argue it's hard to draw a clear line from this to the eradication of all humans, everywhere, but we don't want to find out.'
Engineered bioweapons
Just like the threat of nuclear arms, another likely way that humanity could come to an end is through the release of an engineered bioweapon.
Since 1973, when scientists created the first genetically modified bacteria, humanity has been steadily increasing its capacity to make deadly diseases.
These man–made diseases pose a significantly greater threat to our existence than anything found in nature.
Otto Barten, founder of the Existential Risk Observatory, told the Daily Mail: 'We have a lot of experience with natural pandemics, and these have not led to human extinction in the last 300,000 years.
'Therefore, although natural pandemics remain a very serious risk, this is very likely not going to cause our complete demise.
'However, man–made pandemics might be engineered specifically to maximise effectiveness, in a way that doesn't occur in nature.'
Natural pandemics are unlikely to lead to human extinction, but genetically engineered variants could be much more deadly (AI–generated impression)
Experts are concerned that the tools needed to engineer deadly pathogens are becoming more accessible and could fall into the wrong hands (AI–generated impression)
Currently, the means to create such deadly diseases are limited to a handful of states that wouldn't benefit from unleashing a deadly plague.
However, scientists have warned that improving technologies like AI mean that this ability is likely to fall into the hands of more and more people.
If terrorists gain the ability to create deadly bioweapons, they could release a pathogen that would spread wildly out of control and eventually lead to humanity's extinction.
What would be left behind would be a world that looks like it does now, but with all traces of living humans wiped away.
Dr Moynihan adds: 'Extinction is, in this way, the total frustration of any kind of moral order; again, within a universe that persists, silently, without us.'
Rogue artificial intelligence
Experts currently believe that the biggest danger humanity is creating for itself is artificial intelligence.
Scientists who study existential risk think there is anywhere between a 10 and 90 per cent chance that humanity will not survive the advent of superintelligent AI.
One of the biggest risks to humanity is the creation of a rogue AI which becomes 'unaligned' with humanity's interests (AI–generated impression)
What is a rogue AI?
Some AI experts are concerned that AI might soon reach a state called superintelligence, meaning it is more intelligent than the combined efforts of all humans.
Once this happens, the AI might start to develop its own goals.
If those goals don't align with what humans want, this is called an unaligned or 'rogue' AI.
A rogue AI might not be openly hostile to humans, but if humanity's extinction is more convenient for its goals, it could eliminate all living humans.
The big concern is that a sufficiently intelligent AI will become 'unaligned', meaning its goals and ambitions will cease to line up with the interests of humanity.
Dr Moynihan says: 'If an AI becomes smarter than us and also becomes agential — that is, capable of conjuring its own goals and acting on them.'
If an AI becomes agentic, it doesn't even need to be openly hostile to humans for it to wipe us out.
When an agentic AI has a goal that differs from what humans want, the AI would naturally see humans turning it off as a hindrance to that goal and do everything it can to prevent that.
The AI might be totally indifferent to humans, but simply decides that the resources and systems that keep humanity alive would be better used pursuing its own ambitions.
Experts don't know exactly what those goals might be or how the AI might try to pursue them, which is exactly what makes an unaligned AI so dangerous.
'The problem is that it's impossible to predict the actions of something immeasurably smarter than you,' says Dr Moynihan.
'It's hard to imagine how we could anticipate, intercept, or prevent the AI's plans to implement them.'
Experts aren't sure how an AI would chose to wipe out humanity, which is what makes them so dangerous - but it could involved usurping our own computerised weapons or nuclear launch systems (AI–generated impression)
Some experts have suggested that an AI might take control of existing weapon systems or nuclear missiles, manipulate humans into carrying out its orders, or design its own bioweapons.
However, the scarier prospect is that AI might destroy us in a way we literally cannot conceive of.
Dr Moynihan says: 'The general fear is that a smarter–than–human AI would be able to manipulate matter and energy with far more finesse than we can muster.
'Drone strikes would have been incomprehensible to the earliest human farmers: the laws of physics haven't changed in the meantime, just our comprehension of them.
'Regardless, if something like this is possible, and ever does come to pass, it would probably unfold in ways far stranger than anyone currently imagines. It won't involve metallic, humanoid robots with guns and glowing scarlet eyes.'
Climate change
Mr Barten says: 'Climate change is also an existential risk, meaning it could lead to the complete annihilation of humanity, but experts believe this has less than a one in a thousand chance of happening.'
Is climate change an existential risk?
Existential risk experts say that climate change could lead to human extinction, but that this is extremely unlikely.
The only way climate change could kill every human on Earth is if global warming continues to be much stronger than scientists currently predict.
The bigger risk is that climate change might exacerbate other risks.
For example, climate change will lead to food shortages and displace millions of climate refugees as parts of the world become uninhabitable.
That could lead to conflicts, which could escalate into nuclear war.
In an unlikely but terrifying scenario, a runaway greenhouse effect could cause all water on Earth to evaporate and escape into space, leaving the planet dry and barren (AI–generated impression)
However, there are a few unlikely scenarios in which climate change could lead to human extinction.
For example, if the world becomes hot enough, large amounts of water vapour could escape into the upper atmosphere in a phenomenon known as the moist greenhouse effect.
There, intense solar radiation would break the water down into oxygen and hydrogen, which is light enough to easily escape into space.
At the same time, water vapour in the atmosphere would weaken the mechanisms which usually prevent gases from escaping.
This would lead to a runaway cycle in which all water on Earth escapes into space, leaving the planet dry and totally uninhabitable.
The good news is that, although climate change is making our climate hotter, the moist greenhouse effect won't kick in unless the climate gets much hotter than scientists currently predict.
The bad news is that the moist greenhouse effect will almost certainly occur in about 1.5 billion years when the sun starts to expand.
Elon Musk wants to push technology to its absolute limit, from space travel to self-driving cars — but he draws the line at artificial intelligence.
The billionaire first shared his distaste for AI in 2014, calling it humanity's 'biggest existential threat' and comparing it to 'summoning the demon'.
At the time, Musk also revealed he was investing in AI companies not to make money but to keep an eye on the technology in case it gets out of hand.
His main fear is that in the wrong hands, if AI becomes advanced, it could overtake humans and spell the end of mankind, which is known as The Singularity.
That concern is shared among many brilliant minds, including the late Stephen Hawking, who told the BBC in 2014: 'The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
'It would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate.'
Despite his fear of AI, Musk has invested in the San Francisco-based AI group Vicarious, in DeepMind - which has since been acquired by Google - and OpenAI, creating the popular ChatGPT program that has taken the world by storm in recent months.
During a 2016 interview, Musk noted that he and OpenAI created the company to 'have democratisation of AI technology to make it widely available'.
Musk founded OpenAI with Sam Altman, the company's CEO, but in 2018 the billionaire attempted to take control of the start-up.
His request was rejected, forcing him to quit OpenAI and move on with his other projects.
In November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, which became an instant success worldwide.
The chatbot uses 'large language model' software to train itself by scouring a massive amount of text data so it can learn to generate eerily human-like text in response to a given prompt.
ChatGPT is used to write research papers, books, news articles, emails and more.
But while Altman is basking in its glory, Musk is attacking ChatGPT.
He says the AI is 'woke' and deviates from OpenAI's original non-profit mission.
'OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it 'Open' AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft, Musk tweeted in February.
The Singularity is making waves worldwide as artificial intelligence advances in ways only seen in science fiction - but what does it actually mean?
In simple terms, it describes a hypothetical future where technology surpasses human intelligence and changes the path of our evolution.
Experts have said that once AI reaches this point, it will be able to innovate much faster than humans.
There are two ways the advancement could play out, with the first leading to humans and machines working together to create a world better suited for humanity.
For example, humans could scan their consciousness and store it in a computer in which they will live forever.
The second scenario is that AI becomes more powerful than humans, taking control and making humans its slaves - but if this is true, it is far off in the distant future.
Researchers are now looking for signs of AI reaching The Singularity, such as the technology's ability to translate speech with the accuracy of a human and perform tasks faster.
Former Google engineer Ray Kurzweil predicts it will be reached by 2045.
He has made 147 predictions about technology advancements since the early 1990s - and 86 per cent have been correct.
A persistent conspiracy theory Have you ever heard the term “chemtrails”? If so, you’re not alone—this concept has become one of the most persistent and widely discussed weather-related conspiracy theories of the 21st century.
From weather manipulation to population control Proponents claim that the visible trails left by airplanes, commonly known as contrails, are actually chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed into the atmosphere for purposes ranging from weather manipulation to population control.
Photo: By Infrogmation of New Orleans - Photo by Infrogmation, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
An idea that captured the imagination of millions Despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting these claims, the idea has captured the imagination of millions around the world, fueled by viral videos, social media posts, and anecdotal reports. Understanding the origins and spread of the chemtrail theory offers a fascinating glimpse into how modern myths can take flight in the digital age.
What's that in the sky In big cities you can often see a multitude of clouds in the sky in the form of lines that cross the horizon. But what are these little white trails in the sky?
Chemtrails-poison in the sky? These clouds are used to support the "Chemtrails" conspiracy theory. They are said to be poison clouds that some very bad people are using to intoxicate us. But why?
Is the drought caused by a super evil secret elite? In the face of climate change and lack of precipitation in many place worldwide, the "chemtrail" theory has been relaunched with a new argument..
Are airplanes causing droughts? Some conspiracy theorist say that it doesn't rain because airplanes prevent rain and cause drought, and that's evident in the sky full of contrails. Again the question arises: Why would anyone do such a thing?
Conspiracy theories are constantly being adapted In reality, the chemtrails theory, like all conspiracy theories, is constantly updated depending on the current situation.
It all started in the 1990s over vaccines It all started in the 1990s with fears of mass obfuscations, morphed into anti-vaccination discourse (yes, some believed those clouds would be an attempt to vaccinate us from the air).
Is someone manipulating the weather from above? Now there are people who claim the traces left from airplanes in the skies are evidence that someone is manipulating the weather.
A simple explanation The explanation for the contrails we see in the sky is simple, and scientists keep repeating it: it's vapor emitted by commercial airliners (or other aircraft) that condenses and turns into ice crystals that hang in the sky hover. So it's not a mystery.
A pandora's box of weird ideas Starting from this premise, a wide range of beliefs opens up with different hypotheses between the mystical, the apocalyptic and the absurd.
The origin: real experiments But like all fears, the chemtrails theory has some reality in its origin. In fact, in the 20th century there were experiments in which the population was sprayed with potentially toxic elements.
Great Britain: 1950s According to 'The Independent', citing a government report, there were army tests between 1955 and 1963 in which zinc cadmium sulphide was dropped on the south and west coasts of Great Britain.
San Francisco: 1950s Another experiment conducted in San Francisco in 1950 is also widely cited. As reported in an article in Smithsonian Magazine, a Navy ship "airsprayed (the bacterium) Serratia marcescens for six days about two miles off the northern California coast." The spread of the bacterium was then analyzed to see what a biological attack would look like.
Two precedents that mean nothing Experiments like this fuel conspiracy fantasies, but the reality is that if someone was doing something in our skies surely they would try not to draw so much attention to their actions, right?
Offensive against science In reality, almost all conspiracy theories aim to challenge scientific discourse. Science, according to conspiracy theorists, is an artificial narrative full of lies constructed by the big corporations or secret societies that rule the world.
The flat earth and other new religions Belief in chemtrails has a lot to do with religion, as does the belief in a flat Earth and other theories. One can only arrive at these convictions by crossing the line of the established. Only the initiated understand the meaning of certain lines in the sky.
How relevant is it that there are people who believe in chemtrails? Debunking these conspiracy theories and misinformation is important: spreading them helps spread messages of hate and fear that are harmful to society.
Reptilian Theory and Anti-Semitism Evidence of this is that an eccentric and seemingly "innocent" theory like the reptilian theory (which posits that an extraterrestrial race lives among us as humans) in some cases has been shown to conceal anti-Semitic utterances.
Sometimes it's celebrities who spread these theories And then there is the propensity of certain celebrities to be gullible and to propagate theories like chemtrails. Here's Kylie Jenner's conspiracy tweet from 2015.
They're not toxic, but so many planes aren't good The answer is that these contrails are not a toxic product, but according to the European Commission, air traffic is responsible for 13.9% of environmentally harmful CO2 emissions. Therefore, for the good of mankind, these trails that we see should disappear as much as possible.
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