Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
30-06-2021
NASA's new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, takes shape in giant hangar
NASA's new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, takes shape in giant hangar
The SLS moon rocket for Artemis 1 is all stacked up.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is one step closer to the moon. The space agency's next megarocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) is coming together ahead of its first planned launch later this year.
The agency celebrated the milestone, which marked the first time that all of the rocket's components were in the same place and the first time a rocket bound for deep space was in the VAB since the end of the Apollo era.
A view of the core stage positioned in between its two solid rocket boosters, that will give the heavy lifter an extra kick on liftoff. (Image credit: NASA)
After its arrival, the core stage spent the next few weeks in the transfer aisle of the VAB before it was hoisted on top of the mobile launch platform to join the two solid rocket boosters that are already stacked in High Bay 3.
"This is the first time that the complete flight unit has come together," Sean Arrieta of NASA's Exploration Ground Systems told Space.com in a recent interview. "We're all really excited."
This summer, the agency's new Orion spacecraft will be mated with the SLS and prepared to blast off on an uncrewed test flight around the moon later this year as part of the Artemis 1 mission. If all goes as planned, agency officials said that the flight could take place as early as November.
A view of two NASA moon rockets: Apollo's Saturn V booster (left) and the Artemis 1 Space Launch System core booster (right). (Image credit: NASA)
The core stage is the backbone of the rocket, which stands 212 feet (65 meters) tall. Workers used a 325-ton crane to hoist the core stage into the air, transferring it to a nearby high bay. From there, it was stacked on top of its mobile launch platform, and in between two 177-foot-tall (54 m) solid rocket boosters.
Built by Northrop Grumman, the boosters are longer versions of the solid rocket motors that once powered the agency's fleet of space shuttles. In fact, each of the five segments flew on multiple space shuttle missions before being refurbished for the SLS program.
The successful stacking of the core stage is just the start of a process to fully assemble the rocket ahead of launch. If all goes as planned, we could see a complete launch system, with Orion spacecraft perched on top, by August.
NASA would be on track to move the 322-foot-tall (98-meter) rocket to pad 39B for preflight testing in September or October. At that time, the crews would run through launch countdown procedures and mock fueling.
NASA's Space Launch System rocket is powered by four RS-25 engines that were built by Aerojet Rocketdyne and refurbished after the shuttle program ended. (Image credit: NASA)
Four RS-25 engines — the same engine that powered the space shuttle — will power SLS, along with an added boost from the twin solid rocket boosters, generating more than 8 million pounds of thrust. NASA puts the engines, which were built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, through their paces earlier this year as part of a series of green run tests.
The testing culminated with a hot fire test at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, on March 18, a repeat of an identical test that ended prematurely back in January. Simulating a real launch, the engines were fired up and burned for more than eight minutes while firmly affixed to a test stand.
The Space Launch System core booster was stacked on top of its mobile launch platform on June 13, ahead of an estimated November launch. (Image credit: NASA)
That was the last major hurdle the craft had to clear ahead of the main event: launch day. NASA is hoping to launch the SLS and Orion crew capsule on an unpiloted test flight around the moon as soon as late November.
The mission, known as Artemis 1, will last more than three weeks and pave the way for Artemis 2, which will carry a four-person crew around the moon in 2023.
Beyond that, the agency plans to start landing astronauts near the lunar south pole with the help of commercially developed lunar landers. In April, NASA selected the first of those landers — a version of SpaceX's Starship — to land the first Artemis crew on the moon.
The rest of the assembly should go fairly quickly, according to NASA, with a November launch on the horizon. The agency says the next steps are to install the launch vehicle stage adaptor (LVSA), followed by the upper stage, known as the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS), which is a hydrogen-fueled upper stage.
After that, the crews will install a structure to simulate the weight of Orion so that more testing can be done before the actual Orion is installed at the end of the summer.
"We're excited to finally have all the hardware here in Florida," Arietta told Space.com after the core stage's arrival. "We've had some challenges along the way, but we are confident we can launch this year."
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Portal type “Stargate” discovered near Area 51 thanks to Google Maps
Portal type “Stargate” discovered near Area 51 thanks to Google Maps
The images captured by Google Maps show some structures or military complex with a kind of “Stargate” device, a short distance from the famous Area 51.
According to UFO researchers, this “Stargate” was built thanks to the ‘ Pegasus Project ‘, where different types of tests were carried out between 1968 and 1976.
Evidence that was basically “to travel in time and space, and possibly through parallel universes.”
Gravitational and magnetic research carried out long ago by UFO researcher Joshua Warren tells us that near Groom Lake, the time would decrease by 20 milliseconds.
Warren is convinced that it is a gravitational anomaly.
Warren himself tells us that in this place there could be a “Stargate” or a “Wormhole” that represents a temporal-gravitational dimension.
This is the effect of time flowing at different speeds in regions of different gravitational potential.
“For example, in the vicinity of a black hole, the slowest time will flow.”
Clearly, Warren was not wrong since this military complex was discovered with the “Stargate device.”
According to some whistleblowers, the Department of Defense developed Stargates or technology for space-time travel more than 40 years ago.
As early as 1967, the United States government allegedly used a facility dedicated to this and built on the basis of Tesla’s quantum access.
This technology has been used to keep the construction of military installations secret, as well as offering political and economic benefits by knowing what the future holds.
Some say the CIA confiscated the documents from the Tesla transporter shortly after his death.
The Dr. Andrew D. Basiago participated in the DARPA Project Pegasus (from 1968 to 1972) which focused on time travel.
He said that the CIA and the US Navy operating Area 51 were actively training groups of US military and students to become the first generation of dimensional explorers.
The “Stargate ring” visible on Google Maps is part of the underground military complex called «Century IV», which is part of Area 51, where work began on the «Aquarium» project in 1990.
The same microbiologist Dan Burisch who worked on Area51 describes a Stargate that is located near the secret base and near Lake Groom.
Dan says that “next to this huge device is a platform with a Portal that allows the object to be thrown into the wormhole to travel to other stars, teleporting people or materials from one place to another instantly.”
This device is also known as ” Looking Glass ” and was used to see the probabilities of future events.
As Burisch states, many wars and catastrophes would have occurred due to these Stargates. According to Burisch, there are fifty Stargates on Earth.
“Today, the human race would be in danger of extinction due to climate change, and the elite could be using these devices to build bases and shelters on other worlds.”
Pentagon's UFO report provides no explanation for majority of sightings
Pentagon's UFO report provides no explanation for majority of sightings
The Pentagon
The Pentagon Friday issued an official report regarding reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by U.S. military pilots, according to BBC News.
Interestingly, the report provides an explanation for only one UFO sighting out of the 144 confirmed cases that have been reported since 2004.
The lone incident the government was able to explain was identified as a sighting of "a large, deflating balloon," the report said.
As far as the remaining 143 cases, the interim report released Friday concluded that officials, 'lack sufficient information... to attribute incidents to specific explanations.'
In this regard, while the government's official analysis does not tout the theory of extra-terrestrial involvement, it also doesn't completely rule out the possibility.
That said, officials provided the public with a series of more likely explanations.
For example, the report insinuated that while some UFO sightings may have been a result of technology used by nations such as China or Russia, others may have occurred due to natural atmospheric phenomena that registered as unidentified objects on radar systems.
In addition to this, the report suggested some incidents might be traced back "to developments and classified programs by US entities."
The information contained in the report was gathered and analyzed by the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, a group created in August of 2020 and tasked with the responsibility of investigating confirmed UFO sightings.
Now that the federal government has released an official analysis of confirmed UFO sightings, the Aerial Phenomena Task Force's next responsibility is to find, "novel ways to increase collection" of reports and gather more information.
The reportal fu says "additionnding" could "further study of the topics laid out in this report."
Obviously this is a terrible idea, but scientists at the top are nonetheless still pressing forward with the latter option, as a recent Vice interview with Mike Garrett details. Garrett—who serves as both the University of Manchester’s inaugural Sir Bernard Lovell chair of astrophysics and as director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics—has long been hard at work establishing the proper protocols for vetting, announcing, and subsequently dealing any potential first contact scenarios.
“We absolutely have no idea what’s out there, and we have no idea how we’re going to discover the first SETI signal,” Garrett, who is also vice-chair of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SETI Permanent Committee, reassuringly told everyone during an interview on Motherboard’s The Space Show. Garrett explains that, for news as mind-blowing as potential first contact, experts are well aware that any announcement would need to be based on near-absolute certainty to avoid misinformation and panic... because that will surely prevent both fallouts from occurring.
“There’s a set of protocols that have been agreed on by most of the organizations that are involved in SETI that we should try and follow the rules to make sure that when we do come out with an announcement that we made a detection, we are 99.999 percent sure that it really is something,” said Garrett.
It’s somewhat reassuring to hear that SETI experts have been working on slowing down our inevitable alien enslavement the best ways to communicate peacefully for entirely foreign intelligences, but we’re still putting our money on more well-developed ragtag teams of insurgents... if only because Aaron Eckhart deserves better roles than Battlefield Los Angeles.
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The Pentagon has a long history of misleading reports on UFOs. The new paper on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) may be another example, according to the British scientist Roger Shawyer. Looking at their accounts, Shawyer has an explanation which is hinted at, but also concealed by the report.
“I think the UAPs are American,” Shawyer told me.
The report discusses 144 recent sightings by U.S. government personnel, many of them Air Force and Navy pilots and sensor operators. In most cases the UFO was spotted by several means, such as visual contact and radar or infra-red together.
“Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors,” according to the report.
This classic 'UFO' photographed when it hovered for fifteen minutes near Holloman Air Development ... [+]
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The report suggests there might be several types of objects, including airborne clutter such as balloons, natural atmospheric phenomena, “USG or U.S. industry developmental programs,” foreign adversary systems and Other.
Some details seemed to turn up repeatedly across the sightings. In particular many seemed to share an unusual type of “advanced propulsion” and could remain motionless against the wind at high altitude, execute high-speed maneuvers, and move at high speed “without discernable means of propulsion.”
In addition, the report states that in some cases “military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.”
Shawyer says that these features are all consistent with the electromagnetic drive, or EmDrive, which he developed, and which, despite considerable controversy and misleading reports of its demise, is still very much under development by DARPA.
Depending on which theory you follow, the EmDrive uses an obscure piece of physics to seemingly generate thrust from a closed system. The results have apparently repeated at independent labs around the world including NASA’s Eagleworks and researchers at Xi’an in China. While existing versions only produce tiny amounts of thrust, comparable to ion drives used on satellites and space probes, Shawyer calculates that a version based on superconductors could drive a high-speed demonstration vehicle.
Skeptics, of course, claim that this is all bunk: that the EmDrive violates the laws of physics, can never generate thrust, and any experimental results to the contrary are lab errors, wishful thinking, or simply fraud. Apparent positive results are met with furious rebuttals, setbacks are hailed as the end of the EmDrive. Suffice to say, the debate continues.
Shawyer claims that EmDrive technology was supplied to Boeing in 2009 (“under the Boeing Purchase Contract No 9CS114H”) and tested successfully. Boeing has declined to comment on its involvement in the project.
The controversial EmDrive developed by Roger Shawyer in the early 2000s appears to generate thrust ... [+]
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Shawyer observes the wording in the UAP report is rather precise, referring to “advanced propulsion.”
“Note the use of the word ‘advanced’, rather than ‘exotic’ or ‘unexplained’,” says Shawyer. “The propulsion demonstrated was not unexpected.”
The EmDrive is able to produce the sort of maneuvers described, without the heat output or noise of a jet engine. The radio output observed is also highly characteristic of the EmDrive.
“In all my experimental work, stray RF [radiofrequency] energy was detectable, and having a field meter to monitor radiation leakage was part of the safety procedures that were mandatory for tests by Boeing,” says Shawyer.
Shawyer is not saying that the UAPs described were U.S.-made craft, simply that their characteristics are consistent with some type of EmDrive. The report even tacitly admits that this is a possibility:
“Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. We were unable to confirm, however, that these systems accounted for any of the UAP reports we collected.”
“The words ‘we were unable to confirm’ is standard government-speak for a classified subject,” says Shawyer.
Researcher Mike McCulloch of the University of Plymouth, who is heading up the DARPA project, has also noted the similarities between the reports and the drive he is working on.
“Behavior of these UAPs is what you would expect from a quantized inertia horizon drive,” says McCulloch.
In particular he says this type of drive can achieve the sort of sharp acceleration which the UAPs appear to have, which would normally be intolerable for the pilot and electronics inside.
“Inertia is just a push from the quantum vacuum and it can be damped by the use of synthetic horizons,” says McCulloch. “This means a spacecraft can accelerate as much as you want and you will not feel any forces inside.”
Again, McCulloch says that there are plenty of other possible explanations for the sightings, including psy-ops or mind games by someone in the U.S. government.
“I’m not saying that UAPs are real, just that the observations are consistent with QI technology,” says McCulloch.
Exactly why such craft would make fleeting appearances during U.S. military exercises is of course a big question. The report notes that a disproportionate number of them interrupted planned military activities. It might be convenient if the U.S can claim ignorance if such craft appear watching military exercises elsewhere.
As the report notes, there are likely to be several explanations for UAP reports. But the report does appear to leave the door very much open on the possibility of their being of U.S. origin, and being powered by something like an EmDrive.
Keep watching the skies.
UPDATE 30th June:
Shawyer says it is important to note that China has also shown a clear understanding of the EmDrive and the issues of handling the superconducting cavities needed for high-thrust systems. While they started late, it is theoretically possible that China has recently developed vehicles with EmDrive propulsion. This would not explain earlier sightings, which remain puzzling as ever, but it might account for the increased U.S. military concern after decades of seemingly ignoring UFOs
Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031.
This illustration shows the distant Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein as it might look in the outer Solar System. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it arguably the largest comet discovered in modern times. It has an extremely elongated orbit, journeying inward from the distant Oort Cloud over millions of years. It is the most distant comet to be discovered on its incoming path. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
A giant comet from the outskirts of our Solar System has been discovered in 6 years of data from the Dark Energy Survey. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it arguably the largest comet discovered in modern times. It has an extremely elongated orbit, journeying inward from the distant Oort Cloud over millions of years. It is the most distant comet to be discovered on its incoming path, giving us years to watch it evolve as it approaches the Sun, though it’s not predicted to become a naked-eye spectacle.
A giant comet has been discovered by two astronomers following a comprehensive search of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The comet, which is estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, or about 10 times the diameter of most comets, is an icy relic flung out of the Solar System by the migrating giant planets in the early history of the Solar System. This comet is quite unlike any other seen before, and the huge size estimate is based on how much sunlight it reflects.
Discovery image of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (annotated).
Credit: National Science Foundation
Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, of the University of Pennsylvania, found the comet — named Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (with the designation C/2014 UN271) — hidden among data collected by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. The analysis of data from the Dark Energy Survey is supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the DECam science archive is curated by the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) at NSF’s NOIRLab. CTIO and CSDC are Programs of NOIRLab.
One of the highest-performance, wide-field CCD imagers in the world, DECam was designed specifically for the DES and operated by the DOE and NSF between 2013 and 2019. DECam was funded by the DOE and was built and tested at DOE’s Fermilab. At present DECam is used for programs covering a huge range of science.
DES was tasked with mapping 300 million galaxies across a 5000-square-degree area of the night sky, but during its six years of observations, it also observed many comets and trans-Neptunian objects passing through the surveyed field. A trans-Neptunian object, or TNO, is an icy body that resides in our Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Bernardinelli and Bernstein used 15–20 million CPU hours at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Fermilab, employing sophisticated identification and tracking algorithms to identify over 800 individual TNOs from among the more than 16 billion individual sources detected in 80,000 exposures taken as part of the DES. Thirty-two of those detections belonged to one object in particular — C/2014 UN271.
Comets are icy bodies that evaporate as they approach the warmth of the Sun, growing their coma and tails. The DES images of the object in 2014–2018 did not show a typical comet tail, but within a day of the announcement of its discovery via the Minor Planet Center, astronomers using the Las Cumbres Observatory network took fresh images of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein which revealed that it has grown a coma in the past 3 years, making it officially a comet.
Its current inward journey began at a distance of over 40,000 astronomical units (au) from the Sun — in other words, 40,000 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, or 6 trillion kilometers away (3.7 trillion miles or 0.6 light-years — 1/7 of the distance to the nearest star). For comparison, Pluto is 39 au from the Sun, on average. This means that Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein originated in the Oort Cloud of objects, ejected during the early history of the Solar System. It could be the largest member of the Oort Cloud ever detected, and it is the first comet on an incoming path to be detected so far away.
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is currently much closer to the Sun. It was first seen by DES in 2014 at a distance of 29 au (4 billion kilometers or 2.5 billion miles, roughly the distance of Neptune), and as of June 2021, it was 20 au (3 billion kilometers or 1.8 billion miles, the distance of Uranus) from the Sun and currently shines at magnitude 20. The comet’s orbit is perpendicular to the plane of the Solar System and it will reach its closest point to the Sun (known as perihelion) in 2031, when it will be around 11 au away (a bit more than Saturn’s distance from the Sun) — but it will get no closer. Despite the comet’s size, it is currently predicted that skywatchers will require a large amateur telescope to see it, even at its brightest.
“We have the privilege of having discovered perhaps the largest comet ever seen — or at least larger than any well-studied one — and caught it early enough for people to watch it evolve as it approaches and warms up,” said Gary Bernstein. “It has not visited the Solar System in more than 3 million years.”
Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein will be followed intensively by the astronomical community, including with NOIRLab facilities, to understand the composition and origin of this massive relic from the birth of our own planet. Astronomers suspect that there may be many more undiscovered comets of this size waiting in the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. These giant comets are thought to have been scattered to the far reaches of the Solar System by the migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune early in their history.
“This is a much needed anchor on the unknown population of large objects in the Oort Cloud and their connection with early migration of the ice/gas giants soon after the Solar System was formed,” said NOIRLab astronomer Tod Lauer.
“These observations demonstrate the value of long-duration survey observations on national facilities like the Blanco telescope,” says Chris Davis, National Science Foundation Program Director for NOIRLab. “Finding huge objects like Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is crucial to our understanding of the early history of our Solar System.”
It is not yet known how active and bright it will become when it reaches perihelion. However, Bernardinelli says that Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a future Program of NOIRLab, “will continuously measure Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein all the way to its perihelion in 2031, and probably find many, many others like it,” allowing astronomers to characterize objects from the Oort Cloud in much greater detail.
Study Finds That Humans Would Welcome the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
Study Finds That Humans Would Welcome the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
Article by Gautam Peddada - (collective-evolution.com)
Researchers from Arizona State University have performed studies to find out how we humans will deal with it if we make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life? Will we be terrified? Will we feel threatened? Will we be able to comprehend it? Will we accept it?
On February 16th, ASU Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum presented the findings of the most recent study, “How Will We React to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Austin, Texas. Varnum’s conclusion? “If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it.”
A previous pilot study focused on people’s reaction to the discovery alien microbial life on Mars, the periodic dimming around Tabby’s Star, and other Earth-like exoplanets in a star’s habitable zone that could support life as we know it. The pilot study discovered that the language used to depict these events elicited much more positive than negative feelings.
In a second study, the researchers invited over 500 people to write about their potential reactions to the discovery of alien microbial life ‘considering their individual sentiments as well as those of mankind as a whole’. Again, participants’ replies revealed substantially more positive than negative emotions. “I’d be a little excited about the news,” one participant remarked.
Varnum’s ASU group gave an additional sample of over 500 people split into two groups. Group One participants read a previous article from The New York Times on probable evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite. Group Two participants were given another New York Times article about the development of synthetic human-made life in a lab.
The responses were considerably more positive about finding of microbial alien life than they were about developing synthetic life. With regard to other planets hosting life, one participant stated, “It’s an intriguing and fascinating discovery that might be only the beginning.”
Varnum also examined recent media coverage that the interstellar ‘Oumuamua’ asteroid is actually a spacecraft. Here, too, Varnum discovered more positive than negative emotions, implying that humans may react favorably to news of the finding of sentient life elsewhere in the cosmos. “[T]aken together, this implies that if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well.”
As the possibilities of a non-human intellect being present on Earth increase on a daily basis, one critical question must be addressed: How will we deal with it if we make contact? Will we be terrified if we feel threatened? Will we accept it? Will we be able to comprehend it? Or will we dismiss it as just another item to cope with in our increasingly fast-paced world?
Michael Varnum
Researchers from Arizona State University performed a study to try to find out the answer, and the article is titled “How Will We React to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?”
The researchers looked at how language was used in media coverage of previous announcements of this kind, with an emphasis on alien microbial life (Pilot Study). A large online sample was asked to write about their own and humanity’s reaction to a hypothetical announcement of such a discovery, and another large online sample was asked to read and respond to a news article about the discovery of fossilised extraterrestrial microbial life in a Martian meteorite.
“If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it,” said Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum.
Varnum presented the study’s findings on February 16 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Austin, Texas.
The pilot study’s articles focused on the 1996 discovery of possibly fossilised extraterrestrial Martian microbes, the 2015 discovery of periodic dimming around Tabby’s Star, thought to indicate the presence of an artificially constructed “Dyson sphere,” and the 2017 discovery of Earth-like exoplanets in a star’s habitable zone. The pilot study discovered that the language used to depict these events elicited much more positive than negative feelings.
In a second study, the researchers invited over 500 people to write about their potential reactions to the discovery of alien microbial life, as well as humanity’s possible reaction. When considering their individual sentiments as well as those of mankind as a whole, participants’ replies revealed substantially more positive than negative emotions.
“I’d be a little excited about the news,” one participant remarked. “Even if it existed in a rudimentary form, it would be fascinating.”
Varnum’s group then gave an additional sample of over 500 people with historical news coverage of scientific breakthroughs and asked them to write about their emotions in another research. Participants were split into two groups. Participants in one group read a previous article from The New York Times on probable evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite. The second set of participants wrote a report from the New York Times about the alleged development of synthetic human-made life in a lab.
The scientists discovered evidence of considerably happier than negative emotions in responses to the alleged finding of alien life, and this impact was larger in response to reading about extraterrestrial life than in response to human-made synthetic life.
“This discovery demonstrates that other planets can support life,” one participant stated. “It’s an intriguing and fascinating discovery that might be only the beginning.”
Varnum examined recent media coverage of the potential that the interstellar Oumuamua asteroid is actually a spacecraft in unpublished data given at the conference. Here, too, he discovered evidence of more positive than negative emotions, implying that humans may react favourably to news of the finding of sentient life elsewhere in the cosmos.
According to Varnum, “taken together, this implies that if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well”
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Full Pentagon UFO report 'was like sci-fi movie with 14 videos and 70 pages'
Full Pentagon UFO report 'was like sci-fi movie with 14 videos and 70 pages'
The Pentagon finally released its report into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena on June 25, but many believe a bulk of information was removed from the originally-classified document
The Pentagon’s full classified UFO report contains 14 videos in what insiders described as a “sci-fi movie”, researchers have claimed.
After months of speculation, the eagerly-anticipated report into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena was released on Friday, June 25.
The nine-page unclassified document revealed that 143 out of 144 reports of sightings remain unexplained.
Alien technology was neither confirmed or denied as the document simply said more scientific analysis was required.
It follows the release of several baffling videos of UFO encounters by personnel onboard US Navy ships dating back to 2004.
But, according to UFO researcher and Virginia Tech professor Bob McGwier, the full classified document that was shared with Congress and the National Security Council was far more detailed.
One of the pyramid UFOs that was filmed swarming a US Navy ship(Image: JEREMY CORBELL)
“There were 70 pages and 14 videos, they got to see the good stuff,” he explained on Spaced Out Radio.
“There was a full classified report and 14 videos. I know several people who were in the national security council meeting and the best comment I heard was ‘what we had was 40 minutes of science fiction movies, we were all gobsmacked’.
“It’s ridiculously slim. Everything they could redact they did but the committees and the White House – they saw the works.”
A screengrab from an unclassified video of US Navy pilots encountering a UFO(Image: HANDOUT/DoD/AFP via Getty Images)
The comments echo what investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell previously told this site of the Pentagon being in possession of plenty more videos of UFO encounters.
And, just days before the report was released, the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO programme also said there were clearer videos yet to be released.
Speaking to Curt Jaimungal on his Theories of Everything podcast on June 23, he said there are “extremely compelling” videos and photographs.
“I’ve said for the record that the three videos that have come out, as interesting as they are, they’re probably the least compelling of the ones that we have,” he said.
“There were some very high very high definition videos in there that when you looked at it you realised, ‘Hey, that’s not one of our craft’.”
The publicly-available Pentagon UFO report placed the sightings in five separate categories: airborne clutter (such as birds or balloons), natural atmospheric phenomena, classified military programs, foreign adversary systems or “other”.
Objects would be placed in the “other” category “pending scientific advances that allowed us to better understand them”.
MUFON CASE : 116566 Albuquerque, New Mexico ( June 28, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Long, rectangular bright/white object appearing in video of sunset
Long Description of Sighting Report
I was recording video on iPhone 12 of rain clouds over Sandia Mts. Began filming North direction and slowly panned to West and sundown. Dense, dark clouds over mts then moving to clearing skies towards the West. Sun is seen just above horizon. In reviewing the video I noticed an “object” appearing on the upper right of the screen at 55 seconds into video. As I continued pan the “object” descends, hovers, descends, moves up and down. The video terminates with shot due West at the sinking sun with bright orange sunset clouds. The “object” is now just above the sun. At times the “object” appears shaky - that's me, I think. I had not noticed the “object” while filming but only on reviewing video. I went back to spot on patio where I shot video. Repeated my motions while making the video, looking for anything that may have caused a reflection. Nothing. My house was behind me, no lights on that could account for a reflection. I have attached video file below - I hope. Perhaps this is a video “artifact” and perhaps you can make that determination. Unusual enough I wanted to report it to you.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-28 Date of Event : 2021-06-28 / 8:10PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.4D334D9A30BD4DB58BFAD15BDC98A08E.MOV
A corner of the UFO phenomenon that has remained rather spectacular and alluring is that of the UFO crash. By far the most famous of these is the July 1947 crash of some sort of flying object at Roswell, New Mexico, which has gone on to spawn countless conspiracy theories and tales of alien bodies and secret bases in the desert testing out alien technology. Roswell can also arguably be said to lay claim to being the incident that really launched the UFO craze into the public consciousness and put the idea of sinister government UFO research on the map, the name Roswell being nearly synonymous with any purported UFO crash thereafter and a name known by people who don’t even follow the field. The Roswell incident has become by far the most famous UFO crash, becoming a pop cultural icon in the process, and is largely thought to mark the beginning of serious mainstream consideration of mysterious craft coming down from the sky to smash into the earth. Yet, Roswell is not, as many may believe, the first, and there have been supposed mysterious crashes of UFOs and even alien bodies found that predate it by some margin.
One of the earliest UFO crash stories in America happened even before there was even a Roswell at all. In 1884 there was a very bizarre incident that allegedly happened at the tiny town of Max, Nebraska. The town was just a dusty, nondescript speck on the map, with only 914 living there at the time, a place where not much ever happened at all, but on June 6, 1884 all of that would change. On this day a rancher named John W. Ellis and a group of other cowboys were rounding up a herd of cattle when they heard a “terrific whirring noise over their heads” and turned to see “a blazing body falling like a shot to Earth.” Whatever it was hit nearby beyond an embankment, and when they went to investigate they found a strange metallic object embedded in the earth, which had left in its wake a deep gash in the ground. One of the frightened herdsmen, a man named Alf Williamson, was purportedly burned when he drew to close to the object. There was apparently a lot of debris from the mysterious craft lying about as well, and one report in the Nebraska State Journal would say of this:
One piece that looked like the blade of a propeller screw, of a metal of an appearance like brass, about 16 inches wide, three inches thick and three-and-a-half feet long, was picked up by a spade. It would not weigh more than five pounds, but appeared as strong and compact as any known metal. A fragment of a wheel with a milled rim, apparently having had a diameter of seven or eight feet, was also picked up. It seemed to be of the same material and had the same remarkable lightness.
It is a very compelling report, but it happened so long ago and was so little covered in the news at the time that it is impossible to ascertain how real any of the report is or what could have happened to the supposed fragments of the craft. What happened to this craft after that? Are there still pieces of this thing out there somewhere? Who knows? Another very early account of a supposed UFO crash that happened just a few years later even allegedly featured a dead alien pilot. In April of 1897, the small town of Aurora, Texas, was rocked by a rather spectacular event. It was reported that a large, slow-moving aircraft like nothing anyone had ever seen came down from the sky to go smashing into a windmill to send debris scattering everywhere, as well as a dead humanoid creature the townsfolk called the “Martian pilot.” An article in the Dallas Morning News would say of the incident:
Aurora Cemetery “About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor’s windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.
The body of the alien was then supposedly given a proper burial at the local cemetery, and it has all become a fixture of local lore, as well as almost legendary in the UFO field. Various people have tried to dig up more information on this, even talking to supposed living relatives of the original witnesses and scouring the cemetery with metal detectors, but the body supposed body has never been found. In 1973, a group called the International UFO Bureau claimed to have located the site of the alien’s grave, but they were denied the proper permits to have it exhumed, leaving it a mystery as to just who or what is buried there. A North Texas State University professor also allegedly unearthed some fragments at the site of where the windmill once stood, which “consisted primarily of iron which did not seem to exhibit magnetic properties,” but it is unknown what happened to these or what they actually were.
One account in later years from 1920 is an account related by a man named Clark Linch, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. On June 3, 1920, Linch took a break from working on his father’s farm in order to do some fishing at the nearby river. It was 10 AM on a pleasant day, and he planned to go out fishing for just a few hours and then come back to work. As he sat out at the riverside waiting for a fish to bite, he allegedly saw “an egg-shaped object the size of a cream can” come down to smash into the ground about 15 feet away on the bank, where it sat for around 15 minutes before taking off again. He would say of his rather odd encounter:
I wasn’t in any hurry to jump up and run over to it, and I’m glad I didn’t. It might have killed me. Just when I thought about going over to take a closer look at it, it took off without any sound and without turning around. The grass where it hit was pressed down. I didn’t know what to believe about it at the time, and I still don’t. I’ve concluded that it wasn’t anything from Earth. It was so small; it couldn’t have been occupied by intelligent life as we know it.
He would claim that the object flew off at very slow speeds, with a strange wobbling motion, making him think the thing had crashed and been damaged somehow. When Linch examined where the object had been, he found merely an area of pressed down grass, but no scorch marks or other damage. At the time he kept his strange experience to himself, and it would not be until 1955 that he would tell anyone about what had happened, explaining “You didn’t talk about flying saucers in 1920.” Despite decades having passed, he still vividly remembered the incident, and knew the date because it was his birthday and the year he got married. What did he see out there at that riverside?
Even more spectacular is another report of a UFO crash complete with alien bodies and a government cover-up that predates Roswell by 6 years. The account comes from the book UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum, by UFO researcher Leo Stringfield. He claimed that he had received a letter from a woman named Charlette Mann, who had a very strange story to tell. She claimed that in 1984 her grandmother on her deathbed had told her about an incident experienced by her grandfather, a Reverend William Huffman, who had told her of having been involved with being called to bless alien bodies in the wake of a UFO crash outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri in the spring of 1941. Huffman told her that he had been brought to the crash site thinking he was going to an airplane crash and that he would be saying last rights to human victims, but as soon as he arrived, it was immediately clear that this was no normal aircraft and these were not human victims, but rather a spaceship and several small, hairless beings. Charlette would explain of what had happened to her grandfather:
Upon arrival it was a very different situation. It was not a conventional aircraft, as we know it. He described it as a saucer that was metallic in color, no seams, did not look like anything he had seen. It had been broken open in one portion, and so he could walk up and see that. In looking in he saw a small metal chair, gauges and dials and things he had never seen. However, what impressed him most was around the inside there were inscriptions and writings, which he said he did not recognize, but were similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics. There were 3 entities, or non-human people, lying on the ground. Two were just outside the saucer, and a third one was further out. His understanding was that perhaps that third one was not dead on impact.
It was hard for him to tell if they had on suits or if it was their skin, but they were covered head to foot in what looked like wrinkled aluminum foil. He could see no hair on their bodies and they had no ears. They were small framed like a child, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms. Their faces had large, oval-shaped eyes, no noses, just holes and no lips, just small slits for mouths. There had been mention of a ball of fire, yet there was fire around the crash site, but none of the entities had been burned and so father did pray over them, giving them last rites. There were many people there, fire people, photographers, and so they lifted up one, and two men on either side stood him up and they stretched his arms out, they had him up under the armpits and out here.
When Huffman had finished his blessings and his duty, he was then told in no uncertain terms to say nothing of what he had seen there, but he had eventually told his wife. Charlette also claimed that her grandfather had secretly kept a picture from the scene of the crash, which allegedly showed one of the dead alien bodies being held up by two military men. She had been shown this picture by her father, who had gotten it from her grandfather, and indeed she claimed that this was the reason she had pushed her grandmother to tell her the truth of what had happened that day. Charlette would say of the creature in the mysterious photograph:
As I recall from the picture I saw, he was about 4 feet tall, appeared to have no bone structure, soft looking. He had a suit on, or we assume it was a suit, it could have been his skin, and what looked like crinkled, soft aluminum foil. I recall it had very long hands, very long fingers, and I think there were three but I cannot swear to that.
It is unclear what happened to this picture, or whether it ever even existed or not, and indeed the whole account is a bit murky and difficult to get to the facts. Several people related to Charlette, as well as the living brother of the Cape Girardeau County sheriff in 1941, Clarance R. Schade have corroborated these events, and Charlette Mann has been called a very sincere and trustworthy person by those who have interviewed her since, but UFO researchers who have visited the area and dug for more information have failed to uncover much more information on the case. It is largely known from Stringfield’s book and some interviews with Charlette herself, and without further evidence it is hard to say just what exactly happened out there in the spring of 1941.
What can we say about such reports? With no real evidence there is not way to know how real they were, or whether they were merely hoaxes and urban legends and lore. One thing we can say is that they show that the notion of alien spacecraft coming down to crash into the earth did not begin with Roswell, and that this sort of report has been going on for some time. Whether it is aliens, tall tales, or some explainable phenomena, such reports certainly capture the attention, and serve as strange historical oddities that have remained elusive to our understanding.
In 1948, shortly after the “Flying Saucer” craze had erupted over the Americas, a new kind of aerial apparition began to be frequently reported: the so-called “green fireballs.”
Among the most notable sightings had been one occurring over New Mexico in late 1948, reports of which were logged by the crew aboard both military and civilian aircraft operating on the night of December 5. Both groups of observers likened the object to “a huge green meteor.”
The December 5 incident had not been the first time that bright fireballs lit up the night sky over America. In February of the same year, a brilliant flash of night occurring in the night sky over Kansas had been announced as the result of a meteor by Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, then director of the Institute of Meteorites at the University of New Mexico. Later that summer, reports of a huge green fireball observed over Oregon also made headlines, after a bright meteor was observed by many Oregonians on the night of June 28, which disappeared over the ocean.
However, the objects that were being seen over the southeast in December appeared to behave differently from typical meteors, a fact noted by LaPaz in a letter he sent to the U.S. Air Force on December 20. The following month, a concerning new possibility had been raised in official circles: The Director of Army Intelligence from Fourth Army Headquarters in Texas had suggested that the strange fireballs could be the “result of radiological warfare experiments by a foreign power,” and deemed this possibility to be “of such great importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive installations,” that a scientific board should be established to investigate the matter.
The U.S. Air Force had already become concerned about the presence of unusual flying objects operating over America, following a rash of reports of the alleged objects in the weeks following a landmark sighting by pilot Kenneth Arnold over Mount Ranier, Washington. The sightings helped initiate the formation of Project Sign, the first Air Force investigation into the possible source of the objects. In February 1949, a conference was held at Los Alamos which Project Sign investigators attended, along with several scientists and other military personnel, with the objective of assessing the fireball sightings, although the conference led to no conclusions about what their source might have been. The following December saw the establishment of Project Twinkle, which involved plans for systematic efforts to observe and photograph the mysterious green objects, although the operation never saw full implementation, and was discontinued after just two years in operation.
However, the sightings had not completely subsided, and on January 22, 1953, an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican featured the latest theories of Dr. LaPaz, which still involved the possibility that Russian technology could be to blame.
“A fireball expert said today Russia may be scouting the United States and other parts world with strange new guided missiles,” the article stated. “Dr. Lincoln LaPaz said a good many shreds of evidence point to green fireballs sighted throughout the world being a type of missile—possibly of Soviet make.”
Although the mysterious green fireballs are commonly associated with the early years of UFOs, there have been some notable incidents throughout the ensuing decades that appear to describe similar phenomena.
On the night of November 17, 1995, the crew aboard Lufthansa Flight 405 and that of British Airways 226 each observed a brightly lit, greenish object as it flew past them while flying over Long Island, New York. Several of the observers described it as resembling a green projectile, which they estimated to be flying at an altitude approximately 3000 feet above them and to their left. Following the incident, Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center compiled additional information about the incident, and also obtained a transcript of the communications between air traffic controllers and the pilots who observed it. Strangely, the transcripts revealed that the object had apparently managed to evade detection by radar at the Air Route Traffic Control Center at nearby Nashua, New Hampshire, despite being observed by multiple witnesses on the night in question.
Is it possible that the sightings of green fireballs from over the years represent nothing more than the occasional peculiar behavior of meteorites as they burn through our atmosphere? Even Dr. LaPaz seemed to think otherwise based on his assessments of the sightings from the late 1940s, although his attribution of the phenomena to prospective Russian technologies seems to fall flat—much like the modern attribution of UAP observed since 2004 to Russia or China, an unlikely conclusion that many nonetheless appear to maintain.
Although prosaic explanations may exist for the green fireballs, their source still remains undetermined, leaving them as one of the many peculiar and colorful footnotes in the broader history of the longstanding UFO mystery.
Voor het eerst waargenomen: zwart gat slokt neutronenster op
Wetenschappers hebben voor het eerst en zelfs tot twee keer toe geobserveerd dat een zwart gat een neutronenster opslokt, zo blijkt uit een internationale studie die vandaag verscheen in het vakblad Astrophysical Journal.
Astrofysici hadden reeds waargenomen dat zwarte gaten of neutronensterren onder elkaar fusioneren, maar zagen nooit "gemende koppels", zo staat in een communiqué van het Franse Nationaal Centrum voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (CNRS).
De twee evenementen werden met een interval van tien dagen waargenomen in januari 2020 via de Virgo- en Ligo-detectoren van zwaartekrachtgolven. Ze vonden plaats op ongeveer 900 miljoen en een miljard lichtjaar van de Aarde. De zwarte gaten hebben respectievelijk een massa die 8,9 en 5,7 keer die van onze Zon is. Met een massa van 1,9 en 1,5 keer die van onze ster hadden de neutronensterren geen kans om aan de zwarte gaten te ontsnappen.
Indien het massaverschil te groot is verslindt het zwarte gat in één keer, vertelde tegenover het Franse persbureau AFP astrofysicus Astrid Lamberts, hoofdauteur van de studie en verbonden aan het CNRS.
Zwarte gaten en neutronensterren behoren tot de meest exotische objecten in de kosmos. Beiden zijn ze het resultaat van een enorme ster die aan het eind van haar leven in elkaar klapt. De massa van het zwart gat is zo geconcentreerd dat de zwaartekracht ervoor zorgt dat niets kan ontsnappen, zelfs geen licht. Hoewel neutronensterren buitengewoon compact zijn, zijn ze wel te zien.
Binaire fusies tussen zwarte gaten werden al bijna vijftig keer waargenomen, binaire fusies van neutronensterren een handvol keer.
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Ancient Civilization's Stories of Star Beings, Humanity's Cosmic Origins & Consciousness
Ancient Civilization's Stories of Star Beings, Humanity's Cosmic Origins & Consciousness
Ancient Civilization’s Stories of Star Beings, Humanity’s Cosmic Origins & Consciousness
Presented by Adam Apollo. We are releasing all UFO Disclosure, UAP, Unacknowledged Tech and Extraterrestrial life related content from our archives in the month on June and July 2021, to empower humanity to the truth of our cosmic origins, the diversity of space and disclosure related updates.
Stay tuned for new presentations and videos every day!
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‘Scary’ Boston Dynamics Dance Video Divides Internet as Robo-Dogs Celebrate Hyundai Acquisition
‘Scary’ Boston Dynamics Dance Video Divides Internet as Robo-Dogs Celebrate Hyundai Acquisition
from RT:
American robotics company Boston Dynamics released a new robot dance video after it announced it had been acquired by Hyundai – and, like its previous effort, this one had many people terrified.
Though it announced the completion of the acquisition last week in a press release, Boston Dynamics decided to mark the occasion in style on Tuesday.
The video shows five of its dog-like ‘Spot’ robots dancing to the song ‘IONIQ: I’m On It’ by South Korean boy band BTS, and demonstrates the precision and complexity of its machines, which feature long arm-like appendages with claws.
A photographer on Instragram caught something amazing while shooting a volcano in India. Guarto Song took a photo of the active volcano at just the right time that he also caught a long green light shooting down. The green object was actually small, but moving fast and thats why it appears to be one lone line. Volcanos worldwide have been linked to UFO sightings and more and more photos and video are recording such events everyday. For UFOs to enter and exit a mouth of a volcano, it must be leading them to and from somewhere significant. This is why I believe that aliens use mouth of volcanos, because few humans ever go there and there is less chance of being seen. An alien base 5-6 km below the surface of the mountain makes a lot of sense. This is 100% proof of that fact.
Barack Obama just said something *very* interesting about UFOs
Barack Obama just said something *very* interesting about UFOs
Unidentified Flying Objects have long been a phenomenon that has captivated Americans, but the age-old question still remains — does extraterrestrial life actually exist? In this latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains what the government already knows about UFOs and what we can expect to uncover in the upcoming report from the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense on what they call “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
NGC 3254, a Seyfert galaxy 118 million light-years from Earth. The image was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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Prior to its shutdown due to a malfunctioning computer from the 1980s, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to take a remarkable image of a galaxy in deep space that has a core that gives off as much energy as the rest of the galaxy all together.
The galaxy, known as NGC 3254, is not a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, but rather a Seyfert galaxy.
Seyfert galaxies, which make up approximately 10 percent of all galaxies, have 'extraordinarily active cores' and belong to a class of 'active galaxies,' according to a statement fromNASA.
The image of NGC 3254 is a composite of both infrared and visible images.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a galaxy in deep space that has a core that gives off as much energy as the rest of the galaxy all together, NGC 3254, which is a Seyfert galaxy
Seyfert galaxies, which make up approximately 10 percent of all galaxies, have 'extraordinarily active cores'
These galaxies 'have supermassive black holes at their centers accreting material, which releases vast amounts of radiation,' NASA said
When viewed from the side, it looks like a typical spiral galaxy, but it is in fact a Seyfert galaxy, which are best viewed in light outside visible spectrum, NASA explained.
These galaxies 'have supermassive black holes at their centers accreting material, which releases vast amounts of radiation,' the US space agency added.
Supermassive black holes, which are common throughout the universe, are defined as black holes that have a mass between a million and a billion times more than the typical black hole.
These celestial objects put gases, dust, stars and even planets into a giant suction, pulling them inside and eventually ripping them apart.
Upon being ripped apart, all of the atoms hit into each other - with not even light escaping - and supermassive black holes radiate more than 'a trillion times as much energy as our sun,' according to Swinburne University.
The Milky Way is considered a spiral galaxy, among the most common types of galaxies.
These galaxies have arms that stretch out from the center of them to form pin-wheel like or spiral structures.
Most spiral galaxies are comprised of a flat, rotating disk of stars, gas and dust. The group of stars in the center is known as a bulge.
NGC 3254, which was first discovered in March 1785 by astronomer William Herschel, is located in the constellation Leo Minor, approximately 118 million light-years from Earth.
A light-year, which measures distance in space, is roughly 6 trillion miles.
In 1941, a supernova was spotted within the galaxy, known as SN 1941B.
The Hubble has spotted several other Seyfert galaxies in recent years, including one that looks like a 'twin' of the Milky Way galaxy, IRAS17020+4544, in 2016.
Separately that year, it also spotted NGC 6814, which is roughly 75,000 light-years across, or half thee size of the Milky Way.
NASAs Hubble Space Telescope is still working and has made more than 1.3 million observations since its mission began in 1990
The Hubble telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
It is named after famed astronomer Edwin Hubble who was born in Missouri in 1889.
He is arguably most famous for discovering that the universe is expanding and the rate at which is does so - now coined the Hubble constant.
The Hubble telescope is named after famed astronomer Edwin Hubble who was born in Missouri in 1889
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Hubble has made more than 1.3 million observations since its mission began in 1990 and helped publish more than 15,000 scientific papers.
It orbits Earth at a speed of about 17,000mph (27,300kph) in low Earth orbit at about 340 miles in altitude.
Hubble has the pointing accuracy of .007 arc seconds, which is like being able to shine a laser beam focused on Franklin D. Roosevelt's head on a dime roughly 200 miles (320km) away.
The Hubble telescope is named after Edwin Hubble who was responsible for coming up with the Hubble constant and is one of the greatest astronomers of all-time
Hubble's primary mirror is 2.4 meters (7 feet, 10.5 inches) across and in total is 13.3 meters (43.5 feet) long - the length of a large school bus.
Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope.
Thanks to five servicing missions and more than 25 years of operation, our view of the universe and our place within it has never been the same.
Left to its own devices, Earth’s climate typically takes thousands of years to change. Thanks to human activities, however, what previously took millennia now is taking only decades, suggests a new joint studyby NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).1 Published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, it finds the Earth is retaining twice as much heat now as it did in the early 2000s.1
Specifically, scientists used two different means to measure and assess the Earth’s energy imbalance, which is the amount of radiative energy that the planet absorbs from the sun relative to the amount of thermal infrared radiation that it emits into space. The first was NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES), a suite of satellite sensors that measure the amount of energy entering and leaving the Earth’s atmosphere. The second was Argo, a global network of ocean floats that measure the retention of energy in the ocean. Both revealed a positive energy imbalance, which means Earth is retaining more energy than it’s releasing.1
That causes the planet to heat up. By a lot, it turns out: Data from both CERES and Argo show that Earth’s energy imbalance in 2019 was double what it was in 2005, just 14 years prior.1
“The two very independent ways of looking at changes in Earth’s energy imbalance are in really, really good agreement, and they’re both showing this very large trend, which gives us a lot of confidence that what we’re seeing is a real phenomenon and not just an instrumental artifact,” said NASA scientist Norman Loeb, lead author of the study and principal investigator for CERES at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. “The trends we found were quite alarming in a sense.
Scientists blame rapid heating on a mix of human and natural causes. On the one hand, they observe, increases in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities—for example, driving, deforestation, and manufacturing—have trapped outgoing heat in the atmosphere that Earth would otherwise emit into space. That causes changes in snow and ice melt, water vapor, and cloud cover, which in turn creates even more warming.
On the other hand, scientists also note a concurrent change in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a natural pattern of climate variability in the eastern Pacific Ocean. During the time period in question, the PDO—which is like a longer-term El Niño—switched from a cool phase to a warm phase, which likely exacerbated Earth’s positive energy imbalance.
“It’s likely a mix of anthropogenic forcing and internal variability,” Loeb said. “And over this period they’re both causing warming, which leads to a fairly large change in Earth’s energy imbalance. The magnitude of the increase is unprecedented.”
The increase is as impactful as it is unprecedented.
Comparison of overlapping one-year estimates at 6-month intervals of net top-of-the-atmosphere annual energy flux from CERES (solid orange line) and an in situ observational estimate of uptake of energy by Earth climate system (solid turquoise line).NASA/Tim Marvel
“It’s excess energy that’s being taken up by the planet, so it’s going to mean further increases in temperatures and more melting of snow and sea ice, which will cause sea level rise—all things that society really cares about,” Loeb told CNN, adding that accelerated warming will likely produce “shifts in atmospheric circulations, including more extreme events like droughts.Because 90% of the excess energy from an energy imbalance is absorbed by the ocean, yet another consequence will be ocean acidification from higher water temperatures, which will impact fish and marine biodiversity, CNN points out.
“My hope is the rate that we’re seeing this energy imbalance subsides in the coming decades,” Loeb continued in his CNN interview. “Otherwise, we’re going to see more alarming climate changes.”
Unfortunately, it’s impossible to predict what those changes might be or when they’ll occur, stress Loeb and his colleagues, who describe their research as “a snapshot relative to long-term climate change.” Still, the science is getting better all the time. By using it to measure the severity of global warming, scientists at NASA and NOAA hope to inform and influence actions that will stop or reverse human-induced climate change before it’s too late to do so.
“The lengthening and highly complementary records from [space- and ocean-based sensors] have allowed us both to pin down Earth’s energy imbalance with increasing accuracy, and to study its variations and trends with increasing insight, as time goes on,” said Gregory Johnson, Loeb’s co-author on the study and physical oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. “Observing the magnitude and variations of this energy imbalance are vital to understanding Earth’s changing climate.”
Denisova Cave DNA: Neanderthals, Denisovans and Humans Lived Together!
Denisova Cave DNA: Neanderthals, Denisovans and Humans Lived Together!
The deeply-ancient Denisova Cave in Siberia was at times home to Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans “at the same time” based on the latest Denisova Cave DNA research.
Nobody in the world had expected first-contact to come from a tiny, fossilized pinkie bone, but 10 years ago it was the discovery of such a bone that introduced us to the hitherto unknown and now extinct "Denisovans.
A new study of Denisova Cave DNA sampled from the floor of the Russian cave has revealed for the first time that the cave was also used by modern humans. But what was completely unexpected is that the new dating suggests the ancestors of modern humans lived “alongside Denisovans and Neanderthals.”
Researchers Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li and Kieran O'Gorman collecting soil samples in the main chamber to test for Denisova Cave DNA.
Denisova Cave DNA Changes Everything And Proves More
“Aju-Tasch” is more famously known as the “ Denisova Cave ,” and this time capsule of anthropological treasures was found hidden in a cliff face in the Anui River valley in the Altai Mountains of Russia. The cave comprises 20 layers of excavated artifacts indicating occupation by hominins as long ago as 280,000 years before the present, and signs of habitation have been found all the way into the Middle Ages.
Up until recently, according to Britannica encyclopedia , researchers have suspected that the cave was inhabited by early modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) and Neanderthals ( H. neanderthalensis ). However, evidence of a previously unknown group of hominins, the Denisovans, who were neither modern humans nor Neanderthals, was also discovered at the site.
Researchers Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li and Kieran O'Gorman in the south chamber of the cave taking sediment samples as they search for more Denisova Cave DNA.
The new research was published in the Nature journal and covered as well in a release from the Max Planck Institute . The research study’s lead author, Dr Elena Zavala, a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and her colleagues worked with a team of Russian DNA researchers. The primary goal was to test the soil floor of the three-chamber cave to try and gain a clearer picture of how and when modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans lived in the now famous Denisova Cave.
For four decades researchers have been studying artifacts and DNA gathered from soils within the cave. However, according to an article about the new research in Science Mag , only over the last 4 years has anyone found DNA from extinct humans in the ancient cave soil.
A Denisovan tooth found in Russia’s famous Denisova Cave in 2000.
Previous research highlighted in this Science Mag article stated that “728 soil samples” had been taken in the cave. And now, after almost 24 months, the researchers have published new research about their discovery of “ human DNA in 175 of the samples.”
An article about the paper published by the Max Planck Institute quotes Dr Katerina Douka, an archaeological scientist at the institute who said the new study represents the “largest and most systematic of its kind.”
The study concludes that the three different groups “moved in and out of the cave over time.” However, Dr Zavala’s work confirms that Denisovans were the cave ’s first inhabitants about 300,000 years ago and that they disappeared 130,000 years ago. A different group of Denisovans who “likely made many of the stone tools,” then moved into the cave shelter about 30,000 years later. It would be 170,000 years after the first inhabitants that Neanderthals used the cave, at times, “overlapping with the Denisovans,” and the first humans used the cave beginning around 45,000 years ago.
A reconstructed fossil skeleton of a cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea). Cave hyena bones were also found in the Denisova Cave, and this must have resulted in horrible attacks on the hominins living there.
DNA is like any organic matter, and it has a shelf life dependent on the environment in which it found. The Denisova Cave DNA covered all three human groups, and the researchers wrote in their paper that the time periods represented by each soil layer “are quite large.” According to Dr Zavala, this is the first time archaeologists have discovered an ancient site where Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans “lived together through time.”
The fossils of many ancient animals were also discovered in the cave which corresponded with times the climate became cooler. Over time, many different species of hyenas and bears use the cave to shelter from the harsh Russian winters, and it was for this reason it is known locally in Altay as “ Aju-Tasch” or “bear rock.”
Top image:The entrance to the Denisova cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia where the so-called new “Denisova Cave DNA” has proven, for the first time, the Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens occupied the same cave at the same time sometimes!
Giants in Ancient Egypt? A “mummified finger” could confirm this
Giants in Ancient Egypt? A “mummified finger” could confirm this
The belief in giants does not go back to a simple myth. There is a lot of archaeological evidence, accepted and unrecognized, that suggests its existence. That is the case of the colossal finger found in Egypt.
Finger next to an Egyptian 20 pound note to compare the size.
Scholars of ancient cultures that inhabited the world thousands of years ago are convinced that giants roamed the Earth .
Although science recognizes the existence of abnormally large men through gigantism, archaeological evidence, which has not been accepted by the mainstream, shows that it was not a disease.
This could be the case of a strange mummified finger found in Egypt , which has dimensions that exceed those of the average human.
Giant’s finger in Egypt
In March 2012, the German magazine Bild published an article claiming that the remains of a giant had been found in Egyptian territory.
The finger, which was mummified, had all the characteristics of a human, except its size, which was 15 inches long .
According to the publication, the photographs are dated 1988 , but these had never come to light, until the newspaper was able to get them.
The images were taken by the Swiss businessman and fan of the history and culture of ancient Egypt, Gregor Spoerri.
In 1988, she says, one of Egypt’s private providers, Bir Hooker, promised to arrange a meeting with a former grave robber .
The meeting took place in a small house obtained by Hooker, 100 kilometers northwest of Cairo.
The businessman received a large bag with a rather strong smell. Opening it, he found the huge finger wrapped in rags. Obviously, Spoerri decided to cancel the $ 300 the man demanded to take some pictures of them.
To check the size of the finger, the man placed a 20 Egyptian pound note next to the finger. This one was dry and very light , but intact. Soperri assured that the creature must have been at least 5 meters tall .
X-ray supposedly demonstrating the authenticity of the mummified finger.
Its veracity was proven when the looter showed an X – ray of the mummified finger, which he performed in the 1960s. He also showed the certificate of authenticity .
A race that walked the Earth?
Although the businessman asked him to sell the relic, the man refused, claiming that the value it had for his family was priceless .
Later, Spoerri showed the images to colleagues and specialists, who rejected them . They all argued that it was simply “impossible” for someone that size to exist.
In 2009, the businessman once again visited Hooker to obtain new photographs of the giant toe. However, he was unable to find the looter.
Although this story sounds pretty incredible, it is not the first time that giants have been talked about in ancient Egypt.
In the year 79 d. C., the Roman historian, Josefo Flavio , wrote that the last member of the race of the giants lived in century XIII a. C., during the reign of King Josué .
In addition, he said that they had colossal bodies and their faces were so different from humans, that looking at them generated astonishment and their voice provoked fear.
Scientists claim that the giants are nothing more than fictional characters, since there is no evidence that hominids have grown to such dimensions. However, the enigmatic findings that could prove otherwise are piling up .
‘Dragon Man’ Skull Found in China May Be ANOTHER New Human Species
‘Dragon Man’ Skull Found in China May Be ANOTHER New Human Species
In the latest edition of the journal The Innovation, a team of evolutionary scientists led by Professor Qiang Ji from Hebei GEO University in Shijiazhuang, China have announced the discovery of a new human species. Their startling conclusion is based on the results of a sophisticated computer analysis of a strange human-like skull that emerged three years ago from a source in northern China.
The scientists say the Harbin skull belonged to a 50-year-old man who lived sometime between 146,000 and 296,000 years ago. This dates him to the Middle Pleistocene, or Middle Stone Age .
The skull (cranium) was intact and was most notable for its extraordinarily large size. The skull´s combination of features had never been seen before, the scientists claim, and seems to represent some type of hybrid between archaic humans and modern humans ( Homo sapiens ).
“The discovery of the Harbin cranium and our analyses suggest that there is a third lineage of archaic human [that] once lived in Asia, and this lineage has [a] closer relationship with H. sapiens than the Neanderthals,” said Xijun Ni , a Hebei GEO University paleoanthropologist and co-author of this new study.
Based on its huge head, the team have named their new species Homo longi , which means ‘Dragon Man’ in Chinese.
Amazingly, the large cranium was discovered more than 80 years ago, near Harbin City in China’s Heilongjiang province. A workman found it embedded in river mud, while laboring on a construction crew building a bridge over the Songhua River in the early 1930s.
For reasons unknown, the man who discovered the skull kept its existence hidden until 2018. Only then, when he was dying, did he reveal that he had the skull and had dropped it into a well for safekeeping. After his death, his family agreed to donate the cranium to the Geoscience Museum of Hebei GEO University, where the evolutionary scientists launched their three-year investigation into its likely origins.
The cranium nicknamed Dragon Man, which could be a new species of ancient human.
The standout characteristic of the skull is it size. It is the largest hominin skull ever discovered.
“This is biggest human skull I’ve seen – and I’ve seen a few,” said Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist from London’s Natural History Museum and human evolution expert who participated in this research project.
In comparison to a modern human cranium, there are similarities and differences. The Harbin skull has thick brow ridges and square eye sockets, like an archaic man . The cranium is also longer than that of Homo sapiens . But overall, the shape and contours of its face resemble that of an impossibly large human being. The skull’s brain cavity is also similar in size to that of a modern human.
“It’s got such an interesting combination of features,” Stringer noted. “The morphology shows that this is definitely a distinct lineage in eastern Asia. It’s not Neanderthal and it’s not Homosapiens, it’s something quite distinctive.”
Evolutionary Analysis Reveals Surprising Results
One thing that was clear to the scientists was that the Harbin skull wouldn’t fit neatly into an already discovered species. Many of its features were familiar, but their combination was perplexing and unusual.
To find out where the Dragon Man skull belonged on the hominin evolutionary chart, the researchers used information obtained from 95 fossil crania, jawbones, and teeth, representing different hominin groups. In total they had more than 600 skull and facial features to use as points of comparison.
With this information as a baseline, they programmed a supercomputer to construct billions of theoretical evolutionary trees. When the results were in, the researchers were quite surprised to find that the computer had placed the Harbin skull on its own separate evolutionary branch. It had identified the skull as belonging to a whole new hominin species, a type of archaic man that was closely related to Homo sapiens but not identical to anything else.
Here the phylogenetic analysis puts the skull in the context of human development.
“I was surprised to see this,” Stringer said. He had anticipated that the skull would be labeled as an offshoot of the Neanderthals, not as a close relative of modern humans.
To place the skull in the Middle Pleistocene, the scientists relied on results obtained from two types of advanced dating technology, X-ray fluorescence and direct uranium-series dating. These tests showed that the Dragon Man skull had to have been at least 146,000 years old.
Alternate Theories: Was the Dragon Man a Denisovan?
The announcement of the Dragon Man skull research team is being met with some degree of skepticism. It is rare to discover a new species of archaic man, and some scientists are wondering if evidence from one cranium is enough to prove the existence of Homo longi .
“Whether or not this skull is a valid species is certainly up for debate,” anthropologist Michael Petraglia , from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, told Smithsonian Magazine .
The Harbin skull is only one of many unique hominin fossils recovered from China that date to the Middle Pleistocene. The rarity of such finds raises questions about possible hidden connections.
“How do they fit in terms of their evolutionary relationships, to what degree are they interbreeding with the populations across Eurasia, and to what degree do they become isolated resulting in their distinctive features?” Petraglia asked rhetorically. “This brings up a lot of interesting questions and in human evolution China is still really a great unknown.”
Surprisingly, study participant Chris Stringer also doubts that his team has discovered a new and distinct species of ancient man. He notes some intriguing similarities between the Harbin cranium and the Dali skull , a 250,000-year-old-fossilized cranium discovered in China’s Shaanxi province. At present, Stringer believes these two skulls should be grouped together and labeled as a different species known as Homo daliensis .
One of the more fascinating suggestions is that the Harbin skull may actually belong to the mysterious Denisovans. This ancient hominin species was well-established in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene. The Denisovans were closely related to the Neanderthals and are known to have interbred with Homo sapiens (modern humans carry traces of Denisovan DNA ).
Only a few Denisovan fossils have been found, none of which were intact craniums. But one recovered Denisovan jawbone had very large teeth—just like the Harbin skull.
Is this a clue that the Harbin skull may be giving scientists their first-ever look at the true face of the Denisovans? As of now, that is not the official conclusion. But as the number of fossilized remains recovered in China increases, new relationships between archaic human species may be observed and theories may change dramatically as a result.
Top image:A full-length artist's impression of what the human species ‘Dragon Man’ could have looked like. (Chuang Zhao/ The Innovation )
Alien Abduction Of Linda Napolitano That Was Pulled Up Into Giant UFO, 23 Witnesses
Alien Abduction Of Linda Napolitano That Was Pulled Up Into Giant UFO, 23 Witnesses
Around 45% of Americans believe that UFOs exist and have visited the Earth, while 25% believe that aliens have similar societies like humans, according to Ipsos 2020 report. There are many victims who claimed to had been abducted by small gray-colored humanoids (Greys) and then taken to spaceships for some experiments or mating. Among them, Linda Napolitano’s case is the most well-documented UFO encounter.
Linda Napolitano (who uses the pseudonym Linda Cortile), a young woman in her 20s claimed that in November 1989 she had been pulled by grey humanoids from her bedroom window while her husband was asleep next to her. Soon after this horrific incident, she contacted Budd Hopkins, an American UFO researcher who even wrote a book entitled “The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions,” describing the UFO events that occurred on November 30, 1989.
Linda Napolitano
Napolitano, an Italian-American young woman said that on November 20, at 3:15 in the morning, she suddenly woke up, finding herself paralyzed, and saw three non-human figures, gray in color and with big heads that were floating in her bedroom. She could not call her husband as the beings told her in their language to stay quiet. She was pulled by a blue beam from her apartment’s window (on the 12th floor) in Manhattan. She was levitating inside that beam with three other aliens until they reached a giant spaceship that opened like a clam.
“I’m standing up on nothing. And they take me out all the way up, way above the building. Ooh, I hope I don’t fall. The UFO opens up almost like a clam and then I’m inside. I see benches similar to regular benches. And they’re bringing me down a hallway.
Doors open like sliding doors. Inside are all these lights and buttons and a big long table. I don’t want to get up on that table. They get me on the table anyway. They start saying things to me and I’m yelling. I can still yell. One of them says something that sounds like {Nobbyegg}. I think they were trying to tell me to be quiet because he put his hand over my mouth.”
Illustration of Linda’s abduction
Napolitano could not remember much about what had happened inside that ship but she recalled some sort of medical examinations that had been done on her, and she remembered that had passed through some procedures. Besides, she remembered that one of the aliens put something into her nasal cavity, and the pain was so unbearable that she lost her consciousness. Three hours later, she surprisingly found herself lying next to her husband who was still sleeping. Interestingly, she did an x-ray of her head, and the doctor found something strange lodged inside her nose.
This encounter was not just limited to Napolitano, there were other witnesses. Two security guards (Richard and Dan) confirmed to had been watching Napolitano with three humanoids, being pulled up to a large UFO, hovering near her apartment. One of the guards felt guilty for not helping her and even suffered a nervous breakdown.
Budd Hopkins
“There was an oval-shaped object hovering over the top of the apartment building two or three blocks up from where we sat.
We didn’t know where it came from. It happened too fast. Its lights turned from bright reddish-orange to a whitish blue coming out of the bottom. Green lights rotated round the edge of the saucer. A little girl or woman wearing a white gown sailed out of the window in a fetal position – and then stood in mid-air in this beam of light. I could see three of the ugliest creatures I ever saw. I don’t know what they were. They weren’t human.
Their heads were out of proportion, very large heads with no hair. Those buggers were escorting her into the craft. My partner screamed, ‘We have got to get them.’ We tried to get out of the car but couldn’t. After the woman was escorted in, the oval turned reddish orange again and whisked off.”
Actually, Hopkins got his interest in Napolitano’s case after he received a letter from Richard and Dan in 1991. Upon researching more on these two men, Hopkins found out that they were the bodyguards of an important political figure. Hopkins reportedly believes they were the bodyguards of former U.N. statesman, Javier Perez de Cuéllar.
The founder and director of Mutual UFO Network, Walter H. Andrus strongly believed Napolitano’s story and called it a “definitely authentic’ case of human abductions by aliens.”
An alleged photograph released several years after Linda’s abduction showing a strange object floating in the sky outside her apartment
However, there is much skepticism about Napolitano’s case. Some people compared it with the sci-fiction novel “Nighteyes,” originally published on March 1, 1989. But at the same time, there are 23 eyewitnesses who saw this strangeness that night.
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How the Pentagon's UFO Report Could Pressure China and Russia
How the Pentagon's UFO Report Could Pressure China and Russia
“Nobody is saying they are aliens. That’s not the message here. The message is they are unexplained objects,” investigative journalist Leslie Kean said, “This is a major intelligence issue that there are things flying around in our skies that we can’t identify in restricted airspace”
As the Pentagon is preparing to release a heavily anticipated report on UFOs, NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports on what the feds might finally reveal about the mysterious flying objects — including if they belong to the U.S., another country, or something else entirely.
The upcoming Pentagon report on UFOs is not expected to confirm or deny the existence of interplanetary aircraft visiting Earth. To some, that will render the document a little underwhelming.
But not to Leslie Kean.
Kean is a New York-based investigative journalist who’s been pressuring U.S. officials for decades to come clean about what they know – and don’t know – regarding UFOs. She views the forthcoming report as a major pivot for the U.S. intelligence community, which has traditionally avoided frank discussion of unidentified aerial phenomena.
“The fact that the report was requested at all, and that it is being delivered, to me is a milestone event,” Kean said.
In 2017, Kean co-authored a New York Times story that revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon program to investigate mysterious aircraft with seemingly advanced technological capabilities. Since then, the Department of Defense has confirmed the authenticity of several images captured by Navy pilots who encountered unexplained objects traveling at high speeds.
“There’s been more activity, it seems to me, around our Navy ships, Kean said. “There’s some kind of strange escalation going on.”
But Kean cautions just because an aerial object is unexplained – doesn’t mean its origin is interplanetary.
“Nobody is saying they are aliens. That’s not the message here. The message is they are unexplained objects,” Kean said. “This is a major intelligence issue that there are things flying around in our skies that we can’t identify in restricted airspace.”
The security risk posed by mystery aerial objects is a major reason prompting the Pentagon’s UFO report. Kean expects around 70 pages of the report to be classified. But she believes the headline will be a simple but profound statement from the federal government.
“I understand that the report is going to declare that these objects are not United States technology. That they’re not ours. And I think that is a really important statement,” Kean said.
The impact of that sort of statement is hard to underestimate. If military pilots are having close encounters with mystery aircraft – and they’re not some sort of experimental American technology - the question becomes, whose technology is it?
“I think the question that is going to be front and center after this report comes out and is also on people’s minds now is, could these be Russian or Chinese?” Kean said.
How Russia and China respond to the report will be monitored closely by the U.S. intelligence community.
In Rare Move, U.S. Confirms Footage Shows a UFO
The two nations could publicly deny involvement with the mystery aircraft observed by US military pilots. They could also remain silent on the subject. But even their silence will speak volumes.
“It’s going to be a momentous event if it ever does get to the point where it becomes 100 percent clear that it is not Russian or Chinese or American. Then we are in a new world at that moment.”
The UFO report is expected to be delivered to the US Senate Intelligence Committee by the end of June. Members of that committee will be able to read the full classified version. Kean says the report is one of the few topics in American politics that isn’t partisan right now..
“I love the fact that this issue transcends all of that and you can get the most right-wing media and the most left-wing media reporting on it and they will basically say exactly the same thing.”
Filer’s Files 26 2021 - Pentagon Aliens Could be Here - PART I
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Filer’s Files 26 2021 - Pentagon Aliens Could be Here - PART I
George A. Filer and Janet his wife
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Pentagon won’t rule out aliens, Unexplained livestock mutilations, Six Undersea Alien Bases , Communist Chinese Weather Control, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan. New Jersey Ohio, Pennsylvania Texas, and Washington D. C.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Norway., and England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Pentagon Won’t Rule Out Aliens in Long-Awaited UFO Report
A highly anticipated US government report on UFOs has just been released. The unclassified report was demanded by Congress after numerous reports from the US military of vehicles seen moving erratically in the sky. It also follows a cultural shift that saw the US military and US political leadership go from extra-terrestrial-sceptic to ET-curious.
The UAP task force’s unclassified report found “no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation” for the aircrafts, but also did not rule it out. ‘Officials examined 144 incidents from the past two decades, including three videos that the Pentagon declassified last year and described as showing “unexplained aerial phenomena”.
Although no earth-shattering revelations emerged, the existence of a government report on a much-ridiculed issue shows how UFOs have beamed out of the realm of purely science fiction pop culture and into the world of US national security.
UFO over Incirlik, Turkey
“Movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for or are travelling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
The Pentagon established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force last August to investigate observations of unknown flying aircrafts. The group’s job was to “detect, analyze, and catalogue” these events, as well as to “gain insight” into the “nature and origins” of UFOs, the Pentagon said.
A classified version of its report was provided to lawmakers earlier this month.
In his report attached to the 2020-2021 Senate Intelligence Authorization Act, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, instructed the director of national intelligence, the secretary of defense and other agency heads to compile data on “unidentified aerial phenomenon.” “The Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat,” lawmakers wrote in a report. Thank to yahoo https://www.foxnews.com/science/classified-ufo
10,000 Mutilations Continue
Chuck Zukowski
Chuck Zukowski has spent the last 30-plus years investigating reported UFO sightings and unexplained animal mutilations at ranches across the Rocky Mountains and Southwest. His investigations have led “the Mulder of El Paso” to a shocking discovery: a “UFO highway” running across the United States.
In his real-life the X-Files tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy.
The computer programmer and sheriff’s deputy Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. But this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mutilated livestock and sees the bodies of dead horses and cattle—whose exsanguinations is inexplicable by any known human or animal means.
Along an expanse of land stretching across the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, Zukowski discovers multiple bizarre incidences of mutilations, and suddenly realizes that they cluster around the 37th Parallel or “UFO Highway.”
Mutilations Shown in Pink Circles
So begins an extraordinary and fascinating journey from El Paso and Rush, Colorado, to a mysterious space studies company and MUFON, from Roswell and Area 51 to the Pentagon and beyond; to underground secret military caverns and Indian sacred sites; beneath strange, unexplained lights in the sky.
Cattle are worth about $7,000 each so the loss of cattle can cost a rancher a great deal. The Post’s interview with him here.
RUSH, COLORADO, AUGUST 12, 2010
Even after twenty years, the feeling of excitement still took Chuck by surprise. Today, the two-hour drive over from his home in Colorado Springs hadn’t helped. When he finally reached the dirt turnoff to the fifty-acre cattle-and-horse ranch, whose owner, Glenda, had called him, he drove up and parked his pickup truck next to the house. He caught a glimpse of the rancher’s face. From both personal experience and his years on the force, he knew what fear looked like.
“Morning” Glenda managed to say as she saw Chuck’s truck. He had the door open, but was still gathering rubber gloves, plastic bags for samples, two cameras, his handheld electromagnetic field reader, and his gun. “Made it as quickly as I could, ma’am,” Chuck said as he got out and strapped the equipment to the special vest he wore. He’d designed it over the years, after responding to so many of these calls and learning what he would need for most of them. He placed the plastic bags and gloves into Velcro pouches along his ribs and the EMF reader and gun into holsters on either side. “
Half a week since the incident — a truly frustrating lapse of time, but it couldn’t be helped.
“I’m only glad you’re here. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department couldn’t make much sense out of this.”
.On the surface, Glenda’s compound wasn’t unusual. Eighty acres, twenty-five head of cattle, with a low house beyond the grazing area and a medium-sized barn attached to the horse corral directly ahead.
But the farther they got from the road, the harder Chuck’s heart started to beat. The low grass they were now moving through seemed untouched — ungrazed — and it was intuitively obvious why that was. The handful of cows Chuck could see were clustered together in a small section of their feed area, as close to the barn as they could go.
Beyond them, within the horse corral, the horses were behaving similarly — crowded together near the back fence.
“The dog has been kind of crying since it happened,” Glenda said. “Huddled over there, by the barn.” And then, almost as an afterthought: “They won’t go near the bodies.”
“On the phone, you said that at least one of the horses was nearby when it happened?”
Glenda nodded. “A survivor. This was part of the reason for Chuck’s elevated adrenaline level, beyond being at the site of the incident itself. It was extremely unusual for there to be any “survivors.”
Mutilated Horse
Usually, there were only bodies. “Over here.” Even from a distance, Chuck could tell that the two fully mature horses — Princess and Buck — lying prone in the grass had died unnaturally.
Glenda led him the last few yards to the edge of the corral and headed for the horses grouped together. It took almost ten minutes for her to coax the animal away from the group, another ten for Chuck to get the poor thing comfortable enough with him so that he could approach.
It was a young male, a little over two years old. He pawed at the ground, eyes rapidly shifting, spittle pooling at the edges of his mouth. Moving closer, Chuck immediately saw a reddish mark on the horse’s upper nose — what looked to be some sort of cut, scrape or even burn — about the size of a quarter. Following Glenda’s lead, he bent low and saw similar marks on the inside of the animal’s legs.
“And his behavior — the way he’s acting — this is unusual for him?”
“Unusual? He’s one of my husband’s favorites. Like a pet. Him, Princess and Buck, the three of them were inseparable.”
Chuck nodded. Horses are different from other animals on a ranch — they’re high maintenance, but more than that, they are often part of the family. Glenda ‘s husband had grown too ill to tend to the ranch. Beyond the emotional value, horses were expensive. Ranchers like Glenda ran their businesses at very tight margins. The unexpected loss of even a single animal hurt — losing multiple animals could mean the difference between a good season and a bad one.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do with him. And the dog — she’s even worse. Same sort of marks on her. Shaking, drooling, and whining. She won’t even come out of the house anymore.”
From the corral, Chuck could still hear the dog’s high-pitched wail. Nearly a week had gone by, and the animals were still obviously traumatized. Chuck would want to take a closer look and run some tests.
Glenda led him toward the pasture where the incident had taken place.
Princess and Buck — lying prone in the grass had died unnaturally. The carcasses were flat against the ground on their sides, splayed out in the same position. As Chuck drew closer, he could see no signs of predators or of any sort of defensive resistance — no deep hoof prints. They had obviously died suddenly. According to Glenda, they had been young, healthy animals, worth around a thousand dollars each.
Both horses had been stripped to the bone in various places. Much of their hides was still present, but the wounds were prolific, from head to haunch.
Chuck pulled his rubber gloves out from the pouch on his vest and moved the last few feet to the closer corpse.
Yes, over the past decade, he’d seen this many times. Several steers had also been mutilated that would be studied later, but the story is the same.
Cattle Mutilation Manuel A. Sanchez
Even more terrifying, incidents like this had been going on for more than fifty years — this exact same scene had been witnessed and documented on ranches all over Colorado, as well as in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and many other places.
What had occurred on Glenda’s ranch was part of a phenomenon made up of more than ten thousand individual incidents, in a half-dozen states — all of them completely unexplained. For the past ten years, Chuck had been pursuing the truth behind these kills. This was his obsession, his addiction . . .
“The wounds,” Glenda whispered. “They look, well — surgical.”
But as he peered closer, the eyes had been carefully removed. Other wounds on what was left of the carcasses were precise, small, and yes, seemingly surgical — where internal organs had been excised. And the tongues had both been taken — cleanly, via perfectly straight incisions, far back in the throat.
“There isn’t any blood,” Glenda said, her voice trembling.
Chuck dropped to one knee to examine Buck. His rubber gloves felt snug around his fingers as he sealed them tight at his wrists. She was correct — the animals had been drained of blood. No reddened stains anywhere on the revealed bones, the mostly intact rib cage, skull, and stripped limbs. There was a darkened area of ground just in front of the dead horse, and below its hooves —caused by decomposing fats and other bodily fluids and blood. A horse like this weighed twelve hundred pounds with four gallons of blood. This horse had been exsanguinated — either before it was killed, or after.“Not enough blood on the ground,”
This was a phenomenon was being recorded in more than a half-dozen states, sometimes simultaneously, often ten in a week.
“Looks like a long, T-like incision going down what’s left of the abdominal area.” Put in field notebook, which he’d then share with his expert veterinary contacts at the University of Colorado. “The back anal area was cut out in an unusual circular manner, void of the penis. The eyes, the tongue — and again, not the expected blood pooling, even with such a massive wound.”
Glenda called the incisions on her horses “laser like,” and had described a burn-type smell associated with them. Glenda’s husband, who had been agitatedly suggesting that some sort of military agency must have been responsible for the butchery, using high-tech “I don’t see any burn markings,” he said, running his gloved fingers along each revealed rib. “No signs of cauterization at all.”
However, as Chuck continued running his fingers along each of the animal’s ribs, he felt grooves. He peered closely and noticed unusual, etch like markings, starting three inches from the spine on each rib, originating up near the skull, and running consistently down all the ribs, a straight-line pattern leading all the way to the eleventh rib.
Speculation that UFOs take Cattle Up and mutilate, Dropping them back
Curious. He kept the grooves to himself, as he rose from his knees and shifted to the second horse, splayed out in an identical position. He was fairly sure that when he eventually got out his measuring tape, he’d find the positioning so precise, the differences would be minuscule.
He could see that Princess’s wounds were also nearly identical to Buck’s:
Chuck did his best to reassure Glenda that he was going to do everything he could to try to help her understand what had happened on her ranch with her traumatized dog. But even so, he was certain that nothing he could say or do would be enough. In Chuck’s expert opinion — and over the past eight years, he had turned himself into one of the most knowledgeable investigators in the world — the scene in front of them wasn’t the result of a predator. No animal could have caused these bizarre wounds. Nor did Chuck see any evidence that pointed to human culpability. No footprints, tire tracks, or signs of violence one would expect with two horses taken down like this.
The very first well-publicized mutilation had occurred awfully close to Glenda’s ranch, more than fifty years earlier.
Back in 1967, a horse named Lady had been killed and similarly excised in nearby Alamosa, Colorado. Lady’s head and neck had been skinned, and her hide appeared to have been cauterized. As with Buck and Princess, the wounds had been bloodless.
That mutilation had also been accompanied by a handful of UFO sightings, within a twenty-four-hour period. One witness, a Superior Court judge named Charles Bennett, had claimed to have seen “three reddish-orange rings in the sky” that had maintained a triangular formation and had moved at incredible speeds.
That 1967 incident, so close to where Glenda had found her prized horses, had caused the phenomenon of animal mutilations to enter the paranormal lexicon.
In the history of animal mutilations — ten thousand, over the past fifty years — nobody had ever been caught or arrested. Every one of them had eventually been deemed unexplained.
Chuck Zuklowski
“But you’ve seen this before,” Glenda said. “How could this be happening, over and over again, and nobody knows why?”
Why? How? This was a phenomenon so vast, there were cases being recorded in more than a half-dozen states, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes as many as ten in a week.
“What about the authorities? Not the local cops, I mean, like maybe the sheriff, the mayor’s office?”
“Actually, it’s gone a lot higher than that.”
In fact, the phenomenon of animal mutilations, which had been simultaneously mocked as the product of some sort of Midwestern mass hysteria and shrouded in continually redacted secrecy, had once inspired a massive, multistate investigation. It had involved a senator from Colorado, the FBI, at least one satanic cult, and a near-decade-long open case file that had ended right back where it had started.
Ten thousand animal mutilations — all of them unexplained. Thanks to Ben Mezrich
History of Mutilations
Cattle are taken aboard UFO and later dropped
Back in 1967, a horse named Lady had been killed and similarly excised in nearby Alamosa, Colorado. Lady’s head and neck had been skinned, and her hide appeared to have been cauterized. As with Buck and Princess, the wounds had been bloodless.
An animal, usually a steer, heifer, or cow, is found dead and mutilated in a pasture. • The farmer or rancher immediately understands from the circumstances that this is a strange death and “mutilation.” He/she reports it to authorities. Authorities sometimes agree with the strangeness. Sometimes veterinarians are called in. Sometimes vet labs are involved. There may be several cases in a week or two in a 25-to-50-mile radius or so.
Cattle Mutilations are worldwide
There may be reports of UFOs, “helicopters,” aircraft, strange beings — “men” or bigfoot types or strange “animals” — and strange sounds or lights. the bovine corpses stunned the ranchers who found them. Seals are reported mutilated in Canada and other colder countries. Worldwide, sheep, horses, goats, pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, bison, deer, and elk have been reported mutilated with similar bloodless excisions; often an ear, eyeball, jaw flesh, tongue, lymph nodes, genitals and rectum are removed. It should be noted that cattle blood and human blood are very similar and a humanoid could probably live on the blood alone.
Chupacabra
In South America, Puerto Rico, and other countries Chupacabra thought to be an alien animal are often blamed for the mutilations. FBi investigator has verified the existance of Chupacabra’s killing smaller animals.
The animals’ ears, eyes, udders, anuses, sex organs and tongues had routinely been removed, seemingly with a sharp, clean instrument.
On March 30, 2021, more than a dozen such mutilation cases have cropped up during the past two years in Eastern Oregon.
Chile Research
Chili’s Region IV, Regional Research has devised a method to capture flying objects that the human eye cannot see, because they do not reflect the light. For many years there has been talk that the Elqui Valley is a prime location for the sighting of UFOs. There are dozens of stories and many mysterious pictures, not to mention the case of an alleged flying saucer that crashed into a Paihuano hill. There are also many more UFOs flying over the hills, that are invisible to the naked eye. This was discovered by regional researcher Patricio Diaz, who years ago noticed that the photos you took to elquinos landscapes, strange forms appeared after daylight, of which no one realized at the time.
Water Tanks emptied over night
The area also had its share of cattle mutilations and huge tanks pool size were emptied with no water on the ground. Thousands of gallons of water disappeared over night sometimes left with dead cattle left inside.
Patricio Diaz thought quickly to take photos with two cameras: one a standard camera and an infrared camera. Infrared is a type of light you cannot see. Our eyes can only see what we call visible light. Infrared light gives us special information that we cannot get from visible light. It shows how much heat something has and gives information about the temperature of an object. Everything has some heat and radiates infrared light. Even those we think are very cool. Patricio Diaz says, “My profession is an electronic technician and I worked to change the camera, the software, shutter speed, and I use a polarizing filter. It was a long process and managed to save these objects,” said Diaz. He was shooting in places like Pisco Elqui, El Molle, Vicua and Paihuano. “We achieved remarkably interesting and good results. I used the second camera to have a comparison of what I was recording in infrared.
Flying objects were in the focal plane of the hill, shot 4 or 5 miles and the object looked sharp and movements that did were remarkably interesting. They stopped in the air so it cannot be a meteorite.” Diaz has spent 25 years devoted to UFO research and these strange aerial phenomena were captured in the Elqui Valley. Thanks to Institute of Hispanic Ufology
Underwater Bases Off Puffin Island, Wales and in English Channel
Marcus Lowe reports, Numerous sightings of strange lights leave and enter the sea around Puffin Island, Wales, and Plymouth England has led some ufologists to believe that the area may be home to underwater alien bases. A spate of sightings in early 1974 were particularly interesting to investigators. All spoke of not just lights, but solid objects that were seen leaving the sea near the island.
UFO investigator Phil Hoyle stated that he has heard and read various UFO reports concerning Puffin Island. He also stated that alleged alien abductees close to the area have reported that their abductors were humanoid and told them they came from a base under the sea near the island. There are even some theories that the area itself may be the ancient legendary kingdom of Cantre’r Gwaelod and that these humanoids are their descendants.
Hoyle believes that the ties to an ancient site and the current UFO activity shouldn’t be downplayed, stating that according to his research, there is an 80 percent increase in such activity on or around ancient sites worldwide.
There also frequent sightings in the English Channel.
Newton Abbot Deven — I sat in the garden sky watching on April 23, 2020. The sky was clear with no planes. I sat there looking around the sky with my Nikon P900 camera when a Royal Navy helicopter flew over the area, I took some photographs as the helicopter flew over the horizon where I spotted a saucer shaped object that was moving at speed across the sky. When I zoomed in, I could see its violet color. I quickly took a photograph at 1:36 PM as it accelerated away at great speed. There is very compelling evidence of alien craft in our skies. I regularly see UFOs around this area, and I strongly believe the aliens have underwater bases. All the best John.
New Zealand Underwater Base
New Zealanders are witness to many strange objects entering the sea, with activity stretching out to some of the offshore islands around the area. UFO researchers state that the area is
base for the strange craft that exist there.
Between January and March 1995, there were dozens of sightings of these objects coming and going in the area. These were not limited to nighttime, with many of the objects being witnessed during the daylight hours.
One daylight sighting on March 9, 1995, stands out. It began with two fishermen who witnessed a bright, silver, ball-shaped craft that seemed to glow or pulse as it moved and emitted a strange red stream behind it.
Pacific Ocean Underwater Mining
The two men saw the object for less than 10 seconds before it vanished from their sight. Around two minutes later, however, there were sightings of what seemed to be the same object by the control towers at both Hamilton International and Rotorua Airports. Further supporting the incident were several reports that were phoned in to a local radio station from concerned residents, who all described a remarkably similar object in the bright, sunny sky
Strange Lights and Sounds in Puerto Rico
The island of Puerto Rico has had numerous accounts of UFO sightings, particularly along its northeastern coastline, where strange craft have been seen both emerging out of and disappearing into the water for years. There is also a strong US Navy presence on the island, and stories from locals and US expats alike state that the US military at the very least is monitoring the strange activity on the waters along the coast.
Experienced ufologist and researcher Nick Redfern recently told of an ex–civil defense employee who had witnessed a strange craft emerge from the waters off the Puerto Rican coast. It steadily rose into the air before shooting off at speed. Another account came to Redfern from a local police officer, who stated that the US Navy had spent considerable time tracking an underwater craft along the northeastern coast of the island.
There have been numerous claims and theories that the immediate coastline of this Caribbean Island is home to underwater alien bases, perhaps none more specific than those of investigative journalist Jorge Martin. Martin stated that using NOAA satellite images, they found several anomalies around the island which suggested artificial structures. Martin stated that these structures were unusually large and precisely rectangular and were generally on the eastern and southern coast of the island. He also claimed that coming off many of these structures, there appeared to be what looked like tunnels leading to other structures and even to the mainland.
Some of World’s deepest Ocean is near Puerto Rico
What is interesting is that in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce during the late 1980s, residents were complaining to authorities that they could hear loud rumbling, which seemed to be coming from beneath the ground. It was reported that the sounds were like those you might expect to hear when heavy machinery was operated.
Ancient Alien Base at Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca
The predominantly still waters of Lake Titicaca on the borders of Peru and Bolivia are not only the world’s highest navigable waters, but also host to a plethora of UFO activity and according to some, , home to an advanced and possibly ancient alien base.
The ancient city of Tiwanaku, considered to be one of the oldest cities in the world, sits on the southeastern shore of Lake Titicaca. Ufologists, ancient astronaut theorists in particular, state that the advanced level of agriculture, irrigation, and astronomy as well structures that suggest advanced building techniques leads them to believe that an extraterrestrial race once resided here. Numerous texts and statues have also been found in the immediate vicinity of the lake, which seem to depict ancient Mesopotamian underwater gods—gods that they claim were from an alien civilization that once resided under the still waters of Lake Titicaca.
Disc in Lake
Recently, a video surfaced on YouTube shot by a group of Italians who were on a spiritual journey of sorts in the region. As they pointed their camera out to the still, blue waters of Lake Titicaca, what appeared to be a large, submerged object was seen slowly making its way away from the shore. It appeared to be disc-shaped object, and as it moved through the water, its shape remained the same, suggesting that it is indeed solid.
If there was an ancient alien underwater base below the surface of Lake Titicaca, perhaps this video may suggest that it is very much still in use. Book UFOs and Anti-Gravity
Underwater Alien Base at Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay i
According to a former US Marine who served at Guantanamo Bay in the late 1960s, there is an underwater alien base off the Cuban coast. Furthermore, the Marine claimed that of the many UFO sightings of strange objects going in and out of the water, the US military has even managed to capture several on film. He also states that he and his colleagues were under strict instructions not to talk about the strange activity they witnessed there.
The Marine claimed that the craft he witnessed appeared to be made of a “dull” metal with a series of blue lights. When they would enter the water, the blue lights could still be witnessed but would grow fainter and fainter, suggesting to him that whatever the object was, it was descending deeper into the water.
Perhaps coincidentally, around 140 kilometers (90 mi) north of the US base in Gulf Breeze, Florida, there have been several UFO sightings that seem to match the descriptions of the craft as described by the unnamed marine and may suggest they are originating from the same place.
One sighting came in November 1987, when Ed Walters claimed that he witnessed a strange object fly overhead from the coast. It emitted a bright, blue light that “trapped” him in its beam. He stated that while he was caught in it, everything around him was blue, and he could not move. Walters did manage to take several pictures of the craft. Hundreds of witnesses came forward to say they, too, had seen the strange object that evening.
There is debate over the credibility of his account. MUFON seemed to believe the sighting was genuine, while others have stated that the photographs were obvious fakes. In a strange twist, years after Walters’ claims, an investigation into his story was said to have discovered a model craft remarkably similar to the object that Walters stated he had photographed in a house where he once resided. Supporters of his claims, however, argue that this model is an obvious “plant” to discredit him.
Lake Baikal—Scene of An Underwater Battle with Aliens
The ancient Lake Baikal in Siberia is said to be the deepest lake on the planet and has a history of UFO activity as well as alleged sightings of aliens underneath the water by Russian military divers.
These sightings date back to the Soviet era, but since the end of the Cold War, the reports have come into the public domain. Many of the accounts tell of a huge “mothership” hovering above the expanse of water and even of humanoid beings in strange, shiny suits climbing down from these ships and into the water.
Former Soviet naval officer and ufologist Vladimir Azhazha claimed to have leaked top secret files relating to an incident in 1982. He stated that military divers, who were on standard training exercises in the area, witnessed huge underwater craft that moved with a speed they had never seen before.
Several days later, the story took an even more bizarre twist when divers witnessed several strange beings under the water.
Lake Baikal Beings
They wore shiny suits and what appeared to be a small, advanced oxygen masks. According to the alleged leaked documents, the unit was ordered to capture these strange creatures. When they attempted to do so, however, they were fought off with what appeared to be an advanced sonar wave weapon that ultimately killed three of the seven divers. The aliens are likely from a water bound planet that are common in the universe. The remaining four, now terrified and injured from their attempts detain the strange crew, retreated and made their report to superiors.
In 2009, photographs taken from aboard the International Space Station seemed to show two distinct saucer-shaped anomalies in the region, fueling further speculation that an extraterrestrial presence was under Lake Baikal and even the possibility that these “saucers” were the craft that had been witnessed nearly three decades earlier by the Soviet diving unit.
Communist Chinese Weather Control
Pacific Northwest bakes under once in a millennium heat dome
In a December statement, the Chinese Communist government announced an expansion of its weather control program, covering an area of over 2.1 million square miles. The country believes it will have the technology.. When I served in Vietnam in 1968, the US controlled the weather
Along the Route of Ho Chi Minh” with six aircraft. China has developed the use of six HAARP machines that also appear to control the jet stream over the United States. Like the Communist media daily tells the Chinese they are at war with the US the Chinese work actively in every method possible to destroy democracy even though you news will not tell you. It is my opinion that China has developed a method to change the path of the jet stream that essentially controls the weather in the United States.
The jet stream making an Omega swing surrounding a heat dome in the Northern Rock Mountains.
The most recent evidence includes the wild Omega pattern of the jet stream which according to Weather experts has not happened by accident in a thousand years. This pattern is causing record high temperatures throughout the West. Temperatures above a 100 degrees are common.
Just like the 600,000 US citizens killed by the Corona –virus. The virus was as bad as the Spanish Flu a hundred years ago. Communist countries feel it is their right to destroy the United States.
The heat wave baking the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, is of an intensity never recorded by modern humans. By one measure it is more rare than a once in a 1,000 year event — which means that if you could live in this particular spot for 1,000 years, you’d likely only experience a heat dome like this once, if ever.
Portland, Oregon, has already broken its all-time record hottest temperature at 108 degrees on Saturday and the peak of the heat wave has not even been reached yet. Canada is expected to register the nation’s all-time highest temperature before the event is done. These are extremely dangerous numbers, especially in a region not used to heat like this, where many people do not have air conditioning.
By Monday, some — if not all — of the all-time record highs seen below are forecast to break, with many more cities not listed here expected to achieve the same feat.
These are all-time heat records for select cities. Portland has already broke it’s former all-time record of 107 that does not happen by accident.
The core of the heat dome, as measured by the thickness of the air column over British Columbia and the Pacific NW, is – statistically speaking – equivalent to a 1 in 1000 year event or even 1 in 10,000 year event in my opinion caused by HAARP in Communist China. / Credit: CBS News
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra. https://amzn.to/2SK3SIQ
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Filer’s Files 26 2021 - Pentagon Aliens Could be Here - PART II
Lantignie, France –on June 11, 2021
Filer’s Files 26 2021 - Pentagon Aliens Could be Here - PART II
George A. Filer and Janet his wife
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Pentagon won’t rule out aliens, Unexplained livestock mutilations, Six Undersea Alien Bases , Communist Chinese Weather Control, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan. New Jersey Ohio, Pennsylvania Texas, and Washington D. C.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Norway., and England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Mesa – on May 24, 2021, I was driving to work, westbound on Highway 60 when I could see a cluster of objects swirling about 2,500 feet above the ground and about 1 1/2 miles further west. I exited on Higley road northbound and was able to take a video. They also were white and reflecting light There’s no gulls in the desert. My camera was having a hard time focusing on them because of the distance. I don’t think they were balloons or birds because they were changing direction from moving north to south and then back to south.
California Object
Sacramento – on June 8, 2021, I was riding home from work and saw across the street an object just hovering above some trees, it was shaped like a rectangle and dark grey with no propellers. I took two pictures then started to record it. I crossed the street, but it was gone.
Colorado Object
Bucaramanga– on June 6, 2021, I was taking a picture when I saw that something is in the sky in the shape of a cone. Then it disappeared quickly breaking like the sound barrier and I checked the photos of my cell phone, and the moment was recorded.
Illinois Light
McHenry– on June 12, 2021, I walked outside and saw something that wasn’t a star. I continued to look at it and saw that it was flashing different colors and moving in an unusual pattern.
Louisiana Light
Natchitoches– on May 13, 2021, I am attaching pictures that were taken with a Stealth Cam. I have tons more pictures. I live next to an airport and have noticed UFO activity almost every night. They hover around the area
Note: The witness didn’t provide any detail about what he saw. Without an accompanying report little can be said about this sighting. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Michigan Object
Whitehall – on June 19, 2021, at the park near fishing bridge I saw an object in the sky moving south to southwest. Watched until it vanished. Saw it or another again and took video of it.
New Jersey Lights
Ray Dintino I’m writing this note for my sister who lives in Belmawr NJ. She sent me 8 videos shot on her iPhone of one and often 2 objects taking residence nightly above her house. I am looking to contact the right individual to go to her residence and use the proper equipment to capture this nightly event. This is a real event occurring regularly and demands a serious look. I can be reached by phone 410-707-7834 or email. We will share the videos on a per individual basis.
Ohio Object
Laurelville– on June 20, 2021, took a walk through a wooded path next to this pond in Hocking Hills. I took some pictures and didn’t physically see the UFO until scrolling through my photos later. I heard rustling in the bushes with no one there. I heard this strange “womping” or jet-like sound. I noticed this large, hovering cloud that was somewhat shaped like a flying saucer.
Pennsylvania Light
Irwin – on June 26, 2021, fast moving yellow light NE downward path with color enhanced.
Texas Object
Minus – on June 24, 2021, Driving- see exceptionally large blimp like aircraft moving in the sky! This is out in the country. Very very unusual to see a blimp or parasail. I pulled over and took photos! It appears to have something on top and below main object when zoomed in. And I see what appears some type of wind trail or wind tunnel in one photo enlarged. Just very unusual, so I took 13 photos, and they all show it a bit differently. I am reporting for my spouse- he could give better specifics!!
Washington D.C. Object
District of Columbia — on June 5, 2021, I took 4 picture of the blue sky every second. When I zoom in on the photos, I can see three objects two of them move up higher on the sky and other one move toward SE in a few seconds.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Lights
Kamloops – on June 14, 2021, at 11:45 pm, 5 glowing lights were observed in the sky. The lights did not move, and no beams were visible from the ground, indicating it was not manmade. No sound was observed, and the lights appeared to be very uniform in their distance between each other. The lights were over the Valley view area.
France Object
Lentigines –on June 11, 2021, have just taken a series of photos which follows.
Germany Disc
Germany – on April 23, 2021, I’m Polish truck driver and. I watch in YouTube program about MUFON and reminds me of née strange moment and my pictures. I had a break at my truck in Germany. I was riding my bicycle and saw flowers, so I took a few pictures. I see a flying object, and took6 pictures.
Mexico Light
Puerto Vallarta– on June 26, 2021, I was in Mexico on vacation with my wife staying at our friend’s outside of Yellapa. Some lights caught my eye that were moving strangely. At first, I thought is a boat on the water but then the lights maneuvered around. I tried to get some photos and video footage. I zoomed in to get something unworldly.
Norway Object
Akra– on June 19, 2021, did not see the object but in the evening, I reviewed my photos on my computer. We were 7 people and 3 dogs and none of us saw this thing before we watched the photo.
UK/England
Bude– on June 6, 2021, I was at work delivering groceries. It was a clear, still, warm day. I looked up and saw this thing and it was extremely high, but it looked interesting and with no deferrable sound. After I just carried on with my day.
UK/Wales Light
Brigand – on June 11, 2021, saw a strange object at11.45 pm, which kept changing shape and emitting different colors. It made no sound and just vanished. It was in Kenfig Hill which is a small town in Wales.
Note: The video has been zoomed in and the contrast has been enhanced. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
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My previous article was on the matter of me, UFO researchers Robin Cole and Matthew Williams, and a certain whistleblower who I termed “The Sandman.” And, on how, in the 1990s, we were all carefully and quietly watched by personnel in the U.K. intelligence community: Government Communications Headquarters, the Provost and Security Services, and Special Branch. And all (and only) because of our interests in UFOs and aliens. There were, however, others, too, who were watched by U.K. Intelligence at that same time. One of them was someone who you might think would not have had any kind of involvement in this saga. And, yet, there was involvement. Quite a lot, too. His name: Jonathan Downes. Although primarily known as a cryptozoologist and the Director of the U.K.-based monster-hunting Center for Fortean Zoology, in the mid-to-late 1990s Jon wrote regularly – and extensively – for a whole range of newsstand UFO-related publications that existed at the time. The scenario of Special Branch monitoring the activities of full-time monster hunters such as Jonathan Downes, purely because of the fact that they happen to have friends in Ireland sounds wholly outrageous; however, it is something that Jon himself can corroborate:
“It was a Friday lunchtime in early May 1996. My ex-wife, Alison, and I were beginning to suspect that we had strayed into a particularly far-fetched and badly scripted episode of The X-Files. We were sitting in the departure lounge of Plymouth Airport, waiting to put Tony ‘Doc’ Shiels, [a renowned Irish monster-hunter and magician] on his plane back to Ireland, after one of his occasional visits. Suddenly, the airport lounge seemed to be full of security guards. There were only about half a dozen men in uniform; but there were a number of rather sinister-looking me in black suits, wearing sunglasses, and looking quite menacing. A man in plainclothes, who introduced himself to Tony as a senior police officer, came over to us. I was engaged, at the time, in assembling my tape-recorder so I could tape an interview with Tony.
“But, at the sound of the words: ‘Mr. Shiels, can I see your boarding-pass?’ which was accompanied by the practiced flash of a warrant card in a leather wallet, [I was] prompted to put my tape-recorder away very quickly. They conversed in low voices. I didn’t try to overhear their conversation; but I gathered that Tony had shown the policeman all the relevant travel documents, and that all was in order. I decided that this was the right time to go to the lavatory. Sitting in the thin-walled, Formica-lined cubicle, I was effectively invisible, and so could overhear snatches of a conversation between one of the Men in Black and someone else over a walkie-talkie. I only heard some of what they said, but the words ‘Special Branch‘ were mentioned on several occasions. I was also shocked to hear my own name.”
Jon concluded to me: “Slinking out as soon as the coast was clear, I rejoined Alison and Tony. They told me that, with no notice whatsoever, Tony’s plane had been canceled. I began to feel somewhat scared. The policeman came over to talk to Tony again, and the public address system asked Alison, as the owner of our van, to report to the Information Desk. She was asked to move our van on the grounds that it was causing an obstruction. It wasn’t. And Tony was told that his flight would now be departing three hours late. The Men in Black were still milling around. I just sat there feeling very paranoiac. I still don’t know to this day what it was all about. The harassment, such as it was, continued all afternoon; but we were, by this time at least, in such a state of advanced paranoia, that even innocent occurrences were open to vicious misinterpretation. Was the target of this activity me or Tony? Were the motives magical; ufological; or, as seems more likely, political? Or was Tony guilty of being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time? [It was] a week when security at all airports and military bases had been stepped up – because of a rumored IRA blitz to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Easter uprising.” The mystery was never resolved.
'There is something in our skies, we don’t know its intentions, and there isn't a damn thing we can do': Pentagon whistleblower warns failure to address UFOs could be America's biggest spy failure since 9/11
'There is something in our skies, we don’t know its intentions, and there isn't a damn thing we can do': Pentagon whistleblower warns failure to address UFOs could be America's biggest spy failure since 9/11
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's secret UFI program said he had seen 'very very compelling' data about technologically advanced UFOs
The former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program said the government had a moral obligation to tell the public what it knows
The Department of Defense is scrambling to prepare a report on military sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena by June 1
It could bring answers about the strange tic-tac shaped aircraft that appear to be technologically superior to anything in the US military arsenal
If the US has been 'leapfrogged technologically by a foreign adversary' then it will constitute an intelligence failure 'on the level of 9/11'
In July 2019, USS destroyers on patrol were suddenly swarmed by flashing, Tic Tac-shaped drones, which were able to travel long distance at high speeds
A whistleblower who ran the Pentagon's top-secret ufo program has warned a soon-to-be-released report on unidentified aerial phenomena could reveal the greatest US intelligence failings since 9/11.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), told The Sun he had seen 'very very compelling' data that confirmed the existence of technologically advanced UFOs.
A highly-anticipated report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) is due to be released by the Director of the National Intelligence and the Department for Defense by June 1 .
And Elizondo says if Pentagon officials reveal that the US has been 'leapfrogged technologically by a foreign adversary' such as China or Russia it would constitute an intelligence failure 'on the level of 9/11'.
Elizondo said recently-revealed footage of strange, tic-tac shaped flying objects buzzing US military ships were real - and says it is time that the Government told the public what it knew about them.
He told The Sun: 'There is something in our skies, we don't know what it is, we don't know how it works, we don't know fully what it can do, we don't know who is behind the wheel, we don't know its intentions, and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.'
Lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee ordered Defense officials to explain the frequent sightings of strange flying objects spotted by military in the hope it will dispel some of the rumor and fear surrounding them.
Elizondo said people should manage their expectations around what will be contained in the report.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP),
One of the images leaked from the Pentagon report appears to be a pyramid-shaped object (pictured) hovering over the USS Russell
These images were leaked from a Pentagon task force and obtained by by investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who confirmed their authenticity
UFOs or a rival military power? What in the world is behind all these mysterious drone sightings...
Since the 1960s, there have been dozens of encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena.
Possible explanations include:
1. The US military. It has been secretly designing and testing unmanned aircraft for decades. This would seem the most plausible explanation, given the US spends more on defense than the next 10 countries combined.
2. Another military power such as China or Russia has developed its own advanced drone weaponry. If so they would have had to make extraordinary technological breakthroughs and managed to keep them out of the public eye.
3. A private company built the UFOs and wanted to test them out in a high-stakes stand-off with the US military. Both Elon Musk with SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin have spent billions of dollars on space exploration programs, so perhaps it's not out of the question.
4. The drones are in fact the creations of alien life forms, in which case Mulder was right all along about the truth being 'out there'.
Elizondo headed the AATIP from 2007 to 2012, as part of a $22 million program set up former Nevada Senator Harry Reid to investigate the UAP.
In March, it was revealed that US Navy warships stationed off the coast of Los Angeles encountered swarms of mysterious drones, which pursued them at high speed in low visibility in 2019.
The series of encounters with suspected UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, in July 2019, saw as many as six mystery aircraft swarm several US Navy warships close to a sensitive training area at the Channel Islands.
The head of the United States Navy Admiral Michael Gilday later admitted he had no idea where a swarm of mysterious Tic Tac-shaped drones that menaced four US destroyers originated.
Gilday's response appears to rule out the theory that the drones could have come from a secret US military program.
That has led to growing speculation that they were either built by a rival military power or 'something else beyond our understanding is going on'.
In an interview last week, Reid said the 2019 incident had confirmed to him the need for the US to establish a UFO program to investigate the phenomena.
In an interview with Mysterywire.com, Reid, who has pushed before for a UFO program, discussed the potential origin of the mysterious flying objects, which the interviewer suggested may be Chinese.
'Always remember, Russia, the former Soviet Union, is run by a man who ran the KGB. They had as many as 30,000 agents at one time, KGB agents. So, Russia's involved in this, no question about it,' Reid said.
He added that UFOS were 'something that cannot be ignored' and that President Joe Biden should be briefed on the matter.
'I believe that there should be an ongoing entity, within the Pentagon would be the best place for it, whose sole job is to stay on top of the issue of UFOs,' Reid said.
While Senate majority leader, Reid pushed to launch the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a Pentagon-run effort to study reports of UFOs.
The $22million-program began in 2007 and ended in 2012, according to the Pentagon.
In the most recent documented encounter in July 2019, USS destroyers on patrol were suddenly swarmed by flashing, Tic Tac-shaped drones, which were able to travel long distance at high speeds
The USS Gonzalez, a guided-missile destroyer, is in the same class as the naval ships targeted by drones in a brazen attack off the coast of California in 2019. It uses a high-tech an onboard intelligence team known as a SNOOPIE to track unknown flying objects
The USS Kidd, pictured above in 2011, was one of four Navy destroyers swarmed by sophisticated drones in 2019. An investigation has failed to uncover the origin of the drones
A detailed account of the 2019 encounter published by The Drive shows the drama began on the night of July 14 2019.
Deck logs from the USS Kidd show that just before 10pm that night two drones were spotted.
An onboard intelligence crew responsible for documenting and investigating contact with unknown vessels - known as the Ship Nautical Or Otherwise Photographic Interpretation and Exploitation team - or SNOOPIE - was engaged to figure out who, or what, the mystery flying objects were.
Within a few minutes of the sighting, reports show the USS Kidd moved into quiet mode, minimizing communications as it sought to work what the threat level was.
It contacted a nearby warship also on patrol, the USS Rafael Peralta, who also engaged their onboard photo intelligence team, or SNOOPIE.
Several other US Navy destroyers on patrol nearby began noticing strange lights.
The USS John Finn also reported UAV activity, and noticed a 'red flashing light' at 10:03pm, according to its logbook.
Just over an hour later at 11:23pm, the USS Rafael Peralta spotted a white light hovering over the flight deck.
The drone was able to remain hovering above the destroyer's helicopter landing pad while traveling at speeds of 16 knots and in low visibility.
The nearly 90-minute encounter was well beyond the capability of commercially-available drones.
The next night, the drones returned, this time as the warships were patrolling closer to the Californian mainland.
They were first spotted by the USS Rafael Peralta and the ship's SNOOPIE team was engaged at 8:39pm.
At 8:56pm, logs show the USS Kidd had also come into contact with drones.
'The drones seem to have pursued the ships, even as they continued to maneuver throughout the incident,' The Drive reported.
Logbooks onboard the USS Russell show drones were swarming all over it, dipping in elevation from 1000 to 700 feet and seemingly able to move in any direction.
The USS Russell had separate contact with drones nine occasions in less than an hour.
Then at 9:20pm that night, the USS Kidd noticed 'multiple UAVs' around the ship.
US warships have state-of-the-art detection systems, but an investigation by the US Navy chief and the FBI has been unable to discover the origin of drones
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter shows off its high-tech weaponry
The USS Rafael Peralta was also swarmed by as many as four drones. It was contacted by a passing cruise ship, the Carnival Imagination, to say they too had spotted up to six drones.
The three-hour frenzy of activity continued until close to midnight, with none of the warships able to say with certainty where the drones had come from.
The Navy's top commanders including the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and commander of the Pacific Fleet were notified.
The Los Angeles bureau of the FBI was also brought in to look at the incident.
An initial investigation found that just a handful of civilian ships were in the area at the time that could have been used as landing pads for the drones.
Investigators suspected the drones may have been launched from the ORV Alguita, a catamaran in the area.
And while the Alguita did have drones onboard, it was soon established its aircraft were not capable of such aeronautical feats.
Naval intelligence was brought in on the investigation and it was soon turning its glare inwards.
The area is home to a large US Naval Base on Sam Clemente Island, where sensitive training operations are often undertaken.
Soon afterward, the Navy classified the investigation, preventing further information from being released to The Drive.
There were further drone sightings later in July 2019, with SNOOPIE teams aboard the destroyers again being called on to identify the drones and work out where they were coming from.
The bizarre incident was first noticed by filmmaker Dave Beaty, a UFO researcher who UFOs.
In June 2020, he Tweeted: 'Did the navy ship #USSKidd #DDG100 encounter a UAP in July 2019 in So Cal OPAREA Trying to find out more. The ship logs indicate a 'Snoopy Team' was deployed - an intel section that tries to visually ID objects. DM if you know more. Near San Clemente island.'
Later, relaying information he'd received from a Navy source, Beaty said a crew member on board 'could see them with the naked eye and they were almost eye level with the bridge hovering'.
'They were the same tic-tac shaped objects.'
Beaty said the sightings occurred in the same areas as another infamous UFO sighting in 2004 which became known as the 'Nimitz Encounters', when at least six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14, 2004.
The clip became one of the most-touted pieces of evidence in the UFO community when the Pentagon confirmed its authenticity in 2017.
In January, Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine.
He said the oblong, wingless 'Tic Tac' shaped object was spotted off the coast of Mexico over the Pacific.
The encounters, which are documented in numerous interviews with first-hand witnesses, remain a mystery, and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial in origin.
The original FLIR video from the USS Nimitz encounters leaked online as early as 2007.
Witnesses say that clips of the video had been circulated widely on the Navy's intranet - used to communicate between ships in the carrier group - and an unknown sailor in the group likely first leaked it.
Over the years, I’ve come across a lot of people in the UFO field who claim to be what we might call “UFO whistleblowers.” I have to admit, though, that on many occasions they are nothing of the kind. Instead, they’re totally pathetic “Walter Mitty”-types who like to have people think they’re something special. They’re not. With that said, however, on occasions the real deal does pop up. And, today, I’m going to share with you one particular story today – a story that involved myself back in the 1990s. At the time I was busy looking into the U.K. government’s involvement in the UFO phenomenon. But, not in regards to the Ministry of Defense. As you may know, the MoD was, for many years, the place in which most of the UFO reports went to. It’s a lesser-known fact, however, that a lot of UFO-related work was also done by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the U.K. equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency, and by the intelligence department of the Royal Air Force; at the time the Provost and Security Services. It was while I got further into all of this that I was approached by a man who I referred to as the “Sandman.”
For years the Sandman had worked for an arm of the U.K. police force called Special Branch. Not only that, the Sandman claimed that me and two more UFO researchers in the U.K., Robin Cole and Matthew Williams. The former spent a lot of time digging into the GCHQ-UFO link, while the latter was focused almost totally on a now-closed facility in the southwest of England call Royal Air Force Rudloe Manor. For years, there were rumors that Rudloe Manor acted as a kind of “Hangar 18” facility where dead aliens and crashed UFOs were held – and way under the surface of the green fields of England. Such claims were never confirmed, of course. But, there’s no denying the fact that both Williams and Cole became big headaches for the U.K. government. Indeed, the Sandman told me that Williams, me and Cole were watched closely from 1996 to 1998 by various agencies. When this revelation surfaced, a lot of people in the UFO research field in the U.K. scoffed at such claims. They were wrong to do so. In 2012, the claims of the Sandman were vindicated. The National Archives (where the now-declassified UFO files of the Ministry of Defense are held) revealed the following:
Rudloe Manor
“File DEFE 24/1984/1 (p294) contains a 1996 Parliamentary Question from Martin Redmond MP asking on how many occasions MI6 and GCHQ have monitored UFO investigations. This was interpreted to mean ‘have the agencies been keeping watch on UFOlogists.’ A background briefing says ‘neither agency in fact undertakes such activity, though GCHQ cannot rule out the possibility’ they had monitored ‘in other contexts individuals who have made a study of UFOs.’The MP was told the government do not comment on the intelligence and security agencies (p298). File DEFE 24/1987/1 (p262-65) reveals that in 1997 Special Branch took an interest in a UFOlogist who became obsessed with rumors of a secret UFO facility beneath RAF Rudloe Manor in Wiltshire. The base had become known as the British equivalent of the secret US military airbase ‘Area 51’ among conspiracy theorists. An internal note said ‘Special Branch…do not believe he poses a specific threat to security, but they are alert to the risk that others may use him as a conduit for their activities.'” Those two men were confirmed as Williams and Cole.
Take note of all that: it was in 1996 when the Sandman told me that both Cole and Williams were being watched – by several agencies, no less – and it wasn’t until 2012 when the government confirmed that fact. And confirmed the agencies involved, too. So, despite what the debunkers sometimes say, the fact is that real “UFO whistleblowers” do surface from the shadows – and, on top of that, they do provide good, solid information.
Energy portal ? Strange Portal Connects Earth to Sun | Space : Oneidea is that on the side of Earth facing the sun, our magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. And about every eight minutes, the two fields briefly reconnect,forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth.
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UFO Sighted Over Turin, Italy ( June 26, 2021 )
UFO was sighted over Turin, Italy
STATEMENT : Recorded day 26/06/2021 Turin / Italy : What is this?
credit : Erika Cordeiro
UFO Sighted Over Bermuda ( June 21, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Bermuda Peninsula on June 21, 2021
STATEMENT : UFO flying over the Bermuda Peninsula ′′ June 21, 2021
credit : Ivan P Marra
UFO Sighted While Flying Over Nevada ( June 28, 2021 )
UFO was sighted while flying over Nevada on June 28, 2021
STATEMENT : Surprised : Flying over Nevada
credit : Ulysses Ribeiro
UFO Discovered in 1967 NASA Lunar Orbiter 3 Photograph.
Ufo Discovered in Lunar Orbiter 3 photograph frame number 3162.
UFO Invisible To The Naked Eye Filmed Over Sierra Madre del Sur Mountain Range In Guerrero Mexico
This footage was filmed on May 23, 2021 from Taxco a town in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. This object which appears invisible to the naked eye and other recording devices but was only picked up by his night vision camera. The night vision that was used to film this was "Sionyx Aurora Pro" and this enabled him and us to see this object. There is a extinct volcano that is part of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range named Cerro Mohinora and this is where this object was filmed hovering over, with the witness recording from his vantage point we get a good view from where he filmed and we can see that there is nothing there.... The witness stated the following "I took this video on may 23, 2021 in Taxco Guerrero around midnight from a well-known hotel next to the magic town of Taxco, watching the song appreciate some lights on the left side of the town which are only perceptible through the night vision of a camera with Sionyx aurora pro."
MUFON CASE : 116553 Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico ( June 28, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : UFO sighting in Taxco Guerrero. - Avistamiento de ovni en Taxco Guerrero.
Long Description of Sighting Report
I took this video on May 23, 2021 in Taxco Guerrero around midnight from a well-known hotel next to the magic town of Taxco, watching the song appreciate some lights on the left side of the town which are only perceptible through the night vision of a camera with Saionyx Aurora Pro.
Este vídeo lo tomé el 23 de Mayo de 2021 en Taxco Guerrero alrededor de la medianoche desde un hotel muy conocido al lado del pueblo mágico de Taxco, ver canción apreciar unas luces del lado izquierdo del pueblo los cuales únicamente perceptibles a través de la visión nocturna de una cámara con marca Saionyx Aurora Pro.
Date Submitted :2021-06-28 Date of Event : 2021-05-23 / 11:00PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : VIDEOOVNITAXCOPARAMUFON.mp4
US intelligence has released a much anticipated wide-ranging report on military and government agencies’ encounters with UFOs, or what the report calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The now declassified Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report which has been sent to Congress was made public late in the day Friday, and reveals the US government has encountered over 140 instances of UAP.
As The Hill notes of the report, out of 144 encounters listed since 2004, “just one was identified with high confidence while the others remain a mystery” — with varied explanations accounting for the bulk of the sightings including possible natural atmospheric phenomena, “airborne clutter” such as balloons for example, advanced aircraft or projectiles by foreign adversaries, or even experimental programs done under top secret classification by the US government. The one identified or explainable sighting was determined to “likely” have been “a large, deflating balloon”.
For 143 of the cases analyzed, the report concluded “lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations”. And it said there are “no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation” for the aircraft.
But as many UFO enthusiasts have pointed out, the report doesn’t rule out alien activity altogether either. Indeed what’s being dubbed the Feds’ UFO report is also leaving the possibility open to “other” explanations in its nine pages (including that objects might be extra-terrestrial), particularly in 18 of the instances for which there’s currently no plausible scientific explanation accounting for how the aerial objects moved:
In the 18 cases, U.S. government observers reported “unusual” movement or flight characteristics, the report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence stated.
The objects “appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion,” the report stated. Some of them released radio frequency energy that was picked up and processed by U.S. military aircraft.
The strange flight characteristics “could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis,” the report added. Of these, the report underscored that “We are conducting further analysis to determine if breakthrough technologies were demonstrated.”
Naval and other military aviators have recently gone public with their encounters with “UFOs”…
“There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors described in the available reporting,” the report explained. “Although most of the UAP described in our dataset probably remain unidentified due to limited data or challenges to collection processing or analysis, we may require additional scientific knowledge to successfully collect on, analyze and characterize some of them,” it added.
In a separate statement the Pentagon sought to assure the public that it “takes reports of incursions – by any aerial object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and investigates each one.”
This is particularly given the distinction possibility that some or many UAP sightings may represent “sophisticated collection against U.S. military activities by a foreign government or demonstrate a breakthrough aerospace technology by a potential adversary.”
For example, Russia has made huge leaps in its hypersonic missile program, with China also considered to be on the way.
Interestingly, both of these countries and their advancing, cutting-edge defense technology programs find explicit mention in the ODNI report.
Some Congressional leaders have already dubbed this new report “inconclusive” but have also said it’s a step in the right direction in terms of accounting for “risks to aviation” or possible secretive advanced programs of America’s enemies.
Meanwhile, some observers are questioning why it’s suddenly the case that UFO theories and speculation are going mainstream, even to the point that US intelligence is releasing a rare study to the public.
According to independent journalist and geopolitical commentator Caitlin Johnstone, “the fact that Russia or China magically leapfrogging US technology by centuries seventy years ago has been validated as a possibility by the report is a gift to cold warriors eager to ramp up aggressions and inflame a high-budget arms race.”
Massive "Dragon Man" skull found in China might be a new human evolutionary branch
Massive "Dragon Man" skull found in China might be a new human evolutionary branch
BY ALEXANDRA LARKIN
A gigantic fossilized skull that was hidden in a well in China for 90 years has just been discovered by scientists — and it's making them rethink human evolution.
The skull was originally found in 1933 by Chinese laborers building a bridge in Harbin, a northern Chinese city, during the Japanese occupation, researchers said. To prevent the skull from falling into Japanese hands, it was wrapped and hidden in an abandoned well. It was only rediscovered in 2018 when the old man who originally hid it told his grandson, shortly before his death.
The remarkably well-preserved fossil has been labeled a new human species, Homo longi, by Chinese researchers. The species has been dubbed "Dragon man," for the northern Chinese province where the skull was found, Heilongjiang — or in English, the "Black Dragon River" region.
Map shows the location that the Harbin cranium was discovered. QIANG JI
In a series of threearticles published in research journal the Innovation on Friday, scientists posited that the skull belonged to an approximately 50-year-old man. He would have had a wide nose to allow him to breathe uninhibited during heavy activity and probably would have been built sturdily to withstand the frigid regional winters, researchers wrote.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Harbin cranium is its massive size, which, at 9 inches long and more than 6 inches wide, is significantly larger than the modern human skull.
The skull also has a cranial capacity of approximately 1,420 milliliters or 48 fluid ounces. That falls into the cranial capacity range of modern humans, but the skull also possesses many primitive features that make it a unique link between modern humans and Neanderthals.
A photo of the Harbin cranium.QIANG JI
Beneath the thick brow ridge, the face has large square eye sockets, but is delicate despite its size.
"It differs from all the other named Homo species," researchers wrote, noting that it has a mix of ancient and modern features like a "gently curved" but "massively developed" brow ridge and low, flat cheekbones with "shallow" depressions beneath them. And compared to today's more modern, round skull, researchers said the Harbin cranium was long and low.
The international research team, led by Professor Qiang Ji at the Hebei Geo University in China, used geochemical techniques to date the skull to at least 146,000 years old.
An illustration of what the "Dragon Man" may have looked like. QIANG JI
When the scientists compared the fossil to 95 other skulls using a software program, they found that the Harbin cranium and a few other Chinese skulls seemed to form a new branch that was closer to modern humans than Neanderthals.
The Chinese team said they think the Harbin cranium is sufficiently unique that it qualifies as a new species. However, others are not convinced. Professor Chris Stringer, a research leader at the Natural History Museum in London who also worked on the project, told the Guardian that the skull may be similar to another skull found in China in 1978.
He said, "The important thing is the third lineage of later humans that are separate from Neanderthals and separate from Homo sapiens."
400,000 Year Old Giant Skull Humanoid Species, Dubbed Dragon Man Found
400,000 Year Old Giant Skull Humanoid Species, Dubbed Dragon Man Found
A photo of the Harbin cranium.
QIANG JI
400,000 Year Old Giant Skull Humanoid Species, Dubbed Dragon Man Found
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Op foto’s en video’s is onder andere te zien hoe bij de landing op 15 mei het valscherm opende. Een video toont ook hoe de robotjeep Zhurong een verkenningsrit maakt op het Marsoppervlak.
De Chinese ruimtevaartautoriteiten lieten zondag weten dat hun Marsverkenner toen al 42 Marsdagen in het getouw was en een afstand van 236 meter heeft afgelegd. Een dag op Mars is met 24 uur en 40 minuten iets langer dan een dag op onze planeet.
De Tianwen-1 is de eerste Chinese Marssonde. Ze is in juli gelanceerd en in februari in een baan om de Rode Planeet gekomen.
When searching through a Mars photo of Perseverance, I noticed some very important scientific artifacts that NASA clearly missed. The most significant of them was a gloved hand laying on the surface with its palm side up and hand open. The other thing I found was a centipede-like creature on top of a rock. This animal had an very big bump on is head that may have been a horn. Its color is a dark red...very similar in shape, size color to that of a centipede. This is 100% proof that life exists on Mars. It may not be intelligent life, but nevertheless its an animal form of life. I also found a few other anomalies that point out that life once existed on Mars.
Mysterious Lights Over Gujarat, India June 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Lights Over Gujarat, India June 2021,Video,UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 22, 2021
Location of sighting: Gujarat, India
People living in the city of Gujarat reported glowing lights over the city. The also reported hearing a large explosion when the lights first appeared. In the video there are two sets of hovering lights moving over the city. One will have 3-4 continuous glowing orange lights and then another begins to follow it. Each set of four lights are just one craft. The explosions heard are from the UFOs shooting away out of earths atmosphere or into earths atmosphere...at high speed. The speed had to have broken the sound barrier for the sonic boom to be that big. UFOs can easily do that. These are 100% real UFOs and are proof that an alien base exists somewhere near the city of Gujarat, India 5-6km below the surface.
UFO "Fastwalker" flying at high speed over Sandia Mountains, New Mexico captured on camera on May 23, 2021.
“Fastwalker” is a term used by NORAD and branches of armed forces to describe unidentified aerial phenomena moving and/or changing directions at high speed far beyond what current aerospace technology is capable of.
Roswell: The UFO mystery that still haunts America
Roswell: The UFO mystery that still haunts America
Americans’ fascination with UFOs has surged during the Covid pandemic and recent sightings are being taken more seriously with a Pentagon report into UFO sightings about to be released. But as Planet America’s John Barron explains, few UFO mysteries have inspired as much intrigue as the Roswell incident in New Mexico in 1947.
Scientific Evidence for the Many Myths of the Great Flood
Scientific Evidence for the Many Myths of the Great Flood
Have you ever heard about Noah's Ark story? This story of the great flood is one of the most popular stories from the Bible. But it is far from the only great flood story to be found in history. Christians are quite familiar with Noah's story when God destroyed all of creation through the great flood owing to the wickedness of men. While many people perceive all this as the great flood myth, scientists have found evidence of the great deluge. Before going to the scientific evidence, let's take a look at the known mythologies that relate to the flood myth.
The Great Flood: Myths in the Bible, Hindu Texts and More
Noah's story in the Hebrew Bible is probably the most well-known myth relating to the great flood. However, a number of other myths related to this event also exist.
According to the Gilgamesh flood myth, Enlil, the highest god, decided to completely destroy the whole world by means of a great flood as the humans had increasingly become noisy. Ea, the god who created human beings of divine blood and clay, warned Utnapishtim secretly about the flood and gave him instructions to build a boat and be saved.
In the Bible’s Book of Genesis , it is written that Yahweh (the name of the monotheistic god of the Israelites), who created man from dust, decided to bring the great flood to Earth because of mankind’s increasing corruption.
Yahweh was, however, pleased with Noah and instructed him to create an ark for saving humans and animals. On completion of the ark, Noah, his entire family, and two of every type of animal on earth entered the ark. Once the door of the ark was closed, the destructive flood started and cleared all other living beings from the face of the earth. After the flood ended, everyone inside the ark came out, and Yahweh promised never to subject humans to something like the great flood again. The rainbow is known as the symbol of Yahweh's promise.
A 3D illustration of Noah’s Ark in a storm during the Great Flood. Reality or myth?
According to Hindu mythology there is a story about "manvantara-sandhya," a great flood. In the story, Vishnu's Matsya Avatar warned Manu, the first man, about the impending flood and instructed him to construct a giant boat.
According to Zoroastrian Mazdaism, Ahriman tried to destroy the whole world by means of a drought. It is believed that Mithra shot an arrow at a rock, and the flood poured out. Only one man, along with his cattle, survived the flood in an ark.
As per Plato, Timaeus describes a flood myth that is quite similar to the other versions of the great flood. In the Timaeus version, the Bronze race of humans made Zeus angry with constant warring. Zeus decided to cause a flood to punish humanity. The Titan Prometheus , who created humans with clay, shared the plan with Deucalion and advised him to build an ark. It took nine days and nights for the water to recede, and the ark landed on a mountain.
Researchers study a ship graveyard discovered in the Black Sea that may be linked to the Great Flood.
Scientific Evidence of the Occurrence of the Great Flood
While there are a number of stories or myths relating to the great flood, scientists have recently found evidence of the flood. The scientists believe that the great flood did take place around 7,000 years ago in the Black Sea region.
In a book named "Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History," two marine biologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan, describe a flood that took place several thousand years ago, before the Biblical story was written by the ancient Hebrews .
According to the two marine biologists , nearly 12,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age, the Black Sea was a partially dried freshwater lake. It was separated from the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus Strait , which is a land strip.
The shore of the Black Sea was fertile and was used by the people to start large farming societies. When the ice sheets that covered the Northern Hemisphere started melting, the levels of the sea began rising. It is believed that the Mediterranean Sea broke through the Bosporus Strait about 7,600 years ago.
With a force about 200 times that of Niagara Falls, the seawater had started rushing in. The level of the Black Sea was increasing by 6 inches (15 cm) every day. Within one year, about 60,000 square miles (15,539,929 hectares) was engulfed and disappeared beneath the rising waters. The settlers of the land moved to different high grounds and never returned.
Pitman and Ryan hypothesize that this trauma story was handed down for about 3,000 years and has been recorded in the form of myths and songs. One of the versions is believed to be the story of Noah's Ark found in the Bible.
The hypothesis of the two marine biologists is mainly based on the sediment cores of the Black Sea as well as seismic profiles. The cores did tell a strange and unique story. Pitman and Ryan discovered a single mud layer that was typically left after the great flood.
It lay over sediment layers that were at one time land surface. The surface contained mud cracks, plant root fossils, and freshwater mollusks that were similar to the dried-out lakeshore. The ancient shoreline was submerged about 460 feet (140 meters) below the Black Sea.
The marine biologists have also pointed out that according to the study of ancient civilizations made by archaeologists, during the flood several peoples with new customs appeared at different places. They were even found in Egypt, as well in the foothills of the Himalayas, and around Paris and Prague. The majority of these “new” people were Indo-European speakers. According to Ryan and Pitman, these peoples might be the Black Sea farmers who had to leave their homes due to the great flood.
The Great Flood (Die Sintflut, Suendflut), a painting by Lesser-Ury (1861-1931), depicts the “horror” of what the deluge of the Bible might have looked like.
In addition to the evidence offered by Pitman and Ryan, there are also other pieces of evidence that support the occurrence of the great flood. One such significant piece of evidence was provided by the world-famous underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard. He is especially known for locating and exploring the Titanic wreck.
Ballard found evidence of people who had perished in the great flood that took place in the Black Sea and linked it with Noah's Ark story.
Ballard and his team made use of advanced robotic technology to find evidence that might support the Noah story. They were able to unearth an ancient coastline that was about 550 feet (168 meters) under the water surface. It was considered significant proof of the catastrophic event. Ballard took some samples including saltwater and freshwater mollusks from the ancient beach for testing.
When radiocarbon dating of the samples was done, it was revealed that the freshwater mollusks were relatively older in comparison to the saltwater ones. All the freshwater mollusks that were taken for sample testing were of the same age.
It could be assumed that all the mollusks died due to the occurrence of a sudden flood. This is because if they had died due to the slowly rising water, the ages would have differed. It was found that the mollusks died somewhere around 5,600 BC. It is approximately the same time when the great flood during Noah's time is believed to have occurred.
About 310 feet (94 meters) below in the Black Sea, Ballard and his team were also able to find an ancient house that had collapsed. In addition to the house, they also unearthed a number of stone tools, storage vessels made of ceramic, and ancient mud. The archaeologists believe that the culture found at the bottom of the sea was thousands of years old.
The evidence collected by Robert Ballard and his team suggests that the traumatic great flood story was handed down from generation to generation. This eventually inspired Noah's Ark story that is mentioned in the Bible.
"The Deluge" drawing was used as the frontispiece to Gustave Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible. Based on the story of Noah's Ark, the drawing shows humans and a tiger doomed by the flood futilely attempting to save their children and cubs.
While there is scientific evidence that supports the occurrence of the great flood, there is also scientific evidence that argues against it. Some believe that the great flood may have occurred during Noah's time, but that it happened over the entire Earth rather than some regional parts.
As per the Bible, the rain during the great flood lasted for 30 days, and the Earth was flooded for 150 days. Only after one year, two months, and twenty-seven days, did the Earth dry and thus Noah, his entire family, and all the animals were able to move out of the ark.
The great flood was intended to completely destroy all life on Earth. As the sedimentary rocks over all the continents do contain fossils, the great flood could represent the destruction of all living beings. Thus, the story of the global flood mentioned in the Bible might have been true.
However, the sedimentary rocks have interlayers of gypsum, evaporite rock salt, anhydrite, and magnesium and potash salts. All these are related to red beds that contain fossilized mud cracks. The red beds and mineral compounds have a measurable combined thickness on various continents.
The red color of the red beds is mainly due to the presence of hematite, an iron oxide that is formed from oxidized magnetite grains when the mud gets exposed to oxygen present in the open air. Mud cracks can only occur under severe drying conditions that result in the shrinking of mud and the formation of polygonal cracks.
The evaporite deposits are believed to occur when a marine sea that existed disappears and becomes completely dry. In such a case, the evaporites are expected to be found at the top of the flood deposits of the great flood. However, the evaporites were found in different layers and not on the top of the flood deposit. This makes certain scientists believe that the great flood never took place.
Moreover, it is written in the Bible that at some time the flood waters started receding and left the ground completely dry. There were no repeated cycles of floods of this size. According to this, it is quite logical that the red beds and evaporite deposits in different levels of the flood deposit could only be formed in local climates having desert drying conditions.
However, it is not possible this was formed at the same time the great flood covered the surface of the whole Earth. On this basis, it can be said that a massive regional flood could have occurred but not a whole-Earth flood.
The Matsya Avatar of Vishnu Uttar Pradesh, India. Matsya is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. Often described as the first of Vishnu's ten primary avatars, Matsya is said to have rescued the first man Manu from a great deluge. The Matsya Avatar is often depicted as a giant fish.
While much debate surrounds the “truth” of the great flood, it is quite hard to say whether it actually occurred or not. As per the Bible, Noah used to live in the Mesopotamian desert , but the coastline of the Black Sea was forested and lush back then.
More and more geologists are coming up with different revised theories and trying to build solid proof for an event that occurred during ancient times. Geological expeditions continue to search the Black Sea. These very expensive geological expeditions are also getting funded by people who are interested in knowing the truth of the Noah's Ark story mentioned in the Bible.
Scientists and archaeologists are still trying to locate ancient villages beneath the surface of the seas. It will be very interesting to see what additional evidence for the great flood is revealed in the coming years.
Top image: The Deluge (1840), a painting by Francis Danby, part of the Tate Gallery collection, which shows how horrible the Great Flood must have been, if, and when, it happened.
AI Finds New Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Mutations in Human Genome
AI Finds New Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Mutations in Human Genome
Scientists affiliated with the GLOBE Institute’s GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have created an Artificial Intelligence program that is helping them identify ancient mutations in the human genome. As they explain in an articlein the online journal eLife, they are using this program to find out more about the genetic materials modern humans inherited from archaic hominin species, particularly noting the DNA inherited from our long-extinct cousins the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.
The scientists use the term “adaptive introgression” to describe this type of cross-species inheritance. Introgression refers to the process by which outside genetic material is absorbed into the human genome, while adaptive refers to the evolutionary advantage humans gain from possessing such material.
This new AI program is uniquely suited for identifying instances of adaptive introgression. In the years ahead, it may dramatically expand our knowledge about the relationships that were formed between ancient Homo sapiens (modern humans) and their nearest living relatives.
Early human migrations from Africa and onwards across planet Earth, measured in thousands of years ago (kya), included Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. And now we know the modern human genome, as a result of hominin species interbreeding, has a lot of genetic material from Neanderthals.
The Human Genome: Early Human Migrations and Interbreeding
When humans migrated from Africa to Europe, Asia, and beyond more than 60,000 years ago, they met the Neanderthals, who were already living in those areas. Moving eastward they eventually encountered the mysterious Denisovans, who resided in what is now southern and eastern Asia and in Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and the nearby islands of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia).
While these were separate species, they were closely related to Homo sapiens , close enough to make interbreeding possible. Neanderthals and Denisovans went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, but at least some of their genetic material has survived inside human DNA because of the interactions that took place in prehistoric times.
Only a few traces of Denisovan DNA are likely to be found in the collective human gene pool. But scientists believe that up to 40 percent of Neanderthal DNA may have survived inside the genomes of humans. It is widely spread out, meaning that Neanderthal DNA makes up no more than two percent of any individual’s total genetic material.
An image of the DNA helix that hints at the powers of AI or deep learning methods in learning more about the evolution of the human genome.
Those 40 percent and two percent figures are estimates, not precise measurements. Scientists don’t know for certain exactly how much Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA human beings have inherited, or how it might be distributed ethnically or geographically. They also aren’t sure where all of it is located inside the human genome. Most importantly, they still aren’t sure which functions it performs. These are the issues the GLOBE Institute scientists are trying to remedy.
"We developed a deep learning method called 'genomatnn' that jointly models introgression, which is the transfer of genetic information between species, and natural selection,” Fernando Racimo, a GeoGenetics Centre geneticist and the co-author of the eLife paper, told the author of a University of Copenhagen article about this new study. “The model was developed in order to identify regions in the human genome where this introgression could have happened."
“Deep learning” is a general form of artificial intelligence (AI). The specific form of AI applied in this case is known as a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is a type of deep learning program used for image recognition .
In this experiment, the researchers ran hundreds of thousands of simulations as a way to teach the CNN to identify patterns in genomes that would be created by adaptive introgression. The AI network was specially trained to spot mutations traceable to interactions with Neanderthals or Denisovans.
“Our method is highly accurate and outcompetes previous approaches in power,” Racimo said. “We applied it to various human genomic datasets and found several candidate beneficial gene variants that were introduced into the human gene pool.”
DNA sequences in colored letters on a black background containing the word "mutation." Based on the recent AI study of the human genome at the University of Copenhagen, researchers are now focusing on mutations more and more to understand the evolution of the modern human genome.
So far, some of what the scientists have discovered confirms existing theories about where Neanderthal DNA could be found. But in the process they uncovered some new and surprising information as well.
“We recovered previously identified candidates for adaptive introgression in modern humans, as well as several candidates which have not previously been described,” said GeoGenetics Centre researcher Graham Gower, the lead author of the eLife article.
Some of the newly discovered candidates involve mutations that impact human metabolism and immunity system functioning.
“In European genomes, we found two strong candidates for adaptive introgression from Neanderthals in regions of the genome that affect phenotypes related to blood, including blood cell counts,” Gower explained. “In Melanesian genomes, we found candidate variants introgressed from Denisovans that potentially affected a wide range of traits, such as blood-related diseases, tumor suppression, skin development, metabolism, and various neurological diseases.”
Gower is quick to point out that these are preliminary findings. As of now, the scientists aren’t completely sure what impact these mutations might have on those who carry them. They might cause positive responses, negative outcomes, or have no significant effect at all.
In general, scientists assume that when mutations last for tens of thousands of years, they will do so because they are in some way beneficial. Humans who interbred with their archaic cousins likely improved the gene pool overall, adding new genetic material from species that had been surviving in environments that were relatively new to African-born Homo sapiens .
A Neanderthal skull (left) next to a Homo sapiens skull. Though the skulls are very different, it turns out that the modern human genome is almost 40% related to interbreeding and mutations related to Neanderthals.
Finding Prehistoric Facts with Future Technologies
As their study continues, the University of Copenhagen researchers hope to learn more about the actual effects of the mutations they’ve found (and those they’ve yet to find, but soon will) in the human genome.
Also, they plan to work backward from the mutations to trace the histories of the ancient people who introduced them into the gene pool. By studying which mutations developed in which population groups, they may be able to determine where Neanderthal, Denisovan, and Homo sapiens interactions occurred in the distant past, and where they were the most extensive.
This type of knowledge will give anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and archaeologists a better idea about where fossilized remains of various species might be found, along with any artifacts they might have created and left behind.
Top image: A drawing of a Neanderthal man looking to the horizon and wondering if he will meet another "human" and, if so a human woman. The human genome it turns out has a lot of Neanderthal genes and now a Danish AI program is proving it.
Our planet’s shadow against the Sun could have been seen from thousands of nearby solar systems.
Radio towers like these, clustered on a hillside in Arlington, Virginia in the 1920s, have been leaking signals into space for decades. Our neighbors could be listening. (Arlilngton Public Library)
Usually it’s we who are searching for planets outside our own Solar System. Lisa Kaltenegger from the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University and Jackie Faherty from the American Museum of Natural History in New York looked at it the other way around. Assuming aliens have the same level of technology that we do, would they be able to detect us?
To try to answer that question, the authors consulted a huge data set of precise star positions, from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. Taking into account the past, present, and future locations of stars and changing viewing geometry, they determined how many star systems would be in position for observers to see Earth transiting in front of the Sun—an important technique for deducing the presence of life. Their analysis identified 1,715 stars within 100 parsecs (about 326 light years) from the Sun that were in the right position to have spotted life over the past 5,000 years, with an additional 319 stars entering this special vantage point in the next 5,000 years.
Most of these stars can be assumed to host planets, many of which could be in the habitable zone, and perhaps could even be Earthlike. The authors estimate that 29 potentially habitable worlds might exist within 100 light years from us. All of them would, in theory, be able to detect radio signals from our planet, which we started to send out about 100 years ago.
We already know that some of the stars in this sample have exoplanets, including the Ross 128 system, the Teegarden’s star system, and the Trappist-1 system, with an astounding seven terrestrial-size exoplanets. Ross128 is only about 11 light years away, and is the 13th closest system to ours. From there, an Earth transit would have been observable for 2,158 years, up until 900 years ago. From the Teegarden’s star system we are currently not observable, but we will be starting in 2050, for another 410 years.
Life has existed on our planet for four billon years, and widespread oxygen-breathing life has been here since the Great Oxidation Event about 2.6 billion years ago. So, in principle, many more star systems could have detected life on our planet before humans came along by analyzing the gases in our atmosphere during transit events. And even within our cosmic neighborhood, a substantial number of alien civilizations could have been watching as life evolved on Earth.
In the end, all such speculations come down to the prevalence of life in the Universe. Based on some estimates, life—and perhaps even complex life—could certainly exist on some of the planets that have been swept by radio signals from Earth or may have seen our planet transiting against the Sun. Whether intelligent, technologically advanced life exists on these worlds is much more questionable. But it remains a possibility.
RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE RACING TO BEAT NASA BACK TO THE MOON
RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE RACING TO BEAT NASA BACK TO THE MOON
A new space race is now underway.
IN THE COMING YEARS, MULTIPLE SPACE AGENCIES will be sending astronauts to the Moon for the first time since the closing days of the Apollo Program.
For NASA, this will represent the long-awaited “return to the Moon,” while every other space agency will see it as a tremendous step for their space programs.
One thing they all have in common is that this time around, the goal is to build the necessary infrastructure that will allow for a long-term human presence.
However, amid all the excitement of this approaching moment in history are concerns about the lack of an international framework that will ensure our efforts are for the sake of “for all humankind.”
Whereas NASA is seeking partners for its Artemis Program through bilateral agreements, Russia and China are pursuing an agreement of their own. They call it the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), and they too are looking for partners in this endeavor.
As the first volume in what is clearly an evolving mission architecture, the Guide lays out the purpose and intent of the Sino-Russian agreement and establishes a roadmap and a timeline for the ILRS’ development.
According to the Guide, the ILRS represents a merger of Russia and China’s plans for lunar exploration, something that has been in the works for many years.
In 2019, the two countries signed bilateral agreements to establish a common data center for lunar and deep-space exploration.
They also agreed to cooperate with their respective Chang’e 7 and Luna 26, both of which will explore the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin in 2024.
As is stated in the Preface to the Guide:
“Considering the fruitful experience from the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation in the areas of space technology, space science and space application, China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the State Space Corporation “Roscosmos” (ROSCOSMOS) jointly initiated the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) based on their [respective] existing lunar exploration plan.
“The most efficient and productive investigation, exploration and use of the Moon can be achieved only in a broad international partnership with an attraction of other countries, international organizations and international partners. CNSA and Roscosmos jointly invite all interesting international partners to cooperate and contribute more for the peaceful exploration and use of Moon in the interests of all humankind, adhering to the principles of equality, openness and integrity.”
In this respect, the Guide constitutes the official reply of China and Russia to the Artemis Accords, the series of bilateral agreements designed to establish common principles for lunar exploration.
The Accords are grounded in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the historic charter that established that “the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind.”
To date, twelve countries have signed the Accords:
the United States
the United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
South Korea
Ukraine
the United Arab Emirates
Brazil
However, when the Accords were first announced in May of 2020, Roscosmos director-general Dmitry Rogozin stated they were “US-centric” and strayed too far from the framework for the ISS. As such, Russia would not participate.
“The most important thing here would be to base this program on the principles of international cooperation that we’ve all used. If we could get back to considering making these principles as the foundation of the program, then Roscosmos could also consider its participation.”
On March 3rd, 2021, Russian and China made it clear they intended to follow when they announced that they would be partnering to create an ILRS, which they described as “a comprehensive scientific experiment base with the capability of long-term autonomous operation, built on the lunar surface and/or on the lunar orbit.” With the release of the Guide, Russia and China have made the details of their plan public for the first time.
Similar to the Artemis Program, the ILRS calls for the creation of multiple facilities to enable long-term missions to the lunar surface. For Artemis, one of the most vital components is the Lunar Gateway, an orbital habitat that will provide a dock for the Orion spacecraft.
The next is the Human Landing System (HLS), a reusable lunar lander that will carry astronauts to and from the surface. Last, there is the Artemis Base Camp that will support the long-term exploration of the surface.
Timeline of the Artemis Program. Credit: NASA
China and Russia have a similar idea in mind for the ILRS, which is defined thusly in the Guide. [Note: some corrections appear in brackets due to translation issues]:
“[The] ILRS is a complex experimental research [facility] to be constructed with [the] possible [involvement] of partners on the surface and/or in orbit of the Moon. [It is] designed for multi-discipline and multi-purpose scientific research activities, including exploration and use of the Moon, moon-based observation, fundamental research experiments[,] and technology verification, with the capability of long-term unmanned operations with the prospect of subsequent human presence.”
According to the design, five facilities will make up the ILRS, starting with the Cislunar Transportation Facility (CLF) — an orbital station that mirrors the purpose of the Gateway.
The second is the Support Facility on a lunar surface (similar to the Artemis Base Camp) that will include a command center, a global Telemetry, Tracking, and Command (TT&C) network, an energy supply system, a thermal management system, and various support modules.
The third is the Lunar Transportation and Operation Facility (LTOF), where lunar vehicles will be stowed and maintained when not in use. This will include transporting cargo to other facilities, conducting exploration missions on the surface, or missions to explore the interior of stable lava tubes.
The fourth is the Lunar Scientific Facility, which will support lunar science operations on the surface, in-orbit, or in deep space.
The fifth and final facility mentioned is the Ground Support and Application Facility (GSAF), which is intended to offer operational support to communications and missions. It will also serve as a data center for lunar and deep-space missions, which China and Russia previously agreed to establish as part of their joint lunar efforts.
TIMELINE & OBJECTIVES — Overall, the Guide lays out the eight objectives for the ILRA, which are similar to what NASA hopes to accomplish with the Artemis Program. They include the characterization of lunar topography, geomorphology, and the geological structure of the surface.
In addition, the joint Chinese-Russian program will seek to characterize the physics and chemistry of lunar materials and the body’s internal structure to get a better understanding of its geological record.
Beyond that, the IRLS will serve as a base for conducting lunar astronomy and Earth observation, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), and vital biological and medical researcher.
These objectives and the development of the ILRS itself are to be met during a three-phase process that will unfold between today and 2035. These include the Reconnaissance, Construction, and Utilization phase, and each incorporates future missions into their planning.
PHASE I — RECONNAISSANCE (2021 TO 2025)
This is currently underway and is expected to last until mid-decade. The objectives in this phase include exploring the South Pole-Aitken Basin for potential sites for the ILRS, as well as refining the design of the base itself.
Another important objective is the verification of technologies that will allow for precise soft landings in the southern polar region. Past and future missions that will (have) contributed are also indicated.
On the Chinese side, these include the Chang’e-4, Chang’e-6, and Chang’e-7 missions. The Chang’e-4 mission, which arrived on the Moon in 2018 and is still operational, consists of the Chang’e Lander, the Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) rover, and the Queqiao relay satellite. The missions will be launched sometime in 2023/2024 and will return samples from the Moon’s southern polar region and scout out locations for a base.
On the Russian side, missions related to the ILRS include the Luna-25, Luna-26, and Luna-27, consisting of two landers and one orbiter (Luna 26). These missions will launch beginning in October 2021 (Luna-25), followed by the second and third in 2024 and August 2025 (respectively). If all goes well, China and Russian will be able to begin the next phase of operations by the middle of this decade.
PHASE II — CONSTRUCTION (2025 TO 2030)
At this point, one of the main goals will be the verification of technologies related to the command center of the ILRS. Similarly, the samples obtained by the Chang’e-6 and Chang’e-7 missions will be returned to Earth for analysis, which will give mission planners a better idea of where the safest and richest resource environment can be found. This will be followed by the delivery of massive amounts of cargo to build the base and the commencement of joint operations.
Missions of note in this phase include China’s Chang’e-8 mission that will launch by 2027. This mission will test technologies like 3D regolith printing and others necessary for the construction of the ILRS. Russia will also be sending its Luna-28 mission that year, a sample return mission that (like Chang’e 6 and 7) will obtain regolith from the southern polar region to determine its composition and the presence of resources.
PHASE III — UTILIZATION (2030 TO 2035)
This final phase will involve the completion of all in-orbit and surface facilities that provide energy, communication, research, exploration, and transport services. It will also involve the verification of all ISRU-related and other potential technologies. Once the ILRS is complete, China and Russia hope to maintain and expand it as needed. This phase will involve five jointly-developed IRLS missions to establish the base architecture:
IRLS-1: establishment of the command center, basic energy, and telecommunications facilities
IRLS-2: establishment of lunar research exploration facilities(sample collection, lunar physics, geology, lava tubes)
IRLS-3: establishment of lunar ISRU technology verification facilities
IRLS-4: verification of general technologies like biomedical experiments, sample collection, and return
IRLS-5:establishment of lunar-based astronomy and Earth observation facilities
Illustration of NASA astronauts on the lunar South Pole. Credit: NASA
PARTNERSHIPS — The Guide also establishes that partner organizations will have the opportunity to conduct their own missions as part of each phase.
Those missions are to conform to the objectives of each phase in question, with possible roles ranging from assisting with exploration to the construction of necessary infrastructure in orbit and on the surface, and the creation of base facilities. As it is summarized in the Guide:
“All Partners are encouraged to join ILRS project based on their own situation. Any Partner willing to contribute to the ILRS, through a jointly coordinated negotiation with China and Russia, can participate including co-lead status in any part of the project. The objective, plan, interface, standards, interoperability and scientific application of the participating project(s) or missions shall be aligned with generation architecture and functions of ILRS.”
The Guidelines and Opportunities for these partnerships are laid out in the last two sections of the Guide. The duties of prospective partners are spelled out using a five-tiered alphabetic classification system.
1. For Category A: Space Mission Cooperation, partners are asked to contribute to the “development of the general architecture, scientific objectives, road-map of ILRS, and participate with scientific or engineering missions of ILRS.”
2. Those partners classified as Category B: Space System Cooperation, must cooperate with China and/or Russia on one or more space systems based on the general architecture and functions of the ILRS.
Examples include the ILRS’s power system, a launcher system for another party’s spacecraft, or an independent lunar probe to piggyback on a CNSA or Roscosmos mission. Alternately, they can choose to participate in one or more of the missions led by the CNSA or Roscosmos.
Artist’s impression of surface operations on the Moon. Credit: NASA
3. For Category C: Subsystem Cooperation, partners will be required to develop one or more space subsystems depending on the specific mission or ILRS system.
4. Much the same is true for Category D: Equipment Cooperation, where partners will provide one or more sets of equipment based on the defined mission or ILRS subsystem.
5. Last, Category E: Ground and Application Cooperation applies to partners cooperating on the building of the CLF, LTOF, and/or GSAF.
Overseeing these partnerships is the Joint Working Group established by the CNSA and Roscosmos, which has designated subgroups for handling legal affairs, scientific objectives, and engineering objectives. Specific opportunities for collaborating on various missions are also laid out, as is a list of contacts for interested parties.
One thing that is abundantly clear from this Guide is the similarities it has to the Artemis Program and the Artemis Accords. These are evident in terms of the mission architecture, but also in terms of the stated purpose of the joint venture and the desire to forge partnerships.
As noted, the language used in the preface is indicative of the Outer Space Treaty, especially where it states that the overall aim is “the peaceful exploration and use of the Moon in the interests of all humankind.”
As a comparison, consider Section 1 of the Artemis Accords (Purpose & Scope):
“Adherence to a practical set of principles, guidelines, and best practices in carrying out activities in outer space is intended to increase the safety of operations, reduce uncertainty, and promote the sustainable and beneficial use of space for all humankind.”
Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon.
Credits: NASA
In both cases, the language is an attempt to call forth the spirit of the Outer Space Treaty. However, as many critics have stated, the Artemis Accords suffer from the fact that they are tied to a specific space agency and program. This was certainly the basis of Rogozin and Russia’s resistance when the Accords were first announced, hence why Russia and China have come together to do the same.
In short, they have decided to establish a set of bilateral agreements that would allow others to participate in their program of lunar exploration. While it’s not clear what the long-term implications of this will be, it could possibly lead to tensions and territorial disputes down the road. After all, one of the hallmarks of the current era of space exploration is its plurality, where multiple space agencies (and commercial space) are involved instead of two competing superpowers.
But when three of the five major space powers create two competing frameworks and ask others to join them, one can be forgiven for concluding that there’s a new Space Race in town!
It also makes the need for a truly international legal framework — as advocated by the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) — all the more pressing. If we truly want our future in space to be “for the good of all humankind,” steps need to be taken to prevent it from becoming the Wild West 2.0.
Evidence on UFOs 'largely inconclusive': US intelligence report
Evidence on UFOs 'largely inconclusive': US intelligence report
An image from of US military pilot's sighting of an "unidentified aerial phenomena"
A highly awaited US intelligence report on dozens of mysterious unidentified flying object sightings said most could not be explained, but did not rule out that some could be alien spacecraft.
The unclassified report said researchers could explain only one of 144 UFO sightings by US government personnel and sources between 2004 and 2021, sightings that often were made during military training activities.
Eighteen of those, some observed from multiple angles, appeared to display unusual movements or flight characteristics that surprised those who saw them, like holding stationary in high winds at high altitude, and moving with extreme speed with no discernable means of propulsion, the report said.
Some of the 144 might be explained by natural or human made objects like birds or drones cluttering a pilot's radar, or natural atmospheric phenomena, the report said.
Others could be secret US defense tests, or unknown advanced technologies created by Russia or China, it said.
Yet others appeared to require more advanced technologies to determine what they are, it said.
The sightings of what the report calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) "probably lack a single explanation," said the report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
"We currently lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations."
The report made no mention of the possibility of—or rule out—that some of the objects sighted could represent extra-terrestrial life.
The military and intelligence community have conducted research on them as a potential threat.
"UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security," the report said.
Some could be US rivals' intelligence collection operations or represent other technology so advanced that the United States military has nothing similar.
The report was ordered after more UFO sightings by military pilots became public and pilot and radar videos leaked out showing flying objects behaving strangely with no explanation.
It stressed that pilots and their aircraft are ill-equipped to identify out-of-the-ordinary objects floating around the skies.
The only one of the 144 incidents in the years covered by the report that was explained turned out to be a large deflating balloon.
The nine-page report released Friday did not discuss any specific incidents.
It was the public version of a more detailed classified version being supplied to the armed services and intelligence committees of Congress.
Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the frequency of UFO reports "appears to be increasing" since 2018.
"Today's rather inconclusive report only marks the beginning of efforts to understand and illuminate what is causing these risks to aviation in many areas around the country and the world.," Warner said in a statement.
"The United States must be able to understand and mitigate threats to our pilots, whether they're from drones or weather balloons or adversary intelligence capabilities," Warner said.
At the Pentagon, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks issued a memorandum ordering more systematic reporting of UAPs encountered during military training and testing.
"Incursions into our training ranges and designated airspace pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges," said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
The department "takes reports of incursions—by any aerial object, identified or unidentified—very seriously, and investigates each one," Kirby said.
Ovni : des scientifiques français dressent l'état des lieux
Ovni : des scientifiques français dressent l'état des lieux
INFOGRAPHIE - En publiant une étude après huit ans de recherche, les experts français de la commission Sigma2 apportent un regard scientifique sur des cas inexpliqués observés dans le monde entier.
Le Pentagone a confirmé que des militaires de l'US Navy avaient pris des photos d'un phénomène aérien non identifié en 2019.
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Issue de l'Association Aéronautique et Astronautique française, une des rares sociétés savantes nationale, la commission Sigma2 vient de publier un rapport sur les Ovnis (ou PAN pour Phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés). Depuis 2013, elle se penche sur les cas aériens inexpliqués en sollicitant l'analyse d'experts, ingénieurs, spécialistes de la défense aérienne, anciens du CNES, de la DGA, de l'Onera, de l'ESA parmi lesquels l'astronaute Jean-François Clervoy.
L'étude est publiée quelques jours avant celle très attendue du renseignement américain qui doit être remise au Congrès le 29 juin 2021. Aux États-Unis, on assiste en effet depuis quelques années à une inflexion majeure de la communication sur ces phénomènes. Plusieurs vidéos de PAN filmés par les pilotes de l'US Navy ont été authentifiées et partagées par les autorités militaires. C'est ce qui a conduit le New Yorker en avril dernier à titrer : « Le Pentagone prend les Ovni au sérieux ».
Sigma2 dresse un état des lieux. En étant allé fouiller pendant huit ans dans les bases de données françaises et étrangères, qui répertorient des cas sur des décennies, ses recherches confirment que les observations des phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés sont certes exceptionnelles mais largement répandues. Les autorités russes, britanniques et même chinoises constatent la même chose, leurs présences récurrentes dans leur espace aérien. Les rapports du ministère de la Défense britannique confirment l'existence des PAN ainsi que leurs mouvements étonnants : vol stationnaire, accélérations instantanées, absence apparente d'inertie. C'est aussi ce genre de mouvements que l'on peut voir sur les vidéos dévoilées par le Pentagone. L'étude des travaux russes révèle les très nombreuses observations de la marine soviétique entre 1977 et 1980 d'objets volants ou aquatiques. Ils mentionnent aussi des cas de recueil de matériaux aux propriétés particulières. Sigma2 confirme que la Chine s'intéresse au sujet à travers les rapports de la CIA ou à la tenue de symposiums. Ayant fait un constat similaire d'incursions régulières, les Chinois ont eux aussi, mis en place leur propre groupe d'experts.
Après avoir passé en revue ce vaste ensemble de témoignages, la commission précise qu'aucune preuve n'a jamais été donnée d'une technologie d'origine extraterrestre, c'est-à-dire apte à confirmer l'Hypothèse extraterrestre (HET). Mais elle reconnaît que la sécurité de l'espace aérien est bien mise en doute par ces incursions non expliquées.
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Le Pentagone déclassifie des vidéos semblant montrer des ovnis (28/04/2020)
Pour tenter de caractériser les PAN, elle recense les phénomènes naturels qui pourraient être à leur origine, comme la foudre en boule, les plasmas, les météores, les rentrées atmosphériques d'objets artificiels… Elle effectue un inventaire des théories physiques standards, des possibilités de propulsions exotiques. Mais elle constate que les phénomènes observés ne respectent pas les lois connues de la physique. Qu'aucune théorie ne peut éclairer les déplacements constatés. Comment expliquer les fortes vitesses, les accélérations brutales propulsant instantanément un objet à Mach 10, les changements de trajectoire à angle droit, les rebroussements, les plongées dans l'eau…
C'est en améliorant le recueil de données, en partageant davantage l'information, comme semblent l'avoir décidé les responsables américains, que des avancées pourront être envisagées. Car la qualité des observations est un préalable nécessaire à la résolution des défis lancés par les PAN. C'est parce qu'ils disposaient de relevés radar et infrarouge suffisants que le groupe d'experts de Sigma2 a pu en 2017 lever le mystère « cougar ». Leurs analyses ont pu montrer que l'observation d'un PAN par l'équipage d'un hélicoptère chilien n'était autre qu'un Airbus A340 de la compagnie espagnole Iberia.
Mysterious skull fossils expand human family tree — but questions remain
Mysterious skull fossils expand human family tree — but questions remain
Fossilized bones found in Israel and China, including a specimen named ‘Dragon Man’, could belong to new types of ancient human. But the findings have sparked debate.
Excavation site near Nesher Ramla in central Israel.Credit: Yossi Zaidner
Fossils found in China and Israel dating from around 140,000 years ago are adding to the ranks of hominins that mixed and mingled with early modern humans.
The fossils from Israel hint that a previously unknown group of hominins, proposed to be the direct ancestors of Neanderthals, might have dominated life in the Levant and lived alongside Homo sapiens1,2. Meanwhile, researchers studying an extremely well-preserved ancient human skull found in China in the 1930s have controversially classified it as a new species — dubbed Dragon Man — which might be an even closer relative to modern humans than are Neanderthals3,4.
But both findings have sparked debate among scientists. The studies are based on analyses of the size, shape and structure of fossilized bones — methods that are subject to individual judgement and interpretation. As is often the case for fossil finds, there is no DNA evidence.
Separating early hominin specimens into unique species, working out if and how they interacted with others, and tracing their evolution are all difficult and contentious: “It’s very messy,” says Jeffrey Schwartz, an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
Ancestor to Neanderthals
Since 2000, the view of human evolution during the past half a million years has become ever-more complicated as researchers have added to the list of species in the genus Homo that lived in the Middle and Late Pleistocene. The family tree now includes the Indonesian H. floresiensis, discovered in 2003; Siberian Denisovans, identified in 2010; South African H. naledi, described in 2015; and Filipino H. luzonensis, detailed in 2019.
These species overlapped in time with modern humans (H. sapiens), which are thought to have emerged from Africa and spread into Israel and other regions some 200,000 years ago, and Neanderthals (H. neanderthalis), which had a stronghold in Europe 300,000 years ago and were outcompeted by, or subsumed into, modern humans by around 40,000 years ago.
However, some hominin fossils from this time period still don’t fit neatly into any existing categories. Now, researchers studying some of these odd-ball fossils, found in Israel, think they might have identified a new group of hominins. Physical anthropologist Israel Hershkovitz at Tel Aviv University and his colleagues focused on skull fragments found at the site of Nesher Ramla in central Israel — parts of parietal bones and a jaw, probably belonging to the same individual — that date to between 140,000 and 120,000 years ago.
Conventional thinking is that only H. sapiens lived in the Levant at this time, the team says; the earliest conclusive evidence of Neanderthals being there is from 70,000 years ago. “What we expected to find was Homo sapiens,” says co-author Hila May, also at Tel Aviv University. “At first glance, for sure it wasn’t.” The jaw and teeth were Neanderthal-like, but the skull shape was more archaic — an unusual combination.
The oddity seems to match up with a handful of other fossils found around Israel, some dating back 400,000 years, none of which had previously been classified. “We couldn’t assign them to any Homo group,” says May. “It was a mystery.” In a pair of studies1,2 published in Science on 24 June, the group proposes that all of these fossils belong to a newly named hominin population — the Nesher Ramla people — who might have dominated this region for hundreds of thousands of years. The team says the Nesher Ramla people belonged to an unknown umbrella species, rather than constituting a new species themselves.
A mandible and skull found at Nesher Ramla. Researchers suggest these specimens belonged to a previously unknown group of ancient hominins.
Credit: Avi Levin and Ilan Theiler, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
The Nesher Ramla population seems to have mastered the same stone tools as H. sapiens living in the area. Artefacts found near the fossils suggest that these people napped flints, bringing in material from up to 10 kilometres away, and re-sharpened the tools when needed. Their use of similar technology hints that they lived together with modern humans and perhaps interbred.
But not all researchers agree with the team’s findings. To palaeoanthropologist Philip Rightmire at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the skull looks like an “early, rather archaic-appearing, Neanderthal”. Rightmire says he would not be surprised to see Neanderthals in this region at this time.
Hershkovitz and colleagues argue that the Nesher Ramla people could have established early, pre-Neanderthal communities in Europe, injecting archaic genes from Africa or Asia into a species that has conventionally been thought of as evolving in Europe. “Neanderthals are no longer an exclusive European story,” says Hershkovitz.
But Rightmire argues that the flow could have gone in the other direction. “I don’t see any reason why these early Neanderthals, if that’s what they are, couldn’t have come from Europe,” he says.
Dragon Man
In China, an assessment of a Middle Pleistocene hominin skull that was unearthed decades ago could also shed new light on our ancestors.
The Harbin skull is an extremely well-preserved cranium that dates to about 140,000 years ago and is thought to belong to a 50-year-old male. The skull was originally dug up in 1933 before being hidden from the Japanese army in a well, and was donated to Hebei GEO University in Shijiazhuang in 2018. The skull is particularly large and thick, with big, squarish eye sockets, low cheek bones, large teeth and a wide pallet.
In work published in The Innovation on 25 June, palaeontologist Ji Qiang at Hebei GEO University and colleagues propose that the unique features of the Harbin skull are enough to classify it as a new species3,4. They suggest the species name Homo longi (Dragon Man) after the common name of Heilongjiang Province, Long Jiang (Dragon River), where the fossil was found.
A virtual reconstruction of the Harbin skull (still from video).
Credit: Xijun Ni
However, naming a new species on the back of a single skull — particularly one that has been removed from its original context and comes with no artefacts — is controversial. “I think that there were more species running around Asia than people have allowed themselves to think about,” says Schwartz. But there isn’t enough evidence to convince him that this skull represents a new species.
The Harbin fossil is one of several odd Middle Pleistocene Homo skulls found in China over the years. In Rightmire’s view, these skulls probably represent what became of some of the early Neanderthals who marched from Europe through the Middle East, China and Siberia, eventually becoming the Denisovans. “These Asian bits and pieces probably belong to the same group as Denisovans,” he says. “I bet that’s what we’re talking about here.” Hershkovitz argues that some of these Asian skulls might better fit into the Nesher Ramla group.
In the study, Qiang and colleagues say that, given the Harbin skull’s similarity to some early H. sapiens fossils, H. longi might be an even closer relative to modern humans than Neanderthals are. But Schwartz thinks some of these fossils have been inappropriately lumped into the H. sapiens category. “Many of these fossils are very, very different from each other,” he says.
Overall, the current hominin classifications make little sense, argues Schwartz, because they bundle too much diversity together into species such as H. sapiens. “I think we should start from scratch,” he says. “Some people aren’t bold enough to say: ‘let’s look at everything from the beginning.’”
The FAA directs commercial airline pilots to report UFO sightings to a civilian organization.
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The government’s highly anticipated report on unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) finally dropped yesterday, but the truth remains out there. “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP,” concludes the unclassified reportcompiled by the Office of the Directorate of National Intelligence (ODNI).
After examining nearly 150 reports of UAPs, also known as UFOs, intelligence officials say they don't know what the vast majority of the phenomena are — though they have a handful of theories. Among the possibilities offered: airborne debris, natural atmospheric conditions, technology from foreign adversaries or top-secret U.S. government technology. There is also a catch-all miscellaneous category that the report’s authors simply call “other.” The verdict is that there is simply not enough data to identify these objects.
The ODNI report focuses on unidentified objects spotted by U.S. Navy pilots and other military sources from 2004 to 2021, and notes that a UAP task force is currently working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
“The FAA generally ingests this data when pilots and other airspace users report unusual or unexpected events to the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization,” says the report.
That may be news to the FAA. The agency that operates air traffic control and navigation for both civil and military aircraft insists it does not deal directly with UAP sightings from commercial pilots. “The FAA doesn’t track these reports. The National UFO Reporting Center is your best source,” an FAA spokesperson told Forbes. The FAA website also steers the general public to report UFO sightings to NUFORC.
“It has always struck me is very telling that the Federal Aviation Administration itself actually tells pilots to contact a civilian UFO organization,” says Micah Hanks, whose popular eponymous science podcast often discusses unexplained phenomena like UFOs.
“The FAA and the government took the position that people like me were crazy,” says Peter Davenport, a commercial pilot and a former flight instructor who has run NUFORC since 1994. “But they were nevertheless willing to hand over the and over the information coming to them to me.”
“We serve as a clearinghouse for sightings of suspected UFOs — whether it be a senior pilot for an airline or whether it be grade-school kid — we take their calls over our hotline,” explains Davenport. “And then I encourage them to submit a written report, and the report you see on our website is the result of that process.”
The work keeps Davenport extremely busy. Since 1998, when he set up the NUFORC website, “I have succeeded in collecting — I'm estimating now — about 280,000 written reports,” he says.
Davenport says he regularly receives reports of UAP sightings from FAA headquarters in Virginia, estimating that he received six to eight reports between November 2020 and May 2021.
Some incidents made headlines. For example, in February, the FAA could not explain a UAP sighting by an American Airlines pilot over the New Mexico desert. The agency referred the incident to Davenport, who in turn noted in NUFORC’s database: “On Feb 21, 2021 at 1918 zulu American 2292 was at the TBE180030 (lat 36.8/ long -103.56) at FL360 westbound. The pilot observed a long cylindrical, cruise missile looking thing, fly right over the top of them eastbound. The report was reported to air traffic control who showed no traffic above the aircraft.”
For Davenport, reports from pilots hold special value. “They give excellent reports,” he says. “That's why they're of very great interest to me.”
For UFO-curious civilians interested in delving deeper into sightings by pilots, Hanks also recommends the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), which has documented confidential reports by aviation professionals since 1999. Many pilots wait until they retire to report UAP incidents because of a prevalent stigma of reporting such events, according to the NARCAP website, which states bluntly that the FAA “offers no leadership or guidance to civil or commercial aviation.”
“[NARCAP has] logged probably more pilot and aviation related reports than any other organization and also attempt to very cautiously analyze these kinds of reports,” says Hanks. “Based on the collection of similar incidents by those two civilian agencies, that tells me quite evidently that there are more incidents being reported by pilots who are willing to come forward in various capacities.”
In addition to NUFORC and NARCAP, there’s a third organization where commercial pilots can confidentially report UAP incidents. NASA runs the Aviation Safety Reporting System, which also captures anonymous reports from pilots, dispatchers, air traffic control, cabin crew and other aviation professionals, then analyzes the data and disseminates the information to the aviation community.
A search of its database, filtered for airline pilots reporting unusual sightings, returned over 2,400 results, comprising everything from flocks of birds, clusters of helium balloons, hang gliders, freefalling skydivers and, yes, a number of UAPs.
In one event tagged as “inflight event/encounter other/unknown,” a pilot reported cruising at 36,000 feet in an Airbus A320 when a bright light caught his eye. “It went from dim to extremely bright in just a few seconds. It was above the horizon about 20 degrees inclination and around my 12:30 o’clock position. It was not close to us, but seemed out there a bit. I have never seen such intense, bright, white and silver light in my life. It actually had a very defined 360 degree halo around it at one point. Then it made a 45 degree sharp change in direction and faded away as it went out of view in about 3 seconds time. During the next 50 minutes, we experienced almost the exact same scenario 4 more times,” wrote the pilot. “Object started out as a very weak-looking star, but would move slowly left to right and grow much brighter than any star I have ever seen.”
Hanks suspects he knows why FAA takes a hands-off approach to investigating UFOs. “It is seen as beneficial to have the NASA-maintained ASRS data database outside of the FAA — but run for the FAA — so that pilots would be more likely to come forward,” he says.
And to that end, it appears to be working. “As you dig into the database, you will find from time to time reports of very unusual things,” says Hanks.
NASA Administrator: 'Are we alone? Personally, I don't think we are'
NASA Administrator: 'Are we alone? Personally, I don't think we are'
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson tells CNN's Pamela Brown that he has read the classified version of the US intelligence report on the series of UFO sightings by Navy pilots and others, and that he feels that we may not be alone in this galaxy.
June 25, 2021, Mountain View, CA – The report from intelligence agencies to be delivered to the U.S. Congress on the subject of UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) has generated speculation that we may soon see compelling proof of the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
The observations to be discussed in the report – photographic, witness testimony, and radar – are sometimes conflated with a research discipline known as SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). The latter involves looking for non-natural radio or light signals coming from deep space, as well as observations that might uncover non-natural phenomena (so-called “technosignatures”) in the course of conventional astronomical research.
Since the UAP analysis and SETI research have a region of overlap – the possibility of alien beings – there is frequent confusion by the public and media regarding the degree to which they are similar. We hope to mitigate this lack of understanding by pointing out differences in the assumptions, data, and verification methodologies for both UAPs and SETI.
UAPs
UAP is a relatively new term to categorize what have been called UFOs (Unidentified Flying Object) since the 1950s. At that time, the latter term replaced “flying saucer.” At least some of the objects in this category are believed by the public to be alien spacecraft. The evidence consists of visual and photographic imaging, as well as occasional radar reflections. Numerous sightings have been noted since the 1940s, and the rate of reports to the (private) National UFO Reporting Center is currently in excess of 7,000 per year.
Note that, because such sightings cannot be predicted, or are seldom anticipated, they do not constitute a deliberate observing program.
Recently, interest in UAPs has increased following the release of videos made from a Navy ship and by infrared cameras mounted on F 18 fighter jets. Objects seen in these videos appear to move in ways that imply exceptionally large accelerations and speeds that are beyond the capabilities of known aircraft. However, little can be said about such motions without knowledge of either the distance or the intrinsic size of whatever has been seen or photographed. Nonetheless, there are many people who interpret these videos as direct visual evidence for alien spacecraft. Herewith the assumptions made in this interpretation of UFOs/UAPs:
Assumptions
The aliens are here, in Earth’s airspace.
They are airborne (although some sightings of landed craft have been reported).
The putative intruders are most reliably seen by the U.S. Navy’s F 18 Hornet fighters. At least one pilot has said they can be observed every day. But as a general rule, sightings of UFOs/UAPs cannot be predicted.
The federal government has, until recently, elected to keep this evidence, as well as its understanding of what it might show, secret from the public.
SETI
SETI has been an intermittent activity of a small group of researchers, mostly radio astronomers, since 1960. In the mid-1970s, it became a modest program within NASA, although that effort was cancelled by the U.S. Senate in 1993. Since that time, SETI has been a privately funded activity. However, the discovery of exoplanets that are found in nearly every star system of the Galaxy has prompted both Congress and NASA to reconsider the use of federal funds for SETI endeavors.
Unlike for UAPs, in which unplanned observational evidence is evaluated, SETI conducts deliberate experiments. In this it is similar to many other science investigations (e.g., the hunt for the Higgs boson). SETI also applies a series of tests to any received signal to verify that it is truly coming from deep space, and is not misidentified terrestrial interference or an equipment or software fault.
Assumptions
The aliens reside in solar systems that are (typically) within a few hundred light-years of our own.
Some extraterrestrials have the technical ability to construct powerful radio transmitters or lasers, or to build very large structures that would be visible with our astronomical telescopes.
Earth is in the “beam” of such signal emitters during the time of a SETI observation. SETI experiments are largely incapable of finding brief, non-repeating signals.
No detection claims would be made until a signal is confirmed by others.
The experiment is completely “open” (there is no secrecy).
So, while the UAP investigation relies on the interpretation of chance observations, SETI relies on deliberate experiments. There is a vast divide in the assumptions made for the two activities, and they are fundamentally dissimilar.
Will the first compelling evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence be found in the atmosphere of our planet, or in the hundreds of thousands of star systems that pepper the nearest reaches of our galaxy?
We still don’t know. But if the pending government report indicates that there is a possibility that at least some UAPs might, indeed, be of extraterrestrial origin, then perhaps there will be an effort to pursue their study using the precepts of well-designed science experiments.
About the SETI Institute Founded in 1984, the SETI Institute is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research and education organization whose mission is to lead humanity’s quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the Universe and share that knowledge with the world. Our research encompasses the physical and biological sciences and leverages expertise in data analytics, machine learning and advanced signal detection technologies. The SETI Institute is a distinguished research partner for industry, academia and government agencies, including NASA and NSF.
Anyone with interest in the search for intelligent life in the universe has undoubtedly heard of the Fermi paradox – the dilemma described by physicist Enrico Fermi after pondering the existence of billions of stars with billions of planets capable of sustaining intelligent life, some far superior to us that could travel across space. If that’s true, why haven’t we encountered any of them? Recently, another scientist pondered the Red Sky paradox. What? You’ve never heard of the Red Sky paradox?
“Red dwarf stars are the most numerous and long-lived stars in the cosmos, and recent exoplanet discoveries indicate an abundance of rocky, temperate planets around them. This presents an apparent paradox as to why we do not see a red dwarf in our sky.”
Would it look like this?
If red dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the universe, with the most rocky planets seemingly capable of supporting life orbiting them, why isn’t the only planet with life that we are aware of orbiting one too? That is the question pondered in a new study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by David Kipping, an astronomy professor at Columbia University. Is our life on a planet orbiting a yellow-leaning-towards-white dwarf a fluke or is the theory that more red dwarfs means more life around them wrong?
“It’s just a question that has always perplexed me. If they’re so numerous, so long-lived, potentially trillions of years, and so they really seem to have everything going for them … it’s kind of odd then that we don’t live around a red dwarf.”
In an interview with Inverse, Kipping sounds a little like Fermi as he explains why he set up a team to ponder the Red Sky paradox and attempt to resolve it. They came up with three scenarios – 1) human life orbiting a yellow star is an exception; 2) something in the development of red dwarfs stops life from developing; 3) red dwarfs develop too slowly for life to happen. The first possibility runs into the Copernican principle – named for Nicolaus Copernicus and his hypothesis that Earth is not the center of the universe and instead is nothing special – which would make Earth a special exception in the universe.
Is it just me or is it getting hot here?
Instead, the team thinks red dwarfs are causing their own problems that kill their chances for spawning life. The ones with exoplanets we’ve been able to study (like Proxima Centauri and its two known planets) have frequent planet-toasting flareups that would cook life before it could escape. If the flares miss, the planets are generally in tidally-locked orbits — one side always faces the red dwarf, a position also not conducive to life. Finally, that abundance of rocky planets is pelted by life-killing asteroids because there are no giant gas planets like Jupiter to pull them into its own orbit.
Not only does Kipping’s theory seem to solve the Red Sky paradox, it does a good job on the Fermi paradox as well. If red dwarfs, which are the majority of stars, can’t spawn or support life, then the probability of life on the universe goes down dramatically. In other words, they’re not here because they’re not there either.
This paper was released just in time for the Pentagon UFO report. It didn’t find any aliens either. Would Fermi agree? Copernicus?
Our blue world moves through space around the Sun, one of the more rare stars in the sky.
At first glance, the 2006 court case carried out by the Santa Barbara County district attorney’s office in Santa Barbara, California, looks pretty mundane, for some boring even. It involved an action against the Greka Energy Corp., which is the county’s largest land-based oil and gas producer, for alleged health-and-safety violations at its refinery operations, as well as numerous environmental violations. While most of the counts in the lawsuit were eventually settled for $600,000, some stubbornly remained, and one of the key witnesses brought in was a former public safety officer with the company by the name of Gary Lowrey, who alleged that he had on numerous occasions pointed out safety violations that were ignored by his bosses. So far it just sounds like a dull, legal slog involving a big oil company and environmental concerns and safety protocols, more yawn inducing than anything else, but the eyebrows do pop up a bit when it gets to the part where Lowrey starts talking about horned aliens in his closet and visitations by alien forces terrorizing his family.
During the trial, Lowrey began to come out with some rather outlandish claims, to say the least. The claims were not made directly to the DA’s office, but were rather uncovered online, where it seems Lowrey was claiming that aliens had been regularly trespassing into his home and holding his family, his wife and kids, under siege. Lowrey claimed that bizarre horned, alien-like, vaguely insectoid entities were emerging from his closet at night to poke him and his family with needles as they slept, after which they would awaken with needle holes on their bodies, often forming diamond-shaped patterns. He himself stops short of labeling them as “aliens,” but is quick to point out that they are definitely not human. He would say of this to a Greka attorney, who was rather strangely none other than Bela G. Lugosi, son of the actor best known for playing Count Dracula:
They were bothering me. I don’t think I said they terrorized me. But I said they were bothering me. You can see his little eyes looking at you, and the horns and the eyebrow. I’m not sure that they’re — you know, that you’d call them aliens. I know they’re not human-looking. I don’t remember a lot of it because, you know, you’re asleep when it’s happening to you.
But don’t just take his word for it, as Lowrey would claim to have plenty of evidence to back his story up. In addition to recording footprints of the beasts with a sheet of aluminum foil that he had laid out, he also claimed to have found a claw from one of the creatures hanging from a towel in his closet, and even claimed to have captured video footage of them. This footage was seen by Deputy District Attorney Jerry Lulejian, who found it to be very compelling. After seeing the tapes, Lulejian would make a statement saying:
I’m going to argue in court that there is something going on in these videos that substantiates what Gary Lowrey is talking about. But I can’t tell you what that is. I can’t give away the juicy part. There are things that look really, really strange. It sort of put the hair on the back of my neck up when I saw them. He’s shown me he’s rational, he’s shown me that there are things going on outside of him, and he’s shown me proof that they’re there. Everything he’s said in his deposition so far checked to be true based on what he’s said in his – or what I’ve seen on the videos and what’s in the reports.
Images from the videos would eventually be released, but they are rather underwhelming, showing what may, kind of sort of look like a misshapen head if you squint your eyes. As to why the picture quality is so bad, one UFO researcher had this to add:
If these beings move between frames, detected on pause, on the camera as he says, they may have a sort of cloaking device, to fool our sense of vision, or their slightly out of phase with our 3-dimensions, as the camera can capture what the un-enhanced eye can’t, but not being seen as continuing motion on the videocam, that is strange. A high-speed infra-red cam plus a night vision cam, and a taser to disable the being, triggered by the cameras would sent about 50,000 volts into whatever, and maybe able to capture it, as it has mass, as exhibited by the indentation of the aluminum foil where fast-walker appeared, in the closet I think he said.
Lowrey also enlisted the help of notable UFO researcher, podiatrist, and expert on alien implants, Dr. Roger Leir, who also believed his story. Amazingly, none of this seemed to disqualify Lowrey as a credible witness in the case against Greka, despite the company seeking to use his stories of aliens as a reason to discredit him and have him booted as a reliable witness in the case. Greka attorney Lugosi would lament the court’s decision to allow Lowery to continue his involvement in the case, saying:
Don’t you find a witness who claims that he’s being visited by aliens at night and getting punctured at night rather a whacky thing to be claiming? Obviously, credibility is important. It’s not every day you have a code enforcement matter which involves aliens in the closet, mysterious claws and a podiatrist who removes alien implants. Here’s their most important witness, and the D.A. is buying into it, saying that none of this affects his credibility. We’re very surprised. Yes, there are people who believe in aliens, but we’re talking about the Santa Barbara district attorney’s office here!
As all of this was going on, Lowrey was becoming a sort of minor celebrity in the UFO field, appearing on the paranormal radio program Coast to Coast AM with host Mike Seigel, but then he began to go silent on his story, according to some because he was being told not to speak of these things, sparking tales of conspiracies going beyond even the court case. Peter A. Gersten, Executive Director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, would say of it all:
Several weeks before the Bay Area Expo in August, Gary Lowrey, a Bakersfield Fire Safety Officer, contacted me after numerous failed attempts to get the attention of other well-known organizations and persons in the UFO field. After listening to his story about his ongoing encounters with strange insectoid-type creatures in his home, and based upon his possession of certain physical evidence, I agreed to represent him both as an attorney and also in a joint venture to get the truth out. Though Lowrey was forthcoming in stating that he wants to help his family financially with the information and evidence he possesses, he assured me that his primary motivation is to share his ongoing encounters with the world and hopefully learn some answers as to what he and his family are experiencing. My part of our agreement included my successful efforts to get him national attention through my organization CAUS, my workshop at the Bay Area UFO Expo, and my frequent appearances on Mike Siegel’s Coast to Coast Radio show as well as other projects and forums that were being planned.
After speaking with Lowrey over the course of several weeks, I came to believe that the Bakersfield California family represents one of the best cases of contact because of the confirmatory physical evidence, the believability of the witnesses and the continuous nature of the experiences. Unfortunately because of the greed and selfishness of several people, Lowrey is temporarily silenced and his credibility forever compromised. Last Saturday, give or take a day, Gary Lowrey, after being told by a self-styled “Hollywood producer” that there was no need for him to consult me or any other attorney, signed a contract for the exclusive print and movie rights to his story. According to Lowrey, the contract prohibits him from talking to anyone about his past and present experiences. The producer even deceptively composed an e-mail for Lowrey to send to me in which he states that he can no longer appear on Mike Siegel’s Coast to Coast radio show and if I have any questions I should consult his attorney, Mark Commerford, who I later determine is actually the producer’s attorney and not Lowrey’s. Sadly, though Lowrey appeared with me on the radio show this past Monday night, he refused to talk about his experiences, which he had originally agreed to share before the producer’s gag order.
What makes the Lowrey debacle even more unpalatable is the fact that the perpetrators of this travesty are members of the UFO community. In fact the producer is none other than Christopher Wyatt, founder, President and CEO of UFO Community.com, a company, which, as evidenced by Wyatt’s callous disregard for both the public’s right to know and the significance of Lowrey’s interaction with other life forms, is quite inappropriately named. Why Wyatt, after signing Lowrey to an exclusive contract, would want to silence him on the eve of his national coming-out-party thereby avoiding a Coast to Coast listening audience of millions and the free promotion inherent in such exposure, is very strange and suspicious. Christopher Wyatt has used the tools of deception, misrepresentation, and coercion to silence an individual who is presently interacting with a non-human form of intelligence. On Siegel’s show, Lowrey stated he was “coerced” by Wyatt into signing the contract. Wyatt has now convinced Lowrey that he has no choice but to honor their contract and that Wyatt will sue him if he shows the contract to me. I am not surprised that there are those within the UFO community who are more interested in money than in our right to know the truth. But to compromise something we all have been waiting years for, the opportunity to record and verify evidence of ongoing contact, is unconscionable and requires exposing the true nature of the beast.
Indeed, during the coming court appearances, Lowrey would freeze up and refuse to mention the aliens again, allowing the whole thing to resolve in mundane fashion. Was he silenced, and if so, by who exactly? What in the world was going on here? What are we to make of all of this? A big court case, a lawyer who is the son of the actor who played Dracula, and aliens? I seems as if it could not possibly get more absurd, and yet this all did happen and is there on the record. It is all a very bizarre case, and certainly adds some spice to the otherwise dry and humdrum business of a court case.
Over the years, controversial claims have been made about a highly-classified facility located in Wiltshire, England: the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). It is better known as Porton Down. Over the years, claims have been made about a connection between Porton Down and UFOs. Before we get to the matter of UFOs, let’s first take a look at Porton Down. Dr. Robert M. Wood’s book, Alien Viruses states: “Although work at Porton Down had originally begun in March 1916, it was not until 1940 that the installation became the central hub of British interest in biological warfare. Following the start of the Second World War, a highly secret and independent group – the Biology Department, Porton – was established by the War Cabinet, with a mandate to investigate the reality of biological warfare and to develop a means of retaliation in the event that biological warfare was utilized against the United Kingdom. By 1946, the name of the wartime group had become the Microbiological Research Department. A decade later, the biological warfare research of Porton Down’s staff had become solely defensive in nature; and in 1957 it was re-named the Microbiological Research Establishment.”
The BBC say: “Porton Down was set up in 1916. It was a center designed to test chemical and biological weapons. Nerve gases such as Sarin and CS gas were tested on volunteer servicemen. Servicemen were offered around £2 and three days leave as an incentive to take part in tests. Very few servicemen knew what they were volunteering for and some were even told it was research into the cure for the common cold. In 1953 it is alleged that serviceman Ronald Maddison died after taking part in a Sarin gas experiment. In 1962, one of Porton Down’s own scientists, Geoffrey Bacon died of the plague. Since the end of WWII, 20,000 people have taken part in experiments at Porton Down.”
Now, let’s get to the UFO angle of Porton Down. It was in January 2001 that the then-retired – and now late – British Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Hill-Norton, decided to get into the Rendlesham Forest controversy – without doubt the most famous “UFO” event in the U.K. Having had an interest in UFOs for decades, he used his considerable clout to try and figure out what occurred in 1980. It was hardly an easy task for Hill-Norton to achieve. Of specific interest to Hill-Norton were the claims of a Rendlesham connection to the activities of the Porton Down staff. He wanted to know “whether personnel from Porton Down visited Rendlesham Forest or the area surrounding RAF Watton in December 1980 or January 1981; and whether they are aware of any tests carried out in either of those two areas aimed at assessing any nuclear, biological or chemical hazard.” As time progressed, more and more data surfaced and suggested that the “UFO landing” was really a sophisticated hologram-driven experiment designed to determine the extent to which the military personnel in the forest could have their minds meddled. “Mind-control, in other words.
Berwyn Mountains
Of course, most people in Ufology don’t want to hear one of their most famous cases destroyed. Too bad. Now, let’s jump back to 1974. Andy Roberts states in his book UFO Down!: “In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children’s science-fiction novel By Space Ship to the Moon,which featured a UFO landing on Moel Sych in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales. Sixteen years later, in a surreal case of life imitating art, those very same mountains would again be the focus for a story involving a downed UFO. But this time, some said, the story was for real.” Indeed, there have been claims for years of a crashed UFO on the mountains. Not only that, in 1996 an anonymous soldier came forward, claiming to know that the remains of dead aliens were held at Porton Down. Of course, this has not been confirmed. But, we do have the fascinating story of a man named Robert Bolton.”
I first interviewed Bolton by phone, and then met him in person, in Norwich, England, in 2000. He told me: “I spent thirty years in the Royal Air Force as an aircraft engineer. I had various postings, including at Akrotiri in Cyprus, RAF Honnington, and at RAF Valley in North Wales from 1971 to 1974. My wife and her family came from Corwen. At the time that the thing on the Berwyns happened, they lived up on the side of the mountain and her mom still lives there to this day. Corwen is part of the Berwyn range. From where their house is, if you walk up the path that goes behind the houses up and onto the top of the mountains, you’re talking perhaps a mile and a quarter away from where it all occurred; so it’s not very far away at all.
“She still remembers what happened on the night of 23 January. She said to me when I spoke to her about it just recently: ‘I saw aircraft and heard aircraft shot down during the Blitz and it was like an aircraft coming down, but the sound was louder, bigger, heavier that anything you could imagine to do with an aircraft.’ They didn’t know what it was. They heard the noise first of all and ran out into the road. They weren’t the only ones: all their neighbors ran out as well. It got louder and louder and louder and they couldn’t see anything in the sky but then they felt the impact where the houses shook and she had things fall off the mantle-piece in the house.
“It was my wife’s dad, who told me the story about bodies being found on the mountain. His name was Harold Smith. But everyone called him Mick. He had a full-time job with Vauxhall at Elsmere Port; he was a local councilor and was also a part-time Sub-Fire Officer at Corwen. One day we got talking and got on to the subject of UFOs and he said to me: ‘Oh, well, you obviously don’t know about the incident up on the Berwyn Mountains.’ “I first heard the story from him around 1976. At that time he only told me that bodies had been brought down from the mountain and didn’t say anything more. Nothing about who brought them down or where they were taken. But from 1979 to 1982 I was posted to Germany and Mick and my wife’s mother came out to stay for a month and it was here that he told us a lot more.
“I remember that the information that he told us had apparently come from another person in the North Wales Fire Service whose son was in the Army. But it’s not surprising that he would have been told: Mick was a well-respected man and knew people throughout the North Wales Fire Service including at Bala and Wrexham. Mick told me that while the police weren’t involved, the Army was – heavily. I can’t give you an exact date when they visited and he told us this, but it was definitely between 1979 and 1982. He said that there were definitely [trucks] from Porton Down at the scene; that there was a lozenge-shaped object on the mountainside; and that bodies were taken off the mountain and driven to Porton. And to this day, his wife can also confirm that Mick told her the story about Porton Down and bodies too – either in the late 1970s or the early 1980s[italics mine].”
Robert signed off: “I do remember Mick saying that when he had first told me this story in 1976, he didn’t know that it was the Army who had taken the bodies off the mountain and he didn’t know at the time that they’d been taken to Porton Down. So he must have learned that between 1976 and when he came to see us in Germany.” Dead aliens at Porton Down? A Rendlesham Forest connection to Porton Down? All we have right now are rumors. Maybe, things are destined to stay like that. On the other hand, though, just perhaps something incredible might one day surface.
Studie bewijst dat 7 soorten dino’s permanent op Noordpool leefden
WETENSCHAP Er hebben minstens zeven dinosaurussoorten permanent geleefd op de Noordpool. Wellicht gebruikten ze technieken zoals de winterslaap of kregen ze veren tegen de kou. Dat zegt een nieuwe studie die vorige week is verschenen in het tijdschrift Current Biology.
Meer dan tien jaar lang werden fossielen opgegraven voor het onderzoek. De resultaten tonen aan dat de dino’s niet alleen leefden op plaatsen met een zachter klimaat.
“Een deel van de nieuwe vindplaatsen heeft opzienbarende zaken aan het licht gebracht, met name botten en tanden van dinosaurusjongen”, zegt Patrick Druckenmiller van de Universiteit van Alaska. “Dat is ongelofelijk, want het toont aan dat die dinosaurussen niet alleen konden leven in het poolgebied, maar dat ze er zich ook konden voortplanten.”
Wetenschappers ontdekten in 1950 voor het eerst resten van dinosaurussen in het gebied. Lange tijd gingen ze ervan uit dat het arctische gebied niet geschikt was voor reptielen. Er werden toen twee hypotheses geformuleerd: ofwel leefden de dino’s er permanent, ofwel migreerden ze ernaar in het warmste seizoen.
De nieuwe studie bewijst nu voor het eerst dat minstens zeven soorten dinosaurussen in staat waren zich voort te planten op de zeer hoge breedtegraden. Het gaat onder meer over de Hadrosauridae, Ceratopia en Tyrannosaurussen. Hun jongen zouden niet in staat geweest zijn om meteen lange afstanden af te leggen.
Het Noordpoolgebied was in de tijd van de dinosaurussen niet zo koud als nu, maar de omstandigheden waren toch al erg veeleisend. De jaartemperatuur lag rond 6 graden Celsius, maar in de wintermaanden was het een stuk kouder en sneeuwde het.
Het feit dat de dinosaurussen het hele jaar op de Noordpool bleven, is een nieuwe aanwijzing dat ze warmbloedig waren. Andere recente studies suggereerden dat ook al.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 28 - 06 - 2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 28 - 06 - 2021
UFO Sighted Over Tamasopo, Mexico ( June 25, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Tamasopo, Mexico on June 25, 2021
STATEMENT : Ovnis en tamasopo UFO in tamasopo
credit : Inwy Rea
UFO Sighted Over Las Vegas, Nevada ( June 27, 2021 )
STATEMENT : I sent the video to a friend and the first thing he told me that a drone wasn't because it measures about 10 meters and drones like this, not that we know, and a helicopter is not because noise doesn't make... , so, otherwise the video is from here in Las Vegas Nevada US where I live and remind you that I have the area 51 next to it.
credit : Cristian Alonso
UFO Sighted Over Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England. ( June 27, 2021 )
The Original Unedited Complete Video !!! The Barnoldswick Lancashire, UK UFO
credit : Paranormal Research and Evaluation Team
UFOs Sighted Over Lumby, Canada ( June 23, 2021 )
STATEMENT :I have seen this a couple of times within the last weeks : I have been seeing this for the past few weeks. Randomly. It’s after the sun has gone down completely.
credit : Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS
Date Submitted : 2021-06-24
Date of Event : 2021-06-23 / 9:38PM
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UFO Sighted Over Puglia, Italy ( June 23, 2021 )
UFO sighted over Puglia, Italy on June 23, 2021
STATEMENT : GIUGNO 2021, Puglia, Italy
TRANSLATE : JUNE 2021, Puglia, Italy
credit : Moonreflex Informations
UFOs Sighted Over Switzerland ( June 27, 2021 )
STATEMENT : This Saturday we were having a bbq near my house I live in Suica and my daughter made this video when she saw these lights in the sky can you help me understand what is this please
I found some alien artifacts in a Mars photo today. The artifacts all lead me to believe that this was all part of an elaborate tomb. I found a grave stone on its side and near it is a large square slab that has alien writing on it. What does it say? It's the name of the person who died. Near it is another part of a coffin with engravings on its side and one meter away is a long upper and lower leg with the knee area very visible and seems to have insect like exoskeleton ridges on it. Very unique and defiantly worth looking at close by the rover, although I don't feel that NASA would ever do so and share those close ups. NASA has the intention to entertain the public with the Remote control toy helicopter to distract the public from thinking about searching for life or evidence of life on Mars. Instead they fly a toy helicopter around Mars and tell the public its amazing...although such toys have been around on Earth for over 40 years! This discovery of the ancient artifacts of a broken tomb of an alien is real science.
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Are aliens watching us? Astronomers identify 29 potentially habitable exoplanets where extraterrestrials could have been observing Earth for 5,000 years
Are aliens watching us? Astronomers identify 29 potentially habitable exoplanets where extraterrestrials could have been observing Earth for 5,000 years
Researchers looked at star-systems that could see Earth transit over the Sun
This would allow them to detect signs of life in the atmosphere of our planet
It would also put the Earth in a position where they could listen to radio waves
There are an estimated 29 potentially habitable worlds within a 100 light years of the Earth allowing them to listen to broadcasts from the past century
There could be as many as 29 potentially habitable worlds 'perfectly positioned' to observe the Earth if they hold an intelligence civilisation, according to a new study.
Exploring ways in which we find exoplanets, that is worlds outside the solar system, the team from Cornell University reversed the process to see which could spot us.
Working alongside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, astronomers identified 2,034 star-systems in our galactic neighbourhood - within 326 light years of the Earth - that could watch our planet cross the sun.
Out of those stars, 1,715 could have spotted Earth since human civilisation blossomed about 5,000 years ago, and 319 will be added over the next 5,000 years.
The number of stars varies depending on their location in space relative to the solar system and changes due to the fact we live in a dynamic universe.
While exoplanets haven't been detected around all of the stars that can observe the Earth, the team estimate 29 will have a rocky world in the habitable zone that are well positioned to also detect radio waves emitted by humans over 100 years ago.
A view of Earth and Sun from thousands of miles above our planet. Stars that enter and exit a position where they can see Earth as a transiting planet around our Sun are brightened
Working alongside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, astronomers identified 2,034 star-systems in our galactic neighbourhood - within 326 light years of the Earth - that could watch our planet cross the sun
WHAT IS THE TRANSIT METHOD?
The transit method is a technique in astronomy used to detect exoplanets or study more about objects within the solar system.
As a planet transits in front of its host star it blocks a portion of the light and when observed from Earth this change can be measured.
Astronomers produce a light curve that can provide physical characteristics of both the planet and host star including density.
Hot Jupiters - that is Jupiter-sized worlds orbiting very close to their host start - are most likely to be detected, but it has also been used to find Earth-sized worlds orbiting red dwarf stars.
The transit method is the most prominent technique for detecting exoplanets and was first used in 1999 to confirm the existence of HD209458b, previously detected using the radial velocity method.
The first new detection using the transit method came four years later with the detection of OGLE-TR-56b in 2003.
Transit can be used to determine the radius of the planet and its period of revolution.
Current telescopes aren't able to detect signs of life within an exoplanet atmosphere or whether it is truly habitable, but future observatories including the NASA James Webb space telescope will delve deeper into these distant worlds than ever before.
'From the exoplanets' point-of-view, we are the aliens,' said Lisa Kaltenegger, professor of astronomy and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute.
'We wanted to know which stars have the right vantage point to see Earth, as it blocks the Sun's light,' she said.
Because stars move in our dynamic cosmos, this vantage point is gained and lost over time, so they were able to pin-point specific star systems.
The transit method is one of the main ways astronomers use to detect planets in other star systems - they look for 'dips' in the light coming from the star.
It requires specific positioning for the exoplanet the star it is orbiting and the Earth for us to be able to view it as it passes by and this changes over time.
Kaltenegger and astrophysicist Jackie Faherty, a senior scientist at the American Museum of Natural History used positions and motions from the European Space Agency's Gaia catalog to determine which stars enter and exit the Earth Transit Zone.
'Gaia has provided us with a precise map of the Milky Way galaxy,' Faherty said, 'allowing us to look backward and forward in time, and to see where stars had been located and where they are going.'
Of the 2,034 star-systems passing through the Earth Transit Zone over the 10,000-year period examined, 117 objects lie within about 100 light-years of the sun.
Of these 75 objects have been in the Earth Transit Zone since commercial radio stations on Earth began broadcasting into space about a century ago.
The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of exoplanets since 2014, with 30 planets less than twice the size of Earth now known to orbit within the habitable zones of their stars
Out of those stars, 1,715 could have spotted Earth since human civilisation blossomed about 5,000 years ago, and 319 will be added over the next 5,000 years
Current telescopes aren't able to detect signs of life within an exoplanet atmosphere or whether it is truly habitable, but future observatories including the NASA James Webb space telescope will delve deeper into these distant worlds than ever before
'Our solar neighbourhood is a dynamic place where stars enter and exit that perfect vantage point to see Earth transit the Sun at a rapid pace,' Faherty said.
Included in the catalog of 2,034 star-systems are seven known to host exoplanets.
Each one of these worlds has had or will have an opportunity to detect Earth, just as Earth's scientists have found thousands of worlds orbiting other stars.
By watching distant exoplanets transit - or cross - their own sun, Earth's astronomers can interpret the atmospheres backlit by that sun.
If exoplanets hold intelligent life, they can observe Earth backlit by the sun and see our atmosphere's chemical signatures of life including oxygen.
The number of stars varies depending on their location in space relative to the solar system and changes due to the fact we live in a dynamic universe
While exoplanets haven't been detected around all of the stars that can observe the Earth, the team estimate 29 will have a rocky world in the habitable zone that are well positioned to also detect radio waves emitted by humans over 100 years ago
HOW THEY ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF ALIEN WORLDS THAT CAN VIEW THE EARTH
Astronomers identified 2,034 star-systems in our galactic neighbourhood - within 326 light years of the Earth - that could watch our planet cross the sun - also known as a transit.
Out of those stars, 1,715 could have spotted Earth since human civilisation blossomed about 5,000 years ago.
Another 319 will be added over the next 5,000 years as the various stars move into viewable range - known as the Earth Transit Zone (ETZ).
But the team had to then determine how many of those stars might have rocky Earth-like planets orbiting in the habitable zone - where liquid water can flow freely on the surface.
Estimates of the number of rocky planets in the habitable zone of their star depend on the radius of the planet and the size and type of the host star.
New estimates place the number of planets per star within the habitable zone at 1.28.
The team predict about 25 per cent of all stars will have potentially habitable worlds in this zone.
This led to the figure of 508 rocky worlds in the habitable zone of the full sample of more than 2,000 star systems able to view the Earth within 100 light years.
Within that limit they determined there would be about 29 potentially habitable worlds that 'could' host an alien civilisation capable of listening in since Marconi invented the radio.
However, communication could be difficult as a civilisation 82 light years away would just be hearing broadcasts from the start of WW2, and we wouldn't get a reply until 2101 if they sent it today.
The Ross 128 system, with a red dwarf host star located in the Virgo constellation, is about 11 light-years away and is the second-closest system with an Earth-size exoplanet - its world is about 1.8 times the size of our planet.
Any inhabitants of this world could have seen Earth transit our own sun for 2,158 years, starting about 3,057 years ago but lost that ability 900 years ago.
The Trappist-1 system, at 45 light-years from Earth, hosts seven transiting Earth-size planets - four of them in the temperate, habitable zone of that star.
While we have discovered the exoplanets around Trappist-1, they won't be able to spot us until their motion takes them into the Earth Transit Zone in 1,642 years.
Potential Trappist-1 system observers will remain in the cosmic Earth transit stadium seats for 2,371 years once they finally enter the cosmic vantage point.
Whether humans will still be on Earth, or whether Earth is still habitable for humans by that point is unknown.
'Our analysis shows that even the closest stars generally spend more than 1,000 years at a vantage point where they can see Earth transit,' Kaltenegger said.
'If we assume the reverse to be true, that provides a healthy timeline for nominal civilisations to identify Earth as an interesting planet.'
Estimates of the number of rocky planets in the habitable zone of their star depend on the radius of the planet and the size and type of the host star.
New estimates place the number of planets per star within the habitable zone at 1.28 - or between one and two per system.
This matches the Solar System with the Earth as the only habitable planet, but Venus and Mars both at the outer edge of the habitable zone.
The concept of an empirical habitable zone limit is actually based on the amount of sunlight a young Venus and Mars would have received early in the solar system.
As we haven't identified habitable worlds or even rocky worlds around all nearby stars, the team decided to estimate how many there would likely be.
The discussion on the occurrence rate of rocky planets surrounding other stars is ongoing, according to the researchers.
However, they wanted to estimate how many there would be so used pessimistic predictions of 25 per cent of all stars having at least one rocky world to create a rough estimate.
The Ross 128 system, with a red dwarf host star located in the Virgo constellation, is about 11 light-years away and is the second-closest system with an Earth-size exoplanet - its world is about 1.8 times the size of our planet
Estimates of the number of rocky planets in the habitable zone of their star depend on the radius of the planet and the size and type of the host star.
THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE CAN PEER INTO ALIEN ATMOSPHERES
NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch their next major space telescope this year and it will serve as the natural successor to Hubble.
Primarily an infrared telescope, it will have a wider spectrum view than Hubble and operate further out from the Earth, in a solar orbit.
Research by Ohio State University claims that within five years of it coming online, James Webb will have found signs of alien life.
Graduate student Caprice Phillips calculated it could detect ammonia created by living creatures around gas dwarf planets after just a few orbits.
The James Webb has been described as a 'time machine' that could help unravel the secrets of our universe.
The telescope will be used to look back to the first galaxies born in the early universe 13.5 billion years ago.
It will also observe the sources of stars, exoplanets, and even the moons and planets of our solar system.
ESA said 30 per cent of the first 18 months of observations will focus on alien worlds and their atmosphere.
This led to the figure of 508 rocky worlds in the habitable zone of the full sample of more than 2,000 star systems able to view the Earth within 100 light years.
That is roughly the area radio waves will have travelled - so at the outer edge people living on that world may be hearing test messages from Guglielmo Marconi.
Within that limit they determined there would be about 29 potentially habitable worlds that 'could' host an alien civilisation capable of listening in to our radio.
However, communication could be difficult as a civilisation 82 light years away would just be hearing broadcasts from the start of WW2, and we wouldn't get a reply until 2101 if they sent it today.
The James Webb Space telescope - expected to launch later this year - is set to take a detailed look at several transiting worlds to characterise their atmospheres.
Doing so will allow astronomers to ultimately search for signs of life as we may be able to spot tell-tale chemical signatures only created by living creatures.
The Breakthrough Starshot initiative is an ambitious project underway that is looking to launch a nano-sized spacecraft toward the closest exoplanet detected around Proxima Centauri - 4.2 light-years from us - and fully characterise that world.
'One might imagine that worlds beyond Earth that have already detected us, are making the same plans for our planet and solar system,' said Faherty.
'This catalog is an intriguing thought experiment for which one of our neighbours might be able to find us.'
The 29 world estimate is also heavily human centric, based on the idea of life as we know it - requiring water and a rocky world.
However, despite the prediction of 29 planets, we don't actually know if those stars have worlds capable of housing intelligent civilisations.
Study author, Lisa Kaltenegger told MailOnline: 'There are not stars with known exoplanets that could have seen us in the last 100 years - we have not found them yet because we have not searched this region of the sky for them yet.'
It doesn't mean they are not there, just that the number of star systems visible from the Earth is so vast that we haven't got round to looking yet.
The findings have been published in the journal Nature.
THE 20 NEAREST STAR SYSTEMS ABLE TO VIEW THE EARTH
Star name
Known planets
Light years away
Wolf359
0
7.9
Ross128
1
11
Teegardens star
2
12.5
Wolf 28
0
14.1
GJ 9066
2
14.6
SIMP0136
0
19.9
Wolf 358
0
22.7
G 157-77
0
23.4
1507-1627
0
24.2
HD 4628
0
24.2
Ross 64
0
27.7
EGGR453
0
27.8
LP 469-206
0
29.6
L 768-119
0
31.6
LP 867-15
0
34.6
HD 28343
0
36.6
Ross85
0
37.6
Wolf 918
0
38.6
TRAPPIST
7
40.6
G 85-19
0
41.2
Scientists study the atmosphere of distant exoplanets using enormous space satellites like Hubble
Distant stars and their orbiting planets often have conditions unlike anything we see in our atmosphere.
To understand these new world's, and what they are made of, scientists need to be able to detect what their atmospheres consist of.
They often do this by using a telescope similar to Nasa's Hubble Telescope.
These enormous satellites scan the sky and lock on to exoplanets that Nasa think may be of interest.
Here, the sensors on board perform different forms of analysis.
One of the most important and useful is called absorption spectroscopy.
This form of analysis measures the light that is coming out of a planet's atmosphere.
Every gas absorbs a slightly different wavelength of light, and when this happens a black line appears on a complete spectrum.
These lines correspond to a very specific molecule, which indicates it's presence on the planet.
They are often called Fraunhofer lines after the German astronomer and physicist that first discovered them in 1814.
By combining all the different wavelengths of lights, scientists can determine all the chemicals that make up the atmosphere of a planet.
The key is that what is missing, provides the clues to find out what is present.
It is vitally important that this is done by space telescopes, as the atmosphere of Earth would then interfere.
Absorption from chemicals in our atmosphere would skew the sample, which is why it is important to study the light before it has had chance to reach Earth.
This is often used to look for helium, sodium and even oxygen in alien atmospheres.
This diagram shows how light passing from a star and through the atmosphere of an exoplanet produces Fraunhofer lines indicating the presence of key compounds such as sodium or helium
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Scientists have identified where aliens might be watching us from
Scientists have identified where aliens might be watching us from
Are aliens watching us? For decades humans have searched and wondered about extraterrestrial and planet life beyond earth. Well now, scientists have created a list of planets where, if they exist, curious aliens could view our planet.
There could be as many as 29 potentially habitable worlds 'perfectly positioned' where extraterrestrials could have been observing Earth for 5,000 years, according to a new study.
This would allow the aliens to detect not only signs of life in the atmosphere of our planet but allowing them to listen to broadcasts from the past century since commercial radio stations on Earth began broadcasting into space about a 100 years ago. which means that an alien race 82 light years away would just be hearing broadcasts from the start of WW2, read more here.
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Pop Culture’s Impact On UFO’s Ahead Of US Intelligence Report
Pop Culture’s Impact On UFO’s Ahead Of US Intelligence Report
NBC News’ Daniel Arkin reports on how some of Hollywood’s most well-known sci-fi filmmakers are reacting to the upcoming U.S. intelligence report on UFOs.
Siberia: Meet the strange “metallic spheres” of unknown origin
Siberia: Meet the strange “metallic spheres” of unknown origin
Siberia is a frozen land, full of mysteries and enigmas that have dazzled the scientific world. One of these questions is metal spheres that baffle experts.
Aerial image of Yakutia, Siberia.
Located in Russia, Siberia is a region endowed with mysteries ; the area has been linked to multiple UFO sightings, habitat of lost civilizations, strange phenomena or rare explosions.
An example is the strange case of Tunguska ; mystery that little by little has become more related to an unidentified flying object.
Siberian Metal Spheres
North of Russia is Yakutia, a region of 3,083,523 square kilometers. This area has been explored very little since, being surrounded by swamps, it is practically impassable.
The natives know it as ” The Valley of Death ” and avoid approaching the area at all costs. Local stories assure that whoever enters, never returns .
It is in this frozen valley, where there are testimonies of the existence of some strange metallic spheres that nobody knows how they appeared or what function they fulfill there.
The locals assure that the origin of the spheres is not terrestrial , although there is no type of scientific research to corroborate it.
Obviously this whole area of Siberia seems to be a magnet for mysterious and strange phenomena ; A small list of unfortunate events in the area are the Tunguska, in 1908, Chulum in 1984, and Vitim, in 2002.
People who live in the vicinity say that the fear they feel is due to the number of diseases and deaths of people who went through it or were in the vicinity of the metal.
Hence, the legend of the “Ancient Taiga Demons” is born, quite popular among the natives.
Testimonials of people who went to the place
The renowned explorer R. Maak, was one of the first people to explore the region in 1853 . His story tells of Algy timirbit, a river that flows through the upper part of the Viliuy mountain . In that place there is a kind of “copper cauldron” that he could not measure , since only the edges were visible sticking out of the ground.
A geologist, in 1936 he ignored the legends of the area and entered the vicinity of the Olguidakh river , guided by native elders. There he found a sphere buried in the ground, reddish in color and extremely smooth . He said the edges were sharper than any material he has ever known and the outer walls were barely 2 centimeters thick.
All this information was sent to the Yakutia regional center.
In 1979 , an expedition of native archaeologists tried to locate the spheres mentioned in different legends.
The person who guided them claimed to have seen them in his youth, but the topography of the place was totally different compared to those days.
ND Arkhipov, a researcher who studied Yakutia culture, had this to say:
«Among the population of the Viliuy basin there is an ancient legend about the existence in the upper parts of this river of bronze cauldrons or olgis.
This legend deserves attention since the areas that are the supposed location of the mythical calderas contain several streams with the name Olguidakh ».
Other testimonies with less documentation come from hunters who claimed to have seen them. Some protruded from the ground and others covered by vegetation or under water.
What can be deduced is that these strange spheres are made of an unknown metal, very similar to copper. It is believed that its strength and toughness is far superior to what is known.
The curse of the spheres
The little vegetation that grows in the area is totally irregular.
The few tests that have been done have not been taken into account by the laboratories, since they do not know their origin or composition .
Local explorers assure that as time passes the spheres sink deeper into the ground until they disappear.
A strange fact is that in their surroundings, strange blackish spots appear on the ground and the vegetation does not grow . Reason why the elders of the area curse them.
Related to this is the testimony of Mikhail Koretsky from Vladivostok, who claimed to have been in the place where the spheres are found.
He said that up to 3 times he visited the place; the first time with his father at the age of 10 in 1933. Then he returned in 1947 with a group of young people.
His interest in visiting the place was the possibility of finding gold in the valleys. On the spheres, he managed to make out up to 7 spheres or cauldrons .
The size and the metal were powerfully conspicuous. They tried to scratch them with a fine, sharp chisel on several occasions, without success. The metal they are made of is not damaged .
The little vegetation that existed around the spheres was totally strange , of disproportionate sizes or peculiar colors.
They spent the night in the area and did not immediately feel any strange effects. However, 3 months later, one of the 6 young men lost all his hair and 3 strange sore spots appeared on the left side of Vladivostok’s head . Coincidentally, that side was the one that rested on the ground to sleep.
So far there is no scientific study on the spheres, beyond testimonies made by adventurers. But the spheres of Siberia continue to generate intrigue. Where do they come from or what is their origin? Nobody seems to know.
NASA’s Search for Life: Astrobiology in the Solar System and Beyond
NASA’s Search for Life: Astrobiology in the Solar System and Beyond
Are we alone in the universe? So far, the only life we know of is right here on Earth. But here at NASA, we’re looking.
NASA is exploring the solar system and beyond to help us answer fundamental questions about life beyond our home planet. From studying the habitability of Mars, probing promising “oceans worlds,” such as Titan and Europa, to identifying Earth-size planets around distant stars, our science missions are working together with a goal to find unmistakable signs of life beyond Earth (a field of science called astrobiology).
Through the study of astrobiology, NASA invests in understanding the origins, evolution, and limits of life on Earth. This work has been important in shaping ideas about where to focus search for life efforts. As NASA explores the solar system, our understanding of life on Earth and the potential for life on other worlds has changed alongside the many discoveries. The study of organisms in extreme environments on Earth, from the polar plateau of Antarctica to the depths of the ocean, have highlighted that life as we know it is highly adaptable, but not always easy to find. The search for life requires great care, and is based in the knowledge we gain by studying life on Earth through the lens of astrobiology. If there's something out there, we may not yet know how to recognize it.
Dive into the past, present, and future of NASA’s search for life in the universe.
Past Missions
Viking 1 and 2
Over 45 years ago, the Viking Project found a place in history when it became the first U.S. mission to land a spacecraft safely on the surface of Mars.
Viking 1 and 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, were NASA’s first attempt to search for life on another planet and thus the first mission dedicated to astrobiology. The mission’s biology experiments revealed unexpected chemical activity in the Martian soil, but provided no clear evidence for the presence of living microorganisms near the landing sites.
Galileo
NASA’s Galileo mission orbited Jupiter for almost eight years, and made close passes by all its major moons. Galileo returned data that continues to shape astrobiology science –– particularly the discovery that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has evidence of a subsurface ocean with more water than the total amount of liquid water found on Earth. These findings also expanded the search for habitable environments outside of the traditional “habitable zone” of a system, the distance from a star at which liquid water can persist on the surface of a planet.
Cassini
For more than a decade, the Cassini spacecraft shared the wonders of Saturn and its family of icy moons –– taking us to astonishing worlds and expanding our understanding of the kinds of worlds where life might exist.
For the first time, astrobiologists were able to see through the thick atmosphere of Titan and study the moon’s surface, where they found lakes and seas filled with liquid hydrocarbons. Astrobiologists are studying what these liquid hydrocarbons could mean for life’s potential on Titan. Cassini also witnessed icy plumes erupting from Saturn’s small moon Enceladus. When flying through the plumes, the spacecraft found evidence of saltwater and organic chemicals. This raised questions about whether habitable environments could exist beneath the surface of Enceladus.
Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA’s twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, launched towards Mars in 2003 in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. Originally a three-month prime mission, both robotic explorers far outlasted their original missions and spent years collecting data at the surface of Mars.
Spirit and Opportunity were the first mission to prove liquid water, a key ingredient for life, had once flowed across the surface of Mars. Their findings shaped our understanding of Mars’ geology and past environments, and importantly suggested Mars’ ancient environments may once have been suitable for life.
Kepler and K2
NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, paved the way for our search for life in the solar system and beyond. An important part of Kepler’s work was the identification of Earth-size planets around distant stars.
After nine years in deep space, collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – the space telescope retired in 2018. Kepler left a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries, many of which could be promising places for life.
Spitzer
Over its sixteen years in space, the Spitzer Space Telescope evolved into a premier tool for studying exoplanets, using its infrared view of the universe. Spitzer marked a new age in planetary science as one of the first telescopes to directly detect light from the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system, or exoplanets. This enabled scientists to study the composition of those atmospheres and even learn about the weather on these distant worlds.
Spitzer’s infrared instruments allowed scientists to peer into cosmic regions that are hidden from optical telescopes, including dusty stellar nurseries, the centers of galaxies, and newly forming planetary systems. Spitzer’s infrared eyes also enabled astronomers to see cooler objects in space, like failed stars (brown dwarfs), extrasolar planets, giant molecular clouds, and organic molecules that may hold the secret to life on other planets.
Current Missions
Hubble
Since it launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has made immense contributions to astrobiology. Astronomers used Hubble to make the first measurements of the atmospheric composition of extrasolar planets, and Hubble is now vigorously characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with constituents such as sodium, hydrogen, and water vapor. Hubble observations are also providing clues about how planets form, through studies of dust and debris disks around young stars.
Not all of Hubble’s contributions involve distant targets. Hubble has also been used to study bodies within the solar system, including asteroids, comets, planets, and moons, such as the intriguing ocean-bearing icy moons Europa and Ganymede. Hubble has provided invaluable insight into life’s potential in the solar system and beyond.
MAVEN
NASA’s atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission launched in November 2013 and began orbiting Mars roughly a year later. Since that time, the mission has made fundamental contributions to understanding the history of the Martian atmosphere and climate.
Astrobiologists are working with this atmospheric data to better understand how and when Mars lost its water and identifying periods in Mars’ history when habitable environments were most likely to exist at the planet’s surface.
Mars Odyssey
For two decades, NASA’s Mars Odyssey – the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet – has helped locate ice, assess landing sites, and study the planet’s mysterious moons.
Odyssey has provided global maps of chemical elements and minerals that make up the surface of Mars. These detailed maps are used by astrobiologists to determine the evolution of the Martian environment and its potential for life.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time. While other Mars missions have shown that water flowed across the surface in Mars' history, it remains a mystery whether water was ever around long enough to provide a habitat for life.
Data from MRO is essential to astrobiologists studying the potential for habitable environments on past and present Mars. Additionally, these studies are important in building climate models for Mars, and for use in comparative planetology studies for the potential habitability of exoplanets that orbit distant stars.
Curiosity Mars Rover
The Curiosity Mars rover is studying whether Mars ever had environments capable of supporting microbial life. In other words, its mission is to determine whether the planet had all of the ingredients life needs – such as water, carbon, and a source of energy – by studying its climate and geology.
It’s been nearly nine years since Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, and the robot geologist keeps making new discoveries. Curiosity provided evidence that freshwater lakes filled Gale Grater billions of years ago. Lakes and groundwater persisted for millions of years and contained all the key elements necessary for life, demonstrating Mars was once habitable.
TESS Mission
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support life. Launched in 2018, TESS is on a mission to survey the entire sky and is expected to discover and catalogue thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars.
To date, TESS has discovered more than 120 confirmed exoplanets and more than 2,600 planet candidates. The planet-hunter will continue to find exoplanets targets that NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will study in further detail.
Perseverance Mars Rover
NASA’s newest robot astrobiologist, the Perseverance Mars rover, touched down safely on Mars on February 18, 2021, and is kicking off a new era of exploration on the Red Planet. Perseverance will search for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance the agency’s quest to explore the past habitability of Mars.
What really sets this mission apart is that the rover has a drill to collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, and will store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future Mars Sample Return mission that would ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis.
Upcoming Missions
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), slated to launch in 2021, will be the premier space-based observatory of the next decade. Webb is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror.
Webb observations will be used to study every phase in the history of the universe, including planets and moons in our solar system, and the formation of distant solar systems potentially capable of supporting life on Earth-like exoplanets. The Webb telescope will also be capable of making detailed observations of the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars, to search for the building blocks of life on Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.
Europa Clipper Mission
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have the potential to harbor life. The Europa Clipper mission will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life. Targeting a 2024 launch, the mission will place a spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter in order to perform a detailed investigation of Europa –– a world that shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust.
Europa Clipper is not a life-detection mission, though it will investigate whether the icy moon, with its subsurface ocean, has the capability to support life. Understanding Europa’s habitability will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet.
Dragonfly Mission to Titan
The Dragonfly mission will deliver a rotorcraft to visit Saturn’s largest and richly organic moon, Titan. Slated for launch in 2027 and arrival in 2034, Dragonfly will sample and examine dozens of promising sites around Saturn’s icy moon and advance our search for the building blocks of life.
This revolutionary mission will explore diverse locations to look for prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and Earth. Titan is an analog to the very early Earth, and can provide clues to how prebiotic chemistry under these conditions may have progressed.
Nancy Grace Roman Telescope
Slated to launch in the mid-2020s, the Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view that is 200 times greater than the Hubble infrared instrument, capturing more of the sky with less observing time. In addition to ground-breaking astrophysics and cosmology, the primary instrument on Roman, the Wide Field Instrument, has a rich menu of exoplanet science. It will perform a microlensing survey of the inner Milky Way that will reveal thousands of worlds orbiting within the habitable zone of their star and farther out, while providing an additional bounty of more than 100,000 transiting exoplanets.
The mission will also be fitted with “starglasses,” a coronagraph instrument that can block out the glare from a star and allow astronomers to directly image giant planets in orbit around it. The coronagraph will provide the first in-space demonstration of technologies needed for future missions to image and characterize smaller, rocky planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. Roman coronagraph will make observations that could contribute to the discovery of new worlds beyond our solar system and advance the study of extrasolar planets that could be suitable for life.
The alien hypothesis isn't mentioned — but it isn't ruled out, either.
Footage of a UFO captured by a U.S. Navy jet.
(Image credit: DOD/U.S. Navy)
The U.S. government needs some more time to get to the bottom of theUFO mystery.
That's the main take-home message from the highly anticipated UFO report released Friday (June 25) by the Pentagon and the U.S. director of national intelligence.
"The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP," the report's executive summary states, using the military's now-preferred term for "UFO" (presumably because that older acronym has a lot of baggage attached to it).
There's another feature of the report that will probably draw a lot of attention as well: The nine-page document, which you can read in full here, does not rule out alien spacecraft as a possible explanation for some UAP. However, that's primarily an inferred conclusion as the words "alien" and "extraterrestrial" do not appear in the report.
Over the past few years, we've learned that UFO sightings by U.S. Navy pilots are relatively common occurrences. This revelation broke firmly into the public consciousness in late 2017, thanks in large part to stories published by The New York Times and Politico.
The U.S. military has taken such sightings increasingly seriously, viewing them more and more as a legitimate national security issue. Some of the UAP reported by Navy pilots, after all, appear to be far faster and more maneuverable than their own jets, and the military would like to know if adversary nations possess such technology.
From 2007 to 2012, a Pentagon project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program investigated such sightings. And in August of last year, the U.S. military established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) for more or less the same purpose.
Then, in December 2020, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — at the time chairman of the Senate's intelligence committee — asked the Pentagon and the director of national intelligence to investigate the spate of mysterious recent UFO sightings and deliver a report on the matter within six months.
That's the report that just came out today. The investigation summarized by the unclassified document, whose authors describe it as a "preliminary assessment," primarily focused on UAP sightings by Navy pilots between November 2004 and March 2021.
Most of the encounters that were analyzed occurred in the last two years, the report states, because the Navy established a standardized reporting mechanism in March 2019, resulting in better and more reliable data.
The UAP investigation examined 144 encounters documented by U.S. government (USG) sensors. Eighty of these involved observations with multiple sensors, suggesting that instrument error is not a plausible explanation in at least those cases.
"Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects, given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers and visual observation," the report states.
Eighteen of the UAP encounters reported objects moving in unusual or unexpected ways.
"Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings," the report states.
Such apparently weird behavior "could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis," it adds.
Exactly what's behind the UAP encounters, however, remains completely mysterious — except in a single case, which the investigators determined to be a sighting of a large, deflating balloon.
The investigators concluded that there's probably not a single explanation for all UAP. If and when these encounters are explained, the report states, they'll likely fall into one of five categories: airborne clutter (like the deflating balloon), natural atmospheric phenomena, advanced U.S. government or industry tech, advanced foreign tech, or "other."
This last category is a catch-all that apparently includes the alien hypothesis, though the possible E.T. link is never explicitly stated.
The report states that UAP are likely to remain mysterious without "a more sophisticated analysis," which would probably require additional data, a consolidation of reports from across the U.S. government and streamlined report-processing techniques, among other things.
And, it stresses, there are good reasons to search hard for answers — even if you're not on a hunt for E.T.
"UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security," the report states. "Safety concerns primarily center on aviators contending with an increasingly cluttered air domain. UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology."
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Pentagon UFO Report: US 'Has No Explanation' for Sightings
Pentagon UFO Report: US 'Has No Explanation' for Sightings
The US government has said it has no explanation for dozens of unidentified flying objects seen by military pilots.
A Pentagon report released on Friday says of 144 reports made about the phenomena since 2004, all but one remain unexplained.
It does not rule out the possibility that the objects are extra-terrestrial.
Congress demanded the report after the US military reported numerous instance of objects seen moving erratically in the sky.
The Pentagon then established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force last August to look into the reports.
The group's job was to "detect, analyse and catalogue" these events, as well as to "gain insight" into the "nature and origins" of UFOs, the Pentagon said.
Did the report reveal anything new?
The interim report released on Friday said most of the 144 reported cases of the "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP), came in the last two years, after the US Navy put in place a standardised reporting mechanism.
In 143 of the reported cases, they "lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations".
Crucially, it said there were "no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation" for the aircraft, but also did not rule it out.
UAP "probably lack a single explanation", the report said. Some could be technologies from another nation like China or Russia, others could be natural atmospheric phenomena like ice crystals that could register on radar systems, while the report also suggested some could be "attributable to developments and classified programs by US entities".
The one case they could identify "with high confidence" was identified as "a large, deflating balloon", the report said.
It added that the UAP posed "a clear safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security".
The taskforce is now "looking for novel ways to increase collection" of reports and gather more information, adding that "additional funding" could "further study of the topics laid out in this report".
What evidence is there?
The US Department of Defense released videos of the UAPs in April 2020. It said they had been filmed by the US Navy.
In a CBS News 60 Minutes episode last month, two former Navy pilots discussed seeing an object in the Pacific Ocean that appeared to mirror their movements.
One pilot described it as a "little white Tic-Tac-looking object", referring to the white oblong mints.
"And that's exactly what it looked like, except it was travelling very fast and very erratically and we couldn't anticipate which way it was going to turn or how it was manoeuvring the way that it was, or the propulsion system," witness and former Navy pilot Alex Dietrich told BBC News.
"It didn't have any apparent smoke trail or propulsion. It didn't have any apparent flight control surfaces to manoeuvre in the way that it was manoeuvring."
China stuurt aan op bemande missie naar Mars in 2033
RUIMTEVAARTChina wil in 2033 voor het eerst een bemande missie naar Mars sturen. In de jaren daarna volgen nog meer vluchten naar de rode planeet, vertelde het hoofd van een belangrijke Chinese raketfabrikant.
China is bijzonder ambitieus in de ruimte en zette onlangs al een karretje op Mars (zie video hierboven). Er staan bemande vluchten naar die planeet gepland in 2033, 2035, 2037, 2041 en daarna, zei Wang Xiaojun van de Chinese Academie voor Lanceerinstallatie Technologie (CALT) via videoverbinding op een conferentie in Rusland.
De Chinezen zijn van plan eerst robots naar Mars te sturen. Die gaan kijken wat de beste plek is om een basis te bouwen. Ook moeten ze systemen gaan neerzetten om bijvoorbeeld water te winnen en zuurstof en elektriciteit te genereren. Daarvan kunnen menselijke ruimtevaarders later dan gebruikmaken.
Nieuwe technologie
Mensen naar Mars sturen is al een enorme uitdaging, maar daar blijft het niet bij. China moet ook nog een manier bedenken om de ruimtevaarders weer op te halen en terug te brengen naar de aarde. Wang sprak de hoop uit dat nieuwe technologie het mogelijk maakt om in “enkele honderden dagen” heen en weer te vliegen.
China stuurde deze maand ook al ruimtevaarders, dat het taikonauten noemt, naar een eigen ruimtestation in een baan om de aarde. Het land wil ook een maanbasis neerzetten en onbemande missies naar asteroïden en de planeet Jupiter sturen.
NASA is continuing to diagnose a problem with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope after completing another set of tests on June 23 and 24. The payload computer halted on June 13 and the spacecraft stopped collecting science data. The telescope itself and its science instruments remain in good health and are currently in a safe configuration.
The spacecraft has two payload computers, one of which serves as a backup, that are located on the Science Instrument and Command and Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit. There are various pieces of hardware which make up both payload computers, including but not limited to:
a Central Processing Module (CPM), which processes the commands that coordinate and control the science instruments
a Standard Interface (STINT), which bridges communications between the computer's CPM and other components
a communications bus, which contains lines that pass signals and data between hardware
and one active memory module, which stores operational commands to the instruments. There are three additional modules which serve as backups.
Additional tests performed on June 23 and 24 included turning on the backup computer for the first time in space. The tests showed that numerous combinations of these hardware pieces from both the primary and backup payload computer all experienced the same error—commands to write into or read from memory were not successful.
Since it is highly unlikely that all individual hardware elements have a problem, the team is now looking at other hardware as the possible culprit, including the Command Unit/Science Data Formatter (CU/SDF), another module on the SI C&DH. The CU formats and sends commands and data to specific destinations, including the science instruments. The SDF formats the science data from the science instruments for transmission to the ground. The team is also looking at the power regulator to see if possibly the voltages being supplied to hardware are not what they should be. A power regulator ensures a steady constant voltage supply. If the voltage is out of limits, it could cause the problems observed.
Over the next week, the team will continue to assess hardware on the SI C&DH unit to identify if something else may be causing the problem. If the team determines the CU/SDF or the power regulator is the likely cause, they will recommend switching to the backup CU/SDF module and the backup power regulator.
While the release of the Pentagon report on UAPs put a damper on finding new intelligent species from other planets, archeologists are busy finding new species of humans right here on Earth. Shortly after the blockbuster find of a jaw and partial skull of a Neanderthal ancestor named Nesher Ramla Homo in Israel, researchers in China rediscovered a massive skull lost for 90 years that appears to be the cranium of a new Homo species that is the closest relative of modern humans. Does this change everything that was just changed a few days ago?
“The Harbin fossil is one of the most complete human cranial fossils in the world. This fossil preserved many morphological details that are critical for understanding the evolution of the Homo genus and the origin of Homo sapiens.”
This discovery is so big, it prompted Qiang Ji, a professor of paleontology of Hebei GEO University, to co-author threeseparatepapers about it in the journal The Innovation. In 1933 in Harbin, a city it north-east China’s Heilongjiang province, the skull was reportedly found by a construction worker working on a bridge on the Songhua river – Songhua means ‘Black Dragon’. Fearing that China’s Japanese occupiers at that time would confiscate it, the man was said to have hidden it in a family well, only telling his family about it right before he died in 2018. Fortunately, they did the right thing and contacted archeologists who recovered the well-preserved skull which, unlike Neanderthals and other ancient Homo species, was as large as modern human heads.
Where will it fit in the evolution of homo sapiens?
“While it shows typical archaic human features, the Harbin cranium presents a mosaic combination of primitive and derived characters setting itself apart from all the other previously-named Homo species.”
Ji explains in a press release that, while its hat size was the same as that of modern humans, the species had larger, almost square eye sockets, thick brow ridges, a wide mouth, and oversized teeth – enough to prompt him to call it a new species he named Homo longi or Dragon Man – ‘long’ means dragon. (Photos here.)
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image captionThe Dragon Man's skull is huge, with a brain size about the same as the average for our species
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image captionArtist's impression of what Dragon Man may have looked like. His skull suggests he was powerfully built and rugged
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image captionThe researchers claim the form of ancient human on the far left may have evolved into the relatively modern Dragon Man on the far right over millions of years
His research team dated the skull to at least 146,000 years in the Middle Pleistocene, a time of migration for other Homo species, which means H. longi and H. sapiens could have been in the area at the same time. Co-author Xijun Ni, a professor of primatology and paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hebei GEO University, thinks the relationship may have been even closer than just a chance meeting in Harbin.
“It is widely believed that the Neanderthal belongs to an extinct lineage that is the closest relative of our own species. However, our discovery suggests that the new lineage we identified that includes Homo longi is the actual sister group of H. sapiens.”
Would Dragon Man want to still be around today?
Ni thinks the divergence time between H. sapiens and the Neanderthals may have occurred over one million years ago, putting it 400,000 years earlier than scientists commonly believe. However, co-author Chris Stringer, research leader at the Natural History Museum in London, isn’t convinced just yet that Dragon Man is indeed a new species or simply a variation of another one found in Dali county in China in 1978.
“I prefer to call it Homo daliensis, but it’s not a big deal. The important thing is the third lineage of later humans that are separate from Neanderthals and separate from Homo sapiens.”
As with other ancient human species, it will be difficult to trace lineage because of all of the inbreeding that took place between them. While the discovery of Dragon Man is probably a “this changes everything” moment, it also reinforces the fact that, when it comes to humans and sex, some things never change.
It is hard to get a lock on the true beginning of the UFO craze in the United States, but there are some old standbys. The Kenneth Arnold sighting of 1947 often crops up, as of course does the supposed UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico that same year. These are the cases that launched the UFO phenomena into the mainstream consciousness And started the whole “flying saucer” fad, but there have been sightings and incidents going back well beyond these commonly held milestones. Indeed, the earlier UFO reports from America predate Arnold or Roswell by quite a good margin, and have served to carve out their own bizarre corner of the UFO landscape.
In 1628, the English Puritan settlers of the New World established the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was the second major settlement in New England following the Plymouth Colony. A very important figure at the time was a lawyer named John Winthrop, who was in charge of a huge wave of settlers coming to America, and he would serve as the governor of the colony for 12 years starting from 1629. Winthrop would also be the founder of various other communities along Massachusetts Bay and the Charles River, and was also known as an authoritarian and religiously conservative leader, known to be against pure democracy, once calling it “the meanest and worst of all forms of government.” Despite this, he was still a well-respected leader and politician who has made his mark upon the early history of the United States, with some of his writings serving to influence politicians to this day, but a lesser-known aspect of the man is that he also wrote some pretty weird stuff in his journals, including what is thought to be among the very first UFO accounts in the New World.
John Winthrop
Tucked away between the pages of various mundane accounts of colonial life is a very curious entry dated March 1, 1639, in which Winthrop writes of a very bizarre and outlandish incident involving a man named James Everell, who he describes as a “discreet, sober man.” According to Winthrop, Everell had been rowing with two other men up a section of the Muddy River, about two miles from the village of Charlestown, when they saw a “great light in the sky,” which seemed to dart about back and forth.
When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton [Charlestown], and so up and down about two or three hours ran as swift as an arrow, darting back and forth between them and the village of Charlestown, about two miles away. They were come down in their lighter about a mile, and, when it was over, they found themselves carried quite back against the tide to the place they came from. Diverse other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place.
The men claimed that after the sighting they had inexplicably found themselves transported about one mile upstream, with no idea or memory of how they had gotten there, nor any sense of the time that had passed. This is an odd detail, as it would mark this incident as not only the first report of a UFO in America, but also the first account of missing time and possibly even the first of alien abduction. One of the explanations at the time was that the men had merely seen illumination from a light phenomenon springing from swamp gas, called ignis fatuus, caused by the combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter. Others thought it was just a misidentified meteorite, and one skeptic was a man named James Savage, who added his own footnote to the sighting in a published version of Winthrop’s journal in 1839, saying:
This account of an ignis fatuus [pale light over marshy ground] may easily be believed on testimony less respectable than that which was adduced. Some operation of the devil, or other power beyond the customary agents of nature, was probably imagined by the relaters and hearers of that age, and the wonder of being carried a mile against the tide became important corroboration of the imagination. Perhaps they were wafted [carry lightly], during the two- or three-hours’ astonishment, for so moderate a distance, by the wind; but, if this suggestion be rejected, we might suppose, that the eddy, flowing always, in our rivers, contrary to the tide in the channel, rather than the meteor, carried their lighter back.
In the end, neither swamp gas nor meteorites really seem to adequately explain what the men reported as written in Winthrop’s journal, and considering that it is only mentioned in one entry and happened so long ago, we will probably never know for sure. Interestingly, this isn’t even the only weird such account to be found within Winthrop’s journal. Five years later there is another entry dated January 18, 1644, which makes mention of a light rising from the water that was witnessed by several boatmen near Boston. This light was apparently “in form like a man,” and “went at a small distance to the town, and so to the south point, and there vanished away.” A few weeks after this yet another journal entry mentions another strange report from Boston Harbor, in which Winthrop writes:
A light like the moon arose about the N.E. point in Boston, and met the former at Nottles Island, and there they closed in one, and then parted, and closed and parted diverse times, and so went over the hill in the island and vanished. Sometimes they shot out flames and sometimes sparkles. This was about eight of the clock in the evening, and was seen by many. About the same time, a voice was heard upon the water between Boston and Dorchester, calling out in a most dreadful manner, ‘Boy! Boy! Come away! Come away!’; and it suddenly shifted from one place to another a great distance, about 20 times. It was heard by diverse godly persons. About 14 days after, the same voice in the same dreadful manner was heard by others on the other side of the town towards Nottles Island.
Winthrop would muse that the voice heard was perhaps from the ghost of a sailor who had died several moths prior to the UFO sighting when his ship had exploded when gunpowder had accidentally been ignited. Whatever the case may be, it is a pretty bizarre report, and it is hard to know what might be going on here. Once again, it only appears in one entry and is never brought up again, leaving it firmly and forever in the realm of speculation. It is all quite the strange case and series of events, and we are left to try and make sense of it all. Was any of this real, and is so what was it? Or was this just a gag thrown into an important historical figure’s journal. And if so, why? It is all certainly a bizarre historical oddity, which has definite repercussions on the UFO discussion and which many are not aware even exist at all.
Mars, our nearest planetary neighbor in the Solar-System, is approximately forty million miles from the Earth and one hundred and forty two million miles from the Sun. Not particularly big in size, it is dwarfed by all of the planets except for Mercury. At the other end of the spectrum, however, Mars is home to the gigantic Olympus Mons, which is the biggest volcano in the entire Solar-System. The huge amount of iron oxide on Mars gives it a noticeable – famous, even – reddish color, hence its memorable nickname: the Red Planet. It has a blood-freezing average temperature of -81 degrees F, and its decidedly harsh atmosphere is comprised almost exclusively of carbon dioxide; aside, that is, from a small amount of water vapor. There is no denying the fact that dusty, rocky, desert-like Mars is a very interesting world: for one thing, it has polar ice-caps. And those ice-caps are comprised of water. Yes, good old water; just like ours. And, there’s no denying that mars has its mysteries. Let’s begin.
As NASA noted in 1997: “Launched November 7, 1996, Mars Global Surveyor became the first successful mission to the red planet in two decades. After a year and a half spent trimming its orbit from a looping ellipse to a circular track around the planet, the spacecraft began its prime mapping mission in March 1999. It has continued to observe the planet from a low-altitude, nearly polar orbit ever since.” Not only that, NASA added that Mars has “very repeatable weather patterns” and that a “panoply of high-resolution images from the Mars Global Surveyor has documented gullies and debris flows suggesting that occasional sources of liquid water, similar to an aquifer, were once present at or near the surface of the planet.”
That same panoply revealed something else; something amazing, if the data was not being misinterpreted. Tucked away among a wealth of less controversial images from the Mars Global Surveyor were a number of astounding images that appeared to show nothing less than vast areas of vegetation; trees, even. They looked eerily like what on Earth are termed Banyan Trees. They are, essentially, trees that grow and thrive by living on other trees. It wasn’t long before the media – and Arthur C. Clarke – caught wind of these extraordinary photographs and what they seemed to show. The debate still goes on. Some say trees. NASA says “no.”
Now, let’s address the matters of Mars’ giant-sized spiders. Yes, you did read that right. But, no, we’re not talking about something like a wild plot from a 1950s sci-fi-driven Godzilla-type movie. We’re actually talking about something far more exciting. It’s a story that dates back to 1999, which was when the Mars Global Surveyor photographed some seriously strange “things” on the surface of Mars. “Spidery” is the best way to describe them. One person, more than any other, who took up the challenge to solve the mystery is Greg Orme. Someone who has a deep passion for the mysteries of Mars, Orme began his research into Martian anomalies in 1994. Since then, he has written a book, Why We Must Go to Mars: The King’s Valley, and a paper on those mysterious spiders for the journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Orme’s voluminous collection of photos of Martian anomalies is highly impressive. Mac Tonnies was excited by Orme’s work and went on to describe the “Black Spiders,” as they became known, as resembling “nerve ganglia” or “ground-hugging trees” within “a macabre forest.” Such descriptions are undeniably appropriate. NASA has a very different view on the spiders of Mars: “…these aren’t actual spiders. Called ‘araneiform terrain,’ they are spider-like radiating mounds that form when carbon dioxide ice below the surface heats up and releases.”
It was in 1998 that the Mars Global Surveyor photographed what looks very much a monolith on the surface of Mars’ moon Phobos. The controversy surrounding the eye-opening image continues to annoy NASA and to amaze seekers of Martians and those who conclude that Mars was once a world filled with life. It should be noted, though, that Phobos’ monolith is not alone. That’s right: Phobos has a rival in the weird stakes. Say”hello” to nothing less than the monolith of Mars. That’s right: both Phobos and its parent planet appear to have on their surfaces what seem to be obelisk-shaped stones. It’s no surprise that the controversy surrounding the ““object”” seen on the Red Planet reverberated all around the world when the story reached the eager ears and eyes of the media.
On September 24, 2015, the U.K.’s Express newspaper ran an article titled “Has Stonehenge been found on Mars? Ancient ‘alien’ stone circle discovered on Red Planet.” That’s quite a headline, to say the very least. “Mr. Enigma,” who highlighted the breaking story at his YouTube channel said that what appeared to be in evidence on the surface of Mars was “a perfectly circular platform with a strange cluster of stones emerging from it.” He added: “I know the formation is not an exact match, nor am I saying it is, indeed, a Stonehenge set up. I am just saying there is something strange about this area and it looks very much like the mysterious ancient stone circle of Stonehenge.
Do you feel like you’re under surveillance? It’s not just Big Brother – astronomers have identified over 1,700 nearby stars close enough for alien civilizations to have seen Earth pass in front of the Sun at some point over the last 5,000 years. Even more disconcerting, 46 of them are in the right place to pick up our radio and TV signals, and over half have potentially habitable stars. Is Big ET watching us too?
“Among these stars are seven known exoplanet hosts, including Ross-128, which saw Earth transit the Sun in the past, and Teegarden’s Star and Trappist-1, which will start to see it in 29 and 1,642 years, respectively. We found that human-made radio waves have already swept over 75 of the closest stars on our list.”
As described in their new study published in the journal Nature, scientists at Cornell University and the American Museum of Natural History used positions and motions from the European Space Agency’s Gaia eDR3 catalog to determine which stars enter and exit the Earth Transit Zone -the region of the sky from which an ET observer could detect Earth as it moved in front of the Sun — and for how long. The map allows astronomers to look back in time as well as extrapolate which stars and exoplanets will enter the right position – in addition to looking back 5,000 years, they also looked ahead 5,000 years. Interestingly, being close to us does not necessarily make it easier to see us.
“The Trappist-1 system, at 45 light-years from Earth, hosts seven transiting Earth-size planets – four of them in the temperate, habitable zone of that star. While we have discovered the exoplanets around Trappist-1, they won’t be able to spot us until their motion takes them into the Earth Transit Zone in 1,642 years.”
The Ross 128 system is about 11 light-years away and has an Earth-size exoplanet which could have seen Earth for 2,158 years starting about 3,057 years ago. While that would give them a view, it was far too early for them to pick up our radio and television signals of the past 100 years. On the other hand, these ETs might have instruments that can detect changes in our atmosphere due to agriculture or industrialization, which they might interpret, as we do, as indicators of life.
As Enrico Fermi once asked, “So, where are they?” Good paradox, Enrico.
UFO Sighted Over London, England ( June 26, 2021 )
STATEMENT :This is the third UFO I have managed to manifest and the fourth profound UFO experience I have had (one was when I was a child). I am enjoying welcoming things from outside this matrix into our reality. I’m a big problem for the powers trying to trap your soul. I am here to free you. . When I go quiet family know that I am out tearing this matrix apart so I can reveal what I discover to you, for you. I’m doing the hard, dark, painful work to try and save you from having to do it all. . As I had a moment to myself yesterday I realised... “around this time last year I had a daytime ufo sighting” I glanced up at the sky exactly where this UFO was as if I knew to look up at it. My intuition is a superpower. . Magic is real just not the fake Hollywood magic you have been deceived to believe. Let me tear down those old programmes for you. Here. Have some truth. Have a glimpse at what is real. Have some real magic. Understand we are NOT alone. Understand space is most likely a lie. Understand I have seen the laws of physics be defied. Understand I have seen the law of thermodynamics become obsolete. Understand what you have been taught to believe reality as, it is not . Find a picture of me and look into my eyes, you will know deep inside to your core that I have no desire or intention to lie trick deceive or mislead you my family. I know you can feel me. . Trust me I am different, trust I am a rainbow bridge. A bridge between worlds, dimensions, frequencies, waveforms, energies and realities and I have every intention of exposing the powers behind our current demise, by exposing the truth of this fake reality.
Join me, please. We are running out of time..
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Watch carefully and you will notice a black cube UFO shooting across the sky. The object was seen over a city in California during sunset and its clear that this craft has no wings, tail, blades or jet engines of any kind visible. Cube don't fly! But this one does and its moving fast! This is without a doubt a UFO were are looking at here. This evidence is even better than any fake report released by the US Pentagon this month about UFOs. I'm not sure why the US pentagon even bothers to waste their time writing a report for the public...when we all know its going to zero evidence and zero backed up facts...however this video is 100% authentic and is amazing and bold proof that aliens do exist and are flying right over our neighborhoods. Yeah...I was born in Los Angeles, California...aliens are the normal ones, it's the humans in California that are really weird.
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A woman on Tiktok recorded a unknown flying object moving past the Miami building that had collapsed this week. The object was seen moving across the sky behind a neighboring building. Its a UFO. Aliens have a high interest in current events and tragic events like this. Alien technology is capable of scanning the wreckage of the building and accessing exactly how many if any people are still living under the rubble. Its said 159 are unaccounted for and four people are confirmed dead. Its a horrible disaster which breaks my heart in to a thousand pieces. UFOs are often seen around such events and they gather information for some unknown reasons.
The second part of the video is a news cast where a dark disk is hovering on the right of the building. Its easy to see but the newscaster seems oblivious of it. 100% alien in origin.
The Pentagon released the UFO report but it opens more questions.
They only looked at 144 sightings of aerial phenomena from 2004 to 2021 and they only said that they can't explain the sightings, they don't rule out. extraterrestrial activity but they offers no evidence that the sightings were aliens. In addition, the report also provides other possible explanations and questions about this phenomenon.
In short, the public UFO report is totally useless, they still cover-up the real information on the UFO phenomenon. For those who are interested to read the official report, here is the link: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf
Actually worldwide UFO and USO research already took place decades ago but these files remain secret, not only the Pentagon keep the most files secret but also the Soviet Navy and although many of the USO files of the Soviet and Russian Navy remain secret, some have become available due to the painstaking efforts of dedicated researchers.
Most of these stories have never been told outside of Russia or the former Soviet Union. One particularly case tells about a strange underwater phenomenon that attracted attention of the Soviet Navy’s high command.
This mysterious phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s and 1970s. Soviet nuclear-powered submarines encountered strange sounds emanating from moving objects at great depths..
It provides yet more evidence that we are not alone. Indeed, they suggest a permanent presence of something unusual in the depths of Earth's large bodies of water.
Longtime Bay Area E.T. Hunters Skeptical of Pending Gov’t UFO Report
Longtime Bay Area E.T. Hunters Skeptical of Pending Gov’t UFO Report
As the government is about to release a full accounting of unexplained aerial phenomena this month, scientists in the Bay Area who have looked for extraterrestrial life doubt they’ll see anything conclusive.
The alien abduction phenomenon is a truly weird corner of UFO lore. Here we have accounts of people being spirited away by otherworldly forces, to come back with myriad bizarre tales of their experiences at the hands of these entities, and it is always at the very least deeply odd. All manner of people, from all walks of life have claimed to have been taken away by aliens, yet some reports tend to carry perhaps a bit more weight than others, coming from traditionally “reliable” witnesses. One such case is that of a police officer who claims to have been taken away by aliens, and who stuck by his story even in the face of scathing ridicule.
In 1976, Herbert Schirmer was just a 23-year-old young man who had just served in the Navy in Vietnam and had just started working for the Ashland Police Department, in Nebraska, in the United States. On December 3 of that year, he had been with the force for 7 months, and on this evening, he went out on his regular patrol as usual, going out along Highway 63 for what was normally a pretty quiet beat. The rural area didn’t typically have much going on, with his patrol usually very uneventful, some might even say boring. There was no reason to think that this evening would be any different, and as he headed down that dark highway, the lane lines hypnotically flickering by, he would have had no idea of the extremely bizarre turn his life was about to take.
It was around 2:30 AM when Schirmer rounded a bend near the intersection of Highway 6 and 63, and saw before him what he at first took to be the lights of an oncoming vehicle, two blinking red lights atop what he took to be a large white truck. He soon realized that whatever it was, the vehicle wasn’t moving. Thinking it may have been someone who had broken down and was perhaps in a bit of trouble, he decided to stop his patrol car and shine his spotlight out towards what he still thought was a truck. When the spotlight hit the object, it soon was very apparent that this was no truck. The red lights seemed to be emanating from two portholes on the side of a silver, disc-shaped, metallic object that was like polished aluminum and hovering in mid air about 8 feet off of the surface of the road. Around the mysterious object he could see what looked like some sort of catwalk encircling it, and on its bottom was what looked like some sort of landing gear. As he stared in awe trying to process what he was seeing, the object then passed directly overhead and belched forth flames to shoot up into the sky at great speed, leaving Schirmer there alone in the dark, quiet night, wondering if he should call it in or not.
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Schirmer made his way back to the station, and he quickly realized that a whole hour had passed, even though it had felt like only around 10 minutes. He then soon had a red welt spring up on his neck as he was overcome with an excruciating headache, nausea, and a “weird buzzing” in his head. He made a note of his sighting in a report, and that was that, until when 3 months later that a UFO research group from a United States Air Force funded group of scientists at the University of Colorado called the Condon Commission came knocking. The organization was mostly all about looking into UFO sightings and trying to debunk, discredit, or explain them away, and they went about inviting Schirmer to come out to Boulder, Colorado for questioning, which he accepted. He would then undergo regressive hypnosis, administered by psychologist Dr. Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming, and his story would get even stranger still.
Under hypnosis, Schirmer was able to have many hidden memories from that fateful night come floating up to the surface. He claimed that his car’s engine had cut out and the radio had died, after which inscrutable humanoid beings 4 1/2 to 5 feet tall had emerged from the enigmatic ship, dressed in silver-grey uniforms and helmets with antennae on them, and with slanted “catlike” eyes, white-grey skin, long, sharp heads, flat noses and slit-like mouths. On the front of their uniforms were emblems featuring a winged serpent of some sort. Schirmer recalled having tried to draw his pistol but found that he was somehow unable to do so, as if he had been paralyzed. These creatures revealed themselves to be friendly, speaking to him telepathically and asking him if he was “the watchman of this town” and bringing him aboard their ship. Once there, he would say that they had shown him around and explained various things about themselves, such as that they drew power for their ship from power lines and had a base in the planet Venus, and they also told him that they would visit him again and that he would “see the universe.” The whole report was rather detailed, with Schirmer describing each of what he said were three levels of the ship, but the Condon Committee was unimpressed, saying:
Evaluation of psychological assessment tests, the lack of any evidence, and interviews with the patrolman, left project staff with no confidence that the trooper’s reported UFO experience was physically real.
In the aftermath of all of this, Schirmer would return to Nebraska to scathing ridicule and personal attacks on his reputation. He was relentlessly taunted, made fun of, and there was even a bullet riddled effigy of him hung up at Ashland Cemetery. He would step down from his job at the Ashland Police Department, suffer from psychological problems and depression, and it was even reported that the whole thing had caused his marriage to disintegrate, his wife unable to handle it all and leaving him. Amazingly, throughout this all he would stick by his story, eventually moving to Omaha and keeping a low profile to disappear from the public eye. Despite all the ridicule aimed at him, Schirmer has had plenty of those who have believed him, and one of these is comic artist Michael Jasorka, who created a self-published 50-page graphic novel depicting the events. Jasotka has said of the account:
I’ve always been intrigued by UFOs. Herbert’s just spoke to me. It was so vivid. The facts that he brings across in this story telling are beyond a creative mind, they’re too, they’re too detailed let’s say. You could tell from his storytelling manner and his voice that he couldn’t have conjured this up. We believe in this case, we really think it occurred with him I think popular cultural media is looking for these kinds of things because not everybody knows about them.
The case has been picked apart by UFO researchers ever since, and it is hard to know what to make of it all. It is certainly notable that Schirmer has always stuck by his story even in the face of ridicule and his own life falling apart around him, so is this perhaps indicative of him maybe telling the truth, or at least what he truly believes to be the truth? Or is this just the ramblings of someone who has lost their grip on reality? It is difficult to say for sure, and the case of Herbert Schirmer remains unsolved.
Special thanks to my friend Steve Baxter for the use of his great artwork.
Among the most fascinating kinds of phenomena in the tool kit of various organisms is the unique quality of bioluminescence. From fireflies to deep ocean fish at sea, a wide range of different manifestations of natural luminescence in nature exist, which species use for everything from attracting mates, to luring in prey.
One of the most fascinating places where bioluminescent phenomena occur is in ocean environments, where a variety of different organisms deploy luminous capabilities in unique ways. At times, significant portions of ocean water may take on a glowing appearance, due to the presence of tiny luminescent organisms which produce luciferin, a compound that produces light once it becomes oxidized.
However, there are also a few instances involving peculiar phenomena that have accompanied the presence of bioluminescent phenomena at sea. Specifically, this involves the curious echoes on ship’s radars in the presence of light produced by these organisms.
A pair of notable incidents that appear to convey this phenomenon occurred beginning in March 1977. The sailing ship m.v. Ebani had been traversing the North Atlantic on this date when it began to encounter a number of false radar echoes which reoccurred throughout the day. These radar returns appeared to the crew like groups of fishing boats approximately five miles distance, which would have seemed to be a plausible explanation if not for the fact that the returns would disappear once the Ebani attempted to close its distance on the spurious targets.
At approximately 8 PM on the date in question, the crew observed the targets on radar at a distance of approximately 5.5 miles when, rather than vanishing, they appeared to move around the perimeter of the ship at this distance, encircling the Ebani within a large, 10-mile circle. Coinciding with the movement of the targets observed on radar, the crew had been able to observe a change in the appearance of the ocean water, which began to look milky and had been accompanied by a fishy odor.
At this point, the crew directed their Aldis lamp toward a region of the ocean ahead of them, which revealed the presence of luminescent organisms in the sea. The strange circle of bioluminescent organisms remained for close to 45 minutes, during which time the curious radar echoes also continued.
The following year on June 20, another sailing vessel, the Gambada, was en route between Santos and Buenos Aires when it also began to detect unusual radar echoes. Initially, the crew in this instance believed they were detecting a storm moving toward the vessel, although it appeared to be approaching against the prevailing wind. The crew noticed that the radar echo looked unlike a typical weather formation, and soon it became evident that once the ship was passing through the region producing the radar echo, there was no rain to be seen. What was plainly evident, however, was an illuminated region of the ocean surrounding the Gambada, illuminating the seawater in the same area that appeared to coincide with the peculiar false radar return.
Although there is little mystery behind the oceanic bioluminescence itself, the occurrence of odd radar returns associated with the presence of these organisms is something that is far less often reported. Explanations for it seem to be equally elusive, and it remains a curiosity as far as the many appearances of luminous phenomena at sea are concerned.
Solar system's first interstellar visitor Oumuamua was ripped from the surface of an Earth-sized planet that 'got too close to its host star', scientists claim
Solar system's first interstellar visitor Oumuamua was ripped from the surface of an Earth-sized planet that 'got too close to its host star', scientists claim
Oumuamua was first spotted hurtling through the solar system in October 2017
Astronomers have speculated on its origins and make-up since its discovery
Chinese and American researchers believe it was ripped away from a planet
Experts expect to discovery many more interstellar objects in the coming years
It was either part of a tiny protoplanet that orbits very near to a larger star or a super-Earth sized planet that got too close to a lower mass white dwarf star
The strange cigar-shaped Oumuamua space rock discovered in 2017 was ripped from a planet and sent hurtling into space after it came too close to its star.
When it appeared it became the first visitor from another star system to be spotted from Earth, and astronomers have speculated on its origins ever since.
Experts from National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences believe it could have been ripped from a planet getting close to its star.
The team speculate that it could have been part of a super-Earth sized exoplanet orbiting very close to its star, that was then destroyed by tidal forces.
Astronomers say Oumuamua is is 'the tip of the iceberg' for alien visitors and expect to discovery many more rocks from other star systems in the next few years.
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This illustration shows the tidal disruption process that can give rise to 'Oumuamua-like objects. As a planet approaches close to its host start, forces stretch and rip it apart, sending fragments hurtling out into space
When it appeared in 2017 Oumuamua became the first visitor from another star system to be spotted from Earth, and astronomers have speculated on its origins ever since
HOW DID OUMUAMUA FORM AND LAUNCH INTO SPACE?
Researchers from China believe that Oumuamua was part of a larger body orbiting close to a star.
They created a computer simulation based on the suspected size and trajectory of the alien asteroid.
The simulation worked backwards to calculate what it would take to produce an object with the shape of Oumuamua and a similar trajectory.
The authors say it had to have broken off from a larger body that was close to its host star. It was either:
- part of a 0.6 mile (1km) wide protoplanet orbiting a mid-sized star
- part of a super-Earth sized planet orbiting a low-mass White Dwarf
The planet got too close to its star and as it approached, the tidal forces from the stars gravity caused it to stretch.
Eventually as the rock orbited the star closer and closer it was split apart and pushed away into smaller fragments.
The force of gravity from the star sent these fragments hurtling into deep space with one eventually arriving in the solar system in 2017.
Study lead author Dr Yun Zhang thinks the process they describe could mean that Oumuamua is just one of an army of interstellar projectiles hurtling through space.
Oumuamua was discovered on October 19, 2017 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope that was looking for comets and asteroids near the Earth.
It was hurtling through space at a staggering 196,000 miles per hour (313,822 km/h) and the name is Hawaiian for 'a messenger from afar arriving first'.
'The discovery of Oumuamua implies that the population of rocky interstellar objects is much larger than we previously thought,' said Zhang.
'On average, each planetary system should eject in total about a hundred trillion objects like Oumuamua.'
When astronomers first spotted Oumuamua 2017, little was known about where the perplexing rock came from and how it was formed.
This study, published in the Nature Astronomy journal, has now offered the first set of answers to those questions.
'Oumuamua is absolutely nothing like anything else in our solar system,' Zhang said.
'Its dry surface, unusually elongated shape, and puzzling motion even drove some scientists to wonder if it was an alien probe.
The team created a computer simulation of what would happen if a planet got close to a star and was stretched and ripped apart. They discovered it would form objects similar in shape to Oumuamua
This very deep combined image shows the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua at the centre of the picture (circled). It is surrounded by the trails of faint stars that are smeared as the telescopes tracked the moving asteroid
'It is really a mysterious object, but some signs, like its colours and the absence of radio emission, point to 'Oumuamua being a natural object.
'Our objective is to come up with a comprehensive scenario, based on well understood physical principles, to piece together all the tantalising clues.'
The researchers suggest that as the rock tumbled past its star, it began to spin and evaporate off most of its more volatile substances.
Additionally, they suggest the 'cigar' may have originated as a tiny 0.6 mile (1km) wide planet precursor, or a close-in rocky super-Earth, orbiting a white dwarf.
Oumuamua's rocky body was a surprise to astronomers who assumed the first interstellar visitor would be icy like a comet with a visible tail but the visitor's appearance is dry and similar to rocky bodies like an asteroid.
The researchers ran high-resolution computer simulations to model what happens when a relatively small object flies close to a massive star.
They observed that the tidal forces of the larger body were capable of tearing the smaller one apart, as happened to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet when it came close to Jupiter, the researchers explained.
These tidal processes can eject some debris into interstellar space, which researchers suspect happened to Oumuamua and also explain its shape.
'The elongated shape is more compelling when we considered the variation of material strength during the stellar encounter,' Zhang said.
'The ratio of long axis to short axis can be even larger than ten to one.'
A cigar-shaped object was the first from outside the Milky Way to visit the solar system. The Oumuamua asteroid (artist's impression) floated through our star system in November 2017
The team suggests their theory could also explain why Oumuamua moves in an unusual, non-gravitational way.
Dr Zhang said: 'If 'Oumuamua was produced and ejected in the way we suggest, plenty of residual water ice could be activated during its passage through the solar system.
'The resulting outgassing would cause accelerations that match Oumuamua's comet-like trajectory.'
The researchers also used thermal modelling to show that the cigar-like rock would have melted as it passed close to the star and reformed into a solid elongated shape as it travelled away.
Since Oumuamua-type objects may pass through habitable zones, the researchers are not ruling out the possibility that they could transport matter - called panspermia - capable of generating life.
Dr Zhang said: 'This is a very new field. These interstellar objects could provide critical clues about how planetary systems form and evolve.'
Study co-author Dr Douglas Lin, of the University of California said that Oumuamua is just the 'tip of the iceberg.'
Lin expects there will be many more similar objects found by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory currently under construction in Chile.
This illustration shows ‘Oumuamua racing toward the outskirts of our solar system. As the complex rotation of the object makes it difficult to determine the exact shape, there are many models of what it could look like.
The Rubin is a wide-field reflecting telescope that can photograph the entire available sky every few nights - making it perfect for spotting 'alien visitors'.
Dr Matthew Knight, of the Oumuamua International Space Science Institute team said this study, which he was not involved in, does a 'remarkable' job of explaining the Oumuamua's unusual properties with a 'single, coherent model.'
The United States Naval Academy astronomer added: 'As future interstellar objects are discovered in coming years, it will be very interesting to see if any exhibit Oumuamua-like properties.
'If so, it may indicate that the processes described in this study are widespread.'
In only another four years, it will pass Neptune's orbit on its way back into interstellar space.
Because ′Oumuamua is the first interstellar object ever observed in our solar system, researchers caution that it's difficult to draw general conclusions about this newly-discovered class of celestial bodies.
However, observations point to the possibility that other star systems regularly eject small comet-like objects and there should be more of them drifting among the stars.
Future ground- and space-based surveys could detect more of these interstellar vagabonds, providing a larger sample for scientists to analyse.
Our first interstellar visitor sailed past Earth at at 97,200mph in 2017, but what exactly was Oumuamua?
A cigar-shaped object named 'Oumuamua sailed past Earth at 97,200mph (156,428km/h) in October.
It was first spotted by a telescope in Hawaii on 19 October, and was observed 34 separate times in the following week.
It is named after the Hawaiian term for 'scout' or 'messenger' and passed the Earth at about 85 times the distance to the moon.
It was the first interstellar object seen in the solar system, and it baffled astronomers.
Initially, it was thought the object could be a comet.
However, it displays none of the classic behavior expected of comets, such as a dusty, water-ice particle tail.
The asteroid is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated - perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide.
That aspect ratio is greater than that of any asteroid or asteroid observed in our solar system to date.
But the asteroid's slightly red hue — specifically pale pink — and varying brightness are remarkably similar to objects in our own solar system.
Around the size of the Gherkin skyscraper in London, some astronomers were convinced it was piloted by aliens due to the vast distance the object traveled without being destroyed – and the closeness of its journey past the Earth.
Alien hunters at SETI – the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence based at Berkeley University, California said there was a possibility the rock was ‘an alien artefact’.
But scientists from Queen’s University Belfast took a good look at the object and said it appears to be an asteroid, or ‘planetesimal’ as originally thought.
Researchers believe the cigar-shaped asteroid had a 'violent past', after looking at the light bouncing off its surface.
They aren't exactly sure when the violent collision took place, but they believe the lonely asteroid's tumbling will continue for at least a billion years.
When it comes to proposing “what if” questions about UFOs and aliens, there is perhaps no bigger player on the scientific side than Harvard University astronomer Abrahma ‘Avi’ Loeb. Loeb was made famous to the general public with his proposals early on that the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua was actually some for of extraterrestrial spacecraft that could have been crewed by living or robotic pilots. He’s back in the news this week with a new “what if” about ‘Oumuamua that fits right in with the upcoming Pentagon report on UAPs and the public’s wondering if any of them will be revealed as alien crafts. Loeb, as usual, has a different angle.
“A predecessor to ‘Oumuamua could have been a craft that deposited small probes into the Earth’s atmosphere without being noticed, because it visited before Pan-STARRS started its operations. Along this imaginative line of reasoning, ‘Oumuamua could have arranged to appear as coming from the neutral local standard of rest, which serves as the local “galactic parking lot,” so that its origin would remain unknown.”
In an op-ed in Scientific American, Loeb drops the idea that ‘Oumuamua may have been a spacecraft retrieving data from a previous visitor that dropped probes to Earth – one that stopped by before we had technology like Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) telescope used to discover it. before you scoff, he justifies this theory with a proposal in the style of the Fermi paradox (If there a billions of stars in the galaxy and a high percentage that could support life, where are all the aliens?) observation about interstellar objects:
“In fact, there should be a quadrillion ‘Oumuamua-like objects within the solar system at any given time, if they are distributed on random trajectories with equal probability of moving in all directions.”
If there are that many interstellar objects, where are they? Loeb says the answer might be that “‘Oumuamua was an artificial object on a targeted mission towards the sun, aimed to collect data from the habitable region near Earth.” If that was the case, then “tumbling motion of ‘Oumuamua could potentially have been meant to scan signals from all viewing directions.” Furthermore, “‘Oumuamua could have arranged to appear as coming from the neutral local standard of rest, which serves as the local “galactic parking lot,” so that its origin would remain unknown.”
While “Galactic Parking Lot” would make a great name for a prog rock album, Loeb’s theory sounds plausible. However, he states that he’s not trying to prove ‘Oumuamua is an alien ship retrieving probes – he just wants the scientific community to devote more time, and be more openminded, to collecting and analyzing data on UAPs. To wit, he issued a second Scientific American op-ed this week addressing this.
“A fresh scientific study that offers reproducible evidence for UFO sightings and resolves their nature would demonstrate the power of science in answering a question that is clearly of great interest to the public. Finding a conclusive answer on the basis of open data will enhance the public’s confidence in evidence-based knowledge.”
Not only should we “learn something new and exciting from studying them scientifically,” we could also determine “the meaning behind its existence—the intent of those who manufactured it.” And, if even one is extraterrestrial, we’ll finally know if they’re malevolent or benevolent.
Who can argue with that? Thanks, Avi! (And thanks for the cool album name.)
Fast moving UFO was sighted over California : UFO was sighted moving at high speed on June 25, 2021
UFOs Sighted Over Miami building collapse ( June 25, 2021 )
UFOs were sighted over the Miami building collapse on June 25, 2021 : on the top right side of the screen? Just close to a disaster again
credit : gc_lachula : Copa América 2021
Unidentified Submerged Object Sighted ( June 24, 2021 )
Mysterious things in the sea.. and they are recorded.. what will they be?The eyes that watch us? Unidentified submerged object Sighted on June 24, 2021 : An unidentified submerged object is an unidentified object submerged in water. The term does not necessarily refer to an object of paranormal origin.
Video 2 : Strange world : February 28, 2020
Unidentified Submerged Object Sighted USO Bermuda
Mysterious things in the sea.. and they are recorded.. what will they be? The eyes that watch us?Unidentified submerged object Sighted : An unidentified submerged object is an unidentified object submerged in water. The term does not necessarily refer to an object of paranormal origin.
note : video has been looped 3x
UFO Sighted Over Amazon Rainforest, Brazil ( June 24, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Extraña esfera captada en la amazonia..aparentemente la mano del hombre no está tras de esto
TRANSLATE : Strange sphere captured in the Amazon.. apparently the man's hand is not behind this
credit : Belen Daniela Harris
Energy Orb Sighted in a house by Security Camera ( May, 2021 )
Awesome energy orb inside a house was captured by Security video In Oklahoma, US in May 2021
note : no audio
UFOs Sighted Over London, England ( June 24, 2021 )
Amazing display of multiple groups of UFOs that were sighted in the skies of London, England on June 24, 2021
It isnt often I disagree with Tucker Carlson. In fact this may be the first time. But IMHO the report says exactly what most government reports say.
“We don’t know what this thing you really want to know about, is exactly. So we need more money, and more authority. And then maybe we can find out.”
As for the advanced technology:
Two cats sitting on a porch. One cat says to the other, “Sometimes when my monkey sits down in the comfy chair a mysterious red dot appears on the wall. It acts like it knows Im there, and when I go to pounce on it, it vanishes at impossible speeds across the floor, the ceiling, sometimes EVEN THROUGH MY WATER DISH without slowing down a bit! It even vanishes and reappears sometimes! NOTHING can move that fast, and more amazingly, it reacts to my movements!
Long-Awaited UFO Report Opens the Door Wider to Sharing Strange Aerial Sightings
Long-Awaited UFO Report Opens the Door Wider to Sharing Strange Aerial Sightings
After months of anticipation, U.S. intelligence experts have released a report citing 18 incidents since 2004 in which unidentified flying objects — or unidentified aerial phenomena, to use the Pentagon’s term — appeared to demonstrate breakthrough technologies.
The nine-page, unclassified version of the report doesn’t describe the incidents in detail, and doesn’t attribute them to aliens. But it does say they’re not linked to existing U.S. military technologies.
The point of the report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to a congressional mandate, is to assess the potential threat posed by the anomalous aerial phenomena reported by U.S. military fliers over the years, whether you call them UFOs or UAPs.
Intelligence experts said they didn’t have enough data to get a firm fix on the nature of 143 out of 144 UAP reports that were filed between 2004 and this March. The one case they said they could resolve “with high confidence” was attributed to a large, deflating balloon.
Their conclusion was that UAP sightings should get more attention.
“UAP pose a hazard to safety of flight and could pose a broader danger if some instances represent sophisticated collection against U.S. military activities by a foreign government or demonstrate a breakthrough aerospace technology by a potential adversary,” the report said. The experts said they “currently lack data” to indicate any of the anomalous incidents actually pose such threats.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who spearheaded the push to get the report, hailed its release and agreed with its conclusions.
“For years, the men and women we trust to defend our country reported encounters with unidentified aircraft that had superior capabilities, and for years their concerns were often ignored and ridiculed,” he said in a statement. “This report is an important first step in cataloging these incidents, but it is just a first step.”
Rubio said the Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community “have a lot of work to do before we can actually understand whether these aerial threats present a serious national security concern. “
The Pentagon has been involved in UFO studies for decades, going back to the aftermath of the 1947 Roswell UFO incident.
For decades, such incidents were traditionally written off as misinterpretations of run-of-the-mill atmospheric or astronomical phenomena, or occasionally as stray sightings of aerial operations for military purposes. But UFO reports have been taken more seriously in recent years, thanks to the work of a hush-hush Pentagon task force that came to light in 2017.
Revelations about the task force, and about a series of anomalous videos captured by Navy jets, prompted Rubio and other lawmakers to seek an official report from the intelligence office.
The report said most of the reported anomalies probably do represent actual physical objects rather than mere glitches, given that 80 of the 144 anomalies cited in the report showed up on multiple sensors.
“There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors described in the reporting,” the report said. The basic types could be broken down into “airborne clutter” such as birds, drones or debris; natural atmospheric phenomena; developmental programs conducted by the U.S. government or commercial industries; foreign adversary systems; and a catch-all bin for “other” phenomena.
The report highlights 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, where observers reported unusual movement patterns or flight characteristics.
“Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion,” the report said. “In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.”
Those cases will be the subject of further analysis, the report said.
According to the report, the Pentagon task force will take steps to expand its database of unidentified aerial phenomena, including anomalies reported to civilian authorities. To deal with a bigger database, the task force plans to take advantage of data analytics, including artificial intelligence tools such as machine learning, to identify and classify UAP reports more efficiently.
The report said the task force “has indicated that additional funding for research and development could further the future study of the topics laid out in this report.”
In advance of the report’s release, U.S. government officials were cagey about discussing whether any UAP reports could be traced to alien technology. “We have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them — but we will go wherever the data takes us,” one unnamed official told NBC News.
Now that the public version of the report has been released, Michael W. Hall, director and founder of a Seattle-based UFO study group known as UFO i Team, said the outcome fell short of his expectations.
“They’re limiting their study set,” Hall said. “All of the other testimony from civilians is thrown out the window, and of course the aviators aren’t going to say much.”
He didn’t expect today’s report to attribute any of the UAPs to aliens, but he did expect it to take a “baby step” by acknowledging that alien explanations couldn’t be ruled out.
“This is not even the baby step,” Hall said. “This is just the baby lifting its head up.”
Pentagon Report On 144 Sightings Of Unidentified Flying Objects Concludes With Government Saying There Is No Earthly Explanation For Flying Objects
Pentagon Report On 144 Sightings Of Unidentified Flying Objects Concludes With Government Saying There Is No Earthly Explanation For Flying Objects
‘We currently lack data to indicate any Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary’ says long-awaited report on UFOs.
Just moments ago, the long-awaited report by the Pentagon on 144 instances of UFOs, or as they say Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, concludes that 143 of the cases looked at defied any sort of earthly explanation. They could not be connected to any military or technology program to any government of any nation on the face of the Earth. In short, the Pentagon has just admitted that UFOs existing outside of human technology do in fact exist.
“Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.” Habakkuk 1:5 (KJB)
This was their perfect moment to step up to the plate, and once and for all state that UFOs do not exist and that there is a reasonable and logical explanation for the dozens and dozens of sighting by USAF and Navy jet pilots. But they could not do that because there is no earthly explanation for what you see in those videos. In typical governmental fashion, they dodged the question at hand, refusing to answer it while at the same time refusing to put the issue to rest. This is a total win for our side, stay tuned, today’s report is only the beginning.
FROM THE US OFFICE OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) considered a range of information on UAP described in U.S. military and IC (Intelligence Community) reporting, but because the reporting lacked sufficient specificity, ultimately recognized that a unique, tailored reporting process was required to provide sufficient data for analysis of UAP events.
As a result, the UAPTF concentrated its review on reports that occurred between 2004 and 2021, the majority of which are a result of this new tailored process to better capture UAP events through formalized reporting.
Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation.
In a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics. These observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis.
There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors described in the available reporting. Our analysis of the data supports the construct that if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or U.S. industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall “other” bin.
UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security. Safety concerns primarily center on aviators contending with an increasingly cluttered air domain. UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology.
Consistent consolidation of reports from across the federal government, standardized reporting, increased collection and analysis, and a streamlined process for screening all such reports against a broad range of relevant USG data will allow for a more sophisticated analysis of UAP that is likely to deepen our understanding. Some of these steps are resource-intensive and would require additional investment. CLICK TO READ THE FULL PDF REPORT
In the past, UFO sightings have often been regarded as a hoax. However, now many people are going on record to tell of their encounters with mysterious flying objects. So is there really a real flying saucer phenomenon?
There is something strange on Google Earth map and its a black object I found in Russia. The object first appears in the road and then in other locations, but its shape and color also change. Then some people disappear along the way which makes me think of missing time and possible alien abductions. This black UFO is similar in shape, size and texture to that which was followed by the US Navy aircraft and we see in released US gov videos.
As I looked further into it, I searched around and found a similar, but different shaped and colored object near a car. It really seems like its the same object but in a new location. Its possible this may just be a blowing deflated black balloon or black bag, but how could it change its color so well and how could it just disappear as the Google car drove past it? The missing people and time leaps, make me believe this is a cloaked alien drone, invisible to the human eye, but caught by the more perfect digital eye of Google Earth map camera. Very irritating and difficult to decide on what exactly we are looking at. It could be a UFO or it could be a BFO (balloon, bag) its impossible to access with only a few images in time. But I believe it to be an alien drone due to it changing color, distance, shape and texture of the craft.
Pentagon task force's UFO report released – many cases remain unexplained
Pentagon task force's UFO report released – many cases remain unexplained
BYNICOLE SGANGA, DAVID MARTIN,OLIVIA GAZIS AND ELEANOR WATSON
After decades of dismissing U.F.O. sightings popularized in American culture, a U.S. government task force assigned to investigate what it calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs, has found no evidence that objects came from outer space or a foreign adversary.
However, while there's no evidence the objects are extraterrestrial, senior government officials who briefed reporters said Friday that nearly all of the incidents investigated remain unexplained, citing the significant limitations of available data and reporting.
"Of the 144 reports that we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there's any non-terrestrial explanation for them," a senior government official said, nixing the possibility of exotic sightings. "But again, we will go wherever the data takes us on this."
In fact, officials were able to identify just one reported UAP with a high degree of confidence. "In that case, we identified the object as a large, deflating balloon," the 9-page unclassified version of the report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) read. "The others remain unexplained."
"The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP," the report said, noting later that "no standard reporting mechanism" existed before the Navy created one in March 2019.
Most of the incidents the task force reviewed were reported in the last two years, according to the report, which is a preliminary version of an assessment.
The U.S. government officials said there is no doubt that identified UAPs were physical objects, tamping down speculation that sightings could be optical illusions caused by atmospheric conditions or sensor malfunctions.
"From a safety of flight issue, we absolutely do believe that what we are seeing are not simply sensor artifacts. These are things that physically exist," a senior government official said. "They are physical objects." But officials stressed that objects detailed in the 144 reports represent a "variety" of phenomena.
In 80 of the 144 investigated incidents, the task force detected objects using multiple sensors, leading officials to determine UAPs posed a hazard to flights. Over the years, the task force determined there have been 11 near misses.
According to the unclassified report, investigators found "[v]arious forms of sensors that register UAP generally operate correctly and capture enough real data to allow initial assessments, but some UAP may be attributable to sensor anomalies."
Congress in December asked the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), along with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and other intelligence agencies, to submit a report on what is known about UAPs; relevant committees received a classified version of the report on Friday, before the unclassified version was publicly released. Read the report here:
Officials pored over 144 incidents between 2004 and 2021, relying heavily on observations made by military aviators.
Without evidence that UAPs are operated by an adversary like China or Russia, government officials say there is no reason to believe that a foreign power has made a technological breakthrough in recent years.
"A small portion of the data set has propulsion we cannot explain," a senior government official said. "That doesn't necessarily mean that there is an adversary that is introducing a technological surprise here."
The report found that 18 objects investigated had propulsion systems that could not be explained, due in part to insufficient data and reporting. It said that the task force was conducting "further analysis" to determine if advanced technologies were present.
It also said that, if and when the incidents could be better assessed, they would likely fall into one of five explanatory categories, including airborne "clutter" like birds and plastic bags, atmospheric phenomena, domestic technologies, foreign technologies, and a catchall "other" category.
Officials stressed, as does the report, that they were limited in their analysis by the nature of the data underlying the incidents, which came chiefly in the form of verbal reports that were only occasionally supported by video or photographic evidence. The task force has since begun work on a new mechanism through which they hoped to standardize data collection on UAPs and apply scientific and engineering approaches to their explanation, they said.
"Ultimately, we have to increase the volume as well as the quality of the data we have," one official said.
Despite a dearth of data, the task force investigation did reveal "UAP sightings tended to cluster around U.S. training and testing grounds," though officials conceded the high-concentration of reported incidents could be "collection bias as a result of focused attention, greater numbers of latest-generation sensors operating in those areas, unit expectations, and guidance to report anomalies."
Lawmakers who received the report also said more work was necessary to understand any potential national security threats posed by the phenomena.
"The United States must be able to understand and mitigate threats to our pilots, whether they're from drones or weather balloons or adversary intelligence capabilities," said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Today's rather inconclusive report only marks the beginning of efforts to understand and illuminate what is causing these risks to aviation in many areas around the country and the world."
"This report is an important first step in cataloging these incidents, but it is just a first step," said Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who as Acting Chairman of the Intelligence Committee authored the language mandating the report. "The Defense Department and Intelligence Community have a lot of work to do before we can actually understand whether these aerial threats present a serious national security concern.
The officials told reporters a "majority" of the information included in the classified report was presented in the unclassified version. They said neither agency would be releasing any supplementary evidence, including photos or video, of the phenomena the report had assessed.
Limited information about the UAPs has trickled out over the last few months. The Defense Department task force confirmed in April that the scope of its work includes objects described as a "sphere," "acorn," "pyramid" and "metallic blimp" by military personnel.
In May, CBS News' "60 Minutes" spoke with naval aviators David Fravor and Alex Dietrich, who had never before talked publicly about their encounter in Southern California in 2004 that was visible on their radar and on video when they were flying in the Nimitz carrier strike group. They observed an object that looked like a Tic Tac moving over whitewater in an otherwise calm blue sea.
The two said that they saw the object, about the size of their F/A-18F, but with no markings or wings and also without exhaust plumes, mimicking the movements of their own plane.
"Oh there's, there's definitely something that … I don't know who's building it, who's got the technology, who's got the brains. But there's — there's something out there that was better than our airplane," Fravor told "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker.
The report, while brief and inconclusive, is nonetheless a notable disclosure for the U.S. military and intelligence community after years of downplaying and discrediting accounts of UFOs, as they were more commonly known, and "flying saucers."
A senior government official conceded "historical socio-cultural stigmas" attached to UFOs posed a challenge to the task force, which had sorted through evidence gathered over the years without a clear standard for collection.
"Really, that stigma creates an additional challenge to timely and standardized reporting," the official said. "We applaud the UAP task force's work in this area as a means towards improving our available datasets and our understanding over time."
The Pentagon UAP Task Force Report is a report commissioned by US Congress as part of the coronavirus-relief package passed in December 2020, which demanded that the Pentagon produce a report summarizing all that the U.S. government knows about so-called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
The status of the report is: RELEASED (Preliminary Assessment Only)
Are we alone in this universe? Are extraterrestrial beings visiting us in UFOs? NASA is investigating. Pentagon is set to release a report. How close are we to finding an answer?
Beenderen van onbekende oermens gevonden in Israël
In Israël hebben vorsers de beenderen van een tot nu toe onbekende oermens gevonden. Die leefde tot ongeveer 130.000 jaar geleden in de Levant, zo deelt de universiteit van Tel Aviv mee.
De overblijfselen van de oermens, die Nesher Ramla Homo genoemd werd door het vorsersteam, werden in de omgeving van Ramla, bij Tel Aviv, gevonden. Het nu ontdekte type stamt uit het Midden-Pleistoceen. Het vertoont gelijkenissen met resten van andere oermensen die in Israël en Eurazië gevonden werden en die ongeveer 400.000 jaar geleden leefden.
"De ontdekking van een nieuwe groep van oermensen in deze regio, die op de bevolking van de voorouders van de neanderthaler in Europa gelijkt, zet de heersende stelling op de helling dat de neanderthaler uit Europa afkomstig is", zo klinkt het in de mededeling van de universiteit. Het wijst er eerder op dat "minstens enkele voorouders van de neanderthaler uit de Levant kwamen". De wetenschappers stellen hun werk in het vakblad Science voor.
Uit de vondst van de beenderen kan worden afgeleid dat twee groepen van oermensen in de Levant meer dan 100.000 jaar lang zij aan zij leefden. Ze deelden kennis en werktuigtechnologie. De Nesher Ramla Homo leefde 400.000 jaar geleden in de regio en de homo sapiens kwam later, ongeveer 200.000 jaar geleden. Latere vondsten geven aan dat beide groepen zich ook vermengden.
Langverwacht UFO-rapport van Pentagon: “Geen verklaring voor 143 UFO-waarnemingen”
Een belangrijk rapport van de Amerikaanse overheid over UFO-waarnemingen stelt dat medewerkers van defensie en de inlichtingendiensten over onvoldoende informatie beschikken om te bepalen wat de mysterieuze vliegende voorwerpen zijn die de voorbije jaren werden waargenomen door militaire piloten. Mogelijk gaat het om geavanceerde technologieën van aardse oorsprong, atmosferische gebeurtenissen, of voorwerpen van buitenaardse afkomst, klinkt het.
Bron:Reuters
Het rapport, dat werd ingediend bij het Congres en werd vrijgegeven voor het grote publiek, omschrijf 144 observaties sinds 2004 die de overheid officieel omschrijft als “niet-geïdentificeerde luchtfenomenen”, afgekort UAP’s (unidentified aerial phenomenons, red.), de nieuwe term voor UFO’s. Het rapport werd gepubliceerd door het kabinet van de directeur van de nationale inlichtingendiensten in samenwerking met een taakgroep van de marine.
Het document beschrijft onder andere enkele UAP’s waarvan al eerder beelden werden verspreid. Het gaat om videobeelden die gemaakt werden door piloten van de Amerikaanse marine, waarop te zien is hoe vliegende toestellen voor de Amerikaanse oost- en westkust een ongekende snelheid en manoeuvreerbaarheid vertonen en bovendien geen zichtbare aandrijving of besturing hebben.
Veiligheid in gedrang
“UAP’s vormen duidelijk een probleem voor de vliegveiligheid en kunnen een uitdaging vormen voor de nationale veiligheid van de VS”, aldus het rapport, dat eraan toevoegde dat er waarschijnlijk geen eenduidige verklaring is voor het fenomeen. “In een beperkt aantal incidenten leken UAP’s naar verluidt ongewone vliegeigenschappen te vertonen. Deze waarnemingen zouden het resultaat kunnen zijn van sensorfouten, spoofing, waarnemers of een verkeerde waarneming, en vereisen een aanvullende diepgaande analyse”, klinkt het verder.
Buitenaards fenomeen?
Op de vraag of er mogelijks een buitenaardse verklaring is voor de observaties, antwoordde een hooggeplaatste regeringsmedewerker tijdens een persbriefing dat het niet aan de taakgroep is om te zoeken naar buitenaards leven. “Van de 144 meldingen waarmee we hier te maken hebben, hebben we geen duidelijke aanwijzingen dat er een buitenaardse verklaring voor is, maar we bekijken waar de data ons heen leidt”, voegde hij eraan toe.
Het rapport stelt vijf categorieën van mogelijke verklaringen voor: “airborne clutter” (vrij vertaald als zwevende rommel, red.), natuurlijke atmosferische fenomenen, ontwikkelingsprogramma’s van Amerikaanse overheden of de Amerikaanse industrie, systemen van buitenlandse mogendheden, en tenslotte de categorie ‘andere’.
Slechts één van die 144 waarnemingen kan verklaard worden door "airborne clutter”. Voor de andere 143 gevallen heeft de taakgroep onvoldoende data om uit te sluiten of het gaat om een van de andere categorieën, aldus Amerikaanse regeringsmedewerkers tijdens de persbriefing over het rapport. “Elke keer wanneer er bezorgdheid is over de vluchtveiligheid of contraspionage, nemen we dat zeer ernstig en we zullen dat blijven doen”, klonk het.
Het rapport werd besteld door het Amerikaans Congres in het kader van een nieuwe inlichtingenwet die in december werd ondertekend door voormalig president Donald Trump.
Special reports concerning: Aliens Can Live on Spaceships, Alien Underwater Bases, Base in Lake Ontario, Base in Lake Erie, FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings in the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean California Coast Sightings, Gulf of Mexico Sightings, English Crop Circle, Chinese Brain Washing, Live in the Clouds of Venus, , and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
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Aliens May Live on Spaceships
Astronaut Col. Gordon Coope
Sam Sherman the president of Independent International Pictures writes, “Where do Aliens come from? When interviewed for my still-unreleased film- “Beyond This Earth”.
Astronaut Col. Gordon Cooper spoke about one reported instance where: “Aliens were living on their ships, as they had lost their sun in their own solar system”. A possible hypothesis may be that some ET groups live on large ships or space platforms, as has been reported, not on planetary bodies, and these huge craft loop in and around our planet. Further they send out smaller scout craft for missions to Earth to obtain entertainment, food, water, and minerals. They may have traveled great distances here over decades for hundreds of years and their huge ships serve as replacement for planets. Thanks to Sam Sherman.
Deputy Head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Chris Impey, states, “Based on recent data, he estimated there could be some 100 million habitable planets in the Milky Way alone.”
Editor’s Notes: With Earth’s population growing so quickly NASA seriously considered developing a city in space. The concept and artist’s drawing are contained in Ernest Jahn’s and Margaret Sachs book “Celestial Passengers UFO’s and Space Travel.” A space colony habitat was designed by NASA Ames Research Center to carry several hundred thousand people.
The space habitat would be 16 miles long by four miles wide and have its own atmosphere and clouds. Only 2% of the materials would come from Earth, the remaining 98% would come from the moon. Not only does the moon yield an abundant supply of substances such as aluminum, concrete, soil, oxygen, and water, but lifting the materials off the moon will require twentieth of the energy needed to lift them off Earth, because the Moon has a much weaker gravitational pull. We must remember that Earth also is a spaceship. On Earth there are dangers in the form of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
If aliens were living not too far from Earth in space, they may have a short ride to visit us. The dark eyes often described by abductees may be permanent eyeglasses to protect sensitive eyes from the glare of our powerful sun or the bright light created by their propulsion systems.
Lagrangian Libration
It happens there are five places in space (L-1 thru L-5) known as Lagrangian Libration Points where a spaceship could stay with little if any energy needed. L-4 and L-5 are particularly well balanced where the gravitational and centrifugal forces of the Earth and Moon cancel each other out. Any object within one of these roughly spherical areas would remain orbiting around the Earth just as our Moon does. This is roughly a 60-degree angle in front and behind the moon essentially along its orbital path. Astronomers may wish to examine that portion of the sky to see if any small moonlets or spaceships are orbiting our Earth.
Alien Underwater Bases
Many UFOs are seen near bodies of water UFOs have approximately 75% of this planet in which to operate undetected. Adding another piece to the puzzle from dissimilar puzzle pieces supplied by ufologists throughout the years of UFO history, a picture is starting to take shape. Ufologist Carl Feindt has not only contributed his own small piece, but he has also connected many of the previous pieces to form an enlightening and highly plausible theory. Feindt’s studies concern Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) that enter and exit the dense medium of water. This aspect aroused his curiosity, because while we humans do not understand alien science, we do know our water. This book contains cases from just about every type of body of water, from puddles to oceans. It opens a long-overlooked door to discover the operating principles of UFOs by closely observing water’s reaction to these craft and finding similarities among cases involving water.
This type of case involves a UFO hovering over water. The witness describes a column of fog, mist, haze, or water reaching from the surface to the object. The terminology generally used in the description is sucking up water. This column, I believe, is caused by the rotation of a field in a vertical plane that encompasses of the UFO. This is best visualized by going back to Physics 101: Imagine a bar magnet running vertically through the center of the UFO, iron filings sprinkled on it to observe the magnetic lines of force going up from the top (North Pole), arcing to the sides and down, then back up through the bottom (South Pole. As this field rotates it causes a friction on the abutting atmosphere, causing an updraft at the bottom. This, in addition to an oft-observed horizontal rotation of one part of the UFO, causes a swirling vortex to be formed below the UFO. This can be like a person rotating a finger through still waters in a pot of water at a rapid rate eventually causing a maelstrom to occur. Could this not be the cause of waterspouts?
Waterspout: 1. a moving, whirling column of spray and mist, with masses of water in the lower parts, accumulated because of a tornado at sea or on other large bodies of water.
Sometimes referred to as USOs (Unidentified Submerged Objects) or UUOs (Unidentified Underwater Objects), sightings of strange lights and crafts emerging from, or descending into, the seas, oceans, and lakes around the world are quite widespread. Some UFO researchers and investigators even claim that there are underwater alien bases present in the vicinity of these aquatic sightings.
Base in Lake Erie
Bottom of Lake Erie
One of the five great lakes of North America is Lake Erie, has a long history of strange lights and unexplained phenomena. Some 1700 ships lie at the bottom of Lake Eire and 277 have never been found. The ship the G. P. Grifith sunk costing the lives of 287 souls. During 1812 the war against Britain, Perry supervised the building of a fleet at Erie, Pennsylvania. He earned the title “Hero of Lake Erie ” for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie. His ships flew a flag stating “Don’t Give Up the Ship.” However, the area around Niagara Falls and Cleveland, Ohio, has experienced an increase in UFO sightings over the years.
The 2011 book Eerie Erie: Tales of the Unexplained from Northwest Pennsylvania by Robin Swope examines and investigates numerous MUFON reports. Many of these reports speak of UFOs seen “crashing” into the water of Lake Erie. Many reports also come from Canada. One report from 1988 alleged a strange craft landed on the lake when was iced over. The landing was witnessed by Sheila and Henry Baker, who made a report to the local Coast Guard. As the mysterious craft landed, there were strange sounds heard coming from the ice as well as a series of blue and red lights from the craft itself. There also appeared to be several strange triangular objects jettisoned from the descending object. These triangles seemed to move purposely around in all directions along the icy surface of the lake. Suddenly, the sounds on the ice stopped, and the craft and the mysterious triangles vanished, suggesting that they had indeed found their way below the ice and under the water.
According to a report in 2007 that ran on News Channel 5 in Cleveland, the area had seen no less than 20 UFO sightings in only two years. There are a great many videos on YouTube that claim to show some of these UFOs over Cleveland. Local UFO researcher Richard Lee stated that the UFOs seem to take particular interest in any new building projects undertaken in the area. Once a new project begins, according to Lee, there is usually a UFO sighting in the immediate vicinity not long after. Are they coming from their alleged base in Lake Erie?
Base in Lake Ontario
New York UFO Crash Near Niagara Falls?
Craft Flies Out of Lake Ontario
BUFFALO—In 1the summer of 2001 I was asked to brief the Air National Guard unit at Niagara Falls Air Base, New York who claimed a crash had occurred in the past and rumors were that the military firemen and police responded. Bob Eure a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia revealed the following story regarding UFOs that are frequently sighted above Lake Ontario. On or about April 15, 1992, a large disc shaped craft was observed coming out of the lake around 7:00 AM and flying erratically south towards Lockport, NY. The object appeared to wobble and moved lower appearing to be in trouble. Observers claim it appeared to search for a landing spot and continued to lose altitude and crashed on Campbell Boulevard (Route 270) four miles west of Lockport and ten miles north of Buffalo.
UFO Crashes on Highway
The crash was like that seen in the movie “MIB”. When the UFO crashed it managed to avoid hitting the cars traveling the road. However, the many drivers of the cars stopped to examine the UFO and most waited until the military arrived. The UFO was 100 feet in diameter and 25 feet high. Military, fire, and police quickly arrived and cleaned up the crash site and cautioned those there not to talk about the incident. The craft was taken to a large factory nearby. Somehow the authorities were able to keep the crash quiet despite a fairly large number of witnesses. Interestingly the UFO would have gone down in direct sight of Tim McVeigh father’s home. I wonder if the crash had something to do with Timothy McVeigh being convicted of terrorism and executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001,
Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001, at 8:45 AM, the United States suffered a terrorist attack when an American Airlines Boeing 767 filled with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. The Air National Guard cancelled my briefing due to the alert.
In December 2013, MUFON published a report from a Hamilton resident who claimed to have seen several strange, glowing orbs hanging over Lake Ontario. He also claimed to have seen these orbs on the lake several times prior, and what’s more, he believes that there is an alien base under the water. He is far from the first person to have made such an assertion.
In August 1981, five witnesses who were driving alongside Lake Ontario early one evening saw a dome-shaped craft flying over the water. They followed the craft for some time before seeing it begin to descend and enter the water, disappearing from their sight. Perhaps the stories of an underwater alien base, stem from the 1977 book The Great Lakes Triangle by Jay Gourley, who made note that many planes and people had disappeared over Lake Ontario, not to mention the many UFO sightings of the area.
Another book, Underground Alien Bases, released in 2012 and written by the somewhat strange “Commander X,” has also perpetuated the legend of the alien base under the lake. It features within its pages several accounts of sightings on and around the lake and the assertion that an alien fortress of one kind or another lies under the water. However, none of the accounts can be verified by a secondary source and so are left open to debate as to how reliable they are. Hundreds of ships have been sunk in Lake Ontario usually in bad weather, but it is not known if UFOs played a role.
Canada UFOs Over Power Plant
Pickering,Ontario — I observed over the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station that was remarkably like one reported over the station by other people, so it made me realize that I wasn’t the only one who thought that this object was a bit odd. I presently work at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station near Toronto, and I witnessed the object described over the station by others on the FILER’S FILES # 26 – 2007 report. something strange near the Pickering Power Plant over Lake Ontario,
I usually arrive at around 6 AM and have breakfast in the cafeteria before going to work. My first sighting of the object happened on the morning of June 25, 2007. I was leaving the security building to enter the administration building when I glanced up to see an object that seemed rectangular in shape. The object was fixed in a horizontal position hanging over the back of the turbine auxiliary bay on the A side of the building.
What caught my attention was that it was something I had never noticed from that location before and because it was so perfectly stationary, I stopped walking to take a better look. At first, I was thinking that it may have been part of the superstructure on the top of the building as it was so immobile. After thinking about it for a few moments, I concluded that it must be part of the building and it was connected by a guide wire or something. I dismissed the original sighting as being irrelevant and went inside and quickly forgot about it.
Around 9 AM, I had to go to the Screen House building located toward Lake Ontario. After walking from the Screen House going west, I looked up and saw the same object again and this time it was a bit higher and slightly west of the vacuum building structure. The top of the vacuum building is about 200 feet, and this was about 200 to 300 feet above it. I watched it for about five minutes, and it did not move. It was stationary and that is the reason I stood there watching it. In my mind no objects in flight are so stationary and that is the reason it caught my attention. After watching it for a bit I saw a friend of mine and I pointed it out to him. His analysis was that it may be a kite being flown from Frenchman’s Bay to the west of the plant. I was somewhat inclined to agree with him and went back into the plant to continue my work.
Later, in the morning I walked out to the back of the plant, and it was gone. I searched the sky and to my amazement I saw it again. It had changed locations. This time it was situated over the cooling water inflow behind the vacuum building structure at about even with its height (around 200 feet). I watched it for a couple of minutes.
Later, in the afternoon around 2 PM, I walked back out again to see it in the same place behind the vacuum building structure. It had not moved. I again wrote it off as explainable since it reminded me of a surveillance drone observing plant activities. In retrospect I should have informed security. The object was dark and rectangular and may have been the size of a 45-gallon drum. It was positioned horizontally not vertically. I don’t make any claims that this was not a man-made object, but its behavior was quite peculiar. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research http://www.hbccufo.org
Editor’s Note: Pickering, Ontario’ UFOs have been seen regularly in the area for many years. UFOs were seen on June 10, June 14, near the power plant and over Lake Ontario on June 20, at 11:30 PM, and June 25. 200
Atlantic Ocean Base
FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings
The Bermuda Triangle enlarged in red and areas off the East Coast of the US have long been known for frequent sightings of UFOs and the strange disappearance of aircraft and ships. The Federal Aviation Administration has seen a dramatic increase in UFO/UAP incidents, recording approximately 10,000 reports in the last five years. The War Zone has identified a substantial number of military encounters with unidentified aircraft among those reports, often in sensitive airspace. When I flew out of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia in 1967, we used to see them periodically. Navy divers told us they saw them under water moving at high speed around the coast. This was before drones existed. THE Bermuda Triangle mystery has seen at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships go missing at the location without explanation. The Bermuda Triangle is infamous for making everything from cargo ships to airplanes disappear. The mysterious body of water is clouded with rumors of suspicions — if not supernatural — activity. Over the past century, the Bermuda Triangle has been “swallowing” vessels and is blamed for the loss of hundreds of lives.
Scientist Shane Sutter said that he knows the reason why ships and planes regularly disappear in the Bermuda Triangle without a trace. To date, it is generally accepted that about 1000 people have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, and experts still cannot explain the reasons for what is happening. When flying to Bermuda from Langley AFB it was not unusual to become well of course due to unknown forces, such changes is variation, compass anomalies.
FAA reports, while some of the incidents represent typical hazards associated with commercial drones, others are indicative of advanced capabilities, including the ability to fly at relatively high altitudes and to potentially operate in coordinated groups. More so, it is not just what’s happening, it is where it is happening that is so intriguing.
Possible Underwater Base
The incidents appear to have predominantly impacted the U.S. Navy and Air Force, with a pronounced geographic nexus off the coast of the southeastern United States, as well as another in the southwestern United States. Many of the incidents we identified occurred far out over the ocean in military training ranges that have become known for ongoing sightings of unusual aircraft. Notably, there were far fewer similar incidents reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in other areas that also host a great deal of military activity, such as off the West Coast or around Florida. It is unclear if this is because fewer incidents happen in those locations or if it is because reporting practices are inconsistent, or a mixture of both. Thanks to Bill LaParl
I knew the senior physicist at Lockheed who also informed me that there was much underwater activity by the Star Visitors. He told an amazing story of witnessing a huge craft that came down and flew slowly over the Lockheed facility in Puerto Rico – he was there and saw this stunning event. He said the craft was so large that he cast a shadow over the entire valley that the Lockheed facility was nestled in.
I wanted to share this about Dr. Debus from Aerospace Engineer Clark McClelland: “Several years before the Atlas incident in September of ’64, a Juno II rocket had been launched by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Cape Canaveral, Florida. German Scientist, Dr. Wernher von Braun was assigned to this agency in Huntsville, Alabama
von Braum and Dr. Debus
The “buzz” around the Cape was that the Juno II, which was having tests run on the ablative shield applied to its nosecone, was accompanied by “visitors” which followed it into the earth’s atmosphere upon reentry. The nosecone left quite a streak, resembling a fireball as it reentered atmosphere. Remarkably, the UFOs seemed to behave as if atmospheric friction was not an issue. I was working on a launch tower steel modification assignment when Dr. von Braun and other former German Scientists were doing an on-site inspection near Launch Pad 5. I had an opportunity to introduce myself to him, Dr. Kurt DeBus, Director of the ABMA Launch Team at the Cape, and Dr. Grune, his deputy. As Dr. DeBus walked ahead of von Braun and me, I asked him, “Dr. von Braun, is it true that a Juno II we launched from here had other unknown craft accompany it back into the earth’s atmosphere?”
He looked at me with a bit of surprise, and said, “Young man, yes we had such an encounter with a power that appears advanced beyond ours here. Stronger than we have assumed and unknown to us where their base is located. I cannot say much more other than we are entering into a closer contact with these unknown powers and perhaps within a short time, a few months or so of time, we will be capable of saying more.” I must have had my lower jaw hit the ground when I heard these statements. I shook his hand and returned to my assignments.
Later, I would learn that he made a similar statement while visiting his homeland of Germany. I personally withheld this astounding disclosure for many years due to my utmost respect for this pioneer of space travel.”
Pacific Ocean California Coast
Numerous UFOs Seen in this Area
Approximately six miles off the coast of Malibu, California, an unusual-looking structure sits on the sea-bed floor at the following Google Earth coordinates: 34° 1’23.31″N 118° 59’45.64″W Speculation about the true identity of this object runs from a natural geological fault line formation to an underwater alien UFO base. California has been a UFO hot spot for years, so when it was theorized that a structure discovered 600 meters (2,000 ft) below the water 10 kilometers (6 mi) off the coast of Malibu was in fact an alien base, it didn’t come as that much of a surprise. The structure has a distinct oval shape and what appears to be flat top. It measures approximately 5 kilometers (3 mi) wide, and there also seem to be pillars holding up the main “roof” of the mysterious anomaly. These pillars look to be spaced evenly apart, almost as if it were an entrance of sorts for underwater craft such as UFOs/USOs.
Possible Underwater Base near Malibu
The U.S. Navy has captured underwater sonar and radar of Craft for years. The alleged alien base was first brought into the public arena when Jimmy Church, who hosts the radio show Fade to Black, acted upon information given to him by a listener, who went by the name of “Maxwell.” Maxwell gave coordinates from Google Earth that showed something he believed may be an artificial structure. Church, with his design team, obtained as many different angles of the structure as they could. Church stated that after investigating all these angles, he very much believes this structure is indeed artificial, even going as far as to say it could be the “holy grail” for ufologists.
Of course, not everyone subscribes to this theory. Earthquake geologist David Schwartz, for example, states that the alien base is most likely nothing more than part of the continental shelf, further stating that he didn’t see “anything special” in the pictures. Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent and an expert in pictures and video, also warned that people should be cautious how they interpret Google Earth images, stating they are pieced together from different sources and can often be misleading. The Navy encounters were mostly south of this area and actual base may be off the coast of Lower California.
Large Tic Tac UAP /UFO Tracked by Sonar
Bill Tomkins had informed us that not only did the Star Visitors have underwater bases around the planet – that there were also no go zones on Navy maps wherein no surface, air or undersea craft could go into those no-go zones!
He also told us that was a regular undersea highway of Star Craft between the coast of California and Catalina Island that had constant activity!
Gulf of Mexico Sightings
Possible Crash and Base
UFOs/USOs are often seen in the Gulf off the Southern States. Gulf Breeze near Pensacola has had sightings for many years. People living along the coast report they can see the craft emerging from the water several miles at sea. Fisherman report that exceptionally large turtles are frequently seen moving along at the speed of the fishing boats. Additionally, they are almost like robots in appearance.
The military was testing experimental Rail guns near Eglin Air Force Base and shooting at targets in the Gulf. Lt Col Don Ware was notified by several abductees that they had been told the shooting in the Gulf must stop or the aliens would stop it. Ware visited the top General on the base and told him then news and the Testing in that direction was stopped.
On 9 May 88 Bob Oechsler wrote to President Reagan requesting he do something about air-space violations by aliens and human-rights violations of abductees in the Gulf Breeze area. Evidence that this letter was taken seriously was given when Oechsler received a reply from a Rear Admiral representing Navy Operations Warfare.
Pensacola Naval Air Station
On 21 August 1988, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commanders of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines etc. met at Pensacola Naval Air Station for the first time ever and visited a hangar nest to the bay that had been temporarily air conditioned at considerable effort and placed under heavy security. My daughter was good friends with the daughter of the local Trader Jon’s Bar hangout for the Navy personnel. They were told a UFO crashed in Santa Rosa Sound and was brought to the hangar where the JCS could see it firsthand. I attempted to enter the Naval Station and was denied entry while the JCS was there. My daughter’s boyfriend had a fast boat, so we tried to enter the hangar from the Bay but were stopped by a Naval Patrol boat with machine guns drawn.
I suspect that vehicle was in that hangar, the closest place to hide it undetected. Lt. Colonel Don Ware intervened an abductee who claimed to be taken aboard a UFO that was hit by some kind of weapon and crashed into the Santa Rosa Sound and she was able to get out and swim ashore. I suspect the vehicle was brought down because it did not stay away from Gulf Breeze at an overly sensitive time when TV camera crews were visiting Gulf Breeze looking for UFOS. If Unsolved Mysteries had gotten good video of UFOs comparable to the photos Ed Walters had taken, I think our government would have had difficulty managing public reaction.
English Crop Circle
Stanton St Bernard, Near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Reported 10th May. 2021
(LifeSiteNews) — In the classic movie The Manchurian Candidate, an American prisoner of war is brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party into becoming an unwitting assassin of an anti-communist presidential candidate. Leave it to Hollywood to sensationalize everything.
General Spalding wrote “Stealth War” the Secret War on the U.S.
While the Chinese Communist Party is a master at brainwashing, and is certainly not averse to assassinations, it has long followed a simpler script where American politicians are concerned. The preferred ploy is for Party operatives to offer a politico’s immediate family members sweetheart business deals. The expectation is that the families will then toe Beijing’s line — or else. The Chinese President told Vice President Biden we will take over the United States in 2035.
General Spalding who wrote One thing is clear: we need more investigative reporting into PR & lobbying world, law firms as well as academics & journalists who have accepted payments from Beijing or Chinese companies for lobbying/PR type of work. And we need to clearly differentiate this from espionage. We should take a closer look at those paid by Beijing in our political, lobbying, academic & media elites to do the party state’s bidding. I don’t agree with every detail and assessment of this. The Communist Party Chinese media informs the people they are at war with the United States ,and everyone must do their part to win. It apparently includes Bio-warfare, weather warfare, trade warfare, stealing technology, and overwhelming hacking. Apparently Chinese food is not tested for COVID-19 that may explain why peopled in locked up states have much higher number of deaths than open states.
European Food Safety Authority has already said,in March 18, 2020 .there is no proof so far that COVID-19 spreads through food
Possible Life of Venus
Venus, our planetary neighbor, is a hot, unforgiving world. Its toxic atmosphere and sweltering surface make it a challenging place to study, and it’s been over three decades since NASA visited Earth’s twin until now!
We’re sending two bold new planetary science missions to study this inferno-like world: DAVINCI+ and VERITAS. Part of our Discovery Program, these missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics like ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate.
On a special edition of NASA Science Live, leaders from the newly announced Venus missions discussed this intriguing world, and answered #AskNASA questions. Watch the episode on-demand here.
Note:Some astronomers believe life may be possible at the poles and underground. The heavy cloud cover may dissipate some of the heat from the sun.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft. During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer. From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters, Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public. Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra. https://amzn.to/2SK3SIQ
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, and England in the United Kingdom.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
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Arizona Light
Glendale – on June 7, 2021, after photographing a saucer UFOs ever since the middle of January 2021, I photographed this crazy spectacle in the skies of Phoenix Arizona today, June 7th, 2021. My conspiracy theory is that it’s either a crash in midair or in space, of something big, or there are UFO’s coming out of this explosion, which is all I can say to describe it, or a crack in the sky.
Glendale – on June 14, 2021, strange object that reminded me of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars darting around while moving North. This is nothing like other, recent UFO sightings I have witnessed. There is an “appendage” sticking out from the craft that has a wild, jumpy, jagged path as it was moving North
California Objects
San Diego – on June 14, 2021, there were 5 black objects flying together just after sunset. Directly office shore in Pacific beach. A crowd of people were standing around watching a man blow giant bubbles. I saw the objects. My friend and I photographed them then they disintegrated
Colorado Lights
Denver— on June 3, 2021, Star Cruiser #485 A high quality digital still photograph shot in Jpeg and Raw file. at 8:35 p.m. MST. 06/03/21
Florida Lights
Boynton Beach –on June 12, 2021, witnessed multiple sightings unexplainable by light fragmentation. Sudden appearance followed by disappearance all out west towards the Everglades. Utilizing abnormal cloud, rain, and lightening coverage. I have a very steady hand as noted in stability from bottom of clips and the rigid sudden movements is that of the ships.
Illinois Lights
Chicago – August 15, 2015, my husband and I were at the lakefront in Chicago on a Wednesday night in the air and water show was to happen that weekend so there were jets and the like practicing during the daytime. we were crossing the street to go to Buckingham fountains when we saw this object in the sky over the water. It was ridiculously hard to distinguished what it was, and we had no visible sound coming from it. no one else in the area seem to think it was anything or even notice it. The more times I’ve shown the video to people no one can tell me what it is.
Massachusetts Light
Sandwich – on June 13, 2021, it was a beautiful afternoon, so my wife and I sat on our back deck and enjoyed the clear sky. I commented that there were no planes at all flying around. Then I noticed an object that was reflecting the sun. It wasn’t moving very much, just sort of hovering almost directly above us, perhaps 5-10 degrees lower. It had no flight path and moved from left to right. It would be visible one moment, then it would seem to disappear. I had just purchased a new zoom camera and I had it with me, so I started filming. I just continued to film until I could see the bright object. I managed to zoom in on it and get a few seconds of clear video. When I put the memory card into my iMac, I was able to see the object much more clearly. It appears to be donut shaped with a hole in the center and with a bright glint of light on top. It almost looked like an engagement ring. I am attaching three videos. The one titled: “First Video” is the first clip I shot. It is unedited.
New Jersey Light’
Bellmawr– on June-20. 2021, the object in the sky seemed to be rotating spinning very quickly. The lights surrounding it would go from white to red to green and back to white. When observed thru high powered binoculars it seemed to move like a worm, then do something like cursive writing across the sky. Its movements were fast and seemingly sporadic. Could not follow any type of pattern as its movements were varied and too quick to follow visually.
Texas Object
Houston– on Sunday evening, June 13th, 2021, 6:30 pm, I was in the backyard admiring the sky and took a picture of the beautiful rays coming from the sun. I looked at the picture the next day and noticed an odd shape and zoomed in and saw what looks like a UFO. I don’t recall hearing a sound and didn’t notice anything in the sky.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Christie Downs– on June 4, 2021, I don’t know what’s happening in the sky above Adelaide now. but once again I witnessed something strange in the sky. this time I saw three-disc shaped objects travelling west to east at speed. I was lucky enough to get a photo of the objects before they disappeared.
Canada Lights
Taylor Lake, British Columbia – on February 28, 2021, my sighting was in Taylor Lake at 6:00 PM. What I saw is exactly what my picture shows. I am looking forward to hearing back from you.
Note: The witness captured Lenticular clouds on her photo. These clouds are frequently mistaken for UFO’s. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
UK/England lights
Kiley— on June 8, 2021, was outside with my friend when he said can you see them lights over there by Pemberley Range. I turned to look and there was a bright white orb keeping in the sky. After about three minutes another white orb smaller than the other seemed to come out of the other orb. This orb then slowly started to move forward then descended below the tree line. After about a minute it then reappeared over the tree line. The smaller orb then flew towards the bigger orb slowly and seemed to go back into the first one. The first orb then started to move in a straight line heading toward Lanelle/Swansea. After it seemed to head over Burry Port it vanished all together. There was no sound, no smoke trail or trails. It stayed bright while it moved. I know that this was not an aircraft as the firing range was closed and there were no aircraft nearby at all.
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Astronomers have spotted the largest comet ever recorded coming from the Oort Cloud. And at 20 times the distance between Earth and the Sun (20 astronomical units), beyond Uranus’s orbit, it’s already venting gas.
All long-period comets are thought to come from the Oort Cloud surrounding the solar system. But 2014 UN271 is unique in having a particularly elongated orbit and distant turnaround point within that cloud. (This diagram is conceptual and not representative of this object's orbit.) NAOJ
New observations, taken on June 22nd with the 0.51-meter SkyGems Remote Telescope in Namibia, reveal “clear cometary activity, with a 15-arcsecond coma,” Luca Buzzi reported this morning on the Minor Planet Mailing List.
A BIG COMET
Astronomers discovered the comet, dubbed 2014 UN271, in data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, which recently released data on hundreds of millions of galaxies spread over one-eighth of the sky. Survey computers spent millions of hours automatically searching the entire data set for transient objects moving across the sky. And from 2014 to 2018 one of them was the comet, yielding the orbit reported June 19th in a Minor Planet Electronic Circular.
The orbit immediately drew attention because it showed the comet coming from deep in the Oort Cloud, a group of planetesimals surrounding the Sun at icy distances of about 1,000 to 100,000 a.u. The comet will continue inward almost to the orbit of Saturn before heading back out again. The new observations put it at about magnitude 20, which enables a rough estimate of its diameter of 160 kilometers (100 miles). That puts it at the large end of objects seen from the Oort Cloud, seen as long-period comets by the time they’re visible from Earth. But it’s a lightweight relative to the rest of the solar system, so it could be tossed around by a close encounter with a planet.
That size isn't enough to make it a dwarf planet, but it is the biggest object from the Oort Cloud that we’ve seen so far. It’s ahead of the modern record-holder, Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1), which was only about 60 kilometers across. The Comet of 1729 (C/1729 P1), may have spanned on the order of 100 km; however, it never came much inside Jupiter's orbit, so observers at the time were limited in what they could see.
THE ORBIT
The Oort Cloud comet 2014 UN271 is shown in white in this solar system diagram. The orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are marked in orange, yellow, green, and blue, respectively. NASA
“The orbit we've got [for 2014 UN271] is actually quite good,” says Bill Gray of Project Pluto. It's based on 37 observations taken over four years with a 4-meter telescope and the Dark Energy Survey’s DECam high-performance camera. From that data, calculations predict that the comet will reach perihelion on January 23, 2031, at 10.95 a.u., just outside the most distant point of Saturn's orbit. Tony Dunn's Orbit Simulator site shows it approaching at an inclination of 95°.
Aphelion, or the farthest point from the Sun, is much more uncertain because the orbit is extremely elongated and the swing around Saturn will alter its orbit, but Gray says the comet will clearly turn around in the Oort Cloud, and it’s definitely not an interstellar object. When the MPEC orbit was updated with Buzzi’s new observations, the comet's most recent aphelion was calculated to be 40,000 a.u. and the prediction for the next one became 55,000 a.u. That means the comet took 1.39 million years to reach its present position from the last aphelion, and will take about 2.2 million years going back to the outer edge of its modified orbit, says amateur astronomer Sam Deen.
The Oort Cloud in context. Though it has never been observed directly, long-period comets offer evidence that trillions of small, icy bodies exist at the very outer reaches of the solar system. ESA
Gray sees little likelihood of pre-discovery observations because the comet was a little fainter than magnitude 22 when first spotted, and earlier it would have been even fainter. On the other hand, he says, it’s possible the comet will show up in observations taken since 2018.
New, targeted observations will help constrain the comet’s orbit as well as other key characteristics, including its rotation period, satellites, and composition. The behavior of comets is notoriously difficult to predict, but this one is getting off to a very early start, and many more telescopes will be turned toward it in the coming months and years.
A Newly-Discovered (Almost) Dwarf Planet Will Come Surprisingly Close in 2031
A Newly-Discovered (Almost) Dwarf Planet Will Come Surprisingly Close in 2031
It’s good to remember how little we know about the outer solar system. Humans only really began observing it within the past 100 years, and given the constraints on that observations there are still plenty of things we don’t know about. For example, researchers recently found an object almost the size of a dwarf planet that is inbound to the inner solar system, with an estimated orbital period of over 2 million years, more than six the lifetime of the modern human species.
The object, known as 2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), was originally observed in 2014 but first noted on June 19th, 2021 by Pedro Bernardelli and Gary Bernstein, and now has its own Wikipedia page. The data on the object was collected by the Dark Energy Survey over the course of 4 years, but now new observing platforms are being brought to bear on this novel object.
UT video discussing the Oort cloud.
With those additional observational platforms come additional insights. Right now, 2014 UN271 is expected to reach its perihelion just outside the orbit of Saturn before returning to the depths of the Oort cloud for another spin around the sun. Its size is estimated to be between 100 and 370 km wide, making it possibly the biggest Oort cloud object ever observed.
Having already passed Neptune’s orbit, 2014 UN271 is well on its journey into the inner solar system. As it draws closer to the sun, astronomers expect it to get the coma and tail characteristic of comets, as its surface starts to evaporate in the heat. Unfortunately, it likely won’t be bright enough to present a spectacular display like other well known comets.
2014 UN271 could also be considered a Kuiper belt object, which is discussed in this UT video.
But it will be closely observed now that its presence is more widely known. There is already talk of potentially sending a mission to rendezvous with it when it reaches its perihelion point in 2031. Whatever resources are eventually brought to bear on it, its mere existence will serve as an important reminder of how little we know about what’s out there.
Could Life Exist in the Atmosphere of a sub-Neptune Planet?
Could Life Exist in the Atmosphere of a sub-Neptune Planet?
Earth is perfectly suited for organic life. It stands to reason then that similar worlds orbiting distant stars might also be rich with life. But proving it will be a challenge. One of the better ways to discover extraterrestrial life will be to study the atmospheres of inhabited exoplanets, but Earth is fairly small for a planet and has a thin atmosphere compared to larger worlds. It will be much easier to study the atmospheres of gas planets, but could such worlds harbor life? A new paper in Universe argues it could.
Exobiologists have long argued that we shouldn’t assume all life in the universe will be on planets similar to Earth. The subsurface oceans of Enceladus and Ganymede could support terrestrial life and Titan has a rich methane chemistry that might support exotic life. But most ideas about life require three main ingredients: energy, water, and a surface.
The first two are pretty obvious. Life needs some kind of energy source to survive, whether it be solar or geothermal, and water is the perfect solution to allow complex molecules to interact. But the requirement of a surface is more subtle. It isn’t needed for life to survive, since lots of organisms can spend their entire life in water or air. Instead, it seems to be necessary for life to arise. Surface chemistry is incredibly good at creating large organic molecules, even in space. It likely takes a rocky surface to create the building blocks of life.
Artist impression of the Galileo probe descending into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA/Ken Hodges
This new paper argues that while surface chemistry might be needed for life to arise in a planetary system, it isn’t needed for life to thrive. The work focuses on warm sub-Neptune worlds. These planets are about 8 – 10 times more massive than Earth and are likely small gas planets with a thick atmosphere but no terrestrial surface. Several of these worlds have been found in the potentially habitable zone of their star, such as K2-18b, which closely orbits a red dwarf star.
The team shows that warm sub-Neptunes such as K2-18b likely have plenty of water and organic molecules needed to create a habitable zone within their atmosphere. And being smaller gas worlds, it is likely that the habitable layer is fairly stable, allowing for any life to remain aloft long enough to reproduce before sinking to the hostile depths below. Similar arguments have been made for the potentially habitable layer of Venus’s atmosphere. But unlike Venus, K2-18b isn’t likely to have a surface. So even though life might survive on a sub-Neptune world, how would it get there?
Asteroids might seed sub-Neptunes with life. Credit: ESO
Here the team argues that asteroids might come to the rescue. If an exoplanetary system has an unstable asteroid belt, meteorite impacts with the sub-Neptune planet and smaller terrestrial worlds would both be common. This cross-pollination could bring life to a gassy world.
Because sub-Neptunes are fairly common and have thick atmospheres, they will be among the first planets we study for signs of life. While the odds of finding life on these worlds might be a bit long, it’s worth taking a look just because we can.
UFOs Sighted Over Campo Grande, Brazil ( June 23, 2021 )
Impressive UFO activity over the center of Campo Grande, MS. The unusual movement of unidentified lights caught attention during the early morning of this Wednesday, 23/06/2021. The report from Midiamax requested Fab, (Brazilian Air Force) if there was any military training in the region, but it did not give any information... (as it was expected)
credit : Rafael de Barros Siqueira.
More evident every day
UFOs Sighted Over China ( June 23, 2021 )
Impressive sighting of UFOs that appeared over the China sky on June 23, 2021 : video was taken by R.C.L
credit : R.C.L.
UFO Sighted Over Los Angeles, California ( May 24, 2021 )
Transparent UFO Filmed in Los Angeles | UFO FIELD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
STATEMENT :
This UFO was filmed in Los Angeles on a balcony near the 10 freeway, about 1 mile east of the 405 freeway. The UAP in the video was filmed at 8:12 pm. Not sure what this distance was, but it was so far that I couldn't see it with my naked eye. Found it by panning my Nikon P1000 camera across the sky to see if anything would come into view, was also meditating on letting my hand be guided to finding something that I felt was up there. It mostly moved north while occasionally shifting east. I was trying to stay on it in the sky until I accidentally zoomed out and lost it while trying to grab photos of the Unidentified flying object. It was filmed on May 24th, 2021
ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : UFO Field Research Organization
MUFON CASE : 116468 Springfield, Illinois ( June 24, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : You be the judge
Long Description of Sighting Report
I gave a description in case number 116466 and forgot to add video and photos this is the same report. I'm not sure what it is or if we have aircraft that do this but I've personally never saw it. Possible orbs in video and photo you be the judge I would appreciate feedback.
116466 REPORT :
I'm no expert or trained pilot or observer so I'm not sure what it is but I've never saw a plane do this and I heard no sound for it to be a helicopter I've uploaded video and photos with what could also be orbs in both. I'd like to hear feedback. Enjoy
Date Submitted :2021-06-24 Date of Event : 2021-06-23 / 9:50PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE: 20210623215937.mp4
MUFON CASE : 116451 Kansas City, Missouri ( June 23, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Airport - close to new terminal construction sight, just above
Long Description of Sighting Report
At approximately 12:13 am on 06/23/2021 while driving to pick up a customer, I saw a pulsating gold/orange colored round object. What caught my attention was the fact there weren’t any lights as such on an airplane or helicopter would have! I’d seen it fade in and out, and descend at a slow speed. I would immediately get it on film. After watching it for up to a minute and a half it went out and did not seem to reappear!
Date Submitted : 2021-06-23 Date of Event : 2021-06-23 / 12:13AM
Entrance To Ancient Pitt Causes Drone To Lose Control And Camera Stop! UFO Sighting News.
Entrance To Ancient Pitt Causes Drone To Lose Control And Camera Stop! UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: Sept 12, 2020
Location of Hole: Barhout Well in Mahra, Yemen
This ancient hole is said to have existed for hundreds and maybe thousands of years. The eyewitness who recorded the video calls the Jin...evil spirits that punish those who come too close. Some aliens species are that way, emotionless so they act as if they don't care, but act on intelligence and logic.
The eyewitness flew an expensive drone camera into the mouth of the pitt and suddenly began to lose control of the craft. He said the drone began swaying back and forth and the controls were becoming weaker and weaker as it went further down. Out of fear of losing the craft all together they pull up...however the camera on the drone froze...giving just a few seconds of video of the bottom. But even after he finished the video, still the camera was on the fritz unable to work. Alien technology often causes our technology to crash and die. For instance a UFO over a car or house might shut it down, turn off the radio or turn off the lights in your house. Alien tech interfered with the drones radio waves and camera causing it to malfunction.
Then he took a microphone and began to lower it into the edge of the pit so that we could hear what he heard come from it. Sounds of water trickling, flowing and birds were evident, but then a crying sound every few seconds and a loud growling also came once in a while. He said the pit often had a bad putrid smell to it, which is a sign demons were within it. Thats also a sign of methane gas...which often comes from living things...like an alien base deep below the ground. I believe that over the last few thousand years, aliens and UFOs have used this hole to exit and enter an underground alien base about 5-6km below the surface. Also, so aliens live in an atmosphere of gasses that would smell putrid to us, but perfect for them.
While everyone on Planet Earth anxiously awaits to see what the Pentagon says about aliens in their highly-anticipated UFO report this month, their previous official comments on the subject are quite confusing and contradictory. And documents obtained by the Post show that it led to a complaint filed with the Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General accusing the Pentagon of hiding the truth from the American public. Since 2017, seemingly every media outlet has reported the bombshell news that the Pentagon had a secret UFO program for many years. This program was called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Whistleblower Lue Elizondo claims he was the director of this shadowy program during his time at the DOD. But what the Pentagon has officially said about all this has never been widely reported. Buckle up. Because it’s quite the roller coaster.
Pentagon has no explanation for more than 100 UFO sightings
Pentagon has no explanation for more than 100 UFO sightings
According to the Pentagon’s federal intelligence report, the UFOs seen in recent years by Navy pilots were not secret technology. In addition, he does not rule out that they are alien ships.
The report is the product of a military task force established last year to investigate decades of unexplained aerial sightings in US airspace.
The Defense Department said it wanted to “improve its understanding” of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, and determine whether they posed a threat to national security.
The report was ordered as part of an aid package signed by the former US president last year.
Its publication has caused an entire revelation in society because UFO sightings have long been the source of conspiracy theories.
Speculation about the content has been very present in the media before its revelation in Congress on June 25.
What do we know about the report?
Details of the research were first reported Thursday by the New York Times, followed by CNN and the Washington Post.
Those media outlets said they spoke with various government officials about the long-awaited report’s findings.
Officials said that of the more than 120 incidents documented in the past two decades, most were reported by U.S. Navy personnel, while some involved foreign military personnel.
CNN said it spoke to three sources who revealed that the report does not rule out the extraterrestrial activity as a possible explanation in some of these cases.
However, it must also be said that there is no evidence that the aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy pilots in recent years were alien spacecraft.
Citing intelligence officials, CNN said experimental technology from a rival power, such as China or Russia, could explain at least some of the aerial phenomena.
Regardless of the true origin, intelligence officials are concerned about the national security implications of this finding.
NASA will investigate UFOs
Bill Nelson, NASA’s new administrator, has ordered space agency scientists to investigate unidentified flying objects.
The former Florida senator who flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia said there is no evidence yet that aliens have visited Earth, but he doesn’t rule it out either.
“We don’t know if it is extraterrestrial,” Nelson told CNN of the encounters recorded by Navy pilots.
“We do not know if it is an enemy. We do not know if it is an optical phenomenon. We do not believe that it is an optical phenomenon due to the characteristics described by the pilots of the Navy aircraft. And the bottom line is that we want to know. “
NASA press secretary Jackie McGuinness said Nelson has not established an official task force to begin investigating UFOs, but did direct investigators to advance their investigation of the issue.
“This is a really interesting phenomenon and the Americans are clearly interested in it so if scientists want to do research, they should do it,” McGuinness said.
The report is ambiguous and imprecise about the mysterious objects recorded by the Pentagon. But it is still surprising that the possibility that they are of extraterrestrial origin is not ruled out.
And the curious thing of all is that NASA, which has always been skeptical of all sightings, has decided to investigate actively.
For this episode of Keeping it Weird, I'm excited to share a theory I've had for a long time now... that the Walt Disney Company is invested and helping to bring about Disclosure, through its movies, TV shows, and theme park rides.
Agree, disagree? Let me know what you think in the comments!
UFO Sighted Over Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico ( June 22, 2021 )
UFO unintentionally recorded as witness Gonzalo Herrera Gomez recorded a strong storm in the city of Altamira Tamaulipas. The UFO reportedly camouflaged among the rays of the storm, the object appears in paintings due to its extreme speed. The object is calculated at a speed of Mach 3, dark-looking and seneja a cigarette. The object has previously been seen and its trajectory was toward the sea.
credit : Ernesto Herrera
UFO Sighted Over Ontario, Canada ( May 20, 2021 )
Black UFO was Sighted Over Ontario, Canada on May 20, 2021 : 5: 53AM
STATEMENT :UFO Sighting News.
credit : Experiment at Home
UFO Sighted Over São Paulo, Brazil ( May 11, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over São Paulo, in the Southeast Region of Brazil. on May 11, 2021
no Statement was given for this video
credit : Everton HEnr
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Three UFO Orbs Sighted Over Cajon Pass & Orb Spotted Over Las Vegas Moments Before Vanishing
Clip one: This was sighted over Cajon Pass a mountain pass in San Bernardino, California. The witness stated the following "We drove down to Huntington Beach around 11:30PM at night and while going down the El Cajon Pass, we noticed spinning orbs at the top of a mountain. The formation the orbs made it seem as it was one ship with lights circling counter clockwise but as we saw it detail, no structure was attached to the orbs, they were suspended as they floated. As they rotated around, one orb would separate from the others by arching up and moving down then disappear, only for another orb to reappear with the ones circling. This of course freaked out everyone in the car, myself included. We were in awe at what we were seeing, yet I had to keep control of my car as we were in the highway and had to make sure we wouldn’t crash but I do consider the first encounter to be twice as amazing as both videos I’ve uploaded.I told my girlfriend and sister if they could pull out there phone to record but were just frozen staring as we drove down. The occurrence left us talking about it for the whole car ride and we’re unable to enjoy the late night outing as my little sister was scared and My girl and I were so excited. As we drove back home to Victorville, we started to approached the Glen Helen area and told my girlfriend to be ready with my phone to record as I had a feeling we would see something else again, as I honestly have had experiences like this before but not so up close and nothing that I could obtain photographical evidence from. Lo and behold, there it was in the recordings posted here clear as day. I am almost certain it was the same group of orbs that we saw on the first occurrence. The first video captures the moment we arrived at the area with camera at hand, but there was actually 4 lights prior to only being 3. One of them just disappeared as my girlfriend starts recording and we are just tripping the hell out that we saw this twice and wouldn’t let the second time go to waste. I told my girlfriend to stop recording when the mountains blocked the view. Within 3-4 seconds while she’s getting ready to record again, the lights are in a very strange formation, with two lights on top with some separation and three lights at the bottom more close together. I saw a red light for about a few milliseconds just zip through the lights on top and they started to fade out, that’s when my girlfriend recorded part two and you start seeing the other ones fade away in the video." Thanks to Mario Garcia, His sister & His girlfriend for allowing me the use of their footage and to view the original footage:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBr...
Clip Two: This footage the white orbs can be seen flying over the sky above until it reaches the M Resort Spa in Las Vegas where the object makes a full stop and in my opinion it powers up and this is what the color changes where about because as soon it does this it vanishes right before our eyes. the witness states the following "While at the dog park a very bright orb flew over me and vanishes over the M resort." Thanks Orb Rendezvous for allowing me the use of this footage and to view the full, Unedited video
Clip Three: Just a bit of fun and this did cheer me up so i hope you all will have a good old laugh with me when watching this clip... Thanks to The Real Spark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z- A_hRDlTs&ab_channel=TheRealSpark
Six UFOs Captured During Video Of The Night Sky!
Six UFOs Captured during A night time recording, watch how theses object react to the passing jet and tell me what you think?
In recent days, it was reported that the Navy’s UAP Task Force has concluded that no evidence it has examined related to unidentified aerial phenomena points to evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft, according to a recent New York Times article that cited American intelligence officials who had been briefed on the report’s findings.
Notably, Julian Barnes and NYT Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper reported that despite finding no conclusive links to alien spacecraft, senior officials said that the task force “still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military,” and that many of the unusual aerial objects observed by Navy pilots and other members of the armed forces could not be attributed to technologies currently in use by the United States.
The report does not rule out the possibility that some of the 120 incidents the UAP Task Force examined could be linked to technologies developed by Russia or China, and notably, “could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.”
The idea that some unidentified aerial phenomena might represent a form of exotic technology has been with us for decades, at the very least. Despite the fact that, to date, no conclusive evidence in support of this possibility has surfaced, the current assessments of the UAP Task Force recently conveyed to the New York Times are by no means the first time that the U.S. military has left open the possibility that some phenomena observed by our military could have otherworldly origins.
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The controversy surrounding the origin of these objects coincided with the U.S. Air Force’s earliest inquiries into what had been first called “flying saucers,” following a June 1947 sighting of a group of objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier, Washington by pilot Kenneth Arnold.
These sighting reports and the concern that they generated resulted in numerous programs and studies, which began with Projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, in addition to other reports and investigations aimed at assessing whether there was anything to be made of the claims of unidentified flying objects (or UFOs, as Blue Book’s first director Edward Ruppelt dubbed them).
Project Sign began at the end of 1947 and concluded the following year with an “Estimate of the Situation” that determined UFOs could not be attributed to US or Soviet technologies, advising the Pentagon that the objects may be of extraterrestrial origin. This conclusion would appear to be the first time that a branch of the U.S. military has considered whether UFOs might have extraterrestrial origins. However, the explanation was deemed unacceptable, resulting in the end of Project Sign, and the launch of the appropriately named Project Grudge in late 1948. It was dissolved too, like its predecessor, in 1951 making way for Project Blue Book, which would continue for most of the next two decades. During the 1950s and 60s, the USAF gathered countless reports on UFOs, and several notable reports and studies were conducted during this period, which included the famous Project Blue Book Special Report 14. However, the Blue Book era ended with Edward U. Condon’s Colorado University UFO project, which argued that there was no scientific merit to UFO studies (despite being unable to discount every UFO case in the Blue Book files).
“On the basis of present knowledge,” the Condon Committee’s report stated, “the least likely explanation of UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings.”
While the Air Force disclosed much of the information that it gathered about UFOs (with a few notable exceptions), it would be decades before the American public would begin to learn to what extent U.S. intelligence agencies like the CIA and the FBI had also taken interest in UFOs, albeit more quietly.
“In the middle 60s… the FBI responded to a simple request for information that the FBI is not and has never been involved with [UFOs],” says Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D., an optical physicist and researcher who spent decades studying UFO reports and appealing to agencies like the FBI and CIA for information on the subject. “Which, of course, is a lie, but as far as they were concerned it didn’t make any difference; they weren’t going to go public saying anything anyway, so that’s a pretty good clue that they’d want to cover it up.”
“As far as the CIA is concerned,” Maccabee says, “the CIA decided to do an investigation of Project Blue Book people, to see how the situation on Flying Saucers was. And this happened just after [Chief Major General John] Samford’s press conference in July of 1952, which is sort of a novel thing to contemplate.”
Government agencies investigating other government agencies, and all in an effort to try and understand what—if anything—to make out of UFOs, is indeed a novel concept.
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“CIA closely monitored the Air Force effort, aware of the mounting number of sightings and increasingly concerned that UFOs might pose a potential security threat,” wrote CIA historian Gerald K. Haines in his article “CIA’s role in the study of UFOs, 1947–90: A die‐hard issue,” published in Volume 14 of the CIA’s in-house publication, Intelligence and National Security, Volume 14, 1999. However, Haines’ study also stated that “while Agency concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s, CIA has since paid only limited and peripheral attention to the phenomena.”
What accounts for the waning interest of the intelligence community? As Haines noted in his historical overview, early on it seemed that the CIA’s interest in UFOs had been significant:
“Because of the tense Cold War situation and increased Soviet capabilities, the CIA Study Group saw serious national security concerns in the flying saucer situation. The group believed that the Soviets could use UFO reports to touch off mass hysteria and panic in the United States. The group also believed that the Soviets might use UFO sightings to overload the US air warning system so that it could not distinguish real targets from phantom UFOs. H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, added that he considered the problem of such importance that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council, in order that a communitywide coordinated effort towards it solution may be initiated.”
This would change, however, notably with the publication of a Robertson Panel study on UFOs assembled by and named after H.P. Robertson, a physicist with the California Institute of Technology in January 1953. “The Robertson panel’s conclusions were strikingly similar to those of the earlier Air Force project reports on SIGN and GRUDGE and to those of the CIA’s own OSI Study Group,” Haines writes. “All investigative groups found that UFO reports indicated no direct threat to national security and no evidence of visits by extraterrestrials.”
Luis Alvarez, one of the Robertson Panel participants
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The Robertson Panel’s conclusions decades ago were remarkably similar to the current assessments expected to be delivered by the UAP Task Force in its forthcoming report. They essentially found no evidence of a threat posed by unidentified flying objects, and nothing conclusive that could link them to visits by extraterrestrials. However, such intentionally ambiguous results from studies conducted over the years often do little to satisfy public interest, and function more like a Rorschach test: those who want UFOs to be extraterrestrial visitors see that the possibility hasn’t been ruled out, while skeptics averse to the idea remind them that there is still no good evidence.
There’s nothing new under the sun, or so the saying goes. Hence, rather than making actual progress on the UFO issue, it appears that most of the same old assessments and presumptions that have remained with us for decades about this phenomenon are what endure today. We’re still left wondering, in the end, what they are, and even if they are, with very little advancement in our knowledge about these mystifying appearances of unusual aerial objects throughout time.
Aliens could be watching us. A survey of the star systems within about 325 light years of Earth has found that 1715 of them have been or will be in the right position to spot our planet with the same techniques we use to find exoplanets, and 75 of the closest ones could even detect the radio waves that we constantly send out into the cosmos.
The easiest way to spot a planet outside our solar system is to catch it passing between us and its star, blocking out some of the star’s light. Lisa Kaltenegger at Cornell University in New York and Jackie Faherty at the American Museum of Natural History in New York examined data from the Gaia space telescope on the positions and motions of nearby stars to figure out which of them could find Earth in this way.
They found 1402 stars that are currently in the right position to see Earth pass in front of the sun, plus 313 that were in such a position in the past and 319 that will be someday.
They ran simulations extrapolating the movements of those stars over a period of 10,000 years, and the average time any given member of the sample could see Earth during that span is 6914 years – plenty of time to notice us, if there are inhabitants of those stellar systems with powerful enough telescopes.
Seventy-five of these systems are also close enough to detect the radio waves that we have sent out from Earth in the last 100 years.
The researchers estimate that there could be more than 500 rocky worlds orbiting in the “Goldilocks zone” of those 1715 stars, where life as we know it could be possible. We already know about some of them, a few of which are famous – for example, the TRAPPIST-1 system, which hosts seven Earth-sized planets, will be able to see Earth starting in the year 3663 and ending around the year 6034.
Kaltenegger points out that these exoplanets would be good targets in our search for intelligent life. “These worlds might be worth the trouble of studying further, because we know they can see us,” says Kaltenegger. “Who would have the most incentive to send us a signal? The ones who could have found us.”
It is "reasonable" to conclude that the U.S. government thinks some unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are not human-made, a Harvard astrophysicist has said.
This week, the U.S. government is expected to release a highly anticipated report into the existence of UAPs—essentially UFOs.
Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard's Department of Astronomy, believes the existence of UAPs would not have been revealed to the public if their origins were from China or Russia and posed a national security risk, he wrote in an op-ed for Scientific American magazine.
Loeb added: "Hence, it is reasonable to conclude that the U.S. government believes that some of these objects are not human in origin."
The astrophysicist said this suggests two scenarios: That UAPs are natural phenomena; or that they are "extraterrestrial in origin."
The U.S. report will be the product of months of investigation into UAPs after the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee called for an inquiry into them in 2020.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio was acting chair of the Intelligence Committee when the report was given the go-ahead, viewing UAPs as a potential threat.
He told Newsweek in May: "We cannot allow the stigma of UFOs to keep us from seriously investigating these encounters."
In August 2020, the Pentagon set up the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force to look into observations of unknown flying aircraft.
Intelligence officials who have already been briefed on the report's findings have said it is inconclusive about most of the recorded aerial incidents over the years—such as those spotted by air force pilots—but notes they weren't examples of U.S. technology, the New York Times reported earlier in June.
The New York Times also said an unclassified version of the report is expected to be released to Congress by June 25—though it will include a classified annex that would remain off-limits to the public.
The report is not expected to explain all of the mysterious observed characteristics of UAPs, including their acceleration and ability to change direction quickly.
Meanwhile, Loeb has drawn speculative links between UAPs and 'Oumuamua, a mysterious interstellar object that has attracted attention since it was discovered tumbling through the solar system in 2017.
NASA has called 'Oumuamua "unusual" and states that it "appears to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object" up to 400 meters long that is the first confirmed body to visit our solar system from another star.
Writing in Scientific American, Loeb has theorized 'Oumuamua could potentially be "an artificial object on a targeted mission towards the sun" and that its thin, flat shape "could have been that of a receiver" to pick up signals.
He added: "At this time, the possibility that any UAP are extraterrestrial is highly speculative."
A photo of the Very Large Array radio observatory in New Mexico, USA, May 2006. A report on UAPs is due in June.PLUS49/CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY / AVALON / GETTY
They Are Watching Us: Close Encounters Of The Nuclear Kind
They Are Watching Us: Close Encounters Of The Nuclear Kind
By Terry Hansen
Thomas Kuhn, the influential scholar who introduced the concept of paradigm change, wrote that the work of scientists is usually predicated on the assumption that they know what the world is like.
In the end, however, they’re often shown to have been seriously mistaken, though many are never quite able to accept this fact.
The same could be said of historians. The so-called “newspapers of record” faithfully report events as government sources dictate, while turning a blind eye to anyone who fundamentally challenges the official line.
Historians, in turn, base their narratives on these biased accounts, often buttressing their work with selectively released government documents, many carefully contrived for calculated impact.
Historians, like scientists, are too often unable to imagine or accept that they have missed something of enormous significance.
A few, such as Howard Zinn, know that there’s much more to the human story than the officially promulgated version. This is especially true in our national-security state, dominated as it is by institutions with a huge financial stake in carefully managing public perceptions via their extensive array of media contacts.
World War I first put the U.S. on the path toward its current national-security mindset with all the attendant propaganda machinery. The war was a hard sell at first, so journalists were hired to overcome public opposition. But it was during World War II when American society really began shedding its traditional values in pursuit of systemic self-deception.
The War Powers Act forged a lasting alliance between the U.S. military and the news media. In the interests of victory and global dominance, U.S. journalists happily abandoned their traditional ideal of speaking truth to power and went to work for the government censoring the news and drafting official lies.
It was also during World War II that science showed itself capable of delivering a stunning new power that could reduce an entire city to ashes in a single blinding flash.
In the wake of this shocking development, a thick veil of draconian secrecy legislation was drafted to ensure that further disturbing scientific findings would never see publication in the open literature. Science quickly split into two branches: public and private.
Thus, the psychological foundations were laid for a schizoid society that would grow increasingly unable to discern the full extent of its own self-deceptions. Black-budget programs mushroomed and multiplied until it was impossible to know just where our tax dollars were disappearing.
Despite harsh penalties for discussing certain banned truths, not everyone in the sprawling national-security bureaucracy always follows the rules. Some simply grow weary of living with their weighty secrets. Others become disillusioned with the paranoid national-security mindset.
Long-secret documents periodically come to light, either by legislative intent or accident. Others surface through the efforts of independent researchers too bull-headed to swallow the official story and curious about the many pieces that never seem to fit. In the past, the national media organizations with their close ties to official Washington could be counted on to contain any major revelations and faithfully shore up consensus reality.
The Internet has changed all the old rules.
The consensus version of American history, if it mentions them at all, assigns “flying saucers” to the status of a curious national psychosis – a fleeting, post-War psycho-social reaction of no lasting importance, fit only to be scoffed at and quickly forgotten. Those who embrace this view do so out of an ignorance carefully manufactured and sustained by the Pentagon and the CIA over many decades.
In his recent book, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, author Keith Chester peels back the still-thick layers of wartime censorship to reveal some astonishing discoveries.
Although newspapers and magazines of the period occasionally made brief reference to mysterious “foo fighters” that combat pilots reported sighting, the full extent of these observations was withheld from the American public.
Foo fighter in the background.
The truth, as Chester makes clear through his painstaking research, is that these strange phenomena were far more common during the war than the public was allowed to know. Evidently, our global efforts at mutual slaughter were being systematically observed by someone far more technologically advanced.
They may not have liked what they saw.
At the center of Allied efforts to understand these puzzling phenomena was a little-known American physicist turned wartime scientific-intelligence officer, Dr. H.P. Robertson.
Aside from being an accomplished physicist and colleague of such luminaries as Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Robertson was the main liaison between British and American scientific intelligence. He thus became close friends with the British scientist Dr. Reginald Victor (R.V.) Jones whose technical expertise was focused on devising clever ways to hoodwink Nazi intelligence. (Jones wrote about these exploits after the war in books such as The Wizard War.)
He continued to maintain a professional interest in the techniques of deception and often consulted with the U.S. intelligence community.
Dr. Robertson’s interest in anomalous aerial phenomena may have begun prior to the war. Early 20th century writer Charles Fort had penned a series of popular books summarizing reports of unusual things seen in, or falling from, the sky.
Fort discerned the dim outlines of a larger realm of activity of which humanity was just a small and uncomprehending part.
“I think we are property,” he once reflected.
Scientists had occasionally seen and reported odd flying objects during the 19th and early 20th centuries and sometimes published their observations in the scientific literature including, even, Scientific American.
Scholars and scientific-intelligence experts of the calibre of Robertson and Jones were quite probably aware of this, or at least became so during their war-time efforts to understand what pilots were reporting.
The American public knew little about such things until after the war. With the consequent expiration of the War Powers Act and the gradual re-emergence of a relatively free press, Americans began to learn about phenomena Robertson and Jones had already been pondering for some years.
The number of such news reports astonished the American public and alarmed the U.S. military-intelligence community. According to journalism professor Herbert Strentz, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on UFO-related press coverage, hundreds of thousands, and perhaps a million or more articles about flying saucers appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1947 and 1966.
A full account of this ignored but pivotal aspect of American history is being written by historian Richard Dolan, author of what will likely become a three-part series.
UFOs and the National Security State, Volume One, published in 2000, covers the years from 1941 to 1973. The book has received wide acclaim and has been selling briskly.
Volume Two, which covers the period 1973 to 1991 is due out this spring and is a widely anticipated event.
Many of the more impressive flying-saucer reports originated with commercial airline pilots, many of whom had combat flying experience and were regarded as highly credible observers.
1952, the year America tested its first hydrogen bomb, was a landmark year for flying-saucer sightings. Objects were even seen and photographed over Washington, D.C., sparking a national sensation and provoking a major effort by the Pentagon to explain the sightings away.
As Richard Dolan explains, however, the government was far from complacent about the saucer phenomenon, as early intelligence documents reveal. Edward J. Ruppelt, Head of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, related some of the reasons for military concern in his 1956 book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.
The flying saucers were displaying concentrated interest in militarily significant installations, especially those related to nuclear weapons.
“UFOs were seen more frequently around areas vital to the defence of the United States,” Ruppelt confessed.
“The Los Alamos-Albuquerque area, Oak Ridge, and White Sands Proving Ground rated high. Port areas, Strategic Air Command bases, and industrial areas ranked next.”
By 1954, military authorities admitted that pilots were reporting between five and ten flying-saucer sightings per night – this at a time when air traffic was a mere trickle of what it has become.
Serious talk of an invasion from outer space was in the air.
By December, President Dwight Eisenhower found it necessary to reassure the American public that, “flying saucers were not invading the earth from outer space.”
The dismissal was published on the front page of the December 16th New York Times.
Behind the scenes, the CIA was preparing to use its extensive resources to reduce the number of flying saucer stories appearing the nation’s newspapers. Following a review of several high-profile stories, a panel chaired by Dr. Robertson recommended that flying saucers be discredited via a covert, mass-media program of “training and debunking.”
Many of the same institutions that had produced wartime propaganda were to be employed. Meanwhile, UFO-research groups were to be monitored because of their potential impact on public opinion.
In my book, The Missing Times, I reported on new evidence that CBS TV was among the CIA’s “media assets” that participated in this covert UFO-debunking program.
In 1966, CBS broadcast UFOs: Friend, Foe or Fantasy, narrated by Walter Cronkite, as part of its “CBS Reports” documentary series.
Cronkite assured his viewers, using false and misleading information, that all UFO reports were due to mistaken perceptions. In short, there was nothing for the public to worry about, he said. A hand-written letter by Robertson Panel member Dr. Thornton Page, discovered in the Smithsonian’s archives by Prof. Michael Swords confirms the CIA’s long-suspected role in the program.
In a 1966 letter, Page related to a CIA associate that he, “helped organize the CBS TV show around the Robertson Panel’s conclusions.”
Was this the only such case?
How likely is it that the Robertson Panel waited 13 years before calling upon one of its media assets to debunk UFOs, only did this once, and somehow managed to get caught red-handed the first and only time? It is far more likely that the CBS program was just one of many such covert propaganda initiatives carried out over the years since the Robertson Panel made its recommendations.
Why would CBS agree to disinform the American public about flying saucers on behalf of the CIA? Part of the answer is that something of tremendous national-security importance was happening in 1966 that the U.S. military did not want widely known.
Flying saucers were visiting the Minuteman missile fields surrounding Great Falls, Montana, home of Malmstrom Air Force Base, as well as other such military installations. In some cases, they hovered right outside launch control facilities while evidently shutting down entire wings of independent, nuclear-tipped missiles. (This activity was reported by Montana newspapers but was ignored by the national news agencies.)
A similar series of contacts occurred in the mid-1970s, once again with extensive regional news coverage.
These events may sound like science fiction but they most certainly are not. Minuteman launch officers (who, it should be emphasized, underwent extensive psychological screening before being put in charge of nuclear weapons) have begun breaking their decades-long silence about these events. Upwards of a hundred first-hand witnesses to such activity have now talked and more are coming forth all the time.
Examples include Air Force Academy graduate Robert Salas, whose launch complex was visited in 1967 by a glowing disk-shaped craft that terrorized topside guards before systematically shutting down his wing of Minuteman missiles. The event was not unique. Even Soviet missile installations were visited.
It is now becoming clear that such “nuclear close encounters” have taken place many times since the U.S. first exploded a nuclear bomb at New Mexico’s Trinity test site in July of 1945. This fact is undoubtedly one of the Cold War era’s biggest secrets.
Author and researcher Robert Hastings has just published an exhaustive summary of such events as related by former military personnel.
His landmark book, UFOs and Nukes, is the product of over three decades of careful research. The extent of UFO activity over nuclear weapons sites is stunning. Helpless guard personnel sometimes set up lawn chairs so they could watch the glowing unidentified intruders as they silently maneuvered over the missile fields.
The book goes a long way toward explaining why UFOs have been such a hot public-relations potato for the U.S. government over the decades. Hastings makes it very clear that someone, from somewhere else, does not like what we humans have been doing with our nuclear toys, and has tried repeatedly to warn us away from such dangerous activities.
If this seems hard to accept by those who consider themselves well informed, it is because very few Americans appreciate how cozy American news organizations have become with the U.S. intelligence bureaucracy. Censorship and propaganda are highly sophisticated and well-funded activities that consume a huge fraction of the CIA’s budget.
The sensitive link between flying saucers and nuclear weapons was very carefully hidden using an array of sophisticated psychological techniques. There is evidence that deception expert Dr. R.V. Jones played a key role in planning such tricks.
As I explain in The Missing Times, there is also evidence that major American news organizations played a central role in the flying saucer deception and are not at all anxious to have this role exposed. Hence, they continue to maintain their silence and ignore the many military UFO witnesses now coming forth.
In the Internet Age, however, this gate-keeping role is becoming increasingly ineffective, as indicated by many public-opinion polls.
Now that these astonishing Cold War secrets are out, one of the most important questions we need to ask is,
Whose interests were really being served by this massive deception campaign?
Were flying saucers a threat to humanity or just to the military-industrial establishment and its costly nuclear arsenal?
Was the Pentagon looking out for our interests or just its own?
Whatever the case, a paradigm of cosmic dimensions has begun to shift and our world will never be the same.
In the face of great institutional resistance, the truth has now emerged for the public to review and contemplate. Few areas of American life will remain unaffected by this.
American history for the past 60-some years will need to be drastically re-written. Academics will be forced to reconsider some of their most cherished assumptions about humanity, its origins, and its role in the larger universe. The credibility of many established corporate and government institutions will be utterly destroyed.
This future is coming, ready or not.
By Terry Hansen, an independent journalist and author of “The Missing Times: News media complicity in the UFO cover-up.”
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Secret Base built in a crater on Mars
Secret Base built in a crater on Mars
Asecret base built in a crater on the planet Mars? Google Mars shows a 4km width crater on Mars in which a large closed building structure seems to have been built.
Visible are two large rectangular black areas, separated by a rectangular pillar and in front of the structure on the left, another building.
But before we assume it is a secret base, there is also the possibility that the structure is nothing more than a compression artifact caused by digital compression software, giving it a pixelated look.
Though, surrounding craters do not show similar structures which makes it possible that the huge structure in this crater is not a compression artifact but a hangar with two (black) entrances to hold spacecraft.
Coordinates Google Mars:10°47'20.46"N 130° 0'41.91"E
A Possible Link between ‘Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
A Possible Link between ‘Oumuamua and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
If some UAP turn out to be extraterrestrial technology, they could be dropping sensors for a subsequent craft to tune into. What if ‘Oumuamua is such a craft?
Artist's impression of the interstellar object 'Oumuamua. Credit: Getty Images
A colleague of mine once noted that every morning there is a long line of customers stretching out from a famous Parisian bakery into the street. “I wish someone would wait for my scientific papers with as much anticipation as Parisians eagerly stand by for their baguettes,” he said.
There is one exception to this wish, however. It involves fresh scientific evidence that we are not be the only intelligent species in the cosmos.
Recently, there have been two sources for such evidence.
First, the interstellar object discovered in 2017, ‘Oumuamua, was inferred to have a flat shape and seemed to be pushed away from the sun as if it were a lightsail. This “pancake” was tumbling once every eight hours and originated from the rare state of the local standard of rest—which averages over the motions of all the stars in the vicinity of the sun.
Second, the Pentagon is about to deliver a report to Congress stating that some unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are real but that their nature is unknown. If UAP originated from China or Russia and were a national security risk, their existence would have never been revealed to the public. Hence, it is reasonable to conclude that the U.S. government believes that some of these objects are not human in origin. This leaves two possibilities: either UAP are natural terrestrial phenomena or they are extraterrestrial in origin. Both possibilities imply something new and interesting that we did not know before. The study of UAP should therefore shift from occupying the talking points of national security administrators and politicians to the arena of science where it is studied by scientists rather than government officials.
Many or even most UAP might be natural phenomena. But even if one of them is extraterrestrial, might there be any possible link to ‘Oumuamua?
The inferred abundance of ‘Oumuamua-like objects is unreasonably large if they’re of purely natural origin. With Amaya Moro-Martín and Ed Turner, I wrote a paper in 2009 calculating the number of interstellar rocks based on what is known about the solar system and assuming that these rocks were ejected from similar planetary systems orbiting other stars. The population of objects required to explain the discovery of ‘Oumuamua exceeds the expected number of interstellar rocks per unit volume by orders of magnitude. In fact, there should be a quadrillion ‘Oumuamua-like objects within the solar system at any given time, if they are distributed on random trajectories with equal probability of moving in all directions.
But the number is reasonable if ‘Oumuamua was an artificial object on a targeted mission towards the sun, aimed to collect data from the habitable region near Earth. One might even wonder whether ‘Oumuamua might have been retrieving data from probes that were already sprinkled on Earth at an earlier time. In such a case, ‘Oumuamua’s thin, flat shape could have been that of a receiver. Hence, ‘Oumuamua was pushed by sunlight not for the purpose of propulsion but as a byproduct of its thin flat shape. A similar push by reflection of sunlight without a cometary tail were the traits of an artificial rocket booster that was identified in 2020 by the same Pan-STARRS telescope that discovered ‘Oumuamua. This artificial object named 2020 SO was not designed to be a solar sail but had thin walls with a large surface-to-mass ratio for a different purpose.
At this time, the possibility that any UAP are extraterrestrial is highly speculative. But if we entertain this possibility for fun, then the tumbling motion of ‘Oumuamua could potentially have been meant to scan signals from all viewing directions. A predecessor to ‘Oumuamua could have been a craft that deposited small probes into the Earth’s atmosphere without being noticed, because it visited before Pan-STARRS started its operations. Along this imaginative line of reasoning, ‘Oumuamua could have arranged to appear as coming from the neutral local standard of rest, which serves as the local “galactic parking lot,” so that its origin would remain unknown.
But rather than simply wonder about possible scenarios, we should collect better scientific data and clarify the nature of UAP. This can be done by deploying state-of-the-art cameras on wide-field telescopes that monitor the sky. The sky is not classified; only government-owned sensors are. By searching for unusual phenomena in the same geographical locations from where the UAP reports came, scientists could clear up the mystery in a transparent analysis of open data.
As noted in my recent book Extraterrestrial, I do not enjoy science fiction stories because the story lines often violate the laws of physics. But we should be open-minded to the possibility that science will one day reveal a reality that was previously considered as fiction.
"Some of this might be a little too shocking for us to handle all at once, so they might instead try to ease us into it a bit", physicist Kevin Knuth said. I believe it would revolutionize and rock our world when proven true. However, what’s true at this point is that the evidence is overwhelming that there is a truly unexplained phenomenon which deserves concentrated scientific examination.
Re the issue of G forces, the late nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman told me in August 2006 that “a trained pilot can perform a tracking task while being accelerated at 14 Gs for 2 Minutes, that is an accel of about 300 mph per sec., would be going 36,000 mph at the end of the 2 minutes. One can stand 30 Gs (0-600 mph) for one second and probably much more for shorter times. Colonel Stapp took 43 Gs for 3/4 of a second when his rocket sled slowed down rapidly from 620 mph to zero... eyeballs were sore. The escape rocket on the Apollo Command module would have provided 13 Gs if the module had to be shoved off the top of the Saturn 5 rocket.”
Physicist Takes A Serious Look At Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Courtesy Department of Defense
Screen capture from the 'Gimbal Video' taken aboard a Navy fighter jet from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt near the Florida coast in 2015.
In case you may have missed it, a big news story has been bubbling to the surface. The U.S. Navy confirmed that earlier leaked videos did, in fact, show what they call UAP's or unidentified aerial phenomena. The Pentagon has admitted they've been studying them and recently NASA has announced its own investigation. So it seems as if the government is concerned about the national security threat these phenomena may pose.
Academia has been slow to take up the subject, possibly for fear of ridicule, but even that is changing. Professor Kevin Knuth is an associate professor of physics at the University in Albany. Among other things, he is a former NASA research scientist at the Ames Research Center.
All the reports consist of reliable eyewitness testimony and, more importantly, corroborating radar data. In the Nimitz case, objects were tracked on radar several times, descending from 28,000 feet, which is about five miles up, down to sea level in about 8.7 seconds. How fast is that? Knuth did the math.
"So those accelerations we estimated were on the order of about 5000 G's, which is 5,000 times the acceleration of gravity, which is really crazy. Our fighter jets can really only handle about 13 G's before the wings get ripped off," he said.
At midpoint on the way down, the craft would have been traveling at approximately 35,000 miles per hour through the air and without a sonic boom. Knuth says he's disappointed there has not been more serious study done by scientists.
"For me, it's a little disconcerting." he said. "We've had 70 years, three quarters of a century where we've had these things flying in our airspace. They show up in military bases. They show up over nuclear weapons sites, and virtually nothing is known about them. And I look at this as probably, I think, eventually when we finally learn what these things are — this is going to be one of the greatest intelligence failures in history," said Knuth.
What does Knuth believe is the most likely explanation of these UAP's? He says it might be reasonable to assume they're built by a government or an aerospace company,"...except for a few important points," he said. "One is the accelerations are really anomalous to the point where it's really not clear how the physics would work in that case. So whoever has been making these things would have had to do not just have one technological leapfrog, but it would be multiple technological leapfrogs. And that would be quite surprising."
He added: "And it would be surprising to have a company or a nation who has this technology but doesn't use it. And more importantly, these things have been observed before. People have been able to fly."
There are skeptics. Some say these sightings are actually low tech drones or even balloons launched by adversaries that are fooling the observers. It's clear, though, that the government is concerned. The director of national intelligence has been directed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to work with the Defense Department to produce a report on UAP sightings by June 25.
Knuth said of the upcoming report, "I expect that there probably will be a public component to the report and the classified component to the report, and the public component will probably leave things a bit up in the air, whereas I would hope that the classified version would actually have more information."
Knuth says if the report hints at anything other than worldly technology, information will be slow to be released.
"Some of this might be a little too shocking for us to handle all at once, so they might instead try to ease us into it a bit." he said.
While many people believe crop circles are made by aliens hovering over fields in UFOs, a major complaint of crop circle skeptics is the lack of photos showing aliens, UFOs or any unusual activity during the construction of the mysterious circles. Is it because they’re all made by talented humans with ropes, boards and sometimes the clandestine permission of the farmers themselves? A man in Buckinghamshire, England, doesn’t think so after seeing a huge white dome of light over a neighbor’s field at 1 am – a field which had an unusual crop circle in it the next day. He’s not saying it’s aliens, but …
“It’s the sight of a very strange happening this morning at 1-00 am I was woken up by a very bright light shining on my ceiling? We have had a few shed break ins so I got out of bed and looked out the window to see if anyone or thing had set off a security light ! But there was no noise or anything obvious on my or my neighbours to the back or left hand side , but on the right in the field next to my other neighbours was a giant white dome, 25-30 feet high pure bright white no other marking looked like a giant tube light?”
On his Facebook page, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, resident Martin Hoult described what he saw recently over a farmer’s field behind his house – a bright dome of light that defied any conventional explanation. He says the farm “is quite away off” so he didn’t think he was seeing security lights. After getting “a drink of water and a pee,” he returned to his bedroom, turned off the light and noticed “the light from outside had gone.” The next morning he happened to meet the farmer and described what he had seen.
no it’s a farmer’s field behind my place ? It’s the sight of a very strange happening this morning at 1-00 am I was woken up by a very bright light shining on my ceiling? W have had a few shed break ins so I got out of bed and looked out the window to see if anyone or thing had set off a security light ! But there was no noise or anything obvious on my or my neighbours to the back or left hand side , but on the right in the field next to my other neighbours was a giant white dome , 25-30 feet high pure bright white no other marking looked like a giant tube light? Thought it might be a tractor with a giant halo light but it was raining and no noise at all ? Thought the farm which is quite away off may have had new security lights ? Looked around for a few minutes went for a drink of water and a pee shut my windows went to bed turned of my light the light from outside had gone ? Next day went to the polls came back bumped into my neighbour mentioned the above went to the field about twenty yards saw these crops pressed down with all the bigger plants still standing up massive crop circle where giant light had been ?? About 60 feet across and maybe 100-150 feet long giant rugby ball ish shape ??
That’s when the neighbor gave Hoult a shock:
“(We) went to the field about twenty yards saw these crops pressed down with all the bigger plants still standing up massive crop circle where giant light had been ?? About 60 feet across and maybe 100-150 feet long giant rugby ball ish shape ??”
In the field where the dome of light had been was a crop circle – more of a crop oval actually. That’s pretty unusual for crop circles – they’re always round like their name. Add that to the bright dome of light and Martin Hoult may have seen the making of a non-human, ET-in-a-UFO crop circle creation. That’s obviously what he was thinking when interviewed by the Bucks Free Press.
“It’s very strange. I can’t say it was a UFO because it wasn’t flying but it was definitely an unidentified object or light.”
But wait … there’s more.
“All the grass is flat but the weeds are standing upright. And the tops of all the trees further down on Mumford’s Lane are burnt.”
A crop circle that’s oval. A crop circle whose crop is smashed down but the weeds are still standing. A crop circle underneath a bright dome of light. A crop circle whose maker may have burned the tops of nearby trees during its creation.
You never see weeds in a crop circle
Does this sound like a UFO-made crop circle?
Unfortunately, while Hoult took photos of the crop circle (see them here), they’re from the ground, not the air, and he didn’t snap any of the bright domed light. Taken in their entirety, these events are challenging to explain by conventional circumstances. We’re forced to wait for it to happen again.
Remember, when you get up to pee, take your phone!
Video: Mystery of crop circle revealed: It was a publicity stunt by tech company
A video which appeared on YouTube appears to show a flashing green light in a field in Salinas Valley, California, where crop circles where later discovered.
Since the early formation of the Earth, our planet has been subjected to countless impacts with meteorites and other spacefaring debris over the course of the last several billions of years.
A majority of the debris that actually enters our atmosphere is so small that it disintegrates somewhere in the neighborhood of about 50 to 75 miles from Earth’s surface. Most of the space objects (otherwise known as meteoroids) that actually do reach the surface of Earth are relatively small. Generally, a space rock would have to be about the size of a marble or larger to possess enough physical material to withstand the friction it encounters as it enters the atmosphere, and thereafter collide with the Earth.
By this time, the collisions amount to tiny pebbles comparable to a grain of sand falling to the ground. Because of their innocuous size, as many as 17 impacts are believed to occur every day, with tiny bits of burnt space rock landing in remote areas or passing into oceans unnoticed by most of us.
Of course, this isn’t to say that there haven’t been rare instances where much larger space objects have collided with Earth throughout time. The gigantic Chicxulub crater located within the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, associated today with an impact event that killed the dinosaurs many millions of years ago, was formed when a 10-kilometer asteroid slammed into the ancient Earth.
While the Chicxulub crater is recognized as the only massive asteroid impact that has been definitively linked to a mass extinction event, research that has been conducted in recent years may point to a smaller scale impact event that could be associated with megafaunal extinctions that occurred toward the end of the last ice age. Proponents of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) contend that climate proxies and other data collected from this period suggest that an extraterrestrial impact coincided with a return to colder temperatures that occurred between the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene epochs. Around this time, several varieties of megafaunal species are also known to have vanished from the paleontological record.
One of the issues that proponents of the YDIH have faced has to do with the difficulty researchers have had in locating the actual site of the presumed impact. In 2018, a study by Danish researchers found a large impact feature located beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland, which some suspect might represent the impact believed to be associated with the Younger Dryas event.
Given the difficulty that researchers have had locating certain larger suspected impact sites, is it possible that there could be additional evidence that supports massive impact events in the past that have gone largely unnoticed?
Canada’s Lake Manicouagan is actually one of the Earth’s largest and oldest impact craters, estimated to be about 214 million years old and measuring 40 miles wide
(Credit: USGS).
In the 1970s, researcher J.M. Saul made just such an argument, following an extensive analysis he performed of topographic and geological maps. In a paper entitled “Circular Structures of Large Scale and Great Age on the Earth’s Surface” that appeared in the journal Nature, Saul said that a number of faint terrestrial patterns that represented large circular shapes could be discerned, which had not been previously described in scientific literature.
According to Saul, some of the circular formations measured as much as 700 kilometers in diameter and represented nearly perfect geometrical figures. The features appeared to be comprised of raised areas that Saul characterized as having been the result of geological processes that included fracturing and brecciation (that is, the breaking down of stone into fragments). According to Saul, such features could be observed in a number of different environments and affected rocks of all different ages.
In more than half of all the instances he observed, the features Saul had studied could be completely traced to reveal a clearly discernible circular feature.
“Many of the circles are intermittent in places along their rims,” Saul wrote, “but about 55% of the approximately 1,170 definite circles observed to date can be visually traced around an entire 360° of arc.”
Among the largest that he was able to discern had been a feature encircling the southern end of Africa, which he estimated to have been approximately 2200 kilometers in diameter. Other massive circular features probably existed elsewhere too, he guessed.
So what actually led to the formation of these massive circular features? One theory is that they could be the result of 4-billion-year-old meteorite impacts. More specifically, an “intense meteorite bombardment” on par with those which have led to the present markings on the moon and other planets in our solar system might have been the cause, at a time early in Earth’s history when it was subjected to similar meteorite “storms.”
Of course, with the passing of eons, and the uniformitarian processes of geology slowly eroding the Earth over time, such features have become somewhat less distinct. Regardless, something appears to have led to their formation long ago in Earth’s history, and these mysterious circles in stone—whatever the source of their formation might actually be—remain a curious testament to the volatility that our planet experienced in its early days.
A Dwarf Planet Entered Our Solar System and No Telescope Saw it Coming: Scientists
A Dwarf Planet Entered Our Solar System and No Telescope Saw it Coming: Scientists
A Dwarf Planet Entered Our Solar System and No Telescope Saw it Coming : Scientists
An incredible news that makes the headlines :
A dwarf planet-comet, about 200-370 km in diameter (1 / 10th the size of the moon), entered our system, undetected by any telescope! (or, it’s more worrying, detected but not disclosed to the public ?…)
The star detected by Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein is called 2014 un271, it was found by chance while consulting the archive images of the year 2014 of the Dark Energy Survey, an international optical and near-infrared survey of the sky; a double chance since the Dark Energy Survey only scans 12% of the sky ; imagine what can be found in the 90% of the sky unmonitored…
The official announcement to the public was made on June 19, 2021, coincidentally, just after the Hubble Space Telescope breaks down on June 12, 2021! It is therefore impossible to point Hubble in the direction of this dwarf planet-comet and observe it very precisely.
The red dwarf planet-comet, is a TNO (trans Neptunian oblect) and currently lies between neptune and uranus!
“Based on the given absolute magnitude, and given how exceptionally red it looked in 2014 precovery images from CFHT (the g – r color was 0.9, and r – i was 0.5!) I would estimate at an albedo of 0.01-0.08 a diameter of 130-370 kilometers (nominally 160) which puts it on a similar scale, if not larger than, Sarabat’s huge comet C/1729 P1, and almost undoubtedly the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered- almost in dwarf planet territory!” Sam Deen
Now here is the most incredible, but also perhaps the most worrying.
On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, we posted the following article:
Planet X Is Coming! A Chilling Message From Jean Seimple (link)
Jean Seimple has just posted this chilling message on his website:
MARCH 25, 2020 PLANET X IS COMING / ENTER OUR SOLAR SYSTEM / COVID 19 IS A SMOKE SCREEN / COVID 19 GREEN HORSE OF THE APOCALYPSE PANDEMIC / CONTAINMENT INFORMATION CONTROL / SHARE MY WORK / DO NOT USE KEYWORD AS JEAN SEIMPLE, PYRAMID APOCALYPSIA PLANET X TO BYPASS CENSORSIP UPLOAD MY VIDEOS AND BROADCAST / FLEE THE CITIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE / NEWS COMING SOON…
On the left in the following photo, the estimated position of Px dated March 25, 2020 (just after Neptune), on the right, the position in June 2021 of 2014 UN271 (between Neptune and Uranus). Unbelievable…
Here are the characteristics of this planet-comet that he had transmitted in this article (available at the end of this new article).
Type: ‘ Planet – comet ‘ Appearance: Dark red Diameter: ~ 3000 Km (almost the size of the moon) Mass: ~ 90% of the mass of the Earth (extremely massive object) Orbit: 6022 years Date of his return: 2022 Others: at least 1 satellite or 1 companion
Only the dimensions (approx. 370 km, 1 / 10th of the Moon) and its period of 600,000 years, differ from its estimates.
However, this is the very first data, subject to modification (or is it Px’s companion? ,,,)
Here is the article from March 2020, with all the new updates, A must read.
PLANET X IS COMING
March 26, 2020. Updated April 2, 2021.
Warning.
1. To fully understand the meaning and importance of the information, you must have previously followed a minimum of our previous work, books, articles and at least our videos…
2. If we have 100% certainty regarding the authenticity of our work on the Great Pyramid and Atlantis, this is not the case for our work on Px and the decoding of the book of The Apocalypse.
If we have a great confidence in their veracity, we lacked factual and current astronomical data, small clues, a few things to be able to corroborate them with the information in our possession.
This moment has arrived…
Here is according to our work, the elements in our possession on Planet X:
Type: ‘ Planet – comet ‘
Appearance: Dark red
Diameter: ~ 3000 Km (almost the size of the moon)
Mass: ~ 90% of the mass of the Earth (extremely massive object)
Orbit: 6022 years
Date of his return: 2022
Others: at least 1 satellite or 1 companio
C 2019 / Y4…
Here is an email exchange with one of my contacts:
“Good evening N…
(…)
Otherwise, the pandemic which was announced in our current period of the apocalypse is characterized by the green horse of the apocalypse… also it was impossible for me to cross-reference a date and therefore a sky map with the elements in my possession with those of the verse…
C 2019 / y4 is may be the explanation… because unpredictable… Atlas: first king of Atlantis…
Take care N…
Jean “
Comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4) displays an 8.5-magnitude coma and a short, spiky tail on March 21, 2020. Chris Schur
” Thank you for your answer Jean.
I was not aware of this comet and I was able to document myself a bit and also compare with the green horse of the apocalypse… It is true that the timing fits perfectly well.
Thank you for the info and also for your feeling regarding the explanations of (…).
Good evening Jean “
***
” Yes, this comet is very interesting and even very intriguing… I have just carried out a quick search and these orbital characteristics correspond to those which I give for Px.
Orbit Px 6022 years.
Orbit Atlas, just over 6000 years:
NASA data indicates that the comet takes just over 6,000 years to make a full circle around our star. It seems that ATLAS has an orbit very similar to that of the Great Comet of 1844, indicating that it could be a fragment of this object.
Great Comet of 1844, as observed from Van Diemen’s Land (now known as Tasmania), off Australia. This comet was discovered on 18 December 1844, and was visible with the naked eye until the end of January 1845, during which time it was one of the brightest objects visible in the Southern Hemisphere
“Because yes, interesting and not least: the orbit of this body of ice and dust appears very similar to that of C / 1844 Y1, more famous under the name of “Great comet of 1844″ which had hit the headlines by its unusual brightness in the sky of the southern hemisphere – it was then visible in broad daylight. It is not excluded, moreover, that the Atlas comet is a piece detached from the so-called “Great Comet”, or even that both are the fragments of a more imposing parent which would have broken down centuries ago.”
Screenshot of the orbital characteristics before the fragmentation of the Atlas comet.
Planet X
Taking into account the speed characteristics of this comet and the year 2022 for perihelion, Planet x is already in our solar system.
If you have not followed my work, then think that this is a simple coincidence is legitimate.
If you have followed my work, you will make your own opinion.
For me, I did my job by warning you.
Covid 19 is probably the necessary smoke screen (preparation) and containment measures a means of controlling citizens and information.
Opening : Hours before the Task Force’s White House daily briefing on Monday, April 20, 2020, an open microphone captured a conversation between New York Times photographer Doug Mills and Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts: ” We have all been vaccinated “against the coronavirus” here “…
Ending :If a vaccine can be made in a few months, it takes at least a little more than a year to verify its safety on humans, then imagine for the president of the united states of america…
Conclusion: this virus is not a surprise for everyone.
A Pandemic Used to Hide a Space Threat in “2001: The Space Odyssey”
Leave the big cities as soon as possible…
But not everything is dark… Search and you will find…
Update (March 28, 2020).
From N…
“ What is also interesting is to see that the ATLAS system (Asteroid Terrestrial -impact Last Alert System) was designed with the sole and sole purpose, to provide and prevent an alert from an asteroid that would run right on the Earth.
The word “Last” may turn out to be too much in the characteristic of the system, limit unnecessary, but very subtly well chosen I think …
Like THE last chance before the shock.
And you noticed it very well, moreover, as a symbolism linked to the destruction of Atlantis what better than ATLAS as an acronym for this type of system …
Perhaps a deliberate will on their part too, but the ATLAS system began its measurements in 2015, the year of light, the year of the countdown with the launch of the opening of the 7 Seals.
Coincidence or not …
C2019 y4:
2015 + 4 = 2019 y4 = Year 4
So 7 years before PX, there are 3 compared to 2019.
4 could also correspond to the opening of the 4th Seal … The 4th horsemen of the Apocalypse …
I was wondering about the 7 Seals, if they could all 7 beings from celestial events only …
With parallel consequences on earth as the Bible says …
What do you think? “
***
A lot of very suspicious information is starting to pile up at a breakneck pace and should light up a little red light in your mind…
Some examples :
- Displacement to the bunkers:
Northern Command has dispersed essential command and control teams in several bunkers, including the famous Cheyenne Mountain complex in Colorado, as well as another unspecified site, and keeps them isolated. The command took these measures to ensure that these personnel can continue to monitor 24 hours a day the potential threats for the United States (link).
- The DART mission:
the DART mission, for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will voluntarily collide with an asteroid in order to divert it from its trajectory. Its launch is scheduled for July 22, 2021 and the impact is scheduled for September 30, 2022 … (link)
(Note :an absolutely unprecedented international effort has been made to obtain the most precise scientific simulation possible. Why such a requirement if this mission is only a simple experience to gather information?…
- Closing telescopes:
Astronomy magazine discovered that more than 100 of Earth’s largest research telescopes have closed in recent weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What started with very small closings in February and early March has become an almost complete halt in observational astronomy. And the closings should not end soon … (link)
This information is not taken from a scenario of catastrophe movie, but indeed official news…
Update (April 8, 2020).
Here’s another incredible coincidence …
Here is the apparent trajectory in the sky of the comet C / 2019 Y4 according to the date:
The trajectory of C/ 1844Y1 (“the great comet”) and of C 2019 Y4, correspond for us to the trajectory of Px (amateur astronomers you know where to point telescopes… knowing that the largest telescopes on earth are closed )
Px is symbolized by the builders by a LION ( a predator, a threat).
Now observe the “incredible coincidence” of the trajectory…
Summer solstice day, the Day of the Sun (the ‘Son’ )…
A simple coincidence or a will?
A very small force, meticulously calculated, applied at the right time, on a small body moving in space, allows you to redefine its trajectory, for example, to transmit a message. For this you need to know perfectly the laws of gravitation and as we have shown, the builders know these laws better than we know them…
I told you that all is not dark…
The plan of the builders, is a divine plan…
” And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. “
Luke 21.25
Update (May 29 2020).
Incredible statement by President Macron to the Financial Times reporter on April 16, 2020.
The Secret in plain sight ?
“I believe our generation must know that the beast of the event is here and it is coming…”
“Generation” = long time.
“Must know” = information hidden, secret, not known and which must be revealed.
“The beast” = planet X.
“The event” = the apocalypse
“Is there” = in our solar system.
“And she arrives” = and she arrives…
Update April 2, 2021.
ORION.
According to The Economist, France is preparing for a “high intensity” war: the General Staff has created 10 task forces to examine the country’s readiness for such a war.
In the forests and plains of the Champagne-Ardenne region, where the great powers once clashed, the French armed forces are beginning to prepare for the return of a major conflict.
Scheduled for 2023, Exercise Orion is a full-scale, multi-day, divisional exercise, possibly based on the Suippes, Mailly and Mourmelon camps. It will involve the full range of French military capabilities on a scale that has not been tested for decades.
“Those who know, will understand…”
Volcano.
From V per (Youtube):
“Good evening Jean… Volcanoes seem to be waking up all over the world…
I was waiting with some curiosity for a sign from yo… It’s done 😇 “
Reply :
“Yes, including an Icelandic volcano that had been dormant for over 6,000 years, a date that exactly matches Px’s second pass, during the Taurus Age… strange isn’t it…”
Amazing UFO Sighted Over Moscow, Russia on June 19, 2021
STATEMENT :Москва, Россия
19 июня 2021 г. Метеорит или НЛО ??? Как вы думаете? TRANSLATE : Moscow, Russia June 19, 2021 Meteorite or UFO??? What do you thin
Triangle UFO Sighted Over Shanghai, China ( June 21, 2021 )
2 VIDEOS : Triangle UFO Sighted Over Shanghai, China on June 21, 2021
STATEMENT : 上海的UFO事件，三角形的不明飞行物一直悬浮在云层中间
TRANSLATE : In the UFO incident in Shanghai, a triangular UFO has been suspended in the middle of the clouds
VIDEO 1 : credit : uadambellford
VIDEO 2 : 今日中国 Today__China
An Electric White Glowing UFO, A Crashing UFO, And An Alligator!
Glowing white UFO spotted over Michigan on the 20th of June.
I want to compare it to a 1996 capture of a supposed downed disk in White Sands New Mexico. Source of video:MUFON Case # 116385 Other video sources:Terry's Theories
When looking at a NASA Apollo 11 video, I easily noticed that the astronaut climbing down the ladder was transparent. What this means is that the moon and the lunar module were recorded first, and then the astronaut was placed in it later.
As the astronaut steps down the ladder, you can see the moons shadow that should be behind his foot...suddenly is in front of his foot. Same goes with his upper leg making the horizon of the moon visible through him. As the astronaut steps down onto the moon, you can easily notice the horizon of the moons surface through his chest. This should be impossible. However there is one explanation...that the video was faked and the astronaut was added later after the video was made.
I'm not saying all the Apollo missions are fake, but I am saying that this particular video of Apollo 11 is 100% fake. NASA deliberately lied and created their own video that would be seen throughout history and be called a monumental moment for humanity...a monumental lie maybe. Its sad, but true. Watch my video below to see the truth for yourself...and you decide.
This UFO was filmed in Los Angeles on a balcony near the 10 freeway, about 1 mile east of the 405 freeway. The UAP in the video was filmed at 8:12 pm. Not sure what its distance was, but it was so far that I couldn’t see it with my naked eye. Found it by panning my Nikon P1000 camera across the sky to see if anything would come into view, was also meditating on letting my hand be guided to finding something that I felt was up there. It mostly moved north while occasionally shifting east. I was trying to stay on it in the sky until I accidentally zoomed out and lost it while trying to grab photos of the Unidentified flying object. It was filmed on May 24th, 2021.
UFO Sighted Over Medellín, Colombia ( May 17, 2021 )
Impressive UFO sighting in Medellín, Colombia on the May 17 2021
By: Andres Munoz.
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UFO Sighted Over Montello, Wisconsin ( June 13, 2021 )
Amazing this sighting of an UFO that appeared at a HomeSteadHow in Montello, Wisconsin on the night of June 13, 2021.
Declaration :
′′ While trying to photograph the Milky Way, I located a #UFO above my house. Got to take four pics of this UFO real quick What is this thing?" HomesteadHow is about a family of six who left the big city to live and grow on 20 acres in a rural area. Every day more evidence comes and proves that we were never alone
MUFON CASE : 116400 Las Vegas, Nevada ( June 21, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : UFO's Spotted in backyard at night Long Description of Sighting Report
Just came across these two videos in my phone I forgot about. I was recently going threw old pictures and videos when I came across two videos that I filmed outside of a family members house I was at one night. I don't remember much about that day my memory isn't the greatest but from everything I have been recently learning about with this worldwide phenomenon I see it my duty that these videos make it to someone and that it gives a little more into the question of what these mysterious objects are.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-21 Date of Event : 2019-03-29 / 10:42PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILES :
Over the years I’ve written a handful of articles on a very controversial issue. It’s that of what we might call “aliens in disguise.” There are more than a few cases that describe aliens wearing long black wigs, wraparound sunglasses, even make-up to ensure their pasty and pale skin looks more like ours. Yes, I absolutely know how all of this sounds. That’s right: it sounds totally crazy; even for many ufologists. Even for me! But, I have enough stories to put together a book on what we might call “Camouflaged Aliens” (although I won’t be doing so, I should stress). In this strange category, there’s no doubt it’s the Men in Black and the Women in Black who pop up the most. In 2015, Dr. David M. Jacobs’ book, Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity, was published. As the title alone suggests, this is an extremely controversial book. Although it is heavily focused on so-called “alien abductees,” it is not actually about abduction events, at all. Rather, its focus is on how our civilization is being nothing less than infiltrated by camouflaged, non-human creeps. And, yes, that word “infiltrate” is intended to suggest that nothing good can come from all of this. We’re talking about the ways in which potentially hostile creatures – with no real regard for us, the Human Race – are doing what they can to roam around and without being noticed as something strange. In Walking Among Us, some of these entities are described as looking “sickly,” and as having extremely smooth, and very pale, skin. Jacobs talks about one particular creature being “greatly overdressed for the summer and his slicked-down hairstyle was wrong.” Its attempt at infiltration wasn’t so great.
There’s another angle to this issue of “alien infiltration,” too. It relates to the theories of Mac Tonnies, who wrote The Cryptoterrestrials. It’s a book that provides a strange, but intriguing theory: that the UFO phenomenon might not have anything at all to do with aliens, but everything to do with an ancient, human race. In his book, Tonnies reeled off a number of cases that sounded very much like some of the accounts Jacobs presented in his book, in terms of the modus operandi of both groups. Not only that, Tonnies suggested the cryptoterrestrials – just like Jacobs’ hybrids – camouflage themselves, as a means to look more human. And with those long wigs being the usual tool of camouflage. Now, we come to the problem: the appearances, and activities, of the cryptoterrestrials and of Jacobs’ alien hybrids are very much the same. Their agendas seem to be very much the same, too: namely, to move among us without being detected for what they really are. In light of the above, I have to say I find it highly unlikely that our planet would have two very different groups – one an ancient human species and the other a race of extraterrestrials – but who mirror each other to an uncanny and eerie degree.
Mac Tonnies
In light of the above, and after all the research I’ve done in this field of “creepy camouflage,” I can only conclude that it’s an either/or situation. The similarities and parallels are so close. So, which is it? Do we have extraterrestrials among us? Or, are there cryptoterrestrials on Earth and masquerading as aliens? I have no solid idea, but I strongly suspect there is a huge amount of deception going on somewhere. And, I should stress, I think it’s way too far to think there are ancient humans and aliens both working together – and all at the same time. That’s stretching things just way too far. The cryptoterrestrial theory is a fascinating one, but there’s a big problem. Where are they all when they’re not flying around in their craft? You may think that’s a simple question, but it’s not. Yes, we get reports now and again of UFOs coming out of the oceans, but certain not on a massive scale. Maybe, the cryptoterrestrials spend most of their time far below us, in the depths of the Pacific and the Atlantic. Not impossible, I guess. How about underground? Well, we don’t get many cases of UFOs zooming in and out of the world’s caves, something that suggests such areas are not the regular domains of the cryptoterrestrials. So, again: where do our cryptoterrestrials hide from us? That question could be applied to the hybrid alien theory, too. Where do all of these pale, wig-wearing “things” hide from us?
As you’ll have realized by now, this whole “cryptoterrestrial versus extraterrestrial” issue is incredibly complicated. And, unfortunately, I don’t see that same complication going away at any time soon. Something is using us, but I’m just not sure what it is: aliens infiltrating us, or, as Mac Tonnies suggested, an impoverished race of not-quite-human-beings who, against the odds, have managed to live alongside us, in deep stealth, for millennia.
In advance of a highly anticipated U.S. government report on UAP soon to be released, everyone is either talking about UFOs or being asked about them.
One of the many who has been approached for an opinion on the subject in recent days had been Texas A&M University astronomer Nick Suntzeff, who was asked about the possibility as to whether UFOs might represent visitors from other planets that have been monitoring the Earth for decades, or perhaps even centuries.
Suntzeff, an astronomer whose previous work in Chile has contributed to our understanding of other cosmic mysteries the likes of dark matter, said that he “can’t rule out we have visitors from other planets,” although he adds that we would require more evidence before such conclusions may be drawn.
Texas A&M University Professor Nick Suntzeff
(Wikimedia Commons CC 3.0).
“We need a clear photo,” he says, adding that even with what may be deemed “good” sighting reports, observers often aren’t aware of the distance the object was at the time of the sighting, along with any kinds of nearby objects that can help one gauge the size of the UFO in question.
“I have seen lots of weird things in the sky,” Suntzeff says. “Very weird things — but I can always explain them.”
Citing the work of physicist Enrico Fermi and his famous paradox, Suntzeff asked, “if there is intelligent life, why don’t we see it with our telescopes, or see evidence here on Earth of visitations? Astronomers are always looking for life elsewhere in the universe.”
As Suntzeff correctly points out, astronomers are always looking for life in the universe, and if UFOs do eventually end up being proven to be a visitation to Earth by extraterrestrials, the question will nonetheless remain as to why we would find evidence of them right here at home, under our proverbial noses, and yet we have such a hard time finding evidence alien life further out in the cosmos at their presumed point of origin.
Fermi recognized, as his famous paradox illustrates, that there appears to be a statistical likelihood that alien life exists. Our Milky Way alone is home to billions of stars very much like our Sun, many of which would very likely have planets like Earth in orbit around them. Many would have to be older than our Sun, too, which might leave open the possibility that any aliens residing on planets orbiting those stars could be older than us, and thereby more advanced. Fermi also recognized that with our interest in space travel, these other civilizations would probably have similar interests if they are anything like us. Therefore, if they possess such similar drives to explore the cosmos, and are more technologically advanced than we are, perhaps they have already developed the technology they would need to travel to places like Earth.
Physicist Enrico Fermi
(Public Domain).
In Fermi’s mind, even at the current slow pace of space travel that humans possess, the entire universe could be traversed in a few millions of years. This brings us to the notion that aliens from single points of origins very well could have populated other parts of the universe, even if doing so required several successive generations of space travelers who would establish outposts along the way, gradually expanding beyond their own planetary system, and traveling further and further from home in search of other habitable planets and, eventually, maybe even intelligent life like themselves.
Thus, Fermi concluded, based on such likelihoods, Earth should have been visited by extraterrestrials themselves, or humans should have at least found evidence of their probes. Hence, the great paradox: where are all the aliens?
Considering this paradox, it is interesting how seldom it is that astronomers and other scientists are willing to entertain the possibility that some UFO observations might represent such possible visitations, or at least the kinds of probes Fermi envisioned that might have been sent by extraterrestrials. Yet the general attitude expressed by scientists today when it comes to UFOs—even when the data on such purported incidents is being supplied by our government—amounts to a resounding “meh.”
One of the primary arguments that scientists have raised in recent days against the possibility of UFOs having an extraterrestrial origin has to do with a simple question: why would they even be interested in us in the first place?
“If the UFOs are interested in our military, that’s actually an argument against them being visitors from another star system,” argues astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute. “Instead, it suggests Russian aircraft, Chinese drones, or something else terrestrial — hardware we could understand.” Notably, a recent New York Times article which presented reporting based on information from government officials who had been briefed on the findings of the forthcoming UAP Task Force’s report said that technologies from China or Russia have not been ruled out, but that in truth, neither has the potential of some UFOs having a more exotic source. While each of these possibilities remains, the forthcoming report’s findings appear to convey that there is no evidence that conclusively supports either source of origin at the current time.
“Difficulties of interstellar travel aside, it seems to me to be inconceivable that an advanced species would find us interesting enough to visit, but not interesting enough to contact,” says Don Lincoln, a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. “And, if they wanted to avoid contact, they’re not being very stealthy about it.”
Both Lincoln and Shostak’s remarks are interesting, especially because they present so many presumptions about how extraterrestrial life might behave. Obviously, neither of them has had direct interactions with any extraterrestrials themselves; how could they know, therefore, what aliens might be like, or what their focus or objectives would be when visiting Earth? Yet each of them appears to fundamentally rely on the presumption that extraterrestrials simply wouldn’t find Earth very interesting, and hence would have no reason for visiting. Shostak doesn’t think that our military’s operations would be anything that would concern extraterrestrials; Lincoln more explicitly states that if they don’t intend to make contact, then he thinks aliens wouldn’t likely have other reasons to find us interesting enough to visit.
To Lincoln’s point about UFOs doing such a poor job “being very stealthy about it,” it seems that if they exist, they’ve done a good enough job that many (if not most) scientists still refuse to acknowledge them.
We simply don’t know what kinds of ideas or philosophies might guide the actions of any presumed extraterrestrial intelligence. Although scientists frequently assert reasons why UFOs are unlikely to represent such extraterrestrial visits, these arguments can often be very easily falsified, and shown to be based on expectations they have formed that draw from the only experiences they have had with any kind of intelligent life: humans. Even when scientists attempt to point out our human tendency to anthropomorphize our ideas about aliens, they are seldom able to resist the lure of doing so themselves, whether they even realize it or not.
In truth, maybe UFOs–whatever their origins might ultimately prove to be–are doing a better job keeping a low cover than scientists even realize. That would especially seem to be the case when it comes to those in the scientific community who continue to argue against their existence.
When we think of UFOs, for the most part we assume they’re being piloted by extraterrestrials, but that may not really be the case. In fact, a good, solid case can be made that more than a few UFOs don’t have crews. Remote controlled from somewhere else? Maybe. Programmed robots? Possibly. Let’s have a look at a handful of cases that fall into a category of “where’s the crew?” One of the most intriguing, but also baffling, UFO encounters occurred in Scotland on November 9, 1979, at around 1o:39 a.m. The Telegraph newspaper stated: “…Robert Taylor, a Scottish forestry worker employed by the Livingston Development Corporation, parked his truck at the bottom of Dechmont Law and took his red setter for a walk up the hill. By his account, as he emerged into a clearing he came across a strange metal sphere about 20 ft across ‘like a spaceship, a huge flying dome.’ It appeared to be made from a dark metallic material with a rough texture like sandpaper.”The BBC stated: “[Taylor] told how two-spiked spheres then rolled out towards him and, as he passed out, he was aware of being grabbed on either side of his legs. Mr Taylor woke up in a disheveled state 20 minutes later…After the spiked objects rushed out and tried to grab hold of him, all he could remember was a strong smell of burning. When he came to, the clearing was empty, apart from a pattern of deep regular marks on the ground. He went to his van but was so shaken he drove it into a ditch and had to stagger home in ‘a dazed condition.” And there were no aliens in sight.
On the night of April 21, 1991, the term “close encounter” took on an altogether more significant meaning for the crew and passengers of a London, England-bound airliner. At 9:00 p.m., Captain Achille Zaghetti – who was piloting a McDonnell MD-80 aircraft – was amazed to see a missile-like unidentified flying object pass his aircraft as it flew over the English county of Kent, at a height of more than 22,000 feet. As the UFO was no more than 1,000 feet above the airliner, and the incident was therefore classified as a “near miss,” an official inquiry was launched by the Civil Aviation Authority. Approximately two weeks later, the CAA issued a statement to the media that read as follows: “The pilot said the object was light brown, round, 3 meters long, and did not describe any means of propulsion.” The statement continued: “The aircraft was under the control of the London air traffic control center who had no other aircraft in the vicinity but consistent with the pilot report, a faint radar trace was observed 10 nautical miles behind the Alitalia aircraft.” In conclusion, it was stated: “The air traffic controller submitted an occurrence report and investigatory action began immediately. Extensive inquiries have failed to provide any indication of what the sighting may have been.” That the object was only three meters in length suggests there was no crew aboard.
The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority has collected a number of UFO reports, including cases that involved UFOs that were far too small to have crews. On such report states the following: ““21 Jun 82 Brindisi – Unidentified object sighted by pilots. Object passed down left hand side at same height as aircraft (FL230) & 2 miles away. Black shiny doughnut shape about the size of a car. Object was tumbling and judged to be stationary.” That the craft was barely the size of a car suggests it lacked a crew. Now, let’s take a trip from the U.K. to Bolivia. Documents declassified under the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and made available by the Defense Intelligence Agency state the following: “On late afternoon [8 August 1979] the Embassy here received information that a strange object had been found on a farm near Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Source stated that the object was about 70 centimeters in diameter and two meters in circumference with a hole in one side and a metal skin covering of approx one-half inch thickness. Later the object was described as “about three times the size of a basketball.” A second report, filed shortly afterwards, demonstrated that U.S. authorities were taking a considerable interest in the incident: ” Interestingly, the report state that the sphere “landed smoothly.” How about another case?
In the summer of 1946, Scandinavia was targeted by numerous UFOs. They were referred to as “Ghost Rockets.” Reports surfaced from Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden and caused brief, but worrying, situations for those countries. On July 11, the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, prepared a secret memo that, in part, reads as follows: “For some weeks there have been numerous reports of strange rocket-like missiles being seen in Swedish and Finnish skies. During [the] past few days reports of such objects being seen have greatly increased…Military Attaché is investigating through Swedish channels and has been promised results of Swedish observations. Swedes profess ignorance as to origin character or purpose of missiles but state definitely they are not launched by Swedes.” On July 19, 1947, the Oslo-based Aftenposten newspaper ran an article titled “Did two rocket bombs go down in Mjosa?” The article included the following, notable words: “From a man in Feiring we received this morning a sensational report that two rocket bombs crashed into Mjosa last night. They were shaped like ordinary planes, but quite small with only a 2½-meter wing-span and came between 24 and 0:30 this morning from the west at low height over the southerly part of Feiring, where they were observed by many persons, among them at the Hasselbaken Inn and at the Arnes.” Yet again, such a small craft was unlikely to have had a crew. This makes me wonder if the majority of UFOs lack crews? Just a thought.
A video is making the rounds of an interview with a Russian admiral who was the last Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy from 1985 to 1991. While the video appears to be a few years old, its content is relevant today – the commander discusses encounters between UFOs and a Soviet submarine in 1945 and a US Navy sub in 1947, and those UFOs appeared to be capable of traveling underwater as well as in the air. Even more interesting, he claims the subs were attempting to explore underwater caves off the coast of Antarctica. Will the Pentagon report have anything about this? Will the current Russian military? Anyone? Bueller?
“A squadron of Soviet submarines in 1945, and then a US Navy one in 1947, were severely attacked by flying saucers while trying to gain access to underground caves in Antarctica.”
Former Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy Vladimir Chernavin
The video (watch it here) opens with that big announcement. According to the site Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, it is an interview conducted by journalist Khaled Al-Rushd for RT Arabic with Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin, a former officer of the Soviet Navy, its last Commander-in-Chief the only Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States Navy from 1991 to 1992. He commanded the November class submarine K-21 in 1959, later commanded the submarine flotillas of the Northern Fleet and was awarded a title of the Hero of the Soviet Union before retiring 1992. Chernavin is currently chairman of the Soviet submariners association. Does he sound like someone who would know about UFOs and USOs?
“I remembered an interview I had with the commander of the Soviet naval forces, Vladimir Chernavin. He also told us about flying objects that were diving under water and at high speed coming out of its depths.”
The video is in Russian with English subtitles. It appears to be a recent production by Khaled Al-Rushd where he reminisces about that previous interview with Chernavin and was prompted by Al-Rushd first remembering a quote from US Naval Admiral Richard Byrd about “flying saucers” in which he said, “It is quite possible that these UFOs, whether man-made or of alien origin, come from several underwater bases, including the possible underwater bases in Antarctica, off the coast of California and off the coast of Puerto Rico.” When asked about this, Chernavin dropped this bombshell:
“There have been hundreds of such reports. I saw this phenomenon, including when I was captain of the submarine during our time in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, I clearly saw a flying object over one of our Soviet positions appearing in various forms, but mainly in the form of a round hat.”
“It was especially glowing, this light was changing, but the dish was moving at a tremendous speed, then it would stay hovering in one place and disappear immediately to appear in another place, and then dive into the water and disappear from view, and after a while it came out of the water but in another way, we were watching like this phenomena, as I saw it, the extraordinary phenomena cannot be ignored.”
Does this sound familiar? Chernadin’s next comment hits even closer to home … to the Pentagon report and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
“A committee of this kind was formed. Especially since it was formed, I knew that the Americans had such a committee as well, and the decision was taken to collect and analyze this information in the military field for the first time from my side.”
Did you see that?
Whoa! Chernavin claims Soviet sailors were the first to report seeing UFOs, the first to see them in mass numbers, the first to follow them and to have an “operational directive” to monitor them – with the approval of the Minister of Defense. He claimed the system of monitoring and recording UFO dta “must be signed by the Commander in Chief personally. He recounts an encounter by a nuclear submarine and an escort fleet in the Pacific with “a disk-shaped object with a diameter of about 70 meters” – an encounter Chernavin assured Al-Rushd was documented. He concludes with this warning:
“This was a very serious problem. The decision had to be taken carefully and with balance, and this problem still exists today.”
Indeed, it does. Are we waiting for the wrong report?
Hey everyone! I’m still working on some in-depth investigations and interviews for you, but I didn’t want to leave you all hanging. Here’s a recent “rod” UFO sighting I stumbled upon that, well, has me stumped. I do have a theory but I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions too!
Mile Long UFO Seen Near US Navy Ship While Explosion Test Being Done, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mile Long UFO Seen Near US Navy Ship While Explosion Test Being Done, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 2021
Location of sighting: Atlantic Ocean
I was watching a US Navy aircraft carrier testing a underwater bomb in order to test the durability of the ship in battle. During the video, I quickly noticed a double disk UFO on the upper left of the screen. The UFO is huge, about 1km in diameter and is semi hidden among the clouds, but still is noticeable.
The UFO is seen in most parts of the video and is 100% proof that aliens are monitoring the US Navy and took keen interest in this explosion test. UFO have been seen for decades over nuclear missile silos, nuclear reactors and submarines and ships that carry nuclear missiles. This UFO watching the Navy ship during the explosion just correlates and confirms decades of past military sightings.
UFOs Disappearing Into The Oceans Remains A Mystery
UFOs Disappearing Into The Oceans Remains A Mystery
With all the recent stories about (tic-tac) UFOs diving into the oceans it might be interesting to listen to eyewitnesses who already encountered this phenomenon 50-70 years ago.
A squadron of Sovjet submarines in 1945, and then a US Navy one in 1947, were severely attacked by flying saucers while trying to gain access to underground caves in Antarctica.
When we talk about attacking flying saucers, we must take into account that they were not only flying in the air but also were able to diver underwater, they floated to the surface and attacking from the air. These words are from the testimony of US Naval Admiral Richard Byrd.
Commander of the Sovjet naval forces, Vladimir Chernadin also talked about flying saucers that were diving under water and at high speed coming out of its depths.
He witnessed a flying disk, it was especially glowing and it was moving at a tremendous speed and then dive into the water and disappear from view, after a while it came out of the water again.
It is quite possible that these UFOs, whether man-made or of alien origin, come from several underwater bases, including the possible underwater bases in Antarctica, off the coast of California and off the coast of Puerto Rico.
Do Aliens Exist? 5 Experts Answered The Question, And Their Replies Are Fascinating
CHYNTHIA WIJAYA & NOOR GILLANI, THE CONVERSATION
Speculation has been rife about the contents of an unclassified report set to be released later this month from the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) task force.
The document, expected to drop on June 25, will supposedly provide a comprehensive summary of what the US government knows about UAPs – or, to use the more popular term, UFOs.
While the report is not yet public, TheNew York Times recently published what it claimed was a preview of the findings, provided by unnamed senior officials who were privy to the report's contents.
According to the Times's sources, the report does not provide any clear link or association between more than 120 incidents of UFO sightings from the past two decades, and a possibility of Earth having been visited by aliens.
If The Times's sources are to be believed, there's clearly still no good reason to interpret an unexplained object in the sky as evidence of aliens.
But does that mean aliens aren't out there, somewhere else in the Universe? And if they are, could we ever find them? Or might they be so different to us that "finding" them is impossible in any meaningful sense?
We asked five experts. Four out of five experts said aliens do exist; here are their detailed responses.
Jonti Horner, astrobiologist:
I think that has to be a definite yes. But I think the real question is, are aliens close enough for us to discover them?
Space is unbelievably big. In the last few decades, we've learned almost every star in the cosmos has planets. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to have up to 400 billion stars. If each of those has five planets, we'd have two trillion planets in our galaxy alone. And we know there are more galaxies in the cosmos than there are planets in the Milky Way.
In other words, there's a lot of real estate out there. And with so much variety, I find it impossible to believe Earth is the only planet that has life – including intelligent and technologically-advanced life.
But will we ever find such extra-terrestrial life? That's a tough question. Imagine one in a billion stars host a planet that can develop technologically advanced life which is able to scream its existence into the cosmos.
Well, that would give us 400 stars in our galaxy with technologically advanced life. But our galaxy is vast – 100,000 light years from side to side. That's so big that those stars would, on average, be some 10,000 light years apart. That's way too far for us to hear alien signals (at least at the moment) – unless they're way more powerful than anything we can send!
So while I do believe alien life exists, I think finding proof of this will prove astonishingly hard.
Steven Tingay, astrophysicist:
Yes, but that's a bold assertion. So, let's be clear what we are talking about.
I consider the term "alien" to reference all manner of life, as we understand it on Earth, resident in places other than on Earth. Having said that, there is currently no detailed consensus on the definition of "life". It is a very complex concept. But if we found something like bacteria somewhere other than on Earth, I would classify this as alien life.
The Universe contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, each of which can be composed of up to billions and billions of stars. Most of these stars have at least one planet each. These planetary systems form out of a rich mixture of elements, including all the elements regarded as essential for "life".
So, it is hard to believe that the particular mix of conditions that resulted in "life" only occurred on Earth, and not on the trillions of other planets in the Universe.
But it remains to be seen whether this life is like bacteria, or is an exciting "technologically advanced civilization" we can communicate with.
A significant effort is underway to search for alien civilizations which may be using similar technologies to us, such as powerful radio telescopes sending out radio wavelength communications from distant planetary systems.
And then of course, it's possible our definition of "life" may turn out to be quite narrow, and that aliens – wherever they are – may play by a completely different set of rules.
Helen Maynard-Casely, planetary scientist:
I'm of the opinion that it's only a matter of time before we find something that resembles biology somewhere other than on Earth. This is because we're increasingly finding various potential pockets in our solar system that may be hospitable to life as we know it.
For instance, consider the under-ice oceans of Europa and Ganymede (two of Jupiter's large moons): these are places where the temperature is just right, there is access to water and to minerals, too. Then again, that's viewing things with a very Earth-like lens, and of course alien life could be very different to our own.
That's why I'm really excited about further exploration of Saturn's moon Titan. Titan has a whole range of interesting molecules on its surface, as well as active weather systems to transport them about – this too, all within our solar system. And we know there are other solar systems within our galaxy.
Considering all of the above, it really does feel more and more inevitable that we will find a niche for some active biology somewhere. Whether it can say hello to us? Well, that's a different question.
Rebecca Allen, space technology expert:
Yes, but they probably don't look like us.
There are more than 100 billion planets estimated to exist in our galaxy alone (with some six billion potentially being Earth-like). Therefore, the probability that life exists elsewhere is all but confirmed.
When we hear the word "alien", however, an image of a humanoid lifeform usually springs to mind. But even on Earth, the most predominant form of life is much older, smaller and more resilient.
I'm talking about microorganisms, of course. These organisms defy science by existing where life has no business existing, such as in the sludge around volcanic vents. I would bet alien life exists in the form of these "extremophiles".
In fact, NASA just sent a team of tiny tardigrade (or "water bears") astronauts to the International Space Station so that human astronauts can study how they perform in this extreme environment. With key ingredients for life being discovered in our Solar System, it seems probable Earth's toughest lifeform are spread across the galaxy.
But what about more advanced life? The reality is space is vast. And from the Kepler mission we learned it's hard to find other worlds, let alone identify one that resembles Earth. Add on the fact it took billions of years for advanced life to thrive on Earth, and there's a slim chance of us finding a similar species of alien.
But hope remains, and scientists continue to use advanced radio telescopes to search the skies for new forms of radio communication.
Martin Van-Kranendonk, astrobiologist:
A simple answer to this question is no.
If we use purely empirical data and assume the question refers to any type of life outside of Earth that is not related to human activity, then the answer – as far as we know – must be no.
But, of course, our knowledge relating to this question is finite; we have not investigated every corner of the Universe for signs of life and we do not even know what may constitute life in another chemical system, as there is no agreed-on definition of carbon-based life even here on Earth.
So, perhaps, the more expanded answer is we do not know. In fact, we may never be able to definitively answer this question. But of course, there is much work being done in an effort to figure this out.
Perhaps one day we can know if we have nearby inter-planetary neighbors, or if indeed we are alone. Or perhaps we never will.
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21-06-2021
Supermassive Black Hole Winds Were Already Blowing Less Than a Billion Years After the Big Bang
Supermassive Black Hole Winds Were Already Blowing Less Than a Billion Years After the Big Bang
At the heart of most galaxies is a supermassive black hole. These beasts of gravity can play a crucial role in the formation and evolution of their galaxy. But astronomers still don’t fully understand when the influence of black holes becomes significant. Did large black holes form early in the universe, causing galaxies to form around them? Or did black holes grow after its primordial galaxy had begun to form? You might call this the chicken or egg problem. But a recent study suggests that galaxies and their supermassive black holes can have a mutual interaction that allows them to co-evolve.
Galaxies can feed their black hole by amassing gas and dust in the central region. In turn, as the black hole consumes this matter, it can heat the material, which works to clear gas and dust from star-forming regions. One of the ways this occurs is through the production of a galactic wind. Just as the Sun’s intense heat creates a stream of ionized particles known as the solar wind, the intense heat of material near a black hole can create an ionized wind on a galactic scale.
M82 is a starburst galaxy with strong galactic winds. Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
Previous studies have shown that the galactic wind of a black hole is effective in clearing gas from the galaxy. This can dampen the growth of galaxies since the more gas a galaxy has in its central region, the more active the black hole and the more strongly gas is cleared. Astronomers have generally thought galactic winds form relatively late in the game, once a galaxy has entered an active period of star production, such as we see in starburst galaxies. But this latest work finds that galactic winds can form quite early in the life of a galaxy.
The work focuses on a galaxy known as J1243+0100. The galaxy is so distant that its light has traveled for 13.1 billion years. Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team observed a flow of gas moving at 500 km/s from the galaxy. This is consistent with the flow of galactic winds in closer galaxies. The team was also able to measure the mass of the supermassive black hole, as well as the mass of its galaxy.
J1243+0100 is the youngest galaxy we’ve seen to have a galactic wind, and this suggests that active winds form early in the life of a galaxy. But perhaps more interesting is the comparison of the mass of the black hole with its galaxy. The study found that the mass ratio is roughly the same as the mass ratio of older galaxies, including that of the Milky Way. This strongly suggests a co-evolution of black holes and galaxies, such that the growth of one has a direct effect on the growth of the other. Thus, it might not be a matter of the chicken or the egg, but rather of siblings, roughly the same age, and shaped by their life together. This is just one example, so the team plans to observe several more young galaxies to see the co-evolution model is accurate.
California Woman Spots This Above the Ocean! | Schumann Rocked and Another Outage!
California Woman Spots This Above the Ocean! | Schumann Rocked and Another Outage!
California Woman Spots This Above the Ocean! | Schumann Rocked and Another Outage!
We are living in very unique, changing times and during these times I have become more than intrigued by these changes and what is causing them. I’m referring to the earth changes, changes in our sun and how the earth’s atmosphere manages this what I believe to be a much different sunlight.
Over the last 10 years I have become very familiar with our planet, the mechanics of it and how it reacts to many different aspects of space weather and many other things as well. I monitor everything from the sea floor to the cosmos and everything in between. I am a full-time Watchman and as these uncertain times move forward I’ve got your back. When you really need to know…you’ll know.
Farmer Digs Up Stone Egyptian Stele Saluting Sixth Century BC Pharaoh
Farmer Digs Up Stone Egyptian Stele Saluting Sixth Century BC Pharaoh
Recently, a farmer ploughing his field in Egypt’s Ismailia Governorate dug up something massive and historically significant. The unnamed farmer was shocked to realize the heavy object he’d uncovered was not a large rock. It was actually a huge stone Egyptian stele that contained hieroglyphic writing in an ancient language.
Suspecting he’d found something important the man immediately contacted the local Tourism and Antiquities Police. After retrieving it, antiquities experts identified the thick stone slab as an ancient Egyptian stele, or sandstone monument. This stele was constructed in the sixth century BC, as a monument to a largely forgotten pharaoh.
The Egyptian stele of Apries, as it was found in the farmer’s field, with its hieroglyphic inscription related to one of the pharaoh’s numerous completed or planned military campaigns .
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has confirmed the Ismailia Egyptian stele , found in the farmer’s field, was hammered in stone in honor of the Egyptian pharaoh Apries . Apries served as the leader of a united and independent Egypt during the 26th dynasty , holding the throne from 589 to 570 BC.
Archaeologists were able to identify the Egyptian stele as a monument to Apries because the pharaoh’s cartouche, or official royal insignia , was carved into the slab at the top. The creator of the monument also decorated it with a winged image of a sun disk, which likely represented the Egyptian sun god Ra .
The latter design choice is consistent with at least one other discovery. Archaeologists previously found a rectangular plaque associated with Apries in the ruins of an ancient temple site project in the city of Abydos, 300 miles (500 kilometers) south of Cairo. That plaque carried an inscription that referred to him as “the son of Re (Ra).” And in fact, Apries real given name was Wah-ib-re, which meant “Constant is the heart of Re (Ra).” His throne name was Haa-ib-re, which meant "Jubilant is the Heart of Re (Ra) Forever."
The buried stele is impressive in size. It is 91 inches (230 centimeters) tall, 41 inches (103 centimeters) wide, and 18 inches (45 centimeters) thick. The farmer discovered it in a field located approximately 62 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of the capital city of Cairo , near the town of Ismailia.
The stele was exceptionally well-preserved. The 15 lines of writing it contained could still be read, and work has already begun to translate the inscription. The current working theory is that Apries ordered the stele built to commemorate a military campaign that he’d either planned or recently completed.
This is not the first stele dedicated to Apries found in Ismailia. In 2011, the Egyptian military found two sandstone slabs buried in the governate’s Tal Defna area , both of which contained hieroglyphic messages and Apries’ distinctive cartouches.
The Egyptian stele from the farmer’s field showing the cartouche of the pharaoh at the top in the middle, just below the winged sun disk image at the very top .
Wah-ib-re, or Apries, ascended to the throne following the death of his father, the 26th dynasty ruler Psamtik II. His service during his 19 years of rule was considered unremarkable and was ultimately destined to end in disaster.
Apries’ style of rule was aggressive and militaristic. He was frequently at war with his neighbors in Greece, Palestine, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Babylonia, as the various powers and peoples in the region struggled for territorial control or freedom from colonization. He initiated the typical ancient Egyptian building projects, adding to temple complexes in many places. Like other pharaohs, he also ordered the construction of stele that celebrated his achievements (real or imagined).
Seeking glory through military success, Apries made a controversial decision. He supplemented his Egyptian army with a significant population of Greek mercenaries , offering them privileged positions and likely higher pay. This greatly upset the rank-and-file Egyptian native soldiers, who still comprised the bulk of his forces.
Near the end of his reign, Apries committed what turned out to be his greatest blunder. He dispatched his troops to Libya to help repel an invasion by Dorian Greeks from the city of Cyrene, which the Greeks had established as an outpost on Libyan soil. Apries’ forces were decisively defeated during this disastrous adventure, which provoked a massive revolt in the Egyptian army. The subsequent fighting pitted Egyptian natives against Apries’ hated Greek mercenaries, whose presence had likely made civil war inevitable.
Apries sent his most capable general, Amasis, to put down the revolt and stop the civil war from spreading. But to the pharaoh’s shock and horror, the Egyptians successfully recruited Amasis to become their new leader and convinced him to accept the title of the new pharaoh of Egypt.
A rare "portrait in stone" of pharaoh Apries in the Louvre Museum, Paris France.
Refusing to concede his throne, Apries launched two military campaigns against Amasis and his legions in 570 BC. However, both were unsuccessful. After his second failed attempt to retake power, Apries fled to Babylonia, to seek refuge in the court of Nebuchadnezzar.
Apries tried once again to regain his throne, in 567 BC. This time he was accompanied by a new mercenary force, comprised entirely of Babylonians.
Not surprisingly, Apries was easily defeated by the unified Egyptian forces. This time he was not allowed to escape, but instead was placed under arrest and finally executed by Amasis. Despite their intense rivalry, his successor did give Apries a proper burial, in recognition of his one-time status as the legitimate pharaoh of Egypt.
What is known about Apries, and his exploits, mostly comes from the fifth century BC Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote about past events in Egypt and elsewhere in the ancient world. It was Herodotus who called the multi-named pharaoh Apries, and that name is the one he is best known by today. Apries was also mentioned in a few places in the Bible, where he was referred to as the Pharaoh Hophra.
Archaeologists have discovered only a few artifacts that can be linked directly to Apries, which is one reason why Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities was quite pleased to receive this newly excavated stele.
In 1909, archaeologists from the British School of Archaeology did find and dig out Apries’ magnificent 80,000-square-foot (24,000-square-meter) palace at the ancient site of Memphis , which once functioned as Egypt’s capital. Apries fled to Memphis after his first defeat at the hands of Amasis, in what was to be the pharaoh’s last visit to his lavishly designed and decorated showplace before his exile and eventual death.
This curious monument in Rome, the so-called Pulcino della Minerva, is a statue designed by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini of an elephant as the supporting base for an Egyptian obelisk found within Emperor Dominican's garden. This obelisk was first constructed under the 589-570 BC reign of pharaoh Apries.
Once the hieroglyphics on the newly discovered Egyptian stele have been translated, the experts will know for sure which military campaign it was intended to document.
If it in some way relates to Apries’ struggles with Amasis, it would be especially significant. These were the most momentous campaigns of the pharaoh’s relatively brief 19-year reign. They were important not because of how they relate to Apries, but because they led to the Amasis’ ascension to the throne.
While Apries didn’t accomplish anything remarkable, his successor did. Amasis, who served as Egypt’s ruler for 44 years under the title Ahmose II, was Egypt’s last great pharaoh . Under his wise leadership Egypt became prosperous and successful, in part because of the close contacts he established with the Greeks.
The reign of the man who began as Apries’ most trusted general brought back memories of past glories. It provided Egypt with one last great moment under the sun, before Persian conquerors arrived and overthrew the 26th Dynasty shortly after Amasis’ death.
Top image: The Sphinx of Apries, dated to between 589 and 570 BC. Like the Egyptian stele found in the farmer's field, this sphinx is dedicated to the pharaoh Apries of the 26th dynasty of Egypt. Inset, stele of Apries in situ at find site.
Hollow Earth Agartha, Nazis In Antarctica, Operation High Jump, The World Within the World
Hollow Earth Agartha, Nazis In Antarctica, Operation High Jump, The World Within the World
Vice Admiral Byrd announced on February of 1947, just before venturing into a 2,750 km journey across the North Pole, “I want to see the land beyond the Pole. That area beyond the Pole is the center of the Great Enigma.”
According to some, it is believed that during Vice Admiral Byrd’s flight over the North Pole that took place in 1947, he said via radio that beneath was not snow but huge areas of land with mountains, forests and vegetation, huge lakes and rivers with animals that resembled mammoths.
Before his death, had said there existed a land beyond the Pole that was “an enchanted continent in the sky, a permanent mystery of Earth.” That land, according to other theories, was the legendary Rainbow City, home to a fabulous lost civilization.
The possibility that the earth is hollow, and that it can be accessed through the North and South poles, and that secret civilizations flourish within it, has spurred the imagination of people through centuries. Evidence of this we find in the history of countless ancient civilizations. The Babylonian hero Gilgamesh visited his ancestor Utnapishtim in the bowels of the earth; in Greek mythology, Orpheus tries to rescue Eurydice from the underground hell; it was said that the Pharaohs of Egypt communicated with the underworld, which could be accessed via secret tunnels hidden in the pyramids; and Buddhists believed (and still believe) that millions of people live in Agharta, an underground paradise ruled by the king of the world. So just when you think that these theories could be nothing more than excessive imaginations, you actually come across evidence in ancient history pointing towards the possibility of a world inside Earth.
The idea that the Forbidden Kingdom of “Agartha” actually exists was not only said to have been supported by Admiral Byrd but by other explorers around the world. A Map made by cartographer Heinrich C. Berann is believed to show an entrance to the inner Earth, the Kingdom of Agartha. In that map, the Antarctic continent can be observed without its thick layer of ice. But the most intriguing detail are the presence of underwater passages spanning across the entire continent and seem to converge at the exact location which is identified as the opening towards the Hollow Earth or Inner Earth. Leonard Euler, a mathematical genius of the eighteenth century, concluded that the Earth was hollow, containing a central sun and was inhabited; and Dr. Edmund Halley, discoverer of Comet Halley and Royal Astronomer of England also believed that the Earth was hollow on the inside with three “Floors”.
Some also speak about Operation Highjump and Admiral Byrd’s journeys where extremely advanced airships were seen flying around and exploring new territories. Not long ago, we discovered a map of the third Reich in which there are several secret passages depicted which were used by German U-Boats to access mysterious underground regions, as well as a complete map of both hemispheres and the mysterious kingdom of Agartha.
A letter, supposedly written by Karl Unger, one of the crew members of a German Uboat states that they had reached the interior of the Earth, and that they did not consider returning. All of these stories seem to be backed up by numerous discoveries and recently, scientists discovered a large ocean of water inside the mantle of Earth, and they point out that it is a large water “tank” that could fill the oceans on Earth three times. This incredible discovery suggests that the surface water of the planet came from within Earth, as part of a “complete water cycle on the planet” instead of the dominant theory proposed that water arrived to Earth by icy comets that passed by the planet millions of years ago.
The Nazis were also extremely interested in the Inner Earth and myths associated with it. It is believed that Antarctica is the entrance to the lost Aryan homeland of Thule. Even though Antarctica has been linked to the lost continent of Atlantis, the linkage to Thule is less apparent. Thule (also known as Thula, Thyle, Thila, Tila, Tyle, or Tylen) was first mentioned by Greek explorer Pytheas after his travels between 330 BC and 320 BC. But in 150 AD, Greek writer Antonius Diogenes wrote The Wonders Beyond Thule. In the distant past, Thule was believed to have been a distant place located beyond the “borders of the known world.”
Interestingly in 2001 the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Support Office for Aero-geophysical Research discovered the existence of a magnetic anomaly believed to be on the eastside shore of Lake Vostok in Antarctica, the anomaly is believed to be consistent with a man-made construction.
UFO Sighted Over San Bernardino, California ( June 19, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Driving up on El Cajon Pass in San Bernardino, CA earlier today at 2:30AM when we caught this on video. We had originally seen it when coming down and was just in shock, but seeing it again a second time allowed us to record. I apologize for being so loud in the video, it was just too intense.
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UFO Sighted Over Jonesboro, Georgia ( June 20, 2021 )
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UFO Sighted Over Vancouver, Canada ( May 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Vancouver, Canada : May 2021
STATEMENT : Unidentified item May 2021 Canada / Vancouver.
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When A Mothership UFO Is NOT A Mothership UFO (Follow Up With What This Object Really Is)
Guys, I'm so sorry for this but it was never my intention to deceive you lot as i was very excited over this footage and with this i just want to show you guys and as i could not source the original i used what i had. I am glad that my viewer took the time to look further in to this footage and one of my viewer found this footage to which we can compare the so call ufo footage against.
Thanks to my viewer "Tomas Gravenmier" and this is what he wrote too me. "So i spent some time skimming through the source video - and debunked it..
At -6:06:00 you see the bright star Vega (blueish "orb") in frame to the right, and the aurora to the left. A minute later, the video transitions to a new view and there it is. An overhanging part of the station. Clear as day. The person recording must've just cropped the top part out.
MUFON CASE : 116385 Whitehall, Michigan (June 20, 2021)
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Moved south southwest near Lake Michigan
Long Description of Sighting Report
Eating burgers at park near fishing bridge in Whitehall Michigan and saw an object in the sky off to the west moving south to southwest. Watched until it vanished. Saw it or another again and got out of car and took video of it.
Possible UFO hovering in the sky near Lake Michigan
Possible UFO hovering in the sky near Lake Michigan
June 19, 2021 Whitehall, Michigan. Possible Tic-Tac-like UFO hovering in the sky near Lake Michigan.
The photographer saw an object in the sky off to the west moving south to southwest until it vanished. Then he saw it or eventually a second one again and took a video of it.
This UFO footage was taken in Las Vegas, Nevada back on 29th March 2019 but it was just posted today on MUFON’s website.
Witness report:
Just came across these two videos in my phone I forgot about. I was recently going threw old pictures and videos when I came across two videos that I filmed outside of a family members house I was at one night. I don’t remember much about that day my memory isn’t the greatest but from everything I have been recently learning about with this worldwide phenomenon I see it my duty that these videos make it to someone and that it gives a little more into the question of what these mysterious objects are.
UFO changing shapes over Wilmington, California 17-Jun-2021
UFO changing shapes over Wilmington, California 17-Jun-2021
This strange lights were seen and recorded in the sky above Wilmington, a neighborhood in the Harbor region of Los Angeles, California.
Witness report:
I was in filmed this in Wilmington,Ca at 12:03am on June 17,2021 and this …. at night its crazy it was up there on and off for like 20 to 30 minutes I have more video of the same ufo I have like 20 minutes of footage if you like I can upload the more video …
While those interested in UFOs in the U.S. continue to wait for the Pentagon UAP report — which leaks and briefings have already prepped the public for disappointment, an X-Files-style ‘lone gunman’ in Brazil took matters into his own hands and obtained secret documents from the Brazilian concerning multiple UFO encounters in 2008 that included humanoid aliens and a military investigation. The UFO researcher released the documents a few months ago and recently translated them into English. The report is far from disappointing.
“On 11-19-2008, around 10 pm, Ms. Renata Veloso saw an object descend at high speed from the sky like a lightning bolt. It was moments before the Brazil and Portugal game, when we were getting ready to watch the game. She called me and given the insistence I walked to the window and saw a huge luminous object (hexagon) accompanied by two other smaller spherical ones that rotated under its orbit. When he approached the Nossa Senhora Aparecida church, the streetlamp lights in the Bela Vista neighborhoods went out block by block. One of the smaller objects was silver and the other was red, like red hot iron (it changed color). After a time of observation of the object’s maneuvers; I called 190 and was answered by Cpl. Barbosa. I determined that a vehicle composed by the Military personnel Cpl. Rabelo, LCpl. Francisco and LCpl. Balbino was sent to the site (Avenida Bela VistaNalongo).”
On Twitter, UFO researcher Rony Vernet released the report (pdf format here) made by Eisenhower Guerck Austríaco, a Brazilian military police of Minas Gerais State (PM-MG) officer, to his superiors concerning “Phenomenon observed in the sky of the city of Claudio, and pursuit of two strange beings seen in the city’s cane fields.” According to the report, he directed military personnel to the area, where they also witnessed the UFOs, as did another civilian woman, bringing the total number of witnesses to six.
“On November 19th and 20th we had an experience, together with several other Military personnel and people we met and interviewed about lights that flew over the city, and also about small “humanoid” beings that were chased by the Mitsubishi 13533 vehicle around 12 mph between the planted canes. These seen humanoids seemed to slip through the reeds. In all the actions of this Officer, several armed Military personnel followed the phenomenon at different times, in one of these moments, we were in 03 vehicles. A lady from Formiguinha Village, when she opened the door of her house, have seen small beings in her backyard and also saw an object colored incandescent iron standing in the air behind eucalyptus trees at about 2,600 ft, pointing to this Officer’s beret as the shape of the seen object. Objects flew at an incalculable speed and stopped as if there were no limits to physics, they just stopped suddenly. Objects curved at angles of ninety degrees or less, shifted forward, and returned backward.”
The second incident with the alien humanoids occurred the following day. The military personnel reported the streetlights going out or exploding as the UFOs hovered or exited at a high speed with no sound. They estimated the UFO to be the size of a pickup truck. The humanoid aliens were described as “luminous beings” that moved without touching the ground and had no feet, fingers, eyes or noses — just arms, legs and an “oval head.” Interestingly, “although they were luminous, they didn’t illuminate.” The police officers reported that they tried to photograph the humanoids, but …
“The humanoids were very bright, we didn’t see eyes, and they didn’t show up on the camera. Sgt Waldir Araújo Silva tried everything to photograph those “beings” but they didn’t appear, even with the lens zoom, only the fireflies appeared.”
Whatever affected their cameras also seemed to affect them – they complained of “headaches, body aches and fear,” and reporting officer Austríaco said his arm was too weak to reach for his gun. While they all saw the same things – a lake, the humanoids taking something from the ground as if they were scientists acquiring samples – the witnesses said they had a feeling of not being sure if it was real. that was confirmed the following day when they returned to the exact spot and the lake was gone. Nonetheless, the officers continued their investigation and found other witnesses. While there were no photos, they did have some evidence of the encounter.
“Several people report experiences identical to those of us Military personnel and we are going to interview these people. Some narrate hot air entering the house. The vehicles are with electrical problems. Mitsubhi doesn’t work, the Military who saw and had more contact seem distressed, we are all psychologically or physically different, more tired, sleepy, there are reports of people who felt levitating.”
The report lists the names of eleven military and civilian witnesses. Searches have not uncovered any additional reports besides the one translated by Rony Vernet. Since it occurred in 2008, tracking them down might be difficult, and they may not wish to talk – remember, this report has been kept secret for 13 years.
UFOs, aliens, fatigue, electrical problems, missing time, secret files, a ‘lone gunman’ … this incident is worth of its own X-Files episode. Sadly, the X-Files TV show is no more, but the determination and frustration of UFO investigators like Scully and Mulder lives on in people like Rony Vernet.
Astronomers Find a Blinking Star Near the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers Find a Blinking Star Near the Center of the Milky Way
In this week’s edition of new unexplained astronomical phenomena, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Leigh Smith from Cambridge found a star 100 times larger than our sun that nearly disappears from the sky every few decades. They also have no idea why it does so.
The star, called VVV-WIT-08, is located 25,000 light years away, and decreases in brightness by a factor of 30 rather than disappearing altogether. It’s not the first star to be discovered with this changing brightness pattern, but evidence is beginning to mount that this might just be another example of a new class of stars.
UT Video discussing one potential reason for the dimming – transiting
VVV-WIT-08’s name itself is calling out for an explanation. The “WIT” in the middle actually stands for “what is this”, which is what astronomers call stars that are difficult to classify into any particular established category.
The team, which included members from the University of Edinburgh, University of Hertfordshire, University of Warsaw, and Universidad Andres Bellow in Chile, found this new variable star by using the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey (VVV), which utilizes the VISTA telescope in Chile. Its dimming pattern was then confirmed using the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), which showed the star dimming in both infrared and visible light.
The VISTA telescope in its dome at sunset. Its primary mirror is 4.1 meters wide. Credit – G. Hüdepohl/ESO.
Astronomers think the most likely cause of this dimming process are opaque disks of dust and gas, or potentially a binary companion or planet transiting in front of the star. But more novel explanations cannot yet be ruled out. With more stars steadily being added to this new category of “blinking giants”, it’s only a matter of time before more theories abound on what could be causing the dimming. And there’s still so many more phenomena to find and explanations to explore.
The Whole Country Lights up With UFOs! Multiple Eye Witness Videos! 2021
The Whole Country Lights up With UFOs! Multiple Eye Witness Videos! 2021
The Whole Country Lights Up with UFOs! Multiple Eye Witness Videos! 2021
Since 2008, THIRDPHASEOFMOON has changed the way people look up at the skies and wonder, “Are we Alone?” With over 773,000 subscribers and millions of views, our goal is simple! We speak with UFO EYE WITNESSES from around the globe, including ground reporting with Experts and Professionals, such as Astronauts, Scientists, Government Officials, ETC.
With permission granted, THIRDPHASEOFMOON, will share, discuss, enhance and analyze UFO videos. And along with our research and opinion of the evidence, THIRDPHASEOFMOON also produces 100% Original Documentaries in regards to the UFO PHENOMENON happening everyday! Our Aim is to bring Truth and Evidence in the field directly to the Public!
UFO Humanoid non-human creature or being, or a robot, with human form or characteristics. Sighted on June 18, 2021 plus the best Humanoid Sightings of 2021
UFO Sighted Over North Atlantic Ocean ( June 18, 2021 )
Alien reconnaissance or monitoring probe stationed in the center of the sea. North Atlantic Ocean : June 18, 2021 )
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UFO Sighted Over Portland, Oregon ( June 18, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Weirdest experience ever!!! I was in the park meditating (natural Astral projector) and out of no where I heard a high pitch noice, felt myself being sucked up and I screamed (loud, people came over) opened my eyes and snapped out of it then we saw this.
credit : Abigail Porter
UFOs Sighted From ISS ( June 18, 2021 )
6 sightings recorded from ISS ( International Space Station ) : VIDEO 5 : June 7, 2021 STATEMENT : They're here... This video was recorded from NASA's LIVE YouTube channel with a cell phone and that's why it looks a little blurry.
credit : Rafael Navarro Ferrari
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In the video i had the date wrong... This was spotted on June 9, 2021.. Sorry my mistake.. In this we witness several orb like object fly into the huge UFO with these beautiful wings. This footage was captured by a camera on the International Space Station and if anyone can translate what this gentleman is saying as i believe this could only add to this footage.
Original Source: Space videos: ** Please note that this was filmed from a continuous live stream and it is not backed up so this footage will not be there anymore ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBPjV...
MUFON CASE : 116376 Mayville, Wisconsin ( June 19, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Unidentified black object
Long Description of Sighting Report
I was sitting on my porch when I noticed this black round object in the sky. I couldn't figure out what it was so I recorded it. It was moving quite fast and I only had view of it for a minute. I lost visual when it passed behind the school in front of my apartment. It seemed to also change shape from circular to circular with something protruding.
Looking thought the Ceres photos in the JPL archives I found a spaceship parked in a crater. The UFO is about 1-3 km across and takes up a good 20% of the crater itself. Why do aliens land ships in craters? Easy...to protect them from micrometeorites and other space debris. The crater walls help reduce any incoming collisions from space debris by 20-40% depending on the crater walls and depth. This is the second UFO I reported this week on dwarf planet Ceres. As I have said before, I have experience at finding them hidden in craters on earths moon, so it makes it easier to find on there planets and asteroids.
I found a face in this Mars photo today. The face is near the Mars Spirit rover and is so close that I'm certain the NASA scientists saw it too. The face is half a meter in diameter. It has two eye sockets, nose, and two huge white teeth. It's even looking in the direction of the rover itself. Certainly it could be coincidence of a rock looking like a face, and yet...the rover didn't take a closer look! Why? Such lack of investigation is what leads me to believe that NASA rovers are not there to find evidence of life, but instead to make the public believe they are searching for life. Oh...and this is an alien made face in stone, its not a coincidence...its 100% proof that aliens once existed on Mars.
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Dark Journalist: Antarctica UFO Secrets and Alien Invasion Op!
Dark Journalist: Antarctica UFO Secrets and Alien Invasion Op!
Dark Journalist interview with Oxford Scholar Dr. Joseph Farrell on Antarctica UFO Secrets and Alien Invasion Op! Wernher von Braun Prediction - Exotic Technology and Admiral Byrd Operation Highjump!
UFOS AND GLOBAL CONTROL
Join Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt for this fascinating interview with Dr. Joseph Farrell on Antarctica UFO Secrets and the Alien Invasion Op! Dr. Farrell goes deep on the Nazi Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun and his prescient Prediction of a False Alien Invasion Op that would be created by the National Security State as a pretext to weaponize space.
He also examines the Exotic Technology that Admiral Byrd encountered during Operation Highjump and the strange death of Byrd's son before he could expose the truth!
Daytime video – cigar UFO near Lake Michigan 19-Jun-2021
Daytime video – cigar UFO near Lake Michigan 19-Jun-2021
Daytime cigar-shaped object filmed near Lake Michigan on 19th June 2021.
Witness report:
Moved south southwest near Lake Michigan. Eating burgers at park near fishing bridge in Whitehall Michigan and saw an object in the sky off to the west moving south to southwest. Watched until it vanished. Saw it or another again and got out of car and took video of it.
Claim to have seen the things that these people did, and the world starts paying attention. For this list, we’ll be looking at people who famously claimed to have witnessed UFOs or had interactions with extraterrestrials. Our countdown includes David Bowie, Elvis Presley, The Reed Brothers, and more! Have YOU ever seen a UFO? Let us know in the comments!
It’s no secret that I don’t believe aliens crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. I’ve written two books on why, in my mind, we should be looking for answers that take us beyond tales of aliens and dead extraterrestrials. They are 2005’s Body Snatchers in the Desert and 2017’s The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. For many of those who believe aliens did come down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, they hang onto certain aspects of the Roswell story – aspects that seem to vindicate the tales of aliens. Today, though, I’m going to explain how and why some of the cornerstones of Roswell are actually nothing of the sort. I’ll begin with the yarn of Glenn Dennis and those “little coffins” in which the alien bodies were supposedly stored. At the time when everything went weird at Roswell in ’47, Dennis was an embalmer (not a mortician, as so many have incorrectly described him – including Dennis himself, no less) at the local Ballard Funeral Home. He signed a sworn affidavit confirming something sensational – namely, that a nursing friend at the base had quietly admitted to him that a preliminary autopsy of a number of strange bodies had been conducted at the base hospital at the Roswell Army Air Field. One of the most memorable parts of Dennis’ tale is the claim that in the immediate aftermath of the crash, he was contacted by someone at the base. It was someone who wanted to know to if he – Dennis – had any small coffins. And, that’s what I want to address today.
I have always thought that Dennis’ story of the small coffins was planted – by the man himself – as a piece of dramatic story-telling and the pinnacle of his claims. If bodies were taken to the base – and I believe they were, but they weren’t alien – having a military man bringing up the need for tiny coffins, and sharing the story with Dennis, makes no sense at all – and particularly so from the perspective of security. Maybe even of national security proportions. It only inflates the controversy even more. And, certainly, no-one on the base wanted that. The military would not have wanted to seed the story of small bodies in the mind of a local embalmer: who was a member of the public. Why would the military specifically ask Dennis for small coffins, when normal-sized would have done the job just as well? The answer is simple: they wouldn’t have done that. They would have operated in a very low-key fashion.Clearly, the tale of the “tiny coffins” is garbage and, for those who still hang onto the story, it’s time to walk away from it. Forever.
Now, there’s the saga of “the victims of the wreck.” One of the most intriguing pieces of Roswell-based documentation is that which has become known as the “Ramey Memo.” It is a single piece of paper and can be seen in a black-and-white photograph taken of Brigadier General Roger Ramey. In 1947, he was the head of the 8th Army Air Force, which operated out of Fort Worth, Texas. Ramey is a key part of the story, as he is holding the memo in question in his left hand; a memo which says something about Roswell. But, what? That’s the issue UFO researchers are unable to agree upon. A number of attempts have been made to decipher the memo. The first real attempt of any major significance was undertaken on behalf of the U.S. Air Force. In their massive 1994 report on the Roswell affair, the USAF stated that it sent the photo-collection to what was only referred to as a “national-level organization for digitizing and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis.” The results, however, were disappointing, as that same unnamed organization informed the Air Force, on July 20, 1994, that even after careful digitizing, “the photos were of insufficient quality to visualize either of the details sought for analysis.”
The crash site
(Nick Redfern)
There is very little doubt that the memo includes the words “in the ‘disc’ they will ship.” Far more controversially, David Rudiak concludes from his analysis that the words “operation at the ranch” and “the victims of the wreck” can also be seen. Roswell investigator Kevin Randle noted in 2015: “While ‘Victims of the wreck’ might not take us immediately to the extraterrestrial, it would certainly start us on the path.” I’m particularly intrigued by that word, “victims.” Let’s take a look at the definitions for “victim” that Merriam-Webster provides. They include: “one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent;” “one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions;” “one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment;” and “one that is tricked or duped” If the “human experiment” angle for Roswell is the correct one – as I believe it to be – then the terminology used by Merriam-Webster to define a “victim” is most apt. After all, there is no doubt that those used in the 1940s-era experiments were “adversely affected by a force or agent.” Few would deny they were “injured, destroyed, or sacrificed.”” And they were certainly ““subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment.” Still on the matter of that controversial sentence in the Ramey Memo, there is the issue of the word “wreck.” It seems very strange that such a word would have been used to describe what the military was assuring the media was just a flimsy weather-balloon.
Now, we come to another aspect of Roswell that many ufologists claim proves that aliens crashed, but that, as you’ll see, doesn’t stand up at all. When, in the 1990s, the Government Accountability Office (previously known as the General Accounting Office) was investigating Roswell, they found that a huge amount of documentation from the base was missing. Proof that aliens did crash? Nope. You have to look at the story carefully. If UFO/Roswell researchers wish to maintain that the missing files from 1947 point to a specific cover-up of the Roswell event – and Roswell occurred out of the blue in July of that year – then they have to provide a viable reason as to why documentation dating back as far as March 1945 was pulled too, and why additional documentation remains missing from as late as 1950. Saying that “the outgoing Roswell messages from July 1947 are missing” is absolutely true, and it opens eyes and it catches the attention of ufologists and Roswell disciples everywhere. Noting that, in reality, the files actually cover 1945 to 1950, and also cover general administrative issues at the base, is far less attention-grabbing.
Ironically, the fact that the files which have vanished (files which still cannot be found) span 1945 to 1950, actually adds weight to the idea that Roswell was a military experiment. Just about everyone I spoke with while writing Body Snatchers in the Desert told me that the human experimentation began in 1945 and ended in the late 1940s – with a few additional tests having occurred in the early fifties. Pulling 1945-era files for a one-off event that didn’t occur until the summer of 1947 makes zero sense. Pulling certain 1945-era files that might have compromised the handful of pre-Roswell experiments – had they reached the public domain, of course – makes perfect sense. The same goes for the decision to make the 1948-1950 files vanish, too. The fact is that six years of files are missing, not just files from the time of the Roswell crash. This is indicative of a fairly lengthy series of ongoing tests that had to be hidden – not the out-of-the-blue crash of one solitary alien spacecraft midway through 1947.
It should also be recalled that President Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments revealed that “…a number of potentially important collections could not be located and were evidently lost or destroyed [italics mine]. Similarly, the Committee reveals, a number of those same document collections related to experiments undertaken in the fields of biomedicine, defense and space exploration; and in the great majority of these cases only fragmentary data remained. Where programs were legitimately kept secret for national security reasons, states the Committee, the government often did not create or maintain adequate records [italics mine], thereby preventing the public, and those most at risk, from learning the facts in a timely and complete fashion.” All of this is highly suggestive of an agenda to make Roswell go away – permanently. And to bury the extremely controversial “human experiment” angle of the incident.
The go-to explanation for giant iceballs from space that are too large to be hail and too non-blue and non-stinky to be waste dumped from airplane toilets is ‘megacryometeor’ – a rare frozen space ball whose cause researchers can’t seem to agree on and whose dangerous propensity to crash into homes the government doesn’t seem to be worried about protecting us from. Do we need a Pentagon investigation or should we hold a telethon? Either one might help a family in Elk Mound, Wisconsin, who is the latest victim of this insidious space invader.
“It grazed me. I would’ve probably been out, kicked the bucket [if it landed on me]. As soon as that came through, everything else was like dust of insulation. I couldn’t see.”
What next?
Ken Millermon of Elk Mound, a small village in western Wisconsin near Eau Claire, sounds happy to be alive after his bedroom was the target of a 12-pound ice ball on May 25, 2021. Millermon called his insurance agent since it looked like a lot of damage (see photos here) and they’re generally more responsive than the government. Then he called the local news media, which spread the photos around and tried to find an answer.
“While some people suggest megacryometeors really just come from airplanes. Some people say well it’s the head or the bathroom of the airplane, or maybe it’s coming out of the wheel well. That explanation doesn’t hold up if we have samples back in the 1700s.”
Well, that eliminates a plane poopsicle, according to Dr. James Boulter, a chemistry and biochemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claie (UWEC). Boulter also agrees with meteorologists who say it’s far too big to be a hailstone, along with the fact that the storm in the area that night wasn’t powerful enough to create hail. For the “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but …” crowd, Boulter has tests he runs on giant ice balls (a potential band name?) and eliminated the possibility of this one coming from outer space. However, it could still be a type of meteor.
“We think, it’s likely to be a megacryometeor. These have been observed around the world to a tune of maybe a dozen or so a year.”
Being a good professor, Boulter turned this mysterious ice ball into a learning experience for his students. While they know about the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere hugging the ground where we humans live, and the stratosphere, the next layer which is extremely stable and has no turbulence, few are aware of the thin layer in-between them known as the tropopause. Hovering somewhere between 5.6 and 11 miles up (it’s thicker over the equator), it’s the point where air no longer cools with height, instead becoming completely dry. While generally stable, Boulter says that certain unknown activities in the jet stream can create a fold in the tropopause, causing the stratosphere to mix with the troposphere, creating weird conditions that could cause ice crystals to form fast enough to accumulate into giant ice ball ‘megacryometeors’ before falling to the earth and into bedrooms.
Megacryometeor wannabes?
“The conditions to create something of this magnitude up there have to be pretty interesting, with a dozen or so of these things a year of just the ones that have been reported. Imagine all the ones that fall over oceans or forests; there’s probably a lot more of these than we actually know about.”
As Ken Millerman might say – ‘Who cares … what about our roofs?’ A study of megacryometeors sounds like the perfect subject for a PhD dissertation or a grant … or a project for certain billionaires to research as they send their private crafts to the edge of space and back.
That whooshing sound you hear is lawyers for airlines breathing a sigh of relief.
If UFOs are out there, feds want to know what they are and where they're from
More frequently reported sightings of unidentified flying objects by pilots have made government officials more serious about finding out what they are. (File Photo)
If UFOs are out there, feds want to know what they are and where they're from
WASHINGTON — It’s an idea that has tantalized civilization for ages: Is there intelligent life beyond Earth? For years, it has preoccupied the Pentagon and intelligence agencies, too.
What You Need To Know
House, Senate intelligence leaders briefed on report on UFOs
The report is expected to be released at end of June
Sightings not confirmed or ruled out as alien spacecraft in report
Nation must know whether they're a safety concern, Demings and Rubio say
NASA will investigate sightings scientifically, administrator says
The growing number of sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFO's, by military and commercial pilots is now drawing the attention of the federal government. Members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on Capitol Hill have now been briefed on the much-anticipated UFO report that is expected to be released at the end of this month.
“We do have reason to be concerned until we are able to rule out any threat to the traveling public, to those military pilots, to our military facilities,” said Rep. Val Demings (D-Florida District 10), a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Demings was briefed Wednesday by Naval and FBI officials on their findings, which did not confirm or rule out the sightings as alien spacecraft.
“It’s an ongoing investigation — I think they are competent and capable of identifying those unidentified objects,” Demings said in an interview with Spectrum News.
The Department of Defense has been keeping track of these kinds of reports for decades but only recently acknowledged their existence.
“There was a taboo on discussing technological civilizations beyond Earth for a while,” said Harvard University science professor Dr. Avi Loeb. “It was considered a little crazy, perhaps in the realm of science fiction, but I think we're getting to the time where it will be part of the mainstream discussion.”
For years, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has been urging the federal government to take UFOs seriously. He’s been demanding answers and added language into former President Donald Trump’s last spending bill that mandated the Pentagon to compile the UFO report.
“People can speculate about, well, it’s space aliens,” Rubio said. “My biggest concern frankly is that it’s another country. They’ve made some technological leap that will catch us by surprise by perhaps one of our adversaries. That would be deeply concerning.”
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the space agency is also launching an investigation of its own.
“Now that I’m here at NASA, I’ve turned to our scientists, and I’ve said, ‘Would you look at it from a scientific standpoint?’” Nelson said. “NASA is going to appropriately look at it through the lens of its scientists.”
The UFO report is expected to be released to the public by the end of the month. It’s unclear how much the government will reveal of its findings because of national security concerns.
New Dark Outpost: UFO Disclosure From FBI! Papers Released on Alien Bodies, Spacecrafts and Other Planets
New Dark Outpost:UFO Disclosure From FBI! Papers Released on Alien Bodies, Spacecrafts and Other Planets
The FBI has released a document detailing the existence of alien bodies, spacecrafts and other planets. John Carman weighs in. Plus…Someone once said that, after silence, music comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible. Singer/songwriter Billy Falcon’s music has a way of doing just that.
As an artist uses color, Falcon uses words and music to convey life’s beauty and fragility, the joy, and the heartache, the disappointment, and always, the hope. Falcon enters the Inner Circle. Leave the world you think you know behind and join us at the Dark Outpost! Watch the full show at https://watch.darkoutpost.tv!
A New Technique for “Seeing” Exoplanet Surfaces Based on the Content of their Atmospheres
A New Technique for “Seeing” Exoplanet Surfaces Based on the Content of their Atmospheres
In November of 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope(JMST) will make its long-awaited journey to space. This next-generation observatory will observe the cosmos using its advanced infrared suite and reveal many never-before-seen things. By 2024, it will be joined the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), the successor to the Hubble mission that will have 100 times Hubble’s field of view and faster observing time.
These instruments will make huge contributions to many fields of research, not the least of which is the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets. But even with their advanced optics and capabilities, these missions will not be able to examine the surfaces of exoplanets in any detail. However, a team of the UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the Space Science Institute (SSI) have developed the next best thing: a tool for detecting an exoplanet surface without directly seeing it.
The paper that describes their research, titled “How to Identify Exoplanet Surfaces Using Atmospheric Trace Species in Hydrogen-dominated Atmospheres,” recently appeared in The Astrophysical Journal. As they indicated, the team sought to develop ways to study the surfaces of exoplanets based on their atmospheric composition. This is necessary since none of the upcoming space telescopes have the capacity to study surface features of an exoplanet indirectly.
However, these same telescopes will be excellent tools for determining the composition of exoplanet atmospheres. Beyond the James Webb and Roman Space Telescopes, a number of next-generation ground-based observatories will become operational in the coming years that will have similar capabilities. These include the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
With their combination of high-sensitivity, coronographs, and adaptive optics, these observatories will be able to conduct Direct Imaging studies of exoplanets, where light reflected directly from an exoplanet’s atmosphere will be studied to determine atmospheric composition. This will help astronomers and astrobiologists place tighter constraints on which exoplanets are “potentially habitable” and which are not.
However, the conditions we consider prerequisites for life also include geological processes like volcanic activity and plate tectonics, which are discernible from their associated surface features. While we may not be able to discern these in the near future, Xinting Yu (an Earth and Planetary Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSC) and her colleagues have proposed a novel way to determine surface features based on the abundances of atmospheric gases.
As Dr. Yu explained to Universe Today via email, the inspiration for this method came from two bodies in our Solar System – Jupiter and Titan (Saturn’s largest moon). Both bodies have dense gaseous atmospheres with two chemical species – ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) – that play a major part in atmospheric processes. Said Yu:
“Titan has a cold and shallow surface with almost no (or not supposed to be any) ammonia and methane, while Jupiter’s atmosphere has lots of ammonia and methane. Why is this happening? In the upper atmosphere of both Jupiter and Titan, ammonia and methane are destroyed by UV photons constantly, forming nitrogen (for ammonia) and more complex hydrocarbons (for methane). On Titan, the photochemistry-formed nitrogen and complex hydrocarbons keep forming and piling up.”
Cassini image of Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
In short, methane and ammonia are destroyed in Titan’s atmosphere and then consumed to form nitrogen and hydrocarbons. This is what led to nitrogen becoming the dominant gas in Titan’s atmosphere (98% by volume) and the large deposition of hydrocarbons on its surface, leading to the formation of an organic-rich environment. Due to the extreme cold of Titan’s surface, this conversion process is irreversible.
Jupiter, on the other hand, also has ammonia and methane in its dense atmosphere but has no surface to speak of. As Yu explained, this results in a rather different process where the chemical species involved:
“Because there is no surface on Jupiter, the atmosphere just extends all the way to thousands of Earth surface pressures and thousands of kelvins. The photochemistry-formed nitrogen and complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere can transport to this deep, hot part of the atmosphere. There, they could combine hydrogen to reform methane and ammonia. The reformed methane and ammonia are then “recycled” back into the upper atmosphere. This cycle continues to replenish the destroyed methane and ammonia.”
Another key point addressed by Yu and her team has to do with the current exoplanet census. To date, the majority of exoplanets discovered have been mini-Neptunes – i.e., planets that are less massive than Neptune but have a thick atmosphere dominated by hydrogen and helium. In fact, of the 4,401 confirmed exoplanets to date, 1,488 have been identified as “Neptune-like,” with masses ranging from 9 times that of Earth to slightly less than Jupiter.
Jupiter’s atmosphere, as imaged by the Juno mission (colorized by Kevin M. Gill). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Because of their gaseous envelopes and the distances involved, it is impossible to determine if these planets have surfaced and where they are located. Because of their statistical significance, Yu and her team decided to use one in particular to test their novel approach. This was K2-18b, a mini-Neptune with about 8 times the mass of Earth that orbits within the habitable zone (HZ) of a red dwarf star (K2-18) located 124 light-years from Earth.
Originally detected by the Kepler Space Telescope in 2015, K2-18b is the first HZ exoplanet found to have significant amounts of water vapor in its atmosphere. Using a photochemical model, Yu and her team simulated how the presence of a surface on this exoplanet would affect the atmospheric evolution of K2-18b. They also accounted for different atmospheric pressure and temperature levels, factors that are linked to surface elevation.
“We are wondering if we can use the abundance of species like ammonia and methane to tell if an exoplanet has a surface or not,” said Yu. “A cold and shallow surface would cut all the “recycling” reactions that require high temperatures and pressures in deep planetary atmospheres to reform methane and ammonia. Thus, we expect to see little methane and ammonia on an exoplanet with a cold and shallow surface, and lots of methane and ammonia on an exoplanet with no surface or a deep and hot surface.”
What they found was that ammonia and methane, as predicted, were both sensitive to both the presence and elevation of a surface. This is consistent with what has been observed with exoplanets that have cold and shallow surfaces, where chemical species like water, hydrogen cyanide, and heavier hydrocarbons are broken down by UV exposure. Meanwhile, species like carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide (which are less prone to UV destruction) are retained.
Artist’s impression of a Super-Earth planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
What was unexpected, however, was the way that different chemicals are sensitive in different ways to different levels of elevation. According to Yu, this is due to the fact that carbon and nitrogen species have a “sweet spot” where they can be fully recycled. Whereas ammonia and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) are sensitive to atmospheres with densities of 100 bar at the surface (100 times that of Earth, similar to Venus), methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide are sensitive to pressures below 10 bar at the surface (ten times that of Earth).
These findings present multiple implications for the study of exoplanets, foremost of which are the fact that planetary surfaces matter. Said Yu:
“Previously, scientists were predicting the atmospheric compositions of exoplanets using thermochemical equilibrium models. The atmospheric compositions are solely determined by the pressure and temperature of the atmosphere. But our study shows, even if pressure and temperature are the same, adding a surface can drastically change the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet!”
Another implication of this study is that it is possible for astronomers to learn about exoplanet surfaces based on their atmospheric composition. “For example, when the observers see depleted amounts of ammonia and HCN, we can tell this exoplanet has a surface of less than 100 bar,” added Yu. “Then if we also see depleted quantities of methane, hydrocarbons, and an increased amount of carbon monoxide, that indicates a surface less than 10 bar. That is pretty promising for identifying habitable exoplanets!”
Beyond the characterization of mini-Neptunes, this research also has implications for all other types of exoplanets – including rocky, “Earth-like” ones. In fact, as long as the planet in question has an atmosphere and is subject to UV radiation in its upper atmosphere, the size of the exoplanet is irrelevant. In all cases, astronomers will see the same differences in chemical abundances depending on whether or not there is a surface.
Artist’s impression of the Earth-sized, rocky exoplanet GJ 1132 b, located 41 light-years away around a red dwarf star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech)
According to Yu, it is the smaller colder exoplanets that are more promising testing targets for this method since they are more likely to have shallow and cold surfaces. However, smaller planets are also more likely to have interior or surface processes that will affect the abundance of certain chemicals in their atmospheres – such as volcanic activity and plate tectonics. The smaller they are, the more significant these processes could be.
These and other concerns are things that Yu and her team look forward to studying in greater detail in the future to determine the robustness of their results and how it might be affected by different perturbations from the surface/interior of the exoplanets. Their efforts, and those of astrobiologists in general, will benefit greatly from the launch of the JWST, which is currently scheduled to take place sometime in November of 2021. Said Yu:
“Our study points out an exciting science angle for JWST. It is fine to have solely atmospheric characterization data. Without direct surface observations, we can still tell if an exoplanet has a surface, and even roughly where the surface is located. Knowing whether an exoplanet has a surface is also undoubtedly important for astrobiology. A liquid or a solid surface is likely necessary for sustaining complex lifeforms. Thus, the existence of a surface would be an essential thing to look for when assessing an exoplanet’s habitability.”
The ability to study exoplanets directly, combined with the ability to constrain their surface conditions, will advance the study of astrobiology considerably. The field will also benefit from innovative methods that could allow scientists to search for life (aka. biosignatures) based on different levels of entropy in an environment or different levels of complexity with organic particles. Little by little, we are narrowing the focus and tightening the constraints!
If there is life out there to be found, we find it sooner or later!
UFO Sighted Over Mendoza, Argentina ( June 17, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Mendoza, Argentina on June 17, 2021
STATEMENT : q me dicen de este viedo ??? muy pocos me dieron una explicación ovni !!!!sucedio en mendoaza Argentina!!!!!!
TRANSLATE : What do they say about this video??? Very few gave me an explanation UFO!!!! it happened in Mendoza Argentina!!!!!!
credit : Alexis Martin Bruno
Ancient Alien Tech Discovered ( June 13, 2021 )
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UFO Sighted Over Peterhead, Scotland ( June 13, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Some strange UFO in the night I’m telling you all it’s not a drone my I live rural in the county side of Scotland with fields of sheep around me. I have 2 neighbours and one does have a drone for the young boy. He’s used it a couple times and it’s obviously a low flying object. Your able to judge it’s distance like a bird flying about. My other neighbour is a farmer I know him well he does not own a drone. This was very far away.
credit : Scott DuBois
UFO Sighted Over San Juan, Puerto Rico ( June 16, 2021 )
Impressive UFO sighting from an aircraft landing in San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital and largest city on : June 16, 2021
Closer and more evident every day
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UFO Sighted Over Boa Vista, Brazil ( June 16, 2021 )
STATEMENT :registro no céu de Boa Vista Roraima. As 18:28 da noite. 16/06/21
TRANSLATE :record in Boa Vista Roraima sky. At 18:28 pm 16/06/21
Impressive sighting of UFOs coming out of Popocatepetl volcano Mexico. At 6: 06 minutes of the morning of the June 16, 2021 via Mexico's Web Cam Monitoring equipment, it was possible to obtain extraordinary evidence in which you can see how two unidentified flying objects emerge from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano .... The equipment is located in the Tlamacas area, very close to the colossus of fire and we can see how these objects emerge directly from the crater of this active giant. We can even see them as they shine brightly when leaving the crater. Would Popocatepetl Volcano be an UFO base or a dimensional portal? One thing is already certain and unquestionable, they are already among us...
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UFO Sighted Over Pakistan ( June 15, 2021 )
Impressive UFO sighting in Pakistan, UFO was sighted on June 15, 2021 by All A.
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Large Pill Shaped Object REC Over Ebensburg Pennsylvania?
arge Pill shaped object recorded over Ebensburg Pennsylvania on June 9th 2021.
Colorado UFO investigator talks upcoming report to Congress
Colorado UFO investigator talks upcoming report to Congress
A UFO report is due to Congress by June 25. Jeremy Jojola talks with a Colorado UFO investigator about the upcoming report and how her group approaches sightings.
Watch | UFO Hovers Over Ocean, Disappears Into Water in Officially Confirmed US Navy Video
Watch | UFO Hovers Over Ocean, Disappears Into Water in Officially Confirmed US Navy Video
A leaked US Navy UFO sighting video shows a mysterious object disappearing into the water. The US defense departments have confirmed that military personnel recorded the video.
Documentary filmmaker and UFO enthusiasts Jeremy Corbell released the footage that shows an unidentified flying object (UFO) vanishing into the water off California in the US. ACCORDING TO CORBELL, the US Navy captured the footage off the coast of San Diego in July 2019.
The video shows a black spherical object captured in an infrared camera. The UFO is seen flying over the ocean and then disappearing into the water.
“It splashed,” a military person can be heard saying as the object vanishes. Corbell released the leaked footage on May 15.
The US Department of Defense has confirmed military personnel recorded the video.
Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, established in 2020 to look into the nature and origins of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, will review and analyse the video.
Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough confirmed that Navy personnel recorded the video and that the UAPTF included it in their ongoing examinations.
The leaked UFO video has garnered more than 9 lakh views on Twitter and has been widely shared on other social media.
Jeremy Corbell said that the UFO looked like a transmedium, capable of traveling through air and water.
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Jeremy Corbell mentioned that it is noted in intelligence reports that the UFO could not be found after it entered the water. A submarine was utilized in the search, but they recovered nothing.
According to Corbell, a member of the Navy aboard the USS Omaha recorded the footage on July 15, 2019.
In 2019, the Navy reported several Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings, the Pentagon’s term for UFO sightings. The USS Omaha was one of the vessels that observed the UFO close to the coast of California.
In 2020, the Pentagon officially released three UFO clips recorded by Navy pilots in 2004 and 2005.
Where is the best place in the U.S. to see UFOs? Roswell and Area 51 get a lot of votes, and the U.S. Navy might say off the Pacific coast off of California or the Atlantic coast off of Virginia beach. However, if you ask the U.S. Air Force, it’s the Gulf coast Florida. That’s where an engineer who is also interested in UFOs claims he was told a new facility the USAF is building which will be used to track unidentified aerial phenomena.
“Normally, I wouldn’t look at this particular project with too much zeal especially since MacDill Air Force Base is about 45 miles south at the southern tip of Tampa Bay. MacDill is Central Command for Middle Eastern operations. However, being that I am a life-long UFO enthusiast and given everything occurring recently, my radar went off, no pun intended.”
This story comes from the website 528hz.space and Jeff Blask, the Plans Examiner Supervisor for Pasco County’s Building Department who wrote about the project on his blog, The Jolt. That’s right – what might be the biggest revelation in how serious the federal government is about UFOs is revealed by a lowly local government building inspector called in early April 2021 to check out plans for a few unusual structures on a Gulf coast land parcel. those structures include:
100′ Tall Tower with Radar Dome 2, 50′ collapsible Auxiliary Towers An elevated Monitoring building with observation deck
Approved plans (Public Record)
What was being built here? Blask says he joked with the project engineer presenting that it looked like a UAP tracking station. To his surprise, the engineer responded:
“You got it! And as a matter of fact, if you are interested in that subject it may also interest you to know that this facility is not being manned and monitored by MacDill Air Force Base… it’s being monitored in its entirety by Eglin.”
Eglin Air Force Base is much farther from the site than nearby MacDill. Nervous that knowing this would end up in him receiving a visit from the Men in Black, the engineer assured Blask that the plans were not classified (Blask provides the public domain drawings on his site), but warned that “this facility will be under heavily armed guards and only people with Top Secret clearance will be allowed in” and – this is the big one – it’s just the first of a series of similar facilities planned for other coastal areas.
“This development is most likely connected to Aviator Ryan Graves’ assertion that there were sensitive air space intrusions practically daily on Florida’s East Coast for two years.”
Approved plans
(Public Record)
528hz.space links the UFO tracking facility to the revelations made last month on “60 Minutes” by former Navy Lt. Ryan Graves, who says he saw UFOs off the coast of Virginia in 2019 that are a “security threat” to the U.S. and, despite that, these UFOs continued to buzz the Atlantic coast for two years without a military response – at least none that he knew of.
That’s all there is so far. Is Blask correct in his revelation that the US Air Force is building a UAP tracking station on the Gulf Coast near Tampa? Will any details on this be covered in the upcoming Pentagon report on UAPs? Will anyone ask questions if it isn’t?
Located out in a small valley in the central part of Norway, in the municipality of Holtålen in Trøndelag county, is the scenic valley of Hessdalen. Surrounded by scenic mountains, it is an isolated, sparsely populated area, the largest settlement being the tiny village of the same name, which has a population of just 150 people. Not much typically goes on here, and the people live a quiet, peaceful life among the picturesque scenery away from the bustle of city life, but beginning in 1981 their serene lives would be interrupted by a spate of sightings of mysterious lights in the sky that have remained unexplained.
Hessdalen Valley
Although strange lights had been sporadically seen in the valley since the 1940s, the activity of the phenomenon now known as the Hessdalen lights really picked up and became known in 1981, when villagers in the valley were startled by a myriad of mysterious orbs of light in the sky that would regularly appear at various places throughout the valley both night and day. These lights could be anywhere from the size of a basketball to the size of a car, sometimes even much larger, and had a wide variety of characteristics and behaviors. They would usually be bright white, yellow or red, and depending on the report usually appearing below the horizon but sometimes above the mountains. They would alternately zip away at high speeds to vanish, slowly float about, hover in midair, speed up or slow down, away from side to side, or do aerial acrobatics. They would sometimes merely appear and disappear in a flash, while others were observed floating and zipping about for up to 2 hours, with larger orbs frequently seen to spew out smaller orbs. On occasion, the orbs were said to hover over water or approach or shy away from observers when approached, demonstrating what seemed to be intelligent control, and in some daytime sightings the objects were described as looking metallic. Whatever they were, they were sighted very frequently, in their peak being seen 15 to 20 times a week, frightening locals in the process. One article in the online science journal Frontiers in Earth Science has described the lights in detail:
In spite of their irregular occurrence—i.e., 15 to 20 times per week from 1981 to 1984 and 10 to 20 times per year nowadays— the Hessdalen lights (HL) have been consistently observed and possess a series of recurring features: (1) they have the appearance of a free-floating light ball with dimensions ranging from decimeters up to 30 m. (2) they are characterized by geometric structures that are often accompanied by small, short-duration pulsating “spikes” in the high frequency and very low frequency radio ranges, (3) they show an absolute luminosity that has been estimated to be 19 kW, and (4) they have a time duration ranging from seconds to hours. HL are also characterized by the formation of light ball clusters and the ejection of mini light balls. They may also show very high velocities. Furthermore, HL are thunderstorm-independent events, as opposed to other rare and poorly understood transient luminous phenomena occurring in the atmosphere (i.e., ball lightings, blue jets, red sprites and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes).
The Hessdalen lights quickly became big news, drawing in droves of all manner of curiosity seekers and UFO researchers, as well as mainstream scientists eager to get to the bottom of the mystery. In the summer of 1983, an ongoing scientific field investigation was launched to study the lights, and by the conclusion of their 1-year investigation there were 53 light observations made. More scientific investigations have been carried out as well, including one in 1985, and another from 1997–1998 which managed to capture footage of the lights in a bizarre pyramid shape that bounced up and down. In 1998, an automated station was installed in the valley, called the Hessdalen Automatic Measurement Station (Hessdalen AMS) to monitor the lights year round, collecting reams of photos of the lights, as well as various readings on scientific equipment, and there have been various peer reviewed papers on the lights published in scientific journals. Indeed, the Hessdalen lights constitute one of the most well researched mysterious phenomenon there is. However, despite all of this study, no one can quite figure out what they actually are.
The number of theories as to what the lights might be is vast. One idea is that some sort of combustion is occurring involving hydrogen, oxygen and sodium, helped along by large deposits of scandium in the area. Another is that they are caused by piezoelectricity, which is an electrical charge that accumulates in certain materials including certain kinds of rock such as quartz, crystals, certain ceramics, and even some biological materials like bone. Considering that the valley has large deposits of crystal rocks, it is speculated that these may build up a charge that is released to form these balls of light. Other theories include plasma balls, ball lightning, meteorites, mirages, igniting gases, and even the idea that the valley itself acts as a sort of battery that generates a current, as well as many other numerous hypotheses and speculations. However, no single explanation can really account for all of the different characteristics reported with the lights. Of course, the lights have been claimed to be ghosts and alien UFOs as well, and UFO researchers have long held keen interest in this place. Yet, as much as this lonely valley has been studied, the secrets of its strange lights have remained evasive, and we still have no idea what they are, keeping them in the realm of mystery and speculation.
Every May and October, a curious phenomenon occurs along a 160-mile-long stretch of the Mekong River in the Isaan region in northeast Thailand. For a few nights during these two months, one can see the eerie sight of numerous glowing balls that seem to erupt from the very river itself to fly high into the air and vanish. Descriptions for these luminous orbs vary, ranging from the size of tiny bubbles or sparklers to larger ones said to be around the size of a basketball, usually a reddish color, but sometimes a bluish or yellowish hue and sometimes white. These balls typically will launch themselves upwards several hundred meters into the air before suddenly blinking out of existence, never making a sound and emanating no smoke or plume. They will continue for a time before stopping just as suddenly as they appeared, and there can be tens to thousands of these lights seen throughout a given night, rain or shine, with the most intense activity occurring during the night of Wan Ok Phansa at the end of Buddhist Lent in late-October and the most lights seen in the vicinity of a small village called Phon Phisai. Formerly called simply the “ghost lights,” they are now officially called bung fai phaya nak, and more commonly referred to by outsiders as the “Naga fireballs,” and no one is quite sure just what they are.
According to local tradition, the Naga fireballs have their origins in a type of giant river serpent prevalent in Buddhist folklore, called a Naga, in this case specifically a Naga called the Phaya Nak, or “the king of nagas.” These are said to be enormous semi-divine serpents and servants of Buddha with supernatural powers that lurk within the Mekong river or its estuaries, and are not only responsible for strange wave formations and other phenomena, but also are known from time to time shoot blazing fireballs into the air. Far from merely myth and folklore, a great many people in the rural areas of Thailand sincerely believe the Phaya Nak exist. There have been numerous sightings of them, and there are even supposed bones, teeth, and the egg of a Naga kept at a temple in Phon Phisai, and so it therefore goes without saying that for the locals the fireballs are coming from these beasts, as a display of celebration for the end of Buddhist Lent. However, of course there are plenty of other theories from scientists skeptical that the fireballs are coming from magical giant river serpents.
One theory that has been thrown around is that it is merely people firing tracer rounds, flares, or even just fireworks, the sound deadened by the distance and the often very noisy crowds of people who pour into the region to see the lights every year. Indeed, the annual 4-day Phayanak Festival in October attracts tens of thousands of people, who come to see the lights and enjoy the many festivities and events, including food stalls, Naga legend information, fireball exhibitions, a night bazaar, light and sound shows, and long-boat races prior to the main event of the fireballs themselves. With all of this activity it would seem that many of the lights might just be a show put on to draw in visitors, as the festival brings in huge amounts of revenue for the tiny rural local economy. However, while some of the Naga fireballs might be this, it does not explain the fireballs that originally began the festival, why they seem to come directly out of the water, or why they will often pop out in various different areas along the river. There are also frequent Thai boat patrols through the area to deter people from doing dangerous things like firing into the air. There is also the fact that the fireballs have been seen at other times of the year, and are only really paid attention to at the end of Buddhist Lent. They are also frequently reported as coming from smaller tributaries of the Mekong and even ponds in other areas, as well as some claims that these things have been seen for centuries. One reporter Andrew Biggs has said of the hoax angle in an article in the Bangkok Post:
First of all, the lights have been around a long time. Fishermen have reported seeing what locals still call “ghost lights” in the darkness of the Mekong River way before local governments attached the myth of Phayanak to them. Also, these lights apparently don’t just appear on the end of Buddhist Lent. It’s just that we pay attention to them on that night, which isn’t the same as saying they only pop up once a year. The biggest quandary of all is that we are living in the era of digital record. Everything is filmed, photographed and uploaded onto Instagram. People photograph their morning coffee, for god’s sake — what happens when it’s an event like weird coloured balls in the river? And yet despite all this, nobody has captured any hoax perpetrators.
It is also the scale of the operation. Just say I wanted to play a prank on Northeast believers and shoot a couple of coloured lights off the Mekong River. Who knows the specifics of the operation, but let’s say I do indeed do that. Last Sunday night, starting at 6.28pm, the first fireballs were spotted by those 300,000 visitors camped along the banks of the river at Ban Tha Muang, Rattanawapee district. Then, another one was spotted in a different district. And another. And another. All in all, a total of seventy fireballs shot up throughout the night, and that was in Rattanawapee alone. There were more in the districts of Sangkhom and Pone-pisai. By the end of the night, there were more than 300 fireballs. That’s a really big, expensive hoax!
For these reasons, it seems that surely not all of them could be caused by hoaxes or partiers, so what else could they be? Another possibility put forward is that the fireballs are caused by plasma orbs formed by the release of surface electricity, or even the old standby for UFO sightings called swamp gas. This is basically methane gas produced by the decomposition of organic material igniting when exposed to oxygen, and it has been used by skeptics to explain away a variety of ghost light and UFO phenomena, but this would not explain why it only happens most prominently at specific times of the year like clockwork, and it has also been called out as an unsuitable explanation for this phenomenon in other ways. Skeptic Brian Dunning has given a thorough and amusing skeptical debunking of the typical skeptical argument of swamp gas causing the Naga fireballs, saying:
There are two fatal flaws with this hypothesis. First, methane can only burn in an oxygen environment within a specific range of concentrations. It can only spontaneously ignite within an even narrower range, and requires the presence of phosphine combined with phosphorous tetrahydride. The needed proportions of these gases are unlikely to be found in nature. Second, in laboratory experiments designed to replicate the conditions needed for spontaneous ignition, the combination of oxygen, methane, and phosphorus compounds burns bright bluish-green with a sudden pop, producing black smoke. Under no conditions does it burn slowly, or red, or rise up in the air as a fireball. So even if the improbable conditions did exist in the Mekong river, the resulting display would not look like the Naga Fireballs.
Whatever is shooting up into the air, you’ve got to figure that it has some solid mass. When you watch the videos you can see that the red-orange lights go up very fast, consistent with fireworks, small rockets, or even tracer rounds (very much like a 12-gauge shotgun tracer round, which is comparatively slow). How is it possible for any flaming object to move that quickly through the air without blowing out? That’s not a problem for something like a firework or a tracer round, things designed for exactly such a purpose. But it’s a major problem for a burning ball of gas, which has an insufficient mass to drag ratio to move that quickly through the air. Even a pyrotechnic explosion that billows into the sky rises at a slow rate consistent with hot air rising through cold air; it does not and cannot streak like a bullet at hundreds of feet per second. For the Naga Fireballs to move as they do, they must enclose an object significantly more massive than the air they’re moving through. This necessarily means they’re heavier than air. And since they’re rocketing skyward, this means they must have been physically propelled.
So, from what we can observe, it’s actually more plausible that a river dragon is spitting flaming balls of dragon-mucus skyward, than it is for the Naga Fireballs to be naturally produced burning gas bubbles.
The Naga Fireballs have as of yet remained unidentified. What are we looking at here? Is this some rational, explainable phenomenon? Is it gases, atmospheric phenomena, or merely fireworks and people firing tracers into the air? Or is it perhaps something else altogether? The festival at the river still goes on every year, and if you talk to any local they will say it is the doing of the mysterious Naga, with perhaps even some spite thrown your way if you should say otherwise. Whatever the explanation may be, the Naga fireballs continue on, and have evaded understanding to this day.
Scientists have long thought that meteorites, pieces of asteroids that hit the Earth's ground, have emanated from different space rocks in the asteroid belt.
A new study suggests they may have a common, unknown origin, however.
The research looked at more than 500 million years worth of marine sedimentary rock containing meteorites, examining 15 different windows of time and found that all originate in the asteroid belt, but it's unclear where in the asteroid belt they're coming from.
'We argue that meteorites and small asteroids delivered to Earth in deep time are not primarily linked to the sequence of asteroid family-forming events,' researchers Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz wrote in the study's abstract.
'Another, as yet unknown, delivery process appears to be associated with a very restricted region in the asteroid belt.'
Meteorites may have a common, unknown origin, a new study has found
'Another, as yet unknown, delivery process appears to be associated with a very restricted region in the asteroid belt,' researchers said
Experts looked at more than 500 million years worth of marine sedimentary rock containing meteorites, examining 15 different windows of time and found that all originate in the asteroid belt, but it's unclear where in the asteroid belt they're coming from
What the researchers were able to glean from their researcher is that meteorites generally come from a very small area in the asteroid belt.
Additionally, the process that shoots them out 'remarkably stable over the past 500 million years.'
In an interview with Inverse, Schmitz, a professor at Lund University, said he had traveled all over the world -- California, Sweden, China and Russia -- to get a diverse sample of sedimentary rock to examine.
After looking at the different rock, he was left with more questions than answers about the origins of meteorites.
'That's a problem with our study, and it's a problem in science today, a big problem,' Schmitz told the news outlet. 'We don't know where the meteorites that dominate the flux come from in the asteroid belt.'
After collecting the rock samples from each site, they were placed in hydrochloric acid, with the leftovers revealing the residue and the chrome-spinel grains, a common mineral found in meteorites.
'We looked for tiny, tiny needles in the big haystack,' Schmitz explained. 'So we basically burn the haystack.'
Most asteroids live in the main asteroid belt, an area in space between Mars and Jupiter.
Most asteroids live in the main asteroid belt, an area in space between Mars and Jupiter. According to NASA , more than 1 million asteroids are known to exist, but many more have yet to be identified
According to NASA, more than 1 million asteroids are known to exist, but many more have yet to be identified.
A piece of an asteroid or comet is also known as a meteoroid. Upon entering Earth's atmosphere, it turns into a meteor, fireball or shooting star. The pieces that reach the ground are known as meteorites.
It's widely believed that 'the variations in the flux of micrometeorites and meteorites to Earth is today generally described by the collisional cascading model,' the researchers wrote in their study, but after looking at more than 20,000 pounds (10,000kg) of rock, Schmitz and Terfelt were unable to find a known collision event.
'It's a big conundrum, a big enigma,' Schmitz told Inverse.
Understanding meteorites origins can not only help us better understand how the Solar System formed, but which space rocks might endanger humanity in the future, Schmitz said.
Based on recent research conducted by geologist Birger Schmitz from Lund University, the majority of meteorites that have fallen to Earth came from a mysterious and unknown location in our Solar System’s asteroid belt. The asteroid belt contains millions of pieces of space rocks that orbit between Mars and Jupiter. While the majority of these space rocks are somewhat small (between the size of a boulder to a few thousand feet), some are a lot bigger.
Meteorites are smaller pieces that have broken off from much larger objects. The initial hypothesis was that these meteorites came from a major event that involved massive asteroids breaking apart in space. The problem with that theory is that according to Professor Schmitz, the meteorites that have fallen to Earth over the past 500 million years don’t coincide with any known collision event.
Asteroid belt
Schmitz has traveled the world looking for meteorites that date back millions and even billions of years. So far, he has gathered 10,000 kilograms of space rocks that have fallen to Earth in the last 500 million years. The samples were then put in hydrochloric acid so that the only thing left was a small amount of residue so that the extraterrestrial chrome-spinel grains could be analyzed.
While the purpose of his project was to find out the origins of these meteorites, the research has resulted with more questions than answers. It has been long believed that different meteorites originated from different parent bodies in the asteroid belt; however, Schmitz’s research seems to point to them all coming from one specific body that has been sending them our way for a steady 500 million years. There are still so many questions left unanswered though, such as what and where the parent body is, and how the meteorites ended up falling to Earth.
The research will hopefully help experts in regards to finding and studying asteroids that may one day threaten Earth. In an interview with Inverse, Schmitz said, “Meteorites tell us something about what type of objects threaten us in the future,” adding, “What type of objects do we have to be particularly aware of.”
Additionally, the data may help researchers learn more about the origins of our Solar System in addition to how our planets formed and evolved. Nicholas Castle from the Planetary Science Institute (but was not involved with the study), told Inverse, “Most meteorites date back towards the very early days of the Solar System,” adding, “So that’s sort of our first clues for how did we go from big gas clouds to solid material.”
China lanceert voor het eerst bemanning naar eigen ruimtestation
China heeft donderdag de eerste drie bewoners naar zijn eerste echte ruimtestation gebracht. Ze zijn om 09.54 uur Belgische tijd met de capsule Shenzhou-12 aangekomen. Die was afgelopen nacht van op de basis Jiuquan in het noordwesten van China met een Lange Mars-2F draagraket gelanceerd en koppelde op automatische piloot aan de Tianhe-basismodule van het ruimtestation Tiangong (‘Hemels Paleis’), aldus het officiële persbureau Xinhua.
Het eerste onderdeel van het ruimtestation Tiangong werd al in april gelanceerd. Het gaat om een buis van bijna 17 meter lang en iets meer dan vier meter breed. Daar moeten de drie leven, eten, slapen, sporten, werken en onderzoek doen. De bemanning gaat twee keer naar buiten voor een ruimtewandeling. De komende jaren moeten er nog twee andere onderdelen aan de eerste module worden gekoppeld.
De vlucht wordt geleid door Nie Haisheng (56), die aan zijn derde ruimtevlucht begint. Hij krijgt gezelschap van Liu Boming (54) en Tang Hongbo (45), twee andere ruimtevaarders dan eerst gepland.
Nog nooit zo lang aan een stuk in de ruimte
De zogenoemde taikonauten blijven drie maanden in het ruimtestation. Nog nooit zijn Chinezen zo lang aan een stuk in de ruimte geweest. "Deze missie duurt langer en we moeten niet alleen de kern, ons huis in de ruimte, installeren maar we moeten ook een paar belangrijke technische tests doen. Deze missie is moeilijker en de uitdagingen zijn groter", zei Nie bij de laatste persconferentie voor vertrek. Liu sprak van een "extreem complexe en zware missie", ook vanwege de ruimtewandelingen.
Het ambitieuze China werkt in de ruimtevaart niet of nauwelijks samen met andere landen. Als het ruimtestation rond 2023 klaar is, kan daar wel wat verandering in komen. "In de nabije toekomst zullen we zowel Chinese als buitenlandse astronauten samen in het Chinese ruimtestation zien", liet een bestuurder van het Chinese ruimtevaartprogramma weten.
In de Koude Oorlog bood de Sovjet-Unie bondgenoten ruimtevluchten aan. Daardoor konden mensen uit bijvoorbeeld Oost-Duitsland, Bulgarije, Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, Mongolië en Syrië de ruimte in.
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12 Amazing Discoveries in Egypt That Baffled Scientists
12 Amazing Discoveries in Egypt That Baffled Scientists
The ancient Egyptians are such a mysterious group of people that due to their antiquity it’s hard to solve the many mysterious surrounding their time and world. All that’s left now is to work with the countless artifacts that has been discovered in recent history which brings up a lot more questions than answers. Some discoveries are so reality-shattering that it questions the very foundation of how civilizations evolved over the millennia. Ancient Egyptians have time and again defied our expectations of what is possible in ancient times. Here are 12 amazing discoveries found in Egypt which Scared scientists. Let’s begin.
The Lunar Lantern Could be a Beacon for Humanity on the Moon
The Lunar Lantern Could be a Beacon for Humanity on the Moon
In October of 2024, NASA’s Artemis Program will return astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era. In the years and decades that follow, multiple space agencies and commercial partners plan to build the infrastructure that will allow for a long-term human presence on the Moon. An important part of these efforts involves building habitats that can ensure the astronauts’ health, safety, and comfort in the extreme lunar environment.
This challenge has inspired architects and designers from all over the world to create innovative and novel ideas for lunar living. One of these is the Lunar Lantern, a base concept developed by ICON (an advanced construction company based in Austin, Texas) as part of a NASA-supported project to build a sustainable outpost on the Moon. This proposal is currently being showcased as part of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the La Biennale di Venezia museum in Venice, Italy.
The Lunar Lantern emerged from Project Olympus, a research and development program made possible thanks to a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract and funding from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Consistent with ICON’s commitment to developing advanced construction technologies, the purpose of Olympus was to create a space-based construction system that will support NASA and other future exploration efforts on the Moon.
To realize this vision, ICON partnered with two architectural firms: the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), and Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+). Whereas BIG is renowned for its iconic architecture and its work on multiple Lunar and Martian concepts in the past several years, SEArch+ is recognized for its “human-centered” designs for space exploration and its long-standing relationship with NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Langley Research Center (LRC).
The result of their collaboration is the Lunar Lantern, a comprehensive lunar outpost that can be constructed on the Moon using automated robotic 3D printers. Consistent with the philosophy of these companies and NASA’s Artemis Program, the construction of this outpost leverages a number of burgeoning technologies as well as In-Situ-Resource Utilization (ISRU) to minimize dependence on Earth.
For the sake of their presentation at the Architectural Exhibition, SEArch+ prepared an updated video of their base concept (shown below) that illustrates how the Lunar Lantern concept will enable a sustained human presence on the Moon. To address the various hazards of the lunar environment, the main habitat employs three structural components: a Base Isolator, Tension Cables, and a Whipple Shield.
Base isolators are essentially seismic dampeners, which are deployed at the foundation to absorb the shocks and stresses caused by regular “moonquakes” – which are either “shallow” or “deep.” Shallow quakes occurr at depths of 50-220 km (31-137 mi and are attributed to changes in surface temperature and meteorite impacts. Deep quakes are more rare and powerful, originating at depths of ~700 km (435 mi), and are caused by tidal interactions with Earth.
Then there are the externally mounted tension cables, which apply compressive stress to the habitats 3D printed walls. The outermost component, the Whipple Shield, is a double shell made up of an interior lattice and external shield panels. This provides protection against ballistic impact from micrometeorites and ejecta (caused by impacts nearby) while also shielding the interior structure from the extreme heat caused by direct exposure to the Sun.
In addition to protecting against the extremes in temperature, radiation, and seismic activity, one of the chief concerns is the hazard posed by all the jagged and statically charged lunar regolith (aka. “moon dust”). As they illustrate, the Lunar Lander base is equipped to contain (and benefit from) this problem:
“The Lunar Lantern outpost consists of habitats, sheds, landing pads, blast walls, and roadways. Landing pads, thought to be one of the first lunar structures, will need to contain and control the supersonic and subsonic dust ejecta created during launch and landing. SEArch+’s design offers multiple strategies for dust mitigation and dust collection in printability, form, and function.”
Artist’s impression of the interior of the Lunar Lantern habitat.
Credit: ICON/BIG
As the animation demonstrates, the configuration of the landing pads allows for the dust to be collected, preventing it from dispersing across the surface and interfering with operations. The collected dust can then be used as feedstock for the construction robots, which rely on regolith to fashion 3D printed structures. This way, the design not only prevents ejecta from becoming a serious hazard but also provides a steady supply of material that can be used to effect repairs to the structure.
As for the name, this was inspired by another important design feature, one which ensures human comfort. In short, the Lantern admits light from the lunar surface and then turns it into interior lighting that is adjusted (based on the section of the habitat) and turned off entirely to simulate nighttime. Or as they explain in the video:
“In order to replicate the Earth’s daily circadian rhythms and seasonal cycles, the Lunar Lantern utilizes a fiber optic system which captures the nearly perpetual light at the Moon’s south pole and modulates it in both brightness and color temperature. The interior of the habitat is organized vertically, with three designated levels – for work and exercise, dining and social, sleeping and private spaces.”
There are also a few “Easter Eggs” in the video, which commercial space and space exploration aficionados will not fail to notice! In both videos posted above (particularly the one produced by SEArch+), some familiar vehicles can be seen on the landing pads. This includes the SpaceX Starship, which Musk has promised will be ready to transport cargo and crews to the Moon in a few years, and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander – possibly the Human Landing System (HLS) variant specifically designed for NASA’s Artemis Program.
Artist’s impressions of the Lunar Lantern’s interior. Credit: ICON/SEArch+
There is no shortage of ideas for how humans could live on the Moon and Mars someday. While the design elements differ from one concept to the next, they all share the same commitment to leveraging 3D printing, sustainability, and the ability to provide for water, power, and food using local resources. Each also emphasizes how planning to live sustainably in a hostile environment can shape how we live on Earth.
The Lunar Lantern is not the only space architecture exhibition featured at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition (which will run until Nov. 21st). The European Space Agency (ESA) – in partnership with the international architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) – are also showcasing their proposal for a fully operational semi-inflatable lunar habitat, known as the “Lunar Village.”
These two proposals beautifully illustrate how proposals for living beyond Earth are becoming a part of mainstream architecture. As this decade comes to a close, this trend is likely to continue, eventually becoming an entirely new form of architectural, industrial, and interior design. If and when humans begin to settle on the Moon and Mars, we can expect the real estate industry will follow suite!
The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light-Years Long
The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light-Years Long
We’ve known for a while about the large-scale structure of the Universe. Galaxies reside in filaments hundreds of millions of light-years long, on a backbone of dark matter. And, where those filaments meet, there are galaxy clusters. Between them are massive voids, where galaxies are sparse. Now a team of astronomers in Germany and their colleagues in China and Estonia have made an intriguing discovery.
These massive filaments are rotating, and this kind of rotation on such a massive scale has never been seen before.
Obviously, there’s no way to take an actual picture of the Universe’s large-scale structure. But there are some almost-famous images that come from the Millennium Simulation Program. The Millennium Simulation was a super-computer simulation of a cubic portion of the Universe over 2 billion light-years on each side. The image contains about 20 million individual galaxies organized in filaments and clumps, and it was our first real glimpse of the Universe’s LSS.
It’s remarkable to look at that image now and imagine those filaments rotating.
Image of the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing filaments and voids within the cosmic structure. Credit: Millennium Simulation Project
The team of astronomers behind this discovery worked with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS.) The SDSS created a very detailed 3D map of the Universe, so SDSS data was critical to the team’s discovery.
“By mapping the motion of galaxies in these huge cosmic superhighways using the Sloan Digital Sky survey – a survey of hundreds of thousands of galaxies – we found a remarkable property of these filaments: they spin.” says Peng Wang, first author of the now published study and astronomer at the AIP (Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam).
Each of the galaxies in the filaments amounts to no more than a speck of dust on the grand scale, and they’re not only rotating but moving along the tendrils as if they’re pipelines.
“They move on helixes or corkscrew like orbits, circling around the middle of the filament while travelling along it.”
Noam Libeskind, Study Co-Author, AIP.
“Despite being thin cylinders – similar in dimension to pencils – hundreds of millions of light years long, but just a few million light years in diameter, these fantastic tendrils of matter rotate,” added Noam Libeskind, initiator of the project at the AIP. “On these scales the galaxies within them are themselves just specs of dust. They move on helixes or corkscrew like orbits, circling around the middle of the filament while travelling along it. Such a spin has never been seen before on such enormous scales, and the implication is that there must be an as yet unknown physical mechanism responsible for torquing these objects.”
The fact that these filaments spin is difficult to visualize, and fascinating once you succeed. But the discovery is about more than our own fascination. These are the largest objects we’ve ever seen spinning, and that means that angular momentum can take place on a massive scale. One of the mysteries in cosmology is how that angular momentum is generated on such a massive scale since there was no primordial rotation in the early Universe.
The discovery rests on observations of individual galaxies in the filaments and their Doppler shift. In this study, red-shift is a proxy for rotation, Red-shifted galaxies are receding, and blue-shifted galaxies are approaching.
This figure from the paper shows the filament rotation speed as a function of the distance between galaxies and the filament spine. The distance of galaxies from the filament spine in the receding region is displayed in red and ascribed positive values, while the distance of galaxies in the approaching region is marked in blue and ascribed negative values. Error bars represent the standard deviation about the mean. Image Credit: Wang et al 2021.
In the current working model of the Universe’s structural formation, overdensities grow via gravitational instability. Material from underdense regions flows into regions of overdensity. But that flow of material has no rotation or curl to it. That’s why cosmologists say that there was no rotation in the early Universe. And here’s where this discovery gets more interesting.
The rotation evident in these filaments of galaxies must be generated as the structures form. And these filaments and the rest of the cosmic web are connected to the formation and evolution of galaxies themselves. They also have a powerful effect on the spin of individual galaxies and can regulate how a galaxy and its dark matter halo rotate. There’s an unknown piece in all of this: scientists don’t yet know how our current understanding can predict that the filaments themselves spin.
“Such a spin has never been seen before on such enormous scales, and the implication is that there must be an as yet unknown physical mechanism responsible for torquing these objects.”
Noam Libeskind, Study Co-Author, AIP.
Before this study, other scientists have theorized that these filaments spin. For example, Dr. Mark Neyrinck, a Fellow at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, is known for theorizing on this. He’s also known for developing the “origami” description of cosmic structure formation. In a 2016 article in The Paper he said, “…if galaxies rotate (and they do), so must filaments sticking out of them. Furthermore, galaxies joined by a filament should rotate mostly together, like objects attached to the ends of a rod. In fact, this is consistent with astronomical observations; nearby galaxies tend to be spinning in the same direction.”
Dr. Neyrinck’s work was an important starting point for the team behind this paper.
“Motivated by the suggestion from the theorist Dr. Mark Neyrinck that filaments may spin, we examined the observed galaxy distribution, looking for filament rotation,” says co-author Noam Libeskind. “It’s fantastic to see this confirmation that intergalactic filaments rotate in the real Universe, as well as in computer simulation.”
The team used a sophisticated mapping method that divided the observed galaxy distribution into segments. Then each of the filaments was approximated by a cylinder. The galaxies in the filament were then divided into two regions on either side of the filament’s spine. Then they carefully measured the mean redshift difference between the two regions. “The mean redshift difference is a proxy for the velocity difference (the Doppler shift) between galaxies on the receding and approaching side of the filament tube,” the authors write. That’s how they measured the filaments’ rotation.
In their paper, the team writes that what they found cannot be random. “What is measured and presented here is the redshift difference between two regions on either side of a hypothesized spin axis that is coincident with the filament spine. The full distribution of this quantity is inconsistent with random regardless of the viewing angle formed with the line of sight…”
However, the researchers caution, their results don’t imply that every filament in the Universe is rotating. That would be an over-reach. “This work does not predict that every single filament in the Universe is rotating,” they write, “rather that there are subsamples—intimately connected to the viewing angle end point mass—that show a clear signal consistent with rotation. This is the main finding of this work.”
“Taken together,” the team writes in their conclusion, “the current study and demonstrate that angular momentum can be generated on unprecedented scales, opening the door to a new understanding of cosmic spin.”
Lead author of this work is Peng Wang, an astronomer at the Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP). The title of the paper is “Possible observational evidence for cosmic filament spin.” It’s published in Nature Astronomy.
Linda Moulton Howe: Huge Non-Human Craft Attempts to Land at Iraqi Base
Linda Moulton Howe: Huge Non-Human Craft Attempts to Land at Iraqi Base
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MUFON CASE : 116327 Los Banos, California ( June 17, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Four semi trucks buzzed Long Description of Sighting Report
I was the third truck of four, that were running together. We left Oakland after a concert we were touring with, headed to San Diego. At about 3am I happened to see a light shine out across in front of us maybe two miles or so ahead of us on the right, and it went out. I didn't think much of it. I thought at first someone was shinning deer. Than I saw a beam shine downward but didn't see anything else. The origin of the light looked to be about 100ft above the ground. Then it went out. Then you could see white marker lights as it crossed the 5 and turned north on the other side and came at us. before it reached us it turned back and went south and crossed back over the 5 to the west and the lights all went out and I couldn't see it anymore. The fella in the truck in front of said he saw it off the the right just sitting there hovering. I saw light shinning in my passenger side window coming at me from a little behind me. I thought it was going to slam into the side of my tractor. It came straight at me. There were three very bright white lights across the front edge ot this thing, shinning right into my side window. It came to almost a complete stop, rotated tipped up on its edge and slid over the top of my tractor, and out over the front of my windshield. When we stop later that morning, and I stopped my video cameras to go back over that segments to see if it got recorded. I didn't think it would catch it, because the cameras are set to look down out over the hood of my truck to the road in front of me. I would estimate that craft was about 30 to 50 feet above the truck in front of me. With a high degree of certainty it would say that this thing was about 14ft at it widest point. probably close to 20ft long. My tractor is 19.5ft long and 13.4ft tall. As it came over and out into view I got a really good look at it (see drawing) the edge of this was slightly larger than the light placement on the underside. Interstate lanes are 12ft x2 plus 11ft for both shoulders, that's a total of 35ft. This was just a little larger than a single lane. Smallest Cessna has a 32ft wing span, and crop dusters are 34ft. this was no plane. it had no visible propulsion system. It could be a new military style drone. but can drones hover without propellers or a fan system? More to the point, why would the military put people on the highway at risk. Im still baffled that there is absolutely no light flash in my cab when it came at me. should have seen the inside of my cab light up in the video. Just another strange aspect. I would have to say my buddies where really excited over this event, trying to put it into some kind of contexts. I tried to tell them you can't. You'll always have this with you, wondering what it was. i told them this was the third time I've had events in very close proximity with arial phenomena, and it wasn't even the strangest, and if you tell it to people that have never experience something like this, they'll tell you, what you saw, isn't what you saw. When we first saw it and it crossed the 5 heading east, a couple miles ahead of us, had it kept going straight, it just would have been a low flying airplane under 500ft. At night!
Date Submitted : 2021-06-17 Date of Event : 2016-08-05 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 050816I5MileMarker377.5California.M4V : no audio
MUFON CASE : 116320 Corpus Christi, Texas ( June 17, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : White round circle with connection to another circle Long Description of Sighting Report
It seems to be a main circle controlling a smaller circle have video the video was taken by security camera object was detected by motion sensor
Date Submitted : 2021-06-17 Date of Event : 2021-06-15 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.64DCCBDBFBED4F668061BE2C5FF3935F.MOV : no audio
MUFON CASE : 116315 Seminole, Texas ( June 17, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Light or something
Two UFO Shoot Out Of Volcano Mouth In Mexico On Live Cam, June 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFO Shoot Out Of Volcano Mouth In Mexico On Live Cam, June 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:June 16, 2021
Location of sighting: Popocatepetl, Mexico
This live volcano cam caught two UFOs shooting out of the mouth of the famous Popocatepetl volcano this week. Then a third UFO shoots across the top of the volcano, since this is an active volcano, we know it's not a plane. No pilot in his right mind would fly over a volcano that blows twice a week. The close up of the video clearly shows the brightly glowing UFOs exiting the mouth and wavering back and forth and then shooting straight up! Absolutely mind blowing! This should be impossible, but I do know that UFOs have been seen entering and exiting this volcano for almost a decade. I also know there is an alien base 5-6km below the ground level that contains the alien base itself. 100% proof that aliens live on Earth and come and go any time they want.
Phoenix Lights Over City of Lehi, Utah June 14, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Phoenix Lights Over City of Lehi, Utah June 14, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 14, 2021 Location of sighting: Lehi, Utah, USA
Wow this video is amazing! Those lights in the sky remind me of the famous Phoenix lights UFO incident long ago. At first what I thought was a reflection from the street traffic lights turned into something more monumental. This is not a four UFOs, but actually a single larger craft that is cloaked from view...however sometimes the propulsion systems are visible and sometimes the ship itself become visible for a few seconds to a few minutes during sunset. Thats why we see them here. Aliens like to think they are superior in all ways, but truth be told, they make mistakes just like us. I'm pretty sure the US military will try to take credit for it and spread disinformation and make the public believe its nothing at all, but its 100% alien!
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*MUST SEE* Triangle UFO flying over the highway in Los Banos, California
*MUST SEE* Triangle UFO flying over the highway in Los Banos, California
Here’s one really interesting footage of a possible TR-3B (triangle UFO) flying across the night sky above Los Banos, a city in Merced County, central California. This happened on 8th May 2021 but it was just today submitted to MUFON’s website.
Witness report:
I was the third truck of four, that were running together. We left Oakland after a concert we were touring with, headed to San Diego. At about 3am I happened to see a light shine out across in front of us maybe two miles or so ahead of us on the right, and it went out. I didn’t think much of it. I thought at first someone was shinning deer. Than I saw a beam shine downward but didn’t see anything else. The origin of the light looked to be about 100ft above the ground. Then it went out. Then you could see white marker lights as it crossed the 5 and turned north on the other side and came at us. before it reached us it turned back and went south and crossed back over the 5 to the west and the lights all went out and I couldn’t see it anymore. The fella in the truck in front of said he saw it off the the right just sitting there hovering. I saw light shinning in my passenger side window coming at me from a little behind me. I thought it was going to slam into the side of my tractor. It came straight at me. There were three very bright white lights across the front edge ot this thing, shinning right into my side window. It came to almost a complete stop, rotated tipped up on its edge and slid over the top of my tractor, and out over the front of my windshield. When we stop later that morning, and I stopped my video cameras to go back over that segments to see if it got recorded. I didn’t think it would catch it, because the cameras are set to look down out over the hood of my truck to the road in front of me. I would estimate that craft was about 30 to 50 feet above the truck in front of me. With a high degree of certainty it would say that this thing was about 14ft at it widest point. probably close to 20ft long. My tractor is 19.5ft long and 13.4ft tall. As it came over and out into view I got a really good look at it (see drawing) the edge of this was slightly larger than the light placement on the underside. Interstate lanes are 12ft x2 plus 11ft for both shoulders, that’s a total of 35ft. This was just a little larger than a single lane. Smallest Cessna has a 32ft wing span, and crop dusters are 34ft. this was no plane. it had no visible propulsion system. It could be a new military style drone. but can drones hover without propellers or a fan system? More to the point, why would the military put people on the highway at risk. Im still baffled that there is absolutely no light flash in my cab when it came at me. should have seen the inside of my cab light up in the video. Just another strange aspect. I would have to say my buddies where really excited over this event, trying to put it into some kind of contexts. I tried to tell them you can’t. You’ll always have this with you, wondering what it was. i told them this was the third time I’ve had events in very close proximity with arial phenomena, and it wasn’t even the strangest, and if you tell it to people that have never experience something like this, they’ll tell you, what you saw, isn’t what you saw.
When we first saw it and it crossed the 5 heading east, a couple miles ahead of us, had it kept going straight, it just would have been a low flying airplane under 500ft. At night! The map thats attached gives context to what interaction occurred. The circle up by the Chevron Station is roughly where we were when I first saw the light shoot out to the east. The M4V video has been cleaned up to brighten it up. Its from the camera mounted on the driver side. Its the exact same video as, South Bound MM377.5.mov, just shortened. and no audio in either one. The Mile Marker 377.7 South Bound.mov is from the camera thats mounted on the passenger side. With audio. Because the vehicle enters the frame just above the camera, you don’t see the vehicle as deep into the center of the video, as explained they’re not designed to be looking up.
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Should all go according to plan, NASA’s new SLS megarocket will finally make it to space this coming November, in a journey that will take an Orion capsule to the Moon and back. No human will take part in the inaugural Artemis mission, but a soon-to-be-named manikin will come along for the ride, along with a pair of simulated torsos.
The manikin strapped in its Orion chair and in launch position. Image: NASA
NASA’s Space Launch System iscoming along nicely, so it’s only natural to start thinking about a crew, or at least, a stand-in for the real crew (the actual Artemis team has already been chosen, in case you’re wondering). Having flesh-and-blood humans participate in an inaugural rocket launch would be unspeakably reckless, which is why NASA is preparing a manikin for the mission.
But this ain’t your ordinary storefront manikin, for this dummy will be fitted with two radiation sensors to record data during the Artemis I flight, and wear NASA’s next generation flight suit, also known as the Orion suit. A pair of sensors will also be fitted to the manikin’s seat—the commander’s seat, no less—to track the spacecraft’s vibration and acceleration during the trip. The seat also features an energy dampening system, called the Crew Impact Attenuation System. This safety feature is currently going through qualification testing in anticipation of a crewed mission to the Moon.
Indeed, the first Artemis mission will pack a big punch. In addition to launching SLS for the first time, NASA will send an unscrewed Orion capsule—with all due respect to the manikin—on a 280,000-mile (450,000-kilometer) journey to the Moon and back. Astronauts will experience 2.5 times the force of gravity during the ascent, and endure high radiation levels during passage through the Van Allen belts—clouds of high-energy particles located between the Earth and Moon (prior to the Apollo missions, NASA was concerned that the Van Allen Belts might actually prove fatal to the astronauts, which didn’t turn out to the the case).
The Orion spacecraft will also return to Earth’s atmosphere at speeds reaching 6.8 miles per second (11 km/s), which will be the fastest reentry ever for a crewed space capsule. Orion will also experience temperatures reaching 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius), which will be hotter than what the spacecraft endured during its 2014 test flight.
So yeah, sending a dummy on this first flight is a smart idea, as the exercise could reveal potentially dangerous conditions for astronauts. What’s more, data collected during Artemis I “will be used for Orion crew simulations and to verify crew safety by comparing flight vibration and acceleration against pre-flight predictions, then making model refinements as necessary,” Mark Baldwin, Orion’s occupant protection specialist for Lockheed Martin, explained in a statement. Success in the mission will set the stage for Artemis II, in which the exact mission will repeat, save for the presence of an actual crew.
To be clear, the Artemis manikin is no crash test dummy, which is a separate category of human stand-in, as NASA explains:
Similar to manikins, NASA uses Anthropometric Test Devices, or “crash test dummies,” that are equipped with various instruments for other crew safety evaluations. Dummies are used in tests that drop a test version of Orion from an aircraft, with the final set of tests scheduled for later this year, to verify the Artemis II seat and suit can limit the risk of head and neck injury during the most severe acceleration environments – abort and landing. During water impact drop tests at Langley, dummies also occupied crew capsule prototypes to help engineers better understand what Orion and its crew may experience when landing in the ocean after missions to the Moon.
Artemis I will also include a pair of simulated torsos named Helga and Zohar. The pair will be strapped into the lower two seats on Orion, and record radiation exposure during the mission. One torso will be used to test a radiation-shielding vest, called AstroRad, which is designed to reduce exposure.
The two test torsos, one of which is equipped with a new vest to protect against radiation. Image: NASA
The phantom torsos have names, but the manikin does not. At least not yet. NASA has launched a contest to name the dummy, but those of you hoping to submit Manikin McManikinface will be in for a profound disappointment, as the space agency, likely in anticipation of this, has supplied a predetermined set of names (captions provided by NASA):
ACE: Straightforward, practical. Stands for Artemis Crew Explorer.
CAMPOS: Resourceful, problem-solver. A dedication to Arturo Campos, key player in bringing Apollo 13 home.
DELOS: Nostalgic, romantic. The island where Apollo and Artemis were born, according to Greek myth.
DUHART: Warm, welcoming. A dedication to Irene Duhart Long, chief medical officer at Kennedy Space Center.
MONTGOMERY: Pioneer, innovative. A dedication to Julius Montgomery, first African American to work at the Cape Canaveral Space Facility as a technical professional.
RIGEL: Bright, inspirational. The giant superstar in the Orion constellation.
SHACKLETON: Secretive, abundant. A crater on the Moon’s south pole and a reference to a famous Antarctic explorer.
WARGO: Enthusiastic, passionate. A dedication to Michael Wargo, the agency’s first Chief Exploration Scientist.
Starting today, NASA will be asking social media users on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to choose one of two names. Eventually, the naming brackets will be whittled down to two, and a final winner will be announced on June 28.
Mecca (also spelled as Makkah) is regarded as the holiest city in Islam. Apart from the fact that Mecca was the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, it is also the city whereIslam’s holiest placeof worship, the Great Mosque (more commonly known as al-Masjid al-Haram) is located. In addition, it is in the direction of Mecca that Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. Furthermore, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, the Hajj, or Pilgrimage, involves an extended visit to the city.
Where is Mecca?
Mecca is located in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula, in what is today the Makkah region of Saudi Arabia. The sacred city is historically part of the Hejaz, which stretches along the Arabian Peninsula’s Red Sea coast from Jordan in the north to the Asir region in the south. Mecca is situated 73 km (45 mi.) inland from Jeddah, the commercial hub of Saudi Arabia.
The city sits in the Wadi Ibrahim (Valley of Abraham), and is surrounded by the Sirat Mountains. There are four passes through the mountains that grant access to the holy city.
Panoramic View of Mecca, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 1845. From the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage.
Mecca is most closely associated with the Islamic faith. Nevertheless, the city was already a significant religious center and key spot for trading even before the founding of Islam. This is due to the fact that Mecca was an oasis on the trade route that linked the Mediterranean world with Southern Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian subcontinent.
Due to Mecca’s strategic geographical location, it was developed during the Roman and Byzantine periods. It is possible that Mecca was also known to the peoples of the Hellenistic period. In Ptolemy’s Geography, a city in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula called Macoraba is mentioned. Macoraba has been traditionally identified with Mecca, though some modern scholars have cast doubts on this identification.
The Earliest History of Mecca
Still, ancient writings referring to Mecca seems to be scarce. Instead, the main source of information for this part of the city’s history comes from later Islamic and Arabic sources. Islamic tradition, for example, traces the history of Mecca all the way back to the beginning of time .
It is believed that when Adam and Eve were thrown out of Paradise, they were separated. Adam landed on the island of Sri Lanka, while Eve found herself in the area that is now Jeddah. After wandering the earth on their own for a period of time, Adam and Eve were reunited by God on Mount Arafat, to the east of Mecca. Arabic sources also state that Adam was buried in Mecca. Eve, on the other hand, was buried in nearby Jeddah.
The next appearance of Mecca in Islamic tradition is in the story of the Great Flood. It is said that during the flood, Noah’s ark came to Mecca, and passed around the disinterred body of Adam seven times. According to the Quran, Abraham and Ishmael (Abraham’s son by Hagar) were responsible for building (or rebuilding) the Kaaba in Mecca (more about the Ka’aba later in this article). The city is also associated with Abraham by the belief that it was there that Hagar nursed Ishmael back to health with the waters of the Well of Zamzam.
The Arabian Peninsula Before Islam
Muslims refer to the period on the Arabian Peninsula before the arrival of Islam as Jahiliyya, which may be translated to mean ‘Age of Ignorance’. The term Jahiliyya is normally used pejoratively to refer to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula. The Jahiliyya period is important for Muslims, as it is serves to highlight the change brought about by Islam to the Arab way of life.
Some features of the Jahiliyya period include: the worship of idols, tribalism, and the practice of female infanticide. In short, the Jahiliyya period was thought to have been a dark age. Interestingly, the term Jahiliyya is considered to be positive with regards to Arabic literature, as pre-Islamic Arabic poetry is esteemed by Muslims.
"Bayad plays the oud to the lady", Arabic manuscript for ‘Qissat Bayad wa Reyad’ tale (late 12th century).
The birth of Islam is normally portrayed as a radical break from the Jahiliyya period. The story of Islam began in Mecca in 570 AD. According to tradition, this was the year that the Prophet Muhammad was born.
For the first 40 years of his life, Muhammad lived as an ordinary man. Muhammad’s father is said to have died before he was born, while his mother died when he was six years old. The future prophet was raised by his paternal grandfather until the latter’s death two years later.
Finally, he came into the care of his uncle, Abu Talib, who had become the new head of the Hashim clan. According to one story, while accompanying his uncle on a trading journey to Syria, Muhammad was recognized as a future prophet by a Christian monk. At the age of 25, Muhammad married a wealthy woman named Khadijah, who was 40 years old. Khadijah had employed Muhammad to oversee the transportation of her goods to Syria, and was so impressed by him, that she offered to marry him.
Every once in a while, Muhammad would seclude himself in a cave on one of the mountains near Mecca. One night in his fortieth year, as Muhammad was meditating in the cave, the angel Jibril (Gabriel) appeared to him, and gave him his first revelation. The angel taught him the opening verses of Surah 96 of the Quran: “Recite in the name of your Lord who creates, / creates man from a clot! / Recite for your Lord is most generous…”
The encounter with the angel left Muhammad feeling disturbed, but he was reassured by Khadijah and her cousin, Waraqah ibn Nawfal (a Christian who confirmed Muhammad’s prophethood). Muhammad continued receiving revelations from Jibril, but for the next three years, limited himself to speaking about them in private.
The angel Jibrîl stands before Muhammad and instructs him on the call to prayer.
Eventually, Muhammad was commanded by God to preach publicly. Initially, the Meccans did not oppose Muhammad. When the prophet began proclaiming that there is no god but Allah, however, he began to face opposition from the Quraysh of Mecca.
This is due to the fact that the monotheism preached by Muhammad was perceived as an attack on the religious beliefs and practices of the Quraysh. Moreover, the Quraysh feared that the economy of the city would be affected if they accepted Muhammad’s message and became monotheists because pagan pilgrims would stop coming to the city.
Although Muhammad faced opposition from the majority of the Meccans, he received protection from his clan, and was therefore able to stay in the city. In 619 AD, however, his uncle, Abu Talib, died, and leadership of the clan passed to another of the prophet’s uncles, Abu Lahab.
Abu Lahab opposed Muhammad, so he withdrew the clan’s protection of the prophet. This meant that Muhammad was no longer safe in Mecca. In 622 AD, Muhammad and his followers left Mecca for Medina, a journey which is referred to as the Hijrah. 622 AD is also the year in which the Islamic calendar begins. In 630 AD, the Muslims were strong enough to march an army on Mecca. The Meccans submitted, and an amnesty was declared by the prophet.
The Holy City of Mecca
Interestingly, despite being the holiest city in Islam, Mecca never became the capital of any Islamic state. The immediate successors of Muhammad, the Rashidun caliphs, for instance, ruled from Medina (with the exception of the fourth caliph, Ali, who moved the capital to Kufa). The Umayyads who followed ruled from Damascus, while their successors, the Abbasids, were based in Baghdad. The latter moved to Cairo after the Mongols invaded.
Lastly, the Ottoman caliphs ruled from Constantinople. Nevertheless, Islamic rulers continued to contribute to the upkeep of the holy city, and served as its defenders. The title ‘Protector of the Two Holy Cities’ (referring to Mecca and Medina), for instance, has been used by various Muslim rulers in history.
As a holy city, Mecca retained its significance in the Muslim faith. The most obvious sign of this is the fact that when Muslims perform their daily prayers, they do so in the direction of Mecca. Another clear sign of Mecca’s religious significance is the role it plays in the Hajj. This is the last of Islam’s Five Pillars, which states that every Muslim who is physically and financially able to do so should make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lifetime.
The Hajj is an annual pilgrimage that takes place during the during the Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic year. More precisely, it begins on the 7th day of that month, and ends on the 12th day. One of the most important rituals of the Hajj is the tawaf, which is the circumambulation of the pilgrims around the Ka’aba seven times in an anti-clockwise direction. The Ka’aba is a small shrine located near the center of the al-Masjid al-Haram, and is considered by Muslims to be the most sacred spot on earth.
According to Islamic belief, Abraham was instructed by God to bring Hagar and their son, Ishmael, to Arabia from Palestine to protect them from the jealousy of Sarah. Abraham brought the two of them to the site of Mecca, and left them there, as instructed by God. Although he gave them some supplies of food and water before leaving, it ran out.
Soon, Hagar and Ishmael were suffering from hunger and thirst. In desperation, the mother ran up and down two hills, Safa and Marwa, to see if she could spot any help in the distance. Finally, Hagar collapsed beside her son out of exhaustion, and prayed to God for help. At that moment, Ishmael struck his foot on the ground, and water gushed out, and thus the two were saved. This is said to be the origin of the Well of Zamzam. The Spring of Zamzam, from which the well draws its waters, is believed to be a tributary of the Waters of Paradise.
Historic Zamzam well mouthpiece. The description reads: (line 1) The mouthpiece of the well of Zamzam. (line 2) The pulley for lifting Zamzam water dating back to the end of the fourteenth century of Hijrah. (line 3) The brass bucket which was used to be in the well of Zamzam dating back to 1299 Hijrah.
The miracle not only saved Hagar and Ishmael, but also allowed them to make a living, as they were able to trade their water with passing nomads for food and supplies. Sometime later, Abraham returned to check on Hagar and Ishmael, and was commanded by God to build the Ka’aba. According to one interpretation of the verse, Abraham was told to rebuild the shrine.
This may mean that there was an older shrine, one said to have been erected by Adam, the foundations of which were left by the time of Abraham. As time went by, the people of Mecca became polytheists, and idols were placed in the Ka’aba. When the Meccans surrendered to Muhammad in 630 AD, the Ka’aba was cleansed of its idols.
In the eastern corner of the Ka’aba is the Black Stone. As part of the tawaf, pilgrims touch and kiss this sacred object. The Black Stone is believed to date to the time of Adam and Eve. According to Islamic belief, the stone was given to Adam when he was cast out of Paradise so that he could obtain forgiveness for his sins.
The Black Stone is said to have been concealed during the Great Flood, but was restored to Abraham when he was building / re-building the Ka’aba. Legend has it that the stone was originally white in color, but turned black as a result of absorbing the sins of the countless pilgrims who have touched and kissed it.
Mecca’s status as the holiest city in Islam has been maintained from the faith’s beginning till this day. In the almost 1400 years since Islam was established, Mecca has seen its fair share of ups and downs. Ownership of the sacred city, for instance, has switched hands many times in its long history.
Wide panoramic view on entire Masjid Al Haram mosque from Clock Tower Abraj Al Bait, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
In 1269, for example, Mecca came under the control of the Mamluks, while in 1517, the city fell into the hands of the Ottomans. In 1925, Mecca was captured by the Saudis, and it has remained a part of their kingdom since then. For the faithful, however, such political changes are of secondary importance, as the Hajj has been performed over the centuries, regardless of who is in charge of the city.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is the first spacecraft to successfully achieve controlled flight on another planet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Ingenuity, NASA’s pint-sized Mars helicopter, has kicked up some surprising science on its flights over the red planet. When whizzing through the Martian air, its blades sometimes stir up a dust cloud that envelops and travels along with the tiny chopper.
In several videos of Ingenuity’s flights, planetary scientists have seen dust whirling beneath the helicopter’s rotors — even when Ingenuity is flying as high as 5 metres above the Martian surface. That suggests that dust can get lifted and transported in the thin Martian air more easily than researchers had suspected.
“It’s really cool,” says Mark Lemmon, a planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
On its fourth flight, on 30 April, Ingenuity kicked up a large bolus of dust that travelled along with the helicopter as it flew, as shown in this video taken by Perseverance.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI
Mars is a dusty planet, so it’s not surprising that the helicopter kicks up dust during takeoff and landing, much as helicopters on Earth do when operating in the desert. Engineers designed Ingenuity to operate with a lot of dust blowing around as it takes off and lands. But scientists are surprised by how the dust interacts with the drone during flight. By watching how Ingenuity entrains dust as it flies, researchers can better understand the dynamics of Mars’s thin atmosphere, where tornado-like ‘dust devils’ often form when the Sun heats the air and afternoon winds begin to blow.
“There’s an unanticipated atmospheric science experiment coming out of this,” says Jim Bell, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe.
Ingenuity is what NASA calls a technology demonstration, whose only goal is to show that flight on Mars is possible. So "anything we can learn from it scientifically is icing on the cake", says Brian Jackson, a physicist at Boise State University in Idaho who studies Martian dust.
Bizarre dust clouds
Space scientists and amateur image processors have been analysing images and videos of the helicopter that NASA has posted online.
The agency's Perseverance rover carried Ingenuity to the surface of Mars in February. Its job is to roll around Jezero Crater and explore the rocks that were once part of an ancient lake, to look for signs of past life. In April, Ingenuity became the first machine to achieve powered flight on another planet. It has made seven flights so far.
Dust devils like this one, 20 kilometres high and captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, regularly swirl across the Martian surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA
On the first two flights, Ingenuity kicked up a fair amount of dust as it rose 3 to 5 metres above the surface, but it didn’t travel far from its takeoff point and the dust cloud phenomenon wasn’t pronounced. On its third flight, the helicopter rose 5 metres and then flew north from its takeoff point, kicking up a cloud from several light-coloured patches it flew over on the Martian surface. Those patches might be small hollows where dust has collected in the Martian landscape, says Lemmon. “A lot more dust comes up at that moment” when the helicopter flies over them, he says.
Ingenuity’s blades spin at more than 2,400 revolutions per minute — a dizzying rate necessary for the helicopter to achieve lift in the Martian atmosphere, which is just 1% the density of Earth's.
It was Ingenuity’s fourth flight, on 30 April, that really intrigued scientists. A video, recorded by Perseverance from a vantage point nearby, shows the helicopter rise, disappear from view, and then re-appear while enveloped in an enormous cloud of dust following a 133-metre flight.
The video confirms that Ingenuity was flying along with the 3.5-metre-per-second wind, says Håvard Grip, the helicopter's chief pilot at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "The dust was getting carried beneath us," he says.
Lemmon plans to compare tracks on the Martian surface left behind by natural dust devils with those where the helicopter kicked up the most dust. That will help researchers to better understand how winds blowing across Mars can lift dust and spin it into dust devils. The Martian atmosphere is so thin that scientists have had a hard time explaining how so much dust gets aloft, says Jackson. "We have to know how that first step in the process works," he says.
Ingenuity ran into some trouble on its sixth flight, on 22 May; it began wobbling because of a glitch in its navigation system, but managed to land safely. On its seventh flight, on 8 June, it flew 106 metres with no problem.
The helicopter has been wildly successful in demonstrating flight on other worlds, says Grip. In the future, bigger helicopters could travel long distances and scout out areas where wheeled vehicles cannot travel. "It's just so clear that this is definitely a way that could be used to explore Mars," he says.
Ingenuity will now tag along as Perseverance begins to roll south from its landing site. The helicopter will probably make additional flights every two weeks or so from now until the end of August, when operations are expected to draw to a close.
Perseverance has been exploring the rocks that make up Jezero Crater’s ancient lake bed. Team scientists are in the process of deciding where to drill to collect their first geological sample — either from the fractured rock that makes up the crater floor, or from a dune-laden region nearby. It will be the first in a collection of rock cores that are destined for pickup by future spacecraft, which will fly the material back to Earth — in the first-ever sample return from Mars.
'UFOs could pose a threat to America's national security': Capitol Hill lawmakers issue dire warning after classified briefing ahead of Pentagon's highly anticipated report on unidentified flying objects
'UFOs could pose a threat to America's national security': Capitol Hill lawmakers issue dire warning after classified briefing ahead of Pentagon's highly anticipated report on unidentified flying objects
Concern was evident from the reaction of some politicians following a highly-classified briefing with the Navy and FBI on Wednesday
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation was briefed
A Pentagon report on UFOs could be released any time this month, which would be one of the biggest government reveals on the subject
Some lawmakers received a peek at a 'sensitive compartmented information facility,' or SCIF, but wouldn't say what they saw inside
Instead, they focused on expressing their concern about how UFOs could threaten national security in the United States
'Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,' Rep. Tim Burchett warned after the briefing
Lawmakers have expressed serious concerns about the threat of UFOs to America's national security, with one lawmaker going as far as to say 'something’s going on that we can’t handle.'
The comments emerged after a highly-classified briefing from the Navy and FBI to members of the House Permanent Select Committee on counterterrorism, on Wednesday - ahead of the Pentagon's highly anticipated report on UFOs this month.
'Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,' Rep. Tim Burchett warned after the briefing.
Sean Patrick Maloney added that they were taking the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena 'seriously' - especially when it comes to the national security interests of the United States - 'so we want to know what we’re dealing with.'
'There are legitimate questions involving the safety and security of our personnel, and in our operations and in our sensitive activities, and we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,' Maloney told the New York Post.
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'Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,' Rep. Tim Burchett warned
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said 'We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States
This video grab image obtained April 26, 2020 courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots. Politicians are expressing increasing concern about the impact UFOs may have on national security
The Pentagon's UAP Task Force is set to deliver its report on UFO sightings by the military to Congress on June 25. An unclassified version will be made public, while a more detailed classified one will remain secret - and anticipation has been mounting over what might be revealed.
This week, some lawmakers received a peek at a 'sensitive compartmented information facility,' or SCIF, but wouldn't say what they saw inside.
Instead, they focused on expressing their concern about how UFOs could threaten national security in the United States.
Rep. Val Demings said, 'You know it’s always about our safety and security — our national security is [priority] number one — and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.'
'It was an interesting briefing,' Rep. Adam Schiff stated. 'I did learn things that were certainly new to me. But I think I’m going to leave it at that.'
Not every politician was as concerned, however, with Rep. Peter Welch saying of the forthcoming report, 'I’m not on the edge of my seat.'
At least one ex-pentagon official has already expressed concerns that could relate to national security, saying that UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear technology, even forcing some facilities to go offline.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told The Washington Post last week that UFOs or as they are officially identified UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon) have actually interfered with U.S. nuclear technology.
'Now in this country we've had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities,' Elizondo said in an interview.
Rep. Adam Schiff (left) and Rep. Val Demings (right) were among those briefed Wednesday
The Pentagon's UAP Task Force is set to reveal their findings when they submit a long-awaited report on UFOs to Congress on June 25
Elizondo was asked about several UFO sightings above secret nuclear weapons facilities and the fact that almost every major nuclear power across the globe has reported and declassified these sightings.
He said that the phenomenon is a national security 'concern,' and added that the same observation has been made in other countries, making it a 'global issue.'
Elizondo said some people have suggested that UFOs bringing U.S. nuclear capabilities offline could be interpreted as a sign that the unidentified objects are 'peaceful' but said in other countries the UFOs have actually turned on nuclear technology.
'So that is equally, for me, just as concerning,' he said of their interference either way. 'I think that there is certainly at this point enough data to demonstrate there is an interest in our nuclear technology, a potential to even interfere with that nuclear technology.'
Elizondo also told the Post that the Pentagon's upcoming report will definitively state that UAPs are not U.S. technology, despite speculation.
He said he believed the findings would conclude that they were also not Russian or Chinese technology either, saying that instead he believes it is 'next generation' technology, decades ahead of our own.
'You know, through observations we are, we are quite convinced that we’re dealing with a technology that is multigenerational, several generations ahead of what we consider next generation technology, so what we would consider beyond next generation technology,' he said. 'Something that could be anywhere between 50 to 1,000 years ahead of us.'
Leaked video confirmed by the Pentagon shows a UFO buzz a stealth ship and dive
At least one ex-pentagon official has already expressed concerns that could relate to national security, saying that UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear technology, even forcing some facilities to go offline (potential UFO sighting pictured)
Earlier this week, a top physicist also expressed alarm of UFOs, though physicist and science writer Mark Buchanan wrote in a recent Washington Post op-ed that he was concerned that alien contact could result in 'the end of all life on earth.'
'Chances are, we should all be grateful that we don't yet have any evidence of contact with alien civilizations,' Buchanan writes.
'Attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials, if they do exist, could be extremely dangerous for us.'
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence astronomer Joe Gertz echoed Buchanan's sentiments, stating that all of our attempts at communicating with extraterrestrials could ultimately cause 'the reckless endangerment of all mankind, and be absolutely proscribed with criminal consequences, presumably as exercised at the national level, or administered through the International Court of Justice in The Hague.'
Buchanan compared a possible alien encounter to Christopher Columbus coming to North America, where an older civilization was vulnerable to the more technologically-advanced Europeans.
However, astronomers and scientists from a differing school of thought believe extraterrestrial contact could only benefit humanity through the use of alien technology, which in turn could improve the planet's sustainability.
Douglas Vakoch, an American astrobiologist, search for extraterrestrial intelligence researcher, psychologist, and president of METI International, is one of those astronomers who not only believes in contacting aliens, he's actively doing so.
While UFOs have been sighted by civilians for decades, their existence was brushed off as nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
But public opinion has shifted in recent years, especially after video footage and pictures taken by U.S. Navy pilots between mid-2014 and March 2015, was leaked to the New York Times, three years ago.
The images showed a 30 to 40ft object, shaped like a Tic Tac, with no wings or rotors, yet able to hover, turn and accelerate through the sky at hypersonic speeds. The flabbergasted Navy pilots can be heard exclaiming in awe: ‘Oh dude!’
A New York Times also reported on a shadowy organization based at the Pentagon dedicated to reports of UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — AATIP.
In April 2020 the Defense Department released several videos, one of which shows a US Navy aircraft encountering 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' including objects flying and moving at speeds and directions that are impossible for human-made flight.
Just a year prior, leaked Pentagon footage showed an unidentified flying object hovering over San Diego, suggesting that maybe a 'close encounter of the third kind' isn't so far off from happening.
With a June 25 deadline, the Pentagon has just one more week to release its report on unidentified aerial phenomena, but the U.S. House Intelligence Committee received a detailed briefing on June 16 by Navy and FBI Personnel, and many of the members expressed concern – not only that it doesn’t reveal enough but also but that there is a real unease about things that can’t be explained. Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told a TMZ reporter before the briefing that “Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle.” Specifically:
“It has to be something that is out of our galaxy, it just has to be if it in fact is real.
“I think Roswell was covered up.”
Burchett also referenced what he said (and many agree with) were UFO references in the bible, particularly in the book of Ezekiel. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the committee chairman, said in The New York Post that the briefing was “interesting” and he “did learn things that were certainly new to me,” but wouldn’t give any details. Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois said was glad the “stigma is gone” from UFO discussions and “the fact that they are taking this sort of thing seriously for the first time, I think, is important.” If one needs more proof this briefing was considered important, look no further than the fact it was held inside a SCIF, or “sensitive compartmented information facility.”
“Everyone who’s paid enough attention to it understands they need to take it seriously. But once you go beyond that circle, you get people who are understandably resistant because of the tinfoil hat stigma. If [these objects] had the flag of Russia on the side, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Every one of these would be reported; everyone would be on top of it.”
Burchett said there was no way the UAPs seen by Navy personnel were Russian, as did former deputy defense secretary David Norquist, who set up a task force in 2020 to investigate UAPs but was not part of the briefing. He told CNN the “tinfoil hat” skeptics may have prevented more from being revealed. Which side is President Biden on? Burchett told TMZ he didn’t think Biden brought it up with Vladimir Putin in their summit in Geneva – which coincidentally occurred at about the same time as the briefing.
Don’t drag me into this!
“If the Russians had UFO technology, I mean, they would own us right now, they used to say that they’ve heard people talk about how the Nazis had it in the second world war that they did, they would have won. That is ridiculous.”
A discussion of who owns UFOs between two world leaders is “ridiculous”? No wonder Burchett thinks they’re from “out of our galaxy.”
If there’s one positive takeaway from the briefing, it’s that there really is a Pentagon report on UAPs and all signs indicate it wall be released soon. Congress members are concerned. The suspense is becoming unbearable. Let’s hope these are signs it will be worth the wait.
There have been plenty of strange flaps of mysterious lights and luminous phenomena in the skies of our world. Such spates of sightings often come in a wave, only to just fade away leaving no explanations and plenty of awe and debate. One such case happened in Northern Europe in the region of Scandinavia back in 1946. During this one year period there would be thousands of sightings of something very odd going on up in the sky, which have never really been explained and have come to be known as the Ghost Rockets.
Beginning in 1946, mysterious objects in the sky began to appear frequently over a variety of Scandinavian countries, in particular Sweden and Finland. These objects were typically described as tubular or cigar or spindle-shaped objects, sometimes with visible wings and sometimes without, that typically streaked fast across the sky but also displayed all manner of erratic behavior. These objects were reported as speeding up or slowing down, doing aerial maneuvers, and even flying in formation, typically leaving no exhaust trail and almost always described as being completely silent, although a few reports described a hissing or rumbling sound. They were seen at all hours of the day and night, and were so bright they could even be seen in broad daylight. The first real recorded sighting of what would go on to be called “Ghost Rockets” was made in Finland on February 26, 1946, but soon the entire region would experience a surge of sightings of these things in the sky, with around 2,000 sightings reports made between May and December of that year alone, often with radar signatures to back them up.
Alleged photo of one of the lights
At times, there were even reported crashes of Ghost Rockets, usually with the rockets coming down into large bodies of water such as lakes or the sea. There were quite a few such crashes that allegedly happened, and on more than one occasion Swedish authorities moved in to investigate, even sending divers in to look for evidence of any mysterious objects on the bottom. One of the most well-known of these investigations was carried out at Sweden’s Lake Kölmjärv, where on July 19, 1946 a gray, rocket-shaped object with wings reportedly came down after an earsplitting boom, to go skidding over the surface and sink. The Swedish Air Force quickly moved in and spent around 3 weeks scouring the bottom of the lake, but they would officially find nothing but a large patch of lake bottom that had been disturbed and looked like something very big had impacted there. No fragments or reason why this crater was there could be found, and one Swedish Air Force officer would state:
There are many indications that the Kölmjärv object disintegrated itself. The object was probably manufactured in a lightweight material, possibly a kind of magnesium alloy that would disintegrate easily, and not give indications on our instruments.
Several more military investigations were carried out at other similar crash sites, but on every occasion it was claimed that nothing was found. In the meantime, sightings of the Ghost Rockets were pouring in from all over Scandinavia, and although Sweden tried to keep a lid on it all, there were simply too many reports to keep it all a secret, with headlines around the world covering the strange phenomenon. When pressed for answers as to what was going on, Sweden projected a skeptical stance that anything truly unexplainable was happening, largely writing it off as a mixture of atmospheric phenomena, meteors, aircraft, and overactive imaginations. However, they did concede that not all of the reports of Ghost Rockets were so easy to dismiss, and in October of 1946 the Swedish Defense Staff would tell a press conference:
Most observations are vague and must be treated very skeptically. In some cases, however, clear, unambiguous observations have been made that cannot be explained as natural phenomena, Swedish aircraft, or imagination on the part of the observer. Echo, radar, and other equipment registered readings but gave no clue as to the nature of the objects.
Most in the scientific community wrote it off as meteors, as several alleged fragments from the Ghost Rockets that had been examined turned out to be either pieces of meteorites or just plain old coke or slag, in other words, rocks. However, not everyone was so sure all of the phenomena could be attributed to meteorites, due to the fact that the objects often were seen doing acrobatics, flying horizontally, flying in formation, or accelerating and decelerating, none of which are things meteorites are known to do, and they also did not typically leave trails behind them.
The phenomenon also attracted the interest of the United States, and two U.S. experts on aerial warfare, a General Jimmy Doolittle and General David Sarnoff, went to Sweden in August of 1946, ostensibly on other unrelated business, but who also asked around to the Swedish military about the Ghost Rockets. In fact, they were given briefings on the phenomenon and able to interview many senior officers with the Swedish Air Force. The two generals went away convinced that the Ghost Rockets were a real thing and not a myth. When they brought their findings back to the United States, the Americans came to the conclusion that these were actual missiles being seen, likely top-secret V-1 or V-2 missiles being fired by the Germans from a rocket facility at the German seaside town of Peenemünde. Lt. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, who was the director of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), would write a Top Secret memo to President Truman explaining this theory, saying:
The weight of evidence pointed to Peenemünde as origin of the missiles, that a US MA [military attaché] in Moscow had been told by a ‘key Swedish Air Officer’ that radar course-plotting had led to conclusion that Peenemünde was the launch site. CIG speculates that the missiles are extended-range developments of V-1 being aimed for the Gulf of Bothnia for test purposes and do not overfly Swedish territory specifically for intimidation; self-destruct by small demolition charge or burning.
The problem with this is that not only had there been no reported launches of any sort of missile or rocket from Peenemünde at the time, but missiles don’t speed up and slow down or do the extreme aerial acrobatics seen with the Ghost Rockets any more than meteorites do. Despite the widespread belief that these Ghost Rockets must have been meteorites, rockets, or both, the U.S. government seemed to remain open to the idea that they could have been something more outlandish and mysterious. In a top secret document by USAFE (United States Air Force Europe) from 1948 that was declassified in 1997, the Swedish Ghost Rockets are mentioned, as is a supposed crash of one of them that left a crater at the bottom of the lake, and the document says:
They (UFOs) have been reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking. When officers of this Directorate recently visited the Swedish Air Intelligence Service, this question was put to the Swedes. Their answer was that some reliable and fully technically qualified people have reached the conclusion that ‘these phenomena are obviously the result of a high technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth’. They are therefore assuming that these objects originate from some previously unknown or unidentified technology, possibly outside the earth. We are inclined not to discredit entirely this somewhat spectacular theory [extraterrestrial origins], meantime keeping an open mind on the subject.
The lights would disappear just as suddenly as they started, reports would dry up, and we would be left to wonder just what was going on here. To this day there has been no clear explanation for what caused the Ghost Rockets flap of 1946, despite much discussion and debate. Were these meteorites, rockets, some weird atmospheric phenomena, or all of the above? Or was it perhaps something altogether stranger and more otherworldly? Why did it all congregate in this region in 1946 and what is it that the governments involved might not be telling us? No one really knows, and the Scandinavian Ghost Rockets remain a curious unsolved mystery.
My previous article was on the subject of the Bigfoot-UFO connection. It’s important to note, however, that Bigfoot is not the only cryptozoological creature that has been tied to aliens. Take, for example, the matter of the mysterious Dogmen. There’s no doubt that the leading researcher in the field of the Dogman is Linda Godfrey. And, interestingly, Linda has a relevant story to tell about the Dogmen; a story that ties the creatures to aliens. In 2005, Linda was contacted by a man – a military whistle-blower, we might say – who was an expert in the field of remote-viewing. According to Linda’s Edward Snowden-like source, the U.S. Government has uncovered data suggesting that the werewolf-like Dogmen are a very ancient, alien race that closely resembles a certain ancient deity of the Underworld. And who might that be? It’s Anubis, that’s who. Linda’s informant also discovered – via remote-viewing – that the Dogmen can “jump” from location to location via portals or doorways in the fabric of space and time. Wormholes, we might say. That’s quite a story told to Linda.
Moving on: between the nights of December 26 and 29, 1980, multiple, extraordinary events of the UFO kind occurred within Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. They were events that involved military personnel from the nearby Royal Air Force stations of Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Since that now long gone period, countless U.S. Air Force personnel, who were stationed in the area at the time, have spoken out regarding their knowledge of a small, triangular-shaped object that was seen maneuvering in the forest. Others described seeing in the dark woods almost ghostly, extraterrestrial-type beings of short size and with eerie, feline-like eyes. Strange and unknown lights were seen dancing around the night skies, circling both the forest and the twin military facilities. There were stories that the amazing movements of the UFOs were caught on radar. There is, however, something else: a strange creature seen in the very same forest.
Rendlesham Forest, as well as the Suffolk locales of West Wratting and Balsham, is reportedly home to something equally as strange – maybe even far more so – than a vehicle and creatures from another world. It is a beast that, locally, has come to be known as the Shug Monkey. Described as being a bizarre combination of giant dog, muscular bear, and large ape, the creature is said to take its name from either (A) an old English word – scucca – which means demon, and which, as we have seen already, also has a link to the naming of Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire; or (B) an old east-coast term – shucky – that translates, into modern day terminology, as hairy or shaggy. Maybe the name is even born out of a curious melding of both terms. But, whatever the true nature of the name applied to the foul, hairy entity, its presence in the woods of Suffolk is enough to strike deep terror into the hearts of those souls unfortunate enough to have crossed its path.
Now, let’s take a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland – the home of the legendary Nessies. Just like the Bigfoot creatures, the Dogmen and the Shug Monkey, the Loch Ness Monsters have connections to UFOs. On August 13, 1971, a notable encounter occurred at Loch Ness. Not with a monster, but with a UFO. The witness was one Graham Snape, who told Nessie-seeker Ted Holiday that he saw an unidentified object crossing the skies above Loch Ness in a left to right fashion, quickly, and with not even a bit of accompanying noise. The somewhat circular-shaped UFO was purple with a white center. By his own admission, Snape was unsure of the size of the object but suggested it was around five-feet in diameter. More Loch Ness weirdness hit the news in 2011, specifically in August of that year. The UK’s Daily Express newspaper splashed a headline across its pages that read: “Alert as UFO is sighted over Loch Ness.” The story was, undoubtedly, an odd one. That something occurred does not appear to be in doubt. It is, however, the nature of the “something” that remains open to debate. It was on the night of August 20, 2011 that a number of people –many being completely independent of each other – encountered something unusual in the skies over Loch Ness.
Witness descriptions of the movements of the object fell into two camps: those who said they saw it descending into the loch and those who maintained it was actually hovering above the expansive waters. As for the appearance of the UFO, it very much depended on who one asked. But, whatever it was, it quickly caught the attention of the emergency services, who were contacted by worried locals. Martin Douglas, of the Loch Ness Life Boat crew, told the Daily Mail that someone in the area had seen what, superficially at least, resembled a microlight or a hang-glider, and which actually seemed to enter the loch in a controlled flight. Oddly, however, others who saw the unknown craft described it as being somewhat balloon-shaped. Then there were those who opined it looked eerily like a fully-open parachute. There was, then, no real, solid consensus on what was seen – or on what wasn’t seen.
And, of course, there’s the Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia that plagued the area from 1966 to 1967. The red-eyed, winged thing was not the only strange thing seen in and around the city. Men in Black prowled around, terrifying witnesses to UFOs and the Mothman itself. What all of this tells us (including the information in my Bigfoot-UFO article) is that, like it or not, where strange, cryptozoological creatures are seen, so are UFOs. Somewhere there’s an answer to all of this, but outright denying the reality of these weird connections between UFOs, aliens and monsters will get us nowhere. In fact, it will push us back, rather than forward.
Space pinball! Four planets locked in a rhythm around their star 135 light years away are destined to be sent 'pinballing' around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, study claims
Space pinball! Four planets locked in a rhythm around their star 135 light years away are destined to be sent 'pinballing' around their solar system when their sun eventually dies, study claims
Four planets 135 light years from Earth will 'pinball' around when their star dies
They will fly loose from their 'perfect' orbits in HR 8799 system, researchers say
But Warwick and Exeter scientists believe it won't happen for three billion years
Four massive planets 135 light years away from Earth will be sent 'pinballing' around their solar system when the sun they orbit eventually dies, a new study suggests.
Astronomers say the planets, more than five times the mass of Jupiter, will fly loose from their orbits and bounce off each other's gravity in a similar way to a game of pinball.
They are currently locked in a 'perfect rhythm' around a 30 to 40 million-year-old star, with each one completing double the orbit of its close neighbour.
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Pinball machine: Four massive planets 135 light years away from Earth will be sent careering around their solar system when the sun they orbit eventually dies, a new study suggests. The planets are in rhythm around a star in the HR 8799 system (pictured in an artist's impression)
WHAT IS THE HR 8799 SYSTEM AND WHEN WAS IT DISCOVERED?
The HR 8799 system is made up of four unusually massive planets orbiting a star that is 30 to 40 million years old.
It was discovered almost 13 years ago and has been 'iconic' for exoplanetary science ever since, according to one researcher.
The four planets, which are more than five times the mass of Jupiter, are currently in a 'perfect rhythm' around their sun 135 light years away from Earth, researchers have said.
Although this is expected to continue for the next three billion years, it will break when the star enters its red giant phase.
It will then expand to several hundred times its current size and eject nearly half its mass, finishing as a white dwarf.
For every orbit the furthest planet completes, the next closest completes two, the next completes four, while the closest completes eight.
Despite the effects of Galactic tides and close flybys of other stars, this is likely to continue for the next three billion years, researchers from the universities of Warwick and Exeter determined.
However, it will break when the star in the HR 8799 system enters its red giant phase.
At this point it will expand to several hundred times its current size and eject nearly half its mass, finishing as a white dwarf and wreaking havoc with the gravitational forces in the solar system.
The planets will then start to pinball and become a highly chaotic system where their movements become very uncertain.
Changing a planet's position by even one centimetre at the start of the process can dramatically change the outcome, researchers say.
Lead author, Dr Dimitri Veras, from the University of Warwick department of physics, said: 'The planets will gravitationally scatter off of one another.
'In one case, the innermost planet could be ejected from the system. Or, in another case, the third planet may be ejected.
'Or the second and fourth planets could switch positions. Any combination is possible just with little tweaks.
'They are so big and so close to each other the only thing that's keeping them in this perfect rhythm right now is the location of their orbits.
'All four are connected in this chain. As soon as the star loses mass, their locations will deviate, then two of them will scatter off one another, causing a chain reaction amongst all four.'
This wide-field image shows the surroundings of the star HR8799 in the constellation of Pegasus. This picture was created from material forming part of the Digitised Sky Survey 2
As well as the star and four unusually massive planets, the HR 8799 system also contains two debris discs – one inside the orbit of the innermost planet and the other outside the outermost.
When the pinball game is triggered, researchers are certain the planets will move around enough to dislodge this debris and knock it into their dying sun.
They hope this modelling can offer new insight into how white dwarfs with polluted atmospheres originally evolved.
Astronomers are analysing this type of debris today to discover the histories of other white dwarf systems.
Dr Veras added: 'These planets move around the white dwarf at different locations and can easily kick whatever debris is still there into the white dwarf, polluting it.
'The HR 8799 planetary system represents a foretaste of the polluted white dwarf systems that we see today. It's a demonstration of the value of computing the fates of planetary systems, rather than just looking at their formation.'
Co-author, Professor Sasha Hinkley, of the University of Exeter, said: 'The HR 8799 system has been so iconic for exoplanetary science since its discovery nearly 13 years ago, and so it is fascinating to see into the future, and watch it evolve from a harmonious collection of planets into a chaotic scene.'
THE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE IS A POWERFUL GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENT IN CHILE
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
It is called the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and is widely regarded as one of the most advanced optical instruments ever made.
It consists of four telescopes, whose main mirrors measures 27 feet (8.2 metres) in diameter.
There are also four movable six feet (1.8 metre) diameter auxiliary telescopes.
The large telescopes are called Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun.
The European Southern observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and called it the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
The first of the Unit Telescopes, 'Antu', went into routine scientific operations on April 1, 1999.
The telescopes can work together to form a giant 'interferometer'.
This interferometer allows images to be filtered for any unnecessary obscuring objects and, as a result, astronomers can see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.
It has been involved in spotting the first image of an extrasolar planet as well as tracking individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
It also observed the afterglow of the furthest known Gamma Ray Burst.
Four large worlds located in a multi-planet system called HR 8799 will someday end up playing space pinball with one another. As of right now, these planets are orbiting their host star located about 135 light-years away from us in an organized and locked rhythm, but that will eventually change when their sun dies.
According to astronomers in a new study, these massive planets (they are over five times the mass of Jupiter) will be sent “pinballing” around their system after their star dies (it is currently between 30 and 40 million years old) as they will lose their perfect orbits and starting crashing and bouncing off of each other.
Their orbits are presently perfect as one planet completes double the orbit of the previous closest world. To understand this better, when one planet completes an orbit, the next one does two orbits, followed by the next world completing four orbits, and the last one doing eight.
(Not the HR 8799 system)
Researchers from the universities of Warwick and Exeter have calculated that the “pinballing” event won’t happen for another three billion years when the host star will begin its phase of becoming a red giant. When this happens, the star will lose almost half of its mass and grow several hundred times the size it is now until it becomes a white dwarf.
At that point, the planets will begin to bounce around as explained by Dr. Dimitri Veras from the department of physics at the University of Warwick, “The planets will gravitationally scatter off of one another.” “In one case, the innermost planet could be ejected from the system. Or, in another case, the third planet may be ejected.” “Or the second and fourth planets could switch positions. Any combination is possible just with little tweaks.”
He went on to say, “They are so big and so close to each other the only thing that’s keeping them in this perfect rhythm right now is the location of their orbits.” “All four are connected in this chain. As soon as the star loses mass, their locations will deviate, then two of them will scatter off one another, causing a chain reaction amongst all four.”
(Not the HR 8799 system)
And that’s not all as there are two debris discs located in the system – one inside the innermost planet’s orbit, and the other on the outside of the outermost world’s orbit. When the “pinballing” event happens, the debris in the discs will more than likely become scattered and fly into the star. (A picture of the HR 8799 system can be seen here.)
IMAGE: ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF THE FOUR PLANETS OF THE HR 8799 SYSTEM AND ITS STAR. view more
It may seem easy to dismiss the UFO phenomenon for the average human going about their daily lives. From Ancient Aliens to War of the Worlds, pop culture around the world has banked off the idea that we are not alone in this universe for nearly a century. Yet, as time moves forward and technological capabilities increase, the thought still remains. And questions about the subject are more widespread than ever before.
Today, concerns on the issue may deepen. And acceptance over the potential issue is set to grow. The United States Congress itself is to be briefed over what the Pentagon claims to know so far about what has possibly been lurking over the human world.
In a report from The U.S. Sun, what is known about the truth of the matter from U.S. intelligence agencies will be told to lawmakers in Congress as of today.
Experts from the Navy, the FBI and the Pentagon will reveal what they know so far to Congress.
Representative Andre Carson will chair the classified briefing. He claims that the meeting is a “significant and timely topic” due to growing concerns that the unidentified aerial phenomenon might be an issue of national security. Some in congress have warned that this may be an unknown technological advantage from the likes of Russia or China. But others are not so quick to reduce the idea to human efforts.
Representative Tim Burchett told TMZ that, “If they had the kind of advanced technology pilots have reported seeing, Putin would already own America.” The news does come on the same day that Biden and Putin had a conference meeting. But doubts are high that there is any correlation on that matter.
This is the first time since the Disclosure Project event at the National Press Club on May 9th, 2001 that government officials have gathered to reveal truths on the matter. Before that, Project Blue Book from the U.S. Air force researching the idea had come to the conclusion that there was nothing to see. It ended its own research in 1969. Humans across the United States have to question the matter on their own. There is little official reporting from any news or government agencies since the time. Now, that narrative has seemed to have come to a great change.
In recent years, the Pentagon has released a few important but hardly decipherable videos claiming to show UFO activity.
The videos have sparked intense debate and conversation across media outlets worldwide. But the public has not seen anything concrete or entirely revealing as of now. The briefing to Congress is still a big step in a direction towards understanding what is actually happening here.
UFO documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell said in a recent statement to Newsmax that, “It leaves us with some uncomfortable truths that these are not ours. Soon we’re going to know it’s not Russian, it’s not Chinese, it’s not any foreign nation that is technologically developed as we know it… They fly with impunity through our airspace. They outmaneuver, outperform our greatest warships and warcraft. The big question is who’s operating these unidentified flying objects and what is their intent? We need to start asking the hard questions and eradicating the stigma associated with these because they’re right in front of your eyes.”
Thousands of UFO sightings are reported and documented every year, according to statista.com.
The number has jumped from 319 in 1990 to 7,267 in 2020 alone. These individual reports include everything from triangle-shaped UFOs in the skies to UFOs breaking apart into geometric fleets. They also include reports of UFOs, astonishingly, coming from the ocean instead of coming down from the sky. Some have been reported to shut down nuclear facilities. Some have been reported to actually abduct humans from the Earth.
The truth still seemingly remains unknown. But as information is set to be declassified sooner than later, let us hope that the real truth is what we are about to see and not further games from players on the world stage with a set agenda of God knows what. There is a great deal of hype around the subject. And many are prepared to build an understanding of what is happening here.
UFO Sigted Over Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia ( June 11, 2021 )
June 11. The gentleman speaking on the video asked if anyone else saw it and if anyone knew what it was. No one seemed to think it was a UFO. Most people said it was the the lunar eclipse. In the video he said it wasn’t a fire but that he saw vapour. Whatever it was it was giving off enough heat to cause vapour in the cold temperatures we have at night.
STATEMENT :What do you believe this to be It’s lowering towards the ocean water.
credit : Emanoel Acevedo
UFO Sighted From Phoenix to San Diego ( April 30, 2021 )
What's going on in the mountains of San Diego, California!
STATEMENT : Saw this object on our flight from Phoenix to San Diego 2021 04 30
Bright UFO Filmed Keeping Pace With Commercial Airplane Over San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 4, 2021
This object was sighted as the witness was coming into land at San Juan in Puerto Rico and of the bat we can tell that this is not a reflection from a light inside the plane as when the buildings we see that the object goes behind them and remerges. If this is another plane then where is the Navigation lights, These should blink every two to three seconds and in the footage their are no blinking lights. As for a boat this would have to be a pretty fast & big boat to keep pace with the airplane. So what do you guys think this could be??
Thanks to paolo cafarellifor allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original: https://youtu.be/V-QuQuiFtFI
OVNI avistado desde avión aterrorizando a San Juan de Puerto Rico
Flying Saucer Type UFO Spotted Over Lake Michigan, Chicago. June 12, 2021
This object seen to look like the classic saucer shape craft and could these crafts making a return? The object looks metallic with the sun shining upon the top part of the UFO leaving the bottom part a darker gray color. Certain parts of this object's movement it seem to be spinning and this would be what you would see from a flying saucer. I only wished that they filmed for longer but i would rather have this than nothing at all...
Thanks to joeblow4for allowing me the use of this footage and to view the original: https://youtu.be/R7MttuInMc0
MUFON CASE : 116308 Oak Lawn, Illinois ( June 16, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS :Saw as a black circle hovering in the distance. By the time I got the camera focused it started to move, then it went behind the trees.
Long Description of Sighting Report
Saw as a black circle hovering in the distance. By the time I got the camera focused it started to move, then it went behind the trees. I went to the street to get a better view, but it was gone.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-16
Date of Event :2021-06-16 / 8:40PM
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : UFO.MP4
MUFON CASE : 116280 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ( June 15, 2021 )
On vacation with my husband we enjoy sitting and talking on the beach in the evenings and listening to the waves. On June 13th we were sitting on the beach and heard someone say what is that? We looked to our left and 2 reddish orbs were above the beach almost looked like they were flying towards us. We watched a couple minutes or so trying to come up with an explanation of what they could be but we have seen tons of helicopters and planes in the skies at night and it was clearly not either one. They never moved away from one another , they stayed the same distance from each other and didn’t appear to be carried by wind. By the time I got my phone out to record them one just seemed to dim out, not long after the other did the same. Not sure what we saw but it seemed to also puzzle the others on the beach around us.
While searching a Ceres map I noticed that the map was deliberately lightened by NASA to hide the details. So I added some contrast and the things started popping out. Adding too much light, making photos black and white and also using false color (mars photos) to confuse the public so that we don't notice the alien artifacts on the surface of the moons and planets. But once you become use to this...its easy to focus it and restore the photo to its original glory most the time.
This UFO is parked in a crater, where most the UFOs I find on planets and moons are commonly found. The crater is about 25km by 35km more or less and that would make the size of this spaceship 5km from wing tip to wing tip. It could easily carry tens of thousands of passengers. It's like a small city inside this craft.
Can you imagine what Elon Musk would say if he knew about this craft? I bet it would be, "I'll get there in 30 days." But I'm sure Elon Musk gets alot of alien tech from DARPA program. They leak it out bit by bit to get it into the public sectors. I think even President Biden has no clue to the existence of this alien spacecraft and others out there. Even US presidents are kept on a need to know basis about aliens and alien tech.
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Long UFO Sighting in North Richland Hills, Texas June 16, 2021.
Long UFO Sighting in North Richland Hills, Texas June 16, 2021.
Date of sighting: June 16, 2021
Location of sighting: North Richland Hills, Texas, USA
UFO sightings have increased dramatically ever since the pandemic began and I might add...the UFOs have been getting stranger and stranger looking. This one was spotted over a shopping area of Richland Hills, Texas and if you look carefully you will notice that its darker on both ends, yet lighter in between. It also rotates on end. What odd is its out during the daytime...and its allowing itself to be seen uncloaked. It's very possible this object is hovering over a location that is of particular interest to it. Maybe a hospital or residence of a person infected with covid...with a special immunity or reaction never before seen. Something important sits below this UFO.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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My mom was getting her hair done in North Richland Hills, TX and witnessed this sighting. Any explanation? It looks like a man on a hover board in the sky.
Capitol Hill lawmakers said Wednesday that UFOs could pose a pressing threat to America’s national security, as the pols emerged from a highly classified briefing with Navy and FBI officials on the unexplained phenomena.
As for the existence of extraterrestrial life, the lawmakers largely left the secrets inside the surveillance-proof room, declining to tell reporters what they learned.
But some did voice concerns that the UFOs — which may be espionage assets controlled by America’s foreign adversaries, in a possible explanation just slightly less terrifying than the vanguard of an alien invasion — could pose a danger to national security.
Members of the House Intelligence Committee received a sneak preview inside a SCIF — a sensitive compartmented information facility.HANDOUT/DoD/AFP via Getty Images
“We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States, so we want to know what we’re dealing with,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY).
“I think it’s important to understand that there are legitimate questions involving the safety and security of our personnel, and in our operations and in our sensitive activities, and we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,” he continued. “We need to understand the space a little bit better.”
Added Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), “You know it’s always about our safety and security — our national security is [priority] number one — and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.”
Congresswoman Val Demings said “our national security is [priority] number one.”Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the committee chairman, implied that the briefing was eye-opening, but also declined to get into specifics ahead of the release of a public report.
“It was an interesting briefing,” he said. “I did learn things that were certainly new to me. But I think I’m going to leave it at that.”
Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), who has been heading efforts on the UFO inquiry, said Americans should expect an eventual public hearing on the report’s findings.
“We’re looking forward to having a public hearing at some point,” he said. “I mean, there’s some national security concerns that we want to take into consideration.”
Rep. Adam Schiff implied that the briefing was eye-opening.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) said that, if anything, the landmark report shows that UFOs are finally being taken seriously.
“The stigma is gone,” he said. “Now that’s as big a change in policy as I’ve witnessed about this issue in my lifetime. So the fact that they are taking this sort of thing seriously for the first time, I think, is important.”
Referencing the 1997 sci-fi flick “Contact” — adapted from a Carl Sagan novel — Quigley admitted that the report won’t have all the answers and that some things remain unexplainable.
There is a highly anticipated Pentagon report on unidentified flying objects that is expected to be released before the end of the month.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
“What do they say in ‘Contact’? Occam’s razor,” he said. “I still think that’s what’s real, and there are things we can’t explain.”
But with so many mysteries of the universe still beyond human understanding, Quigley cautioned Americans against getting their hopes up for the report.
“If I had to predict how the public will react to this, one word would be ‘disappointing,'” he said.
Added a clearly unimpressed Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), “I’m not on the edge of my seat.”
Lawmakers said that UFOs could pose a pressing threat to America’s national security after they were briefed Wednesday by FBI and Navy officials.HANDOUT/DoD/AFP via Getty Images
The Director of National Intelligence is scheduled to release a comprehensive report on June 25, 2021 to the US Senate that will assert, according to official leaks, that UFOs are an unknown national security threat!
Prior to the scheduled to release of the comprehensive report on June 25, Capitol Hill lawmakers said on June 16, 2021, that UFOs could pose a pressing threat to America’s national security, as the pols emerged from a highly classified briefing with Navy and FBI officials on the unexplained phenomena.
Why is this a 'Big Lie'? What’s the Deep State agenda behind promoting this now through the mainstream media after decades of dismissing the UFO phenomenon?
Watch this short film about how America has been secretly reverse engineering captured extraterrestrial spacecraft since the WW II era, and is on the verge of releasing some of its secret UFO technologies through the United States Space Force.
We are about to discover if the UFO truth IS out there: As Barack Obama hints they may not be a hoax, a Senate report is poised to lay bare the real X-Files. Here, a defense expert says they could be earth-shattering
We are about to discover if the UFO truth IS out there: As Barack Obama hints they may not be a hoax, a Senate report is poised to lay bare the real X-Files. Here, a defense expert says they could be earth-shattering
President Biden has been in office less than a year but now, in the midst of grappling with the coronavirus and with a wealth of other issues on his plate, he is facing perhaps the biggest question of all: are we alone?
The idea that we may share our universe with alien life is far from new, and there have been regular sightings of UFOs — Unidentified Flying Objects — for decades.
But these have, until recently, been dismissed as hoaxes, or misinterpretations of natural phenomena.
Despite Hollywood’s enthusiasm for the subject, the U.S. Defense Department has always downplayed the significance of such reports and sightings.
Now, however, no less a figure than Barack Obama has raised the stakes by admitting on The Late Show that, when President, he asked whether there was a lab somewhere ‘where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’
President Biden has been in office less than a year but now, in the midst of grappling with the coronavirus and with a wealth of other issues on his plate, he is facing perhaps the biggest question of all: are we alone? Pictured: Video taken on board the USS Omaha showing an object moving, hovering, and disappearing into the Pacific Ocean
Leaked Pentagon footage shows UFO flying over San Diego in 2019
The answer was no, but he did acknowledge the existence of objects without an ‘easily explainable pattern’.
His comments come days after U.S. fighter pilots revealed seeing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) off the coast of Virginia ‘every day’ for two years.
The idea of the government secretly investigating sightings of UFOs and other strange incidents has long been thought to belong to the realms of Hollywood or TV: it’s no mistake that The X-Files, featuring a secret organisation dedicated to such other-worldly phenomena, was described as a science fiction drama.
No longer. Once a preoccupation of hardcore sci-fi fans, UAPs (or UFOs) are now being taken extremely seriously at the very heart of government.
Easy as it may be to discount sightings and photos of UFOs by civilians, video footage and pictures taken by U.S. Navy pilots between mid-2014 and March 2015 that emerged three years ago could not be dismissed so easily.
Barack Obama has raised the stakes by admitting on The Late Show that, when President, he asked whether there was a lab somewhere ‘where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’ The answer was no, but he did acknowledge the existence of objects without an ‘easily explainable pattern’
They showed a 30 to 40ft object, shaped like a Tic Tac, with no wings or rotors, yet able to hover, turn and accelerate through the sky at hypersonic speeds. The flabbergasted Navy pilots can be heard exclaiming in awe: ‘Oh dude!’
The footage was leaked to the New York Times, whose report also revealed the existence of a shadowy organisation based at the Pentagon dedicated to reports of UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — AATIP.
Its $22million budget was buried within the defence department’s £600billion a year funding.
The titles of some of the studies conducted by AATIP read like something out of an episode of Star Trek: Invisibility Cloaking; Traversable Wormholes, Stargates And Negative Energy; Warp Drive, Dark Energy And The Manipulation of Extra Dimensions; and Metallic Spintronics.
But its work was shrouded in secrecy and its former head, Luis Elizondo, resigned in 2017 in protest at this cloak-and-dagger approach.
The UK has been similarly secretive about UFO sightings, although the Ministry of Defence did at least set up a department dedicated to otherworldly phenomena, which I headed from 1991 to 1994, earning myself the name ‘Real Life Fox Mulder’, after The X-Files detective played by David Duchovny.
This department was eventually wound up, but the sightings have continued and — as in the U.S. — while many can be discounted, there are some that have no reasonable, scientific explanation.
The pressure is now on the U.S. Defense Department to go public with what it knows about UFOs and what the implications are for national security.
The leaking of the pilots’ footage prompted it to announce in 2020 the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), led by the Navy.
The stated mission of this body was ‘to detect, analyse and catalogue UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.’
The Senate Intelligence Committee — which oversees the tangle of 18 or more departments and organisations dedicated to intelligence-gathering in the U.S. — last year demanded a report on UFOs.
It is due next month, and it will be unclassified, although I suspect they will hide anything deemed too sensitive and secret within a classified annex to the report.
Certainly the government can no longer get away with dismissing those who have reported sightings of UFOs as cranks. If they know what these strange phenomena are, then they should be transparent, and tell us. And if they don’t — well, then we really do have reason to worry
Although this material too could be leaked. There has already been a great deal of leaking of photographs, official footage and documents relating to these unexplained sightings, notably the Navy pilots’ footage, and of other documents doing the rounds.
It is the existence of this information that has made it impossible for the government to deny or debunk such sightings and refuse to investigate them — as they have done since the 1960s.
What might the report contain? I believe there are three possible theories behind the strange sightings.
The first is that these strange aircraft are a U.S. ‘black project’ technology — a secret weapon developed by the U.S. Air Force that it is blind-testing against the Navy, to determine its efficacy.
After all, one unanswered question has been: where is the Air Force in all this? They have been strangely quiet, given that it is an issue about aircraft and airspace.
In this scenario, everything about UFOs is just a deception operation. The second theory is that the craft involved are secret prototype aircraft or drones operated by Russia or China — a troubling explanation, given the capabilities observed by the Navy pilots.
The third possibility is that we are in unknown territory — this would include the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or even a strange atmospheric plasma phenomenon that looks like an aircraft.
The Defense Intelligence Agency seems to want to play down the extraterrestrial theory but it is interesting to note that among the footnotes to the letter to Congress is a reference to a study of the Drake Equation, designed by the astronomer Frank Drake to calculate how many non-human civilisations there might be.
I sincerely hope that the intelligence community co-operates with the Senate report and gives us some idea of what we are dealing with. If we don’t know what it is, we cannot take defensive measures against it, if necessary.
And I trust that the findings — even the classified ones — will be shared with the UK, its closest defence ally.
Having studied unexplained sightings for many years, not only in my role at the MoD, but as the author of several books about such phenomena, including an investigation into the UK’s Rendlesham Forest Incident in 1980, about the landing of UFOs there witnessed by U.S. airmen, I believe that unexplained objects in our skies cannot simply be ignored.
My understanding is that there are disagreements within the defence and intelligence services about what it is that we are dealing with, and what steps we must take. For so many years scepticism and secrecy have prevailed. Now, at last, we are beginning to see some transparency.
But what we have learned so far is, I believe, just the tip of the iceberg. If these are the videos and pictures that have been leaked, how many more sightings are going on that we are not seeing? I suspect a lot.
Other pictures are emerging, captured on phones — one recently recorded an unidentified object disappearing into the ocean.
The U.S. Navy has even issued guidance to its pilots about what to do if they encounter these mysterious aircraft.
They wouldn’t bother doing that if there had been three or four incidents. This suggests ongoing encounters.
This could just be one of those interesting instances where conspiracy theorists turn out to be right. Not about aliens — I don’t think little green men are about to descend on us — but about the unexplained aircraft.
Certainly the government can no longer get away with dismissing those who have reported sightings of UFOs as cranks.
If they know what these strange phenomena are, then they should be transparent, and tell us. And if they don’t — well, then we really do have reason to worry.
A highly anticipated Pentagon report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – also known as UFOs – has raised lots of interest from astronomers, journalists, and even former president Barack Obama. The Canadian military has documents of reported UFO sightings going back decades. What explains this? Is it proof of extraterrestrial life? Or, a foreign military using advanced technology? Our panel discusses the new interest in these mysterious sightings.
Artificial intelligence aliens may not be as appealing as those who are warm-blooded and squishy, but it’s probably more accurate to imagine them that way
‘If extraterrestrials come to Earth, the ensuing scenario would be quite different than picking up an alien radio signal or detecting a flashing laser in the sky.’Photograph: Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images
I’m an astronomer at the Seti Institute, a non-profit research organization in California’s Silicon Valley. My colleagues and I look for extraterrestrial life, including intelligent beings – or in the vernacular, aliens. It’s exciting times for people like me, because extra-terrestrial life is being widely discussed now in the lead-up to the Pentagon’s highly anticipated report on so-called unexplained aerial phenomena.
Yet I should say straight away that I am not expecting any big revelations out of the report. I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that aliens are present in our galaxy. But I don’t believe they’re hanging out in our airspace. Not now, and not in historic times.
Everyone is now serious about UFOs. But they reveal more about earthling politics
Claims that extraterrestrials helped build large, pointy monuments in the Egyptian desert 5,000 years ago are, frankly, laughable. And I don’t think that videos made by cameras on navy F-18 Hornets actually show alien craft darting around the skies above the Pacific. There are more prosaic explanations for these videos: no extraterrestrials required.
But in a galaxy in which every third star is likely to host an Earth-size planet, it hardly seems possible that our world is the only one sporting intelligence. Which raises the possibility that we might someday make contact. If that occurs, what might the inhabitants of other worlds be like? The question is especially relevant if – as often happens in science-fiction – the aliens decide to pay us a visit.
If extraterrestrials come to Earth, the ensuing scenario would be quite different than picking up an alien radio signal or detecting a flashing laser in the sky, modes of discovery being pursued by my colleagues and myself. The aliens producing such signals will be light years away, and their appearance and intentions wouldn’t be of much concern. But those of anyone landing their spacecraft on our turf would be.
Consider their looks. On Earth, nature has spawned a wide variety of living forms, and presumably would do so anywhere multicellular life exists. All terrestrials have DNA blueprints, and share similarities in molecular makeup. Nonetheless, few of our fellow Terrans resemble us. The extraterrestrials wouldn’t either.
This argues against the iconic aliens of film and TV, those little gray guys who are no more than modified humans. Their four appendages, upright stance, and absence of body hair are simple extrapolations of ourselves. Yes, Hollywood offers up these beings as residents of faraway worlds. But really they’re just the guy next door, lacking in eyebrows and whites in their eyes.
Any aliens that trek to our planet are unlikely to be carbon-based life forms, either hirsute or hairless. Their cognitive abilities will probably not be powered by a spongy mass of cells we’d call a brain. They will probably have gone beyond biological smarts and, indeed, beyond biology itself. They won’t be alive.
The reason is a simple consequence of the staggering distances to the stars. Even the nearest, Proxima Centauri, is 25tn miles from Earth. Our fastest rockets would take 75,000 years to reach it. Neither humans nor Klingons are built to withstand such trips.
You might be thinking that the aliens might have far speedier spacecraft. Without doubt, that’s possible. But there are natural limitations to high-speed rockets. Suppose that an alien would like to cover the distance between Proxima Centauri and Earth in 10 years. Their rocket would need to muster 600m times as much energy as a Saturn V rocket. Double that number if they plan to come to a stop at Earth and engage with the locals.
This may sound like an annoying practical matter that can be dismissed by noting that aliens could be far more advanced than us. And that’s easily possible: The universe is three times the age of our solar system, so the Galaxy may house societies that are millions or even billions of years ahead of Homo sapiens. Nevertheless, while their technology might be in a different league, the aliens must operate under the same laws of physics. Star Trek and similar scenarios aside, it’s extremely difficult to traverse light-years of space in less than a lifetime – anyone’s lifetime. You can call up Scotty in the engine room, but he won’t be able to help.
Traveling from one solar system to another is incredibly difficult and expensive. However, if you’re not in a hurry, the prospects for an interstellar voyage brighten considerably. Such leisurely trips aren’t going to appeal to biological passengers who will die long before their destination is reached. Machines, on the other hand, won’t complain if they’re cooped up in a spaceship for tens of thousands of years. They don’t require food, oxygen, sanitation or entertainment. And they don’t insist on a round-trip ticket.
Artificial intelligence aliens may not be as appealing as those who are warm-blooded and squishy, but we shouldn’t get hung up on an anthropocentric viewpoint. Researchers who work in AI estimate that machines able to beat humans on an IQ test will emerge from the labs by mid-century. If we can do it, some extraterrestrials will have already done it.
Therefore it’s reasonable to expect that any cosmic intelligence paying us a visit will be synthetic. That rules out easy speculation on what the “aliens” will look like. But if it’s a machine, who cares?
Of greater concern would be its intentions. Most sci-fi stories postulate that visitors would be noxious, arriving with a primal urge to obliterate Los Angeles or London. Frankly, if that’s what’s on their mechanical minds, it’s probably impossible to keep them at bay. Chimps couldn’t outsmart humans in any serious confrontation. Likewise, devices who can manage a trip to Earth will have the capability to do whatever they wish once they get here.
It’s a sure bet that any face-to-face encounter with extraterrestrials will be fraught. So, if alien craft ever do settle on the White House lawn, you can hope that whatever’s inside is friendly. If not, there’s always negotiation.
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Terry Virts inside the International Space Station's Cupola module.
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Former NASA astronaut Colonel Terry Virts' has launched an entertaining new podcast that promotes discussions about issues that matter here on Earth.
"Down to Earth with Terry Virts" covers a range of topics including science, politics, film, sport, and of course space, with a variety of fascinating guests.
So if you want to hear about how the universe will end, what life is like as a Navy SEAL or what a former deputy assistant secretary of defense has to say about UFOs, this podcast is for you.
Former NASA astronaut Colonel Terry Virts spent over seven months in space on the International Space Station, where he captured the reality of his experience through photography. Virts has famously taken more photos from space than any other human, having taken over 300,000 spectacular images.
He is one of the stars of the IMAX film, "A Beautiful Planet," and is the director of the documentary, "One More Orbit." He is also the author of the National Geographic photography book, "View From Above," as well as his latest book, "How to Astronaut."
We caught up with Virts and asked him a few questions about how space travel has changed his perspective about issues down here on Earth and what his main goals are for his podcast. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Space.com: Would you say you've gained a new perspective of Earth after being in space?
Terry Virts: I think so, yes. People ask, "How did you change?" I've thought about this and I think the way it changed me is I'm less of a black and white person. The older you get, the more wisdom you have and you're like, "Yes, there's probably two sides to everything, and you really should look at the data before you come to a conclusion."
We used to be stuck on Earth, everything was two dimensional, everything was north, south, east and west right? Then once we started flying, all of a sudden there was this third dimension. Now we have the Hubble Space Telescope and these telescopes that are really looking in four dimensions — they're not only seeing things that are far away, they're seeing things that are really old, back billions of years old.
Space photography has changed everything. People like you and me just grew up with it, like that was normal. One of the pictures I had when I was younger was from Viking which was the first American lander on Mars. A hundred years ago we barely had airplanes so it's amazing how quickly our perspectives have changed.
Space.com: What inspired you to start your own podcast? Is it something you've been wanting to do for a while?
Virts: A couple of years ago I was writing blogs, and then I started writing books so my extra bandwidth went from blogs to books. I do podcast interviews all the time and I did this one in the U.K. It's an aviation podcast called EVA, and it was great, and the producer afterwards was like, "Terry, that was amazing, you need to do your own podcasts," and so we spent a few months talking about it and then I just did it.
The thing is, I know so many cool people from totally random different backgrounds.
Space.com: Like who?
Virts: My first guest was Larry Kopald from The Carbon Underground, we talked about how to get carbon out of the air back underground. My second guest was Eric Berger, this really well known space reporter at Ars Technica. I talked to astrophysicist Katie Mack about the end of the universe.
I just talked to Chris Mellon, who is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and ran the Senate intelligence committee. A very serious, senior U.S. security official, and [we talked] about UFOs and that blew my mind. Afterward, my producer and I were just staring at each other like, "What do we do with that? That was unbelievable!"
Space.com: What are your goals with the podcast?
Virts: The goal is to talk about things that matter in an honest way.
And so we'll talk about quantum mechanics or how to land on Mars or why gun violence is so awful or how to solve the climate problem or are UFOs real. We will talk about how we are going to get out of this debt and the political divisions that we have.
All this stuff matters, some of it is interesting, some is important, some is critical. As you can tell, I have a pretty wide interest but I think that's just how my brain works.
Special reports concerning FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings, False Flag Alien Innovation, 1989 Soviet Attack Possible False Flag, Strange Craft and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings
10,000 UFO/UAP reports
The Federal Aviation Administration has seen a dramatic increase in drone-related incidents, recording approximately 10,000 reports in the last five years. The War Zone has identified a substantial number of military encounters with unidentified aircraft among those reports, often in sensitive airspace. When I flew out of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia in 1967, we used to see them periodically. Navy divers told us they saw them under water moving at high speed around the coast. This was before drones existed.
FAA reports, while some of the incidents represent typical hazards associated with commercial drones, others are indicative of advanced capabilities, including the ability to fly at relatively high altitudes and to potentially operate in coordinated groups. More so, it is not just what’s happening, it is where it is happening that is so intriguing.
Typical Craft seen Entering and leaving Ocean
The incidents appear to have predominantly impacted the U.S. Navy and Air Force, with a pronounced geographic nexus off the coast of the southeastern United States, as well as another in the southwestern United States. Many of the incidents we identified occurred far out over the ocean in military training ranges that have become known for ongoing sightings of unusual aircraft. Notably, there were far fewer similar incidents reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in other areas that also host a great deal of military activity, such as off the West Coast or around Florida. It is unclear if this is because fewer incidents happen in those locations or if it is because reporting practices are inconsistent, or a mixture of both. Thanks to Bill LaParl
False Flag Alien Innovation
False Flag Invasion
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers…” “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places EPHESIANS 6:12 KJV
Momentous UFO events are taking place for the first time UFOs are being treated with respect by our government telling us they are real like I told you in these Files for 25 years. Frankly I’m very suspicious of grand announcements like the government closing pipelines and shutting down oil drilling leases increasing oil prices by 50, % the greatest increase of inflation in decades.
Carol Rosin was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space-based weapons. I met Carol at the Disclosure Project at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in May 2001 when we both testified. Carol is known for having helped start the movement to prevent the weaponization of space. Carol Rosin was a close friend of Wernher von Braun (23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect. Von Braun joined Fairchild Industries as a Vice President for Engineering and Development. Fairchild Industries was one of the aerospace contractors that was secretly involved in building a ring-shaped space station.
Von Braun was the leading figure in the development of the v-2 rocket technology in Nazi, Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology. While in his twenties and early thirties he helped design and co-developed the V-2 rocket at Peenemunde during World War II. He was also likely participating in the development of the Space Force.
Following the war, he was secretly moved to the United States, along with about 1,600 other German scientists, engineers, and technicians, as part of Operation Paperclip. He worked for the U.S. Army on an intermediate range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that successfully launched the United States’ first space satellite Explorer! Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. wrote that Von Braun was committed to eliminating weapons in space as he convinced Rosin during the final years of his life, or was he a double agent secretly working for the Fourth Reich Antarctic Germans? In 1960, his group was assimilated into NASA, where he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V heavy lift Launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo Spacecraft to the Moon
William Tomkins worked with him and NASA developing the Apollo Control Room. He announced that Germany had gained the secret of anti-gravity that was later used I the Space Fleet. He was aware of the various advancements in technology and the race to the Moon in competition with the Soviet Union. He was likely aware of the Hangar near Chicago where a false area of the Moon was set up and a movie made to show the landing on the Moon. The movie was made to insert a false narrative if the landing was not successful on the Moon.
I met Carol Rosin, a high-ranking manager at Fairchild Industries on several occasions. Each time she told me that Von Braun’s had been briefed of a False Flag Alien Invasion – a genuine warning or a Fourth Reich deception or other key forces wishing to take control of the world?
From 1974 – 1977, Werner Von Braun began privately telling, about a sequence of contrived global false flag scenarios of an extraterrestrial invasion, which would usher in a New World Order. The scheduled release of new information about UFOs may be part of the false flag scenario he warned about. The locking up of the country for the Chinese release of the Corona Virus may have been a test of how willing the country was to accept fear of danger and to stay inside, wear masks, etc. The next big fear is likely to be the sky is falling concerning meteorites, or an alien invasion is taking place.
Von Braun had been it the SS and knew how powerful Nazi propaganda against the Jews had been. He knew that a clever propaganda campaign controlled by the six companies that control the television media in the U.S. can carry out a false flag extraterrestrial invasion, just as they have ignored any threats from China. If the country was told that the extraterrestrials were now in control, stay inside so they don’t harm you, and listen to the news. What would Americans or the people of the world do?
The extent of the Fourth Reich in Red
It’s possible World Communist/Marxist Governments or the remnants of the Fourth Reich, have the UFOs and Direct Energy Weapons, media and computer technology to give Von Braun’s prediction capability. Von Braun a former Nazi SS officer would know about the existence of a breakaway Nazi colony in South America and Antarctica. We can assume his multiple warning was genuine and he had held high classified positions in our government, contact with German scientists in the Soviet Union and some contacts the Fourth Reich. If the people believe aliens are about to attack or global false flag “cards” such as asteroid impacts and extraterrestrial invasion, would lead to the militarization of space and usher in a New World Order.
After NASA made the decision to end the Apollo Program, Von Braun decided to retire on May 26, 1972, six months before the launch of Apollo 17, the last moon landing mission. He had been the Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (1960-1972), where he led the largely German engineering teams designing the Saturn V rockets that would power the Apollo Program.
In return for its covert help through the Apollo program, the US military gained scientific assistance in its efforts to study and reverse engineer captured extraterrestrial technologies. Werner Von Braun was among a select group of Operation Paperclip scientists who were asked to evaluate the remains of the 1947 Roswell Crash.
Roswell Newspaper Photograph
Dr. Von Braun explained how he had been taken to the crash site and how the exterior of the space craft was not metal as we know it, but appeared to be made of something biological, like skin. There were alien bodies which were being kept in a medical tent near the UFO. The beings were small, very frail, and reptilian in nature. Von Braun compared their skin to rattlesnakes that he and his group had encountered at White Sands. Von Braun was puzzled by the nature of the debris. The material was very thin, aluminum colored, like chewing gum wrapping, unlikely to have traveled from another planet according to the scientist.
. German Paperclip scientists were helping the USAF study and reverse engineer alien technologies? During the 70s, industry was able to back engineer and build electromagnetic and torsion field propulsion systems that were put into newer craft.
Wernher von Braun’s Deathbed Warning reportedly admitted late in life that German humans have possessed anti-gravity / beam-energy technology since WWII…Von Braun also pointed out in the 70’s that humanity could now easily convert to a long-suppressed, free-energy technology at any time”.
I net Carol Rosen at various conferences where she always emphasized Von Braun’s False Flag Alien Invasion that some group would use it to put weapons in space. There is strong evidence that the weapons do in fact exist aboard various objects in space.
1989 Soviet Attack Possible False Flag
Nancy and Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan liked to say, “God has a plan for everything.” He and Nancy were expected at a casual dinner party with friends in Hollywood when they were first married and showed up a half hour later quite upset. “They stated that they had seen a UFO coming down the coast.”
In 1974, California Governor stated, “I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around.” “I went up to the pilot and said, “Have you ever seen anything like that?” He was shocked and he said, “Nope.” And I said to him: “Let’s follow it!” “We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.” “We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.”
When he became President, he frequently discussed UFOs with his staff, and received numerous reports on sightings, and made frequent references to UFOs in his speeches.
On September 28, 1981, President Reagan received a letter from Colonel Ret. Colman VonKeviczky, Director of the International UFO Galactic Spacecraft Research and Analytic Network (ICUFON) that claimed UFOs were an intergalactic task force that will destroy earth unless world leaders’ band together to end their hostile actions against UFOs.”
Chief Advisor of the White House, Major General Robert Schweitzer replied, “The President is well aware of the threat you document so clearly and is doing all in his power to restore the national defense margin of safety as quickly and prudently as possible.” Dated November 21, 1981.
General Douglas MacArthur also spoke of “an ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy.
On December 4, 1985, Reagan made a speech at Fallston High School in Maryland talking about his meeting in Geneva where in five hours of private conversations with Soviet Premier Gorbachev he had brought up the alien scenario:
Regan Felt an Alien Attack Could Happen
“I couldn’t help but – when you stop to think that were all God’s children, wherever we live in the world, I couldn’t help but say to him (Gorbachev) just how easy his task and mine might be if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We had forgot all the little local differences that we have between our countries, and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this Earth together. Well, I guess we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us, but I think that between us we can bring about that realization.”
Reagan showed his perception of UFOs at the United Nations General Assembly September 21st, 1987, when he stated, “In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you,” he went on, “is not an alien threat already among us? What could be more alien to universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”
Was Regan considering creating his own false flag alien invasion on the Soviet Union?
President Reagan apparently developed a plan to defeat the USSR, and Communism that he called the Evil Empire. A key part of the plan was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced in 1983 and called the “Star Wars” defense system that could destroy Soviet missiles and probably UFOs. Reagan proposed a complex set of defensive lasers and missiles intended to shoot down Soviet IBCMs. He even offered the defense system to the Soviets.
Whether inspired through his conversations with President Reagan, or through information provided by his own intelligence, Gorbachev had his own interest in UFOs.
Premier Gorbachev
On February 16, 1987, in an important speech, at a conference at Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on the “Survival of Humanity,” Gorbachev stated, “At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, although I think it is early yet to worry about such an intrusion. It is much more important to think about the problems that have entered in our common home.”
Hundreds of reports of abductions were reported in the Soviet Union, astronauts were reporting UFOs, fighters were being launched to chase them, and while rumors persist Gorbachev himself was visited by an alien and given a stern warning.
Not generally known is that the Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev prepared and nearly carried out a nuclear attack on the United States according to two Soviet KGB Colonels “At the age of 54, Gorbachev was elected to the General Secretariat by the Politburo on 11 March 1985. This was the beginning of a series of fundamental Soviet reforms”.
President Reagan ordered a massive buildup of the United States Armed Forces in 1981, directing funding to the B-1 Lance bomber, the B-2 Spirit bomber, cruise missiles, the MX missiles, and the 60 ship Navy.
Reagan and Gorbachev
In response to Soviet deployment of the SS-20, long range nuclear missiles and a potential alien threat. The Strategic Defense Initiative dubbed Star Wars was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983. The idea was to block nuclear missiles and allegedly attack alien craft and after several years was meeting initial success. In June 1987, American president Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and demanded that Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev “Tear down this wall!”
.President Reagan Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Governors Island on December 7, 1988 -American President Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for help from Russia to ‘fight the alien invader.’
Gorbachev agreed that the nations of the world would fight together. The Soviet Union’s first step in the end of the Cold War came when Mikhail S. Gorbachev implicitly abandoned the Brezhnev Doctrine. On 14 April 1988, the Governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the United States and Soviet Union serving as guarantors, signed an agreement known as the Geneva accords. This included five major documents, which, among other things, established a timetable that ensured full Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan by 15 February 1989. Gorbachev was secretly preparing and nearly launched an attack on the United States.
Gorbachev demanded that the retreat be orderly and dignified — he did not want television images reminiscent of the chaotic 1975 US pullout from Vietnam. “We must not appear before the world in our underwear or even without any,” he told the Politburo inner circle. “A defeatist position is not possible.” The withdrawal was intended as a sign of conciliation toward the West and reassurance to the East Europeans, but it encouraged others to challenge Soviet power.
In 1989, one-fourth of the entire Soviet population was engaged in military activities and preparing for a possible strike at the US. Soviet Bloc countries were threatening to escape Soviet leadership and war would likely keep them in line. I believe Gorbachev decided to take a chance and see if the US defense was down. The Inauguration of George H. W. Bush as the 41st President of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1989. Bush might easily be fooled concerning Soviet attentions and quickly surrender to a surprise attack.
Typhoon Class Nuclear Sub the largest ever built
The Soviet Navy was a large part of the Soviet Union’s strategic plan in the event of a conflict with the opposing superpower, the United States; Soviet Navy had 63 ballistic missiles submarines.
These Soviet subs generally carry 16 missiles, and many are multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) that if launched could have hit key military installations and cities in a few minutes after launch and likely succeed before the SDI Star Wars was operational.
The Soviet Unions also had 72 cruise missiles submarines and 64 nuclear attack submarines plus bombers and Intercontinental missiles. It had the older III/IV SSBNs that carry 16 of the older Sineva Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles with a range of up to 5,100 miles with a full payload. It is reported that the Sineva missiles have been upgraded to the new Layner standard, a highly advanced derivative of the Sineva, which carries up to 12 MIRVs (warheads can be of a mixed set with various yields).
Normally four of five Soviet nuclear missile submarines came on station near the U.S. shores. After several months on station the missile subs would be replaced by more subs and the initial subs would return to the Soviet Union. However, the initial subs did not return, and the additional subs came on station in the spring of 1989. Soviet military forces had now left Afghanistan in January of 1989 and were now ready to launch an attack on NATO… Fortunately the airborne Sub tracker aircraft were on station looking for the Soviet subs.
VP-64 t Orion P-3 Aircraft of the Naval Reserve
VP-64 t Orion P-3 Aircraft of the Naval Reserve unit from Willow Grove Naval Air station near Philadelphia allegedly were the first units to spot the Soviet buildup. They noticed the subs on station were not returning while there was a buildup of the new subs. Also, Soviet subs were spotted off the Florida coast. Twenty Soviet subs on each coast could launch 320 nuclear missiles plus MIRVs hitting multiple targets with only a few minutes warning. Long range missiles could knock out key Minuteman missiles and nuclear equipped bombers in a fifteen-minute attack before the US could respond. The Soviet attack submarines would hope to knock out US Polaris missile subs near the Soviet Union.
Once key military installations were knocked out in the US, it was doubtful NATO forces would put up much of a fight. Large Soviet underground facilities would protect most of the Soviet population if some retaliatory missiles got thru. If the numerous subs were not detected the US would likely surrender.
Once the alarm was sounded large US Navy forces of dozens of P-3s and attack helicopters and naval vessels moved into hover over the Soviet submarines. US attack subs had followed several of the Soviet subs across the Atlantic Ocean and a picture of the Soviet intentions developed. Gorbachev felt if the subs had not been detected most key military bases in the US could be destroyed before the US could retaliate. Fortunately, the subs were tracked by Orion Aircraft and US attack submarines and the Soviet Union gave up their secret attack plan and a nuclear was averted.
UFO Crash After Being Shot Down
According to the “Secret KGB UFO files” TV program UFO craft were discovered after crashing possibly after Soviet intercepts. UFOs were swarming over the Soviet Union in an apparent response to the Soviet failed attack.
Besides numerous abduction scenarios, UFOs were destroying key Soviet installations, and intercepts of Soviet communications indicated fighters were being launched to ward off further UFO attacks. General Igor Malsev, Chief of the General Staff for Air Defense Forces (PVO), admitted that over a hundred observations of UFOs had been reported to him, mostly by pilots, on March 21, 1990. The Soviets were overly concerned about the attacks and the new threats provided by UFOs.
Attacking Triangle Overs USSR
In May 1990, shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union Gorbachev made a second more direct statements about UFOs. “The phenomenon of UFOs does exist,” he stated, “and it must be treated seriously.”
According to filmmaker and Russian ufologist Dr. Vladimir Avinsky, on September 13, 1990, just after midnight a Soviet radar station near Samara was attacked by a black triangular shaped UFO. It was about 50 feet in length on each leg of the triangle. A fire stated and the radar antennae seemed to melt. These extraordinary events were reported in the Red Star Military Newspaper. Dr. Avinsky provided these drawings of the attack.
These pictures were given to me by two Soviet KGB Colonels
Triangle UFOs Attacks Key USSR Facilities
According to Timothy Good in his excellent new book “Need to Know” on September 28, 1990, cosmonauts on board the Mir Space station saw a UFO over Newfoundland. Astronaut Gennadi Manakov states, “It was a great, silvery sphere and it was iridescent at 22:51 hours. It was much larger than a huge ship and had a regular shape, but what it was I don’t know, perhaps an enormous, experimental sphere, or something else“. snip
Officially it is stated the Soviet Union collapsed because of economic problems, but from its beginning it always had serious financial problems and its huge oil production was coming online. I suggest UFOs participated in the collapse of the Soviet Union to protect their interests.
Boris Yeltsin came to power on June 12, 1991, and was elected president of Russia becoming the first popularly elected president, and completing the fall of the Communist USSR and essentially ending the Cold War.
According to two Soviet KGB Colonels I met the Extraterrestrials were well as where of the Soviet plans and may have helped in uncovering the Soviet planed attack The aliens have a strong dislike for nuclear war in that it may make living on the planet intolerable. Shortly after the failed attack the Soviet Union was attacked almost nightly by triangle shaped craft and key installations were destroyed. According to the KGB Colonels, Gorbachev was visited by Exterrestrials who told him the world cannot have two Superpowers ready to destroy the Earth and the Soviets had been chosen to in effect to surrender and dissolve the Soviet Union. The failed attack was the momentum for various Soviet Bloc countries to start to withdraw from Soviet rule and suddenly the Soviets seemed weak and unwilling to occupy its Soviet Bloc nations as they had previously done in the past. By the summer of 1989 Gorbachev’s domestic reforms had run into serious trouble. The centrifugal forces in the “outer empire” stimulated and accelerated those in the “inner empire”, as the Soviet republics sought sovereignty and then independence. As the center disintegrated and Gorbachev opened the political process with glasnost (openness), the old communist “barons” in the republics saw the handwriting on the wall and became nationalist.
Shortly after Poland’s electorate voted the Communists out of government in June 1989, Gorbachev announced that the Soviet Union would not interfere with the internal affairs of the Eastern European countries. By October, Hungary and Czechoslovakia followed Poland’s example. The second act of the drama began in the fall of 1989 with peaceful revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe (except Romania) and the fall of the Soviet “outer empire.”
On 09 November 1989, the East German Government opened the Berlin Wall. East Germany, the center of contention throughout the Cold War, was united with West Germany and integrated into NATO.
Collapse of Soviet Union Lost Numerous Nations and Area
As one historian noted, in Poland communism took ten years, in Hungary ten months, in East Germany ten weeks, and in Czechoslovakia ten days to disappear. In Romania — the bloody exception to the rule of peaceful transition — the end came with the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife on Christmas Day. The Eastern Bloc. Charter 77 (Czechoslovakia) Solidarity (Poland) Jeltoqsan (Kazakhstan) Braşov rebellion (Romania) January Events (Lithuania) The Barricades (Latvia) April 9 tragedy (Georgia) Black January (Azerbaijan). The collapse of the Warsaw Pact a year later plus the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe [that substantially reduced Soviet superiority in conventional forces in Europe resulted in a stronger Western alliance — so strong that the US could redeploy forces from Europe to the Persian Gulf for use against Iraq.
President Bush and Yeltsin Declare End To Cold War
At the of Malta Summit on December 2 and 3, 1989, both the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union declared the Cold War over. Taking place on December 2–3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was their second meeting following a meeting that included Ronald Reagan, in New York in December 1988.
At the Malta Summit, new US President George HW Bush, announced that the superpowers had ‘buried the Cold War at the bottom of the Mediterranean.’
My history of the world is quite different than that of the news media. Perhaps the real history will be revealed some day.
In 1991, the two countries were partners in the Gulf War against Iraq a longtime Soviet ally. On 31 July 1991, the START I treaty cutting the number of deployed nuclear warheads of both countries was signed by Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev and U.S. President George Bush. However, many consider the Cold War to have truly ended in late 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
After the fall of the Soviet Union’s the CIA obtained KGB reports that the remains of the ‘petrified soldiers’ were transferred to a secret research institution near Moscow. “Specialists assume that a source of energy still unknown to Earthlings instantly changed the structure of the soldiers living organisms, having transformed it into a substance whose molecular structure was no different to limestone like reports in the Bible. A CIA representative stated: ‘if the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case. “The aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions’.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin is frequently cited as calling the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” But that is not how the Kremlin translates his words. In his annual address to the Federal Assembly on 25 April 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin “Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century.
Thatcher and Reagan
Margaret Thatcher reminded us, ” President Reagan won the Cold War.” I feel he had help from our visitors in UFOs or was it a false flag scenario making the Soviets beehive aliens were attacking them? In Raegan’s last public announcement, he revealed, “When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours, and eternal optimism for its future.”
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft. During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer. From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public. Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra. https://amzn.to/2SK3SIQ
Special reports concerning FAA Reports 10,000 UFO Sightings, False Flag Alien Innovation, 1989 Soviet Attack Possible False Flag, Strange Craft and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Sphere
Tucson– on May 12, 2021, while waiting at a bus stop on Speedway Blvd and Palo Verde, I observed what looked like a ball in the NW direction. At first, I thought it could have been a metallic type of balloon. But the ball shaped figure got closer and stayed at a low elevation and did not rise like a balloon but flew SE toward the Rincon Mountains. The movement was not erratic, it did not change elevation, just a shiny, metallic sphere with no windows or appendages. just a smooth round shiny ball moving about 75 feet above the power lines.
California Object
Morongo Valley – on June 4, 2021, was on a trip to LA with some buddies when we passed through Morongo Valley, and I spotted this object. It looked flat but was extremely far in the distance, so it was hard to tell anything about it. I grabbed my I phone and recorded it. My friends all saw it too. The object zoomed off at supersonic speeds.
Colorado Disc
Cortez— on July 15th, 2019, while on a trip to Colorado heading south on highway 145 in the San Juan Mountains range, I stopped and started taking pictures of the mountain peaks with my Nikon 5600 camera with a Tamron 28-400 mm lens which equals a 600 mm on the Nikon and with my Samsung Note 9. After the trip noticed this black object in the sky on pictures with the Nikon and the Samsung Note 9.
With my Samsung I was doing a panoramic of the mountain peaks and I noticed in one of the panoramic photos there is this black object. t would have been too big for a bird. So, I am perplexed as to what I’m seeing in these photos.
I have a raw file from the Nikon, and the ones attached are jpgs. with no edits.
Thanks for any information if you think there is something to these photos. It might be nothing, but attached you see the images I took
Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Florida Object
Miami– on May 29, 2021, I was in the pool floating on my back when I noticed a shiny star on a clear blue sky. It was around 6-6:40pm a shiny silver color reflecting the sun light getting brighter at times and then dimming. It was extremely high up in the sky. The object took a slight path to the south then stopped. I was surprised to see a silent star like object in broad daylight for 35minutes.
Georgia Lights
Thomaston– on June 1, 2021, stars and sky were blinking uncontrollably with orbs flying around.
Minnesota Lights
Bloomington – on May 25, 2021, spotted some weird lights in the sky that dimmed on and off. Sighting took place at approx. 9:30 pm at Bush Lake Park for 30 minutes. I left before the lights disappeared. Video recorded with an iPhone.
New Jersey Lights
Bellville – on June 6, 2021, was getting motion alerts in the backyard all night. Finally on this one I saw these orb formations take off from the ground and it scared the heck out of us! No clue what this is.
New York Object
Outside Rachel – on June 6, 2021, f family and I were traveling from Zion to Reno. About 20 minutes after turning on 375 my wife wanted to photograph a Joshua Tree. After several minutes, a circular object shining light suddenly appeared above us. I grabbed my cell phone from my car and took a video. We had no clue, but we were near area 51 and had never even heard of the ET highway and I am not a believer in aliens but all four of us are positive in what we saw. We learned later where we were located.
Orgone Dark Object
Medford– on June 9, 2021, I wanted to get some video of the lighting storm and we have secret cameras that are PTZ means so I can zoom, tilt, and track a person. I picked a spot where I see some lighting and this object comes in on the right side of the screen it is an oval dark shape and It’s moving in the clouds; it flies around then drops down into an area that’s sunny and disappears. Seconds later it reappears flies around and disappears.
Tennessee Object
Sevierville – on June 8, 2021, I saw a black looking tilting side to side, then climbed, then hovered in air. I could not tell what it was but it’s very strange.
Texas Lights
San Antonio – on November 15, 2018, I heard a buzzing sound coming from the front of the apartments. I went out front and noticed what I thought were 35 Chinese lanterns. Held onto the video for quite some time. Then started seeing other videos pop up remarkably similar like mine. The orbs seem to fly in a pattern and some even combine then separate which I thought was odd.
Virginia Light
Springfield – on May 25, 2021, witness this caught on ring camera. Have seen this one other time
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Lights
British Columbia– on May 20, 2021, we are sure that we saw a UFO flying towards the southeast (Seattle) from where we were (downtown Vancouver, BC). I have attached a shorter clip. There is a longer clip which is 39 megabytes. Note: The witnesses likely saw Star-Link communication satellites. The video is not shown as it does not reveal much detail. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Kyrgyzstan Lights
Too Ashuu – on May 1, 2021, the Too-Ashuu pass is in the Ala-Too Mountains on the strategic Bishkek-Osh route, which connects the northern and southern regions of Kyrgyzstan. The height of the pass is 3,400 meters above sea level. I took a photo of the mountains, and got a UFO image
Mexico Object
Zapopan– on January 15, 2021, on a flight from Chiapas to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. I took a photograph that shows how an object made of spheres passes under another plane in the opposite direction to my flight and leaves a beam of smoke. Note: May be an aircraft in the distance.
Philippines Lights
Manila – on January 20, 2017, I have four pictures of this object, which I first thought was unusual with beautiful colors in the sky but after I zoomed in on the pictures you will see for yourself. This was taking on a flight between Japan in Philippines.
Spain Disc
Marbella – on June 2, 2021, brilliant glimmering light in the sky, y although with slight movement left and right may be due to humidity in atmosphere and high temperature. Wind on ground light to medium from east, object did not vary in position during 15-minute sighting. Took 3 photos, best one showed clear outline. Used flight tracker app to confirm no commercial aircraft in the area.
UK/England Object
White Waltham Maidenhead– on May 29, 2021, I was relaxing in front of the Club house, and took a picture of my vintage plane. Above the left propeller is a UFO. UFOs normally fly so fast that the human eye does not see them, and it could be that I have captured a UFO.
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Somewhere in the afterlife, Stephen Hawking has his legs back and is undoubtedly jumping for joy after he’s been proven right again by scientists back on Earth. In a new paper published in Physical Journal Letters, researchers explain how they used data from gravitational waves to confirm one of Hawking’s best-known theories about black holes – that they can only grow, not shrink. If only clothing were made of black holes!
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“It’s the first time that we can put a number on this.”
In a corollary to the Internet trope. “It’s not real if you don’t have a photo,” scientists know that it’s just a theory until you have some numbers to support it. That’s why MIT astrophysicist Maximiliano Isi, co-author of the paper, told Science News he and other astrophysicists decided to search for data to back up Stephen Hawking’s 1970s black hole area theorem that their surface area can only increase over time. That’s true with entropy or disorder and there’s nothing in the universe more disorderly than black holes gulping down everything in their path. While one would naturally assume that its diet would cause it to expand, a black hole eating a spinning object should cause it to spin and lose surface area. Hawking said no – the additional mass would offset it. He just didn’t have the numbers to back up the theory.
To find the numbers, Isi and his team looked at GW150914, the first gravitational waves directly observed in 2015. Those waves were caused by the merger of two black holes that spiraled inward and merged into one bigger black hole. Looking at the before-and-after data generated, they determined that the surface area of the newly formed black hole was greater than that of the two initial black holes combined. That’s one for Stephen Hawking – and another one for Albert Einstein and his general theory of relativity.
“We’re like, ‘aw, it was right again.’”
So what else is new?
Astrophysicist and study co-author Will Farr of Stony Brook University in New York and the Flatiron Institute in New York City told Science News that physicists can’t believe how often the general theory of relativity holds up against new challenges. One such challenge is quantum mechanics – what works on the large scale of black holes doesn’t always hold at the tiny quantum end of the spectrum. We’re still here, so no apocalyptic laws have been broken – so far.
Would the merger of the two great minds of Hawking and Einstein follow Hawking’s theorem and merge into a brain greater than the two added together? They’re probably working on it right now.
Quite possibly, that’s the strangest title I’ve ever come up with for an article! And it gets even stranger. In issue 187 of Fortean Times magazine, writer Mark Pilkington did a review of the FortNite 2004 gig. Pilkington highlighted certain material that was disclosed at the gig by the now late Budd Hopkins, the author of Missing Time: “…in order to better blend in with us humans, the Greys have taken to wearing wigs and sunglasses…the aliens are also experimenting with growing hair on the heads of their genetic hybrid grey-human creations…they’re also developing pupils to get around those giveaway wraparound black eyes.” Yes, it sounds totally bizarre. It should be noted, though, that there are numerous stories of mysterious, alleged alien entities who wear wigs to hide their true, hairless appearances. By now, you’re probably thinking “WTF???” And I certainly can’t blame anyone for that. Now, let’s get to the cases. Gloria is an elderly woman who lives in Decatur, Texas and who I met with on the afternoon of the 22nd. I decided to make the approximately 110-mile-roundtrip, after hearing a bit of her story down the phone the previous evening. I set off early, wondering, as I always do, what exactly I might be in for. It was a typical November day in Texas when I hit the road. It could have been a less than extraordinary experience – as is sometimes the case. But, not this time. On this occasion, the trip was well worth it.
I arrived at an old house – probably dating from the 1940s, and which was well kept and that had a welcoming porch, on which were a couple of chairs. I knocked the door and in just a few seconds it opened. In front of me was Gloria, a white-haired lady who smiled broadly. At least, her experience wasn’t affecting her character, I thought. She invited me in and I sat down, as a couple of caged canaries bid me welcome. At least, I think that’s what they did. On July 19, 2012, Gloria told me – as we drank coffee and ate homemade lemon cake in her living-room – she briefly saw what can only be accurately described as a flying saucer, which hovered over her home as she sat in her backyard, reading a book and with her two dogs for company. In fact, it was the barking of both dogs – which stared intently and rigidly at the sky – that alerted Gloria to the presence of the weird craft. It didn’t stay around for long, however. It was a case of here one second and gone the next second. But that was not all. The next afternoon, that of the 20th, there was a knock at the door. It was a pale-faced, thin woman of about thirty, wearing a long black wig and dressed in a black jacket, a white blouse, and a flowing, black skirt. And then there were the huge sunglasses. And the Woman in Black smelled of dirt – something I have heard before. Gloria felt deeply uncomfortable as, upon opening the door, the Woman in Black proceeded to warn her not to talk about the UFO she had encountered the previous day, due to the claim that “the government is concerned.” Concerned about what was never explained. The Woman in Black quickly exited the scene.
Karen Totten is an artist and sculptor who has had a wealth of anomalous experiences throughout her life, one of which was with an entity that falls definitively into the Woman in Black category. She says: “…when I was 17 I was working in a small convenience store, when a woman came in to buy cigarettes. At first I didn’t pay any attention to her until I saw her hand (when she handed me the money) – it was not like a normal human hand. This startled me so I looked up and saw a very pale entity, wearing a thin black coat (like a rain coat) with collar turned up to cover her neck, a heavy long haired wig, and very large black glasses. This did not entirely hide her strange face: a very pointed chin, scant lip and nose. She did not speak. Took her cigarettes and left! I was kinda stunned.” No doubt!
The following account, sent to me by a Facebook friend, is without doubt one of the most disturbing and chilling stories I have on record; and I don’t make such a statement lightly. The source – who prefers the term “A Hesitant Believer” – says of an experience which occurred in late 2008: “I worked as a bar manager at a sports bar in Tampa, Florida, and at 2:00 AM I cashed out the servers and sent them home and closed down the kitchen. The bar itself closed at 3:00 AM, but my last few barflies stumbled out before 2:30. I closed out the credit cards, counted the register, abused my free credits on the jukebox, and sat down to wait out the clock. At about ten minutes to three a couple walked in. I told them it was last call and cash only at this point, and locked the doors behind them, not even really paying attention to them (rude, I know, but after 12 hours, give me a break). When I did notice them, I began to feel uneasy.
“Neither one of them sat down on the stools in front of the bar. They each ordered a non-alcoholic beer, and then just stood there holding their drinks, about two stools apart. Then I noticed how they were dressed. I dress in a ‘goth’ style and prefer black, but these two were definitely not goths, despite the (almost) all-black attire. The man, who appeared older than the woman, maybe about 40-ish, wore a black double-breasted suit of an outdated cut. I’d say maybe 1950’s style, with a rumpled black shirt and a crooked black tie. I’d say he was about 5’9 with a thin build. He had incredibly pale skin that showed blue veins underneath (I had turned on all of the house lights by this point, so they stood out in stark contrast), a very high forehead, prominent cheekbones, and deep-set, large, brilliant blue eyes, possibly the most vibrant blue I have ever seen. He had thin, dry, unhealthy-looking silvery-grey hair pulled back in a ponytail, with seemingly random dark brown patches in it, as if he gave a half-assed attempt to dye it and gave up halfway through the process.
“The woman, who was about 5’6, emaciated, and looked about mid-20s, wore a black evening gown with elbow-length satin gloves and had a clashing bright green knit shawl around her shoulders. She had a short bob haircut with bangs, though it really looked like a poorly cared-for wig. She had the same high forehead, cheekbones, and blue eyes as her partner, although her eyes were more narrow and slightly slanted. Neither one had eyebrows.” As they were leaving, the pair gave “A Hesitant Believer” very disturbing grins. Is it really possible that we have among us strange, unearthly creatures that look somewhat like us, but who need a bit of “camouflage” to make them look “more human”?
A great number of UFO reports that have been logged over the years have resulted in attempts at providing rational explanations which, perhaps more often than not, have drawn from weather-related phenomena as possible sources.
Naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena actually do often spark claims of UFO sightings, with sources as varied as “sundogs” or parhelion, to saucer-shaped lenticular clouds, and even more curious natural phenomena like ball lightning which, though confirmed and widely recognized, remains somewhat mysterious.
However, there are other instances where peculiar natural occurrences may point to weather-related phenomena which might account for unusual UFO-like observations. Some of these, as is the case with ball lighting, may leave us with more questions than they do answers.
Such an account was described in 1992 in an entry published in the U.K. Journal of Meteorology. The author, a Mr. Brian Hayes, wrote to the journal with additional details about a bizarre sighting that occurred in September of the previous year.
“I follow up my telephone call to you with further details of Mr. Barrie Brumpton’s unusual sighting which he related to me in October 1991,” wrote Hayes, who stated that his interview with the witness had occurred just days after the observation took place.
“Having read The Circles Effect and its Mysteries and The Goddess of the Stones I was able to pounce upon a chance remark made by Mr. Brumpton, and this led to my interviewing him closely. I hope that this will help with your investigations.”
Hayes stated that Brumpton’s sighing occurred near Colden Common, Winchester in Hampshire. The time had been approximately 2230 BST, having taken place on Saturday evening. The date was September 29, 1991.
“The weather was generally very wet and stormy,” Hayes said the witness had described to him, “but a lull had occurred during which the rain stopped and the wind dropped.” What Brumpton described as a light breeze had been blowing from the east, in the direction of New Road. The witness had been approximately 30 yards from the western end of the road, when he first noticed an “object” that was roughly 150 yard away, prompting him to think he had been “seeing things.”
Hayes then provides the following account:
“The object ‘filled the highway’, so this suggests a width of eight metres or so. It was ‘on the ground’ and ’round-topped’, suggesting to me a [hemisphere]. The ‘object’ was a ‘mass of mist’ and ‘looked very wet’. It seemed to ‘roll’ toward the subject at a speed that he estimated at 30 m.p.h. However, his estimate of half-a-minute for travelling 150 yards gives a speed of 20 m.p.h.”
“Let us not forget,” Hayes added in his report, “that time is difficult to estimate after an event.”
According to Brumpton’s description, the mysterious “mass of mist” appeared to be producing a noise that sounded almost identical to heavy rain pounding against asphalt. The observer noted, however, that there had been no precipitation at the time of the sighting, although he had considered whether a hard rain was about to fall, and that he might run the risk of “getting soaked” where he stood.
Another peculiar aspect of the incident had been that Brumpton was able to see the object very clearl at all times, despite the time of night that the observation occurred. “This suggests the possibility that the ‘object’ was luminous,” Hayes speculated.
“The observer moved into a driveway on the south side of the road, but when a few yards away ‘the object moved over’ to the north side and ‘just vanished’.”
What had the unusual object been that Brumpton observed in September 1991? Although certain aspects of the incident do appear reminiscent of UFO-type observations from over the years, the seemingly weather-related aspects of the events described appear to point to the possibility of a natural explanation.
Cases such as these cause us to wonder about the varieties of natural occurrences that might have led to at least a few UFO sightings over the years. Regardless, they are occurrences that may represent genuine mysteries in their own right, despite their apparent natural origin.
A very large star located about 25,000 light-years away from Earth and close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy had dimmed by 97% before slowly getting brighter again. Described as being a blinking star, it is huge, measuring in at a hundred times larger than our sun.
The star, which has been named VVV-WIT-08, began to fade in the early part of 2012 and by April of that year it had almost completely disappeared. Then over the following hundred days, it began to brighten back up. Astronomers were able to study the event by analyzing data collected by the Vista Telescope that is run by the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
As for what caused the mysterious fading of the star’s light, it is believed that it was either from a companion star or an orbiting planet that has a dust disc surrounding it. The astronomers have calculated that the disc would have had a radius that measured a quarter of the distance been Earth and our sun at the very least.
(Not VVV-WIT-08)
Experts are unsure as to when VVV-WIT-08 will dim again, but it may possibly occur within the next 20 to 200 years. Interestingly, astronomers have also found two other blinking stars in close proximity to VVV-WIT-08; however, they have a lot less information on those two – at least for now. (Pictures of VVV-WIT-08 fading and returning back to its normal brightness can be seen here.)
The discovery of the blinking VVV-WIT-08 actually wasn’t the first one to be found. The huge star Epsilon Aurigae becomes approximately 50% dimmer every 27 years for a period of up to 730 days because of a large dust disc passing by it.
And in a binary system called TYC 2505-672-1, a huge red star is dimmed every 69 years for a period of three and a half years because of a disc surrounding its companion star.
Not any of the stars mentioned in this article.
These are important discoveries in regards to learning more about blinking stars. Dr. Leigh Smith from Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy explained, “Once you start to build up collections of several of these things, you can look at their properties in aggregate and unpick the mysteries of where these discs come from,” adding, “It allows us to learn how these systems evolve and what they do at the end of their lives.”
Eind 2019 stond de astronomische wereld even op zijn kop. De heldere oranje ster Betelgeuze in het sterrenbeeld Orion werd plots donkerder. Even dacht men dat de reuzenster op ontploffen stond. Een onderzoeksteam onder leiding van de KU Leuven heeft nu aangetoond dat dit niet het geval is. De ster bleek zich gedeeltelijk te verschuilen achter een stofwolk.
Martijn Peters
Tijdens de overgang van 2019-2020 dachten astronomen even dat er een supernova zou plaatsvinden. De immense ster Betelgeuze stond plots wat minder helder aan onze nachthemel. Een gebeurtenis die zelfs met het blote oog waarneembaar was. Hoge resolutiebeelden gemaakt met de Very Large Telescope van de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht laten duidelijk zien hoe het steroppervlak van Betelgeuze verduisterde. Deze ‘grote verduistering' duurde tot april 2020. Toen kreeg de reuzenster terug zijn normale helderheid.
Dr. Miguel Montargès van de Sterrenwacht van Parijs was één van de wetenschappers die de ster vastlegden op beeld. Tijdens het onderzoek was hij werkzaam aan de KU Leuven. “Het is zeer uitzonderlijk dat we het uiterlijk van een ster op een tijdschaal van enkele weken zien veranderen,” vertelt hij. “De instrumenten van ESO’s Very Large Telescope stelden ons in staat om de ster niet alleen als een punt te observeren, maar ook de details op zijn oppervlak te zien en gedurende de hele gebeurtenis in de gaten te houden.” Deze unieke beelden zijn de enige die weergeven hoe het oppervlak van Betelgeuze veranderde en werden in het toonaangevend tijdschrift Nature gepubliceerd.
Maar er werden niet alleen beelden gemaakt. Het team ontrafelde ook het mysterie van hoe dit nu mogelijk was. De geheimzinnige verduistering werd veroorzaakt door een stofsluier. Die kwam tot stand door een combinatie van gasbellen en een temperatuurdaling op het oppervlak van Betelgeuze. Net zoals een pot kokend water heeft de ster ook gasbellen die naar het oppervlak komen. Kort vóór de ‘grote verduistering’ heeft de ster een grote gasbel uitgestoten die veranderde in een stofwolk toen het oppervlak van Betelgeuze daarna afkoelde.
“We zijn directe getuige geweest van de vorming van zogeheten sterrenstof”, zegt Montargès. De nieuwe resultaten tonen aan dat stofvorming zeer snel en dicht bij het oppervlak van een ster kan plaatsvinden. “Dit sterrenstof kan later trouwens als bouwmateriaal voor aardse planeten en levende organismen dienen”, voegt mede-onderzoeker Emily Cannon van de KU Leuven toe. “Het was spannend om getuige te zijn van het dimmen van zo’n bekende ster; voor ons als onderzoekers, maar ook voor amateurastronomen. Als je ’s nachts naar de sterren kijkt, lijken deze kleine, fonkelende lichtpuntjes onverstoorbaar. De verduistering van Betelgeuze verbreekt deze illusie.”
Helaas zijn de resultaten van dit nieuwe wetenschappelijk onderzoek voor sommigen slecht nieuws. Velen hoopten dat de helderheidsdip van de ster een voorbode was van een spectaculaire supernova-explosie. Betelgeuze is dan ook op het einde van zijn leven. Het is van de zeventiende eeuw gelden dat er in ons melkwegstelsel een supernova is waargenomen. Daarom is het ook een raadsel hoe een ster zich in de aanloop naar zo’n gebeurtenis gedraagt. Maar deze studie sluit dus uit dat deze grote verduistering een vroeg voorteken was van het catastrofale einde van Betelgeuze. Al zal die zeker ergens plaatsvinden in de komende 100.000 jaar.
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UFO Sighted Over Lake Lago Puelo, Argentina ( June 14, 2021 )
Mysterious image captured on Lake Puelo The image was achieved by renowned photographer Nito Cortez during Monday afternoon while taking shots at the lake in the area of El Turbio ElTurbio | Neighbor of the Shire gives us these images.
Misteriosa imagen captada en Lago Puelo La imagen fue lograda por el reconocido fotógrafo Nito Cortez durante la tarde del lunes cuando realizaba tomas en el lago ,en la zona de El Turbio” ElTurbio | Vizinho do Condado nos dá essas imagens.
credit : Noticias Del Bolson
Lake Puelo is a lake located in the northern part of Chubut Province, in Argentine Patagonia.
UFO Sighted Over Puebla, Mexico ( June 15, 2021 )
UFO sighted over Puebla, Mexico on June 15, 2021
STATEMENT : algo que grave en (Puebla Mexico) disculpen la calidad del video TRANSLATE :something serious in (Puebla Mexico) sorry for the video quality
High-Ranking Government Officials Scramble Before UFO Report Disclosure
High-Ranking Government Officials Scramble Before UFO Report Disclosure
The New York Times reported that they already had the initial conclusions from the upcoming Pentagon UAP report, bringing out a chain reaction of questions and statements from the government high-ranking members.
The New York Times received the initial conclusions that didn’t offer conclusive evaluations of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The leaked documents state that the Pentagon cannot rule out foreign intrusions, nor can they rule out extraterrestrials.
Bill Nelson, the new NASA administrator, was asked several questions about UFOs in an interview with CNN. Nelson mentioned that he encouraged scientists to engage the issue of UAP and carry their research.
Nelson hopes to drive off the stigma surrounding the subject in the scientific community. He said there was no enough data, and scientists should be free to follow these leads, and it should not be stigmatized.
Nelson doesn’t believe UAPs as simple optical illusions because of the characteristics that those Navy jet pilots described. He added that the bottom line is, they want to know.
Documents are now coming out showing that the military has been encountering the same objects for decades, even as early as 1953.
Answering to a question during a press briefing, Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had obtained a briefing on the Task Force’s work so far.
This weekend, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox News, saying that he believes the number of UAP sightings is far greater than previously reported.
Ratcliffe also dismisses the theory that these crafts could be Chinese or Russian because both didn’t have transmedium and hypersonic vehicles in 2004.
China has confirmed their version of a UAP task force that utilizes artificial intelligence to investigate the phenomenon, the South China Morning Post reports.
In the 15 years since Chad Underwood recorded a bizarre and erratic UFO— now called “the Tic Tac,” a name Underwood himself came up with — from the infrared camera on the left wing of his F/A-18 Super Hornet, he’s become a flight instructor, a civilian employee in the aerospace industry, and a father. But he has not yet spoken publicly about what he saw that day, even now, two years afterhis video made the front page of the New York Times. As he explained before speaking with Intelligencer, Underwood has mostly wanted to avoid having his name “attached to the ‘little green men’ crazies that are out there.”
The story of the Tic Tac begins around November 10, 2004, when radar operator Kevin Day first reported seeing odd and slow-moving objects flying in groups of five to ten off of San Clemente Island, west of the San Diego coast. At an elevation of 28,000 feet, moving at a speed of approximately 120 knots (about 138 miles per hour), the clusters were too high to be birds, too slow to be conventional aircraft, and were not traveling on any established flight path, at least according to Day.
In a military report made public by KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, another crew member with 17 years of experience on similar cruisers would later observe that the objects “exhibited ballistic-missile characteristics” as they zoomed from 60,000 feet to 50 feet above the Pacific Ocean, alarmingly without producing sonic booms. All told, radar operators with the Princeton spent about two weeks attempting to figure out what the objects were, a process that included having the ship’s radar system shut down and recalibrated to make sure that the mysterious radar returns were not not false positives, or “ghost tracks.”
Eventually, David Fravor, commanding officer of the Black Aces, made visual confirmation of one of the objects midair during a flight-training exercise. An hour later, Underwood made his infrared recording on a second flight. “That day,” Underwood recalls, “Dave Fravor was like, ‘Hey, dude. BOLO.’ Like, be on the lookout for just something weird. I can’t remember the exact terms that he used. I didn’t really think much about it at the time. But once I was able to acquire it on the radar and on the FLIR [forward-looking infrared camera], that’s kind of where things — I wouldn’t say ‘went sideways’ — but things were just different.”
Photo: Department of Defense/Department of Defense
The footage appears to depict what Fravor had identified as a 40-foot-long, white, oblong shape (hence “Tic Tac”), hovering somewhere between 15,000 and 24,000 feet in midair and exhibiting no notable exhaust from conventional propulsion sources, even as it makes a surprising dart leftward in the video’s final moments. Of the three UFO incidents captured by U.S. Navy airmen via infrared gun-camera pods, Underwood’s footage remains unique for its lack of cross talk between the pilots — a fact that has led to some speculation about its authenticity. But “there wasn’t anything on it that was protected,” Underwood’s retired former commanding officer Dave Fravor told Intelligencer. The missing audio, he says, “just didn’t make the copy that was taken from the storage drive.”
A former fighter pilot who served on the Nimitz in 2004, who spoke to Intelligencer on condition of anonymity, recalled an exhilarating group screening of the FLIR1 video inside the Nimitz’s Carrier Vehicle Intelligence Center (CVIC): “Debriefs were usually pro forma in the CVIC, but this one in particular was so odd,” the former pilot said. “There weren’t really a lot of skeptics in that room.” Years later, Fravor told ABC News that he didn’t know what the Tic Tac was, but that “it was really impressive, really fast, and I would like to fly it.” In the CVIC that day, the anonymous pilot told Intelligencer, “We all had that. We all wanted to fly it.”
Of the many people to have spotted or recorded the objects, a handful, like Fravor or Princeton’s (retired) Chief Master-at-Arms Sean Cahill, who reported seeing what appeared to be another grouping of the objects from the missile cruiser’s deck, have spoken to journalists or documentarians. Others have not: Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, a Marine Hornet squadron commanding officer who was also asked to intercept the Tic Tac, still has not done an on-the-record interview. (Three years after the sighting, however, Kurth did take a job as a program manager at Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Studies in Las Vegas, whose owner Robert Bigelow has been a well-known private funder of UFO and paranormal research for decades. It was during this same period that Bigelow became a military contractor working on the Pentagon’s once-secret UFO investigation program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.)
Underwood now joins Fravor, Cahill, and others, in speaking about his experience with the Tic Tac. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
What did you think of Dave Fravor’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience?
I’m glad Dave went on Joe’s show. He nailed every detail. At the time of the incident, he was essentially my boss, my commanding officer. I was just a pilot in his squadron. Are you familiar at all with how aircraft-carrier air operations work?
Probably not.
So, usually, we fly for about an hour, hour and a half, and then land. Then there’s the next wave of folks that take off and do their mission, blah, blah, blah. That day, Dave Fravor was landing at the same time I was getting my gear on, and we crossed paths just after he’d seen it. I really don’t want to get into what Dave saw, specificallyTo summarize Fravor’s eyewitness account to the New York Times, the pilot reported seeing a large submerged object that was causing the ocean to churn. Hovering about 50 feet above that churn, the 40-foot Tic Tac zipped erratically around the submerged object. Fravor observed the Tic Tac as he banked his F/A-18 in a spiral descent to get a closer look. As he told the Times, the Tic Tac “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen” and left him “pretty weirded out.”, because I didn’t see it with my own eyeballs. But I told him, “The Princeton” — again, which has got a really good sophisticated radar — “is reporting that there’s an object out there that they wanted us to see if we could find and, if we’re able, track.”
So, we go out to where our designated training area is. We’re not necessarily looking for something, but the Princeton had a specific object that they wanted us to hunt, for lack of a better word. And all of a sudden, I got this blip on my radar.
The “Tic Tac.”
The term “Tic Tac,” I actually coined that. So, any time you heard the term, “It looked like a ‘Tic Tac’ out there in the sky,” I was the one that kind of coined that.
Was that named based on what you saw with your own eyes, or from looking at the screen on the camera?
No. I was more concentrated on looking at the FLIRAdvanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) is an optical electric- and thermal-imaging system that was developed for U.S. Navy pilots by Raytheon in the late 1990s, mainly for the detection and identification of tactical targets and the delivery of autonomous precision targeting to smart weapons. In the mid-2000s, as well as today, ATFLIR was capable of detecting and tracking targets within a range of 40 nautical miles.. It was inside of 20 miles. You’re not going to see it with your own eyes until probably 10 miles, and then you’re not going to be able to visually track it until you’re probably inside of five miles, which is where Dave Fravor said that he saw it. So, at that point I didn’t see anything with my eyeballs. I was more concerned with tracking it, making sure that the videotape was on so that I could bring something back to the ship, so that the intel folks could dissect whatever it is that I captured.
The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by “erratic” is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets. It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible.
And it was doing that during your engagement too?
Yes. That was the thing that was the most interesting to me: how erratic this thing wasJim Gillingham, an engineering consultant who worked on ATFLIR for Raytheon, suggested in an interview with Intelligencer that “if there were several things in the sky to look at, but none were quite where the pilot was trying to look,” it might produce erratic results, a glitch he’d experienced using the ATFLIR to track planes from the ground during development testing. “We ran into this when trying to get a lock and there were two aircraft climbing out. (LAX has four parallel runways). Sometimes the image would switch back and forth vigorously until we took steps to bias the lock some way.”. If it was obeying physics like a normal object that you would encounter in the sky — an aircraft, or a cruise missile, or some sort of special project that the government didn’t tell you about — that would have made more sense to me. The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics. You’re up there flying, like, “Okay. It’s not behaving in a manner that’s predictable or is normal by how flying objects physically move.”
From looking at the video at the time and more recently, do you get a sense as to how much heat this thing was giving off?
Well, normally, you would see engines emitting a heat plume. This object was not doing that. The video shows a source of heat, but the normal signatures of an exhaust plume were not there. There was no sign of propulsion. You could not see the thing that the ATFLIR pod should pick up 100 percent of the time: the source of heat and exhaust that a normal object flying would give youFormer Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot Vincent “Jell-O” Aiello expressed a similar reaction to the object in the FLIR1 video during a telephone interview. “Where it looks different to me is that it has no wings like an aircraft, and there’s no perceptible heat signature from the engines or from intakes like an aircraft,” he said. “If you’re close enough to an actual aircraft and you’re tracking it, you can see heat spots at different places either leading edges of wings, where it’s hotter because of friction, or exhaust ports from where bleed air comes out, and, of course, the actual exhaust of the engines themselves.”. Does that make sense?
Yeah, it does.
Like, no method of propulsion or exhaust — and the exhaust part of it was the thing that kind of made me raise my eyebrows and be like, “Okay, this is interesting.”
Were you approaching the Tic Tac head-on? Some people have suggestedThe main source for this theory is a longtime contributor to the Skeptical Inquirer, retired Air Force Major James McGaha, whose primary flight experience, per his bio with the skeptic’s group, is with large C-130 military transport aircraft. Not fighter jets, in other words, nor their instruments. that the Tic Tac’s rapid leftward movement toward the end of the video was actually the result of your F/A-18 banking to the right and dragging the camera along with it.
We were pointed nose-on to it. Maybe 10 to 20 degrees of azimuthAzimuth is a horizontal angular measurement between a fixed direction, which in this flight navigation case is straight-ahead of the aircraft, and an object or location. In aviation, azimuth is paired with a vertical angular measurement called altitude, which should not be confused with the more common use of the word as a synonym for elevation., either left or right.
Ergo, when the object kind of darts away to the left—
I was not aggressively maneuvering the aircraft in the manner that would make the FLIR pod would do thatUnderwood’s recollections on this were corroborated by Steven T. Cummings, a former technical director for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems who worked on ATFLIR in its R&D phase and reviewed the FLIR1 video for this story. That said, Cummings made a point of adding that he will remain skeptical about most of the Nimitz UFO witness’ accounts until the military releases more electronic data from the incident.. But look: At that point, I did not actually see the object aggressively accelerate to the left, as the video shows, to actually prove that.
Because you were at a distance where you couldn’t make visual contact with your own eyes—
Right.
And so what’s happening in the video is a little ambiguous as a result.
Right. Yeah. And that part kind of sucks, because I can’t confirm that the object aggressively accelerated that way. But I have my feelings, based off of my experience with my equipment — and also just logic, when it comes to, you know, physics.
I want to ask you some questions based on theories that America’s armchair skeptics have put forward — like whether it was birds, or whether it was some sort of thermal weather event. I mean, I’m sure you have had enough flight time that you’ve seen birds.
Yup. Birds normally fly close to the surface of the ground. So, for example, you’re not going to see birds flying at 5,000 feet. You’re going to see them more down at like 2,000 feet and below, like down to the surface. That’s just kind of how birds normally operate. And they’re typically not alone. So you can you can physically see them, in a flock or whatever. You don’t see birds at 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 feet. That’s just not how birds operate. So birds are out of the question.
And just so that I anticipate your next question: There are weather balloons that people launch, but this was not a weather balloon — because a balloon, it just ascends and floats from low to high altitude; it doesn’t behave erratically. I mean, it’s just a damn balloon. So that was out of the question.
It wasn’t — to the best of my knowledge — a cruise missile or any other kind of test aircraft that we possibly may have not known about, just because of the way it was behaving. Like I said, it was just very erratic. It would go from like 50 feet off the ground, which when you’re out in the open ocean, you know, off the coast of San Diego, it looked like it was just hovering over the water. But there was no method of propulsion that was keeping it airborne: no wings, no heat, keeping it airborne or aloft.
Have you ever seen a weather event on an ATFLIR?
I would say if I captured this object on my sensors independently, like I was the only one that saw it or tracked it, I might have blown it off as something like a weather event. But the amount of people and sensors from other independent sources who found it — given the time period Dave Fravor saw it, and an hour and a half later I went out and saw it, and we captured basically an object with the same description — leads me to believe that a weather event would be unlikely.
Did it surprise you or provide any kind of relief seeing the Navy officially declare the Tic Tac video genuineBefore the New York Times vetted and published the FLIR1 video, the short clip floated around samizdat-style on various online UFO forums, a situation that had led skeptics and “galaxy brain” conspiracy theorists to suspect that the video was a hoax perpetrated by the first known group to host the video on its servers, a German 3-D animation company called Vision Unlimited. In an interview with a German paranormal-news website, Vision Unlimited manager Philip Schneider said the video was not its work product, but could not explain why its servers were hosting it all the way back in 2007. and a genuine UAP when that happened in the Washington Post last September?
No, not surprised. Validation for sure.
This might be a good time to talk about what the mood was on the Nimitz after all of this.
Once I landed, I saw one of my buddies from my sister squadron. He said, “Hey, did you see something out there too?,” in a very jokey manner. And I was like, “Actually, MFer, because I know you want to make fun of me, I got it here on video.” Although, I didn’t say “MFer.” I said the actual term. He’s a good friend of mine, so it was in jest. We pop the tapes into the playback machine. I’m like, “Here, this is where it is.” Those little video cutsIn a podcast interview earlier this year, Sean Cahill (Princeton’s Chief-Master-at-Arms) recalled that the name of this shortened FLIR1 video, the only version that the public has seen, was named “14November_condensed or something like that.” As Cahill told the podcast’s host, Alejandro Rojas, the video file was shared widely by crew members of the Nimitz and the Princeton using the carrier group’s low-bandwidth, circa 2004 Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), before much later being published by the New York Times in December 2017. — that you see of my FLIR recording — were taken there at the intelligence center. What they do with it from there, I don’t have a whole lot to deal with.
When I was still in my flight gear, so probably within about 20 minutes or so, I spoke to someone that I assume was from NORAD. I described it exactly as I just told you. I didn’t get debriefed. The interesting thing was, normally, if you see something out in the middle of the ocean that’s a test project, we would get debriefed on it, one-on-one, in a dark room. Whether it’s from the folks at Edwards test siteSince the end of World War II, Edwards Air Force Base has been one of the premiere testing sites for new U.S. military aircraft, and later home to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center for the testing of advanced spacecraft. Naturally, Edwards has been a perennial subject of American UFO lore — including an extended October 7, 1965 sighting in which base personnel struggled for over five hours to identify a series of mystery objects invading their airspace. Some fun, less intuitive trivia: The base also has its own folklore about a desert Bigfoot creature they call Yucca Man. or something like that. “Hey, yes, we were testing a project. This is what you saw.” Without going into great detail, it will be like, “Yes. This is project ‘Umptysquat’” and, basically, “This is what you saw. Don’t talk about it.” That never happened, which leads me to think that it was not a government projectA former fighter pilot currently working with the Tailhook Association, who spoke on condition of anonymity, corroborated this idea that the lack of a formal debrief for Underwood describing a top-secret aircraft would be suggestive of something more unusual than a classified test-flight program..
Or, at least, not one—
Not one that they wanted to give any acknowledgment of. And, you know, I’ve got top-secret clearance with a ton of special-project clearances. So, it’s not like I wasn’t cleared to know. But, as I’m sure you’ve found in your research, to have clearance to know something, you have to have both the clearance that it’s elevated to and you have to have the “need to know” it. And, clearly, whatever it was, if it was a government project, I did not need to know.
Yeah. Understood. Here’s something I’m curious about, because of this NORAD aspect: Did it come up that this telephone debriefing was maybe involved with something called an Operations Event Incident Report or NORAD’s OPREP-3 reporting system?Documents made public via the Freedom of Information Act, alongside other government documents including “Air Force Instruction 10–206 Operational Reporting” (AFI 10–206) published by the Secretary of the United States Air Force (SEC–USAF) on October 15th, 2008, have indicated that a US military–wide secured reporting channel dubbed OPREP-3 for “operational report category 3 Event/Incident” have become a primary means of delivering realtime information on UFO incidents up the national security chain of command, from the service members tracking the object up through to the White House. Documents released via FOIA have shown the OPREP-3 channel used to deliver information about a spate of Oct, 30th, 1975, UFO events at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan, and overlapping sightings at Loring Air Force Base in Maine, among others.
Honestly, Matt, I have no idea. Like like what level up to who I was talking to. I just wanted to answer them. I was just basically handed a telephone and said, “Hey. Answer these questions.”
Fair enough. So, Between talking to the NORAD guy and Fravor going public, there’s a several-year period where this is just like a thing that happened in your life. Did it come up very often at all?
There would be associations. I would be sitting at lunch five years later with some of my colleagues. Rumors tend to have legs. “Hey, you were out on the Nimitz in ’04. Someone told me about some alien spacecraft.” And I’m like, “Well, (1) the video that you see is my video. And no, I’ve never said that this is what I think it was or speculate as to what I think it was. That’s not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.
When did you find out Fravor was going to go public? Did a lot of people approach you during that reporting or afterward?
It’s funny, seeing your boss’s name and face on the news, given what he was putting out there. You know, obviously, our encounter happened in 2004 — so a while back — but everything that Dave has put out there in the interviews is absolutely, 100 percent, exactly what happened on that day. And we’re still good friends to this day, so I started texting him. We had about a two-hour-long phone call and I’d be like, “Dude. Like what made this pop up?” Like, “Where was this like, you know, 12, 14 years ago?” Now it’s 15 years ago. And, I guess, that was when the Pentagon released — whatever project they called it. I can’t even remember it.
AATIP.
Yeah. AATIPThe Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) ostensibly ran from 2007 to 2012 with a budget of about $22 million. It was preceded by, and may have overlapped with, another Defense Intelligence Agency program, dubbed the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), with a wider and weirder purview that included “dark energy and the manipulation of extra dimensions.” In October 2017, New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal and longtime UFO researcher Leslie Kean met with a former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI), Luis Elizondo, who had been involved with AATIP — and depending on which reporters and low-level Pentagon spokespeople you care to trust, may have led the program. Working with several other individuals from the U.S. military and intelligence world, and however improbably with Blink-182 front man Tom DeLonge, Elizondo and the Times brought news of AATIP — and with it, David Fravor’s account of the Tic Tac — to the public that December. The extent of the Pentagon’s official involvement declassifying this material is unfortunately still one of the more frustrating, unresolved, and contentious aspects of this story two years later..
Did the New York Times reach out to you? Ask for background just to confirm anything?
No.
Interesting.
Not that I really care. At no point did I want to speculate as to what I thought this thing was — or be associated with, you know, “alien beings” and “alien aircraft” and all that stuff. I’m like, “No. I do not want to be part of that community.” It is just what we call a UFO. I couldn’t identify it. It was flying. And it was an object. It’s as simple as that.
Yeah.
I’ll let the nerds, like, do the math on what it was likely to be. I just happened to be the person that brought back the video.
This story originally identified the man who quoted in the military’s report as reporting that the objects “exhibited ballistic-missile characteristics” as Kevin Day. The identity of this man has not yet been publicly reported. We regret the error.
NEO Surveyor is a new mission proposal designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids that are near the Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing the mission to move forward into Preliminary Design (known as Key Decision Point-B). The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA's planetary defense efforts by expediting our ability to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that come within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit, collectively known as near-earth objects, or NEOs.
"NEO Surveyor will have the capability to rapidly accelerate the rate at which NASA is able to discover asteroids and comets that could pose a hazard to the Earth, and it is being designed to discover 90 percent of asteroids 140 meters in size or larger within a decade of being launched," said Mike Kelley, NEO Surveyor program scientist at NASA Headquarters.
Following completion of the goal to discover 90 percent of all NEOs larger than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) in size in 2010, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-155) directed NASA to discover 90% of NEOs larger than 140 meters (459 feet) in size. The agency is diligently working to achieve this directive and has currently found approximately 40% of near-Earth asteroids within this size range.
"Each night, astronomers across the globe diligently use ground-based optical telescopes to discover new NEOs, characterize their shape and size, and confirm they do not pose a threat to us," said Kelly Fast, program manager for NASA's NEO Observations Program. "Those telescopes are only able to look for NEOs in the night sky. NEO Surveyor would allow observations to continue day and night, specifically targeting regions where NEOs that could pose a hazard might be found and accelerating the progress toward the Congressional goal."
Discovering, characterizing, and tracking potentially hazardous NEOs as early as possible is crucial in ensuring that deflection or other preparations for impact mitigation can be carried out in time. NASA will test one deflection technology—the kinetic impactor—with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, to be launched later this year. While there are no known impact threats to Earth for the next century, unpredicted impacts by unknown NEOs—such as the 2013 Chelyabinsk event in Russia—still pose a hazard to Earth. Using sensors that operate in the infrared, NEO Surveyor would help planetary scientists discover NEOs more quickly, including ones that could approach Earth during the day from closer to the direction of the Sun—something that is not currently possible using ground-based optical observatories.
"By searching for NEOs closer to the direction of the Sun, NEO Surveyor would help astronomers discover impact hazards that could approach Earth from the daytime sky," said Amy Mainzer, principal investigator for NEO Surveyor at the University of Arizona. "NEO Surveyor would also significantly enhance NASA's ability to determine the specific sizes and characteristics of newly discovered NEOs by using infrared light, complementing ongoing observations being conducted by ground-based observatories and radar."
NEO Surveyor's approval to move to this next mission milestone brings the telescope one step closer to launch, which is currently scheduled for the first half of 2026. The mission is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and managed by NASA's Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall Space Flight Center, with program oversight by the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). NASA established the PDCO in 2016 to manage the agency's ongoing efforts in Planetary Defense.
With the looming release of a national intelligence report detailing U.S. military encounters with “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or “UAP,” the People’s Republic of China has announced there has been an increase of mysterious and unexplained aircraft in Chinese airspace, with the PLA establishing its own UFO task force to investigate sightings.
The South China Morning Post reports Chinese analysts “have been overwhelmed in recent years by rapidly mounting sighting reports from a wide range of military and civilian sources” by what the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are calling “unidentified air conditions.”
The PLA’s use of the term “unidentified air conditions” mirrors the Department of Defense’s preferred parlance of “unidentified aerial phenomena,” seemingly a concerted effort to avoid the more stigmatized term “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs.
“The frequent occurrence of unidentified air conditions in recent years … brings severe challenges to air defence security of our country,” said Chen Li of the PLA’s Air Force Early Warning Academy, in a 2019 report cited by SCMP.
The U.S. Director of National Intelligence is set to release a report detailing military encounters with UAP in the coming weeks. According to the New York Times, the report is expected to say that “the vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology.”
Citing unnamed intelligence officials, the Times also reports that some sightings could be attributed to advanced Chinese or Russian military platforms. However, the Pentagon appears to also be baffled by a number of not-easily explainable incidents. In some cases, objects are said to demonstrate extreme acceleration, changes in direction, and the ability to operate underwater, which do not comport with any known technologies.
Heading up the current efforts to examine these UAP is the Pentagon’s “UAP Task Force,” which was officially announced in mid-August of 2020.
Recent reports by Chinese press say the PLA equally has its own UFO task force dedicated to investigating mysterious airborne encounters over Chinese airspace. According to SCMP, China’s “unidentified air conditions” task force has been turning to Artificial Intelligence to help get to the bottom of recent UFO sightings.
“One advantage of AI is that it can ‘think outside the box’ – checking crumbs of information scattered across many datasets created at different times and locations, and drawing links unseen by human eyes – to help determine whether sightings were caused by a hostile country, amateur aviation enthusiasts, nature, or ‘other reasons,’” Li told SCMP.
China has had its fair share of reported UFO sightings. According to Chinese state media, in 2010, Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan airport was shut down, and flights were diverted, due to an object hovering above the runway. Airport officials told reporters that the object was seen around 8:00 PM local time.
“We’ve received orders to shut down the airport until the sky is cleared,” a representative for the airport said. The object eventually disappeared and the airport resumed operations around 10:00 PM. Locals reported seeing a round glowing object that resembled a comet. Further information regarding this case is unavailable.
SCMP reports the PLA’s UFO task force has a multi-tier reporting system to handle unknown aerial sightings.
The first tier reportedly consists of military radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, weather stations, and Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories, gathering as much data as possible on UFO or UAP events. This raw data is said to then be processed by the PLA’s regional military commands to conduct a preliminary analysis, before transferring data on to a national database.
From there, PLA headquarters assigns a “threat index” to sightings based on the observed behaviours, frequencies, aerodynamic design, radioactivity, possible make and materials, along with any pertinent information.
China’s “threat indexing” is said to be aided by AI programs to help examine patterns that may not be easily identifiable to researchers and determine an object’s purpose.
Chinese researchers say that some unusual and unexplained sightings near the South China Sea and “other sensitive waters near China” could be the results of increased U.S. military activities.
While China may be interested in the UFO phenomenon, neighboring Japan has also become more involved in tracking unknown aerial objects in the Pacific. Last September, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono instructed Japanese military personnel on what to do if they spot UFOs that could potentially pose a threat to national security.
Meeting with then U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in Guam, the two leaders agreed that Japan would be a strong ally in monitoring the South Pacific for incursions by unknown aerial objects. Earlier that year, in April, Japan began changing its guidelines surrounding how its military personnel would report sightings of unidentified objects.
Kono personally admitted that he did not believe that these objects were of otherworldly origin, and it has led to speculation that China itself may be a perpetrator of several of these UAP-related incidents.
With many officials and members of the public in the United States and Japan believing that advanced Chinese drones are swarming around American military targets, it is humorous that China points the finger at U.S. technology as being the cause of their own UFO sighting events. No one seems to be saying that it’s aliens.
Puerto Rico: Biggest Hub For UFOs, Undersea Alien Bases, & Shocking NASA UFO Footage
Puerto Rico: Biggest Hub For UFOs, Undersea Alien Bases, & Shocking NASA UFO Footage
Jorge Martín is one of the few investigative journalists who spent a whole life studying the UFO phenomenon. He has been investigating the UFO phenomenon and extraterrestrial activities in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands for more than 30 years. For years, different anomalies had been spotted in the skies of Puerto Rico including crafts emerging out of clouds. Martín is famous for the alleged UFO sightings in El Yunque Forest during the 1990s.
Martín was born in 1952 in New York City to Puerto Rican parents. His parents returned to Puerto Rico when he was only 5 years old. He has been actively working as a UFO investigator since 1975.
UFO journalist Jorge Martín from Puerto Rico
Back in the 1980s, the residents of Ponce City in Puerto Rico felt disturbance and vibration like someone drilling underground. They even heard loud noises and buzzing sounds for several nights. Being worried about it, they asked local and state authorities to investigate the matter. The locals had done peaceful protest for several nights but unfortunately, the media stopped covering the issue. Subsequently, the noises stopped and the case was forgotten.
This incident triggered Matin to pursue an investigation which later became an interesting case. According to him, the group of islands near Puerto Rico was the hot spot for UFOs and extraterrestrial activities. He claimed to have discovered mysterious structures (artificially created) at the seafloor, in the south of the city of Ponce, extending to the east of Vieques island in Puerto Rico.
Image from NOAA showing Puerto Rico and other islands of the Caribbean and the continental shelf of the region.
Interestingly, he found submerged tunnels that connect with the continental shelf in the south of the city of Ponce. He wondered if there was an underground facility. Officially, the US navy exited from Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico in 2000. Anyway, Martín was skeptical about the US military activities in the region. He argued that the mysterious structures he discovered using NOAA images were impossible for humans to build with the current technology. He was confused about who could have built such enormous structures underwater: were they built by ancient civilizations or the secret hiding place built by extraterrestrials?
Shocking UFO footage, Taken by NASA astronaut
The evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial activities in Puerto Rico was recorded in a camera by astronaut Story Musgrave from outer space during NASA’s mission STS-80 in 1996. The video clip shows a craft, emerging out from nowhere over Puerto Rico with a speed of 680 miles per second, that disappeared into deep space.
UFO experts confirm the origins of strange objects captured on camera by NASA during a 1996 mission in Puerto Rico
Martín received shocking details from fishermen about the secret undersea canyon and UFO sightings on the island of Vieques. The fisherman named Carlos Ventura said that he believed there was an empty space underwater in a deep submarine canyon south of Vieques. Another fisherman named Alicio Ayala also confirmed the same and claimed to have seen UFOs in that area multiple times.
He said: “As it was sinking in the water you could still see the glow of its light, until it disappeared. I remained waiting to see if it came back out, but it did not. This was south of Vieques, in the zone of the South Depth, looking in the direction of the tip of the town of Maunabo, in the main island, where the lighthouse of Maunabo is located at, over there.
Jorge Martín interviews Vieques, fisherman Carlos Ventura
Many others say they have seen exactly the same things out there, and also in the area close to the El Yunque, in the Big Island.”
Dead Alien Corpse
Many residents of Vieques had often seen the creaturs like grey aliens, coming out of the sea and returning back. Additionally, in 1996, a story of the discovery of an alien corpse was published in Magazin 2000 by German journalist Michael Hesemann, forwarded by Jorge Martín.
The incident occurred in the 1970s in the Cerro Las Tetas Peak in Puerto Rico. One night, Jose Chino Zaya and his friend went fishing when they discovered a series of mysterious caves in the area. They were terrified after they saw several small creatures in one of the caves.
During an encounter with small beings, Zaya killed one who grabbed his leg. He took the dead alien body and preserved it in formaldehyde. Subsequently, Officer Osvaldo Santiago examined the strange-looking being. Besides, it was studied by a professor from the University of Puerto Rico who called it extraterrestrial. The creature was described as over 12 inches tall with an extremely thin skull and big eyes.
Jose Martín unraveled dozens of such mysteries in Puerto Rico, appeared in several TV shows and traveled to other countries for researching the UFO phenomenon. He is the author of the book: “Vieques: Shooting Range of the 3rd. Kind.”
1976 Canary Island UFO Sighting: Sphere Encounter With Alien Beings
1976 Canary Island UFO Sighting: Sphere Encounter With Alien Beings
One of the most bizarre reports of unusual phenomena occurred in 1976 in the Spanish Canary Islands. Although the case features a most extraordinary description of aliens and their craft, the occurrence is extremely reliable in that it includes multiple witness reports which agreed in all aspects of the case.
The phenomenon began on the night of June 22, 1976, as residents of Tenerife, La Palma, and La Gomera began reporting the sighting of unusual lights in the sky. These lights and their maneuvers were different from anything residents of the area had seen before.
Newspaper headlines the next morning proclaimed that “thousands of people” had witnessed a “spectacular phenomena” which lasted “twenty minutes.” The most sensational aspect was the sighting of the aforementioned “sphere” occupied by strange alien beings.
Three days later, the Commanding General of the Canary Island Air Zone named an “Investigative Adjutant” to make sense of the events. His findings were forwarded by a Spanish Air Force General to journalist J. J. Benitez in 1976, and the details of the case quickly reached beyond the scope of the Islands to the outside world. Benitez’s investigation would be the basis of his book, “UFOs: Official Documents of the Spanish Government.”
The case would regain momentum in 1994, when files of the investigation were released as part of the unveiling of Spanish records, a type of “Freedom of Information” act.
The 1976 report was massive, containing over one hundred pages of testimony, evaluations, drawings, and more. The official Air Force report of the incident was headlined by depositions of fourteen witnesses. A type of standard was established with witness reliability based on social status.
A doctor’s report was considered a high priority, whereas a common laborer’s report was given little, if any, weight. In this particular case, this unfair standard did not take away from the acceptance of the facts, since all involved were in full agreement as to what they saw. The report was very detailed, and presented chronologically.
The initial report of the Canary Island UFO came from the Navy’s armed escort ship, the “Atrevida.” The ship was located off the coast of Fuerteventura Island. The ship’s captain gave a detailed report of what he and his crew observed at 9:27 P.M. on June 22.
The entire crew saw an extremely bright yellow-blue light moving from the shore in the direction of the ship, located three and a half miles at sea. Several of the crewmen at first thought they were seeing a conventional aircraft with its landing lights on.
The lights soon faded, and a type of beam began to rotate, similar to a lighthouse effect. Afterwards, an intense halo of yellow and blue could be seen from the fantastic craft. Amazingly, the crew watched the craft for a full forty minutes.
The craft seemed to be playing tricks with its lights, as they constantly changed from one form to another. Even though the light show was observed for a long period of time, no signature was evident on the ship’s radar of any flying craft.
Actual transcript-Captain of Atrevida:
“At 21:27 (Z) hrs. on 22 June, we saw an intense yellowish-bluish light moving out from the shore towards our position. At first we thought it was an aircraft with its landing lights on. Then, when the light had attained a certain elevation (15 – 18 degrees), it became stationary.
“The original light went out and a luminous beam from it began to rotate. It remained like this for approximately two minutes. Then an intense great halo of yellowish and bluish light developed, and remained in the same position for 40 minutes, even though the original phenomenon was no longer visible.
“Two minutes after the great halo, the light split into two parts, the smaller part being beneath, in the center of the luminous halo, where a blue cloud appeared and the part from which the bluish nucleus had come, vanished. The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished.
“None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close.”
Only a few minutes later, this same object was seen by residents of Canary Island proper. The bulk of the sightings were by citizens of three villages; Galdar, Las Rosas, and Agaete. A cross section of professions were involved; medical doctor, schoolteacher, farmer, taxi driver, and housewife, among others.
A thorough search of records by the Investigator Adjutant determined that there were no reports of “aerial traffic or military exercises at the time of the reports” that could possibly account for the sightings of the unknown object . The Adjutant, for the sake of clarity, divided the investigation into two different categories.
One was the larger craft observed by ship crewmen and others, and the second the smaller globe with the aliens aboard. By his own admission, and consistent with human nature, the Adjutant had no problem believing the reports of the larger craft, but had reservations accepting the orb since occupants were observed which were not consistent with human beings.
The Investigator General’s last word on the subject was: “The fact that a very strange and peculiar aerial phenomena occurred on the night of 22 June is a true and proven fact, as incredible as its behavior and conditions may seem.”
The incredible account of the sphere was submitted by Doctor Francisco Padron Leon, who lived in the city of Guia. His report is the most voluminous of the entire investigation. His background was thoroughly investigated, and he was found to be an upstanding, sane professional, whose word was considered truthful.
Padron had been summoned to make a house call, and commissioned a cab to take him to the location; the town of Las Rosas. As they rode along, the doctor and cab driver were engaged in light conversation. Suddenly, the car lights pointed out a slightly luminous object in the shape of a sphere.
The object was either landed, or hovering just above the ground. The object was made of a totally transparent and crystalline-like material. The doctor and driver both observed stars through the sphere. The object was bluish in color, with a radius of about 100 feet.
The lower part of the orb contained a platform of aluminum-like material with three consoles. At each side of the center there were two huge figures from eight to ten feet tall. They were dressed in red, and always faced each other. The beings were humanoid in shape, with large heads covered with a type of helmet. The doctor, hardly believing his own eyes, asked for confirmation from his cab driver.
“Are you seeing what I am?” he asked. The driver exclaimed, “My God! What is that?”
The cab was only a short distance from the patient’s house, and upon arriving, the doctor observed a type of bluish smoke coming from a tube rising through the center of the object.
The doctor stated:
“We were talking about hunting… as we entered the last part of the road, the car lights pointed at a slightly luminous sphere that was stationary and very close to the ground, although I can’t say for sure if it was touching it.
It was made of a totally transparent and crystalline-like material, since it was possible to see through it the stars in the sky; it had an electric blue color but tenuous, without dazzling; it had a radius of about 30 m. [100 ft.], and in the lower third of the sphere you could see a platform of aluminum-like color as if made of metal, and three large consoles.
“At each side of the center there were two huge figures of 2.50 to 3 m. [8.5 to 10 ft.] tall, but no taller than 3 m. [10 ft.], dressed entirely in red and facing each other in such a way that I always saw their profile.
“Then I observed that some kind of bluish smoke was coming out from a semi-transparent central tube in the sphere, covering the periphery of the sphere’s interior without leaking outside at any moment.
Then the sphere began to grow and grow until it became huge like a 20-story house, but the platform and the crew remained the same size; it rose slowly and majestically and it seems I heard a very tenuous whistling.”
The sphere grew to an enormous size as it began to ascend into the sky. The doctor ran into the house, and told the family about what he had seen. Running outside, they observed the orb, which was now extremely high in the sky. It reached an enormous speed, accelerating toward Tenerfie.
Finally it dissolved into a smaller size, and disappeared. Another witness, a lady who was a relative of the patient, was watching television when suddenly the screen went blank, and her dogs began to bark outside. Running to a window, she saw the doctor’s cab, and the blue sphere above it. She also noted that the sphere was transparent, with two beings inside. Shocked, she closed the windows and doors, and began to pray.
There were several other sightings of a similar nature throughout the year of 1976 on the Island. The final “official” report was ambiguous at best.
The observance of the craft by all who saw it was accepted as genuine, although no “earthly” explanation was offered for its unique look and behavior. On the other hand, although the witnesses of the smaller orb with aliens were classified as totally reliable, the actual presence of the beings was questioned. In other words, the witnesses were telling the truth, but what they saw was too far fetched to believe.
No other explanation was forthcoming on an official level, and the Canary Island phenomenon remains today as an authentic, well documented sighting of an unidentified flying craft with occupants.
If there’s any person in the world who should know about UFOs, it would be the president of the United States – allegedly, the most powerful person in the world. Yet none of them, whether in or out of office, has given a definitive answer on what they might be nor have they positively stated that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. Yet the media – and by the ‘media’ here we mean talk show hosts — keeps asking, hoping one might slip up and spill the beans from Alpha Centauri and beyond. The latest former president in the UFO hotseat is William Jefferson ‘Bill’ Clinton, who sat down on “Live with Kelly and Ryan” to promote his new novel with co-author James Patterson but instead had to explain if UFOs were fiction or non-fiction.
Hurry up! Bill Clinton is talking UFOs on Live with Kelly and Ryan!
“The truth is that we’ve never proved on, but there are things that are flying there that we have not yet fully identified, and keep in mind that there are billions of galaxies in the ever-expanding universe.”
Host Ryan Seacrest didn’t like that answer and probed for “data” that Clinton must have seen. The former president responded with:
“I think the probability is that there’s something you would call life somewhere else.”
Then host Kelly Ripa tried to embarrass Clinton, pointing out he’s a “Rhodes scholar” who should know these things. That’s when Clinton went full political and said we should focus on protecting ourselves from ourselves and clean up the Earth and our country first. That’s different than what Clinton told Jimmy Kimmel a few years ago when he admitted he had gone looking for data on UFOs and aliens while in office and that, if he had found some, would have released it. He certainly would have had help in his hunt – his chief of staff John Podesta has long admitted he regretted not digging deeper and was hoping to get another chance if Hillary Clinton had been elected president. Clinton’s former CIA daily briefer John O. Brennan recently admitted he’d seen evidence of aerial phenomena he couldn’t explain.
Whew! We’re safe … for now.
And yet … the only two presidents who have admitted seeing anything the slightest bit UFO-ish were Jimmy Carter, who claimed he saw one before he became governor of Georgia and later president, and Ronald Reagan, who claimed he, his pilot and two other witnesses saw one while he was governor of California.
Is President Joe Biden ready to answer the tough questions if and when the government UFO report is finally released? He may want to avoid Kelly, Ryan and Jimmy for a while.
After writing articles in the last few days on UFO researchers being the subjects of government files, getting knocks on the door from “The Man,” and strange phone calls, there’s one more aspect to this particularly sinister part of Ufology: namely, those mysterious black cars that the mysterious M.I.B. drive. The number of reports that fall in this category are huge, and I don’t exaggerate. Indeed, I could write an entire series of articles on the “Cars in Black” phenomenon. One of the people whose M.I.B. experiences feature in my 2015 Men in Black book is a friend of mine, Steve Ray. After reading the book, and just a few days after it was published, Steve experienced something unusual. In his very own words to me: “I read the whole Kindle version of the book Sunday and Monday. Monday night I came home and found two black cars parked – headlights out – in non-assigned spaces directly facing my assigned parking space. When I came upstairs, I found my living-room lamp had been switched from its normal setting to the spookier black-light setting – which I have no memory of doing, and I was the last one here.” I told Steve I was not surprised. He was not comforted by my words; not at all. He wasn’t meant to be. I tell it as it is: good, bad, or worse still. Now, let’s take a look at some more cases.
Nick Redfern and one of those black cars
Dr. Josef Allen Hynek, a well-renowned UFO authority who died in 1986, was provided with the details of a fantastically-strange MIB encounter that occurred in a small Minnesota town in late 1975, and that falls firmly into just such a category. Ironically, no UFO was seen on this particular occasion, but the chief witness was harassed by the driver of a large, black Cadillac on a particular stretch of highway, and who nearly forced the man into an adjacent ditch. The irate man quickly righted his vehicle and headed off in hot-pursuit, only to see the black Cadillac lift into the air and, quite literally, disappear in the blink of any eye. Moving on: Gareth Medway has put together an excellent document on M.I.B. cases, some of which involve those black cars. As Gareth notes: “George Smyth of Elizabeth, New Jersey, went to visit two teenagers who had seen a mysterious green entity [in 1966]. The boys were surrounded by a crowd. He noticed two men emerging from a large black car, leaving a third behind the wheel. They had a slight slant to their eyes. Later, when Saucer News investigators went to visit one of the lads, Smyth noticed the same black car parked nearby, and the same two men get out and watch the house while the interview was going on. Two weeks later he received a phone call telling him to give up UFO investigation.”
Now, onto a story given to me in September 2016 at the annual Mothman Festival: one of the people who came to chat with me, as I sat at my vending table, was Irene, a woman who related a very bizarre story; one with clear M.I.B. / Women in Black overtones attached to it. As Irene revealed, she is now-retired and had a very strange experience while living in Pasadena, California in the late 1970s – in either 1978 or 1979. In the early hours of the particular morning in question she inexplicably woke up and felt compelled to go to the bedroom window. On doing so, she was shocked to see a car-sized, oval-shaped UFO – of a bright blue color – that hung in the air for a few seconds, before vanishing into the dark sky above. She raced back to the bed, terrified by what she had just seen. On the following evening, however, something even stranger occurred.
There was a knock at the door. It was a very pale-faced woman in black who claimed to work for a company that offered aerial photographs of peoples’ homes – taken by an expert photographer, then framed, and that would look very nice on the living-room wall. There was, however, something that made Irene think things were just not quite right, not at all. Her instinct proved to be right on the money. When the woman, somewhat oddly, offered to show Irene one of the cameras that the company used, she agreed to see it – although why she would need to see it at all makes very little sense. If any sense at all. The woman proceeded down the drive and got in the backseat of the black car she had arrived in. In a few seconds, however, she was back out of the car. Irene could see the camera, but was very surprised by what happened next: the woman quickly took a photograph of the front of Irene’s house, jumped back into the car, and in seconds was out of sight.
Now, onto another Irene. This one being Irene Bott, who, in the 1990s, ran the U.K.-base Staffordshire UFO Group. Shortly after establishing her group in 1995, Irene found herself plunged into a situation involving a witness to a UFO encounter – a witness who believed they had a period of so-called “missing time.” Expressing a desire to learn more about what occurred, the witness contacted Irene and related the details that surrounded his viewing in the early hours of a 1995 morning, a brightly lit aerial object. The witness was certain that there was far more to the case than he could consciously recollect, and expressed a keen desire for help in unraveling what had taken place. As a result, Irene referred the witness to a colleague in her group and the two discussed the details over the telephone. Crucial to the issues under discussion, however: shortly after returning home from work on one particular day, the witness found that a note had been pushed through his letterbox warning him not to proceed any further with his investigation.
Naturally concerned, the man asked his neighbors if they had seen anyone lurking in the vicinity of his house that might have conceivably been responsible for the strange and somewhat unsettling note. Fortunately, one such neighbor had seen something unusual on that very day. Shortly after the witness had set off for work, a black car had pulled up outside his house. A man dressed entirely in black and carrying a briefcase exited the vehicle, marched up the driveway, shoved a piece of paper through the letterbox, returned to the car and drove off at speed. One of our mysterious characters had struck again. And, no doubt, those mysterious drivers will be with us as long as the UFO phenomenon is around.
If you think you have problems getting your government to disclose the truth about UFOs and aliens, it’s nothing compared to what the frustrated residents of Sedgley in Dudley, West Midlands, England, appear to be going through. Amid claims of three recent alien abductions with no explanation or local response, someone put up a sign asking for help. A local official agreed to look into it, claimed to have found no sign and blamed the whole thing on tabloids getting Sedgley and the Philadelphia area of Sedgley Woods confused. It turns out Sedgley Woods has had its share of flying disc sightings, but at least it has an explanation.
“3 alien abductions — here in one week — when are the council going to do something?”
The Daily Star this week published a photo of a sign carrying this message in big block letters (see it here) and reported it to be in Sedgley in the West Midlands. To support its validity, the Star listed a number of UFO sightings in the area, but didn’t seem to find the person or persons who erected the sign, nor any report of recent alien abductions. Nonetheless, Councillor Karen Shakespeare, Dudley’s cabinet member for public realm, agreed to look into the matter, and said:
“We have been made aware of the sign which will be removed.”
Not so fast, Councillor. Don’t you have to find it first? Neither The Daily Star nor the know-it-all social media were any help, and Councillor Shakespeare had to come up with a reason why she didn’t find it. She told the Dudley News:
“We have checked for the sign and are confident it is not in Dudley borough. We think there may be some confusion between the borough town of Sedgley and Sedgley Woods, in Philadelphia.”
Really? It’s hard to tell from the photo where the sign is located, but the wording – “when are the council going to do something?” – sounds more like the UK than Philly, where they probably would have demanded an answer from ‘city hall’ and included a few choice four-letter words. In fact, Philadelphians who live near Sedgley Woods already know why so many flying discs are seen in that area.
“Established in 1977, Sedgley Woods is one of the oldest permanent disc golf pole hole courses in the world.”
The Sedgley Woods website says it is a 27 hole disc golf course located in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and is “lovingly maintained by The Friends of Sedgley.” No UFOs or aliens here – just disc golfers and their flying discs.
Back in Sedgley, Dudley, there’s still no explanation for the mysterious sign demanding answers about alien abductions. A Freedom of Information request by the Dudley News turned up 12 police reports of UFO sightings in West Midlands between February 2015 and December 2018, but none in Dudley and no abductions. Was this all a hoax? Kudos to Councillor Karen Shakespeare for following up on the report and the Dudley News for getting in a quick FOI request. Can you imagine that happening if a similar sign was found in the U.S.? We’re still waiting for that government UFO report which insiders are already saying is disappointing.
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Scientific Evidence for the Many Myths of the Great Flood
Scientific Evidence for the Many Myths of the Great Flood
Have you ever heard about Noah’s Ark story? This story of the great flood is one of the most popular stories from the Bible. But it is far from the only great flood story to be found in history. Christians are quite familiar with Noah’s story when God destroyed all of creation through the great flood owing to the wickedness of men. While many people perceive all this as the great flood myth, scientists have found evidence of the great deluge. Before going to the scientific evidence, let’s take a look at the known mythologies that relate to the flood myth.
The Great Flood: Myths in the Bible, Hindu Texts and More
Noah’s story in the Hebrew Bible is probably the most well-known myth relating to the great flood. However, a number of other myths related to this event also exist.
According to the Gilgamesh flood myth, Enlil, the highest god, decided to completely destroy the whole world by means of a great flood as the humans had increasingly become noisy. Ea, the god who created human beings of divine blood and clay, warned Utnapishtim secretly about the flood and gave him instructions to build a boat and be saved.
In the Bible’s Book of Genesis , it is written that Yahweh (the name of the monotheistic god of the Israelites), who created man from dust, decided to bring the great flood to Earth because of mankind’s increasing corruption.
Yahweh was, however, pleased with Noah and instructed him to create an ark for saving humans and animals. On completion of the ark, Noah, his entire family, and two of every type of animal on earth entered the ark. Once the door of the ark was closed, the destructive flood started and cleared all other living beings from the face of the earth. After the flood ended, everyone inside the ark came out, and Yahweh promised never to subject humans to something like the great flood again. The rainbow is known as the symbol of Yahweh's promise.
A 3D illustration of Noah’s Ark in a storm during the Great Flood. Reality or myth?
According to Hindu mythology there is a story about "manvantara-sandhya," a great flood. In the story, Vishnu's Matsya Avatar warned Manu, the first man, about the impending flood and instructed him to construct a giant boat.
According to Zoroastrian Mazdaism, Ahriman tried to destroy the whole world by means of a drought. It is believed that Mithra shot an arrow at a rock, and the flood poured out. Only one man, along with his cattle, survived the flood in an ark.
As per Plato, Timaeus describes a flood myth that is quite similar to the other versions of the great flood. In the Timaeus version, the Bronze race of humans made Zeus angry with constant warring. Zeus decided to cause a flood to punish humanity. The Titan Prometheus , who created humans with clay, shared the plan with Deucalion and advised him to build an ark. It took nine days and nights for the water to recede, and the ark landed on a mountain.
Researchers study a ship graveyard discovered in the Black Sea that may be linked to the Great Flood.
Scientific Evidence of the Occurrence of the Great Flood
While there are a number of stories or myths relating to the great flood, scientists have recently found evidence of the flood. The scientists believe that the great flood did take place around 7,000 years ago in the Black Sea region.
In a book named "Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History," two marine biologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan, describe a flood that took place several thousand years ago, before the Biblical story was written by the ancient Hebrews .
According to the two marine biologists , nearly 12,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age, the Black Sea was a partially dried freshwater lake. It was separated from the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus Strait , which is a land strip.
The shore of the Black Sea was fertile and was used by the people to start large farming societies. When the ice sheets that covered the Northern Hemisphere started melting, the levels of the sea began rising. It is believed that the Mediterranean Sea broke through the Bosporus Strait about 7,600 years ago.
With a force about 200 times that of Niagara Falls, the seawater had started rushing in. The level of the Black Sea was increasing by 6 inches (15 cm) every day. Within one year, about 60,000 square miles (15,539,929 hectares) was engulfed and disappeared beneath the rising waters. The settlers of the land moved to different high grounds and never returned.
Pitman and Ryan hypothesize that this trauma story was handed down for about 3,000 years and has been recorded in the form of myths and songs. One of the versions is believed to be the story of Noah's Ark found in the Bible.
The hypothesis of the two marine biologists is mainly based on the sediment cores of the Black Sea as well as seismic profiles. The cores did tell a strange and unique story. Pitman and Ryan discovered a single mud layer that was typically left after the great flood.
It lay over sediment layers that were at one time land surface. The surface contained mud cracks, plant root fossils, and freshwater mollusks that were similar to the dried-out lakeshore. The ancient shoreline was submerged about 460 feet (140 meters) below the Black Sea.
The marine biologists have also pointed out that according to the study of ancient civilizations made by archaeologists, during the flood several peoples with new customs appeared at different places. They were even found in Egypt, as well in the foothills of the Himalayas, and around Paris and Prague. The majority of these “new” people were Indo-European speakers. According to Ryan and Pitman, these peoples might be the Black Sea farmers who had to leave their homes due to the great flood.
The Great Flood (Die Sintflut, Suendflut), a painting by Lesser-Ury (1861-1931), depicts the “horror” of what the deluge of the Bible might have looked like.
In addition to the evidence offered by Pitman and Ryan, there are also other pieces of evidence that support the occurrence of the great flood. One such significant piece of evidence was provided by the world-famous underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard. He is especially known for locating and exploring the Titanic wreck.
Ballard found evidence of people who had perished in the great flood that took place in the Black Sea and linked it with Noah's Ark story.
Ballard and his team made use of advanced robotic technology to find evidence that might support the Noah story. They were able to unearth an ancient coastline that was about 550 feet (168 meters) under the water surface. It was considered significant proof of the catastrophic event. Ballard took some samples including saltwater and freshwater mollusks from the ancient beach for testing.
When radiocarbon dating of the samples was done, it was revealed that the freshwater mollusks were relatively older in comparison to the saltwater ones. All the freshwater mollusks that were taken for sample testing were of the same age.
It could be assumed that all the mollusks died due to the occurrence of a sudden flood. This is because if they had died due to the slowly rising water, the ages would have differed. It was found that the mollusks died somewhere around 5,600 BC. It is approximately the same time when the great flood during Noah's time is believed to have occurred.
About 310 feet (94 meters) below in the Black Sea, Ballard and his team were also able to find an ancient house that had collapsed. In addition to the house, they also unearthed a number of stone tools, storage vessels made of ceramic, and ancient mud. The archaeologists believe that the culture found at the bottom of the sea was thousands of years old.
The evidence collected by Robert Ballard and his team suggests that the traumatic great flood story was handed down from generation to generation. This eventually inspired Noah's Ark story that is mentioned in the Bible.
"The Deluge" drawing was used as the frontispiece to Gustave Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible. Based on the story of Noah's Ark, the drawing shows humans and a tiger doomed by the flood futilely attempting to save their children and cubs.
While there is scientific evidence that supports the occurrence of the great flood, there is also scientific evidence that argues against it. Some believe that the great flood may have occurred during Noah's time, but that it happened over the entire Earth rather than some regional parts.
As per the Bible, the rain during the great flood lasted for 30 days, and the Earth was flooded for 150 days. Only after one year, two months, and twenty-seven days, did the Earth dry and thus Noah, his entire family, and all the animals were able to move out of the ark.
The great flood was intended to completely destroy all life on Earth. As the sedimentary rocks over all the continents do contain fossils, the great flood could represent the destruction of all living beings. Thus, the story of the global flood mentioned in the Bible might have been true.
However, the sedimentary rocks have interlayers of gypsum, evaporite rock salt, anhydrite, and magnesium and potash salts. All these are related to red beds that contain fossilized mud cracks. The red beds and mineral compounds have a measurable combined thickness on various continents.
The red color of the red beds is mainly due to the presence of hematite, an iron oxide that is formed from oxidized magnetite grains when the mud gets exposed to oxygen present in the open air. Mud cracks can only occur under severe drying conditions that result in the shrinking of mud and the formation of polygonal cracks.
The evaporite deposits are believed to occur when a marine sea that existed disappears and becomes completely dry. In such a case, the evaporites are expected to be found at the top of the flood deposits of the great flood. However, the evaporites were found in different layers and not on the top of the flood deposit. This makes certain scientists believe that the great flood never took place.
Moreover, it is written in the Bible that at some time the flood waters started receding and left the ground completely dry. There were no repeated cycles of floods of this size. According to this, it is quite logical that the red beds and evaporite deposits in different levels of the flood deposit could only be formed in local climates having desert drying conditions.
However, it is not possible this was formed at the same time the great flood covered the surface of the whole Earth. On this basis, it can be said that a massive regional flood could have occurred but not a whole-Earth flood.
The Matsya Avatar of Vishnu Uttar Pradesh, India. Matsya is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. Often described as the first of Vishnu's ten primary avatars, Matsya is said to have rescued the first man Manu from a great deluge. The Matsya Avatar is often depicted as a giant fish.
While much debate surrounds the “truth” of the great flood, it is quite hard to say whether it actually occurred or not. As per the Bible, Noah used to live in the Mesopotamian desert , but the coastline of the Black Sea was forested and lush back then.
More and more geologists are coming up with different revised theories and trying to build solid proof for an event that occurred during ancient times. Geological expeditions continue to search the Black Sea. These very expensive geological expeditions are also getting funded by people who are interested in knowing the truth of the Noah's Ark story mentioned in the Bible.
Scientists and archaeologists are still trying to locate ancient villages beneath the surface of the seas. It will be very interesting to see what additional evidence for the great flood is revealed in the coming years.
Top image: The Deluge (1840), a painting by Francis Danby, part of the Tate Gallery collection, which shows how horrible the Great Flood must have been, if, and when, it happened.
Face to Face with Invisible Flying Creatures… Even NASA has Captured Them on Film
Face to Face with Invisible Flying Creatures… Even NASA has Captured Them on Film
COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – author and historian Trevor James Constable discussed his work tracking the reality of huge, invisible flying creatures. Constable detailed his initial discovery of invisible flying creatures in the 1950′s, when he was visiting contactee George Van Tassel and was, himself, “extremely sensitive.”
During this encounter, Constable said he could feel the disturbances in the atmosphere created by these creatures, aimed his camera at them, and photographed the oddities. He alleged that these invisible entities were later captured on ultraviolet film by NASA in the infamous 1996 video release known as the “Tether Incident.”
Based on this footage, Constable surmised that “the whole of outer space is just crawling with these things.”
Navy Pilots Close Encounter With An Alien Craft Over Australia
Navy Pilots Close Encounter With An Alien Craft Over Australia
AUGUST 31, 1954…………..NOWRA AUSTRALIA
One of the most controversial radar visual reports of the fifties occurred on August 31st, 1954. The story leaked out in December, 1954, and made front page headlines.
The official navy file on the event remained classified until the Directorate of Naval Intelligence released a copy upon my request in 1982.
During his 1973 visit to Australia, Dr. Hynek was able to interview the pilot involved in this famous incident, which became known as the “Sea Fury” encounter.
Dr. Hynek made his notes on this interview available to me during my 1984 visit to the Chicago headquarters of his organisation, the Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS). I, in turn, provided Dr. Hynek with a copy of the official file on the incident.
Lieutenant J.A. O’Farrell was returning to Royal Australian Navy Air Station Nowra after a night cross country in a Sea Fury aircraft. After contacting Nowra at about 1910 hours, O’Farrell saw a very bright light closing fast at one o’clock.
It crossed in front of his aircraft taking up position on his port beam, where it appeared to orbit.
A second and similar light was observed at nine o’clock. It passed about a mile in from of the Sea Fury and then turned in the position where the first light was observed.
According to O’Farrell, the apparent crossing speeds of the lights were the fastest he had ever encountered. He had been flying at 220 knots. O’Farrell contacted Nowra who in turn confirmed that they had two radar “paints” in company with him.
The radar operator, Petty Officer Keith Jessop, confirmed the presence of 2 objects near the Sea Fury on the G.C.I. remote display.
The two lights reformed at nine o’clock and then disappeared on a north easterly heading. O’Farrell could only make out “a vague shape with the white light situated centrally on top.”
The Directorate of Naval Intelligence at the time wrote that O’Farrell was “an entirely credible witness” and that he “was visibly ‘shaken’ by his experience, but remains adamant that he saw these objects”
In a recent interview, “Shamus” O’Farrell described the incident:
“I said, “Nowra, this is 921. Do you have me on radar?” “And a few seconds later they came back and said, “Affirmative 921. We have you coming in from the west. We have another two contacts as well. Which one are you.” “I said, “I think I’m the central one.”
And so they said, “Do a 180…for identification.” So I did a quick 180 and then continued on around and made it a 360 back to where I was going.
“They said, “Yes, we’ve got you. You’re the centre aircraft.” I said that’s correct. They then said to me, “Who are the other two aircraft,” and I said, “I don’t know. I was hoping you would tell me, because I didn’t think there was anyone up here. “They said, “Well there shouldn’t be, and they certainly shouldn’t be that close to you.”
“So the conversation went on like this and I was very pleased to be talking to somebody because it gave me a lot of reassurance. With that these two aircraft came in quite close to me and I could really see the dark mass and that they were quite big, but I couldn’t make out any other lights or any other form of an aircraft. With that they took off and headed off to the north east at great speed.
“I was about to press the button and tell them at Nowra that the two aircraft were departing when Nowra called me up and said, “The other two aircraft appear to be departing at high speed to the north east. Is that correct?” and I said, “Yes!”. And they said, “Roger, we’ll see if we can track them.”
They tracked them for a while and then lost them. “I came in and landed at 7.30 (1930) and when I got there there were quite a few people waiting for me. I thought it was a bit strange and so they came over, and they said, “You sure you had aircraft out there!” and I said yes.
The Surgeon Commander came over and spoke to me. He said did I feel sick, or was I upset. I said no. He ran his hand over my head to see whether I had any bumps. He had a look at me and decided I was okay. So then he said, “Perhaps you’d like to come to the sick bay after you’ve changed and we’ll do an examination.”
So after I was finished I went up to sick bay and he gave me a more thorough medical, and said, no, I appeared to be alright. I found out later, that at the same time, they checked to make sure I hadn’t been drinking before I took off and all that sort of thing.”
During this interview, Dr. Hynek’s involvement came up:
“This man (Hynek) – a professor – had made a study of thousands of sightings all around the world and he had decided my sighting was one of those that he had not been able to explain away by other means.
Any way I had a talk with him. He was a very interesting chap and he made the comment that there were about 13 or 15, I don’t remember, sightings that he was aware of over the years that were like mine and could not be explained away. The interesting thing he said was that all of these sightings had been made by professional people in aviation.
By that he meant they were military pilots, military air crew, civil aviation operators, air traffic controllers, and the like, or airline pilots. These were the ones he was now (1973) going around meeting the people themselves and investigating.
All the others he had written off and had been able to explain down to some other phenomena. It came to the point where he said, “Your sighting cannot be explained away.” And he left it at that. To this day I wouldn’t know where it came from or where it went.”
I have had the opportunity to talk extensively with Shamus O’Farrell. I was particularly interested in how the interview with Dr. Hynek in 1973 came about:
“It was done through Sir Arthur Tange, who was secretary of the Department of Defence at the time. Hynek contacted him direct… Sir Arthur Tange contacted me and said Hynek was coming out. He had written to him, through the US Embassy, to set up a meeting.
And the next thing I knew I had a telephone call one day from Sir Arthur Tange saying that Hynek was coming and he would like me to met him. I said, well, I haven’t got all the facts, there all a bit hazy. So he sent me the two Defence Department files over to read, to refresh it all.”
Bill Chalker: “That seems to indicate a high level of interest in Hynek’s visit at the time?”
“Yes, well, I don’t think so. All that happened was that it was more of a courtesy because he was a very important guy, Hynek, and they wanted to show him the courtesies etc. As far as Defence was concern it was dead and forgotten but they had not got rid of the files. They kept them.
Normally when files like that are written off they are either decided they’ll put them in Archives or dispose of them and destroy them. But they had done neither. They had remained in the JIO. They’d kept them. I don’t know what they had in mind about it, I never questioned it. I just used them as a means to refresh my memory.
“Later the guy who became the chief Defence scientist, John Farrands, was very interested in it too, and he had done a lot of early investigations in most of the reports when he was chief defence scientist and in the period just before he became chief defence scientist. He had a talk with me.
I was a friend of his. I used to meet with him at lunch. He went over it in great detail. He knew it all. He agreed it was something that couldn’t be refuted. No matter how hard they tried, and they tried very hard to knock it all back. They checked everything from medical, down to when was the last time I had had a drink…”
Bill Chalker: “That must have been a bit of a concern to you?”
“Well, I wanted to hush it all up. That sort of investigation made me look a bit of a fool. I was worried it wasn’t going to do my career any good. “(Apart from the radar witness) it locked in a sighting over the NDB (non directional beacon) at Narulan, at the same time. There happened to be a guy working on the NDB.
It was down at the time.
He had gone to repair it. He happened to look up at the time because he saw these lights fly overhead. Also the air traffice control officer in the tower at Mascot saw them approaching him. “It was all investigated by the then RAAF guy who did it and later it was also investigated by the Joint Intelligence Bureau.”
In 1993 I assisted The Extraordinary television programme with a recreation of the Sea Fury incident. Shamus O’Farrell, Keith Jessop and I were interviewed on the show. The case stands as one of the best unexplained radar visual UFO cases on record in Australia. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
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Storm Makes Apocalyptic Sounds Over Slovakia ( June 14, 2021 )
Storm Makes Apocalyptic Sounds Over Slovakia on June 14, 2021
STATEMENT : Another storm accompanied by a mysterious Apocalyptic soun
Slovakia credit : kruhy v obili a ine zahady
UFO Sighted Over Kingsley, Michigan ( June 11, 2021 )
STATEMENT : UFO sighting in Kingsley last week. No noise except crickets and a cow going crazy. The camera would not pick up the shape. I tried everything. It was as big as 3 buses side by side and had about 30 circle shaped lights on the bottom. I saw it with my own eyes! They’re here!
credit : Daniel Tolin
UFO Sighted Over Kingston upon Hull, England ( June 4, 2021 )
UFO was sighted over Kingston upon Hull, England on June 4, 2021
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UFO Sighted Over Moon From Miami, Florida ( June 14, 2021 )
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UFO Sighted Over Ontario, California ( June 14, 2021 )
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Strange Lights Sighted Over Nagoya, Japan ( June 13, 2021 )
Strange lights were sighted over Nagoya, Japan on June 13, 2021
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UFO Over East London, England May 31, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over East London, England May 31, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 31, 2021
Location of sighting: East London, England
The eyewitness goes by the Youtube name Orion. He saw a long cocoon shaped UFO over the train tracks and began recording. The footage is only 25 seconds, but I tried to make a close up and slowed it down 3X at the second half of the video. Still a bit shaky, but better. The object has a bronze tint to it, and I can see a black eye like window on one end, possible the pilots cockpit. The shape is more like an insect cocoon than anything else. Very rare shape of UFO and being seen in broad daylight makes is very exciting.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Mysterious object hovering over Lea Bridge London. Sighted on the 31 of may 2021 at 19:01 Lea Bridge, North East London.
Glowing Object Over Seoul, South Korea June 4, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Object Over Seoul, South Korea June 4, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Below I enlarged the UFO and added contrast to focus the sphere. On the below left is original untouched version of the UFO.
Date of sighting:June 4, 2021
Location of sighting:Seoul, South Korea
This raw footage reveals a lot to me. The object is a sphere shaped UFO and it is self illuminated. This is on the boarder of South Korea and North Korea, which means it's a military danger zone. Aliens are frequently seen flying over such areas. Even more than in any other location on earth. The UFOs will appear and any military aircraft sent after them will be unable to get a lock, launch missiles and even a few instances of pilots disappearing from the aircraft itself. The UFOs will fly over installations and missile silos, shutting them off permanently, making repairs impossible. Aliens are constantly sending world military a clear message...that fighting is not the solution to humanities problems.
Zhurong and its landing site captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The green specks are the lander and rover.
Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona
China’s Zhurong rover has been snapped by powerful cameras aboard several spacecraft circling Mars. One of the images — a high-resolution colour shot (above) taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) — offers scientists an extremely detailed view of the landing site.
“It’s incredible!” says Peter Grindrod, a planetary scientist at the Natural History Museum in London. The image, taken on 6 June, also reveals Zhurong has made reasonable headway, travelling 22 metres from the lander. “Driving on Mars appears to be going OK,” he says.
The image, snapped by the MRO’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), offers the best look so far at hazards and scientific targets on the surface, says Alfred McEwen, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and principal investigator for HiRISE’s camera.
Further images in black and white, released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on 7 June, were taken by the Tianwen-1 spacecraft that carried Zhurong to Mars. At lower resolution than NASA’s image, they show the rover’s landing site, both before and after it arrived. And today, the CNSA released another series of images, including one of the rover and lander taken by a detachable camera that the rover released ten metres from the platform (below). Other images taken by cameras fitted on the rover include a 360-degree panorama from atop the lander, and another of the platform from some six metres away.
Zhurong took this selfie using a detachable camera it released onto the ground.
Credit: Jin Liwang/CNSA/Xinhua/ZUMA Press
Zhurong landed on 15 May and is nearly one month into its mission. On 22 May it drove off a ramp on the lander, and the CNSA confirmed its instruments were operational.
Spotting features of interest
NASA and the CNSA are not collaborating on this mission, but McEwen says the HiRISE image could be used by Chinese researchers to help plot Zhurong’s route. “Maybe they will see something of interest,” he says.
The HiRISE image shows the lander and rover, in false colour, as green specks in a sea of red dust. A darker patch around the lander is probably a blast pattern created by engine plumes during landing.
Brighter curved features are probably sand dunes known as transverse aeolian ridges. In an uncropped version of the image (not pictured), HiRISE also captured the discarded parachute, as well as the remains of the entry capsule.
CNSA Images showing the surface of Mars before (left) and after (right) Zhurong landed.
Credit: CNSA
In the CNSA image (above, right) the lander and smaller orbiter are visible as two white specks in the darker ink splat of the blast pattern. Bright spots lower down in the image are the capsule, heat shield and a parachute, which helped slow its descent through Mars’s atmosphere. Small craters and bright dunes stud the landscape — these are also visible in the new images taken by Zhurong.
Within Zhurong’s range
Both the CNSA and NASA images reveal features of interest, says Joseph Michalski, a planetary scientist at the University of Hong Kong. To the east of the rover is a small crater and a half-metre-sized boulder, probably ejected from the crater.
Some 50 metres south is a large, bright sand dune, of a type that has not been closely studied before, says Xiao Long, a planetary geologist at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, who hopes this will be Zhurong’s first stop.
Michalski says that a larger, 200-metre-wide crater a few hundred metres to the north is scattered with rocks ejected by the impact that created it, which could reveal what is present just below the planet’s surface.
And this is probably within the rover’s range, he says. A similar Chinese rover on the Moon, known as Yutu-2, has travelled more than 700 metres in more than 2 years, offering a sense of what might be possible for Zhurong (see image below).
A false colour image of the landing site from Joe Michalski shows the change in elevation and distance the rover is likely to cover.
Credit: NASA/MSSS& ESA/DLR
McEwen says his team soon plans to publish a stereo-pair image, showing two slightly different views of the landing area, which can be combined to reveal the three-dimensional shape of the surface. They also plan to capture features west of the existing image, including a pitted mound some 7 kilometres away that could be a mud volcano.
In 1992, in a privately-published paper titled: Have You Checked Your File Lately?Robert Durant, a UFO researcher and pilot, discussed the theme of an all-encompassing, Government-sanctioned-and-controlled operation designed to covertly monitor the activities of the public UFO research community: “You, the reader, are among the approximately 4,000 Americans who subscribe to ufological journals or newsletters, buy UFO books through the mail, attend conferences, or spend time with others who engage in such activities. Not a large group. We are only 3% of the total number of citizens the government admits to watching with intense care. A very easy group to track. Building your file is so much easier than compiling one on a Russian spy or a Mafioso. There is a file on you at the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the driver’s license bureau of the state in which you are licensed, the commercial credit card companies that do business with your bank and your lenders, your doctor’s office, and so forth and so on. Is it really unreasonable to suspect that a UFO file would be created?” With that said, read on:
My previous article here at Mysterious Universe was titled “In the U.K. Government, it’s not just the Ministry of Defense that is tied to UFOs.” In part, I revealed how, in the mid-1990s, English ufologist Robin Cole was visited by government agents because he dug a bit too deep into the UFO connection to the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency. With that in mind, I thought I would share with you other examples of UFO researchers getting knocks on the front-door from “the man.” Back in the early 1950s, the FBI opened a file on “Contactee” George Van Tassel, who created the Integratron and ran an outdoor UFO event for years – an event that attracted thousands of people. Van Tassel’s file runs to 319 pages and has now been declassified. But, what about Mrs. Van Tassel? It wasn’t just George who got a visit. His wife did, too. In a face-to-face meeting at the Van Tassel home, the FBI recorded the following:
“Relative to her husband and herself, Mrs. Van Tassel claims that she and her husband practice a metaphysical religion. She declared this religion is based on an occult principle in that she and her husband sit in a room in dead silence and receive thought transfers from one another and from other individuals who are not psychically present in the room. She declared that it was through this type of practice that her husband has learned or prophesied the coming of World War III and a gigantic explosion on the East Coast. She mentioned that at the present time she and her husband have undertaken a special project. This project is the founding and organizing of the College of Universal Wisdom. The purpose of the college is to promote and carry out interplanetary communication and the dissemination of Universal Wisdom gained through the median of space beings.” The two agents thanked Mrs. Van Tassel and left, satisfied with what they heard.
As the CIA note, in a very amusing fashion, in 1955, two elderly sisters in Chicago, Mildred and Marie Maier, reported in the Journal of Space Flight their experiences with UFOs, including the recording of a radio program in which an unidentified code was allegedly heard. The sisters taped the program; and other ham radio operators also claimed to have heard the “space message.” The CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence duly became interested and asked its Scientific Contact Branch to obtain a copy of the recording. Field officers from the Contact Division, one of who was a man named Dewelt Walker, made contact with the Maier sisters at their home, who were “thrilled that the government was interested,” and set up a time to meet with them. In trying to secure the tape recording, the Agency officers reported that they had stumbled upon a scene from Arsenic and Old Lace. “The only thing lacking was the elderberry wine,” Walker told Headquarters. After reviewing the sisters’ scrapbook of clippings from their days as entertainers on the stage, the bemused and amused officers secured a copy of the recording. OSI analyzed the tape and found it was nothing more than Morse code from a US radio station.
Moving on: In 1977, the late Graham Birdsall – editor of the now-defunct British-based UFO Magazine – and his brother, Mark, investigated a major UFO sighting near to Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, that involved a number of witnesses who had viewed strange, aerial objects in the vicinity of Menwith Hill – a vast “listening-post” controlled by the American National Security Agency. The Birdsall brothers duly approached the staff at Menwith Hill for comment and, at one point, were actually allowed on base. This led to a curious series of events. Soon after visiting the base, Graham received a telephone call from a Mr. Mills, the senior NSA security officer at the base, who had just taken up his post at Menwith Hill and was keen to cement good, local relations. Graham engaged the NSA official in conversation for approximately one hour – something that few civilians can claim. Not only that, Graham was visited by an NSA employee who asked him more than a few questions about “motivations” when to came to UFOs – as well as Graham’s beliefs in the UFO phenomenon. The man soon left.
One of my own particularly memorable experiences occurred in 2001. After writing an article on MI5 whistleblower, David Shayler, for Mark Birdsall’sEye-Spy magazine, I received a telephone call from a highly concerned and nervous Birdsall. He informed me that he had been visited – at his home – in North Yorkshire by “two lads from the Metropolitan Police.” Mark advised me that the two officers informed him that while publication of the article was not deemed to have harmed the national security of the country, there was a pressing need on their part to obtain the tape-recording of the interview I had conducted with Shayler. For a while I mused upon this and did nothing. Not long after, however, I was contacted by a representative of Special Branch, who advised me, in no uncertain term}s that I would hand over the tape, like it or not. Based upon what I was told, I was left with little choice, and I did indeed hand over the original recording. I should stress, though, MI5 were fine with the text of the interview being included in the pages of Eye-Spy. It was a surreal situation.
In light of all the above, the day may come when you, too, get that ominous, slow knock on the door.
NOTE PETER2011: When the Belgian Triangles were observed in the years 1989 / 1990, I was also part of a study of these observations. Timothy Good asked me to devote a chapter of his new book to these observations. In the early 90s I got a phone call from a man with an American accent asking if he could come by to conduct an interview. When he got home it was in an old American car... He looked a little weird, dressed in gray, with a big scar (from brain surgery and tumor removal, he said) and no hat. He suggested some questions about the Belgian observations, to which I answered as best I could according to my personal conviction, what it was. He filmed it for a so-called documentary about UFOs and promised me a copy... I never heard from him again and his business card turned out to be fake. Was that a MIB now? I don't know, but later it came as a weird experience.
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was fought between the years of 1955 and 1975, officially between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, but as most know America was pulled into it starting from 1964. The catalyst for America’s entry into the war revolves around a mysterious and disputed incident that happened in early August 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin, also known as the USS Maddox Incident, in which a U.S. destroyer was said to have been put under attack by with North Vietnamese fast attack craft. It would help serve to force the U.S. Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and give President Lyndon B. Johnson great authority to increase American military presence in Vietnam. This would result in a horrific trial of attrition in the jungles of Vietnam that would see an estimated 58,220 U.S. service members killed in the conflict and a further 1,626 remain missing in action by the time they pulled out in 1973, but what really happened during this initial incident has long been wrapped in mystery and controversy, and one of the weirder ideas is that this might have been the doing of underwater UFOs, also called USO (Underwater Submersible Objects) or even mysterious sea beasts.
The official version of the Gulf of Tonkin incident is that on August 2, 1964, the American destroyer the USS Maddox had been out performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations when they were aggressively approached by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats. In the ensuing melee, the USS Maddox was assailed by machine gun fire and torpedoes, and when the smoke cleared one U.S. aircraft was damaged, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed. This first attack is not in dispute, but there would then be an alleged second incident on August 4, 1964 that would really rile the Americans up, this time involving the USS Maddox and another destroyer called the USS Turner Joy, which furthered the U.S. resolve to enter the conflict, but there has long been some amount of doubt that the US forces had ever been under fire at all, or whether this had just been an excuse to escalate the efforts to enter the war.
USS Maddox
The North Vietnamese immediately denied that a second attack had ever happened, and in later years former United States Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara also admitted that there was never any second attack. Indeed, it was found that there were not even any North Vietnamese vessels in the area during the August 4 incident, but personnel aboard both the USS Turner Joy and USS Maddox begged to differ, insisting that it had happened, so what was going on here? According to some testimony from aboard the vessels involved, some pretty weird stuff.
In 1966, a Navy sonar engineer assigned to the destroyer USS Turner Joy came forward with a rather odd version of the events of that day. He claimed that on the day of that supposed second Gulf of Tonkin attack, he had picked up signatures on his radar that appeared to be enemy torpedoes, but which behaved erratically and as if under intelligent control, approaching the ship, even going under it, only to dart off. Both vessels reported detecting small, fast-moving objects on radar, both above and below the surface, which they took to be torpedoes and torpedo boats, but visibility was low due to a storm that had brought heavy clouds and fog. There would apparently by over 20 signatures of torpedoes on sonar, but they did not behave like torpedoes, seeming to move about at will rather than a straight line, and none of them actually hit. Some frightened crew members reported that the torpedoes seemed to be illuminated, while others swore they had seen the cockpit lights of the enemy vessels out in the gloom. Others saw what they took to be the wakes of torpedoes and there were even strange sounds heard that sounded a lot like the propellers of torpedoes, yet no impacts ever occurred.
Taking no chances at all, the two American destroyers allegedly performed evasive maneuvers and unloaded almost 650 cannon shells and several depth charges, blowing the area to absolute hell, yet when the smoke cleared there were found to be no enemy vessels, no wreckage or debris, nothing. This was despite the accounts of crew aboard the destroyers who were adamant that there had definitely been something out there and that they had been under attack. At the time it was convincing enough to propel America full on into the war, only in later years being found to have been perhaps a phantom attack that had no evidence of ever having happened at all. In 2005, the National Security Agency would declassify a trove of documents that revealed there was no second Gulf of Tonkin attack, and the at the time U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara himself would concede that there had been no enemy attack on that day. Even then president Johnson would say “For all I know, our navy was shooting at whales out there.”
Despite this, crew members aboard the two destroyers have continued to insist that there was something out there menacing them, leading to all sorts of theories. One of the main ideas is that a combination of weather, schools of fish near the surface, birds, or sensor problems had all conspired to make them misidentify phantom targets as actual ones. Another idea is that these ships were being circled by USOs, or underwater UFOs, and just as strange is the idea that the signatures and sightings were caused by underwater creatures. Todd Newberry, a professor emeritus of marine biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believes that this can be blamed on bioluminescent cousins of sea squirts called giant pyrosomes, which are basically massive colonies of filter-feeding organisms that form long blunt-ended tubes that can propel themselves along and reach up to 60 feet in length. They also tend to light up when disturbed, and the idea here is that the crews of these ships were freaked by these giant, decidedly torpedo shaped colonies of organisms shooting about. Newberry has said of this:
These things are the size of torpedoes, so they produce the same sonar image. It all fit together, as far as the character of the colony and its behavior. They could certainly have shown up on sonar. I can totally see that if you didn’t know that something like them exist and you were looking at them in the water, your imagination could go pretty crazy with what you were seeing. Imagine telling your commander who thinks you’re being attacked by torpedoes, ‘No sir, those are Pyrosoma!’ You’d be put in the brig immediately. Here’s an angle that was never picked up at the time. It could be a perfectly natural phenomenon. It was a misunderstanding by people who had never heard of pyrosomes. It’s an irresistible story to bring up.
Whatever the case may be, this alleged second Gulf of Tonkin attack is undeniably one of the reasons America entered the Vietnam conflict. Was this just propaganda spun by a government eager to staunch the spread of communism? Or was it something else? What happened to those men out there? What were they picking up and even seeing zipping around out there in those dark waters? Was this all just a misunderstanding, USOs, sea creatures, or something even more mysterious still? Whatever the answers to these questions, it all had heavy weight on the history of war, and remains a curious historical oddity that has never seen any real concrete answers, leaving it to the realm of speculation.
If you’re interested in the UFO phenomenon, you’ll probably know that for decades the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense investigated the subject. The MoD, however, is not the only government body that has got involved. There are more than a few of them. I’ll begin with the U.K.’s Special Branch. As for what Special Branch was, there’s this: “The first Special Branch in the world was formed in London in 1883. It spread throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Each British police force went on to form its own Special Branch, the largest being that of the Metropolitan Police until it was merged with the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch (SO13) to form Counter Terrorism Command or SO15 in 2006. Special Branch maintained contact with the Security Service. Although they were not part of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), they were entitled to use the prefix “Detective” in front of their ranks…It was announced, in September 2005, that the Metropolitan Police Special Branch would be merging with the Anti-Terrorism Branch of the Metropolitan Police to form a new department called Counter Terrorism Command, with the new department coming into being on 2 October 2006.”
George King’s Aetherius Society, which was very much Contactee-driven from the late-1950s onward, was the subject of a secret file created by Special Branch. That file is now in the public domain, thanks to the terms of the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act. The papers demonstrate that Special Branch was concerned by the fact that the Aetherius Society was allying itself with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which was created in 1the 1950s. Special Branch certainly viewed King as, in their words, a “crank.” Special Branch came to quickly realize that King was highly motivated when it came to getting the word out regarding his views on nuclear weapons and the Russians. That alone was certainly a matter of deep concern to the authorities. The surveillance, hardly surprisingly, continued at a steady pace.
Now, let’s take a look at the U.K.’s Provost and Security Services. In the same way that, in the United States, claims have been made that the US Air Force’s UFO program, Project Blue Book, never got to see the really “good” UFO material (crashed UFOs, dead aliens, etc.), similar assertions were made in the U.K. A great deal has been written (some of it by me) on the way in which the Royal Air Force’s Provost and Security Services at Royal Air Force Rudloe Manor, Wiltshire, England played a role in the UFO subject for decades – a role that remains unclear to this day. Despite failed and clumsy attempts on the part of the MoD to lay the matter to rest – by calling Rudloe Manor merely a “coordination point” for the collection of UFO reports – the controversy still continues. Today, you can take a trip to the U.K.’s National Archives and see for yourself more than a few P&SS UFO files. They show that P&SS personnel were clearly doing their own UFO investigations.
How about another official U.K. body? This one is the Home Office. What makes the stories about the Home Office and UFOs so interesting and different, however, is the noted lack of attention they have received over the years. That’s not to say there isn’t an intriguing body of data available. Quite the contrary: there actually is an intriguing body of data on this matter. According to researcher and author Timothy Good, in his 1987 book, Above Top Secret: “A close friend of mine whom I have known since 1952 witnessed the landing of an unidentified flying object in Derbyshire in September 1963, and subsequently came into contact with its operators. Four years afterwards two men with Home Office identification cards turned up at my friend’s flat and politely asked a number of questions which clearly indicated that they were familiar with aspects of the incident.” Similarly, in 1982 Good interviewed an eye-opening interview with a retired police inspector, in an attempt to determine if the UFO issue was subject to the constraints of the British Government’s Official Secrets Act – a piece of legislation utilized to muzzle government employees when deemed necessary by officialdom. According to Good’s source: “What I can say to you, is that I know the subject itself was the subject of a Home Office directive.”
Aerial view of GCHQ
Now, there’s the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the U.K. equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency. In the mid-1990s UFO researcher Robin Cole found himself in deep water when he started asking questions about the UFO connection to GCHQ. Particularly so when he prepared a fascinating report that contained everything he had found out about GCHQ’s ties to UFOs. Cole’s research showed that GCHQ had UFO reports on file, had copies of some of the United States’ Project Blue Book files, had an extensive “UFO library,” and were actively watching Cole himself in the shadows. It was almost inevitable that Cole would get a personal visit. He did. One morning after his report was published, Cole got a knock on the door from personnel in CID (Criminal Investigation Department) who interviewed him about his research. They wanted to know why he was looking into the UFO-GCHQ angle. They also asked questions about his knowledge of the aforementioned Royal Air Force Rudloe Manor. The good news was that Cole hadn’t committed any kind of crime. The Men in Black went their ways and Cole chose to quit Ufology.
What all of this demonstrates is that when we talk about UFOs and the U.K. government, things go far beyond than just the Ministry of Defense.
David Halperin, in his book [Intimate Alien] I’m writing about lately, presents material about the image of an “alien” on Whitley Strieber’s Communion.
(I’m far from a Strieber fan, as some of you know, but the points being made by David are pertinent to one of my other interests: God.)
David provides extensive information about a mask found in 1950 at Predionica near Pristina, now Kosovo in the Balkans and a archaeological piece discussed in Marija Gimbuta’s 1974 book The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 7000 to 3500 BC, which I just ordered from Amazon.
David’s thesis has to do with memory of the image and how it may have brought about the artist’s rendition for Strieber’s book cover and its recognition by others in the context of so-called alien abductions.
(The pictures above are the Strieber “alien” and the Predionica mask of an ancient god.)
While Professor Halperin and I (and Martin Black too, I think) are not abductionites, the discussion by David in his book (Page 67 ff.) is interesting for the peripheral material.
For me, David’s text takes me into a realm that Dominick and others who visit here don’t want to go or hear about: the possibility that UFOs are not piloted by ETs but may (possibly) be vehicles of the gods — yes, the gods that many worship in their religious belief.
In my Substack and blog articles, I’ve been contending, as some of you know, that the Israelite god, Yahweh, was a mortal, an ingenious mortal who scammed his way into a position that the Israelites came to believe and push that he (Yahweh) was the immortal creator of mankind, the Earth, and the Universe itself.
My point, for UFO purposes, is that generational elements of Yahweh and his fellow “immortals” – as undivine as they were – continue to exist and have evolved to be technologically astute, thriving upon (or within) the Earth and appearing now and then via UFOs and strange encounters.
I take my Substack and blog readers through the academic vicissitudes to make my case for the obtuse conjecture that god Yahweh was just an unusual human, not a deity to be worshipped by anyone.
And I’ve been asked if I have considered a book with my theme. I have and I haven’t.
Anyway, the Halperin book has sporadic material that invites speculation and thought that takes the UFO topic outside its usual routine and hackneyed environment.
I’m not taking seriously David’s thinking that Jungian psychologies explain UFOs and give meaning to the enigma….sometimes perhaps, but not often and not in such a way as to provide a substantial explanation for many cases that most of us are familiar with.
But some of his book’s content is juicy and intriguing, offering me, for instance, to ruminate on one of my oblique interests,
More to come….
RR
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NASA Will Not Land On The Dark Side: Moon A Cosmic, Plasma Light
NASA Will Not Land On The Dark Side: Moon A Cosmic, Plasma Light
By Lee Austin
As Pink Floyd most famously and accurately stated “There is no dark side of the moon. Matter of fact it’s all dark” NASA’s latest’s bit of fiction is their intention of landing on the dark side of the moon. As stated by Professor Foster in the 1965 video below, featuring the moon is not a rock, but cosmic plasma and therefore cannot be landed on.
The moon and sun are the same size and rotate clockwise motion just below the sea firmament dome and above the flat earth Actually it’s impossible to visit and any heavenly body because the rocket would hit the vaulted dome. Just like the movie “The Truman Show” we live under a dome and no one is going anywhere. Although the moon and sun are below the dome, both are plasma lights and impossible to land on. . Their best and brightest have only managed to ascend to a maximum low earth orbit (LEO) earth orbit of twelve hundred miles. High earth orbit, (HEO) is unobtainable.
If you believe the mainstream media’s fictitious narrative, a NASA space ship travelled three-hundred and eighty million miles to Mars. However NASA hasn’t sent a man back to the moon in forty-nine years. Considering the alleged distance to the moon, is two-hundred and thirty eight thousand miles, we’re suppose to believe NASA doesn’t have the technology to return man to the moon because it was destroyed. As confirmed by Astronaut Don Pettit below…
Astronauts haven’t officially returned to the moon since 1972. Of course they were never there in the first place. Over the years, the copy and paste astrophysicists have run out of magic tricks. Non-existent ball planets don’t rotate around non-existent fireballs trillions of miles away. The physical truth hides in plain sight. For example, the moon’s Tyco crater is visible to the naked eye. Yet it’s only fifty-three miles wide. Impossible to see if the moon were two-hundred and thirty-eight-thousand miles away. The static moon appears upside-down when viewed from the southern hemisphere because the moon never changes perspective. Only you do.
Twenty-two-thousand, two-hundred-and-thirty-six miles is the fictitious distance a geosynchronous satellite orbits the fictitious ball earth. Unfortunately, such an altitude would submerge all satellites in the vast ocean positioned above the sea firmament dome. NASA refers to this layer of the atmosphere as the thermosphere, where the temperature can reach four-thousand degrees. Yet somehow twenty-five thousand satellites and three hundred and seventy-thousand pieces of space junk haven’t melted or crashed, all while simultaneously orbiting the ball earth at twenty-two thousand miles per hour.
Even the origin of the word satellite is steeped in the annals of a prolific science fiction writer who had his fictional word co-opted by the space program. In truth satellites only circumvent the first heaven of the third dimension below the sea firmament dome. Everything is to scale. Because the sun and moon are in close proximity to the flat earth, satellites. propelled by high altitude balloons, orbit from an altitude of twelve hundred miles, twenty-three-hundred miles below the sea firmament dome.
By their own admission, the International Space Station conducts all of its missions in a low earth orbit. Numbers, numbers, numbers… The orbital speed necessary to maintain a stable low flat earth orbit is four-point-eight miles per second. Relatively slow when compared to the speed of light, which is one-hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second, thirty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety-three times faster than the ISS.
The moon is a hollow, flat, translucent, crystalline, self-illuminating disc. One that generates a unique type of cold light. During a full moon cycle, the stars can been seen shining through the moon’s disc, confirming its translucent composition.
Genesis Chapter 1 verse 16 says, “For God made two great lights, the sun and the moon, to shine down upon the earth.”
On Earth, the temperature of radiate moonlight is always colder than its adjacent moon shadow. If moonlight was the result of sun rays reflecting off earth, then the illuminated moonlight reflecting back onto the earth should be warmer. Moonlight is colder, proving it projects its own light.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 77, Verses 4-5 says, “In the orb of the sun there is a seventh portion of light, which is added to it from the moon. By measure it is put in, until a seventh portion 11 of the light of the sun is departed. They set, enter into the western gate, circuit by the north, and through the eastern gate go forth over the face of heaven. When the moon rises, it appears in heaven, and the half of a seventh portion of light is all which is in it.”
In essence, the sun transfers or puts in one seventh of its light into the moon, where it is stored, illuminated and eventually extinguished upon completion of its phase cycle. The moon does not reflect the sun’s light from its exterior surface. Rather, it projects moonlight from its translucent interior. Repeating the cycle again and again, ad infinitum.
The Book of Enoch Chapter 77 Verses 12-13 says, “Uriel likewise showed me another regulation, when light is poured into the moon, how it is poured into it from the sun. All the time that the moon is in progress with its light, it is poured into it in the presence of the sun, until its light is in fourteen days completed in heaven.”
The sun and moon rotate clockwise below the sea firmament dome as the moon alternates evenly below and above the sun. During the day, the blue sky is visible through the dark part of the waxing or waning moon. Since the fifteenth century there have been fifty eclipses featuring the sun and moon above the horizon. Impossible if ball earth casts its shadow on the moon. With an equatorial circumference of six thousand, seven-hundred and eighty-three miles, the sun and moon are the same size. It’s the reason they look same size during an eclipse.
The Book of Enoch Chapter 77 verse 3 says, “These are the two great luminaries; their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.”
In theory, if there’s one phenomenon that could disprove the flat earth theory, it’s meteorites…. Though this is not really true. Meteorites are scattered debris floating freely within the sea firmament dome. Occasionally a meteor will violently pierce the dome and fall rapidly through the thin atmosphere of the first heaven in the third dimension. The proof is found in the composition of a meteor. Pyroxine, plagioclase and olivin are the three primary minerals found in both meteors and the seabed of the ocean’s floor. Apparently, there is an ocean above and below. As above, so below. Another piece of anecdotal evidence is the meteoric origins of Libyan desert glass, or great sand sea glass. Comprised of ninety-eight percent molten silica, Libyan desert glass is the byproduct of radioactive melting. Molded at three-thousand, six hundred and thirty-two degrees, which is the average temperature range of the thermosphere. Great sand sea glass, or molten glass are broken pieces of the sea firmament dome that have fallen to the flat earth. Molten glass?
Job Chapter 37 Verse 18 says, “Hast thou stretched out the heavens, which are strong and as molten glass.”
Below the sea firmament dome, the sun and moon revolve clockwise thirty-five-hundred miles above the flat earth. Not ninety-three-million… two hundred thirty-eight thousand miles respectively. Astronauts haven’t officially returned to the moon since 1972. Of course they were never there in the first place. Over the years, the copy and paste astrophysicists have run out of magic tricks. Non-existent ball planets don’t rotate around non-existent fireballs trillions of miles away. The physical truth hides in plain sight. For example, the moon’s Tyco crater is visible to the naked eye. Yet it’s only fifty-three miles wide. Impossible to see if the moon were two-hundred and thirty-eight-thousand miles away. The static moon appears upside-down when viewed from the southern hemisphere because the moon never changes perspective. Only you do.
Thirty-five hundred miles above the flat earth the localized sun dictates the day, night and seasons. Because of its close proximity. The sun functions like a spotlight. You’ve been correctly programmed to believe that it’s always daytime somewhere on earth. Just not in the heliocentric sense. In truth the sun moves away from your limited horizontal perspective. Rising in the East. And setting in the West. Determined by your stationary flat earth line of sight. When the sun rises it appears from the Eastern vanishing point of human perspective. As it sets the sun disappears from the Western vanishing point of human perspective. During its twelve-month cycle, the localized sun moves back and forth from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer. Its twenty-three-point five degree Southern and Northern variation, determines the seasons.
Flat sunbeams appearing on the ocean just after sunrise and before sunset confirm the surface is flat. The sun smaller, and localized. Similar to the forward motion of a clock, the sun circumvents the outer edge of the flat earth’s extreme perimeter.
From above, the flat earth resembles a Frisbee with an exterior frosted edge. Thirty-five-hundred miles above the surface is the sea firmament dome enclosing the entire flat earth.
The geocentric theory is not a theory. Job Chapter 38 verses 4-7 says, “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. Do you know how its dimensions were determined and who did the surveying? What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?”
UFO Sighted Over Colchester, England ( June 13, 2021 )
STATEMENT : My recording doesn't do this justice as was recorded on my phone which is rubbish. This thing changes shape every so often with no sound I'd say it was the size of a small shed. England Colchester Essex.
credit : David Hornsby
Sighted Over Miami Beach, Florida ( June 12, 2021 )
Sighted over Miami Beach, Florida on June 12, 2021 : STATEMENT : Now in Miami Beach
credit : Sal Vatore
UFOs Sighted Over Andrews, Texas ( June 12, 2021 )
UFOs were sighted over Andrews, Texas on June 12, 2021
STATEMENT : Andrews Tx
credit : RM Adrian
UFO Sighted Over Medford, Oregon ( June 12, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Weird ball of light in the sky. I saw it Near Medford Oregon.
Ring-shaped UFO filmed over East Sandwich, Massachusetts 13-Jun-2021
Ring-shaped UFO filmed over East Sandwich, Massachusetts 13-Jun-2021
Some kind of ring-shaped unidentified flying object was hovering in the daytime sky above Sandwich, Massachusetts on Sunday, 13th June 2021.
Witness report:
It was a beautiful afternoon so my wife and I sat on our back deck and enjoyed the clear sky. I commented that there were no planes at all flying around. Then I noticed an object that was reflecting the sun. It wasn’t moving very much, just sort of hovering or floating almost directly above us, perhaps 5-10 degrees lower. It had no flight path and moved from left to right. It would be visible one moment, then it would seem to disappear because it was no longer reflecting the sun. I had just purchased a new zoom camera and I had it with me so I started filming. I could not see anything in the view finder because it was so bright, but I just continued to film until I could see the bright object. I managed to zoom in on it and get a few seconds of clear video. When I put the memory card into my iMac, I was able to see the object much more clearly. It appears to be donut shaped with a hole in the center and with a bright glint of light on top. It almost looked like an engagement ring. I am attaching three videos. The one titled :”First Video” is the first clip I shot. It is unedited. The other two were edited to remove all the segments where the object is not visible. I still have the unedited full videos if they are needed. Thank you.
A recently discovered Neptune-like exoplanet has been described as possibly having a “substantial atmosphere”. Named TOI-1231 b, the planet is located about 90 light-years away from Earth. It is quite similar to our Solar System’s Neptune planet in regards to its size as well as being a gaseous world with possibly a rich atmosphere.
An international team of astronomers that was led by Dr. Jennifer Burt, who is an exoplanet researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and Professor Diana Dragomir, who is an exoplanet researcher at the University of New Mexico, discovered TOI-1231 b when they were analyzing data collected from TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). Then on June 3rd, the team’s discovery of TOI-1231 b was entered into NASA’s Exoplanet Archive.
TOI-1231 b is over 3.5 times larger than Earth and 15.4 times our mass. While it has a surface temperature of about 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 degrees Celsius), it is in fact one of the “coolest” exoplanets found thus far, suggesting that it could have a very substantial atmosphere.
(Not TOI-1231 b)
The planet travels around a red-dwarf star and completes a full orbit in just 24.2 days. Even though it orbits its host star at a pretty close range (a distance of 0.1288 AU), it is still considered to be a cooler planet (its star is also considered to be somewhat cool). Unfortunately, there couldn’t be any life on the planet because of its size; however, there may be a lot to learn about its atmosphere.
Scientists are hopeful that the Hubble Space Telescope and the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to capture evidence of starlight shining through the exoplanet’s atmosphere. The molecules in the atmosphere absorb the light which then reveals dark lines that will hopefully tell scientists which gases are present on TOI-1231 b. Additionally, when the planet passes by its host star, the transiting time takes almost 3.5 hours which is great news for studying the starlight that will shine through the atmosphere.
(Not TOI-1231 b)
There is a possibility that the telescopes could see clouds in the atmosphere of TOI-1231 b. And if the clouds do contain water, hydrogen atoms may be escaping the atmosphere and leaving a trail behind the planet as it quickly moves away. While this is exciting, we’ll have to wait and see what the telescopes detect.
An artist’s impression of TOI-1231 b can be seen here.
Artist’s rendering of TOI-1231 b, a Neptune-like planet about 90 light-years away from Earth.
Amerika denkt dat ufo’s van de Russen en Chinezen zijn
Amerika denkt dat ufo’s van de Russen en Chinezen zijn
De mainstreamwereld is volledig in de ban van ufo’s sinds het Pentagon is begonnen met het vrijgeven van bepaalde beelden.
Later deze maand komt er een uitgebreid rapport, maar men schijnt nu al te weten waar die ufo’s daadwerkelijk vandaan komen.
Ongeveer rond 2017 begint er iets te veranderen in de wereld van ufo’s. Tot die tijd was het voor wat de mainstreamwereld betreft het domein van aluhoedjes. Mensen die letterlijk dingen zien vliegen die volgens diezelfde mainstreamwereld niet kunnen bestaan.
Het standaardrecept sinds de jaren '50 is dan ook dat mensen die vreemde dingen rapporteren altijd belachelijk worden gemaakt. Het is nog nooit anders geweest, tot 2017.
Grote koppen afgelopen weekend in de mainstream media (MSM), want er zijn in het geheim door het Pentagon miljoenen dollars gestoken in onderzoek naar UFO's. Het niet publiekelijk bekendgemaakte programma dat begon in 2007 en is stopgezet in 2012 zou dan volgens sommigen aantonen dat Disclosure nu toch wel echt heel dichtbij is gekomen.
En dan verder:
Naast de bekendmaking van het project van 22 miljoen dollar zijn er ook enkele video's vrijgegeven uit 2004 die absoluut echt zijn en waarbij op de radarschermen van gevechtsvliegtuigen objecten te zien zijn die allesbehalve lijken op vliegtuigen zoals wij die kennen en die op een gegeven moment ook met hoge snelheid wegvliegen.
Onze conclusie in dat artikel was dat de Amerikaanse overheid niet zomaar plots gaat toegeven dat er onverklaarbare objecten door ons luchtruim vliegen, zonder een bepaalde bijbedoeling.
In werkelijkheid beschikt men al heel lang over wat we noemen een “geheime ruimtevloot” die onder andere is gefinancierd met biljoenen dollars die zijn “verdwenen”. En alles wat er nu gebeurt op dit gebied is een soort witwasoperatie, waardoor ze straks stapje voor stapje die geheime ruimtevloot openbaar kunnen maken.
De aankondiging van het verdwijnen van de biljoenen dollars werd gedaan op 10 september 2001, de dag voor de beruchte aanslag van 9/11. Daardoor had niemand meer aandacht voor dat verdwenen fortuin, net zoals niemand aandacht schonk aan de door Israël gepleegde oorlogsmisdaden in de Gazastrook in de avond van de dag dat MH17 uit de lucht werd geschoten.
Na 2017 kwam het fenomeen ufo regelmatig terug in het mainstream nieuws en was het van een onderwerp dat door iedereen belachelijk werd gemaakt, opeens iets geworden waar men echt serieus naar keek.
Naar aanleiding van de vele meldingen die opeens zouden plaatsvinden heeft de Amerikaanse overheid een specialal team in het leven geroepen, de UAP Taskforce.
UAP is eigenlijk de nieuwe naam voor ufo, omdat men die uitdrukking toch wat te beladen vindt en teveel associaties oproept met ongeloofwaardige zaken. UAP staat voor unidentified aerial phenomena, oftewel, onbekend lucht fenomenen.
Eind deze maand komt de UAP Taskforce met een verslag van waarnemingen en bevindingen die niet (langer) als geheim worden beschouwd en tot die tijd wordt er op dit moment volop gespeculeerd in de MSM over wat of wie er nu precies achter die vreemde vliegende objecten zou kunnen zitten.
Wat nu echter al bekend is, is dat er verder geen echt schokkende onthullingen in zullen staan. Dus mocht je een volledige Amerikaanse disclosure verwachten, dan zal het een teleurstellend rapport worden, zo is de verwachting. Wat er wel heel duidelijk in vermeld zal worden, is dat deze dingen niets te maken hebben met geheime Amerikaanse technologie.
Voordat dit rapport wordt vrijgegeven hebben onbekende vertegenwoordigers van de Amerikaanse overheid (wellicht men in black) al gesproken met diverse MSM outlets en hen laten weten wat hun gedachten zijn.
De Amerikaanse overheid heeft geen flauw idee wat die vreemde vliegende objecten zijn, maar maakt zich grote zorgen omdat ze het donkerbruine vermoeden hebben dat deze objecten wel eens van Russische of Chineze makelij kunnen zijn. Als dat zo is, dan is het goed schrikken zo claimen zij, want dat zou betekenen dat de Amerikanen qua technologie ver achterlopen op beide landen.
Saillant detail is dat bij alle MSM outlets beide landen expliciet worden genoemd.
Vervolgens werd dit uiteraard opgepikt door de grote televisiekanalen en maakt men zich nu overal zorgen om die mogelijk Russische/Chinese ufo’s. Dit, totdat iemand met zekerheid kan bevestigen dat ze daar niet vandaan komen.
Bij MSNBC werd de voormalige CIA directeur Leon Panetta uitgenodigd om aan het publiek te komen uitleggen dat de Amerikaanse overheid er vooralsnog vanuit moet gaan dat ze hier te maken hebben met een Russische/Chinese bedreiging tot het tegendeel is bewezen.
De disclosure tot nu toe bestaat uit niets anders dan het oprakelen van nog veel meer Koude Oorlog richting Rusland en China.
De Amerikaanse overheid is niets anders dan moeras. Je kunt het moeras niet gebruiken om het moeras te legen. De Democraten waren nooit echt van plan om Donald Trump uit het presidentschap te zetten. Trump was nooit van plan om de Deep State neer te halen en de Amerikaanse overheid gaat zichzelf niet onderzoeken om daarbij tot de conclusie te komen dat buitenaardsen echt bestaan.
Als er inderdaad buitenaardsen bestaan die in vreemde ruimteschepen hier rondvliegen dan is het waarschijnlijker dat we de waarheid van hen te horen krijgen dan van het Amerikaanse leger. De oorlogsmachine is ontworpen om te doden en verwoesten. Dit is niet opeens veranderd waardoor ze belangstelling zouden hebben voor waarheid en transparantie. Hoe eerder de ufo gemeenschap dit door heeft des te beter.
Wat ons betreft is dit de aanloop naar het creëren van een gezamenlijke mondiale vijand in de vorm van aliens. We moeten per slot wel bang blijven. In de koker zit ook nog de geveinsde terugkomst van de messias wat we tot nu toe kennen als project Bluebeam, een techniek waarmee holografisch vanalles kan worden geprojecteerd in de lucht.
Eerste Chinezen vliegen naar ruimtestation Hemels Paleis
China bouwt een Hemels Paleis, een eigen ruimtestation in een baan rond de aarde, en de eerste bewoners vertrekken daar komende week naartoe. Drie ruimtevaarders, ook wel taikonauten genoemd, worden waarschijnlijk donderdag gelanceerd. Het is de bedoeling dat ze ongeveer drie maanden in hun nieuwe onderkomen blijven, honderden kilometers boven de aarde.
De lancering gebeurt vanaf de ruimtebasis Jiuquan. Die ligt in de uitgestrekte Gobiwoestijn, niet ver van de grens met buurland Mongolië. De missie heet Shenzhou 12 (Goddelijk Vaartuig 12).
De bestemming van de taikonauten heet Tiangong, Chinees voor Hemels Paleis. De bouw van het complex is net begonnen. Het bestaat tot nu toe uit één lange buis van 16 meter lang en 4 meter breed. Dat eerste onderdeel is Tianhe, Hemelse Harmonie. De Tianhe was in april gelanceerd. In mei bracht een onbemand vrachtschip alvast een voorraad voor de eerste bewoners.
Volgend jaar moeten de volgende twee onderdelen van het ruimtestation gelanceerd worden. Die heten Wentian (Zoektocht naar de hemel) en Mengtian (Dromen van de hemel).
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China is bijzonder ambitieus in de ruimte. Het land bracht in 2003 voor het eerst iemand naar de ruimte. Het was het derde land dat hierin slaagde, na de Sovjet-Unie/Rusland en de Verenigde Staten. Het land zette onlangs met succes een onbemand karretje op Mars. In 2019 landde China, als eerste, op de achterkant van de maan.
De bevelhebber van de vlucht naar het Hemels Paleis is de 56-jarige luchtmachtpiloot Nie Haisheng. Hij maakt al sinds 1998 deel uit van het Chinese ruimtevaartprogramma en was kandidaat om de eerste Chinees in de ruimte te worden. Die keus viel op een ander, maar Nie ging wel mee in de tweede Chinese ruimtevlucht, in 2005.
In 2013 ging hij weer de ruimte in, naar een proefruimtestation, als voorbereiding op de komende missie. Nie krijgt gezelschap van twee nieuwe taikonauten. De 55-jarige Deng Qingming en de 40-jarige Ye Guangfu, beiden luchtmachtpiloten, gaan voor het eerst de ruimte in.
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How To Search the Chemical Makeup of Exoplanet Atmospheres for Hints at Their History
How To Search the Chemical Makeup of Exoplanet Atmospheres for Hints at Their History
Author’s note – this article was written with Dr. Vincent Kofman, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and the lead author on the research it discusses.
Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in the recent decades. Planet hunters like TESS and Kepler, as well as numerous ground-based efforts, have pushed the field and we are starting to get a total number of planets that will allow us to perform effective statistical analysis on some of them.
Not only do the detected number of planets show us how common they are; it exposes our lack of understanding about how planets form, what conditions are present, and when planets may be habitable. The transit detection of an exoplanet primarily yields the orbital period, or the length of a year on the planet, and the relative size of the planet with respect to the star. The next steps are to characterize the planet. This usually requires follow up studies, using different observational strategies and more powerful telescopes.
UT Video on how to search for exoplanets.
Next to studying the occurrence, sizes, orbital periods, and the amount of light they receive, the composition of the atmospheres can provide much insight into our understanding of these new worlds. The composition of the atmospheres of exoplanets can be revealed by observing these using space-based telescopes, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, or from the ground using observatories like the Very Large Telescope or Keck.
These remote observations rely on interaction of the molecules in the atmosphere with light, and are highly specific to the conditions in the atmosphere, serving as a strong diagnostic for both the planet’s composition and its temperature. However, not all molecules are equally visible and the light from exoplanets very faint. Therefore, currently we are only able to see the brightest molecules, such as water, methane, carbon monoxide, sodium, as well as a number of metal-oxides. For the rest of the atmosphere, the planets in our solar system provide a first start to what may be present, but scientists strongly rely on chemical and physical models to assess what may be hidden from their spectroscopic studies.
Fortunately, the detectable molecules can teach us many things about the conditions in the atmosphere. For instance, the carbon to oxygen (C/O) ratio, inferred from the abundance of (amongst others) carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and water, essentially indicates whether the chemistry in the atmosphere is oxygen or carbon dominated. These are different chemical end members, and lead to very different environments. Titan’s atmosphere for instance is carbon dominated, leading to a hazy world with hydrocarbon lakes. Mars’ atmosphere is an example of a C/O ratio of less than 1. As the C/O ratio can also be determined in protoplanetary disks, this is a valuable ratio that may link the birthplace of planets to their current state.
Another stochiometric ratio that has proven to be very insightful in the solar system, is that of hydrogen (H), the most common element in the universe, to its slightly heavier isotope, deuterium (D). Known as the D/H ratio, it can provide a glimpse into the history and planet and its atmosphere, and is the focus of a new paper from scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), led by Dr. Vincent Kofman.
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The D/H ratio was originally set as part of the Big Bang at about 1 / 8700 – or 8700 atoms of hydrogen for every one of deuterium. There are not many natural processes that have changed that ratio over time, with the exception of some active processes in stars. That 1/8700 ratio is then passed on to planets as they begin to form, yet the initial endowment value can differ across the formation region in the nebula, where stars and planets form. This is because of the different temperatures at which hydrogen and deuterium containing molecules freeze out. Particularly for the extremely cold regions, the amount of deuterium is substantially higher. Planets can therefore have very different primordial D/H values depending on when and how they form. Our solar system is a good example where that original ratio was in place during the planetary formation process.
The higher deuterium content of primordial ices is which is why the ice giant Uranus and Neptune have a higher D/H ratio than Jupiter and Saturn. After the planets were formed, though, the ratio on some planets changed. For the rocky planets, it is believed that they received their water from asteroids and comets, which formed at very different locations in the nebula as those planets, resulting in higher deuterium content in the atmospheres of Earth, Venus, and Mars.
Planets in the solar system with their deuterium / hydrogen levels compared to original nebula values. Credit: NASA / Kofman
Subsequently, that ratio was increased even more by significant water loss. This effect, which can be most starkly seen on Mars and Venus, can be understood as following. As much of the hydrogen and deuterium in planetary atmospheres is tied up in water, which is easily destroyed by sunlight, resulting in elemental oxygen and hydrogen.
That hydrogen, floating high in the atmosphere, is then susceptible to being accelerated into space by the solar wind, then flying fast enough to escape the gravity of the terrestrial planets. With that loss of hydrogen, the water molecule cannot reform, and the planet is left with a lower total quantity of water. Over the course of billions of years, this process, if it continues, can cause a significant drop in the water content of a planet’s atmosphere.
UT video on water vapor in exoplanet atmospheres
However, there is one confounding factor in this story of lost water – deuterium, which is approximately twice as heavy as elemental hydrogen, is much less likely to be blown into space. Therefore, any “heavy” water molecule that is split in the atmosphere is much less likely to lose its deuterium atom than a normal water molecule is to lose its regular hydrogen atom. Over billions of years, this increases the D/H ratio in those atmospheres.
To be able to investigate the D/H ratio on exoplanets the GSFC researchers had to pull information from huge spectroscopic databases. In order to lessen the burden, they built a tool that allowed them to do so orders of magnitudes more quickly than existing systems. The databases have been incorporated into a tool they built called the Planetary Spectrum Generator (PSG). PSG is an online tool that allows the simulation spectra of (exo)planets, taking into consideration all elements of the calculations (the Solar/stellar spectrum, the planets’ surface and atmosphere, as well as absorption by the Earth’s atmosphere and the specifics of the telescope used).
Diagram of how we can use absorption spectral reading to determine the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Image Credit: A. Feild, STScl, NASA
Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to simulate the interaction of the exoplanet Trappist 1b with the light of its star while passing in front of it, the researchers have investigated the possibility of detecting the D/H ratio using the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope. They demonstrated that for atmospheres rich in water, the D/H ratio could be constrained by observing a few transits of the planet in front of its host star.
With a better understanding of the D / H ratio, exoplanet hunters should be able to determine some of the atmospheric and hydrological history of these new planets. This will improve our understanding of the chemistry taking place on exoplanets and refine atmospheric models. Ultimately, it may enable a better grip on what it takes for a planet to be habitable.
UFOs Sighted Over Novo Hamburgo, Brazil ( June 11, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Um belo avistamento de Ovni em Novo Hamburgo RS 2021.Há indicação de algum sinal de linguagem,estão tentando passar uma mensagem
TRANSLATE :A beautiful sighting of Ovni in Novo Hamburgo RS 2021. There is an indication of some sign language, they're trying to send a message
credit : Zé Pinto Meliski
UFOs Sighted Over Moab, Utah ( June 11, 2021 )
UFOs were sighted over Moab, Utah on June 11, 2021
STATEMENT :UFOs? Filmed in Moab, UT with a Mavic 2 Pro. These two objects flew from the horizon and within seconds past my drone. I’ve filmed allot of weird stuff but I have no idea what these are.
Security camera footage of UFO activity during a lighting storm in th UK on May 11, 2021 : UFO UAP Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Lighting connection
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UFO Sighted Over Brazil ( June 7, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Weird object flying in Brazil My friend from Brazil recorded this video of this thing flying during the day.
Over that last few decades I have found and reported hundreds of faces on Venus, Moon, Earth, Mars and more. I even found the face at Cydonia that I found 45 years ago that others often steal credit for. Here is one more, which I am a bit surprised I have never noticed. The face is looking upwards...at northern Mars. The face does not look human, but has similar features visible. It has a rugged large chin, open mouth, normal size nose eyebrow ridge and forehead. It looks like it has a longer skull and its hair is also very large. This person must have been someone very significant for them to make a face this big on Mars.
Of course there are a lot of people denying that such faces exist. They do that because the alternative...to know...is subconsciously terrifying to them. So they protect themselves by denying the reality that is too painful. This is an ancient face, made not thousands of years ago, but millions of years ago. What I ask you...will be left of us humans if disaster strikes our Earth?
I was looking though the NASA Saturn photos when I came across one with an L shaped object. The object as lumps along itself which make me think that it was moving incredibly fast, made a sharp right turn and continued. You see, the object is very small, about 1/15 the length of the object before us. NASA says this photo was taken with time exposure...meaning the lens was left open for a few seconds in order to capture the best quality photo. Since meteors, asteroids and other celestial bodies do not make hard right turns in space...we can now assume the object is intelligently controlled. The UFO is also within the rings of Saturn...either hiding within for protecting Saturn from incoming aliens, or it in the rings to help organize, contain and shape the rings. So now we know...intelligent life (biological or AI) does exist in Saturns rings.
Lady Navy Pilot Says She Would Have Remained Quite About the USS Nimitz UFO Incident If She Witnessed It Alone
Lady Navy Pilot Says She Would Have Remained Quite About the USS Nimitz UFO Incident If She Witnessed It Alone
Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich was one of two F/A-18F Super Hornet pilots who encountered bizarre, gigantic Tic Tac aircraft that disappeared in front of their eyes in 2004. She was recently featured in an episode of 60 Minutes about an unexplained aerial phenomena report expected to be presented next month to Congress.
Dietrich was an aviator from 2003 to 2007 and taught at the U.S. Naval Academy for seven years. She pursued civil engineering for her undergraduate degree because “it is really hard science – literally hard.” However, she has been unable to develop a theory about what she precisely encountered 17 years ago.
According to 60 minutes, Dietrich was serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, around a hundred miles southwest of San Diego, when the incident took place. The cruiser USS Princeton, which was part of the carrier’s strike group, had observed on its radar multiple anomalous aircraft that could make descent around 80,000 feet in less than a second.
Dietrich and her squadron commander Dave Fravor were dispatched to investigate one of the mysterious aircraft. What took place next became known in UFO folklore as the USS Nimitz UFO incident.
Dietrich said her Navy career didn’t suffer after she and Fravor reported spotting the bizarre aircraft. Still, the two agree they would not have talked about it if they had been flying alone that day to avoid being ridiculed, sent for a psych eval, and had their security clearance taken away. But there were many people in the air and on ships tracking the strange object. There was no denying what had taken place, she said.
We are all familiar with Earth’s four oceans: Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, and Indian. And now, thanks to National Geographic, there is officially a fifth ocean – the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica.
Alex Tait, who is a National Geographic Society Geographer, stated, “The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it.” More specifically, geographers couldn’t agree on whether the water around Antarctica was unique enough to be classified as its own ocean.
Interestingly, the Southern Ocean is defined by its current rather than the continent around it as is the case with the other four oceans. It is believed that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which flows around the continent from west to east, was formed approximately 34 million years ago when Antarctica separated from South America. Furthermore, it brings in water from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans in a type of conveyor belt (or circulatory system) that distributes heat to other parts of the planet.
The Southern Ocean is home to many species such as penguins, seals, and whales, just to name a few. It’s about time that the Southern Ocean has finally been recognized as Earth’s fifth official ocean.
In other water news, an ancient “megalake” that extended 2.8 million square kilometers (a little over a million square miles) had approximately ten times the amount of water in all of today’s lakes combined. About 10 million years ago, the Paratethys Sea was located from the Alps above Italy to Kazakhstan in the central part of Asia.
A new study has revealed more information regarding the ancient megalake. There were four cataclysmic cycles caused by climate change that continued to make the lake smaller until it completely disappeared in addition to nearly killing off numerous creatures that inhabited it such as mollusks, crustaceans, small whales, and dolphins.
For their study, Wout Krijgsman, who is a geologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, as well as his colleagues, analyzed fossilized remains, sedimentary deposits, and focused on the geological area surrounding the Black Sea which is located in the middle of where the Paratethys Sea was once located and they were able to determine that there were four separate decreases in the water levels within several millions of years with the most significant one occurring between 7.65 and 7.9 million years ago when the water level dipped about 250 meters (820 feet). This event is referred to as the Great Khersonian Drying and it turned the megalake into numerous smaller mini lakes that would have been extremely harmful to the creatures living in the water. The shorelines would have eventually become grasslands which at least would have benefited land animals.
Paleomagnetic results from Cape Panagia. (a) Examples of demagnetization plots with normal and reversed polarities (AF alternating field, Th thermal demagnetization) with intervals used for interpretation highlighted in red; (b) Thermal behaviour of samples from Cape Panagia, obtained from Curie balance experiments with multiple cooling and heating steps; (c) Magnetic directions plotted in stratigraphic order and local magnetic polarity pattern. Log and lithological unit numbers are edited, from Popov et al.16; the coloured bar indicates Paratethys high-stands (light blue) and low-stands (red).
There can be few people reading this who have not at least heard of the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who so terrorized the town and the surrounding area between November 1966 and December 1967, and whose diabolical exploits were chronicled in the 2002 hit Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere: The Mothman Prophecies, so named after the book of the same title written by Mothman authority John Keel. A devil-like, winged monster with glowing, red eyes, Mothman’s appearance came quite literally out of nowhere and, some say, culminated in high tragedy and death. But what was the Mothman of Point Pleasant? And how did the legend begin? To answer those questions we have to go back to the dark night of November 12, 1966, when five grave-diggers working in a cemetery in the nearby town of Clendenin were shocked to see what they described as a “brown human shape with wings” rise out of the thick, surrounding trees and soar off into the distance.
Three days later, the unearthly beast surfaced once again. It was at the highly appropriate time of the witching-hour when Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette – two young, married couples from Point Pleasant – were passing the time away by cruising around town in the Scarberrys’ car. As they drove around the old factory, the four were puzzled to see in the shadows what looked like two red lights pointing in their direction. These were no normal lights, however. Rather, all four were shocked and horrified to discover that, in reality, the “lights” were the glowing, self-illuminating red eyes of a huge animal that, as Roger Scarberry would later recall, was “…shaped like a Mothman, but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings folded against its back.”
Nick Redfern at Point Pleasant
Not surprisingly, they fled the area at high speed. Unfortunately for the Scarberry’s and the Mallette’s, however, the beast seemingly decided to follow them: as they sped off for the safety of Point Pleasant, the winged monster took to the skies and shadowed their vehicle’s every movement until it reached the city limits. The four raced to the sheriff’s office and told their astounding story to Deputy Millard Halstead, who later stated that: “I’ve known these kids all their lives. They’d never been in any trouble and they were really scared that night. I took them seriously.” And even though a search of the area by Halstead did not result in an answer to the mystery, the Mothman would soon return. Early on the morning of November 25, yet another remarkable encounter with the mysterious beast took place, as John Keel noted: “Thomas Ury was driving along Route 62 just north of the TNT area when he noticed a tall, grey manlike figure standing in a field by the road. ‘Suddenly it spread a pair of wings,’ Ury said, ‘and took off straight up, like a helicopter. It veered over my convertible and began going in circles three telephone poles high.'”
Keel reported that Ury quickly hit the accelerator. Nevertheless, Ury added: “It kept flying right over my car even though I was doing about seventy-five.” Over the next few days more sightings surfaced, including that of Ruth Foster of nearby Charleston – who saw the winged monster late at night in her garden, and who said: “It was tall with big red eyes that popped out of its face. My husband is six feet one and this bird looked about the same height or a little shorter, maybe.” Needless to say, the local media had a field day with the story. Tales of what were referred to as the “Bird-Monster” hit the headlines; while both the skeptics and the police ensured that their views and opinions on the matter were widely known. Dr. Robert L. Smith, Associate Professor of Wildlife Biology in the West Virginia University’s Division of Forestry, expressed his firm opinion that Mothman was nothing stranger than a large sandhill crane. This hardly satisfied the witnesses, however. In response to Dr. Smith’s assertion, Thomas Ury said: “I’ve seen big birds, but I’ve never seen anything like this.”
As for the local police, they offered stern warnings to any and all would-be monster hunters contemplating seeking out the mysterious creature, as the Herald Dispatch newspaper noted: “Sheriff [George] Johnson said he would arrest anybody caught with a loaded gun in the area after dark [and] warned that the scores of persons searching the abandoned powerhouse in the TNT area after dark risked possible serious injury.” In the weeks and months that followed, further encounters with the bizarre beast were reported; however, they were overshadowed by a tragic event that occurred on December 15, 1967. It was on that day that Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge (so named after its aluminum paint) that spanned the Ohio River and connected Point Pleasant to Gallipolis, Ohio, collapsed into the river, tragically claiming forty-six lives. Interestingly, after the disaster at the Silver Bridge, encounters with the Mothman largely came to a grinding halt.
And while a down-to-earth explanation most certainly circulated – namely, that a fatal flaw in a single eye-bar in a suspension chain was the chief culprit – many saw, and still continue to see to this very day, the cause as being directly linked with the ominous and brooding presence of the accursed Mothman. Finally, John Keel titled his book, The Mothman Prophecies, for a reason. Keel himself foresaw a terrible disaster enveloping the city and the result being terrible carnage and death.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover captured incredible photos of strange wispy clouds on Mars over the Gale Crater. The clouds, which began appearing in the late part of January, occasionally provided a colorful sky show because of the ice-rich clouds catching the sunlight.
In a NASA statement, Mark Lemmon, who is an atmospheric scientist with the Space Science Institute in Colorado, described the clouds, “I always marvel at the colors that show up: reds and greens and blues and purples,” adding, “It’s really cool to see something shining with lots of color on Mars.” They are the most colorful just after sunset on Mars when the last light of the day causes the ice crystals to glow different colors – this is called noctilucent (or night-shining).
While clouds have previously been spotted on the Red Planet, this year they were a lot different as they were located at a much higher altitude, indicating that they were made up of frozen carbon dioxide (or dry ice). And they showed up earlier than expected (in late January). Pictures of the clouds can be seen here.
An image made from 21 photographs taken by Curiosity shows twilight clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, adjusted to appear as the scene would to human eyes.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Clouds moving over the Curiosity rover on March 19, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Clouds on Mars taken by the Viking Orbiter 1 in 1976.
In other space news, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft found that the Ryugu asteroid contains rocks that are over 70% porous (in one area of the asteroid, the boulders were between 72% and 91% porous). In other words, the rocks could hold remnants from the early Solar System. They found two spots on the asteroid that contained a group of boulders – one group was located close to the center of a crater measuring about 9 meters in width (30 feet). The study was published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Another interesting space story is that NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured stunning new close-up images of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Juno just made the closest approach to our Solar System’s largest moon since the year 2000 and the photos do not disappoint.
Photo of Ganymede taken by the Galileo orbiter.
The first two pictures that were taken on June 7th have been released and they show incredible detail of the moon’s surface that includes craters and long structural features (may be part of tectonic faults) as well as dark and bright terrain.
One of the photos was especially interesting as it was of the moon’s dark side located on the opposite side of the sun. Interestingly, there was a dim light caused by Jupiter. Additional images from the flyby will be sent back to Earth in the coming days. I know that I personally can’t wait to see them! The first two photos can be seen here.
This image of Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
This image of the dark side of Ganymede was obtained by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit navigation camera during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the moon.
STATEMENT : UFO spotted In Wisconsin aliens invading earth spaceship
credit : pmesasso : Sasso Iam
UFOs Sighted Over Las Vegas, Nevada ( March 1, 2021 )
STATEMENT : UFOs (UAPs) Three different cameras recording the same event. Las Vegas, Nevada - March 1st, 2021
credit : Melanie Smith
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DHS Employee Leaks Several UFO Captures
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STATEMENT : DHS Employee Leaks Several Craft Captures
A friend of mine who runs a great UFO channel on Instagram and YT named NY_UAP_Discussion posted up a few videos over the last couple weeks, stating that these videos came from a DHS employee.
These videos, are more then likely, some of the additional videos the government is sitting on and not showing to the public.
So far, he's had these videos shared his way - but we expect more to come. Super exciting stuff to see, although the quality isn't the greatest, and a capture of a capture has never been something I've been a fan of, it's all I have to work with.
I made this video awhile ago and have been sitting on it, I've been quite busy the last few weeks.
Multiple UFOs Sighted Over Waianae, Oahu, Hawaii ( May 31, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Moving lights change direction On May 31
I was time lapse in the sunset and saw two lights crossing the Northern Plains Inn then shortly after a swarm chasing it and as they the two objects change direction the swarm followed after
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UFO Sighted Over Prairies of Montana ( June 9, 2021 )
UFO : 1 44 : STATEMENT : Documented an absolutely jaw dropping, and remarkable supercell last night near Malta, Montana! This insane, mothership supercell loomed over the prairies of Montana and I got to document it from birth to death. You won't wanna miss this video and time-lapse!
Here is an interesting structure sitting inside the edge of a crater on earths moon. I found it in an ASU moon map and it shows a huge structure that looks like a tower with a antenna on its top. The structures foundation is built around the unevenness of the crater floor and I colored it yellow to make it a bit more easy to see for some people.
Now if we just attempt to send a radio wave message to the moon using radio telescopes, microwave transmissions, laser communication beams...then we would meet and greet our alien friends on the moon soon afterwards. Success would be inevitable.
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Oval dark shape moving in the clouds during lightning storm
Oval dark shape moving in the clouds during lightning storm
On June 9, 2021, the witness was setting up his security cameras to catch some lighting they where having a lighting storm over Medford Oregon when suddenly an oval dark shape appears and it moves in the clouds
The object similar to a flying saucer flies around for a few seconds then it’s drops down into a area that’s sunny.
Then it disappears a few seconds and later it reappears, it flies around again and starts to go to the right on the screen.
Flying saucer filmed leaving underwater base in Antarctica? May 2021
Flying saucer filmed leaving underwater base in Antarctica? May 2021
This video was just published on social medias a few hours ago. It shows some kind of a flying saucer filmed from a helicopter over Antarctica, allegedly filmed last month (in May 2021). Is this a UFO that’s leaving some kind of underwater secret base in the continent of Antarctica?
Let me know your thoughts, leave a comment bellow!
A fireball that was recently seen over Brazil may have been an interstellar object. This is incredibly significant as only two other objects traveling through our Solar System have been identified as being interstellar – ‘Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov.
‘Oumuamua was discovered in October of 2017 traveling at a whopping speed of 196,000 miles per hour and has since been the subject of countless theories regarding its origins. While some theories make more sense like it being a comet, asteroid, hydrogen iceberg, dust bunny, or part of a Pluto-like planet, other hypotheses are little more bizarre, such as it being alien technology.
Comet 2I/Borisov was found in August of 2019 and since then, astronomers have been fascinated with it. In a recent report, experts have described the comet as being the most “pristine” space object that’s ever been observed. It is believed that our sun was the only star that the comet passed closely by. This is very important because when comets get close to stars, they may become degraded or altered by the solar heat and radiation, but when it passed by our sun, its composition of dust and gas was totally original and pure.
Comet 2I/Borisov
Furthermore, experts think that Comet 2I/Borisov may have formed from different parts of its system – from close to the host star to locations a lot further away. This could be explained by a bunch of space debris being tossed around by strong gravitational forces from large exoplanets.
As for the meteor seen above Brazil, the Earth-grazer was witnessed streaking across the sky over Rio Grande do Sul on May 30th. Two cameras from Brazil’s Meteor Watch Network (Bramon) recorded the meteor traveling across the sky. Since the meteor entered our planet’s atmosphere at a shallow angle of 6.1 degrees, it is referred to as an Earth-grazer.
The meteor began to burn up when it was at an altitude of 101 miles (162.5 kilometers) south of Capão Comprido, RS. It was moving at a fast speed of 143,350 miles per hour (230,700 kilometers per hour). To put this into better perspective, it traveled 151 miles (243 kilometers) in just 3.8 seconds prior to disappearing to the east of Carlos Barbosa in the Rio Grande do Sul state.
The meteor may be interstellar.
In a statement provided by Bramon, the meteor may actually be an interstellar object. The statement read in part, “Preliminary analyses indicate that it was generated by a meteoroid coming from outside the solar system.” If this is correct, this would only be the third ever space object of interstellar origin to have been documented in our Solar System.
A video of the meteor above Brazil can be seen here.
Some meteors may have traveled very fire to light up our skies.
Supernova Observed by Astronomers in 1181 Could Have Been a Rare Type 1ax That Leaves Behind a “Zombie Star” Remnant
Supernova Observed by Astronomers in 1181 Could Have Been a Rare Type 1ax That Leaves Behind a “Zombie Star” Remnant
In 1181 CE, Chinese and Japanese astronomers noticed a “guest star” as bright as Saturn briefly appearing in their night sky. In the thousand years since, astronomers have not been able to pinpoint the origins of that event. New observations have revealed that the “guest star” was a supernova, and a strange one at that. It was a supernova that did not destroy the star, but left behind a zombie that is still shining.
“Guest stars” are what modern astronomers now call novae or supernovae, and the brightness of the event in 1181 CE (described as being as bright as Saturn) and its longevity (visible to the naked eye for 185 days) means that it was almost certainly from a supernova. For decades, a pulsar wind nebula in the same region of the sky was thought to be the remnants of that supernova, but new estimates have placed the age of that nebula to be around 7,000 years old, far too old to account for the records from 1181.
The astronomers found one of the hottest known Wolf-Rayet stars, which they call Parker’s star, named for one of the study leaders. Wolf-Rayet stars are massive stars surrounded by hot envelopes of gas, and are some of the brightest stars in the sky.
Surrounding Parker’s star is a nebula, dubbed Pa 30. The nebula has an expansion velocity of around 1,100 km/s, and given its current size it likely formed from a supernova event about 1,000 years ago – right in line with the “guest star” observations.
The expansion speed of 1,100 km/s is far slower than a typical supernova remnant, and is usually connected with a rare kind of supernovae that doesn’t completely detonate its star. That fact would also explain the existence of Parker’s star – it’s a zombie remnant that should have died a thousand years ago, but it still living.
These kinds of supernovae are extremely rare, and this observation could mean this is the only known such zombie remnant in the Milky Way. And we wouldn’t know if it weren’t for those astute astronomers a thousand years ago.
The Moons of Rogue Planets Could Have Liquid Surface Water and Thick Atmospheres. They Could be Habitable
The Moons of Rogue Planets Could Have Liquid Surface Water and Thick Atmospheres. They Could be Habitable
The search for life on exoplanets takes a fairly conservative approach. It focuses on life that is similar to that of Earth. Sure, it’s quite possible that life comes in many exotic forms, and scientists have speculated about all the strange forms life might take, but the simple fact is that Earth life is the only form we currently understand. So most research focuses on life forms that, like us, are carbon based with a biology that relies on liquid water. But even with that narrow view, life could still be hiding in places we don’t expect.
Since terrestrial life depends on liquid water, the search for life on exoplanets focuses on those within the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ) surrounding stars. That is, not to close nor too distant, so that liquid water could exist on a rocky planet. For our solar system that’s roughly between the orbits of Venus and Mars. Most of the exoplanets meeting that criteria are super-Earths that closely orbit small red dwarf stars, since red dwarfs make up about 75% of the stars in our galaxy, and super-Earths are the most common terrestrial exoplanet.
One of the surprising discoveries about exoplanets is that Jupiter-sized planets often orbit close to their stars. These “hot-Jupiters” aren’t likely to have life, but they could have moons that are as warm and wet as Earth.
Known potentially habitable worlds as of 2020. Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo
And it turns out that large gas planets don’t even have to orbit close to their star to have moons with liquid water. We know, for example that the Jovian moon of Ganymede has a water ocean beneath its icy surface. Europa is known to have more water than Earth, and even Saturn’s small moon Enceledus has liquid water. What’s interesting about these examples is that the presence liquid water on these moons is due not to the heat of the Sun, but rather to thermal heating due to the gravitational tug of their planet. Of course, this raises an interesting question. If moons of Jupiter and Saturn can have liquid water, what about the moons of Jupiter-like exoplanets that don’t even orbit a star?
Illustration of a planet floating freely through the universe with a potentially habitable moon. Credit: Tommaso Grassi / LMU
That is the question examined in a recent article in the International Journal of Astrobiology. What’s interesting about this study is that it’s not simply asking whether an exomoon could stay geologically active enough to have liquid water. The answer to that is clearly yes. Instead, this work looks at how potentially habitable exomoons might form, and whether they could maintain enough liquid water long enough for primoridal life to evolve. For example, for moons within a stellar system, a primary driver for the chemical evolution of the moon would be the light and heat of the star. But for moons of rogue planets, a primary influence would be cosmic rays. This, combined with tidal heating would drive the evolution of a moon’s atmosphere over time.
To see the effects of these differences, the team models an Earth-mass moon orbiting a Jupiter-mass rogue planet. They found that with some reasonable assumptions about chemical composition and orbital stability, a rogue exomoon could maintain liquid water on its surface. Much less than that of Earth, but plenty enough to allow for life to arise and evolve in a reasonable timescale.
It’s important to not that this model focused on exomoons with a rich atmosphere. If these habitable exomoons exist, we might be able to study their atmospheres through infrared and radio astronomy. So the first planet to show evidence of extraterrestrial life might be a rogue one.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-11 Date of Event :2021-06-10 / 11:23PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210610230329.mp4
VIDEO 2 : MUFON CASE : 116178 Thornville, Ohio Glowing Orbs Seen From i-70E
Long Description of Sighting Report
REPOSTING WHAT I SENT VIA EMAIL:
I saw these extremely bright orbs while driving on i-70. I can't link the video on email as it exceeds the attachment size limit. I was able to keep the camera on it for a few minutes and then it either disappeared or my viewing angle was cut off.
It doesn't do anything spectacular in the video, but I remember seeing small white lights on the edges of the orb, something like this •●• that would blink on and off. I couldn't make out any motion. I also noticed afterward that my camera seemed to have switched focus after the orb disappeared from my line of sight. Could be due to light processing, or something else.
Maybe an hour before that around the same area on i70, just driving the opposite direction, there was some sort of aircraft that didn't look like a commercial airplane that did a very wide arcing turn, with all white lights blinking. Maybe a military plane but it was unlike any commercial plane I'd ever seen. It's just odd to me that the only time I've ever seen something like an UAP, I see a plane behaving strangely beforehand.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-10 Date of Event : 2021-05-08 / 10:30PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE :202105082114381.mp4 : no audio
MUFON CASE : 116190 Chicago, Illinois ( June 11, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Something flying above Lake Michigan in Chicago
Long Description of Sighting Report
My husband and I were at the lakefront in Chicago on a Wednesday night in the air and water show was to happen that weekend so there were Jets and the like practicing during the daytime. We were crossing the street to go to Buckingham fountains when we saw this object in the sky over the water. It was very hard to distinguished what it was and we had no visible sound coming from it. No one else in the area seem to think it was anything or even notice it. I sent the video went to southern new stations but never heard back so we were just lead to believe that it was some thing for the air and water show. But the more times I’ve shown the video to people no one can tell me what it is.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-11 Date of Event: 2015-08-12 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE: trim.6A04F6020F0C4634862267B5B92B1858.MOV
MUFON CASE : 116188 East Windsor, New Jersey ( June 10, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Out for a drive, saw 3-5 orange lights in the sky, pulled over and filmed
Long Description of Sighting Report
Out for a drive in my convertible, noticed 3-5 orange lights in the sky to my right while going west on Disbrow Hill Road. First saw in the clearing at the farm, then I pulled over at the clearing with the soccer field.
It was 9pm June 10th. Still some light in the sky, enough to easily see the foreground, tree line, and the clouds in the sky (broken so you could see the sunset through them in some parts, beautiful night 65-70 degrees).
I was looking north, objects were moving west and in a horizontal and upward general direction. They were visible until they went into the clouds. They just kept coming into view from behind the tree line (visible in video). I watched for 2-3 min before I started filming. Total objects observed was between 30-50.
Objects were brighter than stars, with a clear orange light that pulsated. Objects seemed to be moving in slightly different directions and speeds relative to each other, while moving in the same general direction (west and up into the clouds). No sound at all from their direction.
After around 8-10 min they seemed to stop coming. I got in my car and drove off, but then saw another same type of orange light when I was going North on Milford Road. I pulled into the parking lot at the warehouse at [address moved to Investigators report section/ CMS/fgc] . There I saw the orange light above me and there were two small planes in the vicinity. One seemed to take notice of the orange light, a small single engine plane, that turned when it passed by the light in the sky. Then the object went up into the clouds.
Closest distance would've been that last part, which I'd estimate at 500-1500 ft from me, based on the planes. The planes did not get extremely close to it, so I have no idea exactly how big the orange lights were.
Date Submitted :2021-06-10 Date of Event : 2021-06-10 / 9:01PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : OrangeLightsEastWindsorNJ.mov
MUFON CASE : 116173 Medford, Oregon ( June 10, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : During lighting storm saw object through my security cameras Long Description of Sighting Report
We where having a lighting storm I wanted to get some video of the lighting storm we have secretly cameras that are PTZ means I can zoom tilt and track a person, I picked a spot where I seen some lighting as I was getting ready to switch to another camera this object comes in on the right side of the screen it’s a oval dark shape and It’s moving in the clouds, it flies around for a few seconds then it’s drops down into a area that’s sunny it disappears a few seconds later it reappears flies around and starts to go to the right on the screen I tried to track it but I lost it.
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MUFON CASE : 116169 Malibu, California ( June 10, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : i was on my balcony in Malibu around 5 am and saw 2 objects just sitting
Long Description of Sighting Report
I was sitting in my balcony in Malibu and saw one object that was a bright light from far away that was hovering over the water in the far distance. out of nowhere the second object appeared. they both sat there for awhile until the top one started to move towards the middle of the ocean and i began to see flashing lights and then it disappeared.
USO Sighted In Salina Cruz, Mexico ( June 10, 2021 )
USO : Unidentified submerged object
STATEMENT: Video tomado en Salina Cruz Oaxaca. TRANSLATE : Video taken in Salina Cruz Oaxaca. USO : is an Unidentified Object Submerged in water. The term does not necessarily refer to an object of Paranormal origin.
credit : Franco Mar
UFOs Sighted Over Urbana, Illinois ( June 10, 2021 )
UFOs Sighted Over Urbana, Illinois on June 10, 2021
STATEMENT : Urbana Illinois real ufos spotted in illinois. real ufo footage, we are not alone.
Chinese Marsrover deelt nieuwe foto’s vanaf rode planeet, inclusief een selfie
De Chinese Marsrover Zhurong heeft nieuwe foto’s doorgestuurd vanaf Mars. Op één van de foto’s is de rover in zijn geheel te zien, naast het landingsplatform. Op andere foto’s zien we het Marsoppervlak en sporen van de landing.
Bij de opmerkelijke ‘selfie’ werd volgens SpaceNews-journalist Andrew Jones een kleine draadloze camera op het oppervlakte van de rode planeet geplaatst waarna de Chinese Marsrover een foto van zichzelf op enige afstand kon nemen.
Een ander beeld toont het landingsplatform waarvan de Marsrover na de landing af reed. Op een panoramafoto, die ook in VR te bekijken is, is een weids uitzicht van Mars te zien en de plaats waar het landingsgestel volgens Jones vloeistoffen heeft geloosd om een veilige landing mogelijk te maken.
Eind vorige maand stuurde de Chinese Marsrover Zhurong, genoemd naar een mythische vuurgod, de allereerste foto’s die het maakte op Mars door. De Chinese ruimtevaartorganisatie CNSA publiceerde toen ook enkele gifs die toonden hoe Zhurong de ruimtecapsule verliet op weg naar Mars.
Zhurong werd vorig jaar in juli gelanceerd als onderdeel van de Tianwen-1-ruimtemissie. De Mars-sonde kwam in februari terecht in een baan rond de rode planeet, en bestudeerde vervolgens drie maanden lang de beoogde landingsplaats. Met de geslaagde landing van Zhurong eind mei is China het derde land dat succesvol een Marsrover heeft laten landen op de rode planeet. De Verenigde Staten en Rusland gingen China voor.
De rover weegt 240 kilo en heeft zes wetenschappelijke instrumenten aan boord, waaronder een topografiecamera in hoge resolutie. Zijn opdracht is de bodem en atmosfeer van de rode planeet te bestuderen. Daarnaast zal hij op zoek gaan naar sporen van leven. Aan de hand van een zogenaamde grondpenetrerende radar zal hij tijdens de 90 dagen durende missie water en ijs onder de oppervlakte proberen te vinden.
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V-shaped formation flying over Lake Michigan, Chicago
V-shaped formation flying over Lake Michigan, Chicago
This UFO sighting was filmed back in August 2015 but it was just today published on MUFON’s website.
Witness report:
My husband and I were at the lakefront in Chicago on a Wednesday night in the air and water show was to happen that weekend so there were Jets and the like practicing during the daytime. We were crossing the street to go to Buckingham fountains when we saw this object in the sky over the water. It was very hard to distinguished what it was and we had no visible sound coming from it. No one else in the area seem to think it was anything or even notice it. I sent the video went to southern new stations but never heard back so we were just lead to believe that it was some thing for the air and water show. But the more times I’ve shown the video to people no one can tell me what it is.
Glenn Fawcett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Journalist Jeff Schogol asked the DoD's primary spokesperson John F. Kirby a very direct question about whether the Pentagon secretly holds alien bodies and spacecraft.
Reflect On:
Can we expect an honest and complete revelation from the UAP report compiled by the US Intelligence community that's expected later this month?
UFOs have gone from zero to hero in what seems like a week. A topic once ridiculed by mainstream culture now fronts some of the most credible and widely read newspapers in the world. Currently, many are eagerly waiting for what they believe will be an honest and revealing report from the US intelligence community on their knowledge of UFOs/UAPs. It’s expected to be out later this month.
Just come right out and say it! That was the approach taken by Task & Purpose’s Jeff Schogol, a journalist who asked John F. Kirby, the DoD’s primary spokesperson, a very direct question about what the Pentagon holds in terms of alien bodies and spacecraft. His question was delivered during a press conference last week.
“There’s no way that I can sugar coat this. I was talking to a gentleman about the UAP report. He contends the Pentagon has alien bodies and crafts. So I wanted to run this past you, does the DoD have these things and if so, where?”
It really doesn’t get more direct than this, and the response returned by Kirby seemed taken aback by such a direct question,
“The UAP Task Force is really designed to take a look at these unexplained aerial phenomena and try to help us get a better understanding of them. Again, I’m not going to get ahead of the report that the DNI will submit that we are helping, obviously, and providing input to and I’ll just leave it at that, Jeff.”
Perhaps the upcoming report will answer questions like this, but given the longstanding secrecy US intelligence communities have applied to this subject, it’s unlikely.
If you’re a bit more fresh into the UFO discussion, the answer from Kirby may seem normal. The spokesperson would rather heed to the upcoming report and allow it to do the talking. But if you’ve been at this a while, this answer is classic to most questions like this over the last 70 years – vague, lacking clarity, and an awkwardness suggesting those in charge know a lot more than they are letting on.
One key takeaway here might be that journalists who have access to such press conferences might assist the public by asking such direct questions more often. As journalists educate themselves on the depth of what is already known about the ET and UFO phenomenon, perhaps questions can become deeper and perhaps derive more revealing information from government officials over time. Soft ball questions like we commonly see will only allow these subjects to remain in secrecy like they have for the last 70+ years.
For what it’s worth, in my educated opinion having researched this subject for 12 years and having worked alongside fellow journalists in our outfit who have as well, I’d bet a great deal on the fact that the US government is in possession of ET bodies and ET craft.
A Canadian Roswell: The 1989 UFO Crash In Ottawa, Ontario (Video Footage)
A Canadian Roswell: The 1989 UFO Crash In Ottawa, Ontario (Video Footage)
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
In 1989, a supposed UFO crash occurred in Carp, Ontario. Video footage, photographs and documents were leaked by someone who referred to themselves as "The Guardian." The story is unverifiable of course, but interesting to say the least.
Reflect On:
If there have been multiple instances of crashed craft an bodies recovered, what has been discovered about them as well as the beings who operate them? Why is our world drenched in secrecy?
Nearly everybody has heard the lore of the famous 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. If you actually look into it, it’s hard not to believe something did indeed happen there, but it’s important to note that it’s not the only supposed incident. There are a plethora of stories of UFO crashes from around the world, several dozen stories of these incidents have happened in North America over the last several decades.
The idea that non-human intelligent life forms and their craft have crashed and been retrieved by military and government agencies is also something that’s crept into the mainstream as of late, and it’s been something many UFO researchers have been well aware of for a long time. Just last year renowned astrophysicist Eric W. Davis, who worked with the Pentagon UFO program, formerly known as AATIP (now known as the “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force” or UAPTF), gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department Agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.”
There is evidence showing that governments have been desperate to capture this technology for years. This inevitably means they might have been doing their best to bring these objects down at times, even if the objects don’t seem to instigate or initiate any type of aggression towards us. Based on my research, the majority of cases show that these objects perform evasive maneuvers to avoid our own aircraft. It is interesting to ponder how exactly incidents of crashed craft have occurred given the fact that the technology seems to be far more advanced than anything human beings can manufacture.
A well-known incident among UFO researchers comes from Carp, Ontario, a small community located near Ottawa. It’s an incident that cannot be verified nor be debunked. This resembles many other incidents that exist within UFO lore – we just can’t know for sure either way. Other incidents have more credibility behind them in the form of revealing declassified documents and testimony from high ranking people with verified backgrounds, like Davis mentioned above. Because of this, many researchers don’t like to explore or use this particular incident from Carp, Ontario, but I find it interesting nonetheless and feel it’s worthy of exploration.
This particular story involves a supposed extraterrestrial craft that crash-landed in the swamps just outside Carp in 1989. A supposed declassified document from Canada’s Department of National Defence described a scene common to other supposed crashes, with military soldiers desperate to retrieve the wreckage and any other debris that may have tumbled from the spacecraft surrounding the area. The supposed bodies were taken to an underground research facility while the craft was taken to a military base which coincidentally happens to be in very close proximity to the incident.
The interesting thing about this incident is that the documents were accompanied by photos as well as a VHS tape of the supposed UFO. They were leaked and distributed by an individual self-identifying as “Guardian”. The story spread quickly at the time, newspapers picked up the story and it eventually made its way to the television screen, appearing in paranormal documentaries and shows.
According to CBC news in Canada, who recently did a deep dive into the case,
People in Carp were also reluctant to talk about Guardian – on camera, at least. A year into making this documentary, we continue to get emails from people who claim to know something about the case. They’re afraid to speak on the record, uneasy about dredging up this strange part of the part of the past in a region where so many people know one another. As is the case with many witnesses to the inexplicable, they fear the attention – and the ridicule, it might draw.
Below is the short documentary they produce about the story. What’s particularly interesting is that there are interviews with multiple people in the area, many of whom have had strange UFO experiences. In one instance a woman experienced a military helicopter land near her house after she witnessed a UFO. Soldiers got out of the helicopter and quickly ran around the property, got back into the chopper and then left. What were they looking for?
Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered
– Dr. Edgar Mitchell , Apollo 14 astronaut. (source)
The CHIME radio telescope has detected 535 fast radio bursts in its first year of operation.
Credit: Andre Renard/CHIME Collaboration
A radio telescope in Canada has detected 535 fast radio bursts, quadrupling the known tally of these brief, highly energetic phenomena in one go. The long-awaited results show that these enigmatic events come in two distinct types — with most bursts being one-offs, and a minority repeating periodically and lasting at least ten times longer than average.
The findings1 strongly suggest that fast radio bursts could be the result of at least two distinct astrophysical phenomena. “I think this really just nails it that there is a difference,” says study co-author Kiyo Masui, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Why ultra-powerful radio bursts are the most perplexing mystery in astronomy
The overnight jump in the available data has put the radio astronomy community into a tizzy. “I woke up this morning and all my Slack channels were full of people talking about the papers,” says Laura Spitler, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, who co-discovered the first repeating burst2 in 2016 using the now-collapsed Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) collected the events in its first year of operation, between 2018 and 2019. The team announced their results during a virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society on 9 June, and posted four preprints on the online repository arXiv.
Repeaters and one-offs
Located near Penticton in British Columbia, CHIME is a telescope with no moving parts. It comprises four half-pipe antennas, each 100 metres long. At any given time, it observes one narrow strip of the sky above. But as the Earth rotates, the telescope scans the sky, and digital processing chips collect its signals to form an image.
CHIME was initially conceived for mapping the distribution of matter in the Universe, but a complex kit of additional electronics was added in its design so that it could pick up fast radio bursts as well. Spitler recalls that many workers in the field had been skeptical about the telescope’s potential for detecting the bursts, but the latest announcement has vindicated it. “They’re actually meeting their prediction,” Spitler says. “It’s extremely impressive.”
While the jury is still out on what causes fast radio bursts, the CHIME results seem to cement the idea that there are at least two distinct types. Sixty-one of the 535 detected were ‘repeaters’ — coming from 18 sources that have been seen emitting bursts multiple times. The two groups differ by duration, with one-off events lasting a much shorter time. Repeaters also emit on a much narrower band of radio frequencies than do one-off bursts.
“It’s by far the most compelling evidence that there are two populations,” says Spitler.
Until recently, the evidence for this was not strong: some astronomers argued that non-repeating bursts could have just been repeaters that had not been observed long enough to see them burst again. “It doesn’t mean the phenomenon is wildly different, but it could be,” Masui adds.
Cataclysmic events such as the collision of two neutron stars could be a source of non-repeating fast radio bursts (illustration).
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
Fast radio bursts tend to be detected over one second or more. But this duration is misleadingly long: as signals travel across millions of light-years of space, intergalactic matter tends to smear radio waves across the spectrum. As a result, lower-frequency waves can arrive at Earth with a delay of several seconds compared to higher-frequency ones. Researchers have calculated that at the source, the emission of a radio burst typically lasts only milliseconds. During that time, the source of a burst is can emit 500 million times more energy than the Sun over a comparable amount of time.
The extent of this ‘dispersion’ of wavelengths provides a rough indication of how far the waves had to travel. So far, all bursts have been shown to originate from other galaxies, with one exception of an event that occurred in the Milky Way.
The CHIME team reported that the bursts’ sources appeared to be evenly spread across the sky. Only a handful could be traced to a particular galaxy.
Origin theories
In recent years, researchers have monitored some the regions of the sky that produced bursts in the past, and in some cases have seen them re-occur with regular periodicity. The ‘repeater’ discovered by Spitler and her collaborators in 2016, for example, has cycles of activity lasting a day or so — emitting several bursts per hour — and repeating every 160 days.
Bevy of mysterious fast radio bursts spotted by Canadian telescope
This regular repetition offers some clues about what might be causing the bursts. One possible explanation, Spitler says, is that repeaters could occur when a highly magnetized neutron star circles around an ordinary star in an elongated orbit. As the neutron star periodically gets closer to its companion, bursts could result from its magnetic field scattering the highly energetic stellar wind.
Non-repeaters, on the other hand, could be the result of cataclysmic events such as the collisions of neutron stars or magnetic storms in young neutron stars called magnetars. The Milky Way event was linked to a known magnetar. But the magnetar theory has been put into question by the recent finding of a burst from a ‘globular cluster’ in the galaxy M813. Globular clusters are dense collections of very old stars, and are considered unlikely to host magnetars.
The first discovery of a fast radio burst in 2007 came as a shock to researchers, and for many years only a handful were known, Masui recalls. Theorists came up with a plethora of possible explanations, and the running joke was that the theories outnumbered the actual events. Now CHIME has reversed that trend, he says, “I don’t think theorists will catch up with us.” And this first catalogue is only the beginning: since it was collected, the team has continued to detect many more fast radio bursts, and will publish them for years to come.
Na de succesvolle sonde Venus Express (2005-2014) wil Europa met EnVision de planeet opnieuw gaan verkennen, zo heeft het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA bekendgemaakt. België is weer uitdrukkelijk van de partij.
Venus heeft nog een reeks geheimen met als belangrijkste waarom onze naaste, en qua grootte en samenstelling op ons lijkende, buur zo een drastische klimaatsverandering heeft ondergaan. Antwoord op de vraag kan ook meer leren over de gevolgen van het broeikaseffect op Aarde. Andere vragen zijn of er nog steeds geologische activiteit is, of er ooit een oceaan en zelfs leven is geweest.
Samen met twee sondes van de NASA moet Envision, te lanceren door de toekomstige Ariane-6 ten vroegste 2031, dergelijke vragen proberen te beantwoorden.
ESA gaat er prat op dat de nieuwe Venusverkenner een “innovatief instrumentenpakket” zal meevoeren. Eén ervan is de Belgische VenSpec-H, een instrument dat voortborduurt op de NOMAD van het Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie (BIRA) op de succesvolle Europees-Russische ExoMars die rond de Riode Planeet wentelt.
Ann-Carine Vandaele, Séverine Robert en Eddy Neefs van het BIRA in Ukkel maken deel uit van de System Engineering Working Group. Vandaele leidt ook VenSpec-H.
Nieuwe planeet lijkt volgens NASA sterk op onze aarde
Onderzoekers van NASA en de Universiteit van New Mexico zijn erachter gekomen dat de recent ontdekte planeet, TOI-1231 b, gelijkenissen met onze aarde vertoont. De planeet zou elke 24 dagen in een baan rond een rode dwergster draaien. Bovendien zou de temperatuur er veel koeler zijn dan op andere planeten. De ontdekking geeft de onderzoekers nieuwe hoop in hun zoektocht naar buitenaards leven.
De planeet zou zich acht keer dichter bij zijn ster bevinden dan de aarde bij de zon. Toch zou de temperatuur op de nieuwe planeet en die op aarde gelijkaardig zijn, omdat de rode dwergster minder krachtig is dan de zon. Vergeleken met andere planeten, die vaak een extreem hoge temperatuur van honderden of duizenden graden hebben, is de nieuwe planeet relatief koel.
Zeldzame ontdekking
Volgens onderzoekster Diana Dragomir zou TOI-1231 b omgeven zijn door een atmosfeer en is het geen rotsachtige planeet. “De samenstelling en omvang van die atmosfeer zijn daarentegen nog onbekend”, klinkt het. Het is mogelijk dat er hoog in de atmosfeer wolken aanwezig zijn. Ook de aanwezigheid van water wordt niet uitgesloten. Verder onderzoek moet daarover meer duidelijkheid bieden.
Volgens de onderzoekers zijn de resultaten van de studie erg zeldzaam. Zo ging vorig onderzoek naar exoplaneten, of planeten die om een andere ster dan de zon draaien, nog nooit gepaard met de ontdekking van een planeetsysteem dat sterke gelijkenissen met ons eigen zonnestelsel vertoont.
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Partial Solar Eclipse Images from Around the World
Partial Solar Eclipse Images from Around the World
People across the northern hemisphere looked up today – taking the correct precautions, of course – and were treated to a partial solar eclipse. The partial eclipse covered a region thousands of kilometres wide across most of Europe, northern Asia and northeastern North America. An annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse was visible to some parts of Greenland, Northern Russia, and Canada.
Our unique lead image comes from Andrew Symes from Ottawa, Canada, who took this photo with his iPhone 11 Pro through his Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope, providing a fun and interesting look at his view of the eclipse!
A view of the partial solar eclipse from Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA. Credit: Tom Wildoner. See full image on Flickr.
Skywatchers from England and Ireland had clouds to deal with, but the pictures turned out to be stunning, as this picture from Peter Gallagher, Director of Dunsink Observatory outside of Dublin, Ireland attests:
Mary McIntyre of Oxfordshire, UK reports: “The weather forecast was awful so I honestly didn’t expect to see anything, but there were plenty of clear patches as I set up the telescope and then I was able to grab quite a few images of the first half of the eclipse before cloud rolled in. I didn’t quite get maximum because thick cloud rolled in after I’d taken my 10:58 am images. Thankfully we got a few more clear patches just as the eclipse was ending.” Here’s one of her shots:
This photo was taken at 10:58 BST, and is a stack of the best 60% of 150 TIFF files. Sunspot groups AR12832 and AR12829 are visible on the solar disc, as well as some faculae. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter and Canon 1100D. Credit: Mary McIntyre. See full image on Flickr.
And more:
Mid point in the Solar eclipse from Berkshire, England, 10/6/2021. A lucky break in the clouds at the right moment to capture the mid point of the eclipse. Credit: Peter Tickner. See full image on Flickr.
Many people planned their observations well in advance, like Julian Diamond of Millbrook, New York, USA:.
A partial solar eclipse is seen as the sun rises behind the Delaware Breakwater Lighthouse, Thursday, June 10, 2021, at Lewes Beach in Delaware. Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani). See full image on Flickr
Some shots from some of our favorite people, such as Universe Today’s own David Dickinson:
And Jason Major:
Thanks to everyone for sharing their wonderful images!
UFO Sighted Over Bakersfield, California ( June 8, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Bakersfield, California on June 8, 2021
STATEMENT : That's not a star or star link or a space station
credit : Stephanie Blaisdell
UFO Sighted Over San Pedro Hill, California (June 8, 2021)
San Pedro Hill, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
STATEMENT :A UFO band! I swear! It was in San Pedro Hill! And I don't even believe it!!!
How many know that hill is pure land that takes out the miner, it's a hill without trees or anything just land
San Pedro Hill, located in Los Angeles County, California. Prominence: 1358 ft, 414 m. Elevation: 1460+ feet, 445+ meters.
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UFO Sighted Over Garfield Park, Chicago, Illinois ( June 8, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Garfield Park, Chicago, Illinois on June 8, 2021
STATEMENT : UFO in Garfield Park nbd (Neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois)
credit : matwd
UFO Sighted Over San Clemente, California (June 6, 2021)
STATEMENT : UFO Sighting 6/6/21 Glowing Orb : This Video was shot around 12am off the coast of San Clemente 20 miles from a military base, Camp Pendleton. I work late nights and I'm always admiring the night sky, I saw what looked to be like a white ball of light, like a glowing orb. Not sure if this was a drone. But haven't seen something like this so I had to film it. If you have any explanation please drop it in the comments below, thanks and have a good day! Last seen heading inland N.E.
Sightings UFO CampPendleton GlowingOrb
flying saucers" or "flying discs Government Report on UFOs coming soon, will the truth be exposed?
2 Witnesses rec the same UFO 100 miles apart. Also two explosion's rec on the moon.(UFO SIGHTINGS)
Two Witnesses separated by one hundred miles record the same bright UFO in Arizona. Also three red lights floating by in a triangular formation over New York. Also I ran across a recording of what looks to be explosion's on the moon.
Key Shaped UFO Over Texas May Be Portal, June 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Key Shaped UFO Over Texas May Be Portal, June 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 4, 2021
Location of sighting: Denton County, Texas, USA
Watching this raw video taken from Texas during a family outing is mind-blowing. This UFO is like no other I have ever seen. The craft is standing upright and has a huge rectangle in its center. The eyewitnesses kids continue blowing bubble...oblivious to the alien craft passing overheard. But the father keeps his cool and tries his best to ignore the bubbles and keep focussed on the unusual shaped craft flying over them. This looks like a ring UFO that is typically round and makes clouds around it, however it has collapsed itself to appear thinner and long like a key. Its very possible that the opening within the center is actually a portal for alien craft to jump from location to location instantly...faster than light transportation. For this UFO to be over Texas...there must be a huge incoming or outgoing of ships in the near future. This...sounds like a big event coming soon in Texas.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It’s an unidentified flying object to me because I don’t know what it was. We were sitting by the fire little ones had the bubbles going. Any idea? Deflated balloon of some sort? Almost looked like a parachute. 6/4/2021 8:57pm Denton County, Texas.
Rep. Gohmert asks federal agencies to alter orbit of the Earth and moon, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Rep. Gohmert asks federal agencies to alter orbit of the Earth and moon, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of statement: June 9, 2021 Source: Twitter
On a Tuesday hearing at the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Louie Gohmert had an idea for solving the climate crisis permanently...by changing the orbits of the Earth and moon. This sound silly and ridiculous at first, but the truth about it is far from it. You see, the moon is a hollow space station that is set in its location to observe and protect planet Earth from other intruding alien species. What I mean is the moon is hollow and can easily fly away if the alien species who control it so wish. But it was placed there long ago, in order to watch over the planet and keep other alien species from thinking that they can take it from them. Yes, Earth is unique a little bit and there is a high demand in the universe for life capable surface habitats. It does take a bit of time for aliens to create, so they do look after their territories well or they will lose them. What aliens live on the moon? Well...only one way to tell for sure...is to contact them. Sadly no attempts have ever been made to contacts aliens on the moon. Instead we aim our radio telescopes to planets systems that are 40 million light years away. And by the time those messages are found...the only thing left of us...is dust. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
I found a dark tower on the moon today using the LROC moon map at Arizona State University. The online program reveals a lot about the moon that they don't teach you in any classroom, unless you are in my classroom. I am a ESL teacher in Taiwan and yes, I tell kids the truth. That aliens exist.
This structure is very big and again...is not just a structure, but a mobile structure. Much like a mobile home can move from place to place...so can these structures. Makes them much more useful. Why oh why do they abandon them in craters so often? Well it sure makes them easier to find for anyone searching for parts. Like humans...even aliens like to recycle...so leaving the ship out for others to use is considered both recycling and helping to all species who need it.
Mysterious Glowing Sphere Caught on Video in North Carolina
Mysterious Glowing Sphere Caught on Video in North Carolina
A short video of a light circular object passing the skies of North Carolina Beach has made the rounds online.
A couple took the footage as they were boating off the coast of America on May 16. Both saw a bizarre glowing sphere object similar to reported UFOs spotted in both New York and Colorado in the past.
In the clip, the object is easily recognized against the bright blue sky and appears to move slowly in front of the clouds. According to the eyewitnesses, the UFO also had a dark circle or spot in the middle.
A witness is heard explaining in the video saying that the object seems to rise above and drop below the clouds in around the same spot for hours.
According to UFO enthusiasts who have watched the video, the object is possibly an alien orb surveillance drone that has come into Earth’s atmosphere to observe our response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Legendary Emerald Tablet and its Secrets of the Universe
The Legendary Emerald Tablet and its Secrets of the Universe
The origins of Western alchemy can be traced back to Hellenistic Egypt, in particular to the city of Alexandria. One of the most important characters in the mythology of alchemy is Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes the Thrice-Great). The name of this figure is derived from the Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, and his Greek counterpart, Hermes. The Hermetica, which is said to be written by Hermes Trismegistus, is generally regarded as the basis of Western alchemical philosophy and practice. In addition, Hermes Trismegistus is also believed to be the author of the Emerald Tablet.
Legends of the Emerald Tablet
The Emerald Tablet is said to be a tablet of emerald or green stone inscribed with the secrets of the universe. The source of the original Emerald Tablet is unclear; hence it is surrounded by legends. The most common story claims that the tablet was found in a caved tomb under the statue of Hermes in Tyana, clutched in the hands of the corpse of Hermes Trismegistus himself.
And the creator of the Emerald Tablet has been provided in myth as the Egyptian god Thoth, who Armando Mei writes “divided his knowledge into 42 plates of emerald, codifying the great scientific principles ruling the Universe. The legend tells that after the gods’ fall, the Hermetic tablets were cleverly hidden so that no human being might find them. Only Thoth, on his return to that dimension, was able to recover the mysterious book.”
Another legend suggests that it was the third son of Adam and Eve , Seth, who originally wrote it. Others believed that the tablet was once held within the Ark of the Covenant . Some even claim that the original source of the Emerald Tablet is none other than the fabled city of Atlantis.
While various claims have been made regarding the origins of the Emerald Tablet, as yet no verifiable evidence has been found to support them. The oldest documentable source of the Emerald Tablet’s text is the Kitab sirr al-haliqi (Book of the Secret of Creation and the Art of Nature), which was itself a composite of earlier works.
This was an Arabic work written in the 8th century AD and attributed to ‘Balinas’ or Pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana. It is Balinas who provides us with the story of how he discovered the Emerald Tablet in the caved tomb. Based on this Arabic work, some believe that the Emerald Tablet was also an Arabic text and written between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, rather than a piece of work from Antiquity, as many have claimed.
While Balinas claimed that the Emerald Tablet was written originally in Greek, the original document that he purportedly possessed no longer exists, if indeed it existed at all. Some say the text burned up in the Library of Alexandria . Nevertheless, Balinas’ version of the text itself quickly became well-known, and has been translated by various people over the centuries.
For instance, an early version of the Emerald Tablet also appeared in a work called the Kitab Ustuqus al-Uss al-Thani (Second Book of the Elements of the Foundation), which is attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan. It would, however, take several more centuries before the text was accessible to Europeans. In the 12th century AD, the Emerald Tablet was translated into Latin by Hugo von Santalla.
The Emerald Tablet would become one of the pillars of Western alchemy. It was a highly influential text in medieval and Renaissance alchemy, and probably still is today. In addition to translations of the Emerald Tablet, numerous commentaries have also been written regarding its contents.
For instance, a translation by Isaac Newton was discovered among his alchemical papers. This translation is currently being held in King’s College Library in Cambridge University. Other notable researchers of the Emerald Tablet include Roger Bacon , Albertus Magnus, John Dee , and Aleister Crowley . And today knowledge of the legendary Emerald Tablet (at least one interpretation of it ) is reaching new audiences with its presence in the surreal German-language series Dark.
An imaginative 17th century depiction of the Emerald Tablet from the work of Heinrich Khunrath, 1606.
The interpretation of the Emerald Text is not a straightforward matter, as it is after all a piece of esoteric text . One interpretation, for instance, suggests that the text describes seven stages of alchemical transformation – calcination, dissolution, separation, conjunction, fermentation, distillation and coagulation. Yet, despite the various interpretations available, it seems that none of their authors claim to possess knowledge of the whole truth. Furthermore, readers are encouraged to read the text and try to interpret and find the hidden truths themselves.
Top Image: Representation of what the Emerald Tablet may have looked like. Source: info consapevole
MUFON CASE : 116090 Rachel, Nevada ( June 6, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Flashing light/floating orb Long Description of Sighting Report
Family and I were traveling from Zion to Reno. About 20 min after turning on 375 my wife wanted to photograph a joshua tree. After several minutes a circular object shining light suddenly appeared above us. I grabbed my cell phone from my car and took a video. We had no clue we were near area 51 and had never even heard of the ET highway and I am not a believer in aliens but all four of us are positive in what we saw and cannot explain it. We learned later when we arrived at our hotel where we were located.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-06 Date of Event : 2021-06-06 / 9:50AM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.888F0BF2CE804C708423B9022D969A2F.MOV
UFOs Sighted Over Bangor, Wales, UK ( May 17, 2021 )
Spinning UFOs were sighted over North Wales, UK on May 17, 2021
STATEMENT : Anyone know what these TWO seperate objects are?? This was in North wales.
credit : Owen BobSan Sandra
note : no audio
UFO Sighted Over Liverpool, England ( June 7, 2021 )
UFO sighted over Liverpool, England on June 7, 2021
STATEMENT : Saw this last night sorry its out of focus till near the end.
credit : Dave Mcgrath
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Just five years ago, who could have predicted that The New York Times would become the main mainstream source of UFO revelations – putting pressure on government officials to reveal what’s in secret files on sightings? Or that three eccentric billionaires would replace both the U.S. and Russia in transporting people, cargo and satellites into space? In 2016, those predictions might have been classified as ‘weird’, yet they happened and we now consider them to be the ‘new’ normal. Now, a new kind of weird has come to the space race that once again involves The New York Times and the three eccentric billionaires, Will we look back in 2026 and change our minds once again?
“Fields of Watermelons Found on Mars, Police Say.”
“Authorities say rise of fruit aliens is to blame for glut of outer space watermelons. The FBI declined to comment on reports of watermelons raining down, but confirmed that kiwis have been intercepted.”
Martian watermelon?
That was the headline and the lede of an online article which appeared on The New York Times website yesterday, June 8. While this was also a day the Internet suffered some massive outages, they were not related to the Martian watermelon announcement in the NYT. The article was written by ‘Joe Schmoe’, an obvious pseudonym, but it still reverberated throughout both the UFO and mainstream media before it was quickly taken down and replaced with the message “This article was published in error.” Was it? A Times spokesperson told The New York Post in an e-mail, “Earlier today, a mock article intended for a testing system was published on our site in error. The article has since been removed.” Will this hurt the credibility of The New York Times in the UFO disclosure movement?
Meanwhile, the website Parabolicarc.com reported that Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic (not to mention other Virgin companies) is working on a plan to make a suborbital flight aboard one of his VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo rocket planes over the July 4 holiday weekend, beating rival Jeff Bezos’ flight in HIS Blue Origins New Shepard spaceship on July 20 by over two weeks. At the time Parabolicarc.com broke the story, its anonymous source said the flight is contingent upon obtaining an operator’s license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). That quickly prompted this response from a Virgin Galactic spokesperson:
“We are in the process of analyzing the data from our successful May 22nd flight. As previously announced, we expect to complete the final test flights this summer through to early fall. At this time, we have not determined the date of our next flight. An objective from the last flight was to collect data to be used for the final two verification reports that are required as part of the current FAA commercial reusable spacecraft operator’s license.”
You need a license? You also need a working spaceship. VSS Unity and its VMS Eve WhiteKnightTwo mothership would have only 44 days to get space ready, less than the 72 days it normally takes. Besides a license and a space-worthy ship, you also need the right altitude. Bezos plans to reach 100 km (62.1 miles), the ‘Karman line’ – the boundary of space recognized by The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the world’s keeper of aviation and space records. The FAA recognizes 50 miles (80.4 km) as the boundary of space. VSS Unity has made three flights above 50 km, but has not yet hit 100 km and there’s some question whether it can reach that height. Finally, VSS Unity and VMS Eve are still in their test phase and are expected to be upgraded before starting commercial lights next year. Would Sir Richard risk his project (and possibly his life) just to win the space billionaire entrepreneur race with Jeff Bezos?
Has Elon Musk weighed in yet? How about Matt Damon? Would a lifetime supply of Martian watermelons be an appropriate billionaire wager?
Located within the Chihuahuan Desert in northeastern Presidio County of far West Texas is the dusty desert city of Marfa. Founded as a water stop in the early 1880s, Marfa sits like an oasis surrounded by sprawling desolate desert, but despite its inhospitable location it has become a sort of center for minimalist art, and is known for its galleries, artisan shops, and historical architecture. Yet the town has become famous for something else as well, and here out in the desert badlands there has long been a mysterious, possibly paranormal light show that has never really been explained.
Marfa, Texas
What have come to be known as the Marfa Lights typically appear as orbs of light about the size of a basketball, that materialize out in the desert wasteland of Mitchell Flat looking towards the Chinati Mountains, to hover, fly, and dance about in the night before vanishing. They come in many colors, including white, yellow, pink, blue, and red, and can be very bright or faint, steadily illuminated or twinkling or flickering. The lights feature a wide range of movement and behaviors, either flying in a straight line or conversely bobbing up and down, darting about erratically, doing aerial acrobatics, accelerating or decelerating, or even merging together into larger orbs or disappearing and reappearing. They sometimes move slowly, at other times hovering stationary, or on other occasions travelling at great speed, often all of the above. One local by the name of James Bunnell has said of the Marfa Lights:
You might just see mysterious orbs of light suddenly appear above desert foliage. These balls of light may remain stationary as they pulse on and off with intensity varying from dim to almost blinding brilliance. Then again, these ghostly lights may dart across the desert or perform splits and mergers. Light colors are usually yellow-orange but other hues, including green, blue and red are also seen. Marfa Mystery Lights usually fly above desert vegetation but below background mesas.
The lights also don’t seem to follow any rhyme or reason to their appearances, emerging at all times of the year and in all kinds of weather, and they have been baffling those who see them for a very long time. Although the Native Americans had long known of the lights, perhaps the first historical record of the Marfa lights by settlers was in 1883, when a rancher named Robert Reed Ellison reported seeing a group of glowing orbs as he drove his cattle through Paisano Pass. He assumed that they were Apache campfires, but no evidence of any fires or campsites could be found the following day. After that, more and more people began reporting the mysterious lights, and over the decades there would be so many sightings that during World War II there was even an air search conducted by pilots from nearby Midland Army Air Field to find the source of the lights, but they came back empty-handed and puzzled. On some occasions there have been reports that the lights seem to show some sort of intelligence, sometimes coming closer as if out of curiosity or seeming to investigate certain areas, or to react to sound, and there are even stories of people lost in the desert being led to safety by the lights. But what are they and where do they come from? That depends a lot on who you ask.
There have been numerous theories as to what the lights may be. One is that they are some sort of atmospheric phenomenon, in particular one called a Fata Morgana, which is an optical illusion that causes far away objects to appear closer and distorted through light passing through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion, in which a defined layer of warm air is resting on a layer of much cooler air. Another idea is that these are the similarly distorted lights car headlights on the nearby Highway 67, made to look fuzzy and wavering by light scattering due to the air being unevenly heated by the ground, but this would not explain why they are most often seen well away from the highway, why they display such erratic and aberrant movements, why they have so many different appearances, or how they would have been seen so much back in 1883. Other ideas include static electricity produced by geological activity, ball lighting, illuminated gases from the natural gas and other petroleum hydrocarbons in the area, and of course alien UFOs and even ghosts, perhaps even all of the above. No one really knows for sure.
In the meantime, Marfa has embraced the lights and sought to turn them into a tourist attraction. There is a roadside parking area nine miles east of Marfa on U.S. Highway 90 specifically built for passing motorists to view the curious phenomenon, complete with a Marfa Lights viewing platform, and there is even an annual Marfa Lights Festival that features live music, food and a parade. What is going on with these lights? What are they? Are they just distant car headlights morphed into something more mysterious by atmospheric phenomena or are at least some of them something stranger? For now the Marfa lights still occasionally come out to do their dance, and no one is entirely sure of what they truly are.
In the last couple of years we’ve seen more and more information coming out of the U.S. government on the matter of UFOs. In fact, it’s practically impossible to avoid the incredible amount of UFO data that has been pouring out lately. But, some may be wondering, when was it that the government really got involved in the matters of UFOs and Flying Saucers? Let’s take a look. It was in the summer of 1947 that the UFO controversy began. On June 24, 1947 a pilot named Kenneth Arnold encountered a squadron of strange-looking, boomerang-like aircraft flying near Mt. Rainier, Washington State. As an experienced pilot, Arnold was puzzled by the fact that he was unable to figure out what, exactly, the craft were. On landing, Arnold shared his story with the media and told them that the objects flew like a saucer skimmed across a body of water – in a kind of up and down motion. In literally only hours, the term “Flying Saucer” was coined. The big irony is that the “Saucer” part came from Arnold’s observation of how the object flew, rather than their shape.
Kenneth Arnold
The U.S. military quickly moved to investigate the case, as well as a wave of quite literally hundreds of additional sightings throughout the remainder of 1947 and into 1948. Thus was born the government’s first UFO program, Project Sign. Interestingly, Project Sign staff concluded that there really was a UFO phenomenon, but they were unable to state with any degree of accuracy what the objects actually were. Theories posited by Sign personnel included Russian craft, and the creations of a secret group within the U.S. Government. Some of the Sign staff favored the extraterrestrial hypothesis. In 1948, Project Sign was replaced with Project Grudge. Just like Sign, Grudge had its personnel who championed the alien angle, while others suggested military aircraft of some kind – and either the product of Uncle Sam or the Soviets. Certainly, the most well-known of all the UFO programs was Project Blue Book.
Let’s see what the government says about all this:
“On December 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force program for the investigation of UFOs. From 1947 to 1969, a total of 12, 618 sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. Of these 701 remain ‘Unidentified.’ The project was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, whose personnel no longer receive, document or investigate UFO reports. The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, ‘Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;’ a review of the University of Colorado’s report by the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 40s, ’50s, and ’60s.”
The Air Force continues: “As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project Blue Book are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as “unidentified” are extraterrestrial vehicles. With the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force regulations establishing and controlling the program for investigating and analyzing UFOs were rescinded. Documentation regarding the former Blue Book investigation has been permanently transferred to the Military Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408, and is available for public review and analysis.””
There is also this from the Air Force: “Since Project Blue Book was closed, nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOS. Because of the considerable cost to the Air Force in the past, and the tight funding of Air Force needs today, there is no likelihood the Air Force will become involved with UFO investigation again. There are a number of universities and professional scientific organizations, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which have considered UFO phenomena during periodic meetings and seminars. In addition, a list of private organizations interested in aerial phenomena may be found in Gale’s Encyclopedia of Associations (edition 8, vol-. 1, pp. 432-433). Such timely review of the situation by private groups ensures that sound evidence will not be overlooked by the scientific community. A person calling the base to report a UFO is advised to contact a private or professional organization (as mentioned above) or to contact a local law enforcement agency if the caller feels his or public safety is endangered.”
And, finally, there is this from the Air Force: “Periodically, it is erroneously stated that the remains of extraterrestrial visitors are or have been stored at Wright-Patterson AFB. There are not now nor ever have been, any extraterrestrial visitors or equipment on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.” This last piece, of course, is a nod to the notorious “Roswell UFO crash” of July 1947, and claims that strange bodies found outside of Roswell were secretly sent to Wright-Patterson for analysis and autopsy. Of course, since the Air Force wrote this summary, there have been a great deal of new developments. No doubt, and particularly in this period of strange uncertainty we’re in right now, it’s highly likely we’ll see far more and more revelations surfacing soon.
Scientists in a Russian lab have brought back to life miniature “zombies” that were frozen about 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) beneath the Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years (in the Alazeya River). These multicellular microscopic creatures, which are called bdelloid rotifers (or wheel animals), have been living in freshwater locations for approximately 50 million years.
Rotifers have miniature hair-like features called a cilia ring that circles its mouth. They have a lorica around their body for protection as well as a foot. Their tiny organs include a brain, eye-spot, jaw, kidneys, stomach, and urinary bladder.
In previous studies, researchers confirmed that rotifers could be frozen at a temperature of minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Celsius) and then brought back to life 10 years after. While that is incredible, the most recent study produced even more jaw-dropping results as the researchers were able to bring back the rotifers that were alive during the Pleistocene Epoch and were frozen for 24,000 years. When these creatures were thawed out, they started reproducing asexually through parthenogenesis and even created genetic duplicate clones.
The rotifers were found in Siberian permafrost.
In an email to Live Science, Stas Malavin, who is a researcher at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Pushchino, Russia, explained their experiment in more detail, “We put a piece of permafrost into a Petri dish filled with [a] suitable medium and wait until organisms that are alive recover from their dormancy, start moving, and multiply.” After they cloned themselves, they were so genetically identical that the researchers could not tell the difference between the new and old ones.
The fact that this creature was resuscitated from a suspended metabolic state (called cryptobiosis) is astonishing but actually quite normal for rotifers as they have evolved to be able to use cryptobiosis because of where they live – the waters could dry up or freeze over. Furthermore, they can restore any DNA that may get harmed and can protect their cells from damaging molecules. The study was published in the journal Current Biology where it can be read in full.
Pictures and a video of the rotifer can be seen here.
Rotifer recovering from week-long cryptobiosis in the lab.
(Image credit: Lyubov Shmakova)
Bdelloid rotifers can enter cryptobiosis to survive extreme conditions such as freezing temperatures and drought. (Image credit: Michael Plewka)
Lateral view of rotifer. (Image credit: Michael Plewka)
Essential Politics: Are we closer to understanding UFOs? What to know about the congressional report
Essential Politics: Are we closer to understanding UFOs? What to know about the congressional report
Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2013.
(Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)
By LAURA BLASEY - MULTIPLATFORM EDITOR, NEWSLETTERS
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In a time where Americans and their leaders agree on almost nothing, who would have thought UFOs would unite us?
The truth is out there and former President Obama, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and even former President Trump are interested.
UFOs were a political and cultural force in midcentury America and the ‘90s. Now, as we await a Pentagon report on the subject, they’re back in vogue, generating segments on “60 Minutes,” making their way into interviews with former presidents and trending across the internet.
Here’s what you need to know, no tin foil hats required.
Why is everyone talking about UFOs right now?
Air and Space Magazine dubbed 2019 “the Year of UFOs,” but it may actually be 2021.
The Pentagon is expected to release a report this month on UFO sightings, the result of a program designed to record and investigate sightings by the U.S. military.
Defense officials and some lawmakers are publicly pushing for the release of information, including Rubio, the highest-ranking Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“We cannot allow the stigma of UFO’s to keep us from seriously investigating this. The forthcoming report is one step in that process, but it will not be the last,” he said in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times.
But we probably wouldn’t be here without former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. Reid is among the loudest voices calling for information on UFOs.
In a bipartisan effort in 2007, he and late Sens.Ted Stevens(R-Alaska) andDaniel Inouye(D-Hawaii) secured $22 million in funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Intelligence officials claimed it was disbanded in 2012, though former employees later told the New York Times thatit was still operationalthrough 2017.
Meanwhile, Reid continues to give interviews about UFOs. “Congress should make this an ongoing program. I don’t think the report is going to tell us too much,” he told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday. “I think they need to study it more and not just have one shot at it.”
What’s in the report?
Passed in December, the Intelligence Authorization Act for the 2021 fiscal year directs the task force to deliver a report to Congress within 180 days on collected reports, with information on how it will analyze and track future sightings. And that report must be unclassified.
But it may not contain the validation some are looking for. While much of the program’s details remain classified as research is conducted, what has emerged indicates a growing military interest in UFOs as a national security threat.
They’re taking UFOs literally — unidentified flying objects that could have come from anywhere, such as another country. In other words, the threats they’re looking for are of the more terrestrial variety.
Still, new details might emerge about the events that have been reported. Military pilots describe erratic movements and lights that seem to defy physics, and aircraft shaped like a “Tic Tac.”
What’s different about 2021?
As with many conspiracy theories, UFO devotees have claimed for decades that government disclosure is imminent. The government has repeatedly dismissed discussion of UFOs.
The Times’ archives and those of other papers are full of officials downplaying reports of sightings. Sincere believers in the extraterrestrial are framed askooky punchlinesacross news, TV and film.
In 1977, NASA denied a request from President Carter — who said he had seen a UFO years earlier — to open a government investigation, calling the idea “wasteful and probably unproductive.”
The denial came after the Air Force shut down an investigative program called Project Blue Book in 1969, saying it uncovered little in two decades at “considerable expense,” according to an Associated Press story.
But there’s something different about this round of UFO mania. Now, it seems, Americans and their elected officials are on the same side (though President Biden has not indicated his stance). And the government has an actual deadline.
It’s also not an unexpected resurgence in public interest: We’re in the midst of a national reckoning with what it means for something to be true, prompting new demand for disclosures about everything from policing to ballot counting.
Belief in conspiracies (many much more dangerous) surged during Trump’s presidency, aided in part by the president. He also introduced a space element, establishing the Space Force and the new task force.
Hollywood and internet culture have also helped resurrect the UFO in public imagination. The “Storm Area 51” meme, which began as a Facebook event page, went viral and ended with about 2,000 people gathering in the Nevada desert in 2019 to joke about “rescuing” aliens and taking pictures.
Friends gather for photos on the perimeter fence at Area 51 near Rachel, Nev., on Sept. 20, 2019.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
What about aliens?
Americans love aliens. Perhaps you grew up watching a galaxy far, far away in “Star Wars” (1977), Sigourney Weaver fighting to survive in Ridley Scott’s “Alien” (1979) or Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” (1982).
Not your speed? Maybe you listened to Blink-182’s “Aliens Exist” (1999) or loved the 1964 cult holiday classic “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” or consider yourself a fan of “The X-Files,” a landmark in the our-government-is-hiding-aliens storytelling tradition.
There’s a story for every interest group and time period, often with a trademark flying saucer and an undercurrent of distrust in authority. But the more information that becomes public, the more it becomes clear that what a UFO is and whether extraterrestrial life exists are two distinct questions.
— Biden traveled to Tulsa, Okla., on Tuesday to mark a shameful and largely forgotten part of American history, calling for racial reconciliation on the 100th anniversary of the violent destruction of the city’s thriving Black community by a white mob, Eli Stokols writes.
— Biden also announced that Vice President Kamala Harris would steer the administration’s efforts to bolster voting rights, a daunting and challenging task that Democrats and voting rights advocates say is urgent, writes Noah Bierman.
— The Supreme Court overturned a rule used by the 9th Circuit Court in California that presumed immigrants seeking asylum were telling the truth unless an immigration judge had made an “explicit” finding that they were not credible, David G. Savage reports.
— The Biden administration dispatched Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken to Costa Rica on Tuesday to take Central American officials to task on corruption in their countries and to examine how they can more efficiently block migration to the U.S. He could face a tough crowd, Tracy Wilkinson writes.
— Texas Democrats pulled off a dramatic last-ditch walkout from the state House of Representatives on Sunday night to block passage of one of the most restrictive voting bills in the U.S. But it could still be resurrected in a special session.
The view from California
— A Northern California county has voted to rename Jim Crow Road after a debate over the racist implications of the name and accusations of “woke cancel culture,” Brittny Mejia reports.
— From Taryn Luna: A historic California task force met for the first time Tuesday with the ultimate goal of recommending reparations for descendants of enslaved people and those affected by slavery.
— Democratic leaders of the California Legislature unveiled a state budget blueprint that would boost public schools and small businesses beyond the proposal made last month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, John Myers reports. It’s a move that is likely to set the stage for friendly but detailed negotiations.
— California lawmakers are considering legislation that would require hospitals, clinics and skilled nursing facilities to pay medical professionals $10,000 in “hero pay” for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic, Melody Gutierrez writes.
Ingenuity snapped a photo of its own shadow during its second flight on April 22.
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There were some tense moments with NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter last month when it went wonky during its sixth flight. But the plucky chopper survived the in-flight anomaly and set itself down safely, setting the stage for a seventh flight.
NASA announced on Friday that it was aiming for no earlier than Sunday, June 6, for the next flight. It takes time to get data and updates from Mars, so we're waiting to hear the details and whether or not Ingenuity took off over the weekend. "Regardless of flight date, data will be returned to Earth over the subsequent three days," the agency said.
While the tech glitch was concerning, the Perseverance rover was able to confirm that Ingenuity landed itself in a safe spot. The next journey will take the rotorcraft to a new location 350 feet (106 meters) away.
The seventh flight will mark the second time the helicopter will set down on a landing site it hasn't previously surveyed from the air. The Ingenuity team is using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter "that suggests this new base of operations is relatively flat and has few surface obstructions."
Ingenuity was designed as an experiment, a technology demonstration. It has proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on another planet and is now in a new phase of operations in which NASA is exploring how it can be used as a scout and assistant for the Perseverance rover.
Ingenuity is already considered a success, and each new flight is a bonus
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station today (June 5) to deliver new solar arrays along with tons of fresh research experiments and NASA supplies as part of the company's 22nd cargo resupply mission.
The uncrewed Dragon autonomously linked up with the orbiting laboratory at 5:09 a.m. EDT (0909 GMT), parking at the zenith, or space-facing, side of the station's Harmony module. Docking occurred approximately 40 hours after the Dragon's launch on a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday (June 3) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the time of docking, both spacecraft were sailing about 258 miles (415 kilometers) over the South Pacific Ocean.
"It was a great approach and was awesome watching it come on in, and we're glad it's here," NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough told flight controllers after docking. "Looking forward to all the science and other goodies that it brought up along with our EVA solar arrays. It's going to be a great few weeks as we get into Dragon and get things out."
The SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station on June 5, 2021 during docking operations to deliver more than 7,300 lbs. (3,311 kg) of supplies to the orbiting laboratory. (Image credit: NASA TV)
SpaceX's Dragon CRS-22 mission is the second upgraded supply ship to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) without the help of astronauts, who typically use the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple incoming cargo vessels and manually attach them to the station. However, two Expedition 65 crewmembers — Kimbrough and fellow NASA astronaut Megan McArthur — did monitor the docking from inside the station's Cupola observatory.
The arrival of this upgraded Dragon CRS-22 cargo spacecraft will bring the total number of SpaceX vehicles to two. A different Crew Dragon spacecraft, which brought four astronauts to the space station in April on the Crew-2 mission, is also currently docked at the Harmony module.
"Hard capture is complete and it's a great day seeing another Dragon on ISS [International Space Station]," spacecraft communicator Leslie Ringo radioed the station crew after docking from NASA's Mission Control in Houston.
The SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station on June 5, 2021 during docking operations to deliver more than 7,300 lbs. (3,311 kg) of supplies to the orbiting laboratory.
(Image credit: NASA TV)
The SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station on June 5, 2021 during docking operations to deliver more than 7,300 lbs. (3,311 kg) of supplies to the orbiting laboratory.
(Image credit: NASA TV)
The SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station on June 5, 2021 during docking operations to deliver more than 7,300 lbs. (3,311 kg) of supplies to the orbiting laboratory.
(Image credit: NASA TV)
This Cargo Dragon is SpaceX's second supply-toting vehicle to autonomously dock itself with the space station. That is a new feature thanks to some redesigns that SpaceX has made to its workhorse Dragon cargo spacecraft. The upgrades allow the vehicle to not only dock with the station (its predecessor was grappled by the station's robotic arm and berthed to the station with the help of astronauts on board) but also increased the craft's cargo capacity by about 20%, enabling more science.
This Dragon will be the second to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean following a month-long stay attached to the ISS. This change allows researchers to receive their precious cargo shipments much faster than before.
On board the Dragon CRS-22 spacecraft is 7,300 lbs. (3,311 kilograms) of supplies and science investigations, including two brand new roll-out solar arrays that will help boost the space station's power supply. Built by RedWire and Boeing, the arrays are the first two in a set of six that will be installed on the station in the coming months.
Dubbed iROSA (ISS Roll-Out Solar Array), the first set of flexible solar panels will be installed this month as part of a series of spacewalks performed by Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet, on June 16 and 20. The design was first tested as part of a technology demonstration on a previous resupply mission.
In addition to the ISS, the solar arrays will be used on future missions, such as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (or DART), which is set to launch on a SpaceX rocket later this year. It will also be used on NASA's planned Lunar Gateway, a part of the agency's Artemis moon program.
The Dragon CRS-22 mission marks the second cargo mission the company has flown under its second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, called CRS-2.
SpaceX signed its first such contract with NASA in 2008, originally agreeing to launch 12 cargo missions to the space station between 2012 and 2016. NASA extended that contract to include a total of 20 Dragon cargo flights, for a total cost of about $700 million in 2015. (Northrop Grumman, formerly known as Orbital ATK, also received a contract to fly NASA cargo on its Cygnus cargo spacecraft.)
According to Montalbano, the cargo Dragon will remain docked with the space station until July. Once Cargo Dragon departs, the Crew Dragon currently docked with the station will switch parking spots, opening up a port on the ISS for an uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch on its OFT-2 test flight to the station on July 30.
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No probe has gotten a good view of Jupiter's largest moon since 2000, when NASA's Galileo spacecraft swung past the strange world, which is the largest moon in the whole solar system. But on Monday (June 7), at 1:35 p.m. EDT (1735 GMT), NASA's Juno spacecraft will skim just 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) above Ganymede's surface, gathering a host of observations as it does so.
"Juno carries a suite of sensitive instruments capable of seeing Ganymede in ways never before possible," principal investigator Scott Bolton, a space scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a NASA statement. "By flying so close, we will bring the exploration of Ganymede into the 21st century."
Ganymede is a fascinating world for scientists. Despite its status as a moon, it's larger than the tiny planet Mercury and is the only moon to sport a magnetic field, a bubble of charged particles dubbed a magnetosphere. Until now, the only spacecraft to get a good look at Ganymede were NASA's twin Voyager probes in 1979 and the Galileo spacecraft, which flew past the moon in 2000.
The massive Jovian moon will be a main target of the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, known as JUICE, which is due to launch next year and arrive in the Jupiter system in 2029. But that's a long time to wait, and Juno, which launched in 2011, carries significantly more powerful technology than the Voyagers and Galileo spacecraft did.
So scientists are thrilled to make use of the Juno opportunity. During the flyby, several of the spacecraft's instruments will observe Ganymede, including three different cameras, radio instruments, the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS), the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instruments and the Microwave Radiometer (MWR).
That last instrument's measurements are particularly intriguing for scientists, who hope to use them to identify the different ingredients in the lighter and darker patches of Ganymede's ice shell.
And among the cameras studying the moon will be, of course, the same JunoCam that has snapped such stunning portraits of the gas giant throughout the mission. However, because the icy moon will appear and fade in just 25 minutes, mission scientists expect the instrument will be able to take only five images of Ganymede during the encounter.
But despite the excitement of the unusual moon flyby, Juno scientists can't lose sight of a milestone coming close on the heels of the Ganymede investigation, when the spacecraft makes another flyby of its usual target, Jupiter itself.
"Literally every second counts," Matt Johnson, Juno mission manager at JPL, said in the same statement. "On Monday, we are going to race past Ganymede at almost 12 miles per second (19 kilometers per second). Less than 24 hours later, we're performing our 33rd science pass of Jupiter — screaming low over the cloud tops, at about 36 miles per second (58 kilometers per second).
That means Juno will zoom by Ganymede at a speed of about 43,200 mph (69,523 kph) and then whip around Jupiter at a whopping 129,600 mph (208,571 kph). But Juno's ready for it, Johnson said.
"It is going to be a wild ride."
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Photos and videos show alleged objects and living things on Mars
Photos and videos show alleged objects and living things on Mars
UFO hunters have found everything from ‘lizards’ to ‘bears’ by combining images of Mars taken by rovers like Perseverance.
It may be touted as humanity’s main cosmic destination but, if UFO hunters are to be believed, Mars is already home to a vast collection of animals.
Some theorists have found everything from ‘crabs’ and ‘lizards’ to ‘bears’ and ‘rabbits’ by combining images of the red planet taken by rovers like Curiosity.
Of course, most experts believe that they are simply rocks of interesting shapes and it is a clever trick of the mind that makes us think that we are seeing creatures.
Last year, several UFO hunters saw a “baby bear” on Mars and claimed that it would be alive, based on its “hair” and the shadows that were seen around its body.
It was identified by YouTube user “Paranormal Crucible” among photos of Gale crater taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover, who alerted the UFO Sightings Daily website.
Site editor Scott C Waring said: “There is a reason NASA puts the photos in black and white. To hide living beings and plants that are of an obvious color ”.
“This creature has real hair as seen from the shadows around its body. That means it is not a statue, but a living creature. “
“Paranormal Crucible” called his find a ‘possible hybrid rodent’ rather than a bear and exaggerated certain characteristics, including a tail, in his video.
He wrote: “The anomaly that was photographed near the gale crater appears to show a small mammal-like creature, possibly a hybrid species of gundi or prairie dog.”
Months earlier, another blogger claimed to have seen “a lizard roaming Mars.”
The claim, published again in UFO Sightings Daily, made some theorists fearful that NASA could be planting life on the planet for scientific testing.
“With the existing water on Mars in small amounts, it is possible to find desert animals roaming around … although it is very rare,” Waring wrote on his site.
While all of these ‘animals’ may be living on Mars according to UFO hunters, scientists have explained that their presence is a trick of the mind called pareidolia.
Seth Shostak , director of the Center for Seti Research, said it is the psychological response to seeing faces and other important, everyday items in a random stimulus.
It is a form of apophenia, which is when people see patterns or connections in random, unconnected data.
Human eyes can detect faces within their environment and help them to recognize friends in a crowd, calculate how fast a car is traveling, and see patterns.
Scientists claim that we also tend to use this ability to ‘enrich our imaginations’ and recognize meaningful shapes, even when they are not there.
“Those who send me [images] are generally quite excited, as they claim that they often look like something you wouldn’t expect to find on the rusty and dusty surface of the red planet,” Shostak said.
On the evening of November 17th of 1986, Japan Airlines flight 1628, a Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft, was en route from Paris to a layover in Anchorage, Alaska on its way to Tokyo. The three-person crew was led by pilot Kenju Terauchi, who would go on to report a seemingly inexplicable encounter in the skies over northern Alaska as they approached the airport in Anchorage.
The story told by Captain Terauchi, potentially corroborated by his First Officer, Takanori Tamefuji, and his flight engineer, Yoshie Tsukuba, would go on to become the stuff of legends. On account of this, anyone with even a moderate interest in the UFO/UAP topic has likely heard of the incident, which became one of the more hotly debated reports of an encounter with unexplained craft in our skies by a commercial airline pilot. The incident has been featured in multiple television programs and docuseries, and touted as one of the most compelling UFO reports in modern history. In addition to the eye-witness testimony given by all three crew members when they were interviewed during the investigation that followed, the FAA eventually provided radar data from the event and transcripts of radio tower chatter with the plane.
Questions about the event quickly arose, however, leading some to wonder if Captain Terauchi had truly witnessed anything extraordinary at all. Unfortunately, much of the FAA information seemed to go missing as the years went by, though various bits and pieces could still be found online. The debunking of UFO reports was already a thriving industry by the mid-80s, and the Japan Airlines flight 1628 incident was subjected to the same skeptical inquiries as all the rest.
However, this month FOIA government records archivist John Greenewald, proprietor of The Black Vault, completed a 17-year quest to acquire the full package of FAA records from that investigation, much of which had purportedly been destroyed. Following an update he published this week, The Debrief pored over this trove of documents to see if any more definitive answers regarding this long-standing case might be uncovered.
WHAT WAS IT THE PILOT CLAIMED TO HAVE SEEN?
You can read much lengthier recountings of the tale online, but we’ll provide the thumbnail version of the story here to get our readers started. On the evening in question, while approaching Anchorage, the crew of JAL1628 (primarily Terauchi) reported seeing two brightly illuminated objects off to the left of their aircraft. After initially ignoring them, assuming it was just random commercial or military traffic in the area, the objects reportedly moved closer to the cargo jet and began pacing alongside it.
At that point, Terauchi radioed the control tower in Anchorage to ask if there was any other traffic in the area. He was told there was not, but the tower did tell the captain that they were picking up other craft in his vicinity, though only intermittently. The pilot was granted permission to undertake a series of course and altitude changes to avoid a possible collision, but the objects continued to track the jet. At their closest approach, Captain Terauchi reported that the plane’s cabin was lit up brightly and the crew could feel heat emanating from them.
The two objects eventually departed, but they were then replaced by a much larger craft that Terauchi would later describe as a “mother ship” trailing behind them. That “chase” continued until shortly before Japan Airlines 1628 was approaching the airfield at Anchorage. The flight then landed safely and without incident.
ISSUES SOON AROSE OVER THE CREW’S REPORTS
Reading through all of the FAA documents, numerous details pop up, some of which appear to support the accounts of the crew members while others provide fuel for skeptics of their accounts. The FAA is traditionally very guarded about discussing anomalous sightings, but they conducted what appears to be a very thorough investigation in this case. Of potential interest is the fact that the government retained and highlighted an article published by Philip J. Klass in the magazine Special Reports in the summer of the following year.
Klass was well known as a skeptic of UFO encounter accounts and studied all of the data seeking mundane explanations as to what had actually happened. True to form, he cited numerous issues with the information that had been supplied and developed alternate explanations for some of the accounts of the crew as well as the data collected by the control tower.
The final determination that Klass reached was that the first two brightly lit objects seen by the crew were most likely bright stars peeking through the sporadic cloud cover and the “mother ship” behind the flight was probably the planet Jupiter. The public affairs officer for the FAA in Alaska seemed more than content to accept Klass’ analysis. He went on record saying that his agency “does not have the resources or the Congressional mandate to investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects.”
CONFUSION ARISES IN INTERVIEWS WITH THE JAPAN AIRLINES 1628 CREW
Some of the initial problems in the fine details of the investigation come with the transcripts of the interviews done with the crew. For example, the interview with Captain Terauchi conducted by Richard Gordon, the manager of the regional Flight Standards District Office, seems fairly coherent. But despite having an interpreter present, the interview appears to have been conducted in English and the Captain’s command of the language seems limited at best. He describes the various lights he saw and the events he remembers, but much of it is garbled. He also describes attempting to take a picture of the objects with his camera.
But the interviewer spends a lot of time asking him about previous UFO sightings he had reported. This was something Klass picked up on, describing Terauchi as a “UFO repeater” because he’d had two previous sightings. Klass describes this as a red flag, implying that, as a believer, Terauchi may have simply seen what he wanted to see. Of course, others might argue that Terauchi was a repeat experiencer and more likely to have such encounters. The captain later provided an extensive set of notes about his experience where he waxed poetic on the subject of UFOs.
Other problems arise with the interviews done with the other two crew members. The interview with First Officer Takanori Tamefuji was similarly done in English despite the presence of an interpreter. Much of it is barely understandable, but he does explain that he couldn’t see much of what was going on to the left of the plane because of his position on the right side of the cockpit. When the objects were directly ahead of the plane he describes them as being “only lights” and he couldn’t say they were distinguishable from stars.
The interview with flight engineer Yoshie Tsukuba is far more concise. The first question from Tsukuba is “may I speak Japanese?” The interpreter handles it from that point on and the record is presented in a quite clear and coherent fashion. He seems to lend at least some credence to the captain’s account, describing two types of “lights” that were not “town lights.” But he also could not make out any sort of craft or structure. They were just lights. That’s quite different from the captain’s descriptions.
THE HARD DATA PAINTS MORE OF THE PICTURE
Perhaps the best piece of data in this collection is the transcription of the radio traffic taking place during the entire event. It covers a period of more than half an hour, starting when Captain Terauchi first reports the unexpected “traffic” in his vicinity and lasting until the plane lands in Anchorage. It includes input from JAL1628, two air traffic controllers in the tower, the local military Regional Operations Command Center ROCC), and two other aircraft that were eventually pulled into the action.
There are several key moments in the transcript that can offer us more insight into what was taking place. At 02:25 (all times UTC) air traffic control tells Japan Airlines 1628 that they have picked up a radar hit five miles behind them and asks if they concur. The captain rejects that, saying the target is nearly straight in front of them. ROCC is asked if they have anything on radar and they say they’re getting some “surge” around the airliner but suspect it might be erroneous. Air traffic control counters that it’s not erroneous and that they are seeing two targets, but shortly after that they indicate that they’ve lost the radar track also. Another air traffic control station in Fairbanks also reports seeing nothing on radar except for the Japan Airlines flight.
This is an important clue because it takes us to the stored radar data provided by the FAA. After the returns were analyzed, the FAA concluded that what the control tower was seeing (and none of the other radar systems saw) was most likely an “uncorrelated primary and beacon target.” This is similar to a phenomenon seen with surface radar systems on naval vessels known as ghost returns. They represent an instance where the radar system’s receiver is “listening” and picks up a signal at an incorrect moment in the reception cycle, making it appear that an actual object is in a different position than it really occupies. Klass picked up on that explanation as well.
Artist’s impression of the large craft which approached Terauchi and his copilot during their flight over Alaska in 1986 (Wikimedia Commons/CC 4.0).
At 02:40, despite nobody else identifying another craft in the area, the tower asks the captain if he would like ROCC to scramble a jet to come look for the other craft. Captain Terauchi immediately responds by saying “negative, negative.” In his notes, Terauchi claims that he “recalled stories” about military planes being deployed to investigate UFOs and flying into danger, so he didn’t want to put them in that sort of a position. Later in the transcript, a United Airlines commercial cargo jet and a military C-130 are both diverted into visual range of Japan Airlines 1628 and report seeing nothing but the Japan Airlines flight in the sky.
CONCLUSION: WAS ANY OF THIS REAL?
This story has been covered so many times on “unexplained” television series and by ufology bloggers that many in ufology circles seem to take it as gospel. And the descriptions of some of these events that they rely on to make the case certainly do lend it the patina of truth. But when you poke too far into the gritty details, some of the flaws in the story become somewhat glaring.
We should not discount Captain Terauchi out of hand simply for having reported multiple incidents or being “a believer.” Many experiencers report multiple sightings. But with that said, other details found in this data should give us pause. Neither of the two crew members confirmed seeing anything except “lights” while the captain described an object with “nozzles.” The crews of two other aircraft saw nothing at all.
Out of four separate radar systems, two produced no returns, one had a momentary glitch that seemed erroneous, and the last one acquired a target briefly (if it wasn’t also a glitch) that simply disappeared. Some may argue that the technology observed in UAP is so advanced it can likely evade radar, and that’s a reasonable point. But if so, wouldn’t it evade all radar rather than just some of them?
Without seeming to throw cold water on anyone’s parade, a detailed examination of this FAA package leaves multiple holes in the story that, at a minimum, should leave us room to acknowledge the arguments being made by skeptics. What the tale of Japan Airlines 1628 boils down to is the eyewitness testimony of a single witness. Multiple other trained observers either saw nothing or reported “lights” that could have been stars or planets. And the type of technical data we all crave as supporting evidence, such as has been offered in some of the Navy encounters we’ve discussed here, is simply not in evidence. The reader is left to decide for themself, but on further analysis, this widely-popularized UFO incident doesn’t appear as strong as popular media would have us believe when subjected to close scrutiny.
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Scythians and other warring cultures and the archaeological remnants of their history are under attack by developers in Ukraine looking to construct new luxury country homes. There are two roadblocks in their quest for unrestricted profiteering. The first comes in the form of 4,000-5,500-year-old burial mounds, almost 100,000 in number and scattered across the countryside, which are only protected by a very thin topsoil.
The stone circle discovered within the Ukrainian burial mound.
“It has a very thin topsoil, literally 10 cm. This is very little and it is causing it to swell, deteriorate, etc. This is why it was decided to investigate it", says Dmitry Teslenko, head of the Dnieper archaeological expedition of the Ukrainian Archaeological Guard Service.
A unique Ukrainian burial mound found during roadwork in the village of Novooleksandrivka.
The second roadblock to the construction project is the nongovernmental preservation group Guardians of the Mounds , founded in 2019 under the aegis of Oleksandr Klykavka, which has become a national movement over the last 20 months. In the village of Novooleksandrivka, 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) south of the town of Dnipro in east-central Ukraine, “excavations of a unique kurgan or burial mound have been underway for more than 1.5 months” reports Archaeology News Network .
These are burial mounds that have attracted grave robbers and archaeologists in equal measure, with a variety of artifacts - which includes combs and dishes, but also heaps of golden jewelry, according to NY Times . The dimensions of the unique kurgan are astounding, 120 x 80 m (393.70 x 262.47 ft.) and 7 m (22.97 ft.) in height! Proper road clearance and construction equipment had to be employed to conduct a field survey of this unimaginable scale, including bulldozers. The excavations have revealed 24 burials from the Bronze Age, Scythians (Iron age), and the Middle Ages.
"Because of their nomadic nature, the people carried only the bare necessities. However, sometimes interesting finds are found: pots, necklaces made of wolf or dog canines. For example, a burial has now been discovered where dog toe bones were lying next to human remains. A triple grave has also been found where the skeleton of a man lay in the middle and the skeletons of a woman and child were pressed against him on each side.", says Teslenko.
"The central part is being explored now. There is a lot of manual work. We also use machinery. But I would like to point out that all the machinery works solely under the supervision of archaeologists. The bulldozer removes several centimetres of the soil layer and if we see that something is wrong, the work stops," says field archaeologist Yaroslav Yaroshenko.
Several historians postulate that the mounds served a purpose that exceeded simple religious rites. Noblemen were sent into the after-life with the luxuries and status they enjoyed when alive, along with “ sacrificed wives, servants and horses ”.
There are other interpretations of the mounds too, keeping in mind the topography of the Ukrainian countryside and land, and the ever-looming threat of Russian invasion. The mounds were perhaps erected as a show of strength and defiance against the enemy , most definitely the Russians, to deter their advance into land that was not theirs.
The Cromlech – A Ukrainian Stonehenge?
The mound was dated to 5,500 years ago, coinciding with the Eneolithic period (the transitional period between the Neolithic and Bronze Age, 2500-2000 BC). In the middle of the mound, the “Dnipro Stonehenge” was found – a series of stone blocks (like megaliths) forming an 18 m (59.06 ft.) diameter circle, called a “cromlech”. According to the archaeologist :
"As for the stone circle, it is worth noting that it had a purely structural function above all. The cromlech is an integral part of a massive complex structure. The structure consisted of a stone circle set vertically. There was a truncated cone on top of the circle. This allowed the ground to be supported and prevented the mound from sprawling outwards. The mounds could then be given other symbolic meanings. For example, one of the most famous cromlechs in the world, Stonehenge, has at various times been interpreted as a druid sanctuary or an astronomical observatory. It is also worth noting that the oldest burials on the Novoalexandrovsky burial mound date to about 3,500 BC. This potentially suggests that the cromlech near the Dnieper is older than Stonehenge."
The stone circle discovered within the Ukrainian burial mound.
The Challenge of Ukrainian Burial Mounds and Accurate Historical Reconstruction
Ukraine is coming to terms with its illustrated past, even while the Russian threat is constantly on the horizon. In this midst, a development of fascinating scientific techniques is turning up a lot of answers about ancient Ukrainian history, including DNA taken from the people within the mounds. It is imperative to preserve this history by studying it first, instead of destroying it for housing.
As it is, these mounds have been repeatedly robbed and stripped bare of their valuables, making the reconstruction of the past even more difficult. These mounds have also been reused, with new bodies being dumped in older structures to cut labor costs and effort, whilst enjoying the splendor of royal burials.
For example, one of the Dnipro mounds “dates to a pre-historic Indo-Iranian culture ”, but contains a coffin from around the 4th century BC. Another addition to this mound is a coffin emblazoned with a red star, probably a local Communist Party leader. A Scythian mound also witnessed a mass burial of deceased World War II soldiers, with the Soviet government building a monument on top.
"The mound's exploration has not yet been completed. The best is yet to come", says Teslenko. "In about a week, we will completely clear the cromlech and the space inside it, allowing the ancient structure to be seen in virtually pristine condition. It's estimated that in just ten days we will reach the most ancient burials inside the stone ring, if the weather permits", Teslenko adds. "Certainly it is a foregone conclusion that the individual buried and protected by the cromlech was highly respected by this society. This is the only way to explain the monumental character of the construction."
Top Image: Excavations of a unique Ukrainian burial mound found during roadwork in the village of Novooleksandrivka.
Anomalous Metallic Object Discovered Inside a 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
Anomalous Metallic Object Discovered Inside a 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
As meteorite dealers, my wife Linda and I have continued supplying meteorites and importing new stock throughout lockdown. On Friday, April 17th 2020, I received a parcel of meteorites I had ordered from a dependable regular source. These were twenty examples of a very well-known and popular common chondrite known as NWA 869. One of them was different and appeared to contain a metallic object inside.
For over twenty years we have been the owners of the UK’s only full-time meteorite dealership, Spacerocks UK. We both have university qualifications in astronomy and have lectured widely at many of the country’s most auspicious institutions. At any one moment we have several thousand meteorites of all types in our inventory. We are therefore completely familiar with their appearance.
The Very Ancient Origins of Meteorites
At this point, it’s worth giving a brief explanation about what meteorites are and where they come from. The solar system (the Sun, planets, asteroids and comets) condensed from a cloud of dust and gas known as the solar nebula around five billion years ago. The first solid objects were millimetric spheres called chondrules. These joined together over a few million years to form increasingly large chunks. Eventually, by collision, these accreted to form planetissimals and finally, around 4.5 billion years ago, the eight large planets and other, smaller bodies that make up the solar system.
Meteors, or shooting stars, are caused when fragments heat up as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere. If they survive to reach the Earth’s surface, they are known as meteorites.
The vast gaps between the orbits of the eight major planets are full of debris left over from these early days. Additionally, a region between Mars and Jupiter holds many thousands of smaller planetary objects known as asteroids. These occasionally collide (more so in the past), launching further rocky and metallic debris into the solar system .
If one of these fragments collides with the Earth on its passage around the Sun, it will heat up to over 6,000 degrees Celsius because of friction with the atmosphere. This is the cause of the familiar shooting stars, or meteors, we may see at night. If a chunk is large enough, it may survive and reach the surface of the Earth. This residual object is known as a meteorite.
Explaining the Types of Meteorite
There are, broadly speaking, three types of meteorite:
1) Chondrites: fragments of the original ancient stones that remain from the beginnings of the solar system. These often contain chondrules, the small spheres mentioned earlier. Chondrites are all around 4.5 billion years old.
2) Achondrites:stony material blasted off the surface of a planet, asteroid or satellite by the impact of another object. Achondrite meteorites have been proven to have originated on many bodies, including Mars, the Moon and asteroids such as Vesta.
3) Irons and stony irons are fragments of the cores of fully-formed small planets that were disrupted during collisions billions of years ago. As the first planets grew in size, heavy elements such as nickel and iron sank to their centers to form metallic cores, like that of the Earth.
Generally speaking, meteorites are named after the place where they fell or were found. That’s why the iron meteorite that made the Arizona Meteor Crater is called Canyon Diablo and that which exploded over Russia in 1947 is known as Sikhote-Alin.
A 1.7kg individual meteorite from the Sikhote Alin meteorite shower (coasrsest octahedrite, class IIAB). This specimen is about 12cm wide. Sikhote Alin meteorite shower fell on 1947 February 12 in the dense forest of eastern Siberia, and over 23 tons of meteoritic material has been recovered.
The meteorite we are discussing here, NWA 869, comes from a large strewn field which was the 869 th such to be discovered in North West Africa: hence its name. Why 869 is so prized by collectors is that most of meteorites from this field are small, complete examples, rather than fragments of larger bodies that exploded as they passed through the atmosphere (see photos).
The majority have an attractive blue-grey fusion crust (melted surfaced) and their shape reflects their attitude as they streaked downwards. This is known as ‘orientation’: a bit like the way spacecraft enter the atmosphere heat-shield first. OK, that’s the technical stuff out of the way!
This NWA 869 meteorite was like nothing the writer had seen before.
(Author supplied)
When I was processing the parcel of newly-arrived 869s, I suddenly noticed a metallic glint from one of them. This isn’t unusual: all chondrites contain nickel-iron and some (see photo) display quite obvious metallic flecks. This was different. In this case, the shiny region could be seen to be a small cylindrical feature around 6 mm (0.2 in) in diameter.
This metallic area was protruding at an angle from a region of glassy fusion crust, which, in places, could be seen to flow away from the object. Another interesting feature is that the cylinder had a small impact crater on its surface, something not uncommonly seen on iron meteorites or, indeed, spacecraft on their return from orbit.
The meteorite and its strange inclusion have been examined both microscopically and spectroscopically by a contact at the University of East Anglia. The preliminary results indicate that the silver cylinder is not composed of any of the usual accessory minerals found in meteorites. Further examination is scheduled.
Spectrograph results for the NWA 869 meteorite.
(Author supplied)
I have no doubt at all that the object embedded in the NWA 869 meteorite was in place as the stone entered the Earth’s atmosphere some time in the past. Since the meteorite itself was formed several hundred millions of years before the planets, it begs the questions: who made it, and where did it originate before becoming part of the solar nebula? A very real possibility might be that the cylinder originated on a planet orbiting a Population 2 star that exploded as a nova several billion years before our solar system formed.
Could this object have been manufactured by beings from an ancient planet?
(Author supplied)
What Could This Discovery Mean?
The oldest stars in the universe are, counterintuitively, called Population 3 stars. The “nuclear furnaces” at the heart of these were the origin of some of the elements “heavier” than hydrogen. As these ancient stars ran out of hydrogen, the larger ones would have shrunk, then exploded, releasing gas, dust and some of these heavier elements into the universe. It was this material that condensed to form Population 2 stars ten to fifteen billion years ago. The larger examples of these also underwent cataclysmic supernovae, generating regions of star formation where Population 1 stars like our Sun – and their associated planets – condensed.
It is now known that planets are very common. So far astronomers have discovered over 4,000! It is probably the case that most Pop 1 stars have planetary systems. Since the oldest of these stars were formed ten billion years ago – twice as long ago as the Sun – it would seem highly likely that life and ultimately civilizations evolved upon those in suitable locations.
Any that ended their lives as supernovae will have scattered all kinds of stellar, planetary and – possibly – archaeological debris into its galaxy. Either we are alone – unique – in the cosmos, or life occurs wherever there is the slightest possibility of it: in which case, we should expect to find alien artifacts within ancient meteorites.
You can find out more about the world of Meteoritics in David’s book, Spacerocks, available from Amazon.
Top image: The author discovered what appears to be a metallic object inside a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite, one of a parcel sourced from NWA 869 in North West Africa. Source: David Bryant / Spacerocks
Over the decades, numerous people in the UFO field have become the subjects of government files. And no, that’s not a case of being paranoid. Dozens upon dozens of well-known people in the UFO scene really have had their lives scrutinized, and all in the name of little green men. Well, not quite. Yes, the files do exist. But, the reasons for why such dossiers have been put together might surprise you. Indeed, most of the people in the subject have been watched because of something far more inflammatory than aliens: politics. Take the most controversial Contactee of all, George Adamski. He claimed to have had meetings out in the wilds of California with peace-loving ETs. He even claimed flights in Flying Saucers. Yeah, right. And, his FBI file runs to hundreds of pages. And I’m not kidding. The FBI, however, wasn’t particularly bothered about Adamski’s claims of extraterrestrial contact. What the Bureau was concerned about , however, was his politics. In the early 1950s, in his usually packed lectures, Adamski said that communism was the way of the future and that Russia could destroy the West, if it chose to. The fact that all of this was influencing the minds of hundreds upon hundreds of gullible people was of deep concern to the FBI. Hence, the reason why the “Adamski file” was opened.
Likewise, fellow Contactee George Van Tassel had a lengthy file opened on him. It ran to 319 pages. Again, the Bureau cared not a bit about Van Tassel’s alleged alien contacts. They were very interested, though, in Van Tassel’s words on American politics, religion, the U.S. government, the economy and more. For years, literally thousands upon thousands of people headed out to Giant Rock, California to hear Van Tassel talk. And the FBI listened carefully. Now, onto George Hunt Williamson. Certainly, he was a well-known figure in the world of the Contactees and the Space Brothers. And, an FBI file was opened on the man. The reason? Nothing to do with aliens. The primary reason why Williamson had a file on him was because he was suspected of smuggling ancient artifacts over the Mexico border and into the United States. Something like that is all but guaranteed to ensure a file will be opened on you. For a while the FBI deeply pondered on whether or not they should get further involved in the pursuit of a potential crime that had occurred outside of its jurisdiction and in another country – Mexico – but finally dropped the matter; rather fortunately, it must be said, for Williamson.
Now, let’s jump forward almost half a century after the antics of the “Three Georges.” Certain people in Ufology laughed and were highly skeptical when, in 2006, I wrote a book called On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, in which I mentioned how a retired British police source told me that, back in the 1990s, the British Police Force’s Special Branch opened files on two UFO researchers in the UK, namely Matthew Williams and Robin Cole. Those same certain people should have kept their mouths firmly shut. The files on Cole and Williams (or, rather, some of the files; others still remain classified to this day) were finally officially released in 2012, showing that Special Branch was indeed watching both men, demonstrating that the data provided to me years ago was accurate. When, in 2012, the documents were declassified, the National Archives prepared the following statement concerning their contents:
“File DEFE 24/1984/1 (p294) contains a 1996 Parliamentary Question from Martin Redmond MP asking on how many occasions MI6 and GCHQ have monitored UFO investigations. This was interpreted to mean ‘have the agencies been keeping watch on UFOlogists.’ A background briefing says ‘neither agency in fact undertakes such activity, though GCHQ cannot rule out the possibility’ they had monitored ‘in other contexts individuals who have made a study of UFOs’. The MP was told the government do not comment on the intelligence and security agencies (p298). File DEFE 24/1987/1 (p262-65) reveals that in 1997 Special Branch took an interest in a UFOlogist who became obsessed with rumours of a secret UFO facility beneath RAF Rudloe Manor in Wiltshire. The base had become known as the British equivalent of the secret US military airbase ‘Area 51’ among conspiracy theorists. An internal note said ‘Special Branch…do not believe he poses a specific threat to security, but they are alert to the risk that others may use him as a conduit for their activities.'”
Well, since the summary failed to note the names of the people in question, I will. They were, of course, Cole and Williams – as I had been told during the course of writing On the Trail of the Saucer Spies. Back in 1997, Robin Cole, of Cheltenham, England – the home to GCHQ (the Government Communications Headquarters) – wrote a fascinating report on the agency’s involvement in the UFO phenomenon. And, for those who may not be aware, GCHQ is the UK equivalent of the US National Security Agency. After Cole’s report was published, he was visited by two representatives of the UK’s Special Branch. And since the pair announced their visit in advance (via a phone-call), Robin had the good sense to clandestinely and quickly set up his tape-recorder in his living-room and taped the entire conversation, much of which revolved around Special Branch’s interest in a UFO researcher and Crop Circle maker named Matthew Williams – who just happens to be the “UFOlogist who became obsessed” with RAF Rudloe Manor, as referenced by National Archives staff above. Special Branch’s concerns that both the UFO controversy and the people that investigate it could be used as tools of manipulation by hostile groups with controversial, political agendas.
Since the 1950s, files have been opened on Ufologists. On every occasion, though, UFOs were shown not to have been the primary cause for concern on the part of government agencies. But, politics, in particular, was. In all likelihood, it still is.
Back in 2006, two locals were assembling their cattle on their property close to Eromanga in the south-western part of Queensland when they found very significant dinosaur bones. And now, 15 years after Robyn and Stuart Mackenzie made the discovery, the Eromanga Natural History Museum has officially announced that the skeleton belonged to the largest dinosaur that ever roamed Australia and is one of the biggest in the entire world.
The dinosaur, which has been named, “Australotitan cooperensis”, is nicknamed “Cooper” because it was found close to the Cooper Creek. This new gigantic sauropod species is said to be one of the top 15 biggest dinosaurs in the world. This long-necked dinosaur lived between 92 and 96 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.
It measured between 5 and 6.5 meters in height (16.4 to 21.3 feet) and between 25 and 30 meters long (82 to 98.4 feet). Additionally, the researchers estimated that it would have weighed between 50 and 70 tonnes. Now that’s massive!
Mrs. Mackenzie, who is a palaeontologist that runs the Eromanga Museum, stated that when she found the first bones belonging to the dinosaur, she had no idea how significant they were, “It wouldn’t have entered our mind that we were about to deal with an animal that was the largest in Australia and one of the largest in the world.”
Dr. Scott Hocknull, who is a vertebrate palaeontologist at the Queensland Museum, described the exceptionally long work they did to finally be able to properly identify this large dinosaur, “It’s taken this long because it’s such a painstaking piece of work, you’ve got to take the bones out of the ground, you’ve got to prepare the fossils, and then you’ve got to study them and compare them against all other species of dinosaurs worldwide,” adding, “This is huge, this is a fantastic beast. Imagine something the size of a basketball court walking around on land.”
Mrs. Mackenzie is optimistic that more significant discoveries like “Cooper” are just waiting to be made. “There’s dozens of sites, there’s dozens of dinosaurs potentially out there that will need preparation and then research after they’ve been dug up,” she noted.
Dr. Hocknull went a step further by saying that there are potentially even larger dinosaurs waiting to be unearthed, “One of the questions that I’m always asking is what ate the plant eaters?” “We know that Australotitan — or Cooper — was a plant eater, so what was marauding around trying to eat these guys? We don’t have any evidence of that just yet.” “That’s exciting because it means that there must be another big story out there.” The study was published in PeerJwhere it can be read in full.
Pictures of the bones and images of what “Cooper” would have looked like can be seen here.
An animated reconstruction of Australotitan cooperensis, better known as Cooper.
( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )
Scott Hocknull and Robyn Mackenzie with Cooper's fossilised humerus, and a model of what it looked like.
( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )
An animation of Cooper standing alongside the dig site and next to the earth mover used to uncover the skeleton.
( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )
Palaeontologist and Eromanga Natural History Museum director Robyn Mackenzie with Cooper's fossilised bones.
( Supplied: Eromanga Natural History Museum )
The animals was so large it is considered a titanosaur, which were previously only discovered in South America.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Obama Offers Thoughts on UFOs, Pentagon Leaked Video Showing UFO Is Authentic, Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, Star Wars and Space Force, Carbon 60 ,and Strange Craft Book
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Connecticut Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada,, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Australia, Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Obama Offers Thoughts on UFOs
Former President Barack Obama has once again offered his thoughts on UFOs, specifically musing about what might occur if it were discovered that aliens were behind the phenomenon. He shared the intriguing insights during an appearance on this week’s edition of the New York Times podcast The Ezra Klein Show. Asked about his previous assertion that he would like to know what UFOs are, Obama replied “absolutely” and the former president was then posed with the rather eyebrow-raising scenario of how his politics might change if it were confirmed that the phenomenon is extraterrestrial in nature.
The former president first explored the parameters of such a hypothetical event, wondering if we would be able to make contact with these ETs. However, Klein opted for perhaps the least fantastic version of such a development, saying “we can’t get in touch. We just know we’re not alone and someone’s been here.”Within that framework, which Obama called “interesting,” he indicated that a proverbial alien disclosure would not change his politics in particular since they are“premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space.”
Obama noted that he would often cite this idea to his staff, explaining that “I’d tell them a statistic that John Holdren, my science adviser, told me, which was that there are more stars in the known universe than there are grains of sand on the planet Earth.” He went on to observe that there are many differences among humans inhabiting the planet right now and expressed the hope “that the knowledge that there were aliens out there would solidify people’s sense that what we have in common is a little more important.”
Perhaps the most tantalizing aspect of Obama’s answer centered around the repercussions of such a revelation, as he noted that“no doubt there would be immediate arguments about like, well, we need to spend a lot more money on weapons systems to defend ourselves.”Additionally, he theorized that “new religions would pop up”and in what may be something of a worrisome, but probably accurate thought, he ultimately mused “who knows what kind of arguments we get into. We’re good at manufacturing arguments for each other.”
Pentagon Confirms Leaked Video Showing “Transmedium” UFO Is Authentic
USS Omaha
The Pentagon has confirmed that newly leaked footage, appearing to show an unidentified aerial object that was filmed as it entered the ocean, was obtained by US Navy personnel and is being examined by the Navy’s UAP Task Force.
The video was obtained by personnel aboard the USS Omaha, a United States Navy Independence-class littoral combat ship, during a 2019 incident that occurred off the California coast.
The footage was posted online on Friday, May 14 by documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell on his Instagram account. Corbell previously released footage at his website in recent weeks depicting a series of pyramid-shaped objects filmed by Navy personnel which the Pentagon subsequently confirmed to be authentic. According to Corbell, the newly released video was filmed from within the Combat Information Center (CIC) of the USS Omaha on July 15, 2019, at approximately 11 PM EST.
The Debrief reached out to the Pentagon about the newly leaked video asking whether it could be confirmed as authentic, and whether it was obtained by Navy personnel aboard the USS Omaha.
“I can confirm that the video was taken by Navy personnel, and that the UAPTF included it in their ongoing examinations,” said Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough in an email response.
Still image from the short video shared by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell on Instagram (Credit: Jeremy Corbell/Extraordinary Beliefs).
The Debrief also inquired as to whether the video was included in reports by the Navy’s UAP Task Force, and whether the object in the video has been classed as “unknown” and possibly representing unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
On May 7, 2019, USS Omaha (LCS-12) departed from its San Diego homeport for sea trials after serving a 10-month Post Shakedown Availability (PSA). The following month on June 20, the Omaha (Crew 212), with Cmdr. David W. Walton Jr. in command, made a short stop to unload ammunition at Bravo Pier, and was subsequently moored at Naval Base San Diego again before returning to sea for the majority of the month of July. The warship returned home again on August 1.
The USS Omaha during these exercises in the summer of 2019, USS Omaha was one of several Navy vessels that observed unusual aerial objects, while operating in a sensitive training range within 100 miles of the California coast. Following the incidents, inquiries from Naval intelligence officers and investigations by the FBI field office in Los Angeles were conducted.
According to a transcript of the video by George Knapp the dialogue from within the USS Omaha Combat Information Center reads:
:05 “Took off, booking’ it.” :21 “Break, OMAHA, PINCKNEY, KIDD, RAFAEL PERALTA possibility to launch helo ASAP”. :28 “If it splashes you get a bearing and range.”:30 “Yes sir.” :32 “… keep going bro [inaudible]”:33 [inaudible] :36 “… it’s windy as f**k out there.” :42 “… got a lotta white water out there. Six foot swells.” :43 “Whoa, it’s getting close.” :50 “We have, uh, 31 knots sustained wind topside, gust of 40 [knots].” :56 “Whoa, it splashed!” :57 “Splashed!” :58 “Mark bearing and range.”
Navy Released photo of a UAP/UFO
In a forthcoming interview with Bill Whitaker for 60 Minutesairing Sunday, Former Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves said that members of his F/A-18 fighter squadron observed unidentified aerial phenomena in restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach almost daily between 2015 and 2017. Graves told Whitaker that he and other Navy pilots had begun to take the presence of the objects for granted on account of their frequent appearances.
Graves told 60 Minutes that he believes the objects are a threat to the security of the United States.
“I am worried, frankly,”
Graves said to Whitaker stating that if tactical aircraft from adversary nations were seen in the same controlled airspace it “would be a massive issue.”
“We’re happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there,” Graves said on account of the fact that the unidentified objects he and other members of his squadron observed don’t resemble any known threatening adversarial technologies.
Researcher Joe Foster tells There is one sighting that took place back in 1970 supposedly involving a nuclear powered aircraft carrier that had a close encounter with a large UFO/UAP that hovered over its flight deck, shutting down all power to the ship. One radioman who was on duty defied orders to stay inside during the event, venturing out to a place where he could observe the craft. After power returned to the ship, the ship returned (I believe to Norfolk, VA) and before arriving the ships skipper got on the closed circuit TV and debriefed the entire several thousand member crew thus conforming the required process. During this time the crew was instructed to not discuss this event at all and that it was in fact classified. Obviously, one crewman (out of several thousand onboard) defied that edict and released his eyewitness information to the general public. Technically, he was in violation of the classification and he could I suppose have been brought up on charges and punished accordingly, but apparently, he was not.
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure
The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in 2013 was both unusual and powerful. The same people should speak before Congress if the truth would be known. It was unusual because the testimony focused on the history of events and evidence pointing toward an extraterrestrial (non-human) intelligence engaging the human race now and in the past. It was powerful because of the transformative impact the testimony had on the sitting committee of six former members of Congress, all of whom held skepticism on the subject matter.
Witnesses included Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, former Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Canada Paul Hellyer, and many former members of the U. S. military such as me who held high security clearances. More information is available at: www.citizenhearing.org
Senator Gavel UFOs Are Disabling Nuclear Weapons.
Former US Senator Mike Gravel (Democrat Alaska) for twelve years pointed out during the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure that many former military officers, like retired Air Force Captain Robert Salas, have seen UFOs and observed them disabling nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union also reports disabling of their ICBMs and attacks on key installations by UFOs. The aliens have done everything within their power to encourage the destruction of nuclear weapons.
“ Gravel said. “What we’re faced with here is, in areas of the media, and the government too, an effort to marginalize and ridicule people who have specific knowledge.”
During a meeting held by UFO advocacy group Paradigm Research, six former congress representatives were paid $20,000 to reveal their thoughts about UFO sightings and extraterrestrial visits. By Ashley Davis,
Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) said, “I believe that the Barack Obama White House is hiding the truth about “extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet.” “It goes right to the White House, and of course, once the White House takes a position, ‘well there’s nothing going on’…it just goes down the chain of command, everyone stands toe,” he said.
“The smoking gun of the whole issue, which is when they saw hovering space craft in Wyoming and South Dakota over the ICBM missile silos that the missiles couldn’t work,” Gravel said. “What we’re faced with here is, in areas of the media, and the government too, an effort to marginalize and ridicule people who have specific knowledge.”
After he was asked about the fact that he was given money to make a speech, Gravel insisted it did not influence his agreement with the testimony.
He also indicated we have back engineered UFOs and built our own space fleet. “This is an opportunity which I’ve taken to focus on this issue for an entire week and the preparation I made in coming to it, for my enrichment that’s very important,” he said.
After he was asked about the fact that he was given money to make a speech, Gravel insisted it did not influence his agreement with the testimony. “This is an opportunity which I’ve taken to focus on this issue for an entire week and the preparation I made in coming to it, for my enrichment that’s very important,” he said. NY Daily News Visitors From Outer Space, Real or Not, Are Focus of Discussion in www.nytimes.com/…/panel-convenes-in-washington-to-discuss-aliens.html NY Daily News
George Filer and Steven Bassett
On the right is Steven Bassett who arranged the excellent Citizens Hearings on Disclosure. I was impressed by all the speakers and the retired Congressmen and Congresswomen. I wish they were still in office, but I will be sending them my weekly files and hope they will pass them on to their friends. The main ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. was converted to look like a Senate hearing room for the five day hearing,. The Hearing Committee included former Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), former Congresswomen Darlene Hooley (D-Ore.), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), and former Congressman Merrill Cook (R-Utah). These intelligent people have seen the evidence by forty experts and know the phenomenon is real.
Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick Praises Testimony at Hearing
I had a pleasant conversation with Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick who told me she was very moved by the testimony of pilots as well as from the other witnesses during the week. She said,
“I’ve heard some of the most intelligent, scientific and universal knowledge on the topic that I didn’t know I was going to witness. Yesterday, we heard from 12 different countries who have hundreds of years of scientific intelligent information on this subject. “It behooves us, as human beings, in what is known as the greatest country in the world, to participate in that discussion. To not act like something exists and then to further act like it’s a joke, we do a disservice to our ancestors, to God and to the people of the world. “I want the world and the universe to continue. And if there is something out there — and I’m not a scientist — there’s a whole lot we don’t know. I think it’s ignorant of any people not to seek out what we need to know to continue the universe. “I was convinced before this morning’s panel that there probably is something out there, and I’m willing to work the rest of my life to see that, if it is, how we can enhance the universe to see that we all have a better quality of life.”
James Courant & Major George Filer
I personally provided Testimony on the Pilot’s Panel with commercial airline pilot James Courant. Both of us had chased. Both of us had chased UFOs and know they are real seeing them visually and on radar. I explained my chasing a UFO over England that appeared as large as the Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland that is a mile long. That our aircrew was debriefed by Prince Phillip for over an hour after dinner. Further that in England a half mile from Stonehenge where the UFO was hovering is a he megalithic structures 5000 years old called a Cursus with the exact outline of the UFO we chased.
UFOs Visited Stonehenge Area for 5000 years
The banks at the terminal ends enclose the Cursus. There are fifty in Europe of various lengths and traditionally it has been thought that the Cursus were used as processional avenues.
It’s possible ancient UFOs landed here and a six foot ditch was dug to indicate it was safe to land here. Additionally the burial mounds next to the Cursus contain the skeletons of humanoids with exceptionally large heads, that appear alien.
Linda Howe, Gerry Hecaltire, Peter Robbins, Peter Davenport
I spoke with all these panel members who had excellent presentations. Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, who recounted eyewitness reports of UFOs hovering motionless and able to change direction more quickly than earthly technologies would seem to allow.
Peter Robbins, a researcher and lecturer, who told about the Rendlesham Forest Incident in the U.K., where U.S. Air Force personnel said they witnessed a UFO.
Gary Heseltine, a former U.K. police detective, who has collected sightings from police officers stated, “I now have over 425 cases involving over 940 British police officers,” Heseltine told the panel. “Over 70 percent of these cases are multiple-witness-officer cases.”
Linda Moulton Howe, a researcher and filmmaker who studies livestock mutilation, brought slides of horses and cattle that had been stripped of flesh and their organs removed surgically, and were left on soft patches of earth without any surrounding tracks. Howe said. “Ranchers have seen the glowing discs put beams down. Ranchers have seen the animals rise,” Thanks to Chris Good. CITIZEN HEARING
Thousands of orbs are witnessed monthly and there are over 1000 reported sightings each a month and interest is growing from the public as websites, Television and radio programs grow in importance.
Gary McKinnon, the English Hacker
Gary McKinnon, the English hacker facing 70 years in U.S. prison for searching Pentagon sites for UFO evidence, Extradition was blocked by UK
McKinnon said he was able to access the US’ Space Command network, where he found evidence of an extra terrestrial mission. “I found a list of officers’ names,” he claims, “under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers’… What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers’ and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t U.S. Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet.”
The hacker claimed there were hackers from Denmark, Italy, China, Germany, Turkey, Thailand… every night for the entire five to seven years I was doing this. McKinnon says the weirdest thing he found was a list of “Non-Terrestrial Officers” and fleet transfers between ships that don’t exist in the U.S. Navy.” –
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated, “I do recognize the seriousness of this case, and the Deputy Prime Minister and I actually raised it with President Obama when he visited. I think the point is that it is not so much about the alleged offence, which everyone knows is a very serious offence, and we can understand why the Americans feel so strongly about it.”
Note – If Mr. McKinnon’s data is correct, it validates the assumption the US Navy may well be operating off-planet via back-engineered ET technology. His data indicates the Navy and probably the Air Force operate a fleet of space craft. Gary McKinnon states, “What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet”
In his interview with the BBC, Gary claimed, “The Disclosure Project” had some very credible people all saying there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered it.”
Blackstar Spaceship
He claimed to have viewed a detailed image of “something not man-made and cigar shaped floating above the northern hemisphere. McKinnon stated the image was 256 megabytes in size, yet that the craft’s details were still distinct in 4-bit color and low resolution
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, told us during the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure held at the National Press Club, “We have a space force in existence and it has been written about extensively.”
We have confirmation from a Senator the US has a Space Force that apparently is designed to fight off alien intruders? Perhaps the Star Wars program was real and ultimately successful?
Reagan’s interest in anti-ballistic missile technology dated back to 1967 when, as governor of California, he paid a visit to physicist Edward Teller at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Reagan reportedly was very taken by Teller’s briefing on directed-energy weapons (DEWs), such as lasers and microwaves. Teller argued that DEWs could potentially defend against an ICBM nuclear attack.
Dr. Edward Teller
According to George Shultz, the Secretary of State during Reagan’s presidency, the meeting with Teller was “the first gleam in Ronald Reagan’s eye of what later became the Strategic Defense Initiative” (Shultz 261
Does our President know about the alien presence? According to Stephen Bassett, Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group, he likely does. Bassett claims that John Podesta one of Obama’s advisors was his transition appointee and is now a newly hired Obama consultant is an acknowledged X-Files buff, who encouraged full disclosure of UFO files at the National Press Club.
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. According to My friend William Tomkins he designed the space ships in the 1970s and they flew in the 1980s. Solar Warden spaceships were already in orbit when President Reagan announced his intent to build the Star Wars as a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from the Soviet Union with a secondary mission against UFOs if needed. Allegedly there’re approx eight cigar-shaped Motherships (each longer than two football fields end-to-end) and 43 small “scout ships. Reagan had seen UFOs on several occasions.
The nickname “Star Wars” was attached to the program for its ability to down UFOs, many of which included lasers, subatomic particle beams, and computer-guided projectiles fired by electromagnetic rail guns—all under the central control of a supercomputer system.” By using these systems, the United States planned to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles and perhaps UFOs while they still flew high above the Earth.
President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev
One interesting point was that President Reagan publicly offered the Star Wars system to the Soviet Union and spoke about the nations of Earth joining to fight extraterrestrial forces. He specifically asked for Soviet help in fighting aliens. Strategic Defense Initiative, It became the most expensive weapons system in history. There have been any leaks indicating a group of nations joined to shoot down UFOs. I know that chasing UFOs the Soviet Union would often join the chase. Gorbachev announces the Soviet Union and other nations of the world would help fight an alien invasion.
Tuesday, June 11, 1985 Reagan’s Diary
Lunch was with 5 top space scientists. It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such we could orbit 300 people.
Later in my office one of the guests Dr. Edward Teller reported on where we are on our Defense research for a way to halt Nuclear missiles. The bad news is that our Congressional advocates of lower defense spending are cutting our research funds at a critical moment that will be very hurtful to the program.
Rail Gun thought to aboard Solar Warden
Reagan’s comment was revealing since the Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and only five were built for space flight. Five times eight is forty, suggesting 260 others could be in space. Reagan was revealing the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit? Thirty years later it likely exists and Russian and American astronauts are in space together. Be careful in believing what the news media tells you.
By the end of SDI, the primary focus of the weapons design group was focused on “land based kinetic energy weapons.” These weapons were essentially guided missile projectiles. At the end of the Strategic Defense Initiative, thirty billion dollars had been invested in the program.
The original Star Wars System as changed according to prime contractor TRW: Working in pairs for stereoscopic viewing, the SMTS is the low earth satellite orbit component of the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS shown here). Its unique capability to track missiles throughout their trajectory allows the system to effectively cue missile defense systems with accurate targeting data.
The satellites developed precise location, velocity and acceleration data on the enemy vehicles. The planned interceptors can engage threats at ranges beyond the capabilities of their associated radars. Using data generated by SMTS, these interceptors can use that excess capability to negate attacking missiles far from friendly forces and population centers. This shoot-look-shoot option reduces interceptor inventory requirements. Early intercepts made possible by SMTS extend the boundaries of the defended area some three to five times.
SMTS can precisely cue ground radars; allowing them to limit operations until a hostile missile is within their range. This reduces the threat from homing anti-radiation missiles — likely players on modern battlefields. The constellation provides global surveillance for ballistic missile launches
Tim Beckley Passes Away
Absolutely awful news, for me and for others who knew him. I just learned that one of my friends in ufology, Timothy Green Beckley, passed away last night. He had serious heart problems for some years now, but still. Perhaps now he can find out what the angels and aliens are all about.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at air fields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft. During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer. From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters, Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public. Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.https://amzn.to/2SK3SIQ
Monthly MUFON Report – for May 2021:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In May 2021 there were 926 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
UNITED STATES 751 ,CANADA 56, UNITED KINGDOM 34, FRANCE,17, AUSTRALIA 17, INDIA 6. PUERTO RICO 4, IRAN 3, SOUTH KOREA, 3. GERMANY 3, SWEDEN 3, and BRAZI 3.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Obama Offers Thoughts on UFOs, Pentagon Leaked Video Showing UFO Is Authentic, Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, Star Wars and Space Force, Carbon 60 ,and Strange Craft Book
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Connecticut Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada,, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Australia, Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Kingman– on April 22, 2021, a shiny disk object was seen traveling north 4.5 miles south of Route 40 on Route 93 near Hackberry Road. Object was moving approx 200 mph.
California Light
Spring Valley on August 19, 2020, at 4:13 am, I went to parking lot at work and noticed an unusual mist cloud vapor appear. I quickly grabbed my iPhone and took a picture of it 800 feet away. Suddenly a glowing disc came out of the glittery mist. There was a glow on top and underneath the 8 feet in diameter solid object. It hovered then decanted 700 feet and flew into the cloud mist.
Connecticut Lights
Fairfield – on April 20 , 2021, a man was outside on his deck and zoomed in with his cell phone video camera and spotted a boomerang shaped object for 75 seconds. Then went inside to play the video footage.. He said that he regularly sees UFO’s.
Note: The apparent object in the video appears to be more triangular shaped. The object appears to be stationary. The lights could be celestial objects. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Florida Object
Modena Beach on May 23, 2021, Object suddenly appeared flew by for a couple minutes and then disappeared.
Idaho Sphere at End of Runway
Coeur d’Alene— at KCOE airport on 6 June 2019, reported by commercial pilot at about 3:45pm, we loaded passengers onto our premier 1 jet on a scheduled 135 charter flight. We taxied out of Resort Aviation Jet Center turning onto the runway, I myself the copilot called out “Paul do you see that down the end of the runway?” He responded “yes”. We both look down the end of the runway and see a spherical looking craft just slightly smaller than a helicopter stationary floating 75 feet in the air.. After 10 seconds of observing I ask the captain “Should I continue the takeoff”? He replied “Yes let’s go”. Upon takeoff, we crossed end of runway I looked down and it was gone.
Illinois Drawing
White Hall – May 27, 2021 – Phone report): A man woke to go to the bathroom and looked out the window and noticed a bright orange object with 6 or 7 lights to the northeast. The man became quite frightened and said: “Don’t hurt me.” At that point the cigar shaped object rose but appeared saucer shaped when it rose. Please call me I have pictures as proof. You can see my truck tracks were I drove into field to take the picture. What that thing did was lay wheat all over the same way without breaking a stem.
White Hall– May 27, 2021 – you can see the circle in the wheat. The wheat is all bent over where it took off and vanished. Also my dog was paralyzed, has dry cough and has no energy. The object was all lit up like a glowing light. I have attached a sketch. . I have been so freaked out and my hair stood up.
Note: This sighting occurred in a rural farmland area. Some of the best UFO sightings seem to occur in remote areas. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Indiana Disk
Mount Vernon– on April 8, 2017, I had noticed an unusually bright “star” like I had seen months before. I noticed it once again in a different spot in the sky. I grabbed my phone and began taking photos. Oddly enough, video wouldn’t work. This is the only photo that showed anything. The photo is lightened..
Maine Disc
York– on July 10, 2020, I oberved object in the sky that did not move for several minutes. Took photo at traffic light and object was not close.
Massachusetts Light
Lynn – on May 29, 2021, it may have been a search light that was above the low lying clouds which were over Boston due to weather. it went in a loop. made no sound. I saw a beam of light projecting up and the movements of the circling craft were quick and a little jumpy? I filmed it for maybe 20 seconds.
Nevada Object
Reno – on May 1, 2021, recently found out that aliens are telepathic so that prompted me to post this. Sighting happened at exact moment I was thinking about a recent news broadcast I saw in Mt . Shasta that said some people think aliens in spacecraft use Lenticular clouds as a portal of sorts. I looked out window and saw a large stationary object y in a Lenticular cloud. It darted in and out of cloud then disappeared into the cloud.
New Jersey Object
Basking ridge – on July 7, 2019, I thought I had lost the photo on my phone but I found the photo last night. It was so strange I thought you may be interested.
Ohio Lights
Mason – on November 12, 2020, on Interstate 71 in Ohio at the Mason Montgomery exit, 6:58 p.m., I saw a disk shape UFO.
Flying from New York to Cincinnati on KE 732 1 saw a UFO just before landing on February 26, 2020, 8:47 PM, the pilot said “four star arrival”
Oregon Lights
Glide– on May 23 2021, I felt such a strong attraction to going hiking that I left work early to get out before the sun set. On the way back from the hike I pulled my car over and aimed into the sun and took a few pictures. I was scrolling through the pictures that looked a lot like lens flare. In a few frames the orb is obstructed by the trees. Three minutes later the orb shows up in panoramic type pictures.
Texas Disk
Fort Worth – on September 5, 2020, all I have is a very short video of it.
Washington Orbs
Auburn, Mt. Rainier, — on May 26, 2021, I spotted three dark stationery objects in the foreground of a Mt. Rainier about 75 miles from my location. I was stopped at a traffic light and grabbed my phone to get a quick photo.
I travelled and then lost sight for a couple of minutes. They remained stationary the entire time I could see the mountain.. The objects were very obvious and extremely dark. I also took a close up of the object appearing directly in front of the mountain which I will share if you would like it.
Note: UFO’s have frequently been photographed over Mt. Rainier, Mt St Helens and Mt. Adams in Washington. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Invermay– on January 10, 2021, triangular shape with a light/dark blue pulsating outline over 300m in length.
Belize Light
Placenia –– on May 3, 202 1was diving about 20 miles offshore and I didn’t see anything and noticed this when reviewing footage. It’s just odd. I have been diving like 10 years and have never seen anything like this. This video is on my YouTube page. My channel is 2divetheworld Robert Schultz. It’s the latest video upload.
Note:The object could be a sea creature, but I am not sure what it would be? Anyone who knows what type of sea creature this could be is welcome to comment. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Canada Lights
Quebec City – on August 20, 1998 before you read this message, you have to know that I’m deadly serious and very intelligent (IQ 140). Actually, in 1988, when I was a kid, the minister of education of Quebec gave me a gold medal in literature. Ok, here is, the most important e-mail of all time because I know how to change the world in an infinite stream of income and no need for taxes anymore The reform (revolution) will allow humanity to access a new level of evolution. We will become a world ruled by love. In 1997, in Quebec city, I saw 3 red lights on a UFO hovering 25 feet above me, my mother and 7 other persons. Ayahuasca told me telepathically that this UFO was there for me.
France Objects
Plaisance du Touch – on June 20, 1979 I observed a phenomenon from our garden as a dark bar object was coming towards us from the horizon. It arrived practically above us, at full speed. The most disturbing was to see two fighters arrive that were chasing this object. It flew far in the horizon and y disappeared in less than two seconds. I was 9 years old at the time and my father who was with me has died.
Germany Orb
write you this today (May 31st, 2021), but I recorded it yesterday. I showed it to some friends and one of them told me it just looks like some plane or bird blurry in the camera. Today I recorded footage of exactly that with the same camera and the same place.
Bird:
Plane:
Flickering light:
The only thing I can come up with for an explanation is a super mighty drone of some sort, but as it seems to have been very high up (at least as high as the clouds but unlikely. To me this is technically a UFO. From the footage I can tell it was moving roughly to the east. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this in Hessen yesterday (May 30th 2021)?
Note: The witness produced some YouTube videos making the argument that the object was probably not a bird, plane or flickering light. I tend to agree him. The object was not close to the lens because it went behind the building. I don’t think that it was meteor because it had no tail. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Sweden Object
Stockholm— on May 31, 2021, I always have an eye in the sky, this is one of the things I caught on cam, this is the whole footage, it flies in different degrees, 45, straight and 30 degrees.
UK/England Orbs
Brighton – on May 30, 2021, sent this email to my local news paper “The Argus” today and was wondering if anyone else has contacted you about the huge fleet of UFO’s hovering over the sea yesterday around 5 PM. I was sat on the beach near Brighton Pier with my girlfriend when she noticed about 14 glowing white objects with auras surrounding them over the sea,.
She said she had been watching them as they moved a long distance away. I first noticed 3 lights in a triangle then I saw the others moving away and were soon out of sight.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 08 - 06 -2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 08 - 06 -2021
UFO Sighted Over Dorking, Surrey, England ( June 6, 2021 )
VIDEO 2 : UFO sighted in Airdrie, Scotland
VIDEO 1 : Dorking, Surrey, England
STATEMENT : No sound or noise thought was a balloon or dead lantern at first but didn't resemble then grabbed my phone that was charging but missed the the closest or best view unfortunately they are well almost silent just the sound of a very low powered vacuum cleaner
credit : Deren van Ristell
VIDEO 2: Airdrie Scotland about 10pm , in the video I'm facing south and the ufo is traveling from West to East South East : June 6, 2021
Multiple UFOs Swarm Plane New Ulm, Minnesota ( June 6, 2021 )
Multiple UFOs Swarm ? Attack ? Survey ? while the Plane swallows a UFO ? : New Ulm, Minnesota : June 6, 2021
credit : Ryan Lohman
UFOs Sighted Over São José dos Campos, Brazil ( June 6, 2021 )
Amazing display of UFOs over São José dos Campos, state of São Paulo in the southeast Brazil. on June 6, 2021
credit : Edi Silva
UFOs Sighted Over Peru ( June 3, 2021 )
Multiple UFOs were sighted over Peru, South America on June 3, 2021 : STATEMENT : Peru
credit : @capr.i_2
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UFO Sighted Over Sydney, Australia ( June 7, 2021 )
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STATEMENT : 35 mins ago in Sydney (where I currently live) - any ideas?
Upcoming June UAP Report will Confirm UFOs are Real but Intel Community disagrees over their Origins
Upcoming June UAP Report will Confirm UFOs are Real but Intel Community disagrees over their Origins
UFOs are "real" and information is coming, says controversial Pentagon whistleblower Luis Elizondo.
Mystery Wire
On June 4, five intelligence sources familiar with the contents of the yet to be released June UAP report prepared for the US Senate Intelligence Committee revealed some of its key findings to major news sites including CNN and New York Times.
The sources said that there was no consensus over the origins of the UFOs in terms of extraterrestrial, Chinese or Russian aerospace technologies, but that their threat to national security made them an important priority for the intelligence community.
Dr. Michael Salla examines what the June UAP report will focus on based on intelligence source leaks, and how this represents a looming deception for which the general public needs to be fully prepared.
This strange unidentified flying sphere was flying across the daytime sky above North Carolina on 5th June 2021.
Witness report:
While working on our catamaran, near the East coast of the US on May 16, 2021, we noticed a strange illuminated ‘spherical’ object hovering over us. I recorded the object with my Galaxy S21 phone taking video and pictures. The footage does not show the detail as well as in person, but you may be able to see there is a dark circle or spot in the center of the object. It seemed to rise above and drop below the clouds in relatively the same spot for hours. We have never seen a UFO before, so I checked online and found similar UFO videos like “Radar confirms UFO swarm around Navy warship ” and ” New Video Raises More UFO Questions Ahead of Pentagon Report Release ” mentioning an increase in ” Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon” sightings and encounters and believe the Navy footage is very similar to the object we witnessed and recorded.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is gearing up to launch its 22nd cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this week, and tucked inside the Dragon cargo capsule will be some interesting organisms.
Bobtail squid and tardigrades, also known as water bears, will be traveling to the orbital outpost to help researchers answer some key questions about spaceflight.
Their ride: a shiny new Falcon 9 rocket, dubbed B1067. If all goes as planned, SpaceX's CRS-2 mission — the 22nd Dragon cargo launch under its Commercial Resupply Service contract with NASA — will blast off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday (June 3) at 1:29 p.m. EDT (1729 GMT).
Baby bobtail squid are pictured swimming in seawater shortly after hatching. (Image credit: Jamie S. Foster/University of Florida)
Squids in space
Baby bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) will be among the various research experiments and cargo scheduled to ship to the ISS. A relative of the cuttlefish, these tiny cephalopods are an interesting organism as they glow in the dark. That's thanks to a specialized organ in their ink sac that lights up at night.
A closeup image of an aquarium bag containing eight of the squid paralarvae.(Image credit: Rachel Ormsby)
Researchers are hopeful that the squids could help shed some light on how microbes in animals react to spaceflight. To that end, NASA is sending newly hatched squid paralarvae (babies) to space to study how the relationship between the squid and a group of symbiotic microbes behaves in microgravity, as part of a research investigation called UMAMI (short for "Understanding of Microgravity on Animal-Microbe Interactions").
Microbes play a significant role in the normal development of animal tissues and in maintaining human health.
"Animals, including humans, rely on our microbes to maintain a healthy digestive and immune system," UMAMI principal investigator Jamie Foster said in a statement. "We do not fully understand how spaceflight alters these beneficial interactions. The UMAMI experiment uses a glow-in-the-dark bobtail squid to address these important issues in animal health."
The experiment is composed of two Fluid Processing Cassettes (FPC) — made by Techshot, an aerospace company out of Indiana that helps facilitate research investigations on the ISS — that will house an experimental group and a control group.
An image of a Fluid Processing Cassette, which will be loaded with small aquarium bags containing the baby bobtail squid. (Image credit: Rachel Ormsby)
A cohort of squid paralarvae will be inoculated with filtered seawater containing a symbiotic microbe called V. fischeri, then incubated for 12 hours. The other cassette will contain squid along with filtered seawater that has not been treated with the microbes.
Once the experiment has run its course, the paralarvae will be euthanized and the samples stored for return to Earth. Scientists are hopeful that the investigation could lead to new ways to preserve astronaut health on long-duration space missions.
It could also lead to a better understanding of the complex interactions between animals and beneficial microbes, and the discovery of new pathways that microbes use to communicate with animal tissues.
A preflight light micrograph of a typical terrestrial tardigrade seen at 40X magnification. (Image credit: Boothby Lab)
Tardigrades, aka water bears, can live in the most extreme environments, making them a fascinating organism to study. Researchers have been able to sequence the tardigrade genome (Hypsibius exemplaris) and have gone one step further, by developing methods of determining how environmental conditions affect gene expression in tardigrades.
As part of an investigation called Cell Science-04, scientists hope to identify which genes are involved in the adaptation and survival of tardigrades in high-stress environments, like microgravity.
"Spaceflight can be a really challenging environment for organisms, including humans, who have evolved to the conditions on Earth," principal investigator Thomas Boothby said in a statement "One of the things we are really keen to do is understand how tardigrades are surviving and reproducing in these environments and whether we can learn anything about the tricks that they are using and adapt them to safeguard astronauts."
The experiment will run for two months on station and the tardigrades will ship to the ISS frozen, and be subsequently thawed after the experiment is activated. A reverse genetic approach was developed for this investigation, which will use RNA interference to directly investigate the role a specific gene plays in tolerating the environment.
Identifying the mechanisms used by tardigrades to protect themselves from environmental stresses could help researchers better protect astronauts.
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With the looming release of a national intelligence report detailing U.S. military encounters with “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or “UAP,” the People’s Republic of China has announced there has been an increase of mysterious and unexplained aircraft in Chinese airspace, with the PLA establishing its own UFO task force to investigate sightings.
Chinese military has its own UFO task force… and it’s been ‘overwhelmed’ by surge in sighting reports
The South China Morning Post reports Chinese analysts “have been overwhelmed in recent years by rapidly mounting sighting reports from a wide range of military and civilian sources” by what the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are calling “unidentified air conditions.”
The PLA’s use of the term “unidentified air conditions” mirrors the Department of Defense’s preferred parlance of “unidentified aerial phenomena,” seemingly a concerted effort to avoid the more stigmatized term “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs.
“The frequent occurrence of unidentified air conditions in recent years … brings severe challenges to air defence security of our country,” said Chen Li of the PLA’s Air Force Early Warning Academy, in a 2019 report cited by SCMP.
The U.S. Director of National Intelligence is set to release a report detailing military encounters with UAP in the coming weeks. According to the New York Times, the report is expected to say that “the vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology.”
Citing unnamed intelligence officials, the Times also reports that some sightings could be attributed to advanced Chinese or Russian military platforms. However, the Pentagon appears to also be baffled by a number of not-easily explainable incidents. In some cases, objects are said to demonstrate extreme acceleration, changes in direction, and the ability to operate underwater, which do not comport with any known technologies.
Heading up the current efforts to examine these UAP is the Pentagon’s “UAP Task Force,” which was officially announced in mid-August of 2020.
Recent reports by Chinese press say the PLA equally has its own UFO task force dedicated to investigating mysterious airborne encounters over Chinese airspace. According to SCMP, China’s “unidentified air conditions” task force has been turning to Artificial Intelligence to help get to the bottom of recent UFO sightings.
“One advantage of AI is that it can ‘think outside the box’ – checking crumbs of information scattered across many datasets created at different times and locations, and drawing links unseen by human eyes – to help determine whether sightings were caused by a hostile country, amateur aviation enthusiasts, nature, or ‘other reasons,’” Li told SCMP.
China has had its fair share of reported UFO sightings. According to Chinese state media, in 2010, Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan airport was shut down, and flights were diverted, due to an object hovering above the runway. Airport officials told reporters that the object was seen around 8:00 PM local time.
“We’ve received orders to shut down the airport until the sky is cleared,” a representative for the airport said. The object eventually disappeared and the airport resumed operations around 10:00 PM. Locals reported seeing a round glowing object that resembled a comet. Further information regarding this case is unavailable.
SCMP reports the PLA’s UFO task force has a multi-tier reporting system to handle unknown aerial sightings.
The first tier reportedly consists of military radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, weather stations, and Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories, gathering as much data as possible on UFO or UAP events. This raw data is said to then be processed by the PLA’s regional military commands to conduct a preliminary analysis, before transferring data on to a national database.
From there, PLA headquarters assigns a “threat index” to sightings based on the observed behaviours, frequencies, aerodynamic design, radioactivity, possible make and materials, along with any pertinent information.
China’s “threat indexing” is said to be aided by AI programs to help examine patterns that may not be easily identifiable to researchers and determine an object’s purpose.
Chinese researchers say that some unusual and unexplained sightings near the South China Sea and “other sensitive waters near China” could be the results of increased U.S. military activities.
While China may be interested in the UFO phenomenon, neighboring Japan has also become more involved in tracking unknown aerial objects in the Pacific. Last September, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono instructed Japanese military personnel on what to do if they spot UFOs that could potentially pose a threat to national security.
Meeting with then U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in Guam, the two leaders agreed that Japan would be a strong ally in monitoring the South Pacific for incursions by unknown aerial objects. Earlier that year, in April, Japan began changing its guidelines surrounding how its military personnel would report sightings of unidentified objects.
Kono personally admitted that he did not believe that these objects were of otherworldly origin, and it has led to speculation that China itself may be a perpetrator of several of these UAP-related incidents.
With many officials and members of the public in the United States and Japan believing that advanced Chinese drones are swarming around American military targets, it is humorous that China points the finger at U.S. technology as being the cause of their own UFO sighting events. No one seems to be saying that it’s aliens.
Follow and connect with authors Tim McMillan and MJ Banias on Twitter:@LtTimMcMillanand @mjbanias
There is perhaps no name more associated with UFO disclosure in 2021 than Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and current whistleblower who is anxiously awaiting the National Intelligence report on what the government knows about “unidentified aerial phenomena.” Unfortunately, Elizondo already knows enough to be concerned that the report will be watered down and not contain the “truth.” If that’s the case, he has recently announced he wants to become the second-most-well-known UFO politician besides former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (sorry Marco Rubio) and run for office himself to do what Reid and others couldn’t – release the full and unredacted X-Files.
Luis Elizondo is a UFO whistleblower who claimed to have headed up a secret UFO study inside the Pentagon.
“If the Pentagon’s Public Affairs officers, and those who give them orders, continue to obfuscate and mislead the American people about the reality of UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, a k a UFOs] and what our government knows about them, I may have no choice but to put my boots back on and run for Congress. If that’s what it takes to get the truth out, that’s what I’ll do.”
Luis Elizondo
It wouldn’t be unusual for Luis Elizondo to put his boots on since he’s rarely seen without them, but the announcement that he would run for Congress, which he made in an interview with The Black Vault, is a first. Elizondo is upset that the emails and attachments – schedules, calendars, transcripts, etc. – from his time at the Pentagon were confirmed to have been destroyed. That revelation may have turned Elizondo into an angry political Incredible Hulk, as he warns in the interview.
“If I get a seat [in Congress], I will make sure [there is] total transparency on everything, not just UAPs, but all the other crap that I know that goes on behind these closed doors. I can assure you that there are elements in the Pentagon right now that do not want a cat like me sitting in Congress.”
If the report is as weak as he expects it to be, Elizondo describes it as an “intelligence failure” as major as 9/11. He bases this assessment partly on the fact that the 9/11 Commission Report took three years, while the UFO report was completed in 180 days. That means it won’t contain what Elizondo has been saying to anyone who will listen — that “someone, from somewhere, [is] displaying beyond next-generation technology … in our controlled airspace.” In was sounds like a campaign speech, he tells The Black Vault that if he were elected, he would force Congress and the Pentagon to disclose:
“Everything that can be safely disclosed without harming our national security. Our tax dollars have paid for answers. It’s about time the American people start to get them.”
Spoken like a true politician. Is Harry Reid his campaign manager?
Harry Reid
Would you vote for Luis Elizondo? Does he have a chance of winning? Is the presence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in our airspace really the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11? Is a promise of disclosure – both of UAPs and other secrets — enough to get him elected?
When it comes to the present fascination for UFOs – whether on the part of the public or the media – there are two words that surface on most occasions. Those words are “the government.” That the government doesn’t think the UFOs seen on CNN, 60 Minutes and countless other media outlets are extraterrestrial. But, the government can’t be sure. That the government is concerned about Russian and Chinese technology. That the government is no more in the picture than we are. And so on and so on. Here’s the important part of all this, though: just because we have various spokespeople in government keeping us up to date on what’s going on right now, doesn’t mean the government knows everything. That may sound odd, but it’s true. For example, as UFO sightings reached epidemic proportions across the USA in the summer of 1947, the military swung into action, and various studies and operations were formulated that ultimately unified into an official, investigative operation known as Project Sign. That project would, in 1948, make way for Project Grudge; and, finally, Project Blue Book, which continued until 1969. Collectively, the three projects concluded that no UFO sighting investigated officially had ever had a bearing on national security, and there was no evidence to indicate that any UFO sightings represented alien visitations.
It’s a little known fact that when the Air Force began its UFO investigations in the late 1940s, it quietly farmed out some of the work to companies that had preexisting, working relationships with the military. As the now-declassified files of Project Grudge show, one program in particular was quietly handed over to the Weather Bureau. The Air Force wanted the bureau’s staff to find out all that it could on a mysterious, rare, weather-based phenomenon. It is known as ball lightning. As for what, exactly, ball lightning is, there’s this from the EarthSky website: “The orbs are typically about the size of a grapefruit, moving slowly over the ground. They have been seen during electrical storms, hence the early theories that they were simply a different form of lightning. They usually disappear after 10 seconds, quietly, but sometimes a bang sound can be heard. They have even been observed to pass through closed windows!” Most people in the program knew nothing of the ball lighting off-shoot. And they were government. That’s an important issue.
If you bring up the matter of ball lightning with most UFO researchers, they will likely roll their eyes and dismiss the whole thing with a swift wave of a hand or two. The possibility that some UFO sightings might actually be the result of encounters with nothing weirder than ball lightning causes Flying Saucer seekers to fume, rage and stomp around. And blood-pressure quickly reaches dangerous levels. Believe me, I’ve seen it all. And it’s not a pretty sight. I remember seeing Stan Friedman once getting all bent out of shape when the words “ball” and “lightning” popped up together. Even in the UFO field, it’s not well known that the U.S. military tried to weaponize ball lightning. The story can be found in the pages of Survey of Kugelblitz Theories for Electromagnetic Incendiaries. It was the brainchild of W.B. Lyttle and C.E. Wilson. At the time, they were in the employ of Melpar, Inc., which is described as “an American government contractor in the 20th century Cold War period. At a time when most employment in Washington, D.C. was directly by the U.S. federal government, Melpar became an early private sector contracting company training a high technology workforce in the area.”
Lyttle and Wilson were assigned to the Edgewood Arsenal, and to what was intriguingly titled as a “New Concepts Division / Special Projects” operation. At the beginning of their 92-pages-long report, the two wrote: “The purpose of this study was to review the theory and experimental data on ball lightning, to compare the existing theory and experimental data to determine whether ball lightning is a high or low energy phenomenon, and if it is a high energy phenomenon define an effective theoretical and experimental program to develop a potential incendiary weapon.” It’s a fact that the work done by Lyttle and Wilson – which had an undeniable UFO tinge attached to it – could have provoked sightings of what witnesses might have assumed were UFOs. Notably, in the 1960s, the work of Lyttle and Wilson was carefully kept away from the Project Blue Book program, even though both Blue Book and the Lyttle and Wilson team were government.
Also on the matter of the government and UFOs – and what it knows and what it doesn’t know – there’s the matter of the Collins Elite. That’s the nickname of an organization (with a real, still-classified title that remains hidden) funded by certain elements of the U.S. government to investigate the UFO phenomenon from a demonic and satanic perspective. What the Hell?! I first got onto the story back in 2007 and exposed it in 2010, in my Final Events book. For years, people scoffed at the idea there could be a group, deep within government, studying the possibility that the alien Greys of Ufology are the minions of Satan. Personally, I don’t think the UFO phenomenon is demonic, but I decided to write the book when I realized that such a group really did exist. In other words, the story was a fascinating one to share with people interested in UFOs. But, here’s the most relevant part of the whole thing: almost everyone within the government knew next to nothing about the Collins Elite. Most of them still don’t know of it. Or, more accurately, they have been denied access to it. Just a few years ago Senator Harry Reid revealed (to a small degree) the existence of the group and confirmed that its work revolved around the “aliens are really demons” angle. The group still remains to be fully exposed. And, even if you work for the U.S. government, you probably haven’t got clearance to know the lowdown of the Collins Elite.
As the material above shows, “the government” doesn’t know everything. Agency 1 doesn’t always share its data with Agency 2. And, that may be the case right now: while most people in government are baffled by the same footage that we’ve all been seeing recently, there could very well be other agencies (or, far more likely, small, well-hidden think-tanks like the Collins Elite) that know exactly what is going on.
The US government has provided insiders an advance look at their “bombshell” report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
Here is my summation of their findings:
There’s stuff happening in the skies around military operations and it’s not us, but it could be the Chinese or Russians. We don’t think it’s aliens, but honestly we have no evidence one way or another. We just have a bunch of unexplained sightings, some by very experienced military pilots, and confirmation with high tech military instrumentation. We have no idea what it means.
Thanks. Very helpful. We do appreciate that fact that you are owning up to your ignorance. That’s a level of honesty we don’t usually get from the military.
So, where do we go from here? Clearly, the Pentagon will need billions of dollars to study this issue. General Dynamics salespeople are probably reading every UFO book they can get their hands on, to prepare the project bids. That work will also be farmed out to the other usual suspects- Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. The entire investigation will be kept top secret. It will take years of work by thousands of consultants and we will end up having to beg for public updates.
Meanwhile, even outside of the military industrial complex folks are battling for position. Understandably, the scientists who have devoted their careers to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) are not thrilled by the attention UAP have been receiving. SETI scientists have good reason to be concerned. If we become obsessed with UAP investigations, perhaps we won’t care anymore about SETI research? I agree that would be stupid. SETI research is important and it should continue to grow. But to ignore the UAP situation seems like a bad idea. The folks who say they believe UAP are natural or man-made don’t provide any evidence. And quite frankly, that’s just as dumb as the folks who claim UAP must be alien visitation, without any evidence.
I’ll be honest- I didn’t give a crap about UAP or UFOs until the New York Times articles on the subject came out in 2017. Luis Elizondo and his TV show, Unidentified, also grabbed my attention. Those reports contained the first evidence of UFO activity that seemed credible. Now I’m caught up in it like everyone else.
I have a simple suggestion for how to proceed: support science. We’ve been developing our scientific chops for hundreds of years now. Let’s keep on. We need a scientific study of UAP carried out by civilian scientists. Hell, NASA is even considering the subject. Bill Nelson recently spoke out about the subject and NASA has generously suggested that scientists working on NASA projects could consider UAP research. Not a very bold statement, but a nice first step. You have to remember- NASA is scared to death that politicians will turn their research into political fodder. Given their past experiences and our current political nightmare, that’s a realistic concern.
But we can’t turn our attention away from the amazing scientific work that is being conducted currently. Astrophysicists and astronomers are discovering new things about our universe in almost daily revelations. The discovery and confirmation of hundreds of exoplanets and an actual image of a black hole are just two of the revelations. We live in extraordinary times and that is due to the work of thousands and thousands of scientists, each working together, and arguing with each other, in pursuit of knowledge. Particle physics research continues to find new ways to baffle us. They are trying to answer mysteries such as the nature of dark matter and the inner workings of quantum mechanics.
We need to support those scientists. We need to give them adequate funding and we need to better educate ourselves so we can share in their excitement when the next finding comes out. We also need to be educated enough to understand that findings may contradict each other. Some research may have weaknesses, leading to a debate. That debate is not a failure of science- it is science in action.
We need to better support SETI research. It is a partner in our human space exploration. You may say- why study far off star systems when the aliens may be here on Earth? For the sake of argument, let’s say alien technology is here on Earth – doesn’t that mean we need to know even more about where it came from and how aliens are communicating? Even if the aliens sit down and hold a news conference at the United Nations, we are going to want to have a better look at the universe around us and collect our own data.
I know we have many serious challenges here on Earth. Climate change, nuclear proliferation, cybercrime, and biological hazards threaten to undo our human civilization. We need to pour resources into those issues – serious monetary, scientific, and industrial resources. But we also need to continue the exploration of the universe. We need to know how the material world is organized and what it encompasses.
So, where do we go from here? Support science. Support open inquiry. Continue to debunk conspiracy theories and falsehoods. Have an honest and open conversation about what we find. Don’t allow politicians and other leaders to turn these inquiries into political weapons. They will do that anyway, but we can call them out when they do, and punish them for such cheap maneuvers.
Support science. Support the incredible NASA missions underway as we speak. Humans have multiple vehicles driving around Mars, conducting research, as we speak. That’s pretty damn cool. And just wait until the James Webb space telescope is operational. These are just a few of things it will be investigating. Support scientists and keep an open mind. There is so much we don’t know. Let’s just add UAP to the list and keep on with the good work.
For more about these issues check out my book- “The Extraterrestrial Big Hello: A Guide for What to do When the Aliens Introduce Themselves.” It is available on Amazon worldwide.
Jeff Bezos gaat in juli zelf mee de ruimte in op eerste passagiersruimtevlucht van zijn bedrijf Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos, de rijkste mens op aarde, gaat volgende maand de ruimte in. De oprichter van Amazon heeft ook een eigen commercieel ruimtevaartbedrijf, Blue Origin, dat op 20 juli voor het eerst toeristen naar de ruimte wil brengen. En Bezos heeft maandag bekendgemaakt dat hij en zijn broer Mark dan meegaan aan boord.
Het ruimtevaartuig waarmee de toeristen naar de ruimte zullen worden gebracht, heet New Shepard. De draagraket zal verticaal opstijgen en op 75 km hoogte de bijhorende capsule uitzetten. Die klimt vervolgens naar een hoogte van ruim 100 kilometer. Daar zijn de passagiers enkele minuten gewichtloos en zien ze de kromming van de aarde. Daarna zakt het vaartuig terug de dampkring in om weer op aarde te landen. De capsule gaat niet hoog en niet snel genoeg om in een baan rond de aarde te komen.
Blue Origin had de plannen voor de eerste vlucht in mei naar buiten gebracht. Het was toen echter nog niet geweten dat Jeff Bezos zélf ook mee zou gaan. Hij maakte het nieuws vandaag bekend op Instagram. “Al sinds ik vijf jaar oud was, droom ik ervan om naar de ruimte te reizen”, schrijft Bezos bij een video waarin hij en zijn broer aan het woord komen. “Op 20 juli ga ik die reis maken met mijn broer. Het grootste avontuur, met mijn beste vriend.”
Een van de plekken aan boord wordt overigens geveild. Tot nu toe hebben bijna 6.000 mensen uit 143 landen een bod uitgebracht. Volgens Blue Origin staat het hoogste bod inmiddels op ongeveer 2,8 miljoen dollar, omgerekend 2,3 miljoen euro. De veiling loopt nog tot 12 juni.
Concurrentie
Concurrent SpaceX van zakenman Elon Musk brengt op dit moment al professionele astronauten naar het ruimtestation ISS. Later dit jaar wil hij een paar burgers een kans geven om naar de ruimte te gaan. In 2023 wil Musk ook een schatrijke Japanse zakenman een rondje rond de maan laten vliegen.
Astronauten eten over paar jaar misschien kweekvlees: stukje spier van koe genoeg om ongeveer 80.000 hamburgers te maken
De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA laat uitzoeken of het mogelijk is om buiten de aarde vlees te kweken, zodat ontdekkingsreizigers op andere hemellichamen, zoals de maan en Mars, zelf hun eigen voedsel kunnen maken.
Als dat lukt, hoeven er veel minder voorraden vanaf de aarde te worden ingevlogen. Astronautenvoedsel wordt over een paar jaar dus misschien iets meer haute cuisine.
Bij kweekvlees wordt een cel van een dier gebruikt om uit te groeien tot een lap vlees, zonder dat daar een heel dier voor hoeft te worden gefokt, gevoed en geslacht. Koeien kunnen bijvoorbeeld op Mars nergens grazen en bovendien is niet bekend hoe een koe zich voelt bij gewichtloosheid.
"Het fokken van grote dieren voor voedsel in de ruimte is ondenkbaar", aldus de ESA. Volgens de organisatie is een halve gram spierweefsel van een koe genoeg om ongeveer 80.000 hamburgers te maken.
Aarde
Ook op aarde kunnen de ontwikkelingen helpen om genoeg voedsel te produceren voor de groeiende wereldbevolking. De wereld telt nu bijna 8 miljard bewoners. De verwachting is dat er tegen het einde van de eeuw bijna 11 miljard mensen op aarde zijn.
Als er genoeg dieren moeten worden gefokt om al die monden te voeden, leidt dat tot extra waterverbruik, vervuiling en ontbossing, maar het vergroot ook de kans op nieuwe virusuitbraken en pandemieën, aldus de ESA.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 07 - 06 -2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 07 - 06 -2021
UFO Sighted Over UK From Plane ( May 28, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Long rectangular UFO sighting I saw this when I was flying above the cloud on a plane.
What is it? Does anyone know?!? I filmed this in the 28th May 2021, and it’s capture in the UK. And it is above land and not water, 15-20 minutes into the flight “including take off” from Heathrow airport.
Strange Object Sighted Over Germany ( June 6, 2021 )
This UFO was sighted over Germany on June 6, 2021
STATEMENT: what a weird thing UFO
credit : Gabriel Garrote Gens : June 6, 2021
VIDEO 2 : We see a strange sphere of light in the sky Recorded by chance In the video of a girl credit : Ashanti Falcon : May 30, 2021 VIDEO 3 : credit : วสันต์ ใจคนอง : April 24, 2020 VIDEO 4 : credit : Sylke Rent A Car June 5, 2021 VIDEO 5 : Never seen this before wow look what they got for our youths credit : Marie Mckinstry : April 13, 2021 VIDEO 6 : The cat looks ? VIDEO 7 : They're out there even though we don't see them VIDEO 8 : no offense please VIDEO 9 : WARNING : ( CGI
UFO Sighted Over Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil ( June 6, 2021 )
STATEMENT :hoje 06/06/2021 por volta das 17h40 apareceu isso no céu. Alguém sabe o que seria? Atibaia - SP TRANSLATE :today 06/06/2021 around 17 this appeared in the sky. Anyone know what it would be? Atibaia - SP
credit :Mari Barbaroto
UFOs Sighted Over Bogotá, Colombia ( June 6, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Bogotá, Colombia... 1:00 am aproximadamente. A parte de la tormenta eléctrica (que aparentemente es eso) se notan movimientos extraños y luces TRANSLATE :Bogota, Colombia... approximately 1:00 am. Part of the electric storm (which apparently is that) you can notice strange movements and lights
credit : Daniel Martinez Castro
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UFO Sighted Over Morro do Anhangava, Brazil ( June 6, 2021 )
Impressive Sighting of a UFO in the Municipality of Four Barras / Paraná, in Pico do Anhangava, Brazil on June 6, 2021 , in the morning.
Credit : Bettina Bortolini and Romulo Leiva
UFO Sighted Over Lea Bridge, London ( June 1, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Lea Bridge Road. A major through route in east London
STATEMENT : Mysterious object hovering over Lea Bridge London
STATEMENT : THIS IS NOT A PLANE, I LOOKED IN BINOCULARS / AGAIN UFO IN GERMANY 05/09/2021? He has absolutely no airplane speed and again different lights, but they are not visible
UFOs Sighted Over Bochnia, Poland ( May 16, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Unidentified objects in the shape of a sphere over Bochnia. They seemed to turn. No sound. I think they were huge. They appeared out of nowhere, they flew singly and in groups of several. Recently they released starlinks. I often see UFOs simultaneously after releasing starlinks. Weird. I haven't seen anything like this during the day. It was really amazing live. Like something from another world. And I was able to record.
ORIGINAL : Niezidentyfikowane obiekty w kształcie kuli nad Bochnia. Zdawały się obracać. Zero dźwięku. Wydaje mi się, że były ogromne. Pojawiały się znikąd, Leciały pojedynczo i w szykach po kilka. Ostatnio puścili starlinki. Czesto widuje ufo jednocześnie po puszczeniu starlinkow. Dziwne. W dzień jeszcze czegoś takiego nie widziałam. Na żywo było to niesamowite serio. Jak coś z innego świata. I udało mi się nagrać.
credit : Magdalena Kurdziel
UFO Sighted Over Broadstairs, England ( May 27, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Saw this in the sky in Broadstairs in Kent on 27th May 2021. Mysterious black cylinder ?
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Illuminated Spherical UFO Spotted Over North Carolina's Coastline.. May 16, 2021
The witnesses states the following"While working on our catamaran, near the East coast of the US on May 16, 2021, we noticed a strange illuminated 'spherical' object hovering over us. I recorded the object with my Galaxy S21 phone taking video and pictures. The footage does not show the detail as well as in person, but you may be able to see there is a dark circle or spot in the center of the object. It seemed to rise above and drop below the clouds in relatively the same spot for hours. We have never seen a UFO before."
Thanks to Sailing_And_Fun for allowing me the use of their footage and to view the original https://youtu.be/d7D9kLgLedo
MUFON CASE : 116081 San Antonio, Texas ( June 6, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : 30-40 orange orbs Long Description of Sighting Report
I heard a buzzing sound coming from the front of the apartments. I went out front and noticed what I thought were Chinese lanterns 30-40. Held onto the video for quite sometime. Then started seeing other videos pop up very similar like mine. The orbs seem to fly in a pattern and some even combine then separate which I thought was pretty odd.
Date Submitted :2021-06-06 Date of Event :2018-11-15 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.A8F228CBA01E4B9687D38058DFDD74F4.MOV
Sphere UFO Over Boat At North Carolina Beach, June 5, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Sphere UFO Over Boat At North Carolina Beach, June 5, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 5, 2021
Location of sighting: North Carolina Beach, USA
As a couple were recording a boating video for their Youtube channel, they noticed a glowing sphere passing above them. The glowing sphere is similar to the UFOs seen in both New York and in Colorado in the past. The object is easily seen against the bright blue sky and seems to move slowly in front of the clouds. Yes I said in front of...I watched the video in slow motion and came to the conclusion that the object is below the clouds, not behind them. This is 100% proof that aliens exist and sometimes...they are flying over us for hours without anyone even noticing them.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
While working on our catamaran, near the East coast of the US on May 16, 2021, we noticed a strange illuminated 'spherical' object hovering over us. I recorded the object with my Galaxy S21 phone taking video and pictures. The footage does not show the detail as well as in person, but you may be able to see there is a dark circle or spot in the center of the object. It seemed to rise above and drop below the clouds in relatively the same spot for hours.
UFO During Sunset Over Texas, May 29, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO During Sunset Over Texas, May 29, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 29, 2021 Location of sighting: Frisco, Texas, USA
The eyewitness was driving along when he noticed a strange glowing disk shape in the sky during sunset. As I have said before, if you want to see a real UFO, the watch a few sunsets. Here what we are seeing is a cloaked UFO (transparent) that is reflecting the light from the sun...and it is pushing a whole in the cloud ceiling. Its a well known fact that UFOs do punch holes in clouds. The O'Hare airport UFO incident back in 2006 was proof of that. That report made by MUFON was almost 100 pages long and detailed many different eyewitnesses who saw the UFO and then watched it shoot through the cloud ceiling...leaving behind a disk shaped hole for 15 minutes after it shot through. So...yes...UFOs make holes in clouds, but can also create clouds around themselves.
I love to search for ancient artifacts both in the deserts of Idaho, Nevada and Arizona as well as using my computer to search NASA archives of planets and moons. Today I am searching the moon, not for Indian artifacts like in Idaho where I found half a dozen obsidian arrow heads and donated them to the ISU museum where they told me they were over 800 years old, but instead I am looking at the full map of the dark side of the moon.
I found an interesting structure which does conform to a lot of what us humans identify as structures. Its a large rectangle object, with numerous right angles to it. It also has three long arms on one side, each end in a bulb like shape. This is an alien space ship that has landed inside the small crater. Most likely its been abandoned for a newer model and left there so that others could use it to take any needed parts for their own ships. Many such craft exist on the moon.
When humanity gets to the moon, alien technology will become common place. Its all over the moon, just laying around, abandoned. Imagine in 24 hours or retrieving such a craft and flying it back to earth...it would take humanity thousands of years into the technological future instantly, but only if a government doesn't label it a national security risk and keep it secret and use it for a military weapon...which...lets face it...will probably happen first.
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Strange ring of lights seen in the sky over Minnesota
Strange ring of lights seen in the sky over Minnesota
On May 29, 2021 a weird ring of lights appears in the sky over Bloomington, Minnesota.Two different clips pieced together of the same lights in the sky, from two vantage points and clip sped up so you can see the lights change a little better.
Next to the strange ring of lights, an unknown sphere that flies away.
Essential Politics: Are we closer to understanding UFOs? What to know about the congressional report
Essential Politics: Are we closer to understanding UFOs? What to know about the congressional report
Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2013.
(Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)
By LAURA BLASEY - MULTIPLATFORM EDITOR, NEWSLETTERS
This is the June 2, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign upto get it in your inbox three times a week.
In a time where Americans and their leaders agree on almost nothing, who would have thought UFOs would unite us?
The truth is out there and former President Obama, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) andeven former President Trump are interested.
UFOs were a political and cultural force in midcentury America and the ‘90s. Now, as we await a Pentagon report on the subject, they’re back in vogue, generating segments on “60 Minutes,” making their way into interviews with former presidents and trending across the internet.
Here’s what you need to know, no tin foil hats required.
Why is everyone talking about UFOs right now?
Air and Space Magazine dubbed 2019 “the Year of UFOs,” but it may actually be 2021.
The Pentagon is expected to release a report this month on UFO sightings, the result of a program designed to record and investigate sightings by the U.S. military.
Defense officials and some lawmakers are publicly pushing for the release of information, including Rubio, the highest-ranking Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“We cannot allow the stigma of UFO’s to keep us from seriously investigating this. The forthcoming report is one step in that process, but it will not be the last,” he said in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times.
But we probably wouldn’t be here without former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. Reid is among the loudest voices calling for information on UFOs.
In a bipartisan effort in 2007, he and late Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) secured $22 million in funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Intelligence officials claimed it was disbanded in 2012, though former employees later told the New York Times that it was still operational through 2017.
Meanwhile, Reid continues to give interviews about UFOs. “Congress should make this an ongoing program. I don’t think the report is going to tell us too much,” he told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday. “I think they need to study it more and not just have one shot at it.”
What’s in the report?
Passed in December, the Intelligence Authorization Act for the 2021 fiscal year directs the task force to deliver a report to Congress within 180 days on collected reports, with information on how it will analyze and track future sightings. And that report must be unclassified.
But it may not contain the validation some are looking for. While much of the program’s details remain classified as research is conducted, what has emerged indicates a growing military interest in UFOs as a national security threat.
They’re taking UFOs literally — unidentified flying objects that could have come from anywhere, such as another country. In other words, the threats they’re looking for are of the more terrestrial variety.
Still, new details might emerge about the events that have been reported. Military pilots describe erratic movements and lights that seem to defy physics, and aircraft shaped like a “Tic Tac.”
What’s different about 2021?
As with many conspiracy theories, UFO devotees have claimed for decades that government disclosure is imminent. The government has repeatedly dismissed discussion of UFOs.
The Times’ archives and those of other papers are full of officials downplaying reports of sightings. Sincere believers in the extraterrestrial are framed as kooky punchlines across news, TV and film.
In 1977, NASA denied a request from President Carter — who said he had seen a UFO years earlier — to open a government investigation, calling the idea “wasteful and probably unproductive.”
The denial came after the Air Force shut down an investigative program called Project Blue Book in 1969, saying it uncovered little in two decades at “considerable expense,” according to an Associated Press story.
But there’s something different about this round of UFO mania. Now, it seems, Americans and their elected officials are on the same side (though President Biden has not indicated his stance). And the government has an actual deadline.
It’s also not an unexpected resurgence in public interest: We’re in the midst of a national reckoning with what it means for something to be true, prompting new demand for disclosures about everything from policing to ballot counting.
Belief in conspiracies (many much more dangerous) surged during Trump’s presidency, aided in part by the president. He also introduced a space element, establishing the Space Force and the new task force.
Hollywood and internet culture have also helped resurrect the UFO in public imagination. The “Storm Area 51” meme, which began as a Facebook event page, went viral and ended with about 2,000 people gathering in the Nevada desert in 2019 to joke about “rescuing” aliens and taking pictures.
Friends gather for photos on the perimeter fence at Area 51 near Rachel, Nev., on Sept. 20, 2019.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
What about aliens?
Americans love aliens. Perhaps you grew up watching a galaxy far, far away in “Star Wars” (1977), Sigourney Weaver fighting to survive in Ridley Scott’s “Alien” (1979) or Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” (1982).
Not your speed? Maybe you listened to Blink-182’s “Aliens Exist” (1999) or loved the 1964 cult holiday classic “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” or consider yourself a fan of “The X-Files,” a landmark in the our-government-is-hiding-aliens storytelling tradition.
There’s a story for every interest group and time period, often with a trademark flying saucer and an undercurrent of distrust in authority. But the more information that becomes public, the more it becomes clear that what a UFO is and whether extraterrestrial life exists are two distinct questions.
— Biden traveled to Tulsa, Okla., on Tuesday to mark a shameful and largely forgotten part of American history, calling for racial reconciliation on the 100th anniversary of the violent destruction of the city’s thriving Black community by a white mob, Eli Stokols writes.
— Biden also announced that Vice President Kamala Harris would steer the administration’s efforts to bolster voting rights, a daunting and challenging task that Democrats and voting rights advocates say is urgent, writes Noah Bierman.
— The Supreme Court overturned a rule used by the 9th Circuit Court in California that presumed immigrants seeking asylum were telling the truth unless an immigration judge had made an “explicit” finding that they were not credible, David G. Savage reports.
— The Biden administration dispatched Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken to Costa Rica on Tuesday to take Central American officials to task on corruption in their countries and to examine how they can more efficiently block migration to the U.S. He could face a tough crowd, Tracy Wilkinson writes.
— Texas Democrats pulled off a dramatic last-ditch walkout from the state House of Representatives on Sunday night to block passage of one of the most restrictive voting bills in the U.S. But it could still be resurrected in a special session.
The view from California
— A Northern California county has voted to rename Jim Crow Road after a debate over the racist implications of the name and accusations of “woke cancel culture,” Brittny Mejia reports.
— From Taryn Luna: A historic California task force met for the first time Tuesday with the ultimate goal of recommending reparations for descendants of enslaved people and those affected by slavery.
— Democratic leaders of the California Legislature unveiled a state budget blueprint that would boost public schools and small businesses beyond the proposal made last month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, John Myers reports. It’s a move that is likely to set the stage for friendly but detailed negotiations.
— California lawmakers are considering legislation that would require hospitals, clinics and skilled nursing facilities to pay medical professionals $10,000 in “hero pay” for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic, Melody Gutierrez writes.
Does the available archeological evidence support Darwin's Theory of Evolution? No! Does it support the Christian Young Earth Creation Theory? No! Does it support the Vedic version as described in the scriptures of ancient India? Yes! This amazing documentary, hosted by Charlton Heston and shown nationwide on NBC (twice), explains it all!
After decades without a NASA mission, it's Venus' time to shine.
NASA will send two new missions to Venus to learn more about how the planet's hellish atmosphere turned so hostile over its history.
The announcement came on Wednesday (June 2) during NASA administrator Bill Nelson's livestreamed State of NASA speech. The two missions, called DAVINCI+ and VERITAS were selected from NASA's shortlist of four spacecraft for the next round of Discovery missions; the other two contenders would have visited Jupiter's volcanic moon Io and Neptune's largest moon Triton.
DAVINCI+ (short for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging) will plunge through the thick Venus atmosphere to learn more about it changes over time. Meanwhile, VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy) mission will use radar to map Venus' surface in detail from orbit.
Venus is swathed in a thick atmosphere that is difficult for scientists to peer through. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
"We hope these missions will further our understanding of how Earth evolved, and why it's currently habitable when others in our solar system are not," Nelson said, alluding to the recent NASA refocusing on climate change under the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, who took office in January.
"Planetary science is critical in answering key questions that we have as humans, like, Are we alone? What implications beyond our solar system could these two missions [show]? This is really exciting stuff," Nelson said.
Discovery missions are capped at $500 million, excluding costs for the launch vehicle and mission operations. Both new Venus missions will launch between 2028 and 2030 and will carry technology demonstrations as well as the main science components, NASA said in a press release.
VERITAS will host the Deep Space Atomic Clock-2, a successor to similar technology that launched to Earth orbit in June 2019. "The ultra-precise clock signal generated with this technology will ultimately help enable autonomous spacecraft maneuvers and enhance radio science observations," NASA stated.
DAVINCI+ will host the Compact Ultraviolet to Visible Imaging Spectrometer (CUVIS), the agency added, which will make high resolution measurements of ultraviolet light using a new instrument based on freeform optics," NASA officials wrote. "These observations will be used to determine the nature of the unknown ultraviolet absorber in Venus' atmosphere that absorbs up to half the incoming solar energy."
There was little else new in the State of NASA speech, as it included allusions to climate change science, the Artemis moon-landing program and other recent announcements by the Biden administration. Nelson was sworn in as administrator May 3 and the career space politician opened his speech with anecdotes from his six-day flight on the space shuttle Columbia in 1986.
He used those memories of the fragility of the Earth to reintroduce the Earth System Observatory system the agency said it would design last week to combat global warming. "Anyone who has flown [in space], or who sees these dramatic photos and videos, you look at the rim of the Earth and you can actually see the thin film of the atmosphere," Nelson said. "You realize that that is what sustains all of life … and you could see from that altitude how we're messing it up."
The new observatory system includes five planned satellites, the first of which would launch in 2023, Nelson said. He hinted there would be more to come in terms of climate science announcements. "The Earth System Observatory is just one of the many missions that we have on the horizon, and I'm excited to share more about the exciting future we have in store here at NASA," he said.
The new administrator also paid tribute to the Perseverance rover mission, which landed on Mars on Feb. 18 and helped to launch the Ingenuity drone for the first-ever flights on Mars. "Since then, we've created oxygen on Mars and we've seen Ingenuity — that little helicopter — defeating the odds and outliving its planned lifespan. It transitioned from a tech demo to a scout," Nelson said. (Ingenuity experienced an anomaly on its latest flight, but pulled through to a safe landing.)
Other NASA activities Nelson highlighted included the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope "in just a few months" (NASA and its partner on the mission, the European Space Agency, had announced on Tuesday (June 1) that the mission may delay a few weeks to November) the beginning of the commercial crew program in 2020, and ongoing development for the Artemis moon-landing program.
Nelson said nothing about the moon-landing deadline of 2024, originally proposed by the administration of President Donald Trump; during a news conference held on Friday (May 28), NASA Chief Financial Officer Steve Shinn acknowledged the timeline could be pushed, "because space development is so hard." Instead, Nelson focused on the program's goal to put the first woman and (a new announcement from April) the first person of color on the moon. "The United States must and will continue to lead the way globally, not just in exploration, but also in equity," he said.
The address also included a cameo prerecorded video from "Star Trek: The Original Series" captain William Shatner, best known as Captain James T. Kirk to Trekkies, mainly pondering "why we exist" and NASA's aspirations to seek out habitable environments in the universe.
Nelson's speech today left out mention of the troubled Artemis human landing system (HLS) development. Contract competitors Blue Origin and Dynetics have protested the award of that contract to SpaceX in April; during Nelson's confirmation hearing, senators pushed him about the importance of having multiple different systems to ensure competitive results. The U.S. Government Accountability Office has until Aug. 4 to decide whether NASA should award a second contract to build a second, redundant HLS.
Nelson also did not talk about commercial development of low Earth orbit, which received $101.1 million in Biden's budget request for fiscal year 2022, which begins in October. The value is up nearly 500% from the previous year. Involvement in the International Space Station is still a priority of the new administration; Biden's $1.3 million budget request is roughly equivalent to 2021's allocation.
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"If we allow fossil fuel burning to continue to grow, our grandchildren may experience CO2 levels that haven't been seen on Earth for around 50 million years, a time when crocodiles roamed the Arctic," lead researcher James Rae said.
The history of CO2 on Earth is preserved in microscopic fossils and molecules, which researchers studied in-depth in a new climate study.
(Image credit: University of St Andrews)
Scientists looked into Earth's ancient history and found that it would take serious action in reducing fossil fuel emissions to prevent our climate from reaching prehistoric warming levels.
An international team of researchers has peered into the past to piece together the most complete history to date of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on Earth over the last 66 million years in a new study. With this work, they aimed to bolster our understanding of the link between CO2 and climate, show how things have really changed since the time when dinosaurs last walked planet Earth and look to Earth's future as climate change continues to threaten our planets and its inhabitants.
With this study, the team showed how, without a significant reduction in fossil fuel emissions, Earth will soon reach CO2 levels as high as they were about 50 million years ago.
"If we allow fossil fuel burning to continue to grow, our grandchildren may experience CO2 levels that haven't been seen on Earth for around 50 million years, a time when crocodiles roamed the Arctic," lead researcher James Rae, a researcher at the University of St. Andrews School of Earth and Environmental Sciences in Scotland, said in a statement.
"CO2 has transformed the face of our planet before," Rae said, and "unless we cut emissions as quickly as possible, it will do it again."
In this study, which was published Monday (May 31) in the journal the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the team analyzed data taken over the last 15 years. This data came from previous research that took samples of ancient mud from the deep-sea floor.
These ancient mud cores contained microscopic fossils and molecules that accumulated over time. These samples contain preserved information about CO2 levels and climate conditions from the past.
So, by looking at these records of ancient climate history, the team was able to map out CO2 levels over time. This allowed them to compare modern-day CO2 levels with prehistoric levels and get a sense of what our world might look like if we return to these extreme climate conditions.
"For instance," Rae said, "the last time CO2 was as high as it is today, enough ice melted to raise sea level by 20 meters [66 feet], and it was warm enough for beech trees to grow on Antarctica."
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An image made from 21 photographs taken by Curiosity shows twilight clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, adjusted to appear as the scene would to human eyes.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
It might look like a postcard from Arizona, but this snapshot shows something much more exotic: the planet Mars, as seen by NASA's Curiosity rover.
The image is a combination of 21 individual photographs the rover took recently to study a strange type of wispy cloud over its Gale Crater home. Scientists realized two Earth years ago that the cloud type was forming earlier in the Martian year than they expected. So this Martian year, Curiosity was watching for the early clouds, and it was not disappointed. The clouds did indeed show up beginning in late January, when the robotic skywatcher began documenting the wispy, ice-rich clouds scattering sunlight in sometimes-colorful displays.
"I always marvel at the colors that show up: reds and greens and blues and purples," Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist with the Space Science Institute in Colorado, said in a NASA statement. "It's really cool to see something shining with lots of color on Mars."
Strangely, these clouds appear higher in the Mars atmosphere than those clouds scientists typically see on the planet, according to NASA. Usually, if a cloud passes over Curiosity, the structures are full of water ice and float about 37 miles (60 kilometers) above the Martian surface.
The clouds in Curiosity's new photos are higher in the atmosphere, although NASA didn't specify their altitude. The distinction may reflect a different composition, clouds of frozen carbon dioxide or dry ice, according to the agency, although the scientists aren't yet confident in that explanation.
Clouds moving over the Curiosity rover on March 19, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Curiosity's navigation camera spotted clouds on March 28, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Curiosity's navigation camera spotted clouds on March 31, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
A composite image shows iridescent noctilucent clouds on March 5, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
The clouds are at their prettiest just after sunset, when the last light makes the ice crystals glow, which is why scientists call them noctilucent, or night-shining. (Curiosity can monitor these noctilucent clouds with both its black-and-white navigation cameras and its color Mast Camera.)
Some of these clouds even appear a bit iridescent when the cloud particles are very similar sizes, Lemmon said, which typically happens when clouds have just formed and have grown at the same speed.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent clouds on March 5.
William Shatner discusses The UnXplained’s major crossover event with Ancient Aliens, and what Gene Rodenberry knew about extraterrestrial life.
Willam Shatner’s The UnXlplained and Ancient Aliens are combining forces to figure out the mysteries of the universe. Typically, Friday nights on the History Channel include Ancient Aliens, then an episode of The UnXplained. This Friday, however, History will join the shows together in a two-hour special. Shatner is joining Giorgio Tsoukalos and the Ancient Alienscrew for a special called “William Shatner Meets Ancient Aliens.”
Den of Geek’s was able to catch up with Shatner and get some insight into what to expect on Friday’s crossover event and his thoughts on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Brandon Fugal is the owner of Skinwalker Ranch. As the Chairman of Colliers International in Utah, Brandon is one of the most prominent businessmen and real estate developers in the Intermountain West. From an early age, he has also been fascinated with the mysteries of our universe and the question of whether or not we are alone. In 2016, Brandon purchased Skinwalker Ranch from aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow in order to investigate and study the strange and unexplainable phenomena that has been reported there for more than two centuries.
The team at Skinwalker Ranch (From L-R: Kaleb Bench, Travis Taylor, Erik Bard, Brandon Fugal, Bryant “Dragon” Arnold, Thomas Winterton, Tom Lewis, Kandus Linde, Jim Morse) Photo by HISTORY Copyright 2021
Alejandro Rojas: When was it you first heard about the ranch and what is it that you heard?
Brandon Fugal: The ranch was first brought to my attention when I was at Barnes and Noble, back in 2006, and saw Dr. Colm Kelleher and George Knapp’s book The Hunt for the Skinwalker on the shelf. I actually bought it and read it on the weekend. I found it to be very interesting. And that was about it.
I read the book, found it interesting, especially as it relates to being a Utah property and, you know, a very intriguing account of strange activity not far, just hours, from where I live. But upon finishing the book, I put it on the shelf and didn’t really think about it any further until 2015 when I was contacted by two of Robert Bigelow’s science advisors with the question as to whether I would be willing to entertain a potential joint venture or acquisition of the property for the purpose of advancing the research beyond what Mr. Bigelow had done for 20 years. I had developed a good relationship with these science advisors through another effort that I had been involved with a decade ago.
They had a high degree of respect for me, thankfully, and confidence that I would be a worthy successor to Mr. Bigelow’s interest in a program regarding the property. I quickly agreed. I was intrigued and quickly agreed to meet with Mr. Bigelow to discuss a potential joint venture or acquisition of the property. I flew down to Las Vegas to meet with he and others, including Dr. Kelleher, to discuss not only the history of the property and their investigation, but a new structure moving forward. Upon meeting them, I disclosed to them that I was approaching the topic as a healthy skeptic and that I had never seen a UFO, ghost, or anything of the sort. And that I believe that there was most likely a natural prosaic explanation for what had been reported in the book and on the property.
They were amused and shared with me the reality of what their investigation revealed. They also disclosed that the ranch had been part of a five-year Pentagon black budget program studying the UFO phenomenon and that, although the results of that investigation remain classified and confidential – how do I say this? The phenomenon is real. It was interesting, so we took the discussion forward. I had my attorneys work with his legal counsel and in April of 2016 I acquired the property.
I first saw the property one week before closing on the purchase, flying in on my private helicopter with Jim Morris, who you see on the History Channel series as the ranch manager. I have had a long relationship with Jim Morris in that he was my first big commercial real estate developer client when I was 18 years old, back in 1991, when he was developing class A office buildings in our market. As a confidant and someone with military experience, I felt it was important to bring him with me to inspect the property for the first time and establish this new phase of ownership and investigation.
He also was very skeptical and had never seen anything unusual in his life that would qualify as a UFO sighting or paranormal experience. He has had a special relationship with the Indian tribes spanning decades, raising millions of dollars for scholarships and providing financial aid,and his great respect for the Native American people has been a key part of our community engagement.
Rojas: So are you still as skeptical as you were about something unusual going on at the ranch?
Fugal: No. So people ask me all the time whether I am now a believer based on what we have seen and recorded during my ownership of the ranch. The honest, most direct answer I can provide is that I am not a believer. I am an experiencer. I know for a fact that it is real and have witnessed with my own eyes, with other credible witnesses at my side, what can only be described as daylight sightings of exotic craft over Skinwalker Ranch.
Rojas: Do you mind describing one of those incidents?
Fugal: Yeah. You bet. For the first six months of my ownership and stewardship of the property, I did not personally witness or see anything unusual. But, six months into our investigation, I had an experience while entertaining a visiting dignitary and his security detail that involved an undeniable sighting of what can only be described as a 40 to 50 foot long silver, grayish disc-like object that performed maneuvers that were stunning and defy conventional explanation.
This was in broad daylight with multiple witnesses present. During that same afternoon, we experienced everything from our smartphones being completely drained from about 80% charge to zero to other electromagnetic anomalies, even acute medical episodes that attended the incidents that occurred on that fateful day.
Skinwalker Ranch as featured on HISTORY’S new series “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” premiering March 31 at 10PM ET/PT
Photo by History Copyright 2021
Rojas: Lue Elizondo, who worked on that Pentagon program that you had referred to earlier had stated that a lot of the pushback in the Department of Defense (DoD), and one of the main reasons they kind of pared it down to a UFO project, as opposed to the other paranormal phenomenon that they were looking at, is that there were a lot of insiders who felt what they were dealing with was demonic. Do you believe that there’s anything angelic or demonic related to the phenomenon going on at the ranch?
Fugal: Good question. I am asked on a daily basis whether I believe that what we are observing is extraterrestrial, inter-dimensional, or spiritual in nature. And my honest answer is “all of the above.” I believe what we are observing and documenting involves all of the above. I think there is a spiritual aspect to what we are encountering at Skinwalker Ranch. There are definitely malevolent and benevolent forces at work and we’ve had negative experiences from time to time that have resulted in people being hospitalized.
Rojas: Yeah. I talked with Travis Taylor about some of those incidents.
Fugal: Yeah. Travis Taylor himself. I mean, Dr. Taylor, he ended up going to the hospital with injuries that were difficult to explain.
Rojas: How did you feel about the results of the first season of the show?
Fugal: Very pleased. In fact, when we commenced filming the team for season one of the investigative series, I gave the disclaimer to the crew and the History Channel that you can’t schedule or conjure up the paranormal or strange activity. It doesn’t work that way. The phenomena witnessed on the ranch is transient in nature and unpredictable. So I was surprised when, during the first day of flying Dr. Taylor out to the ranch for the first time on the helicopter, within minutes, he and our team started seeing things happening that were unusual. And it only got more pronounced as days and weeks passed by.
We conducted a series of experiments over several months, including, rocketry, balloon, instrumented, balloon experiments, ground penetrating radar, resistivity studies, and other research. On every occasion, both our team and third-party experts and consultants involved, experienced unusual activity and events.
Rojas: When it comes to the first season of the show, is there one incident or investigation that stands out to you as being the most compelling or shocking to you?
Fugal: Yeah, the cow dying and upon investigating the body, having a number of unusual events occur. Those included multiple types of smartphones malfunctioning while in the presence of the dead animal, trifield meters going crazy, and then, upon reviewing the cameras, surveillance footage, seeing an unidentified flying object up there, above the animal, just before its death. It all combined to present some of the most compelling evidence of high strangeness on the ranch. I mean, I am often reminded that correlation is not causation. However, you cannot ignore a rapid fire combination of events, including electromagnetic anomalies, physical distress, and what can only be described as UFO activity occurring without giving it some credibility. We immediately brought to the site a veterinarian to study the animal on camera and he concluded that the animal died of stress induced pneumonia. The circumstances surrounding the rapid death of the animal and the correlating strange events continue to baffle the team. In addition, the fact that the animal carcass has remained untouched by any scavenger activity since, underscores how unusual this event.
Rojas: I’ve talked to some of the previous investigators and your investigators. Something they have in common is this thing called the, I think it’s been labeled, the hitchhiker phenomenon, where when you go to the ranch and have an experience, sometimes they’re having unusual experiences after that, in their own homes. Have you experienced that?
Fugal: No, thankfully I have not had that experience, personally. But I do know members of my team and visitors that have had that experience. Strange activity following them home and even terrorizing their family.
Rojas: I’ve even got to talk to a couple of the spouses who are not happy about that, the weirdness that they’ve experienced after these guys would come home.
Fugal: Well, it’s a known fact that numerous participants, including military operatives, refuse to ever set foot on the property again due to the negative experiences that they have had, including phenomena following them home. Even Mr. Bigelow has had experiences that have followed him, resulting in his refusal to ever visit the property ever again.
Rojas: Wow. So, season two. I know Dr. Taylor’s very excited about what they have found and been able to record for season two. Can you tell us a little bit about the amount of compelling stuff that we’ll be seeing in season two of the show?
Fugal: Absolutely. What you will see is a definite progression regarding our efforts and investigation. We take more aggressive measures to study not only what is below, but above the ranch with this new season, and bring to bear our advanced instrumentation in service to learning the secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
Rojas: I guess my last question, because we’re about out of time, is, how do your colleagues feel? How have they reacted to you buying this ranch and participating in this sort of research?
Fugal: The business community has been surprisingly supportive and I have had a number of executives reach out to me privately with their own experiences. I never intended to reveal my identity as owner of the most infamous, scientifically studied paranormal hot spot on the planet. But I elected to go public last year in order to present the fully transparent account of our investigation. And my stewardship, even though the effort at Skywalker ranch is a dramatic departure from what I focus on 95% of the time in my conventional business efforts, it is an inspiring and intriguing part of my life.
Astronomy is one of the oldest disciplines of science. Many prehistoric monuments are aligned with stars and planets, giving us clues as to the importance of ancient forms of astronomy. As a result, astronomers remain one of the leading groups responsible for the serious investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
Caracol (The Observatory) in Chichén Itzá, Mexico. The lines of this Mayan temple line up with at least 20 separate astronomical events.
(Credit: Daniel Schwen/Wikimedia Commons)
Astronomer UFO Sightings During the Renaissance
Jean-Charles Houzeau portrait from Popular Science Monthly in 1891.
(Credit: Popular Science Monthly)
Hundreds of years ago astronomers were observing objects which can still not be definitively identified. Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck chronicle many reports of anomalous aerial objects throughout history in their book, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times. One of these mysterious observations was by the famous astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
In 1672, Cassini spotted a small object close to Venus. At first he only took note, but did not share the discovery. He then saw it again in 1686 and decided to announce it as a possible discovery of a new moon of Venus. His sightings continued over the next few decades but were sporadic. In 1884, a former director for the Royal Observatory in Brussels, Jean-Charles Houzeau, proposed the idea that the object observed by Cassini may be another planet. He also named the object Neith, after an Egyptian Goddess. In 1887, the Belgian Academy of Sciences suggested that Neith was just a group of stars near Venus.
In 1686, a much more mysterious sighting was reported by astronomer Gottfried Kirch, the director of the Berlin Observatory. His sighting took place in Leipzig, Germany on July 9 at approximately 1:20 a.m. Kirch said that he saw an extremely bright fireball with a tail that was a quarter the size of the Moon, hovering in the sky for fifteen minutes. He said that people in towns as far as eleven miles away also reported seeing the object. Kirsh explained that eventually the object darted off to the right and left two “globules” that could only be seen by telescope.
Astronomers and Modern UFO research
Cover of the book Wonders in the Sky by Vallee and Aubeck.
(Credit: Tarcher/Penguin Publishing)
UFO sightings by astronomers are often taken more serious than those by the general public, due in part because astronomers are trained to observe and identify astronomical objects and spend a lot of time looking up into Space. Understandably, UFO reports from renowned astronomers helped boost the public’s fascination at the inception of the modern UFO era.
Prior to World War II, UFOs were not as prevalent a topic as they are now. In fact, the term “UFO” was not even coined until the early 1950s during the U.S. Air Force investigation of the phenomenon. Sightings were abundant in the 1950s, and they often made media headlines. It was at this time that Life magazine put together a compelling story that included the accounts of two well-known astronomers. The Life article described the first of these men as “one of the U.S.’s top astronomers.” He wanted to remain anonymous for the magazine story, but it was later discovered that this was Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, a leading scientist in the study of meteors.
In the article, Dr. LaPaz described a sighting that he and his family had on July 10, 1947 at 4:47 p.m. He, his wife, and their two teenage daughters were driving from Clovis, New Mexico to Clines Corners, New Mexico, when they all noticed a strange luminous object that hovered in the sky. Instinctively, Dr. LaPaz began estimating distances in order to make calculations about the object, and his entire family followed suit.
Dr. LaPaz described the object as follows:
[It] showed a sharp and firm regular outline, namely one of a smooth elliptical character much harder and sharper than the edges of the cloudlets . . . The hue of the luminous object was somewhat less white than the light of Jupiter in a dark sky, not aluminum or silver-colored . . . The object clearly exhibited a sort of wobbling motion . . . This wobbling motion served to set off the object as a rigid, if not solid body.
Dr. Lincoln LaPaz on the cover of the University of Wichita Alumni Magazine.
(Credit: University of Wichita Alumni Magazine)
Dr. LaPaz’s family watched the object for thirty seconds before it moved behind a cloud. The object reappeared soon after, but they eventually lost sight of it as it moved behind the clouds again. Dr. LaPaz said, “This remarkably sudden ascent thoroughly convinced me that we were dealing with an absolutely novel airborne device.”
Life Magazine, April 7, 1952. The UFO story in this issue included UFO sightings from prominent astronomers, and alerted the public that UFOs was considered by many as a credible issue.
(Credit: Life Magazine/NICAP)
Dr. LaPaz estimated that the object was 20 to 30 miles away and that it was a solid elliptical object approximately 165 to 245 feet long and 65 to 100 feet from top to bottom. He also estimated that it moved at between 120 and 180 mph horizontally and 600 to 900 mph vertically. His family agreed with his calculations. He did not believe that the object was of an astronomical nature, an illusion, a rocket, or a missile.
Later in the article, Dr. LaPaz commented on the mysterious nature of hundreds of green fireballs seen throughout the Southwest, mostly in New Mexico, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. One green fireball incident referred to a sighting of a large fireball seen by over a hundred-fifty people in Arizona in November 1951.
The sightings of green fireballs became so frequent that the U.S. Air Force established Project Twinkle in order to investigate them. Dr. LaPaz was one of the experts that investigated the phenomenon, and he felt that whatever was being seen were not meteorites.
The Life article explained:
[Dr. LaPaz] points out that normal fireballs do not appear green, they fall in the trajectory forced on them by gravity, are generally noisy as a freight train, and leave meteorites where they hit. The green New Mexican species does none of these things. Neither do the green fireballs appear to be electrostatic phenomena—they move too regularly and too fast.
The second sighting by an astronomer covered in the Life article was that of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto. At around 11:00 p.m., while sitting in his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and mother-in-law, they all saw an object dart across the night sky. They agreed it appeared to be oval shaped and had a blue-green glow. Tombaugh said it “seemed to trail off at the rear into a shapeless luminescence.” Tombaugh alleged that he also saw what appeared to be half a dozen windows on the front and the side of the craft.
Project Blue Book Report on UFOs and Astronomers
The Life article popularized the UFO phenomenon at the time and exhibited the highly credible nature of some of the witnesses. Its effect on the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, was evident in a report put together by their consulting astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The report referenced the Life article and may have even inspired it altogether.
A still from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s cameo appearance on Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Hynek is often considered the father of modern UFO research. He was a professor of astronomy at Ohio State University when he began consulting for the air force on identifying UFOs. At the time he began working with the air force he said he thought the topic of UFOs was just a fad and referred to it as “utterly ridiculous.” However, his opinions eventually changed, and he began to take the topic very seriously.
Hynek is infamous for trying to explain away a famous rash of UFO sightings in Michigan in 1966 as an effect of swamp gas. However, he is more fondly remembered for coming up with the close encounters classification system for UFO reports.
In 1952, Hynek began to surmise that there was more to the UFO phenomenon than he had previously thought. In August, he submitted a report to the air force titled, “Special Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial Objects.” Hynek had decided it would be valuable to get the opinions of astronomers on UFOs and assist in the air force’s investigation into UFOs. In order to get the astronomers’ true opinions, Hynek did not tell them he was involved with the air force. He told them he was just a traveling astronomer visiting observatories to talk about scientific issues. He spoke to forty astronomers at various observatories.
Front page of Hynek’s astronomer report in the USAF Project Blue Book files. Click the image to view the entire report in pdf.
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For the most part, Hynek kept the names of the astronomers anonymous, except for those that had already revealed their names in the Life article or had done so to the media in some other fashion. The opinions among the astronomers he spoke to varied. Some thought the topic was a waste of time; others thought that government secrecy on the issue was “stupid.” One astronomer said that if he had seen something he would not tell anyone unless he could remain anonymous and he knew the information was going to a group of scientists for serious research.
Among those who shared their UFO sightings, one had said that he and another astronomer had sighted a group of five “ball-bearing-like” objects moving rapidly during the day. Two years later, he saw a singular similar object. Another astronomer reported that he had seen a light zoom across his field of view that went too fast to be a plane and too slow to be a meteorite. This astronomer pointed out that it is important that scientists do not “fall into the error of believing we understand all physical phenomena.”
Professor Clyde Tombaugh
Tombaugh and LaPaz were also part of Hynek’s report. Hynek reported that besides the sighting Tombaugh reported to Life, he also shared another sighting that took place at White Sands Proving Grounds just outside of Las Cruces. Tombaugh said that while he was looking through his telescope he saw a luminous object traveling from the “zenith to the southern horizon in about three seconds.”
Tombaugh also offered up the use of his telescope at White Sands to help the U.S. Air Force investigate UFOs. He told Hynek that he would just have to ask the general in charge, but Hynek never divulged whether that request was made.
Hynek wrote that he also asked the astronomers about LaPaz’s findings in regards to the green fireballs seen in the Southwest. Many thought the objects were most likely natural objects, but Hynek said questioning revealed that many of them had little knowledge of the details of the sightings. Hynek agreed with LaPaz that given the descriptions and frequency, the green fireball phenomenon did not exhibit characteristics of astronomical objects.
In conclusion, Hynek found that of the forty astronomers he interviewed, five had reported sightings. Hynek noted that this is a higher percentage than the rest of the population. He speculated that this is perhaps because astronomers watch the sky more often, but also noted that astronomers are less likely to misidentify aerial objects.
Hynek observed that the astronomers he spoke to weren’t particularly hostile towards the idea of UFO investigations. He said that when he described the details of the more mysterious reports, they seemed genuinely interested. He felt their “lethargy” toward the subject was mostly due to a lack of good information. Hynek said their biggest fear seemed to be getting branded as questionable scientists as a result of any association with the UFO topic.
Hynek recommended that the U.S. Air Force officially give UFOs the status of a scientific problem and that a group of reputable scientists be allowed to examine sightings. He felt that such an effort would not only lead towards more answers, but also lend dignity to the issue. He continued to push for serious scientific investigation into UFOs.
The UFO Experience Bookcover
Three years after the air force closed down official UFO investigations in 1969, he published his first book on UFOs, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. In his book, he released his close encounters scale and shared another story on astronomers’ opinions on UFOs. He recounted the story of a reception at which “several hundred” astronomers were in attendance, and where it was reported that there was a UFO being seen outside making strange maneuvers. He said people laughed and made some jokes as usual, but not a single astronomer went outside to investigate. His problem with this was that the lack of investigation didn’t exhibit a true scientific inquisitiveness. He quoted physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrödinger who wrote, “The first requirement of a scientist is that he is curious. He should be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.”
In 1973, Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), an organization of scientists and technical experts. In 1980, they conducted a poll (which included eighteen hundred members of various amateur astronomer associations) and found that 24% responded that they had “observed an object which resisted [their] most exhaustive efforts at identification.”
The Sturrock Report
The U.S. Air Force stopped investigating UFOs based in large part on a study by the University of Colorado in Boulder which was issued in 1969. The study concluded that there was no scientific value in the investigation of UFOs. This report has been dubbed the “Condon Report” in reference to the lead scientist of the investigation, Dr. Edward Condon. In 1970, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAIA) released its own report that was the result of a multi-year study by one of the organization’s subcommittees. The AAIA disagreed with Condon stating, “[we] did not find a basis in the report for his prediction that nothing of scientific value will come of further studies.” In fact, they suggested further study was warranted.
UFO Enigma Bookcover
In his book, The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence, Dr. Peter Sturrock, a professor of applied physics at Stanford University, noted that the AAIA report made him wonder if perhaps scientists would be more interested in reports by other scientists. He conducted a small survey amongst the members of the San Francisco chapter of the AAIA, and the results were published in their monthly journal in 1974. Of the twelve hundred members responding, 5% said they had UFO sightings.
Encouraged by the results, Dr. Sturrock sought to perform a larger survey and was given permission by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to poll their membership. Dr. Sturrock wrote that he was pleased to receive a 52% response rate, with only a few rude remarks. In fact, the responses were overwhelmingly supportive. Similarly to his previous study, 5% of AAS members admitted having unexplainable sightings. However, Dr. Sturrock was even more satisfied with the results of this study because they indicated that there was significant interest among astronomers in continued research into the UFO phenomenon. Sturrock summarized: “Each respondent was asked to state his opinion on whether the UFO problem deserves scientific study: 23% replied ‘certainly,’ 30% ‘probably,’ 27% ‘possibly,’ 17% ‘probably not,’ and 3% ‘certainly not,’ which represents a positive attitude among 53% of the respondents, as against a negative attitude among 20%.”
The high number of positive responses surprised Sturrock, as he was expecting the opposite. He had also asked how the AAS members would like to receive information on this subject, and the response was overwhelmingly through scientific journals. However, Dr. Sturrock and his colleagues always had problems getting their papers regarding UFOs printed in mainstream journals. This contradiction prompted Sturrock to help start a new organization called the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE), which publishes a peer-reviewed journal. Of the dozen or so professors that helped found the SSE, seven were astronomers. The SSE is still going strong with a large membership of doctorates. The organization’s website defines it as “a professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. Subjects often cross mainstream boundaries, such as consciousness, unidentified aerial phenomena, and alternative medicine, yet often have profound implications for human knowledge and technology.”
Astronomers and UFOs Today
Interest in the UFO phenomenon hasn’t been a passing fad, and astronomers continue to show interest in UFO research today. In 2011, Irish astronomer Eamonn Ansbro made news when he claimed that he was tracking UFOs. Ansbro said that he is convinced that what he is tracking are extraterrestrial spacecraft. He has even given lectures on the topic to the French government, and his studies have been published by the European Space Agency. He has named his project the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (OSETI).
He told his local paper, the Roscommon Herald, “We haven’t proven our discovery to the scientific community yet and don’t have the resources but we can show that extraterrestrial space craft are on specific orbital tracks around the earth.”
Interest in the phenomenon also continues in other parts of the world. Astronomers at Canada’s David Dunlop Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, have been holding lectures on UFOs. The lecturers include astronomers Dr. Ian Shelton and Dr. Tuba Koktay, a husband and wife team, who both worked at the observatory in the past. Dr. Koktay is now a researcher, and Dr. Shelton teaches astronomy at the University of Toronto. Shelton told www.yorkregion.com, “We try to be open-mined and honest, we don’t just dismiss, because we [scientists] don’t know everything.”
The ground of the David Dunlap Observatory.
Closer to home, Dr. Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer and planetarium director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and a nationally renowned astronomer, recently told Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post that he was supportive of serious research on the nature of the UFO phenomenon.
I can speculate about what many astronomers would say if you ask them that question. Many of them would say, “I haven’t seen anything, so I can’t say that they exist. I can’t say that this five percent are alien spacecraft.” But if you ask them in the same breath, “Would you be willing to engage in a research project to figure out what these things are,” I don’t know what that answer would be. I’d say, yeah, let’s find out, let’s take a look at it, because here we have a phenomenon that causes a tremendous amount of interest. Why not try to understand what it is?
Astronomer Derrick Pitts
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The notion that astronomers are not interested in UFOs is false. Hynek, the U.S. Air Force’s own astronomer, who eventually became a pioneer in civilian UFO research, probably had it right when he observed that often scientists are just not informed of the important details. Even Dr. Pitts said his interests were piqued when he read the credible and mysterious UFO cases presented in Leslie Kean’s book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.
Historically, astronomers were the leading force behind investigating and reporting on the UFO phenomenon, and they continue to be the driving force into the research into the UFO phenomenon. Their interest adds credibility to the field and demonstrates that there is at least a sliver of interest in UFOs in mainstream science.
A version of this article originally appeared in Open Minds Magazine Issue 26 June/July 2014.
ASTROBIOLOGIST DAVID GRINSPOON HAD BEEN CONDITIONED FOR REJECTION.
He’s submitted Venus mission proposal after Venus mission proposal to NASA for years on end, each landing with a thud. So when he heard the news that his mission DAVINCI+ got selected by NASA on Wednesday, Grinspoon was in disbelief.
“I did a lot of screaming and jumping up and down,” Grinspoon tells Inverse. “I scared my dog.”
On Wednesday, NASA selected both DAVINCI+ and another Venus mission, VERITAS, to study the planet’s atmosphere and geological history. It will mark a return to Venus after decades away.
By returning to Venus, it could answer questions both intriguing, like if Venus ever had the right conditions for life, and existential, like if Venus is a vision of our future.
WHY ARE WE GOING TO VENUS NOW?
NASA sent several missions to Venus in the 1960s and 1970s, but the last one, Magellan, arrived at Venus in 1989 and shut down in 1994. Since then, the agency hasn’t launched a dedicated mission, instead putting a laser focus on Mars.
Part of this is due to Venus’ unusual nature, where temperatures around 900 degrees Fahrenheit have felled landers within a couple of hours. Thick clouds make orbiters work extra hard to study the surface below.
“There have been a number of reasons why we've been neglecting Venus but hopefully that's all changing,” Grinspoon says.
Mars has proven an important laboratory for understanding the early Solar System and Earth’s origins, but the picture is incomplete without Venus. The neighboring planet shares a lot of similarities with Earth, being about the same size and potentially having a watery past.
That watery past ended in a hellish series of poorly understood climate events that left the planet as the hottest world in our Solar System thanks to a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Venus could serve as a real-life lab to study the effects of climate change on planet like Earth.
“We think Venus used to be a lot like Earth,” Grinspoon says. “But something happened to its climate, geology, and its ocean that seems to make it no longer Earth-like and no longer able to support life.”
That's why Venus often serves as an eerie vision of what Earth's future may look like if we don't get greenhouse gas emissions under control.
“Venus is a natural laboratory to study climate change and to sort of push our climate models to the limit,” Grinspoon says.
VENUS’ COMEBACK TOUR
NASA sent several missions to Venus in the 1960s and 1970s, but the last one, Magellan, arrived at Venus in 1989 and shut down in 1994. Since then, the agency hasn’t launched a dedicated mission, instead putting a laser focus on Mars.
Part of this is due to Venus’ unusual nature, where temperatures around 900 degrees Fahrenheit have felled landers within a couple of hours. Thick clouds make orbiters work extra hard to study the surface below.
“There have been a number of reasons why we've been neglecting Venus but hopefully that's all changing,” Grinspoon says.
Mars has proven an important laboratory for understanding the early Solar System and Earth’s origins, but the picture is incomplete without Venus. The neighboring planet shares a lot of similarities with Earth, being about the same size and potentially having a watery past.
That watery past ended in a hellish series of poorly understood climate events that left the planet as the hottest world in our Solar System thanks to a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Venus could serve as a real-life lab to study the effects of climate change on planet like Earth.
“We think Venus used to be a lot like Earth,” Grinspoon says. “But something happened to its climate, geology, and its ocean that seems to make it no longer Earth-like and no longer able to support life.”
That's why Venus often serves as an eerie vision of what Earth's future may look like if we don't get greenhouse gas emissions under control.
“Venus is a natural laboratory to study climate change and to sort of push our climate models to the limit,” Grinspoon says.
VENUS’ COMEBACK TOUR
Scientists, as well as Venus enthusiasts, have been calling for a mission to Venus for years.
Planetary scientist Paul Byrne of North Carolina State University was hoping that NASA would select one mission to Venus, and was beyond ecstatic to find out that the space agency selected two missions instead.
“It hasn’t sunk in yet,” Byrne tells Inverse. “It gives us a very clear path forward in terms of how we're going to explore and understand Venus in the coming decades.”
The two missions were selected from a batch of four possible missions selected by NASA’s Discovery Program in 2020, and are expected to launch between 2028 and 2030.
The missions aim to understand how the planet formed and evolved over time, and if it ever had an ocean.
The DAVINCI+ mission, which stands for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus, will drop a spherical probe into the Venus’ atmosphere to measure the chemical makeup of each layer. It will also have an orbiter component that will capture ultraviolet and infrared images of Venus looking for signatures of present-day volcanism over the course of a Venusian year (225 Earth days).
“I'm looking forward to the high-resolution images of the surface of Venus. They will reveal features that we didn't even think to look at,” Byrne says. “It's going to revolutionize what we think Venus looks like.”
The second mission VERITAS, which stands for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, will map the geological features of Venus.
The spacecraft will create 3D topographic maps of the planet’s surface and measure its gravitational pull. The purpose of understanding Venus’ geological history is to determine why the planet, which started off very similar to Earth, developed in a much different way over time.
Venus may have started off as an Earth-like planet, even capable of supporting life.NASA
ARE WE SEARCHING FOR LIFE ON VENUS?
In September 2020, a potentially groundbreaking discovery on Venus claimed to provide evidence for potential life being harbored in Venus’ clouds.
A group of scientists detected traces of phosphine gas in Venus' atmosphere. Phosphine is considered a biosignature gas on Earth, meaning that it is typically produced by a living organism.
But the results were met with skepticism, with some arguing that the signal wasn’t produced by phosphine and that it is unlikely produced by microbes that live in the clouds of Venus. DAVINCI+ could help researchers figure out whether the phosphine detected there was real or an illusion.
However, Grinspoon doesn’t think the phosphine debate played into the Venus mission selection.
“I actually don't think that was a huge factor. It's true that there was a story in the media recently and it gave us some visibility,” Grinspoon says. “The good arguments for these missions to Venus was never dependent on the discovery of phosphine.”
The two missions will complement each other, helping scientists put together parts of Venus’ past in order to better understand its future, and possibly the future of Earth.
“Venus is long overdue,” Grinspoon says. “I’m excited to get to work and make it happen.”
Former CIA pilot: “There are human colonies on the Moon and Mars” (Video)
Former CIA pilot: “There are human colonies on the Moon and Mars” (Video)
During an interview on the US mystery program “Coast to Coast”, John Lear, a retired CIA pilot, made strong statements regarding the Moon, Mars and the extraterrestrial technology used by NASA.
John Lear, who was once a captain in the United States Air Force and a CIA pilot . Son of the inventor of the Lear Jet engine , he has an experience of 150 piloted test aircraft .
He also holds 18 world speed records , worked with 28 aviation companies and has several distinctions from the Federal Aviation Administration .
However, Lear is known today because, in the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, he revealed confidential information about NASA and space travel.
John Lear: Hidden Secrets of NASA
In 1953, the alien spacecraft known as EBE 3 crashed on Earth . Thanks to its technology, the United States Air Force has built advanced spacecraft.
In 1962, thanks to reverse engineering, they managed to build ships that, despite not being able to reach the speed of light, could reach the Moon in an hour . In addition, trials began to reach Mars . Which was achieved in 1966.
The missions that were energetically announced and publicized were nothing more than smoke screens for the population to focus on them. The real lunar missions were already on the satellite, constructing buildings .
In 1966, the surface of Mars was reached for the first time and, since then, most of the planets in the Solar System have already been explored.
Quite human-like life has been found in all of them. This information was also confirmed by David Wilcock and Henry Deacon.
In the 1970s, NASA began to remove the images taken by Apollo 8, 10, and 11. These were published in the 1971 book “SB2-46.”
“Lunar cities and extraterrestrial intervention”
In these photographs you can see a city , a space base , streets, tubes, vegetation, an atmosphere, 66% gravity compared to Earth. In addition to electric light, mining operations and a nuclear reactor .
Lear assured that all this work was possible thanks to extraterrestrial intervention .
In fact, several of the buildings currently in use were already on the Moon before reaching it. This has been done for the last 40 years.
He also mentioned that his father, in the 1950s, was involved in different programs to develop antigravity technology . Technology that remains secret.
The most surprising thing is that many military and weight officials have confirmed many of these statements. Among the most prominent are Phil Corso, David Wilcock , Glen Steckling , among others.
Alien research, reverse engineering, and interaction with developed civilizations from other worlds is nothing new. It is not the first time that officials have declared similar things, sometimes, even costing him his freedom.
Should UAP be changed from Unidentified Aerial Phenomena to Unidentified ‘Aquatic’ Phenomena? Or should underwater UFOs and their bases get their own name, abbreviation, and task force? UFO expert Gary Heseltine might support the latter. He’s the vice president of the new International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research (ICER) – a group of UFO researchers and scientist from 27 countries whose mission is “Preparing for Contact” – and he believes that contact preparation should involve wetsuits and submarines.
“UFOs are often seen coming in and out of water so suspect that in our deepest oceans and trenches we may well have alien bases. That sounds crazy but if you think about it we only know 5 per cent of ocean, we know more about the surface of the moon or Mars than our own oceans – so that would seem to me why UFOs are seen regularly coming in and out of water.”
Good point, although Heseltine’s most famous investigation involved the non-water UFO event at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, in 1980. Heseltine has the credentials for his position at ICER — he created the Police Reporting UFO Sightings (PRUFOS) database, and founded or worked for a number of leading UFO publications. That lifetime of UFO research revealed to Heseltine the missing link between aliens, underwater bases and recent military UFO encounters – nuclear power. As he explains in a recent interview with The Sun:
“There is a massive correlation between UFOs being seen near nuclear facilities, whether it’s nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, nuclear weapon storage areas, power plants. This would seem to indicate that it’s as if they’re saying ‘we don’t like nuclear weapons’ so they show up. Maybe they realize we could destroy this beautiful planet. If you think about it if there was World War III and we made toxic all the water then that would affect their habitat. That’s why I think there’s correlation with water – they have bases and we only know 5% of the ocean.”
Heseltine points to the 70-year history of UFO sightings dating back to the time of the Roswell incident as evidence that aliens have “been here all that time, they’re not a threat” and the only reason for the recent uptick in encounters is our own better equipment. However, he believes that “everything is pointing to ET or non-humans,” thus ICER was formed to “start preparing people for a massive psychological change” – one he predicts will happen soon … and from the water rather than the air.
“ICER, a not-for-profit organization, is comprised of scientists, academics and leading UFO/UAP researchers from 27 countries on 5 continents who are unanimous in their recognition that we are not alone in the cosmos.
Based on more than 75 years of research, ICER acknowledges that the UFO/UAP phenomenon is real; it acts with intelligence and is likely to be extraterrestrial/non-human in origin.”
The members list of ICER is a Who’s Who of international UFO researchers. President Dr. Roberto Pinotti is the founder of Italy’s Centro Ufologico Nazionale, former editor of its UFO Magazine, and has organized more than 100 national and international UFO conferences. U.S. representative Donald R. Schmitt is a co-founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico, and former co-director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. Professor Lachezar Filipov of Bulgaria is a Space Astrophysicist and astronaut trainer. Dr Eamonn Ansbro of the Republic of Ireland is an astronomer. (Watch a video of some of them here.) The list goes on and on (see them all here).
Gary Heseltine is certainly correct about the many UFO sightings around nuclear facilities – which many believe are aliens monitoring to make sure we don’t destroy ourselves and the planet. There have been instances of UFO sightings at nuclear missile sites prior to their mysterious shutdowns. The fact that the number of nuclear-powered ships and submarines is rising, and there is increased talk of using nuclear power in spaceships certainly can create a plausible link to the recent sightings around them. Finally, the admission by the military that many of the UFOs seen by Navy personnel are transmedium – videos seem to show them traveling both over and under the water – lends credence to the idea that they came from underwater bases rather than outer space … at least for the recent encounters.
Does it all add up to Unidentified Aquatic Phenomena and Aqua-Terrestrials? Extra-Aquatics? We’ll keep an eye on ICER to find out.
One of the reasons why we don’t always see UFOs is because they’re barely visible, and particularly so when they are flying high in the skies above .There’s another reason for why we sometimes fail to see UFOs. It’s because they are so small. That said, let’s have a look at some UFOs of the small kind. Every now and then a story will surface that is so bizarre, yet also intriguing, that it is almost impossible to categorize. Such a story comes from Janice Bakewell, a woman who encountered a small UFO – as in extremely small – in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England in 1977. Janice was walking through nearby woods with her dog early one morning when she heard a loud buzzing noise that quickly filled her ears – and clearly those of her dog, too. Puzzled, she looked around, but it was all to no avail – at least, for around two minutes. Then, everything became amazingly clear. As if out of nowhere, a small flying saucer appeared before her, hovering at a height of around four feet off the ground, in a small clearing in the trees.
It was circular in shape, silver in color, and had a red band around its middle. And, it was barely four-feet across. She watched, astonished, as the diminutive craft settled to the ground – in decidedly wobbly fashion – and a small door opened. Janice still recalls holding her breath, wondering what might happen next. She soon found out. Out of the door flew three, three-to-four-inches long small humanoid figures: clearly female and glowing brightly, they fluttered around Janice for a minute or two, dressed in silvery mini-skirts! At one point the tiny trio landed on Janice’s right arm, smiled, then flew back into the craft, which shot away into the skies, never to be seen again. Such totally rogue cases are so often dismissed by Ufology; yet they are weirdly engaging and not at all rare. Now, let’s move onto another strange saga.
Rob Freeman is someone who, on January 11, 1999, had a very weird encounter in Staffordshire, England’s Cannock Chase woods; it’s a large area of forest noted for being a magnet for strange activity, including sightings of UFOs, Bigfoot, and a multitude of other, unusual phenomena. Freeman, while taking a long walk in the woods – to burn off the calories ingested over the Christmas period – came across a strange, small ball of metal sitting on a trio of metal legs. The ball was around the size of an average beach-ball, while the legs were about two-feet in length. Somewhat perplexed, Freeman stared at the weird contraption – wondering what on Earth it was. He admitted, however, that its flying saucer-like shape almost immediately had him thinking it was some sort of vehicle – despite its small size. His suspicions were not wrong. In mere seconds after Freeman encountered the curious object, it shot into the sky, and was out of sight in seconds. Despite contacting the local police and also nearby military bases – in an effort to try and determine if the object was something of theirs – Freeman hit a brick wall. For him, at least, the matter was never resolved.
Mavis Allen had a very strange encounter on a particular morning in 1975, in an area of woodland in central England. As Mavis walked her dog through woods near the town of Rugeley, she was amazed to see a circular, black-colored object rolling along the ground in front of her. It was around six feet in circumference and had four protrusions (that Allen referred to as “spikes”) that stuck out from equal points around the middle. Allen stopped in amazement as the object rose slowly and silently, to a height of around fifteen feet and which then shot away at a fast pace. Yet again, a UFO of the hardly big size. There’s no doubt that the cases above stretch credulity. And, yet, I’ve met all three of them. And none of them came across as crazy, as fantasists, or as potential hoaxers. They were just regular people who had close encounters of the extremely tiny kind. Of course, today, things have been made more complicated by the rise in drones – crafts that I suspect have probably been responsible for more than a few reports of small UFOs.
Now and again, I’m asked: how, and under what circumstances, did the saga of the “UFO landing” at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980 begin? And how did it all come tumbling out? On the issue of how Ufology learned of the story, there’s no doubt at all that it was the team of Brenda Butler, Dot Street and Jenny Randles that got the ball rolling. They were the authors of the very first book on the mystery, Sky Crash, which was published in 1984. There is also no doubt that without their combined investigations, our knowledge of the incidents would be nowhere compared to where we are today. Possibly, even, without those three persistent investigators the truth behind those incidents would have remained hidden and locked away. Forever? I would not bet against it. That gives you some idea of the depth and determination of Dot, Jenny and Brenda to get the answers. A bit of background for you on how the story began to surface:
Brenda lived not at all far from the forest and had more than a few contacts in the region. Notably, that included friends who were employees of the U.S. military. It wasn’t one hundred percent inevitable that Brenda would hear tales of something strange having taken place just outside the confines of Royal Air Force Woodbridge and very close to Royal Air Force Bentwaters. It was, however, highly likely that such a thing would eventually occur. And as the history books have shown, such a thing did occur. Dot and Brenda were friends and decided to take a deep and careful look at the story. Jenny Randles joined their team soon after, in early 1981. The three were soon hot on the trail of the story – and barely a month after Lieutenant Colonel Halt had put his memo together for the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense (MoD). And, the three never looked back. It was a story that suggested, just maybe, a spacecraft from a faraway world had come down in the woods. In the world of Ufology, this was a development that could not have been envisaged just a short period earlier.
One of the key sources for the story who the three women relied on – and whose unforgettable words galvanized the trio to look ever deeper into the story – was the pseudonymous “Steve Roberts.” Such was the sensitivity surrounding the man and his story, he was careful to mask his real name. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the very early part of 1981, however. Today, we know so much more. That includes the real name of that prime, early source. Gary Heseltine is a former Royal Air Force Police officer who went on to have a twenty-four-year-long career with the British Transport Police, serving the majority of the time as a detective. Heseltine, who has spent a large amount of time studying what happened in Rendlesham Forest, says: “Surprisingly to this day, many people don’t realize that the mysterious ‘Steve Roberts witness’ has been identified for many years as J. D. Ingles. Ingles was on the base at the time of the incident, a Sergeant in the Reports and Analysis section of the 81st Security Police Squadron.”
It was, to a large degree, the words of their source that caught the attention of Street, Butler and Randles. They did a very good, solid job of pursuing the story. It was soon published. Sky Crash makes for fascinating reading. Shadowy characters, Ministry of Defense chicanery, sinister goings-on in the woods, tales of extraterrestrial visitation, and military figures hiding their real names for fear of what might happen to them, were just the start of things. In the weeks and months that followed, the Ministry of Defense proved to be highly close-mouthed when it came to discussing the December incidents with members of the public and the media. No surprise. They were even more cautious about chatting with an energized team of UFO sleuths who weren’t going to give up. That’s Jenny, Dot and Brenda, of course.
In some ways, the MoD was unable to do very much about it, as wild rumors of the startling events were already seeping out. Eventually matters would develop into a chaotic torrent. To demonstrate how incredibly careful and determined the MoD was to try and keep matters under wraps, it was not until April 13, 1983 that an official admission was made to Jenny Randles that a handful of “lights” had been seen in the vicinity of Rendlesham Forest and that remained “unexplained.” That’s right: two years passed before the rumors of something very strange and non-human having been seen in Rendlesham Forest began to unravel in the world of intelligence and the military. Those who were hiding the truth were now in the dangerous position of losing control of the situation. Almost two months later to the day, a copy of Lieutenant Colonel Halt’s memo was declassified in accordance with the laws of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. It was provided to a now-deceased American UFO investigator, Robert Todd.
In a June 14, 1983 letter to Todd, Colonel Peter Bent – who, at the time, was the Commander of the 513th Combat Support Group (CSG) – made an amazement statement. He said: “It might interest you to know that the U.S. Air Force had no longer retained a copy of the 13 January 1981 letter written by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt. The Air Force file copy had been properly disposed of in accordance with Air Force regulations. Fortunately, through diligent inquiry and the gracious consent of Her Majesty’s government, the British Ministry of Defense and the Royal Air Force, the U.S. Air Force was provided with a copy for you.” It wasn’t long at all before Brenda, Dot and Jenny found themselves in a runaround. Curiously, during the course of an interview with MoD spokeswoman Pam Titchmarsh on August 18, 1983, Randles was told that – contrary to the statement made by Colonel Bent – the Ministry of Defense had not supplied the Americans with a copy of Halt’s memorandum. Notably, Titchmarsh was very wary about discussing the case with Randles, who had made a trip down to London with Street and Butler. “I wouldn’t know,” was Titchmarsh’s uneasy and succinct reply when Randles asked her if the MoD’s “operational staff” had built up their own files on the case.
Nevertheless, since a copy of the Halt memo had been released to Robert Todd by U.S. authorities, Titchmarsh was – at the very least – obliged to admit that her department in the MoD (Defense Secretariat 8) did have a copy of Halt’s report on file. Despite that, the Ministry of Defense denied that the events of December 1980 were of any kind of defense significance. And, it wasn’t long before the media was on the trail of the story, thanks to Brenda, Dot and Jenny.
While those in the U.S. anxiously awaiting the intelligence report on UFOs – which will hopefully shed more light on the UFOs buzzing US military ships and pilots which many have speculated are secret advanced hypersonic vehicles from China – Chinese media reveals that the Chinese military doesn’t bother with pilots and radar and is instead using artificial intelligence to track UFOs in its airspace. The South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong News also describe what they say is the only “officially confirmed” UFO sighting in that country, although a quick search can find more. Is the People’s Liberation Front doing more to track UFOs than the Pentagon? Do they already know more?
“The frequent occurrence of unidentified air conditions in recent years … brings severe challenges to air defence security of our country.”
Some are hard to miss
As with the Pentagon, the People’s Liberation Army has its own term for UFOs — “unidentified air conditions” or UACs. Chen Li from the Air Force Early Warning Academy revealed it in a 2019 report to a conference of senior information technology scientists in Beijing. The PLA’s task force dedicated to UACs uses AI to collect data from multiple sources – both military and media, and no matter how minute it might be – and then painstakingly identify each one, from enemy aircraft to amateur drones to natural occurrences (birds, clouds, etc.) to “other reasons.” Each is then assigned a “threat index” based on behavior, frequency, design, radioactivity, and other data. The article quotes an unnamed radar scientist based in Xian who says the numbers are going up but AI is helping to prove they’re “more likely caused by humans than aliens”.
Well, except for that one in 1998 over an airbase in Cangzhou, Hebei province. News reports at the time described a “short-legged mushroom” with two beams of light shooting down from its underside that easily sped away from two military jets sent to investigate it. While that incident was confirmed, ABC News reported in 2010 on a UFO that shut down Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou for an hour and affected 18 flights. Speculation at the time ranged from a camouflaged US bomber to aliens, and authorities claimed there was a military connection but offered no more info. However, ABC notes there had been many sightings in Xinjiang, Hunan, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces prior to this one.
Remember to bring your cellphone
China’s military was also blamed for reports in 2019 when UFO sightings across multiple provinces coincided with two military exercises in the Bohai Sea and Bohai Straits. Photos showed up on the Internet and there were again reports of previous sightings, but nothing more was said by officials. However, 2019 is when Chen Li and the Air Force Early Warning Academy began referring to UFOs as “unidentified air conditions.” Coincidence? The unnamed radar scientist said citizen drones have become more popular in China and US military activities in the South China Sea have become more common. Does the Chinese military really need artificial intelligence to identify those UACs?
Is it just a coincidence that this article from China comes out as the Pentagon report is nigh and the U.S. media devotes increasing attention to UFOs? Will Russia be next?
What do the aliens on the short-legged mushroom think?
According to the Seri tribe, from the desert of Sonora, Mexico – they have been in contact with aliens for generations. #Aliens #UfoSighting #Disclosure
They live in under ground cities, in the ocean and Antarctica. Lots of info out there. Many ancestors speak of “portals” or physical “doorways” that can only be used if you reached a different level on consciousness. AK 1776
Above Majestic | Prepare For Change | The Implication Of A Secret Space Program
Above Majestic | Prepare For Change | The Implication Of A Secret Space Program
“Above Majestic”: A look at the origins, history and conspiracies behind the “Majestic 12”, a clandestine group of military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.
Narrated by Jordan Sather, Above Majestic is a shocking and proactive look at what it would take to hide a multi-trillion dollar space program from the public and the implications this would have for humanity.
MJ-12 or “Majestic 12” refers to a clandestine group of elite military and corporate figureheads. Appointed by Harry S. Truman is 1952, they were to handle and manage all information related to extraterrestrial craft retrieval and the reverse engineering of technology.
How were this compartmentalized and unacknowledged Special Access Programs funded over the decades? What technologies have they developed and at what price to humanity?
UFOs Sighted From Mexico City to Cancún, Mexico ( June 4, 2021 )
STATEMENT : O v n i s Vuelo de CD de México a Cancún Increíble... minutos antes dije "imagínate que viéramos unos ovnis ahorita aquí por la ventanilla"... Y veo esto....
TRANSLATE :O v n i s Flight from CD Mexico to Cancun Amazing... minutes before I said ′′ Imagine we saw some UFOs right now out the window "... And I see this....
note : no audio
credit : Porque Yo Amo A Cancún. A.C
UFOs Sighted From ISS ( June 5, 2021 )
UFOs captured by UFO researcher Rafael Navarro Ferrari : here are two examples of his captures both captured on June 5, 2021. STATEMENT : Ya llegaron..! : They have arrived..!
UFO Sighted Over Venezuela ( June 4, 2021 )
Los Teques, Venezuela
STATEMENT :What a beauty this is a show.The lightning of the Catatumbo in the early morning today vibrated like never Only in Venezuela you see this. ORIGINAL: Que Belleza esto es un Espectáculo. El relámpago del Catatumbo en la madrugada de hoy vibro como nunca Solo en Venezuela 🇻🇪 se ve esto
credit : Keila Flowerzitha
UFO Sighted Over Omaha, Nebraska ( June 5, 2021 )
STATEMENT : UFO spotted in Omaha Nebraska
VIDEO 2 : SLC, Utah two days ago. What do you guys think?
VIDEO 3 :Was watching the Space X launch and noticed this.
credit : VIDEO 1 : Lucio Suen : Omaha, Nebraska
VIDEO 2: Madison Magleby Chichia : Provo, Utah : note : no audio
VIDEO 3 : Ryan Poelman : Grand Rapids, Michigan
UFO Sighted Over Wrocław, Poland ( May 22, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Ja w sobotę widziałem UFO w centrum Wrocka!
TRANSLATE : On Saturday, I also saw a UFO in the center of Wrock! a tak patrząc gołym okiem jak to wyglądało? Faktycznie wydawało się duże : and looking with the naked eye, how did it look It did seem big
credit : Piotr Pe
UFO sighted Over Seongnam-si, Korea ( June 4, 2021 )
STATEMENT : VIDEO 1 : UFO ? KOREA Seoul city
VIDEO 2 : Unidentified flying object 2021.06.04 (Seongnam) UFO unidentified flying objectJune 4, 2021 around 8:30 PM Northwest direction from Geumgwang-dong, Seongnam From the upper left of Namsan Tower in Seoul By moving toward Inwangsan and Bukaksan show
ORIGINAL :ufo 미확인비행물체 2021.06.04 (성남) ufo 미확인 비행물체 2021년 6월 4일 오후 8시30분경 성남 금광동에서 북서쪽방향 서울 남산타워 왼쪽 상공쪽에서 인왕산, 북악산쪽 방향으로 이동하는것으로 보임 1:07~ 확대영상 구형 발광체가 매우 빠르게 회전하는 모습이 보인다
ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER VIDEO 1 : 은준 김 ( Eun-Jun Kim )
MUFON CASE : 116043 Moores Hill, Indiana ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Fireball crossed road above tree tops the changed direction. Long Description of Sighting Report
My husband and I were on our way home and he first observed a fireball maybe a little bigger than a basket ball cross in front of our truck. At that point I literally hung out my window taking picts snd video. What we witnessed was unbelievable and amazing at the same time. Once it crossed the road it stopped and switch directions. It seemed to be following us and stayed maybe 10 ft above the tree line. I tried zooming my camera but the more I zoomed the further away it looked. I’ve never had my camera do that before. My pictures and video look further than what the object really was. My first picture is the orange ball but when you zoom the picture in you can see a lighter color almost like a vortex and the outside you can almost see energy around it. My 2nd picture with the lines and ending pints is NOT what I saw when taking the picture! It was huge like a hexagon shape about the size of a helicopter! There were no wings no propellers there’s was nothing but a huge hexagon surrounded by lights with different shapes inside all connected by lights! It was so bizarre because what I saw is NOT what I got on the picture!! My video isn’t the best (keep in mind I was hanging out of my truck window while my husband was driving) but you can see the light in the corner that follows us until we get to the clearing then it stops. It flashed several times then was gone!! Just disappeared! I do have 1 other witness that saw the fireball less than 5 mins later but he was driving and didn’t have time to get a picture. He was also the next town over. Less than two minutes later my husband and I made it home and I was excited telling my son about what we saw and showing him the picts and video. While telling him his cell phone rang and it was a friend of his yelling in the phone saying he had just saw a UFO! What makes this so odd is his friend was on his way over to hang out with my son when he saw what we had! I placed my pics and video to Facebook and no one else in our area has seen anything except for My husband and I, and a friend of my son that was already on his way to my home! I NEED to understand what we saw and why!!!??
Date Submitted :2021-06-05 Date of Event : 2021-05-29 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE :trim.85A559C9CEC9405AAF6B7BE225A492FC.MOV
MUFON CASE : 116040 Noida, India ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : A ball of Fire, like an orb hovering above ground Long Description of Sighting Report
A yellowish orange orb or a ball of fire hovering above the ground during night time. I recorded it on camera. The orb was frozen in the air and did not move at all. 13th March 2020
Date Submitted : 2021-06-05 Date of Event : 2020-13-03 / 8:00PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : VID20200313200620.mp4
MUFON CASE : 116034 Omaha, Nebraska ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : White somewhat stationary dot in the sky since 2:00 pm. Didn’t move from its spot much.
Long Description of Sighting Report
My friend Zach, who lives in Millard Nebraska, called me up saying that he saw a white, star-like dot in the sky at around 2:00 PM. My friend Derek and I went to inspect but we didn’t see anything as it was really bright outside. He took a picture and sent it to me. At around 7:00 pm Derek and I went to look again and we clearly saw the white dot he was talking about. I opened my Star Map on my phone and pointed it at the direction of the object, there were no obvious Star/Planet candidates for the light. Venus and Mars were not visible at that time. I got my brother Chris and his girlfriend Monnie to come look at the object and they could clearly see it as well. I then called my other brother Zakk who was in Bellevue Nebraska to see if he could see it. He did, and he had a set of binoculars but they did not help much. As the Sun set the dot became less white and more red-ish over time, like it was reflecting the color off the sunset. I lied down on the grass to stabilize my viewing of the object and noticed a slight Z-like pattern of motion.
As the sun finished setting the object dimmed until it could not be seen anymore, and the stars eventually came out. The object was gone. It was almost as if there was something reflective floating very high in the atmosphere in roughly the same spot all day. Both Zach and I took pictures and video of the object, He sent me a few of the pictures that he took at 2:00 pm and I have video from around 8:00 pm. I would usually say it’s probably some sort of balloon but since three different people all across the spread-out area saw it, it’s a bit more curious.
MUFON CASE : 116033 Bloomington, Minnesota ( June 5, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Several (slow) flickering lights in the sky Long Description of Sighting Report
Spotted some weird lights in the sky that dimmed on and off ... these are two different clips pieced together of the same lights in the sky, from two vantage points.
Sighting took place on May 29, 2021 at approx 9:30 pm at Bush Lake Park in Bloomington, MN. Lights observed approx 30 mins. No sound, just lights. I actually left before lights completed disappeared so duration of lights in the sky was longer than 30 mins.
Video recorded with an IPhone
The ONLY edits to these clips are: sound removed, two video clips combined into one to show you the two vantage points, and clip sped up so you can see lights change a little better (it’s more obvious when video is sped up). Original footage is over 7 mins long.
Date Submitted : 2021-06-05 Date of Event : 2021-05-29 / 9:30PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.EF21A8B567C942388F51DDB9D8330CE0.MOV
NASA's new top administrator is directing the agency's scientists to investigate unidentified flying objects, just a month after taking charge of the agency.
Bill Nelson, the former Florida senator who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, says there is no evidence yet that extraterrestrials have visited Earth, telling CNN on Thursday: 'I think I would know.'
But, as the Pentagon prepares to release a highly anticipated UFO report that does not rule out an extraterrestrial origin for high-profile military sightings, Nelson agrees that the possibility remains open.
'We don't know if it's extraterrestrial. We don't know if it's an enemy. We don't know if it's an optical phenomenon,' Nelson told CNN of encounters filmed by Navy pilots.
'We don't think [it's an optical phenomenon] because of the characteristics that those Navy jet pilots described ... And so the bottom line is, we want to know,' he said.
NASA's new top administrator Bill Nelson is encouraging the agency's scientists to investigate unidentified flying objects as they see fit
The so-called Gimbal video, from 2015, shows Navy pilot footage of an unexplained object seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds at incredible speeds
NASA press secretary Jackie McGuinness told the outlet that Nelson has not established a formal task force to begin investigating UFOs, but did direct researchers to move forward investigating the topic as they see fit.
'This is a really interesting phenomenon and Americans are clearly interested in it [so if] the scientists want to investigate, they should,' said McGuinness.
Meanwhile, Federal Aviation Administration' database of drone-related incident has been revealed to include some unusual incidents.
The majority of the 10,000 incidents from the past 10 years appear to be related to encounters with commercial drones in restricted airspace -- but some suggest advanced capabilities including high-altitude operations.
An analysis of the incident database by The Drive found a curious pattern, with clusters of encounters occurring off the coast of the southeast U.S. and in the southwest.
One report in 2017 cited as many as eight unidentified aircraft operating in sensitive airspace off the East Coast.
It comes as the Pentagon faces a June 25 deadline to release its UFO report to Congress.
A NASA launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida is seen in April. Nelson is asking NASA scientists to investigate UFO sightings as they see fit
Two officials briefed on the report say the U.S. government cannot give a definitive explanation of the 'unidentified aerial phenomena' -- better known as UFOs -- spotted by military pilots.
Investigators have found no evidence the sightings are linked to aliens - but can´t deny a link either.
The report also doesn´t rule out that what pilots have seen may be new technologies developed by other countries. One of the officials said there is no indication the unexplained phenomena are from secret U.S. programs.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Findings of the report were first published by The New York Times.
The report examines multiple unexplained sightings from recent years that in some cases have been captured on video of pilots exclaiming about objects flying in front of them.
Congress in December required the Director of National Intelligence to summarize and report on the U.S. government´s knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs - better known to the public as unidentified flying objects or UFOs.
The effort has included a Defense Department UAP task force established last year. The expected public release of an unclassified version of the report this month will amount to a status report, not the final word, according to one official.
A Pentagon spokeswoman, Sue Gough, declined Friday to comment on news stories about the intelligence report. She said the Pentagon's UAP task force is 'actively working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the report, and DNI will provide the findings to Congress.'
Video showing an unidentified flying object splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego two years ago has now been corroborated by military radar which shows a ship, the USS Omaha, being swarmed by aerial phenomena in July 2019. The image above shows nine unexplained objects - some of which were traveling at speeds in excess of 160mph
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, when asked about the report, said of the question at first, 'It´s always a little wacky on Fridays.' But she added, 'I will say that we take reports of incursions into our airspace by any aircraft - identified or unidentified - very seriously and investigate each one.'
The Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency have for decades looked into reports of aircraft or other objects in the sky flying at inexplicable speeds or trajectories.
The U.S. government takes unidentified aerial phenomena seriously given the potential national security risk of an adversary flying novel technology over a military base or another sensitive site, or the prospect of a Russian or Chinese development exceeding current U.S. capabilities. This also is seen by the U.S. military as a security and safety issue, given that in many cases the pilots who reported seeing unexplained aerial phenomena were conducting combat training flights.
The report's lack of firm conclusions will likely disappoint people anticipating the report, given many Americans' long-standing fascination with UFOs and the prospect of aliens having reached humankind. A recent story on CBS' '60 Minutes' further bolstered interest in the government report.
Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon´s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said the one official's claim that there was no indicated link to secret U.S. programs would be significant. But he called on the government to be fully transparent.
'I think that our tax dollars paid for information and data involving UFOs,' Elizondo said. 'And I think it is the U.S. government´s obligation to provide those results to the American people.'
But skeptics caution that the videos and reported sightings have plausible Earth-bound explanations. Mick West, an author, investigator and longtime skeptic of UFO sightings, said he supported the military looking into any possible incursion of U.S. airspace, especially by an adversary.
'People are conflating this issue with the idea that these UFOs demonstrate amazing physics and possibly even aliens,' West said. 'The idea that this is some kind of secret warp drive or it´s defying physics as we know it, there really isn´t any good evidence for that.'
The Pentagon last year announced a task force to investigate the issue, and the Navy in recent years created a protocol for its pilots to report any possible sightings. And lawmakers in recent years have pushed for more public disclosure.
'There´s a stigma on Capitol Hill,' Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, told '60 Minutes' in May.
'I mean, some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic and some kind of, you know, giggle when you bring it up. But I don´t think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question.'
Harry Reid demands report on UFOs to be released by Senate Intelligence Committee and say's he has 'no problem' if aliens exist
Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid has penned an article demanding the Senate Intelligence Committee release a report on UFOs lawmakers have commissioned
Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid recently penned an article demanding that the Senate Intelligence Committee release a report on UFOs lawmakers have commissioned.
Reid, 81, also detailed in his article for The New York Times how the former Senate Majority Leader became 'increasingly interested in UFOs' and said he has 'no problem' if aliens exist.
In December, Sen. Marco Rubio - then-acting head of the Senate Intelligence Committee - called for Pentagon reports into the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) to be declassified. The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force has until June to report its findings to Congress.
'I believe that there is information uncovered by the government's covert investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena that can be disclosed to the public without harming our national security,' Reid wrote for The New York Times.
'The American people deserve to know more — and hopefully they will soon, with the release of a comprehensive government report requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the military's encounters with UFOs.'
He added: 'Let me be clear: I have never intended to prove that life beyond Earth exists. But if science proves that it does, I have no problem with that. Because the more I learn, the more I realize that there's still so much I don't know.'
In the article, Reid described first becoming interested in unidentified aerial phenomena, what most people refer to as UFOs, in 1996 after being invited to a conference on topic by an investigative reporter for KLAS-TV.
He said his interest in UFOs grew through conversations with former astronaut John Glenn, a fellow senator, but his staff warned him 'stay the hell away' from the topic publicly.
'I politely ignored them. I was inquisitive and, like Senator Glenn, I thought it was an issue that demanded attention, and I was in a position to act,' he said.
Reid, while serving as Senate Majority Leader in 2007, worked to secure $22 million in funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
'This clandestine Pentagon operation investigated reports of UFOs and other related phenomena, including UFO encounters involving American military personnel,' he wrote.
Reid noted that program no longer exists but the government continues to study UFOs through the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.
He said that, as a senator, he visited Area 51 and saw classified information that fascinated him.
The top-secret Air Force testing site in southern Nevada has long associated with UFOs and related 'conspiracy theories' in popular culture. Reid noted that its existence wasn't publicly acknowledged by the U.S. Government until 2013.
'What I saw fascinated me, though much of it must remain classified. During one visit I traveled a short distance to the facility that housed the Air Force's secret new stealth fighters,' Reid wrote.
Reid explained that 'there's still a great deal we don't understand' but UFOs and it remains unclear how to explain some of these 'strange sightings' scientifically.
We have some good news and some interesting news about the much-anticipated government intelligence report on UFOs ‘promised’ to be released this month. The good news is, it definitely exists, according to anonymous senior administration officials who told The New York Times that they have been briefed on it. The interesting news is …
“The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology, the officials said.”
“And while a forthcoming unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by June 25, will present few other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.”
Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper from the “All the UFO News That’s Fit to Print” newspaper reveal that the report looks at over 120 incidents over the past two decades, including many similar to the publicized incidents in 2004 and 2019 involving Navy pilots, ships and personnel that are backed up with radar, photo and video records. Many of the elected officials who have been peppered with questions ahead of the report have said their main concern is airspace security, and the Times reporters said officials who received the briefing admitted it could be experimental technology – possibly hypersonic — most likely from Russia or China. In particular, they looked at the 2004 “Tic Tac” which was estimated to be “about the size of a commercial plane” which one of the pilots, Cmdr. David Fravor, said to The Times “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen.”
Unfortunately, that’s all the Times reporters revealed. Inverse interviewed Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director at the Chicago-based Center for UFO Studies, who agreed the report will be inconclusive and will probably focus on mostly military sightings. He listed three of what he believes are the strongest UFO cases, which may not have been reviewed because they’re out of the two-decade range of the report.
On November 2, 1971, a mushroom-shaped craft was reported in Delphos, Kansas. The witness claimed he was temporarily blinded by its light, and his mother took a Polaroid photo allegedly showing the ground still glowing a day after the incident. The soil was analyzed and an organic compound was identified.
On October 18, 1973, a UFO was spotted near Charles Mill Lake near Mansfield, Ohio, by an Army Reserve helicopter pilot and a crew of four enlisted men. The crew claimed the UFO was headed for a collision, then bathed the chopper in a bright green light and took off. The UFO was also reported by witnesses on the ground.
From 1983 to 1986, thousands of people in New York and Connecticut reported seeing a slow-moving, low-flying V-shaped craft that was nicknamed the Westchester Boomerang. Despite all those sightings, no explanation was ever given.
Rodeghier sounds like he’s prepared to be disappointed by the report, but hopes it spurs more witnesses to come forward and more pilots to report unusual sightings.
When it comes to waiting for this report, I’m not saying it’s frustrating … but it’s frustrating.
UFOs may not be coming from space - but rather from beneath the sea amid a string of strange encounters involving US warships, a former cop turned investigator has claimed.
Gary Heseltine is the vice president of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial ResearchCredit: Gary Heseltine
He told The Sun Online recent videos showing encounters between the US Navy and UFOs along with a Pentagon investigation are game changers that pave the way to finally explain the unexplained.
"UFOs are often seen coming in and out of water so suspect that in our deepest oceans and trenches we may well have alien bases," Mr Heseltine said.
"That sounds crazy but if you think about it we only know 5 per cent of ocean, we know more about the surface of the moon or Mars than our own oceans - so that would seem to me why UFOs are seen regularly coming in and out of water."
Mr Heseltine spent six years working with the Royal Air Force police, 24 years with the British Transport Police, and launched a national database for UFO sightings for cops whiles till a serving officer in 2002 - before retiring from the force in 2013 to focus on his research.
US intelligence officials have been ordered to compile a dossier on UFOs for Congress after a flurry of videos filmed by US Navy and Air Force personnel were leaked - and the report is due for release this month.
Strange videos show encounters with objects which appear to defy all conventional understanding of how aircraft move - with the most recent showing 14 UFOS swarming the USS Omaha.
UFOs - now more commonly referred to in scientific and intelligence circles as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) - have stepped from being fringe conspiracy theories to a genuine security concern.
And with eager UFO enthusiasts eagerly awaiting the US report compiled by the US Congress, ICER was formed to highlight the global implications that these UFOs could be "non-human intelligence".
Mr Heseltine also added there appears to be a correlation between UFO encounters and the world's nuclear capabilities.
He told The Sun Online: "There is a massive correlation between UFOs being seen near nuclear facilities, whether it's nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, nuclear weapon storage areas, power plants.
"This would seem to indicate that it's as if they're saying 'we don't like nuclear weapons' so they show up.
"Maybe they realise we could destroy this beautiful planet."
Leaked footage from the USS Omaha appears to show a UFO plunging into the ocean
Drawing together the nuclear and underwater theories, Mr Heseltine said: "If you think about it if there was World War 3 and we made toxic all the water then that would affect their habitat.
"That's why I think think there's correlation with water - they have bases and we only know 5% of the ocean."
UAPs have become a hot topic issue as the deadline approaches for the report, with more and more US military footage leaking and pressure mounting on governments to come clean.
And so far there are no definitive public answers as to what appears to be happening in our skies.
However, US officials have started taking the unprecedented step of confirming the authenticity of strange videos filmed by warships and warplanes.
And they have admitted they do not know the origin of the unusual objects as calls grow in the US for widespread disclosure to figure out what - if anything - the world's governments are hiding on UFOs.
Competing theories on the strange videos continue to rage – with some grounded on Earth claiming the videos capture never-before-seen military aircraft or drones, while others claim it shows otherworldly craft possibly piloted by aliens.
Others however are more skeptical and sometimes even dismissive, claiming the bizarre videos may just be camera tricks, natural phenomena or even outright hoaxes.
Screenshot from the eriee and unexplained 'Tic Tac' video filmed by the US Navy and released by the Pentagon
Another US Navy video called 'Go Fast' which shows a UFO being tracked
Screenshot from the 'Gimbal' UFO video which includes US Navy pilots exclaiming 'look at that thing!'
“We know that ultimately this conversation will lead to confirmation that we’re being engaged with some kinds of intelligence that is likely to be extraterrestrial,” Mr Heseltine told The Sun Online.
“The things that are being described now were seen and being described in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
“Nothing has changed all we have is better technical equipment like video on aircraft so we can pick things up easier, that’s why it’s being seen more.
“We are saying you’ve got to start preparing people for a massive psychological change – whether it’s now or six months or a year’s time everything is pointing to ET or non-humans.
“Through awareness programmes we want to prepare people for the shock of this new reality on a global scale because 95 per cent of the world is in ignorance about it.
“Seventy years of past history would say they’ve been here all that time, they’re not a threat."
He explained ICER wants to make sure the public are ready for any potentially bombshell revelations on UFO, saying "we should be preparing the world now".
Mr Heseltine added ICER is working towards being an NGO that has United Nations special consultative status
What is going on with UFOs in the US?
UFOS have stepped from fringe conspiracy theories to a genuine national security debate in the US.
Pentagon officials last year took the unprecedented step to release of trio of remarkable videos which showed US encounters with UFOs.
The debate is still open as to what the phenomena caught on film were – but it made clear to everyone, something is in the skies.
Perhaps the most striking was a video known as the “Tic Tac” – which showed an unidentified object being pursued by fighter planes.
The US also confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – a Pentagon programme set up to study UFOs before being disbanded in 2017.
However, it was replaced by the UAP Task Force in June 2020 after a vote by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Defence chiefs have since confirmed a number of leaked UFO videos and photos which were submitted to the Task Force for investigation.
Why this sudden rush for transparency?
No outside the secretive wings of the US government currently knows for sure.
And as a tacked on addendum to a 5,500 page Covid relief bill passed in December, the the Director of National Intelligence’s office was ordered to compile a report on UFOs within 180 days.
Former intelligence director John Ratcliffe has hinted the report will be a big deal – and we now just over a month away from its release.
US intelligence services officially closed the book on the phenomena in 1969 at the conclusion Project Blue Book - which stated there was nothing to see regarding UFOs.
However, in the last three years there has been an abrupt turnaround as the Pentagon took the unprecedented step of releasing three stunning UFO videos filmed by the US Navy.
He said: "What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory.
"They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.
Investigators compiling a report to Congress due later this month are said to have found no evidence to suggest the UAPs are linked to alien spacecraft, nor are they in a position to explain what has been reported by U.S. military pilots in encounters over the years, the three officials said.
One of the officials told ABC News that some of the dozens of incidents involving UAPs were able to be explained, for example as weather balloons or as atmospheric conditions, but other incidents were not able to be explained.
A fourth official said that investigators have also ruled out the possibility that UAPs are related to any secret U.S. military technology, or so-called "black programs."
At the Pentagon, a top spokesman declined to comment on press reports about what was included in the upcoming report.
"I'm not going to get ahead of a report that hasn't been filed to Congress, and I'm certainly not going to speak about intelligence issues here from the podium," said John Kirby, the Pentagon's top spokesman. "I've seen the press reporting, but I'm not going to be able to comment beyond that."
Kirby said the UAPs are taken seriously since safety concerns have been raised by incursions into aerial training areas where some of the incidents were documented. The spokesman also confirmed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been briefed on the progress of the report.
Meanwhile, weapons experts are casting doubt on the possibility that the sightings are hypersonic technology belonging to America's foreign adversaries.
These developments further muddle the list of possible explanations for UAP sightings, which have consumed the national conversation in anticipation of a report due later this month from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and a Pentagon task force focused on the issue.
In the absence of answers, experts and former government officials have coalesced around two competing theories for the UAP sightings: they could either be extraterrestrial in nature, or they could be experimental military materiel belonging to Russia or China.
Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and retired CIA officer, said that either way, "these need to be investigated."
"These objects appear to exceed our military capabilities," said Mulroy, now an ABC News contributor. "We need to determine who this is and what capabilities they possess. It is never a good thing to discover you are vastly behind in technology. From a national security perspective, we cannot presume benevolence – whether terrestrial in origin or not."
A New York Times report cited a U.S. official as suggesting that the UAPs could be Russian or Chinese military assets experimenting with hypersonic aircraft or weapons – advanced technology that would allow objects to fly at unfathomable speeds.
In recent years, both China and Russia have "accelerated" their hypersonic research and development programs, according to a report prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in April. The race for hypersonic technology is high stakes, and experts fear the Chinese and the Russians are making progress.
"Open-source reporting indicates that both China and Russia have conducted numerous successful tests of hypersonic glide vehicles and likely fielded an operational capability," the report read.
Weapons experts, however, are wary of a hypersonic explanation for the UAP anomalies.
"I would be very skeptical about the hypersonic theory," said Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher specializing in advanced weapons at the United Nations.
Video evidence of the UAPs released by the Pentagon shows Tic Tac-shaped objects flying at superfast speeds and abruptly changing directions. Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, told the CBS News program "60 Minutes" last month that he saw the objects "every day for at least a couple of years" off the Atlantic coast.
David Fravor, another naval aviator, described a 2004 encounter he had with one of the Tic Tac-shaped UAPs off the coast of southern California.
"The Tic Tac's still pointing north-south, it goes, click, and just turns abruptly. And starts mirroring me. So as I'm coming down, it starts coming up," Fravor said. "And it's climbing still. And when it gets right in front of me, it just disappears."
Kelley Sayler, the author of the Congressional Research Service report, told ABC News that she is "not aware of any hypersonic weapon or aircraft that behaves in the manner depicted in the videos."
Podvig, the U.N. researcher, echoed that sentiment.
"Any object moving at hypersonic speed would generate a strong infrared signature, which doesn't seem to be visible in images of these UAPs," Podvig explained.
"It would also create a shock wave and sonic boom, which doesn't seem to happen in these images, either. Further, a hypersonic object would not be very maneuverable -- it can change a trajectory somewhat, but cannot do sudden turns, not to mention stops," Podvig said.
With no clear earth-bound explanation for the UAPs -- and with the recent dismissal of some previously accepted alternative theories – so-called ufologists have elevated the prospect that these unexplained sightings reflect extraterrestrial interactions.
Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon official who has led the charge for further investigation into the UAPs, tweeted on Friday that "It is likely that there is not a single explanation for all of this."
For its part, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Friday that the report is "not in the conclusion phase, as I understand."
"I will say that we take reports of encouragement incursions into our airspace by any aircraft identified or unidentified very seriously and investigate each one," she said.
She said President Joe Biden had not been briefed on the upcoming report.
The U.S. Congress is due to receive a report on UFOs this month. PHOTO BY TORONTO SUN FILES /Toronto Sun
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Evidence appears to be mounting that, in fact, we are definitely not alone.
U.S. defence department officials are preparing to present Congress with a bombshell report outlining UFO secrets the government has kept a tight lid on for decades.
And new radar footage has been released of apparent UFOs swarming an American warship off the California coast in 2019.
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell leaked the latest video, claiming the video was filmed in the combat information centre of the ship on July 15, 2019.
Footage taken aboard the USS Omaha shows an unknown object flying over the ship before it disappeared into the ocean.
Corbell tweeted: “This is corroborative electro-optic data demonstrating a significant UFO event series in a warning area off San Diego.”
In Canada, as well, there has been an increase in UFO sightings. And interest.
In Alberta, authorities received nearly 900,000 calls last year, according to the RCMP.
“There were definitely some themes about unusual UFO sightings and satellites,” Tracy Duval, acting operations manager in Red Deer, Alta., told The Canadian Press.
“We were getting a lot of calls with the SpaceX satellite launches. They’re a very specific pattern in the sky, they’re not hitting the ground, and we can just explain very quickly to people that there are actual satellites in there.”
Lue Elizondo, a former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, filed a complaint against the Pentagon last week.
He claims officials attempted to smear his character when he leaked evidence of UFOs. But he said things are changing — and fast.
“The level of interest is reaching a critical mass,” Elizondo told the New York Post.
“I think (government officials realize that) it would be like putting the cat back in the bag or like putting toothpaste back in the tube. Now that the government has acknowledged the reality of unexplained aerial phenomenon … it’s going to be real hard to backtrack.”
Now, the U.S., the government has reversed its decades-long official stand of ignoring UFOs which have even been given a new acronym: UAPs or unidentified aerial phenomenon.
And the U.S. navy has confirmed that the photos and video taken aboard the Omaha were shot by sailors on the ship. They are not fakes.
“I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by navy personnel,” Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough said in a statement to the Black Vault.
The latest unclassified clip shows sailors observing as many as nine UFOs swarming the vessel at what appears to be speeds of around 260 km/h.
Earlier, the Pentagon confirmed that an 18-second video of three UFOs hovering over the USS Russell in July 2019 is also authentic. That, too, was leaked by Corbell.
“Luckily we have footage from the CIC [combat information center] that was obtained by a crew that was specifically called in to film these anomalous events,” Corbell told associate, KLAS-TV Las Vegas reporter George Knapp on Knapp’s paranormal-focused show Mystery Wire.
In addition, Corbell said at one point during the encounter, at least 14 UFOs were seen on radar.
“It supports the hypothesis that these are not just a balloon that is dropping into the water, it’s not something that is easily explained, these are true unidentifieds in mass number,” he said.
During July 2019, there were a series of encounters involving nine American navy ships stationed in the Pacific Ocean, he said.
“The objects are truly of unknown origins,” Knapp said.
“If they are foreign drones, they displayed abilities to exceed our own technologies, anything we know of, that is, and some of them appeared to be transmedium craft: They could fly in the air, they could enter the ocean, travel through water as easy as they travel through air.”
The truth is out there. And now, finally governments appear ready to play ball.
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UFO Sighted Over Anstey, Leicestershire, England ( June 4, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Poker player hedges bets on whether he saw UFO or bin bag in sky over Leicestershire
'Since I filmed this thing I have been having real technology problems' Professional poker player Mason Kanabar is hedging his bets on whether he saw a UFO or not.
The 23-year-old filmed a mysterious black object as it travelled across the sky above Leicestershire. Mason, who lives in Anstey, said he videoed the strange sight in his back garden at 8.05pm on bank holiday Monday May 31.
“I was just chilling in the garden having a smoke when this thing caught my eye.
“It seemed to flicker so I grabbed my phone and filmed it.
“I have no idea what it was but it was odd for sure.
“I did not hear any sound. It just travelled weirdly across the sky.”
credit : Mason Kanabar
UFO Sighted Over Jangkar Beach, Indonesia ( May 26, 2021 )
A long, black object plunged from the sky at Jangkar Beach in East Java, Indonesia STATEMENT : WHAT WAS THAT?Mystery as anchor-shaped UFO leaves trail of smoke before crashing into sea off Indonesia
The bizarre footage of the long, black object plunging into the water was filmed at Jangkar Beach in East Java - with some people claiming it was a damaged UFO.
The spooky object was swallowed by the waves shortly after crashing into the sea.
Facebook user Kh Popeye Watermelon shared the clip and asked: "What is this anchor-like thing that fell from the sky?"
Gabriel Notonegoro said: "Maybe it was fairy who lost her wings and forgot her way home? Lol."
YouTube user Roy Valen commented: "Mysterious!"
Emanuel Sungging Mumpungi, from Indonesia's government space agency, said it was aware of the footage and a team had been sent to the location.
"We are still waiting for the location team to confirm," Mumpungi said.
credit : www.thesun.co.uk/news
UFO Sighted Over Hanoi, Vietnam ( June 1, 2021 )
This Stunning Sighting of an UFO in Hanoi, Vietnam was taken on June 1, 2021 was made from a surveillance camera and reported on television.
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UFO Sighted Over San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico ( June 2, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Ustedes juzguen,,, vídeo tomado en un poblado cercano a las pirámides de Teotihuacán TRANSLATE : You judge,,, video taken in a town close to the pyramids of Teotihuacán
ARing cam in Southbury, Connecticut captured a strange ray of lights. It does look like it came from a wooded area.
As it flying towards the cam you can see the reflection of the object on the paved driveway when it gets to the garage as if it’s going to go over it. Source: www.mufon.com
Several slow flickering UFOs in the sky over Bloomington, Minnesota 29-May-2021
Several slow flickering UFOs in the sky over Bloomington, Minnesota 29-May-2021
This strange UFO activity was filmed in the sky above Bloomington, Minnesota on 29th April 2021.
Witness report:
Spotted some weird lights in the sky that dimmed on and off … these are two different clips pieced together of the same lights in the sky, from two vantage points. Sighting took place on May 29, 2021 at approx 9:30 pm at Bush Lake Park in Bloomington, MN. Lights observed approx 30 mins. No sound, just lights. I actually left before lights completed disappeared so duration of lights in the sky was longer than 30 mins. Video recorded with an IPhone. The ONLY edits to these clips are: sound removed, two video clips combined into one to show you the two vantage points, and clip sped up so you can see lights change a little better (it’s more obvious when video is sped up). Original footage is over 7 mins long.
Glowing Object At North Miami Beach, Florida UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Object At North Miami Beach, Florida UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 29, 2021
Location of sighting: North Miami, Florida, USA
Watch this raw footage at a Miami beach where a glowing green light was seen moving around the surface near a pier. The glowing light moved about and even changed its shape but always glowing this bright green. Its a well known fact that UFOs do sometimes glow due to the propulsion systems. Its also a well known fact that UFOs can move as easily though space as it can through the air and water. Many such UFOs have been seen leaving and entering the ocean in past reports. This...is more proof that there is an alien base 4-6km below Florida.
I was searching through some old NASA moon photos when I found something that really caught my interest. A face in the center of the crater. The object is a carved face that closely resembles humans, but its wearing or growing two huge horns from its head. The horns are bent backwards a little bit as if they grew from the being. Also the horns are hollow, indicated from the shadows and openings...since one of the horns is cracked across its middle. The whole face and horns are a structure created to celebrate, commemorate and hold highly the person or species it was created to represent. The structure is hollow and was made to be a shrine or temple of some sort. For its horns to be broken, it must be thousands of years old. I love the bold look of the huge horns...it represents fearlessness, stubbornness and power.
I also found a horse statue not far away. It was laying down on the ground, made of the same white material and its long face, ears, neck back, hind area, and front two folded legs are all easily visible. Horses and horned warriors...almost sounds like vikings. Maybe aliens influenced Vikings here on earth, or perhaps the Vikings influenced the aliens who visited them.
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NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
by Marcia Dunn
This image made available by NASA shows the planet Venus made with data from the Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, NASA's new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system's hottest planet, during his first major address to employees. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP
NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds.
The space agency's new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system's hottest planet, during his first major address to employees Wednesday.
"These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface," Nelson said.
One mission named DaVinci Plus will analyze the thick, cloudy Venusian atmosphere in an attempt to determine whether the inferno planet ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable. A small craft will plunge through the atmosphere to measure the gases.
It will be the first U.S.-led mission to the Venusian atmosphere since 1978.
The other mission, called Veritas, will seek a geologic history by mapping the rocky planet's surface.
"It is astounding how little we know about Venus," but the new missions will give fresh views of the planet's atmosphere, made up mostly of carbon dioxide, down to the core, NASA scientist Tom Wagner said in a statement. "It will be as if we have rediscovered the planet."
NASA's top science official, Thomas Zurbuchen, calls it "a new decade of Venus." Each mission—launching sometime around 2028 to 2030—will receive $500 million for development under NASA's Discovery program.
The missions beat out two other proposed projects, to Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's icy moon Triton.
The U.S. and the former Soviet Union sent multiple spacecraft to Venus in the early days of space exploration. NASA's Mariner 2 performed the first successful flyby in 1962, and the Soviets' Venera 7 made the first successful landing in 1970.
In 1989, NASA used a space shuttle to send its Magellan spacecraft into orbit around Venus.
The European Space Agency put a spacecraft around Venus in 2006.
4,000-year-old alien craft found in the Grand Canyon?
4,000-year-old alien craft found in the Grand Canyon?
The Grand Canyon, that lonely and strange arid region, still holds many archaeological mysteries. The latest research has revealed the possible existence of a 4,000-year-old Alien Ship.
Aerial view of the Grand Canyon.
One of the rangers in charge of guarding the Grand Canyon , came across a strange structure. Experts assured that this material belongs to an Alien Ship .
This is one more proof that adds to a long list of evidences that shows that, in the past, our planet was visited by beings from other worlds .
Alien Ship in the Grand Canyon?
Buried under the arid lands of the Grand Canyon, a gigantic carcass of a metal unknown to scientists was found.
The dimensions of this structure encompassed the entire fund in which it was found. Or that was what a group of researchers who followed up on the finding declared , who preferred to remain anonymous .
Carbon analysis that was carried out on the metal, showed that the object could have a date of the year 2000 a. C. Thus, the strange structure would have a total of 4,000 years old.
According to some specialists, the team in charge of investigating the discovery is a military faction that secretly works everything related to UFOs .
The deduction that certain ufologists arrived at about the structure is that it is an alien ship, which had a spectacular accident 4 millennia ago.
The metallic substance with which the ship was made is totally unknown . A slight radiation is emitted from the shell . In addition, according to the leaked information, the huge carcass was removed and immediately guarded.
California-based astronomer Henry Leaumont told the Weekly World News website after being shown confidential files from the US Air Force on the case.
Leaumont said that his contacts told him that the structure was definitely not of terrestrial origin . It was an alien ship that housed between 12 to 20 passengers .
The cave painting in the area could reveal that the crew of the alien ship inhabited the surroundings.
“Aliens 4,000 years ago on Earth”
The characteristics of the cockpit suggest that the crew members had a human- like physiognomy , albeit much smaller. They were apparently breathing oxygen and guiding the ship through a magnetic steering system. They also had cupboards that stored food and water supplies.
The ship suffered several damage when it collided with the limestone of the floor of the Grand Canyon, near a place known as Comanche Poiint.
A detailed inspection of the landing zone showed that the beings that manned the alien ship left the place. Thus leaving the abandoned ship, inhabiting the vicinity for some years.
«This impression is confirmed by Indian cave paintings made at the time. Paintings found near the crash site show strange humanoid creatures with bulbous heads.
Experts believe that these creatures were the beings that arrived on the ancient alien ship. The ship is made of an extremely light metallic fiber.
Relative to the alien ship, it is about 15 meters wide and 31 meters long . It could be considered the most important find in relation to UFOs in history, reason enough for the US government to hide it.
This is not the first evidence that the governmental elite of the planet hide. According to experts, it is through it that they technologically update their military vehicles. Who knows what this alien ship could bring you.
Dr. Steven Greer: Cosmic Consciousness and Contact with E.T. Civilization
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2021 NEW Conscious Life Expo… MUST WATCH!!! A very rare video appearance from Dr. Steven Greer discussing how to make contact with ET civilizations. Human Initiated contact: – CE5. How to do it. Why it is important. And how to form your own groups. People from Thailand to Nova Scotia to Russia are doing CE5 with amazing experiences. Father of the Disclosure movement, he presided over the groundbreaking National Press Club Disclosure Event in May, 2001. Over 20 military, government, intelligence and corporate witnesses presented compelling testimony regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the planet, and the reverse engineering of the energy and propulsion systems of these craft. Over one billion people heard of the press conference through the original webcast and on subsequent media coverage on BBC, CNN, CNN Worldwide, Voice of America, Pravda, Chinese media, and media outlets throughout Latin America.
The webcast had 250,000 people waiting online – the largest webcast in the history of the National Press Club at that time. He has worked for 17 years to bring together the scientists, inventors and leaders in society to advance new clean technology energy systems. He is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the strategic process of transforming our carbon-based civilization to a long-term sustainable civilization using innovative sciences and technology. A lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the nation’s most prestigious medical honor society, Dr. Greer has now retired as an emergency physician to work on these projects. He is the author of four insightful books and multiple DVDs on the UFO/ET subject.
He teaches groups throughout the world how to make peaceful contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, and continues to research bringing truly alternative energy sources out to the public. Dr. Greer has studied the Sanskrit Vedas extensively and has been teaching mantra meditation for over 30 years. Dr. Greer has been seen and heard by millions world-wide on CBS, the BBC, The Discovery Channel, the History channel, The Ancient Aliens series, Thrive and through many news outlets worldwide.— His message is one of hope – that these energy systems can soon be available worldwide. His goal is to assist in the creation of a sustainable, peaceful civilization on Earth that is both high tech and in harmony with the environment.
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11 BOEIENDE WEETJES OVER SUPERREUZEN EN HYPERREUZEN
11 BOEIENDE WEETJES OVER SUPERREUZEN EN HYPERREUZEN
Tim Kraaijvanger
Superreuzen en hyperreuzen zijn de allerzwaarste sterren in het heelal. Wist je dat hyperreuzen net ‘dikke BMW’s’ zijn en hun brandstof in korte tijd opstoken? En dat de grootste hyperreus verder reikt dan de baan van Saturnus? 11 boeiende weetjes over de grootste sterren in het universum.
Deze week overleed astronoom Kees de Jager op 100-jarige leeftijd. Hij werd ook wel de ‘superreus’ onder de astronomen genoemd, omdat De Jager veel betekende voor het onderzoek naar super- en hyperreuzen. In 2017 verscheen een artikel van Kees de Jager over deze bijzondere sterren. “Het is bijna niet voor te stellen: sterren die één miljoen keer helderder zijn dan de zon,” schrijft De Jager. “Maar ze bestaan echt!” Ter nagedachtenis aan De Jager staat Scientias.nl dit weekend in het teken van deze bijzondere sterren.
Wat zijn superreuzen en hyperreuzen? Superreuzen en hyperreuzen zijn de allerzwaarste en allergrootste sterren in het heelal. Het zijn reuzen in vergelijking met onze zon, die een vrij gemiddelde dwergster is. “Hun eigenschappen laten zich alleen in superlatieven beschrijven,” vertelt De Jager in zijn artikel. “Zij werpen een heel eigen licht op de evolutie van de allerzwaarste sterren.”
Enkele reuzensterren op een rij. Van links naar rechts: Cygnus OB2 #12, V382 Carinae, V915 Scorpii, UY Scuti en Stephenson 2-18. Ter vergelijking: de oranje lijn is de baan van Saturnus, de blauwe lijn is de baan van Neptunus.
#1 De grootste hyperreus is Stephenson 2-18
Stephenson 2-18 is 2.150 keer breder dan de zon, wat betekent dat de zon bijna 10 miljard keer in de superreus past. Stel, we plaatsen Stephenson 2-18 in het centrum van het zonnestelsel, dan zou zijn fotosfeer – de diepste laag van de atmosfeer van een ster – verder dan de baan van Saturnus reiken. Stephenson 2-18 maakt onderdeel uit van de Melkweg, maar is 18.900 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en bevindt zich in een cluster met 25 andere superreuzen. De tweede grootste ster is LGGS J004539.99+415404.1 in het Andromedastelsel. Deze ster is 1.980 tot 2.377 keer breder dan de zon. Op de voorlopig derde plaats staat MSX LMC 597 in de Grote Magelhaense Wolk, een satellietstelsel van onze Melkweg. MSX LMC 597 is 1.882 tot 1.953 keer breder dan de zon.
Stephenson 2-18 is hier in het midden te zien.
Foto: 2MASS Survey.
#2 De allereerste sterren in het heelal waren hyperreuzen
Kort na de oerknal was het universum nog donker en warm, maar langzaam koelde het uitdijende heelal af en werden de eerste sterren geboren. In het begin waren er alleen nog hele simpele elementen, zoals waterstof, helium en een beetje lithium. Uit observaties van CR7 (een jong sterrenstelsel in het vroege universum) blijkt dat in wolken zonder zware metalen grote sterren ontstonden die honderden of zelfs duizend keer zwaarder waren dan de zon. Deze populatie-III-sterren leefden heel kort – mogelijk enkele honderdduizenden jaren – maar zijn wel belangrijk geweest voor de ‘evolutie’ van het universum. Deze sterren zetten lichte elementen in korte tijd om in zwaardere elementen, zoals zuurstof, stikstof, koolstof en ijzer. Zonder deze elementen waren wij er niet geweest, want ze zijn heel belangrijk voor het ontstaan van leven.
Artistieke impressie van CR7: het helderste sterrenstelsel in het vroege universum.
#3 De bekendste superreus is… Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze is 764 keer breder dan de zon. Stel, we plaatsen Betelgeuze in het centrum van het zonnestelsel, dan zou zelfs Mars opgeslokt worden door de rode superreus. Betelgeuse is de helderste rode superreus vanaf het aardoppervlak en maakt onderdeel uit van het sterrenbeeld Orion. Je kunt de ster dus vrij eenvoudig zien op een heldere winteravond. Sterker nog: als je naar Betelgeuze kijkt, dan heeft de ster een rode kleur ten opzichte van bijvoorbeeld de ster Rigel in hetzelfde sterrenbeeld. Betelgeuze is opvallend goed zichtbaar, omdat de afstand tussen de zon en Betelgeuze relatief klein is: circa 600 lichtjaar. Deze nabije ster staat op het punt van ontploffen, maar daar hoef je niet wakker van te liggen. De afstand is gelukkig groot genoeg en het kan nog miljoenen jaren duren. Het grote voordeel van een nabije reuzenster is dat Betelgeuze vaak in detail wordt bestudeerd door astronomen. Zo begon de helderheid in oktober 2019 plotseling af te nemen, wat mogelijk kwam door een grote uitbarsting op de ster. Ook maakten astronomen in het verleden een prachtige foto van Betelgeuze, waarop te zien is hoe de reuzenster een enorme gasbel de ruimte in blaast.
Opname van Betelgeuze met de Very Large Telescope. De gasbel is hier duidelijk zichtbaar.
Afbeelding: ESO / P. Kervella.
#4 Hyperreuzen zijn ‘dikke BMW’s’
Hyperreuzen zijn geen zuinige sterren, waardoor ze ook niet oud worden. Onze zon is 4,6 miljard jaar oud en zal waarschijnlijk nog wel vijf miljard jaar schijnen. Hyperreuzen stoken hun brandstof er in een rap tempo doorheen en leven daardoor erg kort, namelijk slechts een paar miljoen jaar. “Hoe meer massa een ster heeft, des te meer nucleaire brandstof een ster heeft en des te sneller de ster deze brandstof verbrandt”, vertelt professor Steve Eikenberry. Juist omdat hyperreuzen relatief kort leven, zijn ze zeer zeldzaam.
#5 Rode superreuzen zijn koeler dan de zon
Het oppervlak van de zon heeft een temperatuur van 6.000 graden Celsius. Rode superreuzen zijn veel koeler en hebben een oppervlaktetemperatuur van circa 3.000 graden Celsius. Dit betekent dat de sterren koeler zijn dan sommige exoplaneten, zoals exoplaneet Kepler-70b. Een mooi voorbeeld is de ster Betelgeuze in Orion. Deze ster is 100.000 keer zo helder als de zon, maar zijn oppervlaktetemperatuur ligt iets boven de 3000 Kelvin, wat neerkomt op ongeveer 2750 graden Celsius.
In dit Hertzsprung-Russelldiagram zijn de verschillende soorten sterren te zien. Van links naar rechts neemt de temperatuur af. De verticale as laat de absolute helderheid van de sterren zien. Er is sprake van een lijn: van heet en lichtsterk (linksboven) naar koel en minder helder. Dit wordt de hoofdreeks genoemd. De meeste sterren in het heelal zijn zogenoemde ‘dwergsterren’ en maken onderdeel uit van de hoofdreeks. Ook onze zon is een dwergster. De grootste sterren (Ia en Ib) wijken af van de hoofdreeks en zijn veel zeldzamer.
#6 Hyperreuzen veranderen aan het eind van hun leven in hypernova’s
Aan het eind van het leven van een ster is er niet genoeg nucleaire brandstof meer en wordt de kern steeds zwaarder doordat zijn eigen massa richting de kern stroomt. Aangezien een ster geen energie meer produceert, kan het object geen tegendruk geven tegen de enorme druk van de zwaartekracht. Uiteindelijk stort de kern van de ster in elkaar en ontstaat er een supernova. In het geval van hyperreuzen worden er zelfs hypernova’s gevormd. Hypernova’s zijn de zwaarst bekende explosies in het heelal (als we de oerknal niet meerekenen). De kracht van een explosie is honderd keer groter dan die van een supernova. Een hypernova schijnt korte tijd veel feller dan een heel sterrenstelsel vol met miljarden sterren.
Stel, een hypernova zou plaatsvinden binnen een afstand van enkele honderden lichtjaren van de zon, dan zou dit mogelijk leiden tot een massa-extinctie op aarde. Röntgenstraling en gammastraling van de hypernova kunnen stikstof en zuurstof in de atmosfeer ioniseren, waardoor er stikstofoxiden ontstaan en leven op aarde drastisch zou veranderen. Gelukkig hebben we geen hyperreus in de buurt.
#7 Superreus Eta Carinae verloor een zon per jaar
Eta Carinae is een indrukwekkende ster op 7.500 lichtjaar van de aarde. De zon is ongeveer 82 keer zo zwaar als de zon, maar was vroeger waarschijnlijk veel massiever. 200 jaar geleden was deze ster net zo helder als Sirius, maar na 1860 nam de helderheid af. Dit kwam door enkele grote explosies. Bij deze ontploffing kwam evenveel energie vrij als bij een supernova-explosie. Hierbij zijn er twee grote gaswolken ontstaan die inmiddels een grootte hebben van 0,7 lichtjaren. De totale massa van deze gaswolken wordt geschat op twaalf tot dertig zonnen. Dit betekent dat Eta Carinae in ongeveer twintig jaar tijd (van 1840 tot 1860) ongeveer één zonsmassa per jaar verloor. Dat is uitzonderlijk veel voor een ster. Astronomen verwachten dat de ster de komende decennia weer een stuk helderder wordt, omdat een stofnevel om de ster langzaam verdwijnt.
Eta Carinae.
Afbeelding: ESA / NASA.
#8 De geboorte van een hyperster is… niet ‘hyper’-bijzonder
Je denkt misschien dat een hyperster op een andere manier ontstaat als een eenvoudige ster als de zon, maar dat is niet zo. Alle sterren ontstaan op dezelfde manier. Wolken van gas en stof trekken langzaam samen. Op een bepaald moment stort een deel van zo’n wolk onder zijn eigen gewicht ineen. De kern wordt heter en de wolk begint sneller te draaien. Op een bepaald moment ontstaat er dan een protoster (oftewel een ster-in-spé). Er vindt nog geen kernfusie plaats, maar de protoster geeft al wel hitte af. Pas later, als de druk en temperatuur in het centrum van de protoster ver toeneemt, zal de kernfusie op gang komen. In 2010 vonden wetenschappers een bijzonder zware babyster (IRAS 13481-6124). Deze babyster is twintig keer zo zwaar en vijf keer zo groot als de zon. Net als andere babysterren is ook IRAS 13481-6124 gehuld in een cocon van stof. “Onze waarnemingen tonen aan dat de vorming voor alle sterren op dezelfde manier verloopt, ongeacht de massa,” concludeert onderzoeksleider Stefan Kraus.
Artistieke impressie van een babyster IRAS 13481-6124 in een stofrijke, protoplanetaire schijf.
Bron: ESO
#9 Reuzensterren kunnen plotseling verdwijnen
In het Kinman-dwergstelsel was lange tijd een monsterster te zien, maar in 2019 konden wetenschappers de ster niet meer vinden. “Tot onze verrassing kwamen we erachter dat de ster verdwenen was,” zegt onderzoeker Andrew Allan. Het is vreemd dat er geen supernova of hypernova aan vooraf ging. Er zijn twee mogelijke theorieën voor het verdwijnen van de ster. Mogelijk is de lichtsterke blauwe variabele ster door een uitbarsting veranderd in een minder heldere ster, die ook nog eens deels door stof wordt verduisterd. De tweede theorie luidt dat de ster ineengestort is tot een zwart gat, zonder dat daar een supernova-explosie aan voorafging. Dat zou echter wel een ontzettend zeldzame gebeurtenis zijn: voor zover we weten sluiten zware sterren namelijk hun bestaan af met een supernova. “Als dit toch zo is, zou dat de eerste, directe detectie van een monsterster zijn die zijn leven op deze manier afsluit,” aldus Allan.
#10 Rode, gele en blauwe, maar geen groene superreuzen
Reuzensterren zijn er in verschillende smaken. Er zijn rode superreuzen, gele superreuzen en blauwe superreuzen. De kleur van een ster verraadt hoe warm het oppervlak is. De blauwe superreuzen zijn het warmst, gevolgd door gele superreuzen en rode superreuzen. Sterren kunnen veranderen. Zo kan een blauwe superreus in omvang toenemen en uiteindelijk veranderen in een rode superreus. Onze zon is op dit moment een gele dwergster, maar transformeert over miljarden jaren in een rode reus (maar geen rode superreus).
Een bekende blauwe superreus is Rigel op een afstand van circa 800 lichtjaar van de aarde. Deze ster is zeventien keer zwaarder dan de zon, maar geeft 40.000 keer meer licht. De ster geeft zoveel licht, dat ‘nabije’ nevels door Rigel worden verlicht, zoals de Heksenkopnevel op onderstaande foto.
De Heksenkopnevel (IC2118) wordt verlicht door de nabije ster Rigel (rechts).
Kijk je met een eclipsbrilletje naar de zon, dan zie je dat de zon een duidelijke rand heeft. Onze moederster is een mooi rond bolletje. Dit geldt niet voor hyperreuzen. Hyperreuzen en superreuzen verliezen veel massa, waardoor de buitenste randen nogal ijl zijn. Hierdoor hebben hyperreuzen geen duidelijke rand, maar een wazige rand. Dit maakt het ook veel lastiger om de grootte van hyperreuzen en superreuzen te bepalen, want het is niet altijd duidelijk waar gas stopt en het vacuüm begint.
NASA BRENGT SPECTACULAIRE FOTO UIT VAN HET CENTRUM VAN DE MELKWEG
NASA BRENGT SPECTACULAIRE FOTO UIT VAN HET CENTRUM VAN DE MELKWEG
Tim Kraaijvanger
Het centrum van ons Melkwegstelsel is een kosmisch web van heet gas en magnetische velden met in het midden: een supermassief zwart gat.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft een bijzondere panorama uitgebracht van ons galactische centrum. Het centrum van de Melkweg bevindt zich op 26.000 lichtjaar van de aarde. Het kosmische meesterwerk is gemaakt door data te combineren van de Zuid-Afrikaanse MeerKAT radiotelescoop en NASA’s Chandra-röntgenobservatorium.
Het mozaïek is het resultaat van 370 Chandra-waarnemingen van 1999 tot 2019. In totaal gaat het om 1.555 uur en 26 minuten aan observaties, wat neerkomt op ruim 64 dagen.
Sagittarius A*
Precies in het midden van de foto is Sagittarius A* te zien. Dit is een superzwaar zwart gat in het centrum van ons Melkwegstelsel. Dit zwarte gat is de laatste tijd erg actief en varieert regelmatig in helderheid. Dit komt door het materiaal dat in het zwarte gat valt. “Voordat het materiaal er helemaal in verdwijnt wordt het eerst warm en gaat het stralen,” vertelt astrofysicus Rudy Wijnands aan Scientias.nl. “De hoeveelheid straling die we zien is direct gerelateerd aan de hoeveelheid materiaal dat in het zwarte gat valt. Als het zwarte gat helderder wordt, valt er dus meer materie in het zwarte gat.”
Een draad van superheet gas Op de foto is een opvallend lange draad van superheet gas te zien, namelijk G0.17-0.41. Deze draad is twintig lichtjaar lang, maar slechts 1/100ste lichtjaar breed. Zo’n draad ontstaat door botsende magnetische velden. Als magnetische velden op elkaar botsen, raken ze verstrengeld en ontstaan deze draden van superheet gas. Astronomen vermoeden dat deze botsende magnetische velden het gas tussen de sterren – het zogenoemde interstellaire medium – kunnen verhitten. Door deze turbulentie kunnen uiteindelijk weer nieuwe sterren ontstaan.
Clusters, sterren en röntgenbronnen Nabij het centrum is de Quintuplet-cluster te zien. Dit cluster is slechts vier miljoen jaar oud en bevat veel jonge massieve sterren. In dit cluster bevindt zich de Pistoolster: een van de helderste sterren in de Melkweg. Verder zien we diverse andere clusters, zoals de Arches-clusters, vele sterren (de kleine puntjes) en heldere röntgenbronnen (groene cirkels).
Het galactische centrum. Een grote versie van deze foto downloaden? Klik hier!
Chandra: bijna net zo legendarisch is als Hubble Het Chandra-röntgenobservatorium zweeft inmiddels al meer dan twintig jaar in de ruimte. In deze periode heeft het observatorium veel bijzondere ontdekkingen gedaan. Zo heeft Chandra een jet van het zwarte gat Sagittarius A* gefotografeerd. Dit is een kosmische fontein van hoog-energetische deeltjes. Chandra fotografeerde de stroom afkomstig uit Sagittarius A. Wat blijkt: de jet botst met gas in de nabije omgeving. Tijdens de botsing wordt röntgenstraling en radiostraling geproduceerd, wat door Chandra waargenomen is.
Ook maakte Chandra al eerder een prachtig mozaïek van het centrum van de Melkweg. De foto hieronder is in werkelijkheid 400 bij 900 lichtjaren groot. Rondom het zwarte gat in het centrum van de Melkweg draaien honderden witte dwergen, neutronensterren en stellaire zwarte gaten.
A government employee photographed a UFO that hovered for 15 minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico, on Dec.16, 1957.
(Image credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
After a months-long investigation, the Pentagon is poised to produce a report addressing sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) — more commonly known as "unidentified flying objects," or UFOs.
But don't expect a big reveal about secret alien technology and extraterrestrial spaceships. The aim of the report is to establish standards for recording sightings of mysterious objects and to determine if those objects pose a threat to national security.
In 2020, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee called for an inquiry into UAPs in the Intelligence Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2021. According to the document, committee members were concerned that "there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat."
After the bill was enacted on Dec. 21, 2020, the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense then had 180 days to produce a report for the committee, "submitted in unclassified form," on the current status of UAP sightings and protocols, Live Science previously reported — and that six-month deadline expires this month.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio served as the Intelligence Committee's acting chair when the act was drafted and enacted, and he ordered the investigation of UAPs because he saw them as a critical national security issue, Rubio told journalist Bill Whitaker on CBS's "60 Minutes" in May.
"Anything that enters an airspace that's not supposed to be there is a threat," Rubio said. "I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously. I want us to have a process to analyze the data every time it comes in."
In April 2020, the U.S. Navy released three videos of UFO sightings from 2004 and 2015; the clips were nicknamed "FLIR," "GOFAST" and "GIMBAL," and they showed what appeared to be spacecraft traveling at hypersonic speeds with no visible means of propulsion, Live Science reported. (The three videos had previously been posted online in 2017 and 2018 by the UFO research group To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.)
"There's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are — we can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern," former president Barack Obama said in May, in an appearance on CBS's "The Late Late Show with James Corden."
So, what might be included in the report? Not everything in the document will be publicly available — while the report will be unclassified, it "may include a classified annex," the Intelligence Committee wrote. The committee requested a detailed analysis of UAP data and intelligence, including information gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about UFOs.
The committee also requested that the report outline a process for sharing information between agencies, to help identify unfamiliar technologies and to detect patterns in UFO appearances that could imply hostile intentions.
"I want us to have a process to analyze the data every time it comes in. That there be a place where this is cataloged and constantly analyzed, until we get some answers," Rubio said.
"Maybe it has a very simple answer. Maybe it doesn't," Rubio told Whitaker. "We're gonna find out when we get that report."
Joshua P. Warren and Mobius provided us with Jason Suraci's intriguing video footage that he captured using Paratemporal night vision equipment.
Mobius shares this account with us:
Jason Suraci had just come back from attending Joshua Warren's Finding Your Magic seminar in Las Vegas. He lives in Colorado near the Space Command Air Force base and nightly sees odd things. Jason sent Joshua Warren and Mobius videos showing that people all over the US had seen tube-like UFOs over the last few days. He was fascinated with one that was seen by the CE5 group: "ECETI Captures a Huge Craft."
Jason sent several other videos seen all over the US. Some were obvious SpaceX and some were much more mysterious. There was also a SpaceX launch that same day adding to the confusion of videos in circulation. Jason wrote both Joshua Warren and Mobius and simply stated he had made up his mind he was going out that night and was going to capture this tube-shaped UFO video footage himself.
A few hours later Jason sent his video and said he got it. Joshua, Mobius, and soon the whole UFO community was doing analysis on the video, looking up satellite tracks, rocket launches, and reviewing all data. The analysis clearly shows stars and other objects dithering through the clouds, but the tube-like UFO simply vanishes and never re-emerges. It is a very strange video and should open up a wide discussion of debate.
This is not the only strange thing Jason has captured. Please subscribe to his YouTube Channel where nightly he sees some amazingly strange sightings that equally have not been explained.
Avi Loeb discusses the presence of extraterrestrial life on 'Fox News Primetime'
The government should be stowing away more money to look into the presence of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University professor and astrophysicist Avi Loeb argued Tuesday on "Fox News Primetime."
Loeb explained that the scientific community often ridicules the idea of alien existence. Meanwhile, he pushed for following supposed evidence such as UFO sightings and other interstellar happenings.
"We should be guided by evidence," he said. "In the context of UFOs, we should get more data on this and make it part of the scientific research program that we have."
Instead of Earth inhabitants welcoming complete transparency on the matter, Loeb suggested people would rather remain in their "comfort zone" of ignorance. The scientist then advocated for the normalcy of inspecting all objects in Earth’s orbit, comparing it to "walking on the beach."
"Most of the time you see rocks or seashells that were naturally produced but every now and then you might see a plastic bottle that tells you there is civilization out there," he said.
Loeb also rallied for the rekindling of the Apollo program and pushed for further exploration of other planets and outer space.
"I do think the future of humanity is in space because currently all of our eggs are in one basket here on Earth," he went on. "And there is a risk that a catastrophe will destroy everything that is precious to us, and we do need to think about spreading our eggs in multiple baskets."
Special reports concerning: Vallee’s Examination of aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Power Generating Plants, Hydrogen Power, Possible Directed Energy Weapon Attack, NASA Says No Atmosphere on Mars, Secrets, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Louisiana Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Japan, Slovakia and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I personally chased UFOs, saw them visually and on my radar and know they exist. I continue this advanced research and believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
A scientific examination of aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
As blog readers will be aware, I am continuing to examine the vast amount of information in Jacques Vallee’s latest book “Forbidden Science: Volume Four.” Here, in Vallee’s diaries, I found a series of notes about Dan T. Smith. I will quote Vallee: One of the numerous individuals, who have inhabited the UAP landscape over the years, is one Dan T. Smith.
Dr. Jacques Vallee
(In a diary entry dated 22 January 1993) Vallee was talking with Linda Moulton Howe.
“One of her observations concerns the crop circles. She said the CIA had descended on the English fields since my conversation with Kit on the subject and hinted that Pandolfi may have sent George Wingfield along with Rosemary-Ellen Guiley,Robert Irving and Owen Lewis. ‘They come straight from Langley,’ said Linda. ‘The group also includes Dan T. Smith and a Dr Schnabel.‘ I can’t verify any of it.”
20 June 1993
In conversation with Linda Moulton Howe.
“She gave me another view of Pandolfi: ‘He runs a special project with an interest in crop circles, the paranormal…Rosemary keeps sending faxes to him. She and Dan Smith introduce themselves as ‘working for the CIA’ They ask questions like: How can Christians help in the coming Apocalypse?”
7 January 1994
“The enigmatic Dan T. Smith is setting up meetings all over the Bay Area, again claiming direction from Pandolfi. He dangles money and rumors, arranging luncheons with people, taking their photographs, taping conversations. He claims that Robert Frosch (former NASA boss, now at GM) ran a secret UFO study at the Johnson Space Center in the mid-1970’s along with Kit, using microwaves to study their effects on human behavior.”
4 February 1994
“Kit urges me to meet Dan Smith: why is he pushing me into this mess? Should I mention that Smith spreads the rumor that Kit was involved in MK-Ultra and ‘isn’t somebody on whom you should turn your back?’ Those games are too subtle for me.”
11 February 1994
“Dan T. Smith phoned my office this morning, telling my assistant he was referred to me by ‘his two good friends Fred Beckman and Kit Green.’ I didn’t return the call…”
27 February 1994
“Then I spoke with Scott Jones who was scheduling a meeting in Washington with various researchers and Dan Smith. I declined to attend”
25 July 1994
Dan T. Smith.
“Now I learn that the source of the rumor about the supposed ‘assassination’ of Ron Johnson is none other than Dan T. Smith. This episode illustrates of the confusion in the field. Much of it is being deliberately created, to what end?”
1 December 1994
Speaking about Heathen and Bootsie Galbraith.
“Dan T. Smith, too, claims his family was always close to the Galbraiths.”
13 March 1995
Vallee is talking with Fred Beckman about Vallee’s trip to Brazil and rumors that the military showed Vallee films of alien autopsies.
Vallee: “‘Where are these rumors coming from?”
‘From Durant, surprisingly, he confessed, ‘And Dan T. Smith…Dan Smith got it from Ron Pandolfi at CIA…’
3 February 1996
Discussion between Vallee, Hal Puthoff and Kit Green.
“‘Pandolfi’s office has antagonized people in Washington’ was the answer, ‘Dan T. Smith continues to spread rumors and confusion.’ ‘Why did you push me to meet with that crowd?’ I asked Kit. ‘I was really impressed with them at the time,’ he answered.”
‘Hal talks to Ron Blackburn, expecting his confidence but Blackburn brags freely to Beckman and McCampbell, who try to impress Dan Smith…”
A search for further information
An Internet search provided me with further information about Smith.
“My father was involved with the military in WW11 and was later in the government as an economist. He had no interest in UFOs, but was in contact with some influential people who I discovered later had unusual interests. After doing some graduate work in physics I turned to metaphysics. An extended psychic experience led me to contact MUFON and through them I came into contact with Tom [Ronald Pandolfi-KB] at the CIA in ’91. He was known as the ‘keeper of the weird.’
“…I wanted to find out what take the CIA might have on eschatology [See note below-KB] and possibly provide some input. Discussing the aviary and the UFO community was a good excuse for continuing contact with an intelligence officer who had relevant responsibilities.”
“…I began to network with some folks in the UFO community who were interested in sharing information. Through Tom I was in contact with some other members of the aviary…At one point some of my UFO colleagues persuaded the CIA I/G (Inspector General) to conduct an internal investigation of Tom relative to his unusual methods of collecting information…well there was the fact that he was involved in domestic collections. He was making provocative statements to me about the possible presence of ETs. He spoke freely of his involvement with other members of the aviary. On several occasions we met in ‘nightclubs.’ He had ‘indelicate’ conversations with a female researcher. It was far from clear what was in the line of duty. He was interviewed by an IG officer…”
“…along with the rest of the UFO community, I believe that we have been visited. I believe that this visitation was in preparation for a messianic event which is imminent. That event will inaugurate our Millennium of preparation leading up to the Eschaton. I am suggesting that the Visitors could be playing several roles that would be relevant to a messianic event…”
Robert Morningstar writes
I needed to look up what the word “eschatology” in a dictionary. There it was defined as “a part of theology concerned with the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is commonly referred to as the “end of the world” or “end times.”
“Smith became interested in what the government knows about paranormal phenomena in the 1980’s. In the early 1990’s he joined Rosemary Ellen Guily, a famous paranormalist, in an investigation of crop circles in Britain.
Shortly after Smith began looking into government complicity in a cover-up of an eschatological phenomenon problem, he was introduced to a CIA analyst named Ron Pandolfi. Smith and Pandolfi have been friends ever since, and Smith often blogs about the latest gossip passed on to him by Pandolfi. Smith has shared numerous communications with Pandolfi and some of his associates, like Dr Kit Green, another former CIA analyst. In 2006, Pandolfi shared Green’s communications with Smith, to facilitate spreading the information to investigators.”
“And then there is Dan T. Smith whose father was Harvard economist Dan Throop Smith, the Treasury Department’s number-one tax advisor during the Eisenhower administration. Researcher Gary Bekkum said of Dan T. Smith: ‘His personal meetings have included former and present representatives of the US government intelligence community and their political associates, like Chris Straub, a former member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Researcher Vince Johnston, who had the opportunity to speak with Smith about his ufological views and insider contacts stated: ‘According to Smith, UFOs are primarily a psychological/metaphysical phenomenon which are both preparing us and pressuring us to develop our own PSI abilities. Not that UFOs are a single type of entity; Smith asserts that there are ‘powers and principalities’ at work – presumably supernatural entities such as angels and demons.
Johnson added: ‘[Smith] reported that his governmental sources ‘hinted at’ an eschatological emergency… when I asked why the CIA was interested in eschatology, he replied that the ramifications of the eschaton event represented a serious threat to national security, and thus fell into the purview of the intelligence agencies. Smith also revealed that the eschatological issues he raised related directly to the biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation.”
Smith claims that “Robert Frosh (former NASA boss, now at GM) ran a secret UFO study at the Johnston Spacecraft Center in the mid-1970’s along with Kit, using microwaves to study their effects on human behavior.” First, it’s “Frosch,” and “Johnson Space Center” (as in LBJ).
What is true is that John Schuessler, longtime MUFON director, worked at the JSC in the 1970s and 80s. He investigated UFOs on his own, not as part of any NASA program. Schuessler was fixated on the Cash-Landrum case (which did not occur until December 1980), in which he was a principal investigator. Schuessler thought this case did involve microwave effects on the witnesses.
Probably Smith was misrepresenting Schuessler’s not-so-secret investigations of supposed ‘microwave effects’ while he was at JSC in the early 1980s as a secret NASA study.
The relationship between the phenomenon and the Eschaton is the focus on my book “Apocalypse Aliena”. Comparing the messages given by “ET” with the ones from the “Virgin Mary” it is evident to see the similarities, reg. the coming “end times”. Clearly also the intelligence community noticed that.
see the Important Memo, to get a flavor of “end of times” from the intelligence community http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Majestic-12%20Documents%20-%20New%20Batch/important_memo.pdf
Editor’s Note: I have met just about everyone referred to here, and they represent many of the most important people in the field.
UFO/UAP Dives into Ocean
Draft dives into ocean On Radar
A spherical unidentified flying object (UFO) hovers in midair, moves side to side like a ball in the “Pong” video game and then seems to dive into the ocean, in footage that was recently released online by a filmmaker who produces documentaries about UFOs. On May 14, Jeremy Corbell described the mysterious object on his website, writing that “the US Navy photographed and filmed ‘spherical’ shaped UFOs and advanced transmedium vehicles” — craft that can travel through air and water — in 2019.
Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough confirmed that U.S. Navy personnel did capture the footage that Corbell posted, The Debrief reported on May 14. Gough told The Debrief in an email that the footage was included in “ongoing examinations” by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), a U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence program that investigates reports of unexplained aerial vehicles, according to The Debrief.
The Department of Defense released 3 unclassified Navy videos from 2004 and 2015 showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” on April 27, 2020.
(DOD/Released) Navy personnel claim the USS Kidd personnel could see them with the naked eye, they were almost at eye level with the bridge hovering .
They were the same Tic Tac shape This is the same area the Nimitz encounter. ttps://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/04/leaked-video-pyramid-like-ufos-swarm-navy-destroyer/
Power Generating Plants
Lt. Col. Brown
After returning from WWII an Air Force hero, Lt. Col. Brown worked in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He was assigned to work on Project Grudge where he was responsible for investigating UFO’s and came to recognize that on some cases there were no viable conventional explanations.
He later came to believe that Project Bluebook was a deliberate whitewash to the public. Among others, he was privy to reports of cases where four independent radars were tracking objects that were traveling 5000 miles an hour.
The so called scientist experts often claim UFOs are not real, while thousands of pilots an aircrews have spotted UFOS and gun camera film, radar and ground observation indicate they exist. During 1952, a naval exercise occurred and lights entered the carrier traffic pattern. Balls of light appeared to have intelligence that appeared and disappeared. Col. Brown saw five lights in a row that seemed to be windows of light that suddenly disappeared. The lights may have been widows into the interior of the craft ,while the craft itself was invisible or in a different dimension..
He studied the Blue Book Investigation and felt it was a complete cover-up by Dr. Condon’s University of Colorado group.
He also invented a device which reduced vehicle emissions by 40% and increased fuel mileage by 20%, by putting hydrogen water in the air inside an engine “My concept really just opened the door on a whole new field of science. This is not just my judgment but that of at least 3 or 4 PhD’s in physics, chemistry and engineering.” He was subjected to abuse, sabotage, theft, and endless harassment. Apparently the government and others did not want to have his invention used that would have decreased fuel burning by 20% are increased performance by 20 %. I met Col Brown at Dr. Greer’s Disclosure Conference . Dr. Greer’s mission is to initiate peaceful contact and put an end to the disinformation surrounding contact.
Early approval would have added oxygen to the air and reduced carbon dioxide CO2 by 20%. It is basically a water vapor injector into the engine like that used in aircraft to increase power.
Hydrogen Power
The next generation will see the expansion of hydrogen power. It is obvious the new government in decreasing the amount of oil produced in the United States by stopping frocking and oil pipe lines. They are looking at other products.
The BMW Hydrogen 7 is a limited production hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle built from 2005-2007[1] by German automobile manufacturer BMW. The car is based on BMW’s traditional gasoline-powered BMW 7 Series (E65) line of vehicles, and more specifically the 760Li. It uses the same 6-litre V-12 motor as does the 760i and 760Li; however, it has been modified to also allow for the combustion of hydrogen as well as gasoline, making it a bivalent engine. Unlike many other current hydrogen powered vehicles like those being produced by Hyundai, Honda, General Motors, and Daimler AG – which use fuel cell technology and hydrogen to produce electricity to power the vehicle – the BMW Hydrogen 7 burns the hydrogen in an internal combustion engine.
Electrolysis is a process that splits hydrogen from water using an electric current. Electrolysis is commonly used to demonstrate chemical reactions and hydrogen production in high school science classes. On a large, commercial scale, the process may be referred to as power-to-gas, where power is electricity and hydrogen is gas. Electrolysis itself does not produce any byproducts or emissions other than hydrogen and oxygen. The electricity for electrolysis can come from renewable sources such as hydro, solar, or wind. Expect to hear more about hydrogen power to power ships and other vehicles.
22 Pound Aquarius Engine
“It was always our dream at Aquarius Engines to breathe oxygen into hydrogen technology as the fuel of the future,” said Gal Fridman, Chairman of Aquarius Engines.
“From initial tests it appears that our hydrogen engine, that doesn’t require costly hydrogen fuel-cells, could be the affordable, green and sustainable answer to the challenges faced by global transport and remote energy production,” Fridman continued. “As the world moves away from fossil fuel, our new hydrogen engine could spark the dawning of the age of Aquarius.” Israel-based Aquarius Engines unveiled a new hydrogen engine that it says could do away with the global reliance on hydrogen fuel cells and fossil fuels, the company explained in a press statement via PR Newswire.
The machine, which weighs only 22 lb (10 kg), is a single-piston-linear-engine, that runs exclusively on hydrogen. As it has only 20 components and one moving part, the engine is also much cheaper to produce and maintain than traditional engines.
The electric versus hydrogen debate rages on
Indeed, as with many green initiatives, the financial incentive behind going hydrogen is set to play a big role, and will likely determine whether we eventually drive hydrogen cars or electric at a mass scale.
Really, the main selling point of the new Aquarius Hydrogen Engine, with its one moving part, is the fact that it’s much cheaper than hydrogen fuel cells. Still, it might take more for the current trend to veer away from electric vehicles. Elon Musk was quick to reply, saying “Hydrogen is a staggeringly dumb form of energy storage for cars. Barely worth considering it for a rocket upper stage, which is its most compelling use.”
That’s not to say plenty of companies aren’t exploring hydrogen fuel as a sustainable method for transportation
Multiple sources familiar with the matter tell that while the Pentagon and other agencies probing the matter have reached no clear conclusions on what happened, the fact that such an attack might have taken place so close to the White House is particularly alarming.
Defense officials briefed lawmakers on the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on the matter earlier this month, including on the incident near the White House. That incident, which occurred near the Ellipse, the large oval lawn on the south side of the White House, sickened one National Security Council official, according to multiple current and former US officials and sources familiar with the matter.
In a separate 2019 episode, a White House official reported a similar attack while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb just outside Washington, GQ reported last year.
Film of Directed Energy Weapon Bouncing Ray of Ionosphere
Directed energy weapons (DEWs) are defined as electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy and focusing it on a target, resulting in physical damage that degrades, neutralizes, defeats, or destroys an adversarial capability.
Air Force and Navy DEWs include systems that use High Energy Lasers (HEL) that emit photons, and High Power Microwaves (HPM) that release radiofrequency waves. The U.S. Navy uses DEWs for power projection and integrated defense missions. The ability to focus the radiated energy reliably and repeatedly at range, with precision and controllable effects, while producing measured physical damage, is the measure of DEW system effectiveness. Directed Energy Weapons (CDEW) program.
The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power microwaves, according to a report released by the National Academies. A committee of 19 experts in medicine and other fields concluded that directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy is the “most plausible mechanism” to explain the illness, dubbed Havana syndrome.
The report doesn’t clear up who targeted the embassies or why they were targeted. But the technology behind the suspected weapons is well understood and dates back to the Cold War arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. High-power microwave weapons are generally designed to disable electronic equipment. But as the Havana syndrome reports show, these pulses of energy can harm people, as well.
As an electrical and computer engineer who designs and builds sources of high-power microwaves, I have spent decades studying the physics of these sources, including work with the U.S. Department of Defense. Directed energy microwave weapons convert energy from a power source – a wall plug in a lab or the engine on a military vehicle – into radiated electromagnetic energy and focus it on a target. The directed high-power microwaves damage equipment, particularly electronics, without killing nearby people.
Dr. Judy Wood, a former assistant professor at Clemson University, has developed compelling evidence that a directed energy weapon turned the physical matter of the World Trade Center towers into nanoparticles through the process of molecular dissociation
Was the World Trade Center Hit by Directed Energy Weapons?
It appears a powerful explosion or energy destroyed this building?
This video claims a directed energy weapon is melting the ice in Antarctica , Arctic and Greenland to make it appear there is global warming occurring.. I do not know if this story is true but there are many strange things going on which may indicate advanced ET science. The level of destruction and the pulverizing of the molecular structure of the building and steel seemed incomprehensible without some tremendous force.
Molecular dissociation causes the cement and steel to become aerosols. Thousands of tons of strong material in two buildings 210 stories high including steel, cement, desks, computers and marble were turned into dust. The planes that hit the buildings simply did not create this great a force. The level of destruction was phenomenal.
This video claims a directed energy weapon is melting the ice in Antarctica , Arctic and Greenland to make it appear there is global warming occurring.. I do not know if this story is true but there are many strange things going on which may indicate advanced ET science. The level of destruction and the pulverizing of the molecular structure of the building and steel seemed incomprehensible without some tremendous force.
Many strange things are happening that indicates a very powerful country or organization is at work.
China, Russia and the US have satellites with Directed Energy weapons. China is thought to have continued using them in starting the fires throughout the U.S.. It is interesting that most of the fires started recently form a line of wildfires as if satellites were starting the fires.
The Chinese Communists have an array of DEWS carried by some of its satellites. The tens of thousands of fires started around the country last year include 8,000 for California and the most ever for Colorado. Towns have been burnt to the ground while the forest around them remains. Untouched.
NASA Says Virtually No Atmosphere on Mars
The obvious problem with this news, of course, is that Mars has virtually no atmosphere according to official NASA figures, which state the Mars atmosphere is 0.6% the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere. Notably, helicopters can’t fly in a near-vacuum, even in the lower Mars gravity (which is 38% of Earth’s gravity, roughly). It appears NASA has kept the Mars atmosphere a secret.
On Monday, April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter flew attempt the first ever powered, controlled flight on another planet. Apr 19, 2021 · During this first flight, the helicopter climbed to an altitude of 10 feet (3 meters), hovered, and then touched back down on the surface of Mars. Ingenuity is a technology demonstration. The 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft will help determine whether future explorations on Mars could include an aerial perspective.
Dust Storm on MARS Shows Atmosphere
It is not generally known that in the summer temperatures can reach 90 degrees F. Thus life on Mars is much more likely than we have been told. This is all part of the classified version of Mars that is kind of hard to hide when the helicopter needs air to fly.
My Judgment Day2
Editor’s Note: During my operations at Debora Hospital I almost died when the surgeon accidently cut an artery. My body was filled with blood before he could stop the internal bleeding and I was expected to die. During the operation I had an experience or dream that I was at the final judgment jury where it was decided I was not worthy to continue to live.
I accepted the decision when I heard the song “Onward Christian Soldiers” and a loud voice stated “George can live if he helps stop the murder of millions of babies”.
I agreed to help and that is the reason I’m still alive and for the following article.
Abortion advocates have frequently argued that abortion is necessary to protect women’s mental health, or even beneficial. But a 2011 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that 10 percent of mental health problems among women, including 35 percent of suicidal behaviors, may be attributable to abortion. These findings were based on the combined results of all studies published between 1995 and 2009 that met strict inclusion criteria. The resulting analysis included 877,181 women from six countries.
Women who aborted were 81 percent more likely to experience mental health problems compared to all other control groups, and 55 percent more likely to have problems compared to women who delivered an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.
First year data on suicides only , many suicides happen later.
Further, a meta-analysis combining the results of eight studies of women who experienced unwanted pregnancies, published in 2013, concluded that “there is no available evidence to suggest that abortion has therapeutic effects in reducing the mental health risks of unwanted or unintended pregnancy.” about 700 women die each year in the United States as a result of normal pregnancy or delivery complications. Suicide rates among women of childbearing age are 11.3 out of 100,000. Post-abortion women have a [suicide] rate of 34.7.or 461 suicides per year. Interestingly enough, women who have given birth have a suicide rate of 5.9 per hundred thousand or 77.
NOW AVALIABLE: THE SEVEN TRILOGY’S THIRD NOVEL SECRETS
by Fred Ellis Brock
SECRETS, by Fred Ellis Brock, the third novel of The Seven trilogy, is out. A cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, and UFO conspiracies, it brings to a climax the struggle of Bill Sanders and Morgen Remley to stop The Seven, a super-secret group trying to overthrow the U.S. government. From New Mexico to the White House, the action is nonstop. The first two novels, THE SEVEN and SHADOWS, are available wherever books are sold. The publisher is Wyatt-MacKenzie. More information is at www.fredellisbrock.com. (Note: Amazon has hundreds of books with “seven,” “shadows,” and “secrets” in the title. Search for the author’s name. The books will pop right up.) From a review of THE SEVEN in the Arizona Daily Star: “Is the idea of extra-terrestrial visits really as far-fetched as we think?” In this debut novel, Fred Ellis Brock speculates on just how far government intelligence might go to keep an unsuspecting populace in the dark. Journalist and best-selling author Bill Sanders didn’t reach the top of his profession by being gullible, so he’s understandably skeptical when a boyhood friend claims his daughter has been abducted by aliens. But old loyalties run deep, so Bill reluctantly agrees to check it out-digging up the facts is his specialty, after all — and to his surprise they simply do not add up. Even more disturbingly, people connected with his investigation are inexplicably turning up dead. “In a lively plot that gallops across a landscape of disinformation and treachery, Brock’s hero peels away layers of artifice to arrive at the shocking heart of the intrigue. This is the first volume of a planned trilogy featuring Bill Sanders and his close encounters with “The Seven.” “Like his protagonist, Brock is a journalist who has worked for major dailies including the Wall Street Journal, the Houston Chronicle and The New York Times, and has authored best-selling books on financial planning.”
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Special reports concerning: Vallee’s Examination of aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Power Generating Plants, Hydrogen Power, Possible Directed Energy Weapon Attack, NASA Says No Atmosphere on Mars, Secrets, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Louisiana Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Japan, Slovakia and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book and I personally chased UFOs, saw them visually and on my radar and know they exist. I continue this advanced research and believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Alabama Light
Anderson – on May 26, 2021, traveling East on County Road 54 between Loxley and Silverhill I saw an object. It started moving East but seemed to be moving sideways rather than like an arrow would fly, object appears to be cigar shaped. The sunlight seemed to reflect off it at times and then it would disappear, only to reappear seconds later.
California Lights
Simi Valley – On December 31, 2020, we were standing in my front yard on New Year’s Eve and mid night this pops up.
Colorado Lights
Saluda – on May 12, 2021, 10:00 I observed a bright light NW my position while stargazing. I saw a white spike of light under the bottom of a donut shaped (on edge) object that was also brilliant white. I had another camera set up with a 400mm lens.
Hawaii Object
Honolulu (Hawaii News Now) – on January 1, 2021, An unidentified flying object spotted in the evening sky over Leeward Oahu prompted witnesses to call 911 on Tuesday. The sighting happened about 8:30 p.m. FAA notified after large blue UFO seen above Oahu appeared to drop into ocean www.hawaiinewsnow.com
Louisiana Disc
New Orleans– September 29, 2020, observed by my Wife during the Evening hours. She saw a disk-like object moved from NW to SW then quickly moved towards NW direction.
Mississippi Light
Diberville – on May 10, 2021, since May.10, I have seen, recorded in video and pics many UFO like activities. Mainly the wheel within a wheel UFO. It happens almost every night.
New Jersey Objects
Warren County — 2019 to 2021. Over the past 3 years people along the Delaware River especially White Township and Harmony have reported sightings of UFO’s to MUFON. Here is a picture of 2 UFO’s over a field across from the Hop & Vine liquor store in Route 519 in White. When the picture was taken, nothing could be seen but 3 days later viewing the photo the 2 objects were seen. They show the “blurry” image as most photos show a “field” of energy around the crafts. Reported and investigated it could not be explained. Thanks to Field Investigator Chief Jack Nicolas
New York Object
New Windsor – on May 1, 2021, Three photos were taken of a light mass that appears to be unorganized.
Note: The witness did not describe what he saw. The apparent streaked mass could have been due to a combination of camera movement and/or camera time exposure. Questions have been posed to the witness. Updates will be posted. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
North Carolina Cylinder
Charlotte — on April 27, 2021 at 4:24 AM Dan Johnson wrote to: Frank Chille ore Strange UFOs Showed Up Today
To the honor and glory of God, Who created all, Extraterrestrials included. Love and light. Thanks to Dan
Pennsylvania/New Jersey Object
Delaware River – November 26, 2020, Photo out my kitchen window taking a photo of bald eagle.
Tennessee Object
Murfreesboro – on May 18, 2021, My boyfriend saw this triangular shaped ‘cloud’ silently appear and hover over him, turned some, then it disappeared. I only included one photo as they’re not mine. But he has 6 others taken during the sighting. I’ve added his email to the report and he fully supports and is aware of this report and wouldn’t mind an email asking about it further. We just discussed it.
Washington Light
Tacoma – on May 16, 2021, captured video of these 4 objects hovering in the sky only a 5 minute walk away. They looked extremely large and close. They were huge and close. I live in a high rise on the 15th floor and these were not commercial planes. They hovered for so long I got tired of recording so I stopped. hey split apart and went different directions. In the video they look very far and small and in person they looked huge.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Atlantic Ocean Sphere
Puerto Rico — On November 10, 2019 around 2 PM we departed San Juan airport for New York City. I had a window seat fling at 35,000 feet, and I was looking down at the Atlantic and spotted several large ships. At around 4pm, I noticed a white sphere hovering over the water. There was whitewater below causing the water below it to churn. It appeared to be quite large and hovering above the water as I tried to film. This is a depiction of sighting.
Australia Lights
Kappa ring – on May 26, 2021, I was watching an object in the sky for about 4 minutes whilst in the passenger seat of a car. It looked like two car headlights flying which reminded me of Harry Potter. It was a few kilometers away. The craft started getting closer to us fast floating on air. Another similar craft appeared next to the first craft, but then it stayed in the one spot and the first craft kept coming. Within seconds, the first craft was a 100 meters above us. We stopped at a red light and I filmed its metallic dark flat triangle shape. There were three white then flashing green and red lights one on each tip. The triangular object then flew directly to our right, quite beautiful, and rotated about 180 degrees clockwise. It then shot off into the distance.
Canada Cylinder
Hamilton– on May 1, 2021, very large, slowly descending cylinder.
Croatia Lights
Rovinj— On December 31, 2020, saw lights in the sky.
Japan Objects
Tokyo — A mysterious flying object appears! SID-1® captured a UFO similar to an unidentified flying object announced by the US Department of Defense. SID-1® also recorded the same object! It became clear that many UFOs photographed by SID-1® were recorded that were reminiscent of the white objects of GOFAST. Surprisingly, not only are the shapes of these mysterious flying objects photographed off Tokyo and Florida very similar, but the ratio of the major axis to the minor axis is 1.80 to 1.00, which is exactly the same ratio. The fact that they are in the same capsule shape and have the same ratio of major axis to minor axis is likely to be the same type of similar object. I tried to summarize those videos from the huge record of SID-1®. It has also been analyzed that these images are not birds, aircraft, helicopters, drones, airships, balloons, halation phenomena, natural phenomena, lens ghosts or flares. Video sid-1® captured a ufo – Bing
Slovakia Light
Bratislava– on May 2, 2021, I was walking near my home and been making video of nature when I saw flying fast speed a while orb. I vided it saw it with my eyes and also by my Mobil. I thought maybe meteor (?) but at home I realized it was something else…. I am really curious about your opinion.
UK/England Skype
Herne Bay — on May 16th 2021, I went out into our garden and could see 2 light sources across the southern sky, Denebola and Arcturus using my iPod star AP. There was a short tail of a shooting star to the left of Denebola in the Leo constellation. Within 15 seconds the same light happened again moving in a slight curve, as if a single light was travelling around the circumference of an invisible disk shaped object, once, with 10-30 second gap between it happened 5 more times. I started to video and captured the period between the lights that increased gradually, then it ceased.
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It’s often said about science that the more we learn, the less we know. That is certainly true when it comes to fast radio bursts – these millisecond pulses have been difficult to detect, challenging to track, nearly impossible to predict and frustrating to explain. Yet our knowledge of them continues to grow as more are found … but that new knowledge typically negates what we thought we knew. A recent example is FRB 20200120E – a fast radio burst discovered in 2020 and traced to a globular cluster about 11.7 million light-years away, making it the closet known FRB outside of our own galaxy. Yet the good look that its proximity gives us doesn’t reinforce previous theories on fast radio bursts — FRB 20200120E instead defies a big one.
In 2021, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope discovered five fast radio bursts and traced them to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies. These FRBs conformed to the prevailing theory that they come from young magnetars – neutron stars with unusually high magnetic levels. They also fit into the idea that magnetars are generally found in galaxies that are actively creating new stars. In the blink of an FRB, FRB 20200120E may have challenged both of those theories
“Here we conclusively prove that FRB 20200120E is associated with a globular cluster in the M81 galactic system, thereby confirming that it is 40 times closer than any other known extragalactic FRB. Because such globular clusters host old stellar populations, this association challenges FRB models that invoke magnetars formed in a core-collapse supernova as powering FRB emission.”
In a new paper on the preprint server arXiv, astronomers put FRB 20200120E in a globular cluster containing objects billions of years old — some of the most ancient in the observable universe. That’s not the kind of neighborhood conducive to magnetars created when young massive stars explode and die. This is like seeing a pharaoh painted on the wall of an ancient Egyptian tomb watching television – FRB 20200120E doesn’t belong in this picture. And yet … there it is. The more we learn …
If FRB 20200120E isn’t a magnetar created by the death of a young star, the authors of the paper theorize it could have formed when a low-mass white dwarf interacting with another star and gained enough mass to collapse into a neutron star. Or it’s the result of a merger or collision of two white dwarfs. Or … what we know about FRBs themselves is wrong — FRB 20200120E may not have come from a magnetar at all. They propose its source could be a low-mass X-ray binary pairing a white dwarf and a neutron star. Or an even stranger binary pair of a neutron star and an exoplanet. It might even be a growing black hole.
The more we learn about fast radio bursts, the less we know about them. The same could be said about the field of astronomy – what we once thought were just people peering through a telescope and drawing what they see has become a field where being a detective leads to greater success … and more questions.
The field of astronomy – like the universe it explores – is wide open.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 04 - 06 -2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 04 - 06 -2021
UFO Sighted Over São Paulo, Brazil ( June 2, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Objeto estranho no céu nesse exato momento alguém vendo????? TRANSLATE : Strange object in the sky at this exact moment, does anyone see it?????
credit : Stifler Rafael
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Strange Atlanta Sunset ( May 25, 2021 )
Strange Atlanta, Georgia Sunset was sighted on May 25, 2021
STATEMENT : Weird and Wild sunset I captured Atlanta, GA 5.25.21
credit : Gail Lane
UFOs Sighted Over Lake Grove, New York ( May 29, 2021 )
UFOs were sighted over Lake Grove, Long Island, New York
STATEMENT : Multiple lights Multiple orbs passing over the trees.. Mufon Case :115949 Date Submitted : 2021-06-01 Date of Event : 2021-05-29 / 8:30PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210529204633.mp
VIDEO 2 : credit: Ignacio Ruiz Altamirano : September 20, 2020
UFO Sighted Over Comachuén, Mexico( June 3, 2021 )
Comachuén, Michoacan De Ocampo, Mexico : From Comachuén, Michoacan De Ocampo, Mexico : June 3, 2021
credit : Jhonny Jhosh Callejero Aviles
VIDEO 2 : Envigado, Colombia : June 1, 2021
STATEMENT :Este vídeo lo grabo un Mexicano que está en Envigado - Colombia donde yo vivo y se lo envio a mi mejor Amigo y el me lo reenvío Se 100% real aca en Envigado se ven muchos Ovnis Yo los he visto con mi Esposa y mi mejor Amigo también.
TRANSLATE :This video was recorded by a Mexican who is in Envigado - Colombia where I live and send it to my best friend and he forwarded it to me Be 100 % real here in Envigado you see many UFO I seen them with my Wife and my best Friend too.
credit : Rodrigo Alzate
UFO Sighted Over Area 51, Nevada( June 2, 2021 )
STATEMENT : What do you think of this video my brother sent me this is from the area 51 in the United States in the place where this is desolate there are no people
ORIGINAL :Que opinan de este video mi hermano me lo envió el esta a del área 51 en Estados Unidos en el lugar donde el esta es desolado no hay personas
credit : Melina Rondon
A Return Visit.3 Large UFOs Spotted On 5/2021 Over The Moon, Have They Been Here Before in 2019!?
Three Large Objects recorded over the moon in May of this year but it appears the same UFO's were recorded in 2019. Have they returned or have they never left are they stationed behind the moon or is there a outpost or a base or a shipyard you be the judge and tell me what you think.
Second video of UFO's moving behind the moon, Original source has been deleted. I can give the source to the video I made in 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s209...
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Bright White UFO "Orb" Sighted Over Ecuador Leaves Witnesses Baffled
This object was sighted over Ecuador's capital Quito sometime in May.. Sorry in know i said March in the video but it was in May. I am still waiting for the exact details and when i have them i will amend it here...
Thanks to forniciorivera for posting the footage and to view the original
Possible UFO flying above the Martian surface caught by Perseverance Rover
Possible UFO flying above the Martian surface caught by Perseverance Rover
On May 28, 2021, the Perseverance mars rover captured two images of the same landscape. Image 1 shows a possible UFO flying above the surface of Mars (Time 11.36.48) but Image 2, captured 10 minutes earlier, shows No UFO (Time 11.26.48).
At first glance, the small light source looks like a camera artifact but after adjusting brightness and contrast, the image shows us the shape of a UFO and the thrust that moves the UFO forward.
The filmmaker, who leaked the footage that shows UFOs harassing a warship off the California coast in 2019, has released new radar footage that allegedly shows the USS Omaha being swarmed by UFOs.
Jeremy Corbell claims the video was recorded on July 15, 2019, in the ship’s combat information center. Earlier this month, he released a video taken aboard the USS Omaha showing a strange spherical UFO over the ship before disappearing into the ocean.
In his latest Tweet, Corbell said, “this is corroborative electro-optic data demonstrating a significant UFO event series in a warning area off San Diego.”
The newly released clip shows sailors aboard the Omaha observing up to nine UFOs swarming the ship at speeds about 160mph.
A sailor is heard saying, “Holy sh–t they’re going fast,” before adding, “Oh, it’s turning around.”
The Pentagon had previously confirmed that the leaked video of three UFOs hovering over the USS Russell in July 2019 disclosed by Corbell is authentic.
Corbell and investigative reporter George Knapp discussed the new clip during Knapp’s paranormal show “Mystery Wire.” On the program, Corbell said they have footage from the combat information center (CIC) from a crew that was specifically assigned to record these strange events.
According to the filmmaker, 14 UFOS could be seen at one point on the Navy radar, but that video was not provided. The Department of Defense is still mum on the latest footage.
The new revelation comes as defense officials are getting ready to present Congress with a report detailing all the government knows about UFOs next month, a mandate attached to the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 bill of President Donald Trump in December.
PENTAGON UFO REPORT: WATCH NEW VIDEO LEAKED AHEAD OF LANDMARK DOSSIER
PENTAGON UFO REPORT: WATCH NEW VIDEO LEAKED AHEAD OF LANDMARK DOSSIER
“WHAT I’M SAYING IS THAT THESE ARE UNIDENTIFIED AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW, A NEED TO KNOW, AND A DUTY TO FIND OUT.”
ON JULY 15, 2019, UNITED STATES NAVY PERSONNEL FILMED SOMETHING THEY COULDN’T EXPLAIN — OR AT LEAST, THAT IS WHAT A NEW VIDEOPURPORTS TO SHOW.
The video dropped Thursday afternoon on the website of Jeremy Corbell, a filmmaker and UFO enthusiast. In the new footage, we can see what appears to be a radar display with multiple objects moving across the field. At a point in the video, one of the people apparently monitoring the radar exclaims: “holy shit.”
The website describes the new footage thus:
This RADAR data release shows four clips; multiple unknown targets (and one civilian vessel). Some of the unknown targets drop off RADAR in this footage. This happened numerous times throughout the UFO encounter series. At the height of the contacts - there were at least fourteen unknowns observed at one time. The event series reached a crescendo with one of the unknown targets entering the water at 11pm. No wreckage found. None of the unidentified craft were recovered.
This is just the latest escalation in what is fast becoming an all-consuming obsession on the part of the U.S. public. Sarah Scoles, a journalist and author of the UFO culture book They Are Already Here, has been researching UFO incidents for four years but never imagined that things would get as heated as quickly as they have the last few months.
The video was not independently verified by Inverse. You can watch the new footage here:
This unverified footage purports to show a UFO encounter with U.S. Navy.
The video comes weeks ahead of one of the most-anticipated events of 2021. Inverse, like Scoles, is keeping an eye on the Pentagon UFO report, which is set to be released in June.
“It's definitely not what I expected when I first started looking into UFOs around 2017,” Scoles tells Inverse. “This was not what I thought the end result would be, or even that public interest would sustain itself for this long.”
The government report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) is due to be delivered by June 25. The report has been preceded by a series of surprising statements by the Department of Defense authenticating grainy footage of UAP caught by Navy pilots. This has lead many who have been following the development of this story to wonder: Why are UFOs suddenly the big talk of the government?
Ahead of the release of the UAP report, Inverse breaks down what to expect from it, how much of it will be available to the public, and how it will likely change the narrative around UFOs.
WHY IS THE PENTAGON RELEASING A UFO REPORT?
The catalyst from the reports come from a series of leaked Pentagon videos purporting to show UFOs:
The latest video, leaked on May 27, 2021 by Corbell, appears to show U.S. Navy encountering numerous unidentified objects on radar.
In 2017 Navy videos leaked, stirring up a barrage of rumors online. The footage shows a cluster of odd-looking aircraft executing strange maneuvers. The Navy pilots can be heard saying: “what the f--k is that?”
In April 2020, the Pentagon formally released the three videos of “unidentified aerial phenomenon” — the official term for UFOs — captured by the Navy pilots.
The Pentagon release suggested the videos were legitimate, but it did not say what the crafts were or were believed to be.
In December 2020, the government made the Intelligence Authorization Act law and called for an unclassified report on UAPs to be published in 2021.
The Act was a part of the mammoth appropriations bill that also included financial aid checks for people living with the economic fallout from Covid-19.
The report is due in June. It will be compiled by the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense and it should pull together everything the U.S. military knows about the phenomena. It will first be presented to the congressional Intelligence and Armed Services committees.
For people like Corbell, the release of the report is like a dream come true.
“I was always hopeful that if we beat the drum, marched forward and shook things up and kicked down some doors, that we would see a day like this,” Corbell tells Inverse. “I’m an optimist so I had to believe that we would get more confirmation from what our military knows about the UFO presence on planet Earth.”
Corbell has previously shared footage captured by the U.S. Navy off the coast of San Diego in July 2019. The video, which he shared on Twitter, showed a dark, spherical shape disappearing into the water.
A few days later, the Department of Defense confirmed that the video was recorded by military personnel and that it would be reviewed by the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, says that the government was forced to confirm the legitimacy of the Navy videos because they leaked to the public — but notably, they didn’t confirm much else.
“I don’t think they were planning on releasing these videos,” Shostak tells Inverse. “And in releasing them, they said, ‘well, these videos are definitely videos.’”
WHAT IS GOING TO BE IN THE UFO REPORT?
As far as what is going to be included in the Pentagon’s report, Corbell is not one step ahead of the government this time.
“I don’t have a crystal ball so I can’t predict what will be in it,” Corbell says. “Anything they put out for me is good because it’s saying that the Senate Intelligence Committee is listening to the American public and that this is important to the American public.”
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said in a high-profile interview with Fox News earlier this year that the report would contain information on “difficult to explain” sightings.
“NOW, COULD THEY BE ALIENS? SURE, THAT OPTION IS DEFINITELY FIRMLY SITTING ON THE TABLE.”
“We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for, or are traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,” Ratcliffe told Fox News in March.
In addition to the three videos the Pentagon confirmed as real footage in April 2020, the Department of Defense also confirmed the authenticity of several photos and videos of UAPs taken in July 2019.
The footage shows mysterious lights encircling the USS Russell and the USS Omaha at the Naval Base in San Diego — a major point of operations for the U.S. Navy.
A Defense Department spokeswoman confirmed to CNN in April 2021 that the footage of triangle-shaped flying objects was indeed recorded by Navy pilots, but that the Department could not explain what they were.
It’s still not clear whether the report will also include footage that the public has already seen, or if it will release new video footage.
“They’re kind of trying to keep all of this under wraps right now, so I don’t really think we have a sense of what it will contain,” Scoles says. “It would be great if we saw more of their cases because I’ve seen all of the videos and photos that we have about a thousand too many times.”
Meanwhile, Shostak believes that parts of the report will be classified and not available to the public.
“It’s going to be a mix, that’s often the case with these reports,” Shostak says. “Some of it is going to be classified simply because the military doesn’t want to tell you too much about the capabilities of their cameras.”
HOW WILL THE UFO REPORT AFFECT US?
When the Pentagon released the footage of the UAPs, they admitted they cannot explain the maneuvers pulled by the aircraft seen in the videos. So it’s pretty safe to assume that the report will not confirm whether or not the UAPs are in fact alien spaceships or some form of foreign technology.
“I think in the end, it is above all else an unclassified government report and it will read like that,” Scoles says.
But Scoles believes the report may still serve a purpose as it will lay the groundwork for figuring out what to do with the information that has been released and provide a way to systemize information that may be available in the future.
A scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a Steven Spielberg directed UFO movie. Silver Screen Collection/Moviepix/Getty Images
WILL THE UFO REPORT CONFIRM ALIENS?
The short answer is, no. The language adopted by the side of the government has emphasized that they themselves are not sure what these flying objects are.
“You have a transparent, honest response from our military that they don't know what these are,” Corbell says. “So they’re telling the truth.”
Corbell himself remains agnostic as to whether they might be aliens.
“I’m not saying that they’re aliens, I’ve never said that once in my life,” Corbell says. “What I’m saying is that these are unidentified and we have a right to know, a need to know, and a duty to find out from a safety standpoint, from a national security standpoint, as well as for understanding our place in the universe as humanity.”
“Now, could they be aliens?” he adds. “Sure, that option is definitely firmly sitting on the table.”
Although alien enthusiasts have been rejoicing over the government finally confirming the footage of UAPs, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are admitting these are alien spaceships. Instead, the government’s main concern appears to be whether or not this poses some form of threat.
“It will probably be focused on whether UAP presents a national security threat which is a very terrestrial, very grounded concerning,” Scoles says. “And so that I think will tether a lot of people to Earth.”
But in most cases related to alleged UFO sightings, it only takes an incident of an unidentified aerial phenomenon for people to claim that it is the work of an alien civilization and that will most likely happen with the release of this report.
“UFOs have a very good way of sustaining their own history,” Scoles says.
Ellis Silver: “The Earth was colonized, we are the aliens”
Ellis Silver: “The Earth was colonized, we are the aliens”
A few years ago, a balloon returned from a high-altitude flight covered in microscopic non-terrestrial life forms. In this way, Doctor Ellis Silver reignited the debate about the true birth of life on Earth.
The book “Humans are not from Earth” by Ellis Silver
Ellis Silver tops a list of scientists who believe that life originated on Mars . This is due to a mineral found in Martian meteorites , an essential concept for the birth of life.
Another experiment showed that amino acids could have landed on Earth by comets. This would mean that life is not just limited to the Solar System.
Ellis Silver and the origin of life
The American ecologist Ellis Silver, in his book “Humans are not from Earth,” suggests that humanity could easily come from another world , such as Mars.
The expert gives arguments that are based on human physiology . It has not evolved according to the terrestrial ecosystem, as if they did other species.
This indicates that humans “came” to the planet from somewhere else. Perhaps, brought by aliens a few tens of thousands of years ago.
Silver is currently working on a project to clean up plastic waste from the Pacific. He assures that the objective of his book is to generate debate , based on scientific work on the differences between humans and other species.
The ecologist told Yahoo News that the Earth meets all our needs as a species, but not with the effectiveness of the planet where we possibly come from.
For example, lizards can sunbathe for whole days. The human can only go out for a week or two. But what happens if it is exposed to UV rays for a long time? You could even get a deadly disease like cancer.
Another argument is that of chronic diseases ; Back or muscle problems are a sign that we are from a less serious world .
The difficulty women have in giving birth, which, without the advancement of science, could be fatal . However, no other species native to Earth has that problem.
Problems such as heat stroke are a sign that humanity does not belong to Earth.
Problems not suffered by another species
It is also necessary to point out the 223 extra genes of the human being, which are not present in another creature. And, obviously, there is no “missing link” to complete the human evolutionary chain.
Silver focuses especially on disease; the human is chronically ill. There is no person in the world who is 100% healthy .
The ecologist’s conclusion is that most of our problems as a species are simply because our internal clocks evolved to live 25-hour days .
In fact, there is a scientific study that supports this claim. But the Earth only has 24 hours a day. And this problem has been traced throughout the known evolution of mankind.
There is a possibility that early pre-humans, such as Homo Erectus, may have been interbred with other species. In addition, it is also possible that our origin comes from the Solar System closest to the Sun: Alpha Centauri .
Despite the fact that humanity is far above the development of other species, it has too many problems that are related to the environment. This should already be an indication that something strange is happening.
Panspermia and the life forms that keep coming to Earth
Panspermia and the possibility that life comes from space.
Another controversial claim by Ellies is that the bacteria came from space . In this way the theory of panspermia was born . In short, Earth could have “pollinated” nearby worlds.
NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay once stated that “curious things” have been found in the atmosphere, in relation to bacteria originating in space.
Professor Milton Wainwright , along with colleagues from Sheffield University, are working to identify that there are biological entities originating in space . This means that, continuously, there are forms of life arriving on Earth .
Chemical engineer Nir Goldman suggests that simple molecules in comets, such as water, ammonia or carbon dioxide, could have served as raw material and the impact on an early Earth could “ignite” the prebiotic reaction .
The results of their experiments confirm that previous predictions of impact synthesis of prebiotic material, where the impact could produce life-capable compounds.
Goldman is sure that this is an important step in understanding the origin of life. In addition, it increases the possibility that life does not originate from Earth and may have been spread throughout the Solar System.
This theory, as Ellis Silver originally put it, has generated great controversy. In fact, the origins of the Earth and the possibility that they came from Mars are still being investigated and debated.
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NASA will head to Venus for first time in roughly 30 years
Spacecraft are able to peer through the thick atmosphere of Venus, revealing an alien surface that in some ways is eerily Earth-like. PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL
NASA will head to Venus for first time in roughly 30 years
Two spacecraft aim to solve deep mysteries about the nearby planet, including why it resembles a hellish, toxic version of Earth.
BY NADIA DRAKE
NASA had a surprise in store for planetary scientists today: During a “State of NASA” briefing, the agency announced that roiling, toxic Venus will be the target ofthe next two missions in its highly competitive Discovery program.
“These two sister missions, both aimed to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface—they will offer the entire science community the chance to investigate a planet we haven’t been to in more than 30 years,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during the briefing. “We hope these missions will help further our understanding of how Earth evolved and why it’s currently habitable, when other [rocky planets] in our solar system are not.”
One spacecraft, called DAVINCI+, will study the planet’s toxic atmosphere—a thick shroud of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid clouds. The other, VERITAS, will make detailed maps of the planet’s surface and try to reconstruct its geologic history.
The announcement comes amid surging interest in a U.S.-led mission to Venus, which some planetary scientists have considered “the forgotten planet.” Venus is remarkably similar to Earth in size and mass. And although it is a hellish, inhospitable world today, it may once have been a temperate, ocean-covered planet like our own. Understanding how Venus became such an extremely unfriendly world is crucial for understanding how common truly Earth-like planets might be.
“We have an Earth-size planet next door that is nothing like Earth—why? That’s a pretty important thing to figure out,” says Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at North Carolina State University. “We have some pretty big questions to answer regarding the formation, characteristics, and evolution of an Earth-size world.”
Double the fun
NASA’s Discovery program supports smaller, less expensive missions than those in its New Frontiers and flagship categories. Launching roughly every 36 months, Discovery missions are typically capped at $450 million, excluding launch vehicle and mission operations costs, while New Frontiers expeditions are capped at $850 million. Flagships—such as the Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rovers—can cost billions.
Currently, NASA is flying two Discovery missions. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2009, has spent more than a decade mapping the moon’s surface. The InSight Lander, launched in 2018, is studying the Martian interior.
In 2021, two more missions will launch: Lucy will study multiple asteroids and use them to uncover secrets about the early solar system, while Psyche will visit a giant, extremely metal-rich asteroid of the same name. At the time, some scientists grumbled about two asteroid missions being selected—especially given that they beat out several proposed Venus missions, including VERITAS and DAVINCI+.
A long time coming
Now, those missions will at last have their chance to fly, exposing new truths about the shrouded world next door.
The last U.S. mission to Venus, Magellan, ended in 1994 as the spacecraft executed a programmed plunge through the planet’s atmosphere. Since then, European and Japanese probes have visited Earth’s twisted sister, and scientists have continued to aim Ed telescopes at the intriguing planet.
Soon, perhaps by 2030, the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, or DAVINCI+, spacecraft will set sail for Venus. It will then descend through the planet’s atmosphere, which is 90 times denser than Earth’s, collecting samples and relaying data that will help scientists understand how it evolved, and whether the planet ever had oceans.
While DAVINCI+ studies the Venusian shroud, the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, or VERITAS, spacecraft will be busy mapping the planet’s surface from orbit. Those images, plus detailed information about surface chemistry and topography, will help reconstruct Venus’s geologic history—and perhaps solve the mystery of how it evolved into the hellhole next door.
“My poor dog really thought our house was under attack from the way I was screaming when I found out our mission was selected,” tweeted the Planetary Science Institute’s David Grinspoon, a member of the DAVINCI+ team.
“I’ve been pushing for this for literally my entire career,” he also tweeted. “Last U.S. Venus mission launched in 1989, year I finished grad school. So much to learn about climate, history of Earth-like worlds & life in the universe.”
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Robots may be taking away our jobs, but one consolation (perhaps the ONLY consolation) is that they don’t ever seem to look like they’re enjoying it. Then again, how many of you look like you enjoy your job … at least pre-pandemic? Well, some robots have decided to rub our human noses into our job losses by curling that thing underneath THEIR useless noses into the creepiest smile ever. If you’ve been searching for incentive to rise up against our robot overlords, that look may be it.
“The idea for EVA took shape a few years ago, when my students and I began to notice that the robots in our lab were staring back at us through plastic, googly eyes.”
Hod Lipson, James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation (Mechanical Engineering) and director of the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia Engineering (Columbia University), explains in a press release how an observation by students who hadn’t yet gotten jobs that they would eventually lose to robots turned into a study called “Smile Like You Mean It: Driving Animatronic Robotic Face with Learned Models” which led to the development of EVA, an autonomous robot with a soft face and AI Learning algorithms it used to mimic the facial expressions of humans around it.
“The greatest challenge in creating EVA was designing a system that was compact enough to fit inside the confines of a human skull while still being functional enough to produce a wide range of facial expressions.”
Undergraduate student Zanwar Faraj led the team in developing artificial cable-and-pulley facial muscles to replace the more than 42 tiny muscles in a human face. That gave the robot the ability to express the six basic emotions of anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise, plus an array of more nuanced feelings. Over the mechanics they stretched a blue skin resembling a member of the popular and much-loved Blue Man Group performance art company. To make the robotic face closer to a human one than the animatronic robots at theme parks, they gave EVA deep learning artificial intelligence to “read” and then mirror the expressions on nearby human faces, and then learn more by watching videos of itself. In that way, EVA obtained a ‘self-image’.
Did it work?
“I was minding my own business one day when EVA suddenly gave me a big, friendly smile. I knew it was purely mechanical, but I found myself reflexively smiling back.”
Hod Lipson was one of the first to come under the control of EVA. He admits that his reflex response to the smiling EVA was one of the goals of the project – he had noticed that grocery stores using restocking robots often decked them out in name badges and clothing to give them a human identity, and decided the next step was to make a robot that could control that identity and its responses itself.
“Our brains seem to respond well to robots that have some kind of recognizable physical presence.”
That’s true … but is it wise? Boyuan Chen, a PhD student who led the software phase of the project, added this:
“Robots are intertwined in our lives in a growing number of ways, so building trust between humans and machines is increasingly important.”
What could possibly go wrong?
What’s the harm in making a robot smile? What’s the first thing a con man does? Or a politician? Or a pusher? A kidnapper? Anyone looking to win your trust before they violate it?
We now have a smiling robot that can make you reflexively smile back. What do you think it’s going to say as it smilingly leads you away and you ask it to tell you where it’s taking you? You’ve seen this movie before.
It seems there is no X-Files division in Australia, so we at Curious Adelaide stepped up.
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It's a question many of us have asked ourselves: are we alone in the universe?
From flying saucers to balls of light rocketing through the sky, South Australia has had its fair share of reported UFO encounters.
One avid ABC reader has asked us to delve into the history of the state's major cases, as part of our Curious Adelaide campaign.
So we dusted off some of South Australia's oldest X-Files to find answers.
Nightmare on the Nullarbor
The Daily Mirror reports on the Nullarbor incident.( The Daily Mirror )
We'll start in the outback, where a traumatised family was allegedly lifted off the ground by aliens.
It was still dark in the early hours of January 20, 1988, when the Knowles family was driving along the remote Nullarbor Plain.
The seemingly mundane trip from Perth to Melbourne quickly turned to terror when they encountered an unidentified flying object that tormented them for 90 minutes.
A large glowing object "like a big ball"chased Faye Knowles and her adult sons Patrick, Wayne and Sean down the highway, before landing on their roof and plucking them into the air.
In a state of shock, Sean Knowles put his foot on the accelerator as his mother screamed but, according to reports, their voices distorted like time was slowing down.
Perhaps the treeless expanse of the Nullarbor resembled a Martian homeland.( ABC News: Jarrod Lucas )
"I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof... all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff," Faye Knowles told reporters after the incident.
"It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball.
The family eventually made it to Ceduna and reported the bizarre events to police who took the report seriously, given the state of the car, which was dented and had dust over it.
The story made headlines around the world with sceptics and believers alike trying to make sense of what happened on that lonely stretch of road.
Flying saucers and lights in the sky
A photo of a possible UFO sighting over Sheffield, England in 1962 released by the CIA.( Supplied: CIA )
UFO reports in the state can be traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century but it wasn't until the early Cold War that they started appearing all over the place.
It seems that, in an atmosphere of heightened political tension, people became spooked by strange lights in the sky.
UFO researcher Keith Basterfield said Port Augusta was home to one of the state's first sightings.
"Five metallic objects were seen by three people working at the Commonwealth railways there.
"Even the government astronomer — we had such a person at the time — couldn't explain that sighting."
The Bunyip reported on a widespread flying saucer sighting in January 1954. ( The Bunyip )
Reports made the front pages of newspapers of strange objects sighted from Eyre Peninsula to the outskirts of Adelaide.
On January 22, 1954, The Bunyip newspaper reported three people had sighted a flying saucer over Gawler.
"It looked no bigger than an ordinary saucer because of its great height."
One case that still stumps Mr Basterfield took place outside the remote community of Kimba on the Eyre Highway on the night of February 4, 1973.
Keith Basterfield travelled to Kimba to investigate the1973 sighting.( Supplied )
Four people in three separate cars all spotted it in a clearing they passed — an orange rectangle similar to an illuminated door in the scrub, with a strange figure standing inside.
Police were baffled, so Mr Basterfield and his team drove out to investigate.
"We had a look at the site, we took soil samples from the area, we had the samples analysed looking for something unusual there," he said.
"That's not your typical flying metallic saucer but it's a very, very strange set of observations by a group of independent people.
Another possible UFO sighting captured in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1960 and released by the FBI.
(Supplied: CIA)
Another strange happening, in South Australia's Flinders Ranges in 2006, was witnessed by scores of people many kilometres apart.
Service station owner John Teague was outside pumping tyres when something plummeted through the sky.
"For some reason I glanced up and I yelled, 'look at that Lloyd', and this thing was hurtling through the air," he said.
"Looked like [it was] about the size of a baseball just flying through the air rapidly."
Mr Teague made such a noise that a group across the street looked up and saw the same thing.
"Then all of a sudden, and this was quite some time later, a huge sonic boom rattled through the air," he said.
"I thought it might have been a meteor going through the air in daylight, I didn't know what it was, maybe space junk coming back.
"But it would have had to be pretty big for space junk for it to be that size way up in the air."
To this day, what it was remains a mystery.
So how common are UFO sightings in South Australia?
Lee-Anne Peters filmed this footage of what authorities later said was an aircraft over Tasmania
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South Australia's Astronomical Society's Paul Curnow said it's pretty common.
"The average city person doesn't look at the sky very often and sometimes when they do look up and see something strange, they can't really explain it," Mr Curnow said.
When Curious Adelaide phoned SA Police to check whether it could shed some light on the matter there was a moment of silence, before some laughter.
Senior constable Mick Abbott did however make the following comment:
When the ABC contacted the CSIRO there was a similar reponse.
According to Paul Curnow, it's still common to get several dozen to hundreds of UFO reports each year in South Australia alone.
But what's being reported is changing, he told us, with fewer sightings of flying saucers hovering over the land.
"Probably for every 10 cases you get, nine can be explained in mundane terms," Mr Curnow said.
The majority of cases, unfortunately for those hoping for an encounter with the extra-terrestrial, have a logical explanation.
"Quite often people report a little silver dot in the sky [and it] turned out to be an aircraft," he said.
"A lot of these things like planes, satellites, planets, even searchlights sometimes, can all add to what people are reporting."
So is the truth really out there?
UFO researcher Keith Basterfield was based in Adelaide when the Knowles family incident occurred.
"My first thought was 'here is a very interesting story that we can carry out some hard science on'," he said.
"We've got a vehicle, we've got reported unusual dust on a vehicle, we've got a number of witnesses.
"If we could document all that we'd have a very strong case for saying something unusual occurred."
However, the conclusion he reached was far from the extra-terrestrial encounter portrayed by the media.
The car had been forensically tested with nothing unusual found, and Mr Basterfield had a more ordinary explanation for the bright light.
"We figured it was potentially a mirage caused by a temperature inversion that night," he said.
That kind of mirage can make lights a long way in the distance curve over the Earth's horizon and appear to be much closer than they actually are.
"Although they saw the light approaching them, they never saw the [source of the] light reach them, so it never actually got to them," Mr Basterfield said.
"It disappeared at that point in front of them so we figured a mirage of a track light several kilometres away could explain that."
YOUTUBEDerryn Hinch speaks to the Knowles family in 1988
He also had a simple explanation for the car jumping and vibrating.
"If a tyre explodes under your car going at really high speed you're going to get vibrations, you're going to get brake dust entering the vehicle," Mr Basterfield said.
While it seems science offers an explanation for many of the sightings in the state, you'll need to decide for yourself whether it's more tale than truth.
For whatever reasons, some places seem to draw to them more UFO activity than others. These places log in more sightings than other places, often by a fair margin, and it is not easy to ascertain just exactly why that should be. One place that is perhaps little known to the outside world as a UFO hotspot is the wilds of South Australia, consisting of largely of sparsely inhabited arid and semi-arid rangelands, with several low mountain ranges. It is a wild, remote place in many areas, and it is here where the dark rural roads that meander through the outback have long been seemingly plagued by UFOs.
Our earliest report here comes from the files of UFO Research South Australia (UFORSA), in the year 1955, near the town of Tintinara. On April 22 of that year, a young, unnamed man was driving along a dusty rural road at around 7:45 a.m. when he was startled to see something hover across the road in front of him. He would describe it as a “three metre diameter silvery sphere, surrounded by a flange,” with a total diameter of around 10 meters. According to the witness there were no external portholes or markings, the entire thing completely smooth and metallic. The object crossed over the road, hovering about 1 meter above it, after which it circled around and crossed behind the vehicle before taking a parallel course beside it, matching the speed of the astonished man’s car. The mysterious object reportedly followed him for about 25 kilometers before it either lost interest or found something better to do, launching straight up into the sky at phenomenal speeds.
Continuing into the 50s, according to a report in the Adelaide “Advertiser, on March 13, 1959, two men were in a truck near a place called Purnong Landing when they crested a hill and were astounded to see a “dome illuminated by colored lights,” measuring around 10 meters in diameter. They were so in awe of the object that they stopped the truck to watch it. The object eerily hung there in one place, flashing through a pattern of alternating hypnotic sequences of different colored lights, before it without warning went completely dark. The men approached out of curiosity, the thing now just a black, indefinable shape, but it then sped off silently without illuminating again. In that same month, on March 31, witness Barry Neale was driving near Port Elliott when he passed a strange object resting about 100 meters off the road, which he described as 2 meters wide and looking like a “a glowing reddish orange object with a row of portholes.” Neale drove off onto a dirt side road through the trees to try and get closer, but the object then took off at an incredibly high speed.
Moving into the 1960s, there are several notable reports. On May 19, 1963, a 17-year-old local mechanic was driving home near Mount Gambier and noticed a strange metallic object travelling along near the road. As he approached it, the object allegedly flashed him with a blinding light before hovering directly above his vehicle. At this point he could see that it was oval-shaped, about 6 meters long, and with an array of lights as bright as “the arc lights in electric welding.” It apparently followed him for several miles before drifting off into the distance. The very next day there was another report from the same general vicinity, this time given by a witness who says he was followed for 3 miles along a desolate stretch of barren road by a mysterious silent object that was “bright red/white and shaped like a bull-dozer.” The object apparently only flew off when another car appeared coming the opposite direction. The following month, on July 28, 1963, a witness was near a place called Sandy Creek, making his way towards the town of Gawler when he was forced to slam his brakes when he almost collided with a “blood-red colored object extending across the roadway” as he rounded a bend. The object had a concave top and a flat base, the whole of it bathed in that eerie red glow. It then ascended, the color of its light changing to yellow as it did, then turned on its side and flew off, streaming a trail of vapor behind it.
In July of 1967, a witness was driving near Murray Bridge on his way to Karoonda through thick fog when his radio began to go haywire, distorting and morphing until it became an ear-piercing, high pitched whine, causing him to turn it off. Shortly after this, his engine died for no apparent reason and a warning light came on telling him his key was not in the ignition, even though it was. As the car rolled to a stop he noticed a patch of fog suddenly clear to reveal a “large dark shadow” about 120 feet wide and with a greyish-blue glow above it hovering 20 feet above the road. As he looked on in amazement, the hole in the fog suddenly closed again, making it appear as if the enigmatic object had just vanished into thin air. As soon as it was gone, his car jumped back to life and the radio worked normally.
In the 1970s we have first a report of a Mr. Boyce, who on August 8, 1971 was on his way from the town of Wallaroo to Kadina when he was bathed in an orange glow as his car died. He guided the powerless car to the side of the road and got out of the vehicle to see “an oval shape with three to four windows” hovering almost directly over his car and emitting a low buzzing noise. It allegedly hovered there motionless and silent for around 3 minutes before moving off out of sight, his car coming back on when it did.
In February of 1972, a witness named Hunt was driving outside the town of Kimba with a passenger called Finkler, when Hunt saw a “red and orange rectangle of light” hovering nearby about 3 feet over the ground. In this case he could allegedly see the occupant of the craft within the light, which appeared to be a 6-foot-tall humanoid decked out in “a white space suit with a mask over the head and face.” Hunt woke his passenger, who had been sleeping, who also saw it, and they reported it to police. Authorities would then find out that two other independent witnesses had reported seeing the orange light in the same location within a 15-minute period, although no one else reported the alien figure. In February of 1974 there was another sighting of a humanoid being in conjunction with a UFO in the same area, when four people in three separate vehicles saw an orange lighted rectangular object sitting in a clearing off the road. There was also allegedly seen a “two-meter-tall ‘man’ in a white space-suit” hovering within the rectangular light like an insect in amber.
In the 1980s we have the strange case of two young men only known as “Messrs P.” and “J”, who were driving outside of Port Lincoln when they saw an odd bright light in the sky. After that they apparently drove into a “white endless space,” after which they woke up in their car on the dark road several hours later with no memory of what had happened after entering that white landscape. Under hypnosis they would recall fragments of walking into a big room and a tall, humanoid figure, but nothing else could be dredged up from their subconscious. Perhaps the most famous case of all occurred on January 20 of 1988, in the barren badlands of the remote Nullarbor Plain. In the early morning hours, the Knowles family was travelling from Perth to Melbourne when they were aggressively chased by a glowing object “like a big ball” that would reportedly terrorize them for the next 90 minutes. At one point, the object landed right on top of their car to spew smoke into their windows before picking the vehicle clear up into the air. They then felt the car shake violently and noticed that their screams of terror were distorted and slowed down as if they were in some sort of time warp, after which they were dropped so hard back onto the road that one of their tires burst. They ended up running into some brush to hide until the marauding UFO went away. Police would later examine the car to find it scratched and dented, but no radiation or any other evidence of the bizarre encounter could be found.
These are just some of the many other UFO reports from the remote and desolate roads that meander through South Australia, and indeed the region in general has gathered about itself a reputation as a UFO mecca. Why should this be? What is it about this place that should attract so many such stories? Is it something about the land itself? There have been theories that this place lies upon some sort of earth energy line, or that it possesses certain geographical features that may attract such strange forces, so could that be it? Why are they so keen to patrol the roadways here and terrorize vehicles? No one really knows, and South Australia remains a pretty active and strange UFO hotspot, where it might be best to keep your eyes to the sky the next time you are driving through.
Earthquakes have a very flexible time period that they can last, such as a few seconds, several minutes, days, weeks, or months. But based on new analysis of an ancient coral, the longest lasting earthquake in Earth’s history dragged on for a whopping 32 years.
Researchers in Singapore (specifically at the Nanyang Technological University) were able to confirm the 32-year-long earthquake by studying odd and ancient coral structures called “microatolls” off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Microatolls grow at a very slow rate which provides experts with important information regarding changes in land elevation and sea levels throughout history.
The experts determined that between the years 1738 and 1829, the baseline readings were normal based on the fact that the microatolls were sinking between 1 and 2 millimeters each year. However, they noticed a significant change around the year 1829 when they began sinking at an astonishing rate of 10 millimeters annually. They continued sinking at the faster rate until around the year 1861.
With the rapid sinking of the microatolls, which is connected to the movement of tectonic plates, this revealed that there was a slow earthquake that lasted 32 years – the longest in all of Earth’s history. (A picture of the microatolls can be seen here.)
Ancient coral structures called microatolls preserve geological history, and now some in Indonesia have told the tale of a record-breaking 32-year earthquake
When two tectonic plates push up against one another so much that they end up shifting, that’s when earthquakes happen. While the majority of the time, they shift very quickly which causes vibrations to rise to the surface of the planet (aka earthquakes), occasionally the shifting process can take much longer with those living above the plates to not even feel anything. In fact, sometimes the vibrations can only be detected by experts using specialized equipment.
When the 32-year-long earthquake finally ended, it left devastation behind as it caused a massive 8.5-magnitude quake that created a large tsunami that hit the shores and killed thousands of people (this is known as the 1861 Sumatra earthquake).
The quake caused a massive tsunami.
It’s incredible that this slow-motion earthquake was discovered as they have only been recognized since the late part of the 1990s when they were first detected in the Pacific Northwest of North America as well as off the coast of Japan. And there are slow-motion quakes that experts believe are happening right now in different locations of Indonesia. For example, Rishav Mallick, who is a Ph.D. candidate at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said that the island of Enggano is “sinking a little too fast.” “It’s not just one isolated event in the 1800s.” “We’re seeing this happen right now.”
The study was published in the journal Nature Geosciencewhere it can be read in full.
Driving along the dusty stretch of the Stuart Highway between the towns of Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory, Australia, you may be held in awe by the sheer expanse of completely flat and barren sun-parched desert all around you. This is an arid realm seemingly devoid of life for large stretches, save some scattered brush and bushes, seemingly like the surface of some alien world, uninhabitable to humans. It is this sheer desolation and lack of any civilization as you meander along the bumpy, unkempt road that may cause you to be surprised to see spring up a sign that boldly states “Caution: Alien Landing Site Ahead.” As you drive on you may pass another sign with a prominent alien head on it welcoming you, as well as plastic statues of aliens. Then a ramshackle collection of shacks, a tiny gas station, and a roadhouse in the middle of nowhere, adorned with murals of aliens, UFOs, and with more alien statues standing around staring at you, the whole of it sitting within this inhospitable realm of dust, dirt, and sun. Welcome to the outback settlement of Wycliffe Well, the self-proclaimed “UFO Capitol of Australia.”
The remote, only partially inhabited roadside settlement originally began its life as a watering point along the stock route for the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1860s, going on to serves as a way-station for servicemen during World War II. During this time the area became well-known for its intense UFO activity, with soldiers reporting all manner of sightings nearly constantly. Before long, the area was attracting not only soldiers, but curiosity seekers and UFO buffs as well, who came here hoping to see strange things in the sky and for the most part rarely coming away disappointed. In the years after the war the visitors kept coming, and so a man by the name of Lew Farkas decided to capitalize on the region’s UFO craze by purchasing the local roadhouse in the 1980s to turn it into the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park. A gas station was put up, a bar installed on the premises to serve what he says is the best selection of beers found anywhere else, with about 300 different labels when fully stocked for all of those thirsty alien hunters, and the roadhouse turned into a sort of gas- food- lodging- general store- curio shop one stop shop for the many UFO nuts coming through, even setting up a campground, a large artificial lake for fishing and recreation area, a souvenir shop full of alien-themed oddities, and a sort of UFO museum with all manner of alien paraphernalia, all covering around 60 acres and creating a sort of oasis in the desert for those looking for aliens. He has said of the genesis of this strange place in an interview with Vice Magazine:
I read a journal, it might have been an American journal, that called Wycliffe the “UFO Capital of Australia.” I picked up on that and went with it. Originally, Wycliffe Well was just a fuel stop. When the highway opened, I started working on the idea that rather than tourists leaving Alice Springs and just heading blindly north, they’d be heading to me. I first arrived in Wycliffe in 1985. It was supposed to be a five-year experiment but five years turned into 25. The problem being that during that time, I just kept on investing in the place. There was already UFO activity in the area. I came here to discover that tourists were coming in just to have some sort of memento for this UFO spot. That’s how I started making up the souvenirs. Then, we made a mural of a UFO based on a sighting we had in the area. People would come and take a picture of that mural and nothing else. That’s how we started converting everything—every wall, every bit of space in the area—to do with space, to do with aliens, to do with UFOs. It got famous very quickly and it put Wycliffe Well on the world map.
One of Wycliffe Well’s alien displays
Farkas made sure that the roadhouse was as alien-themed as possible. The roadhouse features a wide array of gimmicky plastic alien statues and mannequins, UFOs made out of junk, pictures of flying saucers and aliens everywhere. There is even an impressive UFO observation deck called “Mount Wycliffe,” which is built from corrugated iron nailed to the side of the machinery shed painted to look like rock and accessible by a stairway on the side. In the main lobby is a logbook for visitors to report any UFO sightings they’ve had, and it is bursting at the seams with hundreds of sightings reports and newspaper clippings of accounts from the area. Indeed, UFO reports have proven to be so frequent here that the Sun Herald newspaper and Time Magazine both ranked Wycliffe Well as one of the best spots in the world for seeing UFOs. In its heyday, it was claimed that you were more likely than not to see UFO activity here to some degree, and current owner Arc Vanderzalm has said of taking over the place and the many sightings here:
I don’t know what I was thinking when I arrived. My mind was boggling. There’s been four of five occasions when all the people out of the restaurant have gone out and observed something very unusual. It’s never the same twice. All types of different lights, changing direction, and colourful.
The original owner, Lew Farkas, said that during his decades-long tenure at Wycliffe there were hundreds of sightings, ranging from the odd to the truly fantastical, including people claiming to have seen aliens lurking about in the desert, and there were also some odd visitors to the site as well. Farkas has said of some of his weirder experiences during his years there:
On a lot of occasions people were getting chased down the highway by lights. They would pull up and be panicking so much that they would say, “Quick give us a room, we can’t stay out there.” So that was good for business… It chased people away at times, but it brought customers in too. One scientist came from England. He turned up with just a briefcase. He told us when he arrived that he was coming to investigate the sightings and that he could tell if there was anything in the atmosphere without even looking. When he opened up his briefcase, it was just like an old school lab. All these things would just fold out: little things zipping around, glass tubes, electronics. I don’t know how it worked, but he left happy.
The establishment has only a few permanent residents, but this little oddity out in the middle of nowhere still manages to pull in droves of visitors all the time. We are left to wonder just why this place should boast such nonstop UFO activity, and there have been plenty of theories, including that it is just headlights in the distance viewed over the flat landscape, misidentified planes, some sort of atmospheric or geological phenomenon, or of course actual alien spaceships. If these are truly alien UFOs, then what would draw them so heavily to this spot? Is it just the remoteness away from prying eyes? Is there some sort of base there? Perhaps it is a feature of the landscape or geology here that attracts them? Farkas has his own ideas, saying of it to Unexplained Australia:
Scientists say the sky is full of Ley Lines, which act like highways for the UFO’s to travel along. But these energy lines must meet somewhere and one of those crossroads or intersections lies directly above the middle of Australia. That’s why we see so many here.
What is going on here? Is there anything to this, or is it all just a cheesy marketing scheme? People continue to swear that they have come across UFOs here in this remote oasis of weirdness far from civilization, so it is hard to say. Whether there are any aliens and spaceships here or not, it is all a rather odd and wild ride, as well as an incredibly weird and yet undoubtedly charming roadside attraction in the badlands of Australia, perhaps worth checking out if you are ever passing through.
To paraphrase Jimmy Durante, “Everybody wants to get into the UFO act!” It started with the release of Navy radar images and photos of ship and pilot encounters and got hot when the Pentagon agreed to issue a report on UFOs – still scheduled for this month. Presidential candidates were asked about them during the 2020 campaign and late night talk show hosts seemed to ask every guest about them. Former President Barack Obama is already in the act, but he expanded his role recently, while the White House press secretary and a Pentagon spokesperson both got peppered with questions this week. What would Jimmy ‘The Schnoz’ Durante think?
“And so I would hope that the knowledge that there were aliens out there would solidify people’s sense that what we have in common is a little more important. But no doubt there would be immediate arguments about like, well, we need to spend a lot more money on weapons systems to defend ourselves. New religions would pop up. And who knows what kind of arguments we get into. We’re good at manufacturing arguments for each other.”
No, that wasn’t Durante’s answer — it came from former President Obama. In a wide-ranging interview with Ezra Klein of The New York Times, the questioning turned to his previously stated interest in knowing more about those recent UFOs. When asked what he thought would happen if they were proved to contain aliens, Obama suggested that instead of fighting them, humans would form new religions. To worship with them? To worship THEM? He didn’t say and the reporter unfortunately didn’t pursue that line of questioning.
John F. Kirby
“We’re participating in a DNI led study, again on, mandated by Congress, we’re providing context and information that we have on these phenomena. And our focus is on again on supporting the DNI efforts to produce this report. That’s where our focus is and, and, and, again, that’s our that’s our lane, that’s our place to be in is to provide the kind of context that we have the information that we have to help the DNI produce this report for Congress.”
Someone who would undoubtedly vote for weapons over bibles is John F. Kirby, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. In a recent press conference, he was asked repeatedly about UFOs, UAPs and the forthcoming Pentagon report on them. Kirby repeatedly deflected the questions to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines – the first woman to lead the U.S. Intelligence Community. No, Haines wasn’t there to field the deflection. At least Lewis acknowledged them as “phenomena” rather than dismissing them.
What would DNI Avril Haines say?
“We take incursions into our airspace, both by identified and unidentified aircraft, very seriously and investigate each one.”
That’s what one would have expected from the DoD’s John F. Kirby or DNI Avril Haines, but that answer came from Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, at a briefing last week. However, she then mimicked Lewis.
“But ODNI would be working on that report and, in terms of disclosure, that would be up to them.”
When pressed on what President Biden thought about UFOs, Psaki said:
“Whether that is identified or unidentified aircraft, and we don’t discuss that publicly for a range of reasons, but certainly the President supports the ODNI putting together a report and following through on that commitment.”
What would Jimmy “The Schoz” Durante say about all of this?
Chinese verkenner Zhurong rijdt voor het eerst op Mars
De Chinese rover Zhurong heeft zaterdag voor het eerst over het oppervlak van de rode planeet gereden. De verkenner, genoemd naar een mythische vuurgod, reed om 4.40 uur (Belgische tijd) van het landingsplatform, meldde Zhurongs account op de Chinese sociale media, waarover Reuters bericht. China is hiermee het eerste land dat erin slaagt om, in zijn allereerste Marsmissie, in een baan rond Mars te komen, er te landen en een landvoertuig te ontplooien.
Zhurong weegt 240 kilogram en heeft zes wetenschappelijke instrumenten aan boord, waaronder een topografiecamera in hoge resolutie. Opdracht van de rover is de bodem en de atmosfeer van de rode planeet te bestuderen. Daarnaast zal hij op zoek gaan naar sporen van leven. Aan de hand van een zogenaamde grondpenetrerende radar zal hij tijdens de 90 dagen durende missie water en ijs onder de oppervlakte proberen te vinden.
De Zhurong landde zaterdag op Mars. China is het derde land dat erin slaagt een ruimtetuig gecontroleerd te laten landen op de Rode Planeet. Dat lukte eerder alleen de Sovjet-Unie en de Verenigde Staten. Enkel de Amerikanen slaagden er ook al in om een voertuigje rond te laten rijden op Mars.
De honderden miljoenen kilometers lange oversteek naar Mars is al lastig, maar de laatste minuten voor de landing zijn nog veel moeilijker. Ruimtetuigen schieten aan hoge snelheid de dampkring van Mars binnen, waarna ze in korte tijd moeten afremmen om uiteindelijk voorzichtig neer te komen op de grond.
De ruimtesonde Tianwen-1, die Zhurong aan boord had, landde afgelopen zaterdag op de hoogvlakte Utopia Planitia. Tianwen-1 werd in juli vorig jaar al gelanceerd, en bevond zich sinds februari in een baan om de planeet. China deelde woensdag de eerste foto's die Zhurong op Mars had gemaakt.
BIJKOMENDE INFORMATIE ( EN) , geselecteerd en gepost door peter2011
A landing platform and the surface of Mars seen from a camera on the Chinese Mars rover Zhurong
[China National Space Administration via AP]
In this artist's rendering made available by the China National Space Administration on Saturday, China's Zhurong rover is depicted on the surface of Mars.
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The Anunnaki Met With Our Leaders in 1954 Says Retired, Command Sergeant Major, Robert O Dean!
The Anunnaki Met With Our Leaders in 1954 Says Retired, Command Sergeant Major, Robert O Dean!
Among the group that greeted the Annunaki in 1954 at Rurak, which is now Edwards air force base. There was an Arch Bishop from Los Angeles by the name of Mike McIntyre, he had been invited to be present when they landed to meet them, because they thought somebody ought to be representing the church here, you know; and they brought McIntyre over from LA, to Rurak.
They were there for two days, and these guys scared the shit out of everybody with their technology, and they talked openly. The two hovered over the runway for two days, never landed, no legs or nothing they just hovered over the damn runway. Its all on film, but the other guys come out, landed right inferno of the hanger got out and went over shoot hands or whatever I don’t know what the hell they did. McIntyre was present because Icke had invited him.
After it was all over with after the second day and these guys get back in their ship and off they go; our intelligence people got a hold of McIntyre and says Arch Bishop you gotta understand something, you can’t talk about anything you’ve seen, this is beyond top secret, you can’t say a word about what we have just experienced here.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 03 - 06 -2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 03 - 06 -2021
UFO Sighted Over Bradenton, Florida ( June 2, 2021 )
STATEMENT :This object was flying behind a airplane a few miles back. But the plane was leaving a trail and the object wasn't. I would guess the size of it if on the ground would be about a city block and several stories high.
credit : Wayne Buck
UFO Sighted Over Belgium ( May 29, 2021 )
Took this video last night in Belgium. I have seen the exact same thing a couple of times with my 20x80 binoculars. This was the first time you could see it with the naked eye. (The second video is the exact same video but with different lighting.)
credit : Dries De Ruyck
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UFO Morse Code Sighted Over Germany ( June 1, 2021 )
LOCATION : Leverkusen, Germany
STATEMENT: Hallo ihr lieben was ist das? MORSEZEICHEN , Ufos, Düsen Jets Wer weiß mehr TRANSLATE :Hello dear what is this? MORSE MARKS, UFOS, Nozzles Jets Who knows more
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 03-06-2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 03-06-2021
MUFON CASE : 115950 Kyle, Texas ( June 1, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS :
objects flying in a curved line following each other
Long Description of Sighting Report
observed 6 to 10 objects flying silently, and against the wind, without any sound or emissions, there was no shape just a ball of light, this continued for hours and they followed the same exact line
Date Submitted : 2021-06-01 Date of Event :2017-05-08 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : IMG0383.mov
Alien Figure Recorded Walking Along Road In India, video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Figure Recorded Walking Along Road In India, video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 1, 2021 Location of sighting: Jharkhand, India
A strange figure was seen...resembling an alien or ghostly figure was recorded along a road in India this week. Motorists were riding past when one motorcyclist with a helm cam recorded a strange figure walking carelessly along the road. The figure looks human enough, however its arms are 20% longer than humans. The whitish figure looks to be wearing a skin tight outfit or they are nude. When the motorcyclist with the camera slowed down...the figure stopped and turned around slowly. The person on the motorcycle lowered the camera to look at the ground...possibly not wanting to provoke the person in any way. The figure looks at them, then turns and begins on its way again. Then the motorcycle rides away. So much for our deep meaningful meeting with aliens revealing to us the answers to the universe. Instead...we have a drive by video shooting that goes viral. Aliens are getting closer and closer, my advice when you see one, stop and chat with it. Perhaps its wanted to give the cure to covid to someone but no-one would approach it. Perhaps it wanted to give them the secrets to immortality, and yet, no one cared enough to approach it and greet the alien. This is the world we live in.
Above is an CGI example I made of what the UFO might look like as it created the tunnel.
Date of event:June 2021 Location of event: Central Mexico
I have said for years that sink holes are made by UFOs exiting and entering underground bases in locations where the entrances must be instantly filled in to avoid detection from the local humans on the surface. UFOs use technology that can compress the dirt, pushing it aside, and then traveling down the tunnel...as the tunnel behind them is closed in at the same time. Its a method that aliens often use to avoid the tunnels from being detected. However this one failed to fully fill in and caused a collapse which could eventually engulf and swallow the house near it. If we were to drill a hole 6km below this very tunnel...we would find a thriving city underground with around 5,000-10,000 alien residents. We UFO researchers have long known about the UFO bases below Mexico due to the huge amount of UFOs recorded entering and exiting the Colima and Popocatepetl on live cams over the last ten years. This hole is absolute proof that I was right about the alien base exiting below Mexico.
Glowing Lighting Over Germany On May 31, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Lighting Over Germany On May 31, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 31, 2021 Location of sighting: Germany
Now watching this video of a glowing light during the day tells me that aliens are putting more and more effort into revealing themselves to us. It also worries me that the UFOs are coming so close to humans at this time. What I mean is that covid is here and its been around for a year and a half now. These craft are getting more and more bold, coming closer and closer to humans witnessing the events. I feel that even the aliens themselves do not want to expose themselves to the covid19 virus so we will continue to see craft and have very little if any actual contact videos until this virus is contained. Germany if you didn't know it, was controlling the virus very well compared to the rest of the world. They have created a vaccine that works great at stopping it from killing humans. Aliens would have a great interest in Germany because of this. This UFO is recording data and activities of people and how they attempt to get into a normal way of life as they adapt to living with covid all around them.
Explanations for UFOs Transition From Extraordinary to Increasingly Plausible
Explanations for UFOs Transition From Extraordinary to Increasingly Plausible
UFO-related news was taboo in mainstream media or was featured for entertainment purposes and not taken seriously. But this has changed now with tantalizing reporting by Fox News, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and 60 Minutes. Mysterious UFO phenomena are now publicly known and officially acknowledged. After eliminating unlikely explanations for these phenomena, two mind-blogging explanations are increasingly plausible—an extraordinary leap by a foreign government theory and non-human technology at work theory. Either idea would have profound global implications.
While the community of debunkers and skeptics makes convincing arguments that UFO incidents have prosaic explanations, years of study by government analysts with access to several encounters and an array of sensitive data cannot be easily chalked up to mundane factors.
Former President Obama confirmed that “there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are.” These UFOs move in ways that defy any “easily explainable pattern.”
John Ratcliffe, former President Trump’s director of national intelligence, drilled down even more profound, saying that UFOs “engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for.”
John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director and a fierce critic of Ratcliffe, went even further by publicly theorizing that the objects might “constitute a different form of life.”
These statements from Obama, Ratcliffe, and Brennan strongly suggest that intelligence analysts have concluded that everyday factors cannot explain these incidents after drawing specialized technical expertise and a wide array of supporting sensor data.
A pilot also reportedly encountered mysterious flying objects. Backed by an array of sensor data and several of his fellow naval aviators, he believes that the thing he chased was not from this world.
Luis Elizondo, who led the Pentagon’s effort to assess these UFO incidents, speculates that we may not be alone.
The U.S. government has nearly unlimited investigatory capabilities but still considered “alien” technology to explain UFO phenomena. This alone is a jaw-dropping development. The stakes are enormous to ignore them.
It was in the summer of 1947 thatsomething crashed on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. Whatever it was, it left huge amounts of strange debris across the ranch. There was talk of strange, small bodies also having been found in the area, thrown out of the craft that exploded on impact. Within no time at all, personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field were on the scene, preventing anyone outside of the military from getting anywhere near the crash site. Cordons were created and people were warned never to talk about what they had seen. The problem (in fact, a very big problem) for the military, though, is that the rancher who found the materials, William Brazel, had told fellow ranchers in the area, and friends, about his find before the military was informed – which meant that at least parts of the story were out there before the military’s cover-up began. That was not a good thing. There was even confusion at the Roswell Army Air Field: before orders were put into place to prevent anyone talking, the press-office at the base issued a statement saying that a flying disc (as UFOs were known back then) had been recovered and was due to be inspected.
One such statement, from Associated Press, read as follows:
“The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chavez County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff’s office, who in turn notified Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.”
The military quickly knocked that statement down, claiming that what had been recovered was nothing stranger than a weather-balloon. As for the bodies, the Air Force would not even address that matter until 1997, when they claimed that the bodies were, in fact, crash-test dummies used in high-altitude parachute experiments. It was also in the nineties that the Air Force changed its mind again on what came down on William Braazel’s ranch. It was no longer a weather-balloon, but a Mogul balloon, designed to monitor for Soviet atomic bomb tests. In 1993, all of this chopping and changing caught the attention of the late Steven Schiff, at the time the Congressman of New Mexico – the state in which the Roswell event occurred. Far from happy by what he saw as some kind of cover-up, Schiff approached the Government Accountability Office (at the time, it was known as the General Accounting Office) and asked them to look into the Roswell affair and see what might be found. The GAO was enthused about the idea of looking into Roswell. It was, however, not so much what the GAO found that intrigued them, but what they couldn’t find.
As the GAO dug deeper and deeper, they learned to their amazement and concern that every single outgoing message from the old Roswell Army Air Field, from 1945 to 1951, could not be located. The files were gone. All of them. The GAO approached the Air Force and the National Archives for answers. There were no answers. Only puzzles. The National Archives checked their files: no luck. The Air Force came up blank, too. Rumors began to surface that when Steven Schiff approached the GAO in 1993, someone who was sitting on the Roswell story quickly realized that the truth of the 1947 incident was now in danger of being compromised, so a decision was quickly taken to have the original papers – wherever they were stored – destroyed. There is a very good reason for that: the GAO is an extremely powerful office of the U.S. Government and certainly had the power and ability to demand access to just about anything it wanted access to. Shredding the old Roswell Army Air Field papers may have been the only way to have ensured that the GAO didn’t get what it and Congressman Schiff wanted. It was just another layer of conspiracy in the quest to understand what really happened at Roswell. The outcome: the GAO concluded the files had been destroyed. Congressman Schiff was irate. The cover-up remained in place. It still does.
It was in the summer of 1947 thatsomething crashed on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. Whatever it was, it left huge amounts of strange debris across the ranch. There was talk of strange, small bodies also having been found in the area, thrown out of the craft that exploded on impact. Within no time at all, personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field were on the scene, preventing anyone outside of the military from getting anywhere near the crash site. Cordons were created and people were warned never to talk about what they had seen. The problem (in fact, a very big problem) for the military, though, is that the rancher who found the materials, William Brazel, had told fellow ranchers in the area, and friends, about his find before the military was informed – which meant that at least parts of the story were out there before the military’s cover-up began. That was not a good thing. There was even confusion at the Roswell Army Air Field: before orders were put into place to prevent anyone talking, the press-office at the base issued a statement saying that a flying disc (as UFOs were known back then) had been recovered and was due to be inspected.
One such statement, from Associated Press, read as follows:
“The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chavez County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff’s office, who in turn notified Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.”
The military quickly knocked that statement down, claiming that what had been recovered was nothing stranger than a weather-balloon. As for the bodies, the Air Force would not even address that matter until 1997, when they claimed that the bodies were, in fact, crash-test dummies used in high-altitude parachute experiments. It was also in the nineties that the Air Force changed its mind again on what came down on William Braazel’s ranch. It was no longer a weather-balloon, but a Mogul balloon, designed to monitor for Soviet atomic bomb tests. In 1993, all of this chopping and changing caught the attention of the late Steven Schiff, at the time the Congressman of New Mexico – the state in which the Roswell event occurred. Far from happy by what he saw as some kind of cover-up, Schiff approached the Government Accountability Office (at the time, it was known as the General Accounting Office) and asked them to look into the Roswell affair and see what might be found. The GAO was enthused about the idea of looking into Roswell. It was, however, not so much what the GAO found that intrigued them, but what they couldn’t find.
As the GAO dug deeper and deeper, they learned to their amazement and concern that every single outgoing message from the old Roswell Army Air Field, from 1945 to 1951, could not be located. The files were gone. All of them. The GAO approached the Air Force and the National Archives for answers. There were no answers. Only puzzles. The National Archives checked their files: no luck. The Air Force came up blank, too. Rumors began to surface that when Steven Schiff approached the GAO in 1993, someone who was sitting on the Roswell story quickly realized that the truth of the 1947 incident was now in danger of being compromised, so a decision was quickly taken to have the original papers – wherever they were stored – destroyed. There is a very good reason for that: the GAO is an extremely powerful office of the U.S. Government and certainly had the power and ability to demand access to just about anything it wanted access to. Shredding the old Roswell Army Air Field papers may have been the only way to have ensured that the GAO didn’t get what it and Congressman Schiff wanted. It was just another layer of conspiracy in the quest to understand what really happened at Roswell. The outcome: the GAO concluded the files had been destroyed. Congressman Schiff was irate. The cover-up remained in place. It still does.
For whatever reasons some people seem to draw alleged alien forces to them, sometimes even being abducted by them multiple times. There is some quality to them that makes these individuals prone to contact with UFOs and aliens, often numbering into the dozens of times for reasons we may never truly fathom. One very strange case comes to us from England, with a boy who would not only be frequently visited by supposed alien entities, but would also manifest strange psychic abilities and a bizarre connection with these creatures that makes his case even weirder than most.
One day in July of 1987, a boy named Jason Kent was celebrating his 4th birthday at his rural country home near Slade, Green in Kent. It was a joyous day for everyone involved, the weather was nice, and everyone was having fun, but things suddenly took a turn for the strange. Out of seemingly nowhere dark clouds rolled in and thunder began to shake the sky, causing everyone to go inside as the rain began pouring down in torrents. As they all looked outside in bafflement as to why the clear day had so abruptly become dark and stormy there was an incredibly bright flash of lightning, almost blinding in its intensity, and that’s when little Jason began to act rather oddly. He seemed to go into some sort of trance, after which he began blurting out complex mathematical equations, including what his mother would describe as “fantastic numbers, huge numbers, strange algebraic configurations, mathematical terms like ‘pi’ and ‘binary codes’.” It was all far beyond what a 4-year-old would know, indeed even the adults present had no idea what they meant, and he continued rapidly rattling off these mysterious equations and numbers for several minutes before he suddenly turned to his father and calmly said, “They are waiting for me. I have to go.”
Before Jason’s father could even process what was going on, the boy was made to open the door to step out into the downpour outside, his father grabbing him to hold him back just in time. Jason allegedly struggled against his father, completely set on going out of the house, and then, just as fast as it had come the storm was gone. The black clouds evaporating, the thunder stopped its relentless roar, and the sun shone again. Jason was calm once again, but when his family asked him what had happened and what those numbers had meant, he seemed to have no memory of what had happened. Indeed, he didn’t even seem to realize that there had been a storm at all.
After this strange incident Jason began to have frequent potent nightmares that got so bad that he would often wake in the middle of the night shouting and screaming, sending his mother running to his aid. He never seemed to be aware of what the nightmares were about, and they only got worse. His worried parents would bring him to various psychiatrists, psychologists, child behaviorists, and sleep experts, but no one could quite figure out what was wrong with him, or why he should be having these intense nightmares. It wasn’t until he was 12 years old that he would gradually come to an awareness of what was happening during these rather frightening night time episodes, some of the memories seeping through into his waking moments, and he would tell his mother one day of what he could remember from these incidents:
It’s always the light that comes first. Then I see the tall one rise up at the foot of the bed. Suddenly there’s lots of little ones everywhere. They’re fuzzy and indistinct, and they move very fast. I can’t move or speak, but I’m awake and I can see and hear and feel. I want to scream and run, but the sound doesn’t come out and my body doesn’t move. I hate them. I hate them. I have to go with them. They take me to an operating theatre, like at the hospital. It’s all white and shiny. Sometimes it’s a circular room with a metal floor. It’s always cold. They’re there. The big one touches me but I don’t feel it, like as if I’ve had an anesthetic. But you don’t believe me, you just think I’m making it all up.
At first he was right, she didn’t really believe it, but Jason insisted it was real, keeping to his story as the years went on, and his older brother Daniel also said it was true. Ann was perplexed enough to begin looking into any information she could find on UFOs and alien abductions, curious as to what might be going on. She has said of this in an interview with researcher and author Sean Casteel:
Even at that point, though, we were not convinced, but rather we believed that Jason believed it, and it was this belief of his which drove us to searching for books and information. We thought that the more we could learn about this subject of UFOs and aliens, then we would be better armed, as it were, to help our son. We were not ready for what we actually discovered; we could not believe the similarities between some of things Jason had been saying since he was first able to speak, and what we were reading. His story had not changed in all those years. I would add, however, that we did not accept this situation just like that. My greatest regret in all this is that it took me so many years to accept it.
Ann would end up reaching out to actual UFO researchers in an effort to find out what was going on, with one researcher and author Jean Ritchie speculating that these aliens had taken an interest in him because he was psychic or special somehow, perhaps what is called an “Indigo Child,” a child who is particularly spiritually in tune with the universe, usually described as having a special connection with aliens or as even being alien-human hybrids. Over the years these claims of psychic abilities would allegedly turn out to be true, with Jason exhibiting various psychic abilities that he either already had or which had been granted to him by his otherworldly abductors. Ann would later say of this:
Daniel certainly still has certain abilities, which I know have something to do with the ETs and go back to when they were actually interacting with him. He has the ability to ‘know’ someone just by shaking hands with them. He can tell what sort of person they are, how their life has been so far, family stuff, etc. He would be worth his weight in gold probably to a big corporation in the recruitment department, but he won’t acknowledge this ability and sees it as a curse rather than a gift. You have to understand that when Jason was growing up, until his early teens, he was terrified of his experiences. It wasn’t until he started to overcome his fears and listen to ‘them’ that he started realizing his abilities—abilities that he says everyone has but which are just lying dormant. Over the last few years, he has really excelled in what he does, although his mind reading can be quite frustrating at times. It means that you can’t keep secrets.
As all of this was going on, there were some other strange things going on at their rural property. According to Jason’s family, they had some cattle turn up dead for unspecified reasons, and although the local law enforcement declared it was due to salmonella poisoning, a rumor made the rounds that an Army major had allegedly told locals that the deaths had actually been caused by an experiment with microwaves. The family claimed that more and more military personnel would show up in the area from time to time, and that in the end they were told to leave their farm, forcing them to move to Lincolnshire. What was going on here and what did this have to do with Jason’s strange experiences and newfound powers? Ann has said of what she thinks of all of this:
I believe that the powers that be resented the fact that ETs would want to interact with ordinary people. It all comes back to their power plays eventually. Perhaps they thought that by getting rid of us, that the ETs would start interacting with them. It could also be that the base at Mereworth has some sort of underground facilities, too, and I now feel that the deaths of our cattle and other animals were all connected to the military as well as—or instead of —the ETs. It could be that they were concerned that we might be affected by some sort of new technology they were using. After all, it’s easier to cover up animal deaths—which they did by blaming salmonella—than to explain human deaths.
Jason’s alien visitations would become less frequent as he grew up, until they stopped altogether, but he still retained his psychic powers, and according to his mother even healing powers. She has over the years gone from that scared, initially skeptical woman to being convinced that Jason is actually what she calls a “walk-in,” or an alien soul inhabiting her son’s human body and able to travel between the two planes of existence. She has also written a book on Jason and UFOs in general called Jason, My Indigo Child, which goes into great depth their experiences and struggles throughout the whole bizarre ordeal. What it is it about this boy that would draw such forces to him? What did they want with him? What does any of it really mean? Is there even anything to it at all? It is all certainly one of the more interesting repeat abductees on record, and whatever the answers may be it is all very strange, indeed.
Perseverance 100 dagen op Mars: dit zijn de strafste foto’s tot nu toe
Honderd dagen al vertoeft rover Perseverance op de rode planeet. De Marsjeep maakte er onder meer foto’s van de bodem van de planeet, van zijn eigen camera’s en van de vluchten van minihelikopter Ingenuity. Een overzicht.
Perseverance (Volharding) landde op 18 februari in de Jezero-krater op Mars. De krater heeft een diameter van 49 km en is ontstaan door een meteorietinslag. Ooit bevond er zich waarschijnlijk water op de bodem. Als er al ooit leven was op de rode planeet, dan zouden daar dus mogelijk fossielen van oude buitenaardse microben kunnen worden aangetroffen.
Camera’s aan boord van de rover en op de jetpack die hem naar het oppervlak van Mars liet zakken, legden de allereerste videobeelden vast van een landing op Mars.
Sinds de landing is Perseverance niet opgehouden met het schieten van plaatjes, die worden doorgestraald naar de Aarde. De Marsrobot heeft zelf 23 camera’s, onder meer om zonder kleerscheuren over de bodem van de planeet te kunnen rijden, maar ook om ingenieurs op Aarde toe te laten de rover te kunnen checken.
Eerst kwam de landingsomgeving aan de beurt. Perseverance mengde 142 foto’s om een panoramisch beeld te creëren.
Nee, er zijn geen regenbogen op Mars. “Regenbogen worden gecreëerd door licht dat weerkaatst wordt door ronde waterdruppels, maar er is hier niet genoeg water om te condenseren en het is te koud voor vloeibaar water in de atmosfeer”, tweette de Marsrover. Toch lijkt het zo op deze foto. Het gaat om een zogenaamde lensflare, verklapt Perseverance.
Een van de hoogtepunten tot nu toe is ongetwijfeld het lossen van het meegereisde helikoptertje Ingenuity (Vindingrijkheid) uit de buik van de Perseverance, om het daarna te zien opstijgen.
De selfie van Perseverance met op de achtergrond de Ingenuity ging de hele wereld rond. De Marsrover zou zich daarna klaarzetten om de eerste vlucht van Ingenuity te filmen. In werkelijkheid is de selfie een mozaïek van 62 afzonderlijke beelden.
De eerste vlucht van een gemotoriseerd vliegtuig op een andere planeet vond op 19 april 2021 plaats en werd inderdaad op beeld vastgelegd. Een sterk staaltje technologie was het. De atmosfeer van Mars heeft slechts 1% van de dichtheid van de atmosfeer van de aarde. Dat Ingenuity de lucht inging, is dan ook het aardse equivalent van vliegen op drie keer de hoogte van de Mount Everest.
En toen was het tijd voor de eigenlijke wetenschappelijke missie van Perseverance: stalen van Marsgesteente verzamelen die resten kunnen bevatten van oud microbiologisch leven op de rode planeet. Een toekomstige NASA-missie moet deze monsters weer naar de aarde brengen. De Mastcam-Z-camera legde onder meer dit beeld vast van ‘Santa Cruz’, een heuvel op ongeveer 2,4 kilometer afstand van Perseverance.
De camera’s van Perseverance zoomden ook in op mysterieuze rotsen op de Marsbodem. NASA was zo geïnteresseerd in deze gesteenten dat het besloot om de robotjeep er wat langer te laten verblijven. De wetenschappers willen achterhalen of dit vulkanisch gesteente is dan wel het soort dat uit riviersediment komt. En zo kan Ingenuity bovendien blijven vliegen.
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Hierna is de bestemming van Perseverance: de kliffen van de rivierdelta die ooit het meer van Jezero van water voorzagen. De wetenschappers verwachten daar grond en gesteente te vinden, rijk aan oude rivierafzettingen van modder en klei. En... misschien fossielen van microben die er nog in vastzitten.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 02-06-2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 02-06-2021
MUFON CASE : 115943 Southbury, Connecticut ( June 1, 2021 )
Transparent, round or oval shaped rows of bluish & white lights, moving quickly through our yard casting a reflection.
Long Description of Sighting Report
I did not see this anomaly in person. I was inside my home when our Ring system sounded. A few minutes later, I decided to look at the history on our Ring to see what it had detected, which you can see in the video I am attaching.
It appears to be lights in a circular or oval shape and looks transparent. The top row of lights are white; the lower rows are bluish with one or two white lights in the lowest row. It looks almost like a projection. You can also see a reflection on the paved driveway below the image. The object was moving quickly and headed directly toward our garage then appears to twist and rise when it gets to the garage as if it’s going to go over it. Other than crickets, I hear no other sound.
It is not definitive to me whether it came through the wooded buffer between us and our neighbor, or down our driveway. It does look more like it came from the wooded area (an approximately 20-25’ strip buffer of mature trees.)
The following morning I looked around the yard and found nothing odd.
Date Submitted :2021-06-01 Date of Event : 2021-05-25 / 11:23PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : YouCut20210526104941996.mp4 note : video approx 9 secs : looped twice and slowed
MUFON CASE : 115931Wells, England ( June 1, 2021 )
Walking my dog on my own, this light was disappearing and reappearing. The distance from disappearing to reappearing would be huge at the distance. I only managed to get the last disappearance and reappearance on camera though the distances were a lot more than this previously. I show the moon in the video as it gives some perspective of the brightness of the object.
Alien Base Found In Antartica On Google Earth Map, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Base Found In Antartica On Google Earth Map, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery:May 21, 2021 Location of discovery: Antarctica Source: Google Earth map
This long structure was found on Google Earth Map and it reveals a detailed building complex that is over 66km long. The structure has many right angles and has the same thickness the whole ways. At area #3 on the screenshot, I see a larger part of the structure, probably the main hanger for vehicles...spacecraft to land. The symmetry, shadows and shape all point to this being an alien base. We need to organize an expedition there to confirm it. The expedition needs to have underground radar in case the structure has been covered up over the years by snow or ice.
Clouds are rare on Mars and usually only pop up at the coldest time of the year near the planet’s equator. One Martian year ago though, NASA noticed some clouds forming in the sky above its veteran Curiosity rover and became determined to document them the following year. In recent months, Curiosity got to work, taking some amazing photos that show us what cloudy days are like on the Red Planet and broadening our understanding of just how clouds form far, far away.
NASA refers to these unexpected clouds simply as “early” clouds at the moment. In an announcement, NASA said that the Curiosity team has already made one new discovery about the early clouds from the rover’s photos: They’re at a higher altitude than usual. Those of us who aren’t cloud experts—guilty, though in my defense I think clouds are very cool—might not find that too significant at first glance, but it’s actually an important distinction that lets us know what the clouds are made of.
As explained by NASA, most clouds on Mars are usually at an altitude of 37 miles (60 kilometers) in the sky and are composed of water ice. These so-called early clouds, however, are at a higher and colder altitude, which means that they are likely made of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice. NASA did not specify at what altitude the early clouds were in Curiosity’s photos.
“Scientists look for subtle clues to establish a cloud’s altitude, and it will take more analysis to say for sure which of Curiosity’s recent images show water-ice clouds and which show dry-ice ones,” the agency said in a news announcement.
Besides gaining new information on the so-called early clouds, NASA has also witnessed some truly beautiful clouds on Mars: noctilucent clouds and iridescent clouds.
Using the navigation cameras on its mast, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took these images of clouds just after sunset on March 31, 2021, the 3,075th sol, or Martian day, of the mission. Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In the photos above, taken by Curiosity’s black-and-white navigation cameras, we can see the fine, rippling structures in the clouds. Known as noctilucent clouds, which is Latin for “night shining,” or twilight clouds, these clouds “grow brighter as they fill with crystals, then darken after the Sun’s position in the sky drops below their altitude,” NASA said. Scientists use this information about the Sun’s position to calculate the altitude of noctilucent clouds.
You can really appreciate the stunning beauty of these clouds in the photosbelow, which makes it seem like there are waves in the Martian sky.
Using the navigation cameras on its mast, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took these images of clouds just after sunset on March 28, 2021, the 3,072nd sol, or Martian day, of the mission. Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Curiosity didn’t just give us a look at noctilucent clouds, though.The rover, through photos taken by its MastCam,also showed us that clouds on Mars can shimmer with color.These are called iridescent clouds, or “mother of pearl” clouds, andare some of the most colorful things you’ll see on Mars.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent, or “mother of pearl,” clouds on March 5, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
“If you see a cloud with a shimmery pastel set of colors in it, that’s because the cloud particles are all nearly identical in size,” Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in the NASA announcement. “That’s usually happening just after the clouds have formed and have all grown at the same rate.”
Curiosity’s cloud photos offer us a new perspective of Mars. At a time when our rovers and helicopters send us fascinating photos of the planet’s rocky surface, Curiosity shows us that the planet can be more colorful than we imagined. It’s also another reminder that NASA’s veteran rover, overshadowed right now by the agency’s shiny new Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter, may be old, but it’s still carrying out amazing science.
“They are real”: Ex-fighter pilot who witnessed the Tic-Tac UFO speaks
“They are real”: Ex-fighter pilot who witnessed the Tic-Tac UFO speaks
A former US Navy fighter pilot who witnessed the ‘Tic-Tac’ UFO said her fellow airmen kept quiet for fear of being labeled wacko
Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich was training with a strike group approximately 100 miles southwest of San Diego when she and another pilot spotted the mysterious object.
Along with his fellow former pilot, Commander Dave Fravor, who was also on the training mission, he has now been talking about the encounter.
Videos of the encounter, along with another in Florida, were first released by the Pentagon in 2020.
Dietrich told CBS ’60 Minutes’ that the fighter pilots had struggled with how much to reveal about the encounter as the descriptions sounded “crazy.”
“Over beers we said, ‘Hey, if I had seen this solo, I don’t know if I would have come back and said something,’ ‘Dietrich said during the interview. “Because it sounds so crazy when I say it.”
Favor and Dietrich were each flying an F / A-18F fighter jet when they said they saw an anomalous object flying in their vicinity.
“He wasn’t identified, and that’s why it was so unsettling for us because we didn’t expect it. We couldn’t classify it, ”Dietrich said.
“Over beers we said, ‘Hey, if I had seen this solo, I don’t know if I would have come back and said something,’ ‘Dietrich said during the interview. “Because it sounds so crazy when I say it.”
Favor and Dietrich were each flying an F / A-18F fighter jet when they said they saw an anomalous object flying in their vicinity.
“He wasn’t identified, and that’s why it was so unsettling for us because we didn’t expect it. We couldn’t classify it, ”Dietrich said.
At the same time, the ship that was part of his training team, the USS Princeton, detected “multiple anomalous aerial vehicles” on the horizon descending 80,000 feet in less than a second.
The former fighter pilot said she felt threatened by the mysterious object. “I felt the vulnerability of having nothing to defend ourselves.
And then I was confused when it disappeared, ”she said.
Dietrich told the Washington Post that people had contacted her over the years to find out more about what she had seen.
“I feel a duty and an obligation. I was on a taxpayer-funded plane, doing my job as a military officer, ”he said.
“Citizens have questions. It is not classified. If I can share or help give a reasonable answer, I will. I don’t want to be someone who says “no comment.” “
But Dietrich says he is still reluctant to associate himself with the Tic-Tac sighting saying, “I don’t want to be the faculty UFO fanatic.”
Senator Rubio's latest statement, regarding the UFO issue.
"These are the facts. The facts are that there are things flying over our military installations. They don’t belong to us. They seem to evidence some technological advancement that we don’t have and have never seen. And they’re not ours. We have no idea who they are. Just the fact that stuff is flying near our military installations in restricted airspace. That’s my view of it. Look, maybe there’s a perfectly good explanation for it. Maybe there isn’t, I don’t know. I mean, what if this is, for example, some technological leap that we get surprised by while we’re building aircraft carriers, some adversaries building submarines that can launch small drones that fly at speeds we’ve never seen before with no propulsion, no wings and the like and we didn’t know about it. I mean, that been one heck of a technological leap and a huge strategic surprise. So we have to know what the stuff is, we have to at least try to know what these things are. I’ve never seen one. I’m only going off what dozens of highly trained military pilots, the best pilots in the world who we entrust our national security to, are saying to us, that’s what I’m going off of.
Sen. Marco Rubio On Jan. 6th, John Cena’s “Hostage Video” & UFOs
On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Sen. Marco Rubio gave his takes on a wide range of issues from why he voted against the Jan. 6th Commission, to John Cena’s apology video to why he thinks there should be more investigation into the reports of UFOs near military installations.
“They want to keep that whole story alive. The whole issue is it was a terrible day, a terrible day. What happened should never have happened, it should never happen again. And everyone responsible for all of it, if you went in there and you attacked police officers and you did this and that, you should go to jail. And they are, they’re being prosecuted right now as we speak. The Justice Department has hundreds and hundreds of open criminal investigations. And as part of these criminal investigations, they’re investigating everything and they’re going to find out everything, that’s all there, that’s all been looked at. The Democrats subjected this country to an impeachment trial of a president no longer in office, that it looked at all kinds of evidence and put that all together and put it out there on national television. The Capitol Police Commission has studied the security breakdowns that led to that day. Individual committees in the House and Senate are still looking at this and about things on that day. So this has been widely investigated.”
“What this is in my mind, and everyone should just cut the crap and just admit what it is because it’s the truth. They want a political weapon. What they want to be able to do is have a commission where they can say, I want to speak to Congressman so-and-so. I want to subpoena him for testimony. And somebody will say they have nothing to do with it. Like under what proof? And it’s like, whoa, what are you hiding? Why don’t you come testify? And now that they’ve smeared Congressman So-and-so or at least raise doubts about what they had to do with that day. And that’s perfect because that may help them beat them next year in the election. It’s a complete political weapon and that’s what they’ve designed it as. And Nancy Pelosi is a partisan. She’s a political partisan. She’s not a policy person. She’s driven by winning elections and maintaining power. In many ways, that’s what her job is, I suppose. And it’s just a question of whether she wants to drive that narrative.”
“There isn’t a single movie studio in Hollywood that can produce a movie with a Chinese communist government bad guy. Yeah. You can’t do it because it won’t be distributed in China. And they don’t want to walk away from that market. So that’s how you get John Cena, who by all accounts is a nice guy, doing this basically hostage video last week apologizing for calling Taiwan a country that’s already happening. I’m not saying he’s an evil human being for doing it. I’m just telling you, he didn’t come up with that on his own. I guarantee you someone called him from the studio that’s producing something and said you better get something out there right now because we’re going to get hit at the box office and it’s going to come out of your check or out of your proceeds. They want the movie to be widely distributed in China. They’re making money off of that.”
“These are the facts. The facts are that there are things flying over our military installations. They don’t belong to us. They seem to evidence some technological advancement that we don’t have and have never seen. And they’re not ours. We have no idea who they are. Just the fact that stuff is flying near our military installations in restricted airspace. That’s my view of it. Look, maybe there’s a perfectly good explanation for it. Maybe there isn’t, I don’t know. I mean, what if this is, for example, some technological leap that we get surprised by while we’re building aircraft carriers, some adversaries building submarines that can launch small drones that fly at speeds we’ve never seen before with no propulsion, no wings and the like and we didn’t know about it. I mean, that been one heck of a technological leap and a huge strategic surprise. So we have to know what the stuff is, we have to at least try to know what these things are. I’ve never seen one. I’m only going off what dozens of highly trained military pilots, the best pilots in the world who we entrust our national security to, are saying to us, that’s what I’m going off of.”
Area 51, Nevada and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio have one thing in common. Namely, and within UFO lore and legend, both facilities are said to be the “homes” to unclear numbers of extraterrestrial bodies. Either on ice or dissected. Numerous other places are said to be the secret storage areas for the alleged, legendary dead aliens. That said, let’s now take a look at some of those cases and locations. If tales of crashed UFOs are your thing, then you will probably have heard of the alleged UFO crash on the Berwyn Mountains, North Wales on the night of January 23, 1974. There are rumors of roads cordoned off by military units, of strange bodies secretly taken to a certain place known as Porton Down, and located in Wiltshire, England. The BBC say: “Porton Down was set up in 1916. It was a center designed to test chemical and biological weapons. Nerve gases such as Sarin and CS gas were tested on volunteer servicemen. Servicemen were offered around £2 and three days leave as an incentive to take part in tests. Very few servicemen knew what they were volunteering for and some were even told it was research into the cure for the common cold. In 1953 it is alleged that serviceman Ronald Maddison died after taking part in a Sarin gas experiment. In 1962, one of Porton Down’s own scientists, Geoffrey Bacon died of the plague. Since the end of WWII, 20,000 people have taken part in experiments at Porton Down.”
Moving on: In 1977, the late UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield revealed a similar story in his then-newly-published book, Situation Red: The UFO Siege. The story was give to Stringfield by another UFO researcher, Sherman Larsen. According to Larsen, he had a contact – a minister -who had a sinister tale to tell. Supposedly, the incident occurred in the late 1940s or early 1950s, when the source was a boy. Father and son, we are told, got lost in none other than the Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Unable to find a way out, they headed down one particular corridor, entered a room, and were confronted by the shocking sight of a number of small, humanoid bodies contained in a large container with a glass top. MIB types suddenly descended on the pair – warning them never to talk about what they had just seen.
Leonard Stringfield was also told of several old pieces of film that seemingly showed alien corpses. One such story came to Stringfield by “T.E.” He was a young man who said that he saw just such a film in 1953 – when he was only twenty – at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Yes, yet another facility. According to what Stringfield knew, T.E. and some of his colleagues were taken to a room where they were told they were about to watch a piece of film. Stringfield wrote: “Without any briefing, the 16mm movie projector was flicked on and the film began to roll on the screen…the film showed a desert scene dominated by a silver disc-shaped object embedded in the sand…” Stringfield continued that there “was a change of scenes.” The story went on: “Now in view were two tables, probably taken inside a tent, on which, to his surprise, were dead bodies. T.E. said the bodies appeared little by human standards and most notable were the heads, all looking alike, and all being large compared to their body sizes…They looked Mongoloid.” The men were advised to “think about the movie.” It is no surprise at all that that is exactly what they did. A few days later, however, they were all told, “It was a hoax.”
Are there really the remains of dead aliens on ice at multiple facilities around the world? Certainly, enough such claims have been made. But, so far, that’s all we have: claims. And, right now, that’s not enough. Unless, of course, someone out there knows better.
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Galaxy Collisions and the Milky Way
Galaxy Collisions and the Milky Way
A view of the Milky Way toward the constellation Sagittarius (including the Galactic Center) as seen from an area not polluted by lights. Our view is from inside the galaxy. CC by 2.0 Steve Jurvetson.
How did our galaxy form? The short answer is “galaxy collisions”. That keeps astronomers busy as they develop new tools to “look back” at the birth of our own galaxy. We know that the infant Milky Way began taking shape relatively early in the history of the universe. It probably existed for quite some time as a tiny dwarf galaxy. Then, it began to merge with others to “plump up” and grow.
Today, the Milky Way continues to dance the galaxy formation tango with other dwarf galaxies, such as the Sagittarius Dwarf. And, we know that it will eventually do an interactive dance with the Andromeda Galaxy. That series of galaxy collisions and interactions will happen several billion years from now. For now, it seems, that our galaxy is still forming through mergers. And, astronomers have some interesting tools to probe the details of the stars that got brought into the Milky Way.
Billions of years in the future, the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. The gravitational interaction will distort the shapes of the two galaxies and ignite bursts of starbirth activity. STSCI
The First Big Galaxy Collision
A couple of weeks ago, Ohio State University researchers released new information about the earliest stages of the Milky Way’s birth and growth. It seems the young Milky Way experienced a major merger with an orbiting satellite galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus. That happened about 10 billion years ago and influenced the distribution of stars in the galaxy.
Fiorenzo Vincenzo, who works at OSU’s Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, and a team of astronomers, wanted to know exactly what happened as a result of that merger. Specifically, what can the stars of our galaxy tell us about that ancient event?
They used several techniques to answer that, including asterochronology, asteroseismology, and a spectroscopic survey called APOGEE. Asterochronology studies the ages of stars to trace the basic “mergers and acquisitions” that helped form the Milky Way. Asteroseismology looks inside stars by studying their oscillations to get precise ages. The spectroscopic studies reveal the chemical compositions of stars. The combination of all three approaches gives amazingly good estimates for the ages and origins of stars in our galaxy.
“Our evidence suggests that when the merger occurred, the Milky Way had already formed a large population of its own stars,” said Vincenzo.
By calculating the ages of stars throughout our galaxy, the researchers determined something interesting. The stars captured from Gaia-Enceladus have similar or slightly younger ages than the majority of stars that already existed there.
During the merger, many of the infant Milky Way’s batch of “homemade” stars ended up in the “thick disk” that occupies the middle of the galaxy. The stars that were captured from Gaia-Enceladus during the merger exist mostly in the outer halo of our galaxy.
What Galaxy Collisions Change
Today, we know that most galaxies grow through mergers and acquisitions. So, it seems like a fairly normal occurrence in the universe. The merger of the baby Milky Way with Gaia-Enceladus was one of the most important in the Milky Way’s history. It shaped the galaxy we see today. It “shook things up”, by changing the orbits of stars already in the Milky Way.
Many stars were pushed into eccentric orbits. The stars from the long-disappeared Gaia-Enceladus, move in different ways than the “native” stars. Upon closer examination, stars that came from Gaia-Enceladus have different chemical compositions from those born inside the Milky Way.
Next Steps
Now that researchers peeked at the past collision and figured out what happened to the stars, what next? Their next step is to take the same approach and apply it to larger groups of Milky Way stars. The evolution of the Milky Way is, after all, an ongoing process. The end goal is to get a much clearer idea of that evolution and the changes mergers make to its stellar populations.
Steve Quayle is a researcher and author of over a dozen books dealing with advanced ancient technology and civilizations. His documentary film production company Gensix Productions films the “True Legends The Series” all over the world in search of the Lost Cities and the giants of history who were the builders of the great megalithic structures of the ancient world.
Steve is a former talk radio show host who has been warning against genetic armageddon and the end of the human race for decades. He claims transhumanism and the hybrid age is the most dangerous advancement in the technological war against humanity in history.
Bright object appears to the right of a helicopter moving in the same direction.
Furthermore, an unknown object suddenly appeared, flew west to east and disappeared about 500 feet above ocean and a spherical object drops from the sky during a thunderstorm. Source: www.mufon.com
This was filmed over Stockholm, Sweden on 29th May 2021.
Witness report:
I always have an eye in the sky, this is one of the things i caught on cam, this is the whole footage, it flies in different degrees, 45, straight and 30
A long-awaited report by Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force is set to be released next month — the culmination of years of inquiries by lawmakers and decades of reports of unexplained sightings made by military pilots.
In a Washington Post opinion piece, planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ravi Kopparapu argues that rather than starting with the “what” question about UFOs, it would be more effective to start by “asking how we can figure out what they are.”
“This is where scientists, notably absent from the current UAP conversation, come in,” Kopparapu argues. For too long, he says, the topic of UFOs been disregarded as baseless conspiracy, driven by a “vacuum of knowledge that is being filled by unscientific claims thanks to a lack of scientific investigation.”
The news comes after several military pilots have discussed strange objects that appeared to defy the laws of physics, traveling without visible means of propulsion at many times the speed of sound.
“It’s a technology that outstrips our arsenal by at least 100 to 1,000 years at the moment,” retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms Sean Cahill told CNN in a televised interview earlier this month.
That means, if they are indeed adversaries within US borders, that would be bad news.
“We had a massive intelligence failure, and we have an unknown threat that we need to figure out,” Christopher Mellon, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, told CNN during the same interview.
But rather than arming ourselves against a largely invisible threat, according to Kopparapu, we should first figure out how to get a better understanding of what the pilots saw.
He says that we should be treating the UAP reports with the same seriousness as exploring the surface of Mars for signs of life.
“The research has been complex, evidence-based and demanding, pulling in scientists from across disciplines and all around the globe,” he writes in his opinion piece. “The same should be true for the exploration of UAP sightings.”
To Kopparapu, we simply need more data, from visual, infrared, radar, and other observations with the help of scientists from across the various disciplines. Such a scientific approach could eventually “go a long way toward lifting the taboo in mainstream science.”
“Ultimately, understanding UAP is a science problem,” he concludes. “We should treat it that way.”
Nuclear Physicist Says US Government Covered Up UFO Incidents
Nuclear Physicist Says US Government Covered Up UFO Incidents
Respected nuclear physicist and UFOlogist Stanton Friedman maintains that the United States government hides the truth about UFO incidents from the public.
Stanton Friedman has investigated UFOs for over fifty years, searching for scientific proof of their existence. He’s a retired nuclear physicist who has worked on highly classified projects involving fusion and fission rockets and nuclear aircraft for state-of-the-art companies including General Electric, Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas, General Motors and Aerojet General Nucleonics.
In 1958, he became interested in UFOs and began doing research.
Since 1967, Friedman has been giving lectures — he has lectured at over seven hundred colleges and professional organizations in all 50 states and abroad — about extraterrestrial spacecraft. He calls the cover ups a “cosmic Watergate.”
Physicist Researches Roswell 1947 UFO Episode
In July, an unknown object crashed into a field near the town that, according to the initial official report, was a flying saucer. The US Air Force quickly changed the story, claiming it was a weather balloon.
Three decades after the Roswell incident, Friedman met with key military personnel who were involved in the investigation. He was told about witnesses who saw the object crash and he learned that pieces of an unknown metal and bodies were recovered. He is now convinced there was a Roswell cover up.
Physicist Blasts SETI Institute’s Handling of UFO Incidents
Friedman is angered by the attitude of scientists who use radio and optical telescopes to search for extraterrestrial existence, including people at the SETI Institute in California.
SETI is an acronym for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. The private nonprofit organization’s members claim their purpose is to scientifically discover the beginning, character and frequency of life in the universe.
Friedman is disturbed by the fact that they don’t reference any evidence to support the existence of UFOs.
UFO Incidents were Covered Up According to Physicist
Friedman is convinced that the government has known about UFOs since 1947. He believes that some are spacecrafts piloted by intelligent extraterrestrials and there has been an extensive government cover up, although a few select officials are privy to top secret UFO information.
Friedman cites two similar cases and the debunkers’ explanation. In 1958, the crew and scientists aboard the Brazilian ship Almirante Saldanha saw and photographed a Saturn-shaped object that approached land and made a steep turn before rapidly flying away.
At the time, Brazil’s President Juscelino Kubitschek confirmed the authenticity of the photographs. A 747 over Alaska encountered an object twice the size of an aircraft carrier that circled the jet.
Both the UFO and the 747 were picked up by radar. The debunkers claimed the radar detected the planet Jupiter!
Physicist’s Thoughts about the Government’s Cover Up
Other scientists have suggested earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. Friedman is the most vociferous. Why would the government cover up UFO incidents when there is evidence, primarily witnesses and photographs, that they exist?
During Project Blue Book’s era, the time of the Cold War, the reason for cover ups was national security. This entity was the branch of the USAF that investigated UFOs.
Government officials thought that knowledge of UFOs’ existence and extraterrestrials would cause people to panic like they did during Orson Wells’ 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds about a fictional Martian attack.
People thought the invasion was real because there were simulated news bulletins. Friedman believes this has changed and that, from a national security perspective, some people would want to capture a UFO, find out how it works and use it against the enemy. How does one acquire a UFO? His answer was to wait until one crashes.
Government Still Covers Up UFO Incidents
In 1965, a UFO crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania that was dubbed the Roswell of the East because of the similarities. There have been sightings, photographs and, later, videos of unknown objects flying through the sky since 1947.
There were a multitude of surveys and polls that have shown many people are interested in and some are concerned about UFOs during the past fifty years.
A recent poll indicated that that nearly three-quarters of Americans thought the government isn’t revealing all it knows about UFOs and over two-thirds of the respondents thought the government knows more about extraterrestrial life than it releases.
In recent years, hundreds of planets circling other suns have been discovered. It’s believed planets that can sustain intelligent life similar to earth is ten to the tenth power. In 2008, the Pope’s chief astronomer, the Reverend Gabriel Funes, stated that intelligent beings created by God could exist in the universe.
All of this makes Friedman optimistic that there will be some proof, albeit partial, that earth isn’t the only planet having intelligent life in the universe, during his lifetime.
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