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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THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
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!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
31-07-2022
This Video About The Scale of Black Holes Will Crush Your Poor, Tiny Brain
Our tiny brains can't even comprehend the true scale of these astronomical giants.
This Video About The Scale of Black Holes Will Crush Your Poor, Tiny Brain
Black holes are vast, matter-annihilating objects that seem to defy physics by their very existence. They're so weird, that when Albert Einstein's equations first predicted the existence of these beasts, he didn't believe they could actually be real.
And you can't really blame him, because the idea that we have these singularities of space-time intent on sucking up all the matter around them scattered all around our cosmic backyard is pretty hard to wrap your head around.
But as people who write about black holes a lot, we figured we were past being shocked by how strange and massive they are.
That is, until we saw this video from YouTuber morn1415, famous for their size comparisons of the Universe.
The starts out a little overly dramatic, but when you get down to the visual comparisons, holy crap, our poor, tiny brains. We were so unprepared.
The first thing you need to know is that any matter can become a black hole if it's crushed past its Schwarzchild radius.
For our Sun, that means it would need to be crushed down to the size of a small town in order to become a black hole.
And Earth would have to be squashed to roughly the size of a peanut.
That's pretty incredible to think about. But then consider how massive that makes the other black holes that we know about, like XTE J1650-500, which is around the size of Manhattan, but contains the mass of three or four of our Suns.
Impressive, but that's one of the smallest 'destroyer of worlds' that we know of.
Thre are even more mid-sized black holes out there, like M82 X-1, which is crushed down to the size of Mars, and contains the mass of 1,000 Suns.
And we haven't even got started on supermassive black holes yet, which are found in the center of pretty much every massive galaxy that we know of.
One of these black holes have a mass of 20 billion Suns. We won't even try to put that into perspective for you, because it really hurts to think about it too much.
Check out the video below to see just how big and massive black holes can really get.
Titan, the farthest world where a human ship has actually touched down
Titan is the farthest world where a man-made machine has landed. And sent back some amazing images and videos of the surface.
Titan, the farthest world where a human ship has actually touched down
The celestial body most similar to Earth in the solar system was visited by the Huygens probe after a journey of more than 7 years. What did you find and what else is there to discover there?
According to astronomers, Titan has similar conditions to Earth in its first years of life.
Photo: ESA / NASA / JPL / University of Arizona
Ever since man ventured into space, he has sent his technology to many corners of the solar system. Before the end of the 20th century, our probes had already touched the surfaces of Mars and Venus, but it would not be until 2005 that a spacecraft would land on the most distant world to date: Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
The protagonist of the feat was the Huygens probe, designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and launched into space on October 15, 1997, as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission (orbiter and landing probe, respectively).
The objective of this joint project with NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASA) was to get to know Saturn in depth: its rings, climates, geology and dozens of moons. But the Huygens instrument pointed to the most gigantic Saturnian satellite of all.
Why is this distant body in the outer solar system still so interesting today?
Saturn's rings pass in front of the luminous moon Titan.
Photo: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
An amazing moon
Titan is a special world for astronomers not only because it is the second largest moon in the solar system after Ganymede, on Jupiter; but because of its very similar conditions to the primitive Earth.
Similar to the blue planet, Titan has a 600 kilometer thick atmosphere that is made up of nitrogen (95%) and methane (5%). It is also the only other place in the solar system where a rain cycle similar to Earth's has also been seen, with the exception that it is based on methane instead of water.
Images taken by Cassini show the changing surface of Titan.
Photo: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Continuous precipitation—which varies depending on the seasons on the planet, also tilted like Earth—makes Titan's surface changeable. Mainly at its south pole, there are liquid reserves (lakes and seas) and hard ice rocks due to the extreme cold of -180 ºC.
Astronomers believe that in 6 billion years, when the Sun becomes a red giant star and its size brings it closer to the outer solar system, conditions on Titan may be favorable for stable oceans.
All these characteristics make Titan one of the best candidates for have harbored (or harbor) extraterrestrial microbial life that depends on methane instead of water.
Landing on titan
Seven years after the launch of the Cassini-Huygens mission, the Cassini module was inserted into the orbit of Saturn. Then, in December 2004, it ejected the Huygens probe, its traveling companion who had been 'asleep' for all those years, towards Titan.
The violent entry into Titan's atmosphere in January 2005 took almost two and a half hours. Once on the surface, its useful life was very short but valuable: for one hour and ten minutes it worked automatically and captured 350 photographs of the terrain before losing communication with Cassini, which moved away from the landing point and followed its orbit.
The computer and postal data of the impressive descent to Titan were recorded for history and, years later, could be recreated in an ESA video.
The images show rocks similar to boulders, so it is believed that there was a fluid that ran through there and eroded them.
But the interest in this giant satellite has not ended.
Dragonfly, the dragonfly that will fly over Titan
Continuing the legacy of Cassini-Huygens, in 2026 NASA will send the Dragonfly mission to Titan to study the satellite's atmosphere, its prebiotic chemical processes and its subsurface ocean reserves.
NASA's Dragonfly rover will arrive on Titan in 2034 to study its atmosphere and pre-life chemical processes.
Photo: NASA
This flying instrument - similar to the Ingenuity on Mars - will land in 2034 in Shangri-La , a region with dunes similar to those of Namibia in southern Africa.
From then on, Dragonfly will make long jumps of up to 8 kilometers in different locations and, in each one of them, will stay one Titan day (16 Earth days). Your ultimate goal will be Selk Crater , a region where evidence of ancient liquid water exists.
“Visiting this mysterious marine world could revolutionize what we know about life in the universe. This state-of-the-art mission would have been unthinkable even a few years ago, but now we are ready,"former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in astatement.
Dragonfly is part of NASA's ambitious News Frontier program, which includes other missions such as News Horizon to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, Juno to Jupiter, and OSIRIS-REX to asteroid Bennu.
‘Spaghettified’ star wrapped around a black hole spotted for the first time
‘Spaghettified’ star wrapped around a black hole spotted for the first time
A black hole enjoyed one stellar spaghetti dinner and astronomers were able to witness the event from 215 million light-years away in a spiral galaxy in the Eridanus constellation.
Astronomers saw the light from a star being devoured and ripped apart by a supermassive black hole using telescopes at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Although it sounds incredibly far away, this event was the closest flaring death throes of a star astronomers have seen to date.
And apparently, what the astronomers witnessed was the "spaghettificaton" of the star.
"When an unlucky star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy, the extreme gravitational pull of the black hole shreds the star into thin streams of material," said Thomas Wevers, study coauthor and an ESO fellow in Santiago, Chile, in a statement. Wevers was at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy as he worked on this research.
When these thin strands of the star's material fall into the black hole, they release a bright energetic flare that can be detected by astronomers.
Spaghettification events are much more rare to observe and harder to study. But the researchers had the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and New Technology Telescope aimed in the right place after spying a new flash of light last year that was located close to a supermassive black hole.
"The idea of a black hole 'sucking in' a nearby star sounds like science fiction. But this is exactly what happens in a tidal disruption event," said Matt Nicholl, lead study author and a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham in the UK, in a statement.
The study published Monday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Although the light from the star was incredibly bright, it was still difficult for the astronomers to study because dust and debris created by the event helped to obscure it from view. Energy released during the black hole's mealtime actually pushed out the star's debris in a type of curtain.
"We found that, when a black hole devours a star, it can launch a powerful blast of material outwards that obstructs our view," said Samantha Oates, study coauthor and researcher at the University of Birmingham, in a statement.
Astronomers began observing the event shortly after the star was ripped apart and continued to use different telescopes and instruments to study it in detail over six months as the light from the star initially grew and then faded.
"Because we caught it early, we could actually see the curtain of dust and debris being drawn up as the black hole launched a powerful outflow of material with velocities up to 10,000 km/s," said Kate Alexander, study coauthor and NASA Einstein fellow at Northwestern University, in a statement. "This unique 'peek behind the curtain' provided the first opportunity to pinpoint the origin of the obscuring material and follow in real time how it engulfs the black hole."
Observations were taken in multiple wavelengths of light, including optical, X-ray, ultraviolet and radio light. These different wavelengths revealed a direct link between the bright flare witnessed as the star was consumed by the black hole and the material flowing out from the star.
"The observations showed that the star had roughly the same mass as our own Sun, and that it lost about half of that to the monster black hole, which is over a million times more massive,"Nicholl said.
The study furthers how astronomers understand black holes and this particular event, dubbed AT2019qiz, could be used as a "Rosetta stone" for similar events in the future.
Triangular UFOs: New Historical Cases and Validated Insights -David Marler
Triangular UFOs: New Historical Cases and Validated Insights -David Marler
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Do you want to hear some "common sense" in terms of critical rational thinking about UFOs? Then pay close attention to researcher and archivist David Marler's most recent presentation on Triangular UFOs throughout history. He factually refutes the UFO debunking claims in this presentation. Well-done job, David!
Description video
For over 20 years, David Marler has been investigating a particular subset of the UFO phenomenon – triangular UFOs. In his 2013 groundbreaking book, Triangular UFOs – An Estimate of the Situation, he established a working profile of these anomalous aerial objects by highlighting their repeatedly-reported characteristics and flight dynamics. Those conclusions were derived from his vast historical UFO materials and research at the time.
Since then, The David Marler Historical UFO Archive Collection has grown by leaps and bounds. Of particular note was the receipt of the world’s largest historical UFO case file collection in November of 2020. This consists of hundreds (if not thousands) of case files from: Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York (CSI-NY), The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), and The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). In addition, it includes the personal Air Force Project Blue Book files of Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
In reviewing this vast treasure trove of historical UFO case files dating back to the late 1940s, David noted there were triangular UFO case reports that had never been seen by the general public. When reading these accounts, they served as the best outside validation for what David outlined in his book. Namely, the reported details and characteristics matched what other witnesses had described in reference to these triangular UFOs. However, the vast majority of these accounts date back from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
This presentation will share with the public, for the first time, historical UFO case files and audio recordings relating to triangular UFO reports that pre-date stealth technology and the modern period of UFO reporting. Enjoy this journey back to the early years of the UFO phenomenon where we see that the past was indeed prologue for the future of triangular UFO reports.
Presentation from the 2022 Ozark Mountain UFO Conference.
Narcissus: An Ancient Tragic Story with Many Modern Parallels
Narcissus: An Ancient Tragic Story with Many Modern Parallels
The Greek tale of the self-absorbed yet staggeringly handsome Narcissus is a famous and ancient one. Despite its age, the myth remains famous to this day and provides a moral warning against becoming selfish and uncaring towards others.
The Narcissus story is so influential, in fact, that his name has been given to the mental condition narcissism which is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy for others. Narcissus’ life has also influenced popular culture for centuries and even provided the inspiration for the name of the Harry Potter character Narcissa Malfoy.
Whilst the most popular and well-known versions of the myth contain nymphs, warnings from the Gods and blind seers, the integral moral of the story remains influential. The story also acts as an explanation for the origin of the Narcissus flower (daffodil) and for the origin of echoes.
Primary Sources Give Some Info About Narcissus’ Life
There are a couple of surviving stories about Narcissus’ life, all of which differ somewhat but have the same central story with the same moral teachings.
The main primary source of the myth is Ovid’s Metamorphoses where the story is told in Book III. Ovid was a Roman poet who was born in the city around 43 BC and died in 16 or 17 AD. He traveled throughout his life to a number of Greek territories like Asia Minor and Athens.
In 2 AD he began his Metamorphoses which is considered his magnum opus comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths. This colossal poem chronicles the history of the world from its beginning until the deification of Julius Caesar. It also contains the longest version of the myth.
Another earlier but less complete source for the story of Narcissus is a version composed in 50 BC and thought to be the work of the poet Partenius of Nicaea. This work was discovered in 2004 by Dr Benjamin Henry within the Oxyrhynchus papyri at Oxford. The only difference between this telling and Ovid’s is the ending.
A third source for the tale of Narcissus’ life was composed by Conon who was a Greek grammarian and mythographer. His ending is similar to that of Partenius. The tale is also told by the Greek traveler and geographer Pausanias in Book IX of his Description of Greece .
Echo and Narcissus in painting from 1627 by Nicolas Poussin.
Ovid’s telling of Narcissus’ life is perhaps the most well know version today. It begins with the birth of Narcissus. His parents were the God of the River, Cephissus, and the nymph Liriope. Ovid claims that Cephissus was not a nice man and had forced Liriope into his bed, and consequently the nymph became pregnant.
Narcissus, from his birth and throughout his life was incredibly handsome . When Liriope consulted a seer (named Tiresias) after his birth and asked if her son would live a long life, the seer stated that Narcissus would live a long life if he did not look at himself.
Narcissus managed to live his early life and not discover himself. His beauty became known, and men and women alike were said to be throwing themselves at him. However, Narcissus was not fazed by any of them and ignored all of their advances.
One day he was walking in the woods when an Oread (a mountain nymph) named Echo spotted him. Echo, like so many women before her, instantly fell deeply in love with the handsome Narcissus. She proceeded to follow him through the wood.
However, she was hesitant to speak to this beautiful man because, according to Ovid, the nymph suffered from a speech impediment that was a result of a curse by Juno (or Hera), the wife of Zeus. It was known that Zeus had a particular fondness for nymphs, and this had made Juno extremely jealous. It was said that every time Juno would almost catch Zeus with a nymph Echo would distract the unknowing wife.
When Juno eventually found out she punished Echo by removing her ability to communicate properly so she could only say the last few words that were spoken to her. She could therefore not talk to Narcissus first and instead had to wait for him to talk to her.
Another version of the hopeless heartbreak “bubble” Echo lived in because Narcissus was more interested in himself, from a painting by Francesco Xanto Avelli from 1535.
After some time, Narcissus heard Echo following him through the wood and he called out “Who’s there?” Echo repeated his questions and was eventually convinced by Narcissus to reveal herself.
Echo then immediately attempted to embrace Narcissus, however, he refused and stepped away from the nymph.
“Away with these encircling hands! May I die before what’s mine is yours. She answers, “What’s mine is yours!”
(Metamorphoses, Book III)
The heartbroken Echo spent the rest of her life in misery, she lived alone in the glens until nothing remained of her but an echo.
Narcissus continues to break the hearts of numerous lovers. One even went as far as to curse him that he may suffer as he has caused others to suffer. The Goddess of Revenge, Nemesis, eventually heard of this tale and noticed Narcissus’ behavior. She decided to punish the selfish man. During the summer when Narcissus became thirsty, she lured him to a pool and when he leaned down to the water he gazed upon his own reflection. Not realizing it was his own reflection, Narcissus fell deeply in love with himself, believing it was someone else.
He was unable to remove himself from looking at his own reflection but soon realized that his love could not be reciprocated when he attempted to kiss or hold the reflection. However, his confusion is amplified when the image in the pool reciprocated his winks and waves. Narcissus could not understand why he could not secure what he so desperately desired.
Narcissus was tormented by this and by the time he realized it was his reflection it was too late, and he had already fallen in love with himself. Because he now knew he could never obtain what he truly wanted his body melted away from the passion he felt burning inside him.
When Echo returns to the place where Narcissus had been staring into his own eyes to recover his body for the funeral, she found in his place a gold and white flower. This flower would become known as the Narcissus flower, or the daffodil.
Ameinias spurned lover of Narcissus, who committed suicide as his love turned to madness, sculpted by Malcolm Lidbury for the 2016 Cornwall LGBT History project.
Parthenius tells much of the same story, however, rather than slowly decaying because of his yearning, Narcissus lost his will to live and committed suicide.
Canon’s version of the story was written at roughly the same time as Ovid’s however, this also differs slightly. First of all, rather than a nymph named Echo, a young man by the name of Ameinias falls in love with Narcissus after the latter had already turned away many male suitors.
Like those before him, Narcissus rejects Ameinias and gives him a sword. As a result of this rejection, Ameinias commits suicide on Narcissus’ doorstep. Ameinias had prayed to the gods to give the selfish Narcissus a lesson and make him learn from all the pain he had caused.
Narcissus then walked to a pool of water and decided to have a drink. As he bent down, he gazed upon his own reflection and fell in love. When he realized this love was futile, he killed himself because he could not obtain what he desired most.
In his work, Pausanias summarized Ovid’s story. Pausanias did not believe that a man old enough to fall in love would be stupid enough to not realize it was his own reflection upon which he was staring. So, Pausanias changed the story slightly, to make it more believable. Rather than falling in love with a nymph named Echo or a man named Ameinias, Narcissus was actually mourning the death of his beloved twin sister and was gazing at his own reflection to recall her features. In this telling, the spring in front of which Narcissus wastes away is located on a mountain top and is part of the river Lamus in a place called Donacon.
What all the versions share, however, is the inherent negative link between Narcissus and the act of gazing upon his reflection. It is possible that this was derived from the ancient Greek superstition that it was unlucky and sometimes even fatal to see your own reflection.
A fine Narcissus fresco from Pompeii showing the pool reflection he was in love with.
The myth of Narcissus has had a lasting effect on humans. He was a very popular subject in Roman art and appears prominently in 50 paintings from Pompeii alone. His name has been given, in Freudian psychiatry and psychoanalysis, to the mental condition that leaves one with an “inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships and a lack of empathy for others.” The myth also had a huge influence on Dante and Shakespeare.
After losing influence after the Renaissance, it came back and inspired more creatives. The myth appears in a number of 20th-century works of art and music and provides a warning against self-obsession which was particularly influential during the age of individualism.
The Origins of Narcissus’ Story
Because there is a lack of stories based on Narcissus and Echo, many scholars today believe that the myth may have originated with Ovid. According to Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos, this story actually interrupted the poetic pattern of Metamorphoses suggesting that the story may have been an afterthought and placed in the work to verify the validity of the prophet Tiresias (the seer). Ovid’s version, nevertheless, was then retold by later poets and has become not only an explanation for where the flower originated but also why echoes exist.
W. S. Anderson has argued that the language used in Ovid’s tale is formed in a way to discourage the audience from feeling any kind of sympathy for Narcissus. The poet stresses that he deserved everything that happened to him because of the horrible way he treated those who fell in love with him, particularly Echo.
In Pausanias’ telling, however, the author takes a different stance. By rationalizing the story, Pausanias expresses his belief that Ovid’s version is foolish. Here, Echo and the will of the Gods are omitted. He even argues that the flower had existed long before Narcissus and his story. He effectively warped the story from one which explained the origins of the flower and of echoes into one purely for entertainment.
Despite this, and as already mentioned, both stories end with Narcissus’ death as a result of gazing into the pool and at his own reflection. Because of this he dies completely alone with no awareness of his surroundings. Both authors are conveying the same moral message that it is not good to be self-absorbed. The story warns that being so will only end in loneliness.
Top image: Echo and Narcissus in a painting by John William Waterhouse, and one senses that Narcissus has already fallen in love with himself for all time.
Earth’s Magnetic Field Almost Completely Collapsed 550 Million Years Ago
Earth’s Magnetic Field Almost Completely Collapsed 550 Million Years Ago
More than half a billion years ago, Earth experienced an almost-complete collapse of its magnetic field. It began in the early Cambrian period. Then, after a period of about 15 million years, the field began to grow again. The cause of that collapse and the bounceback of the field was a mystery. Then, a group of geologists studied rocks from Oklahoma that were created during that time. Magnetic markers in the rocks’ minerals pointed toward an event that began some 550 million years ago. That was before the introduction of multicellular life on our planet.
Look Deep into the Core
To understand what happened, look at our planet’s structure. Most of us learn in school that Earth is composed of layers. There’s the crust, where you’re sitting reading this right now. Underneath that is the mantle, Earth’s thickest layer. It lies over the molten outer core, which surrounds the solid inner core. That inner core has two parts—an outermost inner core and an innermost inner core. The core region lies some 2900 kilometers beneath the surface. The swirling action of liquid iron in the outer core is what generates our magnetic field. If it weren’t for that activity, we wouldn’t have a protective shield against the solar wind. In fact, without it, our planet might be more like Mars today.
The Earth’s layers, showing the Inner and Outer Core, the Mantle, and Crust. Credit: discovermagazine.com
So, what happened in the core? Why did our magnetic field fade to almost 10 percent of its strength and then regenerate again? According to John Tarduno, a professor of geophysics at the University of Rochester in New York, the cause was the formation of Earth’s solid inner core.
“The inner core is tremendously important,” he said. “Right before the inner core started to grow, the magnetic field was at the point of collapse, but as soon as the inner core started to grow, the field was regenerated.”
Paleomagnetism Reveals Changes in Our Magnetic Field
In a recent paper, Tarduno and a team of researchers cited crucial dates in the inner core’s history. They also gave a precise age estimate for the collapse and regeneration. Since they can’t reach down into the core and directly observe it, how did they figure out when these events happened? The team turned to paleomagnetism to find an answer. That’s the study of magnetic markers in rocks that were created when the rocks formed. Geologists often use this to trace the records of other changes in Earth’s magnetic field, such as pole-flipping.
Earth’s magnetic field stretches out from the core through the mantle and crust and out into space. It’s impossible to measure the magnetic field inside Earth directly. That’s due to the location and extreme temperatures of materials in the core. So, geologists thought of a better way. They looked for paleomagnetic markers in rocks and minerals that rose to the surface. Those markers are like tiny needles that lock in the direction and intensity of the magnetic field that existed when the minerals cooled after forming.
Tarduno and his team wanted to pinpoint the age and growth of Earth’s inner core using paleomagnetism to measure those particles. So, they used a CO2 laser and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer to analyze feldspar crystals from the rock anorthosite and study their perfect magnetic markers.
Dating Rocks Using Magnetism For the Win
By studying the magnetism locked in those ancient crystals, the researchers determined two new important dates. The first was when the magnetic field began to strengthen after nearly collapsing 15 million years earlier. That rapid regrowth was due to the formation of a solid inner core. It actually recharged the molten outer core and restored the magnetic field’s strength.
A depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to grow, around 550 million years ago; third, with an outermost and innermost inner core, around 450 million years ago. University of Rochester researchers used paleomagnetism to determine these two key dates in the history of the inner core, which they believe restored the planet’s magnetic field just before the explosion of life on Earth. (University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw)
Another interesting thing happened about 450 million years ago. That’s when the growing inner core’s structure changed. The result was a boundary between the innermost and outermost inner core. Far above the core, changes to the mantle took place due to plate tectonics on the surface.
Paleomagnetism made this new understanding of Earth’s core possible, according to Tarduno. “Because we constrained the inner core’s age more accurately, we could explore the fact that the present-day inner core is actually composed of two parts,” he said. “Plate tectonic movements on Earth’s surface indirectly affected the inner core, and the history of these movements is imprinted deep within Earth in the inner core’s structure.”
What about Magnetic Fields Elsewhere?
The team’s research into paleomagnetic clues to Earth’s interior evolution provides clues about the history and evolution of our planet. It also offers insight into how it became habitable. Finally, their work has implications for understanding the evolution of other planets in the solar system. Things could well be very different if they had no magnetic fields. For example, Mars once had a magnetic field, but it dissipated more than 4 billion years ago. That left the planet vulnerable to the solar wind and likely played a role in the loss of Martian oceans.
This figure shows a cross-section of the planet Mars revealing an inner, high-density core buried deep within the interior. Dipole magnetic field lines are drawn in blue, showing the global scale magnetic field associated with dynamo generation in the core. Ancient Mars must have had such a field, but today it is not evident. Perhaps the energy source that powered the early dynamo has shut down. Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC
It’s not clear if Earth would have suffered the same fate if its magnetic field hadn’t regenerated. Tarduno said that our planet would have lost a lot of its water if the magnetic field had not come back. “The planet would be much drier and very different than the planet today,” he pointed out. “This research really highlights the need to have something like a growing inner core that sustains a magnetic field over the entire lifetime—many billions of years—of a planet.”
The first findings of the James Webb telescope might revolutionize the views of the formation of galaxies
The first findings of the James Webb telescope might revolutionize the views of the formation of galaxies
The first preliminary findings of the James Webb telescope, the successor of the Hubble telescope, are in conflict with the standard view of the formation of galaxies. The YouTube video (see this) “James Webb Found Galaxies That Sort of Break Modern Theories” gives a good summary of these findings. The findings are also summarized in an article in Nature (see this) with the title “Four revelations from the Webb telescope about distant galaxies”.
The official story of the formation of galaxies goes roughly as follows.
Around 3 minutes of cosmic time, the cosmic microwave background emerged as the first atoms formed and radiation decoupled from matter.
When the age of the Universe was more than about .1 billion years, the first stars were formed. They lived their life and exploded as supernovas and yielded interstellar hydrogen gas. Galaxies started to form. One can see this process as a gravitational condensation. What is essential is that this process went from long to short scales, just as the formation of stars in the earlier phase.
The model gives a stringent upper bound for the age of the galaxies. They should be younger than the oldest observed stars. This limit gives an upper bound for the distance of the galaxy, that is for its redshift.
The first, preliminary, observations of the James Webb telescope were galaxies with redshifts up to 16. Even redsshift extending to 20 have been speculated in arXiv papers. Redshift 16 would correspond to the age of 250 million years and redshift of 20 to the age of 200 million years. They are too far to fit into the official picture. To get some perspective, note that the estimate for the age of the Universe is 13.8 billion years.
The ages of these galaxies were few hundred million years and of the same order as the estimated ages of about 100 million years of the hypothetical population III stars (see this), which are thought to be the oldest stars but have not not (yet?) detected. The criterion for the age of the star is its metal content: the first stars should have contained only hydrogen and Helium and “metal” here means anything heavier than Helium. The suggestive conclusion is that there was a significant population of star forming galaxies in the early universe. This challenges the standard view stating that stars came first and led to the formation of galaxies.
TGD proposes an unofficial view of the formation of galaxies (see this, this and this).
In the very beginning the Universe was dominated by cosmic strings, which were space-time surfaces in H=M4× CP2 having 2-dimensional M4 projection. They were not “Einsteinian” space-time surfaces with 4-D M4 projection and have no counterpart in general relativity.
Cosmic strings were unstable against thickening of the M4 projection to 4-D one. Phase transitions thickening the cosmic strings occurred and increased their thickness and reduced string tension so that part of their energy transformed to ordinary matter. This is the TGD counterpart for inflation.
This process led to radiation dominated Universe and the local description of the Universe as an Einsteinian 4-surface became a good approximation and is used in standard cosmology based on the standard model as a QFT limit of TGD.
At this moment the thickness of the thickened strings would be around 100 micrometers, which corresponds to a length scale around large neuron size. Water blob with this size has mass of order Planck mass. The connection with biology is suggestive cite{btart/penrose,watermorpho,waterbridge}.
The liberated dark energy (and possible dark matter, dark in the TGD sense) assignable to cosmic strings produced quasars, which in the TGD framework are identified as time reversals of the ordinary galactic blackholes. They did not extract matter from the environment but feeded darl energy as matter to the environment as jets. Jets are observed and explained in terms of the magnetic field due to the rotation of the galaxy.
The jets are somewhat problematic in the GRT based cosmology since the simplest, non-rotating Schwarzschild blackholes do not allow them. The rotating blackholes identifiable as Kerr-Newman blackholes accompanied by magnetic fields, also have some interpretational problems. For instance, the arrow of time can be said to be different in the nearby and faraway regions and closed time-like geodesics are possible. In TGD, this could have an interpretation in terms of zero energy ontology (ZEO). The matter from the jets would have eventually led to the formation of atoms, stars, and galaxies.
What is essential is that the formation of galaxies proceeds from short to long scales rather than vice versa as in the standard cosmology. A second essential point is that the dark energy (and possible dark matter) concentrated at cosmic strings was added to the ordinary matter predicted by the standard model to be present in the radiation dominated cosmology. This led to the formation of galaxies. Therefore this picture is consistent with the standard story as far as the formation of atoms and emergence of CMB is considered. The possibility considered in the TGD framework (seethis, this and this) is that quasars are time reversed black-holes (this property can be formulated precisely in zero energy ontology (ZEO), which forms the basis of TGD based quantum measurement theory) (see this,thisand this). Note that the time reversal property would hold true in long time scales at the magnetic body (MB) defined by the monopole flux tubes produced by the thickening of the cosmic strings. For ordinary matter, the scale for the time spent with a given arrow of time is very short but MB with a large gravitational Planck constant can force ordinary matter to effectively behave like its time reversed version.
There is indeed quite recent support for the proposal that quasars are time reversals of blackhole-like objects identified in the TGD framework as monopole flux tube tangles. The Hubble telescope detected a dwarf galaxy at a distance of 30 million light years for which the number of stars is about 10 per cent for that in the Milky Way. Its center contains a blackhole-like object (see this), which did not extract matter from the environment but did just the opposite by jets, which gave rise to a formation of stars.
The observations challenging the basic dogma of blackhole physics are not new and during the writing of an article about galactic jets I got the impression that one of the basic challenges is to explain why some blackholes do just the opposite of what they should do.
Red Lights Over Huntington Beach, California July 30, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Red Lights Over Huntington Beach, California July 30, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:July 30, 2022 Location of sighting: Huntington Beach, California, USA
An eyewitness in California caught sight of four glowing red spheres yesterday. The glowing objects are moving very fast and unusual. The area was at Lake Stevens, which makes me wonder if it came from below the water or not. UFOs travel in our atmosphere, space and underwater, but probably more.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Waiting at lundeen park here in lake stevens I was laying down on the dock waiting for the firework show to start when I seen the string of 4 lights then a minute or so later the second string came. Watching the starlight video it could have been that but the lights were spectated by several hundred feet possibly more moving at a higher than normal rate of speed I have one two clips one I was following them and the other has a stationary star in the view I would say satellite but I’ve been watching them for years and never seen them move at the speed I seen these move. If I was to give a height I’d have to say just below or just above the earth’s atmosphere. Hopefully you can help me out. I Walt have my eyes to the sky. And hopefully the videos show up I took it on an IPhone 11.
The mysterious peeing tree of Taiwan 🇹🇼, video, breaking world news.
The mysterious peeing tree of Taiwan 🇹🇼, video, breaking world news.
I was at a BNB near the beach in Taiwan and two birds landed on my shoulders and stayed on me for 25 min, until I walked back to the BNB area and looked at the mysterious peeing tree. The birds seemed to like it and finally left landing on the tree. This tree got into Two TV News stations here in Taiwan so even they find it unique. On vacation....in Taiwan.
Beach in Taiwan, Two Birds Landed On Me, July 30, 2022, Taiwan Breaking News
Beach in Taiwan, Two Birds Landed On Me, July 30, 2022, Taiwan Breaking News
I was at a BNB yesterday and decided to take a walk on the beach looking for fossils and sapphires, when suddenly a bird landed on my shoulder and then another on the other shoulder. I looked up and found two beautiful love birds panting hard from the 100F heat here. I let them ride me while I searched then I decided to carry them back to the BNB area where our neighbor BNB owns the birds, then I visited the mysterious peeing tree which just started this week. There the birds flew onto the tree after riding me 25 min.
Funny thing, one of the birds kept at my necklace until it had unlatched three latches that locked it, before it fell off. I caught it and hid it in my pocket, but then they went for my watch...they love shiny news things. LOL, very playful and curious animals. I fed them back at the BNB and gave them some cold water.
Found a fossil on the beach in Taiwan just like searching NASA photos for similar things. UFO Sighting News.
Found a fossil on the beach in Taiwan just like searching NASA photos for similar things. UFO Sighting News.
Hey all, I found this fossil when I went to a BNB along the southern east side of Taiwan. I was looking for fossils. Its something I enjoy doing in hopes of making a find worthy to give to the local museum. This interesting to me. Paleontology and archeology are to passions I have. This is a fossil of stringray teeth. Stringrays have about 5-8 rows of teeth. This particular fossil seems to be about 150-200,000,000 years old. I determined this from other fossils I have seen, held and studied. But this is the first stingray teeth I have found. I was actually intently searching for fossil shark teeth, but its rare in Taiwan. Never heard of anyone finding any, but so is this fossil of stingray teeth. Was going to take a video, but was too hot and two love birds landed on my shoulder for 25 minutes making this awkward.
Searching for fossils is just like searching in NASA photos for similar ancient artifacts. The only difference is I'm not there in person doing it...which by the way...I would love doing. So...link the similarities...this is what I do.
I see here in Taiwan that people are worried about China invading. Chinese war ships and jets are having a military exercise, but Taiwanese think its a possible invasion in progress...due to US Nancy Pelosi visiting us in Taiwan. Not sure what will happen if China invades, but I will do my best to keep updating you on this situations if they do.
2 UFOs filmed in Atlanta during severe electrical storm YESTERDAY
2 UFOs filmed in Atlanta during severe electrical storm YESTERDAY
This strange UFO aerial phenomenon was filmed over Atlanta, Georgia yesterday.
Witness report:
I filmed this in Atlanta early this morning 7/30/2022.
A severe electrical storm rolled through the neighborhood so I decided to see if I could get some cool lightning videos. As soon as I walked on my patio, a bolt of lightning struck the parking lot 30 feet away. I quickly propped up my phone and retreated inside. Upon reviewing the footage this morning with my wife, I noticed some orbs I could see on my phone screen. Only when the video was cast to my huge flat screen did I notice the lights. Two orbs appeared directly after the flash, and remained there bobbing. One disappears a few times and returns. Keep in mind, the sky was 100% overcast, these lights were below the clouds. They are dancing/bobbing in a weird way. You can see the tree in the foreground not moving the same as the orbs.
This UFO video was filmed back in 2018 but it was just now submitted to MUFON’s website. It happened over Philadelphia, PA.
Witness report:
Observed a kidney-bean or peanut shaped dark black object moving around the Philadelphia skyline on July 3, 2018. The object seemed to have a direction and moved at a steady pace from the NE to SW direction before we lost sight of it.
Not so long ago top US astronomers gathered in front of Congress to let them know that extraterrestrial life exists – without question.
They cited the sheer size of the universe as their most important proof, emphasizing that there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely harboring an Earth-like planet (though it is important to keep in mind that planets do not have to be “Earth-like” in order to harbor life).
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.” – Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute.
This time, NASA and the Library of Congress have teamed up to bring together scientists, theologians, philosophers and historians from around the globe for a two day symposium in order to discuss how to prepare the world for extraterrestrial contact, whether it be microbial organisms or intelligent beings.
One of the theologians present was Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. This is what he had to say:
“I believe [alien life exists], but I have no evidence. I would be really excited and it would make my understanding of my religion deeper and richer in ways that I can’t even predict yet, which is why it would be so exciting.”
He is urging the public not to be surprised when extraterrestrial life is discovered, because it is inevitably going to happen. He even said that he would be happy to baptize them, if it’s intelligent extraterrestrial life that’s discovered.
The Vatican has been very open to the idea of intelligent extraterrestrial life, and they’ve expressed these views for a very long time.
Earth is not the center of the universe, it’s not flat, and it’s looking very likely that the next major, paradigm-shifting revelation will be the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
It’s great to see the mainstream world gather, discuss, and prepare for this possibility and ultimate reality, and it’s a great segue to create more awareness about the world of secrecy, the world’s within our world that deal with projects the human race knows nothing about.
Lets not forget the main argument was the size of the universe, emphasizing that there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely harboring an Earth-like planet.
“In the last 50 years, evidence has steadily mounted that the components and conditions we believe necessary for life are common and perhaps ubiquitous in our galaxy. The possibility that life has arisen elsewhere, and perhaps evolved intelligence, is plausible and warrants scientific inquiry.
“If you extrapolate on the planets they discovered, there are a trillion planets in the galaxy. That’s a lot of places for life. We know the majority of stars have planets, but what fraction of stars have planets that are more like the earth? It might be one in five.”
Dan Shostak
Scientists are discovering billions of Earth-like planets on our Milky Way galaxy alone. I’d also like to mention that planets do not have to be Earth-like in order to harbor life, that’s just what we think and assume.
Who knows what type of conditions life on other planets can thrive in? Or the biological make up of an extraterrestrial life form?
Believe it or not, accept it or not, but the planet is being groomed for disclosure.
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Astrophysicist warns: “aliens plan an invasion of Earth”
Astrophysicist warns: “aliens plan an invasion of Earth”
How many times have we seen alien invasions in movies and series? Fingers are probably missing to count them. But what if there really was an alien invasion?
Jacco Van Loon, an astrophysicist and director of the Keele Earth and Space Observatory on the campus of Keele University, England, has warned that an advanced species of aliens could easily view humans as a threat and wipe us out.
In an article published on the news portal ‘The Conversation’, Professor Van Loon explains that the first signs of life on our planet appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, but the Universe has existed for more than 10 billion more years.
If we accept the theory that life is not unique to Earth, it is extremely feasible that something came before us and is much more advanced, assuming that these aliens followed the same trajectory as life on Earth.
The astrophysicist explains why aliens have not yet contacted Earth, they could consider earthlings as a primitive species, and adds that an advanced species could easily kill us.
“Aliens may be interested in our planet,” explains van Loon.
«The Earth has the perfect conditions for life. They might need another home, if for some reason – like climate change, nuclear war, or a huge asteroid impact – they had to leave their own planet. ‘
“It is also possible that they are not seeking friendship. There are many examples in our history of times when humans traveled somewhere on Earth and acted cruelly, killing or enslaving the people who lived there.
“The aliens who settle on Earth may want us to get out of their way.”
‘There is another reason: humans are predators that eat other life forms. Aliens may also find us nutritious or tasty. “
However, after this warning, Professor Van Loon also said that aliens might not be interested in us, but that doesn’t mean we won’t find them in the near future.
On the other hand, it may be that a life like ours is really very ordinary. With so many worlds and civilizations to choose from, we may not have caught your eye yet.
“Some aliens may find us dull, difficult to understand, too primitive to deserve their attention or potentially carriers of disease,” continues the astrophysicist.
“Conversations across the vastness of space have been going on for many years and traveling even further. Some aliens may simply not be interested in life beyond their own world. “
“If that’s the case, we might soon be able to detect alien life around nearby stars for ourselves.”
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ITV Central Weekend Live Clip [UFOs & Aliens] (Sept 1998)
ITV Central Weekend Live Clip [UFOs & Aliens] (Sept 1998)
Tim Matthews puts Nick Pope on the spot.
Ministry of Defence
Pope worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Defence from 1985 to 2006. From 1991 to 1994, he worked in Secretariat (Air Staff) Sec (AS) 2a more commonly known as the "UFO desk", where his duties included investigating reports of UFO sightings, to see if they had any defence significance. At the time, while the Ministry of Defence stated that it "remains totally open-minded about the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial lifeforms", it also stated that there was no evidence to suggest that any UFO sightings posed any threat to the UK or that they were extraterrestrial in origin.[4] It is clear from material that Pope wrote whilst still at the MoD that he did not share the MoD's view that conventional explanations could be found for all UFO sightings.[5]
Pope's final posting in the MoD was to the Directorate of Defence Security. In 2009, MoD announced that UFO sightings would no longer be investigated.[6][7][8]
Media work
In November 2006, Mr. Pope stated that the government's "X-Files have been closed down".[9] He continues his research and investigation in a private capacity and now works as a freelance journalist and media commentator, covering subjects that include the unexplained, conspiracy theories, space, science fiction and fringe science.[10]
He does work for a number of film companies and PR agencies, promoting the release of science fiction films.[11]
Open Skies, Closed Minds is Pope's autobiographical account of his interest in ufology. It provides an overview of the UFO phenomenon, with the emphasis on Pope's three-year tour of duty at the Ministry of Defence where his responsibilities included investigating UFO sightings and any impact they might have on UK national defense.[15] Pope also discusses the politics surrounding the way in which those within government and the military view UFO-phenomena. In 1997, he released a second book on similar themes entitled The Uninvited. His book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World's Best-Documented UFO Incident, written with John Burroughs, USAF, Ret., and Jim Penniston, USAF, Ret., was published by Thomas Dunne Books in April 2014.
Pope has also written two science fiction novels, Operation Thunder Child and its sequel Operation Lightning Strike.[16] In 2018, Pope published the political thriller Blood Brothers.[17]
Journalism
Pope also writes for online alternative news site Neon Nettle[18] in which he talks about current topics and news as well as UFO based material on the site fortnightly column.
New Planet Where A Year Only Lasts Five Days On Earth Discovered By Scientists
New Planet Where A Year Only Lasts Five Days On Earth Discovered By Scientists
Scientists have discovered a new planet in our closest neighboring planetary system where a year only lasts five Earth days.
I'm sure there are lot of people on Earth who would have loved certain years to have only actually lasted five days — your most awkward teenage years, perhaps, or the disaster that was 2020 — but while we're stuck with our regular 365, a new alien world named Proxima d is rapidly knocking the years out.
Proxima d is the third planet to have been discovered in the neighboring system and is currently one of the lightest exoplanets ever discovered, with a mass that of just a quarter of the Earth.
It is located just four light-years away and orbits around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own Sun, which also hosts exoplanets Proxima b and Proxima c.
While Proxima b has a temperature suitable for liquid water and a rocky surface, potentially making it habitable, Proxima d orbits between Proxima Centauri and the habitable area, making it too close to have liquid water and close enough to its star that a year on the planet equates to only five days on Earth.
João Faria, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal, has suggested Proxima d may not be the last planet discovered by scientists in the neighboring system.
Per The Independent, he commented, 'The discovery shows that our closest stellar neighbor seems to be packed with interesting new worlds, within reach of further study and future exploration.'
Researchers were able to determine the size of Proxima d using the 'radial velocity technique', which monitors tiny movements in stars caused by the gravity of the planets. The newly-discovered world is the smallest to have been measured using this technique, with scientists using the ESPRESSO instrument on the Very Large Telescope to watch how the planet only moved the star about 40 centimeters per hour.
Commenting on the information learned about Proxima d, Pedro Figueira, ESPRESSO instrument scientist at ESO in Chile said, 'This achievement is extremely important. It shows that the radial velocity technique has the potential to unveil a population of light planets, like our own, that are expected to be the most abundant in our galaxy and that can potentially host life as we know it.'
The first planet in the neighboring system, Proxima b, was discovered in 2016.
NASA is planning to send an army of mini swimming robots to find the aliens in the oceans of other planets. Such a plan could be used to detect signs of alien life beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. But what about our home planet? Does NASA have any plan to explore our oceans? Have they already found everything about the only Blue planet in the Solar system? Or is something stopping them to do it? Interestingly, UFO expert Anna Whitty came forward with a strange theory that says “Aliens have been living under Earth’s ocean for protection and have always been here on the planet.”
Anna Whitty, an author of the book “UFO: A Fundamental Truth,” made the claim on the official statement of Dr. Shirley Wright, who interviewed aliens found at the Roswell crash site in 1947. Whitty stated that aliens are actually just humans – but an advanced form.
In a recently aired two-hour documentary on the UFO crash called “Roswell 75: The Final Evidence,” Anna Whitty was featured alongside expert Philip Mantle, director and producer Spyros Melaris, and Dr. David Hall.
The documentary also featured an interview where Dr. Shirley Wright, a former colleague of Albert Einstein stated that the aliens inquired about human exploration inside the ocean, they asked: “how far into the ocean” the humans traveled.
Anna Whitty. Image credit: Daily Star
Whitty did an interviewer with the Daily Star, elaborating more on her claim, she said that if whatever Wright had documented through her interview is correct, then it is more believable for the aliens to come from under the sea rather than from another planet.
“If what Shirley said is right, it is more likely that aliens come from somewhere under the sea or caves or something like that, rather than another planet, it makes sense because there’s a lot of evidence on the planet that there has been a massive cataclysm every few thousand years,” Whitty said.
“If humans on the surface are being reset to the Stone Age every several thousands of years, and these people are somewhere where they are more protected because they are underground, then perhaps their development in technology and intelligence is continuing on an upwards trajectory whereas we’re reset. It’s also possible that maybe they aren’t beings at all, but they can make you think you’re seeing what you’re not seeing,” she added.
The documentary dives deep into the incident, examining the eyewitness accounts, the involvement of the space propaganda by the major powers, as well as several secret projects that were assumed to be covered up with the help of this incident.
Whitty’s theory of aliens being “underwater entities” could have some meaning as after all, there are videos of UFOs diving into the water. Below is the footage filmed in the CIC (Combat Information Center) of the USS Omaha on July 15, 2019, in a warning area off San Diego. This footage depicts a UAP event series that reached the culmination with one of the unknown targets entering the water. No wreckage was found, and none of the unknown craft was recovered.
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French had erved in the US army for more than 27 years. He was an alleged lead investigator of the Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs. In Newfoundland, Canadian Province, he saw two aliens repairing their ship submerged underwater.
US Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French during his interview with openmindstv
French testified about his work on UFOs in 1952, in front of 6 former members of Congress at the Citizen Hearing in 2013. He recalled seeing two alien crafts below the water surface, 6 meters from the shoreline. He also saw two extraterrestrials near the ships. He remembered the water was clear, so he could see those beings doing something at the bottom of the craft.
“The water was fairly clear and I could see without any trouble. They weren’t down at the bottom of the [seabed] — they were about halfway down,” French said. He believed the aliens were repairing the ships and tested them before leaving. Whatever happened in Newfoundland is the classic UFO story ever given by the army official. Even though he was chosen to debunk UFO stories, he undoubtedly said that it was a UFO and there were extraterrestrials.
The idea that the ocean is inhabited by extraterrestrials can be backed by these incidents.
An incredible account of spotting underwater UFOs, or Underwater Submerged Objects (USOs), was shared by former Gunner’s Mate John Baughman, who served in the U.S. Navy from 2008 to 2013. He was stationed on the United States Navy’s third Nimitz-class supercarrier “The USS Carl Vinson” in 2010 when he first saw Tic Tac UFO underwater.
Capt. Kent D. Whalen and John Baughman, 2011
He said: “I was staring into the water from above when a large, flat, white ’Tic Tac’ object, approximately twenty feet in length, suddenly appeared in my view below me, moving right and darted into the depths as fast as it appeared. I couldn’t really comprehend what I saw. It was definitely a solid object, but when it descended, its forward end rapidly collapsed in on itself and disappeared.”
Another USO encounter occurred with the crew of the Soviet Submarine in the south of the Pacific ocean. At the depth of 260 meters, the six disc-like objects were moving toward the submarine at the speed of 426 km per hour. The crew could not escape their pursuit, and the commander ordered the crew to rise to the surface. The crew saw through the periscope that the objects came out of the water and took off at an absurdly fast speed.
There are classic alien abduction cases where the witnesses recalled being taken to secret underwater bases. The abduction of Betty Andreasson Luca is considered to be one of the most documented cases in the history of Ufology. The woman from Massachusetts experienced multiple abductions, and her case is widely studied by UFO researchers. (Click here to read the story of Betty Luca)
Betty Andreasson Luca
During one of her hypnotic regression sessions, Betty remembered one of the early abductions that occurred to her in her childhood. It took place in 1950, when she was taken from her home into a spacecraft as usual. But this time, the craft was flying toward an ocean or sea. She was terrified that the craft would crash into the water. But the ship submerged into the water and entered into a kind of tunnel. Betty could see everything underwater, as the place was filled with light.
Next is “Filiberto Cardenas Encounter,” where he claimed to have been taken to a secret underwater hangar, and interestingly, his abduction was witnessed by his friend’s family.
He remembered being taken to some unknown beach where he saw deep blue water. He said one of the aliens got out of the object and opened a secret tunnel, from where a similar craft came and flew away. The craft which he was in also went into the tunnel with great speed underwater. Soon, he was at the secret “large hangar” under the sea.
Max Laughlin has amazed the world for a few years now with his incredible intellect.
Max Laughlin is considered the smartest young man in the world.
The young man has made several statements that compromise the scientific community, but the most shocking is related to CERN and how it could have destroyed our universe.
Regarded as a genius child and listed as the “most intelligent young man in the world”, Max Laughlin surprised the world with his great intellectual abilities .
With only 13 years old he could develop from scratch its own device for energy access. A system that is capable of providing all the necessary energy without the need for oil, coal or solar energy.
Max Laughlin’s theory
Many people compare him to Nikola Tesla , calling him, even considering him his reincarnation. Obviously, this is nothing more than a parallel to the genius who may once have changed the world.
However, when you hear one of the most controversial theories given by this little genius, doubts assail us …
This little intellectual eminence has suggested that the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN , has destroyed our Universe and we currently live in a parallel Universe.
Recall that it is not the first time that CERN, that giant tunnel based in Switzerland, was used by scientists to break up subatomic particles in an attempt to recreate the Big Bang .
Is it possible that CERN has destroyed our Universe?
As a result of all these experiments, it is possible that our reality , the Universe itself, has been destroyed. As a result of this, all of us are currently in a parallel Universe.
Hostility towards the genius boy?
This is not the first theory that Máx Laughlin surprises locals and strangers and that, in addition, has generated discomfort in the scientific community.
In the video you can see how the boy explains in detail to much older people, and using only a napkin, everything related to the infinite confined space and the alternative and parallel universes.
Although it may sound crazy, even coming from a young prodigy, the data-filled explanation shows us a hypothesis that, after all, may be very likely .
In fact, it is based on the principle that physicist Thomas Kuhn describes in his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.”
It is for this reason that Max has begun to generate great hostility and resistance within the scientific community.
Could this be the reason why so many “mistakes” happen in our world? The so-called “glitches in the Matrix”, which have been appearing on more than one occasion, such as the famous “Mandela Effect.” It is difficult to get a coherent explanation for all these events, in the same way that it is difficult to believe Max Laughlin’s theory.
Earth is spinning faster than it was half a century ago, and if it continues speeding up scientists say they may have to remove a second from the atomic clock.
The speed our planet rotates on its axis has varied throughout history.
In fact, Earth rotated 420 times per year millions of years ago, but now does so 365 times.
However, sometimes the speed of rotation varies slightly, affecting the global timekeeper - the atomic clock - requiring leap seconds to be added when the world runs slightly faster.
Now, UK National Physical Laboratory scientist, Peter Whibberley, has warned that if the rotation rate increases further, a negative leap second may be needed.
Earth is spinning faster than it was half a century ago, and if it continues speeding up scientists say they may have to remove a second from the atomic clock
THE EARTH ROTATES ON ITS AXIS OVER 365 TIMES EACH TIME IT ORBITS THE SUN
The rotation of the Earth, or its spin around its own axis, has varied over the 4.6 billion year history of our world.
Millions of years ago it would rotate 420 times in a single orbit of the Sun, but today that is 365.5 times.
It rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds with respect to other distant stars.
It has been slowing for millions of years, although scientists have noticed a slight speeding up since 2016.
This is due to the tidal effects the Moon has on Earth's rotation. A
tomic clocks show that a modern-day is longer by about 1.7 milliseconds than a century ago, requiring leap seconds.
Each day on Earth contains 86,400 seconds, but the rotation isn't uniform, which means over the course of a year, each day has a fraction of a second more or less.
This is caused by the movement of the Earth's core, its oceans and atmosphere, as well as the pull of the Moon.
The atomic clock is extremely precise, and measures time by the movement of electrons in atoms that have been cooled to absolute zero.
So, to keep the atomic clock in line with the number of seconds in the rotation of the Earth, leap seconds have been added every 18 months or so since 1972.
There has never been a negative leap second - the removal of a second from the atomic clock - and a system designed to make that work have never been tested.
The idea came up last year, when the rotation began to speed up, but this has since slowed down again, with the average day in 2021 0.39 milliseconds less than 2020.
'As time goes on, there is a gradual divergence between the time of atomic clocks and the time measured by astronomy,' Judah Levine from the National Institute of Standards and Technology told Discover Magazine.
'In order to keep that divergence from getting too big, in 1972, the decision was made to periodically add leap seconds to atomic clocks.'
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service is responsible for tracking how quickly the Earth spins, and does so by sending laser beams to satellites and using that to measure their movement.
When this is out of line with atomic clocks, scientists coordinate to stop their clocks for one second to bring them back into line.
'The rotation rate of Earth is a complicated business. It has to do with exchange of angular momentum between Earth and the atmosphere and the effects of the ocean and the effect of the moon,' Levine explained.
'You're not able to predict what's going to happen very far in the future.'
Each day on Earth contains 86,400 seconds, but the rotation isn't uniform, which means over the course of a year, each day has a fraction of a second more or less
WHAT IS A LEAP SECOND?
A leap second is an adjustment of a single second to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
This is designed to keep atomic clock time and solar time inline.
There are difference between the incredibly precise International Atomic Time (TAI) measured by atomic clocks, and the imprecise observed solar time (UT1), linked to Earth's rotation.
UTC time standard, inline with Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is widely used for global timekeeping, including in astronomy.
Without the leap second, added every few years, UTC would be out of line with the Earth's rotation speed.
While this wouldn't be noticable to most people, over hundreds of years it could shift the point of Noon, and would impact the internet.
However, it isn't a popular practice, proving distruptive to some internet services, with Google 'smooshing' time over a year to add the increase in microseconds to each day.
International standards bodies responsible for time are debating whether to drop the practice, as even over 100 years it would only drift by about a minute.
There hasn't been a leap second added to the atomic clock since 2016, and while the Earth has been speeding up again, this began to slow again in 2021.
'This lack of the need for leap seconds was not predicted,' Levine said.
He added that it was assumed Earth would continue to slow down, 'so this effect,' he said 'is very surprising.'
How long the speed and slowing trend continues might require scientists to take further action, but it is yet unclear what that might be.
'There is this concern at the moment that if Earth's rotation rate increases further that we might need to have what's called a negative leap second,' Whibberley told Discover Magazine.
'In other words, instead of inserting an extra second to allow Earth to catch up, we have to take out a second from the atomic timescale to bring it back into state with Earth.'
While they know how they could make it work, the scientists aren't clear whether their systems would work in reality, or what impact they'd have.
The internet relies on the steady flow of time, measured through atomic clocks, and different web firms use different processes to whether leap seconds.
For example, Google uses a system that spreads the extra time out throughout the year, to every other second in a year.
'The primary backbone of the internet is that time is continuous,' Levine explained.
He added that when there is no steady time, the continuous feed of information falls apart.
Levine says leap seconds - added or removed - may not be worth the hassle, as in total they'd only add up to about a minute over 100 years.
WHAT IS THE ATOMIC CLOCK?
Atomic clocks have a timekeeping mechanism that use the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the excited states of certain atoms.
The devices are the most accurate system we have for measuring time, with consistent standards applied.
They are the primary standards for international time distribution services, and uses to control wave frequency for TV, GPS and other services.
The principle is founded in atomic physics, measuring the electromagnetic signal that electrons ina toms emit when they change energy levels.
Modern versions cool atoms to near absolute zero by slowing the atoms down with lasers. With temperature of atoms driving their accuracy.
Every few years a 'leap second' is added to atomic clocks, by effectively stopping them for a second, to keep them in line with Earth's rotation speed.
Planet Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure the speed of its rotation.
Earth’s time systems can prove fairly baffling for anyone who doesn’t have a PhD in Horology, as we learnt the hard way trying to figure out why the clocks were going forward as a child – only understanding that we were being dragged out of bed for school an hour earlier than the week before.
But the plot thickens further still, as Earth is actually spinning faster than it used to and recently recorded a time that was the fastest scientists had ever seen.
On 29 June 2022, Earth completed one spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than its usual 24-hour rotation, in turn setting the record for the shortest day – and the latest in a series of speed records for our planet since 2020.
It's possible that melting of glaciers put less weight on rock at the poles, which therefore rebound upwards and makes the planet rounder. The effect of that could make it spin more quickly and could even slightly change its tilt.
And it came pretty close again more recently, having completed the spin in 1.5 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours.
How fast is Earth rotating?
However, in the last few years the atomic clocks have shown that Earth rotation is now speeding up. In fact, we could be beginning a 50 year period of shorter days.
In 2020 scientists recorded the 28 shortest days since 1960. Last year that trend did not continue, with the shortest day in 2021 being longer than in the previous year.
However, on June 29, 2022 our planet completed its quickest-ever spin, followed quickly by a day that lasted 1.50 milliseconds less on July 26, 2022.
The previous record for the shortest rotation was July 19, 2020, when the Earth’s rotation took 1.4602 milliseconds less than 24 hours.
As reported by Time and Date, the current downward trend in the length of the shortest day could be linked to Earth’s ‘inner or outer layers, oceans, tides, or even climate’, but scientists remain unsure.
At the forthcoming annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, which takes place next week, Leonid Zotov and colleagues Christian Bizouard and Nikolay Sidorenkov will argue that the decrease may be related to the ‘Chandler wobble’, the term given to a small and irregular movement of the geographical poles across the surface of the globe.
When asking an AI to show the last selfie ever taken it produced a creepy scene
When asking an AI to show the last selfie ever taken it produced a creepy scene
DALL-E AI, developed by OpenAI, is a new system that can produce full images when fed natural language descriptions and TikToker Robot Overlords simply asked it to 'show the last selfie ever taken.'
It produced chilling scenes of bombs dropping and catastrophic weather, along with cities burning and even zombies. Each image shows a person holding a phone in front of their face and behind them is the world coming to an end, reports Dailymail.
Asking an AI to show the last selfie ever taken
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Puin Chinese raket stort dit weekend neer op aarde
Dit weekend zal volgens experten puin van een Chinese raket inslaan op de aarde. Het Center for Orbital Reentry and Debris Studies (CORDS) verwacht dat brokstukken van de raket ‘Lange Mars 5B’ tussen de middag en de late avond op zaterdag zal neerstorten, maar het is niet bekend waar dat puin zal neerkomen. Volgens de experten is de kans echter klein dat mensen of bewoonde gebieden getroffen worden.
Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA uitte kritiek op China omdat de raket na gebruik niet in kleinere delen uit elkaar is gevallen, wat de internationale norm is. De raket is op 24 juli gebruikt om materiaal te brengen voor het in aanbouw zijnde ruimstation Tiangong.
In mei vorig jaar waren al resten van een gebruikte raket neergestort in de buurt van de eilandengroep Malediven in de Indische Oceaan. Volgens Peking was toen al het “grootste deel” opgebrand tijdens de terugkeer in de aardatmosfeer. Ook toen uitte de NASA kritiek.
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Baffled scientists discover 'perfectly aligned' holes punched into the ground 1.7 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean that look like human-made excavations
Baffled scientists discover 'perfectly aligned' holes punched into the ground 1.7 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean that look like human-made excavations
Explorers with the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration found some unexplained holes on seabed 1.7 miles below the Atlantic Ocean's surface
'These holes have been previously reported from the region, but their origin remains a mystery' scientists said in a Facebook post asking users for help
Users said the holes could be from a mechanical rover, a crab, aliens or simply a natural result of sediment and water moving through the seabed
The Mid-Atlantic Range spans the north-south length of the Atlantic Ocean and stretches for 10,000 miles, making it the longest mountain range in the world
Scientists discovered some unexplained, mysterious holes in the seabed 1.7 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean - and asked Facebook users to help them identify the unique indentations that form a straight line.
'Okay Facebookers, time to get out those scientist hats!' they wrote on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ocean Exploration Facebook page.
'On Saturday's #Okeanos dive, we observed several of these sublinear sets of holes in the sediment. These holes have been previously reported from the region, but their origin remains a mystery. While they look almost human made, the little piles of sediment around the holes make them seem like they were excavated by...something.'
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'On Saturday's #Okeanos dive, we observed several of these sublinear sets of holes in the sediment. These holes have been previously reported from the region, but their origin remains a mystery,' NOAA scientists wrote on Facebook
The explorers are part of NOAA's Voyage to the Ridge 2022, a series of three ocean explorations that include mapping and a remotely-operated vehicle to gain a better understanding of deepwater areas around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
'What's YOUR hypothesis?' they asked users, regarding the holes found near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, prompting a very wide range of responses
The explorers are part of NOAA's Voyage to the Ridge 2022, a series of three ocean explorations that include mapping and a remotely-operated vehicle to gain a better understanding of deepwater areas around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Azores Plateau and Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone.
'What's YOUR hypothesis?' they asked users, regarding the holes found near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Over 60 Facebook users commented and provided a range of different theories for what could have made the prominent, rather uniform-looking indentations in the ocean's floor.
'I wonder if some company may be conducting sea floor samples,' one user wrote. 'That might explain the straight lines and the spacing of the holes. Especially if you have seen others in the region. Only thing is, everything else around it doesn't seem like it's been disturbed.'
'I wonder if some company may be conducting sea floor samples,' one Facebook user wrote. 'That might explain the straight lines and the spacing of the holes.' Pictured above isa fogbow over the fantail of NOAA's Okeanos Explorer ship
Pictured above: Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer traverses over the seafloor of the volcano explored during the fourth dive of the Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition
'Upwelling! Freshwater from a land source bubbling up? As if there's a rock under there allowing the flowing water to break through in that linear manner.' a second user commented.
Another used suggested, 'Some type of crab maybe'
A user shared a meme saying: I'm not saying it was the aliens...but it was the aliens'
One commenter offered a less supernatural explanation: 'This to me looks like the sediment is falling through, or water flowing up from a crack in a geological shelf or cave roof.
'I suspect either ancient coral or some sedimentary rock structure underneath has a void for which material is being washed out further away. I would start to see if there was any caves or deformation in the seabed.'
The Mid-Atlantic Range spans the north-south length of the Atlantic Ocean and stretches for 10,000 miles, making it the longest mountain range in the world and one of Earth's most impressive geological features.
Since most of it sits underwater, it remains largely unexplored.
It's also the site of frequent earthquakes and home to eye-catching hydrothermal vents that can form where magma provides heat as it rises to the seafloor.
The Mid-Atlantic Range spans the north-south length of the Atlantic Ocean and stretches for 10,000 miles, making it the longest mountain range in the world and one of Earth's most impressive geological features. Pictured above is NOAA's Okeanos Explorer ship
Pictured above is the anticipated track of Okeanos Explorer during the second Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition. This series of expeditions will provide high-resolution information about seafloor features and an opportunity to engage in exploration of this largely unknown area in real time
Despite being 2,540 meters below the surface, several weird holes on the ocean floor that appear to be human-made have been found by ocean scientists. The holes were found on dive number four of the second Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which aims to collect information on uncharted deepwater areas of the Atlantic Ocean like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Some social media comments suggest the weird holes are made by aliens.
Photos demonstrate how the holes are positioned in a straight line and seem to be spaced equally apart.
The holes' other distinguishing feature is that they all seem to be surrounded by tiny piles of sediment, which suggests they had been dug.
The NOAA scientists were so perplexed that they turned to social media to see if any potential theories could be put forth by the public.
Social Media Responses
A Facebook user believes the gas leak was caused by a small surface crack. In jest, a different Facebook user claimed that it was a starfish performing cartwheels.
Another Facebook user speculated that the problem might have been caused by an alien craft or an underwater craft that was probably looking for something illegal under the sand.
In a news release, the NOAA stated that they received a variety of responses, including reports of aliens, an unidentified species of crab, gas rising from the seafloor, and more.
Not for the first time have holes like this been found. In July 2004, while diving near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, they discovered a similar phenomenon at a depth of about 6,800 feet.
At that time, two marine biologists-Michael Vecchione from the US National Marine Fisheries Service together with Odd Aksel Bergstad from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research-proposed the hypothesis that an organism living in the sediment or perhaps a larger animal's feeding organ was responsible for the holes. The holes were given the name "lebensspuren" by the two researchers.
In any case, it is still unclear where the holes came from. It serves as a reminder to the researchers of the fundamental gaps in our knowledge of mid-ocean ridge ecosystems.
Since May, the Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition has been operating. It is scheduled to end in September. Marine scientists utilize robotic vehicles capable of diving as deep as 6,000 meters (nearly 20,000 feet) as part of their research.
The water column, extinct polymetallic sulfide systems, fracture and rift zones, deep-sea coral and sponge habitats, and potential hydrothermal vents will all be explored during daily dives, according to NOAA.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the world's longest mountain range, spanning the north to south length of the Atlantic Ocean for about 10,000 miles, but it is still largely unexplored. There are frequent earthquakes in the seismically active area. There are hydrothermal vents as well, which offer warm environments known to support a variety of organisms.
The Azores Plateau and the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone are two additional study regions for the expedition, Newsweek reports.
A stunning new image constructed from surface maps has revealed a close-up look at the otherworldly features on the surface of Ceres.
NASA’s now-retired Dawn spacecraft reached the dwarf planet in 2015, making it the first to visit an object of this kind.
And, it uncovered many peculiarities.
The strange looking mountain in the latest image featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day highlights one such oddity; while it’s unclear what exactly spurred its formation, experts suspect it may be evidence of a mud bubble from deep inside the planet that froze over after breaching the surface.
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A stunning new image constructed from surface maps has revealed a close-up look at the otherworldly features on the surface of Ceres. According to the space agency, the unusual mountain is ‘like nothing that humanity has ever seen before.’ The image was created using detailed surface maps
Ceres has garnered much intrigue after the Dawn mission snapped images of mysterious bright spots on its surface. But, detailed observations from the spacecraft revealed these aren’t its only treasures.
The image shared this week was created using surface maps taken during 2016.
The mountain, called Ahuna Mons, is ‘the largest mountain on the largest known asteroid in our solar system,’ NASA says.
Ceres sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
According to the space agency, the unusual mountain is ‘like nothing that humanity has ever seen before.’
‘The new hypothesis, based on numerous gravity measurements, holds that a bubble of mud rose from deep within the dwarf planet and pushed through the icy surface at a weak point rich in reflective salt -- and then froze,’ NASA says.
‘The bright streaks are thought to be similar to other recently surfaced material such as visible in Ceres' famous bright spots.’
Ceres has garnered much intrigue after the Dawn mission snapped images of mysterious bright spots on its surface, as seen in the image above
Since its discovery, scientists have speculated on the possibility that Ceres may be able to support life.
An analysis published in 2018 based on data from the Dawn spacecraft suggests previously-identified patches of organic material on the surface may contain much higher abundance of carbon-based compounds than initially estimated.
NASA’s now-retired Dawn spacecraft reached the dwarf planet in 2015, making it the first to visit an object of this kind
While it doesn’t mean life exists on the dwarf planet, the discovery adds new clues to the question of Ceres’ potential habitability.
Scientists first announced the discovery of organic material – a necessary component for the existence of life – in 2017.
Organics can be produced through non-biological processes as well. Just how they arrived on Ceres, however, remains a mystery.
As the planet is also known to contain an abundance of water ice, scientists say the possibility of more widespread organic material is worth investigating.
According to the researchers, there are two likely explanations for Ceres’ organic material: production on the planet itself and later exposed to the surface, or import from an impact by a comet.
DWARF PLANET CERES IS 590 MILES ACROSS AND WAS DISCOVERED IN 1801
Ceres is 590 miles (950 km) across and was discovered in 1801.
It is the closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located in the asteroid belt, making it the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system.
While it is the smallest of the known dwarf planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid belt.
It lies less than three times as far as Earth from the sun - close enough to feel the warmth of the star, allowing ice to melt and reform.
Nasa's Dawn spacecraft made its way to Ceres after leaving the asteroid Vesta in 2012.
There is high interest in the mission because Ceres is seen as being a record of the early solar system.
DEZE MYSTERIEUZE BERG OP DWERGPLANEET CERES IS HOGER DAN DE MONT BLANC
DEZE MYSTERIEUZE BERG OP DWERGPLANEET CERES IS HOGER DAN DE MONT BLANC
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Ook dwergplaneten hebben hoge bergen. In 2015 arriveerde de Dawn-ruimtesonde bij dwergplaneet Ceres en fotografeerde daar deze reus: Ahuna Mons.
Het zonnestelsel telt naast acht planeten ook nog vijf dwergplaneten. Dit zijn Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea en Ceres. Ceres is de enige dwergplaneet in de planetoïdengordel tussen Mars en Jupiter. De andere dwergplaneten bevinden zich in de Kuipergordel achter de baan van Neptunus.
De meeste planetoïden in de hoofdgordel hebben een onregelmatige vorm. Ceres is met een diameter van 950 kilometer best groot en heeft daardoor een bolle vorm, net zoals alle planeten en veel manen. Tot 2015 was er nog weinig bekend over de dwergplaneet, maar dankzij de Dawn-missie zijn wetenschappers veel meer te weten gekomen over dit bijzondere hemellichaam.
Zo heeft Ceres een berg. Dat is best bijzonder, want verder is Ceres zo goed als vlak. In eerste instantie was onduidelijk hoe de vier kilometer hoge berg was ontstaan. “Niemand verwachtte een berg op Ceres en zeker geen berg zoals Ahuna Mons,” vertelt onderzoeker Chris Russell. Later kwamen wetenschappers erachter dat de berg door cryovulkanisme is ontstaan.
Als je de onderstaande foto ziet van Ahuna Mons lijkt het net alsof iemand een gat heeft gegraven op Ceres en de hoop ernaast niet heeft opgeruimd.
Een bewerkte foto van Ahuna Mons op Ceres.
Heldere vlekken op Ceres Ruimtesonde Dawn heeft nog meer bijzondere structuren gespot. Zo trof het ruimtevaartuig mysterieuze heldere vlekken aan op het oppervlak van de dwergplaneet. “We kunnen concluderen dat de intense helderheid van deze vlekken te wijten is aan de reflectie van zonlicht door zeer reflecterend materiaal op het oppervlak, mogelijk ijs,” vertelt onderzoeker Christopher Russell. De witte vlekken zijn rijk aan natriumcarbonaat. Dit natriumcarbonaat komt uit de zoute ondergrondse waterreservoirs van Ceres. Daarmee lijkt Ceres een beetje op sommige manen van Jupiter en Saturnus, die ook waterrijke werelden zijn.
In 2018 viel het doek voor Dawn. Het ruimtevaartuig was na een reis van elf jaar door zijn brandstof heen. De sonde cirkelt momenteel ‘levensloos’ rond de dwergplaneet en zal de komende decennia niet neerstorten op Ceres. Zo blijft het oppervlak onaangetast.
Hoewel Dawn zelf met pensioen is, laat de ruimtesonde een berg aan gegevens achter waar onderzoekers de komende tijd nog wel even zoet mee zijn. “De datasets van Dawn zullen nauwkeurig doorgespit worden om te onderzoeken waar en wanneer leven in ons zonnestelsel zich zou kunnen hebben gevormd,” zegt onderzoeksleider Carol Raymond.
De laatste blik van Dawn op dwergplaneet Ceres voordat het doek voor de ruimtesonde viel.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
De afgelopen decennia hebben ruimtetelescopen en satellieten prachtige foto’s gemaakt van nevels, sterrenstelsels, stellaire kraamkamers en planeten. Ieder weekend halen we één of meerdere indrukwekkende ruimtefoto uit het archief. Genieten van alle foto’s? Bekijk ze op deze pagina.
NASA Will Inspire World When It Returns Mars Samples to Earth in 2033
NASA Will Inspire World When It Returns Mars Samples to Earth in 2033
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA has finished the system requirements review for its Mars Sample Return Program, which is nearing completion of the conceptual design phase. During this phase, the program team evaluated and refined the architecture to return the scientifically selected samples, which are currently in the collection process by NASA’s Perseverance rover in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater.
The architecture for the campaign, which includes contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), is expected to reduce the complexity of future missions and increase probability of success.
“The conceptual design phase is when every facet of a mission plan gets put under a microscope,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “There are some significant and advantageous changes to the plan, which can be directly attributed to Perseverance’s recent successes at Jezero and the amazing performance of our Mars helicopter.”
This advanced mission architecture takes into consideration a recently updated analysis of Perseverance’s expected longevity. Perseverance will be the primary means of transporting samples to NASA’s Sample Retrieval Lander carrying the Mars Ascent Vehicle and ESA’s Sample Transfer Arm.
As such, the Mars Sample Return campaign will no longer include the Sample Fetch Rover or its associated second lander. The Sample Retrieval Lander will include two sample recovery helicopters, based on the design of the Ingenuity helicopter, which has performed 29 flights at Mars and survived over a year beyond its original planned lifetime. The helicopters will provide a secondary capability to retrieve samples cached on the surface of Mars.
With planned launch dates for the Earth Return Orbiter and Sample Retrieval Lander in fall 2027 and summer 2028, respectively, the samples are expected to arrive on Earth in 2033.
With its architecture solidified during this conceptual design phase, the program is expected to move into its preliminary design phase this October. In this phase, expected to last about 12 months, the program will complete technology development and create engineering prototypes of the major mission components.
This refined concept for the Mars Sample Return campaign was presented to the delegates from the 22 participating states of Europe’s space exploration program, Terrae Novae, in May. At their next meeting in September, the states will consider the discontinuation of the development of the Sample Fetch Rover.
“ESA is continuing at full speed the development of both the Earth Return Orbiter that will make the historic round-trip from Earth to Mars and back again; and the Sample Transfer Arm that will robotically place the sample tubes aboard the Orbiting Sample Container before its launch from the surface of the Red Planet,” said David Parker, ESA director of Human and Robotic Exploration.
The respective contributions to the campaign are contingent upon available funding from the U.S. and ESA participating states. More formalized agreements between the two agencies will be established in the next year.
“Working together on historic endeavors like Mars Sample Return not only provides invaluable data about our place in the universe but brings us closer together right here on Earth,” said Zurbuchen.
The first step in the Mars Sample Return Campaign is already in progress. Since it landed at Jezero Crater Feb. 18, 2021, the Perseverance rover has collected 11 scientifically-compelling rock core samples and one atmospheric sample.
Bringing Mars samples to Earth would allow scientists across the world to examine the specimens using sophisticated instruments too large and too complex to send to Mars and would enable future generations to study them. Curating the samples on Earth would also allow the science community to test new theories and models as they are developed, much as the Apollo samples returned from the Moon have done for decades. This strategic NASA and ESA partnership will fulfill a solar system exploration goal, a high priority since the 1970s and in the last three National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Surveys.
On NASA’s Artemis missions, a unique spacecraft will take flight. Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft built for humans, is developed to be capable of sending astronauts to the Moon and is a key part of eventually sending them on to Mars.
An uncrewed Orion will be tested on Artemis I and travel 40,000 miles past the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has gone before. This mission will prepare for a crewed Artemis II mission and subsequent missions that will deliver astronauts to the surface of the Moon and to the lunar Gateway.
Orion’s crew and service module will carry astronauts to deep space. The launch abort system, positioned at the top of the spacecraft, is only used to pull the crew module and the astronauts inside it safely away from the rocket in the event of an emergency, and will be jettisoned after a successful launch and ascent atop the Space Launch System rocket.
Crew Module
Orion’s crew module, sometimes referred to as the capsule, capitalizes on more than 60 years of NASA space exploration experience. Built by main contractor Lockheed Martin, it can provide living space on missions for four astronauts for up to 21 days without docking to another spacecraft. Advances in technology for deep space travel such as life support, avionics, power systems, and state-of-the-art thermal protection will support the crew during launch, landing, and recovery.
Pressure vessel
The underlying structure of the crew module is called the pressure vessel. The pressure vessel consists of seven large aluminum alloy pieces that are joined together using friction-stir welding at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The process produces a strong, yet lightweight, airtight capsule.
Backshell
Covering the pressure vessel is the protective cover on the cone-shaped sides of the crew module known as the backshell, made up of 1,300 thermal protection system tiles. The tiles are made of a silica fiber material similar to those used for more than 30 years on the space shuttle, and will protect the spacecraft from both the cold of space and the extreme heat of re-entry.
Technicians install three spacecraft adapter jettison fairings onto the Artemis I Orion spacecraft inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 12, 2020. The fairings are secured around the spacecraft, encapsulating the European Service Module to protect it from harsh environments as the spacecraft is propelled out of Earth’s atmosphere atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak
Heat shield
The bottom of the capsule, which will experience the hottest temperatures as Orion returns to Earth, is covered by the world’s largest ablative heat shield, measuring 16.5 feet in diameter. The heat shield will protect Orion as it enters Earth’s atmosphere initially travelling about 25,000 mph and endure temperatures of nearly 5,000°F — about half as hot as the Sun.
The outer surface of the heat shield is made of blocks of a material called Avcoat, a reformulated version of the material used on the Apollo capsules. During descent, the Avcoat ablates, or burns off in a controlled fashion, transporting heat away from Orion.
Forward Bay Cover
The forward bay cover at the top of the crew module protects the top portion of the capsule and Orion’s parachutes during launch, orbital flight, and re-entry. It is covered with the same thermal protection tiles as the backshell. After the spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, it is jettisoned at an altitude of approximately 23,000 feet to allow for deployment of the parachute system.
Reaction Control System Thrusters
The crew module has a propulsion system composed of 12 small engines called reaction control system thrusters. When the crew module separates from the service module for re-entry, the 12 thrusters are used to guide the crew module, ensure that it’s properly oriented with the heat shield facing downward, and keep the spacecraft stable during its descent.
Interior
Inside Orion, an aluminum structure of crisscrossing beams called the backbone assembly provides the floor structure where the crew seats will be attached and is where the crew stowage lockers will be located. Most of the equipment the crew will need to live in space on future missions will be stored here.
The four seats in the crew module are designed to accommodate nearly 99% of the human population. The seats are adjustable to ensure that astronauts can reach all the controls while in their pressure suits.
Crew Accommodations
A number of accommodations will help astronauts feel at home. Tanks and a dispenser provide drinking water and a simple way to rehydrate and warm food. Orion’s hygiene bay will have a new compact toilet, with a design that makes use in space easier for both men and women. A built-in exercise device provides both aerobic and strength training for astronauts. In case of a radiation event, such as a solar flare, crew members will shelter themselves in two large stowage lockers on the floor of the capsule, using the dense materials on board as shielding.
Displays and Controls
Astronauts will operate Orion using a sophisticated display and control system that uses advanced software to aid the crew. The crew will be able to command the spacecraft using just three display screens, about 60 physical switches, two rotational hand controllers, two translational hand controllers, and two cursor control devices. Electronic procedures are also programmed into the system to aid the crew in daily and emergency processes, saving the crew time and space and making large paper manuals of system operations obsolete.
Environmental Control and Life Support Systems
Environmental control and life support systems will make the crew module a habitable place for astronauts. A new regenerable system removes carbon dioxide and humidity and keeps the cabin air clean. The system also maintains the spacecraft’s temperature and pressure and detects if the internal environment becomes unsafe. Orion’s Crew Survival System spacesuits interface with life support to keep astronauts alive for up to six days to allow them to return home in the event of cabin depressurization.
Parachutes
The crew module houses Orion’s parachute system. The parachutes ensure a safe landing for astronauts returning to Earth at high speeds in the spacecraft. Earth’s atmosphere acting as a brake on Orion will initially slow the spacecraft down from about 25,000 mph to 325 mph. Then, the system of 11 parachutes must deploy in precise sequence to slow Orion to a relatively gentle 20 mph for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Components of the Orion spacecraft.
European Service Module
Below the crew module is Orion’s European Service Module, provided by ESA (European Space Agency) and built by lead contractor Airbus. The service module is the spacecraft’s powerhouse: supplying it with electricity, propulsion, thermal control, air, and water.
Propulsion
Orion’s service module provides propulsion capabilities that enable Orion to go around the Moon and back on its missions. The service module has 33 engines of various sizes. The main engine will provide major maneuvering capabilities while in space, including inserting Orion into distant retrograde orbit and leaving the orbit to return to Earth. The 24 reaction control thrusters are used to steer and control Orion while in orbit. Eight auxiliary engines are also used for translational maneuvers, essentially acting as a backup to the main engine. The propulsion system also has the ability to bring the crew home in a variety of emergency situations, including abort scenarios after the launch abort system has already been jettisoned.
Power
The service module’s electrical power system provides power for the entire Orion spacecraft. The system manages the power generated by the module’s four solar array wings, which provide enough electricity to power two three-bedroom homes. A total of 15,000 solar cells on the four arrays are used to convert light into electricity, and the arrays can turn to remain aligned with the Sun for maximum power.
Thermal Control
The thermal control system includes radiators and heat exchangers to keep the astronauts and equipment at a comfortable temperature. The thermal control system includes an active portion, which transfers the heat of the entire spacecraft to the service module radiators, and a passive portion, which protects the service module from internal and external thermal environments.
Consumable Storage
The consumable storage system of the service module provides potable water, nitrogen, and oxygen to the crew module, stored in tanks. Potable water is provided by the water delivery system, covering usable water needs of the crew for the duration of the mission. Oxygen and nitrogen are provided by the gas delivery system, with the amount of gases in each tank adjustable based on the mission profile.
Orion’s crew module will separate from the service module shortly before re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. The crew module is the only portion of Orion that will return to Earth at the end of each mission. On early flights, high-value crew module components such as avionics, and environmental control and life support systems will be reused, with plans to reuse more components on later missions.
Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term, sustainable lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone for future astronaut missions to Mars.
Entering the Decade of Results: International Space Station Benefits for Humanity Publication Released
Entering the Decade of Results: International Space Station Benefits for Humanity Publication Released
The 2022 edition of the International Space Station Benefits for Humanity publication is nowavailable. This updated edition is packed with numerous benefits of the microgravity laboratory highlighting groundbreaking discoveries helping society, technologies tested for future space exploration, new scientific breakthroughs, and contributions to the growing low-Earth orbit (LEO) economy.
Over more than two decades, the International Space Station has evolved into an advanced microgravity laboratory for human space operations and science. The space station offers researchers worldwide the opportunity to utilize the unique environmental conditions of LEO, supporting hundreds of experiments across every major scientific field at any given time. With over 20 years of research and 3,300 experiments hosted aboard the station, now more than ever discoveries and developments are taking shape. The station’s ability to foster research has aided in the growing commercial space economy allowing new players to enter the space marketplace and launching flourishing businesses back on Earth.
“This edition focuses on new areas of scientific study that are resulting from the last two decades of ISS research, future technologies for the exploration of the Moon and Mars, lifesaving discoveries, and the companies and economic benefits enabled by this research.” said Dr. Kirt Costello, chief scientist for the space station at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Some of the benefits featured in this edition include how:
Advances in X-ray technologies that were developed to create NICER, a space station telescope, are helping unravel the mysteries of our universe while improving medical devices on Earth.
Drugs, cancer treatment strategies, and artificial blood developed from protein crystal growth studies aboard station are improving human and animal health.
Data from NASA’s ECOSTRESS payload has been employed in efforts to reduce heat absorbed by city surfaces, reduce fire risk, and help farmers efficiently water their fields.
Station is inspiring the next generation of scientists by providing opportunities to conduct meaningful studies on topics such as DNA sequencing, robotics, and satellites in orbit.
The orbiting laboratory is advancing the field of in-space manufacturing, from 3D printed human tissue to optical fibers for communication.
In addition to the print publication, this year’s release includes videos, podcasts, and digital features that dive deeper into some of the issue’s stories.
The ISS Benefits for Humanity 2022 is a product of the International Space Station Program Science Forum (PSF), which includes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS (ROSCOSMOS), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Although each of the International Space Station partners have individual research goals, the partnership strides together to propel humanity forward through scientific inquiry and investigation.
“The research done on the International Space Station advances scientific understanding of our planet, improves human health, develops cutting-edge technologies, and inspires and educates the leaders of tomorrow through its successful international partnerships; a truly exciting mission and part of a legacy that will be felt for decades to come,” said Costello.
Expedition 60 crew members take turns capturing images of rapidly intensifying Hurricane Dorian from the cupola inside the International Space Station on Aug. 30 as it churned over the Atlantic Ocean.
Credits: NASA
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The US Space Force (USSF) is in news highlights these days after a 29-year-old man tried to intrude on the world’s only independent space force base. He wanted to warn U.S. officials about an impending battle between dragons and aliens. The story is yet to provide more information about the case.
Meanwhile, the existence of the “Space Force” baffles many people, as the US army believes space has become a crucial place to protect. Then why does the USSF need Luis Elizondo who ran the Pentagon secret UFO program AATIP? He has been disclosing UAP/UFO information in interviews and podcasts that potentially change the field of UFOlogy. Most importantly, Elizondo slightly hinted that aliens are breeding among us. There is more to the reality that a human mind can conceive, he stated.
The US army has been actively working on space technology since the ending of World War II. Although the USSF is only 2 years old, it took the United States almost five decades to officially launch a separate branch that serves to protect space. Currently, U.S. Space Force has approximately 16,000 military and civilian space personnel. (Source)
U.S. Space Force photo by SSgt. Brittany Chase
President Reagan And Alien Threats
It is funny that some people believe that the delta symbol in the USSF seal is inspired by the Star Trek fictitious symbol. The reality is that the science-fiction TV series has borrowed so much of its iconic rank symbols from the U.S. military and NASA. But many seek the answer to the query if there is any Star Trek-like alien threat in reality.
What would happen if aliens attacked the Earth? Most probably, all the world powers would unite to fight against them. That is what Ronald Reagan said to Mikhail Gorbachev privately during the 1985 Geneva Summit. President Reagan is fairly known for his UFO sightings and incredible remarks on extraterrestrials. There are several occasions where he tried to tell the world that aliens exist.
President Reagan made several remarks about the “alien threat” in his speeches from 1985 to 1988. In one of his speeches to the UN, he said: “What if all of us in the world were threatened by an outer power, from outer space, from another planet? We would all of a sudden find out that we didn’t have any differences at all.” None of the presidential aides, speechwriters, and handlers liked what he said. Besides, it never appeared in original drafts. Despite it, Reagan continued adding it subtly. (Click here to read the full story)
Interestingly, during a special screening of “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial” at the White House in 1982, Reagan whispered to Steven Spielberg that everything shown in the movie was real. It was confirmed by Spielberg while giving an interview to Quint (aka Eric Vespe). Spielberg said: “No, he wasn’t ushered out of the room. He was the President of the United States! Nobody could usher Ronald Reagan out of the room! It was in the White House screening room and Reagan got up to thank me for bringing the film to show the President, the First Lady, and all of their guests, which included Sandra Day O’Connor in her first week as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and it included some astronauts… I think Neil Armstrong was there, I’m not 100% certain, but it was an amazing, amazing evening.”
In December 2020, the former head of the Israeli space security program and retired general, Haim Eshed claimed that a sort of agreement had been made between aliens and the US government to keep silent on their experiments on Earth and secret bases on Mars.
In an interview with Yediot Aharonot (Israel daily newspaper), the 87-year-old professor said that the aliens and “Galactic federation” do exist and have been working with the US and the Israel government for years, but they keep it a secret to avoid mass hysteria.
Israel’s former space head Haim Eshed
Haim Eshed is considered to be the “father of Israel’s satellite program.” He got his bachelor’s degree from the Technion, a master’s degree in performance research, and a doctorate in aeronautical engineering. In 1981, he became the head of Israeli satellite projects in the Defence Ministry, where 20 satellites were launched under his guidance. He retired from the Defence Ministry in 2011. (Click here to read the full story)
President Reagan and Haim Eshed’s statements are the real facts. One was worried about alien threats while the other was discussing an agreement between humans and extraterrestrials. Do these cases hint that the real purpose of the creation of the USSF could be more than just protecting some satellites? Probably to fight aliens?
Luis Elizondo, A Contractor For The US Space Force
Liberation Times actively works to bring compelling information relating to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. They have confirmed that Luis Elizondo is a contractor for the Space Force. Additionally, Elizondo is also working as a research affiliate in the Galileo Project led by Professor Avi Loeb.
Snippet from Politico slightly confirms Luis Elizondo as a new consultant to the U.S. Space Command on UAP. Source
Elizondo told The New York Times he resigned from the Department of Defense in October in protest over what he called excessive secrecy surrounding the UFO program AATIP and internal opposition to it after funding for the effort ended in 2012. He said that he could not speak on behalf of the government, but he strongly implied there was evidence that stopped him from ruling out the possibility that alien aircraft visited Earth. (Source)
In April 1941, a local sheriff visited Reverend William Huffman, a pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, on the banks of the Mississippi, Missouri. The sheriff asked the pastor to hold a service for the victims of a plane crash that had allegedly happened on the same day near the city.
Huffman agreed and arrived at the crash site. The place was full of police officers, FBI agents, firefighters, military men, doctors, and there were debris of some kind of aircraft.
Reverend William Huffman offered blessings to three dead aliens outside of Cape Girardeau in 1941
First of all, Huffman was surprised to see the wreckage of the plane because it was totally different from the usual airplane. He knew it from his experience of traveling in both military & passenger airplanes.
Huffman had never seen anything like that.
The object was metallic and shaped like a giant saucer. There were no seams or joints visible on it. Huffman tried looking inside the destroyed object through the huge hole that was at the outer surface of the object. He saw there a small metal chair, some instruments and consoles with dials, and also many other things that he had never seen before, which it would be very difficult for him to describe.
Some unknown man gave Huffman a photograph of the incident
At some point, Huffman saw some strange inscriptions that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Huffman went to the three dead bodies lying on the ground near the object to give them last rites. When he saw the bodies closely, he was shocked because they were dead aliens the size of a small child.
He guessed that those aliens had probably been the pilots of the crashed object. He noticed that the two of the bodies were lying next to each other, but the third one was at some distance.
He thought that the third one had not died in the crash immediately and managed to go away some steps further from the spacecraft.
Huffman said the aliens were very small in size (only 4 feet)
According to the pastor, the creatures had tiny mouths with indistinguishable noses and no ears at all. They were wearing tight suits that looked like chewed aluminum foil.
When Huffman finished his prayers, several military men approached him and told him to keep his mouth shut about that incident. Therefore, for all those years, he had not told anyone about it, but he shared everything with his wife and sons.
In 1984, Mrs. Huffman, dying of cancer, told her granddaughter Charlette Mann about everything. She also said that her husband somehow managed to secretly take a photo of one of the dead aliens from an unknown man.
Huffman’s granddaughter Charlette Mann
According to Mann, at some point, she had also seen that photo but does not know why one day, it disappeared. She contacted ufologist Leonard Stringfield, who wrote about the incident in one of his books.
The alleged photograph was given to Huffman by some unknown man on the street
When Stringfield heard this story, he began to dig for other possible witnesses who may have still been alive. He found the sheriff of Cape Girardeau that served at the time of the incident, and he confessed to him that everything Huffman’s family said was true. He also managed to track down the alleged photograph, which Mann revealed.
Ufologists Ryan Wood and Stan Friedman also investigated the case.
Official history tells us that 17 missions were launched between 1961 and 1975, of which 11 were manned (Apollo 7 through Apollo 17). During this time, 6 successful landings on the lunar surface were made. The Apollo 18, 19, and 20 flights were canceled due to the lack of new scientific value at the huge expense of the state budget and taxpayers. However, in 2007, Italian freelance journalist Luca Scantamburlo took a written interview with William Rutledge, who claims to be a member of the secret Apollo 20 mission.
According to him, he was an employee of Bell Laboratories and served in the US Air Force. Rutledge attracted public attention by starting to distribute photographs and videos of the Apollo 20 mission online in 2007 which captured the same spaceship and its pilots.
Alien Spaceship Found On Moon With Alien Bodies
What is the essence of the information from Rutledge? He claimed that during the Apollo 15 mission to the moon, an unidentified man-made object was discovered and photographed on its surface.
During missions 16 and 17, several more photographs were taken and reconnaissance of the terrain from orbit was carried out. The task of missions 18 and 19 (which was no longer officially) is not really clear: Rutledge only says that during these missions, a number of problems occurred, as a result of which research data was lost. It was originally planned to land next to an alien ship and study it using rovers.
Humanoid body found on the moon during Apollo 19&20
In 1976, the Apollo 20 mission was launched, which included: William Rutledge, Aleksei Leonov, and Leona Snyder. They managed to land by the ship, get inside, and inspect the interior of the ship, and the bodies of the pilots. One of the sources said that they not only examined the bodies but also took the head of one of the bodies with them.
The dimensions of the ship were 3370 x 510 meters; the age is estimated at 1.5 million years; inside, there are many signs of biological life: remnants of vegetation in the engine compartment of the ship, stones of a triangular shape that exude a yellow liquid that has some medical properties, the remains of small bodies (about 10 cm) that lived in a network of “glass” pipes piercing the whole ship.
Alien Spaceship
They found a humanoid, female, 1.65 meters. She had genitals, hair, six fingers (we assume the math is based on a dozen). She was a pilot, there was an aerobatics device connected to her fingers and eyes, the body had no clothes, and they had to cut two cables connected to the nose without nostrils. Leonov detached the device from the eyes. Blood clots or bio-fluids burst and froze in the mouth, nose, eyes, and parts of the body. Some parts of the body were in unusually good condition, hair and skin were protected by a thin transparent layer of protection. The condition seemed neither dead nor alive. The booth was full of inscriptions and formed from long, hollow hexagonal tubes.
Apollo 19 & 20 missions
On the other hand, one can only guess that this was the ship of the Anunnaki, about which Sitchin or some other guys wrote.
Doubts are caused by the number of fingers, these humanoids have 12 of them (6 on each hand), and we know that the Anunnaki used the hexadecimal numbering system and on all the frescoes, they have 5-fingered palms.
We also know that the Anunnaki had a parallel mission in low-Earth orbit: one part of them worked on Earth, the other part remained on the mother ship. It may well be that they used the moon and one of the ships remained there. Another interesting fact is that the team of engineers who actually implemented the Apollo project was headed by Wernher von Braun, who during Nazi Germany worked for the benefit of the Third Reich, creating for them the famous V-2 rockets.
Braun came to America along with many other German scientists removed from Germany as part of Operation Paperclip in 1945. And the colossal technological breakthrough of the engineers of the Third Reich happened due to cooperation with the occult societies of Ahnenerbe and Vril, who obtained information from the ancient egregors of the Gods related to our civilization.
Braun had an interesting chain of events: German occult societies -> moving to the USA -> working on a space program -> detecting an alien spacecraft, possibly the very same Gods who advised the Nazis. He survived until 1977 and saw the launch of Apollo 20 and, moreover, according to Rutledge, was personally present at the launch.
A NASA illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry samples collected from the surface of Mars by the Perseverance rover back to Earth.
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech
July 28 (UPI) -- NASA officials have changed the agency's plans for its daring and complicated effort to bring actual samples of Mars back to Earth by adding two helicopters and ditching the idea of landing a "fetch rover."
In a joint project with the European Space Agency, NASA has a goal of returning Martian samples back to Earth by 2033. The rover Perseverance is already on the Red Planet with the charge of collecting the samples.
Scientists have been encouraged by the performance of the rover and the current Martian helicopter Ingenuity, which arrived with Perseverance last year.
Perseverance will be tasked with bringing the samples to a Mars ascent vehicle with the two helicopters, modeled after Ingenuity, serving as a Plan B.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance acquired this image in March 2021 using its onboard Left Navigation Camera. The camera is located high on the rover's mast and aids in driving. The rover has been collecting samples that NASA announced this week will be returned to Earth in 2033.
"The conceptual design phase is when every facet of a mission plan gets put under a microscope," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington, said Wednesday in a statement.
"There are some significant and advantageous changes to the plan, which can be directly attributed to Perseverance's recent successes at Jezero [Crater on Mars] and the amazing performance of our Mars helicopter."
If Perseverance fails to retrieve the samples, the helicopter will be sent out to capture the sample and place them within reach of the ESA's ascent vehicle, eliminating the need for a second rover.
NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on February 18, 2021. The rover has since been exploring the planet and collecting samples that the agency announced on Wednesday will be retrieved and brought back to Earth in 2033.
"ESA is continuing at full speed the development of both the Earth Return Orbiter that will make the historic round-trip from Earth to Mars and back again; and the Sample Transfer Arm that will robotically place sample tubes aboard the Orbiting Sample Container before its launch from the surface of the Red Planet," said David Parker, ESA's director of human and robotic exploration.
Dispatches from Mars: Perseverance rover sends images
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, using its Mastcam-Z camera system, captured this view of the Martian sunset on November 9, 2021, the 257th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Martian sunsets typically stand out for their distinctive blue color as fine dust in the atmosphere permits blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than colors with longer wavelengths. But this sunset looks different: Less dust in the atmosphere resulted in a more muted color than average. The color has been calibrated and white-balanced to remove camera artifacts.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter on April 6, 2021, using the WATSON camera located at the end of the rover's long robotic arm.
In addition to the Perseverance rover, NASA has been flying a small helicopter on Mars, acquiring images and helping plot paths for the rover. The agency announced this week that a mission to Mars to retrieve samples collected on the planet's surface will include two new helicopters.
The Loch Ness Monster's existence is 'plausible', according to scientists, after fossils revealed that plesiosaurs may have lived in fresh water.
Nessie enthusiasts have long believed that the creature of Scottish folklore, which is often depicted with a long neck and small head, could be a prehistoric reptile.
However, cynics argue that even if plesiosaurs had survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs, the creatures could not have lived in Loch Ness because they needed a saltwater environment.
Now researchers from the University of Bath, University of Portsmouth, and Université Hassan II in Morocco, have discovered fossils of small plesiosaurs in a 100-million year old river system in the Sahara Desert.
The discovery suggests that some species of plesiosaur did live in freshwater - lending credibility to the Loch Ness Monster legend.
Plesiosaurs (right) and spinosaurus (left) may have both inhabited freshwater rivers 100 million years ago
Among the most famous claimed sightings of the Loch Ness Monster is a photograph taken in 1934 by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson which was published in the Daily Mail. However, the researchers point out that the last plesiosaurs died out 66 million years ago
Plesiosaur was first discovered 200 years ago
The first complete skeleton of a plesiosaur was found by English fossil hunter Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1823.
The prehistoric reptile had a small head, long neck, and four long flippers.
It was named 'near lizard', because it more closely resemble modern reptiles than icthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata a few years earlier.
It lived from the late Triassic Period into the late Cretaceous Period, around 215 million to 66 million years ago, before being wiped out with the dinosaurs.
Plesiosaurs inspired reconstructions of the Loch Ness Monster, but were traditionally thought to be sea creatures.
The fossils, discovered in the Kem Kem beds of Morocco, which date back to the Late Cretaceous period, include bones and teeth from three-metre (10ft) long adults and an arm bone from a 1.5 metre (5ft) long baby.
'The bones and teeth were found scattered and in different localities, not as a skeleton. So each bone and each tooth is a different animal,' said Dr. Nick Longrich from the University of Bath's Milner Centre for Evolution.
'It's scrappy stuff, but isolated bones actually tell us a lot about ancient ecosystems and animals in them. They're so much more common than skeletons, they give you more information to work with.'
The discovery hints that the creatures routinely lived and fed in freshwater, alongside frogs, crocodiles, turtles, fish, and the huge aquatic dinosaur Spinosaurus.
The plesiosaurs' teeth show heavy wear, like those of Spinosaurus, implying they were eating the same food - chipping their teeth on the armoured fish that lived in the river.
'What amazes me is that the ancient Moroccan river contained so many carnivores all living alongside each other,' said David Martill from the University of Portsmouth.
'This was no place to go for a swim.'
Marine animals like whales and dolphins are known to wander up rivers, either to feed or because they are lost, but the researchers do not believe this explains the large number of plesiosaur fossils in the Kem Kem beds.
A more likely possibility is that the plesiosaurs were able to tolerate fresh and salt water, like some whales, such as the beluga whale.
It is even possible that the plesiosaurs were permanent residents of the river, like modern river dolphins, according to the researchers.
The fossils, discovered in the Kem Kem beds of Morocco, which date back to the Late Cretaceous period, include bones and teeth from three-metre (10ft) long adults and an arm bone from a 1.5 metre (5ft) long baby.
Left: A leptocleidid plesiosaur back vertebra. The big openings for the arteries on the bottom are typical of plesiosaurs. Right: Arm bone from a leptocleidid plesiosaur, mid- Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Kem Kem beds of Morocco
The plesiosaurs' small size would have let them hunt in shallow rivers, and the fossil beds indicate there were plenty of fish around.
'It's a bit controversial, but who's to say that because we paleontologists have always called them "marine reptiles", they had to live in the sea?' said Dr Longrich.
'Lots of marine lineages invaded freshwater.'
Plesiosaurs were a diverse and adaptable group, and were around for more than 100 million years.
Based on what they've found in Morocco – and what other scientists have found elsewhere – the authors suggest they might have repeatedly invaded freshwater to different degrees.
'This is another sensational discovery that adds to the many discoveries we have made in the Kem Kem over the past fifteen years of work in this region of Morocco,' said Samir Zouhri from the Universite Hassan II in Morocco.
'Kem Kem was truly an incredible biodiversity hotspot in the Cretaceous.'
A leptocleidid plesiosaur tooth from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco
The plesiosaurs belong to the family Leptocleididae - a family of small plesiosaurs often found in brackish or freshwater elsewhere in England, Africa, and Australia. Other plesiosaurs, including the long-necked elasmosaurs, have also been found in brackish or fresh waters in North America and China.
Veterinary student Arthur Grant was the first person to link the plesiosaur with the Loch Ness Monster in 1934, after he claimed to have nearly hit the creature on his motorcycle. He drew a sketch that resembled the ancient marine reptile.
A few months later, the Daily Mail published a photograph taken by gynaecologist Robert Kenneth Wilson that appeared to show a creature with a long neck and small head moving through the water. The image was later exposed as a hoax.
A press release from the University of Bath stated the new discovery showed that the Loch Ness Monster was 'on one level, plausible'.
'Plesiosaurs weren't confined to the seas, they did inhabit freshwater. But the fossil record also suggests that after almost a hundred and fifty million years, the last plesiosaurs finally died out at the same time as the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago.'
Rumours of a strange creature living in the waters of Loch Ness have abounded over the decades, yet scant evidence has been found to back up these claims.
One of the first sightings, believed to have fuelled modern Nessie fever, came in May 2, 1933.
On this date the Inverness Courier carried a story about a local couple who claim to have seen 'an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface'.
Another famous claimed sighting is a photograph taken in 1934 by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson.
It was later exposed as a hoax by one of the participants, Chris Spurling, who, on his deathbed, revealed that the pictures were staged.
Other sightings James Gray's picture from 2001 when he and friend Peter Levings were out fishing on the Loch, while namesake Hugh Gray's blurred photo of what appears to be a large sea creature was published in the Daily Express in 1933.
Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, captured arguably the most famous image of the Loch Ness Monster. The surgeon’s photograph was published in the Daily Mail on April 21, 1934
The first reported sighting of the monster is said to have been made in AD565 by the Irish missionary St Columba when he came across a giant beast in the River Ness.
But no one has ever come up with a satisfactory explanation for the sightings - although in 2019, 'Nessie expert' Steve Feltham, who has spent 24 years watching the Loch, said he thought it was actually a giant Wels Catfish, native to waters near the Baltic and Caspian seas in Europe.
An online register lists more than 1,000 total Nessie sightings, created by Mr Campbell, the man behind the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club and is available at www.lochnesssightings.com.
So what could explain these mysterious sightings?
Many Nessie witnesses have mentioned large, crocodile-like scutes sitting atop the spine of the creature, leading some to believe an escaped amphibian may be to blame.
Native fish sturgeons can also weigh several hundred pounds and have ridged backs, which make them look almost reptilian.
Some believe Nessie is a long-necked plesiosaur - like an elasmosaur - that survived somehow when all the other dinosaurs were wiped out.
Others say the sightings are down to Scottish pines dying and flopping into the loch, before quickly becoming water-logged and sinking.
While submerged, botanical chemicals start trapping tiny bubbles of air.
Eventually, enough of these are gathered to propel the log upward as deep pressures begin altering its shape, giving the appearance of an animal coming up for air.
Citizens of Iowa reported seeing more than 1,100 unidentified flying objects, according to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
While the state doesn’t rank quite as high as California, Washington, Florida or Texas for overall reportage, the reports listed on the NUFORC for the Hawkeye State are something to behold. There were more than 200 instances of “triangle” shaped objects spotted in the sky, along with multiple instances of a “green ring” light.
A number of similar reports were made at the same locations, on the same days. For example, on Dec. 23, 2020, multiple people reported a huge number of lights, triangular-shaped objects and very fast-moving white lights.
“I was washing my car and taking pictures of it. When I looked back at the pictures I noticed a black circle in the sky in the picture,” one person from Pleasantville reported on the site, attaching an image of an alleged flying saucer.
To date, NUFORC has collected more than 150,000 UFO sighting reports, according to their homepage. Between May and June 2022, the site collected more than 700 new reports.
The Senate Intelligence Committee raised more than a few eyebrows recently when they requested that Pentagon UFO investigators focus more on those that are specifically “not man-made.”
Ever since United States Congress held its first hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years, members of the U.S. Senate have been complaining about the slow pace with which the Pentagon has been setting up its UFO investigation arm.
One of the few notable moves so far by the Pentagon appears to be the fact that it changed the name of the organization from Airborne Object Identification and Management Group (AOIMSG) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Sen. Mark Warner recentlywrote in a report, “At a time when cross-domain transmedium threats to United States national security are expanding exponentially, the Committee is disappointed with the slow pace of DoD-led efforts to establish the office to address those threats. The Committee was hopeful that the new office [AARO] would address many of the structural issues hindering progress.”
The same report asked for “the formal DoD and Intelligence Community definition of the terms used by the office … be updated to include space and undersea, and the scope of the Office shall be inclusive of those additional domains with [a] focus on addressing technology surprise and ‘unknown unknowns.”
The Senate Intel Committee wants investigators to focus on UFOs that are ‘not man-made’
The committee also asked that “temporary nonattributed objects, or those that are positively identified as man-made after analysis, will be passed to appropriate offices and should not be considered under the definition as unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.”
The Senate Intelligence Committee asking investigators with the new organization to specifically focus on UFOs, or as the government like to refer to them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), that are not identified as “man-made” certainly opens the door to speculation as to what exactly would not qualify, i.e. what UAPs are the Committee aware of that are not man-made?
Of course, the party line is that no one in government has ever been witness to such a thing… atleastofficially.
New DNA Research Shows Egyptian Pharaoh Could Be An Alien Hybrid
New DNA Research Shows Egyptian Pharaoh Could Be An Alien Hybrid
A new genetic study suggests a lineage of Egyptian pharaohs were subjected to willful genetic manipulation by a technologically advanced civilization.
Some would call this definitive proof that the builders of the pyramids had a strong connection with beings that originated elsewhere in the universe.
Stuart Fleischmann, Assistant Professor of Comparative Genomics at the Swiss University in Cairo and his team have recently published the results of a 7-year study that mapped the genomes of 9 ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. If proven correct, their findings could potentially change the world’s history books.
Fleischmann and his team subjected the precious samples of ancient DNA to a process called Polymerse Chain Reaction (PCR). In the field of molecular biology this technique is often used to replicate and amplify a single copy of a piece of DNA, giving researchers a clear picture of someone’s genetic fingerprint.
Eight out of nine samples returned interesting but typical results. The ninth sample belonged to Akhenaten, the enigmatic 14th century BC pharaoh and father of Tutankhamun.
A small fragment of desiccated brain tissue had been the source of the DNA sample and the test was repeated using bone tissue but the same results were obtained.
One of the culprits was a gene called CXPAC-5, which is responsible for cortex growth. The anomaly is visible in the image below.
The right section shows the prevalence of the CXPAC5 gene in a normal human. On the left we have Ahenaten’s DNA sample.
It appears this increased activity in Akhenaten’s genome would suggest he had a higher cranial capacity because of the need to house a larger cortex. But what mutation would have caused a human brain to grow? We have yet to discover such a technique despite years of breakthroughs in genetics. Could this 3,300 year-old evidence point out ancient genetic manipulation? Was it the work of advanced extraterrestrial beings?
Is the mythology of ancient Egypt more than a collection of allegoric tales? Prof. Fleischmann explains:
“Telomerase [a genetic enzyme] is only expended by two processes: extreme aging and extreme mutation. Genetic and archaeological data suggests Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten lived to about 45 years of age. That is not nearly enough to consume all the chromosomal telomerase, leaving behind one inconvenient but possible explanation.
“This hypothesis is also backed up by the fact that electron microscope analysis revealed signs of nucleotidic cicatrix, which is a telltale sign of the DNA helix healing after being exposed to strong mutagens.”
Does this suggest that Akhenaten, one of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious pharaohs, was subjected to genetic modification during his life? If anything, this allegation supports the theory that ancient aliens once visited the civilization that lived along the banks of the Nile.
Another interesting piece of evidence provides backing to this hypothesis. The image below shows two microscope photographs of osseous tissue sampled from the skull of Akhenaten and that of a different mummy of the same age.
The bone tissue on the left is far denser and fundamentally different at a nanoscopic scale. Could this increase in strength of the skull bones be an indicator of increased brain development?
“This is an exciting finding, to say the least,” Fleischmann told press. “My team and I have submitted the papers for peer review and we’ve done and redone the tests enough times that we’re confident they’re accurate.
“I don’t know the full implication of our findings but I certainly believe they should at least point the scientific community in a direction that would have been immediately dismissed just a few decades ago.”
If this study is correct, it could trigger an unprecedented paradigm shift. If aliens were actively involved in the life of the most powerful individuals thousands of years ago, does that mean they’ll return? Perhaps they never left at all.
But the most important aspect would be the existence of individuals, direct descendants of ancient Egypt’s royal lineage, that still posses the alien genes implanted in their ancestors’ genomes.
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Cigar-shaped UFO and 3 entities witnessed by Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt, Winchester, England, 1976
Cigar-shaped UFO and 3 entities witnessed by Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt, Winchester, England, 1976
"We realised that three figures were watching us from a window in the cigar," said Mrs Bowles. "Then one of the figures materialised by the Mini. He peeped through my window at the dashboard controls and walked to the back of the car. Then he and the cigar-shaped craft simply vanished."
A United States RB-47 & Its Crew Had An Astonishing UFO Experience That Was Never Explained
A United States RB-47 & Its Crew Had An Astonishing UFO Experience That Was Never Explained
On July 17, 1957, a US Air Force RB-47 underwent an extraordinary experience now considered one of the classic radar/visual UFO sightings.
In 1947 a US RB-47 encounter a UFO after leaving Forbes Air Force Base
Equipped with electronic intelligence (ELINT) gear, the aircraft left Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas, on a multipurpose mission that included gunnery, navigation, and electronic countermeasure (ECM) exercises. Three of its six-man crew were electronic-welfare officers who ran the ECM equipment.
In the early morning hours, the first two parts of its mission completed, the RB-47 was returning over the Gulf coast near Gulfport, Mississippi, when Frank B McClure, who was manning the second ELINT station (of three aboard the aircraft), noticed a signal at 3000 megahertz (MHz) frequency at five o'clock relative to the plane's position. McClure initially assumed the signal was coming from a ground-based radar, but then it moved upscope, crossed the RB-47's flight path, and descended downscope on the other side. ELINT station #1 was not working the frequency at the time, and station #3 was incapable of operating on that frequency at any time. Though puzzled, McClure said nothing, assuming that there must be some mundane explanation.
Near Meridian, Mississippi, the plane turned west, travelling at 34,500 feet and 500 mph. Soon afterwards, at 4:10 am., over east-central Louisiana, Major Lewis D Chase, the pilot, saw an intense blue light at eleven o'clock. He called it to the attention of his co-pilot, 1st Lieutenant James H McCoid, and the two watched the light moving rapidly toward them. Then immediately notified the crew that evasive action would have to be taken, but before that happened, the object instantaneously changed direction and streaked in front of them, disappearing at two o'clock.
Remembering the odd signal he had received some minutes earlier, McClure set his equipment to scan the 3000 MHz range and found he was getting a strong signal from the plane's two o'clock position. A check of the #2 monitor on known ground-radar stations indicated it was functioning perfectly, and the signal also appeared on the #1 monitor, run by John J Provenzano. The possibility that an unknown ground-radar station was responsible for the signal was eliminated when the signal moved gradually upscope - not downscope, as it should have if its source were on the ground - even as the RB-47 continued on its westward path at 500 mph.
Now the plane and its crew were in east Texas, within the radar-coverage area of an Air Force radar unit (codenamed "Utah") in Duncanville. The aircraft's occupants were growing ever more uneasy about their enigmatic companion. At 4:39 the pilot saw a "huge" light 5000 feet below him at two o'clock. Though he could not prove it, he had a strong sense that the light was on top of a larger object. A minute later McClure at ELINT #2 reported two signals at 40 and 70 degrees. The first UFO was at the latter location, and now both Chase and McCoid spotted another object at the former site. The second UFO was visible only briefly.
Chase notified Utah and asked for all possible assistance as he left his flight path and headed toward one of the UFOs. It was now 4:42, and ELINT #2 had one signal at 20 degrees' bearing. When Chase accelerated to 550 mph, the UFO pulled away. Seconds later McClure had two signals again at 40 and 70 degrees, and a minute and a half later only one, at 50 degrees. Utah asked Chase to tell it where the UFO was, and when he reported its location (10 miles northwest of Fort Worth), Utah picked it up immediately on its radar scopes. At 4:50 the UFO seemed to stop suddenly, and the RB-47 flew past it. At this moment it disappeared from the scopes, and ELINT #2 lost the signal.
Later, when interviewed by University of Arizona physicist James E Mcdonald, Chase (in McDonald's paraphrase) recalled that there was simultaneity between the moment when he began to sense that he was getting closure at approximately the RB-47 speed and the moment when Utah indicated that their target had stopped on their scopes. He said he veered a bit to avoid colliding with the object, not then being sure what its altitude was relative to the RB-47, and then found that he was coming over the top of it as he proceeded to close. At the instant that it blinked out visually and disappeared simultaneously from the #2 monitor and from the radar scopes at the site in Utah, it was at a depression angle relative to his position of something like 45 degrees.
Chase began a turn over the Mineral Wells, Texas, area, to get back on his original flight path, which would take him north in the direction of Forbes AFB. Suddenly the light reappeared behind them, and the instant it did, Utah and ELINT #2 were documenting its presence. The RB-47 again moved toward the UFO, getting within five nautical miles of it before it dropped to 15,000 feet, blinked out, and again vanished both visually and electronically.
At 4:55, concerned about his fuel situation, Chase notified Utah that he had to get back to Forbes. Two minutes later, at 300 degrees' bearing, McClure picked up a signal, and at 4:58 Chase observed the UFO 20 miles northwest of Fort Worth. The UFO trailed the aircraft, all the while emitting signals picked up by ELINT #2 until the object and signal disappeared over Oklahoma City at 5:40. The UFO and the RB-47 had kept company for 800 miles.
Aftermath
Both Project Blue Book and Air Defense Command Intelligence investigated the incident shortly after it occurred, though no account of it appeared in print until the publication, 12 years later, of Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects, informally and better known as the Condon report. (Physicist Edward U Condon headed the Air Force-sponsored University of Colorado UFO Project (the "Condon Committee") between 1966 and 1969.) Committee investigator Gordon David Thayer, a physicist and radar expert, declared the case unexplained and later characterized the official Blue Book explanation (that the "UFO" was an airliner) as "literally ridiculous."
Subsequently, McDonald interviewed all six crew members, uncovered official records unavailable to the Condon Committee, and corrected some errors in Thayer's version (principally the date, which Thayer had as September 20). Despite a convoluted reinterpretation by debunker Phillip J. Klass, who speculated that a complex series of radar errors and the fortuitous appearances, consecutively, of a meteor, the star Vega, and an airliner were responsible for the event, the incident remains as puzzling today as it was in the early morning hours of July 17, 1957.
In 1974, scientists sent a message containing the location of the Earth in the solar system, our DNA structure, and other relevant details in space. In 2001, we received a response that has gone unnoticed by everyone.
In an effort to discover intelligent alien life, Carl Sagan sent a transmission known as the ‘Arecibo’ message into space via radio waves.
The message addressed to intelligent extraterrestrial beings was the most powerful radio transmission ever transmitted to space by humanity.
By comparison, the signal sent into space was a million times stronger than a typical television broadcast.
Aimed at a group of stars located more than 25,000 light years away, the pictorial message was sent in the hope that one day we would receive a similar response from another civilization.
The radio signal included the location of our planet Earth within our star system, the basics of mathematics and science, and the type of antenna that was used to relay the signal – all characteristics that an intelligent alien civilization should understand. .
The message prepared by Carl Sagan and his colleagues also included information about our species, our music, even our physical appearance was included in the radio message, as well as in our DNA codes.
A few years after the signal was sent, people forgot about it. Then, 27 years later, already in 2001, a ” Crop Circle ” that is, a crop circle appeared shaking the scientific community.
A pattern appeared in a farm field, right next to the UK’s largest telescope and observatory, the Chilbolton, where the world’s largest fully addressable weather radar is located, and the surprise was that it looked like a response to the transmission sent. way back in 1974.
It was considered by many to be one of the most impressive and important crop circles ever to appear on our planet, as this circle, unlike others, carried a message direct from space.
While many dismissed the crop circle near Chilbolton as yet another hoax, analysis showed that it carried a message, or rather a response from another civilization.
Describing a different solar system in the universe, the emitter image, non-human DNA, and some microwave antennae, the Chilbolton Crop Circle was the final answer we had always hoped for.
Incredibly, just a year before the extraterrestrial message was discovered, in the year 2000 a circle of unknown shape appeared alongside Chilbolton.
A year later, the puzzle was put together, and we could see that the crop circle that appeared in 2000 was, in fact, a representation of the microwave telescope used to transmit the signal to us.
In 2001, three days after the mysterious answer appeared alongside Chilbolton; another crop circle was found depicting what appeared to be an alien face.
According to the librarypleyades.net portal, the decimal equivalents of the binary code were not modified with respect to the original ‘Arecibo’. But the atomic numbers of the elements that make up the basis of life had been altered:
Silicon, an element with an atomic number of 14, was added in precisely the correct sequence: between oxygen (atomic number 8) and phosphorus (atomic number 15).
In 1969, the late Ben Volcani, a renowned microbiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, discovered the crucial role of silicon in carbon-based life.
His work and that of his colleagues (such as Charles Mehard, also at Scripps, and Edith Carlisle in the 1970s at UCLA) demonstrated that the presence of silicon is critical in a variety of terrestrial life forms, as well as in the structure of human cells: example, in the union of cartilage and mineral aspects of bones.
It remains to be debated whether the crop circle that appeared alongside Chilbolton was, in fact, an extraterrestrial response.
However, many people are firmly convinced that not only is the 2001 Chilbolton an actual message from another intelligent alien civilization in the universe, but we receive similar messages almost every day.
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Humans Originated On Another Planet – Where They Eventually Evolved, Before Being Taken To Earth In The Very Distant Past
Humans Originated On Another Planet – Where They Eventually Evolved, Before Being Taken To Earth In The Very Distant Past
A researcher argues that humans evolved on a different planet and were eventually brought to Earth in the very distant past.
What if we are the aliens we’ve been searching for all along? Despite the progress made in various science branches like biology, chemistry, and astrophysics, we are still unable to say for certain how life started on Earth.
Was this a unique event across the universe? Or is it possible that there are out there planets eerily similar to Earth, which harbor life, even if it is just primitive?
The truth is that we have theorized about the origins of life ever since the human mind was capable of thinking.
Did life come from space? Did life originate on the planet, without ‘extraterrestrial’ (Comets, Asteroids, etc.) influence? What’s the science behind human origins?
If amino acids arrived with comet impacts, it would suggest, as some experts argue, that life may be widespread in our solar system.
But what if things are not so simple? What if the origins of life are anything but rational?
What if humans are NOT from Earth?
That’s a controversial subject touched by the book written by American ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver. Humans Are Not From Earth His book, titled ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence,’ suggests that our species is not native to Earth and may have come from elsewhere.
Dr. Silver provides arguments based on various subjects like human psychology, arguing that humankind did not evolve alongside other life forms on Earth. Instead, the researcher indicates that humans came into existence on a different planet, and we were ‘brought to Earth’ in the very distant past.
The book offers five distinctive points:
The researcher explained that his book is based on the scientific differences between humans and other animals on Earth.
The Earth approximately meets our needs as a species, but perhaps not as strongly as whoever brought us here initially thought,” explained Dr. Silver in an interview.
The researcher points towards chronic diseases that affect the human race, like back pain, indicating it could be a sign that proves our species formed on another world, with much less gravity.
Dr. Silver also mentions other uniquely human traits: humans have 223 extra genes, not found in any other species.
The American researcher further suggests the human race has several ‘serious flaws’ that point to the possibility we are not from this planet.
“We are all chronically ill,” Dr. Silver explains.
“Indeed, if you can find a single person who is 100% fit and healthy and not suffering from some (perhaps hidden or unstated) condition or disorder (there’s an extensive list in the book), I would be amazed – I have not been able to find anyone.” “I believe that many of our problems stem from the simple fact that our internal body clocks have evolved to expect a 25-hour day (sleep researchers have proved this), but the Earth’s day is only 24 hours. This is not a modern condition – the same factors can be traced all the way back through humankind’s history on Earth.”
So, if we are not from Earth, where did we come from?
Dr. Silva argues that one possibility is , the closest star system to the sun.
In his book, Silva explains that even though humankind is supposedly the most developed species on the planet, it is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for our planet’s environment: humans are harmed by sunlight and tend to have a strong dislike for naturally occurring (raw) foods. The researcher argues that humans have ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, among other things. “My thesis,” says Silver, “proposes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.” And while we may not have arrived on earth in alien spaceships, experts conducting simulations using supercomputers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US have discovered that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have reached our planet from outer space via comets or meteors.
This single possibility suggests that life is not unique on Earth, and there could be similar forms of life on distant alien moons and planets, some of them even inside our very own cosmic neighborhood.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has captured once again a composite of images depicting a shadowy object around the sun, appearing to be at the end of a tendril extending into the sun. The latest images depicting the unknown planet-sized object were taken on April 19th, 2022, ten years after the first footage depicting the exactly same object was taken. In the image sequence, the dark object is surrounded by a burst of brightly lit material that can be seen erupting from the sun’s surface. The orb then separates from the sun and rockets into space.
Many are suspecting it to be a refueling UFO spaceship. However, according to NASA scientists, the feature is actually little-understood, but frequently observed. It’s a type of solar activity called a “prominence” – a phenomenon caused by cooler, denser plasma interacting with highly charged coronal plasma. In other words, it could be an optical illusion created by the plasma.
In the image series from 2012 and 2022, there is a burst of activity around the prominence, and then it and the filament channel shoot out into space immediately afterwards. According to Joseph Gurman, a project scientist in the Solar Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard, the first event was probably an outburst of the sun’s magnetic field called a coronal mass ejection.
“It’s generally accepted, though still not conclusively proven, that prominence eruptions occur when the overlying magnetic field that contains the prominence material is disrupted,”
The inconsistencies with the official claims by NASA scientists
Our question is, if it’s an outburst of the sun’s magnetic field, why doesn’t the prominence appear to move along with the sun as it rotates, but remains stationary? Also, while observing the footage, one couldn’t help but notice how it is situated in the exact same location as it was in the footage from 2012. How could a coronal mass ejection happen in the exact same spot creating the exact same illusion it did ten years ago?
Does it look like a solar eruption or a refueling UFO spaceship? You may take a look at the footage below.
James Webb-telescoop vindt verst verwijderde sterrenstelsels, die zowat 250 miljoen jaar na de oerknal ontstonden
Ploegend door de data van de James Webb Ruimtetelescoop (JWST) hebben astronomen alweer nieuwe recordbrekende informatie gevonden. Zo ontdekten ze sterrenstelsels die wellicht het verst verwijderd zijn.
Voordat de James Webb-telescoop de ruimte in werd geslingerd, was het verst verwijderde sterrenstelsel - voor zover bekend - GN-z11. GN-z11 zou zo'n 420 miljoen jaar na de oerknal zijn ontstaan. De recent ontdekte sterrenstelsels ontstonden wellicht al 250 miljoen jaar na de oerknal, bijna 200 miljoen jaar eerder dan GN-z11 dus.
NIRCam enhanced closeup of the galaxy GLASS-z13
NASA/STScI/GLASS-JWST program: R. Naidu, G. Brammer, T. Treu.
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Lava tubes on Mars and the Moon are up to 1,000 times bigger than those on Earth and are so wide they could be used to host planetary bases for future space exploration, study shows
Lava tubes on Mars and the Moon are up to 1,000 times bigger than those on Earth and are so wide they could be used to host planetary bases for future space exploration, study shows
Researchers used lava tubes on the Earth to determine their size on other worlds
Those on the Moon are the largest and reach up to 100ft wide and 25 miles long
They are in the subsurface of the worlds and provide a constant temperature
Lava tubes under the surface of the Moon and Mars are so large they could host entire planetary bases for future space exploration, planetary scientists claim.
Researchers at the Universities of Bologna and Padua studied the subsurface cavities that lava created billions of years ago under the surface of Mars and the Moon.
These cavities can shield from cosmic radiations, according to the team, who found the celestial bodies held lava tubes up to 1,000 times larger than those on Earth.
Similar tubes found on Earth were measured by the team and used to estimate the size of the ones thought to exist underneath the surface of the other worlds.
The largest of the tubes are found on the Moon and are up to 100ft wide and more than 25 miles long, enough for a base the size of a small town, the team said.
This is an artistic rendering of a possible lava tube. These cavities can shield from cosmic radiation and the Moon holds lava tubes up to 1,000 times larger than those on Earth
The team used data from various interplanetary probes to determine the size and scale of the lava tubes on the Moon and Mars
Tubes found on the Moon are larger than those on Earth or Mars due to the much lower gravity and the impact it had on lava flows in its early development.
Francesco Sauro, of the European Space Agency and Riccardo Pozzobon, a planetary geologist at the University of Padua estimated their scale.
'We can find lava tubes on planet Earth, but also on the subsurface of the Moon and Mars according to the high-resolution pictures of lava tubes' skylights taken by interplanetary probes,' said Sauro.
'Evidence of lava tubes was often inferred by observing linear cavities and sinuous collapse chains where the galleries cracked.'
The way these lava tubes appear on the surface of the Moon and Mars is similar to ones found on the Earth - particularly in Hawaii, Canary Islands and Australia.
These images show the different ways lava tubes are produced on the Earth, Moon and Mars
These tubes have been extensively studied on Earth and the findings have been used to estimate their size, shape and scale on other celestial bodies.
'We measured the size and gathered the morphology of lunar and Martian collapse chains (collapsed lava tubes), using digital terrain models,' said Pozzobon
These were taken from satellite images and laser altimetry devices carried by various interplanetary probes over the years.
'We then compared these data to topographic studies about similar collapse chains on the Earth's surface and to laser scans of the inside of lava tubes in Lanzarote and the Galapagos,' he said.
'These data allowed to establish a restriction to the relationship between collapse chains and subsurface cavities that are still intact'.
Researchers found that Martian and lunar tubes are respectively 100 and 1,000 times wider than those on Earth, which typically have a diameter of up to 98ft.
Lower gravity and its effect on early volcanism helped explain why the tubes on the Moon and Mars are so much larger than on the Earth, the team explained.
Riccardo Pozzobon said tubes this wide can be longer than 25 miles going under the subsurface of the Moon - making it an 'extraordinary target for subsurface exploration and potential settlement'.
These tubes have a wide, protected and stable environment and are big enough that they could contain the entirety of a small town.
'What is most important is that, despite the impressive dimension of the lunar tubes, they remain well within the roof stability threshold because of a lower gravitational attraction', explains Matteo Massironi, from the University of Padua.
'This means that the majority of lava tubes underneath the maria smooth plains are intact,' the planetary geologist explained.
The team used various techniques including 3D modelling to track the path of the lava tubes on the celestial bodies
The authors found that on the Moon the tubes are up to 100ft wide with a length of 25 miles
'The collapse chains we observed might have been caused by asteroids piercing the tube walls. This is what the collapse chains in Marius Hills seem to suggest. From the latter, we can get access to these huge underground cavities'.
Sauro explained that they would provide stable shields from cosmic and solar radiation as well as micrometeorite impacts that happen often on planetary bodies.
A number of projects and design challenges have been happening across the world to create potentially safe designs to help in the colonising of other worlds.
They have used everything from 3D printed materials made from lunar regolith, to beehive like lattice structures design to block meteorites and radiation.
The benefit of the lava tubes, assuming the estimates of their size prove to be correct, would be similar to the human made structures - without the need to build.
They would also have great potential for providing an environment in which temperatures do not vary from day- to night-time.
Researchers examined lava tubes found on Earth to estimate the size and scale of those on the Moon and on Mars
Tubes were found on Mars and the Moon by orbiting satellites and are seen as circles or dents in the surface
'Space agencies are now interested in planetary caves and lava tubes, as they represent a first step towards future explorations of the lunar surface,' said Sauro.
Researchers also point out how this study opens up to a completely new perspective in planetary exploration, which is focusing on the subsurface of Mars and the Moon.
'In autumn 2019, ESA called up universities and industries with a campaign seeking ideas for developing technologies for lunar caves exploration,' said Unibo professor Jo Da Waele, an author of the study.
'They are specifically looking for systems that would land on the lunar surface to operate missions exploring lunar tubes', De Waele explained.
Since 2012, in collaboration with some European universities including Bologna and Padua, ESA has been carrying out two training programmes for astronauts focusing on the exploration of underground systems and planetary geology.
These programmes include lava tubes on the island of Lanzarote and 36 astronauts from five space agencies have received training in cave hiking.
NASA plans to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s after first landing on the Moon
Mars has become the next giant leap for mankind's exploration of space.
But before humans get to the red planet, astronauts will take a series of small steps by returning to the moon for a year-long mission.
Details of a the mission in lunar orbit have been unveiled as part of a timeline of events leading to missions to Mars in the 2030s.
Nasa has outlined its four stage plan (pictured) which it hopes will one day allow humans to visit Mars at he Humans to Mars Summit held in Washington DC yesterday. This will entail multiple missions to the moon over coming decades
In May 2017, Greg Williams, deputy associate administrator for policy and plans at Nasa, outlined the space agency's four stage plan that it hopes will one day allow humans to visit Mars, as well as its expected time-frame.
Phase one and two will involve multiple trips to lunar space, to allow for construction of a habitat which will provide a staging area for the journey.
The last piece of delivered hardware would be the actual Deep Space Transport vehicle that would later be used to carry a crew to Mars.
And a year-long simulation of life on Mars will be conducted in 2027.
Phase three and and four will begin after 2030 and will involve sustained crew expeditions to the Martian system and surface of Mars.
Lava Tubes on the Moon Maintain Comfortable Room Temperatures Inside
Lava Tubes on the Moon Maintain Comfortable Room Temperatures Inside
Searching for a comfortable place to set up a research station on the Moon? Look no further than the interior parts of lunar pits and caves. While lack of air will be an issue, new research indicates these underground sanctuaries have steady temperatures that hover around 17 Celsius, or 63 Fahrenheit, even though the Moon’s surface heats up to about 127 C (260 F) during the day and cool to minus 173 C (minus 280 F) at night.
Lunar pits, or lava tubes were discovered in 2009 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Obiter and Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft. These are deep holes on the moon that could open into vast underground tunnels. They likely could serve as a safe shielding from cosmic rays, solar radiation and micrometeorites for future human lunar explorers. But now we know they could provide thermally stable sites for lunar exploration.
These long, winding lava tubes are like structures we have on Earth. They are created when the top of a stream of molten rock solidifies and the lava inside drains away, leaving a hollow tube of rock. For years before their existence was confirmed, scientists thought there were hints that the Moon had lava tubes based on observations of long, winding depressions carved into the lunar surface by the flow of lava, called sinuous rilles.
Thurston Lava Tube on the Big Island of Hawaii. Credit: P. Mouginis-Mark, LPI
So far, about 200 lunar pits have been found and at least 16 of these are probably collapsed lava tubes, with the potential for ‘livable’ space, said Tyler Horvath, a UCLA doctoral student in planetary science, who led the new research. Two of the most prominent pits have visible overhangs that clearly lead to some sort of cave or void, and there is strong evidence that another’s overhang may also lead to a large cave.
Horvath processed images from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment — a thermal camera and one of six instruments on LRO — to find out if the temperature within the pits diverged from those on the surface. Diviner is designed to measure surface temperatures on the Moon, and Horvath’s team had to focus in on extremely small areas to get their data.
They focused on a pit found in the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis). This image, below, was taken as the Sun was almost straight overhead, illuminating the region. By comparing this image with previous images that have different lighting, scientists can estimate the depth of the pit. They believe it to be over 100 meters.
This is a spectacular high-Sun view of the Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater, revealing the overhang and deep, dark pit. This image from LRO’s Narrow Angle Camera is 400 meters (1,312 feet) wide, north is up. Credits: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
The researchers used computer modeling to analyze the thermal properties of the rock and lunar dust and to chart the pit’s temperatures over a period of time. Their research, recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that temperatures within the permanently shadowed reaches of the pit fluctuate only slightly throughout the lunar day, remaining at around 17 C (63 F). If a cave extends from the bottom of the pit, as images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera suggest, it too would have this relatively comfortable temperature. The researchers think the overhang is responsible for the steady temperature, limiting how hot things get during the day and preventing heat from radiating away at night.
However, if this particular pit was to be used as a habitat or research station, there would likely be a heat problem just inside the pit. The sunbaked part of the pit floor not protected by the overhang hits daytime temperatures close to 150 C (300 F), which is even hotter than the Moon’s surface.
“Because the Tranquillitatis pit is the closest to the lunar equator, the illuminated floor at noon is probably the hottest place on the entire moon,” said Horvath.
Two views of another lunar pit in Mare Ingenii. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University.
Since a day on the Moon lasts nearly 15 Earth days, the lunar surface is constantly bombarded by sunlight and is frequently hot enough to boil water. Conversely, the equally long lunar nights (also 15 Earth days long) reach incredibly cold temperatures. Any habitat or base would mean inventing heating and cooling equipment that can operate under these conditions, as well as ways to produce enough energy to power it nonstop. This could prove to be an insurmountable barrier to lunar exploration or habitation.
However, the researchers say that building bases in the shadowed parts of these pits allows scientists to focus on other challenges, like growing food, providing oxygen for astronauts, gathering resources for experiments and expanding the base.
“Humans evolved living in caves, and to caves we might return when we live on the moon,” said UCLA professor of planetary science David Paige, who leads the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment and participated in the research.
A Fast-Moving Star is Colliding With Interstellar gas, Creating a Spectacular bow Shock
A Fast-Moving Star is Colliding With Interstellar gas, Creating a Spectacular bow Shock
Zeta Ophiuchi has had an interesting life. It began as a typical large star about twenty times more massive than the Sun. It spent its days happily orbiting a large companion star until its companion exploded as a supernova about a million years ago. The explosion ejected Zeta Ophiuchi, so now it is speeding away through interstellar space. Of course, the supernova also expelled the outer layers of the companion star, so rather than empty space, our plucky star is speeding through the remnant gas as well. As they say on Facebook, it’s complicated. And that’s great news for astronomers, as a recent study shows.
Zeta Ophiuchi is most famous for beautiful images such as the one above. By plowing through interstellar gas, the star has created heated shock waves that glow in everything from infrared to x-rays. The physics of these shock waves is tremendously complex. It is governed by a set of mathematical equations known as magnetohydrodynamics, which describes the behavior of fluid gases and their surrounding magnetic fields. Modeling these equations is bad enough, but when you have turbulent motion such as shock waves, things get even worse. That’s why Zeta Ophiuchi is so important. Since we have such a great view of its shock wave, we can compare our observations with computer simulations.
In this latest study, the team created computer models simulating the shock wave near Zeta Ophiuchi. They then compared these models to observations in infrared, visible, and x-rays. Their goal is to determine which simulations are the most accurate so that the models can be further refined. Of their three models, two of them predicted that the brightest region of x-ray emissions should be at the edge of the shock wave closest to the star, and this is what we observe. But all three models also predicted that x-ray emissions should be fainter than we observe, so none of the models are fully accurate. But these models are difficult to do well, and this work is a good first start.
A simulated shock wave of Zeta Ophiuchi. Credit: Green, et al
The difference in x-ray brightness is likely due to turbulent motion within the shock wave. The team plans on including some of this turbulent motion in future models. Through multiple iterations, they should be able to create a simulation that closely models this interstellar shock wave.
Magnetohydrodynamics is a central part of many astrophysical processes, ranging from solar flares to the formation of planets, to the powerful black hole engines of quasars. Most of these interactions are hidden by distance or dust, so it’s great that Zeta Ophiuchi can give astronomers a shocking view of this complex physics.
On November 8,1978, Mrs. Cathy Wilfong and her sister Mrs. Cindy Bridges viewed a UFO near Greenfield, Indiana.
You could say they had very good proof that they did see something unidentified by the large imprint, about 140 feet long, that was left in their soybean field in the back of their home.
It was around 9:00 PM when Cindy went out to get some firewood, when she noticed a big fiery light coming down towards the soybean field. When she went to investigate what the object was, she became frightened and started screaming for Cathy to come out and look at this thing that was coming down towards the field.
Cathy knew something was wrong when she heard the screaming and her dog, Babe, barking wildly. When she saw the object coming down she couldn't believe it. Although frightened, Cathy ran to the garage to get her camera. When she couldn't find her camera she ran into the house petrified.
At this time Cindy was in the camper watching the object from the inside. She stayed in the camper for an estimated time of 4 minutes. When she noticed Cathy running into the house she decided she had better go into the house too.
After calling the Sheriff's Department, Cathy then called her mother who lives 6 miles away from the Wilfong residence; she came immediately and saw the lights of the UFO as it departed. (She watched these lights as she drove towards their house, and first saw them from 4 to 5 miles away as she approached on state road 209.) The Wilfong's live 8 miles from the Sheriffs office, but it took them at least 30 minutes to get to the house from the time Cathy called.
Upon the Deputy's arrival they informed Cathy that what they had seen was a "helicopter." This so-called "helicopter" made no sound whatsoever, had no propeller so it just naturally threw no propwash, did not have any night flying navigational beacon as required by FAA regulations, and was 120 to 140 feet long.
As described by the witnesses, the UFO was oblong, very, very huge with a kind of greenish-dray color. (See sketch.) It had three lights, one red and two white. The UFO did not have any sound, and it moved flying sideways behind the barn and then took off flying front ways.
Cathy stated, "the thing moved like it was in slow motion. It was very huge with three lights. There was some kind of circle in the middle of the bottom or underneath side. The whole time we watched this object, we could only see the bottom side." The estimated time they viewed the object was 40 minutes.
This UFO incident attracted the attention of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois. They sent out one of their investigators, Allan Hendry, who is the top field investigator for the Center. Hendry stated, "This sighting was one of the two most significant sightings the Center has examined in 1978.
Due to the fact that this sighting was at such a close range by two credible witnesses and also due to the physical evidence the UFO left, which was the impression in their soybean field." Hendry went on to state, "The impression left in the field is similar to 'Saucer Nests' found and reported in Australia and elsewhere in the World, also indicated the UFO never did touch the ground." The stems in the bean field were not uprooted at all, and the stems were intertwined and matted together.
The case also was investigated by MUFON Field Investigator, Arthur Morros of Zionsville, Indiana."
UFOs In Space Recorded During Space Shuttle and Apollo Missions
UFOs In Space Recorded During Space Shuttle and Apollo Missions
Although NASA is commissioning a study team to start early in the fall to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – that is, observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena as well as NASA wants to transform satellites into alien seekers to probe unexplained sightings in space, it might be better that NASA check their archive first as overwhelming evidence is present on footage from, among others, the Space Shuttle and Apollo Missions showing UFOs in space and above the Lunar surface.
Proof of the existence of UFOs what they have withheld from the public all the years.
During the Space Shuttle flights many recordings were made by the astronauts. Some of these recordings show objects in space that clearly cannot be meteorites, space junk, or lightning storms.
These objects change direction, slow down, make 90 and 180 degree turns before speeding up and disappearing into space. Only UFOs or unknown probes under intelligent control can perform this kind of maneuvers.
Also during the Apollo flights, recordings were made by the astronauts in which UFOs can be seen.
One such example is the footage recorded by the Apollo 11 crew showing a UFO flying just above the moon's surface.
And what about the astronaut who saw a UFO during the Apollo 17 Mission.
Normally NASA astronauts follow a "script" and they know exactly what and when to say.
But during the Apollo 17 mission this astronaut however was too shocked by something he had never seen before. He forgets his "lines" and no longer follows the script. Instead a long and not planned discussion and conversation starts. The astronaut is truly amazed. Unlike his colleague, who seems to be in charge. The astronaut asks what these objects were that flew over his head. Than it becomes hilarious. Flabbergasted, the second astronaut does also not know what to say! This was not planned and not in the script. He is however aware of the fact that they are being watched by NASA officials.
After a short period of silence he says that it was a blast coming from the dial shaped disc of the high gain antenna on the rover (vehicle). More objects start flying over and again we hear genuine excitement. Than the astronaut realizes that he had said something he should not have said in front of the cameras and NASA. He reluctantly accepts the vague explanation. He is really annoyed and you hear sarcasm and disbelief in the undertone of his voice.
NASA tries to save this unpleasant situation and intervenes as CAPCOM confirms that it was a blast from the antenna and that it happened before.
According to the astronaut who clearly is in charge, this blast from the antenna is just "routine".
This is an interesting video. Styrofoam blowing up? This has happened before? When this really would be the case, would they not have taken countermeasures? Space programs are planned with utmost precision and they do not take any risks with equipment and astronauts. So what do you think after having seen the footage? Was it a blast from the antenna? Exploding Styrofoam?
Or is someone not telling us the truth and these two astronauts had a couple "visitors" passing by.
Mysterious flying objects seem to be having their moment in Washington. In January, the Pentagon was tasked with setting up a permanent office to investigate sightings of ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’, commonly known as UFOs. Then in May, Congress held its first public hearing on the subject in over 50 years. This recent shift hasn’t stemmed nearly century-old theories about UFOs landing on Earth and coverups but to some, it’s a sign Disclosure, or complete transparency on everything the government knows about UFOs, might be on the horizon.
Researchers Turn Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobotic' Grippers
Researchers Turn Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobotic' Grippers
See how engineers at Rice University transformed wolf spiders into necrobots.
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Researchers inserted a needle into a dead spider to operate its legs like a gripper.
Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET
Grippers made from dead spiders. For some, this might sound like a horror movie. For others, it's a fascinating mashup of robotics and the natural world.
A team of engineers at Rice University worked out how to reanimate (after a fashion) the legs of dead spiders. This isn't a Frankenstein's monster sort of situation. The researchers used a needle and air to activate the spider legs, mimicking how the appendages work in living spiders. Because the spiders are dead and are used in a robotic fashion, the engineers call this "necrobotics."
Mechanical engineering graduate student Faye Yap is the lead author of a paper on the spider project published in the journal Advanced Science this week. "It happens to be the case that the spider, after it's deceased, is the perfect architecture for small scale, naturally derived grippers," said co-author Daniel Preston in a Rice statement on Monday.
It's one thing to read about this project and another to see it in action. Fortunately (or not depending on how you feel about all this), Rice delivered a video that explains the process for creating the necrobots and shows how it works.
When alive, spiders use blood to extend and contract their legs through a hydraulic process. The researchers euthanized wolf spiders, inserted a needle into the chamber of the body that controls the legs, sealed it with glue and then used air to trigger the opening and closing of the legs.
Enlarge ImageThe necrobots are able to grip and hold more than their own weight.
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The gripper spiders were able to lift more than their own body weight, including another spider and small objects like parts on a circuit board.
The team sees some advantages to necrobotic spiders. The little grippers can grab irregular objects, blend into their environment and also biodegrade over time. The researchers hope to try this method out with smaller spiders. They also plan to work out how to trigger the legs individually.
As this work advances, I'm looking forward to a new type of Transformers. Necrobots, reach out!
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From the robo-surgeon that killed its patient to the driverless car that ran over a pedestrian: Worst robotic accidents in history - after chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger in Russia
From the robo-surgeon that killed its patient to the driverless car that ran over a pedestrian: Worst robotic accidents in history - after chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger in Russia
Shocking footage emerged of a chess-playing robot breaking a child's finger during a chess match in Russia
A spokesperson from Russian Chess Federation said the boy violated 'safety rules' by making a move too soon
But other incidents involving robots and humans in the past have had more tragic outcomes
MailOnline delves into the worst robotic accidents in history including a robo-surgeon that killed its patient
Shocking footage emerged at the weekend of a chess-playing robot breaking a child's finger during a match in Russia.
The robot grabbed the seven-year-old boy's finger at the Moscow Open last week because it was confused by his overly-quick movements, Russian media outlets reported.
Sergey Lazarev, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, said the child had violated 'certain safety rules' by making a move too soon.
Lazarev said that the machine had been hired for many previous events without any problems, and that the incident was an 'extremely rare case'.
Christopher Atkeson, a robotics expert at Carnegie Mellon University, told MailOnline: 'Robots have limited sensing and thus limited awareness of what is going on around them.
'I suspect the chess robot did not have ears, and that its vision system was blind to anything other than chess boards and pieces.'
Although the young chess player only suffered a broken finger, in other accidents involving robots the injured party has not always been as lucky.
MailOnline has taken a look at some of the disastrous robotic failures, from the robo-surgeon that killed its patient to the driverless car that hit a pedestrian.
A chess-playing robot (pictured) broke a child's finger during an international tournament in Moscow last week, with the incident being captured in CCTV footage
CHINESE WORKER SKEWERED - WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
One of the most gruesome robo-accidents involved a 49-year-old Chinese factory worker, known as Zhou, back in December 2018.
Zhou was hit by a rogue robot that collapsed suddenly, impaling him with 10 sharp steel rods in the arm and chest, each one foot long.
The spikes, which were part of the robotic arm, speared through the worker's body when the robot collapsed during a night shift.
Four of them were stuck in his right arm, one in his right shoulder, one in his chest and four in his right forearm, reported People's Daily Online at the time.
Miraculously, Zhou survived after surgeons removed the rods from his body and was in stable condition, according to the Xiangya Hospital in Changsha.
Mr Zhou (pictured), 49, was hit by part of a robot that collapsed in China. Four of them were stuck in his right arm, one in his right shoulder, one in his chest and four in his right forearm
In March 2018, Elaine Herzberg was fatally struck by a prototype self-driving car from ridesharing firm Uber.
Herzberg, 49, was pushing a bicycle across a four-lane road in Tempe, Arizona, when she was struck by the vehicle, which was operating in self-drive mode with a human safety backup driver sitting in the driving seat.
The Uber engineer in the vehicle, Rafaela Vasquez, was watching videos on her phone, according to reports at the time.
Herzberg was taken to the local hospital where she died of her injuries – marking the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car.
This photo from video from a mounted camera provided by the Tempe Police Department shows an interior view moments before the Uber vehicle hit a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in March 2018
Vasquez was later charged with negligent homicide, while Uber was found not criminally responsible for the accident.
The ridesharing giant had been testing self-driving vehicles in four North American cities – Tempe, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Toronto – but these tests were suspended following the accident.
In 2020, Uber sold off its self-driving car division, spelling an end to its attempts to develop autonomous driving systems.
BOTCHED ROBO-SURGERY
In February 2015, father-of-three and retired music teacher Stephen Pettitt underwent robotic surgery for Mitral valve disease at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The operation was conducted by surgeon Sukumaran Nair using the Da Vinci surgical robot, which consists of a surgeon's console and interactive robotic arms controlled from the console.
Details of the botched six-hour procedure include the surgical team, Mr Nair and assisting surgeon Thasee Pillay, shouting at one another.
The operation using the Da Vinci robot (file image) was the first of its kind conducted in the UK
Communication was difficult because of the 'tinny' sound quality coming from the robot console being operated by Nair, it was revealed.
The machine also knocked a theatre nurse and destroyed the patient's stitches, Newcastle Coroner's Court later heard.
Mr Nair, who trained in India and London and previously worked at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, said he now works in Scotland and no longer does robotic surgery.
Sadly, Mr Pettitt had a 98 to 99 per cent chance of living had the operation not been carried out using a robot.
VW WORKER CRUSHED
In June 2015, a 22-year-old man was killed by a robotic arm at a Volkswagen plant in Baunatal, Germany.
The robotic arm intended to lift machine parts but reportedly grabbed him and crushed him against a large metal plate.
The man suffered severe injuries to his chest in the incident and resuscitated at the scene, but died from his injuries in hospital.
A Volkswagen spokesman said initial conclusions indicated human error was to blame rather than a malfunction with the robot, which can be programmed to perform various tasks in the assembly process.
In June 2015, a 22-year-old man was killed by a robotic arm at a Volkswagen plant in Baunatal, Germany. The robotic arm intended to lift machine parts but reportedly grabbed him and crushed him against a large metal plate
JAPAN'S FIRST ROBO-CASUALTY
In July 1981, Japanese maintenance worker Kenji Urada died while checking a malfunctioning hydraulic robot at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant in Akashi.
Urada, 37, had jumped over a safety barrier that was designed to shut down power to the machine when open, but he reportedly started the robot accidentally.
He was pinned by the robot's arm against another machine before tragically being crushed to death.
Other workers in the factory were unable to stop the machine as they didn't know how to operate it.
Urada was the first human killed by a robot in Japan – but not the first in the world.
THE FIRST ROBOT DEATH
The first person to be killed by a robot was Robert Williams, an American factory worker, in Flat Rock, Michigan back in January 1979.
Williams, 25, was killed instantly when he was struck in the head by an industrial robot arm designed to retrieve objects from storage shelves.
The first person to be killed by a robot was Robert Williams while working at the Ford Motor Company Flat Rock Casting Plant (pictured here in 1973)
His body remained in the shelf for 30 minutes until it was discovered by workers who were concerned about his disappearance, according to reports.
His family successfully sued the manufacturers of the robot, Litton Industries, and were awarded $10 million in damages.
Wayne County Circuit Court concluded that there were not enough safety measures in place to prevent such an accident from happening.
SELF-DRIVING TESLA SLAMS INTO TRACTOR
A former Navy SEAL became the first person to die at the wheel of a self-driving car after it ploughed into a tractor trailer on a freeway in Williston, Florida, in May 2016.
Joshua Brown, 40, was riding in his computer-guided Tesla Model S on autopilot mode when it travelled underneath the low-hanging trailer crossing his path on US Highway 27A, shearing off the car's roof completely.
By the time firefighters arrived, the wreckage of the Tesla had come to rest in a nearby yard hundreds of feet from the crash site, assistant chief Danny Wallace of the Williston Fire Department said.
Tesla said its autopilot system failed to detect the truck because its white colour was similar to that of the bright sky, adding that the driver also made no attempt to hit the brakes.
Elon Musk's company confirmed the man's 'tragic' death, but defended its vehicles, saying they were safer than other cars.
Joshua Brown, 40, was riding in his computer-guided Tesla Model S on autopilot mode when it travelled underneath the low-hanging trailer crossing his path on US Highway 27A, shearing off its roof completely
Brown was killed as the car drove underneath the low-hanging trailer at 74mph, ripping the roof off before smashing through a fence and hitting an electrical pole. Tesla said its autopilot system failed to detect the truck because its white colour was similar to that of the bright sky, adding that the driver also made no attempt to hit the brakes
CRUSHED BY A ROBOT ARM
On July 7 2015, a grandmother was crushed to death when she became trapped by a piece of machinery that should not have entered into the area in which she was working.
Wanda Holbrook was 57 at the time of the incident, and had been working at car manufacturing facility Ventra Ionia Main in Michigan, USA for 12 years.
She was working on the production line when a robotic arm took her by surprise by entering the section in which she was stationed.
The arm hit and crushed her head against a trailer hitch assembly it was working on, a wrongful death lawsuit states.
According to The Callahan Law Firm, widower Bill Holbrook said his wife's head injuries were so severe that the funeral home recommended a closed casket.
On July 7 2015, a grandmother was crushed to death when she became trapped by a piece of machinery that should not have entered into the area in which she was working at at car manufacturing facility Ventra Ionia Main in Michigan, USA (pictured)
Wanda Holbrook was 57 at the time of the incident, and had been working at the car manufacturing facility for 12 years
STABBED BY WELDING ROBOT
The first person killed by a robot in India is thought to be 24-year-old Ramji Lal, who was stabbed to death by a robotic welding machine, also in July 2015.
Lal was reportedly adjusting a metal sheet at car parts manufacturer SKH Metals in Manesar, Gurgaon that was being welded by the machine when he was stabbed by one of its arms.
A colleague told the Times of India: 'The robot is pre-programmed to weld metal sheets it lifts.
'One such sheet got dislodged and Lal reached from behind the machine to adjust it.
'This was when welding sticks attached to the pre-programmed device pierced Lal's abdomen.'
The first person killed by a robot in India is thought to be 24-year-old Ramji Lal, who was stabbed to death by a robotic welding machine, also in July 2015. Lal was reportedly adjusting a metal sheet at car parts manufacturer SKH Metals in Manesar, Gurgaon that was being welded by the machine when he was stabbed by one of its arms (stock image)
AMAZON ROBOT PUNCTURES BEAR REPELLENT CAN
In 2018, a robot accidentally punctured a can of bear repellent at an Amazon warehouse in New Jersey, hospitalising 24 workers.
The nine-ounce aerosol can contained concentrated capsaicin - the active component found in chilli peppers that makes your mouth feel hot.
Many of the workers experienced trouble breathing and said their throats and eyes burned as a result of the fumes from the pepper spray.
One worker from the Robbinsville-based warehouse was in critical condition and was sent to the ICU at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, while another 30 were treated at the scene.
Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, issued a statement after the incident saying: 'Amazon's automated robots put humans in life-threatening danger today, the effects of which could be catastrophic and the long-term effects for 80+ workers are unknown,
'The richest company in the world cannot continue to be let off the hook for putting hard working people's lives at risk.'
In 2018, a robot accidentally punctured a can of bear repellent at an Amazon facility in New Jersey, hospitalising 24 workers
One worker from the Robbinsville-based warehouse was in critical condition and was sent to the ICU at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, while another 30 were treated at the scene (pictured)
Josh Bongard, a robotics professor at the University of Vermont, told MailOnline: 'Robots are kind of the opposite of people. They're good at things we’re bad at, and vice versa.
'The good news in all this is that robots will likely kill many fewer people, than people do. Especially here in the US.'
Professor Bongard also said it's 'really, really hard' to train robots to avoid such accidents.
'Our best hope at the moment for deploying safe robots is to put them in places where there are few people, like autonomous cars restricted to special lanes on highways.'
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO WORRIED ABOUT ROBOTS AND AI?
It is an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world at the moment, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our 'biggest existential threat' and likened its development as 'summoning the demon'.
He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets.
Professor Stephen Hawking said it is a 'near certainty' that a major technological disaster will threaten humanity in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years.
They could steal jobs
More than 60 percent of people fear that robots will lead to there being fewer jobs in the next ten years, according to a 2016 YouGov survey.
And 27 percent predict that it will decrease the number of jobs 'a lot' with previous research suggesting admin and service sector workers will be the hardest hit.
As well as posing a threat to our jobs, other experts believe AI could 'go rogue' and become too complex for scientists to understand.
A quarter of the respondents predicted robots will become part of everyday life in just 11 to 20 years, with 18 percent predicting this will happen within the next decade.
They could 'go rogue'
Computer scientist Professor Michael Wooldridge said AI machines could become so intricate that engineers don't fully understand how they work.
If experts don't understand how AI algorithms function, they won't be able to predict when they fail.
This means driverless cars or intelligent robots could make unpredictable 'out of character' decisions during critical moments, which could put people in danger.
For instance, the AI behind a driverless car could choose to swerve into pedestrians or crash into barriers instead of deciding to drive sensibly.
They could wipe out humanity
Some people believe AI will wipe out humans completely.
'Eventually, I think human extinction will probably occur, and technology will likely play a part in this,' DeepMind's Shane Legg said in a recent interview.
He singled out artificial intelligence, or AI, as the 'number one risk for this century'.
Musk warned that AI poses more of a threat to humanity than North Korea.
'If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea,' the 46-year-old wrote on Twitter.
'Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that's a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too.'
Musk has consistently advocated for governments and private institutions to apply regulations on AI technology.
He has argued that controls are necessary in order protect machines from advancing out of human control.
When chess robots go bad: AI player grabs a seven-year-old boy and BREAKS his finger during tournament in Russia
A chess-playing robot broke a child's finger during a tournament in Russia last week, with the incident being captured in CCTV footage.
The robot grabbed the seven-year-old boy's finger because it was confused by his overly-quick movements, Russian media outlets reported, quoting the President of the Moscow Chess Federation - who seemingly blamed the child.
'The robot broke the child's finger - this, of course, is bad,' Sergey Lazarev told Russia's TASS news agency, while distancing his organisation from the robot.
The incident occurred at the Moscow Open on July 19. Lazarev said that the federation had rented the robot for the event, which ran from July 13 to 21.
Lazarev said that the machine had been hired for many previous events without incident, saying the boy went to move a piece too quickly after making a move.
A chess-playing robot (pictured) broke a child's finger during an international tournament in Moscow last week, with the incident being captured in CCTV footage
Captured by a camera over the boy's shoulder, the video starts by showing the robot as it picks up a piece from the board and drops it into a box to the side - used to contain the discarded pieces from the game
'The robot was rented by us, it has been exhibited in many places, for a long time, with specialists. Apparently, the operators overlooked it,' Lazarev said.
'The child made a move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried , the robot grabbed him. We have nothing to do with the robot.'
Video of the incident was published by the Baza Telegram channel, who said the boy's name was Christopher. Baza said he was among the 30 best chess players in Moscow in the under-nine age group category.
According to The Guardian, Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, went even further in blaming the boy.
'There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realise he first had to wait,' The Guardian quoted Smagin as saying. 'This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall.'
The footage shows the robot - which consists of a single mechanical arm with multiple joints and a 'hand' - was in the middle of a table and surrounded by three different chess boards. It's AI can reportedly play three matches at the same time.
Captured by a camera over the boy's shoulder, the video starts by showing the robot as it picks up a piece from the board and drops it into a box to the side - used to contain the discarded pieces from the game.
As it does so, the young boy reaches to make his next move. However, the robot appears to mistake the boy's finger for a chess piece, and grabs that instead.
Upon grabbing the boy's finger, the mechanical arms freezes in place, trapping the boy who begins to panic. Several people standing around the table rush in to help him, and after a few seconds are able to free him from the robot's grip
Pictured: The boy is taken away by adults who were standing around the table. Russian chess officials said the machine had been hired for many previous events without incident, saying the boy went to move a piece too quickly after making a move
Upon grabbing the boy's finger, the mechanical arms freezes in place, trapping the boy who begins to panic. Several people standing around the table rush in to help him, and after a few seconds are able to free him from the robot's grip.
Lazarev said in his statement that the boy was able to return to the tournament the following day in a case, and finished the tournament.
However, he told TASS that the boy's parents had contacted the public prosecutor's office about the incident, and that his organisation had been contacted by Moskomsport - the Department of Sport for the Russian capital.
He offered to help the family 'in any way we can,' and warned that the operators of the robot were going to have to 'think about strengthening protection so that this situation does not happen again.'
Smagin told RIA Novosti that the incident was a 'concidence' and said the robot is 'absolutely safe,' The Guardian reported.
'It has performed at many opens. Apparently, children need to be warned. It happens,' Smagin said - calling the robot 'unique'.
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NASA is sending two helicopters to Mars—but no new rover—as part of a historic round-trip from Earth to Mars and back again to go collect rock samples.
In the 17 months since it landed on Mars the Perseverance rover has collected 11 scientifically compelling rock core samples and one atmospheric sample.
Once back on Earth they will help scientists establish a geological record crucial in understanding Mars’s environmental evolution and possibly its prebiotic chemistry and biology.
In short, it may reveal traces of ancient life.
Buoyed by the incredible success of its little Ingenuity drone that’s now completed a staggering 29 flights, NASA said today that it will begin its much-anticipated Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission in 2027 with the first-ever samples of rocks from an alien planet due back on Earth in 2033.
NASA revealed that it will launch an Earth Return Orbiter in fall 2027, a Sample Retrieval Lander in summer 2028, and that those samples would arrive back on Earth in 2033.
The new mission architecture reveals a few exciting design changes.
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The Sample Retrieval Lander platform will carry two “sample recovery helicopters,” which will go help Perseverance collect the samples the rover itself has been busy assembling.
By then Perseverance will have been on the Martian surface for almost a decade. The old plan had been to send an all-new rover.
On the Sample Retrieval Lander platform will also be a small rocket called the Mars Ascent Vehicle. The new plan is for Perseverance to return to the platform and place sealed sample tubes into a container in the nose cone of the rocket. To do that it will use a Sample Transfer Arm being built by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The Mars Ascent Vehicle will then launch to meet-up with the Earth Return Orbiter high above the Martian surface.
The Earth Return Orbiter would be the first spaceship ever to go from Earth to Mars—or any planet—and then back to Earth again.
The use of both Perseverance and two new helicopters for this mission is a big change of plan by NASA.
“The conceptual design phase is when every facet of a mission plan gets put under a microscope,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “There are some significant and advantageous changes to the plan, which can be directly attributed to Perseverance’s recent successes at Jezero and the amazing performance of our Mars helicopter.”
This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples ... [+]
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The mission, which will go collect the samples left strewn across Jezero Crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover, was recently given the green light by the Decadal Survey.
In its report it recommended that the MSR was of “the highest scientific priority of NASA’s robotic exploration efforts this decade” and of “fundamental strategic importance to NASA, U.S. leadership in planetary science, and international cooperation.”
However, that report also said MSR shouldn’t cost more than 20% more than the $5.3 billion allotted to it. This new plan—which cuts the need for a brand new rover—could help keep costs as low as possible, though it does require a lot of confidence in Perseverance’s longevity.
Roswell conspiracies still thriving after 75 years from Nazi UFOs to burned alien bodies
Roswell conspiracies still thriving after 75 years from Nazi UFOs to burned alien bodies
Decades after the 1947 incident some believe it was proof that aliens landed on Earth, while others insist the bizarre wreckage was that of a Nazi-built spaceship
Surprisingly, the US Army got involved and sent out a press release saying they had recovered a "flying disc".
The Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) said: "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 Chaves County."
Debris found on a ranch has led to years of alien speculation
( Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
RAAF quickly changed their story to state that the wreckage was from a weather balloon.
UFO enthusiasts have been sceptical of the official government account ever since and some believe the wreckage belonged to a UFO that was downed by lightning. Of course, it was no surprise the aliens were in the local area, say the conspiracy theorists, due to ET's reasonable concerns about US nuclear activity.
Other members of the tin foil brigade believe the UFO was firmly of Nazi origin, built by the German scientists shipped to the US to work on the atomic bomb. According to the theorists, the UFO built by the Roswell Nazis was not great for flying and promptly crashed.
Local news didn't exactly help with calming speculation as the Roswell Daily Record reported "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region".
Roswell has become the centre of UFO conspiracy theories
( Image:Bryan Smith/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
In an effort to push away the conspiracies, it was revealed in 1994 that the wreckage was part of 'Project Mogul', an attempt to detect Soviet nuclear bomb tests. Those convinced of a government cover-up are unlikely to buy this version of events.
In 1980, reports of 'alien bodies' emerged and were not debunked until a US Air Force report in 1997 titled 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed'. They said the bodies were likely to be parachute dummies, an injured airman or charred bodies from a plane crash.
The wreckage was found on Brazel's property around 75 miles north of Roswell, but it is the city itself that now owes a large portion of its local income to alien-friendly tourists.
It is now home to a yearly UFO festival and the International UFO Museum and Research Centre.
An amateur photographer, Dr. Mohamed Salama, has caused a bit of a stir over in the UK after sharing a 38 second long video he took in which he believes he recorded a UFO.
Salama captured the footage above his home in the Birmingham suburb of Harborne one night as he was taking out the trash.
The doctor says the object in the night sky was “not a plane, star, drone or laser” due to how quickly it moved and changed direction.
“I’m a photographer, so I do usually look at the sky to see if there’s something interesting – the sky or the moon – to take a photo,” Dr. Salama told BirminghamLive.
“I then saw this UFO in the sky. It was very fast. It wasn’t going in a straight line. It was rotating, so I pointed my Samsung camera phone up to take the footage.”
The doctor who took the UFO video says he ‘never thought’ he would ‘see something like this’
He continued, “I saw a UFO flying very quickly in different directions over Harborne sky. It was very high in the sky, above the clouds.
“It changed its direction very quickly and traveled on the horizon in seconds. I have never seen something like this before. It definitely was not a plane, star, drone or laser.”
“I have never believed in UFOs until yesterday,” said the doctor. “This was extremely strange and my first time seeing something like this.”
He compared his UFO sighting to another recent incident in West Bromwich where multiple residents reportedly kept seeing a bright white light in the sky.
In that video, a 37 second clip, the light, which area resident Longie Willow says was not a star, the ball of sphere was spotted heading towards All Saints church in West Bromwich which dates back to the 1400s.
“Twice now we have seen this in the sky,” Willow told BlackCountryLive. “It’s not a star and seems to have something trailing behind it has been seen hovering over West Bromwich going towards the old church, on All Saints Way.”
Though the Pentagon has changed the name and scope of the new organization tasked with overseeing U.S. government's growing efforts to track unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), the head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), who is actually the guy in charge of defending America's airspace, says it has been business as usual when it comes to his command's mission.
"I have not changed or been asked to change any of my posture, taskings or anything," Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, the dual-hatted commander of both NORAD and U.S. Northern Command (NORAD), told reporters Thursday during a roundtable discussion at the Aspen Security Forum.
Asked by Washington Post reporter Shane Harris about whether there have been any changes "in terms of homeland protection" as a result of more attention being paid to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) - as the Pentagon now refers to what was known as unidentified flying objects (UFO) - VanHerck said "no." The answer may seem disconnected considering the efforts the Pentagon claims are being made to take the issue seriously and to mitigate any potential risks to national security presented by UAP. Then again, the Air Force has been notoriously unforthcoming when it comes to this controversial topic.
VanHerck goes a step further, stating "First of all, let's be clear. My job as the NORAD commander is to identify every single UAP or ...whatever it is," VanHerck said. "What I would report to you is I've yet to find one that had aliens or was a spaceship that we've identified."
NORAD's Air Route Surveillance Radar system version 4, or ARSR-4, long-range radar, Paso Robles, California, Aug. 24, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photographer Deb Henley)
"If any of our NORAD fighters or, or any assets assigned to NORTHCOM, came across some type of UAP, we would absolutely report that," he said. "I'm just telling you, we haven't seen that."
VanHerck was questioned on the issue after the Pentagon this week changed the name of its organization tasked with tracking UAPs from the unwieldy Airborne Object Identification and Management Group (AOIMSG) to the more streamlined All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
More than just an update in nomenclature, the move reflects a long-known reality. Airborne objects aren’t the only ones that are unidentified, but more importantly, potentially pose a threat to U.S. military installations and personnel.
In its announcement on Wednesday, the Pentagon noted that Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), “amended her original direction to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security” by renaming and expanding the scope of AOIMSG.
That was because the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, which included a provision to establish such an office - in coordination with DNI - was tasked with responsibilities that were broader than those originally assigned to the AOIMSG.
Essentially, that legislation calls for a much larger-scope effort to examine these phenomena than what Hicks initially called for in her memo last November.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough told The War Zone Thursday that "the genesis of the establishment of AOIMSG came from internal DoD processes subsequent to assisting [the Office of the Director of National Intelligence] with the preparation of its assessment report on UAP."
As mandated by a provision in the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, DNI - in consultation with the Defense Department (DOD) - submitted a report to Congress on UAP last June. That same day, Hicks sent out a memo to DoD leaders on the state of UAP assessments. In that memo, she directed the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security (OUSD(I&S)) "to develop a plan to formalize the mission that was then being performed by the UAP Task Force."
Hicks' November 2021 memo directing the establishment of the AOIMSG and AOIMEXEC "was a direct result of that planning effort," Gough said.
While much of the initial attention in recent years has been paid to aerial objects of unknown origin, what the Pentagon now refers to as UAP, mysterious underwater objects or anomalies have been tracked by submariners, as we explained three years ago. The UFO topic, as it exists culturally, has long been intertwined with sightings of so-called USOs — unidentified submerged objects. Claims of sightings of objects that can traverse air and water continue to this day and are a major component of 'ufology.'
AARO’s mission will be to “synchronize efforts” across the Defense Department (DOD), and other U.S. federal departments and agencies, “to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security. This includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects.”
The issue of the U.S. military tracking transmedium objects is not new. It was included in the 2022 NDAA, which defines transmedium objects as “objects or devices that are observed to transition between space and the atmosphere, or between the atmosphere and bodies of water, that are not immediately identifiable.”
The new organization will be led by what the Pentagon now calls the AARO Executive Council, or (AAROEXEC).
The AARO Executive Council (AAROEXEC), led by Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security (USD(I&S)) Ronald Moultrie, will provide "oversight and direction" to the AARO along these primary lines of effort:
1. Surveillance, Collection and Reporting 2. System Capabilities and Design 3. Intelligence Operations and Analysis 4. Mitigation and Defeat 5. Governance 6. Science and Technology
According to the latest Hicks memo on the subject, dated July 15, AARO “will serve as the authoritative office of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and UAP-related activities for the DoD.”
It will be DOD’s “focal point for all UAP and UAP-related activities” and may represent it to other federal agencies, Congress, the media, and the public, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs and Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.
AARO will be directly managed by Sean Kirkpatrick, whose most recent assignment was as Chief Scientist at DIA’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center.
Sean Kirkpatrick.DoD Photo
“Known as Dr. K to his staff and team, he brings over two decades of experience and a significant depth of expertise in scientific and technical intelligence (S&TI), S&TI and space policy, research and development, acquisitions, and operations, specializing in space/counterspace mission areas,” according to his official bio.
The issue of unidentified phenomena, whatever medium they exist in, has taken on greater public interest in recent years. In May of this year, Congress held its first UFO hearing in over 50 years. Earlier this month, we told you about an effort by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc) to give greater protections to those who have information about such things.
His proposed amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act was created to "establish a process within the government for reporting UAPs and provide whistleblower-like protections,” Gallagher’s spokesman Jordan Dunn told The War Zone at the time.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has also taken a recent interest in this issue.
In its Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) approved Wednesday, HPCSI required GAO historical study of IC [intelligence community] UAP activity, including a clause not seen in the Senate version: "efforts to recover or transfer related technologies to United States-based industry or National Laboratories."
In addition, the IAA also includes provisions introduced by Gallagher "including...a GAO review of US government records relating to the intelligence community's involvement with [UAP], including any efforts to track, identify, recover, transfer, or obfuscate [UAP]."
So yes, we are talking about investigating the military contractors for hiding parts of crashed craft and investigating the intelligence community for hiding major revelations about UFOs.
This is clearly uncharted territory.
Now that the Pentagon has given a new name to the office that will be its focal point for all UAP-related phenomena, wherever it is observed, it will be interesting to see what, if anything, AARO actually does.
A trove of newly released NASA documents about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) reveals some of the agency’s internal discussions about these mysterious sightings, according to the Black Vault, which obtained the materials via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and published them on Tuesday.
The documents showed that a meeting about a UAP—which are also sometimes referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs)—was put on NASA administrator Bill Nelson’s calendar in March. An email sent in May 2021, and marked “Internal Distribution Only,” provided guidelines for responding to interview questions on a range of topics associated with space research, including a subsection entitled, “Search for Life, Technosignatures, and UAP/UFOs.”
“Public and media interest in the topic of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon/Unidentified Flying Objects (UAP/UFOs) has seen an uptick in recent weeks following reports about the Department of Defense’s release of three unclassified Navy videos,” the NASA guidelines said. “Likewise, the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, signed in December 2020, stipulated the government had 180 days to gather and analyze data from disparate agencies.”
“Below is our response to the public and media who call for NASA comment,” the materials continued. “One of NASA’s key goals is the search for life in the universe. To date, NASA has yet to find any credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, however, NASA is exploring the solar system and beyond to help us answer fundamental questions, including whether we are alone in the universe. We stand ready to support the rest of the government in the search for life in the universe, be it close to home, on the planets or moons of our solar system, or deeper into space.”
The new FOIA drop also contains an invite to a virtual event entitled “Extreme Acceleration by UAPs,” scheduled for October 6, 2020, that was forwarded between NASA employees. The invite said the presentation would be delivered by Robert Powell, Executive Board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), with an introduction from Chris Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
“During our session, Robert will be discussing ‘Extreme Acceleration by UAPs and Sensors for Detection,’” according to the invite. “He will also be exploring a few relevant cases, including Stephenville and Puerto Rico. Robert has been an important leader, for some years now, among those seeking to bring serious scientific expertise and processes to bear on the UAP phenomenon.”
Though it’s intriguing to read through these documents, it’s not surprising that NASA discusses UAPs internally, given that the agency has also held public briefings on these unexplained observations on many occasions. Last month, for instance, NASA officials held a teleconference on new work that aims to “examine UAPs—observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena—from a scientific perspective,” according to a statement.
“Unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety. Establishing which events are natural provides a key first step to identifying or mitigating such phenomena, which aligns with one of NASA’s goals to ensure the safety of aircraft,” the statement read. “There is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin.”
Nasa may use satellites in hunt for aliens after surge in UFO sightings
Nasa may use satellites in hunt for aliens after surge in UFO sightings
Nasa deputy administrator Col Pam Melroy
Sarah Knapton in London
The US space agency Nasa is looking into repurposing satellites that are already in space to hunt for aliens. Last month, Nasa announced it was launching an eight-month inquiry to investigate hundreds of unexplained UFO sightings.
The inquiry is being led by Dr Thomas Zurbuchen, of Nasa’s Science Mission Directorate, who has now begun investigating whether satellites in orbit could be repurposed to give another view on strange aerial phenomena reported from Earth.
Speaking to journalists in London last week, Col Pam Melroy, deputy administrator of Nasa, said: “One of the big questions Thomas asked is, ‘We have a ton of satellites looking down at the Earth; are any of them useful?’
“Before you build a rover that’s going to Mars, you ask yourself, ‘What’s the sensor I have to build to detect the most interesting thing?’ How would you get the evidence that you need to be able to determine if it’s an optical phenomena or some other kind (of phenomena)?”
Bill Nelson, Nasa’s administrator, told reporters that he had read all the classified documents relating to UFOs and was convinced that nobody knew what they were.
Asked why Nasa was embarking on such a fringe subject, Nelson said one of the agency’s remits was to hunt for life outside Earth. He pointed out that in the past, even the greatest scientists had been disbelieved or ridiculed, including Galileo — condemned in the 17th century for saying the Earth revolved around the Sun— and Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s proved many objects thought to be clouds of dust and gas were galaxies.
“One of our missions is to reach out to see if there is life — that’s why we are digging on Mars right now,” he said. “Is there the possibility of life in something as big as the Universe? Of course there is the chance that, in somewhere as big as that, conditions similar to Earth existed, and some other kind of life form developed.
“Look at what Galileo had to face... and 100 years ago we still only thought there was one galaxy, and then Hubble came along and suddenly said, ‘No there are a bunch of galaxies out there’.”
Last June, the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAP) released a report into 144 UFO incidents between 2004 and 2021, many of which were spotted by military pilots. Even though investigators concluded there was no evidence that the objects came from outer space or a foreign adversary, they said most could not be explained.
The report authors said there was no doubt that the UAPs were physical objects, rather than optical illusions caused by atmospheric conditions or sensor malfunctions.
“I went to our chief scientist and said... we’re the scientific research agency and one of our missions is to look for life... there’s this phenomenon going on, so we should approach it from a scientific point of view,” said Mr Nelson.
Last year, US Navy pilot Lt Cmdr Alex Dietrich revealed she had seen multiple UFOs while she was stationed off the coast of southern California on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in 2004. They moved impossibly fast, she said, dropping a distance of 80,000ft in less than a second and jumping dozens of miles in seconds, in an incident caught on infrared camera and radar.
According to reports, Cmdr David Fravor, also stationed on the USS Nimitz, engaged one of the oblong objects, which disappeared, only to be picked up seconds later on ship radar 60 miles away.
Mr Nelson said he hoped the objects did not belong to an adversary as “they’ve got some real advanced technology”.
Dozens of UFO encounters by pilots officially released – including 'cigar-shaped' object
Dozens of UFO encounters by pilots officially released – including 'cigar-shaped' object
A file covering 14 years' worth of UFO sightings made by commercial airline pilots was obtained by UFO researcher Kyle Warfel using a Freedom of Information request
Dozens of astonishing UFO sightings witnessed by pilots and classified as "near misses" have been released by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The detailed list of reports covers UFO or so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) sightings from January 1, 2008 to the present.
The list, published on the Black Vault site, covers more than 60 “near miss” encounters with unexplained objects recorded by trained pilots in just 14 years.
Some of the unidentified objects appear to have been drones that were being flown irresponsible users, but others defy any rational explanation.
This 'shape-shifting' UFO was snapped by a plane passenger at 30,000ft, but wasn't included in the report(Image: YouTube/DiscloseScreenTheGrimreefar)
One, reported in July 2020, was a “very large, Frisbee or cigar shaped object that had no tail or ailerons moving very fast and low level”.
The mystery object was “a silver, white colour, almost transparent and it made no sound”.
Another unexplained “star-like” object was observed by an airline pilot to rapidly change altitudes before suddenly going into a hover.
75 years on from Roswell, there's still no adequate explanation for some of the strangest UFO phenomena(Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Not all pilots choose to report potential UFO sighting, for fear of harming their reputations. After a mysterious “line of lights” in the sky was sighted by multiple witnesses in Arizona in 2013, a pilot contacted by radar operators confirmed that he could see the objects but declined to make a report to the UFO hotline.
In some cases the mystery objects appear to chase the airliners.
Dozens of airline pilots and passengers have spotted hard-to-explain phenomena(Image: YouTube/DiscloseScreenTheGrimreefar)
Researcher Kyle Warfel, whose FOIA request led to the release of the sightings, said: “There are hundreds of thousands of UAP sightings every year around the globe and hundreds of thousands more that go unreported.
He’s convinced that the US government knows exactly what these objects are, but for some reason has chosen to keep that information secret.
“We have the ability to see license plates from orbit and yet we don’t have enough data to make a conclusion on what these things are?” He asked. “Bottom line, we cannot be trusted with the truth.”
The Pentagon has authorised the creation of a new office for investigating UFOs (Credit: Getty)
The question of whether aliens have come to Earth for a visit is under official investigation by the Americans.
A new office, called the ‘All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’ (AARO for short), has been created to ‘detect, identify and attribute objects of interest… and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security.’
The AARO will become the central hub for collecting, investigating and managing reports of UFO sightings around the world.
It will span the entire US Department of Defence, which includes the Army, Navy and Air Force.
A video grab image obtained April 28, 2020 courtesy of the US Department of Defense shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’. (Credit: Getty)
According to a statement from the Pentagon, they’ll be paying close attention to ‘anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects.’
If you’re not clear on what a ‘transmedium’ object is, it’s a craft capable of moving seamlessly between land, air and sea.
The AARO will be headed up by its new director: Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, who was most recently the chief scientist at the Defence Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center.
Sadly, they concluded there was no evidence of alien activity in any of them.
Have aliens already visited Earth? It’s unlikely. (Credits: Getty)
And, in all liklihood, the Pentagon has probably authorised the creation of the AARO not because of a concern over alien visitors, but because the US government is a bit nervy over other countries creating more advanced aerospace technology.
James Webb-telescoop loopt volgend jaar weer gevaar op beschadiging door gruis van komeet Halley
De James Webb-telescoop zal de komende twee jaar door stof en gruis vliegen, achtergelaten door de komeet Halley in ons zonnestelsel. Wetenschappers willen voorkomen dat de telescoop van 10 miljard dollar (9,8 miljard euro) opnieuw zou beschadigd raken zoals in mei van dit jaar.
Het is dus niet komeet Halley zelf die zou kunnen botsen met de James Webb-telescoop, ook al heeft die een omvang van zo’n 15 bij 8 kilometer. Halley draait immers maar ongeveer elke 75 jaar in een baan om de zon en wordt pas in 2061 weer in ons zonnestelsel verwacht. Dan zal Halley relatief dicht bij de aarde passeren, en dus mogelijk even helder als de helderste ster Sirius te zien zijn. Tegen die tijd is de Webb-telescoop er waarschijnlijk niet meer. De hoop is dat die het uithoudt tot begin de jaren 2040. Halley is, voor zover bekend, de enige komeet die twee keer in een mensenleven met het blote oog kan worden aanschouwd.
Kometen bestaan uit stof, rotsen en ijs. Als ze dicht bij de zon komen, smelten ze en stoten ze materiaal af. Ze laten gruis ter grootte van zandkorrels achter op hun weg naar en weer uit het zonnestelsel, zowel voor als na hun lus rond de zon. Ingenieurs houden rekening met ongeveer één inslag van een meteoroïde per maand, maar dat zou enorm kunnen toenemen als de telescoop door een meteorenzwerm reist.
NASA probeert meteorenzwermen te voorspellen voor de ingenieurs, zodat die de Webb-telescoop er, voor zover mogelijk, veilig door kunnen loodsen. Pieken worden verwacht in mei volgend jaar en het jaar daarop, wanneer Webb door de komeetstroom van Halley zal vliegen.
In onderstaande video zie je hoe de James Webb-telescoop eruitziet en waar hij voor gebruikt wordt:
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World’s Most Mysterious Extraterrestrial Incidents
World’s Most Mysterious Extraterrestrial Incidents
Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries looks at extraterrestrials. It first looks at (10) mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft, (9) ancient texts offering information on alien encounters, (8) the top secret military base Area 51, (7) strange ancient artifacts like the Antikythera mechanism and the Iron pillar of India, (6) crop circles, (5) close encounters of the third kind, (4) top secret projects, (3) the high probability of life in the universe, (2) encounters during space missions, and (1) unidentified flying objects.
ZWARTEGATENPOLITIE VINDT 'SPELD IN HOOIBERG': EERSTE SLAPENDE ZWARTE GAT VAN STELLAIRE MASSA BUITEN MELKWEG
ZWARTEGATENPOLITIE VINDT 'SPELD IN HOOIBERG': EERSTE SLAPENDE ZWARTE GAT VAN STELLAIRE MASSA BUITEN MELKWEG
Jeannette Kras
Het is een ontdekking van formaat: een slapend zwart gat bij onze buren in de Grote Magelhaense Wolk. En nog wel door een team dat normaal juist zwarte gaten ontmaskert.
Deze keer dus geen ontkrachting van het bestaan van een zwart gat, maar de bevestiging ervan. Het gaat meer precies om een slapend zwart gat van stellaire massa in het op twee na dichtstbij gelegen sterrenstelsel vanaf onze Melkweg. “Voor het eerst is ons team bijeengekomen om verslag uit te brengen over de ontdekking van een zwart gat, in plaats van er eentje te ontmaskeren”, aldus onderzoeksleider Tomer Shenar in een persbericht. Opmerkelijk is ook dat de stervende ster waaruit het zwarte gat is ontstaan, verdwenen lijkt te zijn zonder een krachtige explosie.
“We hebben een speld in een hooiberg gevonden”, zegt Shenar, die met zijn team zes jaar aan waarnemingen van de Very Large Telescope (VLT) van de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht (ESO) bestudeerde. Ze zijn niet de eerste die een slapend zwart gat met stellaire massa ontdekken buiten onze Melkweg. Het is wel de eerste keer dat het bestaan ervan ondubbelzinnig is vastgesteld. Het zwarte gat heeft zeker negen keer zoveel massa als onze zon en draait rond een hete, blauwe ster, die 25 keer zwaarder is dan de zon.
Instorten onder hun eigen zwaartekracht Als zware sterren aan het eind van hun leven onder hun eigen zwaartekracht instorten, ontstaan zwarte gaten van stellaire massa. Bij een dubbelster, waarbij twee sterren om elkaar draaien, vormt zich dan een zwart gat dat om de andere ster draait. Het wordt een slapend zwart gat genoemd, omdat het weinig straling uitzendt. Dat maakt het direct ook heel moeilijk om te vinden. “Het is ongelooflijk dat we nauwelijks voorbeelden van slapende zwarte gaten kennen, terwijl astronomen denken dat ze heel veel voorkomen”, legt medeauteur Pablo Marchant van de KU Leuven uit.
Een slapend zwart gat is nog moeilijker te vinden dan een gewoon zwart gat, omdat het zo weinig straling uitzendt en geen interactie heeft met zijn omgeving. “We zijn al meer dan twee jaar op zoek naar zulke dubbelsterren met een zwart gat”, zegt medeauteur Julia Bodensteiner, onderzoeker bij ESO in Duitsland. “Ik was dan ook erg enthousiast toen ik hoorde over VFTS 243, dat naar mijn mening de meest overtuigende kandidaat tot nu toe is.”
Twijfels Ze spreekt nog steeds over ‘kandidaat’, omdat het ongelooflijk moeilijk is om vast te stellen of het echt een slapend zwart gat is. Er zijn namelijk vele alternatieve verklaringen. “Als onderzoeker die de afgelopen jaren diverse potentiële zwarte gaten heeft ontmaskerd, was ik uiterst sceptisch over deze ontdekking”, zegt Shenar. Medeauteur Kareem El-Badry van het Center for Astrophysics van Harvard & Smithsonian in de VS, had hetzelfde. “Toen Tomer me vroeg om zijn bevindingen te controleren, had ik mijn twijfels. Maar ik kon geen plausibele verklaring voor de gegevens vinden waar geen zwart gat aan te pas kwam”, legt El-Badry uit.
De Tarantulanevel.
Foto: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Wong et al., ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey
Het onderzoeksteam heeft bijna duizend zware sterren in de Tarantulanevel in de Grote Magelhaense Wolk onderzocht in de hoop er eentje te vinden waar een zwart gat omheen draait. Uiteindelijk vonden ze VFTS 243. “De ster die het zwarte gat in VFTS 243 heeft gevormd, lijkt volledig te zijn ingestort, zonder enig teken van een voorgaande explosie”, legt Shenar uit. “De laatste tijd zijn meer aanwijzingen voor dit ‘direct-collapse’-scenario ontdekt, maar ons onderzoek levert aantoonbaar een van de hardste bewijzen. Dit heeft enorme implicaties voor de oorsprong van samensmeltende zwarte gaten in het heelal.”
Zwartegatenpolitie Zijn team staat bekend als de ‘zwartegatenpolitie’, omdat het zich normaal gesproken vooral bezighoudt met het ontkrachten van ontdekkingen van zwarte gaten door aan te tonen dat het toch om iets anders gaat. Toch hoopt het team nu dat hun ontdekking andere wetenschappers ertoe aanzet om ook op zoek te gaan naar zwarte gaten van stellaire massa die om zware sterren draaien. De verwachting is dat er duizenden zijn in ons Melkwegstelsel en in de Magelhaense Wolken. “Natuurlijk verwacht ik dat anderen onze analyse zorgvuldig bestuderen en alternatieve modellen proberen te bedenken”, besluit El-Badry. Maar tot nu toe is dat dus nog niet gelukt.
VFTS 243 Hieronder zie je een video van hoe de dubbelster VFTS 243 in de Tarantulanevel eruit zou kunnen zien. De ster en het zwarte gat zijn niet op schaal getekend: in werkelijkheid is de blauwe ster ongeveer 200.000 keer zo groot als het zwarte gat. Door de hoek van de dubbelster kunnen we vanaf de aarde niet zien hoe het zwarte gat de ster verduistert.
Grote Magelhaense Wolk De Grote Magelhaense Wolk is een sterrenstelsel op ongeveer 170.000 lichtjaar van de Aarde. Daarmee is dit het op twee na dichtstbijzijnde sterrenstelsel vanaf onze Melkweg. Het heeft echter maar een honderdste van de massa van ons eigen sterrenstelsel. De diameter is 14.000 lichtjaar. Het is een onregelmatig sterrenstelsel dat in het centrum toch enkele balkvormige structuren heeft. Mogelijk komt de onregelmatigheid door interactie met de Melkweg en de Kleine Magelhaense Wolk (een dwergsterrenstelsel met een diameter van 7000 lichtjaar). ‘s Nachts is de Grote Magelhaense Wolk op het zuidelijk halfrond te zien als een vage wolk. Het sterrenstelsel is voor het eerst waargenomen in het jaar 964. Maar pas in 1519 maakte Ferdinand Magellaan in de westerse wereld melding van het bestaan van de wolk.
De Lokale groep De Grote Magelhaense Wolk is het op drie na grootste sterrenstelsel in de Lokale Groep. Dit is een groep van meer dan veertig sterrenstelsels. De diameter is ongeveer 10 miljoen lichtjaar. De twee grootste sterrenstelsels zijn de Andromedanevel en daarna onze eigen Melkweg. Dit zijn spiraalvormige sterrenstelsels, terwijl de Grote Magelhaense Wolk een wolkvormige structuur heeft.
De Tarantulanevel is een extreem felle nevel die deel uitmaakt van de Grote Magelhaense Wolk. Hij heeft een massa van ongeveer 450.000 keer onze zon en ligt op ongeveer 179.000 lichtjaar van de aarde. Het is een emissienevel in het sterrenbeeld goudvis, die bestaat uit een wervelende wolk kosmisch gas. De kern wordt gevormd door een paar van de helderste en massiefste sterren ooit waargenomen.
The Norse God Odin: Viking God of War, Father of Thor, But There’s More
The Norse God Odin: Viking God of War, Father of Thor, But There’s More
Odin is the chief deity of the Norse pantheon. Although Odin was worshipped more generally in Germanic paganism, the information we have today about this god is derived mostly from Norse mythology. These pieces of information include both written sources, such as myths, and archaeological finds, that combined paint a complex picture of this Norse (Viking) god. Consequently, it is difficult to figure out Odin’s exact role and character. Nevertheless, in general, Odin is viewed as a wise deity, in addition to his role as the Norse god of war. Apart from that, he was also associated with death, poetry, magic, and prophecy. As the primary god of the Norse pantheon, Odin plays an important role in many myths. And he was also the father of the mighty Thor, who is so loved in modern popular culture for his strength.
Odin, the supreme god in Norse mythology, on his throne with his magical ravens.
The Norse God Odin Was Also a Primary Germanic Deity
The name Odin is said to be derived from Proto-Germanic “Wodanaz,” which may be translated variously to mean “the fury,” “the furious,” “the inspired,” and “the inspiring.” One of the earliest textual references to the god Odin is found in Germania, written by the Roman historian Tacitus in the 1st century AD. In his work, Tacitus wrote that the “Of all the gods, Mercury is he whom they worship most. To him on certain stated days it is lawful to offer even human victims.” It has been pointed out that since Mercury’s day was identified as Wednesday, or “Woden’s day,” Tacitus was referring to Odin when he mentioned that the ancient Germans worshipped Mercury
Tacitus’ statement, however, must be taken with a pinch of salt. Whilst Odin was certainly a major deity amongst the ancient Germans , there is insufficient evidence to show that his cult was primary to all the Germanic tribes. In other words, Tacitus may have been making a sweeping generalization about the religious beliefs of the people he was writing about. Additionally, it has been suggested that whilst the elites may have venerated Odin, he may have been less popular amongst the common people compared to his son, Thor.
Ymir, the first Norse jotunn giant, sucks at the udder of Auðumbla as she licks Búri out of the ice in a painting by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1790.
Odin: The Viking Creator God And His Many Children
One of Odin’s many epithets was “All-father.” Apart from the belief that he fathered many gods with various women (more about which in a moment), Odin was also regarded as a creator god. According to one myth, in the beginning, there was a vast emptiness called Ginnungagap. From this nothingness, two realms, Niflheim and Muspelheim, emerged. Niflheim was located to the north of Ginnungagap, and was an extremely cold place, with nothing but ice, frost, and fog. Muspelheim, by contrast, formed in the south of Ginnungagap, and was a hot place, with only fire, lava, and smoke.
In spite of these harsh conditions, life appeared. In Niflheim was a spring called Hvergelmir, which the Norse believed was the source of all the cold rivers. There were 11 cold rivers, collectively known as Elivagar. The water from these rivers flowed from the mountains to the plain of Ginnungagap, where it froze, forming a solid layer of ice. As time went by, the ice layer expanded. At the same time, lava was flowing from Muspelheim onto the plain of Ginnungagap. Eventually, the two met in the middle of Ginnungagap.
The meeting of the hot and cold elements resulted in the melting of the ice. The melted ice began to drip, and a human-like creature began to form in the ice. This was Ymir, the first jotunn, or giant, in Norse mythology.
When Ymir slept, he began to sweat, and from these bodily fluids, two more giants, one male, and the other female, were born. Additionally, a third giant, another son called Thrudgelmir (meaning “Strength Yeller”) was born when one of Ymir’s legs paired with the other. The children of Ymir were the first of the frost giants, and were breastfed by Audhumbla, a giant cow, who, like Ymir, was created from the melting of the ice in Ginnungagap.
Audhumbla nourished herself by licking a block of salty ice. It was from this action that the first Norse god came into being. On the first day that the giant cow licked the block of salty ice, some human hair appeared. On the second day, a head emerged, and on the third, the rest of the body was freed. This was Buri, the first of the gods. Buri, through some unknown process, fathered a son, Borr, who later took Bestla (believed to be a jotunn) as his wife. Borr and Bestla were the parents of Odin, Vili, and Ve, the first of the Aesirs, one of the two main groups of gods in Norse mythology.
The three brothers noticed that the Aesirs were outnumbered by the jotnar, who were producing new giants at a rapid pace. They reasoned that the only way to solve this problem was to kill Ymir. Therefore, Odin and his brothers waited for the giant to fall asleep, before attacking him. Ymir, however, woke up, and a terrible fight ensued. In the end, Ymir was slain. So much blood flowed from the jotunn’s corpse that most of his offspring were drowned in it. Only two giants managed to escape. Using Ymir’s remains, Odin and his brothers created the world.
Thor, the Norse god of lightning, is one of Odin's sons and probably the most famous of Norse deities in popular culture today.
Odin Was the Father of Many Including the Great God Thor
The Norse also believed that Odin and his brothers created the first human beings, though this appears to be unconnected to the creation myth. According to this story, Odin and his brothers were walking along a beach when they came across two logs, one from an ash, and the other from an elm .
The gods decided to create humans out of the logs. Therefore, Odin gave the logs spirit and life, Ve gave them movement, mind, and intelligence, whilst Vili gave them shape, speech, feelings, and the five senses. The first man was called Ask, and the first woman Embla. The pair were placed by the gods in Midgard.
Odin was also the father of many of the other Norse gods. Odin’s wife was the goddess Frigg , with whom he had two sons, Baldur and Hod, who were direct opposites of each other. For instance, whilst Baldur represented light, Hod represented darkness (he is even depicted as being blind).
Odin also had sons with other women, many of whom were jotnar. For example, one of the best-known Norse gods, Thor, was the son of Odin and a jotunn named Jord. Another jotunn, Gridr, had a son, Vidarr, with Odin. According to prophecy, Vidarr, the god of vengeance, would avenge his father’s death during the Ragnarok. Another of Odin’s sons, Vali, was the offspring of the jotunn Rindr, and was destined to avenge the death of Baldur.
The heavenly palatial palace of Valhalla, depicted in this old painting by Max Brückner, was Odin's home.
Odin: The Norse God of War and His Palatial Valhalla Palace
In addition to his role as a creator god, Odin was worshipped as the Norse god of war. For instance, he was seen as a protector of Viking warriors. Additionally, the Norse thought that Odin never lost a battle, with some even believing that it was impossible for the god to lose a battle.
Most importantly, the Norse believed that those who died honorably in combat had the chance of entering Valhalla(meaning “Hall of the Slain”), Odin’s palatial home. The slain warriors are recruited by Odin’s daughters, the Valkyries (literally meaning “dead choosers”), and lived in Valhalla, where they would feast daily, and prepare for the final Ragnarok battle. On the day of the final battle these warriors, known as the einherjar, would fight alongside Odin and the rest of the Norse gods against their enemies.
Even though Odin was a warrior god, he did not win his battles with mere brute force and power. Indeed, the Norse also considered Odin to be a full of wisdom. Odin’s wisdom is most famously represented by his depiction as a one-eyed man. According to Norse mythology, the wisest god amongst the Aesir was Mimir, whose origin is not entirely clear. This god was renowned for his knowledge and prophetic wisdom.
In one myth, Mimir is depicted as the caretaker of the Well of Knowledge (known also as Mimir’s Well). Odin, in his quest for knowledge, journeys to this well, so that he could drink from it. Although Odin was allowed to drink from the well, he had to sacrifice one of his eyes for the privilege.
The Well of Knowledge is believed to be located in Jotunheim, the land of the giants, which suggests that Mimir was a jotunn. In another myth, however, Mimir is depicted as an Aesir. In this myth, the Aesir were at war with the Vanir, the other major group of Norse gods. In the end, the Aesir and Vanir made peace, and exchanged hostages.
On the one hand, the Vanir sent some of their most prized members, such as Njord, Freyr, and Freyja, to the Aesir. On the other hand, Aesir sent Mimir and Hoenir to the Vanir.
Whilst Mimir was a powerful god, Hoenir is said to have been a weak and indecisive deity. When the Vanir discovered this, they took it as an insult, and executed Mimir in retaliation. The god’s severed head was sent to Odin, who magically reanimated it.
Mimir’s head, therefore, became a source of knowledge, and Odin relied on its counsel when he needed to make important decisions.
In this vintage illustration Odin is seated on his throne with his magical messengers: two ravens and two wolves.
The Source of Odin’s Knowledge and Wisdom: Ravens and Wolves
Mimir was not the only source of knowledge that Odin had access to. The Norse believe that the god kept a pair of ravens, Huginn and Muninn (whose names literally mean “Thought” and “Memory”). Each morning, the birds would travel across the Nine Worlds to observe all that was going on. At night, Huginn and Muninn would return to Odin, and report to him all they had seen. It was through these ravens that Odin learned about everything that went on in each realm.
Apart from the ravens, Odin also kept a pair of wolves, Grei and Freki (meaning “Ravenous,” and “Greedy One”). The pair were supposedly created when Odin felt lonely. In his role as a warrior god, the wolves were perfect companions for Odin, as they would scour the battlefield, and feast on those who died in battle. Additionally, Odin’s mount was an eight-legged horse named Sleipnir (meaning “Slipper”).
In the epic and final Ragnarok battle, Odin dies in the jaws of the wolf Fenrir.
Ragnarok: The Death of Odin in Fenrir’s Killer Wolf Jaws
Although Odin was an immensely powerful god, he too would perish one day, at the Ragnarok (meaning “Fate of the Gods”). The Norse believed that this would be the final battle at the end of the current cosmic order. The events of Ragnarok, including Odin’s own death, are said to have been prophesied by the god himself, but even he is powerless to prevent it from happening.
According to Norse mythology, Ragnarok will be preceded by a series of portents, including the birth of three monsters to Loki and Angrboda, his giantess wife, the death of Baldur, terrible winters, and the subversion of the cosmic order.
As Ragnarok approaches, the various combatants would converge on Vigrid (meaning ‘Field of Battle’), where the final battle would be fought. The gods, both Aesir and Vanir, and their followers would do battle with the forces of Loki and the jotnar. The gods would be led by Odin, wearing a gold helmet and hauberk, and armed Gungnir, his magical spear. At Ragnarok, Odin’s chief adversary was to be the Fenrir, the great wolf, and one of Loki’s offspring.
Odin foresaw that he would fight valiantly against the monstrous wolf but would, in the end, be devoured by it. Odin’s death, however, would be avenged by his son, Vidar, who rips apart Fenrir’s jaw, thereby killing the beast.
Although Ragnarok is depicted as a devastating event, it did not signal the end of the world. Odin prophesied that some of the gods would survive, in addition to a pair of humans, who would go on to repopulate the world.
Odin Remains The Chief Deity of Asir and the Norse Pantheon
To conclude, Odin is the chief deity of the Asir, and by extension, the Norse pantheon. This is clearly reflected in the fact that he is present in the major Norse myths from the creation of the world to the destruction of the current cosmos.
Although Odin is depicted as a warrior god, he is also believed to have been full of wisdom. Poetry, magic, and prophecy were also associated with this god. The last of these enabled Odin to foresee the events of Ragnarok.
Despite being a powerful god, and having won all the battles he fought, Odin was not invincible. This is almost human trait is well captured by Odin seeing his death in his fight with Fenrir at Ragnarok, and that he was powerless to change this fate.
Top image: An old wooden statue of the Norse God Odin standing alone on the shore of a lonely Scandinavian fjord.
Dr. Steven Greer: “Anyone Who Knows This Material Would Have A Bullet With His Name On It.”
Dr. Steven Greer: “Anyone Who Knows This Material Would Have A Bullet With His Name On It.”
For those who don’t know who Steven Macon Greer is, we will clarify that he is an American retired doctor and U̳F̳O̳logist. Steven was born on June 28, 1955.
He is the founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), and the initiator of The Disclosure Project. Both of these projects are trying to uncover allegedly confidential U̳F̳O̳ data.
We recommend that you watch the video attached to this text and judge for yourself: Is Dr. Steven Greer is right when he says, “Anyone who knows this material would have a bullet with his name on it.”
Ufology career
Greer founded the Center for the Study of E̳x̳t̳r̳a̳-T̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ Intelligence (CSETI) in 1990 to create a diplomatic and research-based initiative to contact e̳x̳t̳r̳a̳t̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ c̳i̳v̳i̳l̳i̳z̳a̳t̳i̳o̳n̳s̳. The group defined CE-5 or ‘close encounters of the fifth kind’ as human initiated contact and communication with e̳x̳t̳r̳a̳t̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ life. CSETI claims to have over 3,000 confirmed reports of U̳F̳O̳ sightings by pilots and over 4,000 of what they describe as landing traces. The organisation utilizes ‘Rapid Mobilisation Investigative Teams’ with the aim of arriving at landing sites as quickly as possible. CSETI has defined a protocol for human initiated contact to U̳F̳O̳s using consciousness.
In 1993, Greer founded the Disclosure Project, the goal of which is to publicly disclose the government’s alleged knowledge of U̳F̳O̳s, e̳x̳t̳r̳a̳t̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ intelligence, and advanced energy and propulsion systems. The Disclosure Project was founded in an effort to grant amnesty to government whistle-blowers willing to violate their security oaths by sharing classified information about U̳F̳O̳s. Greer claims to have briefed CIA director James Woolsey at a dinner party, although Woolsey disputes the accuracy of Greer’s claim.
In May 2001, Greer held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that featured 20 retired Air Force, Federal Aviation Administration and intelligence officers.
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Roswell Alien Interview between Matilda O'Donnell MacElroy and Airl after a UFO crash in July 1947
On July 7, 1947, an object crash landed on a ranch, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell, leaving a large field of debris. The local air base at Roswell investigated after the rancher first reported it to Roswell authorities on July 7. On July 8, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) announced it had recovered a "flying disk". A few hours after the initial "flying disk" press release, U.S. Army Air Force officials stated that it was not a UFO, but a weather balloon. When the question of what crashed was revived in the early 1980s, the "Roswell Incident" became a focus of conspiracy theorists, "abductees," and UFO investigators. It is believed the crashed UFO's were used for reverse engineering, explaining the rapid advancement in technology since that time.
NASA is planning to send an army of mini swimming robots to find the aliens in the oceans of other planets. Such a plan could be used to detect signs of alien life beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. But what about our home planet? Does NASA have any plan to explore our oceans? Have they already found everything about the only Blue planet in the Solar system? Or is something stopping them to do it? Interestingly, UFO expert Anna Whitty came forward with a strange theory that says “Aliens have been living under Earth’s ocean for protection and have always been here on the planet.”
Anna Whitty, an author of the book “UFO: A Fundamental Truth,” made the claim on the official statement of Dr. Shirley Wright, who interviewed aliens found at the Roswell crash site in 1947. Whitty stated that aliens are actually just humans – but an advanced form.
In a recently aired two-hour documentary on the UFO crash called “Roswell 75: The Final Evidence,” Anna Whitty was featured alongside expert Philip Mantle, director and producer Spyros Melaris, and Dr. David Hall.
The documentary also featured an interview where Dr. Shirley Wright, a former colleague of Albert Einstein stated that the aliens inquired about human exploration inside the ocean, they asked: “how far into the ocean” the humans traveled.
Anna Whitty. Image credit: Daily Star
Whitty did an interviewer with the Daily Star, elaborating more on her claim, she said that if whatever Wright had documented through her interview is correct, then it is more believable for the aliens to come from under the sea rather than from another planet.
“If what Shirley said is right, it is more likely that aliens come from somewhere under the sea or caves or something like that, rather than another planet, it makes sense because there’s a lot of evidence on the planet that there has been a massive cataclysm every few thousand years,” Whitty said.
“If humans on the surface are being reset to the Stone Age every several thousands of years, and these people are somewhere where they are more protected because they are underground, then perhaps their development in technology and intelligence is continuing on an upwards trajectory whereas we’re reset. It’s also possible that maybe they aren’t beings at all, but they can make you think you’re seeing what you’re not seeing,” she added.
The documentary dives deep into the incident, examining the eyewitness accounts, the involvement of the space propaganda by the major powers, as well as several secret projects that were assumed to be covered up with the help of this incident.
Whitty’s theory of aliens being “underwater entities” could have some meaning as after all, there are videos of UFOs diving into the water. Below is the footage filmed in the CIC (Combat Information Center) of the USS Omaha on July 15, 2019, in a warning area off San Diego. This footage depicts a UAP event series that reached the culmination with one of the unknown targets entering the water. No wreckage was found, and none of the unknown craft was recovered.
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French had served in the US army for more than 27 years. He was an alleged lead investigator of the Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs. In Newfoundland, Canadian Province, he saw two aliens repairing their ship submerged underwater.
US Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French during his interview with openmindstv
French testified about his work on UFOs in 1952, in front of 6 former members of Congress at the Citizen Hearing in 2013. He recalled seeing two alien crafts below the water surface, 6 meters from the shoreline. He also saw two extraterrestrials near the ships. He remembered the water was clear, so he could see those beings doing something at the bottom of the craft.
“The water was fairly clear and I could see without any trouble. They weren’t down at the bottom of the [seabed] — they were about halfway down,” French said. He believed the aliens were repairing the ships and tested them before leaving. Whatever happened in Newfoundland is the classic UFO story ever given by the army official. Even though he was chosen to debunk UFO stories, he undoubtedly said that it was a UFO and there were extraterrestrials.
The idea that the ocean is inhabited by extraterrestrials can be backed by these incidents.
An incredible account of spotting underwater UFOs, or Underwater Submerged Objects (USOs), was shared by former Gunner’s Mate John Baughman, who served in the U.S. Navy from 2008 to 2013. He was stationed on the United States Navy’s third Nimitz-class supercarrier “The USS Carl Vinson” in 2010 when he first saw Tic Tac UFO underwater.
Capt. Kent D. Whalen and John Baughman, 2011
He said: “I was staring into the water from above when a large, flat, white ’Tic Tac’ object, approximately twenty feet in length, suddenly appeared in my view below me, moving right and darted into the depths as fast as it appeared. I couldn’t really comprehend what I saw. It was definitely a solid object, but when it descended, its forward end rapidly collapsed in on itself and disappeared.”
Another USO encounter occurred with the crew of the Soviet Submarine in the south of the Pacific ocean. At the depth of 260 meters, the six disc-like objects were moving toward the submarine at the speed of 426 km per hour. The crew could not escape their pursuit, and the commander ordered the crew to rise to the surface. The crew saw through the periscope that the objects came out of the water and took off at an absurdly fast speed.
There are classic alien abduction cases where the witnesses recalled being taken to secret underwater bases. The abduction of Betty Andreasson Luca is considered to be one of the most documented cases in the history of Ufology. The woman from Massachusetts experienced multiple abductions, and her case is widely studied by UFO researchers. (Click here to read the story of Betty Luca)
Betty Andreasson Luca
During one of her hypnotic regression sessions, Betty remembered one of the early abductions that occurred to her in her childhood. It took place in 1950, when she was taken from her home into a spacecraft as usual. But this time, the craft was flying toward an ocean or sea. She was terrified that the craft would crash into the water. But the ship submerged into the water and entered into a kind of tunnel. Betty could see everything underwater, as the place was filled with light.
Next is “Filiberto Cardenas Encounter,” where he claimed to have been taken to a secret underwater hangar, and interestingly, his abduction was witnessed by his friend’s family.
He remembered being taken to some unknown beach where he saw deep blue water. He said one of the aliens got out of the object and opened a secret tunnel, from where a similar craft came and flew away. The craft which he was in also went into the tunnel with great speed underwater. Soon, he was at the secret “large hangar” under the sea.
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Saudi Arabia plans a massive desert SIDESCRAPER: MBS unveils 75 mile-long, $1 trillion skyscraper called the Mirror Line that will be taller than the Empire State Building and house up to five million people
Saudi Arabia plans a massive desert SIDESCRAPER: MBS unveils 75 mile-long, $1 trillion skyscraper called the Mirror Line that will be taller than the Empire State Building and house up to five million people
Saudi Arabia plans on building a 75-mile skyscraper called the Mirror Line by 2030
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced in January 2021 and said he wanted to be greater than the Egyptian Pyramids
The Mirror Line will consist of two 1,600 feet tall buildings that run parallels to each other and go across desert, mountains, and coastal areas
When completed, the $1 trillion megabuilding will hold up to 5million people and people will be able to commute end-to-end in 20 minutes
Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a $1 trillion, 75 mile long skyscraper made of mirrored glass that will stretch across its desert and stand taller than the Empire State Building.
The Mirror Line will be a part of the desert city called the Neom - that will be around the size of Massachusetts - which Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced in January 2021.
He did so after saying he wanted his country to house a construction project as iconic and timeless as the Pyramids of Egypt.
'The Line is a project that is a civilizational revolution that puts humans first,' he said at the time.
The Mirror Line will consist of two 1,600 feet tall buildings that run parallel to each other across 75 miles of desert, coastal, and mountain landscapes.
Prince MBS has claimed he wants the Mirror Line to be ready by 2030, although engineers have said it could take 50 years to construct.
The building is so long that it will sit on struts to take the curvature of the Earth into account, and will also have a high speed train line running underneath its length.
If fully completed, the skyscraper will run from the Gulf of Aqaba, through a mountain range, and then extend along the coast into a desert 'aerotropolis,' the Wall Street Journal reported.
Salman also said that the project aimed to allow a million residents to meet within a five-minute walk and to travel end-to-end within a 20-minute stretch. It will also reportedly be powered by renewable energy.
The Mirror Line (pictured) will be a part of the desert city called the Noem - which will be around the size of Massachusetts. The 75-mile skyscraper will house two 1,600 feet tall buildings that run parallel to each other
The Mirror Line will have vegetation, including vertical farming, a high-speed train, and create thousands of jobs
The futuristic buildings feature a silver shine and an intricate inside, with stairwells and greenery and homes to create a linear community.
The trillions-of-dollars project is expected to house five million people after its completion and a high-speed train will run underneath the buildings, according to the Wall Street Journal. It will also feature a marina for boats underneath the arch of the buildings.
The community of millions will also be fed through vertical farming that will be integrated into the walls of the shiny buildings and residents will reportedly pay a subscription for three meals a day.
Prince MBS insists the buildings will be totally carbon neutral and good for the local environment.
The reflective buildings will house around five million people and residents will be able to get end-to-end in 20 minutes through renewable energy trains
The Line is located near the coastal area of the country
Desert living won't just be hot, sticky, and sandy, but the Mirror Line will also feature a sports stadium that is set to be 1,000 feet above the ground.
Salman is also hoping the Neom, as a whole, will create thousands of new jobs and let the oil-rich country stop being so dependent on the resource for wealth, according to the Wall Street Journal.
However, foreign investments in the Neom have not been so forthcoming as many Western countries continue to boycott the country over alleged human rights violations. Salman has been accused of ordering the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, but the Crown Prince has denied any involvement.
Others who have fewer political scruples have questioned whether the projects devised are just too ambitious. Saudi Arabia previously abandoned plans to build a mile-high skyscraper that would have been the world's tallest after getting into funding difficulties.
US President Joe Biden, 79, met with the Crown Prince last week to talk over the broken relationships between the countries. Bitterness between the two subsided a little as Biden is hoping a relationship with the Crown Prince will help lower inflation rates in the US, according to the Wall Street Journal.
High oil prices are actually helping Salman continue forth with the Mirror Line and Neom, as it is providing funding for the expensive project, the Wall Street Journal said.
Salman is hoping to great a desert community known as Neom
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The futuristic community is supposed to rival the Egyptian Pyramids
However, Neom also faced human rights criticism when it was announced after tribes were forcibly removed from the area and security allegedly shot a resident dead.
The project's completion date is set for 2030, but builders and urban planners are struggling to resolve many questions. The project was originally set to be completed in 50 years.
Planners are struggling to answer if residents would consider living in a high-rise building after the pandemic, the migration of animals and birds, and how to deal with the structure impacting the flow of groundwater.
Environmental planners say the sheer size and length of the Mirror Line will disrupt migratory bird patterns - and the mirrored glazing of the building could further confuse them, pouring water on the project's desire to be planet-friendly.
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‘We Have UFO Craft’ – Jeremy Corbell Says there’s Alien PROOF Being Kept Secret
‘We Have UFO Craft’ – Jeremy Corbell Says there’s Alien PROOF Being Kept Secret
Jeremy Corbell says UFO aren’t just real, but there is physical evidence they’ve been here.
He’s revealed countless, verified reports. And he says he has a WHOLE lot more…
It’s the age old question.. are we alone in the universe? Soon, we might get some answers.
For the first time in 50 years U.S military officials have gone before a Congress hearing, releasing once classified videos from fighter pilots’ cockpits.
One shows a fleeting image of a spherical object speeding past a military fighter jet.
It’s led to the inquiry which heard about hundreds of unexplained encounters. A Government report last year acknowledged that between 2004 and 2021 that there were 144 unexplained sightings.
Since then the number’s grown to 400.
Investigative UFO filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has obtained and released history making video, many of which have triggered the US government into action.
A crop circle found in England over the weekend mysteriously transformed into a second design the following day. The unique case began on Sunday morning when a formation (seen above) featuring a flattened circle surrounding crops that had been shaped into a hexagon was discovered at a site known as Barbury Castle in the county of Wiltshire. As is so often the case, researchers quickly set about studying the design and offering their interpretations of what it might mean, with some noting that it appeared to be the method with which Archimedes approximated pi. However, it would seem that the creator of the crop formation wasn't quite finished as the design dramatically changed overnight.
When the sun rose on Monday morning, the formation (seen below) had taken on a whole new look with the hexagon of crops at the center of the circle having been transformed into 12 'blades' comprised of four triangles each. One is left to wonder if the extremely rare two-phase design was intentional on the part of its creator or if they were forced to abandon their work and came back later to finish it. Should the second scenario be the case, their determination is admirable, since returning to the proverbial scene of the crop crime is a rather risky gambit. That said, whether they were aliens from another world or humans with boards and rope, they somehow managed to complete the formation without anyone catching them.
Boeing 747 Followed by a UFO | An Out Of This World Encounter | Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
Boeing 747 Followed by a UFO | An Out Of This World Encounter | Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
The crew of a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 first witnessed two unidentified objects to their left. These abruptly rose from below and closed in to escort their aircraft. Find out what happened next.
Vrede in de ruimte? Russische en Europese astronaut maken zeldzame gezamenlijke ruimtewandeling
Twee astronauten, een Europese en een Russische, hebben donderdag de luchtsluis van het internationale ruimtestation verlaten voor een ruimtewandeling, de eerste keer in meer dan 20 jaar dat een dergelijke gezamenlijke onderneming heeft plaatsgevonden.
Samantha Cristoforetti, een Italiaanse astronaut van het Europees Ruimteagentschap, en de Russische kosmonaut Oleg Artemyev betraden het vacuüm van de ruimte in hun witte ruimtepakken en hebben ongeveer zeven uur gewerkt aan de installatie van een 3,5 meter lange robotarm op een van de modules van het ruimtestation.
Ruimtewandelingen zijn een routine op het ISS, maar meestal gaat het om twee Amerikanen of Europeanen, een Amerikaan en een Europeaan, of twee Russen die samenwerken. De laatste keer dat een Europese astronaut en een Russische kosmonaut samen het ISS verlieten in een Orlan-ruimtepak van Russische makelij was in april 1999 volgens de NASA.
Conflict Oekraïne
De ruimtewandeling is Cristoforetti’s eerste en Artemyev’s zesde. Hun gezamenlijke onderneming komt op een moment dat de spanningen op aarde tussen Rusland en de Verenigde Staten en hun bondgenoten een hoogtepunt hebben bereikt door de oorlog in Oekraïne, hoewel NASA herhaaldelijk heeft gezegd dat het conflict geen invloed heeft gehad op de samenwerking in de ruimte.
Dit is de derde ruimtewandeling die ISS-astronauten hebben uitgevoerd om te werken aan de installatie van de Europese robotarm, die in staat zal zijn om objecten in en uit het ruimtestation te verplaatsen voor onderhoud en zelfs de buitenkant van het ruimtestation te inspecteren met behulp van ingebouwde camera’s. De arm, die de derde robotarm zal zijn die aan het ISS wordt bevestigd en de enige die in staat is om het door Rusland gecontroleerde deel van het ruimtestation te bereiken, wordt bevestigd aan de buitenkant van de nieuwe Russische ruimtestationmodule, Nauka genaamd.
De ruimtewandeling is de zesde die tot nu toe in het ISS is uitgevoerd in 2022 en de 251ste in totaal. Astronauten verlaten routinematig het station om de buitenkant te onderhouden, nieuwe hardware te installeren of wetenschappelijke experimenten uit te voeren.
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Pilot snaps cockpit picture of mysterious red glow in clouds over Atlantic Ocean that some likened to a 'watergate' portal to the Upside Down in Netflix's Stranger Things
Pilot snaps cockpit picture of mysterious red glow in clouds over Atlantic Ocean that some likened to a 'watergate' portal to the Upside Down in Netflix's Stranger Things
Three eerie images photographed over the Atlantic Ocean were posted to Reddit on July 22 with a note saying the pilot who took the pictured had 'never seen anything like it'
Redditors scrambled to solve the mystery while also reveling in comparisons to an underwater portal to the hellish Upside Down in Netflix's Stanger Things
Others speculated the lights could be the end of times, or aliens
Among the more sensible theories was that the lights emanated from a fishing boat using red LED panels to attract schools of saury fish
A mysterious fiery red glow photographed by a pilot as he passed over clouds above the Atlantic Ocean have sparked comparisons with a 'watergate' - an underwater portal to the nightmarish parallel universe, the Upside Down - in Netflix's hit show Stranger Things.
The three eerie images, taken on July 22, were posted to Reddit with the hopes of unraveling the mystery and included a note saying the pilot 'says he's never seen anything like it'.
There, they spawned a frenzy of theories and comments ranging from comparisons to scenes from the latest series of Netflix's hit show Stranger Things, to others that suggested it was most likely a fishing boat using large panels of red LED lights to attract schools of saury fish.
However, without closer inspection, the cause cannot be known for certain. So far the pilot has remained anonymous and there is no indication of how low he was flying or where over the Atlantic he saw the mysterious scene.
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Stranger Things: Pictured is one of three images taken by a pilot of an eerie red light through clouds above the Atlantic Ocean
The images were posted to Reddit with a note that the pilot had never seen anything like it before. Reddit commenters immediately compared the mysterious scene to the latest series of Stranger Things where an underwater portal to the nightmarish Upside Down opens under Lovers' Lake in the very unfortunate town of Hawkins. More sensible commenters said it was most likely caused by a fishing vessel using red lights to draw schools of saury fish
Saury fishing uses hundreds of massive LED lights on fishing boats' perimeters to attract fish, allowing them to be easily scooped up in nets. It is most often seen in the Pacific Ocean but the Atlantic saury is found from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada to Bermuda.
Although LED is the preferred option for fishing boats, due to its its higher efficiency and lower weight, the fishing boat below could be using another lighting solution like high-intensity discharge (HID). Its intense glow through the clouds suggests use of HID which would explain the volume of light escaping upwards in the photos.
Saury fish are attracted to bright, red lights. The ships, which are large, are able to lure in thousands of fish that it simply vacuums up.
When lights are placed under the water, they reflect off particles in the water. These tiny little particles enhance a natural food source for bait.
However, Redditors made the most of the opportunity to suggest theories ranging from the end of times to aliens. Among the most popular was the Stranger Things comparison where, in season four, a portal opens in Hawkins's Lovers Lake.
Don't get sucked in! Reddit commenters seized on the opportunity to compare the eerie red glow with the portal to the Upside Down (pictured above from the fourth season of the Netflix hit show Stranger Things). Others speculated it was the end of days or caused by aliens
The 'watergate' was at the bottom of Lovers Lake during the fourth season of Stranger things. The red glow of the watergate is similar to the clouds spotted by the pilot over the Atlantic Ocean
Fishing vessels similar to the one pictured uses red light panels to lure schools of saury fish. Many commenters suggested this was the likely cause of the eerie photos
One Redditor wrote: 'Dustin's trying to open up a portal to the upside down - it is literally a watergate,' referring to one of the scenes.
While another fears the red glow could mean the end of days and one Redditor shared: 'Don't worry it's just hte pits of hell staring back at you.'
It's not the first time pilots have reported strange sights. In 2014, Dutch pilot JPC van Heijst said he and his co-pilot flew over glowing clouds south of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka five hours into a 10-hour flight from Hong Kong to Anchorage, Alaska in a Boeing 747-8.
Van Heijst explained on PBase that they spotted an intense flash of light like a lightning bolt, directed vertically upwards which was followed by a deep red and orange glow 20 minutes later.
However, what caused the eerie red glow under the clouds cannot be confirmed. The pilot who snapped the images has remained anonymous
A more recent incident was captured in 2020 by another pilot who was also flying over the Pacific Ocean. The images were snapped as the plane was southeast of the Sea of Okhotsk
Redditor users also speculated that the red light was from a fleet of fishing boats
The experience left van Heijst perturbed because it was completely without explanation.
There were no thunderstorms on their route or weather radar, suggesting the lightning did not originate in a storm and the following glow was also a mystery. Similar lights have been spotted from squid-fishing-boats, but van Heijst says this 'would not make sense in this area'.
He said: 'The closer we got, the more intense the glow became, illuminating the clouds and sky below us in a scary orange glow, in a part of the world where there was supposed to be nothing but water.'
The only cause the pilots could think of was a volcano eruption under the surface of the ocean 30 minutes earlier but no ash plume followed and despite their being a few volcanoes on their route, they had had not been alerted to any new activity - although this doesn't necessarily include unseen underwater volcanoes.
A more recent incident was captured in 2020 by another pilot who was also flying over the Pacific Ocean. The images were snapped as the plane was southeast of the Sea of Okhotsk.
The three photos, also shared on Reddit, show the same glowing lights peaking out from under the clouds and a majority of the comments point to fishing boats, but possibly a feet.
Mysterious red glow spotted by pilot while flying over Atlantic Ocean
Mysterious red glow spotted by pilot while flying over Atlantic Ocean
A pilot flying saw a mysterious red glow over the Atlantic. The pilot claims he has never seen anything like it.
We all see enchanting sights when flying, but some are more extraordinary than others. A pilot flying over the Atlantic has noticed one of these things, the pilot also says he’s never seen anything like it before
The pilot noticed a bright red glow before departure, which was confirmed when he looked at a photo preview on the camera's back. There was supposed to be nothing but an endless ocean for kilometers around them.
They seemed at first like a distant city or a group of classic Asian squid fishing boats, but this was not possible here. The lights they saw were noticeably bigger than the conventional lights that cities or ships would emit, which are typically yellow and white.
The brightness intensified as they approached, illuminating the sky and clouds below the airplane in a spooky red glow that one might anticipate with a sizable fire on the ground. In a region of the globe where there should only be water.
The images, taken on July 22, were posted to Reddit with the hopes of unraveling the mystery. People suggested that it could be an underwater portal others suggested that it was a fishing boat using large panels of red LED lights to attract schools of saury fish.
So far it remains a mystery what this red glow in the middle of the ocean could have been.
CGI recreation of a UFO encounter in Germany (Amazing TR-3B sighting)
CGI recreation of a UFO encounter in Germany (Amazing TR-3B sighting)
Witness report:
This encounter happened on July 25th, 2013 in Germany right at the French border. It was 10:30pm when my ex and I went outside to have a cigarette.
While we were talking, I noticed 3 oddly bright stars in the corner of my eye. I looked over my shoulder and in that moment those „stars“ quickly descended. BOOM. There it was. Completely unexpected! A pitch black triangular craft hovering completely silent about 30 feet above our heads, „looking“ at us belly first. Each side was approximately 30 feet long. Its lights were extremely bright, yet not blinding. I would describe them as „pure lights“. I’ve never seen anything like it before.
We were absolutely gobsmacked. Like deer caught in the headlights. We felt paralyzed. As if we were hypnotized or controlled. Just frozen and staring in disbelief. Everything was or seemed silent in that moment. Before, you could hear frogs and crickets. They were quite noisy. It was as if time had stopped. Oddly enough neither of us was able to say if that encounter had lasted 5, seconds, 30 seconds or 3 minutes.
Before it took off, it moved super fast from the left, upwards and to right. It was „zigzagging“. Like a ping pong ball. It was totally surreal. I did not understand what was happening. Then it shot off towards space in an instant. It was so fast, it left trails of light behind like in that Star Wars scene when they hit warp or light speed. And during all of this it didn’t make the slightest noise. Nothing! We immediately turned our heads towards each other and confirmed that we really just saw, what we saw.
We looked up again, then at each other again and without saying a word we ran inside the house, because fear and the flight instinct kicked in. However, my curiosity quickly took over and I went outside again, but the craft never returned. So yeah, that’s my story. I didn’t choose to have that sighting, but it happened. It was a blessing and a curse. A blessing, because I feel lucky to know for a fact, that the phenomenon is real. But a curse, because many people don’t believe me and choose ridicule. I got over that, though.
What’s worse is, that this incident has created a ton of questions but not many answers. I will NOT say or claim, that what we saw was ET. I simply have no way of knowing that. But what I know, is that the craft was 100% real. Needless to say, that that night has changed my life forever. I used to be the most hardcore atheist, making fun of religion. So I kind of deserved the ridicule. It didn’t make me religious though. Just a lot more open minded. I still don’t believe in a god, especially not in the biblical sense. I’d still say that aliens interdimensional theories or black budget projects seem more plausible to me than a biblical god. But I will never claim that I know anything. Since that night, I KNOW THAT I KNOW NOTHING!
All credit of creating this video goes to @fin365 on Twitter!
Rusland trekt zich na 2024 terug uit het Internationale Ruimtestation ISS
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Rusland trekt zich na 2024 terug uit het Internationale Ruimtestation ISS
De Russische ruimtevaartorganisatie Roskosmos zal over twee jaar uit de internationale samenwerking rond het Internationale Ruimtestation ISS stappen. Dat heeft de topman van Roskosmos Joeri Borissov gezegd tijdens een gesprek met de Russische president Vladimir Poetin op de televisie. Rusland is samen met de Verenigde Staten, Europa, Canada en Japan partner in het ISS.
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"Wij zullen zonder twijfel al onze verplichtingen tegenover over partners nakomen, maar de beslissing is genomen om na 2024 uit het ruimtestation ISS te stappen", zo kondigde Joeri Borissov de uitstap van zijn land uit het ruimteproject aan in aanwezigheid van president Vladimir Poetin.
Eerder had Rusland er al mee gedreigd om uit het ISS-project te stappen. De eerste keer was dat begin vorig jaar en eerder dit jaar na de afkondiging van westerse sancties tegen Rusland na de invasie in Oekraïne. Volgens Moskou zijn de Russische modules van het ISS te oud en versleten en zou een herstelling te veel geld kosten. Ook zou het ISS-project in de huidige gepolitieke situatie niet houdbaar zijn, had Roskosmos eerder gezegd.
In de plaats wil Roskosmos nu volledig inzetten op het toekomstige Russische ruimtestation ROSS (Russian Orbital Service Station) dat over enkele jaren zou gelanceerd moeten worden en dat vanaf 2030 operationeel zou moeten zijn.
ISS zonder Rusland?
Naast Rusland zijn ook de Verenigde Staten, de Europese Unie, Groot-Brittannië, Canada en Japan betrokken bij het ruimtestation en sturen zijn daar regelmatig teams naartoe.
Wel zijn de Russen erg belangrijke partners wegens hun lange ervaring met dat soort ruimtestations, hun technologie en ook omdat hun Sojoez-ruimtecabines en -raketten tot de belangrijkste transportmiddelen behoren om het ISS te voorzien van mensen en voorraden. De Russische modules van het ISS staan onder meer in voor het besturen en controleren van het ISS. Die modules zijn bij de oudste onderdelen van het station en vertoonden de afgelopen jaren tekenen van slijtage. Er is uiteraard ook nog de veel gebruikte raketbasis van Baikonoer, al ligt die dan in de buurrepubliek Kazachstan.
Rusland had eerder decennia van ervaring opgebouwd met de ruimtestations Saljoet en Mir. De samenwerking met westerse landen in de ruimte werd beschouwd als een gevolg van het einde van de Koude Oorlog, maar die situatie lijkt nu terug te keren.
Oost en west samen in de ruimte
De eerste module van het ISS werd in 1998 gelanceerd en sindsdien is het ruimtestation gevoelig uitgebreid. Sinds 2000 wordt het bemand door astronauten van de deelnemende landen. Dat zijn naast Rusland, ook de Verenigde Staten, de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA (met onder meer ons land en ook Groot-Brittannië) en ook Japan en Canada zijn partnerlanden.
Het is de bedoeling om het ISS nog tot 2028 in de ruimte te houden, ook al }een nieuw station wellicht erg duur zal worden, zeker als Rusland niet meer wil meewerken. Intussen bouwt ook China geleidelijk een ruimtestation in een baan om de aarde uit.
Spaghetti? String cheese? Landing debris? The last one, probably, but whatever it is, NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted it on the surface of Mars, and the internet wants answers.
The photo of the stringy object (seen below), nestled in the sand between some unassuming Martian rocks, was taken by Perseverance on July 12, 2022, the 495th day of the rover's ongoing mission to study the red planet.
The photo can be seen below, in addition to another image taken from a different vantage point that helps convey the scale of the object as it sits directly beneath Perseverance, close to its wheels.
The Perseverance rover photo, acquired by NASA on July 12, 2022, that shows the string-like object seen on Mars. The object has prompted jokes on social media as it's still unclear what it is.
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Another view from Perseverance of the string-like object that helps to put its size into perspective. The object can be seen at the bottom of the image.NASA/JPL-CALTECH
It's unclear what the object is. Close inspection shows it has the appearance of a bundle of string, which gives rise to the question of how it got there.
In any case, it wasn't long before the image captured public attention. Within just a couple of days of the object being posted online, social media users were demanding to know more. Most, of course, were cracking jokes, with many of them likening the object to a bundle of spaghetti. One could also say it looks like string cheese.
"I knew the Martians were Italian!" one user wrote.
"Knees weak, palms are sweaty, there's dust on my solar panels already, Mars spaghetti," wrote another, echoing the well-memed Eminem verse.
Meanwhile, the image of the object rose to become Perseverance's Image of the Week, which is decided via a weekly public vote.
News outlet CNET reported that the most likely explanation is that the object is a bit of debris released by Perseverance itself, possibly during its parachute-assisted landing maneuver back in February 2021.
Back in April this year, Perseverance located the parachute it used to land on Mars. Then in June, the rover also discovered a shiny piece of foil used as Perseverance's thermal blanket during its descent.
"It's a surprise finding this here," the rover's official Twitter account wrote at the time. "My descent stage crashed about 2 km (1.2 miles) away. Did this piece land here after that, or was it blown here by the wind?"
Whatever the newly-found spaghetti-like object is, what's currently lacking is an official explanation from NASA. Newsweek has contacted the space agency for comment.
Mysterious Martian images taken by Perseverance or its older robotic colleague Curiosity are often quick to garner public interest.
Earlier this year, there was much speculation about what appeared to be a doorway in a Martian rock and another image that seemed to show a humanoid shape lying down. On the latter, NASA scientist Mitch Schulte told Newsweek at the time that Mars is thought to be utterly inhospitable to life as we know it currently.
"Makes you feel like they are just keeping things from you."
That’s how Colin Scoggins describes the U.S. military’s response to a potential unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) sighting during his time with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center. Scoggins is now retired, but his recountings of various instances when he and his colleagues saw mysterious blips on their radars or heard reports of other sightings are timelessly intriguing.
Scoggins began his career with the U.S. Air Force, working on fighter jets like the F-4 Phantom as a crew chief. Once he got out, he started school at West Virginia University and slung drinks part-time at a local bar to pay the bills. It was at this establishment that he happened to meet three air traffic controllers (ATC) who were working the tower at Morgantown Municipal Airport in the spring of 1981.
An F-4D Phantom II of the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing. Scoggins was a crew chief in the Air Force who worked on aircraft like the F-4. Credit: Mike Freer/Wikimedia Commons
“They were joking about going on strike in June, and I was almost thinking about going back into service,” Scoggins told The War Zone. “And they said, ‘No, you should become a controller.’ So, I actually took the test back then, and then they ended up going on strike in August and I had already moved back up to the northeast and I called over to the regional and told them that I was interested in, you know, becoming a controller.”
Unfortunately, he was told that the test he had already taken was out of date and that he'd need to take the new one. Upon passing the updated exam, Scoggins found out it could be about a year until he learned whether or not he had gotten the gig. Young, in a relationship, recently accepted into Northeastern University, and in need of reliable income, Scoggins once again considered going back into the Air Force. That was until just a couple of days after Christmas when a request for an interview turned up in the mail. In 1982, Scoggins started training for his position with the FAA.
The Morgantown Airport that the three ATCs who told Scoggins to become one worked at in Morgantown, West Virginia. Credit: West Virginia and Regional History Center
Once officially hired, he worked the airspace in northern Maine until a powerlifting accident resulted in a shoulder injury that required Scoggins to take medication for an extended period of time. Because of that, he was taken off the floor and moved to the aerospace office where he would work throughout his healing process. After working in this role and serving a bit more time on the floor, Boston Center’s military liaison was removed from his position in 1995, and Scoggins was asked to work both the military and civilian airspace sides of his department in the interim. Then in about 2005, he was relieved from his controller position and became Boston Center’s military specialist until he retired in 2016.
With over three decades of experience working for both the military and the FAA, Scoggins isn’t short on stories. Retellings ranging from some of the first RQ-4 landings to his hand in the tragic United 93 flight are just a couple of the career-defining moments that Scoggins could share, but his experience with strange things that occurred in or near the nation's airspace is nonetheless notable. While some were either quickly or gradually debunked, the happenings still act as unique insight into how the FAA and the military handled UAP sightings, especially prior to 9/11.
Aerial view of the FAA's Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center in Nashua, N.H. Google Earth
In terms of UAP protocol, Scoggins explained that his department had a relatively standard requirement to report anything they had seen or received accounts of to the team's supervisor who would then pass it along to the operational manager. He said it was also procedure to report it to the military, and for Scoggins, that meant contacting the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS).
"Understand most controllers are a certain personality," Scoggins said. "Normally we are controlling individuals. We like to control pretty much everything and none of us have any patience. I still don’t have any patience today after being retired for six years."
Sometimes, though, Scoggins said that a particularly busy day would only warrant an acknowledgment of a possible incident before time constraints would require that the team moved on. Others would lead to dedicated investigations.
"As far as how most controllers feel if they are real, I think most think they are," Scoggins said. "And whether they believe they are not from our world, I am sure there are a few. I would think most believe they are probably from our world and probably our own government."
He added that there was a small percentage of conspiracy theorists among the ATCs, just as there are in the general public, who will believe what they want to believe. Although, he doesn't recall ever being told not to report his findings, nor did he think that any controller felt as though their job was in jeopardy if they did.
"I had three instances I can think of,” Scoggins said. “One of them was definitely a meteor smashing into the ocean. One pilot saw it and thought it was a UFO. Another guy that was flying at a 90-degree angle from him saw it and said, 'No, it's definitely a meteor that went right to the ocean.' So we could write that one off."
Meteors are often mistaken by onlookers as UAPs or UFOs. The chunks of cosmic rock both big and small hurtle through space all the time, sometimes entering the Earth’s atmosphere and emanating a fiery glow as they burn up. This can also cause the meteor to break apart, eventually becoming multiple pieces so tiny in size that it essentially vanishes into thin air. These characteristics could lead many to believe they had just seen a UFO despite it being a common celestial occurrence.
A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
"Another one was at dusk or dawn,” Scoggins said. “We had a Boeing 747 pilot swear that one of the passengers seated in the back said that they saw rockets fired at their plane. Back then we used to have air traffic assistants for tracking systems and they were usually ex-pilots. This guy was an ex-Boeing 747 right seater and he says, 'You know what my guess is? Was it in a turn?' And I told him, yeah, and he goes, 'At dusk or dawn the light can shoot out the window across the wing, and then when they straighten the wing back up the light comes back at you.'”
Because such an optical illusion could convince someone with an untrained eye that a rocket was being fired at their plane, Scoggins was the first to admit that the air traffic assistant's guess was totally viable. But he made sure to take into consideration the specific airspace that the 747 was flying in at the time.
“That pilot was near warning area 102, which was sometimes used for live fire, but normally it was not,” Scoggins added. “We also didn’t have any military activity going on in warning area 102 at the time, so it couldn’t have been a rocket fired at them because we had nobody up there."
A Boeing 747 landing in Spain at dusk, an environment similar to that of the one described by Scoggins. Credit: Jordi Cucurull/Wikimedia Commons
According to GlobalSecurity, warning area 102 is a part of the Boston Area Complex in the waters adjacent to the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New York. The overall military operating area also includes warning areas 103 and 104, Small Point Mining Range, and submarine transit lanes. In terms of military activity that is carried out in this area, beyond aerial training, those operations could include surface-to-air gunnery, anti-submarine warfare tactics, and both surface and subsurface exercises.
Scoggins used this knowledge to help him determine whether a rocket or missile had actually been fired not only at the aforementioned 747 but at the tragic Trans World Airlines flight 800 (TWA 800) that crashed during the middle stretch of his career, as well. Before the reasoning behind the TWA 800’s explosion was ultimately reached, there were claims that a missile had been fired at the airliner.
A Trans World Airlines Boeing 747. Credit: Eduard Marmet/Wikimedia Commons
"Now it wasn’t but a couple of years later when TWA 800 went down, and I spent two years working on that,” Scoggins said. “I had to look for any military activity that was going on at the time and possibly could have shot a rocket, and we had a C-130 out there at the time in warning area 105, but they wouldn’t have been firing any rockets.”
After a four-year National Transportation Safety Board investigation, Scoggins’ work paired with the help of all other experts and departments that were involved later determined that TWA 800’s disastrous mid-air explosion was caused by flammable fuel vapors in the center fuel tank likely from a short circuit. The incident killed all 230 people on board. But that wasn’t the last of Scoggins’ encounters with strange events in the airspace around and off of America’s east coast.
A photograph of the right side of the large three-dimensional reconstruction of flight TWA 800. Credit: National Transportation Safety Board accident report
"The only other one we did have was a high-moving aircraft at 49,000 feet on a straight line passing over New York City doing about 900 knots,” Scoggins said. “We brought it up to the military three or four times and they just kept saying, 'Nope, we don’t see anything.' And I think it was definitely a [real radar] target. So my guess is that the military knew who it was, and they weren’t going to tell us."
Scoggins is confident in this assertion because, before 9/11, he said that the military shared the same radars that Boston Center used on the coast. He explained that if he was using the radar located in Riverhead out of Long Island, so was the military. If he was using Bucks Harbor radar up in Maine, the military was looking at the exact same thing.
An aerial view of the Bucks Harbor radar station in Maine. Google Earth
He even added that the military actually owned those sites and often adjusted them and did work on them. For some perspective, he went on to mention that his department also had a site out in Skowhegan, Maine which was called an Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System and those were non-military and didn’t look for raw radar returns. However, Bucks Harbor and Riverhead did have the raw, primary radar that the military actually used, so Scoggins was sure that the Pentagon was looking at the exact same information but insisted that they hadn’t seen anything.
"The military has a lot of stuff,” Scoggins said. “I’m not really a believer of actual UFOs, but I’m a firm believer that if the SR-71 was made in the 1960s, I’m sure we have a lot better crap out there now. Who knows what we really have, but I know there are other controllers out there that have seen a lot more.”
Thank you to Colin Scoggins for taking the time to recount his experiences with the FAA for this piece.
Jen Sullivan is the author of Child of the Universe, a book where she describes her memories of several past lives that were connected to the origins of Atlantis and Lemuria (Lymuria), and their respective destruction. Jen was suffering from a brain tumor when she was asked by her long time friend, Sarah Breskman Cosme, to participate in Quantum Hypnosis Healing Technique (QHHT) sessions to complete Sarah’s level 3 certification with Delores Cannon’s QHHT program.
After Jen recalled details of her most recent past life where she jumped off a bridge to her death in 1978 after going through a lobotomy as a result of nobody believing her past life recollections at the time, she experienced a remarkable healing. As the QHHT sessions continued, Jen remembered her first past life on Earth as a male when she was part of an extraterrestrial mission that crash landed in a large south Pacific island. She remembers being ultimately successful in creating a hybrid being using the genetics of a primitive local female and her DNA. The hybrid that was born became revered for her wisdom and ability to use red crystals that were retrieved from the spacecraft , and became the first Queen of Lemuria. Her name was Oona.
One of Jen’s companions on the crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft traveled through a space time portal to the other side of the planet taking with him some of the red crystals. He was involved in creating a hybrid being that was among the first Atlanteans who gained control over the local population. Ultimately, the Atlanteans followed a path of rapid technological development where the red crystals were used for weapons development and imperial conquest. In contrast the Lemurians lived a more peaceful life in harmony with nature where the red crystals were used to sustain a natural immunity to all disease, and considerably extended their life spans.
In her book, Jen describes the circumstances surrounding the Atlanteans visiting and ultimately destroying Lemuria. In that incarnation, Jen was a princess (Kala) who briefly reigned after her mother, the Queen was killed by the Atlanteans. Shortly after her coronation, Lemuria was destroyed by tidal waves created by undersea detonations caused by the Altanteans, and she was captured. Jen remembered being taken to Atlantis where she was tortured and interrogated for many decades over her knowledge and abilities concerning the red crystals.
In her first interview on Exopolitics Today, Jen describes why she chose to undergo the QHHT sessions with Sarah Cosme, the healing she experienced, and the details of her remarkable past lives as an extraterrestrial and the last Queen of Lemuria/Lymuria. Her memories of captivity in Atlantis over many decades gives a unique perspective on Atlantean culture, politics and science.
During the interview, I encountered an unusual amount of electrical interference, which culminated in all the power in my home going off for a short period. My computer then experienced strange pulses which can be witnessed in the interview after the interruption around the (30 minutes mark). Jen explains how such electrical interference has happened often in her sessions with Sarah Breskman Cosme.
Video: Is It Really Dangerous To Be A UFO Researcher? Documentary by UFO Insight
Video: Is It Really Dangerous To Be A UFO Researcher? Documentary by UFO Insight
Is It Really Dangerous Being A UFO Researcher? In this pilot episode of UFO Insight’s The UFO and Alien Question series, we look at some of the most suspicious deaths of people involved in investigating or researching UFOs.
Was Phil Schneider really murdered because of the public talks he did regarding underground extraterrestrial bases?
Was Jesse Marcell murdered due to an apparent breakthrough in UFO research?
And was James Forrestal – the first United States Secretary of Defense – really thrown from a 13th-floor window to stop his speaking of what he knew about UFOs to the American public?
There is perhaps more to these claims than many might think.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro – Is it Dangerous To Be A UFO Researcher?
01:02 Phil Schneider – Gave Many Public Talks About Underground Alien Bases
04:10 Morris K. Jessup – Got Too Close To The Truth About UFOs?
07:22 Other UFO Researchers Who Have Met Suspicious Ends
The link between CIA and UFO mystery is dated back to 1947. Since then, many CIA officials and the ex-US military personally propelled UFOlogy by giving shocking statements. Former CIA & US military officials such as R. James Woolsey, Derrel Sims, Lue Elizondo, David Fravor, etc. described how the existence of reality all around us that we are unable to perceive could be a major aspect of the UFO phenomenon.
Recently, two veteran CIA officers Jim Semivan & John Ramirez, who have expressed personal interest in UFO/UAP issues and cases, joined the George Knapp show to discuss the CIA’s role in the study of UFOs and their own experiences.
Jim Semivan spent 25 years with the CIA and then joined other former government insiders as part of Tom Delonge’s To the Stars Academy. He detailed how he was inducted into the CIA and learned spycraft, which takes years to master. The CIA works on a “need-to-know” principle, so when it came to UFOs, Semivan was not made specifically aware of research on this topic, though CIA analyst Kit Green was known for pursuing the paranormal.
Jim Semivan worked for 25 years as an Operations Officer for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations.
On Coast to Coast AM Semivan described his own alien-type encounters that occurred to him and his wife starting in 1990, in which beings showed up in their bedroom. The incident was authentic, and not a hypnagogic or dream state, he stipulated. The couple subsequently observed on-and-off poltergeist activity in their home, and more recently, he said he saw a hooded figure that resembled the Death Eater character from Harry Potter, who perhaps materialized to herald the death of a close friend. Semivan said he concurs with a remark made by Skinwalker Ranch researcher Colm Kelleher that the UFO phenomenon is a lot more than nuts & bolts and machines, as there are also psychic and biological elements that ratchet up the high strangeness. To the Stars’ investigation of “metamaterials” with odd isotopic ratios (possibly associated with UFOs) was ongoing, he added.
In the first half of the interview Semivan said:
“I think they mention that the phenomenon is a natural part of our universe, and we’re living in it but we don’t recognize it. The same way that insects and animals don’t recognize the human universe. A cat and a dog could be running through a library, but they don’t have the faintest idea what the books are all about and what libraries are all about. We might be walking through our existence and there’s a whole other reality that surrounds us that we just simply don’t have the ability to see or interact with.”
“It seems to be peeking inside our little consensus reality. As I explained to somebody once, it comes close, it teases us, it cajoles us, it lies to us, but you can never take it home to meet the parents. It won’t allow you to do that. There’s no formal introduction. Add on top that there’s no ontology, which is just a fancy word, it basically means there’s no structure to even discuss this. We don’t have a common lexicon. Somebody said we have dots but no connections. I don’t even think we have dots.”
John Ramirez, a 25-year CIA veteran who specialized in ballistic missile defense systems, was featured in the latter half of the interview. He recalled his long-standing interest in spycraft, and how he shifted from being a Navy officer to the CIA in 1984. He compared intel gathering to being a journalist for a news service, though his sources for reports were typically clandestine.
John Ramirez
Like Semivan, he also experienced what might be considered alien abduction-type experiences, including being placed on an examination table in a circular craft. Interestingly, a number of his counterparts in the CIA and NSA also had UFO experiences, he revealed. In his job related to missile defense, he became aware of times when Russian radar would detect unusual craft, and in one instance, he said they tried to lure a UAP into landing.
Ramirez noted that CIA historian Gerald Haines wrote about the agency’s study of UFOs from 1947 through the 1990s, for a division that was initially called the Office of Scientific Intelligence. What was particularly intriguing to Ramirez was that the division had life sciences and medical people on staff, indicating possible interest in alien bodies.
He also described how an Air Force pilot on the plane that flew near Kamchatka to monitor Russian tests observed a massive “milky white wall” of light flying toward him at 6,200 mph, though the Air Force assumed it was some kind of countermeasure by the Russians. Regarding the military sightings of ‘trans-medium’ UAP like the Tic Tacs, Ramirez said he does not believe that Russia or any other foreign country has the capabilities to produce this kind of antigravity technology.
Lue made these points in several interviews, but in this one, he was asked to elaborate on his comments about how our senses are reductive and limit our reality, and how this might be relevant to the phenomenon. He replied:
“This is something we’ve been dealing with for a long time. Imagine the first person to get on a boat and sail over the horizon. There’s stories of sea monsters and Krakens that will devour you and destroy your boat. Yet, we did it anyways. We did sail, and we explored the world. It turns out, 500 years later, there really are sea monsters. We call them the Great Squid of the Pacific, and great white sharks and whales.
Now they’re just part of nature and have a scientific name, but those sea monsters still exist. They’re there, we just learned to understand them. Maybe this is the same thing. Maybe this is just another expedition over the horizon where we’re going to realize what we thought were monsters are really just neighbors.”
Interestingly, Garry Nolan, Lue Elizondo, Tom DeLonge, and Jacques Vallee say very similar things when it comes to the reality of the phenomenon.
After the Pentagon‘s great UFO declassification and congressional hearings, NASA decided to hunt down the aliens. The agency possesses advanced technology on Planet Earth, exploring the possibility of transforming satellites into alien seekers to probe unexplained sightings without launching new equipment. The Galileo Project is designing a space mission to rendezvous with the next anomalous (Oumuamua-like) interstellar object that zooms into our solar system.
Is that the first time NASA became interested in alien civilizations? NASA whistleblowers, who claimed to have closely worked in some of the top missions, do not think so. Former NASA employee, Donna Hare reportedly saw a photo of a distinct UFO. Her colleague explained that it was his job to airbrush such evidence of UFOs out of photographs before they were released to the public.
On May 9, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and the resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. As part of the Disclosure Project, Donna Hare, a photographic scientist testified to have worked for NASA contactor Philco Ford in the early 1970s. She had a high-security clearance to walk in NASA’s photo lab and other departments.
During the Disclosure Project press conference, Hare revealed that NASA covered up and eliminated space anomalies such as UFOs from the satellite photos. Hare has got several awards in the space programs. She dedicated most of her time as a technical illustrator to space programs. She created lunar maps and landing slides and had been working for 15 years as a sub-contractor for NASA.
Below is the transcript of Hare’s part in the Disclosure Program (Full Video link here):
“Good morning everyone! My name is Donna Hare, and I worked at Philco Ford aerospace from 1967 to 1981. During that time, I was a design illustrator draftsman. I did the launch slides, landing slides, and also projected plotting boards lunar maps for NASA. We were a contractor but most of the time, I worked in Building 8. I had the opportunity to do extra work during downtime which was between missions, and I walked into a photo lab which was the NASA lab across the hallway. I had a secret clearance which is not that high but I was able to go into restricted areas.
At the time, I was talking to one of the techs in there and he drew my attention to a NASA photograph. It had a “Dot” on it, and I asked what it was. Well, he drew my attention to it and I said is that a dot on the emulsion? He was smiling and he had his hands crossed… This was an aerial photograph of the Earth, I’m assuming the Earth because it had pine trees on it and the shadows of the craft or whatever it was were at the same angle as the trees and by its very nature, a UFO. And I wanted to clarify that to the gentleman that was talking to me… So, I did not know what this was but I realized at this point that it’s very secret.
I asked him what he was gonna do with this piece of information. He said they always airbrush these out before they sell them to the public, so they’re pissed pesky little creatures appearing on this photograph they wanted to get rid of. After that, I decided I would ask questions to other people that worked there (away from the site and not on site).
A guard told me that he was asked to burn some photographs and not to look at them, and there was another guard guarding him who was in green fatigues watching him burn the photographs and he said he was too tempted he looked at one.
I knew someone in quarantine with the Apollo astronauts he told me that the Apollo astronauts saw crap on the moon when we landed. He said that the astronauts are told to keep this quiet.”
Hare was told by one of the sources that during one of the moon landings, three UFOs had landed. Subsequently, there was a codeword “Santa Claus” for these crafts. She said she would be willing to testify before Congress. (Source)
In 2000, Gary McKinnon, a British Hacker who got so fed up with the government hiding information related to UFOs and free energy that he decided to hack the most secured servers of NASA and the Pentagon. McKinnon said that he had seen real photographs of UFOs in computer files at the Johnson Space Center Building. He even took a screenshot of one of the cigar-shaped UFOs in-between space and the earth’s atmosphere. Unfortunately, it was removed from his computer after being seized.
Below is the recreation of the famous ‘NOT MAN MADE’ craft that was seen by McKinnon when he hacked & accessed NASA computers. (Source)
Gary claims he discovered a satellite picture of a cigar-shaped alien craft with domes on the sides, like this artist’s impression credit: PROJECT8BALL
Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident: A Reliable Police Officer, Blue Flames, A Landed Craft & Small Beings
Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident: A Reliable Police Officer, Blue Flames, A Landed Craft & Small Beings
An in-depth look at one of the most outstanding and unsolved UFO cases in history. Lonnie Zamora was a reliable witness whose story was backed up by many other eyewitnesses.
It was April 24, 1964, a Friday, and close to 5:50 p.m. in Socorro, New Mexico. Police Officer Lonnie Zamora, who had just observed a speeding car heading south, was in hot pursuit and heading toward the rodeo grounds. Less than a minute into the chase he heard what he thought was an explosion. He immediately thought of a nearby dynamite shack.
When he observed a brilliant blue "cone of flame" off to the south-south-west in the direction of the shack, he veered off to the right onto a gravel road. Even over the crunching-tire sound, Zamora could hear a continuous roar. The slowly descending flame fell out of his line of sight, eclipsed by a hill. He turned off the road and attempted twice to drive over the hill, succeeding on the third attempt. Meanwhile, the roaring sound diminished and ceased. By the time he got to the top of the hill, all was silent, and the flame was no longer visible.
Zamora stopped his car and looked around for a few moments until his eye caught a metallic object in a ravine to the southwest, about 150 yards away. His initial impression was that it was a white car lying either on its side or upside down. Then he "saw two figures in what resembled white coveralls, pretty close to the object on its northwest side, as if inspecting it. They were standing between it and a good-size greasewood (creosote) bush. One of the figures - the one in front nearest me seemed to turn as if it heard or saw my car coming. It must have seen me, cause when I turned and it looked straight at my car, it seemed startled - almost seemed to jump somewhat."
The figures were small, "maybe the size of boys," and from a distance they looked "normal in shape." The object was oval-shaped and positioned so that its long axis was horizontal. As he would write in his official report, "At this time I started moving my car towards them quickly, with idea to help. Had stopped about only a couple of seconds." As he resumed his drive toward the object, the car descended into a dip, and the sight was lost to view momentarily. He radioed headquarters to report that he was investigating a "possible 10-40" - police code for accident. Yet he was no longer sure that was what he was seeing. Maybe this was an experimental aircraft from nearby White Sands Proving Grounds.
The Zamora UFO incident is one of the most interesting on record
He was still on the radio when he stopped for a second time and stepped outside. The microphone slipped from his hand. As he picked it up, he heard two or three loud thumps, "like someone hammering or shutting a door or doors, heard possibly a second or less apart." He quickly placed the microphone back into its slot, then got out again. At that moment a roar filled his ears. In the terse words of the police report he soon would file:
"Started low frequency quickly, then rose in frequency (higher tone) and in loudness - from loud to very loud. At same time as roar saw flame. Flame was under the object. Object was starting to go straight up - slowly up... straight up. Flame was light blue and at bottom was sort of orange color. From this angle, saw what might be the side of object (not end, as first noted). Difficult to describe flame. Thought, from roar, it might blow up. Flame might have come from underside of object, at middle, possibly a four-feet area - very rough guess... No smoke, except dust in immediate area.
Object was smooth - no windows or doors. As roar started it was still on or near ground. Noted red lettering of some type... Insignia about 2 1/2 by 2 feet wide, guess. Was in middle of object... Object still like aluminum - white."
When this was happening, Zamora was within 50 feet of the object. As soon as he saw the flame, "I immediately thought the thing might explode," he told ufologist Ray Stanford, "so I hit the dirt in a prone position there on the slope for a moment until I heard the roar continue and knew there was no explosion." During that moment he felt some faint heat from the flame. He rose and dashed to the car, watching the object all the while. Because his attention was elsewhere, he collided with the rear of the car and was knocked down. His glasses and sunshades went flying. Staggering to his feet, he kept running, determined to get himself positioned behind the car. To quote from his report:
"Kept running to north, with car between me and object. Glanced back couple of times. Noted object to rise to about level of car, about 20 to 25 feet guess - took, I guess, about six seconds when object started rise and I glanced back. I guess I ran about halfway to where I ducked down, just over the edge of hill. I guess I had run about 25 feet when I glanced back and saw the object about level with the car and it appeared directly over the place where it rose from." I was still running and I jumped just over the hill - I stopped because I did not hear the roar. I was scared of the roar, and I had planned to continue running down the hill. I turned around toward the object and at the same time put my head toward ground, covering my face with arms. Being that there was no roar, I looked up, and I saw the object going away from me, in a southwest direction. When the roar stopped, heard a sharp tone whine from high tone to low tone. At the end of roar was this whine and the whine lasted maybe a second. Then there was complete silence about the object. That's when I lifted up my head and saw object going away from me. It did not come any closer to me. It appeared to go in a straight line and at same height - possibly 10 to 15 feet from the ground, and it cleared the dynamite shack by about 3 feet. Shack about 8 feet high. Object was traveling very fast. It seemed to rise up, and take off immediately across country. I ran back to my car and as I ran back I kept an eye on the object. I picked up my glasses (I left the sunglasses on the ground), got into the car, and radioed to Nep Lopez, radio operator, to "look out of the window, to see if you can see an object." He asked, "What is it?" I answered, "It looks like a balloon." I don't know if he saw it. If Nep looked out of his window, which faces north, he couldn't have seen it. I did not tell him at the moment which window to look out of.
As I was calling Nep, I could still see the object. The object seemed to lift up slowly, and to "get small" in the distance very fast. It seemed to just clear Box Canyon or Six Mile Canyon mountain. It disappeared as it went over the mountains. It had no flame whatsoever as it was travelling over the ground, and made no smoke or noise.
Noted no odors. Noted no sounds other than described. Gave directions to Nep Lopez at radio and to Sgt M.S. Chavez to get there. Went down to where object was (had been), and I noted the brush was burning in several places. At that time, I heard Sgt. Chavez calling me on radio for my location, and I returned to my car, told him he was looking at me. Then Sgt. Chavez came up and asked me what the trouble was, because I was sweating and he told me I was white, very pale. I asked the Sergeant to see what I saw, and that was the burning bush, then Sgt. Chavez and I went to the spot, and Sgt. Chavez pointed out the tracks."
The entire incident - from the sighting of the flame to the disappearance of the object - took place in less than two minutes. When Chavez arrived, he was struck by Zamora's distraught expression. "You look like you've seen the devil," Chavez said. "Maybe I have," Zamora replied. He no longer was thinking in terms of secret military devices.
The "tracks" were four asymmetrically placed, trapezoidal imprints. Stanford, who saw them, described them thus:
"They apparently made by wedge-shaped units being forced, by great weight, down into the rather well-packed soil of the ravine. The dimensions of each wedge involved must have been: a horizontal length of 12 to 16 inches, a width, horizontally, of 6 to 8 inches; and a vertical wedge - depth of possibly 4 to 6 inches, although the total depth is difficult to determine from the soil depressions."
The local newspaper observed, "They did not appear to have been made by an object striking the earth with great force, but by an object of considerable weight settling to earth at slow speed and not moving after touching the ground." The imprints also felt moist to the touch, unlike the surrounding soil.
To Chavez, though he had known Zamora for years and considered him honest and reliable, the story seemed mindboggling and impossible. Chavez examined a greasewood bush situated approximately in the center of the quadrangle. Though a smoke, or steamlike substance was rising from it, it felt cool to the touch. Rocks and clumps of grass looked as if they had been seared. There was no evidence of flame or coals; yet, as an officer who saw the bush a few minutes later would remark, "The flame from that damn thing just sliced that greasewood bush in half, just burned it off clean like a blade of fire had cut through it." Chavez surreptitiously looked into Zamora's car to see if it contained any implements with which the effects could have been manufactured, but he found nothing.
Zamora, who had sketched the insignia just prior to Chavez's arrival on the scene, showed it to his fellow officer. It was peculiar: an arrow shape pointing upward from a straight-line base; a half-circle surrounded the arrow and came down nearly all the way to the base. Neither man had ever seen anything like it. Within minutes State Police Senior Patrolman Ted V. Jordan arrived, as did Undersheriff James Luckie and cattle inspector Robert White, who had overheard the radio traffic. Jordan took photographs of the site with his Argus C-3 camera. The group stayed at the site until just before 7 p.m., when Chavez and Zamora left to go to the state police office. Having restored their shattered nerves, the two were back to speculating that the object had come from White Sands, the size of its pilots notwithstanding, and they were looking for guidance on what to do next. They arrived there at 7:05.
Other Witnesses
Just before 6 p.m. on April 24, a car pulled into the Whiting Brother's service station in Socorro. Inside were five members of a family: a man, a woman, and three boys, the oldest of them appearing to be 11 or 12 years old. The man spoke to Opal Grinder, manager of the establishment. "Your aircraft sure fly low around here," he said. An "airplane," he went on, "almost took the roof off our car" just minutes before. They had been on the south side of town, driving north on Highway 85, north of the airport, and within sight of a junkyard when they saw the aircraft. The man told Grinder that the craft apparently was in trouble because at the same time he had seen a police car pull off the main road and travel up a hill along the flight path. When Grinder suggested he had seen a helicopter, the man replied that if that was so, it was certainly a funny-looking helicopter. It was only two days later, when Grinder heard of Zamora's encounter, that he understood that his customer had independently witnessed Zamora's UFO. The man had paid in cash, so there was no credit-card receipt with which to trace him. Grinder's son Jimmy thought he recalled that the car had a Colorado license plate. Though Zamora's experience would be widely publicized, these witnesses have never stepped forward to identify themselves.
In his book on the case, Socorro Saucer, Ray Stanford mentions a phone call an Albuquerque television station took just before 5:30 p.m. The caller claimed to have just seen an egg, or oval-shaped UFO traveling southward at a speed compared to that of an ordinary propeller-driven aircraft. Stanford speculates that this was the UFO, also reported as relatively slow-moving, that Zamora would see less than half an hour later (Socorro is 70 miles straight south of Albuquerque).
Stanford also mentions a meeting with two women who lived on the south side of Socorro and who claimed to have heard the roaring sound associated with the object, though they did not see the object itself. The women said that many other residents of the area had also heard the sounds, and someone in the sheriff's department told Stanford the same thing. He did not interview any of these other witnesses, however.
There were still more witnesses, according to information that would surface years later when the individuals involved could no longer be traced. In a 1995 interview, Ted Jordan recalled a sighting related to him by Robert Dusenberry, who worked for the Socorro Electric Corporation. Dusenberry said he and two other men had been traveling in a car near the landing site when they witnessed what apparently was the UFOs departure. Dusenberry kept his experience to himself and later related it to Jordan, a friend.
Sometime between 8 and 8:30 p.m. a master sergeant driving south from Stallion Range Center, the up-range (northern) station of the White Sands Missile Range, spotted a light-blue glow tipped with orange at the bottom. It was in the mountains some miles to his west from his location near Las Cruces. When the glow intensified, his car engine died, and the electrical system failed. The sergeant, a master mechanic who was in charge of the center's vehicle-repair shop, was startled; he had made sure the car was in perfect operating condition before he left. He stepped out of the car and watched the glow for a short time before it faded out. As it did so, the car started again. When he got to the main station, he had the car carefully checked. There was nothing wrong with it.
The witness was some miles southeast of Socorro. The glow, which arguably could have been from the bluish "cone of flame" Zamora first saw (as, apparently, did others), was situated in the mountains to the southwest of Socorro - the direction it was going when Zamora lost sight of it. It is possible, in other words, that the sergeant observed the same UFO.
Investigations
When Zamora and Chavez arrived at the state police station early that evening, Zamora spoke briefly with FBI agent Arthur Byrnes, Jr., who had heard about the incident over the police radio. Just after 7 o'clock Byrnes contacted White Sands, and the officer who took the call immediately notified Army Captain Richard T. Holder, commander of the up-range station. Holder, 28, was the senior military officer in the immediate area.
Within a few minutes, Holder and Byrnes were talking directly, and Holder headed for police headquarters, where he and Byrnes interviewed Zamora. Soon they and several Socorro police officers were at the site. After studying the area, the group returned to the station. At that point dispatcher Lopez mentioned that approximately three reports had come over the phone from locals who said they had seen a blue flame of light in the area. These sightings occurred, he said, around the time of Zamora's encounter. Unfortunately, he did not enter the reports in the dispatcher's log. Holder subsequently told the Socorro newspaper, "After being appraised of the situation, I attempted to determine whether White Sands Missile Range or Holloman Air Force Base had anything that might produce the conditions described. Neither had an object that would compare to the object described. There was no known firing mission in progress at the time of the occurrence that would produce the conditions reported."
That evening Holder called in military policemen from the Stallion station. Working by flashlight, they roped off the site, took measurements, and collected samples. Holder would recall, "I saw rocks that were normal on one side and charred on the other. There were bushes alive on one side, but when you'd touch them, the other side would flake to ash. When an object blasts off by rocket or jet propulsion, there's usually damage or debris in the area. But there was no indication of that type of disturbance." Holder also noticed that the geometric pattern of the "footprints" was "very similar to the geometric pattern of the vehicular prints. They were some distance from the object, about the size of a footprint that a bigfooted teenager would make.
The next morning Holder was surprised to get a call from a colonel who said he was phoning from the war room of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. He wanted to know if Holder had prepared a report on the incident. When he said he had, he was ordered to read it into the scrambler. He had just begun to do so when the connection was broken. Still wondering what he, a young captain at a remote post, was doing talking with someone in such a high position in the national-security establishment, Holder phoned the war room, spoke again with the colonel, and then got reconnected onto the scrambler, Years later he was still wondering, "Why in the world were they so interested?"
The publicity, which would be massive once the story hit the press wires, started hours later, and over the next couple of days, many hundreds of curiosity-seekers had descended on the site, wiping out much of the surviving physical evidence. On Sunday, the twenty-sixth, Jim and Coral Lorenzen, directors of the Tucson-based Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), were in Socorro. So were T/Sgt. David Moody of Project Blue Book and Kirtland AFB UFO-reporting officer Major William Conner. Moody and Conner checked the area for radioactivity and detected nothing unusual. They also failed to uncover any radar confirmation of the object's passing. This was not significant. Because it was a Friday evening, the radars at Stallion - used for testing purposes, not for air defense - were off. Even had they been on, it would have been extremely difficult to track an object moving against a mountain background.
On Tuesday, April 28, Stanford arrived to investigate the case for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). Early that afternoon Blue Book scientific consultant and Northwestern University astronomer J.Allen Hynek boarded a plane for New Mexico two hours after getting a call from the project's commanding officer, Captain Hector Quintanilla.
Hynek, who had been associated with Air Force UFO projects since the late 1940s, was growing increasingly disenchanted with what he saw as the inept handling of the phenomenon. Ironically, Hynek, along with one of his graduate students, had been at Blue Book headquarters at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, visiting Quintanilla at the very moment - unknown, of course, to any of them - Zamora's encounter was taking place. The graduate student, Jacques Vallee, had been actively encouraging the older man to take a fresh look at the UFO evidence and to distance himself from the Air Force's negative party line. By now the traditionally cautious Hynek was receptive not only to Vallee's entreaties but to the Socorro event, which appeared to be an unusually promising and evidential UFO case.
In a private memorandum written on May 20, Hynek expressed his disdain for the situation at Blue Book. "The Air Force is in a spot over Socorro," he noted. Quintanilla was trying to evade congressional pressure by offering a "vague statement identifying the object as an unspecified U.S. experimental aircraft," but in Hynek's estimation that "won't go down... The AF doesn't know what science is."
Arriving at the Albuquerque airport at mid-afternoon, Hynek was met by Major Conner. On the drive to Socorro, the Air Force vehicle got a flat tyre. It had no jack, so Hynek was forced to hitchhike the rest of the way. The symbolism of this seems a little too perfect. Hynek was happy to get there "before the AF people." According to the memo:
"Found Zamora & Chavez were very anti-AF. I got rid of the AF people & got the story from them that night at the jail. (A slow process - they were not eager to talk at first.) The next morning we went & reenacted it at the spot. A NICAP person (Ray Stanford) was already there & lent me some bottles for taking specimens. I had brought nothing. Z. is an unimaginative cop of an old Socorro family, incapable of hoax, and pretty sore at being regarded as a romancer. It took at least 1/2 an hour to thaw him out...
The marks left on the ground: 4 rectangular scrapings as if a rectangular object had scraped along, digging into the ground - deeper at the end. The gouging was done away from the center in every case. The arrangement was not regular, but the diagonals were perfectly at right angles. When I was there this had been all tromped up in spite of a wall of stones that a Captain Holder, an Army "downrange officer," had carefully built around them.
Still, Hynek was impressed. "I think this case may be the 'Rosetta Stone'," he concluded. "There's never been a strong case with so unimpeachable a witness."
Investigations and Theories
On June 8 the Air Force issued an official two-page report on the case. The document, riddled with error, starts with the false claim that at the initiation of the sighting Zamora was going "north on US 85" when in fact he was going south on Park Street west of the highway. The report said the Blue Book investigation had determined the following:
No other witnesses to the object reported by Mr Zamora could be located.
There were no unidentified helicopters or aircraft in the area
Observers at radar installations had observed no unusual or unidentified blips.
There was no unusual meteorological activity; no thunderstorms. The weather was windy but clear.
There was no evidence of markings of any sort in the area other than the shallow depressions at the location where Mr Zamora reported sighting the object.
Laboratory analysis of soil samples disclosed no foreign material or radiation above normal for the surrounding area.
Laboratory analysis of the burned brush showed no chemicals that would indicate a type of propellant.
There was no evidence presented that the object was extraterrestrial in origin or represented a threat to the security of the United States.
The Air Force is continuing its investigation and the case is still open.
Where the alleged absence of other witnesses was concerned, Blue Book spoke with no real authority. Hynek would write that he had tried his best to persuade project personnel to conduct a search for possible witnesses, including the one with whom Opal Grinder claimed to have spoken, but "they evinced no interest whatsoever."
Hynek returned to Socorro on August 15 and again on March 12-13, 1965, but learned nothing new or significant. Most people, including Sergeant Chavez, now thought the object was a secret experimental device, a view that over the years would hold favor among those who could not accept the idea that Zamora had encountered an extraterrestrial spacecraft. (Zamora, reluctant to talk further, expressed no opinion.) Hynek found only one Socorro resident who considered Zamora, otherwise regarded as a man of upstanding character, a hoaxer. Felix Phillips, who lived about a thousand feet south of the landing site, reported that neither he nor his wife had heard the booming sounds Zamora described; therefore they doubted Zamora's veracity. Hynek was skeptical, however. As he wrote in an official memo on the trip:
"Phillips was directly downwind from the gully, there was a very strong southwest wind blowing, and the gully is on the opposite side of the hill from where Phillips was listening. This, of course, can make a tremendous difference in ability to hear. Further, there are trucks passing along the highway quite close to Phillip's house, and he undoubtedly is used to hearing backfires and truck roars of one sort or another."
No evidence of a hoax would ever emerge. Even Blue Book chief Quintanilla, writing in the classified CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, offered this endorsement of the case:
"There is no doubt that Lonnie Zamora saw an object which left quite an impression on him. There is no question about Zamora's reliability. He is a serious police officer, a pillar of his church, and a man well versed in recognizing airborne vehicles in his area. He is puzzled by what he saw and frankly, so are we. This is the best-documented case on record, and still, we have been unable, in spite of thorough investigation, to find the vehicle or other stimulus that scared Zamora to the point of panic."
Quintanilla was not endorsing the extraterrestrial interpretation, but he did not doubt that the officer had seen some sort of unusual aircraft. (Years later, however, in a memoir of his Blue Book years, Quintanilla, lamenting his inability to solve the case and the use "UFO buffs and hobby clubs" had made of the fact, intimated - without bringing any new or relevant information in the discussion - that Zamora had faked the sighting.)
The absence of evidence for a hoax did not discourage two UFO debunkers from proposing separate versions of a hoax hypothesis. In a letter to Hynek, Harvard University astronomer Donald H. Menzel outlined an elaborate scenario in which local high school students, using a balloon and various chemicals, "planned the whole business to 'get' Zamora." Hynek found no enthusiasm for this hypothesis among Socorro citizens to whom he showed the letter. In June 1970, debating ufologist Raymond E. Fowler on a Boston television show, Menzel opined that Zamora had seen a "dust devil."
Drawing on innuendo rather than on specific evidence, Philip J. Klass speculated that Zamora had conspired with Mayor Holm Bursum, Jr. (who owned the property on which the UFO landing reportedly occurred), to manufacture a UFO incident to attract tourists to the town. No such commercial exploitation ever took place, and there is no reason to take Klass's theory seriously. In an earlier interpretation, Klass had Zamora seeing an extraordinary plasma phenomenon associated with a nearby high-voltage transmission line.
Artist’s Impression of the Zamora incident
Other Incidents
The Socorro event was not an isolated occurrence but only the most-publicized of a wave that began in the Southwest and soon spread throughout the country. At 9 p.m. on April 22, a car driving 10 or 15 miles east of Lordsburg, New Mexico, was paced by a large round light, as brilliant as a welder's torch and consisting of numerous lenslike lights. As it passed about 10 feet over the top of the car, it illuminated the interior of the vehicle and emitted a whirring, whining sound. The UFO then rose but maintained its course on the highway. Finally, it veered toward the north and was lost to sight. The sighting lasted no more than two or three minutes.
On the morning of the twenty-fifth, eighty miles southeast of Socorro, J.D. Hatch of Roswell was driving on U.S. 70 between Mescalero and Tularosa when a bright oval object descended from the sky and seemed to land on the other side of Round Mountain, east of Tularosa. That evening two motorists driving between Abiquiu and Espanola on U.S. 84, in north-central New Mexico (Socorro is in the west-central part of the state) reported that a strange object, definitely not a plane, flew straight toward their car before shooting away. All they could see of it was a blue-flamed jet stream.
None of these reports received the attention or extensive investigation the Socorro report received. This neglect is particularly unfortunate in the case of Orlando Gallegos, a 35-year-old Santa Fe resident who had an odd encounter while he and his family were visiting his father's ranch just north of La Madera, a remote community a few miles north of the just-mentioned U.S. 84 sighting location and 170 miles north of Socorro. At 1 a.m. on the twenty-sixth, Gallegos stepped outside to chase away some horses that had run into the yard. This accomplished, he happened to look out toward the Vallecitos creek bank some 300 yards away. There, resting on a spot between a dumping area and a dirt road, he saw a peculiar structure.
It looked like a butane tank "as long as a telephone pole." It was metallic, windowless, about 14 feet in diameter, and shooting blue flames out of holes in the sides along the bottom. Over the next minute, the flame suddenly died out. At no time did the object make any sound. When he went inside to report it, he was laughed at. Finally, he went to bed, and when he checked in the morning, the object was gone.
Before leaving La Madera that afternoon, Gallegos told City Officer Nick Naranjo about the incident and soon was telling his story to State Police Officers Marvin Romero and David Kingsbury. They, in turn, notified State Police Captain Martin E. Vigil, who dispatched another officer, Albert Vega, to the site. At 7:30 p.m. Vigil and Kingsbury joined him there. Vigil would recall:
"At that time, the ground was still smouldering and badly scorched. Officer Vega advised that he had observed four depressions on the ground, one of which was quite clear, the others having been obliterated due to windy weather conditions. Officer Vega stated that this depression was approximately eight by twelve inches in size, about three or four inches deep, and sort of "V" shaped at the bottom.
There were also numerous oval-shaped, or "cat-paw like", markings around the scorched area. These were approximately three and one-half inches in diameter."
Vigil saw to it that Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, and the FBI heard about the incident. So did Major William Conner, who had also been involved in the Air Force investigation at Socorro. On the twenty-seventh Conner went to the site with Gallegos. The same day Santa Fe new Mexican reporter Doyle Akers examined the spot, which he described as follows:
"At the scene itself, the charred area was a peculiar shape, like two overlapping circles. It was about 20 feet across. Large rocks within the area showed evidence of extreme heat, while others within a few feet weren't damaged at all. A soft drink bottle had melted while another five feet away was intact. An attempt to set fire to chamisa brush nearby failed."
Vega recalled that late the previous evening he had sent a group of drunken young people home from a dance in nearby Ojo Caliente. They would have passed by the La Madera site, but when Vega asked them, they said they had seen nothing out of the ordinary. When he himself first came to the spot, it was still smoking. "That area just wouldn't start burning from a match or a cigarette," Vega said. "You'd have to have some kind of gasoline or chemical to make it burn like that. But I don't think anybody would be out starting a fire a 1 o'clock in the morning."
Blue Book explained the incident as having been occasioned by a fire set in the dumping ground. Its investigation was cursory, and Hynek, who was interested in the case, was refused authorization to go to La Madera. In 1970, a United Press International dispatch quoted Emilio Naranjo, who in April 1964 had been Rio Arriba County sheriff, as asserting, "Our investigation showed that three or four young boys had been washing a car at the river and started a fire to burn the rags they had used. That was the flying saucer Gallegos saw." Nothing in Gallegos's testimony or in the reports of those who saw the physical evidence the next day provides much support for this claim.
It is tempting to link the La Madera blue-flame-spewing object with the UFO seen not far away and just two hours earlier. Unfortunately, the absence of a comprehensive investigation leaves this potentially significant case in limbo.
Ex-Military Releases NASA Video Showing A 3,200 Km Long Spacecraft of Unknown Origin
Ex-Military Releases NASA Video Showing A 3,200 Km Long Spacecraft of Unknown Origin
Bob Dean is a former member of NATO intelligence, high-ranking military man, who has been involved in major UFO research. Today, already retired, he decided to divulge everything he knows to the world. In his newest video, Bob Dean showed images of an alien object about 3200 km long near the planet Saturn in 1980.
A former NASA engineer turned whistleblower, who has claimed that NASA has known about the existence of extraterrestrial life for decades, recently released a video of a long spacecraft. The video has sparked speculation and conspiracy theories amongst viewers.
“There are intelligent races out there that are a billion years ahead of us. We find stars out there that probably have planets, those planets can be up to three times as old as our star.” – Bob Dean Bob Dean is a former member of NATO intelligence, high-ranking military man, who has been involved in major UFO research. Today, already retired, he decided to divulge everything he knows to the world. In his newest video, Bob Dean showed images of an alien object about 3200 km long near the planet Saturn in 1980.
Recent leaked Russian space program files clearly show the same object as described in 1980.
Robert Dean explains: “In September 2009, the Cassini spacecraft photographed what NASA calls an anomaly, a strange object that they believe moved at will under the control of an intelligence, was metallic and magnetic. It was determined that the ‘object’ measured about 3200 km in length by 800 km in diameter.”
Cassini–Huygens The Cassini–Huygens space-research mission (/kəˈsiːni ˈhɔɪɡənz/ kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, involved a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA’s Cassini space probe and ESA’s Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.[7] Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017. The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens.
Launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, Cassini was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004.[8] The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August 1999), the asteroid 2685 Masursky, and Jupiter (December 2000). The mission ended on September 15, 2017, when Cassini’s trajectory took it into Saturn’s upper atmosphere and it burned up[9][10] in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn’s moons, which might have offered habitable environments to stowaway terrestrial microbes on the spacecraft.[11][12] The mission was successful beyond expectations – NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, described Cassini-Huygens as a “mission of firsts”[13] that has revolutionized human understanding of the Saturn system, including its moons and rings, and our understanding of where life might be found in the Solar System.[citation needed]
Cassini‘s planners originally scheduled a mission of four years, from June 2004 to May 2008. The mission was extended for another two years until September 2010, branded the Cassini Equinox Mission. The mission was extended a second and final time with the Cassini Solstice Mission, lasting another seven years until September 15, 2017, on which date Cassini was de-orbited to burn up in Saturn’s upper atmosphere.
The Huygens module travelled with Cassini until its separation from the probe on December 25, 2004; Huygens landed by parachute on Titan on January 14, 2005. It returned data to Earth for around 90 minutes, using the orbiter as a relay. This was the first landing ever accomplished in the outer Solar System and the first landing on a moon other than Earth’s Moon.
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The Controversial Book of Enoch! --- Expert Uncovers the Truth! July 2022
The Controversial Book of Enoch! --- Expert Uncovers the Truth! July 2022
The Controversial Book of Enoch! — Expert Uncovers the Truth! July 2022
Enoch appears in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible and is a figure in the Generations of Adam. Enoch is the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah. Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God, which is a small amount of time compared to his offspring Methuselah, who lived to be 969 years old. The text reads that Enoch “walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him”. This Enoch is not to be confused with Cain’s son Enoch. The Christian New Testament has three references to Enoch from the lineage of Seth.
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Thirty Witnesses Encounter The Biggest UFO Sighting Ever Reported
Thirty Witnesses Encounter The Biggest UFO Sighting Ever Reported
In December 1996, in the Yukon region of Canada, more than 30 witnesses saw a giant UFO 4 times the size of a football stadium.
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It was Close Encounter Of The Third Kind in real life. The glow and the brightness will always remind me of the movie. Never saw such a bright glowing object in my life. It was so bright that it was lightening up the whole area including my room where I was hiding.
A consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O program is speaking out about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program since 2007 told the New York Times he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about the alleged “off-world” vehicles. He also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee last October.
Instead, it has been mostly cast aside as an afterthought in a time of coronavirus hysteria.
The briefing focused on what Davis called “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.”
In other words Davis, who spent years working as a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program and now works as a defense contractor, has officially spilled the beans: spaceships, aka UFOs, are real, and it’s something we have most likely known about for a very long time.
Davis said that in some cases he had failed to determine the source of recovered materials, leading him to conclude, “We couldn’t make it ourselves.”
UFO Program “No Longer Has to Hide in the Shadows” Davis’s bombshell quote came in the latest UFO report from the New York Times, which has owned the beat for the past several years according to a report from NYMag.com.
In December 2017, a paper reported on the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, an effort by the Pentagon to investigate UFOs that was supposedly ended in 2012.
Hailed as a “historical inflection point in our attitudes regarding UFOs,” it implied the same message as the most recent one; that is to say that UFOs are in fact real and they are not from this Earth as many skeptics have claimed.
Though the Pentagon had said it disbanded a program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the Times reported that investigations into encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles continue under a renamed program — the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force — inside the Office of Naval Intelligence. While the program is not classified, it deals with classified matters.
A Senate committee report last month said the program was to “standardize collection and reporting” on sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles. The program was ordered to report at least some of its findings to the public within 180 days after the passing of the intelligence authorization act.
It is now moving up to a whole new era of “transparency,” according to Luis Elizondo, the ex-director of its predecessor program.
“It no longer has to hide in the shadows,” he said.
Known as the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, it is now obligated to make further reports public.
Will Task Force Ever Present Physical Proof?
While the announcement is still being digested by most people, the time is now to buckle up for Round Two: further announcements and reports are expected to be released in the coming weeks, months, and years, as more and more findings are made public.
The big question is whether or not physical evidence will be presented, in the form of an actual craft, or perhaps even artifacts or instruments from other worlds, spaceships and even alien beings themselves.
Elizondo, who took over the lead position of the Defense Department’s UFO program in 2010, is “among a small group of former government officials and scientists with security clearances who, without presenting physical proof, say they are convinced that objects of undetermined origin have crashed on earth with materials retrieved for study.”
The program was started about a decade ago and budgeted at $22 million according to the Times. It went by AATIP, for Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, and has also been referred to as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
An Astronaut Controlled a Rover as it Collected Samples on Mt Etna. In the Future, it’ll be on the Moon
An Astronaut Controlled a Rover as it Collected Samples on Mt Etna. In the Future, it’ll be on the Moon
Lunar exploration has been gaining more and more traction from various sources recently. Every step forward is another towards potentially having a permanent human presence on another solar system body. ESA took another step recently with the completion of its Analog-1 robotics test, which took place successfully on the slopes of Mt Etna earlier this month.
Analog-1 has been a long-standing ESA effort to model what it would be like for a human operator to control a robot directly on the lunar surface while floating above it in the Gateway space station. Planned for launch no earlier than 2024 as part of the Artemis program, Gateway will serve as a home base for many lunar exploration activities.
UT video on lunar rovers past and present.
Controlling a robot from that far away isn’t easy and something that both the robot designers and its operators must get used to. Hence, the development of the Analog-1 project. ESA began its effort to develop a robotic interface system over ten years ago and has slowly been improving its capabilities during that time. The recent test marks a culmination of that effort, and the space agency is rightfully proud of its success.
There were several novel aspects of this new test. One of the most obvious is that the operator and mission control personnel were physically about 23 kilometers away from the robot while guiding it. They were put up in separate hotel rooms meant to mimic the actual environments they would be situated in during a real mission. In addition, the system’s programmers introduced a one-second delay to simulate the delay operators on the Gateway would have while driving a rover on the surface.
ESA infographic depicting the Analog-1 mission requirements. Credit – ESA
In addition, the robot designers implemented a haptic feedback system that allowed Thomas Reiter, one of ESA’s astronauts, to “feel” what the robot was feeling with its actuator arm. But the “Interact” rover, which had the actuator arm and was used to collect samples, was only one of a team of robots, including a drone, a “centipede-like” Scout crawler, and two other Lightweight Rover Units (LRUs), which look like miniaturized versions of the NASA rovers currently exploring Mars, and were designed by DLR – Germany’s space agency.
Additional support was provided by a lander, which served as a communications hub for the fleet of robots being tested. It was a good thing that such a wide variety of robots was available – navigating Mt Etna’s lunar-analog landscape proved tricky for Interact’s standard four-wheel configuration, but other locomotion techniques, such as the Scout’s crawling motion. That difficulty led to a change in approach by the robot’s programmers. They introduced a type of “assisted driving” feature for the robot’s operators that allowed the driver to simply select where he wanted to go, and then the robot itself would find its way there using its own judgment.
Astronaut Thomas Reiter controlling the Interact Rover, which is 23 km away from his hotel. Credit – ESA
Features like that will be absolutely critical on future lunar missions, especially as driver fatigue could significantly affect how long a rover can remain operational. There are sure to be plenty more problems that will have to be overcome if the overall Artemis project is to succeed, not to mention getting the crew capsule off the ground at some point. But for now, this part of the robotic exploration of the moon has taken a giant leap forward.
A Mission to Reach the Solar Gravitational Lens in 30 Years
A Mission to Reach the Solar Gravitational Lens in 30 Years
NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts is famous for supporting outlandish ideas in the astronomy and space exploration fields. Since being re-established in 2011, the institute has supported a wide variety of projects as part of its three-phase program. However, so far, only three projects have gone on to receive Phase III funding. And one of those just released a white paper describing a mission to get a telescope that could effectively see biosignatures on nearby exoplanets by utilizing the gravitational lens of our own Sun.
That Phase III distinction comes with $2 million in funding, which in the case went to JPL, whose scientist, Slava Turyshev, was the principal investigator on the project’s first two phases. He teamed up with The Aerospace corporation for this latest white paper, which describes a mission concept in more detail and defines what technologies already exist and what needs further development.
However, there are several striking features of this mission design, one of which is touched on in detail over at Centauri Dreams. Instead of launching a large craft that would take a long time to travel anywhere, the proposed mission would launch several small cube-sats and then self-assembly on the 25-year journey out the solar gravitational lens (SGL) point.
Depiction of the improved image quality using the gravitational lens imaging technique. Credit – Alexander Madurowicz
That “point” is actually a straight line between whatever star the exoplanet is around and somewhere between 550-1000 AU on the other side of the Sun. That is a tremendous distance, much further than the measly 156 AU that Voyager 1 has so far taken 44 years to traverse. So how could a spacecraft get to three times the distance while taking almost half the time? Simple – it will dive (almost) into the Sun.
Using a gravitational boost from the Sun is a tried and true method. The fastest human-made object ever, the Parker Solar Probe, used just such a technique. However, being boosted to 25 AU a year, the expected speed at which this mission would have to travel isn’t easy. And it would be even more challenging for a fleet of ships rather than just a single one.
The first problem would be material – solar sails, which are the mission’s preferred method of propulsion, don’t do so well when subjected to the intensity of the Sun that would be required for a gravitational slingshot. In addition, the electronics on the system would have to be much more radiation hardened than currently existing tech. However, both of these known problems have potential solutions under active research.
Depiction of where exactly the gravitational lens effect happens. Credit – Geoffrey Landis
Another seemingly obvious problem would be how to coordinate a passage of multiple satellites through this sort of gut-wrenching gravitational maneuver and still allow them to coordinate joining up to effectively form a fully functional spacecraft in the end. But according to the paper’s authors, there will be more than enough time on the 25-year journey out to the observational point to actively rejoin the single Cubesats into a cohesive whole.
What could result from that cohesive whole is a better image of an exoplanet that humanity is likely to get short of a fully-fledged interstellar mission. Which exoplanet would be the best candidate would be a topic of hot debate if the mission moves forward, as more than 50 so far have been found in the habitable zones of their stars. But that is certainly no guarantee as yet. The mission hasn’t received any funding nor any indication that it will do so in the near future. And plenty of technologies would still have to be developed before such a mission would even be feasible.
But that is precisely how such missions always start, and this one has more potential impact than most. With luck, at some point in the next few decades, we would receive as crisp of an image of a potentially habitable exoplanet as we are likely to receive in the even medium future. The team behind this research deserves praise for laying the groundwork for such an idea in the first place.
Depiction of how the solar gravitational lensing mission would work. Credit – NASA / The Aerospace Corporation
Researchers Create a Plasma Bubble With Lasers That Could Provide Propulsion or an Artificial Magnetosphere
Researchers Create a Plasma Bubble With Lasers That Could Provide Propulsion or an Artificial Magnetosphere
Lasers are useful for a lot of things. They made CDs work (when they were still a thing). They also provide hours of entertainment for cats (and their humans). But they can also create magnetic conditions similar to the surface of the Sun in a lab, according to new research by scientists at Osaka University. And that might help a wide range of other scientific disciplines, ranging from solar astronomy to fusion.
The experiment used a high-power laser, known as Gekko XII, at the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University. Originally designed for fusion experiments, this laser is powerful enough to vaporize a piece of plastic if it is focused on it. Or, more accurately, it is powerful enough to turn it into a plasma.
That is just what the researchers did. They zapped a small piece of plastic with Gekko XII that sat on top of a magnet emitting a weak magnetic field. The laser blast, which only lasted for about 500 picoseconds, created a high-energy plasma that distorts an already weak magnetic field over the sample. That combination of a weak magnetic field and plasma created a situation known as a “pure electron outflow.”
UT video discussing building an artificial magnetosphere.
This phenomenon is thought to play a significant role in other, much larger astrophysical phenomena, such as solar flares and magnetic storms on the Sun’s surface. In these larger-scale instances, the electron dynamics of the area create what is known as a magnetic reconnection, where the magnetic field of a feature connects back with the base magnetic connection of the body it is emanating from.
Recreating these features at a small scale in the lab has never been done before, but the researchers at Osaka think that their electron outflow created by the combination of a magnet and the laser-induced plasma might be the closest thing that we will have to being able to study these phenomena on Earth.
Scaling down solar physics level phenomena to a more manageable size is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, but pure electron flow is also helpful in other areas. As mentioned above, Gekko was initially designed to work on inertial confinement fusion, which a better understanding of microscopic level electron dynamics might help to control.
Another UT video discussing artificial magnetospheres.
Overall, the experiment represents steps forward in understanding fundamental physics and applies to much more macroscale phenomena. It shows that lasers if leveraged correctly, are useful for much more than convincing your dog to run into a wall.
New Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang!
New Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang!
New Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang!
Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Kt, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS, HonFInstP (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995, and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.
Some structures on Earths moon I found today. July 23, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Some structures on Earths moon I found today. July 23, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Hey everyone. I found some structures and a UFO on Earths moon in some old NASA photos and posted them on Twitter. Here they are, have a look and if you want to find them, just click on the link in that Tweet. The photos are very large, so it will take some time to find it, but find it you will.
Guys, I found this depiction of a reptilian intelligent species made in a crater impact area on Earths moon. The reptilian looks intelligent, the teeth are so small I don't notice them, but its mouth is open, its tongue is huge and curved as if for speech. It has smaller upper arms and larger lower legs, but its thick tail really sets it apart. That tail really screams out reptilian species.
This is 100% proof that reptilians have been on Earths moon...which means they have been on Earth too! This also explains why reptiles rose up to rule the earth so long ago...they were an experiment created by the Reptilians to teach them about earliest evolution of themselves. Why did dinosaurs go extinct? Earth is shared by many different species...and any one species cannot bogart Earth for long. Humans...are not one species, but the DNA has been changed...to seem to be one species. We are many species...blacks, Asians, Indians, Whites, ect...each exists as its own species out there in space. The color of our skin did not arrive over a few thousands of years. Its from the stars. Earth is a giant experiment of evolution to learn from earliest points and to test...can different species exist together if combined earlier enough? I have found faces on other planets of each species and more existing that we don't have on Earth...there is a intelligent bear species and cat species even!
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Porton Down – Area 51 base in UK? Or Is It Just Legends and Rumors?
Porton Down – Area 51 base in UK? Or Is It Just Legends and Rumors?
You might be wondering what we will talk about after reading the header above. It’s all about Porton Down, a fortified site in Wiltshire, England, which is rife with UFO ties. Here is some background information about the location after that. In 1916, the BB Down was founded. Biological and chemical weapons testing was done there.
On voluntarily participating personnel, nerve agents like Sarin and CS gas were tested. As an inducement to participate in testing, the military provided service members with around £2 and three days off. Few military personnel realized the purpose of their volunteer work, and some were even told it was to find a treatment for the common cold. Serviceman Ronald Maddison allegedly passed away in 1953 after taking part in a sarin gas experiment. Geoffrey Bacon, a scientist employed at Porton Down, passed away from the plague in 1962. LSD was tried in Porton Down as well. 20,000 people have participated in tests there since the conclusion of WWII. As the Guardian reported in 2005, “Fifty years ago, sailor Eric Gow had a baffling and unexplained experience. He recalls heading to a highly secretive military establishment, where he had been given something to consume in a sherry glass and experienced vivid dreams. Other servicemen also recall tripping: one thought he had seen tigers jumping out of a wall, while another recalled faces with eyes running down their cheeks. Mr. Gow and another military member had agreed to participate in what they believed to be studies looking for a treatment for the common cold. Mr. Gow believed that the administration had never given an explanation for what had transpired. But yesterday night, it was officially acknowledged to him that the spy organization MI6 had conducted LSD tests on personnel.
Something weird occurred in January 1974 in the Berwyn Mountains in Wales, United Kingdom. Some claim that a UFO crashed. Others propose a covert experiment that involves directing ball lightning and using it as a weapon. What about the Porton Down link and the UFO angle? The late Tony Dodd, a police officer, and UFO researcher had a meeting with a guy going by the name of James Prescott back in 1996. He informed Dodd that because his unit and barracks are still in use, he could not give their names. Prescott did, however, acknowledge that his base at the time was located in the southwest of England, which, measured by the distance traveled by a crow’s flight, may have put his installation close to Porton Down. Prescott and his colleagues were bizarrely instructed to be on “standby at short notice” on January 18 despite the event in the Berwyn Mountains occurring on January 23, 1974. The Berwyns was briefly featured in the national headlines five days after that. Prescott reported that they then got instructions to move swiftly in the direction of North Wales. They were stopped in Chester in anticipation of a military drill they thought was about to start. The message they received on January 20 was “hot.” They were given the go-ahead to travel to Llangollen in North Wales and wait there at around 20:13.
Prescott said that three days prior to the ground shaking those little, historic communities at the foot of the mountains, there was a significant amount of “ground and aircraft activity” above and around those enormous mountains. According to Prescott, on the same night, he and his colleagues received more orders, such as to travel to Llandderfel, and were strictly instructed not to stop for any civilians. When they arrived in the little Welsh settlement of Llandderfel, they noticed troops running around. There were senior officials yelling instructions everywhere. Zooming over the starry sky was aircraft. And all of this was happening against a depressingly gloomy backdrop. Prescott and his coworkers quickly followed instructions to load two huge wooden crates onto the back of their vehicle. Prescott claims that they left with their load and stopped for a drink along the way. A guy in civilian clothing approached them right away and demanded to see their identification before telling them to keep going and not stop until they reached their destination.
Things started to become extremely strange when Prescott told Dodd that they had been advised not to open the boxes at this point but rather to travel to Porton Down and deliver them instead. The facility employees opened the boxes once they were inside in front of us. When they discovered two animals inside decontamination suits, they were horrified. The beings were not of this planet when the suits had been opened, and upon examination, they were discovered to be dead. His perspective on life was completely altered by what he discovered in the boxes that day. The humanoid-shaped bodies, which were between five and six feet tall and had a covering skin, were so thin that they almost seemed skeletal. Despite not having seen a craft at the recovery site, he was told that a sizable craft had crashed and been retrieved by other military personnel. Later, when they rejoined their unit, they learned that the other components had also sent bodies of “alien creatures” to Porton Down, but that their delivery was still breathing.
Continuing on but still with the same narrative, a guy by the name of Bob Bolton shared his memories of the Porton Down/James Prescott scandal. He had served as an aviation engineer in the Royal Air Force for thirty years. Between 1971 and 1974, he was sent to a number of locations, including RAF Honnington, RAF Valley in North Wales, and Akrotiri in Cyprus. His wife is from Corwen, as is her family. They were living up on the edge of the mountain when the incident with the Berwyns occurred, and her mother is still there now. A portion of the Berwyn range is Corwen. You’re talking about maybe a mile and a quarter away from where it all happened from where their house is if you go up the route that runs behind the houses up and then onto the top of the mountains; meaning it is relatively close.
His wife was still able to recall what transpired on the evening of January 23. During the Blitz, she claimed to have witnessed and heard planes being shot down; the sound, though similar to an aircraft falling down, was “louder, larger, and heavier than anything you could conceive to do with an airplane.” They were unsure of what it was. They immediately raced onto the road after hearing the noise. The entire neighborhood left as well. When the impact came, the houses shook and she had items fall from the mantelpiece in the house as the noise increased in volume despite their inability to see anything in the sky. He heard the tale of the dead discovered on the mountain from his wife’s father. Harold Smith was the man’s name. However, he went by Mick. He was a local councilor, worked full-time at Vauxhall at Elsmere Port, and also worked part-time as a sub-fire officer in Corwen. He told him that he certainly didn’t know about the event up on the Berwyn Mountains when they were discussing UFOs one day.
He told him the tale for the first time in about 1976. He said little more at the time, other than to state that bodies had been hauled down from the mountain. Nothing concerning who brought them down or the location of their capture. But while he was stationed in Germany from 1979 to 1982, Mick and his wife’s mother visited for a month, and it was during this time that he revealed a lot more to them. He recalls that the information he provided to them appeared to have come from a different member of the North Wales Fire Service whose son was in the Army. However, it is expected that he would have been informed: Mick was a well-liked individual who was familiar with many members of the North Wales Fire Service, especially those in Bala and Wrexham. While the police weren’t engaged, Mick informed him that the Army was – significantly. Although he informed them that he was unable to provide a precise date, it was unquestionably between 1979 and 1982 when they visited. He claimed that there were unquestionably Porton Down personnel present, that a lozenge-shaped device was lying on the slope, and that the dead had been transported to Porton from the location. His wife can still attest to the fact that Mick told her the Porton Down and body tale back in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Mick claimed that when he originally shared this tale in 1976, he was unaware that the Army had really removed the dead from the mountain and sent them to Porton Down. Therefore, between 1976 and the time he visited them in Germany, he must have learned it.
Next, let’s discuss the relationship between Porton Down and the infamous Rendlesham Forest “UFO landing” incident of December 1980 and the late Georgina Bruni, who penned the book You Can’t Tell the People about the Rendlesham case. You Can’t Tell the People, Georgina’s Rendlesham novel, was already in progress in 1997. The book was released in November 2000. Georgina and I were two of a very tiny number of UFO enthusiasts in the UK who were actively and often looking into the connections between UFOs and Porton Down back in the late 1990s. As a result, they consented to silently and carefully communicate their data with one another. This included any new data that was discovered. And that’s how Georgina’s information on the Rendlesham tale reached them. As Georgina worked on the research for her book, she learned that a Porton Down crew had been sent deep into Rendlesham Forest in late December 1980. On a clandestine mission, they entered the woods while wearing full-body protective gear. The UFO researchers Georgina had confided in believed that the Porton Down team was there to attempt and piece together what took place over a period of those three nights and to check for any lingering biological or chemical dangers. The Rendlesham-Porton Down problem hasn’t progressed too far thus far. Hopefully, that happens someday.
A researcher caught the presence of strange ships flying over the solar surface. In his opinion, this means that aliens could be controlling the Sun.
This is not the first time that these anomalies have been detected around the Sun. In fact, Russian scientists also claimed that they saw the same strange craft for 6 or 7 years .
Strange ships in the Sun?
The video was released on July 10 , and shows strange flares and mysterious green light objects hovering around the star.
Scott C. Waring , renowned and controversial researcher, assured that the first time I heard about the news about 6 years ago. Russian scientists had discovered numerous UFOs around the Sun at the same time.
“They stated UFOs speed up and slow down suddenly for no reason and that they would make sudden 90-degree turns without slowing down.”
This would confirm a theory given by scientists recently; the aliens use the Sun’s energy as fuel for their advanced spacecraft .
Waring also explained that the new story about the discovery by scientists in Russia “mysteriously” disappeared from the internet.
The researcher believes that aliens could be controlling the Sun to keep the temperature constant on Earth. Or they could be storing a heavy, rare and powerful item.
The researcher even joked with the idea that, hopefully, they don’t make any mistakes and end up “cooking us”.
In addition to Waring , another researcher observed similar strange craft far from the Sun.
It was a huge alien structure moving in the direction of Jupiter’s Moon Europa. This satellite has been highly questioned in the past; some theorists claim that it resembles a mother ship or an intergalactic cruiser.
A similar object approaches Jupiter’s Moon
The image was taken by a Canon 650D camera, with a 7D-300mm telescopic lens, mounted on a tripod.
The YouTube channel SecureTeamand its Community Manager, Tyler, mentioned in a related video that there is much scientific debate about extraterrestrial life and the possibility that it currently exists in the vast , currently frozen oceans of the Moon Europa.
The video was sent to the channel by Louis Lee, a Mars researcher from the city of Bristol, UK. As reported by the Mirror portal.
Jupiter is seen shining brightly in the image and to the left, a strange anomaly with a very strong brightness .
Tyler assured on his YouTube channel that strange ships had never been seen approaching Jupiter in such a way.
Experts say that, due to its radiating orbit, there is no doubt that it is one or multiple structures together.
It is possible that the Solar System is invaded by different strange alien ships in search of something that we do not know yet.
NOTE PETER2011:
Why am I posting this comment? I find that established UFO Investigators such as Mantle and C° have had a hard time with "newcomer" Nick Pope for years. I have been doing UFO research and related sciences for over 50 years; I read hundreds of articles, books, etc.; watched 10 as movies/documentaries about UFOs, 2 UFO reports. In addition, I wrote a number of articles for magazines and a chapter in a book by Timothy Good... And no, I dare not call myself a UFO expert. I know a lot about it, have formed my own opinion and vision, but cannot give a conclusive solution to the UFO phenomenon. Because what is a UFO expert? Now from experience I know that there is rather a conflict between Ufologists or UFO groups, who do not always have the same opinion and therefore disputes regularly ensue. Or Nick Pope a fraud, a debunker or a good researcher. Time will tell...
Professor and specialist in exopolitics, Michael Salla, tried to reassure humanity by stating that in the event of a global catastrophe, large space arks are hidden that are ready to save people and take them to a safe place in the Universe. .
Huge space Arks are under the Earth , ready, to evacuate a huge number of people, animals and plants . At least that is what a teacher has made clear.
Space arks to save humanity
Professor Michael Salla is a renowned expert on exopolitics who studies the interaction of human politics and aliens.
During the Shaun Attwood Uleashed podcast , the scientist claimed that huge spacecraft could exist under the earth. These would be ready to carry people in the event of a global catastrophe .
“I have probably about six sources telling me about these space arcs that are on the moon, all over the Earth, and that are actually in other parts of our solar system.”
One of the sources the professor uses is currently within the United States Army and has been taken on some secret missions .
During these missions, he boarded a few of these space arks, specifically one located in the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, he assured that there is also one on the Moon.
Salla gave a definition of what she meant when she referred to “Space Arks.” He explained that they were flying megastructures that would go into action if a global crisis occurred that would render the Earth uninhabitable.
Colossal spaceships
“It really does look like an ark, as described in the legend of Noah’s ark. It is very large, like a ship, and is designed to evacuate a large number of people, animals and flora during a disaster. "
The professor assured that these colossal ships are buried all over the Earth. They will activate when we are at a point in history where we collapse as a civilization. Like our ecosystem going into total collapse or some political, military or geographical catastrophe .
They could even be activated if humanity evolves and migrates to a place that better meets the new needs demanded as a species.
“So they are there as a safeguard and they were put there by the ancient races who had prepositions from the end times.”
It is surprising that a recognized professor makes statements like these publicly. But it should be remembered that this is not the first time we have heard this type of hypothesis, classes are recorded even in ancient civilizations.
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Nick Pope's Missing Tollbooth experience part two -
Nick Pope's Missing Tollbooth experience part two -Please Share.
I'm sick of Nick Poop and I recently posted the full inside story on his own 'missing time' encounter in 1991 which he now of course denies. This is the follow up to that first part which I have been asked to post so here you are:
Pretty much everyone in the UFO community will know of Nick Pope and his claims that from 1991-1994 he ran the UK governments ‘UFO PROJECT’, was the UK government’s ‘UFO expert’ and investigated UFOs, crop circles and alien abductions for the UK Ministry of Defence. These are his exact words from his own website:
“Nick Pope ran the British Government’s UFO project. From 1991 to 1994 he researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena, leading the media to call him the real Fox Mulder. Nick Pope ran the British Government’s UFO project. From 1991 to 1994 he researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena, leading the media to call him the real Fox Mulder. “
Let’s make things quite clear before we move on. According to the Ministry of Defence, Nick Pope’s previous employers, none of this is true. Below is one document from the UK National Archives which quickly puts the record straight. There are many other documents that once viewed can only leave one outcome is that The MoD are right and Nick Pope is not. He did none of these things.
Nick Pope claims that before he took this job at the MoD that he was a complete skeptic and that because of the UFO cases he ‘investigated’ etc he eventually became a believer. He claims he had no prior knowledge of experience of the UFO phenomenon.
In 2021 I wrote a lengthy article detailing that once again Nick Pope was using a very large degree of ‘artistic licence’ when he came to his claim that he had never seen a UFO or had any kind of close encounter. The fact was that in January 1991 before he took the job at the MoD’s ‘UFO desk’ (a nickname for Air Staff 2A – the MoD department that handled public reports and or requests for more info on UFO sighting. It was not a ‘UFO PROJECT’) he did indeed have a, missing time’ or more accurately a ‘missing tollbooth’ encounter in Florida, USA. The basic story is that Nick was on holiday with his girlfriend and was driving on toll road with another friend asleep in the back seat. After a while they apparently found themselves reaching their destination with no recollection of actually coming off the toll road. In fact they still had their ticket which they would have had to use in order to exit the toll road. Nick was very perplexed by this and several years later he underwent regressive hypnosis in the USA. Here he recounted getting out of the car and entering a large object (UFO) but did not see any beings or aliens.
Nick Pope admitted all of this to a group of UFO researchers in 1995 after a screening of the alien autopsy film in London. Other researchers have gone on the record that this story under his own name, was to appear in his first book ‘OPEN SKIES- CLOSED MINDS’ and UK author/UFO researcher Jenny Randles even read it in the first draft of the book. However when you read this book there is no sign of Nick’s missing time episode which happened in January 1991 a few months before joining the ‘UFO desk’. However, a few years down the line Nick Pope writes his second book ‘THE UNIVITED’ which deals with accounts of alien abductions and hey presto the story is there. Well not quite. Instead of it being Nick Pope and his former girlfriend it is now ‘Peter’ and ‘Jenny’. Pope claims these are false names for two witnesses that he interviewed and it is not him and his ex-girlfriend. All this despite what Jenny Randles read in the draft of his first book and the UFO researchers that Nick told the story to in 1995. He has made a variety of different comments about this but basically he says it was not him and it’s all a pack of lies.
Well in early 2022 another gentleman has stepped forward to once again confirm that he was informed by Nick Pope that he had indeed had a missing time experience in the USA in 1991. This man is even featured in Nick Pope’s second book ‘THE UNINVITED’, the very same book where Peter (Nick Pope) and Jenny (Nick’s girlfriend) tell their missing tollbooth story.
The man in question who has now stepped forward is Cris Martin and his girlfriend that is featured with him in ‘THE UNINVITED’ is Vaunda Hosick. Their accounts are featured in Chapter 13 under the heading of ‘INTERVIEW WITH THE ALIENS (page 205 – 221). Cris joined a discussion about Nick Pope of my facebook page and this is what he later sent me on email:
“Hi Philip. As per our earlier discussion, my statement below.
I first met Nick Pope on 1996 on the set of ITV studios morning daytime show "The Time, The Place". I was with my then partner Vaunda Hoscik. Nick was promoting his first book and was preparing for his next book and made it clear he was interested in interviewing us both for his next book "The Uninvited". We went to his flat in South London several times to be interviewed about our experiences and it was at one of these meetings he also chatted about his own abduction experience whilst driving in the USA with a female friend. He wrote about it under an assumed name in the very same book. He didn't want to come out as an abductee at the time as he felt it would undermine his reputation as an impartial researcher. We both respected his right for privacy and didn't speak of it again.
Moving forward 26 years and the contextual climate has shifted. Pope has set himself up as a leading UFO commentator and public speaker. He claims to be a trustworthy commentator but his stance on whether aliens are real remains ambiguous. This is in direct conflict with his own missing time encounter. My opinion is that he cannot lie to the public any longer and must come clean. Pope cannot be regarded as trustworthy when he continues to deny that this incident occurred. I would also like to say I have no axe to grind or any grudge against Mr Pope, I just want him to stop lying and tell the truth.
I can confirm that the details given are true to the best of my knowledge.
Cris Martin, Jan 2022.”
This is what Cris originally posted on my facebook page: Cris Martin
Philip Mantle I recently tried to contact Nick and was blanked by him for some reason. I used to know him quite well back in the 90s and some of you may remember myself and my then partner were featured in his book "The Uninvited". He also wrote the foreword to my book "Intruders in the night" published in 2000. He does not seem to want to talk about his own abduction experience for some reason. Comments I have made on his FB page about this have been deleted by him. If he would lie to people about this important event, then one must ask what else is he lying about?
Cris Martin & Vaunda Hoscik.
Cris Martin
Some of the deleted facebook postings are here:
MoD letter
Conclusion:
There is no doubt in my mind that Nick pope is indeed ‘Peter’ as featured in his book ‘THE UNINVITED’ and that he did indeed have a ‘missing time’ experience in January 1991 in Florida and later went under hypnotic regression There are many reasons why Nick Pope now wants to deny this is him, one being that it would make a mockery of him comments that he knew nothing about UFOs and had never had a UFO sighting prior to joining Air Staff 2A in July 1991. His story of being converted from skeptic to believer while working at the MoD would also go straight out of the window. As Cris Martin has made clear he has no axe to grind with Nick Pope and neither have I but the UFO community deserves the truth and the facts and it will be interesting to see what excuse Nick Pope comes up with this time regarding Cris Martin’s comments. To clarify where I stand I am 100% convinced that Nick Pope is indeed ‘Peter’ and he and his girlfriend did have a missing time experience in Florida in 1991. When you also look at the MoD documents at The National Archives there is also no doubt in my mind that Nick Pope did not run the UK governments UFO project as there never was one. He did not investigate UFOs, crop circles alien abductions etc on any official basis for the MoD and he was not the UK government’s UFO expert. And last but not least he is not anything remotely like ‘the real Fox Mulder’ he was instead, as the MoD have informed us, a junior D-grade civil servant and nothing more.
Nick Pope and the ‘Missing Toll Booth Encounter’ - PART I
Nick Pope and the ‘Missing Toll Booth Encounter’ - PART I
By Philip Mantle
I’ve known Nick Pope since he worked for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) in the UK. I still have a letter or two from him in my files when he would reply to enquiries I was making at the MoD. Nick has also spoken at UFO conferences I have helped to organise and we still keep in touch, however, it is more about football than UFO’s. I have no axe to grind with Nick and I have found him to be a very amiable and helpful chap over the years.
With that in mind, I have had doubts about writing this article. I have decided to write this article in the hope it might clear up a long standing rumour and perhaps give us a better idea of why Nick Pope became interested in the UFO subject in the first place.
WHO IS NICK POPE?
For those who might not know who Nick Pope is, here is a brief cut and paste from Nick’s web site:
“Nick Pope used to run the British Government's UFO project. From 1991 to 1994 he researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena, leading the media to call him the real Fox Mulder. His government background and his level-headed views have made him the media, film and TV industry's go-to guy when it comes to UFOs, the unexplained and conspiracy theories. Nick Pope has consulted on and helped to promote a number of alien-themed movies, TV shows and video games. He has presented, consulted on and contributed to numerous TV shows, has written five best-selling books, and lectures all around the world. Nick Pope lives in America.”
Let’s dispel a number of falsehoods that Nick Pope has perpetuated. He did not run the British Government’s UFO Project. There never was a British Government’s UFO Project. From 1991 – 1994 the department he worked for at the MoD did handle UFO reports, etc. There was no “UFO Project”. Nick, unlike his predecessors, did put in a bit more work than they did, but that was by his own choice. He still stuck to the official MoD party line when dealing with enquiries about UFOs, and after his three years were up, he moved on. In total, he spent 21 years as a civil servant at the MoD. To confirm what I am sharing here, one can write to the MoD to inquire and confirm this information. I have also highlighted a couple of documents located in the MoD’s UFO files held at the National Archives that confirm this. (Fig 1 & Fig 2)
Early on, when Nick Pope went public and was still working at the MoD, a rumour circulated and still does to this day, claiming Nick had been involved in a case of ‘missing time’ regarding a ‘missing toll booth’ encounter. After first admitting this to a number of people it appeared in his book ‘THE UNINVITED’ as someone else. Did Nick Pope have his own ‘close encounter’ and publish it under someone else’s identity or a fictional alias?
CHRIS FOWLER
I had heard this rumour myself many years ago, and heard it again in December of 2019. UK researcher Chris Fowler was discussing the alien autopsy film hoax on social media when he reminded me of this incident with Nick Pope. The alien autopsy was screened to a selected audience at the London Museum on May 5th, 1995. Chris Fowler, myself and Nick Pope were in attendance at this screening. What happened after this Alien Autopsy screening was very interesting. Chris Fowler said:
“After the screening finished and everyone had left the area the three of us joined a crowd of people heading for a near-by cafe to discuss what we had seen over a few drinks and something to eat. Those present were Reg Presley, the bass player from the Troggs, John Holman, Kent Jeffery, Colin Andrews, Nick Pope and a few others. At the other end of the cafe sat Rob Irving. After some suggestion from Matthew, Colin joined him for a short chat about crop circles which he later referenced during one of his conference presentations. Not wanting to miss out on this photo opportunity, Matthew took a few shots of them together in mid conversation with his zoom lens. It had been a good day for his camera!
After everyone had eaten we all pulled our chairs around and had a joint discussion about what we had just seen and ufology in general. For me this was the part of the day I enjoyed the most. Reg bought everyone a drink and Dan said to me quietly that he couldn’t wait to tell one of his friends that Reg Presley of The Troggs had bought him a beer! We both had a great time talking to the bass player about the 60’s and what went on back then. Dan asked him the question, what was his favourite version of Wild Thing? “Hendrix’s of course” was his answer. It sounded like he must have had an amazing time back then, mixing and meeting all sorts of stars from The Beatles to Jimi Hendrix! What a place and time to end up talking about the 60’s music scene, more interesting than the UFO talk!
This setting also provided a better opportunity to talk to Nick Pope. I found it pretty weird that here was the UFO man from the MoD having drinks with us and talking about UFOs, just like he was one of us (the MoD are the friendly enemy as far as ufologists go!). As far as Matthew was concerned, there was only one thing he wanted to ask Nick about - Rudloe Manor. “What do you know about Rudloe Manor and what does it have to do with the investigation of UFOs?” he asked. Nick’s answered “where?” Matthew then elaborated further, citing what Tim Good had written in ‘Above Top Secret’. Nick finally said that he remembered reading something or other but didn’t really know anything about it. A white elephant that place. We all thought, yeah, sure thing!
While we were all talking, Nick came out with something that I found pretty weird, at least coming from him that is. He told us all that a few years ago, before he got the job at Air Staff 2A, he was on holiday with his girlfriend at the time in Florida and had what he described as a ‘missing road’ experience. He said that they were on a toll road and all of a sudden realised that they hadn’t passed the toll booth they would have definitely gone through. When he told us this he didn’t even say anything like “listen, off the record, something weird happened once whilst I was on holiday in Florida....” We were pretty amazed, especially when he also told us that he’d written a book on UFOs that was going to be published. Doing this would go on to make him one of the most well-known faces of British Ufology. Reg Presley I found to be a funny guy. At one point when Nick went to the toilet Reg turned to everyone and said, “when he comes back out, let’s say to him, tell us the truth about the MoD and UFOs or we’ll kick the shit out of you!”. Needless to say, the joke went down very well!
A little while later everyone started to disperse. We headed back to Dan’s house in Stratford, looking forward to telling everyone about our eventful time in London. Alien autopsy, ufologist who works for the MoD and rock stars all in one day! “
COLIN ANDREWS
I decided to make a few enquiries about this myself. I don’t have the contact details of all those folks mentioned by Chris who were there that day. Reg Presley sadly, has passed away. However, I do have the contact details of one of those mentioned as being in the café that day of May 5th, 1995. That person is Colin Andrews. I sent Colin an email and a copy of what Chris Fowler had to say, and Colin sent me a reply of January 3rd, 2020. Here it is in full:
“Hi Philip,
Yes I was there with Reg and the others. I know something was said about Nick's own unspoken experience but unless I can locate my notes for that day, I would hate to rely upon my memory. Additionally, most are not aware that I was responsible for arranging Nick's first public appearance at a UFO conference. It was in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA at the MUFON conference. Early 1990's. During a quiet walk outside the venue with the State Director, our wives’ and Nick, I recall the question again coming up and an evasive side-step, not really answering what happened but acknowledging that something did. Worth saying here that around this time, the MoD had to clear ALL his public statements, including his first presentation I helped MUFON arrange.”
I think it is fair to say that Colin Andrews has confirmed what Chris Fowler has said about the public statement made by Nick Pope on May 5th, 1995. Colin goes on to relate more details of Nick being quizzed about this and although he was evasive he did however acknowledge that something had indeed happened.
DANIEL HARRIS
Another of those that were present that day on May 5th 1995 and was at the café was Daniel Harris. This is a direct quote from an email I received from Daniel on January 27th 2020.
“Hi,
Thanks for your patience, been super busy for January. Hope the following helps.
In 1995 I was a third year undergraduate studying for a BSc in Psychology at the University of East London. I had considered writing my final dissertation on the impact of ufology on the social sciences or possibly the alien abduction phenomena. At that point it seemed that it was mostly American academics writing in this area and I was making efforts to meet as many people connected with research as possible. I eventually decided against it as I had strong research leads in a different area and felt it was a risky subject to commit to.
However, I did get to meet a lot of very interesting people who shared a deep, sincere and robustly academic interest in many of the same things as me, so when the opportunity came to attend a premiere screening of footage alleged to show the autopsy of a recovered extraterrestrial entity I was thrilled.
The invitation came from my friend and researcher Chris Fowler. Strictly speaking I don't think either of us had a formal invitation so I may have suggested I was a journalist to try and secure entry to the event. It was immediately clear that the interest of many in the research community had been seriously raised. As hoped, we saw some familiar faces including Reg Presley and Nick Pope both of whom we talked to immediately after the screening and stayed for a round of drinks bought by Reg who was keen to discuss what we had seen.
There remained a general level of scepticism about the footage itself as its provenance was never really established at the screening, the footage played, finished and everyone descended on Ray Santilli for answers but Ray fled!
Chris, Reg, Nick and I were left with a small number of researchers talking in small groups and shortly after Chris and I had Nick all to ourselves. Speculation about the footage had quickly evaporated and we had moved on to more personal experiences.
Now, my training kicked in. I knew when and how to shut up and listen. Nick was a very, very interesting guy and the object of a great deal of speculation and discussion in his own right. Having worked for the MoD up until 1994 and claimed to have been responsible for collating information about UFO's for the British military there was a huge amount of expectation about what he would be discussing and writing about in the future.
Nick dropped a bombshell. I don't recall if Chris had met him before but I certainly had not. What he told Chris and I stunned us. In a wider discussion about our own personal experience Nick began to tell us a story in a quite casual, unguarded way. He described a vacation in the USA he had taken with a girlfriend during which they drove a lot. Describing the toll road system Nick explained he was certain he had a section of missing time between one road and another. His toll card clearly showed entry to one route but not to the one his friend and he found themselves on. The event at the time had been significant enough for them to be a bit shaken up. They had no explanation for the missing time or record of entry on to the toll road. Nick only seems to link this experience to the UFO/abduction phenomenon much later and by the end of his story he still seemed to feel the same sense bewilderment. Chris and I both had our jaws on the floor. We couldn't believe what he'd told us. He hadn't invited us to keep the information confidential and I think we both assumed he would be going public with the story in some form.
I only wish I could remember more of the details of the story itself! I moved away from any serious interest in research shortly after but always remained sceptical of Nick's motivation for telling us the story. But, hand on heart, Nick told a very interesting tale that day and I'm sad if he feels he is unable to either recant or corroborate it.
Sincerely
Daniel Harris”
NICK REFERN's new book:
THE RENDLESHAM FOREST UFO CONSPIRACY:
Page 25:
Nick Redfern
"The majority of the staff at the MoD who handled the UFO subject - Pam Titmarsh being a good example - were decidedly cagey when it came to the matter of getting chummy and chatty with ufologists. Matters began to change for the better in 1991. That was when a man named Nick Pope took over the reins in "the UFO office." He was refreshingly open - to the extent he could. So, on March 29, 1994, I decided to be proactive. I took a trip to London and had a face-to-face chat with Pope in a nearby bar. We found a quiet area where I could record the interview, got our cold beers, and began. Nick began by explaining to me funding for the MoD office - for UFO investigations - was tiny in the extreme. In Pope's own words: "There is no specific 'UFO budget', excepting the staff costs, i.e. around twenty percent of my salary, together with a tiny percentage of some other salaries, reflecting my line management's supervisory role."
And that was it. Even the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book had a bigger budget - and that, back in the 1950's and 1960's, was hardly what one would call astronomical. On top of that, Pope quite openly told me that he never went out of the MoD building to undertake an in-the-field-type investigation: he would simply sit at his desk and take phone-calls or handle letters from UFO witnesses and flying saucer investigators. The reports would then be sent to an arm of the Defence Intelligence for scrutiny and explanations. It was hardly like the exciting scenarios we saw the X-Files began, which was just one year before I met Pope.
From Nick Redfern on 3rd July 2010 via facebook:
“Hey Philip, Saw your email. I'm on FB most of the day today, so easier for me to reply here. Yes, that's correct Pope didn't "run" any kind of UFO program. He just handled reports that were forwarded to Defence Intelligence for an explanation. Yes, I do know of the Toll Gate (toll booth) "abduction" case he had.” Nick Redfern added a bit more concerning Nick Pope’s role at the MoD: “yeah, he was basically a civil servant receiving phone calls and letters concerning UFOs and getting advice from Defence Intelligence. To me, that's not a "UFO project." (Fig 3)
DR. DAVID CLARKE
As you can see Nick Pope made this statement about the ‘missing toll booth’ in public and there were many witnesses to what he had to say. Not to disbelieve Chris Fowler I went on to contact some old friends and colleagues about this to see if they had any information as well. The first was Dr David Clarke. David and I have been friends and colleagues for a long time and although he has some very skeptical views on UFOs, especially the ETH, he is the man who worked tirelessly to have all the MoD’s UFO documents released to the National Archives in the UK and he is the official spokesman for the National Archives and the MoD UFO files and not Nick Pope. I simply asked David if he could confirm these rumours concerning Nick Pope. He replied in full:
“The fact that Nick *is* Peter aka 'Terror at the Toll Booth' is confirmed by:
a) it remains a fact that in the early drafts of his first book 'Open Skies – Closed Minds' Nick Pope openly described the experience as having happened to him. We know this is true because Jenny Randles was asked to review the early draft by the publisher and has written openly about this. Georgina Bruni, Pope’s close friend and colleague, took her to task for allegedly breaking witness confidentiality when this emerged in 1998 but this was just perfidy. The Sunday Times had already outed him as 'Peter' and he just looks ridiculous when he keeps denying the truth, 20 years later.
b) if you have read Chris Fowler's account (and others) of what happened after the premiere of the alien autopsy film it simply confirms Jenny's account from (a) above. At that time Nick Pope was telling all and sundry he was Peter - among the witnesses were Kent Jeffery, Matthew Williams, Reg Presley, Colin Andrews and many others.
The real mystery is why, after openly admitting this in public, he suddenly decided to deny it. I suspect it was because:
a) he was forced to remove the story from the manuscript (Open Skies – Closed Minds) by the MoD reviewers because of the embarrassment value - but we will never know for sure because Nick Pope has gone to extraordinary lengths to stop his former employers from releasing the papers surrounding the clearance of his manuscripts under FOIA. However, one letter (DEFE 24/1985) dated 10 October 1995 written by Nick Pope to the division of the MoD that dealt with the clearance of his manuscript contains an interesting hand-written comment by one of the recipients. This note is one of the few to have escaped redaction and reads: “A great pity that a more permanent abduction by aliens cannot be arranged. I’m not surprised that they [Secretariat Air Staff – his former branch] didn’t want to keep him”. The context of this comment suggests a direct link to Pope’s ‘missing time’ story which at that point, 1995 remained intact in his original manuscript. (Fig 4)
Andy Roberts, Chris Fowler and myself have tried to secure access to the files that cover the clearance of his manuscript using Freedom of Information requests. My own attempt went on appeal to the Information Commissioner who decided against release because Nick Pope invoked his rights to privacy and the Human Rights Act and wrote to his former employers asking them not to release this information even if they were minded to do so. Judging by more recent responses they have now destroyed most of this material in order to ensure it will never emerge into the public domain.
However, if you read the PQ (Parliamentary Question) response to MP Norman Baker from 2003 (attached) you will see a very clear statement from a more senior MoD official who confirms there was no 'UFO project' and Nick Pope was regarded by his former colleagues as someone who was using his position to promote himself to the international media as the British government’s UFO expert when this was incorrect. This might explain why Nick Pope was keen to stop the internal discussions from emerging when the MoD released the bulk of their UFO files in 2008-2013.
b) secondly, if you read the piece of investigative chronology that I compiled (Terror on the Toll Road, below), you will see another reason why Nick Pope was reluctant to discuss his experience in Florida. If he did so it would reveal that the legend he has carefully cultivated for years, namely that he was a 'skeptic' with no interest in UFOs when he was offered the Sec (AS) job in 1991, is not accurate. According to the account in his book The Uninvited Peter’s 'missing time' experience occurred in January 1991, six months before he claims he was 'sounded out for the job' [on the so-called ‘UFO desk’]. Yet he clearly had knowledge of and connections with ufologists before that time. I have found evidence in the National Archives files that Nick Pope had some interest in UFO reports as early as 1988 when he worked for the Naval Secretariat in MoD. In that year he passed information about a UFO sighting on the Isle of Wight to the UFO desk three years before he was offered the job on the ‘UFO desk’ (Fig 5 & 6)
I suggest if you put all this evidence in front of a jury in a crown court they would, on the balance of probabilities, agree that Nick Pope is 'Peter'.
Nick Pope has some serious questions to answer and simply being a celebrity does not mean you can evade them forever (unless you are Boris Johnson of course)....Dr David Clarke”
I think it is fair to say that Nick Pope and Dr. David Clarke are not the best of friends, but I have known David a long time and I have no reason to doubt what he has to say. David also drew my attention to where Nick Pope is quoted in a book about this matter.
JANE GOLDMAN
In Jane Goldman’s book The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (Simon & Schuster 1995), the following section appears in an extended interview with Nick Pope: “…while Mulder’s desire is not just the truth, but also a resolution to the mystery of his sister’s disappearance, Nick Pope’s purpose is surely more straightforward. Or is it? ‘You could say that, like Fox Mulder, my interest is not purely an academic one and I’m driven by some personal motivations. My primary motivation is the intellectual belief that there is a genuine unknown phenomenon, and my belief in the people’s right to know, but a part of my motivation is a desire to explain some anomalous events in my own past.’…He is reluctant to go into detail but offers: ‘The very furthest I would want to go is to say that there are some events in my past which some people in the UFO lobby would say are some of the factors that are present in cases of abduction. But I want to stay on the fence until I know what happened to me.”
YUFOS MAGAZINE AND JENNY RANDLES
You can see here that Nick Pope uses the plural ‘events’. What events Nick? I’ve also outlined here an extract from the article from the YUFOS magazine and (Volume 3, September 1999) The ‘Peter’ Controversy – The Right To Reply. Here you can read in Jenny Randles own words how it was an open secret that Nick Pope is aka ‘Peter’ and the fact that he has indeed undergone his own experiences.
From YUFOS magazine September 1999: (Fig 7)
Jenny Randles………
” (Jenny had been accused of breaking witness confidentiality in revealing the true identity of ‘Peter’ in Nick Popes book THE UNIVITED). As such I am frankly livid at the suggestion that I have disregarded such ethics and – it seems the ridiculous charge is – that this was to gain publicity. You may care to know something I would not normally discuss but I seem to have to do this now in view of circumstance. Twice last year (1998) I was approached by major media sources but got the impression I would be expected to publicly identify ‘Peter’ in front of millions as a consequence. One is a TV show that I was offered a four-figure sum to work on and because I said no I will now not even feature as an interviewee. I do know the identity of Peter but declined to be associated with the things I was being asked to do. Three months after the above I was being publicly accused in Georgina Bruni’s gossip column on the internet for disregarding witness confidentiality – something your magazine now appears to reiterate. Does this make me regret that I said no to national TV exposure and a nice cheque that right now I could badly use to pay the mortgage (since I don’t get paid £50,000 to write a book). No it does not. I stood by my principles and always put them above money. Sadly not that many people in ufology are aware of how some silly twits like me seem to consider this sort of action a virtue in today’s money grabbing, fame and fortune society. As stared, I know for certain who Peter is. But ‘Peter’ asked me personally only this year not to reveal his identity in public and that I will abide by, of course. However, what I want to make abundantly clear is this. I have not gone behind anyone’s back and blabbed a confidential identity to the public. You need to understand what actually happened. Nick Pope himself revealed the identity of Peter to many people long before I did. As such I was not under any obligation nor any impression of witness confidence until that very recent request by ‘Peter’. Once a witness is publicly outed by the person writing his story I find it incredible that anyone can turn around years later and suggest it is somehow my fault if the media find out who this witness is. For the record, Nick Pope identified ‘Peter’ to a room full of ufologists in a London café in May 1995 – at least so several of them told me (indeed one who was there has already written up this story in a book!). In my presence Nick Pope shared the news with others at a UFO conference. I late 1995 I read the original manuscript of ‘Open Skies – Closed Minds’ and this told the story of Peter using the real identity of the witness. Several others read the manuscript too in 1995 and indeed were instrumental in setting up the hypnosis of Peter, which was in fact conducted by a ufologist, I gather, not a medical professional, at least if I understood correctly what was said by that ufologist in a public lecture before hundreds of people. As such the identity of Peter was common knowledge amongst quite a few folk, apparently thanks to Nick Pope himself, before even I even came to know about it, and it created a rumour sweeping ufology long before I said a word. I spoke three times face-to-face to Nick Pope between 1996 and 1998 advising him of this news and suggesting that I would not be selling the story to the media (despite several opportunities to make big money this way). He has long known that I knew. He knew how I knew (because I told him I had read his manuscript when we met for me to film an interview with him at the MoD in December 1995 – long before his book (Open Skies – Closed Minds) was even published – and indeed that night I offered suggestions to him about the text. He knew I felt it more than likely someone would tell the media soon. So I argued, you would be well advised sorting this out under your control. He told me on two separate occasions (and in front of witnesses – e.g. at the April 1995 Fortean Times conference) things like – if many people in ufology know who Peter is I don’t need to tell them, do I? And Peter’s identity will be revealed when the time is right. All fair enough, of course. It was down to Peter as and when this happened – if ever – and also Nick Pope for being the person who revealed Peter’s identity in the first place. But I truly fail to see how what I did was anything less than proper. Despite knowing who Peter was since 1995 I have said nothing during numerous media interviews when asked what I thought of Nick Pope. I did say something a couple of times in UFO circles - I admit – but after the book was out and the curious way the Peter story was being handled in public by Nick Pope became apparent. Also not until I became well aware of how various other ufologists knew Peter’s identity already via Nick Pope himself. So at no time was I responsible for deliberately breaking a witness confidence or disregarding the code of practice to expose the identity of Peter. I felt it not my place to out Peter to the media, so did not do that, but acceptable to comment to fellow ufologists, many of whom knew anyway and because I became concerned about the way Nick Pope was presenting this story and from this his stated disinclination to set the record straight. I was never at any time asked by Nick Pope to keep Peter’s identity secret, despite him knowing for four years that I was aware who Peter was and despite my speaking to him face-to-face on the matter several times during this period. Neither Peter nor Nick (who had my ex-directory phone number) made any attempt to call me, or write to me, or in and privately request that this matter was one they wished me to keep confidential. The first such request came from Peter only a matter of weeks ago – after the Georgina Bruni gossip column discussion about the matter this Spring. As for now, frankly, I have a hard time not coming straight out and telling you what I do know about the identity of Peter, given the way this has all occurred, the manner I have been scandalously accused of publicity seeking, and the extreme lengths I went to so as to play fair with Nick Pope and Peter. Whilst Nick is making money out of Peter’s story I have lost both money and opportunities by choosing not to do so. Yet somehow I am cast as the villain here. Incredible. But a promise is a promise and I will keep to it now that it has been requested – and the code of practice is a code that I chose to abide by. But I would appreciate people not jumping to conclusions. Unfortunately, Nick and Peter, that’s what happens when people only get told half the story. Best wishes, Jenny Randles.”
Here Jenny Randles confirms the public statement made by Nick Pope in the café on May 5th, 1995. Jenny also states quite clearly that Nick Pope also made other public statements about his own ‘close encounter’ at other UFO conferences and that it was a well-known fact among UFO researchers. Nick was now changing his story and saying that ‘Peter’ as outlined in chapter 12 of his book THE UNINVITED was not him but someone else.
In fact Jenny Randles had already confirmed in the media that Nick Pope was indeed ‘Peter’. In an article in The Sunday Times newspaper on February 7th, 1999 Jenny Randles stated: “When I discovered that Nick had had an experience I was mildly surprised given his position as the government expert on UFOs. What surprised me more though is why he has never admitted to it before and why he chose to describe the incident as happening to someone else. Clearly, the truth really is out there.”
Going back to the September 1999 issue of the YUFOS magazine, Dr. David Clarke also commented on the on-going discussion and accusations against Jenny Randles. David had this to say:
“Since I’ve been asked for me view on this tiresome nonsense; here it is. Nick Pope has a cheek accusing anyone of seeking publicity, as it seems to me his entire ‘career’ in ufology has been cleverly engineered to make himself as much cash and fame as possible based upon a pretty uneventful 3 or 4 years as a civil servant. Can’t blame him for that – I’d have done the same. But this whole ‘Peter’ business is a joke, and the only people fooled by it are the newcomers and the naïve. As far as I’m concerned it’s common knowledge that Peter is Nick Pope; it’s been exposed to millions via the Sunday Times, it’s in the public domain. You can’t have your cake and not eat it. The fact that Peter is Nick Pope was in the first draft of his book, and as Jenny says the man himself has told dozens of people over the past 5 years. Given those facts, he has no right to turn around now and claim otherwise, trying to turn the clock back and accuse others of being ’unprofessional’. As a journalist it is my code of practice that if someone is challenged and they say I can’t confirm, and I can’t deny’ that equals “Yes it’s true.”
Here David Clarke is referring to Nick pope’s comment in the Sunday Times article when he says he was unable to confirm or deny the allegations that he was Peter. Surely if Nick Pope was not Peter then here was chance to publicly deny them but instead he fudged it. Why did he do this. In the article Nick claims it was because ‘Peter’ had fallen out with his girlfriend and he didn’t want her to be involved. How could his girlfriend ‘Jenny’ be involved if Peter was not Nick Pope? Nick had a great opportunity to say that he could not identify the ‘real’ names of Peter and Jenny as they had wished to remain anonymous. But no, he fudged it instead. This was not the first time that Nick Pope had that opportunity to deny that he was Peter.
PHILIP KINSELLA
Philip Kinsella is a close encounter witness, author a public speaker in the UK and he too adds his own account of the discussion over Nick Pope’s own alleged encounter. This time it was at a TV studio and not a café in London. Philip Kinsella provided the following for me on January 3rd, 2020.
“In September 1998, I had been invited onto a live television debate broadcast by Carlton Television in Nottingham regarding UFOs. The program had been hosted by the Scottish presenter, Kay Adams and was to be a balanced view on the subject-matter. I had no idea at the time what the program had been called, until we’d entered the studio which had been littered with a somewhat negative audience. It had been titled ‘X-Files or X-Fools.’ I had been asked to attend by a producer who’d seen me talk on Channel Four, and thought I’d be a good speaker. I was joined by UFO investigator, Omar Fowler, along with Nick Pope, Georgina Bruni, Malcolm Robinson, Terry Le Richie Walters, Andy Roberts, to name but a few. After we’d taken our seats and the countdown began, Kay Adams began her introduction which seemed less than appealing, drawing more into the negative with regards to the UFO reality. A member from the audience firstly quizzed Nick Pope, (former Ministry of Defence) about him deliberately having a chapter retracted from one of his books, apparently dealing with a personal abduction Nick Pope himself had experienced. Pope merely allowed the man to rant on without either confirming or denying the said episode. This had been the first time I’d heard anything about these said allegations. I must state that both Nick Pope and Georgina Bruni, author of ‘You Can’t Tell the People’ had been very kind to me back then. If Pope’s experience is real, then I believe a great many within the UFO community would support him. After all, he is a man of integrity and kindness. “
Although Nick Pope did not make any statements here regarding the allegations made against him surely it would have been the perfect opportunity to deny them on live TV. It does however show that the story of Nick Pope having his own close encounter and the fact that he had removed the details of this from his first book ‘Open Skies – Closed Minds’. Dr David Clarke and Jenny Randles had also confirmed this.
A FORMER GIRLFRIEND
If the above wasn’t enough I wanted to see if I could locate someone who was a friend of Nick Pope and was not directly linked to ufology. This I did by contacting one of his girlfriends from the late 1990’s. The lady in question is a well known author and broadcaster and I contacted her via email to ask if she knew about her former boyfriend’s missing time experience. I’ll not mention her real name instead I’ll refer to her as ‘Mary’. In an email I received from Mary on January 14th 2020 she informed me:
“Great to hear from you - but sorry to disappoint. Until I got your email I had completely forgotten about Nick's 'missing time' episode with his girlfriend. I do know she was indeed the daughter of some US government high-up, which I personally thought at the time to be important somehow in his UFO interest. All I can say is that he told me it did happen to them, and as far as I can recall, as you describe. “
I have met ‘Mary’ just once many years ago and have only on rare occasions exchanged emails with her. She does not appear to me to suffer from the ‘woman scorned’ syndrome so I have no doubt that what she has said in answer to my query about Nick Pope is in fact true.
THE UNINVITED – Chapter 12 – Terror on the Toll Road
I have a signed copy of this book THE UNIVITED by Nick Pope. It was signed to me and my ex-wife Sue. The first thing that I would say about the book is the statement on its front cover ‘THE GOVERNMENT’S UFO EXPERT’. Now Nick may say he had no say in what the publisher puts on the cover, but one is for sure he is and never was the government’s UFO expert. As I have already pointed out despite what Nick Pope says, there never was a British Government UFO Project therefore he could not be the head of it.
Moving on, I think it only fair that we look at chapter 12 of this book as this is where ‘Peter’ tells his story. First off in the second paragraph on page 191 Nick states that: “Although there have been a number of anomalous incidents in Peter’s life, the only one he wishes to talk about for the moment is the one detailed in this chapter. Of course Nick Pope in his interview with Jane Goldman is quoted as saying “but a part of my motivation is a desire to explain some anomalous events in my own past. The very furthest I would want to go is to say that there are some events in my past which some people in the UFO lobby would say are some of the factors that are present in cases of abduction. But I want to stay on the fence until I know what happened to me.” A coincidence? Both Peter and Nick having anomalous incidents (plural) in their past? In the book ‘Peter’ is acknowledged as being British but at the time he was in a relationship with ‘Jenny’ and American woman. The encounter in question took place on January 3rd, 1991 during a holiday in Florida. They were driving on to Boca Raton on the Florida Turnpike. They had a friend ‘Sharon’ asleep in the back of their vehicle. The essence of the strange event that was about to take place is that ‘Peter’ and ‘Jenny’ suddenly found themselves on the outskirts of Boca Raton and they had not turned off the toll road at the exit they had on their map. In fact the money they had ready to pay their toll and the ticket were still on the dashboard of their car. Both Peter and Jenny realised that something strange had taken place and were both scared and puzzled. Upon arrival at their destination the couple talked a lot about what had happened but strangely did not mention it to their companion ‘Sharon’ who had slept through it all. Sometime after the experience Jenny returned home to the USA (she had been studying in the UK) and their relationship ended. A few months later the experience was to come back to Peter after reading a book by UK UFO researcher John Spencer. The book is called ‘Perspectives’ and deals with close encounters, missing time and alien abduction accounts. Peter was shocked to read of a similar experience to his in this book. There was a ‘missing time’ account in the book from a witness who suddenly was startled to see a sign post for home. This reminded Peter of the event on the Florida Turnpike. The book however mentioned an alien abduction scenario, and this scared Peter. Peter is said not to have finished reading the book and he was forced to reassess the incident on the toll road. Again, we must also return again to the interview that Nick Pope gave to Jane Goldman for her book; ‘The very furthest I would want to go is to say that there are some events in my past which some people in the UFO lobby would say are some of the factors that are present in cases of abduction. But I want to stay on the fence until I know what happened to me.” Is this not what ‘Peter’ says as well?
Although the idea of alien abduction seemed ridiculous he had to admit that something was going on. Peter put this experience to the back of his mind and over the next few years he became increasingly interested in the UFO subject but felt no good reason why he should re-visit the incident on the Florida Turnpike in 1991. The book then goes on the say that Peter made a trip to the USA in the Autumn of 1995, but rather surprisingly there is no mention why he made this trip or what he went to the USA for. During the trip Peter was to receive an offer of regression hypnosis, aimed at getting to the bottom of the event on the toll road in 1991 with Jenny. Under regression hypnosis a quite extraordinary story is uncovered. It’s a long story so I’ll briefly say that Peter states that the car was slowly pulled off the road, his girlfriend Jenny was sat next to him and she was like a statue. The car was in a clearing of trees about 100 feet up in the air. The trees were illuminated by a light. Peter undid his seatbelt, opened the car door and literally walked in thin air. The next thing he remembers is that he stepped up to avoid a bulkhead. Peter was suddenly then in a metallic corridor which he described as being six feet high and three feet wide. His surroundings reminded him of a naval ship, something that he was moderately familiar with. There was tubular yellow lights on the floor. Peter found an opening to his left and he found himself in a rectangular room. The room was piled high with cardboard boxes that seemed to be full of junk. Peter wasn’t sure what was in these boxes, but some items seemed to be associated with road maintenance. Peter eventually left the room and returned from where had come and walked in this air again back to the car in the trees. Jenny was still sitting there motionless. Peter did not recall seeing Sharon. He got back in the car and it was returned to the ground spinning as it did. This made Peter feel sick and then the car was not returned to where they were on the toll road but on the highway outside of Boca Raton. When Peter came out of the hypnosis he was asked how long he thought the session had lasted. Peter thought it was twenty or thirty minutes, but he was told that it was almost one and a half hours. Accordingly Peter is said that he is not prepared to label himself an abductee, although he realizes this is an aspect that no doubt would be suspected by ufologists. Peter is not prepared to say that the corridor and the room were on a spaceship, and as has been stated he saw no evidence of any entities. Despite this, there is no escaping the fact that if the event occurred as Peter remembers, then he was taken – without consent – and subjected to a truly bizarre experience. There must, surely have been some purpose behind it” The last paragraph of this chapter is: “Peter’s subsequent recollections might suggest an abduction, uncertainties about regression hypnosis must cast doubt on this. And if these events did happen, there is no way to be sure whether they occurred in the physical universe, in the internal, psychological universe, or in some other reality about which we can only speculate.”
What can we say about ‘Peter’ and ‘Jenny’s’ missing toll booth event? Well the first thing that I noticed was that Peter does not tell us why he was returning to the USA or even what part of the USA he was visiting. He was happy to tell us that in 1991 he was there with his girlfriend on holiday. So how come he can’t tell us why and where he was going in 1995? The oddest thing is of course was that during his trip to the USA in the Autumn of 1995 an offer of regression hypnosis was made to him. Is it only me that finds this a bit peculiar? I’m not aware of regressive hypnosis simply being offered to random British tourists entering the USA. Surely such an arrangement must have been made in advance or at least discussed. However there is no mention of how this offer of regression hypnosis came about, where it took place and more importantly by whom. In his account Peter also mentions the fact that the bulkhead etc reminded him of a navy vessel and that he had some familiarity with such. I would like to remind everyone that before Nick Pope worked at the MoD in London he worked at the Naval Secretariat in Portsmouth. Is this why Peter (Nick Pope) was familiar with naval vessels?
PHILIP MANTLE
So, Nick Pope has made these very claims in public on several occasions, the details were in the original draft of his first book OPEN SKIES - CLOSED MINDS which was read by Jenny Randles . The ‘Peter’ story and the missing toll booth encounter was published in Nick Pope’s book ‘THE UNIVITED’, however, ‘Peter’ is in fact Nick Pope. The story is also published in The Sunday Times newspaper and Nick is also quoted in Jane Goldman’s book. And last but not least we have a document signed by Nick Pope himself from 1988 showing that he already had an interest in the UFO subject prior to working at the MoD from 1991 – 1994 at Air Staff and dealing with UFO enquiries as part of his job. We also have an official document from the MoD clearly showing that there was no British Government UFO Project. Nick Pope had the opportunity on several occasions to publicly deny that he was Peter, in national newspapers and on live TV, but he declined to do so. When you read chapter 12 of THE UNINVITED there are several similarities to quotes that Nick Pope had given but now were being said by ‘Peter’. There is no mention of why Peter went to the USA in 1995 or which part he visited. There is no description of how the offer of regressive hypnosis was made, who conducted it and where. Then we have both ‘Peter’ and Nick Pope having a familiarity with naval vessels. All a coincidence? I think not. When you put all of this information there is only one conclusion that you can arrive at, Nick Pope and ‘Peter’ are one of the same. Of that I have no doubt.
NICK POPE AND HIS REPLY
With all this information to hand I had to ask Nick Pope himself what he made of it and give him the right to reply. Nick replied to my enquiry on December 18th, 2019:
“Hi Philip,
The story was based on a US abduction report that I investigated, but my (fictional) involvement was a 'barium meal test'. I do a similar thing in the manuscripts of my books, to identify any pre-publication leakers - the written version of a barium meal test is generally referred to as a 'canary trap'. Just some sneaky MoD techniques I picked up over the years!
Nick Pope and the ‘Missing Toll Booth Encounter’ - PART II
Nick Pope and the ‘Missing Toll Booth Encounter’ - PART II
IN SUMMARY
I have to be honest but to me Nick Pope’s ‘explanation’ for this simply doesn’t fit the information provided. For example why would you write the story into a manuscript, have Jenny Randles (and others) read this draft, and then remove it from the published book? Why would you mention it in public with a number of well-known UFO researchers there after the screening of the alien autopsy film? Why would you talk to author Jane Goldman about ‘anomalous event’s’ in your past? Surely Jane Goldman wasn’t in Nick’s ‘canary trap’ as well? No. Not at all. Now, you might not agree with me and like I pointed out right at the beginning of this article, I have no axe to grind with Nick, but his explanation simply does not add up. Of course I can’t prove this and at the end of the day only Nick Pope knows for sure the real story, but I think there is more than enough evidence here to say that there is certainly no smoke without fire and I am convinced that this is no ‘canary trap’ and that Nick Pope is indeed ‘Peter’ and that he has indeed undergone a close encounter experience (or possibly several). If this is correct then why would Nick Pope not admit it? Well, Nick likes to sit on the fence and to admit such a thing may spoil his appearance as a neutral observer and commentator. There are many reasons why Nick Pope might like to keep this under his hat and all I can say is if you want to know his reasons for doing so then just ask him.
‘Terror on the Toll Road’ - Timeline
1985: Nick Pope joins Ministry of Defence (MoD).
1988: Whilst working for the Naval Secretariat at MoD, Pope passes information concerning a UFO sighting on the Isle of Wight to Clive Neville on the UFO desk in Whitehall.
1990-91: Christmas – ‘Peter’ and ‘Jenny’ take a 3 week holiday in Florida, Jenny’s homeland. Peter is British and has had ‘several anomalous incidents’ in his life; he met Jenny while she was studying in London. (Uninvited, p 192).
1991: January 3rd: After spending the day at Universal Studios, Peter and Jenny drive back to Boca Raton via Florida Turnpike. They experience a ‘missing road’ experience en route. ‘…neither Peter nor Jenny had any knowledge of or interest in UFOs, other than a general awareness that the UFO mystery existed’ (Uninvited, p 195).
1991: July 17th, ‘Sounded out for Owen Hartop’s job’ at Sec (AS) 2a. According to interview published in IUR ‘I had just finished various duties associated with the Gulf War and it just so happened that there was a vacancy which cropped up. Also in this office was a chap I had worked with quite closely…and he offered me the job. I was aware that UFO research was one of its functions’. Asked if he had any previous interest in UFOs he replied: ‘Very minimal. I had seen a couple of documentaries, read one Charles Berlitz book on the Bermuda Triangle. I knew very little about the subject and went in with a clean slate, so to speak.’
1991: July 29th. Nick Pope began work on the ‘UFO desk’.
1991/2: Peter and Jenny split up; Jenny returns to USA to go to university. The memory of the ‘missing road’ incident slips from their conscious memory but Peter is reminded on reading a book ‘a few months later’ which ‘he found in a second hand shop’ (John Spencer’s Perspectives). This contains a UFO abduction account involving missing time on a road.
1992: ‘Peter put his own experience from his mind over the next few years, and while he became increasingly fascinated with the UFO mystery, he never felt any urge to explore what might have happened on that Florida Turnpike in 1991’ (Uninvited, p 197).
1994: April – Nick Pope interviewed by Lawrence Moore for Network First TV programme on Central TV.
1995: May 5th – Nick Pope attends screening of Alien Autopsy film at Museum of London. Afterwards he joins a party of UFOlogists at a nearby café. The party includes Chris Fowler & friend, Reg Presley, John Holman, Kent Jeffery, Colin Andrews and Matthew Williams. Fowler, in an account of the meeting, writes: ‘while we were talking, Nick came out with something that I found pretty weird…he told us all that a few years ago, before he got the job at Air Staff 2A, he was on holiday with his girlfriend at the time in Florida and had what he described as a ‘missing road’ experience. He said they were on a toll road and all of a sudden realised they hadn’t passed the toll booth they would have definitely gone through. When he told us this he didn’t even say anything like ‘listen, off the record, something weird happened once while I was on holiday in Florida’. We were pretty amazed, especially when he also told us that he’d written a book on UFOs that was going to be published.’
1995: July – Nick Pope leaves Sec (AS), after 3 years tour of duty. Moves to financial secretariat. Replaced by Kerry Philpott as UFO desk officer.
1995: July 2nd – Mail on Sunday reveals that Nick Pope has become a believer in ET visitors and is to publish a book on his work at Sec (AS).
1995: autumn – ‘Peter’ made a visit to the USA. ‘During this trip Peter was to receive an offer of regression hypnosis, aimed at resolving once and for all what – if anything – had transpired on that toll road.’ (Uninvited, p 197) The hypnosis session lasted 1.5 hours and narrative emerged (p 199 of Uninvited). Peter not prepared to label himself an abductee but ‘he acknowledges that he had been exposed to information about UFOs and abductions prior to his regression.’ (Uninvited, p201).
1995: December (?) Jenny Randles films interview with Pope at Whitehall. She also reads draft of Open Skies-Closed Minds ‘and this told the story of Peter using the real identity of the witness…several others read the manuscript too and indeed were instrumental in setting up the hypnosis of Peter, which was in fact conducted by a UFOlogist…not a medical professional, at least if I understood what was said by that UFOlogist in a public lecture before hundreds of people’ (Project Red Book, September 1999)
1995: In Jane Goldman’s book The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (Simon & Schuster 1995), the following section appears in an extended interview with Pope: “…while Mulder’s desire is not just the truth, but also a resolution to the mystery of his sister’s disappearance, Nick Pope’s purpose is surely more straightforward. Or is it? ‘You could say that, like Fox Mulder, my interest is not purely an academic one and I’m driven by some personal motivations. My primary motivation is the intellectual belief that there is a genuine unknown phenomenon, and my belief in the people’s right to know, but a part of my motivation is a desire to explain some anomalous events in my own past.’…He is reluctant to go into detail but offers: ‘The very furthest I would want to go is to say that there are some events in my past which some people in the UFO lobby would say are some of the factors that are present in cases of abduction. But I want to stay on the fence until I know what happened to me.”
1996: June. Open Skies – Closed Minds published.
1997: June. The Uninvited published; book contains section on Toll-road case, chapter 12.
1999: February 7th. Sunday Times publish article ‘UFO Hunter at MOD ‘kidnapped by aliens’, quoting Jenny Randles.
Spring: 1999: Georgina Bruni accuses Jenny Randles of ‘disrespecting witness confidentiality’ in discussing Peter’s identity with the News of the World.
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Nick Pope and Philip Mantle
About the author:
Philip Mantle is a long-standing UFO researcher and author from the UK. He was formerly the Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association and the MUFON Representative for England. He is the founder of FLYING DISK PRESS and can be contacted at:
The famous psychic Uri Geller says ‘massive alien invasion’ is coming
The famous psychic Uri Geller says ‘massive alien invasion’ is coming
He announced on Instagram: “A team mapping radio waves in the universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before
The famous psychic Uri Geller claims that the Earth is waiting for a massive invasion of aliens. He says he stumbled upon a conversation between “higher beings” 4,000 light-years away.
According to dailystar.uk,Uri Geller warned NASA to prepare for a massive alien invasion of Earth, which will take place in the near future.
Geller is confident that the giant energy source , which astronomers have discovered at a distance of 4000 light years, is most likely a message from “higher beings” from space.
He believes that the aliens are already heading in our direction.
The famous psychic Uri Geller
He announced on Instagram: “A team mapping radio waves in the universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before.
“No doubt in my mind that this is connected to alien intelligence way way superior than ours.
“Start deciphering their messages! They are preparing us for a mass landing soon!”
Astronomers said they have never seen anything like the mysterious new phenomenon before. They believe that it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf with a superstrong magnetic field (magnetar).
Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker of Curtin University in Australia said: “This object appeared and disappeared for several hours during our observations.
“It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that.
“And it’s really quite close to us — about 4,000 light years away. It’s in our galactic backyard.”
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Uri Geller
Uri Geller (/ˈʊəriˈɡɛlər/OOR-ee GHEL-ər;[1]Hebrew: אורי גלר; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other illusions. Geller uses conjuring tricks to simulate the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy. Geller’s career as an entertainer has spanned more than four decades, with television shows and appearances in many countries. Magicians have called Geller a fraud due to his claims of possessing truly psychic powers.[2]
Early life
Geller was born on 20 December 1946 in Tel Aviv, which was then part of British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel). His mother and father were of Austrian-Jewish and Hungarian-Jewish background respectively. Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller (Gellér Izsák), a retired army sergeant major, and Margaret “Manzy” Freud (Freud Manci). Geller claims that he is a distant relative of Sigmund Freud on his mother’s side.[3]
At the age of 11, Geller’s family moved to Nicosia, Cyprus, where he attended high school, the Terra Santa College, and learned English. At the age of 18,[4]: 9 he joined the Israeli Army‘s Paratroopers Brigade,[5] with which he served in the 1967 Six-Day War and was wounded in action.[6][7] He worked as a photographic model in 1968 and 1969; during that time, he began to perform for small audiences as a nightclub entertainer,[8] becoming well-known in Israel.[9]
Geller first started to perform in theatres, public halls, auditoriums, military bases and universities in Israel.[10] The parapsychologist Andrija Puharich met Geller in 1971 and assisted him in traveling to the United States.[11][12]
Television and film career
Geller became famous demonstrating on television what he claimed to be psychokinesis, dowsing, and telepathy.[13] His performance included spoon bending, describing hidden drawings, and making watches stop or run faster. Geller said he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind.[14] His apparent ability to bend metal objects during his television appearances came to be known as the “Geller effect” and made Geller a celebrity.[11] Geller’s actual methods were revealed to be stage magic tricks largely due to the work of magician and investigator James Randi.[15][16][17]
In 1973, Geller appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, an appearance recounted in the Nova documentary episode “Secrets of the Psychics” hosted by Randi on PBS.[18]: 9’30″–11’34″ In the documentary, Randi says that “Johnny had been a magician himself and was skeptical” of Geller’s claimed paranormal powers, so prior to the date of taping, Randi was asked “to help prevent any trickery”; accordingly, the show prepared their own props without informing Geller, and did not let Geller or his staff “anywhere near them”.[18]: 9’48″–10’10″ When Geller joined Carson on stage, he appeared surprised that he was not going to be interviewed, but instead was expected to display his abilities using the provided articles. Geller said, “This scares me”, and, “As you know, I told your people what to bring”, and “I’m surprised because before this program your producer came and he read me at least 40 questions you were going to ask me”. Geller was unable to display any paranormal abilities, saying, “I don’t feel strong”, and expressed his displeasure at feeling he was being “pressed” to perform by Carson.[19] According to Adam Higginbotham:
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Nancy Grace Roman Will be Launching on a Falcon Heavy Rocket
Nancy Grace Roman Will be Launching on a Falcon Heavy Rocket
In 2026, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) – aka. the “Mother of Hubble” – will take to space and begin addressing some of the deepest mysteries of the Universe. This will include capturing the deepest field images of the cosmos, refining measurements of the Hubble Constant (aka. Hubble’s Law), and determining the role of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the evolution of the cosmos. Alongside its next-generation partner, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the RST will acquire infrared images with over 200 times the surveying power of its predecessor with the same rich level of detail.
On Tuesday, July 19th, NASA announced that it had awarded SpaceX with a Launch Services (NLS) II contract to provide the rocket that will deploy the RST mission to space. As specified in the NLS II, the launch will take place in October 2026 (May 2027, at the latest) and consist of a Falcon Heavy rocket transporting the RST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to orbit. This indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is valued at approximately $255 million and covers the launch and other mission-related costs.
Previously known as the Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST), the RST was originally proposed in 2010 as a successor to Hubble. The proposal was based on the same design as Hubble, with a 2.4-meter (7.9-foot) field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. This includes the Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), a 300.8-megapixel camera covering the visible and near-infrared spectrum, and the Coronograph Instrument (CGI) – a high-contrast spectrometer that incorporates starlight-suppression technology.
In May 2020, NASA renamed the telescope to honor Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first Chief Astronomer and a tireless advocate for space-based astronomy. By March 2021, NASA announced that the RST would be getting an upgrade with the addition of a K-band filter. This effectively expands the RST’s infrared imaging range to 0.5 to 23 micrometers – 500 to 23,000 nanometers (nm) – ranging from the near- to the far-infrared spectrum. With these capabilities, the RST’s science program will include dedicated investigations addressing several enduring mysteries in modern cosmology.
These include the study and characterization of exoplanets, which will narrow the search for habitable planets and Earth analogs and complete the census of exoplanets. In particular, the RST will use its tremendous field of view to detect thousands of smaller, rocky planets that orbit closely to their parent stars – in their habitable zones (HZs). These planets will be designated for follow-up observations by Webb, which will use its extremely-sensitive IR optics to obtain spectra from their atmospheres and surfaces.
Its powerful optics will also conduct the deepest surveys of the Universe to reveal the earliest stars and galaxies, which formed roughly 100 million years after the Big Bang. These scientific operations will complement the ESA’s EUCLID mission and allow astronomers to investigate possible causes of cosmic acceleration. Current theories include the existence of Dark Energy or Modified Newtonian Gravity (MOND), which states that General Relativity breaks down on cosmological scales. These operations will also address questions about the fate of the Universe, like if it will tear itself apart someday (the Big Rip theory).
The telescope’s wide-field surveys will also enable new studies into the nature of Dark Matter and its role in cosmic evolution. Furthermore, the RST mission also includes a substantial general investigator program that will allow for further studies of astrophysical phenomena. This will enable opportunities to collaborate with other science missions and space agencies and advance other scientific goals. This is very good news for NASA, its partner agencies, and space-based astronomy fans!
Artist’s impression of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope (formerly WFIRST). Credit: NASA/GSFC
After years of waiting for James Webb to get to space and start shooting the most breathtaking and detailed images ever seen, it’s encouraging to know that the next next-generation telescope is not far behind. While delays are always possible, Roman’s comparatively simple design will likely make for a speedier launch schedule. It’s also good news for SpaceX, which has secured many high-priority and lucrative contracts with NASA in recent years.
These include contracts to build the Human Landing System (HLS) for the Artemis Program – the Starship HLS – that will transport “the first woman and the first person of color” to the lunar surface by 2025. It also includes the launch services for the Lunar Gateway, which will consist of the core elements – Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) – launching in 2024 (also using a Falcon Heavy rocket).
Check this out. I found some structures in an old NASA photo and they are at the center of a crater. They look fungus in a way, but one is cone shaped. Still, I thought this detail of an alien structure is rare and just wanted to share it with you. The video I made below shows it in more detail and shows the full photo.
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Mother And Daughter Witness Huge Mysterious Dancing Orbs In The Sky Over Alaska
Mother And Daughter Witness Huge Mysterious Dancing Orbs In The Sky Over Alaska
Sheri and Tiffany were at a casual get-together when they noticed the massive moving orange orbs outside a restaurant in Ninilchik. The two conclude the unexplainable bright lights are UFOs that are mining the minerals out of their mountain ranges, explaining the growing number of natural calamities in the area.
Astronomers Have a New Way to Find Exoplanets in Cataclysmic Binary Systems
Astronomers Have a New Way to Find Exoplanets in Cataclysmic Binary Systems
Have you heard of LU Camelopardalis, QZ Serpentis, V1007 Herculis and BK Lyncis? No, they’re not members of a boy band in ancient Rome. They’re Cataclysmic Variables, binary stars that are so close together one star draws material from its sibling. This causes the pair to vary wildly in brightness.
Can planets exist in this chaotic environment? Can we spot them? A new study answers yes to both.
Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) undergo large increases in brightness. All stars vary in brightness to some degree, even our own sun. But CVs increased brightness is much more pronounced than stars like our Sun, and they happen irregularly.
There are different types of cataclysmic variables: classical novae, dwarf novae, some supernovae, and others. All types share the same basic mechanic. A pair of stars orbit each other closely, and one of the stars is more massive than the other. The more massive one is called the primary star, and it draws gas from the lower mass star, which astronomers call the donor star. The primary star in a CV is a white dwarf, and the donor star is usually a red dwarf. The red dwarf stars are cooler and less massive than the white dwarfs. They have masses between 0.07 and 0.30 solar masses and a radius of about 20% of the Sun’s. White dwarf primary stars have a typical mass of around 0.75 solar masses but much smaller radii, about the same as Earth’s.
When the primary star draws material from the donor star, the material forms an accretion disk around the primary star. The material in the accretion disk heats up, and that causes increased luminosity. The increase can overpower the light from the pair of stars. If there’s a dim third body—a planet—in the system, then its gravity can affect the transfer of material from the donor to the primary star. These perturbations affect the system’s brightness, and that’s at the heart of the new study.
This is an image of the cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii, which isn’t part of this study. The smaller yet more massive white dwarf is drawing material away from its main-sequence companion, usually a red dwarf. Image Credit: By Casey Reed / NASA – Nasa – White Dwarf Pulses Like a Pulsar, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4282713
Material drawn to the primary star gathers in an accretion ring and heats up, creating increased luminosity. But the material transfer to the disk isn’t steady; it rises and falls as the stars in the CV orbit each other. Chavez and his colleagues examined four cataclysmic variables in their study: LU Camelopardalis, QZ Serpentis, V1007 Herculis and BK Lyncis. The four CVs exhibit very long photometric periods (VLPPs), which are periods of enhanced luminosity that don’t conform to the binary’s orbital periods.
There’s a point between both stars and the third body called the L1 point, or Lagrangian One point. It’s a gravitational equilibrium point between the stars. The L1 point is dynamic, and its position changes as the stars move. Lead author Chavez showed in a previous paper that a third body, a planet, can cause oscillations in the L1 point.
As the L1 point changes, the amount of material drawn into the primary star—the mass transfer rate—changes. A change in the mass transfer rate creates a change in the luminosity of the entire three-body system.
By measuring the changes in brightness of the four CVs, the researchers calculated the distances and masses of potential third bodies in the systems based on the brightness changes in each system. Their calculations show that the variations have much longer periods than the orbital periods of the stars. According to the team, two of the four CVs they studied have “bodies resembling planets” orbiting them.
“Our work has proven that a third body can perturb a cataclysmic variable in such a way that can induce changes in brightness in the system,” Dr. Chavez said in a press release. “These perturbations can explain both the very long periods that have been observed – between 42 and 265 days- and the amplitude of those changes in brightness. Of the four systems we studied, our observations suggest that two of the four have objects of planetary mass in orbit around them.”
This isn’t the first time scientists have tackled CVs and tried to find an explanation for the variations in the luminosity. In 2017 a separate team of researchers published a paper presenting the four CVs and their VLPPs. They suggested that planets were the cause. But they said that “… the third-body orbital plane should be greater than 39.2 degrees for this mechanism to be effective in disturbing the inner binary effectively.”
“Here we explore a new possibility, namely that the secular perturbation by a low eccentricity and low inclination third object explains the VLPP and also the change of magnitude observed in these four CVs,” Chavez and his co-authors write in their paper. They say that “… a third body on a close near-circular planar orbit could produce perturbations on the central binary eccentricity.”
According to Chavez, their work amounts to a new way to detect exoplanets. Planet-hunters find most exoplanets using the transit system. As an exoplanet transits in front of its star, there’s a detectable dip in starlight. While effective—we’ve found thousands of planets this way—the transit method has limitations. It only works when things are lined up right. We have to be looking at it from the side, as it were, or else the planet doesn’t transit the star from our point of view, and there’s no dip in starlight.
But the method Chavez and his colleagues developed doesn’t depend on planetary transits. It relies on the intrinsic change in luminosity that’s observable from different angles.
NASA's James Webb Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a 13.5 billion-year-old galaxy that is now the oldest in the universe seen by human eyes.
The galaxy, called GLASS-z13 (GN-z13), formed just 300 million years after the Big Bang that occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
The previous record holder, discovered by the Hubble Telescope in 2015, was GN-z11 that dates back 400 million years after the universe birthed.
JWST captured a look at GN-z13 using its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument, which is capable of detecting light from the earliest stars and galaxies.
This telescope uses a broad range of infrared light to 'see' back in time, which is done by analyzing the time it takes for light to travel through space.
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The galaxy, called GLASS-z13 (GN-z13), was formed just 300 million years after the Big Bang that occurred 13.8 billion years ago, making it the oldest in the universe
While investigating the area are GN-z13, JWST also spotted GN-z11.
Scientists from the Harvard and Smithsonian Centre of Astrophysics in Massachusetts note that although they are both old, each of the galaxies are very small, New Scientist reports.
GN-z13 is around 1,600 light years across and GLASS z-11 is 2,300 light years.
This is compared to our own Milky Way that is around 100,000 light years in diameter.
The paper, published in arXiv, notes that both galaxies have a mass of one billion suns, which is because they formed shortly after the Big Bang occurred.
While investigating the area near GN-z13 (top), JWST also spotted GN-z11 (bottom)
The previous record holder, discovered by the Hubble Telescope in 2015, is GN-z11 (pictured) that dates back 400 million years after the universe birthed
The team suggests this occurred as the galaxies were growing and gobbled up stars in the region.
'These two objects already place novel constraints on galaxy evolution in the cosmic dawn epoch,' researchers shared in the paper.
'They indicate that the discovery of GNz11 was not simply a matter of good fortune, but that there is likely a population of UV luminous sources with very high star-formation efficiencies capable of compiling.'
Gabriel Brammer at the Niehls Bohr Institute in Denmark, part of the GLASS team and a co-discoverer of GN-z11, told New Scientist that further analysis will be needed to confirm the distance to the two galaxies.
'They're very convincing candidates,' he said. 'We were pretty confident that JWST would see distant galaxies. But we're a little bit surprised how easy it is to detect them.'
Brammer made headlines this week when he released a never-before-seen image snapped by the JWST.
The paper notes that both galaxies have a mass of one billion suns, noting this is because they formed shortly after the Big Bang occurred. Pictured are the galaxies locations
Gabriel Brammer, part of the GLASS team and a co-discoverer of GN-z11, said further analysis will be needed to confirm the distance to the two galaxies. Brammer made headlines this week when he released a never-before-seen image snapped by the JWST
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The astronomer shared a stunning photo of the spiraling arms of the 'phantom galaxy,' formally known as NGC 628 or Messier 74, which sits 32 million light years from Earth.
Webb took the image of NGC 628 on July 17 and sent the data back to Earth where it was stored in the Barbara Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, (MAST), which is open to the public.
Brammer's image caught the attention of other astronomers and space enthusiasts, who wanted to learn more about how he made the image and what it was that they are looking at.
'For a tiny bit more context, the purple color cast here is actually 'real' in the sense that emission from interstellar cigarette smoke (PAH molecules) makes the filters used for the blue and red channels brighter relative to the green,' Brammer wrote in a tweet.
THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
The James Webb telescope 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 more than 13.5 billion years ago, and observe the sources of stars, exoplanets, and even the moons and planets of our solar system.
The vast telescope, which has already cost more than $7 billion (£5 billion), is considered a successor to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope
The James Webb Telescope and most of its instruments have an operating temperature of roughly 40 Kelvin – about minus 387 Fahrenheit (minus 233 Celsius).
It is the world's biggest and most powerful orbital space telescope, capable of peering back 100-200 million years after the Big Bang.
The orbiting infrared observatory is designed to be about 100 times more powerful than its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA likes to think of James Webb as a successor to Hubble rather than a replacement, as the two will work in tandem for a while.
The Hubble telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
It circles the Earth at a speed of about 17,000mph (27,300kph) in low Earth orbit at about 340 miles in altitude.
JWST Finds Galaxies Just 300-400 Million Years After the Big Bang, and It’s Just Getting Started
Jinds Galaxies Just 300-400 MilWST Flion Years After the Big Bang, and It’s Just Getting Started
By now, almost everyone has seen the first-release images from JWST and marveled at these amazing views of the infrared universe the telescope was launched to explore. The view of SMACS 0723 seen above illustrates the promise JWST holds. While there are many more early-release images in the observation pipeline, we’re starting to see the first research papers come out. As expected, studies of distant galaxies are grabbing headlines already.
Wow, are these findings amazing! In the last couple of days, websites and social media have been alive with images of a blob that, in reality, is one of the oldest (earliest) galaxies ever seen. It’s one of two—GL-z11 and GL-z13—that show us what they looked like when the Universe was extremely young, about 300 million years after the Big Bang. When confirmed, they’ll mark a milestone in studies of the infant Universe.
A Look back in Time and Across Space
Thanks to JWST and its high-resolution infrared instruments, astronomers can now observe the earliest epochs in cosmic history. Of course, Hubble Space Telescope paved the way for some of this. For example, it provided the first look at galaxy GNz11. Now, JWST is following up with a study of that galaxy and the discovery of another one called GL-z13.
GL-z13 is a galaxy in the early universe that appears as seen by JWST when the universe was only a few hundred million years old. Courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
These galaxies exist at a time that has been, until now, largely unexplored. So, a consortium of astronomers (led by Rohan P. Naidu of the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian) proposed a JWST search for luminous galaxies in the first several hundred million years after the Big Bang (at a redshift of z > 10). This work was done as part of the JWST Early Release program and the exploration will likely continue for quite some time.
The search revealed that the two galaxies—GL-z11 and GL-z13—are likely billion-solar-mass galaxies. That’s pretty remarkable given their presence in the early Universe, especially since the first stars began forming around one to two hundred million years after the Big Bang. These galaxies are also bright enough that astronomers will be able to do follow-up spectrographic studies to determine more about them. Computer modeling indicates that these galaxies are somewhat small and may well have disks in place, even at their young age.
Based on the early observations with JWST, it seems very likely GL-z11 and GL-z13 have a population of hot, young stars (which would be very bright in ultraviolet light), and that each galaxy could be bursting with star-formation regions. These stars and regions should be very good candidates for follow-up observations using JWST’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph.
Are There More of These Galaxies Out There?
One exciting implication of this discovery is that these two distant galaxies in the early Universe may be just the tip of the iceberg. There could be many more in every direction JWST looks. Remember the excitement when Hubble Space Telescope (HST) performed its first deep-field study? It pointed at what looked like a fairly vacant area of the sky, looking to see what was “out there.” The observations revealed distant galaxies out as far as HST could see. Other deep-field observations in other directions in the sky delivered the same result. It turns out the universe is galaxies all the way out.
So, if these two galaxy discoveries are any indication, JWST is about to explode our view of the infant Universe the same way HST did with its deep field observations. Of course, astronomers will work to confirm these galaxies spectroscopically. And, if what they promise plays out across the sky—with the discovery of at least two (and maybe more) galaxies at redshifts between 11 and 13 in every direction JWST looks—then we’ll be in for some interesting times. At the very least, this amazing infrared observatory is pushing the cosmic frontier much farther out, peeking beyond what we currently know. In the very near future, it could look all the way out to the brink of the Big Bang itself. Stay tuned!
Energy Entity Shoots Out Of Storm July 20, 2022, Greer, Ohio UFO Sighting News.
Energy Entity Shoots Out Of Storm July 20, 2022, Greer, Ohio UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 20, 2022
Location of sighting: Greer, Ohio, USA
Guys, did you notice at one point a dark object comes out of the glowing object? Its like it produced something...a baby? Then this glowing object turns dark and flys back into the cloud. Very odd, some kind of energy entity living in our atmosphere among us. I have seen many reports of such phenomenon and long ago I got into world news when I noticed a video contained hundreds of similar glowing objects during a storm over a football game, sadly that video has long since been deleted by the uploader. Still, this close up is the best ever example I have ever seen since doing this blog over the last 15 years. Notice how the object stops glowing but continues to fly and move the same way but dark and black? Wow!
Scott Waring
Eyewitness states:
Capturing storm video on my phone when a flash of light flew through the clouds and was gone in an instant.
Check this out! NASA just posted a picture of the day that happens to show an object which might suggest life exists on Mars. The object looks like a ball of strings, similar to a tumbleweed or worm-like animal. Its hard to say because this is only a photo not a video. We need video of this thing lasting a day so that we can determine what this is 100% but to me, my professional opinion is that this is some sort of tiny lifeform. The shape, color and fine testure all suggest this is not string since it has no tattered ends. It has a thin tangled body as if it is protecting itself while sleeping. Awesome discovery for sure whatever it is.
Kinda looks like a giant parasite, let me post a video below of some similar life forms. Video is below.
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Another Facelift for the UFO Coverup 'Same Playbook' Again!
Another Facelift for the UFO Coverup 'Same Playbook' Again!
On the 70th anniversary of the famous UFO fly-overs of Washington, DC in 1952, our culture has finally come back to the level of "openness" of UFOs that existed at that time.
After all, even then the U.S. military acknowledged that something was being reported, but they had it all under control. This is exactly where we are now in 2022. The Pentagon knew the truth about UFOS back in 1952 but now in 2022 they use the same playbook again, it is just another facelift for the UFO cover-up.
And despite the DoD's July 15, 2022 announcement regarding the establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) with the mission to synchronize efforts across the Department of Defense, and with other U.S. federal departments and agencies, to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security. This includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects, their plan is NEVER to reveal any more than what's already come out, and in fact the military is trying to "put the toothpaste back in the tube."
NASA wil op 29 augustus weer naar de Maan te vliegen
Artemis-1, de eerste missie waarmee de Amerikanen terug naar de Maan reizen, kan op 29 augustus vertrekken, zo heeft de NASA meegedeeld, uitgerekend de dag waarop 53 jaar geleden voor het eerst een mens voet zette op de Maan. Alternatieve data zijn 2 of 5 september.
Het Artemis-programma beoogt, ten vroegste in 2025, opnieuw mensen op de Maan neer te zetten en terug te halen, waarbij voor het eerst een vrouw en een kleurling. Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA wil dit, naar analogie van het Apollo-programma, stapsgewijs bereiken. Artemis zal dus een onbemande missie zijn, in het bijzonder om de gigantische nieuwe draagraket te testen, net als de Orion-capsule die in 2024 bij de tweede missie wel bemand zal zijn.
De lancering vindt plaats op Cape Canaveral. De SLS-draagraket moet de Orion naar onze natuurlijke satelliet slingeren. De capsule komt in een baan rond de Maan en komt dan naar de Aarde terug. Naargelang de precieze lanceringsdatum zou de vlucht 39 tot 42 dagen duren.
De Orion is in 2014 al eens in de ruimte getest, na lancering met een Delta-IV draagraket. De capsule maakte twee omlopen rond onze planeet, om in het bijzonder het hitteschild uit te testen.
De laatste keer dat een mens over het oppervlak van de Maan wandelde was met Apollo-17 in 1972.
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21-07-2022
Japanese Researchers Show how Microgravity Affects Astronauts’ Muscles and Nerves
Japanese Researchers Show how Microgravity Affects Astronauts’ Muscles and Nerves
It’s well-known that spending long periods in microgravity can adversely affect astronaut health and physiology. According to decades of research performed aboard the International Space Station (ISS), like NASA’s much-popularized Twins Study, these effects include the loss of muscle mass and bone density, as well as changes to cardiovascular health, eyesight, organ function, and gene expression. There’s even the possibility that astronauts will experience mood swings and psychological problems while in space or during recovery here on Earth.
According to a recent study by a team of Japanese researchers, one of the lesser-studied effects is how long periods spent in microgravity can damage the skeletal muscles that are important to maintaining our posture. This group of muscles – located mostly in our limbs, back, and neck – are rightly known as our “anti-gravity” muscles because they are load-bearing and allow us to stand upright and move against the force of gravity. This research and the countermeasures they propose could have significant implications for astronauts returning from long-term stays in space.
The research was led by Dr. Yoshinobu Ohira, a Professor of space medicine at Doshisha University’s Research Center for Space and Medical Sciences (RCSMC) in Kyoto, Japan. He was joined by fellow researchers with the RCSMC, the Organization for Research Initiatives and Development (ORID) at Doshisha University, the Kindai University Faculty of Medicine (Osaka), Matsumoto University (Nagano), and Toyohashi SOZO University (Aichi). The paper that describes their findings recently appeared in the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Expedition 38/39 astronaut Koichi Wakata (JAXA) uses the advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) in the Tranquility module of the International Space Station in February 2014. Credit: NASA
As they indicated in their study, the team reviewed the neuromuscular properties of the soleus and adductor longus muscles (and their respective dorsal ganglia) in astronauts who had spent extended periods in space. These muscles are located in the calf and inner thigh (respectively) and are responsible for load-bearing and helping us remain upright in normal gravity. When subjected to microgravity, these muscles are “unloaded” and have nothing to work against, leading to the gradual atrophy of their fibers and nerves.
Their study considered how the neuromuscular system’s morphological, functional, and metabolic properties respond to gravitational unloading in microgravity and lower gravity environments. This consisted of running human and rodent simulation models and examining how motoneuron signals between the skeletal muscle and central nervous system (afferent and efferent activity, respectively) regulated neuromuscular properties. Their research appeared in a special issue titled “Space Neurosciences” that commemorates the Moon Landing (NASA’s Apollo 11mission).
Their analysis confirmed that these signals play a key role in regulating muscle properties and brain activity. This consists of a decrease in the structural unit of muscles (sarcomeres), resulting in a decrease in their development, eventually leading to muscular atrophy – as seen in the soleus and the adductor longus muscles. Their results indicate that exposure to low-gravity environments affects the muscles and nerves, leading to the deterioration of motor control.
This is consistent with symptoms reported by astronauts upon returning to Earth, where they experienced difficulty walking despite regular exercise aboard the ISS – using treadmills, cycles, and resistance training. Their work also showed that additional challenges might arise when astronauts are exposed to microgravity for six months or more, such as they would be while in transit to Mars. In summary, their review indicates that existing countermeasures are inadequate when combatting the effects of gravitational unloading.
Habitats grouped together on the rim of a lunar crater known as the Lunar Village. Credit: ESA
Luckily, their research also points the way toward some possible solutions. For starters, they recommend stimulating the soleus muscle during exercise, which can be done by running or walking slowly on a treadmill with a rear foot-strike landing. Adding bungee cords for added resistance and periodic passive stretching of the soleus muscle also appears to reduce the risk of atrophy. This research could play an important role in developing appropriate countermeasures for future long-duration space missions.
These include continued operations aboard the ISS, which were recently extended to January 2031 (according to NASA’s latest announcement). It will also come in handy as astronauts begin to conduct long-term missions to the Moon, which will entail the creation of lunar habitats – like Artemis Base Camp, the International Moon Village, and the Sino-Russian International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). Then there are the crewed missions that NASA and China plan to send to Mars in the next decade, which will involve 6 to 9-month transits.
Ensuring the long-term health of astronauts is part of a constellation of research that will help ensure the health and safety of astronauts as we venture farther from Earth. This research is especially important considering that someday (perhaps sooner other than later) civilians and potential settlers will follow. If humanity’s future does lie in space, every aspect of living and working beyond Earth must be taken into account, and potential solutions devised.
A Dormant Black Hole has Been Discovered Just Outside the Milky Way
A Dormant Black Hole has Been Discovered Just Outside the Milky Way
What happens when a massive star dies? Conventional wisdom (and observational evidence) say that it can collapse to form a “stellar-mass” black hole. Astronomers detect black holes by the X-ray emissions they emit.
But, what if the black hole isn’t giving off high levels of X-ray emissions? Then, it could be a very rare object indeed: a dormant black hole. Not many of these have been seen. So, it’s exciting to know that a team of astronomers has found one. It’s called VFTS 243. They detected it in Very Large Telescope observations of stars in the Tarantula Nebula, in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud.
Finding a Needle in a Galactic Haystack
VFTS 243 is the first dormant black hole to be unambiguously detected outside the Milky Way Galaxy. While there are likely billions of stellar-mass black holes out there, dormant ones are much harder to find. “We identified a ‘needle in a haystack’,” said team leader Tomer Shenar, a Marie-Curie Fellow at Amsterdam University, the Netherlands.
It’s not for lack of looking, and astronomers have searched. “It is incredible that we hardly know of any dormant black holes, given how common astronomers believe them to be”, said team member Pablo Marchant of KU Leuven.
This newly found dormant black hole is at least nine times the mass of our Sun. It’s in a 10.4-day orbital dance with a hot, blue star 25 times the mass of the Sun. The black hole itself has about 9 solar masses. It’s considered dormant because it’s not emitting large amounts of X-rays. Normally, that would happen as material spirals into its accretion disk from the nearby companion star.
This artist’s impression shows what the binary system VFTS 243 might look like if we were observing it up close. The sizes of the two binary components are not to scale: in reality, the blue star is about 200 000 times larger than the black hole. Note that the ‘lensing’ effect around the so-called “dormant” black hole is shown for illustration purposes only, to make this dark object more noticeable in the image. The inclination of the system means that, when looking at it from Earth, we cannot observe the black hole eclipsing the star. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
Implications for Black Hole Formation
Although astronomers know the general story about how a massive star evolves to become a stellar-mass black hole, there are many details of the process to explore. This discovery gives the team a new way to look at the black hole “factory”. Typically, a stellar-mass black hole forms as the core of a dying massive star collapses. However, for a dormant black hole, it’s not clear if the collapse was followed by a powerful supernova explosion. This new one may have taken a very different route to “black hole-hood”. In fact, there are some interesting clues that point to an alternate evolutionary path. First, it’s in a near-circular orbit and its motions indicate there was little ejected material from an explosion. In addition, there’s no evidence of a form of rebound called a “black hole kick” as the object collapsed. So, what happened?
“The star that formed the black hole in VFTS 243 appears to have collapsed entirely, with no sign of a previous explosion,” said Shenar, who noted that the team’s discovery has implications for understanding the properties of core-collapse supernovae as well as gravitational-wave detections. “Evidence for this ‘direct-collapse’ scenario has been emerging recently, but our study arguably provides one of the most direct indications. This has enormous implications for the origin of black-hole mergers in the cosmos.”
Calling the Black Hole Police
There’s more than a bit of irony in this discovery since team members are sometimes referred to as the “black hole police.” That’s because Shenar and other colleagues have frequently debunked proposed sightings of other black holes. So, the fact that they searched for and found this dormant black hole is an interesting experience. And, their search took a while and a lot of data.
To find VFTS 243, the collaboration used observations of nearly a thousand massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula. The data came from the VLT FLAMES Tarantula Survey, and team members used it to identify stars that might have black holes as companions. Because alternative explanations exist for such objects, identifying these companions as dormant black holes is extremely difficult.
“As a researcher who has debunked potential black holes in recent years, I was extremely skeptical regarding this discovery,” said Shenar. His skepticism was shared by co-author Kareem El-Badry of the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard, in the USA. Thanks to El-Badry’s reputation as a skeptic, Shenar calls him the ‘black hole destroyer’. “When Tomer asked me to double check his findings, I had my doubts,” said El-Badry. “But I could not find a plausible explanation for the data that did not involve a black hole.”
Next Steps
Despite the nickname ‘black hole police’, the team expects very active scrutiny of their dormant black-hole discovery. They also hope that their work will enable the discovery of other stellar-mass black holes orbiting massive stars. As an example of just how plentiful these objects are, the team predicts thousands of them exist in Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds.
“Of course I expect others in the field to pore over our analysis carefully, and to try to cook up alternative models,” said El-Badry. “It’s a very exciting project to be involved in.”
The Animal Kingdom is full of surprising creatures. There’s millions of crazy critters and some nightmarish animals swiftly crawling around the face of earth we don’t know about. Some of the animals are fearsome whereas others may just look normal. Some of these may seem outrageous for having gigantic size and others may possess distinct features that make them look like aliens. Some animals possess sharp teeth or fangs or numerous legs while other can slither away at super speed. Most of these animals are considered to harmless to mankind.
Here’s M74 Like You’ve Never Seen it Before, Thanks to Judy Schmidt and JWST
Here’s M74 Like You’ve Never Seen it Before, Thanks to Judy Schmidt and JWST
The JWST is grabbing headlines and eyeballs as its mission gains momentum. The telescope recently imaged M74 (NGC 628) with its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI.) Judy Schmidt, a well-known amateur astronomy image processor, has worked on the image to bring out more detail.
M74 is a large spiral galaxy that holds somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100 billion stars. It’s about 32 million light-years away from us and is a great example of a Grand Design Spiral Galaxy. The JWST imaged the galaxy as part of the PHANG Survey. PHANG (Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS) studies nearby galaxies in high resolution and is intended to “… understand the interplay of the small-scale physics of gas and star formation with galactic structure and galaxy evolution,” according to the PHANG website.
The survey uses several telescopes to study galaxies, but now that the JWST is operating, it’s making a huge contribution to the effort.
This is the original JWST image of M 74 that made the rounds on social media before Judy Schmidt processed it. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STSCI
Judy Schmidt (Judy Schmidt@SpaceGeck on Twitter) is involved with the Planetary Society and is one of those rare people who looks at an astounding image from the JWST and thinks, “Hmmmm…Not bad, but I can improve it.” (We’re just kidding and don’t mean to speak for her.) But it does speak to her rare skill set.
In the image description on Judy’s Flickr page, she writes, “Squeezing some color out of the various filters showing all the glowing dust in the center of NGC628.”
She lists the filters as:
Red (screen layer mode): MIRI F2100W
Orange: MIRI F1130W
Cyan: MIRI F770W
Extra overall brightness in grayscale: MIRI F1000W
To understand the impact the JWST is having, compare a Hubble image of M74 to Judy’s processed JWST image. The Hubble image is a composite of the telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys data taken in 2003 and 2005.
On the left is a composite Hubble image of M 74 made with the space telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. On the right is the JWST image processed by Judy Schmidt. Image Credit: (l) NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration;Acknowledgment: R. Chandar (University of Toledo) and J. Miller (University of Michigan). (r) NASA/ESA/CSA/STSCI/JUDY SCHMIDT CC BY 2.0
Visit Schmidt’s Flickr feed for more of her work. She’s also on Twitter as @SpaceGeck, and her website is https://geckzilla.com/.
“A very processed (maybe even over-processed) version of Jupiter from JWST,” Schmidt writes in her description. “Here, we’re viewing the planet only in infrared, and the ring, usually invisible, is plain for all to see. The colors are definitely unusual.”
“There is some discussion over what the red blip at the south pole and the disconnected layer of atmosphere on the eastern limb are. Real? Artifacts? We’ll wait for the scientists to figure it out, but I’m leaning toward real. ”
An incredibly realistic footage of a 'UFO' Goes Viral. A bewildered TikTok user believes she spotted a UFO in plain sight.
Nesha Higgins (@neshahiggins) shared the viral footage of the 'unidentified object' on the platform, leaving over 3 million viewers as baffled as her.
The video shows Nesha driving along a highway in Arizona when she spots a peculiar-looking object near the clouds in the shape of a UFO spaceship.
"What the f**k is that? That is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life, bro," she said, as her friend responded: "That's so cool."
Thousands of viewers headed to the comments to debate what it could, or could not, be. Creative theories were rife, with many comparing its appearance to a portal.
"I would’ve stood under it bc I’m done with this planet," one joked, while another added: "They really pulled up this time."
Some realists shut it down, claiming that if it were a UFO, the plane wouldn't have flown near it. The airport tower would have had the plane standby if something is in its airspace," one said.
While we admire the creativity in the comments, it does appear to be a lenticular cloud which often looks like a flying saucer .
The Met Office defines lenticular cloud as "lens-shaped orographic wave clouds form when the air is stable and winds blow across hills and mountains from the same or similar direction at different heights through the troposphere."
The man who revealed the existence of UFOs in Area 51 in the 1970s has gained a lot more credibility
The man who revealed the existence of UFOs in Area 51 in the 1970s has gained a lot more credibility
Bob Lazar has provided information that has now been verified, decades after he blew the whistle. The UFO phenomenon is no longer taboo to talk about. People like this deserve to be heard now without ridicule.
When Josefin Stiller was growing up in Berlin, she loved reading about Greek gods in an encyclopedia of mythology. She often lost track of their relationships, however—their feuds, trysts, and betrayals—as she flipped among the entries. Frustrated, she wrote each name on a card and started to arrange children beneath parents on a desk in her bedroom. As lineages became clear, so did family dramas. Sons killed fathers; uncles kidnapped nieces; siblings fell in love. “I wonder if this experience of reconstructing a family tree primed me to appreciate trees and the powerful insights they hold,” Stiller told me in a recent e-mail.
Years later, as a graduate student in biology, Stiller worked on an evolutionary tree for seahorses and their relatives, using DNA to understand the ancestry of different species. Then, in 2017, she moved to the University of Copenhagen and joined B10K, a scientific collaboration that aims to sequence the genome of every bird species—more than ten thousand in all—and to reveal their connections in a comprehensive tree. The amount of data and computing power required for this mission is almost unfathomable, but the final product should be as simple in principle as the diagram Stiller had assembled as a child. “Everything in biology has a history, and we can show this history as a bifurcating tree,” she said.
Birds are the most diverse vertebrates on land, and they have always been central to ideas about the natural world. In 1837, a taxonomist in London told Charles Darwin that the finches he had shot and carelessly lumped together in the Galápagos Islands were, in fact, many different species. Darwin wondered whether the finches might have shared a common ancestor from mainland South America—whether all of life might have evolved through a process of “descent with modification”—and he drew a rudimentary tree in his private notebook, beneath the words “I think.” The tree showed how a single ancestral population could branch into many species, each with its own evolutionary path. “On the Origin of Species,” published twenty-two years later, includes only one diagram: an evolutionary tree. The tree of life became for biology what the periodic table was for chemistry—both a foundation and an emblem for the field. “The time will come I believe, though I shall not live to see it, when we shall have fairly true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of nature,” Darwin wrote to a friend.
The rise of genome sequencing, at the turn of the twenty-first century, seemed to bring Darwin’s dream within reach. “It is now realistic to conceive of reconstructing the entire Tree of Life—eventually to include all of the living and extinct species,” Joel Cracraft, the curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History, wrote, in 2004. The naturalist E. O. Wilson predicted that such a tree could unify biology. Its value to such fields as agriculture, conservation, and medicine would be incalculable; evolutionary trees have already deepened our understanding of sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19. By mapping a major branch on the tree of life, B10K aims to light the way.
When Stiller joined the project, her colleagues were combing through museums and laboratories to sample three hundred and sixty-three bird species, chosen carefully to represent the diversity of living birds. With help from four supercomputers in three different countries, they began to compare each bird’s DNA to figure out how they were related. “I think there was always this idea that, once we sequence full genomes, we will be able to solve it,” Stiller told me. But, early in the process, she encountered an evolutionary enigma called Opisthocomushoazin. “I was completely amazed by this bird,” she said.
Hoatzins, which live along oxbow lakes in tropical South America, have blood-red eyes, blue cheeks, and crests of spiky auburn feathers. Their chicks have primitive claws on their tiny wings and respond to danger by plunging into water and then clawing their way back to their nests—a trait that inspired some ornithologists to link them to dinosaurs. Other taxonomists argued that the hoatzin is closely related to pheasants, cuckoos, pigeons, and a group of African birds called turacos. Alejandro Grajal, the director of Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, said that the bird looks like a “punk-rock chicken,” and smells like manure because it digests leaves through bacterial fermentation, similar to a cow.
DNA research has not solved the mysteries of the hoatzin; it has deepened them. One 2014 analysis suggested that the bird’s closest living relatives are cranes and shorebirds such as gulls and plovers. Another, in 2020, concluded that this clumsy flier is a sister species to a group that includes tiny, hovering hummingbirds and high-speed swifts. “Frankly, there is no one in the world who knows what hoatzins are,” Cracraft, who is now a member of B10K, said. The hoatzin may be more than a missing piece of the evolutionary puzzle. It may be a sphinx with a riddle that many biologists are reluctant to consider: What if the pattern of evolution is not actually a tree?
Fossils that resemble hoatzins have been found in Europe and Africa, but today the birds can be found only in the river basins of the Amazon and Orinoco of South America. I live in Germany, so I visited them in Berlin’s Museum of Natural History, where cabinets are filled with thousands of stuffed birds. Sylke Frahnert, the bird curator, kept two taxidermy hoatzins on a shelf near the cuckoos and turacos, which seems as good a place as any. Over the years, there have been so many conflicting trees of birds, she told me. “You would have been crazy to change the collection with every one.” One of the museum’s hoatzins was shot in Brazil more than two centuries ago, and the years have drained the color from its face. I had heard that even the specimens smell like manure, but Frahnert warned me not to sniff them, since birds were once preserved with arsenic.
In the eighteenth century, natural-history museums started using anatomical similarities to classify plants and animals into increasingly specific categories: class, order, family, genus, species. Darwin realized that species share traits because their ancestors were one and the same. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals all have spines, but not because God had given them to each creature separately; rather, the spine suggested a “common parent” living long ago. The construction of evolutionary trees was dubbed “phylogeny,” literally meaning “the generation of species,” by the zoologist Ernst Haeckel. The more traits two species shared, the theory went, the more recently they had shared a common ancestor. Human beings and other great apes evolved from a common ancestor millions of years ago, but even human beings and bacteria have a common ancestor—the first known living organisms, which date to three and a half billion years ago.
Hoatzins—“in some respects the most aberrant of birds,” according to one Victorian ornithologist—were a problem from the beginning. Early European naturalists described them as pheasants, and the first major tree for birds, published in 1888 by Max Fürbringer, placed them on the fowl branch. But, by the early nineteen-hundreds, some scientists were comparing hoatzins and cuckoos on the basis of traits such as jaws and feathers, and others were noting similarities between hoatzins and turacos, pigeons, barn owls, and rails. Even the hoatzin’s parasites defied classification: they hosted feather lice found on no other birds.
One crucial problem in phylogeny was convergent evolution. Sometimes natural selection nudges two organisms toward the same trait. Birds and bats independently evolved the ability to fly. Swifts and swallows each evolved into aerodynamic insectivores with nearly identical silhouettes, but traits such as their vocal organs and foot bones reveal that they are only distantly related. Because taxonomists often disagreed about things such as how to distinguish common ancestry from convergent evolution, the literature grew thick with conflicting trees, to the point that some twentieth-century biologists seemed ready to give up. “The construction of phylogenetic trees has opened the door to a wave of uninhibited speculation,” one wrote in 1959. “Science ends where comparative morphology, comparative physiology, comparative ethology have failed us.”
Phylogeny made a comeback in the seventies and eighties, after the German entomologist Willi Hennig developed more rigorous criteria for identifying common ancestry and drawing evolutionary trees. These innovations laid a foundation for a new wave of research that did not rely solely on physical specimens but, rather, on the emerging science of DNA. “Organisms are related to one another by the degree to which they share genetic information,” two ornithologists wrote in the early nineties, adding that genetics could reveal “a different view of the process of evolution and its effects.” The typical bird genome is a string of more than a billion base pairs that mutate randomly over time. Scientists can compare the same parts of the genome across multiple species to estimate their evolutionary closeness. Typically, species that share mutations have a more recent common ancestor, and species that do not are more distantly related.
Early sequencing was expensive and tedious, but, by the beginning of the twenty-first century, a signal was emerging from the noise. The journal Nature published an article about the promise of a single unified tree of life. But its author also identified a complication: each genome contains many different genes, and each one could generate a different evolutionary tree.
In 2001, a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society identified a pair of bird siblings as unlikely as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito: the flamingo’s closest relative was a little diving bird called a grebe. “That was probably the single most astounding result that anybody’s ever gotten,” Peter Houde, an avian biologist from New Mexico State University, told me. Ornithologists had always reasoned that grebes were closely related to short-legged loons, whereas tall wading birds such as flamingos, storks, and herons probably had a long-legged common ancestor.
That was the first domino to fall. In 2008, Science published a new avian tree based on DNA. Research led by Shannon Hackett, Rebecca Kimball, and Sushma Reddy, scientists affiliated with the Field Museum and the University of Florida, examined nineteen parts of the genomes of a hundred and sixty-nine avian species. The “root” of their tree resembled trees based on physical specimens: large, flightless birds such as ostriches, emus, and kiwis—known collectively as ratites—were first to diverge from all the others, followed by land fowl and waterfowl. The remaining ninety-five per cent of living birds, from parrots to penguins and pigeons, are known as “modern birds” and descended from a common ancestor, probably around the time that an asteroid hit the earth, sixty-six million years ago, and the dinosaurs went extinct. The youngest order—passerines, which include all songbirds—branched out into a staggering six thousand species in the span of tens of millions of years. The genetic tree for modern birds was decked with relationships that few, if any, taxonomists had guessed from anatomy; key groups such as parrots, owls, woodpeckers, vultures, and cranes shifted places.
Scientists had long assumed, for example, that daytime hunters such as hawks, eagles, and falcons all descended from a single bird of prey. But, in the genetic tree, hawks and eagles shared a branch with vultures, yet falcons turned out to be closer relatives of passerines and parrots. This meant that the peregrine falcon is more closely related to colorful macaws and tiny sparrows than to any hawk or eagle. The traditional explanation for flightlessness in ratites—that a common ancestor diverged into ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries, and kiwis after the southern continents split apart—also collapsed. DNA showed that the ratites also included flying birds called tinamous, suggesting that the group evolved flightlessness at least three separate times. “That study revolutionized our understanding of how the major groups of living birds are related to each other,” Daniel J. Field, an avian paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, said. Bird-watching guides had to reorganize their contents to reflect the new relationships.
What the study could not settle was the early evolution of modern birds. It was easy to tell when pheasants and ostriches turned off the highway of avian evolution, but modern birds did not follow a simple off-ramp. They seemed to zoom off in different directions, as though each kind of bird took a different exit from a busy roundabout. From their common ancestor—perhaps a little ground bird that pecked seeds and insects out of the ash that the asteroid left behind—modern birds split quickly into more than half a dozen branches. But the fastest computers of the time weren’t fast enough to disentangle them. All but one of these branches diversified into about ten thousand bird species. The last belonged to the hoatzin alone. The strange bird likely made the journey to the present day all by itself. “The enigmatic Opisthocomus (hoatzin) still cannot be confidently placed,” Hackett’s team wrote.
The first human genome sequences required hundreds of scientists and billions of dollars, but the costs fell quickly as the technology improved. In 2010, Tom Gilbert, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen who previously studied mammoth and ancient human DNA, turned his attention to the pigeon genome. “I’m really interested in how regular city pigeons have spread around the world and done so well,” he told me. When he read the Hackett group’s study, he became curious about how the pigeon genome might fit into the larger picture of avian evolution. He wondered, “What if you had the perfect data set—all of the genome and not just parts of it?”
With the neurobiologist Erich Jarvis and the evolutionary geneticist Guojie Zhang, Gilbert assembled a team to pick up where researchers like Hackett had left off. The team, which grew to more than a hundred and twenty researchers, used nine supercomputer processing centers to sequence and analyze the genomes of forty-eight birds. (They got the hoatzin DNA sample from Houde, in New Mexico.) The tree they developed—featured on the cover of Science, along with an image of the hoatzin, in 2014—confirmed many of the Hackett group’s findings, challenged others, revealed new relationships, and used fossils to estimate the dates of divergences. Within fifteen million years of the extinction of dinosaurs, all the major lineages of modern birds emerged. The hoatzin’s long branch connected to the ancestor of cranes and shorebirds. “It kind of is a marshy waterbird,” Jarvis reasoned. But he and the other researchers couldn’t get strong statistical support for the hoatzin branch. He compared the bird’s origins with some of the most difficult questions he has faced in neurobiology. “Studying consciousness or language is the equivalent of figuring out where the hoatzin belongs,” he said.
The next year, the rival journal Nature published yet another tree. The Yale ornithologist Richard Prum argued that forty-eight species were too few, so his team compared a hundred and ninety-eight, sequencing a much smaller portion of their DNA. In this tree, several branches changed places around the time that the dinosaurs went extinct, suggesting new relationships for doves and pigeons; hummingbirds, swifts, and their relatives; and, of course, the hoatzin. Instead of yielding an authoritative tree of life, DNA had entrenched disagreement in the part of the tree most crucial to understanding the diversity of living birds. “There may be no amount of sleuthing or data or analysis that is going to resolve the placement of some of these lineages of birds,” Hackett told me. The conflicting signals in the hoatzin genome may not be analytical errors but biological realities—and they may require a different paradigm than the tree.
The tree is so ingrained in evolutionary biology that scientists encourage “tree thinking.” By learning to think in terms of trees, students can avoid the common fallacy of reading evolution as a ladder in which simpler organisms become more complex, as in the famous image “The Ascent of Man,” which shows a knuckle-walking ape evolving into an upright human. For all its pedagogical value, however, the tree also embeds subtle assumptions about evolution. The tree tends to downplay the genetic variation within species, which can obscure the fact that common ancestors are actually diverse populations that can pass on different versions of a gene to different descendants. It tells a story of endless partition and diversification, with branches that diverge and never reticulate.
While preparing their paper, Gilbert and his team had fiddled with their data set to understand the differences between gene trees. When they told their tree-building software to focus only on regions of the genome that Prum’s team used, it produced a tree that looked like Prum’s. When they shifted focus to other regions, a very different tree emerged. When they divided their bird genomes into thousands of different parts and ran each through their software, they got thousands of different trees, and not one completely matched the “species tree” they had constructed from large portions of genomes. “Different parts of the genome have different stories,” Gilbert realized. Genes do not stay in the lanes of common ancestry but can move much more unpredictably, like zigzagging pieces on a Plinko board. Scientists call this kind of genetic scrambling “incomplete lineage sorting,” and it is especially common during rapid bursts of evolution, such as the one that gave rise to modern birds.
In 2016, Alexander Suh, a biologist on the forty-eight-genome team, superimposed all the different gene trees they had generated. The resulting image of the early evolution of modern birds, around the time the dinosaurs went extinct, was not a tidy series of diverging branches but a kind of web or fishnet, whose contours constantly crossed paths. In a paper, Suh urged his colleagues to consider other patterns of evolution—to argue “less about which species tree is ‘correct,’ and more about if there is such a thing” as a traditional tree of life for modern birds.
As a girl, Stiller sometimes ran into trouble with her mythological family tree. “Placing Zeus was a nightmare because he interacted with everyone at some point,” she remembered. Relatives often shacked up, braiding their separate lineages back together. Something similar happens in nature when one species mates with another, producing a hybrid. Although tree-thinking biologists used to think that hybridization was extremely rare, genetic studies have shown that it actually happens all the time. Human DNA indicates that early Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals and other extinct hominins. Conservative estimates suggest that at least ten per cent of birds hybridize; among South America’s largest group of birds, that number is thirty-eight per cent, according to one recent study.
Hybridization may have been rampant in the aftermath of the asteroid strike, when modern-bird lineages first emerged. Interbreeding would have passed genes from one branch of the tree to another, adding another layer of complexity on top of incomplete lineage sorting. “Lineages that split and never talk to each other again—that’s not how biology works,” Stiller said. Still, she remains hopeful that one day we may build an authoritative diagram of the past. “Our models are still comparatively simple,” she told me. “We should be able to reconstruct evolutionary history if we have the right models and the right data.”
The outlines of animal evolution still look a lot like a tree in many places, which is why scientists continue to spend so much time developing and debating different branches. But, if tree thinking taught biologists that everything is connected, genes are suggesting that the connections can run even deeper than a tree can capture. To gain a more complete picture—and to answer questions like how such an unusual mix of traits came together in the hoatzin—scientists may need to think outside the tree. B10K grew out of the forty-eight-genome group and now includes computer scientists who specialize not in trees but in networks; they try to track the movement of genes between branches, and they often find that even supercomputers aren’t yet up to the job.
In B10K’s preliminary analyses, the hoatzin again winds up closely aligned with cranes and shorebirds, but the conclusion lacks a hundred per cent statistical support. “There’s still a lot of conflict in the data,” Stiller said. “Depending on how you analyze it, you will get different placements.” After B10K finishes its tree for three hundred and sixty-three birds, it’ll move on to the more than two thousand avian genuses, and eventually to every species of bird. These genomes will create a much more complete portrait—but, even then, they may not be able to solve the mystery of the hoatzin, or reconstruct every crook in the early evolution of modern birds.
“If the evolutionary history of the hoatzin conformed to processes we already understand well, then we’d probably have already figured out what it is most closely related to,” Houde wrote via e-mail. “The fact that we don’t know its nearest relative suggests that there were processes involved that we still do not understand.” He indicated that the hoatzin could have more than one set of closest relatives—which he called “an unsettling prospect in the context of existing classification and in the minds of many contemporary biologists.”
This strange-sounding state of affairs is not unique to the hoatzin; we see it in our own DNA. Human beings share their most recent common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, but more than ten per cent of the human genome is actually more closely related to the gorilla genome. Another tiny fraction of the human genome also seems to be most closely shared with an even more distant relative: the orangutan. “This implies that there is no such thing as a unique evolutionary history of the human genome,” a team of molecular biologists wrote in 2007. “Rather, it resembles a patchwork of individual regions following their own genealogy.”
Darwin ended “On the Origin of Species” with a famous description of “an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth.” Molecular biologists hoped that genes would reveal the true and final shape of Darwin’s tree. Instead, they found a new kind of entangled bank, in which species are connected in unexpected ways. “There is grandeur in this view of life,” Darwin wrote of his scene. There is grandeur, too, in the view of life that is encoded in DNA. ♦
Today, we come to one of the most dangerous and terrifying of all monsters: the Skinwalker of Native American lore and legend. And, to those who dare to investigate such phenomena they should tread carefully. Very carefully. Indeed, one only has to ask George Knapp, Colm A. Kelleher and James T. Lacatski, the authors of the recently published book, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. Accounts of the deadly, shapeshifting Skinwalkers date back a very long time. Indeed, they have been provoking mayhem, chaos, and even death, in their collective paths for absolute centuries. Skinwalkers are often portrayed in Native American history as classic crones – wizened, old witches, in other words. The fact is, however, that the Skinwalkers can transform themselves into multiple forms; one of them being that of a wolf. Or, perhaps more correctly, something that superficially resembles a wolf. I say all of the above because in the last few years there has been a growing amount of interest in the subject. But, what, exactly, what are they? There is no doubt that is the key question to be asked. And to be answered, too.
Some might suggest – and have suggested – that the creatures take on forms that are far less like regular wolves and far more akin to classic werewolves: large and powerful beasts that can walk and run on both two limbs and four. Others, today, refer to them as the Dog-Men. Other forms that the Skinwalkers can mutate into include coyotes, birds, and bears. Indeed, they are supernatural masters of camouflage and subterfuge. The process by which a witch can take on a completely new form is very complicated, to say the very least. Magical rites and rituals can allow a person to morph into an animal – by seeking to emulate the beast that he or she desire to become. In the bulk of such shape-changing, however, a witch will wrap around their body the hide of the very animal they wish to become. The more the witch wears the hide, the more she or he is likely to successfully transform. It’s important to note that it's not just the form that changes: a person who becomes a Skinwalker also takes on the keen senses of smell and sight that so many animals have and that we don't. The same goes for their senses of hearing. And, there are their incredibly fast speeds, too. In other words, these undeniably, deadly creatures are nothing less than lethal killing machines.
(Nick Redfern) Beware of the wolfish Skinwalker
Without doubt the most dangerous aspect of the Skinwalker is its ability to supernaturally infect people with deadly diseases and life-threatening illnesses. Strangely, on more than a few occasions, those who have found themselves in the direct, close presence of a Skinwalker have – no less in than mere days - succumbed to very rare medical conditions. Precisely how the Skinwalker can perform such a hostile thing still remains unknown. It is, however, worth noting that the Skinwalker is said to have an expert knowledge of medicine, and both ancient and modern. The answer, somewhere, just might be found in that issue of those medicines. It’s no wonder that many Native Americans avoid these malevolent things at all costs. Who can blame them? Hardly anyone. Of course, there is one critical issue we that have yet to touch upon: namely, why on Earth would anyone even want to become a Skinwalker in the very first place, at all? The answer, as you may have already deduced, is not a good one. Adopting the guise of an animal can, quite literally, allow a person to get away with cold-hearted murder. After all, if the target of the Skinwalker is violently slaughtered by a rampaging bear or a savage wolf, then who would even – or ever - dream of the possibility that the beast was actually a transformed human? Almost certainly not many, that is to be sure!
Although the phenomenon of the Skinwalker has been with us for a very long time, there is absolutely no doubt, at all, that much of the modern day knowledge and understanding of the creatures comes from the publicity that was given to it by Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp in their hugely popular book of 2005, Hunt for the Skinwalker - a definitive classic of its time. It tells of an absolute myriad of paranormal phenomena at a certain ranch located in Utah. As the description for the Knapp-Kelleher book states: “For more than fifty years, the bizarre events at that remote Utah ranch have ranged from the perplexing to the wholly terrifying. Vanishing and mutilated cattle. Unidentified Flying Objects. The appearance of huge, otherworldly creatures. Invisible objects emitting magnetic fields with the power to spark a cattle stampede. Flying orbs of light with dazzling maneuverability and lethal consequences. For one family, life on the Skinwalker Ranch had become a life under siege by an unknown enemy or enemies. Nothing else could explain the horrors that surrounded them – perhaps science could.” And, as George Knapp noted in Hunt for the Skinwalker, with regard to the many and varied phenomena that caused chaos and mayhem on the ranch: “…reality isn’t what it used to be.” You can say that again!
Now, we come to my very own experiences. I cannot say that I am someone who has come face-to-face with a Skinwalker. I haven't. I have, though, had experiences that could be termed as on the fringe of the phenomenon. As someone who spends a lot of time in the field – so to speak – investigating reports of strange creatures, UFOs, M.I.B., and more, I was very excited when in August 2010 I had the opportunity to head out to the site of a spate of Skinwalker sightings - and for a full week, no less . The location was the desert of California, specifically in Joshua Tree. I was there to be filmed for a new TV show on VH1 that was called Real and Chance: The Legend Hunters. The stars were brothers Kamal and Ahmad Givens. It was a fun, excited, well-executed show that saw the two guys heading around the United States – in road-trip style – and investigating a myriad of mysteries; one of them being the Skinwalker controversy. But, you probably guessed that, right?
(Nick Redfern) The site of the filming where a huge wolf appeared in the dead of night
On the second day of the shooting, the film crew and I headed out to a local animal sanctuary – that specialized in caring for, and rehabilitating, nothing less than wolves. In doing so, I quickly learned just how much the Skinwalker phenomenon was feared in and around Joshua Tree - and in Utah, too. And, in all likelihood, it still is feared. I also saw for myself a deep reluctance on the part of the staff of the sanctuary to ever utter that dreaded “S word.” By now, you know the word I mean. Then, on the third night – around 1:00 a.m. – we encountered nothing less than a huge wolf staring down at us - from a hilly area - as the film-crew captured us on camera. No, I am not joking. In fact, no-one was. The wolf was only in view for a minute or two, but it was an undeniably bone-chilling situation. Here we were looking for Skinwalkers and we almost walked into a huge wolf that, I suspect, seemed to be waiting for us. And no-one else. Was the whole thing just a really bizarre coincidence? I have to say that I seriously doubted it. More than a decade later, my views have not really changed. I still think that something very strange happened on that night - in the California desert - when the skies went dark and a huge wolf loomed out of the darkness. Sadly, in 2015 Ahmad died at the very young age of thirty-three from cancer.
It's a baffling fact that although the sea serpents of earlier times were seen here, there and everywhere, today they are just about completely gone. As to why, we simply don't know. Fortunately, however, we do have the testimony of sailors, and of the captains of ships. Their reports amount to a huge number.
(Nick Redfern)
With that said, let's have a look back in time, an era when giant monsters almost ruled the waves. For example, the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts was thesite of repeated encounters with massive, dangerous leviathans in the early 17th century. From a man named John Josselyn, we have these words to muse upon: “They told me of a sea serpent, or snake, that lay quoiled [sic] up like a cable upon the rock at Cape Ann; a boat passing by with English on board, and two Indians, they would have shot the serpent, but the Indians dissuaded them, saying that if he were not killed outright, they would all be in danger of their lives.” Obadiah Turner, also in the same time-frame, stated of the creature, in old English style of writing: “Some being on ye great beache gathering of calms and seaweed wch had been cast thereon by ye mightie storm did spy a most wonderful serpent a shorte way off from ye shore. He was big round in ye thickest part as a wine pipe; and they do affirm that he was fifteen fathoms more in length. A most wonderful tale. But ye witnesses be credible, and it would be of no account to them to tell an untrue tale. Wee have likewise heard yt Cape Ann ye people have seene a monster like unto this, whch did there come out of ye land mch to ye terror of them yt did see him.”
It should be stressed that the 19th century was the period in which sea serpents were really in their element, we might say. From 1817, we have the following, notable report from Amos Story: “It was between the hours of twelve and one o’clock when I first saw him, and he continued in sight for an hour and a half. I was setting on the shore, and was about twenty rods from him when he was the nearest to me. His head appeared shaped much like that of the sea turtle, and he carried his head from ten to twelve inches above the surface of the water. His head at that distance appeared larger than the head of any dog I ever saw. From the back of his head to the next part of him that was visible, I should judge to be three or four feet. He moved very rapidly through the water, I should say a mile or two or, at most, in three minutes. I saw no bunches on his back. On this day, I did not see more than ten or twelve feet of his body.” Story’s account was swiftly followed by that of Solomon Allen III, a shipmaster. He said of the incredible beast he spied: “His head formed something like the head of a rattlesnake, but nearly as large as the head of horse. When he moved on the surface of the water his motion was slow, at times playing in circles, and sometimes moving straight forward.”
A particularly detailed account came days later from one Cheever Felch, whose sighting of the Gloucester sea serpent was made when he, Felch, was aboard a U.S. schooner, the Science. He said of the monstrous thing: “His color is dark brown with white under his throat. His size we could not accurately ascertain, but his head is about three feet in circumference, flat and much smaller than his body. We did not see his tail; but from the end of the head to the farthest protuberance was not far from one hundred feet. I speak with a degree of certainty, behind much accustomed to measure and estimate distances and length. I counted fourteen bunches on his back, the first one say ten or twelve feet from this head, and the others about seven feet apart. They decreased in size towards the tail. These bunches were sometimes counted with and sometimes without a glass. Mr. Malborne counted thirteen, Mr. Blake thirteen and fourteen, and the boatman the same number...His motion was partly vertical and partly horizontal, like that of fresh water snakes. I have been much acquainted with snakes in our interior waters. His motion was the same.”
And still the reports kept on coming, as seafarer John Brown noted: “I discovered something about three or four miles distant, about two points on the weather bow, which appeared as a mast, as it rose and sunk in a perpendicular manner, once in about eight or ten minutes. I kept the vessel directly for it, and after look at it with my glass, I observed to my mate that it was a wreck, as I could see timbers sticking up, but as we approached nearer, I found what appeared like timbers to be a number of porpoises and black fish playing and jumping around a large Sea-Serpent, which we had supposed to be the mast.” While there certainly have been sightings of sea serpents in the waters of Gloucester since 1817, none of them – in terms of their frequency, number of witnesses, and credibility – has ever come close to matching those tumultuous, early 19th century days when the people of Gloucester were plagued by a monster.
Nick Redfern
Then, there is this account, which appeared in the British Literary Gazette on August 1, 1818: “Captain Joseph Woodward of the schooner Adamant reported an encounter off the coast of Cape Ann in May, 1818. He said he shot a cannon at the monster. He was quoted as saying that after the cannon shot: ‘The serpent shook its head and its tail in an extraordinary manner and advanced toward the ship with open jaws; I had caused the cannon to be reloaded, but he had come so near that all the crew were seized with terror, and we thought only of getting out of his way. He almost touched the vessel and, had I not tacked as I did, he would certainly have come on board. He dived, but in a moment we saw him come up again with his head on one side of the vessel and his tail on the other as if he was going to lift up and upset us. However we did not feel any shock. He remained five hours near us, only going backward and forward.”
We’ll now take a look at some more, incredible claims of encounters with monsters; cases that amazed and terrified the crews and passengers of ships and boats on the high seas. Rather notably, a number of such reports have been declassified under the terms of the U.K. government’s Freedom of Information Act. They demonstrate something remarkable and illuminating: namely, that highly incredible sources had seen huge, monsters of the oceans and who were willing to attest to the truth of the amazing incidents. Just such a case can be found in the 19th century-era archives of the Admiralty, which was the U.K. equivalent of the United States Navy. The first report that has been declassified by government personnel dates back to 1830, specifically May 9, 1830. As for the crew that had the amazing encounter, they were aboard the Rob Roy, which was a military craft, and while navigating the Atlantic Ocean. Little did the crew know that when the day began, they would soon come face-to-face with a terrifying monster of the mysterious depths. We have the captain of the ship, one James Stockdale, to thank for having the guts to inform senior naval personnel the incredible creature that had been seen.
I will now share with you the unedited words of Captain Stockdale: “About five p.m. all at once while I was walking on the poop my attention was drawn to the water on the port bow by a scuffling noise. Likewise all the watch on deck were drawn to it. Judge my amazement when what should stare us all in the face as if not knowing whether to come over the deck or to go around the stern – but the great big sea snake! Now I have heard of the fellow before – and I have killed snakes twenty-four feet long in the straits of Malacca, but they would go in his mouth. I think he must have been asleep for we were going along very softly two knots an hour, and he seemed as much alarmed as we were – and all taken aback for about fifteen seconds. But he soon was underway and, when fairly off, his head was square with our topsail and his tail was square with the foremast. My ship is 171 feet long overall – and the foremast is 42 feet from the stern which would make the monster about 129 feet long. If I had not seen it I could not have believed it but there was no mistake or doubt of its length – for the brute was so close I could even smell his nasty fishy smell." There's more to come:
“When underway he carried his head about six feet out of water – with a fin between the shoulders about two feet long. I think he was swimming about five miles an hour – for I watched him from the topsail yard till I lost sight of him in about fifty minutes. I hope never to see him more. It is enough to frighten the strong at heart.” The report of Captain Stockdale and his crew was not the only one that ended up in U.K. military files. There was yet another. This one dated from December 13, 1857. Commander George Henry Harrington was so impressed – and worried – by the extraordinary sighting that he quickly put together a full report on the encounter with the giant beast. It reads like this: “While myself and officers were standing on the lee side of the poop – looking toward the island – we were startled by the sight of a huge marine animal which reared its head out of the water within twenty yards of the ship – when it suddenly disappeared for about half a minute and then made a reappearance in the same manner again – showing us its neck and head about ten or twenty feet out of the water.
“Its head was shaped like a long buoy – and I should suppose the diameter to have been seven or eight feet in the largest part with a kind of scroll or ruff encircling it about two feet from the top. The water was discolored for several hundred feet from the head, so much so that on its first appearance my impression was that the ship was in broken waters, produced, as I supposed, by some volcanic agency, since I passed the island before. But the second appearance completely dispelled those fears and assured us that it was a monster of extraordinary length and appeared to be moving slowly towards the land. The ship was going too fast to enable us to reach the masthead in time to form a correct estimate of this extreme length – but from what we saw from the deck we conclude that he must have been over two hundred feet long. The Boatswain and several of the crew, who observed it from the forecastle, state that it was more than double the length of the ship, in which case it must have been five hundred feet. Captain Harrington signed off: “I am convinced that it belonged to the serpent tribe.”
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and UFOs
Former Prime Minister Margat Thatcher of Great Britain states,
Margaret Thatcher, who was Britain’s Prime Minister during at the time of the Rendlesham incident in 1980. Thatcher, who died on 8 April aged 87, was 19 months into her first term as Prime Minister in 1980 when US airmen at the nuclear-armed twin airbase RAF Bentwaters-Woodbridge reported ‘unexplained lights’ (UFOs) hovering above Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk.
The ‘Rendlesham Forest’ incident happened at the height of the Cold War when tensions in Poland – then behind the Iron Curtain -were reaching crisis point. In the years that followed, the Ministry of Defence drew up secret plans to base US cruise missiles at RAF Greenham Common and US airbases in eastern England and was keen to avoid drawing attention to a persistent story about a UFO landing near one of them.
The military revealed their conclusion that ‘it was highly unlikely that any violation of UK airspace would be heralded by such a display of lights…[we] think it equally likely that any [Soviet] reconnaissance or spying activity would be announced in this way. ‘
Georgina Bruni revealed that she had quizzed Thatcher face-to-face about her knowledge of UFOs and Rendlesham.
The bizarre conversation took place in London at a charity cocktail party when Bruni was working on a book about Britain’s Roswell.
Bruni asked Thatcher het opinion on UFOs. She received this response:
‘“You must have the facts and you can’t tell the people
“You have to know the whole story, and never tell the public. There is only one answer here; Fear of aPanic.” These craft are 300 years ahead of us in technology; we are I believe playing a game of catch-up at Area 51 and Nellis AFB and this has been going on since 1947. Truman knew and so did MJ-12 with General McArthur.
Bill Sell writes, “Frank Edwards has some remarkable evidence recorded in his book Flying Saucers Serious Business and this book should be a mandatory reading for any true Ufologist. The US Government classified this subject two points above the Hydrogen Bomb according to Wilbert Smith.”
Brett Allen writes,“For some reason they (UFOs) seem to have an affinity where there is loss of life.” I just Googled “top states for UFO sightings” and 8 were the scene of Civil War death, one-the top in population, i.e.: deaths, and the other, gold. of course, top countries are in the war-torn Middle East.”
It amazes me so many “researchers” continue to miss the big picture, but then academia ignores the existence of our soul and so, what we are told in our most precious ancient texts is also ignored. So many today also offer opinions like “the Bible is all nonsense,”
Even the fact that (Wild Men, i.e.: Sasquatch) were included on Cathedral walls for a good reason they knew they were heavenly beings! But little by little, the truth is breaking through. Had you heard of last year’s Bigfoot revelation by top Bigfoot researchers who swore they watched a portal open up just like on the Skinwalker Ranch) during a Sasquatch investigation. They swore they could with a flashlight see another world inside.
Chewbacca of Star Wars movie fame looks a lot like Bigfoot.
The Native Americans have long used the same words to describe Sasquatch as Genesis uses to describe Nephilim – part man, part animal, part spirit – beings made by the “fallen” or descended Angels. They have long recounted these creatures as “spirit beings” even connected with the “noseless ones,” and often accompanied by light anomalies. Thanks to Brett Allen.
Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Structures and Life
Saturn’s Moon Titan Looks Like Earth with possible base at 2 above.
Saturn’s largest moon looks remarkably like Earth with a landscape of rivers, lakes, mountains, and volcanoes says Brigham Young’s University’s planetary science professor Jani Radebaugh. However, Titan, is inhospitable — the surface temperature is negative 289 degrees and the liquid isn’t water. It’s thought to be methane. Radebaugh has wrapped up a NASA-commissioned study that focused on radar images to map dunes on Titan’s surface and determine the prevailing winds. It was the first-time scientists have peered through Titan’s thick atmosphere to see the surface, and Radebaugh says they were surprised by the Earth-like features. Titan is the second largest moon in the Solar System and has an atmosphere. Huge craft have been photographed in the Rings of Saturn and life may exist on some of its Moons. the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere and the only object other than Earth for which unmistakable evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found
Titan has atmosphere, methane lakes and structures
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is the only moon known object in space other than Earth on which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
Humanity could colonize Titan and NASA Hs spent probes to Titan which could be humanity’s best chance at a hospitable planet in our galaxy! Its temperature is very cold but could be warmed. Some sharpening and deepening were added to the Titan moon photos, bringing out detail structures on January 14, 2022. Could it be that Titan was an ancient space station? I noticed that this area was labeled maze or Labyrinth on the Titan map. A labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way, a maze. By labeling this Titan area a maze or labyrinth, NASA has actually confessed to these structures existing!
Titan Moon Blowup Showing structures
Moons orbiting planets create their own heat due to gravity because the moon is on an inclined (tilted) orbit, passing above and below the equator of the planet, will have its tidal bulge constantly moving up and down. The movement of the bulge leads to friction and heat. Heat and water generally explain life as likely on Titan.
The radius of Titan is 2,574 km (1,600 miles) and that would put the width of this maze at about 70 km (43 miles) and the length to be over 400 km (250 miles) long. The walls of some parts of the maze very from .25-75 km (16 to 437 Miles) high. Thanks to Scott C. Waring – map:
Because Titan’s surface is mostly made of water ice, which is abundant in moons of the outer solar system, scientists believe Titan’s ocean underneath is likely mostly liquid water.
NASA Reveals First-Ever Photo of Liquid on another World
NASA scientists revealed a first-of-its-kind image from space showing reflecting sunlight from a lake on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It’s the first visual evidence of liquid on the northern hemisphere of the moon, scientists said, and the first-ever photo from another world showing a “specular reflection” — which is reflection of light from an extremely smooth surface and in this case, a liquid one. “This is the first-time outside Earth we’ve seen specular reflection from another liquid from another body,” said Ralf Jaumann, a scientist analyzing data from the Cassini unmanned space probe. Photos are from the Cassini Spacecraft orbiting Saturn about a billion miles from Earth.
“It was great because if you look at photos of planets, you mostly see nothing is happening. But in two hours we saw a glint of light getting brighter. “Titan’s similarities to Earth have attracted NASA’s attention for decades. It’s the only body besides our own in the solar system that is believed to have liquid on its surface. Like Earth, Titan has an atmosphere which is mostly nitrogen. Experts believe the presence of liquid on a planet or moon improves the chances that some kind of life could develop there. The glint appears to be coming from the southern edge of a lake called Kraken Mare — a massive body of methane that covers about 150,000 square miles at minus-180 degrees Celsius. That’s larger than the Caspian Sea, which is the largest lake on Earth. Thanks to Thom Patterson,
Possible Life on Titan
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the only natural satellite known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found. It is a planet-like moon with a diameter roughly 50% larger than moon. His planet has methane lakes that likely have life.
The Cassini-Huygens mission in 2004 discovered liquid hydrocarbon lakes in the moon’s Polar Regions that likely have methane-based life. The atmosphere is dense and opaque.
During a Cassini flyby in February 2007, radar and camera observations revealed several large features in the north polar region interpreted as large expanses of liquid methane and/or ethane, including one sea (Ligeia Mare) with an area of over 100,000 km (larger than Lake Superior), and another incompletely imaged region potentially the size of the Caspian Sea.
Lake on Titan Compared to Lake Superior at right
The surface is geologically young, although mountains and several possible cryovolcanoes have been discovered, it is smooth and few impact craters have been found. The atmosphere of Titan is largely composed of nitrogen; minor components lead to the formation of methane and ethane clouds and nitrogen-rich organic smog. Methane is formed during Methanogenesis a form of anaerobic respiration used by organisms that occupy landfills, termites, and various animals like cattle and deer. The methane indicates life is functioning on Titan.
Overall, the Cassini radar observations have shown that lakes cover only a few percent of the surface and are concentrated near the poles, making Titan much drier than Earth. The high relative humidity of methane in Titan’s lower atmosphere could be maintained by evaporation from lakes covering only 0.002 – 0.02% of the whole surface. A flyby of Titan’s southern Polar Regions revealed similar, though far smaller, lake like features. It is uncertain if plants are a source of methane emissions.
The moon is thought to be a possible host for microbial extraterrestrial life.
It’s thought to have a prebiotic environment rich in complex organic chemistry with a possible subsurface liquid ocean serving as a biotic environment. Thanks to NASA
Mel Riley 1987 Remote Viewing training
Description of Personnel Associated with ET Bases
Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind usually drawing pictures of the scene. Typically, a remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.
Remote viewers have run into three types of alien entities associated with bases at various location within the Solar System.
TITAN Moon BASE All personnel observed at this based on 20 November 1986 appeared to be no different than native earthlings. There were two male technician types sitting at a control panel of some kind. Behind them stood and attractive female with brown shoulder length hair, wearing a pale green lab coat or smock. She appeared to be in some sort of supervisory role.
HAYES– is the highest mountain in the eastern Alaska Range. There appeared to be two types of entities associated with this site. The two entities located outside of the structure were accomplishing some sort of routine task. Unable to contact them or gain information of any sort. Inside the structure were two entities. One sitting at some sort of circular console with a round screen like object. The other was busy doing something in the background. The entity at the console appeared human in form. He seemed friendly enough and invited me to observe his actions at the console.
SOUTH AMERICA: There appeared to be two types of entities associated with this site also. The first had an exceptionally large, round shaped head on a slender neck with very unhuman in appearance. Almost robot like and unable to contact this being. The other entity was almost human like in appearance. His face was devoid of any hair, his complexion was very pale, facial features were very indistinct with the exception of a sharp, slender nose. This entity seemed friendly enough and appeared to (unreadable) CIA-RPD96-00789R003800110001-8
Titan Moon Has a River
River in Titan with color added to photo
This image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a vast river system on Saturn’s moon Titan. It is the first-time images from space have revealed a river system so vast and in such high resolution anywhere other than Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI Stretching more than 200 miles from its headwaters toward a large and mysterious sea. It’s an incredible image–it has Earth-like meanders, oxbows, and general curvature, indicating it follows the trace of a fault line. This doesn’t necessarily mean Titan has plate tectonics like Earth does, but there are enough fractures in its bedrock to help form large basins. The Titan River is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, which scientists can tell because it appears dark throughout its length. This indicates it has a smooth surface.
Titan is the only other place in our solar system with a hydrologic cycle. Instead of water, it has liquid methane and ethane. It rains methane on Titan, and there are lakes made of ethane–the only other place where liquid exists in a stable form.
Astronaut Sheppard Golf’s on the Moon
Sheppard became the first and only golfer
Their mission was popular because Shepard became the first and only golfer on the moon, while Edgar Mitchell watched from the rover. Mitchell tossed a metal rod making the only “javelin” throws on the moon. Shepard later wrote that Mitchell remained “Mr. Unflappable” during the landing scare.”
Mitchell conducted a telepathy experiment he claimed a success on the three-day ride home that would give Mitchell notoriety. He thought humans weren’t the only intelligent life in the universe. Mitchell wrote in his 1996 autobiography. “It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me.”
He left NASA in 1972 and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is dedicated to exploring the mysteries of the human mind and the universe. Later he devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics, and unexplained phenomena.
During a Television program with the Disclosure Project at the National Press Club, I was introduced by Astronaut Edgar Mitchell who told the audience to listen to what I had to say about UFOs. After the show, we were alone talking and Mitchell told me, “I signed a NASA strict security contract that I had seen no evidence of aliens; therefore, I didn’t see any evidence of aliens on the moon, but all my astronaut friends had.” I asked what was the UFO situation all about? He told me,
“The answer is in the Dead Sea Scrolls. I suggested the War Scroll of the war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness. He smiled and said, “That’s the one.”
He told me many of those involved in the Roswell UFO crash came to him because lived nearby, and he was sixth of twelve men who walked on the moon. They all told him the alien crash at Roswell was real. He stated, “I have met with credible professionals within two governments who have testified to their own firsthand experiences with close encounters. They include members of military, intelligence, and government whose official duties involved the extraterrestrial presence. As is expected, they were all bound by strict security oath agreements which prevented them from disclosing any of this.”
He claimed the U.S. government covered up evidence that aliens had landed here and even most generals, admirals and even presidents were not privy to the information. Mitchell courageously spoke out for the Disclosure of the truth, and I consider it a pleasure to have known him.
He may now learn the secrets of eternal life and the universe. He walked on the moon and now will explore heaven.
Intelligent Intervention
Intelligent Intervention www.examiner.com/Robert Steven Thomas has authored an excellent book entitled “Intelligent Intervention The missing link in human evolution.” Robert is a retired Executive and Multi-disciplined Historian and of course author. He delves into the creation of humanity and the evidence. As well as an advanced alien presence which includes the Anunnaki legacy. I like his approach to close minded individuals and I really enjoyed this interview and his book. I hope you do to. Presenting.
Tomas states. “The history of the last 200,000 years currently being taught in the schools of advanced nations is fundamentally flawed and outdated.” There are major missing chapters. Ironically, the information and knowledge which form these chapters is becoming increasingly evident as a result of new discovery during the last fifty years. To the detriment of mainstream science and education ignore knowledge of UFOs and aliens and refuse to deal with it in an honest, open exchange
One missing chapter involves the fact that Darwinism Evolutions does not provide a scientifically acceptable beginning for biological life on Earth. Science’s current explanation for the emergence of the first living, self-reproducing cell is a fairy story. The hypothesis of Random Formation is unacceptable and has been mathematically shown to be a statistical impossibility. The reason? Unimaginable complexity confirmed in a cell and in its DNA has been clearly recognized by many of the world’s leading cellular-biologists as self-evidently well beyond statistical random-chance. The development of eyes alone is a miracle.
Science’s Alleged Human Evolution
In another major area, science’s explanation for human evolution from Homo erectus to modern people (or roughly the last 200,000 years of evolution) is fatally flawed. There hasn’t been enough time for the rapid changes we have undergone described as “natural selection” and there simply are no missing links in the fossil record between the alleged animals as predicted and expected by science. None will ever be found because the theory is wrong.
In each of these two examples some form of intelligence is demanded and therefore “intervened” with human evolution – hence, Intelligent Intervention.
. In my book I refer to this concept of God as “Universal Intelligence” or (UI) for short. My years of research have led me to see UI as a scientifically recognizable force of nature. I expect Universal Intelligence will ultimately be established as one of the eleven dimensions predicted by String Theory.
Universal Intelligence was present in the Singularity which preceded the Big Bang and is the matrix upon which everything in the visible-material universe we see around us is formed. How we visualize Universal Intelligence depends on the words we use to describe it and the mental images those words convey. Use the correct modern words and Universal Intelligence is a logical, reasonable concept, not supernatural as both religion and science choose to claim. They each maintain their dogma in opposition to the overwhelming evidence to the contrary … because it is politically expedient for both.
Panspermia
The most scientifically sensible explanation for the existence of life on Earth is Panspermia. Tiny, hibernating, biological microbes finding their way to Earth embedded in the debris from another part of our Galaxy and taking seed here. And/or early life may have been sent and planted by a space-probe when the Earth’s surface was appropriate to sustain it by advanced beings from a nearby star. If we make it through the next century or so, humankind will discover there are intelligent, biological, life-forms dispersed throughout the Universe, all being infused with UI. Everything that experiences biological life has a dilute amount of the same force UI is composed of. The specific amount is based on the level of accumulated knowledge and intellect our soul accrues through the experiences of many past bio-forms and lifetimes. From my research,
I have concluded that advanced aliens are most certainly the ones which correctly explains how man evolved from a hairy beast to being able to travel to the moon and make plans to terraform Mars. Ancient aliens are the missing link. There is an overwhelming amount of solid evidence becoming known which substantiates alien intervention on Earth during the last 200,000 years.
Sumarian writing held by Zecharia Sitchin
The evolution of modern people only could have occurred with help as science, logic and direct evidence shows us. When you get right down to it, there are only four possibilities that have ever been presented in all of human history which account for the impossibly rapid evolution of humanity over the last 200,000 years, and also explain the existence of the archeological anomalies which we find all over the planet. They are:
1) Religious Creation Theology (A supreme Almighty God did it all)
2) Mainstream Scientific Materialism (It all happened by accident, randomly)
3) The Atlantis Theory (An unknown ancient culture evolved to a technologically high state naturally through the processes described by evolution and Scientific Materialism in remote history, then mysteriously vanished from the planet.
‘According to Sumerian writing advanced humanoid aliens visited and colonized Earth in early history. They upgraded our human genome and eventually mentored early humanity, teaching us some advanced skills, and also intermarrying with us. Modern humans are their children. Thanks to Roger Thomas
Congress Discusses UFOs/UAPs
With June comes increasing temperatures, and things are really heating up in the UFO world. Last month we saw the first congressional hearing concerning UFOs—now called UAPs—in over 50 years. ‘After many years of being taboo, discussions regarding UAPs are becoming mainstream. The hearing held on May 17 was the first congressional hearing since a push by then-Congressman Gerald Ford led to an Air Force report and a 1968 congressional hearing. In advance of the hearing, we spoke with numerous congressional officials, including those on the congressional panel, providing them with information and answering any questions they might have on UAPs. As an organization, we have long investigated UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) sightings and have collected the critical data needed to educate the public on UAPs and their potential impact on society.
We applaud members of the United States House of Representatives and, specifically, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counter-proliferation (C-3) Subcommittee for holding a hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena. MUFON is dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs and UAPs in order to benefit humanity.
I am excited that Congress is taking this critical first step in disclosing what is known. Through our knowledge and database of sightings, we know that there are many unanswered questions. Averaging over 6,000 incoming reports per year, MUFON has been able to explain the preponderance of the sightings—although not all of them, of course. We hope that Congress and the Department of Defense continue to be transparent with the American people. We stand ready to assist the government in any capacity that will add to transparency and full disclosure. Thanks to MUFON.
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 aviators 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.
Special reports are: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and UFOs, Saturn’s Moon Titan Looks Like Earth, Possible Life on Titan, Astronaut Sheppard Golf’s on the Moon, Intelligent Intervention, Congress Discusses UFOs/UAPs, Strange Craft and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Belgium, Canada, France, Mexico, Romania, 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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Lights
Yumaon February 5, 2022, I stood outside my house to take a picture and did not see the UFO when picture was taken.
Note:One of the other lights in the photo could be Jupiter. I am not sure of the identity of the other light. I am not sure of the identity of the multiple lights highlighted in the above photo. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
California Object
Irvineon May 28, 2022. I am a 26-year-old male who frequently does CE5 with my six-year-old daughter who noticed there were two enormous, shaped discs hovering directly southeast. My daughter said, “They were here for us.” We observed them for eight minutes.
Colorado Light
Auroraon June 16, 2022, m y fiancé and I looked up and saw a little white orb bouncing around and blinking. I went through my photos finding some extremely fast-moving objects. I noticed an odd-looking shaped object just hovering with no sound, just lights.
Florida Disc
Fort Lauderdale on July 10, 2022, I was taking a picture of a cool cloud formation near my home. I did not see the object and saw it in the picture.
Illinois Object
Gurneeon June 26, 2022, at 3 pm I was driving down Rollins Road near the corner of 45 & 132 when I noticed a bright shiny object in the sky. After 5 minutes I pulled over and started shooting pics of it. It started to move very slowly to the Southwest and flew away
Indiana Object
Lafitte on June 30, 2022, I saw 4 to 6 blinking orbs traveling back and forth in the sky with all red lights. it had white lights at tip like headlights with a red tail following. A loud airplane came through the sky and the object flew under the plane
Kansas Lights
Lovewellon June 19, 2022, I went to night fish at Lovewell Lake at 1 am. I look up and there’s a cloud with a bright floodlight inside it lighting up the cloud as it flew south till it disappeared. We saw a spinning physical vehicle that went down into the water.
Montana Tic Tac
Lake Blaineon June 29, 2022, I was driving west on the valley floor on Foothill Road. I witnessed a bright light floating low in the sky, so I turned my car around and began filming. This light cruised silent over a few house tops, and over me.
New Jersey Lights
Columbiaon June 18, 2022, I was searching a field for four leaf clovers with my 9-year-old niece. She pointed up and said, “Uncle Scott what is that?”. I saw a red, Tic Tac shaped object hovering at 400 feet high. It was oriented vertically and spinning along its axis.
Ohio Light
Delawareon July 5, 2022, I found this craft in 20 meters of shallow water. I have been researching UFOs since I was a kid. I’m 54 years old now, but when in recess at school we walked into a field and my friend pointed at a small person whose eyes were huge, we took off running from a typical grey alien.
Pennsylvania Light
Philadelphiaon July 3, 2022, I was at the Phillies game taking random pictures during the game. I was looking through my pictures later and I saw the object light. The photo is time stamped at 9:50 pm. The fireworks show didn’t start until well after 10 pm.
Tennessee Lights
Guld on July 3, 2022, multiple TicTac shaped UFOs found in personal photograph of skyline over Tennessee river. This occurred just before the fireworks display on July 3rd, 2022. Also in the photograph are “black holes.”
Washington Lights
Marysvilleon June 30th, 2022, at 11 PM I was in my hot tub and saw 2 separate orange orbs traveling at different paces and both seeming to appear and disappear instantly. I have a 1-minute-long video attached. Both orbs traveled o south along the same flight path. Note: The witness could have seen Chinese Lanterns. The winds aloft were from the north suggesting that the orbs were drifting with the wind. The description, video and still images suggest that the orbs were Chinese Lanterns. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belgium Disc
April 25, 2014 – Disc shaped UFO filmed passing near a passenger plane over Belgium in an amazing video. It was filmed by Eric Giavedoni’s 300 mm lens and published on UFOvni2012’s YouTube channel.
Canada Object
Montréal on July 1, 2022, very black dot flying in a straight line. It was very dark and no other shape or light visible. Might have been a drone but unlikely.
France Object
Vilsberg on October 15, 2014, motorist independently of the first, reports driving into the town at 11:45 p.m. She saw lights and a circular shape which puzzled. Reporting the facts, the two motorists will come into contact.
Mexico Object
Playa Del Carmen Qroo on July 2, 2022, walking down Colosio Avenue, I realize that it is not a plane, or kite. I take a couple of photos and it moves very strangely after 30 minutes. It gets dark and lights start flashing when it suddenly disappears
Romania Lights
Bucharest on July 11, 2022, bright orb that kind of blinked, it was just silent, pure white, glowing, and an exceptionally smooth motion, with varying flying speed.
UK/England Orb
London on June 26, and July 10, 2022, orb was spotted above Brixton Hill.
Mexborough on June 16, 2022, some of the videos are zoomed in and slowed down to capture the object passing by. First video the object passes by too quickly for the naked eye
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UFO activity over Winter garden, Florida 11-Jun-2022
UFO activity over Winter garden, Florida 11-Jun-2022
This strange UFO lights were filmed in the sky above Winter Garden, a city 14 miles west of Downtown Orlando in the western part of Orange County, Florida.
Witness report:
I saw something weird hovering in a.straight path over some neighborhoods and I have never seen something like this before. I saw something very odd one night that I never seen before.and I recorded 2 videos of it.
The topic of underwater UFO bases is s a very large part of Ufology, We have seen numerous reports of how strange flying objects hid under water or appeared from the water. And if the aliens really have underwater bases on Earth, how long ago were they built?
Underwater UFO
It is likely that UFOs so often follow American warships for a reason – huge aircraft carriers themselves look formidable and impressive, and if they are also located near the alleged underwater UFO bases, then aliens have something to worry about.
Taking into account that UFO sightings by American sailors in most cases were made at those moments when aircraft carriers were on exercises near the coast of the United States, and according to numerous abductees, the UFO submarine bases where they were moved are not somewhere in the far part of the ocean, as well as not far from the coast, this theory has the right to exist.
Of course, there is information about the existence of probable UFO submarine bases in many places on our planet, but for some reason, there are especially many of them near the US coast. This may simply be a feature of the statistics because there are more American UFO researchers than ufologists from other countries, or maybe there is something else.
Underwater UFO Bases
If we assume that UFOs belong to beings that have been on Earth for many thousands, or even millions of years, then they were here long before the appearance of people and the ancestors of people, and, in this case, the development of mankind as a species took place before their eyes. And America is the last continent (not counting of course Antarctica), inhabited by people.
Thus, having moved their underwater bases to the shores of America in time, these creatures could observe people from a very convenient place for a long time, remaining as unnoticed as possible.
An interview with American ufologist Anna Whitty was recently published in the British tabloid Daily Star in connection with the release of a new documentary on the Roswell incident, “Roswell 75: The Last Evidence” (premiered July 7 on BLAZE). And Whitty stated that aliens are possibly an “advanced form of humans” that hail from Earth and have “always been here” living underwater.
Anna Whitty
According to Whitty, she studied the testimony of nurse Shirley Wright in great detail, who allegedly accompanied Albert Einstein to a military base, where they were both shown the bodies of dead aliens (and one survivor) from a ship that crashed in 1947 near Roswell in New Mexico. We previously published an article about this curious story.
Whitty says that Shirley was able to communicate with the surviving creature because they understood and could speak English. And at some point, this creature very interestedly asked Shirley abouthow far people “penetrated into the ocean”.
“If what Shirley said is true, then these ‘aliens’ are probably not visiting us from another planet, but from somewhere deep in the water,” says Whitty.
Whitty also believes that these creatures are actually not aliens at all, but appeared on Earth as a human race and at some point simply went underwater in order to hide or protect themselves from something.
Illustration of underwater alien beings
According to Whitty, they may have been fleeing the inevitable cataclysms that begin to haunt the developed civilization of people at a certain moment in the development of their society and “throwback” them into the “Stone Age”.
Whitty believes that having gone underwater in time and radically changed their lifestyle, these creatures were able to avoid such a fate, which is why they are now far ahead of us in technology, and maybe even in the capabilities of their body and mind.
“It is also possible that they are not at all what they seem to us, but they can make you think that you are seeing something that is not reality.”
As to why these creatures are now chasing people, Whitty thinks they want to change something in our behavior and help our development, perhaps so that we can avoid that very crisis that made them go underwater
According to an article published by International business times, it is believed by the alien and UFO conspiracy theorists that the U.S Government is conducting top-secret alien technology reverse-engineering research at multiple subterranean alien-government complexes.
dvanced Technology
According to conspiracy theorists, the testimony of whistleblowers suggests that the government is concealing the truth concerning contact with extraterrestrial species and exposure to advanced alien technology. It has been claimed by numerous whistleblowers have claimed that they have formerly served as government scientists and engineering contractors in subterranean alien-government research sites, such as the top-secret Area 51 military facility in the Nevada desert.
Believing the conspiracy theorists, it can be said that the crashed UFOs that have been found from the sites are housed in top-secret government facilities such as Area 51 and the Dulce subterranean facility.
Presence of Alien tech on Earth
Former Area 51 Engineer Bill Uhouse On Working With An Extraterrestrial Named J-ROD
Conspiracy theorists claim the accounts of many whistleblowers as evidence of continuous reverse engineering of extraterrestrial propulsion technology at Area 51. One such man is Bill Uhouse, who is around 70 years of age and has claimed thathe worked from 1966 through 1979 as an engineer at the top-secret Area 51 facility in collaboration with a Grey alien.
This is believed to be a real photograph of an alien named J-ROD kept at Area 51.
According to Uhouse, who died in 2009, he worked in Area 51 as a mechanical engineer with a Grey extraterrestrial known as “J-Rod.” It has been asserted by him that he collaborated with “J-Rod” to produce a flight simulator for the training of Air Force pilots who were supposed to fly superior USAF stealth reconnaissance planes created by reverse engineering studies of extraterrestrial UFOs.
According to Uhouse, he connected with “J-Rod” using a modified Grey extraterrestrial technology for human use. Thetechnology enabled human scientists and engineers to connect with Grey aliens through telepathy with the help of a complex translation program.
Bill Uhouse claims that “J-Rod” taught people at the facility how to operate an extraterrestrial spaceship. It is said that there are distinct species of the Grey aliens, and they consist of Tall Greys, Short Greys, and Greys of equal size to humans. However, it is unknown which of the three main Grey races “J-rod” belonged to.
Uhouse said that aliens and humans were doing reverse-engineering studies at a number of enormous subterranean complexes around the nation. The Area 51 research facility and the Dulce subterranean research facility are among the most well-known sites.
It is commonly thought that the Dulce alien-government subterranean complex, situated under the Archuleta Mesa near Dulce in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, is significantly bigger and more substantial than Area 51.
Allegedly, the buildings were built with the purpose of accommodating Grey, reptilian, and tall white extraterrestrial alien-human hybrids under the tenure of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, it is thought that the building of the alien-government facilities started.
The agreement with the Greys and the Reptilians stipulated that the government would let the aliens construct subterranean research centers where alien scientists would undertake bio-genetic research to create superior alien-human hybrids.
In order to assist the supposed bio-genetic research program, the U.S. government authorized the aliens to abduct a restricted number of humans for use as test subjects. The aliens promised to provide the U.S. government with access to their superior technologies, particularly aircraft technology.
UFO conspiracy theorists claim that the majority of alien abductions involve Greys and Reptilians conducting bio-genetic experiments on people in a Nazi-style endeavor to create human-alien hybrids. The U.S. authorities are aware that the extraterrestrials are breaching the provisions of treaties made in the 1950s, but the government is unable to stop the violations.
The subterranean facilities include expansive labs and engineering workshops. In these labs, the captive extraterrestrials and kidnapped humans are treated as Guinea Pigs.
According to Uhouse, there may be hundreds or thousands of Grey aliens working on advanced technologies for the Pentagon as part of their attempts to uphold their agreement with the United States government.
What do you think about such claims? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Two Spacecraft Could Work Together to Capture an Asteroid and Bring it Close to Earth for Mining
Two Spacecraft Could Work Together to Capture an Asteroid and Bring it Close to Earth for Mining
Humanity seems destined to expand into the Solar System. What exactly that looks like, and how difficult and tumultuous the endeavour might be, is wide open to speculation. But there are some undeniable facts attached to the prospect.
We need materials to build infrastructure, and getting it all into space from Earth is not realistic. (Be quiet, space elevator people.)
Asteroid mining is one of those things that’s been talked about for decades but hasn’t happened. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen; in fact, we’ll have to use resources that are already in space if we want to establish a real presence anywhere other than Earth.
Google Ngram viewer shows how often a word or phrase was used in published works. The first asteroid was discovered in 1801, and “asteroid mining” started appearing shortly after WW2. Almost everybody’s heard of it now. Image Credit: Google Ngram.
There are enormous resources available in asteroids, especially in the Main Asteroid Belt. But Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) also hold vast quantities of water, metals, and volatiles. There are more than 26,000 NEAs, and they could play a key role in humanity’s space-faring future. The problem is, even though they’re termed Near Earth Asteroids, they’re not that accessible. So lots of the talk around asteroid mining involves moving asteroids into more advantageous and accessible orbits.
We’ve learned a lot about the asteroid population in recent decades, especially in the last two decades. In fact, in 2005, Congress asked NASA to catalogue dangerous objects and to find at least 90 percent of potentially hazardous NEOs sized 140 meters or larger by the end of 2020.
We’ve also come to understand asteroid composition better, and scientists have categorized asteroids into types based on composition. The three types are C-Type, M-Type, and S-Type, meaning carbonaceous, metallic, and silicaceous. They’re also grouped by their orbits, and by families, with each member of a family coming from the same parent body.
We’ve also sent spacecraft to study and sample asteroids, which is akin to prospecting here on Earth, though the sampling is aimed more at science than at resource exploitation. JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA have both launched successful asteroid sample return missions. JAXA has returned samples to Earth, and the sample from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is on its way.
So we understand asteroids’ composition and their orbits, and we’ll continue to catalogue them and study them. We’ll probably continue to sample them, and NASA has taken its first tentative steps in changing an asteroid’s path by redirecting one with a kinetic impact. It seems certain that we’ll want to bring one closer to Earth and use its resources for our needs.
A new study suggests a unique way of shifting asteroids around and moving them into more advantageous orbits. The title is “A multiple-vehicle strategy for near-Earth asteroid capture,” and it’s published in the journal Acta Astronautica. The lead author is Livia Ionescu from the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow.
The study shows how two separate spacecraft could work together to move an asteroid closer to Earth, where its resources can be extracted. One of the spacecraft acts as a pitcher, and one acts as a catcher. “These spacecraft act together as a ‘pitcher’ spacecraft and ‘catcher’ spacecraft, where the pitcher spacecraft hops from asteroid to asteroid and deflects them towards an orbit in the vicinity of Earth, while the catcher spacecraft is stationed at the Earth and captures the incoming asteroids,” the authors write.
In their paper, the authors compare their two-spacecraft proposal to other proposed methods using a single spacecraft. According to them, their method is superior.
One of the strengths of their proposal is the lack of round trips. The pitcher spacecraft needn’t return to Earth each time. A single pitcher spacecraft could nudge successive asteroids toward the catcher spacecraft. After nudging an asteroid, the pitcher could reposition itself for the next nudge.
This schematic from the study shows the trajectories of single-spacecraft redirection (a) and dual-spacecraft redirection (b.) Note that b doesn’t show the pitcher spacecraft’s initial journey from Earth to the target asteroid. Image Credit: Ionescu et al. 2022
The team’s analysis shows that their dual-spacecraft method is superior. “Results show that the two-spacecraft strategy is capable of returning more asteroid mass and often at a lower mission duration,” they write. Of course, it’s not quite that simple.
The team analyzed their proposal in three ways. They looked at asteroids following co-planar orbits and circular orbits, they analyzed a set of fictional near-Earth asteroids to create a large data set, and they analyzed some real asteroids as mission targets.
Then the team examined two scenarios to compare single-spacecraft missions with two-spacecraft missions. Each scenario is considered in terms of Delta V. Delta V measures how much acceleration is required to move an object, in this case spacecraft and asteroids. Delta V is the heart of the issue, but so is the amount of mass returned.
The team found that their method uses more Delta V than single-spacecraft methods. But their method returns more mass than single-spacecraft methods because the pitcher doesn’t return to Earth’s neighbourhood. In all cases, the target asteroid is placed in Earth’s heliocentric orbit.
“The analysis showed that the two-spacecraft strategy does not impact the required Delta V in a beneficial manner,” the paper states. “However, the aim of an asteroid capture mission is to retrieve useful mass to the vicinity of the Earth.”
This schematic from the paper shows the Delta Vs for a single-spacecraft (a) and two-spacecraft (b) capture of a single asteroid. There’s no Delta V advantage for the two-spacecraft method, but that method returns more mass. Image Credit: Ionescu et al. 2022
But the results presented so far are based on asteroids that have the same mass and that have fairly simple orbits. That, of course, isn’t realistic, so the team dug deeper.
The deeper analysis looked at artificially-generated NEAs with random but realistic elements to their orbits. “Therefore, in this section, the orbital elements of the asteroids will be randomly generated within specified ranges in order to generate statistical data on the relative performance of the one-spacecraft and two-spacecraft strategies,” the authors write.
In this deeper analysis, the mission architectures remain the same. In the single-spacecraft model, the spacecraft travels to an asteroid, brings it to a heliocentric orbit, then travels to the next asteroid. In the two-spacecraft model, the pitcher moves from asteroid to asteroid while the catcher remains in an Earth heliocentric orbit. In their analysis, each mission visits the same asteroids in the same order, but in real mission planning, that may not be the case.
The researchers found a clear correlation in the single spacecraft scenario. Higher ?V resulted in lower returned mass.
This figure from the study plots Delta V and returned mass for single spacecraft missions, double spacecraft missions, and for pitcher and catcher spacecraft in the double spacecraft missions. Image Credit: Ionescu et al. 2022
The team ran thousands of simulations. In their simulations, the semi-major axes of the asteroids play a key role. The team found that the further away the semi-major axis is from one astronomical unit (AU), the lower the returned mass is.
The paper is full of detail that can’t all be explained here. Overall, it shows that the two-spacecraft mission has some advantages. But that’s only when asteroids are brought to Earth’s heliocentric orbit.
But as we’ve written about here at Universe Today, it may not be necessary to bring asteroids close to Earth. Maybe Mars orbit is a better location.
The paper also doesn’t explore spacecraft design, although the authors acknowledge that if two spacecraft need to be developed, designed, and built, it increases mission complexity. And increased complexity means increased costs. But for the researchers, two things are clear: “The advantages of the two-spacecraft strategy are a higher quantity of retrieved mass and a shorter mission duration. Both imply a potential increase in revenue.”
Of course, any real benefits will depend on individual missions and the orbits and masses of individual asteroids. “Thus, the two-spacecraft has the potential to deliver a higher mass within a lower amount of time, but it still remains dependent on the targeted asteroids and launch date, such that a case-by-case analysis is necessary,” they write.
When the team looked at three specific asteroid missions with each mission architecture, the two-spacecraft advantage was clear. “Two mission cases have been presented with three target asteroids, where the two-spacecraft strategy is able to return approximately 1.5 times its initial mass, while the one-spacecraft strategy is only capable of bringing less than its initial mass.”
The authors don’t speculate much beyond their results. But they do point out that it might be possible for two or more pitcher spacecraft to service a single catcher. The two spacecraft mission is already more complicated than the single spacecraft mission because the pair of spacecraft have to be closely coordinated. Adding additional pitchers would only increase the complexity.
Asteroid mining is a ways off in the future, though, if it ever happens. For now, we’re building a more accurate and complete catalogue of asteroids, we’re bringing asteroid samples back to Earth for analysis, and we’re testing kinetic impactors to influence asteroid orbits.
Hey I first found this back in 2011 and had very few readers and Youtube subscribers, but decided to make it again in HD so that all you good folks can take a look. The object is in the far left of the panoramic photos and clearly shows a glowing energy cloud that shape-shifts from a rectangle to a three clover craft.
It's easy to dismiss a photo or even two of a UFO in the NASA index, but how easy do you think it is to dismiss 458 consecutive photos? Because thats how many this UFO appears in. Of those photos 40 are incredibly detailed.
The UFO positioned itself between the moon and the lunar module...just a bit ahead of it to make sure it was seen by the astronauts. I bet they saw this but kept their mouths shut due to NASA being a stickler about hiding these things.
100% proof...times 458...equals 45,800% proof that this is an alien spaceship.
1965 Interview: Pioneer aviator on witnessing a 'Tic Tac' UFO during his 1931 flight from New Zealand to Australia
1965 Interview: Pioneer aviator on witnessing a 'Tic Tac' UFO during his 1931 flight from New Zealand to Australia
Sir Francis Chichester in an interview from 1965: "It was a perfect shape, it was... shaped sort of more like a pearl... with a tail. And I watched this thing and suddenly it disappeared. And I was... I thought well am I seeing things? I had a very grueling flight. I had been waiting for... I had engine trouble, and I had been waiting for hours expecting to go in to the sea you know."
However suddenly this thing reappeared coming towards me. Well I'm not going to let it go this time! I kept my look fixed on it and it [was] approaching fairly fast, and suddenly, gradually rather, it began to thin out and it vanished in front of me...
It came on, but instead of increasing in size, it diminished as it approached", he said. Did he see something from another world, or was it some peculiar kind of mirage on the horizon? Alas we will likely never know how far he was from land, and how high or close the thing was from the horizon."
From his book "The Lonely Sea and the Sky":
"Round the storm we flew into calm air under a weak lazy sun. I took out the sextant and got two shoots. It took me thirty minutes to work them out, for the engine kept back firing, and my attention wandered every time it did...
Suddenly, ahead and thirty degrees to the left, there were bright flashes in several places, like the dazzle of a heliograph. I saw a dull grey-white airship coming towards me. It seemed impossible, but I could have sworn that it was an airship, nosing towards me like an oblong pearl. Except for a cloud or two, there was nothing else in the sky.
I looked around, sometimes catching a flash or a glint, and turning again to look at the airship I found it had disappeared. I screwed up my eyes, unable to believe them, and twisted the seaplane this way and that, thinking that the airship must be hidden by a blind spot. Dazzling flashes continued in four or five different places, but I could not pick out any planes.
Then, out of some clouds to my right front, I saw another, or the same, airship advancing. I watched it intently, determined not to look away for a fraction of a second: I'd see what happened to this one, if I had to chase it. It drew steadily closer, until perhaps a mile away, when suddenly it vanished. Then it reappeared, close to where it had vanished: I watched with angry intentness. It drew closer, and I could see the dull gleam of light on its nose and back. It came on, but instead of increasing in size, it diminished as it approached. When quite near, it suddenly became its own ghost - one second I could see through it, and the next it had vanished. I decided that it could only be a diminutive cloud, perfectly shaped like an airship and then dissolving, but it was uncanny that it should exactly resume the same shape after it once vanished.
I turned towards the flashes, but those too had vanished. All this was many years before anyone spoke of flying saucers. Whatever it was I saw, it seems to have been very much like what people have since claimed to be flying saucers."
THE MAN WHO SAW ALIEN BASES ON THE MOON | The Amazing True Story of Ingo Swann
THE MAN WHO SAW ALIEN BASES ON THE MOON | The Amazing True Story of Ingo Swann
THE MAN WHO SAW ALIEN BASES ON THE MOON
Ingo Swann claimed to be a psychic who was employed by the CIA to remote-view the dark side of the moon. Specifically to look for an alien presence. It sounded like science fiction. But in 2006, when the CIA started releasing documents on the Stargate Project, Swann’s participation in the program was confirmed. When Swann was asked about the existence of extraterrestrials, he said not only were they already here, but they *are* building something on the far side of the moon. And, according to Swann, these aliens — aren’t friendly. Let’s find out why.
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Cash-Landrum UFO Incident 1980: A Diamond Shaped UFO, Military Helicopters & Long Term Illnesses
Cash-Landrum UFO Incident 1980: A Diamond Shaped UFO, Military Helicopters & Long Term Illnesses
In 1980, close to Huffman, Texas, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and 7-year-old Colby Landrum came into contact with a UFO that they claimed was surrounded by a group of military-style helicopters. Following the incident, all three were subjected to various health conditions.
The Cash-Landrum UFO incident remains unresolved to this day
On the evening of December 29, 1980, near Huffman, Texas, three occupants of a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass witnessed an astounding sight. Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie's seven-year-old grandson, Colby, on their way home to Dayton were driving through the southern tip of the East Texas piney woods when they noticed a large light above the trees in the distance.
The light was briefly lost to view, but they saw it again, when after rounding a curve they found themselves on a straight stretch of two-lane road on Highway FM 1485. This time it was approaching them, floating above the road at less than treetop height and belching flames from its bottom. Cash and the Landrum's were only about 130 feet from the object.
Getting away from the UFO was impossible because the road they were on was that narrow and the ground surrounding the road was soggy and damp. Betty Cash was driving, and she knew if she attempted to turn around the car would get stuck. Betty stopped the car and both she and Vickie stepped outside, the frantic screaming of young Colby soon brought the women back towards the car.
The UFO, a dull metallic silver in colour and shaped like a huge, upright diamond, with the top and bottom cut off so that they were flat rather than pointed. The women claimed that small blue lights ringed the centre of the object, while periodically over the next several minutes, flames would shoot out of the bottom in an outwards manner, creating a cone effect.
All the while the witnesses felt their faces burning. The car was too hot to touch. At one point Vickie Landrum, leaning out the front window, steadied herself by putting her hands on the dashboard, only to find it molded to the shape of her fingers. (The imprints were still there when John Schuessler of the Mutual UFO Networth - MUFON - examined the car.) A few minutes later, when Cash tried to get back into the car, the doorhandle burned her fingers.
With a final blast of fire and heat, the UFO ascended slowly into the sky. But just as it was clearing the treetops, helicopters flew in from all directions. The helicopters and the UFO were then lost to view. The three resumed their journey. They passed along another long curve in the road and in five minutes arrived at the intersection of FM 1485 and FM 2100, where they saw the UFO and the helicopters again. Cash counted 23 helicopters, all clearly visible because the light from the diamond-shaped object was reflecting off them. Many of the aircraft were subsequently identified as large, double-rotor Boeing CH-47 Chinooks, a kind used by the Army and the Marines.
Boeing CH-47 Chinook as described in the UFO encounter
Cash drove on, the diamond UFO and the helicopters still in front of her, until she came to a road that would take them to Dayton. Even then she could see the object in the rearview mirror for the next few minutes. The whole incident lasted a total of 20 minutes.
Sickness That Followed
Cash dropped the Landrums off at their house and proceeded on to her own. Once home she sat in a chair and waited for the sick feeling to pass, but the headache and nausea would not go away, and large knots formed on her neck and scalp. Soon they became blisters. Meanwhile, her skin was reddening, and her eyes swelled. She threw up repeatedly and experienced severe diarrhea.
The Landrum's were suffering similar distress, though not quite so intensely. Their skin looked and felt badly sunburned, but their stomachs were upset.
The three witnesses to the Cash-Landrum UFO encounter
By morning, friends feared Cash was near death. She had lapsed into near unconsciousness. Cash had previous heart problems in the past but now was too groggy to identify her cardiologist; her friends were forced to call unknown physicians. Those they could reach during the holiday period would not take on an unfamiliar patient with a history of cardiac disorder and, moreover, with a crazy story about having been injured by a UFO.
Knowing nothing else to do, the friends brought Cash to Vickie Landrum's house. Landrum attempted to feed Cash, but she rejected food and water and grew ever weaker. Finally, Landrum persuaded a local pharmacist to look through his prescription records for the name of Cash's cardiologist. As soon as he had it, Landrum phoned and was instructed to take Cash to the Parkway Hospital emergency room.
Betty Cash was taken into the hospital on January 3, 1981. She could not walk and lost large patches of skin and clumps of hair. She was released after 12 days, though her condition was not much better, and she later returned to the hospital for another 15 days. The Landrum's improved slightly, though the sores on their skin and the damage to their eyes persisted. Vickie suffered periodic sickness for the next few years, and her eyesight never entirely recovered. Colby had problems with chronic illness, sores, and hair loss.
A radiologist who reviewed the victims' medical records for MUFON concluded, "We have strong evidence that these patients have suffered damage secondary to ionizing radiation. It is also possible that there was an infrared or ultraviolet component as well."
Investigation Into The UFO Encounter
Ufologists learned of the case when the witnesses reported it to a NASA representative in Houston. He suggested they talk with John Schuessler, an aerospace engineer and NASA supervisor with a longstanding interest in UFOs. Schuessler and some MUFON colleagues then interviewed other witnesses, some of whom had seen the UFO and the helicopters for as long as an hour and a half. They also sought the source of the helicopters. The Fund for UFO Research commissioned Allan Hendry, one of ufology's most trusted investigators, to find out where the aircraft had come from. No airport, civilian or military, would own up to a knowledge of the helicopters.
Cash and Landrum began a long, frustrating campaign to get answers from government agencies. Eventually, their senators, John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen, talked with representatives of the Department of Defense. They urged Cash and Landrum to take their complaints to the Judge Advocate Claims Officer at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin. In August 1981 they met with Air Force Lawyers at Bergstrom. They were told that if they could find a lawyer willing to represent them, they should file a claim with the US government for compensation for their injuries. The case worked its way through military and federal courts over the next few years, but the witnesses and their attorney could not prove that either the diamond-shaped object or the helicopters were official property. On August 21, 1986, the US District Court judge dismissed the case.
The only known official investigation of any significance was conducted by lieutenant Colonel George Sarran, whom the Department of the Army Inspector General (DAIG) directed to look into the case in 1982. Sarran concluded:
"Ms Landrum and Ms Cash were credible... The policeman and his wife (who had reported seeing 12 Chinook helicopters in the Huffman area on the night of the incident) were also credible witnesses. There was no perception that anyone was trying to exaggerate the truth. All interviewees were extremely cooperative and eager to be helpful in any manner. Through the course of inquiry, the DAIG investigator tried to concentrate on any reason or anyone or any organization which might have been flying helicopters that particular evening in that general area. There was no evidence presented that would indicate that Army, National Guard, or Army Reserve helicopters were involved. "
Meanwhile, according to Schuessler:
"Betty Cash has been hospitalized at least 25 times and had had two operations for cancer (after having shown no previous signs of it). She has had blood problems and trouble with her eyesight. Her hair has regrown, though in a different texture, but she is still very weak and has to spend a good deal of time in bed."
The Cash-Landrum UFO encounter is another fascinating example of aerial phenomena that has been accompanied by both government and military denial, despite witnesses watching their involvement with their own eyes.
An unidentified flying object, as seen by a U.S. Navy jet.
(Image credit: U.S. Navy)
In early June, NASA announced that it's commissioning an independent study on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), as UFOs have recently been rebranded.
"NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also," Zurbuchen said in a statement(opens in new tab). "We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That's the very definition of what science is. That's what we do."
The UAP study team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, previously the chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University.
"Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can," Spergel said in the NASA statement. "We will be identifying what data — from civilians, government, non-profits, companies — exists, what else we should try to collect and how to best analyze it."
Space.com reached out to a number of UAP and UFO (unidentified flying object) groups and leading experts in the field to get their thoughts on NASA's new endeavor.
NASA should be congratulated for its willingness to investigate UAP, said Robert Powell, executive board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies.
"During their press conference, it was clear that they would provide an exemplary approach to the subject by combining scientific rigor, transparency and a fundamental curiosity about this longstanding mystery," Powell said. "All scientists interested in the study of these phenomena should welcome NASA's entry into the arena as an indication that the time has come for the scientific community to openly examine this subject, and it is hoped that Congress will appropriate funding to open the study of this enigma to all of academia."
Powell said that the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies would urge NASA to tap into the background knowledge that has already been obtained by other science organizations and become familiar with "the pitfalls and successes in the study of this subject." This will enable more rapid scrutiny of UAP development areas that need expanded scientific involvement, he said.
"In order to facilitate a rapid acquirement of known data, the new NASA UAP group should consider identifying an individual that can coordinate data and information sharing with established UAP organizations," Powell said. "This will help avoid duplication of efforts."
Win-win development
Also welcoming NASA's new study is Avi Loeb, head of Harvard's Galileo Project, a systematic scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts.
The Galileo Project is currently assembling its first telescope system on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory, planning an expedition to retrieve fragments from the first known interstellar meteor, studying satellite data on UAP and designing a space mission to rendezvous with the next anomalous ('Oumuamua-like) interstellar object that zooms into our solar system.
Overall, this outcome is gratifying and represents a "win-win" development, Loeb said. "The Galileo Project is now likely to receive a boost to its funding from wealthy individuals and foundations with which I am in close contact," he wrote in the essay. "But most importantly, the Project's scientific mission narrative is now echoed within the government. It does not matter who tells the truth as long as it is being told."
Work is underway atop the Harvard College Observatory to keep an eye on the unknown, as part of the Galileo Project. (Image credit: Galileo Project/Avi Loeb)
Fishing expedition
Loeb said that it's wonderful that NASA will be engaged in trying to unravel the mysterious nature of UAP. He tags this quest as a "fishing expedition," one that will end up with a mixed bag of natural and human-made objects.
"But even if we have high-quality data on just a single object that demonstrates something else, such as an extraterrestrial technological origin, it would represent the most important discovery in human history," Loeb told The Jerusalem Post recently(opens in new tab).
Loeb said he would be delighted to provide any input that could help NASA's study, "because it shares the intellectual DNA of the Galileo Project," he wrote in the essay. "Government agencies and academia should be working together towards the collection of new evidence-based knowledge on UAP."
Open mindedness applies also to scientific research, Loeb said. "We should explore the unknown by seeking evidence agnostically and not assuming what we might find. Gladly, we now know that both the Galileo Project and NASA agree on following this principle."
A seemingly metallic object can be seen as a tiny blip in split-second footage taken from a U.S. Navy pilot's cockpit. (Image credit: Department of Defense)
UAP are best investigated openly, Rodeghier said, "both because this will allow a range of qualified researchers to be involved, but also because this will permit the results of the investigation to be shared with the public."
The military has advanced sensor capabilities, and that may be crucial for gathering critical data on the phenomenon, said Rodeghier. "But I have concern that findings will, as a matter of course, not be shared with the public. Those of us who have been advocating for years that more resources be devoted to studying UAP have always recommended that this be done openly and transparently."
Rodeghier said that, at this stage, NASA is conducting reconnaissance to learn what data are available and how best to study the phenomenon — which is exactly the right start — and he is not concerned about coordination with the military.
"Down the road, there could be potential for overlap and redundancy in the two efforts, but science is normally best done with multiple research groups working on the same problem, and UAPs are no different," Rodeghier told Space.com. "I do hope that NASA reaches out to the serious UFO community, because we can advise them on data and data-quality issues that we understand from long experience. Our involvement will make their study more robust and comprehensive."
"I think it's great that NASA, the U.S. Navy, and other organizations are starting to take the UFO question seriously. However, I find it strange that the U.S. Air Force, which has been openly investigating this phenomenon since the 1940s(opens in new tab), is completely quiet on the issue in modern times," said Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University.
In his new book, "The Extratempestrial Model" (Full Circle Press, 2022), Masters makes the case that UFOs and aliens are our future human descendants, coming back through time to visit and study their own evolutionary past.
Masters spotlights a number of case studies of close encounters. It seems that whenever a case involved military personnel specifically, he said, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations was all over it. "Why are they so quiet now? Why aren't these offices talking to each other and sharing information and data they've collected across multiple decades?"
Stigma has lifted
"I think NASA's involvement is extremely significant," said investigative journalist Leslie Kean, author of The New York Times bestseller "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" (Harmony Books, 2010).
"We have to remember that when Jimmy Carter was president, he asked NASA to conduct just the sort of assessment that the agency is undertaking now. NASA said no to the president of the United States. Now, NASA has initiated data gathering on its own. Clearly the stigma has lifted. We are living in a different world with respect to UAP," Kean said.
At this stage, NASA's task is simply to gather data, Kean said — to find out what data researchers have, what more they should collect and then determine how to analyze it.
"So we may not be given any major revelations in the near term," she added. "However, this is clearly the first step. And what's really important is that they are looking for data from civilians as well as from government. They will not be working with classified data and will make everything transparent to the public. This should stimulate additional scientific investigation, and it will greatly help lift the stigma even further within the scientific community."
NASA's UAP look-see should help groups like the Galileo Project, and hopefully data can be shared between those two organizations, said Kean. "I hope NASA accesses data from space. If we can document the existence of UAP in space, then we really have something."
Energy, experience and expertise
Kevin Knuth is an associate professor of physics at the University at Albany (State University of New York). He is an active UAP researcher.
"Given that pilots have been, and still are, reluctant to come forward regarding encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena, one must seriously ask whether NASA astronauts have seen significant unidentified phenomena in space," Knuth said. "I would hope that the NASA UAP investigation interviews NASA astronauts to determine what may have been witnessed in space. Perhaps there will also be interviews of former or current cosmonauts?"
Given that civilian organizations are becoming more active in space, there is the potential for a new safety issue involving UAPs, said Knuth. "Does NASA plan to require astronauts to report encounters with unknown objects in space like the U.S. Navy now does?"
Knuth points out that there are a number of former and current NASA scientists actively working to study UAPs via several research groups, including Loeb's Galileo Project. "I would hope that the NASA study team takes advantage of their energy, experience and expertise on the topic," Knuth said.
Not everyone is enthusiastic about the NASA UAP effort.
"NASA says that they are establishing an independent group of investigators to look into UAP reports, but it's difficult to see why this is expected to accomplish anything," said Robert Sheaffer, a leading skeptical investigator of UFOs.
For 75 years there have been plenty of people looking into UFO/UAP claims, some of them very educated, and still no solid findings have emerged, Sheaffer said. "So what does NASA bring to the table that wasn't there before? Do people really think that no astronomers or physicists have ever investigated UFO reports until now?"
Sheaffer pointed out that NASA's budget for its UAP appraisal is a modest $100,000, "which in the overheated world of government contracts won't even pay for a single full-time researcher for one year."
By contrast, from 2008 to 2011, the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program gave $22 million to the Nevada-based company Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies to investigate UAPs and their allegedly "collocating" weirdnesses, Sheaffer said.
"It ended up with reports of poltergeists, paranormal wolf-like creatures and malevolent blue orbs attacking people, but they still learned nothing about the nature of UAPs," he said. "The Department of Defense refused to appropriate any money after that."
Sheaffer senses that the problem is not that there is too much data to analyze; rather, there are only anecdotal reports, blurry photos and other shaky information.
"Those who are familiar with the history of 75 years of UFO reports understand the perils of taking eyewitness reports at face value, a lesson that government investigators of high strangeness apparently have yet to learn," Sheaffer said.
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According to UFO expert Jerome Clark, one of the most remarkable encounters with the third kind happened on September 16, 1994, at the Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe. 62 students, whose average age was 10, saw mysterious objects in the sky at 10:15 local time. They later described them as round structures with a metal surface and red lights. Their lights were flashing. The UFOs seemed to dissolve several times, and then reappear in another place.
One of the three UFOs began to descend at a leisurely pace and finally landed on the ground behind trees, 100 meters from the school. This incident frightened the children and they called the teachers. Just at the time of theUFO landing, all the teachers of the school were attending a meeting and did not immediately take the children’s cries seriously.
As the students later said, they ran to the landing site in front of the Ariel school and saw a bunch of light hovering or standing on the ground behind a small grove. This light turned out to be a giant round UFO with a metallic surface. Some children claimed to have seen humanoid figures standing near the flying object.
The site of the alleged Ariel UFO landing on September 16, 1994. Credit: Gunter Hofer via Dailymail
According to the children, the humanoids were short, wore black overalls, and had a pale complexion. Their eyes were oval and black (similar to the descriptions of Greys). The schoolchildren described the hair of aliens as long and black. The aliens reportedly did not speak.
However, several children claimed to have heard fragmentary phrases that dealt with the topic of environmental pollution on Earth. Most of the students at Ariel Elementary School got scared and ran back to the school to tell the teachers about their encounter. The teachers confirmed that there was a panic among the children.
Just a few minutes after the landing in the field of the Ariel school, the UFO took off again. The teachers also approached the object’s landing site but found no trace of the flying saucer there. The stories of the schoolchildren differed in some details regarding the UFO itself, the aliens, and the sequence of events.
Dedicated Investigation
Four days after the incident, local reporter Cynthia Hind analyzed it by first having the students writing down their impressions on paper and then asking them what exactly had happened there. In addition, Hind conducted interviews with the teachers and parents of schoolchildren.
The journalist believed that the children were telling the truth, although their stories sounded bizarre. Hind, who died in 2000, had publicly acknowledged her own experiences with otherwordly beings in the past, and had dedicated a decade and a half of her life to investigating UFO sightings on the African continent on behalf of the Mutual UFO Network, and then publishing her findings in the very collectible newsletter, UFO Afrinews.
“I had brought along a printout of Issue 11, which I opened on the bar counter before Sarah on Hind’s article “UFO flap in Zimbabwe: Case No 95”. It begins: “Wednesday, 14th September 1994, was an exciting night for Southern Africa. Roundabout 20:50 to 21:05 hours, a pyrotechnic display of some magnificence appeared in the almost clear night skies of this part of the continent.”
Some thought that the figures were Zvikwambo (spirits of humans, raised by magic) or tokoloshe (evil goblin creatures of Shona and Ndebele folklore). Hind believed these different interpretations, accompanied by similar drawings and descriptions, gave more credibility to the idea that the children had all seen a similar event.
She also believed that the kids would not have had access to the media about UFOs which could have tainted their testimony or planted similar images in their imaginations, telling the TV show Sightings “a lot of these children don’t go to the movies. They live in the country. Parents are farmers”. The argument that if they had not encountered these images before and then described something similar gives more credibility to their alien encounter being real.
Two months later, in November 1994, Dr. John E. Mack, a Pulitzer prize-winning author (awarded for his 1977 study of Lawrence of Arabia, A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of TE Lawrence) and a professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School performed his analysis, which lasted for 48 hours. And, based on the results of the interviews, he came to the conclusion that the students had really experienced the event and perceived it exactly as they described it.
“It looked like it was glinting in the trees. It looked like a disc. Like a round disc,” one child witness told the BBC a few days after the incident. “I saw something silver on the ground amongst the trees. And a person in black,” another child said.
Mack has recently been investigated by Harvard for giving credence to the idea of the witnesses who had “reported a ‘close encounter’ with an Extraterrestrial life form that this experience might well have been real.”
In 2008, the documentary “Ariel Phenomenon,” directed by Randall Nickerson, was released. He interviewed many former students who witnessed the visit of aliens near the Ariel school, and they all insisted that everything happened exactly as they described it.
Based on the descriptions of the students who witnessed the incident near the Ariel School, the humanoid alien figures are very similar to typical Greys. At the same time, one detail differs from the classic image of the grey: the creatures that were seen near the Ariel school in Zimbabwe had long black hair on their heads.
One student drew a picture of an alien that allegedly came out of the UFO in front of the group of school children
UFO sketch by Ariel school children
UFO sketch by Ariel school children
UFO sketch by Ariel school children
Nickerson believes he himself is a victim of UFO abduction, suggesting it on The Oprah Winfrey Show. This will lead some to believe that his work is biased to reinforce his own preconceptions of what UFOs might be.
New Photographs
Recently, Dailymail has published photographs of wedge-shaped impressions in the “rock-hard” soil and an oval indentation in the long grass allegedly left by the craft on the ground. Photographer Gunter Hofer was one of the first on the scene to document what happened, and shared his photos with DailyMail.com.
A marked photo illustrates the wedge-shaped impressions found in the dry soil within the grass after the alleged UFO sighting. Image Credit: Gunter Hofer via Dailymail
Hofer realized some of the children had also seen UFOs the day before on the other end of the campus, which led him to discover the physical evidence.
“We noticed some of the kids drew two objects. One object looked like a cigar, and they labeled that ‘Thursday. Then they drew what they saw on Friday the 16th which is more of a disc-like, oval-shaped object,” Hofer told to Dailymail.
Hofer said two boys had told him that on Thursday, September 15, 1994, they saw a craft with flashing lights flying above the power lines at the other end of the playground.
“It was moving, disappeared, instantly reappeared somewhere else, and then vanished,” he said.
He further added: “It was in that location he found the flattened grass and wedge markings. The earth there was rock-solid due to a long drought in Zimbabwe. So whatever made that mark really dug in hard.”
The Ariel school report takes its place among a number of other prominent mass sightings of strange UFOs involving schoolchildren. In 1966, approximately 200 students and staff reported seeing a cigar-shaped UFO, landing near their school in Melbourne, Australia. A similar witness report came from a school in Miami, Florida, in 1967. So did children in Britain report a UFO landing near their school in 1977, some also claiming to have seen strange beings outside the craft.
The greatest justification for what may have occurred on Mars comes from a 2015 research written by physicist John E. Brandenburg. A tremendous thermonuclear explosion decimated the planet’s atmosphere, which formerly resembled Earth’s. The Cydonian Hypothesis and Fermi’s Paradox were taken into account in the investigation.
In light of the imaging and geochemical findings, Brandenburg thought about the Cydonian Hypothesis. He used the Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx, and Olmec heads as analogs under the Principle of Mediocrity with attention to detail to adopt a model of Earthlike degraded archeology for comparison with Mars relics.
Enrico Fermi investigated the issue of an active universe that may support intelligent life. In addition, he was aware of how old the universe was in comparison to us. Other species had plenty of time to evolve, create radio and television transmissions, and spread across the cosmos to all inhabited worlds.
Since its inception, NASA has anticipated the possibility of discovering relics of earlier intelligent activity within the Solar System: “Though intelligent or semi-intelligent life may exist elsewhere in our solar system, it is very likely that if intelligent extraterrestrial life is discovered in the next twenty years, it will be by radio telescope from other solar systems. Artifacts left on the moon or other planets may potentially provide evidence of its presence.
The Cydonian Hypothesis, which postulates the existence of an old, native culture on Mars that dates to the roughly Bronze Age, was supported by evidence from the two Martian locations Cydonia Mensa and Galaxias Chaos, as demonstrated by physicist Brandenburg in his study. There is proof that a large mixed fusion-fission explosion occurred on Mars close to Cydonia Mensa, according to isotopic and gamma-ray data from the planet.
Large Thermonuclear Explosions On Mars in the Past: Evidence The noble gases, whose original relative abundances are thought to have been fixed by primordial nucleo-synthesis predating the formation of the solar system, remain nearly free of chemical reactions with the environment, and which provide clues to the processes that have shaped modern planetary atmospheres.
Two noble gas isotopes, 129Xe and 40Ar, dominate their other isotopes in relation to Earth and other inventory, which is a distinguishing characteristic of Mars’ atmosphere. Due to nuclear processes occurring in a planetary environment, both of these gases are known to be radiogenic. Due to its distinctive isotopic characteristics, Mars was identified as the parent body of the SNC meteorites.
It implies that significant radiological processes that produced a significant number of signature isotopes and blanketed the Martian surface in a thin layer of radioactive debris enriched in particular elements relative to its underlying rocks likely took place there. Two significant abnormal nuclear explosions that occurred on Mars in the past can be attributed to this pattern of phenomena.
Since it assumed that the same processes: life, evolution, and civilization, which produced the Pyramids and the Sphinx on Earth, had operated on Mars and for a comparable period of time, it was the most straightforward explanation that could be formulated, based on Viking data, for the apparent archeology on Mars.
Based on evidence that biology started early on Mars, as it did on Earth, and persisted for the majority of its geologic history. This evidence includes an ocean bed on the youngest part of Mars, a high degree of oxidation in the surface and sediments of Mars, and evidence that both planets evolved with a liquid water environment on their surfaces.
The Face in Cydonia and the neighboring D&M Pyramid were the two places where the Cydonian Hypothesis was founded, along with evidence of a prolonged Terrestrial climate on Mars.
The author now comes to the conclusion that the CH has been confirmed after higher resolution images of the face and D&M pyramid in Cydonia Mensa revealed apparent brickwork and new anatomical and artistic details not seen in Viking Images, as well as new images of the face “Galaxias A” in Galaxias Chaos (also known as the Utopia site), which confirmed its similar structure to the face in Cydonia Mensa and new details suggesting brickwork.
That is to say, some places on Mars have obvious eroded archeology from a long-dead indigenous culture, which is compatible with a long-lived, highly developed biosphere on Mars in the past, similar to the one on Earth. In passing, it’s also important to note that the nuclear catastrophe detailed in the paper would have spared certain bacterial species, and these might have been found in Gilbert Levin and Patricia Straat’s 1976 Viking Labelled Release Experiments.
The presence of a long-dead humanoid society on Mars is entirely compatible with both the planet’s apparent long-lived Earthlike past climate and the Principle of Mediocrity, which holds that any long-lived Earthlike environment will eventually give rise to intelligent life. This Martian civilisation likely vanished as a result of an unidentified global disaster that transformed Mars’ environment from being Earthlike to what it is now in a very short amount of geologic time. But was it a major nuclear assault that brought this civilisation to an end?
All things considered, the evidence points to Mars being the site of a nuclear war on a planetary scale. Thus, Mars could hold the key to solving Fermi’s paradox. To learn as much as possible about what happened there, Brandenburg suggested that a mission for human habitation of Mars be launched right now.
People often say that UFO disclosure is near, but if you take a look around its beyond near. There is more and more UFO disclosure every day. It just depends on where you look.
In fact, even the NY times recently published an article sharing three movies that were supplied by the Pentagon of US Navy UFO Sightings, movies in which UFO’s executed moves that man-made technology is really not capable of. This has defied our understanding of physics and aerodynamics.
In one of these three encounters, an object (UFO) fell from 60,000 feet high right down to sea level and then began to hover immediately, and all of this happening in less than a second. This same device (identical) would then transfer to other areas simultaneously and then materialise in other areas, what seemed to be remote time travel, an instant transfer of the ship. All this while allegedly predicting the Navy Pilot’s future position!
The New York Times also published a report entitled ‘off world cars’ being recovered. Many similar and related encounters have been published as the paperwork has become declassified over the the last twenty years. Only one event from the Navy has received significant mainstream publicity in that time.
Another factor that plays itself out time and time again is that failure of electrical instruments, especially the vital ones on military planes. How is that possible? One recurring event is the inability to fire their armament or air radar, causing these instruments to go crazy.
So What Exactly Happened?
For the past few years without us knowing the United States Department of Defense was working on a secret mission with their “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force” otherwise known as UAPTF. They have been keeping those who need to be abreast on the information informed. They have been briefing lawmakers, Intelligence community stakeholders (I wonder who they are?), as well as the highest levels of The US military informed on encounters that defy regular aerial expectations.
Christopher Mellon, the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary Of Defense For Intelligence tweeted out about a possible leak which brought it to our attention. It came with several photographs as well as video footage for the Navy troops.
The Images Were Taken in an F18 By A Navy Pilot
The Debrief States..
The Pentagon has acknowledged that US Navy Troops recorded multiple leaked photographs and a video exhibiting unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, involving instances presently under investigation by the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. Susan Gough, a Pentagon spokesperson informed the debrief in an email.”
Susan Gough, the founder of the Black Vault, which is a well known Government website did end up verifying the tapes in her statement. There was also an interview with former CIA director James Woolsey.
Pictures Obtained From the F18 Pilot in Sky Of The UFO
On April 6, 2021 these photos were leaked. KLAS investigative journalist George Knapp released the first photo, now known as “Acorn” as well as two other new photos indicating unidentified flying objects.
The other two photos were coined “the metallic blimp” and “spherical” were named by Knapp. These were said to be obtained within 30 minutes of each other on the same day.
The second image seems to be clear and transparent as well as spherical. Take a look for yourself:
“We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy and 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 traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
According to data from the National UFO Reporting Center, sightings of unidentified objects in the air reportedly rose in 2020 by about 1,000 nationwide, to more than 7,200 sightings
Perhaps the most startling video is the one recorded from the deck of the USS Russell, which appears to show several unidentified flying triangles “flashing” in the clouds off the coast of San Diego. The brief video was shot through a night-vision camera in July of 2019, Corbell says.
“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, a site with a long history of obtaining UFO-related documents through freedom of information laws.
“They confirmed they are all genuine, but won’t give their designation,” site operator John Greenewald said.
“The UAP (Task Force) has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations,” Gough said.
“As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP.”
“These are authentic photos and video from actual military encounters with UFOs — generated to educate high-level intelligence officers within our military on the nature and presentation of the UAP/UFO phenomenon,“ he wrote on his website.
Crop circles are a worldwide phenomenon that has captured the imagination of millions of people.
Typically found in cornfields and other crops, way out in the country, these circles often come with strange designs, including patterns that are incredibly difficult for our relatively insignificant human brains to decipher.
Recently, a physicist from Finland’s University of Helsinki provided a thought-provoking analysis on one of these strange patterns, and accompanying design that has people talking.
Crop circles are a surprising phenomenon, and they seem to pop up in the most unexpected ways and most unexpected places.
In 2002 in a field near Crabwood/Winchester, Hampshire, England, a famous crop circle appeared overnight (pictured below).
This crop circle has been documented, photographed and researched by scholars all over the world. The circles are intricately designed and “sown” into crop fields.
Upon further research, we are given clues as to how they have been formed — and perhaps whether or not a higher intelligence has been involved.
Richard Taylor, a physicist from the University of Oregon, examined them closely and found that the nodes of these stalks are “blasted out” on one signed as opposed to simply being flattened. This effect has been replicated by microwave heating which causes water inside the crop to vaporize and become dislodged. When this happens, the crops flop over completely to one side.
Crop circle artists are said to be using GPS devices, lasers, and microwaves to create these incredible patterns in the corn fields that are the delight of UFO enthusiasts, and the bane of local farmers.
Now, researchers have uncovered the chilling message accompanying these world famous circles, and what it could mean for the future of this phenomenon.
Take a look at the images:
Crop Circles Carry ‘Chilling Message in Binary Code’
According to Paul Vigay, a British computer consultant who developed and supported RISC OS software for PCs, the crop circle has a purpose behind its bizarre and intricate coding.
Vigay says that the message was encoded in ASCI binary code, an eight-bit code used in computer programming.
Meanwhile, a paper has been published on the circles titled ‘Crop Circles and Life at Parallel Space-Time Sheets.’
Here is what it had to say about the circles:
“Crabwood message consists of two parts. An alien picture and a picture representing spiral like bit sequence starting from the center of the picture and proceeding counterclockwise. It has been proposed that the message is coded using 9-bit code and that 8-bit portions obey ASCII code.
If this is in fact true, the message reads as follows:
‘Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. EELI!UVE. There is GOOD out there. We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING’
Pitkonen concludes that whoever made the circle is “extremely artistically, technologically and mathematically advanced to a point beyond belief.”
Final Thoughts on These Crop Circles
The question we should be asking ourselves now is, why are findings like these from world class researchers constantly dismissed, without even so much as a second thought?
Why does the mainstream media ignore them, and will things ever change? That is of course a rhetorical question, but in the meantime let’s do our best to share this information with anyone willing to listen — these researchers are doing brilliant work that simply cannot be ignored any longer.
The Crabwood crop circle was decoded many years ago. It refers to the Grey's as bearers of false gifts. Some say that this might be referring to the so-called Greada Treaty between the USG and the Grey ETs. That they would give the USG secret technology for a limited number of endorsed human abductions. The Greys broke their promise by abducting many.
The universe is so complex that even the greatest scientific minds on earth ultimately acknowledge that we do not understand the forces and true nature of the cosmos, let alone our place within it. Now for the first time, the un-seeable and unbelievable has been caught on video by multiple individuals who have not only captured mind bending video of Entities, UFOs and Angels, but have been profoundly affected by their experiences. Confronted by the unknown, they all share a deep and unwavering need to know and understand the phenomenon they are experiencing. These individuals did not seek recognition or compensation, they are driven by the questions: “Who are we? What is real?” The sky is alive and has been for millennia with non-human activity, much of which is not visible to the naked eye. See concrete evidence with real video from beyond human perception and discover a realm of fallen angels and otherworldly visitors in a universe that is beyond our comprehension. Dare to ask yourself, what is our place in the cosmos?
The U.S. military constantly monitors the airspace over and around the country for threats ranging from wayward Cessnas to truly unidentified craft, primarily using a network of radars, many of which are shared with the FAA, as well as alert fighter aircraft. This ecosystem is increasingly eyed for enhancements as the nature of the threat to the homeland morphs, especially in terms of the danger posed by cruise missile and drone attacks. At the same time, Congress is literally holding public hearings about unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, more classically referred to as UFOs. The topic exploded in the media thanks mainly to a media blitz by retired defense intelligence officials. In fact, Congress is now considering providing something akin to blanket immunity to public officials, military personnel, and even contractors, with any info on the UAP topic.
With this in mind, The War Zone thought the Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) gathering yesterday of missile defense managers from top defense contractors that were brought together to discuss homeland cruise missile defense was a great opportunity to get perspective on the highly contentious UAP issue through their unique lens. We had a question about how existing and future airspace-monitoring and air defense systems aimed at countering cruise missiles could be harnessed to address the challenges presented by UAPs and the moderator, Global Business Editor at Defenseone.com, Marcus Weisgerber, was kind enough to present it to the panel.
Before we get to their responses, we need to provide a bit more background.
Executives from most of the top U.S. prime defense contractors sat on the CSIS panel. CSIS
There have been a concerning number of reportedly unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft or objects over military facilities, near military aircraft and warships, and in designated test and training airspace in recent years. In particular, it is no secret that unidentified objects with small radar cross sections have been detected in military training ranges along both coasts with alarming regularity. The War Zone detailed a rash of encounters by Navy fighter pilots with unidentified craft off the U.S. East Coast over the last decade. There also was a bizarre string of events off Southern California in 2019. While it may be possible that these recent sightings include encounters with objects with extreme or unexplainable abilities, we have yet to see evidence of this. That doesn't mean evidence doesn't exist, though. What we do know for a fact is there have been many sightings that are explainable, but still extremely troubling.
An existing network of sensors monitors these same areas for potential nefarious actions, but upgrading this architecture to be able to better detect low-flying and small radar cross-section cruise missiles and drones is becoming a massive priority. This spurred the upgrade of F-15C/D and F-16C/D jets tasked with homeland defense with active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars, for instance, which can detect small, low-flying targets. The addition of infrared search-and-track (IRST) systems will help these fighters further to detect, identify, and engage these hard-to-spot targets. But these are just some first steps and a much more extensive sensor upgrade will be needed to better surveil the approaches to the continental U.S. and monitor for these threats. These same capabilities could be brought to bear for detecting and classifying UAPs. This includes having networking and sensor fusion capabilities so that even more complex targets – like those employing electronic warfare tactics – can still be detected, understood, and dealt with if need be.
Nick Bucci, vice president of defense systems and technologies at General Atomics, expounded on this idea.
“Maybe something that is designed to spoof one particular sensor can’t spoof another thing,” Bucci said. "So if I can ensure detection from, say, an [eleoctroptical/infrared] sensor or a [radio frequency] sensor, now I can start pulling that picture together better and getting better characteristics because I've looked at it different ways."
“Using passive sensors is another great way to get different information. Why don't we talk about acoustic sensors?" he continued. "There are a lot of really good acoustic sensors out there, which we happen to make – one that has been used for cruise missile defense and counter-UAS. Those are important sensors to now bring into this architecture. So that you can get that broader picture of the characteristics of a particular threat or object so you can tell whether it's a threat, to be sure you're going to do the right thing.”
Creating a multi-spectrum architecture where a sufficient number of sensors of various types are continuously monitoring the airspace is a costly proposition, said Doug Booth, director of radar and integrated air and missile defense at Lockheed Martin. Still, using ground radar installations in conjunction with airborne radars will help to paint a better picture of objects approaching, entering, or transiting the U.S. National Airspace, he said.
“I think there are multiple things that can be done there to help us solve the problem,” Booth said.
Jonathan Casey, director of small-to-medium ground-based air defense mission capability at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said identifying objects as threats will always be difficult and that increased levels of scrutiny should be applied depending on whether the nation is at war or perceives an imminent national security threat – a point we discussed previously in great detail as it pertains to UAP. In times of war, the military could put less effort into parsing what an object is by assuming every unidentified object detected is a potential threat and treating it as such, he said.
“When there's a very, very high level of alert, do you reduce the level of confirmation you need in terms of combat ID?” Casey said. “I think that's a difficult decision. … Other than getting eyes on the target. It's never gonna be 100 percent. I mean, that's the 100 percent way to do it.”
Artificial intelligence and algorithmic analysis could sift through large quantities of airspace monitoring data to highlight abnormalities for human technicians to consider, Casey said. Social media companies take the same approach when trying to identify bot accounts among the millions of legitimate users and the level of scrutiny could be dialed up or down depending on the current threat alert state, he said.
David McFarland, senior director of missile defense programs at BAE Systems and a retired Navy captain, said the military services already employ different standards for combat identification in the missile defense arena, depending on threat levels. But those standards outlining flight characteristics and electronic emissions of various known enemy missiles can be circumvented, he said. Adversaries can use the crowded U.S. airspace to mask nefarious activity or even attacks, he said.
And crowded it is. We have cataloged and geolocated thousands of official FAA safety reports involving drones from pilots, many of which are unidentified, from across the country in recent years. You can check that out here and read more about our findings here and here.
"When I think about defense of the National Capital Region [NCR], boy, I can make a Tomahawk [cruise missile] kind of fly like a commercial airliner," McFarland said. "I could probably get into squawk mode and code that looks like a commercial airliner. Oh, by the way, there's this nice mountain range ... right outside of D.C. that can mask my approach and come in that way. Squawk and emote and code and looking all great. I can get away with it one time at least right? But that one time matters."
The NCR is the most highly surveilled and defended airspace in the United States. Nothing else exists like in the country in terms of a standing advanced integrated air defense system that includes many types of sensors and surface-to-air missiles. Still, concerns exist regarding its vulnerability to emerging capabilities and asymmetric attacks.
A U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missile flies by an isolated industrial complex during a flight test. U.S. DoD
His solution was to thwart missile defense threats before they are within striking range of the U.S. homeland. McFarland used the example of Cold War-era anti-submarine warfare (ASW), in which the Navy would use satellite imagery to count Soviet Oscar class submarines in their homeports. When one was “missing,” the Navy would then dispatch ASW aircraft to go find it, he said.
“Before it becomes an air defense problem, make it an ASW problem,” McFarland said. “We’ve got to start thinking big. We’ve got to start thinking about the battlespace differently. It's now the homeland, which means everything else, you know, we have to be out there with our forward-deployed forces with the mindset that we are defending the homeland.”
The now infamous videos seen below, taken using ATFLIR targeting pods on U.S. Navy F/A-18s, show examples of unidentified — at least publicly — objects Navy aircraft have encountered in the past. Exactly what these videos show or don't show remains a hotly contested topic.
But the Navy shoulders no official burden to police the U.S. National Airspace. That responsibility lies with the Air Force, which talks a lot about cruise missile defense, but says next to nothing about UAPs. The two issues are almost inextricably linked because an object flying toward or into U.S. airspace must be considered a threat until it can be positively identified as benign.
"We have to flow information openly," McFarland said. "It all comes back down to data."
The U.S. has sufficiently advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to identify most aircraft and other objects that enter its airspace, but there are not enough sensors deployed and they must be upgraded on par with threats that could spoof or evade them, said Michael Noble, senior director of advanced missions at Anduril Industries.
“We have fantastic radar,” he said. ”We have fantastic EO [electro-optical], awesome [signals intelligence], etc. It will continue to improve and we need more sensors, absolutely. But I think a key thing to realize here is this is not something we solve. The enemy has a vote here, so the way we do combat ID is going to vary from one target to another and they're going to adjust. … This architecture is going to have to evolve.”
HBTSS satellites are designed to provide continuous tracking and targeting of enemy missiles launched from land, sea, or air, according to Northrop Grumman, the company developing the system. They are one part of the Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) multi-layered constellation of satellites, “which can sense heat signatures to detect and track missiles from their earliest stages of launch through interception,” one company press release says.
HBTTS satellites will provide continuous tracking and handoff to enable targeting of enemy missiles launched from land, sea or air. Northrop Grumman
Bucci agreed with Noble's prescribed approach, but said the optimal multi-layered, multi-spectrum airspace defense architecture is far enough in the future that an intermediate plan to handle detection and missile-defense warnings is needed.
"Persistence is what we need,” Bucci said. “You don't have persistence until you get that fully-populated constellation of satellites that gives you 24/7/365 heads-up data. In the meantime, you have search capabilities. You put out medium altitude, high altitude, long-endurance UAVs with the right sensor suites on them to be able to search to where indications and warnings have given you some level of information that I now have a rogue submarine off the East Coast.”
While most people think “flying saucer” and “aliens” when they hear UFO, discussions of unknown airspace intrusions are now mainstream enough to be seriously considered in the halls of power in Washington. The government’s reframing of the issue as unidentified aerial phenomenon is one indication that the debate is moving from the realm of science fiction and conspiracy theory to real-world national security. And there are a multitude of good reasons for this that have nothing to do with hunting for the paranormal or visitors from space invaders. The biggest being that the next big weapons capability breakthrough may very well look and act unlike what came before it — alien in nature, if you will. An adversary could and likely would leverage silly cultural stigmas against reporting unidentified flying objects to their advantage, even making the mundane appear anything but.
Regardless, that a panel of high-ranking defense industry executives fielded a question about UAP with straight faces underlines both the reality that the issue is a serious one and that missile-defense technology is a potential solution to detecting, tracking, and identifying these phenomena.
Ultimately, as they said, solving the UAP issue will require a greater number of more-advanced sensors, signaling a secondary market for the technologies their companies already sell to or could develop for the government to defend the U.S. homeland against enemy missiles. They likely understand that if Congress believes UAP are a threat to national security, dollars will flow toward that problem set. And considering that the Pentagon is already standing up a much more deeply mandated and resourced office dedicated to this issue, and those who hold the purse strings are a driving force behind its establishment, they would be right.
Onderzoek naar leefbare planeten en de levensloop van sterren(stelsels): dit kunnen we de komende 20 jaar verwachten van de James Webb Space Telescope
Vier prachtige foto’s van sterrenstelsels, een analyse van de atmosfeer van een planeet ver weg van ons en donderdag als verrassing een testfoto van Jupiter. De James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) heeft al een goede eerste indruk nagelaten, maar deze week was eigenlijk slechts een voorproefje. Wat kunnen we nog verwachten van de ruimtetelescoop? Waarom kostte de ontwikkeling ervan tientallen miljarden euro’s en duurde dat meerdere decennia? En hoe lang zal de JWST nog operationeel blijven? We zochten het voor je uit.
De JWST heeft deze week getoond waar het goed in is: prachtige en vooral enorm gedetailleerde foto’s maken van plekken in het universum die miljarden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd zijn.
Dat kan dankzij de enorme, iconische spiegel bestaande uit de achttien zeshoekige segmenten, die allemaal apart af te stellen zijn. De totale breedte ervan is 6,5 meter, vergeleken met de spiegel van de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop die 2,4 meter breed is. Daardoor is de JWST tien tot honderd keer gevoeliger. Hieronder zie je een vergelijking tussen de Hubble en JWST.
De JWST is extreem koel
Die gevoeligheid maakt het mogelijk om meer licht op te vangen en vooral licht dat minder energie bevat. Dat maakt de JWST ideaal om sterren en andere objecten te observeren die enorm ver weg van ons liggen. Hoe verder die van ons verwijderd zijn, hoe zwakker het licht dat ze uitstralen of reflecteren.
Licht van die verre sterren ligt daarom op het infrarode deel van het elektromagnetische spectrum. Onzichtbaar voor het blote oog, maar detecteerbaar voor de JWST. Dat infrarode straling ook door warme objecten zoals de zon wordt uitgezonden, betekent dat de ruimtetelescoop afgekoeld moet worden tot min 370 Fahrenheit of min 223 graden Celsius.
Geen gemakkelijke klus
Dat de JWST operationeel is en foto’s kan doorsturen, is zowat een wetenschappelijk wonder. Het kostte vele jaren werk en er was een gigantisch budget voor nodig.
De spiegel van de telescoop is namelijk zodanig gigantisch dat die opgevouwen moest worden om op een raket te passen. Na de lancering op 25 december 2021 hadden ingenieurs weken lang werk om de spiegel te ontvouwen en juist af te stellen.
Dat was een kwestie van een foto nemen, de data ervan te verwerken om op basis daarvan de instellingen lichtjes aan te passen om de resultaten te verbeteren. Dat proces moest stap voor stap meerdere keren worden herhaald, getuigen NASA-werknemers bij ‘The Verge’.
Dat gebeurde bovendien vanop een afstand van zo’n anderhalf miljard kilometer van de aarde. De hitte van onze planeet zou het de JWST namelijk extra moeilijk maken. Bij de Hubble-telescoop was het nog mogelijk om astronauten reparaties te laten uitvoeren, de nieuwe ruimtetelescoop onderhouden is praktisch onmogelijk.
Menselijke fouten en pech
De ontwikkeling en het testen van de JWST startte in 1996, met een oorspronkelijke planning in 2007 en een budget van 500 miljoen dollar. Omgerekend is dat bijna 874 miljoen euro, rekening houdende met de inflatie.
In 2005 werd er echter besloten om de plannen te schrappen en opnieuw te beginnen. Ook gooide de coronapandemie op het einde nog wat roet in het eten. Het totale budget werd uiteindelijk eind vorig jaar berekend op 9,7 miljard dollar of ruim 9,6 miljoen euro. Dat is voor de volledige ontwikkeling en het toestel werkzaam te houden in de ruimte.
Bekijk ook: Wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters legt uit hoe de James Webb Space Telescope werkt
Net geen twintig keer meer dan oorspronkelijk de bedoeling was. Een onafhankelijk onderzoek wees met de beschuldigende vinger naar defensie-, luchtvaart- en ruimtevaartbedrijf Northrop Grumman, dat de leiding had bij de ontwikkeling. Daar werden meerdere menselijke fouten gemaakt.
Ook moest er nieuwe technologie ontwikkeld worden om het concept werkbaar te maken. Experts zeggen volgens ‘The Verge’ dat de JWST zo uniek en complex is dat NASA nooit een realistische inschatting kon maken van de ontwikkeltijd en -kost.
Als alles goed gaat nog twintig jaar te gaan
De ingenieurs en wetenschappers zijn er gelukkig in geslaagd om de JWST op een erg efficiënte manier op z’n plek te krijgen. Daardoor wordt geschat dat de telescoop nog zo’n twintig jaar in gebruik kan blijven. Dat zei projectleider Bob Ochs tijdens een persconferentie, schrijft de website ‘Space.com’.
Al is daar een flinke portie geluk voor nodig, want kleine meteorieten kunnen ernstige schade toebrengen aan de spiegels. Wat dus onmogelijk gerepareerd kan worden. Begin juni was het al zover, maar ingenieurs kon de schade beperken door de spiegels opnieuw af te stellen, rekening houdend met de vervorming.
Vier centrale thema’s
De JWST heeft meerdere instrumenten aan boord, waaronder NIRSPEC. Dat is een spectograaf en kan dus straling meten die bijna infrarood is en afkomstig van objecten als sterren(stelsels). Die werd getest in de faciliteiten van het Centre Spatial de Liège.
Samen met de andere instrumenten zullen wetenschappers op basis van gegevens die de JWST verzamelt onderzoek doen naar vier thema’s.
Zo wordt er gekeken naar het universum vlak na de oerknal. De telescoop kan namelijk licht detecteren dat miljarden jaren de tijd nodig had om tot bij de aarde te geraken. De JWST kan dankzij z’n gevoeligheid 13,6 miljard jaar in het verleden kijken.
Daarnaast zal ook onderzoek worden gedaan naar hoe sterrenstelsels evolueren in de loop der tijd. De grote spiralen, zoals die van het Melkwegstelsel, zijn namelijk niet per se de standaard. Zo zijn er ook elliptische stelsels, die ontstaan zijn door het samensmelten van kleinere exemplaren. Sterrenstelsels die ver weg liggen zijn bovendien eerder klonterig. Hoe die dan veranderen naar een duidelijkere structuur is dus de vraag.
Ook wil men met de JWST kijken naar de geboorte van sterren. Dat kon al met de Hubble-telescoop, maar het feit dat het nieuwe apparaat veel beter infrarode straling kan opvangen, is beloftevol. Er zal opnieuw gekeken worden naar de Pilaren der Creatie in de Adelaarsnevel. Een foto ervan uit 1995, gemaakt door de Hubble-telescoop, is één van de bekendste beelden van het universum, maar er valt nog meer te ontdekken door de kracht van de JWST.
Tot slot: exoplaneten. Er zal met de JWST gekeken worden naar plaatsen buiten ons zonnestelsel waar de bouwstenen voor het leven te vinden zouden zijn. Wetenschappers kunnen namelijk de telescoop gebruiken om te kijken naar wat er in de atmosferen van die planeten zit. Verschillende chemische elementen breken het licht van sterren namelijk op een andere manier, wat kan worden gedetecteerd met een spectograaf zoals de NIRSPEC.
De JWST en wetenschappers hebben dus nog veel fascinerend onderzoek voor de boeg. En het brede publiek zal nog vaak kunnen genieten van prachtige foto’s van de sterren en daar voorbij.
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17-07-2022
A new Record for the Strongest Magnetic Field Seen in the Universe: 1.6 Billion Tesla
A new Record for the Strongest Magnetic Field Seen in the Universe: 1.6 Billion Tesla
A team of astronomers using the Chinese Insight-HXMT x-ray telescope have made a direct measurement of the strongest magnetic field in the known universe. The magnetic field belongs to a magnetar currently in the process of cannibalizing an orbiting companion.
Magnetars are nasty, but thankfully rare. They are a special kind of neutron star that power up the strongest known magnetic fields.
Astronomers don’t know the exact origins of these ultra-powerful fields, but as usual they have their suspicions. While neutron stars are made of almost entirely neutrons, they do contain small populations of protons and electrons. When neutron stars are born in supernova explosions of a massive star, those charged particles can briefly create a strong magnetic field. In normal neutron stars, the magnetic field quickly melts away from all the complex physics happening in the explosion. But for some neutron stars, the magnetic field locks itself in before that happens. When the neutron star finally reveals itself, it retains this impressive magnetic strength, and a magnetar is born.
But most of the time astronomers have to make due with indirect measurements of magnetar magnetic field strengths. Thankfully, sometimes astronomers can get lucky.
Recently a team of astronomers used the new Chinese Insight-HXMT observatory to study J0243.6+6124, an ultraliminous pulsar in the Milky Way. This pulsar has an orbiting companion that wandered too close. The pulsar’s extreme gravity is currently in the process of tearing apart the companion, forcing its material into a thin accretion disk around the pulsar.
Occasionally the gas in the accretion disk flares, producing a flash of incredibly bright x-rays. In the spectrum of those x-rays the astronomers found an absorption line caused by electrons knocking away x-rays. Those electrons can only get that kind of energy if they’re powered by a magnetic field, and so through that observation the astronomers were able to directly measure the magnetic field strengths.
They estimated a field strength of 1.6 billion tesla, which is about a million billion times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field.
Glowing Object When Calling ET To Them, Independence, Missouri, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Object When Calling ET To Them, Independence, Missouri, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 13, 2022
Location of sighting: Independence, Missouri, USA
Watch this! Some people got together to try to use mental powers...telepathy to call over an alien entity to them. Long story short...it worked. This orb appeared soon during the calling and passed over them. I have tried it myself in the past and it worked the first time, but never again. Just mentally relax, focus your thoughts on your brothers and sisters in the sky and feel feelings of love and kindness toward them. They will often appear. No special powers, no religious titles needed, just you...and it will come.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
On July 13, 2022, my brother and I were outside looking at the supermoon and skywatching when we decided to try the Quantum UFO Observation Technique using telepathy to send out a message. I said "If there are any non-human entities in the area please let yourself be known." Two minutes later my brother spotted a bright object the size of an aspirin held at arm's length headed straight towards us from the west. I got out my camera and just as it was over head at about 80 degrees the object veered to the NE, making a change in trajectory. I filmed it using my cell phone video. The object had a rounded shape on the bottom and it was a very bright blue/white light with a dark ring around it. The pictures do not show how bright this was. There was no sound. I looked up the ISS and it WAS visible in Independence at that exact same time, except it was at 48 degrees at its highest point and it did not change trajectory. I also looked up Flight Radar 24 and there was nothing at that time that was in the sky. Also in the video but not visible to the naked eye was a beam of light that appeared near us and a stationary linear object in the sky for which I can find no explanation.
Three Landed UFOs Near Las Vegas, Nevada July 14, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Three Landed UFOs Near Las Vegas, Nevada July 14, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 14, 2022
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Look at this! An eyewitness was flying to Las Vegas when he noticed something below. Three landed or hovering bright white UFOs seen hidden between the mountains. This is the exact same region that Charles Hall marked as the Tall White Alien base. The Tall White base is a base of aliens that have a height of 2-3 meters tall depending on age, they live upto 800 years where they choose to die out of cultural beliefs. The base is on Nellis AFB private protected land, so its surrounded by barbed wire fence and its near Area 51! This is the best example of a Tall White ship I have ever seen! Fantastic catch, and may never be seen again.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
From an airplane taking off from Las Vegas, after we did a u-turn to head north, I saw these lights on the ground about (I'm guessing) fifteen or twenty miles west of the city. The video does not do justice to how bright these things were, it was a bright sunny day, and these things were like giant welding torches, with their artificial light spreading for miles. There's probably a good explanation for them, but I don't know of any myself, so I'm reporting it.
Orb Fleet Seen Over Brickell, Florida On July 16, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Orb Fleet Seen Over Brickell, Florida On July 16, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 16, 2022
Location of sighting:Brickell, Florida, USA
An eyewitness in Florida caught sight of eight glowing orbs which they say lasted about five minutes or more in the sky. The orbs were huge, round and yellow. Even in the setting sun, these orbs still stood out powerfully. Orbs are the #1 most common shape of UFO seen worldwide, but are most often white. I believe these too are white light, but the setting sun makes them appear yellow. There are many UFO sightings along the coastline in Florida, so many so that many of us UFO researcher have come to realize there is an alien base below the ocean floor 5-10km off the coast. Aliens are making themselves known to us, little by little, not our way of doing things, but...its their way of doing things. Why do they see things differently than us? Because they live forever, they have learned to control aging, our life is finite...so we are in a rush but aliens have all eternity to do their work. Thus...aliens often do things slowly...like a snail.
Strange Repeating Heartbeat Radio Signal Detected In Depths Of Space
Strange Repeating Heartbeat Radio Signal Detected In Depths Of Space
Weirdly Slow Radio Burst in Space Is 'Like a Heartbeat' Researchers think it came from an especially intense pulsar or magnetar. Astronomers have detected a strange radio signal that emits periodically “like a heartbeat” and is coming from the depths of space.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States were caught by surprise due to the intensity of the radio bursts, as well as their regularity.
The signal is classified as a fast radio burst (FRB), which are intense bursts of radio waves of unknown origin.
This one studied by scientists at MIT and other institutions is currently the longest-lasting FRB to date, with the clearest periodic pattern.
Named FRB 20191221A and discovered in 2019, the signal persists for much longer - around 1,000 times longer in fact - than the typical FRB, raising questions about what could be causing it.
FRBs tend to last for a few milliseconds at most, but FRB 20191221A goes on for up to three seconds, with radio waves repeating every 0.2 seconds in what the astronomers call a “clear periodic pattern”.
What could be causing it?
While mysterious radio signals from space often set off excited talk of potential communication from aliens, the explanation is likely that the signal comes from a rare type of star.
Astronomers suspect the signal could be coming from a type of neutron star, which are extremely dense, rapidly spinning collapsed cores of giant stars, left over from supernovas.
The scientists, publishing their work in the journal Nature, say it could be caused by a radio pulsar or magnetar star, both of which are types of neutron stars.
“There are not many things in the universe that emit strictly periodic signals,” said Daniele Michilli, from MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
“Examples that we know of in our own galaxy are radio pulsars and magnetars, which rotate and produce a beamed emission similar to a lighthouse. And we think this new signal could be a magnetar or pulsar on steroids”.
‘Boom, boom, boom’
“It was unusual. Not only was it very long, lasting about three seconds, but there were periodic peaks that were remarkably precise, emitting every fraction of a second – boom, boom, boom – like a heartbeat. This is the first time the signal itself is periodic,” he explained.
The team wants to detect more signals from the source, which they say could be used as an astrophysical clock.
The astronomers say there were similarities found between FRB 20191221A’s radio bursts and those found in our own galaxy. However the pulse from FRB 20191221A appeared to be more than a million times brighter than those other signals.
Michilli added that the detection raises more questions about what could cause such an extreme signal that has never been seen before.
Triangle UFO caught in Bolivian during thunderstorm
Triangle UFO caught in Bolivian during thunderstorm
On February 14, 2012 periodismope uploaded a footage showing a triangle UFO over San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia
The recording is dated from January 17, 2012 and the images were filmed in the main square of the town. That day there was an intense electric storm with high winds.
The amateur video caught the silhouette of what was supposed to be a UFO moving through the skies. The UFO appeared after a bright strike of lightning.
At that time began the cries of panicked citizens who witnessed the unknown object and reacted to the intense lightning.
The video of the UFO or eventually a TR-3B is shown in its entirety, and at the end UFOcasebook has added a slow-motion close-up and an enhanced frame capture.
Ancient astronaut theorists believe a monument located in Honshu, Japan is linked to aliens, in this clip from Season 18, “Ancient Aliens On Location: Incredible Structures.”
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Booster 7’s Boom, Nuclear Mission to Neptune, More JWST Images
Booster 7’s Boom, Nuclear Mission to Neptune, More JWST Images
Even more pictures from James Webb Space Telescope, China’s planning a mission to Neptune, SpaceX’s Booster 7 suffers from an explosion, black holes are messy eaters, going under Europa’s ice crust and more.
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James Webb’s First Full-Color Images
After 20 years of waiting, they’re finally here! The first scientific images were released from the James Webb Space Telescope. One image was revealed on Monday afternoon, and the rest were shown off early Tuesday morning. Among the collection, there was a deep field image of a gravitational lensing galaxy cluster, the planetary nebula surrounding a dying star, a star-forming region in the Carina nebula, a group of galaxies called Stephan’s Quintet, and spectra from an exoplanet. It was an incredible day, and we released a video that focused on explaining the images, which I think you’ll enjoy.
We also have a special episode of Space Bites just about these images:
We got that amazing release of Webb images on Tuesday, but the telescope team gave us a bonus image of Jupiter just a few days later. This photo demonstrates that Webb can capture data on objects inside the Solar System and see galaxies out to the edge of the observable Universe. You can see the Great Red Spot and smaller storms in the cyclonic bands stretching around the planet. And if you look closely, you can see the shadow of Europa just to the left of the Great Red Spot.
During one of the tests of Booster 7, which is the first stage of Starship, there was an unplanned explosion. It doesn’t seem that the detonation was too serious, but one of the problems was that all 33 Raptors V2 were installed. So now SpaceX needs to assess the damage, which might cause further delays for the first orbital test of the Starship.
Mission to Neptune Could Happen After All. Just Not With NASA
NASA and ESA have no plans to send a mission to Neptune in the following decades, but another country has stepped forward: China. The Chinese National Space Agency announced its plans to send a nuclear-powered orbiter to Neptune to study the planet, its rings, and moons. In addition to the main spacecraft, it’ll carry several smaller probes which will be deployed into the atmosphere or Neptune or to visit its moon Triton. If could launch by 2030, arriving in 2036.
When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets torn apart. You’d assume the material would be sucked into the black hole, lost forever. Astronomers watched this happen in a distant galaxy, and much to their surprise, most of the material flew out of the black hole’s accretion disk and off into space. It appears that black holes are pretty sloppy eaters, consuming very little of the stars they destroy.
Europa is one of the most fascinating worlds in the Solar System. Underneath kilometres of ice, there’s probably an ocean of liquid water. Could there be life down there? A new NASA NIAC grant has awarded a team $125,000 to investigate how a future mission could melt down through the ice on Europa and then release a fleet of swimming cryobots that could explore the ocean for evidence of life. These cell phone-sized swimmers could operate independently or work together in schools to share their science instruments.
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Bright light in sky Over Naples, Florida 6-13-2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Bright light in sky Over Naples, Florida 6-13-2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 6-13-2020
Location of sighting: Naples, Florida, USA
This just in, a person heard about other recent Florida UFOs seen this week and reported one that they recorded two years ago over Naples that looks even more awesome. This UFO looks like it had just exited a wormhole and its colors are vibrant. Fantastic catch. No its not SpaceX or NASA rocket launch, its something bigger. The US gov tries to spread disinformation about fake launches to cover up giant UFOs seen near Florida. 100% alien!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
A bright light about half the size of the moon was what seemed to be pulling in this fog from a cloud like object. Very vibrant in color. There was also Another light object that was moving below it as well. 2 light sources and 1 cloud like thing that was pulling light and fog from one another.
NASA Space Station Counts Down To Dump Garbage On Humanity! Video, UFO Sighting News.
NASA Space Station Counts Down To Dump Garbage On Humanity! Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 14, 2022
Location of sighting: Earths Orbit at ISS
Source: Credit NASA Live Cams
Guys, my jaw just hit the floor when I recorded this from the live space station cam. The camera went to blue screen twice, then came back on to show this arm...but then they forgot to hit blue screen and accidentally for the first time in history...revealed them dumping their garbage on all humanity! Now they will say it will burn up in the atmosphere, but I know not everything burns up in the atmosphere. I have a bookshelf full of meteorites both stone, glass and metal behind me as I write this. This garbage is going to fall onto us! Onto all life on earth and may spread out for thousands of miles hitting the US, China, Russia, Europe, Asia! WTH is NASA thinking to do this horrible atrocity. NASA is suppose to be better than this!
Does Webb image of Jupiter show rock debris where giant ET Motherships are parked?
Does Webb image of Jupiter show rock debris where giant ET Motherships are parked?
On July 12, NASA held an international live stream releasing the first official images from the James Webb Space Telescope showing distant exoplanets, galaxies, nebula, and a glimpse deep into our universe.
The next day, NASA stealthily released an image of Jupiter taken by the Webb Telescope, which showed a noticeable dark field just above the gas giant's atmosphere.
Was it a shadow, as NASA appeared to claim, or something entirely different – part of a newly arrived extraterrestrial space fleet secretly parked around Jupiter?
Note: If it was a shadow of one of Jupiter moons, like Europa, then it must casting a black shadow on Jupiter's clouds but this dark field doesn't look like a shadow, it looks like a solid object in free space.
Alien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common? (feat Josef Lorenzo)
Alien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common? (feat Josef Lorenzo)
Grey Aliens, sometimes called Zeta Reticulans, Roswell Greys, or just Grays, are defined by their humanoid forms, long limbs, large black eyes, small noses, thin mouths, and of course, gray skin or gray clothing. They are some of pop culture’s most recognizable representations of extraterrestrial life. But where did this depiction of extraterrestrials come from, and why are Grays the ones mostly responsible for all the abductions?
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15-07-2022
Former Air Force chief claims he once saw UFO firing at nuke missiles launched from secret base
Former Air Force chief claims he once saw UFO firing at nuke missiles launched from secret base
By Patrick Knox
“A former air force chief claimed today how he saw a UFO firing four beams of light at a nuclear missile undergoing testing.
A reconstruction of a UFO sending a beam of light at the warhead in the edge of space.
A former air force chief claimed today how he saw a UFO firing four beams of light at a nuclear missile undergoing testing.
Ex-US Air Force First lieutenant Robert Jacobs alleged a craft, resembling a flying saucer, circled the dummy warhead during a test flight in California, during 1964.
But despite his claims of what he saw, the former serviceman was ordered never to breathe a word of what he saw, a bombshell press conference heard.
Along with other former American air force chiefs Dr. Jacobs was giving evidence about how aliens tampered with weapons systems during tests, at nuclear bases and even shut the missiles down.
Giving his testimony at the National Press Club in Washington DC, he said: “I was part of a US Airforce cover-up. It was shaped like a flying saucer and was firing a beam of light at our warhead.”
On September 14, 1964, he was in charge of a 100-man unit, Jacobs had been despatched to the Big Sur in California to photograph, with high-speed instrumentation, at Atlas-D missile launch from Vandenberg.
This is because all three stages of the rocket’s powered flight were to be observed, including the separation of a dummy warhead on the edge of space.
Ex-first lieutenant in USAF Robert Jacobs says he saw a UFO.
But the next day Dr. Jacobs, now a professor at Bradley University, said he was called into the office of Major Florenze J Mansmann, where three people in grey suits were standing — whom he later claimed were CIA.
He said: “Major Mansmann said lieutenant, sit down and watch this. He turned the projector on and the most amazing thing happened.”
Dr. Jacobs continued: “We could see the bottom three stages of that rocket filling the frame from 160 miles away.”
“It was amazing, the clarity was beautiful and we watched it go through all three stages of powered flight.”
“The nose cone opened up and radar chaff, aluminum foil, spread out.
“We were testing to see if we could launch a nuclear warhead into orbit, slightly above the nuclear chaff, so the Russians would aim their anti-missile missiles at the chaff, and our little warhead would fly over and obliterate Moscow.
“That was the game we were playing. Horrifying to think about it in retrospect.”
The camera that allegedly filmed the UFO at the edge of orbit.
But suddenly, from in the frame, he claimed they saw an object following the test missile, which was traveling at 8,000mph.
The UFO was said to have homed in and fired four beams at the warhead.
Dr. Jacobs said: “Then it flew out of the frame the same way it had come in. At that point, the warhead tumbled out of space.”
“The light came on and Major Mansmann and the two guys in grey suits looked at me, and the major said ‘were you guys screwing around up there (at camera site) I said ‘no sir’.
“And he said ‘what was that?’ and I said it looks to me like we have a UFO.”
But the baffled, young lieutenant was ordered to belt up, or else.
Dr. Jacobs said: “He escorted me to his door and said I don’t need to remind you of the seriousness of the security breach. I said no sir.”
Ex-First lieutenant in USAF Robert Jacobs, pictured middle bottom row, with his crew.
“But as I left, he leaned over to speak in my ear, as if to say something the guys in the suits couldn’t hear.”
“He said ‘lieutenant if you were ever tortured in the future, somebody has you up against the wall and they’re frying your privates with fire, you can tell them this, it was laser tracking.”
“But we never had laser tracking in 1964.”
He added: “What we are here today to tell you, is this is a real event that is the most important event in the history of mankind. We are not alone.”
Four former USAF captains will speak about worrying incidents going back several decades and show declassified government documents.
They are calling for the US Congress to investigate and hold public hearings into reports that UFOs have disabled nuclear weapons.
Former Air Force officer, Robert Salas, was the on-duty commander of an underground launch control facility assigned to Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, US on March 24, 1967.
Major Florenze J. Mansmann ordered him never to speak of what he had seen ever again.
He claims all ten of his intercontinental ballistic missiles became inoperable.
Salas added that eight days earlier, on March 16, 1967, a similar incident occurred at another missile launch control facility.
Speaking to Sun Online, he said was hopeful following the press conference the US Air Force would finally break its silence about UFOs.
He said: “We hope to put enough pressure on people in government to call for open hearings.
“If we have open congressional hearings we will know a lot more about the subject because there is a lot of documentation and credible witnesses out there who are reluctant to testify.
“The Pentagon is hoping they can just sit back and write their little reports to congressional committees and then it just gets lost in the background.
“That’s another reason I am doing this is to keep the pressure and keep it out in the media and again and hopefully we can make some inroads.
“The USAF has been silent. The navy has come out and said they have now procedures for the pilots to report these sights.”
The UFO topic is becoming more serious and scientific, which is why every piece of news that comes out related to Unidentified Flying Objects quickly goes viral. Now a mysterious object has emerged from the Indian Ocean, just 700 kilometers from Madagascar.
Gone are the years where the UFO topic belonged solely to conspiracy theorists and alternative researchers. Now science and governments openly study them.
That is why he has powerfully called a strange object that emerged at full speed from the depths of the Indian Ocean .
UFO emerges from the sea
The island of Reunion , located in the Mascarene archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 700 kilometers east of Madagascar.
On the night of October 11, Sandrine Fontaine captured a video of a large unknown flying object hovering over the ocean .
This enigmatic dark mass rose very slowly above the water. Fontaine captured the entire event thanks to the red filter that his telescope had. This allowed him to see in detail the strange shape of what appeared to be a ship.
Despite this, he was only able to film the UFO for a few seconds, as it quickly disappeared .
According to experts who have examined the video, the object is very similar to the UFOs that were photographed from a US submarine in 1971 .
At the moment it leaves the water, the object’s profile is shown as a triangular shape . A very characteristic form that has been filmed on other occasions.
An example of strange craft with these shapes is the TR-3B anti-gravity aircraft . However, it is obvious that what is shown in the video emerges from the sea .
In fact, many experts consider that it is not a UFO, but a USO , so it could belong to an underwater base .
Human or alien?
Many people on the internet have raised the possibility that this is reverse-engineered human technology . Using alien technology captured in the past.
They have even mentioned the possibility that it is part of a space fleet capable of traveling to other planets in the Solar System.
There is also the possibility that we are facing a real alien spacecraft. Theorists have even speculated for years that an underwater extraterrestrial base could exist near the island , where an alien race could live .
So far, no government has ruled on the matter, so no theory can be affirmed or rejected. If you want to know more about it, check out the Snakedos video below:
Mysterious Silver Spherical UFO over California caught on video
Mysterious Silver Spherical UFO over California caught on video
A UFO in the form of a flying silver ball was recently seen and filmed in Menlo Park, California, USA. The object appeared to be large enough.
A man from Menlo Park in California was resting near the house the other day with his mother and son when they noticed something strange in the sky.
The object was shaped like a metal ball, which was probably quite large, as it was clearly visible even from a decent height.
It was a clear day, not a cloud in the sky, and the slowly flying UFO didn’t look like a weather balloon or drone at all. It flew and rotated at the same time.
According to the author of the video, their entire family watched the object for 15 minutes before it slowly rose vertically and disappeared from view.
Some ufologists call such small objects UFO patrols and say that it is not difficult to see such objects if you know what time is best to keep an eye on the sky.
According to ufologists, patrols are alien drones that are capable of scanning the earth. These devices monitor the Earth, keep track of all events taking place on the planet and transmit this information to the main “headquarters”, where it is analyzed and, as necessary, decisions are made on “intervention” in the affairs of earthlings.
JWST Also Looked Inside the Solar System, at Jupiter and its Moons
JWST Also Looked Inside the Solar System, at Jupiter and its Moons
After the ‘big reveal’ earlier this week of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full color images and spectra of the universe, the science team has now released data from closer to home. One stunning shot includes Jupiter and its moons, and there are also data from several asteroids. These latest data are actually just engineering images, designed to test JWST’s ability to track solar system targets, as well as test out how the team can produce images from the data. The quality and detail in these test images have excited the mission scientists.
“Combined with the deep field images released the other day, these images of Jupiter demonstrate the full grasp of what Webb can observe, from the faintest, most distant observable galaxies to planets in our own cosmic backyard that you can see with the naked eye from your actual backyard,” said Bryan Holler, a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, in a NASA blog post. Holler was part of the team who helped plan these observations.
This view from JWST’s NIRCam instrument’s short-wavelength filter clearly shows the distinct cloud bands around the giant planet as well as the Great Red Spot, Jupiter’s famous gigantic storm. Scientists say the iconic spot appears white in this image because of the way Webb’s infrared image was processed.
Also clearly visible at left is Europa, which is seen as a dark spot with bright edges, nd interestingly, in the infrared, Europa is bright enough to create diffraction spikes. Diffraction spikes come from the hexagonal shape of the mirror segments, diffracting the light from bright objects like stars, or in this case a nearby moon.
But look closely, and Europa’s shadow can be seen to the left of the Great Red Spot. Other visible moons include Thebe and Metis, which are seen as small, white spots.
Left: Jupiter, center, and its moons Europa, Thebe, and Metis are seen through the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument 2.12 micron filter. Right: Jupiter and Europa, Thebe, and Metis are seen through NIRCam’s 3.23 micron filter. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and B. Holler and J. Stansberry (STScI)
Even Jupiter’s thin rings are visible in some of the new images, using JWST’s NIRcam long-wavelength filter image. The very diffuse rings were first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979.
“What JWST will do for Jupiter’s rings is give exquisite image stability and quality, to characterize ring structure, and its sources, sinks and evolution,” said Heidi Hammel on Twitter, Hammel is a JWST interdisciplinary scientist who has early observing time on the telescope to study Jupiter.
Jupiter and some of its moons are seen through NIRCam’s 3.23 micron filter. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and B. Holler and J. Stansberry (STScI)
Scientists were very eager to see these images because they are proof that JWST can observe the satellites and rings near bright solar system objects such as Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars. Some exciting upcoming observations is to use the new space telescope to look for plumes of water spewing out of moons like Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Webb may be able to see the signatures of plumes depositing material on the surface on Europa.
“I think that’s just one of the coolest things that we’ll be able to do with this telescope in the solar system,” said Stefanie Milam, Webb’s deputy project scientist for planetary science NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Astronomer Judy Schmidt was able to retrieve the JWST data of Jupiter and create this image, which she shared on Twitter. Even the Great Red Spot is bright enough with the NIRCam data to create diffraction spikes.
But other unusual features show up as well, and scientists aren’t sure yet if the “extra outline” on the eastern limb is real or an image artifact.
Heidi Hammel commented that her team noticed “that weird edge right and started discussing detached haze layers or air glow.” This illustrates how scientists are still learning how to interpret JWST’s infrared data. But to reiterate, Hammel added, “The Jupiter teams are so excited!”
JWST also obtained these images of Jupiter and Europa moving across the telescope’s field of view in three separate observations. This test demonstrated the ability of the observatory to find and track guide stars in the vicinity of bright Jupiter.
Jupiter and its moon Europa are seen in this animation made from three images taken through the NIRCam instrument 2.12 micron filter. Click on the image to play the gif again. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and B. Holler and J. Stansberry (STScI)
Scientists were very interested to test out how fast an object could be moving and still be tracked by JWST, and to do so, during the commissioning period, Webb tracked an asteroid called 6481 Tenzing, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Engineers said that JWST was designed with the requirement to track objects that move as fast as Mars, which has a maximum speed of 30 milliarcseconds per second. During commissioning, the Webb team conducted observations of various asteroids, and proved they can get valuable data with all of the science instruments for objects moving up to 67 milliarcseconds per second, which is more than twice the expected baseline. They said it is “similar to photographing a turtle crawling when you’re standing a mile away.
Asteroid 6481 Tenzing, center, is seen moving against a background of stars in this series of images taken by NIRCam. Click on the image to play the gif again. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and B. Holler and J. Stansberry (STScI)
You can read a paper from JWST scientists, who characterized the performance of all of the telescope’s instruments during the commissioning period.
Want to play around with the data from JWST? All the data from the telescope’s commissioning period is now being released on the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.
UAP Over North Miami Beach, Florida July 14, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
UAP Over North Miami Beach, Florida July 14, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:July 14, 2022
Location of sighting: North Miami Beach, Florida, USA
This mysterious object appeared in the sky over Miami yesterday during sunset. The eyewitness described it as a giant sperm with several small stars in it. Now some will say its SpaceX rocket, but I see no rocket. Can you? However I do see a huge tear drop disk in the sky that is semi transparent and then turns invisible. There is also some small lights that come from it and seem to fall. I believe these to be small transport ships bringing people to an underwater alien base off the shores of Florida.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Coming home from work tonight I looked up and saw this bright white trail is what I thought was a cloud at first. As it continues to move, the smoke/cloud trail also continued. In the video you see as it continues to "fly" the air around it is billowed around it like it's affecting the air space.
Note peter2011:
To me, this is the image of a rocket launch. It is very similar to the GIF you will find on my homepage. So for me no UFO or UAP, but a rocket.
On July 14, 2022 residents were stunned by the sight of a strange phenomenon in the sky in Haikou, capital of South China’s Hainan. The footage which was recorded by a local resident appears to show a mysterious city floating in the sky.
Although some people have the raised the fear that this mysterious phenomenon was possible the result of a project Blue Beam test, a holographic technology or a temporarily vortex of a possible parallel universe, the phenomenon is more likely a mirage, a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. Another possibility is a Fata Morgana, one kind of superior mirage.
It is not the first time; on October 7, 2015 a huge mysterious city, including skyscrapers, floating in the clouds over the city of Foshan in in central Guangdong province, China.
On March 18, 2016 ghost-like buildings was seen above the sea along the port of Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning Province and dominated the skies for minutes.
And on September 11, 2020 The ghostly image of what looked like the iconic Hogwarts School from the world of Harry Potter was spotted floating above modern buildings in Jinan, Shandong Province in eastern China.
The expert discusses and try to explain some strange symbols we’ve seen in outer space during the years. Here’s their take on the STS-115 triangle and Alien X.
James Webb's secret picture of JUPITER: NASA stealthily drops a photo of the gas giant alongside the space telescope's first official shots of deep space
James Webb's secret picture of JUPITER: NASA stealthily drops a photo of the gas giant alongside the space telescope's first official shots of deep space
Two new photos of Jupiter have been taken by NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope
NASA quietly published the images in the telescope's commissioning report yesterday
They show three of Jupiter's moons - Europa, Thebe, and Metis - rings and the Great Red Spot on its surface
Space enthusiasts across the world were starstruck by the first set of full-colour photos taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)released yesterday.
But what they may not have spotted hidden among the 60-page commissioning report are two brand new photos of Jupiter.
The glowing snaps of the gas giant - the closest one to Earth in our Solar System - were taken by the telescope when it was being tested.
They show Jupiter's rings as well as three of its moons; Europa, Thebe, and Metis.
The shadow of Europa can also be seen on the image designated 'F212N', just next to the infamous Great Red Spot.
The Great Red Spot is a long-lived enormous storm system located 22 degrees south of Jupiter's equator, which produces wind speeds up to 268 mph (432 km/h).
NIRCam short-wavelength image of Jupiter taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, showing the moons Thebe, Europa and Metis and the Great Red Spot on the planet's surface. It was taken using the F212N filter that highlights light of wavelength 2.12 micrometres
NIRCam short-wavelength image of Jupiter taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, showing the moons Thebe, Europa and Metis. It was taken using the F323N filter that highlights light of wavelength 3.23 micrometre
The commissioning report states that the pictures 'demonstrated that JWST can track moving targets even when there is scattered light from a bright Jovian planet'. They also show its ability to capture details like rings and moons around bright planets
JUPITER: THE BASICS
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our solar system.
It is a massive ball of gas that is made mostly of hydrogen and helium, with some heavy elements.
'Jupiter's familiar stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium,' said NASA.
'Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.'
The planet is twice as large as all of the other planet's combined, and the Great Red Spot alone is large enough to fit the entire Earth insidee.
One spacecraft – NASA's Juno orbiter – is currently exploring this giant world.
Facts and figures
Distance from Sun: 750 million km
Orbital period: 12 years
Surface area: 61.42 billion km²
Radius: 69,911 km
Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)
Length of day: 0d 9h 56m
Moons: 53 with formal designations; innumerable additional moonlets
The two images were taken by JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), and each use a different filter to highlight separate wavelengths of light.
The report states that the pictures 'demonstrated that JWST can track moving targets even when there is scattered light from a bright Jovian planet'.
Jovian means 'Jupiter-like' and describes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in our solar system.
NASA chose nine targets to test the telescope's ability to track fast-moving objects, which moved at speeds of up to 67 milliarcseconds per second.
Other onboard instruments tested include the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) and the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), which detect and stabilise different wavelengths.
Jupiter was the slowest target, moving at just 3.3 milliarcseconds per second, but all tests were successful.
These images also demonstrate its ability to capture details like rings and moons around bright planets.
The commissioning report explains: 'Observing a bright planet and its satellites and rings was expected to be challenging, due to scattered light that may affect the science instrument employed, but also the fine guidance sensor (FGS) must track guide stars near the bright planet.
'These observations verified the expectation that guide star acquisition works successfully as long as Jupiter is at least 140" away from the FGS, consistent with pre-flight modeling.'
The success in this test opens up the possibility for the telescope to track near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), comets and other interstellar objects.
The commissioning report summarises six months of testing the JWST instruments, and was released yesterday along with the first official set of deep space photos.
The authors wrote: 'The key outcome of six months of commissioning is this: JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built.
'JWST was envisioned 'to enable fundamental breakthroughs in our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars, and planetary systems,
Twitter users were shocked to find the image of Jupiter hidden in the commissioning report
Academics and space enthusiasts alike are awe-struck by the dazzling photos from the JWST
Dazzling, unprecedented images of a 'stellar nursery', dying star cloaked by dust and a 'cosmic dance' between a group of galaxies have been revealed to the world by NASA's new super space telescope. Among them is an image revealing baby stars in the Carina Nebula (pictured), where ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds shape colossal walls of dust and gas
Cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away. One image was taken in the near-infrared (left) and another in the mid-infrared (right)
INSTRUMENTS ON THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
NIRCam (Near InfraRed Camera) an infrared imager from the edge of the visible through the near infrared
NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) will also perform spectroscopy over the same wavelength range.
MIRI (Mid-InfraRed Instrument) will measure the mid-to-long-infrared wavelength range from 5 to 27 micrometers.
FGS/NIRISS (Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph), is used to stabilise the line-of-sight of the observatory during science observations.
NASA experts revealed the first five official deep-space pictures taken by the JWST in a global press conference.
These included images of a 'stellar nursery', dying star cloaked by dust and a 'cosmic dance' between a group of galaxies.
Webb's infrared capabilities mean it can 'see back in time' to within a mere 100-200 million years of the Big Bang, allowing it to snap pictures of the very first stars to shine in the universe more than 13.5 billion years ago.
Its first images of nebulae, an exoplanet and galaxy clusters have triggered huge celebration in the scientific world, on what has been hailed a 'great day for humanity'.
Among the discoveries announced by NASA is that scientists have seen water vapour in the atmosphere of an exoplanet planet more than 1,000 light-years from Earth.
Webb captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding WASP-96 b — a hot, puffy gas giant planet which orbits a distant sun-like star every 3.4 days.
It is the first ever spectrum analysis of an exoplanet's atmosphere. WASP-96 b has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014.
One of the five jaw-dropping pictures released shows a planetary nebula caused by a dying star — a fate that awaits our sun some time in the distant future.
Nearly half a light-year in diameter and approximately 2,500 light-years away from Earth, the Southern Ring Nebula can be seen in incredible never-before-seen detail.
Another image is of Stephan's Quintet, which is located in the constellation Pegasus and is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877.
One image is of Stephan's Quintet, which is located in the constellation Pegasus and is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877
In the mid-infrared view of Stephan's Quintet, Webb pierces through dust, giving new insight into how interactions like these may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe
Pictured is the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope, showing SMACS 0723, a galaxy cluster billions of light-years from Earth
THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
The James Webb telescope 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 more than 13.5 billion years ago, and observe the sources of stars, exoplanets, and even the moons and planets of our solar system.
The vast telescope, which has already cost more than $7 billion (£5 billion), is considered a successor to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope
The James Webb Telescope and most of its instruments have an operating temperature of roughly 40 Kelvin – about minus 387 Fahrenheit (minus 233 Celsius).
It is the world's biggest and most powerful orbital space telescope, capable of peering back 100-200 million years after the Big Bang.
The orbiting infrared observatory is designed to be about 100 times more powerful than its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA likes to think of James Webb as a successor to Hubble rather than a replacement, as the two will work in tandem for a while.
The Hubble telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
It circles the Earth at a speed of about 17,000mph (27,300kph) in low Earth orbit at about 340 miles in altitude.
Zo heb je Jupiter nog nooit gezien: James Webb-telescoop maakte nog meer verbluffende beelden
NASA gaf onlangs enkele fantastische hoge-resolutieafbeeldingen vrij van de James Webb Space Telescoop (JSWT). Nu zijn er ook andere foto’s gevonden, namelijk van Jupiter en zijn manen.
De foto’s werden gemaakt tijdens een test. Astrologen wilden ervoor zorgen dat de Webb telescoop snel bewegende objecten in het zonnestelsel kon volgen. Hiervoor heeft de telescoop negen doelen gefotografeerd, waarvan Jupiter de langzaamst bewegende is die de meest verbluffende foto’s laat nemen.
De beelden tonen Jupiter en zijn ringen, alsook drie van zijn manen: Europa, Thebe en Metis. Je kan ook de schaduw van Europa zien in de linkse afbeelding, net naast de tumultueuze en beruchte Grote Rode Vlek van de planeet.
“Goed nieuws”
In het algemeen blijkt uit het verslag dat de Webb telescoop zelfs beter presteert dan verwacht. Dit is allemaal goed nieuws, want het betekent dat hij nuttig zal zijn bij het opsporen van dingen zoals objecten in de buurt van de aarde en kometen.
“Het belangrijkste resultaat van zes maanden inbedrijfstelling is dit: de James Webb telescoop is volledig in staat om de ontdekkingen te doen waarvoor hij is gebouwd. Hij was bedoeld om ‘fundamentele doorbraken mogelijk te maken in ons begrip van de vorming en evolutie van sterrenstelsels, sterren en planetenstelsels’,” schrijven de onderzoekers in het rapport.
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Humanoid Creature Captured On CCTV In Kentucky & Phantom Fingers Spotted On Fish Tank In England
Humanoid Creature Captured On CCTV In Kentucky & Phantom Fingers Spotted On Fish Tank In England
The first clip was posted to Facebook on July 8, 2022 by Douglas Windsor McLoney III who stated this was filmed at the cottages in Natural Bridge State Resort Park. In the footage we can see this strange looking creature moving in a bizarre manner. Real or Fake, What do you think?
Thanks to Douglas Windsor McLoney III for posting this footage and to view the original:
Second clip was filmed on July 12, 2022 at his home in the East Midlands of England and in the footage we can see these fingers on the fish tank while he is making his video about his new fish when he notices the fingers and then he gives chase only to find nobody or nothing in his home. The witness stated the following to me: "While sitting on the couch at my house by myself, no one else was in the house as my wife and kids are away at the in-laws' place. I checked afterwards and all doors were locked, and no windows were open wide enough for anyone to fit through. It's not the first time something strange has happened in this house." He also added, "I've heard the occasional unexplained banging noises from the kitchen, and sometimes footsteps that I'm 100% sure aren't from the neighbours."
Thanks to gettheBASS for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:
Nasa secretly releases surprise images of our solar system, showing Jupiter from James Webb Space Telescope
Nasa secretly releases surprise images of our solar system, showing Jupiter from James Webb Space Telescope
Andrew Griffin
Venus and Jupiter appear in the night sky (Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images)
Nasa secretly leaked two surprising new pictures of our ownsolar system.
The new pictures were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, Nasa’s new flagship equipment that could allow us to peer back into the beginnings of the universe and could help locate alien life.
This week, Nasa revealed the first images sent back from that telescope. Photos showed vast cliffs and nebulae, with Nasa stressing how the telescope allowed it to see stars and dust that would never have been visible before.
But at the same time, a team appears to have revealed the first images that the telescope has taken of objects in our own solar system.
While they are not quite as spectacular as those first images to be released, they could be equally important for scientists who want to use the telescope to better understand distant worlds.
The two images show Jupiter, and were taken by the Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, equipment on the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists say they demonstrate that it is able to photograph details like the moons and rings of planets like Jupiter – and there are thought to be many of those spread throughout the universe.
“Observing a bright planet and its satellites and rings was expected to be challenging, due to scattered light that may affect the science instrument employed, but also the fine guidance sensor must track guide stars near the bright planet,” the authors write. But the testing showed that challengespossible.
It also suggests that the telescope will be useful for work in our own solar system, such as tracking near-Earth objects and comets as they fly through our cosmic neighbourhood. Engineers took images of nine different targets to test that capability, and Jupiter was the slowest-moving of them.
(Nasa)
The images are not officially released, but were instead included in a Nasa document that detailed how well the telescope was operating for scientists so far. The document concludes that the telescope has exceeded the already high expectations that researchers had had for it.
The telescope enters its first cycle “having demonstrated that the observatory exceeds its demanding pre-launch performance expectations”, the authors write. “With revolutionary capabilities, JWST has begun the first of many years of scientific discovery.”
Some ancient structures are more well-known than others. There’s no doubt, however, that Stonehenge is very near the top of the list. I should stress that although we have a great deal of data on the legendary creation itself, much of the story is still very much shrouded in enigmas, folklore and myth. Stonehenge was, most archaeologists suggest, constructed roughly around 3,100 BC. In other words, around five thousand years ago. That’s not the full story, though: there is clear evidence that the area on which Stonehenge stands now – the English county of Wiltshire - was used by the people of an even earlier era, possibly even to as far back as 8,000 BC. As for when Stonehenge was first studied to a fairly significant degree, the English Heritage comes to the point: “The first known excavation at Stonehenge, in the center of the monument, was undertaken in the 1620s by the Duke of Buckingham, prompted by a visit by King James I. The king subsequently commissioned the architect Inigo Jones to conduct a survey and study of the monument. Jones argued that Stonehenge was built by the Romans.” Jones was way off course.
(Nick Redfern) Stonehenge, almost magical
Merrily Harpur, the author of Mystery Big Cats, has logged a fascinating account from a man named George Price, who had an undeniably bizarre experience on Salisbury Plain, England in September 2002, while then serving with the British Army. It was at the height of a military exercise, Harpur was told, and Price was a ‘commander in the turret of our tank, and we were advancing to contact our warriors’. Suddenly, Price’s attention was drawn to a ‘large, ape-like figure’ that ‘looked scared because of the noise from the engines and tanks were moving at speed all around." Although the beast was not in sight for long - it raced for the safety of ‘nearby prickly shrubs’ - an amazed Price could see that ‘its fur was similar to an orang-utan in colour...its height was impressive...[and] it seemed to run with its back low, i.e. bent over’.
Salisbury Plain is not just home to military manoeuvres, however. It is also home to one of the world’s most famous ancient stone circles: Stonehenge. While most students of the legendary structure conclude it had its beginnings somewhere around 3,100 BC, evidence of human activity in the area has been found suggesting a presence as far back as 8,000 BC. And a degree of that same presence is indicative of ritualistic activity, even at that incredibly early age. But, regardless of when, precisely, large-scale construction of Stonehenge actually began, what can be said with certainty is that it is comprised of a ditch, a bank, and what are known as the Aubrey holes - round pits in the chalk that form a huge circle. And then, of course, there are those massive stone blocks.
No less than eighty-two of Stonehenge’s so-called bluestones, some of which weigh up to four-tons, are believed to have been transported from the Preseli Mountains in southwest Wales to the Wiltshire site, a distance of 240-miles. Although, the actual number of stones is in dispute since, today, barely more than forty remain. Certainly, such a mammoth operation to move such huge stones would be no easy feat in the modern era, never mind thousands of years ago. And yet, somehow, this incredible and mystifying task was successfully achieved. Stonehenge’s thirty giant Sarsen stones, meanwhile, were brought from the Marlborough Downs, a distance of around twenty-five miles. This might sound like a much easier task than having to haul the bluestones all the way from Wales. Hardly. As noted, the Welsh stones are in the order of four-tons. Some of the Sarsen stones from the downs, however, weigh in at twenty-five-tons, the heaviest around fifty. And people wonder why so much mystery and intrigue surrounds the creation of Stonehenge.
(Nick Redfern) A legendary place
Now, let's take a look at a mysterious aircraft around Stonehenge. In March 1997, the UK Independent newspaper ran an article titled "Secret US spyplane crash may be kept under wraps." In part, it stated: "A top-secret United States spyplane which flies on the edge of space at five times the speed of sound crashed at the British experimental airbase at Boscombe Down, Hampshire, in September 1994, according to a report in a leading military aviation journal. The SAS [Special Air Service], the report said, was scrambled to throw a cordon round the wreckage, which was flown back to the US two days later. The hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft, called Astra or Aurora, is believed to have been developed in the 1980s as a secret US government 'black programme.'" The account of the crash at Boscombe Down is made all the more intriguing by a story that was published in the UK's Salisbury Times newspaper on August 23, 1994 - just about a month before all hell broke loose at Boscombe Down. The location: the aforementioned A303 road. Interestingly, the A303 road goes by Stonehenge. The article states:
"A green flying saucer hovered beside the A303 road at Deptford last week - according to a lorry driver who rushed to Salisbury police station in the early hours of the morning. The man banged on the station door in Wilton Road at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday after spotting the saucer suspended in mid-air. 'He was 100 per cent convinced it was a UFO,' said Inspector Andy Shearing. The man said it was bright green and shaped like a triangle with rounded corners. It also had green and white flashing lights. Other drivers had seen it and were flashing their car lights at him. A patrol car took the driver back to the spot but there was no trace of the flying saucer. Inspector Shearing said police had been alerted about similar sightings in the same area in the past."
Although the Times called the object a "flying saucer," the description of it being "shaped like a triangle with rounded corners," sounds very much like the TR-3A. It's also a near-perfect description of equally unidentified aircraft that have become known within Ufology as "Flying Triangles." But here's the most important issue: the witness reported that the object he saw was "suspended in mid-air." This is particularly fascinating, as there are longstanding rumors that the TR-3A has hovering capabilities. It should be noted, too, that other stone circles in the United Kingdom are shrouded in mystery and high-strangeness.
Reports of hairy wild men absolutely abound throughout the English county of Staffordshire, but there is one area of the county that seems to attract a great deal more than its fair share of such activity. Its name is deeply familiar to one and all throughout the area as Castle Ring. Located near to the village of Cannock Wood, Castle Ring is an Iron Age structure commonly known as a Hill Fort. It is 801 feet above sea level, and its main ditch and bank enclosure is fourteen feet high and, at its widest point, 853 feet across. It has to be admitted that very little is known about the mysterious and long-forgotten people who built Castle Ring, except to say that they were already in residence at the time of the Roman invasion of A.D. 43 and remained there until approximately A.D. 50. Some suggest that the initial foundations of Castle Ring may even have been laid as early as 500 B.C. Moreover, historians suggest that the creators of Castle Ring might have represented a powerful body of people that held firm sway over certain other parts of Staffordshire, as well as significant portions of both Shropshire and Cheshire at the time in question.
(Nick Redfern) Castle Ring
On May 1, 2004, Alec Williams was driving passed the car-park that sits at the base of Castle Ring when he witnessed a hair-covered, man-like entity lumber across the road and into the trees. A shocked Williams stated that the sighting lasted barely a few seconds, but that he was able to make out its amazing form: "It was about seven feet tall, with short, shiny, dark brown hair, a large head and had eyes that glowed bright red." Interestingly, Williams stated that as he slowed his vehicle down, he witnessed something akin to a camera flash coming from the depths of the woods and heard a cry that he described as a howl.
Now, for some fascinating information from Jon Downes of the U.K.'s Center for Fortean Zoology. Jon reveals: "One of the most credible reports brought to my attention came from a family that had a daylight encounter with a large and hairy beast in the Peak District in 1991. This all occurred as they were driving near Ladybower Reservoir on the Manchester to Sheffield road. On a hillside, one of the family members had spotted a large figure walking down towards the road. But this was no man. Well, they brought the car to a screeching halt and came face to face with an enormous creature about eight feet tall, that was covered in long brown hair with eyes just like a man’s. Its walk was different, too, almost crouching. But just as the man-beast reached the road, another car pulled up behind the family and blasted their horn – apparently wondering why they had stopped in the middle of the road. Suddenly, the creature – which I presume was startled by the noise - ran across the road, jumped over a wall that had a ten-foot drop on the other side, and ran off, disappearing into the woods. Now, I know that the family has returned to the area but has seen nothing since."
It’s also worth noting that, with regard to the sighting of the large and lumbering beast that was seen near the Peak District-based Ladybower Reservoir in November 1991, less than one mile away, on Stanton Moor, stands a stone circle called the Nine Ladies. It was constructed during the Bronze Age era, and is a place at which, every year, druids and pagans alike celebrate the summer solstice. For sure, a wealth of mysteries to resolve.
One of the more interesting facets of the recent revelations of UFO encounters between US military pilots and UFOs – starting with the 2004 USS Nimitz incidents – are the reports of transmedium crafts that fly at impossible speeds and then enter and exit the water seamlessly, without effort, damage or loss of capabilities. Could this be an indication of underwater alien bases? In late 2021, an unusual story was unearthed about an alleged visit by Albert Einstein to Area 51 to allegedly view extraterrestrial spacecrafts and aliens – alive or dead. The story was told by a student assistant of Einstein who accompanied the renowned genius on his inspections. Now, a new documentary reveals that the student assistant claimed to have interviewed at least one of the aliens … and was told the ETs live under the ocean. Is it true? Could these be the same aliens flying the transmedium crafts seen by military pilots? Let’s see if this latest dot is legitimate and should be connected to any of the others in this truly unusual picture.
“If what Shirley said is right, and as she tells it is accurate, it is more likely that aliens come from somewhere under the sea or caves or something like that, rather than another planet.”
Do they look like this?
In an interview with The Daily Star, Anna Whitty, the author of “UFO's: A Fundamental Truth,” reveals she has been researching Dr. Shirley Wright, the student assistant of Albert Einstein (they met while she was a student at Yale University) who passed away in 2015. In 2021, longtime UFO researcher Anthony 'Tony' Bragalia reviewed an audio recording of an interview by MUFON researcher Sheila Franklin (who was given the assignment by noted UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield) of “Edith Simpson” – a pseudonym Stringfield had given Wright in another research article to protect her identity. Unfortunately, only the first half of the interview survived, but in the first half Wright describes attending a conference in Chicago with Einstein, being invited to fly to an undisclosed location which turned out to be Area 51, seeing what they believed was an extraterrestrial craft, and then viewing what were allegedly five alike five-foot-tall corpses “dressed in tight-fitting suits” which she heard “had no navels or genitalia." Finally, Wright said they were taken to another isolated building where she claims they saw one being that was still alive but in pain, and she later heard the creature had survived.
“I was just told to keep my mouth shut."
Well, it’s obvious that Shirly Wright didn’t keep her mouth shut, and Anna Whitty has apparently either found another interview or dug deeper into the one recorded by Sheila Franklin – her exclusive interview with The Daily Star does not say where Whitty received her information on what Wright saw at Area 51. It is possible that was revealed in the two hour documentary, “Roswell 75: The Final Evidence,” on the BLAZE network. However, Whitty shared a blockbuster piece of information with the Daily Star:
“She made the claim based of the testimony given by Dr Shirley Wright, a former colleague of Albert Einstein, who said that she had interviewed the aliens found at the site of the Roswell crash in 1947.”
That’s right – according to Whitty, Shirley Wright not only accompanied Albert Einstein to Area 51 to view the corpses of dead aliens and another which was injured but living, but Wright apparently was able to interview the being – and possibly more than one, since the Daily Star quotes her as saying “aliens” -- who somehow knew English or communicated in some other manner. The blockbuster reveals of Wright keep on coming, as Whitty says she claimed that the aliens asked “how far into the ocean” humans had explored.
“If what Shirley said is right, and as she tells it is accurate, it is more likely that aliens come from somewhere under the sea or caves or something like that, rather than another planet.”
Or do they look like this?
At this point, the UFO book author side of Anna Whitty takes over as she speculates what the comments of Shirley Wright about the aliens coming from under the oceans might mean. Her interpretation is that these “aliens” are actually Earth beings who moved underwater at some point in Earth’s history – a move which protected them from what Whitty says happens to the rest of us every few thousand years.
“It makes sense, because there's a lot of evidence on the planet that there has been a massive cataclysm every few thousand years.”
That might make sense if Whitty is referring to climate change events like ice ages or warmings. However, she then defines “cataclysm” as “humans on the surface are being reset to the Stone Age every several thousands of years.” That doesn’t match up with known human history, although it could certainly have been possible over a few ‘million’ years. Whitty thinks these ancient Earth beings escaped this “reset” and the result is that they are far ahead of us in technology … and perhaps even in body and mind capabilities.
“It's also possible that maybe they aren't beings at all, but they can make you think you're seeing what you're not seeing.”
That is an interesting conclusion and one that would be difficult to prove, especially since Wright, Einstein and the major participants and witnesses from that alleged visit to Area 51 are deceased. Or are they? Could one or more of the alleged aliens still be alive? Did this interview conducted by Shirley Wright give any more clues to where they are hiding in the ocean? Are they in any way connected to the transmedium UAPs?
“The pattern appears to be that it wants to affect some kind of behavioral change . . .not for any contact with it to be about what it is. If we know what it is, we can only think about ourselves and what we are. It wants us to think about what we are, not what it is – maybe they want to just help along our development, because they've already got a really good understanding of the universe and how everything works.”
Here's a hint … Anna Whitty’s conclusion sounds like the usual apocalyptic doomsayer warning that we really need to clean up our act because these underwater beings, which might be aliens or perhaps even be us on a different evolutionary path, want us to. It is a sad commentary that we need aliens – real or imagined – to tell us what we should already know.
James Webb-telescoop toont volgens Vaticaan "buitengewone kracht" van God aan
De met verstomming slaande foto's die de James Webb Space Telescope van sterrenstelsels kort na de Big Bang heeft gemaakt, tonen de "buitengewone kracht" van God aan alsmede zijn "liefde voor schoonheid". Dat heeft de Vaticaanse Sterrenwacht vandaag gezegd.
"We zijn erg enthousiast over de nieuwe beelden van de Webb Telescoop! Deze beelden zijn prachtig. (...) Het is een verrukkelijke glimp van wat we in de toekomst over het universum kunnen leren", zei observatoriumdirecteur Guy Consolmagno in een verklaring.
"De wetenschap achter deze telescoop is onze poging om de intelligentie die God ons heeft gegeven te gebruiken om de logica van het universum te begrijpen. Omdat het universum niet zou werken als het niet logisch was”, voegde hij eraan toe. Maar het universum, zo beklemtoonde de directeur ook, "is niet alleen logisch, het is ook mooi". "Het is het werk van God dat aan ons is geopenbaard, en daarin kunnen we zowel zijn buitengewone kracht als zijn liefde voor schoonheid zien.”
Guy Consolmagno zegt dat hij bijzonder "opgetogen" is het eerste teken van waterdamp in de atmosfeer van een exoplaneet te ontdekken, "150 jaar nadat pater Angelo Secchi een prisma voor de lens van zijn telescoop plaatste op het dak van de kerk van St. Ignatius in Rome, en de eerste spectrale metingen van de atmosferen van de planeten van ons eigen zonnestelsel uitvoerde”.
Evolutie
De goddelijke oorsprong van het universum blijft het onveranderlijke credo van de katholieke kerk, maar haar wetenschappelijke doctrine is duidelijk geëvolueerd in de afgelopen eeuw. Zo had paus Johannes Paulus II in 1992 Galileo Galilei definitief gerehabiliteerd. De wetenschapper was in 1633 veroordeeld door de Romeinse rechters van de inquisitie omdat hij de stelling van de Poolse wetenschapper Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) had gesteund, volgens welke de aarde rond zichzelf en de zon draait.
Bob Lazar is the most important entity in exposing the alleged secret activities related to extraterrestrials and UFOs happening at Area-51. He is widely recognized as the Area-51 whistle-blower who revealed aliens and the government worked together on secret bases in 1989. Thirty years ago, he claimed to have worked as an engineer near Area-51 at a hangar called S-4. There, as he claims, UFOs with tiny alien seats were made out of a material called Element 115.
The story of Element 115 gets weirder when Bob claimed that the FBI raided his business. His followers found this to be very suspicious, and have theorized that the FBI was attempting to recover samples of Element 115 that Lazar took from Area-51.
According to Motherboard, the FBI did actually raid Bob’s United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies, which sells radioactive ore and isotopes, X-Ray components, electrical items, high-powered magnets, lab equipment, jet engines, and UFO T-shirts.
This claim was revealed in Jeremy Corbell’s documentary “Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers.” Lazar and the documentary frame the raid as an attempt by the U.S. government to seize alien fuel that Lazar allegedly stole from Area-51. But the documents obtained by Motherboard had nothing to do with Element 115.
Corbell told Express.co.uk: “Lazar did have a stabilized version of Element 115 in his possession at one time. He did tests on it – and filmed the element bending light due to its unique gravitational characteristics. A handful of witnesses observed these tests – including investigative reporter, George Knapp. There is footage of one of these tests in my film. Lazar was able to acquire some of the element when it was being machined at Area 51.”
Someone can still question the credibility of Bob Lazar, but there are many authentic people to confirm his credibility. George Knapp stated that he had spoken with former employees who worked with Bob and verified that he was a physicist, however, these claims were made informally and off the record. Knapp said that those employees were friends of Lazar’s and only specifically named Joe Vaninetti as being one who confirmed it. Vaninetti had a significant interest in UFOs and was involved in UFO research with Bob, both before and after Bob claimed to have worked at S-4. (Click here to read more about Lazar’s credibility)
Element 115: An Alien Fuel?
According to Bob, this alien artifact is a highly radioactive element that allows alien spacecraft to traverse the cosmos, impervious to gravity’s effects. Lazar has been claiming for years that he worked on the material at Area-51 and that it can be used to power spacecraft.
“It’s a superheavy element,” Lazar once told Larry King. “It’s a unique element. When it’s exposed to radiation, it produces its own gravitational field—its own antigravitational field, and it’s what’s used to lift and propel the craft.” The UFO fuel is stable and did not decay, according to Lazar. He said that the fuel creates gravity waves to propel the UFO.
In his initial TV interviews (check the video below) with George Knapp back in 1989, Bob first discussed Element 115 and how it was used in the propulsion system of the alien craft hidden at the S-4 facility. He never denied or confirmed if aliens had given them Element 115 but he told that they had 500 pounds (227 kg) for reverse engineering purposes.
In 2014, Bob did another interview with Knapp where he discussed Element 115 and how it is created both synthetically and naturally through a supernova, which is the cataclysmic explosion of a star.
Bob Lazar further explained in his interviews that bombarding Element 115 with protons leads to it creating Element 116 (Livermorium), which immediately decays and produces antimatter. The antimatter collides with normal particles creating a massive energy burst, which can be used for propulsion. It is quite likely Element 115 could also be the famed exotic matter that is needed to create traversable wormholes that physicists such as Drs. Kip Thorne and Carl Sagan have speculated, and was the subject of a recently leaked Defense Intelligence Reference Document titled “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy.”
In September 2020, Corbell shared a photo of Lazar holding Aerogel that was used to package Element 115 for transport. He said that he could not include this part in his Netflix documentary but promised to publish the clip on his YouTube channel, discussing Element 115 and how he observed it functioning (Editor’s note: I searched throughout Corbell’s channel but could not find a clip explaining Element 115).
This image features Bob Lazar and the Aerogel that was used to package the ELEMENT 115 for transport. There has been a lot of confusion about this – and about the function of ELEMENT 115 in alien spacecraft. And this is a core aspect of what Bob Lazar has told you. Image credit: Jeremy Corbell
“It’s reported that a distortion occurs – a gravitational distortion. This is highlighted by how these vehicles appear to negate the effects of inertia. You’ve heard it thousands of times from credible witnesses regarding their UFO encounters… ‘It shot off at an IMPOSSIBLE speed.’ Cmdr. Fravor & Cmdr. Select Underwood used those exact words to me when describing their encounters with the TIC TAC UFO. The craft displayed instantaneous acceleration – and was immediately gone from both sight and radar. Even the Princeton with it’s SPY-1 radar system confirmed this in real-time.
So what’s up with these transmedium machines – these UFOs that fly with impunity in our airspace? Maybe ELEMENT 115 can give us a glimpse into the UFO presence on Planet Earth,” Corbell wrote.
Astronomers haven’t found aliens on Mars so far, but if they exist, they might know how to cook some good food. Jokes aside for now! The Perseverance rover that NASA sent towards the Red Planet in mid-2020 has taken a picture of a weird object that resembles spaghetti, according to CNET.
There’s no use rushing to a NASA rocket hoping to go to Mars in order to eat your lunch! We’re pretty sure anybody can find something better to eat on our planet. The newfound unusual structure from the Martian soil is definitely not spaghetti or any kind of alien organism. It’s most likely just debris from a space mission. What’s even more amusing, the structure could belong to the Perseverance mission itself! What a bummer!
Otherwise, NASA’s Perseverance rover has already achieved some important milestones while roaming across Mars. Only for the 2021 review can we mention more than 100,000 images brought back to Earth, over 50GB of science data gathered, the longest drive for a day spent on the Red Planet, and more.
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory spoke about the purpose of Perseverance as follows:
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover is characterizing the planet’s geology and past climate and paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet. Perseverance is the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Back in March, we shared the news of NASA’s Perseverance rover carrying an “uninvited guest” on board. Although it created a bit of a fuss, and some might have been thinking that astronomers had finally found alien life, it was nothing else but a little rock.
NASA still hopes to send the first humans to Mars by the end of the decade,
DNA from fossils unearthed in southern China dating back 14,000 years suggests Native Americans have East Asian roots
DNA from fossils unearthed in southern China dating back 14,000 years suggests Native Americans have East Asian roots
Fossils found in China demonstrate that Native Americans may have had genetic roots in East Asia
The data will help us understand 'how humans change their physical appearance by adapting to local environments over time,' study co-author Bing Su says
DNA from ancient fossils in southern China has revealed that Native Americans may have roots in East Asia.
Scientists compared the genetic information of the Late Pleistocene era fossils to those from humans worldwide.
They found that the bones belonged to an individual that was linked deeply to the East Asian ancestry of Native Americans.
Archaeologists had been able to successfully sequence the genome of the fossils.
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Researchers for the first time successfully sequenced the genome of fossils from the Late Pleistocene.
Pictured above is a lateral view of the skull unearthed from Red Deer Cave
'Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool,' Bing Su, a study co-author who works at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says.
'It tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features.'
They proposed that some of the southern East Asian people traveled north along the coast of present-day China through Japan and eventually reached Siberia.
'It tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features,' Bing Su, a study co-author, says.
Pictured is the reproduced portrait of the Red Deer Cave People or Mengziren
It's believed that they then crossed the Bering Strait between Asia and North America to become the first people to arrive in the New World.
The work that led to these insights began more than thirty years ago.
At that time, a group of archaeologists in China discovered a large set of bones in the Maludong, or Red Deer Cave, in southern China’s Yunnan Province.
Archaeologists used carbon dating - which uses the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14 to determine the age of organic matter - to show that the fossils were from the Late Pleistocene about 14,000 years ago.
The discovery dates back to work that began several decades ago when archaeologists found a large set of bones in the Maludong, or Red Deer Cave, pictured above
This was a period of time when modern humans had migrated to many parts of the world.
Researchers recovered a hominin skull cap from the cave that had characteristics of both modern humans and archaic humans.
For instance, the shape of the skull resembled that of Neanderthals, and its brain appeared to be smaller than that of modern humans.
As a result, some anthropologists had thought the skull probably belonged to an unknown archaic human species that lived until fairly recently or to a hybrid population of archaic and modern humans.
The finding contributes to our understanding of the rich genetic diversity of hominins living at that time in southern East Asia.
Su says that it suggests that early humans who first arrived in eastern Asia had initially settled in the south before some of them moved to the north.
'It’s an important piece of evidence for understanding early human migration,' he explains.
'Such data will not only help us paint a more complete picture of how our ancestors migrate but also contain important information about how humans change their physical appearance by adapting to local environments over time, such as the variations in skin color in response to changes in sunlight exposure,' Su says.
The team's findings were published July 14 in the journal Current Biology.
DNA: A COMPLEX CHEMICAL THAT CARRIES GENETIC INFORMATION IN ALMOST ALL ORGANISMS
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a complex chemical in almost all organisms that carries genetic information.
It is located in chromosomes the cell nucleus and almost every cell in a person's body has the same DNA.
It is composed of four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T).
The structure of the double-helix DNA comes from adenine binding with thymine and cytosine binding with guanine.
Human DNA consists of three billion bases and more than 99 per cent of those are the same in all people.
The order of the bases determines what information is available for maintaining an organism (similar to the way in which letters of the alphabet form sentences).
The DNA bases pair up with each other and also attach to a sugar molecule and phosphate molecule, combining to form a nucleotide.
These nucleotides are arranged in two long strands that form a spiral called a double helix.
The double helix looks like a ladder with the base pairs forming the rungs and the sugar and phosphate molecules forming vertical sidepieces.
A new form of DNA was recently discovered inside living human cells for the first time.
Named i-motif, the form looks like a twisted 'knot' of DNA rather than the well-known double helix.
It is unclear what the function of the i-motif is, but experts believe it could be for 'reading' DNA sequences and converting them into useful substances.
DNA From Mysterious Hominin In China Suggests Native Americans’ East Asian Roots
DNA From Mysterious Hominin In China Suggests Native Americans’ East Asian Roots
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, suggests that the mysterious hominin belonged to an extinct maternal branch of modern humans that might have contributed to the origin of Native Americans
The reproduced portrait of the Red Deer Cave People or Mengziren.
Credit: Xueping Ji
"Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool," Su says. "It tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features," he says.
The researchers compared the genome of these fossils to that of people from around the world. They found that the bones belonged to an individual that was linked deeply to the East Asian ancestry of Native Americans. Combined with previous research data, this finding led the team to propose that some of the southern East Asia people had traveled north along the coastline of present-day eastern China through Japan and reached Siberia tens of thousands of years ago. They then crossed the Bering Strait between the continents of Asia and North America and became the first people to arrive in the New World.
The journey to making this discovery started over three decades ago, when a group of archaeologists in China discovered a large set of bones in the Maludong, or Red Deer Cave, in southern China's Yunnan Province. Carbon dating showed that the fossils were from the Late Pleistocene about 14,000 years ago, a period of time when modern humans had migrated to many parts of the world.
The excavation site of Maludong (Red Deer Cave).
Credit: Xueping Ji
From the cave, researchers recovered a hominin skull cap with characteristics of both modern humans and archaic humans. For example, the shape of the skull resembled that of Neanderthals, and its brain appeared to be smaller than that of modern humans. As a result, some anthropologists had thought the skull probably belonged to an unknown archaic human species that lived until fairly recently or to a hybrid population of archaic and modern humans.
In 2018, in collaboration with Xueping Ji, an archaeologist at Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Bing Su at Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues successfully extracted ancient DNA from the skull. Genomic sequencing shows that the hominin belonged to an extinct maternal lineage of a group of modern humans whose surviving decedents are now found in East Asia, the Indo-China peninsula, and Southeast Asia islands.
The finding also shows that during the Late Pleistocene, hominins living in southern East Asia had rich genetic and morphologic diversity, the degree of which is greater than that in northern East Asia during the same period. It suggests that early humans who first arrived in eastern Asia had initially settled in the south before some of them moved to the north, Su says.
"It's an important piece of evidence for understanding early human migration," he says.
Next, the team plans to sequence more ancient human DNA by using fossils from southern East Asia, especially ones that predated the Red Deer Cave people.
"Such data will not only help us paint a more complete picture of how our ancestors migrate but also contain important information about how humans change their physical appearance by adapting to local environments over time, such as the variations in skin color in response to changes in sunlight exposure," Su says.
Millionaire buys 25-foot-tall Cold War-era radar system to 'hunt UFOs': Founder of autonomous car company worth up to $250 million asks the public what he should do with the technology once it's brought back to life
Millionaire buys 25-foot-tall Cold War-era radar system to 'hunt UFOs': Founder of autonomous car company worth up to $250 million asks the public what he should do with the technology once it's brought back to life
While most millionaires spend their fortune on pricey cars and luxurious boats, William Sachiti (inset center) used his fortune to purchase a Cold War era radar station in Norwich, England. Sachiti, who is a British entrepreneur, purchased a network of private roads along a 250,000 square mile to test his ‘spaceship, alien-looking’ autonomous vehicles, but the radar system was an added bonus.
‘UFOs obviously,’ he jokingly told DailyMail.com in response to being asked what he plans on doing with the gigantic 25-foot-tall machine that once alerted the British army to oncoming nuclear missiles. ‘I will find a way to bring this to life and let the people choose the best way to use it,' he said. ‘If people want to hunt UFOS, I guess it is hunting UFOs.’ The massive system is located on the Royal Air Force Neatishead, an air defense station in England. In 2010, it was advertised for sale with an asking price of $4,780,000 – Sachiti declined to say how much he paid for the location.
During a Zoom interview, Sachiti (pictured) gave DailyMail.com a close up look at the coveted radar system that is about 65 feet wide and sits on a large pedestal. ‘This thing could do for others what Star Trek did for me as a kid,’ he said, noting that it will take about two years until the radar system is up and running. He reached out on Reddit for help on bringing it back to life, which he says is part of his belief in the power of crowdsourcing. Sachiti is a roboticist, artificial intelligence expert and serial entrepreneur who uses his free time to solve the problems of the world.
His prized possession, however, is his company Kar-go, which uses self-driving cars to deliver packages. ‘Think of it as a post office sorter on wheels. It drives to an address, opens its trunk and out comes a package,’ Sachiti said, sharing a look at the small, green robotic machine with DailyMail.com. ‘It only delivers small parcels because they make up 80 percent of the parcels shipped.’
The autonomous, four-wheeled vehicle sits low to the ground and features an aerodynamic look that is colored green and black, along with a license plate on the front and back. Sachiti told said that it is not just the vehicle he is focused on, it is the supercomputer ‘brain’ inside of it. The system is being used by the Royal Air Force and by a company that monitors 25 percent of UK roads. ‘They are using our car vision to detect potholes and depth,’ he said. Elon Musk’s Tesla announced on Monday that its vehicles are now scanning for potholes – a feature that came much later than Sachiti’s.
He also gave DailyMail.com a tour of his ‘space bus’ that is a traveling office and auto shop for engineers to work on the autonomous vehicles. It once ran on diesel, but Sachiti redesigned it to only use the power of the sun. The highlight of the bus is a chair with a steering wheel at the back, which looks similar to one seen in arcades. The chair allows engineers to take over control of the autonomous vehicles and drive them into the bus to work on them.
While his team is testing the vehicles along the roads, Sachiti plans on bringing new life to the radar system, which was part of an early warning system meant to alert the British military if nuclear missiles were coming their way. Known as the AMES Type 84 radar unit, this one was in operation from 1962 through 1994 and released microwaves to detect nukes. Sachiti does not plan on using it for its original purpose, but instead hopes the public can find a task more suitable for the modern world. ‘My expensive hobby will finding UFOs,’ he said. ‘If that is what the world wants, who am I to judge.’
Giant Cold War Radar Bought by Tech Millionaire to “Find UFOs”
Giant Cold War Radar Bought by Tech Millionaire to “Find UFOs”
The abandoned Royal Air Force (RAF) air defense radar station was home to British IT entrepreneur William Sachiti for around three months until he asked for assistance in a Reddit thread.
He wrote in a post on /r/electronics that featured a picture of a massive AMES Type 84 radar equipment, that he wanted help to bring that back to life. It is a huge dish that is 60 feet wide and 25 feet tall and is supported by a pedestal. It sent out microwaves with a 250-mile range, and there were warnings around that warned of ionizing radiation.
Despite posting under an assumed identity, Redditors swiftly identified Sachiti as the author. Only five Type 84s were ever produced by Britain, and Redditors were able to find this one using some open source intelligence technologies. Additionally, Sachiti’s acquisition of the tower and the former RAF site made British headlines.
A few people have responded, according to Sachiti, expressing a desire to use it to scan the Moon. Someone asked him why he purchased the item in the discussion itself. Because he said he has persuaded himself in using to look for UFOs may be entertaining.
The response, according to Sachiti, was somewhat of a joke, but other individuals had contacted him in a serious manner about utilizing the device to search for unexplained flying objects. There are undoubtedly UFO seekers, he claimed. He also doesn’t get to decide what the best use is for it in the present world. As long as it’s not harmful and obtrusive, we should give it some life… He has the technology.
When questioned about the abundance of new information regarding UFOs and the potential of extraterrestrial life in general. He said that although aliens could already be here, they are likely too evolved for us to even contemplate them. The lack of actionable knowledge throughout all this time is the reason it doesn’t worry him too much, he added. Assuming an ant wanted to communicate with humanity, would we even notice? These UFOs, if there is any form of intelligence behind them, have mostly ignored us.
Through Reddit, we were able to contact Sachiti and get him on Zoom. He was on the grounds of the RAF base, sitting in a solar-powered bus as we talked. He managed to get his laptop out to where I could see the Type 84, which was looming behind some trees.
He claimed that although it was just sitting there, it was slowly deteriorating because nobody had been around for a long. And each time he had looked at it, he had simply felt that something needed to be done.
Roboticist and artificial intelligence entrepreneur Sachiti’s business, Kar-go, employs autonomous vehicles to deliver products around Britain. He said that the reason he purchased the base was because he required area for research and development. Roads, industries, and subterranean bunkers were all present. It is essentially all our business required.
However, the acquisition included more than simply the area he needs. The Type 84 is classified as a Grade II listed structure. That indicates that it is protected as a historical monument of considerable cultural significance to the nation and its history and cannot be destroyed.
Sachiti claimed that he felt depressed every time he saw the object. He desired to make repairs. He continued by saying that it is more about giving something new life when it had otherwise progressively deteriorated. It is gorgeous, and he urgently wanted to give it some sort of new life.
AMES Type 84 radar is a remnant of the Cold War. The five radar devices were a part of a system that could notify the British military if nuclear weapons were approaching. They ran from 1962 to 1994 and produced a significant amount of ionized radiation using microwaves. Additionally, he said that once this item was done, it used to spin around four times each minute. Every TV [in the surrounding] would be static for roughly three seconds whenever it performed a scan.
The ionizing radiation will be left behind, according to Sachiti, who wants to set the machine spinning once more. He told me that the bus he’s riding on now operates on solar energy after previously using fuel.
In order to give contemporary technology life, he added, we must figure out how to use it. Finding professionals who could assist him in getting it back up and running was his immediate thinking. He also said that we can today create little desktop-sized devices and power some of the things that in the 1960s required a huge room.
When asked why he utilizes Reddit to locate helpers, he responded that you can see in the thread that you can find individuals that are very detailed and will explain everything to you in detail. You would never find someone with that kind of talent by placing an ad in the newspaper. Even a television advertisement… The ability to publish in a very particular subreddit, where geeks who produce stuff like this play with it, is what he enjoys about Reddit. The beauty of asking the correct question to the appropriate audience is that he has received an overwhelming number of responses from unquestionable experts.
Although Sachiti is unsure of where this may go, he is optimistic that improving the historic place will have positive effects. Eventually, he says, possibly colleges or students will logon and utilize it to do the necessary scans.
Romanski used AutoCAD to create a 3D model of one of the crop circles from 2009. It looked like “some kind of machine.” He said it looked like a “power plant for alternative zero-point energy…some people may call it a light-speed engine.
Romanski used eleven crop circle designs to create a model that he and Maxwell tried to build. The job proved to be harder than anticipated and they had to consult a team of engineers and to outsource the making of many parts
There have been more than 12,000 crop circles that appeared around the world. The majority of scientists write them off as pranks afraid to be associated with studying a controversial subject. Yet, even they admit that many crop circles are not explained. Crop circle enthusiasts are still looking for answers, and one created an experiment unlike any other. First-time filmmaker Charles Maxwell theorizes that crop circle images are blueprints for building UFOs; the theory that he tests in his documentary “A Field Full of Secrets.”
Crop Circle History
Crop circles started heavily appearing in the English countryside in the 1980s and 1990s; they appear to this day. Some are elaborate and represent mathematical equations. In 2008, for example, one crop circle in England represented the first ten digits of Pi; it was divided into 10 invisible segments like a pizza pie.
It is no argument that many crop circles are made by people. In 1991, two men Doug Bower and David Chorley of England admitted to creating 250 of them but of course there have been thousands more. Other artists interested in the topic may have taken it as an intriguing challenge to make one. Some do not even care about making circles, they just want to create art.
Firefox symbol was created in a field by the Oregon State University Linux Users group in 2006, celebrating a popular web browser. Corn mazes remain popular during the fall. One German town created Asterix and Obelix characters from French comic books in a field of corn in 2009.
Yet, many crop circles remain unexplained. Many crop circles show no signs of human contact. The most bizarre trait of a crop circle is that the crops are not broken when laid down.
A crop circle from A Field Full of Secrets footage.
Australian Independent Crop Circle Research Megan Heazlewood said that crop circles can appear on many different crop types from silverbeet to rice paddies. She is most intrigued by canola field crop circles because canola stalks snap like celery at 45 degrees, yet they did not break when bent 90 degrees in crop circles.
A reporter from The Conversation also points out that most hoaxers claiming to have created crop circles are unable to reproduce the results or ignore most questions when requested proof of how they did it with boards and rope (the method hoaxers use).
In 1991 a biophysicist Dr. William C. Levengood studying the stalks from the crop circles and found anomalies in the first node of each plant that can only be explained by either electromagnetic or microwave energy exposure from a technology that humanity does to possess (at least to the public’s knowledge).
In 1992, Michael Chorost led an investigation named “Project Agnus” that also found anomalies in the soil of the crops.
All of which still points to potential involvement of not Earthly forces in making the crop circles.
Crop Circle In An Early Newspaper?
IMAGE: Wikipedia Commons
Some believe that the first circle was written about in a 1678 woodcut of the mowing devil. The illustration shows a horned-man mowing a field in a circular motion. Others say it originated from a folklore that tells a story of an English farmer who in a fight with a farm worker said out loud that he would rather pay the devil himself to take care of the job. The image does not represent a crop circle by definition because the crop stalks are shown being cut down, not laid down.
Two-Months Crop Circle Investigation In England
(The rest of the article contains spoilers from A Field Full of Secrets).
Maxwell stepped into a crop circle for the first time in 2008 with a friend Dax Phelan who filmed everything, and his life was changed forever. As soon as he entered the crop circle, he says he felt being watched; and that it was not a part of this world, even though his friends were not as convinced.
Maxwell became hooked on looking for answers about what crop circles are, not satisfied with the mainstream “hoax” answer explaining all of the formations.
Maxwell’s answer to what crop circles are is unique. Looking at the fact that the designs became more complex every year, and after visiting 42 crop circles during his two-months stay in England, he says that he has more questions than answers.
He went into many fields himself, saw the damaged nodes of the crops done in the way that according to the experts in the movie no hoaxer can do. He also returned many nights to try to catch any hoaxers at work, but only saw backpackers who were camping out in the middle of one crop circle.
Maxwell and his team bumped into a man Peter Sorenson who was said to claim some involvement in making the Pi crop circle, yet he refused to say or admit anything on camera about it. Instead he was shown teaching children how to make crop circles with a rope and board method. The designs came out looking imperfect.
Maxwell saw fields that was created by a hoaxer like Sorenson claims to be; and the way the stalks are broken and not bend is seen clearly in the finished documentary.
Not finding real answers, Maxwell got an idea that the crop circles are getting more intricate and larger (up to ¾ mile across) because “we are being taught a language.”
Another crop circle from A Field Full of Secrets footage.
He tried to make his own circle with encoded Morse code and had Sorenson create it in the field to send a message; but the message was either not received or misunderstood.
After a two-months journey, the harvest season put the crop circle research that year to and end, and Maxwell went home to Los Angeles with more questions.
Crop Circle Images As Blueprints
The only real clue Maxwell saw was the Pi crop circle and its built-in math. This is how his idea was born that each crop circle is a blueprint to be decoded.
“Some researchers believe that the formation that we see are effectively two dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects. And that if we could learn to create these three-dimensional objects, they might actually be showing us a new technology, be it antigravity, be it free energy…”
“The universe does not run on gasoline,” Maxwell says.
It runs on free energy or a different type of energy yet unknown by our technology. Maxwell is hoping the crop circles may help.
A crop circle blueprint material from A Field Full of Secrets footage.
3D model made on the computer using a combination of crop circles such as the image above.
He paired up with a ‘mysterious inventor’ Nikola Romanski after the man emailed him with the information to use these crop circle blueprints to build a UFO. This is the very first time this was attempted to be done.
Romanski used AutoCAD to create a 3D model of one of the crop circles from 2009. It looked like “some kind of machine.”
He said it looked like a “power plant for alternative zero-point energy…some people may call it a light-speed engine.”
Romanski used eleven crop circle designs to create a model that he and Maxwell tried to build. The job proved to be harder than anticipated and they had to consult a team of engineers and to outsource the making of many parts.
The closest the got was creating a plasma flame, which was like the heart of the engine, and shocking to Maxwell friends’ proof that this blueprint can create a real device.
Unfortunately, they ran out of money the investors have put in and needed about $100,000 more and another six months of work.
Not The Only One…
Maxwell decided to accept that the project has failed and stop everything. However, he soon discovered that he is not the only person who has attempted to use crop circles as a free-energy device blueprint. There was at least one more person doing the same.
With reignated hope, Maxwell flew to Hawaii to meet with Nassim Haramein, the founder of The Resonance Project. The first thing he asked him was if he had wasted his time building a UFO.
“Absolutely not. In science, there is no such thing as a waste of time. Edison made thousands of lightbulbs before the one that worked.”
Haramein also reminded Maxwell that the scientific community did not believe that airplanes could fly until it was done.
“When I look at your guys’ device and what you extrapolated from the crop circle, I think you guys were right on track…that the fundamental spin is important…When you understand that, you can build devices to interact with the universe.”
The movie also has interviews of various crop circle researchers, many of whom believe non-Earthly makers of the crop circles are possible; and that E.T. beings may be creating them to help and work with human higher consciousness.
“What I was trying to do was to prove to myself and to my friend and to my daughter that there’s wonder in the world.”
Sounds like Maxwell is not giving up anytime soon; and perhaps his project will fuel ideas from others.
See the movie trailer “A Field Full of Secrets” below or rent it or buy it here.
Dit zijn de beste memes over de nieuwe foto’s van de James Webb Space Telescope
De foto’s van de James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) die deze week door de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA werden vrijgegeven spreken tot de verbeelding. Niet alleen is er verwondering voor het feit dat we 13 miljard jaar in het verleden kunnen kijken, de beelden zijn ook een vruchtbare grond voor memes op sociale media.
Yorick Dupon
Wat zien we juist op de foto’s van James Webb?
De ouderdom van wat er in de foto van SMACS 0723 te zien is, vraagt om grappen over de oudere medemens.
Ook binnenlandse oude bekenden zoals columniste Mia Doornaert ontspringen de dans niet.
Anderen zien iets uit hun eigen verleden in de foto’s.
Maar uiteindelijk: hoe belangrijk de foto’s ook zijn voor de wetenschap, ze zijn ook erg mooi als bureaubladachtergrond. Alle foto’s zijn in hoge resolutie te downloaden op deze website.
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Alaska: A Whole Town Witness UFO Circling Over Them
Alaska: A Whole Town Witness UFO Circling Over Them
The people of Seward, Alaska saw some strange things happening over 30 years ago when a big spaceship circled their town for hours with intense lights.
Two More Disc-eyed Giants of Mont’e Prama Found in Sardinia!
Two More Disc-eyed Giants of Mont’e Prama Found in Sardinia!
Their purpose is currently unknown, but two more disc-eyed giants of Mont’e Prama have been unearthed on Sardinia. The Mont’e Prama Iron Age burial necropolis on the Italian island of Sardinia has for the last 50 years been the source of a great archaeological mystery. The site was first discovered by local farmers in March 1974 on farmland near Mont'e Prama, in the commune of Cabras, in central-western Sardinia, Italy. It was here that the so-called “Giants of Mont'e Prama” were discovered. This collection of ancient stone giant sculptures, with large disc-eyes, are also known as “boxer statues.”
The head of one of the newly found boxers is here on the right, with a visible chin and thick broken neck.
While it is understood that the giants of Mont’e Prama were created by people by the Nuragic culture of ancient Sardinia, the purpose of these gargantuan monuments is currently unknown. However, on Saturday afternoon, Italy’s Ministry of Culture announced that “two more giant naked torsos” had been identified by researchers at Mont’e Prama. In this instance, the two giants were covered with a large shield which has allowed the researchers to date them precisely to between 950 to 730 BC.
Emerging in the Early Bronze Age, Nuragic civilization derives its name from Sardinia’s “ nuraghe,” which are stone fortresses with high towers. Most of these structures were raised around 1800 BC and today no less than 7,000 nuraghes are peppered across the ancient Sardinian landscape. It was from these stone forts that the Nuragic people defended their rule over Sardinia until the 2nd century AD.
Many of you will already have noticed that the Sardinian nuraghe resembles, and perhaps functioned similarly to, the 2nd century Pictish brochs of northern Scotland. Day to day these stone towers housed community chiefs and their families, and they became community shelters for people and animals while under attack from rivalling tribes and foreign invaders.
Italy’s Cultural Minister, Dario Franceschini, said the two giant stone torsos are officially called “Cavalupo-type boxers,” which means they are either warriors, archers or boxers with shields and armed gloves. The culture ministry’s superintendent for southern Sardinia, Monica Stochino, said the statues are made of limestone which is soft and fragile. Therefore, the site archaeologists now need more time to excavate the two huge torsos from the surrounding sediment which has set like clay.
Some of the giants of Mont’e Prama had curved stone shields over their heads and this was also true of both of the recently discovered giants.
An article in Arkeonews explains that since the site’s discovery in 1974 “thousands of fragments” of giant human figures have been recovered at Mont’e Prama. While their original purpose remains veiled in mystery, so far, archaeologists have reassembled about 40 statues and while no one is complete each measures over 2 meters (6.56 feet) tall. Furthermore, they all represent warriors, archers, or nuraghe boxers.
Giant Warriors, Archers, and Boxers
Archaeologists believe the giant’s disc-shaped eyes and eastern-style garments probably depicted Nuragic cultural mythological heroes who were buried to symbolically guard the sepulchral site . However, other archaeologists consider the statues as representing deities from the Nuragic pantheon. However, these two interpretations are relatively limited and don’t consider inspiration from the land of the living first.
Polynesian Easter Island , formerly known as Rapa Nui , is famed for its monumental giant statues called moai which were created during the 13th-16th centuries. According to writer Jo Anne Van Tilburg these carved human figures with oversize heads are believed to be “the living faces ( aringa ora ) of deified ancestors ( aringa ora ata tepuna )”. Perhaps the giants of Mont’e Prama, Sardinia also reflect the bodies and faces of the ancestors who taught them how to survive on an ocean locked island?
We will never know for sure what the large-eyed giants represented, but as long as archaeologists continue to excavate at Mont’e Prama in Sardinia it is only a matter of time before more statues will surface, adding to the emerging army of giants.
Top image: Two more stone giants of Mont’e Prama from the Iron Age have been unearthed in Sardinia. Source: mont’e prama
An 8,000-year-old "Mother Goddess" figurine has been uncovered at a Neolithic site in Israel. Why then, does she have “coffee-shaped” eyes?
Located at the foot of the Golan Heights in the Jordan Valley area of north-eastern Israel, the Sha'ar HaGolan kibbutz archaeological site is situated less than 1 km (2/3 of a mile) from the border with Jordan. It was here that archaeologists recently unearthed the broken 20-centimeter (7.87 inch) long figurine.
Dating back 8,000 years, this 'Mother Goddess' figurine was created by the Yarmukian culture. While Israeli archaeologists are describing the goddess as having “coffee-bean” shaped eyes, she has nothing to do with coffee. In fact, coffee can be traced to the mid-15th century in Yemen . So what then does this ancient mistress of the Levantine otherworld represent?
Red Is The Color Of Love, And Sex
The Neolithic Yarmukian culture of the ancient Levant is regarded as the first culture in prehistoric Israel. This attribution is given because Yarmukians were the first people in Levant to make clay pottery. And, similarly to later Neolithic groups in Ireland and Scotland, Yarmukian ceramics feature lozenge, herringbone and linear diagonal lines and patterns.
Judea district archaeologist Anna Eirikh-Rose from Israeli Antiquity Authority serves as co-director of the dig at Sha'ar HaGolan kibbutz and she told J-Post the 20-centimeter goddess figurine was excavated next to the wall of a house covered with “a red bottomed bracelet.” Depending on agricultural success and the fertilization of people and animals for sustained survival, Yarmukians worshipped a “ Mother Goddess ” and red, like in most ancient cultures, represented fertility and all things sexual/reproductive.
The Largest Mother Goddess Ever Discovered In Israel
The Museum of Yarmukian Culture at the kibbutz archaeological site exhibits all of the artifacts recovered from this vast 20-hectare Neolithic excavation zone. The site was first excavated in 1949, and again in 2004. At these previous excavations researchers identified planned streets, courtyards and houses, as well as smaller mother goddess figurines with incised pebble faces, and further so-called “eye figurines.”
The dig’s current co-director, Dr. Julien Vieugue, describes the newly excavated goddess figurine as “a large, seated woman with big hips, a unique pointed hat and what is known as ‘coffee-bean’ eyes and a big nose.” She has one hand on her hip and the other is under her breast. Vieugue said the artifact represents one of the “largest examples'' of the goddess figurine ever found from the Yarmukian culture.”
A Cult Fertility Icon, Or A Recognized State Goddess
While many similar Yarmukian sites have been identified in the Levant, by a long shot, Sha’ar Hagolan is the largest and the most probable center of Yarmukian culture. Eirikh-Rose says that 8,000 years ago the inhabitants of Sha’ar Hagolan began mass-producing pottery. Now, it’s the primary goal of the archaeologists to better understand the “origin and mechanism of development of the pottery production” at the site.
Eirikh-Rose said the figurine was created by wrapping and layering clay around a central cylindrical core. The archaeologist added that it was anything but easy to make. The artifact is currently undergoing residue analysis which will eventually reveal what type of clay was used to make the goddess idol. Ultimately the researchers aim to find out if this particular Mother Goddess was a cultic icon, or a deity from an already established religion.
A close up of the head of one of the Yarmukian figures, showing the ‘coffee bean eyes’ shape.
Returning To Those Problematic “Coffee-Bean” Shaped Eyes
We should finish this piece with a return to the figurine’s so-called “coffee-bean” shaped eyes. One could perhaps better understand this “coffee-bean” reference to the symbolism of the figurine had it been discovered at a medieval Yemen site, or in 17th century South America where the Mother Goddess was worshipped as “ Pachamama” - the World-Mother and controller of fertility.
For the sake of clarity, Israeli archaeologists should perhaps change the name “coffee” to what the eyes actually represent. They should be called “wheat or barley-shaped eyes,” for these two details represent the unplanted wheat or barley kernel, and the promise of new life tomorrow.
Top image: 8,000-year-old Mother Goddess figurine excavated at Sha’ar HaGolan, Israel Source: Anna Eirikh-Rose / Jerusalem Post
NASA’s Webb Reveals Steamy Atmosphere of Distant Planet in Detail
NASA’s Webb Reveals Steamy Atmosphere of Distant Planet in Detail
Webb’s enormous mirror, precise instruments joined forces to capture most detailed measurements of starlight filtering through atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system to date
The spectrum of light – which contains information about the makeup of a planetary atmosphere 1,150 light-years away – reveals distinct signature of water
The strength of the signal that Webb detected hints at the significant role the telescope will play in the search for potentially habitable planets in coming years
Webb’s powerful new view also shows evidence of haze and clouds that previous studies of this planet did not detect
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star.
The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb’s unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away.
While the Hubble Space Telescope has analyzed numerous exoplanet atmospheres over the past two decades, capturing the first clear detection of water in 2013, Webb’s immediate and more detailed observation marks a giant leap forward in the quest to characterize potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
WASP-96 b is one of more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way. Located roughly 1,150 light-years away in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix, it represents a type of gas giant that has no direct analog in our solar system. With a mass less than half that of Jupiter and a diameter 1.2 times greater, WASP-96 b is much puffier than any planet orbiting our Sun. And with a temperature greater than 1000°F, it is significantly hotter. WASP-96 b orbits extremely close to its Sun-like star, just one-ninth of the distance between Mercury and the Sun, completing one circuit every 3½ Earth-days.
The combination of large size, short orbital period, puffy atmosphere, and lack of contaminating light from objects nearby in the sky makes WASP-96 b an ideal target for atmospheric observations.
On June 21, Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) measured light from the WASP-96 system for 6.4 hours as the planet moved across the star. The result is a light curve showing the overall dimming of starlight during the transit, and a transmission spectrum revealing the brightness change of individual wavelengths of infrared light between 0.6 and 2.8 microns.
While the light curve confirms properties of the planet that had already been determined from other observations – the existence, size, and orbit of the planet – the transmission spectrum reveals previously hidden details of the atmosphere: the unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze, and evidence of clouds that were thought not to exist based on prior observations.
A transmission spectrum is made by comparing starlight filtered through a planet’s atmosphere as it moves across the star to the unfiltered starlight detected when the planet is beside the star. Researchers are able to detect and measure the abundances of key gases in a planet’s atmosphere based on the absorption pattern – the locations and heights of peaks on the graph. In the same way that people have distinctive fingerprints and DNA sequences, atoms and molecules have characteristic patterns of wavelengths that they absorb.
The spectrum of WASP-96 b captured by NIRISS is not only the most detailed near-infrared transmission spectrum of an exoplanet atmosphere captured to date, but it also covers a remarkably wide range of wavelengths, including visible red light and a portion of the spectrum that has not previously been accessible from other telescopes (wavelengths longer than 1.6 microns). This part of the spectrum is particularly sensitive to water as well as other key molecules like oxygen, methane, and carbon dioxide, which are not immediately obvious in the WASP-96 b spectrum but which should be detectable in other exoplanets planned for observation by Webb.
Researchers will be able to use the spectrum to measure the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, constrain the abundance of various elements like carbon and oxygen, and estimate the temperature of the atmosphere with depth. They can then use this information to make inferences about the overall make-up of the planet, as well as how, when, and where it formed. The blue line on the graph is a best-fit model that takes into account the data, the known properties of WASP-96 b and its star (e.g., size, mass, temperature), and assumed characteristics of the atmosphere.
The exceptional detail and clarity of these measurements is possible because of Webb’s state-of-the-art design. Its 270-square-foot gold-coated mirror collects infrared light efficiently. Its precision spectrographs spread light out into rainbows of thousands of infrared colors. And its sensitive infrared detectors measure extremely subtle differences in brightness. NIRISS is able to detect color differences of only about one thousandth of a micron (the difference between green and yellow is about 50 microns), and differences in the brightness between those colors of a few hundred parts per million.
In addition, Webb’s extreme stability and its orbital location around Lagrange Point 2 roughly a million miles away from the contaminating effects of Earth’s atmosphere makes for an uninterrupted view and clean data that can be analyzed relatively quickly.
The extraordinarily detailed spectrum – made by simultaneously analyzing 280 individual spectra captured over the observation – provides just a hint of what Webb has in store for exoplanet research. Over the coming year, researchers will use spectroscopy to analyze the surfaces and atmospheres of several dozen exoplanets, from small rocky planets to gas- and ice-rich giants. Nearly one-quarter of Webb’s Cycle 1 observation time is allocated to studying exoplanets and the materials that form them.
This NIRISS observation demonstrates that Webb has the power to characterize the atmospheres of exoplanets—including those of potentially habitable planets—in exquisite detail.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency).
NASA Headquarters oversees the mission for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centerin Greenbelt, Maryland, manages Webb for the agency and oversees work on the mission performed by the Space Telescope Science Institute, Northrop Grumman, and other mission partners. In addition to Goddard, several NASA centers contributed to the project, including the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston; Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California; Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley; and others.
NIRISS was contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. The instrument was designed and built by Honeywell in collaboration with the Université de Montréal and the National Research Council Canada.
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SPECTACULAIR: DIT ZIJN DE FOTO’S VAN DE JAMES WEBB-TELESCOOP (WE KIJKEN 13 MILJARD JAAR TERUG IN DE TIJD)
SPECTACULAIR: DIT ZIJN DE FOTO’S VAN DE JAMES WEBB-TELESCOOP (WE KIJKEN 13 MILJARD JAAR TERUG IN DE TIJD)
Jeannette Kras
Daar zijn ze dan: de eerste vijf kleurenfoto’s van de James Webb-telescoop. De opvolger van Hubble stelt niet teleur. De afbeeldingen, waarmee je ’13 miljard jaar terug in de tijd kunt kijken’, zijn indrukwekkend.
NASA lanceerde op eerste kerstdag vorig jaar samen met het Europese en Canadese Ruimteagentschap (de ESA en de CSA) de James Webb-ruimtetelescoop, die de ‘verste en scherpste infraroodbeelden van het vroege universum’ kan maken. James Webb produceert niet alleen vele malen scherpere foto’s dan zijn voorganger Hubble, maar doet dat ook veel sneller.
Revolutionair “De James Webb-telescoop gaat ons zo veel antwoorden geven. Zelfs antwoorden op vragen die we nog niet eens kennen”, vertelt Günther Hasing, wetenschapsdirecteur van de ESA, enthousiast tijdens de onthulling van de foto’s. Josef Aschbacher, directeur-generaal van de ESA vult aan: “De ontwikkeling van de James Webb-telescoop is meer dan alleen wetenschap. Het is bovenal een fantastische samenwerking van internationale ruimtevaartorganisaties.”
“De nieuwe James Webb-telescoop is revolutionair, een enorme sprong voorwaarts”, vindt ook NASA-topman Bill Nelson. “We gaan dingen zien, die ik nooit voor mogelijk had gehouden. Met de infraroodtechnologie kijken we dwars door stofwolken heen naar sterrenstelsels en zwarte gaten. Het heelal is 13,8 miljard jaar oud. Wij kunnen nu 13,5 miljard jaar terug in de tijd kijken. Dit licht heeft al die tijd met 300.000 kilometer per uur door het heelal gereisd en valt nu op onze nieuwe telescoop. Onvoorstelbaar, maar waar.”
Nederlands tintje De feestelijke onthulling van de foto’s heeft ook een Nederlands tintje. Hoogleraar Moleculaire Astrofysica Ewine van Dishoeck (Sterrewacht Leiden, NOVA) vertelt tijdens een persbijeenkomst dat NOVA (de Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool Voor Astronomie) een bijdrage heeft geleverd aan de hardware van het MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). Dit is een camera en een spectrograaf die middellange tot lange infraroodstraling observeert. MIRI neemt in het bijzonder licht van langere golflengtes waar. “Het was een spannend moment of MIRI wel koud zou worden. Anders zouden we alleen maar ruis kunnen meten”, vertelt Van Dishoeck. “Dat dat lukte, was voor ons een enorme mijlpaal.” NOVA was verantwoordelijk voor de hoofdoptiek van de MIRI-spectrometer. Ook onder meer TNO werkte mee.
Een zandkorrel Met hulp van MIRI konden de eerste foto’s tot stand komen, waarvan de Amerikaanse president Joe Biden gisteren de eerste al onthulde. “Deze afbeelding omvat een deel van het heelal ter grootte van een zandkorrel op armlengte. Het is een piepkleine splinter van het enorme universum”, zei Bill Nelson van de NASA. “Deze missie is mogelijk gemaakt door menselijk vernuft.” Het publiek over de hele wereld was onder de indruk van het beeld van dat verre cluster van sterrenstelsels.
Wetenschap met het blote oog Maar zijn zulke foto’s nu enkel voor het publiek mooi of hebben sterrenkundigen er ook echt wat aan? De aanwezige wetenschappers op de persbijeenkomst stellen dat die foto’s ook voor de wetenschap van grote waarde zijn. “Voor je een spectrum kunt nemen, moet je het eerst vinden. Daar zijn die beelden wel voor nodig”, aldus Paul van der Werf, hoogleraar Extragalactische Astrofysica bij de Sterrewacht van de Universiteit Leiden. “Je moet een gebied aan de hemel afzoeken, daar zijn die beelden absoluut noodzakelijk voor. Ze moeten zo gevoelig en groot mogelijk zijn. Dat het een mooi plaatje is, is mooi meegenomen, maar dat is natuurlijk niet waarom we het doen. Er zijn duidelijke wetenschappelijke redenen, zeker met diepe velden (deep fields). Je moet de context hebben. Je kunt niet zomaar je spectrum op een punt richten en weten wat er aan de hand is.” Spectra zijn (elektromagnetische) golven, die worden opgepikt door de telescoop, die ze weer omzet in beeld. Van Dishoeck vult aan: “Het is een multi-color-image. Dan kun je direct met je oog al wetenschap doen. Als je een plaatje neemt in verschillende kleuren geeft dat al een heleboel informatie.”
De foto’s Maar waar het vandaag om draait, zijn natuurlijk de foto’s zelf. “De vijf foto’s zijn het resultaat van een week scannen door de Webb-ruimtetelescoop. Over een week hebben we dubbel zoveel data en foto’s. Dit gaat het hele jaar zo door”, klinkt het verheugd.
SMACS 0723 Over de eerste foto, van SMACS 0723, schreven we vanochtend al. De afbeelding toont een cluster van sterrenstelsels, zoals het er 4,6 miljard jaar geleden uitzag. De totale massa van alles wat in dit cluster aanwezig is, zorgt voor een kromming van het licht als ware het een vergrootglas: het licht van veel verder gelegen, zwakkere sterrenstelsels wordt erdoor vergroot. Het beeld werd in 12,5 uur gemaakt door NIRCam, de camera van James Webb. De sterrenstelsels op de foto stralen licht uit dat in sommige gevallen 13 miljard jaar oud is. Daarmee zijn het de oudste objecten die ooit zijn vastgelegd.
Foto: NASA, ESA, CSA, en STScI
De Carinanevel Hieronder zie je een spiksplinternieuwe afbeelding van de Carinanevel, die 7600 lichtjaar van de aarde is verwijderd. In NGC3372, zoals de nevel officieel heet, staan twee van de zwaarste en helderste sterren van het melkwegstelsel.
De Webb-telescoop laat de Carinanevel zien als nooit tevoren. Vele sterren die nooit eerder zijn waargenomen, staan nu scherp op de foto. We zien jonge sterren die gaswolken uitstoten. Er is veel gas en stof te zien, waar nieuwe sterren worden gevormd. Elk stipje op de foto is een ster, net als onze zon. Hubble maakte al prachtige foto’s van de Carinanevel, maar de Webb maakt er een nog veel gedetailleerder en mooier plaatje van.
Foto: NASA, ESA, CSA, en STScI
WASP-96b James Webb maakte ook een spectrum van exoplaneet WASP-96b. Deze planeet staat op 1150 lichtjaar van de aarde en draait in iets minder dan 3,5 dag om zijn moederster. Bijzonder is dat de atmosfeer van de exoplaneet wolkenvrij is. De exoplaneet is ongeveer net zo groot als Jupiter en erg heet. Spectrumanalyse van deze planeet maakt duidelijk dat er veel water aanwezig is in de vorm van waterdamp.
Exoplaneet WASP 96b
foto: NASA, ESA, CSA, en STScI
NGC 3132 Op 2000 lichtjaar van de aarde vinden we een planetaire nevel, die in het Engels ook wel Eight-burst Nebula wordt genoemd. De nevel (een groeiende gaswolk rond een stervende ster) breidt zich momenteel uit met 14,5 kilometer per seconde. Webb geeft astronomen een schat aan nieuwe informatie over de samenstelling van planetaire nevels zoals NGC 3132. Uit wat voor moleculen is deze gigantische gaswolk bijvoorbeeld opgebouwd?
foto: NASA, ESA, CSA, en STScI
Kwintet van Stephan Dit is een groep sterrenstelsels in het sterrenbeeld Pegasus. Het dichtstbijzijnde is NGC 7320C op 39 miljoen lichtjaar afstand. De overige vier sterrenstelsels liggen veel verder weg, namelijk op 290 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde. Er is een actief zwart gat in deze foto verscholen. De moleculaire stoffen die in de buurt rondvliegen, kunnen worden geïdentificeerd door spectrumanalyse van de Webb-telescoop.
It was meant to be a momentous celebration of decades of research coming to fruition.
We really can't overstate how important it was when NASA unveiled the first stunning set of images from its uber-expensive James Webb Space Telescope, a day decades in the making.
But while the results were indeed absolutely mind blowing, we wish we could say the same thing about the livestream itself.
In true NASA fashion, the space agency's announcement was a hot mess — to put it lightly — with host astronomer Michelle Thaller visibly struggling to keep the show rolling and coherent.
Ironic
Twitter users were quick to catch on to the irony.
"Deploying a giant infrared space telescope: easy," SpaceNews senior writer Jeff Foust tweeted. "Coordination multiple video feeds worldwide: not so easy."
For much of the hour-long presentation, Thaller struggled to transition from one section of the presentation to the next, often interrupted by swelling music at inopportune of times.
On more than one occasion, audio feeds from NASA HQ didn't cut out, allowing us to get glimpses of panicked technicians struggling to keep the show together. At another moment, we could hear what sounded like the voices of audio techs loudly whispering on a hot mic.
Who's There?
Audio feeds from remote teams around the world were basically nonexistent until the presentation was already well underway. With the absence of their microphone feeds, Thaller was left to awkwardly breathe into her microphone while we got to watch some of the brightest minds in astronomy sheepishly stare into the camera.
NASA's solution — they clearly saw this IT travesty coming from a mile away — was to have a backup crew of experts ready to personally run Thaller through the images in the studio. But even this backup plan posed a bit of a challenge.
In short, NASA's "superstar media producers," as Thaller referred to them at the end of the stream, should probably go back to the drawing board.
Good thing scientists don't have to rely on NASA livestreams to do their work — if so, the Webb would probably be a smoldering wreck on the launchpad.
NASA toont nieuwe spectaculaire beelden van James Webb-telescoop: bekijk ze hier
NASA toont nieuwe spectaculaire beelden van James Webb-telescoop: bekijk ze hier
NASA heeft nieuwe beelden vrijgegeven van de James Webb-ruimtetelescoop. De indrukwekkende beelden volgen op de historische eerste kleurenfoto van de telescoop, die gisterenavond al werd gedeeld door de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie. Bekijk hieronder de spectaculaire beelden.
Op de nieuwe beelden zien we onder meer Stephan’s Quintet, een visuele groepering van vijf sterrenstelsels, in een heel nieuw licht. Het is het grootste beeld dat de telescoop tot nu toe heeft gemaakt, ongeveer zo groot als een vijfde van de diameter van de maan. Het bevat meer dan 150 miljoen pixels en is opgebouwd uit bijna 1.000 afzonderlijke beeldbestanden.
De ‘zuidelijke Ringnevel’, gefotografeerd door twee Webb-instrumenten (links door Nircam op wat kortere golflengten en rechts door Miri op langere golflengten), is een langzaam uitdijende schil van sterrengas op een afstand van ongeveer 2.000 lichtjaar (één lichtjaar is zo’n 9,5 biljoen kilometer).
De nevel is duizenden jaren geleden uitgestoten door de stervende ster in het centrum. In zo’n afkoelende nevel ontstaan minuscule stofdeeltjes en verschillende moleculen, waaronder koolwaterstofverbindingen die aan de basis liggen van het leven. Over een kleine vijf miljard jaar zal ook onze eigen zon opzwellen tot een rode reuzenster en net zo’n uitdijende nevel het heelal in blazen.
Het lijken oranje-blauwe penseelstreken op een impressionistisch schilderij, maar het zijn wervelende gas- en stofwolken in de Carinanevel, op 7.600 lichtjaar afstand. In de koude, stoffige krochten van dit nevelcomplex ontstaan nieuwe, zware sterren; een geboorteproces dat door Webb in detail bestudeerd kan worden, omdat infrarode straling dwars door de meeste stofwolken heendringt.
Net als op de andere Webb-foto’s zijn de kleuren niet echt (het menselijk oog kan geen infrarode straling waarnemen); met verschillende kleuren worden verschillende infrarode golflengten in beeld gebracht.
‘Stephan’s Quintet' heet deze groep van vijf sterrenstelsels op 290 miljoen lichtjaar afstand, naar de Franse astronoom Édouard Stephan, die het groepje in 1877 ontdekte. Vier van de vijf stelsels zijn gevangen in een onderlinge zwaartekrachtdans. Getijdenkrachten leiden tot schokgolven en het ontstaan van talloze nieuwe sterren in losgerukte en weggeslingerde slierten van gas en stof, die op de infrarode Webb-foto’s goed zichtbaar zijn.
De eerste foto van de nieuwe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is gisteren vrijgegeven. De Amerikaanse president Joe Biden deelde maandagavond rond 23 uur Belgische tijd de eerste kleurenafbeelding van duizenden sterrenstelsels die miljarden jaren oud zijn. “De James Webb-telescoop gaat ons veel leren over het universum, bijvoorbeeld over wat er net na de big bang gebeurde”, vertelt wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters in de studio van HLN LIVE.
De JWST werd op kerstdag 2021 de ruimte in gestuurd en legde daarna een afstand van 1,5 miljoen kilometer af. De telescoop kon deze foto vastleggen na een intens proces van afstellen en configureren. Zo moesten de kenmerkende gouden spiegels van de telescoop in de ruimte uitgevouwen worden en stuk per stuk in de juiste hoek worden gezet. De instrumenten werden bovendien afgekoeld, één ervan tot een temperatuur van 266 graden Celsius onder nul.
“Nieuwe kijk op ons universum”
Als eerste test werd de James Webb gericht op een stukje hemel dat de naam SMACS 0723 draagt. “Nu kijken we naar een stukje aan de hemel dat ongeveer een zandkorreltje groot lijkt en daarin zien we plots duizenden sterrenstelsels verschijnen”, vertelt Peters bij HLN LIVE.
Het waren de Amerikaanse president Joe Biden en vicepresident Kamala Harris die dit eerste beeld van de Webb-telescoop onthulden tijdens een persconferentie. Biden noemde het beeld en het werk van de telescoop “een nieuwe kijk op ons universum”.
Sterrenstelsels die nooit eerder werden waargenomen
SMACS 0723 bevat sterrenstelsels die zo massief zijn dat ze licht afbuigen. Daardoor zijn er objecten te zien die nog verder verwijderd liggen van ons. SMACS 0723 is vanop de zuidelijke hemisfeer van onze planeet (en dus niet vanuit België) te zien in het sterrenbeeld Vliegende Vis of Volans.
Vele van de duizenden sterrenstelsels die te zien zijn op de foto werden voor het eerst vastgelegd door de JWST. Het gaat in sommige gevallen om de zwakste infrarode straling die we ooit hebben waargenomen. De foto is een samenstelling van verschillende beelden die de JWST heeft vastgelegd op verschillende golflengtes. Het resultaat was een composiet in grijswaarden, die met filters werden ingekleurd.
“Grote impact binnen de wetenschap”
Dat de JWST succesvol gelanceerd en ingesteld werd zonder al te veel problemen, is op zich al een mirakel te noemen. Wat we vanaf nu dankzij de ruimtetelescoop kunnen waarnemen, zal voor een hoop nieuwe kennis zorgen. “Alle wetenschappelijke data gaat binnenkort vrijgegeven worden en onderzoekers gaan er los op gaan. Ze gaan het gebruiken om te achterhalen wat daar gebeurt, hoe bepaalde sterren zich vormen en wat er gebeurde na de oerknal. Er gaat massaal veel onderzoek gedaan worden op deze data”, vertelt Peters.
De JWST kan ook licht waarnemen dat bijna net zou oud is als het universum zelf. “Dat konden we met de Hubble-telescoop niet waarnemen, maar wel met de speciale instrumenten van de James Webb-telescoop”, aldus Peters.
Daarnaast zullen we naar de geboorte van sterren kunnen kijken, maar ook naar planeten rond andere sterren dan onze zon. Dat kan helpen in de zoektocht naar leven op andere plaatsen, vertelt onze wetenschapsexpert: “We gaan ook kunnen te weten komen of planeten atmosferen hebben die leefbaar zijn en of er de bouwstenen aanwezig zijn voor leven.”
Sterrenkundigen zijn opgetogen over de eerste beelden. “Het is fantastisch spannend allemaal, en ook heel emotioneel”, aldus Ewine van Dishoeck van de Sterrewacht in Leiden. Van Dishoeck is de Europese hoofdonderzoeker van Miri, een van de waarnemingsinstrumenten van Webb.
Opvolger van Hubble-ruimtetelescoop
De JWST is honderd keer gevoeliger dan de beroemde ruimtetelescoop Hubble, die zijn einde nadert. De James Webb kan zo licht detecteren dat één miljard jaar ouder is dan wat de Hubble kon vastleggen. Ook vallen er verschillende objecten te onderscheiden die op foto’s van de Hubble eruit zagen als één object.
Om dit eerste beeld te creëren, verzamelde de Webb-telescoop gedurende 12,5 uur licht van verschillende golflengten. De Hubble had weken de tijd nodig om foto’s te maken van de SMACS 0723-cluster aan sterrenstelsels.
De James Webb heeft achttien zeshoekige spiegels die aan elkaar zitten, maar los van elkaar kunnen bewegen om scherp te stellen. De spiegel is gemaakt van beryllium, met daarbovenop een miniem laagje goud van 100 nanometer dik. Dat is duizend keer zo dun als een menselijk haar of een vel papier. Beryllium is een onedel metaal dat licht en sterk is en goed bestand tegen extreme kou. Het goud zorgt ervoor dat de spiegel beter in staat is infrarood licht te zien.
Het Amerikaans-Europees-Canadese project kost in totaal ongeveer 8 miljard euro. James Webb zou tot 20 jaar operationeel kunnen blijven.
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They’re Here! Check out the First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope!
They’re Here! Check out the First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope!
This is it! Today, people worldwide were treated to the first images acquired by James Webb! After years of delays, we are finally seeing the sharpest images of the Universe taken by the most powerful telescope ever deployed. The world was given a sneak peek yesterday when President Biden, VP Kamala Harris, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and other NASA officials released the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the Universe to date. But at 10:30 Eastern (07:30 Pacific), all the remaining first images were released!
The event was live-streamed by NASA TV, took place at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, and featured live streams from partner institutes in Canada, Europe, and across the U.S. This allowed the science teams that were responsible for the images to present them and explain how they illustrate the different science operations the JWST will perform throughout its mission.
Deep Field
The first image, Deep Field SMACS 0723, was presented by Jane Rigby, the Operations Project Scientist for the JWST mission. This image, which was revealed yesterday, showed a massive galaxy cluster and the gravitational lenses they produced (which magnified fainter galaxies in the distance). As Rigby explained, the images show galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago and spectra obtained by Webb‘s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec).
The Deep Field SMACS 0723 image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Another interesting tidbit was the speed at which Webb acquired this image and the spectra, which took mere hours. For comparison, Rigby explained that it took Hubble weeks to obtain a deep field image of this same galaxy cluster. The depth, detail, and speed with which Webb acquired this image showcase how the observatory is a fitting successor to the venerable Hubble and builds on its incredible legacy!
Exoplanet Atmosphere
The second image consisted of spectra obtained by Webb’sNear InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) from WASP-96b, a hot gas giant located about 1,000 light-years away. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), which provides the NIRISS instrument, was originally intended to present the image. Due to a technical issue, the presentation was made by Knicole Colón, NASA’s Deputy Project Science for Exoplanet Science at NASA Goddard.
The spectrographic image shows the composition of WASP-9b’s atmosphere, which showed a significant amount of water vapor. As Colón explained, the data was obtained during a transit, when WASP-96b passed in front of its star (relative to Webb’s position). As light passed through the atmosphere, Webb characterized it using its advanced spectrographs. This image effectively showcases how Webb will characterize the atmospheres of planets, be they beyond the Solar System or inside it.
A transmission spectrum based on data acquired by Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
“A Dying Star”
Next was the side-by-image of the Southern Ring planetary nebula presented by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI). The image shows the expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star (located approximately 2,000 light-years away from Earth) as it appeared to both the NIRCam and MIRI. The resulting images provide the most detailed view of this iconic nebula and the stellar remnant at its core – and in multiple wavelengths.
In the NIRCam image, a white dwarf appears to the lower left of the central white dwarf (which is much brighter) and is partially hidden by a diffraction spike. The same star appears brighter, larger, and redder in the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) image, a visual effect caused by the thick layers of dust enshrouding the star. An easter egg was a background galaxy visible on the far left side of the image (seen through a relatively thin patch of nebular dust).
This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from NASA’sWebb Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Infrared Galaxies
The fourth image was a composite of Stephan’s Quintet, a compact galaxy group located 290 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Presented by the ESA science team at Europe’s Spaceport, the image beautifully illustrates the composition and tidal interactions of four galaxies in the process of merging. It was obtained by the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and MIRI instruments, which captured light in multiple wavelengths and provided never-before-seen details about this galaxy group.
These include sparkling clusters of millions of young stars, starburst regions where new stars have just formed, and sweeping tails of gas, dust, and stars being pulled back and forth by the gravitational interaction of the galaxies. Most dramatically, Webb‘s MIRI instrument also captured the huge shock waves (the red and gold region surrounding the central pair of galaxies) produced by NGC 7318B smashing through the cluster.
A mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Star Birth
Amber Straughn, the Deputy Project Scientist for the JWST mission at NASA Goddard, presented the fifth and final image. The image features the Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located about 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Once again, this nebula was previously observed by Hubble, which provided a breathtaking look at a prominent star-forming region. But thanks to Webb‘s superior infrared imaging capabilities, this new image captures details that were previously invisible to astronomers.
For starters, there’s the central feature known as the “cosmic cliff,” which looks like a craggy mountainside. This is, in reality, the edge of the gigantic gaseous cavity carved within the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from the extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble (at the top of the image). This image also reveals previously-unseen newborn stars, a more detailed look at the gas and dust of the nebula, and the interaction between solar wind and gas clouds.
Thanks to the crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity of Webb‘s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), this image is already providing fresh insight into how “stellar nurseries” work and how new stars are born.
Image of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3324) captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
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The development of this next-generation telescope officially began in 1996 as an intended successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These efforts were largely motivated by the success of the Hubble Deep Fields campaign, which provided the deepest views of the Universe to date. They were further motivated by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), which mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from 1989 to 1993. In short, these two surveys allowed astronomers to observe the early Universe and how it all began with the Big Bang.
Now they wanted to see what happened in-between, which included the formation of the first stars and galaxies and how they evolved into the large-scale cosmic structures we see today. After a redesign, multiple tests, delays, cost overruns, and the COVID pandemic, Webb finally launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guyana on Christmas Day in 2021. Once it reached orbit, the mission team spent weeks unfolding its sunshield, deploying and aligning its primary mirror, cooling the observatory to operational temperature, and navigating Webb to its orbit – about 1.5 million km (930,000 mi) from Earth.
Since then, the JWST has been conducting science operations and observing different cosmic objects and phenomena. These images provide a good preview of what we can expect in the coming years as more and more images are released. The event wrapped up with Administrator Bill Nelson praising the teams responsible for James Webb and the international cooperation that made it possible. He finished by repeating the words of the late and great Carl Sagan:
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
New James Webb Space Telescope Images Will Bring You To Tears July 2022
New James Webb Space Telescope Images Will Bring You To Tears July 2022
NASA has a provided a tantalizing teaser photo ahead of the highly-anticipated release next week of the first deep-space images from the James Webb Telescope — an instrument so powerful it can peer back into the origins of the universe. The $10 billion observatory — launched in December last year and now orbiting the Sun a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away from Earth — can look where no telescope has looked before thanks to its enormous primary mirror and instruments that focus on infrared, allowing it to peer through dust and gas.
The first fully formed pictures are set for release on July 12, but NASA provided an engineering test photo on Wednesday — the result of 72 exposures over 32 hours that shows a set of distant stars and galaxies. The image has some “rough-around-the-edges” qualities, NASA said in a statement, but is still “among the deepest images of the universe ever taken” and offers a “tantalizing glimpse” at what will be revealed in the coming weeks, months, and years. “When this image was taken, I was thrilled to clearly see all the detailed structure in these faint galaxies,” said Neil Rowlands, program scientist for Webb´s Fine Guidance Sensor at Honeywell Aerospace.
Jane Rigby, Webb´s operations scientist at NASA´s Goddard Space Flight Center, said the “faintest blobs in this image are exactly the types of faint galaxies that Webb will study in its first year of science operations.” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said last week that Webb is able to gaze further into the cosmos than any telescope before it. “It´s going to explore objects in the solar system and atmospheres of exoplanets orbiting other stars, giving us clues as to whether potentially their atmospheres are similar to our own,” he said. “It may answer some questions that we have: Where do we come from? What more is out there? Who are we?
And of course, it´s going to answer some questions that we don´t even know what the questions are.” Webb´s infrared capabilities allow it to see back in time to the Big Bang, which happened 13.8 billion years ago. Because the Universe is expanding, light from the earliest stars shifts from the ultraviolet and visible wavelengths it was emitted in, to longer infrared wavelengths — which Webb is equipped to detect at an unprecedented resolution. At present, the earliest cosmological observations date to within 330 million years of the Big Bang, but with Webb´s capacities, astronomers believe they will easily break the record.
SpaceX's Starship booster is engulfed in an enormous FIREBALL during disastrous test – and it may delay Elon Musk's plans for the $216 million rocket's first orbital flight
SpaceX's Starship booster is engulfed in an enormous FIREBALL during disastrous test – and it may delay Elon Musk's plans for the $216 million rocket's first orbital flight
SpaceX booster rocket burst into flames at the firm's facility in Boca Chica, Texas
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the explosive incident was 'not good'
It's likely a setback to Musk's aim of launching his Starship into orbit this summer
SpaceX's Starship booster rocket was engulfed in an enormous fireball during a disastrous ground test on Monday evening.
The booster rocket, developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX for its next-generation Starship spacecraft, burst into flames at the firm's facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
Footage shows a powerful fireball engulfing the bottom of the rocket and sending splinters flying, and dramatically shaking the camera's point of view.
Monday's unfortunate explosion may delay plans for the $216 million rocket's first orbital flight, which was tentatively scheduled for this summer.
SpaceX's futuristic, bullet-shaped stainless steel Starship has been selected by NASA for the recently-delayed Artemis missions to the Moon later this decade.
SpaceX's Starship booster rocket was engulfed in an enormous fireball during a disastrous ground test on Monday
Footage shows a powerful fireball engulfing the bottom of the rocket and sending splinters flying. The ground test took place at SpaceX's facility in Boca Chica, Texas
STARSHIP AND SUPER HEAVY LAUNCHER
SpaceX Starship is made up of two stages, the Super Heavy booster and the Starship vehicle on top.
Super Heavy fires and gives Starship the boost it needs to reach orbit.
Once in space, Starship separates and continues its journey, while Super Heavy returns to land on the ground.
It is designed to be a reusable launch vehicle that could put humans on Mars, according to founder Elon Musk.
SpaceX is planning to carry humans using a two-stage spacecraft composed of Starship (the passenger-carrying section) and the Super Heavy rocket booster.
The firm still has work to do on construction of the $216 million Starship, previously known as 'BFR', although it has been testing out launching Starship prototypes into the air and landing them.
SpaceX was conducting a ground test of the Super Heavy booster when it exploded at around 16:20 CT (22:20 BST) on Monday.
A livestream was being recorded by the website NASA Spaceflight when the explosion took place.
The booster remained standing upright, bolted to a test gantry afterward. There was no immediate indication of injuries, although black smoke spewed from the area of the test pad an hour after the incident.
SpaceX boss Elon Musk said on Twitter: 'Yeah, actually not good. Team is assessing damage.'
Musk also said the issue was to do with the 'spin tests' of the 33 Raptor engines, powered by cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
SpaceX flows high-pressure gas through the engines' turbines to power the Super Heavy booster.
The failure came in the midst of a dayslong static fire test campaign in Boca Chica, Texas, of the booster, equipped with an array of 33 Raptor engines for use in an upcoming uncrewed orbital test flight SpaceX hoped to launch later this year
Musk said cryogenic fuel is an 'added challenge'.
'It evaporates to create fuel-air explosion risk in a partially oxygen atmosphere like Earth,' he said on Twitter.
'Going forward, we won't do a spin start test with all 33 engines at once,' Musk also tweeted.
MailOnline contacted SpaceX and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for an official comment.
An FAA spokesperson replied: 'The FAA is in close contact with SpaceX as the company looks into the fire that occurred as part of its Super Heavy booster rocket development.
'The law limits the FAA’s safety oversight to protecting the public during scheduled launch and reentry operations. Yesterday’s event does not fall under the agency’s jurisdiction.'
The booster remained standing upright, bolted to a test gantry afterward. There was no immediate indication of injuries, although black smoke spewed from the area of the test pad an hour after the incident
A livestream was being recorded by the website NASA Spaceflight when the explosion took place. SpaceX boss Elon Musk posted in reply to NASA Spaceflight on Twitter: 'Yeah, actually not good. Team is assessing damage'
Starship, which will stand 394 feet (120 metres) tall when mated with its super-heavy first-stage booster, is the company's next-generation launch vehicle at the centre of Musk's ambitions to make human space travel more affordable and routine.
An upcoming uncrewed orbital test flight of Starship was anticipated to launch this summer, although a delay now seems likely.
In late 2020 and early 2021, SpaceX lost four prototypes of the Starship itself in a series of high-altitude test launches when the return landing attempts ended in explosions.
The Starship prototype finally made a safe touchdown after a high altitude flight test in May 2021.
Elon Musk (pictured) had hoped Starship's first flight into orbit would come in the first month of 2022
Musk had previously said the first orbital launch of Starship would 'hopefully' happen in January 'or perhaps February' 2022 and could be followed by 12 or more launches throughout the rest of the year.
'There's a lot of risk associated with this first launch,' Musk told the US government's National Academies last November.
'So I would not say that it is likely to be successful, but I think we will make a lot of progress.'
After a dozen or so orbital test flights next year, SpaceX then would start launching valuable satellites and other payloads to orbit on Starships in 2023, he said.
Musk also said his firm has built a 'factory for making a lot of these vehicles'.
'This is not a case of just one or two, we're aiming to make a great many [Starships],' he told National Academies' members. 'Ultimately, in order for life to become multiplanetary, we'll need maybe a thousand ships.'
Musk thinks a natural or manmade disaster will eventually bring about the end of civilization, necessitating the relocation to another planet – Mars 'being the only realistic option', he said.
This could be a pandemic worse than Covid-19, continually decreasing birth rates, nuclear Armageddon or perhaps a direct hit by a killer comet 'that takes out a continent'.
SPACEX'S STARSHIP TO GO TO THE MOON
SpaceX's HLS Starship will include the company's tested Raptor engines, along with pulling inspiration from the Falcon and Dragon vehicles' designs.
It will feature a spacious cabin and two airlocks for astronaut moonwalks.
Work started on designing the lunar vehicle in May 2020 and work will now begin to fully build it thanks to a NASA $2.89 billion contract.
The initial contact covers an uncrewed demonstration mission, and a crewed lunar landing in 2024.
It is also planned future lunar landings will be made using Starship HLS.
It is equipped with a complement of thrusters used on the final descent and takeoff from the surface of the moon.
The final design will have a 100 day loiter capability in lunar orbit allowing for more trips to the lunar surface.
It also is designed to carry extra propellant to allow for an emergency ascent from the moon.
SPACEX STARSHIP BOOSTER PROTOTYPE SUDDENLY GOES UP IN FLAMES
SPACEX STARSHIP BOOSTER PROTOTYPE SUDDENLY GOES UP IN FLAMES
"HOLY MOLY. WELL, THAT WAS UNEXPECTED!"
NASASPACEFLIGHT
Uh Oh
SpaceX's Booster 7 prototype just went up in a ball of flames during a routine test today, which could signal a setback — though, to be fair, there's a lot we still don't know about the incident.
A livestream captured by NASASpaceFlight shows the behemoth structure light up in a massive ball of fire and send small pieces of debris flying, surprising onlookers. It's unclear to what extent the Booster or launch tower were damaged during the explosion
A massive pressure wave also managed to shake NASASpaceflight's camera, indicating the explosion was quite energetic.
"Holy moly," tweetedNASASpaceFlight's Chris Bergin. "Well, that was unexpected!"
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seemed to say on Twitter that the explosion was planned — although the NASASpaceFlight crew were pretty skeptical, and Musk has been known to shrug off setbacks. One more possible clue: the explosion happened at 4:20 local Texas time — the weed number that Musk loves so much.
Planned Ignition
But others weren't convinced the fireball was meant to happen.
"I'm probably wrong, but surely ignition was not planned with those lifts right by the pad and such," NASASpaceFlight's Michael Baylor tweeted.
"Hydraulic power unit seems to be in trouble," Baylor added in a follow-up. "Smoke rising from it."
"Oooop this might delay Starship's first orbital flight a smidge," Reuters space reporter Joey Roulette tweeted in response.
Going Orbital
The massive rocket is designed to take SpaceX's Starship 20 prototype into orbit during the company's long-awaited orbital test flight sometime this year.
We have yet to hear about a concrete schedule for the launch, but given the substantial fireball, chances are SpaceX may have to delay it.
NASA Officially Unveils First Set of Dazzling James Webb Images
NASA Officially Unveils First Set of Dazzling James Webb Images
The waiting is finally over.
Image by NASA
The wait is officially over. NASA has released the long-awaited first set of images taken by its uber-expensive James Webb Space Telescope — and they're absolutely breathtaking.
During a live broadcast today, the agency showed off the mind-blowing observations, including some of the deepest views of the cosmos we've ever seen, a groundbreaking moment in the field of astronomy that has been decades in the making.
The news comes after NASA announced that it's completed the commissioning phase of the revolutionary space telescope, officially kicking off full scientific operations.
We'll be updating this post as the new images come in.
DEEP FIELD
We already got a glimpse of the Hubble Space Telescope successor's first images during an unveiling of the first-ever image yesterday, the highest-resolution view of the infrared spectrum ever produced. The stunning image shows "just a little speck of the universe," as NASA administrator Bill Nelson explained during the event.
The image is teeming with galaxies. "Everywhere we look, there's galaxies everywhere," Jane Rigby, James Webb scientist, said during the broadcast.
The most distant galaxies show what they looked like more than 13.1 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
WASP-96B
This giant planet is composed mainly of gas, and is about half the mass of Jupiter. It's located about 1,150 light-years away from Earth, orbiting its star every 3.4 days.
It's the first spectrum of a exoplanet taken by the telescope, which are wavelengths of light we've never had access to before, according to Nicole Colón, Webb deputy project scientist for exoplanets.
"We can tell there's evidence of clouds and hazes, but the water features aren't as large as we predicted," Colón explained.
"We don't expect that planet to be habitable (it's too hot, and it's a gas giant, so no solid surface)," cosmologist Katie Mack tweeted. "But there's hope we might observe atmospheres of more Earth-like planets in the future."
SOUTHERN RING NEBULA
This gorgeous infrared image shows a star dying in stunning detail.
"Well this one's a banger," The Atlantic's Marina Koren tweeted.
This planetary nebula is an expanding cloud of gas, shrouding the dying remains of a star. It's roughly 2,000 light-years away from Earth and nearly half a light-year in diameter.
The nebula shows up due to its molecular nitrogen lighting up the gas surrounding the stellar remains. The blue haze is due to hot ionized gas, heated by the leftover core of the star.
STEPHAN'S QUINTET
This set of five galaxies is an astonishing 290 million light-years away.
There are millions to hundreds of billions of stars inside each galaxy. They are locked in a close, cosmic dance due to their gravitational force.
The galaxies are also in the process of merging, offering us important clues into the evolution of huge structures in the universe.
The image even shows black holes sucking up matter in the center.
CARINA NEBULA
This stellar nursery is some 7,600 light-years away in the constellation Carina. It's one of the brightest and largest in the sky.
It's also home to massive stars, several times the mass of the Sun.
The gorgeous infrared image shows hundreds of new stars we've never seen before, including jets of bubbling gases being expelled as new stars are born. Every dot of light is an individual star, which may have individual planets orbiting them as well.
MORE TO COME
It's certainly not the last time we'll be hearing from the James Webb Space Telescope. These images only represent the very first batch of scientific observations, and we'll likely see countless more stunning views.
"We're going to be doing discoveries like this every week," Rigby promised.
What caused the sky to turn apocalyptic green over South Dakota?
What caused the sky to turn apocalyptic green over South Dakota?
The skies above South Dakota, US turned green on Tuesday (5 July) as a particularly strong storm rolled in.
Eerie images appeared on social media showing the peculiar color of the sky over Sioux Falls, South Dakota just before a thunderstorm swept through the area.
The National Weather Service confirmed that a ‘derecho storm’ barreled through much of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, leaving nearly 30,000 people without power for hours.
Storms qualify as derechos when they have sustained winds of at least 93 km/h and leave a path of damage at least 400 km long, according to the National Weather Service. This particular storm reached a wind speed of 159 km/h.
While residents in South Dakota have grown used to derechos having recently experienced two such storms, the green sky was a highly unusual sight.
What caused the sky to turn green?
It’s not fully understood why green skies occur, but most scientists point to the liquid water content in the air as a root cause. The celestial phenomenon occurs when clouds carry a lot of water and allow primarily blue light to pass through the storm cloud. The blue light mixes with the sun's red light, and the sky turns green.
SS live feed: Fast moving UFO slows down, stops, changes direction and moves on
SS live feed: Fast moving UFO slows down, stops, changes direction and moves on
On April 20, 2016 the ISS live cam recorded an unknown object that certainly wasn't a meteor or space junk.
The object comes into view of the ISS camera while flying at high speed, then it slows down its speed until it totally stops. After a while the object moves on and changes it s direction twice before it disappears into space.
Since the object makes several maneuvers, it also cannot be a satellite. this is clearly a secret man-made or extraterrestrial craft which is under intelligent control.
Asking NASA or the ISS crew what this object could have been is a waste of time, as they will never admit the origin of this craft.
Two silver UFO spheres over Horton Kirby, UK 9-Jul-2022
Two silver UFO spheres over Horton Kirby, UK 9-Jul-2022
This really strange UFO sighting was filmed in the daytime sky above Horton Kirby, a village in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. This happened on 9th July 2022.
Witness report:
Sitting in my garden I noticed off to my left 2 objects flying parallel to each other, at first I took it to be 2 herons then noticed them to be metallic spheres, thinking they maybe baloons I checked the wind direction which was at a constant moderate breeze in the direction of N to SW these objects however were travelling in a direction of W to E approximately which meant they were cutting across the wind at approx a 45 degrees angle. They elevated to just under the clouds and then disappeared. I was unable to see them on the phone screen (Samsung S21+) so just pointed and shot in the general direction in an attempt to capture some footage so not the best I’m afraid but you can clearly see in the attached video the objects.
Hawaiian Drama Over ‘Yellow Brick Road’ Geology and Atlantis!
Hawaiian Drama Over ‘Yellow Brick Road’ Geology and Atlantis!
Deep sea scientistshave released a video showing a ‘bizarre’ geological formation that they have already named the Yellow Brick Road. However, the section of seabed making the headlines is nowhere nearly as strange as the ‘Devil´s piles’ the researchers skipped over.
An oceanic expedition examining a deep sea ridge to the north of the Hawaiian Islands recently discovered a dried-out lake bed that looks like a human built road. The visual similarity caused the team of scientists involved in the discovery to jokingly mention the “yellow brick road” and “the road to Atlantis.”
According to a ScienceAlert article the team of researchers from the Ocean Exploration Trust are “pushing the frontiers of this wilderness… more than 3,000 meters below the waves,” and the imagery they are sending back certainly is stunning. As for the geological wonder, it is located atop a deep sea ridge within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM), one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world.
Following The Yellow Brick Road
The so-called Yellow Brick Road was discovered by the Nautilus deep sea exploration vessel. You can read all about the 2022 E/V Nautilus expedition here. The team were surveying the Liliʻuokalani sea area to the north of Hawaii. Liliʻuokalani was the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom and ruled until the kingdom was overthrown at the beginning of 1893 AD.
The research team’s YouTube video revealed a range of fascinating sea creatures and they searched for archaeological evidence. This deep sea exploration effort is the first of its kind in the area, and showing some crazy stuff, so they use the words ‘bizarre’, ‘insane’ and ‘awesome’ a lot. When they come upon the geological feature over which all the fuss is being made, one of the researchers enthuses “It's the road to Atlantis,” while another screams “this is crazy.”
If You Thought That Was Crazy, Check This Out
About a thousand meters deep on the summit of the Nootka seamount, one of the team says the ground looks like “baked crust that could be peeled off.” Then one of the scientists calls the rock formation bizarre. While the geological feature he was referring to, that has made the headlines, is not actually bizarre, in geological terms, the pillar like formations featured at 17.55 mins, which one of the team refers to as “Devil’s piles” are indeed geologically bizarre.
The Devil’s Piles the team came across in their deep sea explorations.
Devils Postpile National Monument protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation. Towering up to 60 feet (18 meters) high, this geological example of columnar basalt displaying hexagonal geometry can also be seen on the other side of the Atlantic.
On a shoreline in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland , about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills, the Giant’s Causeway features 40,000 interlocking basalt columns in a similar stepping stone structure to those featured in the scientist´s Liliʻuokalani video. The Irish formations range in height from 12 meters (39 feet) and can be as wide as 28 meters (92 feet).
A Team Of ‘Ologists’, Without The ‘Geo’
Returning to the Yellow Brick Road, a YouTube commenter killed the mystery in one simple post which was featured in the ScienceAlert article. They said the so-called unique 90-degree fractures are likely related to “heating and cooling stress from multiple eruptions at this baked margin.” The only reason the team were so excited is because they don't see such formations every day, whereas, if it was a geological team they might have passed over it without so much as a comment. But for sure, a geology team would have spent a week on the Devil's piles.
Modern mythology is paved with several underwater geological features caused by historic tectonic movements and volcanic eruptions. Perhaps the most infamous is the Bimini Road rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. Measuring about a kilometer long and comprising linear rectangular limestone blocks, many writers claim this was also a road to Atlantis. And it was from this name given to the Bimini Road that the Nautilus researcher got his reference for the tablet-like geological feature shown in the video.
The team say they have “a whole lot more to learn about Earth's hidden geology .” And what is fantastic about all this research is that it is available for us all to follow in real time, because every day live footage is streamed from E/V Nautilus deep sea RVs.
Top image: The deep sea geological formation dubbed the “Yellow Brick Road” by the researchers that found it north of the Hawaiian Islands. Source: YouTube screenshot / EVNatilus
It has been claimed that a nurse was left traumatized after she was forced by the U.S. military to assist on an alien autopsy following the Roswell unidentified flying object (UFO) crash.
Daily Star reported that a person working at the Roswell funeral home, which was asked to make child-size coffins for alien bodies by the military, claimed that he knew the nurse. After the Roswell UFO crash in 1947, the employee, Glenn Dennis, was working at the undertakers in Roswell, New Mexico, according to IT Trending. He took the nurse's identity to the grave with him, but he revealed a few details about the encounter.
James Clarkson, a former detective and military police officer, spent time interviewing Dennis before his death. He believes that Dennis was a reliable witness. He shared that you just know, when somebody is telling you the truth, and he had "some intuition of when people are giving their heart when they're telling you what they really believe." He believed that Dennis "wasn't lying."
Dennis shared with Clarkson about the nurse who was left traumatized by the autopsy of an alien. Clarkson said that in small Western towns back then, they "didn't have paramedics or ambulances." He said that if they needed to transport a "sicker injured person, sadly, the best vehicle to do that in was a hearse," and so many times in small towns, "the funeral home, the funeral directors would do double duty."
He shared that Dennis was taking an injured airman back to the base and he pulled in there and "he saw all these vehicles and people that he'd never seen before." Clarkson added that then a nurse Dennis knew came out of a back room and said, "Glen, what are you doing here?" She was so horrified that she "resigned her commission in the military," and there'd been a "lot of speculation about where she went." Clarkson said that Dennis promised her that he would never reveal her name.
Clarkson said that when they started investigating Roswell, which wasn't until the eighties, and heard about Dennis "working in the funeral home and being called, people were all over him." He kept saying that he didn't want to share anything about the nurse. When he was pushed too far, Clarkson said that Dennis made a name up, just to stop the questions, but later regretted it.
75 years ago, Roswell 'flying saucer' report sparked UFO obsession
75 years ago, Roswell 'flying saucer' report sparked UFO obsession
Dave Kindy, The Washington Post
Fort Worth Army Air Field 8th July 1947: Jesse Marcel, head intelligence officer, who initially investigated and recovered some of the debris from the Roswell UFO site poses with debris. In mid-1947, a United States Air Force balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the crashed 'flying disc', the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty
The world was worrying about war when rancher W.W. Brazel walked into the sheriff's office in Corona, N.M., on a hot, dusty day 75 years ago to report a "flying disk" he might have found on his property, about 100 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Field.
The next day - July 8, 1947 - the public information officer at the base issued a news release stating the U.S. Army Air Forces had recovered a "flying saucer" at the ranch. While military brass quickly retracted the statement, it was too late: The legend of Roswell as the "UFO Capital of the World" was already soaring - much like the countless bright objects many Americans claimed to have seen in the sky that summer.
The event that we know today as the "Roswell Incident" gave birth to the modern movement of UFO sightings, along with the genre of alien science fiction.
"For centuries, people have seen things they can't explain," said Roger Launius, a historian and the retired curator of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. "In earlier generations, they referred to them as angels, demons, deities or whatever. That changes with the scientific revolution, where people began to wonder if the points of light they see are alien in nature."
The fertile ground for Roswell was sown under the darkening mushroom cloud of the nuclear age. World War II had ended less than two years earlier, and the United States and Soviet Union seemed to be on the precipice of another global conflict. The term "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in a 1945 essay and entered the modern consciousness when Bernard Baruch, an adviser to President Harry S. Truman, uttered it in a speech in the spring of 1947.
Amid this heightened apprehension came the first news of "flying saucers" - and the term's first mention in print, according to the Oxford English Dictionary - on June 24. Media across the country reported that a civilian pilot named Ken Arnold said he'd spotted bright objects streaking across the sky at supersonic speeds near Mount Rainier in Washington.
Some officials suggested the fast-moving lights might have been rockets or jets being tested by the military. Nonetheless, public hysteria erupted over the next few weeks, with more than 800 similar sightings being reported across the country - many of them deemed "copycat" events by law enforcement and military officials.
"When Ken Arnold sees this stuff, it's told in an overblown tabloid way," Launius said. "It gets hyped-up in the press and builds from there. If the present doesn't tell you that Americans love conspiracies, I don't know what does. It wasn't any different in 1947."
While all this was happening, an unsuspecting Brazel was tending the sheep and cattle on his New Mexico ranch. With no radio or newspaper, he was isolated from the outside world. The rancher gave little thought to the unusual debris he found scattered around his pastures.
On July 5, Brazel headed into Corona on a Saturday night and learned what everyone else had been talking about. He began to wonder whether there was a connection. On Monday, he gathered up the strange material and traveled back into town to inform local officials of his discovery. The sheriff visited Brazel's ranch, then contacted the military.
The debris was transported to Fort Worth Army Air Field in Texas, where military experts proclaimed it was from a crashed weather balloon. However, before that pronouncement was relayed back to Roswell, the New Mexico base sent out the news release about finding a "flying saucer." Lt. Walter Haut, Roswell's public information officer, later claimed that base commander Col. William H. Blanchard had ordered him to use that description.
For a few days, the world's attention was focused on Roswell, N.M. But most people seemed satisfied with the military's explanation, and the story quickly faded.
It would not blow up again until 1978, when the National Enquirer ran an article about the incident. All of a sudden, new versions of the event emerged - some from the original participants - with reports of an actual spacecraft, alien bodies and a government coverup adding new layers to the legend.
"The story seems to get better with each retelling," Launius said. "Initially, there was no discussion whatsoever of alien bodies. That somehow gets wrapped in it as part of the original incident, even though there is nothing about it in the sources of the time."
The story evolved with a seemingly endless array of articles, books, movies and documentaries about what "really happened" in the New Mexico desert. In 1993, television audiences were introduced to the long-running series "The X-Files," whose fictional stories of FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Sculley tracking down alien abductions and an international conspiracy only added fuel to the fire.
Many involved with the incident altered their descriptions of events over time, including the government. In 1947, the CIA and military were concerned that these "flying saucers" were actually new technology being used by the Soviets. When the Army Air Forces retracted its first statement, it was less than forthcoming about the debris' origins - likely because it was hiding a secret.
"The weather balloon was a cover story," Launius said. "The best evidence suggests that this was a Project Mogul listening device that they recovered pieces of."
Project Mogul was a military program designed to intercept Russian radio messages via high-altitude balloons, which would eventually deflate and fall to the Earth. Several crash sites have been identified around the country. In 1994, a U.S. Air Force report identified the top-secret project as the likely source of the debris found in New Mexico.
Launius said the UFO sightings of the summer of 1947 were the result of a world consumed by fear of an apocalypse.
"Just in the United States between 1947 and 1960, there were a total of 6,523 UFO reports," he said. "There seems to be a direct tie between public perception of the reality of space travel and these UFO sightings. I am convinced that the rapid rise in the number of UFOs reported in the early Cold War era was the result of heightened tensions as everyone watched the skies for warning of a nuclear attack."
But even if the Roswell Incident could be explained by a military program, subsequent events in the skies remain a mystery. On July 19, 1952, almost exactly five years after Brazel reported the strange debris on his ranch, a series of UFO sightings occurred over Washington, D.C. Airline pilots reported seeing flashes of light streaking across the sky, and radar operators were perplexed by fast-moving blips on their screens. The Air Force scrambled jets to intercept the objects, which disappeared and never returned. The event 70 years ago has never been explained.
As the poster in Mulder's office in "The X-Files" reads, "I want to believe."
See what people in Florida have seen in the sky and reported to the National UFO Reporting Center. (Shutterstock)
FLORIDA — Here's something to celebrate as World UFO Day approaches on July 2: The Defense Department has finally acknowledged UFOs — or UAP, unidentified aerial phenomena — are real and may explain what you've seen in the skies over Florida.
In May, during the first public hearing on UFOs in half a century, a top Navy intelligence official told lawmakers the military has added more than 250 reports of aircraft flying at mysterious speeds and trajectories to its database in the past year, bringing the total to about 400.
What lawmakers didn't hear is evidence of extraterrestrial life.
What are folks reporting in the skies above Florida? The crowd-sourced list from the National UFO Reporting Center includes some strange things, indeed. For example:
One person in Fort Meyers said they saw a bright object moving across the sky and leaving smoke circles.
Another person on Anna Maria Island reported seeing a disc that moved across the sky for about 10 seconds and then quickly faded.
Someone in Jacksonville said they saw three objects hovering in the sky for about two hours. They told the Reporting Center that they called 911 1hen they saw an airplane flying in the same direction, but the dispatcher said there was not an aircraft in the area.
World UFO Day on July 2 commemorates the Roswell crash, which more or less made it safe for Americans to talk about strange occurrences in the sky. The crash occurred at the dawn of the Cold War, a time of escalating tension over the arms race when school children were taught duck-and-cover drills to protect themselves in a nuclear attack, fueling wild speculation about the object's origins.
The Roswell Army Air Field announced in a July 8, 1947, news release that it had recovered the wreckage of a "flying disc" from W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch about 75 miles north of Roswell.
The release was straightforward, noting:
"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 Chaves County."
Earlier that summer, on June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, a businessman piloting a small plane, filed the first well-known report of a UFO over Mount Rainier in Washington, according to History. Arnold claimed he saw nine high-speed, crescent-shaped objects zooming along at several thousand miles per hour "like saucers skipping on water."
The Roswell Army Air Field mentioned nothing in its press release about alien life, but people were already growing uneasy about what might be circling overhead. Brazel was among them.
He thought the object he found on his ranch was similar to what Arnold had seen, or to the objects described stories about flying saucers and discs, so he gathered some of the material from the wreckage, including rubber strips, tinfoil and thick paper, and deposited them with Sheriff George Wilcox, who in turn turned it over to the commanding officer of the Roswell Army Air Field.
Although the objects Arnold claimed to see weren't saucer-shaped at all, his analogy led to the popularization of the term "flying saucers." And since then, Americans have been more or less obsessed with the idea that alien life is among us. That brings us to the May hearings.
The Defense Department was loathe for many years to even acknowledge the existence of UFOs — or, as they're referred to in military and spy agency circles, UAP. But the Pentagon had to walk back years of public denial after a shadowy five-year program to investigate UFOs was exposed in 2017 by The New York Times and Politico.
The intelligence gathered over the five years of the program, which was initiated in 2007, included former Naval Cmdr. David Fravor's account of an other-wordly encounter with an oblong, Tic Tac-shaped aircraft flying erratically through his airspace at an incredible speed, defying accepted principles of aerodynamics.
"I can tell you, I think it was not from this world," Fravor told ABC News in 2017. "I'm not crazy, haven't been drinking. It was — after 18 years of flying, I've seen pretty much about everything that I can see in that realm, and this was nothing close."
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, now a ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called on the Pentagon in late 2020 to investigate the UFO sightings.
The military said in its 2021 report to Congress on UFOs that investigators found no evidence supporting alien life, a finding Scott W. Bray, the deputy director of Naval intelligence, repeated in the hearings in May, telling lawmakers the investigation hadn't turned up anything "extraterrestrial in origin," and that none of the documented objects had attempted to make contact with U.S. aviators.
All of the unexplained sightings appeared to be unmanned, Bray said.
Still, the sightings are of great concern both to the military and to members of Congress from both parties, who worry about threats to national security. Some of the sightings of aircraft flying without a discernible means of propulsion have been reported near military bases, raising concerns they are the stealth spy aircraft of U.S. adversaries.
The U.S. government is believed to be withholding technical information about the sightings of the mysterious aircraft near military bases and coastlines, raising concerns about Chinese or Russian spy technology.
"We are also mindful of our obligation to protect sensitive sources and methods," Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie said in his opening remarks. "Our goal is to strike that delicate balance — one that will enable us to maintain the public's trust while preserving those capabilities that are vital to the support of our service personnel."
Indiana Congressman Andre Carson, a Democrat who chairs the subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee that held the hearing, has previously said that pilots too often are reluctant to come forward for fear they'll be ridiculed.
"We want to know what's out there as much as you want to know what's out there," Moultrie told lawmakers, adding that he was a fan of science fiction himself. "We get the questions, not just from you. We get it from family, and we get them night and day."
The move to destigmatize UFO reports appears to be contributing to an increase in reports, and detection capabilities are improving, Bray said.
For example, he said, Navy and Air Force pilots and crews "now have step-by-step procedures for reporting UAPs," using onboard technology.
Also, sensors have been improved, and more drones and other non-military aerial systems are in the skies, which could account for some of the increased sightings.
Another possible culprit, Bray said: Mylar balloons.
Republican Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to protect UFO whistleblowers from retaliation.
The amendment would create a “secure system for receiving reports of any event” or “any government or government contractor activity related to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). The whistleblower system would be staffed by “designated and widely known, easily accessible, andappropriately cleared Department of Defense and intelligence community employees or contractors.”
The language in the amendment has the potential to increase the disclosure of information on UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) as it would protect those who come forward with information, according to The Drive. Individuals who speak publicly about UFOs have reportedly said that they have proof of alien life, but do not reveal much of the details for fear of imprisonment, according to Engadget.
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The whistleblower system would be screened “to prevent unauthorized public reporting or compromise of properly classified military and intelligence systems, programs, and related activity, including all categories and levels of special access and compartmented access programs, current, historical, and future.”
Should anyone who discloses information on UFOs and UAPs be retaliated against, they would be allowed to bring civil action “for all appropriate remedies,” the amendment continued.
“Despite recent progress, we still know far too little about UAPs, along with the threat they may pose to our national security and the safety of our pilots. No one should be afraid of potential repercussions from sharing information that could help us better understand this phenomena, which is why we need to establish a secure and protected process within the government for individuals to share information and expand our understanding,” Gallagher told the Daily Caller of his amendment.
Gallagher is an outspoken advocate for UFO/UAP disclosure. During a livestreamed House Permanent Select Committee Intelligence Hearing on the topic, he pushed Pentagon officials to disclose more information on one reported incident from a Montana nuclear facility, which was shared to his YouTube channel.
Blue-Skinned E.T. From Andromeda Told US Army Personnel Origin Of Humanity
Blue-Skinned E.T. From Andromeda Told US Army Personnel Origin Of Humanity
There are many assumptions about the number of extraterrestrial species in the universe. Many UFOlogists, abductees, and even people in authorities claim to have seen the so-called intelligent beings from outer space. Alex Collier is the only contactee who provided in-depth information about the beings from Andromeda. In his interviews, he discussed the influence of various alien species on the human race.
Many well-known UFO enthusiasts considered Collier to be credible, at least in the sense that he tries to convey as fully as possible the information received from his contacts with the Andromedans. He first began to experience extraterrestrial contact during his childhood up to his mid-teens. After the experiences stopped over a period of several years, which included military service as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army, the contact resumed in 1985.
He met with two Andromedans who became his mentors and took him on board their space vehicles including a large extraterrestrial mother ship where he was exposed to the teachings of the Andromedans over a three-month period. The Andromedans gave him information about cosmic spirituality, life in the universe, and Earth’s galactic history.
Collier claimed that humans are composite of 22 different ETs races that arrived on Earth at different times
The Andromedans are “one of the thousands of extraterrestrial races in existence.” They are human and some have bluish skin, measuring more than 2 meters tall. According to Collier, the author of the book “Defending Sacred Ground: The Andromedan Compendium,” all human life forms originated in the Lyra Constellation. However, a war caused their stars to explode, making humanity spread to different places in the galaxy to survive.
Collier explains that the different skin tones are due to different DNAs and exposure to different stars. The Andromeda Beings are one of the oldest civilizations living in the Andromeda constellation.
This civilization, no matter where in the constellation it lives, has a single government and is spiritually 4,700 more advanced than us, as well as 5,000 years technologically. However, they maintain a balance of the spiritual and technological. In fact, they use technology to be able to evolve spiritually.
This is because there are different dimensional levels. We are currently in the Third dimension. We still haven’t reached the Fourth, much less the Fifth. What differentiates the Third from the Fourth dimension, is the conscience.
In the fourth dimension, there is a collective consciousness, because everyone is telepathic and can read the mind of the rest. This leads to each person being authentic, transparent, and without ulterior motives. Upon entering this dimension, the being becomes clairvoyant since, in this state of consciousness, energy systems and fields can be seen.
However, there are still dualities and the judgment systems are modified since the judiciary will be able to take decisions according to the energy fields. The beings of Andromeda have not lived in a society as manipulated as ours. They are telepathic and clairvoyant because they have studied all the sciences.
All souls know who they are, they all know about their past lives, and every time they incarnate, they are aware and know where they are going. In addition, they can see their evolution in the afterlife.
According to various interviews by Collier, he stated that Earth is under the control of “regressive” extra-terrestrial beings. Those aliens came to Earth from the star system known as Alpha Draconis. He said that humans are separated by two different philosophical belief systems. One of them spreads love & free will, while the other one shows control and resource consumption. He said humans are behind the Andromedans because of the manipulations in our DNA. The intense manipulation of Earth dated back 5,700 years. However, this has an origin 14,000 years ago, when the aliens from Orion began to manipulate our DNA structure.
In his last lecture before he retired from the UFO lecture circuit in 2002, Collier said that the ancient alien race known as the “Founders” are responsible for building planets’ environments and making them suitable for life. The Andromedans and the Pleiadians believed that this ancient alien race is called the “Paa Tal.”
He even said that those aliens are capable of removing moons to alter the planet’s position from its sun to control the amount of radiation. The Andromedans could reportedly create a solar system.
Collier noted that the Andromedans are about 4,300 to 4,500 years ahead of us in technology. They do not count years in 365 days as we do on Earth. According to different extraterrestrials, one year is a time when every cell in their body duplicates itself, and it takes around 34 years.
According to Collier, humans consist of 22 extraterrestrial races. He claimed that there are about 135 billion people living on the planets in the eight closest galaxies to us. He even said that when he visited one of those habitable planets, those people got scared of seeing an earthling because of our bad reputation. In the whole universe, only humans could make their own people slaves and kill them for their own benefits.
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BOTSENDE STERRENSTELSELS? JA, MAAR JE MOET WEL GOED KIJKEN!
BOTSENDE STERRENSTELSELS? JA, MAAR JE MOET WEL GOED KIJKEN!
Tim Kraaijvanger
Ergens op deze Hubble-foto botsen twee sterrenstelsels op elkaar. En nee, het zijn niet de twee grote spiraalstelsels die in elkaar lijken te schuiven.
Het grote sterrenstelsel op deze ruimtefoto van de week is NGC 105. Dit spiraalstelsel is 215 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en ligt in het sterrenbeeld Vissen. Het object werd in 1884 door de Franse astronoom Édouard Stephan ontdekt. NGC 105 is zelfs met een goede verrekijker nog niet te zien. Je hebt een flinke telescoop nodig, wat ook verklaart waarom het sterrenstelsel pas relatief laat is ontdekt.
Links naast NGC 105 zien we een ander sterrenstelsel. Het lijkt net alsof dit sterrenstelsel – PGC 212515 (of LEDA 212515) – botst met NGC 105. In werkelijkheid is er niets aan de hand. De afstand tussen PGC 212515 en de aarde is 350 miljoen lichtjaar. Dit betekent dat er ruim honderd miljoen lichtjaar ‘ruimte’ is tussen de zogenaamde botsende sterrenstelsels en dat is meer dan genoeg. Om het in perspectief te plaatsen: het Andromedastelsel is slechts 2,5 miljoen lichtjaar van onze Melkweg verwijderd.
Toch zijn er wel botsende sterrenstelsels te zien op deze prachtige foto. Dan moeten we wel eerst goed inzoomen. Ver in de achtergrond treffen we diverse onregelmatige sterrenstelsels in verschillende soorten en maten aan. En ja hoor: er zijn zelfs twee botsende sterrenstelsels zichtbaar. Kijk maar eens naar de uitsnede hieronder. De botsende sterrenstelsels zie je net onder het midden van de foto.
Maar er is meer te zien op de foto. Zie je die heldere ster rechtsboven NGC 105? Die ster bevindt zich in onze Melkweg. Dit object staat dus honderdduizenden keren dichter bij de aarde dan NGC 105. Daarnaast zie je ook talloze rode puntjes. Dit zijn allemaal sterrenstelsels op miljarden lichtjaren afstand van de aarde. Fascinerend!
Veranderlijke ster steelt de show De reden dat NGC 105 is gefotografeerd door de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop is omdat dit sterrenstelsel een zogenoemde Cepheïde huisvest. Dit is een veranderlijke ster die regelmatig opzwelt en krimpt. Als de ster opzwelt, neemt de temperatuur toe en wordt de Cepheïde helderder. Na deze piek krimpt de gasbol weer en koelt de ster zo’n duizend graden af. Cepheïden zijn overigens hele grote sterren, namelijk zogenoemde superreuzen. Een gemiddelde Cepheïde heeft een doorsnede van vijftig miljoen kilometer. In vergelijking: de zon heeft een doorsnede van ruim één miljoen kilometer.
Verschillende supernova’s In NGC 105 bevinden zich ook nog eens drie Type Ia supernova’s, namelijk SN 1997w, SN 2006tg en SN 2007A. Dit type supernova ontstaat in nauwe dubbelstersystemen, waarin de ene ster een witte dwerg is, en de andere een rode reus (of een tweede witte dwerg). Type Ia supernova’s spelen een cruciale rol in ons begrip over het universum. De supernova van type Ia is namelijk de helderste soort supernova: hij straalt meer dan een miljard keer meer energie uit dan onze zon. Hierdoor kunnen ze over grote afstanden worden gezien. Bovendien stoten ze bij hun gewelddadige ontploffingen veel elementen uit waar vervolgens nieuwe sterren en sterrenstelsels uit voortkomen.
Astronomen kunnen Type Ia supernova’s en Cepheïden gebruiken om de afstand tot verre sterrenstelsels nauwkeuriger te bepalen. Wat dat betreft is NGC 105 daarmee het perfecte ‘proefkonijn’ voor astronomen, omdat beide objecten hier aanwezig zijn.
De afgelopen decennia hebben ruimtetelescopen en satellieten prachtige foto’s gemaakt van nevels, sterrenstelsels, stellaire kraamkamers en planeten. Ieder weekend halen we één of meerdere indrukwekkende ruimtefoto uit het archief. Genieten van alle foto’s? Bekijk zeop deze pagina.
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Three 150-mile-wide spacecraft are on their way to Earth: Observed by HAARP, the Space Research System
Three 150-mile-wide spacecraft are on their way to Earth: Observed by HAARP, the Space Research System
In the 21st century, U̳F̳O̳ encounters have become increasingly common, particularly as it has become nearly impossible to distinguish between accidental U̳F̳O̳ sightings and actual U̳F̳O̳ sightings.
Special air defense departments, as well as other elements such as underground laboratories, were effectively coordinated and we provided evidence to support these allegations.
We cannot rule out the idea that intelligence agencies have analyzed samples from a̳l̳i̳e̳n̳ spacecraft or even the a̳l̳i̳e̳n̳ itself, alive or dead. Scientists are the ones who research these questions and are obligated to share their findings with us.
Three massive spacecraft are getting dangerously close to our world, according to SETI, the Agency for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Research. The largest is 150 miles long and 150 miles wide.
The HAARP space research system, created to investigate northern lights phenomena, observed these objects.
Other claims indicate that these objects are e̳x̳t̳r̳a̳t̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ satellites that will be visible from Earth after passing through the orbit of Mars. The arrival of the ships will be the first time that humans have come into contact with a̳l̳i̳e̳n̳ races in history.
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Sphere Over Menlo park, California July 10, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Sphere Over Menlo park, California July 10, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 10, 2022
Location of sighting: Menlo Park, California, USA
Watch this huge orb moving over Menlo Park yesterday. The eyewitness saw it for 15 minutes, but only caught 58 seconds of video, but still it shows us its sphere shape. Absolutely awesome! Love this video, as short as it is, it tells me so many things, its sphere shape, its slow rotation, its high in the blue sky and moving ever so slowly...I just wish we could see it leaving. To see it move faster or change directions would help understand it a bit.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
UFO was stationary for 15 min before slowly ascending vertically and directly in the same position. My son and Mother both were witnesses to this craft.
This UFO was seen and filmed in the daytime sky above Menlo park in California on 10th July 2022.
Witness report:
Ufo was stationary for 15 min before slowly ascending vertically and directly in the same position. My son and Mother both were witnesses to this craft.
EXCLUSIVE: Roswell 75 years on: Leading UFO expert says he's still unsure if flying saucer really did crash in New Mexico desert - and queries whether US used it to cover-up secret aircraft smash
EXCLUSIVE: Roswell 75 years on: Leading UFO expert says he's still unsure if flying saucer really did crash in New Mexico desert - and queries whether US used it to cover-up secret aircraft smash
On July 8, 1947, the US military announced it had a flying saucer in its possession
In less than 24 hours the narrative changed from a UFO to a weather balloon
Nick Pope, who ran the British Government’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994, said if this was a cover story, it was one of the best in American history
People did not question the switched narrative and went on with their lives
Today, Roswell has become more of a joke rather than a UFO sighting
Pope says that the cover up could have been for a top secret weapon
The news of a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico sent shockwaves through the nation, but what was once a headline of a newspaper on July 8, 1947 now seems to be nothing more than an urban legend.
The Roswell event started with a flying saucer in military possession to it being nothing more than a weather balloon, and a UFO expert Pope Nick told DailyMail.com that the '180 narrative flip' was effective in 'killing the story'
Nick Pope, who ran the British Government’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994, told DailyMail.com in a phone interview: ‘The US military released a press release that we had recovered a flying disc, which they said was once of those mystifying discs spotted over the US weeks before.
’24 hours later, they completely reversed the narrative.’
If the debris at Roswell was not of this world, than this could be one of the best cover story in American history, Pope suggested.
‘I am not saying this is deliberate, but the best cover story is the one that makes you laugh, makes roll your eyes,’ he said.
‘If something becomes a joke then serious politicians, military personal, scientists and journalists don’t want to touch it or if they do, they come from a perspective that they do not really believe it.’
The ‘180 narrative flip,’ as Pope calls it, refers to the intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group announcing that day at noon that they were in possession of a flying saucer and then stating that it was later determined by military officials to be a radar-tracking balloon.
‘I am still undecided,’ said Pope when asked if he believes it was an alien aircraft that crashed on the ranch 75 years ago.
‘As much as I believe in life out there, I am not sure about visitation.’
The wreckage was first discovered by W.W. 'Mac' Brazel, who was taking his sheep to a nearby stream.
The news of a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico sent shockwaves through the nation, but what was once a headline of a newspaper on July 8, 1947 now seems to be nothing more than an urban legend
The debris is described as being a metallic-looking, light but strong material. Pictured Jesse Marcel, a former military personnel, holding the debris
Brazel spotted the debris over his land and called the authorities who came to the scene for a deeper analysis – which they determined was a flying saucer.
The Roswell Daily Record quickly got the story out on the front page with the headline: RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.’
The story described the debris as being a metallic-looking, light but strong material.
But the excitement was gone in what seemed like an instant and no one thought twice about it.
‘The late 40s was a more trusting era,’ Pope said.
The ‘180 narrative flip,’ as Pope calls it, refers to the intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group announcing that day at noon that they were in possession of a flying saucer and then stating that it was later determined by military officials to be a radar-tracking balloon
The wreckage was discovered in In July 1947, by a rancher living in Roswell, New Mexico
‘This was an era where trust in the government and military was very high and it was an era before the internet and social media.
'Because most people didn’t have a telephone, the morning newspaper was their window on the world. I think it was treated as gospel.’
Pope also pointed out that any UFO books written in the 1950s to 1960s do not include any information on the Roswell event.
‘The killing of the story was that effective,’ he said.
Pope continued to explain that it would be fascinating if the 75-year-old case could be solved and if the result was that the debris was from a UFO.
This file video grab image obtained April 28, 2020 shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
‘I won’t pretend we have a smoking gun because we don’t,’ he said.
Mystery of the 1947 Roswell wreckage
In July 1947, a rancher reported pieces of debris scattered over his land.
Authorities were called to the scene and after investigating the wreckage, determined the pieces were from a flying sauce.
The local paper's front page story reported that the Roswell Army field recovered a flying saucer on a New Mexico Ranch after metallic-looking, light but strong material was scattered across the land.
'The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into the possession of a Flying Saucer,' Roswell Daily Record reported on July 8, 1947.
However, shortly after the 'UFO' discovery made headlines, the War Department in Washington released a statement claiming the debris was the remains of a weather balloon.
‘Conversely, the people at the Roswell military base was where only atomic bomb squadron was housed and these people were the best of the best.’
‘If ever there were people less likely to misidentify a weather balloon it would be them.’
Playing devil’s advocate, Pope says the cover up could have been a way to conceal something like a top secret weapon that had crashed.
The conversation about UFOs and aliens is not taboo in the US, as over the past year the government has released video footage showing military jets chasing what could be a flying saucers.
There was also a recent public congressional hearing about UFOs, which saw three former cavalrymen testify about their encounter with a UFO at a Middle East US military base in 2014.
They said they saw eight bright objects hovering and zipping across the sky at incredible speeds from a desert outpost in Sinai, on the Egyptian border, around December 2014.
The three cavalry scouts, who are trained in identifying aircraft, believe the objects they witnessed were of non-human origin.
‘It is strange that despite all that interest and congressional hearings you hardly ever hear senators or congressional representatives s mention the 'R' word – Roswell,’ said Pope.
‘Maybe the stigma is still there and they can’t bring themselves to say Roswell and ask what about Roswell
‘The original ‘cover story’ if it was, may have been too effective and may have taken out of people’s minds in the media, public and government.’
Russian Navy Divers Encountered Aquatic Aliens: The Lake Baikal Humanoids
Russian Navy Divers Encountered Aquatic Aliens: The Lake Baikal Humanoids
Perplexed, they watched in bewilderment as several curious creatures approached them. Despite being stationed at a depth of over one hundred and sixty-four feet, these humanoids wore no modern equipment
For centuries, Lake Baikal has been home to a plethora of unexplained phenomena. Locals claim countless peculiar UFO encounters frequently occur within this remote region of Russia
Located in southeastern Siberia, towards Mongolia’s border, sits the planet’s oldest and deepest lake. Nearly one-quarter of Earth’s fresh water is contained here. Astonishing depths of over five thousand feet have been measured in certain areas.
A myriad of unique plant and animal species inhabit the frigid territory, many of which exist nowhere else in the world. Scientists estimate this massive basin formed as an ancient rift valley more than twenty-five million years ago.
For centuries, Lake Baikal has been home to a plethora of unexplained phenomena. Locals claim countless peculiar UFO encounters frequently occur within this remote region of Russia. Some theorize an extraterrestrial base is lurking beneath the picturesque exterior.
One of the most bizarre reports occurred in 1982 during a routine Soviet military training dive. While navigating the foreboding aquatic realm, Navy personnel noticed anomalous figures swimming nearby.
Perplexed, they watched in bewilderment as several curious creatures approached them. Despite being stationed at a depth of over one hundred and sixty-four feet, these humanoids wore no modern equipment.
Each donned tight-fitting metallic suits complete with a helmet-like apparatus completely covering their heads. Upon closer inspection, troopers noticed the aliens were nearly ten feet tall. However, the colossal loch-dwellers soon disappeared back into the murky abyss.
Lake Baikal is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of them endemic to the region. It is also home to Buryat tribes, who raise goats, camels, cattle, sheep, and horses[14] on the eastern side of the lake,[15] where the mean temperature varies from a winter minimum of −19 °C (−2 °F) to a summer maximum of 14 °C (57 °F).[16] The region to the east of Lake Baikal is referred to as Transbaikalia or as the Transbaikal,[17] and the loosely defined region around the lake itself is sometimes known as Baikalia. UNESCO declared Baikal a World Heritage Site in 1996.
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10-07-2022
Scientists Have Just Detected A Massive Rogue Object Heading Through Our Solar System via Unexplained Mysteries
Scientists Have Just Detected A Massive Rogue Object Heading Through Our Solar System via Unexplained Mysteries
Scientists have just detected a massive rogue object heading through our Solar System. Today, we take a look at what has just been detected in our solar system. Our universe is vast and limitless and with such a huge world to explore and research through, there are of course a staggering number of discoveries being made each day, filling us in about what lies beyond Earth, whether it is updates about our own missions or entirely new detections, there is plenty to discover.
Black holes are a classic trope of many science fiction favourites, though they may not truly be an abyss for lost items and they are not a portal for time travel, they are still a fascinating scientific concept. Thank you for watching!
Black Knight Satellite Cover-Up! Billy Carson Live! 2022
Black Knight Satellite Cover-Up! Billy CarsonLive! 2022
Black Knight Satellite Cover-Up! Billy Carson Live! 2022
I’m a big fan of Billy Carson. I’ve watched the documentary and think it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. The whole way it was done was so interesting I couldn’t stop watching, it was like reading a book you can put down. It’s actually genius and at the same time humble, it’s creativity blended with common sense.
The progression of finding the evidence was natural and flowing and at the very end you were sure there’s a black knight satellite and the implications of that are unthinkable for earth. I agree with Billy Carson when he says we better not try to shoot it down, it may send a message out and call in the Calvary. Great great interview —an amazing discussion tonight thank you for doing this —loved every minute of it. Lee Grass
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Sun Sparks Ultra Rare X3-Class Solar Flare, With Earth Size Waves! July 9, 2022, UFO Sighting
Sun Sparks Ultra Rare X3-Class Solar Flare, With Earth Size Waves! July 9, 2022, UFO Sighting
Date of event:July 9, 2022
Location of event: Earths sun
Source: Helioviwer.org AIA 131 11:07:19
The sun unleashed a massive solar flare on Saturday (July 9), one powerful enough to earn X-class status, the highest ranking for solar flares. With energy waves higher than the earth itself. Solar flares, huge explosions in the sun's atmosphere, are classified on a logarithmic scale, where each letter represents a 10-fold increase in energy output compared to the one before it. The smallest solar flares are A-class, followed by B, C, M and then, at the top of the scale, X.
I estimate this one to be a X3-class maybe even a X4 flare. Such a massive amount of energy must have a purpose and has to be harnessed maybe even controlled and activated by aliens for communication, teleportation and other uses.
Object In Sky Over Sheridan, Michigan 5-14-2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Object In Sky Over Sheridan, Michigan 5-14-2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:5-14-2022
Location of sighting: Sheridan, Michigan, USA
This UFO was recorded in Sheridan, a town of 649. UFOs love to visit areas with smaller populations, because it allows the aliens to do experiments...like how will people react when seeing a real UFO? Things like this interest aliens. They want to gather information so that they can determine the best, most logical and safest way to reveal themselves to the world.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I looked up and seen a bright star, the brightest in the sky well what I thought was a star but I noticed it start to move so I took out my phone and started recording.
Date of sighting: July 7, 2022 Location of sighting:Denver, Colorado, USA
Denver...you gota love it. So many UFOs over the Colorado Rocky Mountains and they always apparel as white glowing spheres...just as we have here. The eyewitness said that a MUFON conference was being held just the night before, so this UFO may feel the mental thoughts of believers in intelligent alien life. Yes, it matters, yes some species can feel it a long ways away. Even the eyewitness said in the video, "It knows I'm watching it."
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Above our hotel in downtown Denver the night before the mutual UFO Netwerk conference is held. This bright light that stopped and started and hovered for minutes. It was not a plane. It was not a drone. I’ve seen hundreds of these online and it felt exactly like a UAP. I got a good video.
Glowing Objects During Fireworks Lapeer, Michigan July 4, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Objects During Fireworks Lapeer, Michigan July 4, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 4, 2022 Location of sighting: Lapeer, Michigan, USA
Hey all, at first when looking at this report, I thought it might be a glare, however did you notice the close up looks to be a solid object? Also the fact that the person is not moving, but only holding the camera steady on the fireworks, yet the object is moving? A glare would require a persons camera to be moving. The UFO seems to be only visible to the camera since the eyewitness said it was not visible at the time but noticed it later on video. Another odd thing...near the UFO there are small sparkles...yet it's far from the fireworks, as if it were trying to mimic the fireworks in its own way.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I could not see the ufo with the naked eye or didn’t see it but when I got home to look at my video it was there. I recorded it on an iPhone 4K 60 fps.
Lights moving in sky Over Manchester, England, June 30, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Lights moving in sky Over Manchester, England, June 30, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 30, 2022
Location of sighting: Manchester, England
The hardest to record UFOs are those made of pure energy. They move fast, in unpredictable directions. These are not search lights. Searchlights have a pattern, but there is no pattern here. Each light is slightly different shape and size...but searchlights have same size shapes. This sighting cannot be easily dismissed. How can you dismiss a real sighting, just because it doesn't fall into the category of what you think it should look like? These are real UFOs.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Was woken by my girlfriend told to come outside. We both saw 2 lights low down circling around in th same pattern but occasionally with more appearing with them there were also a few directly above our heads. The ones that appeared occasionally around the circling ones were the brightest but only appeared for a few seconds. When they appeared they left a trail of circles that quickly disappeared behind them.
Watch this amazing catch from my new friend UFOvni2012. He caught a pyramid UFO shooting past the SpaceX rocket this week and the object is seen for about four seconds. UFOs often are attracted to the most high tech, objects in the sky...and nothing is more high tech that the latest and greatest rocket from Elon Musk. Absolutely awesome catch.
A scientist believes he has discovered the origins of the famous “WOW!” signal.
A scientist believes he has discovered the origins of the famous “WOW!” signal.
Wow Signal
Of all the occurrences discovered by science in outer space, the renowned signal Wow! It is among the most enigmatic.
It is a 72-second radio wave signal collected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory on August 15, 1977. A message that hasn’t ever been spotted before. Nothing similar has occurred since then.
The scientist Jerrt Ehman was in charge of spotting this signal in the radio telescope, and when he acquired such data, he jotted down the word Wow! in addition to the recorded information, thus the suitable moniker.
Nevertheless, this would not imply that an alien is trying to be spotted. It is not even known where it originates from with certainty, and there is a chance that it is a natural phenomenon, which would also be fantastic news.
As a result, it is the responsibility of subsequent generations to try to decipher the cause of this extraordinary event.
A new study has evaluated the data and says that it has uncovered the source of the signal; a star in the Sagittarius constellation that may fit the parameters for life as we know it situated 1800 light-years distant.
It is the question that everyone wants to know the answer to, and it is not for the faint of heart. According to the study’s author, the signal Wow! According to DW analysis, it is the best radio transmission candidate for SETI (search for alien intelligence) that we have acquired with our telescopes.
However, it is equally reasonable to believe that a putative alien civilization employed this element to interact.
The study’s explanation
Over the years and via various research, it was determined that the signal originated from the Sagittarius constellation or possibly from some adjacent star clusters. Working on this terrain, on the other hand, is almost a mission impossible in a sense.
However, astronomer Albert Knight set out to evaluate data from thousands of stars in this location until the search could be narrowed down. That is how he discovered 2MASS 19281982-2640123, a star identical to our Sun located 1,800 light-years distant in the constellation of Sagittarius, as published by D.W.
Although this star is too far away to send any reaction in the form of radio or light transmission, Caballero stated in his final essay that it could be a wonderful target for observations hunting for exoplanets surrounding the star.
The most startling aspect of the case is that the star that is pointed to is quite close to the distance at which an extraterrestrial civilization is most likely to reside. This star’s estimated temperature is barely 5 degrees warmer than the Sun’s, and its radius and luminosity are nearly similar. According to him, it is a good target for searching for potentially habitable exoplanets.
Even if this signal was not transmitted by an extraterrestrial civilization, this study is fantastic news for astronomy. We already indicated that the fact that it is a natural occurrence is beneficial since there could be a world identical to our Earth in this vicinity. However, it also provides a fresh observation tool for other constellations in the never-ending quest.
The truth is down there! Harvard scientist wants to launch an investigation into meteor at bottom of the Pacific Ocean which he believes is actually ALIEN technology
The truth is down there! Harvard scientist wants to launch an investigation into meteor at bottom of the Pacific Ocean which he believes is actually ALIEN technology
Last week, the US Space Command confirmed that a meteor that hit Earth in 2014 came from another solar system and is the first known interstellar object
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb claimed on Wednesday that a meteor that hit Earth in January 2014 is instead a piece of alien technology
The 2014 meteor predates Oumuamua, which was discovered in October 2017 by a telescope in Hawaii millions of miles away
At the time, Loeb received backlash from scientists after claiming that Oumuamua was actually a discarded piece of technology from aliens
In 2021, Loeb released a book that argued that Oumuamu is not a comet or asteroid, but a light sail – a method of spacecraft propulsion.
A controversial Harvard scientist says he wants to launch an investigation into a meteor that he believes is actually alientechnology lying at the bottom of Pacific Ocean.
Last week, the US Space Command confirmed that a meteor that hit Earth in January 2014 did come from another solar system and is therefore the first known interstellar object.
US Space Command officials have said that the meteor, measuring just 1.5 feet across, 'was indeed an interstellar object'.
Their confirmation means the famous interstellar object known as Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, is actually the second interstellar object to visit our solar system.
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb (pictured) claimed on Wednesday that a meteor that hit Earth in January 2014 is instead a piece of alien technology
According to NASA, the meteor soared through skies near Papua New Guinea at more than 100,000 miles per hour and impacted near Manus Island on January 8, 2014 (concept image)
The memo, dated March 1 and shared on Twitter this month, signs off findings from US Space Command chief scientist Dr Joel Mozer
But Harvard physicist Avi Loeb claimed on Wednesday that the object is instead a piece of alien technology.
'Our discovery of an interstellar meteor heralds a new research frontier,' Loeb wrote in The Debrief.
'The fundamental question is whether any interstellar meteor might indicate a composition that is unambiguously artificial in origin.
'Better still, perhaps some technological components would survive the impact.'
He suggested scooping up the object from the bottom of the Pacific with a magnet in order to examine the 'artificial' object and added that retrieving the object could be an opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of getting his hands on alien technology.
'My dream is to press some buttons on a functional piece of equipment that was manufactured outside of Earth,' Loeb wrote.
Loeb has made a name for himself for openly believing that aliens have made contact with Earth.
According to NASA, the meteor lit up skies near Manus Island, Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014 whilst travelling at more than 100,000 miles per hour. It may have showered the ocean with interstellar debris, according to scientists
Oumuamua was discovered in October 2017 by a telescope in Hawaii millions of miles away. Now, a physicists is revealing details to why he believes it is an artificial object
In 2021, the physicist released a book titled 'Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,' that argued that Oumuamu is not a comet or asteroid, but a light sail – a method of spacecraft propulsion.
Oumuamua was discovered in October 2017 by a telescope in Hawaii millions of miles away.
At the time of the discovery, Loeb received backlash from scientists after claiming the object was actually a discarded piece of technology from aliens.
'We know that it's artificially made. It had no cometary tail,' Loeb claimed.
'We know that we made it. So that provides evidence that we can tell the difference between a rock and an object that is pushed by sunlight.
'The trouble is the only way to know for certain Oumuamua's origins is by taking an image of it, but the object is already too far away.
'So we missed the opportunity,' he said. 'It's like having a guest for dinner, by the time you realize it's weird, it's already out of the front door into the dark street. That was the first guest, and we should look for more.'
Loeb is now saying the 2014 object is also alien technology.
A lot of the information surrounding the 2014 object has until now been classified by the US government.
According to NASA, the meteor lit up skies near Manus Island, Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014 whilst travelling at more than 100,000 miles per hour.
Scientists believe it may have left interstellar debris in the South Pacific Ocean, which if recovered could reveal more about the rocky object's origin.
The memo, dated March 1 and shared on Twitter this month, signs off findings from US Space Command chief scientist Dr Joel Mozer.
Dr Mozer 'reviewed analysis of additional data available to the Department of Defense related to this finding,' reads the memo, which is signed by Lt. Gen. John E. Shaw, deputy commander of the US Space Command.
'Dr Mozer confirmed that the velocity estimate reported to NASA is sufficiently accurate to indicate an interstellar trajectory.'
It was back in 2019 that Harvard University researchers posted a study on the preprint server arXiv, acknowledging the meteor's existence and saying it had come from outside our solar system.
The study, which still hasn't been peer reviewed, reported the meteor as originating from interstellar space with '99.999 per cent confidence'.
According to the authors, the study has been awaiting peer review for years so the claim could be confirmed, but it's faced roadblocks from the US government, which was withholding key information from a publicly-available NASA database.
Information about the meteor is scarce, although its details – including its coordinates above Manus Island – are logged in NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).
OUMUAMUA: AN INTERSTELLAR VISITOR THAT SAILED PAST EARTH AT 97,200MPH IN 2017
A cigar-shaped object named 'Oumuamua sailed past Earth at 97,200mph (156,428km/h) in October 2017.
It was first spotted by a telescope in Hawaii on October 19, 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 hailed as the first interstellar object seen in the solar system, but 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.
Navy Astronaut and 6th Man on the Moon Believed in Alien Intervention
Navy Astronaut and 6th Man on the Moon Believed in Alien Intervention
Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. The Apollo 14 emblem is in the background. The other two members of the crew are Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander; and Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot. (NASA)
Only 12 people can say for sure what the Earth looks like from the lunar surface. But only one of them is on record as believing aliens averted a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union to keep humans from destroying themselves.
Astronaut Edgar Mitchelll is best known for typing in 80 lines of code to save the entire Apollo 14 mission as it descended to the moon in 1971. But he also claimed that top military officials had hidden evidence of UFOs, potentially alien spacecraft, and that they were particularly fond of hovering over White Sands Testing Range in New Mexico.
Growing up in New Mexico had given him a unique insight to the area, he told the UK’s Mirror in 2015.
"White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the extraterrestrials were interested in… They wanted to know about our military capabilities. My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth."
Mitchell also told the Mirror that other military personnel had confided in him that alien spacecraft were responsible for disabling nuclear missiles and for shooting them down over the Pacific Coast.
He started talking publicly about his less mainstream beliefs in 1973, just two years after landing on the moon, when he abruptly left NASA, divorced his wife and founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences. He used that as a platform to discuss exploring new worlds in ways separate from known science or religion. He became convinced that extraterrestrial life had been visiting Earth and helping humanity along a more spiritual path.
Mitchelle began to form his metaphysical and extraterrestrial beliefs during his training as an aviator, but he wasn’t known as a kook or prone to making wild statements. He was one of the U.S. military’s most able and brilliant pilots. NASA would recognize this potential as well, giving Mitchell the chance to live the dream he’d had since President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to land a man on the moon.
When Kennedy announced the Space Program’s goal to reach the moon in 1961, Mitchell was ready to go.
“That's what I wanted, because it was the bear going over the mountain to see what he could see, and what could you learn,” he said. “I've been devoted to that, to exploration, education and discovery since my earliest years, and that's what kept me going.”
NASA Apollo 14 astronaut and moon walker Edgar Mitchell is interviewed about moon dust by the BBC for the Discovery program "Invisible Worlds" at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Dec. 8, 2009. (Andy Freeberg/NASA)
Mitchell spent much of his adult life in the U.S. Navy. He was a Naval Aviator before attending the Navy’s postgraduate school. He then became a Navy research pilot and earned a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He eventually attended the U.S. Air Force Research pilot school to become a test pilot. While he was working to graduate first in his class as a test pilot, he was instructing astronauts in mathematics and navigation.
In 1966, just 13 years after enlisting, he became a NASA astronaut. He was in the rotation for Apollo missions 9 and 10, and was supposed to go up with ill-fated Apollo 13. But it was during Apollo 14 that Edgar Mitchell was finally able to set foot on the moon’s surface.
While coming back to Earth, he finally had a moment to take in the view. To see Earth from outside changed the way he saw himself and humanity. In a 2016 interview with VICE, he called it “powerful… overview effect.”
"From looking at Earth from space you come up with the question, who are we, how did we get here and where's all this going? And that's an ancient, ancient question that humans have asked for a long time… My experience was to realize that perhaps our science is wrong at answering these questions and perhaps our religious cosmologies are archaic and flawed. And given that now we are an extraterrestrial civilization ourselves, we need to re-ask these questions, and do a lot more work to find the answers."
The once-enlisted sailor who became the 6th human on the moon died in 2016 at age 85.
The Mystery Of Japan’s Yonaguni Monument: Documentary, Facts
The Mystery Of Japan’s Yonaguni Monument: Documentary, Facts
The Yonaguni Monument is an enormous underwater rock formation that covers an area of 60 by 50 meters. It was first discovered in the mid-1980s by a scuba diver looking to observe hammerhead sharks. Pseudoarchaelogists believe it to be a monolith carved by man thousands of years ago.
The Yonaguni island area is a popular scuba diving destination. Many would say it’s a must-see when diving near Okinawa. Now, divers travel to explore the mysterious Yonaguni pyramid-like structure and its surrounding artifacts.
A Google Map view of the location.
It was actually by “accident” that Kihachiro Aratake discovered what some scientists call “the archaeological find of the century.” He discovered the mysterious find in 1986 while diving off the coast of Yonaguni Jima, searching for a new spot to view hammerhead sharks. However, he inadvertently strayed outside of the designated safety zone. In front of him lay a massive stone structure on the ocean floor at a depth of 35 meters.
He explored the monument and was in awe at how colossal it was. Due to the heavy encrustation of coral, it was difficult to determine exactly what it was. Curious, he encircled it, again and again, taking photographs before returning to shore.
Initial Study
Masaaki Kimura, a marine geology and seismology professor at the University of Ryukyus, spent years studying the site. He observed and collected data to discover an answer. While his findings were profound, counterarguments, and doubt ensued.
To this day, many divers have visited the site to form their conclusions. Is it an underwater city that once housed an ancient lost civilization? Or is it a rock formation that nature built?
The answer, beyond a shadow of a doubt, has yet to be confirmed.
Where is the Yonaguni Monument Located?
The site is off the south coast of Yonaguni, an island in Japan’s southwest corner. The island itself is about 70 miles from Taiwan and features lush green wilderness and sandy shores. Divers come from all over the world to witness the ancient site and hike around the beautiful island. The coordinates are 24°26′09″N 123°00′41″E
Theories
Some believe that the monument is a human-made pyramid structure bearing evidence of a lost ancient civilization. It was even referred to as the “Japanese Atlantis.”
Masaaki Kimura’s sketch of the site.
Masaaki Kimura spent over 15 years studying the site. He is convinced that it was man-made, suggesting that ancient people once lived where it stands. It’s said to be evidence of the lost continent of Mu, long since submerged following a severe hurricane.
During his many dives to the site, Kimura gathered substantial evidence that man, not nature, formed the ancient structure. He noted several specific artificial features that supported his theory. These features include marks from tools, a retaining wall, a (suggestive) road, drainage canals, gates, stairways, and two carved monuments shaped like turtles.
Kimura also found the suggested remains of tools made from stone and a massive relief carved with animals.
Are these actually submerged Yonaguni ruins or natural formations?
Kimura’s findings concluded with:
“It is hard to believe nature would have left such a clear outline.”
Masaaki Kimura
Kimura ascertains that his research and Yonaguni Island submarine topography show specific evidence of an ancient city lost to the sea. He also found several other constructions. These include a series of smaller temples, a possible stadium, and defined road structures to connect them. In addition to that, recovered tablets (called the “Okinawan Rosetta Stones”) seem to suggest evidence of the ancient city’s existence.
Kimura’s evidence initially led him to conclude that the city was over 10,000 years old. Later research led him to fix his estimate to be in the range of 2,000-3,000 years old.
The Counterargument
Skeptics generally dispute any speculation of ancient submerged cities, and the mystery of this site is no exception.
Dissenters say the straight edges of the monument resulted from the natural stratigraphy of sandstones. These often will look like a straight line, straight enough to be human-made.
Robert Schoch, a math and science professor at Boston University who dived the site stated:
“Isolated portions of it look like they’re man-made, but when you look at it in context…you see how, in this case, fine sandstones split along horizontal bedding plains that give you these regular features.”
Robert Schoch
In other words, the straight lines of the formed structure could indicate nature’s natural process of erosion. After all, nature can create some beautiful anomalies.
Divers at the Monument pose for the camera.
Schoch adds that the island features several tombs of uncertain age (but clearly ancient) that are similar to the Yonaguni Monument. The tombs would suggest that the people could have mimicked the natural design or modified a natural structure with their hands and tools. However, it doesn’t mean there is a city buried underwater.
Other theories speculate that the formation was a foundation for a since-destroyed building or even a quarry for cutting stones. As Schoch put it, “Possibly the choice between natural and human-made isn’t simply either/or.“
As for its age, Kimura’s original “10,000-year” estimate inspired doubt, simply because of its improbability. Some argue that it’s highly unlikely that such an ancient people would have the means to build such a structure. At any rate, the design and construction would be too complex and challenging for any civilization to accomplish.
Preservation of the Yonaguni “Ruins”
The Yonaguni Monument has captivated many scholars’ interests over the years. However, it is not officially considered an important cultural landmark. The doubt and conflicting theories surrounding its origins are enough not to merit any government preservation efforts. Instead, the responsibility lies with the scholars and other individuals who work on the site.
Photo by jpatokal [GFDL].
A Continuing Mystery
Just like the lost city of Atlantis, Japan’s Yonaguni Monument will likely always inspire skepticism. Any evidence found can only support speculation and often generates a counterargument.
However, the site’s mystery adds to its appeal because sometimes it’s best not to be sure. Instead, diving into the unknown presents a much more fulfilling challenge.
A spacecraft that has circled Mars over 1,300 times has captured a stunning series photos covering the entire planet.
China's Tianwen-1 orbiter has returned high-resolution images of the Martian south pole, where almost all of the planet's water resources are locked.
Other images show the 2,485-mile (4,000-kilometre) long canyon Valles Marineris, and the impact craters of Arabia Terra, an upland region in the north of Mars.
The Tianwen-1 orbiter successfully reached the Red Planet in February 2021 on China's inaugural mission there.
A photo of the surface was also taken by the Zhurong rover, which made its descent onto the planet's surface as part of the Tianwen-1 mission on May 22 2021.
An image of the 11-mile (18-kilometre) Ascraeus Mons shield volcano on Mars taken by China's Tianwen-1 unmanned probe
China's Tianwen-1 orbiter has returned high-resolution images of the Martian south pole (pictured), where almost all of the planet's water resources are locked. Locating subsurface water is key to determining the planet's potential for life
The orbiter photographed the Arabia Terra impact craters, an upland region of northern Mars. Its battered topography indicates great age, and it is presumed to be one of the oldest terrains on the planet
This image shows the 2,485-mile long canyon Valles Marineris, or Mariner valley, that runs along the Martian surface
The images of the south pole on Mars are the first taken by the Chinese spacecraft, as reported by state media today.
In 2018, an orbiting probe operated by the European Space Agency had discovered water under the ice of the planet's south pole.
Locating subsurface water is key to determining the planet's potential for life, as well as providing a permanent resource for any human exploration there.
Tianwen-1 also sent back high-resolution imagery of the edge of the 57-mile (91-kilometre) Maunder crater on the southern Highlands of Mars.
A photo of the surface of Mars was also taken by the Zhurong rover, which made its descent onto the planet's surface as part of the Tianwen-1 mission on May 22 2021
Tianwen-1 also sent back high-resolution imagery of the edge of the 57-mile (91-kilometre) Maunder crater on the southern Highlands of Mars
TIANWEN-1: A MARS PROBE AND ROVER FROM CHINA
Tianwen-1 is one of the most ambitious missions by the Chinese space agency so far undertaken.
The mission is in two stages, consisting of a probe that will map the surface, and a rover to search for life.
The probe is equipped with a range of cameras to map the surface and find a safe landing spot.
The unnamed rover weighs 240kg, has six wheels, four solar panels and can move at 200 metres per hour.
It includes a number of scientific instruments including ground-penetrating radar and a device to monitor the weather.
Another photo shows a top-down view of the 11-mile (18-kilometre) Ascraeus Mons shield volcano, first detected by NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft over 50 years ago.
Tianwen-1 is the name of robotic spacecraft to Mars that actually consists of six separate pieces of equipment – an orbiter, two deployable cameras, a lander, a remote camera and the Zhurong rover.
China successfully launched the uncrewed Tianwen-1 on July 23, 2020 aboard a Long March 5 Y-4 carrier rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Centre.
The mission named Tianwen-1, or 'Questions to Heaven', as a nod to an ancient Chinese poem that has verses about the cosmos.
The probe travelled a total of 295 million miles (475 million kilometres) and carried out several trajectory manoeuvres before entering Martian orbit on February 10, 2021.
After over three months of preparations, the probe released the lander which touched down on Mars on May 14, 2021 (May 15 Chinese time).
The feat made China the second country, after the US, to have successfully conducted a Martian landing.
The orbiter and its deployable cameras have been encircling the planet in space ever since, and have completed over 1,300 orbits.
The robotic Zhurong rover made its descent from the lander on the planet's surface on May 22, about a week after the lander touched down.
China's mission includes a Mars orbiter, that will carry the lander and rover until release, a lander, that will parachute down the the surface carrying the rover, and a rover that will study the planet's soil and atmosphere for signs of life
Tianwen-1: China's Mars debut. The five-tonne Tianwen-1 includes a Mars orbiter, a lander and a solar-powered rover that will for three months study the planet's soil and atmosphere, take photos, chart maps and look for signs of past life
In January this year, Tianwen-1 snapped a series of 'selfies' taken by a small camera that it released into orbit.
One shows a full view of Tianwen-1 in space with the Red Planet's north pole in the background, while another shows an impressive close-up of its reflective gold body and solar antenna wing.
To capture the images, Tianwen-1 jettisoned one of its small cameras, which beamed back its snaps via Wi-Fi.
Another image shows an amazing close-up of ice caps on the Martian north pole, complete with a distinctive pattern of snowy swirls.
A handout photo released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on January 1, 2022, taken by the Tianwen-1 Mars mission, shows the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit. The CNSA published four pictures taken by its Tianwen-1 Mars mission, including the first full photo of the mission orbiter. The orbiter's full picture was taken by a camera released by the craft, which is now about 217 million miles (350 million km) away from Earth, CNSA said
Another photo released by CNSA taken by a small deployable camera shows the Tianwen-1 orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit
Ice cover on Mars north pole. Ice is found on Mars at the polar caps and below the surface in other locations on the planet
NASA plans to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s after first landing on the Moon
Mars has become the next giant leap for mankind's exploration of space.
But before humans get to the red planet, astronauts will take a series of small steps by returning to the moon for a year-long mission.
Details of a the mission in lunar orbit have been unveiled as part of a timeline of events leading to missions to Mars in the 2030s.
Nasa has outlined its four stage plan (pictured) which it hopes will one day allow humans to visit Mars at he Humans to Mars Summit held in Washington DC yesterday. This will entail multiple missions to the moon over coming decades
In May 2017, Greg Williams, deputy associate administrator for policy and plans at Nasa, outlined the space agency's four stage plan that it hopes will one day allow humans to visit Mars, as well as its expected time-frame.
Phase one and two will involve multiple trips to lunar space, to allow for construction of a habitat which will provide a staging area for the journey.
The last piece of delivered hardware would be the actual Deep Space Transport vehicle that would later be used to carry a crew to Mars.
And a year-long simulation of life on Mars will be conducted in 2027.
Phase three and and four will begin after 2030 and will involve sustained crew expeditions to the Martian system and surface of Mars.
During the Cold War, the United States conducted the largest nuclear test in outer space, 400 km above the Northern Pacific Ocean. The results were devastating. More such testing would have destroyed Earth’s magnetic field, that is why outer-space nuclear testing was banned. Moreover, some accounts of the US military personnel including NASA astronauts convey that the extraterrestrials were behind the nuclear missile testing in outer space, and they even put surveillance on the nuclear facilities on Earth.
In the “Sirius Documentary,” hosted by UFOlogist Steven Greer, US Air Force retiredColonel Ross Dedricksontestified that he observed UFOs over the nuclear facilities in which he was assigned. Besides, he said the extraterrestrials were not allowing nuclear weapons in space. They stopped the nuclear missile that was sent to detonate on the Lunar surface. The US was in the urge to demonstrate its power to the Soviets.
Col. Ross Dedrickson was assigned to theUS Atomic Energy Commission. A long service with the Energy Commission between 1950-1958 included contract administration duties at Nevada test sites, Pacific Nuclear Test Area west of Hawaii, nuclear weapon manufacturing and quality assurance in Albuquerque, and inspection of nuclear and non-nuclear facilities throughout the country. He served with the 5th Air Force in Japan and later as a ranking Colonel, Officer in Charge of the Pacific Unified Command (TM)s alternate “command and control center” in Hawaii. In 1962, he was transferred and served as Deputy for Material for the 832 Air Division at Canon Air Force Base, Clovis, New Mexico. He retired from the USAF in 1964.
“A couple of nuclear weapons that were sent to space were destroyed by the extraterrestrials. Our government sent nuclear weapons for the explosion on the moon’s surface. It was intended to, as I understand it, assess some scientific data and reactions and so forth. The idea of an explosion in space by any Earth government was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials, and that has been demonstrated over and over,” Colonel said.
He is one of hundreds of military whistleblowers with verified backgrounds to have been brought forth by Dr. Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project. His testimony about UFOs — specifically about UFOs and nuclear weapons — can be corroborated by a wealth of information and evidence that’s now available within the public domain.
For 18 years, Robert Jacobs had been participating in the official United States Government-ordered UFO coverup. He claimed that he had been ridiculed by his colleagues for writing about this cover-up that appeared in The National Enquirer. The cover-up was about the UFO shooting down one of the ballistic missiles back in 1964 in Big Sur, California. (Click here to read the full article)
Retired USAF Lieutenant Robert Jacobs had been an officer in charge of optical instrumentation at the 1369th Photo Squadron at Vandenberg from 1963 to 1966. His job was to establish a long-range tracking site at Big Sur, California. Those days, ballistic missiles used to blow upon launch, and Dr. Jacobs’ duty was to determine the reason behind every missile failure at the Western Test Range. As the missiles had to carry a nuclear weapon to a specific target, they were monitoring the dummy warhead to find the reason behind their blow.
Robert Jacobs
Dr. Jacobs recalled that the UFO incident had most probably been associated with the launch of an Atlas missile happened either September 2nd, 3rd, or 15th, 1964.
Dr. Jacobs explained: “Because of the length of the telescope as the Atlas missile entered the frame, we could see the whole third stage which has two rocket nozzles like this and one in the center or gimballed one in the center fill in our frame from one hundred and about 160 miles it was pretty exciting optics we watched that stage burnout we watched the second stage burnout we watch a third stage burnout and into the frame came something else it flew into the frame.”
According to him, the warhead was approached by a UFO, fired a beam of light at it from different directions. Subsequently, the warhead malfunctioned and tumbled out of sub orbit hundreds of miles short of its target. “This… unidentified flying… thing had apparently shot down an American dummy atomic warhead,” Dr. Jacobs said.
Nuclear-adjacent sightings go back decades, said Robert Hastings, a UFO researcher and author of the book “UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.” Hastings said he interviewed more than 160 veterans who witnessed strange things in the skies around nuclear sites.
UFO deactivated Malmstrom AFB Nuke System
Former US Air Force Captain Robert Salas mentioned an incident that took place on March 16, 1967. He was at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in an underground capsule when he was told by the security forces that a red glowing object had been seen at the front gate of the base. (Click here to read the full article)
One of the airmen was enjoying the clear morning sky when suddenly a star appeared, moving in a zig-zag manner. Then another light came. He called the Flight Security Controller (FSC), and they both watched the movement of those strange lights. They reported to Salas and he asked them to keep an eye on those lights.
Former US Air Force Captain Robert Salas
Firstly, it did not concern Salas because he thought that his colleagues were possibly joking. In some time, he was called by the controller again, and he (FSC) was frightened and shouting. They were watching a UFO, hovering outside the front gate.
“I can’t really describe it. It’s glowing red. What are we supposed to do? Make sure the site is secure and I’ll phone the Command Post. Sir, I have to go now, one of the guys just got injured.”
After that, Salas lost communication with the airman and security guard. He immediately contacted his commander Lt. Fred Meiwald, who was sleeping at that time. While he was on the call with Lt. Meiwald, a security alarm rang, indicating a problem within the missile system. He checked the matter and found there was a “No-Go” light on, and two red security lights were lit. He was just trying to understand what went wrong, consecutively several alarms went off and they lost “entire flight of ten ICBMs to a ‘No-Go’ (inoperable) condition.”
Astronaut Leaked Email
In 2016, Wikileaks revealed thousands of emails that were allegedly linked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The emails unfolded secret information shared with Podesta about UFOs and ETs. (Click here to read the full article)
In 2015, Podesta received emails from Mitchell that expressed his concern about the weaponization of space and its impact on the ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence). Despite the fact that aliens might be violent as shown in various sci-fi, the notable astronaut called them nonviolent in an email.
In January 2015, he sent an email to Podesta, asking him to have an urgent meeting to discuss Disclosure and Zero Point Energy (ZPE). He was concerned about the peace in space.
Terri with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, ScD, 2011 inductee honoree in the Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking
Mitchell wrote: “My Catholic colleague Terri Mansfield will be there too, to bring us up to date on the Vatican’s awareness of ETI. Another colleague is working on a new Space Treaty, citing involvement with Russia and China. However with Russia’s extreme interference in Ukraine, I believe we must pursue another route for peace in space and ZPE on Earth.”
Mitchell emailed Podesta again on September 18, 2015. He wrote: “Because the War in Space race is heating up, I felt you should be aware of several factors as you and I schedule our Skype talk. Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.”
It was confirmed by one of Mitchell’s collaborators that the meeting between Podesta and him never took place. During the 2016 election campaign, Podesta declared he would convince Clinton to declassify as many UFO files as possible. In 2014, he tweeted that his biggest failure during the Obama administration was not to ask them for the release of UFO files.
Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell died in 2016 but for his entire life, he was a pacifist and a promoter of ETI reality. According to him, ZPE is the ultimate energy source from which all matter derives.
LONDON — “Independence Day” has forever tied aliens to the Fourth of July. Now, a new survey has found that many people think they’ve seen an actual UFO flying over their city!
In fact, 37 percent claim they’ve witnessed something “out of the ordinary” taking place in the sky. While 35 percent convinced themselves it was just an optical illusion, nearly half the poll (45%) say they’ve believed in aliens and UFOs for as far back as they can remember. One in four people call themselves “true believers” in extraterrestrial life.
The survey of 2,000 adults in the United Kingdom, commissioned by Beavertown Brewery to celebrate World UFO Day (July 2nd), also found that a third want to believe aliens are out there, despite not having any facts to back it up.
In the absence of a real spacecraft flying over their heads and saying hello, 36 percent say they get their information about aliens and UFOs from documentaries. Another 24 percent say their info comes from the internet and 22 percent rely on family and friends.
Just like the saying on “The X-Files,” 43 percent believe “the truth is out there.” With that in mind, one in three say they actively go looking for UFOs and the same number have come up with their own stories for an unexplainable event they witnessed.
Aliens love my city!
One in four respondents (26%) think their hometown is an alien “hot spot” when it comes to unusual sightings in the sky. In the U.K., London tops the list of UFO hot spots.
Although a strange sighting may make for some interesting coffee talk, not everyone wants to share their experiences with the paranormal. Only three in 10 say they openly talk about UFOs, while four in 10 prefer to keep their theories about aliens to themselves.
The survey, conducted by OnePoll, also found that 48 percent don’t fully trust anything they can’t find an obvious answer for. That’s why 61 percent add there are certain events in history that still baffle them — like the first Moon landing.
Similarly, the Bermuda Triangle (23%) and the Illuminati (17%) top the list of myths and theories people would like to believe are true. Another 26 percent think Nevada’s Area 51 is where the U.S. Air Force secretly investigates and experiments with alien technology.
“There are lots of strange happenings in the sky and people should feel encouraged to share their stories, especially on days like World UFO Day,” a Beavertown spokesperson says in a statement. “There are more believers out there than we think and we want to celebrate them over a pint.”
Millionaire buys 25-foot-tall Cold War-era radar system to 'hunt UFOs': Founder of autonomous car company worth up to $250 million asks the public what he should do with the technology once it's brought back to life
Millionaire buys 25-foot-tall Cold War-era radar system to 'hunt UFOs': Founder of autonomous car company worth up to $250 million asks the public what he should do with the technology once it's brought back to life
William Sachiti purchased a former Royal Air Force base in Norwich, England
He's using the 250,000 square-feet stretch to test his autonomous delivery cars
On the land is a decommissioned radar system used to detect incoming nukes
Sachiti posted on Reddit asking the public for ideas on what to use it for
He said if the public wants to use it to hunt UFOs, then it will hunt UFOs
While most millionaires spend their fortune on pricey cars and luxurious boats, William Sachiti used his fortune to purchase a Cold War era radar station in Norwich, England.
Sachiti, who is a British entrepreneur, purchased a network of private roads along a 250,000 square feet to test his 'spaceship, alien-looking' autonomous vehicles, but the radar system was an added bonus.
'UFOs obviously,' he jokingly told DailyMail.com in response to being asked what he plans on doing with the gigantic 25-foot-tall machine that once alerted the British army to oncoming nuclear missiles.
'I will find a way to bring this to life and let the people choose the best way to use it,' he said.
'If people want to hunt UFOS, I guess it is hunting UFOs.'
The massive system is located on the Royal Air Force Neatishead, an air defense station in England.
In 2010, it was advertised for sale with an asking price of $4,780,000 – Sachiti declined to say how much he paid for the location.
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While most millionaires spend their fortune on pricey cars and luxurious boats, William Sachiti used his fortune to purchase a Cold War era radar station in Norwich, England
During a Zoom interview, Sachiti gave DailyMail.com a close up look at the coveted radar system that is about 65 feet wide and sits on a large pedestal.
'This thing could do for others what Star Trek did for me as a kid,' he said, noting that it will take about two years until the radar system is up and running.
He reached out on Reddit for help on bringing it back to life, which he says is part of his belief in the power of crowdsourcing.
Sachiti is a roboticist, artificial intelligence expert and serial entrepreneur who uses his free time to solve the problems of the world, he told DailyMail.com.
William Sachiti, who is a British entrepreneur, purchased a network of private roads along a 250,000 square feet to test his autonomous vehicles
His prized possession, however, is his company Kar-go, which uses self-driving cars to deliver packages.
'Think of it as a post office sorter on wheels. It drives to an address, opens its trunk and out comes a package,' Sachiti said, sharing a look at the small, green robotic machine with DailyMail.com.
'It only delivers small parcels because they make up 80 percent of the parcels shipped.'
The autonomous, four-wheeled vehicle sits low to the ground and features an aerodynamic look that is colored green and black, along with a license plate on the front and back.
Sachiti told DailyMail.com that it is not just the vehicle he is focused on, it is the supercomputer 'brain' inside of it.
His prized possession, however, is his company Kar-go, which uses self-driving cars to deliver packages. The autonomous, four-wheeled vehicle sits low to the ground and features an aerodynamic look that is green and black, along with a license plate in the front and back
The system is being used by the Royal Air Force and by a company that monitors 25 percent of UK roads.
'They are using our car vision to detect potholes and depth,' he said.
Elon Musk's Tesla announced on Monday that its vehicles are now scanning for potholes – a feature that came much later than Sachiti's.
He also gave DailyMail.com a tour of his 'space bus' that is a traveling office and auto shop for engineers to work on the autonomous vehicles.
Sachiti also gave DailyMail.com a tour of his 'space bus' that is a traveling office and auto shop for engineers to work on the autonomous vehicles
It once ran on diesel, but Sachiti redesigned it to only use the power of the sun.
The highlight of the bus is a chair with a steering wheel at the back, which looks similar to one seen in arcades.
The chair allows engineers to take over control of the autonomous vehicles and drive them into the bus to work on them.
While his team is testing the vehicles along the roads, Sachiti plans on bringing new life to the radar system, which was part of an early warning system meant to alert the British military if nuclear missiles were coming their way.
Known as the AMES Type 84 radar unit, this one was in operation from 1962 through 1994 and released microwaves to detect nukes.
Sachiti does not plan on using it for its original purpose, but instead hopes the public can find a task more suitable for the modern world.
'My expensive hobby will be finding UFOs,' said Sachiti. 'If that is what the world wants, who am I to judge.'
Any suggestion that encounters with ufos and aliens are normal up until the past decade would get you “laughed off stage” by the mainstream public and media.
But things have changed just in the last ten years. A lot.
With reports out of the Pentagon just in the past four years of aerial phenomena that can’t be explained, it’s clear the barriers between the believers and non believers are starting to crack.
And just recently, released ufo related research from a huge U.S. government database suggesting people who have come into contact have suffered from radiation burns have stunned the non believing public.
Throw in reports of unaccounted for pregnancies plus brain and nervous system damage from encounters with ufos and aliens, and it’s starting to sound like a horror flick from the “eponymous presenter” Svengoolie.
But this is no science fiction flick. For information like this to be talked about in the mainstream media almost as if it’s normal, is remarkable. We have truly come a long way in a short space of time.
As a ufo believer, are you surprised by any of the Pentagon information released?
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I for one am not but I understand before any of this gets normalized, there is a process of release and right now, it’s what we call the “slow trickle effect” process.
Prolific author and researcher on paranormal events Preston Dennett also isn’t surprised. He’s been researching people having encounters with ufos and aliens since 1986.
In fact for Dennett, a non believer at that time, the topic of close contact with E.T.s and unidentified aerial phenomena wasn’t something on his “to learn list”.
Dennett has written some thirty books on the paranormal with a large number of them dedicated to people having encounters with ufos and aliens.
And he didn’t have to look far to begin his research. He discovered family members, friends and co-workers were having dramatic and unexplained encounters.
“It was a real shock. This was not a subject I was looking for. I was very skeptical of ufos and anything paranormal and I did not believe it”.
I heard about a UFO sighting on the news. The whole family was watching about a pilot over Alaska in 1986. That’s what sparked my interest”.
“I didn’t really believe the pilot. Basically, I thought he was throwing his career away”.
“Then I found out my brother had seen a ufo. So to my sister-in-law and several friends. One had missing time. I had a family member who saw grey aliens face to face”.
“People I’d worked with for years and years; people I loved and trusted had not told me that they had not only seen ufos, but had very close encounters”.
“Two of them had missing time”.
How Common Are Encounters With UFOs And Aliens?
I’ve interviewed hundreds of contact experiencers in just over three years. In fact, what started out as a one-off project for me to stage a three day online summit on all things extraterrestrial, has evolved into something more permanent.
I initially went into this thinking it would be tough to find people who have had contact experiences to come forward.
What I found was the complete opposite. That was bewildering. I just assumed that only a handful of people have ever been taken by extraterrestrials.
So I dug a little deeper and the deeper I dug, the more staggering this phenomena became.
Former head of Mufon’s Experiencer Research team Kathleen Marden sent me results of a major survey on all things close encounters.
That was three years ago and the findings were, to put it mildly, “out of this world”. Millions upon millions of people have had contact experiences around the world and millions more will stay quiet to protect their identities and professions.
Do You Know SomeBody Who Has Been Taken?
Asking a question like this would have got you a sideways look or two up until recently.
But the truth is, it’s likely that you know someone in your circle of family of friends who has had a close encounter with extraterrestrials.
They may not tell you about it but according to Preston Dennett, a quote from legendary ufologist J. Allen Hynek suggests this is much closer to home for many of us that we would like to think.
“I heard a quote from J. Allen Hynek. This is very early on in my research. He said one in forty people have been taken on board”.
“I thought, no, no way! That’s way too many. I know forty people”.
“And that’s when I really started to ask everyone I knew. And I didn’t have to ask forty which sounds like a lot”.
“But the Roper Organization which did polling in 1991, tackled the ufo subject and found one in fifty people show the markers of being a ufo abductee”.
“I think a lot of this slides under the radar because many people who have missing time perhaps don’t quite realize it”.
“Often people are very reluctant to go forward”.
“It’s not at all unusual when I interview someone who’s had this kind of experience to say, things like ’I’ve not told anybody’ or ‘I have not even told my spouse’ or ‘I don’t have a history of mental illness’ or ‘I’ve got a good job’.”
“They’ve got all these sort of caveats. They’re very nervous about talking”.
Which is very understandable given many of these people are professional folks with reputations and families to protect. But that seems to be changing dramatically now.
Wondrous – Real UFO Encounters
In 2021, Dennett publish an amazing book titled Wondrous. In it, he details twenty real ufo encounters which include accounts from people around the world heard for the first time.
Don’t expect to hear about Roswell or Travis Walton.
Dennett set out to get away from the mainstream accounts of stories that have been done over and over again. It starts to get a little boring.
He wanted to get to the heart of this alien contact phenomena. And he wanted to present the stories from folks brave enough to step into the spotlight and talk.
And in most cases, they are more spectacular than those we hear about all the time.
In the following interview with Aliens Revealed Live, Preston Dennett talks about his initiation into the world of encounters with ufos and aliens.
Dennett covers stories from a variety of witnesses from all walks of life. They include a teacher who on a morning jog, ran into a tall Mantis being.
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30,000,000 km/h Star, Flex from the JWST Team, Mystery of Quasars Solved
30,000,000 km/h Star, Flex from the JWST Team, Mystery of Quasars Solved
In this week’s breaking space news: CAPSTONE mission was lost and found again, James Webb gets another stunning image, Mars plane can follow Ingenuity, a mystery of first quasars possibly solved, incredibly fast star discovered and more.
For those who prefer the news being videoed at you by none other than Fraser Cain, we got you! Here’s a video version of this week’s most important space and astronomy news.
This week’s breaking news. Space and astronomy
CAPSTONE Goes Offline and Back Online Again
Last week NASA launched the CAPSTONE mission on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket. The primary goal of the mission is to check the stability of a lunar rectilinear halo orbit. However, on July 4th NASA lost communication with the spacecraft. The radio silence lasted until July 7th. The team has already identified the problem and now CAPSTONE is healthy and is back on track with its mission.
JWST Takes Deepest Image of the Universe Without Even Trying
Scientists working with James Webb produced the deepest image ever taken of the Universe. It wasn’t their intention; they were calibrating the Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) instrument on board the telescope, making 72 exposures over 32 hours. Because it was just a calibration image, it wasn’t designed for science data, but there are galaxies in this image that have never been seen before. Of course, this record will likely be broken on July 12th when we see the first scientific images from Webb.
Astronomers now believe there are supermassive black holes in the hearts of most galaxies. Even the most distant galaxies, seen less than a billion years after the Big Bang, already have sizable black holes. How did they form? Mergers between stellar-mass black holes don’t happen quickly enough, so astronomers think these monsters formed directly out of vast clouds of hydrogen and helium. There were probably stars with tens of thousands of times the Sun’s mass that collapsed directly into black holes.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has proven that flying vehicles have a role to play in the exploration of Mars. But it can only fly for short distances, a minute at a time. Would an airplane work on Mars? Engineers at the University of Arizona are working on sailplane designs that could fly in the thin Martian atmosphere. Using the high winds and updrafts, a Martian glider could stay aloft for hours or even days, mapping out the terrain in high resolution.
Latest supercomputer simulations show that our Solar System won’t be disturbed by any passing star for at least 100 billion years. Of course, the Sun would be long gone by that time, as it only has another ~5 billion years to live, but it means that it will rest in peace for quite a while. Even the merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda shouldn’t change that.
More News From SagA* Region: Incredibly Fast Star!
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole was discovered by observing how stars at the core of the galaxy orbited an invisible spot in space. This was later identified as SagA*, a supermassive black hole with 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun. Over the decades, astronomers have been tracking these stars and discovered that the closest one takes only four years to orbit the Sun. At the nearest point in its orbit, it’s traveling at 8,000 km/s or almost 3% the speed of light.
Psyche, one of the most exciting space missions that was supposed to launch in 2022 gets delayed due to software testing problems. NASA announced that the mission will miss this year’s launch window which ends in October. As a result the team will need to wait for the next opportunity to get a gravity assist by Mars and get to asteroid 16 Psyche, the biggest metal asteroid out there.
SpaceX shared a new image this week showing off its new Starship rocket with dozens of Raptor V2 engines installed. The Super Heavy Booster has 33 engines configured for sea-level operation, while the Starship has three sea-level engines and three vacuum engines. If all goes well, the rocket will blast off from Texas, separating after 3 minutes. Super Heavy will return and soft-land in the ocean off the coast of Texas, while Starship will orbit the Earth for 90 minutes before soft-landing off the coast of Hawaii. We’re probably just a few weeks away from a launch attempt.
This week Fraser interviewed two members of the Universe Today team. This time in the Expanding Universe Today podcast series the guests were Alan Boyle and Matt Williams. Both interviews are great, you should definitely check them out.
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As you may already know if you have been following me over the years, I have a passion for archeology and ancient antiques. Today I went to a small market area here in Taiwan and found a person selling antiques from China. Often antiques are snuck out of China and sold in other countries which value them more. I found something uniquely odd, rare and breathtaking...two small blue-green vases.
At first I admired them for a few seconds, thought naw...couldn't be. Then I noticed the cracking effects, the size was right...they even had numerous flaws...I thought no...I saw such things in the Taipei museum, so...couldn't possible be real. But then I looked at the bottom...and saw the sesame seed marks from the ancient kilms of Song Ru. Most of the surviving pieces of Song Ru are small, blue/green often with a crackling ice effect (not from aging). Song Ru kilms made special pieces most often used for the Chinese Royalty, but also lesser pieces made it to the masses. Song Ru began in the year 900 until about 1200. Some have sold for hundreds of dollars, others have sold for tens of millions.
Anyways, I purchased two small vases for less than it costs to fill up my car tank with gas at $60 US for the pair.
One vase measures 11.5cm by 7.5cm, has three sesame seed marks (metal prongs from Song Ru kilm) Its greenish blue is like that of a duck egg and its surface is flawed, aged, with a few tiny holes from the glaze in the kilm. Also I noticed the outside surface has a crystallization...which only comes from minerals in water...which tells me this was buried underground and may have come from an old grave a thousand years ago, but excavated no long ago. Its surface is a little rough, not smooth, but a little bit bumpy.
The second vase is more beautiful and measures 10cm tall by 8cm wide. This vase doesnt show any signs of crystallization, and looks well cared for, but has a few glaze bubble marks. Its surface is of higher quality...meaning it has the rare and highly desired crackled ice glaze effect which was made on purpose...and is not from aging. The bottom of the vase has 5 sesame seed marks from the Song Ru kilm holder...metal pins which held the vases while cooking. But best of all this one has a label that I have only seen on Song Ru in the Taipei National Museum...which says Northern Song Dynasty...which means they moved to kilms North in 1,100-1,200 year because of war. The label on mine is more correct for the period and age than most I seen on the internet...replicas do exist, however I do not believe these to to be fake, I believe they have a high probability of being real.
So...that was my day today, then had some tea with the family at a restaurant and went home, because it was 93F degrees outside.
Fake pieces are often flawless, made to be more eye appealing, more salable and more beautiful. The clay or pottery clay or ceramic is more pure, where Song Ru will have uneven thicknesses from side to side and when broken, air bubbles and impurities can be seen from the ancient methods used to crate the clay and materials. Fakes will not have these things.
There are ways to test the mineral content to see if it matches other Song Ru pieces...I may have that done later which is done in the UK. But for now...Just happy to look at them on my shelf. 😃
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Possible UFO crashed on the edge of Thyles Montes on Mars
Possible UFO crashed on the edge of Thyles Montes on Mars
The photograph analyzed here (ESP_074267_1105) was acquired by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on 31 May 2022 and shows an U-shaped/horseshoe-shaped object measuring approximately 10 meters across.
There appears to be a long straight dark trail/trench to the side of the object which seems to be emitting light.
Could this be a UFO which came in at a very low angle trajectory crashing in to the surface leaving a dark trench?
Many people from all around the world have traveled deep into the Nevada desert over the years to take a look at the top-secret alien base known as Area 51, where guards will legally go after you if you go too close. Let’s talk about the Top 10 Weirdest Things Discovered Inside Area 51.
Time Codes:
0:00- Spy Planes 3:15- Tagboard 6:16- Camo Duuudes 10:19- Hazardous Working Conditions 13:33- Film Set 16:13- Big Mouths 18:41- Alien Architects 21:43- The Transportation of a UFO 24:20- The CIA Spy Plane 26:27- Boyd Bushman
NASA Footage Appears To Show UFO That Crashed On Mars
NASA Footage Appears To Show UFO That Crashed On Mars
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Over the years, NASA has recorded vast amounts of footage of Mars, from photographs to videos to live streams from rovers. Well a South African researcher has been combing through some of it and uncovered something very peculiar in images from 2006 - what looks like a UFO that crashed on the Red Planet.
Jean Ward was going through footage taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter when he discovered the odd sight at the bottom of the Candor Chasma, a large canyon in Mars' Valles Marineris system, said to be the planet's equivalent of the Grand Canyon. In fact, it is considered the largest known canyon in the solar system, and it, Jean focused on what he called a "strange trench." At the end of the trench there is "a perfect disc" that is "mostly covered in sand and debris, and behind it, we have random dunes."
Ward goes on to note, "It looks like a disc-shaped craft or object came in at a very low angle and crashed into the surface of Mars leaving this strange behind it."
He then zooms in more on the disc-shaped object, which he surmises is 40-50 feet in diameter, pointing out that that is about the same width as the trench behind it. He adds, "It looks like a disc that's partially elevated on one side as it plowed into the surface."
While some commenters wrote off the discovery as a sand dune or space junk, others felt it was something much more significant, calling it a "great find" and writing things like, "There is really nothing else it could be, other than a crashed saucer shaped object. I know they are afraid of contamination but still, I wish NASA would investigate."
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Why Are There So Many Broken Noses on Egyptian Statues? -Knews
Why Are There So Many Broken Noses on Egyptian Statues? - Knews
For years, archaeologists assumed it was due to regular wear and tear, but it turns out that the real reason so many statues have broken noses is far more intriguing: it was deliberately done!
As is the case with many archaeologists and museum curators, Edward Bleiberg, who oversees the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern collections, presumed that so many ancient Egyptian sculptures had their noses broken due to their age.
However, when he realized that this was one of the most often asked questions by museum visitors, he decided to investigate further. While it appears obvious that a prominent nose on a three-dimensional statue might be readily knocked off, the plot immediately deepens when you realize that a large number of flat reliefs also have broken noses, which could not have occurred accidentally. Someone is unintentionally doing it, and the question is why?
According to Bleiberg, who is assisting with the curating of an exhibition on the issue, the answer comes in the fact that these sculptures have been deliberately damaged in organized acts of iconoclasm. When you follow the signs, as he argues in Artsy, you see a pervasive pattern of deliberate destruction, all of which go back to the region’s past rulers’ political ambitions.
Egyptian state religion was interpreted as a system in which monarchs made offerings to a deity in exchange for the divinity taking care of Egypt. Sculptures and reliefs frequently depict gods receiving offerings from the elites, and because the ancient Egyptians believed that images of gods and people possessed power (or that the essence or soul of a god or person could inhabit a statue dedicated to them), sculptures played an active role in performing rituals, ‘feeding’ the gods, and retaining power. And actions of iconoclasm have the potential to undermine that authority.
The pattern of destruction immediately indicates that the targets were selected precisely to’deactivate the intensity of an image.’ Smashing a nose renders a statue-spirit incapable of breathing. By hammering the ears off, it would be unable to hear a prayer.
Eliminating divine emblems may have the effect of neutralizing their powers. By chopping off their right hand, they would be unable to receive offerings. And axing the left arm would preclude humans from making sacrifices to gods in sculptures.
Additionally, this flat relief depicts deliberate injury to the nose. Brooklyn Museum
Statues are not the only indications that broken noses are part of a systematic campaign of iconoclasm: there are texts expressing people’s fear of having their statues damaged, decrees from rulers threatening anyone who attempted, instructions on how to eliminate an adversary by creating an effigy and then destroying it, and attempts to safeguard statues by placing them in nooks, on ledges, or enclosing them on all three sides.
While some were defaced to avoid retribution from statue-spirits, as with iconoclasm in general, defacing sculptures aided ambitious rulers (and would-be rulers) by rewriting history to their benefit, erasing the memory of those they sought to replace.
Throughout history, this erasure frequently occurred along gendered lines. The legacies of two of Egypt’s most famous queens – Hatshepsut and Nefertiti – were almost completely erased from visual culture, and serve as a perfect illustration of how images created to legitimize the power of the figure they represent can later be harmed in ways intended to undermine that power.
Hatshepsut reigned as pharaoh alongside her stepson, Thutmose III, following her husband Thutmose II’s early demise.
When Hatshepsut died, Thutmose III desired to establish his own line of succession rather than that of his stepmother, and to crown his son Amenhotep II as pharaoh. As a result, he initiated a campaign to obliterate Hatshepsut’s memory as pharaoh, which he accomplished through a variety of acts of destruction.
For instance, the uraeus, a holy serpent that served as a sign of divine power and was originally mounted to Hatshepsut’s crown, was damaged to negate its protective ability.
Hatshepsut’s beard, a mark of royal legitimacy, was shaved off in order to invalidate her power, and her nose was wounded in order to prevent her spirit from breathing within the sculpture. Finally, the head was removed from the body, completely neutralizing the sculpture’s innate potency.
Additionally, Bleiberg believes the ‘defacers’ were highly trained individuals paid specifically for the purpose. Accessing and removing specific pieces of sculpture was no easy task; it required knowledge and, as we have seen, was most emphatically not accidental.
The Ant People legend of the Hopi Native Americans and connections to the Anunnaki
The Ant People legend of the Hopi Native Americans and connections to the Anunnaki
The more you look at ancient texts and stories from around the world, you can’t help but see surprising patterns. Some are so glaring that it takes real effort to ignore them, but that’s what many people do. One example is from the Hopi Native America tribe and their beliefs in “Ant People.” The Hopi of the American Southwest are sometimes referred to as “the oldest of people” by other Native American tribes.
Once you learn about the Ant People, you can’t help but compare them to the ancient Sumerian texts of the Anunnaki. Why? Let’s take a simplified look, respecting the truth that only members of the Hope tribe could fully explain.
In ancient cultures, there is a common thread of worshipping extraterrestrial beings from the stars who will one day return. Animals symbolic of these beliefs appear frequently in ancient art.
The Hopi have a reverence for ants, similar to the way the Egyptians and Sumerians and other cultures had a special reverence for cows. The cows may have represented our Milky Way galaxy, and in the case of the ants, they described beings from the stars known as the Ant People.
The Hopi words for the Ant People or Ant Friends (Anu Sinom) create a direct link to the stories of the Anunnaki. It could be coincidental, but it is quite striking. The Babylonian sky god was named Anu, which is the Hopi word for ant. The word, Naki translates to “friends.” Thus, Anu-Naki translates to “ant friends” in Hopi. In both languages, they are describing extraterrestrial beings, but the Hopi say these Ant People came from under the ground.
Another strikingly similar word is the Hopi word sohu, meaning “star,” and the Egyptian word sahu means “stars of Orion.” This constellation is seen repeatedly across the globe. Ancient Astronaut theorists observe Orion and other systems such as the Pleiades appearing over and over in the layout of the pyramids and ancient structures. Another coincidence?
In the Hopi legend, these Ant People were their saviors, taking them underground and teaching them how to survive two extreme cataclysms. Once again, we see stories of a great flood like that described in Sumerian texts and the Bible.
Surviving underground with the Ant People, the Hopi ancestors learned how to grow food with little water and build dwellings in the rocks. They learned about the stars and mathematics and would put those skills to use when they founded a new civilization.
When it was safe to return to the surface, the Ant People instructed the building of incredibly complex habitations such as what is seen today at Chaco Canyon. From above, they might appear like a giant ant mound. The structures included Kivas, a Hopi word for round semi-subterranean ceremonial rooms that were entered by ladders from above.
“During ceremonies today, the ritual emergence of participants from the kiva into the plaza above represents the original emergence by Puebloan groups from the underworld into the current world.”
Petroglyphs depicting the Ant People appear still appear today, and the Hopi continue to tell the story in dances and rituals.
Below are some intriguing images of Hopi ceremonies taking place inside the kivas.
Priests of the Two-Horn Society via Wikipedia,Photograph of two “priests” of the Two-Horn Society sitting inside a kiva.
Photograph by H.R. Voth, as seen in Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters, New York: Penguin, 1963.
Two-Horn Society image via U.S. History,Fewkes, Walter. “Fire Worship of the Hopi Indians.”
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institute. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1920.Images.com, public domain
“One of the most intriguing Hopi legends involves the Ant People, who were crucial to the survival of the Hopi—not just once but twice. The so-called “First World” (or world-age) was apparently destroyed by fire—possibly some sort of volcanism, asteroid strike, or coronal mass ejection from the sun. The Second World was destroyed by ice—Ice Age glaciers or a pole shift. During these two global cataclysms, the virtuous members of the Hopi tribe were guided by an odd-shaped cloud during the day and a moving star at night that led them to the sky god named Sotuknang, who finally took them to the Ant People—in Hopi, Anu Sinom . The Ant People then escorted the Hopi into subterranean caves where they found refuge and sustenance.”
Stories that giants and other strange beings have lived deep inside the Earth are seen around the globe.In the Hopi legend, these beings were benevolent and helped the tribe even to their own detriment.
“In this legend, the Ant People are portrayed as generous and industrious, giving the Hopi food when supplies ran short and teaching them the merits of food storage. In fact, another legend says that the reason why the ants have such thin waists today is because they once deprived themselves of provisions in order to feed the Hopi.”
The thin waisted ants with their elongated heads and antennae resemble some of the ancient petroglyphs. Across the globe, an African species of Ant called the Pharaoh Ant remind some of a tiny version of Pharoah Akhenaten, famous for his strange alien appearance.
Pharoah Ant, Monomorium pharaonis via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0 by www.AntWeb.org
The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series covers this subject in Series 4, episode 9 (See a clip below). In addition to depictions of the Ant People are wall paintings that show an unmistakable similarity to cuneiform symbols from ancient Sumeria. These symbols are associated with the “WingMakers,” according to the show.
Just as in ancient Egypt, there were matriarchal dynasties, DNA findings from Chaco Canyon show a possible maternal dynasty that ruled for hundreds of years between A.D. 800 and 1250. Scientific American published a story on this in 2017 after researchers examined the remains of 14 people found a burial crypt that ended up at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The Chaco Canyon settlement had thousands of Anasazi inhabitants, who believed in protecting Mother Earth. However, the ancient Puebloans mysteriously disappeared, along with any signs of the Ant People. Today researchers believe that climate change drove them away as the growing population couldn’t sustain itself.
The Anasazi integrated with tribes like the Hopi, Zuni, and Rio Grande Pueblo. As the modern world faces extreme challenges from climate change today, the teachings of these tribes are more important than ever. Can we learn to respect the natural world and live in harmony with Mother Earth? Or are we headed for inevitable disasters, like those described in the Hopi legends?
Ancient Astronaut theorists often speculate if extraterrestrial beings could play a part in helping humans overcome impending future disasters. In the case of the Hopi legends, it appears they did just that. Could the Ant People return from deep in the Earth or from their home in the stars in our time of need?
For another Hopi origin story watch this beautiful video from PBS:
NASA will introduce swimming robots as one more step in its search for extraterrestrial life. The US space agency appears to have discovered a novel solution to the scientists' ongoing quest for new discoveries that will aid in their search for signs of alien life.
In search of extraterrestrial life, a swarm of cellphone-sized robots may trawl the seas beneath the kilometre-thick icy shells of Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus.
A robotics mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory received a $600,000 grant from the Innovative Advance Concepts programme to create the robots. The early concept of SWIM envisioned wedge-shaped robots with a volume of 60 to 75 cubic centimetres and a length of roughly 12 centimetres.
The robots will be able to function autonomously thanks to an integrated propulsion and communications system, enabling intimate examination of planets. The robots' meticulous attention to detail will enable researchers to collect more information, which may be essential in their quest to find extraterrestrial life.
"By having numerous robots gathering data in the same region, we are able to study a significantly bigger volume of ocean water with a swarm of little swimming robots,”Nasa stated in it’s blog
Every robot would be outfitted with a propulsion system, an onboard computer, an ultrasound communications system, as well as sensors for pressure, temperature, salinity, and acidity.
Nasa claims that the creative design would boost the likelihood of finding proof of life on other planets and aid in determining if distant planets would be habitable.
Unidentified spacecraft debris spotted on surface of the Moon
Unidentified spacecraft debris spotted on surface of the Moon
What exactly is this debris from ?
Image Credit: NASA / Goddard / Arizona State University
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an image of a mystery rocket part on the lunar surface.
The debris, which appears circular in shape, has generated quite a bit of interest on social media recently with some conspiracy theorists claiming that it is evidence of undocumented visits to the Moon or even signs of intelligent extraterrestrials.
Officially, the object in the photograph is believed to be a component from a man-made spacecraft, however specifically which spacecraft and who sent it continues to remain a genuine mystery.
It was originally thought that the debris was from a SpaceX launch, however there is also a chance that it could be from a spacecraft launched by China.
According to reports, the object impacted the lunar surface on March 4th of this year.
NASA maintains that an analysis of the crash site could help to determine the origin of the debris.
"The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end," the space agency wrote.
"Typically a spent rocket has mass concentrated at the motor end; the rest of the rocket stage mainly consists of an empty fuel tank."
"Since the origin of the rocket body remains uncertain, the double nature of the crater may indicate its identity."
Special reports are: Former Defense Minister of Canada Claims Extraterrestrials are on Earth, Fastest-growing black hole is devouring 1 Earth per second, Fairchild Disc-type Aircraft, Aloem UFO Bases,’Many Indian Temples have what look like UFOs on the top, Moon Sighting May 8, 2022, Carbon 60 and Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, Arizona California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Vermont.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Canada, France, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, and England Scotland in the United Kingdom. and Zaire.
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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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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Former Defense Minister of Canada Claims Extraterrestrials are on Earth
Paul Hellyer was Canadian minister of Defense in 1960s
Ruling over the country’s armed forces during the time of the Cold War – and when he retired, he publicly stated that “We are not alone in the universe, and some guests from outer space actually live here, on planet Earth.”
TV host Sophie Shevardnadze states: Our guest today is the Honorable Paul Hellyer, former minister of Defense of Canada, and he believes that life forms from space are present on Earth. It’s great to have you on our show. Why do you say that UFOs are as real as airplanes flying over our heads?
Paul Hellyer states:
Because I know that they are here. As a matter of fact, they’ve been visiting our planet for thousands of years and one of the cases that would interest you most if you give me two or three minutes to answer is that during the Cold War, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying southwest from Russia across Europe, and Supreme Allied Command was very concerned and about ready to press the “Panic Nuclear” button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.
They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for 3 years, and they decided that, with absolute certainty, four species – at least – had been visiting this planet for thousands of years. We have a long history of UFOs and of course there has been a lot more activity in the last few decades, since we invented the atomic bomb and they are very concerned about that and the fact that we might use it again, and because the Cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the Cosmos, they are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them as well.”
Fastest-growing black hole is devouring 1 Earth per second by Robert Lea
This behemoth has been powering an ultrabright quasar for 9 billion years , an illustration of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk feeding it. (Image credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
The fastest-growing black hole ever seen is swallowing the mass equivalent of an entire Earth every second. This gargantuan black hole has a mass 3 billion times that of the sun, and its rapid consumption is causing the behemoth to grow rapidly, an international research team found. The black hole gorges via a process called accretion, in which it siphons matter from a thin disk of gas and dust rotating around the massive object. Other black holes of a similar size stopped growing billions of years ago, but this newly discovered black hole is still getting larger. It’s now 500 times bigger than Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, and would fit the whole solar system behind its event horizon, the boundary beyond which nothing can escape. Thanks to Space.com
Fairchild Disc-type Aircraft
Air Force UFO Disk
The case for U.S. built flying wing disc aircraft (aka flying saucers) begins with an unprecedented true account by Mr. Jack D. Pickett (retired WWII combat veteran and publisher). During the 1960’s, and on into 1976, Jack Pickett and his business associate Harold Baker published for the Air Force certain club-calendar-events for NCO and Officer’s Club facilities for several military bases in Florida. It was 1967 when the Adjutant General’s Office at MacDill AFB (Tampa Florida) proposed a front cover, and two-and-a-half-page article within. The subject was Vintage, Historical or Experimental aircraft.
Just prior to publication the article was pulled by the Air Force. Jack explained his story on my Atlantic City TV show and developed his story with Michael H. Schratt who made this Illustration.
Another researcher reports I have been approached by an anonymous source who is attempting to sell me a poster-size picture of a Fairchild disc-type aircraft. Asking price: $300.00. He has said, “I got the picture from my grandfather who is a former employee of Fairchild Industries out of Hagerstown, Maryland”. He was in charge of all dealings with the military/government and had access to a lot of top-secret stuff. The STRATOS being one particular aircraft he oversaw. He did a lot of traveling for the company. He will not speak much on the picture except for the fact it is authentic and a craft that was built by Fairchild. He also said the picture is of a model of the aircraft before production that is “20×16” that is from the 1960’s. An aircraft that was called the STRATOS was built by Fairchild Industries. The picture is black and white with a crease right down the center of it, it is posterboard material. The craft is a disc with a small bubble type thing on the middle of it. There is one fin sticking up on what I presume is on the back, this is like nothing I have ever seen before accepting in movies. This is proof that someone in 1960’s had this craft likely built by Fairchild Industries. Jack Pickett described a similar aircraft as shown above.
Project Silver Bug Was a Plan for the US to Build UFOs
Jack Picket the editor of military news magazines helped me obtain a 30-page FOIA release on Project Silver Bug that showed the Air Force was developing a disc shaped aircraft in 1955. He had personally seen four of the craft at Mac Dill Air Force Base in the disposal area in 1966 and was asked to release a story concerning these classified aircraft. Later, just prior to publication the article was cut, because a disc was seen flying low over Miami. Jack had personally seen four of the disc shaped aircraft in the disposal area that ranged in size from 25 feet to 125 feet in diameter. The four aircraft were saucers shaped with vertical stabilizers (tails) with AF Experimental written on the craft. He was told there were numerous similar craft flying, but they were unstable and frequently crashed.
This “saucer” designed aircraft was believed to use two to four J58 engines that were also the propulsion system for the SR-71. The SR-71 could fly faster than Mach 4 and was designed in secrecy by a team headed by Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson, director of Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects office better known as the ‘Skunk Works’. The existence of the aircraft was not officially revealed until February 29, 1964. Skunk Work’s engineer Ben Rich is quoted as saying, “Some UFOs are ours and some are theirs.”
Dr Carol Rosin and Wernher von Braun
Dr Carol Rosin was the first female corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher von Braun in his later years. I met Carol Rosin, on several occasions. Each time she told me that Von Braun’s had been briefed of a False Flag Alien Invasion – a genuine warning of 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 government release of new information about UFOs may be part of the false flag scenario he warned about. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington, DC, and has testified before Congress on many occasions about not having space-based weapons.
Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in space, based on a Russian threat, then a terrorist threat, then finally an extraterrestrial threat. The government is now releasing a potential threat from ET.
Many of the German scientists that designed of the V2 rocket continued working on the American space program right through to the 1969 landing of men on the Moon. Thanks to Frank Chili.
Silver Bug UFO
Project Silver Bug was the research and development project to field jet propelled flying saucers beginning in 1955, that would be dispersed to underground bases to avoid Soviet attack. The disks were capable of vertical takeoffs and landings and would be capable of Mach 3.48 — faster than the SR-71 Blackbird. In the Project Silver Bug Report, dated Feb. 15, 1955, and declassified on March 29, 1995, he claimed the disk interceptor aircraft would be capable of vertical takeoff and landing; a maximum level speed of 2,300 mph with afterburners; a ceiling of 80,600 feet; and a climb rate of 1.76 minutes to 36,090 feet. The Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation developed the J58 engines that in July 1976, powered an SR-71 to a world altitude record of 85,069 ft. and another to a world speed record of 2,193 mph. Many people claimed a base deep in Fort Dix was underground and elevators lifted the craft to the surface where they were launched.
The Report on Project Silver Bug was issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center along with the Wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The Silver Bug report noted that a pair of ongoing U.S. projects involving the building of flying saucers had already occurred. The book “The Super Spies”, by Andrew Tully, 1969, claimed these discs were being used as “Saucers with Ears,” that is, for communications intercept missions and secret photography.
Silver Bug Diagrams
The Silver Bug disc would be capable of vertical takeoff and landing; and performance greater than the SR-71. This performance was far in advance of any aircraft in the world but apparently had stabilization problems that could be corrected with modern computers. Several people claim we still have modern disc aircraft.
The 1955 issue of Look Magazine state that,” New air defense problems were setting up requirements for aircraft performance which would apparently be best met by a saucer aircraft. Runways would not be needed, and bases could go underground with tunnels and takeoff shafts set in the ground, complete with maintenance bays, fuel, and crew quarters. Those underground bases, the article said, would be bomb proof shelters for a saucer squadron. The shafts would be sealed after takeoff for camouflage and protection.” It is rather obvious that our technology has greatly improved since the late 1950s, and that faster and higher-flying aircraft are available to the Air Force. Modern aircraft should exceed 5,000 mph and 100,000 feet altitudes. Thanks to FOIA.
ALIEN UFO BASES
Erich A. Aggen, Jr., in his article ‘TOP SECRET: (SEARCH Magazine, Summer 1991 issue), presented the following revelations concerning the UFO-Subterranean connection:
Underground Base
“…A great deal of UFO research has also led to the conclusion that various…species of aliens have set up secret underground or undersea bases in the United States and other countries. It is logical to assume that such bases have also been established elsewhere in the solar system. If such bases exist, where would we find them? Existing information allows us to make a few educated guesses.
Underground Earth Bases
The dark, cavernous world beneath our feet is the source of many baffling mysteries. Clandestine UFO bases may be hidden deep within the earth in natural and/or artificial caverns. As a former member of the National Speleological Society (NSS), I am well aware of the vast extent of cave systems within the United States. In my own native state of Missouri, for example, there are over 2,500 known caves and dozens of new ones being discovered every year. Many of these caves are intricately linked together by numerous passageways and interconnecting chambers.
“One particular species of blind white (albino) cave fish, the TYPHLICHTHYS, has been found in many widely separated cave systems over several states. It has been found in caves that make a great arc through Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and UNDER the Mississippi River extending into Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma! A vast section of the Central and Southern United States must lie above one immense cavern system! Underground rivers also exist.
“Many caves possess rooms hundreds of feet in length, width, and height.
In most cases, these huge natural caverns can only be reached and explored with the utmost skill and perseverance. There are only a few thousand NSS members in the United States and only a few hundred of this number are active spelunkers. With so few spelunkers spread over such a large area, only a very small fraction of the tens of thousands of known caves in this country have been carefully mapped and explored. Thousands of other caves remain undiscovered and unexplored.
“Extensive evidence indicates that caves in the United States may be connected with caves in other parts of the world. In Mexico, the cave known as ‘Sotano de las Golondrinas’, (or) basement of the swallows, in the Municipio de Aquismo, S.L.P., reaches a depth of 1100 feet (334 meters). The cave is actually a giant ‘sinkhole’ or ‘hole’ in the ground with a nearly circular opening at the top, hundreds of feet in diameter. It is impossible to climb down the sides of Golondrinas because the walls of the opening are too smooth and “belled-out”. To reach the bottom of the cave, a special rope over 1100 feet long must be secured at the top of the opening and dropped into the sinkhole. Explorers must then descend into the yawning hole one at a time using special cave repelling gear and climbing techniques. At the bottom of Sotano de las Golondrinas are numerous ‘leads or openings to a multiplicity of different crevices, passages, crawlways, and rooms which have never been mapped or investigated. UFOs are often seen entering the ground or the side of mountains.
“The entrance to Golondrinas is located in one of the most primitive and uncivilized are as of Mexico and local inhabitants are afraid to approach the cave because they believe it is full of ‘evil spirits’ which lure people to their deaths. They tell stories of people mysteriously disappearing never to be heard from again while passing near the cave entrance. These stories may be based more on fact than fiction: They are similar in some respects to UFO abduction reports. Because of its huge size, remote location, and unique geological structure, Golondrinas would be an ideal UFO base. Naturally camouflaged caves in other parts of the world may serve as an excellent natural bases, way stations, and ‘depots’ for UFOs.
“An underground nuclear test called the ‘Schooner Experiment’ conducted in December 1968, substantiates the theory that caves in North and South America are intimately linked. In this test, a 35- kiloton nuclear bomb was exploded under the desert of Nevada. Five days after the test, the radiation level rose from 10 to 20 times in Canada 1000 miles away from the Nevada test site! The only way the radioactive dust could have traveled that far is through an interconnected system of caves extending all the way from Nevada to Canada!”
UFO Sightings in Ancient Contacts in the Americas
Itzamna White God
The Maya had memories of several white gods, or culture heroes that may have Nordic aliens. The first being Itzamna who came across the ocean. Itzamna was amongst the oldest and most important gods in the Mayan religion. He was a teacher. Later twenty men arrived, the chief of whom was called Colcolcan. They all wore flowing robes and sandal shoes. Each had a long beard, and their heads were bare., he instructed the people in the arts.
A tribe immediately to the west of the Maya were visited by another white man, called Votan and he taught the people how to cultivate maize and cotton and invented hieroglyphic signs. It is likely that the great white culture-hero of the Mexicans, Quetzalcoatl — the feathered serpent — could have been Greek or Sumerian or even from the stars.
Ancient Vimana UFO
Stone and rock carvings plus examples of pottery all point to theinescapable fact that the ancient inhabitants of the Americas were acquainted with almost every race in the world prior to 300 BC. Evidence from North, Central and South America of Old-World inscriptions, common words and customs, architectural styles and artifacts link the two. A hoard of Roman coins has been discovered in Venezuela, and a Roman pottery head was found in Mexico, and dated for stylistic reasons to the second century A.D. In Maine, a Roman coin has recently surfaced, while a botanist claims to have identified two of the plants depicted on a Roman fresco in Pompeii as an American fruit, the pineapple, and an American vegetable, a species of squash.
From the depths of the Well of Sacrifice at Chichen Itza, Mexico scuba divers have recovered a wood and wax doll, bearing the Roman script. Elsewhere a stone sarcophagus was unearthed at Palenque by excavators who liken it in the style of the Phoenicians.
In 1966, a certain Manfred Metcalf claims to have picked up an inscribed stone in Georgia, now known as the Metcalf Stone. It bears text very similar in nature to Cretan Linear writing and is regarded by Cyrus Gordon in Manuscripts, 1969, Vol. XXI, No. 3, as probably an inventory.’
A coin found in 1957 by a small boy in a field near Phoenix City, Alabama, was identified later as coming from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, Italy dating from 490 B.C. In 1976 an ancient coin was found in the town of Heavener, Oklahoma. It was identified later as being a bronze Tetradrachm, originally with a silver wash, now missing. It was struck in Antioch, Syria, 63 A.D., and according to Dr. Barry Fell, “The profile is of Nero, with the Greek inscription on the obverse saying, ‘Nero Caesar Augustus’.”
In 1936, Dr Charles Elvers excavated a stone pendant in Gallo Canyon, New Mexico. It was pear-shaped, about three inches long with a hole at the top. On one side is the crowned figure of a man holding a crooked or serpent-like staff in his right hand, and seemingly climbing a slope while looking over his right shoulder. On the other side is an elephant head, a triangle, cross and circle, plus two six-pointed stars. These symbols were commonly used in the archaic Sumerian linear scripts.
In Illinois next to a river there is a buried mound with the remains of an Egyptian Pharaoh. Early this century, a Brazilian rubber-tapper called Bernardo Ramos was working in the Amazon jungle when he noted that on many of the rocks there could be found ancient scripts carved deep into the stone. He found that the greater part of them resembled, often in detail, the ancient writings of the Old World and compiled a catalog of nearly 2000 such scripts.
Other jungle graffiti has indeed been linked to that already recorded as belonging to the Semitic, Indus, Phoenician, Punic, Brahmi and other peoples.
Gate of the Sun with Alien Carving
The famous Gate of the Sun leading into the city of Titicaca 4000 years ago has an ancient god from space carved on it. Further evidence in South America suggests strongly that a Sumerian colony established itself around Titicaca, in what is now known as Bolivia. According to legend the first Inca, Manko-Kapak, appeared in Lake Titicaca and tradition held that the Incas were red or brown-haired. A characteristic alien to American Indians but many mummies discovered there confirm this fact.
Huge blocks of stone found at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia were once held together by copper and even gold rivets. This was a method of building-construction almost identical to that used in Assyria and Eritrea thousands of years ago. The colony even used solid stone wheels, just like the ones in use by the Sumerians themselves and were thought to have transported the huge stone blocks in this manner.
The tribe living around Lake Titicaca are called the Uru and elders retain memories of people of their tribe being scarified under the foundations when Tiahuanaco was built. The Incas carried out mummification and, like the Sumerians, placed a metal disc in the mouth of a corpse. The disc was an indication the aliens arrived in discs and would carry the souls of the dead to paradise. Many of the ancient skulls are exceptionally large and are designed differently from human craniums.
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated craniums.
They also built pyramids and obelisks, while using cups, plates, spoons and goblets much like those in the Old World. Likewise, both the Sumerians and the Incas held the rainbow as sacred, and each carried their notables around in litters. While at a temple in Chavin, Peru, an ingenious system of air conduits still carries fresh air to every room in the building and a remarkably similar system has been discovered in the Cretan palace at Knossos.
Ancient Phoenician ship using both oars and sail
Phoenician warships had a convex stern and were propelled by a large single-masted square sail and two banks of oars (a bireme), had a deck, and were fitted with a ram low on the bow and could of sailed throughout the world.
Professor Marcel F Homet, an archaeologist visited the Amazon region to view its antiquities and made many amazing discoveries. From inscriptions found on the painted rock, the Pedra Pintada, professor Homet recorded symbols well-known in the Old World, such as the swastika, the double axe, the spiral and also the sun symbol.
Thousands of artifacts have been recovered over centuries from hundreds of locations, and from many countries of the New World. Ships or UFOs brought artifacts to the Americas.
Sri Lanka Claims to have Entrance to the Universe
Giant Stupas Stargates
Anuradhapura is a stargate: an ancient gateway through which humans can enter the Universe. A stupa is a Buddhist commemorative monument usually housing sacred relics associated with the Buddha or other saintly persons that appears like one type of UFO.
In recent years, the internet has been alighted with speculation that a chart-like carving in Anuradhapura is a stargate: an ancient gateway through which humans can enter the Universe. Sri Lanka’s sacred city of Anuradhapura is an unlikely place to be enmeshed in a fantastic tale of UFOs and otherworldly happenings. Locally known as Rajarata (Land of Kings), the UNESCO World Heritage Site was the first established kingdom on the island (in 377 BC) and is at the heart of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist culture. Today, it’s one of the nation’s most visited places, attracting devoted pilgrims from around the country to its ancient Buddhist temples and giant dome-shaped stupas.
But this holy city is also home to something far more curious. Here, in Ranmasu Uyana (Golden Fish Park), a 40-acre ancient urban park surrounded by three Buddhist temples, is a chart that’s alleged to be a map to unlock the secrets of the Universe.
The fresco, from 1350, “The Crucifixion,” artist unknown, in the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Serbia. Two odd-looking objects with “pilots” can be seen in the sky on both sides of Jesus. Fresco. Two odd-looking UFOs with “pilots” can be seen in the sky on both sides of Jesus. Many Indian Temples have what look like UFOs on the top
The fresco, from 1350, “The Crucifixion,” artist unknown, in the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Serbia. Two odd-looking objects with “pilots” can be seen in the sky on both sides of Jesus. Fresco. Two odd-looking UFOs with “pilots” can be seen in the sky on both sides of Jesus.
In India ancient pictures with a detailed image of the cosmos, the aliens and their technology have been found in ancient Indian temples.
Across the Earth, archaeologists and historians find thousands of testimonies about a possible contact from extraterrestrial civilizations with the ancient people. This and the legend of the demigods from the sky, and the various rock paintings of the unusual people, pictures of alien ships, strange statues, as well as the unexplored parts from large machines. According to alternative scientific theories, 10000-year-old paintings and archaeological artifacts can prove that the ancient ancestors of mankind actively communicated with aliens.
Spaceman astronaut carving at the Catedral Nueva in Salamanca, Spain started in 1513
For example, one of the most ancient and advanced civilizations is India. In the temples in Chrome were found drawings that resemble science fiction and literally show the details about the cosmos and life in it. Local Indian authorities after the discovery of petroglyphs with aliens immediately turned to NASA for help. Archaeologist George Bhagat found in India artifacts showing that ancient people could visit an alien civilization.
Ancient Vimana Craft
It is interesting that the author portrayed not just aliens, but also space. It turns out that NASA is not just studying the drawings of the aliens, but also confirm the existence of the Anunnaki with Nibiru, in the case of the authenticity found in India images.
The fact that there is a theory that aliens from the mysterious planet actively lived, ruled and developed people. According to Sumerian mythology, the aliens were demigods, Anunnaki from Nibiru. They were able to build the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the English Stonehenge, to teach the Australian aborigines “fabulous art”, the ancient Greeks, the Sumerians wisdom and so on.
However, the opponents of this theory argue that the ancient people drew and believed in dragons and trolls, but that does not mean that they once existed.
Ancient Columbian models of aircraft
Thanks to Paradox
Moon Sighting May 8, 2022
UFO Moving on the Moon
Amazing dark disk that passes over the moon, the object is absolutely amazing and even has a shadow on the moon below it. That 100% proof that is low over the moon’s surface. This object was spotted during one of Ruben Ariza live streams from his home in South Armenia in Quindío, Colombia on May 8, 2022. In the footage we can see this UFO fly into view. As the craft passes the moon it seems to be casting a shadow on the moon’s surface. Thanks to Ruben Ariza and Scott C. Waring for sharing his work with us .
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 aviators 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.
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, Arizona California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Vermont.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Canada, France, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, and England Scotland in the United Kingdom. and Zaire.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Alabama Light
Gulf Shores on June 9, 2022, bright flame like light that flared up multiple times. Traveling east in a straight horizontal path.
Arizona Objects
January 28, 2022 these are cell phone photos by Alexi A. while driving to work of six craft observed. The location was 10 miles south of Sedona at 9:30 AM at Cornville Road. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
California Objects
Paso Robles on May 22, 22022, I have been recording the skies and see rockets and UFOs on my video’s not just in California and Nevada with my family. The clearest video shows the craft but I did not actually see it, but I have psychic abilities. They seem to want me to know they’re there.
San Diegoon October 25, 2017, I looked up and saw a light coming closer to my location but it was moving very rapidly from side to side, The UFO came into my neighborhood 25 feet over my house in front of our house with four lights coming from inside the craft? I was outside before 3 or 4 Orbs came to my side walking me back to my home. I had received some kind of supernatural download point UFOs out to my wife and kids. I’m not scared, nor does it affect my daily routine.
Note:The enlargement of the object shows the lights to be of a strange shape. I don’t think that the lights are “grey aliens.” The witness does describe some strange experiences right after the photo was taken so perhaps entities did exit the craft in the photo. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite.
Florida Light
St. Petersburgon June 24, 2022, Picture attached
Georgia Light
Georgetown on June 9, 2022, I was taking an evening stroll when I heard propeller planes approaching and two large green C-130 cargo planes went by, without markings or identification numbers. I snapped a IPhone 13 photo of the third and final plane. Upon zooming in at upper right there was a triangular UFO hovering above.
Illinois Lights
Cherry Valley on June 2 , 2022, every night for the last three weeks I’ve seen UFOs! Some of my videos will not post because they are too long.
Iowa Light
Newtonon June 26, 2022, before dusk, I noticed a light in the sky overhead. Watched for about 2 minutes and took photos as it moved SE across the sky. It moved on to the SW as another passed it going SE. The last object followed the exact actions and moved SW, where it disappeared.
Minnesota Lights
Montevideoon June 19, 2022, my sister, her boyfriend, and I were all walking at 1:20 am when I saw an odd light in the sky. I said, “What’s that in the sky? It was a small oval shaped white object, bigger than a star and moving. Its direction changed and it was suddenly gone. Also seen in Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Wisconsin, Canada, and possibly Texas,
Missouri Lights
Saint Michaels on June 18, 2022, large object, with 3 lights began moving west/south-west in a very slow pace, before disappearing. Total observation time was under a minute. Lights may have simply turned off, or turned, but we should have been able to still make something out. No navigation lights
New Jersey Abduction
Monmouth County on March 13, 2019, my first instance with an alien was only to see his fingers when I was young. I opened my front door and three or four pointy fingers that wrapped their fingers around the outside of my front door moved with grace. Two more separate times, I spent a week or so with them in a facility. I knew they were alien because my one week it was like time stood still, with awful pain. I spoke with them, as they looked human. They’d ask me what I’d do if I was president. It was a couple of men and a woman. They told me they could just make people disappear. I think he was telling the truth.
My grandmother passed away and a female alien was quite angry with me and said., “We are all In here because of your grandma bitch.” That’s really all I got. And she told me a long-winded story of Breyers and something like breaking down the acronym. I could not follow, and she was just providing a distraction from my immense pain.
New Mexico Light
Fence Lake on May 30, 2021, I am retired and an amateur astronomer. I reside 80 miles south of the nearest city. My home sits on a mesa at 7,200’ altitude. I photograph the sky very early in the morning and. I had taken two photos of the SE Skyscape and the SW Skyscape at 05:21AM. I downloaded them from my Nikon 830Ls, there were 14 orbs..
New York Moving Lights
Queenson June 19, 2022, traveling south over Whitestone bridge I spotted 6-8 bright lights in the western sky moving south objects in a cluster.
Oklahoma Triangle
Normanon April 15, 2011, I have missing time over the incident but I clearly remember it was Good Friday at 75 degrees. I stopped at my mother’s house and saw mammoth clouds like active camouflage. I saw a black boomerang object moving in the clouds silently SW slowly at 250 feet over head. My mother saw the UFO. I am 59 with advanced cancer and it’s important get the truth out and about the missing time had something to do with my illness.
Oregon Object
Wilsonvilleon May 11, 2022, oval object, slightly flatter on bottom, is shiny towards sun, very dark away from sun found in random shots of contrails. Note: This is a good photo. It appears to show a disk shaped object with the sun reflecting off of the top. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canadea Lights
Faye la Vineuse on June 26, 2022, crops have been cut in strange pattern in my area, where there are lots of wheat fields. I noticed a completely devastated wheat field compared to all the others. I decided to film this field. I showed my video to a peasant in the village and he told me that it was not a tornado and that it was very curious, as all other fields are intact.
Erie Object in Clouds
Dublinon June 22 , 2022, I saw a strange object in the sky in the Sandyford area. I was sitting beside my partner who was driving and directly above the horizon was an irregular giant shaped triangular object. It looked like a folded flat paper. Object was diving into ground at 45-degree angle at 11:15 am.
Kenya Lights
Nairobion February 9, 2022, noticed 3 bright lights from my 8th floor bedroom window moving erratically not stars or drones are illegal in my country. So, I zoomed in on them and the lights moved fast leaving a white trail behind them. They would than come together in a clear triangle than each would move off. At 1:30 an entire fleet of lights show up.
Mexico Lights
Tijuana on June 27, 2022, was overlooking the ocean from a bedroom window and saw three lights in formation blinking red and orange. Then they became 5 in a straight line, then disappeared one by one.
Turkey Lights
Scotland Object
Glasgowon June 9, 2022, it was a black object with three front lights. I was seeing this object between Irvine and Glasgow when I was traveling to Glasgow.
Zaire Object
Port Elizabeth on June 28, 2022, only saw the UFO in the picture, nothing seen with the naked eye
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Supermassive Black Holes Formed Directly out of Enormous Streams of Cold gas
Supermassive Black Holes Formed Directly out of Enormous Streams of Cold gas
At the edge of known space are quasars. They are powerful cosmic engines capable of creating intense beams of light across billions of light years. And they are powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Most galaxies have a SMBH, including our own galaxy, but for quasars to be so powerful their SMBHs must have become very large very quickly. We’re still learning just how they formed. We’ve long thought their formation involved a special set of circumstances, but a new study shows that early quasars could have formed purely from cold dark gas.
The biggest mystery about quasars is their youth and power. In the past couple decades, astronomers have discovered quasars so distant that they must have have been active less than a billion years after the big bang. Their intense power indicated that they must be billions of solar masses in size. How could such massive objects form so quickly in the early universe?
The most common theory has been that they were formed from the remnants of supermassive stars. The early universe was much more dense that it is today, and under just the right conditions some early stars had masses of more than 100,000 Suns. These stars lived brief lives before collapsing to become an intermediate mass black hole. These black holes then became the seeds of early quasars. The problem with this idea is that supermassive stars would have been rare. Perhaps to rare to account for all the distant quasars we see today.
Computer simulation showing the formation of a quasar. Credit: University of Portsmouth
This new study looked at computer simulations of hydrogen and helium gas at the dawn of the cosmos, particularly the turbulent regions that formed through the complex dance of gravity and cosmic expansion. In the early universe, gravity and expansion created the seeds of galaxies by creating clusters of gas connected by filaments. Gas flowed along the filaments as the clusters grew. The team found that the turbulence of these flows delayed star formation, until clouds of gas were dense enough to collapse under their own weight, triggering the formation of a massive black hole. Through this process, a billion solar mass black hole could form over the span of just a few hundred million years. What’s more, this process was fairly common, and didn’t require the special conditions of other SMBH models.
So it seems the same process that created the clusters of galaxies we see today also formed the seeds of supermassive black holes and the first powerful quasars. Which helps explain why early quasars are so common, and why most galaxies have supermassive black holes.
A Test Image From Webb Just Happens to be the Deepest Image Ever Taken of the Universe
A Test Image From Webb Just Happens to be the Deepest Image Ever Taken of the Universe
A ‘throwaway’ engineering image from the James Webb Space Telescope’s commissioning phase has turned out to be a stunningly deep view of the cosmos. It rivals the deepest of Hubble Deep Field imagesin revealing previously unseen distant galaxies.
Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) enables the space observatory to find and lock onto its observing targets, enabling precision pointing for images and accurate science measurements. But the FGS is also capable of taking images.
During a week-long stability test in May, the team decided to keep the imagery that was being captured. The purpose of this engineering test was to lock onto one star and to test how well Webb could control its “roll” – literally, Webb’s ability to roll to one side like an aircraft in flight.
This Fine Guidance Sensor test image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of eight days at the beginning of May. This engineering image represents a total of 32 hours of exposure time at several overlapping pointings of the Guider 2 channel. The observations were not optimized for detection of faint objects, but nevertheless the image captures extremely faint objects and is, for now, the deepest image of the infrared sky. The unfiltered wavelength response of the guider, from 0.6 to 5 micrometers, helps provide this extreme sensitivity. The image is mono-chromatic and is displayed in false color with white-yellow-orange-red representing the progression from brightest to dimmest. The bright star (at 9.3 magnitude) on the right hand edge is 2MASS 16235798+2826079. There are only a handful of stars in this image – distinguished by their diffraction spikes. The rest of the objects are thousands of faint galaxies, some in the nearby universe, but many, many more in the distant universe. Credit: NASA, CSA, and FGS team.
This new FGS engineering image was taken using 72 exposures over 32 hours – is among the deepest images of the universe ever taken, according to Webb scientists. In a JWST blog post, scientists said that when FGS’ aperture is open, it is not using color filters like the other science instruments – meaning it is impossible to study the age of the galaxies in this image with the rigor needed for scientific analysis. But even when capturing unplanned imagery during a test, FGS is capable of producing stunning views of the cosmos.
Obviously, the test was performed successfully. But it also produced an image that sparks the imagination of scientists who will be analyzing Webb’s science data, said Jane Rigby, Webb’s operations scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
“The faintest blobs in this image are exactly the types of faint galaxies that Webb will study in its first year of science operations,” Rigby said.
On Twitter, Lee Feinberg, Webb optical telescope element manager, said this image is a great example of why the past five months of commissioning the telescope was so magical for the team. “We added taking this guider data in parallel to our stability test sort of last minute for engineering reasons,” he said.
The first full color images from JWST will be released on July 12, so this tantalizing look at what JWST will be revealing certainly sparks not only scientists’ imaginations, but also the imaginations of all of us who have been anticipating this telescope for the past 30 years.
The abduction of Betty Andreasson Luca is considered to be one of the most documented cases in the history of Ufology. The woman from Massachusetts experienced multiple abductions, and her case is widely studied by UFO researchers. It became popular after the publication of the best-selling novel “The Andreasson Affair,” which came out in the late 1970s. She attended many radio shows and TV interviews where she discussed her encounter with grey aliens and even drew sketches of the incident.
Betty Andreasson was born on January 7, 1937, to Waino and Eva Aho. She went to school in Westminster and Gardner MA and had a great interest in art since childhood, which later became her passion. Betty married twice and with her first husband, she gave birth to seven children. She met her second husband Bob Luca in 1977.
Betty Andreasson Luca
According to the official reports, on the evening of January 25, 1967, Betty was at home with her seven children and parents. At around 6:30 p.m., she was busy in the kitchen when the lights in the house started blinking strangely. Soon after it, the kitchen’s window was hit by a reddish light beam, and the whole house went out of electricity. The children got terrified with the scene and Betty tried to calm them down. Her father looked out to find the source of the light and saw five strange-looking humanoid creatures walking right towards the house. Before he could understand the situation, the beings walked inside the house through the door which put the whole family in a state of shock.
Betty Andreasson during one of her hypnotic regression sessions
One creature went to Betty’s father while the other four came to her, and one of them started talking with her telepathically. The one who was made telepathic contact with Betty was about 5 feet tall, while others were shorter than him. The description by the witnesses was similar to the modern illustration of grey aliens. They had only slits on their mouth, three fingers in one hand, and wore a blue-colored one-piece suit.
Betty was frightened but at the same time, she felt calm by the friendly nature of the beings. They did not harm any member of the family and even released her daughter from a state of unawareness. Then she was taken outside and boarded on their saucer-shaped craft with a small dome that was standing in the backyard. After that, the ship went up in the air and merged with the mothership where Betty went through medical tests and was under the effects of strange equipment. Later, she was taken to some strange place where she felt much pain which, according to her, was a “spiritual experience.”
UFO sketch by Betty Andreasson
Later that night, Betty returned home at 10:40 p.m. and found her family still in a frozen state, where one of the aliens was watching them in her absence. Then the family was put to bed by the beings and the aliens left. What’s more, she forgot about her abduction until undergoing hypnotherapy in later years.
Betty said in some of her interviews that the creatures were angelic in nature but not biblical. She is a religious person, had only some school education and did not understand much about UFOs. Only after this bizarre experience, she understood that whatever she had experienced that night was much like a UFO abduction
In 1975, Dr. Allen J Hynek posted an ad in the newspaper to learn more about the abduction experiences and asked help from common people. Betty answered his ad by sending a letter, but it was rejected due to its unusual details. It was only in 1977 when her case was deeply investigated by the experts including a solar physicist, an electronics engineer, an aerospace engineer, a telecommunications specialist, and a UFO investigator.
Her case was first investigated by Jules Vaillancourt, a Mutual UFO Network investigator in 1977. He said: “What I found most amazing about Betty was her ability to draw. The detail of the (space) craft and the beings she drew under hypnosis were such that it really made me believe there was something to this.”
He also added that the detective who had given a psychological stress evaluation to Betty and her daughter believed in her story. She even spoke the language of aliens under hypnosis. Her case investigation continued for 12 months where she and her daughter had gone through hypnosis sessions, lie detector tests, and a psychiatric interview. Both mother and daughter passed them with a genuine reaction. Author and UFO researcher Raymond E. Fowler wrote five books on her UFO experiences that include the famous “The Andreasson Affair” series.
During one of her hypnotic regression sessions, she remembered one of the early abductions that occurred to her in childhood. It took place in 1950 when she was taken from her home into a spacecraft as usual. But this time, the craft was flying toward an ocean or sea. She was terrified that the craft would crash into the water. But the ship submerged into the water and entered into a kind of tunnel. Betty could see everything underwater, as the place was filled with light. What she said next under hypnosis is so bizarre that even gave a chill to Fowler.
Betty Andreasson drew what Fowler called Museum of Time
She saw people from all eras, different races, encased in the glass container. Fowler called it “The Museum of Time.” Betty said that people in the container were in old-fashioned clothes, and there were uncountable cubicles with humans inside at that underwater base.
Fowler wrote that when he listened to her one of the regression session recordings, his mind blew up as he found it difficult to believe. “A cold chill coursed through my body when Betty was describing people and animals enclosed in glassy cubicles in an icy cavern.”
Betty Andreasson and her second husband Bob Luca
Betty traveled a lot across the country, attending numerous TV interviews and radio shows and lecturing about her UFO experiences. She and her husband Bob Luca had been unsettled for many years until 1995 when they moved to Virginia. They lived in VA for 5 years and then moved to Florida.
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Alien technology and fossils from a BILLION years ago could be lurking on Moon, top Harvard astronomer claims
Alien technology and fossils from a BILLION years ago could be lurking on Moon, top Harvard astronomer claims
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
HEAPS of alien bones may be sitting on the Moon just waiting to be discovered.
That's the bonkers claim made by one top scientist, who reckons that if extraterrestrial life ever crashed on the Moon, its remains are probably still there.
Alien spacecraft may be lurking on the Moon having crashed there long ago, according to one top scientistCredit: Getty - Contributor
Professor Abraham Loeb, chair of astronomy at the prestigious Harvard University, says lunar missions could be vital to our search for alien life.
Its surface would perfectly preserve fossils of alien creatures from a distant star system – or even the technology they used to get here.
"It would be tantalising to find microfossils of extraterrestrial forms of life on the Moon," Professor Loeb wrote in Scientific American on Wednesday.
"Even more exciting would be to find traces of technological equipment that crashed on the lunar surface a billion years ago, amounting to a letter from an alien civilisation saying, 'We exist'."
Professor Abraham Loeb, chair of astronomy at the prestigious Harvard University, says lunar missions could be vital to our search for alien life
Professor Loeb, 57, has written four books and more than 700 research articles on astrophysics across a career spanning three decades.
He regularly comments on aliens and other space phenomenon, famously speculating that an interstellar object that passed through the Solar System in 2017 was an alien spacecraft.
According to the Israeli scientist, regular Moon missions – of which Nasa alone plans to launch a dozen by 2030 – could give us a solid chance of finding evidence of aliens.
With no atmosphere or geological activity like earthquakes to destroy ancient artefacts, ET fossils or technology left behind by space crashes could last thousands of years on the satellite.
Nasa has plans for up to 12 missions to the Moon by 2030 as part of its Artemis programmeCredit: Getty - Contributor
Nasa also has plans to build a permanent base on the Moon starting in 2028.
Astronauts living on the outpost will drill for ice at the lunar south pole and test technology to be used for the first manned trips to Mars.
Professor Loeb urged Nasa to also look for evidence of aliens.
The Moon – our closest neighbour explained
Here's what you need to know...The Moon is a natural satellite – a space-faring body that orbits a planet
The Moon is a natural satellite – a space-faring body that orbits a planet
It's Earth's only natural satellite, and is the fifth biggest in the Solar System
The Moon measures 2,158 miles across, roughly 0.27 times the diameter of Earth
Temperatures on the Moon range from minus 173 degrees Celcius to 260 degrees Celcius
Experts assumed the Moon was another planet, until Nicolaus Copernicus outlined his theory about our Solar System in 1543
It was eventually assigned to a "class" after Galileo discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610
The Moon is believed to have formed around 4.51billion years ago
The strength of its gravitational field is about a sixth of Earth's gravity
Earth and the Moon have "synchronous rotation", which means we always see the same side of the Moon – hence the phrase "dark side of the Moon"
The Moon's surface is actually dark, but appears bright in the sky due to its reflective ground
During a solar eclipse, the Moon covers the Sun almost completely. Both objects appear a similar size in the sky because the Sun is both 400 times larger and farther
The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was in 1959, as part of the Soviet Union's Lunar program
The first manned orbital mission was Nasa's Apollo 8 in 1968
And the first manned lunar landing was in 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission
"The opportunity to discover signs of extraterrestrial life provides a new scientific incentive for a sustainable base on the lunar surface," he wrote.
"The moon is well known for its romantic appeal, but astrobiology offers a twist on this notion.
"Here’s hoping that the moon will inform our civilisation that we are not alone and that someone else is waiting for us out there."
Theories suggest that the most important findings about life on other planets have been kept secret by governments. However, there is evidence that there was life on the Moon.
Posts about different Russian missions on our satellite came to light recently. In them is evidence that there was life on the Moon and in different places outside the Earth .
life on the moon
A series of real tests on some Russian missions whose mission was to search for life outside the Earth have been published on the network .
The photographs and the conclusions show that a sample of lunar soil and a meteorite was extracted. These yielded the existence of microfossils , which shows traces of life on the satellite.
The first time an unmanned spacecraft delivered lunar soil samples to Earth was on September 24, 1970 . The Soviet Union’s Luna 16 spacecraft returned with 101 grams of lunar regolith in a container in perfect condition. Later, a little more was collected for study and comparison.
Further studies of the images were conducted by biologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences Stanislav I. Zhmur of the Institute of the Lithosphere of Marginal Seas and Lyudmila M. Gerasimenko of the Institute of Biology.
The scientists noted that some of the particles in the photos were virtually identical to fossils of known biological species on Earth.
Specifically, they noted some spherical regolith particles, where the material brought back by Luna 20 was very similar to fossils of modern coccoid bacteria, such as Siderococcus and Sulfolobus.
Organic fossils on the lunar surface
The microfossils obtained were found in the collected sample that was taken on the surface, which was opened only for study . So they leave evidence that there was life on the Moon and perhaps elsewhere in space.
On the other hand, studies carried out on meteorites by both scientists also mentioned the discovery of biological microfossils in several carbonaceous rocks from a place farther away than the Moon.Nobody has questioned the biological nature of the studied microfossils. An overriding consensus was then developed that verifies the existence of environmental contaminants on earth. Something very common in these cases.
After all the studies and analysis, everything indicates that we are not the only life form in the galaxy. If there is life apart from the human in the Universe and also, there was life on the Moon. The problem is why this news has been kept hidden? Why didn’t any media review it?
One of the most intriguing UFO reports was published by the Australian government in 2021. It states that the first CIA director said the U.S. Government knew U.F.O.’s were extraterrestrial but was withholding this fact from the public. Eventually, the US government admitted UFOs are real, there are many astronauts who have been saying UFOs could be extraterrestrials. Recently, Tim Peake, one of Britain’s famous astronauts said that the UFOs filmed by the US military over 100 times could be aliens.
During an interview with Good Morning Britain in June 2022, Briton astronaut Tim Peake, who spent more than six months on the International Space Station, was asked about the UAP videos, which the Pentagon recently declassified.
Peake said: “I heard one theory where a pilot was talking about that potentially in the future, they’ve developed time travel – is it something that’s come back from the future?” He did not exactly say what the UFOs are but shared some theories that have long been discussed by UFOlogists.
ESA astronaut Tim Peake in Cupola. Credit: ESA
“I don’t think it’s a development of any state nation or non-state organization at all. I think it’s quite remarkable when you see the video footage. It does seem extraordinary as to what these machines are capable of.”
Peake’s remarkable statement on the UFOs does sound bizarre but there is something even more outlandish than the concept of extraterrestrial visitors. In early 2020, Montana Technological University professor and author Michael Masters released a book positing that UFOs are “humans” from the future, and that the future humans piloting these unidentified objects could be abducting people to study them in an anthropological sense.
“We know we’re here. We know humans exist. We know that we’ve had a long evolutionary history on this planet. And we know our technology is going to be more advanced in the future,” Masters told Space.com. “I think the simplest explanation, innately, is that it is us [flying UFOs].”
Although the true purpose of UFOs is yet to be known, maybe it is still classified but in some theories, the flying objects are called living entities that can interact with the environment, play mind games with the witnesses, and even cause injuries to them.
“Aliens exist” has become an undeniable fact that is getting a lot of support from people who have visited space. Dr. Helen Sharman, the first Briton to go into space, said: “Aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it,” adding that “there must be all sorts of different forms of life” among billions of stars.
During his time in space, retired NASA astronaut Mr. Linenger saw some anomalies that were not space debris. He shared his sightings on a live interview with Bild in 2018. He said: “Well I’m going to stick my neck out, but how many people think I saw a UFO when I was up there? Well I did, I saw things in the true sense of the word, unidentified flying objects – don’t take me out of context there – no aliens. But I saw stuff that made me call my crewmates over and say ‘What the heck is that?’”
After returning from the Moon, former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced an epiphany that changed his thoughts about the origin of life on Earth and accused the government of hiding the truth. He publicly accepted the existence of aliens after being on the Moon and stuck to it until his death. He accused the US government of hiding the truth about contact with aliens. Immediately after his return, Mitchell left NASA and immersed himself in studying UFOs, ancient history, and human consciousness.
Mitchell claimed that he used all his connections to find out anything about the UFO phenomenon that had occupied him since the early 70s, and eventually, he found people at the highest rank who shared information with him.
Edgar Mitchell, 1971.
Image credit: NASA
According to Mitchell, he once had a confidential conversation with a Navy admiral, who secretly told him that in fact, the aliens established contact with the government back in the early 1940s. They were interested in earthly weapons, primarily the atomic bomb. At the very beginning of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA, aliens often came to Earth because they feared nuclear war and tried to influence the world elites in some way.
In 2019, retired NASA scientific director Dr. Jim Green gave some statements that caused a lot of controversies. The expert believed that it is most likely that the European Space Agency had already discovered evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. Dr. Green is convinced that humanity, as we know it today, is not ready for such information.
Dr. Green’s statement might be the reason why it is getting so much delay to disclose the truth. Indeed, the Humanity we know today is still not ready for such information and religious faith is one of the issues. NASA did fund a program undertaken by 24 theologians to study how major religions would react to the discovery of alien life.
Despite these strong and bold statements by renowned astronauts, space agencies have always ignored such reports. There might be more such cases but due to peer pressure from the government and other agencies, they have never been disclosed. The presence of extraterrestrials in our solar system or on Earth is still a mystery, but as we are approaching the future, a few insiders come forward with surprising information.
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The Ten Essential Ancient Egyptian Cities: Relics of Egypt’s Storied Past
The Ten Essential Ancient Egyptian Cities: Relics of Egypt’s Storied Past
The various civilizations which developed within ancient Egypt were some of the most technologically advanced and beautiful of their time, giving birth to some of the greatest cities the world has ever seen. Many of these sites can still be visited today, a favorite pastime for travelers wishing to gaze upon the remains of a storied past.
Most of Egypt’s cities were built on the banks of the River Nile, a major source of water and vegetation for those communities. They were also separated into upper and lower regions based on their location relative to the Nile. Beyond location, Egyptian cities differed in their purposes. While some were politically focused, others had a more religious function, which led to differences in the types of buildings they constructed and diplomats housed there.
Below we’re going to talk about 10 of the greatest of these ancient Egyptian cities, and explain why they are so important. Read on and find a favorite!
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes is one of the great archaeological wonders of the world.
Thebes is one of the most well-known ancient Egyptian cities, as it was once a place of religious, cultural, and political significance. Known as the second capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom (1570 to 1069 BC), it was called the city of Amun, another creator god. Greek poet Homer once even referred to Thebes as the “city with a thousand gates” because of how many buildings it contained.
Located on the east bank of the Nile in what is now Luxor, ancient Thebes and the New Kingdom were known for the establishment of “pharaohs” including Ramesses II and King Tut . The city contained beautiful temples called the Abu Simbel temples, which were built by Ramesses II and were dedicated to Amun, Ra-Horakhty, and Ptah, god of the sun, god of the air, and god of creation respectively. These temples, now in ruins, can still be seen today.
In addition to the temples, the Valley of the Kings is also located in Thebes. The Valley of the Kings is the region of rock-cut tombs that contained the bodies of pharaohs and rulers such as Ramesses II, Hatshepsut, and King Tut. Because this region contains so many extraordinary archaeological findings, it was declared a world heritage site in 1979 by UNESCO in an effort to preserve it.
Amarna isn’t as popular as the other ancient Egyptian cities, but it was declared a capital between 1353 and 1336 BC by Pharaoh Akhenaten. Though it was not a capital very long, it was home to one of the greatest religious struggles in ancient Egyptian history. Akhenaten, who ruled for only 20 years, fought to push the belief of monotheism on the people of Amarna, a belief they rejected fervently. This belief was reversed with the rule of his son, Tutankhamen, who supported polytheism.
While Akhenaten was the ruler of Amarna, he built many parts of the city to honor and worship Aten, a god of the sun. Historians believe this was likely also an attempt to make Aten the official Egyptian god and to turn Egyptians away from polytheism. Though the city was soon abandoned, the site still has some existing tombs carved with inscriptions worshipping Aten.
Nubt, now known as Kom Ombo , was an ancient Egyptian city known for its agriculture. It was also a trade city, which combined with its agriculture made it essential. In Nubt, the people mostly worshipped the god Sobek, who was known as the crocodile god. The term Nubt can be translated as “city of gold,” as ancient Nubt was known for its large gold deposits throughout the region.
Nowadays, the city is known for its Temple of Kom Ombo, which was built sometime between 180 and 47 BC. Nevertheless, the temple has been significantly damaged due to the Nile and natural disasters like earthquakes. There is also a crocodile museum that opened in 2012 dedicated to the many mummified crocodiles found within the city.
Interior of the Temple of Seti I at the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos.
Abydos is one of the oldest ancient Egyptian cities, stemming back all the way to the First Dynasty. It was known as an extremely holy place as it was believed Osiris, the god of fertility, the dead, resurrection, the afterlife, agriculture, life, and vegetation, was buried there. He is known as one of the most essential gods in Egyptian culture, marking this city as an essential landmark for those looking to worship him.
Several temples were built throughout Abydos in honor of Osiris, with some of these temples’ remains still existing in the city. Many of the ancient kings, queens, and pharaohs of the region were buried in and around Abydos due to its holiness. The Temple of Seti I is the most famous landmark in modern-day Abydos, as it is still standing and in generally good condition compared to other ancient buildings throughout Egypt (especially considering its age!).
One of a pair of obelisks of Nactanebo II which were originally located at Hermopolis (modern-day Al-Ashmunayn) and are now on display at the British Museum in London.
Hermopolis, also called Khumunu, was once one of the wealthiest cities in ancient Egypt . Located on the border between Upper and Lower Egypt, it was often seen as one of the largest religious centers connecting the two halves. Its history goes back to the Old Kingdom, but it existed for many years until it was abandoned in 642 AD after the Islamic conquest.
In Hermopolis, Thoth was the primary deity worshipped by ancient Egyptians. Thoth was known as the god of healing, magic, and wisdom, and there were many priests and priestesses in the city that worshipped him. It was also believed that the first sunrise occurred in Hermopolis, making it the sun’s “birthing place.”
Elephantine was a defense city on an island in the middle of the Nile.
Elephantine was an essential defense city for ancient Egypt. Translated into “country of elephants,” Elephantine was located on the border between Egypt and Nubia, and was known as a trading site and a site of defense against Nubia. An island in the middle of the Nile, Elephantine was most often associated with water gods and flooding, especially Khnum.
Crocodilopolis, much like Nubt, worshipped the god Sobek. Sobek, as we previously mentioned, was the god of crocodiles, giving Crocodilopolis its name. Like Abydos, it was also one of the oldest ancient Egyptian cities, with its history being traced all the way back to around 4000 BC. Located at the modern-day city of Faiyum in Middle Egypt, in one of the most fertile regions in Egypt, Crocodilopolis was known for its agriculture, in which it grew plants such as corn, flowers, and olives. This fertility led many Egyptians to turn to worship Sobek in return for plenteous rewards.
Alabaster Sphinx at the Temple of Ptah around 1929.
The ancient city of Memphis is historically known as Egypt’s first official capital. It was the capital between 2950 BC and 2180 BC and was known as one of the primary centers of worship in Egypt at the time. The gods Ptah (the creator), Sekhmet (his wife), and Nefertem (his son) were worshipped heavily there. Some historians even estimate that at this time, Memphis was the largest city in the world.
Located about 15 miles (24 km) south of Cairo, the ancient capital started to decline around the 15 th to the 11th century BC. It was made a second capital (with Thebes becoming the primary capital) until eventually becoming fully abandoned with the rise of Alexandria in 332 BC. Today, it is mostly destroyed except for the remaining ruins of an alabaster Sphinx and a statue of Ramesses II.
The ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Djanet, also known as Tanis.
Djanet, also known as Tanis, was a city located in Lower Egypt during the late New Kingdom. Though it is not as old as the other ancient Egyptian cities, it was still a major part of the 21st and 22nd Dynasties of Egypt. It served as the royal home for these dynasties at this time and had major construction done in honor of the god Amun (then called Amun-Ra), god of the sun and air.
Djanet was eventually abandoned during Rome’s reign over Egypt, but archaeological work in the late 1800s revealed many artifacts from the ancient city. These artifacts, which included ancient artworks, gave historians greater insight into the city than they had previously.
Engraving of the Pharos of Alexandria by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.
Alexandria is arguably the most well-known city in Egypt. It was the capital of Egypt between 332 BC and 641 AD after Alexander the Great conquered Egypt. Alexander the Great’s generals established the Ptolemy Dynasty, which soon made Alexandria the intellectual center of the world.
Alexandria also became known for the world’s largest library (the Library of Alexandria , later burned by Julius Caesar) and the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The lighthouse was the tallest man-made structure of its time, but it was unfortunately destroyed by a series of earthquakes between the 10th and 14th centuries AD.
Alexandria was known as a city of progression and technological innovation. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was originally built as an initiative to foster a conducive environment for trade and other business in the city. Now, it is still the 2nd largest city in Egypt and is known for the catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, one of the largest and most important burial sites in Egypt.
Egypt vs. Time
Though these ancient Egyptian cities are fascinating to learn about, Egypt today is quite different from its historic self. While ancient Egypt was self-sufficient, modern-day Egypt now imports many of its goods from across the world thanks to advancements in international travel. Notwithstanding, they still rely heavily on their agriculture and other local businesses.
Modern Egyptian culture is also different. While in ancient Egypt most Egyptians were polytheistic and worshipped many gods (such as Amun, Ptah, and Sobek), most Egyptians today are monotheistic and follow a structured religion like Christianity or Islam. They also speak Egyptian Arabic as opposed to any of the now-dead ancient Egyptian languages.
However, some things have remained the same. Some ancient foods have been passed down and are still made at special events, like ancient Egyptian cookies during Eid. Their modern language also still uses some of the words used in the past, even if the full language itself is no longer spoken. Finally, they still enjoy Egyptian goods such as gold and jewelry, which are especially loved by Egyptian women. The next time you visit Egypt, consider visiting some of these amazing ancient Egyptian cities in order to learn something new from the past.
Top image: Karnak temple in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Source: Calin Stan / Adobe Stock
Georgia Guidestones dubbed 'America's Stonehenge' and believed to be 'satanic tablets' by far-right conspiracy theorists are blown up in mystery attack
Georgia Guidestones dubbed 'America's Stonehenge' and believed to be 'satanic tablets' by far-right conspiracy theorists are blown up in mystery attack
The explosion took place Wednesday and was caused by 'unknown individuals'
Pictures and drone footage show one of the four stone panels in rubble on the ground
The enigmatic roadside attraction was built in 1980 from local granite
It was built by an unknown person or group under the name R.C. Christian
The 19-foot-high (6-meter-high) panels bear a 10-part message with parts calling for keeping world population at 500 million or below
While other scriptures call to 'guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity'
A rural Georgia monument that some conservative Christians and far-right conspiracy theorists have criticized as satanic was bombed before dawn on Wednesday, damaging one of four granite panels that some people dubbed 'America's Stonehenge.'
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the Georgia Guidestones monument near Elberton was damaged by an explosive device at 4:30 a.m. by 'unknown individuals.'
Elberton Granite Association Executive Vice President Chris Kubas told local news outlets that the monument was significantly damaged. Pictures and drone footage show one of the four stone panels in rubble on the ground.
The enigmatic roadside attraction was built in 1980 from local granite, commissioned by an unknown person or group under the name R.C. Christian.
Footage of the Georgia Guidestones explosion from social media emerged, showing the monument north of Elberton being reduced into rubble in the early hours (4:30 a.m.) of Wednesday morning
This aerial image shows one of the damaged pilars after the Georgia Guidestones bombing. Messages written in eight different languages promoting population control, alliance with nature and globalism feature on the monument
A supposed suspect was seen racing away from the scene following the huge blast
The 19-foot-high (6-meter-high) panels bear a 10-part message in eight different languages including English, Hebrew, Hindi, Swahli, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabaic, as well as four ancient languages — Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Babylonian and Old Egyptian with guidance for living in an 'age of reason.'
One part calls for keeping world population at 500 million or below, while another calls to 'guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.'
It also serves as a sundial and astronomical calendar.
The pillar in the center is designed to attract sunglight on a daily basis, with rays of sunshine indicating the day of the year, according to WSBTV.
The 19-foot-high (6-meter-high) panels is also used as a sundial and astronomical calendar
Conservative Christians in Georgia have previously described the monument as 'satanic' due to its vague origin and intentions
Drone video footage shows the crumbling remains of the structure after the explosion following the mystery attack
The roadside attraction received renewed attention during Georgia's May 24 gubernatorial primary when third-place Republican candidate Kandiss Taylor claimed the guidestones are satanic and made demolishing them part of her platform.
'God is God all by Himself. He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down Satanic Guidestones,' Taylor tweeted on Wednesday morning, just a few hours after the explosion.
'I am the ONLY candidate bold enough to stand up to the Luciferian Cabal. Elect me Governor of Georgia, and I will bring the Satanic Regime to its knees— and DEMOLISH the Georgia Guidestones,' she previously tweeted on May 2, two weeks before the state's Republican gubernatorial primaries.
'Join me in my fight to #TearThemDown!'
Third-place Georgia gubernatiorial GOP candidate Kandiss Taylor claimed 'God' was involved in Wednesday's explosion, claiming 'He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down Satanic Guidestones'
The Republican previously tweeted in May that she would destroy the Guidestones if she were elected
Texas-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones praised the bombing of the monument on his show, scaling it 'on an animal level,' but said the destruction was not enough.
'We need that evil edifice there as a confession letter led by a consortium of eugenicists,' Jones added.
The Georgia Guidestones are about 7 miles (11 kilometers) north of Elberton, near the South Carolina state line. Granite quarrying is a top local industry.
GBI says the bomb appears to have gone off by dynamite, with sheriff's deputies responding to discover the damage. Some residents told local news outlets they heard an explosion at that time.
Elbert County sheriff's deputies, Elberton police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were among agencies trying to figure out what happened.
Onbekenden blazen "Amerikaanse Stonehenge" op met explosieven, monument in Georgia is afgebroken
Onbekenden blazen "Amerikaanse Stonehenge" op met explosieven, monument in Georgia is afgebroken
In de Amerikaanse staat Georgia zijn de Georgia Guidestones, ook wel "het Amerikaanse Stonehenge" genoemd", door onbekenden ernstig beschadigd met explosieven. Uit veiligheidsoverwegingen is het mysterieuze monument daarna volledig afgebroken.
Ellen Maerevoet
De Georgia Guidestones, die soms ook wel eens "het Amerikaanse Stonehenge" genoemd worden, is een bouwwerk dat in 1980 opgetrokken is. Het is nooit duidelijk geworden wie de opdracht gegeven heeft voor het "monument" en wat de exacte bedoeling ervan was.
De zes monumentale granieten platen, die in totaal 119 ton wegen, waren een opvallende landmark langs de kant van de weg in Elbert County en lokten veel bezoekers.
Op de -bijna zes meter hoge- zuilen stonden in twaalf talen (waaronder klassiek Grieks, Hebreeuws, Engels, Russisch Swahili en Spaans) boodschappen "aan toekomstige generaties".
Enkele fragmenten: "Breng persoonlijke rechten en sociale plichten met elkaar in evenwicht", "prijs waarheid, schoonheid en liefde", "laat ruimte voor de natuur". Een van de theorieën was dat het boodschappen zouden zijn voor overlevenden na een mogelijke apocalyps (een periode waarin de wereld ten onder lijkt te gaan).
Gisterochtend (lokale tijd) is het monument door onbekenden beschadigd met explosieven. Het Georgia Bureau of Investigation heeft filmpjes verspreid die gemaakt zijn met een bewakingscamera op het terrein. Daarop zijn beelden van de explosie te zien en van een auto die wegrijdt.
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Beelden van de explosie
Bij de explosie raakte niemand gewond. Uit veiligheidsoverwegingen is de constructie na de explosie uiteindelijk volledig afgebroken omdat ze te ernstig beschadigd was, meldt het Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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De site van Georgia Guidestones na de explosie:
De geheimzinnigheid rond de Georgia Guidestones heeft altijd geleid tot complottheorieën en speculaties over de aanleg en vernietiging van het bouwwerk. Een lokale priester noemde het meteen na de onthulling bijvoorbeeld een altaar voor de duivel. Ook wordt het in verband gebracht met een geheim genootschap dat een nieuwe wereldorde wil.
Op de website ExploreGeorgia.org wordt het monument onder meer omschreven als een astronomische kalender, "waar elke middag de zon door een spleet in de constructie schijnt en zo de datum van die dag oplicht".
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De constructie heeft altijd veel vragen opgeroepen:
In an Age of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets, Revisiting the Notorious Hill Case
In an Age of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets, Revisiting the Notorious Hill Case
Betty & Barney Hill
John G. Fuller once wrote in a column for The Saturday Review that skepticism was a good thing, especially when talking about whirling saucers that defy the rules of aerodynamics, back on October 2, 1965. However, he adds that curiosity is a tremendous force. John G. Fuller was intrigued by the recent outbreak of UFO claims in Exeter, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico, where policemen, and other people, reported seeing UFOs in the sky.
Fuller recognized a greater tale than a brief piece could contain. He continued his inquiry into the book Incident at Exeter and produced a lengthier version for Look magazine. Fuller found an even more dramatic New Hampshire occurrence while working on the Exeter case, one that would become renowned as the very first publicly documented extraterrestrial abduction event in America: the tale of Barney and Betty Hill.
The Hills were heading back after a tour to Canada, where this couple had seen Niagara Falls and Montreal, on September 19, 1961. Betty appreciated the lovely, perfect night as Barney drove over the White Mountains into Portsmouth. A dazzling light in the sky close to Lancaster caught her eye. Betty couldn’t determine if that object was moving or not, but it stayed visible as they drove further. Barney, who suspected it was a military ship, believed it was teasing them.
He eventually stopped the car, got off it, took his binoculars, and went into a field. Barney noticed humans onboard the vessel within 50 feet. He jumped back into his car and drove faster down the road, but suddenly he heard a loud, continuous, vibrating beep. The Hills felt exhausted and passed out. They awoke disoriented and scared, and they were 35 miles down the road.
The Hills couple seemed like unusual candidates for UFO-related fame. Barney, a 39-year-old Black Army veteran, served on the New Hampshire State Advisory Board of the US Civil Rights Commission. He worked at the Boston Post Office and was a member of the Portsmouth NAACP. Betty was a 42-year-old white social worker in her neighborhood who also worked for the NAACP. Their case is interesting, and it’s one I’ve spent much of my life trying to avoid.
The Interrupted Journey, which was initially published the same year as his Exeter book, is still being reissued at a time when UFOs are once again making headlines—and the government remains tight-lipped about the extent of its investigation.
Fuller wasn’t very interested in the supernatural back in 1965, but he liked asking challenging questions.
Fuller got his start as a radio and television host, as well as a playwright. On Broadway, his 1953 play The Pink Elephant, about an ex-reporter turned political wordsmith, starred Steve Allen but received mixed reviews. Love Me Little, a 1958 drama based on Amanda Vail’s novel regarding boarding school girls, was his next project. Joan Bennett appeared in the picture, which had a short and unimpressive run.
Even though he created comedy plays for the theater, Fuller did not make fun of UFOs. The Interrupted Journey is even more stunning since it is the calculated work of a satirist who likes to use puns: a dramatist who was frequently jocular and sarcastic. Fuller, a skilled writer, grasped the proper tone for his subject, which wasn’t really a science fiction setting. He was recounting the events of a relationship.
His fascination with UFOs started with his early ventures into the paranormal. As Leonard Nimoy was telling the stories about the Bigfoot and Bermuda Triangle, he faded into hazy replays of In Search Of. During his high school years, he was taking independent study classes on Charles Fort’s work and UFO encounters around military bases. He didn’t tell anyone, especially not his AAU basketball buddies, and instead cherished his dual existence. It was a top-secret, similar to the world of the supernatural.
However, aliens terrified him. Not squishy humans at arm’s length, but vibrating discs careening through the Southwestern sky. He couldn’t look at Whitley Strieber’s Communion’s cover. He avoided news of abductions. They were personal and physical, and the kidnappings were tariffing. For a youngster of the 1980s, there was nothing scarier than being abducted.
He was always aware that the Hill event was daunting, but he aggressively denied it. He thought if it can happen to the Hills, it can happen to him.
In about a few hours, The Hills’ shocking occurrence was public knowledge. Betty Hill spotted brilliant, glossy patches all over their car’s trunk. When she came close to the spots, her compass began to whirl violently. She was so disgusted that she caught the eye of her neighborhood, and the incident rapidly went public. Betty contacted a former local police chief, who sent her to the nearby Pease Air Force Base, where Major Paul W. Henderson investigated the case for Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s UFO investigative program.
Major James McDonald, a newly retired Air Force intelligence officer, suggested they attempt medical hypnosis to help them understand what happened during their “lost period.”
Barney had a history of medical problems, high blood pressure, anxiety, and ulcers, which prompted him to see a psychiatrist, who sent him to Dr. Benjamin Simon, a Boston psychiatrist and neurologist, for hypnosis. Simon was a Stanford graduate who served as the chief of neuropsychiatry and executive officer at Mason General Hospital, the Army’s main mental facility during WWII.
In The Interrupted Journey, Fuller gives records of the hypnosis meetings. The dialogues Dr. Simon had with the Hills are formatted as plays, with parenthetical annotations from Fuller included. The transition from the factual language in paragraphs to frenzied, recursive dialogue in the novel gives a sense of transformation. The constant white space on the pages is captivating, even striking. Should we follow our minds’ routes, we will accompany the Hills on their journey. We are disoriented and powerless, and we just won’t stop turning the pages.
The Hills spotted something in the skies, but the kidnapping “was a dream,” according to Dr. Simon. Regardless, our lives are shaped by our dreams and our nightmares. Like a grownup who still questions if humanity is alone in the universe, what Fuller remembers most about the case is not the fear of extraterrestrial abduction.
What bothered Fuller the most is that Betty has waited alone in the waiting room while Barney Hill was being hypnotized at Dr. Simon’s office. Even though she was separated from them she was able to hear Barney weep. Dr. Simon had always scheduled the two of them when there was literary no one else in the offices. She was able to hear the pain of her loved one. That made her cry as well. The alien abduction of the Hills is still frightening because Betty and Barney were together during the abduction but not throughout the lost time—and that unknowing is genuinely horrible.
A strange pattern of lights over the sky of San Diego early Tuesday in this video from Sam Zarate and TMX.
A strange pattern of lights in the sky over San Diego late Monday prompted questions from social media users.
Twitter user @caatmamasaam posted the videos that garnered hundreds of reactions showing rows of two and three lights appearing beside each other in the San Diego night sky.
"Somebody explain the lights in the sky in San Diego," the user wrote.
While many users suggested the lights may be unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or extremely bright lights that reach the Southern California city from Tijuana, Mexico, the San Diego Police Department told FOX 5 San Diego that lifeguards believe the lights may have been flares in a military exercise.
Imperial Beach in San Diego will be hosting a 4th of July drone show in place of fireworks this year, but City Manager Sandra Cowan told Fox News Digital that "the lights from yesterday are not related with the upcoming event."
"The company we’re hiring did not perform any testing," she added.
Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
2,500-Year-Old Man and Woman Body Found, Tongue Removed and Replaced with a “Golden Tongue”
2,500-Year-Old Man and Woman Body Found, Tongue Removed and Replaced with a “Golden Tongue”
The remains of a man and woman who were buried with sheets of gold foil for their tongues have been found outside Cairo, Egypt. The bodies, which were found side by side but in separate graves, were buried in limestone sarcophagi dating back 2500 years.
The man’s remains are well preserved and sealed in his tomb, containing various artifacts such as jars in which his previously removed organs were stored, a scarab and tomb figurines made of china. But the woman’s remains are not in good condition and there are indications that her tomb was opened by tomb robbers.
Gold tongue plates are in good condition and are commonly found on ancient Egyptian mummies. They were placed on the tongues of the dead during burial so that the soul could speak to Osiris in the other world. Osiris is said to rule the underworld and judge the souls of the dead. It is believed that the dead could persuade Osiris with their golden tongues to have mercy on their souls.
The man’s tomb (pictured) has remained untouched since he was buried thousands of years ago, and all his funerary treasures have been left inside the tomb.
The picture shows jars found in the man’s tomb, containing his organs removed before burial.
But the woman’s remains are not in good condition
Archaeologists aren’t sure who the man and woman were, but their tombs were built adjacent to each other. The man’s skull is still well preserved, with his golden tongue clearly sticking out of his mouth.
Since he was buried thousands of years ago, his tomb has been untouched and all his funerary treasures have been left inside the tomb. Archaeologists found 402 Ushabti figurines made of china, a tin-glazed ceramic, as well as a number of small amulets and green beads along with the remains of the man.
Archaeologists found 402 Ushabti figurines made of china
Another mummy discovered in February was also buried with a tongue made of gold. Archaeologists excavating at the ancient Egyptian site of Taposiris Magna have uncovered 16 tombs in rock-cut tombs, one of which contained a mummy with a gold plate instead of a tongue.
Dating back about 2,000 years, burial shafts were popular in ancient Greek and Roman times, keeping the remains inside a mountain or natural rock formation.
Scarab beetles were also found in the man’s grave.
There were numerous mummies inside the tombs, and although the remains have since deteriorated, the stone funerary masks were still intact. It allowed the team to see what each person once looked like.
The excavation was led by the University of Santo Domingo, who has been working at the site for nearly a decade. The golden-tongued skeleton was found well-preserved as much of its skull and structure are still intact.
Archaeologists dug it out of the rock tomb and found the golden object still shimmering inside the skeleton’s mouth. They think the tongue was removed by mummies, but replaced by a golden tongue during a burial.
On November 9, local residents witnessed the appearance of a glowing UFO in the sky. This occurred in the south of France in the Occitania region in the commune of Narbonne (population 56,000).
The object showed all the signs of a UFO: acceleration, a sharp change of direction, rotation and a sharp deceleration.
UFO With Four Lights Sighted Over Marseille In France. July 1, 2022
In this footage we get a glimps of this objects lights which i believe to be attached to one soild object/craft. We can safely rule out planes as there where no nav lights and given the brightnes of the four lights if there was a nav light we would have been able to see this and the size of this UFO we can rule out a drone, which would leave a boat but the speed and the movement of the object would make me say that is no boat. Ruleing out all the possible explanation as to what this could be i am left with something unknown. The witness stated the following:
"At around 10:30 pm on 1st of July 2022 in Marseille, France, a group of strange lights was observed moving at distant through the window of my living room. At first I thought it was fireworks, as the light disappeared in an instant as I saw it. The second time when I saw these lights, they were intact like part of some solid object and moving in a horizontal direction. I was somewhat sure that its not any normal aircraft. I ran to grab my camera to take some shot of it, but by the time I grabbed my camera the lights were gone but reappeared just 10 sec after. I had to sit at the edge of my window to capture it, which resulted in some instability but I managed to capture a small stable sequence for analysis. The first appearance of these lights to me was around 20 minutes before I captured it on camera. It was in some way orbiting that specific place. Although there's nothing strange in the aerodynamics of the object, but a cube shape is kind of observable even though it appears kind of cloaked. If you watch properly you can actually see the object until it go behind the mountains. I am not sure what is it, but pretty sure its not any normal aircraft as the size of the abject is quite massive compared to normal airplanes I see at same distance."
Thanks to Rohit Yadav (bboy duke) for allowing the use of his footage and to view the original:
Astromen hebben twee asteroïden ontdekt die, kort na elkaar, langs de aarde zullen scheren. De asteroïden werden via Pan-STARRS opgemerkt. Dat zijn twee telescopen die op Hawaï gestationeerd staan om bewegende ruimteobjecten te observeren.
De eerste van de twee asteroïden (2022 NE) vloog woensdagmiddag op 135.000 kilometer van de aarde. Dat is ongeveer een derde van de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan. De asteroïde is 6 meter groot. Dat is ongeveer de grootte van een bus.
Grotere asteroïde
Morgen, op 7 juli, zal een iets grotere asteroïde voorbij zweven. De ruimterots, met de naam 2022 NF, zal bovendien dichter bij de aarde vliegen. De afstand tussen 2022 NF en de aarde zal 89.300 km bedragen. Dat is een kwart van de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan. De asteroïde zou 7 meter groot zijn
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Time Traveler Whistleblower on Government Project Project Pegasus: Interview with Andrew Basiago
Time Traveler Whistleblower on Government Project Project Pegasus: Interview with Andrew Basiago
Andrew Basiago, J.D., is a licensed attorney with the State of Washington who claims to have participated in classified programs involving time travel and space time portals since 1967 when he was 6 years old. He was exposed into these programs by his father who worked for a major engineering corporation that was given contracts to develop these exotic technologies — the Ralph M. Parsons company. From 1969 to 1972, Andrew says he was formally recruited into a time travel project called Pegasus that was funded by the CIA and the forerunner to the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency.
In his first interview with Dr. Michael Salla, Andrew discusses his background, his father’s work, other key individuals, and events associated with Project Pegasus. This includes his famous August 24, 2015, interview with Art Bell who confirmed key aspects of Andrew’s claim of visiting an ITT facility in 1971 in Nutley, New Jersey where he encountered Bell. Art Bell confirmed live on air during his interview with Andrew that he was indeed working at the ITT facility on a classified NATO program in 1971 and that he had never publicly shared such information.
This powerful corroborating data made Andrew Basiago’s incredible claims plausible for many who had previously been skeptical including Dr. Salla, as explained in the interview.
Mysterious Georgia Guidestones significantly damaged by an explosion
Mysterious Georgia Guidestones significantly damaged by an explosion
State and local enforcement and emergency agencies are on the scenes at the Georgia Guidestones, which were significantly damaged by an explosion early Wensday morning (July 6, 2022) writes 105.3 WSGC Radio on their Facebook page(including images).
According to Wyff4 an investigation is underway at the mysterious Georgia Guidestones site after a PICTURE shows what appears to be rubble at the site and residents reported hearing a "boom."
The question is who is responsible for the destruction of the stones and what do they want to achieve with it?
The mysterious Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The stated purpose of the stones is to be “Guidestones to an Age of Reason,” but many believe they are actually a guide to Illuminati genocide.
The ten “commandments” on the stone appear to sketch out a framework for reconstructing society after a nuclear holocaust or similar apocalypse.
In 2014 this illuminati monument got a new stone added. Somebody has officially updated it with an engraved cube marking the year 2014 inserted into the English/Spanish slab of the 'new 10 commandments' just above the population reduction prophecy.
The removal of the coded cube on September 25, 2014 has allowed all 6 sides of the granite block, to be observed and noted. The markings from all 6 sides are as follows: MM, JAM, 8-14-16-20
The origin of a strange monument, the Georgia Guidestones, is shrouded in mystery because no one knows the true identity of the man, or men, who commissioned its construction.
The Message Of The Georgia Guidestones:
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.
Dr. Michael Salla – Humanity Joining the Galactic Federation
Dr. Michael Salla – Humanity Joining the Galactic Federation
COAST TO COAST AM – 2022. Former university professor in international relations, Dr. Michael Salla, is the author/editor of nine books dealing with exopolitics, ET groups, and secret space programs. In the first half, he shared details about the Galactic Federation, a cosmic organization that he believes is composed of various extraterrestrial races. As evidence, he cited the testimony of Prof. Haim Eshed, former head of Israel’s Defense Ministry’s space directorate, who specifically mentioned Earth’s contact with the Galactic Federation. Eshed said that cooperative agreements had been worked out between the US government and the Federation, including involvement with an underground base on Mars. Salla also cited how some of the early contactees dating back to the 1950s, like George Van Tassel spoke about the Federation and Ashtar Command. Ultimately, the end game is for humanity to join the Galactic Federation for a kind of “Star Trek” future, Salla explained.
The most so-called common extraterrestrial species described by contactees and witnesses is “Grey” or “Gray.” There are various accounts recorded in the government files where Greys are widely discussed. Preston Dennett, a well-known UFO researcher has the interesting case of a woman from California who encountered a gray alien named “Sen.”
It should be noted that all the cases investigated and recorded by Preston Dennett are based on real events. He began studying UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends, and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena. He is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of 28 books and more than 100 articles on UFOs and the paranormal.
In his book, “Wondrous: 25 True UFO Encounters,” published in 2021, Dennett presented the encounters of Julia (pseudonym) and what she learned from Grey called Sen about her own encounters and the alien agenda on our planet.
At 19 years old, Julia left her family and home in Prunedale, California. Her childhood had been difficult, filled with unexplained events. She had tried to get help from her parents, but they were strict and did not understand her. So, Julia left everything behind and decided to get as far away from her home as she could.
Preston Dennett. Image via YouTube
She ended up settling on the east coast of the United States, where she began to rebuild her life. She found a job and a place to live. She started her own small business, made friends, and met the man who would one day become her husband.
Finally secure, she began to examine her childhood, trying to figure out the source of her trauma. She remembered terrifying events during which her room was filled with light and shadowy figures approached her. She came upon the subject of aliens and UFOs. She realized that it was probably what had happened. It was aliens. But the whole idea terrified her and she refused to think about it.
She decided to just drop the subject not to think about it and move on with her life, but in 2011 everything changed. She had a sudden and very strong impulse to move back to California and as she said, “I honestly can’t tell you why I felt like I was being directed to do this.”
So, she and her boyfriend moved to pacific grove California and this is when her life started to get really strange again. She started having some weird harmonic ringing sounds in her ear, and her right ear was like tinnitus. She went to the doctor, but he could not explain it. There were no insects in her ear canal as she feared, and it was not tinnitus. The doctor had no diagnosis.
UFO Sightings
Then came the UFO sightings, weird glowing orbs hovering over the house. One evening, there was a ship overhead. Julia saw it through the skylight above her bed. The next thing she knew, she was paralyzed. A short time later, she fell asleep.
In the morning, she told everything her boyfriend. She could no longer live in denial. The memories of her childhood experience were flooding back. The excruciating tones in her right ear were becoming unbearable. UFOs were hovering over their house, and she finally found the reason for her problems. It was aliens, and they had been visiting her since she was a girl. Now they were back, and she believed the source of the tones in her ear was probably an alien implant.
Her boyfriend was shocked, but he was also very supportive. He believed her but had no idea how to help her. Deeply in love, they got married.
Extraterrestrial Contact
Julia examined her childhood. She remembered seeing colorful orbs when she was a little girl. She recalled hundreds of times when her bedroom was filled with light and scary shadowy figures materialized around her. She remembered a dramatic UFO sighting of a giant flying saucer when she was ten. Julia could no longer deny that she was having contact with extraterrestrials.
David Huggins’ drawing represents the encounter with the so-called Gray alien. (This image is only for illustration purposes)
Then one evening, she woke up to hear a weird musical sound reverberating through the house. She wandered around, trying to locate the source. Then she realized, it was inside her head. Next thing she knew, Julia found herself being pulled onboard a craft. She saw that she was laying on a table in a small, round room, surrounded by short, thin, gray-skinned beings with large bald heads and big dark eyes.
They handed her a baby and asked her to hold it. It looked just like a gray alien. Julia was shocked. And looking outside the craft, she saw the darkness of space, and far below her, the planet Earth.
The next thing she knew, it was morning, and she was back in bed. Looking at her stomach, she saw three bleeding puncture wounds. Both Julia and her husband were shocked and traumatized. And they became even more shocked when they discovered that Julia was pregnant.
From this point, events escalated. Julia kept waking up to find herself unable to move. One evening, her husband woke up to see a gray alien entering their bedroom. Shortly later, Julia had a miscarriage. She was secretly relieved. The pregnancy had not felt normal, and she was certain that it had something to do with the night she was taken on board a craft.
At that point, her experiences ended. Or so she thought. They fled California and moved to the east coast. They had a baby boy and became pregnant with their second child. Then, one morning, Julia decided to reach out mentally to contact the gray alien baby she had held in her arms years ago.
Preston Dennett at MUFON conference. Date and place are unknown. Credit: Preston Dennett
To her shock, she made instant contact. In her mind, she saw a gray. He introduced himself and said his name was Sen and that he was made up of her DNA. Then began an hours-long conversation in which Julia learned all the answers about everything that had happened to her throughout her life.
She felt very strongly telepathically connected to him to the degree that she actually found herself inside this little ship with him and could see everything he was seeing. This was the beginning of an hours-long conversation between Julia and Sen.
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The US Space Force to set a new orbital record with its mysterious X-37B space plane
The US Space Force to set a new orbital record with its mysterious X-37B space plane
On May 17, 2020, the U.S. Space Force launched the Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) of its X-37B space plane. The all-automated spacecraft, capable of re-entry, is now nearing an orbital record of 780 days, set by the preceding flight, the OTV-5 in 2019,Space.com reported.
Built by Boeing, the X-37B is an unmanned space vehicle designed to support long-term space objectives with reusable vehicle technologies. The spacecraft can operate in low-Earth orbit at distances of 150-500 miles (240-800 km) above the Earth and is the first vehicle since the space shuttle with the ability to return experiments to Earth.
According to Boeing's webpage for this spacecraft, the X-37B is one-fourth the size when compared to the Space Shuttle. It features many first in the space industry such as the use of an avionics system that automates all de-orbit and landing functions as well as flight controls and braking that uses no hydraulics at all.
The space plane is built using a light composite material instead of aluminum and uses new generation toughened uni-piece ceramic and silica tiles. Boeing also states that the X-37B is designed for easy maintenance and operation, delivering affordability.
Previous flights of the X-37B
The first flight of the X-37B, OTV-1 took place in 2010. For its launch, the spacecraft was strapped onto a launch vehicle which places it in orbit. After spending 224 days in orbit, the spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Although Boeing claims that the space plane is designed to stay in orbit for up to 270 days, subsequent missions using X-37B have lasted longer than the predecessor. OTV-2's mission lasted 468 days in orbit, while OTV-3 spent over 674 days. OTV-4, launched in 2015, spent 718 days in orbit, while the last concluded mission, OTV-5, recorded 780 days in orbit.
The current mission of OTV-6 has so far clocked 773 days in orbit, just a week shy of the record stay. At this point in time, we do not know how long OTV-6 is scheduled to stay up there.
Deployment of X-37B space plane
For all its features and achievements, the primary objectives of the X-37B have remained largely classified during its existence, which has now been for more than a decade. The secrecy over the purposes of the space plane has even prompted Russia to say that apart from carrying out surveillance, the space plane could be harboring nuclear warheads.
While the mystery over this remains unresolved, the U.S. Space Force shares details of some of the onboard missions. Among the those onboard the OTV-6 is the Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL)'s experiment to convert solar energy into radio frequency microwave energy.
OTV-6 is also the first X-37B mission to deploy a service module to host experiments, which is attached to the aft of the vehicle and increases the experimental payload capacity that can be carried to orbit, Space.com reported. Two NASA experiments aimed at studying the impact of space environments on material sample plates and seeds used to grow food are also onboard the OTV-6.
When OTV-6 does come down, we will have some interesting findings in the field of science.
A couple walking at sunset in Ontario, Canada, spotted and videotaped a mysterious triangular object in the sky.
Conspiracy theorists have identified it as the legendary TR-3B , a secret plane that has been seen many times and that the US government denies owning.
In the video the man can be heard saying, “It doesn’t look like a plane from here. It looks like a triangle.” To which his wife replies, “It’s a triangle with a red light in the middle.”
Unlike other opportunities where what is filmed is very far away or is blurred for the viewer, here the triangular object can be clearly seen with all its lights —position and anti-collision (blinking red)—.
This type of sightings is often differentiated and separated from those of UFOs, since they are usually identified as a secret aircraft —which does not officially exist, but does exist…— of the US government known as TR-3B .
Ufologists believe that this stealth aircraft is the prodigy child of reverse engineering applied to alien technology recovered from incidents.
antigravity?
As described by Military.com, the triangular aircraft uses high-pressure mercury accelerated by nuclear energy to produce a plasma that creates an antigravity field around it.
“Conventional thrusters located at the tips of the ship allow it to perform all sorts of fast, high-speed maneuvers along all three axes.”
“Interestingly, the generated plasma also significantly reduces the radar signature. Therefore, it will be almost invisible on radar and will not be detected.”
“This literally means you can go to any country you want without being detected by air traffic control and air defense systems,” the military site reads.
Former US astronaut talks about UFOs he has witnessed
Former US astronaut talks about UFOs he has witnessed
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper talks about UFOs he has witnessed and sending a letter to the UN about this UFO phenomenon.
Cooper claimed until his death (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) that the U.S. government was indeed covering up information about UFOs. He pointed out that there were hundreds of reports made by his fellow pilots, many coming from military jet pilots sent to respond to radar or visual sightings. In his memoirs, Cooper wrote he had seen unexplained aircraft several times during his career, and that hundreds of reports had been made.
Cooper's story proves once again that pilots and astronauts have had UFO encounters over the years as well as they have reported it too, but despite the US congress UFO hearing on the so-called tic tac UFOs they still cover it up as they not want to tell the truth about the existence of Extraterrestrial UFOs.
Cooper's letter to the UN about this UFO phenomenon:
Ambassador Griffith
Mission of Grenada to the United Nations
866 Second Avenue
Suite 502 New York
New York 10017
Dear Ambassador Griffith, X I wanted to convey to you my views on our extra-terrestrial visitors popularly referred to as "UFO's", and suggest what might be done to properly deal with them.
I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth. I feel that we need to have a top level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.
We my first have to show them that we have learned to resolve our problems by peaceful means, rather than warfare, before we are accepted as fully qualified universal team members. This acceptance would have tremendous possibilities of advancing our world in all areas. Certainly then it would seem that the UN has a vested interest in handling this subject properly and expeditiously.
I should point out that I am not an experienced UFO professional researcher. I have not yet had the privilege of flying a UFO, nor of meeting the crew of one. I do feel that I am somewhat qualified to discuss them since I have been into the fringes of the vast areas in which they travel. Also, I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe. They were at a higher altitude than we could reach with our jet fighters of that time.
I would also like to point out that most astronauts are very reluctant to even discuss UFO's due to the great numbers of people who have indiscriminately sold fake stories and forged documents abusing their names and reputations without hesitation.
Those few astronauts who have continued to have a participation in the UFO field have had to do so very cautiously. There are several of us who do believe in UFO's and who have had occasion to see a UFO on the ground, or from an airplane. There was only one occasion from space which may have been a UFO.
If the UN agrees to pursue this project, and to lend their credibility to it, perhaps many more well qualified people will agree to step forth and provide help and information.
Space Chief Former Israeli Claims That Extraterrestrials Are Working In Underground Bases With Humans On Mars
Space Chief Former Israeli Claims That Extraterrestrials Are Working In Underground Bases With Humans On Mars
Humanity has yet to grasp the fact that space aliens have long been in communication with the US administration and are attempting to comprehend “the fabric of the cosmos” with the assistance of humans. On December 8, 2020, retired general Haim Eshed, the former chief of Israel’s space security program, revealed that aliens and the US government had formed a pact to stay quiet about their experiments on Earth and secret outposts on Mars.
The 87-year-old professor told Israel’s daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot that aliens and the “Galactic Federation” had existed and collaborated with the US government and Israel for years, but that they kept it a secret to prevent widespread panic.
From 1981 until 2010, Professor Eshed was the director of Israel’s space security program, and he has earned the Israel Defense Award three times for his contributions to technical advancements. As a result, it’s tough to dismiss his talents and declare him “crazy” for making such claims.
President Trump, he claims, was aware of this and had previously spoken with extraterrestrials. “Trump was going to expose [aliens’ existence], but the Galactic Federation aliens are saying, ‘Wait, let people calm down first,’” he claimed. His comment corresponds with Trump’s intention to create the United States Space Force (USSF) as the military’s sixth branch. “Both in terms of defense and attack, space will be the future… In May 2020, Trump said, “We are now the leader in space.” However, it is unknown how long the US government and extraterrestrials have had a cordial connection.
Eshed went on to say that aliens are waiting for humanity to progress and achieve a particular level of understanding before they can properly comprehend space and spaceships. They also struck a pact with humanity to do experiments on Earth and conduct research alongside them in order to better understand the fabric of the cosmos.
He also stated that aliens and astronauts from the United States collaborate in an underground outpost on Mars. “I would have been hospitalized five years ago if I had made up what I’m saying now.” They exclaimed, “The guy has lost his mind,” everywhere I walked in the gym with this.
The “founder of Israel’s satellite program,” Haim Eshed, is regarded as such. He graduated from the Technion with a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree in performance research, and a PhD in aeronautical engineering. He became the chief of Israeli satellite programs at the Ministry of Defense in 1981, overseeing the launch of 20 satellites. In 2011, he left the Ministry of Defense.
In his book “The Universe Beyond the Horizon — Conversations with Professor Haim Eshed,” Eshed goes into further detail on aliens, UFOs, and various hypotheses about their origins. He went into great detail on how the aliens averted the nuclear holocaust and revealed some intriguing facts about Men In Black.
An photograph of a mysterious silver object floating 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean has emerged from two Pentagon papers. The photo was captured in the cockpit by a military pilot using his mobile phone
Unsolved Mysteries of the ‘Berkshires UFO Sighting – COAST TO COAST AM
Unsolved Mysteries of the ‘Berkshires UFO Sighting – COAST TO COAST AM
COAST TO COAST AM – 2022. Tom Warner, who had an amazing UFO encounter in 1969, was the guest in the second half. His case was recently featured on Netflix’s version of Unsolved Mysteries as the ‘Berkshires UFO sighting.’ Warner said that he has had strange events throughout his life, beginning at the age of four when “a car went by real slow” with four people in it who he now assumes were “human/alien hybrids” because they all seemed to have a “blank stare” on their faces. They asked him to get in the car, offering candy, when a voice came into Warner’s head, saying, “yell for your grandfather but don’t use your real voice.” Warner’s grandfather chased them off but appeared frightened, even though he was carrying a rifle. He also recalled his father nervously telling a story about seeing a burned area of grass where a UFO had apparently landed.
According to documents released by the Pentagon, time travel and anti-gravity technologies may be available to humans and could help us visit other worlds.
The recent declassification of 1,500 files sheds light on the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was a secret Pentagon UFO program.
Its publication was made possible after a four-year legal battle following a freedom of information request from The Sun.
One of the papers discusses how anti-gravity technology can be used to create airships and spacecraft, stating that “the effects can be achieved by manipulating space-time.”
How to “manipulate gravity” is also discussed and the report says: “It may be possible to create exotic phenomena such as faster-than-light travel… and time machines.”
It is also added that “wormholes” in space-time can be used for interstellar travel.
The documents, which The Sun called “the bombshell,” were released by the US Department of Defense Intelligence Agency.
These include plans to send multiple single-pilot spacecraft to “colonize” deep space, as well as research into how humans can control robots with their minds.
It has been found that a person cannot fly more than four spacecraft, but in the papers, scientists wonder if our brains can be developed to enhance this ability.
The AATIP has been in operation since 2007 and is headed by Luis Elizondo, who believes that the existence of UFOs has “been proven beyond reasonable doubt.”
Elsewhere in the report, the report explores how nuclear-powered rockets and spacecraft will allow us to “build bridges” over the layers of icy objects surrounding the Sun to find other Earth-like planets.
Also in the documents is information on how we can communicate with aliens, as well as a study on the health impact of people who have encountered aliens or seen UFOs .
Although the project has since been scrapped, Pentagon officials admitted last year that there have been around 150 UFO reports from military pilots since 2004. It further includes “abductions” and “unwanted pregnancies” of civilians.
A RETIRED cop saw dead alien bodies being lifted with a crane and hauled away after the infamous Roswell UFO crash, it has been claimed.
In a bombshell interview, former Deputy Sheriff Charles H Forgus of Howard County, Texas, told how he was traveling to Roswell to pick up a prisoner with Sheriff Jess Slaughter.
A retired cop claims he saw four dead alien bodies being hauled away after the infamous Roswell UFO crash
Credit: Kevin Randle
Charles Forgus shared his experience in a bombshell interview in 1999Credit: Philip Mantle
The journey occurred on the evening of the world's most famous UFO crash on July 2, 1947.
Forgus claims he saw four alien bodies with big eyes and brownish-colored skin being taken away by military personnel.
The interview will be broadcast for the first time on TV in an upcoming documentary being released to mark the 75th anniversary of the Roswell crash.
Forgus said: "We went to Roswell to pick up a prisoner. When we got there the land was covered in soldiers. They were hauling a big creature, hauling him away.
"They wouldn't let us get very close to it either. So we headed up to get the prisoner in Roswell and back to.
"It [the UFO] already had crashed. They were taking them out. There were soldiers there….about 3 or 4 hundred of them. They wouldn’t let you get very close. They were keeping all the people away. People were coming out there."
He described the UFO as "a big round thing" measuring about 100 feet and told how he saw the lights go out "when it banged into the wall in the creek," adding, "it was like a mountain on the side of the creek."
Speaking about the alleged alien bodies, he said: "I think I seen about four [of them].
"I saw the legs and feet on some of them... they looked like our feet...
"We [saw] them haul them [the bodies] out [of] there, out of the canyon up to trucks .
"[They were] putting [them] on the tow trucks so they could haul them.
"They were lifting them up with a crane that they had and picking them and swinging them to put them on the truck.
"The bodies must have been 5 feet tall... they were covered.
"Their eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them.
"As much as I could tell, the skin was a brownish color like they were in the sun too long."
'IN THE SUN TOO LONG'
He added: "There is one thing I do remember, The great father didn't just make this planet, he made all of them. He put beings on this planet just like he put us on this one.
"They're smarter than we are. They can get from there to here, but we can't get from here to there.
"I don't know where they hauled them - they might have hauled them to the hospital or somewhere."
"He said he spent about 20-30 minutes looking at the scene and military officials saw him looking but didn't say anything to me."
UFO researcher Philip Mantle, who has spent decades researching the Roswell Incident, said he remained open-minded about the witness account.
'SMARTER THAN US'
"Forgus was interviewed in 1999 by Los Angeles private investigator Deanna Short," he said.
"Deanna recorded the interview on video and later had a transcript done of the interview and completed her Agency report to verify facts at that time related to Charles Forgus and Sheriff Jess Slaughter - both of Howard County, Texas.
"Sheriff Jess Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles Forgus were allegedly traveling together in early July 1947 from Texas to Roswell to pick up a prisoner when they happened on the Roswell crash scene in New Mexico.
"Both were there and were on an overlook to view the crash scene recovery by the Army.
"According to Deanna's daughter Mackenzie, Charles made a special effort to note to Deanna not to believe what others will say - he and the Sheriff did witness the Roswell crash scene.
"They had heard about the crash on the police radio, which enabled them to find the location.
"Deanna is now deceased but her daughter Mackenzie Christian has kept Deanna's files that include the Roswell case, which includes the video interview.
EERIE CRASH SCENE
"In 1999, Deanna verified the background, including living relatives of both law enforcement individuals that existed at the time and documented that in her agency intelligence report."
He added: "I am open-minded with regards to the veracity of what Charles Forgus has claimed.
"I dare say many of those that know far more than me about the Roswell Incident will write it off as it does not fit the known Roswell crash scenario.
"All I will say is that I am working to try and find any more information and I leave this ‘Roswell File’ open."
Mantle added that he had also been in touch with Forgus' nephew, who assured him that he was not a man who would ever lie.
The nephew said: "I can tell you; he is not a person who would have fabricated this story.
"He was a very straight-laced and no-nonsense type of person...that's why he was in law enforcement."
It comes as a huge festival is being held in Roswell, New Mexico to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the world's most famous UFO crash.
Roswell 75: The Final Evidence will air on Thursday, July 7, at 9pm ET on BLAZE.
Sheriff Jess Slaughter was with Forgus at the time of the discovery
Credit: Philip Mantle
The interview will be broadcast for the first time on TV for the 75th anniversary of the Roswell crashCredit: Philip Mantle
There are a lot of various rumors, versions, and theories about the Apollo 11 mission. So, some people believe that the Americans have never landed on the surface of the Moon, and all photos and videos are fake. Others believe that the Apollo 11 astronauts actually visited the Moon. But ufologists say that the Americans found evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon and observed UFOs, but decided not to disclose this information.
NASA officials either denied any information about UFOs on the Moon, or simply refused to comment on such statements, but evidence has recently been published that Apollo 11 astronauts had witnessed a mysterious phenomenon while their trip to the moon. It took seven years to digitize old files, and now they are available here.
Is NASA hiding Apollo 11 Astronauts’ encounter with aliens? Image credit: NASA
The published data has already been analyzed by a lot of people who learned about a certain object flying over the Apollo 11 spacecraft. So, maybe there really is an alien base on the moon, and people were simply forbidden to research our satellite.
In the audio files, one can feel the alarm of the astronauts when they talked about a radiant object that had an oblong shape. The speed of the unidentified object was very significant, and the object itself left the orbit of the moon, which can be understood from these records. Why did the Americans hesitate to talk about it?
It is worth noting that these records are official, and astronauts reported everything they saw to the Houston center staff, as ufologists had already said, but then these documents were not on the site. If you listen to the fourth audio file, it talks about the approach of an unidentified object to the spaceship, and the astronauts asked for advice on how to behave in that situation. Then it says that the object flew off at tremendous speed.
Neil Armstrong was one of the three astronauts in the Apollo 11 mission, and after a while, he began to talk about the fact that there may be aliens and alien bases on the moon. Why make such statements if he has already been on the moon? This sounds really strange! Even after a huge amount of time, it is not clear enough what exactly astronauts managed to see on our satellite.
According to a report shared by Gaia, there is a transcript between Aldrin and Armstrong where the two had witnessed extraterrestrial activities on Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
Apollo 11: “Those are giant things. No, no, no, this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this.”
NASA: “What… what…. what? What the hell is happening What’s wrong with you?”
Apollo 11: “They’re here, under the surface.”
Apart from this, what former NASA astronaut Franklin Story Musgrave said about his experience in space would shock anyone. He claimed to had seen an 8 foot-long snake, white in color, floating through space. It is hard to explain how a snake could reach space, but Musgrave has never denied it.
NASA has been exploring space for a long time and there are chances that they have found a sign of aliens but hiding it from the public. There are some NASA legends such as Gordon Cooper, Edgar Mitchell, and Story Musgrave, who are firm believers of UFOs.
NASA conspirators have full assurance that the US space agency has been covering the evidence of UFOs since the first Apollo mission. Donna Hare claimed to have worked for NASA contactor Philco Ford in the early 1970s. She had a high-security clearance to walk in NASA’s photo lab and other departments.
During the Disclosure Project press conference, Hare revealed that NASA covered up and eliminated space anomalies such as UFOs from the satellite photos. Hare has got several awards in the space programs. She dedicated most of her time as a technical illustrator to space programs. She created lunar maps, landing slides and had been working 15 years as a sub-contractor for NASA.
She claimed to have access to a place known as “Building Eight,” from where she made contacts with high-ranking officials. Once, she walked into a restricted area which was NASA’s photo lab. She noticed the lab had photographs (mosaic) of the Moon taken from satellites. She was with a friend who pointed at one of the photographs and surprisingly, she saw a round white dot.
“I said to him what is that. Is that a dot on the emulsion? Then he’s grinning and he says dots on the emulsion don’t leave shadows on the ground. There was a round shadow at the correct angle.
I looked at him and I was pretty startled because I’d worked out there several years and never seen anything like this never heard of anything like this and I said is this a UFO and he’s smiling at me and he says I can’t tell you,” Hara said. She knew what he meant but could not tell. He said that their work was to airbrush them before putting into the public domain.
According to her, NASA had a protocol to alter the satellite images, and workers who were assigned to this program were put in quarantine. She was told by one of the sources that during one of the moon landings, three UFOs had landed. Subsequently, there was a codeword “Santa Claus” for these crafts.
No one was allowed to talk about these in public, otherwise, they would face serious consequences after retirement. She remembered that one person from that secret program told her that every astronaut had seen those crafts during their space missions. She had never seen that man again but got his name which was given to Ufologist Dr. Steven Greer in a hope that he would find him.
Former US Air Force Sergeant Karl Wolfe, who died in a bike accident in 2018, was another person who shared a similar story. He also had top-secret clearance and worked at Langley Air Force base in Virginia, the USA.
Karl worked as a precision electronics photograph repairer for Nasa’s Lunar Orbiter Project. One day, he was taken into a lab by another worker who showed him a photo of artificial buildings at the lunar base. His death remains a mystery as many believe that he was killed for exposing top-secret documents.
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Filer’s Files June 15 2022 - CIA Officer of Science UFOs Exist -PART I
Hazelwood, Missouri on May 23, 2022
Filer’s Files June 15 2022 - CIA Officer of Science UFOs Exist -PART I
Major George A. Filer
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special reports are CIA Officer of Science UFOs Exist, Craft from Red Dwarf Stars, Jack Sarfatti’s Emails Switchblade Weapon, Giant Rock, California Angel Hair, Carbon 60-, and Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Libya, Northern Ireland, and England in the United Kingdom.
All are invited to AFA and MUFON meeting on Saturday June 25, 2022, at 2:00 PM, at 222 Jackson Road, Medford, New Jersey.
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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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.
Send these files to your friends and neighbors. Like my site? Spread the word!
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CIA Director of Science UFOs Exist
John Ramirez CIA
‘John Ramirez previously worked for the CIA in the Directorate of Science and technology from 1984-2009. At the CIA he was an intelligence analyst and Chief ELINT analysis branch, specializing in ballistic missile defense, weapons systems radar, and technical collection operations. John describes what theories dominate to UAP/UFO world, how Congress should manage the hearings, and much more.
John said he was told the aliens have been here on Earth for centuries and although they probably came from space at one time they are here in various bases and generally do not have open contact with humans.
Craft from Red Dwarf Stars
George LoBuono writes, “On planets that orbit what astronomers call “red dwarf stars,” which are three times more numerous than other stars (our nearest neighbor is actually Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star that’s about one tenth the mass of our sun so it will last for about 4 trillion years (due to lower pressure fusion). We can’t see any of those red dwarf stars with our naked eyes – only an infrared telescope can see them. Recent scientific estimates state that between 50 to 100 percent of red dwarf stars almost certainly have at least 1 to 3 habitable planets in their inner orbits. So, the universe is about populations living on planets surrounding red dwarf stars, in many ways.
Red Stars have Earth size planets
Data from NASA’s Kepler mission suggests that 6% of nearby red dwarf stars should have at least one Earth-sized world in the zone where life as we know it can sustain life and likely send visitors. Scientists say red dwarf stars emit about 83 percent infrared radiation, meaning that populations living on planets near such stars can actually SEE radiation, i.e., either like infrared energy emissions or as scalar resonance. This is a perfect recipe for an advanced culture of shared consciousness. These stars emit little light, sometimes as little as 1/10,000th as that of our Sun.”
Aliens with large black eyes likely come from these red dwarf planets. The coverings over the eyes are similar to sunglasses to protect their eyes from the strong lights on Earth. Alien technology and their abilities are ahead of us by thousands of years. They have the ability to time travel, go through walls and manipulate their appearance. They are able to cloak their craft, manipulate people’s thoughts, and heal diseases. Everything on their planet is likely different from Earth. They often use large triangle craft with cloaking devices and smaller discs engaging in abductions. Reports show a craft will be seen in a particular location and suddenly start to appear twenty miles away. The plasma, particles or atoms making up the ship will dissolve at one location and appear in another location. One witness told me it was like a bathtub full of water slowly emptying and filling the other bathtub.
Jack Sarfatti Emails
Jack Sarfatti says, “I have had a close encounter in which the intelligence said it was from our future and it correctly told me in 1953 what really happened in 1973 and is still happening.
Your assumption that the paranormal cannot be explained by quantum physics is wrong. There is nothing mysterious about the flying saucers and the paranormal events that go with them. Not to us physicists.
On Jun 2, 2022, Charles Upton wrote response to Rick Scheck’s email. Great report, as usual. However, I must question the notion that someone’s CIA or Mossad background would automatically lend them credibility. Have you ever heard the old saying, “honest as a spy”? Neither have I. In addition, the acceptance vs. the debunking of the existence of a Galactic Federation strikes me as just one more prefabricated contradiction designed to mis-direct our attention and paralyze our thinking. In any case, both Loeb and Eshed seem to accept the likelihood (or certainty) that many galactic civilizations exist who could be (or are) in communication with each other, and us. So, they are essentially in the same camp. More interesting to me is the declaration in the Congressional hearings that there is no solid evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial, coupled with the elements of the various reports released by the Pentagon that show that UFO encounters are sometimes coupled with apparitions of “ghosts, spirits, elves, yetis” etc. Taken together these two items clearly favor the paranormal hypothesis over the material-plane extraterrestrial astronaut theory. And once the paranormal explanation begins to become dominant, we are obviously challenged to thoroughly familiarize ourselves with reports of, and doctrines relating to, the Jinn, the Fairies, the Daemons, and the Demons, from traditional sources, going back thousands of years. The central book from the world of UFOlogy reading to this kind of lore is Passport to Mahonia by Jacques Vallee. Thanks to Charles Upton
Subject: Chris and Lue’s Ufology Adventure (first draft)
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Chris and Lue’s Ufology Adventure
by Rich Scheck
You don’t have to be Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt to be suspicious of Chris Mellon and Lue Elizondo, two of the most visible public figures in contemporary Ufology.
These articulate, highly intelligent former DOD/intel operatives have spent much of the last 5 years marching across our tv screens as well as in the pages of our newspapers and magazines extolling the existence of UFOs. Despite inconsistencies and their dubious backgrounds, they have done a reasonably good job of shaping what I consider the official government narrative on the subject. Their journey from To the Stars Academy (TTSA) to ATTIP and now onto The Galileo Project (GP) is a fascinating adventure wherein they have been the key figures in forming the limited hangout (CIA?) version of this age-old mysterious phenomenon.
But there is a problem here being avoided by the Media and most of the research community: A deep dive into the history of their efforts reveals a major glitch in their well-crafted story.
Researchers like John Greenwald, Sarah Scoles and DJ Liszt have discovered that the $22 million claimed by our fearless advocates to have gone to funding ATTIP actually went to a different program (AAWSAP) that was designed to investigate paranormal activities at Robert Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch in Utah with UFOs merely a side issue.
Skinwalker Ranch
As revealed by Liszt in a recent video, Lue has admitted there was no ATTIP “program” at the DOD, merely “activity” regarding UFO tracking. All of which means that looking back to the formation of TTSA and the Big Reveal story in the NY Times (12/17), it appears we are looking at a highly sophisticated psychological operation designed to fool the public in a manner consistent with prior US government false narratives such as Project Blue Book and the 1947 incident at Roswell, N. M.
Now we come full circle to the present moment to see Chris and Lue extending their public dance by being included as advisors to Avi Loeb’s impressive GP which is supposed to be a scientific endeavor to track UFOs. Yet one is struck by the presence of intelligence operatives in this important endeavor, including arguably Loeb himself who was trained by Israel’s special Talpiot Unit, a fact rarely mentioned by anyone. As I have written elsewhere, the combination of the military threat meme from Chris and Lue along with Loeb’s keen interest in AI with its relationship to the Davos transhumanist agenda constitute deeply troubling parameters by which to evaluate the phenomena.
I spent several hours yesterday perusing the excellent books by Leslie Kean and John Alexander on UFOs. Both supply extensive analysis and thorough documentation of the topic. Similarly, both include serious warnings about the long history of government manipulation of the public with disinformation and concocted accounts of major events. Yet here we have a repetition of the very dynamics these authors and so many other researchers have covered in their books with virtually no one other than DJ Liszt, Alien Scientist, John Greenewald and Steven Greer saying much in protest to this spectacle. Former CIA John Ramirez recently spoke about the use of “scheduled disseminations” from the CIA and other agencies promoting the official government narrative version about UFOs. That’s what seems to be happening here with this limited hangout making by Chris and Lue. I feel the ghosts of Allen Hynek, Stan Friedman and other deceased researchers hovering over my shoulder reminding me to be ever vigilant about official government narratives, especially those linked to intelligence agencies and their friends in the MSM. My intuition tells me that is exactly what we are seeing here. I will continue to voice my concerns about these men to the broader UFO Community. I invite those who are part of it to challenge what is presented as part of Chris and Lue’s Excellent Adventure, even under the threat of “consequences” from the likes of Congressman LaHood should any of us come to different conclusions than what is demanded by others. Thanks to Rich Scheck.
Video: Famed British Astronaut Suggests UFOs Could Be Extraterrestrial , –June 14, 2022 By Tim Binnall
Astronaut Colonel Tim Peake
Col Tim Peake A famed British astronaut recently offered a rather remarkable opinion on the UFO phenomenon when he suggested that the mysterious objects seen by American Navy pilots appear to be extraterrestrial in nature. Col Tim Peake became something of a household name in England after serving more than six months aboard the ISS and, during that time, made history as the first Briton to ever perform a spacewalk. Since his return to Earth, the astronaut has appeared on numerous television programs to discuss his experiences as well as the latest happenings surrounding space exploration, which is how the topic of UFOs came up when Peake was a guest on the show Good Morning Britain earlier this week.
Asked for his thoughts on the considerable amount of discussion concerning unidentified flying objects currently unfolding here in America, Peake mused that “I think it’s interesting that the US Government has made this public,” noting both last summer’s Pentagon report on UAPs as well as last month’s Congressional hearing on the phenomenon. Observing that the phenomenon is “still very much unexplained,” Peake opined that “it’s a good thing there are discussions being had, and that this information is being made available.” As for what these objects could be, the astronaut provided an answer which likely raised eyebrows among UFO enthusiasts.
“I don’t think it’s a development of any state nation, or non-state organization. Not at all,” Peake said, “I think when you see the video footage, it’s quite remarkable. It does seem extraordinary as to what these machines are capable of.” Acknowledging the theory that the objects could be some kind of classified technology, the astronaut dismissed this hypothesis by asking “why would this information be being made public, if that were the case.” Peake also pointed to some particularly fantastic ideas associated with the phenomenon, such as that UFOs are time travelers or perhaps robotic craft sent to Earth by ETs, Peake conceded that “ultimately we do not know” what these mysterious object are nor why they keep appearing in our skies. Thanks to Coast to Coast.
Switchblade Weapon
When fired the wings open automatically
The Russians claim to have captured Switchblade drones and will use them against Ukraine forces.
The Russians have lost 1000 modern tanks and many forces are using the old T 62 tank that was built in the 1960s. The T-62 has known soft areas and is an easier target than the modern tanks.
Giant Rock, California Angel Hair
On August 18, 1945, a huge craft flew over Robert and Shirley Short dropping angle hair like snow
They stopped and gathered up some of the angel hair that still exists today. The lack of clear testing of many of the cases has meant conspiracy theories have flourished. For some, angel hair is proof of chem-trails. This claim is bolstered by test results of the hair, which have sometimes shown traces of metals. As one commenter, ‘Wayne’ writes on the website Geoengineering Watch, “The next time you see these in your yard get a sample and go have it tested. The test results will show metallic and not a spider web trail which is made from a completely different material. The resulting Condon Report, published in 1968, examined angel hair and defined it as “a fibrous material which falls in large quantities, but is unstable and disintegrates soon after falling.” The composition or origin of the ‘angels’ hair’ is uncertain but likely is a result of the propulsion system.”
Analysis of an unknown White Fibrous Substance, aka ‘Angel Hair’, Deposited by Barbell-Shaped UFOs (Illinois, November 4, 2016) Date: January 12, 2017, Reported By: P. A. Budinger Analytical Scientist Background/Objective: Two witnesses observed barbell-shaped UFOs dispensing white filament-like material. The account as written by the principal investigator Bill Schroeder follows. “On November 4th, 2016, the Investigator was contacted by witness 1. He advised that he and witness 2 had seen a number of Barbell shaped objects in flight over his dwelling. The object first observed was silver metallic in color and 20 to 30 inches in length. When first observed the object was at rooftop level or about 35 feet over his head. The object was moving silently and laterally towards a small lake just south of the dwelling. At the time of the sighting witness 1 was in the company of witness 2. Witness 1 noted that there was no visible means of propulsion observed and no sound detected. As the object arrived at the center of the lake it stopped moving laterally and began to rise. As it started to rise it began exuding a white filament like material. The material was very fine and stretched all the way to the ground. After it had risen to several hundred feet it was joined by more than 12 other like objects that seemed to be circling it as it continued to rise. At this point in time the white material was spewing from the devices in such quantity it looked like rain. The objects rose together into a clear sky until they were no longer visible. The white material that had fallen remained visible in trees for about 24 hours before dissipating. When witness 1 contacted the Investigator, he was requested to get samples if possible. The witnesses were able to obtain some samples of the material. Witness 1 also sent an email report of the sighting. Witness 2, who is a professional artist, painted a picture that depicted the sighting.
As the UFO arrived at the center of the lake it stopped moving laterally and began to rise it started to exude a white filament like material. The material was very fine and stretched all the way to the ground. The UFO was joined by 12 other UFOs circling it as it continued to rise. The white cotton thread material was spewing from the devices in such quantity it looked like rain. The objects rose together into a clear sky until they were no longer visible. The white material that had fallen remained visible in trees for about 24 hours before dissipating.
Multiple Acers with 30-foot strands are covered with Angel Hair
The huge areas of Angel Hair suggest it is much more than spider webs. The material was collected using a clean shish-kabob skewer. At the Investigators request the samples were placed in paper and plastic bags. The samples were sent to the Investigator via USPS Priority mail with tracking. The samples arrived intact on November 9th, 2016. Upon arrival the envelope was opened by the Investigator who was in the company of a second Investigator. The package and enclosed samples were photographed by the Primary Investigator. The samples were then placed in evidence bags and sealed and sent to a laboratory.
Witness 2 painted a picture that re-created the scene at the time of the sighting. A scan of the Part of the evidence was later sent to Robert Powell and Phyllis Budinger for examination and lab testing. Witness 1 has been in the aviation industry for more than 30 years designing military and civilian aircraft systems and is familiar with aircraft propulsion systems. He has a PHD level of education Witness 2 is an adult female. The witness is a college educated professional.
Robert Powell. He was sending the material to another lab and has analyzed a number of ‘Angel Hair’ samples over the years. 1 The Technical Service Reports (TSRs) can be found on the website: http://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/phyllis-budinger-collection. They are: UT002, UT003, UT008, UT017, UT018, UT046. T. S. R. No.: UT096 Frontier Analysis, Ltd. Page 3
Conclusions
The analysis shows the white filament like material is primarily a biologically derived silk typical of that produced by spiders. Additionally present are very small amounts of celluloid material, i.e., plant derived substance, possibly inorganic nitrate and an unidentified rust/red material. It is unknown if these additional materials are part of the original composition or contaminants. ● The fibrous spider silk compares to other purported fibers, aka ‘Angel Hair’, analyzed by this laboratory and other laboratories. Other laboratories have done very credible research and issued extensive reports involving spider silk fibers that feel concurrent with UFO sightings.
For some, angel hair is proof of chem-trails. This claim is bolstered by test results of the hair, which have shown traces of metals. As one commenter, ‘Wayne’ writes on the website Geoengineering Watch, “The next time you see these in your yard get a sample and go have it tested. The test results will show metallic and not a spider web trail which is made from a completely different material… The truth is scarier than fiction. “Apparently, some of the Angel Hair is natural spider material but some holds metal that could imply the UFO engines are wearing down or producing metallic off shoots.
Case closed on angel hair. Not so fast, say ufologists, many of whom contend that the threads have extra-terrestrial associations. Cases of the falling thread are neither historically nor geographically isolated. In 1561, when there were reports of a “celestial phenomenon” in Nuremberg, angel hair was one aspect of the occurrence. And UFO reports often accompany instances of the falling thread.
The NJ MUFON Facebook Page is live. Please find it in your personal Facebook page, add yourself, and I will make all three of your admins, if you want it. I am also going to add a moderator her name is Lisa long and she runs the UFOs of South jersey. She is dedicated and handles her site with tact and finesse. Warm regards Mike
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 aviators 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.
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Filer’s Files June 15 2022 - CIA Officer of Science UFOs Exist -PART II
Hazelwood, Missouri on May 23, 2022
Filer’s Files June 15 2022 - CIA Officer of Science UFOs Exist -PART II
Major George A. Filer
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special reports are CIA Officer of Science UFOs Exist, Craft from Red Dwarf Stars, Jack Sarfatti’s Emails Switchblade Weapon, Giant Rock, California Angel Hair, Carbon 60-, and Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Libya, Northern Ireland, and England in the United Kingdom.
All are invited to AFA and MUFON meeting on Saturday June 25, 2022, at 2:00 PM, at 222 Jackson Road, Medford, New Jersey.
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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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.
Send these files to your friends and neighbors. Like my site? Spread the word!
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Alabama Object
Tuscaloosa, on May 29, 2022, at 4:17 AM I was traveling on the I-20 interstate. I encountered two objects in the sky that were traveling a long distance a part towards Birmingham. When I made it to work and parked the two objects came towards me and stopped. The next morning on May 30th. I stopped off in Eutaw, Alabama to fuel up and I saw another strange object in the sky.
Note: The time of the report has been to 4:41 AM per metadata in the above photo. The May 30, 2022, photo mentioned by the witness is not shown in this report.
I live in Visalia, California this was flying over our backyard on May 17, 2022, around 9:30 PM. This is the second time I have seen this particular one. This is one of the best UFO photos I have ever seen. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Menlo Parkon March 11, 2004. every day I was driving on I-280 to De Anza College at enjoying the excellent weather at 10:30 AM. on my birthday. I was driving 30-35 m/h with the windows open. I had just passed Sand hill Road when I saw a typical saucer UFO gliding slowly parallel to my car. The UFO was no more than 100 meters away and 5-10 meters above the ground. I made the illustration to show the scene, it had a round top with 2 bulged rings. There were no windows and no seams or writings cast of one single piece of metal, shiny, reflective, and smooth. It looked completely new, straight from the factory. The UFO was big as a SUV and graciously floating. “Wow, what a birthday present! “The UFO continued flying into the trees and disappeared. I didn’t see it again. Later, after I came back to Bulgaria, in 2016 when I decided to find my sighting location. I started “walking” the Google Street and under the bridge there are some very long buildings.
SLAC National Accelerator
When I checked them, I found the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s LCLS (LINAC Coherent Light Source) more than 2 miles long over-ground linear accelerator’s tunnel. I found online the old SLAC engineers’ diaries and reports from that time. I found out that “A major milestone for the SPEAR3 commissioning occurred at 17:56 on March 8, 2004, SPEAR3 synchrotron light Structure
When the first SPEAR3 synchrotron light was observed on a monitor, there was a very big event for SLAC because I found tons of articles about it. My sighting was 2 days later. I assume the engineers were highly active in the first couple of days after that event. Their next task would be to tune up the electron acceleration to maximize the harvest of synchrotron light. I often hear about UFO’s interest in nuclear and military sites but have never heard about sightings at particle accelerators like mine. ‘Link to Google map:
ky Hill on November 8, 1987, abut 12:30 AM when I saw the UFO it was really life changing just sitting over the highway. It was flying at 5,000 feet and was about 300 feet in diameter. After that night I started reading anything I could trying to find matches what I saw.
Florida Lights
Malborneon September 1, 2016, you can see the flying object at top by playing in slow motion any video that you download from that day. Clearly you see de object destroying the rocket Falcon 9.
Indiana Light
Muncieon May 21, 2022, I am a spaceship stalking victim and attempted abduction and murder victim of a criminal stalker rapist pedophile cult that are operating. They are using body and mind meld technology, “shelling” technology to harass me. They say I am in a “spaceship stalking” race and a ship or more with red and white flashing lights is following me home. This spaceship followed me home every couple days and on 5/31/22.
Note: The video is not shown because it appears to show a conventional aircraft. One of the photos is shown. The object is probably a regular airplane.
Thibodaux on June 2, 2022, I saw a fast-moving object (UFO) with no sound, contrails or wings. Will they check the flight logs, or should l contact them?
Note: It is difficult to identify this object. It could be a balloon.
Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Maryland Light
Berwyn Heights on June 12, 2022, it was a full moon, so I decided to take pictures and that’s when this green light appeared. It moved back and forth, up, and down but I could not see it with naked eye.
Michigan Light
Shepherdon May 17, 2022, this is the first picture of it at 4:48 AM of a lighted bar that’s vertical. It was out on several pictures that were 30 seconds apart. I will send you more pictures since this is not the first time, we’ve seen this across the road.
Note: I have seen similar photos taken by trail cameras, and security cameras and believe that the lights could be insect activity. The column of lights is likely the result of extended time exposure when the camera was in “night mode. “
Bridgewater on May 13, 2021, I’m a sky watcher and this appeared on a clear evening it seemed stationary, then seemed to move very slowly. No sound. I watched for 3 minutes. It seemed to have a trail which stayed stationary as well. Then it all just vanished.
Warren on June 4, 2022, it was 9:20-30 at night, I had taken my custom telescope out. when I was done putting my camera in a good spot. I i looked up and saw this white light that flew at the height of a plane. The light moved across the sky for 4-5 seconds.
Missouri Object
Good on May 23, 2022 , I was getting off at 4:30 from work. Walking to car and just happened to look up and seen what appeared to be a blimp it was a little way off in the distance tool a couple of pictures with my Cell phone and still cannot decide what actually what it was
New Jersey Object
h Amboy on May 15, 2018, Tic tac shaped metallic object moving very fast. Clouds were moving and when they opened up this object was caught on camera. In was moving so fast my camera only got this photo.
ABDUCTION
Middletown on July 6th 1996, I walked from my house at 19 ideal Avenue to the beach in the Raritan Bay Ideal Beach upon standing on top of the dunes on the Ocean Avenue footpath I saw the triangle UFO flying at about 5 miles an hour heading west being trailed by three police cars with outside spotlights on the objects I preserved it thing flew right over top of me change directions headed north. A lower deck lowered from the bottom of this craft and inside I could see structure inverted triangle shape heavy beam Construction with curved plating at the pointed parts of the triangle is also blue, white, and reddish lights. I got locked on a beam of red light and then I have no more memory. I did not meet the police light and if they had kept following, the triangle they would have seen me being abducted. I was floating and then it is two hours later, and I am 3 blocks away
Haledon June 5. 2022, I was outside barbequing when I noticed an object high in the sky. At first a dismissed it as satellite. I looked again and the white object was still there for 10 minutes. When I showed my son the object another smaller object appeared. This one was flashing or rotating. It appeared to have a dark and light side to it. I was able get the 2 objects together before the smaller flashing object moved away as did the first.
New York Ring of Lights
Seneca, May 31, 2022, I was taking pictures last night in an attempt to capture some meteors during the meteor shower. I came across a photo that had some weird lights. I haven’t noticed the lights in any other photo. I’m not sure if maybe I changed a setting and they disappeared or what, but this is what I got. These are raw photos. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Texas Object
Denton on May 28, 2022, noticed these two different dark colored objects. These objects made no noise, and I did not see any birds or planes in the area.
Washington Lights
Vancouver on June 4, 2022, a brown, oval shaped object flying over neighborhood.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Molotovabadon May 15, 2022, I initially observed a bright light travelling south down the Sunshine Coast. I was sure I noticed it suddenly reversing direction and making sudden downward and upward movements. I grabbed my S 21 Samsung phone and recorded 30 seconds of footage until I was about to lose site behind a tree.
Canada Lights
Vegerville Alberta on June 8, 2014, I was out on the deck, and I saw about 12 really bright lights in the sky and watched some of them go behind the trees and I got a picture of 3 there was no noise at all.
France Tic Tac
Monsegur on January 18, 2022, the shape was triangle with three lights under the craft the lights reflected of the cloud. I captured an oblong shape color black
Mantes la Jolie on May 28, 2022, white flying object with an unusual shape and no noise crossed the sky
Libya Lights
Benghazi on May 21, 2021, I was sleeping in the farmhouse and woke up at 4 AM, I made coffee and decided to drink it outside and saw the moon and two stars above it. I decided to take several photos. to I watched the pictures at once after taking them, I did not find the stars. Every time the location of the two stars changes.
Northern Ireland Lights
Belfaston July 13, 2021, this video was captured at exactly 1.30 am after seeing a yellow flash in the sky which illuminated a triangular craft quickly. The first yellow flash that lit up the sky enabled me to see a very dark shiny craft. It completely disappeared and returned 40 seconds later. It displayed a brief sequence of lights which seemed to show a triangular body. I was extremely frightened. Several of my friends also saw this activity.
UK/England Lights
North Sea on June 5, 2022, I was on a cruise to Norway from Belfast, Northern Ireland. On my way back between Bergen (Norway) and Lerwick (Shetland islands) I took 5 pictures of the sun reflecting on the sea and four had blue orbs. I applied the filters I could see that there was some kind of
Chester on November 6, 1998, it was 6 pm and I was walking to put some tools away. It was November so it was dark. I looked up to see low clouds but the whole sky was glowing at height of maybe 200 feet a matt black silent triangle flew directly about 200-300 mph and would be the size of a small airliner. I worked for the British Civil Aviation Authority. It had a number of circles on the two leading edges of the ‘wings. that were shiny black lights., but no navigation lights.
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Nasa’s director has stated that he believes UFO reports after commissioning an eight-month investigation into hundreds of inexplicable encounters.
Ex-space shuttle astronaut and US Senator Bill Nelson claimed he spoke with two Navy pilots who witnessed multiple flying objects in 2004 and passed the issue on to Nasa’s chief scientist. He told the reporters that they are quite concerned about the situation.
Nelson has spoken with Navy pilots who claim to have seen something in 2004. They were able to follow it on their radar off the coast of Southern California, over the Pacific.
He went on to say that hundreds more items have been noticed since then, with a few of them being explained as balloons, but the majority remaining unexplained.
So, as a scientific research organization, he has requested Nasa to study this problem from a scientific position, which will be disclosed in a few days. They’ll be reporting in around eight months.
When asked if he believed the sightings may be hostile planes, the Nasa administrator said that he hoped it wasn’t. This is because the pilots described it as a very quick-moving object that hopped from one spot to the next.
As a result, his straightforward response is that he has no idea. That’s why he’s enlisted the help of their experts to see whether they can come up with an answer.
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen of the Science Mission Directorate will lead the probe, and the entire extent of the study will be disclosed soon, according to Mr. Nelson.
Pilots in the Navy were allegedly ‘lost their heads.’
Lt Cmdr Alex Dietrich, one of the Navy pilots cited by Mr. Nelson, went public for the first time last year, describing how she had observed many UFOs while stationed on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier off the coast of southern California.
She said the objects moved at an incredible rate, plunging 80,000 feet in less than a second and leaping dozens of miles in seconds in an occurrence captured on infrared camera and radar.
According to Lt Cmdr Dietrich of 60 Minutes in the United States, the item hopped from place to place and tumbled around in an unanticipated manner.
She also said that the entire time they were on the radio with each other, they were completely insane.
Cmdr David Fravor, who was also stationed aboard the USS Nimitz, engaged one of the oblong objects, which he assessed to be 40 feet long, according to accounts. It vanished, only to be caught up by ship radar 60 miles distant seconds later.
Hundreds of ‘inexplicable’ sightings
The Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force produced a study last June that looked into 144 UFO sightings between 2004 and 2021, several of which were witnessed by military pilots.
Despite the fact that investigators decided there was no indication the objects came from outer space or were the work of a foreign opponent, they stated that the majority of them could not be explained.
The authors of the paper said unequivocally that the UAPs were real objects, not visual illusions generated by air circumstances or sensor failures.
Investigators discovered 18 items with unidentified propulsion systems and stated they will investigate further to see whether sophisticated technologies were there.
The Nasa chief also stated the space agency was “actively involved” in searching for extraterrestrial life on Mars, with the Perseverance rover excavating into an old lake on the Martian surface, during a briefing from Edinburgh on Monday.
He also stated that in 2031, they will gather the samples and return them to Earth.
And that would tell us if there was life, how advanced it was, whether it was organized, and then what happened to it.
Imagine an all-electric drone with zero emissions and no noise.
It could venture anywhere — practically undetected — and be used for a variety of applications from search and rescue to military operations.
That vision is now here, and it runs on ion propulsion.
Last month, a Florida-based tech startup called Undefined Technologies unveiled the new aesthetic design of its silent eVTOL drone, called Silent Ventus, which is powered by ion propulsion, according to a press release by the firm.
A sustainable and less noisy urban environment
“Silent Ventus is a vivid example of our intent of creating a sustainable, progressive, and less-noisy urban environment,” said Tomas Pribanic, Founder and CEO of Undefined Technologies, in the statement. “The design brings us closer to our final product and enables us to showcase the dual-use of our technology.”
The concept vehicle uses proprietary technology to fully activate the ion cloud surrounding the craft. This allows the drone to generate high levels of ion thrust in atmospheric air, and take flight in near-silence.
A major milestone for all-electric drones
Development of the drone has been ongoing for a while now. In December of 2021, the drone completed a major milestone. It undertook a 2-minute and 30-second mission flight, where its performance, flight dynamics, endurance, and noise levels were tested.
The engineers leading the tests reported that the craft’s flight time extended five-fold from the previous version and generated noise levels of less than 85 decibels. Pribanic said at the time that the drone was one step closer to market.
According to Undefined Technologies' website, the drone today "uses innovative physics principles to generate noise levels below 70 dB." This would make it ideal for use throughout the U.S., where acceptable noise levels for residential, industrial, and commercial zones range from 50 to 70 dB.
In comparison, the majority of drones produce noises in the vicinity of 85 to 96 dB. Time will tell whether the new "silent" drones will inaugurate a new age of whispering drones that take no toll on the surrounding environment, toiling away in peace.
Incredibly, he re-registered at Imperial College in 2006, and within a couple of years had dusted off and updated his past work on his original thesis to earn his doctorate.
So when Brian May talks about all things space and science, he tends to be worth listening to.
All of which raised eyebrows when Dr May posted a series of pictures of crop circles on Instagram this morning (May 25).
"Notice anything unusual here in the English countryside?," Brian asked.
"I never spotted a crop circle myself before. So probably always a bit sceptical about them. But yesterday, flying back from our production rehearsal space - flying over a location not far from Marlborough - there was this."
"PLEASE SWIPE for some stereo views and a rudimentary stereo movie. And …. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK."
He added: "Who makes these intriguing works of mathematical art ? Are they a hoax ?
"Are they made by extra-terrestrial beings ? And …. how ? And what is their purpose ? Tell me your theories !!! Cheers - BRI"
Strange patterns in crops have long been recorded in history, the idea of "crop circles" came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.
Hoaxers Doug Bower and Dave Chorley attracted attention in 1991 by claiming they had sparked the recent trend at the end of the 1970s by making circles using wood and rope.
However, some people still maintain that crop circles are can be caused by freak weather or other natural phenomena like ball lightning.
Other more paranormally-inclined theorists continue to suggest the influence of UFOs or other extraterrestrial intervention.
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Capstone lifts off! NASA launches microwave-sized spacecraft into orbit around the MOON in first step of its Artemis mission to return humans to the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years
Capstone lifts off! NASA launches microwave-sized spacecraft into orbit around the MOON in first step of its Artemis mission to return humans to the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years
The small spacecraft finally launched from New Zealand at 10:55 BST on Tuesday
NASA's craft will follow a halo-like orbit around the moon for at least six months
It will act as a test mission for Lunar Gateway, a new space station in lunar orbit
NASAfinally launched its 'CAPSTONE' spacecraft on Tuesday morning, marking an important early stage in its Artemis space programme.
The craft, which is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds, blasted off from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand at 10:55 BST (21:55 local time).
Over six months, it will test the stability of a halo-shaped orbit around the moon before this orbit is used by Lunar Gateway, NASA's planned lunar outpost.
Lunar Gateway, which is due to launch in 2024, will serve as a 'staging area' for landing humans on the moon for the first time in 50 years, and potentially as a jumping-off point for missions to Mars.
The craft, which is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds, blasted off from Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand at 10:55 BST (21:55 local time)
Over six months, CAPSTONE will test the stability of a halo-shaped orbit around the moon before this orbit is used by Lunar Gateway, NASA's planned lunar outpost.
CAPSTONE: Key stats
Type:CubeSat
Size: 13 x 13 x 25 inches
Weight: 55 pounds
Orbit:Near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO)
Launch site: Mahia, New Zealand
Launch date: June 28, 2022
The CAPSTONE spacecraft, which was originally scheduled to launch in October 2021, was sent into space on an 'Electron' booster rocket built by US firm Rocket Lab.
'We have lift-off from Launch Complex 1!' Rocket Lab tweeted moments after the launch. 'CAPSTONE’s journey to the Moon is underway.'
Rocket Lab also confirmed that the rocket had reached Max Q – the point when an its atmospheric flight reaches maximum dynamic pressure.
Bradley Smith, director of launch services at NASA, described the launch as 'fabulous'.
'This has been, for me, eight years in the making. Here we are, not even a decade later and this incredible team has sent CAPSTONE on a ballistic trajectory to lunar orbit.'
CAPSTONE is an abbreviation for 'Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment'.
It is unique in that it will travel on an elongated halo-shaped orbit, which will bring it as close as 1,000 miles and as far as 43,500 miles from the lunar surface.
It will use its propulsion system to travel for approximately three to four months before entering into orbit around the moon. One orbit will occur every seven days.
CAPSTONE is unique in that it will travel on an elongated halo-shaped orbit, which will bring it as close as 1,000 miles and as far as 43,500 miles from the lunar surface
US company Rocket Lab has sent the CAPSTONE satellite into space on its Electron rocket (pictured in May)
CAPSTONE blasted off on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from the company's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand
The spacecraft is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds. It's depicted here in an artist's impression in its orbit around the moon
CAPSTONE over the lunar North Pole: After arriving at the moon in around four months, the craft will begin a six-month-long mission to validate a special type of orbit
While it usually takes a few days for a spacecraft to reach the moon, CAPSTONE will take much longer as it's travelling at a slower speed and has to take a longer route to gear itself for an unusual oval shape.
The strange-shaped orbit, officially called a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), has never before been tried in space.
WHAT IS THE ARTEMIS PROGRAMME?
Artemis is an ongoing space mission run by NASA with the goal of landing the first female astronaut and first astronaut of colour on the Moon's South Pole.
It is the US space agency's first crewed Moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Artemis I, launching in August 2022, will pave the way for crewed flights by sending manikins to space.
Artemis II will launch in May 2024 and fly by the moon without landing on it.
Artemis III, which will launch 'no earlier than 2025', will be the first to land humans on the moon in more than 50 years.
Source:RMG
The orbit's route is located at a precise balance point in the gravities of the Earth and moon, meaning less energy is expended.
'The stability of this orbit will allow CAPSTONE to behave almost like it's held in place by the gravity of Earth and the moon,' Elwood Agasid at NASA's Ames Research Center told The Next Web.
'It requires little energy for station-keeping or to manoeuvre into other cislunar orbits [those between the earth and the moon].'
CAPSTONE will orbit this area around the moon for at least six months to understand 'the characteristics of the orbit', according to NASA, before the space agency deliberately crashes it on the lunar surface.
The space agency said: 'It will validate the power and propulsion requirements for maintaining its orbit as predicted by NASA's models, reducing logistical uncertainties.
'It will also demonstrate the reliability of innovative spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation solutions as well as communication capabilities with Earth.'
The first parts for the Lunar Gateway are not set to launch until November 2024 at the very earliest, giving NASA plenty of time to assess the results from CAPSTONE.
Described as a 'vital component' of NASA's Artemis programme, the Lunar Gateway will be a small space station orbiting the moon, acting as a 'multi-purpose outpost'.
The official word is that NASA's Artemis programme will land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2025, although this could be pushed back again, NASA Investigator General Paul Martin recently suggested.
Pictured is an artist's impression of CAPSTONE in orbit around the moon with the Earth in the background
Lunar Gateway, pictured here above the moon in an artist's impression, is described as a 'vital component' of NASA's Artemis programme
NASA's original date for landing humans on the moon again was 2024, but last year it delayed the date, largely blamed on litigation from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' firm Blue Origin.
Also this year, NASA will be sending manikins to space as part of the Artemis I mission in August 2022.
Artemis I will pave the way for crewed flights – Artemis II, which will launch in May 2024 and fly by the moon without landing on it, and Artemis III, which will actually touch down on the lunar surface.
Artemis III, which will launch 'no earlier than 2025', will be the first to land humans on the moon in more than 50 years, since Apollo 17 in December 1972.
NASA'S LUNAR GATEWAY: A VITAL PART OF ARTEMIS PROGRAMME
NASA is working on a project to build the first lunar space station, codenamed the Lunar Gateway, as part of a long-term project to send humans to Mars.
The crew-tended spaceport will orbit the moon and serve as a 'gateway to deep space and the lunar surface,' NASA has said.
The first modules of the station could be completed as soon as 2024.
An international base for lunar exploration for humans and robots and a stopover for spacecraft is a leading contender to succeed the $100 billion International Space Station (ISS), the world's largest space project to date.
Pictured: a diagram of the proposed Lunar Gateway space station
NASA's upcoming Artemis missions aim to send the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972 'no earlier than 2025'.
This was originally by 2024, but costs and litigation from Jeff Bezos' firm Blue Origin forced NASA to put this back a year.
Eventually NASA seeks to establish a sustainable human presence on the moon by 2028 as a result of the Artemis mission.
The space agency hopes this colony will uncover new scientific discoveries, demonstrate new technological advancements and lay the foundation for private companies to build a lunar economy.
ROBOTS AREN’T TYPICALLY KNOWN FOR THEIR FLAWLESS SKIN AND 12-STEP CARE ROUTINES, BUT RECENT INNOVATIONS IN ROBOTICS AND LAB-GROWN BODY PARTS MIGHT SPAWN A FRESH GENERATION OF YOUTUBE BEAUTY VLOGGERS AFTER ALL.
Instead of cold metal and dull silicon exteriors, next-generation robots may instead sport a more human birthday suit called electronic skin, or e-skin for short.
Beyond just making these robots look more human, engineers are excited about how the skin will enable robots to feel like humans do — a necessary skill to help them navigate our human-centric world.
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“E-skin will allow robots to have safe interaction with real-world objects,” Ravinder Dahiya, professor of electronics and nanoengineering at the University of Glasgow, tells Inverse.
“This is also important for social robots which may be helping elderly in care homes, for example, to serve a cup of tea.”
Dahiya is the lead author on one of several papers published this month in the journal Science Robotics detailing several advances in robotic skin that together overcome decades-worth of engineering obstacles.
CREATING “ELECTRONIC SKIN”
How robots feel matters for human-machine interactions.Donald Iain Smith/Photodisc/Getty Images
Dahiya and his colleagues’ latest work explores how robots’ skin can be used to feel and learn about their surroundings using synaptic transistors embedded in the artificial skin. Mimicking the sensory neural pathways of the human body and brain, their work demonstrates a robot skin that can learn from sensory experiences, like a child who learns not to touch a hot surface after getting a burn.
“A ROBOT DEPLOYED IN A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CAN HAVE E-SKIN WITH RADIATION SENSORS.”
We take this kind of sensory ability for granted as a result of living in our acutely sensitive skin, but they’re much harder to imbue in e-skin, roboticist Kyungseo Park tells Inverse.
Park is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the first author of another e-skin paper published this month in Science Robotics that shows how electrodes and microphones could be built into hydrogel and silicone e-skin to provide more sensitive tactile input.
While small-scale sensors might work for small-scale projects like responsive robot hands, Parks says these technologies struggle to scale up.
“Although these tactile sensors work well, it is challenging to cover the robot’s whole body with these sensors due to practical limitations such as wiring and fabrication,” Park says.
“It is required to develop a sensor configuration that can be freely scaled depending on the application.”
The human skin is the largest organ in the body. Our skin can process sensory input at nearly any location with very little energy, but replicating and scaling this ability in e-skin is a logistics and latency nightmare, Dahiya says.
“[Electronics] need to be developed or embedded in soft and flexible substrates so that the e-skin can conform to curvy surfaces,” Dahiya says.
“This [will] mean sensors and processing electronics can be distributed all over the body, which will reduce the latency and help address other challenges such as wiring complexity.”
If an e-skin cannot reliably process sensory inputs anywhere as they occur, it could be a major liability in the real world — especially because humans enjoy split-second sensory processing as a result of their biological skin.
LEARNING TO FEEL
If building e-skin is so challenging, then why are scientists around the world still working hard to make it a reality? For robots, and the companies or governments that control them, e-skin could represent a new opportunity to record and process massive amounts of information beyond our own skin’s sensing abilities.
“MOST COMMERCIAL ROBOT ARMS ARE NOT ABLE TO PERCEIVE PHYSICAL CONTACT, SO THEY MAY CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY TO HUMANS.”
“When we think about robots that are used in hazardous environments, the types of sensors can be much broader than basic five sensory modalities,” Dahiya says.
“For example, a robot deployed in a nuclear power plant can have e-skin with radiation sensors as well. Likewise, the e-skin may have photodetectors which can also augment human skin capability by allowing us to measure the excessive exposure to ultraviolet rays. We don’t have such capabilities.”
In the future, e-skin could also be used to measure things like proximity (guard robots), temperature, or even disease and chemical weapons. Such advanced sensing capabilities might enable remote robots to go into potentially dangerous situations and assess the problem without putting humans in harm’s way.
Beyond the vision of autonomous Terminator-like robots, e-skin could also be used to bring sensing capabilities to existing tools. For example, medical instruments that could allow clinicians to “feel” tissues inside the human body to make diagnoses, Dahiya says.
In his and colleagues’ work, Dahiya also explored how e-skin could be designed to sense injuries (like a cut or tear) and heal itself, much as our skin does. Right now, their e-skin needs a lot of assistance to accomplish this task, but in the future, this functionality could be essential for remote robots exploring potentially harmful terrain like the surface of Mars.
ON THE HORIZON
Pressing the flesh.Ravinder Dahiya
Beyond the advancement of robot sensing, Dahiya and Park say that e-skin will also play an important role in keeping humans safe in human-robot interactions as well. For many service robots, this is a particularly crucial concern.
“Most commercial robot arms are not able to perceive physical contact, so they may cause serious injury to humans,” Park says.
Take a greeter robot, for example, tasked with shaking the hand of everyone who crosses its path to welcome them into a place. Without tactile sensors to gauge the pressure of its handshakes, it could unwittingly crush someone’s hand.
“I think the elderly who need direct assistance from robots will probably benefit the most,” Park adds.
Advances in e-skin could also play a role in improving prosthetics, Park says. The same tactile sensors that help robots feel their environment could help restore or even advance the sensing capabilities of those with limb loss.
While the e-skin that Park and Dahiya worked on is making strides toward a robotic future, they’ve both got some fine-tuning to do before they’re put into practice. In the meantime one thing is certain: We should be thankful for the complex and capable skin we have evolved.
Gianluca Rizzello with 'dielectric elastomers.' The Saarbrücken researchers are using this composite material to create artificial muscles and nerves for use in flexible robot arms.
Waarom dinosauriërs de grootsten der aarde werden? Dankzij hun “donzige vacht met veren”
De dinosauriërs waren ooit - voor de fatale meteorietinslag - de grootsten der aarde. Hoe en waarom ze overal ter wereld zo groot en machtig werden? Vermoedelijk omdat ze goed bestand waren tegen de koude, zo concluderen onderzoekers in een studie in het vaktijdschrift Science Advances.
De dino’s doken naar schatting voor het eerst op zo’n 230 miljoen jaar geleden. Toen was er echter nog sprake van andere dominante soorten, denk bijvoorbeeld aan de voorouders van krokodillen. Aan deze dominantie kwam echter een einde tegen het einde van het Trias (een periode in de geologische tijdschaal), zo’n 203 miljoen jaar geleden. Vermoedelijk kwam dat door de koude temperaturen waar ze plotseling mee geconfronteerd werden. En dinosaurussen bleken, dankzij een laagje pluizige veren, een pak beter bestand tegen deze koude. “Zij waren er klaar voor, andere dieren niet”, aldus hoofdauteur Paul Olsen.
Hoe onderzoekers tot deze conclusie zijn gekomen? Ze bestudeerden oude voetafdrukken die teruggevonden werden in het noordwesten van China. Deze suggereerden dat de dino’s er niet alleen ronddwaalden, maar ook goed konden gedijen in de vrieskou. Bij andere soorten was er op dat moment immers sprake van massale sterfte. En zo stonden de dino’s klaar om nieuwe gebieden te veroveren, die voor andere soorten onleefbaar waren geworden.
Koude temperaturen
Rest nog de vraag waarom het plotseling veel kouder werd in de tropen, waartoe China behoort? Dat was te wijten aan de enorme vulkaanuitbarstingen waarna een donkere nevel voor de zon schoof en het uiteindelijk ook enkele graden kouder werd.
“De veren van deze eerste, primitieve dinosaurussen zouden een donzige vacht hebben opgeleverd om ze warm te houden. En het lijkt erop dat deze veren van pas kwamen toen gigantische vulkanen begonnen uit te barsten aan het einde van het Trias en de wereld plotseling en onverwacht veranderde”, zo concluderen de onderzoekers.
Bron van dodelijke ‘Blob’ ontdekt: gigantisch warmtebad verantwoordelijk voor mariene hittegolven
Onderzoekers hebben eindelijk ontdekt waar de “Blob” of “Klodder” - een onderwaterhittegolf in de Stille Oceaan - vandaan komt. Deze klodder was al enkele keren verantwoordelijk voor de massale sterfte van vissen en andere zeedieren. In het vaktijdschrift ‘Communications Earth and Environment’ omschrijven wetenschappers een ‘warmtebad' in het noordoosten van de Stille Oceaan, dat vermoedelijk voor nog meer mariene hittegolven zal zorgen.
De stijgende temperaturen, hittegolven en extreme weersomstandigheden hebben onze oceanen niet onaangetast gelaten. Zo moet ook blijken uit een onderzoek van de Universiteit van Hamburg. Wetenschappers van deze universiteit hebben in het noordoosten van de Stille Oceaan een gigantische plas ontdekt die tot drie graden warmer is dan de rest van de Stille Oceaan. Het gebied is wel drie miljoen vierkante meter groot en is ontstaan door menselijke invloeden.
Daarnaast blijkt uit het onderzoek dat de temperatuur van het grote gebied de afgelopen 25 jaar met gemiddeld 0,05 graden Celsius per jaar is gestegen. Het gevolg? De afgelopen twintig jaar zijn er in de regio 31 mariene hittegolven geweest, vergeleken met slechts negen tussen 1982 en 1999.
Meer klodders
De warmwaterbron zal volgens de onderzoekers de temperatuur van de Stille Oceaan blijven verhogen waardoor zowel de frequentie als de intensiteit van mariene hittegolven - zoals de Blob of Klodder - zal toenemen.
The Blob of Klodder is een onderwaterhittegolf waardoor het water enkele graden warmer wordt dan normaal. Meestal gaat deze opwarming gepaard met de massale sterfte van bepaalde zeedieren en -wezens. “De sterke stijging van de watertemperatuur zal ecosystemen verder tot het uiterste drijven”, zo waarschuwt onderzoeker Armineh Barkhordarian (Universiteit van Hamburg).
De meest recente mariene hittegolf hield drie jaar aan, van 2019 tot 2021. Tijdens deze hittegolf was het water op bepaalde plaatsen maar liefst zes graden warmer dan normaal.
Special reports are: Belgian General Claims Triangle UFOs Exist, NASA picture of Mars ‘Doorway’, topping Evil and Attracting Angels, Prime Minister of Grenada Sir Eric Gairy’s UFO disclosure, Strange Phenomena In The Sky, Yucatan Pyramid Light, Tran gender’s Committing Suicide at Fast Rate, Carbon 60, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Moon Center
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Belgium, Egypt, France, Switzerland, 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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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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Belgian General Claims Triangle UFOs Exist
My name is Wilfried De Brouwer. I am a retired Major General of the Belgian Air Force and I was Chief Operations in the Air Staff when an exceptional UFO wave took place over Belgium. Indeed, during the evening of 29 November 1989, in Eastern Belgium, 140 UFO sightings were reported. Hundreds of people saw a majestic triangular craft with a span of approximately 120 feet, powerful beaming spot lights, moving very slowly without making any significant noise but, in several cases, accelerating to very high speeds. The following days and months, many more sightings would follow. The UFO wave would last more than one year during which a Belgian UFO organization conducted more than 650 investigations and recorded more than 400 hours of audio witness reports. On one occasion, a photograph revealed the triangular shape and four light beams of the object. In my function of Chief Operations, I was confronted with numerous questions about the origin and nature of these craft.
In the first instance, and in consultation with other NATO partners, 1 could confirm that no flights of stealth aircraft or any other experimental aircraft look place in the airspace of Belgium. In addition, the Civil Aviation Authorities confirmed that no flight plans had been introduced and the object(s) committed infractions against the existing aviation rules
In any case, the Belgian Air Force has arrived to the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena have been produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations compiled in this Society of Belgian Studies of Celestial Phenomena [SOBEPS] book, reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31 [1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. A mystery that continues to the present, but it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion. Major-General Wilfred de Brouwer, Deputy Chief, Royal Belgian Air Force, “Postface” in SOBEPS’ Vague d’OVNI sur la Belgique -1991.
The Belgian UFO wave was a series of sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium, which lasted from 29 November 1989 to April 1990. The numerous testimonies of gendarme ground observations compiled in this [SOBEPS] book, reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31, 1990, have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been signaled; military or civilian air traffic has not been perturbed nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a direct menace.
‘On that night, one unknown object was tracked on radar, and two Belgian Air Force F-16s were sent to investigate, with neither pilot seeing the object.. But over the next 2 weeks reports from 143 people who claimed to have witnessed the object n moving towards Thorembais-Gembloux, which lies southeast of Brussels. Glons CRC requested Belgium gendarmerie send a patrol to confirm the sighting.
Ten minutes later, reports stated that a second set of lights were seen, moving towards the first triangle. Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake tracked one object only on its radar, and an order to scramble two F-16 fighters from Beauvechain Air Base was given. The UFO was visible from the ground, Over the next hour, the two scrambled F-16s attempted nine separate interceptions of the targets.. ‘The pilots also got intermittent radar contact with objects, but they appeared and disappeared and moved up and down too fast, including going underground. Vague d’OVNI sur la Belgique – Un Dossier Exceptional, Brussels: SOBEPS, 1991.
NASA picture of Mars ‘Doorway’ Spawns Conspiracy Theories
Doorway made by Intelligent life.
Only ignorants people would believe the gibberish being spouted by NASA and such establishment “experts” and disbelieve their own eyes and common sense. Remember life on other planets is classified Secret, therefore the scientists lie to keep their jobs. The crack on the inner wall does not “explain” the rectilinear carving and clean, polished edges of the portal. The opening is far larger than Gupta says (30 x 40 cm.):
“The crack is a fracture and they are abundant on Mars and Earth – no need for mars quakes to produce them,” said Professor Gupta, who has worked on the Curiosity mission with NASA.” While it may be true that “a fracture are abundant on Earth & Mars,” rectilinear portals carved into (and polished in) stone like that are not unless they are machined or man-made. The deceptive language used to cover up the obvious is part of what I call NASA’s “Disinformation Technology.”
Mars Hill
When you see the actual size of the hill and estimate the camera’s distance from the portal, the magnitude of lies the ‘experts” are spewing to cover it up becomes obvious. The portal is situated along the very top of the hill depicted in the panoramic photo and the image they are using in the article is degraded.
Mars Doorway
Look at the enhancements that I did of the color version, then tell me what you believe, the weasel words of NASA & Gupta, or “your own lying eyes.” Thanks to Michael Sprague and Bruce Cornet.µ
I frequently receive calls explaining angels are here to help us. Joshua P. Warren Paranormal expert writes, “If you now feel they exist, you are no doubt wondering how to deal with angels and demons in your life. Fortunately, the subject does not have to be extremely complicated. From the strictest biological perspective, your life can be boiled down to binary reactions. Your heart clenches then relaxes. Your breath goes in and out. And so your body’s energy-interface with all around you ultimately makes your bio-frequency raise and your soul expand, or your bio-frequency lower and your soul contract. Use your body as an antenna to feel whether or not something around you is good or bad. Does it make you want to expand or contract? If something is bad for you, your body is weakened. This makes you vulnerable. Stay in environments that make you feel strong and positive, and surround yourself with people that feel the same.”
Demons will hang out around vulnerable people, so if you venture toward the vulnerable, be especially cautious. Aside from your environment, fill your mind with positive content, and keep your body physically healthy and strong, just as you would to avoid getting a cold. A positive If you believe there is a demon or evil attached to you, then change your environment and diet to one.
Next, ask for help. Ask Jesus to send an angel. Angels are there all around, eager to you help you all the time. They will even travel and run errands for you, believe it or not. If you’re having a problem with someone, ask an angel to soar to that person and help you resolve the situation with the most positive possible outcome for everyone involved. You might be surprised how things turn out! Anytime you have a problem, ask an angel to represent you, and send the angel away with all your trust and authority. The angel benefits when you benefit, so send your positive thoughts to the angel often. And if you’re perceptive enough, you might even get a glimpse of the angel working with you; or hear the angel’s voice; or see the Angel’s name and recognize it. The universe is always trying to speak with you. The language of the universe is synchronicity, and the more you pay attention to the connections around you in life, the more clues and insight you will have regarding what is happening around you.Knowledge is power, and this will give you the power to make informed, wise, effective decisions.
Evangelist Billy Graham had a ministry for 50 years to almost every US. President since Truman was close to the Clinton’s. In his bestselling book, “Angels God’s Secret Agents” Graham states, “Some reputable scientists deny and others assert that UFOs do appear to people from time to time. Some scientists have reached the place where they think they can prove that these are possibly visitors from outer space.
Some Christian writers have speculated that UFOs could very well be a part of God’s angelic host who preside over the physical affairs of universal creation. While we cannot assert such a view with certainty, many people are now seeking some type of supernatural explanation for these phenomena. Nothing can hide the fact, however, that these unexplained events are occurring with greater frequency. (Page 21)
We must be aware that angels keep in close and vital contact with all that is happening on the earth. “The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels.” (Psalm 68) “His chariots of conveyance, which he sends for his friends, as he did for Elijah …his chariots of state, in the midst of which he shows his glory and power.” Psalm 91. “For he will give his angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways
The best thing you can do you’ve heard this a many times in your life; and there’s a reason for it. But this time, let it sink in . The way you help yourself is by giving to others. It is not something you should be forced to do, but something you should do because it works. It doesn’t even matter if you give begrudgingly. All that matters is that you give. In fact, you should do so without accepting or expecting anything at all in return.
To see miracles happen in your life that will get you through tight pinches, whatever they That is what makes it work. Once you give, you will start may be. This is a weird principle of the universe that must be experienced to truly believe. Since we possess animal instincts, it seems unnatural to do this, and that is why all the spiritual teachers have stressed the need for faith. It’s not because you do believe in something that doesn’t exist, it’s because you must be advanced enough to imagine your reward. This is what makes you special. This is what makes your mind and spirit evolve. This is the smart thing to do. This is how you rise above and become free. This is how you become an angel. Please visit JoshuaPWarren.com to open your mind and see more amazing stuff.
Astronomers Calculate at Least 8 Billion Earth like Planets
WASHINGTON — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth; orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot and not too cold for life. Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone. The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For perspective, that’s more Earth-like planets than there are people on Earth. As for what it says about the odds that there is life somewhere out there, it means “just in our Milky Way galaxy alone, that’s 8.8 billion throws of the biological dice,” said study co-author Geoff Marcy, from the University of California.
Prime Minister of Grenada Sir Eric Gairy’s UFO disclosure
Prime Minister of Grenada Sir Eric Gairy
“I was privileged to see what I consider a UFO very far out in the sky going at tremendous speed.
Sir Eric had dominated politics on this Caribbean island for three decades, becoming Grenada’s first prime minister when the island-state received independence from Britain in 1974. Officials were dismayed when in 1977 the then Prime Minister of Grenada Sir Eric Gairy wanted to call for the United Nations to set up a unit to investigate UFOs, files from the UK National Archives reveal. The files show how Britain was concerned the idea would drag the UN into disrepute. “The British delegation does not think that the establishment of an agency for research into unidentified flying objects is appropriate to the functions of the United Nations,” they said.
“Hopefully, a confrontation with the representatives of Grenada can be avoided, but the U.K. should not hesitate to make its views known as and when appropriate. “Sir Eric was persuaded to withdraw his proposal but went on to call for 1978 to be designated “the year of the UFO”.
Eyewitness reports
Crop circles provoked this sketch by a member of the public
Sketches of UFOs are also among the files released by the UK National Archives. They also reveal that intelligence papers on a reported UFO sighting known as the Rendlesham incident” have gone missing. The missing files relate to a report of mysterious lights from US servicemen at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk in England in 1980.
Officials found a “huge” gap where defense intelligence files relating to the case should be, the papers show. The previously classified documents on UFOs are the latest Ministry of Defense (MoD) files on UFOs released into the National Archives which will be free to access on its website. Photographs and sketches of UFOs made by members of the public are included, as well as their eyewitness reports. Among the documents is testimony from an airline pilot and his son who say they spent five minutes watching an object made up of three circles fly past their garden in Helpingly, East Sussex, in southern England.
The pilot reported it to Air Traffic Control in West Drayton, and an official labelled his sighting as one by “a credible witness”. “Close encounter”
There is also a report from a London man who believed he may have been abducted by aliens. The files reveal that key documentation relating to the Rendlesham Forest incident has disappeared.
Sketch released by British National Archives
Some UFO researchers believe the episode, which happened over two nights in 1980 is a classic example of a “close encounter”. A group of servicemen reported seeing strange lights in the trees near the base and after investigating found marks on the ground and damage to vegetation. The files reveal the MoD received a request for its own records of the incident in 2000, but when officials looked they discovered a “huge” gap where defence intelligence files relating to it should be. The hunt generated a series of notes, with one official speculating that the files could have been taken home by someone and another remarking that “it could be interpreted to mean that a deliberate attempt had been made to eradicate the records covering this incident”.
However, among intelligence papers released in 2009, it was revealed that former Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton wrote to the defence secretary about the incident in 1985, speculating that an unauthorized aircraft may have entered and left UK airspace at the time.
Concern about UFOs and what they might be went up to senior level and lasted several years. UFOs have only ever received one debate in the UK Parliament. It came in the House of Lords in 1979, at the height of the “winter of discontent”, and the files show how officials labored to prepare a government position on the topic.
At the end of the discussion the government spokesman Lord Stabolgi summed up what remains the official position now. Thanks to Readers Digest
Strange Phenomena In The Sky
–“There really are many strange phenomena in the sky, and these are invariably reported by rational people. But there is a wide range of natural explanations to account for such phenomena.”
Great job George bringing to your reader’s attention disc-shaped burial mounds or barrows across the United States and around the world. You were with our MUFON field trip to the pic-shaped mound on the then Owen’s Dairy Farm in Orange County, NY, in October 1997, which you reported in one of your Filer’s Files.
3 October 1997 on Muddy Kill Lane near Montgomery, NY. Several MUFON State Directors
In field between Circle 1 and Circle 2 (along sacred path).
Jim Bouck and Steve Tzikas on Indian Mound.
Large Indian Mound
And to this day UFO lights arise out of the ground at and around that mound. Native Americans built that mound, along with a large circular dome-shaped sweat lodge to its West, now evident only by a permanent crop circle. I measured it with a magnetometer, and found significant magnetic anomalies that were changing rapidly in intensity. Natural magnetism of bedrock does not change.
A commercial American Airlines jetliner, heading southwest from Stewart International Airport?, had its instruments compromised by that strong magnetism underground, and I captured its anomalous descent to almost crashing into the trees and ground near the Indian Mound on 2 July 1992. Imagine how shocked the pilot must have been when he saw trees coming directly at him, not realizing his autopilot was malfunctioning.
2 July 192 AA jetliner pulls out at 150+/- feet- near fatal descent
We heard the pilot turn his engines to full thrust as he turned back skyward. The AA jetliner (letters visible on tail stabilizer) vibrated under the stress of a steep climb with engine sounds reverberating across the valley. On 13 July 1992 it happened again:
Ellen Crystall: “What is that?” Bruce: “That’s either a UFO or a plane getting ready to land in the field.” Ellen: “Yah, in front of us. Oh man.” Fred: “It’s going to Stewart.” Ellen: “Look at this.” “This ain’t goin'[to Stewart]. It’s coming our way.”
Triangular craft flaring paired headlights as it rises up next to center trees of Circle 2 in above image, on 28 October 1995. Note breaks in light traces are due to the lights being blocked by tree branches. That tells us craft was just lifting off from the ground in Circle 2.
Loops performed by Triangle at apex of arched path, something that conventional aircraft cannot do.
Helicopter flying over Indian Mounds
From The Lost History of the Little People, by Dr. Susan B. Martinez (2013). Is this what was originally located there? Native tribes built the keyhole sweat lodge (circular outline still evident) and pyramidal fire pit (Unchi = mound), which is oriented exactly East-West as in Martinez’s diagram.
The ETs who live below ground level produced this golden pyramid hologram arising from the Indian Mound. I later measured a pyramidal-shaped magnetic anomaly on top of the mound, which may have caused the golden splay of light up out of the mound to take on a pyramidal shape – like the fire pit shape or Pyramid means “light in the middle.”
In top photo note craft emerging from the woods – not a double exposure (even though labeled as such but with no evidence of camera malfunction). The bottom photo shows an enlargement of the object in the lower right. It appears to be a craft on the ground just across the road from where we were standing. We could not see it, but it showed up in the photograph. Note the windows and something inside.
The picture below was also taken by Mark Whitford at the same location and just before the picture of the ship on the ground.
Double right-angle turns that conventional aircraft cannot make. Thanks to Bruce Cornet
Yucatan Pyramid Light
Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula
Yucatan Peninsula El Castillo pyramid has mysterious beam of light extending above it photographed by Hector Silezar
On NATO’s Eastern Flank, Navy Growlers Operate
Navy E/A-18 Growlers
Navy E/A-18 Growlers are conducting NATO enhanced air policing in Eastern Europe near Ukraine to show Russia that the U.S. stands ready with electronic warfare capabilities. But what the Navy is doing also highlights what the Air Force can’t. Pilots from Navy Electronic Attack Squadron 134, or VAQ-134—nicknamed “Gurudas”—who spoke to Air Force Magazine at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, said they were practicing integration with Air Force F-16s and flying NATO missions with EW pods turned off. But soon, Navy divestment will eliminate that joint force capability before the Air Force replaces it. Thanks to By Abraham Mahshie
Transgender’s Committing Suicide at Fast Rate
Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine
Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking transgender person in the U.S. government, claimed during a recent interview with NPR that ahead of a Saturday speech at Texas Christian University during which Levine blamed the high rate of suicidal ideation among transgender-identifying youth in part on “harassment, scapegoating and intentional abuse,” according to prepared remarks given to NPR.
According to definitions laid out in a fact sheet from Levine’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March, “gender-affirming care” includes social affirmation at any age, puberty blockers during puberty and hormone therapy starting during early adolescence. Irreversible surgery is “typically used in adulthood or case-by-case basis in adolescence,” according to the agency.
Trans people are at a greater risk for suicide as they are twice as likely to think about and attempt suicide than people belonging to sexual minorities.
On average,. 1.4 million Americans attempted suicide each year. Some Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, with 45,979 deaths in 2020, but it is not known how many were transgender other than Levine’s high rate statement.
The key question is why are children being programmed to become transgender throughout American schools? There appears to be a strong desire to cause people to kill themselves. We kill a million babies yearly with abortion as well as the mother’s who have the abortion who attempt to commit suicide six times greater than a women who have a normal births. January 28, 2021 — US President Joe Biden has reversed Trumps ban on federal funds going to international groups that perform abortions.
An Austin Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among … LGBTQ youth are greatly overrepresented in the homeless youth population in North America (Abramovich, 2012); about 30% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ compared to 5 to 10% of non-homeless youth. The indoctrination of children to become transgender results in a high suicide rate. Many return to their biological gender wishing they had not lost key parts of their bodies and accepted puberty blocking that causes deterioration in intelligence quotient. They would have been better off never hearing of the transgender possibilities.
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 aviators 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.
Special reports are: Belgian General Claims Triangle UFOs Exist, NASA picture of Mars ‘Doorway’, topping Evil and Attracting Angels, Prime Minister of Grenada Sir Eric Gairy’s UFO disclosure, Strange Phenomena In The Sky, Yucatan Pyramid Light, Tran gender’s Committing Suicide at Fast Rate, Carbon 60, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Moon Center
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Belgium, Egypt, France, Switzerland, 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 and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; 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
California Object
Hanfordon April 15, 2022, I was taking a walk while talking to my mother on my phone, and I recorded a photo burst with my iPhone of flying Canadian Geese .Later when reviewing the photo observed 3 frames with a fast moving UFO .
Colorado Lights
Greeley-Weld Co Airport on May 3, 2022, I saw 3 disc shaped craft maneuvering around the clouds. Their interactions with one another like children at play. They would plunge into the clouds making 180 changes in direction of flight then emerge in the reverse direction. Contrast increased.
Florida Lights
Fort Meyer Beachon May 8, 2022, I am seeing this over 1 hour and it has not moved. Zoom in on the photo that I sent. This is the best picture we were able to get.
Note: The photo and enlargement show the object to have a “S” like shape. This shape could be due to camera movement and not indicative of the actual shape of the object. The object could be a balloon. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Indiana Light
Hammond on May 15, 2021, got a video on my security cameras of light cylinder moving from right to left across screen and returning.
Michigan Object
Harrison Townships on May 17, 2021, the above short is really all I have as for what I could offer for a description
Missouri Object
Republicon May 23, 2021, I was driving and watched this silent cigar shaped UFO hovering then moving very slowly. It did move similarly to a blimp but was not one. I pulled over and I did get multiple photos and videos..
Nevada Object
Valley of Fire on May 8, 2021, I took a several pictures of my husband atop a tall rock structure seconds apart at 9:48AM. In one of the pictures, an unidentified object can be seen above my husband. The object is not visible in the preceding or subsequent pictures.
New Jersey Lights
New Brunswick on December 12, 2021, stood outside my building and I noticed a silent luminous object flying low slowly gaining altitude. It looked like a ring of fire or molten steel. Color was very smooth swirling aligned with the train tracks below in the Northeast Corridor. The center was a completely dark disc.
New York Light
Pahrumpon May 1, 2022, at 7:40PM I was driving on Route 160 and I thought to look to my left and I saw this orange object flying north. Within a few seconds it had flew by me and hovered above a hill. With my cell phone I took photos has it gained altitude?
North Carolina Object
Maidenon May 14, 2022, this object was very distant, but it seemed to hover and shape shift. I noticed the morphing activity.
Pennsylvania Light
Mt.Carmel on July 1, 2017, What Is This ,? What agency or whom does this belong? Possible lens reflection from sun.
Texas TicTac
Houston on May 26, 2022, on an afternoon walk I looked up to take a picture of a pane and noticed a second smaller wingless craft moving behind it. I saw it just as it disappeared. As a MUFON field investigator, I confirmed my suspicions that what I had seen was a “tic-tac”.
Moon Crater
Edge of Moon large round structure found on Moon by Hammond, Indian witness in late 2017 an EGG shaped anomaly appears to be stationary in the center of a crater. I saw it through my telescope and used my Canon t2i.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Perth, on November `8, 2021, saw a silent and bright object with many witnesses. Object was emitting a very bright amber/golden light on the top and bottom with a spinning shape in the center travelling under cloud cover. Pilots have reported strange similar sightings in the Bullsbrook and Pearce RAAF bases.
Belgium Light
Charleroi on October 13, 2012, pres de la centrale electrique d’Amercoeur appareil numérique Sony a 200 et zoom de 200 sans flash et sur trépied entre 21hrs 30 et 22 hrs .
Egypt Disc
Cairo on May 10, 2021, it’s a disc with some nursing’s only shown through camera not visible to naked eye
France Light
Dignac on May 20, 2021, I saw a white ball with a very small behind crossing the sky last night I took 2 photos and when I enlarged, I do not know if it is a plane or UFO.
Linselles on May 15, 2021, our gaze is on this machine and we were both amazed by as we followed for 15 minutes this machine which was not known to my spouse or me. I was able to take a photo and a video of it flying at high speed near the Belgium border.
Switzerland Light
Pfyn on May 17, 2022, the first sighting was over a year ago. Since then I see the silent object 2-3 times a week flashing a light in the evening. The bright blinking repeats every 3 seconds. It is brighter than the stars.
UK/England Light
Fordon May 15, 2021, our ring doorbell camera was triggered at 03:12 am, by a domestic cat. But in closer viewing of the footage, the cat had stopped in the street because it may of been spooked by a strange glowing white sphere which was hovering above. The sphere suddenly shoots off and fades out.
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During the summer of 1954, the United States Air Force was on high alert. A pair of mysterious objects had been located in orbit between 400 and 600 miles from Earth, and now officials were in a state of confusion as to what they might represent. Could they be non-terrestrial objects of natural origin, or could they be something else entirely?
A more concerning possibility also lurked in the minds of officials at the time: what if the objects were manmade, and possibly of Soviet origin?
Dr. Lincoln La Paz, then the head of the Extra-Terrestrial Bodies Institute at the University of New Mexico, had been in constant communication with the Air Force about their unusual new problem. For weeks, he shot back and forth between the Palomar Observatory in California and the missile test center at White Sands, New Mexico, until it was finally determined by the astronomer that the objects were indeed natural: they were only meteors.
The story received tremendous attention after it first appeared in Aviation Week, and just days later, a source close to the Army Office of Ordnance Research assured the New York Times that no satellites deemed to be of artificial origin had been detected yet, adding about La Paz’s meteors that “there was absolutely no connection between the reported satellites and flying saucer reports.”
The search for objects in Earth’s orbit had been virgin territory in 1954, and the events in the fall of that year were only a foreshadowing of the kind of public fear yet to come. Once the Soviets actually did launch Sputnik 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the early days of October 1957, concerns about a technological gap among Western nations escalated into a full-blown crisis.
The world would never be the same. In the aftermath of the “Sputnik crisis,” the United States accelerated its space-bound efforts, eventually placing its own satellites into orbit, followed by successful manned space missions and, eventually, humans landing on the Moon in July 1969. Today, on any clear night one can look at the night sky and see tiny points of light moving silently along in their positions in orbit, representing objects that range from satellites and the International Space Station, to tiny reflective bits of debris from past space missions that have accumulated in Earth’s orbit steadily over time.
In addition to the satellites we have placed into orbit around our own planet, humans have also sent several spacecraft to further locales, some of which we have positioned around nearby planets like Mars. It seems logical to assume that if there were any intelligent extraterrestrials out there, they might do the same.
This brings to mind an interesting question for modern astronomers: what if aliens have surveilled our planet, either in the past, or even in the present day? If so, how might we detect evidence of their technologies?
(Credit: NASA)
With the amount of debris that clutters the space around our planet today, it would prove difficult to locate any prospective alien probes that may be watching us. Based on current European Space Agency data, there are 5,800 functioning satellites in orbit, with nearly 31,590 debris objects that have been logged and continuously tracked by Space Surveillance Networks.
However, not all objects in orbit around our planet are being tracked. According to current statistical models, smaller space objects between 1 mm and 10 cm could number greater than 131 million.
In short, the orbital area around our planet has become a very cluttered place since the dawn of the Space Age, making it increasingly difficult to search for any possible outliers that might represent evidence of non-terrestrial technological artifacts that might be observing our planet.
That’s why one group of researchers, led by Beatriz Villarroel of the Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics and Stockholm University, has undertaken a citizen science effort to search for evidence of such non-terrestrial artifacts in what some might consider an unusual place: data that has already been publicly available for decades.
Prior to the launch of manmade satellites like Sputnik 1 in the late 1950s, Earth’s skies were free of the clutter that hinders modern searches for prospective non-terrestrial objects. According to Villarroel and her team, one way to overcome this problem is by scanning earlier photographic plate projects such as the First Palomar Sky Survey (POSS-1), which is the focus of the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project.
“We expect the project to yield many interesting findings over time,” reads a statement on the website of the VASCO Network, “maybe even some anomalous objects and events — could aliens be responsible for any of those?”
“We show that even the small pieces of reflective debris in orbit around the Earth can be identified through searches for multiple transients in old photographic plate material exposed before the launch of the first human satellite in 1957,” the researchers state in the paper’s abstract. According to Villarroel and her coauthors, images depicting what they identify as “simultaneous transients” may hold the key to detecting evidence of non-terrestrial artifacts that may have been lurking in Earth’s orbit since the days prior to Sputnik.
Beatriz Villarroel of the Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics and Stockholm University
(Image Credit: Karl Nordlund/Stockholm University)
“About 80% of the very fast bright flashes (glints) in our sky are the result of artificial objects with highly reflective, flat surfaces,” Villarroel recently told The Debrief. These objects, many of them relatively small according to Villarroel, may be found in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth.
“A fast glint like this will look like a star in an image,” Villarroel says, “and sometimes one can see several glints from the same object in an image (or from different ones). Space debris and satellites in geosynchronous orbits can leave multiple glints in an image.
“Multiple glints in sky images is, therefore, a typical signature of artificial objects,” Villarroel says. By looking at some of the earliest photographic plates collected by 20th-century astronomers, the VASCO team thinks they could easily discern the presence of any reflective objects in geosynchronous orbits (GEO) since they would appear as short lines in these photographs, the length of which can be used as an indicator of their speed and position in orbit (satellites at higher GEO altitudes produce fast, transient glints that result from the light they reflect from the Sun).
Of particular interest to Villarroel and her colleagues are the appearances of multiple glints, which may indicate a single object tumbling through space producing a series of flashes as its surfaces reflect sunlight, or possibly even the presence of several objects.
“We propose to look for multiple glints in image data before Sputnik I,” Villarroel told The Debrief. “If such signatures are found in a time when there were no high-altitude satellites, that could imply the presence of Non-Terrestrial Artifacts (NTAs) in orbits around the Earth.”
Although surveying photographic data from pre-satellite times offers obvious benefits to the search for non-terrestrial artifacts, there are challenges for modern researchers using this approach, since multiple glints in older sky survey imagery could be accounted for by a number of other things. These could include defects in the images that produce the appearance of star-like objects which, in fact, may simply be photographic artifacts.
“If one finds multiple glints in an image, we cannot know for sure that the observation is real as some defects might possibly look star-like,” Villarroel says. “And it is difficult to access the original photographic plates to examine the ‘stars’ under a microscope.”
One simple way that Villarroel and her colleagues have proposed to help narrow down any likely anomalies is to search or instances where they appear in a single line.
“The main proposal of the paper is, therefore, to look for an even clearer signature, which is to search for these multiple glints-events that on top of everything, also are aligned along a line,” Villarroel told The Debrief. Unlike plate defects, which could most often be expected to appear randomly across the image, Villarroel says that genuine glints of light detected by cameras, possibly produced by debris or satellites of unknown origin, would produce consistent glints of light along a line in an image.
Villarroel says there are several sources of imagery that astronomers can use for such surveys, many of which are freely available. However, an added benefit of conducting multiple surveys could be that the presence of any anomalies detected in one photographic plate collection, if thereafter found in a separate set of images, could help confirm the presence of a genuine anomaly.
“Many observatories have their photographic plate collections,” Villarroel says. “Finding similar examples of ‘multiple transients’ in other image data sets could help to confirm the effect. Also, we have predicted some shapes and glinting patterns in our recent preprint that one can use to search for the predicted objects in modern datasets.”
Along with her efforts with the Vasco Network, Villarroel is a research team member of The Galileo Project, a scientific effort led by astronomer Avi Loeb aimed at detecting extraterrestrial technological signatures produced by Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs).
“The Galileo project is excellently suited for these searches,” Villarroel told The Debrief.
With decades of imagery now in hand, modern advances in computer imaging and artificial intelligence could prove to be instrumental in helping astronomers make a breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Considering some of the early observations by Lincoln La Paz and other astronomers at the dawn of the Space Age, it would indeed be ironic if it were ever proven that evidence of extraterrestrial technologies had been lurking much closer to home than most would have ever expected.
When asked about some of the intriguing observations that preceded the earliest launch of artificial satellites in 1957, Villarroel says cases from decades ago might indeed be worthy of renewed attention from modern astronomers, especially if the current efforts to analyze photographic plate collections ever turns up anything odd.
“These historical examples would be very interesting for us to look at through the VASCO glasses,” Villarroel says.
Micah Hanks is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. Follow his work at micahhanks.com and on Twitter: @MicahHanks.
For years, NASA whistleblowers have been claiming that they saw evidence of extraterrestrials. They believe Earth is in regular contact with intelligent beings of other worlds. How true are these claims? Are there really artificial structures on Moon, secret colonies on Mars, Apollo 11 alleged UFO encounter, etc.? Well, these conspiracies shaped the field of UFOlogy which have come to an extent that now NASA officially joined hands in the UFO investigation. The agency finally admitted the gravity of the situation.
Moreover, a big revelation on UFOs and extraterrestrial life was made by former NASA research scientist Kevin Knuth in 2018 on his personal blog that probably went unnoticed. Knuth shared the UFO evidence he collected in his professional career that intentionally was covered by the government around the world.
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Kevin Knuth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Albany. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy. He is a former NASA research scientist having worked for four years at NASA Ames Research Center in the Intelligent Systems Division.
Kevin Knuth. Image credit: Altpropulsion
Kevin Knuth described two personal stories about the speculation of extraterrestrials. The first one came at a 2002 NASA Contact Conference, which focused on serious speculation about extraterrestrials. During the meeting, a concerned participant said loudly in a sinister tone, “You have absolutely no idea what is out there!” The silence was palpable as the truth of this statement sunk in.
His second story is from 1988. During his graduation from Montana State University, his physics professor told the class that he had colleagues working at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, where they were having problems with UFOs shutting down nuclear missiles. This very news was later confirmed when Knuth saw a recording of the press conference featuring several former US Air Force personnel, with a couple from Malmstrom AFB, describing similar occurrences in the 1960s
Professor Knuth firmly believes in the alien life and non-terrestrial nature of UFOs. He is inspired by the theory given by nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi about contact with intelligent civilizations. Fermi estimated there were about 300 billion stars in the galaxy, many of them billions of years older than the Sun, with a large percentage of them likely to host habitable planets. Even if intelligent life developed on a very small percentage of these planets, then there should be a number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy. Depending on the assumptions, one should expect anywhere from tens to tens of thousands of civilizations.
In 1961, American scientist Frank Drake took the first steps to quantify the field by developing the now-famous “Drake Equation,” a simple algebraic expression that provides an estimate for the number of communicating civilizations in the Milky Way.
Professor Knuth estimated that it would take somewhere around 5 and 50 million years for a civilization like us to colonize the Milky Way. According to him, this should have happened in the history of our galaxy. But where is the evidence? This discrepancy between the expectation that there should be evidence of alien civilizations or visitations and the presumption that no visitations have been observed has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox.
Governments’ cover-up
Professor Knuth said that the topic of UFOs is considered taboo in the scientific community, with many organizations finding excuses for various UFO sightings. For example, there are times when the weather or human activities are excuses for alien sightings. The result is that UFOs are largely not included as a possibility for scientific study and discussions.
Further, he stated, the situation is worsened by the fact that many governments around the world have covered up and classified information about such encounters. But there are enough scraps of evidence that suggest that the problem needs to be open to scientific study (which has already begun).
Strong UFO evidence from the past
Professor Knuth says there have been documented cases of UFO sightings, including through telescopes. He said that sightings go all the way back to the 1700s which are well-documented in the book “Wonders in the Sky” by Jacques Vallée. He discussed one study performed by an astrophysicist at Stanford University named Peter Sturrock, when the professor found out that 5 percent of UFO sightings were never explained.
Declassified document describing a sighting of a UFO in December 1977, in Bahia, a state in northern Brazil. Arquivo Nacional Collection
He also said that numerous countries had declassified UFO files, including Canada, France, Ecuador, and the United Kingdom. There are cases when the United States even funded alien probes, but some findings have not been declassified yet. Knuth argues that these cases should encourage scientific research.
He considered the footage released by the Chilean government in 2017 as the most convincing observations that came from government officials. Former NASA research scientists asked the scientific community to begin investigation on UFOs four years earlier, which hints at how much the scientists lost as the UFO topic was taboo for them.
This Saturday's 2022 World UFO Day sees the topic imbued with new energy. Evinced by the first congressional hearings on unidentified flying objects — what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena, in more than 50 years, the topic is being taken far more seriously by more of the government. Here are three takeaways on where things stand and what those interested in the subject might want to consider.
1) UFOs are real, but a major government conspiracy is unlikely.
Most of those inside the intelligence community and military who have studied the range of more recent video, sensor data sets, and historic reports on UFOs recognize that a small but significant number of UFOs are truly something "other." This "other" bin characterized the intelligence community's 2021 allotment of those UFOs that remain truly unexplained. It bears constant repeating, after all, that the vast majority of UFOs are a mixture of drones, balloons, manned aircraft, and weather phenomena.
Nevertheless, thanks to modern radar, video, sonar, and satellite sensors, the military can now collect and analyze the flight characteristics, performance capability, and signatures of these "other" bin UFOs in great detail. The ensuing assessments have been striking: The government knows that these UFOs can operate at speeds many thousands of miles per hour faster than top U.S. military aircraft and at hundreds of G-forces. Some analysts believe this seemingly impossible performance relates to the objects' propulsion systems. Many of these UFOs have no obvious jet propulsion system or flight surfaces, for example.
The government knows these UFOs can operate over 100 knots underwater, hence why pending congressional legislation may require Navy submariners to report unconventional sonar contacts — something, as I have reported, that naval submarine forces have been reluctant to do until now.
The government knows these UFOs tend to saturate near high technology military or research sites, particularly those possessing nuclear power and weapons, such as Navy aircraft carriers.
Whether these UFOs are of an extraterrestrial, extradimensional, extratemporal, unknown Earth intelligence or some "extra" origin is unclear. Maybe different UFOs fall into a number or none of these categories. Regardless, the top line is clear: The government knows these UFOs are intelligently controlled vehicles that do not comport with anything in the U.S., Chinese, or Russian inventories.
That's why most government and military officials don't really know what to say about the subject. But it's also why some, such as Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, now openly observe that these UFOs may be of extraterrestrial origin. It's also a reason that the military and intelligence community are reticent to address this subject more openly. Take the approach of Pentagon intelligence chief Robert Moultrie and the Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray during their May testimonies on UFOs before the House Intelligence Committee.
Bray, who is highly respected, sought to underplay the unknown in UFOs. Instead, he presented it as centering on the air safety concern of ensuring U.S. military aircrews do not collide with UFOs, which aircrew testimony would suggest has occurred far more times than commonly understood. But a key point in Bray's presentation came when he played video footage showing a UFO flying past a Navy fighter jet's cockpit. This video was striking, except not for what it showed. It was striking what it showed us about how the military approaches UFOs.
Because there are many far more compelling videos of UFOs in the government's inventory. These videos are longer in length, better in image resolution, and supported by separate sensor data from platforms such as radar. They show UFOs that are clearly of a highly unconventional nature. Not showing these videos and rather providing an unclear image of a transitory UFO, Bray sought to take the figurative and literal wind out of the UFO subject. The operative question returns: Why?
For one, because Bray and company are justifiably far more concerned about preparing for a war with China than they are with figuring out UFOs. They don't want resource diversion. But it's also because, beyond knowing that these UFOs are truly something "other," that's about all they know. It's not easy for those who are paid to give answers to difficult questions, and are very good at doing so, to say, "Honestly, senator, we don't have a [enter expletive of choice] clue what these things are."
This doesn't mean there are secrets yet to reach the light of day. But I'm now confident that there hasn't been some kind of major covert government effort since the 1940s to reverse engineer UFOs or study alien bodies a la Bob Lazar lore. What's more likely is that there has been a more limited conspiracy since the late 1940s within what might be called the deep-deep state: unofficial units or contractors acting without congressional or executive oversight. This may be particularly relevant to the purported retrieval of UFOs — the holy grail of UFO research. But if these programs have been run "off the books," thus entailing the concealment of reporting requirements from Congress and the executive branch, the only way to know what they've been doing is to grant them immunity or prove in a court of law that they broke the law. The former option will be far easier than the latter.
2) Identifying UFOs is the key, not fetishizing everything as a truly extraordinary UFO.
It's unhelpful when we fetishize the "unknown" in UFOs when evidence exists that some UFOs have a conventional explanation. When we fetishize the idea that UFOs that defy immediate explanation are from Zeta Reticuli, it stigmatizes prudent governmental, scientific, and media inquiry into the subject. To gain greater buy-in from these communities, the UFO subject needs segregation between its entertainment facets, including TV shows such as Ancient Aliens and The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch, and its investigatory elements. And its investigatory elements must follow the facts even where they lead to more boring outcomes.
As an example of the risk of fetishizing everything as unknown, consider how UFO Twitter has recently been abuzz over the reports of an unidentified rocket crash on the far side of the Moon. Is this the result of a crashed alien expedition? No. The crash very likely involves the remnants of a Chinese rocket from 2014. Communist China, being Communist China, simply refuses to admit that it owns the rocket. What at first appears amazing actually has a quite simple answer.
Another example comes from Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti's recent excellent reporting. As they outlined this month, a seemingly extraordinary mass UFO sighting by Navy personnel in 2019 actually involved Chinese military surveillance drones. While others continue to insist that this incident involved extraordinary UFOs instead of or alongside the Chinese drones, the new reporting is clear. So is the appropriate conclusion: Some seemingly extraordinary UFOs are actually conventional aircraft.
We shouldn't be afraid to admit this. Indeed, at the crux of the broader UFO question is the interest in finding out what is flying around us and for what purpose. Knowing that foreign adversaries are using the abundance of more affordable, durable, and stealthy drones to operate closer to U.S. shores, the United States can better protect those shores. Knowing what is not an extraordinary UFO, we can better focus resources on what is.
3) The stigma-denial dam is imploding and can't be repaired.
One concern I frequently hear from those interested in this subject is that those who wish to prevent further public disclosure will somehow succeed in doing so.
That is highly unlikely.
A few years ago, lower classification levels applied to various videos of UFOs saw them widely shared across intelligence networks. The pilots are coming forward. The sonar operators are beginning to speak up. The Space Force is engaged. The most senior officials in the U.S. government speak awkwardly but with total seriousness about the subject — if much preferring to do so behind closed doors. The dam has been broken. Most important of all, Congress has got its teeth into UFOs, and it isn't letting go.
Some representatives and senators from both parties, especially on the intelligence committees, have been shown exceptional imagery and reporting that suggests that some UFOs are truly extraordinary in nature. They want to know what these exceptional UFOs are, where they come from, and how and for what purpose they operate. At a minimum, the military recognizes that it must figure out what these UFOs are before the Chinese or Russians do — those nations are trying to do so. The risks of an adversary replicating the involved technologies would feasibly be catastrophic to U.S. national security.
This is not to say that there aren't risks. To achieve greater attention from scientists and journalists, whose professions retain stigma for this, those involved in UFO research must act prudently. The subject also requires introspective journalism. As Steven Greenstreet recently noted, for example, the seemingly unsupervised expenditure of millions of dollars in taxpayer money on paranormal matters by contractors such as Robert Bigelow must no longer be considered acceptable. Side note: I disagree with Greenstreet on other areas of recent UFO research efforts. Former UFO research lead, Luis Elizondo, for example, is deeply respected by many military and intelligence officers for driving the UFO issue forwards against significant countermanding pressure.
Still, the trend lines are obviously and overwhelmingly positive. We are living in a revolutionary era of UFO research and analysis. I am highly confident that the implications for science and philosophy will be profound.
Do you know that Manitoba (Canada) has the highest number of UFO sightings in the past 200 years? According to a 2015 poll, over 2000 UFO sightings have been recorded. Among these sightings, Stefan Michalak’s case is the most discussed UFO encounter that happened in 1967 near famous Falcon Lake in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Not only we are talking about seeing an extraterrestrial flying craft but also about a contact made between the victim and the craft that resulted in serious burns.
On May 20, 1967, 51-year-old Stefan Michalak, an industrial mechanic and amateur geologist left his motel at around 5:30 in the morning and went to Falcon Lake to prospect for the quartz rocks. Suddenly, his attention was attracted by two oval objects, appearing in the sky with reddish glowing. He noticed the objects coming down at great speed towards the ground, but one of them hovered and stopped in the air, while the other one continued descending and landed about 50 meters from it.
Stefan Michalak with burns on his chest after encountering a UFO near Falcon Lake, Canada
After some time, the UFO that was in the air changed its color from red to grey and flew away to the west. The object that landed near it also glowed grey at first and then changed to a color similar to “hot stainless steel,” surrounded by a golden-hued glow.
An Encounter
Michalak’s mind was full of curiosity but at the same time, he was scared. For 30 minutes, he was standing near the rock where he was examining quartz formation and drew a sketch of the saucer-shaped object. According to him, the UFO was 12 meters in diameter and 4.5 meters in height.
Anyway, he decided to check it closely. As he approached 60-feet from the object, not only he heard the hum and the smell of sulfur, but he also heard two humanlike voices emanating from the hatch at the bottom of the UFO, which looked like a door.
A sketch by Stefan Michalak
At first, he thought that the object was an American experimental test vehicle, so he sarcastically said: “Okay, Yankee boys, having trouble? Come on out and we’ll see what we can do about it.” Having received no answer, he tried greeting in different languages, but still no response. Therefore, without any second thought, he put his head into the half-open hatch and saw something like a dashboard and a huge number of glowing lights.
As Michalak was examining quartz rocks, fortunately, he was wearing safety goggles so that the bright light could not blind him. But then, the hatch suddenly closed again, and he quickly recoiled not to be pinched. At the same time, he touched the outer surface of the mysterious spaceship which burned his glove, so received a burn on his hand. Next, the craft changed its position and a gridlike exhaust vent was facing toward him. A hot gaseous substance was thrown out of it in his direction. His clothes immediately caught fire, and only with great difficulty, he managed to extinguish the fire. The UFO flew into the air and disappeared, leaving Michalak alone with severe pain and nausea.
Stefan Michalak with his welding goggles
“I’m not so close-minded that I can’t entertain the possibility that it’s otherworldly. I can’t discount that. But without specific evidence to show me that it is, I don’t know. What I can tell you is that I’m an aviation fanatic, a huge aviation buff, and I am very familiar with how aviation technology has advanced in the past 50 years. And there was nothing even close to that in the works anywhere at that time,” Michalak said.
Aftermath Of The Encounter
During a subsequent medical examination, doctors found burns on his chest in the form of a mesh pattern, which fully corresponded to his story. In the following months, he had to contend with health problems such as loss of appetite, weight loss, swelling, and fainting. Michalak died in 1999 at the age of 83.
Stefan’s clothes that were burnt during his contact with the UFO
Stefan Michalak and his alleged encounter with the alien craft at Lake Falcon has been the subject of a big research, and Canadian UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski, who co-authored the book “When They Appeared” with him, spent many years studying and collecting countless documents, statements, photographs and personal belongings of Michalak.
Rutkowski told the reporters that Michalak had been treated at the Misericordia Hospital, where he was examined by doctors for the first time. Then he was transferred to the Mayo clinic. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Canadian Air Force, who were investigating, admitted that they had no explanation for what had happened.
A piece of radioactive metal that was retrieved one year after the incident
During the investigation, Michalak’s welding gloves and shirt were examined but nothing could be found in the analysis. A circle of 4.5 meters left at the landing site and area was declared radioactive.
More than 50 years after the incident, Rutkowski transferred all documents and items related to this case to the archives of the University of Manitoba.
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Three White UFOs Seen Over Forest After Storm, Alberta, Canada June 22, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Three White UFOs Seen Over Forest After Storm, Alberta, Canada June 22, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:June 22, 2022
Location of sighting: Lodgepole, Alberta, Canada
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These UFOs were recorded flying over the forest after a thunderstorm. They are moving together...three white spheres about the size of cars. They move about as if they were playing. I have long suspected Alberta to be an ancient grounds of an alien base that once sat above the ground. Due to the fact that at Medicine Hat, Alberta there is a huge Indian face visible on Google map only. The detail is as if Da Vinci himself made it. It should be impossible, and yet the face exists. These UFOs are about 300km from the face, and yet...I feel they are tied together...proof that each is significant because the evidence is now doubled.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I witnessed these 3 orbs shortly after a major thunder storm. They where traveling from the east to a NW direction against a strong head wind.
Cross shaped UFO firing huge laser beam at the sun
Cross shaped UFO firing huge laser beam at the sun
UFO firing a huge laser beam towards the sun but what could be the reason that UFOs always firing beams at the sun.
Next, a possible EMV (Electro Magnetic Vehicle) captured near the sun. It's unknown why these unknown extraterrestrial objects, these EMV's, which are perceived in different forms, continue to orbit the sun but according to some researchers who have analyzed these objects suggest that these EMV's are used to calm down the sun's activity.
And an unknown object that appears to consist of three bright circular parts passing the sun.
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Congress Holds UFO Hearings first in 50 years
Military pilots have encountered in more than 140 sightings in the last year t according to the top Pentagon officials
UFOs provided few answers to Congress on May 17, 2021, 17, 2022. . (Reuters) – Two top U.S. defense intelligence officials said on Tuesday the Pentagon is committed to determining the origins of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs) in the first public congressional hearing in more than 50 years concerning phenomena commonly known as UFOs.
Scott Bray Ron Moultrie
The two officials, Ronald Moultrie and Scott Bray, appeared before a U.S. House of Representatives intelligence subcommittee 11 months after a report documenting more than 140 cases of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, that U.S. military pilots have reported observing since 2004.
Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, acknowledged that there have been some sightings that U.S. officials “can’t explain.” Some of those involved instances in which there was too little data to create a reasonable explanation, Bray said.
But Bray added: “There are a small handful of cases in which we have more data that our analysis simply hasn’t been able to fully pull together a picture of what happened.” These, Bray said, have involved unexpected “flight characteristics” or “signature management.”
“When it comes to material that we have, we have no material, we have detected no emanations, within the UAB task force that would suggest it is anything non-terrestrial in origin,” Bray added.
The term UFO, for unidentified flying object, has long been widely associated with the notion of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
“We know that our service members have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena, and because UAP pose potential flight safety and general security risks, we are committed to a focused effort to determine their origins,” Moultrie, who oversees a newly formed Pentagon-based UAP investigation team as U.S. defense undersecretary for intelligence and security, told the hearing.
Bray presented the panel with two UAP video clips.. One showed a shiny, spherical object zipping past the cockpit window of a military aircraft.
Actual UFO/UAP flying past pilot’s window of airline
“I do not have an explanation for what this specific object is,” Bray said.
Moultrie and Bray also said the Pentagon was determined to remove the stigma long associated with sightings of unexplained flying objects by encouraging pilots to come forward when they observe such phenomena.
The notion of alien spacecraft received no mention in last June’s UAP presentation. The focus, instead, was on possible implications for U.S. national security and aviation safety, as it was in Tuesday’s hearing.
The report did, however, include some UAPs previously revealed in Pentagon-released video footage of enigmatic airborne objects exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technology and lacking any visible means of propulsion or flight-control surfaces.
That report was nine-page “preliminary assessment” compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and a Navy-led task force the Pentagon formed in 2020.
‘THEY ARE REAL’
Subcommittee chairman Andre Carson said it was important for the Pentagon to take the issue of UAPs seriously.
“UAPs are unexplained, it’s true. But they are real,” Carson said, raising concerns that Pentagon officials have in the past focused on cases that are relatively easy to explain while “avoiding the ones that cannot be explained.”
Carson asked Moultrie, “Can we get some kinds of assurances that your analysts will follow the facts where they lead and assess all hypotheses?”
“Absolutely,” Moultrie responded. “So, we’re open to all hypotheses. We’re open to any conclusions that we may encounter.”
Carson asked Moultrie, “Can we get some kinds of assurances that your analysts will follow the facts where they lead and assess all hypotheses?”
“Absolutely,” Moultrie responded. “So, we’re open to all hypotheses. We’re open to any conclusions that we may encounter.
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Eisenhower had contract with the aliens may have taken place when President Eisenhower was in office as he was extremely interested in UFOs and ETs: there is evidence that he met with ETs secretly, at least three times.
Once at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) in California and twice at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. Since the Eisenhower meetings, other instances of UFOs landing at or near Holloman AFB have been reported.
1954 Eisenhower ET Meeting at Edwards AFB
President Eisenhower, who had been a five-star Army general, always had a “strong belief in life on other planets.” In February 1954, he was spending several days in Palm Springs on vacation. He disappeared for several hours one Saturday afternoon and even missed a scheduled public dinner. He was not seen again until late the following morning.
The press questioned Ike’s whereabouts, so the White House Press Secretary told them that Ike had chipped a tooth and gone to see a dentist. Even at that time, rumors were that he was visiting ETs at nearby Edwards AFB. The dentist’s story falls apart upon close inspection. Washington Post Staff Writer, Peter Carlson, denies the story of the chipped tooth and calls it a cover-up.
Meeting Agenda from Eisenhower Museum showing his Doodling of Triangle UFOs
The Eisenhower Presidential Library has detailed reports of all Eisenhower’s medical and dental records. There is no reference to a broken or chipped tooth or dentist visit related to the Palm Springs visit. The library also has copies of acknowledgments that were sent to everyone Eisenhower had contact with while in Palm Springs. There were records of people who met the airplane, people who sent flowers, and the minister who gave the sermon at the Sunday service he attended, and others who played minor roles. But there is no proof of a note sent to a dentist. Years later, the dentist’s widow said she had no recollection of ever being told by her husband that he had done dental work on the President. Another little-known fact is that Eisenhower had also been a pilot.
Corroborating Evidence of the ET Visit
William Cooper, who was on the Naval Intelligence briefing team and had access to classified documents, is a credible witness. His Review of Those Documents revealed that ETs had had contact with Earth. They had warned that the Earth was “on a path of self-destruction” and they wanted to meet to help effectuate a long-lasting peace.
Alien Meeting with Eisenhower
The first meeting with the aliens and President Eisenhower occurred at Edwards AFB in February 1954. Navy Commander Charles L. Suggs reported that his father had attended the meeting between Ike and the ETS. Eisenhower met with two Nordic appearing, blue-eyed ETs. A third one stood near the door as a lookout.
Alleged Meeting at airfield with aliens
The discussions were polite. Eisenhower wanted to effectuate a treaty with the aliens but was unwilling to agree to their demand that we cease testing nuclear weapons. The aliens left with no treaty in place but returned the next year to Holloman AFB in New Mexico, not too far from the famous Roswell alien aircraft crash site, for a subsequent meeting with Eisenhower.
I asked Chief of Staff General Goodpaster about Eisenhower drawing both triangle and disc shaped craft on his meeting agendas? He explained that the President was an artist and doodled with a pencil almost continuously.
Gerald Light’s Letter
A man named Gerald Light wrote a letter in April 1954 claiming to have been an eyewitness to the Edwards AFB meeting between Eisenhower and ETs. Light provided details such as watching Air Force officials studying five craft with the permission of their alien owners!
Meade Layne, the former director of Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, confirms and believes Light did know first-hand what occurred. Thanks to
“Victor One” on Saturday, March 16, 1957, at 8:00 AM. President Eisenhower, Vice President Richard Nixon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff–all rush to the Oval Office to meet with the extraterrestrial. When Valiant Thor who was from Venus explains his presence, the men ponder his endless technological possibilities. He was Valiant Thor was passionate about and warned of the dangers of nuclear war. Also, he could provide the secrets of good health and long life.
Valiant Thor at right
They contemplate their future strategy either using friendship or force to gain control. Thor’s three-year invitation to reside at the Pentagon under VIP status begins.
A designated General in the Joint Chiefs of Staff has plans to climb the military ladder. Thor is his goal. To attain what Thor knows will ensure the United States military supremacy. President could not deliver the results for which he came, Val turned to evangelist Frank Stranges. Thanks to Frank Chili
Note:
When I was courier to General LeMay, I was personally shown the residence of the alien from Venus in the Pentagon, but I was refused a meeting with him.
Aliens May Live on Spaceships
Astronaut Gordon Cooper
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 Colonel 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 crafts loop in and around our planet. Further they send out smaller scout craft for missions (whatever they may be) to Earth. They may have traveled great distances here over decades or hundreds of years and their huge ships serve as replacement and space-faring planets. Thanks to Sam Sherman.
Interior of Spaceship
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.” NASA Ames Research Center designed a space colony habitat 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 it yield an abundant supply of substances such as aluminum, concrete, soil, oxygen, and probably water, but lifting the materials off the moon will require twentieth the energy needed to lift them off Earth, because the Moon has such weak gravitational pull. We have to 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 few minute rides 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.
A contour plot of the effective potential due to gravity and the centrifugal force of a two-body system in a rotating frame of reference. The arrows indicate the gradients of the potential around the five Lagrange points—downhill toward them (red) or away from them (blue).
It happens there five places in space (L-1 thru L-5) in space 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.
Moon Construction on Apollo 17
Edge of crater appears under construction during Apollo 17 in 1972
AS 17 -150- 23085 Huge opening ins side of crater, large enough for UFOs to enter. Crater edge thought to be six miles high to bottom of crater. Likely mining is occurring underground of rare metals. Ingo Swan and several other researchers were able to see mining going on of a black substance. Apollo 17 was the sixth and last Apollo mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface
In 195 the Clementine Mission take the same crater edge with ten-mile-long construction on the Moon.
It is interesting that a huge structure is built to the right of the crater opening. The dug-up substance could be manufactured in the large building. Ingo Swan and several researchers attempted to remote view the moon while at my home. We discovered mining of a dark substance underground. It is very similar to two samples retrieved by the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, Lunar Sample 15466 and Lunar Sample 70019 respectively. Both these samples, retrieved from impact craters, are classified as breccia – a type of rock made up of chunks of rock cemented together by finer material. In both cases, the chunks are lunar regolith, and the cement is black glass. Several of the structures on the Moon appear to be made of glass such has the tower. Aliens apparently this glass as is very strong and allows some light to penetrate.
This photo appears to be blank photo but adjusting contrast brings out a pyramid on the Moon taken during Apollo 17 landing. Apollo 17 was the final mission of the US Apollo lunar landing program of humans on the Moon. Launched on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module, Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned Moon landing and the most recent crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit.
European Council President Michel says he backs Moldova’s Finland, and Sweden bids to join NATO.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu shakes hands with European Council President Charles Michel in Chisinau [Vladislav Culiomza/Reuters]
European Council President Charles Michel has pledged to raise the European Union’s military aid to Moldova, a neighboring small country to Ukraine where tensions are rising following a series of explosions in a pro-Russia separatist region.
“This year we plan to significantly increase our support to Moldova by providing its armed forces with additional military equipment,” Michel told a joint news conference with Moldova’s President Maia Sandu during a visit to Chișinău International Airport (IATA: LUKK) is Moldova‘s main international airport, located 13 km (8.1 mi) southeast of the center of Chișinău, the capital city. It serves as headquarters for Air Moldova, the country’s national airline.
Finland, and Sweden also wish to join NATO. This is a dramatic turn for Finland and Sweden that have defined their identities around nonalignment — Finland, for decades, and Sweden for two centuries. It will bring close partners into alliance, strengthening NATO’s presence in Northern Europe and putting more pressure on Russia’s borders. After resisting NATO membership for so long, it is a signal from Finland and Sweden they are united alongside Europe, the United States, and its allies during a crisis moment for the continent.
Babies and Mother’s Lives Matter
Greg Abbott, Border Patrol union prez and Texas Govenor slam Biden for shipping pallets of baby formula to illegals amid shortage
Children are our most vulnerable, precious Texans and deserve to be put first. Yet, President Biden has turned a blind eye to parents across America who are facing the nightmare of a nationwide baby formula shortage,”
Fox news reports taking photos Friday morning May 13, of the Ursula Processing Center on the Southern Border of shelves and pallets full of Baby formulas for illegal immigrants. The second is from a shelf right here at home where the shelves are empty. Thirteen states are without the formula.
Apparently illegal immigrants are more important than American citizens. So, if you need formula take a plane to Mexico and cross the border illegally and get all the formula you need free from the government.
Planned Parenthood More Dangerous than Atomic Bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs
The Hiroshima atomic bomb toll was 90,000 to 150,000 dead, while the Nagasaki atomic bomb was 75,000 killed and wounded in. A total of 225,000 were killed in the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II. Each year five to six times the number are killed by the two atomic bomb attacks on Japan that can be compared to the 1,3000,000 babies aborted with their hearts beating according to the Planned Parenthood figures last year. From 1975-2019, the nation saw more than one million abortions each year. Since 1973, the Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade genocide has taken the lives of sixty-three million (62,502,904) babies with their hearts beating in the United States as of 2020, more than ten times the six million Jews that Hitler gassed in the Holocaust his death camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_
This is thought to be the greatest genocide in the history of the world. Genocide is considered one of the worst moral crimes a government can commit against its citizens. A democratic controlled Supreme Court in 1973, struck down anti-abortion laws that had been in force in every year for all states since at least 1900. It struck down many U.S. federal and state and various anti-abortion laws that protected the lives of unborn babies.
If a pregnant mother is killed the law lists two lives taken but ignores abortions.
“Planned Parenthood appeared under oath in court on September 4, 2019, and admitted supplying the cut-up body parts of children in the womb to for-profit brokers like Stem Express. “Elliot Institute studied 173,000 American women who either had abortions or carried to term. the idea that abortion is at the root of women’s psychological ills”. Many women slip into years of depression, drinking and freebasing cocaine. he is now equally certain, she slipped into years of depression, drinking and freebasing cocaine. Abortions often ruin marriages.
Planned Parenhood recieves $528 million per year plus numerous medical expenses
The Planned Parenthood Clinics should be referred to as extermination death camps when they admitted to negotiating the harvesting and sale of aborted fetal baby body parts, cutting up babies and selling their parts on the open market according to their revelations in recent court cases. Additionally, they often brief inside high schools telling the teenagers how to get an abortion never mentioning that women who abort unusually die younger than women who have babies. Spend $450 million dollars supporting Congressmen who vote to give them money.
This was judicial activism to write the murder of millions of babies each year. A human being is considered alive if their heart is beating usually at about six weeks’ gestation and dead if the heart is not beating, when a person’s heart stops, he is declared dead; therefore, when a person’s heart begins to beat, there can no longer be a question if he or she is alive.
Baby’s Killed after Birth
New York is protecting Women’s Rights to murder their babies up to include after the actual birth seems barbaric. Today it is simple to determine if you are pregnant and can take a pill to abort before the baby’s heart is beating at six weeks. Pack of twenty to test if you are pregnant costs $7.59 ($0.38 cents for each test. The emergency contraceptive pill can be purchased for $15.00 online. The point is if a woman wishes to stop her pregnancy, she can accomplish that for a small amount of money.
Planned Parenthood Federation received $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars between fiscal years 2016 and 2018. Biden Spends First 100 Days Expanding Abortion on Demand
Planned Parenthood has funded Democrats elections with $450 million dollars for the 2020, election. I wonder how many scientists, doctors, singers have been killed? Hundreds of workers in the clinics have quit giving amazing stories of cruelty.
I have no trouble with birth control procedures, but recently Democratic Federal Judges slapped down heartbeat laws in six states that limited abortion to six weeks when the baby’s heart starts beating. The laws were initially passed in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.
Mental Health and high Suicide rate of Abortion Women is often Ignored
An Article by Julia Steinberg and colleagues in The Lancet Psychiatry, in which the authors examined the risk of first suicide attempt before and after abortion. The authors concluded that women who had abortions had a six times higher risk of suicide attempts compared with women who did not have an abortion. This risk is thought to be six times higher. It not only the babies that are exterminated. A recent study in Finland of 10,000 women who had abortions were actually 3.5 times more likely to die within a year than those who carried their pregnancy to birth. A British study indicated 451 out of 10,000 mothers committed suicide. No suicide data is kept on Women who abort babies in the U.S. Assuming the British suicide rate also applies to the U.S. and the 1, 300,000, abortions each year then about 4500 U.S. women commit suicide each year after their abortion. Additionally some 85% of those who have an abortion are thought to be mentally ill due to the realization you have killed your baby. Https://www.afterabortion.org/PAR/V8/n2/finland.html
Abortion Is Four Times Deadlier than Childbirth New Studies Unmask High Maternal Death Rates from Abortion David C. Reardon, Ph.D. https://www.afterabortion.org/PAR/V8/n2/finland.html
There is also evidence that Brest cancer is more prevalent in women who had abortions. Abortion is an invasive procedure, involving surgical tools being inserted inside a woman’s body and used to tear apart and terminate a child. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, admits that in this invasive procedure, “serious complications may be fatal.
“Women who Abort make Six times more attempts at Suicide
Elliot Institute
Dr. David Reardon founded the Elliot Institute when he found that women who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than women who gave birth. Another survey cited by Reardon in his book “Aborted Women, Silent No More” (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books,) stated, “Up to 60% of women who had abortions had subsequent suicidal feelings, with 28% actually 364,000 attempting suicide each year. Help stop one million women from attempting suicide in the next three years, many thousands are successful!
A study, published in the Southern Medical Journal, was performed in California using the Medicaid records of 173,279 women. They found the following results:
“Compared with women who delivered, those who aborted had a significantly higher risk of death from all causes (1.62), from suicide (2.54), from accidents (1.82), as well as a higher relative risk of death from natural causes (1.44), including AIDS (2.18), circulatory diseases (2.87), and cerebro-vascular disease (5.46) Higher death rates associated with abortion persist over time. This may be explained by self-destructive tendencies, depression, and other unhealthy behavior aggravated by the abortion experience.”
A study published in the Journal of Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology also cites that “ninety-four% of abortion-associated deaths were not identified from death certificates. “Death certificates or official reports are unreliable in reporting abortion related deaths. In addition, reporting abortion complications and making complaints has been known to be difficult for women.
Planned Parenthood’s legion of abortionists have killed a number of children equal to the population of the entire states of New Jersey or Virginia.
These babies need Protection
Why if a pregnant woman is killed the law states two persons’ have been killed, but if a baby is killed during an abortion nothing is said.
Roe v. Wade was a landmark legal decision issued on January 22, 1973, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute banning abortion, legalizing abortions across the United States effectively changing the laws in fifty states to allow the killing of babies in the womb. Previously, abortion was not allowed except to save a woman’s life or for rape. It allows a human being with a viable heartbeat to be killed. Since 1973 some sixty-two million babies have been murdered many after being born. Hitler was only able to kill six million in concentration camps ten times less than Planned Parenthood like facilities in the US. Democrats support the bill because much of their donations come from Planned Parenthood and people who wish to have an abortion.
Getting Money is more important that the murder of babies. Planned Parenthood indicated they have $500 million dollars to use to win the election for Democrats. The Roman Catholic Church is against abortion and some priests will not give the Lord’s supper to Catholics who defy the church
Babies holding each other’s hands forming a line would go around the world at least twice.
It seems the high abortion rate is not lost on the young black men who slaughter almost ten thousand each year in the U.S. mostly with guns. Each day 2700 babies will be murdered making life very cheap.
Planned Parenthood clinics and others are no longer scheduling abortions beyond the six-week mark in Texas after a new state law came into effect banning most procedures. The new law came into effect at midnight after the U.S. Supreme Court did not act on an emergency request by pro-abortionists.
In New York hospitals, you can find premature newborn babies surrounded by dedicated doctors and nurses fighting to save their lives. Next door, you now might find physicians and non-physicians alike giving lethal injections to babies the same age, thanks to the state’s new so-called Reproductive Health Act
Women having abortions also are much more likely to have a divorce.
New York Times writes about Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
The court has narrowed the scope of the case to one question: It asks “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” The case is an opportunity to dismantle the viability framework for regulating abortion, a framework that has proved to be both incoherent and inhumane.
Planned Non-Parenthood has fine buildings
Although strong majorities of Americans say that they support Roe when asked about it by name, majorities in some polls have also supportedbanning abortion beginning in the second trimester, which Roe does not allow. That standard would make our laws comparable with the laws of Europe, where many countries set a 12-week limit for elective abortions. The limit sounds more restrictive than it is in practice — in the United States, over 90 percent of abortions occur before 13 weeks.
A post-Roe world might not be as different as abortion opponents and supporters expect. But rejecting the viability standard offers the opportunity for a new conversation about how we care for the dignity of mothers and their children.
With abortion governed by a viability standard, women and babies are pitted against each other. Every advance that can save a wanted baby delivered early is a further constraint on women who do not want to carry their children to term. Researchers studying artificial wombs are warned that their research is threatening to abortion-rights advocates. A baby born at 22 weeks, would have a good shot at survival.
Special reports are President Eisenhower Met Aliens, Valiant Thor, Aliens May Live on Spaceships, Moon Construction on Apollo 17, European Council President Michel says he backs Moldova’s Finland, and Sweden bids to join NATO, Babies and Mother’s Lives Matter, Carbon 60, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Bahamas, Malta, New Zealand, Turkey, and England in the United Kingdom.
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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 aviators 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.
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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,
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Hot Springs on May 13, 2022, I was returning from taking my trash out at 7:30 pm when I noticed a cigar shaped light slowly and steadily moving in a NW direction. I was able to get a few seconds of it before I lost it behind trees.
California Object
Soledad on March 13, 2018, for 4 nights in a row there was a set of very bright lights stationary in the sky in the shape of what looked like a cross. Lights were in the exact spot all 4 nights. I would like to know what this this is.
Florida Lights
Orlando on May 6, 2021, was driving about an hour before sunrise when I noticed the cloud that seemed to be radiating 1 or 2 beams of light down to the ground. The sun had not rose yet and there were no other sources of light in the sky. I took pictures because I couldn’t explain it. A beam of light from an unknown source seeped through to the ground…
Pompano Beach May 6 2021, at 6 PM 200 miles south similar cloud and light just north of Fort Lauderdale
Lakelandon May 6, 2021, two objects the small light was yellow bright light downwards curving up towers object and you can see from the picture’s objects did not move and no sound
Hollywoodon May 6, 2022 , I was going north on I95 at 5:45 am on my way to work and the sky opens up leaving a white fussy plume begin it, the shape enlarges into a Tic Tac or short blimp the path was angle down and them made a quick turn upwards and continue east, the plume remains in the sky for several minutes after it disappeared
Georgia Object
Atlanta on May 5, 2021, I witnessed a diamond shape UFO hovering then take off quickly. It almost looked like a flying saucer.
Indiana Lights
Attica on April 21, 2022, we caught this over our Indiana farm. We’ve caught multiple UFOs on our trail cams. This sighting was at 10:00 PM. near Wabash. We think, this video is a row of satellites.
Note: The witnesses saw Star-Link satellites. A still image extracted from the video is shown above. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Nevada Lights
Las Vegason April 23, 2022, classic silent boomerang lasted 15 seconds with yellow lighting. The vehicle appeared to blink into existence, travelled 1500 feet then disappeared. There was another witness. We both looked at each other in awe! The picture is like what we saw but the lights were amber
New Jersey Lights
Berlin on April 21, 2022, I noticed a weird hovering blue lashing light. and a white light on the other side. It hovered over my neighbor’s house then stopped directly over my car. Slowly it moved off to Tansboro road. I could clearly hear the propellers yet hovered 2x for 5-10 seconds, so it wasn’t a plane. It had a circular dark shape flying at 60-75 feet off the ground and was 6 yards’ wide.
Pennsylvania Object
Atlantic Ocean on August 15, 2021, while on a flight from Florida to Maine, at 35,000 feet I observed a round, silver/metallic object, moving at incredible speeds. It made an abrupt turn unlike any aircraft. The video is very clear with several other objects.
Wisconsin Lights
uperior on May 14 2021, we observed a long bright band of light in the sky which we thought to be a comet, but as the object came into focus it seemed to be a long, bright, cigar shaped ship, traveling fairly quickly across the sky. The object seemed to have many windows and was lit from the inside. As it passed in front of us the “windows” seemed to “close.” rom us, before suddenly disappearing completely.
World Wide Sightings
Bahamas Object
Ocean Cay on April 29,, 2022, was on cruise MSC ship “Seashore” , we were on MSC private island “Ocean Cay”, around 5pm I was on my balcony, observing small islands with my 20X binocular, far away on horizon I noticed rectangular object which was hanging above horizon line, not moving. I made video clip using my cell phone and binocular. Object disappeared when I looked at it around 7pm
Malta Triangle
ZabbaON May 12, 2010, this was about 12 years ago. I was walking home at night I spotted lights. I could see this large triangular shaped object. It seemed to be made of dark metal. I remember vividly that in every corner of the bottom of the craft had three circular looking lights emitting a bluish-white light. Red light in center.
New Zealand Object
Hamilton on May 1, 2021, I heard a helicopter flying around and looked to see these 5 round lights going across the sky. I counted at least 20 satilites or space x as they moved strangely I have video that you can see strange lights..
Turkey Object
Antalya on May 6, 2021, oval and convex object spinning, all the time the light was flashing. When it began to fall, it simply disappeared in the sky.
UK/England Object
Kimpton, Hertfordshire, on May 2, 2021, for their annual Fun Run. I took two photos. In one of the photos a strange object is seen. The object was not visible to the naked eye, unknown source seeped through to the ground…
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NASA Found A Giant Glowing Wall At The End Of the Universe!
NASA Found A Giant Glowing Wall At The End Of the Universe!
NASA Found A Giant Glowing Wall At The End Of the Universe. Despite everything we’ve learned about our Universe, numerous existential issues have no clear answers. Our Universe’s size must be more than the amount we can view, yet we have no idea if it has an infinite or a finite scope.
Whether our Universe is the total of all that exists or merely one of many universes that make up a multiverse is unknown to us. In addition, we know nothing about the first moments of the Universe’s formation: the tiniest fraction of a second after the scorching Big Bang occurred.
We know that the Universe has an advantage, and it is not a spatial but a temporal one. There is a basic limit to how far back we can see, even at the speed of light, the highest cosmic speed limit. The further back in time we can see, the further away we must look.
Mystery Rocket Crash Site, ISS Independence, Space Nuclear Power
Mystery Rocket Crash Site, ISS Independence, Space Nuclear Power
NASA teases JWST images, Rocket Lab launches CAPSTONE, mystery rocket’s crash site found on the Moon, how magnetars are created, ISS gets more independent from Russia and more.
If you prefer the news being videoed at you instead of reading them, we’ve got you covered! Here’s a video version of this week’s most important space and astronomy news.
Mystery Rocket Crash Site Found, ISS Independence from Russia, Space Nuclear Power
Astronomer Working With Webb Said the new Images “Almost Brought him to Tears”. We’ll see Them on July 12th
NASA continues to tease us with upcoming images from JWST. This week they held a conference where they unveiled some details about what we should expect. The telescope is in very good shape, it’s diffraction limit is almost twice better than expected. As for the first images, there was a hint that we should see ‘the deepest image of the Universe yet’ as well as data on an exoplanet. All that is coming on July 12th.
For more information on James Webb, check out this week’s episode of Weekly Space Hangout with Lee Feinberg, who is NASA Optical Telescope Element (OTE) Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. A great interview with lots of amazing insights on JWST.
NASA Funds the Development of a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon That Would Last for 10 Years
NASA’s concept of a nuclear reactor for the Moon
When the Artemis program brings humans back to the Moon, they will eventually stay, building up a research station on the lunar surface. They will need a lot of power to heat and cool the station, run their experiments and communications, and generate oxygen from local materials. They can’t rely on solar energy since the Moon is in shadow for two weeks every month. NASA has paid three companies to develop plans for 40 kW fission reactors that could work on the surface of the Moon for ten years.
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches NASA’s CAPSTONE
A new NASA CubeSat was launched this week on top of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The mission is called the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE. Its purpose is to travel the same orbit near the Moon that the upcoming Lunar Gateway will take. This will help NASA understand if the orbit is stable and as helpful as they’re hoping, allowing astronauts to reach the surface of the Moon safely with less energy.
Earlier this year, we reported that a booster rocket was on a collision course with the Moon and was about to carve out a new crater. The booster was initially identified as a SpaceX booster from NASA’s DSCOVR mission and then as the booster from China’s Chang’e-5 mission. The object crashed into the Moon, as predicted, and a new image reveals a rare double crater. It’s believed that the spacecraft broke up through tidal forces with the Moon, creating the double impact.
Independence from Russia’s Progress is coming for the ISS
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft recently detached from the International Space Station, carrying garbage away. Before it left, though, it was able to boost the orbit of the ISS. Usually, this maneuver is done by the Russian Zvezda module or spacecraft attached to the station. This demonstrated that the US could keep the station aloft as well, so it’s not reliant on Russia anymore, who has even threatened to let the station crash uncontrollably into the Earth.
Giant Sunspot AR3038 has Doubled in Size and is Pointed Right at Earth. Could be Auroras Coming
The Sun’s activity is steadily increasing as it moves towards the time of solar maximum. This means sunspots, coronal mass ejections, solar flares… and auroras here on Earth. A giant sunspot region suddenly doubled in size and was oriented directly towards the Earth. If it had released a flare, we could have seen increased aurora activity on Earth. It didn’t and has now rotated away from us, but other sunspots will be facing us soon, so get ready to see the Northern Lights (or Southern Lights).
The Most Threatening Asteroid Just got Downgraded to “Harmless”. No Impact in 2052
ESA released some good news on asteroid 2021 QM1. Originally it was considered one of the more dangerous asteroids out there with a risk of a collision with Earth in 2052. More observations were done after 2021 QM1 got out of the Sun’s glare and became visible to our telescopes. New data revealed that it’s not on a collision course with our planet. We will even have a good chance to study it in detail during its close flyby.
Astronomers Found a Pulsar that Could Be Only 14 Years Old
A pulsar in a dwarf galaxy 400 million light years away was first seen in 2018. But when astronomers checked archival data, it appeared that the pulsar wasn’t there in 1998’s data. This means that this particular star can be very young. Literally younger than most of you, who are reading this article.
The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars
Magnetars defy comprehension. These exotic objects can have magnetic fields which are hundreds of millions of times more powerful than anything we can generate here on Earth. Astronomers know they’re neutron stars, but they rotate less rapidly than pulsars. But one has been found that spins 750 times a second. It’s believed this is a brand new magnetar and could have only gotten spinning this quickly through the collision of two neutron stars. Maybe this is how magnetars form.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been at the Red Planet since 2006, imaging its surface with a powerful suite of instruments. One of these is the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM), which makes maps of minerals on the Martian surface. Unfortunately, CRISM has run out of coolant and can only record a fraction of the data it once could. NASA is releasing a surface mineral map of Mars made up of 51,000 separate images taken by CRISM.
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UFO Seen Using Night Vision, Stops, Watches Eyewitness! Then Shoots off. Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Using Night Vision, Stops, Watches Eyewitness! Then Shoots off. Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 1, 2022 Location of sighting: Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA Email report
Now here is an intriguing video. The UFO is recorded using a night vision scope gen 2. The eyewitness spots a glowing sphere and its moving, but then suddenly stops. This occurred because UFOs and alien drones have AI of course, but also have something far more advanced...focused telepathy. Like pointing a laser at the sky and plugging it into a laser communicator (which I did build...remember the post and video?) sending a recording of sound through the laser to a solar panel attached to a speaker which can receive it. The ISS uses such laser communication regularly. So UFOs do the same, but it instead receives telepathic pictures...thoughts to those on the UFO. I'm not sure why its hard for the public to comprehend that UFOs have these abilities, but sometime in the future, I will be proven right. This is the #1 most difficult thing for the public to comprehend about UFOs. Why? Not sure, but giving them a few years to get use to the idea...and it will all make sense in the future.
This UFO in the video stops, because it sensed the human watching it. Then it decided to watch back, got board and left.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Noticed this object to the NE that was bright white. The object appears to hover before the UFO moves again.
Dark Craft Seen Over Montreal, Canada July 1, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Craft Seen Over Montreal, Canada July 1, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 1, 2022
Location of sighting: Montreal, Canada
Email report
Watch this amazing raw footage of a dark UFO moving over Canada yesterday. The craft turns ever so slowly as it moves forward. The person had a hard time of it holding the camera still, but there is some useful parts that clearly show a round, dark craft moving quickly across the sky.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Very black dot going in a straight line. It really looked like in the video, very dark and no other shape or light. Might have been a drone but have not found any model that looks similar to this... Hoping to find an answer of what this is.
Contactees are people who have experienced contact with extraterrestrials. Dr. Louis Turi had four such encounters. This documentary exams his encounters, his relationship with Astrology, and how he has accurately predicted several major world events.
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The Secret Mission At An Ancient Structure In Antarctica Is Revealed By Navy Seal Military -Knews
The Secret Mission At An Ancient Structure In Antarctica Is Revealed By Navy Seal Military -Knews
On January 23, 2018, Emmy Award-winning journalist Linda Moulton Howe released video proof of a new informant outlining her top-secret duty in a gigantic ancient alien structure concealed beneath the ice of Antarctica.
According to the informant, he visited a massive octagonal-shaped facility near the Beardmore glacier that reached deep into the glacier’s icy interior during a secret operation in 2003.
Howe met with the source, a retired US Navy Seal, for the first time on July 19, 2018. To protect her identity, he used the alias Spartan 1 in a YouTube video made by Howe, in which his face was obscured and his voice was altered. Howe claimed to have had total command over Spartan 1, which provided him with adequate documentation to support his military career.
Another military whistleblower who testified previously was Brian, a Navy flight engineer who flew many support flights with the Antarctic Development Squadron from 1983 to 1997. He noticed a number of anomalies that he believes lead to secret installations or bases beneath Antarctica’s ice.
As Howe pointed out, he claimed to have witnessed the discovery of silver flying saucers in the Transantarctic Mountains, not far from where the Navy Seal had carried out his mission. The structure, which was an eight-sided octagon, was spotted by ground-penetrating radar, according to the Navy Seal.
In 2003, a group of US Navy special operations troops came to Antarctica to investigate a perfectly geometrical eight-sided octagonal structure discovered by a penetrating radar inside the Beardmore glacier, some 93 miles from the American outpost of McMurdo.
Another team of engineers and scientists had already sliced the top layer of a pure black octagon that had been constructed above two other black octagonal structures that had sunk deep into the 2-mile-thick ice.
In the video, the Navy Seal (known as Spartan 1) describes how he launched his mission from an aircraft carrier near the Ross Sea, west of Antarctica. He was helicoptered to McMurdo Station, the largest American base in Antarctica.
Spartan 1 related how he descended 50 feet beneath the ice to open a door. The walls of the structure are 18 to 30 feet thick (6-10 meters) and the ceiling is 22-28 feet high, according to him (7-9 meters). He claimed that the walls, ceiling, and floor were all made of a black basalt stone that looked like polished black marble.
A lime green source lit the ceiling and floor, and the chamber was heated to roughly 68-72 degrees Fahrenheit (20-22 degrees Celsius). He discovered no heating or lighting system, adding to the enigma of the underground complex.
According to the witness, the archaeological workers only found one piece of the structure, with the remainder buried beneath the ice and stretching far below. According to ground penetrating radar, the installation was octagonal in shape and covered 62 acres (about 0.5 square kilometers).
According to Spartan 1, walls and doors were covered with 20 cm high and 5 cm thick hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphics were neither Egyptian nor Maya in form, but they included animal pictures and other strange symbols in common with both.
One of the insignia was very similar to the Nazi SS’s image of the Black Sun, which was inscribed on the floor of their Wewelsburg Castle headquarters. The portrayal of the Black Sun is still prohibited under Nazi propaganda regulations in Germany. Spartan 1 said that one of his responsibilities included bringing scientists to photograph and draw the subsurface structure and hieroglyphic symbols.
He said that one of the scientists was forced to leave because he insisted on more time to thoroughly inventory what had been discovered. Spartan 1 claims that the facility was built by a group of extraterrestrials who were involved in the genetic alteration of humans.
Spartan 1’s testimony is essential because it provides a unique personal account of what was uncovered within one of the antiquity-era underground constructions. Brian, a former Antarctic eyewitness, couldn’t see or investigate one of the things. Brian related the story as he witnessed a big hole breach the South Pole as it soared above his head via a restricted and regulated region.
So far, just two more insiders/informants have come forward to tell their experiences of being duped or viewing ancient artefacts buried beneath Antarctica’s ice. Two persons, Corey Goode and Pete Peterson, claim to have seen some of the buried artifacts during their journeys.
Goode claims to have been transported to Antarctica in early 2016 and early 2017, when he saw hidden bases and the relics of an ancient civilisation buried deep beneath the ice sheets. He claims to have seen the remains of human-alien hybrids made thousands of years ago as part of extraterrestrial genetic experimentation conducted by a humanoid race.
Peterson claims to have been sent on covert missions to Antarctica, where he was entrusted with interpreting advanced technology discovered near three mother ships, one or more of which he observed during his journeys. Goode’s allegation of an ancient extraterrestrial facility that operated as a global civilization’s centre is backed up by Peterson’s evidence. This prompts a slew of intriguing questions.
Was the Black Sun symbol a representation of an ancient global society, with spirals connecting to distant colonies, with the South Pole serving as the fulcrum? On my book, The Hidden History of Antarctica, I demonstrate that German nationalists who use the black sun as a symbol have established a colony in the frozen continent.
According to Howe’s analysis, the structure seen by Spartan 1 dates back to 33 million years ago, which is the standard era given by traditional geologists for when Antarctica was ice-free. Spartan 1’s independent testimony backs up important points made by Goode and Peterson, as well as other theories about what lies under the frozen continent.
We will be able to discover more about what lies under the Antarctic polar ice caps once Spartan 1’s testimony is made public as part of Howe’s film series.
Alex Collier is the most controversial alien contactee whose source of information is the two ETs from Andromeda. He has told abundant stories about the previous civilizations that arrived in the Solar system. He told about intergalactic wars, the history of humans in the universe, and alien species who interfered with life on Mars and Earth. Among his many bizarre claims, one states how human beings constructed the secret colonies on Mars with the help of greys.
In his 1994 interview, Alex Collier, who claims to have worked in military service as a helicopter pilot in the United States, recalled many secrets of Mars told to him by his mentors from Andromedan named Vissaeus and Moranay. The Andromedans have stressed that Earth and Mars were biological and genetic experiments.
Collier said that the sudden appearance of fully-formed reptiles, birds, mammals, etc, indicates the seeding and colonization of Earth and Mars by the different extraterrestrial groups mentioned earlier. The primates or monkeys were brought to Mars and then to Earth by the Draconians and Orion explorers. They were genetically created in laboratories on the spaceship.
Alien contactee Alex Collier served in military service as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army
According to Vasais, around 69.3 million years ago a huge asteroid with a powerful gravitation force pulled away Mars from its axis several times, killing all the lifeforms. Also, the debris in the tail section of this asteroid broke free and somehow just went off on its own and was captured by the Earth’s gravitational pull. Apparently, it hit the Earth somewhere around Central America in the Atlantic Ocean causing the planet to do a pole shift as well. It hit it so hard.
There are discoveries of possible phenomenal structures in the Cydonia region of Mars: the face and the pyramids. According to the Andromedans, Mars has been inhabited off and on for 3.8 billion years and also had dinosaurs on it. They further added that there are also more ruins in the Cydonia region that haven’t been found yet.
Colier said “Valles Marineris,” a system of canyons on the Martian surface hides ruins of an ancient Lyran city hidden under hundreds of feet of sand. It is approximately 113 million years old. This is the largest of the Lyran and later Pleiadian ruins. There is a vast network of underground tunnels and caverns under this area.
Collier said It is a vast complex originally built millions of years ago that was reactivated with the help of the Greys for the Earth world government. It stretches over an area of 118 miles and is in some areas three levels deep underground. In other words, the underground base of Valles Marineris covers an area of 118 square miles. It houses approximately 300,000 human beings.
Source: NASA
The deepest portion is 6200 feet with complete support systems as they would have if they were up on the surface. It has four openings to the surface. Two are compressed elevator-type shafts, and two are pressurized hanger-type entrances complete with elevators.
Much of the hardware taken to Mars came from the Moon first via Russia and Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean. Much of the hardware taken to Mars came from the Moon first via Russia and Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean.
Andromedans said “Hellas Planitia,” located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars used to be a very large freshwater lake. There are three domed structures that are built into the mountain range there. The largest of these three domes stretches 2.6 miles. All three domes are built into a triangular pattern. The 2.6-mile dome is a military complex. All three domes are connected by underground tunnels, and all three domed cities are connected to Vallus Mariners using three separate underground tunnels as well.
The Cydonia region ruins were the last base that the Pleiadians, Lyrans, and Sirians had on Mars. When our solar system fell to the Orion group, which was approximately 317,000 B.C, the base was partially destroyed. Interestingly, Collier said that the first human landing on Mars happened in March 1959 by the alleged NSA black government.
The black government sent three craft from the Moon to the area known as Cydonia. There was a total of 29 military and scientific personnel in all that went on this first expedition there. All the personnel recruited for this mission have no records or references to their existence on Earth. The bases on Mars were finished in 1968. Unfortunately, they were invaded by a group from Orion and Draconis and Earth lost its communication.
According to Collier, humans consist of 22 extraterrestrial races. He claimed that there are about 135 billion people living on the planets in the eight closest galaxies to us. He even said that when he visited one of those habitable planets, those people got scared of seeing an earthling because of our bad reputation. In the whole universe, only humans could make their own people slaves and kill them for their own benefits.
A strange pattern of lights over the sky of San Diego early Tuesday in this video from Sam Zarate and TMX.
The mysterious lights floating over San Diego finally have an explanation.
On Monday evening, strange patterns of moving lights were seen floating above the city. Images and videos of the phenomenon quickly garnered attention on social media.
Strange lights in the San Diego sky prompted questions from social media users on Monday. ( Sam Zarate / Local News X / TMX)
The levitating lights, described as orange in hue and in a definitive pattern, baffled observers who were left unconvinced that they were of natural origins — some others even suspected unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or alien origins, but the U.S. Coast Guard said they were actually from flares fired from a ship off the coast, KABC reported.
The puzzling pixels were reportedly from naval crews conducting flare training with expired flares, the Coast Guard said, per KGTV.
The lights were also reportedly seen in nearby Tijuana.
A witness told KGTV that she saw planes in the sky and boats in the water. She said the strange lights were brighter than the lights on the planes and those on the boat.
The witness, Natasha Reichart, also said the lights were definitively moving.
"These were coming back and going, moving different directions, and all of a sudden coming as a cluster together," Reichart told the outlet. "It was definitely not of this world."
Many people similarly online claimed to see the lights move or change formation.
"Multiple floating lights over the ocean. Very still, very bright. Orange, reddish light. Patterns of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6," the user wrote.
Despite an official explanation, some people are still speculating the lights were not flares.
Bill Tompkins Full Interview: Alien Bases In Antarctica, MJ-12, Draco's, Nordics & Admiral Byrd
Bill Tompkins Full Interview: Alien Bases In Antarctica, MJ-12, Draco's, Nordics & Admiral Byrd
The late William Tompkins (1923-2017) worked on some of the most secretive projects in the modern-day. This full-length interview lays out everything he claims to know from alien bases in Antarctica, MJ-12, Nordic aliens, and Admiral Byrd's failed mission.
Bill Tompkins Interview - PART 1
Bill Tompkins Interview - PART 2
Bill Tompkins first got noticed by the Navy during his high school years, his career began with designing sea ships and later moved forward towards spacecraft. In July 2017, during a press conference, he made an astonishing public statement, claiming that when he had previously worked at Douglas Aircraft Company, he worked alongside extraterrestrials. This was 4-7 years before NASA even existed.
Tompkins released some utterly astounding information, he claimed that during World War II, the Nazis received technology from aliens which allowed them to build huge underground facilities deep in Antarctica. He explained how thousands of workers were shipped over there and would work in the facilities, some manufacturing flying saucers.
Tompkins described how the technologies were passed to the Germans by an alien civilisation known as the "Draco." They manufactured spaceships in Germany and trained the German military during the war, he said that the plan of the Draco was to eliminate humans from the Earth, he brings a lot of evidence to the table that Antarctica is holding some truly horrifying secrets.
In 1947, American naval officer Admiral Richard Byrd, along with a squadron of 13 warships, sailed to Antarctica, the reason for the expedition was in the secret documents found in the archives of the Nazi Navy General Staff.
According to them, in 1938, the Germans settled new land under the ice of Antarctica, Swabia. A gigantic transport ship was built to take goods there. He explains that dozens of submarines were involved in the operation as well as highly qualified specialists that were sent to the base without the right to return back.
In 1945, following the defeat of Hitler, US intelligence officers uncovered a number of documents that confirmed that Germany was exploring the under-ice space of Antarctica.
After the war, the Americans arrived in Antarctica and started building an airfield, but instead of the planned 6 months, the expedition only lasted a couple of weeks. Admiral Byrd failed to take the warning about potential UFO encounters seriously, and when strange objects began to appear in the sky, they opened fire on them. This resulted in the squadron losing several escort ships, as well as submarines, half of the planes were shot down and two aircraft carriers were forced to turn back.
After they returned, all the documents, records, diaries, and journals were seized and classified.
Over time, the majority of German scientists ended up in the United States. It is said that the Americans came to an agreement with the aliens, this put the secret bases of the Germans in Antarctica under US control by the end of the 1940s.
Bill Tompkins book "Selected By Extraterrestrials"
Tompkins said that three aliens arrived in Las Vegas, he claimed that he spent two weeks with them before moving to Douglas. One girl was a specialist in engines, another was in charge of contact with him, and there was also a male that helped them, he says that because of this meeting the Apollo space program started.
In the late 1940s, US newspapers were full of stories about UFO sightings, Admiral Byrd's expedition was curtailed on March 3, 1947, and articles began to appear in the press as early as mid-May 1947.
Tompkins explained that two forces from separate parts of the galaxy helped them, these aliens are collectively known as "Nordics." Tompkins was present at the "Battle of Los Angeles (1942)," when over a thousand bullets were shot at UFOs. Tompkins said he was selected by the Nordics to be their representative in the evolving aerospace race.
Sadly, Bill Tompkins passed away on August 21, 2017, at the age of 94, just one month after his public announcement at the press conference.
This is just a brief outline of some of the fantastic claims made by Bill Tompkins, to get a full understanding you need to watch both parts of the interview. Let us know your thoughts on Bill Tompkins in the comments section below. Now you have watched the full-length alien interview with Bill Tompkins, take a look at the Robert Dean Interview: Army Sergeant Speaks Out On Secret NATO Documents, UFOs & Alien Beings
“Japanese scientists have published evidence that allegedly confirms the existence of alien spacecraft,” writes the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper .
Specialists from the International UFO Lab in Fukushima, presented more than 450 pieces of evidence received by them, speaking of the existence of UFOs.
According to scientists, they had at their disposal at least 125 photographs and 24 videos of UFOs.
The published images show objects that resemble flying saucers in shape, and which many know from movies about aliens.
According to the head of the investigation Takeharu Mikami, all the materials were checked for possible fakes using special computer programs.
The researchers could not say for sure what UFOs are, but judging by the characteristics of how they fly, these vehicles most likely came from deep space.
The lab opened in June 2021 inside the Fureai-kan UFO hall, which was opened in 1992 by the then Lino city government, now part of Fukushima city.
Takeharu Mikami, the 53-year-old editor-in-chief of the occult monthly magazine Mu, serves as the lab’s director.
Interest in UFOs continues around the world, with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) among the entities that have started the investigation.
The International UFO Lab not only hopes to contribute to this field, but also seeks to contribute to the revitalization of the community.
Just a few days ago, Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin said that developed life may exist in the Universe, surpassing human civilization in its level of development.
According to him, the specialists of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have also been studying UFO-related phenomena for a long time.
NASA Whistleblower on The Reality of Alien Abductions is Much Darker Than Most People Will Accept
NASA Whistleblower on The Reality of Alien Abductions is Much Darker Than Most People Will Accept
Mr. Allison is currently the Program Manager for the Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (HAL5) High Altitude Lift-Off (HALO) Program, and as President of the High Altitude Research Corporation (HARC). In these capacities Mr. Allison is actively developing cheap access to space technologies. Mr. Allison has worked on the International Space Station Program for Grumman as a systems engineer specializing in robotics, for the Mevatec Corporation as an electrical power systems integration engineer, and for Teledyne Brown Engineering as a payload integration engineer for external space station experiments.
Mr. Allison is currently working for Hernandez Engineering as a safety and product assurance engineer on such projects as Orbital Space Plane, X-37 and HyTEx. Mr. Allison also studies means to defend Earth from asteroids, and the construction of large-scale space stations.
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The Lost Interview with Nikola Tesla
The Lost Interview with Nikola Tesla
Did Nikola Tesla really give this Amazing Interview in the Play called: ‘Tesla: Or Adaptation of an Angel? Also known as: Everything is the Light.
The Lost Interview with Nikola Tesla.
A mind-boggling article had surfaced a little while back, of a lost or intentionally hidden interview, with the master of electricity himself, Nikola Tesla. Rumor’s suggest that the “Interview” is a fake, but how do we prove it? Impossible! We now know that the interview comes from the theater play, ‘Tesla: Or Adaptation of an Angel.’ Meaning: “Adaptation of Tesla,” by Stevan Pešić, a Serbian playwright, but the real question remains, did Nikola Tesla really conduct such an interview?
We are all hungry for more of Nikola Tesla’s wisdom on spirituality and we get a beautiful glimpse of that in this interview. Even if this interview was a fake, it still holds loads of thought-provoking wisdom. The play started as a radio drama in Serbia. It became very popular and was made into a theatre play, and was first performed in Belgrade in 1995.
The play was made into a film twice—In 2001 and in 2014.
Apparently, as an inspiration to Stevan Pešić to write this play, he used a true interview given by scientist Nikola Tesla, for the magazine “Immortality” in his laboratory in Colorado Springs.
So, without further ado, please enjoy this wonderful interview with the master of Electricity, Nikola Tesla.
The interview is conducted by journalist John Smith.
Bizarre Shapeshifting UFO Sighted Over a Field in Waterloo, Iowa
This insane footage was captured around May 22, 2022 and i the footage we can see this brightly lit object that seems to be changing form. It could be behind the clouds and this obscuring the UFO or the could be something that is plasma based or even biological. Two things are for sure with this footage, i'm at a lost for what this could be and my mind is blown by this sighting. Thanks to William Shatner for his input on this footage Thanks to Jeremy Payne for allow me the use of his footage and to view the original:
"My fiance observed 3, what appeared to be cigar shaped, craft traveling at a constant speed over our treeline. She assumed they were air craft but immediately questions herself. They made no noise as they flew over. We live on a well traveled air route and are used to air liners and even military planes flying over our head. She requests to remain anonymous at this time but would be willing to answer questions. The incident was recorded."
Source: MUFON Case Number: 123202
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Saucer Type UFO Filmed Hovering Over Medellín In Colombia By Multiple Witnesses. June 27, 2022
Yet again another "Saucer Type" UFO has been seen over Medellín. This city seems to be an hotbed for sighting and i feel the main question is why? When Lorna Mosquera was asked what happened when he stopped filming he replied "After 8 mins I started facetiming family and friends to show them live, then it started drifting behind the mountains". When asked if this could have been a balloon attached to a string on the ground this was the reply "Strings so long and strong/modern that they keep an object bigger than an airplane in place, miles above sea level… All of that in a no-fly zone too? Those strings would break the airplane flying near that thing lol"
Glowing Orb Over Homes At Benecia, California 6-29-2022, Video! UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orb Over Homes At Benecia, California 6-29-2022, Video! UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 6-29-2022
Location of sighting: Benecia, California, USA
Source: Email send reports to scwaring@yahoo.com
Eyewitness states:
Standing in my garage side door I was practicing CE5 with a green laser, put it down and began to use my red laser with 3 long dashes at a prominent star when out of the corner of my eye to my left an Orb materializes out of nowhere. It begins a path from West to East, crossing the "prominent star" I was signaling to. I see no Navigational lights, didn't expect to since I saw it materialize before me. So I reach for my binoculars to examine it more and see no Nav. lights, just a glowing Orb. Conflicted as time is of the eseense I can call my wife to view or grab my Syonix Aurora Sport Infrared Camera beside me and try to film it so I chose the latter. Grabbed my camera, (which I would have had it set up but it was foggy and didn't look like it would be a good evening for filming), and began filming but am struggling, reaching for my glasses so I can see what I'm filming through the monocle. Once I get my glasses on the film shaking eases up and I can settle on the object as it traverses from East to West just before losing it in the fog and below/beyond my neighbors roofline. I then take the camera and retrace the path of the ORB back to it's original manisfestation place in my night sky. The film will show what I have written here.
White Sphere Seen Shooting Over Ontario, Canada, Video, UFO Sighting News.
White Sphere Seen Shooting Over Ontario, Canada, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 5-15-2022
Location of sighting: Ontario, Canada
Email report: send to scwaring@yahoo.com
Here is an awesome catch of a white UFO orb at play. Yes, even alien drones with AI have to have some fun. This one is huge, the size of car and has a very spherical shape to it. These are the most common types of UFOs seen worldwide, but at night they move slower and are mistaken for stars. Oh...and the AI drone UFOs...are alive.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It was an egg or a tic tac object. Was moving really fast then slow down keep moving in different direction. I took pics and videos. I was able to zoom.
Dark UFO Seen Traveling Over Edinburgh, Scotland June 29, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark UFO Seen Traveling Over Edinburgh, Scotland June 29, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 29, 2022 Location of sighting: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Email Report
This dark sphere was seen over Scotland this week. It appeared out of nowhere during sunset. The object really stands out among the pink clouds and blue sky. UFOs come in different sizes, shapes, colors and this one clearly stands out with it blackness on a sunny day. The thing about Scotland is that it has retained its historical buildings, houses, castles and beliefs for over a thousand years. This kind of love of ones culture and past is an area of study for aliens. This intrigues them. Even I have looked at websites selling 300-800 year old cottages, manors and castles in the highlands of Scotland. There is an allure about it...a heritage that comes with it. The kind of stuff dreams are made of. I think aliens envy us a bit because of such things.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Saw a disc/orb from 55, 58,3 5N 03, 15, 14W, think that's my location, It was heading towards the north/west over the Firth of forth, depending on distance (which I can't work out, it could have passed over Rosyth sub base and dockyard) but I'm not sure. 2 Airline flights came in right after I lost sight of this anomaly so maybe the control tower at Edinburgh could have got it on scope. I have this thing on video (iPhone 7) and would like someone who knows what they are doing to look at it please.
Bizarre Shapeshifting UFO Sighted Over a Field in Waterloo, Iowa, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Bizarre Shapeshifting UFO Sighted Over a Field in Waterloo, Iowa, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:May 22, 2022
Location of sighting: Waterloo, Iowa, USA
Watch this amazing UFO over Iowa. It happened last month, but was recently released by the eyewitness. The UFO is a glowing pink in a cloudless sky. The object is partly cloaked so only a few sections of the UFO is visible. This UFO was recorded when the sun was setting, which allows cloaked craft to become visible for a few minutes to the naked eye. Its because the Triangle position of the sun, UFO and person is perfect and allows the UFO to be visible.
Driver claims to see an 'eyeball-looking' UFO over Hickman Road Des Moines, Iowa
Driver claims to see an 'eyeball-looking' UFO over Hickman Road Des Moines, Iowa
On June 28, 2022 Jacob Ferrell was driving on the Hickman Road near Merle Hay Road, Iowa when he noticed a strange object in sky and though he doesn't know what to make of it, he describes the object as an' eyeball-looking' UFO.
He said "It was kinda just hovering there in the sky just standing still then I was lookin' up the Elon Musk equipment that he's got up there but this was one object by himself, this was just too weird."
Asking air traffic control if they got any reports, but haven't heard back and the flight radar around Des Moines last night only shows planes.
They asked the FAA since they have a legitimate task force for UFOs but the FAA said that they only take reports from pilots and referred them to the National UFO Reporting Center, so Ferrel filed a report with them - that will be investigated.
De ‘Sky Cruise’ moet een vliegend hotel worden met zwembaden en bioscopen dat nooit landt
De ‘Sky Cruise’ moet een vliegend hotel worden met zwembaden en bioscopen dat nooit landt
Er zouden zelfs geen piloten nodig zijn
Mensen zijn verbijsterd over een video waarin een potentieel AI-gestuurd vliegtuig wordt gedemonstreerd dat ‘nooit zou landen’. Het concept van de ‘Sky Cruise’, ontworpen door Hashem Al-Ghaili, is in feite een vliegend hotel dat beschikt over 20 nucleair aangedreven motoren en een capaciteit zou hebben om 5.000 passagiers te vervoeren.
Geen piloten
Al-Ghaili noemt het vliegtuig de ‘toekomst van het vervoer’ en legt uit dat conventionele luchtvaartmaatschappijen passagiers van en naar de Sky Cruise zouden ‘ferryen’, die nooit de grond zou raken en zelfs alle reparaties tijdens de vlucht zou kunnen laten uitvoeren. Daily Star vroeg aan de maker hoeveel piloten het vliegtuig nodig heeft. Hij antwoordde: “Al deze technologie en je wilt nog steeds piloten? Ik denk dat het volledig autonoom zal zijn.”
Dat is allemaal goed en wel, maar de Sky Cruise zou nog steeds een flinke hoeveelheid personeel aan boord nodig hebben, aangezien er ook een enorm winkelcentrum aan boord zou zijn, om nog maar te zwijgen van zwembaden, fitnesscentra en bioscopen. In een video van het vliegtuig, gepost door Al-Ghaili op YouTube, is te zien hoe het uittorent boven vliegtuigen van normale grootte en wordt het zelfs omschreven als ‘de perfecte trouwlocatie’.
De apocalyps
Hoewel de lanceringsdatum van het vliegende hotel nog moet worden aangekondigd, is niet iedereen enthousiast over het idee van Al-Ghaili. Eén persoon schreef in de commentaarsectie onder zijn video: “Geweldig idee om een kernreactor te plaatsen in iets dat defect kan raken en uit de lucht kan vallen.” Een andere grapte: “Ik heb het gevoel dat dit de plek is waar alle rijke mensen zich gaan verstoppen tijdens de apocalyps, en gewoon rondvliegen boven de rest van de wereld terwijl iedereen elkaar te lijf gaat in Mad Max-stijl.”
De 31-jarige ‘wetenschapscommunicator’ en videoproducent Al-Ghaili is Jemenitisch maar woont momenteel in Berlijn, aldus zijn website. Een deel van zijn biografie luidt: ‘Hashem is moleculair bioloog van beroep en gebruikt zijn kennis en passie voor wetenschap om het publiek voor te lichten via sociale media en video-inhoud’. Hieronder vind je de video over de ‘Sky Cruise’.
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Their presence alone is a serious national security issue.' Dozens of sailors confirm their warships were swarmed by 'at least 100' otherworldly UFOs, as their accounts CONTRADICT Navy chief's effort to dismiss them as drones
EXCLUSIVE: 'Their presence alone is a serious national security issue.' Dozens of sailors confirm their warships were swarmed by 'at least 100' otherworldly UFOs, as their accounts CONTRADICT Navy chief's effort to dismiss them as drones
Naval crew have told documentary maker Jeremy Corbell that US warships were swarmed in 2019 by 'at least 100' UFOs with unexplainable capabilities
Last year Corbell published videos from the warship incidents that set social media ablaze
The videos were verified by the Pentagon and showed flashing objects hovering above US Navy ships in the Pacific Ocean
In an historic hearing on UFOs last month, Navy chiefs tried to explain away the incident, saying they were 'reasonably confident' the objects were drones
Corbell is now hitting back, claiming that he has 'dozens' of accounts from crew, investigators and briefed officials who say that the UFOs were otherworldly
The nature and origin of the craft are still unknown, and witnesses say that they flew in ways that would put publicly known drone technology to shame
A crewman with direct knowledge of the case, who spoke to DailyMail.com on condition of anonymity, called the incident 'world-changing'
Sailors on board a fleet of Navy warships sailing off the Southern California coast in July 2019 witnessed several of the ships being swarmed by a host of unidentified flying objects.
The incident went on for hours, and then happened again and again throughout the month, with craft hovering and zipping around near the fleet with flashing multicolored lights.
Navy chiefs have tried to explain away the incident, with the Deputy Director for Naval Intelligence saying he was 'reasonably confident' the objects were drones.
But documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, says that crew from the ships have told him the swarms of 'at least 100' UFOs possessed unexplainable capabilities far beyond traditional drones.
And he warned that unless the government can determine who was behind the swarm, the intelligence failure would 'dwarf our mistakes made surrounding the events of 9/11.'
'I don't care if these were ''drones'' or true UFOs, pyramids, triangles or even seagulls with lights strapped onto their wings. I want the fundamental question to be answered. Do we know the controllers of these units?' he said.
Naval crew have told documentary maker Jeremy Corbell that US warships were swarmed in 2019 by 'at least 100' UFOs with unexplainable capabilities
Last year Corbell published videos from the warship incidents that set social media ablaze
Still images from a video show a spherical object diving into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Jeremy Corbell says the video shows 'FLIR [forward looking infrared] data' that is complimented by the radar footage
In an historic hearing on UFOs held last month, Deputy Director for Naval Intelligence Scott Bray dismissed the footage, saying he was 'reasonably confident' the objects were drones
Contrary to the official Navy version of events, the shocking claims raise the prospect that the craft filmed and caught on radar about 100 miles off the San Diego coast were either incredibly advanced foreign technology, or something otherworldly.
'We don't know yet what exactly these craft were. But whatever they are, their abilities and presence alone represents a serious national security issue and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand,' Corbell told DailyMail.com.
Last year the film-maker published videos from the warship incidents that set social media ablaze.
The videos, verified by the Pentagon, pictured flashing objects hovering above US Navy ships in the Pacific Ocean west of San Diego, radar screenspicking up nine of the craft, and infrared footage of one orb-shaped object diving into the ocean.
But in an historic hearing on UFOs held last month, Deputy Director for Naval Intelligence Scott Bray dismissed the footage, saying he was 'reasonably confident' the objects were drones.
Last week the Navy also released briefing slides suggesting the craft were 'Quadcopter style UAS [unmanned aerial systems]' and likely came from a nearby Hong Kong-registered freight ship.
Corbell is now hitting back, claiming that he has 'dozens' of accounts from crew, investigators and briefed officials who say that the freight ship was ruled out, the nature and origin of the craft are still unknown, and that they flew in ways that would put publicly known drone technology to shame.
According to Corbell's sources and the Navy's own documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), these craft's capabilities included hovering at altitudes of up to 21,000ft, flying for more than four hours, traveling long distances in one flight, and being apparently impervious to anti-drone Navy technology.
The Navy documents show the freight ship, Bass Strait, was docked in Long Beach, California, about 100 miles away when some of the incidents occurred – making Corbell's contacts skeptical it could have been the source of the swarm.
Corbell paraphrased one witness on the destroyer the USS Russell who he claims told him they saw one of the craft 'accelerate instantaneously into the upper atmosphere', and that other sources with knowledge of the case said the objects were detected moving from the air into the sea.
I don't care if these were ''drones'' or true UFOs, pyramids, triangles or even seagulls with lights strapped onto their wings. I want the fundamental question to be answered. Do we know the controllers of these units?
One of the biggest mysteries about the 'drones' is how they were able to hold enough power to fly for so long, high, fast and far.
A crewman with direct knowledge of the case, who spoke to DailyMail.com on condition of anonymity, called the incident 'world-changing.'
'We don't yet have enough information to say whether this is man-made technology or not,' the Naval officer said. 'But the amazing energy capacity of these craft is world-changing regardless.'
Navy briefing documents released under FOIA and published this month by defense news site The Drive detail eight incidents where 'unmanned aerial systems' (UAS) swarmed five warships in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast.
The incidents occurred on four days between July 15 and July 30.
Objects referred to as UAS or 'unmanned aerial vehicles' (UAV), two technical terms for drones, were caught on camera, radar, and seen by sailors flying over and beside the ships.
Some of the incidents lasted as long as four and a half hours, and craft were observed as high as 21,000ft in the air over the ocean.
The USS Paul Hamilton took this photo on July 15, 2019, of the Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship, MV Bass Strait, which they believe was controlling drones flying over their vessel
Last week the Navy released briefing slides suggesting the craft were 'Quadcopter style UAS [unmanned aerial systems]' and likely came from a nearby Hong Kong freight ship. The briefing slide states that the Navy assessed that the commercial cargo ship was likely conducting surveillance on Navy vessels using drones, or unidentified aerial vehicles (UAV)
The USS Paul Hamilton logs, obtained by The Drive, show that, on July 14, 2019, the night watch reported seeing possible drones. The SNOOPIE (Ship's Nautical or Otherwise Photographic Interpretation and Examination) team began investigating at 5:11am on July 15
A sighting by the USS Russell on July 30, 2019 detected five 'unknown UAS' according to a Navy description of the incident obtained by The Drive under FOIA
'Drone' encounters off the coast of southern California
March 30, 2019
- USS Harpers Ferry reports as many as eight unknown drones flying directly over the ship at an altitude of about 500 feet, 'conducting collection operations'.
April 24, 2019
- USS Zumwalt identifies six drones flying overhead in a 'consistent pattern' that did not alter 'course, speed, or altitude.'
July 15, 2019
- USS Paul Hamilton is followed by drones for four hours from MV Bass Strait.
- USS Bunker Hill followed by 11 drones from MV Bass Strait.
- USS Ralph Johnson reports a suspected 14 drones surrounding it.
- USS Omaha catches at least nine objects on radar, and films a spherical object diving into the ocean on an infrared camera.
July 17, 2019
- USS Russell reports three suspected drones flying over it for an hour, from an unknown location.
July 21, 2019
- USS Paul Hamilton again reports drones ahead, this time believed to be 'local fisherman operating personal quadcopters.'
July 25, 2019
- USS Gabrielle Giffords finds four drones overhead, and request help from the nearby USS Pinckney. Three small boats were nearby.
July 30, 2019
- USS Russell sees two groups of lights, containing five drones, over a period of about three hours. Communication was never established with the nearby pleasure craft.
- USS Paul Hamilton reports multiple drones overhead, some only 200 yards away.
The Drive highlighted the description of the craft as 'quadcopter style UAS' in reports released by the Navy.
But a senior staffer at a US defense contractor who is an expert in military technology told DailyMail.com they believed the craft that hovered above the Russell were 'much more advanced' than a traditional drone.
The contractor, who asked not to be named due to their job's sensitivity, said modified quadcopters can fly as high as 30,000ft but only for short periods.
'The best quadcopter battery lasts an hour or so,' the source said. 'Climbing four miles takes time, and once the vehicle reached that altitude it would struggle to maintain a fixed or slow-moving position over the ship as the wind speed increased.'
Footage of a radar screen detecting a swarm over the USS Omaha in July 2019 shows nine drones moving up to 138 knots (more than 158 miles an hour) with winds of 31 knots.
'Maintaining position under such conditions would increase the energy burn and greatly limit the time on target to just a few minutes, especially considering the quadcopter has to return to its point of origin. In addition, the reports mentioned the vehicle was illuminated, further increasing its power drain,' the defense contractor added.
The military tech expert said top quadcopters have a maximum range of about seven miles, meaning their launch site would have to be near the warships.
'The vessel would have been easily detected as well as the launch of the quadcopter,' they said.
'Considering these limitations, I don't think the illuminated vehicle that hovered four miles above the ship for a prolonged period could have been a traditional quadcopter. They just don't have the range or the staying power. It had to be a much more advanced aircraft.'
One briefing slide released by the Navy showed , the Bass Strait, sailed past the USS Paul Hamilton around the time of one of the drone swarm incidents.
The slide said the ship was 'likely using UAVs to conduct surveillance on US Naval Forces.'
However, other slides show the unexplained craft were hovering around the warships before the Bass Strait came close, and after it had docked in Long Beach.
Corbell told DailyMail.com he has 'communicated with dozens of sailors, including one on board the USS Russell, who reports to have seen one of the objects accelerate instantaneously into the upper atmosphere and out of visual range.'
'Reports I've obtained, interviews I've conducted and testimony I've documented on camera affirm that these were not positively identified as conventional drones,' the film-maker said.
'Some evidence suggests these units displayed unique flight properties and there were estimated to have been at least 100 of them conducting a coordinated series of maneuvers directed at our warships.'
Video showing an unidentified flying object splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego two years ago was corroborated by military radar which shows 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
The video of the radar corroborates video filmed by sailors aboard the USS Omaha showing a strange spherical object splash down into the Pacific Ocean
Several of the UFOs disappeared from radar. At one point, there were as many as 14 UFOs observed on the radar
The USS Omaha is one of at least 10 US warships that were swarmed by unidentified flying objects during the same period in July 2019 says investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell
The number quoted by Corbell is far higher than suggested in the Navy briefing slides, which says on July 15, 2019 the guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill encountered up to 11 'UAS', and the destroyer USS Ralph Johnson tracked four on radar and reported sightings of 10 more.
Corbell says multiple warships were experiencing swarms of unidentified craft at the same time, accounting for the higher numbers.
A sighting by the Russell on July 30, 2019 detected five 'unknown UAS' according to a Navy description of the incident obtained by The Drive under FOIA.
Some officers involved in the incident say that even though the slides referred to the craft as drones, the reality was less clear.
An active service member directly involved with categorizing and reporting the 2019 events told DailyMail.com crewmen logged the craft as drones because they were responding quickly and didn't have any other options that fit, but that the term 'in hindsight was inaccurate'.
'The drone categorization is due to a lack of data to categorize any other way,' the source said.
'Drone was one choice on a short list of options… A determination of drone in hindsight was inaccurate in that the observed craft was not positively identified as such.
'The role of the front-line warfighter is to make a rapid assessment of threat/no threat based upon available data. The use of 'drone' conveys to the intelligence community an initial assessment within the word.
'The further investigation is the responsibility of the intelligence and law enforcement apparatuses thereby adding to the historical assessments repository.'
Corbell claims he was shown a Navy intelligence briefing which included analysis of the craft spotted over the USS Russell on July 30, 2019 which he says described the objects as 'pyramid in shape'.
A video he published, shot from the Russell, depicts a flashing triangular-looking object seen from below.
But skeptics say a triangular lens on a night vision scope would make any light in the sky look triangular under the right conditions.
More videos of craft swarming the USS Russell on July 30, 2019 released by the Navy to The Drive this week could lend further weight to the lens distortion theory.
In one video, a naval officer describes 'one possible UAS… operating at a range of 4,000 yards, flashing red, green and white.'
But when the night vision camera zooms in on the hovering, triangular-looking object, a light nearby that appears to be part of the ship also appears to turn triangular, suggesting a lens distortion.
Corbell claims he was shown a Navy intelligence briefing which included analysis of a craft spotted over the USS Russell on July 30, 2019 which he says described the objects as 'pyramid in shape'
The video was taken in July 2019 by naval officers using a night vision device
One video from July 15, 2019 that Corbell released shows an object filmed from a sixth warship, USS Omaha, using an infrared camera.
The video shows the object hovering above the ocean then dropping into the water. The Navy has stated the video is genuine.
Navy briefing slides published by Corbell say they were unsuccessful in a search for the object underwater.
The documentary-maker said he believes this is one piece of evidence that the craft could move through both air and water, a very advanced technology for a drone.
'The conditioning that led to these labels do not reflect the unique characteristics that were reported to be observed, nor the visual documentation, such as the FLIR [infrared] footage from the USS Omaha where the object appears to go into the water without destruction,' he said.
Corbell added that he is not sure what the craft were, but believes they represent an urgent national security issue and we need to find who was behind the swarm.
'Because if we don't, America and many other nations who have experienced the same kind of encounters around the world consistently and recently, are susceptible to attack by an unknown technologically advanced entity that can operate their craft in our restricted airspace with absolute impunity,' he said.
'Additionally, if we can't answer that fundamental question to this day, we are seeing a multi-nation failure of intelligence on the scope and scale that dwarfs our mistakes made surrounding the events of 9/11.'
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