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In our time I stand for to swell my unreserved well done to my old fish scraps and UFO collegue, Clas Svahn, on his 56th wedding anniversary. To a Swedish throw out Clas wishes no move on entr as he is wellknown as newspaper columnist on the piece Dagens Nyheter, slapdash astronomer, professor and scribble of various books on UFO and Fortean phenomena and was the UFO-Sweden chairman between 1991-2013. He has for several living been the frontman and profound force in the Swedish UFO will and his extensive art of the emanate associated surrounded by professionalism and go off has altered the civil image of UFO phenomena as a emanate for big examine.
CLAS SVAHN
Clas started his ufological situation as a 16 go out with old in 1974 after he founded the local UFO-group UFO-Mariestad. He has inclusive extensive aspect investigation and condition on hundreds of UFO cases inferior in books desire "M"otet i gl"antan" (1995) - a out-and-out condition of the touchy G"osta Carlsson secure encounter and contact case. But he has after that on paper books on Fortean phenomena, crop circles, conspiracy theories, weird coincidences, cults and sects.
Clas has after that been a back-to-back supporter of AFU like 1984. His offerings to the records has been infinite by the several charitable trust to AFU that he has protected from all over the world.
CLAS VISITING AFU IN 1990
In my sensitivity one of the most distinguished offerings Clas has completed to UFO research has been the formulation of the ideological plot for big ufology, named The Third Way Ufology: Neither sceptical denial nor trusting suppose but information and seminar based on out-and-out investigation and condition. This is the single-handedly a open aver from a technological and rational incline and after that the bureaucrat twine of the national conglomerate UFO-Sweden. In 1990 Clas was awarded Klokpriset (THE IMPRESSION FIGURE), by the magazine S"okaren, for his distinguished concede to UFO research,
CLAS SURROUNDED BY THE IMPRESSION FIGURE
Clas as chairman of UFO-Sweden in 2009
Clas, I craving you force get pleasure from a essentially variety wedding anniversary, important by inherited and acquaintances. May the force be surrounded by you for several living to ooze.
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UFO SIGHTING IN DENVER, COLORADO ON OCTOBER 9TH 2013 - LARGE V SHAPED OJECT, NO LIGHT, NO SOUND
I was watching the sky shortly before 11pm tonight I was stunned when I noticed a fairly large V shaped object gliding about 500 feet above me at a very steady pace and its flight motion was very smooth. I could see 6 large domes that lined the bottom of the object 3 on each side. I immediately assumed these to be light's but was unable to tell as the object was not lit up... and had no sound. It drifted into the distance and disappeared. About 30 minutes later the object returned from the same path, same direction from the first sighting. It drifted off once more and disappeared.
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Approximately 2 years ago, I was driving thru Ina, Illinois, behind 4 eighteen wheel rigs, each measuring 75 feet long in or about the month of August on a foggy night when truck driver in front rig stated on CB, "in all my years I have heard about it but now I'm seeing it, is that a UFO? be careful looks like its coming down." As I Looked I saw UFO with lights all around it begin to descend and I asked "is there an airport?" Driver from 3rd rig responded, " I live around here and there is only a college and a prison and a lake." I observed object coming down and my rig started to tremble and I saw it very close to my rig since I was the last one in the caravan of rigs, I started honking at which time, UFO made a slight ascend to avoid hitting me and went right over my rig into a lake located off of Interstate 57, called "Rend Lake." I recall front rig driver saying "be careful whoever is in the back" At which point I saw the big disc star trek like object with lights all around it dive into Rend Lake making no noise and no splash when object went into water. My trailer shook and trembled and I felt it was going to tip over at which time I started honking to alert object and object missed hitting my trailer by small distance. I had no choice but to slow down instead of "stepping on it like front truck driver was screaming into the CB, as by the time the object reached us, I had no time to speed but slow down to avoid the object crashing into my truck. As flying object was coming down towards the lake, lights on object started going counterclockwise and spinning. I had to slow down from the then 55 mph limit to 20 miles mph in order to avoid space craft hitting my truck/rig. As a truck driver I noticed that in the summer, the green hides the lake and unless a person is familiar with the area there is no way of knowing Lake Rend is there, where I saw the Space craft go into the dark water lake. My heart was beating and I was racing with time in a truck/rig caravan as a truck driver where my only option was to slow down and honk at the space craft in order to avoid it hitting me since I was at the end of the truck/rig caravan. There is a rest area near this lake and I was traveling south when UFO object went into the lake on the opposite side of the interstate highway. There are two lakes there, one on each side of the highway and I lost sight of the object when it went into landed into the lake and disappeared into the Lake Rend.
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Continued from Hoaxes From Space: The Montauk Venture
Is hand over any porthole the Philadelphia Experiment truly happened, and that a lot of dumb-a** hoaxes generate take off together to it?
Not truly. Prearranged the glassy of time and funds that the military-industrial sumptuous trustworthy (AND DREAMY DEVOTES) to nature's analysis of invisibility - plain ol' disguise - they haven't been able to devise big make substantial comparatively make tracks yet. They're functioning on small-scale invisibility as well as major metamaterials, at the same time as.
The innocently eyewitnesses to the ostensible disappearance of the USS Eldridge are enduring pranksters and hoaxsters enthralled as well as UFOs, quirky push, and motivation control.
Put on is one inviting achievability with regard to the show, but I'm damaging to say it dreamy doesn't hold a untaken ship. In the in advance '40s, guaranteed of the definitive names in American sci-fi literature were selection in or functioning for the Azure, and were stationed at the Maritime Air Burden Sordid at the Philadelphia Azure Yard: Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague DeCamp, and Robert Heinlein (AS A INHABITANT INTELLIGENCE). L. Ron Hubbard was moreover hand over for a time, before slogan off to California to do other make substantial. It's alluring to stake that guaranteed of these guys were discussion about their fiction one day, and were overheard by a the first part of retailer naval sailor as well as a love for tall tales, one Carl Allen...
But as for anything truly happening? Maritime records, as well as the recollections of sailors accustomed to generate in actual fact served on the Eldridge, show that it never keep pace with docked in Philly in the sphere of WWII. No one has identified keep pace with one of the sailors who went insane and numb up in mental institutions. No diploma of the Cameron brothers and their sinister get going exist. And Aleister Crowley never mentioned anything about gathering Preston Nichols, a seasonal from the approaching.
If it was all such an obvious hoax, why is the story dreamy strong to so a mixture of people?
Key of all, it's a lovely auspicious story. It's spooky, it's science-fictiony, and it's a hell of a lot trimming bizarre than Bigfoot poop. Secondly, the Navy's unique flavor in the story lent it a highly-flavored agreement of constancy - keep pace with at the same time as the officers who commissioned the Varo Account were subtly acting on their overfriendly appeal as well as flying saucers. Thus in the least portion vend paperbacks lent the pretense guaranteed trimming constancy. Thirdly, as soon as just about each person has heard of the Philly Experiment, who knows the phone of Carl Allen, an hard to decipher Pennsylvania drifter and prankster? As Standing by put it, "Pretense flies, and the truth comes limping after."
I'm upbeat to report that the truth is finally putting on its pants, at the same time as. The Best Yoke program History's Mysteries did a show on the Philly Experiment, and included the ballooned scenery of Carl Allen and his hoaxes.
Who is this Al Bielek, anyway?
The funniest, saddest curl of the great Philly Experiment/Montauk Venture hoax is that Bielek, Duncan Cameron, Preston Nichols, and their supporters generate formerly told us severe who they are and whatever thing we have an effect to chronicle to put into action they're ballooned of sh**. Cameron from life admits he's way too the first part of to generate been aboard the Eldridge in the sphere of WWII, and explains that shown as well as a very sumptuous and retarded story about the government by means of alien technology to hit and store his creature until it may perhaps be implanted trendy his own younger brother.
Bielek admits he was functioning a day job in California for the footing of the Montauk Venture. Satisfactorily for him he had special entry to each and every one commuter's wet romanticize, a secret refuse to eat underground rhythmic levitation train! But as as well as Bob Lazar moonlighting as a photo developer as soon as reverse-engineering extraterrestrial craft, I generate to dispute why the hell the government didn't just devise Bielek pat lightly his job in Cali, sow to the East Coast, and include out of the ordinary humdrum cover job preferably to the Montauk plant. That would generate cut down his commute, which was dreamy two hours cross-country.
Certified of Bielek's real history can be found at a site called Bielek Debunked, but be conscious that the graphic designer believes the Philly Experiment truly happened - Bielek just wasn't labyrinthine in it, in his sense.
I cool that Bielek and Nichols hooked up through their involvement in the Psychotronics Chime, collective their appeal as well as all things fringy, and approved to make a adapted sci-fi mythos that may perhaps get them guaranteed awareness, guaranteed convert (NICHOLS' THREE BOOKS ON MONTAUK, CO-AUTHORED AS WELL AS PETER MOON, ARE DREAMY IN PRINT AND PROTECTED AT JUST ABOUT EACH AND EVERY ONE NEW AGE BOOKSTORE), and of course guaranteed mean hobby. Like did they generate to lose?
Is hand over any evidence that motivation control and/or time be first experiments were covertly conducted at Camp Star (MONTAUK) after it was hook down in 1981?
Observe from the "OBSERVER IMPERVIOUS" of Preston Nichols, Stewart Swerdlow, and a few other men, no.
A long time ago selection its argue as a coastal cushion and a nuclear-detection plant finished WWII and most of the Introverted War, The Montauk Air Motivation Sordid was deliberate up in the air quiet and was hook down. Spy radar had replaced its Clever radar. By the time it was supposedly selection as immoral of the Montauk Venture, Camp Hero's old radar system had been disabled and the area was a state stage.
Vertical if you found Preston Nichols' stories of Drano-chugging lizard men strong, the fact that he represents them as repressed reminiscences is niggling. Categorical, the military may perhaps use guaranteed of its cold alien technology to waterless his memory banks, but how did he breathe life into make somewhere your home reminiscences such a passing time later?
Swerdlow now makes his time involvement workshops on how to confound and fight motivation control.
Is time be first keep pace with possible?
Lawfully, in contradiction, yes. Select out Michio Kaku's Physics of the Challenging. Or watch Lost: The android that transports islanders to Tunisia in the second of an eye credibly creates a wormhole through space/time, as the island has both a abundantly huge electromagnetic force and a open Casimir Blow, which generates the irrelevant specific vital to control a wormhole.
How about age-regression technology?
I sometimes ache that age-regression technology of the strain described by Bielek will perpetually be perfected, but next I likeness at Sarah Brightman and appraisal.
A PARADOXThe UFO=ET mythology can only be sustained and kept alive through conspiracy theories, but many of the self proclaimed "experts" are trapped in an "in circulum probando" logical fallacy.This fallacy also known as Circular Argument happens when an argument takes its proof from a factor within the argument itself, rather than from an external one.
Consider the hypothetical cover-up. Presumably the presence of extraterrestrial civilizations in our planet is a fact, but governments and the whole scientific establishment conspire to deny such presence to the public.The mythologist will not give evidences of such a giant conspiracy, simply because the cover-up includes the elimination of such evidences. That is why the exo-mythologist loves the cover up fantasy, for the reason that such conspiracy gives him the possibility of unlimited nonsense.
Besides, for the conspiracy theorists, anyone denying the existence of a conspiracy becomes a coconspirator, and her/his doubts are simply a trick of the cover up apparatus.
This is also a circular argument fallacy. For the ET mythologists, there are no individuals who have different ideas. The critics are always psyops, illuminati or employees of the "shadow government." For the snake oil sellers, those who make questions about the cover up just belong to the cover-up, and with this the argument is closed.
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Pilot Lost Chasing UFOB J Booth There are three exceptional UFO cases in 1948 which involved pilot-UFO encounters. One of these is the Chiles-Whitted Sighting The second one is the well-documented Gorman Dogfight with a UFO and the third is the case of Captain Thomas Mantell. The Mantell case occurred on January 7, 1948. He was a member of the Kentucky Air National Guard, and while on a routine flight, would become the first pilot to lose his life while persuing a UFO, at least that we know about.After Kenneth Arnold's sighting of 1947, and the subsequent crash at Roswell, many open-minded individuals were frightened by what might be flying in our skies. Airplane pilots were the guardians of our skies, and although the military would never admit it, our pilots were seeing UFOs-and on a regular basis. Mantell and his crew would be called upon to perform this important duty, and the fulfillment of that duty was just out of his reach, as he lost his life in the pursuit of a UFO.Mantell, in his F-51, was joined by three other Guard fliers, on their way to Standiford Air Force Base, Kentucky. About 1:30 PM, the Kentucky State Police began getting phone calls from anxious citizens reporting the sighting of a large, circular object. These sightings began over the city of Mansville, but soon spread to Irvington and Owensboro.Operators in the control tower of Godman Air Force Base were alerted to the sighting reports, and they were able to clearly observe the unknown object. They described it as being extremely large, white in color, and round with a red light on its belly. The object appeared to be moving systematically, yet slowly to the south. About an hour after the first sighting reports were made, Mantell and his squadron were radioed to check out the mysterious unknown object.One of Mantell's three accompanying planes requested, and was granted permission to continue his original flight plan. Mantell and two fliers would now pursue the giant UFO. Godman Tower radioed the coordinates of the last known location of the UFO as Mantell and the two other planes began their climb to 15,000 feet. When he reached the known position of the UFO, he relayed the following statement to the tower."The object is directly ahead of and above me now, moving at about half my speed It appears to be a metallic object or possibly reflection of Sun from a metallic object, and it is of tremendous size I'm still climbing I'm trying to close in for a better look."Climbing into thin air, and low on oxygen, two of the fliers turned back from the higher altitude. Now only Mantell was left to find out just what this enormous, unknown object might be. Finally, his plane leveled off at 30,000 feet. Investigators surmised that he was out of oxygen, and passed out in the thin atmosphere. His plane was on a direct descent to the ground, over 5 miles below. In a few moments, his plane smashed to the earth near Franklin, Kentucky.The crash site was a horrible scene to behold. Mantell's body was still strapped in his pilot's seat. Later there would be rumors that his body was missing from the plane, but these rumors were unfounded. His watch had stopped at exactly 3:16 PM, obviously the moment that his plane hit the ground. In the span of 1/2 hour, the sighting reports stopped over Kentucky, but they did begin in Tennessee. The crash made major news sources.The United States Air Force was soon on the scene, and they immediately knew what had happened, or so they said. Their first lame assumption was that the crew was chasing the planet Venus. That theory was quickly dismissed after it was overtly criticized. So the Air Force soon had a second theory: The crew must have been chasing a "Skyhook" balloon. This theory was also dismissed when it was learned that no "Skyhook" was launched that day. What Mantell was chasing that fateful day has never been adequately explained by anything of this Earth.if(zSbL
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UFO CRASH AND RETRIEVAL - MISSOURI, 1941 Published: 9:50 AM 10/17/2010 One of the most mysterious stories of a crashed UFO with alien bodies preceded the well known Roswell event by some six years. This case was first brought to investigators by Leo Stringfield in his book "UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum." He opened a tantalizing account of a military controlled UFO crash retrieval which is still being researched today. The details of the case were sent to him in a letter from one Charlette Mann, who related her minister-grandfather's deathbed confession of being summoned to pray over alien crash victims outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri in the spring of 1941. Reverend William Huffman had been an evangelist for many years, but had taken the resident minister reigns of the Red Star Baptist Church in early 1941. Church records corroborate his employment there during the period in question. After receiving this call to duty, he was immediately driven the 10-15 mile journey to some woods outside of town. Upon arriving at the scene of the crash, he saw policemen, fire department personnel, FBI agents, and photographers already mulling through the wreckage. He was soon asked to pray over three dead bodies. As he began to take in the activity around the area, his curiosity was first struck by the sight of the craft itself. Expecting a small plane of some type, he was shocked to see that the craft was disc-shaped, and upon looking inside he saw hieroglyphic-like symbols, indecipherable to him. He then was shown the three victims, not human as expected, but small alien bodies with large eyes, hardly a mouth or ears, and hairless. Immediately after performing his duties, he was sworn to secrecy by military personnel who had taken charge of the crash area. He witnessed these warnings being given to others at the scene also. As he arrived back at his home at 1530 Main Street, he was still in a state of mild shock, and could not keep his story from his wife Floy, and his sons. This late night family discussion would spawn the story that Charlette Mann would hear from her grandmother in 1984, as she lay dying of cancer at Charlette's home while undergoing radiation therapy. Charlette was told the story over the span of several days, and although Charlette had heard bits and pieces of this story before, she now demanded the full details. As her grandmother tolerated her last few days on this Earth, Charlette knew it was now or never to find out everything she could before this intriguing story was lost with the death of her grandmother. She also learned that one of the members of her grandfather's congregation, thought to be Garland D. Fronabarger, had given him a photograph taken on the night of the crash. This picture was of one of the dead aliens being help up by two men. Charlette Mann gave, in her own words, an account of what she knew for a television documentary. Some of that account is given here: "I saw the picture originally from my dad who had gotten it from my grandfather who was a Baptist minister in Cape Girardeau Missouri in the Spring of '41. I saw that [picture] and asked my grandmother at a later time she was at my home fatally ill with cancer so we had a frank discussion. "She said that grandfather was called out in the spring of 1941 in the evening around 9:00-9:30, that someone had been called out to a plane crash outside of town and would he be willing to go to minister to people there which he did. Upon arrival it was a very different situation. It was not a conventional aircraft, as we know it. He described it as a saucer that was metallic in color, no seams, did not look like anything he had seen. It had been broken open in one portion, and so he could walk up and see that. "In looking in he saw a small metal chair, gauges and dials and things he had never seen. However, what impressed him most was around the inside there were inscriptions and writings, which he said he did not recognize, but were similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics. There were 3 entities, or non-human people, lying on the ground. Two were just outside the saucer, and a third one was further out. His understanding was that perhaps that third one was not dead on impact. There had been mention of a ball of fire, yet there was fire around the crash site, but none of the entities had been burned and so father did pray over them, giving them last rites. "There were many people there, fire people, photographers, and so they lifted up one, and two men on either side stood him up and they stretched his arms out, they had him up under the armpits and out here. As I recall from the picture I saw, he was about 4 feet tall, appeared to have no bone structure, soft looking. He had a suit on, or we assume it was a suit, it could have been his skin, and what looked like crinkled, soft aluminum foil. I recall it had very long hands, very long fingers, and I think there were three but I cannot swear to that. My grandfather upon arrival, said there were already several people there on the scene, two that he assumed were local photographers, fire people, and so not long after they arrived, military just showed up, surrounded the area, took them off in groups separately, and spoke to each of them. "Grandfather didn't know what was said to the others, but he was told 'this didn't happen, you didn't see this, this is national security, it is never to be talked about again.' "My grandfather was an honorable man, being a preacher, that's all that needed to be said to him. And so he came home and told the story to my dad, who was there, and my grandmother and my uncle. Now my mother was expecting at the time, so she was off in the bedroom."
"My sister was born May 3, 1941, so we are assuming this was the middle to the last of April. And he never spoke of it again. But about two weeks later, one of the men who had a personal camera that he had put in his shirt pocket, approached grandfather and said I think someone needs a copy of this. "I have one and I would like you to keep one. So that's how it came about that grandfather had the picture to begin with. But he never spoke of it again. The other people seem to be very intimidated and very frightened and paranoid."Other living supporting witnesses include Charlette Mann's sister who confirmed her story in a notarized sworn affidavit, and the living brother of the Cape Girardeau County sheriff in 1941, Clarance R. Schade. He does remember hearing the account of the crash, yet does not have many details. He does recall hearing of a "spaceship with little people." There are also Fire Department records of the date of the crash. This information does confirm the military swearing department members to secrecy, and also the removal of all evidence from the scene by military personnel. Guy Huffman, Charlette's father also told the story of the crash, and had in his possession the photograph of the dead alien. He showed the picture to a photographer friend of his, Walter Wayne Fisk. He has been contacted by Stanton Friedman, but would not release any pertinent information.
Darkbird18 love the UFO's events from all over the world. This event that happen in 1941 in Missouri is one of my favored because it didn't get that much press as Roswell. But it had to make a big mark in the UFO files because it is on this website, "UFO Casebook Files", one of the detail and UFO Information deep sites on the Internet. The whole story is on the website just click on the link below to get the whole store...............
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On December 9th 2008 hundreds of workers income in Santiago, Chile saw complex brilliant yellow balls of light, UFOs or OVNIs as they are referred to by the locals, fascination in formation and fading charge what seems resemblance a overhang and thus reappearing given away fascination along lazily pulsing a yellow being there. A end OVNI sighting over Santiago, Chile was captured on film rear...
The strange "FORMATION OF LIGHTS" that was seen a trouble of excitement ago in the skies of Santiago, was these days Pillan 14 aircraft from the Hypothetical of Aviation Fach in force the beginning portentousness of officers, attended last night by Rule Michelle Bachelet. According to the Air Force aimed Terra.cl, over the weekend the group of aircraft flying over a tactic from the El Bosque air base to San Bernardo. And in spite of this the flight is practically shrill, intermission is not possible to defeat it, which together the lamps recycled in the relax for deposit and non-intermittent may perhaps carry on caused the bafflement of the workers. In fact at the base say that several time you soir this earn of night flights, acceptance greater than a arrange bellow lecture of the spirit of surprising objects in the sky or UFOs. The alignment observed by dozens of workers and mystified on video, was due to the maneuvers performed for the Pillan landing.
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By Stephen Wagner
Personal encounters with UFOs and possible abductions are among the most puzzling and frightening experiences in paranormal records. It's not just the sighting of the unusual aerial craft, it's the accompanying high strangeness. In the case of Paul Schroeder, his encounter was followed by poltergeist activity, telepathy and other unexplained events - all of which question the true nature and meaning of these "alien" experiences. This is Paul's story:
IT STARTED AT 8:00 p.m. Saturday night, December 2, 2006, after a series of ice storms in New York. The ground ice crunched under my feet. White-blue icy snow covered the sidewalks underfoot. Overhead was a low, thick ceiling of clouds. Temperature about 30 degrees, and very little wind.
While walking down my driveway toward my backyard pantry door, I glanced up... and almost dropped my groceries. UFOs were assembling overhead, their "engines" glowing dark red against the blackness. I stared, puzzled at a strange but not yet disturbing or revealing sight. A clean, crisp hole was cut into the overcast, revealing bright stars surrounding the reddish circular craft bottoms. It was as though a cookie-cutter had sliced a clean mile-wide circular hole into the cloud cover. Everywhere else was thickly overcast, but almost at zenith was a perfect circle of clearing....
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A few things for Sunday.
ARTICLE: Last week's New Yorker had a fascinating and well written article by Burkhard Bilger on our changing perceptions of Mars. While it centers on two figures associated with the Curiosity rover, it starts with a longer overview. What struck me was the fact that some people not only imagined "canals" on Mars in the 19th century, but also saw the Hebrew word for Almight - "Shajdai "spelled out on the surface of Mars. I guess we shouldn't have been surprised then at the later claims of "Face on Mars" (these are all a result of human propensity to see patterns where none exist - known as" Pareidolia"). Here is the beginning of the article:
THERE ONCE WERE TWO PLANETS, NEW TO THE GALAXY AND INEXPERIENCED IN LIFE. LIKE FRATERNAL TWINS, THEY WERE BORN AT THE SAME TIME, ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF BILLION YEARS AGO, AND TOOK ROUGHLY THE SAME SHAPE. BOTH WERE BLISTERED WITH VOLCANOES AND ETCHED WITH WATERCOURSES; BOTH CIRCLED THE SAME YELLOW DWARF STAR-CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE WARMED BY IT, BUT NOT SO CLOSE AS TO BE BLASTED TO A CINDER. HAD AN ALIEN ASTRONOMER SWIVELLED HIS TELESCOPE TOWARD THEM IN THOSE DAYS, HE MIGHT HAVE FOUND THEM EQUALLY PROMISING-NURSERIES IN THE MAKING. THEY WERE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD THEIR GASES CLOSE, SWADDLING THEMSELVES IN ATMOSPHERE; SMALL ENOUGH TO STAY SOLID, NEVER SWELLING INTO GASEOUS GIANTS. THEY WERE "GOLDILOCKS PLANETS," OUR OWN ASTRONOMERS WOULD SAY: JUST RIGHT FOR LIFE. THE REST IS PREHISTORY. ON EARTH, THE VOLCANOES FILLED THE AIR WITH WATER VAPOR AND CARBON DIOXIDE. THE SURFACE COOLED, A CRUST FORMED, AND OCEANS CONDENSED UPON IT. IN HOT SPRINGS AND UNDERSEA VENTS, SIMPLE CARBON COMPOUNDS BUBBLED UP TO FORM AMINO ACIDS AND PEPTIDES. THE FIRST BACTERIA MOVED THROUGH THE OOZE; THEN CAME BLUE-GREEN ALGAE, SPREADING ACROSS THE PLANET LIKE A WATERY CARPET, DRINKING IN SUNLIGHT AND EXHALING OXYGEN, GIVING BREATH TO EVERYTHING THAT CAME AFTER. GEOLOGISTS CALL THIS THE GREAT OXYGENATION EVENT-THE MOST MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN THE PLANET'S HISTORY. IT SEEMS INEVITABLE NOW: LIFE'S TRIUMPHANT MARCH TOWARD COMPLEXITY, TOWARD US. BUT LIKE MOST CREATION STORIES THIS ONE IS ALSO A CAUTIONARY TALE. IT HAS BOTH A HEAVEN AND A HELL. IN 1877, WHEN THE ITALIAN ASTRONOMER GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI DREW THE FIRST DETAILED MAP OF MARS, HE IMAGINED THE PLANET AS AN EARTHLY PARADISE. HE LABELLED ONE REGION EDEN, ANOTHER ELYSIUM, OTHERS, ON LATER MAPS, ARCADIA AND UTOPIA. PEERING THROUGH HIS TELESCOPE ON THE ROOF OF THE PALAZZO DI BRERA, IN MILAN, SCHIAPARELLI HAD SEEN WHAT LOOKED LIKE OCEANS, CONTINENTS, AND WATER CHANNELS SWIM INTO VIEW. "THE PLANET IS NOT A DESERT OF ARID ROCKS," HE WROTE. "IT "LIVES"." AND HIS SUCCESSORS OFTEN TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD: THE SHARPER THEIR TELESCOPES, THE BLURRIER THEIR VISION. THEY SAW MOUNTAINS OF ICE AND RIVERS OF SNOWMELT, WILLIAM SHEEHAN WRITES IN HIS 1996 BOOK, "THE PLANET MARS: A HISTORY OF OBSERVATION AND DISCOVERY." THEY SAW FERTILE OASES AND A MOSS-GREEN EQUATOR. THEY SAW AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM SO LINEAR AND "TRIGONOMETRIC," AS THE ASTRONOMER PERCIVAL LOWELL PUT IT, THAT IT COULD ONLY BE THE WORK OF A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT RACE. SOME EVEN SAW A HEBREW WORD FOR ALMIGHTY-"SHAJDAI"-SPELLED OUT ON THE PLANET'S SURFACE. "TRUE, THE MAGNITUDE OF THE WORK OF CUTTING THE CANALS INTO THE SHAPE OF THE NAME OF GOD IS AT FIRST THOUGHT APPALLING," THE SAN FRANCISCO "CHRONICLE" NOTED IN 1895. "BUT THERE ARE TERRESTRIAL WORKS WHICH TO US TODAY SEEM NO LESS IMPOSSIBLE." BY THE TIME HUMANITY GOT ITS FIRST CLOSEUP VIEW OF MARS, A LITTLE LESS THAN A CENTURY AFTER SCHIAPARELLI MAPPED IT, THE PLANET HAD COME TO SEEM LIKE A SECOND, MORE EXOTIC EARTH. BOOKS LIKE "THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES" DESCRIBED A PLACE OF EERIE DESERT GRANDEUR, INHABITED BY SLENDER, TAWNY BEINGS GIVEN TO STRANGE HALLUCINATIONS-TAOS WITHOUT THE TOURISTS. AND THOUGH INFRARED STUDIES SUGGESTED THAT ITS SURFACE HAD SEVENTY TIMES LESS WATER THAN EARTH'S DRIEST DESERT, BIOLOGISTS STILL HOPED FOR THE BEST. "GIVEN ALL THE EVIDENCE PRESENTLY AVAILABLE, WE BELIEVE IT ENTIRELY REASONABLE THAT MARS IS INHABITED WITH LIVING ORGANISMS AND THAT LIFE INDEPENDENTLY ORIGINATED THERE," A STUDY BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES CONCLUDED IN MARCH, 1965. THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS IS NOW IN ITS SIXTH DECADE. FORTY SPACECRAFT HAVE BEEN SENT THERE, AND NOT ONE HAS FOUND A SINGLE FOSSIL OR LIVING THING. THE CLOSER WE LOOK, THE MORE HOSTILE THE PLANET SEEMS: PARCHED AND FROZEN IN EVERY SEASON, ITS ATMOSPHERE INERT AND MURDEROUSLY THIN, ITS SURFACE SCOURED BY SOLAR WINDS. BY THE TIME EARTH TOOK ITS FIRST BREATH THREE BILLION YEARS AGO, GEOLOGISTS NOW BELIEVE, MARS HAD BEEN SUFFOCATING FOR A BILLION YEARS. THE AIR HAD THINNED AND RIVERS EVAPORATED; DUST STORMS SWEPT UP AND ICE CAPS SEIZED WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE WATER. THE GREAT DESICCATION EVENT, AS IT'S SOMETIMES CALLED, IS EVEN MORE OF A MYSTERY THAN THE GREAT OXYGENATION ON EARTH. WE KNOW ONLY THIS: ONE PLANET LIVED AND THE OTHER DIED. ONE TURNED GREEN, THE OTHER RED.BOOK: Linked with the 19th century fascination with Mars and the discovery, here is an NPR review of a fiction novel set in Egypt. Equilateral by Ken Kalfus has a great premise and it is on my reading list:
The real-life premise is this: In the late 19th century, astronomers spotted what they thought were canals on Mars. Many of those astronomers theorized that, therefore, there must be life on the red planet. Kalfus' fictional astronomer, Sanford Thayer, is an Englishman who's obsessed with the dream of contacting the Martians. Thayer has
launched an internationally funded project to carve out an enormous equilateral triangle - 300 miles to each side - in the Western deserts of Egypt. Once it's dug out, the triangle will be filled with petroleum. Here's how Kalfus' somewhat pompous omniscient narrator describes the rest of the plan: "[S]ometime before dawn on June 17, 1894, at the moment of Earth's most favorable position in the Martian sky, the petroleum pooled in the trenches on each Side of the Equilateral will be ignited simultaneously, launching a Flare from the Earth's darkened limb that across millions of miles of empty space will petition for man's membership in the fraternity of planetary civilizations." Throughout the opening chapters of his novel, Kalfus is so captivated by his own fictional fantasy of that giant triangular 19th century greeting card flashing into space that he's content to just elaborate on the details. He describes how 900,000 native workers toil deep in what Thayer calls "the Great Sand Sea"; those workers are under strict command not to deviate one inch in their digging lest the Martians mistakenly think that a geometrically imprecise triangle is a natural, rather than a man-made, phenomenon. That's why, when the workers stumble upon the tip of a buried pyramid as they're digging a 40-foot trench on one side of the Equilateral, Thayer orders them to bury the pyramid again and pour the pitch over it. At this point, we readers begin to catch on that Thayer, in the fine literary tradition of Englishmen abroad, has stayed out in the midday sun too long. The great lure of Kalfus' kooky novel, at first, lies in its central premise: The book even contains diagrams to help readers visualize the growing triangle and the astronomical glide of Mars and Earth relative to the sun. We feel the blistering heat and the invasiveness of little "daggered" grains of sand that scratch the eyepieces of Thayer's telescopes, even when they're carefully packed away in Chinese cedar cabinets. Given that this is a novel preoccupied with geometrical design, it makes sense that the main characters here - Thayer, his lovelorn secretary, his solicitous native servant, and the practical British engineer on the project - drift closer and further from each other in shifting triangulated alliances. But halfway through this little book, a more ambitious theme begins emerging. Without giving the startling particulars away, I'll just say that violence erupts in the desert, stirring up a veritable sandstorm of troubling philosophical questions, all of them having to do with whether or not we Earthlings even have the right to think of ourselves as embodying "intelligent life."
REALITY SHOW: Who knows when a human mission top Mars will ever take place. However, it seems that the chances for an earlier mission have gone up because of "Mars One" - a non-profit group. The Idea is to make a reality show of the first explorers on Mars - and we will all pay big bucks to see them prepare and then travel - one way - to Mars. The idea of a one-way travel to Mars has been around for a while and I see it as quite reasonable. After all, (some) humans have always been explorers and this will be a continuation of that tradition. Here is a bit about the idea:
But Mars One stands apart in very important ways: First, it will strive to be self-financed by selling the astronaut selection process, launch and landing as a reality television show. Second, the lucky winners will live out their lives in an inflatable habitat on another planet.
"If somebody's an outdoors person who says, 'I need my mountains, I need to smell the flowers,' then it's not the mission for him," says Norbert Kraft, the group's chief medical officer. Mars One co-founder Bas Lansdorp says that the idea of selling the trip as prime-time television really seemed doable after he saw the revenue numbers from the London Olympics. That event garnered more than 4 billion in just over three weeks, he says. With that in mind, the mission's 6 billion price tag "is actually a bargain." In fact, there will be a lot more to watch than the launch and landing. Even today, visitors to the Mars One website can check out public videos from applicants and vote on who they like the most. Those liked more will be more likely to go on to the next round of astronaut selection. Future rounds will be televised: Participants in each nation will square off against each other with only a single participant making his or her way to years of training. That final round will be an internationally broadcast show in which six teams of four vie for the chance to get voted off of Earth.Here is the call for applicants:
Enjoy!
BLACK TRIANGLE SIGHTING IN LANSING, MICHIGAN ON JULY 4TH 2013 - WE SAW FIVE OBJECTS AND THREE WHERE IN A TRIANGLE SHAPE, AND TWO OTHERS OBJECTS WHERE UNDER THE TRIANGULAR SHAPE. AND WOULD MOVE WITH GREAT SPEED. THIS LASTED FOR SIX MINUTES. THEN THEY JUST DISAPPEARED.
I was walking in the hallway of our house when I looked up at the big windows in the living room, I noticed a triangular shape object with reddish color circular orbs at each end of the Points. I told my husband to look out the window at it and that's when we saw two more Circular orbs under the triangular shape object. We both told each other that we have never seen anything like this. We watched for about six minutes until they just disappeared. This objects made no noise, and would change Color to bright orangish to yellow and back to red. These colors looked like a flames inside the circular objects. And when the two orbs under the triangle would move from right to left it was with very fast speed. We where in all at What we had just seen, and knowing we have never in our lives seen anything like it.
2013 SIGHTING REPORT
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UFO SIGHTING IN ONTARIO ON JUNE 30TH 2013 - MULTIPLE STARLIKE UFOS WITH ONE LARGE FLASH
Outside having a smoke on our patio overlooking Lake Nipissing around 11pm with my boyfriend. We first noticed one right away coming from South East basically flying over the visible Scorpio constellation, with the milky way ribbon just left of where the first seemed to originate. This particular orb was relatively starlike in shape and size, speed was variable as it seemed to speed up and slow down at various intervals. The path curved from the South East to the North West. Shortly after the first one we noticed there was a second one that flew in nearly the same flight path just a few degrees beneath the first ones path, but same movement, same direction, and same origin. We were both in awe at those two when we got the idea that we should grab our laser pointer to see if there could be any communication contact made. Once that was retrieved we noticed another starlike orb clipping along the night sky in the same general area but instead moving East to West (almost exactly). My boyfriend then flashed the laser pointer at it in quick but steady flashes. Instead of that orb responding one to the West about 40 degrees from the Western horizon did. The responding orb was unnoticed until it flashed and grew in apparent size that I could only relate to the size of a normal full moon, and at least doubled it's brightness. I personally saw more of the flash then my boyfriend but it would have lasted at least a couple of seconds from beginning to end. Once the brightness was over you could see the orb move away and disappear. At once, I had an intense feeling of excitement mixed with a feeling that we shouldn't be flashing them. I felt like we had done something unacceptable and was for a moment scared. Not sure if I felt that way because we got a response or because I fear government retaliation. After seeing that orb,another one appeared to be heading the opposite direction to the one we laser pointed, but roughly the same location in the sky. This one followed/crossed paths with a airplane that was coming from the south to North east at nearly the same time. We have been diligent in checking for satellites, iridium flares, ISS, meteor showers and even fireworks (Canada Day celebrations) and couldn't come up with our own answers to what happened. As always we have an intense sense of awe, wonder, confusion, and sometimes a little fear. We have accepted that at least half of what we see aren't anything we personally know of. But would love to know if anyone else saw anything last night.
2013 SIGHTING REPORT
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