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Well, my friends, I think I need a little vacation. My new house purchase causes consistent "noise" in my life, and interferes with meditations, and even readings, which create blog entries. Stuff flows out of one house to another; visions of the future arise, replacing visions of the anomalies in mental space; and... I just feel a bit out of steam. I'm rather surprised that I kept the engine running as long and continually as I have this year.
I think that a "month's" hiatus might be in order. Time is needed to get the new environmental/ spiritual house going on a good foundation. Time is necessary to just have some of that precious commodity to sit quietly and simply read my library without "goals". And the world's best UFOlogists are visiting here in two weeks as well [maybe that will be so natural, that I can sneak in a little report of that then].
I have rare books and journals sitting for about a half a year on my shelves that I've barely opened. Maybe they'll lead to nothing, but maybe something fine. I need to read to share that with you. So I'm retreating for a little bit. Hope to see you in October. Bless you all.
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Date: September 20, 2014
Time: Approx: 9:00 p.m.
Hi impart, my pad and I were at the West Bay Quay last night in Esquimalt, British Columbia at exclaim 9:00 p.m. We witnessed a very brassy and sound heartfelt orangey circular light in the sky.
It just appeared and began slowly poignant spanning the sky, it later motionless and was only unmoving for a few seconds, later continued poignant spanning the sky.
We watched it as it seemed to moment in time out and elephant hide. About 20 minutes later, we saw it over, this time it was roving in the overturn sway and phased out as it seemed to be descending downwards.
About 5 minutes go along with, it appeared yet over this time the top was visibly red and the baffle was the orangey color. It hovered for a unimportant or so and later phased out.
I called the flare and control local office this daybreak to pose about any give up flares that may perhaps stomach engaged place, but impart was nonexistence of the form that they were watchful of, nor were impart any other reports of this phenomena in our area.
"IF Any person HAS WITNESSED THE LIGHTS/OBJECTS, Charm Serve ME AN EMAIL Along with Details OF Suchlike YOU SAW. Charm Remember TO Affect THE Date AND Blind date AND Site. (TOWN/CITY - Post OR Constituency) AND AS A long way Item AS Sufficient."
Brian Vike.
Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia, Canada.
Email: "sighting@telus.net" or "b vike@telus.net"
"THE VIKE Issue - HOUSTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR UFO Scratch. CANADIAN UFO Examiner BRIAN VIKE."
A treatment flight concluded not very soon what was physical. It was Japan Airlines 747 burden flight, shipping a load of French wine to Tokyo from Paris. The flight accomplice was peaceful of ready Captain Kenju Terauchi, co-pilot TakanoriTamefuji, and Yoshio Tsukuba, flight put together. The flight plan carried flight 1628 from Paris to Tokyo. The first leg of the leak out was on November 16, 1986 from Paris to Reykjavik, Iceland thus continued flying over Greenland the subsequent to day and thus across northern Canada. Cool moments after they crossed concerning Alaska at several 5:09 p.m. outmoded time, Bear in mind Air Society Deal with instructed the flight for their pathway. They were at 35,000 feet and disturbing at a speed of several 600 mph. Captain Terauchi noticed the lights at several 5:11 PM outmoded time about 200 feet beneath in which he perturb at that time an American jet fighter from in close proximity to air force bases, patrolling the airspace of Alaska. Motionless, few account in imitation of, he noticed that the lights were at the same pace as as well as his own aircraft, which he found person for patrolling jets. They were paying planning to the lights for about seven account having the status of all of a piercing two spaceships came to their role gunfire off lights. The lights shined the arrived cockpit cleverly and the boss felt open in his face. Terauchi suspected that the two objects were the lights he noticed beneath them that succinct jumped in role of him. The two objects domestic animals on disturbing in unison as well as a unearthly rocking roll where charge pace as well as the 747 for sure account. The two complex aerial objects thus altered to a side-by-side film set after several seven account. Terauchi thought the lights were amber and colorless that appeared close blaze imminent out of sure firecracker waste ports. Co-pilot Tamefuji described the lights as contrasting Christmas lights as well as a salmon color. Seepage put together Tsukuba did not get a upright aim of the lights, but he emphasized that the lights in role of them were unusual from town lights. Capt.Terauchi asked Tskububa to deputy him a camera to snare a picture of the lights, but poor to do so in the role of of his unfamiliarity of the camera and he sharp-witted fondness as well as the auto-focus. The objects thus flew off to the left and departed apart from a trace. The post This day in UFO history: Japanese Airline UFO Be ill with in 1986 appeared first on Pristine UFO Sightings.
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UFO SIGHTING IN WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY ON JULY 7TH 2013 - THE SUN CAME THRU HAZEY CLOUDS, HIT IT, THEN A SUPER BRIGHT FLASH(REFLECTION)
1. Wildwood, N.J. Schellinger Ave., WATERPARK - sunbathing on a lounge chair, facing the ocean (very end of pier) I was looking at beach & ocean. 2. There was nothing in the sky at the time, except this spot. 3. I was looking at the horizon, a bird or kite or airplane at a very high altitude. 4. It was a dull black in color, it seemed to be stationary, it then rotated or rolled as the sun broke through a cloud and a bright (spark-like) reflection caught my eye, I had to blink and it was gone. 5. I thought "WOW, I saw another one." I asked my son-in-law if he saw it but, he did not. 6. After blinking from the flash in my eyes, I lost it, I continued to watch the sky but, no other sightings.
2013 SIGHTING REPORT
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Date: January 1, 1980Time: Approx: 3:00 p.m. Number of witnesses: 3Number of Objects: 2Shape of Objects: Round. "FULL DESCRIPTION OF EVENT/SIGHTING:" Beautiful clear cloudless cold sunny day. It was New Years day walking with my parents when we noticed 2 bright pulsating objects hovering over River Mersey. As we turned round to walk back to car, the objects changed direction to the same way that we were going. The objects stopped, then went off at incredible speed. No sound. That evening on the main BBC news headlines that the New Zealand Air Force sent up military aircraft because of reports UFOs in their air space. If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: "sighting@telus.net" with the details of your sighting. "All personal information is kept confidential."
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Check out the following (thanks to "The Anomalist") reported this weekend:
"Scientist Seeks Biggest Freshwater Fish" AOL News. In Thailand's Maeklong River lives the astonishingly large freshwater stingray. American biologist Zeb Hogan is angling for this species in an effort to eclipse the record for the largest freshwater fish, a record that currently belongs to the Mekong giant catfish. With photos and slideshow. Meanwhile, at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman takes exception with those who try to discredit a famed cryptozoologist by saying nothing the researcher wrote about in his most acclaimed book has ever been verified, as reported in "The Reality of Post-Heuvelmans Discoveries", and at American Chronicle UFO researcher Steve Bass turns his attention to cryptozoology, briefly, to ask "Is Bigfoot an Alien?
FRIDAY THE 13TH OF APRIL 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils Tower in Wyoming, will pack the energy of 65,000 Hiroshima bombs--enough to wipe out a small country or kick up an 800-ft. tsunami. Also check: LINK: Asteroid 2012 DA14On this day, however, Apophis is not expected to live up to its namesake, the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and destruction. Scientists are 99.7 percent certain it will pass at a distance of 18,800 to 20,800 miles. In astronomical terms, 20,000 miles is a mere stone's throw, shorter than a round-trip flight from New York to Melbourne, Australia, and well inside the orbits of Earth's many geosynchronous communications satellites. For a couple of hours after dusk, people in Europe, Africa and western Asia will see what looks like a medium-bright star creeping westward through the constellation of Cancer, making Apophis the first asteroid in human history to be clearly visible to the naked eye. And then it will be gone, having vanished into the dark vastness of space. We will have dodged a cosmic bullet. "Data is still being analysed, it is not clear what the exact trajectory will be."Maybe. Scientists calculate that if Apophis passes at a distance of exactly 18,893 miles, it will go through a "gravitational keyhole." This small region in space--only about a half mile wide, or twice the diameter of the asteroid itself--is where Earth's gravity would perturb Apophis in just the wrong way, causing it to enter an orbit seven-sixths as long as Earth's. In other words, the planet will be squarely in the crosshairs for a potentially catastrophic asteroid impact precisely seven years later, on April 13, 2036.Radar and optical tracking during Apophis's fly-by last summer put the odds of the asteroid passing through the keyhole at about 45,000-to-1. "People have a hard time reasoning with low-probability/high-consequence risks," says Michael DeKay of the Center for Risk Perception and Communication at Carnegie Mellon University. "Some people say, 'Why bother, it's not really going to happen.' But others say that when the potential consequences are so serious, even a tiny risk is unacceptable."Former astronaut Rusty Schweickart, now 71, knows a thing or two about objects flying through space, having been one himself during a spacewalk on the Apollo 9 mission in 1969. Through the B612 Foundation, which he co-founded in 2001, Schweickart has been prodding NASA to do something about Apophis--and soon. "We need to act," he says. "If we blow this, it'll be criminal."If the dice do land the wrong way in 2029, Apophis would have to be deflected by some 5000 miles to miss the Earth in 2036. Hollywood notwithstanding, that's a feat far beyond any current human technology. The fanciful mission in the 1998 movie Armageddon--to drill a hole more than 800 ft. into an asteroid and detonate a nuclear bomb inside it--is about as technically feasible as time travel. In reality, after April 13, 2029, there would be little we could do but plot the precise impact point and start evacuating people.Diagram: How to Off An AsteroidFortunately, Apophis needs to be nudged only about a mile to avoid a gravitational "keyhole" in space--a region that would send the asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Otherwise, it would have to be diverted 5000 miles for it to miss our planet. This reduces the energy required to deflect Apophis by a factor of about 10,000--making it theoretically possible using current technology. A number of methods have been proposed to do the job.According to projections, an Apophis impact would occur somewhere along a curving 30-mile-wide swath stretching across Russia, the Pacific Ocean, Central America and on into the Atlantic. Managua, Nicaragua; San Jos'e, Costa Rica; and Caracas, Venezuela, all would be in line for near-direct hits and complete destruction. The most likely target, though, is several thousand miles off the West Coast, where Apophis would create a 5-mile-wide, 9000-ft.-deep "crater" in the water. The collapse of that transient water crater would trigger tsunamis that would hammer California with an hour-long fusillade of 50-ft. waves. BUT DON'T EVACUATE just yet. Although we can't force Apophis to miss the Earth after 2029, we have the technology to nudge it slightly off course well before then, causing it to miss the keyhole in the first place. According to NASA, a simple 1-ton "kinetic energy impactor" spacecraft thumping into Apophis at 5000 mph would do the trick. We already have a template for such a mission: NASA's Deep Impact space probe--named after another 1998 cosmic-collision movie--slammed into the comet Tempel 1 in 2005 to gather data about the composition of its surface. Alternatively, an ion-drive-powered "gravity tractor" spacecraft could hover above Apophis and use its own tiny gravity to gently pull the asteroid off course. In 2005, Schweickart urged NASA administrator Michael Griffin to start planning a mission to land a radio transponder on Apophis. Tracking data from the device would almost certainly confirm that the asteroid won't hit the keyhole in 2029, allowing everyone on Earth to breathe a collective sigh of relief. But if it didn't, there still would be time to design and launch a deflection mission, a project that Schweickart estimates could take as long as 12 years. It would need to be completed by about 2026 to allow enough time for a spacecraft's tiny nudge to take effect. NASA, however, is taking a wait-and-see attitude. An analysis by Steven Chesley of the Near Earth Object program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., concludes that we can safely sit tight until 2013. That's when Apophis swings by Earth in prime position for tracking by the 1000-ft.-dia. radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This data could also rule out a keyhole hit in 2029. But if it doesn't, the transponder mission and, if necessary, a last-resort deflection mission could still be launched in time, according to Chesley. "There's no rush right now," he says. "But if it's still serious by 2014, we need to start designing real missions." About 100 tons of interplanetary material drifts to the Earth's surface on a daily basis. Occasionally, an object hurtles with enough force to leave a mark. ASTEROIDS are large rocky or metal bodies that originate in the relatively warm inner solar system, in the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. COMETS are composed mostly of water ice and rock, and form in the cold outer solar system beyond the planets' orbits. Scientists believe comets may have delivered the first organic compounds to Earth billions of years ago. METEOROIDS are either pieces of asteroids that collided in space, or debris released by vaporizing comets. When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere, they are called meteors, and when they reach its surface they are called meteorites. So far, the remnants of more than 160 impact craters have been identified on Earth. Here are six of the most notable: "35 MILLION YEARS AGO"CHESAPEAKE BAY CRATERMarylandDiameter: 53 milesCause: 1- to 2-mile-wide meteoriteClaim to fame: Though long ago filled in by soil and water, this is the largest impact crater in the U.S. The event that caused it fractured bedrock more than a mile deep, creating a saltwater reservoir that still affects the region's groundwater.35.7 MILLION YEARS AGOPOPIGAI CRATERSiberia, RussiaDiameter: 62 milesCause: 3-mile-wide asteroidClaim to fame: The crater is flecked with industrial-grade diamonds created by shock pressure on graphite. A recent theory posits that this asteroid and the Chesapeake Bay meteorite originated from one asteroid.50 THOUSAND YEARS AGOBARRINGER CRATERArizonaDiameter: 4100 ft.Cause: 150-ft.-wide meteoriteClaim to fame: Also called "Meteor Crater" (above), this is the first impact crater ever identified on Earth, as well as the best preserved one. In the 1960s, astronauts went there to practice sampling techniques for the Apollo program.65 MILLION YEARS AGOCHICXULUB BASINYucat~A!n Peninsula, MexicoDiameter: 110 milesCause: 6-mile-wide asteroidClaim to fame: This impact triggered enormous tsunamis and magnitude 10 earthquakes. Scientists believe it led to the extinction of dinosaurs and of 75 percent of all species, effectively ending the Cretaceous Period. 1.85 BILLION YEARS AGOSUDBURY CRATEROntario, CanadaDiameter: 155 milesCause: 6-mile-wide cometClaim to fame: On the crater floor, heat from the impact and cometary water fed a system of hot springs possibly capable of supporting life. The rim of the crater also holds one of the world's largest supplies of nickel and copper ore.BILLION YEARS AGOVREDEFORT DOMESouth AfricaDiameter: 236 milesCause: 6-mile-wide cometClaim to fame: Though now the most eroded, Vredefort is the oldest and (at impact) the largest such crater on Earth. It was created by the world's greatest known energy release, which may have altered the evolution of single-cell organisms."Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart holds a model of the asteroid 1998 KY26."IN 1998, CONGRESS mandated NASA to find and track near-Earth asteroids at least 1 kilometer in diameter. The resulting Spaceguard Survey has detected, at last count, about 75 percent of the 1100 estimated to be out there. (Although Apophis was nearly 2500 ft. short of the size criterion, it was found serendipitously during the search process.) Thankfully, none of the giants so far discovered is a threat to Earth. "But any one of those couple of hundred we haven't found yet could be headed toward us right now," says former astronaut Tom Jones, an asteroid-search consultant for NASA and a Popular Mechanics editorial adviser. The space agency plans to expand Spaceguard to include asteroids down to 140 meters in diameter-less than half the size of Apophis, but still big enough to do serious damage. It has already detected more than 4000 of these; NASA estimates approximately 100,000 exist. Predicting asteroid orbits can be a messy business, as the history of tracking Apophis in its 323-day orbit demonstrates. Astronomers at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory discovered the asteroid in June 2004. It was six months before additional sightings-many made by amateurs using backyard telescopes-triggered alarm bells at JPL, home to the Sentry asteroid-impact monitoring system, a computer that predicts the orbits of near-Earth asteroids based on astronomical observations. Sentry's impact predictions then grew more ominous by the day. On Dec. 27, 2004, the odds of a 2029 impact reached 2.7 percent-a figure that stirred great excitement in the small world of asteroid chasers. Apophis vaulted to an unprecedented rating of 4 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, a 10-step, color-coded index of asteroid and comet threat levels. But the commotion was short-lived. When previously overlooked observations were fed into the computer, it spit out reassuring news: Apophis would not hit the Earth in 2029 after all, though it wouldn't miss by much. Oh, and there was one other thing: that troublesome keyhole. The small size of the gravitational keyhole-just 2000 ft. in diameter-is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it wouldn't take much to nudge Apophis outside it. Calculations suggest that if we change Apophis's velocity by a mere 0.0001 mph-about 31 in. per day-in three years its orbit would be deflected by more than a mile, a piddling amount, but enough to miss the keyhole. That's easily within the capabilities of a gravity tractor or kinetic energy impactor. On the other hand, with a target so minuscule, predicting precisely where Apophis will pass in relation to the keyhole becomes, well, a hit-or-miss proposition. Current orbit projections for 2029 have a margin of error-orbital scientists call it the error ellipse-of about 2000 miles. As data rolls in, the error ellipse will shrink considerably. But if the keyhole stubbornly stays within it, NASA may have to reduce the ellipse to a mile or less before it knows for sure whether Apophis will hit the bull's-eye. Otherwise, a mission risks inadvertently nudging Apophis into the keyhole instead of away from it. Can we predict Apophis's orbit to the submile level far enough in advance to launch a deflection mission? That level of forecasting accuracy would require, in addition to a transponder, a vastly more complex orbital calculation model than the one used today. It would have to include calculations for such minute effects as solar radiation, relativity and the gravitational pulls of small nearby asteroids, none of which are fully accounted for in the current model. And then there's the wild card of asteroid orbital calculations: the Yarkovsky Effect. This small but steady force occurs when an asteroid radiates more heat from one side than the other. As an asteroid rotates away from the sun, the heat that has accumulated on its surface is shed into space, giving it a slight push in the other direction. An asteroid called 6489 Golevka, twice the size of Apophis, has been pushed about 10 miles off course by this effect in the past 15 years. How Apophis will be influenced over the next 23 years is anybody's guess. At the moment we have no clue about its spin direction or axis, or even its shape-all necessary parameters for estimating the effect. IF APOPHIS IS INDEED headed for the gravitational keyhole, ground observations won't be able to confirm it until at least 2021. By that time, it may be too late to do anything about it. Considering what's at stake-Chesley estimates that an Apophis-size asteroid impact would cost 400 billion in infrastructure damage alone-it seems prudent to start taking steps to deal with Apophis long before we know whether those steps will eventually prove necessary. When do we start? Or, alternatively, at what point do we just cross our fingers and hope it misses? When the odds are 10-to-1 against it? A thousand-to-1? A million? When NASA does discover a potentially threatening asteroid like Apophis, it has no mandate to decide whether, when or how to take action. "We're not in the mitigation business," Chesley says. A workshop to discuss general asteroid-defense options last June was NASA's first official baby step in that direction. If NASA eventually does get the nod-and more important, the budget-from Congress, the obvious first move would be a reconnaissance mission to Apophis. Schweickart estimates that "even gold-plated at JPL," a transponder-equipped gravity tractor could be launched for 250 million. Ironically, that's almost precisely the cost of making the cosmic-collision movies Armageddon and Deep Impact. If Hollywood can pony up a quarter of a billion in the name of defending our planet, why can't Congress?Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/4201569
