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Monday, 2 March 2015
Ufo Researcher And Personal Friend Quits After Alleged Threat With Iet Commentary
I would like to shed a bit of light on this situation from a personal experience. As some people know that have followed this blog, this blogger is a life long experiencer. As a child, I remembered drawing the beings and the craft I had seen as a child in school over and over as I looked out the window of my elementary school. The classrooms had tall windows for kindergarten up through fourth or fifth grade. Yes, this does explain the satisfactory report cards I used to get and not the superior one's. Paying attention to the teacher after having an experience the night before was a wee bit difficult to say the least. Questions would loom in my mind such as; "Where did they come from? How did they get here? How did they move through the wall? When are they coming back?"
That same year of making the drawings in school which must have been about first or second grade, I recall a strange man driving me home from school. I only remember a glimpse of the event and this is what I recall. A man who was supposedly a school janitor (although he was not from this particular elementary school). I have no idea where he came from and he was dressed in janitor clothing, but had shiny clean shoes and access to the town school vehicle. This man somehow was allowed to drive me home. How and why he was allowed to take me home was beyond me. My mother was a stay at home Mom, so someone could likely have picked me up. However, these were the 70's, rules were as loose as bell bottoms back then.
I remember feeling incredibly uncomfortable with him as it just didn't feel and look right, especially his shoes. And he was not the janitor that I had ever seen before. I sat in the front seat of a large station wagon and pressed my body up against the passenger door so I could get as far away as possible. The elementary school was only about a quarter mile away from my house and when we reached the intersection for him to go straight which was the road to my house, he decided to take a right. I could feel he was going to take his time and pretend to get lost before he made he turn and that is what he did do. So, I went up closer and harder to the passenger door to get some comfort.
He then says without ever making eye contact with me in a casual voice, "so you see those beings too? You see those beings and the ship too?" I could feel my heart race. Just "BRING ME HOME" I screamed in my head. I knew not to say a word and I didn't. I do not recall what happened after that moment.
What is the point with this? At 7 or 8 years old someone knew this contact was occurring. How? Why? What? I don't know. What I do know is the truth of these beings, the continuing contact and knowledge about free energy has been stifled for ages. People have worked hard to not see this truth come to light. Perhaps even taking an 8 year old kid alone for a ride in a car and questioning her about the beings. Could this have been someone who legitimately worked for the school who had experienced something similiar to me and caught site of one of my drawings? Perhaps. However, the shoes. It just didn't add up. He barely had a scuff on them and moreover, I stayed in the same school system for the next 10 years upon graduation from high school and never saw him again after that day.
I have always said "truth is stranger than fiction." Maybe it explains why I have no tolerance for romance novels or mysteries.
Cheers to you Dennis Whitney, "I love ya man!"
MONDAY, 28 JUNE 2010 09:20 WRITTEN BY DENNIS WHITNEY
Not So Much a Goodbye as 'Changing Course': A Final Post by Dennis Whitney. To all of those that have remained so supportive of me (and my work) these past few years, I want to offer my sincerest thanks. For many of you, this may come as an absolute surprise to read, but it was important to me to at least say goodbye properly, and not just disappear into the sunset without explanation.
It has come to my attention that my efforts to speak the truth about
the subjects of UFOs, 9/11, and most probably, the Gulf situation, has
garnered the attention of those that would rather not have you hear
such things. This has further led to a supposed contract on my life.
This may be overblown, or it may be for real. But the communication
and connections that I have had with my own Guides tell me, this isn't
a game. But it's 'arrival' in my life has prompted some needed
changes, at a time that seems oddly well-timed, and appropriate. I
think you'll understand.
Though I'm a little surprised its gone this far, I'm also not very
surprised at all, given my compulsion to passionately share all that I
can with those who just aren't 'getting it' yet. My aim has always
been (since the days of my own awakening) to awaken others, for their
own benefit and safety, as well as helping them understand the
importance of raising their own consciousness and vibration.
And the importance of that cannot be understated. To have a grasp of
the issues that surround us such as; the ET presence, the suppressed
technologies we so badly need on this planet, to our positions as
pawns for a corrupt government, will eventually help us all to rise
above the lies, and ascend during this period of dimensional shifting,
and crashing paradigms. To not be aware, is to suppress your own
vibrations, which can make your ascension into a new and beautiful 5D
world somewhat impossible. And it's no fairytale, as the evidence is
there for us to see every day now, as we watch it all come to pass.
And the short version is, I want as many of you to be part of this
amazing time in mankind's history, as I can possibly gather. I'd like
to think I've done my best until this point, and I think I have.
I've used this analogy with others. If you're on a beach with someone,
and all signs are pointing to an imminent tsunami, how long do you
stand there and argue your point to them, until it takes both of you
away? That's where we are now. And many of us can no longer help those
that choose not to be helped. We need to get to higher ground right
now, with or without you. But we'd like you to come along, make no
mistake about that.
But this also may very well be my cue to close one chapter in my life,
to only begin the next. None of what we feel or do is coincidental in
this life. There is a plan at work. A plan created before we were
born. And we receive signs of that every day, through synchronicity
and intuition. I'm sure you feel it, too, as I do.
So for me, it will be less focus on the corruption and orchestration
of a government hell bent on continuing their control and reduction of
the population, and more focus on the tangible, positive efforts on
the ground. Things are going to get crazy, and I think we know that. I
also think it's my time to help others physically through this period,
rather than on the internet, which many of us feel is coming quickly
to an end anyway, through further controls and the power now granted
to this president to shut it down. Again, it seems to be my cue to
exit stage left at this time. I can help in other ways.
This is not to say that I don't believe in the things I have shared,
nor have I been 'gotten to'. This is a personal decision of mine to
move forward with what little time is left to do so. The issues are
real, and the efforts of a darker government to control, manipulate
and threaten still exist in this world. I hope I have awakened a few
in the mean time to this. I feel I have, which is also why I also feel
that it's alright for me to move on from writing about these subjects.
And if your own inner guidance tells you the same, I'd say, act on it.
But YES, every bit of what I have shared I believe in to my very core.
But now, I choose not to give it that power. They are done, and they
know it. It's time for many of us to move forth, and just watch as
they grasp for their vanishing power, which will soon be no more than
dust in their hands. It is ALL good, and time for us to move forward.
Brighter days ahead, we can be sure, after this madness comes to an
end. And it will, very soon.
We're all here for particular reasons and tasks. And I feel that many
of us are protected as we fulfill them. Which is why, there is no fear
from my end. Just a certain sensibility, strength, and sense of peace
and completion as 'Phase 2' now begins. I feel stronger now, more
resolute, and ready to act on whatever I need to do next, for myself
and others. Many of you are no different in that regard, and I KNOW
who you are, and I'm grateful and blessed for having known you.
In one week from now, when I return from a brief trip away, I will
close my accounts, my columns, and my blog. This is not a snap
decision of mine, and again, is under the direction and suggestion of
my own Guides who have brought me to where I am today, safely and
happily. I would have thought to at least leave them open and
operating, so others can continue to do their own research. I got a
no-go on that. Sorry.
In closing, I would say that if you have not awakened to the realities
people are trying to share with you, please look a bit harder into
what they are seeing that you are not. There is so much more truth to
these realities than you may ever know. And simply opening up to them
can have tremendously positive, spiritual implications that many of us
are already experiencing. Don't lose out on that opportunity. It's
right there on a plate for you, and time is running out for those
still resistant to such truths. Open yourself up. Lose the belief
systems now. And if you're living along the Gulf, being open and
listening, might just give you the tools you need to save your life,
and causing you to get out of that situation.
We are a people, deserving of all the secrets kept from us for the
past century. Humanity has needed these to evolve, and to limit the
power and corruption we are now witnessing. We should've been
fully-integrated and assimilated into the greater cosmic community
with our star brothers and sisters by now (I think), and we sure as
hell haven't needed the very oil that is causing so much rampant
destruction, control, and wealth that it is today (at least in terms
of operating our vehicles). It has been a sham. The technology exists,
and it is clean and cheap, UFOs do not get from star to star using
diesel. The technology is there, and we'll have it soon enough. Just
investigate the findings of Gary McKinnon, and you will KNOW this is
true!
And the days of threats, intimidation, incarceration and 'hits' should
have long since passed. It's time we all stand up in our own way, and
take what's rightfully ours. We are not slaves. We are a connected
human family. No one has the right to dictate the direction of our
lives but us. Please remember that.
I will also tell you, that although I feel absolutely fine, and am
sure the threat above will soon pass, I find it absolutely necessary
to make one thing clear. In studying the mysterious deaths of many UFO
researchers, microbiologists, and whistle blowers over the years, many
have been deemed 'suicides' by the coroner, conveniently after
releasing some very damaging testimony and evidence of these truths.
The kinds of things that would embarrass or harm the agenda of certain
powers. I can tell you, without hesitation, that that will NEVER be a
solution for me under any circumstance.
I have great plans when this incarnation of mine is done upon earth,
and suicide only defeats, destroys, and screws with any such plans. So
IF anything ever happened, this letter is my testimony to that fact
that I did NOT commit suicide. And I would ask, for however many of
you choose to store it in your files or post on your walls or blogs,
that you immediately release this letter (en masse) to any media
source our outlet that you can find, and expose them for who they are.
That this was no accident, nor intention to end my own life. This, I
would expect to be my little insurance policy. If they act, you act.
That simple. And if anything did happen, you would also be notified
by any of several of my closest friends. So no news is good news.
All my thanks and gratitude to you all, as it's been a wonderful ride.
We'll meet up again somewhere down the line, if it's 'part of the
plan'.
Hang in there. We're almost there!
Namaste,
Dennis Whitney
6/27/2010
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Saturday, 28 February 2015
Congratulations Clas
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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Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Ufo Sighting In Denver Colorado On October 9Th 2013 Large V Shaped Oject No Light No Sound
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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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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Sunday, 15 February 2015
Ufo Landing In Ina Illinois On July 31St 2012 I Saw A Ufo Land Into A Lake In Ina Illinois While Driving Thru In A Caravan Of Eighteen Wheel Rigs
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Saturday, 14 February 2015
Hoaxes From Space Lingering Questions About The Philadelphia Experiment And The Montauk Project
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.
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Fantasists Just Love The Cover Up
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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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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Monday, 9 February 2015
Death Of Thomas Mantell
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Saturday, 7 February 2015
Ufo Crash And Retrieval Missouri 1941 Ufo Casebook Files
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...............
UFO Crash and Retrieval - Missouri, 1941 - UFO Casebook Files
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Ufos Ovnis Over Santiago Chile
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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The Night Of Unseen Entities
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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Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Mars Triple Treat A Fascinating Book An Article And A Reality Show Proposal For A One Way Trip
"by Salman Hameed"
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:
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!
Monday, 2 February 2015
Black Triangle Sighting In Lansing Michigan On July 4Th 2013 We Saw Five Objects And Three Where In A Triangle Shape
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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Sunday, 1 February 2015
Ufo Sighting In Ontario On June 30Th 2013 Multiple Starlike Ufos With One Large Flash
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.
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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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Thursday, 29 January 2015
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ROUGH RED PLANET ROCKS RIP ROVER CURIOSITY WHEELS
by KEN KREMER on DECEMBER 26, 2013Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @UNIVERSETODAY on TwitterPhotomosaic shows new holes and tears in several of rover Curiosity's six wheels caused by recent driving over sharp edged Martian rocks on the months long trek to Mount Sharp. Raw images taken by the MAHLI camera on Curiosity's arm on Dec. 22, 2013 (Sol 490) were assembled to show some recent damage to several of its six wheels - most noticeably the two here in middle and front. Credit: NASA / JPL / MSSS / Marco Di Lorenzo / Ken Kremer- kenkremer.comSEE BELOW COMPLETE 6 WHEEL MOSAIC AND FURTHER WHEEL MOSAICS FOR COMPARISONRough edged rocks on the Red Planet are clearly taking their toll on rover Curiosity's hi tech wheels as she speeds towards her ultimate goal - humongous Mount Sharp - in search of the ingredients necessary to sustain potential Martian microbes.Several of the NASA rovers six big aluminum wheels have suffered some significant sized rips, tears and holes up to several centimeters wide - in addition to numerous dents - as she has picked up the driving pace across the rugged, rock filled Martian terrain this past fall and put over 4.5 kilometers (3 mi.) on the odometer to date.It's rather easy to spot the wheel damage to the 1 ton behemoth by examining the mosaic imagery we have created - See above and below - from newly transmitted raw imagery and comparing that to older imagery taken at earlier points in the mission. Check our Sol 177 wheels mosaic below.Remove this adThe latest imagery from Mars captured just prior to Christmas is delivering an undesired holiday present of sorts to team members that might well cause the scientists and engineers to alter Curiosity's extraterrestrial road trip to traverse smoother terrain and thereby minimize future harm.So the wheel damage is certainly manageable at this point but will require attention.The team of Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer have assembled the new Mastcam and MAHLI raw images captured on Sol 490 (Dec. 22) into fresh color mosaics - shown herein.Photomosaic shows new holes and tears in several of rover Curiosity's six wheels caused by recent driving over sharp edged Martian rocks on the months long trek to Mount Sharp. Raw images taken by the MAHLI camera on Curiosity's arm on Dec. 22, 2013 (Sol 490) were assembled to show some recent damage to several of its six wheels - most noticeably the two at right in middle and front. Credit: NASA / JPL / MSSS / Marco Di Lorenzo / Ken Kremer- kenkremer.com
See below more wheel mosaics for comparisonAds by ViewPasswordAd OptionsPhotomosaic from Sol 177 (Feb. 3, 2013) shows rover Curiosity's six wheels relatively intact with far fewer holes and dents compared to Sol 490 mosaic taken on Dec 22. 2013. Rover is working in Yellowknife Bay here and had not yet begun long trek to Mount Sharp. Sol 177 raw images assembled to mosaic were taken by the MAHLI camera on Curiosity's arm. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer- kenkremer.comIndeed the rovers handlers have already directed the SUV sized Curiosity to snap close up images of the wheels with the high resolution color cameras located on the Mast as well as the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the rover's maneuverable robotic arm."We want to take a full inventory of the condition of the wheels," said Jim Erickson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, project manager for the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Project, in a NASA statement.Up close view of hole in one of rover Curiosity's six wheels caused by recent driving over rough Martian rocks. Mosaic assembled from Mastcam raw images taken on Dec. 22, 2013 (Sol 490) Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Ken Kremer -kenkremer.com/Marco Di LorenzoThe rover team certainly expected some wear and tear to accumulate along the rock strewn path to the base of Mount Sharp - which reaches 5.5 km (3.4 mi) into the Martian sky.But the volume of sharp edged rocks encountered in the momentous trek across the floor of Curiosity's Gale Crater landing site apparently has picked up- as evidenced by the new pictures - and consequently caused more damage than the engineers anticipated."Dents and holes were anticipated, but the amount of wear appears to have accelerated in the past month or so," Erickson noted."It appears to be correlated with driving over rougher terrain. The wheels can sustain significant damage without impairing the rover's ability to drive. However, we would like to understand the impact that this terrain type has on the wheels, to help with planning future drives."The team is now inspecting the new imagery acquired of the wheels and will decide if a course alteration to Mount Sharp is in order.The left front wheel may have suffered the most harm.Up close view shows a tear in one of rover Curiosity's six wheels caused by recent driving over rough Martian rocks. Mosaic assembled from Mastcam raw images taken on Dec. 22, 2013 (Sol 490) Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Ken Kremer -kenkremer.com/Marco Di Lorenzo"Routes to future destinations for the mission may be charted to lessen the amount of travel over such rough terrain, compared to smoother ground nearby," says NASA.Following a new, post Christmas drive today, Dec. 26, 2013 (Sol 494) Curiosity's odometer stands at 4.6 kilometers.Curiosity has already accomplished her primary goal of discovering a habitable zone on Mars that could support Martian microbes if they ever existed.NASA's rover Curiosity uncovered evidence that an ancient Martian lake had the right chemical ingredients that could have sustained microbial life forms for long periods of time - and that these habitable conditions persisted on the Red Planet until a more recent epoch than previously thought.Right now the researchers are guiding Curiosity along a 10 km (6 mi) path to the lower reaches of Mount Sharp - which they hope to reach sometime in mid 2014.Ads by ViewPasswordAd OptionsNASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this self-portrait, composed of more than 50 images using its robotic arm-mounted MAHLI camera, on Feb. 3. The image shows Curiosity at the John Klein drill site. A drill hole is visible at bottom left. Credit: NASA / JPL / MSSS / Marco Di Lorenzo / Ken Kremer- kenkremer.comStay tuned here for Ken's continuing Curiosity, Chang'e-3, LADEE, MAVEN, Mars rover and MOM news.Ken Kremer
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Monday, 26 January 2015
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GLOWING OBJECT APPEARS NEXT TO TV CREW IN RUSSIA 2013 (HD AVAILABLE)
"Published on Feb 18, 2013 Interesting footage from Russia which seems to show a glowing object appear behind a TV reporter during a recording. This made news headlines in various parts of Russia last year but the mainstream media did not pick it up or chose not to. I will be adding a translation to this shortly so stay tuned. What could this object be, an Alien, UFO, or something else, as always you decide."
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MARS CURIOSITY: FACTS AND INFORMATION
Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor March 13, 2013 06:39pm ET
- See more at: http://www.space.com/17963-mars-curiosity.html#sthash.Y8j9ZaJf.dpufThe Mars Science Laboratory and its rover centerpiece, Curiosity, is the most ambitious Mars mission yet flown by NASA. The rover's primary mission is to find out if Mars is, or was, suitable for life. Another objective is to learn more about the red planet's environment.
"[For the latest news about the mission, follow SPACE.com's Mars Science Lab Coverage.]"
An artist's concept illustrates what the Mars rover Curiosity will look like on the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechView full size imageCuriosity's extensive size allows it to carry a host of scientific experiments that will be able to zap, analyze and take pictures of any rock within reach of its 7-foot (2 meters) arm. Curiosity is about the size of a small SUV. It is 9 feet 10 inches long by 9 feet 1 inch wide (3 m by 2.8 m) and about 7 feet high (2.1 m). It weighs 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). Curiosity's wheels have a 20-inch (50.8 cm) diameter.Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the rover to roll over obstacles up to 25 inches (65 centimeters) high and to travel about 660 feet (200 meters) per day. The rover's power comes from a multimission radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which produces electricity from the heat of plutonium-238's radioactive decay. The power supply should last a full Martian year (687 Earth days) or more.
The 2.5-billion MSL spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Nov. 26, 2011, and arrived on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, after a daring landing sequence that NASA dubbed "Seven Minutes of Terror." Because of Curiosity's weight, NASA determined that the past method of using a rolling method with land bags would probably not work. Instead, the rover went through an extremely complicated sequence of maneuvers to land.
From a fiery entry into the atmosphere, a supersonic parachute needed to deploy to slow the spacecraft down. NASA officials said the parachute would need to withstand 65,000 pounds (29,480 kg) to break the spacecraft's fall to the surface.
Under the parachute, MSL let go of the bottom of its heat shield so that it could get a radar fix on the surface and figure out its altitude.
The parachute could only slow MSL to 200 mph (322 kph), far too fast for landing. To solve the problem, engineers designed the assembly to cut off the parachute, and use rockets for the final part of the landing sequence.
About 60 feet (18 m) above the surface, MSL's "skycrane" deployed. The landing assembly dangled the rover below the rockets using a 20-foot (6 m) tether. Falling at 1.5 mph (2.4 kph), MSL gently touched the ground about the same moment the skycrane severed the link and flew away, crashing into the surface.
NASA personnel tensely watched the rover's descent on live television. When they received confirmation that Curiosity was safe, engineers pumped fists and jumped up and down in jubilation.
News of the landing spread through social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, and traditional outlets such as newspapers and television. One engineer became famous because of the Mohawk he sported on landing day.
PRIMARY MISSION: CAN, OR COULD, MARS SUPPORT LIFE?
Curiosity's prime mission is to determine if Mars is, or was, suitable for life. While it is not designed to find life itself, the rover carries a number of instruments on board that can bring back information about the surrounding environment.
Scientists hit something close to the jackpot in early 2013, when the rover beamed back information showing that Mars had habitable conditionsin the past. Powder from the first drill samples that Curiosity obtained included the elements of sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon, which are all considered "building blocks" or fundamental elements that could support life. While this is not evidence of life itself, the find was still exciting to the scientists involved in the mission.
"A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," stated Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. "From what we know now, the answer is yes."
The rover has a few tools to search for habitability. Among them is an experiment that bombards the surface with neutrinos, which would slow down if they encounter hydrogen atoms: one of the elements of water.
Curiosity's seven-foot arm can pick up samples from the surface and cook them inside the rover, sniffing the gases that come out of there and analyzing them for clues as to how the rocks and soil formed.
The Sample Analysis of Mars instrument, if it does pick up evidence of organic material, can double-check that. On Curiosity's front, under foil covers, are several ceramic blocks infused with artificial organic compounds.
Curiosity can drill into each of these blocks and place a sample into its oven to measure its composition. Researchers will then see if organics appear that were not supposed to be in the block. If so, scientists will likely determine these are organisms hitchhiking from Earth.
High-resolution cameras surrounding the rover take pictures as it moves, providing visual information that can be compared to environments on Earth. This was used when Curiosity found evidence of a streambed, for example.
Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.comView full size imageSECOND MISSION OBJECTIVE: CHECK OUT THE ENVIRONMENT
Besides hunting for habitability, Curiosity has other instruments on board that are designed to learn more about the environment surrounding it. Among those goals is to have a continuous record of weather and radiation observations to determine how suitable the site would be for an eventual human mission.
Curiosity's Radiation Assessment Detector runs for 15 minutes every hour to measure a swath of radiation on the ground and in the atmosphere.
Scientists in particular are interested in measuring "secondary rays" or radiation that can generate lower-energy particles after it hits the gas molecules in the atmosphere. Gamma rays or neutrons generated by this process can cause a risk to humans.
Additionally, an ultraviolet sensor stuck on Curiosity's deck tracks radiation continuously.
The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station measures the wind's speed and chart its direction, as well as determining temperature and humidity in the surrounding air.
The rover is slated to last for at least the next two years, but some commentators say given the longevity of the Spirit and Opportunity missions, Curiosity could be around for the better part of a decade.
Curiosity ran into its first major problem in February 2013, when a computer glitch punted the roving laboratory into safe mode for a few days. The issue caused an interruption of normal science activities, but did not impact the rover's long-term health.
NASA hopes Curiosity will have the chance to climb Aeolis Mons (NASA nicknames it "Mount Sharp"), a 19,000-foot (6,000 m) mountain near the landing site, before the mission's end.
"- Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor"
Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor March 13, 2013 06:39pm ET
- See more at: http://www.space.com/17963-mars-curiosity.html#sthash.Y8j9ZaJf.dpufThe Mars Science Laboratory and its rover centerpiece, Curiosity, is the most ambitious Mars mission yet flown by NASA. The rover's primary mission is to find out if Mars is, or was, suitable for life. Another objective is to learn more about the red planet's environment.
"[For the latest news about the mission, follow SPACE.com's Mars Science Lab Coverage.]"
An artist's concept illustrates what the Mars rover Curiosity will look like on the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechView full size imageCuriosity's extensive size allows it to carry a host of scientific experiments that will be able to zap, analyze and take pictures of any rock within reach of its 7-foot (2 meters) arm. Curiosity is about the size of a small SUV. It is 9 feet 10 inches long by 9 feet 1 inch wide (3 m by 2.8 m) and about 7 feet high (2.1 m). It weighs 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). Curiosity's wheels have a 20-inch (50.8 cm) diameter.Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the rover to roll over obstacles up to 25 inches (65 centimeters) high and to travel about 660 feet (200 meters) per day. The rover's power comes from a multimission radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which produces electricity from the heat of plutonium-238's radioactive decay. The power supply should last a full Martian year (687 Earth days) or more.
A COMPLICATED LANDING
The 2.5-billion MSL spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Nov. 26, 2011, and arrived on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, after a daring landing sequence that NASA dubbed "Seven Minutes of Terror." Because of Curiosity's weight, NASA determined that the past method of using a rolling method with land bags would probably not work. Instead, the rover went through an extremely complicated sequence of maneuvers to land.
From a fiery entry into the atmosphere, a supersonic parachute needed to deploy to slow the spacecraft down. NASA officials said the parachute would need to withstand 65,000 pounds (29,480 kg) to break the spacecraft's fall to the surface.
Under the parachute, MSL let go of the bottom of its heat shield so that it could get a radar fix on the surface and figure out its altitude.
The parachute could only slow MSL to 200 mph (322 kph), far too fast for landing. To solve the problem, engineers designed the assembly to cut off the parachute, and use rockets for the final part of the landing sequence.
About 60 feet (18 m) above the surface, MSL's "skycrane" deployed. The landing assembly dangled the rover below the rockets using a 20-foot (6 m) tether. Falling at 1.5 mph (2.4 kph), MSL gently touched the ground about the same moment the skycrane severed the link and flew away, crashing into the surface.
NASA personnel tensely watched the rover's descent on live television. When they received confirmation that Curiosity was safe, engineers pumped fists and jumped up and down in jubilation.
News of the landing spread through social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, and traditional outlets such as newspapers and television. One engineer became famous because of the Mohawk he sported on landing day.
PRIMARY MISSION: CAN, OR COULD, MARS SUPPORT LIFE?
Curiosity's prime mission is to determine if Mars is, or was, suitable for life. While it is not designed to find life itself, the rover carries a number of instruments on board that can bring back information about the surrounding environment.
Scientists hit something close to the jackpot in early 2013, when the rover beamed back information showing that Mars had habitable conditionsin the past. Powder from the first drill samples that Curiosity obtained included the elements of sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon, which are all considered "building blocks" or fundamental elements that could support life. While this is not evidence of life itself, the find was still exciting to the scientists involved in the mission.
"A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," stated Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. "From what we know now, the answer is yes."
TOOLS FOR FINDING CLUES TO LIFE
The rover has a few tools to search for habitability. Among them is an experiment that bombards the surface with neutrinos, which would slow down if they encounter hydrogen atoms: one of the elements of water.
Curiosity's seven-foot arm can pick up samples from the surface and cook them inside the rover, sniffing the gases that come out of there and analyzing them for clues as to how the rocks and soil formed.
The Sample Analysis of Mars instrument, if it does pick up evidence of organic material, can double-check that. On Curiosity's front, under foil covers, are several ceramic blocks infused with artificial organic compounds.
Curiosity can drill into each of these blocks and place a sample into its oven to measure its composition. Researchers will then see if organics appear that were not supposed to be in the block. If so, scientists will likely determine these are organisms hitchhiking from Earth.
High-resolution cameras surrounding the rover take pictures as it moves, providing visual information that can be compared to environments on Earth. This was used when Curiosity found evidence of a streambed, for example.
Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.comView full size imageSECOND MISSION OBJECTIVE: CHECK OUT THE ENVIRONMENT
Besides hunting for habitability, Curiosity has other instruments on board that are designed to learn more about the environment surrounding it. Among those goals is to have a continuous record of weather and radiation observations to determine how suitable the site would be for an eventual human mission.
Curiosity's Radiation Assessment Detector runs for 15 minutes every hour to measure a swath of radiation on the ground and in the atmosphere.
Scientists in particular are interested in measuring "secondary rays" or radiation that can generate lower-energy particles after it hits the gas molecules in the atmosphere. Gamma rays or neutrons generated by this process can cause a risk to humans.
Additionally, an ultraviolet sensor stuck on Curiosity's deck tracks radiation continuously.
The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station measures the wind's speed and chart its direction, as well as determining temperature and humidity in the surrounding air.
The rover is slated to last for at least the next two years, but some commentators say given the longevity of the Spirit and Opportunity missions, Curiosity could be around for the better part of a decade.
Curiosity ran into its first major problem in February 2013, when a computer glitch punted the roving laboratory into safe mode for a few days. The issue caused an interruption of normal science activities, but did not impact the rover's long-term health.
NASA hopes Curiosity will have the chance to climb Aeolis Mons (NASA nicknames it "Mount Sharp"), a 19,000-foot (6,000 m) mountain near the landing site, before the mission's end.
"- Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor"
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