Spazio: ultima frontiera. Credere che si sia soli nell'universo è come credere che la Terra sia piatta. Come disse l'astrofisico Labeque al palazzo dell'UNESCO, durante il congresso mondiale del SETI di Parigi del Settembre 2008, " SOMETHING IS HERE", "Qualcosa è qui", e I TEMPI SONO MATURI per farsene una ragione. La CIA, l'FBI, la NSA, il Pentagono, e non solo, lo hanno confermato!
Approvata definitivamente dall'Esa, la navicella prodotta al 70 per
cento da ditte italiane partirà dalla Guyana francese spinta da un razzo
Vega-C, a sua volta "made in Italy". Ecco per cosa è stata progettata
Rendlesham forest Incident, happened in the late 1980's between 26th to
28th December. Over this 3 day period, ufo's were sighted around the two
Military bases RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters. Also known as the British
Roswell and the Area 51 of the United Kingdom.
Como foi informado uma semana antes da realização do UFO Summit Brazil
2019, para o qual Luis Elizondo estava confirmado como conferencista e
principal atração, sua viagem ao Brasil teve que ser cancelada por um
conflito inesperado em sua agenda.
Porém, a pedido da Revista UFO, Elizondo gravou uma mensagem em vídeo
que foi apresentada durante o evento, esclarecendo seu interesse por
UFOs e sua função dentro da Secretaria de Defesa dos Estados Unidos na
pesquisa secreta de ocorrências ufológicas no país, conforme revelado
pela edição 257 da UFO, nas bancas.
Luis Elizondo é o ex-agente de inteligência e contrainformação da
Secretaria, até dezembro lotado no Pentágono e conduzindo o programa
secreto de pesquisa ufológica denominado Programa Avançado de
Identificação de Ameaças Aeroespaciais (AATIP). Foi ele quem chocou o
mundo em 2017 ao revelar o que o Pentágono escondia sobre os UFOs.
No vídeo, quando ele se refere à Secretaria e a secretário, está falando
da Secretaria de Defesa norte-americana e de seu titular, e quando se
refere a programa ou projeto, está falando do AATIP. Hoje Elizondo
trabalha com Tom DeLonge na To the Stars Academy.
Tradução: Leandro Murta
Legendas: João Marcelo Marques Rios
TODOS OS DIREITOS RESERVADOS. É PROIBIDA A REPRODUÇÃO SEM AUTORIZAÇÃO DA
REVISTA UFO.
Proof aliens exist can come from beneath the waves as well above ground.
Unidentified Submerged Objects are being witnessed worldwide. Sightings
of strange crafts and lights emerging from, or descending into, the
seas, oceans, and lakes around the world seem to getting more frequent.
Structure-like objects are now being discovered undersea, so what's
really going on down there?
This episode of AGE OF TRUTH TV is one of our so-called "LOST TAPES"
specials.
LARRY WARREN ~ "E.T. Aliens & Military Mind Control ~ The Rendlesham
Forest UFO Incident".
We lost about 15 filmed interviews several years ago, where all the
data-files were lost and could not be retrieved. After a few attempts to
restore the lost material, we finally managed to retrieve some of the
footage, and those interviews we can now put out publicly. This
interview with UFO whistleblower LARRY WARREN, was done on January 25,
2014. We managed to restore only some of the camera angles, but in very
low resolution, as the original files were too damaged, and the sound
recording is completely lost. Therefore the sound you hear is the
original camera-sound in the room.
This is the best possible result, and we are just extremely happy to be
able to finally present this fascinating interview, now almost 5 years
after it was filmed.
LARRY WARREN, a former U.S. Air Force Security Officer, author and UFO
whistleblower is interviewed by Age Of Truth TV presenter in Hellerup,
Denmark i January 2014. An in-depth, eye-opening and fascinating account
of his UFO and E.T. Alien experience when working at the Bentwaters Air
Force Base in England in 1980.
Larry Warren was a security officer at RAF Bentwaters Air Force Base, a
NATO base in Great Britain. He was present during an event in 1980 when
an extraterrestrial vehicle landed, hovered, and interacted with Air
Force personnel on base. Afterwards, the many personnel who had
witnessed the events were intimidated, debriefed, and forced to sign
documents telling a false version of the story. Warren's testimony is
corroborated by multiple other military witnesses who have been
identified. There are official documents related to this event; there is
a photograph related to the event; and there is physical landing-trace
evidence.
This astonishing story has been featured in Sci Fi and History Channel
documentaries! In December 1980. On the night of the 28th he was on
guard duty when he was taken by truck to join other Air Force personnel
to investigate a disturbance in a Rendlesham Forest about five miles
away, which turned out to be a landed UFO. This was the third night of
UFO activity in the area and by far the most profound. When the men were
debriefed the next day, they were warned to tell no one about what they
had seen-as "bullets are cheap." And so began what would turn out to be
the best documented and most significant military-UFO incident in
history. This remarkable story became a book: "LEFT AT EAST GATE: A
First-hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest Ufo Incident, Its Cover-up,
and Investigation" published in 2005.", written by Larry Warren, told
with the help of investigative writer Peter Robbins, was the basis of
the Sci Fi Channel's documentary UFO Invasion at Rendlesham and also a
History Channel documentary.
TOPICS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:
- UFO´S & THE MILITARY
- MILITARY COVER-UPS
- Knowledge of the UFO - E.T. Alien presence on Planet Earth.
- Military Mind Control experiments & MK ULTRA.
- UFO research and investigation.
- What is the "TRUTH"? Who is presenting the "right version" of the
events?
.........this and much more in this 1 hour 43 min. interview with Larry
Warren.
The Age Of Truth TV interview was produced in September 2019
at the Age Of Truth TV studios.
Filmed on January 25, 2014 on location, Hellerup, Denmark, when Larry
Warren
was in Copenhagen to speak at a UFO Denmark conference.
Have you ever thought if loved ones, friends, relatives etc … could be a
kind of extraterrestrial or extraterrestrial hybrid? This could also
explain why certain people behave strangely in different situations. It
is not because they are crazy, but that they are unable to react as a
human being would, of course. Dr. James Kune has identified more than
1,000 different cases during his career with the US government. Perhaps
the very purpose of these aliens living here is simply to observe us and
what we do every day. They study our social behavior and the way we
interact with each other. This would be comparable to the observation of
animals in a zoo-like environment. A predetermined problem (for some of
these aliens) has become their attachment to those around them. They
are fond of them and it is difficult for them to let them go. When you
think of this topic you cannot think “human”. These beings have much
more collective knowledge than humanity has today. Kune also said that
these extraterrestrials are divided equally, which means that half are
men and half are women. Many of them are married, but have no children.
Through Kune’s research, he said there is a 50% chance of getting
married to an alien. He personally identified many of them when they
tried to pass themselves off as humans. Kune also said that the reasons
for coming here to Earth are not yet clear. The typical assumptions are
that they are here because of a kind of global conquest or the desire to
live on another planet altogether. Perhaps they have also suffered on
an overpopulated planet and have had to move to another place. Another
statement mentioned by Kune, some of these extraterrestrials are
Zeebans, peaceful aliens and others are Gootans, very evil. One wonders,
regardless of whether these alien entities are capable of true love and
understand each other as human beings. For procreation, they continue
to mate with us as more descendants enter the world. This is a wild
thought, but at times it makes you think of alien people and activities.
The longer these aliens remained here on Earth, they became much more
anxious for the company. It is natural to mate with another. Over time,
they have begun to develop true love relationships with humans. Dr. Kune
also stated: “One of the most surprising results in my research is that
these relationships between humans and aliens are among the strongest
marriages on Earth. While the global divorce rate for married couples in
the United States is around at 50 percent, almost 90 percent of
marriages between humans extends beyond the so-called “seven years” that
often marks the end of human marriage. “” Leaving jokes aside, if your
happy marriage brings it to suspect that your spouse may be an alien,
you are lucky, Dr. Kune has identified several signs that your spouse
may have extraterrestrial origins. ” “According to Kune, alien spouses
are practical types and obviously possess a function of their highly
developed mechanical and scientific abilities,” says Dr. Kune. “They
usually have all the high-tech energy tools they can get their hands on
and keep them organized compulsively.” “And while the majority will ask
for help when they need it,” a significant number is stubborn about
things like human men. “Kune continues:” I suspect many aliens are on
this planet just because they wouldn’t do many things they do on Earth “
Neanche gli Dei è uno dei pochi romanzi stand-alone scritti da Isaac
Asimov. Pubblicato nel 1972, fu il primo in cui lo scrittore
statunitense si cimentò nella rappresentazione degli alieni. Per sua
stessa ammissione, si tratta di uno dei suoi lavori più ispirati.
Del famoso scrittore russo, Isaac Asimov, i più avranno letto l’arcifamosa Trilogia della Fondazione.
Opera che, permettetemi di dirlo, complice anche la traduzione
dell’epoca – parliamo degli anni ’50 – che tendeva ad un’inutile
ampollosità, ha percorso sì i tempi nella visionarietà dei concetti
espressi, ma allo stesso tempo risulta decisamente mal invecchiata.
Contrariamente al corpus di lavori sui Robot, e ad un romanzo, un
unicum nella letteratura di Asimov: Neanche gli Dei, primo lavoro in cui
lo scrittore si cimentò nella descrizione di vita aliena.
Asimov era una persona non comune. Unico sopravvissuto di un’epidemia
di polmonite nel paese russo in cui era nato, era figlio di un ebreo
ortodosso e parlava fluentemente russo e yiddish. Trasferitisi in
America, New York, gli Asimov rilevarono un’attività di
dolciumi/edicola, e il giovane Isaac era un accanito lettore. Ebbe una fiorente vita accademica: si laureò in chimica nel 1948 – formazione comune fra gli scrittori, si ricordi Primo Levi e Michael Crichton. Proprio attorno alla chimica ruota la trama di Neanche gli Dei, romanzo del 1972 originariamente intitolato The Gods Themselves. Che ha vinto praticamente ogni premio di settore e non che vi viene in mente – Nebula, e Hugo Awards compresi.
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Io sono una dottoranda in biotecnologie,
e, per quanto ho visto, certe dinamiche nella ricerca sono sempre le
stesse. C’è una certa tendenza alla predazione, in una giungla fatta di
delicatezze e politichese che esula dalla ricerca vera e propria; Asimov
pone in tale ambiente i suoi personaggi, dei fisici nucleari e dei
radiochimici (Legasov, il famoso scienziato che scoperchiò lo scandalo dei reattori di Chernobyl, lo era).
Un bel giorno, nel 2070, anni dopo la solita catastrofe, Frederick
Hallam entra nel suo laboratorio e si siede dietro la scrivania. Su di
essa c’era un contenitore, originariamente, di Tungsteno, che
magicamente era divenuto plutonio 186. Voi vi chiederete: che caspita
significa?
Ci sono 4 forze fondamentali nella fisica, ciascuna mediata da un bosone (sì, tipo la particella di Dio): elettromagnetica, gravitazionale, nucleare forte e nucleare debole.
La nucleare forte tiene incollati i quark che compongono protoni e
neutroni, e a sua volta tiene appiccicati questi ultimi nel nucleo
atomico (per una più completa disamina di ciò vi rimando qui). Ciascuna forza ha una certa intensità in valore assoluto. Nel nostro universo, con le nostre leggi fisiche, il Plutonio 186 NON può esistere in forma stabile. Hallam,
un ricercatore a tempo determinato non brillante ma indubbiamente furbo
e arrivista, si mette a studiare il materiale. E pubblica nelle
principali riviste del campo una conclusione sconcertante: nel
barattolo sulla sua scrivania c’è stato lo scambio di materia con un
altro universo, in cui la forza nucleare forte è un po’ più forte ed il
plutonio 186 può esistere. Dunque, pensa Hallam, possiamo scambiare
materia tramite tale portale: la Pompa. Infiniti quanti di energia
totalmente pulita, a favore di gradiente. Hallam vince il Nobel,
chiaramente: ok, non è stato come per Mullis che ancora asserisce di essere in debito con gli alieni per il suo Nobel riguardo la PCR, ma Asimov aveva una visione estremamente lucida della serendipità. O della botta di culo immeritata. Trent’anni
dopo, trent’anni di energia pulita e rinascita, in cui nessuno si era
posto il problema di cosa esistesse dall’altra parte del buco, Peter
Lamont sta scrivendo una review riguardo la Pompa. Si pone, finalmente,
il dubbio su cosa ci sia, al di là del buco. Peraltro, Asimov dà per
scontato – come effettivamente ancora è – che nel 2070 la lingua etrusca
sarà ancora un mistero, e così contatta un famoso linguista, Mike
Bronowski, per inviare messaggi criptati tramite la pompa. E scoprire,
così, per la prima volta, vita intelligente oltre a quella umana.
Il nostro Sole. Sulla sinistra, un brillamento.
Dall’altro lato del buco, assistiamo al genio di Isaac Asimov al suo
meglio. I para-uomini, come Lamont e Bronowski li chiamano, sono
creature che vivono alla luce di una pallida stella rossa morente. E
sono quanto di più lontano dagli esseri umani che si possa immaginare.
Gli alieni vivono in triadi, formate da un Paterno, col compito di
accudire il focolare domestico, un razionale, una figura autoritaria e
dalla mentalità scientifico/militare, ed un emotivo, che ha il compito
di fornire il collante tra gli altri due componenti. Qui, con atomi più
piccoli dei nostri, la materia ha caratteristiche esotiche e il concetto
di impenetrabilità non esiste: la vita – in particolare per la
protagonista, l’emotiva Dua – può compenetrare e fondersi con la
materia. La triade di Dua, all’apice della società aliena, entra in
contatto con gli umani. La Pompa è pericolosa, dicono gli umani.
La sezione finale di Neanche gli Dei si svolge sulla Luna. Sì, perché
la Luna, prima della catastrofe, era stata colonizzata. Scavata come
una forma di groviera, sino a raggiungere le enormi riserve di acqua
liquida presenti (e non ancora scoperte negli anni ’70) sul nostro
satellite. La società, lì, viene descritta da Denison, un collega di
Hallam, che vi si reca in visita. Ecco, altra consuetudine della ricerca
accademica: anche se fai una scoperta rivoluzionaria ma non hai
abbastanza palle, se non sei il più opportunista, sei fuori. Hallam ha
fatto fuori Denison, che fa l’impresario, e se ne va a visitare la Luna,
mondo di bagordi sessuali, ingegneria genetica, sport a bassa gravità,
cibo sgradevole ma totale indipendenza energetica. Contrariamente alla
Terra, che cannibalizza un altro universo. Colonia lunare in un dipinto di David Meltzer, artista dimenticato: https://gizmodo.com/the-forgotten-space-artist-who-envisioned-the-end-of-th-1668805954
Con Neanche gli Dei, Isaac Asimov raggiunge finalmente la
scorrevolezza nella lettura che mancava nei suoi primi lavori, ed una
visionarietà estremamente concreta, unita a ricche descrizioni mancanti
nella sua prima carriera, che rende questo lavoro uno dei più importanti
per la letteratura fantascientifica. La sociologia delle triadi appare
estremamente credibili, le ragioni positiviste e riduzioniste degli umani inventori della Pompa ci ricordano quei boomer che,
con l’utilizzo dei combustibili fossili, ha distrutto l’unico pianeta
che, ad ora, sappiamo possa sostenere la vita. Peraltro, Asimov
rintraccia nella fortuna intrinseca all’umanità – l’esser nata in un
pianeta riccioli d’oro, l’essersi evoluta in gentili e
fertili pianure, l’avere un pianeta abbastanza grande rispetto alla
media nella galassia (altra cosa che Asimov non sapeva, non erano stati
scoperti ancora esopianeti) – la sua incapacità di prendere decisioni
che vadano più in là dell’immediato. Perché, fondamentalmente, ci dice
Isaac, morto di AIDS vergognandese, continuiamo ad essere gruppetti
sparuti per la savana, capaci di progettare solamente lo spostarsi
dall’ombra di un baobab all’altro, di attendere le piene ben prevedibili
del Tigri, del Nilo, dell’Eufrate. Lontani dalla Luce, nella gelida
luna, coloro che si professano una specie a parte fioriscono; sotto
quella di una stella piccola e morente, le triadi cercano la salvezza e
non si arrendono. Loro sono in grado di fondersi, sia fra loro che col
proprio mondo. Possono sentirsi, capirsi, comunicare anche con l’inorganico. E gli umani?
Gli umani pensano al primo nome su Science.
Non contano le scemenze, le bugie, che si andranno a scrivere sul
paper: non conta che i peer reviewer siano stati corrotti. Non importa
che l’universo collassi, che i poli si sciolgano: quaggiù, alla luce del
Sole, soli e idioti, bigotti e pretenziosi, sempre rimangono, ancorati
dalla loro gravità troppo forte. Lontani dalle altre stelle. Condannati
nella loro solitudine che non sanno e non vogliono sconfiggere.
On July 16, 1965, a massive alien spacecraft from the Zeta Reticuli star
system landed at the Nevada test site north of Las Vegas. Following a
plan set in motion by President Kennedy in 1962, the alien visitors
known as the Ebens welcomed 12 astronaut-trained military personnel
aboard their craft for the 10-month journey to their home planet, Serpo,
39 light-years away. In November 2005, former and current members of
the Defense Intelligence Agency--directed by Kennedy to organize the
Serpo exchange program--came forward to reveal the operation, including
details from the 3,000-page debriefing of the 7 members of the Serpo
team who returned after 13 years on the planet. Working with the DIA
originators of the Serpo project and the diary kept by the
expedition’s commanding officer, Len Kasten chronicles the
complete journey of these cosmic pioneers, including their remarkable
stories of life on an alien planet, superluminal space travel, and
advanced knowledge of alien technologies. He reveals how the Ebens
presented the U.S. with “The Yellow Book”--a
complete history of the universe recorded holographically, allowing the
reader to view actual scenes from pre-history to the present. He
explains how the Ebens helped us reverse-engineer their antigravity
spacecraft and develop technology to solve our planet-wide energy
problems--knowledge still classified. Exposing the truth of human-alien
interaction and interplanetary travel, Kasten reveals not only that the
Ebens have returned to Earth eight times but also that our government
continues to have an ongoing relationship with them--a relationship with
the potential to advance the human race into the future.
Erich von Däniken takes us beyond the myths and legends which have
shaped our view of history, to present an alternate view of historical
events, megalithic structures and archeological discoveries. Stream more
from this outstanding series, http://bit.ly/Beyond_AncientAliens only on Gaia
People in Truro have been left stunned by the sighting of up to 40
"strange" lights moving high in the sky above the city and surrounding
area this morning (Friday, November 29).
Witnesses have told Cornwall Live they had never seen anything like it in their lives.Walter Dixon stood watching up to 40 lights moving slowly across the sky alongside colleagues from Truro Prep School at Highertown in the city.
Walter,
who drives the school’s mini bus, said: “It was bizarre. There was a
whole line of them. We counted up to 15 and then stopped as it was
hurting our necks!
“There were up to 40 of them all in a perfect
line at about satellite height. What really struck me was that every
tenth light was doubled up with another one beside it.”
The lights were seen above Truro Prep School in the Tresawls Road area of the city (Image: Google)
The bus driver watched the unidentified flying objects with two of the school’s cleaners and a bin man.
“It
was unreal – it was the precision that got me. It definitely felt like
they were on a flight path. Never in my life have I seen anything like
it. “It was definitely strange. You see the odd satellite but never anything like this when there were so many objects in a line.“I can’t explain it. They weren’t shooting stars – it was too clean, too straight and too perfect.”
He attempted to video the “UFOs” but couldn’t capture them because of the distance.
A man from the Redannick area of Truro - who preferred to remain anonymous - also spotted the lights.
He
said: “I was walking the dog at about 6.15 when I noticed a light
moving in the sky towards St Agnes. Then I realised there were about 15
lights queued up behind it, all moving really slowly.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
“They
were higher than a plane but lower than a satellite. They were
travelling that slowly that I was able to get my wife to look at them
ten minutes later.”
Mirroring what Walter had described, the dog
walker added: “They were at exactly the same height, the same speed and
with the same gap between them all.
“I looked on the news as I
was sure everybody would be talking about it – I’m definitely not crazy.
I’m a rational person. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.
“I hadn’t been drinking or taking drugs,” he joked.
A man was walking his dog near his home in Culdrose Court in the Redannick area of Truro when he spotted the strange lights (Image: Google Maps)
When he got to work at a holiday park near Newquay he spoke to a colleague who’d seen a light pass slowly over Goonhavern.
Cornwall Live contacted RNAS Culdrose to see if the unexplained sightings were actually down to military aircraft movement.
A spokesman said: “We had no aircraft operating at that time this morning. Our airfield did not open until around 9am.”
Truro Cathedral by night (Image: Sally Adams)
We have also contacted Newquay Airport to see if anything was tracked by air traffic control. The airport will let us know later today. Falmouth Coastguard
said: “It’s not something we are aware of. If they were military planes
we wouldn’t necessarily know about it. You could definitely describe
them as unidentified flying objects.”
Skywatchers in
Russia have been reporting sights of a bizarre ‘shuttlecock-shaped’ UFO
flashing through the night.
Initially, it was feared the object – passing over the Urals and Volga
regions – was a meteorite.
Social media across several time zones in Russia and also Kazakhstan was
buzzing with awe-inspiring images of the mysterious object as it
streaked overhead in the early evening.
Later it became clear that the UFO was not aliens or a lump of space
rock but a test launch of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic rocket by
Vladimir Putin’s strategic missile forces.
Footage showed the launch from the Kapustin Yar firing range in
Astrakhan region, claimed the Russian defence ministry. It hit a target
at the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile site in Kazakhstan in a
‘successful’ test, according to officials.
Skywatchers in
Russia have been reporting sights of a bizarre ‘shuttlecock-shaped’ UFO
flashing through the night.
Initially, it was feared the object – passing over the Urals and Volga
regions – was a meteorite.
Social media across several time zones in Russia and also Kazakhstan was
buzzing with awe-inspiring images of the mysterious object as it
streaked overhead in the early evening.
Later it became clear that the UFO was not aliens or a lump of space
rock but a test launch of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic rocket by
Vladimir Putin’s strategic missile forces.
Footage showed the launch from the Kapustin Yar firing range in
Astrakhan region, claimed the Russian defence ministry. It hit a target
at the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile site in Kazakhstan in a
‘successful’ test, according to officials.
Michael Horn, researcher and representative of ufologist Billy Meier,
said that Meier was contacted by aliens to warn of the dangers of
asteroid Apophis “God of Chaos”. During an interview with
Express.co.uk, Michael Horn revealed the claims of alien life that he
wants the world to unite to divert the asteroid. NASA has insisted that
the space rock is unlikely to hit the planet in the next approach.
Although NASA is confident that the asteroid will not hit the planet in
10 years, they considered it a potentially dangerous asteroid (PHA).
Horn said: “Fortunately, as early as 1981, when Meier received this
information, he himself documented it. “The most recommended means is to
detonate a nuclear charge in the immediate vicinity to deflect and push
the asteroid” God of Chaos “Apophis out of his way to Earth.” When
asked why Horn’s team and Billy Meier’s conclusions differ from those of
NASA, he said: “Space traveler technologies far outstrip those of NASA.
“The Pleiadian extraterrestrials, to prove it, have provided Meier with
more than 250 specific examples of prophetically accurate scientific
information decades before our own scientists found out.” The aliens
provided Mr. Meier with specific information on the devastating impacts
of asteroid Apophis and explained the numerous subsequent effects. Horn
said: “They provided information on climate and tectonic changes and
even further changes that threaten to divide the earth’s crust from the
current North Sea to the Black Sea.” “If Apophis is not diverted he will
create a new continent, due to a huge crack on planet Earth, a vast
crack that goes from the North Sea to the Black Sea, from where it will
launch hot lava. “Furthermore, the masses of hot lava and the gas of the
Earth, etc., will create from it a deadly sulphurous wall that, moving
towards the west, will cover the earth and thus create an additional area of death. To avoid this, governments need to
cooperate with aliens, but for now we do not know if this has happened.
While a trip to the red planet may still be years away, a team of
Canadian researchers are headed to a simulated Mars habitat on Hawaii’s
Mauna Loa at the end of the month. Their mission launches with the
objective of designing and running experiments to measure the brain
function of astronauts as they become fatigued.
The team of researchers heading to the Hawaii Space Exploration
Analog and Simulation lab (HI-SEAS) consists of scientists from UBC’s
Okanagan campus, the University of Victoria and the University of
Calgary.
“Crew time on space missions is planned right down to the minute,”
explains Gord Binsted, Dean in the Faculty of Health and Social
Development at UBC Okanagan and one of the research leaders. “The
challenge for us is to create an experiment that is simple enough for
any of the crew to perform within very tight time constraints, likely
20-30 minutes per day, while still generating valuable scientific data.”
The researchers will be expected to continue the regular operations
and maintenance of the habitat while they conduct scientific work, which
Binsted says will help them understand the rigours astronauts will be
under as they design their experiments.
The team will study a concept called cognitive fatigue, where the brain begins to make poor decisions the more tired it gets.
“Previous research has shown that the brain still functions normally
if you’re a little fatigued. But at a certain point, the cumulative
effect of over-fatigue means that the brain falls off a cliff and things
like memory recall, mood and decision making are significantly
impaired,” says Binsted. “Poor decision making can be fatal in the
context of a space mission.”
Olav Krigolson, associate professor at UVic and co-lead researcher,
says the team hopes to use an electroencephalogram (EEG) to map the
electrical activity of the brain as it becomes fatigued to predict when
it’s about to fall off that cliff and lead to poor decisions.
“We’ll be using a simple but powerful consumer-grade EEG device
called Muse and a smartphone to conduct our experiments,” says
Krigolson. “Ten years ago, this kind of equipment would have been much
larger and cost $100,000, but today we’re able to carry everything in
one hand for just a few hundred dollars, making it ideal for a space
mission.”
The research team will be in the Mars simulation for eight days.
While they won’t ever leave the surface of Earth, Binsted says the
experience will be as real as it gets.
“The site is barren and completely isolated from civilization.
There’s a 40-minute time delay on all communications, the seven-member
crew will be living in a 1,200-square-foot habitat and we’ll have to
wear spacesuits to go outside,” explains Binsted. “It’s all pretty
surreal.”
“I was even asked by the organizers what size spacesuit I wear,” he laughs. “I had no idea what to say.”
Krigolson says the experience is a once in a lifetime opportunity for
the crew but he’s also excited about the impacts of the research.
“The equipment we’re using is inexpensive and readily available,”
says Krigolson. “Our findings could have wide-ranging impacts on any
occupation facing long work hours and critical decision-making,
including emergency room physicians, pilots or heavy equipment
operators.”
Science aside, Krigolson says the opportunity to become an ‘almost astronaut’ was too good to pass up.
“As soon as I found out, I called my mom to tell her I finally
achieved my lifelong dream to go to space, sort of,” he jokes. “This is
probably the closest I’ll ever come to getting to Mars and I’m very
humbled to be a part of it.
The team departs on November 28 and will be blogging their experience
throughout the mission at destinationmars.ca. Team members include Olav
Krigolson from the University of Victoria, Gord Binsted from UBC
Okanagan, Kent Hecker from the University of Calgary, Michaela Musilova
from HI-SEAS International Moonbase Alliance (IMA) and the University of
Hawaii, and PhD students Chad Williams and Tom Ferguson from UVic.
MIT PhD student George Lordos and his
brother Alexandros led the project; goal of the Mars Society competition
was to establish a colony on Mars for 1,000 residents.
Star City, a concept for a human
city on Mars, won first place at the Mars Colony Prize Design contest.
The design, led by MIT PhD student George Lordos and his brother
Alexandros, features five villages constructed around a crater rim.
Image: Star City Team/Delta Architects
Sara Cody | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Every
75 years, Halley’s Comet makes a triumphant return to the inner solar
system, becoming visible to the naked eye from the Earth’s surface as it
streaks across the night sky. In 1986, brothers George and Alexandros
Lordos, who helped found the astronomy club at their high school in
Cyprus, decided they were not going to miss this once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity despite the cloudy weather.
“Together with friends, we borrowed camping supplies from the hiking
club and hiked up familiar terrain on Troodos Mountain to a cloudless
spot that was 5,000 feet above sea level, miles away from city lights”
says George Lordos, MBA ’00, SM ’18. “When we unzipped our tent at 3
o’clock in the morning, Halley’s comet was right in front of us, in all
its glory. It was like seeing a ghost ship floating on a sea of stars.”
Recently, the brothers again combined their shared passion with their professional expertise to team up and develop Star City,
a concept for a human city on Mars. Their design won first place at the
Mars Colony Prize Design contest, which was hosted by the Mars Society
and judged by a panel that included experts from NASA and SpaceX.
Today, Lordos is a PhD candidate in the Engineering Systems
Laboratory at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the
head teaching assistant at MIT’s System Design and Management Program,
researching sustainable human space settlement architectures with
professors Olivier de Weck and Jeffrey Hoffman. His brother, Alexandros
Lordos, is currently the director of the Center for the Study of Life
Skills and Resilience at the Department of Psychology at the University
of Cyprus, and head of learning and innovation at the Center for
Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development, researching the
development of integrated systems to foster mental health and social
cohesion in countries facing conflict-related adversities.
“In addition to addressing the engineering requirements to put humans
on Mars, the overall philosophy of our approach was to provide the
residents with a diverse array of capabilities, rather than ready-made
solutions, relying on the human capacity to be resourceful and resilient
in addressing the many unknown challenges that will arise,” says
Lordos. “This ensures not only their survival, but also that their
well-being, agency, and capacity to grow will be duly considered so they
may thrive there as well.”
The goal of the competition was to establish a successful colony on
Mars for 1,000 residents. One hundred entrants from around the world
submitted proposals, which were eventually narrowed to 10 finalists who
presented their proposals at the 22nd Annual Mars Society Convention in
October. The criteria for the judges’ consideration included technical
merit, economic viability, social and political organization, and
aesthetics.
Using abundant energy supplies and heavy equipment, Star City’s
residents will first focus on carving out habitats by tunneling inside a
crater rim to create networks of living and work spaces. By working
with the natural topography of Mars, the residents will be able to
develop large habitable spaces that will be safe from radiation and
other dangers. At the same time, the excavated material will be mined
for water and useful minerals that can then support local industry and
the growth of self-sustaining crops through hydroponics. From there,
they would continue to build around the crater rim to create residential
and commercial areas that contain shops, restaurants, and libraries,
eventually pooling their resources to develop the city’s central hub,
which will house Mars University and other shared facilities.
“The idea is to start with five distinct villages that will be
constructed around the crater rim, each aiming for a population of 200
residents within a decade of the first landing, and originating from
different Earth continents,” says Lordos. “The five villages will
interconnect their tunnel networks and focus on continuous growth of
their habitats, capabilities, stocks of resources, and quality of life.”
According to Alexandros, the wheel-like physical layout is one of the
key mechanisms to build an organic sense of community among Star City
residents, which is essential to their well-being as they navigate the
challenges of living together on a distant planet. Proximity will enable
each village to have access to the other four for material and social
support, inspiration, leisure, new ideas, different solutions to common
challenges, and socialization. By teaming up to address survival
challenges and achieve aspirational goals, they will establish a support
network completely unique to Star City so residents can better navigate
through times of difficulty.
“Drawing on cumulative insights from the social sciences and our own
experience in developing systems to support societies facing extreme
adversities, we have identified core aspects of the human condition that
will be relevant for socio-economic development on Mars,” says
Alexandros. “Specifically, we considered the pivotal role that
individual as well as community resilience will be expected to play on
Mars, sought to ensure a balance between survival-orientation and
self-expression in everyone’s daily life, while making room for Star
City residents to develop multi-layered identities as members of their
more intimate village communities and, at the same time, as citizens of a
vibrant and forward-looking technological civilization.”
In addition to building community by nurturing the well-being of its
human residents, Star City will also build a viable economy and
political system to ensure that commerce and governance provide
stability for its residents. To pay for importing much-needed supplies
from Earth in the short term, Star City residents will leverage their
local know-how, infrastructure, and heavy equipment to provide
construction services to others who may wish to build a city on Mars. In
the long term, Star City could establish itself as a central hub for
innovation, entrepreneurship, and tourism as humanity travels farther
and farther into the reaches of space.
“Our vision is not to simply send human explorers to Mars in order to
set up these scientific outposts where we can perform useful
experiments, though that is an important and valuable component,” says
Robert Zubrin, president of Pioneer Astronautics and the founder and
president of the Mars Society, who organized the contest and served on
the panel of judges. “The fundamental question we are asking is if we
can expand human civilization into other worlds. Of course, you have to
have the correct technical analysis, but there are all of these other
human dimensions to make a colony on Mars work, and Star City addressed
those in the most successful way.”
The Star City sociotechnical concept and urban plan was created by
George and Alexandros Lordos, with architectural support for the
creation of design studies, drawings, and renderings by lead architects
Nikos Papapanousis and Tatiana Kouppa, and their team members Efi
Koutsaftaki, Aliki Noula, and Aris Michailidis of Delta Architects,
Athens, Greece.
Follow the water and the oxygen.
Just two of the key tenets of humanity’s early and ongoing exploration
drives within our solar system. That research has received huge boons
in the last two decades with in-situ exploration of Titan and Enceladus
by Cassini. But in the last three years, it has
been NASA’s Curiosity rover in Gale Crater on Mars and a powerful
telescope in Hawai’i that have given NASA scientists new insights – and
questions – into the role of oxygen and water on Mars and Jupiter’s moon
Europa, respectively. That’s not how oxygen is supposed to behave: One of the significant benefits to the Curiosity rover’s multi Mars-year tenure
has been its ability to monitor seasonal atmospheric changes on the Red
Planet — something its SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) chemistry lab was –
in part – designed to do. Over the last three Martian years
(six Earth years), SAM has inhaled samples of the local Martian ground
atmosphere, resulting in the first-ever measurement of seasonal changes
in the gases directly above the surface of Gale Crater. In short, SAM returned results that the local Gale Crater atmosphere is, by volume, comprised of:
95% carbon dioxide (CO2),
2.6% molecular nitrogen,
1.9% argon,
0.16% molecular oxygen, and
0.06% carbon monoxide These measurements have also revealed
how the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide at the poles in winter
lowers the overall air pressure around the planet – air pressure that
then rises in the Martian polar springs when the CO2 evaporates and
redistributes in the atmosphere. The same results also show that the
nitrogen and argon present in Mars’s atmosphere follow predictable and
understood seasonal patterns. In this manner, scientists expected the oxygen present in the atmosphere to do the same, but it didn’t. Instead, the amount of oxygen rose
unpredictably throughout spring and summer by as much as 30% before
dropping back to levels predicted by known chemistry in fall. This pattern repeated each spring, though the amount of oxygen added to and taken from the atmosphere varied. “The first time we saw that, it was
just mind boggling,” said Sushil Atreya, professor of climate and space
sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor – co-author of a paper on this topic published on 12 November in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. When the strange results were first
observed, NASA scientists and engineers repeatedly checked to make sure
SAM was functioning properly and not returning inaccurate readings. SAM
was fine.
They also considered if solar
radiation could account for the oxygen’s rapid disappearance. But
scientists found that it would take 10 years of solar radiation exposure
to dissipate that much oxygen. “We’re struggling to explain this,”
said Melissa Trainer, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland who led this research. “The fact
that the oxygen behavior isn’t perfectly repeatable every season makes
us think that it’s not an issue that has to do with atmospheric
dynamics. It has to be some chemical source and sink that we can’t yet
account for.” However, scientists have noticed a
seeming correlation between the oxygen rise and the seasonally observed
rises of methane at Gale Crater. Methane is constantly in the air in
extremely small quantities (0.00000004% on average). But SAM’s Tunable
Laser Spectrometer revealed that while methane rises and falls
seasonally, it increases in abundance by about 60% in summer months for
inexplicable reasons. Could the spikes in methane and oxygen be related? “We’re beginning to see this
tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of
the Mars year,” Atreya said. “I think there’s something to it.”
Methane and oxygen rises certainly
bring up the question of whether biologic or geologic processes are
responsible for these seasonal variations. While biologic sources cannot be
completely ruled out because Curiosity is not designed to investigate
the current biological conditions at Gale Crater, scientists are working
through the non-biologic potential answer to this quandary. “I just don’t have the answers yet,” said Atreya. “Nobody does.” Water water everywhere – Europa edition: Europa has, for several decades, been
a tantalizing target in the search for potential life elsewhere in the
solar system other than Earth. From the first direct images of the moon returned by NASA’s Voyager probes in the 1970s to present day observations, Europa has captivated scientific interest due to its icy exterior. Recent
evidence has mounted for a large subterranean ocean underneath Europa’s
icy surface, but direct confirmation of this has proven elusive – as
has direct detection of water or water vapor in, on, or around Europa. Previous in-situ observations of the moon by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft from 1995 to 2003 and via the Hubble Space Telescope have returned evidence of hydrogen and oxygen in and around Europa, but no direct evidence of water.
A team of NASA scientists led by
Lucas Paganini of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Maryland, have announced the first concrete detection of water vapor
spewing in volcanic eruptions from Europa’s large vents. The observations and confirmation came from the team’s use of the W. M. Keck Observatory atop the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawai’i. Paganini and his team’s findings are detailed in the 18 November publication of the journal Nature Astronomy. The observations, performed over 17
nights throughout 2016 and 2017, returned an immense amount of water
vapor erupting from Europa’s surface at a rate of 2,360 kg per second –
enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool within minutes. Despite this tremendous release, the team also found that water vapor appears quite infrequently. “For me, the interesting thing about
this work is not only the first direct detection of water above Europa,
but also the lack thereof within the limits of our detection method,”
said Mr. Paganini. What’s more, the team was only able
to detect water vapor along Europa’s leading hemisphere, defined as the
side of the moon that always faces the direction of Europa’s orbit of Jupiter. Like Earth’s Moon, Europa is tidally locked with its host planet, so the same hemisphere always faces Jupiter. “This first direct identification of
water vapor on Europa is a critical confirmation of our original
detections of atomic species, and it highlights the apparent sparsity of
large plumes on this icy world” said Lorenz Roth, an astronomer and
physicist from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm who led
the 2013 Hubble study and was a co-author of this recent investigation. This ultimately highlights the
challenge in trying to study Europa from Earth. The amount of
observation and detailed scientific equipment needed to further unlock
Europa’s mysteries are either extremely difficult or not possible to do
from Earth. Enter Europa Clipper, a flagship NASA science mission set to launch No Earlier Than 2025 that will perform direct, detailed observation and study of Jupiter’s icy moon. Europa Clipper’s three main scientific objectives are to:
confirm
the existence and characterize the nature of water within or beneath the
ice and the processes of surface-ice-ocean exchange,
identify the distribution and chemistry of key compounds and the links to ocean composition., and
study the characteristics and formation of surface features, including sites of recent or current activity.
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On July 25, 2019, an organization called To The Stars Academy of Arts
& Science, led by rock star Tom DeLonge, announced they had acquired
a “groundbreaking” piece of metamaterial.
Although the press release never said it was tied to anything
extraterrestrial or alien, the implications were there.
However, specific details… were not.
One of those details, is the fact that this unknown piece of metal
actually has a history that stretches back at least seventy years.
It’s tied to a story that involves a late 1940’s crashed UFO, a military
clean up, an extraterrestrial being with telepathic communication, and
of course, a cover-up to ensure it all remained a secret.
That is, until 1996, when the grandson of a military security officer
present at the UFO clean-up site — broke his silence and contacted
legendary radio talk show host Art Bell, along with my guest today...
Emmy award winning investigative journalist, Linda Moulton Howe.
In April and May 1996, the grandson sent two shipments of different
metals his deceased grandfather left with a diary and Linda has
investigated and owned some of those metal pieces over the past 22 years
— including mysterious micron-layered Bismuth and Magnesium-Zinc.
She has spent countless hours, and thousands of dollars, investigating
what it is.
Today, Linda will give us a special one-on-one interview, outlining the
origin, history and investigation into a piece that is intriguing
curious minds around the globe, and it’s even, caught the attention of
the U.S. Army.
Stay tuned… you’re about to journey INSIDE THE BLACK VAULT.
The extraordinary 1977 warning about nuclear weapons was dismissed as a hoax – but is there more to it?
On this day in 1977, a mysterious six-minute message was broadcast across southern Britain.
The
chilling warning, from someone identifying themselves as “Vrillon, a
representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command,” has never been
explained.It was on Saturday 26 November 26, during a routine broadcast of
Southern TV’s 5 o’clock news, that viewers saw newsreader Andrew
Gardner’s image wobble strangely while a deep buzzing sound came from
their TV sets.
Then came the bizarre message: “This is the voice of Vrillon, a
representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you.,” it
said.
“For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We
speak to you now in peace and wisdom as we have done to your brothers
and sisters all over this, your planet Earth.
“We come to warn
you of the destiny of your race and your world so that you may
communicate to your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid the
disaster which threatens your world, and the beings on our worlds around
you.”
Explaining that the Earth was moving into a new era which could usher
in an age of peace and harmony for all mankind the voice when on to
warn that it was time to ban all weapons of mass destruction: “All your
weapons of evil must be removed. The time for conflict is now past and
the race of which you are a part may proceed to the higher stages of its
evolution if you show yourselves worthy to do this. You have but a
short time to learn to live together in peace and goodwill.”
Vrillon,
presumably referring to UFO sightings, adds “We have watched you
growing for many years as you too have watched our lights in your
skies,” and claims that “there are more beings on and around your Earth
than your scientists admit.”
Signing off with a warning not to listen to false leaders, Vrillon
says that he and his colleagues at Ashtar Galactic Command are “now
leaving the planes of your existence” and that it’s time for us to
evolve into a higher form.
The message was never repeated and never explained.
The rational response is that it was a hoax and that someone had hijacked the TV transmitter for the region.
A
spokesman for Southern Television told reporters at the time "A hoaxer
jammed our transmitter in the wilds of North Hampshire by taking another
transmitter very close to it."
A spokesperson for The Independent Broadcasting Authority said that a
hoax of this kind would take "a considerable amount of technical
know-how"
But the alleged hoaxer never came forward to claim
responsibility for the bizarre broadcast, and they have managed to keep
their secret for 42 years.
Or, of course, it’s possible that
Vrillon really is out there, watching over us and waiting for us to give
up our nuclear weapons so they can welcome us into an interplanetary
community.
The U.S. Navy purportedly discovered an unidentified flying object in
2004 and was later instructed to hand over the radar footage for it to
be deleted, according to a report.
A new account of the incident, published in Popular Mechanics, details an encounter with what the U.S. Navy recently confirmed as an “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
One of the witnesses, petty officer 3rd class Gary Voorhis, was
sailing on the USS Princeton off the coast of Southern California in
early November 2004. Voorhis, who was the system tech for the ship’s
Co-operative Engagement Capability and AEGIS Combat System, said he had
heard from radar techs they were getting “ghost tracks” and “clutter.”
Assuming the ship’s new AN/SPY-1B passive radar system was
malfunctioning, he said the air control systems were taken down for
recalibration.“Once
we finished all the recalibration and brought it back up, the tracks
were actually sharper and clearer,” Voorhis told Popular Mechanics. He said the readings didn’t match “any
He said the readings didn’t match “any known aircraft.” “I
couldn’t make out details, but they’d just be hovering there, then all
of a sudden, in an instant, they’d dart off to another direction and
stop again,” he added. But days later, Voorhis said two people came aboard the ship and requested the data recordings.“These
two guys show up on a helicopter, which wasn’t uncommon, but shortly
after they arrived, maybe 20 minutes, I was told by my chain of command
to turn over all the data recordings for the AEGIS system,” he said.
“They even told me to erase everything that’s in the shop — even the
blank tapes.”
Is it a plane, a drone, a comet... or could this be an alien craft in the skies above Bradford?
Juran Harrison, who took this footage on Tong Road at 4.36pm on
Tuesday November 26, is keeping an open mind - but didn't hesitate it to
call it a "possible UFO sighting".
The footage, taken from a car, shows a bright red glowing object moving across the sky above the roofline.
Then, as quickly as it appeared, it is gone.
Juran said: "I would describe it as a burning red light, was moving
sideways then down and away leaving a slight trail behind it.
"I saw it appear seemingly out of nowhere and vanish, the object at
first looked like a passenger aircraft and appeared similar in size but
moved unlike any aircraft I’ve seen before."
UFO expert Marcus Lowth, who writes for ufoinsight.com, told the
T&A: "While this footage is very interesting, I would suggest that
given the time of day it was taken, that this very well could simply be
the last glimpse of the setting sun.
"That said, the Yorkshire and region has been known to be a UFO hotspot over the years, with regular sightings of strange lights and anomalies."
A series of iconic purported UFO images, including some that were featured in the “The X-Files” TV show, are up for auction.
UFO photo taken by "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier in Switzerland in 1975.
The images are part of a Sotheby’s online auction devoted to space
photography. They include a lot of six prints by “Billy” Eduard Albert
Meier that are from Switzerland in 1975. “These images purport to depict
an interstellar visit by spacecraft from the planet Erra, two with a
single UFO moving slowly over the town of Berg Rumlikon and four images
depicting a single UFO in a forested hilly area of Schmidrüti,” said
Sotheby’s in a statement.
“One of the images in this lot was used to create the famous ‘I Want
to Believe’ poster featured in the first three seasons of The X-Files,”
the auction house explained.
The poster was often seen in the office of FBI Special Agent Fox
Mulder, played by David Duchovny. The lot with the image used to create
the ‘I Want to Believe’ poster has a pre-sale estimate of $6,000 to
$9,000.
Eduard Meier/Sotheby's
The sale also includes two Meier photos used in the series trailer
for the 2016 reboot of the show. One image is part of a set of seven
vintage chromogenic prints by Meier in Bachtelhörnli, Switzerland, on
March 28, 1976. This lot also has a pre-sale estimate of $6,000 to
$9,000.
Another image used in the trailer reboot is part of four vintage
chromogenic prints by Meier in Schmidrüti, Berg Rumlikon and
Winkelreit-Wetzikon Switzerland in 1975. The lot has a pre-sale estimate
of $4,000 to $6,000.
Eduard Meier/Sotheby's
Other photos in the auction include images from the estate of Bill
Taub, NASA’s first senior photographer, who documented every major space
event from Project Mercury to the end of the Apollo missions.
Photos captured by NASA’s Lunar Orbiters area also up from auction,
as well as images from the vintage NASA photo collection of dealer
Philip Kulpa.
The auction, which opened Tuesday, runs until Dec. 3.
Miks Martin describes feeling an "unusual sensation" when he spotted the flying object in the sky
Unusual lights were spotted in the sky at Lawrence Weston (Image: Miks Martin)
Is there alien life beyond Earth? This remains one of the biggest
questions for scientists and ordinary people alike with people all over
the world sharing their sightings of the unidentified and the
unexplained.
The latest is a man from Lawrence Weston, who claims to have seen a UFO in the sky right here in Bristol.Miks Martin got in contact with Bristol Live and described what happened when he saw the unusual flying object in the sky.
He said: "So I went to a window and saw a very strange light up in the sky.
"It
was just weird, I heard a loud noise and I went to my stairs window and
I see those lights so I took a picture and video of it and I just can't
explain what it is.
Are these aliens visiting Bristol? (Image: Miks Martin)
He says he saw the supposed UFO between 9pm and 10pm last Thursday (21 November).
He went onto describe the unusual sensation he felt when he saw the lights in the sky.
"It was strange, like an unusual sensation. I don't really know how to describe it and the lights in the sky were strange."
When asked how he knew it was a UFO, Miks had this to say.
"It's hard to explain how I knew it was a UFO. It looked like it had
three different angles and three different lights to it. I don't know
how to describe it. It's unexplained."
Do you think this is a
UFO? Were you in the Lawrence Weston area last Thursday and noticed
unusual lights and unusual sounds? Then get in touch by emailing
jasper.king@reachplc.com
An extremely compelling unidentified flying object incident occurred over Washington, D.C., in 1952. Did another UFO pay a visit to D.C. on Tuesday? Probably not, but it's a possibility — seriously.
.
First, the facts. An intruding radar contact entered the
national capital region air defense area at about 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
The contact was taken very seriously. The White House and Capitol were
locked down, and both fighter jets and a helicopter were scrambled to
investigate. NORAD first identified the contact as a "plane," then
deleted the associated tweet. Authorities now say the alert was a false
alarm. But what was the contact?
Capitol Police told CNN
that the "big, slow-moving blob of something" might have been birds.
Gary Andrews, president of a leading bird-detection radar manufacturer,
Detect Inc., told me that birds might indeed have been the culprit
because "the government radars may not have bird suppression
algorithms." He pointed to a recent bird-related false alarm in South Korea. Alternatively, WTOP's national security correspondent said it might have been a Mylar balloon. But Fox News reported government sources saying the contact was "hovering," at least temporarily.
An anomaly is unlikely considering the contact's sustained
track. But, and not just because of the hovering report, I'm unconvinced
that this was birds or a balloon.
First off, the capital air defense area is the nation's
most tightly monitored region. The contact entered at least the 30-mile
outer ring of the air defense area. That's about all we know. NORAD
referenced "operational security" concerns to ignore my questions as to
the contact's origin, speed, track path, dissipation/loss-of-track
point, and whether it hovered. But the lockdown suggests the contact
either entered the capital air defense area's 15-mile inner ring, or got
close to it.
Now consider a little something named Sentinel.
Sentinel is the Army radar system deployed to protect the
government's inner sanctum: the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon.
Upgraded in recent years to include tracking of small ground-launched
munitions, the platform is world-leading. Sentinel utilizes
an extremely advanced X-band radar system, predisposed to
discriminating individual birds, balloons, and weather from planes or
drones. Birds fly in and out of the D.C. air defense area all-day,
everyday, but Tuesday's alert was very rare. I cannot find a similar
incident since someone decided to fly a gyrocopter up to the Capitol
complex in 2015.
The rarity speaks to a key point: The radar operators
utilizing Sentinel and other platforms are very good at discriminating
birds (geese flocks are always flying in Washington's airspace) and
balloons, and separating radar contact merges (where a group of contacts
appear as one). Tuesday's contact obviously concerned commanders enough
that they launched multiple interceptor aircraft and the Secret Service
locked down the White House. Was that because the track showed apparent
purpose in flight toward critical facilities?
Yes, perhaps it was birds or a balloon. But if not, what was it?
Well, ponder this. We do know that intelligently operated
machine-based UFOs, not belonging to the U.S., China, or Russia, are now
being tracked globally. These invisibility-capable UFOs can travel at
hypersonic speeds in the air and hundreds of knots underwater, and often
show a special interest in sensitive government facilities (an interest that is increasingly being reciprocated). And yes, they can hover!
Makes you wonder what that might have been on Tuesday, doesn't it? Was it birds or something extraterrestrial?
