Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Earth-Like Planet Found in Nearby Star System?

Earth-Like Planet Found in Nearby Star System?

     (Phys.org)—An Earth-like planet may be lurking in a star system located just 16 light years away, according to a new research. The star, named Gliese 832, was recently investigated by a team of astronomers searching for additional exoplanets that may be residing between the two currently known alien worlds in this system. A paper detailing the finding was published online on Apr. 15 in the arXiv journal.
By Tomasz Nowakowski
phys.org
4-19-16

Gliese 832 is a red dwarf and has just under half the mass and radius of our sun. The star is orbited by a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet designated Gliese 832b and by a super-Earth mass planet Gliese 832c. The gas giant, with a mass of 0.64 Jupiter masses, is orbiting the star at a distance of 3.53 AU, while the other planet is potentially a rocky world, around five times more massive than the Earth, residing very close its host star—about 0.16 AU.

Now, a team of astronomers, led by Suman Satyal of the University of Texas at Arlington, has reanalyzed the available data on this nearby planetary system hoping to find more extrasolar worlds that may be located in a vast space between the two known planets. [...]

5 British UFO Encounters Which ‘Prove’ Aliens Have Visited Us

5 British UFO Encounters Which ‘Prove’ Aliens Have Visited Us

     To this day, people swear there is something eerie about Rendlesham Forest - only last year, dog walkers claimed their pets became ill from walking in the area.

In 1980, U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in Suffolk saw a strange, metallic triangle which was ‘dripping molten metal’ - and witnessed a light like a ‘huge red eye’.
By Rob Waugh
www.yahoo.com
4-15-16

The Rendlesham Forest Incident - described as ‘Britain’s Roswell’ - still fascinates UFO fans, two decades on.

But have aliens really visited Britain? Here are five incidents which UFO fans claim is proof that extraterrestrials HAVE visited our country - and could still be here now. [...]

UFO Flies by Seattle’s Space Needle

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UFO Flies by Seattle’s Space Needle

     A Washington witness at Seattle reported watching a square or rectangular-shaped UFO move silently over the Space Needle, according to testimony in Case 75528 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside on an eighth-floor terrace of the Hyatt House Downtown Seattle hotel close to the famous Space Needle structure with four friends at 8 p.m. on March 30, 2016, with mostly clear skies with a bluish, and fading to dark sky.

By Roger Marsh
OpenMinds.tv
4-18-16

“As I looked toward the Space Needle, I saw what first seemed like a fast jet coming from the east, heading due west toward Puget Sound, slightly to the north of us,” the witness stated.“Not a sound throughout sighting.”

The witness described the object.

“Hadwo twhite, blinking lights pulsating in unison at approximately 1 Hz, as if each wing, left and right, had a big, white light covering most of the wing surface, but could not discern forward fuselage or tail, hence looked like it was a flying straight wing.” [...]

The witness first thought the object could be an airplane despite the unusual white lights pattern.

“I am familiar with airplanes; am engineer working in aerospace. Could be soundless if it might be much higher than it seemed; for instance, despite white lights flashing, thought they could still be landing lights.”

The witness paid attention to how the object moved.

“The object flew in a straight line while displaying white, pulsating lights, very fast, but at perceived constant linear speed, as it subtended an angle of approximately 45-degrees from my viewpoint and initial spotting. Covered this angle in not more than 10 seconds. Given estimated altitude of twice the height of the Space Needle or more, that would still be very fast for a soundless flight; much too fast for a small drone, or for a helicopter if higher in altitude; yet could not be high enough to be soundless, which would have meant extremely fast.” [...]

DARPA's Strange New 24-Motor Drone | VIDEO

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DARPA's Strange New 24-Motor Drone

     The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — or DARPA — just launched a one-fifth-scale model of its LightningStrike aircraft for the first time.
By Bryan Clark
thenextweb.com
4-18-16

Built by Aurora Flight Science, the ‘Subscale LightningStrike’ relies on 24 fans to propel the 325 pound scale model and enable vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL). Not shown in the video, but planned on the full-sized version, is the ability for these propellers to rotate to provide thrust in addition to assisting in take-off and landing.

The full-sized LightiningStrike, once completed, is said to be capable of speeds of 400 knots (about 460 mph) while carrying several thousand pounds of cargo (without a pilot) and running entirely on electric power. [...]

Newly Discovered Galaxy Spotted Orbiting the Milky Way

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Newly Discovered Galaxy Spotted Orbiting the Milky Way

     The galaxy’s empire has a new colony. Astronomers have detected a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way whose span stretches farther than nearly all other Milky Way satellites. It may belong to a small group of galaxies that is falling into our own.
By Ken Croswell
www.newscientist.com
4-14-16

[...]

Now, Gabriel Torrealba at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues have found a new galaxy about 380,000 light years away in the constellation Crater. “It’s the fourth largest satellite of the Milky Way,” Torrealba says.

Named the Crater 2 dwarf, the new galaxy is not apparent to human eyes, though individual stars within the galaxy are visible. The team were only able to find it this January by using a computer to look for over-densities of stars in data from images taken by a telescope in Chile.


Monday, April 18, 2016

UFOs and Nukes Connection Examined in New Film: The Amazing, Ominous Secret Revealed

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     When CNN live-streamed my UFOs and Nukes press conference in Washington D.C., on September 27, 2010, I assumed—far too optimistically as it turned out—that the mainstream media would react with sustained interest and finally begin to ask hard questions of less-than-candid government officials. After all, the seven U.S. Air Force veterans who participated in the event had just divulged still-classified information about UFOs shutting down large numbers of nuclear missiles, hovering over nuclear bomb storage bunkers, monitoring still-unfinished ICBM silos, and other incredible incidents during the Cold War era.

By Robert Hastings
The UFO Chronicles
4-16-16

The press conference was the culmination of years of investigation into such events that I had begun in earnest in 1973, when I started interviewing U.S. military veterans regarding their involvement in cases where UFOs had demonstrated an obvious interest in nuclear weapons sites.

By 1981, it was clear to me that the situation was very real and ongoing and, I concluded, needed as much exposure as possible. Consequently, I went out on the college lecture circuit to attempt to inform the American public, as best as possible, about the dramatic developments that had been kept from them for decades.

UFOs and Nukes Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons SitesIn addition to my speaking engagements, my 600-page book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, published in 2008, has gradually captured an ever-larger, worldwide following over time.

Nevertheless, it seemed to me, the largest possible audience would be generated by producing and distributing a documentary film that presented the hidden history of nuclear weapons-related UFO activity in a fast-paced, visually-engaging manner, hence the creation of my documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, which is now available at Vimeo On Demand.

While the film has only just been made accessible, initial reviews are very favorable. Gary Heseltine, editor of the UFO Truth e-zine, called it “The best UFO documentary I've ever seen.” Frederik Uldall, of the Exopolitics Denmark group, wrote that the film is “Absolutely brilliant! Definitely one of the top five UFO documentaries of all time.”

So, dear reader, are you tired of the many Fluff-and-Bullshit UFO programs offered up on commercial television these days? Me too, which is why I made my own film. Check it out—you won’t be disappointed. Rent or buy it here.

Green Fireball Caught on Camera Over Midwest | VIDEO

Green Fireball Caught on Camera Over Midwest 4-15-16

     Twitter lit up with reports of a meteor or fireball streaking across the sky and seen in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kentucky.
By Illinois Patch
4-16-16

Many people reported seeing a green fireball, possibly a meteor, streaking across the sky late Friday around 10:15 p.m. Central time. The fireball could be seen from the Chicago suburbs.

Reports of the sighting also were coming in from people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, according to WGN radio news anchor Steve Grzanich from Chicago and Fox News meteorologist Chris Higgins from St. Louis.

A Fox News webcam in Belleville, IL, near St. Louis, recorded the fireball at about 10:16 p.m. [...]

Two UFOs Spotted in Sky Over Sutton Coldfield | VIDEO

Two UFOs spotted in sky over Sutton Coldfield 3-30-16

     Watcher takes footage of separate incidents - could it be visitors from another world?

Watcher takes footage of separate incidents - could it be visitors from another world?
By Ben Hurst
www.birminghammail.co.uk
4-17-16

Is this incontrovertible proof that life from another planet visited Sutton Coldfield in the middle of the night?

A sky-watcher took footage of a mysterious light hovering around the area, which he described as ‘smooth and curved’.

Then 50 minutes later a glowing orb reappeared.

The sky watcher said he was looking out of his window on March 30 at 5.37am and saw: “At first I thought I saw something move across the sky so that’s when I got my camera on my phone and that UFO just comes from nowhere.

“You can’t see it on the video but to the naked eye it was very smooth and curved, it even kind of split into two.” [...]

UFO Hits Plane Landing in London

UFO Hits Plane Landing in London

     London - A British Airways plane struck an object believed to be a drone on Sunday as it was coming in for landing at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, police said.
By www.news24.com
4-17-16

"A pilot on an inbound flight into Heathrow Airport from Geneva reported to police that he believed a drone had struck the aircraft," a spokesperson for London's Metropolitan Police said.

"The flight landed at Heathrow Terminal Five safely. It transpired that an object, believed to be a drone, had struck the front of the aircraft".

A BA spokesperson said the plane had been fully examined after landing and was cleared to operate its next flight. [...]

Friday, April 15, 2016

UFO Eludes P-51 Fighter Pilot | UFO CHRONICLE – 1948

Lighted Flying Disk' Eludes' F-51 Pilot - AP 10-2-1948

     A National Guard fighter pilot today told a story of a thirty-minute encounter with a mysterious flying object over this city last night–and his account was supported by two control tower operators and another flier.
AP
10-2-1948

In a signed statement for Air force Intelligence, the pilot, Lieutenant George Gorman of the 178th Fighter Squadron, North Dakota Air National Guard, asserted that he chased and engaged in aerial maneuvers with a lighted, disk-like object which outran and out maneuvered him. He was flying an F-51 fighter.

UFO Over Soesterberg Air Base

UFO Over Soesterberg Air Base 2-17-1991

     A Netherlands witness at Soesterberg recalled a UFO encounter in the military from 1991 that left him traumatized, according to testimony in Case 74907 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside walking during a night shift watch at a military base near Soesterberg, Netherlands, about 3 a.m. on February 17, 1991, when the incident occurred.

By Roger Marsh
OpenMinds.tv
4-15-16

“Along with another cadet I came at the central parking lot at 3 a.m. and saw a big circle in the sky straight on top off us,” the witness stated.“It had no shape, but only bright lights slowly rotating anti-clockwise and the light points itself didn’t rotate. The colors were in a liquid manner.”

The object was large and the witness wondered exactly what it was.

“I estimate the object about 30 to 50 meters in diameter. The first thing we both thought was a blimp, a zeppelin, the one like Goodyear has with the light screens on the sides. But the fact that it was very low and absolutely stationary and silent made it very, very odd.”

Soon the object began to rotate.

“After some minutes the lights started to rotate faster and suddenly it took off at really incredible speed to the west. A couple of seconds later we felt a short, hard wind blowing which stayed on top of us like a downwash from a helicopter.”

The witness had a clear view of the object.

“If there was a way to describe the speed this thing was going, but I can’t. We had a clear view for over 30 km – that’s 20 miles-plus. This thing covered that distance from stationary in something like 0.10 seconds. I know aviation and have flying experience and I am very technical. This kind of extreme acceleration turns humans into liquid.” [...]

Mysterious Giant Sphere Discovered in Bosnia | VIDEO

Mysterious Giant Sphere Discovered in Bosnia 4-15-16

     In the middle of a forest on the outskirts of Zavidovici, Bosnia, archaeologist Semir Osmanagich has discovered a very large, very round rock with a radius between four and five feet.
Claire Lampen
Yahoo News
4-14-16

Possibly more than 1,500 years old, Osmanagich thinks this Bosnian rock ball may be "the oldest stone sphere made by human hands," according to the Telegraph.

Like any mysterious sphere uncovered in nature — and there are others — Osmanagich's is proving divisive.

Osmanagich, who also goes by Sam, has been "researching prehistoric stone ball phenomenon for 15 years," according to a post he wrote on the ball's discovery. Osmanagich believes the area used to house many more such spheres, but people cracked them open in misplaced pursuits of gold sometime during the 1970s. [...]

UFO Filmed Over Cusco | VIDEO

UFO Filmed Over Cusco 4-13-16
Credit: diariocorreo.pe

Sighting caused astonishment in the town of Pucyura in Vilcabamba.

     This morning an Unidentified Flying Object was sighted by villagers in the town of Pucyura in Vilcabamba (Cusco), reporter Raul Puma managed to videotape it and states that it is something never before seen in the area.
By diariocorreo.pe
4-13-16
"I got it on film at about 07:30 hours, but the object was flying over the area Habaspata very early, sometimes it approached and moved away from where we were not emitting any kind of sound and from one moment to another disappearing the clouds, " he stated.
So far it is unknown what was reocrded on video, however many times the balloons used for meteorological measurements are confused with flying saucers. [...]

UFO Traveled 120 Miles in 8 Seconds, Say Radar Operators | VIDEO

UFO Traveled 120 Miles in 8 Seconds, Say Radar Operators

     The astonishing first-person accounts from two witnesses of an actual phenomenon form part of a new documentary (see trailer below)as seen in this intriguing trailer
By Jon Dillon
www.mirror.co.uk
4-15-16

Two former radar operators have revealed how a UFO travelled 120 miles in less than EIGHT SECONDS during Britain's most famous close encounter.

Ike Barker and Jim Carey have given their first in-depth interviews since the incident at RAF Bentwaters, in Suffolk - hailed as the world's best documented case.

They were on duty in the air traffic control tower when the unidentified target was tracked on radar during a spate of bizarre sightings in late December 1980.

On December 26, a small team of security police officers reported seeing a triangular shaped craft land in Rendlesham Forest, just outside the base.

FLYBOARD AIR: An Amazing, Real Hoverboard with Autonomous Flight Up To 10,000 ft | VIDEO

FLYBOARD – An Amazing, Real Hoverboard with Autonomous Flight Up To 10,000 ft

     Invented by Frank Zapata in 2012, Flyboarding (aka, using one of those water jet hover board things) has grown from a novelty into a full-fledged competitive sport. Now, Zapata Racing is prepared to revolutionize the field again — this time with the Flyboard Air, a hover board that does away with the water propulsion system and uses only air to zip you across the sky. If you ever dreamed about being the Green Goblin, here’s your chance.
By Kelly Hodgkins
www.digitaltrends.com
4-13-16

[...]

In the new Flyboard air, riders are now untethered thanks to an integrated turbine engine and are free to fly as high as 10,000 feet. According to Zapata Racing, the unit is capable of flying as fast as 90 miles per hour and has enough power for a 10 minute flight.

In a demonstration video, Zapata is shown flying effortlessly over a body of water, reaching a height of 30 meters (98 feet) and a speed of 55 km/h (34MPH) during the 3.5 minute flight. The unit is still in the prototype stage and will continue to undergo testing and refinement for the remainder of 2016. With a successful public flight under his belt, Zapata is now on par with David Mayman and Nelson Tyler, who last year demonstrated their JB-9 jetpack by flying around the Statue of Liberty. [...]

UFOs Harass Mororist in New Mexico | UFO CHRONICLE – 1961

Car is Chased By Lights - Lewiston Evening Journal 11-9-1961

Car is Chased By Lights (-cont-) - Lewiston Evening Journal 11-9-1961

     Those mysterious unidentified flying objects are now playing tag with automobiles.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dubois of California, formerly of Lewiston, returning home from a brief visit to Maine, were the disturbed victims of a somewhat macabre game of tag played on the moonlit reaches of America's famous route 66, it was learned today.
By Lewiston Evening Journal
11-9-1961

For more then 30 miles between the towns of Datil and Pie Town in New Mexico, the Dubois car was accompanied by a brilliant ball of white light which climaxed its frightfully persistent visit with the travelers by breaking up into four individual, smaller lights. [...]

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Former Head of State Openly Discusses UFOs | PERU

Former Head of State Openly Discusses UFOs

     MEXICO CITY - Former president and current presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo shook his country's news media in a press conference when he confessed to discussing UFOs with the international media.
By Inexplicata
4-4-16

"I was interviewed by CNN on a subject that would be considered outlandish, seemingly proper of the realm of science fiction, but it isn't: extraterrestrials."

As of the end of this edition, this interview has not been made public, and some have described it as an attention-getter in the midst of the country's political season.

When UFO researchers in Peru were asked about these statements, they admitted to not having more information on the subject, but are certain that a number of UFO sightings took place during the term of President Alberto Fujimori from 1990 to 2000.

One of the most memorable ones took place on 7 December 1991 at 21:00 hours, when the presence of a UFO was reported over Laguna de Charo, located in the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. The military staff accompanying the president looked on in bemusement.

"Fujimori as well as the military watched as an enormous object flew over the lagoon before fleeing the area, passing over the witnesses' heads," according to Julio Chamorro, former commander of the Peruvian Air Force.

The retired military man said that following the sighting, Fujimori asked his officers to keep quiet about it, telling them that what they had just seen had never happened.

It was nevertheless a source of much conversation within the Peruvian armed forces, and led to the creation of the first phase of OIFA, the Anomalous Aerial Phenomena Research Office attached to the Peruvian Air Force, which has currently been elevated to departmental status with a well-defined structure, featuring both military and civilian advisors.

Several Latin American presidents have discussed their sightings. It should be remembered that Mexican presidents Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría and Miguel de la Madrid were very aware of the activities of these strange unidentified flying objects.

It seems that this secret, kept by the political class, is slowly coming to light, giving way to a new era of general openness.

* Source:www.informador.mx.co and Planeta UFO

* [Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Gimenez)

The Man Who First Injected "The Men in Black" into the American Lexicon Has Died

Albert K. Bender


     The man who brought the ufo silencers, the men in dark clothing, into modern consciousness, Albert K. Bender, 94, died on March 29, 2016, in California.
By Loren Coleman
copycateffect.blogspot.com
4-14-16

"Men in Black" (MIBs) are what appear to be male humans dressed in black suits who claim to be government or paramilitary (or even alien) agents and who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

[...]

In early September 1953, Bender, who is acknowledged as one of the first pioneers of UFO research, was visited at his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, by three men dressed in black who warned him in threatening terms to cease his investigations or else. [...]

Aliens in Aurora: Legend of 1897 UFO

Aliens in Aurora: Legend of 1897 UFO

     AURORA–Toni Wheeler holds fond memories of growing up in the rural town of Aurora, sitting on the porch of an elderly resident named Mr. Mayfield and listening to him tell about the time a UFO crashed into a windmill, killing a spaceman.
By Gordon Dickson
www.star-telegram.com
4-14-16

“He would tell us it did in fact happen,” said Wheeler, now the city administrator, recounting one of the highlights of her Wise County childhood in the late 1970s. “He said tons of people went rushing up there to the [crash] site, but they made all the kids stay back underneath the hill, because they were afraid it might have a disease.”

The legend of the 1897 crash of an alien spacecraft 27 miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth certainly put Aurora on the map — having been retold in books, movies and TV shows — although many residents would just as soon their community not be known for such a tale.

But many others — Wheeler among them — are ready to embrace the extraterrestrial adventure, and on Saturday they will host the first of what they hope will become an annual event known as the Aurora Alien Encounter. [...]

Stephen Hawking's Plan To Hunt For Aliens | VIDEO

Stephen Hawking's Plan To Hunt For Aliens

     The famed physicist Stephen Hawking is partnering with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to look for intelligent life with a fleet of postage stamp-sized spacecraft.
By Story Hinckley
www.csmonitor.com
4-13-16

Do aliens exist? Using small spaceships the size of postage stamps, famous physicist Stephen Hawking, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plan to find out.

Through their $100-million project named Breakthrough Starshot, the three board members plan to send thousands of light-propelled nanocraft to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. Traveling at 20 percent the speed of light, the nanocraft fleet would likely reach Alpha Centauri (which is 4.37 light years away) in the next 20 years.

Equipped with cameras and communication and navigation equipment, the nanocrafts will hopefully answer whether or not habitable planets – and even alien life – exists.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

UFO Filmed Over Las Vegas | VIDEO

UFO Filmed Over Las Vegas 9-12-14

     A Nevada witness at Las Vegas reported watching and videotaping a round UFO with light beaming from the object to the ground level, according to testimony in Case 59760 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness woke up about 5:30 a.m. on September 12, 2014, and first saw the object.

“As I was walking back to my bedroom I noticed a round ball in the sky that looked similar to the moon, but it had rays of light beaming down from the object,” the witness stated.“One of the rays blinked and that is what caught my attention.”

By Roger Marsh
OpenMinds.tv
4-13-16

The witness first thought that the object was a plane, but then noticed something unusual.

“I ran to get my phone to record and by the time I got back to the object, the light was slowly ascending into the object while both light and object simultaneously disappeared.”

Nevada State Director Donna Carbone investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.

“The object hovered, glowed, cast light, appeared transparent, and was the shape of a circle,” Carbone stated in her report.“Surface was glowing and had a mist/shroud. Apparent size was unknown and actual size was 31-100 feet. Prominent colors were white, exterior lights flashed randomly and other. Emission was a beam and cloud, and sound is unknown. Elevation is unknown as is lowest altitude. Flight path was stationary and direction first observed was in the west as was direction last observed. No landing observed.”

Marine Robot Finds Monster at Loch Ness

Marine Robot Finds Monster at Loch Ness

     A new underwater sonar-imaging investigation into Loch Ness has uncovered the remains of a monster.

Led by Kongsberg Maritime and supported by The Loch Ness Project and VisitScotland, the mission using Munin, a state-of-the-art intelligent marine robot, has revealed new information about the elusive 230 metres deep loch, uncovering areas underwater that have never been reached before.
By www.strathspey-herald.co.uk
4-13-16

Within the findings, 180m down on the loch bed, Operation Groundtruth has uncovered a recognisable creature. However, although it is the shape of Nessie – it is not the remains of the monster that has mystified the world for 80 years but more one that has inhabited the loch for over half that time and is a star of the silver screen.

The finding is in fact that of a 30-foot Loch Ness Monster model from the 1970 film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Robert Stephens and Christopher Lee. [...]

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