Saturn - Facts and Theories

Updated 12.11.2013 Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun,  has been known about since prehistoric times, and was for a long time considered to be the outermost planet in our solar system until the discovery of Uranus in 1781. Saturn appears to the naked eye in the night sky as a bright, yellowish point of light. Most people will require optical aid (very large binoculars or a small telescope) magnifying at least 30× to clearly resolve Saturn's rings - discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei.

Diameter: 120,536 km  - 9.44 times that of Earth
Distance from Earth: Varies daily. As Earth and Saturn  move along their orbital paths they move nearer and further in comparison to each other. The distance is anywhere between 1.2 billion km (roughly 7 AU) and 1.67 billion km (around 11 AU) - when the planets are on opposite sides of the Sun (one billion is in European terms milliard).

SATURN'S MOONS
Saturn has at least 150 moons and moonlets, 53 of which have formal names. Titan is the largest, and also the Solar System's second largest moon - larger than the planet Mercury and the only moon in the Solar System to retain a substantial atmosphere. Rhea is the second largest moon. Some of the moons seem to be helping to keep the Saturn rings in place.

Titan
According to Calgary Herald, the Cassini spacecraft has found small amounts of propylene, a chemical used to make storage containers and other products, in the atmosphere of Titan. Titan is among the few bodies in the solar system with a significant atmosphere made up of hydrocarbons.

Enceladus

Saturn's moon Enceladus, 14% of our moon in size, was discovered by William Herschel in 1789. Enceladus has always been thought of as one of the more remarkable members of Saturn's marble bag of satellites. For one thing, it's dazzlingly bright, reflecting light like a mirror. This is because its surface is covered with ice crystals. Enceladus is not the only moon in the solar system that is home to such a feature. Jupiter's Europa is even more certain to contain a global ocean of its own. On both worlds, organics plus water plus warmth plus time could be more than enough to get biology going.

Time: NASA's Cassini Space Probe Finds New Saturnian Ocean

SPACE MISSIONS TO SATURN

First flyby of Saturn was in September 1979 by Pioneer 11. In November 1980, the Voyager 1 probe visited the Saturn system. Voyager 2 passed by Saturn in 1981. In June 2004 Cassini–Huygens space probe conducted a close flyby of Phoebe (a satellite of Saturn), studied the system extensively, and on July 1 of that year it entered into orbit around Saturn. Includes a Saturn orbiter and an atmospheric probe/lander for the moon Titan called Huygens, which entered and landed on Titan in 2005. The probe's mission was extended to September 2010 and then again to 2017, to "study a full period of Saturn's season".

THE RINGS OF SATURN

Saturn is probably best known for the system of planetary rings that makes it visually unique. The rings extend from 6,630 km to 120,700 km above Saturn's equator, average approximately 20 meters in thickness and are composed of 93% water ice with traces of tholin impurities and 7% amorphous carbon.

Doug Webber writes in his blog how Bob Dean had discussed some huge UFOs in the rings of Saturn caught in Voyager pictures. This caused the scientist Norman R. Bergrun to publish a book entitled The Ringmakers of Saturn, in which he theorized that these huge cylindrical ships were making the rings of Saturn! But Bob Dean says the opposite is more likely: they are mining the rings of Saturn. And you could quite easily believe that if you look at the videos in Webber's blog. Incidentally, the Cassini-Huygens probe began orbiting Saturn in 2004 and its mission was supposed to end in 2008, after 74 completed orbits around the planet. But instead of ending it, NASA decided to extend it for another 2 years, and in 2010 another 7 years. Perhaps the interest in Saturn's seasons is less of a factor than the desire to know more about possible mining? Time will tell.

PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OF SATURN
Below a collection of material from different websites:
Saturn going behind our Moon by Craig Zerbe in 2001-02(at3m33s)
The Truth Behind The Scenes: Alien Motherships and The Ringmakers of Saturn


SATURN IN THE NEWS
2013-0930 NASA probe detects plastic ingredient on Saturn moon (Calgary Herald/Canada) ENG


USEFUL LINKS

- SpaceImages.com - Spirituality, Dreams and Prophecy - The Truth Behind The Scenes - Time: NASA's Cassini Space Probe Finds New Saturnian Ocean - Universe Today - Wiki - Wiki:MoonsOfSaturn -

The Moon - Facts and Theories

Updated 10.10.2013 Know thy Moon! Our beautiful, everchanging  satellite, home to some spaceflight debris and who knows what on the other side! Be it as it may, this article deals mainly with the more esoteric theories on Moon. For more factual information than shown here, consult e.g. the excellent site in Wikipedia. Check also some beautiful photos of the Moon, courtesy of El País.

MOON DATA
Circumference: 10,921km (equatorial)
Diameter: 3474km (about 1/4 that of the Earth)

Distance from Earth: The average distance from Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km (238,900 miles). So if you could drive a car along an imaginary freeway to the moon, and you drove 100km/h (62mi/h), it would take you around six months to get there. So far, and yet so close! And as we all know, the Moon and Sun appear the same size seen from the Earth, so that under certain circumstances it is even possible to mistake one for the other.

MOON, SUN AND EARTH 

The Moon is unique among natural satellites in that it experiences a stronger gravitational attraction to the Sun than to its primary, the Earth. As a consequence, its path is always concave to the Sun. It could almost  be argued that this makes the Moon a planet, orbiting the Sun, rather than a satellite of the Earth. Anyway,  here is a good animation of the interaction of these three.

A nice explanatory video Physical Science9.2b states: "As the Earth spins, the Moon appears to rise and set. And the spinning of the Earth is a more significant factor in the appearant motion of the Moon because the Moon goes completely around the Earth once a month, but it rises and set every day as the Earth rotates, or just about every day."

Craters, maria and the mapping of the Moon

There are roughly 300,000 craters wider than 1 km on the Moon's near side alone, and apparently the battered, densely cratered other side is even worse in this respect. The crater Tycho is perhaps the most prominent of these, clearly visible on the near side (there will soon be a separate article on Tycho in this blog). Quite interesting things to be seen there... But whatever we will some day find there or anywhere else on the Moon, please visit first the excellent Kelso's Corner to see how the Moon was mapped!

Apollo landing sites (click to enlarge)

MOON LANDINGS
The Soviet Union's Luna programme was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft in 1959. First manned Moon landing was of course on July 20th, 1969, and first moonwalk by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on the 21st. After that first landing there has been five more, with the latest in 1972 by Apollo 17. Only unmanned landings after that - officially.

Many of us ask why haven't  we built a permanent base on the Moon. Perhaps the answer really is, as proposed,  this simple: it is already occupied, and we are not welcome there. There will soon be a separate article here called This Side of the Moon - about UFOs seen flying around, to and from the Moon, and other things we can see there.
 

FAR SIDE OF THE MOON

a.k.a. the dark side. Tidal forces from Earth have slowed down the Moon's rotation so that the same side is always facing the Earth. Most of the other side is never visible from the Earth. First photographed by the Soviet Luna 3 probe in 1959. The far side has a battered, densely cratered appearance with few maria, and according to some theories, alien bases.

NASA's Lunar Orbiter program managed to map some 99% of the Moon's surface in the 1960's. Lots of images taken of course, but as air brushing does occur, most people get to see only what we are allowed to see. Luckily  there are original photos/videos that show us more. Near Zeeman Crater for example there is/was a huge alien structure (video courtesy by UFOs Now) that looks like a hangar of sorts with a perfect rectangular slot. Where the structure used to be, there is now a quite poorly done air brushing that doesn't even try to imitate the surrounding texture.

Karl Wolfe
Sergeant Karl Wolfe was in the Air Force for about  4 years, 1964-1968. In 1965 while working at a NSA facility in Langley, Virginia, he was shown photographs of the Moon (taken that year by the Lunar Orbiter) that showed detailed artificial structures. So these photos were taken prior to the Apollo landing in 1969. He was told that recent enhanced images of the Moon had surprisingly, yet clearly shown structures on the surface of the dark side of the Moon. Structures that definitely were not created by natural means, such as meteors, or ancient collisions with other heavenly bodies. The structures were created by intelligent beings. - Disclosure Project(2m13s) - Examiner - UFO Casebook -

Structures on the Moon
Besides the structure on the far side of the Moon, there are socalled Moon anomalies on this side as well. With today's technology anyone really gets to have a better look at the Moon than just a few years ago, and so perhaps in the future it will be quite impossible to keep such secrets. But there are also old pictures that haven't been air brushed - in old books that UFO researchers can look into like Scott Waring, author of  UFO Sightings Daily, has done. So if you can get hold of Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon, check there pages 265, 278 and 281.

Neil Armstrong had once told an associate that once they stepped out of the lunar module on the moon, they were literally surrounded by ET vehicles at the Sea of Tranquility. But though he too had to keep a lid on the truth, there is evidence that something like that might have taken place. The much-talked-about Tower on the Moon can be seen with a good telescope (see below) - and shadows tell a tale!

Cameras and telescopes to use
They're not cheap, but still affordable for many of us: a good set of camera and telescope (that usually comes with a tripod). A tripod is of course a must since it is impossible to hold the camera or telescope still enough to get a good picture/video. And there is always the interference of the atmosphere that makes the task difficult - it wobbles all the time and it makes videos filmed from Earth blurry, no matter how much magnification one has.
Anyway, here are some combos in practice:
Panasonic HDC-SD90 Digital video camera + Sky Watcher telescope
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B&W CCD video camera + an 11" amateur telescope
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GOOGLE EARTH MOON
To get the Moon in Google Earth, find Moon in the Planets. And then start zooming in! You can get suprisingly near in some places, e.g.here 30°58'12" N 146°11'05" E - or 31°01'07" N 145°24'38" E - NW of Mare Moscoviense on far side of the Moon. See those oblong things? What could they be? Then again, you see just blurry things almost everywhere on the near side. Why is that? Nevertheless, with your own telescope, your only censorship is the atmospheric interference - but you can't see the far side...

THE HOLLOW MOON

but the original one’s from the 1960′s clearly show this object in this video.

Original Post from: http://ufosnow.blogspot.fi/2012/08/huge-alien-structure-revealed-far-side.html
Copyright SoBloggers - All Rights Reserved Zeeman crater (at long.73A08'30 SA & lat.145A40'40 W) huge alien structure, Images are from the 1960's Lunar orbiter Mosaic (blog video5m49s)

Long: 73° 08′ 30 S Lat: 145° 40′ 40 W

Original Post from: http://ufosnow.blogspot.fi/2012/08/huge-alien-structure-revealed-far-side.html
Copyright SoBloggers - All Rights Reserved

Hollow Moon

There is this wild idea that Moon is actually not a natural satellite with crust, mantle and core, but an artificial one. It is thought that a) the Moon's formation process produced a hollow sphere through natural means. Some proponents of this view maintain that the Moon is not exceptional, but that all planetary bodies are hollow. The b) theory is about the artificial Moon. The scientific community considers both sub-theories to be entirely unsupported by evidence.
More on this to follow...

Articles on Moon in this blog

Main(this one) - Mare Moscoviense - Near Side & UFOs - Tycho - 
Updated 10.10.2013

Crater Tycho - diameter 85 km, depth 4.8 km 

Before It's News - Kelso's Corner: Mapping Of The Moon - Physical Science 9.2b(byDerekOwens) - UFOs Now - Universe Today - YouTube:SunEarthMoonAnimation(20s) - Wiki:MoonFacts - Wiki:Moon'sMaria - Wiki:FarSideOfTheMoon - Wiki:HollowMoon -

Art Bell Dark Matter

Good news for radio listeners:
Art Bell's new UFO and paranormal radio show Dark Matter will be airing for the first time tonight on New York's SiriusXM Radio. First guest: Michio Kaku. Tomorrow Steven Greer. And so on. Read about it more in Open Minds and of course Art Bell's own web page! And naturally we still have George Noory on Coast to Coast AM!

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Celestial Bodies

Updated 22.2.2014 In this page you will find compiled all the celestial bodies portrayed in this blog. The listing is, as is the case with most anything in this blog - alphabetical. Links are formed as soon as there is an individual page for the celestial body in question. And more will be joining the list below.

Andromeda - Earth - JUPITER - MARS - MERCURY - MOON (Main - Mare Moscoviense - This Side of Moon & UFOs  -  Tycho) - Neptune - Pleiades - Pluto - SATURN - Sirius - Sun - Uranus - Venus - Zeta Reticuli

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Books, books and more books

Updated 2.1.2014 There are so many books to read for us interested in ufology and related subjects! The following list is alphabetical with book title first, followed by author(s) and possibly year of publication. Links are to reviews. These books are meant to be on the serious side, and if there is any book you would like to add to the list, you are very welcome to send us email.

A Guide to UFO Research by M. D. Swords
A.D.: After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact by Richard M. Dolan
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens by Susan A. Clancy
Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack
Above Top Secret: The Wordlwide UFO Cover-up by Timothy Good - book review
Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us by Jim Marrs
Alien Contact by Timothy Good - book review
Alien Dawn by Colin Wilson - book review
Alien Investigator by Tony Dodd (1999) - book review
Alien Nightmares: Screen Memories of UFO Alien Abductions by Sharon Delarose
Aliens in America by William J.Birnes
Aliens from Space by Donald Keyhoe - book review
An Alien Harvest by Linda Moulton Howe - book review
An Overview of Extraterrestrial Races by Rold Waeber
Anatomy of a Phenomenon by Jacques Vallee - book review
Angels Don't Play This HAARP by Nick Begich & Jeanne Manning - book review
Behind the Flying Saucers by Frank Scully (1950) - book review
Casebook: Alien Implants by Dr. Roger Leir & Whitley Strieber
Casebook of a UFO Investigator by Raymond E. Fowler
Casebook on the Men In Black by Jim Keith
CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind by Richard F. Haines
Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken
Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber
Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us by Whitley Strieber
Cracks  in the Great Wall by Charles Upton -  book review
Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky by Kevin D. Randle
Crash at Corona by Stanton Friedman & Don Berliner
Crop Circles
Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA by Richard C. Hoagland
Disclosure by Dr. Steven Greer - book review
Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America by David Hatcher Childress & Zecharia Sitchin
Earth: An Alien Enterprise by Timothy Good - book review
Experiencing the Next World Now by Michael Grosso - book review
Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial & Otherwordly Beings by Jerome Clark
Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications by Stephen Greer - book review
50 Years of Amicizia by Stefano Breccia (2011) - book review
Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science (Voyagers) by Ann Druffel
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies by C.G. Jung (1969)
Flying Saucers - Here and Now by Frank Edwards (1967)
Flying Saucers - Serious Business by Frank Edwards (1966)
Flying Saucers and Science by Stanton Friedman
Flying Saucers 101 by Harold Burt - book review
Glimpses of Other Realities by Linda Moulton Howe - book review
Gods from Outer Space by Erich von Däniken (1970)
History of UFO Crashes by Kevin D. Randle
Humans are not from Earth by Dr. Ellis Silver - book review

Hyperspace, beyond Einstein by Dr. Michio Kaku - book review
Inside the Flying Saucers by George Adamski (1967)
Intelligent Life in the Universe by Iosif Shklovsky & Carl Sagan - book review
Intruders by Budd Hopkins
Invisible Residents by Ivan Sanderson
Leap of Faith by Gordon Cooper - book review
Light at the End of the Tunnel by Paul Hellyer - book review
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger (1994) - Wiki -
Majic Eyes Only by Ryan S. Wood - book review
Man Made UFOs by Renato Vesco & David Chidress- book review
Mass Contacts by Stefano Breccia (2009) - book review
Messages: The World's Most  Documented Extraterrestrial Contact Story by Stan Romanek
Missing Time by Budd Hopkins
Need to Know: Ufos, the Military, and Intelligence by Timothy Good
Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings by J. Allen Hynek
Occult Ether Physics by William Lyne
Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel
Passport to the Cosmos by John E. Mack - book review
Project Beta by Greg Bishop - book review
Philadelphia Experiment and Other Ufo Conspiracies by Brad Steiger
Roswell:Uncovering the secrets of Area 51 and the fatal UFO crash by Rupert Matthews
Saucer by Stephen Coonts
Saucers of the Illuminati by Jim Keith - book review
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects by Dr. Edward U. Condon (1968)
Scientific Ufology by Kevin D. Randle
Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions by David M. Jacobs
Sight Unseen by Budd Hopkins and Carol Rainey - book review
Somebody Else Is on the Moon by George H. Leonard - book review

SS Brotherhood of the Bell by J.P. Farrell
Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters With Ufos by Jerome Clark
The Airforce of Other Planets Operating Among Us by Alberto Perego
The Braxton County Monster by Frank C. Frescino - book review
The Case for the  UFO by Morris K. Jessup
The Day After Roswell by Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes - book review
The Dulce Wars: Underground Alien Bases and the Battle for the Planet Earth by Branton
The Eyes of the Sphinx by Erich von Däniken
The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald E. Keyhoe
The Gods Were Astronauts by Erich von Däniken
The Grays by Whitley Strieber
The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook - book review
The Key: A True Encounter by Whitley Strieber
The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-Up by Terry Hansen
The Monuments of Mars - A City on the Edge of Forever by Richard C. Hoagland - book review
The Otherness by Tim Watts - book review
The Phoenix Lights by Lynne D. Kitei - book review
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt (1956) book review
The Ringmakers of Saturn by Norman R. Bergrun - book review - book review
The Roswell Legacy by Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr.
The Science Of UFOs by William Alschuler - book review
The Spaceships of the Visitors by Kevin D. Randle & Russ Estes
The Truth About the Ufo Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle&Donald R. Schmitt - book review
The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial by Jerome Clark
The UFO Controversy in America by David Jacobs - book review
The UFO Coverup/Clear Intent by Lawrence Fawcett & Barry Greenwood - book review
The UFO Enigma by Jacques Vallee - book review
The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence by Peter A. Sturrock
The UFO Evidence by Richard Hall - book review
The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report by Richard Hall - book review
The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry by J. Allen Hynek (1972)
The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia by William J. Birnes
The Unidentified & Creatures of the Outer Edge by Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman
The Uninvited: An Exposé of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon by Nick Pope
Top Secret / Majic: Operation Majestic-12 by Stanton Friedman - book review
Twilight of the Gods by Erich von Däniken
UFO Briefing Document by Don Berliner & Whitley Strieber
UFO: The Complete Sightings by Peter Brookesmith (1995)
UFO: The Government Files by Peter Brookesmith (1996)
Ufoja Suomen taivaalla by Tapani Kuningas (1970, Finnish)
Ufojen jäljillä - Uusimmat ufohavainnot Suomesta ja muualta by Tapani Kuningas (1971, Finnish)
UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean - book review
UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities by John B. Alexander
UFOs Above PA by Gerard J. Medvec - book review -
UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders or Knowledge by David M. Jacobs
UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup 1941-1973 by Richard M. Dolan
UFOs and the National Security State 2: The Cover-Up Exposed 1973-91 by Richard M. Dolan
UFOs and Water by Carl W. Feindt
UFOs in Pennsylvania by Patty A. Wilson
UFOs over California by Preston Dennett
Ufos over Topanga Canyon by Preston Dennett
Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis by Paul R. Hill - book review
Unsolved UFO Mysteries by Willliam J. Birnes & Harold Burt
What We Really Know About Flying Saucers by Otto Binder (1967)
When Saucers Came to Earth by Maurizio Verga - book review
Why the Press Acts That Way by D. Berliner - book review
Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up by Thomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt
Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions by Budd Hopkins
Wonders in the Sky by Jacques Vallee & Chris Aubeck
World Atlas of UFOs by John Spencer (1991)

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Mars - Facts and Theories

Updated 7.3.2014 This article deals with the planet Mars both from the scientific and esoteric point of view. As we look at Mars in the night sky, it's quite fascinating to think that there is something man-made on the surface of that reddish planet. And that one day humans will set their foot there as well. But will they be the first terrestrial beings there, and who else have inhabited Mars before us? Time will tell.

MARS DATA

Circumference (equatorial): 21344km (13263 miles) - 53% of Earth's
Radius: 3396km (equator), 3376km at the radius - about half of Earth's
Diameter: 6792km

Mean distance from Sun: ca 230 million km (1.5 AU)

Distance from Earth: Both Earth and Mars are following elliptical orbits around the Sun. Sometimes the planets are close together, and other times they’re on opposite sides of the Sun. And although they get close and far apart, those points depend on where the planets are on their particular orbits. So, the Earth Mars distance is changing from minute to minute. 2018 should be a very good year, with a Mars looking particularly bright and red in the sky. Last closest distance from Earth was in year 2003: some 55 million kilometers (0.372719 AU). Before that it occured 57617 BC, and the next time it will be that close will be in 2287.
Temperature: on average about  -80 degrees F (-60 degrees C). In winter, near the poles temperatures can get down to -195 degrees F (-125 degrees C). A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees F (20 degrees C) near the equator, but at night the temperature can plummet to about -100 degrees F (-73 C).

THE TWO MOONS OF MARS

Phobos - radius 11.1km (6.9 mi). Discovered 1877. The US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon,  referred to a "Phobos monolith" in a July 22, 2009, interview with C-SPAN: "We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there."

There is new evidence of the monolith, as explained by Richard Hoagland on CoastToCoastAM(5m12s) - pictures taken by Mars Express  (sent to Mars by the European Space Agency in 2003).

There are even claims that Phobos might not be natural but an artificial moon, some sort of space station - put forward in 1966 by two major astronomers Iosif Shklovsky and Carl Sagan. Richard Hoagland is convinced the moon is hollow and artificial which means there could be extraterrestrial life there. Since it wasn't detected earlier, it could be speculated (Hoagland) that it was placed there at some point between 1875 and 1877 during Mars opposition - awaiting for the discovery by A. Hall in 1877. 

Investigating Phobos has not been easy.  Although Mariner 9 in 1971, Viking 1 in 1977, and Phobos 1988 managed to obtain some valuable information, there has been all sorts of mishaps and many space probes have been lost. In 1988 Russian Phobos-1 passed by the target while Phobos-2 disappeared at 50 m from the moon's surface. In 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter was lost near Phobos' orbit, and Mars Polar Lander vanished hardly touching the Martian atmosphere. In 2003 Beagle-2 (UK) shared the destiny without any firm conclusion of the loss.  In 2012 Russian probe Phobos-Grunt crashed on Earth and all hope of investigating the little Martian moon vanished in the blink of an eye. The question remains: who put the monolith on Phobos? And is it  rectangular at all, but instead a pyramide like Chris Joseph suggests.

Links: CoastToCoastAM:PhobosMonolith(5m12s) - Cydonian Imperative   -  MessageToEagle -  The Phobos Monolith(Efrain Palermo) -

Deimos - radius 6.2km. Discovered 1877.


SPACE MISSIONS TO MARS

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1971-0528 Launch of Soviet Mars space probe Mars 3 - first soft landing on Mars, Dec 2, 1971.
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Mars is currently host to five functioning spacecraft:

- three in orbit – the Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 

- two on the surface – Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity and the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity. 

Check here - provided by NASA - Curiosity's twelve first months in two minutes!


COLONIZATION OF MARS

Is it possible for us humans to live on Mars? This high quality video UFO-TV: Life Quest Mars (52m25s)

attemps to answer that. There is at least no shortage of people willing to take that journey - even if they initially could never come back! Mars is a much friendlier place than the Moon, and there would definitely be resources to use for a self-sufficient life over there. But would that new frontier be welcoming us?

There is an excellent survival thriller with the title The Martian by Andy Weir - gives you a good idea what it could be like to be on the Martian soil.   

MARS ANOMALIES
Seems like the Moon is not the only one with alien structures if you are to believe some of the new evidence, like this one.

Face on Mars

The picture of the Face on Mars in the Cydonia region was first taken by NASA's Viking 1 on July 25th, 1976. The American author and ufologist Richard Hoagland has widely suggested that there has been intelligent life on Mars, and that the Face on Mars (as well as a few other things there) is proof of that - but that NASA and the US goverment have conspired to keep these facts secret. Richard Hoagland on Mars(6m55s) - Space -  YouTube(6m55s) -

Perhaps we finally get to the truth about Mars when the first humans land on Mars in a decade or so. Or perhaps the truth will be, once again, withheld from us as the astronauts come face to face with the real Martians, or remnants of them. Time will tell.


MARS IN THE NEWS
1952-0414 Science: Calling All Martians - SB (Time) ENG
1969-0725 The Moon: Next, Mars and Beyond -SB (Time) ENG
1969-0926 Space: The Price of Mars - SB (Time) ENG
1971-1213 Science: Is There Life on Mars? - SB (Time) ENG
2001-0407 La NASA lanza su tercera sonda espacial en dos años para buscar... (El País) SPA
2001-1011 Una tormenta de polvo y arena azota la superficie de Marte (El País) SPA
2002-0527 Una nave de la NASA detecta nuevos indicios de agua helada en Marte (El País) SPA
2003-0602 Europa se estrena en la exloración planetaria con el lanzamiento de... (El País) SPA
2003-1203 El 'Mars Express' envía sus primeras imágenes del planeta rojo (El País) SPA
2003-1219 El robot 'Beagle2' se separa con éxito de la sonda 'Mars Express' (El País) SPA 
2004-0122 La NASA pierde contacto con el 'Spirit'en Marte (El País) SPA
2004-0125 El robot de la NASA 'Opportunity' envía sus primeras imágenes... (El País) SPA
2004-0126 Space: Mission to Mars - SB (Time) ENG
2004-0302 La NASA revela que "hubo un ambiente habitable" en Marte... (El País) SPA
2004-0323 El 'Opportunity' abandona el cráter en el que se posó para explorar... (El País) SPA
2004-0323 Misteriosa imagen en Marte (El Universal/Mexico) SPA
2004-0329 La nave europea 'Mars Express' detecta gas metano en la atmósfera de... (El País) SPA
2005-0223 La 'Mars Express' descubre un mar helado en el planeta rojo (El País) SPA
2006-0921 La 'Mars Express' fotografía la 'Cara de Marte' (El País) SPA
2008-0731 La luna marciana Fobos, al detalle (El País) SPA
2009-1213 Dos lunas marcianas juntas (El País) SPA
2010-0323 Il viaggio su Marte ora si prova a terra (Corriere della Sera/Italy) ITA
2011-1126 Lancement du robot Curiosity - video (Le Journal de Québec) FRE
2012-0413 Il mistero del "monolite" su Marte (Corriere della Sera/Italy) ITA
2012-0802 Marsin tutkimus tuottaa tietoja myös Maasta (SS/Finland) FIN
2012-0808 Mars-mönkijä lähetti ensimmäisen värivalokuvan (SS/Finland) FIN
2012-0812 El planeta rojo visto por las naves (El País) SPA
2013-0304 Terveisiä Marsista (SS/Finland) FIN
2013-0530 "Mars-jyrsijä" yllätti avaruusharrastajan - mikä Nasan kuvaan tallentui? (IS/Finland) FIN
2013-0716 Sobrevolar el gran cañon de Marte - contains a video(4m47) (El País) SPA
2013-0919 Uutta tietoa Marsista: "Tämä ei ole hyvä uutinen" (IS/Finland) FIN
2013-1002 En Marte explotaron supelvolcanes hace miles de millones de años (El País) SPA 
2013-1003 Supertulivuoret repivät Marsia aikojen alussa - tuhoutuiko elämä?  (IS/Finland) FIN
2013-1022 India's Mars Orbiter Mission to be launched on November 5 (ZeeNews/India) ENG

2014-0117 What is this mystery object spotted on Google Moon? (Daily Mail) ENG
2014-0204 Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover looks to 'jump' sand dune (BBC) ENG

MARS LINKS

- CoastToCoastAM:PhobosMonolith(5m12s) - Cydonian Imperative - Exploring Mars -  Mars Bases/Anomalies/WeirdStructures(5m12s) - MarsNews.com - MessageToEagle -  Nasa - Richard HoaglandonMars(6m55s) - Space:ColoniationOfMars - Space:FaceOnMars - The Phobos Monolith(Efrain Palermo) - Universe Today -  Wiki - Wiki:Cydonia -

Alien Abductions

Updated 29.12.2013 A list of some of the thousands of reported alien abduction cases, some of them with video links. According to studies 88% of abductees have been taken more than once. The message? As one abductee puts it: Wake up. Grow up. The sandbox that you are littering is not your own!
This goes way beyond just seeing a possible AFO in the sky, and our - quite natural - fear is of course one reason why it might be hard to digest these stories, or even want to think about it. But they are real to those who tell them, and evidence is piling up, so time will tell - as always - the truth.

1948 Marvin Taylor, Oakland Hills, California. Saw a 500 to 1,000 foot wide, metallic, circular craft, and found out only years later, under regressive hypnosis, where he had spent a missing half an hour. "The missing time was on the craft. There was this presence behind me. These beings kept me calm." - The Union Democrat/2008 -
1957-1016 Antonio Vilas-Boas abduction case in Brazil. Sexual encounter aboard the spacecraft. He went on to become a successful lawyer and still stood by his story over 30 years later.- SciForums - Wiki -

1961-0919 Betty and Barney Hill in rural New Hampshire. - The UFO Incident(1h35m) -  Youtube - Wiki
1968-0829 New Norway, Alberta, Canada. Three flying saucers witnessed by 13-year old James H.Baker whose first abduction occurred in childhood.
1973-05 Houston, Texas.
1973-1011 Co-workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claim they were abducted by aliens while fishing near Pascagoula, Mississippi. Among the best-known claims of alien abduction. William Mendez wrote a book about the event, UFO contact at Pascagoula (1983). - DailyMail2013 - UFO Evidence - Wiki -

1973-1028-0115 Bahia Blanca, Argentina. Truck driver Dionisio Llanca was driving his Dodge 600 from Bahia Blanca to Río Gallegos when he stopped to change a tire. He then saw an object in the sky, and three Nordic type beings he described as two men and a woman who subjected him to some form of medical testing. He awoke a couple of hours later approximately 9 kilometers away, in a state of total amnesia which lasted almost three days. The case was investigated by UFO researcher Fabio Zerpa and published on his book El Reino Subterráneo. - The Night Sky - Wiki -

1975-1105 The Travis Walton abduction case in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona, witnessed by fellow loggers. It is one of the very few alien abduction cases with corroborative eyewitnesses. There is also a 1993 feature film about the event, Fire in the Sky. - IMDb - Mufon2010 - Wiki -
1976-0820 The Allagash Incident in Maine, USA. Four collage students, Chuck Rak, Charlie Foltz and the twins Jim & Jack Weiner. Youtube-at9min - Wiki
1978-0510 The Emilcin abduction case in Emilcin, Poland. 71-year old farmer Jan Wolski encounters humanoids on a country road that take him to their craft. - Godlike Productions - Wiki - YouTube(10m30s/Polish) -

1979-1109-1000-> Dechmont Woods Abduction Case near Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. 61-year old Robert Taylor, while working in the forest of Dechmond Law, saw what he described as a large, spheroid object hovering above the forest floor. Soon two smaller spheres with spikes dropped from underneath the larger sphere, began to roll towards him, and took hold of him. He felt a strong acrid smell which he believes was being secreted by them. He lost consciousness, and when he regained it, the spheres were gone, his dog frantic, and he weak and unable to speak until much later. - Daily Record 2013 - UFO Casebook - Wiki - YouTube:The West Lothian Question -

1980-1128 Police constable Alan Godfrey's UFO encounter took place during one of the most active waves of UFO sightings in British history in Penninemill, West Yorkshire. - UFO Casebook - Wiki -
1981-03 The Carlos Diaz Case- UFO Evidence - Ufos-Aliens -
1985-1226 Whitley Strieber from his cabin in upstate New York.
1993-0309-002x An elderly couple sees a bright light outside their bedroom window in Braunschweig, Germany. Paralysed, they are unable to get to the window, but later get to see the disc-shaped UFO from another window, before it dissolves into thin air. Details of their story point to an abduction background. The UFO was also seen by others. - UFO EVIDENCE -

ABDUCTEES  (in brackets age at the time of incident)
Baker, James H.  -  My UFO Story
Doraty, - Houston, Texas - 1973
Graves, Diana
Foltz, Charlie - Allagash, Maine, 1976
Godfrey, Alan -  Penninemill, West Yorkshire, UK - 1980
Hernandez, Shannon
Hickson, Charles (42) - Pascagoula, Mississippi - 1973
Hill, Betty & Barney - rural New Hampshire - 1961
Holcomb, Clare 
Klinger, Karen
Lllanca, Dionisio - Bahia Blanca, Argentina - 1973
Magill, Debbie
Muraskwa, Dennis
Neill, Steve
Parker, Calvin (19) - Pascagoula, Mississippi - 1973
Rak, Chuck - Allagash, Maine - 1976
Robinson, Jeanne
Sparks, Jim - Several experiences, starting from1988.
CoastToCoastAM - Mufon2011Symposium - The Keepers -
Strieber, Whitley - upstate New York - 1985
Taylor, Marvin (12) - Oakland Hills, California -1948
Taylor, Robert (61) - Dechmond Law, West Lothian, Scotland -1979
Vilas-Boas, Antonio - Brazil - 1957
Walton, Travis (22) - Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona 1975
- Fire in the Sky - Mufon2010Symposium -
Weiner, Jim & Jack - Allagash, Maine 1976
Wolski, Jan (71) - Emilcin, Poland 1978


IMPLANTS
Are alien implants proof of abductions and aliens? Are they tracking devices or something else? Implants are said to be no more than 3cm long and 1mm in thickness. Dr. Roger Leir says he has removed about a dozen implants from people's bodies and claims they are devices that "emit radio signals." In YouTube: "These objects have been scientifically investigated by some of the most prestigious laboratories in the world. Their findings have been baffling and some comparisons have been made to Meteorite Samples. In addition some of the tests show metallurgical anomalies such as highly Magnetic Iron that is without crystalline form, combinations of crystalline materials mixed common metals, growth of biological tissue into or out of metallic substances, as well as isotopic ratios not of this world."


ABDUCTION RESEARCHERS
Boylan, Richard dr.
Bryan, C.D.B. - journalist
Bullard, Thomas dr.
Dobrin, Barbara - alien counselor
Hopkins, Budd dr. (1931-2011)
Jacobs, David dr.
Kerfoot, Mary
Leary, Alice
Mack, John E. dr. (1929-2004)
Turner, Karla dr.(1947-1996)


IN THE NEWS
2011-1105 Editorial: Abducted (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ENG


Documentary and other videos on the subject
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Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs (at27m37s) (2005)
Everyman: Contact (49m51s) (1998)
MUFON Symposiums: 2010: Travis Walton - 2011: Jim Sparks -
Unexplained Mysteries: Touched by an Alien (42m26s)
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Additional sources
- Grey Falcon:DebunkingEffort - JHB: UFO Story - SciForums - Wiki:AlienAbductionClaimants -

People in this blog

Updated 31.10.2013 There is a new feature "People in this blog" on the right side of the blog. It consists actually of several blocks, organized alphabetically, and is being updated on a continual basis. Just a simple list of people that appear in this blog in some context or another. The links are mostly to Wikipedia, and when no Wikilink is found, another will be used.

All of these names are either in the blog already or appear shortly in a forthcoming article. Most of these people - especially if they have a connection to ufology by profession - are also portrayed in the blog's Who's Who in Ufology. Then some of the names you will find in Astronauts and UFOs, some in Celebrities and UFOs, and the rest scattered here and there. And that letter A behind a name means of course astronaut.

Crop Circle Chronology

Updated 5.5.2014 Crop circles belong to this blog in as much they are believed to be products of extraterrestrials, with a message to us on Earth. This blogger believes that to be the case - minus the few blatant but also increasingly well-made circles manufactured by humans. A sorry attempt by the ignorant and arrogant to confuse this vital and pretty fantastic issue, although some of the circles are made of course for purely commercial reasons. Crop circles occur all over the world - not just in England. About 10,000 crop circles have been reported worldwide since the 1970s.

This blog will not be showing pictures of the crop circles - there are many fine websites for that - but shows instead a chronological list of sightings of the phenomenon, along with dates, sites and the people researching them. Any listed circle found to be a fake will be deleted from the list. This blog will not even bother to explain how the fake ones are made, no matter how good the execution (here is one of the sites for terrestrial circle makers). Debunking efforts with links listed as well.

WHY?
Are we given clues to a new source of energy? To a better understanding of the physics of the Universe? It does look like the crop circle makers are trying to help us progress as humankind. Foster Gamble in Thrive: "I have come to believe that the pattern of the Torus and the vector equilibrium, especially in the form of the 64- tetrahedron crystal, is showing us how energy works in the universe, so we can learn to align with it."
It's All Mathematics!

Location of crop circles
Crop circles occur all over the world. There are actually only two countries where crop circles have never been reported: China and South Africa. Most of the complex formations occur in the United Kingdom.

The surface
Most formations appear in wheat and corn, but have also occurred in barley, oats, rape, and grass and even snow/ice.

CROP CIRCLES
1990-0810 13 mile long geo circle carved in the desert, in a dry-lake bed in Oregon YouTube(4m27s)
2000

2001 Rectangular formation, a response to NASA's 1974 digital transmission? YouTube(at16m45s) -

2002

2003

2004

2005-0805 Woolstone Hill, Oxfordshire, UK
2005-0809 Waylands Smithy, Oxfordshire, UK
2006-0723 Cheesefoot Head, Hampshire, UK

2006-0813 Kemble, Gloucertershire, UK
2007-0707 East Field, Wiltshire, UK
2007-0716 Hailey Wood, Oxfordshire, UK
2007-0717 All Cannings, Wiltshire, UK

2007-0804 Pewsey White Horse, Wiltshire, UK

2008

Smeathe's Plantation-24/07/09 (Wiltshire)

2009-0724 Smeathe's Plantation, Wiltshire, UK
2010-0602 Liddington Castle, Wiltshire, UK
2010-0612 Walbury Hill, Berkshire, UK
2010-0621 Near Oare, Wiltshire, UK
2010-0725 Milk Hill, Wiltshire, UK

Smeathe's Plantation-24/07/09 (Wiltshire)

2010-0726 East Field, Wiltshire,UK

Smeathe's Plantation-24/07/09 (Wiltshire)

2010-0813 North Down, Wiltshire, UK
2011-0123 Yogyakarta, Indonesia - The Jakarta Post
2011-0626 Honey Street, Wiltshire,UK
2011-0722 East Kennett, Wiltshire, UK 
2011-0726 Windmill Hill, Wiltshire, UK
2011-0729 West Woodhay Down, Wiltshire, UK

2011-0804 Wayland's Smithy, Oxfordshire, UK
2012-0709 Picked Hill, Wiltshire, UK
2012-0726 Oliver's Castle, Wiltshire,UK
2012-0728 Etchilhampton Hill, Wiltshire, UK
2012-0729 Four Mile Clump, Wiltshire,UK

2012-0815 Wappenbury, Warwickshire,UK

2013-0819 Etchilhampton Hill, Wiltshire, UK
2013-0823 Cook's plantation, Wiltshire, UK

2014


CROP CIRCLES IN  THE NEWS
1999-0519 US billionaire funds crop circle research (BBC) ENG
2000-0809 Q&A: Crop cirles (BBC) ENG 
2001-0731 Korncirkler giver trafikkaos (J-P/Denmark) DAN
2001-0802 Amerikansk interesse for dansk korncirkel (J-P/Denmark) DAN
2002-0813 The Circular Logic of 'Signs' (Time) ENG
2003-0712 Dularfullir hringir á ökrum í Sacramento (MBL/Iceland) ICE
2010-0524 Ny fältcirkel delar experter (AB/Sweden) SWE 
2011-0124 Yogyakarta Crop Circle Stirs Curiosity, But Experts... (The Jakarta Globe) ENG
2011-0125 Mysterious crop circles found by farmer in Yogyakarta  (The Jakarta Post/Indonesia) ENG
2011-0715 Elaborate hoax or a sign of outta space? (Daily Mail) ENG
2011-0715 Stonehengen viereen ilmestyi mysteerikuvio (IS/Finland) FIN
2012-0630 Salt di Povoletto, un paese in lite per i cerchi nel grano... (Corriere della Sera) ITA
2013-0202 Are Crop Circles More Than Just Modern Pranks? (Time) ENG
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VIDEOS ON CROP CIRCLES BEING MADE

After Balls of Light, a crop circle occurs daytime - CC-TheQuestForTruth(at1h17m20s)
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A man sits inside a crop circle in dark as a ball of light appears - CC-TheQuestForTruth(at1h22m)

Garry King witnessed Jul 7th, 2007 a crop circle being made in approximately 7 minutes - Crop Circles - The Arecibo Reply (at1m40m)

Real UFOs filmed crop circlesbeing made in the dark - Real UFOs:CropCircles in Wiltshire(13m51s)


CROP CIRCLE RESERCHERS
Andrews, Colin - Producer of the 1998 documentary Undeniable Evidence - The Message(1h04m)
Bates, Bob - artist, teacher CC-TheQuestForTruth(at49m24s)
Glickman, Michael  - Visited his first crop circle in 1990 after which he remarked that “he never got out”. A former architect, inventor and teacher, Michael brings a wealth of practical experience to the crop circle subject from the world of designing, making and of manipulating solid matter in the material world. Crop Circle Reporter - Michael Glickman on Crop Circles -
Greer, Patty - www.pattygreer.com -  OpenMindsUFORadio -
Janssen, Bert - author, researcher. Doesn't think they are made by aliens. "It's our own mirrors we are looking at". CC-TheQuestForTruth(at53m40s) 
Martineau, John - author, publisher - CC-TheQuestForTruth(at50m25s) 
Miley, Michael - American journalist  CC-TheQuestForTruth(at47m30s,1h20m,1h25m)
Ossebaard, Janet - author, researcher CC-TheQuestForTruth(at1h20m20s)
Pringle, Lucy - Brittish researcher with the web site Lucy Pringle's Homepage -
Talbott, Nancy - The Field Research Coordinator and press contact for the BLT Research Team (John Burke, William C. Levengood and Nancy Talbott), which has been examining plants and soils in crop formations in several countries. They have also studied the electromagnetic environments, unusual animal deaths in the U.S. and Canada, and UFO trace-cases since 1989. - UFO Evidence -

LINKS TO LOOK AT

Crop Circle Connector
Crop Circle Reporter
Lotus Ocean 
Temporary Temples
UK Crop Circles

Wikipedia


GOOD PROGRAMS ON CROP CIRCLES

Crop Circles - The Arecibo Reply (1h15m)
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Secret Space 3: The Crop Circle Conspiracy(1h54m)
Thrive - Crop Circles are Clues to New Energy Technology(33m08s) - The segment about crop circles starts 15 minutes into the clip, but the whole video is of course worth watching.
UFOTV Presents:Crop Circles - The Quest for Truth(1h55m) - Academy Award (R) nominated documentary filmmaker William Gazecki offers a compelling and provocative look at the mysterious phenomenon of Crop Circles. A fascinating, in-depth exploration of prevailing theories about the origin and nature of Crop Circles and the possible implications for us and Planet Earth.
Undeniable Evidence - The Message (Colin Andrews)(1h04m) - A 1998 documentary.


DEBUNKING EFFORTS
The Telegraph: Crop Circles demystified


Sources
 - New Illuminati - SciForum -

Milk Hill formation