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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

I know what I saw!

Updated 4.2.2014 Tens of thousands of people all around the world have witnessed a UFO! Sightings vary of course as may accounts of the UFOs seen by multiple witnesses - for each of us is unique. Nevertheless, with increasing openness, more and more people are coming forward to tell about their experiences, and give their weight on the matter. To give you just an inkling of the magnitude of people who have seen something - crafts, lights, crew, artifacts, photographic evidence, etc - here follows a simple but increasingly long list of witnesses in alphabetical order, and with a link if there is a statement found somewhere. Stripped from titles, occupations, nationalities etc - just Earthlings who happened to witness something extraordinary. Of whom many say, when all is said and done: I know what I saw!

- Jack Adams - Muhammad Ali - Steve Allen - Edwin Almenas - Jose Alvarez - Andre Amond - Julian Lucas Ardanza - Jacqueline Argent - Kenneth Arnold - Dan Aykroyd -

- James H. Baker - Lloyd Ballen - Almiro Baraúna - Ed Barton - Warren Beatty - Eugene Bertrand Jr. - Graham E. Bethune - Lee Betts - Alex Birch - Raimo Blomqvist - John Bloomfield - Clayton J. Boddy - Debbie Bodensky - Linda Bollmeier - Christopher Bolton - Frank Borman - David Bowie - Ray Bowyer - Chase Brandon - William Brazel - Edward Brooks - Derek Burden - John Burrell - John Burroughs - BuFord Bushroe -

- Grant Cameron - Jimmy Carter - Betty Cash - Lech Chacinski - Bill Chalker - Lewis D. Chase - Valerie Chauffour - Larraine Cilia - Weir Clem - Robert F. Coar - Christopher Columbus - Gordon Cooper - R .J. Cooper - Philip J. Corso - Cheryl Costa - Gus Cottey - John Cox - Gordon Creighton - Walter Cronkite - Suesan Crosthwaite -

- Allen Dallis - Neil Daniels - D. S. DesVergers - Carlos Diaz - Rob Dickinson - Tony Dodd - Cindy Doraty - Judy Doraty - Jean-Charles Duboc -

- Johnny Eaton - Ruben Efron - Yvette Espersen -

- Bruno Facchini - Jean-Pierre Fartek - George A. Filer III - Vieira Filho - David Fitzpatrick - Thad Fogl - Charlie Foltz - Glenn Ford - Barbara Forrest - Brett Forrest - Mike Fortson - John Foster - Bob Foutz - Valenzano Francesco - Clarence Fry - John G. Fuller -

- Lee Roy Gaitan - Carlos Garces - Charles A. Garson - William Booth Gill - Jackie Gleason - Alan Godfrey - Antonio Gomes - Richard F. Gordon Jr. - John Goulette - Diana Graves - Andrew Greenwood - Steven M. Greer - Bill Greiner - Geraldine Greiner - Júlio Miguel Guerra - Pedro Gutierrez - Gutschke -

- Sammy Hagar - Edmond Halley - Charles I. Halt - Thomas H. Hanley - Evald Maarup Hansen - Greg Hardy - Lee Hargrove - Norman Harriman - Pete Harris - Nova Hart - Robert Hartwell - E.U. Hathaway - Aarno Heinonen - Paul Hellyer - Jimi Hendrix - Graham Henley - Shannon Hernandez - Roy Hicks - Charles Hickson - Barney Hill - Betty Hill - Clare Holcomb - Charles Howard - Robert Huniwell - David Hunt -

- Robert Jacobs - Mick Jagger - Matt Jany - Brent W. Jett Jr. - Yan Jinbo - Zhang Jingshao - Trig Johnston - Ray Jones - Mrs. Wilson Jones -

- Francis C. Kelloff - Joseph C. Kelloff - Pauline Kelly - Tarja Kivi - Karen Klinger - Faye Knowles - Patrick Knowles - Sean Knowles - Wayne Knowles - Eric Kodawara - Matti Kontulainen - Yury Korzhenevsky - Lajos Kosina - Teuvo Kovalainen - Jouko Kuronen -

- Eero Lammi - Colby Landrum - Vickie Landrum - Lara Lane - Carlos Lasca - Bob Lazar - N. G. Lee - Friedrich Lennartz - John Lennon - Denis Letty - Bobbie Ley - Hal Ley - Tim Ley - Dionisio Llanca - Erwin Lohre&wife - James Long - Rosa Lotti - James A. Lovell - Dale Luecking - Juan Carrizosa Luján - James Lumley - Claus Lundholm -

- Shirley MacLaine - Debbie Magill - Hector Maldonado - Frank Mannor - Ronald Mannor - Terry Mansfield - Jesse Marcel Sr. - Jesse Marcel Jr. - David Marler - John Martin - Luis Esteban Martín - Ronald Martin - George Gregory Matanjun&wife - Shaun Matthews - Hans Mauth - Terry Mauth - Frank B. McClure - James H. McCoid - Pat McCulloch - James McDiVitt - Gerard J. Medvec - Billy Meier - Benoit Meilleur - Shaun Meldon - Reinhold Messner - Kai Metzger - Barry Mitchell - Stephen Moi - Seppo Moilanen - dp. Montgomery - Jorge Montoya - Julio Montoya - Dennis Muraskwa - Norman Muscarello -

- Steve Neill - Olivia Newton-John - Heinrich Nicoll - Renato Nicolai - Melvern Noll - Laszlo Novak -

- David Olsen - Mark Olson -

- May Pang - Calvin Parker - Terry Peck - James Penniston - Ken Peterson - Jan Pienaar - Steve Pierce - Kaye Pinlac - Adas Popiolek - Nick Porter - Elvis Presley - John J. Provenzano -

- Chuck Rak - Alberto Ramos - Ronald Reagan - Keith Richards - Emily Roads - Stacey Roads - Jeanne Robinson - Augusta Rodrigues - Eurico Rodrigues - Mike Rogers - Stan Romanek - David Rowan - Bobby Ruffing - John Russell - Kate Russell - Richard Russell - Frank Ryman -

- Atilio Sacarpate - Robert E. Salas - Joe Salaz - Ivan T. Sanderson - Pedro Saucedo - Steve Sbraccia - Walter Schirra - Neil Schneider - Phil Schneider - Stanley Scott - Phil Schultz - David Sereda - Arthur Shuttlewood - Elna Siitari - Liliane Silva - Valquíria Fátima Silva - Donald Slayton - Dwayne Smith - E. J. Smith - Will Smith - Ricky Sorrels - Jim Sparks - Ilya Stavinsky - Chuck Stevens - Craig Stevens - Ralph Stevens - Wendelle Stevens - Clifford E. Stone - Ken Storch - Gennadi Strekalov - Whitley Strieber - Fife Symington -

- Mauno Talala - Martta Talala - Takanori Tamefuji - Dan Tarrant - Marvin Taylor - Robert 'Bob' Taylor - Robert R. Taylor - Robert Taylor Jr. - Kenju Terauchi - Sean Thackrey - Harold F. Thatcher - Samuel E. Thomson - Joy Tighe - Clyde Tombaugh - Tony Toporek - Milton Torres - José María Trejo - Evelyn Trent - Paul Trent - Yoshio Tsukuba - Walter A. Tuchscherer - Tarmo Tukeva - Karla Turner - Damien Turnidge -

- Melvin C. Vagle Jr. - William van Horn - José Teobaldo Viegas - Antonio Vilas-Boas - Esko Viljo - Hubert von Montigny -

- John Waidner - Rosa Waidner - Joseph A. Walker - Travis Walton - Scott C. Waring - Marlow Webb - Jack Weiner - Jim Weiner - Jim Wheeler - Edward White - Laurie Wickens - Frank Williams - Robbie Williams - Carl Wilson - Jan Wolski - Newell Wright - J. A. Wyatt -

- Kátia Andrade Xavier - Yalcin Yalman - Peter Zettel -

ANONYMOUS
- Bolton couple - Braunschweig bowling team - Claremont couple - Cleveland man - Coventry man - Danish boy of 15/bp - Dexter townsfolk 1966 - Elizabeth C + 4 - Ewing couple - Farmington townsfolk 1950 - Kokomo 2008 crowd - Mt Annan family - Murrieta Marine - Raritan River by 3 - Seattle couple 2007 - Three Huntington policemen - Tuolumne County residents - Wahronga man -

PS. There are thousands and thousands of anonymous witnesses, and thousands more who never say anything, even if they saw something. And there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of people who never saw anything, but have either some other type of personal experience of the matter, or know people who have. Could it be that the list above will not grow out of proportions before the disclosure project is fulfilled?

PS2. USO sightings included.

Monday, December 2, 2013

2010 News on Space and UFOs

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Experiences believed - or not

Sometimes they just aren't ready. To hear the truth. Or accept the experience when it belongs to someone else. There is no idea to try to convince anyone, nor does that usually drop in anyone's mind, from the ufological point of view. The other way it is more common. To try to make the "believer" or experiencer to believe that what he or she believes or thinks to be real, is not really real but a consequence of a certain personality trait. Of gullibility. Of wishful thinking.
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No matter what you say, you can't convince them. Nor should you. Nor need you to. There is a time for truth for everyone, in each individual time and manner. We are bound to hit blind spots and juxtapositions with any theme, also this one. It is in a way similar to discussing religious beliefs, where the discussion can become quite heated when each is defending one's own stand.
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But ufology is no religion. It is not necessarily even a belief system, but a wide-ranging study of certain phenomena. And cognisance based on facts and knowledge, and mathematical deduction. On logic really. A witness to a close encounter of any kind - let alone to a far away sighting - does not usually become a fanatic, but rather more humble in the face of existence.

Skeptics on the other hand are usually quite far from such humbleness, and much closer to arrogance. As if any individual person's opinion would really matter when it comes to truth. It is what it is despite us humans. Where each of us is on one's individual path of knowledge and truth is so wide and varied that it ill behooves any of us to speak badly of those who least of all pretend to know but simply accept the fact that we do not know everything.
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Far better to agree to disagree - until we all know.
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Mercury - facts and theories

Updated 22.11.2013 Mercury - the closest planet to the Sun - is known since prehistoric times. A very dense planet, and some scientists think that Mercury is actually shrinking.

50 years today since the assassination of JFK seems like an approriate day to publish this article on Mercury which astrologically governs - among other things - the gift of gab which John F. Kennedy certainly had! This blog too is very mercurial in nature, and in a constant state of change. Mercury also governs all the bits and pieces of knowledge and the inquisitive nature of man that in the end hopefully take us to the truth of things - even if that too may change.

Mean surface temperature: The side facing the Sun can reach 426 Celsius, but with no appreciable atmosphere the planet can't trap in the heat - so the side facing away from the Sun is way colder, even -173 degrees Celsius. Mercury is the coldest of the inner planets.

Circumference: 15,329 km.

Diameter: 4,879 km (3,031.9 miles) - 38% of Earth’s, so not much bigger than the Moon.

MERCURY'S CRATERS
Much like the Moon, the surface of Mercury is heavily cratered. Most Mercurian craters are named after famous writers and artists. The planet has not been geologically active for a very long time.

MERCURY SEEN FROM EARTH
Like the Moon and Venus, Mercury exhibits phases as seen from Earth. It is "new" at inferior conjunction and "full" at superior conjunction. The planet is rendered invisible from Earth on both of these occasions because of its relative nearness to the Sun. Mercury is more easily seen at tropical and subtropical latitudes than at higher latitudes.

EXPLORATION OF MERCURY

Mariner 10 in 1974-1975. The first spacecraft to visit Mercury. Unfortunately, due to the length of Mariner 10's orbital period, the same face of the planet was lit at each of Mariner 10's close approaches. This made observation of both sides of the planet impossible and resulted in the mapping of less than 45% of the planet's surface. On March 24, 1975, Mariner 10 ran out of fuel. Because its orbit could no longer be accurately controlled, mission controllers instructed the probe to shut down. Mariner 10 is thought to be still orbiting the Sun, passing close to Mercury every few months.

Messenger was the next to go. Launched on August 3, 2004, the first fly-by of Mercury occurred on January 14, 2008. The probe successfully entered an elliptical orbit around the planet on March 18, 2011. The probe finished a one-year mapping mission, and is now on a one-year extended mission expected to end in 2013. Have a look at NASA's Messenger Mission page, or the Messenger website.

The European Space Agency is planning a joint mission with Japan called BepiColombo, which will orbit Mercury with two probes: one to map the planet and the other to study its magnetosphere (Earth and Mercury are the only two planets in the Solar System to have a magnetosphere). Once launched in 2015, the spacecraft bus is expected to reach Mercury in 2019.

COLONIZATION OF MERCURY

Mercury has been suggested as one possible target for space colonization of the inner Solar System, along with Mars, Venus, the Moon and the asteroid belt. Thermal protection of colonists and any sensitive equipment would require shielding from the intense solar radiation that reaches Mercury's surface.