Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Ways and ways to hush them up

Updated 29.1.2014 We are living exciting times as UFO Disclosure seems to be getting close. But how is it even possible that the secrecy on UFOs has prevailed year after year, decade after decade?

Simply because there are ways, and there are ways, to hush them up -  the witnesses that is! If the most obvious method doesn't work, then another one is employed. Or a third one. There are many ways to hush anyone up! This article does not even begin to deal with the role of the media, and their part in the ridiculation of the whole UFO issue (although things are improving in that regard), but concentrates only on the silencing at the individual level. This article means in no way to put any blame on the hushed-up individuals, of course not! But only point to the methods enlisted to silence people - which could be anyone in similar circumstances and position. Anything so that the monkeys depicted saying "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" will likewise make us state that "I didn't see anything, I heard nothing, I will not say anything". Luckily, there is a deadline even for this secrecy  - which nevertheless may have resulted in deaths for some - even if nothing can be proven.

First the most obvious - not a threat but rather an - appeal:
You are not to talk about this to anyone for it may damage national security!

If this for some reason doesn't help, various threats can be employed, especially if you are - employed: If you don't agree to secrecy, we will

cut your salary
demote you
put you on leave without pay
ostrasize you
ridicule you
send you to a mental institution
fire you
take away your pension benefits
brainwash you
alter your memories
kill you
kill your loved ones
kill your descendants

And if you are just a regular civilian:
you will get detention (in school)
you will be relegated from school
you will be fired

If these threats - some of them unuttered, yet understood - don't help, damage can be inflicted through various ways:
inflicted disease
declaring mental incompetence
appearant accident or suicide 

No matter what the method of intimidation, it has obviously been effective. To top that, there is the widespread  and highly expected self-censorship. Nevertheless, as more and more witnesses are speaking out, the veil of secrecy is becoming increasingly thinner till it one day might disappear altogether. Until that happens, civilian self-censorship may yet prove to be the hardest thing to break.

Here is the story of one whistleblower's journey into unveiling NASA's secrets
VIDEOS
James Fox: UFOs - 50 Years of Denial? (47m09s) -


PS. The three monkeys above are actually Three wise monkeys whose wisdom may be showing now in finally disclosing the truth about UFOs. Still, the question remains whether it is wise to know it all.
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Sightings from Commercial Airplanes

Artist's rendition of the JAL's UFO encounter in 1986
Updated 25.1.2014 This page deals solely with sightings from within commercial airplanes - by the pilots and/or the passengers. There are many such sightings, and with today's mobile phones with good cameras, some good enough videos are taken as well. Pilots with their greater experience are of course the key witnesses, but the passengers on the other hand have seldom any pressure or reason to hide what they have witnessed.

For the sake of clarity place names are given here for the approximate location in the air. Private planes included as well.

1978- Washington D.C. Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich witnesses together with other passengers a very bright, white triangle-shaped UFO while flying home from Washington D.C. in 1978. - Out of the Blue(at45ms25) -  
1978-1021-1912 Bass Strait, Australia  The Valentich Disappearance. 20-year-old Frederick Valentich is flying his Cessna 182 over Bass Strait in Southern Australia when he observes an unknown craft accompanying him. He informs the air traffic control, and then the radio dies. No trace of a possible crash is found. The UFO was also captured on film by a ground-based witness, seen ascending from the sea. - The radio transmission - UFO Casebook - Wiki
1986-1117-1711 Anchorage, Alaska A JAL cargo plane - Boeing 747 - enroute from Paris to Tokyo, is flying over Alaska as the crew witnesses two UFO to their left. Captain Kenju Terauchi reports the incident, which is seen in Anchorage radar. Two smaller discs, later accompanied by a much larger object which flew so close to the jet that the pilot requested a change of course to avoid colliding with it. - Mohave Daily Miner - Nicap - UFO Evidence - YouTube -YouTube:JALflight 1628Recreation(7m23s)  - Wiki
1994-0128-1300 Paris, France Air France Pilot Jean-Charles Duboc is flying his Airbus 320 from Nice to London as he spots near Paris a giant disc floating in a sharp angle in the vicinity of the French Air Force headquarters. He reports it to air traffic control. After a few minutes the object becomes gradually transparent and disappears.  - UFO CasebookUFO Hunters(at22m55s) -
2007-0423-1500 Alderney, England. Aurigny Airlines pilot Ray Bowyer spots a yellow, gigantic (thousands of feet long) cigar-shaped UFO over the English Channel. Also seen by his passengers. Jersey Air Traffic Control confirms the object in radar. A second pilot in the air confirms the sighting, and then a second object is seen by the AA pilot. - UFO Hunters(at01m30s) - Wiki -
2007-1020-1210 Portsmouth, England. An oval/spherical shaped object is seen by a witness cross the path of an airliner near Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth. The object accelerated very fast, narrowly missing the airliner.  - Open Minds -
2010-1013-am The Appalachian mountains. Taken the day of the NYC sightings by a passenger during a mid morning flight from Canada - YouTube(2m25s) -
2013-0602 Atlanta, Georgia - The airplane was approaching the airport for a landing when a passenger starts filming three bright spots that keep on changing position relative to each other, all the while moving at the same speed as the plane. Suddenly one of the lights heads downwards, and the other two are quick to follow.  UFOFilesTV(59s) -
2013-0713-1835 An Airbus pilot takes evasive action as his passenger jet comes with feet of being hit by a UFO while flying at 34,000 feet over the Bershire countryside, England - The Independent -



PILOTS REPORT NEAR MISSES
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1986-1117-1711 Anchorage, Alaska A JAL cargo plane - Boeing 747 - enroute from Paris to Tokyo, is flying over Alaska as the crew witnesses two UFO to their left. Captain Kenju Terauchi reports the incident, which is seen in Anchorage radar. Two smaller discs, later accompanied by a much larger object which flew so close to the jet that the pilot requested a change of course to avoid colliding with it. - Mohave Daily Miner - Nicap - UFO Evidence - YouTube -YouTube:JALflight 1628Recreation(7m23s)  - Wiki
2013-0501 An aircraft is flying over Baillieston, Scotland when the cockpit crew spots a large "blue, yellow and silver" object. It comes within 300 feet of colliding with the mystery object: UFO near-miss: Airliner about to land in Glasgow comes within 300ft of colliding with mystery object in sky - Daily Record/Scotland -
2013-0713-1835 An Airbus pilot takes evasive action as his passenger jet comes with feet of being hit by a UFO while flying at 34,000 feet over the Bershire countryside, England - The Independent -  


IN THE NEWS
2013-0501 5 alleged 'near misses' between airplanes and UFOs (Zimbio)

2014-0123 Ibiza holiday jet in near miss with UFO over Reading (The Telegraph) ENG


VIDEO PROGRAMS
UFO Hunters: Giant UFOs (44m23s)

LINKS
- Wiki:List Of Alleged Aircraft-UFO incidents -
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Science Fiction Movies


Updated 4.2.2014 There are plenty of scifi-movies made to entertain and shock the audience. Good, even brilliant, films, but nevertheless mainly action and thriller. The following chronological list is of scifi-films that deal with space, UFOs, extraterrestrials, crop circles and the like, and which leave you with a sense of wonder and awe, and pondering what might be. The links take you to the IMDb, and the storylines depicted here are IMDb's own.



2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.  
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
Starman (1984) An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.
Cocoon (1985)  When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.
Fire in the Sky (1993) An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged UFO encounter in 1975.

 

 
 
Signs (2002) A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Moon (2009) Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Prometheus (2012) A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.


Oblivion (2013) A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
Europa report (2013) An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon. - Time, spoiler alert -
Gravity (2013)  A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.


PS. Check also the excellent BBC article Can science fiction ever get the science right? -

LINKS
- Wiki:ListOfScienceFictionMovies -


Saturday, January 18, 2014

Extraterrestrial Languages

Updated 18.1.2014 They do talk, don't they? The aliens. Well, perhaps not in the way we understand talk, but since communication is a forte with any intelligent beings, the aliens most likely do communicate. And of course since there is likely to be several races of them, there are probably many different ways to communicate.

Here follows some of the information concerning alien communication. This page does not deal with alien languages in science fiction, but with actual data derived by chance during space flights which seems to indicate alien element, and also with alien speech heard and/or recorded on Earth. This page will most probably be updated countless times!
 

REPETITION IS A PLUS
One would think that even an extraterrestrial language would have some amount of repeating of letters or characters. So that it something to look at if we find written language. Decoders and translaters may have lots of job opportunities in the future!


CROP CIRCLES
Besides being picturegraphs, there is also what seems text in some of the crop circles. Wouldn't it be fascinating to start deciphering all of the crop circles with anything that resembles text?! Much of the info there is of course mathematical.

THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS
Communication can be verbal, expressive (body and signs) or telepathical. But also mathetical, binary code type of thing. Crop circles exemplify this, and also the Rendelsham Forest Incident which in 2010 took a new turn as James Penniston handed over his notes for a binary code expert.

Rendelsham Forest symbols & binary codes

There were symbols etched on the craft at Rendelsham Forest. As Sergeant Penniston put his hands on the symbols, everything became a brilliant bright white. He could neither see nor hear.  Next, he received patterns of ones and zeros into his mind.  It was as though a movie of flashing ones and zeros was running in his brain or minds eye.  The following day Penniston felt compelled to write them down in a notebook, and once having done that, the image in his mind disappeared.  He put the notebook away, and just forgot about it.
  
But in 2010, during a casual conversation with a researcher, he mentions the codes and displays the notebook.  The researcher immediately recognizes the ones and zeros as binary code and sets out to help Jim decipher it. This is what the symbols on the craft that landed on Rendelsham Forest in December 1980 appear to say, according to Gary Osborn:
 
EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY 666 8100
52.0942532N 13.131269W
CONTINUOUS FOR PLANETARY ADVAN???
FOURTH COODINATE CONTINU OT UQS CbPR BEFORE
 
The coordinates 52.0942532N 13.131269W point to a submerged mythical island of HY-Brasil off the west coast of Ireland. No matter what this all means, it is clear that a language is not just about letters - which is the norm in human languages - but can, and perhaps preferably, consist of strings of numbers instead. It should also be noted that James Penniston, while undergoing regression hypnosis, claimed that the craft he encountered had come from our future, and was occupied by time travellers, not extraterrestrials. 

HOAXES
There are prankters in every field, and of course if you wanted to play mindgames with people, it would be a piece of cake to invent random characters with some sort of hierarchy, and then present them as an 'alien language'. But that sort of thing would better be employed by the movie industry, wouldn't you think?


AUDIO
What would an extraterrestrial language sound like? Would it -  any of them - even be audible to human ear? We might not even understand that we are actually hearing a language! And of course, if communication is done with the use of telepathy, no audio is needed nor heard - or perhaps only as an auxiliary thing like with deaf humans employing sign language, but also uttering some of what is 'said'.  
 
How a language sounds depends of course greatly on the physical characteristics of the speaker. The height and the shape of mouth and respiratory organs among other things. 

There is an interesting YouTube(3m35s) -video uploaded by user jostvandyke2007! Radio signals captured by NASA's Cassini. NASA's quote on the file: "A most intriguing file, we do not know what to make of it."

In the Dionisio Llanca abduction case in Argentina in 1973,  Llanca said that he heard the three Nordic type beings he saw talk among themselves in a strange language that sounded like 'a badly tuned radio with chirps and buzzes".

There is also a case in Italy from 1954, with some minute detail: 40-year old Rosa Lotti witnesses a landed UFO with two 3-feet tall, and friendly, occupants outside the craft in Cennina, Italy. The beings were "vigorous, lively, and talking away as though they were Chinese. They kept saying: 'liu. lai,' 'loi,' 'lau. 'loi,' 'lai,' 'liu,' Their noses were of normal shape, their mouths just like a man's, but their upper lips were slightly curled in the centre, so that even when they were not laughing their teeth were still exposed. They were teeth like ours, broad, strong teeth, but short (as though they had been filed down) and somewhat protruding, like the teeth of rabbits". - UFO Evidence -


LINKS
- Arul Chandrana - DavidIcke:RendelshamBinaryCodeGary Osborn:HowToCatchaStarshipWiki:AlienLanguage -

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Questionnaire # 1

Updated 19.1.2014 This simple questionnaire produced four answers, all of them editorial (testing from different computers). Question was: How often are you here? Alternatives: first time, seldom, once or twice a month, once a twice a week, almost every day.

I guess this readership is not too keen on questionnaires... One day left, any readers out there willing to contribute? Even though I do know that I'm not alone here, we people do thrive on human interaction, don't we? Blogging is sometimes  like writing for clouds that you naturally never could expect to response. They're just there, everchanging. And sometimes somewhere behind or enveloped by  them fly UFOs - that thought keeps this blogger going, humans or not.    

Dear reader! To your right you see a few possible answers that I would like you to take a few moments to tick off - you can choose one. Starting now the first full year with the blog with some five months behind, it would be kind of interesting to know something about you readers. And if you like the blog, please do spread the word!

PS. You can always reach me at kivita@gmail.com. Any correspondence is always confidential.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Complete list of blog posts

Updated 17.3.2014 Here follows a complete list of all the articles that have appeared in this blog since the start in August 2013. Arranged in alphabetical order with the month of publication attached, and naturally links to the pages. You can always get here by clicking at articles under Welcome! on the front page! By the way, if you like the blog, you are most welcome to spread the word!



2010 News on Space and UFOs - 11/2013 - News
2011 News on Space and UFOs - 11/2013 - News
2012 News on Space and UFOs - 11/2013 - News
2013 News on Space and UFOs - 11/2013 - News
2014 News on Space and UFOs - 01/2014 - News
Alien Abductions - 09/2013
Apollo Lunar Landings - 11/2013 - Miscellaneous
Art Bell Dark Matter - 09/2013 - Miscellaneous
Astronauts and UFOs - 10/2013
Blurred pictures - 12/2013 - Miscellaneous
Books, books and more books - 09/2013 - Books
Cattle mutilations -
Celebrities and UFOs - 10/2013 - Miscellaneous
Celestial Bodies - 09/2013
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 12/2013 -Miscellaneous
Complete list of blog posts - 01/2014
Crop Circles - 09/2013
Drones - 02/2014 - Miscellaneous
Experiences believed - or not - 12/2013 - Editorials
Explanations Ad Infinitum - 10/2013 - Miscellaneous
Extraterrestrial Languages - 01/2014 - Miscellaneous
Fear of the Unknown - 11/2013 - Editorials
Giving credit where credit is due - Editorials
I Know What I Saw! - 12/2013 - Witnesses
If I Had a Superpower - 03/2014 - Editorials
Introduction - Why NOT believe?! - 08/2013 - Editorials
Jupiter - Facts and Theories 02/2014 - Celestial bodies
Language Corner - 11/2013 - Miscellaneous
Mare Moscoviense - 10/2013 - Celestial bodies
Mars - Facts and Theories - 09/2013 - Celestial bodies
Mercury - Facts and Theories - 11/2013 - Celestial bodies
Merry Xmas to You All - 12/2013 - Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous - 10/2013
My own UFO experience - 08/2013 - Editorials
News in the 2000s - 11/2013 - News
Newspaper Articles Worldwide - 10/2013
People in this blog - 09/2013 - Miscellaneous
Questionnaire #1 - 01/2014 - Miscellaneous
Saturn - Facts and Theories - 09/2013 - Celestial bodies
Science Fiction Movies - 01/2014 - Miscellaneous
Sightings from commercial airplanes - 01/2014 - Miscellaneous
Sirius - Facts and Theories - 02/2014 - Celestial bodies
Space Beings Are We All - 10/2013 - Editorials
Space debris - 12/2013 - Miscellaneous
Space missions - 08/2013
Terminology - 08/2013 - Miscellaneous
The History of Space Exploration and UFOs - 08/2013 - History
The Moon - Facts and Theories - 09/2013 - Celestial bodies
The Trauma of Secrecy - 02/2014 - Editorials
This Side of Moon & UFOs - 10/2013 - Celestial bodies
Tycho - 10/2013 - Celestial bodies
UFO Sightings by Country - 08/2013 - Sightings by Place
UFO Sightings Chronology - 08/2013 - Sightings by Date
Unseen, but still on photo - 08/2013 - Miscellaneous
USO Sightings - 12/2013 - Miscellaneous
Ways and ways to hush them up - 01/2014 - Miscellaneous
Who's Who in Ufology - 08/2013 - Persons

Friday, January 3, 2014

2014 News on Space and UFOs

Updated 17.7.2014 This page contains news on all of the blog topics (space, ufos, crop circles, abductions, etc) published in the mainstream newspapers (and some other media) worldwide in 2014.

Major news events 2014:
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2014-0102 UFO sightings reported in California (ABC News) ENG
2014-0103 UFO sightings could be earthquake lights (WebProNews) ENG
2014-0105 Airbus pilot reveals near-miss with UFO over Berkshire... (The Independent) ENG
2014-0105 Trafikplan mötte okänt föremål (DN/Sweden) SWE
2014-0105 Triple star system 'can reveal secrets of gravity' (BBC) ENG
2014-0106 Airbus-pilot hevder han nesten krasjet med UFO (Nettavisen) NOR
2014-0107 Moova, 22, på väg att flytta till Mars (AB/Sweden) SWE
2014-0107 Ufo in Bremen: "Es war dann schon ziemlich ruhig an Bord" (Der Spiegel) GER
2014-0107 Kanadan ex-puolustusministeri: "Avaruusoliot vierailivat..." (IS/Finland) FIN
2014-0108 UFO spotted above airport causes flights to be cancelled and delayed (Mirror/UK) ENG
2014-0108 'Fakes' and woodcuts - Germany's top UFOs  (The Local/Germany) ENG
2014-0109 Smithsonian showcases Mars rover images - with video (BBC) ENG
2014-0110 Så har de försökt att lösa UFO-gåtan (AB/Sweden) SWE
2010-0110 Should UN Treaty be adapted to allow firms to 'exploit' Moon - video (BBC) ENG
2014-0112 Tutkijat selvittivät kuun pimeän puolen värin (IS/Finland) FIN
2014-0113 News agency claims Snowden docs prove aliens helped Hitler, and... (Washington Post)
2014-0113 UFOs and Chem Trails Over Phoenix, Arizona (Liberty Voice) ENG
2014-0114 Did Iranian Fighters Battle UFOs?  (Forbes) ENG
2014-0116 Family says they spotted UFOs near Montreal (Canoe/Canada) ENG
2014-0117 UFO over Arabia? It's just the flash from Chinese space junk (NBC 1/2014) ENG
2014-0117 What is this mystery object spotted on Google Moon ? (Daily Mail/UK) ENG
2014-0119 Mystery Moon object spotted on Google Moon has everyone baffled (Huff) ENG
2014-0120 Marsista löytyi mystinen 'hillomunkkikivi' (IS/Finland) FIN
2014-0120 VISUAL CONFIRMATION: Enormous Craft Detected On Moon (TRN) ENG
2014-0123 Mars rover Opportunity finds mysterious ‘jelly doughnut rock’ on the...t.. (WP) ENG
2014-0123 UFO expert and former detective Gary Heseltine, visiting... (The Telegraph(Australia)
2014-0123 Ibiza holiday jet in near miss with UFO over Reading (The Telegraph) ENG
2014-0124 Raportti: "Rugbypallon muotoinen ufo" lähes hipoi matkustajakonetta (IS) FIN
2014-0124 UAVs scarier than UFOs - about the drone technology (Dakota Student) ENG
2014-0124 Scientists closer to solving Mars rock mystery, says NASA expert (The Telegraph) ENG
2014-0125 UFO communications evident in Vancouver skies (Examiner) ENG
2014-0126 Hawking: Svarta hål finns inte (AB) SWE
2014-0127 Jadepupu pahoissa vakeuksissa (IS) FIN
2014-0127 Moon has UFO sighting same time China's rabbit rover mal... (Liberty Voice) ENG
2014-0129 Edward Snowden nominated for the Nobel peace prize (The Guardian) ENG
2014-0204 Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover looks to 'jump' sand dune (BBC) ENG
2014-0225 'Alien invasion' to launch in April - but 'UFOs' will be... (Yahoo News) ENG
2014-0504 Why aliens don't introduce themselves to us? (Montreal Gazette) ENG
2014-0629 Nasa tests flying saucer craft for future manned... (CNN)
2014-0715 Large crater appears at the "end of the..." (The Siberian Times)

2104-0716 Scientists: We're 'very close' to finding another Earth (CNN)
2014-0717 Näky Siperian taivaalta lyö ällikällä: mistä tämä... (IS) FIN
2014-0717 After Apollo: Do we need to go back to the moon? (CNN)
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Giving credit where credit is due

There are a lot of people all around the world who have contributed to the advancement of  knowledge of the extraterrestrial issue. People like Paul Hellyer who a couple days ago was interviewed by Sophie Shevardnadze at RT (formerly Russia Today). He is talking straight - like Stephen Greer, Stanton Friedman, Edgar Mitchell and many many others -  about things that many people just ridicule, calling spade a spade where many would see a club - against all evidence and logic. It is true that the human eye is fallible - just like our other senses. The picture to the right for example fools many of us to think that it isn't straight - when in fact it is - only the card is not. So we may not believe even when we see, hear, smell, taste or sense - because deep down we know that we might be wrong, and we don't want to subject ourselves to doubt and ridicule - so dismissal is a copout and always an easy choice if and when the majority would think so too. That is why we should give credit where credit is due - to the brave men and women - not in space this time but here on Earth - who dare to question, go forward even at a great personal expense, and pave way for the rest of us. Thank you!
       

This blog wishes all its readers
A Very Interesting and Happy New Year !
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Space debris

Computer generated image of the distribution of the
catalogued space debris around the Earth (Credit ESA)
Updated 9.2.2014 Gravity - the movie about space debris colliding with space stations and their astronauts (check the trailer) - gives us an excellent understanding of the dangers up there. Even if it isn't quite that bad, yet.  But it could be one day, judging from the accumulation of debris in Earth's atmospheric layers. Since the start of the space age in 1957, there have been some 5000 launches that almost all leave something behind in the space, as do all the collisions between satellites and meteoroids - or between two satellites! In 2009 the much feared first accidental collision between two large spacecraft took place as the satellite Iridium 33 collided with an old, non-operational Russian satellite at 789 km above Siberia. There are currently some 20 000 pieces of space debris larger than 5 centimeters traversing around the planet.
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Earth way back when
So the space in the low Earth orbit region is becoming more and more crowded (the white area closest to Earth in the picture above). NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler proposed already in 1978 in his Kessler Effect a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade - each collision generating space debris which increases the likelihood of further collisions. That likelihood is increasingly alarming. Satellite communication that we so rely on in our daily lives will in fact be in real jeopardy as time goes by, and the same goes for the lives of all those brave men and women up in the space. We can only hope that future technologies are able to solve this growing problem. Meanwhile it doesn't do any harm keeping our fingers crossed.

United Nation's Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) deals with issues of the international legal regime of space and the guidelines and protocols. The issue is not forgotten, it is very much on the front burner. The director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Mazlan Othman was asked among other things in this excellent interview what UN has to say about space debris - read her answer to the question under "Given the problem of space debris, is it a positive development that more countries can send satellites into orbit?"

LEO (Low Earth Orbit) below about 2000 km - the most crowded zone
MEO (Medium Earth Orbit) between 2000 km and about 30 000 km - increasingly crowdy
GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit) above 30 000 km

IN THE NEWS
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'Urgent need' to remove space debris (BBC 4/2013)
UFO over Arabia? It's just the flash from Chinese space junk (NBC News 1/2014)


LINKS
- IADC - NASA:EarthObservingSystem - Scholarpedia:SpaceDebris - Wiki:KesslerSyndromeWiki:SpaceDebris -


Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Xmas to You All!


Made by Simon Beck in 2013
What is the truth? 

Easy to tell about lots of things - 
like Simon Beck's masterful snow art. 
See more of his art here

Harder to tell about other things - 
like the Silbury Hill crop circle. 

But no matter who made these circles
Made by X in Silbury Hill
and how long it took
(in Beck's case hours of planning 
and hours of implementation) ,
they are real pieces of art - 
some with a hidden meaning and 
a more profound message. 
Clearly seen only from above.

Be it as it may, 
this blog wishes all its readers 
Seasons Greetings and 
a Very Merry Xmas!



Thursday, December 19, 2013

Blurred pictures

A still frame from a video
Updated 31.12.2013 One of the claims that the sceptics make as to why UFOs don't really exist is the fact that there are hardly any clear pictures of them. And why is that? During the Belgian UFO Wave 1989-1990, hundreds of pictures were taken, but not one was sharp and clear. Many observers had their cameras ready, and took what they thought would be clear images, but when the film was developed, the image was blurred. 
Physics professor Auguste Meessen investigated the problem and deduced that infrared light was the culprit. To put his theory to test, he exposed film to infrared, then photographed objects in regular light. The results were the same as the photographs of the triangle-shaped UFO.  One good image was finally captured though - on video tape.

So could it be that the extraterrestrial crafts have some sort of blurring devices which make it simply impossible to get a sharp picture of them - unless they have a 'deal' with someone like Billy Meier? And the same goes for videos of course. So perhaps we shouldn't even bother to try to snap photos at all, but instead just look at them, the crafts,  amazed, and never mind the evidence or memento - the truth will out eventually no matter what.

And if many of the UFOs we see are in a multidimensional state when we see them flying up there - where they are able to partly/totally be seen, or not at all, depending on where they are in that state - it is no wonder that photographing them can be a real challenge. It could be a matter of fractions of seconds to get that perfect picture!

But just like car engines and electrical devices are often shut off near UFOs, so are cameras! That is what happened to the Australian UFO hunter Lazslo Novak as his camcorder stopped working - yet another obstacle to overcome in getting a picture of a UFO!

And should you try to get pictures using an infrared camera, you might be in for a few surprises... Not all is what it seems though - UFOs end up being something natural or man-made, and vice versa.

LINKS
- Business Insider - UFO Casebook - UFO Sightings DailyWiki:BelgianUfoWave - Wiki:Infrared - YouTube:UFOSightingFilmedInInfrared(1m19s) -
  

Monday, December 16, 2013

USO Sightings

Updated 26.1.2014 Water covers a vast majority of our planet. About 70 percent is covered in ocean, and the average depth is several thousand feet (about 1,000 meters).  So is it really any wonder that many of the UFOs we see also  submerge in water - becoming unidentified submarine/submerged objects - and use water as a base or place to visit/hide? The perfect place. Here are some of those sightings associated with such crafts. These are also included in the general listings.

1945 M/S Franklin D Roosevelt - UFO Files:Deep Sea UFOs(at13m30s) -

1967-0630-1815 Captain Ardanza and crew onboard the Argentinian ship "Naviero" recognized a cylindrical-shaped object in the sea about 120 miles off coast of southern Brazil. The object emited a blue-white light - the intensity of it was the same everywhere. It was approximately 33 metres long. There came no noise and there were no waves! While the crew was watching the strange submarine it changed its course in direction of the "Naviero", accelerated and dived under the ship, and disappeared in the deeper sea. - UFO EVIDENCE - Water UFO -
1967-1004-2320 Shag Harbour incident - the impact of an unknown large object into waters near a small fishing village Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. Four orange lights are seen by several people, lights which then dive in a 45 degree angle into the water. - HubPagesCryptid - UFO Casebook - Wiki -
1976-0430-1715-> A USO breaks with great power through the ice of Lake Siljan in Dalarna, Sweden. The ice was still over 20 cm thick, but three witnesses report about a grey object about 10 meters long tearing a channel through the ice -it caused an over 800 metres long and 4 metres wide "channel" in the ice while it was moving and cracking with a speed of nearly 100 km/h before it was flying up to the sky without any damage! - UFO EVIDENCE - Water UFO -
1978-1021-1912 The Valentich Disappearance. 20-year-old Frederick Valentich is flying his Cessna 182 over Bass Strait in Australia when he observes an unknown craft accompanying him. He informs the air traffic control, and then the radio dies. No trace of a possible crash is found. The UFO was also captured on film by a ground-based witness, seen ascending from the sea. - The radio transmission - UFO Casebook - Wiki
1980-0726-1930 The engines of the Brazilian ship "Caioba-Seahorse" suddenly stop off the coast of Brazil. The sailors see a grey round object drifting in the water. At the same time a bright light appears on the horizon, comes closer to the ship, and approaches the USO. The above light - now seen as a bright disc shaped object - sinks down to the USO and connects with it. Both objects then rise from the water, hover for a few minutes over the sea and then accelerate with very high speed up to the sky and disappear. - UFO EVIDENCE - Water UFO -
1992-1220 Near Langeness. Iceland's Navy tracks three large UFOs as they are coming down and entering the sea off the east coast of Iceland. Other witnesses confirm seeing these UFOs, and they were also tracked on radar. - National UFO Center -
1992-1221 Iceland. Some Icelandic fishermen report seeing large underwater craft, with flashing colored lights. They appeared to be tracked by (or be tracking) a glowing object in the sky traveling southward in the direction of Scotland. The underwater craft caused a lot of damage to the fishermen's trawler nets. The fishermen were used to submarine activity in the area, but said these particular craft were definitely not normal submarines - they moved too fast through the water, had flashing lights, and were far larger than anything they had seen before. Two days later Icelandic Navy and coastguard joined by NATO ships start investigating the area. - according to newspapers 'tracking large underwater craft, thought to be a new breed of Russian super submarine'. The operation continues for months. - AlienInvestigator: AtlanticAlienBase (excerpt from the 1999 book by Tony Dodd) - Crowded Skies - National UFO Center - UFO Planet -
2005-1008-0705 52-year old Catholic lay minister George Gregory Matanjun and his wife witness a UFO emerging from the sea in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, and then fly towards the local airport. The UFO had a curved top and a round large ball-like bottom. - UFO Evidence -
2013-1008 USO sighting. Filmed during a boat trip from the Island of Pag to the main land in Croatia. Like so often is the case, there are no splashes at the dive, and some kind of blue light is seen just before the dive which could have something to do with the of absence of splashes. - UFOFilesTV(2m02s) -  

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ARK TV Transciption of UFO Files - ATS - HubPagesbyCryptid - UFO Casebook - UFO EVIDENCE -

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Updated 15.1.2014 Besides being a title for a Steven Spielberg movie, close encounters of the third kind are the real-life encounters where witnesses observe an alien being, either inside or outside the craft. The term in ufology is CE3. Here are some of the most famous and most researched accounts, in chronological order. Links to various sites and videos - some of the latter may be foreign speaking, but included for an overall view. Abductions not included, but treated separately here.


1950-0424 Italy As 42-year-old worker Bruno Facchini goes to investigate the flashing outside his house in Abbiate Guazzone in Varese, he realizes that what he first thought was a military plane in trouble is in fact an alien craft! Seized with panic, he starts running, but turning back, he sees one of the crew point at him a sort of "photographic apparatus" that he was wearing round his neck, and  he is shot with a beam of light. Hurt but perfectly conscious, Facchini can hear the hum that he had heard right at the start became louder and a moment later the craft rises and vanishes at a fantastic speed into the darkness of the night. - UFO Casebook - UFO EVIDENCE -
1954-1101-0630 Italy  40-year old Rosa Lotti witnesses a landed UFO with two 3-feet tall, and friendly, occupants outside the craft in Cennina. They did snatch some flowers and a stocking from her hands though. Her encounter with the aliens were corroborated by two witnesses - UFO Evidence -
1970-0107-1645 Finland Two skiers see a longish object in the sky at Imjärvi in Heinola, southeast Finland - seen by two other witnesses from two different locations. A bit later the men saw a smaller object -  a round disc - and then a small creature in a lightgreen uniform beside the disc. The humanoid had a black box which radiated light, regularly changing in intensity. Both men suffered aftereffects for months, and one of them claims that he has since become a UFO contactee.  - FUFORAUFO Evidence - Wiki(Fin) -
1976-1112-0145 Spain Talavera Air Force Base, Badajoz County. Three Spanish soldiers claim to have met a three meter tall being with phosphor clothes. José Trejo, one of the soldiers, was paralyzed temporarily and fell down. The other soldiers came and shot towards the being with their machine guns. They saw a bright flash, and the being disappeared. Afterwards José Trejo experienced some loss of sight and memory; later he had parapsychological experiences. - FUFORA - Project Paranormal - Wiki -
1977-092x-2300 United Kingdom 62-year old housewife Ethel May Field witnesses a dome-shaped UFO in Parkstone, Dorset, and observes also two humanoids inside it. She protects her eyes from the bright light, and has (therefore?) later trouble with the skin on her palms. - UFO Evidence -
1996-0120 Brazil The Varginha UFO/EBE incident. A series of events involving the alleged sighting and capture by the military of extraterrestrial beings in Varginha, Brazil, preceded by a UFO sighting. One of the EBEs was poorly and easily captured by the search party. Three protrusions atop of it's head, glowing red eyes, long arms, short legs, big feet, and it smelled like ammoniac. There were reports of as many as seven being captured that day. A few weeks after the events Marco Eli Cherese, a 23 year old military policeman involved in the investigation, died. Later the government denied any claims of being involved in the capture of EBEs. - UFO Casebook - Wiki -
2003-0811-0435 Poland Lech Chacinski was driving down the road near Szczecinek when he saw three figures in uniforms similar to that of an astronaut. But they were no astronauts. Chacinski stopped the car, and had the weirdest telepathic communication with the beings who said they were from the "Eight Galaxy." They had come to deliver a message to the inhabitants of Earth: 'we should care about our planet; our water and air. If we neglect our environment, they will cause our destruction'. This area of the encounter is also one where crop circles often appear. - UFO Casebook - UFO EVIDENCE -YouTube(7m10s/Polish) -  

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 AlmenasJose AlvarezAndre AmondJulian 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 BlomqvistJohn 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 CostaGus Cottey - John CoxGordon 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 FartekGeorge 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 GleasonAlan 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 HartwellE.U. Hathaway - Aarno Heinonen - Paul Hellyer - Jimi Hendrix - Graham Henley - Shannon Hernandez - Roy Hicks - Charles Hickson - Barney HillBetty Hill - Clare Holcomb - Charles Howard - Robert Huniwell - David Hunt -



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- Robert Jacobs - Mick Jagger - Matt Jany - Brent W. Jett Jr. - Yan Jinbo - Zhang JingshaoTrig 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 KosinaTeuvo Kovalainen - Jouko Kuronen -


- Eero Lammi - Colby Landrum - Vickie Landrum - Lara Lane - Carlos Lasca - Bob Lazar - N. G. Lee - Friedrich Lennartz - John Lennon - Denis LettyBobbie Ley - Hal Ley - Tim Ley - Dionisio Llanca - Erwin Lohre&wifeJames 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. McCoidPat McCulloch -  James McDiVitt - Gerard J. Medvec - Billy Meier - Benoit MeilleurShaun Meldon - Reinhold Messner - Kai Metzger - Barry Mitchell - Stephen Moi - Seppo Moilanen - dp. Montgomery - Jorge MontoyaJulio 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 -



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- Chuck Rak - Alberto RamosRonald Reagan - Keith RichardsEmily Roads - Stacey Roads - Jeanne Robinson - Augusta Rodrigues - Eurico RodriguesMike Rogers - Stan Romanek - David RowanBobby Ruffing - John Russell - Kate RussellRichard 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 ShuttlewoodElna Siitari - Liliane Silva - Valquíria Fátima SilvaDonald SlaytonDwayne 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. WalkerTravis 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.