If I Had a Superpower

Somewhat lighter reading this time - in the spirit of spring!

During the past several years we have been spoiled with all sorts of 'supernatural' series on television, and countless movies based on different Marvel Comics characters. We are confronted with what it might be like to live in a world of superheroes, people with special abilities, zombies, and what not,  and how we should be prepared for any dire straights.

 
How many of us have not at one time or another toyed with the idea of having a superpower of sorts? Many of us may feel a certain satisfaction when the hero in the end conquers the villain(s). If you had a choice, which superhuman ability would you like to have -  if any? Here is a long list of some superpowers!

My superhero #1 was always Superman. Not so much due to all his special skills, but rather the fact that he could have such an impact, and make such a difference without endangering himself.

My own choice would be more mundane, perhaps even a bit weird. I would be the Banisher. I would have the ability to make things vanish, disappear, to never appear again at the hands of those they were banished from, or in the places they were planted in - whatever those things were. This ability would have a drawback, a twist, though: it could only be used at sight. The Banisher would have to see the object to be banished in the hands of the 'perpetrator'. But the banishment would be swift and decisive. Weapons would just disappear from the hands of criminals - and soldiers (equally and simultaneously on both combatting sides). Mines would vanish from mine fields. Toxic waste in pipelines would reflow back to the factories. Illegal drugs would vanish into thin air. Abusers hands would freeze in midair.  Even cigarettes would disappear from lips, along with the desire to smoke. The turn for improvement would begin at once. The air would be clearer to breath, streets and  fields safer to walk, waters cleaner to swim in, homes free of violence. The good cops could keep their guns, while 'the baddies' would have time to think things over, and realize the futility and stupidity of rearming themselves. The spiral of positive spirits would spread like a wildfire.

The Banisher - naturally indestructible - would fly worldover (oops, that is actually three abilities), and leave each particular part of the world a better place in his or her wake. He would be hated too, but mostly held in high esteem as people allover saw how things really did get better. Taxes would be used to take better care of people and infrastructure everywhere, nations, tribes and families allover would be healthier and happier, waging wars would be a thing of the past as United Nations' Peace Corps would take - very humanly - care of any budding trouble on the world scene.

Or. Do we actually need the positive-negative axis? Would any amount of cleansing solve anything in the long run? Is it just wishful thinking ad absurdum? Must free will always have its course? Is that why the extraterrestrials won't show up and 'force' us to be the best we can be? Do we humans need to find the way to peace and justice ourselves even if it took us a thousand generations or more? After all, if there is no time and all time is one, it doesn't really matter how long it takes, as long as it takes place.

Still, to be a Banisher one single day...

LINKS
- Wiki:ListOfFilmsBasedOnMarvelComics - Wikia:List of Supernatural Powers and Abilities - 

Drones

Updated 28.2.2014 In addition to what we are used to seeing up in the skies - UFOs and model aircrafts included - the skies are crisscrossed by an increasing amount of all sorts of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones. At some point there might be a problem with the legal status of such devices, especially if they come with a camera - like who is allowed to film what and where - or if the traffic gets too heavy and risk of collisions too high. And ufologically the problem is of course that some of these drones are mistaken for extraterrestrial crafts or drones.

Nevertheless drones - or quodcopters as the commercial ones are sometimes called - will most probably be a popular means of  delivering products to the doorsteps of future consumers. Wouldn't you want your pizza delivered by Dominos DomiCopter and the like? Quick and crispy! Or the newly published book that you just can't wait to get your hands on? 

 But like said, some of these drones are not that harmless. They may carry cameras with whatever purpose in mind, some of them clandestine. The amount of police drones for surveillance purposes will most probably increase, at least that is the conclusion you could draw from the discussion after the Boston bombing 2013. But as Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington says: “I don’t think the Boston bombing will reframe the surveillance debate. People will persist in their skepticism even after this event. If attitudes about drones change, it will be over time, probably because of non-surveillance uses of drones that people get accustomed to, like in agriculture, or by hobbyists. That’s the way people are going to get acclimated to drones, not from police use.”UAVs will  likely play an increased role in search and rescue in the United States and elsewhere.

The military use of drones is of course widespread. Armed Predators were first used in late 2001 from bases in Pakistan and Uzbekistan, mostly aimed at assassinating high profile individuals inside Afghanistan. In 2012, the U.S. Air Force  trained more UAV pilots than ordinary jet fighter pilots for the first time. And whether the collateral damage would increase or decrease with the use of drones, it will always be also a moral issue. Be it as it may, as far as UFOs are concerned, military drones most certainly stand for quite a few of the alleged UFO sightings - for a UFO researcher just another item to check off.

IN THE NEWS
2009-0516 Death from above, outrage down below (New YorkTimes) ENG
2010-1027 Fliegende Kameras verwirren Datenschützer (Stern) GER
2013-0501 Boston bombings show future use for police drones (Huffington) ENG
2014-0112 Why Commercial Drones Won’t Deliver Tacos Anytime Soon -
2014-0124 UAVS scarier than UFOs (Dakota Student) ENG
2014-0130 California bill would ban warrantless drone surveillance (RT/Russia) ENG
2014-0225 'Alien invasion' to launch in April - but 'UFOs' will be... (Yahoo News) ENG

LINKS
- Wiki:UnmannedAerialVehicle -

Jupiter - Facts and Theories

Updated 7.3.2014 Jupiter is the largest planet of our solar system, and can easily be seen with bare eyes - along with a couple of its moons. It is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 778 million km.

THE RINGS OF JUPITER
Like Saturn, Jupiter too has rings although not as prominent. First observed by Voyager 1 in 1979.

The alleged Swiss contactee Billy Meier has claimed that he was told long ago by the extraterrestrials Plejarans  - some 20 years before the official discovery of the rings - of their existence and also how they mostly were formed; of volcanic material from the moon Io. Meier said already in October 1978 that Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.


THE MOONS OF JUPITER

Jupiter and the four Galilean moons

Jupiter has 67 confirmed moons. The largest of these are visible with the naked eye, and have thus been known since ancient times, but were officially discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: the four Galilean moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto (in the order of increasing distance from Jupiter).

Io
With over 400 active volcanoes, Io is the most geologically active object in the Solar System. There are also over a hundred mountains on Io, averaging 6 km in height. It takes only 42.5 hours for Io to complete one orbit around Jupiter.

Europa
Europa is the sixth-closest moon of the planet Jupiter, and orbits it in less than four days. It is the smallest of the four Galilean satellites - slightly smaller than our moon. Exploration of Europa began in the 1973 with the Jupiter flybys of Pioneer 10 (in 1973) and 11 (1974). Two Voyager probes traveled through the Jovian system in 1979 providing more detailed images of Europa's icy surface.

Europa has emerged as one of the top locations in our solar system in terms of potential habitability, and the possibility of hosting extraterrestrial life. Water eruptions on its surface are so far the best implications for there possibly being life. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor venting off there.

Europa featured in the 2013 movie thriller Europa Report. The plot line: An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.

Ganymede
Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and the only moon known to possess a magnetosphere. Several probes flying by or orbiting Jupiter have explored Ganymede more closely, including four flybys in the 1970s, and multiple passes in the 1990s to 2000s. During the closest flyby Galileo passed just 264 km from the surface of Ganymede.

Callisto
Callisto is the third-largest moon in the Solar System, more or less the size of Mercury. The surface of Callisto is heavily cratered and extremely old. The likely presence of an ocean within Callisto leaves open the possibility that it could harbor life. However, conditions are thought to be less favorable than on nearby Europa. Because of its low radiation levels, Callisto has long been considered the most suitable place for a human base for future exploration of the Jovian system.

JUPITER AND UFOLOGY
Along with there possibly being some life on one of the moons of Jupiter, the planet itself is often mistaken for a UFO - as is Venus, or especially Venus. But could there be life over there?

There is a Russian video on YouTube stating that the Hubble satellite captured how a huge UFO - larger than the Earth's moon - crashed on the surface of Jupiter, and that the blast wave from the collision is clearly seen  - Youtube(2m12s) -


LINKS
- And Yet They Fly - IMDb:EuropaReport - Nature.com - Wiki:Europa  - Wiki:GalileoGalilei - Wiki:Jupiter - Wiki:MoonOfJupiter - Wiki:RingsOfJupiter -

Sirius - Facts and Theories

Updated 9.2.2014 Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky in Northern Hemisphere, and very easy to locate as it resides near the Orion Belt. The three stars point downward toward Sirius to the left. Because Sirius is so bright (if it were placed next to our sun, it would outshine it more than 20 times over) it was well-known to the ancients. What came as a surprise to astronomers was the discovery of a companion star, Sirius B, in 1862  - 10,000 times dimmer than Sirius.

But what more do we know about Sirius? Do we for example have any data of it having planets? There is a rich folklore surrounding Sirius, and it figures prominently in mythology and a few religions, especially in Africa. Being part of the constellation Canis Major, Sirius is also called the Dog Star, and its companion star the Pup.

The picture above leads by the way to a pretty awesome site: Sirius Stargazers Club run by Jeffery Driscoll in Michigan since 2002. If you live anywhere near there, go and have a look at the sky with a powerful Obsession telescope!

ESOTERIC MEANINGS
There is something called a Sirius Temple of Ascension which claims that "Sirius is a star system which is a meeting place for Earth beings who wish to continue their spiritual studie. The Sirians have been amongst us since the time of the Mayan and Egyptian civilizations. They gave the Egyptians advanced astronomical and medical information, helped to build the pyramids of Egypt, and also gave the Mayans advanced knowledge. They helped the Earth during the time of the cataclysmic period in Atlantis. "

American contactee Patricia Cori claims that she has been contacted by the extraterrestrials from Sirius, and that she now channels information from them. "They remind us that at every stage of this spiral of light, there are beings lending a hand, reaching out, helping those that are climbing, come up a step higher. And that the Sirians are involved with us now because all light beings on this spiral of light are concerned with others who are climbing up this spiral. Basically there is no 'other'. As you climb out of this illusion of separation, you recognize that there is no 'other', you're 'it', we're all 'it'". - Video(6m20s)

LINKS
- Patricia Cori - Pleiadians:TheExtraterrestrialsOfSirius -  Sirius Ascension - Space: Sirius - UFO Evidence - Wiki -

PS. Not to be confused with Sirius Disclosure - or this blogger :)

UFOs and Space on the radio

Updated 5.2.2014 Here are some radio programs and channels to listen to about the blog themes. The links take you to programs that range anywhere from short clips to longer shows - duration shown first, and some come with auxiliary video/photos. The date is when the progam was first aired. Also included a list of good radio shows that deal with these subjects. Some of the radio channels do require membership in order to be able to listen to all of the shows.

06:41 The man in charge of UK Air traffic control (BBC, duration 6m41s) Richard Deakin says at the end of the program that occasionally there are objects "that don't conform to normal traffic patterns... typically around one a month". 7/2012
25:13 Retired U.S. Senator Mike Gravel says UFO Disclosure is near (Socio-Economics History Blog  / Third Phase of Moon)


RADIO SHOWS
Coast to Coast AM (list of US stations) with George Noory. Registration required to listen to new and archived shows, many of which can also be heard on YouTube.
Coast to Coast AM Alternative, with Art Bell.
Deprogrammed Radio (Norwich, United Kingdom) "What if what you're told is wrong?" Global 24/7 web talk radio station covering a range of subjects. 
Open Minds UFO Radio (USA)
UFO Paranormal radio (New Orleans, Lousiana, USA)

The Trauma of Secrecy

Anything that has to do with promise of power, satisfaction of greed and fear of consequence is bound to involve secrecy. It has been so throughout the human history. And there is a lot of that going on concerning the extraterrestrial and/or unidentified crafts flying around our globe - and sometimes crashing here.  Much of the secrecy is being employed by the military where pulling rank and threats of discharge or worse causes staff to keep their mouths shut for years or decades, perhaps forever.

But the secrecy also involves civilians. Like in the 1966 Westall UFO incident in Australia where over 100 pupils (and teachers) were threatened to secrecy. Witnesses recall threats of detention and men in suits telling them to keep quiet. You would think that it is somewhat okay to tell an employee to keep quiet, but definitely not okay to come and tell school kids or any civilian for that matter to never divulge what one has experienced.

There wouldn't be conspiracy theories if it wasn't for all the secrets. There wouldn't be a need for whistleblowers either. Whistleblowers who are then blamed, accused and chased - perhaps even silenced. Neither would there be the questioning of the current,  almost heroic, status of whistleblowers if it wasn't for the growing public need to know - instead of the widely abused need-to-know-basis of governments and military. Whistleblowers like the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange or the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden - nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014! And there wouldn't be a need for the Disclosure Project if it wasn't for all these coverups. These are the ingredients of the gigantic soup of secrecy that is constantly being stirred, and we may yet have a taste of it - the truth about intelligent extraterrestrial life - if all goes according to plan, in a near enough future. Wouldn't that be something?! It would surely be - something!

But meanwhile the trauma that is caused to witnesses - civilian and military alike - who have been ridiculed, intimidated, warned and hushed throughout the years is often overlooked. What does it actually do to a person to having to keep quiet about something that is often one of the most overwhelming experiences of one's life? Something that you would definitely want to share with everybody, be excited about, shout from the rooftops, even boast about - where it not for the sceptical atmosphere created partly by the Keepers of Secret. It may even have physical consequences to a person in as much we are not designed so much to contain knowledge as to spread it. It could also be that once the atmosphere changes and it is all right to talk about these things quite openly, there will be a regular flood of disclosures after all that containment. But until that happens, widespread self-censorship is in major play as well.

Perhaps one day you will be driving your car leisurely along the road, every now and then overtaken by cars with bumperstickers like End UFO Secrecy Now or A.D. After Disclosure. And driving on, lo and behold, what with the growing awareness of the matter, you will have your first sighting - if you haven't had one already - as an unmistakeble extraterrestrial craft rises above the mountain ahead of you, hovers towards you with blinking lights, and lands on the field to your right. Now would that be traumatic - or just dramatic?! You see several people stepping out of their cars to have a closer look - encouraged by the recent media coverage admonishing people to go ahead and make new, unique, acquaintances. Would you?

LINKS
- Disclosure Project  - The Guardian - Wiki:Wikileaks - Wikileaks - Zazzle -

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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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 Casebook -  UFO 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 -



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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
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VIDEO PROGRAMS
UFO Hunters: Giant UFOs (44m23s)

LINKS
- Wiki:List Of Alleged Aircraft-UFO incidents -
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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 -

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:RendelshamBinaryCode -  Gary Osborn:HowToCatchaStarship -  Wiki:AlienLanguage -

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.

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

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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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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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:KesslerSyndrome - Wiki:SpaceDebris -