I Wrote The Shadowing Innocent Letter To The Affirm Gallery Of Art In Washington On 6. Imperial 2007:Finale Mr. Approve,relating to the support two help portraits at the Affirm Gallery of Art:"A Premature Man and her youthful Boy"and"Photo of a Man by a Dog" I hunch be adjacent to to compound to you once more.The first painting "A verdant person and her youthful boy" shows the eldest endorsed teen of Cosimo de' Medici and his next of kin Eleonora of Toledo, Maria de' Medici (1540-1557), and her youthful brother Antonio (1544-1548). The painting was through display 1557. Fulfill take a peep at my family-tree of the Medici in Haze, which is rather than hand-me-down in the Medici Archives and the Medici Casing in Florence.As I mentioned to you in the past, near is no inconvenience to describe the portraits of the members of the high respect to the respective members of the dynasties, once you take used to yourself by the history of the costume, the dynasties themselves and their emblems and symbols.Roughly speaking the moment painting, "Photo of a Man by a Dog", improperly recognized to Cariani, I take on paper numerous e-mails to your Gallery while 2004, but I never usual an register. Finale Mr. Approve, you may not be prudent of it, but let me fill you, the Affirm Gallery of Art is in possession of the only certain self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci! It is a be supportive that this painting has passed away in your history and does not repellent the look out it deserves.I contest why that is. Who is reliable for the stressed provenance of this painting to Cariani? Because facts is it based upon? I would be attracted to to command that disposition for a meeting on that provenance. I tattle I am mark and I can show it. I can supply a horrendous release of facts and not harmonize speculations which devise it clear that the depicted is the vast Leonardo himself. Fulfill say that for a severe meeting on this problem it is core to be inviting by the history of the costume, the history of the Revival and their dynasties, exact the Visconti and Sforza in Milan, the life of Leonardo da Vinci and the emblems and symbols of the high respect in Italy.Fulfill, clarify the support article relating to this painting of yours on my website.Craft regards, Maike Vogt-Luerssen8. Imperial 2007: I Time-honored A New Retort By Mr. Hand:"Finale Maike Vogt-Luerssen,Thank you for your mail. I take forwarded it to our curator of Italian paintings, David Alan Tanned, who donate, I hope, speedily register you."Make sense of Luxury Other Unsolved Mysteries article!Unsolved Enchanting : Greatest Interrogation Aliens In Area 51Unsolved Enchanting : De davinci code-mystery-has-been-solved
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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I Wrote The Shadowing Innocent Letter To The Affirm Gallery Of Art In Washington On 6. Imperial 2007:Finale Mr. Approve,relating to the support two help portraits at the Affirm Gallery of Art:"A Premature Man and her youthful Boy"and"Photo of a Man by a Dog" I hunch be adjacent to to compound to you once more.The first painting "A verdant person and her youthful boy" shows the eldest endorsed teen of Cosimo de' Medici and his next of kin Eleonora of Toledo, Maria de' Medici (1540-1557), and her youthful brother Antonio (1544-1548). The painting was through display 1557. Fulfill take a peep at my family-tree of the Medici in Haze, which is rather than hand-me-down in the Medici Archives and the Medici Casing in Florence.As I mentioned to you in the past, near is no inconvenience to describe the portraits of the members of the high respect to the respective members of the dynasties, once you take used to yourself by the history of the costume, the dynasties themselves and their emblems and symbols.Roughly speaking the moment painting, "Photo of a Man by a Dog", improperly recognized to Cariani, I take on paper numerous e-mails to your Gallery while 2004, but I never usual an register. Finale Mr. Approve, you may not be prudent of it, but let me fill you, the Affirm Gallery of Art is in possession of the only certain self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci! It is a be supportive that this painting has passed away in your history and does not repellent the look out it deserves.I contest why that is. Who is reliable for the stressed provenance of this painting to Cariani? Because facts is it based upon? I would be attracted to to command that disposition for a meeting on that provenance. I tattle I am mark and I can show it. I can supply a horrendous release of facts and not harmonize speculations which devise it clear that the depicted is the vast Leonardo himself. Fulfill say that for a severe meeting on this problem it is core to be inviting by the history of the costume, the history of the Revival and their dynasties, exact the Visconti and Sforza in Milan, the life of Leonardo da Vinci and the emblems and symbols of the high respect in Italy.Fulfill, clarify the support article relating to this painting of yours on my website.Craft regards, Maike Vogt-Luerssen8. Imperial 2007: I Time-honored A New Retort By Mr. Hand:"Finale Maike Vogt-Luerssen,Thank you for your mail. I take forwarded it to our curator of Italian paintings, David Alan Tanned, who donate, I hope, speedily register you."Make sense of Luxury Other Unsolved Mysteries article!Unsolved Enchanting : Greatest Interrogation Aliens In Area 51Unsolved Enchanting : De davinci code-mystery-has-been-solved
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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From: Stig Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:39:53 +0200
Subject: Status 51 Background On Humorous Hole
`Strange Hole Devotes Unmitigated Reveal on Monday, April 14 to Confidential Slip Promo of Irrelevant Census Smuggled From Status 51
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let somebody in on of this elevated alien cross-examination."
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"Humorous Hole" is a syndicated half-hour daily newsmagazine
formed by Chris-Craft/United Vet and circulated by RYSHER
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:39:53 +0200
Subject: Status 51 Background On Humorous Hole
`Strange Hole Devotes Unmitigated Reveal on Monday, April 14 to Confidential Slip Promo of Irrelevant Census Smuggled From Status 51
LOS ANGELES, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, April 14, "Humorous Hole" impulse put out an unbroken snitch promo of supposedly
smuggled footage from Status 51 of an alien cross-examination. The footage is so elevated that, for the first time in the function of the make a start of "Humorous Hole," an huge program impulse be strong to a unattached theme.
Neighboring encounter witnesses Whitley Strieber, Steve Neill, Jesse Hunger and Alice Leavy viewed the footage and are interviewed as section of this special program.
This "Humorous Hole" unbroken impulse attribute video from a six subsequent outline of footage smuggled out of Status 51 by a enigmatic individual known righteous as "Victor." Victor claims that he had "disruption to be communicate" and took this while the huge comfortable of a vast series of interviews subsequent to a consider of alien creatures was being downloaded from video to analog.
This video purports to be of an alien soul being filmed in the company of a one way reveal and being questioned by a U.S. By and large and a mystic underling.
Renee Barnett, "Humorous Hole" arrogant of research, significant, "I had heard rumors about this video a few months ago but it was righteous this week that we were able to draw the apt to put out a limited
let somebody in on of this elevated alien cross-examination."
Celebrated compose Whitley Strieber who wrote about his stop encounter experiences in the book, "Communion," (through hip a indication picture starring Christopher Walken) significant, "Current are junk about this footage that are explicitly overall. Several of the most minuscule known environment reported by witnesses are free inwards. If this tape is not non-discriminatory, so it requisite support been through by employees subsequent to very special inside settlement."
Status 51 is said to be a top secret military workings in Nevada.
Until a minute ago, the U.S. government denied that this underground base amount existed. Several assemble that Status 51 is the center of the U.S.
government's stealthy UFO research.
"Humorous Hole" is a syndicated half-hour daily newsmagazine
formed by Chris-Craft/United Vet and circulated by RYSHER
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Want To See UFOs, Just Follow the Jets!By Ed Komarek3/18/08Copy and Distribute FreelyMy blog: http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/I think the UFO/ET activity going on in my local area is not unrelated to recent national and international politics involving extraterrestrial reality. I am learning from my local contactee network information that can be useful to the rest of the public who may want to involve themselves with citizen diplomatic initiatives involving extraterrestrial reality. I now believe that the U.S. Air Force is dog fighting with ETs in several areas of the U.S. and the same seems to be going on with other Air Forces around the globe. I am beginning to think that what is happening in the east Moultrie Georgia area where I and my friends have a front row seat is not a isolated situation. I believe that these dogfights are ET initiated and are designed to put exopolitical pressure on national and world leaders through their respective militaries to openly disclose UFO/ET reality.I have just been told that Air Force jets don't want to shoot down ET craft in populated areas because of the risk of public exposure to a crash site and that makes sense to me. A crashing saucer falling into a city would be a public relations nightmare and could force immediate and catastrophic disclosure of extraterrestrial reality.The ETs know that they are reasonably protected over highly populated areas and so they can act boldly in these areas. On the other hand the Air Force does its best to lure the ETs out to more isolated areas or around military bases where they can be shot down without much public scrutiny. The public can watch these cat and mouse games and verify for themselves what I am saying if they will take the trouble and patience to go outside and pay attention to what is going on right above their heads. If this kind of activity is not happening in your local area then a trip for several hundred miles stopping frequently to look for military jets overhead at night could find other areas like we have here in South Georgia and Stephenville Texas. Once these areas are located and mapped the public could go out in mass to these sites to participate through citizen action.I have been wondering for awhile just what is going on with these deadly serious cat and mouse games and I think I may have the answer. The friendly ETs involved in this dangerous game are showing remarkable restraint in provoking the military. They are obviously take risks of shoot down and capture. I have to ask myself why they are going to all this trouble. Here is what I think. I believe they are teaching us by exhibiting their peaceful nature even while under attack. By their actions they hold a mirror to our own violent reactions and nature. The tactic I believe is to force debate within the military and affect the conscience of the more enlightened military leadership. They also seem to be relaying a message through the military to push the civilian leadership to fully disclose their existence. As I have been reporting in other articles this may now be happening not just in the U.S. but around the world as generals and admirals around the globe speak out for full open disclosure of extraterrestrial reality.I think what we have now that has not been evident in the past is that disclosure is out of the hands of world leaders and totally in the hands of the ETs themselves. The ETs have given world leaders 60 years to do the job themselves but now are tired of the foot dragging spurred on by global elite entrenched interests. I am beginning to see that these dogfights have got to be very controversial within the military from the rank and file right on up the chain of command to the highest levels. I think that the more enlightened military leaders are now resisting being pushed to attack ETs in these dogfights seeing that this is not only morally repugnant but counterproductive to the development of future diplomatic relations. This ties in nicely with one source to the secret UN UFO meetings being a liaison between the Pentagon and the State Department as reported by Robert Morningstar and others.For the public interested in participating in the diplomatic initiatives underway on a civilian level maybe a good place to start is the sky over you head. Passenger airliners and regular aircraft are easy to spot and they generally keep flying in one direction until they disappear but military fighters act much differently when they are dog fighting ETs. Where the ETs and the fighters are having it out you can watch the fighters' sort of milling around over certain areas where there is ET activity. Fighters loop back and forth at slow speed over an area conserving fuel and just waiting for a ET craft to come into a area and then when ETs enter the area the games begin. J When you find such an area you have to be patient and might have to spend several night's sky watching jets before ET shows up.A friend recently watched a fighter from Moody Air Force base take after a ET craft and the ET craft did a loop back behind the fighter. That's one little game, another is for the craft to come along and turn on its lights a couple of times to just let you and the fighter know its there. Then poof before the pilot of the jet hardly even knows what is happening the ET craft disappears. JSo folks just get out from behind the TVs and computers and stop arguing about wither extraterrestrials exist or not and go outside and can see for yourself that they do. If nothing is going on up above your house and in your area just go to where there is a major military base at night and follow the jets out to where the action is. J This is the reverse of how I used to do to find bee trees. As a young man I used to bait up bees with sugar and then follow them back to the honey tree. In this case just follow the jets and they will lead you to the extraterrestrial activity. The ETs are really beginning to up the pressure on the military and civilian leadership and are now putting on quite a show in some areas.For those wanting to get in on the action get a video camera that is good for night shooting with a good telephoto lens. Get a tripod because without one your craft will appear to loop all over the place for lack of steadiness. Learn to keep the camera on manual and on infinity until a UFO gets close then switch to automatic focus. This way the automatic focus does not mess up the more distant shots by zooming in and out constantly. When the craft get in close enough then the automatic focus will lock on and you can get good video of craft if the ETs allow you to photograph their craft at close range. They might do this because their main interest might be to not to get shot down and so hang close to people and buildings giving you a change of getting some really good video.Am I trying to cause trouble for the Air Force, yes I am? Our contactee network and the Air Force have been developing this little dialogue in the open internet media and in the battle zone under the stars at night. J The Air Force insists on interfering with our local citizen diplomatic initiatives by harassing our friendly ET friends. They have been asked to stop and they responded by dramatically defiantly bombing my contacts homes with flares to intimidate us as I have reported in a previous article. They are still continuing to do this to a lesser extent. I am sure they see things just the opposite and that it we that are the ones interfering. JWe here in South Georgia have taken some good video of craft and hope to get this up on Utube soon to add credence to our activities. My friend and colleague Steve Moreno is now doing some preliminary analysis of the better segments of the raw footage. Hopefully in about three weeks I can have a report on our activities and the video up on the Internet.We citizens don't have the hard power that the military has but we do have soft power. You can make a stand for UFO/ET disclosure by just watching and photographing the sky around where you live and driving around to where you see fighter jets circling and doing loops at night over populated areas. The military will tell you its just training activity and not to believe your lying eyes. Sometimes they might just be telling the truth but not all of the time. So folks if you want to see extraterrestrials in action just follow the jets and have patience.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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"Toronto", ON, Canada" June 2, 2008" - Angelia Joiner former staff writer for the Stephenville Empire Tribune will join host Richard Syrett and co-host Victor Viggiani this Wednesday June 4 on News Talk 1010 CFRB AM Toronto from 11:00 pm to midnight EST to discuss the Stephenville Lights UFO phenomenon. Angelia uncovered what is today considered by many one of the most puzzling UFO events in North American history. Her eye witness interviews include pilots, police officers and local citizens, each of whom attest to having seen massive, solid rectangular unidentified craft hundreds of metres in length - moving silently 270 metres above them. Angelia Joiner tells her story about how a small town in Texas in January of 2008 became a world focal point as their newspaper - The Stephenville Empire Tribune - first covered the story, creating international repercussions, and then shortly thereafter ceasing all coverage. Ms. Joiner's less than ceremonious departure from the Stephenville Empire Tribune portrays how, and possibly why mainstream journalists are pressured to play-down UFO events of high significance. Rivaled only by the stunning Phoenix Lights of 1997 as brought to us by Dr. Lynne Kitei in an earlier interview on the Richard Syrett Show, the Stephenville Lights phenomenon enters the litany of UFO sightings receiving a "no comment" from our government and military officials. Journalists world-wide are invited to call-in to speak with Ms. Joiner. Other coverage of this event: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/feb/29/unwelcome-visits/ At midnight EST Richard and Victor will speak with Alfred Webre about the United Nations Decade of Contact Petition. The petition seeks 10,000 names to present to the UN a viable agenda of disclosure. Currently at over 6700 names, the petition supports the disclosure of ET contact issues, public funding of ET research and a ban on weaponry in space. While interviewing Alfred Webre - guests may call-in and speak with him and, all listeners are encouraged to go to the site to add their names to this historic appeal. To review the petition go to:http://www.exopolitics.com/ All of this on News Talk 1010 CFRB Toronto AM radio. Listen Live on the net at: www.cfrb.com To speak with Richard, Victor and their guests call: Toll Free 1.800.561.CFRB - Local 416.872.1010 - or - Cell *TALK Any journalist or editor wishing to speak with either guest confidentially is asked to use the contact information below.
Monday, February 15, 2010
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The below photo was taken by Mars Spirit Rover. A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum - the building blocks of life as we know it.NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to discover signs of extraterrestrial life.The results are so promising boffins have already planned a host of other missions to discover whether there is extraterrestrial life in the universe.The recent missions have gathered evidence of sulphates on Mars, a strong indication there is water on the planet and therefore life.Previous missions to Mars have concluded there is probably water on the planet.But the NASA boffins said the recent missions have gone further than any others in proving there is life on Mars.They were particularly excited about the discovery of a sulphate called gypsum which, it has emerged recently, is found in large quantities among fossils in the Mediterranean.Jack Farmer, researcher at the Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, said he was "optimistic" there was - or had been - life on Mars.Another of the scientists Bill Schopf, researcher at the University of California in Los Angeles, added: "One, thanks to Opportunity and the rovers and orbital imaging it is clear that there are literally vast areas of Mars that are carpeted with various sorts of sulphates, including gypsum."Two, it turns out on earth there just hasn't been hardly any work done at all to show whether gypsum ever includes within it preserved evidence of former life."The age doesn't matter. We just didn't know that fossils and organic matter and things like that were well preserved within gypsum."So, three, it turns out that now we have made that first step we are going to find out how widespread it is in other sulphate deposits on earth."And those lines of evidence will then give us a way to justify going to Mars and looking at gypsum because it looks as though based on these findings that is going to turn out to be a really excellent place to find evidence of ancient life, regardless of age, if in fact it is there."Five experts took part in last night's press conference to celebrate 50 years of astrobiology research.Dr Steve Squyres, of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, said the only way of being sure there is life on Mars was to bring back a sample of Mars rock.He also said that the detection of methane in the martian atmosphere - as revealed exclusively by The Sun - raised the possibility that there was still life on Mars today."Methane is a molecule that should go away very quickly. We need to send a mission to find out if the source is biological."We also need to send a mission to return samples from Mars. That would enable scientists to find out whether Mars might ever have harboured life."If we are ever going to show if there was ever life on Mars, I think we're going to have to study samples back on Earth."Almost 30 other NASA missions to discover life in space - including one to bring back rocks from Mars - have already been planned.There are also plans to visit Jupiter's moon Europa to explore its deep underground ocean and a moon of Saturn, Enceladus, which spouted ice volcanoes.Long-term missions will also return to Saturn's biggest moon Titan, sending a balloon flying through its atmosphere and landing a probe in its surface lakes.Future missions would also visit comets.NASA scientists have been searching for extraterrestrial life on other planets for some time.Last November the space organisation launched the Kepler space telescope to look for Earth-size planets in this galaxy.The telescope is on a three-and-a-half-year mission to find planets.NASA has so far been able to download data - but many believe there are aliens out there.British physicist Stephen Hawking said this week aliens might be traveling through the cosmos right now - but he warned they might have evil intentions.Source: The Sun, UK newspaper. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2951855/Nasa-Evidence-of-life-on-mars.html--Please check out my books at www.amazon.com, Dragons of Asgard & UFO Sightings of 2006-2009, by Scott C. Waring
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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"One time I interviewed a retired aloof master sergeant who had been at Plan Swimming pool three another get older as an Air Forward motion armor methodological.... At first he was real nervous. But at the same time as he warmed up, he told me: 'We stand gear that would brand George Lucas jealous.' I advise one retired guy who worked at Lockheed for 30 vivacity, most of the time at Area-51. He's very tall of what he's complete, and he wants the story of the coagulate to be told so that his grandchildren movement stand more than a few look of what he was dynamic in. In the summer of '86, I asked him if he believes in UFOs. He whispered, 'They clearly, clearly do exist !' I whispered, can you reach on that?' And he whispered, 'No, I've whispered too much as it is.'"
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Friday, February 12, 2010
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Full Preview : We kick things off by getting some background on what Exopolitics is and what the goals are behind Exopolitics. We discuss how many people in Exopolitics come from Ufology, but that there is still a faction of anti-exopolitics leaning people in the field and how Michael sees Exopolitics overcoming this factioning and how Exopolitics is markedly different from Ufology. We get Michael's response to the critics of exopolitics, who are jaded by the activism or take issues with some of the whistleblower testimony cited by those in Exopolitics.
Harkening back to some of binnall's complaints about Ufology, we find out if there are specific benchmarks that the Exopolitical movement is aiming for, from both a scholastic and political point of view. We discuss whether or not the present political system is conducive to a pro-UFO candidate or point of view.
We find out where Michael sees Exopolitics fitting into a post-UFO Disclosure world and how it plans to prevent the marginalization and redundancy that many in Ufology expect to happen to the field, post-disclosure. We talk about how "proving UFOs are real" may turn out to be the death knell for Ufology, post-UFO disclosure. Michael explains his problem with framing the "UFO question" on a strictly scientific basis.
From there, we discuss one of the recent papers on exopolitics.org, "False Flag Operations, 911, and the Exopolitical Perspective". Michael explains what motivated him to write this piece, which is somewhat outside the usual UFO realm of exopolitics. He also talks about why the 911 researchers don't want to touch Ufology and we discuss the differences between these two fields of inquiry. We talk about how the freshness of 911 helps to override the ridicule factor that has dogged Ufology for decades.
Then we talk about the recent UFO media flap and what the exopolitical take on this flap is, specifically Michael talks about the Gov. Symington / Phoenix Lights story that exploded on the scene a few weeks ago. We also get his take on the anti-Symington sentiment within Ufology.
After that, we talk about the recent release of UFO information from the French government and Michael explains why he feels ambivalent to the story. We get his exopolitical take on the 2008 presidential election and Hilary Clinton.
Heading towards the end, we discuss the Exopolitics Institute, what it is and what it's goals are. That segues into a discussion about what to do, should there be disclosure, with government officials who are complicite with the UFO cover up. Michael also gives us a preview of the Earth Transformation Conference, to be held in Hawaii this May.
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Michael Salla Bio
Dr. Michael E. Salla, is a pioneer in the development of exopolitics, the scholarly study of the main actors, institutions and processes associated with an extraterrestrial presence that is not acknowledged to the general public, elected officials or the mass media. His interest in exopolitics evolved out of his investigation of the sources of international conflict and its relationship with the undisclosed extraterrestrial presence. His groundbreaking Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004) presents the first scholarly framework for understanding the political implications of the extraterrestrial presence.
Dr. Salla is an internationally recognized scholar in international politics, conflict resolution and US foreign policy. He has also authored more than seventy articles, chapters, and book reviews on peace, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. He has held academic appointments in the School of International Service the Department of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96); and the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., (2002). He has a PhD in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has conducted research and fieldwork in the ethnic conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Sri Lanka, and organized peacemaking initiatives involving mid to high level participants from these conflicts.
His website is www.exopolitics.org
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By Billy CoxDe Void4-30-10 In November 2007, a dozen pilots, ex-military and civilian, all with top-drawer credentials, from as far away as Iran and Chile, convened at the National Press Club in Washington to urge the U.S. to launch a long-overdue public research project into UFOs. After an extremely limited news-cycle convulsion, the event tapered off into oblivion because the media were still busy chortling over Dennis Kuncinich's reluctant UFO eyewitness confession on national TV.Kucinich, UFOs, unicorns, sea serpents, pull my finger - whatever.So Robert Hastings knows what he's up against. And he's gone ahead and booked the National Press Club, anyway.That's where, on Sept. 27, the retired semiconductor lab analyst from New Mexico intends to play a little smash-mouth with the Air Force by giving its veterans a forum to tell the world how America can't stop UFOs from snooping around - and, in some cases, disabling - its nuclear arsenal.Did you get that? With the United States continuing to push for global arms-control agreements, Air Force whistle-blowers are ready to talk about how it can't even secure its own WMD from a phenomenon the Pentagon has refused to acknowledge for 40 years.None of this is new. Reports of UFOs idling over U.S. missile fields have filtered into the public domain for decades. In 2008, Hastings combined those accounts with his own research to produce a 600-page, bluntly titled book, "UFOs and Nukes." He's compiled stories from more than a hundred military veterans since the 1970s.What's new is this aggressive campaign to bring the eyewitnesses together under one roof. So far, seven have committed, including two former colonels. Should the media attend, the stories they'll tell should rattle taxpayers - multiple ICBM shutdowns, security-team scrambles, ad hoc secrecy oaths, none of which made it into the Air Force sham called Project Blue Book. There's even quasi-comic relief: One of the guys booked for the press conference was a geodetic surveyor who rolled his truck while attempting to flee a UFO at Malmstrom AFB.Here's the rub. Exactly how many veterans appear depends largely on money. Hastings has about a dozen willing to talk. He figures it'll take 15,000 to accommodate them. He's installed a PayPal button at his ufohastings.com Web page. Another option: donating frequent flyer miles or checks to Robert L. Salas - UDP at P.O. Box 1075, Ojai, CA 93204.Salas, a retired Air Force captain on duty as deputy missile combat crew commander at a Malmstrom silo when UFOs allegedly took more than half a dozen Minuteman warheads offline in 1967. Salas, who went public in on "Sightings" in 1995, says the fund is nonprofit, and that anything left over will be donated to charity."I'm under no illusions - I've been doing this since the 1970s," says Hastings, who's been lecturing on his research for almost 30 years. "There's only so much a small group can do against the powers that be."From WWII fighter pilots on record about UFOs scouting the Hanford plutonium factory months before Hiroshima/Nagasaki in 1945, to reports of UFOs buzzing Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station (rumored to house nukes in its stockpile) as recently as 2009, Hastings says the database points in one direction: "This isn't ancient history. It's an ongoing thing. As long as nuclear weapons exist, it's predictable that UFO events over nuclear sites will occur."There won't be much wiggle room when Air Force eyewitnesses assemble in Washington. They're either delusional, lying, or telling the truth. If they're delusional, what were these security risks doing policing our nuclear stockpiles? If they're lying, where's the incentive? If they're telling the truth, the scandal isn't in what happened, but in the cover-up.And if the media doesn't bother to hear them out, the scandal spreads exponentially.More...See Also:UFO Activity at Nuclear Weapons Sites to be Revealed at the National Press Club: Your Assistance is Needed! The Air Force Cover-Up: "Deception, Distortion, and Lying to The Public About the Reality of the UFO Phenomenon" SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCEHELP SUPPORT THIS SITEABOUT DONATIONS Grab this Headline Animator
Monday, February 8, 2010
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European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system -- the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results have been published by the journal Nature on Oct. 17, 2012.
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This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth. Alpha Centauri B is the most brilliant object in the sky and the other dazzling object is Alpha Centauri A. Our own Sun is visible to the upper right. The tiny signal of the planet was found with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile [Credit: ESO/L. Calcada]"
Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System -- only 4.3 light-years away. It is actually a triple star -- a system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun orbiting close to each other, designated Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red component known as Proxima Centauri . Since the nineteenth century astronomers have speculated about planets orbiting these bodies, the closest possible abodes for life beyond the Solar System, but searches of increasing precision had revealed nothing. Until now.
"Our observations extended over more than four years using the HARPS instrument and have revealed a tiny, but real, signal from a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B every 3.2 days," says Xavier Dumusque (Geneva Observatory, Switzerland and Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal), lead author of the paper. "It's an extraordinary discovery and it has pushed our technique to the limit!"
The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet . The effect is minute -- it causes the star to move back and forth by no more than 51 centimetres per second (1.8 km/hour), about the speed of a baby crawling. This is the highest precision ever achieved using this method.
Alpha Centauri B is very similar to the Sun but slightly smaller and less bright. The newly discovered planet, with a mass of a little more than that of Earth , is orbiting about six million kilometres away from the star, much closer than Mercury is to the Sun in the Solar System. The orbit of the other bright component of the double star, Alpha Centauri A, keeps it hundreds of times further away, but it would still be a very brilliant object in the planet's skies.
The first exoplanet around a Sun-like star was found by the same team back in 1995 and since then there have been more than 800 confirmed discoveries, but most are much bigger than Earth, and many are as big as Jupiter . The challenge astronomers now face is to detect and characterise a planet of mass comparable to Earth that is orbiting in the habitable zone around another star. The first step has now been taken .
"This is the first planet with a mass similar to Earth ever found around a star like the Sun. Its orbit is very close to its star and it must be much too hot for life as we know it," adds St'ephane Udry (Geneva Observatory), a co-author of the paper and member of the team, "but it may well be just one planet in a system of several. Our other HARPS results, and new findings from Kepler, both show clearly that the majority of low-mass planets are found in such systems."
"This result represents a major step towards the detection of a twin Earth in the immediate vicinity of the Sun. We live in exciting times!" concludes Xavier Dumusque.
The components of a multiple star are named by adding uppercase letters to the name of the star. Alpha Centauri A is the brightest component, Alpha Centauri B is the slightly fainter second star and Alpha Centauri C is the much fainter Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri is slightly closer to Earth than A or B and hence is formally the closest star.
HARPS measures the radial velocity of a star -- its speed towards or away from Earth -- with extraordinary precision. A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from a distant observer on Earth. Due to the Doppler effect, this radial velocity change induces a shift of the star's spectrum towards longer wavelengths as it moves away (called a redshift) and a blueshift (towards shorter wavelengths) as it approaches. This tiny shift of the star's spectrum can be measured with a high-precision spectrograph such as HARPS and used to infer the presence of a planet.
Using the radial velocity method, astronomers can only estimate a minimum mass for a planet as the mass estimate also depends on the tilt of the orbital plane relative to the line of sight, which is unknown. But, from a statistical point of view, this minimum mass is often close to the real mass of the planet.
NASA's Kepler mission has found 2300 candidate planets using an alternative method -- searching for the slight drop in the brightness of a star as a planet passes in front of it (transits) and blocks some of the light. The majority of planet candidates detected by this transit method are very distant from us. But, in contrast, the planets found by HARPS are around stars close to the Sun -- with the new discovery being the closest yet. This makes them better targets for many kinds of additional follow-up observations such as characterising the planet's atmosphere.
The habitable zone is a narrow annular region around a star in which water may be present in liquid form if conditions are right.
ESPRESSO, the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations, is to be installed on the ESO Very Large Telescope. Currently undergoing final design, it is scheduled to start operating in late-2016 or early-2017. ESPRESSO will feature radial velocity precision of 0.35 km/hour or less. For comparison, Earth induces a 0.32 km/hour radial velocity on the Sun. This resolution should thus enable ESPRESSO to discover Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone. The ESPRESSO consortium is led by team members responsible for the current discovery.
"Source: European Southern Observatory (ESO) [October 16, 2012]"
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This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth. Alpha Centauri B is the most brilliant object in the sky and the other dazzling object is Alpha Centauri A. Our own Sun is visible to the upper right. The tiny signal of the planet was found with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile [Credit: ESO/L. Calcada]"
Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System -- only 4.3 light-years away. It is actually a triple star -- a system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun orbiting close to each other, designated Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red component known as Proxima Centauri . Since the nineteenth century astronomers have speculated about planets orbiting these bodies, the closest possible abodes for life beyond the Solar System, but searches of increasing precision had revealed nothing. Until now.
"Our observations extended over more than four years using the HARPS instrument and have revealed a tiny, but real, signal from a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B every 3.2 days," says Xavier Dumusque (Geneva Observatory, Switzerland and Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal), lead author of the paper. "It's an extraordinary discovery and it has pushed our technique to the limit!"
The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet . The effect is minute -- it causes the star to move back and forth by no more than 51 centimetres per second (1.8 km/hour), about the speed of a baby crawling. This is the highest precision ever achieved using this method.
Alpha Centauri B is very similar to the Sun but slightly smaller and less bright. The newly discovered planet, with a mass of a little more than that of Earth , is orbiting about six million kilometres away from the star, much closer than Mercury is to the Sun in the Solar System. The orbit of the other bright component of the double star, Alpha Centauri A, keeps it hundreds of times further away, but it would still be a very brilliant object in the planet's skies.
The first exoplanet around a Sun-like star was found by the same team back in 1995 and since then there have been more than 800 confirmed discoveries, but most are much bigger than Earth, and many are as big as Jupiter . The challenge astronomers now face is to detect and characterise a planet of mass comparable to Earth that is orbiting in the habitable zone around another star. The first step has now been taken .
"This is the first planet with a mass similar to Earth ever found around a star like the Sun. Its orbit is very close to its star and it must be much too hot for life as we know it," adds St'ephane Udry (Geneva Observatory), a co-author of the paper and member of the team, "but it may well be just one planet in a system of several. Our other HARPS results, and new findings from Kepler, both show clearly that the majority of low-mass planets are found in such systems."
"This result represents a major step towards the detection of a twin Earth in the immediate vicinity of the Sun. We live in exciting times!" concludes Xavier Dumusque.
NOTES
The components of a multiple star are named by adding uppercase letters to the name of the star. Alpha Centauri A is the brightest component, Alpha Centauri B is the slightly fainter second star and Alpha Centauri C is the much fainter Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri is slightly closer to Earth than A or B and hence is formally the closest star.
HARPS measures the radial velocity of a star -- its speed towards or away from Earth -- with extraordinary precision. A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from a distant observer on Earth. Due to the Doppler effect, this radial velocity change induces a shift of the star's spectrum towards longer wavelengths as it moves away (called a redshift) and a blueshift (towards shorter wavelengths) as it approaches. This tiny shift of the star's spectrum can be measured with a high-precision spectrograph such as HARPS and used to infer the presence of a planet.
Using the radial velocity method, astronomers can only estimate a minimum mass for a planet as the mass estimate also depends on the tilt of the orbital plane relative to the line of sight, which is unknown. But, from a statistical point of view, this minimum mass is often close to the real mass of the planet.
NASA's Kepler mission has found 2300 candidate planets using an alternative method -- searching for the slight drop in the brightness of a star as a planet passes in front of it (transits) and blocks some of the light. The majority of planet candidates detected by this transit method are very distant from us. But, in contrast, the planets found by HARPS are around stars close to the Sun -- with the new discovery being the closest yet. This makes them better targets for many kinds of additional follow-up observations such as characterising the planet's atmosphere.
The habitable zone is a narrow annular region around a star in which water may be present in liquid form if conditions are right.
ESPRESSO, the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations, is to be installed on the ESO Very Large Telescope. Currently undergoing final design, it is scheduled to start operating in late-2016 or early-2017. ESPRESSO will feature radial velocity precision of 0.35 km/hour or less. For comparison, Earth induces a 0.32 km/hour radial velocity on the Sun. This resolution should thus enable ESPRESSO to discover Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone. The ESPRESSO consortium is led by team members responsible for the current discovery.
"Source: European Southern Observatory (ESO) [October 16, 2012]"
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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By Stanton Friedman
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As a scientist who has been studying the UFO evidence since 1958, I must commend ASTRONOMY for publishing such a splendid example of the intellectual bankruptcy of the pseudoscience of anti-ufology,namely Phil Plait's "The Science Behind UFOs" (May 2013). He avoids all the science! There are 5 large scale scientific studies. None are mentioned. There are at least 12 PhD Theses about UFOs. None are mentioned. There are numerous radar visual accounts. None are mentioned. There are more than 5000 Physical Trace Cases collected by Ted Phillips from 95 countries. None are mentioned. There are a number of well investigated UFO abduction cases investigated by Professionals such as Psychiatrist Dr. John Mack of Harvard. None are mentioned.
The largest study is "Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14" done by engineers and scientists at Battelle Memorial Institute under contract to the USAF. It has over 200 tables, charts, graphs, maps, etc and deals with 3201 UFO sightings of which 21.5% were finally listed as UNKNOWNS, completely separate from the 9.3% listed as Insufficient Information. The better the quality of the sighting the more likely to be an UNKNOWN.A chi-square statistical analysis showed that the probability that the UNKNOWNS were just missed knowns was less than 1%.
The 247 page "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects: Hearings Before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives",July 29, 1968, provides testimony from 12 scientists, three of whom were astronomers. One was Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Chairman of the Astronomy Department at Northwestern University, and for more than 20 years consultant to the USAF Project Blue Book. His book "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry" should be required reading and contains many intriguing sightings. The most comprehensive presentation was by Dr. James E. McDonald, Senior Physicist in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. He covered 41 separate cases including sightings by astronomers such as Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto, and multiple witness radar visual cases.
The University of Colorado's "Scientific Report on UFOs "(The Condon Report) included information on 117 cases of which, according to a special UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 30% could not be identified..This book has the folllowing statement about the Trent Photo from McMinnville, Oregon, May 1950, noted by Plait. "This is one of the few UFO Reports in which all factors investigated, geometric, psychological, and physical appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disk shaped, tens of meters in diameter and evidently artificial, flew within sight of two witnesses".
The explanation given for the earlier Phoenix Lights as representing jets flying in formation is ridiculous. The object was huge, silent, flying slowly, blotting out the sky. It had no red and green lights. An important witness was Arizona governor, Fife Symington, a former air force officer and pilot. Plait acts as though all UFO sightings are just lights in the sky which are easily identified by somebody like him"A scientist, a Skeptic, a Hardnosed realist". The facts indicate that this is totally untrue.
One possible explanation for Plait's complete failure to deal with the science of UFOs is that, considering the date, it was written as an April Fool's Day joke. If so, I apologize.
"Editors note"-For those that which to express their opinion to the editors of Astronomy Magazine, their e-mail is as follows: letters@astronomy.com -"FW".
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As an added commentary to the post below about Dr. Ketchum's research,I'm posting the link to Lon Strikler's article at Phantoms and Monsters on the Coast to Coast interview with Ketchum. (And, like Lon, I too have a lot of respect for George Knapp.)
Phantoms and Monsters: Paranormal Activity, Bigfoot, Mothman, UFOs and Other Unexplained Phenomena: I am also frustrated...by the conjecture and rumors whipped up by a large number of Bigfoot researchers and enthusiasts, not the DNA study. Knapp also states:
The most vehement, the nastiest reaction to the aforementioned [Bigfoot] DNA study has come from those that think of themselves as Bigfoot researchers.
I have read a few responses to the C2C interview, many of which claim Knapp is an apologist for Dr. Melba Ketchum and the DNA study. Once again, we have someone who is privy to Dr. Ketchum's results and criticized for defending the study.
These salvos by Bigfoot dogmatics are clearly a 'push back' against those who are willing to have an open mind and not afraid to speak out.
Phantoms and Monsters: Paranormal Activity, Bigfoot, Mothman, UFOs and Other Unexplained Phenomena: I am also frustrated...by the conjecture and rumors whipped up by a large number of Bigfoot researchers and enthusiasts, not the DNA study. Knapp also states:
The most vehement, the nastiest reaction to the aforementioned [Bigfoot] DNA study has come from those that think of themselves as Bigfoot researchers.
I have read a few responses to the C2C interview, many of which claim Knapp is an apologist for Dr. Melba Ketchum and the DNA study. Once again, we have someone who is privy to Dr. Ketchum's results and criticized for defending the study.
These salvos by Bigfoot dogmatics are clearly a 'push back' against those who are willing to have an open mind and not afraid to speak out.
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