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Space Force Weighing Options to Space Attacks

March 12, 2021
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Article by Rachel S. Cohen March 3, 2021 (airforcemag.com)

• During a National Press Club event on March 3rd, Chief of Space Operations General John W. “Jay” Raymond said that U.S. officials are trying to hash out the ground rules for space combat. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer for what could be considered an act of war or a ‘proportional response’. “I think it depends on the strategic context that’s going on in the world,” said Raymond.

• There’s no such thing as a “space war,” Raymond said. “It’s just war. How nations might choose to conduct operations in that war, that conflict, either on the sea, or in the air, or on the ground, or now in space, … is just integrated into that larger strategic conflict.”

• “You can’t put weapons of mass destruction in orbit, and you can’t militarize a planet, a celestial body. Other than that, there’s no rules,” Raymond said. That ambiguity may complicate global discussions of norms of behavior in outer space. Space Force is trying to drive that conversation to constrain bad behavior and shape a common understanding of what’s acceptable on orbit. “I’m not naive to think, if there was a set of norms of behavior, that everybody’s going to follow them,” said Raymond.

• “The challenge for space strategists is to anticipate how this gradual shift from… information operations to physical operations will proceed,” a recent report on space defense from the Center for Strategic and International Security (CSIS) pointed out. “Further analysis and gaming are needed to explore… when it is advantageous (or not) to do nothing in response to an attack or threat of attack.”

• Though Space Force is quick to note various technologies in development by China, Russia and others that could look to damage U.S. assets, Raymond declined to talk about what offensive and defensive capabilities his service has in the works. The CSIS report recommended that Space Force own “non-kinetic active defenses, such as onboard jamming and lasing systems, … to thwart kinetic attacks against high-value satellites.”

• “A physical seizure capability should also be explored,” the report added, “that could double as a (non-aggressive) inspector and on-orbit servicing satellite,” such as the Russian spacecraft which Moscow said was an inspector satellite and test-fired an anti-satellite weapon in space last year.

• Raymond noted that Space Force will debut its plan for streamlining the Pentagon’s space acquisition agencies in “another week or so,” and that he expects to see a Space Force dress uniform prototype in about a month. Officials will finalize which parts of the Army and Navy departments will transfer to the Space Force in the next couple of months.

• Despite less discussion on the subject from the Biden White House, the federal government’s renewed emphasis on space superiority and exploration hasn’t waned, Raymond said. “This is not a political issue,” he stressed. “This is about our national security and the foundation of all instruments of national power, and I look forward to continuing our efforts to build this service.”

U.S. officials are trying to hash out the ground rules for extraterrestrial combat more than a year after standing up a Space Force to fend off threats on orbit.

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer for what actions by a satellite could be considered an act of war. Proportional response in a war that extends to space will depend on a broader context than earlier conflicts where the U.S. might respond to a barrage of rockets with its own airstrike, the Space Force’s top general said March 3. The U.S. could counter a satellite attack with a strike in cyberspace or against terrestrial facilities, for example.

“I think it depends on the strategic context that’s going on in the world,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond said during an event hosted by the National Press Club.

There’s no such thing as a “space war,” he said—it’s just war.
“How nations might choose to conduct operations in that war, that conflict, either on the sea, or in the air, or on the ground, or now in space, … is just integrated into that larger strategic conflict,” Raymond said.

That ambiguity may complicate global discussions of norms of behavior in outer space as more countries grow their civil, military, and industrial presence away from Earth. The Space Force is trying to drive that conversation to constrain bad behavior and shape a common understanding of what’s acceptable on orbit.

“You can’t put weapons of mass destruction in orbit, and you can’t militarize a planet, a celestial body. Other than that, there’s no rules,” Raymond said. “I’m not naive to think, if there was a set of norms of behavior, that everybody’s going to follow them.”

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Space Force’s International Partnerships in Commercial Space Industry

March 11, 2021
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Article by Meredith Roaten February 25, 2021 (nationaldefensemagazine.org)

• At the Air Force Association’s Virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium on February 25th, Space Force chief of operations, General John “Jay” Raymond, said that Space Force will prioritize collaboration with the commercial space industry and partners around the world. The commercial space industry has lowered the barriers to space, so that almost all Space Force missions can be commercially viable with smaller, more operationally relevant satellites, Raymond said. “We want to build a very fused connection with commercial industry.”

• In its first year, the Space Force transferred personnel and commissioned cadets to the service; published doctrine and set up monitoring systems to track space debris; fleshed out training and submitted recommendations to Congress about how to update the space acquisition process. “This second year is all about integration and integrating this force,” Raymond said. “It’s driving the car that we built.” Space Force is ready to move on to bolstering behavioral norms with international allies and launching more assets into space.

• Space Force’s structure allows it to work with industry to leverage technology innovation while saving money. Earlier this year, Space Force established ‘SpaceWERX’, a technology accelerator program that works with companies in the space industry. “As we design that force, we want to design it in a way that capitalizes on this new business model that has emerged, that produces satellites off of a production line, rather than the one-off, handmade wooden shoe that takes years and years and years to build,” Raymond said.

• International exercises and wargames have helped the service foster these norms in the past year. Strengthening norms of behavior for space operations alongside international partners will improve safety, Raymond said. Norms don’t prevent bad behavior but they draw attention to countries or companies operating in a dangerous way. “We’ve made some really good strides and we operate to demonstrate that good behavior,” said Raymond. “We want to build this coalition friendly from the beginning to allow our international partners to invest.”

• Meanwhile, Raymond noted that the “explosion” of the space industry and international space activity has created new problems in ‘space debris’ or ‘space junk’. There are thousands of pieces of debris in addition to the thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit, creating the danger of collision. “If the space domain is something we all care about, then inventing some innovative way to get the debris out of space could be something very useful for the future,” Raymond said. Improving engineering and launch standards will help to prevent more debris buildup. International partners can also monitor space and warn each other about potentially dangerous debris.

This year, the Space Force will prioritize collaboration with the commercial space industry and partners around the world, the

service’s chief of operations said Feb. 25.

These types of partnerships have and will continue to allow the United States to lead the world in space, Gen. John “Jay” Raymond said at the Air Force Association’s Virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium. The service — the newest branch of the military — was stood up 14 months ago.

In its first year, the Space Force transferred personnel and commissioned cadets to the service. It also published doctrine and set up monitoring systems to track space debris, among other capabilities. The service also fleshed out training for its new personnel and submitted recommendations to Congress about how to update the space acquisition process.

“This second year is all about integration and integrating this force,” Raymond said. “It’s driving the car that we built.”

Now, the service is ready to move on to bolstering behavioral norms with international allies and launching more assets into space. Because the commercial industry has lowered the barriers to space, almost all Space Force missions can be commercially viable with smaller, more operationally relevant satellites, he said.

“We want to build a very fused connection with commercial industry,” he said.

The service’s structure should allow it to work with industry to leverage technology innovation while saving money, he noted.

“As we design that force, we want to design it in a way that capitalizes on this new business model that has emerged, that produces satellites off of a production line, rather than the one-off, handmade wooden shoe that takes years and years and years to build,” Raymond said.

Earlier this year, the service established SpaceWERX, a technology accelerator program that works with companies in the space industry. The technology areas of focus for the program will be announced in coming weeks.

The service will also grow partnerships with allies this year, Raymond noted. Strengthening norms of behavior for space operations alongside international partners will improve safety, he said.

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International Effort to Set Rules of Behavior in Space

March 10, 2021
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Article by Sandra Erwin February 24, 2021 (spacenews.com)

• The commander of the US Space Command, Major General DeAnna Burt (pictured above) says that international momentum is building for the adoption of a binding set of rules to make space safer and sustainable. A December 2020 UN resolution proposed by the UK will focus on a set of rules curtailing irresponsible or potentially threatening activities in space, and on reducing the risks of misunderstandings and miscalculations. The United States and allies including Canada, France, Germany Australia and New Zealand are now drafting language for the rules and the US Space Command is taking a central role. The UN has asked countries to submit input by May 3rd.

• This effort comes amid growing alarm about Russia’s anti-satellite weapon tests and concerns that the proliferation of satellites and debris is rapidly cluttering Earth orbit. US Space Command has grown especially mistrustful of Russia following recent tests of weapons that could be used to target satellites in low Earth orbit. In 2020 Russia tested two direct-ascent weapons. It also tested a co-orbital system that the United States claims was aimed at a US intelligence satellite.

• The 1967 Outer Space Treaty remains the basis for international space law but experts say the treaty has become outdated. For example, it bans the use of weapons of mass destruction in space but countries now deploy dual-use spacecraft that can be used for peaceful and military purposes.

• For decades there have been calls for the UN and other organizations to figure out a way to deter these types of activities and move forward as more nations engage in space operations. “[W]e want to see something that is binding. …The problem with previous UN resolutions is that they were non-binding”, said Burt. “We’re going to prepare what we believe will be proposal language that will go to the UN and hopefully result in a binding resolution,” she said. “[I]t’s going to be something we can all agree to.”

• It’s not just the U.S. and allied governments that care about this, said Burt. Private satellite owners and operators from many nations “have a vested interest in keeping the domain safe, sustainable and free for all to use,” says Burt. “There’s been a lot of (global) exploration over hundreds of years and we’ve established norms that become laws about the rules of the sea” under a long-standing maritime domain model. “How we operate in the space domain needs very similar kinds of customs and processes.” Any agreement has to clearly define what constitutes threatening, hostile or irresponsible behavior, Burt said. Based on that, a nation could decide if a particular action in space constitutes an act of war or if it can be handled through diplomatic or economic sanctions.

• Over the past decade, China and Russia have floated treaty proposals to ban weapons in space, but the United States has rejected them as unacceptable. The U.S. is not calling for a ban on specific weapons, Burt said. “The Chinese and the Russians have already put weapons in space. So I think we’re way past having a conversation about regulating them per se, which is why we focus on norms of behavior.” With regard to anti-satellite weapons, “I don’t think you can you can put that genie back in the bottle.”

• With more nations now involved in space, there are concerns beyond the use of weapons, such as safety of flight so that satellites do not collide with each other, said Burt, who spent 28 years in the U.S. Air Force operating satellites. Safety concerns will only grow as more humans start going to space, she added. Any international agreement also should hold accountable actors who create long-term debris. “That is something that we see is one of the biggest concerns,” she said. “We need to define what is long-term debris but a clear example is China’s 2007 anti-satellite test. We are still tracking debris from 2007.”

• Awareness of what other countries are doing will help attribute actions, said Burt. In instances when someone threatens a U.S. satellite, ideally “we want to show a picture … and share that on the national news” the same way the Air Force shows videos of aerial bombing campaigns. Most U.S. intelligence about the space domain is classified, however. Burt said U.S. Space Command leaders are working with the intelligence community to “declassify things we need to talk about to the American people.”

WASHINGTON — The United States and allies are drafting language in support of an international effort to adopt rules of behavior in space, U.S. Space Command’s Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt told SpaceNews.

Burt is the commander of U.S. Space Command’s combined force space component at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. She said international momentum is building for the adoption of a binding set of rules to make space safer and sustainable.

U.S. Space Command is taking a central role in this effort amid growing alarm about Russia’s anti-satellite weapon tests and concerns that the proliferation of satellites and debris is rapidly cluttering Earth orbit.

Burt said a team of Defense and State Department officials is drafting language on the U.S. position on a resolution approved in December by the United Nations General Assembly which calls for “norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviors” in space. The UN has asked countries to submit input by May 3 for inclusion in a report to be reviewed by the UN General Assembly this summer.

The problem with previous UN resolutions is that they were non binding, said Burt. “We’re going to prepare what we believe will be proposal language that will go to the UN and hopefully result in a binding resolution,” she said. “There’s a lot of good work happening on the international stage.”

For decades there have been calls for the UN and other organizations to figure out a way forward as more nations engage in space operations. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty remains the basis for international space law but experts say the treaty has become outdated. For example, it bans the use of weapons of mass destruction in space but countries now deploy dual-use spacecraft that can be used for peaceful and military purposes.

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Poll Shows Public’s Priorities in Space

March 9, 2021
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Article by Marcia Smith February 25, 2021 (spacepolicyonline.com)

• A survey of 2,200 American adults conducted February 12-15, 2021 by ‘Morning Consult’ ranked space research and exploration 25th in a list of 26 priorities for the Biden Administration. It appears that the public wants the government to focus its space research agenda on monitoring Earth’s climate, and not human exploration of the Moon and Mars. But a he same time, the public also wants the U.S. to keep its competitive edge in space over countries like Russia and China. Ranking the most threatening countries in space, respondents viewed China the biggest threat to the U.S at 52 percent, Russia next at 45 percent, North Korea at 34 percent, and Iran at 30 percent.

• With regard to activities in space, monitoring the Earth’s climate system is the top priority 35 percent of those surveyed. In second place is monitoring asteroids that might threaten Earth and third was developing technologies that could be used broadly, not only for space. At the bottom of the list of 10 possible priorities was sending civilians to the Moon or Mars, which was a priority for only 6 percent of the people polled. The public is slightly more amenable to sending professional astronauts to the Moon or to Mars, but not civilians.

• Regarding NASA’s Artemis program aiming to return people to the Moon and go on to Mars, only 33 percent of the participants rate the Moon goal as a top or important priority and 24 percent for Mars. When considering Jared Isaacman’s proposal to hold a lottery for people to join him on Inspiration4 in a space flight (see previous ExoArticle), 58 percent said they were unlikely to travel to space even if price was no object. Most of those polled supported Biden’s decision to keep the US Space Force many said they did not know as they felt they weren’t “up to speed” on the government’s space efforts.

A new poll from Morning Consult finds that the public wants the government to focus its space research agenda on monitoring Earth’s climate, not human exploration of the Moon and Mars. Overall it ranked space research and exploration 25th in a list of 26 priorities for the Biden Administration. However, it also wants the United States to keep its competitive edge in space over countries like Russia and China.

The top priority was monitoring Earth’s climate system for 35 percent of those surveyed, while it was “important, but lower priority” for 28 percent, “not too important of a priority” for 18 percent, “should not be done” for 7 percent, and “don’t know/no opinion” for 11 percent.

Second was monitoring asteroids that might threaten Earth and third was developing technologies that could be used broadly, not only for space.

At the bottom of the list of 10 possible priorities was sending civilians to the Moon or Mars. That was a top priority for just 6 percent, important for 18 percent, not too important for 39 percent, should not be done for 24 percent, and 12 percent did not know or had no opinion.

Ranking just above that was sending “astronauts” to the Moon or to Mars, which apparently refers to professional astronauts as compared to the general public. NASA is embarked on the Artemis program with commercial and international partners to return people to the Moon and go on to Mars, although according to this survey only 33 percent rate the Moon goal as a top or important priority and 24 percent for Mars.

Also of interest, especially as entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is testing the waters of public interest in flying into space by choosing a person by lottery to join him on Inspiration4, of those surveyed 58 percent said they were unlikely to travel to space themselves even if price was no object.

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Aliens On Earth? Elon Musk Has His Doubts

March 8, 2021
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Article by Christine Andas February 22, 2021 (ph.asiatatler.com)

• As the CEO and founder of SpaceX, the first private company to launch a spacecraft to reach the International Space Station and to send humans to space, Elon Musk (pictured above) would most probably know if aliens do exist. In a recent interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, Rogan asked him whether extraterrestrial beings exist and are visiting the Earth. Shaking his head, Musk responded by saying, “No… To the best of my knowledge… there is no direct evidence [of] alien life [on Earth].”

• Musk then insinuated that if extraterrestrial beings were here on Earth, with so many people possessing iPhones why aren’t there any good photos of them, noting that the pictures and video released by the Pentagon and the CIA of hovering UFOs have been grainy black and white footage. The use this to claim that it is still unclear whether UFOs are indeed of extraterrestrial origin.

• In addition to being the CEO of SpaceX rocket manufacturing and Tesla Motors electric car manufacturing, Musk is the co-founder of Neuralink which develops brain-machine interfaces, and OpenAI which is developing next generation Artificial Intelligence. Musk is also the CEO of The Boring Company, which bores underground transportation tunnels. All of this has made Musk the “Richest Man in the World”.

• One need not go too far to find others who harbor doubts about the existence of extraterrestrial life – visiting the Earth or not. Most mainstream scientists and astronomers would agree. In 1979, American mathematical physicist Frank J. Tipler strongly insisted that aliens do not exist and that humans are the only intelligent species in the galaxy. In 1961, the mathematician Frank Drake developed the ‘Drake Equation’ wherein he estimated that there are likely only ten other planets in the Milky Way galaxy that might harbor extraterrestrial civilizations. Recently, Tom Westby and Christopher J. Conselice used the Drake Equation to arrive at their own estimate that no more than 36 alien civilizations exist in the galaxy. And of course, none of them have reached Earth.

• [Editor’s Note] Let’s see. A high-profile space transportation company clinging to outdated rocket propulsion technology. An electric car manufacturing company. A company developing Artificial Intelligence and a sister company integrating that technology into the human brain. And a deep underground tunnel boring company. Elon Musk’s vast fortune depends entirely on the Deep State and the cabal’s nefarious plans for the future. So of course Musk is going to go along with the Deep State’s cover-up of the existence of the numerous extraterrestrial races with whom cabal operatives here on Earth continually interact. The Deep State has been keeping the existence of extraterrestrials and their advanced technology from the people of Earth since the inception of the CIA and Majestic 12 in 1947. They simply want this highly advanced alien technology all to themselves, so that they can dominate the Earth and our solar system. Since Musk is so closely tied to this elite cabal of government, bankers and industrialists, he must know the truth about the extraterrestrial presence. This makes Elon Musk a liar and a Deep State stooge, as I have been saying for years.

“To the best of my knowledge… there is no direct evidence [of] alien life [on earth],” Elon Musk recently said in a new interview

with Joe Rogan. Rogan was hoping Musk would know (or at least hint at) the existence of these cosmo beings but Elon only responded by shaking his head, saying “no”.

“Somebody’s gotta at least have an iPhone 1 level camera,” he added. This rings true considering all the UFO footage that the Pentagon released last year and CIA’s UFO files which were released recently. The Pentagon’s grainy black and white footage revealed a hovering figure. Although the unidentified flying object was evident in the footage, it’s still unclear if it was the work of an extraterrestrial being.

As the CEO and founder of SpaceX, the first private company to launch a spacecraft to reach the space station and send humans to space, Musk would most probably know if aliens do exist. He has mastered multiple fields namely rocket science, engineering,

transportation and aerospace. Apart from SpaceX, Elon is also the CEO of Tesla Motors and The Boring Company. He is also the co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. Currently, Elon’s prowess and success have earned him the title “Richest Man in the World”.

CONTRASTING INTELLIGENT LIFE STUDIES

One would think that the copious amount of alien studies, footage, and documents that we have would finally answer the questions we have been asking for years. But these discoveries are only revealing contrasting finds made by scientists and astronomers alike.

In 1979, American mathematical physicist Frank J. Tipler strongly insists that aliens do not exist and that humans are the only intelligent species to exist in the galaxy.

The Drake Equation which Frank Drake started in 1961 is an argument used to estimate the number of alien civilisations in the milky way galaxy. It helped Drake estimate 10 planets in the milky way. Since then, various scientists have used the Drake Equation in an attempt to make the best guesses. It helped Tom Westby and Christopher J. Conselice in their new study. They claim that alien life is existent but rare—only 36 alien societies reside within the milky way.

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Tales of ‘Blinding Lights’ and ‘Alien Abductions’ in the UK North-East ‘Hotspot’

March 7, 2021
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Article by Katie Anderson February 20, 2021 (gazettelive.co.uk )

• Glen Richardson’s father once told him about a strange occurrence that happened before Richardson was born. His father awoke one night around 2 or 3 in the morning to the sound of a vacuum cleaner. He ventured downstairs expecting to find his wife, but instead, saw a very big, bright, yellow and orange blinding light coming from outside the window. “He went to take a closer look, it lit up the sky for a few more seconds, and then it vanished,” said Richardson (pictured above).

• With this story, Richardson was hooked. He consumed as many books and articles on the UFO topic as he could get his hands on and became a resident UFO investigator in Hartlepool, in Durham County, England – studying unexplained objects and potential alien existence. He began travelling the length and breadth of the UK to meet people who’d had witnessed similar phenomena. “[M]y late-father that really inspired me- because he was a very skeptical man,” says Richardson, now 45. Richardson works as a mental health care assistant when he’s not chasing UFOs.

• The most compelling case that Richardson has dealt with over the last 20 years involved a woman from Northumberland who came forward two years ago saying she’d seen an unrecognizable object in the sky followed by two Apache helicopters. “…I spoke to a gentleman from the Ministry of Defence” said Richardson. “He confirmed there were three Apache helicopters deployed at the same time and location.” “She was adamant that the third was not a helicopter.”[B]ut… it validated her sighting of an unrecognizable object.

• Richardson says North East England is somewhat of a “hotspot” for UFO sightings, with many reports coming in over the last few years, including across Hartlepool. “A man in Hartlepool complained of missing time while he was awake, and a triangular shaped craft outside his room when he went to sleep,” said Richardson. “He said these things happened to him on three separate occasions during the 1980s.”

• Richardson said he feels there is a difference between these ‘abduction’ scenarios and hallucinations he observes in his job as a mental health worker. Patients will just come out with their hallucination. But when UFO witnesses speak of an encounter, they act very cautiously. “Often it’ll start with them describing a sighting, and once they trust you, they’ll confide in you about something more,” says Richardson. “Often I get the impression they don’t believe it themselves, or they don’t want to believe it.”

• With the advancement of smart phones and other video technology, more people are capturing them and the stigma attached to reporting UFO’s is falling away. And with this change, “[P]eople are feeling more confident than ever coming forward,” notes Richardson. “When I first started, there was a lot of name-calling (from) friends and colleagues… but that’s settled down now.”

• “I’m part of a strong community of researchers and we are all in it for the same reasons: to help people and to gather as much information as possible to substantiate that there is life out there. It would be an amazing discovery.”

• Richardson concedes that there are logical explanations for many UFO sightings. But there are some that just can’t be explained. “I do believe there is something else going on,” he says. And he believes that there is more to it than just unidentified flying objects – there is the potential for alien life. “Regardless of whether you believe in evolution or religious arguments, it seems highly unlikely that we are the only life out there.”

For most people, UFOs are a source of intrigue and the extra-terrestrial is reserved for sci-fi Netflix binges.

But for Hartlepool ‘s resident UFO investigator, Glen Richardson, studying unexplained objects and potential alien existence is a life-passion.

“I’ve been interested in this line of work for as long as I can remember” said Glen, 45, who works as a mental health care assistant when he’s not chasing UFOs.

“But it was one story from my late-father that really inspired me- because he was a very skeptical man.”

“He told me that one night, before I was born, he awoke around 2 or 3 in the morning to the sound of a vacuum cleaner. He ventured downstairs expecting to find my mum, but instead, saw a very big, bright, yellow and orange blinding light coming from outside the window.

“He went to take a closer look, it lit up the sky for a few more seconds, and then it vanished.”

Glen was captivated by the tale, and eagerly consumed as many books and articles on the topic as he could get his hands on. Soon, he began travelling the length and breadth of the UK to meet people who alleged they had witnessed similar phenomena.

He said the most compelling case he’s dealt with over the last 20 years involved a woman from Northumberland, who came forward 2 years ago saying she’d seen an unrecognisable object in the sky followed by two Apache helicopters.

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CIA Docs Suggest Giant Aliens on Ancient Mars

March 7, 2021
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Article by Nirmal Narayanan February 21, 2021 (ibtimes.co.in)

• A declassified CIA document released by The Black Vault has gone viral. Titled ‘Mars Exploration May 22, 1984’, the document suggests that the CIA may have observed alien life on the Martian surface by use of ‘remote viewing’ or ‘astral projection’ which helped the subject (ie: the viewer) observe ancient alien life on Mars.

• CIA officers asked the subject to watch Mars before one million years BC. The subject claimed that he saw pyramid-like structures on the Red Planet and added that he witnessed alien life forms on the Martian surface. “I’m seeing, ah, it’s like a perception of a shadow of people, very tall, thin, it’s only a shadow. It’s as if they were there and they’re not, not there anymore,” notes the subject in the CIA transcript. These humanoid creatures were also wearing strange clothing.

• A few weeks back, the former head of Israel’s space security program for more than 30 years Haim Eshed claimed that aliens do exist, and that world powers like the United States and Israel are working together with aliens. Eshed claims that there is a Galactic Federation with representatives of humans and aliens, and that there is a secret underground base on Mars where extraterrestrials and humans are working together.

A declassified CIA document from 1984 is now going viral on online spaces, and it suggests that the United States may have

observed alien life on the Martian surface. The document has been released by The Black Vault and it has gone viral at a time when NASA created history by landing its Perseverance Rover on the surface of the Red Planet, aiming to uncover secrets of ancient life on Mars.

Mars exploration mysteries

The document uncovered by The Black Vault has been simply titled ‘Mars Exploration May 22, 1984’, and it basically centers around a subject that made use of astral projection which helped him observe ancient alien life on Mars.

When the CIA officers asked the subject to watch Mars before one million years BC, the subject claimed that he saw pyramid-like structures on the Red Planet. The subject also added that he witnessed alien life forms on the Martian surface.

“I’m seeing, ah, it’s like a perception of a shadow of people, very tall, thin, it’s only a shadow. It’s as if they were there and they’re not, not there anymore,” said the subject.
The subject added that the humanoid creatures he saw roaming across the Red Planet were very tall and they were seen wearing strange clothing.

Alien underground base in Mars

A few weeks back, Haim Eshed who served as the head of Israel’s space security program for more than 30 years had claimed that

aliens do exist in the universe. The former space security chief also added that world powers like the United States and Israel are working together with aliens.

Eshed made these remarks during an interview given to Yediot Aharanot. During the interview, Eshed claimed that there is a galactic federation where there are representatives of humans and aliens. He also added that there is a secret underground base on Mars where extraterrestrials and humans are working together.

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Airliner Audio Reveals Close Encounter with ‘Fast-Moving Cylindrical Object’ Over New Mexico

March 6, 2021
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Article by Luke Kenton February 22, 2021 (dailymail.co.uk)

• On February 21st at about 1pm local time, a commercial jet travelling from Cincinnati to Phoenix had a close encounter with a fast-moving, ‘long cylindrical object’ at 36,000 feet over northeast New Mexico. In the 20-second audio below, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 2292 can be heard telling Albuquerque Air Traffic Control: “Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us. I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.” The airliner was travelling around 460 miles per hour at the time and went on to land in Phoenix without further incident.

• The American Airline radio transmission was intercepted by Steve Douglass who runs the Deep Black Horizon blog. In a statement to DailyMail.com, American Airlines confirmed the authenticity of the audio clip obtained by Douglass. According to Douglas, no significant military aircraft presence was noted in the area at the time. According to The Drive, the incident happened not too far from the sprawling White Sands Missile Range and the Mount Dora Military Operating Area. But the likelihood that a missile may have ‘gone off the reservation’ during a test or exercise is slim. Commercial pilots would’ve been pre-notified to any such safety hazard.

• The encounter is reminiscent of another incident that occurred in the same area three years ago. In that incident, on February 24, in 2018, two pilots on different air craft – a Learjet and an Airbus – reported having close encounters with a mysterious object flying above them at 37,000 feet over southern Arizona near the New Mexico border. The sightings occurred within minutes of each other. The pilot of a Learjet asked Air Traffic Control: “Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?” When the dispatcher replied ‘no’, the pilot laughed insisting it must be a ‘UFO’.

• Moments later, the pilot of American Airlines Airbus announced: “Yeah, something just passed over us, like a – I don’t know what it was. But it was at least two, three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us.” When asked if the object was in motion or hovering, the pilot said: “Couldn’t make it out whether it was a balloon or whatnot. But it was just really beaming light or could have had a big reflection and was several thousand feet above us going opposite direction.” That pilot later told local media: “It was very bright but it wasn’t so bright that you couldn’t look at it … It didn’t look anything like an airplane.” “What was weird about it, normally, if you have an object and the sun is shining this way, the reflection would be on this side, but this was bright all the way around. It was so bright that you really couldn’t make out what shape it was.”

An American Airlines flight travelling from Cincinnati to Phoenix on Sunday shared a bizarre close encounter with what its pilot described as a fast-moving, ‘long cylindrical object’.

The encounter, which occurred at 36,000 feet above the remote northeast corner of New Mexico, west of Des Moines yesterday, involved AA Flight 2292, an Airbus A320, according to The Drive.

In a radio transmission intercepted by Steve Douglass, who runs the Deep Black Horizon blog, the pilot can be heard telling Albuquerque Air Traffic Control: ‘Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us.

‘I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.’

The plane was said to be travelling at around 460 miles per hour at the time.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, American Airlines confirmed the authenticity of the audio clip obtained by Douglass.

20-second audio of Flight 2292 pilot’s report to air traffic control (‘The War Zone’ YouTube)

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Russia and China Ready to Sign Deal to Build First Moon Base, Snubbing US

March 6, 2021
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Article by Olivia Burke February 18, 2021 (thesun.co.uk)

• On February 11th, the Russian Federation announced plans to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with China to collaborate on a series of International Lunar Research Stations (ILRS) or ‘Moon bases’, as proposed by the Chinese. Both countries will carry out preparatory research throughout the 2020s with the aim of establishing Moon bases at the Moon’s south pole in the early 2030s. The bases will initially be populated by robots and will provide a long-term presence on the Moon for short crewed missions in the early 2030s, and a longer-term sustained human presence anticipated to begin between 2036-2045. The U.S. has not been asked to participate.

• The Chinese and Russians plan to use the lunar base to aid the “construction and operation of human’s first sharing platform in the lunar south pole, supporting long-term, large-scale scientific exploration, technical experiments and development and utilization of lunar resources.” The robotic base will potentially incorporate the expertise of other nations as well, who will contribute their own spacecrafts.

• Pand Zhihao, a former researcher at the China Academy of Space Technology, praised, “Russia’s expertises, including liquid oxygen kerosene engine technology as well as a complete, world-beating system for astronaut training, will all no doubt accelerate the program’s advancement.” Russia’s state corporation for space activities, Roscosmos, said the official announcement set to coincide with the Global Space Exploration Conference in 2021, held in St. Petersburg.

• Humans have not set foot on the Moon since the NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. The Americans have been planning to resume settlement of the Moon under the Artemis Accords, pledging to send astronauts back there by 2024. The Russians, however, do not favor the Artemis Accords because it proposes a global legal framework for mining on the Moon, which the Russians liken to colonialism. Roscosmos’ deputy general director for international cooperation, Sergey Saveliev, remarked, “There have already been examples in history when one country decided to start seizing territories in its (own) interest — everyone remembers what came of it.”

• It is also believed that Russia was reluctant to back the Artemis Accords plan due to the Lunar Gateway element – a small orbiting space station and communication hub similar to the ISS. U.S. legislation implemented in 2011 prohibits China from participating with the International Space Station partnership. And it is thought that the Trump Administration further isolated the U.S. from its international allies by unilaterally creating the Space Force.

• NASA’s Artemis Accords have the cooperation and support of Australia, Canada, England, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, and the UAE. “The Artemis Accords have driven China and Russia toward increased cooperation in space out of fear and necessity,” said former Congressional legislative director Elya Taichman.

• China made history in 2019 by becoming the first country to land on the dark side of the Moon. The European Space Agency is said to be closely monitoring the ILRS program in anticipation of joining. It is feared that a China-Russia-European consortium could knock NASA off the top spot as the international leader of space exploration.

RUSSIA and China are joining forces as they prepare to sign a historic deal to build the first moon base after they snubbed the US.

The two countries are to collaborate on the international lunar structure, which was thought up by China – the latest build in the space-race against America.

The purpose of the International Lunar Research Stations (ILRS), is to create a long-term robotic presence on the Moon by the start of the next decade, before eventually establishing a sustained human presence.

An Order of the Government of the Russian Federation detailing the scheme was published on February 11, but the “date to sign the above mentioned MoU has not been determined yet and is currently discussed with the Chinese partners.”

Humans have not set foot on the moon since December 1972, when Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan made tracks on it during an

Apollo 17 mission.

Both countries will carry out the research, beginning with China’s upcoming Chang’e-6, -7, and -8 missions and Russia’s Luna 27 probe.

They plan to use the lunar base to aid the “construction and operation of human’s first sharing platform in the lunar south pole, supporting long-term, large-scale scientific exploration, technical experiments and development and utilisation of lunar resources.”

China and Russia plan that in the early 2030s, the ILRS development will theoretically provide a base for long-term robotic presence on the Moon with the potential for short crewed missions.

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Extraterrestrials Are Concerned About Destruction and War Say ‘Contactees’

March 6, 2021
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Article by Arjun Walia February 16, 2021 (collective-evolution.com)

• On a hilltop known as Khao Kala, in a mountainous forest reserve in the central Thailand near the city of Nakhon Sawan, large groups of people who climb up to a large Buddha statue that sits atop the hill (pictured above) have reported seeing UFOs hovering over the hilltop. Khao Kala is three hours by rail north of Bangkok. The pilgrims who regularly gather there claim that the UFOs are extraterrestrials from the former planet Pluto sending them telepathic messages. The ETs are said to be thin beings with silver looking skin. They travel in spaceships through a wormhole that ends just above the Buddha statue where craft are seen spontaneously appearing and disappearing.

• The Plutonians telepathically warn of environmental disaster and/or a nuclear war if humanity does not get its affairs in order. The ETs are worried that a disaster on the Earth could impact Pluto as well. They also want to help Earth survivors rebuild human civilization in the event of a massive extermination. In 2019, the gatherings at the top of Khao Kala had become so large that the government petitioned the courts to ban mass gatherings in the area and tried to prevent multiple groups from going there. Many UFO enthusiasts who gathered in the area were confronted by police and forestry officials.

• The gatherings at the Buddha statue at Khao Kala began in 1997 when retired Sergeant-Major Cherd Chunsamnaun was at his home, deep in Buddhist meditation, when he received mental messages from the Plutonian extraterrestrials. Cherd’s daughter Wassana scoffed at him and told him to “tell the aliens to show themselves”. The next day, the daughter watched as her brother and brother-in-law “were yanked up from the living room sofa and spun simultaneously, like whirling dervishes, out of the house and into the yard.”

• When Wassana saw her brother and brother-in-law spinning like tops in the front yard, she called her sister, nurse Somjit. When Somjit arrived home, her husband Charoen Raepeth told her that he had lost control of his body and spun out to the front yard of the house where he was shocked to see a UFO in the sky above. “I saw a big, round flying object with a bright orange light in the center and many other smaller lights spinning around it,” said Charoen. The sisters looked each other and said, “It is real.” They both quit their nursing jobs to champion the extraterrestrials as their father continued to receive telepathic messages over the years. “Before my father died (in 2000), he taught us how to communicate with the aliens,” said Wassana. Today, she says more than 100 other Thais have developed the ability communicate with the ETs as well.

• In the 1950s, Dr. George King founded the Aetherius Society after receiving telepathic messages from an extraterrestrial. According to King, the ETs were also very concerned about humanity’s use, testing and manufacturing of nuclear weapons, and the direction in which humanity on Earth was heading. But as former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer stated, “Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.”

• It is a matter of public record that UFOs have been seen, many times, hovering over nuclear missile storage facilities when the missile launching capabilities were inexplicably shut down. In March of 1967, witnesses saw a red, glowing UFO hovering just outside the front gate of Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, a USAF nuclear weapons launch facility. According to USAF Captain Robert Salas, all of the nuclear missiles shut down and went completely dead.

• A declassified report by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from June 1959 revealed just how seriously the U.S. government wanted to detonate a nuclear weapon on the Moon. USAF Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who also worked extensively with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, said that he learned “about incidents involving nuclear weapons.” Apparently, in the late 1970s and early 80s, the U.S. military “attempted to put a nuclear weapon on the Moon and explode it for scientific measurements and other things, which was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials,” said Dedrickson. “They destroyed the weapon before it got to the Moon….And that is their major concern, to preserve the integrity of the Earth, because it (also) affects their own system….The idea of an explosion in space by any Earth government was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials and that has been demonstrated over and over.”

• In 1977, a British news broadcast was supposedly overtaken over by an extraterrestrial called Vrillon. The message was a warning to the people of Earth to change our ways before we destroy the planet. And in 1994, more than 60 children at a school in Zimbabwe telepathically received the same messages of imminent annihilation of the planet if we do not change our destructive ways. Harvard psychiatrist John Mack investigated the case and confirmed that all of the schoolchildren recounted the exact same experience and drew the same pictures of the extraterrestrial beings who communicated to them that we must change our ways on this planet.

We are living in a time in which the collective mind is opening and has opened itself to the possibility that “we are being visited and have

been visited” (Lord Admiral Hill Norton) by beings from other worlds. This topic is no longer taboo, especially since the fact that the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs) has been confirmed multiple times by many governments and agencies around the world, the latest example being the United States Navy and the Pentagon.

We have seen legitimate coverage on the topic from mainstream media organizations like the New York Times and CNN for example, coverage that hints to the idea that these objects do not originate on Earth or from our civilization. This type of “mainstream disclosure” has many people skeptical given the fact that so many people are having a hard time trusting these networks. For years we’ve seen a campaign within the mainstream to ridicule this topic and place it into the “conspiracy theory” bin. Therefore, it is indeed an important question to ask ourselves why they are legitimizing the topic all of a sudden after so many years of secrecy and ridicule. I propose that what we are receiving and will receive from the mainstream is simply an attempt to control the narrative on a topic that is so vast and leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. We will probably get nothing but a heavily sanitized version of the ‘truth,’ if anything and an attempt to control our perception of the phenomenon, but that’s just my opinion. Right now we don’t know what we are going to get.

Although the collective mind is opening to the reality of unknown objects performing physics defying maneuvers thanks to radar tracking data, videos, pictures and witness testimony, as well as the extraterrestrial hypothesis, when it comes to actual stories that exist within the lore of this field it still seems quite unbelievable to many, and that’s very understandable.

What Happened

One (of many) interesting recent supposed contact experiences that may currently be ongoing comes from a forest reserve in central Thailand. A hilltop (Khao Kala) there has been attracting many people, especially those who have an interest in the UFO phenomenon due to reports of UFOs seen in the area hovering above a large Buddha statue that sits atop the hill. It’s all happening approximately three hours by road or rail

north from Bangkok in Nakhon Sawan, which translates to “City of Heaven.”

Those who gather there and have been gathering claim that these objects are piloted by extraterrestrials, and that they receive telepathic messages that are quite similar to the messages and teachings that come from Buddhism. To someone who hasn’t studied the lore of extraterrestrial phenomenon this may seem funny and ridiculous, but supposed telepathic communication with extraterrestrial beings is quite commonplace among those who claim to have had such experiences. In many cases the “teachings” and messages supposedly received also seem to corroborate to many other encounters from around the globe. The corroboration among experiencers is actually quite eye-opening and vast. There are thousands of experiences that corroborate with each other in several fascinating ways.

Another common corroboration seems to be the idea that we as a human race are on the brink of destroying our planet, and in doing so we may also affect beings that live on other worlds around us. These particular beings in Thailand have warned of environmental disaster and the threat of World War 3 as well if humanity does not get its affairs in order. Some of these beings in Thailand apparently come from Pluto, they arrive in spaceships via a supposed wormhole above the statue, and the beings and craft are seen spontaneously appearing and disappearing. They are supposedly thin beings with silver looking skin.

“Pluto aliens worry about something so devastating happening on Earth, such as war or in the environment, that it might impact

their planet. They also want to give some people the ability to communicate with them, so if humans destroy everything in a nuclear war, the aliens will be able to help survivors rebuild human civilization.”

This is interesting, Dr. George King who founded the Aetherius Society after, according to him, receiving telepathic messages from an extraterrestrial. The messages given through Dr. King from the 1950’s onward corroborate with UFO activity disclosed today, in 2021, and the messages that come from these people in Thailand.

What I find intriguing about Dr. Kings transmissions is the fact that the information he was relaying to the public in the 1950s correlates with a lot of information we now know about the phenomenon today, in 2021. For example, he stated that they were highly concerned about humanity’s use, testing and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. Fast forward today and we have a lot of information about the phenomenon which suggests this.

For example, a declassified report by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center from June 1959 shows just how seriously the United States government wanted to detonate a nuclear weapon on the Moon for scientific measurements and such. According to Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who had a long stint with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, they did try this. While with the Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission, he learned “about incidents involving nuclear weapons.”

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What Belief in Extraterrestrials Reveals About Trust in Elections

March 5, 2021
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Article by Martin La Monica February 18, 2021 (theconversation.com)

• On January 19, 2021, the day before Biden’s inauguration, researchers at the University of New Orleans Survey Research Center conducted a state-wide poll of 633 registered voters in Louisiana. (see here for the Louisiana survey) The survey labeled those who believe that extraterrestrial beings visit Earth as ‘conspiracy oriented’. These conspiracy oriented people also tend to believe that Joe Biden was not the legitimate winner of the 2020 Presidential election due to election fraud, according to the poll.

• Researchers asked a series of questions about the participant’s religious beliefs, their beliefs in extraterrestrial life, and whether Joe Biden was the rightful winner of the 2020 US Presidential election. Recent surveys have shown that both Republicans and Democrats include a significant number of so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’, ie: the belief that hidden causes are behind real-world events. But it was always the Democrats and Independent voters who were more inclined to believe in conspiracy theories than the Republicans.

• With the evolution of social media networks, where people encounter only those who agree with them to create an ‘echo chamber’, conspiracy theories regarding the pandemic and election cycle have circulated broadly. The QAnon movement in particular, which holds the election was fraudulent, has developed from periphery to a growing mainstream group. QAnon believers see the fact that Trump has lost all the legal challenges to be just more evidence that powerful and secretive forces are at work to steal the election and hide the truth from the public.

• Most of the survey’s respondents – 59.7% – believe that life exists elsewhere in the universe than just on Earth. And nearly one-third – 32.3% – of the respondents believe that aliens have actually visited Earth, in spite of governments continuing to deny any such thing. Third-party and Independent voters are more likely to believe this than Democrats or Republicans.

• Just over half of the survey respondents do not believe Biden was rightfully elected President, with a clear partisan split. 74% of Democrats trusted the election results while only 12% of Republicans believe the election outcome. Third-party and Independent voters were more evenly divided. Of the respondents who believe aliens have visited Earth, 57.6% also believe Biden was not rightfully elected president.

• The poll reveals that a statistically significant percentage of the Louisiana population who believe that our government leaders are covering up alien visitation also believe that these government officials are misleading the public about the Presidential election results. As conspiracy theory beliefs continue to grow in the U.S., researchers expect a corresponding increase in mistrust of government officials and a drop in the public’s trust in future elections.

Partisanship is not enough to explain why so many Americans – mostly Republicans – distrust the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

As scholars in political behavior and methods, we are aware of another factor in voters’ thinking that has increased right alongside electoral distrust: Americans’ beliefs in conspiracy theories, especially those that express mistrust of government officials.

Our research, which has not yet been published, finds that these two beliefs are linked – to the extent that Americans who believe aliens have visited Earth are more likely than disbelievers to say that Joe Biden is not the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election. As conspiracy theory beliefs grow in the U.S., we expect a corresponding drop in public trust in elections.

Polling voters

Drawing on academic literature focused on trust in electoral processes, we decided to look specifically at voters’ conspiratorial beliefs. On Jan. 19, 2021, the eve of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we conducted a survey of 633 Louisiana registered voters, selected at random. We asked a series of questions about their religious beliefs, their beliefs in extraterrestrial life and whether Joe Biden had been the rightful winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The key questions we asked were:
• Do you believe that there is life in the universe other than on Earth?
• Do you believe that extraterrestrials have visited the Earth?
• Do you believe that Joe Biden is the rightful winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election?
We weighted the answers to reflect the statewide population balance of gender, age and race.

Aliens and electoral trust

We found that Democrats and third-party and independent voters were somewhat more inclined to believe conspiracy theories than Republicans. That fits with other recent surveys indicating that both parties do indeed have conspiratorial leanings, though the partisan divide may influence which particular conspiracies a person believes.

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Man Claims Extraterrestrials Gave Him Pancake with Unknown Type of Wheat

March 5, 2021
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Article by Nirmal Narayanan February 18, 2021 (ibtimes.sg)

• Among the many UFO and alien reports that the US Air Force investigated under ‘Project Blue Book’, the encounter reported by Chicken farmer Joe Simonton in Eagle River, Wisconsin in 1961 remains “unexplained”.

• Around 11am on April 18, 1961, Simonton (age 60) claims that a UFO landed on his farm. Three aliens came out of the UFO. They each stood about 5 feet tall and wore black or navy blue clothing with turtleneck shirts and helmets. Remarkably, the aliens offered Simonton some pancakes for breakfast. One of the aliens asked for water, which Simonton readily provided.

• Simonton described the incident to the press, which attracted the attention of the US Air Force. Astronomer J Allen Hynek was deployed to investigate. Hynek took one of the pancakes to the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center for analysis and determined that the pancake was made from flour, sugar, and grease. Hynek wrote in his report, “There is no question that Mr. Simonton felt that his contact had been a real experience.”

• In his book: The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin’s Unexplained Phenomena, author Jay Rath reinvestigated the Simonton event and he claimed that the wheat flour in the pancake was of an unknown type.

• Last December, former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed claimed that alien existence on Earth is real and that powers like the United States and Israel are in regular contact with them. Eshed says that there is a Galactic Federation that controls space activities. Conspiracy theorists claim that world governments are covering up the facts surrounding alien life to avoid public panic.

Conspiracy theorists have long been claiming that advanced aliens from distant civilizations have visited Earth many times in the past. According to these conspiracy theorists, governments and space agencies like NASA are aware of extraterrestrial existence, but they are covering up the facts surrounding alien life to avoid public panic. Alien believers strongly argue that several people have even encountered aliens in real life, and Chicken farmer Joe Simonton was one person who allegedly saw extraterrestrials.

Simonton’s Unusual Experience

Simonton allegedly met aliens at around 11.00 AM on April 18, 1961, and the extraterrestrials even tried to serve him intergalactic pancakes. He was aged 60 at that time, and aliens visited him at his farm in Eagle River, Wisconsin. Simonton added that aliens reached his farm in an unidentified flying object (UFO).

The man claimed that three aliens who had a height of 1.5 meters, wore black or navy blue clothing with turtleneck shirts and helmets came out of the UFO, and they offered him a piece of pancake. One alien asked for water from Simonton, and he readily gave these extraterrestrials sufficient water.

US Air Force Investigated the Incident

As Simonton told everything that he saw to the press, the United States Air Force (USAF) conducted an investigation to solve the mysteries surrounding the incident.
Astronomer J Allen Hynek was deployed by the USAF to investigate the event, and he took one of the pancakes to the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center for analysis. Upon analysis, the team found that the pancake was made from flour, sugar, and grease.

“There is no question that Mr. Simonton felt that his contact had been a real experience,” Hynek wrote in his report, Daily Star reports.

The US Air Force called the experience of Simonton ”Unexplained”.

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Elon Musk Announces ‘There will be a Marscoin!’ Cryptocurrency

March 5, 2021
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Article by Brian McGleenon February 16, 2021 (express.co.uk)

• The digital currency known as ‘Dogecoin’ is similar to the more famous, and lucrative, ‘Bitcoin’. Dodgecoin, which was created in 2013, has long traded for less than one cent. Implying that the digital currency field had “too much concentration”, the Tesla and SpaceX mogul, Elon Musk offered via Twitter to pay major Dodgecoin holders real money to to simply void their account.

• Then, the founder of currency trading platform Binance tweeted an idea: “Develop a new ElonCoin. Offer them to the existing non-major dogecoin holders to void their wallet. You wouldn’t need to pay dollars to make those majors dogecoin holders richer than they already are and allocate your time and support to make the ElonCoin the (new) currency of the Earth.” “Maybe call it MarsCoin? Musk tweeted back what could be the seed of the world’s first extra-terrestrial currency: “There will definitely be a MarsCoin!”

• Musk needs to be careful about making statements that could manipulate market prices. As CEO of a traded company, Musk’s statements are regulated to ensure investors have equal access to news that can significantly affect share prices. Cryptocurrencies, however, are not regulated in the same way as normal company shares and would fall outside the current rules against market manipulation, regardless of whether he owns the cryptocurrency or not.

ELON Musk announced today on Twitter a plan for new digital currency, tweeting, “there will definitely be a MarsCoin!”

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla made the claim in a Twitter thread about dogecoin. Mr Musk tweeted: “If major dogecoin holders sell most of their coins, it will get my full support. Too much concentration is the only real issue.

“I will literally pay actual $ if they just void their accounts.”

Then one follower of Mr Musk tweeted an idea: “Develop a new ElonCoin.

“Offer them to the existing non-major dogecoin holders to void their wallet.

“You wouldn’t need to pay dollars to make those majors dogecoin holders richer than they already are and allocate your time and support to make the ElonCoin the currency of the Earth.”

It was the founder of currency trading platform Binance that then postulated the idea, “Maybe call it MarsCoin?

It was then that Mr Musk came back with what could be the seedling of the world’s first extra-terrestrial currency.

He tweeted: “There will definitely be a MarsCoin!”

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Commercial Space Station Developer ‘Axiom Space’

March 4, 2021
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Article by Dan Primack, Miriam Kramer February 17, 2021 (axios.com)

• Houston-based ‘Axiom Space’ aims to be the world’s first commercial space station. Toward that end, it has raised $130 million in capital funding. Axiom represents what many believe is the future of space. Axiom will work with SpaceX, valued at $74 billion, on next January’s planned tourism trip to the International Space Station.

• Axiom’s plan begins with the launch of a commercial module that will be hooked up to the International Space Station in the 2024 time frame. Additional modules will be added to the Axiom module complex in subsequent years to create a commercial wing of the space station. When the ISS is decommissioned in 2028, as planned, Axiom will detach its commercial space base and operate independently as a privately owned space station.

Axiom Space, a Houston-based developer of what would be the world’s first commercial space station, raised $130 million in Series B funding led by C5 Capital.
Why it matters: Axiom represents what many believe is the future of space, whereby NASA becomes a customer everywhere in low-Earth orbit so that it can focus on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

• Other investors include Declaration Partners, Moelis Dynasty Investments, The Venture Collective, Hemisphere Ventures and Starbridge VC.

• More space bucks: SpaceX raised $850 million last week at around a $74 billion valuation last week, per CNBC. Axiom and SpaceX are working together on next January’s planned tourism trip to the International Space Station.

The bottom line: “Axiom’s plan for its own space station would begin with the launch of a commercial module that would be hooked up to the International Space Station in the 2024 time frame. Additional modules would be added to Axiom’s complex during the years that follow. If the ISS is decommissioned in 2028, as planned, Axiom would detach its modules and operate them independently as a privately owned space station,” Geekwire’s Alan Boyle reports.

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Nicaragua’s Ministry for Extraterrestrial Space Affairs and Backlash

March 4, 2021
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Article by Kris Holt February 19, 2021 (yahoo.com)

• The Nicaraguan National Assembly legislature has passed a bill to establish a ‘National Ministry for Extraterrestrial Space Affairs, The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies’. The Nicaraguan army, which doesn’t have a space program, will oversee the ministry. The Space Affair Ministry is intended to “promote the development of space activities, with the aim of broadening the country’s capacities in the fields of education, industry, science and technology.”

• Critics of the new ministry, however, say that Nicaragua doesn’t have the technical chops nor the financial resources to take on such an endeavor. They also argue that this comes at a time when the Central American country is facing deep social and economic problems, which intensified in the wake of anti-government protests in 2018. The Nicaraguan government is struggling to supply residents with food and fuel and it has yet to secure any COVID-19 vaccines.

• Critics also note that the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has greenlit other major initiatives, such as a $50 billion cross-country canal project in 2014, that haven’t made much progress.

• “We are not scientifically able as a country to undertake this type of research,” said Jaime Incer Barquero, president of the nation’s Academy of Geography and History.

• Meanwhile, the U.S. is continuing to establish its Space Force, the sixth branch of the military that was established by former President Donald Trump. Joe Biden, the current President, is retaining the agency, although the aims of Space Force may change.

Nicaragua is looking to the skies. The Central American country has created the wonderfully named National Ministry for Extraterrestrial Space Affairs, The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.

A bill to establish the agency passed through the National Assembly with little trouble this week. It received approval from 76 members of the chamber with 15 abstaining. President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Party holds 71 of the 92 seats in the congress.

Although the Nicaraguan army doesn’t have a space program, it will oversee the ministry. The Associated Press reports that the agency will “promote the development of space activities, with the aim of broadening the country’s capacities in the fields of education, industry, science and technology.”

However, critics say that Nicaragua doesn’t have the technical chops nor the financial resources to take on such an endeavor. “We are not scientifically able as a country to undertake this type of research,” Jaime Incer Barquero, president of the nation’s Academy of Geography and History, told CNN.

The country is establishing the ministry at a time when it’s facing deep social and economic problems, which intensified in the wake of anti-government protests in 2018. The AP reports that the government is struggling to supply residents with food and fuel and it has yet to secure any COVID-19 vaccines. Ortega has greenlit other major initiatives that haven’t made much progress, such as a $50 billion cross-country canal project in 2014.

Although it’s not really the best time for Nicaragua to set up a space agency, perhaps it too will make it to Mars someday.

Meanwhile, the US is continuing to establish its Space Force. Former president Donald Trump, who initially floated the idea as a joke, created the sixth branch of the military while he was in office. Joe Biden, the current president, is retaining the agency, though the aims of Space Force may change.

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Atmospheric Pollution Could Signal Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilization

March 3, 2021
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Article by Amit Malewar February 11, 2021 (techexplorist.com)

• Astronomers have detected over 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Some of these exoplanets have conditions suitable for life. Since exoplanets are so distant, scientists cannot look for signs of life or civilization by sending spacecraft to these distant worlds. The presence of a combination of gases like oxygen and methane in a planet’s atmosphere could be a sign of life or ‘biosignature’. Likewise, a sign of technology (ie: pollution) on an exoplanet, called a ‘technosignature’, could be the byproduct of an industrial process.

• A new NASA research study examines nitrogen dioxide (NO2) as a possible technosignature. “On Earth, about 76 percent of NO2 emissions are due to industrial activity,” says Giada Arney, co-author of the paper at NASA Goddard. “Since NO2 is also produced naturally, scientists will have to carefully analyze an exoplanet to see if there is an excess that could be attributed to a technological society.”

• In this study, scientists used computer modeling to predict whether NO2 pollution would produce a detectable signal. Atmospheric NO2 strongly absorbs certain colors (wavelengths) of visible light, which can be seen by observing the light reflected from an exoplanet as it orbits its star. They found that a civilization on an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star, producing the same amount of NO2 as ours could be detected up to about 30 light-years away using a future large NASA telescope. One light-year is the distance light travels in a year, almost 6 trillion miles. Our galaxy is about 100,000 light-years across.

• The study group also found that cooler and far more common stars than our Sun, such as K and M-type stars, will deliver a stronger, more easily detected NO2 signal. “If we observe NO2 on another planet, we will have to run models to estimate the maximum possible NO2 emissions one could have just from non-industrial sources” to calculate the industrial-sourced NO2, said Arney.

• Jacob Haqq-Misra, a co-author of the paper at the Blue Marble Institute of Science, Seattle, Washington, noted that, “Other studies have examined chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as possible technosignatures. CFCs were manufactured chemicals used as refrigerants until they were phased out because of their role in ozone depletion. CFCs are also a powerful greenhouse gas that could terraform a planet like Mars by providing additional warming from the atmosphere.” They would be an obvious technosignature since CFCs aren’t produced naturally, as far as we know. It is likely that NO2 would be more prevalent, by comparison, as a general byproduct of any combustion process.”

• This work was funded by NASA Goddard’s Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration and the NASA Exobiology program. supported by NASA’s Planetary Science Division’s Research Program. This work was performed as part of NASA’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory through the NASA Astrobiology Institute and by the NASA Astrobiology Program as part of the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) research coordination network.

• [Editor’s Note] This article proves that NASA is just as complicit as the more obvious deep state organizations, such as SETI, in spending a ton of money and publicity to “search” for extraterrestrial life when it is right under (above) our noses. They trot out highly credentialed establishment scientists to spout a bunch of technical jargon about how they are looking for this ‘techosignature’ or that ‘biosignature’ looking for evidence of a habitable or technologically advanced civilization. Think of all of the time and effort – and deception – that our society will save and redirect once we have full disclosure of the long-standing presence of advanced extraterrestrial beings that have been interacting with our secret space programs for many decades. We already have the answers to all of the questions that deep state scientists continue to dwell on, solely for the theatrics of making average people think that smart people are doing everything they can to detect life beyond this Earth, thereby promoting the outrageous lie that humanity here on Earth is the only intelligent life that we have found in the universe.

Nitrogen dioxide is part of a group of gaseous air pollutants produced due to road traffic and other fossil fuel combustion processes. In

the lower atmosphere (about 10 to 15 kilometers or around 6.2 to 9.3 miles), NO2 from human activities dominate compared to non-human sources. Therefore, observing NO2 on a habitable planet could potentially indicate the presence of industrialized civilization.

Until now, astronomers have detected over 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Some of these planets are habitable; some have conditions suitable for life. Since exoplanets are so distant, scientists cannot look for signs of life or civilization by sending spacecraft to these distant worlds.

The presence of a combination of gases like oxygen and methane in the atmosphere could be a sign of life or biosignature. Likewise, a sign of technology on an exoplanet, called a techno signature, could be what’s considered pollution here on Earth — the presence of a gas that’s released as a byproduct of an overall industrial process, such as NO2.

A new NASA research suggests that we might detect advanced extraterrestrial civilization using its atmospheric pollution. This study is the first time NO2 has been examined as a possible technosignature.

Jacob Haqq-Misra, a co-author of the paper at the Blue Marble Institute of Science, Seattle, Washington, said, “Other studies have examined chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as possible technosignatures, which are industrial products that were widely used as refrigerants until they were phased out because of their role in ozone depletion. CFCs are also a powerful greenhouse gas that could terraform a planet like Mars by providing additional warming from the atmosphere. As far as we know, CFCs are not produced by biology, so they are a more obvious technosignature than NO2. However, CFCs are particular manufactured chemicals that might not be prevalent elsewhere; NO2, by comparison, is a general byproduct of any combustion process.”

In this study, scientists used computer modeling to predict whether NO2 pollution would produce a practical signal to detect with current and planned telescopes.
Atmospheric NO2 strongly absorbs some colors (wavelengths) of visible light, which can be seen by observing the light reflected from an exoplanet as it orbits its star. They found that for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star, a civilization producing the same amount of NO2 as ours could be detected up to about 30 light-years away with about 400 hours of observing time using a future large NASA telescope observing at visible wavelengths.

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NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Gets Launch Date

March 2, 2021
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Article by Paul Rincon February 11, 2021 (bbc.com)

• NASA has conformed that in October 2024, it will send the Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa (pictured above), scheduled to arrive there in April 2030. Europa holds an ocean under its frozen outer shell and is regarded as one of the most promising targets in the search for life elsewhere in our solar system.

• During a virtual meeting of NASA’s ‘Outer Planets Assessment Group’ organized by Arizona State University, project scientist Dr. Robert Pappalardo stated: “Europa’s about the size of Earth’s moon, yet we think it contains twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans.”

• The spacecraft was to have launched on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. But that has now changed to the use of a commercial launch vehicle.

• Interest in Europa as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life was given a boost in the 1990s, when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft provided evidence that Europa harbored an ocean of liquid water beneath its outer shell. Europa probably has a rocky core surrounded by around 50 miles of liquid water covered by a shell of water-ice that’s roughly 12 miles thick.

• “At the bottom of the Earth’s oceans are places where water and rock interact, where water seeps down, contacts hot rock and emerges charged with chemical nutrients – reductants,” said Dr. Pappalardo. When these reductants get together with other chemicals called oxidants, they react. These reactions could, “potentially power life at the ocean floor of Europa – even where there is no light to allow for photosynthesis”.

• The Europa Clipper spacecraft will get close enough to analyze chemicals in the frozen water that has welled up to the surface from beneath the ice shell and sample the water plumes spurting out into space from the Jovian moon.

A mission to study a moon of Jupiter that could be home to extra-terrestrial life has been given a launch date.

Nasa is sending a spacecraft to the icy world of Europa, which holds an ocean under its frozen outer shell.

Scientists have long regarded the moon as one of the most promising targets in the search for life elsewhere in our Solar System.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will now launch to the jovian moon in October 2024, arriving in April 2030.

The spacecraft was to have launched on Nasa’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. But the space agency is reported to no longer be considering that launch vehicle.

It will instead lift off on a commercial rocket.

The details were disclosed by the mission’s project scientist, Dr Robert Pappalardo, during a virtual meeting of Nasa’s Outer Planets Assessment Group (Opag).

“We now have clarity on the launch vehicle path and launch date,” Dr Pappalardo, who is based at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told the meeting.

Interest in the moon as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life was given a boost in the 1990s, when Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft provided evidence that Europa harboured an ocean of liquid water beneath its outer shell.

Europa probably has a rocky core surrounded by around 80km (50 miles) of liquid water covered by a shell of water-ice that’s roughly 20km (12 miles) thick.

“Europa’s about the size of Earth’s moon, yet we think it contains twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans,” Dr Pappalardo said during a virtual talk organised by Arizona State University (ASU) last week.

Discussing the moon’s potential for life, he said: “At the bottom of the Earth’s oceans are places where water and rock interact, where water seeps down, contacts hot rock and emerges charged with chemical nutrients – reductants.”

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New Evidence for Methane a Sign of Extraterrestrial Life

March 1, 2021
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Article by Sarah Kahle February 10, 2021 (dailyuw.com)

• Scientists know that methane is produced two ways: first by living biological microbes converting carbon monoxide into methane, and second by volcanos and deep sea hydrothermal vents. A biologically active exoplanet – the kind that astronomers search star systems for – could be detected by its abundance of methane.

• The James Webb Space Telescope (pictured above) is set to launch October 2021, and will replace the aging Hubble telescope in space. The Webb telescope is particularly adept at detecting atmospheric methane on distant exoplanets.

• A team led by UW postdoctoral student Nick Wogan set out to determine whether volcanic gas emissions on terrestrial exoplanets were abundant enough to disguise any biologically produced methane, and why an abundance of methane might be a potential indication of life. “We wanted to understand whether if we look at another planet, if we see methane there, is that because of life, or is that because of some weird volcano that also produces methane?” Wogan said. The team ran many combinations of simulations that modeled a wide range of volcanic chemistries possible for a terrestrial planet.

• The researchers found that while volcanic activity did produce methane, they weren’t capable of producing abundances anywhere near the level of biogenic methane. Further, if an abundance of methane in an atmosphere did come from volcanic activity, it would be indicated by an abundance of carbon monoxide as well, which the telescopes can detect.

• Therefore, the detection of proportionately large amount of methane in an exoplanet’s atmosphere might indeed be an indication that Earth-like organisms exist there. Large amounts of oxygen-rich gases, such as carbon dioxide and water vapor, alongside the methane would strengthen the possibility of a life-supporting biosignature. Says Wogan, “Really, our best shot of finding evidence of life on another planet is probably seeing the combination of methane and carbon dioxide.”

• Another indication of methane-producing bacteria or other similar lifeforms would be a proportionately low level of carbon monoxide which is consumed and converted by bacteria.

• The research group’s findings will be particularly helpful to astronomers analyzing exoplanetary atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope, and may be instrumental in finding extraterrestrial methane biosignatures.

A team led by UW postdoctoral student Nick Wogan has published a paper explaining why an abundance of methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (any planet orbiting a star other than the Sun) might be a potential indication of life.

Scientists typically search for molecular oxygen as an indication of life (or of conditions favorable to life) on other planets, but unfortunately, the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch October 2021, isn’t well equipped to detect it in the atmospheres of faraway planets. The new telescope, however, intended to replace the aging Hubble, is particularly adept at detecting atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide abundances.

During the Archean, an eon early in Earth’s history, the first microbes developed and began to convert carbon monoxide into methane. This process continues today. As a result, methane began to build up in the atmosphere and has remained as an indication of biologic activity on Earth ever since.

However, life is not the only process we know of that can produce methane. Volcanism, deep sea hydrothermal vents, and meteor impacts can all generate methane as well. Wogan set out to determine whether volcanic gas emissions on terrestrial exoplanets were abundant enough to disguise any biologically produced methane.

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Space Lasers Will Revolutionize Military Communications

February 28, 2021
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Article by Patrick Tucker February 18, 2021 (defenseone.com)

• Satellites using lasers to exchange data has been around since 2011. Space-based laser communication is only possible with a very narrow beam, making it much harder than radio-frequency communication but also much more difficult for adversaries to jam or interfere with. Laser communication promises to make military communications faster and harder to intercept. But figuring out how to do it at the scale and reliability needed for practical communication poses a big challenge.

• Laser communication is potentially big money and a host of big tech companies are looking at its potential. The two-year-old Space Development Agency (SDA) has already released a communications standard to be used by four companies supplying the laser gear for a four-satellite trial experiment. SDA director Derek Tournear expects to soon release a request for proposals for a 150-satellite constellation the SDA plans to launch into low-earth orbit by September 2024.

• Tournear didn’t say what four companies were working on the project. He did say that he wants SDA to become the initial go-to market for such innovations in satellite communications. “We are actually trying to create a market,” he said at a recent Space Foundation event. “I want industry to view this as a way to develop a product that then they can sell into that market to try and win a portion of that market share. As long as we do that we’ll have a robust industry base.”

• The Space Development Agency is to be folded into the US Space Force by October 2022, according to the National Defense Authorization Act. But the law specifies that the agency will keep authorities for contracting, classification, etc autonomous. That autonomy is essential to help industry create new space-based technologies that may disrupt markets, said Tournear.

• The agency is asking businesses to take a risk in research and develop capabilities solely for the SDA. These new businesses must be autonomous enough to eventually find non-SDA uses for these technologies in order to expand the market into the space industry commercial sector. Otherwise, they have no long-term incentive to develop these technologies. “[T]he language in law is actually very good at trying to protect that from occurring,” says Tournear.

Satellites that use lasers to exchange data promise to make military communications faster and harder to intercept — if the Pentagon can figure out how to make them work.

With plans to launch a 150-satellite constellation into low-earth orbit by September 2024, the two-year-old Space Development Agency is on a deadline. It has already released a communications standard to be used by four companies supplying the laser gear for a four-satellite experiment called tranche zero, agency director Derek Tournear said Tuesday at a Space Foundation event. And by August, Tournear expects to release a request for proposals that will spell out key details for the “more robust” standard needed for the 150-satellite tranche one.

Laser communication between satellites has been around since 2011 but figuring out how to do it at the scale and reliability needed for practical communication is a big challenge. As engineer Allan Panahi’s seminal 2010 paper on the subject explains, space-based laser communication is only possible with a very narrow beam, making it much harder than radio-frequency communication but also much more difficult for adversaries to jam or interfere with. “The requirement for much more pointing accuracy, acquisition, and tracking…and the impact that this may have on the spacecraft that is moving at 3 [kilometers per second] for [geosynchronous orbit] to 7 [kilometers per second] for [low Earth orbit] is a formidable task,” Panahi wrote.

It’s also potentially big money. SpaceX, Facebook, Google and a host of other tech companies are looking at the potential of laser-based communications.

Tournear didn’t say what companies were working on his project. He did say that he wants SDA, which has plans to launch six additional satellite layers after tranche one, to become the initial go-to market for innovations in satellite communications, at a time when funding for some satellite startups has grown shaky. “We are actually trying to create a market,” he said. “I want industry to view this as a way to develop a product that then they can sell into that market to try and win a portion of that market share. As long as we do that we’ll have a robust industry base.”

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Why Has NASA Not Sent Anyone to Mars?

February 28, 2021
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Article by Jess Romeo February 10, 2021 (daily.jstor.org)

• In 1969, humans first set foot on the Moon. With each step, the entire universe seemed to open up. Where would NASA and its brave astronauts go next? “At the time of the Moon landing, it was generally expected that the United States would quickly go on to Mars,” writes aerospace engineer and founder of the Mars Society Robert Zubrin.

• As Zubrin relates in The New Atlantis: “Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins recalled thinking ‘perhaps I could help [NASA] plan a Mars mission’. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the Moon, remembered feeling that ‘it wasn’t unreasonable to hope’ he’d be assigned to a Mars-bound crew. Gene Cernan, the twelfth and last man on the Moon, recounted with sadness the time that he finally faced the facts: ‘I’m not going to Mars.’”

• In the half-century following Apollo 11, NASA’s human spaceflight program stagnated. After 1972, no astronaut would stray further than 300 miles from Earth.

• People might blame this lack of human spaceflight on waning public support for the endeavor, lack of funding for NASA, or the fickleness of a democratic government during peacetime. But Zubrin is of a different mind. Historically, Zubrin argues, public support played a relatively small role in the space program in the 1960s. Lack of money is no excuse either. NASA actually has significantly more money today (adjusted for inflation) than it did when it first sent astronauts to the moon.

• As for that democratic “fickleness”, Zubrin points out that “many great things have been accomplished by democratic means during times of peace in the United States, including massive public works like the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the Interstate Highway System.”

• The real problem is what Zubrin calls a “change in mode of operation.” After Apollo 11, NASA lost sight of its clear, driving purpose. Human spaceflight projects became aimless and slow-moving. NASA has spent hundreds of billions of dollars over the past half-century with very little results. George H.W. Bush’s ‘Space Exploration Initiative’ in 1989 quickly collapsed. Barack Obama’s ‘Journey to Mars’ had no specific deadlines to accomplish anything. And despite establishing Space Force, the Trump administration’s ambitions were vague and Mars was never a top priority.

• Nowadays, Earth’s interaction with the Red Planet begins and ends with robots. But with people like Elon Musk vowing to colonize the Moon by 2026, perhaps the dream is closer than it seems.

• [Editor’s Note] The facts given in this article point to the causes for the NASA space program’s stagnation over the past fifty years, but not the underlying reason. The reason is that the deep state elite who presided over the creation of vast and competing secret space programs were incredibly greedy. They wanted to keep all of the advanced extraterrestrial technologies, to which they were exposed through their off-planet exploits, only to themselves. So in the 1950s, they set up the “civilian” NASA under the authority of the military industrial complex and invented a “Moon mission” using outdated rocket technology, while they continued to develop their secret space programs using advanced electromagnetic anti-gravity warp drive propulsion technology. Once the deep state put on their Apollo 11 show in 1969 and gave the world a bone to keep them quiet, they came up with other sinister ways to divert the public’s attention over the decades. Deep state agents used any excuse to discredit any real-world space program through the influence of a complicit media (just as they discredited the UFO phenomenon), paving the way for complicit legislators to give space activities the lowest priority. But don’t be fooled. There are millions of people currently residing on the Moon, Mars, and many other celestial bodies within and outside of our solar system.

In 1969, humans first set foot on the Moon. With each step, the entire universe seemed to open up. Where would NASA and its

brave astronauts go next? As it turns out, nowhere. In the half-century following Apollo 11, NASA’s human spaceflight program stagnated. Even our closest planetary neighbor, Mars, seems like an impossible destination—but this wasn’t always the case.

“At the time of the Moon landing, it was generally expected that the United States would quickly go on to Mars,” writes aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society and advocate for human exploration of Mars. As Zubrin relates in The New Atlantis: “Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins recalled thinking “
‘perhaps I could help them [NASA] plan’ a Mars mission. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the Moon, remembered feeling that ‘it wasn’t unreasonable to hope’ he’d be assigned to a Mars-bound crew. Gene Cernan, the twelfth and last man on the Moon, recounted with sadness the time that he “finally faced the facts: ‘I’m not going to Mars.’”

After 1972, no astronaut would stray further than 300 miles from Earth.

People might blame this lack of human spaceflight on waning public support for the endeavor, lack of funding for NASA, or the

fickleness of a democratic government during peacetime. Zubrin is of a different mind: “Each of these explanations is intuitively plausible,” he argues, “But […] taken together, they amount to a profound misunderstanding of how democratic peoples can do great things.”

Historically, Zubrin argues, public support played a relatively small role in the space program in the 1960s. “An analysis by historian Roger Launius found that […] lunar exploration in general almost never enjoyed majority support in contemporary polls.” Lack of money is no excuse either, Zubrin adds, as NASA actually has significantly more money today (adjusted for inflation) than it did when it first sent astronauts to the moon.

As for that democratic “fickleness,” Zubrin points out that “many great things have been accomplished by democratic means during times of peace in the United States, including massive public works like the Erie Canal, the Hoover Dam, and the Interstate Highway System.”

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‘Best UFO Video in Years’ Shows UFO Speed Away and Return

February 27, 2021
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Article by Dave Basner February 8, 2021 (iheart.com)

• A woman who identified herself only as a musician captured a video recording of a small UFO darting back and forth next to a commercial airliner flying to Chicago. The musician originally Tweeted the video with the caption: “Okay y’all, when I was flying home from Chicago I saw something spooky; my gut instinct was UFO but figured that couldn’t be possible so then I thought military drone, but idk… thoughts?”

• The woman filmed the playful UFO also pointed it out to people next to her. In the clip, she says it is “right over by those solar panels” and then an object zips into view, hovers and dashes away at a very high rate of speed. Sounds of shock and amazement can be heard before the UFO returns and curves upward, flying off in the distance.

• She has since removed the video from her Twitter without explaining why. Some commenters think maybe it was because the video was fake, but others considered the possibility that someone, maybe even from the government, asked her to pull the footage.
While many immediately label the video clip as a fake, others who are certain it is a real UFO. They feel it is absolutely genuine based on the reactions of people on the plane, with one commenter describing it as the “best UFO video in years.”

There are many views that you can admire from a plane window – fluffy clouds floating by, a nighttime sky full of stars, or a colorful sunset in the distance, but what one woman witnessed on her flight out of Chicago is something she will never forget – a UFO.

She filmed the flying saucer, pointing it out to those next to her. In the clip, she says it is “right over by those solar panels” and then an object zips into view, hovers and dashes away at a very high rate of speed. Sounds of shock and amazement can be heard before the UFO returns and curves upward, flying off in the distance.

The video was originally tweeted out by a musician who captioned it “Okay y’all, when I was flying home from Chicago I saw something spooky; my gut instinct was UFO but figured that couldn’t be possible so then I thought military drone, but idk… thoughts?”

She has since removed the video from her Twitter, but didn’t give an explanation as to why. Some commenters think maybe it was because the video was fake, but there is also the possibility that someone, maybe even from the government, suggested she pull the footage.

58 second video of small UFO next to a commercial jet (‘LUFOS’ YouTube)

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Were Betty and Barney Hill Really Abducted by Humanoid Aliens?

February 27, 2021
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Article by Aharon Abhishek February 10, 2021 (meaww.com)

• One night in September 1961, New Hampshire residents Betty and Barney Hill (pictured above) were abducted while driving on an interstate road. According to their first hand accounts, dream writings and hypnotic regression, they were taken by two small alien beings who were “nearly human” with huge dark eyes, noses, and black hair. They stood about five feet tall and wore matching blue uniforms. Their skin was gray. Barney told Walter Webb, an investigator with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, that the “beings were somehow not human.” They later recalled that these aliens were from the Zeta Reticuli star system.

• The two small gray beings led Betty into the forest (off of the highway). Barney, her husband, followed them until they reached a metallic disc ‘as wide as their house’. Betty saw that Barney was ‘dazed and practically sleepwalking’. The aliens walked the couple inside the metallic craft where there were other alien beings waiting. They were instructed to removed their clothes. The aliens took strands of their hair, clipped nails, and scraped their skin. They probed their heads, arms, legs, and along with their spines with needles connected to long wires. The beings inserted one of the needles into Betty’s belly. And all the while, the “leader” of the beings was keenly observing the experiments.

• Betty recalled asking the leader where they were. The leader replied, “if you don’t know where you are, there wouldn’t be any point in telling you where I am.” This implied telepathic communication. Some have linked the possibility if an extraterrestrial breeding program to produce alien-human hybrid beings with the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case.

• The Betty and Barney Hill case has become one of the most famed alien tales, taking its place in pop culture in the form of a 1975 flick, ‘The UFO Incident’. Many claims of alien abduction followed the Hill’s encounter. Most recently, the Betty and Barney Hill case and possible ties to a alien hybrid program was recounted in the season finale of the Discovery+ series’ ‘UFO Witness’ earlier this month.

Alien abduction tales and theories are a dime a dozen, but some have remained an enigma to date. The “Betty and Barney Hill’s

Alien Abduction” story on a September 1961 night has been one of those stories that have defined the whole abduction genre. Soon after, this incident was named the ‘Zeta Reticuli Incident’ after the couple claimed their aliens were from the Zeta Reticuli system. The story, like most famed alien tales, also saw its place in pop culture in the form of a 1975 flick, ‘The UFO Incident’.

Now, the events of the abduction will be examined again. This time, Discovery+ will reopen the chapter as part of its show, ‘UFO Witness’. The final episode titled, ‘The Hybrid Secret’ will explore the possibility of the alien-human breeding program and also looks at the Betty and Barney incident as one of the important links.

A look at the recount by both Betty and Barney sees them describe their abductors as gray beings with large eyes. These extraterrestrials had walked the couple into a metallic disc that was as wide as their house. The couple’s memories were reportedly erased. To date, there is no doubt the story has been looked at as a mystery and absolute balderdash.

According to History, Betty with the help of hypnosis recounts how the couple was experimented upon. The beings as they called them removed

their clothes, took strands of their hair, clipped nails, and also scraped their skin. Their heads, arms, and legs along with their spines were probed by needles that were connected to long wires. One of them was inserted into her belly. And all the while, a “leader” of the beings was keenly observing the experiments.

Did the Hills actually see humanoid aliens?

Although Betty’s account pretty much leaves a lot to the readers’ imagination, thinking of the aliens with a human structure might not be too much of a stretch. Barney, in his report to National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) investigator Walter Webb, said the “beings were somehow not human.” There are, of course, two explanations— fragged memory and the possibility that they weren’t humans, or at least they didn’t look like a normal human being.

Soon after their reports of being abducted, Betty experienced dreams with such incredible detailing that she actually wrote them down. Two small men walking her into the forest in one of her writings. Barney followed suit, although she describes him to be dazed and practically sleepwalking. The men reportedly stood about five feet and all wore matching blue uniforms. They were “nearly human” and had dark huge eyes, noses, and black hair as well. Their skin was gray.

2:10 minute video clip summary of Betty and Barney Hill case (‘Showmax’ YouTube)

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Nation of Islam’s Truth About ‘Wheel’ UFOs

February 26, 2021
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Article by Ilia Rashad Muhammad February 9, 2021 (finalcall.com)

• The Nation of Islam is an African-American political and new religious movement, founded on July 4, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace Fard Muhammad. The Nation of Islam members believe that Master Fard Muhammad was directly responsible for the construction and operation wheel-shaped flying craft which we think of as UFOs. It is said that Fard Muhammad introduced a gigantic circular craft called the Mother Wheel, along with 1,500 smaller ‘wheels’ to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the early 1930s.

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad openly answered questions about the ‘wheels’ I the sky to solved the mystery of the UFO phenomena. Members of the Nation of Islam believe that it is so extremely difficult to learn that the supreme power behind the modern UFO phenomena is represented by the children of once-slaves, that American government agencies such as the CIA along with Western world leaders who promote the premise of ‘white supremacy’ continue to actively disregard, deny and cover-up this truth of the true origin of UFOs. This, according to member of the Nation of Islam, is the underlying ‘big secret’ of the UFO phenomena.

• Master Fard Muhammad’s ‘wheels in the sky’ fulfills Islamic scriptural prophecies about God’s coming “with His heavenly Wheels”. The Nation of Islam, therefore, believe that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his servant, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (pictured above) are the clear representatives of a divine power on Earth.

• The Nation of Islam believes the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, and private groups like the Anti-Defamation League have all worked together to discredit the truth about the UFO phenomena and its direct connection to the Nation of Islam. The Anti-Defamation League has even placed UFO research in its list of anti-semitic conspiracy theories. All the aforementioned groups have a proven history of misinforming the public about the Nation of Islam and the UFO phenomena. These groups are on record for investigating and surveilling the Nation’s relationship to these Wheels, and plotting to discredit both the Nation of Islam and the ‘wheels’.

• It is told that according CIA documents, in 1942 the federal government arrested and interrogated the Honorable Elijah Muhammad about the huge wheel-shaped object (UFO) that the US Armed Forces encountered a few months prior that same year. The CIA was formed in the wake of mass UFO sightings that catapulted after the government had incarcerated Elijah Muhammad for his connection to these wheels.

• By 1947, these disc-shaped planes were now being spotted by thousands of people around the country and interfering with America’s military bases and weapons sites. It can be argued that the development of the NSA and the CIA under Truman’s National Security Act were likely in response to the accumulating sightings and reports that had escalated by 1947. According to the Nation of Islam, a new and overwhelmingly superior power was making its presence felt through Master Fard Muhammad’s Wheels and there was nothing the US government could do about it.

• This explains why these US government agencies hide the truth about the Nation of Islam’s connection to these UFOs and the power behind them. But because these Wheels are directly connected to the children of once slaves, there has been a deliberate refusal to acknowledge the proven source and representatives of this phenomena. The US government would rather give credit to fictitious aliens that they made up before acknowledging that Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan have brought forth clear proof that demystifies all their false UFO theories. Instead, government agencies silence Farrakhan so they can control the narrative about him and the ‘God of these Wheels’.

Apparently there has been news about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) releasing and disclosing its documents about unidentified flying

objects (UFOs) to the public. These are hundreds of files with most of the documents being heavily redacted to the point where it becomes difficult to decipher the depth of what’s being shared.

But let’s be honest. Did we really think that an agency, whose job has been to lie and deceive the public, is going to suddenly come clean about all they know concerning UFOs? Moreover, who told you the CIA is somehow the authority on this subject?

Any real or truthful disclosure about the worldwide UFO phenomena has to directly involve the Nation of Islam (NOI), for it was this group’s founder—Master Fard Muhammad—who is directly responsible for the construction and operations of these wheel-shaped crafts that have captured the attention and concern of every world government and military.

It was He who introduced this gigantic circular craft called the Mother Wheel (and its accompanying 1,500 smaller Wheels) to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the early 1930s. To this day, the NOI remains the only entity to give definitive facts concerning these global phenomena. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad answered the questions and solved the mystery of the UFO phenomena before the Government or the public had any major questions or concerns about it.

If the CIA files don’t include this most central truth concerning the UFO phenomena, then it’s clear they aren’t being truthful. That would be like telling the public about the history of bean pies without even mentioning those who brought this magnificent dessert to the public forefront.

Likewise, it is utterly deceitful to disregard the very people who brought the truth about these wheel-shaped planes to public attention. That’s what the big secret of the UFO phenomena involves.

In truth, it’s a hard pill to swallow for most people, especially for those who rule over world systems of White supremacy. It’s extremely difficult to learn that the supreme power behind the UFO phenomena is represented by the children of once-slaves.

It’s hard to accept the truth that all the scriptural prophecies about God’s coming with His heavenly Wheels is actually being fulfilled in the real world and in real time.

It’s almost impossible for religious and political leaders to admit that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his servant, the Honorable Minister Farrakhan are the clear representatives of this divine power on earth—even though they’ve proven to be 1,000 percent right and exact on this.

So, since world leaders find it difficult to have a discussion (or debate) with the Nation of Islam on this topic, they’ve responded by either ignoring the truth, or hiding the truth altogether.

This is what the worldwide UFO cover-up is all about, and the CIA has been a leading conspirator in this deception. Unlike what they’ve led you to believe, these planes have nothing to do with aliens or reptilians that are only seen in movies; rather, it has to do with a real God who brought real evidence of His power in the real world just as the prophecies predict.

The fact that the CIA is suddenly releasing their information about UFOs proves that they’ve been lying and hiding something for several decades, and there’s no rational reason to believe they’ve suddenly felt obligated to come forward with the truth.

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Pentagon Carried Out Tests on Futuristic ‘UFO Debris’

February 26, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Berny Torre February 9, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)

• On December 26, 2017, UFO researcher Tony Bragaglia submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the US Department of Defense for “all information on test results on UAP material from Bigelow Aerospace”. On January 8, 2021 he received a response to his request. “Incredibly, part of the information released discusses material with shape recovery properties, much like the ‘memory metal’ debris found fallen at the Roswell UFO crash in 1947,” writes Bragaglia in an online report (see here). “[S]ome of this material was placed with a defense contractor for analysis and storage in ‘specialized facilities’.

• Bragaglia claims the futuristic materials could have the power to make things invisible, ‘compress’ electromagnetic energy and may even slow down the speed of light. “Although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man.”

• “The information provided in the FOIA response seems to represent reports that are directly relevant to what was learned from the study of the UFO debris, and how insight gained from those studies might be applied in the future, but does not include a detailing of the found debris itself,” writes Bragaglia. “Disappointingly, the reports do not include much of what was requested, such as a physical description and the composition of the material, the origin of the material, and the names of the involved scientists. That remains classified.”

• However, the FOIA response does include ‘technical pursuit areas derived from the study of those materials’. “The released documents help to inform us of the potential applications of the materials…” says Bragaglia. “They speak of ‘recent experiments’ that ‘provide new concepts’ and of ‘theoretical developments that might result in new materials’.” According to Bragaglia, the FOIA reports say how more than 40 witnesses mentioned a metal-like material that could ‘remember itself’ following the Roswell crash. The material would return to its original state instantly after being folded or deformed.

• “The DIA believes it is being responsive to the FOIA request by acknowledging UFO debris, its storage by Bigelow, and by identifying areas of future applications of these materials, said Bragaglia, “without having to actually name responsible parties, of what elements the material is comprised, how it is processed…”

The Pentagon has recovered UFO debris and conducted tests on futuristic materials which are a “quantum leap” ahead of current

technologies, a flying saucer investigator has claimed.

ET expert Tony Bragaglia submitted a FOI request to the US defence department on December 26, 2017.

He has recently shared links to a Defense Intelligence Agency’s belated response more than three years on.

A letter dated January 8 this year provided partial responses to his request for “all information on test results on UAP material from Bigelow Aerospace”.

Mr Bragaglia claims the futuristic materials could have the power to make things invisible, ‘compress’ electromagnetic energy and may even slow down the speed of light.

Writing online, Mr Bragaglia said: “Now officially referred to as UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) rather than UFOs, some of this material was placed with a defense contractor for analysis and storage in ‘specialized facilities’.

“Incredibly, part of the information released discusses material with shape recovery properties, much like the ‘memory metal’ debris found fallen at the Roswell UFO crash in 1947.”

He added: “Although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man.”

Mr Bragaglia claimed: “The information provided in the FOIA response seems to represent reports that are directly relevant to what was learned from the study of the UFO debris, and how insight gained from those studies might be applied in the future, but does not include a detailing of the found debris itself.

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