Article by Arjun Kharpal December 4, 2020 (cnbc.com)
• The Chang’e-5 probe spacecraft (pictured above) that has been on the Moon collecting rock samples, launched from the Moon en route to the Earth, marking the first time that China has launched a spacecraft from an extraterrestrial body. China will be the third country in the world to retrieve lunar samples after the US did so in the 1960s and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
• On December 3rd, the Chang’e-5 probe was successfully launched into a pre-determined orbit around the Moon. Chang’e-5 will meet with a return spacecraft to get back to Earth and is expected to land in China’s Inner Mongolia region around mid-December.
• China has ramped up its space efforts in the last few years. Earlier this year, President Xi Jinping urged the industry to make China a “great space power as soon as possible.” In June, China launched the final satellite to complete “Beidou”, its rival to the US government-owned Global Positioning System (GPS), which is widely used across the world. And in July, China also launched a mission to Mars called Tianwen -1.
GUANGZHOU, China — A Chinese spacecraft carrying lunar samples has blasted off from the moon and is preparing to come back to Earth.
It’s the first time China has launched a spacecraft from an extraterrestrial body and the first time it has collected moon samples. If the moon samples make it back to Earth, China will be only the third country in the world to retrieve lunar samples after the efforts by the U.S. in the 1960s and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
At 23:10 p.m. Beijing time on Thursday, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft took off from the moon, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The spacecraft was successfully launched into a pre-determined orbit around the moon.
The probe will meet with a return spacecraft to get back to Earth and is expected to land in China’s Inner Mongolia region around mid-December.
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Article by George Dvorsky November 30, 2020 (gizmodo.com)
• The time has come for us to clean up our mess. So the European Space Agency has hired Swiss startup ClearSpace to remove the first item of space debris in 2025 for $103 million. More importantly, it will herald the beginning of an entirely new space industry of removing the 22,300 (at last count) pieces of debris currently in low earth orbit. The presence of useless machine parts traveling at up to 17,400 miles per hour creates a dangerous environment for satellites, astronauts, and possibly even the International Space Station.
• This particular useless piece of debris is the 247-pound Vega Secondary Payload Adapter (or Vespa), which has been circling in low earth orbit since 2013.
• The ClearSpace mission will test the concept of a “conical net” that will engulf the Vespa payload adapter (as pictured above). This will require unimaginable precision. Slight miscalculations could make the target object bounce out before the net can close or even cause a serious collision. With its cargo secured, the ClearSpace spacecraft will simply fall into Earth’s atmosphere and burn up on re-entry. Several other companies are developing their own concepts. RemoveDEBRIS, for example, uses a harpoon to snatch wayward objects in orbit. Only time will tell which strategy works best. Ultimately, ESA is hoping to launch “a new commercial sector in space.”
• ClearSpace is a spin-off of the commercial provider, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and it will seek the help of partners in Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, and several other European countries.
The European Space Agency has signed a historic deal with Swiss startup ClearSpace to remove a single item of space debris in 2025. The $103 million price tag is steep, but this mission—involving an orbiting, mouth-like net—could herald the beginning of an entirely new space industry.
The new contract, announced late last week, is unique in that the mission will involve “the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit,” according to ESA. ClearSpace, a spin-off of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), is the commercial provider for this mission, and it will seek the help of partners in Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, and several other European countries.
The target in question is the Vega Secondary Payload Adapter (or Vespa), which has been circling in low Earth orbit (LEO) since 2013. This 247-pound (112-kilogram) payload adapter successfully dispatched a Proba-V satellite to space, but, like so many other items in LEO, it currently serves no purpose, presenting a potential hazard to functioning satellites and possibly even the International Space Station.
€86 million (USD $103 million) seems like an awful lot of money to spend on the removal of a single item of space debris, but ESA is making an important investment. The technology required for the ClearSpace-1 mission, in which a spacecraft will “rendezvous, capture, and bring down” the Vespa payload adapter, will likely be leveraged in similar future missions (assuming this particular strategy will work). Ultimately, ESA is hoping to launch “a new commercial sector in space.”
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Article by Tom Bull November 29, 2020 (dailystar.co.uk)
• The 1967 Outer Space Treaty was signed to prevent nuclear weapons from being sent into space. Dr. Phil Davies is concerned that the treaty is outdated, and that the private sector wants to abolish it to make it easier to mine and explore space. Davies also thinks that there could be a catastrophic arms race in space with nuclear weapons suspended above our heads.
• “If we can update the Space Treaty to accommodate what the Americans and ultimately what others want, then it stays strong and allows them to do their business. It doesn’t allow for nukes up there,” says Davies. “[W]hen there is only one law that stops us from putting weapons in space, …there is going to be a nation we are worried about.” “No one is mature enough to handle nukes in space. …[T]hreats could come from anywhere. America, China, or North Korea could go too far. Once you do that you change everything.”
• About ten years ago, Davis, a 55-year-old former RAF doctor, started shining a powerful laser at the planet Mars to liberate carbon dioxide on the alien planet. In doing so, he says he is creating an atmosphere. Under current UN space law, if you can show that you have taken steps to make an unpopulated planet ready for ‘sustained use’, you are entitled to stake a claim as the rightful owner of the alien territory.
• Davis is part of a ‘Mars for Sale multinational group’ of 150,000 folks who make a collective claim to own Mars in the name of world peace. Even the space pioneer Elon Musk has proposed accelerating a sustained Martian atmosphere by dropping bombs on Mars to release the trapped CO2.
• This isn’t about being the first on Mars. Davies and his group simply hope to “sting” the UN into updating its space laws to stop ‘nasty’ countries from weaponizing space in a bid to mine unexplored planets. “[T]he desire of greed is higher than the desire for peace,” says Davis. “If we could stir that up and show we’re going to be difficult to deal with … they’ll have to update the law in that direction.”
• But when the time comes, Davis believes he and his 150,000 friends who have purchased tracks of Martian land will be first in line to own the Red Planet. “There are no other celestial land claims filed with the UN,” says Davis. “[O]ne day it will be feasibly possible for humans to go to Mars and set up factories or who knows.” “[U]p will pop our claim. It will have been filed. As long as somebody is alive, then it’ll have to be dealt with.”
Dr Phil Davies knows that he seems a bit whacky when he points a laser at Mars from the back garden of his Hampshire home.
The doctor, who has made headlines for claiming he owns the Red Planet, takes the jokes and funny looks in his stride.
Because he, along with 150,000 others, are on a mission for world peace – to protect mankind from what he says is a real threat of nuclear weapons dangling above our heads.
About ten years ago, the 55-year-old started shining a powerful laser through space to liberate carbon dioxide on the alien planet 91 million kilometres away.
In doing so, he says he is creating an atmosphere, and, under current space law, is entitled to stake a claim at being the rightful owner of the martian territory.
Dr Davies says he is making it ready for sustained use, and in a court, his claim would stand up to scrutiny.
UN regulations state that to own part of a planet you have to show you have made it ready for ‘sustained use’.
But for the space-loving GP, it isn’t about being the first man on Mars. It’s about beating the world’s superpowers in a game of chess.
“It is all about the Outer Space Treaty,” he told The Daily Star. “That’s the only law that stops aggressive weapons in orbit above earth.”
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Article by Dean Wilkins November 27, 2020 (thesun.co.uk)
• In the early morning hours of November 29, 1980, Police Constable Alan Godfrey (pictured above) was out patrolling the Pennines hills, near the town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, in the pouring rain following reports that a herd of cows was on the loose. By 5am, Godfrey headed into Todmorden town centre for one last sweep before clocking off. As he drove past his police station, something caught his eye several hundred yards up the road.
• “I thought it was a bus at first,” said Godfrey, then a 33-year-old policeman with two commendations to his name. “[B]ut I remembered I’d already passed the early morning (bus) service, and as I got nearer it very clearly looked nothing like a bus. It was completely blocking the main road. A huge metal object hanging in the air about five feet off the ground …diamond shaped, about 20ft wide and 14ft high with what appeared to be dark paneling across the upper top third. [M]y headlights were shining off the side (of the object) and if I’d gotten out of the car and thrown a brick at it, it would’ve gone ‘bang’. The whole bottom half (of the object) was spinning in an anti-clockwise direction, which was kicking up leaves and dirt beneath it. I just sat there in awe, staring at it.”
• Godfrey continued, “Next, my training and five years on the force kicked in. I put my blue flashing lights on, flipped on the hazards and attempted to radio the control room.” But both Godfrey’s personal and in-car radio sets could not establish contact. So he pulled out a sketchpad and pencil, a common practice for officers used to responding to traffic collisions at the time. Suddenly, a brilliant white light flashed, blinding him in an instant.
• When the blinding flash gradually subsided, Godfrey realized he was inexplicably driving about 100 yards further up the road as the mysterious object vanished in his rear view mirror. “There was a strange tickly electric feeling about the place. I turned around and went back to the spot (where) the object was hovering. The road surface beneath it was bone dry – everything else was glistening from the earlier downpour. In the dry patch, leaves, twigs and small branches lay in a swirled pattern. It was very peculiar.”
• Terrified and shocked, Godfrey rushed back to the station to report the incident. It became an in-joke at the police station as fellow officers made sniggering remarks such as ‘Captain Kirk’. One officer even made a prank report to the local newspaper reporter who rang up to check if any serious incidents had been reported.
• During his next shift, Godfrey was called in to see his inspector who remarkably revealed three officers from the Halifax division had also reported seeing strange “steel blue lights” at 4.49am. It turned out, however, that this incident had occurred several days prior to Godfrey’s encounter. “But I was just so relieved that I wasn’t the only bobby to report strange sightings on the tops – I wasn’t going mad on my own,” said Godfrey. “I was delighted to have corroboration and thought ‘no more p***-taking from that lot’.”
• Soon thereafter, Godfrey tracked down another witness, Leonard Smith, a former policeman who also reported seeing a “large sphere object rise into the sky”. In 2014, Bob Coates, a bus driver who passed the same spot as Godfrey at 4.55am on the same night, shared a similar story of leaves and twigs circling in a “whirlwind”. Godfrey’s superiors gave him the green light to do an interview with the local reporter which appeared in the Hebden Bridge Times on December 5, 1980.
• The newspaper account was picked up by one of the UK’s top UFO researchers, Jenny Randles, who immediately launched an investigation. In an article she wrote for a UFO magazine, Randles unwittingly linked the incident to the mysterious murder of Zygmund Adamski – which Godfrey had helped investigate months earlier.
• Adamski was a 56-year-old miner who had gone missing five months earlier. His body was found by Godfrey on top of a 15ft-high coal pile in Todmorden. In his police report, Godfrey described the expression of “fear and pain” on Adamski’s face as well as weeping burns on the back of his head, neck and shoulders that had been treated with a peculiar ointment. Adamski’s hair had been messily cut short. He was wearing a jacket but no shirt. And there was no sign of coal dirt or dust on his hands, face or front – leading investigators to believe his body had been dumped there. Despite exhaustive police investigations and medical tests, Adamski’s death was never explained and the strange liquid never identified.
• In the wake of Ms Randles’s article, Godfrey’s encounter appeared on the front page of the Sunday Mirror and became worldwide news. Godfrey found himself on TV chat shows, documentaries and radio programs, and giving interviews to dozens of media outlets. Godfrey was encouraged to undertake hypnotic regression to piece together the moments after the burst of white light.
• Professor Robert Blair and Dr. Joseph Jaffee were both experts in the field of hypnosis, and treated Godfrey on three occasions, two of which were filmed. Under hypnosis, Godfrey revealed, “I just started shouting ‘Jesus the light… the light’. I’d been blinded.” He recounted being “floated” inside the object where he met a group of child-sized, large-headed ‘creatures’ working alongside the bearded ‘human’,” whom Godfrey described as “Biblical”.
• Later, Godfrey was so astonished at the hypnosis recordings that he couldn’t bring himself to accept them as real. “I have absolutely no idea what I was saying, if they are true, if they are a fabricated memory, or if they are a collection of stories all muddled together as a result of hypnosis.”
• Since first investigating UFOs in the 1970s, Jenny Randles has tried to find a ‘middle ground’ theory that explains the UFO phenomenon without resorting to extraterrestrials. “Anyone who investigates UFO experiences and accounts thoroughly will know that there are too many genuine cases from very sincere and honest people like Alan, a distinguished policeman and father, for it to all be made up.” The recent use of the term ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ (UAPs) instead of UFOs is a way of “disassociating actual scientific research from the little green men and flying saucers stigma attached to UFOs.”
• The UK’s Condign Report, released in 2006, confirmed “unquestionable atmospheric events occur that are not yet fully understood by modern science.” “We need to properly study if natural phenomena in the ground can push waves of energy into the atmosphere, which then creates physical phenomena that can be seen and can be felt,” added Randles. “And, that also creates energy that can stall car engines, interfere with radio transmissions and potentially triggers physiological actions in those that get too close to it. People could suffer a terrifying experience, which is in an altered state of consciousness, where (they are) perceiving what they’re really seeing but also having a stimulated hallucination that is packed onto the top of that.”
• Hundreds of sightings have been recorded in Todmorden and the surrounding Pennines hills or ‘tops’. Randles claims that Todmorden is an example of a “window area” where concentrated forces trigger the perception of ‘lights’ and ‘alien contacts’. Todmorden has had more UFO sightings than any other part of the UK.
• Neuro-scientist Dr. Michael Persinger created an electromagnetic helmet – dubbed the ‘God machine’ – which measures the effects that pulses of energy, magnetism and electricity can have on humans. Of the 900 people he tested in the 1990s, religious people found themselves interacting with the Virgin Mary, the Prophet Mohammed and Jesus. Non-religious people had what they described as an ‘out-of-body experience’ comparable with alien abductions. This would explain Godfrey’s recall under hypnosis.
• Professor Sue Blackmore, who explored alien abduction accounts for the BBC’s Horizon show in 1994, and underwent Dr. Persinger’s ‘God machine’ test for her research, said that very few people make up their experiences and that Godfrey’s account “is to be believed”. But Blackmore also noted that Godfrey was on a late night shift with the police department. “[I]f you’re doing shift work you’re much more likely to suffer sleep paralysis.” Blackmore suggests that Godfrey “dropped into this microsleep and probably one or two seconds later, the car (has) moved on and the memory that’s created feels more real than what’s created during ‘normal’ life.” “[P]eople who dismiss these experiences don’t take into account how absolutely real it seems.”
• The incredible story which made headlines around the world earned the small market town of Todmorden the title of Britain’s UFO hotspot. “I have never claimed that I was abducted,” Godfrey, now 73, told Sun Online from his home in Todmorden. “But everything up until the bright white light and afterwards, when I was on the other side, I’ll believe it until the end.”
SCRAMBLING for a pen and paper, PC Alan Godfrey desperately tried to sketch out the vast, hulking vessel that loomed in front of him – until he was suddenly engulfed by a dazzling white light.
When he came to, the young policeman found himself 100 yards down the Yorkshire country lane in his patrol car as the mysterious object vanished in his rear view mirror.
The incredible story, which made headlines around the world 40 years ago, earned the small market town of Todmorden the title of Britain’s UFO hotspot and continues to obsess investigators to this day.
“I have never claimed that I was abducted,” PC Godfrey, now 73, tells Sun Online from his home in Todmorden.
“But everything up until the bright white light and afterwards, when I was on the other side, I’ll believe it until the end.”
Here, we step inside the bizarre saga of the UK’s most famous UFO case and talk to some of the world’s leading investigators about what really might have happened that fateful day.
From ‘marauding cows’ to UFO horror
During the early hours of November 29, 1980, PC Godfrey was out patrolling the Pennines in the pouring rain following reports that a herd of cows was on the loose.
By 5am, with no sight of the marauding group, PC Godfrey headed into Todmorden town centre for one last sweep before clocking off.
He passed a bus shuttling morning workers, saw no sign of trouble and decided to go for one last look for “those bloody cows”.
PC Godfrey passed another bobby on foot patrol, who declined his offer of a lift.
“How I wish he would’ve said yes, it would’ve been priceless to have another officer witness what was about to happen,” he says.
He then drove past his police station and was about to turn right on to the estate when something caught his eye several hundred yards up the road.
“If only I’d had a mobile phone on me at the time so I could record what I saw, it would’ve been a lot easier than 40 years of trying to explain it,” recalls PC Godfrey.
“I thought it was a bus at first, but I remembered I’d already passed the early morning service, and as I got nearer it very clearly looked nothing like a bus.
“It was completely blocking the main road. A huge metal object hanging in the air about five feet off the ground.
“It was diamond shaped, about 20ft wide and 14ft high with what appeared to be dark paneling across the upper top third – my headlights were shining off the side and if I’d gotten out of the car and thrown a brick at it, it would’ve gone ‘bang’.
“The whole bottom half was spinning in an anti-clockwise direction, which was kicking up leaves and dirt beneath it.
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Article by David Israel December 5, 2020 (jewishpress.com)
• Professor Haim Eshed, 87 (pictured above), is a highly decorated aeronautical engineer who served within the Israeli Defense Force’s Intelligence Division since the 1960s. Retiring from the Israeli military in 1980 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Eshed then worked with the Israeli Ministry of Defense as the head of Israel’s Security Space Program until 2011.
• Professor Eshed recently told Israel’s largest daily newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, that President Trump was on the verge of revealing the existence of extraterrestrial beings in our midst, but the alien beings asked for a delay in the announcement as “humanity is not ready yet.” According to Professor Eshed, “[T]he aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying: Wait, let people calm down first. They (the aliens) don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding.”
• The highly advanced extraterrestrial beings of the Galactic Federation have been waiting for humanity to evolve and reach a stage where the people on Earth understand what space and spaceships truly are. “There’s an agreement between the US government and the aliens,” says Professor Eshed. The US government signed a contract allowing the extraterrestrials to research and do experiments on Earth and in this solar system. The ETs are trying to understand the fabric of the universe, and want Earth humans to unite with them in this galactic endeavor.
• Professor Eshed went on to reveal that there is an underground base on Mars, inhabited by extraterrestrial representatives of the Galactic Federation as well as American astronauts.
• Professor Eshed holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the Technion, a master’s degree in performance research. In 1965, he served in the technological unit of the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) Intelligence Division in research and development. In 1969, he was sent by the IDF Military Intelligence division to the US to earn a doctorate in aeronautical engineering. Eshed was then appointed as head of the research and development department in the Israeli Intelligence Corps, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel.
• Following his military service, Eshed was employed as a professor at the Technion’s Space Research Institute, and in 1981 became the first director of the Challenge Program – a unit of the Administration for Research, Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure (Mapat) in the Israeli Defense Ministry, which is responsible for satellite projects. He retired from the Defense Ministry in October 2011, having commanded the launching of 20 Israeli satellites. Professor Eshed has received the Israel Security Award three times, twice for confidential technological inventions.
• “If I had come up with what I’m saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalized,” says Professor Eshed. “Wherever I’ve gone with this (extraterrestrial revelation) in academia, they’ve said: ‘the man has lost his mind’. Today, they’re already talking differently. I have nothing to lose. I’ve received my degrees and awards, I am respected in universities abroad, where the (extraterrestrial) trend is also changing.” Professor Eshed has recently published a new book and audio book entitled: The Universe Beyond the Horizon – conversations with Professor Haim Eshed.
• [Editor’s Note] Learn more in Dr Michael Salla’s insightful 12-minute video critique below.
Prof. Haim Eshed served from 1981 to 2010 as the head of Israel’s security space program and over the
years received the Israel Security Award three times, twice for confidential technological inventions. So if he went nuts, and this possibility is always open, it had to have happened over the past decade. And the reason we think the good professor may have lost his marbles has to do with an interview he gave 7 Days, the Shabbat edition of Yedioth Aharonoth, Israel’s largest circulation for-pay newspaper, in which he says, “The aliens have asked not to announce that they are here, humanity is not ready yet.”
Prof. Eshed told Yedioth, among other things: The UFOs have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet. Trump was on the verge of revealing, but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying: Wait, let people calm down first. They don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding.
They have been waiting for humanity to evolve and reach a stage where we will generally understand what space and spaceships are. There’s an agreement between the US government and the aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here. They, too, are researching and trying to understand the whole fabric of the universe, and they want us as helpers. There’s an underground base in the depths of Mars, where their representatives are, and also our American astronauts.
If I had come up with what I’m saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalized. Wherever I’ve gone with this in academia, they’ve said: the man has lost his mind. Today they’re already talking differently. I have nothing to lose. I’ve received my degrees and awards, I am respected in universities abroad, where the trend is also changing.
To those of us who have grown up following the history-altering warp flight of Zefram Cochrane, which was witnessed by a Vulcan spaceship and soon enough began Earth’s acceptance into the more evolved planets of our galaxy, Prof. Eshed’s teachings are familiar, even trite, with one important proviso: we know Cochrane is a fictional character (born in 2013 or 2030, Star Trek is not a very organized universe). Eshed may not be distinguishing so good between reality and fiction.
Eshed, 87, holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the Technion, a master’s degree in performance research, and a doctorate in aeronautical engineering. In 1965, he served in the technological unit of the IDF Intelligence Division in research and development positions. In 1969, he was sent by the IDF Military Intelligence to study for a doctorate in aeronautical engineering in the United States. When he returned, he was appointed head of the research and development department in the Intelligence Corps. He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Following his military service, he was employed as a professor at the Technion’s Space Research Institute, and in 1981 established and became the first director of the Challenge Program, a unit of the Administration for Research, Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure (Mapat) in the Defense Ministry, which is responsible for satellite projects. He retired from the Defense Ministry in October 2011, having commanded the launching of 20 Israeli satellites.
All of which does not mean that at age 87, Prof. Eshed can’t don a Hawaiian grass skirt and communicate with the Alien base in the depths of Mars. His new book, The Universe Beyond the Horizon – conversations with Professor Haim Eshed, as recorded by Hagar Yanai (published by Yedioth Aharonoth), is available in print at just NIS 68.6, with a kindle version for a laughable NIS 48. An ideal gift for Chanukah.
12:39 minute video of Dr Michael Salla on Haim Eshed’s ET disclosure (‘Michael Salla’ YouTube)
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Article by Kristin Huang November 26, 2020 (scmp.com)
• With the launch of China’s Chang’e-5 lunar spacecraft and Beijing’s first lunar mission to bring Moon rock samples back to Earth, US Space Force General John Raymond remarked that China was a threat that could block American access to space, and that the US had to strengthen ties with its allies to handle the “threat” from China and Russia over space.
• Meanwhile, a successful mission would make China just the third country to have retrieved lunar samples, after the US and the former Soviet Union. Xu Hongliang, secretary general of China’s National Space Administration, told a space aviation forum on Wednesday that there were more Chang’e missions to come and China was planning to build an international research station on the Moon. Xu also said China would explore small celestial bodies, retrieve samples from Mars and pass by Jupiter and back again. Said Xu, “[W]e welcome international space agencies to participate in China’s future lunar and deep-space exploration cooperation.”
• The space rivalry between the world’s largest two economies is heating up. Beijing has been planning to build its own space station for decades as an alternative to the International Space Station, from which China has been excluded by the US because of security concerns.
• US officials say that China and Russia show threatening behavior regarding space. Raymond referred to an incident in 2007 when China hit and destroyed a disused Chinese weather satellite, testing its own missile capabilities. Until then, space had been considered a “benign domain,” but it was now it is contested. “China and Russia caused this shift in the strategic environment,” said Raymond. China and Russia’s capabilities include jamming of GPS and communication satellites, and directed energy and kinetic destruction of US assets via missiles on the ground.
• Raymond noted that “space really underpins … all of our instruments of national power. [I]t provides huge economic opportunity, scientific opportunity and military opportunity”, and that the US is eager to enhance ties with its allies… in space.” “We have to have different space architectures and we have to have partnerships,” Raymond said. “We’ve got to make sure that we stay ahead of this growing threat.”
• In the first nine months of 2020, China has sent 29 satellites into space – two more than the US. But observers say that China is still lagging behind the US, as private companies such as SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have taken the industry lead.
• China has grappled with launch failures. An optical remote-sensing satellite failed to enter its preset orbit in September, following another failed launch two months earlier, the Kuaizhou-11 commercial solid rocket, with two satellites on board. China also had satellite launch failures in March and April.
Rivalry between China and the United States in space exploration has reached new heights, with a US general saying China was a threat that could
block American access to space.
Just days after the launch of Beijing’s first lunar mission to bring samples back to Earth, US Space Force General John Raymond said the United States had to strengthen ties with its allies to handle the “threat” from China and Russia over space.
Raymond’s comments came as the head of the Chinese space administration said the nation would launch more lunar probes and invite other countries to join China on its missions.
The China-US space rivalry intensified after a Long March-5 rocket carrying the Chang’e-5 lunar spacecraft blasted off from Wenchang, Hainan province, on Tuesday morning.
In the first mission of its kind by any country in more than 40 years, the 8-tonne spacecraft comprises four components designed to bring samples back to Earth.
If the mission is successful, it would make China just the third country to have retrieved lunar samples, after the US and the former Soviet Union. But China’s space ambitions do not stop there.
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Article by Simon Green November 25, 2020 (dailystar.co.uk)
• On October 31st, Tash Minto and Tony Waterhouse were driving on the highway approaching the area of the Stonehenge in southwestern England when they noticed the flat circular disk of white light. The gigantic glowing UFO seemed to be hovering above Stonehenge. Tash pulled out her phone and filmed it. (see 1:22 minute video below)
• The video shows the glowing orange shape and it appears to be stationary. Tash carried on filming until the object mysteriously “disappeared”. “It came out of nowhere and just as quickly was gone again,” Tash said.
• Tash and Tony have tried to explain the sight, with suggestions ranging from drones, a prank, and even the Moon. They haven’t ruled out aliens. “Tony kept mentioning it was like the X-Files and I told him to stop because it just didn’t feel natural,” Tash said. “[T]his didn’t seem to come from anything like the Sun or the Moon, it felt like it was coming from something artificial.”
• “Tony said it was definitely little green men,” said Tash. “Personally I think, if they are out there, they won’t be very little. I think they’ll be giants.”
• Conspiracy theorists have long-claimed the huge slabs of rock at Stonehenge, which weigh around 50 tons each, could only have been moved by extraterrestrials.
A gigantic glowing UFO has been caught on camera hovering above Stonehenge – prompting one witness to claim it belongs to “little green men”.
Tash Minto and her partner Tony Waterhouse were driving on the A303 just outside Mere, Wiltshire, on October 31 when they noticed the flat circular disk of white light.
It was hovering in the direction of Stonehenge and Tash, 31, quickly took out her phone to film the unusual sight.
The video shows the shape glowing orange and it appears to be stationary.
They carried on filming until the object mysteriously “disappeared”. “It came out of nowhere and just as quickly was gone again,” Tash later said.
The marketer and Tony, 36, have desperately tried to explain away the sight, with suggestions ranging from drones, a prank and even the moon.
But they haven’t ruled out aliens being to blame.
1:22 minute video of UFO near Stonehenge on Halloween (‘Tash Minto’ YouTube)
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Article by Tom Towers November 25, 2020 (dailystar.co.uk)
• It is no secret that royal consort Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (pictured above with wife, Queen Elizabeth), has long had an interest in UFOs. Philip kept a map of UFO sightings on the wall in Buckingham Palace. He asked to see top-secret MoD reports into “close encounters” and told a senior aide to study UFO cases.
• Philip, 99, got into the UFO/alien phenomenon thanks to his uncle and mentor Lord Mountbatten, who admitted to his belief in aliens after his bricklayer, Fred Briggs, had an encounter with a flying saucer in 1955. In a signed statement, Mountbatten wrote: “Mr Briggs was still dazed when I first saw him and was worried that no one would believe his story. Indeed, he made a point of saying that he had never believed in flying saucer stories before, and had been absolutely amazed at what he had seen.”
• Last summer, it was noted that Philip read The Halt Perspective, a book focusing on the Rendlesham Forest incident when two members of the US Air Force from the nearby USAF bases, stumbled upon an unknown craft displaying strange “hieroglyphic symbols”. The craft accelerated away at high speed after they touched it. One of the book’s authors received a letter from Philip’s private secretary saying: “I am certain it will be read with close interest over the summer.” Philip also reportedly received a book called Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs.
• Author David Clarke claims that Prince Philip wanted to meet the infamous ET contactee, George Adamski. Adamski claimed to have met a blonde-haired alien from Venus who took him in his spaceship for a tour of the solar system. A secret meeting with Adamski was cancelled at the last minute over fears it could embarrass the Royal Family.
The Duke of Edinburgh, 99, got into the phenomenon thanks to his uncle and mentor Lord Mountbatten, who admitted to his belief in aliens.
Mountbatten made a report on a strange encounter his bricklayer Fred Briggs had with a flying saucer back in 1955.
In a signed statement, he wrote: “Mr Briggs was still dazed when I first saw him and was worried that no one would
believe his story.
“Indeed, he made a point of saying that he had never believed in Flying Saucer stories before, and had been absolutely amazed at what he had seen.”
The Daily Star previously revealed that Philip kept a map of UFO sightings on the wall in Buckingham Palace.
He also reportedly asked to see top-secret MoD reports into “close encounters” and told a senior aide to study UFO cases.
Philip read The Halt Perspective last summer, a book focusing on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident, The Sun reports.
Two members of the US Air Force (USAF), John Burroughs and Jim Penniston from the nearby Bentwaters and Woodbridge bases, went to investigate a suspected civilian plane crash on December 26, 1980.
They stumbled upon an unknown craft displaying strange “hieroglyphic symbols”, which accelerated away at high speed after they touched it.
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Article by Tom Fowdy November 25, 2020 (news.cgtn.com)
• The Trump administration has announced that it is adding an additional 89 Chinese aerospace companies to the list of those prohibited from acquiring US-made components and technologies without approval, linking them to a “national security threat.” The obvious goal is protectionism – to stifle China’s own development in the aerospace sector, forcing China to rely on US firms such as Boeing.
• The Trump administration has made the decision that China represents a competitor in space exploration and technology, and that Beijing wants to militarize outer space. As China sends its Chang’e-5 lunar module to the Moon, Trump is trying to undermine China’s entire aerospace industry to gain the upper hand.
• In 2018, Trump created Space Force “to protect US and allied interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force” including satellite-orientated warfare and missile technology. Is this not the militarization of outer space contravening the 1967 Outer Space Treaty? The United States wants to gain unchallenged military hegemony over the entire world and sees China as a “competitor.”
• The US defense community claims that it is Beijing that is militarizing space as it works on its own satellite and exploration programs. As an article from Defense News claims, “China wants to dominate space, and the US must take countermeasures.” Beijing, however, claims to uphold the consensus that space is for peaceful development only.
• In December 2019, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang condemned the US Space Force, stating, “The relevant US actions are a serious violation of the international consensus on the peaceful use of outer space, undermine global strategic balance and stability, and pose a direct threat to outer space peace and security.”
• The “China threat” narrative is about maintaining US strategic supremacy as the only major player in outer space. This view predates Trump, with the Obama administration banning coordination of China’s national space agency with NASA in 2011, and excluding China from participating in the international space station.
• More attention should be focused on America’s emerging “Star Wars” against China. Space Force is a new strategic frontier for American militarization, aimed at competitor states such as China, in contravention of international law. The development of outer space exploration and technology ought only to be for peaceful purposes for “the common heritage of mankind.”
• [Editor’s Note] Can the Chinese Communist Party be trusted to be peaceful? The CCP has come under the control of the Deep State and President Trump knows this. As the white hat Alliance is in the process of dismantling the Deep State – in America, in China, and everywhere else in the world – the Deep State would like nothing better than to trigger a global war in order to maintain its long-standing global domination. The Deep State-controlled CCP is desperate as the Chinese people, and even President Xi Jinping himself, see the Chinese government’s corruption and are turning against the established Communist Party. So as things come to a head now in this five-dimensional chess game, Trump and the US military may have a very good reason to keep the pressure on Beijing.
A few days ago the news was announced that the Trump administration was preparing to add an additional 89 Chinese companies to the commerce department’s entity list, prohibiting them from acquiring U.S.-made components and technologies without approval and claiming they are linked to the military and represent a “national security threat.” The firms were noticeably all in the aerospace industry, with an obvious goal of attempting to stifle China’s own development in this sector and force Beijing to be reliant on U.S. firms such as Boeing. Given the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) (a firm being listed) is launching its own domestically made alternative to the 737, the C919, next year, it is difficult to see the move in any other light. It’s obvious protectionism.
But there is another angle, a strategic one too, of outer space. The Trump administration has long made a decision that China represents a competitor in space exploration and technology, and claimed falsely that Beijing seeks to militarize the cosmos as a pretext for their own militarization plans, contravening the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which pledges that space and “celestial bodies” may only be used for “peaceful development” and not military means.
In doing so, the administration has over the past few years put in place plans to transform space into the newest “strategic frontier” and now, as China launches Chang’e-5, seeks to undermine China’s entire aerospace industry to gain the upper hand. As a result, this is a sphere worth watching.
The U.S. “Space Force”.
In 2018, Trump announced the creation of a “U.S. space force” or “space command.” Although the idea was ridiculed for sounding like something out of a science fiction novel, it is, in fact, something serious. The strategic objectives of such a command is, as is stated on its website, “to protect U.S. and allied interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force.” That is the militarization of outer space. This includes things such as satellite-orientated warfare and missile technology. The United States wants to gain the upper hand in this sphere in order to maintain unchallenged military hegemony over the entire world and with that viewpoint comes the designation of China as a “competitor.”
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Article by Isaac Crowson November 22, 2020 (thesun.co.uk)
• On September 1, 2020, preparing to land a Boeing 737 packed with passengers at the Leeds Bradford airport in northern England, the jet’s two pilots “suddenly saw a bright light and an object which appeared to be moving toward the aircraft, almost head on, slightly up and to the left” according to the Airprox report. Witnesses say the UFO came within ten feet of colliding with the commercial flight arriving from Spain.
• The incident was rated a ‘Category A’ event by the UK Airprox Board – which monitors and investigates near-miss aerial events. “The object appeared without warning and there was no time to act,” said the report. After landing, the pilots were told that a police helicopter had seen lanterns flying in the area. But the report stated that “Neither of the pilots believed what they saw was a lantern.” Investigators ruled that “a definite risk of collision had existed”.
• The near miss in Leeds came three days before a drone came three feet away from striking an Easyjet Airbus A320 which had taken off from Manchester Airport carrying 186 passengers. At 8,000ft over Greater Manchester, the ‘drone’ would have been flying 20 times above the legal height. There have been more than 400 reported incidents in the past five years.
A UFO came within seconds of colliding with a passenger jet in a terrifying close call.
The rogue object came at the packed Boeing 737 plane “almost head on” as pilots prepared to land at Leeds Bradford airport.
The scare on September 1 was rated a ‘Category A’ event by the UK Airprox Board – which monitors and investigates near-miss events.
The unidentifiable object – which could have been a drone or lantern – was just 10 feet away from the flight arriving from Spain.
The Airprox report revealed: “Both pilots suddenly saw a bright light and an object which appeared to be moving toward the aircraft, almost head on, slightly up and to the left.
“The object appeared without warning and there was no time to act.”
After landing, the pilots were told that a police helicopter had seen lanterns flying in the area.
But the report added: “Neither of the pilots believed what they saw was a lantern.”
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Article by James Bickerton November 22, 2020 (express.co.uk)
• Will Whitehorn, president of UK space industry trade association UKSpace, argues: “If we’re going to put billions and billions of pounds of assets into space, which secure the future of this country, then we’re going to have to defend those assets.” It’s vital Britain is able to defend its commercial assets in space.” Whitehorn even predicted that “… there will come a time when we will have a Royal Space Force…”.
• On November 18th, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a “once in a generation modernization” of Britain’s armed forces, with massive funding in military research and development, new warfare technologies, and space and cyber capabilities, and the official launch in 2021 of the UK Space Command.
• A Space Command Center, likely based at RAF High Wycombe (which currently houses Headquarters Air Command), will be rededicated to the new RAF space command, artificial intelligence, launching British satellites, and to“further enhance coordination of the UK military and commercial space operations”. The Space Command plans to launch its first rocket from Scotland in 2022.
• UKSpace’s Will Whitehorn commented: “I am delighted Space Command is to be established and have long argued for it in order to bolster the UK’s ability to defend both the freedom of space and our sovereign assets in space. An important part of that ability will include a sovereign launch capability in the UK, and UKspace will work closely with the government to play our part in achieving launch capability in the north of Scotland and Cornwall. We will also work to ensure that our country becomes the global centre of excellence for the satellites and other space industrial assets of the future.”
• There are a number of proposals to build the UK’s first vertical launch space port in Scotland with sites in Sutherland, North Uist and the Shetland Islands on the short list. A new spaceport in Newquay, Cornwall is also under development with the support of Virgin Orbit. The plan is for ‘Cosmic Girl’, a Virgin Orbit Boeing 747, to take off from Newquay airport then launch an attached rocket which will carry satellites into space.
• The UK Government wants Britain to account for 10 percent of the global space economy by 2030.
On Wednesday Boris Johnson announced a “once in a generation modernisation” of Britain’s armed forces with an additional £16.5bn in funding over the next four years. This money will be invested in space and cyber capabilities as well as conventional forces.
As part of this programme a UK Space Command will be launched next year, potentially based at RAF High Wycombe.
The move was welcomed by UKSpace, an umbrella group which represents the British space industry.
The body said it will “further enhance coordination of the UK military and commercial space operations”.
Will Whitehorn, president of UKSpace, argued it’s vital Britain is able to defend its commercial assets in space.
He commented: “I am delighted Space Command is to be established and have long argued for it in order to bolster
the UK’s ability to defend both the freedom of space and our sovereign assets in space.
“An important part of that ability will include a sovereign launch capability in the UK, and UKspace will work closely with the government to play our part in achieving launch capability in the north of Scotland and Cornwall.
“We will also work to ensure that our country becomes the global centre of excellence for the satellites and other space industrial assets of the future.”
Mr Johnson also said plans are in place for a British rocket to be launched into space from Scotland in 2022.
There are a number of proposals to build the UK’s first vertical launch space port in Scotland with sites in Sutherland, North Uist and the Shetland Islands being considered.
These will launch satellites, and potentially one day people, into space from British soil.
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Article by Mike Wall November 23, 2020 (space.com)
• On November 23rd, China’s robotic Chang’e 5 mission launched to land on the Moon and retrieve lunar rocks, and bring them back to Earth in mid-December. The last time Moon rocks were brought back to Earth was the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976. Chinese officials have been characteristically vague about the details.
• The Chang’e 5’s will arrive in lunar orbit around November 28th, then send two of its four modules — a lander and an ascent vehicle — to the lunar surface a day or so later. The landing target is the Mons Rumker area of the Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”) volcanic plain. This area has been extensively explored by a number of other missions, including NASA’s Apollo 12 in 1969.
• Over the course of two weeks, the stationary lander will use cameras, ground-penetrating radar, and a spectrometer to study the area. It will collect about 4.4 lbs of lunar material, some of which will be dug from up to 6.5 feet underground. The timeline is tight given that it needs to accomplish its objectives before the sun light turns to shadow in two weeks, as the lander is solar powered.
• The rocks at Mons Rumker were formed 1.2 billion years ago. The 842 lbs of Moon rocks brought home by the Apollo astronauts between 1969 and 1972 are considerably older, providing a window in the deeper lunar past. Chang’e 5 “will help scientists understand what was happening in the more recent past of the Moon’s history.
• The Chang’e 5 lander will transfer its rock samples to the ascent vehicle, which will launch them to lunar orbit for a meetup with the other two mission elements, a service module and an attached Earth-return capsule. Loaded into the return capsule, the rocks will be brought back to Earth by December 16th or 17th. Rather than relying on strong heat shielding to blast through the atmosphere on re-entry, as the Apollo capsules did, Chang’e 5 will perform a ‘skip reentry,’ bouncing off the atmosphere once to slow down before plummeting to a landing in Inner Mongolia.
• Chang’e 5 is the sixth mission in the Chang’e program of robotic lunar exploration, which is named after a moon goddess in Chinese mythology. China launched the Chang’e 1 and Chang’e 2 orbiters in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and the Chang’e 3 lander-rover duo touched down on the Moon’s near side in December 2013. The Chang’e 5T1 mission launched a prototype return capsule traveling around the Moon in October 2014, to help prepare for Chang’e 5. And in January 2019, Chang’e 4 became the first mission ever to ace a soft landing on the Moon’s far side. Chang’e 4’s lander and rover are still going strong, as is the Chang’e 3 lander. (The Chang’e 3 rover died after 31 months of work on the lunar surface.)
• Chang’e 5 is part of a recent surge in ‘sample-return missions’. On December 6th, for example, pieces of the asteroid Ryugu collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission are scheduled to touch down in Australia. And NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe gathered a hefty sample of the asteroid Bennu last month. That material will return to Earth in September 2023.
The first lunar sample-return mission since the 1970s is underway.
China’s robotic Chang’e 5 mission launched today (Nov. 23) from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, rising into the sky atop a Long March 5 rocket at about 3:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT; 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 24 local time in Hainan).
If all goes according to plan, the bold and complex Chang’e 5 will haul pristine moon samples back to Earth in mid-December — something that hasn’t been done since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976.
Chang’e 5’s short mission will be action-packed. The 18,100-lb. (8,200 kilograms) spacecraft will likely arrive in lunar orbit around Nov. 28, then send two of its four modules — a lander and an ascent vehicle — to the lunar surface a day or so later. (Chinese officials have been characteristically vague about Chang’e 5’s details, so timeline information has been pieced together from various sources by China space watchers like Space News’ Andrew Jones, who also provides articles for Space.com.)
The mission will land in the Mons Rumker area of the huge volcanic plain Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”), portions of which have been explored by a number of other surface missions, including NASA’s Apollo 12 in 1969.
The stationary lander will study its environs with cameras, ground-penetrating radar and a spectrometer. But its main job is to snag about 4.4 lbs. (2 kg) of lunar material, some of which will be dug from up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) underground. This work will be done over the course of two weeks, or one lunar day — a firm deadline, given that the Chang’e 5 lander is solar-powered and won’t be able to operate once night falls at its location.
Mons Rumker harbors rocks that formed just 1.2 billion years ago, meaning that Chang’e 5 “will help scientists understand what was happening late in the moon’s history, as well as how Earth and the solar system evolved,” as the nonprofit Planetary Society noted its description of the mission. (The 842 lbs., or 382 kg, of moon rocks brought home by the Apollo astronauts between 1969 and 1972 are considerably older, providing a window in the deeper lunar past.)
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Article by Amanda Devlin November 15, 2020 (thesun.co.uk)
• For the past two decades, popular British singer Robbie Williams (pictured above) has been intrigued by the paranormal. He claims to have spoken to ghosts, been visited by aliens, and seen strange orbs of light which he was convinced were extraterrestrial life forms. “I’ve experienced phenomena I can’t explain,” said Williams. “I’ve seen one right above me. I could have hit it with a tennis ball.” He even turned into an alien hunter in a film and visited a ranch plagued by paranormal events.
• But since he’s had his four children, Williams says the paranormal isn’t interested in him anymore. “[S]ince I’ve had kids,” said Williams, “the phenomena has ceased to happen. I’m guessing that once you have kids they just take up all of your energy and your thoughts.”
• Russ Kellett, (now 57), of the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire, northern England, claims to have been abducted in 1999 by ten foot tall aliens wearing uniforms. “Obviously I was thinking, ‘where the hell am I?’” said Kellet. “I looked around and there was someone waiting behind me. I looked at this young man and recognized him. I said, ‘Don’t I know you from somewhere?’ He replied, ‘I don’t know.’ Then I was told, ‘Get back in line’. I didn’t see him again after that, but I am sure it was Robbie Williams. We only spoke briefly, but it was definitely him.”
• 1999 would have been just before the time that Williams began to show an interest in extraterrestrial life and the paranormal.
A MAN has claimed he saw Robbie Williams on a spaceship after being “abducted by aliens” that were 10ft tall and wearing a uniform.
Russ Kellett, 57, has told how the pair were taken from Bradford in 1999 – just before singer Robbie showed an interest in extraterrestrial life.
Russ told the Daily Star said: “Obviously I was thinking, ‘where the hell am I?’
“I looked around and there was someone waiting behind me. I looked at this young man and recognised him.
“I said, ‘Don’t I know you from somewhere?’ He replied, ‘I don’t know.’ Then I was told, ‘Get back in line’.
“I didn’t see him again after that, but I am sure it was Robbie Williams. We only spoke briefly, but it was definitely him.”
For the past two decades Angels singer Robbie has been intrigued by the paranormal.
The Angels singer claims to have spoken to ghosts, been visited by aliens and seen strange orbs of light which he was convinced were extraterrestrial life forms.
And Robbie, previously treated for prescription drugs addiction, joked the incident had nothing to do with any pills.
He said: “I’ve experienced phenomena I can’t explain. I’ve seen one right above me. I could have hit it with a tennis ball. No substance was involved.”
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Article by Shaun Smillie October 24, 2020 (iol.co.za)
• Lee Strydom has been the Mutual UFO Network’s representative South Africa for the past six years. Most sightings that are reported to him are easily explained away, such as hovering drones, weather balloons, ball lightning, and Chinese lanterns. “It’s difficult when you have got sightings where somebody will send you a report and they will say ‘Hey Man, I saw a light in the sky’,” says Strydom. Then, there are the hoaxes where pranksters throw dinner plates in the air, photograph them and claim they are extraterrestrial vehicles. Once somebody reported seeing the cartoon character Sponge Bob Square pants running around their garden.
• On the odd occasion, Strydom receives a report where he can’t find a scientific answer and sometimes it is just a hunch that something truly unexplained happened. This happened with a couple who reported an incident in the Northern Cape. Something strange had blotted out the stars over Pinetown. Where the stars should have been on this clear night was a large black triangle shaped craft, perhaps three to four football fields in size. The man ran to grab this cell phone, but by the time he returned, the craft was no longer there. Others in the town house complex had also seen the strange triangular object, but to Strydom’s frustration none of them would come forward. The witness happened to be a friend of Strydom’s. That night his friend changed from being a UFO non-believer to a believer.
• Flying black triangles spotted at night are not that uncommon in UFO case files. For decades there have been reports of them from across the world. There is a theory that these triangular craft could be a top secret US surveillance aircraft known as the TR-3A Black Manta.
• Strydom relates a report from a couple who were driving through a massive thunderstorm. “It was at night and it was raining and there was this massive black cloud above them,” said Strydom. “They passed this road sign that said X town was 15 kilometres away.” The couple continued driving through the storm for fifteen minutes. Suddenly the storm cleared and they were at the same road sign that marked that the town was 15 kilometres back. “So they hadn’t moved for 15 minutes, but they were driving. There was a time difference,” explains Strydom. “The way he told the story, and how petrified they were afterwards, in my opinion makes it real.” This suggests that Strydom believes in time travel. The problem is, like with many other sightings, Strydom has been unable to corroborate the event with other witnesses.
• Another sighting that Strydom investigated happened during a wedding in Israel. “A woman sent me footage from a wedding, where they noticed something in the sky. When you slow down the footage, you can make out a cigar shaped UFO, then 30 seconds later it was followed by Israeli air force jets,” said Strydom. That was a good sighting. There was video footage and several witnesses.
• But most UFO sightings aren’t like that. Strydom will continue sifting through those reports to find the one that will prove what Strydom knows: that aliens have been visiting for thousands of years. Strydom has long been a believer. He saw a UFO when he was a child and has been interested ever since. The MUFON organization that Strydom volunteers for has been investigating UFO sightings since 1969. It is the largest non profit organization of its kind in the world with representatives across the world and specialized teams that investigate possible physical evidence of extraterrestrial craft.
Something strange had blotted out the stars over Pinetown. Where the stars should have been on this clear night was a large black triangle shaped craft, perhaps three to four football fields in size.
The man who claimed to have seen this strange object ran into his townhouse complex to grab this cell phone and call his girlfriend.
But by the time he returned, the craft was no longer there. When something strange and unexplained is spotted in the sky, it is often Lee Strydom, the Mutual UFO Network SA representative who is called.
This was a good sighting and the witness, who happened to be a friend of Strydom’s, left him a message on his cellphone that night.
“When I got to work the next day, I had this message, he said that he saw something and it was coming in my direction,” Strydom explains, adding that his friend that night changed from being a non UFO believer to a believer.
Others in the town house complex had also seen the strange triangular object, but to Strydom’s frustration none of them wanted to be interviewed. Interestingly flying black triangles spotted at night are not that uncommon in UFO case files.
For decades there have been reports of them from across the world. Just this week someone reported to Mufon of sighting a large dark triangle craft in Penticton, British Columbia, in Canada.
There is even a theory as to what they are, and it has nothing to do with alien visitors. The suspicion is that these triangular craft could be a top secret US surveillance aircraft known as the TR-3A Black Manta.
The flying triangle sighting was an exception for Strydom, who has been the SA Mufon representative for six years. Most sightings that are reported to him are easily explained away.
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Article by Diane Armstrong October 21, 2020 (gananoquereporter.com)
• In 1954, during the Cold War, employees of Hydroelectric Power Commission of Ontario or “Ontario Hydro” in northern Ontario, Canada were among the reliable government employees who were trained as the ‘Ground Observer Corps’ to watch for, identify and report to the Royal Canadian Air Force base in North Bay, a description and time of all planes flying overhead. Among these employees were a small ‘colony’ of ‘Hydro families’ who lived at the top of a hill near Ontario Hydro’s Wawaitin generating station, southwest of Timmins, Ontario.
• There was no TV reception up there, so people would gather socially, often with families from the Department of Lands and Forests. On the evening of Sunday, August 29, 1954, Chief Forest Ranger George Sheridan and his wife Gloria, and Don Ouimet, operator for Ontario Hydro and his wife Lois, met at the home of Ken and Shirley Kitchen who also worked for Ontario Hydro. At about 9:30 pm, George ran in saying, “Come quick! Do you want to see something strange? It just might be a flying saucer!” All three couples went outside with a pair of binoculars to view the brilliant, reddish-orange ball of light that appeared to be about eight or 10 miles away. The object kept dipping up and down, while swooping over the trees. “It was going very slowly and that’s what amazed me. You always hear reports of anything like this travelling very fast. This was so slow!” said Don Ouimet. Whatever it was, after about 20 minutes the object slowly disappeared to the southwest over Lake Kenogamissi. Sixty-six years later, Don and Lois Ouimet remember the incident vividly. They still wonder what that ball of light was that swooped up and down near Wawaitin.
• The incident was also seen by the Deputy Fire Ranger, Jack Russell. The Regional Director of the Ground Observer Corps, James Morton, was notified, as was the RCAF in North Bay. Just before dawn the next morning, a similar sighting was reported by Henry Durdie, a Royal Canadian Navy veteran, employed at the Military base in North Bay. Durdie said, “The great glowing ball of light hovered over the RCAF base while shooting out tremendous sparks like knitting needles of lightning.” Durdie said he was frightened at first, then called Tony McLeod, Leo Blais, George Noble and Manley Bailey to watch with him.
• Four months later, on December 26th, Cobalt, Ontario resident John R. Hunt, a reporter for the North Bay Nugget newspaper, received a telephone call from Willis St. Jean who was working the evening shift at the Agaunico (Agnico) Mine. “John, for God’s sake get out here! There’s a flying saucer overhead spitting out light all over the place!” Hunt sped to the mine on the shore of Lake Temiskaming and found St. Jean pointing up to the sky. “The thing came down low and scared the blazes out of me,” said St. Jean. The sighting was confirmed by St. Jean’s wife as well as William Montgomery of West Cobalt, and Hugh and Annette Montgomery, visiting from Kitchener. The light and antics were observed by the six people for over an hour.
• In his report to the Nugget the next day, Hunt said, “The light was emanating from a giant rotating disc of pure light. The light was not just spinning, but flying in circles. The cone of light suddenly reversed and the disc sent its blinding light straight up into the sky. It moved from the east to the west and stopped motionless, directly overhead. We watched the light come and go, dance in the sky, hover and dart as no airplane nor star nor meteor has ever behaved.” “What it was that this reporter saw last night I do not know. I was stone cold sober and so were the others who witnessed the phenomena. As far as I am concerned, a flying saucer flew over the mine and I saw it.”
Today, nearly everyone carries a cellphone with a camera. Those cameras can record proof of whatever people see, which might have sparked their interest. Without such proof, a single verbal description is lost unless more than one person can corroborate the event or sighting. Today’s column has been corroborated by many.
Now on with the stories: Let me take you back to the year 1954. Not counting the RCAF base in North Bay, there were only two airports in Northern Ontario; one in Porquis Junction and the other in Earlton. Highway 11B (now Highway 101) ended in Timmins. There were wide expanses of remote nothingness.
This was the era of the Cold War during which time the federal government established the Ground Observer Corps where reliable members of the public, including Ontario Hydro and other government employees were trained to watch for, correctly identify and report to the RCAF base in North Bay, a description and time of all planes flying overhead.
In 1954, there was a small colony at Ontario Hydro’s Wawaitin generating station, southwest of Timmins. The Hydro families there and those living at the top of the hill who worked for the Department of Lands and Forests often met socially. There was no TV in 1954. The evening of Sunday, Aug. 29 was such a night when Chief Forest Ranger George Sheridan with his wife Gloria, Don Ouimet, operator for Ontario Hydro and his wife Lois, met at the home of Ken and Shirley Kitchen. Ken was also an operator for Hydro.
At about 9:30, George ran in saying, “Come quick! Do you want to see something strange? It just might be a flying saucer!” He had been watching the phenomenon for three or four minutes already. Quickly, all three couples went outside with a pair of binoculars to view the strange, brilliant, reddish-orange ball of light that appeared to be about eight or 10 miles away. The object kept dipping up and down, while swooping over the trees.
Ouimet said, “It was going very slowly and that’s what amazed me. You always hear reports of anything like this travelling very fast. This was so slow!” The object, whatever it was, slowly disappeared to the southwest over Lake Kenogamissi after about 20 minutes. The incident was also seen by the Deputy Fire Ranger, Jack Russell. The Regional Director of the Ground Observer Corps, James Morton, was also notified, as was the RCAF in North Bay.
Just before dawn the next morning, a similar sighting was reported by Henry Durdie, a Royal Canadian Navy veteran, employed at the Military base in North Bay. He said, “The great glowing ball of light hovered over the RCAF base while shooting out tremendous sparks like knitting needles of lightning.” Durdie said he was frightened at first, then called Tony McLeod, Leo Blais, George Noble and Manley Bailey to watch with him.
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Article by Dave Basner October 13, 2020 (kfiam640.iheart.com)
• The melting polar ice cap on Antarctica might have just uncovered proof of extraterrestrial life. The receding ice has revealed a flying saucer on Google Earth. (see 9:19 minute video below)
• YouTuber MrMBB333 was sent the coordinates of the craft by a follower and created a video showing the strange, seemingly perfect circular shape, partially obscured by a rocky overhang. He says, “This appears to be a 60-foot-wide disc sticking out of the ground apparently being recently revealed by the melting snow and ice. There is the object, it looks like it was intelligently designed.”
• To support his theory, he alters the colors of the image and proposes that there is an “elevated circle” on the top of the structure. YouTube commenters say, “It doesn’t look stuck in the ground, it looks like it’s hovering,” while another added, “The black area under it looks like a shadow and if you look to your left, you will see a light source which looks like it’s coming from inside the cave or tunnel.”
• One ‘never UFOer’ skeptic insists, “It is just a small pool of water. If you look around at the other features locally you will notice that the other bodies of water also have a similar hue.” You be the judge.
The melting polar ice caps are causing many problems, from rising sea levels to extreme weather events to the extinction of certain species and the loss of fresh water for the world. However, they also might have just uncovered proof of extraterrestrial life. That’s according to one conspiracy theorist who claims the receding ice has revealed a flying saucer on Google Earth.
YouTuber MrMBB333 was sent the coordinates of the craft by a follower and created a video showing the strange, seemingly perfect circular shape, which is partially obscured by rocks. He states, “This appears to be a 60-foot-wide disc sticking out of the ground apparently being recently revealed by the melting snow and ice. There is the object, it looks like it was intelligently designed.”
To support his theory, he alters the colors of the image and proposes that there is an “elevated circle” on the top of the structure.
9:19 minute video showing GE images of saucer craft on Antarctica (MrMBB333′ YouTube)
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Article by Nick Pope October 10, 2020 (thescottishsun.co.uk)
• The top secret color photographs of the so-called ‘Calvine Incident’, when a flying saucer was clearly seen in the skies above the Scottish Highlands in August 1990 were set to be released in 2021. But now the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has postponed the photographs’ release for another fifty years. Nick Pope worked for the Ministry of Defence for 21 years, from 1991 to 1994, and ran its UFO office. Pope (pictured above) tells the inside story.
• Two men had been out hiking near Calvine in Scotland. Suddenly, they saw a massive UFO hanging in the sky, silent and motionless above their heads. Awestruck, they shot six photographs before the object accelerated away, vertically, at immense speed. The hikers sent the photos to a Scottish newspaper. A journalist contacted the MoD press office looking for a comment. The MoD managed to extract all the photos and the negatives from the newspaper, who never got them back.
• The photos had been taken in broad daylight and showed a large, crystal clear, diamond-shaped craft. At the government intelligence photo lab, the images were enlarged and analyzed. The analysis revealed that the photos had not been faked. They showed a structured craft of unknown origin, unlike any conventional aircraft. There was no fuselage, no wings, no tail, no engines and no markings of any sort. The size of the craft was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter. An enlargement of the photos revealed two military jets in the background. It wasn’t clear if they were escorting the UFO, trying to intercept it, or whether their presence was coincidental and the pilots had been too far away to see it. Pope’s predecessor at the MoD-UFO office had been prevented from tracing the military jets in the photos. This suggested that someone inside the MoD had sabotaged the investigation and blocked the UFO project from getting to the truth. Dark forces were at work.
• The MoD’s standard line on UFOs was that the phenomenon was of ‘no defense significance’ – a meaningless Whitehall soundbite that meant whatever we wanted it to mean. At best it was misleading, and at worst it was a downright lie. Pope says that the MoD consistently played down the true level of its interest in UFOs, telling Parliament, the media and the public that the subject was of little interest, “while all the time, behind closed doors, we struggled to make sense of cases like the Calvine incident”.
• MoD officials never found a definitive explanation for what was seen at Calvine. Of the several hundred UFO sighting reports received each year, most turned out to be misidentifications of satellites, meteors, Chinese lanterns and other ordinary objects and phenomena. But around five percent of the cases remained unexplained. “We didn’t assume these unexplained cases were extraterrestrial,” says Pope, “but neither did we rule out the possibility.”
• In the mid-nineties, a ‘believer faction’ had emerged at the MoD. This led to some extraordinary scenes. One time Pope and his boss walked over to Defence Intelligence Staff headquarters building in Whitehall. These were the ‘spooks’ who provided scientific and technical advice. A military intelligence briefer pulled out a copy of one of the Calvine photos from a folder. The intelligence officer ran through the possibilities. The object in the photograph wasn’t Russian. And it wasn’t American. That only left one other possibility. The briefer pointed straight up. Nothing further was said, and Pope and his boss walked back to their office in silence.
• A bitter struggle between UFO skeptics and UFO believers had erupted within the MoD. In relation to the Calvine photos, the only possible skeptical theory was that the object was a secret prototype aircraft or drone. Could it be American? The U.S. authorities were asked if they’d been testing a secret ‘Aurora’-type aircraft over the UK, but the U.S. denied any such prototype craft over Scotland. Since this was the skeptics’ only possibility, they persistently asked again. The Secretary of the US Air Force, Donald Rice, was ‘incensed’ by the questioning and the implication that he’d lied to the US Congress when Rice told them Aurora didn’t exist.
• Until now, a clear color photo of the Calvine UFO adorned the office wall at the UFO division of the MoD. But due to the diplomatic dust-up between Britain’s RAF and the US Air Force caused by the photos, the head of the division took it off of the wall. This division head still believed that it had to be a secret American craft. It couldn’t have been an extraterrestrial UFO, because they don’t exist. So he locked the photo in a safe, and it’s rumored that he later put it through the shredder.
• Plenty of other copies of the Calvine UFO survived, however. Pope came out of retirement in 2008 to help publicize the declassification and release of the MoD’s UFO files. But when the relevant files were released, the Calvine photos were missing. All that remained were some poor-quality black and white photocopies of a line drawing of one photo. It was as if the MoD wanted to ridicule the subject. A few years ago, Pope teamed up with a graphic artist in Los Angeles. They reconstructed the photo for a TV show, using the line drawing and memory as a guide. The result was spot-on, but it’s still not the real thing.
The top secret colour photographs, said to show a flying saucer above the Scottish Highlands in August 1990 – the so-called Calvine Incident – were set to be released in the New Year.
However, they have now been blocked for a further 50 years.
Here, former MoD official Nick Pope, who previously ran its UFO project, tells The Sun the inside story…
In the cult sci-fi series The X-Files, Fox Mulder has a poster of a UFO on the wall of his basement office. Underneath are the words “I want to believe”.
In the Ministry of Defence office, which served as the nerve centre of the UK’s UFO project, we had something very similar. But our picture was real.
Most UFO photos are either obvious fakes, or blurry and indistinct – a vague light in the night sky, or a fuzzy dot in the distance.
Not this one. It was up-close-and-personal, had been taken in broad daylight, and showed a large diamond-shaped craft.
I soon got the story out of my predecessor and read the file myself. It was an extraordinary tale: two men had been out hiking near Calvine in Scotland.
Suddenly, they’d seen a massive UFO hanging in the sky above their heads, silent, motionless and menacing. Awestruck, they shot off six photographs before the object accelerated away at immense speed – vertically!
The shell-shocked witnesses sent the photos to a Scottish newspaper and a journalist contacted the MoD press office, looking for a comment.
Somehow – perhaps using a D-Notice or perhaps using some real-life Men-in-Black trickery – someone at the MoD managed to extract all the photos and the negatives from the newspaper, who never got them back.
The MoD’s technical wizards leapt into action. The images were enlarged and analyzed, using the full resources and capabilities of intelligence community specialists.
Even now, years after these events, I can’t discuss the details of this process, as so much of the information is top secret.
The analysis was nothing short of sensational. The photos hadn’t been faked.
They showed a structured craft of unknown origin, unlike any conventional aircraft. There was no fuselage, no wings, no tail, no engines and no markings of any sort.
8:44 minute Nick Pope lecture on the Calvine UFO incident from Nov 3, 2015 (‘The Vortex’ YouTube)
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Article by Paul Sims October 9, 2020 (thesun.co.uk)
• In 1990, two Perthshire, Scotland hikers watched the 100ft “diamond-shaped metallic craft” hovering over the village of Calvine in the Scottish Highlands for ten minutes before it shot up vertically out of sight. They also said that they saw military jets fly a series of low-level passes. And they took six photos to prove it. UFO investigator Nick Pope helped colorize the image (seen above).
• The photographs were turned over to British Ministry of Defence officials. Pursuant to the “30-year rule”, these photos were to be declassified and made public on January 1, 2021. But the Ministry of Defence has announced that the release of the photos will be blocked until 2072 – without explanation. The MoD released a redacted version of the file, which includes a blurred photocopy of the original UFO image.
• Former MoD UFO investigator, Nick Pope stated: “Despite an extensive investigation, we never found a definitive explanation for what was seen at Calvine”, said to be one of the most intriguing of all the UFO mysteries. “By the time the world gets to see the file, the two witnesses will be dead. It is crazy. What are the authorities trying to hide?” The redacted file also omitted the names and contact details of the hikers.
• A Freedom of Information Act complaint lodged against the National Archives for withholding the documents is now under investigation by the ‘Information Commissioner’s Office’, a UK information watchdog. The National Archives and the MoD refused to comment.
UFO experts hit out when it emerged a dossier into Britain’s most significant sighting is to be kept secret for another 50 years.
The file is said to contain astonishing colour photographs of a 100ft craft hovering over the village of Calvine in the Scottish Highlands in 1990.
A 30-year rule meant it was due to be declassified on January 1 — but the Ministry of Defence has now blocked release until 2072 without explanation.
Photographs were taken by two Perthshire hikers who watched the “diamond-shaped metallic craft” for ten minutes before it shot up vertically out of sight.
They also claimed to see military jets fly a series of low-level passes.
Evidence collected and held on to by officials included the hikers’ six colour snaps.
A redacted version of the file has been released, including just a blurred photocopied image.
UFO investigator Nick Pope helped colourise the image, seen above.
Last night, Mr Pope said: “Despite an extensive investigation, we never found a definitive explanation for what was seen at Calvine.”
A UFO hunter added: “This is all so frustrating. The Calvine Incident is one of the most intriguing of all the UFO mysteries from that period.
“Under the 30-year rule, the file should have been released on January 1 2021, but if the ministry get their way it won’t be released until January 1 2072 — an 82-year closure.
“By the time the world gets to see the file, the two witnesses will be dead. It is crazy. What are the authorities trying to hide?”
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Article by Zaini Majeed October 9, 2020 (republicworld.com)
• On October 9, 1989, Russia’s press agency TASS confirmed the report of sightings of three aliens in the city of Voronezh, Soviet Union. 31 years ago (only a month before the fall of the Berlin wall and the Soviet State). The local community watched as a “banana-shaped” UFO appeared in the sky, and three robot-like beings emerged from it along with a ‘shining ball’.
• “Scientists have confirmed the recent unidentified flying object recently landed in a park in the Russian city of Voronezh,” read the TASS press release. “The aliens were three or even four meters (9 to 12 feet) tall, but with very small heads.″ Apparently, the aliens made a short promenade around the city park, and then ″they walked near the ball or disc and… disappeared inside.″
• Genrikh Silanov, head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory, was reported by TASS as saying that Russian scientists found a 20-yard depression with four deep dents at the site. But they were most excited about finding that the beings left behind two abnormal rocks. “At first glance, they looked like sandstone of a deep-red color,” said Silanov. “However, mineralogical analysis has shown that the substance cannot be found on Earth.”
• When inquired, TASS and other Soviet news outlets stood by the Voronezh UFO incident and claims of aliens. However, a TIMEmagazine journalist, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, reported that the 1980’s policy of ‘glasnost’ – or ‘openness’ – led the Soviet media to be more open about events such as the Voronezh UFO incident. The news source also stands by other UFO sightings such as the ‘Petrozavodsk phenomenon’ that involved 48 unidentified flying objects, and an encounter between a milkmaid and a “cosmic creature” that occurred in region of Perm, Russia, close to the Ural mountains.
• [Editor’s Note] Since the Voronezh UFO incident was such a major media event in Russia, with aliens landing in the city park, and since this article is woefully lacking, I will embellish the account from Wikipedia. The actual incident occurred on September 29, 1989 and was witnessed by a group of a dozen children and some adults in the city park. The children first spotted a small ball floating through the park, which morphed into a large disc landing near them. Witnesses then reported a “three-eyed alien” and a robot exiting the craft. The aliens never spoke, but stared at the horrified people, then went back to the disc craft and departed into the sky. Five minutes later the craft returned to the same spot (thought to have utilized a “biolocater”) to abduct a 16-year-old boy, using what was described as a 50 cm-long “pistol tube”. The children were the only ones claiming to have witnessed the aliens. (Judging by the illustrations of the alien creatures, they do appear to be ‘cartoonish’.) Although, Lieutenant Sergei A. Matveyev of the Voronezh district police station claimed to have seen the craft.
The scientist quoted in the TASS news report, Genrikh Silanov, later denied ever making any remarks or conducting any experiments about the Voronezh UFO. But many Soviet media outlets jumped on the bandwagon to promote the incident, with a reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda even claiming to have an exclusive interview with the alien beings. The Soviet Scientific Commission ordered an official inquiry into the alleged incident. Though the city park area was found to have an above-average presence of the radioactive isotope cesium, the vice-rector of the University of Voronezh quickly dismissed the incident as fiction.
Russia confirmed the report of sightings of three aliens in the city of Voronezh arriving on the “banana-shaped” object (UFO) on October 9, 1989, 31 years ago.
On this day, October 9, 1989, 31 years ago Russia’s press agency TASS claimed that the extra-terrestrial contact on earth had already been made as it confirmed the report of sightings of three aliens in the city of Voronezh arriving on the “banana-shaped” object (UFO). “Scientists have confirmed the recent unidentified flying object recently landed in a park in the Russian city of Voronezh,” the release by TASS read. “They identified the landing site and found traces of aliens who made a short promenade about the park,” it added, claiming that two pieces of unidentified rocks were left behind which cannot be found on Earth.
According to a TIME report from the October 23, 1989 issue, a strange encounter between a milkmaid and a “cosmic creature” was reported to have happened in the Russian region of Perm, close to the Ural mountains. Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that the Russian researchers registered the “influence of energies” after a geologist made claims of the discovery of the flying saucer in the region. When enquired, TASS and several other Soviet news outlets stood by the existence of aliens’ claims in the Voronezh UFO incident of 1989.
Genrikh Silanov, head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory, was reported by Tass as saying that Russians scientists found a 20-yard depression with four deep dents at the site, suspecting that it was intact a UFO, adding, two abnormal rocks sent scientists in a jiffy. “At first glance, they looked like sandstone of a deep-red color. However, mineralogical analysis has shown that the substance cannot be found on Earth,” AP cited Silanov’s statement in the TASS report. “However, additional tests are needed to reach a more definite conclusion,” he added.
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Article by Hal Turner October 9, 2020 (theblogginghounds.com)
• In late 2019, Canada and China signed a treaty that allows the People’s Liberation Army of China to station Chinese troops in Canada, beginning in 2020. It has long been rumored that China has been massing troops in southern Mexico. But the rumors that Chinese troops had set up bases in Canada was pretty much laughed off until video emerged of Chinese troops marching along a road in Salt Spring Island, near Vancouver, British Columbia. (see 35 second video below)
• What are Chinese troops doing on the US border in British Columbia, Canada? According to a January 15, 2020 Canadian Independent Press Review report: “Under the terms of the Foreign Investment Protection Act (FIPA), a bi-lateral treaty ratified with China by the Trudeau government in 2019, Chinese security forces can be stationed on Canadian soil to protect vital Chinese investments, without the knowledge or consent of local authorities.”
• Why would Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enter such a treaty? Does Canada not have its own military to “protect vital Chinese investments?” Or was Trudeau paid off by China to betray the United States like this?
• According to British Columbia locals, PLA troops are troops being stationed in Stanley Park in Vancouver pending the construction of a permanent base. Stanley Park is now off limits to Canadians, as enforced by Vancouver police. One Canadian citizen is quoted as saying: “You got ‘em (PLA Troops) all over the coast, man, based outta Prince Rupert. A bunch of their military intel people work outta their consulate in town (Vancouver) and they can airlift the assault troops here in an hour, is what I been told.”
• Hal Turner of the Hal Turner Radio Show notes that there was a news story a few weeks ago about how the U.S. military is redeploying F-22’s and F-35 jets to Alaska. An ABC News story in March noted that President Trump had authorized the activation of a million U.S. military reservists. Were these counter-moves to prepare the U.S. for a Chinese invasion from Western Canada?
• Over the summer, the U.S. west coast has seen ferocious wildfires that have burned millions acres and destroyed tens-of-thousands of American homes, (fires that seemed to stop at the Canadian border). Were these fires orchestrated to chase the population away from the U.S. West Coast? Dutchsinse.com stumbled upon ‘environmental videos’ from US satellites that picked up literal “beams” in the near-infra-red spectrum being fired into the wildfires. (see article here) When these ‘directed energy weapon’ beams hit, the fires would immediately spread and grow in intensity. People on the ground have also taken pictures of these energy beams coming from the sky to create or spread wildfires.
• Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has revealed that China and Russia have “weaponized space”. In an address to an Air Force conference, Esper said that China and Russia are employing “asymmetric capabilities”, stating that they have “weaponized space” with “directed energy weapons.” An image of a car taken at the site of a wildfire shows how the wheels on the car had actually melted. How can burning wood melt steel? It can’t. The burn temperature doesn’t get hot enough. But a directed energy weapon could do it.
• China knows that American citizens are armed to the teeth under the Second Amendment. Is their strategy to decrease the American population on the West Coast so they won’t be facing so many of those armed citizens? Are they softening-up the West Coast for invasion? Are the Chinese bringing in military equipment such as tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery, helicopters and planes as well?
• [Editor’s Note] It would seem implausible that the Chinese military could amass the number of troops it would take to stage a US invasion from British Columbia without the US being aware of it and ready. But Dr. Michael Salla suggests another purpose for the Chinese being stationed in Canada: “It is more likely that Chinese troops are being pre-positioned for some kind of false flag event that devastates U.S. infrastructure, such as an asteroid impact or an EMP attack, where they stream over the border for ‘humanitarian assistance’, rather than an outright invasion.” These troops could be a vanguard to enter the U.S. under the guise of humanitarian assistance, be in a position to incapacitate key communications centers and power grids, and then open the door to the main Chinese ground invasion.
As the deep state has already infiltrated the hard-line Chinese government and military, what measures are the Alliance white hats taking to counter this move? Defeating the deep state, converting the world’s financial system, and replacing the corrupted communist PRC with a Gesara Republic under President Xi would certainly do the job.
Under a Treaty signed in late 2019 with Canada, the People’s Liberation Army of China has been quietly massing military troops in Canada since the beginning of 2020 and those troops are believed to be readying for an actual military invasion of the United States.
While it has long been rumored that China began massing troops and armor in southern Mexico for a similar invasion goal, word of such troops appearing in Canada only began this year. Those rumors were pretty much laughed off until video emerged this week of Chinese troops on a back road of Salt Spring Island, near Vancouver, British Columbia. Here is that 35 second video:
Once actual proof emerged of Chinese troops in Canada, we started digging into where they were in relation to US soil and how such a thing could be given that Canada was _supposed_ to be a U.S. ally?
It turns out that the globalist/Commie Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, signed a Treaty with
China in late 2019. In January, 2020, the Canadian Independent Press Review reported it as follows: ‘Under the terms of the Foreign Investment Protection Act (FIPA), a bi-lateral treaty ratified with China by the Trudeau government in 2019, Chinese security forces can be stationed on Canadian soil to protect vital Chinese investments, without the knowledge or consent of local authorities.’ – Canadian Independent Press Review, January 15, 2020
One has to ask why Prime Minister Trudeau would sign such a treaty? Does Canada not have its own military to “protect vital Chinese investments?” Does Canada not trust its own Royal Canadian Mounted Police? Are Canada’s Provincial Police forces somehow inadequate? Or did Prime Minister Trudeau somehow find that allowing China to mass troops in his country might be beneficial to HIMSELF? Did Trudeau get a massive payoff from China to betray the United States like this? What other explanation could there be?
According to locals in British Columbia, PLA troops are troops being stationed in Stanley Park (almost an entire island of a park) in Vancouver, as temporary housing until they are assigned something permanent.
Oh, and get this . . .Canadians say THEY CANNOT GO INTO THAT PARK because it is taken over by China’s People’s Liberation Army! Anyone trying to enter the park is stopped by Vancouver police and refused entry unless they are PLA troops!
One Canadian tells me “You got ‘em (PLA Troops) all over the coast, man, based outta Prince Rupert. A bunch of their military intel people work outta their consulate in town (Vancouver) and they can airlift the assault troops here in an hour, is what I been told.”
That same source went on to say “That’s how that fucking traitor Trudeau’s arranged it with Beijing, man. The west coast is theirs. They’re gonna be the ones managing the curfews and all the other shit that’s gonna follow.
35 second video of Chinese military on Salt Spring Island, Canada (‘BananaJSSI’ YouTube)
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Article by Elizabeth Keith October 10, 2020 (narcity.com)
• A historic UFO incident in Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada in 1978 is still so popular that the Canadian Mint has recently made a $130 glow-in-the-dark coin to commemorate it. The 5,000 coins in the limited edition are 90% sold out.
• Responding to a call on this evening in 1978, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Constable James Blackwood went to the location and saw “something” hovering about 100 feet in the air over some water between Clarenville shoreline and Random Island. Blackwood turned on the lights on his police car and the floating object responded by flashing its own lights. It hovered there for two hours.
• The Clarenville UFO event isn’t Canada’s only suspicious sighting. In 1967, a man reported seeing some glowing objects in the sky at Falcon Lake, Manitoba. Then a 35-foot craft landed nearby. The man got close enough to touch it before it took off again. In the weeks after the sighting, he became sick with very suspicious symptoms that doctors could not diagnose. That same year, in St. Paul, Alberta, they built the first-ever UFO landing pad in the world.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, its a weird disc floating in the sky? It may sound straight out of a sci-fi film but something just like that happened in Canada.
The Clarenville alien sighting from 1978 is one of the country’s biggest mysteries. It’s so wild that the Mint even made a glow-in-the-dark commemorative coin about it.
What happened in Clarenville?
One night, back in 1978 an RCMP officer named Constable James Blackwood responded to a call in Clarenville, Newfoundland where witness had noticed something weird in the sky.
According to an interview with a local paper called The Packet, Blackwood saw something hovering about 100 feet above the water between Clarenville and Random Island. He says its was there for two hours.
He reportedly turned on the lights on his police car and the floating object responded by flashing its own lights.
It later left without a trace and still remains a mystery.
What does the glow-in-the-dark coin look like?
It’s spooky season and potential UFO sightings are undoubtedly spooky and Canada’s official coin creators seem to be aware of that too.
To mark the weird event in history, the Canadian Mint just launched a commemorative coin depicting the saucer hovering over the Newfoundland town.
The square shape is unique enough on it’s own but this coin also glows in the dark.
The mint only made 5,000 of the money-pieces, which sell for a whopping $129.95 each and they are already 90% sold out.
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Article by Emma Parry October 8, 2020 (thesun.co.uk)
• In the book, Russia’s USO Secrets, co-author British UFO investigator Philip Mantle has collected stories about Russian/Soviet Navy encounters with UFOs and ‘USOs – ‘unidentified submerged objects’ – dating back to World War II, based on unclassified Russian documents and accounts from military veterans.
• Former nuclear submarine commander, Yury Beketov, related an incident that occurred in 2009 within the ‘Bermuda Triangle’. The submarine’s instruments repeatedly “detected the movements of material objects at unimaginable speed, around 230 knots (400 km per hour)” under the sea. “The beings that created those material objects significantly exceed us in development,” remarked Beketov.
• Another account is given by a Russian Navy veteran during the Cold War. They would see UFOs flying in towards them, and then dive down beneath the waves. In one incident, the sub’s captain ordered depth charges to be dropped into the path of a USO, which then changed direction and sped off.
• In another encounter, a Russian submarine crew watched as a cigar shaped UFO shot three beams of light down into the Atlantic Ocean. The UFO was about 250 meters long, and slowly descended into the ocean making a strange hissing sound about half a mile from the submarine. The object could not be tracked on radar, however.
• Russian Lieutenant-Commander Oleg Sokolov told his students that while on duty he once spotted, through a submarine periscope, a strange object rising out of the water. Marine scientists in the port city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, claimed they spotted a huge “wheel” rotating below the Black Sea while they were deep sea diving. Other UFOs have appeared over Soviet submarine bases forcing the Soviet General Staff to take them seriously.
• In a 1951 incident, a Soviet submarine encountered a gigantic underwater object heading towards the shore. The captain ordered depth bombs to be dropped into the path of the USO. The USO did not react to the attack and stayed on its course before darting towards the surface. At a depth of 50 meters, it stopped its ascent, changed course and departed.
• In July 1978, Soviet sailors aboard the ship, Yargora, observed a UFO in the Mediterranean. The ship’s captain sent a radiogram to the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow telling them the object was shaped like a flattened-out sphere and was a white pearl color.
• The book publishes the results of a study by the Anomalous Phenomena Commission of the Russian Geographical Society in Saint Petersburg, which concluded that: “UFOs are real”. The author, Mantle, notes that, “[B]oth Russian and American subs have encountered USO’s in various parts of the world.” “More and more researchers around the world are taking a closer look at the … USO phenomena, [which] looks… to be the future of UFO research in general.”
In scenes straight out of a Hollywood movie, Soviet subs are playing a game of cat and mouse with strange underwater craft, according to a new book called Russia’s USO Secrets, by Brit investigator Philip Mantle, based on Russian documents and accounts from military veterans.
Describing a bizarre incident in the Bermuda Triangle in 2009, former nuclear submarine commander Yury Beketov said: “We repeatedly observed that the instruments detected the movements of material objects at unimaginable speed, around 230 knots (400 km per hour).
“It’s hard to reach that speed on the surface – only in the air [is it possible]… The beings that created those material objects significantly exceed us in development.”
The book also contains accounts from Russian veterans about their close encounters – including hostile acts – at sea during the Cold War.
They have described how UFOs would apparently appear in the sky before diving down beneath the waves.
In one terrifying incident, a captain ordered depth charges to be dropped into the path of a USO which changed direction and sped off.
Lieutenant-Commander Oleg Sokolov told students that while on duty he spotted a strange object through a periscope rising out of the water.
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Article by Sofie Jackson October 6, 2020 (dailystar.co.uk)
• Recently, in Kagoshima City in Japan, ‘Chris M’ spotted a large bright UFO in the night sky above the urban area, with the silhouette of Sakurajima volcano behind. (see 2:20 minute video below) Some claim that they can see that the large UFO is being chased by smaller craft. As the shiny object zips from the right of the frame to the left, a group of smaller-looking lights that appear to be flying in a triangle formation appear and follow in its wake.
• Chris M sent his video to the YouTube channel ‘The Hidden Underbelly 2.0’. In the caption, Chris explains: “These objects were seen by the viewers of this live stream that is set up to monitor the Sakurajima volcano.” “That’s a fantastic capture, definitely one large one and then a smaller group following,” said one YouTube commenter.
• Another viewer commented: “Mother ship trying to fly away from her baby ships. In all seriousness though, it was very good footage”. “There’s always UFO activity near volcanos, like the one in Mexico,” wrote another fan.
Footage of an alleged “UFO” cruising through the skies near a volcano in Japan has sent conspiracy theorists wild, with some claiming it is being chased by smaller craft.
In the clip, recorded at Kagoshima City in Japan, a large bright object appears in the night sky above the urban area, with the silhouette of Sakurajima volcano behind.
As the shiny object zips from the right of the frame to the left, a group of smaller-looking lights that appear to be flying in a triangle formation appear and follow in its wake.
The footage was spotted by Chris M who sent it to the popular YouTube conspiracy theory channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 where it had since been viewed more than 1,000 times.
In the caption, he explained: “These objects were seen by the viewers of this live stream that is set up to monitor the Sakurajima volcano.”
Unsurprisingly, the clip drew an enthusiastic debate about whether the lights were UFOs or not.
“That’s a fantastic capture, definitely one large one and then a smaller group following,” commented one believer.
2:20 minute video of UFOs over Kagoshima City, Japan (‘The Hidden Underbelly 2.0’ YouTube)
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Article by Dianna Clary October 5, 2020 (asumetech.com)
• On September 28, 1892, in the 18th year of the Guangxu Emperor’s reign in China, a crowd gathered on Zhuque Bridge, near the Confucius temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu province to see a burning ball cross the sky. The Qing Dynasty scene was the first highlighted account of a UFO occurrence in China, memorialized in a painting by Wu Youru, known as ‘Red Flame Skyrocketing in the Sky’. (pictured above)
• A translation of the 190- character description on the painting reads as follows: ” At 8 O’clock On The Night Of September 28, A Bright Red Object Appeared Suddenly In The Southern Sky Of Nanjing City. Its Shape Resembled A Gigantic Egg And It Was Traveling Gradually Eastward. The Object Was Clearly Visible In The Night Sky. Hundreds Of Civilians Were Basing On Red Sparrow Bridge, Scrambling For A Great View, Basing On Tip-Toe, Craning Their Necks Upward.”
• “It Remained For A Duration Of A Meal’s Time, Fading Into The Range Little By Little. Some Stated It Was A Meteor, But A Meteor Takes However An Instant To Slip Away, While This Ball’s Movement — From Its First Appearance In The Near Sky To The Final Disappearance In The Distance — Was Rather Stagnant. It Can Not Have Been A Meteor.”
• “Others Said It Was A Lantern-Kite That Children Flew. However The Wind Was Blowing To The North That Night While That Things Was Heading East. It Can Not Have Actually Been A Lantern-Kite Either. For A Time Everyone Spoke, But None Could Solve The Mystery. None Of The Theories Made Good Sense.”
• “An Elderly Man Stated, ‘When It Initially Developed, There Was A Minor Noise Which Was Hardly Audible, Like The Buzzing Method Of Guys Darting Across The South Gate. The Noise Was So Soft That The Majority Of People Would Have Missed It.’ He Included That The Things Soared Up Into The Sky From The Southern Outskirts Of The City. It Was So Unusual!”
On the 28th day of the 9th month in the 18 th year of the Guangxu Emperor’s reign–1892– a crowd gathered on Zhuque Bridge, near the Confucius
temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu province to see a burning ball cross the sky.
The Qing Dynasty scene was tape-recorded by painter Wu Youru, whose’ Red Flame Skyrocketing in the Sky’ (赤 焰 騰 空 ‘ Chi Yan Teng Kong‘) is the first highlighted account of a UFO occurrence in China. The work has in fact ended up being a valuable historic file for UFO scientists.
Wu Youru’s ‘Red Flame Skyrocketing in the Sky’ (赤 焰 騰 空 ‘ Chi Yan Teng Kong’)
A translation of the 190- character description on the painting checks out as follows:
” At 8 O’clock On The Night Of September 28, A Bright Red Object Appeared Suddenly In The Southern Sky Of Nanjing City.
Its Shape Resembled A Gigantic Egg And It Was Traveling Gradually Eastward. The Object Was Clearly Visible In The Night Sky. Hundreds Of Civilians Were Basing On Red Sparrow Bridge, Scrambling For A Great View, Basing On Tip-Toe, Craning Their Necks Upward.
It Remained For A Duration Of A Meal’s Time, Fading Into The Range Little By Little. Some Stated It Was A Meteor, But A Meteor Takes However An Instant To Slip Away, While This Ball’s Movement — From Its First Appearance In The Near Sky To The Final Disappearance In The Distance — Was Rather Stagnant. It Can Not Have Been A Meteor.
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