Article by Rebecca Shepherd May 12, 2020 (ladbible.com)
• On April 19th, Adam McCann was staying with his family at his country home in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England. He woke to find that his closed circuit television security camera outside of the house was indicating that it had captured movement just before 5am that night. When McCann looked at the video he saw four objects flying in perfect formation across his driveway. (see 43 second video below)
• It began when two fluorescent objects shot from a tree and careered towards the house. The two UFOs then became four and followed an identical path as they zigzagged above the family’s cars. Leaving a sparkling tail behind them, the four flying objects shot through the sky before disappearing in the fields.
• The 47-year-old McCann shared the clip online with the caption ‘the aliens have landed’, and admitted to pals that the footage had left him ‘totally freaked out’. Said McCann, “I just thought ‘what the hell was that’. I’ve watched it back a few times now to try and work out what’s going on but I haven’t had any luck so far.” “We live out in a rural area, nowhere near a main road, so it doesn’t pick up any car lights or people walking around in the dark.”
• McCann continued, “It’s just the fact that they’re all flying in formation with the trails behind them that look like smoke trails. Two of them seem to hit my daughter’s car and the other two appear to fly over the wall and disappear.” “You can see the dots in the tree first and then suddenly they’ve moved and are above our cars. It was all over so quickly.”
• “I’ve never seen anything like this on the camera before,” said McCann. “They haven’t returned, it was just a one time thing.” “I’ve checked the camera every day since and they haven’t returned.”
A dad was left ‘freaked out’ after discovering footage on his CCTV of four objects flying in perfect formation across his driveway in the middle of the
Adam McCann
night – leaving him to quip ‘the aliens have landed’:
Adam McCann was concerned when he woke up on 19 April and his Ring camera flagged there had been some movement outside his country home in Ottery St Mary, Devon, just before 5am.
However, when the dad-of-two checked the footage back he was left confused when a pair of bright lights shot from a tree opposite the house and through the pitch black sky.
As they careered towards the house, the number doubled and the fluorescent foursome followed an identical path as they zigzagged above the family’s cars.
Leaving a sparkling tail behind them, the four flying objects shot through the sky before disappearing in the fields opposite social care support worker Adam’s home.
43 second video of UFOs buzzing Adam McCann’s driveway (‘Dogtooth Media’ YouTube)
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Article by Sebastian Kettley May 4, 2020 (express.co.uk)
• On April 15th, Russia risked the ire of America’s Space Force with the launch of a DA-ASAT Nudol interceptor – a direct-ascent anti-satellite mobile missile system designed to destroy satellites in low Earth orbit. Space Force Chief General John W Raymond branded the test another example of “Russia’s hypocritical advocacy of outer space arms controls”.
• A 2018 Pentagon report suggested that China and Russia would have an arsenal of anti-satellite technology ready for deployment by 2020. “The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the Nation, our allies and US interests from hostile acts in space,” said General Raymond.
• The Nudol test is not the first time Russia’s actions in space have caught the world’s attention. Earlier this year, a pair of Russian satellites were seen tailing a multi-billion dollar US spy satellite. General Raymond warned the actions could have the “potential to create a dangerous situation in space”.
• According to Space.com, last month’s Russian satellite interceptor test did not produce a swarm of debris in orbit, meaning it did not hit a target. During a webinar broadcast on April 24th, Brian Weeden, director of program planning for the Secure World Foundation, discussed the ASAT technology. Russia is has tested its Nudol system at least 10 times as of May 4. Weeden says, “As far as we can tell, it’s not operational.” Weeden believes Russia is still a long way from successfully deploying its ASAT technology against foreign targets.
• The Nudol interceptor can target satellites up to 1,240 miles in low earth orbit. Most US spy satellites are in geostationary orbits of about 22,200 miles above the earth. Pavel Podvig, director of the Russian Nuclear Forces Project and senior research fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, said during the webinar that “Basically, with this kind of (anti-satellite weapon), or even with a more kind of advanced ASAT, it’s hard to imagine a military mission in which this capability would be useful.” “In that sense, I’m an optimist. I do believe these capabilities will not be used (militarily), just because I do believe that they don’t give you much in terms of military capability.”
On April 15, Russia risked the ire of America’s Space Force with the launch of a DA-ASAT Nudol interceptor – a direct-ascent anti-satellite mobile
Brian Weeden
missile system. The ASAT system is designed to destroy satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), which the US considers a possible threat to its interests.General John W Raymond, Space Force Chief of Space Operations, branded the test another example of “Russia’s hypocritical advocacy of outer space arms controls”.
General John W Raymond
He said: “The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the Nation,
our allies and US interests from hostile acts in space.”
The test came after a Pentagon report published in 2018 suggested China and Russia would have an arsenal of anti-satellite technology ready for deployment by 2020.
Some security experts, however, are not convinced Russia’s April launch proves Moscow’s ability to shoot
Pavel Podvig
down satellites just yet.
Unlike a similar test carried out by India in March 2019, the launch was not an impact test.
According to Space.com, the launch did not produce a swarm of debris in orbit, meaning it did not hit a target.
And Brian Weeden, director of programme planning for the Secure World Foundation, does not believe the system is fully operational.
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Article by Diazo Teramoto April 28, 2020 (asahi.com)
• On April 28th, in response to the US Department of Defense re-releasing the Navy’s UFO videos (including the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO off of San Diego), Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono announced at a news conference the preparation of a Self-Defense Forces (SDF) plan in the event of contact with extraterrestrial UFOs. While Kono says that he still doesn’t believe in alien UFOs, he stated, “We would like to establish procedures in the event an encounter is made with a UFO.”
• In February 2018, the Japanese government issued its official position on UFOs saying, “no confirmation has been made of their existence.” Now, Japanese ministry officials want to ask their Pentagon counterparts about the release of the UFO videos as well as any analysis they have conducted. While Kono said that Japan’s SDF had not yet encountered a UFO, he stated, “If video can be taken (of a UFO encounter) and if a report is possible, then a report will be made. Discussions will be held with the Air SDF about just what can be done.”
• In response to a lawmaker’s question as to what response the SDF would take should it encounter a UFO, Kono stated, “The government has not considered in any specific manner what will be done should a UFO be sighted flying toward Japan.”
• When asked at the news conference whether he believed in supernatural powers or psychic phenomenon, Kono only said, “That is a corporate secret.”
Although Defense Minister Taro Kono doesn’t believe in UFOs, he wants the Self-Defense Forces to have a plan in place for any encounter–just in case.
Kono made the comment at a news conference on April 28 after the U.S. Defense Department declassified and released videos shot by Navy pilots pointing to the possibility that UFOs exist.
“We would like to establish procedures in the event an encounter is made with a UFO,” Kono said.
He indicated his ministry and the SDF would begin preparing for such an event.
While Kono said the SDF had not yet encountered a UFO, he added, “If video can be taken (of a UFO encounter) and if a report is possible, then a report will be made. Discussions will be held with the Air SDF about just what can be done.”
He said ministry officials will ask their Pentagon counterparts about the release of the videos as well as any analysis they had conducted.
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Article by David Axe April 25, 2020 (nationalinterest.org)
• Mainstream scientists maintain that we have not yet made contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and believe that first contact with alien life will come in the form of either a robotic space probe finding evidence of microbes on Mars, Enceladus, Europa or some other distant body; or telescopes detecting radio broadcasts from far-away civilizations.
• In a 2011 paper (see here), a team of scientists from America’s NASA Planetary Science Division conceded that contact with intelligent extraterrestrials “remains possible”. “Contact with uncooperative [extra-terrestrial intelligence] seems likely to be harmful to humanity,” they warned.
• In 2012, Paul Springer, a history teacher at the US Air Command and Staff College in Alabama, told an Australian TV program that Washington has contingency plans for ‘attackers from beyond the solar system’. In the event of an alien invasion, “the first thing you would need to try to do is preserve your forces,” Springer said. In other words, hide. After that, “learn as much about the enemy as possible.” The aliens, meanwhile, would probably target Earth’s communications networks and its most potent weapons.
• As the world’s leading military powers, America and Russia would be the main targets. The two super powers would likely lead the eventual counterattack. Together, the two countries could field huge air, land, sea and space forces numbering thousands of warplanes, millions of soldiers, hundreds of ships and most of the world’s spacecraft.
• In the event of an alien attack, America and Russia would need to join forces, becoming close allies in the ‘First Alien War’, says Springer, and would remain unified thereafter. “Keep in mind, many of the greatest civilizations in human history formed to counter a common enemy.”
• In 2013, Sergei Berezhnoy, a Russian space official on the staff of the Titov Space Control Center remarked, “There are enough problems on Earth and in near-Earth space.” Moscow has no strategy for combating an invasion by galactic marauders.
In an odd episode in 2013, a Russian space official admitted, unprovoked, that Moscow has no strategy for combating an invasion by galactic
Paul Springer
marauders. Luckily for Planet Earth, the United States does have a plan. And it counts on Russia and America fighting together.
Sergei Berezhnoy, on the staff of the Titov Space Control Center near Moscow, said that Russian air-defense officers “have not been tasked with preparing for the contingency of an alien attack,” according to Ria Novosti.
“There are enough problems on Earth and in near-Earth space,” Berezhnoy added.
A team of scientists from America’s NASA Planetary Science Division disagreed. “While humanity has not yet observed any extraterrestrial intelligence, contact with ETI remains possible,” Seth Baum, Jacob Haqq-Misra and Shawn Domagal-Goldman wrote in a 2011 paper.
The scientists conceded that extraterrestrials could be friendly or ambivalent—but we can’t be sure. “Contact with uncooperative [extra-terrestrial intelligence] seems likely to be harmful to humanity,” they warned.
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Article by Douglas Charles April 21, 2020 (brobible.com)
• The former Director of Intelligence for France, Alain Juillet (pictured above), told Paris Match magazine recently, “In the particular field of UFOs… there are fighter pilots, astronauts, people who… report very precise observations. We must not say that they are nonsense, but… recognize that there are things that escape us. It is in this context that I became interested (in UFOs)… because the first thing we see when we study this phenomenon, is that… these machines… do not function according to the terrestrial laws, and in particular that they are not subjected to gravitation.”
• As to whether these UFOs could be coming from a parallel dimension, Juillet says, “[A] fly with its faceted eyes can see dimensions other than ours even though it lives in our world. Perhaps… there are things that are in our universe that we cannot see… because they are not in our field of vision. But perhaps, from time to time, something happens, that a phenomenon passes through our field of perception before disappearing.”
• Asked how he thinks society would react if the truth about UFOs was ever revealed to the general public, Juillet said, “If tomorrow morning we have confirmation that the UFOs come from a world parallel to ours, …within five years, everyone will have accepted it as a trivial phenomenon.”
• As we inch closer and closer to the truth about UFOs, numerous theories have surfaced which seem to defy all known science. Quantum physicists, Dr. Jack Sarfatti, suggested that the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO seen by US Navy pilots and personnel off of the coast of San Diego in 2004 was able to achieve its ‘otherworldly’ speed and maneuverability by using a “metamaterial” that allowed it to time travel. (see previous ExoArticle here)
• Professor of biological anthropology and author Dr. Michael P. Masters has written that the UFO sightings over the years are not aliens visiting our planet, but time-traveling human beings (from the future), piloting futuristic spacecraft. (see previous ExoArticle here)
• On the other hand, former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the UK, Sir John Sawers, believes that aliens do exist. (see previous ExoArticle here) So who do we believe? When asked how he feels about governments not allowing the public know what’s really going on with the UFO phenomenon, Alain Juillet hits the nail on the head: “I don’t think secrecy is really useful.”
As we inch closer and closer to learning the truth about the hundreds upon hundreds of UFO sightings over the years, with a massive spike in them
Dr. Michael P. Masters
taking place in 2020, numerous theories have surfaced which seem to defy all known science, yet in reality may actually be rather plausible.
Dr. Jack Sarfatti
One such theory put forth by one of the world’s top quantum physicists, Dr. Jack Sarfatti, suggests that the infamous USS Nimitz tic tac UFO was able to attain its otherworldly speed and maneuverablity by using a “metamaterial” that allowed it to time travel.
That theory dovetailed nicely into another hypothesis author Dr. Michael P. Masters wrote about in a recently published book, Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon. In his book, Masters, a professor of biological anthropology specializing in human evolutionary anatomy, archaeology and biomedicine, suggests that all the UFO sightings we’ve had over the years are actually NOT be aliens visiting our planet, but time-traveling human beings piloting futuristic spacecrafts.
Sir John Sawers
And now we’ve got former director of intelligence at the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), Alain Juillet, who says he believes that UFOs may actually come from parallel worlds.
Speaking to French publication Paris Match recently, Juillet said, “In the particular field of UFOs, not to mention the people who see a flying saucer landing in a field, there are fighter pilots, astronauts, people who are anything but funny and report very precise observations. We must not say that they are nonsense, but just recognize that there are things that escape us. It is in this context that I became interested in this problem because the first thing we see when we study this phenomenon, it is that obvious these machines or these appearances do not function according to the terrestrial laws and in particular that they are not subjected to gravitation.”
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Tass News Agency (Russia) April 17, 2020 (tass.com)
• (On April 15th, General John “Jay” Raymond, the head of U.S. Space Command and chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force publicly announced that Russia had conducted a direct ascent anti-satellite missile test. In a statement, Raymond declared that the Russian test provided “yet another example that the threats to U.S. and allied space systems are real, serious and growing.” Raymond added, “The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the Nation, our allies, and U.S. interests from hostile acts in space.” (see article here))
• Commenting on recent statements by General Raymond about Russia’s test launch of an anti-satellite missile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova (pictured above) said on Friday, “We also have a lot of questions (about the U.S. activities in outer space). We asked them quite a long time ago and want to have an answer.” Apparently, Moscow has been asking the U.S. for a meaningful Russian-U.S. dialogue on a wide spectrum of issues of space activities. Senior Russian and US diplomats agreed on January 16th to resolve mutual concerns.
• Zakharova says that Raymond’s statements are part of a deliberate campaign to discredit Russia’s peace initiatives in space, to avoid another Cold War. She said that US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Ford had made similarly provocative claims about Russian space activities. Zakharova believes these verbal attacks are “nothing but the United States’ attempt to divert public attention from real threats in space, and to justify its moves to deploy weapons in outer space and obtain extra financing for such causes.”
• The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson branded U.S. alarm about Russian space activities as “fake”. “[S]erious concerns… cannot be resolved by means of such statements,” said Zakharova. “It is necessary to use the existing channels for expert and political dialogue… We do have such channels and it is necessary simply to use them. Unwillingness to do so is rather an evidence of [the] insufficiently grounded position of our American colleagues.”
• [Editor’s Note] In February, General Raymond publicly called Russia out about a pair of Russian satellites deployed to pursue a US satellite last November, sometimes coming within 100 miles of it. “This is unusual and disturbing behavior …[that] has the potential to create a dangerous situation in space,” said Raymond. “The United States finds these recent activities to be concerning and do not reflect the behavior of a responsible spacefaring nation.” (see previous ExoArticle here)
General John “Jay” Raymond
MOSCOW – Moscow is waiting for Washington to answer its questions about the US activities in outer
Christopher Ford
space, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday, commenting on the statements by Gen. John Raymond, the first chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force, about Russia’s alleged test launch of an anti-satellite missile.
“We also have a lot of questions. We asked them quite a long time ago and want to have an answer after all. A full-fledged meaningful Russian-US dialogue on a wide spectrum of issues of space activities security Russian and US senior diplomats agreed on on January 16 will help resolve mutual concerns,” she said.
Zakharova described Raymond’s statements as “Washington’s deliberate campaign to discredit Russia’s space activities and peace initiatives to prevent an arms race in outer space.” She recalled that it was not the first such allegation voiced by the US side. “Previously, such claims were voiced by US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Ford. We have commented on each and every such anti-Russian attack which are all nothing but the United States’ attempt to divert public attention from real threats in space and to justify its moves to deploy weapons in outer space and obtain extra financing for such causes,” Zakharova stressed.
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• China’s ‘National Development and Reform Commission’ has approved a feasibility study for a data processing center to support the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope in the Guizhou Province. Experts believe the massive radio telescope will significantly improve the study of the universe, including the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
• The $24.14 million center for ‘China Sky Eye’, which will technically support the “FAST” radio telescope, contains a scientific research and data processing center to facilitate observation, scientific research, and data storage. The center will facilitate the calculation of the enormous amount of data generated by the telescope.
• Senior technology expert Xiang Ligang said that data is constantly being produced from the telescope and is then stored and analyzed, including information about the births and deaths of planets and extraterrestrial life. Says Xiang, “Recording both pulsar and hydrogen data streams requires a massive process of information collection, storage and analysis. The establishment of the center will undoubtedly play an important role in information screening and discovery, and help produce more discoveries and research results in the study of the universe.”
• FAST has already accumulated a total of 1,000 hours of observation time, one-third of its entire mission for this year. It has detected and certified 114 pulsars (ie: stars or other celestial bodies that emit radio wave pulses). In the next three to five years, the FAST telescope and processing center will likely lead to breakthroughs in low-frequency gravitational wave detection, the origins of rapid radio bursts and interstellar molecules.
A feasibility report for the FAST scientific research and data processing center, to be built in Guizhou Province, has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Experts believe the center will significantly improve the study of the universe — including the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
With a total investment of roughly 170 million yuan ($24.14 million), the center for China Sky Eye, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope known as FAST, will facilitate three scientific research frameworks — observation, scientific research and data – providing support for the storage and calculation of massive data generated by long-term operations, media reported.
Xiang Ligang, a senior technology expert, told the Global Times on Monday that in theory, data is being produced from the telescope constantly and is then stored and analyzed, including information about the births and deaths of planets and extraterrestrial life.
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Article by Inigo Monzon April 9, 2020 (ibtimes.com)
• In 2019, Samantha Mains was in Cincinnati, Ohio and video recorded five strange lights hovering in the sky that appear to be in some sort of formation. Three of the bright orbs appear next to each other, while a fourth one hovers over them and a fifth orb stays below the cluster of orbs. THen they all disappear from the sky. Then the objects appear again in a similar formation but a slightly different location. (see 1:16 minute video below)
A woman in Ohio was able to capture videos of strange lights hovering in the sky. According to an expert, the objects appear to be a fleet of UFOs that were flying in a strange formation.
The videos of the UFO sighting was captured and shared on YouTube by Samantha Mains. According to Mains, the sighting occurred in 2019 but she was only able to upload the videos earlier this week.
As noted by the uploader, she was in the city of Cincinnati when she spotted the bright objects hovering in the sky. Based on the video, the objects appear to be bright orbs that have the same sizes and brightness.
In total, five bright objects appeared in the videos. Three of them appeared next to each other while a fourth one hovered over them. The fifth orb stayed below the cluster of orbs.
The objects remained motionless for a couple of seconds in the video. Then, one by one, each of them started to disappear from the sky. After a while, the objects appeared again but in slightly different locations.
1:16 minute video of strange lights over Cincinnati, Ohio (YouTube)
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Article by Henry F. Cooper April 10, 2020 (newsmax.com)
• In the 1980s, during Ronald Reagan’s era of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), America’s defense against the enemy’s use of ballistic missiles was to create a space-based ballistic missile defense. The “Brilliant Pebbles” space-based interceptor system could shoot down Soviet missiles in their “boost phase,” while their rockets still burned and before they could release its warheads. Brilliant Pebbles was considered our most cost-effective SDI system.
• In 1972, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed wherein the U.S. would lead the way in reducing offensive nuclear weapons by agreeing to end the deployment of our Minuteman ICBMs. But it was dubious whether Russia also ended the production and use of its ICBMs. So Reagan turned to the space-based SDI program. At the 1986 Reykjavik Summit, Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to negotiate the restriction of such space-based systems in principle, but Reagan refused to concede to this. Political observers say that this SDI system gave Reagan the leverage to negotiate a true bi-lateral reduction in nuclear weapon development and a ban on all Russian Mirved ICBMs. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated: “SDI ended the Cold War without firing a shot.”
• In 1993, Clinton Administration Defense Secretary Les Aspin returned to a defense strategy based on “mutual assured destruction” by strengthening the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia, and abandoning the SDI program. Then in 2002, the George W. Bush administration withdrew from the ABM Treaty altogether, without reviving the SDI program. This is where things stand today.
• Now, the Department of Defense is concerned about Russia’s hypersonic missiles able to evade our ballistic missile defenses. A ‘boost-phase’ SDI system would have been able to defeat these hypersonic missile systems. The development of the ‘Brilliant Pebbles’ system might have discouraged the Russians from developing such a next-generation ballistic missile system to deliver nuclear weapons in the first place.
• Now America’s strategy seems to be a new hypersonic nuclear weapon arms race with Russia, even though the U.S. ended its development of hypersonic weapons decades ago. We seem to have abandoned any interest in space-based missile defenses to defeat these new hypersonic weapons.
• Current plans for the new US Space Force reveal an inability to defend against the growing offensive intercontinental ballistic missile threat, particularly those with hypersonic capabilities. The Trump administration’s apparent strategy is to play “catch-up” with Russian and Chinese hypersonic missile capabilities, and to rely on the Cold War scenario of mutual assured destruction as a defense strategy.
• This article’s writer, Henry Cooper, served as Reagan’s chief Defense and Space Talks negotiator with the Soviet Union, and later he served as SDI Director in the George H.W. Bush administration. Cooper advocates a return to a Reagan-era SDI program by deploying 1,000 Brilliant Pebbles for $20 billion, to be operational within 5 years.
• [Editor’s Note] Perhaps this article’s writer, Henry Cooper, and others are missing a big piece of the puzzle. What if our global “space race” went far beyond the hypersonic ballistic missiles that the public is aware of? What if there were numerous secret space programs having technology far beyond ICBM or SDI technology? And what if we already had orbital platforms in space that could shoot energy beams and kinetic energy weapons at any target or missile on Earth? Such a reality would render ballistic nuclear missile treaties and Reagan-era space-based missile defense systems moot.
Current plans for the new U.S. Space Force and its implied underpinning strategy reveal a key deficiency — an ability to defend against the growing offensive intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) threat, particularly those that employ hypersonic capabilities.
Reagan and Gorbachev in Reykjavik
In effect, the Trump administration’s funding priorities display an apparent strategy to play “catch-up” with the growing Russian and Chinese hypersonic threat capabilities — and to rely totally on the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) strategy of the Cold War.
Do we really want a new Cold War, now involving a multilateral offensive nuclear arms race?
Henry F. Cooper
Ronald Reagan had a very different idea based on a vital role for truly effective ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems that could defeat such threatening ballistic missiles.
In President Reagan’s administration, that idea led to his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that emphasized space-based defenses. I was privileged to serve as his chief Defense and Space Talks negotiator defending his perspective with the Soviet Union — and later to serve as SDI Director during the George H.W. Bush administration.
Space-based defenses always had a central role during the SDI era — 1983 until early 1993 when Defense Secretary Les Aspin “took the stars out of Star Wars,” ending Ronald Reagan’s vision and heralding a return to the MAD doctrine of strengthening the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty “as the cornerstone of strategic stability,” as became the oft-stated claim of the Clinton administration.
And even though the George W. Bush administration withdrew from the ABM Treaty in 2002, nothing was done to revive the central role of the most cost-effective product of the SDI era — the Brilliant Pebbles space-based interceptor system.
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Article by Jeva Lange March 30, 2020 (theweek.com)
• On a clear November night in 1989, near the town of Eupen, Belgium near the German border, policemen Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert Von Montigny called their dispatcher to report seeing “a strange (silent) object in the sky.” By the end of the evening, three other pairs of police officers and at least 30 different groups of people would also report seeing the UFOs. This “UFO wave” would continue for months, culminating on March 30, 1990 with two Belgian Air Force F-16s chasing the triangular UFOs on their radars, which they couldn’t even see.
• A Belgian police officer described the hovering craft “like lights on a huge football field” so bright you could read by them. Only gradually did you notice the object they emitted from — a hulking triangular shape, with three enormous spotlights pointed toward the ground, and a red, flashing light at its center. “The whole thing,” recalled the policeman, “was floating in the air.”
• In December 1989, Belgian Army Colonel André Amond and his wife reported seeing the silently floating lights while driving in their car. But the Belgian military had no answers. The Chief of Operations of the Belgian Air Staff, General Wilfried De Brouwer (pictured above), told investigative reporter Leslie Kean that he suspected the UFOs were experimental American military craft. De Brouwer filed inquiries with the US Embassy in Brussels. But the Americans responded by saying that “no USAF stealth aircrafts were operating in the… area during the periods in question.”
• So the Belgian Air Force, aviation authorities, and police devised a plan. They had F-16 jets ready to take off at the first sign of another UFO. On March 30, 1990, police and radar stations spotted an unknown object in the sky. The Belgian pilots tried to intercept the crafts and recorded targets on their radar with unusual behavior, such as jumping huge distances in seconds and accelerating beyond human capacity. But the pilots could never actually see the object. De Brouwer concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the crafts were really there. Still, in April 1990, thousands more sightings were reported before the encounters dropped off.
• Of course, many explanations were offered to debunk the sightings. Some scientists considered the event to be an example of mass hysteria. UFO skeptic Philip Klass blamed the sightings on “mass excitement” caused by media reports of UFOs, where people would see ordinary things in the sky and “hopeful viewers” would then believe they were UFOs. Brian Dunning of the UFO skeptic podcast Skeptoid imaginatively claimed that the craft were helicopters. The Reuters news organization claimed it was a Soviet satellite ‘breaking up’.
• Some pranksters admitted in 2011 to concocting the “Petit-Rechain picture” often used as a photo of the Belgian triangle UFO. Said one hoaxer, “We made the model with polystyrene, we painted it, and then we started sticking things to it, then we suspended it in the air … then we took the photo.”
• Notwithstanding, General De Brouwer said, “I can conclude with confidence that the observations during what is now known as the Belgian wave were not caused by mass hysteria. The witnesses interviewed by investigators were sincere and honest. They did not previously know each other. Many were surprised by what they saw and today … they are still prepared to confirm their unusual experience.”
• While the Belgian UFO wave likely wasn’t an alien visitation, it remains unanswered even all these decades and technological advances later. “That is a pity,” says Colonel Amond who saw the lights with his wife, “I want to know before dying… that is all I can ask.”
• [Editor’s Note] In chapter 15 of Dr Michael Salla’s 2019 book: US Air Force Secret Space Program – Shifting Extraterrestrial Alliances & Space Force, he discusses the origin of the US Air Force’s top secret Aurora Program which developed the TR-3B triangle craft, able to perform both in the earth’s atmosphere and in near space. Salla cites Edgar Fouche who confirms that the TR-3B, code named ‘Astra’, was a tactical reconnaissance craft developed in the 1970s and built by private aerospace companies for the Air Force during the 1980s. Fouche served with the US Air Force from 1967 to 1987 and then spent another eight years with defense contractors working on a number of classified aviation programs at Groom Lake Area 51.
From November 1989 to April 1990, prototype black flying triangles, approximately 250 feet in length, were sighted and photographed in Scotland and Belgium by hundreds of witnesses including police officers. On March 30, 1990, the Belgium Air Force sent F-16 fighter jets to intercept a flying triangle. According to Fouche the 600-foot wide model TR-3B became operational in the early 1990’s, and three were flying by 1994.
The TR-3B employs a “Magnetic Field Disrupter” which rotates highly pressurized mercury-based plasma around a circular accelerator ring, reducing the craft’s weight by a factor of 89%. Three rocket engines using conventional fuel sources like hydrogen, oxygen and/or methane provide the thrust. The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Fouche claimed that the TR-3B was able to silently hover for at least 10 minutes and gave off “a corona of silver blue light” that glowed around it while hovering. Corey Goode asserts that the TR-3B was a “hand me down” to the USAF’s military space program and to cabal “elites” from an even more highly classified space program controlled by NASA along with the Antarctic German Space Program.
At first, the witnesses claimed, all you noticed were the lights.
They were so bright you could read by them, so brilliant that a policeman described them as “like lights on a huge football field.” Only gradually did you notice the object they emitted from — a hulking triangular shape, with three enormous spotlights pointed toward the ground, and a red, flashing light at its center. “The whole thing,” recalled the policeman, as if barely able to believe it himself, “was floating in the air.”
It was a clear November night in 1989, near the town of Eupen, Belgium, which sits some seven miles from the German border. Heinrich Nicoll, the policeman, and his partner, Hubert Von Montigny, called their dispatcher to report the object they’d stumbled on while on a routine patrol. “Suddenly, they told me they were seeing a strange object in the sky,” Albert Creutz, who was on the receiving end, told Unsolved Mysteries in a 1992 episode. “It made no noise. We joked about it and said it might be Santa Claus trying to land.”
the fake “Petit-Rechain” photo
But by the time the evening was over, at least 30 different groups and three separate pairs of police officers would allege to have seen the unidentified flying object. And they wouldn’t be the last. Belgium’s months-long “UFO wave” culminated 30 years ago today — on March 30, 1990 — in a physics-defying chase through the skies over Europe as two Belgian Air Force F-16s pursued mysterious objects on their radars that they couldn’t even see.
But, okay okay, did aliens really visit Belgium? It certainly seems deeply, deeply unlikely. Yet three decades later, it’s still hard to entirely dismiss the 2,000-odd sightings that took place in the country between November 1989 and April 1990. As Patrick Ferryn, the president of the Belgian committee for the study of space phenomena, SOBEPS, told The Telegraph, “You must know that most of these sightings will have the most banal explanation but there is a residue, which we simply can’t explain. And of those, there may be two or three where we may have questions over where they came from.”
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Article by Anna Savva March 12, 2020 (dailystar.co.uk)
• This spring, the Royal Air Force will declassify a cache of UFO sighting files into the public domain. The UK Government’s UFO unit closed in 2009 after more than 50 years, concluding that they had never received any hard evidence of a potential extraterrestrial threat. Rather than relegating these file to the UK’s National Archive, they will publish them on a dedicated government website.
• This comes after a recent survey found that 50% of Brits believe that extraterrestrials exist, and they expect an alien attack within the next 50 years. Of those who believe in aliens, 71% think that ET has already visited the Earth at some point. (see ExoArticle here)
• Nearly three quarters of British believers surveyed think that worldwide governments know more about extraterrestrial life than they’re letting on and are hiding it from the public. Former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator, Nick Pope, said, “I’m not surprised there’s such a high level of belief in a government cover-up. I know from first-hand experience that the authorities haven’t always been as forthcoming as they might have been about their level of interest in UFOs.”
• Pope went on to say that the high percentage of people who believe in the existence of intelligent aliens “… reflects a number of recent revelations, including the declassified videos of US Navy jets chasing UFOs, and the news that the UK government is about to release more of its UFO files.”
• The survey showed that more than two-thirds of Brit believers think that world government authorities should have a plan for our imminent ‘first contact’ with other intelligent life forms. Pope is calling on governments to take the matter seriously and enact contingency plans in the event of an alien invasion, “irrespective of whether they turn out to be hostile or friendly.”
The government is covering up the truth about UFO sightings, a leading former Ministry of Defence expert has claimed.
The Royal Air Force is set to declassify a cache of UFO sighting files this spring into the public domain.
Nick Pope
The UK Government’s UFO unit closed in 2009 after concluding that in more than 50 years they had never received any hard evidence of a potential extraterrestrial threat.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “It had been assessed that it would be better to publish these records, rather than continue sending documents to the National Archives, and so they are looking to put them onto a dedicated gov.uk web page.”
Ahead of the release, Nick Pope – who investigated UFOs for the MoD – has said the government should show greater transparency.
He said: “I’m not surprised there’s such a high level of belief in a government cover-up. I know from first-hand experience that the authorities haven’t always been as forthcoming as they might have been about their level of interest in UFOs.
“This survey shows high levels of interest and belief in UFOs and extra-terrestrial life.
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Article by Steve Richmond March 11, 2020 (thesun.co.uk)
• To mark FOX tv’s new series, ‘War of the Worlds’, the network commissioned the polling company OnePoll to do a research study of 2,000 adults in the UK. The results show that half of Britons believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life and even expect an alien visitation before the year 2068. Londoners, the Welsh and those in the southwest of England were the biggest believers in extraterrestrial life.
• The study also found nearly three quarters of Brits believe that world governments know more about alien life than they’re letting on and are hiding the information from the public. If these world leaders were aware of an impending attack, 58% think they would keep information secret to avoid panic. 67% polled think that our leaders need a plan for first contact with other life forms.
• Of the believers surveyed, 71% think that Earth has already been visited by extraterrestrials, for scientific research, to learn about other life forms, or to plunder the Earth’s resources. 29% of Brits assume the visitors will have a neutral stance on humanity, and they’d be welcomed to Earth.56% expect extraterrestrial visitors to look similar to humans. 17% think that benevolent ETs might even help the planet reverse its ecological damage. But 29% think that other intelligent life have not yet ventured to our little planet.
• On the other hand, 22% of the Brits polled are expecting a perilous extraterrestrial invasion. 46% said they would fight with the human resistance against malevolent aliens, even though only 23% think we’d stand a change against them. 20% said they would cower at home. Over half believe that this event would mark the end of the human race as we know it. In the event of an alien invasion, a whopping 71% of Brits expected more danger still from their fellow humans.
• Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence said, “These fascinating findings say as much about distrust of government denials on UFOs as they do about people’s belief in extraterrestrial visitation.” But Pope added, “It’s great to see British fighting spirit on display, with this survey suggesting that large numbers of people would resist an alien invasion, even if they don’t think they’d have much hope of winning.”
• “This intriguing new research shows high levels of interest and belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life,” says Pope. “This new survey supports my firm view that there needs to be a government plan for first contact with extraterrestrials – irrespective of whether they turn out to be hostile or friendly. … [I]t’s common sense to have a plan for something when the consequences would be so impactful.”
The study of 2,000 adults found half believe in alien existence, and think the planet should be preparing itself for an attack within the next 50 years – by 2068.
But far from coming in peace, 22 per cent of those are worried for their lives in the event of Martians coming to Earth.
It’s not just UFO’s people need to worry about though, as 71 per cent also suspect they’d face danger from other humans during an invasion.
Of the believers surveyed, 71 per cent think Earth has already been visited at some point by aliens, but 29 per cent imagine they’re yet to make their first landing.
The research was commissioned by TV channel FOX to mark the new series of War of the Worlds, on Thursdays at 9pm.
Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence said: “These fascinating findings say as much about distrust of government denials on UFOs as they do about people’s belief in extraterrestrial visitation.
“Intriguingly, they also suggest that people who think an alien invasion is possible believe one of the biggest threats would come from fellow survivors.
“This new survey supports my firm view that there needs to be a government plan for first contact with extraterrestrials – irrespective of whether they turn out to be hostile or friendly.
“Even if you think it’s unlikely, it’s common sense to have a plan for something when the consequences would be so impactful.
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Article by Ciaran McGrath March 4, 2020 (express.co.uk)
• Dominic Cummings oversees Britain’s Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) as a special adviser to PM Boris Johnson. To mark the 50th anniversary of Britain’s Black Arrow rocket, which launched the UK into the space age, Cummings proposes that Britain consider “projects that could bootstrap new international institutions that help solve more general coordination problems such as the risk of accidental nuclear war.” “The most obvious example of a project like this,” said Cummings, “…is a manned international lunar base.”
• Cummings referred to plans devised by George Mueller, a former associate administrator for NASA, who is credited for masterminding the Apollo missions that included a Moon base – plans that Cummings said had been “tragically abandoned” in the 1970s.
• Cummings has little faith in older institutions like the UN and the EU to deliver workable solutions to global coordination problems. He believes that such solutions will more likely emerge as byproducts of new, large projects such as developing and building a Moon base. Such a Moon base would stimulate basic science, create an infrastructure for space industrialization, and encourage cooperation between the great world powers. Says Cummings, “[S]hifting our industrial/psychological frontiers into space drastically reduces the chances of widespread destruction.”
• Back in 1969, Mueller’s plan was to establish a space station in lunar orbit as a mobile base. From there, a lunar craft would go back and forth from the orbiting station to the surface of the Moon, systematically exploring the surface. When they’ve found a suitable place, they will establish the lunar base there.
• In 2018, space entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted that he planned to build a base on the Moon by 2028.
• US Vice President Mike Pence has called on NASA to build a space platform in lunar orbit and put American astronauts on the Moon’s south pole within five years “by any means necessary”.
• Last year, Jeff Bezos of the ‘Blue Origin’ space company announced his plan to transport people to a manned lunar base by 2024. To this end, his company is working on the ‘Blue Moon’, a robotic space cargo carrier and lander for making cargo deliveries to the Moon.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the blast-off of Britain’s Black Arrow rocket, launching the UK into the space age – and with 25 percent of the world’s small telecommunications satellites currently build in Britain, the potential is plain for all to see. Mr Cummings, who is overseeing a wide-ranging Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) outlined his ideas in a blog published last June, less than a month before he was appointed Boris Johnson’s special adviser.
Dominic Cummings
He wrote: “We need to consider projects that could bootstrap new international institutions that help solve more general coordination problems such as the risk of accidental nuclear war.
“The most obvious example of a project like this I can think of is a manned international lunar base which would be useful for a) basic science, b) the practical purposes of building urgently needed near-Earth infrastructure for space industrialisation, and c) to force the creation of new practical international institutions for cooperation between Great Powers.”
Mr Cummings referred to plans devised by George Mueller, NASA’s former associate administrator, and the man widely credited with masterminding the Apollo missions, for precisely such a base – plans which Mr Cummings said had been “tragically abandoned” in the 1970s.
Mr Cummings, who was campaign director for Vote Leave, had little faith in Brussels to deliver workable solutions.
He said: “The old institutions like the UN and EU – built on early 20th Century assumptions about the performance of centralised bureaucracies – are incapable of solving global coordination problems.
“It seems to me more likely that institutions with qualities we need are much more likely to eme
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Article by Akshay Tiwari February 17, 2020 (thedigitalweekly.com)
• In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, numerous KGB files found their way to the CIA. Among these was a 250-page dossier detailing a UFO encounter that occurred in Siberia (in 1987). The now declassified CIA dossier included a translated March 27, 1993 article from the Ukraine newspaper Ternopil vechirniy, which depicted the encounter. The CIA report also listed the Canadian Weekly World News as a ‘wellspring of data’.
• The report indicates that a ‘flying saucer’ was flying low over a Soviet military unit in Siberia, and was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. As the downed UFO was surrounded by 23 soldiers, “Five short humanoids with enormous heads and huge bruised eyes got out (of the craft).”
• While the soldiers watched, the extraterrestrial beings converged into a ‘splendid white circular chunk of light that hummed and murmured’. Suddenly, the 23 soldiers were transformed into stone. Two soldiers, who were ‘concealed’ and apparently not watching the light beings, survived unharmed.
• The KGB document reported that the ‘froze fighters’ were moved to a place near Moscow for examination. It related that the soldiers were ‘transformed into a substance whose sub-atomic structure was indistinguishable to limestone’. A CIA agent noted that “this is an amazingly threatening case”.
The hair-raising report, which incorporates claims that 23 troopers were transformed into stone by the outsiders in the UFO after they changed into a bundle of light, was covered among a great many declassified documents distributed online by the US knowledge organization.
The report is referred to, made on March 27, 1993, is an interpretation by the CIA of news from the Ukrainian paper Ternopil vechirniy.
The paper report said that after Mikhail Gorbachev lost force in 1991, numerous KGB records advanced toward the CIA, remembering a supposed 250-page dossier for the peculiar UFO assault, which included pictures and witnesses declarations.
The report proposed that a low flying saucer had shown up over a military unit in preparing in Siberia, before one of the officers terminated a surface to air rocket, cutting it down.
It stated: “Five short humanoids with enormous heads and huge bruised eyes got out.”
Two troopers are said to have endured, who depicted how, in the wake of rising out of the garbage, the five creatures converged into a splendid white circular chunk of light that hummed and murmured.
It at that point detonated, and as it completed 23 warriors who stood watching were transformed into stone, the report guaranteed.
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Article by Daniyal Sohail February 7, 2020 (urdupoint.com)
• Russian scientists have begun construction on a telescope that can be used to search for signals transmitted in the optical spectrum from extraterrestrial civilizations.
• Leading researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University, Alexander Panov, said, “The main purpose of this telescope is to monitor cosmic rays. However, with this tool you can also observe bright and short optical flashes of light – the so-called optical transients. The tool can be used to search for artificial extraterrestrial signals. After all, what are bright flashes? Maybe someone sends to Earth the signals via a laser channel rather than in the radio-frequency range.” Panov noted that we now have the technology to transmit space messages in the optical spectrum through a laser system.
• According to Panov, Russia will host an international conference on the search for extraterrestrial civilizations in the near future. One of the goals of this event is to secure financing for Russia-based projects related to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Panov believes that fundamental changes should be made in the approach to the search for alien life. “Instead of carrying out ‘pinpointed listening’ for signals from selected stars,” said Panov, “we must set up listening stations network around the globe to detect radio signals in various parts of the spectrum coming from all corners of the universe 24 hours a day.”
MOSCOW Russian scientists have started construction of a telescope that can be used to search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations if they are transmitted in the optical spectrum, Alexander Panov, a leading researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University said in an interview with Sputnik.
“The main purpose of this telescope is to monitor cosmic rays. However, with this tool you can also observe bright and short optical flashes of light – the so-called optical transients. The tool can be used to search for artificial extraterrestrial signals. After all, what are bright flashes? Maybe someone sends to Earth the signals via a laser channel rather than in the radio-frequency range,” Panov said.
Panov added that our civilization is also capable of creating a laser system for transmitting space messages in the optical spectrum.
According to the scientist, Russia is expected to host an international conference on the search for extraterrestrial civilizations in the near future. One of the goals of this event is to secure financing for Russia-based projects related to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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by Press Association 2019 January 26, 2020 (largsandmillportnews.com)
• When Nick Pope worked at the ‘UFO Desk’ at Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the 1990s, “we didn’t find definitive proof of extraterrestrial visitation, but there were so many bizarre and unexplained sightings that we didn’t entirely rule it out.”
• In 2009, the Royal Air Force (RAF) determined that after more than 50 years, no UFO report received by the MoD had ever disclosed any evidence of a potential threat. So the MoD closed its UFO Desk and told the public that all of its UFO files were turned over to Britain’s National Archives, ultimately for full public disclosure.
• But a recent investigation stemming from a Freedom of Information Act filing revealed that some UFO reports had not been released. Rather than continuing to send these reports to the National Archives, the RAF/MoD has determined that it would publish all remaining UFO reports and documents on a dedicated gov.uk web page. A clearance process for these documents is currently under way, and online publication is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2020.
• From now on, any new UFO sightings by the British public will be directed to their local police force.
• So now the MoD’s official position is: “The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life and does not investigate UFO reports.”
The RAF took the decision to wind up its UFO unit in 2009, after concluding that in more than 50 years, no received report had ever disclosed any evidence of a potential threat.
Nick Pope
Previously, records from the unit were given to the National Archives, often initially classified before being released after a specific number of years.
But the most recent reports received by the RAF will be placed online, the PA news agency can disclose, following a Freedom of Information Act request.
Members of the public reporting alleged UFO sightings are now directed to their local police force.
A spokesman for the RAF said that “it had been assessed that it would be better to publish these records, rather than continue sending documents to the National Archives, and so they are looking to put them on to a dedicated gov.uk web page”.
A clearance process for the documents is currently under way before publication, which is expected to take place “some time within the first quarter of 2020”.
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• On January 23rd, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced that it will launch its first Mars mission probe in July 2020. The probe will land and deploy a rover on Mars.
• How to safely land on Mars is one of the biggest challenges facing the mission. A test simulation of the probe’s hovering and descending to the Mars surface in a one-third gravity environment was successfully conducted in China’s remote Hebei province in November.
• The Mars probe will be carried to Mars by the Long March-5 Y4 carrier rocket. The rocket recently completed testing on its high thrust hydrogen-oxygen engine in preparation for its final assembly. The Long March-5 rocket will carry out several missions in 2020, including the Mars probe launch and the lunar sample return.
Beijing, Jan 23 (IANS) China announced that it will launch its first Mars mission probe in July this year,
Long March-5 Y4 carrier rocket
China Youth Daily reported on Thursday.
This is the first time the country disclosed the launch month of its Mars exploration programme, according to the newspaper which cited sources from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
The Mars probe will be sent by the Long March-5 Y4 carrier rocket.
The Long March-5 Y4 rocket has recently completed a 100-second test for its high thrust hydrogen-oxygen engine, which is the last engine examination before the final assembly, Xinhua reported.
According to the CASC, China will send a probe to orbit and land and deploy a rover on Mars.
In 2020, the Long March-5 rocket will carry out several missions, including the Mars probe launch and the lunar sample return.
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Article by Jasper Hamill January 20, 2020 (metro.co.uk)
• Currently, the idea of space warfare involves rival nations destroying or jamming each other’s satellites. Whilst this would knock out communications on the ground and potentially cause economic damage, it would not actually kill civilians on Earth. But U.S. intelligence agencies have said that both China and Russia would have ‘destructive’ space weapons within a few years that can interfere, disable or destroy satellites and spacecraft. Global commercial interests such as the British space trade association ‘UK Space’, who anticipate a lot of sophisticated technology going into orbit in the future, want “somebody out there who is going to protect the interests of all in space.”
• On January 20th, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (pictured above) said in a policy speech marking the start of the 2020 parliamentary session that the ‘Space Domain Mission Unit’ will launch in April as part of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force. Abe said that Japan’s space domain force will defend itself from cyberspace threats and protect its satellites, and ‘drastically bolster capability and system in order to secure superiority’ in those areas. The unit will cooperate with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and with the US Space Command. Abe has pushed for Japan’s Self-Defense Force to bolster cooperation and weapons compatibility with the US.
• Will Whitehorn, president of UK Space, advocates for the establishment of a UK space force to get ready to fight terrorists and wage war in the heavens. Industry leaders fear that terrorists and hostile nation-states will be able to wreak economic havoc by targeting communications satellites. Speaking at the UK Space Conference, Whitehorn said, “We are about to go through an industrial revolution in space. …We are at the stage where a lot of technologies have been developed …(and) a lot of the industrial processes or necessities that we will need are going to be …in that hostile environment in space.” “[W]e have to be able to defend ourselves in space. …”[A] time [is] coming when having a co-ordinated approach to space across all of our military is going to be important.”
The Space Domain Mission Unit will launch in April as part of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force, Abe said in a policy speech marking the start of the year’s parliamentary session today. He said Japan must also defend itself from threats in cyberspace and protects its satellites. A number of nations are now developing space weapons, with concerns growing that China and Russia are seeking ways to interfere, disable or destroy spacecraft.
Japan will ‘drastically bolster capability and system in order to secure superiority’ in those areas, Abe said. The unit will cooperate with the US Space
Will Whitehorn
Command that Trump established in August, as well as Japan’s space exploration agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Abe has pushed for Japan’s Self-Defense Force to expand its international role and capability by bolstering cooperation and weapons compatibility with the US. It will also work alongside American troops and as it grows concerned about the increasing capabilities of China and North Korea. Abe, in marking Sunday’s 60th anniversary of the signing of Japan-U.S. security treaty, vowed to bolster Japan’s capability and cooperation with the U.S., including in the areas of space and cybersecurity.
The UK needs to build a space force and get ready to fight terrorists and wage war in the heavens, industry leaders have warned. In the future, terrorists and nation-states will be able to wreak economic havoc by targeting communications satellites. The incoming president of UK Space, Will Whitehorn, has said ‘we will see and should see the creation of a space force in the UK’ to help protect the nation against these new threats. Speaking at the UK Space Conference in Newport, the former president of Virgin Galactic said: ‘My view is that as we go forward, there clearly has to be a complete and utter co-ordination of the way that government at all levels responds to the industrialisation of space. ‘We are about to go through an industrial revolution in space, and it will be nothing short of that. ‘We are at the stage where a lot of technologies have been developed that can do many of the things – that if you were listening to Greta at the UN yesterday, or you see what is going on in the reality of climate change – a lot of the industrial processes or necessities that we will need are going to be up there, in that hostile environment in space.
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• In 1991, chemist Helen Sharman (pictured above) spent eight days on the Soviet Mir space station, thus becoming Britain’s first astronaut in space. At age 27, she was also one of the youngest people to orbit the Earth. Sharman said there is “no greater beauty than looking at the Earth from up high.”
• On January 5th, Sharman told the Guardian/Observer newspaper that she firmly believes that extraterrestrials must exist in this great big galaxy of ours. “[T]here must be all sorts of different forms of life,” said Sharman. “[A]liens exist, there’s no two ways about it.” And Sharman thinks it’s possible that aliens are living among us on Earth, but have gone undetected. Says Sherman, “It’s possible they’re here right now and we simply can’t see them.”
• Meanwhile, NASA rovers are trawling Mars for evidence of life forms. But so far, humankind’s fascination with extraterrestrial life has proved fruitless.
Aliens definitely exist, Britain’s first astronaut has said — and it’s possible they’re living among us on Earth but have gone undetected so far.
Helen Sharman, who visited the Soviet Mir space station in 1991, told the Observer newspaper on Sunday that “aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it.”
“There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life,” she went on. “Will they be like you and me, made up of carbon and nitrogen? Maybe not.”
Then, in a tantalizing theory that should probably make you very suspicious of your colleagues, Sharman added: “It’s possible they’re here right now and we simply can’t see them.”
Sharman was the first of seven Britons to enter space.
The chemist spent eight days as a researcher on the space mission when she was 27, making her one of the youngest people to enter orbit.
NASA rovers are trawling Mars for evidence of past or present life forms, but humankind’s endless fascination with extraterrestrial life forms has so far proved fruitless.
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• With China poised to lead the world in Artificial Intelligence and supercomputers, astronomers are wondering if China will also be the first nation to discover extraterrestrial life. Here is what some Chinese scientists and science fiction writers say:
• Mao Shude of the National Astronomical Observatories of China and a professor of astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Observatory said, “Who knows what they are and how they think? … we only have one sample (of intelligent life) from Earth.” “If we could find more [examples of intelligent life] in the universe, we could look at the puzzle more comprehensively and solve it more easily.” Mao continued, “I’d like to know how life spreads in the universe. Is it distributed uniformly in space or clustered?”
• “[O]ur radios and televisions [are] broadcasting in space all the time,” says Mao. “Aren’t you curious what our counterparts would look like?” “If they are much more intelligent than us, they wouldn’t be so narrow-minded as to compete with us. … [T]hey likely have the power to transform the entire globe already. What’s the point of eliminating a much lower civilization (as ours)?”
• Science fiction writer and winner of sci-fi’s Hugo Award, Liu Cixin observed: “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent. But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.” In his book, The Three Body Problem, Liu depicts the universe as a jungle, and every civilization a hidden hunter. Those who are exposed will be eliminated.
• Another Chinese science fiction writer, Han Song, believes humans naturally want to connect, citing the Internet as proof. “I think aliens might think similarly,” says Han. “It is a biological instinct to connect with each other. Everyone wants to prove that they are not alone in the universe. Loneliness is intolerable to humans.” “Humans will ultimately go to space to find resources and expand their living area, so it will be hard to avoid aliens. Contact with them, especially those with more advanced intelligence, may help us leap forward in civilization.”
• Perhaps China’s new FAST Radio Telescope, aka: ‘Eye of Heaven’, the world’s largest single-dish radio observatory, will provide an answer using radio waves to locate exoplanets that may harbor extraterrestrial life. Twice the size of the next-largest single-dish telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the FAST Radio Telescope can detect extremely faint radio-wave whispers from an array of sources across the universe. The Chinese government is expected to give the observatory the final green light to begin full operations in January.
• But sci fi writer Liu Cixin points out that our current searches assume that aliens communicate in radio waves. “But if it’s a truly advanced civilization, it is possible [they will] use other more advanced forms of communication, such as gravitational waves.” FAST’s chief scientist, Li Di, responds, “We [will] look for not only television signals, but also atomic bomb signals. We’ll give full play to our imaginations when processing the signals.” “It’s a complete exploration, as we don’t know what an alien is like.”
• Jin Hairong, deputy curator of Beijing Planetarium, says, “It is highly possible that life on other planets is entirely different from that on Earth, and it might not be carbon-based.”
• “We can receive weaker and more distant radio messages,” said Wu Xiangping, director-general of the Chinese Astronomical Society, “[This] will help us to search for intelligent life outside of the galaxy and explore the origins of the universe,” underscoring China’s race to be the first nation to discover the existence of an advanced alien civilization.
• However it turns out, Professor Mao believes the result will be significant. “If we find other life, it will undoubtedly be the most important scientific discovery in our history.” “[I]f not, it shows that life on Earth is unique and we should respect life and cherish each other.”
With China poised to lead the world in AI and supercomputers, astronomers are wondering if it will also be the first advanced nation to discover extraterrestrial life? Perhaps the world’s largest single-dish radio observatory, China’s new FAST Radio Telescope –Tiyan, the “Eye of Heaven”– will
Liu Cixin
provide an answer as it prepares to explore a frontier in radioastronomy — using radio waves to locate exoplanets, which may harbor extraterrestrial life.
Mao Shude
During a visit to the remote facility, Liu Cixin, China’s acclaimed science fiction writer and winner of the Hugo Award for his novel “The Three Body Problem”, observed: “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent. But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.”
Whispers from the Cosmos
The Chinese observatory’s massive dish will collect radio waves from an area twice the size of the next-largest single-dish telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico means that it can detect extremely faint radio-wave whispers from an array of sources across the universe, reports Elizabeth Gibney in Nature, helping in the hunt for gravitational waves and probe still-mysterious fleeting blasts of radiation known as fast radio bursts. The Chinese government is expected to give the state-of-the-art observatory the final green light to begin full operations at a review meeting scheduled for next month.
Concluding his tour of the gargantuan FAST facility nestled in the remote mountain fastness of Dawodang depression in the Guizhou province of southwest China, Liu Cixin pointed out our current searches assumes that aliens also communicate in radio waves. “But if it’s a truly advanced civilization, it is possible to use other more advanced forms of communication, such as gravitational waves.”
Han Song
With no clues of extraterrestrial life questions are constantly asked as whether the search methods are appropriate. “Some strange signals have been found, but it’s hard to confirm their origins, because these signals do not repeat,” says Li Di, FAST’s chief scientist. “We look for not only television signals, but also atomic bomb signals. We’ll give full play to our imaginations when processing the signals,” Li says. “It’s a complete exploration, as we don’t know what an alien is like.”
“We can receive weaker and more distant radio messages,” said Wu Xiangping, director-general of the Chinese Astronomical Society, “It will help us to search for intelligent life outside of the galaxy and explore the origins of the universe,” he added underscoring the China’s race to be the first nation to discover the existence of an advanced alien civilization.
The dish will have a perimeter of about 1.6 kilometers, and there are no towns within five kilometers, giving it ideal surroundings to listen for signals from space. Scientists have depicted it as a super-sensitive “ear” capable of spotting very weak messages – if there are any – from “cousins” of human beings.
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Article by Samhati Bhattacharjya December 19, 2019 (ibtimes.sg)
• On December 18, 2019, the 11 member states of the European Space Agency launched the European Cheops space telescope – an acronym for ‘Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite’ – on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket. Didier Queloz, the 2019 Nobel Physics Prize winner, told AFP in French Guiana, “Cheops is (440 miles) away, exactly where we wanted it to be. It’s absolutely perfect. This is really an exceptional moment in European space history and in the history of the exoplanets.”
• Scientists say that there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and at least 100 billion galaxies in the universe. CHEOPS will help them to have a better understanding of what those planets are made of, says mission chief David Ehrenreich. This will be an important step to unraveling the mystery of extraterrestrial life. “[T]he first results can be expected within months,” said Queloz.
• The CHEOPS telescope will measure the density, composition and size of the 4,000 identified exoplanets. The telescope will measure the reflected light from the planets to discover new insights about the planet’s surface and atmosphere. The European Space Agency’s director of science, Guenther Hasinger, says the aim of the satellite is to compose “a family photo of exoplanets”.
• “In order to understand the origin of life,” says Queloz, “we need to understand the geophysics of these planets. It’s as if we’re taking the first step on a big staircase.”
David Ehrenreich
The European Cheops planet-hunting space telescope was launched on Wednesday (December 18, 2019) to study the exoplanets outside our solar system. Cheops, an acronym for Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite, a joint endeavor of 11 member states of the European Space Agency (ESA), will observe the bright stars that are already known to be orbited by planets.
Didier Queloz
The telescope will measure the density, composition and size of the exoplanets. Didier Queloz, 2019 Nobel Physics Prize winner, told AFP in French Guiana, “Cheops is 710 kilometers (440 miles) away, exactly where we wanted it to be, it’s absolutely perfect. This is really an exceptional moment in European space history and in the history of the exoplanets.”
The first exoplanet, dubbed 51 Pegasi b, was identified by Queloz and his colleague Michel Mayor about 24 years ago. Since then roughly a total of 4,000 such exoplanets have been discovered.
Guenther Hasinger
Existence of extraterrestrial life
The launch of the satellite took place a day after its lift-off was delayed due to a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. However, on Wednesday it successfully took off at around 0854 GMT French Guiana. This year, it was the third launch for the Russian-built Soyuz rocket.
According to the scientists, there are at least as many galaxies as there are stars —approximately 100 billion and CHEOPS will help them to have a better understanding of what those planets are made of. “We want to go beyond statistics and study them in detail,” mission chief David Ehrenreich had told AFP ahead of Wednesday’s launch.
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Article by Tom Fish December 17, 2019 (express.co.uk)
• Beatriz Villarroel of Stockholm University in Sweden is one of the authors of a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal about the discovery of a hundred or so blinking lights in space as well as number of vanishing and reappearing objects spotted among the stars which are puzzling researchers. According to the study paper, “The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilizations”.
• The scientists examined images of the sky dating as far back as the 1950s. They compared them with modern sky surveys looking for physical indicators including stars that apparently vanished from the Milky Way. Villarroel noted that, “Finding an actually vanishing star – or a star that appears out of nowhere would be a precious discovery and certainly would include new astrophysics beyond the one we know of today.”
• Dying stars will change very slowly to become a white dwarf, or will die with a sudden explosion as a supernova. A “failed supernova” is what happens when a very massive star collapses into a black hole without sending out any kind of explosion and vanishes. But failed supernovas are very rare. A vanishing star would likely indicate some other process entirely.
• Non-natural explanations include intelligent alien lasers for communication between stars, or a Dyson sphere which is a structure that alien civilizations build around a star to harness its energy. The scientists believe the anomalies likely originate from “natural, if somewhat extreme, astrophysical sources.”
Astronomers are investigating bizarre blinking lights in space for indications they are evidence of alien super-structures or ”interstellar communication lasers”. A
Beatriz Villarroel
number of vanishing and reappearing objects have been spotted among the stars are puzzling the researchers attempting to understand what they are.
Scientists believe the lights likely originate from “natural, if somewhat extreme, astrophysical sources”.
However, have yet to find any explanation after discovering one hundred of the strange lights.
Whatever scientists find it likely to change our understanding of space, with astronomers announcing the research could potentially usher in a “new astrophysics”.
The study’s authors wrote in The Astronomical Journal: “The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilisations”.
The scientists examined publicly available images of the sky dating as far back as the 1950s, such as old military sky catalogues.
They compared those historical observations with modern sky surveys looking for physical indicators including stars that apparently vanished from the Milky Way.
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• Science writer and researcher Chris Rutkowski is a Canadian legend. Considered Canada’s most prolific researcher and writer on UFOs and paranormal phenomena, Rutkowski has accumulated forty years’ worth of files, notes, books and zines pertaining to his research. Rutkowski told Motherboard, “I had always wondered what was going to happen to it all.”
• Then the Director of Archives at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba approached Rutkowski about donating some of his collection to its library. “After discussing it more over dinner,” said Rutkowski, “I wondered out loud about the possibility of donating my entire collection. And that was that.”
• “The Director of Archives had seen me on TV talking about the Falcon Lake case,” explains Rutkowski. This infamous case occurred on May 20, 1967 when Stephen Michalak was searching for minerals along Falcon Lake, 80 miles east of Winnipeg. All of the sudden Michalak sees a 40-foot UFO land on a rock. After approaching the craft and hearing voices inside, the object emitted a hot gas out of a vent in its side, burning his stomach.
• Michalak was treated by a doctor for severe headache, vomiting, and first degree burns which formed in a grid pattern on his lower abdomen. Canadian doctors were unable to determine the cause of Michalak’s injuries and illness. So he went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Documents from the Mayo Clinic proves that Michalak was not suffering from mental illness or hallucinations.
• Rutkowski believes that the Falcon Lake Incident is one of the best UFO cases to date, and there’s much more documentation supporting it than Roswell and many other famous American cases. It has significant police and military documentation, physical injuries, independent lab tests from two countries, medical reports, and in-depth witness testimony. Geographically, the site of the incident is accessible and physical materials, such as a still radioactive piece of melted silver were recovered. The Canadian government admitted that it actually happened, and issued a commemorative coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the Falcon Lake Incident.
• There are well over 30,000 documents in Rutkowski’s collection. The greatest hurdle is the time and money required to digitize the archive so researchers around the world can access it. The University of Manitoba and Rutkowski have started a crowdfunding campaign to make this happen. Says Rutkowski, “I would hope that the funds will be used by researchers wishing to better understand the nature of the UFO phenomenon, whatever it may be.”
The frozen prairies of Canada have always been home to strange events and mysterious encounters. So it’s perhaps appropriate that the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg has just accepted a large donation of documents from a prolific UFO researcher confirming the province’s “unnatural history.”
Chris Rutkowski
Science writer and researcher Chris Rutkowski is a Canadian legend. Undoubtedly the country’s most prolific researcher and writer on UFOs and paranormal phenomena, Rutkowski was approached by the university’s archives and was asked to donate some of his collection to its library.
“I’ve been doing research and publishing in this field for more than 40 years. I’ve accumulated a lot of files, notes, books and zines over the decades, and I had always wondered what was going to happen to it all,” Rutkowski told Motherboard in an interview. “The Director of Archives had seen me on TV talking about the Falcon Lake case. She approached me and asked if I would consider donating the files…After discussing it more over dinner, I wondered out loud about the possibility of donating my entire collection. And that was that.”
The US Air Force’s UFO investigation program, Project Blue Book, investigated an infamous Canadian injury case which allegedly occurred on May 20, 1967, known as the Falcon Lake UFO Incident. As the story goes, Stephen Michalak was searching for minerals along Falcon Lake, 80 miles east of Winnipeg, Manitoba when a strange, 40-foot object landed on an outcropping of rock. After approaching the craft and hearing voices inside it, the object emitted a hot gas out of a vent in its side, burning Michalak’s abdomen. Michalak was examined by his doctor only a few hours after the incident and was treated for his symptoms which included severe headache, vomiting, and first degree burns which formed in a grid pattern on his lower abdomen. While Michalak’s condition temporarily improved, he did suffer from lasting effects.
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Article by Dirk Schulze-Makuch December 10, 2019 (airspacemag.com)
• After more than three years of testing, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope—the Five Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or “FAST” in southern China (pictured above) – is about to become operational. Chinese officials claim that FAST is already three times as sensitive as the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico, the second-largest single-dish telescope in the world.
• While the FAST trials have focused on detecting neutron stars, one of the goals during the telescope’s operational lifetime will be to search for signals from intelligent extraterrestrials. Do they exist? Are they bound by a non-interference ‘prime directive’? Many claim that UFOs and alien visitation has been covered up by the government, such as the 1947 Roswell UFO crash. Of course, this was only a high altitude balloon used by the U.S. Air Force for Project Mogul.
• In fact, 99 percent of all UFO reports can be easily explained as natural atmospheric phenomena like sprites – which produce dancing flashes of bright light when lightning is exciting the electrical field above a storm. Scientists focus their investigations on the one percent of UFO events that are stubbornly difficult to explain – not that the investigators have any evidence of aliens. But any scientific investigation has to be based on experiments and reproducibility. And when it comes to alien visitations, those standards can be difficult or impossible to apply.
• Considering that we still have no answer for the Great Silence of the elusive aliens, we have to leave open the possibility that aliens have been visiting Earth. From a practical standpoint, science may be better suited to analyzing alien artifacts or possible alien objects in space, such as the interstellar asteroid ʻOumuamua’. As our observatories improve, and better telescopes like FAST come online, we may find ourselves with many more such mysteries to solve.
• [Editor’s Note] Wow. This writer has guzzled so much of the deep state’s kool aid, he is completely mind controlled and devoid of independent thought. He accepts without question that the Roswell crash was a weather balloon. He believes that 99 percent of all UFO sightings are mere atmospheric phenomenon. It is hard to take anyone with such cognitive dissonance seriously. Hopefully, Chinese astronomers won’t be as hampered by deep state propaganda as are the hapless scientists in America. Humanity will welcome the truth for a change, regardless of where it comes from.
The world’s largest single-dish radio telescope—the Five Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in southern China—is about to start operation after more than three years of testing and commissioning. While the trials have focused on detecting neutron stars, one of the goals during the telescope’s operational lifetime will be to search for signals generated by intelligent extraterrestrials. Since Chinese officials claim that FAST is already three times as sensitive as the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico, the second-largest single-dish telescope in the world, we surely expect new discoveries.
We don’t know, of course, whether the giant telescope will detect signs of extraterrestrial technology. But we’d love to have an explanation for what’s been called the Great Silence, also known as the Fermi Paradox: If there is intelligent life out there, why don’t we see any evidence of it?
There are many possible answers, including the idea that we live in a kind of designated nature preserve, or zoo. Or, if you like Star Trek, maybe the aliens are applying their version of the prime directive and trying not to interfere with life on Earth.
When I was in New Mexico recently for a workshop on extant life on Mars, I also visited the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. While the museum did have some interesting exhibits, including artwork and depictions of aliens in science fiction movies, its focus on the famous 1947 Roswell UFO incident seemed to suggest a government cover-up of an alien visitation. Never mind that the Roswell event likely has a much more mundane explanation: the crash of a high altitude balloon like the ones used by the U.S. Air Force for Project Mogul.
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Adam McCann was concerned when he woke up on 19 April and his Ring camera flagged there had been some movement outside his country home in Ottery St Mary, Devon, just before 5am.
you notice the object they emitted from — a hulking triangular shape, with three enormous spotlights pointed toward the ground, and a red, flashing light at its center. “The whole thing,” recalled the policeman, as if barely able to believe it himself, “was floating in the air.”
evidence of a potential threat.
Beijing, Jan 23 (IANS) China announced that it will launch its first Mars mission probe in July this year,
