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Post by GhostofEd on May 7, 2018 2:27:47 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 7, 2018 11:55:41 GMT
Good morning 
Guardian
No time for aliens: how the MoD tried to prove no one's out there
Report collating a decade of UFO sightings in 1990s was intended to protect ministry from more X-Files inspired requests
6 May 2018 Damien Gayle
It was 1997, the 50th anniversary of the suspected flying saucer crash at Roswell in New Mexico, and the heyday of the paranormal mystery series The X-Files. The English-speaking world was gripped by UFO-mania. But what seemed a delightful mystery to some was becoming a headache for the spooks at Britain’s Defence Intelligence Staff.
Analysts at the DI55 office, the department lumbered with the UFO brief, were being peppered with requests from ufologists – and even parliamentary questions – for information on flying saucers, taking up time they felt would be better spent on terrestrial defence matters. So top brass decided to undertake a definitive study of the unit’s collection of reported UFO sightings to establish, once and for all, whether there was anything in them.
Previously unseen documents reveal that, far from being an objective study into the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors, the report was intended from the start to absolve the Ministry of Defence of responsibility for investigating sightings. Messages between officials at DIS and the contractor carrying out the research show that it focused from the outset only “on the possible threat to the UK [from hostile foreign powers] and technology acquisition” and not “X-Files activities such as alien abductions”. A separate memo says: “It shouldn’t be driven by a UFO thesis.”
The study replaced one mystery with another after its author determined that the UFO sightings were a result of unexplained plasma formations in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, DI55 announced afterwards that it would no longer accept UFO reports.
The documents show the deliberations behind the research, which began in 1997 and collated the previous decade’s worth of UFO sightings – known in the technical jargon of DIS as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – in a database. The identities of all the officers involved in the conversation, which lasted several years, are redacted. Many other excerpts are blacked out, with exemptions cited including risks to national security and international relations.
“The increasing media attention given to this subject in recent months has almost doubled the work of the desk officers involved to the detriment of other tasks more directly relevant to the work of the branch,” one memo says, adding that it was now time to “reappraise the situation” and clarify DIS’s role in the issue.
Officials complain about the cost in time and money of investigating sightings and responding to questions. “The problem is unlikely to subside, especially as the US brings into service over the next decade high flying capabilities such as Global Star, Dark Star, the X-33 and, should it come to fruition, the manned spaceplane,” writes one senior officer. “Other nations will follow, especially with UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], which may permit risk-taking in unauthorised penetrations of airspace.”
Other correspondents remained open-minded, with one arguing that in the absence of analysis “we can not discount the possibility that UAPs are real” or that they could be natural phenomena but with “possible military applications”. “It could be argued that UAPs pose a potential threat to the defence of the realm since we have no idea what they are,” the writer continues.
It emerges that the analyst commissioned to write the report had a personal interest in the subject. Pointing out that the same UFO questionnaire had been in use since the 1950s, he notes: “I filled one in myself after a sortie when flying in the RAF at the time.” The author adds that he wishes to keep a low profile for fear that the media “would undoubtedly link [this work] with my other known activities on SDI [strategic defence initiative, better known as the Star Wars project], BM [ballistic missile] defence etc.”
What becomes clear from the files is a fear among officials of further inciting UFO-mania. “We need to be very careful about expanding ‘UFO’ business and thereby sending the public a misleading message about the extent of the MoD’s interest,” says one memo.
Another says: “Keep the classification low – I suggest restricted – in order not to put it in the public domain but at the same time prevent the criticism that MoD is hiding something under the cloak of secrecy.”
The report was completed in 2000 and duly discounted the possibility of alien spaceships over the UK, giving DI55 the grounds it needed to no longer accept reports of sightings. But what DIS did next could only fuel the imagination of conspiracy theorists. It destroyed the files on which the report was based, and even the database in which they had collated for analysis.
David Clarke, a research fellow and lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and a specialist in modern folklore, obtained the files from the MoD after a freedom of information battle. “They always say that the public gets the wrong idea about UFOs, but they’ve actually encouraged that themselves by destroying the files. They’ve actually encouraged conspiracy theorists through their own paranoia,” he said.
The MoD does not officially respond to queries relating to UFOs. It closed its UFO desk in 2009 after it was decided it served no defence purpose and that it took staff away from more valuable defence-related activities.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/06/documents-reveal-how-mod-played-down-ufo-thesis-in-x-files-study
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 7, 2018 11:58:11 GMT
All Awesome
Published on May 5, 2018
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Crystal I don't see anything. Is it the cloud(?) behind the temple?
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 7, 2018 12:01:27 GMT
arawddagawd
Published on May 6, 2018
On April 28th, 2018 I was flying to Los Angeles from Washington DC. When I was about 20-25 minutes away from LAX I looked out of my window and saw glowing lights to the north far away in the distance.
It was around 6pm pacific time and broad daylight. I zoomed in with my galaxy S9+ and captured 3 very bright glowing orbs in the middle of the desert stationary between some mountains.
Even in broad daylight they were emitting bright light that did not seem to be reflections from the sun.
I believe these were UFO's.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 8, 2018 11:36:58 GMT
Good morning good morning!
Mysterious Universe
Mothman: A Shapeshifter?
Nick Redfern
May 8, 2018
As with the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and the Chupacabra, you don’t need to have any real interest in strange creatures to know of Mothman. But, it does help! The controversy began on November 12, 1966. Although Mothman is so deeply tied to the city of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the first encounter – on November 12, 1966 – actually occurred in a graveyard near Clendenin, West Virginia, which is around 80 miles from Point Pleasant. The creature was described as being winged, brown in color, and humanoid. But, not all witnesses have identified the monster in such a fashion, which is the theme of this article.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia is a city of around four and a half thousand people. In 1774, the city became the site of a violent confrontation between the forces of Colonel Andrew Lewis and Native Americans from the Shawnee and Mingo groups, and overseen by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk. It was a bloody battle. Three nights after the bizarre affair at Clendenin, the roughly seven-foot-tall monster turned up at Point Pleasant, its large wings and red eyes prominent. The witnesses were Linda and Roger Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette. The specific place was the West Virginia Ordnance Works. Today, it’s called the McClintic Wildlife Management Area. It’s not surprising the friends hit the road at high speed and raced to tell the local cops of what had just gone down.
The beast was soon seen again. One of the witnesses was a man named Thomas Ury. At the time, he was driving along the city’s Route 62. Whereas some witnesses described Mothman taking to the skies in conventional fashion (in other words, by flapping its wings), others – including Ury – said that the monster just opened its wings and then rose vertically into the skies above and in a fashion very much like that of a helicopter. The wings apparently played no role at all in getting the creature off the ground. Whereas Ury said the creature was grey in color, the gravediggers at Clendenin were sure Mothman was brown in color.
Regular sightings continued all around Point Pleasant until practically the end of 1967. On December 15, the city’s Silver Bridge collapsed into the waters of the Ohio River, killing dozens of local people. It’s not surprising that many within Point Pleasant felt that Mothman had something to do with the terrible tragedy. Some saw Mothman as the cause of the disaster, while others suspected that Mothman was an entity that warned of – rather than caused – death and mayhem. People have claimed that sightings of Mothman came to a complete end after the collapse of the Silver Bridge. Not so. There were post-1967 reports. But, they were far less in number. On this latter point…
I have lectured at the annual Mothman Festival twice. On both occasions I have been on the receiving end of some very interesting stories. One such report came from a woman who saw what she believed to have been Mothman in 1988 – and on the fringes of the city. She, however, described to me something that very much resembled the legendary Thunderbird of Native American culture, a huge bird with brightly-colored feathers. Another told me of encountering, in 1971, what she was absolutely sure was nothing less than a living, flying pterodactyl – a creature that lived from the Triassic to the Cretaceous Period, and which spanned 228 to 66 million years ago. The location was extremely close to the encounter of the Scarberrys and the Mallettes in 1967.
So, what we have here is a creature that is described as variously having a grey color, a brown color, and bright, colored feathers. Some describe it as using its wings to take to the skies. Others said it bizarrely just opened its wings and rose into the sky with no effort at all. Some said it was humanoid in nature. Others said it was eagle-like or something akin to a pterodactyl. In light of all this weirdness, I’ll leave you with a controversial question to ponder upon: Is Mothman a shapeshifter?
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/mothman-a-shapeshifter/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 8, 2018 11:41:17 GMT
Science Alert
Gigantic Waves That Control Earth's Weather Have Once Again Been Detected Roaring Across The Sun
Planet-sized waves.
MICHELLE STARR
8 MAY 2018
Astronomers have speculated for decades that the giant waves that meander through the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, driving the weather, might also exist on the Sun. Now those waves have been unambiguously detected inside the Sun, and found to be very similar to those on Earth.
These Rossby waves, or planetary waves, naturally occur in rotating fluids. It is the rotation of the Earth that causes Rossby waves to propagate through the atmosphere and ocean, affecting the climate and weather.
The Sun rotates, too - so, theoretically at least, a similar phenomenon should be taking place in the gases and plasma that make up its layers. Indeed, it should be taking place in all rotating fluid systems.
However, while the existence of Solar Rossby waves has been hypothesised, observing them has proven far more difficult.
"Solar Rossby waves have very small amplitudes and periods of several months, thus they are extremely difficult to detect," explained Laurent Gizon, director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and co-author on the new paper.
The reason why the team has been able to detect them now is, like many recent space discoveries, down to two factors: technology advanced enough to make the detections, and scientists trained to painstakingly sift through the data.
The research team perused six years' worth of observation data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which was launched in 2010.
This instrument has high enough spatial resolution that the team could follow the movement of the photospheric granules on the visible surface of the Sun.
If you've looked at a high-resolution photograph of the Sun, you've seen these granules. They're the tops of convection cells in the Solar plasma, in constant roiling motion - like bubbles in a pot of boiling water, writ large; each granule is up to 1,600 kilometres (994 miles) in diameter.
By carefully analysing images of the Sun, the research team was able to use these granules as passive tracers to reveal the much larger underlying vortex flows associated with Rossby waves.
Helioseismology (the study of the Sun's interior based on observations of the waves on its surface) confirmed the team's finding, and allowed them to trace the waves to depths of up to 20,000 kilometres (12,427 miles) below the surface of the Sun.
It is, they argue, a much more conclusive result than the discovery of Solar Rossby waves announced last year. On that occasion, a team of researchers used a 360-degree view of the Sun to study the movement of bright spots in the Sun's corona, concluding that their migration across the Sun was consistent with what we know of Rossby waves.
In the new research, the team notes that they see no connection between the movement of those coronal elements and the newly described internal Rossby waves.
They found that the internal Rossby waves are stable for several months, which allowed the researchers to determine the relationship between their frequency and their wavelength for the first time.
more after the jump:
www.sciencealert.com/rossby-planetary-waves-found-on-the-sun-interior-helioseismology
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 8, 2018 23:33:42 GMT
Fox News
UFO intrigue: How the UK dealt with 'real-life X-Files'
By James Rogers
8 May 2018
The truth is out there … and it’s not from another planet. Previously unseen documents reveal how officials at the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence handled the “UFO mania” of the late 1990s.
In 1997, there was massive spike in interest around UFOs, fueled by the 50th anniversary of the purported UFO incident in Roswell, NM. and the global popularity of the “X-Files” TV series.
Set against this backdrop, over-worked officials at the Ministry of Defence sought to cut their commitment to investigating UFO reports, the Guardian reports.
The documents were obtained from the MoD by Dr. David Clarke, a principal research fellow at the U.K’s Sheffield Hallam University. “The new papers show the UFO desk head in 1997 ‘wanted to get rid of’ an issue they considered a ‘diversion from their main duties’,” Clarke wrote in a blog post. “Within the files civil servants, intelligence officers and military staff debate how the British Government should respond to growing public interest in the phenomena and what they called ‘the media’s obsession with UFOs’.”
The files run to more than 2,500 pages and some of the more sensitive papers, declassified from “secret,” are heavily redacted, according to Clarke. “What has survived the censor’s pen paints a fascinating picture of the arguments that raged behind closed doors in Whitehall around the 50th anniversary of the UFO mystery in 1997,” he wrote.
One RAF Wing Commander, for example, urged caution on shifting focus away from UFOs. “He argued that as MoD had not carried out any study of the UFO data they had collected since the 1970s it was not credible – and also politically risky – to continue to claim UFOs posed no ‘threat to the realm’,” Clarke explained.
In 1996, the MoD commissioned a defense contractor to produce a comprehensive report on UFO sightings, which were carefully described as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
The report, which analyzed a database of sightings between 1987 and 1997, was delivered in 2000. The study duly found that most sightings could be explained by a range of known phenomena, both natural and man-made.
This opened the door for the MoD to start scaling back its UFO-related operations. The DI55 department, which had secretly collected data on potential UFO sightings since 1967, closed at the end of 2000. The MoD’s UFO Desk closed in 2009.
It appears, however, that the writing was already on the wall for the MoD’s UFO operations long before the report was finished. In a document dated April 16 1998, the report’s author writes: “I am particularly looking ahead to my expected recommendation, that DI55 should no longer be involved in UAP monitoring.”
“It was the end-game,” Clarke told Fox News. “They created a definitive study that would draw a line under their involvement in the subject.”
The academic notes that in 1997 MoD officials were clearly swamped with reports of UFO sightings. At that time, the Ministry even had a UFO hotline that members of the public could call. “The workload on the subject had trebled as a result of what was going on in popular culture,” he said.
The hotline eventually closed in 2009.
“All our historic files which refer to UFOs have either been released, or are in the process of being released to The National Archives,” explained the MoD, in a statement emailed to Fox News. “The MoD continues to have no opinion on the existence, or otherwise, of extra-terrestrial life and does not investigate reported unidentified flying object sightings.”
www.foxnews.com/science/2018/05/08/ufo-intrigue-how-uk-dealt-with-real-life-x-files.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 8, 2018 23:38:32 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 9, 2018 15:19:49 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers
Coast to Coast AM
UFO Appears Inside Lightning Bolt?
May 08, 2018
An odd photo from Croatia appears to feature some kind of triangular object, which some suspect to be a UFO, inside of a lightning bolt.
The intriguing image was purportedly taken from a video and posted online, where it subsequently wound up on the popular and controversial UFO YouTube channel known as SecureTeam10.
As one can imagine, the striking shape of the anomaly contained within the lightning bolt has led many UFO enthusiasts to suggest that it is some kind of alien craft that is possibly being 'powered up' by the tremendous electricity.
Another theory proposed for what is happening in the photo is that the UFO has been struck by the lightning, although one would surmise that such an event would probably cause some kind of problems for the craft.
Skeptics, of course, will say that either the image shows an atmospheric anomaly of some kind or, more likely, is simply the product of digital editing, which seems reasonable considering its dubious chain of custody.
What's your take on the weird image? Let us know at the Coast to Coast AM Facebook page.
Source: Daily Star
www.coasttocoastam.com/article/ufo-appears-inside-lightning-bolt/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 9, 2018 15:21:32 GMT
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Published on May 5, 2018
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 9, 2018 23:17:27 GMT
Boston Globe
Things aren’t looking up for UFO monument in tiny town
By Dugan Arnett
18 hrs ago
SHEFFIELD — Once again in this era of civic self-reflection, an American town finds itself wrestling with the future of a monument commemorating a controversial piece of its history.
Unlike in other towns, the history in question concerns the extraterrestrial.
The monument, a 5,000-pound trapezoid of white concrete, is in a small clearing near the center of this tiny Berkshires town, overlooking the Housatonic River. It bears a large state seal and a plaque with the signature of Governor Charlie Baker certifying the event it memorializes as “true and historically significant.”
The historical moment in question? An “off-world incident” that supposedly took place here some 50 years ago, when a family claims to have encountered an alien vessel in the shape of an inverted Hershey’s Kiss.
The town is now quietly looking into whether the monument must be moved from what is believed to be public property, and the governor’s office is walking back its imprimatur, saying the state certification was “issued in error.”
Naturally, perhaps, all this has triggered an incensed backlash — both from the man whose name adorns the monument, who claims to have witnessed the close encounter as a 9-year-old boy, and an ardent international community of UFO believers.
“We want it to be known definitely that this isn’t going to happen,” said Beth Wiegand, of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M., referring to any plans to move the marker. “We’re not going to hold still on this.”
This is the town’s second review of the monument since its arrival three years ago. The first time, it was moved a short distance, but now the town is concerned it rests upon public land near a town pathway.
“No one decided it could go there,” Rhonda LaBombard, Sheffield’s town administrator, told the Berkshire Eagle last month. “If we let one place put something up, then why can’t someone else?”
These comments have not been well received by Thom Reed, a 58-year-old former Sheffield resident now living in Tennessee. He claims town officials approved the monument’s current spot and is threatening legal action. Any effort to move the monument, he says, is a slap in the face to his family, whose decades-old encounter, he insists, helped put the town of Sheffield on the map.
“We basically made this town famous, in a lot of ways,” Reed said.
Reed was 9 and living in Sheffield when, on a hot night in the late summer of 1969, he and his family were driving home from a restaurant they owned in town.
As their station wagon crossed a bridge just off Route 7, Reed said, he noticed a light glow coming from between the bridge’s slats, and when he turned in his seat to peer out the car’s back window, he saw a vessel rise from below the riverbank.
Suddenly, he said, he found himself in a room resembling an airplane hangar, and the next thing he remembers, he and his family were back in the station wagon, though his mother and grandmother were in different seats.
As an adult — and in what he calls an effort to preserve the facts of his family’s case — Reed began speaking publicly about the incident, traveling to UFO conventions and appearing on a variety of TV programs dealing with the paranormal. He won a following among UFO believers, his family’s case getting its own display at the UFO Museum in Roswell. Then, in 2015, he secured formal recognition by the Great Barrington Historical Society.
In a decision she now labels a “mistake” and a “professional embarrassment,” then-society director Debbie Oppermann penned a short letter of testimonial on behalf of the historical society declaring the off-world event as “true” and “historically significant.”
“I have to say that me writing that letter really put it into a whole other arena,” Oppermann said.
On Nov. 3, 2015, nine months after the historical society’s endorsement, Baker signed a state citation — a kind of ceremonial honor issued by the hundreds for birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, and “other outstanding achievements” by state residents who request them — honoring the Reed family’s claim.
Text from Oppermann’s letter wound up on the certificate and, ultimately, on the plaque affixed to the monument.
“On behalf of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I am pleased to confer upon you this Governor’s Citation in recognition of the off-world incident on September 1, 1969,” reads the certificate. “Your dedicated service to the incident was factually upheld, founded, and deemed historically significant and true by means of Massachusetts Historians.”
Reed said he’s unsure how the governor came to certify his claim, but according to a gubernatorial staffer, a request for the citation was sent to the governor’s constituent services office.
Responding to inquiries from the Globe, Baker spokeswoman Lizzy Guyton said in an e-mail that the citation was “issued in error and was not authorized by Governor Baker.”
So what, exactly, will become of the current monument?
Tough to say.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, officials here have been in no hurry to discuss the controversy publicly.
Multiple messages left last week for LaBombard, the town administrator, went unreturned. Reached at the local Gulotta’s Mobil service station, Andrew Petersen, who represents one-third of the town’s three-person Board of Selectmen, had little desire to delve into the particulars. “All I’m going to say is it’s in the hands of the surveyors and lawyers,” he said.
In a recent interview, Mark Reich, Sheffield town counsel, said the town is reviewing whether the recent land survey is accurate in its determination that the monument encroaches on town property.
“The town’s concern here is not content-based,” Reich said of the idea that some in Sheffield might not be thrilled with the idea of a UFO monument. “It’s based upon the protection of public property and the use of public property.”
Reed said he’s gearing up for what he says could be multiple lawsuits. He has demanded apologies from the town, for smearing his family’s name in the press, and from a local columnist he says has made the issue personal by deriding the white concrete monument as ugly.
And while he acknowledges that he’s unsure what will ultimately happen to the monument, there is at least one consequence of this episode that he can guarantee.
“This,” Reed said, “is going to change the whole ending to my book.”
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/things-aren-e2-80-99t-looking-up-for-ufo-monument-in-tiny-town/ar-AAwYSwk
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 10, 2018 13:08:09 GMT
Good morning! It's a good day to be alive!
Billings Gazette
Author, scientist highlights reported UFO sightings in Montana
MIKE FERGUSON
10 May 2018
Joan Bird believes in UFO sightings and stories of human contact with extraterrestrials, but after immersing herself in testimony and research, “I sometimes have to back off and go watch birds or something.”
“There is a limit to how much we can take,” the Helena author told a crowd of about 45 people Wednesday at the Western Heritage Center. “I know this is a lot to digest, but keep chewing.”
A trained zoologist and biologist with an earned doctorate, Bird wrote the book “Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials.” She’s scheduled to speak again at noon Thursday at the Western Heritage Center in a talk sponsored by Humanities Montana.
With a smile, she noted her book “earned me a five-saucer review from UFO Magazine” before the periodical ceased publication in 2012.
Bird’s talk focused in part on people claiming UFO sightings in Montana. One, Nick Mariana, who was working in 1950 for the then-Great Falls Electrics minor league baseball team (now the Voyagers), shot film that purportedly shows two silver objects moving together in the sky. Mariana’s secretary said she also saw them.
Bird’s research showed that Malmstrom Air Force Base officials took Mariana’s film and “removed the good stuff,” she said. The original film reportedly showed the discs spinning.
Closer to home, Udo Wartena said he was prospecting in the Confederate Gulch in Broadwater County during the summer of 1940 when he heard a humming noise and spied a 100-foot saucer hovering over a meadow. He said someone came out of the saucer apologizing. “We didn’t know you were here,” the alien told Wartena. “We need water. Can we take some of yours?”
OK, Wartena told the alien, who invited the human onboard the saucer and showed him two counter-rotating magnets that the aliens used to nullify Earth's gravity.
“They were men just like us, and very nice chaps,” Wartena told his daughter, who relayed the story to Bird via Skype from China. She said her father “felt remarkable love or comfort in their presence and did not want to leave them.”
Wartena told his story to a few people but suffered ridicule afterward. Eventually he sent a letter to former astronaut and later U.S. Senator John Glenn in an effort to help the world through the fossil fuel shortage of the 1970s. Bird couldn’t find Wartena’s letter in Glenn’s archives, but she did note Glenn and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada were later instrumental in funding UFO research.
Citing the Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE), Bird said a majority of about 3,500 people claiming contact experience with extraterrestrials said following their encounter they felt increased compassion, a deeper interest in spiritual matters, an increased concern for the welfare of the planet and a conviction that there’s life after death. What they felt less of was a concern with material things, an interest in organized religion, a fear of death and the desire to become more well-known.
Only 15 percent reported having a negative experience, she said.
“I like this subject. It’s provocative, and it makes us question our own philosophy,” she said. “I find it endlessly fascinating.”
billingsgazette.com/news/local/author-scientist-highlights-reported-ufo-sightings-in-montana/article_2f622cc1-fdc2-54b4-8408-26ac7eed9003.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 10, 2018 13:17:24 GMT
Live Science
Biggest Test Yet Shows Einstein Was Wrong About 'Spooky Action at a Distance'
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
May 9, 2018 04:53pm ET
A groundbreaking quantum experiment recently confirmed the reality of "spooky action-at-a-distance" — the bizarre phenomenon that Einstein hated — in which linked particles seemingly communicate faster than the speed of light.
And all it took was 12 teams of physicists in 10 countries, more than 100,000 volunteer gamers and over 97 million data units — all of which were randomly generated by hand.
The volunteers operated from locations around the world, playing an online video game on Nov. 30, 2016, that produced millions of bits, or "binary digits" — the smallest unit of computer data.
Physicists then used those random bits in so-called Bell tests, designed to show that entangled particles, or particles whose states are mysteriously linked, can somehow transfer information faster than light can travel, and that these particles seem to "choose" their states at the moment they are measured. [What Is Quantum Mechanics?]
Their findings, recently reported in a new study, contradicted Einstein's description of a state known as "local realism," study co-author Morgan Mitchell, a professor of quantum optics at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, told Live Science in an email.
"We showed that Einstein’s world-view of local realism, in which things have properties whether or not you observe them, and no influence travels faster than light, cannot be true — at least one of those things must be false," Mitchell said.
This introduces the likelihood of two mind-bending scenarios: Either our observations of the world actually change it, or particles are communicating with each other in some manner that we can't see or influence.
"Or possibly both," Mitchell added.
more after the jump:
www.livescience.com/62523-physicists-crowdsource-a-reality-check.html
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