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Post by HAL on Aug 1, 2018 22:22:53 GMT
Crystal, . .Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like .. For a moment there I thought you were going to inform us that a ancient CD player and disk had been found on a wreck in the Aegean. The only one of it's kind and the technology died out for the following two thousand years. HAL.  |
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 1, 2018 23:14:25 GMT
Crystal, . .Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like .. For a moment there I thought you were going to inform us that a ancient CD player and disk had been found on a wreck in the Aegean. The only one of it's kind and the technology died out for the following two thousand years. HAL.
That would be a heck of a find.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 2, 2018 11:46:50 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
Business Insider
Fewer people are reporting UFO sightings – and experts suspect it's because reports are being 'intercepted by the government'
Lorraine Marlisa, Business Insider Nederland
1 August 2018
Data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) shows UFO reports have been in decline since 2014.
Alex Griffioen of the Netherlands' UFO Disclosure Office said fewer UFO sightings may be due to people attributing them to drones.
But Head of the National UFO Reporting Center Peter Davenport suggested reports could be being intercepted too.
Reports of UFO sightings has been in massive decline for the past few years. According to data from US-based NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) the slump started in 2014, after years of increased sightings.
Since the 1990s, the overall number of UFO observations steadily increased, reaching a peak of 8,670 reports in 2014. After that, it all went quickly downhill, as this infographic from Statista.com shows.
Alex Griffioen of the Netherlands' UFO Disclosure Office said that the quantity of reports in the Netherlands hadn't seen the same drop.Statista / National UFO Reporting Centre
NUFORC didn't have a website in the 1990s, so it makes sense that there were fewer reports received at that time, but since 2014, the number of observations at NUFORC fell to 5,500 in 2016. This figure fell again to 4,500 in 2017, and — while 2018 isn't over yet — it now stands at 1,329 reports .
Although this is still considerably more than any figure recorded in the 90s, it must be stressed that that period was pre-internet, so reports weren't yet being received via the website. This only makes the decline after 2014 all the more striking.
It's true that such incidents are more commonplace than in the 90s, but why the number has fallen so sharply after 2014 remains a mystery. Have extraterrestrial beings lost interest in us? Are we not looking carefully enough? Or is there a better explanation?
It's largely a case of guesswork but there are possible theories
"The significant decrease in the number of reports has baffled everyone investigating within the UFO field," founder and director of NUFORC Peter Davenport said to Business Insider. He's previously discussed the decline with members of the Mutual UFO Network. "They see the same trend and they're all confused by it."
According to him, there are many possible explanations. "It could just be that there are fewer and fewer incidents, but it's also possible that reports to UFO organisations are being intercepted electronically. Who would do something like that is a mystery, but if it's happening, my first suspicion would be government organisations. It's quite risky for a government to do that, but you can't rule it out, I think."
Reports of UFOs peak in 2012 due to the end of Mayan calendar
According to Alex Griffioen, one of the founders of the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands, it's difficult to draw a conclusion from the NUFORC figures.
"That's just one source. A decrease in the number of reports doesn't actually equate to a drop in the number of UFO sightings. It may also mean the NUFORC website has become more difficult to find or perhaps less useful," suggested Griffioen.
The quantity of reports in the Netherlands doesn't seem to have dropped in the same way, according to Griffioen, who says the number of observations at the UFO Disclosure Office in the Netherlands peaked in 2012.
"In 2012, of course, we had the upcoming apocalypse as the end of the Mayan calendar approached," laughed Griffioen.
"The peak in our statistics around 2012 is also possibly due to certain sections of the public — who were anticipating some form of alien apocalypse — being overly alert to extraterrestrial encounters," he said.
Drones could be a likely culprit for the decrease
If the number of observations has decreased worldwide, there could be two main reasons for this according to Griffioen: "Drones are becoming cheaper and more popular, and are taking on stranger and stranger shapes every day. This applies to both military UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), professional drones for video as well as for recreational drones."
"We hear and read that they can do more and more, so people now respond to seeing strange moving lights with: 'it'll be a drone'."
Laws around commercial drones in the US have relaxed
In 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began allowing companies to send drones into the air, provided they comply with certain guidelines. Amazon, for example, started delivering via drones and CNN began using UAVs to film from the air. Until 2015, this was prohibited, unless you'd received a special exemption to carry out such flights.
In December 2015, the FAA also stipulated that drones weighing over 250 grams had to be registered with the organisation, in anticipation of the holidays when it was estimated that 700,000 drones would be purchased.
According to the Consumer Technology Association, more than 2.4 million drones were sold in the US alone in 2016, more than double the figure for 2015.
Fighter jets can sometimes look strange in the sky
The chance of encountering a drone has grown considerably, which could account for people identifying what previously would have been considered a UFO as a drone.
But in fact, there's a whole plethora of things that could be mistaken for extraterrestrial objects in the night sky, ranging from fighter jets and natural phenomena like lenticular clouds, to dirt on camera lenses and unusually-shaped kites.
Still sure you've definitely seen a UFO? For extraterrestrial visits wherever you are, you can always contact NUFORC or MUFON to log a report.
www.businessinsider.com/head-of-ufo-report-centre-claims-reports-could-be-being-intercepted-2018-8
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 2, 2018 11:55:37 GMT
anthony geagea
Published on Jul 9, 2018
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Post by thelmadonna on Aug 2, 2018 16:24:01 GMT
re Sydney video. I think this is an awesome video, freeze frame around 2.00 mins+ There are scores of orbs of light in the big cloud to the left.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 3, 2018 11:16:00 GMT
Good mornin' good mornin'
Science Daily
New light shed on the people who built Stonehenge
August 2, 2018
University of Oxford
Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how they came to be there. Now, a new University of Oxford research collaboration, published in Scientific Reports suggests that a number of the people that were buried at the Wessex site had moved with and likely transported the bluestones used in the early stages of the monument's construction, sourced from the Preseli Mountains of west Wales.
Conducted in partnership with colleagues at the UCL, Université Libre de Bruxelles & Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, France, the research combined radiocarbon-dating with new developments in archaeological analysis, pioneered by lead author Christophe Snoeck during his doctoral research in the School of Archaeology at Oxford.
While there has been much speculation as to how and why Stonehenge was built, the question of 'who' built it has received far less attention. Part of the reason for this neglect is that many of the human remains were cremated, and so it was difficult to extract much useful information from them. Snoeck demonstrated that that cremated bone faithfully retains its strontium isotope composition, opening the way to use this technique to investigate where these people had lived during the last decade or so of their lives.
With permission from Historic England and English Heritage, the team analysed skull bones from 25 individuals to better understand the lives of those buried at the iconic monument. These remains were originally excavated from a network of 56 pits in the 1920s, placed around the inner circumference and ditch of Stonehenge, known as 'Aubrey Holes'.
Analysis of small fragments of cremated human bone from an early phase of the site's history around 3000 BC, when it was mainly used as a cemetery, showed that at least 10 of the 25 people did not live near Stonehenge prior to their death. Instead, they found the highest strontium isotope ratios in the remains were consistent with living in western Britain, a region that includes west Wales -- the known source of Stonehenge's bluestones. Although strontium isotope ratios alone cannot distinguish between places with similar values, this connection suggests west Wales as the most likely origin of at least some of these people.
While the Welsh connection was known for the stones, the study shows that people were also moving between west Wales and Wessex in the Late Neolithic, and that some of their remains were buried at Stonehenge. The results emphasise the importance of inter-regional connections involving the movement of both materials and people in the construction and use of Stonehenge, providing rare insight into the large scale of contacts and exchanges in the Neolithic, as early as 5000 years ago.
Lead author Christophe Snoeck said: 'The recent discovery that some biological information survives the high temperatures reached during cremation (up to 1000 degrees Celsius) offered us the exciting possibility to finally study the origin of those buried at Stonehenge.'
John Pouncett, a lead author on the paper and Spatial Technology Officer at Oxford's School of Archaeology, said: 'The powerful combination of stable isotopes and spatial technology gives us a new insight into the communities who built Stonehenge. The cremated remains from the enigmatic Aubrey Holes and updated mapping of the biosphere suggest that people from the Preseli Mountains not only supplied the bluestones used to build the stone circle, but moved with the stones and were buried there too.'
Rick Schulting, a lead author on the research and Associate Professor in Scientific and Prehistoric Archaeology at Oxford, explained: 'To me the really remarkable thing about our study is the ability of new developments in archaeological science to extract so much new information ¬from such small and unpromising fragments of burnt bone.
'Some of the people's remains showed strontium isotope signals consistent with west Wales, the source of the bluestones that are now being seen as marking the earliest monumental phase of the site.'
Commenting on how they came to develop the innovative technique, Prof Julia Lee-Thorp, Head of Oxford's School of Archaeology and an author on the paper, said: 'This new development has come about as the serendipitous result of Dr Snoeck's interest in the effects of intense heat on bones, and our realization that that heating effectively "sealed in" some isotopic signatures.'
The technique could be used to improve our understanding of the past using previously excavated ancient collections, Dr Schulting said: 'Our results highlight the importance of revisiting old collections. The cremated remains from Stonehenge were first excavated by Colonel William Hawley in the 1920s, and while they were not put into a museum, Col Hawley did have the foresight to rebury them in a known location on the site, so that it was possible for Mike Parker Pearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology) and his team to re-excavate them, allowing various analytical methods to be applied.'
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180802102414.htm
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 3, 2018 11:22:10 GMT
Tim Henderson
Published on Aug 2, 2018
Unknown Craft flying over the state of Tennessee on Aug. 1, 2018 filmed with a Bushnell Equinox Z 4.5X40 Night Vision Monocular. Not sure what it is but, at the 58 second mark there appears something else that zooms up from the right of the object I am filming before it goes behind the trees.
I did not notice anything zooming off until I uploaded the video. Also the object I was filming was not visible to the naked eye. Also this is my first attempt at edit any video.
Music is my own song titled The Templars Return.
Hope you enjoy!
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Post by HAL on Aug 3, 2018 21:25:24 GMT
MUFON appears to be reporting more or less the same number of sightings as they usually do.
Maybe though, people have just got so fed up of not being able to get an answer as to the source, or even the reality, of objects they see that they have lost interest.
We live in an age of strange things flying around our skies. What difference does another one make.
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Post by moksha on Aug 3, 2018 22:58:27 GMT
Hal had responded but his post does not show up, so maybe emb-cat is right, maybe not. Thanks Hal. MW
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 4, 2018 10:17:09 GMT
Good Saturday lovely people!
Crystal
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Post by ZETAR on Aug 4, 2018 18:42:39 GMT
Government Official: ETs Walk Among Us
Sun Shili, a former Chinese official, has come forward to reveal knowledge that extraterrestrials are on Earth. He asserts the ETs can be found everywhere—from lowliest factory worker and farmer to the highest positions of industry and government.
beforeitsnews.com/v3/china/2011/1472110.htmlAnd the Chinese people are listening.
Sun’s drawings of ETs that appear as humans [agoracosmopolitan.com]
The mysterious Xianyang Pyramid complex thought to be ancient ET base
Chinese culture more open to idea of ET races
The aging authoritarians that ran China from their seat of power in old Peking under Mao are all gone. The new China is much more open to the evidence of ETs in their culture and history.
A government-financed team is even now exploring a mysterious pyramid some researchers claim is an ancient, gigantic alien base. [Before It's News: Alien Base Found At Chinese Pyramid]
Aerial view of Xianyang Pyramid complex revealing flat landing platform
But some of the power structure controlling China still carries vestiges of the bad old regime. Those elements fight against freedom of information, the Internet and even the freedom of private text messaging.
Yet those powers are being distracted as China’s economy is floundering and most of their time and energy is now spent on the growing problem of supporting a slumping economic system.
With China’s emerging economic woes the leaders’ main worry is forestalling potential civil unrest: millions of poor Chinese from the rural areas continue to flood industrialized cities seeking jobs—jobs that are drying up.
Because China is in a state of flux—both politically and economically—decades-old restrictions designed to muzzle people like Sun Shili have loosened. And as China’s grip eases, truth, in all its facets, begins to shine through like sunlight peeking through turbulent storm clouds.
Like the truth about UFOs, extraterrestrials, and strange paranormal visitations.
Over the past two decades, UFO and paranormal investigatory organizations have sprung up in China like proverbial flowers after a rare desert downpour. The Chinese people accept the mysterious with open arms. They’ve always been interested in the odd, the bizarre, the unexplainable. Their ancient literature and texts—some of the oldest in the world outside the ancient writings of Sumeria and Tibet—are crammed with accounts of otherworldly visitors, amazing encounters with ETs and strange visitors suddenly appearing in remote Chinese villages.
SHALOM...Z
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Post by swamprat on Aug 4, 2018 23:08:18 GMT
Busy day at the beach today.
 Canaveral Seashore, entering NASA property.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 5, 2018 11:10:17 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers
The Statesman
An astounding discovery
Ancient 10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting UFOs and extra-terrestrials have been found in Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh which suggest aliens from other planets have been interacting with humans since prehistoric times.
by Pallab Mukhopadhyay
August 5, 2018 1:48 am
www.thestatesman.com/supplements/8th-day/an-astounding-discovery-1502669495.html
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Post by swamprat on Aug 5, 2018 21:17:30 GMT
UFOs!!!
 Nah! Just kites on the beach!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2018 21:27:13 GMT
These Guys Roam Your Backyard at Night but Scientists Just Used Them to Create an Antivenom That Could Save Thousands of Lives www.theblaze.com/news/2015/03/23/these-guys-roam-your-backyard-at-night-but-scientists-just-used-them-to-create-an-antivenom-that-could-save-thousands-of-lives?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=theblaze.com&utm_term=68804&utm_content=2270564 There’s no playing opossum here. It has been known for several decades that opossums were not susceptible to venomous snakebites — some even eat poisonous snakes. But research that could lead to a possible antidote for human use didn’t move forward until recently. Photo credit: Shutterstock Photo credit: Shutterstock Dr. Claire Komives with San Jose State University followed up on studies in the 1940s and 1990s to develop an antivenom out of an opossum protein that was previously identified as allowing the animal combat snake venom. The researchers found the antivenom worked in mice against bites from diamondback rattlesnakes and Russell’s vipers. The team produced the antivenom by programming E.coli bacteria to make the peptide. “It appears that the venom protein may bind to the peptide, rendering it no longer toxic,” Komives said in a statement, presenting the team’s findings Sunday at the 249th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. She added that unlike other antivenoms, this one didn’t appear to have any adverse reactions. “Our approach is different because most antivenoms are made by injecting the venom into a horse and then processing the serum,” Komives said. “The serum has additional components, however, so the patient often has some kind of adverse reaction, such as a rash, itching, wheezing, rapid heart rate, fever or body aches. The peptide we are using does not have those negative effects on mice.” With about 421,000 cases of poisonous snakebites and 20,000 deaths as a result each year, according to the International Society on Toxicology, Komives and her team believe this new method to produce antivenom, which is inexpensive, could be especially beneficial in countries like India, Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. What’s more, Komives believes it could be effective against scorpion stings and reactions to other toxins as well.
edit to add They are also immune to rabies..surprised the article did not mention that
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