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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 14, 2018 11:26:20 GMT
Good morning wonderful UFOCasebookers
Our Tessie is getting dental surgery this morning. Those of you so inclined please send up a prayer that she gets through okay. She's 11 years old now. But very healthy so it should go well.
Tess when she was about 2 years old
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 14, 2018 11:38:31 GMT
CBC News
Published on Aug 13, 2018
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 14, 2018 12:01:14 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Aug 14, 2018 15:35:06 GMT
One Dark Night One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.
Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant.
Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first thing ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!
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Post by swamprat on Aug 14, 2018 15:36:19 GMT
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Post by HAL on Aug 14, 2018 20:54:13 GMT
Nice one(s). HAL
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 14, 2018 22:33:37 GMT
One Dark Night One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.
Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant.
Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first thing ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 14, 2018 22:36:29 GMT
Tess is done with her dental surgery. I am going to get her in two hours đ
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 14, 2018 23:12:46 GMT
WYFF Greenville South Carolina
UFO conspiracists ponder shaky video of âhuge, humming craftâ over NC lake
Video gains traction, international attention via social media
Updated: 4:09 PM EDT Aug 14, 2018
by Carla Field
MOORESVILLE, N.C. â
A YouTube video posted in May has gained traction on social media after it was picked up and reposted this week on UFO and British tabloid sites.
ason Swing posted the video May 29 with the comment (unedited): âI was at work 2018 10:30 a.m. it had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went w pick up a boat from lake norman. When came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.â
In the extremely shaky cellphone video, Swing is heard calling the object a spacecraft.
Swingâs video went largely unnoticed until the tabloids picked it up and then the YouTube video channel âThe Hidden Underbelly 2.0,â which features UFOs and unexplained occurrences, also picked it up.
Theories as to what was seen in the shaky video abound, as well as criticism of the poor quality of the video.
Here is a sampling of the comments (unedited):
"Yes, we have many of them here. Among other things we've seen here. There is more going on than you know.â
âHow difficult it is to stand on an empty road and hold the freakin' phone right?â
âAlso known as the Goodyear blimp. Real common to that area -- like most anytime there is a game or race at the speedway about thirty miles south of Lake Norman. I, myself, have spoken to blimp aliens. They are an impressive life form, but for some odd reason they refused to take me aboard their mother ship.â
âSo irritating when someone is incapable of keeping their phone the least bit still. Wish I had the last two minutes of my life back.â
âI suspect hoax and a scam due to the SHORT nature of the video and the OVERLY SHAKY cam that can only be intentional.â
âIt was terrifying. His shaking made me want to call 911 for him.â
"Just a passenger jet coming out of Charlotte Douglas Airport. Flying low (below the cloud deck) on northbound track from airport. See this all the time up there. Look at the tops of the trees and bushes each time the video shows the plane and you see that it is steadily moving left to right. Going to look like hovering and slow movement since it is about 4 miles away."
Swing has not commented any further on the video. His YouTube channel has nothing else posted on it.
www.wyff4.com/article/ufo-conspiracists-ponder-shaky-video-of-huge-humming-craft-over-nc-lake/22728361
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 15, 2018 14:17:35 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
Stonehenge-like structure spotted on Google Maps âis Chinaâs Area 51,â UFO fans claim
Rob Waugh, Yahoo News UK August 14, 2018
Conspiracy theorists and UFO fans have got seriously excited about a Stonehenge-like ring of objects spotted on Google Maps in Chinaâs Gobi desert.
Conspiracy theorists love to pore over Google Maps looking for unusual objects â which are then hailed as âcrashed spacecraftâ, âalien basesâ and so on.
This time, UFO channel âThirdphaseofmoonâ claims that the structure seen in the Gobi desert could be a ârunway for extraterrestrials.â
Commenters on the popular UFO channel suggested that it might be Chinaâs Area 51 (ie a place where the government supposedly investigates alien technology).
more after the jump:
www.yahoo.com/news/stonehenge-like-structure-spotted-google-maps-chinas-area-51-ufo-fans-claim-111507191.html
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Post by HAL on Aug 15, 2018 21:11:28 GMT
I do remember a documentary that covered this site. maybe about four years ago. 'Can't remember what conclusion they came to.
But the planes look more like MIGs than the product of an Alien culture.
HAL
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Post by swamprat on Aug 15, 2018 21:55:00 GMT
Billy Cox is turning into a grumpy old man like me!A struggle for coherence By Billy Cox Wednesday, Aug 15, 2018
What in the world is going on at the New York Times? Did you happen to catch its latest pass at UFOs? Theyâve shrunk from breaking the biggest related story in memory back in December to dribbling out the sort of featherweight beginners blog fare that appeared on Aug. 3. How does this happen? Whoâs running the show?
All appearances aside, De Void really doesnât like to rant. Itâs usually juvenile and rarely cathartic. Plus it never changes anything. But this, this, this thing that ran in the Times two weeks ago belongs in a truly special category of regression, like four-legged tadpoles deciding theyâd rather revert to gills than take their chances on lungs and land. Normally you see formula writing of this caliber farmed out to Newsweek interns, or maybe to poor overworked Wiki-trolling legacy-media newbies pressured to generate quick traffic in off-peak hours.
Eight months ago, the Times startled the world by exposing the Pentagonâs $22M UFO research initiative, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. But despite intense reader interest in the 2004 Nimitz incident, in which at least one UFO was videotaped by a Top Gun F-18 pilot who was thoroughly outmaneuvered, the Times hasnât done a lick of followup.
But suddenly, on Aug. 3, from out of nowhere, without any news peg whatsoever, with no anniversary date that ends in a 0 or a 5, or any additional eyewitnesses or supporting documentation, the Times decided to dust off a moldy oldie from 1952. Itâs one of the most famous cases, involving UFOs that buzzed the nationâs capital on consecutive weekends in July that year. Perhaps feeling the need to justify recapping this old story, reporter Laura M. Holson tossed in a few quasi-newsy cultural references in the third graph, e.g., Gillian âX-Filesâ Andersonâs upcoming role in a UFO movie next month, and a planned reboot of the âMen In Blackâ franchise.
The only new voice Holson brings to light is the 68-year-old daughter of a commercial pilot who saw UFOs during one of those summer night incursions in â52. Too young to remember the event, Faith McClory tells the Times âMy sister has memories of men (reporters) coming to our home. People were enthralled with the flying saucers.â
Her sister. Fascinating. Do go on.
âIt should be noted,â the Times tells readers, âthat the term U.F.O., as used by the government, does not mean extraterrestrials from outer space. It means any object in the sky that has not been identified.â Whoa, wait, what? It doesnât mean Martians? Since, like, when? âWhen asked recently about the 1952 Washington sightings, Ann Stefanek, chief of media operations for the Air Force, wrote in an email thatâ â now this should be interesting, a PIO who probably wasnât even born in 1952, I wonder what sheâll say â âthe objects had posed no threat to national security.
OK, yo, hold up. Whatâs with the periods between U.F.O.? Is this another formalistic brand quirk like using a proper salutation before each and every surname reference, no matter how undeserving or grotesque? Before boiling Mr. Doeâs flayed skull in acid, Mr. Dahmer cued up Air Supplyâs âAll Out of Loveâ and contemplated refreshing his spice rack. Does anyone else but the Times put periods between UFO? Itâs distracting. Itâs so distracting I havenât finished my rant yet. Back to it:
âThe events in Washington were not the first unexplained encounter report. Debris from what observers called a âflying discâ had been spotted in Roswell, N.M., five years earlier, which Army officials said was from a âweather balloon.ââ Wow! Interesting! I wonder if anybody claimed to have picked up any of that Roswell stuff. Hm. âBy 1952, though, a number of sightings of U.F.O.s were being reported across the country and the nation was on edge.â
OK, look, I canât hang with this anymore. The thing ends with how the USAFâs official explanation of the July â52 phenomena was temperature inversions, a hand-rinse thatâs only been out there for 66 years. And this article â âA Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s âExplodedâ Into Public Viewâ â ran under the Timesâ heading âScience.â Even as the Times continues to ignore the continuing expansion of the story it set into motion.
The Timesâ reluctance to revisit its game-changing coup got even weirder yesterday with its publication of yet another âU.F.O.â story, dateline Los Angeles, titled âTheyâve âSeen Things.ââ Itâs about a guy named Robert Bingham who has attracted a considerable following for his alleged ability to âsummonâ UFOs into view. Not insignificantly, this piece actually references its own reporting into the Nimitz incident, but steers well clear of updating that story. Otherwise, this is just another garden-variety piece on âbelievers.â
So to reiterate: Whoâs calling the shots on UFO coverage back in New York? Was the inclusion of the Timesâ scoop on the Nimitz incident in Tuesdayâs profile of Bingham a reporterâs dog whistle for management to get its s*%# together? If the Times has had a change of heart on going deep with UFOs, why bother with the sort of innocuous filler it ran on Aug. 3, or a personality piece that wonât move anybodyâs bar on standards of evidence? When it comes to shepherding material with this amount of public interest from the fringe to the mainstream, the Timesâ news judgement is looking more incoherent by the month.
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 15, 2018 23:11:36 GMT
Science Alert
Grisly Discovery Shows Egyptians Were Mummifying Their Dead Way Earlier Than We Thought
One for the textbooks!
MICHELLE STARR 15 AUG 2018
It's confirmed. The ancient Egyptians were deliberately mummifying their dead long before we thought they had started the practice, and long before the Pharaonic period.
The first extensive tests conducted on an intact prehistoric mummy show that the practice was taking place up to 5,600 years ago - around 1,500 years earlier than previously accepted.
This incredible work is based on one of the oldest intact mummies in the world. Dating back to around 3700 to 3500 BCE, Mummy S. 293 (RCGE 16550) is the oldest preserved human body in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy.
"Our findings represent the literal embodiment of the forerunners of classic mummification, which would become one of the central and iconic pillars of ancient Egyptian culture," said archaeologist and chemist Stephen Buckley of the University of York in the UK.
Mummy S. 293 had been in Turin since around 1900, purchased by Ernesto Schiaparelli without any documentation as to its provenance, but no one had conducted a detailed study of it, nor had it been the subject of any conservation treatments.
Previously, it had been thought that, like the Gebelein mummies, Mummy S. 293 was mummified naturally - that the heat, salinity and dryness of the Egyptian desert preserved the body, with no human intervention beyond burial.
The research team had previously found evidence of early mummification on funerary textiles. In a paper published in 2014, they explained that substances on mummy wrappings from prehistory were consistent with embalming agents.
But to confirm, they needed to work on an actual mummy. And S. 293, devoid of conservation chemicals, was the perfect subject.
They conducted a number of tests, including a visual assessment, radiocarbon dating of the textiles wrapped around the mummy, chemical analysis of textile samples via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and thermal desorption/pyrolysis, and shotgun metagenomics to search for pathogens.
The chemical analysis revealed the presence of an embalming substance. This was made from a plant oil 'base', which was by far the dominant ingredient, mixed with a conifer resin imported from the Near East, an aromatic plant extract or 'balsam', and a plant gum.
These materials also included antibacterial agents, in similar proportions to those used by embalmers some 2,500 years later, when the mummifying practice was at its peak.
On top of that, an analysis of the textiles placed the burial site in southern Egypt, which suggests that the embalming recipe was more geographically widespread than previously thought, too.
"Having identified very similar embalming recipes in our previous research on prehistoric burials, this latest study provides both the first evidence for the wider geographical use of these balms and the first ever unequivocal scientific evidence for the use of embalming on an intact, prehistoric Egyptian mummy," Buckley said.
But it wasn't just the embalming substance the team found. They were also able to glean a few more pieces of information about the mummy - a more precise date for when he lived and died, how old he was, and whether he had any known diseases (the researchers couldn't find any, although the traces could have degraded over time).
"By combining chemical analysis with visual examination of the body, genetic investigations, radiocarbon dating and microscopic analysis of the linen wrappings, we confirmed that this ritual mummification process took place around 3600 BC on a male, aged between 20 and 30 years when he died," said Egyptologist Jana Jones from Macquarie University in Australia.
This precise timing places the mummy squarely in the early Naqada period.
"The examination of the Turin body makes a momentous contribution to our limited knowledge of the prehistoric period and the expansion of early mummification practices as well as providing vital, new information on this particular mummy," Jones said.
The team's research has been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
www.sciencealert.com/an-ancient-corpse-shows-that-egyptians-were-practicing-mummification-long-before-the-pharaohs
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 16, 2018 11:19:24 GMT
Good morning all,
Mysterious Universe
The Internet is Crowdfunding the Release of CIA Mind Control Documents
Brett Tingley August 16, 2018
Itâs no secret that the CIA has engaged in some downright spooky and rather out-there stuff over the years. Between attempting to kill goats by staring at them and experimenting with remote viewing, the CIA has looked into some of the deeper mysteries of the human mind in order to, well, whatever it is the CIA really does. Keep tabs on foes and friends alike? Monitor and regulate the global zeitgeist in an attempt to maintain the current world order? Control our minds?
When it comes to that last one, itâs well known that the CIA experimented with mind control through its infamous MKUltra experiments carried out in the mid-twentieth century. Families of victims of those experiments have made some progress in seeking truth and reconciliation for those horrible experiments which took some unfortunate subjectsâ lives and ruined untold others, but itâs likely we donât yet know the extent or damage of those experiments.
To that end, John Greenwald at the Black Vault has crowdfunded a GoFundMe campaign (https://www.gofundme.com/cia-quotbehavioral-modificationquot-docs) to raise money to pay the CIAâs fees for his latest Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) regarding MKUltra documents. Greenwald has spent years requesting documents related to MK Ultra, finally receiving a trove of records in 2016 â records which were missing hundreds of pages. 4,358 pages to be exact. After years of petitioning the CIA and jumping through bureaucratic hoop after bureaucratic hoop, the CIA finally told Greenwald theyâd cough the documents up for $425.80.
Greenwald was able to raise $627, which he hopes will cover any other hidden fees or charges the desk spooks at the CIA conjure up to try and keep these documents in the dark. What exactly might be hidden within their pages? Weâll have to wait and see. Stay tuned, and check out the Black Vault in the meantime. Itâs a deep rabbit hole of some of the U.S. governmentâs darkest secrets.
Iâll celebrate the release of the documents like any other mystery hunter, but youâve really got to wonder: what about all the stuff that was purposefully kept off the books? You donât really think that they keep documentation of every single experiment and shadow black operation do you? If world leaders really had knowledge of superintelligent extraterrestrial or even intraterrestrial beings, would they really want us to know? Iâm no âDeep Stateâ or âQAnonâ kook, but itâs foolish to deny that there are likely entire intelligence organizations or black research projects funded by governments that are completely in the shadows, never to see the light of public scrutiny.
Until itâs too late, that is.
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/08/the-internet-is-crowdfunding-the-release-of-cia-mind-control-documents/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Aug 16, 2018 11:24:30 GMT
Open Minds Production
Published on Aug 15, 2018
Open Minds UFO Radio: Mark OâConnell is the author of The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a biography of astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Hynek was a consultant to the U.S. Air Forceâs official UFO investigations in the late 40s to the late 60s. A skeptic at first, Hynek went on to become a proponent of serious research into the UFO phenomenon. Mark is also a screenwriter, teacher, and blogger. He wrote episodes for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and has developed feature film projects with major studios, including Walt Disney and DreamWorks Animation. He is also the founder of the UFO blog High Strangeness. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, Monica, and teaches screenwriting at DePaul University in Chicago.
In this episode of Open Minds UFO Radio, we talk to Mark about the upcoming History Channel series Project Blue Book. The series uses Hynek as a main character. Although it is fictionalized, this X-Filesesque program will be structured around real UFO investigations conducted by the U.S. Air Force.
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