STONYHURST ST MARY’S HALL BORROWED THE MOON!

STONYHURST ST MARY’S HALL

Pupils from Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall handled rare samples of moon rocks and meteorites recently during a series of science lessons that were literally out of this world.

Pupils were encouraged to reach for the stars and learn more about the Universe around us during a week-long interactive experience of astronomy as part of their study of The Earth and Space this term. Children between the age of 9 and 13 years were given the unique opportunity to touch a piece of space rock not of this Earth as they were welcomed to handle some genuine meteorites.

These rare samples were provided to Stonyhurst free of charge by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) which provides educational packs in a bid to inspire young people to get involved in science and complement classroom studies. Stonyhurst Prep School pupils were fascinated by the pack provided by STFC which included a 1.2 billionyear-old piece of Mars rock and a 4.3 billion-year-old nickel meteorite. It is unlikely that pupils will ever get the chance to hold an object older than this, as Earth itself was formed 4.6 billion years ago.

Sarah Concannon, Stonyhurst’s Year 5 teacher, said:

‘The Earth and Space is already a fascinating topic but many of the objectives covered involve things that are hard to picture and impossible to interact with – it’s not like we can arrange a class trip to the Moon! However, the lunar samples brought back to Earth by the NASA astronauts

BORROWED THE MOON!

are the closest thing we have to being there. The samples made learning real and provided the children with handson experience to learn more about our only natural satellite. It is an amazing resource which we are delighted to have been given the opportunity to introduce to our pupils.’

The lunar samples were collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s during some of NASA’s first manned space missions to the Moon. During these missions, a staggering 382kg of material was brought back to Earth – mostly for use by scientists, but small quantities are used to develop educational packs like this one.

STFC’s Executive Chair, Professor Mark Thomson, said:

“We are thrilled to be able to offer this unique opportunity to young people. It is not often they will be able to see close-up, and actually touch, such important fragments of science history. Samples like these are vital in teaching us more about our solar system, allowing us to confront theory with fact. We hope this experience will encourage the pupils to take up a career in science.”

STFC is the only authorised source to loan lunar samples to educational and scientific organisations in the UK.

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China Lake UFO/UAP Analysis, Friend or Foe..?

By Jason Gleaves, international author of ‘UFO PHOTO’ and ‘The Ufology Umbrella’ plus Ufonly on Facebook, Twitter and Onstellar. New Documentary ‘Multidimensional’ available on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Apple tv, Google Play, Microsoft Store.

In October 2017, a curious post appeared on the Facebook page of ‘Art Bell’s Midnight In The Desert Feat Heather Wade’.

MIt showed an apparent daylight scene of a ‘UFO’ in the desert with a military helicopter hovering overhead.

The text to accompany the photo read: “I’ve been holding on to these pictures for 10 years and it’s time I showed someone. I took pictures of this thing in July 2007 on our radar test range in the Mojave Desert. I’ve always been nervous to show anyone but here you go.”

My curiosity peeked I dropped the post of this message whom I shall call Keith Bradshaw (real name on file) a note in a private message asking for more details. Checking the next day, the post had been removed but Keith did reply to my private message.

Keith understandably made it clear from the beginning that he was worried about releasing these photos as they had been taken illegally and he regretted posting one of them on Facebook.

It did however tell me that there were taken at the Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake, which is located in California at about 11.30 am in the morning.

Over the next several days Keith and I exchanged numerous private messages on Facebook, and he eventually told me the back story behind the taking of the photographs in question. He also sent me five clear detailed photographs in total of the described UFO/ UAP. Here’s what Keith had to say…

KEITH’S STORY

I grew up in a town called Ridgecrest which is a U.S. Naval base in the Mojave Desert. As a kid, it was very easy to get onto the base and everyone in town had passes that would allow you through the gates to get to school, swimming pools, the movie theatre etc. Everyone knew someone who worked on the base so you would get to know where the different parts of the base were. They had the bombing range and the radar range. I grew up with a kid who after High School joined the Navy. After he retired, he moved back to town and got a job working in the civil service on the base monitoring radar. He said it was the world’s most boring job, but he did tell me about interesting things that went on out there. Things like them having jeeps and tanks scattered all over the desert and then flipping a switch and they all would disappear. Turns out that’s what fibre optic camouflage does. People would talk about unbelievable things that turned out to be true. Planes would come from all over the world to use the radar test range out there. I have pictures of that too. Planes with markings from other countries. While I was in between jobs in 2007 I went back to town to visit some of my old friends.

While I was in town I stopped by this friend’s house and after a few drinks, he started telling me how that week he had been monitoring a flying saucer. When I asked him how he knew that’s what it was he told me- first of all, in all the years he had been doing that job he never had two generals and three other men with top security clearance recording and watching everything he did. He explained how it was very simple. There were two signals on the radar screen. One would appear very low in altitude, go up to a certain higher altitude and then click off. There would be a countdown for a certain amount of time- five; four, three, two, one and then it would click back on. When this happened the first time the people in the room got very excited. The object on

his screen would lower in altitude until it was no longer on the radar, move to a different position and repeat the same thing over and over at different altitudes. All the while the other signal on the radar screen would remain constant.

Curious as to what it was he was monitoring, he asked around. People that he knew who physically worked on the radar range and would see what was out there told him that believe it or not it was a flying saucer. They described it as being shiny like a mirror and smooth like glass all over inside and out. It had no doors or windows only a hole cut in the top (I got the idea that the hole had jagged edges like it was cut with something) they described the inside as only having three small seats surrounded by a bird nest of fibre optic cable. The seats were moulded out of the floor rather than attached to the floor. This thing was one piece with no seams anywhere.

Keep in mind that description is just a rumour as to what it was like. He didn’t actually see it himself he was just told that’s what it was. Being in between jobs and having nothing to do the next day I made my way out there. (I’m not telling you how I was able to get there but I will say I walked a very long distance) as I got closer, I could hear a helicopter so I peeked up over a hill and down into the small valley below sure enough I could see this silver disc out there. There were a few tan-coloured trailers and other military vehicles on the North End of the valley. This thing would wobble along close to the ground very unstable. I don’t believe anyone could have been riding on the inside but got the idea that the helicopter was remotely controlling it.

It was very wobbly as it moved along close to the ground and then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear over the helicopter. It would go back down and wobble to the next position. It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it sometimes because they would do little tricks with it.

Like one edge would be pointing towards the sky and then it would do a U-shaped flip to wear the other edge was pointing towards the sky then back down and wobble along the valley floor close to the ground to its next position.

At first, I was too afraid to take any pictures but then it got really close to me so I started snapping some photos figuring that if I was going to be caught, I might as well have some pictures. I also took a short video but then to save space on my camera I started deleting the blurry pictures. I spent maybe 10 minutes total watching this thing. I then turned around and got out of there as quickly as I could. I took my shirt off thinking the colour of my skin would blend in with my surroundings better than the colour of my white shirt. About halfway back I got scared and hid the camera in the desert.

That night I went back over to my friend’s house and when I told him what I had done he laughed in disbelief until I told him the path this thing followed from the North-West side of the valley to the South-East. When he realized I was telling the truth he got very angry and threw a plastic cup at me. He basically chased me out of the house telling me never to go get those pictures. I let them sit there for two days and then went back and got the camera. When I looked at the pictures there was no video and I realized that what I thought was a blurry picture was actually a blurry video that I deleted. I still kick myself for that one every time I think about it. A few years later I went back to town and ran into him at Walmart, and he pretended he didn’t even know me. This is someone that I have known my whole life. We went to school together and played on the same Little League baseball teams.

I’ve been holding on to these pictures ever since. That is all there is. Sorry, it’s not more exciting. I really don’t know how you would write an article about it.

FIVE OF KEITH’S ALLEGED UFO PHOTOGRAPHS (ORIGINAL FORMAT) ANALYZED BY UFOLOGIST, JASON GLEAVES.

Analysis Image Report by Jason Gleaves

Metallic Disk Shaped Object Captured Near the U.S. Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California, U.S.

I was asked by Philip Mantle if I could conduct my own analysis on five interesting UFO images captured of a disk-shaped object (metallic in appearance) which appeared to be stationary appropriately 50-60 feet above a desert environment (location unknown at this point).

Also, in another image a helicopter (HH-1K Iroquois, helicopter (“Huey”) is also captured in flight above the right side of the object and appears to be passing slightly behind (speed unknown).

On the first appearance, the images looked authentic but with the technology of today and software (Photoshop etc) you really can’t rely on image authenticity, no matter how good it looks.

More detailed enlarged and enhanced images of the metallic object appear to show sunlight and consistent reflections on the body of the object, plus in one of the images, a dark oval shadow is clearly seen directly below the object again consistent with where a shadow would be (without actually seeing where the Sun location/position is in relation to the object, it’s always difficult to give a more accurate Sun-object-Shadow location).

I also produced a twin layer image overlay of two separate images (taken from approximately the same position/location) to see if the object had moved from its original position, I aligned the two images, to the best of my ability with similar reference points (background mountain range and cloud formation, horizon).

Upon viewing the final enhancement of the overlay, the Disk Shaped Object is clearly seen in two different positions, both at slightly different altitudes and one further away in relation to the other regarding their

A few days passed and a more detailed report and witness statement emerged giving the sighting location as (U.S. Marine Corps Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, U.S.) this is also consistent as to the type of military helicopters reported and documented being operational in that region, and similar to the Helicopter captured in the images.

Well, an interesting story and interesting set of alleged UFO photographs indeed. Of course, you cannot just take the photographer’s word for it that the photographs are what he says they are and are authentic.

With this in mind, other ufologists and digital media experts were sought out who could undertake analysis of these photographs. The first was myself in the UK and this is my full and unedited report with five computeranalysed photographs highlighting the points of interest and detail in my report.

Another and perhaps more well-known expert in the analysis of alleged UFO photographs is veteran Dr Bruce Maccabee in the USA, who also conducted a detailed analysis of the UFO images.

Bruce is well known for his work on analysing alleged UFO photographs. Dr Maccabee received a B.S. in physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., and then at American University, Washington, DC, (M.S. and Ph.D. in physics).

In 1972 he began his career at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland; which later became the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.

Dr. Maccabee retired from government service in 2008. He has worked on optical data processing, generation of underwater sound with lasers and various aspects of the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) and Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) using high power lasers.

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By Jason Gleaves, international Author, Ufologist, Ufonly.

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ARIES 21 Mar - 19 Apr

– This period should help reignite your excitement and optimism. A new aspect of your life is opening up for you or the beginning of a new phase would be there. You may be presented with some wonderful opportunities that are yours for the taking. Relationship matters are going to need looking at as this period represents nostalgia or looking at the past through rose-tinted spectacles. You will be moving onto the next level of achievement with ease, building upon what you have already started, and your hard work really starting to pay off. Favourable Dates: July 1, 6, 10, 15, 19, 24 Favourable Colours: Yellow & Blue

TAURUS 20 Apr - 20 May

Your positive mindset is likely to prompt success in areas, such as projects, or any endeavours you undertake. This period represents complete happiness and commitment in a relationship, and this would suggest that your efforts will undoubtedly pay off, in terms of the ones you love. You may undertake a new and exciting adventure, or a new way of approaching things that could make your life much easier to manage, as well as enabling you to have fun doing them. Great month for taking stock and looking at where you are in life so far. Favourable Dates: July 3, 7, 12, 16, 21, 25 Favourable Colours: Yellow & Blue

GEMINI 21 May - 20 Jun

You may need to adopt a more loving attitude to yourself, treat yourself well, make sure you nurture your needs – food and water – and to relax when you can. It could well be that you will have a month of working hard and not getting the financial reward that you deserve. It is very important that you only take on the tasks that are high priority in order to take the pressure off yourself. You will be surprised that by speaking to someone about your issues and allowing people to help you by taking on some of your tasks, you would feel the pressure getting easier. Favourable Dates: July 3, 5, 12, 14, 21, 23 Favourable Colours: Yellow & Green

CANCER 21 Jun - 22 Jul

You have the ability to do things differently this time, which will put you in the position of building a lifestyle which will be much more stable and enduring in the future. Perhaps things have been the same for too long and things are stagnating a bit. It is likely that you need to consider making some changes to shake things up somewhat. Balancing your situation will bring harmony and understanding into the mix, which will help to bring peace and serenity and the ability to see clearly what needs to be done next. You have all the necessary skills to take this new road, and now is the time. Favourable Dates: July 1, 3, 10, 12, 19, 21 Favourable Colours: White & Red

LEO 23 Jul - 22 Aug

You need to get up and make the effort to look into what you can do to make your life a little more exciting. You may feel more able to grasp the reins of your life and choose the direction you now wish to go. You will be more able to make the decisions you wish to make and get to the point where you feel you are firmly in control of your life. Your core needs this month is to celebrate the relationships in your life, to appreciate all the joy and happiness your loved ones bring to your door, and to just enjoy all the interactions with the people in your life. Favourable Dates: July 3, 9, 12, 18, 21, 27 Favourable Colours: Blue & Red

VIRGO 23 Aug - 22 Sept

This period would be prompting you to make efforts to stop focusing purely on the negatives, and the hurt, but to make a real effort to focus your thoughts on the positives, to start healing the hurts of the past and proactively work to bringing your relationships into a more loving and happy place. You are the architect of your own life and instinctively you probably know best, but other people might be jostling you off your road because they feel they are or should be, involved. Favourable Dates: July 1, 4, 10, 13, 19, 22 Favourable Colours: White & Red

LIBRA 23 Sept - 22 Oct

You are likely to discover how much more able you are to understand about managing the stresses in life, and dealing with the issues at hand on a much more intellectual, rather than a physical level. This period suggests bringing more heart and love into a situation rather than intellect and, possibly, to consider slowing things down a little in order to be able to do what you do way more effectively. You would focus on success after the 22nd in establishing a very happy, secure home life with the necessary income to keep everything running exactly as you wish. Favourable Dates: July 2, 4, 11, 13, 20, 22 Favourable Colours: White & Green

SCORPIO 23 Oct - 21 Nov

This period indicates a mastering of any project that you are undertaking, and you are more than ready to succeed in all that you do for yourself and your family. You are already taking things forward in a confident and determined way. In addition, it seems, there is likely to be an offer of a partnership, or some help on the financial front, which will also help considerably, It is likely that you will hear something that will herald some changes at last – by allowing yourself to be serene, and hopeful, you will be opening yourself, and making yourself ready, for things to start moving. Favourable Dates: July 3, 4, 12, 13, 21, 22 Favourable Colours: Red & Purple

SAGITTARIUS 22 Nov - 21 Dec

It is likely there are significant changes that will have a huge impact on your life, so grab them with both hands and make the most of them. This period suggests new starts, and choices around what is best for your relationships, at home and at work, and these decisions will have a major impact on your life. These days have a positive feeling to them, so the future looks bright and exciting. Your core need is to consider in which area you are best to develop, or increase, your knowledge or skillset. Favourable Dates: July 3, 7, 12, 16, 21, 25 Favourable Colours: White & Green

CAPRICORN 22 Dec - 19 Jan

A very rewarding home life, filled with everything you need to make you feel secure and happy, a feeling of where you want to be, and doing the things you want to do. It also indicates a new adventure and the excitement of new experiences but also suggesting to not go charging into situations without the necessary knowledge and understanding, so keep your wits about you too. You are probably going to go through some drastic transformation and start to approach life from a new angle. Favourable Dates: July 3, 4, 12, 13, 21, Favourable Colours: Brown & Purple

AQUARIUS 20 Jan - 18 Feb

It’s a good month for collaboration as wherever you go you bring a sense of peace, balance and harmony. It’s also a good month to be dipping your toe in the water of new projects. Something will be coming to light very soon, some enlightenment for you on a personal level, However, it seems that things are beginning to unfold behind the scenes. If you can grab those reins and start directing the chariot of your life down the road you want to go down, then you may be able to expect to be on a winning streak. Favourable Dates: July 3, 5, 12, 14, 21, 23 Favourable Colours: Red & Yellow

PISCES 19 Feb - 20 Mar

You seem to have a couple of paths that you could follow. Be careful not to be paralysed by decision making. Try to take off the blinkers, stop burying your head in the sand and actually start moving forward. You are not really feeling yourself at the moment but as soon as you decide which path to take you will find your sense of fun again. The opportunity is there for good luck to come knocking but you need to be watchful for the signs and be ready to receive this when it comes. Favourable Dates: July 1, 8, 10, 17, 19, 26 Favourable Colours: Red & White