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Forget 2012. Forget Apocalypse and Armageddon. Don't imagine that comets are going to wing their way in and smash us out of existence, or that our space brothers are going to land and take pity on the human race. It's becoming increasingly clear that, in terms of our existence (continued or otherwise), we are sadly on our own.

Sure - ET is definitely out there. We're swimming in evidence of that. It doesn't matter what the establishment says, what your neighbour says, what your mother brother sister husband niece nephew and local bottle shop owner says -- extra-terrestrials are amongst us. They have always been, and will always be. But will they ever do anything for us? Well, sorry, but the answer seems to be a resounding NO! Unfortunately for us, it appears that ET has been watching too many episodes of Star Trek, and is taking this prime directive non-interference thing seriously. A bit too seriously. But, I ask, can't ET see that we need interference?

We're not doing too well on our own.

We're still fighting amongst ourselves, littering our planet, polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe and drilling holes in the Earth and sucking out all her energy. WE NEED HELP! We need a good slap across the head, in fact. And hard.

Yes yes, I know, many of you are out there shaking your heads at my naïveté and saying 'no, you've got it wrong, ET is helping. He (or she) is improving us spiritually, moving us towards the next level, guiding us towards enlightenment and global unification.'

Excuse me, but, bah humbug! I need more than that. WE need more than that! Now that we're looking at the sky, waiting for the end of the world, isn't it time for a sign? In the manner of the Virgin Mary revealing herself to the masses in order to keep the dream alive, the planet needs a miraculous ET revelation. A visitation, a display of the heavenly host, an alien face in a piece of toast.

Is that too much to ask?

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July-AugusT 2012 Cleveland, July 28 2012, 6.40pm I was outside last night at 6.40pm when I noticed a pink/orange light in the north-east travelling slowly south-west. It was moving slowly and emitting no noise. As I watched it a further two pink/ orange lights rose up behind the first object, following it. My mother and I (and our dog) watched the three balls of light travel slowly in a triangular formation for about five minutes, trying to work out what we were looking at. The lead ball looked like it could have been the headlight of a very large plane and the two rear lights could have been on the wings of said very large plane, such was their uniformity of motion as they moved. But if there was any plane there, it would have been about 25 times the size of a normal plane and invisible. Mum got bored and went inside and I ducked in to get my camera however, when I returned to the backyard a minute later, there was no sight of them.

I have a big sky where I live, on a hill near the bay, so I really don’t see how they could have disappeared so fast. There was light cloud so perhaps they disappeared into it, otherwise, judging by the speed they were travelling and their course, I should have still been able to have seen them. There have been no reports of this sighting from anyone else which dismays me given the time.

I asked at the local newsagency if anyone had mentioned UFOs today and the shopkeeper looked at me

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like I was mad. At least my mother can confirm I was not seeing things.

Ingle Farm (SA), July 29 2012, 7.00pm I live in Ingle Farm, a north-eastern suburb of Adelaide, and on the night of 29/07/12 at approximately 7.00pm I was in our back yard having a cigarette when I noticed a fairly bright ‘star’ like light in the sky that was moving from the south to the north, and to our east, rising to an angle from the horizon of approximately 35-45 degrees.

When I first noticed it, it was in the south at an angle to the horizon of approximately 20 degrees, and way in the distance as seen looking over the roof of our rear neighbour’s house. This object easily was brighter and a fair bit larger than any star in the sky, and gave the impression of being much closer than a normal space satellite would look in the sky (I have seen plenty of those and know what they look like). I would say it was inside our atmosphere easily, possibly at the distance away a plane would need to be for you to see its flashing lights in the night sky. I hope that makes some kind of sense, in terms of distance. I’m finding that a little hard to describe. If I had to guess, I’d say it was possibly over the Adelaide foothills.

It was verging on a more golden colour (or yellow) rather than the flat white colour a star usually gives off, and it didn’t flash or anything, more like the constant ‘twinkle’ of a star. It moved in the trajectory I mentioned, but seemed to waver

around, only slightly, but enough for the eyes to notice, up and down of the axis it was travelling on, in a random manner. When I first noticed this I thought of a “balloon with a candle attached” like some people like to build and let go. I still thought this until I saw the other lights.

Anyway, I called my family to see the first light. Two of our three preteen boys (ages 10 and 12) came out and also saw the light. I guess this means it was visual for a minute or more, in a clear part of the sky, before all three of us watched as it headed towards a patch of cloud to our east, where it dimmed slightly in the outer clouds, and then was finally blocked by the clouds. The next thing that got my attention was that it did not reappear in the given time it should have taken to travel through the fairly small patch of cloud, and did not reappear on the same trajectory at the other side. It just wasn’t there anymore, and I’d say we waited at least a minute longer than it should have taken.

We waited perhaps 90 seconds, and our 10 year old got bored and went inside. Then both my 12 year old and I said ‘there’s another one’ at almost exactly the same time. This second object was very much like a satellite would look, smaller and that typical white colour. If I had seen this at any other time, I would have just thought ‘satellite’ and not much else, but given what we’d just seen, it seemed to add to the strangeness. This object was at a

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much higher angle to the horizon, approximately 65-75 degrees, and moving in the opposite direction, north to south, but still slightly to our east. As this object moved high in the sky, we both saw another object of the same description moving south to north, slightly higher again, and seeming to be just ‘above’ the other small object, but moving in the opposite direction. Both had that ‘satellite’ appearance and seemed to be much further away, but seeing all three of these things within about 2-3 minutes of each other, with the 2nd and 3rd object at the same time and so close to each other, is just too weird.

I think our 10 yr old came back out when we called out again as we saw the 2nd and 3rd lights, but I can’t remember if he saw the 2nd and 3rd lights. These lights were only visible for a short time as the sky up higher was quite cloudy. Again, these lights seemed to not continue on their normal trajectory at the far side of the cloud areas they entered, they just didn’t come out the other side. I would also like to mention that both my 12 year old and I saw what looked like a normal shooting star in the south-east and quite high in the sky during all of this, but I still honestly think that this was just coincidence.

I do like to ‘watch the skies’, admittedly, but have never had the need to report anything like this until tonight. I had two witnesses, even if they’re children, so I thought it worth reporting to someone.

shape, and that it had shiny silver things, which on his sketch look a little like boomerang shapes, on the underneath of it. He was driving to our house and said it moved way too fast across the sky to be a normal aircraft and his theory is ‘they’ make you second guess what you’ve seen because no one wants to say they saw something shaped like a p***s, so maybe they’ll just say nothing at all!

Brisbane North, late August 2012 My brother saw an object following a passenger plane that appeared to split into three parts. The objects remained stationary in the same position while the plane continued heading east. Two RAAF jets were seen heading towards the objects which then merged and vanished. My brother was hanging the washing at the time and was looking up at the sky due to the height of his cloths line.

Bray Park, Saturday August 25, 2.10am My girlfriend and I live at Bray Park on Brisbane’s north side. We were woken by noisy neighbours and were looking out of our bedroom window (looking toward west) to see what the noise was about.

We saw two very bright orange objects in the sky with very fuzzy or blurred edges. They were round in shape and appeared not to be moving at first. They looked to be

side by side, but were separated by some unknown distance because it was hard to tell how far away they were. We first thought planes or helicopters but they moved very differently. The one on the right began to drop below the one on the left, and then came up on the other side of it. They both then started to go what appeared to be up and toward the western horizon. As they went they separated and started to flash intermittently. The one on the right slowly faded out, but the one on the left began to head east and appeared very faint giving the impression it was very high. It kept going east until it disappeared. The time was 2.10am.

Brisbane, Thursday August 30 2012, 9.00pm I’ve just seen a series of circular lights in the sky above Brisbane and wondering what they might be. All my neighbours are outside trying to take photos as the lights are filling the night sky. (Ed’s note – this event was likely the laser lights from the Brisbane Riverfire Festival.)

Zillmere, Thursday August 30 2012, 9.45pm We live in Zillmere, Brisbane. Last night (30th August) we went outside before bed (approximately 9:45pm) to take a look at the blue moon. There was heaps of cloud and we couldn’t see the moon anywhere. There was this strange light area in one place and we

Mudgeeraba, Tuesday August 14 2012, night Three objects that I thought were stars were sighted in a perfect horizontal row over Mudgeeraba.

Two started blinking a red colour. I watched them for about 10 minutes when I returned half an hour later they had all vanished. It was a perfectly clear night.

Indalia/Oonoonba, Wednesday August 15 2012, afternoon My fiancé came home on Wednesday afternoon and said he’d seen a UFO in the skies over the Idalia/Oonoonba and Railway Estate area. He said it was white, really white, and could only describe it’s shape as a hair dryer, or a p***s

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thought that was the moon coming through so we stared at it willing the clouds to part. The light became stronger and stronger then split into 8-10 lights and started to weave and dodge in and out but very coordinated- there was a pattern to it (maybe similar to a figure eight). Sometimes the lights would all stop and other times they would join back to one light. We were talking about what it could possibly be when an aeroplane came through and the lights were gone, just like that.

Then the lights came back a little while after and I tried to get them on my phone by recording (earlier photo showed very little). A really loud helicopter came right by and the lights were gone once a again.

The lights didn’t come back but the helicopter did a while later. (Ed’s note – another sighting that was most probably the laser lights from the Brisbane Riverfire Festival.)

December 31 2000, reported March 2012, location unknown I have recollections of about 14 years worth of UFO sightings, which ended roughly five years ago. They were occurring that frequently, about two to three times a week, that I and my wife became quite used to them, even having the opportunity to point them out to BBQ guests every now and then.

We never bothered making specific notes about times and dates and so on, because they were so frequent.

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One of them, I’m guessing about ten or twelve years ago, was actually as creepy as it was spectacular, and provided about twenty minutes of entertainment for about ten of us at a New Years Party across the road from us.

We’d been there about half an hour and a mate pointed roughly north north-west at two big orangey/red things and yelled to me, “hey Jim, there’s ya UFO’s”. Everyone there laughed, me included, because the direction we were looking was into the flight path for jets coming into Brisbane, so we initially jumped to the conclusion that they were in fact jets. Then it dawned on us that they weren’t moving. It was raining very heavily too, and there were no beams coming from the lights like you’d expect, and like we have observed from approaching jets in the past, even when it’s not raining.

We all watched these things for about twenty minutes, going through various theories about what they might be. The only movement we saw was from the one on the right which slowly moved down a small distance before stopping. The next morning I was going over the whole thing in my head, still perplexed and a little disturbed when it occurred to me that I couldn’t remember how the whole thing ended. I remembered we watched these things for about twenty minutes. I remembered we left the party at about 11.15pm. I hadn’t a lot to drink and neither

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had anyone else, but I just couldn’t remember how it ended. I asked my wife, who doesn’t drink at all.

She got a funny look on her face and said that she couldn’t remember how it ended either. I thought that was a bit strange so I went back across the road and asked the mate who’d had the party. He couldn’t remember either. I ended up asking everyone who was there, and not one could remember how that ended. I still get a creepy feeling every time I think of that.

The next most spectacular occurrence I saw was one of these things which came from the east.

It moved slowly west toward our place (I was out the back having a cigarette), and slowed almost to a stop above the old air field at the end of our street. I was looking up at it at about a 45 degree angle. It turned right and went the wrong way up the flight path that goes over our house. I had a ‘mag light’ with me and whilst the object was making its very slow turn, which was not an arc, but a right angle, I contemplated flashing it at the thing. I suddenly got the creepy feeling that what ever I was looking at was looking at me too, so I thought better of it.

We have a decent camera these days, so I intend keeping it ready for any opportunities which might crop up. I really hope these things are going to return to their frequent visits, I really missed watching them.

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ROSWELL 2.0?

In the late 1980s, researcher Ray Grass (author of Signs of the Times), by a fortuitous set of circumstances came into contact with a gentleman by the name of Irwin Fortman.

Fortman was, at that time, the proprietor of a hardware store in California. But in 1947 he was a military man based at Roswell.

Fortman had only recently, in 1989, learned that the world was talking about the famous 'Roswell Incident' and, as it turned out, he also had memories of that event. Except that his memories didn't quite match everybody else's. The original UFO crash incident had taken place in July, the summer of 1947. Fortman's experiences, however, took place in the winter of that year, a circumstance he remembered well.

Could there have been two separate incidents at Roswell? In late 1989, Ray Grass interviewed Irwin Fortman in an attempt to find out.

Fortman's recollections began at the Roswell barracks one night in winter, at about 1.00am, when he and some other men were woken from a sound sleep and told to get dressed and convene in the base medical centre.

The men were given coffee and then ordered to take the base ambulances some distance out of the north gate to a place in the desert where they were to collect some bodies.

Fortman remembered that he was 'completely stunned' when they arrived at the site and began collecting the bodies. There was a large circular patch of metallic debris over the ground, through which the bodies were scattered. To Fortman, as he set about his grisly task, the bodies appeared 'oriental,' yet they were far too small to be human.

He spent a lot of time pondering this as he worked, trying to decide what country these 'people' could possibly be from.

Japan, maybe? Bali? Finally, he concluded that no race of humans he knew could possibly be that small. Further, the heads of these people were slightly larger than they should have been, although Fortman said that he didn't consider the heads to be out of proportion to the bodies. He didn't remember the people having

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any noses on their faces, but he did remember nostrils, and teeth in their lipless mouths. The skin was described as yellow and wrinkly, and the heads were hairless.

Only one complete body was retrieved. The rest were broken into pieces across the field. What was of interest was that the broken bodies were all wearing helmets, while the only intact body had not been. That individual had been wearing heavy cloth shoes and clothing that was described as being metallic, like flexible aluminium.

Fortman remembered that the hands of the bodies were uncovered, and shaped differently to ours, but unfortunately he could not remember how many fingers the hands had. It was dark, and it is possible he didn't have time to study them in detail, as the men were ordered to collect the bodies swiftly and place them into body bags. The creatures felt light as they were loaded into the ambulances, and Fortman estimated the complete body weighed about 80 pounds (36 kilograms). The rest of the bodies were unfortunately in pieces - arms, heads, torsos, etc.

There were a number of officers directing the proceedings, and they had arranged their vehicles in a circle around the site and were directing their headlights into the centre of the circle. Fortman estimated that it took only about 15 to 20 minutes to collect

what pieces of the bodies they could find and load them into the ambulances. As mentioned, the bodies were strewn through what seemed to be the remains of a craft, and Fortman and his fellow enlisted men were strictly instructed not to touch any of the metal that littered the field, with the officers watching on carefully to ensure nobody cut themselves on the shards, and that no pieces of metal were removed from the site.

As Fortman moved among the debris he had the impression that the object that had crashed was circular, and that the debris field seemed to be about a third of the size of a football field. The metal pieces he could see were thin, like aluminium, but seemed stiff and inflexible. He could see no large beams or heavy pieces of metal, only pointed shards that they were warned by the officers to avoid.

After returning to the base, the bodies were whisked away, never to be seen again, and the men were warned to never speak of the incident -- under pain of death.

Fortman held to that promise for forty years, although he often talked about and puzzled over the incident with one of the other men who had helped with the collection of the bodies.

The question that remains is: was this incident separate to, or the same as, the famed 'Roswell Incident'?

Fortman has clear memories of his initial arrival at Roswell base, and it was after July, and not long after the Roswell crash had occurred. He recalled others at the base discussing the original incident among themselves, and it seems as though the security quotient for the first incident was nowhere near as stringent as the security surrounding the supposed second incident. And, as at least six months had elapsed since the July Roswell crash, and Fortman's body retrieval took place shortly after Christmas 1947, it does seem as though a second unfortunate UFOrelated incident must have occurred. But until further corroborating evidence is uncovered, it may be possible that we will never know.

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Author, clairvoyant and spiritual healer Shirley Battie returns to Brisbane in 2013.

Beginning her active work in the realms of spiritual healing, clairvoyance and psychic phenomena in 1990, Shirley made contact with spirit guides she refers to as ‘Extra Celestials’, who have given her much information about the changes coming to planet Earth.

During February 2013 Shirley will be holding workshops in the Brisbane area (see schedule below).

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During my many years of being involved in UFO research and investigation I had the opportunity to interview witnesses to UFO sightings first hand.

I was fortunate that throughout the 1980’s the north of England where I live (I’m in West Yorkshire) had a lot of sightings reported to the various active UFO groups.

During that time I was part of the Yorkshire UFO Society, the Independent UFO Network and the British UFO Research Association.

Along with colleagues, some of whom are sadly no longer with us, and others that are still active in UFO research, I had a great opportunity to learn the ropes of UFO research and investigation.

headlights. Her curiosity aroused, Mrs Howard stopped to take a better look. There were no ‘beams’ coming from the lights, and as they came overhead there was no noise.

Mrs Howard described the scene: “I could not see the lights as it moved overhead but I could see the underneath of the object. This object was very large and seemed to be very heavy looking. I kept wondering how something so big and heavy looking could move so

slowly and not make a noise. I kept watching and took in as much detail as I could. The object was huge and its underneath had what looked like round-headed studs. The object moved overhead and I kept watching it until it was almost out of sight at which point it seemed to tilt upwards and shoot off at a great speed and was gone.”

Mrs Howard reaffirmed to me and my fellow researcher Rodney Howarth that when passing over

Dusting off some of my old files I am going to look in brief at three UFO reports that I personally investigated in the mid-to-late 1980’s all of which were labelled as ‘unidentified’ after an investigation by myself and my colleagues at the time. The following three cases have never been published before.

Date: November 1985 Location: Darwen, Lancashire Time: 7.30 PM. On the night in question Mrs, Josephine Howard (pseudonym.

Real name on file) was walking to her car outside her home in Darwen Lancashire. Mrs Howard just happened to look up and observed two round red lights in the sky. The lights were about the size of car

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[above] Drawing of the diamond-shaped object drawn by witness Mrs Josephine Howard. Drawing taken directly from the original case report.

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the object moved very slowly but when moving off it was very fast indeed. The witness estimated that she had the object in sight for about eight minutes in total, which is a long time for UFO sightings. It was a ‘diamond’ shape with two lights at the front and it was totally noiseless at all times. She estimated that it was 200-300 feet above her and that to the best of her knowledge no one else was around at the time to see this thing. The weather conditions at the time were reported as being overcast and cool with no wind.

Mrs Howard lived in the town of Darwen with her husband and family, and although she was interested in UFOs she had never seen anything like this object before. A full interview was conducted by the investigators at the time and as a result the case was labelled as ‘unidentified’.

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holiday at a small cottage near Bonsall Moor. They had to get up early in order to vacate the cottage at 10.00 am on the 31 st of December 1986. At around 7.22am Mr Stoddard was standing outside the cottage simply looking at the stars. It was a bright and very clear morning when Mr. Stoddard noticed that one of the stars began to move. It started to move right in his direction from over the hills in the distance. At this point he shouted for his wife to join him and when she did she too confirmed that the star was indeed moving in their direction. By now the star was just above some trees at the bottom of a nearby field. It was still ‘star-shaped’ but had got bigger. The witness thought it had three ‘fins’ at the back of it but was not one hundred percent sure.

The object came right by them and the back end of it seemed to open up into a giant triangle with a lot of white lights all around it, but black in the middle. The object was moving very slowly, no more that 5-10 miles per hour, and all they

Time: 7.22 AM Mr John Stoddard (real name) along with his wife and child had been on

[above] Drawing of the object seen by Mr John Stoddard and his family. Drawing by Mr John Stoddard and taken directly from the original case report.

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could see was this giant ‘thing’ up in the sky above the trees and it made no sound at all. Both Mr and Mrs Stoddard were excited by this sighting but a little scared at the same time. The object moved slowly out of view over the moors.

Mr Stoddard went on to inform us that his daughter had also viewed the object -- she stood at the doorway of the cottage but went back inside as she was a little scared of it. The witness described the object as being the size of a double-decker bus and he has never seen anything like it before.

Yet again, after an investigation by me and my colleague Dave Kelly this sighting was labelled as ‘unidentified’.

Date: August 1987 Location: Rochdale, Lancashire Time: 10:00 pm.

It was late August when Mr John Doherty (real name) was out walking his dog in Marland near Rochdale. It was just on the field at the back of his house, a routine that he had followed on many occasions. It was around 10:00pm and the moon was visible through the clouds. My Doherty regularly walked his dog at the same time and he often liked to look at the night sky. Looking in a northerly direction on this particular night, through a group of broken clouds, Mr Doherty noticed a group of shimmering lights in the distance.

The lights became bright, then dull, then bright again. This would occur when they passed in and out of the clouds. These lights looked like ‘fireflies’ but there are no such things in Rochdale. The witness even waved his hand in front of his eyes just-in-case. However, within seconds these lights were now in the sky directly above him and he soon realised that whatever they were they were not fireflies.

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[below] Drawing of the circular objects observed by Mr John Doherty. Drawing by Mr John Doherty and taken directly from the original case report.

Four of them broke through the clouds and he observed them closely. They were now clearly visible and they were circular in shape, brightly lit, possibly rotating which make them appear to ‘shimmer’ and giving the edges a fuzzy appearance.

On the underside of each object were three very bright lights which did not shimmer. These lights appeared almost still. The lights were so powerful that they glowed through the clouds, and as a result two more objects were visible. He watched them disappear in a southerly direction. He estimated the objects to be of ‘tremendous size’ and at no time did they make any noise at all. Mr Doherty estimated their speed to be over 100 miles per hour and were only in view for ten seconds or so. The objects appeared solid and were in a zig-zag formation. He had no interest in the subject of UFOs and had never seen anything like it before. The weather conditions at the time were reported as dark, clear, warm with thin scattered cloud. There was a light wind and the moon and stars were visible.

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Once again, after an investigation by me and my colleague Rodney Howarth, this case was also labelled as ‘unidentified’.

Three different witnesses from three different locations and three different years. The one thing they did have in common is that despite our best efforts at the time we could not find a rational explanation for any of the sightings. No aircraft, balloons or meteorological phenomenon could account for them, and this is in a time long before Chinese lanterns.

All of the witnesses were interviewed in person and transcripts of these interviews are on file.

There are of course some similarities in these sightings, the most notable one being the lack of any noise made by the objects.

Whether this is relevant or significant is debateable but it’s a curiosity nonetheless.

The one thing that is for certain is that UFOs were the last thing on the mind of any of these witnesses prior to their observations. What I can say is that the report made

by Mrs Howard in Darwen serves

to illustrate that the ‘flying triangles/diamonds’ so widely reported today are nothing new. I can also add that during my time with the Yorkshire UFO Society we had many reports of circular objects with three or four bright lights on the underside, not dissimilar to those observed by John Doherty. And as for the strange object witnessed

by Mr Stoddard and his family, I think it remains unique.

Of course most of the sightings reported to me and my colleagues down the years can be quickly and easily identified in conventional terms. The three cases I have highlighted here buck that trend and remain as unidentified in my files. They are nothing earth shattering and are unlikely to feature in any books or TV documentaries, but they do serve as a reminder that despite our best efforts to seriously investigate UFO sighting reports objectively, there are still a few that at the end of the day leave me scratching my head, and remain ‘UNIDENTIFIED’.

Philip Mantle can be contacted via email at: philip.mantle@gmail.com

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FORMER AIR FORCE COL ONEL ACCUSES COLONEL U.S. OF UFO COVER-UP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/ 24/ufo-secrets-turn-out-to-be-strongopinions_n_1907492.html

Former Air Force Colonel Charles Halt accused the federal government of a UFO cover-up that involves a secret agency to deal with what might be extraterrestrial visitations. "I'm firmly convinced there's an agency, and there is an effort to suppress," Halt told an audience of 200 people Saturday night at the Smithsonian-affiliated National Atomic Testing Museum.

Two former Air Force officers who were part of the infamous Project Blue Book - the military's official UFO investigation in the 1950s and '60s -- and a former investigator with Britain's Ministry of Defense were among the panel of speakers for a program entitled "Military UFOs: Secrets Revealed."

Halt was the deputy base commander of the RAF Bentwaters military base in England and one of numerous eyewitnesses to several UFO-related events at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. He believes the observed UFOs were either extraterrestrial or extradimensional in origin.

"I've heard many people say that it's time

for the government to appoint an agency to investigate," Halt said. "Folks, there is an agency, a very close-held, compartmentalized agency that's been investigating this for years, and there's a very active role played by many of our intelligence agencies that probably don't even know the details of what happens once they collect the data and forward it.

It's kind of scary, isn't it?

"In the last couple of years, the British have released a ton of information, but has anybody ever seen what their conclusions were or heard anything about Bentwaters officially? When the documents were released, the timeframe when I was involved in the incident is missing -- it's gone missing. Nothing else is missing," he said.

Halt added that he's never been harassed over the reports he made about the Bentwaters UFO incidents. "Probably for a couple of good reasons. Number one, my rank and some of the jobs I've held, but also very early on, I sat down and made a very detailed tape and made several copies of everything I know about it and they're secluded away. Maybe I'm paranoid. I don't know, but I think it was time well spent when I made the tapes."

While the lecture panel members didn't always see eye-to-eye on the details of specific UFO cases, one common thread ran through them. "We share a couple of very important things: We've all been

dedicated to serving our country and been very serious about it," said museum CEO and executive director Allan Palmer, who had a distinguished career as a decorated jet fighter pilot for both the Air Force and Navy. "These are not flaky people, who've all held very responsible positions with high-level security clearances.They're not the kind of people who tend to imagine things or go off on a wild tangent on something.They're very professional, very business-like."

Making a rare public appearance was retired Air Force Colonel Bill Coleman, the former chief spokesman for Project Blue Book between 1961 and 1963. The controversial study ended in 1969, concluding that there was nothing about UFOs which represented "technological developments or principles beyond the range of presentday scientific knowledge." Coleman recounted his own riveting encounter with a UFO while he piloted a B-25 bomber in 1955. The unknown circular object descended from an estimated height of 20,000 feet, heading to the ground, when Coleman attempted to pursue it.

"We were moving at maximum continuous power for the B-25, about 300 miles an hour, and we got right down to the treetops and I closed in on it very rapidly. I said I was going to overtake it -- 'Hang on and put your seat

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belts on' -- and I made a hard 90-degree bank to try and pull up alongside of [the UFO] and it wasn't there. I zoomed up about 1,500 feet, and then I could see the object right on the deck over a freshly plowed field moving at a pretty good speed, and it [was trailing] two vortexes." When Coleman dove behind the trees to try and "head him off at the pass," the UFO was gone. He said it was a typically reported flying saucer.

Coleman concluded his part of the lecture by offering a possible reason why ETs may be hesitant to visit Earth: "If an alien were to land here, our common cold could kill him. His common cold could wipe out the population of planet Earth. If they're smart enough to build a vehicle that could travel light-years of time, they'd be smart enough to know that our diseases could wipe out people."

During the time that Coleman was the Project Blue Book spokesman, the director of the Air Force study was Colonel Bob Friend. He disagreed with the Air Force's negative conclusions about UFOs in 1969. "My primary explanation for these things is that, yes, they're real, and I think it would be much better if the government or some other agency was to take on these things and to pursue the scientific aspects of it," Friend said.

At Saturday's lecture, Friend offered an olive branch to the many people who claim to have seen UFOs but have been reluctant to report them out of fear of not being taken seriously. "UFO sightings are real, and you will not be ridiculed by any honest organization that investigates it. Just come forward, quote your case and allow people to investigate what they can to make some determination about what it is that you've seen. In the future, just remember that we're on your side."

Nick Pope, the civilian member of the UFO panel, acknowledged that many in the audience came to the lecture anticipating the revelation of mindblowing UFO evidence. "While I apologize to those people who might be expecting or hoping for a 'spaceship in a hangar' smoking gun, what you are getting is the real deal: an insight from people who have looked at this mysterious and infuriating subject for the government," said Pope, a former UFO investigator for the UK Ministry of Defense. "The UFO subject is a field which does have its fair share of crackpots and charlatans and cultists.

What you have this evening in a field like that is a panel of people who indisputably and genuinely have done this for the government and the military."

Pope recounted how the UK's former official committee, known as the Flying

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Saucer Working Party, concluded in 1951 that UFOs were just misidentifications, hoaxes and delusions, and that no further time or effort should be wasted on the subject. "Unfortunately for them, in 1952, there was a wave of sightings throughout the UK, where most of the witnesses were Royal Air Force pilots, some of whom chased these things, and many radar operatives tracked them," Pope said.

As the Ministry of Defense continued investigating UFOs, Pope noted, they kept a close watch on the UFO "community." "We anonymously subscribed to their magazines: Subscription, please send to John Smith, P.O. Box 007, London -- that was us. And I even covertly slipped into the back of UFO conferences."

Pope concluded by saying that the Ministry of Defense always had one thing on its mind about UFOs: "Whatever the nonsense you see about this subject sometimes in the field, we never lost sight of the fact that, in all of these hundreds of thousands of sightings, the believers only had to be right once, and everything changes."

Another UFO lecture panelist, retired Army Colonel John Alexander, was a former military insider who convened a special group in the 1980s called the Advanced Theoretical Physics Group, whose members were culled from the military services and the aerospace and intelligence communities.They concluded that while there had been numerous cases of credible UFO encounters, the group couldn't find any evidence of any actual government cover-up.

Alexander cited a variety of intriguing UFO cases involving pilots and told the audience that UFOs are "real and is a global phenomenon -- not something that just happens in the U.S. "We need to make it permissible for scientists to discuss and research these topics. ... There are no simple answers, and not only do we not have the answers, we're not at the point of asking the right questions yet, and that's what we need to do."

International Astronomical Union in Beijing. According to China Daily, he "made it clear China was determined to be not only a world leader but a pioneer in intergalactic affairs too."

Professor Sun Kwok, the University of Hong Kong's dean of science, believes that the vice president's words, and his presence at the assembly, indicate that space exploration is a national priority.

At the assembly, Kwok was elected vicepresident of the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) bioastronomy Commission 51 for the next three years.That's right. Commission 51. Is anyone else suspecting an intentional Area 51 allusion here? This commission is a dedicated body of scientists searching for extraterrestrial life. Here is a general overview of the IAU's Commission 51: Bioastronomy: Search for Extraterrestrial Life was established as Commission 51 of the IAU in 1982. The objectives of the commission include: The search for planets around other stars; The search for radio transmissions, intentional or unintentional, of extraterrestrial origin; The search for biologically relevant interstellar molecules and the study of their formation processes; Detection methods for potential spectroscopic evidence of biological activity; The coordination of efforts in all these areas at the international level and the establishment of collaborative programs with other international scientific societies with related interests.

Kwok believes that evidence of extraterrestrial life will be discovered within the next fifty years, but perhaps as soon as twenty years. And although he expects to discover microbial life, he firmly believes that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, and also believes that "a lot of scientists also hold the opinion that there is intelligent life out there."

SEARCHING FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE IS A PRIORITY FOR CHINA

JOINT FLEETS FEND OFF UFO THREAT

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China has rapidly emerged as a major player in the new space race. China's first astronaut launched into space only nine years ago, but since then, the country's space program has progressed rapidly.

In late 2011, the country launched its own space station-the Tiangong-1.

China's vice president, Xi Jinping, recently spoke at the General Assembly of the

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This last week, reports of Chinese naval vessels off the US coast, Northern California in particular, have been reported but denied. Now an Asian intelligence agency reports that a combined fleet operation between the US and China has been going on, a full combat operation against what we are told is a "highly unfriendly extraterrestrial threat."

The verifications of the fleet operations

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have been many -there have been no confirmations from the US side, though the ships have been seen by every vessel that makes it offshore. The true nature of both the threat and the extent of the multinational military force used is beyond any imaginable classification level.

Rumours: - Extraterrestrial craft are operating from underwater bases.

- Advanced US sub-orbital weapons platforms represented as "tested" have actually been deployed from Vandenburg Air Force Base. These are armed with energy weapons.

- UFO tracking has been moved from conventional to nano-technology with microscopic sensors being used to detect behaviors such as dimensional rifts and distortions in time, things only discussed in TV shows like Fringe and X Files.

The actual classified memo on very short distribution mentions only the following: - Opposition is extraterrestrial and extremely aggressive and unfriendly - The threat represents a "clear and present danger" and is isolated to the Pacific Basin - China is forced to carry US responsibility because our own naval capability is sitting in the Persian Gulf when America is under a very real threat.

- Attempts to seek confirmations or to directly verify these operations will lead to fatal consequences.

Our confirmations limit us to this response which I have chosen to represent in a highly deniable form out of personal interest. Others in the US have better information and sources and have been silenced with warnings only.

For several months earlier this year, there had been disclosures tied to the UFO issue. One real sighting had been made over South Korea. After that, the internet had been flooded, yes, Google's "YouTube" with manufactured phony UFO videos, some of "beyond next generation" quality.

All information given on how UFO video or photos are analyzed is totally false, childishly so, especially that from the UFO "networks." They are professionally "self discrediting."

About six weeks ago, a "study group" was appointed out of NATO and another one in Asia to look at the pattern of UFO videos. A decision was made to aggressively investigate one or more groups.

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Being aggressively investigated on such an issue is not recommended.

My suggestion is that readers follow other stories for verifications or information that would help in some way, add it to the comment section and see if we can get a better grip on what may well be an extremely dangerous situation.

I have had one implied threat, which is almost laughable as I am a board member of a multinational defense firm larger than most armies. I have also had several contacts of a very suspicious nature, and one verified Homeland Security computer attack which the software the DOD supplied us with caught.

BRIT AIN HAS ALIENBRITAIN WAR WEAPONS http://news.uk.msn.com/exclusives/britainhas-alien-war-weapons-says-formergovernment-adviser

Britain has a stockpile of aircraft, drones and weapons that could be used to fight aliens in the event of an invasion from space, according to the government's former UFO adviser.

In an interview with MSN, Nick Pope, who worked for the Ministry of Defence for 21 years, said that while Britain doesn't have a war plan, it certainly had sophisticated enough weaponry to defend itself. Mr Pope, whose job it was to advise on the threat posed by other life forms, said that in the event of an attack he expected that we would "quickly adapt our plans for other more current war scenarios."

At present, he said, there was no special organisation like Torchwood, the alienhunting team from the BBC science fiction series of the same name, but he said he was sure that in the event of attack an operation could be set up quickly and efficiently. World nations would probably pool their technology together like in films such as Independence Day. Mr Pope said: "We do have several prototype aircraft and drones and other weapons you won't see on the news for another 10-15 years so if we did face a threat from the unknown then even if there is no Torchwood around now, there would be something like it by then and they certainly would have some great kit to help in the fight." He said: "Look at the Taranis, which is a prototype made by BAE Systems. It looks for all the world like a spaceship in the hanger."

So are aliens a threat? The official government position is that UFOs offer "no significant defence threat". However, Mr Pope said what that really means is that "we don't know".

"My colleagues and I said, whatever our

official position - the one we gave to the public, media or parliament, - privately, where five per cent of UFO sightings remained unexplained, at the very least there has to be a potential threat. One possibility would be trying to unite all the nations of the world. For those who think that far-fetched, Ronald Reagan once hinted at it in a speech to the UN. He said 'I occasionally think how quickly we would set aside our difference if we faced some alien threat from the other side.'"

So why is the government looking at UFO sightings? "Between 1991 and 1994, my job at the MoD was to investigate the 200-300 reported sightings of UFOs in the UK each year to see if there was evidence of a potential threat or something of general defence interest. One of the things that was interesting was that when people reported seeing UFOs these things were capable of extraordinary manoeuvres and speeds.They were much faster than our military jets so we wanted to find out about the technology and if we could find it useful. Defence scientists were very interested in the fact they might have some kind of exotic propulsion system."

So do aliens really exist? "I am absolutely convinced that elsewhere in the universe there must be other life and I am also convinced that some of that is going to be intelligent. I am open-minded about the possibility that some of that life is visiting us down here but just as our space programme is reaching out to find out what is out there, it seems other life forms could be motivated by the same thing. One of the things being discussed at the Royal Society is that

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we could be dealing with artificial life - a post-biological universe of cyborgs and robots. I suspect there are thousands and millions of civilisations out there.We all hope it's just going to be ET-style fluffy aliens as opposed to a terrifying alien invasion. The believers only have to be right once."

KINGSTON CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCES UFO CONCEPT P ARK PARK

A landscape concept plan (below) has been prepared illustrating proposed playground redevelopment works at The Grange Reserve, on Osborne Avenue in Clayton South (Melbourne). The play space design was inspired by the unique forest setting at The Grange Reserve along with the well-known 1966 Westall Flying Saucer incident. Key elements of the design include: - The creation of a unique, new play space with equipment for all age groups; - A custom-designed UFO play structure; - A natural play area with dry creek bed and play cubbies based on The Three Little Pigs.

RICHARD BRANSON TO COL ONIZE MARS COLONIZE WHETHER YOU LIK E LIKE IT OR NOT http://betabeat.com/2012/09/richardbranson-intends-to-colonize-mars-whetheryou-like-it-or-not/

Though commercial space initiatives have a whiff of sadness about them (RIP lots of NASA funding, RIP the space craze of the '50s), space geeks like your Betabeat reporters are excited by the prospect of making our way into outerspace however we can. And by the looks of it, every-day people like you and me could soon be headed off into the ether-provided we have the massive amounts of cash to front the trip.

One of commercial space's most vocal proponents is Virgin Airlines CEO Richard Branson, who has made it his personal mission to help fund the pipe dreams of space-crazed citizens everywhere. CBS reports that Mr. Branson's spaceship, Virgin Galactic, will soon offer $200,000 seats for a two hour trip to space, beginning as early as next year.

But that's not all. Mr. Branson is hell-bent on establishing a human colony on Mars within the next 20-30 years.

"In my lifetime, I'm determined to being a part of starting a population on Mars," he told CBS. "I think it is absolutely realistic. It will happen."

TEMPERATURES ON MARS IMPROVE CHANCES FOR HABIT ABILITY HABITABILITY http://www.latimes.com/news/science/ sciencenow/la-sci-sn-warm-temperatureson-mars-may-improve-chances-forhabitability-20120928,0,1785352.story

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Among the Mars rover Curiosity's many gadgets and gizmos is a weather station, and since landing it has been showing some surprising numbers:Temperatures that are as high as 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit). That's substantially warmer than expected.The temperatures on Mars' surface are dramatically

different during the day and during the night, when they drop to a frigid -70 degrees Celsius.

That's because Mars has a very thin atmosphere, so heat from the sun escapes after it sets.

The rover is currently located in the southern hemisphere of the planet, where it is springtime. That means summer is coming, and with it, potentially even warmer temperatures. "That we are seeing temperatures this warm already during the day is a surprise," said Felipe G贸mez of the Centro de Astrobiolog铆a in Madrid, which runs the rover's weather station, called the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station, or REMS, in a statement Friday. "If this warm trend carries on into summer, we might even be able to foresee temperatures in the 20s - and that would be really exciting from a habitability point of view. In the daytimes, we could see temperatures high enough for liquid water on a regular basis."

G贸mez says it is too early to know whether they are observing a real trend or just a "blip." But for now, the data are giving the Mars rover team reason to take a break from shooting lasers at rocks and crafting painstaking courses across the planet's surface to do something much more pedestrian: chitchat about the weather.

MARS ROVER FINDS ROCK WITH EARTHLIK E CHEMISTRY LIKE http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/ 12/us-space-marsidUSBRE89B02Q20121012

(Reuters) - When scientists selected a rock to test the Mars rover Curiosity's laser, they expected it to contain the same minerals as rocks found elsewhere on the Red Planet, but learned instead it was more similar to a rock found on Earth.The rock was chemically more akin to an unusual type of rock found on oceanic islands like Hawaii and St. Helena, as well as in continental rift zones like the Rio Grande, which extends from Colorado to Chihuahua, Mexico.

"It was a bit of a surprise, what we found with this rock," Curiosity scientist Ralf Gellert of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, told reporters on a conference call Thursday. "It's igneous," Gellert said, referring to rock formed from molten material. "But it seems to be a new kind of rock type that we encountered on Mars."

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NASA TO SEND ASTRONAUTS BEY OND BEYOND MOON http:// articles.orlandosentinel.com/ 2012-09-22/news/os-nasa-space-outpost20120922_1_moon-rocks-space-launchsystem-nasa-chief-charlie-bolden

Top NASA officials have picked a leading candidate for the agency's next major mission: construction of a new outpost that would send astronauts farther from Earth than at any time in history.

The so-called "gateway spacecraft" would hover in orbit on the far side of the moon, support a small astronaut crew and function as a staging area for future missions to the moon and Mars.

At 277,000 miles from Earth, the outpost would be far more remote than the current space station, which orbits a little more than 200 miles above Earth.

The distance raises complex questions of how to protect astronauts from the radiation of deep space - and rescue them if something goes wrong.

Documents obtained by the Orlando Sentinel show that NASA wants to build a small outpost - likely with parts left over from the $100 billion International Space Station - at what's known as the EarthMoon Lagrange Point 2, a spot about 38,000 miles from the moon and 277,000 miles from Earth. At that location, the combined gravities of the Earth and moon reach equilibrium, making it possible to "stick" an outpost there with minimal power required to keep it in place.

To get there, NASA would use the massive rocket and space capsule that it is developing as a successor to the retired space shuttle. A first flight of that rocket is planned for 2017, and construction of the outpost would begin two years later, according to NASA planning documents. Potential missions include the study of nearby asteroids or dispatching robotic trips to the moon that would gather moon rocks and bring them back to astronauts at the outpost. The outpost also would lay the groundwork for more-ambitious trips to Mars' moons and even Mars itself, about 140 million miles away on average.

From NASA's perspective, the outpost solves several problems. It gives purpose to the Orion space capsule and the Space Launch System rocket, which are being developed at a cost of about $3 billion annually. It involves NASA's international partners, as blueprints for the outpost suggest using a Russianbuilt module and components from Italy.

And the outpost would represent a

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baby step toward NASA's ultimate goal: human footprints on Mars.

But how the idea - and cost - play with President Barack Obama, Congress and the public remains a major question. The price tag is never mentioned in the NASA report. Spending is being slashed across the federal government in the name of deficit reduction; it's unlikely that NASA in coming years can get more than its current budget of $17.7 billion - if that. The planning documents indicate the outpost is possible only with "modest increases" to the current budget - and that presumes none of the cost overruns that have characterized recent NASA projects. Indeed, the first construction flight in 2019 is labeled "unfunded" in briefing charts, as is a robotic "sample return" moon mission in 2022.

One NASA supporter in Congress - U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge - said he liked the idea. But he said it would require strong White House backing to convince Congress to finance it. NASA funding "always has been very precarious," Posey said. "And money is going to get tighter."

The White House did not respond to a request for comment, and a NASA statement was noncommittal about the outpost. "There are many options - and many routes - being discussed on our way to the Red Planet," said spokesman David Weaver. "In addition to the moon and an asteroid, other options may be considered as we look for ways to buy down risk - and make it easier - to get to Mars.

A second major concern is astronaut safety. It will take days to get to the outpost - the farthest NASA has flown humans since the moon missions of 40 years ago making rescue and supply missions difficult. The planning documents are unclear on whether astronauts would be permanently stationed at the outpost or there part time.

Another concern is how NASA intends to address the dangers of deep space, especially radiation.The outpost would be more vulnerable to space radiation because it would be largely beyond the protective shield of Earth's magnetic field, said scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

unleashed quakes around the world nearly a week later.

"We've never seen an earthquake like this," Keith Koper, a geophysicist at the University of Utah in the US, said.

"Nobody was anticipating an earthquake of this size and type, and the complexity of the faulting surprised everybody I've spoken to about this," said Thorne Lay, a planetary sciences professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The quake occurred about 500km west of Sumatra, in the middle of the IndoAustralian plate. It was the biggest "strike-slip" earthquake ever recorded, meaning a fault that opens laterally rather than up or down, and was followed two hours later by an 8.2 quake.

Taking a scalpel to what happened that day, seismologists believe there was a near-simultaneous rupturing of at least four faults, stacked up and lying at right angles to one another. They ripped open one by one, all within 160 seconds.

Even more remarkable, though, was where the event took place. It occurred nowhere near a boundary between the plates that, like a jigsaw puzzle, comprise Earth's crust. Instead, it occurred in the heart of the Indo-Australian plate, tearing a gash up to 40m wide and confirming long-held suspicions the plate is fragmenting.

According to this theory, the process began roughly millions of years ago, and is caused by a pulling-apart of the plate: the western part is colliding with Asia, which stops its movement, while the eastern part is gliding beneath Sumatra. "It will take millions of years to form a new plate boundary and, most likely, it will take thousands of similar large quakes for that to happen," Dr Koper said.

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AN 8.7 earthquake that struck west of Indonesia on April 11 2012 was the biggest of its kind ever recorded and confirms suspicions that a giant tectonic plate is breaking up, scientists said yesterday. The quake, caused by an unprecedented quadruple-fault rupture, gave Earth's crustal mosaic such a shock that it

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$1 BILLION PLAN TO REACH EARTH'S MANTLE http://www.businessinsider.com/missionhopes-to-drill-into-earths-mantle-2012-10

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program will start drilling from the bottom of the ocean floor in three possible locations in the Pacific Ocean. At these sites, it is so deep that the crust is relatively thin and the drill only has to get through about four miles of hard rocks that make up the crust. On land the crust can be up to about 30 miles thick.

The drilling will be performed by a Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel, Chikyu (above), which set a world-record for the deepest hole - 6,926 feet below the seafloor - in September. To reach the mantle, the team will have to go about three times deeper.

If funding for this project is met, the drilling may start before the end of the decade and the mantle may be reached by the early 2020's, says CNN. TINFOIL HATS AMPLIFY MINDCONTROL BEAMS http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/tinfoilhats-actually-amplify.html

A group of MIT students decided to test the performance of different tinfoil beanies to see how various designs (the "classical," "fez" and "centurion")

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interacted with commonly used industrial radio applications.They found that all three designs actually amplified mind control radio waves, suggesting that the tinfoil hat meme might be a false-flag operation engineered to trick the suspicious into making it easier to beam messages into their skulls.

"Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminium helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigated the efficacy of three aluminium helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we found that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified.

These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason."

would form our moon, according to SETI researchers.

The young Earth, or proto-Earth, and the impactor that crash-tackled it were approximately equal in size, claims another new study also supporting the planetary impact theory. "This type of impact has not been advocated for the Earth-moon before," said Robin Canup, of the Southwest Research Institute in an interview with Space.com. "[However], a similar type of collision has been invoked for the origin of the PlutoCharon pair," she added, referring to Pluto's largest moon.

The SETI finding, that a fast-spinning earth likely threw off planetary chunks which formed the moon, plugs a hole in earlier theories of the moon's birth. It was previously thought that the moon must have been formed by portions of the impactor planet, a puzzling conundrum for scientists who knew how close the moon's composition was to Earth's.

Taken together, the discoveries take scientists one giant leap closer to uncovering the origins of our moon, a mystery 4.5 billion years old.

(Ed's note - readers who are fans of Zecheriah Sitchin will know that this is not a new theory, that this is in fact how the ancient Sumerians always said our moon was formed. As usual, science is taking its time to catch up‌)

MOON FORMED IN MASSIVE COLLISION WITH EARTH http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/news/ article/-/15164208/moon-formed-inmassive-collision-with-earth/

The moon was formed from a gigantic smash-up in which a huge planet collided with the Earth, according to two new studies. The terrific impact caused the Earth to spin so fast that a day lasted only two to three hours, allowing megatons of debris to spin off into space.This planetary wreckage then solidified into a disk that

NEW COMET HEADED OUR WA Y WAY http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ science/2012/09/a-newly-discoveredcomet-is-headed-our-way/

Last Friday, a pair of Russian astronomers, Artyom Novichonok and Vitaly Nevski, were poring over images taken by a telescope at the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) in Kislovodsk when they spotted something unusual. In the constellation of Cancer was a point of light, barely visible, that didn't correspond with any known star or other astronomical body.

Their discovery -- a new comet, officially named C/2012 S1 (ISON)-was made public on Monday, and has since made

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waves in the astronomical community and across the internet.

As of now, Comet ISON, as it's commonly being called, is roughly 625 million miles away from us and is 100,000 times fainter than the dimmest star that can be seen with the naked eye-it's only visible using professional-grade telescopes. But as it proceeds through its orbit and reaches its perihelion, its closest point to the sun (a distance of 800,000 miles) on November 28th, 2013, it could be bright enough to be visible in full daylight in the Northern Hemisphere, perhaps even as bright as a full moon.

WHY ARE FREEMASONS COLLECTING DNA? http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/amymacpherson/freemason_b_1906521.html

Conspiracy theorists need theorize no more. In pages from a fiction novel brought to life, the strangest twists in popular folklore have been winding through our government corridors.

Fabled as a secret society, Freemasons see themselves as an esoteric fraternity; an ancient brotherhood of initiates who are voted into membership for the purpose of sharing enlightenment through the use of exclusive teachings.

They are not a religious group and yet elevated status can be obtained through invitation to the various esteemed Rites and the legendary Knights Templar.That full proper title is The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St. John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta.

It is argued they find their roots in an historical Christian militia, which once upon a time nearly bankrupted the Vatican. Despite an effort to distance themselves from politics and religion in modern times, Scandinavian branches to this day will only permit entry of fellow Christian worshippers. Women remain forbidden although there's good news for slaves and the disabled -- who may have overcome discrimination after a thousand years of human rights

progression.

On the Grand Lodge of Canada website, they continue to affirm this illusive aura with statements like the following: "Freemasonry is a fraternal association of men of good and high ideals but it is not a public association. "Private" is a more appropriate description than "secret" and as with many organizations, certain information is reserved for members only."

So why then is an exclusive group collecting our children's DNA, with support of police and the government across the USA and Canada?

You know them as MasoniChip, or perhaps you've been led to believe it was a state and provincial endeavor intended to protect your little ones. They set up fairs, forge partnerships with law enforcement and even strive to distribute their services through North American public school systems.

In Massachusetts this Freemason program was promoted by CBS News from the steps of the official State House and included their police dog, coincidentally named Mason. Reporters only failed to mention the private nod to those promoting him or that government had little to do with it.

What is MasoniChip you ask? It begins on the surface as a child identification project, in case your loved ones are ever to be horrendously abducted. Parents are familiar with at-home kits to record their kids' vital information, for protection against the greatest of all fears to be inflicted on a family. Normally height, weight, hair and eye colour are recorded, along with a set of fingerprints and hopefully a current photograph. It's just the good folks at your local Masonic Lodge saw fit to take things further.

With advances in technology, they began to offer digital fingerprints, digital imaging, digital video, dental impressions and DNA mouth swabs. This data processing is managed by their proprietary software that's designed to be compatible with local and national law enforcement.This is after all, a campaign created by police in the brotherhood regardless of its private funding.

A great distinction is made to ensure

governments are nothing more than their supporters. Freemasons assert ownership of this project as an integral part of their mission statement. They claim their services are superior to what a parent could accomplish at home, by recording the children's data personally and providing their own "health care professionals" to collect their DNA samples.

These are either hired hands who answer to the Freemasons or members of the fraternity whose history and credentials are protected by the organization. There is no way to guarantee what happens behind closed doors and although they claim to delete sensitive information (the Canadian website states "No information is ever stored by the MasoniChIP program"), any computer savvy person knows that clicking an "x" isn't permanent unless you format the entire system.

Parents are asked to trust an intriguing, private fraternity; to ensure that quality standards are met and family privacy is legally respected without any kind of oversight. Because Freemasons fund 100 per cent of the initiative, there is no opportunity to discuss issues regarding data ownership or how they feel about those technicalities in the privacy of their meetings.

When it comes to the little people we'd do anything to protect them, but perhaps their families might give sober second thought to what exactly they're signing in a contract with Freemasons.

This DNA collection program is planned to be extended to the disabled community and seniors, but who benefits when it's inadmissible to a certified registry of any sort?

And why is the face of government through public schools or police through public events, being placed on an effort from private organizations to mislead parents? Sharing one's fingerprints and biometrics is a serious decision. For public safety we must insist that brokers of such events become transparent and regulated.

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