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Would the scientists of the world please unite?

Or agree…

Or... something!

For the last twelve months we’ve been bombarded by news stories about the huge number of planets found by astronomers using the latest round of super-cyber-wonder-telescopes. Even more exciting, these astronomers all seemed to believe that a significant number of those planets could harbour life.

Now, being inherently sceptical, I’m the first one to wonder how astronomers could be so sure these newly-discovered planets have life on them, in the same way that I am sceptical whenever astronomers say that planets can’t have life on them. They can’t know – they’re not there! They’ve never been there! They’re never going to go there! They’re sitting in their comfy office chairs, perched over simulators that they designed using theories that somebody else speculated about, and are making assumptions based on light spectrographs and radio waves and thinly disguised personal agendas. In fact, I would hazard the opinion that astronomical news should not be carried by general news services at all, because it is simply too confusing, what with all those crazy scientists banging elbows amongst themselves.

Case in point – life on other planets.

As mentioned, for the last year we’ve been showered with news reports about the exciting probabilities of life on other planets. Not possibilities – probabilities. (A ‘probability’ is much better than a ‘possibility’, don’t you know…)

All well and good, and very useful for the UFO researcher, who can now point to ‘legitimate science’ to back up his numerous hypotheses.

But the science is only valid as long as it has supporters – meaning those that ascribe to the currently reigning theory.

And ‘support’ in science is dictated by who has the most prestige, and, more importantly, who has the most money.

In December, a Harvard (Harvard = prestige and money) astrophysicist unexpectedly announced that life is impossible (not merely ‘improbable’, but ‘imPOSSible’!) on all those new planets discovered in 2010.

He went so far as to list why our hopes of extraterrestrial contact are now completely unthinkable – see news item on page 18 – and stated that if there’s any other life in the universe, it will only be found in the neighbourhood of Earth, a speculation so shockingly near-sighted it will set the field of astrobiology back 50 years to the veritable dark ages. Can we call this science, when it’s simply one speculative fiction juggling for supremacy over another?

I think it’s time we started taking everything astronomers say with a grain of salt.

A bag of salt.

A goddamn mountain of salt!

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Meadowbrook, November 12 2010, 6.45pm

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My sister, her friend and I were walking to the shops in Meadowbrook to get some cat food. It was dark, maybe around 6:45-7.00pm. Anyway I was looking up and as I moved my head downward towards the path I saw what I thought was a star because it was stationary, then WOOOOSH It moved so fast and then faded. I've been thinking it could have been a comet, but it was still and the angle it moved at... well it couldn't have been.

Glen Aplin, November 14 2010, 2.15am A lady living just north of Glen Aplin, beside the river Severn, woke up at 2.15am feeling unpleasant. She got up and went to the window and saw a 'very large' bright white light going east to west. She watched it for one and a half minutes when it suddenly vanished.

Then she started to feel better. The following day she was chatting to an oldish man who lived nearby. He told her that there were "lots of funny lights at the Glen Lyon Dam, especially in June and July, when you will see them." The Glen Lyon Dam is several kilometres south of the Sundown National Park, and many local sightings seem to go from north to south, vanishing beyond the Sundown National park.

Dayboro, August 15 2010, 1.00am I was with my mate at a party out in near Dayboro when the cold forced us to retreat back to where my car was parked on top a hill. I looked up and noticed a gold orb. Round, circular, gold light, fuzz -- are the only words describing it. It was flying -- hovering most the time, drifting -- like it just let a little wind push it gently, back and forth, randomly at the most. My mate and I tried coming to terms with it -- we hadn't had anything to drink.

The orb was closer to Narangba, then it would get closer to the hill we were on,

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but only about 500 metres away. Then what blew it all into proportion was another witness -- another fellow partygoer asked us politely, but also like something had shaken him up. Cutting straight to the point I asked him "You didn't happen to see something (I pointed to where the orb was) gold orb-ish before did you?" His face looked stunned and he said "Yeah I think I know what you're talking about.'

It wasn't soon after that he left, very nervously. After he left my mate said 'You really shook that guy up, and you were right and by the looks of it he saw it too and didn't know if it was real either!"

One other time I saw a UFO was in Brighton, in the late afternoon. I can't remember the day but it was 2004. was sitting on my couch at the back of my place, on the phone to my dad and was just looking up and checking the sky when I noticed three stars in a perfect triangle. I say stars because that's what they looked like from my distance. Then they started spinning in a clockwise direction. The UFOs were at ten o'clock facing east, and it travelled in an arc to 12 o'clock, stayed there for a little bit, all while still spinning, and then not there anymore.

Highgate Hill, November 27 2010, 8.55pm At around 8.55pm this evening looking south from Highgate Hill towards the CBD, we saw a bright orange flashing light in the sky. It was a large object, possibly two objects, and moving slowly east to west three times before it moved higher in the sky. The lights went off and then it continued to rise up into the sky until it was out of sight.

Redbank Plains, November 26 2010, 10.46pm I wish to report a sighting of a UFO near my home in Redbank Plains, Queensland.

I, along with three other witnesses (Mother, Wife and Brother), spotted a UFO at approximately 20:45 on the 26th Day of November 2010. It was round in

shape and full of fumes. It was travelling in a controlled motion and following a circular path. We observed it for few minutes before the fumes vanished and it turned into a single light that went vertically up in the air with a loud noise, and it kept going up and up before it disappeared.

Paddington, November 27 2010, 11.30pm At approximately 11.30pm on Saturday evening I observed a very bright orange ball of light to the left of Mt Coot-tha as seen from Paddington. The ball appeared for approximately 3-5 minutes.

It appeared to the left of Mt Coot-tha, did a few zigzag movements while maintaining its height approximately level with the Mt Coot-tha cafe area. The orange ball was silent, with no vapour trail and was slightly smaller in size than a full moon. The nearest I can approximate it visually and in intensity is as per an after burner of an F111 jet.

The object then disappeared at a 45 degree angle toward Mt Coot-tha and upwards into cloud cover. I did manage to capture about 4 seconds of it on my iphone video. I have also witnessed an orange fire ball from Coochiemudlo Island in August of this year. Between the north of the Island and the coast. At that time the object appeared over the water in a vertical descent at a 45 degree angle from the sky. Due to tree cover I did not see any other detail.

Arncliffe, December 2010 I am trying to find out if anyone can shed some light on the attached photo [image right] I have taken. Is it of any interest or something normal. When looking at the original it seems there is a large mass trailing the large light.

Oxenford, December 21 2010, 6.35pm On the Tuesday the 21st December 2010, Photograph an object seen near my wife and I of were returning from our localMossgiel, shops in Western Oxenford NSW, QLD. in The2006 time was 6.35pm, and it was a clear night with

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no clouds. The moon was very low and at first appeared to light up what my wife thought was the star pattern of the plough, to which I thought was very strange.

We drove onto our estate, and even passed a number of people looking up at this event. I got home and stood on our driveway, and we could see seven orange objects, spread the same distance apart and moving slowly, east to west and varying in height. I had a look with my binoculars, and could only make out a bright orange light, with a slight haze behind it. No sound was given off from these objects, and no aviation type light was seen.

Air traffic in this area is very common, with the inbound flight path to Brisbane directly over us, and also a track to the east. Last night no plane came in on the usual west track, but one plane was see on the west track as the last of the objects had passed.

Caboolture, December 31 2009 My son and I were at a friend’s place just over the road on New Years Eve 2009. My son and I ducked home to get something, and as we left to go back, I noticed a light in the sky. I could tell it wasn't a plane. My son and I then noticed another the same, and one more. They were orange/red in colour and they seemed to be following each other, but in a staggered formation, and they moved at a slow pace. When we got back to my friend's house they were all standing around in the back yard as before. I told them what we had seen and to my excitement they had seen them as well, only they saw about fifteen. They even took photos [below right]. They were all dumbfounded, I think they may have been sceptical before this, but I have always had an open mind about such things. Of course there's more than just us.

Chermside, 2004 I was 20 years old and my brother was 19. We were staying at our Grandmothers house in Chermside, Brisbane (in the middle of suburbia).

It was at about 11.00pm that we decided to go to bed so that we could get up early the next day. We were sharing a small room that had a bed on either side. There was a small window above the bedhead

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of my brother's bed, and a large window next to mine.

We were talking for a while when we heard what sounded like the next door neighbour taking out the wheely bins.

It wasn't that unusual for our neighbour to take out the bins at odd times, but the sound persisted for a few minutes.

We were both kidding by this stage about how dumb our neighbour was, that maybe he was getting lost between the house and the street curb. It then began to sound as though the bins were being dragged all around the house and over rough concrete. By this time my brother and I we're trying to figure out what it could be. It obviously wasn't the neighbour as it was becoming louder and louder and seemed as though the sound was coming in different windows.

We were both surprisingly calm about it all, joking that weird stuff always happened in my Grandmothers house.

The sound maybe lasted three minutes or so.

Then really loud banging sounds came from the roof. It sounded as though something was running along it. We thought it might have been possums, but it sounded as though something huge was running around on it.

Then a really bright light shone in the window next to me, as if it was daylight outside. I sat up and could clearly see the neighbour's house bathed in light, but I couldn't make out where the light was coming from. I think I said something along the lines of "what is that?" It then went away and shone in the kitchen window on the opposite side of the house. From where I was laying I had a clear view of the kitchen down the hall. It lasted only a second or so before it stopped and then shone in the window right above my brother's head.

My brother sat up and turned around to look out the window and said "COME HERE QUICK!" I jumped out of bed and ran over to look out the window, … the very first thing I saw, or at least what I thought I saw, was my sister in her red leather jacket standing with her back to me about 10

Light formation photographed over Caboolture, 2009

meters away. I said "is that L….?" Then I blinked and all I could see were two large balls of light. I had about a dozen thoughts run through my head, like - maybe it's the headlights of a car, but I soon realised that I couldn't see the clothes line. The two balls of light were huge and must have been between the house and the clothes line, and they were both floating only a foot or so above the grass as I could see right underneath them.

Going over this in my mind now, I should have been absolutely petrified, as ever since I was a kid I have always had a massive fear of UFOs. But I was absolutely calm and felt relaxed, My brother was as well. We just stared in awe. Then I said, (for reasons I don't understand) "Oh its ok, lets just go back to bed." But my brother said "No I think we should go outside." I just said "Ok." We both tried looking out the kitchen windows to see if we could see the balls of light, but we couldn't see anything, except that it was brighter than usual outside. Now my memory becomes foggy at this point. I remember discussing with my brother if we should open the door, and starting to feel little scared. My brother then opened the first door and went into the laundry where the last door to the backyard is. This is where my memory ends.

The following day my brother and I didn't even discuss it until that evening, when I said "Hey do you remember what happened last night?" He responded 'Yes' and we tried to piece together what had happened. It was odd because we both had a feeling that we shouldn't really talk about it and just accept that it occurred.

The only difference we had of the account was that my brother remembered a few seconds more than me. I only remember opening the first door and seeing my brother standing ready to open the second door. My brother remembers opening the second door and stepping outside. The next thing we both remember is waking up in our beds.

Ever since this happened I've wanted to talk with my brother more about it, but I'm also terrified that I might remember something I don't want to. We've discussed getting hypnotized to try and piece the rest of the night together. I would love to know out of curiosity, but then I think if we've both forgotten the rest then maybe we are not supposed to know, or at least our minds have forgotten it for a reason.

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FIRE in the SKY 35 years later... an interview with TRAVIS WALTON Perhaps one of the most well known and most investigated alien abduction cases in history is the Travis Walton case. Documented missing time, multiple witnesses, and a worldwide media explosion which eventually led to a major motion picture, "Fire In The Sky." Travis has written his own account in his bestselling book, with the same name, and he now has a new version out with additional illustrations and 25 pages of new material which can be purchased on his website: www.travis-walton.com.

Bret Oldham: Travis, your case is one of the most well known alien abduction cases in history. How do you feel about all the attention you've gotten from it?

Travis Walton: You have to learn how to deal with it. I very quickly learned a little bit of media wisdom, that if you decline to be involved then it just puts a negative spin on what they were going to do anyway. You can't stop them from doing it. I never sought out an interview in my life. They all came to me. Turning them down, although I've done a lot of that, sometimes just makes it worse.

Bret Oldham: So it must have been overwhelming then. I mean, you were still recovering from what happened to you. Did it happen suddenly, getting all of this attention?

Trav is Walton: Oh yeah, of course! It was worldwide news by the time I was returned.

Bret Oldham: When you got back and you realized what had happened to you, did your family believe you?

Travis Walton: Yeah, everybody that knew me, all close friends and relatives, didn't have any problem with it. It's people who really didn't know me who just heard a few rumours that thought they were experts on things they knew nothing about.

Travis Walton: Yes. Bret Oldham: When you guys first saw the lights from the craft and came upon it, what prompted you to get out of the truck and approach the craft?

Travis Walton: I thought it would be gone before I got very close to it. I thought it would take off.

Bret Oldham: So, you were just trying to get a closer look at it?

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Travis Walton: Yeah, but I have to admit I was showing off a little bit for the rest of the crew. What I was doing was very alarming to them.

They started screaming at me to get back in the truck. I was starting to become somewhat apprehensive myself the closer I got. So I started to slow down and I was really thinking I may have gotten myself into a bad situation.

Bret Oldham: So at that point you had a real good view at what you were looking at?

Travis Walton: Yeah, you know anybody who can think that at that close of a range that you could mistake something like the planet Jupiter or a helicopter or something. It's impossible as it was less than 100 feet away. It was unmistakable.

Bret Oldham: As you got closer to it and realized exactly what you were looking at, you had to have gotten quite an adrenaline rush. Did the fear set in at that point?

Bret Oldham: So you had a lot of support from your family at this time?

Travis Walton: I was already getting some real fear.

When it started to move and the sound got louder, I jumped for cover. The closest thing was a log, which was in front of me. I jumped down into a crouch, kind of forward in the direction of the craft. It wasn't until I straightened

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up that my upper body at that point was closest to the craft and that's when it hit me.

Bret Oldham: What do you most distinctly remember about being on board the craft?

Travis Walton: The eyes of those creatures.

Bret Oldham: I know we've talked before about it and I know you've described to others that their eyes were similar to the Greys but they blinked.

'do you think humans are the only life in the universe?' I don't think very many people would have said, "Oh yeah." There's billions and billions and billions of suns just like our star, our sun, and they're all in our night sky just to twinkle at us at night.

Bret Oldham: So you pretty much believed that there were alien life forms in just doing the math if nothing else?

Bret Oldham: So you don't think that is the alien species who had taken you?

Bret Oldham: Most, but not all abductees report being taken numerous times. Do you feel that you have had any other incidents since your abduction? Or even before then?

Travis Walton: I wouldn't tell anybody if I did. I have enough trouble with what happened.

Bret Oldham: Yeah, I understand.

What were your beliefs about UFOs and alien life forms before this happened to you?

Travis Walton: I didn't think it was all that unusual. I was aware of this phenomenon. A person would have to be pretty stupid, and I mean really ignorant, to think that the people of earth are the sole life in the universe.

It just boggles the mind!

Bret Oldham: Pretty egotistical isn't it?

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Travis Walton: Oh yeah. I still do. I used to wake up from it and I would remember that that was what I was dreaming about. They're less common now. People say they will hear me in my sleep like I'm fighting with something.

Bret Oldham: I'm sure after all this time you've learned better how to handle it. This happened to you 35 years ago. I remember you commenting when we met that it was the 35th anniversary of the event. You've had a lot of time to think about it and research the phenomenon. In your opinion, what do you think is going on with it all, especially with the abduction phenomenon?

Travis Walton: Yeah, I don't use the term "Greys."

Travis Walton: Well, from what I gather from hearing little bits of lots of UFO reports is people tend to describe beings into a few narrow categories but I think they're forcing things to fit. I think there are probably as many different kinds of aliens as there are life supporting planets out there. Some of them would look similar and that they would get lumped together isn't surprising, but too often when there is a slight difference in the description with people coming forward that people assume they saw the same thing but didn't quite record the details correctly, but I think that there really are that many differences.

was just a constant challenge and always has been.

Travis Walton: (Laughs) That's a very sweeping question. There are lots of things. I could comment about the current situation but you know it does seem that there's a growing interest and a growing awareness and a growing suggestion that maybe an open general understanding might be on its way.

Travis Walton: Yeah, but it wasn't anything that I was overly preoccupied with although people would love to say that it was, especially the skeptics, the debunkers. They imply that if you even thought of it at all in the past that that must mean you made it all up or something.

Bret Oldham: As far as the public accepting what's going on?

Bret Oldham: Right, I've heard that many times. Have you had any physical effects from the experience that you've noticed over the years or even at that time?

Trav is Walton: I'm sure there's several. I don't think that it's malevolent although I don't know for sure. You never know for sure. I think the trauma I went through has a lot to do with just the way it happened and would not really be anything to judge their intentions by.

Travis Walton: I did have some signs of lack of sleep and stress, right after it happened for quite some time.

Other than that no kind of marks or anything, and the medical tests all checked out. I've been pretty darn healthy ever since.

Bret Oldham: A lot of abductees suffer from post traumatic stress. Did it affect you psychologically or emotionally at all?

Travis Walton: I don't think it was anything debilitating or anything like that. It was just memories and an ongoing situation that I just had to deal with. The incident itself was traumatic but the reaction of people

Travis Walton: Yeah.

Bret Oldham: Yeah, I think so too.

What do you believe is the alien agenda? Although there could be several different agenda's involved.

Bret Oldham: So you feel like, in your case, it was basically just observing and learning about us?

Travis Walton: I don't know. You know in my case I like to think, and it's a personal bias I guess, but that it happened because I got too close and apparently did something unexpected and then you have to clean up the mess and fix it.

Bret Oldham: I know it's been reported by other abductees that they have witnessed on the craft either human or human-like beings

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interacting with the alien abductors.

Do you believe that these beings might be humans from our government and that there is government involvement with some of the species or they might just be hybrids?

Travis Walton: Well they certainly know a lot more than they are letting on but what their involvement is now definitely suggests that there is some sort of earth based agency involved. There is some connection.

Bret Oldham: Yes, I think most of the research would indicate that. I've always thought that some of the people who are reporting seeing humans might not have been taken aboard an actual space craft. They might have been taken to some sort of government facility in conjunction to what's going on with the aliens.

usable in court in the state of New Mexico I looked there and the examiners I talked to recommended this one firm that does testing for the New Mexico State prisons and the Albuquerque police department and even the U.S. Marshall Service. The test, because they're used in court are very highly regulated there so they are of the highest standards.

This firm used really modern computer assisted equipment. They had a five trace machine. Normally there's only three or four things that are being measured, physiological responses, but this one measured

Travis Walton: Yeah, and you know what I say about what I believe the government knows is this. It's really a small organization within the government. Obviously there's a majority of people in our government that don't know anything about it. It's just a certain few that have their secrets.

Bret Oldham: You recently told me that you've now taken six lie detector exams. Could you elaborate on that and explain why you've agreed to take so many of them?

Travis Walton: The first one I took as passed they questioned the methodology because that method yields as high as 80% false positive. Which means it has a tendency to say people are lying when they're not. But if you pass it's pretty solid because the error factor is in the direction of judging truth tellers. So I underwent more testing kind of to challenge a skeptical investigator who criticized the former testing. So I took two more tests from the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the former examiner who had tested the crew earlier and those two tests I passed at the highest level. Then, because I got involved with a dumb TV show that used fake polygraph (laughs) I decided that I would go from there.

It never aired in the United States but I decided I would go and find the most rigorous testing that I possibly could. So since the results were

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electromagnetic readings at the site or the phenomenal growth of the trees nearest where the craft came down? That question was asked and I passed that. It was just a way to update; I mean I spent 15 years proving myself.

Bret Oldham: To disprove the skeptics. Do you still get a lot of skeptics, even to this day?

Trav is Walton: To this day, the skeptics are really a propaganda program. For instance, there are two skeptics, Robert Schaeffer and Anson Kennedy; they both have the same article that they put up about me that this tabloid writer put out that I discredited years ago, way back in 1996. I showed that this tabloid writer had written two different versions of this article in which he starkly contradicted himself. But when I go to these skeptic's websites and try to comment or point this out they won't post it. So, in other words, they're interested in lying to the public and deceiving the public about how reliable this is. You know, the guy claiming something about the psychiatrist doing such and such when they weren't even there yet. They hadn't flown in.

Bret Oldham: So they just manipulated their own truth about it?

five and it was all being monitored by the computer and scored by the computer at the same time the examiner scored. I passed at the highest level on both tests with both the computer and the examiner. I took two separate tests from him.

Also it was an opportunity to cover some other questions. The polygraph examiners always want to go after the central question that really covers all the other questions and they don't feel that going into any detail is necessary. In this examiner’s view, did this event actually happen just covers everything or was I under the influence of drugs and so on. The one question that I wanted more specifically covered was, did I have any knowledge of anyone causing the radiation readings at the site or the

Travis Walton: Yeah, just making up a bunch of stuff. In one case, we were referred to (my brother) as total abstainer and in the other article as a staggering drunk.

That's not a mistake. That's a lie pure and simple. The guy has no credibility but they put it out there because he's basically mocking the whole thing, for a few shekels.

Normally skeptics place no faith in tabloid writers. A tabloid reporter is the bottom of the barrel. This guy decided to write an article claiming a bunch of negative stuff about me after he had written a positive article and did a flip flop. It's hypocritical.

Whatever I can find negative against it, we'll report that, and there's anything positive we'll hush that up.

Bret Oldham: I just find it amazing that after all this time and how you've been diligent in your efforts to prove your truthfulness about everything that happened to you, which you've done a very good job at, that there are still people out there doing the

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kinds of things you're talking about.

Travis Walton: People very often try to attach themselves in some significant way to people near the center of this to seem important. It's not always negative. I heard about this guy who was a staunch supporter of mine but he was claiming that he had attended the homecoming party that was thrown for me when I was returned. The problem is, that party never happened. That was just something they made up for the movie. There are lots of examples where somebody's supportive. There's one guy around here claiming that when I was returned that my first phone call was to him and since he wasn't home then I called my family.

Bret Oldham: So someone else who is just trying to draw attention to themselves.

Travis Walton: The operator who took the emergency call listened in on it and reported it to the sheriff. There was no other call made by me from that phone booth that night.

Bret Oldham: So that's how the word got out so quickly that you had returned.

Travis Walton: I don't even know how the word got out that I was returned.

I guess the sheriff must have announced it.

Anyway, there was some guy here on the Internet forums just recently who was claiming that he was the county sheriff's nephew and he had said he had the inside story on how it was all a drug hallucination. It was so stupid because every detail that he gave showed that he was making it up. For one thing, he was saying that his uncle was Sanford Slegg and was claiming that he was the county sheriff. Well the county sheriff was not Sanford Slegg. The county sheriff was Marvin Gilespie. The town marshall had no real role in the investigation. It was the county sheriff's investigation. All the details that he made up said that the crew came into town and they met at the Red Robin diner and talked to the patrons there and told them how they were chased by a UFO. The problem is that there was no Red Robin diner in Heber in 1975. The first Red Robin diner never opened until 1993 and that was in Pennsylvania.

The crew met with the sheriff and his men at a service station that was closed for the night. There was no

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diner. So all the supposed conversations that happened between the crew and the diners never happened. He just had a whole scenario that was just totally off the wall. But interestingly enough, most of the forums where this guy came on, everybody just jumped on him.

People were well versed enough in the facts to know that he was way off in a ridiculous way.

Bret Oldham: So that caused him to back down. He knew people were just too well informed about the case.

Travis Walton: Yeah, it did. He was claiming that he went to school with my son and his cousin and yet none of them could figure out who he was.

They even got out the yearbooks and tried to figure out who he was and couldn't.

Bret Oldham: (laughs) Wow! One of the things we talked about before and maybe you could reiterate about it. I asked you if you had been regressed and what happened during the regression?

Travis Walton: Well, I underwent hypnosis because it was so traumatic that I wasn't able to recount everything that had happened. It was just so hard that I would break down before I could get through it.

So what the hypnotist did was allow me to separate the memories from the fear reaction. So I was able to repeat what happened without as much of the fear. I was able to actually, for the first time, get though it all. But when he tried to go deeper about other memories there was quite a block there that he thought it would be fatal to continue. So the hypnosis was discontinued and I've never tried to get past those blocked memories again.

Bret Oldham: So you just thought it was better to just let sleeping dogs lie, as they say?

Travis Walton: If they're blocked it must be for a reason.

Bret Oldham: Well Travis, you have tremendous respect within the UFO community and for the most part the general public. Your honesty and courage to openly discuss your experience is greatly admired. I know it hasn't been easy on you.

Travis Walton: It's been tough but you know, off and on over the past

35 years, at various times, I've decided to quit talking about it for awhile, but I'm beginning to realize that along with this comes a really great responsibility, along with the burden of having had this ruin my life.

Bret Oldham: What is it you would like people to learn about you that they might not already know?

Travis Walton: I would like, that if they have any questions about stuff they hear on the Internet and gossip and all that kind of stuff, just check it out first. Unfortunately, I'm in an awkward situation in that the only information that could prove this stuff false or true is in my book and so, of course, it sounds like I'm trying to sell a book. So I tell skeptics, don't buy my book. Just go to the library and borrow it. Before you attack what I'm saying find out what I'm saying.

Bret Oldham: Yeah, take the time and learn the truth.

Travis Walton: Yeah, yeah.

Bret Oldham: I know now people are really starting to accept the alien abduction phenomenon more and starting to realize what is going on out there. I just really admire what you've had to go through. I think you've helped a lot of people that have experienced this type of thing and helped bring an awareness to the public that was really needed.

Travis Walton: That's what I hope.

I'll continue with it. I hope to do some good somehow.

About the Interviewer: Bret Oldham is a paranormal researcher with Halo Paranormal Investigations based in Nashville, TN. Their research encompasses a wide range of subjects, including UFOs, ghosts, and cryptozoology, with special emphasis on alien abductions, the EVP phenomenon, and ITC communication. Bret is also the author of an audio book - 'Ghost Stories Of Las Vegas' - which is available on his website. Halo Paranormal is on Facebook and at: w w w. m y s p a c e . c o m / haloparanormal.

Bret can be reached at haloparanormal1@hotmail.com.

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REVIEW

UFO MATRIX MAGAZINE Editor: Philip Mantle; Assistant Editor: Malcolm Robinson; Publishing Director: Amanda Owen 11th Dimension Publishing, U.K. http://www.healingsofatlantis.com/

REVIEW BY DAVID P KUHLMAN, FFSC, UFORNA.NET There are simply a very small number of UFO-related publications available out there to the general public, sadly most of which are riddled from cover to cover with misinformation, new age ads and utter trash talk, leaving the subject at hand, the UFO, something to be looked on as a subject only for an ignorant laugh. They make light the seriousness and importance which the UFO phenomenon holds to many believers and researchers all over the world. I want to be one of the ones to tell you, times have changed!

Enter,"UFO Matrix" Magazine‌.

Now, I am really not sure how long "Matrix" was an unexpressed idea, nor am I aware of the trial and error periods after the idea went to ink and paper, but no matter what obstacles faced its pioneers during its infancy, it all was obviously well and meticulously planned, rehearsed, thoughtout, corrected, and set into motion. The proof of such hard and intellectual work can be seen for yourself in each and every copy of "Matrix" that hits the newsstand. You see, not only does a publication of such caliber have to have the right people in place, with each of them experts in their individual fields to relay this knowledge into printed form, but the document as a whole must play a vital part as well. It must 'flow' with information, legit information so that it becomes a respected tool for all who choose to thumb its pages. The completed work is far from done even after all the field work has been gathered, it has to be read, edited, and structured in the order it will fit to each topic covered. Having spent

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ten years in the commercial printing business in the past, I am well aware of the huge tasks that are involved in a superior publication such as we have

with "UFO Matrix" Magazine. The organization of each and every part of this undertaking is of the highest standard and it shows.

The magazine itself is a site to behold.

Colorful and eye catching art with well-margined and bold text on a heavy matte stock paper cover accompany each issue. The magazine is trimmed out in a very readable and large format, making it a pleasure to explore. Not a flimsy or dainty piece, I assure you. It is evident that the magazine’s appearance was crafted with much thought and quality as the

information within its pages, a prelude to the reader without a single doubt.

The organization of such a quality and informative publication regarding the UFO phenomenon has been long overdue. The team behind "UFO Matrix" simply couldn't be improved upon.

A strong foundation with years of fieldwork has been constructed, the kind of foundation that is not simply chosen by drawing random straws. It has been meticulously built from the ground up, with no stone unturned. Why? To securely keep this publication strong and trusted in content through the years to come. Yes, "UFO Matrix" Magazine will stand the test of time and will also gain a reputation of something other publications have a hard time in providing: unbiased research and news regarding the UFO. I commend the work done by 11th Dimension Publishing from the United Kingdom. You have brought together not one of, but the best printed publications available regarding a phenomenon that has dumbfounded humans for centuries. We the people needed this for years. Leaving out all the trash that continues to litter other publications is a breath of fresh air in itself. I can't imagine anyone trusting any other publication regarding informative and up to date information on the UFO genre except "UFO Matrix" Magazine.

This is surely a monumental advancement in itself, where precise and informative journalism is concerned. I look forward to future research accompanied by this superior publication. No other can hold a candle to its creation. A job well done!

UFO MATRIX is also available in Australia at all good news agencies and through Borders nationally.

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alien healing lee paqui

A little-known aspect of the ETcontact phenomenon is that of EThealing.

It's easy, whilst watching the latest science-fiction movie, to imagine that any kind of interaction with an extraterrestrial is going to be dangerous to our own well-being.

This is because movies, and the media in general, focuses only on the lurid aspects of UFO contact. Aliens are always going to be fanged and dangerous -- and even when an alien is portrayed as kindly and benevolent, there's always a catch.

ET is only here to exploit us‌ or to eat us!

But it turns out this is not quite true.

Yes, a lot of alien abductions involve pain and terror -- terror being a natural reaction to what is, for us, an extremely unnatural and unexpected situation. And when extraterrestrials take samples of our skin, look into our eyes and poke their fingers into our mouths, it seems as though planet Earth might be some kind of intergalactic rat farm -- and we are the unsuspecting lab rats.

find afterwards that their aches and pains have vanished, their eyesight has improved, and in some cases cuts, wounds and infections have completely disappeared. Similarly, the light that often is seen emitting from a UFO can have unexpected regenerative capabilities, as in the case of an Argentinean man who was hit by a beam of light from a UFO. He suffered all the effects of radiation poisoning after this encounter -- his hair fell out, boils formed on his neck, and he was besieged by headaches and nausea. But two months later this gentleman grew a third set of teeth -- and he was seventy-three years old!

This is not the only report of teeth being regenerated in a UFO contact case. And while human teeth seem to be of interest to UFO occupants, it is fair to say that eyes are of more interest to our otherworldly visitors.

A number of abductees report that ET often performs inspections or medical procedures on their eyes, and sometimes the side-effects of

Occasionally, however, ET visitations are beneficial for the humans involved. In a small percentage of alien abductions (between five and ten percent), humans come away miraculously healed. The maladies cured run the gamut of disorders, from serious diseases like cancer to the most trivial of ailments, and the way people are healed is equally diverse. Sometimes it involves a beam of light, sometimes medicines are administered. Sometimes complicated medical procedures are involved.

But however it is done, it seems that there is no disease ET cannot heal, as the following examples help to illustrate.

There are times when the cure is as simple as being in close proximity to a UFO. There have been numerous accounts of people who have had a close encounter with a UFO, only to

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replaced in its socket. Before this procedure the man was colour-blind, but afterwards -- and as verified by his ophthalmologist -- his colour vision had returned.

There are times, though, when not only is the disease more complex, but so is the cure. Another welldocumented case involves a young boy who was suffering from angioma of the brain. This congenital disease was so severe that he was not expected to live much beyond three years of age, yet, around that time his condition suddenly began to improve, eventually disappearing altogether. It wasn't until he was a young man and underwent hypnosis that he was able to tell about being taken aboard a UFO as a child and being operated on with a beam of light so thin it looked like a needle.

This beam of light cut through the boy's skull so that his extraterrestrial surgeons could shine another beam of light onto his exposed brain and reduce the swollen blood vessels that were threatening to kill him. Yet another beam of light then healed the incisions in his skull so that no trace of the surgery remained.

Another type of surgery was performed on a young woman suffering from an enlarged heart. Taken aboard a UFO, she found herself lying on an operating table with alien surgeons cutting a square hole in her chest into which a black mechanism was lowered. This poor woman could feel everything being done to her, yet shortly the pain faded and her heart was miraculously healed.

these procedures are improved vision. A well-documented case involves a man who, while aboard a UFO, had one of his eyeballs removed for a short time before it was

A far more complex scenario occurred one night in Brazil, when the young daughter of a Brazilian minister lay dying of stomach cancer. As the pain from her condition increased she was surrounded by her family, who were keeping a bedside vigil as they expected the end to come at any moment. Suddenly a strong light shone into the room and

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a UFO could be seen hovering outside the bedroom window. While the family watched, a door opened in the side of the object and two white-suited beings emerged and floated into the room and up to the sick girl. They shone a blue light onto her stomach that acted as an x-ray, and, as the assembled family watched, operated on the girl with a 'flashlight' for about thirty minutes.

Later, a metal sphere containing white pills was given to the girl's father and the mysterious ETs returned to their hovering craft.

Needless to say, the girl was completely healed of her condition.

The above cases are quite typical of UFO healings performed by those extraterrestrials known as the 'Greys.' These are the ETs that are responsible for 'alien abductions', where unsuspecting people are taken aboard UFOs, examined, and later released again. But another kind of ET contact scenario is that of the 'Contactee,' where people are in regular and mutually beneficial contact with a type of alien that is more human-like, some of these aliens being completely indistinguishable from the rest of us.

Swiss Contactee Billy Meier spoke of his regular contacts with humanlooking ETs from the Pleiades starsystem, in particular a female ET called Semjase. One time, when Meier had sustained some broken ribs in a moped accident, Semjase regenerated his broken bones using a small instrument that she pressed to the break. Several years before his contact experiences, Meier had lost an arm in a bus accident, and Semjase once offered to regenerate the missing arm. On that occasion Meier didn't take Semjase up on her offer, as explaining a miraculously regrown arm to the world might have

been a bit difficult for him to get away with.

Another well-known Contactee, Howard Menger, was blinded during World War Two on the island of Okinawa. One day, whilst lying in an army hospital tent, a woman came to visit him. Although he didn't know her, she appeared to know him, and assured him his eyesight would return. Eventually his eyesight did return and he was able to see a beautiful brown-haired woman with very white teeth. Before this woman left she told Menger he would meet somebody 'interesting' soon, and a few weeks later Menger met a human-looking extraterrestrial in the Okinawan jungle.

Back in Brazil, a man named Vicente suffered a severe cerebral aneurysm that proved to be inoperable. The doorman of the hospital where Vicente was staying was well-known Contactee Joao Valeno, and doctors asked Valeno if he could ask his ET friends for medicine for Vicente.

Valeno agreed, and was given some medicine by his alien contacts to give to Vicente -- medicine that was to be rubbed into the soles of Vicente's feet to draw out the residue in Vicente's brain. Later, the ETs gave Valeno another substance to be rubbed into Vicente's spine. Both substances were crystallised, like raw sugar, but when rubbed between the hands the material melted or evaporated away. Of course Vicente effected a miraculous recovery, and his doctors remain baffled to this day.

As mentioned earlier, ET healings occur in only 5-10% of contact cases, which means that for every person healed by their contact with an extraterrestrial, there are nine others who aren't -- and who in some cases are crying out for a cure. So why won't

our alien visitors help all the people they come into contact with - after all, it's very rare in this age of toxins and petrochemicals for a person to be completely and utterly healthy.

The reasons will no doubt be complex, and from our human perspective we can't ever hope to understand what our ET visitors are thinking, or why they behave in the ways that they do.

It could be because they know our species too well - they know that sharing their medicines with our governments would be futile because our governments are unlikely to share those cures with us. We only have to look at how so many helpful medicines are already suppressed by those with the power to do so to realise what would happen if a potential cure for multiple sclerosis, cancer or AIDS was given to the world.

Or the reason could be as simple as karma, and our individual places on the wheel of life. It is apparent that some ETs have access to the astral plane and higher realities -- perhaps they recognise that some of us must continue on the paths we have spiritually chosen, even if it should lead to our deaths. It is the tenet of many religions and philosophies that suffering is part of our lot in life -- take away our suffering and you take away our spiritual and moral development.

It's likely that we will never know what is truly the motivating force behind alien healings. Sometimes they are deliberate -- such as surgeries or medical cures -- yet other times they seem to be quite accidental. But whatever ET's motivating factor, it is apparent that they possess a wealth of knowledge of the healing arts, and abilities that to we primitive humans are bordering on the miraculous.

Unfortunately for us, they don't always seem inclined to share‌

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ALIEN SIGHTINGS GROW IN TWEED http://www.tweednews.com.au/story/ 2010/12/11/alien-tweed-ufo/ 11th December 2010

Images of an alleged alien in Bilambil Heights have UFO experts scratching their heads.The footage was captured

by Alex Player, detailed by the Tweed Daily News yesterday, and is to be used in a UFO documentary to be released in 2011.

UFO Research New South Wales Incorporated media spokesman Doug Moffett has been researching UFO activity for the past 18 years, and said the footage taken by 16-year-old Alex is inconclusive. "I'm not saying it is not (an alien), but I cannot say what it could be. Even to say it has a humanoid form could be a stretch," Mr Moffett said.

"From the height they say it was you have to think that logically what would a small child be doing outside at that time of night with a flashlight."

Mr Moffett said when it comes to this type of unexplained footage it is important to consider the back-story.

"You have to look at the background of the story as well. From what has been said, it does not appear to be a hoax.

You have to look at someone's reason for doing this."

Unidentified sightings have surrounded the Tweed region in recent years, with residents sighting strange lights and objects in the sky. Currumbin resident Bill Stafford Junior captured three UFO images on his camera in the sky above Tweed and Currumbin which cannot be explained by Air Services Australia or Amberley Air Base. Tweed men Damien Gundlach and Vern Kicken have also reported seeing a round object high up in the sky while standing on the bank of the Tweed River.

ORANGE DIAMONDS REPORTED IN SK Y SKY Lin Ferguson, http:// www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/local/ news/orange-diamonds-reported-in-thesky/3932734/ 6th December 2010

Mysterious orange lights in the sky south of Wanganui (NZ) just after

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midnight on Saturday have more than 20 Wanganui East residents convinced they have seen a fleet of UFOs. They even called the police, and an officer checked their reports of orange lights shaped like diamonds flying across the sky. The officer, who was unavailable for comment, saw the last of the lights before they disappeared heavenward.

Adam Johnson, of Mawae St, was celebrating his birthday with a barbecue and a large group of friends. He'd just been out to his garage and as he had been walking back he saw the lights.

"They were amazing. They looked like diamond kites flying everywhere." He had rushed inside and got everyone out to make sure it wasn't just him seeing the "UFOs".

Guest Cherie Lamb said the lights looked as though they had been flying towards South Beach. "It was exactly one minute past midnight and it was an amazing sight. There were about 14 lights, I think.

I've never ever seen anything like it. We know that it wasn't an Army exercise or anything."

Another Wanganui East resident, Koert Wegman, who was at a different address, said where he lived in Kiwi St people had a pretty good view of the sky because there was not a lot of light pollution.

"There was a number of orange lights, all moving up and then horizontally across the sky. They were in bunches of six at a time, one after the other, then later every single one got to a certain point in the sky and fizzled out."

A spokesman for the Carter Observatory said yesterday that no one there could comment because they were having a "catastrophe" and asked the Chronicle to call back and speak to an astronomer today.

SECRET MILIT ARY MILITARY MINI-SHUTTLE HEADED BACK TO EARTH http://www.reuters.com/article/ idUSTRE6B006B20101201 Irene Klotz, REUTERS/U.S. Air Force/ Handout

A miniature robotic space shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral in April has completed a nine-month classified

mission for the military and will be headed for a landing as early as Friday, Air Force officials said on Tuesday.

The vehicle, known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, is expected to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California between Friday and Monday, depending on weather and technical considerations, the Air Force said in a statement.

The project, started by NASA in the late 1990s and later adopted by the military, is intended to test technologies for a next-generation space shuttle.

The military is looking at the space plane as a way to test new equipment, sensors and material in space, with the intention of incorporating successful technologies into satellites and other operational systems.

The Air Force imposed a news blackout on the X-37B's activities while in orbit, though it was tracked by amateur satellite-watchers throughout its ninemonth mission.

The X-37B looks like a space shuttle orbiter, with a similar shape and payload bay for cargo and experiments.

But it measures 29 feet, 3 inches in length and has a 15-foot (4.5-meter) wing span, compared to the 122-foot (37-meter) orbiters with wing spans of 78 feet.

Unlike NASA's space shuttles, which can stay in orbit about two weeks, X37B is designed to spend as long as nine months in space, then land autonomously on a runway.

The Air Force plans to fly its second X37B vehicle this spring. The vehicles were built by Boeing Co's advanced research lab, Phantom Works.

DARK JUPITER MA Y MAY HAUNT EDGE OF SOLAR SYSTEM Lisa Grossman, http://www.wired.com/ wiredscience/2010/11/oort-cloudcompanion November 29, 2010

A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized object is lurking at the solar system's outer edge and hurling chunks of ice and dust toward Earth.

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We've accumulated 10 years' more data, double the comets we viewed to test this hypothesis," said planetary scientist John Matese of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. "Only now should we be able to falsify or verify that you could have a Jupiter-mass object out there."

In 1999, Matese and colleague Daniel Whitmire suggested the sun has a hidden companion that boots icy bodies from the Oort Cloud, a spherical haze of comets at the solar system's fringes, into the inner solar system where we can see them. In a new analysis of observations dating back to 1898, Matese and Whitmire confirm their original idea: About 20 percent of the comets visible from Earth were sent by a dark, distant planet.

This idea was a reaction to an earlier notion that a dim brown-dwarf or reddwarf star, ominously dubbed Nemesis, has pummeled the Earth with deadly comet showers every 30 million years or so. Later research suggested that mass extinctions on Earth don't line up with the Nemesis predictions, so many astronomers now think that object doesn't exist.

"But we began to ask, what kind of an object could you hope to infer from the present data that we are seeing?" Matese said. "What could possibly tickle [comets'] orbits and make them come very close to the sun so we could see them?"

Rather than a malevolent death star, a smaller and more benign companion called Tyche (Nemesis' good sister in Greek mythology) could send comets streaming from the Oort Cloud toward Earth.

After examining the orbits of more than 100 comets in the Minor Planet Center database, the researchers concluded that 80 percent of comets born in the Oort Cloud were pushed out by the galaxy's gravity. The remaining 20 percent, however, needed a nudge from a distant object about 1.4 times the mass of Jupiter.

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"Something smaller than Jovian mass wouldn't be strong enough to do the deed," Matese said. "Something more massive, like a brown dwarf, would give a much stronger signal than the 20 percent we assert."

COMMERCIAL SP ACECRAFT SPACECRAFT GENTLY RETURNS TO EARTH http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/ science/space/ 09rocket.html?_r=2&ref=science

The flight, by the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, went flawlessly from the launching of its Falcon 9 rocket, with a Dragon capsule riding on top, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to splashdown of the Dragon in the Pacific Ocean 3 hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds later.

During a news conference afterward, Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and chief executive, whose outsize confidence can verge on arrogance, was flustered as he talked about how everything worked as designed. "It's actually almost too good," Mr. Musk said. "We didn't have to go to backup systems at any point. I'm sort of in semishock."

The mission was the first demonstration for NASA of a spacecraft designed to ferry cargo and perhaps eventually astronauts to the International Space Station.

SpaceX has a contract worth $1.6 billion for 12 flights to take cargo and supplies to the space station. With the imminent cancellation of NASA's Ares I rocket that was to take astronauts there, the space agency will be hiring private companies to provide astronaut transportation as well.

The success of the flight "reinforces what the president laid out and what Congress endorsed as the future of space transportation," Lori Garver, NASA's deputy administrator, said in an interview. "This does indeed validate the path we are on."

A second demonstration flight, going close to the space station but not docking, is set for next spring. A third and final demonstration flight under SpaceX's $278 million development contract would dock at the station. With the success of the first flight, Mr. Musk said SpaceX hoped to combine the second and third flights into one. After the completion of the demonstrations, SpaceX would then begin the cargo flights.

At the end of the news conference, Mr. Musk regained some of his usual bravado, making a pitch that the Dragon could also be used for deep-

space missions. In a revamped space program, work on the bigger and much more expensive Orion crew capsule will continue but is to ride on an as-yetundesigned heavy-lift rocket.

SECRET FILES 'SHED LIGHT' ON UFO MYSTERY Bay of Plenty Times, http://tinyurl.com/ 274eclr December 24, 2010

Thousands of pages of freshly declassified secret UFO files could just be the beginning of fresh light on the subject, says the Western Bay woman who successfully lobbied for their release.

Pahoia resident Sue Hansen, who founded UFO research group UFOCUS New Zealand in 2000, said she began pushing for the Royal New Zealand Air Force to declassify the files after other countries, including Australia, did the same.

Two years after she first requested the files, the air force this week released more than 2500 pages dating back to the 1950s. The files include reports of various sightings, correspondence between senior air force officials, newspaper clippings, ramblings and sketches of spacecraft, and details about New Zealand's most famous sighting - the "Kaikoura lights".

On December 30, 1978, a cargo aircraft reported strange lights following it and moving around it, and air traffic control detected unexplained objects on its radar that were not other aircraft because none were in the air. But a report from the air force found the lights could be explained by "natural but unusual phenomena". Atmospheric conditions at the time were conducive to anomalous radio and light waves, it said. Another explanation was that the crew were looking at lights from fishing vessels or Venus.

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Ms Hansen said the files proved the air force did investigate UFO sightings, which she said it had always denied doing. She believed that when Government and air force officials could not explain incidents, the matters had been passed to "people in high places" to discredit them. This year alone, there had been a large number of what Ms Hansen called "high credibility" sightings, or reports made by people such as police, air traffic controllers or airline pilots.

Among the declassified air force files from the past two decades was one logged on July 7, 1999, of a "very fast object" that descended over Tauranga from east to west at an angle of approximately 25 degrees.

Ms Hansen, who has been interested in UFOs since she saw an object in the sky that she described as an "orange, cigarshaped burning object" when she was aged 8, was pleased the files would bring UFOs to the public's attention. But she hoped New Zealand would not follow other governments that had closed down their sighting hotlines and stopped investigating reports.

Tauranga UFO and Paranormal Society spokesman Ian Lucas agreed. "While all this is good news to UFO enthusiasts, I would still imagine that details of any really sensitive sightings would still remain undisclosed," he said.

MOONLANDING FOR CROATIA IN 2012 http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/ General_News/2010-12-02/15616/ Moonlanding_for_Croatia_in_2012

Croatia is expected to make its mark on the Moon by the end of 2012 when Astronomical Society Vidulini from Istria plans to launch its space exploration vehicle - rover "Histrohod." The robotic vehicle is the brainchild of Zeljko Mogorosa who has been working on its prototype for the past two years.

"Histrohod" is expected to land at the same spot where Apollo 17 - the latest manned mission to the Moon - landed

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in 1972. Through a group of mobile devices, "Histrohod" will send televised segments down to Earth. "This is a big challenge for our society and we are extremely proud that our association and our small Istria will become a part of space exploration," said the Society's president Marino Rumpic.

The cost of building "Histrohod" is estimated at 20,000 Euros and is expected to be covered by various donors from around the world.

The Astronomical Society Vidulini started the first Croatian space program (Astronautika) and forms part of the international team Synergy Moon which is participating in the "Google Lunar X Prize" contest.

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worlds, he said, is likely to be Darwinian in nature.

Morris argues that life anywhere else in the universe will therefore probably have important similarities with life on Earth - especially if it comes from Earth-like worlds that have similar biological molecules to ours. That means ET might resemble us, warts and all, with our tendencies towards violence and exploitation.

"Why should we 'prepare for the worst'?

First, if intelligent aliens exist, they will look just like us, and given our far from glorious history, this should give us pause for thought," wrote Morris in the journal's special issue.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/ jan/10/earth-close-encounter-aliensextraterrestrials

Scientists argue that a branch of the UN must be given responsibility for "supraEarth affairs" and formulate a plan for how to deal with extraterrestrials, should they appear.

The comments are part of an extraterrestrial-themed edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A published today. In it, scientists examine all aspects of the search for extraterrestrial life, from astronomy and biology to the political and religious fallout that would result from alien contact.

"Will a suitable process based on expert advice from proper and responsible scientists arise at all, or will interests of power and opportunism more probably set the scene?" asked Professor John Zarnecki of the Open University and Dr Martin Dominik of the University of St Andrews in the introductory paper. "A lack of co-ordination can be avoided by creating an overarching framework in a truly global effort governed by an international politically legitimated body." The pair argue that the UN has a ready-made mechanism for such a forum in its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (Copuos).

Member states of Copuos should put "supra-Earth affairs" on their agenda, say the scientists, and establish structures similar to those proposed for dealing with threats from near-Earth objects, such as asteroids, that might be on a collision course with our planet.

According to Simon Conway Morris, a professor of evolutionary palaeobiology at Cambridge University, anyone planning for alien contact should prepare for the worst. Evolution on alien

Ted Peters, a professor of systematic theology at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in California, considered what might happen to the world's religions in the event of ET making contact. Conventional wisdom suggests that terrestrial religion would collapse if the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) were confirmed, he wrote.

"Because our religious traditions formulated their key beliefs within an ancient world view now out of date, would shocking new knowledge dislodge our pre-modern dogmas? Are religious believers Earth-centric, so that contact with ET would de-centre and marginalise our sense of selfimportance? Do our traditional religions rank us human beings on top of life's hierarchy, so if we meet ETI who are smarter than us will we lose our superior rank? If we are created in God's image, as the biblical traditions teach, will we have to share that divine image with our new neighbours?"

His conclusion, however, is that faith in Earth's major religions would survive intact. "Theologians will not find themselves out of a job. In fact, theologians might relish the new challenges to reformulate classical religious commitments in light of the new and wider vision of God's creation. Traditional theologians must then become astrotheologians."

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BRIGHT RED UFO SPOTTED OVER GLADSTONE 15 December, 2010 Gladstone Observer,, http://tinyurl.com/28r3foc

Gladstone is being visited by UFOs, according to a Gladstone local.

The website, The UFO Clearinghouse, accepts reports from people who have seen something they can't explain, hence, an unidentified flying object (UFO).

"While at work in the state forest north of Gladstone, I noticed to my left a bright red light," the local who remained anonymous said. "Thinking I might have a car coming through the bush towards me, I moved out of the donga I was in and waited for the car to arrive. I went outside and noticed that the light was above the tree line above the north end of Mount Larcom.

However, the witness couldn't work out if it was round or any other shape.

There were times the light hurt my eyes but not enough for me to look away. I noted that it was slowly moving downwards on the other side of the Mount Larcom range. There were no other light sources located outside the donga, and no other reason what this red light might have been caused from."

UFO Research Queensland chair Sheryl Gottschall told The Observer this year alone they have had 123 reported sightings from the public."What we find is that the reports come from a broad cross section of society," Ms Gottschall said."We have people from small business owners to professional people like lawyers, teachers and pilots. We get reports from basically everybody."

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kind after all. "I just took a picture of the mountain range and the sun was in my eyes so I just kind of pointed and shot," Mr Cainero said. "Then we looked at the picture - we were, like, no way."

With its shape and its position in the sky, Mr Cainero said he immediately knew the black object was a UFO. "We always see really weird things as we go out to places where there is no one around. There had been talk among fossickers about UFOs being in the area. A lot of people I know who go into the bush reckon they have seen one," Mr Cainero said.

Earlier this year The Daily Telegraph revealed the suburbs around Gosford, on the Central Coast, were the state's biggest hot spot when it came to UFO sightings, with dozens of cases reported every year. Each month people turn up to meetings to share their UFO experiences.

PROBE F AILS TO FAILS ORBIT VENUS AND FLIES INTO SP ACE SPACE http://www.newscientist.com/article/ dn19836-probe-fails-to-orbit-venus-andflies-into-space.html

Japan's Akatsuki probe failed to get into orbit around Venus on Tuesday, mission managers say.

A Google translation of pressconference comments suggests that the spacecraft experienced a sudden, unexpected rotation 2.5 minutes after the orbit-insertion manoeuvre began, apparently due to errant thruster firings.

In response, an onboard computer turned off the braking rocket and immediately put the spacecraft in an emergency standby mode.

Unfortunately, the premature shutdown came well short of the minimum burn time (9.3 minutes) needed to be captured by the planet, so the spacecraft continued past Venus and into interplanetary space.

Daily Telegraph, http://tinyurl.com/ 2c2hd3q December 7, 2010

A prospector who went to find gold in the hills thinks he may have found something better - evidence that aliens really do exist. Adam Cainero believes he captured a photograph of an alien spacecraft hovering above an escarpment near Majors Creek, in the Southern Tablelands near Braidwood (NSW, Aus).

After an unsuccessful weekend fossicking for gold Mr Cainero and a friend were making the long trip home when he stopped to take a snap of the steep mountain they had driven down.

When he got home, Mr Cainero said he realised he had found gold of another

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There is not enough fuel to try to correct the miscue by reversing course. Instead, Akatsuki will coast along a solar orbit that will return it to the vicinity of Venus in about seven years. Right now that reunion will bring the craft no closer than 3.7 million kilometres. But project manager Masato Nakamura thinks enough fuel remains on board to close

that gap by changing course and to attempt another orbit-insertion manoeuvre.

The question then is whether the spacecraft and its instruments can survive a long interplanetary cruise.

Within the next few years solar activity will peak and subject the craft to intense bursts of high-energy charged particles. The team hopes to test the spacecraft's cameras periodically, perhaps by using them to map the distribution of interplanetary dust.

The whole situation is eerily reminiscent of the fate that befell another Japanese interplanetary probe almost exactly seven years ago. Ground controllers lost control of Nozomi on 9 December 2003 - just five days before the spacecraft was to enter orbit around Mars.

'FLYING OBJECT' FOLL OWED FAMILY FOLLOWED Timaru Herald,Wellington, http:// tinyurl.com/2ecykrb December 23, 2010

Nearly 30 years after a late-night encounter with a UFO, Temuka man Ken Thew remains convinced he saw something extraordinary on Waitohi Rd. Yesterday, after authorisation from the Defence Force, more than 2000 pages of secret files held by Archives New Zealand were released. The files are said to include every witness account of unidentified flying objects reported to authorities since the 1950s and Mr Thew said he would be interested in reading the files. The now-retired mechanic said he did not think about the encounter unless other people brought it up in conversation, but he had spoken to others who had seen UFOs. "What they have seen is different compared to what we have seen but that's apparently the way it is."

The memory of the large, bright object which accompanied Mr Thew, his wife, and their three young daughters home from Pleasant Point to Temuka on July 12, 1981 was still vivid, Mr Thew said. "My thoughts are the same: what you see is what you see. It was a bit frightening for a start. We were just travelling home from a night at me cobber's place. The oldest girl said, `what's that over there?' and I said I had no idea."

The couple described to the Temuka Herald in 1981 how a multi-coloured flying object paced them along the road, approaching to within 110 metres of their car and changing colours as it went. They knew by the hour of the night, the manoeuvres and closeness of the object that it was not an aeroplane.

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shaped like a football, told him it was unusual. However, while the encounter was reported in media, they kept a second part of the story to themselves and close friends - several visits by a man to their home and workplace shortly after seeing the object.

Introducing himself as Mr Wright, an "investigator" from Christchurch and dressed in a musty suit, he warned them not to contact or approach the object, Mr Thew said. The man's behaviour was peculiar: he drank a cup of boiling tea in one gulp, read a page by scanning from bottom to top and knew the name of their pet dog before it could be told to him. Before the encounter with the object, Mr Thew said he had a divided opinion on UFOs. "If somebody had told me what I had seen myself I would sort of look at them and think, `well, okay'."

The Thews' account garnered media attention in 1981 and they were visited unexpectedly by a television crew. Their story attracted a small negative response, with about five calls from people suggesting they were mad, he said. However, Mr Thew stands by what he saw. "I had my faculties; I know what I saw."

UFO SPOTTED IN DARWIN Northern Territory News, http:// tinyurl.com/24areq4 December 27, 2010

UFO said to look like a secret Area 51 government plane shown on YouTube was seen last week by a Darwin man.

The man, who wanted only to be known as Brian, said he was having a beer and a smoke outside his unit in Sunset Drv about 9.30pm on Thursday when he saw a large, black flying triangle with lights on the side.

"I thought it was a plane but all it made was humming sounds," he said. "It was maybe at the third level of my unit block just hovering and gliding. "I wish I had my phone, my iPhone to record it."

This year in the Territory there have been many UFO sightings, and rumours British pop star Robbie Williams had bought a property at Daly Waters so he could pursue his passion for UFO spotting.

There were seven sightings in a week in April. This may be unusual with highprofile Acacia Hills UFO spotter Alan Ferguson having said they usually visit the Territory in the dry.

In telling his yarn, Brian reluctantly admitted he had ducked outside to "to use the toilet". "I'd mistaken it for a lamp post. I was relieving myself in the garden and I looked ahead and saw a light, then the light dropped a little, it was moving and I thought it was a

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plane and I was waiting for the roar of the engine and it was just humming." He said there were about three bright, white lights on either side and one on the tip of the triangle which was about 20m across as it hovered for about 20 seconds. "If anything what they have on YouTube is down pat, it was like secret government plane," he said.

She could not see it because her wide v e r a n d a s obscured the sky.

"It was definitely something. It didn't sound like the engine of any type of plane I have heard before."

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Northern Territory News, http://tinyurl.com/ 2bcct4h December 29, 2010

The Coconut Grove UFO sighting last week of a black flying triangle \with lights on its side may have been a not-so-secret US government spy aircraft, another witness of lights in the Darwin sky says.

Peter McVean said he was out with his dog "wetting a line" when he saw four evenly-spaced noiseless lights in the sky off the East Arm pontoon about 8.45pm on Boxing Day. "The first two were spaced exactly the same distance apart as the last two but there was slightly larger distance between the first pair and the following pair." He said they disappeared for a while as it was overcast.

After about seven seconds they disappeared over the horizon just forward of the Wickham plant. "There was no noise," Mr McVean said. "I just saw what I saw. I am not saying it was a UFO." Melbourne residents reported seeing strange lights in similar "triangularshaped" arrangements near the Melbourne Airport about 10.15pm on Christmas Eve, according to the Herald Sun. Witnesses reported seeing "orange lights that formed a diamond and moved in a synchronised pattern". Resident David Bekesi, 52, said the lights were visible for several minutes before disappearing.

A man in Rockingham, Western Australia, also recorded footage of a triangleshaped object with lights on its sides and posted it on YouTube last Wednesday night, December 22.

Mr McVean said, however, last week's Coconut Grove sighting had the hallmarks of the "US military's worst kept secrets" black aircraft production. These are aircraft projects not acknowledged publicly by the US government or military.

The NT News was also contacted by another witness, Maryanne, who said she heard something strange at her Humpty Doo home, in Darwin's rural area, about 2am last Wednesday. "It was a noise like a whirring noise," she said. "I heard it come down, I thought 'Wow, that's low'. I thought there is no way that is not going to crash. It was really loud. I heard an electronic noise, like a noise I probably haven't heard before." She said it hovered for between 30 seconds and a minute.

David Derbyshire, http:// www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article1345650/Hi-tech-age-left-unfazed-ideaalien-life.html

The sight of flying saucers over Britain, so science fiction would have us believe, would see panicking mobs in the streets. But it seems we may be far more worldly than writers, or overprotective governments, have ever given us credit for.

Psychologist Dr Albert Harrison argues that people have become so used to the idea of alien life that they would be 'unfazed' if the proof appeared before their eyes. He said things have changed dramatically since 1961, when the U.S. Congress was warned evidence of extraterrestrials would lead to widespread panic.

In North America and Europe at least, neither the discovery of an alien nor the detection of alien radio signals were now likely to lead to 'widespread psychological disintegration and collapse', he concluded. Advances in our technology have brought civilisation to a point where the idea of other beings travelling through space to Earth no longer seems farfetched or frightening.' People had been getting used to the idea of extraterrestrials since the Seti (Search for

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E x t r a - Te r r e s t r i a l Intelligence) project first began listening out for alien radio signals 50 years ago, he said.

Today, surveys suggest that half of the U.S. and Europe believe in aliens, while a 'substantial proportion' are convinced alien spacecraft had already visited the Earth. A second paper in the same journal argued that the discovery of intelligent alien life was unlikely to threaten the world's faiths.

However, evolution expert Professor Simon Conway Morris, from Cambridge University, said the chances of intelligent alien life were low. If evolution were the same throughout the universe it would be unthinkable that advanced space travellers in older parts of the universe should not have reached the Earth by now, he said.

Prof Conway Morris added: 'That did not happen, and it will not happen. We never had any visitors, nor is it worth setting up a reception committee in the hope that one day they might turn up.

They are not there, and we are alone.'

MYSTERY LIGHTS 'SIMILAR' TO 1978 Stuff.co.nz, http://tinyurl.com/27azjo7 28 December, 2010

Mysterious "orangey and reddish lights" spotted in skies above Napier, Taranaki and Christchurch were a day too late to be Santa's sleigh but could they be UFOs? Reports of strange objects in the sky on Boxing Day have been made in three separate locations, with the first sighting of the moving orange lights in Taranaki on Sunday night. However, the Canterbury Astronomical Society is convinced the Christchurch lights were satellites.

In Hawera, Allan White and his family spotted the "bright orange light" moving towards them about 9.40pm, before heading south. They watched the light for about five minutes, and once it had disappeared began questioning whether or not it was a UFO. "I just thought it was a bright orange light in the sky and then it started moving towards us," Mr White said. "After it flew past, there were half a dozen adults there, we all considered it could have been a UFO. Nobody had seen anything like that before." Each witness could make out flashing lights on the object as it made its way across the sky.

Soon afterwards, Fraser Duncan, a graphics tutor from the Eastern Institute of Technology, said he was "stunned" when he saw four orange lights crossing the sky above Napier just before 10pm.

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formation towards the South Island. "I have never seen anything like this in my life. It was definitely not a plane, not a meteor and not stars."

To add to the mystery, a TVNZ cameraman who filmed the 1978 UFO sightings near Kaikoura reported seeing the unexplained lights at 10.30pm the same night. Lloyd McFadden, then 27, filmed the lights near Kaikoura. Sunday night's sighting happened above his home in Redwood, Christchurch. He said he saw 10 lights travelling slowly in formation, without any noise. "There was absolutely no sound and they were flying too slow to be an aircraft.

I would really like to know what they were."

The lights were similar to the unexplained Kaikoura lights that he filmed more than 30 years ago. "I couldn't give an explanation about what they were, but I would dearly love to know. I think it would more likely be a natural phenomenon or have something to do with earthquake activity than aliens from outer space."

Mr McFadden's wife Ina also saw the lights.

"All you could see was orangey and reddish lights, like fireballs. They were moving at a steady pace and went right over the top of us. There was no noise at all. I don't know what it would be, but there was something there and I hadn't even been drinking."

Mr McFadden believed the objects were moving about 20kmh to 30kmh, and were about 1000 metres above their house. But Canterbury Astronomical Society observatory director Adrian Kelly said the sightings would probably have been satellites. "I am certainly saying they were satellites. They are travelling on straight trajectories in an arc."

ALIEN LIFE DEEMED IMPOSSIBLE BY ANALYSIS OF 500 PLANETS Heidi Blake, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ science/space/8276756/Alien-life-deemedimpossible-by-analysis-of-500-planets.html

There is no hope of finding alien life in space because conditions on all other planets are too hostile, a leading astronomer has claimed.

Howard Smith, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard, made the claim that we are alone in the universe after an analysis of the 500 planets discovered so far showed all were hostile to life.

Dr Smith said the extreme conditions found so far on planets discovered outside out Solar System are likely to be the norm, and that the hospitable conditions on Earth could be unique. "We have found that most other planets and solar systems are wildly different from our own. They are very hostile to life as we know it," he said. He pointed to stars such as HD10180, which sparked great excitement when it was found to be orbited by a planet of similar size and appearance to Earth. But the similarities

turned out to be superficial. The planet lies less than two million miles from its sun, meaning it is roasting hot, stripped of its atmosphere and blasted by radiation. Many of the other planets have highly elliptical orbits which cause huge variations in temperature which prevent water remaining liquid, thus making it impossible for life to develop.

A separate team of scientists recently declared the chance of aliens existing on a newly discovered Earth-like planet "100 per cent". Professor Steven Vogt , of the Carnegie institution in Washington, said he had "no doubt" extraterrestrial life would be found on a small, rocky planet found orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581 last September. Such hopes are likely to be raised further in the coming weeks, when Nasa's Kepler satellite is expected to confirm the existence of hundreds of new planets.

But Dr Smith dismissed the claims, insisting that other extrasolar planets differ starkly from our own and that even if they did support life, it would be impossible for humans to make contact. "Extrasolar systems are far more diverse than we expected, and that means very few are likely to support life. "Any hope of contact has to be limited to a relatively tiny bubble of space around the Earth, stretching perhaps 1,250 light years out from our planet, where aliens might be able to pick up our signals or send us their own. But communicating would still take decades or centuries."

MAMMOTH JOB OF RE -CREA TION -CREATION RE-CREA West Australian January 18 2011

They last roamed the earth more than 5000 years ago - but now Japanese scientists are planning to use cloning technology to create a live woolly mammoth.

The procedure involves using the tissue from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian laboratory, according to a report in Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. The nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell to create an embryo containing mammoth genes.

The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus, the Daily Mail reported.

"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," said Dr Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University. "If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed (the mammoth) and whether to display it to the public.

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