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What is SETI up to now? Following a recent drop in funding and a brief fiscal rescue by actress Jodie Foster, the United States Air Force Space Command has provided SETI with significant funds — more than Jodi Foster was able to afford, and more than enough to kick-start SETI back into life. I’m sure your mind is drifting off at this point, wondering when the US Air Force developed a Space Command, who the Space Command is commanding, who commands the Space Command, and why and how it has all come about. But I need you to stop thinking about that right now. Focus, people. The real question is: why is the Space Command throwing money at SETI? The official line is that they want SETI to look for habitable exoplanets. I’m not sure why SETI has to waste its efforts chasing planets, when NASA and a multitude of university astronomy departments are already doing exactly that. But there’s another reason the Space Command has enlisted SETI — to provide ‘space situational awareness.’ What that means is the Space Command wants SETI to look for transmissions from spacecraft. And I don’t think they mean signals from terrestrial spacecraft. After all, it’s pretty hard for any country to launch anything into space without somebody down here knowing about it. The world’s military are also more than capable of tracking terrestrial satellites and spacecraft from down here on Earth. What the Space Command seems to be funding is the surveillance of craft that officially should not be there. Of craft that, theoretically, should not be there. Craft that may, perhaps, have come from other planets. The next question then becomes: if the Space Command has provided SETI’s paychecks, does that mean SETI is now a branch of the United States Air Force Space Command? More importantly, does all the data SETI produce now belong to the Space Command — in which case we, the public, will never have access to it? Hmmm. The plot gets thicker...
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June - DecemBer 2011 Townsville, June 2011 A woman had travelled to Ravensbourne to visit a friend. While there she and her friend visited another friend for dinner. On the way home, about eight minutes into the drive, the witness noticed three green lights reflecting off the sun visor of the car. She looked out and up through the windscreen and saw a huge circle about 30 metres in diameter emitting beams of light down towards the ground. She then turned to look out through the rear window and saw the whole object, which consisted of eight lights spinning anticlockwise in a whirlwind fashion. The object was about 30 metres (100 ft) above them and as they drove over a ridge the object disappeared, only to return overhead when they passed the ridge. On another occasion the woman (a school teacher) was observing students in the playground when she received a telepathic message to "look up, look up". When she did she saw two small silver balls in the sky. She then asked a student if they could see anything in the sky and he did. He then called a friend over and soon there was a group of students looking at the same object she had observed. One week later she was outside a shop and received the same message to "look up." She did so and this time she saw one silver ball. As it happened a student walked by and she asked if he could see anything and he confirmed that he could see the same thing. Soon one of the other teachers walked by and saw the object too. He tried to locate satellite and other information on his iphone but nothing was predicted to be in that location at that time. The witness also reported seeing an object some years previously outside with her father at night. As she was speaking to him a luminous white object
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about 1/4 size of the Moon travelled horizontally behind her father across the sky. It took ten seconds to go from one side to the other before disappearing. When she was a child her mother said she saw a UFO during the night while she was up going to the toilet. About six months later the witness awoke to a sense of beings in her room which frightened her. Later when she was a university student she was taken to a UFO where she was inside a craft. She found herself standing next to a tall person. Here she was told "we're taking you to teachers college", which wasn't on her personal agenda. Although the woman dismissed this as a dream at the time, sure enough, one year later she found herself at teachers college and now works as a school teacher. About 15 years previous, the woman was renting a very large house and had a lot of people living there to pay the rent. One night she had a friend visiting who was sleeping on the floor next to her. Some time during the night she "sat bolt upright" and was wide awake. She looked at the end of her bed and saw a white luminous being of light. It was emitting a telepathic message of love and she described the experience as "lifetimes of beauty and love went through my body". When the woman was 12 years old she and her four year old brother were dressed and ready to go to church with their parents and waiting on the veranda of their house. The woman saw a ball of lightning "ambling down the road". It was luminous, bigger than a basketball but smaller than a beach ball and headed for a collision course with a power pole outside the house. The woman grabbed her brother and took him outside into the street for safety. When the object hit the power pole it exploded, knocked out the power in the house and blew up their airconditioner.
Glasshouse Mountains, October 2011 I would like to report a regular occurrence, a sighting of an 'object' which I have photographed with my digital camera. To the naked eye it appears to be a bright star, at 4:50am every morning. When I look closely at some of my photos, it resembles an old telephone hand-set shape.
Brighton, 3 November 2011 I was sitting outside on the back verandah in Brighton when I saw a couple of flashing red lights, thinking it was only a couple of planes as we are near a flight path. When I looked again they seemed too high and were going in the direction of Redcliffe in unison. Then about 15 minutes to half an hour later, I was out there again and this time it was coming back over Brighton. This time I called two family members to come and see and this time noticed the flashing red lights were in a line and there were around five of them. They were still very high up and there seemed to be sound, so am not sure if there was some sort of jet that can fly that high and stay in unison like that, but I have never seen anything like that before.
Noosa, 3 November 2011, 7.30pm I live in Noosa QLD and last night 03/ 11/11 at around 7.30pm, myself and a friend where on my front deck. I saw a star moving in the sky. It was as small as the smallest star you can see with your naked eye. I watched it for about 30 seconds when it vanished - there were no clouds in the sky. I then saw another star following in the exact same flight path. I told my friend to look, and he was able to spot it too. Around this time a helicopter with normal flashing lights was heading straight into the star's path but went under the star. Five minutes later another star followed the previous
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star's flight path. AGAIN. We tracked it as it moved irregularly in the sky. It was almost zig-zagging, and after three minutes of watching it move through the sky, we noticed it did not fly straight but more like a half circle from one side of the sky to the other. We could tell whatever it was it wasn't in our atmosphere, yet it moving way too fast for a satellite and way too slow for a shooting star. As I continued to watch the sky, a bluish light blinked. I could not believe it, as it was in the same flight path of the three stars. Another star moved, this time to our left, in the sky. While we watched these stars move we saw two helicopters and one jet in the sky, which really helped us to determine that the stars where not aircraft, at least not ours. In total we saw eight separate flying objects in 30 minutes (including the helicopters and jet).
Brisbane, 3 November 2011 While driving to the city a woman photographed an unusual object [below]. She believed it was definitely not a plane, and said it felt it looked more like
a shuttle of jet. She and a friend watched it fly around for a while - it seemed to be travelling directly upwards, and later changed direction.
Caroline Springs, Victoria, 7 November 2011, 11.30pm On or around 7th November a heavy lightning storm came out of the west and slowly made its way overhead. At about 11.30pm a very large flash bounced around in the clouds and revealed a stationary UFO hovering in the middle of the cloud. The flash lit it from the side, therefore it could not have been the moon. Two more flashes in the same cloud showed the UFO had moved away. The cloud was about 15 degrees from the horizontal and about two kilometres away. The UFO was about half the size of the moon and was not lit by any internal illumination. Estimated size at that distance is therefore about a 20m diameter grey/ blue sphere. No discernible noise issued from it. The thunder was intense.
Elanora, Gold Coast, 25 November 2011 A woman was hanging out her washing when she observed a golden sphere/ball
shaped object high in the sky moving slowly. She watched as little silver balls emerged from the sphere and they somehow seemed to rain down into her eyes. She observed the phenomenon for three minutes, and in this time she called her husband to see it but he couldn't see anything. The object disappeared behind the sun. She spoke about this experience to someone at the organic markets two days later and they told her they had seen something very similar on another occasion. Another man had seen it too and he took a photo of the object. She will ask him to send it into UFORQ.
Wacol, 11 November 2011, 2.30am A security guard working at Ausco Modular at Wacol was raising the boom gate at his place of work when he saw a large light brown object, just bigger than a car about 50 feet above him. It appeared to be round with a gold side and was completely silent as it moved overhead at a speed slower than a plane, moving from east to west. He watched it for a few minutes as it disappeared from sight. He was so shocked by what he saw that he forgot to take a photo with his mobile phone. He said it was pretty scary and he has not felt he same since he had the experience. Sometimes he feels angry and has a feeling that some sort of calamity is about to occur, far worse than the floods in Queensland earlier this year. There were no other witnesses to this event because the workers were all busy packing up to go home and not paying attention to the sky. He has since told a few people about what he saw but received ridicule so he's not going to tell anyone else about this event. He also reported that he witnessed a bright light in Richmond in Melbourne when he was about 11 or 12. He was outside playing cricket at the time when he looked up and saw a very large object in the sky.
Old Gympie Rd, 20 November 2011 A man observed a silent object steadily descend in the sky to the East towards Deception Bay. It crossed the Bruce Highway before it was lost behind trees. It was about 100 metres high, travelling on a downward slope at high speed. There were three large fluorescent lights, redorange and a long tail. He described it as looking like a huge sky-rocket.
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Object photographed over Brisbane city, November 3 2011
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A friend and I and saw a bright white light moving at a moderate speed from right to left, then all of a sudden it just changed direction and shot away from our direction and all of a sudden wasn’t visible anymore. This light was visible for
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about 8-10 seconds. I would just think it was a shooting star or something except for the way it changed direction and how it moved.
Gold Coast, 18 November 2011, 9.30pm A woman went outside to have a cigarette and was watching the Leonid meteor shower where she counted up to 18 meteors. While doing so she noticed a large light in the northern sky that seemed to be strobing and flashing. Then she noticed two other large objects that eventually formed a triangular formation. One of these was a reddish colour, the other multi-coloured and silvery. The objects were darting and hovering like fireflies in the sky, and performing manoeuvres unlike any of our aircraft could. The woman used her clothes line and house as points of reference to enable her to observe more clearly that the objects were moving. While doing so she could see that each of the objects were moving independently of each other. When they moved they would do so very rapidly, then return to their original position. Their movements were no more than a fingers width at arms length and unless she had used points of reference the movements could easily be explained as an artefact created by her own perception. However, as she did observe the objects moving in relation to her clothes line and house, their movements are harder to explain. Another observation made by the witness was that immediately prior to the objects moving the quality of light and "sparkle" they emitted seemed to increase. This could indicate she was observing some sort of atmospheric phenomenon or effects of propulsion. The witness observed the objects for three hours in total. The length of observation of these objects is not typical of UFO reports.
Albany Creek, 8 December 2011, 9.21pm This is my second report. Once again I was on security patrol driving east along Albany Creek Road where I witnessed an abnormal light below the clouds flying north-westerly from McDowell. Having seen many sightings in Albany Creek I decided to watch it a bit. I U-turned at Letches Road and pulled into the Albany Creek State School drop off zone where
it flew right over me. Absolutely silent. This was at 0210am, roughly 20 minutes ago at time of writing. It was again low enough that could make out it was a 2sided triangle shape, similar to if you put two 30 cm rulers together. The orange light was at the inner tip, which honestly looked like fire (after-burn on an F1-11). It hovered directly above me. As it turned, along the sides was faint little green 'lights' which I compared to airplane windows. The object slowly hovered over the Brendale sports fields. I pulled into Flamingo Drive to witness it hover over roughly Warner, till it "warped" away thru a gap in the clouds. The experience ended roughly 0221 when i typed this.
Gympie/Tin Can Bay, 12 December 2011 Last night or early this morning, an unbelievable thing happened. I was sound asleep and when Buddy (the dog) woke me up to go outside, I got up, opened the door and our ducks (13 Muscoveys) were unsettled. I remembered I had not shut the gate and thought a fox might have been around, so I put shoes on, went outside and started to walk over to the gate. Just as I got there I looked up and a brilliant white light flashed across the sky in a horizontal line and within seconds it was gone. It was moving from east to west out towards Tin Can Bay. It was not right up in the sky but lower. There was no sound what-so-ever. My reaction was WOW!!! Look at that! Then seconds later, all the horses in the bottom paddock came galloping up to the top in the same direction that the light had come from. It was not a falling star and it was travelling at a massive speed and it was much bigger and brighter than the stars we see in the sky.
Albany Creek, 18 December 2011 In the last six months I've seen this happen twice and when I thought about it, at the same time. The first time I was walking downstairs to go switch the lights off in the computer room around 1:10am. I don't remember the date but it was about four-five months ago. I walked back upstairs and noticed something moving in the sky, probably about the size of a star (it was a cloudless and clear night). At first I
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thought it was just a satellite and sat down to watch it travel across the sky, but then I noticed it was moving very slowly and instead of going in one straight line it moved in the shape of a triangle and continued to do so for about five minutes before disappearing and reappearing then not returning The second time started off with the same circumstance as the first time. and again it was approximately 1:10 or 1:15am on 18/12/11. Again I walked outside and saw two large bright orange lights in the sky (it was a heavily clouded night). These lights were just under a quarter of the size of the moon. They were amazingly large. Again they only stayed there for about three minutes. then did the disappear-reappear thing, and then not come back, but in that three minutes they moved across the sky.
Robina, November 2011 I was in my Robina home watching TV and just happened to look out the window and saw a light that was blue/ green move quickly through the sky and disappear. It was not something you would usually see in the sky. I am from Canada and have seen many meteor showers and plane lights, but this light in the sky was not that. I thought about what I had seen for the rest of the night -- I kind of thought, being new to Australia, maybe it was normal.
Gold Coast, 2002-2003 I lived on the Cold Coast and in 2002/ 2003 saw strange lights in the sky. I lived in Crestridge cresent, Oxenford at that time and had a good view from the bedroom window. I could not sleep that night and enjoyed the view from my bed, till I saw those strange lights. I did not wake up my husband. What I saw were about four or six lights going up and down, but in the same area. It went on for a long time and it looked as if they where playing with each other. It could not have been helicopters because of the way they moved around. Because I never heard a thing about it, not in the newspaper, not on the news and not from other people, I thought I better not tell anyone, otherwise they might think I am crazy.
Upper Coomera, 24 December 2011 I shot a film on my iPhone looking east from my home at Upper Coomera QLD. To me it looks like a red flare or a firecracker but other people reported it too.
Albany Creek, 26 December 2011 I saw four distinct orange lights floating above Albany Creek this morning. After some research about the sightings in
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previous months they match the information.
Aspley, 30 December 2011, 11.30pm My partner and I saw four mysterious objects in the sky over Aspley last night at about 23h30. They initially looked like stars, but were reddish in colour. After a while we realised that they moved and were forming a diamond like shape. We watched them for approximately 10 minutes, after which they disappeared behind clouds.
Main Beach, 2005 A man was laying on the beach looking at sky. Wearing polarised glasses he observed a white object about the size of a pin head which seemed to be hovering over Surfers Paradise. It started to move slowly east, going out to sea. As it did, two more white objects appeared from the east and made their way slowly to meet it. They fell into line with the first object, hovered for 30 to 45 seconds, then all slowly moved out to sea. He watched them for five minutes. The witness has seen many satellites before and said they were definitely not satellites, planes or helicopters. When the same man was 17 years old in New Zealand he went rabbit shooting with a friend. It was 5.00am and they were sitting near their vehicle when they observed a light like a light bulb come down to ground and land. It was about
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five miles from their location. As daylight broke the young men decided to walk to where the light had landed, but when they got there they could find nothing.
Gold Coast, 1996, 5.45am A woman got into her car at 6.00am to drive to work at the Golden Gate highrise. Her car wouldn't start and when she looked up she saw a UFO over Cascade Gardens. Suddenly out of nowhere a man appeared dressed completely in black and said to her "I think your car will start now". It did, but with that he disappeared into thin air.
Gold Coast, 2000, 5.45am A woman cycled to her place of work at a nursing home in Bermuda Street, Clear Island Waters, (near Carrara Markets) She stopped, got off her bike, then saw a very large bright yellow object in the sky. It was the size of a basketball at arms length (!), and the light was blinding. All of a sudden it moved in a jerky fashion about 4 palm widths at arms lengths, then with the same jerky movement returned to it’s original location. It moved over the nursing home and as daylight broke it took off at the speed of light. She went to work and was ridiculed but a couple of weeks later two other nurses reported seeing the same object.
London, 1949 I have reconstructed a sighting I had in 1949 [images below]. I was on the way to my grandmothers as always every Sunday morning. I lived then in the UK London Leytonstone E11, and I always travelled the same way on my push-bike, down Southwest Road the first part of my journey. The smaller orbs seemed to leave the larger one and then encircle it. The cloud cover was much the same as in the picture. The road is on an incline, the highest point being where the picture was taken. I had a perfect view of the skyline. I will never forget this incident.
[above and below] Reconstruction of a UFO sighting over London in 1949.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS A PATHWAY TO SHAMANIC INITIATION Sheryl Gottschall
Religion has undoubtedly had a farreaching influence on the social, cultural and economic development of our Earthly civilization. Religion has at times helped maintain world dominance, caused people to go to war, obstructed scientific understanding and medical treatments. It's also reinforced moral behaviour, provided hope in desperate situations, and provided comfort when facing death. These effects are universal in those they touch and are as powerful as the human struggle to meet basic physical needs. Religious teachings guide the lives of millions daily, however many people remain unappreciative of the fact that these teachings are based on the supernatural experiences of lone individuals. For example, traditional Jews believe that Moses spoke directly to God, a supernatural being. Muslims are taught that Muhammad received the entire text of the Koran via the angel Gabriel from God, and as a consequence the Koran is now the primary source of information for Islam. Mormons believe that their prophet Joseph Smith received his revelation from an angel named Moroni who led him to gold tablets inscribed by information that Mormons live their life by. Mormons also believe they originated from a planet called Kolob, the heavenly
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body nearest to the throne of God. Hindus and Buddhists recognise the existence of limitless non-physical realms, entities, intelligences and states of existence. St Paul began his Christian mission with a supernatural encounter on the way to Damascus when suddenly he heard a voice accompanied by a 'light from heaven' so bright that it knocked him to the ground and blinded him for three days. The visions of the children of Fatima were received from a small woman with large black eyes who seemingly appeared out of thin air. Christianity is founded on a belief in the life, death and resurrection of a supernatural being whose father was a god, his mother was a mortal, and who himself was a spirit-human hybrid. Christians also believe in the spirit worlds of heaven and hell, immaculate conception and the Holy Ghost. We cannot escape it, the Supernatural, whether manifested through spiritual beings thought to be born in human form, or through direct revelations to particular humans, have been responsible for social, political, economic and cultural developments of monumental significance in the history of mankind. However, the earliest religion, believed to be the "original" religion developed by indigenous people is Shamanism. Indeed, the word shaman comes from the Tungusic (Manchuria and Siberia) ‘saman’, meaning Buddhist monk. Shamans, like those as previously mentioned, experience direct contact with supernatural "helping spirits" who share guidance, insight and healing, not just for themselves but for the world in which we live. The practice of shamanism also reveals that the spiritual aspects of all life are interconnected through what is often called the web of life. In the western world we have lost touch with the experience of direct revelation with Spirit and if anyone should mention that they have 'received' telepathic communication from an unseen source they are quickly dispelled as crazy or delusional. Yet there is indeed enough evidence to suggest that some people
receive accurate information from unseen sources that has proven insightful and extremely helpful. Sometimes this information is unsought and can emerge during or after an unusual event that might be called paranormal eg. a near death experience (NDE), an out of body experience (OBE), after death communication, a crop circle encounter, or other unusual experiences that are beyond the range of ordinary human experience and are referred to as Exceptional Human Experiences (EHE). As diverse as these experiences are they all share commonalities. There is an internal structure to the experience, there is a predictive after effect of the experience, and there is a particular personality type that is more prone to these experiences known as an ‘encounter prone personality.’ This personality could also be called a shamanic personality. Shamans of indigenous cultures and people who have these seemingly supernatural experiences are one and the same, and if modern westerners having these experiences were existing in an indigenous culture they would be deemed shamans. Dr Ken Ring, psychologist and author of The Omega Project: Near Death Experiences, UFO Encounters and Mind at Large, states "when one looks beneath the surface of these divergent experiences one finds a common structural basis that binds them. To understand this we need a template for the shamanic initiation experience". Shamanic initiation often takes the form of a sickness and the cure is the discovery of the vocation. Individuals who have a shamanic initiation event may already be 'sensitive' or show signs of 'exceptional giftedness'. Shamans can often become sick when they are young. During their illness, they may see visions of spirits or meet the ghosts of their ancestors. Shamanism can also be inherited through a family line. Illness is not the only way for an individual to be initiated into shamanism, but it is certainly through a traumatic experience that they meet 'the spirits'.
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Already we can see similarities between shamans and close encounter experiencers emerging with sensitivity or giftedness, seeing visions, meeting entities and the experiences following genetic lines. Another dramatic way to become a shaman is to be struck by lightning and survive. The Greeks believed a person struck by lightning was in possession of magical powers, and in tribal cultures throughout the world lightning shamans are venerated and feared as mighty shamans. Under this definition, author of ‘Saved by the Light’ and ‘At Peace in the Light,’ Dannion Brinkley, who was struck by lightning, had a near death experience, then clawed his way back to life, is indeed a modern lightning shaman. Following the initial event of sickness or trauma, the individual is separated from his 'tribe' and put into the hands of his/her shamanic trainer. Dr Ring states, "the apprentice is required to undergo various ordeals, both physical and psychological, as his training progresses. Often, as is well known, these rites involve a p o w e r f u l dismemberment and reconstitutive motif as the candidate undergoes a death-and-rebirth ordeal, a necessary component for all true initiations of course, as well as the experiential foundations for a new sense of identity as a shaman". Here we can liken this to the close encounter experience where an individual has contact with ETs usually while in an altered state of consciousness, then is taken away to undergo a physical examination or some type of study. In the Betty and Barney Hill incident, Betty Hill underwent an amniocentesis prenatal diagnostic test at the hands of her ET abductors, and both Betty and Barney had skin scrapings taken. Further to the shamanic experience, Dr Ring states, "sacred mysteries are disclosed to the individual as he learns to enter into otherworldly realms and acquires his particular shamanic skills, his power animals, sacred songs, secret language, and so forth. After his initiation is complete, he returns to his community as a healer, a psychopomp, a master of ecstasy, a mystic and visionary as a man
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(or woman). In short, who now knows how to live in two worlds: the world of the soul as well as that of the body. And though indispensable to the welfare of his community, he often remains somewhat apart from it precisely because of his special knowledge and his unusual and sometimes disturbing presence". If we take this model of the shamanic initiation and lay it over the alien abduction experience we can see that it follows a similar pattern. During the medical examination the individual often remains entranced and this can be accompanied by paralysis. Included with this ordeal is telepathic communication from ETs, especially to calm the individual if they are upset.
Then they are returned to their ordinary world where they may not have any immediate memory of this experience, but with transformation already beginning to bubble through their system. It is not uncommon for the memories of the experience to begin to bleed through into normal awareness hours, days, months or even years later, creating the birth/death experience as the individual no longer feels that anything they once believed is true. Their world may seem to spin out of control as they slowly feel their personal identity and grip on reality disappear. They can often feel like Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall and broke into a million pieces and don't know how to put themselves back
together again. However, to do so in shamanic practice is called soul retrieval, where the parts of the individual that "splintered off" as a result of their experience are retrieved and once again integrated. While their experience may have been frightening, disturbing and traumatising, the remarkable thing is the after-affects of these types of experiences are very similar to the after effects of near death experiences. Close encounter experiencers are changed by their experiences emotionally, socially and spiritually. Their personalities often take on a different persona and they become highly creative, artistic and/or move into the healing fields, whether it is traditional, complimentary or spiritual medicine. These people often make lifestyle changes that are in alignment with the transformation within them. S o m e t i m e s individuals feel that information has been 'downloaded' into their mind which they understand while in the altered state of consciousness. However, once returned to ordinary reality, they have a hard time remembering the information clearly, and only have a sense of an after-image of the impression it left on them. There is an unmistakable similarity between NDEs, alien abduction experiences and other paranormal experiences that leave no doubt that individuals have been "shamanized". The appearance of spirits, the element of separation, the death-and-rebirth motifs which concern loss of identity, the download of esoteric knowledge, and the return to the physical world with a special sense of purpose particularly towards caring for the Earth and all life on it, all add up to shamanic initiation. What does this mean for Humankind? Dr Ken Ring, among others, proposes that "shamanic experiences are to educate the soul. Shamanic visionary encounters are as much a prod to our next level of consciousness as rapidly blooming sexual urges are a prod to a teenager's move from childhood to
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adolescence". Terence McKenna proposes that we are "coming to the end of historical time when", as he puts it, "we will live in hyperspace, having interiorized the body and exteriorized the soul and dwell in the realm of full imaginative possibility.� It is possible there exist doorways in
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the human mind that can lead us to other realms where information that is helpful to our personal growth, both individually and collectively, is accessible. We may not ordinarily access this information in our daily lives while we are distracted with the business of living, but are catapulted into these
realms in times of trauma or chronic stress. This duress opens gateways to the paranormal which prods us to open our minds and grow beyond who we are to find all types of solutions and insights to our experience of being human, some we may not have been seeking. The fascination here is that not only do individuals grow from these experiences of trauma or duress, but they grow in spite of them. Perhaps it is this latent ability of human beings that is the most fascinating of all. It may be that Earth has always had shamans who return from their cosmic quest with a strong feeling of stewardship of the planet, with strong feelings of other-world families and a connectedness to all life in the universe. It may also be a possibility that, as Dr Ken Ring proposes, "Earth has its requirements and produces its own form of shamanically oriented steward". The real caretakers of the planet may not be the aliens as some close encounter experiencers suggest, but the close encounter experiencers themselves who have been the recipients of the seeds of earthly salvation planted into the psyches of receptive and sensitive human beings. They have been opened up to the transcendental order and implanted with the "gifts of the gods" whoever they are.
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UPDATE! BLUE MOUNTAINS UNDERGROUND
ADVANCED SPACE TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY BASES AND BEYOND! Rex Gilroy ©2011 The Gilroys' book "Blue Mountains Triangle -- Secret Underground Australian/ American Bases and the ET connection” [URU Publications 2006] continues to be a huge success, and with an up-date of the continuing expansion of these vast complexes a sequel is already in the preparation stage. What began as a small underground Australian Army communications base [one of many across Australia] in 1938 in the event that Japan might go to war and attempt the invasion of this country, was with the onset of the Cold War, turned into a joint Australian-American nationwide project for the top secret development of nuclear weapons. Then, suddenly in the mid-1960s, the purpose of these centres changed to the development of a technologically advanced space-travel
project, employing a technology not officially known on the surface, and one which appears to have been provided by a 'friendly' ET civilisation somehow having come into contact with the US military/ NASA. The full story is to be found in the above book. Based upon diagrams produced secretly by a former employee of the Burragorang Valley 'underland' complex, passed on to the late Don Boyd, then editor of "Strange Phenomena" Magazine, copies were done for me by Don. As I had been researching this complex since the mid1960s, these diagrams were a big help to me. The publication of these diagrams in "Blue Mountains Triangle" caused a sensation. However, since then, with the assistance of other UFOlogists around the country having provided me with new
information, it is now possible to present an up-date of base extension localities as shown in the revised map published in this article. There is much extra information on each new complex far too lengthy for this article, and which will appear in the Gilroy's ‘Blue Mountains Triangle’ sequel. ***** Beginning with the Blue Mountains complexes of Burragorang and Wollemi in the 1960s, underground tunnels for road and rail links were begun to other complexes long under way in the Wollondilly Valley to the south, from where further link-ups were made with complexes beneath MittagongBowral and Goulburn, from where tunnels linked the Nowra, and Canberra ACT complexes together in turn joining up with another massive complex in the CoomaSnowy Mountains region.
[above] This 1980 map shows the distribution of the major underground bases [ie the large clear squares], linked by road and rail transportation tunnels which pass through town and city-size centres [marked by the small black squares]. The road/rail tunnel networks connect to coastal undersea city/nuclear submarine and spacecraft launching facilities. [right] A recent revised map of the Blue Mountains and connecting underground bases. Sketch copyright © Rex Gilroy 2011
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In more recent times the authors have learnt of a small complex becoming operational beneath Yass, which in turn now links Canberra to the lately expanded Cowra base, which is now also linked to another large growing complex beneath the Junee district. Over recent years underground road/rail tunnels have linked Junee to Cooma. From the Cowra complex tunnels now extend through a small centre at Blayney to Orange, the growing Mudgee 'underland' and the equally expanding Dubbo complex. The Wollemi underground complex, a later expansion of the Burragorang-Katoomba 'mother' base, has grown to include new developments in the Newnes-Glen Davis area [where some strange phenomena are lately being reported]. Both the Newcastle and Wollemi complexes have links to other new bases at Singleton and the Barrington Tops, where a vast 'underland' takes in the Muswellbrook and Scone newly completed bases; these in turn being linked in the usual manner to growing bases at Nundle, Tamworth and Armidale. Not far west of the Katoomba-Burragorang 'Underlands' lie those of Kanangra, and Oberon to the north, which is linked to Lithgow and Bathurst. The foregoing may sound complicated but can be followed on the map. Tens of thousands of people have been living deep beneath the earth thanks to highly advanced technology since the construction of this vast network of bases and city/suburban-size living complexes got under way in the 1950s-1960s. They often extend down kilometres, and of course are not alone, for such vast underground operations virtually already cover the United States. Besides the development of an advanced space travel technology it is certain that, should some
Plan of the Wollemi underground Australian/ US secret space technology base, prepared from a 1980 map obtained by the late Don Boyd, then editor of "Strange Phenomena" magazine. Sketch copyright Š Rex Gilroy 2011
catastrophe occur worldwide on the surface, millions of people could survive deep beneath the earth for years until it was safe to re-emerge on the surface. By then, perhaps with the discovery of other worlds in space capable of supporting human life, the advanced space craft developed in these complexes, where future scientists are born and educated, we would presumably be able to journey to these worlds and create civilisation anew; provided of course they are not already inhabited by intelligent beings unwilling to receive us! Even if only a single planet could be colonised to preserve our species, our technology would enable us to reach out further into space. Our destiny is to explore and colonise other worlds beyond our own. The Universe awaits! *****
Diagram [not to scale] shows the general layout around the subterranean Australian/American secret underground space technology research base in the Burragorang Valley. True distance from Katoomba to Warragamba is about 17 miles. In 1977 the late Don Boyd, editor of "Strange Phenomena" magazine, drew this imaginary sketch for an article by Rex Gilroy on the subject. People on remote dirt tracks even on the Burragorang fringe have often heard the throb and rumbling of machinery coming from beneath the earth. Sketch by the late Don Boyd, Psychic Australian Magazine.
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Not every underground complex is for the purpose of space travel technology but are massive domestic centres containing towns, even cities connected by underground road and rail tunnels [one only has to catch a train in Sydney's underground railway system to known what I am saying]. This mighty system of inter-connecting underground centres has grown tremendously over the past 60 years or so, a secret agreement was made between the US and Australian Chifley Governments, to expand the Burragorang military communications base and others Australia-wide to what the enterprise has become today. Another aspect of the underground bases is the connection of some to the undersea naval complexes where are there are facilities for nuclear-powered submarines and underwater launching bays for saucer-type craft. Over the years eyewitnesses have claimed to have seen these type of spacecraft either suddenly emerge from the ocean to zoom off at incredible speeds, or else descend into the ocean. Such claims have long been commonplace off the Central Coast, and in an area of coastal waters north of Newcastle, while other sightings of oceanemerging saucer-type craft have been occurring off Wollongong and the Nowra area for just as long. The submarines are said by the late Don Boyd's informant to voyage to other undersea bases off the American, South American and Canadian coasts, as well as Europe on various missions. 'Flying Saucers' and other strange craft have been seen by night as well as day, flying in and out of the Burragorang and Wollondilly Valleys, while such goings on are seemingly commonplace over the vast Wollemi wilderness. These are well-known
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flight bases, although sightings of mystery craft emerging from camouflaged launching sites in the Snowy Mountains underground Base area are well known to locals of the 'high country' there. The Tidbinbilla National Park mountain country rises up over the western region of the Canberra ACT underground complex, and campers have occasionally reported seeing a strange glow emanating from behind a particular mountain, followed by glowing objects seen to appear and fly off. Similar UFO sightings are regularly made around the Junee area where there exists a still-expanding base.
The same basic accounts have come from eyewitnesses in the vicinity of the Cowra, Blayney, Orange, Mudgee and Dubbo complexes.
have been experienced by people in daytime in the Munghorn Gap area and elsewhere in the Munghorn Range.
The Mudgee complex is of interest lately, not only for the increasing number of spacecraft claimed seen flying out of the Munghorn Gap area east of Mudgee, but also for the number of reports of campers out in the bush at night having heard the unmistakable sounds of 'traffic' and trainlike sounds, emerging from beneath the earth while lying in their sleeping bags, while in some places rumbling sounds, sometimes accompanied by earth tremors,
In "Blue Mountains Triangle" I have described how there are thousands of people living normal lives 'down there', going to schools, universities, working in factories, shops etc, going home to houses in cities and towns linked by road and rail transport.The trains are of the bullet variety, with vehicles of all kinds, cars, buses, trucks etc moving back and forth on roads 3-4 kilometres beneath the earth.There are also military bases, where American and Australian troops are trained, both for Base defence and also secret operations above ground.
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I have mentioned in previous newsletters that there is a massive space station situated far beyond Earth, which circles our planet from deep space and which is visible with telescopes or good binoculars every few months over the Blue MountainsBurragorang-Wollondilly region if not elsewhere. It is to this that space craft fly from these bases to dock for a time before resuming their missions, which are believed to include trips to a lunar base, from where other expeditions are sent to a Mars colony!
[above] This huge glowing object descended from the clouds at sunset, Saturday 2nd March 1996. It was seen by many people flying over Valley Heights coming from the southeast at high speed. Many people observed its shape to be saucer-like, and that it changed flight angles as it flew over Bullaburra, adopting a vertical position as it descended on its approach to Kings Tableland south of Wentworth Falls township. Here it slowed down, to be met by a military helicopter [barely seen to right of UFO], which escorted it across Burragorang Valley, where it descended into the Australian/American 'base' area. This photo was taken by Mr Frank Beale as the craft flew over Kings Tableland. The 'official' RAAF explanation to the many eyewitness phone calls? The object was nothing more than a "large meteorite". Obviously this was a passenger-carrying meteorite! Photo courtesy Frank Beale. [below] A Burragorang Valley camouflaged underground Saucer Base' reconstruction. When in use, doors covered in shrubbery slide open to allow spacecraft take-offs and reentries.Sketch copyright Š Rex Gilroy 2011.
There have been rumours for years among UFOlogists that secret bases already exist on the Moon and Mars, established years ago by NASA's space scientists and the military and of which the American public remain ignorant. It is certain that the Blue Mountains complexes play a major part in these operations, manned as they are by US and Australian scientists who, with their immediate families were secreted below ground, or else their parents were before them back in the 1950s and 1960s when a top secret recruitment drive was undertaken to reign in technical personnel. In other words there are people 'down there' who were born there and have never seen the surface world! The Australian underground 'space-bases' is a complex subject far too detailed to properly explain in this article. We therefore direct the reader to our book "Blue Mountains Triangle - Secret Underground Australian/American Bases and the ET Connection" [URU Publications 2006].
For more about the Blue Mountains, underground secret bases and time windows, see "Blue Mountains Triangle Secret Underground Australian/ American Bases and the ET Connection" by Rex and Heather Gilroy. [URU Publications 2006].
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WOMEN'S UFO SYMPOSIUM TAK ES TAKES ON ET HUNTERS' 'OLD BO YS CLUB' BOYS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/firstever-all-womens-ufo_n_1115052.html?ref=ufo
The Book of Odds, an online reference site, indicates that men are more likely than women to report witnessing UFOs. And for decades, presenters at UFO conferences have been predominantly male -- until now. The first annual Women's UFO Symposium is gearing up to offer a new perspective and restore balance to the growing world of gatherings where people present their ideas and experiences in UFOlogy. "Women are not on the forefront of many UFO conferences. It's kind of an old boys club," said symposium organizer Paola Harris. "There are so many wonderful researchers out there that have literally dedicated their lives to a cause, and they deserve to balance the energy." The conference will take place May 1920, 2012 (men are welcome to attend), in Glen Rose, Texas, near the site of a wellpublicized group of UFO sightings in the town of Stephenville in 2008, when hundreds of people reported different types of UFOs, triangular and disc-shaped. Some of the eyewitness accounts described unidentified craft larger than a football field. "The ladies are great, but for me, there are two historical significances," said Harris. "Number one, that it's being held near Stephenville, the site of the 2008 UFO event, and where Stephenville newspaper reporter Angelia Joiner lost her job over reporting this case, and we're giving her a special award." The second historical event is the 65th anniversary of the 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting that started the modern era of reports. The keynote speaker at the women's conference will be Arnold's daughter, Kim, speaking for the first time about her father's experiences, not just with his initial historic 1947 UFO encounter but with subsequent ones. "I convinced Kim, for historical purposes, to talk about the fact that her father had more than one sighting," Harris said. "There's material around Kenneth Arnold that isn't very well known, and as an investigative journalist, I want that out there."
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"At the end of the day, it's the information, and these women are very respected in the field of UFOlogy. These are credible women who are used to the platform of UFO conferences and seminars, so I think it's going to be something very unique." WHAT ARE THE WAITUHI LIGHTS? 4 December 2011 http://tinyurl.com/cny7ak7
A father and daughter from Waituhi, New Zealand shot some video of strange lights in the night sky on Friday. Kharma Jones and her father Matthew spied the noiseless, hovering aircraft while on a walk in the town, and, luckily, had a digital camera with them. While the video quality and camera work are shaky at best, the pair managed to capture a minute of footage which is hard to explain as any kind of conventional aircraft. What appear to be three distinct flying objects, with a triangular light pattern, are seen hovering in the pitch-black night-time sky. Lights on the craft can be clearly seen "winking out" which is not a normal occurrence for pilots navigating through the air so close together. And why are these objects hovering, noiselessly above? There are no known aircraft which can perform these kinds of aerial manoeuvres. So what are they? That's what the Jones' would like to know and they're appealing to the public for help. "They were visible for about five minutes and then two of the orange lights went off on their own and they all disappeared like someone had turned a light switch off," said Mr Jones. "I can't believe no one else saw it. I don't know what to think."
A defence expert has compared the circular grids to Area 51, the American military test base rumoured to be the secret headquarters for examining aliens and UFOs. Tim Ripley from Jane's Defence Weekly, told the Telegraph: "The picture of the circle looks very like a missile test range, with target and instrumentation set out to record weapon effects. The Americans have lots of these in Nevada - Area 51." Captured in the Gobi desert in 2007, the structures are isolated, but geographically form a midway point between two test bases.The Chinese carry out secret aircraft testing at Ding Xin military airbase, comparatively close to the desert location at 400 miles away.To the other side lies Lop Nur, the site where China tested nuclear bombs between 1967 and 1995. Another theorist suggested the grid mapped out the exact replica of Washington DC's city plan, provoking fears of a different kind of an invasion.The street plans might be used as simulation practice for Chinese missiles.
STRANGE CHINESE GRID PATTERNS ON GOOGLE EARTH http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/ 11/15/google-earth-china-desert-patternsaliens_n_1094704.html?ref=ufo
Mystery gridlines in the Chinese desert that were captured by Google Earth have spawned wild and worrying conspiracy theories. Labyrinth-like, the pictures depict apparently man-made structures that look like thick white lines visible from space. Others show circular swirls, with jets surrounded by military trucks at the centre. The puzzling patterns have prompted the question: What on earth is China up to?
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'SP ACECRAFT' 'SPACECRAFT' SPOTTED NEAR MERCURY December8,2011 http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/ world/12268632/spacecraft-spotted-nearmercury/
UFO hunters claim to have spotted a planet sized alien spacecraft hovering next to Mercury.The mysterious object appears in a video of a massive burst of energy, known as a coronal mass ejection, coming from the sun. Analysis of the video shows an object which only becomes visible after the solar flare passes through an area of apparently empty space. This, conspiracy theorists say, is proof of the existence of a huge alien spacecraft using a 'cloaking device'. A Youtube video analysing the discovery has received over 165,000 hits in just a few days as conspiracy theorists excitedly discuss their new 'discovery'. The video's narrator, known as siniXster, is adamant he has found proof of intelligent life in outer space. "Holy smokes. Look at that, that is definitely some sort of manufactured object. It's cylindrical on either side, it has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me and it's very obviously cloaked." Experts aren't so quick to jump on the 'theDeath-Star-is-coming-to-get-us' bandwagon, however. Nathan Rich from the United States Naval Research Laboratory says the mystery object is simply a digital hangover from an earlier image.
Dr Rich explained that to ensure the image of a solar flare stands out, researchers will compare the images with photos from the day before, then scrub out any objects that appear twice. Speaking to The Daily Mail, astronomer Dr Heather Couper agrees."It's imaging processing that they haven't got their heads around. No way could it be an alien spaceship the size of Mercury because Mercury is the size of our moon and we would know about it." But then she would say that, wouldn't she? SETI BACK ON TRACK AFTER US MILIT ARY FUNDING MILITARY December 7, 2011 http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112435819/ seti-back-on-track-after-us-military-funding
The Search for Extra Terrestrial intelligence (SETI) is back on track after funding from the U.S. Air Force Space Command. The U.S. Air Force has paid SETI the funds it needs to restart its efforts in looking for extra terrestrial life. SETI plans to check out the new habitable exoplanets recently discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope to determine if they might be a home to an alien civilization. The U.S. Air Force Space Command helped fund SETI because it said it is interested in using the organization's detection instruments for "space situational awareness." The Air Force said SETI's ATA could be handy in picking up transmissions from spacecraft, which could help existing military Space Surveillance Network keep an eye on where they are. The ATA is a set of 42 radio dishes located about 300 miles northeast of San Francisco. It began scanning the skies for "technosignatures," which are electromagnetic signals that could hint at the presence of an intelligent alien civilization. 'UFO' TOWED THROUGH US TOWN CAUSES P ANIC PANIC December 16 2011 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/ 8391018/ufo-towed-through-us-townpanics-locals
Residents of a small town in the US could not believe their eyes when they saw a huge mysterious craft shaped life a flying saucer on the back of a truck driving through town. Worried residents called the local newspaper to report a UFO after they saw
the 10m-wide craft, covered in a large white tarp, being driven down US 77 in Cowley County in Kansas on Monday, local TV station ABC7 reports. "People were calling in saying, 'Oh they think they found a flying saucer. It looks like a flying saucer to us and we don't know for sure what it is'," said Donetta Godsey from the Winfield Daily Courier. The transport company even called the town sheriff to make sure officers were on hand to ensure the craft made it through safely. Police helped manoeuvre the craft for nearly an hour, removing signs from a roundabout because the truck had to drive over the middle. Deputy sheriff Bill Mueller finally explained the top secret object, saying it was an experimental aircraft from weapons company Northrop Grumman, possibly a new unmanned drone, that was being transported to Maryland. LIFE SPOTTED ON VENUS - RUSSIAN SCIENTIST January 20 2012 http://en.rian.ru/science/20120120/170865269.htmlŠ LeonidKsanfomaliti/SolarSystemResearch
An article published in the Solar System Research magazine reported Several objects resembling living beings were detected on photos made by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission. Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences published research that analyzed the photos from the Venus mission made by a Soviet landing probe, Venus-13, in 1982. The photos feature several objects, which Ksanfomaliti said, resembled "a disk," "a black flap" and "a scorpion." All of them "emerge, fluctuate and disappear," the scientist said, referring to their changing location on different photos and traces on the ground. "What if we forget about the current theories about the nonexistence of life on Venus, let's boldly suggest that the objects' morphological features would allow us to say that they are living," Solar System Research quoted Ksanfomaliti as saying. No data proving the existence of life on Venus, where the ground temperature is 464 degrees Celsius (867 degrees Fahrenheit), has ever been found.
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DID THE US ZAP PHOBOSGRUNT? 18 January 2012 http:// www.newscientist.com/ article/dn21366-did-the-us-accidentallyzap-phobosgrunt.html
First there were cries of sabotage, although there was never a clear motive. Now the bizarre suggestion that the US shot down Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probe has morphed into a slightly less strange claim. A Russian newspaper has reported that radar beamed from a US military base could have accidentally damaged the probe, leading to its demise. The spacecraft launched on 9 November with the aim of returning soil samples from the surface of Mars's largest moon, Phobos, but mysteriously failed to fire its upperstage rocket and became stranded in Earth orbit until it re-entered the atmosphere on Sunday. Yesterday the Russian newspaper Kommersant quoted an unnamed source who said that tests are being undertaken in Russia to determine whether radar beams from a US military base could have caused a failure in the Phobos-Grunt power system that prevented its engines from firing. The unnamed source implicates the US military radar station on Kwajalein atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands. At the time of Phobos-Grunt's malfunction, the source says that the station was using its radar to bounce signals off asteroids, a standard technique for imaging asteroids and measuring their distances. So any such USinflicted damage to Phobos-Grunt could have been accidental, not sabotage, as had been darkly hinted earlier by Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos.
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Yuri Koptev, chairman of the scientific and technical council of the Russian Technologies State Corporation and a former head of the Russian space agency, is chairing an investigation into the failure.The findings are due to be made public on 26 January, and are sure to undergo tough scrutiny. The issue became politically charged when the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, told reporters in late November that financial, disciplinary or even criminal charges could be used to punish those found responsible for space mishaps. Meanwhile, tracking teams are still working to pinpoint whether Phobos-Grunt hit the surface, and if so, where. CHILEAN GENERAL TO SPEAK AT UFO CONFERENCE January 20, 2012 http://ilovechile.cl/2012/01/20/retired-chileangeneral-speak-ufo-conference-usa/45727
It has been announced that Retired Chilean Air Force General (Ret.) Ricardo Bermúdez will speak at the annual conference of the International UFO Congress. Retired General Ricardo Bermúdez became head of CEFFA, Committee for the Study of Aerial Anomalous Phenomena in 1997. He also offered a course at Universidad de Santiago offering skills in scientific research and critical thinking in regards to unidentified objects in the sky. Maureen Elsberry, one of the conference organizers said they are very excited to have General Bermúdez at the event. "This is the first time in the U.S. that such a high-ranking government official has spoken to the public about an official government sponsored UFO project. It shows how serious other countries take the subject of UFOs. It's something they feel is worthy of official investigation." There have been many claims of UFO sightings or unexplained noises throughout Chile, with a high concentration in the north of the country. A famous case was recorded in 1971 with witnesses including three police officers, a truck driver, a fishing boat and a journalist between Antogagasta, Tocopilla and Iquique. An even older claim is that of a sighting in Copiapó in 1864. Many of the claims of unexplained sightings occur before, during or after significant natural events. Both the February 2010 earthquake and Pueyhue volcanic eruption were followed by claims of UFO sightings and other mysteries. Two weeks before the Earthquake which rocked Chile in 2010, there were reports of mysterious sounds, "like thunder, but much louder and with no lightning or other signs of storms". After the quake, passengers on a bus travelling to Iquique were reported in the La Segunda
newspaper saying they had seen "a humanoid of over three meters tall". The conference will take place on February 25th in Fountain Hills, Arizona in the USA. UFOs are also referred to in Chile as OVNIs. While not a UFO, the remnants of the failed Russian probe Phobus Grunt fell into the ocean of the coast of Chile earlier this week. NEOSHIELD TO ASSESS EARTH DEFENCE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienceenvironment-16651642
NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision path with our planet.The effort is being led from the German space agency's (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, and had its kick-off meeting this week. It's a major EU-funded initiative that will pull together all the latest science, initiate a fair few laboratory experiments and new modelling work, and then try to come to some definitive positions. Industrial partners, which include the German, British and French divisions of the big Astrium space company, will consider the engineering architecture required to deflect one of these bodies out of our path. Should we kick it, try to tug it, or even blast
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it off its trajectory? "We're going to collate all the scientific information with a view to mitigation," explains project leader Prof Alan Harris at DLR. It's likely that NEOShield will, at the end of its three-and-a-half-year study period, propose to the politicians that they launch a mission to demonstrate the necessary technology. The NEO threat may seem rather distant, but the geological and observational records tell us it is real. On average, an object about the size of car will enter the Earth's atmosphere once a year, producing a spectacular fireball in the sky. About every 2,000 years or so, an object the size of a football field will impact the Earth, causing significant local damage. And then, every few million years, a rock turns up that has a girth measured in kilometres. An impact from one of these will produce global effects. New telescopes are coming that will significantly improve detection success. In the meantime, the prudent course would be to develop a strategy for the inevitable. The strongest mitigation candidates currently would appear to be: Kinetic impactor: This mission might look like Nasa's Deep Impact mission of 2005, or the Don Quijote mission that Europe designed but never launched. It involves perhaps a shepherding spacecraft releasing an impactor to strike the big rock or comet. This gentle nudge, depending when and how it's done, could change the velocity of the rock ever so slightly to make it arrive "at the crossroads" sufficiently early or late to miss Earth. "Gravity tractor":This involves positioning a spacecraft close to a target object and using long-lived ion thrusters to maintain the separation between the two. Because of gravitational attraction between the spacecraft and the NEO, it is possible to pull the asteroid or comet off its trajectory.
"It's like using gravity as a tow-rope," says Prof Harris. "It's not straightforward of course. Can you be sure those thrusters will keep working for the time they're needed - a decade or more? Do you have confidence that the spacecraft can look after itself autonomously all that time? These are the sorts of technical problems we will look at." One method often discussed but about which there is great uncertainty is "blast deflection" - the idea that you would detonate a nuclear device close to, or on the surface of (even buried under the surface), an incoming rock. The Russian members of the NEOShield consortium will take a close look at the option. "What we want to do is take a comprehensive view, to try to draw everything we know together, with the right expertise so that this thing has momentum," commented Dr Ralph Cordey, from Astrium UK. "We will look at the spectrum of techniques, trying to see which ones might be applicable in different cases. And then taking it to a level where we do some detailed design work on a possible mission to demonstrate one or more of these techniques." POLICE IN MEXICO CALLED TO INVESTIGATE LARGE GL OWING UFO GLOWING http://www.examiner.com/unexplainedphenomena-in-national/police-mexico-calledto-investigate-large-glowing-ufo-video
On January 23, 2012, the Municipal Public Security Forces of Mexicali were called into action due to reports of a UFO spotted in the skies above Mexicali, Baha California, Mexico. Hundreds of witnesses saw and reported the large bright unidentified flying object that appeared at approximately 7:43 p.m. According to the website UFOs On Earth http://www.ufosonearth.com/site/, Martin Ruelas, supervisor of the east area of the Dirección de Seguridad Pública Municipal
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(DSPM) observed that there were flashing blue and yellow lights affixed to the glowing white object. The DSPM is a police and public safety unit in Mexico. Authorities were unable to identify the UFO, and the movements of the object made it impossible for police to determine its location or final destination. The UFO was recorded by urban security cameras in Mexico, and the video has been made available to the public. The video shows that the UFO hovered motionless for quite some time when it first appeared on camera even though reports said it was moving too quickly to be followed. From the images on the video, it is clear that this UFO appeared in a heavily populated area. It isn't surprising that the witnesses numbered in the hundreds given the UFO's prime location. Even though this UFO sighting was seen by hundreds and caught on camera, the quality of the video makes it unlikely that the object will ever be identified. FRAN DRESCHER: ALIENS ABDUCTED ME, IMPLANTED A CHIP IN MY HAND http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/ 27/idUS251109882320120127
If you ever run into Fran Drescher, be careful what you say in her presence … they might be listening. The "they" to whom we refer: aliens, the ones Drescher says abducted her and implanted a chip into her hand. The star of "The Nanny" and the TV Land sitcom "Happily Divorced" tells The Huffington Post that, in her younger years, she was abducted by aliens. And she was not alone: Drescher says her ex-husband, "Happily Divorced" producer and writer Peter Marc Jacobson, was also abducted by other-world beings. "You know, it's funny, because Peter and I both saw (aliens) before we knew each other, doing the same thing, driving on the road with our dads," Drescher told the website, "in all seriousness." "We were both in junior high. A few years later, we met, and we realized that we had the same experience. I think that somehow we were programmed to meet," Drescher says. "We both have this scar. It's the exact same scar on the exact same spot." Drescher continued that her ex wasn't totally convinced her joint alien experience theory was correct, and that he thinks she got a scar on her hand from a drill bit or a hot cup of water. She begs to differ. "I said to him, that's what the aliens programmed us to think. But really, that's where the chip is."
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MYSTERIOUS ENERGY BEAM ABOVE THE BOSNIAN PYRAMID OF THE SUN January 26 2012 http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/ 2012/01/26/mysterious-energy-beamabove-the-bosnian-pyramid-of-the-sun/
A team of physicists detected an energy beam coming through the top of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun. The radius of the beam is 4.5 meters with a frequency of 28 kHz. The beam is continuous and its strength grows as it moves up and away from the pyramid.This phenomenon contradicts the known laws of physics and technology. This is the first proof of non-herzian technology on the planet. It seems that the pyramid-builders created a perpetual motion machine a long time ago and this“energy machine” is still working. In the underground labyrinth, in 2010, we discovered three chambers and a small blue lake. Energy screening shows that the ionization level is 43 times higher than the average concentration outside which makes the underground chambers into “healing rooms”. Further electromagnetic detection in 2011 confirmed that levels of negative radiation through the Hartman, Curry and Schneider grids are equal to zero in the tunnels.There was no technical radiation (from power lines and/or other technology) found in the tunnels and no cosmic radioactivity. Ceramic sculptures are positioned over the underground water flows and the negative energy is transformed into positive.
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BOURNEMOUTH RESIDENT MYSTIFIED BY BLUE SPHERE SHOWER’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englanddorset-16754531
A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden. Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm. He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: “[They’re] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar.” The Met Office said the jelly-like substance was “not meteorological”.
Mr Hornsby, a former aircraft engineer, said: “The sky went a really dark yellow colour. As I walked outside to go to the garage there was an instant hail storm for a few seconds and I thought,‘what’s that in the grass’?” Walking around his garden he found many more blue spheres were scattered across the grass. He said:“The have an exterior shell with a softer inner but have no smell, aren’t sticky and do not melt.” Mr Hornsby said he was keeping the balls in his fridge while he tried to find out what they were. Josie Pegg, an applied science research assistant at Bournemouth University, speculated that the apparently strange phenomena might be “marine invertebrate eggs”. “These have been implicated in previous ‘strange goo’ incidents,” she said. “I’d have thought it’s a little early for spawning but I suppose we’ve had a very mild winter. The transmission of eggs on birds’ feet is well documented and I guess if a bird was caught out in a storm this could be the cause.”
THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GARUT? Chris Kaplan http:// www.realitysandwich.com/ great_pyramid_garut
A pyramid far older and larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, may have been discovered in Indonesia. Mount Sadahurip in Garut, West Java, dubbed the "Garut Pyramid," has been undergoing verification tests by the Ancient Catastrophic Disaster Team to see if the mount is indeed based upon a man-made structure. An initial survey determined that the structure is unlikely to be of natural formation. A 3D contour plot of topographical digital data supports the following hypothesis, "There exists an anomaly formation made of cinder cone located on a horizontal unconformity intrusion base." Carbon-14 dating shows that the age of the ancient top soil dates back to at least 6000 BC, while the age of the hard soil in the lower strata is from 7500 BC. Prior to testing, a series of excavations were carried out claiming, "that a number of covert rock inscriptions were spotted," and that the pyramid buried within the hill would be larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Giza. "The height is estimated to reach 200 meters," and "it was figured to have been constructed around 10,000 years ago." The Deutsche Orient-Gesellscaaft (DOG), with research Prof. Bonatz, will meet with another interested researcher, Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, and author of ‘Eden in the East,’ in Bali to discuss a way to fast-track excavation. More research will be necessary to determine the validity of these unorthodox claims.
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consciousness development and research group [qld] contact: Kay McCullock ND, CDRG and CSETI Working Group; 0429 641 222 email: cdrg.contact@gmail.com
blue mountains ufo research group [nsw] contact: Rex Gilroy; (02) 4782 3441; email: randhgilroy@optusnet.com.au website: http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/rexufo/australian-ufos-mainpage.html
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