Nasa Bombs the Moon with no Visible Flash

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A pair of NASA spacecraft smashed into the moon at twice the speed of a bullet, as part of a mission aimed at blasting up signs of water ice.
Pictures of the impact zone were beamed back live to Earth, but the video imagery did not show any signs of a flash.
"It's hard to tell what we saw there," said Michael Bicay, director of science at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.
The first crash took place at 7:31 a.m. ET. That’s when an empty rocket that weighed 2.2 tons hit the crater Cabeus. It was expected to create a crater about 66 feet (20 meters) wide, which is half the length of an Olympic pool. The blast should have kicked up a plume of lunar debris about six miles (10 kilometers) high.
Scientists hoped an analysis of the debris would confirm the theory that water — a key resource if people are going to go back to the moon — is hidden below the barren moonscape.
Trailing behind the rocket was the lunar probe LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite and pronounced L-Cross. For four minutes, the LCROSS shepherding spacecraft sent Earth live pictures of the rocket stage's expected impact zone in multiple wavelengths — and then plunged into the crater itself.
Telescopes focus on crash siteTelescopes around the world — including the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope — aimed their cameras at the moon to capture views of the dust-up.
At least one telescope team, at the MMT Observatory in Arizona, reported spotting a bright debris plume. The visible-light images sent back by LCROSS itself showed no sign of such a plume, although Bicay noted that evidence of a crash did turn up in thermal imagery.
LCROSS project manager Dan Andrews said it was possible that the lighting was bad for the spacecraft's images, and that those images needed to be tweaked to make the debris plume easier to see. The raw images could have been essentially “gray against black,” he said.
“What matters for us is: What is the nature of the stuff that was kicked up going in?” Andrews said. “All nine instruments were working fine and we received good data.”
The data will be analyzed for weeks to come. If the analysis shows no signs of water, that would run counter to recent findings suggesting that lunar soil, also known as regolith, contains more water ice than previously thought.
However, Bicay said there could be other explanations for the absence of a water signal. For example, it may be that the water is unevenly distributed — even within the permanently shadowed polar craters that are thought to be the best prospects for ice mining. Bicay said LCROSS' scientists may have come across a situation familiar to Texas oil wildcatters.
"We may have hit a dry hole rather than a wet hole," he said.
Mission ends after mere monthsLaunched in LCROSS and its bigger rocket stage launched together last June and only separated Thursday night, the last major milestone before the big crash.
The lunar demolition derby was broadcast live on NASA Television and on the Internet. NASA reported that as many as 391,000 Internet users were watching the webcast concurrently. That made it the space agency's third biggest Web video event, behind the space shuttle Discovery's launch and landing in 2005.
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Museums and observatories across the country hosted early-morning LCROSS gatherings, but in most cases, the events didn't live up to advance expectations. At Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory, people who got up early to look for the crash threw confused looks at each other instead.
Telescope demonstrator Jim Mahon called the celestial show "anticlimactic.”
“I was hoping we’d see a flash or a flare,” he said.
The LCROSS probe cost $79 million and was an add-on to a bigger NASA satellite, known as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is now circling the moon.

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How to Watch NASA's Probe Smack the Moon

By Joe RaoSPACE.com Skywatching Columnistposted: 06 October 200903:16 pm ET

Get ready for a unique cosmic collision! Early this coming Friday morning (Oct. 9), NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will end its mission with a bang — literally.

Currently carrying with it the upper stage of the rocket that launched it on its way to the moon on June 18, the game plan is to send that spent rocket motor on a course to smash into the lunar surface. But just not anywhere on the lunar surface, but to a thoroughly scrutinized crater called Cabeus that lies near the moon's south pole and is enveloped in perpetual darkness. The hoped-for resultant effects will be to find hidden water ice frozen inside the crater.

And for seasoned skywatchers here on Earth, it should also produce a visible cloud of ejected material. However, only knowledgeable amateur astronomers with the right equipment will be a able to detect the event. Others can watch the event live on NASA TV.

Smackdown!

The general belief among astronomers is that over the last few billion years, the moon has been bombarded by countless numbers of comets. The water from most of these comets completely sublimated away but if any settled at the bottom of a crater near the moon's poles, these permanently shadowed regions can keep the water from disappearing, remaining as ice for a very long time.

Cabeus is a relatively flat crater about 60 miles in diameter on the moon's south pole that scientists believe may be one of those special cases that might hold water ice in its perpetually shadowed top soil. NASA initially selected a different target for LCROSS, the nearby crater of Cabeus A, but switched to the larger Cabeus because data suggested it had a higher likelihood of containing hidden water ice.

The impact is scheduled to occur this Friday, Oct. 9 at 11:30 UT. That's 7:30 a.m. EDT; 4:30 a.m. PDT. To convert Universal Time to your local time, go here.

Impact will happen less than 10 hours after the spent LCROSS Centaur rocket motor is released and its Shepherding Spacecraft maneuvers into position to trail the Centaur en route to the lunar surface. The 5,000-pound Centaur, is expected to slam into Cabeus at a sharp angle at a speed of 5,600 mph (9,010 kph).

If all goes according to schedule, the Shepherding vehicle, carrying nine science payloads, will follow the Centaur's plunge into the moon, beaming back data live to the Earth. Like a bullet hitting sand, the Centaur's explosive collision is expected to create a crater roughly 60 or 70 feet wide and perhaps as much as 16 feet deep, in the process dredging up approximately 385 tons of lunar dust and soil — enough to fill nearly 18 school buses. In addition to recording the collision, the Shepherding Satellite will fly through the regolith plume thrown up by the collision, just before it too slams into the lunar surface some four minutes later, kicking up its own smaller plume of debris.

But before it's sacrificed in the cause of science, the 1,500-pound Shepherding Spacecraft will utilize its specialized sensors and will look for water's telltale chemical signature within the larger debris plume created by the Centaur, possibly in the form of ice, hydrocarbons or hydrated materials.

How to watch

NASA wants the amateur astronomer community to join in a "citizen scientist" program. Jennifer Heldmann heads the LCROSS observing campaign. "We would like to have as many eyes and instruments watching the impact as possible because this is the way we'll get the most data and the most information as possible."

Those who live to the west of Mississippi River will have the best opportunity because the sky will still be dark. Those living east of the Mississippi will still have the moon in the sky, but either dawn twilight or — in the case of those living along the Atlantic Seaboard — sunrise will have occurred, making for a much brighter sky background. A dark backdrop will be an important prerequisite, since it's estimated that when the debris plume forms on it will be no brighter than a sixth-magnitude star (the threshold of naked-eye visibility), and quite likely even fainter.

If you want to attempt to see the impact yourself, here are some important points to be aware of:

First, you're going to need a moderately large telescope, somewhere on the order of at least 10 to 12 inches of aperture. Smaller telescopes will probably not be able to do the job and you will definitely not see anything using binoculars. You'll likely need to use magnifications in the 250 to 500-power range to have a legitimate chance of getting a glimpse of the dim impact plume.

Keep in mind that high power dilutes the brightness of an image, as well as aggravates any unsteadiness of detail. As a general rule of thumb that the maximum amount of magnification for any telescope is 50-power per inch of aperture.

"But wait a minute," you may protest, "my telescope comes with a special Barlow lens, that the manufacturer promises will double or even triple the magnification of my eyepiece."

True enough. In fact, that aforementioned 500-power is likely achieved by pushing the scope's highest power eyepiece with that very same Barlow lens, which ultimately will result in a dim, impossibly fuzzy image. If you're a beginner, you need to understand that that using a Barlow lens is similar to enlarging a photograph. The negative — like a telescope's image — contains only so much detail, which can be blown up only so far before all you can see is fuzz! So, if you have a 3-inch department store telescope — even if it is blessed with perfect optics — the claim of 500-power is more than three times the limit of the most practical magnification that it can provide.

The impact will take place at the lunar south pole, or on the lower limb of the moon along the dark portion immediately adjacent to the terminator (the line that separates the illuminated day side and the dark night side of the Moon). Try to keep the very bright sunlit portion of the moon out of the field of view as much as possible.

The plume is expected to be in the shape of a "V" but it will be exceedingly small in size relative to the moon itself. According to NASA's Brian H. Day, the dusty material is only expected to rise about 6 miles (10 km) above the lunar surface. From Earth, that would be equal to about one-quarter of 1 percent of the moon's apparent size or about 5.2 arc seconds.

To try and get an idea of just how large this is, point your telescope toward Jupiter which conveniently shines in the southern part of our current evening sky. Jupiter's disk currently measures 45-arc seconds in diameter; so the dust plume from LCROSS would appear only about 1/9 as large as that!

And the plume — if and when it's visible — will not last very long. The best guesstimates are that it will last no more than 2 minutes.

You can get more detailed viewing tips from NASA here.

Observatories expected to participate in the study include the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, Hawaii's Keck and Gemini telescopes, the Magdelena Ridge and Apache Ridge observatories in New Mexico, the MMT Observatory in Arizona and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) now circling the moon.

Lastly, you can watch the event live here on NASA TV, beginning at 6:30 a.m. EDT/3:30 a.m. PDT.

Source: SPACE.com

President Obama and UFOs

President Elect Obama appears to have very little interest in UFOs or outer space, but that may change quickly after he is sworn in.
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President Elect Obama appears to have very little interest in UFOs or outer space. During a news flap over statements made by Shirley MacLaine last year about a UFO sighting that former Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich had, a number of other Democratic Candidates were asked how they felt about UFOs. Barack Obama told the late Tim Russert of NBC News that he was more concerned about improving the quality of people’s lives here on Earth, than space aliens.
Obviously preferring to focus his attention on solving the terrestrial economic problems of U.S. Citizens, Barack Obama has also sent strong signals to NASA that he has little interest in spending billions of tax dollars on space exploration. He stood with Florida Senator and former Astronaut Bill Nelson at the Kennedy Space Center this past summer to declare that although he would support continued “basic research and development” at NASA over the long term, he would need to find ways to pay for it that would not take money away from programs that help people here on Earth in the short term.
Obama and many other democrats believe that promises made by President Bush regarding future NASA programs involving the Moon and Mars have always been strong on rhetoric and short on funding. Unlike the funded mandate outlined in his famous “We shall go to the Moon…” speech that the late President John F. Kennedy delivered to NASA’s doorstep, the most that Bush and the various incarnations of the U.S. Congress that have existed during his Administration have done is sent the space agency a few dollars to develop vehicles needed to get to those places.
Apart from the fact that big money for space programs has been a hard sell even during the best of economic times in recent years, it’s doubtful that President Elect Obama will be motivated to do much more than just keep the lights on at NASA and allow current plans for the International Space Station to go forward as long as they don’t require too much funding. The real question is what will happen after he is sworn in as the forty-forth President of the United States.
I don’t imagine that there were too many Champaign corks popping at the Pentagon after Obama won the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. President Elect Obama is known to prefer diplomacy to military solutions. Whether he will go as far as former President Jimmy Carter did by trying to dismantle the CIA and cut military spending by billions when he got into office remains to be seen. What does seem to be certain is that not all U.S. Presidents receive the real E.T. briefing. Carter tried to get it from former CIA Director George H. Bush before he replaced Bush with a new director, but was turned down.
Times have changed and it’s entirely possible that Obama will receive a briefing about UFOs and Aliens whether anyone in the military or intelligence gathering community wants him to have it or not. Given the number of UFOs seen worldwide over the past few years and the obvious military responses in the form of jet and helicopter chases, Obama may have to simply join a show already in progress. If that happens, look for the tell-tale changes in Obama’s attitude towards UFOs, Aliens or Space Programs. A sudden and unexpected dependency on the military, a lack of interest in cutting their budget and overall adjustment of his political views may be one sign, but probably not the biggest.
I would expect a world-minded politician like Barack Obama to support UFO disclosure given the diplomatic and international relations possibilities such a move would offer our nation. Especially if he was convinced that extraterrestrials were really visiting our planet and impacting worldwide economies and technologies. Knowing that he could not affect change overnight, Obama might consider supporting disclosure with the hope that he could force the ultimate unveiling of alternative energy sources and new energy efficient technologies that have may have been developed as a result of captured or bartered UFO technology.
Several staff members working for movers and shakers in the Democratic Party have already claimed that some sort of ‘summit’ took place shortly after the Dennis Kucinich UFO affair last year to discuss how the Party faithful would react to UFO incidents in the future. However, most of these Party players probably do not have the clout needed to find out what’s really happening with ET’s and our government. Their responses would merely offer preplanned, politically correct lip service to the subject and Obama doesn’t seem to be interested in that.
As President, Barack Obama’s disinterest in UFOs may serve him better than Bill Clinton’s interest in the subject. Bill and Hilary went out of their way to dig up information about extraterrestrials and the government during their time in the White House. The result was lackluster at best. Military members sent them serve serving reports and briefing statements indicating that there was nothing to the Roswell UFO incident and political cronies were stonewalled at every turn as their tried to unravel the UFO mystery from inside the Oval Office.
I think it’s possible that some UFO insiders in the government may look at President Elect Obama as a sort of ‘clean slate’ type of politician given his statements about change. At best, they will trust him with the UFO secret and look for him to promote disclosure and provide positive leadership in that direction. At worst, they’ll tell him their own version of the E.T. story and use his ability to sway public opinion to maintain control over all things extraterrestrial.
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Ufo Hacker Tells Wired News What He Found

The search for proof of the existence of UFOs landed Gary McKinnon in a world of trouble.
After allegedly hacking into NASA websites -- where he says he found images of what looked like extraterrestrial spaceships -- the 40-year-old Briton faces extradition to the United States from his North London home. If convicted, McKinnon could receive a 70-year prison term and up to $2 million in fines.
Final paperwork in the case is due this week, after which the British home secretary will rule on the extradition request.
McKinnon, whose extensive search through U.S. computer networks was allegedly conducted between February 2001 and March 2002, picked a particularly poor time to expose U.S. national security failings in light of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
McKinnon tells what he found and discusses the motivation behind his online adventures in this exclusive phone interview with Wired News.
Wired News: What was your motive or inspiration for carrying out your computer hacking? Was it the War Games movie?
Gary McKinnon: This is a bit of a red herring. I have seen it but I wasn't inspired by it. My main inspiration was The Hacker's Handbook by Hugo Cornwall. The first edition that I read was too full of information.... It had to be banned, and it was reissued without the sensitive stuff in it.
WN: Without this book would you have been able to do it?
McKinnon: I would have done it anyway because I used the internet to get useful information. The book just kick-started me. Hacking for me was just a means to an end.
WN: In what way?
McKinnon: I knew that governments suppressed antigravity, UFO-related technologies, free energy or what they call zero-point energy. This should not be kept hidden from the public when pensioners can't pay their fuel bills.
WN: Did you find anything in your search for evidence of UFOs?
McKinnon: Certainly did. There is The Disclosure Project. This is a book with 400 testimonials from everyone from air traffic controllers to those responsible for launching nuclear missiles. Very credible witnesses. They talk about reverse-(engineered) technology taken from captured or destroyed alien craft.
WN: Like the Roswell incident of 1947?
McKinnon: I assume that was the first and assume there have been others. These relied-upon people have given solid evidence.
WN: What sort of evidence?
McKinnon: A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files.
My dialup 56K connection was very slow trying to download one of these picture files. As this was happening, I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created. Because I was using a Java application, I could only get a screenshot of the picture -- it did not go into my temporary internet files. At my crowning moment, someone at NASA discovered what I was doing and I was disconnected.
I also got access to Excel spreadsheets. One was titled "Non-Terrestrial Officers." It contained names and ranks of U.S. Air Force personnel who are not registered anywhere else. It also contained information about ship-to-ship transfers, but I've never seen the names of these ships noted anywhere else.
WN: Could this have been some sort of military strategy game or outline of hypothetical situations?
McKinnon: The military want to have military dominance of space. What I found could be a game -- it's hard to know for certain.

Source: WIRED

Bernard Haisch, Physicist On Ufos

Dr. Bernard Haisch, Physicist, on UFOs - An Open Letter to Colleagues

The is an open letter written by Dr. Bernard Haisch to his colleagues concerning the UFO/ET phenomena. Dr. Haisch is a physicist who has come up against the UFO phenomena in his official work for the government. He gives a very clear and reasoned appeal to his scientific colleagues to be true scientists in considering the evidence. - Tom Z

“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.” Bernard Haisch

Dear Colleagues,
We are in the curious situation today that our best modern physics and astrophysics theories arguably predict that we should be experiencing extraterrestrial visitation, yet any possible evidence of such lurking in the UFO phenomenon is scoffed at within our scientific community (see the JBIS article linked below for details).
To give some background, I have been an active professional astronomer since earning my doctorate in 1975. I have published a respectable number of scientific papers in most of the right journals (including our favorites, Science and Nature), have been Principal Investigator on several NASA studies, have served as referee and proposal reviewer for NASA and NSF, belong to half a dozen professional societies, have chaired international conferences, i.e. I’ve engaged by and large successfully in all the usual activities of a busy professional scientist. For those of you who want the full details, click here for my CV.
During my career I have had the responsibility and privilege as an editor of accepting or rejecting somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand articles in a prestigious astrophysics journal. This does not conclusively prove, but certainly indicates, that I recognize good science when I see it. I have also had the responsibility of accepting or rejecting papers on the UFO phenomenon in a quite different refereed journal, the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE). For 12 years I served as editor of JSE (as an unpaid public service) because I believe that examining evidence that may challenge prevailing scientific dogma is good for science and a necessary part of searching for the truth. The road of discovery may have 99 deadends in the thicket for every new path winding its way up the peak, but that is just how it is. Curiosity and tenacity are equal prerequisites for a scientist… as is an open mind.
I have learned quite a bit about the UFO phenomenon over the years (certainly more than I had bargained for) and have met many of the leading figures, some credible, some deluded. When Prof. Peter Sturrock, a prominent Stanford University plasma physicist, conducted a survey of the membership of the American Astronomical Society in the 1970s, he made an interesting finding: astronomers who spent time reading up on the UFO phenomenon developed more interest in it. If there were nothing to it, you would expect the opposite: lack of credible evidence would cause interest to wane. But the fact of the matter is, there does exist a vast amount of high quality, albeit enigmatic, data. UFO sightings are not limited to farmers in backward rural areas. There are astronomers and pilots and NASA engineers — and others who have been around the block a few times when it comes to observing natural phenomena — who have witnessed events for which there is no plausible conventional explanation.
Recently astrophysicist Ken Olum at Tufts University argued (gr-qc/0303070)that anthropic reasoning applied to inflation theory predicts that we should find ourselves part of a large, galaxy-sized civilization, implying that the "We are alone" solution to Fermi’s paradox is inconsistent with our best current theory of cosmology. Beatriz Gato-Rivera, a physicist at the Instituto de Matematicas y Fisica in Madrid, followed up on this (physics/0308078)with the hypothesis that Olum is correct, but that by design we would be kept unaware of a greatly advanced surrounding civilization. She also argues that modern superstring and M-brane theory further aggravate Fermi’s "missing alien" problem. It is quite strange that while our best modern physics and astrophysics theories thus predict that we should be experiencing extraterrestrial visitation, any possible evidence of such in the form of a subset of UFO reports is ignored or ridiculed.
There is another aspect to the UFO phenomenon that involves politics and secrecy rather than observational evidence. I do not currently have a ticket to any SCI program, but over the years I have gotten to know individuals who for one reason or another would be aware of the existence of relevant black programs. From such sources, certain possibilities have made it through my credibility filter and now reside — like Schroedinger’s cat — in kind of an unresolved mental superposition of quantum states having both the eigenvalues "true" and "false" and no operator around to collapse the wave function. My credibility filter is a function of several parameters such as my own knowledge of physical laws, state of technology and history of its origin, some personal experience with government agencies and security classification systems, but mostly the filter is tuned to the questions: Which people have I learned over the years to be trustworthy, sensible and knowledgeable? How would they be in a position to know the things they do? Why and to what extent would they tell me anything, even based on long-time friendship? Do they have anything to gain by telling stories or making claims? What consistency and convergence is there among various people’s claimed information?
I see myself a bit like the kid standing next to the kid looking through the hole in the big tall fence at the baseball game. This means that the closest I am getting to inside information will be a recounting of what is going on in there. I myself am definitely not an insider, but contacts I have acquired and/or befriended over a long period of time seem to be on the periphery of some kind of inside which appears to contain at least remarkable information, and apparently more than that. Let me be (somewhat) more specific. I now have three completely independent examples of individuals whom I trust reporting to me that individuals they trust have admitted to handling alien materials in "our" possession in the course of secret official duties. And in yet two more cases, I am similarly one (trustworthy) step removed from a former head of a federal government agency who was involved with a special access program reporting decades-long extraterrestrial reverse engineering efforts and a head of state of a G8 country who also said he had been officially briefed on that program. Now the Air Force Project Blue Book of the 1950s and 1960s did have both a public and a classified side. I suspect that after the public half of Blue Book closed up shop following the Condon Report, its classified half may have continued, existing today as a black special access program (see below).
Could such things possibly be true? While I am intrigued by what I have learned over the years, I can’t be absolutely certain. It is interesting that from the clandestine intelligence world-perspective the scientific community, for all of its technical and theoretical sophistication, is viewed as remarkably naive in certain respects. We scientists tend to think that we know better than anyone else what is possible and what is impossible, and that we of all people could surely not be kept in the dark for very long. Over the course of time I have learned how it would indeed be possible to maintain decades-long secrecy on this topic and why this might be justified, concepts I myself once dismissed. (See Black Special Access Programs, also Some Thoughts on Keeping It Secret. And for some insight on the origin of this situation see the book UFOs and the National Security State: An Unclassified History. Vol. 1: 1947-1973 by Richard Dolan; also The Missing Times by Terry Hansen which documents the history of ties between the national media and the intelligence community. I am aware that these two books have been criticised for over-reliance on secondary sources. More scholarly work is available, such as that of Jan Aldrich, but I think that Dolan and Hansen present a useful and eye-opening introduction to the situation in general, especially for someone first approaching this topic.)
The above is, of course, short of any kind of proof, but all-in-all I have now gotten to the point in my exposure to the subject at which I think it somewhat more likely than not that something not merely delusional, but real and important may be going on with regard to the UFO phenomenon. If so, I would like to discover what it is, or what the ensemble of phenomena are if it is a multiplicity of things. My estimation of the probable reality of the subject puts me somewhere between the majority rejectionist view of the mainstream scientific community and the majority accepting view of the general public (depending on how the issue is presented in opinion polls).
I propose that true skepticism is called for today: neither the gullible acceptance of true belief nor the closed-minded rejection of the scoffer masquerading as the skeptic. One should be skeptical of both the believers and the scoffers. The negative claims of pseudo-skeptics who offer facile explanations must themselves be subject to criticism. If a competent witness reports having seen something tens of degrees of arc in size (as happens) and the scoffer — who of course was not there — offers Venus or a high altitude weather balloon as an explanation, the requirement of extraordinary proof for an extraordinary claim falls on the proffered negative claim as well. That kind of approach is also pseudo-science. Moreover just being a scientist confers neither necessary expertise nor sufficient knowledge. (I wish it did, sigh.) Any scientist who has not read a few serious books and articles presenting actual UFO evidence should out of intellectual honesty refrain from making scientific pronouncements. To look at the evidence and go away unconvinced is one thing. To not look at the evidence and be convinced against it nonetheless is another. That is not science. Do your homework!
This website is a work in progress. It is certainly no statement of any "truth" but in that regard it is worth keeping in mind something Winston Churchill once said on that topic: "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
Bernard Haisch

Palo Alto, California

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Ufos On Nasa Video - You Be The Judge - 2006

Mystery Space Machines - Pt 16

"What IS this, NASA?"

Video of strange images in space shot by John Lenard Walson. These images were taken with Johns' modified Meade telescope and HD video camcorder. Because all rights are reserved, I am posting a link.

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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Interview on UFO Coverup - July 23rd, 2008

Edgar Mitchell States He knows for Sure We're Not Alone In The Universe.


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ET Is Knocking On Our Door! Will You Let Him In?

ET is knocking on our door! Will you let him in?A PUFOIN CommentaryBy John Jaeger

The latest wave of UFO sightings begs to ask several questions. We know that UFO's have been around long before the 1940's when they became more a part of the public awareness. But what about this current wave? Why are there so many more credible and public sightings in 2007/2008 than ever before? Are we being "groomed" for the official "first contact" scenario?
Contactee's have long stated that the secrecy behind the UFO phenomena would come to a spectacular end as the public awareness and acceptance became common place. It is alleged (it's impossible to know for sure since there have been so many statements and retractions regarding this event) that a recent United Nations conference on the UFO topic was held in February 2008 and it discussed the current state of affairs. There was also discussion about neighboring countries and the risk that non-affiliated nations may open their files before the G8 countries are ready to unmask this reality. More can be read here.
Commentator's note: Regardless of the validity of the UN Conference, the points that are raised are valid and worthy of exploration and thus this article will continue to focus on this event and the question that arise from such a Conference; real or imaginary.
The first question that must be asked and was certainly alleged to be a key focus of the UN summit is simply, "How will this impact the economical stability of a country?". We're all so very comfortable in what we know to be true and real. Our reality affords us routine and what I'll call "normality". However, for those who have had UFO contact; observations; sightings and other strange phenomena, life is anything but "normal". Those who come out and share their experiences are considered charlatans. This is part of the World Government's efforts to cover up the phenomena in order to maintain control and avert panic. Or so, this is what they say and what they believe would be the outcome. My position on this is to say that we have been "conditioned" to feel threatened by the idea of ET. Some of our earliest radio and television depicted ET as hostile. Case-in-point is "War of the Worlds™®©". How would you expect a society to react if you broadcast that we're under attack by hostile Martians?
We really need to consider bigger questions and look at the answers with a more open mind. If ET is truly is here, he is advanced far beyond anything we can imagine. He has conquered the ability to fly through space and time. He may even have the ability to travel inter-dimensionally. He certainly has the ability to cloak his craft and only become visible as he desires (or at least in most cases). Furthermore, we can't exclude all of the experiences of so many legitimate and honest folks who have nothing to gain by revealing their experiences. If often makes me wonder just how many others are out there who are afraid to "ruin" their lives by coming forward.
The 2008 rash of sightings are becoming more and more public in nature and much larger of an experience. The 2007 sightings in Mexico are still unexplained to this day. Hundreds of white orbs floated through the sky at high altitude. The Phoenix lights is another example of a legitimate sighting witnessed by an entire city on onlookers.
The other anomaly we must consider are Crop Circles. Many have been decoded to reveal "future events". The problem is that we don't have the proper reference at the time of their making to decode them. It's only after the event that we're able to look back and say - "ahhh, that's what this means."
If we were ET for a different world of less advanced folks, how would we make our presence known? Consider a world that is on the brink of becoming a member of a Galactic society. They've managed to avoid destroying themselves and they've achieved space flight and reached a level of technology, which allows them to become part of a Galactic Society somewhere in their not-so-distant-future. We have to accept that the measurement of time is only relative to the person measuring time. So, a few hundred years to us may only be a short time frame for a more advanced society. Every day, science is discovering new elements to our reality that force us to question our own understandings. So, back to the original question. How would we make ourselves known? How would we address what we'd know to be the most common reaction to the idea of "we are not alone"? The answer is that we'd slowly phase into the collective consciousness through greater visibility. Wouldn't crop circles and public aerial demonstrations be part of the process? Wouldn't predicting future events that could be decoded after the event force the scientific community of that world to accept the reality? Eventually?
If I'm right and time is only relative to the person measuring it; all of this may simply be a blink of an eye for another race of beings looking to make contact. Even if time is consistent through out the Universe; an advanced culture with the ability to travel through time would still look at time as a moment. Their actions here and now set the stage for the contact later on, which may only be a quick jump forward for these beings. For us, it's been over 50 years. For them, it's just a flip of a switch on their navigation system. They get to go back and forward as many times as necessary in order to bring about the desired result. Selecting significant Cosmic events and then creating crop circles to predict them would be a child's play for these advanced ET's.
Is our society ready? Have we been conditioned enough to be accepting of ET? What has always amazed me is that our Government's stand in fear. They can not adequately defend against a malevolent ET, so their only answer is to keep it secret and hidden from public awareness. Government's are also concerned about the exploitation of the fears of a nation by another nation. There is no doubt that some of what we witness in the skies are of terrestrial design. They are the black operations programs of various countries. We know that the US Government is typically 30 or more years ahead of the public domain with respect to technology. We know that this technology is slowly leaked into the public domain and eventually a black operations program is revealed. The reason it is revealed is because the current technology is so vastly ahead of what is revealed that the Government doesn't care if designs get into the hands of other nations. It's "old news". Who'd care about an SR-72 when we have space based air craft and other high tech equipment. This article is being written on a modern marvel that is already outdated!
Our Government's are beginning to realize that the nature of the UFO Phenomenon isn't within their means to control. The Government's are having these secret meetings to plan for the eventuality. The reality of this scenario is that it would be much better to hear the truth from our own Government's than to have a UFO land in a public setting and it's occupants come out and say, "we're tired of waiting. Hi!".
The other interesting point gathered from this meeting is that there are contingency plans for in the event that the UFO flap dies down! The Government's are actually planning to continue the secret if the wave of sightings start to subside. I don't see this as being the future of this reality. It's obvious by the number of world wide sightings; the leaked NASA recordings of "Alien Spacecraft" and "we're not alone" that ET is tired of waiting.
This leaves me with one last question. What will our world be like once disclosure has occurred? Do our parents (our Government's) feel that we're (the citizens) not grown up enough to handle the truth? Learning that we're not alone isn't a bad thing. It actually offers hope! It is what dreams are made of. It means that we're not restricted to this one world. It means that we'll some day have public access to either fly through space or jump through time.
I believe the other big concern is either the collapse of religions or the creation of a new religion. Science is learning the secrets to our DNA. Science is learning that the "missing link" is actually ET intervention. It's certainly not "mainstream" science because too many scientists aren't willing to come out and discuss the truth.
There is proof right here on this planet that other advanced societies lived here long before we did. This planet has known many evolutions of advanced societies. The Pyramids and the Sphinx are dated to 10,000 years or more BCE. Yet, we still teach our children that they were built by the Egyptians. Ancient artifacts found during excavations have turned out to be power sources that can be recreated today and proven to work. Power sources that we couldn't understand until just recently! We had no idea what the "Baghdad Battery" found in Iraq was when it was discovered. It took 20+ years before we had the technology to understand it. Yet, our history states that the Egyptians and early settlers of Mesopotamia were not technologically advanced. If this is so, where did these artifacts come from? For those who are convinced that the Egyptian's built the Pyramids with such precision and alignment, I simply want to know one thing: why can't we do that today with all of our modern technology and machinery to the same level of precision? If we're challenged with all we have and know today, how could these early Egyptian's have truly created such marvels? Heck, look at all of the Pyramids around the world from the same era. How do we explain these?
What of the 2012 Equation? 2012 will not mark the "end of the world" or our stay on it. 2012 is more of a spiritual awakening into a new age - the 5th Mayan World and the Hopi 4th World. We'll have a collective change in our orientation towards one another as we're cleansed of our former prejudices. Will 2012 be an ET event? Will it be the return of the Christ? Could the Christ be a higher ascended being working with young worlds to transform their consciousness into a more spiritual essence? Only time will tell!!
There will always be those who will argue these points and come up with alternative explanations. The reality of this situation is simple. We are not alone. We have never been alone and we're about to have the experience of a life time! Enjoy the ride!
Submitted as "Food for thought..."