Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Mysteries revisited: the enigma of the Bridgewater Triangle by T.K. Randall
Mysteries revisited: the enigma of the Bridgewater Triangle
By T.K. Randall
December 14, 2022
The area is notorious for peculiar phenomena. Image Credit: Pixabay / KELLEPICS
High strangeness abounds at an alleged 'paranormal vortex' found in the heart of Southern Massachusetts.
Sometimes referred to as "America's Bermuda Triangle", the Bridgewater Triangle region was first defined by author Loren Coleman who documented Abington, Rehoboth and Freetown as the three 'points' of the triangle.
Within this otherwise unassuming area there have been countless reports of unexplained phenomena.
Hockomock swamp, which means 'the place where spirits dwell', is said to be home to all manner of unusual creatures including Bigfoot, giant snakes, giant birds and even pterodactyls.
Around 1,700 years ago, the area was used as the hunting grounds and burial site of the Wampanoag people and is still believed to be home to their chief deity of death and disease - Hobomock - after which the swamp itself is named.
Elsewhere, the Freetown-Fall River State Forest, far from being a wonderland of nature, is said to be the site of various ritualistic murders, animal sacrifices and other sinister practices.
One of its most distinctive landmarks is Profile Rock - an outcrop in the shape of a face which is said to hold special spiritual significance for the Wampanoag.
The region is also known for countless UFO and fireball sightings, as well as tales of poltergeists, Native American curses and much more.
Another point of interest in West Bridgewater - the Solitude Stone - bears the inscription:
"All ye, who in future days, Walk by Nunckatessett stream Love not him who hummed his lay Cheerful to the parting beam, But the beauty that he wooed."
Over the years, several suicide victims have been found within the vicinity of the stone.
It has since come to be known as the "suicide stone".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIVKPZLwr0k&t=7s
Archaeologists identify 168 previously unseen Nazca lines by T.K. Randall
Archaeology & History
Archaeologists identify 168 previously unseen Nazca lines
By T.K. Randall
December 21, 2022
One of the new geoglyphs (left) and highlighted (right). Image Credit: Yamagata University
An aerial investigation of the Nazca Desert in South America has yielded the discovery of many more geoglyphs.
Situated on a remote arid plateau in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are a series of spectacular artistic designs, including images of spiders, monkeys, hummingbirds, fish and lizards, which were etched into the desert floor around 2,000 years ago.
Most of the more prominant designs were produced by removing the red colored pebbles that litter the desert to unveil the white dusty ground underneath.
Some of the drawings are huge and measure up to 200 meters across.
Now archaeologists from Yamagata University in Japan have succeeded in identifying another 168 previously unseen geoglyphs by studying the region using aerial photos and drones.
Dating back to between 100 B.C. and A.D. 300, the new geoglyphs include depictions of birds, killer whales, cats, snakes and humans - each formed by piling smaller stones on top of one another.
One of these, which shows a club-wielding figure with its head falling away from its body, is believed to hold some sort of ritualistic significance to the people who created it.
Over time, it is hoped that new methods - such as the use of artificial intelligence to analyze aerial photographs - could help researchers uncover the remainder of the undiscovered images.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022
Police officer photographs UFO over Anna Maria Island, Florida By T.K. Randall
UFOs are no laughing matter for France's real-life 'Ovni' hunters
The case of the 1942 'ghost blimp' L-8 still remains a mystery 80 years on By T.K. Randall
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Friday, March 25, 2022
Creator of TheBlackVault.com says Pentagon holding back secrets on UFOs
Creator of TheBlackVault.com says Pentagon holding back secrets on UFOs
3/24/2022
The creator of TheBlackVault.com, a website that releases classified government
documents, said on Thursday the Pentagon is holding back secrets about UFOs and
"they don't want to tell the general public about it."
John Greenewald Jr., who claims to have released more than two million documents on
his website, told Hill.TV the military's UFO report last year identified 144 unexplained
incidents but failed to divulge what they were on purpose.
"Look at all these redactions — although discouraging, that in itself tells a story," he
said. "When you really look at some of the other areas, they don't want to tell you the
capabilities of what these (unidentified aerial phenomena) are."
A report released last summer by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
determined the government has encountered 144 unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs)
since 2004.
But the report said the vast majority of the cases were simply unexplained, a
disappointing outcome to some who had expected more insight into mysterious
phenomena.
Greenewald said military intelligence failed to outline significant details of the UAPs,
including by redacting information about their visual shapes.
"They won't tell you a single, visual observation on what shapes these are," he said. "It
really solidifies the secrecy behind what these UAP really are. ... That begs the question
why? Why is simply a shape of a vehicle a threat to national security if they tell the
national public? What could that reveal?"
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Nine Firsthand Accounts of UFOs in North Carolina by Braley Dodson
WBTW - News 13
9 firsthand accounts of UFOs in North Carolina
by: Braley Dodson
Posted: Mar 18, 2022 / 09:43 AM EDT
Updated: Mar 19, 2022 / 09:15 AM EDT
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WBTW) – Overwhelming dread. Moving lights that can’t
be explained. That itchy feeling of being watched.
Dozens of people have reported seeing unidentified flying objects in North
Carolina’s skies in the last few months, from the coast, to deep within the
mountains. For some, it’s not the first they’ve seen something unexplainable in
the sky. For others, they hope it’s the only time.
UFO sightings can be submitted into an online government database that keeps
the identities of witnesses anonymous. The database includes the time and
location of the sightings, along with the shape of the object and a summary.
Some sightings may be attributed to space launches, fireworks or drones…but
we’ll let you decide.
Here are some first-hand accounts of UFO sightings in North Carolina.
Summaries have been edited for length and clarity.........
Jan. 31, 2022
Location: North Topsail Beach
I was walking inside and saw two white orbs that appeared to be separating from
one another. They both eventually disappeared.
There was this weird white mist that looked like clouds. The orbs disappeared,
and the mist remained.....
Jan. 23, 2022
Location: Charlotte
My plane was descending into the airport when I saw it. The Moon was a
semicircle, so I knew it wasn’t that. It was too high above the city to be a drone,
and too low to be anything else. It wasn’t flashing, it was stationary in the sky.
It was disc-shaped, had a primary yellow-toned light coming from its center and
had a similarly yellow-glowing aura surrounding it. I’m unsure if I’m the only
one on the plane who saw this or not.
We passed it quickly, and I was only able to get two photos. However, we turned
back in its direction and I couldn’t see it anymore, as if it had disappeared. ......
Jan. 16, 2022
Location: Wilmington
I was walking my dog at 7 p.m. and noticed an odd light over the rooftops, higher
than the street lights. It was initially stationary, then began moving toward me. I
had a feeling of “dread” and ran back into the house. ..........
Jan. 10, 2022
Location: Edenton
I saw two cigar-shaped objects with no wings, lights, sound or contrails. They
moved from west to east in a very slow side-by-side formation. They were about
10,000 to 12,000 feet in altitude. .......
Jan. 2, 2022
Location: Surf City
Last month, I stayed on the same stretch of beach at an oceanfront beach house.
I was sitting on the deck and saw this weird “star,” but I noticed it moving closer
to me and then back toward the pier. It would hover in certain places.
I could not tell how big it was, but all of a sudden, the yellow star took off super
fast toward the south and disappeared in seconds.
One month later, I am on the deck at a different oceanfront beach house on the
same stretch of beach. At about 8:30 p.m I see the light coming up the beach
toward me heading north. I recognized it immediately. It stopped about halfway
between me and the pier, hovering. Then, all of a sudden it like heated up and
cast a dimmed light onto the ocean near the shore, and then took off super fast
heading upwards. It took a right turn and disappeared.
The light cast on the ocean told me that it was pretty big. Anyway, I am freaking
out and am like, damn, I did not have my camera. So I hung out again hoping it
would come back so I could get a video. It did not, but I was freaking out that if
it did it might see me trying to capture it from the light the camera emits.
I have seen UFOs before in New Mexico and a triad in St. Louis many years ago,
but this might be the closest I have come to an alien abduction (nervous laugh). .......
Dec. 24, 2021
Location: Fayetteville
I am a 41-year-old retired Army intelligence officer with 21 years of active duty
service living in Fayetteville.
I was on my porch at 11:22 p.m. Christmas Eve when I looked up when a small
flash of light caught my attention. A distant, white light flew from east to west at
an incredible speed, creating a light trail behind it. The light then stopped
instantly and paused for half a second at high altitude before accelerating
westward and seemingly upward into space, creating another trail of light behind
it as it vanished.
There was no sound from the object and the entire event occurred in perhaps two
seconds within a relatively small area in the visible sky.
To me, it looked as though “something” had dropped in for a quick look before
taking off at or near light speed. .........
Dec. 15, 2021
Location: Ocean Isle Beach
I was sitting on an oceanfront balcony at about 8:45 p.m. when I noticed two
glowing orbs in the sky above the water that suddenly appeared. These faded
after about 10 seconds.
I thought a boat had sent up fireworks, but there was no sound, nor any boats
that I could see.
After a few seconds, in the spot where the orange glows had been, I saw many
tiny white lights flickering in a round pattern. This lasted a few seconds, and
then larger, star-like lights pulsed at different internals in a triangular pattern.
The object began to move back and forth across the sky at a relatively medium
pace.
After about five minutes, two of the lights separated quickly and became two
different objects with the same intermittent flashing lights. They began to travel
back and forth across the sky.
This went on for 15 minutes when lower on the horizon, three more orange glows
appeared and faded. When I looked back to where the original objects had been,
they’d disappeared.
Very strange, indeed. ..........
Dec. 14, 2021
Location: Kill Devil Hills
I was stargazing at the Geminids and saw a formation of lights – a triangle and a
line flying parallel from the north to the south. I tracked it across the horizon,
and it crossed in a matter of seconds. I had a feeling that it might’ve been
bending light around it, as if it was a single craft. ..........
Dec. 7, 2021
Location: Lexington
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this. It’s a recurring event that I have accepted
and now it’s a regular part of my everyday life.
Every day, right before the sun goes down, I’m greeted with one coming into
view, and then another. I have a total of at least to 100 upwards of over 200 that
follow me everywhere I go.
It sounds crazy. I hate explaining it because almost everyone thinks I’m
delusional, but I can see perfectly. I have brilliant vision and depth perception.
They are just over the trees at their highest and below the tree tops at their
lowest. They appear in formation and they mimic the constellation.
It sounds insane, but this has been going on since early May. Up until I saw a
video in New Mexico, I thought they were drones, but I started to realize that’s
not the case and there’s other things that’s happened that I’m not going to
explain that support the UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) theory and
dismantle this drone hype that some are trying to convince is the majority of
these sightings.
I found an article about this lady who can communicate with different beings,
and I tried this and got a reaction. I failed to hear or receive or understand
communication, but I did get two of them to descend below the trees at my house,
and the other descended when I was at Food Lion. From what I could tell, it
definitely wasn’t a drone. There was, however, a tiny glowing red dot or orb that
aimlessly danced or orbited this thing with no recognizable pattern or
destination.
I’m hoping to discover the reason as to why I was chosen to be followed or
watched by these things. They stay up until right before the sun rises, and it
doesn’t matter where I go or how fast I go, they have absolutely no difficulty
finding or keeping up with me.
Friday, March 11, 2022
Where does Fresno rank for alien encounters and UFO sightings in California? by: Dom McAndrew
Where does Fresno rank for alien encounters and UFO sightings in California?
by: Dom McAndrew
Posted: Mar 10, 2022
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – An online database of extra-terrestrial sightings includes multiple close encounters in Fresno.
The numbers come from the National UFO Reporting Center, an online database of sightings submitted by those who saw the UFOs in the skies. The center was founded in 1974 and exists to receive, record and potentially corroborate reports about potential UFO sightings. Those behind the project say the website has been operating since 1994.
RELATED: Strange lights seen above Fresno leave some with more questions than answers
The most recent incident detailed in Fresno took place on Jan. 30. According to the post online, the sighting was described as approximately eight red lights in the sky that remained active long enough for the author to show their niece the lights over video-chat. The shape of the lights was described as a “disorganized triangle.”
The next incident recorded in Fresno took place on March 6, 2021, and describes aircraft in the area when a brown cigar-like object was hovering that began moving north – paused and hovered – then moved again.
The third most recent reported incident was on Aug. 5, when what was described as a pink and green object in the shape of a star was changing shape and colors. It also traveled without a sound.
Out of all the records posted on the National UFO Reporting Center, Fresno ranks at number 12 in California for UFO sightings over the past two years – with 10 reported sightings. Bakersfield ranks eighth in the state with 11 reported sightings. Modesto is at number five with 12 reported sightings.
But at joint first place, the top of the list is Los Angeles and San Diego, with 31 UFO sightings each.
Pentagon's UFO files include encounter with 'werewolf'
Cryptozoology
Pentagon's UFO files include encounter with 'werewolf'
March 10, 2022 |
Imagine looking out of your window and seeing this... Image Credit: Pixabay / Viergacht
------ A number of unexplained sightings and experiences have been revealed through interviews with former officials.
For many years, the Pentagon, in connection with the Defense Intelligence Agency, ran a secretive program investigating the connection between UFOs (or UAPs) and paranormal phenomena.
During interviews with Military.com, retired DIA intelligence officer James Lacatski and retired CIA operations officer Jim Semivan - who both worked on the secret program - have lifted the lid on some of the strange cases that were investigated during that time.
These investigations included that of the USS Nimitz UAP sightings, as well as that of Skinwalker ranch - a property in Utah notorious for being home to a plethora of strange phenomena.
According to Lacatski and Semivan, the three men who were sent to investigate the ranch were left terrified after they witnessed what was described as a "black void" on the property.
Even more unnerving was the fact that they also reported experiencing paranormal phenomena after returning to their homes, such as strange noises and sightings of dark figures at night.
In a separate incident, the family of the investigator who had been looking into the USS Nimitz case reported witnessing a wolf-like creature (which walked on two hind legs) staring in through the windows of their home on two occasions.
When asked about them, however, the Pentagon was unable to confirm or deny that any of these investigations and encounters took place.
Source: Military.com
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Alien abductee's visions warned of plague and WW3
Alien abductee's visions warned of plague and WW3
February 22, 2022 |
The abduction of two men by alleged alien entities almost 50 years ago remains
one of the world's most chilling abduction cases.
The incident itself took place on October 11th, 1973 in the Mississippi town of
Pascagoula.
Calvin Parker Jr and Charles Hickson had been out fishing when they reported
witnessing a strange oval-shaped object with blue lights descending from the sky.
The craft was said to have made a peculiar whizzing sound and eventually came
to rest a couple of feet above the ground nearby.
Three strange creatures emerged from the object that were vaguely humanoid in
shape and stood approximately 5ft in height. They had no discernible eye sockets
and only a small slit for a mouth. In place of hands they had lobster-like claws
and seemed to move in an inhuman, robotic-like manner.
"These things got to us. Two got a hold of Charlie, the other got a hold of me and
they turned around and they was carrying us back up inside of what I know now
is a UFO, a spaceship or whatever it was and we was going toward that big
bright light," Parker later recalled.
Once aboard the craft, the two men were subjected to a detailed physical
examination.
The incident seemed to end as abruptly as it had begun as Hickson and Parker
found themselves back on the beach with no sign of the UFO and no indication
that anything had happened.
Hickson maintained until his death in 2011 that events happened the way he
described them, while to this day Parker also remains adamant that their story is
true.
Now 68, Parker has since spoken of visions that he experienced at the time
depicting a number of disturbing world events including the plague and World
War 3.
"As some of you will know I had a near death experience while on board this
craft," he said.
"This was when my blood was drained out of me and then replaced with what I
still don't know. Then things were shown to me, things from the past, present and
future."
"Maybe I was handed a curse or it could be a way to help save our planet or
mankind. But it scares the hell out of me not for me but for the future of all of
us."
"I would not want to leave here knowing there could be something I could do to
help someone."
Will artificial intelligence help us find evidence of UFOs? - By Tim Smith in Barcelona 21 February 2022
Deeptech/Artificial Intelligence/Analysis/
Will artificial intelligence help us find evidence of UFOs?
Top tech founders and research scientists are now taking UFOs seriously
By Tim Smith in Barcelona 21 February 2022
“Are we alone in the universe?” is one of humanity’s biggest questions. But now,
some of the world’s top scientists and tech companies are setting out to answer
an even bigger question: “Are we being visited?”
This used to be seen as a silly topic for debate, confined to conspiratorial
subreddits filled with stories of reptilian alien overlords covertly living among
us. But things are starting to change.
Last year, not only did US president Biden approve a new US government office
to study the nature of unidentified flying objects, but a distinguished academic,
Professor Avi Loeb — the longest serving chair of Harvard’s Department of
Astronomy — launched The Galileo Project, a search for UFOs.
And one difference this time is that artificial intelligence is being drafted into the
search. Tel Aviv-founded AI startup Timbr, for example, has offered its
technology — which allows users to interact with complex databases using simple
queries — to the project.
If ET’s out there, AI may finally allow us to spot them.
Is this really serious?
Well, serious people from the US government have certainly started to take
UFOs a lot more seriously recently. In May last year, Barack Obama admitted
that there really are objects moving in our skies that can’t be easily explained
away: “There’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know
exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory… They
did not have an easily explainable pattern.”
A month later, the US government released a report confirming that US military
personnel have encountered things in the sky that appeared to be real, physical
objects that display “advanced technology”.
Christopher Mellon, a former senior US defence official, commented that not
only are UFOs a national security threat, but that they are unlikely to represent
advanced Chinese, Russian or US technology. “That leaves you wondering then
what hypothesis best fits the facts and frankly the alien hypothesis fits the facts,”
he said.
By the end of 2021, President Biden signed off on a new US government office
that will try to analyse the nature of what these UFOs really are, with national
security in mind.
The devil is in the data
It is not just the government getting in on the action. The Galileo Project
describes itself as a privately funded initiative promising to “bring the search for
extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological
Civilisations from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends into the
mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research”.
Unlike the long-running Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Institute, which uses antennae to search for radio signals from possible alien
neighbours, The Galileo Project is looking for physical objects.
Loeb plans to build 100 specialised telescopes equipped with wide angle lenses,
infrared technology, radio receivers and an audio system. This data will be
combined with satellite imagery, to create a more comprehensive and high-
resolution picture of our skies than we’ve ever seen before, from above and
below.
And part of the secret of doing this will be an AI system that can make sense of
the gargantuan amount of data generated by 100 multi-sensor telescopes
recording pictures of the sky 24/7.
“We will have an artificial intelligence system that will identify whether we are
looking at a bird, a drone, an aeroplane or something else,” Loeb tells Sifted.
How will AI know how to identify aliens?
Tzvi Weitzner, the Tel Aviv-based Timbr’s cofounder and chief strategy officer,
says that the project presents a unique challenge for a machine learning
algorithm.
“The use of AI to analyse images is widely known, but in Galileo’s case it is not
as simple as training a machine learning algorithm to identify objects, just
because we don’t know what we are looking for, or, more exactly, we are looking
for objects that are not part of an existing image catalogue that would serve to
train a machine learning algorithm,” he tells Sifted.
Using Timbr’s system, data scientists working with the Galileo Project will be
able to systematically refine the algorithm’s understanding of objects that are
truly mysterious.
“I expect that the algorithms used to analyse images shall generate a continuous
flow of unexplained objects, described with a set of data from the observations,
which will require classification by characteristics (size, shape, colour, location,
time, source, etc),” says Weitzner. “Data scientists will be able to easily discover
and select the data required to create and train new machine learning algorithms
that will further reduce false positives and eventually deliver a ‘clean’ list of
observations that cannot be explained as known objects.”
Weitzner also stresses that his comments don’t reflect the position of Loeb or
The Galileo Project, as these workflows are yet to be finalised.
A big tent
The Timbr cofounder thinks that investigating the UFO phenomenon is
important, even if he doesn’t personally believe in extraterrestrial explanations
for sightings.
“I have always disregarded these kinds of observations (UFO sightings), as
errors or, you know, bad data,” he says. “What we can do — and it is very
important — is try to explain what we have observed, and to try to not just
disregard what we cannot explain.”
Having sceptics like Weitzner on board with The Galileo Project is important to
Loeb, who says he is trying to let the evidence do the talking, rather than be
dragged into polemic.
“I have built a big tent, including people that are both advocates for
extraterrestrial origins of these objects, and people that are sceptics. I think that
it doesn’t matter what you believe in to start with, it’s the evidence that will
guide us,” he says. “The way to move forward is to collect evidence, to collect
data, the way that the scientific method advocates and not have prejudice.”
Alongside big names from the worlds of academia and astrophysics, The Galileo
Project is also affiliated with data analytics startup ThoughtAI, tech investor
Yoav Kfir from Israel-based VAR Management, and Google software engineer
Uriel Perez.
But despite increasing support from the private sector, Loeb believes that dogma
within the scientific world is holding this research back.
Ridicule
Despite including renowned critics of the alien hypothesis in The Galileo
Project’s team, and focusing on a strictly evidence-based approach, the Harvard
astrophysicist has received personal attacks for his interest in investigating
UFOs.
“[Some scientists] were attacking me on social media in ways that are very
personal. And that was really unfortunate,” Loeb says. “People are ignoring the
scientific method. It’s similar to the way philosophers behaved in the days of
Galileo. They refused to look through Galileo’s telescope, they didn’t look at the
data. They said, ‘We know that the sun moves around the Earth’, and they put
Galileo under house arrest. Today, they would have cancelled him on social
media.”
He believes that the reason for the mainstream dismissal of UFO research is very
similar to why people were so offended by Galileo’s ideas that the universe didn’t
revolve around the Earth: human exceptionalism. If we are to accept that some
other intelligence might have visited us, we have to accept that we might not be
the most advanced civilisation out there.
“I think it has to do primarily with the ego of people. We don’t want to hear
about the reality where we are not the smartest,” says Loeb.
But flying in the face of such a stigmatised field of research, he believes he’s
paving the ground for more mainstream scientists to be open about their
curiosity: “Some scientists came to me and said, ‘We didn’t have this safe space.
We were waiting for it so that we can work on the subject.’”
Weitzner is one of those who appreciates the rigorous, evidence-based approach
that Loeb is bringing to the study of UFOs, seemingly unconcerned about
receiving ridicule for having Timbr’s name attached to the project.
“The scientific community at large may view Galileo as a fringe thing, but this
reflects obtuseness… I think that Avi is a really fearless scientist that is willing to
go where a few other scientists dare to go,” he says. “I think that it is rather cool
that Timbr can somehow help in this endeavour.”
Why now?
Loeb is in a rare position in academia: he has the scientific pedigree to be taken
seriously, and has achieved enough in his career to not need to worry about his
reputation.
“When I was in the military at a young age they said, ‘You have to put your body
on the barbed wire so that other soldiers could pass through,’” he says. “This is
a subject that will have a huge impact on humanity. And as a result, I feel that
it’s worth putting my body on the barbed wire, so to speak.”
The Galileo Project’s search for evidence has partly come about as a result of
credible UFO sightings in recent years. The most famous is the so-called
“TicTac” incident, where top gun pilots David Fravor and Alex Dietrich testified
to having encountered a flying, “TicTac-shaped” object that completely
outmanoeuvred their fighter jets, with the incident corroborated by radar.
ufos tic tac david fravor
Stories like this, where the typical explanations of hallucination don’t seem to fit,
are piquing the public interest. A report from Gallup in 2021 showed that four in
ten Americans now believe that UFOs are explained by aliens, up from just over
three in ten in 2019.
Loeb’s interest in the topic began after he analysed a large and mysterious
interstellar object passing near Earth in 2017 (now known as Oumuamua), and
deduced that it was very unlikely to be of natural origin.
As well as building ground equipment, The Galileo Project is also working on
developing a probe with a camera attached. This will be launched into space the
next time such an object is spotted in the distance from a telescope, to try and get
a clear photo from closer up.
Not so out-of-this world
Getting a clear image is crucial, says Loeb, batting away the question of why it is
that, when billions of people in the world own mobile phone cameras, no one has
yet captured a decent image of a UFO.
“A million low resolution images are not worth as much as one high resolution
image,” he argues. “You can increase the number of cell phones by a factor of
100 — it doesn’t matter — all those images would be taken by an aperture that is
only a few millimetres in size and as a result the resolution would be poor and
the images would appear fuzzy.”
And what about the argument that, if aliens exist and are able to visit us, why
haven’t they made themselves known or tried to communicate with us?
“Think of how we communicate with ants on the pavement. Are we going to the
ants and trying to understand their psychology and trying to communicate? If
you operate on a completely different level, there is no communication. So the
ants might be frustrated that humans are not stopping in the street and coming
to speak with them. They might see some footsteps above them, but I don’t know
if they figure out what’s going on,” he responds.
He also disregards the point that aliens travelling between star systems seems
implausible, as our current understanding of physics dictates that light-speed
travel is impossible.
“It [another intelligence] may be using technologies that are way different than
what we anticipate,” he says.
The Galileo Project has received enough funding to build its first telescope,
which will be placed on the roof of the Harvard astronomy department (Loeb
hopes by April), but still needs more donations to build more telescopes. Loeb
says that if people are hoping to donate more than $50k, they should contact him
directly.
Ultimately, he believes the research is less speculative than many areas of
scientific study that routinely attract billions of dollars in public funding — such
as the search for dark matter — given that it’s estimated there are some 6bn
earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone.
“What is so speculative about saying, ‘Let’s imagine something like us, or more
advanced than us,’? Because half of the sun-like stars have a planet the size of
the Earth, roughly the same separation (between star and planet), so you roll the
dice about intelligent technological civilisations billions of times in the Milky
Way galaxy alone, most of the stars formed a billion years before us, and they
could have sent equipment into space, just like we did. I don’t see that as
speculative, I think it’s much more down to earth than most of the ideas in
theoretical physics right now.”
Tim Smith is Sifted’s Iberia correspondent. He tweets from @timmpsmith
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Secrets of the UFOs (epub)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1ay5n7wau382pam/Secrets+of+the+UFO.epub/file
A summary of twenty five years of philosophical study resulting from an investigation into the UFO phenomenon.
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