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Monday 30 September 2019

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Aliens -What Can We Expect



Exobiologists, who have remember never actually studied alien life first hand, look for so called "Goldilocks" or habitable zones around stars. Although they may be able  to decode certain emissions from a far distant world all the "artist impression of what --- might look like" images and speculation is just that.

Scientists are looking for planets that "could evolve or develop life similar to that on Earth". It is all guessing and to some a search of this type seems "the most likely way of discovering alien life"...but all the references and so on are then to micro organisms -bacteria, algae and so on. Which we will never discover beyond our solar system because we have yet to actually travel to or find such things in our own system.

What good is it to anyone to declare that a planet some 100 light years away "might" (triple underlined emphasis) "be suitable to support basic life forms"?

Rather like the CETI and SETI (Communications with Extra Terrestrial Intelligences and Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences) everything is based on what we know or think we know about our Earth. We think life will develop like the amoeba then slightly higher life forms until a human type race develops.

I recall once giving a talk and pointing out that had the dinosaurs not died out, had they remained the dominant life form, then they would have over millions of years developed to be the actual "highest life form" and humans be extinct or whatever. Two astronomers decided I had gone too far and told me that I was promulgating fantasies and had no credibility.  A few years later there were several television science documentaries that used scientific data to speculate on this same subject. The possibilities are still discussed today by many in the scientific community.

Above: how dinosaurs MIGHT have developed?  Credit -unknown: if known please let me know (c)the copyright owner

Well there are prejudices.  Ask some palaeontologists whether dinosaurs could have developed into a humanoid or semi-humanoid dominant species and some will positively screech at you that such a suggestion is an insult to the dinosaurs. There are some who suggest pteradons might still be flying around but that after 65,000,000 years evolution would change the dinosaurs -far, far too far for them.  Evolution only works, apparently, if you are using it for your pet theory. Take the Loch Ness Monster for instance: even as a 12 year old I could not understand why naturalist Sir Peter Scott and others were seriously suggesting that a plesiosaur of some type was in the Loch.  After 65 million years would it not have changed?

Well crocodiles, snakes, bees,Sea stars, horse shoe crabs, sharks -and others were around at the time of the dinosaurs -evolution can be a touchy subject in arguments.

Some have asked why the billions of dollars worth of deep space telescopes are not turned to study planets in our own solar system. These pieces of equipment produce great images but are designed and built for deep space viewing not near space and you might wonder, with asteroids whizzing past Earth, more money was not spent on near space telescopes and detectors?  We have had to rely on space probes to gather data and even then some argue about what finds indicate.

I well remember the actor Vladek Sheybal's character in the 1970s TV series UFO arguing that more money was being spent on imaging deep space while the microscopic world on Earth had no real funding. My own interest came at Secondary School (Greenway Boys Secondary Modern, Southmead, Bristol) in the early 1970s when I was allowed to help Mr Soper the Science teacher set up tesats for the next day and also get use of the microscope. A few years later, as a regular visitor to the newspaper section of Bristol Central Library, I read in an 1800's newspaper about Andrew Crosse (17th June 1784 – 6th July 1855) "The Thunder and Lightning Man" and his 'creation of life' -the Acarus.
 Above: Andrew Cross
Below: Acarus crossii

In more recent decades scientists have begun to probe the microscopic world more and with video recording as well as still photography we find a whole 'universe' of living creatures on Earth -with many yet to be discovered.

In fact we might say that every human is their own solar system supporting life and life supporting it. According to Greg Foot from BritLab in the video Disgusting Things That Live On Your Body “In a rather gross way, you are practically a walking petri dish, a home for more bugs and bacteria than you’d care think about.”

"Consider the skin on your face. As smooth and peachy as it may look, every square centimetre houses around one or two “demodex spiders”. They mostly lie low, but once you’re asleep they crawl across your face to mate and lay eggs in your pores. Don’t feel too disgusted, though – in return for their food and lodging, these spiders clean away some of the harmful bacteria that might cause a dangerous infection.

"Away from the face, humans can host three different types of lice, each of which has evolved to the unique environments of the scalp, pubic regions and the rest of our bodies. As the video explains, studying these bugs has helped scientists to work out when our ancestors started to cover their modesty with animal skins – after millions of years of walking around butt naked.

"By far the most numerous inhabitants are the microbial colonies inside the body itself – there are 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells. Most are crucial for us to break down food into the nutrients we need to survive; these immigrants pay back just as much as we give them".

Now I know what the Reader is going to ask: "What has this got to do with what aliens might look like?" The thing is that we have this human prejudice that any intelligent life out in space must have developed like us.  Why?
Above: Tardigrade in 3D Diane Nelson and National Parks Service
What if alien life developed similarly, but obviously larger, to the tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets? They are a phylum of water-dwelling eight-legged segmented micro-animals and were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773 - who called them little water bears. They  range from 0.05 millimeters to 1.2 mm (0.002 to 0.05 inches) long, but they usually don't get any bigger than 1 mm (0.04 inches) long.

LiveScience ( https://www.livescience.com/57985-tardigrade-facts.html  ) reported that:

"Research has found that tardigrades can withstand environments as cold as minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 Celsius) or highs of more than 300 degrees F (148.9 C), according to Smithsonian magazine. They can also survive radiation, boiling liquids, massive amounts of pressure of up to six times the pressure of the deepest part of the ocean and even the vacuum of space without any protection. A 2008 study published in the journal Current Biology found that some species of tardigrade could survive 10 days at low Earth orbit while being exposed to a space vacuum and radiation.

"In fact, water bears could survive after humanity is long gone, researchers found. Scientists from Harvard and Oxford universities looked at the probabilities of certain astronomical events — Earth-pummeling asteroids, nearby supernova blasts and gamma-ray bursts, to name a few — over the next billions of years. Then, they looked at how likely it would be for those events to wipe out Earth's hardiest species. And while such catastrophic events would likely wipe out humans, the researchers found little tardigrades would survive most of them, they reported in a study published online July 14, 2017, in the journal Scientific Reports.

"To our surprise, we found that although nearby supernovas or large asteroid impacts would be catastrophic for people, tardigrades could be unaffected," David Sloan, a co-author of the new study and researcher at Oxford, said in a statement. "Therefore, it seems that life, once it gets going, is hard to wipe out entirely. Huge numbers of species, or even entire genera may become extinct, but life as a whole will go on."

So imagine long-lived Tardigrade type species with developed intelligence and evolving into a dominant life form that develops space travel. Not much they get exposed to in space or on other planets is going to be very life threatening.

If we look at the known microscopic life on Earth we find so many differing types and to many the images of these are mind-blowing.  Hollywood movie makers wanting suitable aliens need not ask someone to "imagine" a creature -they need only to flip through microscopic images online. A good place to start would be this site: https://listverse.com/2017/02/22/10-shockingly-intricate-microscopic-organisms/
Above: Radiolarians
Below: (it IS organic!) the Enterobacteria Phage T4

Any species, to survive, needs two things.  The first is to be the Apex creature on their planet with no superior predators.  Secondly, if the conditions are perfect for them then evolution (that some times dirty word) should step in. Why not an intelligent gastropod such as a slug, snail or whelk?  Even some aquatic or amphibean- a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians. These are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.

It may be that certain life forms develop a higher  intelligence but have weaker bodies and they may develop ways of encasing their bodies in a natural or manufactured body shell -perhaps not revealing any of the original body form.  Cases may be developed for certain tasks or to assume a similarity to the dominant life form on another planet that the species is studying.

Taking it further, there could be life forms that have none of their original form but are intelligences encased in robot like bodies or even assume a "colony form" comprising anywhere from 5, 10 or even 50 individuals.

Rather than "thinking outside the box" it is more a case that we need to "think away from the humanoid of Earth".

Exobiology is based on what we know of Earth and life here.  It is a good basis to start from but rather like theoretical physics it needs to go beyond "Earth-like" and ask how life on planets not like ours could develop because until we actually get to openly "meet and greet" genuine alien life we have no references.

Unless UFO percipients have encountered such entities?

Sunday 29 September 2019

Are We All REALLY About To Panic?

Before we start a pet peeve. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has an acronym -a name used by combining the first letter of each word.  NASA -in capitals and not as Google, internet bloggers and even online journalists write it "Nasa".

Now in this press piece we have NASAs Dr Green quoted though, as I can tell you from vast experience, what you read and see/hear via the media can be condensed from a 30 minutes long interview to...1 minute.

I tend to disagree with Dr Green's reported thoughts on this matter of discovering extraterrestrial life (see previous post).  I believe that what he is referring to are bacteria and microbiological organisms. Microscopic life rather than talking, walking alien intelligences. To see what Imean I suggest you go to You Tube and search for the channel Journey to the Microcosmos everything there is real. Exists. We normally never ever get to see these things.

I have yet to see panic-stricken crowds running through the streets or seeking sanctuary in churches and screaming: "The shape-shifting Euglenoids are here -save us!!"

For many decades we have heard theories of diseases from space and even evolution from space -life on Earth "might" have started as a result of a meteor from Mars hitting Earth -Diseases From Space and Evolution from Space by Professor Sir Fred Hoyle and Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe are two books I would recommend.

When the Apollo astronauts returned to Earth they were held (initially) in decontamination units "in case". Did everyone run around and panic at that point? No. Some might have been worried but that was it. Remember Michael Crichton's book (later made into a movie) The Andromeda Strain ? Best seller and did NOT create mass panic everywhere.

Orson Welles' radio broadcast in the 1930s of his version of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells did create some panic in the United States but that was a far more scientifically innocent time: remember that Clyde Tombaugh had only announced the discovery of Planet X on the 13th March, 1930 and leading up to the Welles broadcast there were reports of signals from Mars and much more -as detailed in UFO Contact?

Since 1930 we had the "Foo fighters" seen during World War 2 and then, 1947/1948 the "ghost rockets" -yes, some people got panicky but in one case there had been a war on and in the latter there was the threat of Soviet expansion and the possibility that the USSR had gotten hold of German super weapon scientists.

Since the advent of TV news spreads to a wider audience and if this is added to what people read and see in the cinemas then no one today, other than some isolated tribes, should be unaware of the term extraterrestrial -or "ET"- and since the 1980s TV screens and cinema has exploded with alien storylines or programmes looking at UFOs and alien abductions.  These TV programmes are now daily viewing -last night (28th September) I checked a TV guide (since I have no TV) and on four UK TV channels there were UFO and alien abduction programmes including the 100 Best UFOs Recorded on Video, Lost UFO Encounters and so on.

The Creationists tend to not like the idea of alien life as it smashes their xenophobic outlook on Earth and the universe. Fear of something foreign or unknown is always prezsent. I have deliberately asked people I've met in the last week what they thought about the claim alien contact was possible in the next few years.  Responses included:

"Well, so long as they aren't Daleks we ought to be alright"

"I think everyone has guessed that for a l;ong time -there've been all those UFO sightings for years"

No real panic. One person said "It'd be like when isolated tribes meet westerners for the first time -bit scary but take it as it comes"  (in other words don't jump to conclusions of hostile intent)

One person did respond with "So long as it stops them probing people!"

There are always people who are going to be scared.  That is human nature. But 2019 is far different to 1938.  Today we have a couple generations raised on the idea that there might very well be intelligent life out there and according to polls millions believe in UFO/al;ien reality.

According to Vox online article by Sean Illing from 4th June, 2019 titled The new American religion of UFOs
Belief in aliens is like faith in religion — and may come to replace it.https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/4/18632778/ufo-aliens-american-cosmic-diana-pasulka


"It’s a great time to believe in aliens.

"Last week, the New York Times published a viral article about reports of UFOs off the East Coast in 2014 and 2015. It included an interview with five Navy pilots who witnessed, and in some cases recorded, mysterious flying objects with “no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes” that appeared to “reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.”

"No one is quite sure what they saw, but the sightings are striking. And they’re part of a growing fascination with the possibility of intelligent alien life.

"According to Diana Pasulka, a professor at the University of North Carolina and author of the new book American Cosmic, belief in UFOs and extraterrestrials is becoming a kind of religion — and it isn’t nearly as fringe as you might think.

"More than half of American adults and over 60 percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This tracks pretty closely with belief in God, and if Pasulka is right, that’s not an accident.

"Her book isn’t so much about the truth of UFOs or aliens as it is about what the appeal of belief in those things says about our culture and the shifting roles of religion and technology in it. On the surface, it’s a book about the popularity of belief in aliens, but it’s really a deep look at how myths and religions are created in the first place and how human beings deal with unexplainable experiences."

There follows a lightly edited interview with Pasulka.

It seems that, if the quotes from Dr Green are accurate, that he is a little out of touch with 2019 and the views many hold.
Look at those who claim to have encountered entities from a landed craft (I cover every criteria of explanation and if they fail I have to go with what is claimed but even then there are criteria for WHY I need to feel they are telling the truth (again -see my book) and their reactions which can vary and despite after effects, they have to adopt the attitude of "It happened. Now get on with the rest of my life".

I dismiss the "Grey Abduction Phenomenon" but it has done one thing: it has made millions believe in extraterrestrial visitors....no panic in the streets of London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin....

 Enceladus credit NASA


The following BBC  -or is that Bbc- online item explains things more clearly even if standards have dropped so low that its writers no longer know how to write an acronym
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190926-what-life-might-be-like-in-the-alien-oceans :

By Mico Tatalovic
27 September 2019

Recent discoveries have led astrobiologists to think that moons are the most promising places for alien life to exist in our Solar System. And now several major space missions are being planned over the next decade to search for hints of life there.

Unlike our neighbouring planets, some of the moons have plenty of liquid water. Jupiter’s moon, Europa, for example, is thought to contain more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined. This water – and any life in it – is protected from space radiation and asteroid impacts by a thick layer of kilometers-deep surface ice.

The discovery of plumes of water shooting up from Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Europa have suggested they could have warm interiors that can support liquid oceans, heated not by the Sun, but by an internal dynamo powered by radioactive decay in their cores or by tidal heating generated by the gravitational attraction of the planets that they orbit.

There is now evidence for water oceans on several moons, including Europa, Enceladus, Callisto and Ganymede. One study published this June estimates that the Enceladus ocean is around one billion years old. Others have suggested it may be billions of years old – plenty of time for life to evolve.

These oceans are thought to be salty, containing sodium chloride, like Earth’s oceans, which is another boost for the prospects of Earth-like life.

Also, there is likely to be an interface between the liquid water and the rocky mantle below the oceans – key ingredients for interesting chemistry that scientists think led to the origins of life on Earth. Nasa’s Cassini mission, for example, detected molecules in Enceladus’ water plumes that hint at the existence of hydrothermal vents on the moon’s ocean floor.

Similar vents exist in the deep oceans of the Earth, where magma meets salt water and provides heat, chemicals and a substrate helpful for the complex chemistry some scientists think was needed for life to first evolve on our planet. Deep below the surface of Earth’s ocean, there is practically no sunlight, as would be the case for oceans of Jupiter and Saturn’s moons. But that doesn’t mean there is no life. Indeed, on Earth, such vents are teeming with life.

Some 20 years ago Natural History of an Alien, a BBC documentary, suggested that entire ecosystems could also be based around deep-sea thermal vents on Europa. A team of scientists suggested that bacteria would form the base of the food chain, using chemosynthesis to extract energy from the vents, and building tall tubes of deposits rising many miles above the ocean floor.

Other creatures, such as fish-like grazers would pierce those tubes to suck in large amounts of bacteria to feed on. They would be territorial, defending their grazing patches against rivals. And, in turn, they would be preyed upon by shark-like animals, streamlined for speed, using echolocation to detect their prey.

This is much more advanced than what most scientists expect to find there.

Even on Earth, for some 90% of our planet’s history, the only life that existed here was microbial, says Andrew Knoll, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. So, if there is life in space, chances are it’s going to be microbial, Knoll says, and in places like Europa or Enceladus it would have to rely entirely on chemosynthesis for energy, so could probably only support a small biomass.

But such an ecosystem might still be possible, says Dimitar Sasselov, an astronomy professor and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, a centre supporting multi-disciplinary research to discover whether life is abundant in the universe. Just because Europa’s ocean is cold and lacking in energy, doesn’t necessarily rule out complex ecosystems of a smaller size evolving there.

“Speculating is fun,” Sasselov says. “My gut feeling is that there is a lot of evolutionary innovation space possible there where you can have something which is small and yet predatory and is a multicellular organism rather than just a single cell.”

Another moon we’re planning to visit presents a whole different puzzle.

Saturn’s moon, Titan, is the only world beyond Earth known to have stable bodies of liquid on its surface. When the Huygens probe from the Cassini mission landed there in 2005, it sent back pictures of an Earth-like landscape: river beds and seas.

But rather than water, the clouds, rain and seas of Titan are made up of liquid methane and ethane, components of natural gas on Earth. Any water that does exist there is solidified into rocks and mountains because its surface temperature is around -180C (-292F).

This means that, while its landscape might look familiar, the actual conditions are totally alien. If there is life, it would rely on methane, not water, and would be exotic – life as we don’t know it. True aliens.

It is possible and plausible that life exists on Titan, but with a “completely different, independent biochemistry”, says Sasselov, whose long-term goal is to figure out if there is an alternative biochemistry and how to create it in the lab.

Life on Earth depends on cell membranes made of phospholipids: molecular chains with phosphorus-oxygen heads and carbon-chain tails that bind to each other to form a flexible membrane in water.

Methane-based life would need an alternative way to form cells.

A Cornell University team led by chemical engineer Paulette Clancy showed in 2015 that small molecules made from nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen could build cells fit to survive in Titan’s conditions.

Since then, Nasa researchers have confirmed the presence of vinyl cyanide in Titan’s atmosphere, an organic compound that could provide such cellular membranes. So, at least in theory, cells that could form a very different life in Titan’s vast methane oceans could physically exist there.

“In some respects, what we see here on Earth is a matter of chance,” says Theresa Fisher, astrobiologist at Arizona State University, US. There’s an “enormous amount of potential variety” that we could see in life on other worlds, she says.

"There might emerge a fluorescence of new and very diverse organisms occupying a range of new niches,” adds Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a professor emerita in anthropology at the University of California, Davis. "Assuming any of these creatures evolve to be as social, intelligent and communicative as say cetaceans or elephants, and as manipulative, dexterous and clever as chimpanzees or orangutans, I see no reason why they could not eventually evolve more sophisticated technological and cultural capacities.”

Lauren Sallan, a palaeontologist at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks alien life will be microbial – and there’re only so many ways to be a microbe.

As far as multicellular aliens are concerned, she says, things may get more complicated. “We would recognise that they’re doing the same kind of jobs because everything is focused on either taking in energy or consuming things to get energy,” she says. “But the way that they go about it would be pretty unpredictable.”

“We really don’t know what are the limits of life,” says David Charbonneau, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, who adds that this is why we need to send more probes to examine the moons.

So, it’s good news that there are plans to do just that.

Nasa announced this summer that its Dragonfly mission will launch in 2026 and arrive on Titan in 2034. It will land a drone-like craft to explore dozens of promising locations and look for signs of life.

Nasa is also exploring the possibility of sending an autonomous submarine to study Titan’s largest northern sea, Kraken Mare, which is some 1,000 km (621 miles) wide, with depths estimated at 300m (1,000ft), similar in size to North America’s Great Lakes. This would be the first opportunity to explore a sea on another world, and it could inform the design of future submarines to explore the subsurface waters of Europa and other moons. The mission is still in its conceptual stage, some 20 years away, with scientists and engineers starting to investigate how to even build such a submarine.

Intriguingly, Titan is also thought to have a liquid ocean of water deep beneath its icy outer layer, which would mean that in addition to its exotic surface life based on liquid methane, there could exist more Earth-like life under its surface.

Another possibility for layers of different types of life on a single world is Ganymede, Jupiter’s moon. Some scientists think this moon has several different layers of ocean, separated by different types of ice that form at different depths and pressures. If this is the case, each layer could, in theory, host different lifeforms adapted to local conditions at that depth.

Ganymede is set for a visit by the European Space Agency’s 2022 Juice mission, which will also visit two of Jupiter’s other moons – Callisto and Europa – to study their habitability and look for signatures of life.

Meanwhile, Nasa’s Europa Clipper is planning to orbit Jupiter and fly past Europa multiple times to investigate whether it could harbour conditions suitable for life, with a take-off date of 2023. Nasa is also discussing sending a lander to Europa, as early as 2025.

Saturn's moons may be freezing cold, but there is still liquid water under the thick expanses of ice (Credit: Getty Images)
And, there is a private, Nasa-backed plan for a mission to Enceladus to look for life there that could take off in 2025 if it gets the green light later this year.

But to really figure out what life might exist in these alien oceans, we will need to send a submersible, which will be tricky as such a vehicle would have to drill through several kilometres of ice to even reach the ocean. Nasa is funding some conceptual studies on how to do that.

One concept, for a nuclear-powered “tunnelbot” to search for life on Europa, was presented at a 2018 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC, by scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nasa. Their bot would sample ice and water as it descended, sending information back to the surface through a fibre optic cable.

But, if lifeforms there turn out to be truly alien, we might struggle to detect them. It’s also possible there simply isn’t any life there yet.

In the distant future, though, some five billion years from now, when our Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and starts expanding into a red giant phase before it eventually dies, it will melt the ice on these moons and turn them into much more Earth-like places. There should be liquid water on their surface and more temperate climates, perhaps opening up the possibility of life evolving there then – or at least harbouring refugees from the scorched Earth.

In the distant future, if we are to survive, we will all have to become migrants and hope these newly habitable worlds welcome us as our own world gets too hot for life.


Titan credit NASA

Saturday 28 September 2019

Nasa chief scientist: 'We’re close to finding alien' life

Nasa chief scientist: 'We’re close to finding alien life and making some announcements....but the world is not ready.'

Sarah Knapton
Dr Jim Green, Chief Scientists at Nasa - © Max Alexander/UK Space Agency 2019; Please credit: Max Alexander/UK Space Agency
Dr Jim Green, Chief Scientists at Nasa - © Max Alexander/UK Space Agency 2019; Please credit: Max Alexander/UK Space Agency

The world is not prepared for the discovery of life on another planet even though it may only be a couple of years away, Nasa’s Chief Scientist has warned.
Next summer, two rovers from Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA), will travel to Mars to drill horizontally into rocks and deep into the surface, in the hope of finding evidence of living organisms.
The missions are the best chance humanity has ever had of answering the question: ‘Are we alone in the universe?’
Dr Jim Green, who has been instrumental in both missions, told The Telegraph that there is a real possibility that one or both will be successful. Yet it would have far-reaching implications, and he believes Earth is not ready. 
“It will be revolutionary,” he said. “It’s like when Copernicus stated ‘no we go around the Sun’. Completely revolutionary. It will start a whole new line of thinking. I don’t think we’re prepared for the results. We’re not.
“I’ve been worried about that because I think we’re close to finding it, and making some announcements.
“What happens next is a whole new set of scientific questions. Is that life like us? How are we related? Can life can move from planet-to-planet or do we have a spark and just the right environment and that spark generates life - like us or not like us - based on the chemical environment that it is in?” 
<span>The ExoMars rover during testing in the Spanish desert </span> <span>Credit: Geoff Pugh for the Telegraph </span>
The ExoMars rover during testing in the Spanish desert Credit: Geoff Pugh for the Telegraph
Europe’s ExoMars rover, is scheduled to land on the Red Planet in March 2021. Dubbed ‘Rosalind’ in honour of the British chemist Rosalind Franklin, the rover will drill six-and-a half feet down into the ground to take samples. 
The Martian cores are then fed through an aperture on the rover into a mobile laboratory  where they are crushed up and examined for organic matter. Confirmation of life could come within just weeks or months of landing.
Likewise Nasa’s rover Mars2020 will drill into rock formations on the surface and then leave the samples in test-tubes which will later be collected and sent back to Earth for examination, the first time that material from Mars will ever have been brought back.
Crucially, scientists will be looking for the 300 minerals which can only be made by life. 
The rovers will be hunting near the site of an ancient Martian ocean, where life may have lived billions of years ago, when the Red Planet was ‘blue’ like Earth.
<span> Jim Green/NASA Chief Scientist</span> <span>Credit: Max Alexander/UK Space Agency </span>
Jim Green/NASA Chief Scientist Credit: Max Alexander/UK Space Agency
“I’m excited about these missions because they have the opportunity to find life, they really do, and I want them to,” he added.
“We’ve never drilled that deep down. When environments get extreme life moves into the rocks. 
“When we first started the field of astrobiology in the 90s we started looking for extreme life.  We go down in mines two miles deep into the Earth and if they were weeping with water they were full of life. 
“We have gone in nuclear cesspools, places where you’d think nothing could survive, and they are full of life. And the bottom line is where there is water there is life. 
“In fact, because the crust has so much water in it, we now know that there is more life below our feet than on the surface of this Earth including life in the ocean.”
Dr Green, who has worked at Nasa for 38 years,  believes that as well as small organisms on other planets, there may be ‘weird life’ on Saturn’s moon Titan, and even civilisations in the non-so-distant reaches of the galaxy.
<span>Jim Green/NASA Chief Scientist</span> <span>Credit: Max Alexander/UK Space Agency </span>
Jim Green/NASA Chief Scientist Credit: Max Alexander/UK Space Agency
Recent research has also found that areas in Solar Systems that scientists considered uninhabitable may have once held liquid water. 
Planets that are neither too hot or too cold for liquid water are said to be in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’, but this month computer modelling showed that Venus could have held water for billions of years, despite being so close to the Sun. The Moon is also now known to have a water cycle. 
“This concept of what a ‘Goldilocks Zone’ looks like has to be modified,” added Dr Green.
“Venus was a blue planet for a significant amount of time. 
“There is no reason to think that there isn’t civilisations elsewhere, because we are finding exoplanets all over the place.
“We now know from Kepler observations that there are more planets in the galaxy than there are stars.”
He added: “If we were going anywhere to look for life that is not like us we would go to Titan. 
“On Titan you substitute methane for the water, so you will have a different type of life, a new set of chemicals that would compose a new type of DNA. It really would be weird.”
The Nasa and Esa missions will take off in the same month as other Mars projects from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China.
“They’re all going at the same time, because it’s when the window opens,” said Dr Green. “It’s like rush hour to Mars, but that’s when the alignment of the planets is just right and we can get there as fast as possible, not chase Mars around the Sun.”
Nasa’s rover will enter the atmosphere at 4 miles per second, and to slow down, the lander must flip onto its side and travel vertically to pick up enough drag that it will not crash to the surface. The lander will then hover and place the rover gently onto the surface using a sky crane.
“We have a little wiggle room but it’s still like hitting a golf ball in New York and having it land a hole in one in LA,” he added.
“Nasa can do that. We do the impossible, and we do it everyday. So does ESA. Our space agencies do incredible stuff. They perform miracles all the time.”

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1970, THE CHARENTE, FRANCE:

There are MANY reports that do not conform to the false Grey standard of ufology. The problem comes with the age of a report.
If someone reports an incident 25-30 years after it was alleged to have taken place we only have their owrd on the matter but if it conforms to Greys reports then some doubt arises.

If the reportee told other members of his/her family and/or kept some kind of written account that can be dated -a diary entry in which ink age can be tested- it helps.

Please note that I have tidied up this statement (from Ufologie.com) to make it more readable and I apologise for the translation quality.

1970, THE CHARENTE, FRANCE:
Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

On May 27th, 2007, a gentlemen sent the following story to me by email:

"I was 20 (then), I am 57 (today). My testimony is thus 37 years old and during all these years I was haunted by what I saw that day.

I was heading home at about 1 a.m. (I live in the country in the Charente) there is a field opposite my house and in this field I saw a landed half sphere which could be clearly distinguished in the darkness.

"I did not pay any attention and I park my car a few meters further on. The orange dome is still in the field on the other side of the road. I opened the gate to get to my home and I then closed it behind me.  I was about to cross the yard that separates me from the house (I was in the dark and I found my way by habit) and it was then that i heard footsteps on the gravel in front of me -they (seem to) run away on all sides but I saw nothing. I was very frightened. I rushed into the barn to switch on the outside light .

"In the yard (I saw) nothing but behind the gate I had closed I could distinguish human shapes(of kids) that looked at me. I felt that something was wrong and my fear increased.

"I went to the house to get a rifle and then I went back to the fence then on to the road. The view between myself and the half sphere was clear  and I saw two little beings come toward me. They stopped at approximately three meters from me. They seemed to talk to me but my fear was such that I raised my rifle. They then turned back and went away slowly.

"I went to wake up my parents but on looking they found nothing. All (entities) had disappeared. The sphere too.

"A brief article in the local newspaper reported a ufo was sighted above Angouleme that night. (The witness believes that) it landed in front of me and that changed my vision of the world"
Witness email, non anonymous, anonymity preserved, to this website (Patrick Gross, Ufologie), on May 27, 2007.

There are problems. The witness assumes that what he saw was the "UFO" sighted over Angouleme -but based on standard reporting that might have been a meteorite or anything else!

No one else witnessed the entities or object. A debunker would simply say "hoax".  However, we are unaware of the psychological state of the witness at the time -was he tired, exhausted or under stress somehow? Almost 50  years after the event, even if spoken to today, make that impossible to know.

The use of a rifle is slightly worrying. That the entities moved away on it being pointed at them could mean that they had encountered weapons in human hands before. Or, if this were an "altered state" event then to his mind the rifle did what it was supposed to -scare off intruders.

The "invisible runners" could indicate an altered state as described by "Ruth Syndrome" (detailed in UFO Contact?). One might wonder why an hemispherical object in the field had not caused alarm rather than not much interest? It is possible that the witness just gave it a casual glance and thought it might be something moved into the field by someone since aliens did not appear to be something he was thinking about. OR it might be the point at which he began to enter an altered state -a waking dream, which are quite vivid and very real to those experiencing them.

But if this was all in his head why a UFO and aliens -today you might expect it as the subject is everywhere from Japan to China to India and so on via the internet, TV and so on. 1970 was not a huge year for press coverage of UFOs -the witness mentions a brief news item AFTER his sighting.

No wish for publicity.  A joke? We just cannot tell which is why we really need to investigate -as thoroughly as we can- any and all reports that we find.

We have probably already lost so much information.

Encounter at Torva

 Although I have been gathering, reading and studying Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and entity cases for over four decades I still find surprises.

John Hanson's Haunted Skies series has turned up a few surprises and mainly because he has either spoken to witnesses and got facts directly from them (correcting what ufologists had written 2nd, 3rd or 4th hand) or they have spoken only to him about their encounter.

One such report came from a Mary Sinton. Details are as follows from the AOP B  Entry:

UK     June 1980   Torva, Cumbria
John Hanson  Haunted Skies vol. 8  p. 103

Mary Sinton, owner of a B&B Farm, told Hanson about an encounter while on a camping holiday:

“I was with my boyfriend, Paul, at the time, and returning back to the campsite in our Hillman Imp car, along the A593, Ambleside to Coniston Road (Grid ref: Long 323, Lat 999/8, No. 7 English Lakes, SE area)  As we turned a bend in the road, close to the campsite, I was astonished to see  nine tall ‘figures’. Stood in a group of trees near the side of the road, caught in the glare of the spotlights fitted to the Hillman Imp I was travelling in.

“I estimated they were at least 7ft tall and identically dressed, wearing silver-white coloured helmets and body armour, carrying what looked like a rod, carried vertically in front of each of them –reminding me of a regiment of soldiers, stood to attention on the parade ground.

“As we drove past, I left it for a few seconds and then shouted out, in great excitement, ‘Did you see them, Paul?’  One look at his face confirmed he had, although, oddly, he had only seen one ‘figure’.  When we arrived at the campsite, we felt very nervous and had trouble sleeping, wondering if anything else was going to happen.

“The next morning, we discussed what had happened and wondered whether we should let the police know but, on reflection, thought they would never believe us”.

Hanson spoke to Paul who confirmed the events given by Sinton. He told Hanson:

“It was the most unusual thing I have ever seen in my life.  It defies explanation”.

Note that no UFO was sighted nor is there any suggestion that Mary or Paul thought "Aliens!" It is interesting that the behaviour of the duo after the sighting is not unusual in that neither could relax after what they had seen and were in fear of something else happening. I have heard the same thing from people who have observed "UFOs" close to -they are naturally nervous that something might happen as they may have seen something they were not supposed to.

Note also that the sighting was in 1980 and there had been similarly reported tall entities in silver outfits that went unpublicised.

There is no suggestion that these were 'ghosts' -I can't think of any reports of 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall ghosts.  There is also the question of why Mary saw several yet Paul saw only one figure.  It is possible that he only glimpsed one and that was enough -again, this is something noted in other shock situations -a person might just focus on one and state he/she saw one person in a criminal robbery yet 2-3 others report up to four gang members.

There is no indication of a time lapse as I called these reports before the term "missing time" became popular.

So what can we infer from this report?  One person we could explain using any number of things. It is impossible to say Mary hallucinated and said nothing but that her hallucination caused Paul to hallucinate. Oh -owls? Not likely -not even luminous ones!

This is a perfect example of a one off sighting -of something "that happened and then you get on with your life":even if the memory sticks with you.

A pity there was no witness drawing of what was seen.

Haunted Skies is a highly recommended series well worth investing in

"So what would you do if you encountered a landed UFO?"


I remember that at school my class was asked a question and that was "What would you say if you saw a ghost?" Really that should have been phrased as "What would you say to a ghost if you met one?" since that was what was being asked.

It was a topic used to excite the imagination and make you think.  Would you be allowed to use this topic in a modern school setting?  No idea.

I suppose that it depends on whether you believe that the spirits of dead people can appear after death.  I for one do not. I would like to but as my late mother kept saying "What you want and what you get are two different things!"

There is a chapter in my book, Some Things Strange and Sinister titled de occultis non judicat ecclesia which translates from Latin as the Church has not yet decided on the matter of ghosts -though "Non tamen in ecclesia constituit super manes" says the same thing really. Well, if after 2000 years the organised churches with histories of ghosts of bishops and others cannot decide who can?

The organisation of investigation into the paranormal that began during the Victorian era soon showed why things are a mess.  Anyone coming up with results was called a fool or charlatan.  "A" had his followers and "B" had theirs and if you didn't belong to either...you had a problem.

Today "ghost hunting" is fake entertainment, definitely a LOT of charlatans and cosplaying. There has not been one iota of solid evidence --garbled noises on a digital recorder are just that.  There is no recorded message along the lines of "My name is Bert Higgins and I lived at 142 Adalia Rd and King George was on the throne".

The obvious, logical quezstion is that if we are not getting any real evidence of "spirits of the dead" then WHAT are we dealing with? Psychology can answer some of this question but there are cases where any right minded investigator-researcher  should have realised they need to look into other areas.

Of course, apart from in entertainment and cosplay fantasy no one ever gets to stand around and talk to a 'ghost'. Certainly ask their name and if they lived where they are encountered and how they died but these things are so fleeting. But we are not hear to talk ghosts -my mother always said that she had no problem living next to the Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol "I'm not worried about ghosts -they won't hurt you.  Its living people you have to watch out for!"

And throughout my life I have to say that I have seen poltergeist type phenomena. I have seen, quite clearly, odd figures -others had encountered but not told me about! Again, I do not believe this the activity of the dead.  Apart from one particular location where I saw nothing but got hit by a wave of fear -even then I looked around and walked back up the steps quickly -even if I was walking backward. I said "That's a weird stairway" and was then told that the lady of the house would not go down there alone and even her  husband had felt the fear (though he never called it that as he was being all manly). I was not even investigating on this occasion but visiting someone.

The main thing is that you must not panic. Grit your teeth and move away from a situation but screaming and running away -never.

When it comes to the field of UFOs I entered it as a bright eyed and bushy-tailed novice who had read all the books and  as I got more involved I realised that, yes, authors did spin yarns (lie) and sensationalise. I found that the much mentioned "high scientific standard of UFO research" did not exist. Petty arguments, name calling and even ufologists outrightly hoaxing other ufologists was quite common.

On the practical side I have observed, in good conditions -and quite clear- light phenomena on about 6 occasions between 1977-1985 and one three occasions at close quarters. I watched the times of the observations and closely observed what I was seeing. Only afterwards did I make notes. Someone pointed out that it was different now as with mobile (cell) phones you can take footage. I pointed out that I do not carry a phone with me!

What I realised -after intense research- by 1980 was that, excluding ball lightning and pizoelectric phenomena, there was a data base showing another phenomenon that I termed UNP -Uninvestigated (by Science) Natural Phenomenon. I also realised from my personal observations that these phenomena contained a large amount of energy which could, potentially, be dangerous at close quarter and might leave behind enough energy (let's call it that) at a "landing site" that exposure could have harmful effects -I think I am a prime example of going into these areas too often (but more of that another time).

However much I would like to see some evidence of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth in the shape of a solid, constructed object (UFOB) I never have.

When I first began recording any and every reported encounter back in 1974 I had what I call "The Common Encounter Dream" or CED. In this I found myself in an isolated location out in the countryside -a small brick building with a window.  Out of this window I saw a landed flying saucer and moving about where a number entities and I realised that they were getting closer.  The dream ended. Obviously, psychologically, if you are reading and processing a huge number of reports then  sooner or later it will burst into your dreams.

In 1977 another person offered to help in the work -that would have made two of us in the UK!- and so he also began processing the reports. One evening this person looked at me and said@ "I had the weirdest dream about this stuff last night!" I asked him about it and he was basically describing my own dream. I found other people reading the material had similar.

Today, of course after Hopkins and Jacobs, someone will shout "suppressed abduction experience!" No. Not many people talk about this because it is seen as mundane and is common and you will hear people mention it. I knew someone who used to work at the old Fry's chocolate factory in Bristol:all day long watching and sorting chocolates and quality checking them. He told me: "For a week I just had this dream of endless sweets and chocolates going past on a conveyer belt -I was told everyone gets that when they first start". 

I once work for Frost and Reed Print makers in Bristol and the routine was to roll a print, package it and then box it. After I first started doing this work I had the dream of endlessly rolling prints, packaging them and then boxing them. The fellow who started at the same time as me related the same dream.  There are many such examples so why not the CED?

In UFO Contact? I noted cases in which people calling themselves UFO 'investigators' ran when an object landed in a nearby area.  I have heard this kind of thing over and over again.  When myself and late colleague Franklyn Davin-Wilson ran up to the copse at Cradle Hill where a moving light was seen some 30 or so sky watchers screamed at us to come back. WHY were they there sky-watching for the "space brothers" and then panicking at what the "space brothers" might do?

Charlatans out to make money from turning the subject into a jokey entertainment I do not expect to do anything seriously. I have seen LITS (Lights In The Sky) reports take up ufologists time -sometimes weeks. All over a small, moving light in the sky seen at a great distance. But multiple witness CE3K (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) relegated to the "gather dust" files.  Ufologists dismissing CE3K reports is odd because the question is then -who is piloting these "craft" they claim people see?

"Truth seekers" seems to onl;y go so far as press and media attention but not in real life.

There is a question I always think about and that is what if the entities encountered are non biological -androids or whatever used for the task involved? A number of cases involving 'robots' that I looked into were imaginary in one form or another which was a little disappointing. Ufologists have often attempted to explain away unusual actions by entities in certain cases as possibly indicating "robots" of some kind.

The major problem is, of course, that no one has actually met or studied an extraterrestrial at first hand so we have to go by what a witness/percipient reports and that is tainted by their own mindset or beliefs. Extraterrestrials may not have the same interpersonal reactions as humans do -they would be from a totally alien civilisation after all. "They behave  very coldly" and "They seemed indifferent" are phrases you will often hear. The other thing you will hear often is that there was a voice stating "You will not be harmed". In the latter instance this seems to be trying to let a percipient know that there is no intention of doing any permanent harm and calming them.

I was once asked what I would do if I was in a car on a lonely country road and a UFO landed yards in front of me?  Firstly, I would be surprised since I do not own a car nor do I drive! But joking aside it has to be defined what this "UFO" is? If it is UNP then I would stay in the said car until it moved off -collisions with this phenomenon are recorded and can result in some vehicle or personal injury. If I see ball lightning float past me am I going to grab it?  No.

If we see the supposed "UFO" as looking for all the world(s) like a constructed craft then things change.  No one can really say how they would react in a given situation but after 40 plus years opf thinking about this I decided long ago what I would do -presuming that I was not paralysed by some strange force.

I would get out of the car and move slowly toward the said "UFO". In past cases entities are reported to have 'fired' beams of light in front of witnesses as if to warn them to keep a safe distance.  In other cases witnesses have been waved back. My assumption would be that either this was an unplanned landing and I had been in the wrong place at the right time or that this was a deliberate landing with the intention of intercepting a human. Me.

You have to see this as being similar to encountering a landed helicopter or other aircraft.  It is a means of travel even if it is "not from here". If you approached a landed helicopter then you have no idea what the crew will do or be thinking.  You have to assume the crew will be friendly.  Likewise with any landed UFOB you would have to assume that they are not hostile but, perhaps, carrying scientific work or surveys and do not really want any form of long term contact with humans -which is understandable.

Over the decades I have known people who have lost half their face during war, others who had plastic facial prosthetics after accidents and even badly scarred. So the idea of meeting someone/thing that does not look "normal" is not a problem. I never screamed or ran away from those people with facial scarring or prosthetics so why run away at a point where my work and research can finally be completed?

It has to be realised that we are talking hypothetically here and that from the point of my voluntarily exiting a car to being allowed to approach a landed object is just that.  What happens after is Unknown. The ideal situation would be to attempt to converse with any entity(ies) and learn what I could and observe.  It would be a very strange version of being approached by foreign tourists who speak little English but need information -and you usually find out more about them (again, I have had this experience more than a few times).

I know what I would like to do -rather like I know what I would ask a 'ghost' in a conversation- but exiting the car and walking toward the object might be all I could guarantee. Looking at past encounters when percipients have seen a landed object and entituies they have approached them -as I noted in UFO Contact?

Ufology has been misled by decades of myth taken as scientific fact.  No flying saucer crashed at Aurora, Texas in the 1800s. No craft crashed at Roswell, New Mexico.  There are not hundreds of ET space craft as well as ETs in official custody around the world.  There is no mass kidnapping of humans in their millions by little Greys...or reptilians..or whichever Jacobs has come up with now.

We need to study the reports of the past 60 years and where  ever possible speak to witnesses/percipients because of the inadequacies of ufology and learn what we can.

Will I ever get the opportunity to come across a landed craft from beyond Earth?  Sadly, I doubt it. However, I hope that if I ever did I would follow the plan!

Sunday 22 September 2019

It gets lonely being me!



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I really am unwanted!

There are local "ghost hunting" groups in Bristol  and over a number of years I have repeatedly tried to be friendly with them and to get involved with the investigations they carry out.  Repeatedly I hear "Oh I'll let you know about any upcoming trips"....nothing.  I have the email from one group who were very odd in their responses so I asked if there was a problem?  Yes. Me.

"We were all a bit worried about why you wanted to get involved with the group" -I pointed out online sources that give my background, etc., and it turned out they knew all of this. I was told "Most people involved in this in Bristol know about you". 

So why the problem?

A 'sceptical' group didn't want anything to do with me either.

This is all odd as via the Ghost Club face book page I have had offers to join sceptical groups: "You seem to be  on the same line of thought as us".  No. Never ever, ever say that you know how I think. I did actually refuse all the requests because I checked the groups out and they were not 'sceptical' but more inclined to debunking to the point of being downright silly.

I have had a couple of invites from UK ghost groups but these seem to be to use my name and being a member to their own ends.  Every creak, cobweb and cloud of dust on their videos was 'paranormal' and each group appears to have "bona fide" and "proven accurate" psychics who feed them a line as they write it all down as though getting the information directly from the mouth of a dead person.

Both sides use ghost hunting and detecting equipment that have been exposed as being inaccurate -most are pieces of equipment electricians, etc, use in their work but use them correctly.  They all simply get a higher price tag and a label with "Ghost Detector" stuck to them. There is a fella named Leroy in the United States who bought a box  full of EMF meters for $300 and printed out "Ghost Detector" labels on each and sold them all in two months.  He made $2000 -not a bad profit.

One "ghost hunter" (stupid title) I met thought he had me weighed up pretty well so fed me the line that debunkers usually do and that it was "all in the imagination", etc, and the group he worked with had "all the top gear to use" and if they found nothing on night time 'investigations' they cited this as a way to debunk -they never detected anything so there is nothing there". I asked why he and his pals were still involved if it was all rubbish?  Because, I was told, "We carry out scientific investigations". I did roll my eyes and that annoyed him -not heard from him since.

It's dead people.  Really? So after hundreds of years, for the last 150 years more intensely, investigation has turned up what evidence?  Zero.  By now those in the field should be looking at the data and developing new theories that can be followed up.

But I have recently heard from a couple of people who were involved in some of these groups and still have friends in them. Activities they were involved in were definitely not scientific but were more social events to "have a laugh and drink" with new friends and one described events as being more like dating clubs.

There is nothing wrong with this so long as you declare it is a social group rather than tell the press or local radio that you are in "a team of dedicated ghost hunters".  And since when is it obligatory that "ghost hunters" have to wear head to foot black paramilitary gear? One person noted that he was told on the night of an 'investigation' that he could not go along as he was dressed casually rather than the "obligatory" all black gear and, my eyes roll again, I have heard of three groups where it is insisted upon that everyone leave their vehicles when arriving at a location with their group logo jackets AND wearing a particular brand of sunglasses.  At dusk or at night.  That is not cool but makes them look a joke.

You are either seriously involved in research, cosplaying or socialising.  For me it is all work and that is what makes me persona non grata.

Ghost hunting groups, UFO groups and even cryptozoological groups have a specific reason why they do not want me involved. Being exposed as incompetent or as frauds. I go by data and facts and by doing real research work not cutting and pasting from the internet and not fantasy. People socialising or involved in REAL investigation work have nothing to fear from me -why should they?

It says a lot about the people involved in these groups that they are "concerned" about why I want to cooperate on investigations.

We live in a world where tripe and trash have taken over from real research and investigation.  Two books prove this: The Rochdale Poltergeist: A True Story which reads like a 1970s NEL paperback horror story and then there is The South Shields Poltergeist: One Family's Fight Against an Invisible Intruder which at points had me falling asleep, laughing hysterically and asking just HOW this tripe was ever published?  

But it is what people want -that an gateways/portals to Hell in every house....oh, and a demon in each house....and the ghost of a little girl (or is it??).

Whether you are talking about "ghosts", UFOs or some strange creature the only thing that matters is the evidence and in many cases, because there is no way to gather evidence, do you believe the witness(es) are credible enough to add the data to the actual data base?

It gets lonely being me! :-) :-)

If you know of a creature report a UFO incident or anything else that I can report on -fairly- then please contact me (the AOP face book page messenger is there for this very purpose).

thanks

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.



Charles I. Halt (b. 1939) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near WoodbridgeSuffolk. After serving in VietnamJapan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly afterwards, and he was an important witness to events on the second night of sightings.

Why do I mention this?

Look who has my book  -Charles I Halt

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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Interstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2019 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.


 


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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?"

The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none.

Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters.

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs

Some of the contents:
 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                   
 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval 
 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                        
 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                             
 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                   
 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                        
 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                                   
 Early 20th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                     
 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      
 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                       
 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                
 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians
 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                           
 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                      
 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                             
 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                         
 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue 


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These cover everything from UFOs and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to encounters with unidentified humanoid creatures, ghosts, poltergeists, mysterious and unidentified creatures at sea, on land as well as bizarre carcasses washed ashore.  Loch Ness, Sasquatch, previously thought lost photographs of a city in the sky and others.

And if you want to concentrate solely on alleged alien abductions or encounters then UFO Contact? (receiving some praise from the Centre for UFO Studies) and the follow up, Unidentified-Identified are the books you need

Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities?




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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?