Signal from Proxima Centauri....or WHY SETI Needs To Be Shut Down

 Far be it for me to say "its odd" but I'm waiting to see the paper because either the original source DELIBERATELY gave misleading information or things are not adding up.

This also shows that despite all the claims that "we" (the free meal for lifers at SETI) would not be detecting signals left, right and centre if aliens were out there we wouldn't; this is Science trying to pretend it KNOWS when it clearly does not. "Put your trust in Svcience and we'll get the answers" is a good catchphrase until you look at the record of how many of those involved in astronomy and SETI at high levels are terrified at the prospect -look at the reaction in this case before the details were known. Go and check for yourself the very public statement that "It is never ever aliens" by SETI 'experts' and astronomers.

What makes me suspicious is that Seth ("Pant pooper if its Aliens") Shostak went around telling everyone that is was "highly probable -though I've seen none of the data" that this was terrestrial interference. Not seen any of the data but then again it will NEVER be aliens because if it was Shostak would have to hide under his bed. What a man to be involved in SETI -a man who is terrified of FINDING ETI!

This is why SETI should be handled by the people who can finance it as well as handle the possibility that alien life might exist (see any one of my books regarding this). A cluster of mini broadcaster-receiver satellites aliong the lines of Starlink sent off in different directions in the solar system might achieve more than Earth based facilities which, they keep jumping up and telling us, cannot tell the difference between someone warming up a cup of coffee in a microwave oven and a possible etra terrestrial signal.

Slash the SETI budget and the free mealers and get people who are willing to look and do more than sit on their asses.

At the time that the US Department of Defence release UFO photos (a Batman balloon) and talk about possible extraterrestrial threats you have to wonder what game people are playing.  Because Ufology and everyone else is being played.

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The $100 million Breakthrough Listen project is scanning the heavens for possible signals from alien civilizations.

News travels fast — at the lickety-split speed of light, potentially. Back in December, great attention was paid to a report that a mysterious radio signal appeared to have come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth.

Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.2 light-years from us, is known to host two planets. One of those two worlds, Proxima b, is slightly more massive than Earth and might be capable of supporting life as we know it.

The Breakthrough Listen project, part of the Breakthrough Initiatives group, made the recent detection using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, dubbing the signal BLC1 for "Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1."

Breakthrough Initiatives is backed by Yuri Milner, a science and technology investor and philanthropist who founded the organization. Its Breakthrough Listen activity is a $100 million program of astronomical observations and analysis, the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the search for evidence of technological civilizations in the universe.

Space.com recently talked with Breakthrough Initiatives executive director Simon Peter "Pete" Worden about BLC1 and the search for alien "technosignatures" more generally; the protocols for announcing an ET detection; and the latest about the prospects for life on Venus, another study effort being undertaken by Breakthrough Initiatives.

Spoiler alert: Don't be heartbroken in learning how tough "radio-waving" between civilizations truly is!

Mysteries of Portlock Alaska -Crazed Serial Killer on 20 Year Spree or....Bigfoot?

 From KinyRadio https://www.kinyradio.com/news/news-of-the-north/mysteries-of-portlock-alaska-and-the-abandonment-of-the-small-town-in-the-1900s/

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 10:56pm

Mysteries of Portlock Alaska and the Abandonment of the Small Town in the 1900s

What is left of Portlock. Image courtesy of Extreme Expeditions Northwest LLC via YouTube.

Juneau, AK (KINY) - For Halloween, we decided to reach out to a local historian and adventurer to see if there were any unsolved mysteries in Alaska that would fit the spooky mood of the holiday.

He came back to us with a collection of research on strange happenings in the town of Portlock that is south of Homer. These stories point to a large hairy beast, smaller hairy devils that travel in packs, a wailing spirit that wandered the wilderness, and many deaths that were hard to explain.

Brian Weed is the co-founder of a group called Juneau's Hidden History that primarily keeps track of things through their Facebook page. He has traveled all over Juneau and many other Alaskan towns in search of natural history and stories. His group plans frequent hikes in the area to places that have some sort of story to tell or just to see the natural beauty of the state.

Weed started the story with a peculiar death in the 1930s.

"A logger was out working and something or someone hit him over the head with a huge piece of logging equipment, something that one man couldn't have lifted. When they found his body, there was blood on the equipment and there was no way that one person could have done it. He was a good ten feet from the logging equipment, so it's not like he slipped, fell, and hit his head. It looked more like someone picked it up and bonked him over the head."

There are lots of accounts of creatures being seen in the area.

"The local Natives started talking about a creature, a hairy Big Foot type Yeti monster and it was called the Nantiinaq or big hairy creature as it was called. At that same time, the villagers talked about seeing a spirit of a woman dressed in black clothes that would come out on the cliffs above town. They described her dress as being so long that she would have to drag it. She had a very white face and would scream and moan. The villagers would hear something and then she would disappear back into the cliff face."

In the 1920s, a man by the name of Albert Petka supposedly scared off the hairy creature with his dogs, but not before receiving a fatal blow to the chest. According to the stories, Petka survived to explain what happened, but died to his wounds soon after. There are also reports of prospectors and hunters going missing frequently to the point that it became commonplace. Their bodies were allegedly found in a creek as if their limbs had been ripped apart. A school teacher in the 1970s even talked about growing up in Portlock and also told stories of people being afraid of what could be lurking in the night.

Weed considered himself a skeptic and explained what the Nantiinaq could have been mistaken for.

"Maybe they were seeing an extremely large bear in the area. From a distance of say a hundred feet, your brain has never seen a bear that big, so you put together an idea of what you think you saw. If the bear is standing up say in the 10 to 12-foot range, it may be the biggest bear you've ever seen and so you're brain may not put together that that's a bear. Maybe you're seeing it from a strange angle or it's too close to trees so you can't see its whole shape."

Regardless of his skepticism, there is something uncanny about several groups of people being fearful of this monster.

"It's definitely an interesting story, but people swear by this. For the locals that grew up in the area, this thing has apparently existed for hundreds of years. There was a small village site at Portlock before it was founded and those people had originally moved away."

"When the 1930s incidents started to happen most of the Russian Aleuts actually moved out of town for a year. The people running the cannery basically begged their workers to come back and they set up armed guards for a short period of time, trying to get their workers back in town."

Monster or no, people abandoned Portlock en masse.

"That we can establish as the facts. Those people did leave the town. We know when the town and post office shut down. We know that there are reported murders in the area. They called them murders, but they also included people that just went lost in those reports."

"We're not talking about a dozen people. We're talking like three dozen people. If we have a serial killer in the area at the time, they took out a lot of people in the course of say 20 years."

Weed told us that he hopes to visit Portlock to do some exploring.

"I'm hoping to camp 3 or 4 days in the area and maybe set up some cameras just for kicks. I'm not trying to do like a Ghost Hunter special or anything, but I would like to see if there are some big brown bears in the area and what might have been seen that would cause people to be spooked."

He then explained how Juneau's Hidden History focuses mostly on things that are inherently true.

"Our group has always been about telling the truth and seeing what we actually see, taking pictures of stuff. Do we believe in ghosts, miners creeping around in tunnels, absolutely not. We've seen a few things that we couldn't explain at the time, but later as we investigated it was, 'Oh these rocks slid because of this ice or the timber decided to finally break because it was all rotten.' Do we think something touched it at the time? No."

The group has many items they have collected over the years, including uncommon maps that they were given to by collectors. Those items were then scanned at a high resolution and shared with the public. Weed has also pitched a television show to the Travel Channel that aired a pilot last April with hopes that they can be picked up in the spring of next year. He says that shows that take place in Alaska often do not show true Alaska and that they hope to change that with their honest depiction of exploring the state.

There is also this video -skip to 10 mins 41 secs in for Portlock account:

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1973 –Year of the “Global UFO Wave” 

1973 –The “Year of the Humanoids” 

1973 –The year of the Pascagoula alien abduction claim 

1973 –Several witnesses observed two Unidentified Flying Objects: one temporarily landed on a US Interstate road while the other hovered close-by. An entity appeared from the landed object. A car driver approaching from the opposite direction stops, turns his/her car and races off. 

This is classed as a Major Incident in Ufology. 

1973 –a driver observes a landed UFO and entities and opens fire with his gun when he felt threatened. A High Strangeness account. 

Neither of these cases was investigated despite requests for local investigators to do so. Even in 2020 the idea of opening up either as a cold case was flatly Rejected by America’s ‘top UFO investigation’ group. 

Reports now probably lost to history. 

1973 –a year in which UFO reports from African-Americans were frowned upon and ignored. 

Nothing has changed.

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The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!  Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.  

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!   

ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction        de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            
The Bristol Rocking Horse        
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        
The Coonian Ghost        
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        
His Luminous Chamber        
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        
And More Ghost Stories        
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        
The Chupacabra        
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        
The Creature Of The Dump        
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        
Aerial Encounters Over Austria        
A Crashed UFO In 1790?        
Angel Hair        
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        
Strange Aliens From Space        
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        
The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.

Ghosts -The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg

 

THE PARISH CLERK. By Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

  There is a far more traditional tale of a ghostly appearance and one that resulted in good fortune.  Try as I might, I cannot find a full account but the gist of the story was given by a Mr.William George in a letter to the Bristol Times & Mirror (1):

                            “THE LATE REV. DR.BLOMBERG.”

                   “Sir,--“Querist” asks, in Saturday’s Times and Mirror,

                   if the late Dr.Blomberg was rector of Shepton Mallet,

                   and when.  In reply I would say that the Rev. Frederick

                   William Blomberg, D.D., was instituted to the rectory of

                   Shepton Mallet in 1787, upon the presentation of his

                   friend and associate the Prince of Wales (afterwards

                   George the Fourth).  In 1790 he became a Prebendary of

                   Bristol Cathedral, and from the Dean and Chapter

                   received the living of Bradford-on-Avon in 1793.  The

                   Bristol Directory for 1805 gives his address as “Banwell,

                   Somerset”, of which parish he was vicar.  He afterwards

                   became a Canon of St.Paul’s, London, and received from

                   that Cathedral the valuable living of St. Giles’s, Cripple-

                   gate.

 

                   “Dr. Blomberg was the son of a Major Blomberg, who

                   died of a violent fever, in Martinique, during the Seven

                   Years’ War.  The major’s name has been preserved in

                   ghost-story annals for his having, after his death, ‘appeared

                   in the middle of the night,dressed in his regimentals’, to

                   Colonel Stewart and Captain Mounsey, when he asked

                   the former to take care of his “little boy”, and to see him

                   put in possession of an estate in England, the writings

                   relative to which, the ghost is reported to have said, would

                   be found in a certain ‘old chest”, in a house in York-

                   shire.’

 

                   “Of course the papers were found, and young Blomberg,

                   after a lawsuit, put in possession of his estate.  And what

                   was still more fortunate for him,the curious ghost story

                   reached the ears of Queen Charlotte, who became

                   interested in the youth and took him into the Royal

                   household, where he was ‘educated in intimate association

                   with the children of George the Third.’  So through this

                   singular story of his father’s apparition young Blomberg

                   appears to have been greatly indebted for the valuable

                   benefices he held in the Church….”

 

    Perhaps the appearance of Blomberg’s father had been of great benefit; it had guided friends to the hidden chest after all.  However, even with the friendship of the Royal household  he did not achieve the rank of bishop.  The reason for this was also explained by Mr.George in his letter:

 

                   “…had he not been been an eminent violoncello player,he

                   might, so it is recorded, have died a bishop; for upon Lord

                   Castlereagh suggesting Dr.Blomberg to George the Third

                   as one worthy of a certain vacant bishopric, his Majesty

                   exclaimed ’Tut, tut, tut; what, what, what make a biship of a fiddler! 

                   Never do, never do, never.’  So his proficiency in music proved

                   a “bar” to his promotion.” 

 

    Which, I suppose, just goes to show that your father’s ghost may well lead to a hidden chest with vital documents that earn you an estate and friends at the Royal household, but it won’t get you made bishop if you play the violin!

 

 

 

 

Ghosts -His Luminous Chamber.

  

The reference to a flickering light seen on a wall during the 1846 All Saints haunting is not unusual.  That great investigator of the ghostly, Elliott O’Donnell, even referred to a triangular shaped light at one haunted house.  BBC TV’s Nationwide programme in the 1970s broadcast images of a ball of light in an old squash court and voices, allegedly, of dead RAF men. 

    So there is nothing new.  However, a whole room fully illuminated?

    R. MacDonald Robertson, who was stationed at Trowbridge Artillery Cadet School during World War One, and off duty visited Taunton where he gleamed the account of a Mr. T. Westwood.  It was Westwood’s account of “The Luminous Chamber” that the writer produced in his 1962 article (1).  The account reads:-

            “In the year 1840 I was detained for several months in the sleepy

            old town of Taunton.  My chief associate during that time was a

            fox-hunting squire –a bluff, hearty, genial type of his order, with

            just sufficient intellectuality to temper his animal exuberance.  Many

            were our merry rides among the thorpes and hamlets of pleasant

            Somersetshire: and it was in one of these excursions, while the

            evening sky was like molten copper, and a fiery March wind coursed

            like a racehorse over the open downs, that he related the story of

            ‘His Luminous Chamber’.

 

            “Coming back from the hunt, after dark, he said he had frequently

            observed a central window, in an old hall not far from the roadside,

            illuminated.  All the other windows were dark, but from this one a wan,

            dreary light was visible;and as the owners had deserted the place, and

            he knew it had no occupant, the lighted window became a puzzle to

            him.

 

            “On one accasion, having a brother squire with him, and both carrying

            good store of port wine under their girdles, they declared they would solve

            the mystery of the Luminous Chamber then and there.  Before opening the

            great door, however, my squire averred he had made careful inspection of the

            front of the house from the lawn.  Sure enough,the central window WAS

            illuminated.  An eerie, forlorn-looking light made it stand out in contrast to

            the rest –a dismal light, that seemed to have nothing in common with the

            world, or the life that is.  The two squires visited all the other, leaving the

            luminous room till the last.  There was nothing noticeable in any of them, but

            on entering the luminous room a marked change was perceptible.

 

            “The light in it was not full, but sufficiently so beneath them to distinguish

            its various articles of furniture,which were common and scanty enough.  What

            struck them most was the uniform diffusion of the light;it was as strong under

            the table as on the table,so that not single object projected any shadow.  He

            told me, too, that he had not been many seconds in the room before a sick

            faintness stole over him, a feeling –such was his expression, I remember,--as if    

             his life ‘were being sucked out of him’.   His friend owned up afterwards to

            a similar sensation.

 

            “It had always been the same, the old porter grumbled; the family had never

            occupied the room, but there were no ghosts—‘the room had a light of its

            own’.

 

            “A less sceptical spirit might have opined that the room was FULL of

            ghosts –an  awful conclabe—viewless, inscrutable, but from whom emanated

            that deathly and deafly luminousness.

 

            “My squires must have gone the way of all squires ere this.  After life’s fitful

            fever, do they sleep well?  Or have they both been ‘sucked’ into the luminous

            medium, as a penalty for their intrusion?”

 

    This account is very interesting in that it does not fit into the usual pattern of hauntings.  In fact, can it be classed as a haunting or should it just be classed a mystery?  There is also an extremely interesting aspect of this account that tally with other phenomena -UFOs for one.

 

    The mention of “faintness” and the sensation of the life “being sucked out of him” is very much like the sensation reported by witnesses in some close-up sightings of globular UFOs.  It is believed that this is a side effect of some type of radiation.  If we take into account the fact that this strange light affected one room only, which was never occupied it seems even more likely that the room was a focal point for some type of electro-magnetic phenomena.

    The hall is not identified, more is the pity.  Today, if we knew the location, even if the hall has since been demolished, we might still find reports of “odd lights” seen over the area in question.

    We may never know.  “His Luminous Chamber” has kept its secret.