Professor Sykes And DNA Results Proving Something Else....again

 

I am sorry but Prof. Sykes seems to have issued one positive statement followed by another. Russian hominologists were devastated (and TV filmed it all for the fun human interest side of that documentary series.

I tried twice to contact Prof. Sykes but apparently "he does not take calls"....now we have this.

I just throw my hands up in confusion!

Sadly, the odd news snippet will not reverse public opinion that has been based on that TV series.  Yeti -bear.  Zana -just a woman.  The whole subject -a crock of fantasy.
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The myth of Bigfoot has titillated people over the centuries, with sightings recorded in the Himalayas and northwest America.

Now a leading geneticist claims to have found the best evidence that a woman who lived in 19th century Russia could have been a yeti.

Professor Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford believes that a towering woman named Zana, had a strain of West African DNA that belonged to a subspecies of modern humans.

Her resemblance has been described as that of a wild beast, and "'the most frightening feature of which was her expression which was pure animal", one Russian zoologist wrote in 1996 according to a report in the Times.

The man who organised various eyewitness accounts of Zana wrote: "Her athletic power was enormous.
"She would outrun a horse and swim across the Moskva river, even when it rose in violent high tide.'"
Some have argued that she was a runaway Ottoman slave, but Professor Sykes says her "unparalleled DNA" refutes that theory.

Analysis of her DNA revealed that she was "100% African", but bore little physical or genetic resemblance to any modern African group, according to Sykes.

He believes her ancestors came out of Africa over 100,000 years ago and lived in the remote Caucasus for many generations.

Zana was eventually "tamed" by the nobleman who bought her as a servant and kept her on his estate in Tkhina in the Republic of Abkhazia, according to local accounts.

She was described as being incredibly muscular, slept outdoors and ran around naked until she died on the estate in 1890.

Some of the professor's colleagues doubt his previous findings – which include a claim that an unknown species of bear might account for yeti sightings in Bhutan.

Despite the lack of hard proof from the analysis of the alleged "yeti hairs"', he says he has developed a strong sense that "something is out there" after speaking to dozens of witnesses.

Professor Sykes could not say if the yeti, Bigfoot or the Russian almas is the best candidate for a surviving race of human "apemen".

He said: 'Bigfoot has many more people trying to find it. But I suppose either the yeti or the
alma/almasty, which live in inaccessible and very thinly populated regions, is the most likely.'

Sykes claims to have made further discoveries about Zana since he wrote the book, and says that he will publish them in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

More On The Non-Existent "British Sasquatch"...No, I Am Being Serious!

 No. I do NOT believe any of these so called "British Sasquatch" encounters.  Yes, there is plenty of food such as wild/water fowl, deer of many species, boar, rabbits in their millions and so on but this is all a modern myth in the UK.

I have files on the strange and weird going back centuries but even in rare and hard to find sources not a single mention of any hairy man-beasts in the UK.

Fact.

If there is hard evidence to the contrary -submit it for examination.

http://cryptozoologynews.com/british-woman-tells-her-bigfoot-close-encounter/

SALFORD, England — A 48-year-old woman claims she saw a Bigfoot-like creature at a public park with a golf course and a tennis court in Lancashire, north west of England.

Buile Hill Park. Credit: Keith Williamson. CC BY-SA 2.0

Retired cook Deborah Hatswell told Cryptozoology News that she was truanting school in 1982 when she and a friend had the face to face encounter with the beast at around 2 p.m..

“We decided to skip the afternoon lessons and go and hide out in the park till the 3.30 p.m. bell.  There is an old mansion called Summerfield in the north of the park, huge golf course and lots of trees and bushes and places to hide,” she said.

Hatswell states they had been playing around the Buile Hill Park area for about two hours when they decided to lay on the ground to take a break.

“We were just being silly giggling and playing around, it was warm and sunny and a really nice day.”
Suddenly, she said, she noticed a “slight movement” on the bushes to her right. Thinking it was a teacher about to put an end to their truancy, she became worried.


“Or maybe a local lad messing about. In the split seconds it took the bushes to part, I went from being worried to terrified. In my town, there was no talk of bigfoot or monsters, although we do have the famous haunted Ordsall hall, but thats about as strange as it gets, or so I thought.”

The young girl’s worst nightmares reportedly materialized when she caught a glimpse of the “thing” peeking at the pair through the green vegetation.

“A huge ape-man type thing leant forward and just looked at me, from about mid-chest I could see him and he was in my mind a monster,” Hatswell recalls.

According to the woman, there were only about 8 feet between them and the unidentified animal. She described it as a big-headed primate-like creature without hair on its face.

“My father is a big strong man and he made my dad look tiny,” she explained. “He looked like an ape version of us, his head was huge, large jaw muscles, hair was very dark brown and reddish when the sun caught it, he had eyes like ours but in proportion to his face, a similar nose but flatter and lips and teeth like ours, his eyes were dark and amber at the same time. He had very tanned leathery skin, no hair on his face, except for his jaw and chin. I could see his shoulders, top of his arms and a small amount of chest, no neck really, he was completely covered in hair, I didn’t see ears as I was still looking up at this point.”
As the purported beast curiously scanned the girls, Hatswell decided it was time to get out of there. And she ran, as fast as she could, until reaching her house.

“I reacted with fear and I’m ashamed to say I pushed my friend over and took off running. As I looked back, she was up and running too, and he just leant back into the greenery and within two steps, he was gone.”

For a while, Hatswell says she didn’t tell anyone about the incident . She also blamed her friend for “talking her into skipping school”.

“We never really ever talked again after that,” she said.

But when she decided to come forward, Hatswell’s story wasn’t well received.

“I told my mum and she thought I’d just seen a homeless person, everybody thought I was just being dramatic.”

So, she says she began doing her own research. She read paranormal books and studied similar cases from the United States. Then, she came across the Patterson-Gimlin film.
“‘Patty’ looked very similar, but just not the same.”

Years went by and her experience still remained a mystery. And when it looked as though Hatswell had finally given up, a TV show dug up the cryptid memories.

” The Sykesville monster appears, it was so close to what I had seen it took me right back,” she explains. “I was crying and shaking, and I was 15 again, looking at him. At that point I decided  I needed to put this to bed once and for all.”

She figures contacting a British Bigfoot website would most likely help her decipher the decades-old encounter.

“But they didn’t want to know. They said it was ‘too close too town’. I got out the maps and started to work out how he got there. I’m finding green corridors in the country parks and off to the moors. I started looking at old Woodwoose articles and finding people in the comments who had had experiences,” says the retired cook.

The Woodwoose, also known as the Wodewose or the Wild Man, is a mythical creature present in European literature from the Middle Ages. Critics believe that inaccurate accounts of possible apes written by explorers and travelers in that time period may have been responsible for the creation of the myth.

And Hatswell, who was forced to quit her job due to an accident she had nine years ago, has now become an investigator and, indirectly, a paramount source of Bigfoot stories coming out of the United Kingdom. She has collected hundreds of eyewitness accounts.

“I met most of my fellow team member this way too, most of whom have had their own sighting and a need to understand like myself. We set up blogs and Facebook pages, expanding the net and finding more and more witnesses.”

And it appears that the hard work has finally paid off.

“This month, a lady from the area came forward and said she saw the same thing in 1984, I have contacted her but as of yet have not received a reply,” she said.

The Buile Hill Mansion stands behind the thick vegetation of the park in the 1860s. Credit: University of Salford. CC BY 2.0

Used as a military base during both world wars, the 87 acre park remains the largest of its kind in Salford.

In 2007, the local media announced plans for the conversion of the 1827 Buile Hill Mansion to a Hilton hotel. These plans reportedly came to an end three years later after the the National Lottery refused to provide with the needed funding.
 

Space radio waves align in mysterious mathematical pattern, could be produced by alien technology

 It is going to be interesting to see what follows on from this.  Concentration of scanning gear aimed at a very specific point in space?  Or, "Let's wait a few more years, see what they find before we all group together to do anything"?

I know what my money is on (if I was a betting man!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/space-radio-waves-align-in-mysterious-mathematical-pattern-could-be-produced-by-alien-technology-10148383.html

 
Mysterious bursts of energy coming from space align in a mathematical pattern, and so could be emanating from alien technology, according to scientists.

Blitzars, which last only about a millisecond, have been detected by telescopes since about 2001 and have been heard ten times since. And nobody really knows where they come from, or why they happen.
But a new study has found that the bursts line up in a way that is not explained by existing physics, reports the New Scientist.

Scientists tried to work out how far the bursts have travelled through space to get to us, using “dispersion measures”. That looks at how the radiowaves that are being sent get scattered as they travel through space — the higher the dispersion measure, the further that radiowaves seem to have been sent before they arrived.

All of the ten bursts that have been detected so far have dispersion measures that line up as multiples of a single number: 187.5. The chances of them doing so are 5 in 10,000, the scientists behind the study claim.

John Learned, from the University of Hawaii in Manoa, led the study with Michael Hippke from the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany. Learned said that the line-up was “very, very hard to explain”.

There are two theories for why the coincidence is happening, according to the researchers. The first proposes that each of the bursts were sent from regularly spaced intervals: five sources, at equally spaced distances from the Earth. But the more likely one says that they probably came from somewhere much closer, like in the Milky Way, but are being mysteriously sent with a delay that matches up to the strange pattern.


There is little reason for the bursts to line up in this way if they are being sent by natural bodies, the scientists said. Some stars have sent out bursts of radio waves, but without the power or regular pattern that has been found in the fast radio bursts. However, it may be that there is some astrophysics that scientists are yet to understand that has been driving the timing.

It could also be that the signals are not coming from space at all, but form much closer. The messages could be coming from a secret satellite that is hiding its messages so that they appear to come from much deeper in space.

But the scientists conclude that if none of the other explanations work out, “An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered”.

While scientists have long considered that the bursts could be messages from aliens, the new finding could lend extra credence to that theory. Researchers have been attempting to work out whether a message is encoded in the bursts — and it seems they might now have found one.

 
 See also
 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630153.600-is-this-et-mystery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space.html#.VSEz5fBeKSo

Ghost Adventures....

....the flim-flam man  coninues...

The zozo demon bits are so acted out.....

Uter crap.

Do You Prefer Your Galaxy With Ripples (I'm not talking chocolate bars either!)

I like this. It's funny. Even a flat sheet of paper is not "flat" so the idea that people -really??- thought a galaxy was a "flat disc" I really do laugh at.  Why?

Anyhow...

The Milky Way galaxy is full of ripples and at least 50% larger than we think

A new study has found that the Milky Way galaxy is at least 50% larger than previously thought (see below).

The new findings from an international team of scientists indicate the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples.

The research was led by +Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor +Heidi Jo Newberg.

The above image shows how the Milky Way galactic disk is a corrugated galaxy with concentric ripples.

Newberg says in a statement, "In essence, what we found is that the disk of the Milky Way isn't just a disk of stars in a flat plane--it's corrugated. As it radiates outward from the sun, we see at least four ripples in the disk of the Milky Way. While we can only look at part of the galaxy with this data, we assume that this pattern is going to be found throughout the disk."

The study revisits astronomical data from the +Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

The 2002 survey established the presence of a bulging ring of stars beyond the known plane of the Milky Way.

The new findings show that the features previously identified as rings are actually part of the galactic disk. This extends the known width of the Milky Way from 100,000 light years across to 150,000 light years.

+Yan Xu, a scientist at the National Astronomical Observatories of China and lead author of the paper, says, "Going into the research, astronomers had observed that the number of Milky Way stars diminishes rapidly about 50,000 light years from the center of the galaxy, and then a ring of stars appears at about 60,000 light years from the center.

What we see now is that this apparent ring is actually a ripple in the disk. And it may well be that there are more ripples further out which we have not yet seen."

A research paper on the findings, "Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way," was published in the journal, Astrophysical Journal.
+http://goo.gl/E8Z5EL

Learn more and check out a video with Professor Heidi Jo Newberg explaining the corrugated Milky Way galaxy.

+http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/milky-way-is-much-larger-than-previously-thought-31120151

#space #milkyway #RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute #study #science

Picture credit: Science, Space and Robots

Watch moment two 'UFOs' hover above woman's home in early hours of morning

After all the fuss I expected something good. From the very outset you can tell these are either torch-beams or from searchlights (police helicopter?).  You cannot even tell if the lights are in the air or on the ground.  I strongly suspect a hoax but since the witness is unknown and we just have a rough geographic area we'll never know 100% for certain.



Definitely not some form of constructed craft!!

Wet Mars: Red Planet Lost Ocean's Worth of Water, New Maps Reveal

Interesting since this is saying, virtually, what other scientists and astronomers were saying 60+ years ago before scientific dogma set in. Could Science be learning that per cognitionem veritas -through knowledge the truth not "dogma rules"?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wet-mars-red-planet-lost-oceans-worth-water-191828353.html?vp=1#XfmRiUQ

New maps of water in the atmosphere of Mars reveal that the Red Planet might once have had enough to cover up to a fifth of the planet, researchers say

 This NASA artist's illustration shows a view of how Mars looks today (left) and how the same region may have …

New maps of water in the atmosphere of Mars reveal that the Red Planet might once have had enough to cover up to a fifth of the planet, researchers say.

Further research to refine these maps could help guide the quest to identify underground reservoirs on Mars, the scientists added. A new NASA video describes the ancient ocean on Mars.

Although the Martian surface is now cold and dry, there is plenty of evidence suggesting that rivers, lakes and seas covered the Red Planet billions of years ago. Since there is life virtually wherever there is liquid water on Earth, some researchers have suggested that life might have evolved on Mars when it was wet, and life could be there even now, hidden in subterranean aquifers. [The Search for Water on Mars in Photos]

Much remains unknown about how Mars lost its water and how much liquid water might remain in underground reservoirs. One way to solve these mysteries is to analyze the kinds of water molecules in the Martian atmosphere.

 

This still from a NASA video offers a glimpse of what ancient Mars may have looked like from space (Space.com)

 

Normally, water molecules are each made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. However, one or both of these hydrogen atoms can be replaced with deuterium atoms to create deuterated water.  (Deuterium, like hydrogen, has one proton, but also one neutron.)

Deuterated water is heavier than normal water, so it behaves differently. For example, it can be easier for normal water to escape Mars, since it can vaporize more easily in the Martian atmosphere. Solar radiation can break this water up into hydrogen and oxygen, and the hydrogen can then escape into space.

By studying the current ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in Martian water, researchers suggested they could estimate how much total water the Red Planet used to have. They constructed new maps of the ratio between hydrogen and deuterium in the water in the Martian atmosphere using data gathered from 2008 to 2014 by the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the Keck Observatory and NASA's InfraRed Telescope Facility in Hawaii.

They found the ratio between deuterated water and normal water in some regions of Mars was higher than thought, typically seven times higher than in Earth's oceans. This high ratio suggests that Mars has lost a great deal of water over time.

"We can now get a pretty strong estimate of how much water was lost on the planet," lead study author Geronimo Villanueva, a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,told Space.com.

Based on their findings, the scientists estimate that Mars might have had enough water to cover up to 20 percent of the planet about 4.5 billion years ago. They suggest the Red Planet could still possess substantial underground reservoirs of water.

Further refining maps of atmospheric water on Mars could help guide the search for these deep aquifers, Villanueva said. One would essentially look at such maps to see how much known sources of water such as Martian ice caps could account for this atmospheric water, "and any abnormalities might be released from hidden reservoirs," he said.

The scientists detailed their findings online today (March 5) in the journal Science.