Extraterrestrials: They will come

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Extraterrestrials: They will come...

Many may know about the Drake Equation which was devised by Frank Drake in 1961. This was an attempt to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy with which we might come into future contact.

Our Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy we call home as do roughly 400 billion other stars in recent estimates. Our galaxy has several spiral arms of star clusters and a massive cluster of stars in the center. Our Sun which is one out of up to 400 billion other suns in our galaxy is far from the center and halfway up one of the spiral arms named the Orion. Basically we are way off in the boonies, far away from the robust inner city of the Milky Way. Our Sun revolves around the center of our galaxy about 500,000 miles per hour, yet it still takes about 200 million years to go around once.

 

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They already came watched TV a while, decided there was no intelligent life here and left.

 

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Our Milky Way galaxy which has estimates of up to 400 billion stars is only one galaxy out of several hundreds of billions of Galaxies just within our observable area of the universe.

Many of these stars are much like our own sun where most have a group of planets and moons orbiting around them. Solid bodies orbiting the stars in the universe with a chance of supporting life greatly outnumber the stars. Just our one star (Sun) has 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, and 172 moons. It is the incomprehensive numbers of planets and moons that is where life has a chance to begin.

So with up to 400 billion stars just in our galaxy, with several hundreds of billions of galaxies just within our observable area of the universe, with the vastness of the universe a complete unknown, along with the vast numbers of planets and moons orbiting each star, it shouldn't take a mental giant to see that there is likely many millions of types and forms of intelligent species out there.

In fact the Drake Equation itself estimates there is likely 10,000 different advanced lifeforms within our Milky Way galaxy alone, let alone the fact that this is just one galaxy out of billions just within our observable area of the universe.

 

[SFC Ollie]

They already came watched TV a while, decided there was no intelligent life here and left.

yep I saw them leaving.

 

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The U.S. has an extensive space exploration program NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) . NASA is the agency that leads the U.S. space exploration and became operational on Oct 1, 1958. The U.S. spends an enormous amount of money on space exploration with budgets of almost $20 billion a year spent. NASA has launched many satellites, probes, manned missions, and a space telescopes.

Hubble Space Telescope:
Launched Tuesday April 24, 1990
NASA - Hubble Space Telescope
HubbleSite -- Out of the ordinary...out of this world.

Here are some images from the Hubble Space Telescope:

 

[uscitizen]

Cool Pics, thanks.

 

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Keplar Space Telescope:
Launched Friday March 9, 2009
Keplar's mission is to search the Universe for planets that could be similar to Earth and habitable for life.

 

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The Mars Global Surveyor launched November 1996
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) mission is designed as a rapid, low-cost recovery of the Mars Observer mission objectives. The science objectives involve high resolution imaging of the surface, studies of the topography and gravity, the role of water and dust on the surface and in the atmosphere of Mars, the weather and climate of Mars, the composition of the surface and atmosphere, and the existence and evolution of the Martian magnetic field.

The spacecraft began its Mars orbit insertion burn at 9:17 p.m. EDT September 11 after a 10 month cruise phase. The time for the radio signal to travel from Mars to Earth is about 14 minutes, so the Earth received time for these events was 14 minutes later, or 9:31 p.m. EDT for the beginning of the orbit insertion burn. At 9:29 p.m. the spacecraft went behind Mars and contact was lost at Earth at 9:43 p.m., closest approach to Mars on this pass was at 9:30 p.m. The burn was completed at 9:39 p.m. and contact was re-established at Earth at 9:57 p.m. Mars Global Surveyor started in an elliptical (54,021 x 258 km altitude) 45 hour orbit.
Mars Global Surveyor

Mars Pathfinder later renamed the Carl Segan Memorial Station launched on December 4, 1996
Mars Pathfinder impacted the surface on July 4 at12:57 PM EDT at a velocity of about 18 m/s (40 mph) - approximately 12.5 m/s vertical and 12.5 m/s horizontal - and bounced about 15 meters (50 feet) into the air, bouncing another 15 times and rolling before coming to rest approximately 2.5 minutes after impact and about 1 km from the initial impact site. The landing site in the Ares Vallis region is at 19.33 N, 33.55 W, the lander has been named the Carl Sagan Memorial Station.

The Mars Pathfinder's Sojourner Rover rolled onto Mars' surface on July 6 at about 1:40 AM EDT. Image received at 2:00 AM EDT July 6 shows the rover completely off the ramp, all six wheels on the martian soil.
Mars Pathfinder Project Information

 

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Cool Pics, thanks.

You're welcome...

 

[uscitizen]

Some of thos pics looked like the covers on one of my Yes albums (vinyl).

 

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Recently there have been two rovers exploring Mars: MER-A(Spirit) and MER-B(Opportunity)
Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home

Launch to bring Mars Exploration Rover MER-A (Spirit):

Here is an image of Mars Exploration Rover MER-A (Spirit):

 

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The U.S. has an extensive space exploration program:

 

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Humans use a number of activities to search for life...extraterrestrial life. One commonly known search is SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). SETI projects use scientific methods to search for electromagnetic transmissions from civilizations on distant planets. There are a great many challenges in searching across the sky for intelligent transmissions because its direction, spectrum and method of communication are all unknowns. Basically what was covered in the SETI search so far is equivalant to if there was only one fish in all the water on Planet Earth, and only one cupfull of water was taken out so far in an attempt to find it.

FOXNews.com - Scientists Try to Prepare for Extraterrestrial Contact - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

SETI Institute - SETI Institute Homepage

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dePvDZxrjc]YouTube - Carl Sagan - Search for Intelligent Life[/ame]

 

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It is even in the bible about alien life from other planets.

The Old Testament of the Bible is not only a religious book but also a record of much of the very early years of man. The bible was written over a period of many centuries and the time span of the Old Testament is in the region of a thousand years.
beginning about 1300 B.C. The Old Testament is a wonderful historical record and is of interest to scholars, historians, and theologians alike.

Here are some events that are highly intriguing and worth some thought and study...

Book of Ezekiel first chapter verses 1-28:

1:1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

1:2 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of king Jehoiachim),

1:3 The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.

1:4 As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.

1:5 And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had the form of men,

1:6 But each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

1:7 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were round; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.

1:8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:

1:9 Their wings touched one another; they went everyone straight foreword, without turning as they went.

1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of a bull on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle at the back.

1:11 And their faces and their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touch the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.

1:12 And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit would make them go, they went, without turning as they went.

1:13 In the midst of the living creatures there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

1:14 And the living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning,

1:15 Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each four of them.

1:16 As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a Tarsis stone; and the four had the same likeness, their construction was as though one wheel were within another.

1:17 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.

1:18 The four wheels had rims; and their rims were full of eyes round about.

1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.

1:20 Wherever the spirit would make them go, they went, for the spirit made them go; and the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

1:22 Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, shining like rock crystal, spread out above their heads.

1:23 And under the firmament, their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another; and each creature had two wings covering its body.

1:24 And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the thunder of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of a host; when they stood still, they let down their wings.

1:25 And there came a sound from above the firmament over their heads; when they stood still, they let down their wings.

1:26 And above the firmament over their heads there was the likeness of a throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above.

1:27 I saw as it were gleaming bronze, as the appearance of the fire round about enclosing him. Upward from what had the appearance of his lions, and downward from what had the appearance of his lions, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.

1:28 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one that spoke.

Notes: Here is an account of a sighting that in days before man developed mechanical and flight technology would be hard for anyone to describe.

In 1:4 Ezekiel says that a "stormy wind came out of the north," that there was a "great cloud, with brightness round about it." He speaks of "fire flashing forth continually." Now imaging some kind of spacecraft descending. There is a sudden shattering roar in the sky. Ezekiel looks up. To him the sky is opening. He sees lurid flashing flame gushing from amid a cloud of condensing gases and the latter disperses the form of the descending machine begins to take shape.....

Note: There are more compelling detailed sightings in the bibles historical references...

 

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Many reported extraterrestrial spacecraft sightings from credible witnesses...

U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater a retired Air Force Reserve brigadier general and a pilot of almost fifty years: "I've doubted stories from many witnesses, but when qualified airplane pilots and other experts tell me they've seen strange, unexplained flying objects, I have to put faith in their reports. Air Force, Navy and commercial pilots have revealed to me cases when a U.F.O. would fly near them-right off their plane's wings and then just zoom away at incredible speeds."

Kenneth Arnold an Idaho bussinessman was on a routine flight June 24, 1947 in a private plane to Washington. As he flew over a snow capped range of mountains he was astounded to observe a number of very peculiar looking aerial craft apparently flitting in and out between the mountain peaks. What Kenneth Arnold saw were craft of saucer like things near Mount Rainier.

January 7, 1948 an object which appeared mysterious and alien was destined to cost a young flier his life. This sunny, clear day with routine flying training in progress was soon to turn from its normal routine because a huge cone shaped object of metallic appearance, glowing red on the bottom and white on the top was hovering above the airbase. Four P-51's of the National Guard were at once ordered into the air. Capt. Thomas Mantell a well qualified, competent, and experienced officer exclaimed "There it is!" and the object now was climbing rapidly. "I'm following up to 20,000 feet, if I'm not any closer by then I'll abandon chase!" Those were the last words ever spoken by Captain Mantell. Calls to him remained ominously unanswered and shortly afterward the wreckage of his P-51 was found. The object he was chasing vanished out of Earth's atmosphere.

November 1953 two Royal Air Force officers in a British Vampire interceptor were at 20,000 ft over southern England establishing contact with an unknown object very similar in description to the U.S. sighting where Capt Thomas Mantell lost his life. This object too rapidly climbed much faster than the interceptor and vanished out of Earth's atmosphere.

V.I. Akkuratov and his fellow crewmen of the USSR were overflying Greenland in 1956. They noticed a large object rapidly approaching their aircraft on the port side. The object was likened to a lens that had edges which appeared to pulsate. The object compelled the Russian pilot to take evasive action to avoid collision which drove them into a thick cloud bank. On emerging from this about a half an hour later the crew found the object still there as if it was waiting for them. At once the object began to fly along side of them on a parallel course. In an attempt to "frustrate" the thing the Russian pilot performed a series of maneuvers. These were to no avail for the mysterious craft merely matched these to remain on station on their port side. Twenty minutes elapsed during which this tantalizing aerial impasse continued. Then suddenly and without warning the peculiar craft accelerated violently and was lost to sight within seconds. All crewmen in the Soviet plane were emphatic that it had no distinguishing surface features. This craft did not reveal any presence of jets or propellers, nor did it leave any vapor trail. All agreed that the speed of the craft's departure was phenomenal.

Kathleen Penton of Warminster, England has a well documented sighting with many credible witnesses. One evening she was sitting by an upstairs window and an amazing apparition crossed the sky in front of her. She states that there were portholes that ran along the whole length of the thing which was enormous. The portholes were illuminated by an intense yellow light. Each end of it was rounded and she compared it to a railroad passenger car. Also the object was moving obliquely. The craft was at a very low altitude with no noise and appeared to be drifting.

June 1965 the wife of a local minister described how she and her family had watched a brilliant, glowing, cigar shaped object in the sky for twenty minutes. They had a telescope handy and they were able to observe that the craft stood vertically in the sky, the lower end being thicker than the upper. The lower end appeared to have some sort of ring arrangement around it. The entire object appeared to be in a slow rotation around its vertical axis. By September of the same year upwards of two hundred residents claimed to have seen this peculiar object.

October 1967 in Exeter, which is in a southwestern county of Devon in England there was a mysterious event. The first two witnesses were two policemen on patrol who suddenly saw the thing from their car. What they seen was an object that was glowing and sailing along the treetops ahead of them. They watched for awhile as they drove along and then another object joined the first which was glowing extremely brilliant and much larger and shaped like a cross. Many more witnesses in England reported seeing this flying cross in days to come. Among the witnesses were six police officers in Derbyshire county about 200 miles to the northeast of Devon.

Also in 1967 Scotland coastguards in Wigtownshire reported a "great silver cartwheel" which appeared over the coast from the west doing an estimated 400mph and emitting a strange electrical whine. The thing was in full view for about ten minutes before disappearing over the horizon.

Also in 1967 an Air Force wing commander and his wife driving in New Hampshire on the south coast of England were astounded to see seven bright lights in "V" formation sailing majestically and silently across the sky. As they watched the objects changed formation and assumed the configuration of a cross which was similar to the other sightings. The color was pale yellow and seemed to pulsate.

July 10, 1967 on the Isle of Wight just off the coast of England a number of people stated they've seen a milky white disc hovering in the sky and disappeared. The object then reappeared two hours later falling this time "like a leaf" and apparently not under complete control. After a minute or two of slowly falling it seemed to steady but continued to descend. At this point due to the contours of the ground the witnesses lost view but seen it go in the general vicinity of the barley fields. Later it was discovered the barley fields contained the most remarkable series of "tracks" or markings. They were a series of closely linked, circular depressions in the field which repeated and extended for 3/4 of a mile. For days later both agricultural and aeronautical investigators examined the damage One of the aeronautical investigators declared that in his opinion these kinds of marks could only have been caused by some flying object attempting to land.

Bermuda Triangle has some "classic" instances and one of which legendary Flight 19 of Grumman Avangers on a training mission which disappeared without a trace as did a large Martin Mariner rescue plane sent to look for them. There are reports of odd messages from Flight 19 and one of which was a comment by one of the pilots "Don't come after me...they look like they're from outer space!" Another documented message was "Everything about the sea looked wrong."

Tudor airliner Star Tiger of British South American Airways vanished without a trace in perfect weather only 380 miles from touchdown in Bermuda.

Star Ariel of British South American Airways vanished without a trace in perfect weather a year later in the same vicinity.

Several more aircraft have vanished without a trace in the same vicinity.

Also many ships ranging from light pleasure craft to large ocean going vessels have vanished without a trace in the same vicinity.

One thing all these planes and ships have in common is there was no distress signals and no wreckage.

National Airlines Boeing 727, in 1970 inward bound for Miami Florida from the is a well documented and verified event.The aircraft was making a normal approach when suddenly and unaccountably it disappeared from the radar screens of Miami air traffic control. Inevitably this caused alarm. Ten minutes later, however, the plane reappeared on the screen and proceeded to touchdown safely. Pilot and crew were surprised at all the fuss since, as far as they were concerned, all had been perfectly normal. It was then that a very curious anomaly came to light. Clocks on the aircraft and watches belonging to the flight deck crew were all uniformly ten minutes slow. A further check revealed that the watches on the wrists of all the stewardesses showed exactly the same descrepancy. Discreet additional inquiries among the passengers showed the same thing.

*Had some alien agency created a vortex or "tunnel" in the space-time continuum?

July 1971 witnesses en route from England to Miami were watching thunderhead clouds rise up from the sea when another aircraft became visible at a much lower altitude. It was in fact described as an early 1920's large silvery biplane with two motors and a fixed undercarriage of four wheels. It flew into one of the clouds not to be seen again.

Sept 1973 a Miami college lecturer and three companions were returning from a fishing trip in the bay. Darkness was just beginning to fall. Suddenly they realized that the compass in the launchwas about 90 degrees out. Almost at once the lights on the launch dimmed and soon went out altogether. However the shore lights were in full view so the lack of compass and even lights was merely a nuisance. Their course was due west. It soon became apparent, however, that even with the engine at full power no progress was made to the west but for some odd reason the craft was gradually being driven to the north. It was then that the four occupants noticed a large dark shape obscuring the stars to the west. As they watched this and discussed what it could be they clearly saw a moving light approach it then disappear. Within a short time the huge dark mass also disappeared. Then suddenly the compass went back to normal and they began to make normal progress to the west. Around the same time other boaters in the area reported similar experiences.

October 17, 1973 Chattanooga, Tennessee there was a well documented sighting by many credible witnesses miles apart. One group of witnesses were two police officers and about 25 other persons who saw what they described as a hissing, glowing, cigar shaped UFO which hovered about twenty feet above a wooded swamp. It was about thirty to forty feet long and ten feet high and below treetop level and clearly visible to the witnesses. It was said to look like a cigar lit at both ends with a brilliant blue white glow surrounding the whole thing. The police officers stated they've never seen a light of such intensity. The object hovered there for awhile and then suddenly zoomed away out of sight. Other police officers spotted the same object miles away.

October 11, 1973 a compelling incident took place on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. Two men who had just completed an afternoon of fishing when they noticed a strange blue light floating toward them across the water. As it grew closer they perceived that it was an aerial craft of some kind. At this point a hatch is said to have opened in the side of the object and both men claimed they could see the creatures inside it. They both seen what was said to be three wrinkled creatures with pointed ears, lipless mouths and crablike hands. One of the men passed out or fainted at this point. The other said the craft drew alongside him and thereupon one of the creatures touched him and in doing so rendered him weightless. The aliens then took him into their vessel. This story would appear incredible but the two men went on to be interrogated by Dr. J. Allan Hynek, professor of astronomy at Northwestern University. As a result Dr. Hynek is adamant that the two men were indeed telling the truth. This professor commented "It is like an aborigine who sees his first Boeing 747. UFO's are a real phenomena that are just as puzzling to us as nuclear energy would have been to Ben Franklin."

Governor John Gilligan and his wife reported they watched an object for half an hour that was a vertical object with an amber glow.

Senator Barry Goldwater: "Someday soon someone's going to have strong UFO evidence that can't be explained away. I believe in UFO's and if my secretary came in one day and said, 'Senaor Goldwater, there's a three-foot tall green man with four eyes and an antenna sticking out of its head waiting to see you outside,' I wouldn't think the poor girl was nuts. I'd simply say to her, 'Send him in!' "

President Jimmy Carter: "It was a very peculiar aberration. But about twenty people saw it. It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and was about the size of the moon. We watched it for about ten minutes but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure. I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified flying objects!"

A report from a British police sergeant in the southeast county of Kent noticed a brilliant white light in the sky over Dungeness. He thought it was an air-sea rescue operation in progress and made a phone call to the control center. The control center said it wasn't so. The light then vanished and seconds later a Kent radar station reported unidentified aerial traffic in the area they could not explain.

Commanding officer of the Spanish Air Force in the Canary Islands. He was at the time in Sabada, a village in a remote area of eastern Spain when he spotted the object overhead. He said: "It was giving off a brilliant light and was traveling at fantastic speed."

Here is a hard to believe report for many but it comes from one of Spains most eminent medical men. Dr. Francisco Padron has a rather disturbing account...."It was nearly dark and I was driving along a lonely road when I saw a round sphere about 13 meters (40 ft) in diameter hovering above the road ahead of me. It was emitting a bluish light and was about 7 meters (20 ft) above the ground. As I approached my radio cut out. I passed right underneath the object and saw, silhouetted inside through a type of porthole, two very tall figures dressed in bright red. Then it accelerated and vanished in the direction of Tenerife."

 

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If an asteroid hadn't hit Earth 65 million years ago to make the dinosaurs extinct, our planet would very likely have evolved to have reptiles rise to the top of intelligent life forms. The dinosaurs becoming extinct opened a window of opportunity for mammals to push forward and advance at a faster pace.

Knowing this about how the path of evolution has taken a change here on Earth brings to light the many possibilities of evolution paths on other planets. The type of species pushed forward to evolve into intelligent life on other planets has endless possibilities.

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."...Stephen Hawking

Because the types of intelligent life in the universe is almost infinite, then it is likely some of the fiercest beings in the universe are multiplying, expanding, consuming, proliferating and taking over everything that increasingly becomes within their reach....like an ever expanding and growing bubble.

We here on Earth are lucky for the time being to not be close to one of these growing bubbles. This luck is likely to change when they come. It is not a question of if they will come, but when...

I used to worry that the first time extraterrestrials attempt to make contact and open up dialog with us Earthlings would be them landing in the Middle East....only to have a jihadist suiside bomber attack their spaceship and launch us into an intergalactic war. Now I realize it is far more likely extraterrestrials will not be friendly anyways. They are far more likely to only want complete control and consumption of Earth's resources with only proliferation of their own species in mind.

All of us here on Earth will likely only be looked upon as part of a planets rich ecosystem and abundant resources. It is likely we will simply be either consumed as food and nutrients or simply put back into the Earth as fertilizer....or both.

"I discount suggestions that UFO's contain beings from outer space. I think any visits by aliens, would be much more obvious, and probably also, much more unpleasant."...Stephen Hawking

If you look at life on our own planet, species that proliferate in huge numbers often send scouts to a new area for intelligence gathering before the masses move out and swarm the new land. One example of this is in the insect world ants are huge in numbers. When ants move out on the jungle floor in the insect world nothing is safe in their path. Ants only have consumption of all resources in mind and proliferation of their own species. Even ants somehow are intelligent enough to send out scouts to explore new territory before bringing in the masses.

This scenario is very likely what is occuring with the many UFO sightings people are witnessing. Many of these witnesses are very credible sources and have their stories collaborated with countless other witnesses to the same events.

What is very disturbing about these sightings is that if they are truly extraterrestrials visiting us then we should be alarmed in the manner they are doing so. It appears they have no intention of making contact with us and opening any type of interactive dialog. Very likely all these sightings are scouts or probes sent to perform intelligence gathering before the masses swarm our planet for its resources.

"We must ask if a remorseless tide of alien colonization is steadily approaching this defenseless little planet of ours. It is a disturbing thought and one which continues to intrude."...John W. Macvey

 

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Here are some quotes by many prominent and some brilliant people:

"Of course UFOs are real, and they are interplanetary. The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence."...Air Chief Marshall Lord Hugh Dowding
Commanding Officer of the Royal Air Force during WWII.

"This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination."... Air Marshall Azim Daudpota
Zimbabwe Air Force, commenting on a UFO witnessed in July of 1985 by many people and tracked on radar.

"I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, "Have you ever seen anything like that?" He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it."...Former US President Ronald Reagan
Describing his 1974 UFO encounter to veteran newsman Norman C. Miller, Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

"Something is going on in the skies that we do not understand. If all the airline pilots and Air Force pilots who have seen UFOs - and sometimes chased them - have been the victims of hallucinations, then an awful lot of pilots should be taken off and forbidden to fly."...Captain Kervendal, French Gendarmerie

"In concealing the evidence of UFO operations, the Air Force is making a serious mistake."...Lieutenant Colonel James McAshan, US Air Force

"We had a job to do, whether right or wrong, to keep the public from getting excited."...Dr J Allen Hynek, Director of the US Air Force top secret project Blue Book.

"The phenomenon of UFOs is real. I know that there are scientific organizations which study the problem. It must be treated seriously."...Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev

"Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense."...Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Former CIA Director in a public statement, 1960.

"More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation, e.g. that they are hallucinations, the effects of light refraction, meteors, wheels falling from aeroplanes and the like. They have been tracked on radar screens and the observed speeds have been as great as 9,000 mph. I am convinced that these objects do exist and they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from an extraterrestrial source."...Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, Commanding Officer of the RAF during WWII.

"And don't tell me they were reflections, I know they were solid objects."...Lieutenant D. A Swimley, US Air Force, commenting on a sighting of eight disc shaped objects he and several fellow officers watched circling over Hamilton Air Force Base, California, on August 3, 1953. The objects were also picked up on radar and spotted by many civillian pilots. F-86 Sabres were scrambled to intercept the objects, but the jets were apparently too slow.

"It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colours, and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure: I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified flying objects in the sky."...Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter following his sighting along with many others of a UFO at Leary, Georgia in October 1969.

"My own present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very tentatively be termed 'surveillance'."...Dr James McDonald,Senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Arizona before Congress in 1968

"When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science, but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum leap."...Dr J Allen Hynek, Former Director of the US Air Force top secret project Blue Book.

"I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject."...Former US President Gerald Ford

"We have no proof but if we extrapolate based on the best information available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places."...Neil Armstrong, NASA Astronaut, first man on the moon. October 21, 1999.

"Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligence, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I believe it's possible they even came here."...Storey Musgrove, NASA Astronaut

"The UFO was moving around the 747. (It) was a huge ball with lights running around it. Well, I've been involved in a lot of cover-ups with the FAA. When we gave the presentation to the Reagan staff, they had all those people swear that this never happened. But they never had me swear it never happened. I can tell you what I've seen with my own eyes. I've got a videotape. I've got the voice tape. I've got the reports that were filed that will confirm what I've been telling you."...John Callaghan, FAA Chief of Accidents and Investigations during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program.

"The security guard called and said, 'Sir, there's a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I've got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.' We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area. (A high ranking Air Force officer) said, Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report."...Captain Robert Salas, US Air Force, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program.

"I concentrate on the science. I'm interested in the UFOs seen by the police and military witnesses. I'm interested in the near misses that pilots report, where their aircraft nearly collide with these things. I'm interested in the visual sightings backed up by radar. I'm interested in the military bases that are overflown by these things. I'm interested in the cases where you have radiation readings on the ground. These are no lights in the sky. These are not mis-identifications of fantasy prone individuals. This is a cutting-edge technology being reported by reliable, trained observers, and it is something that goes beyond what we can do. That to me suggests that if it is not ours, it belongs to someone else. If that technology is better than ours, then the extraterrestrial hypothesis seems to me the best explanation."...Nick Pope, Head of the "UFO desk" at Air Secretariat 2-A, British Ministry of Defence from 1991-1994.

"I have discussed this matter with the effected agencies of the government, and they are of the opinion that is it not wise to publicize this matter at this time."...Senator Richard Russell,Head of the Armed Services Committee, following his sighting of a UFO during an official trip to the Soviet Union in 1955.

"I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth. I feel that we need to have a top level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion....For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public."...Colonel L. Gordon Cooper, Mercury and Gemini Astronaut, in an address to the UN in 1985 after announcing that he had seen and chased UFOs over Germany in the 1950s. Cooper also reported a greenish object, which passed by his capsule going east to west (opposite normal man-made orbits) while in orbit in May of 1963. The object was tracked by ground-based equipment in Perth, Australia. The press was told it could not question Col. Cooper on this aspect of the mission.

"This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious."...General Nathan Twining, Chief of Staff, US Air Force, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists, seems to me to be overwhelming. A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances have been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another."...Lord Hill-Norton, Chief of Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Great Britain, 1973; Chairman, Military Committee of NATO, 1974-77.

"We have indeed been contacted-perhaps even visited-by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public."...Victor Marchetti, Former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the CIA, in an article written by him for Second Look entitled "How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon Vol 1, No 7," Washington, DC, May, 1979.

"The Air Force has arrived at the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced in Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations reinforced by the reports of the night March 30-31 (1990) have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorised aerial activities have taken place. The day will undoubtedly come when the phenomenon will be observed with the technological means of detection and collection that won't leave a single doubt about its origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery for a long time; a mystery that continues to be present. But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion."...Colonel Wilfred De Brouwer, Chief of Operations for the Belgian Air Force in 1990 following a spate of sightings over the country witnessed by hundreds of people. Many of the sightings were confirmed on radar.

"I was amazed at what I saw. The amount of debris that was scattered over such an area... The more I saw of the fragments, the more I realized it wasn't anything I was aquainted with. In fact, as it turned out, nobody else was aquainted with it. There was a coverup some place about this whole matter."...Major Jesse Marcel, U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in a videotaped interview. Among the first to arrive at the crash site in Roswell, Marcel was well acquainted with all the weather balloons launched by the 509th Bomb Group - including the Mogul balloons - of which the U.S. Government claims accounts for the Roswell wreckage.

"It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away."...Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev, Commenting on a UFO sighting that occurred while en route to the Solyut 6 space station in April of 1979.

"Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations."...Captain Eddie Rickenbacke, American Ace of Aces, medal of honor-winning commander of the 94th Aero Pursuit Squadron in WWI

"There was something definite in the sky...If it had proved to be hostile we would have destroyed it."...Major Gerald Smith, US Air Force. One of the F-106 pilots scrambled under orders from NORAD (North American Air Defence Command) to investigate a UFO over West Palm Beach, Florida on September 14, 1972. The UFO was viewed through binoculars by the FAA supervisor, George Morales, sighted by an Eastern Airlines captain, police and several civilians, as well as being tracked on radar by Miami International Airport and Homestead AFB.

"The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar."...Commanding General Nathan F Twining, Air Material Command, US Air Force in a declassified letter to the Pentagon.

"I shall be very glad to accept appointment as a member of the (NICAP) Board of Governors and be listed as a 'believer' in the reality of UFO's, with the understanding that I shall resign if it appears at any time that your big group is being used to cover up for the top brass. I know that there is a real need to break through the official Washington brush-off and get the truth home to the people. There seems to be a great fear among the powers that be that the American people will panic if told the truth. How little they know and understand their countrymen. I feel that millions of our people already believe in the reality of the UFO's."...Admiral M Herbert B Knowles, US Navy

"I've changed my position in the last two or three years - the last two years to be precise - to suggest that the evidence is strong enough that we really need to have serious open discussion and release of information that it is quite clear the government and other governments do hold, and that this become a part of our official knowledge. Now, whether it's true or not, it deserves to be handled with a serious investigation. There is too much smoke here not to be fire, and so I personally in the last couple of years have come out - I don't know the answers, but I've come out - and I say, this has gone far enough. If it's real, let's get it out in the open; let's break the deadlock that bureaucracy has on this. There is enough evidence pointing in the direction that clearly there is information being withheld. How far we can go with it, I don't know."...Edgar Mitchell, NASA Astronaut, Apollo 14 lunar module pilot and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences

UFOs are real and they may come from outer space....photographs and various materials show scientifically that there are more advanced people piloting the saucers and motherships."...General Kanshi Ishikawa, Chief of Air Staff of Japan's Air Safety Defence Force, in a statement in 1967.

"For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means. I was furthermore a witness to an extraordinary phenomenon, here on this planet Earth. It happened a few months ago in Florida. There I saw with my own eyes a defined area of ground being consumed by flames, with four indentations left by a flying object which had descended in the middle of a field. Beings had left the craft (there were other traces to prove this). They seemed to have studied topography, they had collected soil samples and, eventually, they returned to where they had come from, disappearing at enormous speed... I happen to know that authority did just about everything to keep this incident from the press and TV, in fear of a panicky reaction from the public."...Colonel L Gordon Cooper, Mercury Nine, Gemini Five Astronaut

In December 1965, Gemini astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman saw a UFO during their second orbit of their record-breaking 14 day flight. Borman reported that he saw an unidentified spacecraft some distance from their capsule. Gemini Control, at Cape Kennedy told him that he was seeing the final stage of their own Titan booster rocket. Borman confirmed that he could see the booster rocket all right, but that he could also see something completely different.

Lovell: BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.
Capcom: This is Houston. Say again 7.
Lovell: SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT 10 O'CLOCK HIGH.
Capcom: Gemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting?
Lovell: WE HAVE SEVERAL...ACTUAL SIGHTING.
Capcom: ...Estimated distance or size?
Lovell: WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT...

James Lovell
Gemini 7 Astronaut

 

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The Phoenix Lights - Witnessed by Thousands
A huge triangle craft silently floated over Phoenix, Arizonia in 1997

In the early evening of March 13, 1997, a massive V-shaped, boomerang-shaped or triangle-shaped object with large lights on the underside of it was observed by over 10,000 people across Arizona and Phoenix.

The object was reported to be one mile to two miles across in size.

Reportedly first spotted northwest of Arizona in Henderson, Nevada, at approximately 7 p.m., the object proceeded in basically a southeast or south-southeast direction somewhat diagonally across Arizona.

Its flight path included passing near the town of Prescott and eventually directly over the metro Phoenix area later that evening, including over central Phoenix itself.

The object was observed by personnel at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. Air traffic controllers and at least one commercial aircraft crew reported seeing it as the object drifted overhead.

By approximately 10 p.m. the massive object was continuing its slow and steady cruise in the same direction as it left the southeast outskirts of the Valley of the Sun.

Many videotapes and still camera shots were taken. Calls were made to police and the news media. Local TV stations and newspapers carried the story. The national media reported on it as well. Witnesses were interviewed. Professional investigators of all kinds looked at the circumstances and evidence.

The Phoenix Lights incident became one of the most publicized and well-documented UFO sightings in memory.

 

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Mass UFO Sighting in Washington DC

On July 12 1952, a number of UFOs were sighted around the Capital area of Washington D.C. This UFO event was witnessed by hundreds of people. Video footage and many still photographs were taken by dozens of people. The event was headline news on the Washington Post.

They were seen from the ground, seen and also detected on radar from control towers at Washington National Airport, Bolling Air Force Base across the Potomac River, and from nearby Andrews Air Force Base. In many cases, airline pilots flying in the area were able to provide visual confirmation of radar tracking.

The appearance of unidentified objects flying with impunity over the heart of the American government and its military establishment was embarrassing to the Department of Defence, whose responsibility it was to protect the country from airborne intrusion. A flood of questions from reporters led the U.S. Air Force to call its biggest but also most embarrassed and confused press conference since World War II.

The conference was held in Room 3E-369 of the Pentagon, and was presided by Air Force Intelligence Chief, Major General John Samford. The main explanation given for the rash of sightings over Washington was something called a "temperature inversion," which is the immediate cause of a mirage, but usually on the ground. General Samford suggested that lights on the ground may have looked like they were in the air because an inversion can act like an "air lens" and bend light rays.

It wasn't until 1969 that an Air Force scientific report made it clear that inversions strong enough to create the effects with which General Samford credited them, could not exist in the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, no radar/visual UFO report had ever been caused by a temperature inversion or mirage.