We are seeing so many remarkable pre-announcement pieces showing up, this is a place to post and discuss them. This one for example, is making discoveries sound 'ho hum' which a few months/years ago were heralded as amazing breakthroughs. Today for example:
http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-every-star-hosts-least-one-alien-planet-120845221.html
When a month or so ago they were making a BIG deal about finding one planet in the sweet zone which could possibly support life, son they they say 25% of them could support life! Including mention of red dwarfs, etc. The Zeta predicted evidence continues to build up!
Here is another blog that relates, describing a wobble:
http://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/nasa-scientists-discover-a-wobbly-planet
casey a
Astronomers have discovered two moons located behind Uranus after re-examining old data collected by NASA’s space probe Voyager 2.
https://www.rt.com/viral/362875-voyager-2-uranus-moons/
Oct 17, 2016
Ryan X
That's not all that gets tilted and wobbles I might add...
Oct 21, 2016
Derrick Johnson
Is everything we know about the solar system WRONG? Bizarre new star formation leaves scientists baffled
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3856324/Is-know-sola...
Oct 21, 2016
Matt B
'Planet Nine' Can't Hide Much Longer, Scientists Say
http://www.space.com/34455-planet-nine-discovery-coming-soon.html
Planet Nine's days of lurking unseen in the dark depths of the outer solar system may be numbered.
The hypothetical giant planet, which is thought to be about 10 times more massive than Earth, will be discovered within 16 months or so, astronomer Mike Brown predicted.
"I'm pretty sure, I think, that by the end of next winter — not this winter, next winter — I think that there'll be enough people looking for it that … somebody's actually going to track this down," Brown said during a news conference Wednesday (Oct. 19) at a joint meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) and the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) in Pasadena, California. Brown said that eight to 10 groups are currently looking for the planet.
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The researchers suggested that this putative planet is perhaps two to 15 times more massive than Earth and lies hundreds of astronomical units (AU) from the sun. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance, about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
This interpretation was bolstered in January of this year by Brown and fellow Caltech astronomer Konstantin Batygin, who found evidence of a perturber's influence in the orbits of a handful of additional distant objects. This "Planet Nine," as Batygin and Brown dubbed the putative world, likely contains about 10 Earth masses and orbits on a highly elliptical path whose aphelion (farthest distance from the sun) is about 1,000 AU, the researchers said. (For perspective, Pluto gets just 49.3 AU from the sun at aphelion.)
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The ongoing Planet Nine research also includes efforts to pin down where the world might be in the sky these days. This is a key part of the discovery effort, since a blind search for an object so far away, and with such a huge and elliptical orbit, has little chance of success in the near term, Brown has said.
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Astronomers have said Planet Nine is perhaps four times wider than Earth, and such an object would be easily visible with professional-grade equipment if it were relatively close to Earth, Brown explained. In addition, planets on highly elliptical orbits spend most of their time near aphelion, since they're traveling most slowly on this part of their path, he said.
An object four times bigger than Earth that's located at 1,000 AU would have a magnitude of about +25 on astronomers' brightness scale, Brown added.
"This is well within reach of the giant telescopes," he said. "The Subaru telescope, I think, on Mauna Kea, [in Hawaii] — the Japanese national telescope — is the prime instrument for doing the search. But there are a lot of other people who have clever ideas on how to find it, too, that are trying with their own telescopes."
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Oct 21, 2016
casey a
Scientists say data from NASA's 1976 Mars landing need to be reconsidered for signs of life
http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-their-1976-mars-landing-...
(Not the first time these dots have been connected.. But a good read for anyone who doesnt know about the Viking findings)
Oct 27, 2016
Ecosikh
Interesting piece in that remarkable world renown astronomy peer reviewed journal - also known as the Daily Mail - includes another interesting piece on plant 9.
The interesting thing is that the piece alludes to naming debates as to whether it's Planet X or Planet 9.... and lastly Monica Grady is as renowned Astronomer in the UK
Oct 27, 2016
J Ph
Look at the headline showing on the screen
at the Apple Special Event announcing the MacBook Pro today
Oct 27, 2016
Kris H
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-11/05/c_135807901.htm
Nov 8, 2016
Howard
Trump To Announce Nibiru During Victory Speech (Nov 7)
An inside source with close ties to the Trump campaign provided shocking information as to Donald Trump’s plans for election night. If he wins the election, Trump will reveal the existence of Nibiru—said to be a brown dwarf star and seven planets on a near-collision course with Earth—during his victory speech. The information stems from a source with unimpeachable credentials, a friend and associate of the Republican nominee. For this to happen, however, Trump must diminish Hillary Clinton’s four-point lead in the polls, or prove the pollsters wrong and win the election in a landslide.
Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, belongs to a cabal devoted to concealing the truth about Nibiru until the last possible moment, in hopes that she and her elitist friends can weather the storm in underground bunkers and rise to build the world anew once the dust settles.
“President Trump will not permit this charade to continue,” our source said. “He knows Hillary’s plans, and, sadly, she knows his—that is why Clinton is desperate to stop him. But Trump will prevail, and once and for all demolish the Nibiru cover-up, allowing Americans to take whatever actions they deem necessary to prepare for the worst possible scenario. You know, a lot of people have wondered why Trump has not devoted more than just one-hundred million dollars of his own money toward the campaign. Well, he’s been putting that money to a much more important issue.”
Unsealed records, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, indicate that Trump has spent over thirty million dollars on Nibiru research. He enlisted the aid of prominent, ostracized NASA scientists, people like astronomers Paul Cox and Dr. Stephen Greenbaum, to study Nibiru’s expected impact on Earth. Trump’s scientific advisers admit that Nibiru will ravage the earth, but have posited that Nibiru will not arrive until the winter of 2019, a significant deviation from previously established forecasts.
“Future President Trump has high confidence in his scientific team,” our source said. “He will use the added time to warn and help prepare Americans to survive the Nibiru cataclysm. He will fulfill his promise to President Putin. Unless they get to Trump first. But he’s well protected. You saw what happened in Reno.”
Saturday afternoon, a protester disrupted a Trump rally in Reno, Nevada. Austyn Crites, a Democrat posing as a disgruntled Republican, attempted to incite a mass riot during Trump’s second really of the day. The United States Secret Service rushed into action, whisking Trump off the stage before Crites neared the podium. Against the advice his protective entourage, Trump triumphantly returned to the stage to finish delivering his message to the American people. We later learned that Crites has a criminal arrest record and is a known agent provocateur employed by the Democratic National Committee. The secret service discovered a pair of silencer-equipped .45 caliber handguns, a miniature flame-thrower, and a pocketknife on his person.
“Hillary Clinton has demonstrated her willingness to stop at nothing to stop Trump,” our source said. “This potential assassination attempt shows her resolve to eliminate Trump before election night. Regardless, Trump will prevail and tell the world about Nibiru, hopefully on election night.”
Following Hillary’s concession announcement, President-elect Trump and special guest astronomer Paul Cox will take center stage and warn the world about the forthcoming Nibiru cataclysm.
“This will be the most Earth shattering announcement ever made,” our source said. “Donald Trump is a caring man. A man of principle and character. He is a family man who loves his wife and children. He wants people be aware of the threat while he and his team try to find a means to stop that threat.”
Source
http://www.someonesbones.com/blog/trump-to-announce-nibiru-during-v...
Nov 9, 2016
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.disclose.tv/news/nasa_prepares_to_take_first_pictures_of...
NASA PREPARES TO TAKE FIRST PICTURES OF PLANET X NIBIRU
Even before Pluto was demoted as a planet, there was often the joke that there was a tenth planet known as Planet X, but in reality, people laughed it off and would obviously not take such a comment seriously. Since Pluto was no longer deemed a planet, a planet known as Planet X has come to existence and is now in fact perceived as the ninth planet to replace what Pluto formally was.
The planet has often been referred to as Planet Nine and Nibiru. The planet has been a relative mystery, for the most part. However, one scientist believes that a sighting of the planet is expected to be seen within the next two years. NASA GETTING INVOLVED IN MYSTERY PLANET Astronomer, Mike Brown also stated that he expects that someone in the organization of NASA will, in fact, capture this hiding planet and learn much more about its existence and content. Brown has also indicated that 8-10 groups are already on the task of looking for the planet, which hints at a strong possibility that the sighting of Nibiru will be much sooner rather than later. Reports indicate that Planet Nibiru is currently at or near aphelion, which is approximately 1,000 AU and measures in the sky of about 400 square degrees. In a simpler term, the moon covers about.5 of the sky, so this means that Nibiru is believed to be about four times bigger than the Earth, which also creates the likelihood to find this planet to be even stronger, given its unique and sheer mass for a planet. Scientists agree with this sentiment and say with their state-of-the-art telescopes the planet should be spotted in no time; it is just a matter of who spots the planet first. This is also a big deal because a contest of who has better equipment to deal with space-related context is present again much like the United States and Russia decades back. China has apparently obtained an extremely powerful telescope that no one has even fathomed to exist, which leaves NASA reeling and trying to catch up to create something just as powerful if not stronger. NASA finding the planet first would also increase the possibility of receiving more funding towards better technology and projects overall. This race is not as well-documented as the Sputnik satellite. However, there is some angst within NASA to try and get better. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in always trying to be number one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl5BwrSpp1s
Nov 9, 2016
Starr DiGiacomo
EARTH MUST BE WARNED.......Most likely Nibiru, not aliens
http://nypost.com/2016/11/17/did-this-astronaut-warn-of-aliens-befo...
Did this astronaut warn of aliens before attempting suicide?
By Sarah Barns, The Sun
November 17, 2016 | 3:13pm
A shocking video claims France’s first female astronaut screamed “Earth must be warned!” before she attempted suicide.
Claudie Haigneré, 59, reportedly had to “be restrained” after yelling the eerie caution prior to falling into a coma from an overdose of sleeping pills.
A six-minute YouTube conspiracy film by UFOmania has resurfaced this week examining her story. It has been viewed nearly a million times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqIjPQb8U1I
In 1993, esteemed scientist Claudie was a backup crew member for the 1993 Mir Altaïr mission, which included her future husband, Jean-Pierre Haigneré.
She made it to the Mir space station in 1996 as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission, and in 2001 became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station.
The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named after Claudie and her husband.
After retiring from space work, Claudie entered French politics and worked as minister delegate for research and new technologies from 2002 to 2004 and minister delegate for European affairs from 2004 to 2005.
But, despite her efforts, budgets for scientific research were cut.
After leaving politics, she worked in a biology lab at the Pasteur Institute.
Haignere poses on Oct. 27, 1992, after being chosen by the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies) to take part in the Franco-Soviet mission aboard the Mir space station.Photo: Getty ImagesThat’s where the story gets strange.
In December 2008, it was widely reported that Claudie had to be rushed to a hospital after allegedly taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
It was reported that she was found conscious but had to be restrained while screaming, “Earth must be warned!” before lapsing into a coma.
Claudie blamed the incident on “burnout syndrome” and is now the director of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie — the largest science museum in Europe.
However, alien enthusiasts believe she was trying to warn the Earth about life in outer space.
The YouTube video, which is narrated by a robot voice, is a conspiracy that blends fact and fiction.
Claudie did attempt suicide in 2008, but the rest appears to be made up and continuously reappears on conspiracy forums, such as David Icke’s website.
The video says: “She had to be forcefully restrained after screaming ‘Earth must be warned!’
“More ominously, her laboratory where she worked at the forefront of human/alien DNA research was destroyed by fire.”
The video uses quotes from real reports by news agency AFP, but they’re taken out of context, with additional information.
There is no such thing as “human/alien DNA research” because we have never encountered any aliens.
Claudie’s story often pops up when something happens to a prominent UFO expert.
The mysterious death of conspiracy theorist Max Spiers in October may have triggered the latest interest.
Spiers was found dead on a sofa at a friend’s house in Poland days after warning his mother to “investigate” if anything happened to him. Friends also claim he had vomited a black liquid before his death.
ench astronaut Claudie Haignere waves inside the landing capsule near the village of Zhayrem.Photo:Nov 18, 2016
Ecosikh
Daily Mail again....
Mystery as UFO hunter posts images of huge spherical object in front of the Sun that was captured by NASA cameras
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3953058/NASA-cameras-captur...
Nov 20, 2016
Starr DiGiacomo
http://nypost.com/2016/12/14/nasa-scientist-warns-earth-is-due-for-...
NASA scientist warns Earth is due for ‘extinction-level’ event
December 14, 2016
New York Post
A NASA scientist is warning that Earth is due for an “extinction-level” event like a comet or asteroid strike — and claims there won’t be anything we can do to stop it.
Joseph Nuth, an award-winning scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told attendees during Monday’s annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco that policymakers should start preparing for such a possible cataclysmic strike, despite the extremely long odds of it happening.
“But on the other hand, they are the extinction-level events, things like dinosaur killers, they’re 50 to 60 million years apart, essentially,” Nuth said. “You could say, of course, we’re due, but it’s a random course at that point.”
Making matters even worse is Nuth’s claim that humanity isn’t close to being prepared for such a threat, The Guardian reported.
"The biggest problem, basically, is there’s not a hell of a lot we can do about it at the moment,” Nuth said.
Nuth is calling on NASA to build two spacecraft: an “interceptor” rocket and an observer spacecraft. If a comet or asteroid poses a strong enough threat to Earth, the rocket — which would be capable of carrying a nuclear bomb — could “mitigate the possibility of a sneaky asteroid coming in from a place that’s hard to observe, like from the sun,” he said.
But NASA would need to drastically reduce the typical five-year span between mission approval and launch to make any such last-minute deflection attempt a possibility.
“It’s really imperative that we reduce that reaction time,” Nuth said.
Space.com reports that NASA would need to make a formal request to Congress to approve such a mission.
“We’re talking a considerable amount of money,” Nuth said. “The NASA request would probably be for several hundred million dollars to produce one of these spacecraft.”
Nuth stressed that he wasn’t speaking on behalf on NASA, saying he’s not a policymaker at the space agency.
“I’m not even in the administration of NASA,” he said. “So this is more of a scientific recommendation.”
Nuth said Earth had a “close encounter” just two years ago, when a comet passed “within cosmic spitting distance” of Mars. The cosmic snowball of frozen gases was discovered just 22 months before its near-collision with the Red Planet.
“If you look at the schedule for high-reliability spacecraft and launching them, it takes five years to launch a spacecraft,” Nuth said. “We had 22 months of total warning.”
But NASA officials, in a statement to The Post, said not to worry for at least the next century.
“NASA places a high priority on finding and characterizing any hazardous asteroids and comets as much in advance as possible, to have sufficient time to protect our home planet from a potential impact,” the statement reads. “The agency continues to aggressively develop strategies and plans with partners in the US and abroad to enhance our identification and tracking efforts, and develop options for mitigation and planetary defense.”
The statement continued: “To date, approximately 95 percent of potentially hazardous asteroids and comets larger than 1 kilometer in size that could pose danger to Earth have been found. Additionally, there are no detected impact threats for the next 100 years.”
Nuth is a senior scientist for primitive bodies at Goddard Space Flight Center, according to his NASA bio. He has won several awards and commendations throughout his 38-year career, including an achievement award in astrobiology from NASA
Dec 17, 2016
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/748762/Planet-X-end-of-the-worl...
‘Overwhelming evidence’ that Planet X will DESTROY Earth in 2017
IF YOU thought 2016 was a bad year, 2017 could herald the apocalypse as the much speculated Planet X is set to arrive, according to conspiracy theorists.
Paranormal researchers have been investigating the possibility of Planet X for several years now, and some believe that it is now travelling towards Earth.
Research scientist David Meade claims that an entire different solar system is on a collision course with our own and that Planet X, which the conspiracy theorist believes is actually a star, and its gravitational pull will cause widespread destruction here on Earth that will ultimately lead to the end of humanity.
Mr Meade, an author who wrote the book ‘Planet X – The 2017 Arrival’, believes that the devastating Planet X will bring with it “seven orbiting bodies”, including Nibiru, a large, blue planet.
The conspiracy theorist believes that the star system is difficult to spot because of the angle that it is approaching Earth.
Mr Meade wrote in a piece for Planet X News: “This system is, of course, not aligned with our solar system’s ecliptic, but is coming to us from an oblique angle and toward our South Pole.
“This makes observations difficult, unless you’re flying at a high altitude over South America with an excellent camera.
“As it intertwines and approaches it, will come from our south and loop all the way to the extreme north, then come back south again as it exits our orbital path.”
He adds that the evidence is “overwhelming” .
A spate of seismic activity this year, especially across the Ring of Fire in locations such as New Zealand, Chile and Japan, is due to the approaching star system and its intense gravitational pull, while the author also claims that it is wreaking havoc on many other aspects of the planet.
Mr Meade concludes: “Earthquakes have dramatically increased both in number and intensity.
“The public is being kept in the dark deliberately to avoid panic.
“Storm systems are multiplying both in type, intensity and size.
“Sinkholes and cracks are appearing in the earth’s crust. Heatwaves are getting stronger and are lasting longer.”
Eventually, all of these factors will build to a point where life on Earth, or the planet itself, is wiped out.
Jan 2, 2017
Kris H
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/05/will-...
Jan 7, 2017
lonne rey
REVEALED: ‘Rogue planet’ could boot Earth ‘OUT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM’, scientists claim
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/753174/planets-astronomers-nint...
Professor Mike Brown, who is one of the first astronomers to propose the existence of the planet, said at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences, that it is only a matter of time before it is discovered.
Having performed simulations of 156 encounters between our solar system and rogue plants, Mr Vesper said there is a chance the ninth planet could come into orbit with native planets and boot one out the solder system.
He said there is a 40 per cent chance a rogue planet could end up entering, or being "captured", by the solar system.
Jan 12, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
Nancy mentioned in Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4160138/Is-doomsday-...
Jan 28, 2017
Corey Young
Here is an interesting prong....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/lost-continent-mauritius-indian-o...
Researchers confirm 'lost continent' below Mauritius
Chunk of continental crust in the Indian Ocean broke off from a 'super-continent' 200 million years ago
By Brandie Weikle, CBC News Posted: Feb 02, 2017 5:37 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 02, 2017 6:07 PM ET
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How the world works
Finding a "new-to-us" continent is about much more than this discovery alone.
"Our work is addressing the question of how continents break apart from each other and how new oceans are formed," says Ashwal.
"If we are able to reconstruct their positions in the past, where they were and at what time in the past, then we can understand better how the earth works."
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But based on the earth changes, and the march into the pole shift...we all know its more than what they are leading on!
Feb 3, 2017
Howard
Black Ops Chemtrails Intended to Hide Nibiru (Feb 4)
Operation Indigo Skyfold involves the use of military aircraft to create “chemtrails” in the sky which block out the visibility of approaching Planet X.
Chemtrails is a name derived from condensation trails (contrails) – the white lines of condensation left behind by high-flying aircraft.
However, many people believe they are not created by water vapour but are actually a result of the planes spraying toxic chemicals and biological agents into the air.
The apparent sharp rise in the number of these over the world has been discussed on internet forums for years now.
Source
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/582369/nibiru-planet-x-...
Feb 6, 2017
casey a
Archaeologists Have Discovered More Than 450 Large Geometrical Geoglyphs in the Amazonian Rainforest
The purpose of these enigmatic sites is still not understood. As very few artifacts were recovered during excavation, they are unlikely to have been villages. The layout also does not suggest that they had been built for defensive purposes. The current thinking among archaeologists is that they were used only infrequently, perhaps as ritual gathering places.
The structures are abandoned enclosures that occupy approximately 13,000 square kilometers. The common belief that the rainforest ecosystem has been untouched by humans is challenged by this discovery.
http://sciencenewsjournal.com/archaeologists-discovered-450-large-g...
Feb 13, 2017
Mark
Looks like more Prong 3 mischief planned by NASA as the Zetas explained in last Saturday's New Zetatalk: this time they are going to reclassify every piece of rock in the solar system as a planet to cloud the issue when PX is announced.
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Our solar system could be about to get 100 new planets
http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/20/our-solar-system-could-be-about-to-ge...
Our solar system could be about to get 100 new planets, under a new proposal by a top NASA scientist.
But don’t worry – there’s not a whole bunch of new worlds flying towards our solar system, preparing to dock next to the sun.
Instead, the whole way we classify planets is wrong – and we should actually consider our moon as a planet, says Alan Stern, principle investigator of Nasa’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Stern and five colleagues have written a suggestion of a new way to classify planets – which would no longer require planets to orbit the sun.
If accepted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the move would mean that our solar system would acquire 100 new planets – including Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede.
Feb 20, 2017
Matt B
Even more Prong 3 mischief from NASA? The "discoveries" are coming thick and fast!
Major Discovery! 7 Earth-Size Alien Planets Circle Nearby Star
Astronomers have never seen anything like this before: Seven Earth-size alien worlds orbit the same tiny, dim star, and all of them may be capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports.
"Looking for life elsewhere, this system is probably our best bet as of today," study co-author Brice-Olivier Demory, a professor at the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said in a statement.
The exoplanets circle the star TRAPPIST-1, which lies just 39 light-years from Earth — a mere stone's throw in the cosmic scheme of things. So speculation about the alien worlds' life-hosting potential should soon be informed by hard data, study team members said.....
http://www.space.com/35790-seven-earth-size-planets-trappist-1-disc...
Feb 22, 2017
SongStar101
Interestingly the NASA discovery uses the word "Announcement" in their discovery of the 7 Earth-size planets. There is also a Google Doodle about the issue with links on the topic:
Feb 23, 2017
Matt B
Australian National University enlists "citizen scientists" to help find Planet 9. More clutter from the wealthy elite, trying to drown out the Dark Energy Survey discoveries! Disinformation broadcast to a global audience through the BBC and ABC television networks.
ANU leads citizen search for new planet in Solar System
http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-leads-citizen-search-for-ne...
ANU is launching a search for a new planet in our Solar System, inviting anyone around the world with access to the Internet to help make the historic discovery.
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ANU astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker is leading the project, which is being launched by Professor Brian Cox during a BBC Stargazing Live broadcast from the ANU Siding Spring Observatory.
"We have the potential to find a new planet in our Solar System that no human has ever seen in our two-million-year history," said Dr Tucker from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Dr Tucker said astronomers had long discussed the likelihood of a ninth planet on the outer edges of the Solar System, but nothing had been found yet.
"Planet 9 is predicted to be a super Earth, about 10 times the mass and up to four times the size of our planet. It's going to be cold and far away, and about 800 times the distance between Earth and the sun. It's pretty mysterious," he said.
The ANU project will allow citizen scientists to use a website to search hundreds of thousands of images taken by the ANU SkyMapper telescope at Siding Spring.
SkyMapper will take 36 images of each part of the southern sky, which is relatively unexplored, and identify changes occurring within the Universe.
Finding Planet 9 involves citizen volunteers scanning the SkyMapper images online to look for differences, Dr Tucker said.
"It's actually not that complicated to find Planet 9. It really is spot the difference. Then you just click on the image, mark what is different and we'll take care of the rest," Dr Tucker said.
He said he expected people to also find and identify other mystery objects in space, including asteroids, comets and dwarf planets like Pluto.
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Dr Tucker said modern computers could not match the passion of millions of people.
"It will be through all our dedication that we can find Planet 9 and other things that move in space," he said.
Co-researcher and Head of SkyMapper Dr Chris Wolf said SkyMapper was the only telescope in the world that maps the whole southern sky.
"Whatever is hiding there that you can't see from the north, we will find it," Dr Wolf said.
From 28 to 30 March at 8pm London time, BBC Stargazing Live hosted by Professor Cox and comedian Dara O Briain is expected to be viewed by around five million people.
The ABC will broadcast an Australian Stargazing Live program from Siding Spring from 4 to 6 April, hosted by Professor Cox and Julia Zemiro.
SkyMapper is a 1.3-metre telescope that is creating a full record of the southern sky for Australian astronomers.
People will be able to participate in the ANU citizen science project to search for Planet 9 at www.zooniverse.org
Search for Planet 9
ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for February 18, 2017
Prong 3 mischief
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/18fe2017.htm
At first blush this offer seems to be asking amateurs to help them locate Nibiru, as we have in ZetaTalk mentioned the possibility that the actual official announcement route might be by elevating amateur discoveries to review and discussion by Prong 3 astronomers. But this maneuver by NASA has the opposite intent. Owned or bribed by the wealthy elite who still want the cover-up to continue, those at the helm in NASA are intent on discrediting the Prong 3 efforts and confusing the general public.
Nibiru will be discovered, as we have stated, within the Dark Energy Survey images which have imaged the inner Solar System from the Chili observatory since 2013 and include recent infra-red images from the SouthEast to the NorthEast along the Ecliptic. This scan is within the Earth’s orbit, where the Nibiru complex has resided since 2004. The WISE images, on the other hand, all point outward from the Earth into the night sky, never imaging the region, thus, within the Earth’s orbit. This maneuver by NASA is intended to create clutter, to drown out the Dark Energy Survey discoveries.
Mar 28, 2017
M. Difato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JEeuDR02DE
The WeatherChannel.Com had the "Two Sun" phenomenon trending on its homepage on April 12, 2017
Two Suns Filmed by Amit21 in Preston Hill, Harrow UK
Amit21 says:
Whilst going on a walk I was amazed to see two sunsets on opposite sides of the sky. One up ahead was the genuine sunset based on the direction, whilst the other was somehow perfectly opposite it on the horizon.
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Which Sunset Was Real?
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/which-sunset-was-real-0?pl=...
Apr 12, 2017
casey a
Ancient carvings show comet hit Earth and triggered mini ice age
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128512-ancient-carvings-show-...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/21/ancient-stone-carving...
Evidence from the carvings, made on a pillar known as the Vulture Stone, suggests that a swarm of comet fragments hit the Earth in around 11000 BC
Using a computer programme to show where the constellations would have appeared above Turkey thousands of years ago, they were able to pinpoint the comet strike to 10,950BC, the exact time the Younger Dryas begins according to ice core data from Greenland
Other evidence for the impact from a Greenland ice core suggests roughly the same time frame.
The Younger Dryas is viewed as a crucial period for humanity, as it roughly coincides with the emergence of agriculture and the first Neolithic civilisations.
Before the strike, vast areas of wild wheat and barley had allowed nomadic hunters in the Middle East to establish permanent base camps. But the difficult climate conditions following the impact forced communities to come together and work out new ways of maintaining the crops, through watering and selective breeding. Thus farming began, allowing the rise of the first towns.
A number of the pillar symbols suggest that long-term changes in the Earth’s rotational axis were recorded by the early astronomers using an early form of writing
May 5, 2017
Juan F Martinez
Pre-Announcement Media Coverage
The World in 2017 predictions according to the #Economist
Magazine showing Illuminati Cards to be played.
Note the LAST card, THE STAR : #PlanetX Announcement?
The World in 2017 contains The Economist’s annual collection of detailed, numerate and opinionated predictions for the year ahead. The World in 2017 features leading figures from politics, business, finance, science, technology and the arts alongside prominent journalists from The Economist and other leading news publications.
May 21, 2017
Chris Harris
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/deusnexus.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/...
May 21, 2017
Ecosikh
From the Daily Mail....
By Tim Collins For Mailonline
A dossier of files kept secret by the UK government for almost 50 years could be released after June's general election.
The documents will be published by the National Archives and are believed to contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.
And alien hunters are hoping they will reveal evidence of a cover-up of a number of high profile incidents they believe are related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4530122/Secret-gover...
May 22, 2017
Juan F Martinez
May 25, 2017 Brazilian Senator WARNS at National Congress that #Nibiru, aka #PlanetX, is going to destroy the Earth.May 25, 2017 Brazilian Senator WARNS at National Congress that #Nib...
Senator Telmário Mota (PTB-RR) drew the attention of parliamentarians during the session on Thursday, 25, announcing in a speech in the Senate Plenary the collision of an X7 planet, known as "Nibirú", with Earth.
"I have received the information from an elect who said NASA [NASA] states that the planet Nibiru is coming towards Earth and the current cycle will be over soon," said the senator.
According to Telmário, the NASA report says that the planet changes the gravitational field of the earth and, with that, two thirds of humanity will perish. "Two-thirds will die of hunger and disease. I passed this to my advisers to do a study to see if this planet Nibiru is really approaching Earth, "he announced.
The video of the senator's speech quickly turned into social networks and was shared by thousands of Internet users, who criticized the senator's position, saying that the senator should bring more relevant issues to the Plenary. Check out the video:
PLANET X-7- In 2016 was published the book Planet X - The 2017 Arrival (Planet X - The arrival in 2017). Its author, David Meade, claims to have studied astronomy and claims that a series of stars, propelled by "a twin twin of our Sun", approaches the Earth dangerously and will collide with it in October 2017.
He states that he has scientific evidence and, to explain the absence of detection of such a star, mentions the "oblique angle" of his approach and his next impact against our South Pole.
http://www.folhabv.com.br/…/Em-discurso--senador-por-…/28760
May 29, 2017
casey a
I didnt get time to watch the whole thing. But i think this provides some insight to the kinds of debate that will ensue in the future,, There are two environments under which Graham Hancock is welcomed to the show - with the presence of a "skeptic" and without. Also keep in mind Graham Hancock's positions do no align perfectly with zetatalk. But he has done some serious investigtive work that should help getting the message of Zetatalk out.
May 30, 2017
casey a
Here's the Hancock/Rogan podcast about ancient cataclysms w/o a skeptic...
May 30, 2017
Kris H
https://www.rt.com/viral/392305-sun-twin-nemesis-dinosaurs/
Jun 15, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.cbronline.com/news/mobility/networks/gps-failure-lose-uk...
GPS failure could lose UK £1bn PER DAY
A government report has found that the UK could lose £1 billion per day if the Global Positioning System (GPS) experienced major disruption.
With society now reliant on this technology for everyday navigation on mobile phones, for tracking, and even gaming, the impact of an event such as this would be dangerous beyond the financial haemorrhage.
Emergency services would be unable to handle the demand, emergency calls would be longer, congestion would be severe, and navigation systems would be not be operational.
GPS would not only impact navigation, it would affect multiple industries that rely on the technology for mapping, tracking, and timing.
The report outlines a day in the UK of using services that operate using GPS, some you might not have thought of include social media and online news, which are synchronised using GNSS time.
Shops, scientists and merchant vessels would also be included, with other examples spreading right across the industrial spectrum to fisherman and farmers.
The report is titled ‘Economic impact to the UK of a disruption to GNSS’, it was commissioned by Innovate UK, a non-departmental public body operating with connection to the Government. London Economics, a specialist policy and economics consultancy worked on the report.
The report summarises the capabilities and uses of the system: “The Global Positioning System (GPS) is one – albeit the original and most utilised – of four Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) that provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) information via satellites orbiting in space. This information allows users with a compatible receiver (e.g. smartphone) to determine their position, velocity and precise universal and local time.”
Impact has been felt before in the UK from disruption of this kind, as British industries were affected when a US satellite was decommissioned; it is thought that other satellites were also impacted.
With the potential for such all-round chaos, there is now a conversation rising surrounding government intervention, and possibly the implementation of a commercial GPS backup in the event of disruption.
Jun 19, 2017
Kris H
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431314-400-weird-orbits-hi...|NSNS|2017-Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1498083254
Jun 22, 2017
Ovidiu Pricopi
New article regarding Planet 9 appeared in Popular Mechanics on Jul 12, 2017 , also been feature on Yahoo Science News .
Astronomers Find New Evidence for Existence of Planet Nine, A planet the size of Neptune, orbiting more than 20 times farther out than Pluto.
Two astronomers believe they have new evidence to support the existence of the elusive Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet in the far reaches of the solar system beyond Pluto. If it exists, Planet Nine would be about the size of Neptune or Uranus, and its orbit would place the planet at a distance of about 700 AU, or 700 times the average distance from Earth to the sun.
Debates over a possible Planet Nine focus on the peculiar distribution of orbits found for trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in the Kuiper Belt. TNOs are minor planetary bodies beyond the eighth major planet, Neptune—Pluto is currently designated as a TNO. The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region beyond Neptune filled with thousands of planetary bodies.
Some TNOs never cross Neptune's orbit at all and are particularly far from the sun. These are known as extreme TNOs, ETNOs. By studying the distribution of ETNO nodes—the points in orbit where the ETNOs cross the plane of the solar system—astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid believe there must be a planet beyond Pluto affecting the orbits of the ETNOs. http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a27280/new-evide...
Jul 13, 2017
Nancy Lieder
The Russians lead!
http://www.meteovesti.ru/news/63634343530-izmeneniem-ugla-naklona-o...
there is an opinion that global climate change can be associated not with the notorious human impact on nature, namely, with a change in the slope of the Earth. Moreover, all natural anomalies point to this factor.
Why is this happening? There is no single answer to this question.
Full article:
In the world there is nothing permanent, and even the Sun does not always rise and go in the same place. It's all about the angle of the tilt of the earth's axis with respect to the plane of the ecliptic. Actually, it is he who is responsible for the change of the seasons on our planet.
When the North Pole of the Earth is turned towards the Sun, summer comes in the northern hemisphere. And, after six months, on the opposite side of the earth's orbit, the North Pole is directed away from the Sun, and winter comes, and in the southern hemisphere, on the contrary, is summer.
With a periodicity of 40,000 years, the angle of inclination of the earth's axis varies from 22.1 to 24.5 ° The direction of the earth's axis also varies, but with a period of 26,000 years. During this cycle, every 13,000 years, poles change places. So with the change in the slope of the Earth's axis, the Sun rises and sets in different places.
Jul 25, 2017
Recall 15
Blast from the Past: On Disclosure of the Extraterestrial Life:
On Youtube, the 1995 Disney´s Ufo Documentary.
Aug 7, 2017
Ovidiu Pricopi
New article in Yahoo News about Planet 9 , the question is : How Did It End Up Lurking at the Edge of the Solar System? they emphasis the fact that idea of the Planet 9 is from 2014! Different scientist from UK , Switzerland ,USA ,Sweden they give their opinions! At the end they still look for it ! https://www.yahoo.com/news/planet-9-not-stolen-exoplanet-152237322....
Sep 12, 2017
Matt B
In February 2017 Nancy was featured in an episode of "How The World Ends", a cable TV series broadcast on the American Heroes Channel. The episode entitled "Planet X" presented both sides of the Nibiru cataclysm debate, with Nancy and ZetaTalk on one side and astronomer and paid debunker, Phil Plait on the other.
Individuals are presented who take the Pole Shift message seriously but for very different reasons. Marshall Masters is shown lecturing on survival techniques and offers dubious advice on sheltering underground to avoid radiation.
By contrast prepper Tim Park is shown constructing a shallow trench and demonstrating the floppy disc photo filter method.
Unfortunately access to this episode has been limited to the USA. Viewers must either subscribe to a cable TV network or purchase the episode from an online streaming service such as Amazon or iTunes. Those outside the USA are blocked from accessing these services due to international distribution restrictions. As such this important disclosure project has not yet received the global attention it deserves...
How The World Ends - Planet X - Nancy Lieder (Season 1 Episode 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyHgJVT_cOE
Ironically this video is currently blocked in the USA. However a Google search for "unblock youtube us" will reveal a solution. International viewers should be able to watch without restriction. The episode is also available for direct download at the links below. Each is a single .mp4 file stored in a .rar archive:
HTWE - PX (720p).rar - 1.25 GB
HTWE - PX (480p).rar - 505.94 MB
HTWE - PX (360p).rar - 136.86 MB
Please watch, enjoy and share this thorough and even-handed documentary. Note the subtle and overt references to ZetaTalk concepts and the work of this Ning. Can you spot Alberto's mylar filter photo collage?
Maximum appreciation to ALL who made this vital disclosure initiative possible - both behind and in front of the camera!
Oct 7, 2017
Ovidiu Pricopi
16 Oct 2017 Another article in Yahoo Science News about Planet 9 ! NASA says the evidence for a ‘Planet Nine’ is mounting!
We might not actually know how many planets are in our Solar System — and no, this isn’t a trick regarding Pluto’s status. For years, scientists have wondered if there might be a larger, planet-sized body lurking in or around the thick layer of debris called the Kuiper Belt, and now NASA is saying the evidence is hard to ignore.
The would-be planet, which would likely be a frigid place thanks to its position on the very outer edge of the system, hasn’t been directly spotted, but measurements of other known objects in the Kuiper Belt heavily suggest something is there. The only thing left to do is actually spot it, or verify that it doesn’t actually exist at all.
“There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine,” Konstantin Batygin, a Caltech planetary astrophysicist, explains. “If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them.”
Simply put, the observations that have already been made all point to the existence of a planet that we don’t yet know about. The mythical Planet Nine is pulling on other objects in the Kuiper Belt, and causing them to behave in ways that match with the theory that an unknown planet is doing the pulling.
Now, scientists are doing their best to actually spot the planet, but it won’t be easy. Tucked away on the edge of our Solar System, it won’t exactly be the brightest object in the sky, and the only hope of capturing a glimpse of it will be to find its faint glow. If a new world is indeed discovered, it will undoubtedly be a huge deal for the scientific community, not to mention rewriting textbooks and changing the way we view our own cosmic back yard. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/nasa-says-evidence-planet-nine-mounting-...
Oct 17, 2017
casey a
Monster planet found orbiting dwarf star: 'surprised' astronomers
http://www.france24.com/en/20171031-monster-planet-found-orbiting-d...
A "monster" planet, which should in theory not exist, has been discovered orbiting a faint dwarf star far, far away, surprised astronomers said Tuesday.
The existence of the gassy giant challenges long-standing theories that such a big planet -- about the size of Jupiter -- cannot be formed around a star so small.
The planet was discovered by the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), based in Chile's Atacama Desert.
Once they found it, astronomers measured how much the planet's gravitational impact caused its parent star to "wobble", so as to determine its size, position and mass.
The planet's parent star is described as an M-dwarf -- the most common type in the universe, which means there may be many more unpredicted giant gas planets to be found, the team said.
"I'm looking forward to seeing what other kinds of exciting new planets we can turn up," Wheatley said.
Nov 2, 2017
Stanislav
Russian Patriarch Kirill warned of the approach of the end of the world. Machine translate
20 November, 2017. "According to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, all people who love their homeland should be together, because humanity is entering a "critical period of development," and this can be seen with the naked eye.
"One must be blind not to see the approach of the terrible moments of history, about which the apostle and evangelist John the Theologian spoke in his Revelation," he said after the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
The Patriarch added that, according to Christian doctrine, the end of the world depends on the people themselves. He urged everyone to realize responsibility for Russia and the entire human race, and also to stop "slipping into the abyss of the end of history.""
Патриарх Кирилл заявил, что приближение конца света "видно невооруженным глазом". (2017, November 20). Retrieved November 20, 2017, from https://ria.ru/religion/20171120/1509166583.html
Nov 20, 2017
SongStar101
Scientists find living bacteria from outer space on ISS satellite’s surface
http://tass.com/science/977591
According to him, during spacewalks from the International Space Station under the Russian program, the cosmonauts took samples with cotton swabs from the station’s external surface. In particular, they took probes from places where the accumulation of fuel wastes were discharged during the engines’ operation or at places where the station’s surface is more obscure. After that, the samples were sent back to Earth.
"And now it turns out that somehow these swabs reveal bacteria that were absent during the launch of the ISS module. That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface. They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger," the Russian astronaut said.
Some terrestrial bacteria also survived on the space station’s external surface, though they had remained within a space vacuum for three years. In addition to that, they underwent sharp swings in temperature from minus 150 to plus 150 degrees Celsius, he noted.
The bacteria were brought to the space station accidentally on tablet PCs together with various materials that are placed aboard the ISS for long periods to study the materials’ behavior in outer space.
Shkaplerov will be the head of the space station’s new crew, which is set to take off to the world’s sole orbiter on December 17.
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Scientists discover bacteria from Arctic permafrost can withstand Mars-like environment
http://tass.com/science/976616
The study allows the scientists to approach the understanding of the survival limits of microorganisms placed in natural substrates under extreme conditions
YEKATERINBURG, November 21. /TASS/. Russian researchers have discovered that some bacteria from ancient Arctic permafrost can survive even up to 20 million years in an inactive state under conditions similar to those on Mars. The study of microorganisms was carried out during a joint project dubbed "Noah's Ark", the press office of Ural Federal University (UrFU) reported.
"This study is of extremely great value for science, since it allows us to approach the understanding of the survival limits of microorganisms placed in natural substrates under extreme conditions. The scientists from UrFU took part in the molecular-biological analysis of samples to find out the structure of microbial communities," commented Sergey Bulat, senior laboratory research assistant at the Extra Terra Consortium from the Physics and Technology Institute of UrFU.
According to the scientists, the study produced new insights into the ancient permafrost, which has not thawed for about two million years.
The researchers modeled conditions of amplified radiation background accompanied by low temperatures resembling those on the surface of Mars and studied the durability of microorganisms in these conditions. Up to now, it has not been clarified what the limits of microorganisms’ durability towards the impact of such extreme factors are. It turned out that some bacteria inhabiting the ancient Arctic permafrost could also exist up to 20 million years in an inactive state under conditions close to those found on Mars.
The results obtained are essential for planning astrobiological space expeditions where objects and regions under investigation, as well as methods of discovering traces of life, should be carefully picked. Data like this, in general, will broaden our knowledge of the durability of earthly life forms.
Noah's Ark project
Noah's Ark is a large-scale project to create the first ever mega-storage of biological materials, and by studying it can provide a clue to understanding the mechanisms of rare diseases and unlock the secrets of evolution.
The research was conducted by the scientists from Moscow State University in close collaboration with colleagues from the Ural Federal University, the Russian Space Research Institute, the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the B.P. Konstantinov St. Petersburg Institute for Nuclear Physics, and the Kurchatov Institute. The results of the study were published in the journal Extremophiles.
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http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue583.htm
Rather than a blind march toward the abyss, Patriarch Kirill is suggesting that the politicians and the citizenry of Russia, “who love the Motherland”, take responsibility for plotting a different path. Of course Putin has placed Russia on that path already, by providing free land to those who move to Russia’s Far East and by moving the State Offices from Moscow to the Far East. Is Patriarch Kirill’s speech the start of an official announcement regarding Nibiru?
We have implied that Russia will lead in these admissions about Nibiru, and yes, this is the start.
Dec 4, 2017
SongStar101
Trump to send astronauts back to the moon -- and eventually Mars
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/trump-astronauts-moon/index....
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump wants to send astronauts where no man has gone before.
Dec 13, 2017
SongStar101
Found: Another star system with eight planets, just like ours
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/...
Only a handful of star systems have more than a single planet. With eight worlds, our solar system has long taken the prize for the biggest lineup. But no longer.
Our corner of the galaxy now shares the record with another system, Kepler 90, NASA and Google researchers announced Thursday. A Google algorithm uncovered a scorcher of a planet, a rock 30 percent larger than Earth, orbiting a star a few thousand light-years away. This planet, Kepler 90i, brought the total number of planets circling its star to eight — just like our solar system's octuplets.
“For the first time, we’ve discovered an eighth planet in a distant planetary system,” Paul Hertz, head of NASA's astrophysics division, said during a media briefing. This discovery required an advanced technology to comb through the gargantuan amount of data obtained by the Kepler space observatory.
The Kepler telescope, which trails millions of miles behind Earth like a loyal pup, has gazed out into space since 2009. During that time it has brought in data from 150,000 stars. When an exoplanet crosses in front of one of them, Kepler registers a subtle dip in that star's sunlight.
Fishing for those dips within the massive database is a challenge. “The Kepler mission has so much data it is impossible to examine manually,” Christopher Shallue, a Google AI software engineer, explained during the briefing.
With help from Andrew Vanderburg, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, Shallue developed a machine-learning program that detects light curves. (Google and NASA have been collaborating for years; in 2013, they unveiled the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a machine-learning facility at the space agency's Ames Research Center.) The scientists did not give the program, called a neural network, explicit instructions to find the characteristic curves of an exoplanet. Instead, it had to learn by example.
“A neural network is loosely inspired by the structure of the human brain,” Shallue said. “You can think of the neurons as switches.” The U-shaped dip of Kepler 90i passing in front of its star was too weak a signal for human detection. But it was strong enough for the AI, churning through 14 billion data points, to detect.
Astronomers are confident that the exoplanet exists and that its surface temperature could exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It has a shorter orbit than Mercury's, completing a circle around its star once every two weeks. “This is almost certainly an exoplanet,” Vanderburg said, with the odds of a false positive being 1 in 10,000. Already, the results from this deep data dive have been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.
The planets in our system are far more spread out, however. Neptune is, at its closest, 2.8 billion miles from the sun. The most distant gas giant in the Kepler 90 system is 93 million miles from its star. “All the planets are found scrunched very close to their star,” Vanderburg said.
Because the telescope has only observed the system's center, it may contain still other worlds. “It’s very possible that Kepler 90 has even more planets that we don’t know about,” Vanderburg added. Any planet with a longer orbit — a world as far from Kepler 90 as Jupiter is from our sun — would pass by the observatory undetected.
(On the other hand, some astronomers argue it's possible that our solar system has unknown planets, such as Planet Nine, lurking on the fringe. Perhaps we could reclaim our galactic exceptionalism once again.)
The Kepler telescope is in its twilight years. In 2013, two of four reaction wheels that had kept it on target failed. Without a fix, the mission was doomed.
Desperate to salvage the $550 million craft, researchers turned to the only available support: the sun. They harnessed the pressure of solar radiation to stabilize Kepler, as The Post reported in 2014. With two functional wheels and the force of the sun acting like a crutch, the craft could once again focus on distant stars. The reborn project was given the name K2.
During the Kepler and K2 missions, astronomers have confirmed the location of 2,500 exoplanets. Kepler has detected another 5,000 exoplanet candidates, which await confirmation.
The K2 mission was funded for an additional three years of life in 2016. The spacecraft's fuel is expected to run dry at some point in 2018.
Dec 15, 2017
SongStar101
NY Times: Pentagon study of UFOs revealed
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/16/politics/pentagon-ufo-project/index.html
(CNN)Beyond preparing for the next field of battle, or advancing a massive arsenal that includes nuclear weapons, the Pentagon has also researched the possible existence of UFOs.
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo...
A video shows an encounter between a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unknown object. It was released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.
The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.
The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow, who is currently working with NASA to produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May, Mr. Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth.
Working with Mr. Bigelow’s Las Vegas-based company, the program produced documents that describe sightings of aircraft that seemed to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or that hovered with no apparent means of lift.
Officials with the program have also studied videos of encounters between unknown objects and American military aircraft — including one released in August of a whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial plane, chased by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Mr. Reid, who retired from Congress this year, said he was proud of the program. “I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Mr. Reid said in a recent interview in Nevada. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”
Two other former senators and top members of a defense spending subcommittee — Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, and Daniel K. Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat — also supported the program. Mr. Stevens died in 2010, and Mr. Inouye in 2012.
While not addressing the merits of the program, Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at M.I.T., cautioned that not knowing the origin of an object does not mean that it is from another planet or galaxy. “When people claim to observe truly unusual phenomena, sometimes it’s worth investigating seriously,” she said. But, she added, “what people sometimes don’t get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained.”
A video shows a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. It was released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.Published OnDec. 16, 2017CreditImage by U.S Department of Defense
James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful. “There are plenty of prosaic events and human perceptual traits that can account for these stories,” Mr. Oberg said. “Lots of people are active in the air and don’t want others to know about it. They are happy to lurk unrecognized in the noise, or even to stir it up as camouflage.”
Still, Mr. Oberg said he welcomed research. “There could well be a pearl there,” he said.
In response to questions from The Times, Pentagon officials this month acknowledged the existence of the program, which began as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Officials insisted that the effort had ended after five years, in 2012.
“It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding, and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” a Pentagon spokesman, Thomas Crosson, said in an email, referring to the Department of Defense.
But Mr. Elizondo said the only thing that had ended was the effort’s government funding, which dried up in 2012. From then on, Mr. Elizondo said in an interview, he worked with officials from the Navy and the C.I.A. He continued to work out of his Pentagon office until this past October, when he resigned to protest what he characterized as excessive secrecy and internal opposition.
“Why aren’t we spending more time and effort on this issue?” Mr. Elizondo wrote in a resignation letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Mr. Elizondo said that the effort continued and that he had a successor, whom he declined to name.
U.F.O.s have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. In 1947, the Air Force began a series of studies that investigated more than 12,000 claimed U.F.O. sightings before it was officially ended in 1969. The project, which included a study code-named Project Blue Book, started in 1952, concluded that most sightings involved stars, clouds, conventional aircraft or spy planes, although 701 remained unexplained.
Robert C. Seamans Jr., the secretary of the Air Force at the time, said in a memorandum announcing the end of Project Blue Book that it “no longer can be justified either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science.”
Mr. Reid said his interest in U.F.O.s came from Mr. Bigelow. In 2007, Mr. Reid said in the interview, Mr. Bigelow told him that an official with the Defense Intelligence Agency had approached him wanting to visit Mr. Bigelow’s ranch in Utah, where he conducted research.
Mr. Reid said he met with agency officials shortly after his meeting with Mr. Bigelow and learned that they wanted to start a research program on U.F.O.s. Mr. Reid then summoned Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye to a secure room in the Capitol.
“I had talked to John Glenn a number of years before,” Mr. Reid said, referring to the astronaut and former senator from Ohio, who died in 2016. Mr. Glenn, Mr. Reid said, had told him he thought that the federal government should be looking seriously into U.F.O.s, and should be talking to military service members, particularly pilots, who had reported seeing aircraft they could not identify or explain.
The sightings were not often reported up the military’s chain of command, Mr. Reid said, because service members were afraid they would be laughed at or stigmatized.
The meeting with Mr. Stevens and Mr. Inouye, Mr. Reid said, “was one of the easiest meetings I ever had.”
He added, “Ted Stevens said, ‘I’ve been waiting to do this since I was in the Air Force.’” (The Alaska senator had been a pilot in the Army’s air force, flying transport missions over China during World War II.)
During the meeting, Mr. Reid said, Mr. Stevens recounted being tailed by a strange aircraft with no known origin, which he said had followed his plane for miles.
None of the three senators wanted a public debate on the Senate floor about the funding for the program, Mr. Reid said. “This was so-called black money,” he said. “Stevens knows about it, Inouye knows about it. But that was it, and that’s how we wanted it.” Mr. Reid was referring to the Pentagon budget for classified programs.
Contracts obtained by The Times show a congressional appropriation of just under $22 million beginning in late 2008 through 2011. The money was used for management of the program, research and assessments of the threat posed by the objects.
The funding went to Mr. Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program.
Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.
“We’re sort of in the position of what would happen if you gave Leonardo da Vinci a garage-door opener,” said Harold E. Puthoff, an engineer who has conducted research on extrasensory perception for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor for the program. “First of all, he’d try to figure out what is this plastic stuff. He wouldn’t know anything about the electromagnetic signals involved or its function.”
The program collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents, including footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.
“Internationally, we are the most backward country in the world on this issue,” Mr. Bigelow said in an interview. “Our scientists are scared of being ostracized, and our media is scared of the stigma. China and Russia are much more open and work on this with huge organizations within their countries. Smaller countries like Belgium, France, England and South American countries like Chile are more open, too. They are proactive and willing to discuss this topic, rather than being held back by a juvenile taboo.”
By 2009, Mr. Reid decided that the program had made such extraordinary discoveries that he argued for heightened security to protect it. “Much progress has been made with the identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional aerospace-related findings,” Mr. Reid said in a letter to William Lynn III, a deputy defense secretary at the time, requesting that it be designated a “restricted special access program” limited to a few listed officials.
A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that “what was considered science fiction is now science fact,” and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered. Mr. Reid’s request for the special designation was denied.
Mr. Elizondo, in his resignation letter of Oct. 4, said there was a need for more serious attention to “the many accounts from the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.” He expressed his frustration with the limitations placed on the program, telling Mr. Mattis that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
Mr. Elizondo has now joined Mr. Puthoff and another former Defense Department official, Christopher K. Mellon, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, in a new commercial venture called To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. They are speaking publicly about their efforts as their venture aims to raise money for research into U.F.O.s.
In the interview, Mr. Elizondo said he and his government colleagues had determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” he said.
For his part, Mr. Reid said he did not know where the objects had come from. “If anyone says they have the answers now, they’re fooling themselves,” he said. “We do not know.”
But, he said, “we have to start someplace.”
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2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-...
The following recounts an incident in 2004 that advocates of research into U.F.O.s have said is the kind of event worthy of more investigation, and that was studied by a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s. Experts caution that earthly explanations often exist for such incidents, and that not knowing the explanation does not mean that the event has interstellar origins.
Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a routine training mission 100 miles out into the Pacific when the radio in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets crackled: An operations officer aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser, wanted to know if they were carrying weapons.
“Two CATM-9s,” Commander Fravor replied, referring to dummy missiles that could not be fired. He had not been expecting any hostile exchanges off the coast of San Diego that November afternoon in 2004.
Commander Fravor, in a recent interview with The New York Times, recalled what happened next. Some of it is captured in a video made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s.
“Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” the radio operator said, according to Commander Fravor. For two weeks, the operator said, the Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up.
The radio operator instructed Commander Fravor and Commander Slaight, who has given a similar account, to investigate.
Dec 17, 2017
SongStar101
Top official reveals UFOs exist, and they’re “often being reported” over nuclear power plants… “We’d never seen anything like it” — Military: “Ominous correlation” between sightings and atomic sites — TV: “Mystery intruders over nuke facilities”
http://enenews.com/top-official-discloses-ufos-often-being-reported...
CNN, Dec 18, 2017 (emphasis added): A former Pentagon official who led a recently revealed government program to research potential UFOs said Monday evening that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth. “My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” Luis Elizondo said… “We found a lot,” Elizondo said. The former Pentagon official said they… were “seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics… maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological”…
New York Times, Dec 16, 2017: By 2009, [Sen. Harry] Reid decided that the program had made such extraordinary discoveries that he argued for heightened security… A 2009 Pentagon briefing summary of the program prepared by its director at the time asserted that “what was considered science fiction is now science fact,” and that the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered…
The Independent, Dec 19, 2017: US government recovered materials from unidentified flying object it ‘does not recognise’ … Materials, which are alleged to have “amazing properties”, are being stored in modified buildings in Las Vegas, the New York Times reports… “They have some material from these objects that is being studied, so that scientists can try to figure out what accounts for their amazing properties,” Ralf Blumenthal, one of the authors of the New York Times report, told MSNBC. Mr Blumenthal said the DoD “do not know” what the materials are made of. “It’s some sort of compound they do not recognise,” he added…
Politico, Dec 16, 2017: The sightings, [Luis Elizondo (official in charge of the Pentagon’s program)] told POLITICO, were often reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, either ships at sea or power plants. “We had never seen anything like it.”.
KLAS, Jul 7, 2016: A group of more than 150 military veterans, missile officers, and security personnel, including many who worked at the Nevada Test Site, say they’ve seen mystery intruders over nuclear facilities… The I-Team’s own Freedom of Information Act request filed in 1992 produced a thick stack of documents from the Department of Energy, indicating UFO incidents over every major atomic weapons facility…
Documentary – UFOs and Nukes (IMDb), 2016: (at 3:30 in) Declassified US government documents reveal that as early as December 1948 incursions by mysterious aerial objects later referred to as UFOs began to occur at American nuclear laboratories… (at 13:00 in) According to military intelligence officers, a worrisome pattern had begun to emerge. On July 1, 1952, Look Magazine featured an article “Hunt for the flying saucer” about the air force’s new UFO investigations group Project Blue Book and noted that its director first lieutenant Edward Ruppelt had plotted 63 unexplained sightings on a map of the United States. At that point it was discovered that a quote “ominous correlation” existed between some of the sightings and the location of various atomic weapons installations.
Look Magazine, Jul 1, 1952: Ruppelt keeps 63 sightings on the top of his file… These sightings were pinpointed on a map. Soon afterwards, it was seen by a Pentagon representative who noted that a number of concentrations duplicated exactly the area of atomic energy installations. The Pentagon man excitedly reported back to his headquarters. A conference was called immediately in Washington.
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http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/13ju2015.htm
Periodically a group of prestigious individuals comes forth for a press conference to declare that the alien presence is real, UFOs are real, and the Earth is being visited by intelligent life elsewhere. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell has asserted his personal knowledge of this for years. Country after country is opening their UFO files to the public - France, the UK, Canada, Sweden - and many allow their military to speak freely on the matter.
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/13ju2015.htm
How would a relaxed Element of Doubt rule help the world avoid nuclear accidents? At the start of the ZetaTalk saga, in 1995, we stated that preventing nuclear accidents was firmly in the hands of humans giving the Call. This was not entirely true as the Council of Worlds had already negated most nukes in the hands of the world’s superpowers, but the Element of Doubt rule could and would still force a dirty bomb explosion. But Fukushima in 2011 was modulated, and the future could bring further assists if the strength of the Collective Call were such that the elite are negated.
Dec 28, 2017
SongStar101
Main stream media and Youtube go into a frenzy with pilot interviews, discussions and questions about Pentagon UFO program!
Dec 28, 2017
SongStar101
Are UFOs real? If this was a court of law, we'd be at 'beyond reasonable doubt'
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/are-ufos-real-i...
Luis Elizondo said the existence of supremely advanced unidentified aircraft, using technology that did not belong to any nation, had been "proved beyond reasonable doubt".
Until two months ago, from his office on the fifth floor of the Pentagon, Mr Elizondo, a career intelligence officer, ran the innocuously named Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Programme (AATIP), which was funded with $22m (€18m) in "black ops money" from Congress. The existence of the real-life X-Files department, which began in 2007, was revealed last week and confirmed by the Pentagon.
In an interview, Mr Elizondo said much of what he could discuss was still classified. That included whether his team had examined UFO sightings in other countries.
"I'm not at liberty to discuss that," he said. "But we took a very comprehensive approach. Nothing was too small to investigate."
He added: "In my opinion, if this was a court of law, we have reached the point of 'beyond reasonable doubt'. I hate to use the term UFO but that's what were looking at.
"I think it's pretty clear this is not us, and it's not anyone else, so one has to ask the question where they're from."
The exact number of UFO sightings investigated, and witnesses interviewed, is also classified but Mr Elizondo said there had been "lots".
Geographical "hotspots" emerged during the investigations, sometimes near nuclear facilities and power plants.
Common factors between the movements of separate unidentified objects had also been identified by the Pentagon team.
"It was enough where we began to see trends and similarities in incidents," he said.
"There were very distinct observeables. Extreme manoeuvrability, hypersonic velocity without a sonic boom, speeds of 7-8,000mph, no flight surfaces on the objects. A lot of this is backed with radar signal data, gun camera footage from aircraft, multiple witnesses.
"There was never any display of hostility but the way they manoeuvred, in ways no one else in the world had, you have to be conscious something could happen."
After the existence of the secret programme was revealed this week, attention focused on the release of footage of an unidentified object off San Diego in 2004.
Commander David Fravor, a US navy pilot flying an FA-18 near the object, described seeing a "white Tic Tac, about 40ft long with no wings" which was "something not from the Earth".
Hero
Mr Elizondo said Commander Fravor was a "national hero" for speaking out.
He said: "The social stigma about this is unbelievable, it's very challenging. There are many other Commander Fravors out there who have come forward [to us], but he's brave enough to discuss his experience publicly."
Mr Elizondo said he had no preconceived ideas when he took the helm of the Pentagon programme, but later became convinced by what he saw.
"We [career intelligence officers] tend to be sceptics by nature. For some of us working on it the time came as an 'Aha!' moment, for others it was a slow progress towards the realisation that these are probably not any type of aircraft in any national inventory.
"I don't want to pre-suppose where they're from. We were looking at two things: What is it? How does it work?
"As to who's behind the wheel, and why is it here, that will fall into place. I think it's pretty clear it's not us, and it's not anyone else.
"What we were trying to do was basically take the voodoo out of voodoo science."
He refused to confirm or deny whether any technology had been recovered from any of the objects investigated.
However, buildings were modified by a private contractor in Nevada as a place to store anything discovered linked to the UFO incidents.
Witnesses to UFO sightings were also examined to see if there had been any physical effects on them. Mr Elizondo said his team had developed theories about what was propelling the objects. "There are some tell-tale clues," he said.
"We are getting to how it works, that's a significant step."
Despite the Pentagon saying funding for AATIP ended in 2012, Mr Elizondo said his team's UFO work carried on for another five years.
"When you're given a mission, you guard your post until you're relieved of responsibility, and that never came for us," he said.
"There was an expectation that you continue to do what you're doing."
He eventually resigned in October, frustrated at excessive secrecy surrounding the programme.
In a resignation letter to Jim Mattis, the US defence secretary, he wrote: "Why aren't we spending more time and effort on this issue?
"There remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation."
Mr Elizondo said: "I'd say bolster the programme. We want Nasa to find life on different planets, but we have highly educated pilots here and they're seeing something they can't understand." (© Daily Telegraph, London)
Jan 3, 2018